texts: Import Touch Bar predictive text dictionary from Android Gboard

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I'm trying to take advantage of the touch bar in my 2019 MBP since I've never been actually using it. I want to know if there is a way to "import" my predictive text dictionary from somewhere else at first.
The thing is, on my Android phone (using the Gboard keyboard by Google) I love how the prediction system works and how it has learned the exact way I use it to type. So I'm trying to export it somehow and import it on the MacBook... If I knew how and whether it is possible to import any kind of dictionary, then I should be able to possibly "translate" whatever gets exported from Gboard to whatever the importing process accepts; although if there is some way to do it automatically then that would be much better.


texts: Set position of icon in dock without pinning

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I like to organise the icons in my dock, but I do not always like to display icons for applications that are not open – quite a clutter when you're setting the position of many icons.

Is there any way to ensure that an application's icon will always be in a set position but only when the application is open?


texts: Mechanism to force iTunes Match to not match/upload tracks

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I've been using Apple Music for almost ten years now, and for the most part, I have no complaints.

One issue I've run into though is iTunes Match will match a track, and because of the ever shifting licensing/rights landscape, the track will be removed from Apple Music. Fortunately Apple Music/iTunes records which tracks are no longer available, but this has happened for about 100 tracks in my library now.

Has anyone else encountered this/figured out a workaround?


texts: Ext2 utility "e2cp" alternative for OS X

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In my linux machines, I use the command line utility e2cp to copy files from and to ext2 disk images. Unfortunately, OS X does not provide any ext2fs utility out of the box.
Is there a version of e2cp that is compatible to OS X, or a similar alternative? Notice that I don't need to mount or do anything advanced, I just have to copy files.


texts: Why doesn't AirDrop work on older network adapters?

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Apple has stated that AirDrop will support only the following models:

AirDrop supports the following Mac models:

MacBook Pro (Late 2008 or newer)
MacBook Air (Late 2010 or newer)
MacBook (Late 2008 or newer)
iMac (Early 2009 or newer)
Mac mini (Mid 2010 or newer)
Mac Pro (Early 2009 with AirPort Extreme card, or Mid 2010)

I saw mention of more detail on Twitter, but the forced brevity has provided me only limited information from @GlennF (Glenn Fleishman) (here):

AirDrop will require newer Wi-Fi hardware (newer meaning maybe as old as 2008 or 2009) that allows simul. network/ad hoc.

And from @NeoVanGoth ("Sir Neo Codealot") (here):

Warum #Airdrop aug älteren Macs night geht: "it appears that the WiFi radio module must support simultaneous dual-band for AD to work" #Lion

Can I get a more detailed, and hopefully highly technical explanation about the differences in these network adaptors, as well as what it is specifically that the new ones are doing in order to make AirDrop work properly?


texts: Oracle VirtualBox installation failed on BigSur M1 Apple laptop

texts: I am trying to install Oracle VirtualBox on Big Sur M1 Apple laptop. Installation failed both on full security and semi-security. Does anyone know of a solution?


texts: How do I copy files between OS X and Android 6 over USB cable?

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I want to copy files from OS X (El Capitan) to my Nexus phone (which uses Android 6) and vice versa. And I just mean copying locally, i.e. over USB cable, I want to avoid overcomplicating things with upload and download through intermediary servers.

In the past I used Android File Transfer for this. But that was with a previous OS X version, and my old phone with Android 5. I tried again, but it doesn't work anymore, it keeps saying:

  Can't access device storage.

  If your device's screen is locked, disconnect its USB cable, unlock your screen, and then reconnect the USB cable.

The screen is most definitely not locked, and dis+reconnecting the USB cable (either end) doesn't help.


texts: Can you blindly navigate the boot selector screen with a non-flashed video card?

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I have a Mac Pro with a non-flashed video card. Yes, the video works just fine when the machine is booted (HD 270x). Since the card is not flashed, I obviously cannot see the boot screen.

The problem I have is that I also have Boot Camp on the machine for a Windows 7 installation. I used to simply have a simple Automator generated application for blessing the BOOTCAMP partition and rebooting the machine. However, with the upgrade to El Capitan and the associated System Integrity Protection (SIP) you can no longer simply bless the partition and thus my application no longer works without disabling SIP.

I'd prefer to have SIP enabled, so short of finding an EFI ROM for the Radeon HD 270X (automatic answer accept if you have one! ;-)) I figure I could live out my days navigating the boot screen in the dark.. what, two right-arrow keys and a 'return' wait a few mins? Should be easy, no? Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to work and instead appears to get stuck to the point that I need to reboot AND zap the PRAM to get back to normal!

My question is, am I just mis-navigating the boot screen and the PRAM zapping is just because somehow I messed up? Or is it that telling the Mac to go to the boot screen (Option key during startup) got it stuck somehow because it didn't see a video card it could use? Better yet, is there another way I can still use Boot Camp with a non-flashed PC video card?

thanks


texts: Does "Download and Keep Original" require manual sync of each photo?

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Following the update to iOS 10.3.1, my phone warned me (unnecessarily as it turned out) that I had too little space to store all my photos at full resolution, and suggested that I switch to "optimized" storage (which for those unfamiliar with the feature stores a uselessly blurry simulacrum of the original only), which I foolishly did.

I immediately realized my mistake, and restored the "Download and Keep Originals" setting. But this appears to have had no effect. I still see only the placeholders, until I click on an individual photo and wait for it to download.

So the question is: what does "Download" mean? Does it mean

download all photos automatically (e.g., in the background over time) or
download a photo only when it is viewed?

If the answer is 2, is there a way to force all my photos to sync at full resolution to my iPhone without clicking on each individual photo (which would take about a month of continuous clicking, with no breaks for sleeping)?


texts: How can I delete Safari cookies via Terminal on 10.7.2?

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I would like to delete all Safari cookies from terminal on Mac OS 10.7.2.

I tried to delete ~/Library/Cookie/Cookies.binarycookies (this is the only file in ~/Library/Cookie), but it didn't help.

Please advise.


texts: Offsite Backup Strategy for Multiple Macs

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I have 4 Macs in my household that have a decent local backup strategy.  I am preparing an offsite backup disk and wondering about the best strategy for structuring the offsite backup disk.

I want to protect:

4 Macs with a total of 3.75 TB of internal storage.  Approx. 80% usage of capacity
2 external drives connected to two of those Macs

5 TB capacity, 50% used
4 TB capacity, 25% used

Potential capacity to be backed up is 12.75 TB, but current data size is 6.5 TB.  I have purchased a single 8TB external drive to be taken offsite.  Yes 12.75 TB cannot fit in 8 TB, but 6.5 TB can.  I don't foresee the external drive usage to increase more than 1 TB in the next year.

Caveats

Backing up to the cloud is out of the question, as I am working with a 100 GB per month data budget.

Requirements

All of the data on the external drives is vital data and large, such as my photography.  That alone comprises 2.2 TB
Everyone in the household makes their living from their Macs.  If a big disaster happens, I need to purchase new Macs and get them back to fully functioning in the shortest time possible

Backup format

Each Mac is currently backed up locally by both Time Machine and a bootable backup via Carbon Copy Cloner (CCC) to separate disks.  Since I have these set up already, I'd prefer to stick with these options, but am open to suggestions.

