texts: Why does Time Machine's backup size not equal the size of my hard drive?

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I'm using Time Machine to back up my data on my Mac to an external HD, so I can restore my data on a fresh OS installation, but Time Machine's resulting backup is only 43 GB.

My laptop's HD is 113 GB in size. Why is Time Machine only backing up 43 GB, not the entire amount?

Does Time Machine exclude a lot of files? Are only my apps and personal files saved? 43 GB seems pretty small.


texts: Trouble with Applescript/Xcode setting up VPN Auto Connect with Btguard's Tunnelblick Open VPN

texts:
I followed all of the all of the steps in this link How to auto connect to VPN upon login/boot?. I tried a number of times, changing the service from "BTGuard VPN" to "Tunnelblick VPN" to "BTGuard", etc., without success. I keep getting this notice from Applescript:

"Can't get <<class svce>> "btguard" of <<class locc>> of <<class netp>> of application "System Events".

I am running Mac 10.8.4 and am using BTGuard's Open VPN service via the Tunnelblick app. Also, my OS can't hide the extension, thus it appears as an app.


texts: I bought my Macbook Pro 15" 2016 and restored the Time Machine back-up of the MacBook 12" 2016 everything seems messed up

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iCloud notes are not syncing and something removed notes/folders reappear and every time I log out of iCloud with the MacBook Pro it forces me to change my iCloud password when I log back in.

Now my iPhone and icloud.com are not syncing anymore either most of the time, sometimes it still works.

Some screenshots, although this has improved. I think the Rocketchat-thing might be Rocketchat's fault, but not sure:

Everything worked perfectly on the MacBook 12" 2016 and the iPhone though. I was very happy, except it wasn't well suited for BYOB and high cpu requirements.

PS: I have no recovery partition either. Not sure that is important, but means I can't use "Find my Mac". The MacBook was sold to me as refurbished at a very reliable retailer. I don't think it's a hardware issue, I did the NVM and SMC reset. Even created a new "test" new administrator user account, that made notes sync well, until my iPhone got involved.


texts: Every day I get a couple of error messages on my Mac Pro iCal, presumably from Me.com, saying that I have a calendar file waiting. I click on OK, and then I always get another message, saying that iCal cannot read the file. It doesn't seem to have an effect on my calendar, but it is annoying to have to go through this every day. Any ideas on what I could check?


texts: How do i use iBooks or an alternative app across my devices for PDF annotations

texts: I've never been able to get this to work so must be doing something wrong. I'm trying to read this PDF(The link is at the bottom of the page) and be able to add notes on my iPad say, but then be able to read it on my iPhone and see the notes/add more notes to it. Problems I often have are having to make a copy of it on each device as it can't be saved or it's in my iBooks on one device but not another (eg - I have a Pro Git book in my phone, but it's never made it to my iPad). I've tried a coupe of different apps and read links also, so I must be missing something fundamental.


texts:
In Pages you can set shortcuts for the different type of fonts:

But it only saves the shortcut for that one document. Does anyone know of any way to save the shortcuts for all documents?

(I've looked in Pages preferences)


texts: native IPv6 support over PPPoE in Apple Airport Extreme

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Is there a technical reason why Apple does not support native IPv6 over PPPoE in their Airport Extreme Basestations? AFAIK here in Germany, all ISP using it and all modern routers seem to support it.

The thing is, it even worked with prior firmware versions of the Airport Extreme!


texts: Use target mode to pull data from a hard disk encrypted with FileVault?

texts:
I got this message on a MacBook Pro 2012:

  path /system/installation/packages/osinstall.mpkg appears to be missing or damaged

The first thing to do is to safe data. The hard disk is encrypted with FileVault.

Is it possible to plug it to another MacBook Pro (running High Sierra or El Capitan) and pull the data?


texts: Can I get a 'modern' browser for Mac OS X (10.7.5) without upgrading to OS X El Capitan?

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I am using Safari (6.1.6) for all my web use but certain sites I use often are telling me my browser is out of date. I gather Safari cannot be upgraded to a more modern status.

Having read the often less than complimentary reviews of 'El Capitan' which I assume would be the next logical step, I wonder if I can keep my OS X version but use another more up to date browser.


texts:
Bit of a weird one. I have a Mac running Big Sur 11.1 whose iMessage is displaying blank comment boxes instead of the photos and screen dumps that were sent and received in conversations. Up until a few days ago it was all fine and all the images would be displayed, then they all disappeared. Some are still present, but most are gone.
I checked the ~/Library/Messages folders and all the attachments appear to still be present. I then opened up the chat.db database and dumped a list of attachments which also looked good.
Then things got "really weird"!
I cut and pasted some of the attachment paths from the database to terminal  open command. Some would open and some would display a prompt saying I didn't have permission. Then I discovered that if I keep executing open commands on the same attachment file, every 2nd open would fail with a permissions error. Huh! What!
I'm going to try and reset permissions and see what happens but can anyone explain why the Mac is failing every 2nd open with a permissions error?


texts: How can I know if I have any Notifications with newer OS X Notifications bar?

texts:
I have OS X 10.8, and one thing I don't understand about the new Notifications system is that the icon in the menu bar doesn't tell me whether I have any notifications or not. The icon (  ) looks the same to me whether I have notifications or not.  Every once in a while I'll click on it, and realize that I have Notifications from weeks earlier.

Am I missing how this is supposed to be used?  Is there a way to have this icon change color when there are notifications?  Can I simply disable this panel and icon?


texts:
I have to forward every internet page to my local address i.e. 127.0.0.1 using OS X.

I tried following command but it has no effect:

echo " rdr pass inet proto tcp from any to any port 80 -> 127.0.0.1 port 8080 " | sudo pfctl -ef -

I have tried to research the exact meaning of the above line but I can't find a good explanation. How do I perform this forwarding?

Edit 1:

Let's say a user enters "www.google.com" in the browser; this should have an impact like this -->

User should be redirected to my local page which is at 127.0.0.1:8080

Now, if I hit 127.0.0.1:8080 I do see my local portal.

But, I want it to be shown after redirection from "Google.com"

I am writing following statement. But, they are not having any effect.

rdr pass on lo0 proto {tcp, udp} from any to any port 80 -> 127.0.0.1 port 7894
pass out log(all) on em0 route-to lo0 inet proto {tcp, udp} from any to any port 80 keep state

I am writing above lines in my anchor file and adding anchor to pf.conf using rdr-anchor


texts: I can't get my iPod touch to show up in iTunes what am I doing wrong?

texts:
I recently purchased a new iPod touch, when I set it up I used my user on my Mom's Windows 7 laptop (and a Wi-Fi network). But, right now that computer is not the one I am using, I am using a Windows XP computer (and DSL). Anyway, both have iTunes on them so I figured I would have no problem connecting to my home computer.

My iPod shows up on my computer but just as a camera and not under devices in iTunes. When  I tried to run diagnostics, it showed that I had a connection problem between my computer and iPod (well, I pretty much knew that already:). I tried running updates on iTunes but it then it said that I wasn't connected to the internet.

So, let me see if I can pull this all together! What is going wrong when I try to connect my 5th generation iPod touch to iTunes on a Windows XP computer?


texts: Takes a long time for my macbook pro to wake from sleep

texts:
Ever since I first started using my brand new Macbook pro (mountain lion, 10.8.2) it has taken a long time for it to wake up from sleep (several minutes). When I open the macbook it first shows a grayed out picture of the screen with a count at the bottom (as if the battery was run out, which it is not) then the picture gets clear and the count is done, but still I have to wait 1-2 minutes before I can move the mouse.

It was the same with both 8 GB RAM and 4 GB RAM.

What is wrong?

Thank you for your help


texts: View ASP.NET website developed on a VM in safari on Mac

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For school I need to make some assignments in ASP.NET on windows. I Have a MBPR with OS X 10.10 and Windows 8.1 (VMWare) running on it. When I run my project in visual studio, google chrome is opened in Windows. This is not a problem, but I want to view my result in safari (Mac). When I enter the IP address and port (192.168.70.140:1102) I should go to the homepage, but instead I see an error message "Invalid hostname".

Is it possible to view my website created on windows with safari on my Mac?
I would like to keep a dynamic IP for my mac, but it's not a problem to make a static ip when needed.

The following images are screenshots of my network settings:

Thanks in advance!


texts: I can't get dictation to work on my iMac

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I have an iMac computer running High Sierra. I want to use the dictation capability but I can't get this to work.

I have tried turning dictation off and then back on but that doesn't work. I googled this problem and found several reports and blogs about this and most had the same things you can try to get it to work. I've followed the reports and tried their methods. Turning dictation off and restarting and turning dictation on and restarting again didn't work either.. I know my microphone is working.

Here are things I'ver tried and the problems I've encountered.

Turn dictation off and reboot, then turn dictation on and reboot.
rebooted into recovery mode and ran disk utility on my startup volume. Disk utility reported disk was fine.
reset Pram
Tried to boot into safe mode but computer hangs when doing this.
reinstalled High Sierra.
successfully booted into Safe Mode. Dictation didn't work because microphone could not be found.

Does anyone know a way to enable dictation on an iMac running High Sierra.


texts: Why do Facetime and Messages ask me for a password at random moments?

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Facetime and Messages have started asking me for my username and password at seemingly random moments.

I don't use either application and have not added them to my login's autostart programs.