CCC would require partitioning the backup drive into 6 partitions, locking in the amount of data I can backup up for each source.  Time Machine (TM) on a single 8 TB partition would allow the free space to "float" to where it is needed as the external drive usage increases. Because of this, I am leaning towards TM vs. CCC simply because of the amount of data to back up.

Backup Procedure

I would be storing this 8TB disk offsite and bringing it to my house occasionally.  I would then connect the drive to each computer, let TM do its job, then take the disk off-site again.  I may put a second disk in rotation so that there is never a time when all disks are on-site.  See my answer to a similar question https://apple.stackexchange.com/a/381886/146721 for the details of how the rotation works.

Encryption

Encryption is a must since I cannot guarantee the physical security of the offsite drive.  If I go with the TM route for backup, I can encrypt the entire drive with a single password or allow each machine's backup to be encrypted with a separate password.  Since these are family backups, I am not terribly concerned with intra-user security, so I am leaning towards a single encryption password.

Restoration Scenario

My existing in-house backup strategy (TM + CCC) should take care of most mundane restoration situations.  The scenario I am attempting to cover here is complete disaster, such as the house burning to the ground.  In this case, all computers and on-site backups are assumed to be destroyed.  In this scenario, new hardware would have to be purchased and restored from the TM backups

Does this seem like a reasonable strategy?


texts: How to open numbers spreadsheet in 2 separate windows

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I often find it useful to have two tabs of one spreadsheet open in separate windows. In Excel this is easy (Windows/New Window).

Is there any way to achieve this in Numbers (as of Version 3.5)?

For the record, I've tried searching for an answer to this, but needless to say, searches including "Numbers" and "Windows" doesn't lead to anything useful.


texts: How do I tell Finder to read the network folder contents?

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I use the following AppleScript script to automatically connect a remote drive when my VPN connection is established using Viscosity:

do shell script "sleep 5"
tell application "Finder"
    mount volume "smb://some.domain.here/projects"
end tell

This works ok. However this does not read the contents of the folder. So when I go to this folder for the first time, it takes extra 30 seconds to retrieve the list of files and folders.

Is there a way to tell Finder to pre-load the content of this network (!) folder in the background, without activation (it is ok to change Finder's folder to /Volumes/projects)? I tried to get a list of files into a variable. I get file names in the variable but the Finder window still tries to pull files again. I tried to "ls /Volumes/projects" but the Finder stills loads files on its own.

The folder is read-only.


texts: Detect application focus event using applescript

texts: It it possible to detect application focus event using applescript? What I'm trying to achieve is to open ios simulator when I focus on text editor. I know how to activate simulator but can't figure out how to detect when the editor is active.


texts: not optimum mode message on samsung monitor when I close the lid

texts: For some reason, my samsung monitor started giving me some problems when I use it with my mac pro. It works perfectly on PC, and it used to work perfectly on my mac too, but recently when I connect it to my mac pro, it started showing the screen with wrong resolution when the lid is open, but when I close the lid it gives "not optimum mode" message. I need help.


texts: Monitor which folder has used the disk storage

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I got a mac air with only 256 GB storage.  Some apps must be using the storage and after deleting and moving everything I can (down to relocate mail and dropbox to external disk using symbolic links and their own folder), the storage is still kept on dropping. It lost quite quickly down to 0.01G per 15 minutes. Looking using du df or visual is hard to spot so far.

Is there any way (shell script etc.) to monitor which folder is increasing in size over time? (Space approach)

If that is not possible, how about a script to monitor any directories that have been modified in the last 15 minutes? (Time approach)

Many advice I found is only on one folder or one layer e.g. home/* but not the whole directory structure.  Possibly to have a way to spot out an offending directory?


texts: How to prevent AutoOpen feature for apps

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Several vendors provide their drivers with AutoOpen feature: image file contains single application SomeApp usually installs drivers or connection manager.

I've discovered how it works: Mac OS X finds
SomeApp.app/Contents/MacOS/AutoOpen executable and runs it. I've tried to create such application from scratch and this method works fine. This is huge security hole like autorun feature on Windows.

How to disable this feature permanently?


texts: When I have a monitor plugged in at work (dual monitor) and I go to About this Mac -> More Info it says Graphics Radeon HD6770. But when I unplug the monitor and just use the laptop display (17") It says Intel graphics. Is this normal? This is a brand new machine.


texts: Sharing a Photos library across multiple accounts

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How can I share the same Photos library between multiple user accounts on the same machine

I currently have my photos library on an external drive.  "Ignore ownership on this volume" is set.  The first user that logs into the machine and opens photos obtains a permanent lock on the database.  There's a process named photolibraryd that sits and keeps a lock on the top level Photos.photoslibrary directory.  According to the system log this lock is what is preventing other users from opening the library.

I get that you can't have two people accessing the same library at the same time.  Is there any way to make this work?  iCloud sharing seems to be limited to 5000 images (roughly a 10th of what I have)


texts: MacBook Pro mid-2012 turning on only without battery connected

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My MacBook Pro mid-2012 is barely 5 months old and it just won't turn on one day. MagSafe Adapter doesn't show green or orange LED while charging. LED display did not show any lights either.

Following online instructions, when I opened it up and removed the battery connector and plugged the MagSafe adapter. Adapter started working well and LED lights too.

I heard it boot up but nothing on screen. Puzzled, I hooked it up with a monitor and I could see my login screen but my keyboard and trackpad were not working as well so I could not do anything. I tried doing SMC reset from there that did not work either.

As soon as I put the battery connector back, it stays on only until I remove the MagSafe adapter even if battery is fully charged.
Has anyone encountered a similar issue and solved it?


texts: creating APFS fusion drive / conversion to APFS from HFS+ fusion drive fails - "you are trying to create an upside down Fusion"

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I have 1TB Internal SSD and 512GB SD card in a SD slot.

I can create a fusion drive in HFS+ format, and the drive was running fine on my previous El Capitan system. Now that I upgraded my system to Catalina, I wanted to format this fusion drive volume in APFS (currently running Catalina from external hard disk drive, not this fusion drive). But the conversion always fails with either of these 2 error messages:

1:----------------------------------
A problem occurred during conversion from HFS to APFS
APFS Converter exit code is 1
Aborted conversion in commit mode so will restore type
Setting type of disk0s2 to CS
Changing the physical disk partition type in shared mode
Partition modification attempt count was 1
Setting type of disk4s2 to CS
Changing the physical disk partition type in shared mode
Partition modification attempt count was 1
Not mounting APFS Volume
Exiting conversion operations with error code -69860
Error: -69860: The underlying task reported failure on exit

and

2:---------------------------------
It looks like you are trying to create an upside down Fusion:
Main tier (988 GB) is larger than Tier2 (462 GB)

I have no clue about the error message 1, but assuming from the error message 2, APFS fusion drive can not be created if the main drive ( SSD ) is larger than the secondary one? If so, is there a way to force it to make the fusion drive anyway?

what I did to convert:

diskutil apfs convert disk1
diskutil apfs createContainer disk1 disk2
from Disk Utility's Edit menu: "Convert to APFS" ( unmounted the target volume first too )
used a Carbon Copy Cloner and cloned Catalina's bootable volume on external hard disk to the target fusion drive
from OSX Catalina Install Disc

I'm really stuck now. Is there anything else I can try? I appreciate your help, thanks...!


texts: How can I keep a Java-based pop-up open even when its parent page is closed?

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I'd like to run the Java client for Runescape but want to quit Safari while the Java pop-up is open. How can I do this?
My idea was finding out the URL of the client and running it through the java terminal command, but I'm having huge difficulty location the URL. =/


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I am trying to install ccid-1.4.20 (command line) in an El Capitan enabled MacBook Air, but I am facing some issues. Instructions says that after uncompressing the file, in the generated folder I should do:

./MacOSX/configure
make
sudo make install

However at the end of the process, I get the following error:

configure: error: libusb.h not found, install libusb or use ./configure LIBUSB_CFLAGS=...
+ rm -f src/Info.plist

So I figured that libusb was missing.

I went to the libusb SourceForge project and downloaded libusb-1.0.19 and proceeded installing it. Here I get no error message(s).

Then I proceeded to retry installing, but I still have the same error. Any ideas?

Material and software used:

MacBook Air (13-inch, Mid 2013)
1.7 GHz Intel Core i7
8 GB 1600 MHz DDR3
Mac OS X 10.11 Beta (15A278b)


texts: Any way to make shared reminders lists be in the same order?

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I'm on Mavericks.  I have shared a list in Reminders with someone, and have put in a lot of effort to make sure the list is in a specific order.  Just now she opened the list up on her iOS9 phone and the order is completely scrambled.  She also checked the list on her Mavericks machine and it's in a completely different, but also scrambled order.

What's going on here?  Do shared reminders created on one machine, have no bearing at all on the order of the list on the other party's device(s)?  Do the other devices just shuffle the items into a completely random order?  Is there any way to ensure that a list I order a specific way on my side, reflects the same order on the other party's side?

EDIT:  Apparently this has been an issue at least back to 2012...


texts: What open source video editing software packages are available for the Mac?

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What are open source video editing softwares available for the Mac?
I have used Pitivi, AVS on other systems.


texts: How can I insert text in middle of a document and have images move down too?

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I have a document with text and floating images. Let's say I want to insert some text in the middle of the document. If i click in the document and hit enter a bunch of times, I want the existing text and images to slide down so I can put my new content there, but only the text moves down and the images don't.

How can I make it so everything would slide down when I press enter.


texts: Replacing Yosemite RED/ORANGE/GREEN window buttons with standard Mac OS X icons?

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I've tried Yosemite on my MacBook Air (testing machine). I think it is ugly, bland, and the most un-Apple-ish OS that Apple has ever released. One of the most irritating design aspects is the RED/AMBER/GREEN window buttons (Close/minimise etc) which look to me like they were designed by a child.

Are there any tricks or methods for replacing the Yosemite rendition of these Mac OS X buttons with the usual ones we are all familiar with?


texts: Can I remove or hide the VIP Folder in Mail on iOS 6?

texts: Is there anyway to remove or hide the new VIP folder in the native Mail app on iOS 6?  I use lots of filters on my Gmail backend and have no use for it.


texts: How do you delete the Apple ID of a dead person?

texts: I need to delete the Apple ID of my dads iPad. He died and I don't know his password.


texts: Iphone syncs with iTunes when 'looses' all the songs

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As of today, when I connect iPhone to Mac to sync something weird happens. The phone seems to think it needs to copy all 10,000 tracks. It does so, takes 90 mins. Finishes with no error messages. And when I disconnect from the Mac, iPhone says it has no songs/music stored on the phone.

I have made any changes in recent days. What is going on?

I'm on an iPhone 7 with iOS 10.3.2. Also latest iTunes - 12.6.1. There is 91GB of space left on the 127GB phone.


texts: Interstitial screen/marketing layer on Airport guest wifi

texts: Is there a way I can add an interstitial screen when a user first logs in to my Airport Extreme's guest network whereby I can make a marketing ask (like, "Like us on Facebook!") and require them to check a box and click a button ("I accept the terms of service," etc.) before continuing to browse the web?


texts: Avoid having to select "Include Network Devices" every time when scanning in Preview

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I set up a wireless HP Printer for my mother, prints and scans just fine. The annoying thing is that every single time we try to scan in Preview, we first have to do the following:

Select File > Import from Scanner > Include Networked Devices
Select File > Import from Scanner > Printer name

Is there a way to avoid having to do that first step every time? Didn't see a preference in Preview and obviously we aren't going to keep it running all of the time. :)


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I'm on an IMac mid 2017
I tried to update my Mac running under Mojave to Big Sur. I got an error that the disk check couldn't be done.
Since if I boot the mac in normal mode I can't start it, it gets stuck on the apple logo.
So I wanted to reset the mac but when I open the disk utility via Mac Restore it loads endlessly and doesn't display the disks.
I count on this precious community to help me.
Thank you for your time


texts: X11 keeps crashing with "Cannot establish any listening sockets", I cleared /tmp but it still crashes

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Started X11 on Lion today, now it keeps crashing over and over - can't get it to stop.

  Cannot establish any listening sockets

1) is there any way to stop this over and over again?

2) is there a fix for it?

I cleared /tmp/.X11-unix and /tmp/.X0-lock


texts: App updates require many retries to install

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I think this started with iOS 9. App updates often seem to fail quickly and require multiple presses of either the UPDATE button or the Update All link at the top. This happens both on iPad (4) and iPhone (6S). It sort of looks like the connection to the App Store quickly fails but later works - it is unlikely to fail once the progress bar has started.

There are a few tricks that help (repeated taps of the buttons; so many taps that the app store cache clears; killing and restarting the app store; restarting the device). However, the problem keeps coming back. It seems worse on the iPad, which is sometimes left unattended for a few days or a week. Later there are many pending updates.

It also often confuses pending updates with installed updates - the button changes from UPDATE to OPEN and the Update All button is present but greyed out. For the first ~half second this is not the case, so you can still install the updates if you are quick.

This sounds very similar to iOS App Store will not update apps unless the Update button is pressed many times. However, in this case there are no failure messages and resetting network settings has not fixed the issue. Also, iOS updates never fail for me.


texts: Restore scrollbar arrows (or their functionality)

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For workflow purposes, I still use a 2003 eMac running Leopard a decent amount of time, and really miss some of its features in the newer, less civilized downgrades of the operating system. In particular, the scroll bars by the side of the window (which one can force the OS to display, albeit far smaller than they used to be) used to have arrow icons to move up on down one screen. If one were really determined, this preferences setting allowed the arrows to appear both above and below the scroll bar.