This is happening on 10.8.5.


texts: error when using scp to copy files to remote mac

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I'm having a problem using rsync (or scp) to backup a large number of files from my old Macbook Air (running 10.13.6) to my new Macbook Air M1 (running 11.1). I initially noticed the problem when running rsync that I would get verification errors, i.e.:
$ rsync -avzP user@old-machine:* .
...
WARNING: [file] failed verification -- update retained (will try again).
rsync: read errors mapping "[file]": Input/output error (5)

It successfully copies lots of files, but tends to produce the error on larger files.
Eventually able to reproduce it by just running scp on a single large file:
$ scp user@old-machine:[big file] .
cp: [file]: Input/output error

Meanwhile, every time this happens on the old mac, I see the following error in Console:
opendirectoryd (libsqlite3.dylib) near "check": syntax error
opendirectoryd AuthenticationAllowed: Evaluation result for record "<private>", record type "<private>": Success
opendirectoryd Unable to retrieve UUID for service: com.apple.access_all_services
opendirectoryd AuthenticationAllowed: Evaluation result for record "<private>", record type "<private>": Success
opendirectoryd getpwuid failed with result Not Found

Any idea what is causing the problem?


texts: Pages: How do I change the column size in the footer?

texts: In my Pages document, the footer has 3 columns. All three have the same width. Now I want to add text in each footer column but for that I have to change the width of the columns. How do I adjust the width of the columns in the footer?


texts: Is there a user-friendly editor for Karabiner complex modifications?

texts: I have a large list of Karabiner complex modifications and it is hard to keep track of them all including conflicts, excluded applications, etc. From what I can tell the user is expected to edit ~/.config/karabiner/karabiner.json by hand. However this isn't practical at all, since each modification definition ends up being quite verbose and I can only see 1-2 per screen. Is there some more efficient method that I'm missing? Or should I just write my own program to generate the karabiner.json file?


texts:
I use my iphone with a apple id until now, unfortunately because of some personal issues I have to change my apple id. I only worry about my contact numbers.
Is there any way that I can save them and change apple id ?


texts:
I deleted existing Spotlight Indexing on my MacBook Pro running macOS Mojave by executing:

sudo rm -rfv /.Spotlight-V100

Now I don’t see anything - no apps, downloads, trash, nada. How do I undo this? I tried adding folders to Privacy tab in System Preferences > Spotlight, and then removing them, but it didn’t help.


texts: No folder triangles on desktop only - OS Sierra

texts:
This just happened tonight.  Without warning and for no reason at all, the little triangle next to the folders on the desktop just disappeared.  So I cannot easily see the contents of the folders, I have to double click them.
  But it's only on the desktop, all other folders have the triangles.
  I only have one display.  I checked all the settings I could and did not see anything.  I don't even know what those triangles are called.


texts: In iMovie, how to put multiple picture-in-picture?

texts: I'm trying to put two black boxes on my clip two block two names, and every YouTube tutorial tells me to export after placing the first box and do the trick again. How do I put multiple simultaneous picture-in-picture in iMovie actually? (It cannot possibly be the only way!)


texts: Connect to OSX via AFP over WAN with a Time Capsule on network?

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I have a Time Capsule set up on my LAN to handle backups between my mom's computer and my computer.

Before we had the Time Capsule, I could connect remotely to a MacBook Pro that I set up as a server through the AFP protocol easily. Instead of having to worry about using the right IP, I used No-IP Dynamic Updater to assign me a DNS name that I can remember.

Since the Time Capsule was installed, however, I can no longer AFP into my mac. Instead, running the following command (hostname hidden):

afp://****

Will allow me to use AFP with the Time Capsule, and allows me to log in from there and view the storage disk on the capsule.

Is there someway to connect to my mac from outside my LAN, but specify what device I want to connect to inside my LAN? Something like:

afp://****:10.0.1.100

Where 10.0.1.100 is the LAN address of my MBP server?


texts: How can I get the LED on an iPhone 6 to blink constantly?

texts: Sometimes I get caught walking my dog back home in the dark. When that happens, I'd liked to be able to hold my iPhone 6 up and let the LED blink so that I'll be more visible to traffic on our seldom-traveled road. I searched for apps to do this simple thing, but I came up empty. Surely there's a way to get the phone's LED to constantly blink, right?


texts: "No output device found" still on 10.15.5

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I bought my new Macbook Pro 13" 2020 recently and got it this tuesday. I've had this issue a couple of times now with "No output device found" in my sound preferences.

So I see this is a general problem and that Apple fixed it in the new 10.15.5 update, but it just didn't work for me. Still have no audio and it can't find the output device. I've tried everything it seems and read dozens of forum posts about this now.  NVRAM, PRAM, SMC, Safe Mode. No CleanMyMac or similar installed and every suggestion on this: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/7502425

I did a clean install and erased disk, but the problem came again after some time. I've tried force quitting coreaudiod in activity monitor, which fixes the problem, but only momentarily. After a restart I have to quit coreaudiod again and I have to manually switch between headphones and the speakers in the Sound Preferences, it can't automatically.

Is this going to be fixed by apple soon? Doesn't seem like there's any solutions out there.

I should maybe add, that I use Ableton with different plugins, does that cause any problems? Was no problem on my old machine on Mojave. Didn't bootcamp from old one. Did a fresh install of everything in 64-bit.

Hope someone can help. It's really sad to have this many problems from the get go with my new purchase. I'm thinking of returning it, since audio is such a big crucial part of my everyday work, but prefer to solve this.


texts: Move Large Apple Mail .mbox Folders to Gmail

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I have e-mail from accounts that no longer existed archived in Apple Mail, in their .mbox format.  Does anyone have recommendations on how to move the messages to Google Mail, so they'll be more accessible?
I have read that the format that Apple Mail stores and exports its messages is not actually standard MBOX format.  It is a proprietary format in which the folders end in ".mbox", and contain directories within them named "Attachments" and "Messages", along with a file named "Info.plist".  The Attachments folder contains a bunch of other folders with numbered names.  The Messages folder contains files with numbered names and the suffix ".emlx".  The numbers of the Messages file names and the Attachments folder names appear to match.  If you suggest a utility that handlex .emlx files, will it preserve the attachments in the other directory?
Unsuccessful Solutions
I've tried dragging and dropping within the Apple Mail application, but it doesn't transfer all of the messages.  There are tens of thousands of e-mails in these .mbox folders, which seems to just be too much for Apple Mail.
Google Email Uploader (https://code.google.com/p/google-email-uploader-mac/) doesn't upload to Gmail accounts (oddly enough) and also doesn't read the mbox folders correctly.
IMAP Upload (http://imap-upload.sourceforge.net) doesn't work either.


texts: Is it possible to download an app and install it on iPhone/iPad by using Finder

texts:
Actually, after updating to Catalina iTunes is divided into Music macOS application and Finder abilities. So for backup and etc, we should use Finder, now I want to know:

Is it possible to download an app from App Store and install it on iPhone/iPad by using Finder?


texts: How to use mac as a full router with DHCP, DNS, Port Fowarding etc.?

texts:
I know I can use internet sharing in macOS to share the internet connection provided to one network interface over one or more other network interfaces on my Mac.  However, the feature set is VERY limited.  No choice of DHCP range.  No DHCP reservations.  No port forwarding.  etc.

MacOS Server has a DHCP server and other services, but none of them actually share the mac's internet connection in any way, nor can they be used to control or add those features to the native macOS's internet sharing feature mentioned above.

Are there any software tools, Apple or third party, that can do what internet sharing does (share my mac's internet connection out over one or more other network interfaces), but with the kind of additional features listed above?

Thanks!

Update:  Thanks to the two answers so far that have pointed me to the two pf based solutions.  Admittedly, I'd prefer a solution that doesn't require a virtual machine, and a solution that doesn't require command line stuff but further research has pointed me to IceFloor and Murus and a couple of other GUIs for pfctl.  However, pfctl seems to be a firewall not a router, and what I want is routing.  Still, I'm limited in my understanding of all this and it's possible this is what I want still because...

With some more research and I find this:

https://developcents.com/2013/08/12/routers-switches-firewalls-differences/

Under the Firewalls section it says "Unlike routers and switches, firewalls are network security appliances"  and "... most perimeter firewalls also have routing capabilities (although that is not a requirement)."

So... I'm guessing you guys are pointing me to the pfctl firewall utility because it's one of those firewalls that has routing capabilities, meaning if I want to use it purely as a router and not use any of the firewall functionality, I will be able to do that.  Is that correct?  And does it have included in its routing capabilities the functionality I'm looking for as described in the original question above (specifically, choice of DHCP range, DHCP reservations, and port forwarding)?

I realize it's possible I could answer this myself with enough study of the documentation and of networking in general, but the original reason for the question is because I'm used to setting up Apple Airport base station with the Airport utility and the original question is seeking something with that kind of clarity but for setting up a Mac instead of an Airport base station to do it.

Any of that make sense and can anyone help me, given all that extra info?


texts: Does FaceTime work if I purchase my iPhone in Saudi Arabia then move countries?

texts: I purchased an iPhone 6 with FaceTime from Saudi Arabia. Can I use FaceTime while I am India because someone told me that if you purchase an iPhone in Saudi Arabia the FaceTime does not work anywhere.


texts: Is there an easy way to repeatedly connect a Magic Trackpad to different workstations?

texts:
We pair program where I work, and like many people there, I have my own mouse and keyboard that I take with me as I rotate between workstations.  I want to try using a magic trackpad  at work, but I distinctly recall a coworker having a lot of trouble getting the trackpad to pair every time he rotated stations; eventually he just put a trackpad at every workstation of our team's.

If I wanted to reconnect a single trackpad to a different iMac at least once every day, what would be the easiest way to do it?  I'm still pretty new to OSX so I'm not sure where to begin researching this.


texts: Simple electronics circuit simulation software for Mac

texts:
I want to learn how basic electronic components work and test some basic sensor output etc. My circuits are really simple so i don't need any fancy stuff.

I think MacSpice is CLI so it's too hard for me, i really need GUI app since i know hardly nothing about electronic circuits.

Which app lists electronic components with real names like "resistor 200" and don't use cryptic component codes which are hard to newbie?


texts:
From this morning, for some reason I see this message when I go to use Apple Pay on my Mac:

I have no idea what's wrong with it, and I checked the security boot in recovery and it's set to Full.

I didn't tweak or mess with the system, I have home-brew install but that's about it.

Any ideas?

firewall on
2FA on on Apple ID
secure boot at full
Never issues before
Filevault on since day 1
MBP 16inch with Bootcamp installed


texts: Is it possible to update a jailbroken iOS 7 to a version Apple has stopped signing?

texts:
My iPad is running 7.0.2 and is jailbroken. It looks like Apple is not signing the 7.1.2 any longer.

Is there a way to upgrade iOS to 7.1.2 without letting iTunes contact its home (i.e. Apple's servers)?


texts: Trouble creating new Exchange Server account in Lion

texts:
I'm helping a colleague set up his new MBA. When we try to create his email account in mail.app, we choose Exchange but the auto-discover feature fails to start.

It has worked fine for 4 others in the office so we know our Exchange 2007 server is programmed to support auto-discovery.

When we try to manually enter the server settings, he can receive email but not send.

I know that auto-discover prompts for userid, password and domain. When we enter the data manually, we can't find a place to enter the domain. Is this why he can't send email?

What else can we try?  Is this an Apple issue since auto-discovery doesn't start?


texts: activating speaker mutes microphone on active calls

texts:
I have a strange problem with an iPhone SE with iOS version 11.4. The problem is that the microphone does not work, when I switch on the speaker during an active call. By switching off the speaker, everything works again.