In the newer OS versions that newer hardware is stuck with (say, anything that doesn't have a large cat name), is there any way (preferences setting, AppleScript, helper app, etc) to bring back the arrow icons to scroll up and down precisely one screen per click or, failing that, to bring back their functionality easily from the mouse/trackpad? Page Up/Down isn't really a solution, as it takes both hands.


texts: Would updating to OS Sierra remove my third party apps?

texts: I'm sorry if this is too trivial of a question, but this is the first time I've updated OS where my computer is loaded up with important third party apps. Am I correct in thinking that only a factory reset would remove apps (aside from deleting them individually)?


texts: How can I turn on my iPhone using assistive touch?

texts: How do I turn on an iPhone back after turning it off using assistive touch? My lock button on the top is broken so I have no other way of turning on my iPhone.


texts:
There is a wonderful little utility on Debian called jstest, whose man page is found here. This util can be used to show which buttons are being pressed on a gamepad. Does something similar exist on the Mac? It can be graphical, command line, or built-in, I do not care.
jstest example output:
Driver version is 2.1.0.
Joystick (Logitech Logitech Cordless RumblePad 2)
has 6 axes (X, Y, Z, Rz, Hat0X, Hat0Y)
and 12 buttons (BtnX, BtnY, BtnZ, BtnTL, BtnTR, BtnTL2, BtnTR2, BtnSelect, BtnStart, BtnMode, BtnThumbL, BtnThumbR).
Testing ... (interrupt to exit)
Axes:  0:     0  1:     0  Buttons:  0:off  1:off  2:off  3:off  4:off  5:off  6:off  7:off  8:off  9:off 10:off 11:off


texts: How can I stop from having my music transfer between my iPhone and my HomePod?

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What initially seemed like a clever feature turns out to be ridiculously annoying: the transfer of a song between a HomePod and an iPhone.

I have a HomePod in my office, on my desk, and whenever I take out my iPhone to do something, even though the iPhone is a good 2 feet away from the HomePod, it transfers from the amazing speaker of the HomePod to the little crappy speaker in the phone.  This literally happened like half a dozen times in the last song I played.  It significantly degrades the listening experience  both by interrupting the song (there is always an extremely noticeable delay when transferring) and by forcing my to play on a radically inferior speaker.

How can I make this stop?

I have looked through the configuration for the HomePod and can't find anything to allow me to turn off this misfeature, or (better yet) adjust the proximity required, or add a confirmation before the transfer.  This seems like an obvious failure on the part of Apple to test this feature well or provide necessary settings, but since I can't make them fix it, what can I do?

There is no other furniture in my office that is suitable for the speaker, so moving it is a terrible option.

I tried turning off Bluetooth on my phone, and that surprisingly didn't thwart it.  (I would have guessed that Bluetooth was used for detecting proximity.)

When the notification appears to tell me of an impending transfer, flicking it away quickly has occasionally seemed to prevent the transfer but this has been very inconsistent, and there is a very short opportunity to do that.

To add insult to injury, as I've tried testing various methods I've found that the proximity detection often fails even when I want it to work, making it impossible to test whether some behavior is stopping it.

Update: I've found a solution to turning it off completely (below) but I'd still be interested in other approaches if anyone finds a clever way of controlling how this works.  The ideal would be a way of having it turned on, but having it work reliably only when I actually intend it to, not when I'm just using my phone from a couple of feet away from the speaker.


texts: Weird folder setup in Big Sur compared to Mojave. Lots of questions

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I just upgraded to Big Sur from Mojave.
Why are there 3 Applications folders in Big Sur?

One listed on main hard drive which seems to contain everything
Another in system folder: only some programs here. These are also in main folder
For the third go to System/Volumes/(hard drive name)/   all apps in this folder.

In this same folder I see the all the folders and files from my previous Mojave system. Should they be there? What do I do with them? Weird place to store files.


texts: What's the best way to manage iPhone (live) photos and videos on PC?

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I've a lot of photos and videos taken on my iPhone. I'll usually copy the files of the photos/videos periodically from my iPhone to my PC. But this method of copying files manually is messy because the filenames of the image stored on iPhone sometimes can get confusing.

I'm copying these files not for restoring them to my iPhone later, but to free up space.

I'm not using the backup feature in iTunes for this because that backup is only an image of the phone and it doesn't let me view the photos.

Is it possible, on a Windows 10 PC, that I can store, transfer and manage photos/videos from my iPhone to PC such that I can view the pictures/videos and recognise the albums in the Photo App on my iPhone?

Also, it will be great if there is a way to somehow organise and preview Live Photos! Live Photos are a pain because they are actually 2 files and it's so easy to just miss out one of them!


texts:
I have a linux dual boot installed with rEFInd, which I want to delete.

I tried to just delete the disk partition, but that throws an error.

MediaKit reports partition (map) too small. If you recently grew your whole-disk, you should run whole-disk repair.

First Aid completes without any errors.

From this other post, I figured my best option would be to run qparted on my linux dual boot to fix the disk partition.

However, after installing 10.13.4 update, my mac decided to auto-boot into the latest OS X, disabling my dual-boot. I can't even log into linux anymore.

Running diskutil list gives the following result:

/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *251.0 GB   disk0
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s1
   2:                 Apple_APFS Container disk1         210.0 GB   disk0s2
   3:                  Apple_HFS Recovery HD             650.0 MB   disk0s3
   4:           Linux Filesystem                         40.0 GB    disk0s4
   5:                 Linux Swap                         133.2 MB   disk0s5

/dev/disk1 (synthesized):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      APFS Container Scheme -                      +210.0 GB   disk1
                                 Physical Store disk0s2
   1:                APFS Volume Macintosh HD            193.4 GB   disk1s1
   2:                APFS Volume Preboot                 21.9 MB    disk1s2
   3:                APFS Volume Recovery                517.9 MB   disk1s3
   4:                APFS Volume VM                      1.1 GB     disk1s4

/dev/disk2 (disk image):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        +2.0 TB     disk2
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk2s1
   2:                  Apple_HFS Time Machine Backups    2.0 TB     disk2s2

I had this issue before, and the solution was to change the priority of the boot loader, but I have forgotten how to do it...

I looked at the rEFInd documentation, and I have followed the instructions:

$ sudo mountesp
- The ESP has been identified as /dev/disk0s1; attempting to mount it....
- The ESP is mounted at /Volumes/ESP

$ sudo mount -t msdos /dev/disk0s1 /Volumes/ESP
- mount: realpath /Volumes/ESP: No such file or directory

This is weird, because mountesp just told me that that directory exists...


texts: Keep Maps/Waze on screen when answering call

texts:
I have my iPhone paired with my car's Bluetooth. I typically have my iPhone displaying Waze or Apple Maps in navigation mode. When I answer a call, the Phone app takes over the entire screen and I no longer see the map.

Is there anyway to keep the navigation on screen while I'm answering a phone call?


texts: How can see call history in iPhone one month back, i also tried with tried party software but that is not perfect , is the any solution from apple?


texts: Would it be possible to change the default environment to something like Cinnamon? Or to a window manager like openbox or awesomewm?


texts: Can I control which drive application and OS updates are downloaded to?

texts: I have a small SSD as my main drive, and a large regular drive for data files. Noticing that my mac is currently downloading an XCode update of about 2.5Gb and an OS update of about the same size, I wondered if I can configure where OSX downloads these temporary files to?


texts: Cannot launch Parallels Desktop after upgrading to macOS Catalina?

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After having installed macOS Catalina, I cannot launch Parallels Desktop anymore.

Launching Parallels Desktop from the dock results in the message in the image below. It says that I should "Allow" Parallels Desktop in "Security and Privacy" settings, but it's not showing up there.

How can I manually "Allow" Parallels Desktop in "Security and Privacy" settings, when it's not showing up there?