As a test, I can record Voice Memos or Video Messages without any problems.

Only when there is an active call and the speaker button is pressed, the  person on the other side cannot hear me... It looks like that that the speaker and the microphone uses the same bus and hence kind of unable to multiplex.

Does anyone know the cause and solution of the problem?


texts: Why won't iBooks wirelessly sync epubs or PDFs to my iPad?

texts:
I'm aware of this question but it is now quite old. If I create a collection in iBooks on OSX (Yosemite, 10.10.3) and add a book (epub - not puchased via iBooks), it does not sync to my iPad (3rd gen, iOS 8.2) over wifi. The name of the collection itself is synced to the iPad but it is empty. Both devices are on the same wireless LAN and connected to the internet.

I believe syncing used to be via iTunes and this was the only way I could get books to sync to my iPad previously but this should now work using only iBooks. I have already performed the 'Move books from iTunes' operation from the iBooks menu on OSX.

'Sync Collections' is switched on in the iPad iBooks settings. I'm looking for a wireless solution, not USB sync.


texts: How do I set podcast release date in iTunes using Applescript?

texts:
I would like to add the release date to podcasts that I've imported into iTunes, but my applescript is returning an error about the date object.

    tell application "iTunes"
    set theSelection to selection
    if theSelection is not {} and (length of theSelection) is 1 then
        set theTrack to item 1 of theSelection
        log release date of theTrack as text
        set release date of theTrack to date ("2011-12-23T08:00:00Z" as string)

        refresh theTrack
    end if
end tell

The line set release date of theTrack to date ("2011-12-23T08:00:00Z" as string) gives me this error

error "Invalid date and time date 2011-12-23T08:00:00Z." number -30720

How do I make the string 2011-12-23T08:00:00Z into a date object that applescript won't complain about?


texts: Why does sshd only accept connections from within LAN? (Snow Leopard)

texts:
The "server" ("mini", running OSX 10.6) has SysPrefs>Sharing>RemoteLogin enabled.  I can log in from another machine on the LAN with ssh me@mini.local just fine.  To enable access from WAN, I assigned a static IP address to mini (192.168.1.102) and added a portmapping entry in my TimeCapsule, mapping port 10221 to 192.168.1.102:21.  I have a DynDNS hostname, so I should be able to log in via ssh -p 10221 me@my.homeip.net but it just hangs and eventually times out.

I verified that DNS is mapping my.homeip.net to my correct public IP address.

Is there another setting on 'mini' that I've overlooked, that allows local connections but disregards non-local ones?


texts: Disable App Update Notifications on OSX?

texts: When I have apps that need updating in OSX I get a notification on the top-right corner of my screen that does not go away until I click it (which opens the app-store). Is there a way to turn these notifications off?


texts: Connect to Mac remotely using iOS, BTMM address and a VNC client

texts:
Which iOS app is able to connect to a Mac using its BTMM (Back to my Mac) address?

The address looks like this:

  your-imac.12345678.members.btmm.icloud.com

On a Mac using Screen Sharing.app, Apple Remote Desktop and Screens for Mac I can easily establish a connection.

With iOS using apps like iTeleport and Screens for iOS, however, I wasn't. All I get are connection errors.

Any helpful comment is appreciated.


texts: Have to reset the SMC on Retina Macbook Pro very often

texts:
Very weird problem. About 3/10 times the discrete GPU on the Retina MBP (Nvidia GT650M) does not engage when I launch a game. The performance for the game drops to as if only the integrated GPU was engaged i.e single digit FPS.

This happens when previously the game would work just fine on the same settings. This also happens under the Windows 7 partition under Boot Camp so I know it is not a software issue.

The first time it happened I was completely flummoxed and simply could not find a solution. Just as a last resort I tried resetting the SMC and it started working fine after that.

Another thing is this problem may be occurring a lot more frequently but I can only get to know when I launch a game and it refuses to work properly. For almost all other tasks there is barely a difference when the Nvidia is working. (Guess that's why they let the 13" retina be with just the integrated chip).

Now this problem is occurring frequently enough to really bug me. I have been using a Mac since 2005 and I haven't had to reset the SMC this much in the last 6 years as I've had to in the last 5 or so months of using this machine.

Should I get it checked at the store, ask for a replacement, or is there a more permanent solution that I'm not getting?

Edit Can a mod please change the 'power-management' tag to SMC?


texts: Time machine restore is stuck after 3 hours

texts:
I swapped out the hard drive on my old MacBook Pro. Installed Mountain Lion, then High Sierra. Now I’ve found my time machine password (available in Keychain Access app on my laptop but not in my iPhone passwords!!?! - thanks apple). So I’m trying to use the “system restore” from time machine. It’s stuck after 115GB (it’s done 10MB in the 20 mins I’ve been watching)

Should I give up? (The old drive was 256GB and full).

If I install OSX again and try Migration Assistant is that more likely to succeed? Will I lose a load of software? (eg PostgreSQL, python versions, docker, mongo and all the other web dev stuff I’ve put on there)


texts:
My 2017 15" MacBook Pro does not appear to support SMART on any drive. For its internal PCIe drive diskutil reports:

$ diskutil info disk0 | grep SMART
   SMART Status:              Not Supported

System Information shows the same:

S.M.A.R.T. status              Not Supported

Similarly I have two USB hard drives, a Toshiba 2.5" native USB, the other a Seagate 3.5" in a SATA to USB enclosure. MacOS is unable to read their SMART status either with diskutil

$ diskutil info disk2 | grep SMART
   SMART Status:              Not Supported

or with smartmontools (installed with brew):

$ smartctl -a disk2s2
smartctl 7.1 2019-12-30 r5022 [Darwin 18.7.0 x86_64] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-19, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org

Smartctl open device: disk2s2 failed: Operation not supported by device

HOWEVER, a FreeNAS box correctly reads SMART from both USB drives. Indeed one of them is failing with a large number of Failed SMART usage Attribute: 184 End-to-End_Error errors. Error 184 signals possible corruption on the drive with likely imminent failure. It means "get anything you care about off ASAP and discard the drive". macOS provided no warnings.

Does macOS have any sort of monitoring of drive health? If so, what is it and how does it work? If not, can it be added both for internal and external drives? Is there a technology other than SMART?


texts: Unstable Wi-Fi connection on MacBook Air (Early 2015)

texts:
My father's MacBook Air (Early 2015) has some strange Wi-Fi issues that he says he's been experiencing ever since he got it.

I finally took the time to look at it and there is indeed something strange going on. The Wi-Fi seems to work pretty well, except that it intermittently seems to become slow for a few seconds. This makes streaming video and general browsing really annoying.

I've run a ping google.com for a few minutes and plotted the ping time on an excel graph. And we can definitely see that it hikes 10-fold every few seconds.

I can confirm it's not coming from our router. This doesn't happen on all the other devices that are connected to it.

Things I have tried:

Everything in this thread
Resetting our router
Disabling everything (Bluetooth, Airdrop, etc)

There is one thing I noticed, is that it seems that the laptop's battery has swollen a bit. I'm not 100% sure about this as I don't have another MacBook Air 2015 to compare with.

It feels like a hardware issue, as it's been like this since the beginning (according to my dad). I guess part of my question is "How do I get Apple to take us seriously and do something?" ... I can already imagine Apple telling us that we have to contact our ISP, or that we need to try restarting the computer. Thing is, I have already tried all of that stuff.

Or maybe somebody has an idea what the problem could be?


texts: Is it expected to have visual glitches while constantly moving one window from a retina monitor to a non-retina one?

texts:
It's a new macbook pro retina with gt750m, mid 2014

I'm moving firefox constantly from one monitor to the other, it glitchces similar to #50956 and #81021 - Doesn't seem to happen with Chrome however I didn't push/try further

The retina screen renders everything differently, so a re-rendering occurs at each switch, doing this consecutively causes this very temporary glitch

Since it's a new/week old macbook pro, I'm wondering whether it's a hardware or a software issue

Tested further, happens always with firefox, never with chrome, I also recall a similar momentary glitch during a genie effect once, happens on both monitors, the glitch is confined to the program/animation, so I'm hoping it's a software issue, all temperatures are always very low, below 50C

Disabling hw accelleration at Firefox prevents the issue, so the question is, is it a hardware issue or a hardware incompatibility issue, I would be glad if someone with a late-macbook/gt750m/external-lcd can test the behaviour


texts:
Had to migrate to a new Mac and all of the aliases I have for hidden files are broken. When I try to navigate to the original file when I click "fix alias", I can't see the file in question in the navigation window despite having hidden files set to visible.

How do I fix all these broken aliases?


texts: MacBook Air Starts up when I close the lid

texts:
When I turn off my MacBook Air running High Sierra by selecting  > Shut Down, then close the lid, the white Apple logo in the lid will come on and I hear the startup chime.

At first I thought that the Power button was pressed by something on the lid when I close it, but that isn't the case.

I've found only one Support page about this, but this doesn't seem to apply to me because I have no error messages.

As a consequence, I can never turn off the computer while the lid is closed - i.e. to travel or put it away - and the battery depletes much faster when I don't use it for a couple of days.

How do I stop this from happening?


texts: Wifi Won't Connect; Connection Timeout (Mac)

texts:
I'm having issues with my macbook pro OS X 10.7.5.  It used to connect to the wifi router (D-Link N300, DIR=615) no problems.  But for the past several weeks, I haven't been able to at all.

What pops up when I select my wifi network from the list:

"Failed to join "network"
A connection timeout occured".

What happens when I try to enter my password manually:

"Connection timeout"

What I've tried to do as solutions:

Google
Restart router by pressing reset & refresh button
Delete System & User (Login) Keychain access
Network > Gear symbol by the + and - bottom left of the screen > Set Service Order > Drag Wifi to the top


texts: brew changes from php71 to php@7.1 on installation

texts:
I am trying to install php71 with the command brew install php71 but instead php@7.1 is installed.

When trying to install redis with brew install php71-redis it's installing but not working with that php@7.1.

macOS High Sierra 10.13.3

also sometimes still get this warning:
Warning: Use php@7.1 instead of deprecated homebrew/php/php71


texts: How do you keep your macbook pro cleaned and polished?

texts:
How often do you clean your macbook pro and what are you cleaning with?

When I bought my macbook pro last week it came with a special cloth/wipe and I've used it to wipe the dust off my screen and keyboard.

I know it would sound dumb, but what is the proper way to clean the cloth? Just wash it in water?

Thanks!


texts: GUID_partition_scheme not fully used after SSD clone

texts:
I cloned a 750Gb HDD to a 1Tb SSD.
I can only access  750Gb on the SSD so 250Gb are wasted.
How can I include (assimlate?) the remaining 250Gb so they're not wasted, or create an accessible partition (I was thinking of installing linux).
Machine: Mid-2012 MacBook Pro running Mojave.
Thanks

edit
macOS recovery mode, output from gpt -r show /dev/disk


texts: Is there anything (like iOS) that emulate force touch for older MacBook?

texts:
In iOS, there are tweaks (available through Cydia) that enables force touch features (such as menus) on older iPhones by touching and holding an item to emulate force touch.

Are there any available on OS X ?

If that matters, I own a late-2013 MacBook Pro


texts: Backup made directly via USB disk, how to continue using it via network?

texts:
I have a Time Machine backup of my current Mac Mini (10.15.6) on an external drive (named "A"), this backup was made by plugging the disk directly via USB.
Now, this disk has moved to another computer in another room, a Macbook Pro (10.15.5), and a backup was made on the same disk, directly via USB, which means the "Backups.backupdb" folder contains two subfolders, "macmini" and "macbookpro".
Since disk "A" is now plugged into the Macbook Pro, I'd like to use Time Machine to continue backing up the Mac Mini, but via WiFi. Obviously I don't want to start a new backup, I'd much prefer continue using the one that started when the disk was plugged directly, but I've read that when backing up via "shared folders" it works differently (apparently Time Machine will create a sparsebundle file instead of a Backups.backupsdb folder).
What should I do in order to continue doing incremental backups with the existing Backups.backupdb folder but via network, and is this even possible?
I've read Share as Time Machine backup destination and also seen this answer but I still don't understand what should be done. Actually this other answer seems to offer a solution but it's for Time Capsule, and I don't know if I can use it in my case.


texts: Run GUI Applications from Terminal with root privilege

texts: So it has been well documented that GUI applications (like gedit or textedit) should NOT be run with sudo. Ubuntu et al get gksu and gksudo (and the like) so question: what do WE (Mac users) get? Given that the Darwin kernel is built on some *BSD code, I assume the same issues apply, but how do we go around this?


texts:
As the title says, I jailbreak-ed my iPod touch for about a week by myself and now I want to sync it to iTunes without unjailbreaking the iPod.

After I plug my iPod touch into the computer, I opened iTunes manually and nothing happened. I then looked for information on how to unjailbreak it. I found out that I need to press the sleep/power button and the home button, after the steps, on my iPod there's a picture saying to plug the iPod onto iTunes and I did so. Then I pressed for the iTunes to restore my iPod, and it said that an error happened.

Please, can anyone help me either to sync my iPod without unjailbreaking? But if there's no way, can anyone teach me how to jailbreak my iPod Touch safely?

Also, now my iPod screen is stuck on the image that tells me to connect to iTunes.


texts: Can I get Lion (or newer) to stop asking me about Java?

texts:
From time to time, I get a system dialog box that asks if I want to install Java.  I always say No.

Is there a way to get it to stop asking me?


texts: Reviving unmountable & unformattable usb drive

texts:
I have a USB drive, which was a bootable Windows drive, which I seldom used. Recently I tried to format it, and it went corrupted (I hope). I'd like to find out if it's broken or not.
I'd tried to format it on the company comptuer, and I believe Symantec had blocked the autorun (been a while, details are not clear).
I've been trying solutions from different posts, with no luck, so I'd like to share the results:

Info:

Volume type : Physical Device
BSD device node : disk2
Connection : USB
Device tree path : IODeviceTree:/PCI0@0/XHC1@14
Writable : No
Is case-sensitive : No
Volume capacity : 31 104 958 464
Available space (Purgeable + Free) : 0
Purgeable space : 0
Free space : 0
Used space : 31 104 958 464
Owners enabled : No
Is encrypted : No
Can be verified : No
Can be repaired : No
Bootable : No
Journaled : No
Disk number : 2
Media name : SanDisk Ultra Fit Media
Media type : Generic
Ejectable : Yes
Solid state : No
S.M.A.R.T. status : Not Supported

Disk Utility recognizes the disk. Though it's not mountable.
The disk you attached was not readable by this computer.

Showing all devices and formatting the disk has it mount/unmount a couple of times and the process ultimately fails. Sometimes it keeps connecting & disconnecting; prompting the aforementioned error, repeatedly.

First Aid doesn't help.

Volume is already unmounted.
Performing fsck_exfat -y -x /dev/rdisk2s1
Checking volume.
Checking main boot region.
Main boot region is invalid. Trying alternate boot region.
Checking alternate boot region.
Alternate boot region is invalid.
The volume  could not be verified completely.
File system check exit code is 1.
Restoring the original state found as unmounted.
File system verify or repair failed. : (-69845)

Here's the output of diskutil

diskutil list
/dev/disk2 (external, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:     FDisk_partition_scheme                        *31.1 GB    disk2
   1:               Windows_NTFS                         31.1 GB    disk2s1

Trying to format it as exfat

Unmounting disk
Erasing
Unable to write to the last block of the device. : (-69760)

Trying to format it as FAT

Unmounting disk
Couldn’t modify partition map. : (-69874)

Output of fdisk:

.sudo fdisk /dev/disk2
Disk: /dev/disk2    geometry: 3781/255/63 [60751872 sectors]
Signature: 0xAA55
         Starting       Ending
 #: id  cyl  hd sec -  cyl  hd sec [     start -       size]
------------------------------------------------------------------------
*1: 07    0   0   3 - 1023 254  63 [         2 -   60751870] HPFS/QNX/AUX
 2: 00    0   0   0 -    0   0   0 [         0 -          0] unused
 3: 00    0   0   0 -    0   0   0 [         0 -          0] unused
 4: 00    0   0   0 -    0   0   0 [         0 -          0] unused

.sudo gpt recover /dev/disk2
gpt recover: /dev/disk2: error: device contains a MBR

.sudo gpt -r -vv show /dev/disk2
gpt show: /dev/disk2: mediasize=31104958464; sectorsize=512; blocks=60751872
gpt show: /dev/disk2: MBR at sector 0
     start      size  index  contents
         0         1         MBR
         1         1
         2  60751870      1  MBR part 7

.sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/disk2 count=40
dd: /dev/disk2: Device not configured
9+0 records in
8+0 records out
4096 bytes transferred in 0.146817 secs (27899 bytes/sec)
mutlu@Mutlus-MacBook-Pro ~ %

.sudo gpt create /dev/disk2
gpt create: /dev/disk2: error: no room for the PMBR

.sudo gpt add -b 40 -i 1 -s 614400 -t C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B /dev/disk2
gpt add: /dev/disk2: error: no primary GPT header; run create or recover

.sudo gpt create /dev/disk2
gpt create: /dev/disk2: error: no room for the PMBR

I'm quite inexperienced wiht the command line so I am at lost. I have a sense that I could nuke the partition table, and rebuild it somehow, but not sure how to get there. Perhaps it's broken, who knows... Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance!


texts: When my iPad is locked, you can still read notifications of new e-mails. the app in question is gmail. for privacy reasons I wish that with the iPad blocked you could not read the content of the e-mails, but only show notifications of new e-mails without displaying the contents.


texts: extract Apple ID's password from mavericks keychain?

texts:
First of all i need to know if mail's passwords stored in keychain or not ?
If yes .. how to extract passwords from keychain especially [APPLE ID] ?
That's it


texts: Google Calendar subscription shared with iCloud

texts:
Is it possible to share a Google Calendar subscription with multiple iCloud users? My sister has given me complete shared access to her Google Calendar so I can publish it to my iCloud calendar and share that with all the iOS users in the family.

Initially I simply exported the calendar file and imported it in OS X's Calendar App, then shared the new iCloud calendar. I have been notified that this calendar will now be updated on a regular basis.

I have been unable to locate any type of sync settings or app that would keep these two calendars in sync. Any suggestions?


texts: What's a good SSH tunneling client for OS X?

texts:
I've been using SSH Tunnel manager to easily set up and stop port tunneling over SSH to various servers at my company. That saved me the pain of opening up a new terminal window which will hang out there just for the sake of having a tunnel open.

This worked great (well , sort of) but SSH Tunnel Manager is a PowerPC application. With Lion, it is not supported any more.

What is a good replacement?


texts:
I have an issue...My AirPods don’t have any connection Issue when Bluetooth is turned on. But when Bluetooth is turnt off...my iPhone has more difficulty in recognizing the AirPods when I open the case and it seems to sync but actually it doesn’t since Bluetooth is still turnt off,thus the music still plays from the iPhone’s speakers.

However when I reset the AirPods...during the « first » connection my iPhone recognizes the AirPods and they connect automatically ( with Bluetooth turnt off) and the music plays from the AirPods with no problem.

Can Anyone help me please ??


texts:
I found that I have a lot of unknown 3rd party plugins installed in my Mac.

I thought they are Safari extension, but Extensions popup menu in Safari do not show these extensions.

How to remove these unknown extensions? I don't remember I install some of the extensions (especially those Chinese extensions); how come they ended up in my Mac?


texts: How do you disable the zoom effect / window animations in the new OS X Lion?

texts: I'd like to disable the Zoom effect that the windows produce when they are being opened. Does anyone know a way to disable them?


texts: Fonts showing in Font Book but not in Finder

texts:
I randomly found a font called 'Baloo' in Font Book, yet I can't seem to find out how it's been installed.
When I click on one of it's variants in Font Book, it says that I need to 'download' the font, and presents me with a download button like the below.
The font doesn't appear to be in my library folder and I can't find the file for it anywhere else. Font Book also as greyed out the Show in Finder feature for this font.
I can use the font fine in any CreativeCloud program, but it doesn't appear to be an Adobe Font.
Does anyone know why this might have happened?


texts:
I was reading online that you can replace an iPod classic hard drive, my question is how do you manage to duplicate the iPod OS onto the new hard drive?

How do you mount the iPod classic hard drive to take a backup? What kind of connectors do you use? Is there any way to mount the iPod hard drive onto a Mac, so that I can use the Disk Utility and make DMG's of the software and EFI?


texts: Can an Airport Express act as AP and AirPlay at the same time?

texts:
I know it's possible to have an Airport Express create a wireless network by connecting it to my router (through enthernet cable).