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I have a Late 2006 iMac running OS X Lion 10.7.5 with 4GB of RAM, however OS X is software limited to only addressing 3GB of the 4GB installed. I know in Windows when running a 32bit Windows OS with more than 3GB of RAM there were programs that could turn that unused RAM into a RAM disk. Is there any known way to do this in OS X? A 1GB RAM disk would be very useful as the old hard drive in this Mac only averages 40MBps.
Here's a quote from RamDisk Plus 12 for Windows 32bit

  RamDisk Plus 12 has a most unique feature. Our patent pending technology can access memory beyond the limitation imposed by a Windows 32-bit operating system! In other words, RamDisk Plus 12 can use "unmanaged" Windows' memory e.g. above 4GB. It can also use the stubbornly inaccessible memory between 3.2GB and 4GB.

Otherwise if the RAM disk isn't an option is there any other way that wasted 1GB could be put to use?


texts: iOS 8/7 keyboard swipe up menu: no control center access

texts: How can I access the iOS 8 Control Center swipe-up menu while the keyboard is active?


texts:
Is there any way to disable notification only with specific application(s) for a certain time (not permanently)? Something like Do Not Disturb, but for specific application(s). Or maybe even by notification banners?

Usually I need this for disable notifications for skype or other messenger apps for hour, so that I won't forget to turn notifications back on.


texts: Strange stripes in AirPort Utility window

texts: What are this weird stripes in only this window (AirPort Utility) and can I get rid of them? Sometimes this bug does not appear, but most still it do. I thought it depends on the screen resolution, but I was mistaken. MBP retina late 2013, OS X 10.9.5. Thanks!


texts: Some contacts not displayed when searching for them

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I have an iPhone 6 with the newest iOS.
Today a friend sent me a text message. After a few hours I went into
my contacts and tried searching for him but nothing came up even though I have him in contacts (checked by going into the message and clicking view contact).

This has actually happened several times before, searching for some contacts doesn't yield any result or shows something different even though that contact exists.

Anyone had the experience with this?


texts: open new tab in iTerm and execute command there

texts:
I have found way to open new tab in iTerm:

newtabi()
{
    osascript -e 'tell application "iTerm" to activate' -e 'tell application "System Events" to tell process "iTerm" to keystroke "t" using command down'
}

And I want to execute some commands in new tab. Let it be simple command pwd. How to do it?

If I run ...

newtabi && pwd

The new tab is opened as expected, but pwd command is executed not in new tab but in old one, where I typed newtabi && pwd

I use zsh. My os is OS X 10.8.5


texts: dual screen resolution setting is reset after logout, reboot or sleep

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On a mac mini running OSX 10.11.6, if I set dual screen resolution to 1920x1080, it resets to the default 800x600 if the computer is reset (or if slideshow mode on powerpoint is activated), or if the user logs out, or if the computer is awoken from sleep. I have tried resetting the nvram, to no avail.

How do I make this setting persistent? Note: I need the setting to be persistent while in guest mode. I have three other mac minis with identical configurations whose dual screen settings are persistent, even in guest mode.


texts: Mac Osx require at least 40gb of free space to install Windows with Bootcamp, but I have 70gb free!

texts:
I don't understand why my macbook pro don't allow me to partitioning my hard drive to install windows 10.. It advice me that require at least 40gb when I have free around 70gb..  why this happen?!

Thank you.


texts: Are there any 1D laser barcode scanners that work well with iOS?

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I'm looking for a scanner that works similarly to the Microvision ROV which has worked very well for me in the past when connected to a Mac and Delicious Library.

Is there anything comparable on the market for iOS bluetooth scanning?

Requirements are to be dedicated external hardware. I prefer battery powered, bluetooth and fast/rugged aspect of a 1D laser powered barcode scanner. Small is nice, but the KoamTac appear to be too fragile so I'd rather something built more like the micro vision or symbol line of USB scanners that are built more like tanks.

I don't need 2D scanning and am really looking for a laser to pick the exact line needed to read multiple barcodes and rapidly scan in low light situations. I'm hoping someone has actually used this hardware and can speak to the usability of any devices for industrial and/or high volume scanning (think 100 iMac that need inventory from Apple's barcodes sitting on a shipping dock).

What hardware can assist with this?


texts:
Is there a way to disable the wifi popup window that was introduced in OS X Lion.

I know I can remove it from known wifi networks, but sometimes I do use this connection (It's the Starbucks free wifi next door). The problem arises when I am using Ethernet and maybe it flakes out, or OS X is doing something else, but It pops this window up to let me connect to the free wifi hotspot. I'd much rather have to do this manually (Using my web browser) rather than the "always on top" popup window it gives me.

I've looked around on the internet and have found no solutions, I was kind of hoping some network guru for sound defaults write blah.blah to disable it.

See image below for the popup window I'm seeing:


texts: FileVault: What exactly is the optimizing step about?

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After enabling FileVault on El Capitan the partition is encrypted in a first pass. After this phase is complete a second optimizing phase is starting which takes considerably longer than the first encryption phase. The optimizing step was not present on the first appearance of FileVault 2 (OS X Lion). The encryption phase took the same amount of time back then. So what is this optimizing all about ?

My system is a mid 2014 MBP with 1 TB SSD. 1st phase was done in about 12 hours. 2nd optimizing phase is now at 20 hours and counting.


texts: Music from windows 7 to iPhone 6 without itunes

texts:
I have a large number of songs I want to download from win7 to my iphone6,
What is the easiest way? I don't have iTunes on this computer.


texts: How do I copy the whole partition map for a drive 'cloned' with DD? Same size hard drive for input and output of DD. Device block size was 4096 Bytes on input disk, 512 Bytes on output disk. Filevault 2 partitions on source.


texts: Fastest way to transfer a bunch of photos TO iphone camera roll?

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what is the quickest way to transfer a bunch of photos (and videos) that come from an iphone to another iPhone's camera roll?

Sync with iPhoto/Aperture is not an option: they wouldn't end up in the camera roll
Opening from email or dropbox one by one and saving them is not an option: too many!
A big email is not feasible

AirSharing and Dropbox apps are apparently of little help, since I couldn't find a “save all” command.

Any suggestion is welcome, third party apps too!


texts: Cannot logon to iCloud.com - stuck on verify email dialog

texts: Today when i logon to icloud.com I get asked to verify my email. I have never got that question before. And when I fill in the email, it says "You cannot configure an apple-ID with this email address - try with a different one". This is my primary email, and it has worked before. I even tried with both @me and @icloud.com but it will not accept any of them.


texts: Open a favorite web page quickly using the keyboard?

texts:
I have a Google spreadsheet that I open every morning

I'd like to open it quickly using just the keyboard after startup, as opposed to:

opening Firefox
going to the address bar
typing in the tag name
arrowing down
hitting enter

Is there a way to do this with just a few keystrokes?

Assuming I don't already have a browser running (I prefer to use Firefox if that matters)

Also, I would rather not have to use a third party app to do this

UPDATE:

Realize that I could have FF run at startup which would save me at least one step...

SUMMARY:

I would really like to have an experience like opening the web page from Spotlight if possible; the webloc file does show up in spotlight but it's way down the list... I'd like the first few letters to bring it to the top. Perhaps there is a way to assign priority to Spotlight items?


texts:
I need to upgrade my MacBook Pro 15 inch (2012) OS X from 10.11.6 to 10.13.6 or later.
However, I have downloaded several updates for 10.13 all the way down to 10.12.6 and in every case it says I need to have a prior operation system such as 10.12 for 10.12.6 to be installed.