But can it act as AirPlay at the same time?


texts: typing a backtick on Mac OS X Snow Leopard

texts:
I have had a hunt around the net for this, but cannot find an answer - how do I type a backtick on Mac OSX Snow Leopard? I have a Macbook from late-2010.

The backtick character is one I use on a regular basis on StackExchange.


texts: Is it possible to have a bash script that toggle my wifi on and off? I am using lion (10.7.2).


texts: Capture both audio and video from iOS device via USB in OBS

texts:
I want to record both screen and audio from iOS device using my MacBook, so I connected the device to my computer using cable. I then opened QuickTime Player, click "File -> New Movie Recording", and select the iOS device as video and audio input from the drop down menu next to the record button, and everything works fine.
I then tried OBS as QuickTime is not very flexible. The video is available in "video capture device", but the audio cannot be found anywhere. After a bit research, I found audio input can be enabled using "Audio MIDI Setup". However, with OBS opened, the audio device immediately became disabled about a second after I click "Enable" in the Audio MIDI Setup. When I close the OBS (or remove the video input from the iOS device), however, the audio input in the MIDI setup works, and I can record audio in OBS via "audio input capture".
The frustrating thing is that I cannot record both in OBS, it seems like iOS device can only operate in 1 of the 2 modes that provides either video (screen cast) or audio via USB, but not both. But how does QuickTime works? The audio input option from iOS device is in the QuickTime even when the device is not enabled in Audio MIDI Setup (and when enabled, the device is listed twice with slightly different names). This seems like QuickTime use a different mechanism to grab the audio input from iOS device, and I am not aware of any other applications can do this.
The workaround I found is to record the main speaker output (using SoundFlower or other similar tools) since QuickTime will output the audio from iOS device to main speaker of my MacBook. However, the setup is quite complicated and not very flexible (included below).
Any better ways to do this?

Appendix (how to use SoundFlower to workaround this)

First connect the device via cable and open QuickTime. Go to "File -> New Audio Recording", and select the device in the drop down menu next to record button (but don't hit record). This will output the audio from device to main speaker.
Open Audio MIDI Setup, on the lower right corner, click "+ -> Create Multi-Output Device", add both SoundFlower and Main Speaker.
Open "System Preferences -> Sound" and set the output to the device just created. You can now record the audio from SoundFlower in OBS.


texts: Creating different quotas for specific machines with Time Machine?

texts:
I've got Ubuntu server 18 running AFP (Netatalk 3.1.12) and avahi dæmon. This takes the role of a time machine server I use with currently one mac. I would like to use this with several other macs, however I want to be able to set quotas-or volume size limits as they are also referred to as-on a per-machine basis.

So basically machine 1 (UUID based identification) is allowed to use 1.75 tB of my time machine disk for time machine backups, machine 2 is allowed 1.25 tB of space, machine 3 is 2 tB, etc etc etc.

I do see vol size limit as a parameter in afp.conf however I believe this is a global quota that everyone is forced to obey and is not machine-specific. I am looking for a solution that is machine-specific quotas, whether it's a program i have to run on the mac or a setting on the server.

Please inform me of options and if details are not clear and please note my English is not very good-I actually have a friend write this for me so may be better than my english :P

Current mac backing up-High Sierra

Other macs wanted to back up-Sierra, Mojave, Mountain Lion, Lion, El capitan, Yosemite, would like to really backup from Leopard onward however at current point in time I do not have Leopard available.


texts: Switch off cellular network off/on on iPhone (triggered by Bluetooth car kit)

texts:
I have a car (Audi A7 with MMI & Bluetooth Mobile Telephone interface) and an iPhone with dual SIM card (2nd SIM is plugged into the car). I would like when my car is started (and my 2nd SIM activates), my iPhone's cellular network would be automatically switched off (no radiation in the car anymore). My bluetooth should still stay on (need that to have my contacts synced with my car).
My current day-to-day procedure is the following:

when starting the car: manually put the iphone in airplane mode, and then manually switch on bluetooth again (with was also deactivated due to airplane mode).
when stopping the car: put manually airplane mode off, and make one outgoing call (e.g. voicemail) to activate my 1st dual-sim card again (otherwise my iPhone does not receive calls i noticed).

Is there is a way to automate this? Or can I configure a kind of iPhone profile which activates/deactivates airplane mode & bluetooth (to have less manual actions).


texts: Why has my iPhone camera stopped focusing?

texts: My camera doesn't focus any more. Is that a known issue and is there a fix for this? If not, can I take it to be fixed? I had this phone for less than a year.


texts: Why does my name not show up in messages

texts: My contact name does not show up when I send a message, but my email address does. My contacts can't tell who messaging is from.  How do I fix this?


texts: Quicktime (and other related apple software) not reproducing some avi files

texts:
Well, basically the problem is that Quicktime and keynote are not reproducing some AVI files.

The first thing I noted was that some AVI files didn't had a screenshot of the video in the thumbnail. After this, when trying to reproduce the video, a blackscreen appeared in quicktime. But, as you can notice in the screenshot, the time bar and the time stamp were "moving" (the video is being played, but a black screen in shown):

Of course, I can reproduce the video with some other program like VLC:

I can also reproduce the video if i convert the AVI file to an MP4 file (which of course, also shows the thumbnail):

Up to this moment, this was not a problem, as I could reporduce the videos in VLC if Quicktime didn't worked.

But now I noticed that, this AVI files cannot be inserted in Keynotes files either:

Which is a problem. Of course, this didn't happened before, and that's why I'm asking you if somebody had the same problem and how you fixed it.

I'm running Sierra 10.12.1. I'm not sure if a software update caused this problem, probably it was. I installed Perian but I had no luck with it.

Thank you for your time, hope you can help me.


texts: How do I jump to a topic in vim under Terminal for a French Keyboard

texts:
I'm on a French keyboard and I'm unable to jump to a topic in vim: If I go ':help' the instructions say:

  Jump to a subject:  Position the cursor on a tag (e.g. |bars|) and hit
  CTRL-].

I've tried various combinations with no luck. For example ALT+SHIFT+) gives ']' but adding CTRL does not work.

The only hack I found was to map CTRL-L to CTRL-] by add this to .vimrc:

map <C-l> <C-]>

Are there perhaps special mappings for French keyboards in Vim or Mac + French keyboards?


texts: Removing news headlines from Spotlight Search in iOS 9

texts: How can I turn off news headlines from Spotlight Search in iOS 9?


texts: Stop MS Word opening files automatically on launch

texts: Continual opening of files from history. I clear history, but they appear on startup the next time. If I use option (alt) button on 'Word' dropdown, I get Quit and keep files rather than Quit and close files?


texts: Batch adding names to mac os spelling dictionary

texts:
I work at a school, and I would like to add a number of unique names to the local dictionary so that they won't be flagged as misspelled by the spell checker.

I've discovered the local dictionary at ~/Library/Spelling/

I also see that words are added to the localdictionary text file each on individual lines.

However, when I try to paste in a large number of names (or to simply replace this file with another) I find that the new entries aren't recognized by the spell checker, even after killing the applespell process, or restarting altogether.

Ideally, I'd like to set this up so I could create a script to install this custom dictionary on all computers at the school (this works in MS Office). Is this possible?


texts: Number : calculate percentage using two cells

texts:
I can't believe I ask that but my brain seems offline this morning
I have two column (D1 (Day units) / E1 (Night units)
I want to create a new column with the percentage of use between day/night (with is D1/E1), with day first percentage displayed then night second percentage


texts: How Do I Remove Remote Disc from Finder (not in the Sidebar)

texts:
I've an iMac 10.10.3. When I open Finder and go to iMac under Devices I see my HDD, NAS, etc. But I also see "Remote Disc". I can't eject it (right click->Eject doesn't do anything) or trash it (The item "Remote Disc" can't be moved to the Trash because it can't be deleted).

I have absolutely no use for Remote Disc. So how can I remove it from Finder?

Note: Please note I'm not talking about removing it from the Sidebar. I've already done that.

Regards,


texts: Default Music app deleted from file system

texts:
I have a jailbroken iPhone 5s on 8.1.2. (B440).

My son (for whatever reason/long story) has deleted the music icon/app from the home screen. He did this from the main filesystem thinking he could copy it to pc then put it back… he can't!

Further, I have tried to restore the phone using my back-up and by using my 8.1.2. ipsw but it wont work. I get errors saying e.g. firmware file is not compatible or cannot read library .itl as it was created by a newer version of iTunes. I've also tried restoring via basic recovery mode and DFU mode but get errors as above.


texts: Is phone call history available on OS X?

texts: For example, we know messages are saved in ~/Library/Messages/chat.db however where are calls saved? Is there a folder or file?


texts: External hard drive is not connected but still showing in Disk Utility

texts:
I've noticed multiple copies of one of my external hard drives (that i replaced recently) showing up in Disk Utility.

Does anyone know how to remove them? I no longer have the original external hard drive.


texts: Trigger refresh/update smart playlists in iTunes using Applescript?

texts:
I keep live update turned off on most of my smart playlists because changing anything, such as ratings, for a currently playing song could cause the song to disappear from the playlist if it no longer meets the smart playlist's criteria.  The song stops playing and the playlist grinds to a halt.  So far, the easiest solution has been to have an Applescript run automatically in the middle of the night to quit iTunes and then launch it again, thus forcing all of my smart playlists to update.  This works.  It's also easy enough to right click on a smart playlist and select "Update Smart Playlist."  But what I'd rather do is use an Applescript to refresh all of my smart playlists and assign it a hotkey (using BetterTouchTool).

Is it possible to use Applescript to make iTunes smart playlists update?


texts: Click on link to open a terminal in a specific directory using iTerm

texts:
I want to use OmniOutliner to attach a directory to my outline. I think that the best way to do that is to have a link which, when clicked, opens iTerm in a specified directory. Can this be done?
Mark


texts: NotesApp in iPhone 6s Plus w/ iOS 10.2.1

texts: My iPhone has 16 notes. When I used a forensic tool to examine my phone, it recovered 27 notes, the 16 that I have and 11 "deleted" notes. All the "deleted" notes are named variations of 3 of the 16 notes. Each deleted note is a variation of the live note. I checked notes.sql db and although it only lists the 16 notes, I found the "deleted" portions at different offsets in the hex. My first thought was that the deleted notes were old / edited versions however, it seems that some of the deleted content has crossed from other notes or the note content is duplicated or tripled in the deleted portions. How does NotesApp deal with deleted/edited content from a note? Why is there "deleted" notes if they are still active? Any info would be appreciated.


texts: First time working with Numbers and I hid a column by mistake.  How do I show/unhide a column in this application?


texts: Iphone full charge from wall charger lasts *way* longer than full charge from USB power bank, why?

texts:
Basically if I charge my iPhone 7 (or Apple Watch) to 100% using my wall charger or from my MacBook Air's USB the charge lasts MUCH longer than if I charge from my USB power bank. I've tried multiple power banks and have the same results every time. Same goes for my Apple Watch.

A friend suggested that perhaps it never enters the slow/ trickle charge stage of charging and just does "fast" charging all the way to 100%. If this is true, wouldn't that be an iOS or iPhone hardware issue?

Anyone else experience or notice this?

Also, my power bank has a 5W 1A output and a 5W 2.1A output. Both seem to do the same.

UPDATE: Okay, so far I've done a few tests and am noticing that charging using a 5W source works great and the problem happens when I charge using a 10W source.


texts: Upgrading to OSX High Sierra breaks Terminal hot key functionality

texts: On Sierra's Terminal Command1, Command2, etc. would switch between different Terminal windows.  Now it switches between tabs within the same window.  Yes, I could use Command`to cycle between the windows, however, but I want back the previous functionality.


texts: How to wait until internet connection, before launching "login item"

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My Slack and a few other apps will automatically launch at login on my Macbook, since they are listed under "login items". However, some, like Slack, will launch before the internet is connected, and that causes them to flail. Is there some way to delay launching those apps until the internet is connected?

With systemd/systemctl, you can wait until "network.target" is made before running background process. I wonder if launchctl can do that.


texts: Resetting jailbroken device in settings caused boot loop

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I recently jailbroke my phone and for some reason my phone wasn't syncing my music from my iTunes library. I restarted my phone and lost my jailbreak tweaks. As my phone restarted the Cydia icon was still on my phone.

I went into settings and erased my iPhone. I saw the Apple logo and then it went into a black screen with a spinning circle. It's been on it for almost an hour. What can I do in a situation like this?


texts: Installing OS X 10.1 "Puma" on new HDD from CD onto a iBook G3

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Found an old iBook G3 M6497 at an estate sale, so I bought it for $2 in hopes to restore it to its original glory.  It did not come with any install or recovery disks.  This is my first purchase of a Apple device since my old iPod that broke, so please bear with me.

I knew right away that the hard drive was shot, so I followed the iFixIt tutorial to replace the hard drive with a new, 40GB IDE HDD. So this hard drive is brand new and not formatted to an OS X Extended partition, which may be part of the problem.

I burned an install CD from this website which hosts old version of MacOSX.  Everything boots up correctly, by holding the C key down when turning on the computer. I get to the installer wizard, and I get all the way to the 'Select Destination' part of the install, and this is where I get stuck.

The installer doesn't show a hard drive partition, so I can't install it anywhere.  I know that I need to format the hard drive, but I didn't have the tools to mount it on my Windows machine to pre-format it before putting it in the computer.  I burned a live-cd of Ubuntu 12.04 for PowerPC architecture, and tried to boot to an environment to format the hard drive, but I can't get past a couple kernel panics that I'm encountering (not sure if it's a bad CD burn or Ubuntu not liking the computer...).

So, my question:

How can I format this new HDD to OS X Extended?

Other sources say to just open the terminal from the installer and use fdisk, but I don't see a way to do that, closing the installer window just restarts the computer, and there are no other programs to run.


texts: Is remote wipe of a Mac content possible?

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I was gifted a MacBook Pro but the giver rescinded the gift and has locked the laptop;  I agreed to return it providing I was assured the laptop would be unlocked long enough for me to download my research, manuscript and a screenplay.

So far the person has refused to unlock it and has threatened to wipe 6 months of my work from the laptop.  I have the device.  Can the person do that remotely?


texts: Opensource software versions by OS X distribution

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Have anyone or know anyone any pointer to some table, where is summarised what versions of some major opensource software was included in different OS X versions?

Like in mavericsk is perl 5.16.2 (relatively new), bash only 3.2.51 (very outdated and really wondering about yosemite version ) and such.

Exists something like distrowatch.com(Linux) for OS X too?


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iOS 10.3.3

This question is similar to this, but the apps aren't even starting to update and I don't have the blue dot next to the app name on the homescreen.

I have 15 apps available for update on my iPhone SE, but when I attempt to update them, it doesn't work.

When I try to update apps, the spinning wheels show up but don't change to the ones that show progress. Even after a while the app updates are still spinning. I can still use the apps while this is happening. The "Update All" button also doesn't work properly. Clicking on the spinning wheel just launches the app.

When installing new apps I have the same problem.

Sideloading apps seems to work fine.

Storage space is not the problem as I have more than 1 GB free. I don't have restrictions enabled either.

Troubleshooting:

Restarting
Clearing App Store cache(tapping navigation bar 10 times)
Hard resetting(home button + power button)
Signing out and signing back in
Updating each individually
Turning on automatic updates


texts: Behavior of macOS After Toggling Secure Boot on T2 Chip: Does It Remember the ECID?

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I am reading up on the T2 chip as I look at plans to avoid multiple machines by consolidating various OS requirements onto a single computer.

It sounds like I can use Full Security for Secure Boot in the Startup Security Utility for macOS and Windows 10.

For Linux, I plan to disable it and enable Allow booting from external media.

When booting back into macOS after re-enabling Full Security, would there be any issue here, or would it boot just as if it had never been disabled?

I ask because of this paragraph:

  When an operating system is being installed, the system communicates
  to an Apple Signing Server and requests a personalized signature that
  includes the ECID—unique ID specific to the chip—as part of the signing
  request. The signature s unique and usable only by the operating system
  with that T2 chip installed. Therefore, when Full Security is configured, > the T2 chip ensures the operating system is uniquely signed for each
  computer.

To rephrase the question again, does the T2 chip remember this unique ID (ECID) after turning Full Security back on? Or rather, does it discard it when choosing No Security?


texts: Show random image for screensaver, no slideshow

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Is there any way to have the screensaver show a single random image from a folder of images, but to not rotate the images in a slideshow?

The closest thing I can get is by selecting the "Classic" screensaver option in the "Desktop and Screensaver" settings and then selecting my folder of images as the source. However, there is no way to prevent the images from rotating/ showing as a slideshow/ displaying one after the other. I am so far also unable to find any app that lets me do this.

I am using a MacBook Pro running High Sierra, version 10.13.6


texts: In Mail.app are images for a gmail account pulled from google image proxy servers or original servers?

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When using Mail.app to access a gmail account, will images get pulled from the google image proxy servers or from the original servers?

From https://support.google.com/mail/answer/145919?hl=en

  How Gmail makes images safe
  Some senders try to use externally linked images in harmful ways, but Gmail takes action to ensure that images are loaded safely. Gmail serves all images through Google’s image proxy servers and transcodes them before delivery to protect you in the following ways:

  Senders can’t use image loading to get information like your IP address or location.
  Senders can’t set or read cookies in your browser.
  Gmail checks your images for known viruses or malware.
  In some cases, senders may be able to know whether an individual has opened a message with unique image links. As always, Gmail scans every message for suspicious content and if Gmail considers a sender or message potentially suspicious, images won’t be displayed and you’ll be asked whether you want to see the images.


texts: Exclude files from "central metadata store"

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I'm fairly familiar with the mdfind utility. I find it's very useful when I can't find a file or when I need to find a file with certain contents. The problem is that I need to exclude some files from mdfind searches. I don't want to exclude the files from a single search (I know you can do this with mdfind -onlyin /path/to/directory/to/exclude) but from all searches. The mdfind man page says this:

  The mdfind command consults the central metadata store and returns a list of files that match the given metadata query.

So I guess I have to exclude/delete the files from the "central metadata store" in order to exclude them from mdfind searches. I'm wondering how I would do this.


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At work we have two Mac minis and each can run six monitors (twelve total).

I want to use only one Mac mini. How can we do this?

Update:

We have tried using a Thunderbolt PCIe expansion chassis.

We discovered some limitations of OS X and Thunderbolt.

Thunderbolt Expansion Chassis: Graphics Cards - FAIL

Mac OS X does not yet support video pass through. We tried multi-channel graphics card in a three-bay PCIe expansion chassis. FAIL. So not all graphics cards will work. When talking to Magna we learned that this is supported in Windows, but not Mac OS X. Maybe WWDC will announce further functionality from an OS end.

Thunderbolt Expansion Chassis: USB Graphics - FAIL

Utilize more USB graphics cards with USB 3 capable PCIe Cards. We discovered that the USB 3 PCIe cards developed by CalDigit does not support anything but hard drives. They said they will support a more full USB 3 spec in a couple of months when their next release comes out, but didn’t guarantee USB graphics cards.

USB Graphics Cards: Partial Success

USB graphics card makers are advertising the support of six USB graphics cards on one computer. Add HDMI and Thunderbolt. That makes eight displays from a Mac mini.

Why?

Because it is there.

Because the cost is right.

It is cool.

Hopefully a replacement for the linear processing of information like unto a PowerPoint presentation.

What?

Twelve 1080p LED monitors
Two Mac minis
FileMaker Pro
Eight USB-to-DVI dongles
Two HDMI ports
Two Thunderbolt ports


texts: How to enable the sound while screen recording a Zoom meeting on iPhone?

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I'm trying to record the screen while attending a Zoom meeting on iPhone, but the video after the recording seems to have no sound!
Before I started recording, I have turned the microphone on! But It also did not work!
How can I solve such a problem?


texts: Is "/private" just an ordinary directory or does it have special properties

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The nominal links
 /etc --> /private/etc,
 /tmp --> /private/tmp and
 /var --> /private/var
are all straightforward and I understand they are there because of a legacy need that has passed. Nothing magical about them.

However, I just saw these install instructions for an Apache/httpd module which recommend using /private/libexec instead of /usr/libexec. That directory doesn't exist but I can create it via sudo. So, I am wondering if /private has some special properties such that /private/libexec is merged with /usr/libexec?


texts: What is the "rm" process in Activity Monitor

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The rm terminal command is being invoked (by an app, not through terminal), and the process has been running for a while at 100%.

Here it is in Activity Monitor:

Why is it seemingly stuck working so hard? Is there a way to see if it is logging any errors?