In other words I can't seem to find an OS X system that I can install because I don't have the latest system for the update. So are all these OS systems updates only that require a previous version? Apple's download website just shows updates.

Where can I find a complete new OS to download so I can apply updates?


texts: How does the language & text region setting "affect the availability of Internet services"?

texts:
According to a note underneath the Region setting in the Language & Text prefpane, "Changing the region may affect the availability of Internet services."

This is not explained in any documentation I can find anywhere, and apart from some cryptic suggestions in some mailing lists, I've found essentially nothing to explain how changing the region setting—which seems to only be for changing date, time and number formatting, and is almost always Custom for me—would affect network connectivity.

Does anyone have any ideas as to why this note is there, and what it refers to?


texts: What does errAEWrongNumberArgs error mean running AppleScript?

texts:
I copied a script that I found online, but it will not run. The error I receive is

Logical operator NOT used with other than 1 term (errAEWrongNumberArgs:-1721)

Here is the script.

on run {input, parameters}

-- Bring Screenflick to the front
tell application "Screenflick" to activate

-- Start a recording
tell application "System Events"
    tell process "Screenflick"
        -- Open the Recording view
        click menu item "Recording" of menu "Window" of menu bar 1
        -- Set the recording timer
        tell window "Screenflick"
            -- Turn the timer off
            tell checkbox "Set Timer"
                if (its value as boolean) then click it
            end tell
            -- Turn the timer on
            click checkbox "Set Timer"
            tell sheet 1
                set value of text field 1 to "0" -- hours
                set value of text field 2 to "0" -- minutes
                set value of text field 3 to "10" -- seconds
                keystroke return
            end tell
        end tell
        -- Start Recording (Open the Screen Selection view)
        click menu item "Start Recording" of menu "Record" of menu bar 1
        delay 1
        -- Set the screen area to record
        tell window "Selection Window"
            perform action "AXRaise" -- makes the window frontmost
            tell pop up button "Selection Type"
                click -- Show the menu
                click menu item "Fixed Size" of menu 1
            end tell
            -- Set the left / bottom of the selected area in global screen points
            -- Must set the values to strings, not integers
            set value of text field "Left" to "100"
            set value of text field "Bottom" to "100"
            -- Triggers Screenflick to use those values
            -- (only confirming one of the fields is fine)
            perform action "AXConfirm" of text field "Left"
            -- Set width and height of the recording area
            set value of text field "Width" to "800"
            set value of text field "Height" to "600"
            perform action "AXConfirm" of text field "Width"
        end tell
        -- Now start recording
        click button "Record" of window "Selection Window"
    end tell
end tell
return input

end run

How can I figure out this error code?


texts: How to update a command-line program using Homebrew?

texts:
curl is a command line tool for transferring data with URLs. It is installed on my system as version 7.51.0. According to the tool's homepage, its current version number is 7.54.0. I'd like to update my copy of this tool to the latest version.

According to the Releases and Downloads page of curl's website, the latest version can be installed on Mac OS X using Homebrew.

How can I use Homebrew to update my copy of curl to the latest version? Is updating the same as installing? If so, then the answer to my question is:

> brew install curl

But is there a different way to update an already existing program?


texts: How can I mix multi-channel input device down to mono?

texts:
I have a microphone and Soundflower installed, and an aggregate device set up in Audio MIDI setup to mix the two together. My mic has two channels, and Soundflower has both a 2 channel and a 64 channel device. I just put them all together.

The problem is, I'm trying to use this as a "mic" input for Microsoft Teams (which does not support multi-channel input audio), which seems to only use one channel. With the settings as my screenshot shows, people can hear only my microphone; but if I swap the order of the devices so that Soundflower is first, people can hear the Soundflower output, and not my mic.
I'd like to mix these channels down to a single channel that I can use as the mic input. Is this possible (without external hardware?)


texts: Very hard to select text via mouse accurately after upgraded to Yosemite

texts:
After upgraded to Yosemite, I've found that the mouse selection is basically broken, e.g. when I select, I follow the steps

mouse down, start select
end select, mouse up

The problem is, when I mouse up in step2, basically what I selected, has 50% of chance is being unselected.

I can't reproduce the issue every time, but given that 50% of chance, it is very annoying..

Any idea?


texts: How do I un-trust a computer that I have connected my iOS device to?

texts:
When I'm at work, I connect my iPhone to my computer over USB to keep it charged during the day.

When I do so, the phone appears in iTunes. I don't remember my phone prompting me if I wanted to trust my work computer (or I don't remember choosing Yes), but I'd rather not have this connection. All I need is the precious, precious voltage.

Is there any way to remove or un-trust a particular computer?

(My specifics: iPhone 5, iOS 7.0.2, Windows 7, iTunes 11.1)


texts: How can I create a bootable drive for ArchLInux on macOS?

texts: I'm trying to figure out how to do the equivalent of these instructions for creating an archlinux bootable drive on a Mac. (I'm using a Micro SD to USB adapter.) I found these instructions on partitioning a flash drive, but I'm not sure how to apply them, since the instructions I'm trying to "translate" into macOS terms talk about sectors, and that's very much a lower level than I'm used to working in. To be expressly clear, my question is this: how do I achieve the same stuff as in the instructions using macOS 10.12.6? Thanks!


texts: How do I open the Xcode programming environment in Windows?

texts: I'm having trouble opening Xcode 9 beta 4 on my Windows computer. It's the first time I've tried downloading Xcode, and I think the problem may be my computer isn't able to open .xip files but I'm not confident. Any insight or advice?


texts: macos Sierra Fn key acts like a long press with delay

texts:
I have recently updated to macos Sierra and have a very strange thing happening with my Fn key. I have looked everywhere but cannot find anyone with the same issue.

Whenever I press the Fn key, it looks like the first key I press immediately after holding it is not recorded, instead, it acts like a long press of that key, and only the second press acts as normal.

For example: I do Fn+Delete to forward-delete, then it deletes as normal delete, and then starts deleting everything after a second, exactly like if I was just long pressing the delete key. If I press the delete key a second time (while holding the Fn), then it does act as expected. The funny thing is that once I release the Fn key, whatever I press after having released it still acts like if I was still pressing Fn, and then the rest of the key presses are normal again.

I first saw this issue with Fn+Delete but it happens with all keys, Fn+RightArrow will make my cursor go through all the text, etc. I have tried a SMC reset and a PRAM reset, I logged out and logged in to a newly created account to see if it was some issue in my user account, but nothing seems to solve it. I also tried turning sticky keys on and off.