I have been having this issue with rm ever since upgrading to APFS with 10.13 High Sierra. I just installed VMWare Fusion, so previous issues with rm were due to something else.


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I am trying to install ffmpeg and it's libraries with homebrew on a mac running osx (El Capitain).
The installation completes however its seems only ffmpeg is installed and not ffprobe or drawtext.

I tried reinstalling with this command:

brew install ffmpeg --with-fdk-aac --with-ffplay --with-freetype --with-frei0r --with-libass --with-libvo-aacenc --with-libvorbis --with-libvpx --with-opencore-amr --with-openjpeg --with-opus --with-rtmpdump --with-schroedinger --with-speex --with-theora --with-tools

..but I get this

Warning:ffmpeg-3.0.2 already installed, it's just not linked

What am I missing? I have tried deleting and retrying the installation but the problem persists.


texts: How to disable background blur effect on macOS Sierra login screen

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I've replaced /Library/Desktop Pictures/Sierra.jpg with a custom background image. Now, macOS Sierra applies the blur effect on my custom background image as well. I am looking for a reliable solution to turn it off e.g. overwriting a plist preference file or any non-hacking workaround?

How can I completely disable the login screen background blur and show a crystal clear login image?


texts: How to create a Windows 7 installation USB from OS X?

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I'm trying to create a Windows 7 installation USB (for use on a PC) from OS X.

I've tried following these instructions from a similar question on superuser:

Insert the USB flash drive and run the command diskutil list to find out the disk name, we'll use /dev/disk1 as an example
Now unmount the disk using diskutil unmountDisk /dev/disk1
dd if=/path/to/Win7.iso of=/dev/disk1 bs=8192

But the instructions don't work. When I insert the created USB drive into my PC and try to boot from it, I get this message:

  Reboot and Select proper Boot device or Insert Boot Media in selected Boot device and press a key

What am I missing?


texts: How do I gift a book from the iBookstore?

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On the iTunes Store, you can gift people music, apps, etc. by clicking on the down arrow next to the buy button and choosing Gift This ....

That option, however, is not available on books in the iBookstore:

How can I give someone a book from the iBookstore?


texts: Automator: Picking items from a list using characters in name and performing a "find" showing only the results

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I regularly make folders filled with lots of items that contain multiple versions of specific files. We often need to view them in very specific ways by version number.

i.e.:

file_v01.jpg
file_v02.jpg
file_v03.jpg
file_v04.jpg
file_v05.jpg
file_v06.jpg
file2_v01.jpg
file2_v02.jpg
file2_v03.jpg
file2_v04.jpg
file2_v05.jpg
file2_v06.jpg
file3_v01.jpg
file3_v02.jpg
file3_v03.jpg
file3_v04.jpg
file3_v05.jpg
file3_v06.jpg
file4_v01.jpg
file4_v02.jpg
file4_v03.jpg
file4_v04.jpg
file4_v05.jpg
file4_v06.jpg

I'd like to be able to make an Automator script/action/whatever that will work the same way as performing a search just in that folder and that will narrow the results per the item searched. Then that automator script would live as a button at the top of my Finder window (using the "Customize Toolbar" feature to add them one at a time).

So...

The user has a folder with 80 files in it, all named with the convention like those above. The user clicks the little button called "v01" and then they are only viewing the files that contain "v01" in the filename only in that folder.

I'd make automator items for "v02" and "v03" etc., having multiple buttons in the top bar, all the way up to v07. Then the user can click them to see all the "v02" items, or "v03" items.

I have never used Automator, so I have no idea where to start. I am NOT a coder.

Thanks in advance for your help!


texts: How to enable notifications on Calendar macOS for recurrent events?

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I created a few recurrent events from the Calendar app but none of them are being show as notifications, neither as popup notifications (those that appear on the top-right corner of the screen) nor on the sidebar to the right (the one that appears when I click the button to the right on the menu bar).

This is how one even looks on Calendar.


texts: Access to time capsule from main router?

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I'm currently having a Linksys router which gets an IP from my ISP. I have 2 Macbooks which are getting a DHCP lease from this router.

When I connect a Time Capsule to the router, the Time Capsule will get an IP from my router, which will be in the same subnet of my Macbooks.

My questions:
(a) will I be able to use Time Machine to backup my 2 Macbooks to the Time Capsule?
(b) will I be able to access a Time Capsule sure from a Windows laptop which is in the same subnet of the Macbooks/Time Capsule?


texts: How big is the apple on the back of your MacBook?

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Bit of an offbeat question, I know: but are the apple logos on the back of Mac laptops all the same size? Has the size varied over time, or does it vary over the models that are currently available? I don't have easy access to an Apple Store so I can't go in and measure the logos by hand.

I'm trying to get some stickers made for an event, and as people seem to stick stickers on top laptops (and often over the Apple logo) I thought it would be a good idea to make the stickers slightly larger than the logo!


texts: iOS 13.6.1 Reminder App No Longer Separates Multiple Lines

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I want to recover the line separation feature of the pre-iOS 9 Reminder App but running on iOS 13.6.1.
With this feature, I could paste multi-line text in a reminder item, and when I would hit Enter, it would the text break up into multiple reminders, one per line.
In this question from 2015, Reminders no longer separates items by line, user bmike wrote that the behavior is still there but you have to paste the text "into the list itself" instead of in a item. But every time I try that on my iPhone, Reminders creates a new reminder item forcing me to paste into that. User Steve Moser says to do this by long pressing without letting the keyboard show, but when I try that, no menu pops up.
I miss the old reminders app. Not only did it do this multi-line break up, it was also smart about the reminders in a list, keeping them in different orders for the active and completed, where the former was in an order of my choice and the latter was in the order I checked them off.
How do I paste "into the list itself" on an iPhone?


texts: Add paragraph to numbered list item after adding nested list to it

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In Mail, when you have:

Item 1.
Some paragraph in Item 1.

Item 2.

Item 2 - 1.
Item 2 - 2.

What to do so that you can get:

Item 1.
Some paragraph in Item 1.

Item 2.

Item 2 - 1.
Item 2 - 2.

Some paragraph in Item 2.


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I am using Office365 with Mail, Contacts, Calendar, Reminder, Notes (i.e. no Outlook).
Why do I get e-mail addresses added to Contacts?
These addresses are of people I do have in Contacts already.  Why do they keep coming back as e-mail adders only (person@example.com) without name or anything else?
I have deleted all entries from "Previous Recipients" and deleted the unsolicited entries. It did not help.
Is this an Office365 "feature"?
(Mac 10.9.2)

After checking with another account I have on same computer, this seems to be an Office365 "feature." How do I turn it off? I do not see an option in Outlook (web or desktop versions) to stop arbitrary collection and addition of e-mail addresses.


texts: Cannot load old Mac Air after trying to enable Night Shift mode

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I have an old 13' MacBook Air (2011) with latest OSX High Sierra.

I've tried to enable night shift by installing Night-Shift-on-Unsupported-Macs and after that OSX load is stuck at login screen with mouse, trackpad and keyboard (except Power key) completely unresponsive. Dialog message on that screen says it's trying to connect to Bluetooth keyboard and nothing happening at all.

Here are the exact steps I've conducted, which led to current state:

Rebooted Mac into Recovery Mode by restarting computer and holding down Command+R until Apple logo appeared on the screen.
Disabled System Integrity Protection (SIP) by opening Terminal tool and executing csrutil disable
Restarted Mac
Downloaded tools from Github repository and tried to launch GUI installer. It threw error, something like SIP is enabled, please disable SIP to proceeed.
I doubled checked and rebooted again into safe mode.csrutil disable yielded SIP is disabled.
Booted again into current user. ls -lO /System /usr yielded restricted
After looking into this thread some people said running sudo chown -R $(whoami) /usr/local helped to resolve this issue. I've run this command under current user.
GUI version of github tool still didn't work, although shell script ran with no problem and I rebooted.
Loading took much longer than usual and resulted in the situation described above.

I've tried to reset NVRAM and SMC, did disk check and re-enabled SIP and that did not help. I guess I've broke permissions somehow or harmed integrity of the system in some way.

Is there a way to fix it except complete system reinstallation or backup restore? (I still can load into Recovery Mode)


texts: I'm having problems putting my iPhone 3G into DFU mode

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I have upgraded my iPhone 3G from iOS 3 to iOS 4.2.1 using the iclarified Redhook for windows tutorial.

Upgrade has gone fine but I cannot get Redsn0w (v0.9.6b6) to recognise the DFU state. Every time I restart in DFU mode, I get the following error:

  "No Device Detected. You probably misunderstood the instructions.
  Please consult Google or YouTube on how to enter DFU mode"

Please note I had problems entering DFU following the Redsn0w instructions (i.e. start from off then: hold power 2-3s, power & home 5-10s, then home 13s) as these do not work  from power off on my iphone 3g. If my iphone is off and power button or power & home button are held, iphone immediately starts in recovery mode (with icon).

I can enter DFU (black screen) by having phone on, holding power button and slide power off on screen, I then release power button 5-6s after phone has switched off (per DFU instructions on google utube etc), phone enters DFU mode but not picked up by redsnow

Any suggestions welcome


texts: Photos.app not downloading image contents

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Photos.app has been working fine for me since its release, but more recently, photos taken on my iPhone and added to my Photo Stream were not appearing. An empty rectangle would show up for each new photo, and the rectangle would be sized appropriately (portrait/landscape/pano), and they appear grouped by location, but there isn't actually any image content. No thumbnail, and clicking on the image opens up a blank screen. The settings dialog says its trying to download, but the progress bar never moves.

In trying to fix this, I deleted ~/Pictures/Photos Library.photoslibrary entirely and created a new system library. Now all of my photos are in this state, not just the new ones. This persists across restarts of the application and the entire system.

I trust they're still up in the cloud someplace... they're on my iPhone ok. But I'd love to figure out why they won't show up on the desktop.

See screenshot for the current situation.


texts: OS X: Spontaneous Application Appearance

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A friend of mine asked me to inspect her computer a while ago as she suspected that she may have some virus trouble.
In part of my initial check of her computer (MacBook Pro OS X, probably Mavericks) I found 3 applications in the Applications folder, which according to her: "spontaneously appeared".
These applications included Microsoft Silverlight, MacKeeper and some other arbitrary media player, and after a small amount of research, I found that they may in fact be malicious software (adware, spyware or malware) so I promptly uninstalled them:
Problem solved.

My question is:

Can Applications just "Appear" in the Applications folder without User interaction/authentication?