Please help, I can't think of anything else.


texts: MacBook does not list my bootable USB stick in the boot menu

texts:
I made a bootable USB stick with OSX Lion. When starting up my Mac Mini (which has OSX Mountain Lion installed) while holding option, the USB stick is listed and I can boot from it. But I want to use it to install OSX Lion on my MacBook. But the USB stick is not listed in the bootable devices list. I tried removing and inserting the USB stick in both USB ports, but still it is not recognized:

Some more info about the MacBook:

Model: Intel Macbook3.1 (13-inch late 2007)
Current OS: OSX Leopard 10.5.8
Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo T7500, 2.2GHz, 64 bit architecture
RAM: 1GB

I read that this MacBook model should be compatible with OSX Lion (Mactracker tells me that the max OS for this MacBook is 10.7.4). And it should be able to boot from USB (Intel Macs can do this). The USB stick is bootable (it boots on the MacMini, and I used it to install OSX Lion on another MacBook, a MacBook4.1 early 2008). Why doesn't this MacBook recognize the USB stick when booting?


texts: Macbook Pro WiFi hardware sporadically malfunctioning

texts:
I dropped my MacBook Pro (15" mid 2012) last week, which appeared to just give a bit of cosmetic damage near the Ethernet port. But over the last few days, my Mac has repeatedly automatically set WiFi to off in the toolbar and won't let me turn it back on. Sometimes the toolbar displays "no WiFi hardware installed".

As many sources online recommended, I did NVRAM and SMC resets, and this occasionally works, but is only a temporary solution, eventually it will tell me there's no hardware again. My thinking is that the cable connecting to the airport card was damaged when I dropped the laptop.

Does this seem likely? Obviously I don't want to replace the cable, unless I'm pretty sure that's the issue.


texts:
Would it be harmful to my rMBP if I installed Windows 10 when it is released?
I was talking to someone about it, and because Apple uses non-standard hardware voltages could cause damage using the drivers for Windows 8.1


texts: How does HealthKit calculate activeEnergyBurned and other variables?

texts:
I am investigating using HealthKit to supply some data for an application which will run on iOS. We are thinking about using Apple Watch to collect the data. I am especially interested in activeEnergyBurned and some related quantities, namely basalEnergyBurned, respiratoryRate, and vo2Max.

It appears that the sensors on the Apple Watch are just orientation, acceleration, and heart rate. So I guess that the activeEnergyBurned, etc., must be calculated from those items. Can anyone point me to any documentation or other info about how these items are calculated? In particular, any known limitations or constraints would be very helpful to know.

I wasn't able to locate any info about that with a web search. The only info I found that is at all related is this question: How to get Apple Watch 2 to calculate VO2 Max data? Also found this: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/8082402

Are there better articles or descriptions than the ones I cite above to learn how active energy is calculated?


texts: Show all windows on hover/click doc icon (Mac Yosemite 10.10.5)

texts:
I just switched from Windows to Mac and having a hard time figuring out this.

In Windows, when I click on the application icon in task bar, it shows me all the open windows and then I can open any of the window. Is there a way to do same in Mac? Basically I want to see all the open windows when I click/hover on the open application icon in the doc.

Currently I'm doing following but not liking it -
* Use CMD +' to switch between open windows
* Set hotspot corner to show all windows.

But given I'm so used to click the icon to show the window, I want to do same in Mac too.

Any advice appreciated

Thanks


texts: How can I create a photo slide show of one face from iPhoto's faces?

texts:
I really like the view in the Faces section of iPhoto when you are identifying possible matches.  You get the closeup of just the picture and you can see all of the ways the person has changed over the years (assumine you are actually looking at a match).

I would like to automate the process of generating a slideshow that shows only the person's face.  Does anyone know of how it might get done in iPhoto or with a third-party product that could leverage iPhoto's faces data?


texts: I have a MacBookPro5 with OS X software version 10.5.8  -  is it OK to update it to 10.6.1 or higher?


texts: Delete Yosemite? Find Mountain Lion? Post-Stroke Explanations, Please

texts:
I hope you can help me. I had modest tech abilities until 6 months ago, when I had a stroke. I don't know now what these abbreviations mean. I have read the answers but they don't seem to apply.

My mini got a new hard drive last November with Mountain Lion installed. I think I wanted to upgrade to Mavericks but somehow got Yosemite instead, which is awful and messes with everything. Can I get rid of it without losing everything? I don't have anymore an external hard drive, or something else I can't recall. Thank you.


texts:
I recently upgraded to Catalina. I'm a bit of an old school Unix user, and I tend to use XQuartz/xterm/ksh.

Now that there are access controls everywhere, is there an easy way to add access to XQuartz/xterm? I've noticed that Terminal pops up a dialog to add permission, but in xterm it just fails.


texts: Is there a way to show app icons in Mission Control?

texts: When I used Mission Control, I like to show all my open apps (not in groups) , but when I have a lot of windows, it would be nice to have an overlay of the application icon over the image of the window (similar to the icon beneath the windows when grouping is turned on). Is there some hidden preference / terminal command / utility that can facilitate this? Thank you!


texts: Do I need NVRAM/SMC reset to restore a used MacBook Air to defaults?

texts:
I've bought a used MacBook Air (Mid 2013) running Yosemite and I'd like to restore every setting to defaults, as in, start over with a fresh clean OS.

What are the things I have to run to make sure the system is good conditions before performing a reinstall?

Should I reset NVRAM and SMC to set stuff like volume and mouse speed to default, or a OS reinstall via recovery will take care of that?

Thanks!


texts: I'm trying to identify a friend's iPad Mini.  I know the model number from the "About" screen is FD528LL/A.  Unfortunately, I don't have the model number from the back of the iPad.  Is this an iPad Mini 1, 2, 3, or 4?


texts:
Lets all take a long journey back about 21 years ago when apple released their color classic. It was pretty awesome right? Well I managed to get my hands on one but I have some sad news.

When I go to power on my wonderful dinosaur I get nothing. And by nothing I mean, no fan spinning, no lights, no hard-drive POST-ing.

Could anyone give me a hint to as what is wrong with my Mac.

My idea is

-3.6 Volt  battery is dead

-Power supply is shot

ALSO, I do not have a keyboard or mouse connected, but I do not think that, that would cause the fan to no start.

Any help or suggestions would be fantastic.Thanks all!


texts: How to remove white borders on dark mode in macOS Catalina?

texts:
Ever since I updated to Mojave I hated the fact that they put white borders on every window and on the dock in dark mode like those ones:

But because of this post I was finally able to remove those borders from the Dock by replacing dockbackgrounddark.png and dockbackgrounddarkax.png from /System/Library/CoreServices/Dock.app/Contents/Resources with blank files. I was to happy that it was possible to do that:

Before:

After

I then spent hours of searching through resources so I can find where the borders for the apps are located at but I couldn't find anything and I really want to find them. I would be so thankful if anyone could help find those.

It is possible to adapt / suppress the white border on app windows as well?


texts:
I am looking for an AppStore API, official or 3rd party, that would enable me to both search for (using keywords) and download apps. I'd be downloading free apps, such as:

https://itunes.apple.com/app/angry-birds-2/id880047117

There is a 3rd party Google Play Unofficial Python API available, but does such a thing (preferably in Python) exist for the AppStore?


texts: Can I write on iPad using touch typing technique?

texts: Is there any way on iPad that I can write text on iPad using Touch Typing technique, as this is the way I use keyboard?


texts:
GarageBand was updated using a different apple ID than my own. Since then it will not let me use my own credentials to update.

Once a new update came out for GarageBand it prompted me to enter in my credentials. The login box had the Apple ID that is not my own greyed out and filled into the apple ID box. It prompts me for the password but will not let me change the login. I use my Apple ID for all other applications but it will not let me update GarageBand with my own credentials. Any help would be great! Thanks


texts: How to track steps with the iPhone Health app

texts:
I just got an iPhone 8 (iOS 11.4) and I can't figure out how to track the steps that I take everyday through the phone. Can I do it through the Health app by itself or do I need to use Strava or some other app to do so?