She insists that she did not install them or give any authentication surrounding them that she remembers, which is extremely unusual as I would not expect programs to have that degree of access without user interaction.

Does anyone have any ideas?


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I am using a MacBook Pro running macOS Mojave with the latest version of Java.

When i run my Java program, it shows 2 icons in the Dock. Is it possible to remove 1 or relocate both?

I cannot use a 3rd party hide program, it won't move if I drag it off the Dock. Does anyone have any methods to relocate or hide the icons?


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I recently upgraded my Mac from Snow Leopard to El Capitan. I had been using a utility called Compost, which automatically deletes anything that has been in the trash more than a configured amount of time (also there are lots of other options, like if the disk is more than n% full). It doesn't seem to be working any more. The preference pane still works (although it's a 32-bit pane so it requires an annoying reload of System Preferences), and I can see the process running in Activity Monitor, but files aren't getting deleted.

Unfortunately, the developer stopped maintaining it several years ago. Anyone know of something similar that works in El Cap?


texts: What is the benefit of purchasing a Mac formatted External Hard Drive?

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I have seen in shops that you can buy external Hard drives in both Windows and Mac format.

I was under the impression that an external Hard drive will work across both platforms, however having seen this and the fact that the Mac formatted one was £20 ($32) more expensive for the same capacity. I wanted to know what the difference is and what the benefits of a pre-formatted hard drive were.


texts: How do I insert a function along with a word in numbers

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I am using numbers and I have a column function at the footer row. I'd like it to produce a Countif() along with a word.

I tried: =Countif(Checkboxes,True) "Checkboxes"
so that it would express for example 5 Checkboxes

That did not work as expected.


texts: iMessage issue when being sent to cell number

texts: A friend of mine has iPhone 4S with iOS 5.0. I can iMessage him using his apple id fine. However, when I try to use his cellphone number, I never get the light blue send button. It stays green all the time. This seems very strange to me. Any explanations?


texts: Problem to automatically update list of files on Finder

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Why does the Finder (MacOS) not automatically update the list of files when the download is finished? How to solve this problem?

Actually, I always need to click on another folder and back to the Downloads folder to see the new file.


texts: Trouble Installing Windows using Bootcamp

texts: Using Bootcamp to install a Windows partition on my iMac. I've created a partition on the HD. The format Bootcamp defaulted to is "Mac Extended OS (Journaled)." But when I try to install Windows on that partition from a USB external drive I created for this task (i.e., it has Windows installed on it), the error message I get is that the program can't be installed unless the partition is in NTFS format. How do I reformat just that partition to NTFS. . .or is that not possible? Thanks.


texts: Charge Apple magic mouse 2 using iPhone lightning Qi wireless charger

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Can I charge Apple magic mouse 2 using iPhone lightning Qi wireless charger adapter and pad? It seams like it should work in theory, but I wonder if there is some kind of compatibility or feature with the mouse that would prevent this.

More info: Sorry, for lack of details, looking to use something like these:

https://www.amazon.com/Apple-Receiver-iPhone-Wireless-Charger/dp/B01MT6150G/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1501775730&sr=8-1-spons&keywords=qi+iphone+receiver.&psc=1

https://www.amazon.com/SurgeDisk-Wireless-Charging-Sleep-Friendly-Universal/dp/B01HYLST9Q/ref=sr_1_9?s=wireless&ie=UTF8&qid=1501775763&sr=1-9&keywords=qi+charger


texts: When using the default British keyboard layout, some apps won't let me input #

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For some reason, on my iMac, [alt]+3 will enter the # symbol as it's supposed to in some applications (e.g. Xcode), while in others (e.g. Safari, Terminal...) it just makes a little error 'beep'.

It's not a major problem, since I can use a different key layout and the problem is resolved, but it's always bugged me that I couldn't determine the source of this behaviour. It has persisted through Mountain Lion, Mavericks, Yosemite.

I also have a Macbook Pro with mostly similar configuration and things installed AFAIK, but it doesn't have this problem.


texts: How do I add new pronunciations to apple dictation?

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I am a mathematician, and I am also dyslexic. I am trying to use the dictation software (not voice over) on my MacBook pro to write documents. I want to teach it certain pronunciations of words for example 'Lie' in 'Lie algebra' is not pronounced as it is written but differently. Given I have a speech impediment associated with my dyslexic I don't pronounce 'th' properly (and a bunch of other things), so every time I say 'theory' it writes 'fairy'.
Here are some other examples that which it consistently gets wrong for me: "is" always writes "it's", "the" always writes "there". You can imagine how annoying this gets!
I'm worried it is in a positive feedback loop. That every time I say "the" and it writes "there" it thinks that is more likely the correct thing to do, so does it more often etc. I don't know how/if I can formally correct it so that the algorithm knows it got it wrong.
Thus my question is: Is there a way to teach apples dictation software the correct pronunciation/my pronunciation of words? If not are there any alternatives I could use.
(p.s. The original version of this question asked how to add new words as-well as  pronunciations  - a recent update seems to have sorted this)


texts: How can I stop Mac Mail continually caching attachments?

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Two problems really:

I'm using Mac Mail version 5.3 on Mac OSX. My Yahoo mailbox is continually fetching new mail i.e. the wheel by 'yahoo is continually spinning. It has been doing this for a few days. I have already tried quitting and reopening Mac mail a few times.
I can see see from Window>Activity that Yahoo inbox is caching attachments. Even if I stop it, it starts again within seconds.


texts: Help with AppleScript to automate Numbers Cell Formatting

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I do several mundane repetitive tasks using Numbers App on a Mac, and wish I could just automate the same with the help of AppleScript.

I got Numbers Spreadsheet with several tables, on the selected table, I want the script to run through all rows of selected column (which is column 1 mostly) and format cells (color the text blue or red) depending on even or odd value condition.

thanks


texts: Apple Notes isn't letting me zoom in when using separate window on macOS

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When I'm writing a note in a popped out window (by double-clicking on the note in the list), the "zoom in/out/actual size" options in the view menu are disabled. Most of the view menu is disabled, but most of the options are about the list of notes or other things that aren't present when you're in a separate note window.
But zooming should be allowed, I want to change the text display size. I can zoom in when the note isn't popped out, and indeed it's zooming the note independent of anything else, including when I open other notes, so it is zooming the note and not the whole app or something.
Zooming in the main window is a fine workaround, but it seems like it should work in a popped out window too. Is this a bug? Is there another way that I'm missing?


texts: Upload photos synced from iTunes to iCloud

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I have about 1500 photos on my iPhone which I imported from my old HTC Titan, through iTunes. I recently tried to turn on iCloud Photo Library and it said it would delete all my photos from my old phone (!)

How can I combine my old photos with my current ones?


texts: How can I pause the download on Mac App Store and then resume it later?

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I am downloading macOS Sierra from Mac App Store. But I have electricity problem here. Due to which my iMac will lose power after 2 hours. Now I want to pause the downloading so that I can resume the download later on. How can I do that?

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texts: How to repair disconnected battery connector MacBook Air 2011

texts: I "inadvertently" read foolishly broke the soldered pins in the MacBook Air battery connector while trying to replace the battery. Any easy fix??


texts: Reinstalling a MacBook Pro w/Lion (10.7.2), when previous owner died, can it be done? What do I need?

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A colleague of mine gave me a MacBook Pro that a friend of her has asked for help with.

The MBP is installed with Lion, 10.7.2, but unfortunately the previous owner, the father in the family, died, so I don't have any of the passwords necessary for his App Store account.

I can run the reinstall program from the recovery partition, but of course this wants to activate with App Store with his account.

They are currently waiting for his email accounts to be opened up, and until that happens, requesting a new password from Apple won't do much good either.

However, the new owner, the son in the house, wants to use his own account. Can I activate Lion against his account instead? Of course he has never had a Mac tied to his account so he has not purchased Lion, yet.

What is the best way to move forward with this?

Basically, I want to reinstall the MBP to Lion factory presets, and tie this to the sons account instead of the dead father.

Or should they just take it to a factory outlet? Unfortunately there aren't any native Apple Stores nearby, but there are some ... what's the word, Apple Dealers, a local electronics shop that has a large Apple section. Would they be equipped to do this?

Can this be done? If so, how?


texts: Can Apple TV AirPlay mirroring use a "secondary" screen/display?

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Can Apple TV enable me to treat my TV as a wireless secondary screen (as one can do when directly connecting the TV via a cable), rather than simply mirroring my primary screen?  I'd love to stream content to the TV while still using my laptop to do work.

(I know you can stream iTunes to the TV but that's very limited in what it can stream/play, e.g. can't stream content from arbitrary video websites.)


texts: Cracked iPad display - What are my options?

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I've had my 3rd generation iPad for only five months, and I've tried hard to keep it in pristine condition. I always had it in its case, and was very mindful of what I did with it.

Unfortunately one momentary lapse of concentration is all it took for this to happen:

It only fell three feet, and it was still in its case, but none of that made any difference :(

What are my options now? How much will Apple charge me for repairing it? Will a third party do it cheaper? If I'd bought Apple Care, would this type of accident have been covered?

Thanks for any advice!


texts: Why is there 200 GB's of space belonging to "Untitled" on my Macbook Pro?

texts: So basically my Macbook Pro (2015 Model) has been giving me a lot of issues recently. Yesterday it kept force restarting on me and I had to factory reset it to get it to stop. Well, I guess I messed up the factory reset because I no longer have a Mac HD drive on my computer, only a bootcamp drive. This bootcamp drive only has 50 GB's of storage for use, it says the other 200 is "untitled" when I go into disk utility. Is there anyway I can fix this?


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I am experience something weird with my two MagSage 2 of my MacBook Pro 2015 . It happens with both of them, so I am not sure where the problem is.
I am using iStats menu to monitor the battery charge. What I find is that sometimes the "Watts" is around 20 to 40, but never even close to what the charger delivers (85W). Magsafe 2 light is on Amber (correct):

Even worst, sometimes it appears as "Not Charging", the Amperage becomes negative and Power Adapter shows 0W instead of 80W.. so it seams like it doesn't recognize the power (and indeed no light is show on magsafe 2):

In other moments, it shows as "Draining", the Watts are > 0 but Amperage keeps negative. This is supposed to happen when the magsafe is not plugged at all.

Finally, to add some more information, the battery is beyond its normal cycle count as it's > 1000 (1382).
So...I am completely lost. I don't know if the problem is in both of my MagSafe 2, if in the battery or on my Mac.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.