Looking at the Health app, it says I have no data for the year/month/week/day. I went to the Data Sources & Access tab but it doesn't list any apps, not even Strava or Pacer Pedometer. Pacer Pedometer was listed as a recommended app.


texts: Making a bootable USB OS X Installer from iso on Linux

texts:
I followed the procedure for using dd to put an OS X iso on a USB stick from Linux that is described here. The problem I'm having is that my Late 2006 Intel MacBook does not recognize the USB stick at all. I cannot use a Mac to install this because the Mac boots into a kernel panic(which is why I am reinstalling the OS).

command used that failed: sudo dd bs=4M if="./macosx" of=/dev/sdb && sync


texts:
I am not happy with iTunes 12.3 (it constantly asks for my Apple ID) and I would like to re-install iTunes 12.2.

Where can I find the 12.2 version?
Will replacing 12.3 by 12.2 lose my music files and other personal data like rankings, subscribed podcasts, playlists, etc?


texts: Upgrade boot camp from Windows 8.1 to Windows 10

texts:
I set up Boot Camp on my MBP (2014 model) installing Windows 8.1 (I want to use Windows 10, which is supported) but the boot camp wizard did not seem to work with Windows 10 for some reason - possibly me choosing the wrong variant of Windows 10 from the MSDN page?

I tried the "Media Creation Tool" in windows to upgrade from 8.1 to 10 but this failed with a message about the tool not working for my version of windows.

I have downloaded a windows utility for creating a bootable USB using an ISO file. I then created an install USB for windows 10 on my USB drive. When booting and holding the option key, I see three options: Mac, Windows and the USB drive. If I select Windows it just boots as usual ignoring the USB drive. What happens if I select the USB drive? Will it install window 10 onto my windows bootcamp partition (as I want) or will it try to install it on the USB drive?


texts: After cloning my Mac, why are my time machine backups so slow?

texts:
I recently cloned my late-2015 MacBook Pro (to another of the same model) using Acronis True Image 2018 for Mac. The cloning part worked well, but on the new laptop my Time Machine incremental backups are taking 30+ minutes to complete even though there's been almost no activity on my Mac since the last backup and very little (under 1GB) is usually backed up each time.

Both original and new laptop are running High Sierra using the new (APFS) file system.

When I look at Time Machine activity during a backup using sudo fs_usage -f filesys backupd it looks like TM is requesting data on 100,000's of different files, even though they haven't changed since the last backup and aren't actually backed up.  It's as if TM isn't correctly using FSEvents to know which files have changed.

The 30+ minute numbers are after I've already used sudo sysctl debug.lowpri_throttle_enabled=0 to speed up backups. Without this setting, they're even slower.

I've already tried deleting all old backups and even creating a brand-new share on my NAS device. Nothing worked.

Any ideas how to get quicker incremental backups?


texts: Is there a free QuickLook plug-in for CAD files (3D models)?

texts:
Mac OS X QuickLook supports the Collada interchange format with .dae file extension out of the box.

There is CaniVIZ 3D Preview available for 59$ and there are free standalone viewers for CAD/3D files like eDrawings Viewer. There’s even a plug-in for .stl files popular in 3D printing.

Is there a free or cheap (< 5 USD) QuickLook plug-in, maybe part of a viewer application, that is capable of formats like .dxf/.dwg, .3ds/.max, .obj, .skp/.kmz?

How hard would it be to write or adapt an existing one? SketchUp/3D Warehouse .kmz files, for instance, are .zip archives that contain a .dae file among other stuff. Also, there’s a FOSS project, Meshlab, that should contain the required parsing code for a lot of formats.


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I have a 2020 (Intel) MacBook Pro 13-inch, with the 2GHz i5 and 16GB RAM:

I've connected it to a Dell U2720Q 4K monitor:

I'm using the USB-C to USB-C cable which came with the Dell to power the MacBook and send the video signal. The built-in display is (integer) scaled to 1280x800, while the Dell is set to 'Default for display', which is 1920x1080 logical pixels. The USB-C cable is plugged into the front right Thunderbolt port.
The problem I'm having is that the external display is refreshing at 30Hz (when I power it on, the little Dell interface tells me that). It feels very choppy and unpleasant. The built-in display doesn't have this issue, and is running at 60Hz.
Is there anything I can do to force 60Hz from the external display?


texts: Connect from Macbook Air 2012 (thunderbolt port) to dell monitor (displayport)

texts:
I just bought this Dell UltraSharp U2312HM monitor to use as an external monitor of my Macbook Air 2012 model.

And, I'm looking for a cable that will connect from thunderbolt port (mini displayport) to displayport of the monitor and wanted to confirm
if this cable is the right one.

Mini DisplayPort to DisplayPort Cable M-M 2m


texts: My keyboard can only produce 95 characters?

texts:
I have heard from multiple sources that a standard QWERTY keyboard can produce 96 different characters, not counting the option key characters. Here is a picture of my keyboard:

I highlighted in red the alphabet keys, which can produce 52 characters–26 lowercase and 26 uppercase letters. In blue is the symbolic keys, which can produce 22 characters–11 buttons, two for each. In green are the numbers, which can produce 20 characters–10 numbers with 10 symbols. Orange keys can't produce any letters. And there's also the space bar, delete, and return. Only the space bar can produce a character, a space.

In total, that is 52+22+20+1=95 characters? What is the missing character? The best guess to me is enter/return, although that doesn't really make a character to me.

I have a Macbook Air.


texts: “Show Help Menu” keyboard shortcut & full screen apps in OS X 10.7

texts:
if you press cmd + shift + / focus moves to the search field in the help menu of the current application. This seems to be broken when the frontmost app is in full screen mode in 10.7.

Is there a workaround to this?


texts: Is it possible to open a website, for example, http://apple.stackexchange.com with url http://localhost:8000 without changing hosts file?


texts:
I will separate my Downloads Folder on a permanently installed SD Card in my MacBook Pro.

Is this possible?


texts: Is there a legal way to get a US App Store account from outside the US?

texts: I noticed that many useful applications are unavailable in Russian App Store, as US Store seems to be the primary target for developers. I wonder if there is any legal way to obtain a US Store account (I'm interested in iPhone and Mac Apps, no music) if I don't live in the United States.


texts: How to access app specific iphone files in 2020?

texts:
I've seen some posts on this, but they are ancient and none of the answers are relevant anymore. Ex: The app functionality in iTunes is long gone.
Is there still a way to access a specific app's files on an iPhone without jailbreaking that iPhone?
In my case, I'm trying to get to the Kindle files so that I can download some traditional Chinese books. You can't download them using the Kindle for desktop app because it doesn't support the traditional Chinese fonts (which boggles my brain to no end considering it is the primary writing system for some 30 million people and it's a couple of lines of code to fix).


texts: Reason why applications aren't stored in the Home-Folder?

texts:
I wonder why Apple don't put all applications in an applications folder inside the Home-Folder. So they could offer a hole new mac for each user.

Every file is user specific, except for the applications. Is there a reason for this? Or just "too complicated" because every user want to have access to Safari and Third-Party Apps?

  Is it just Apple or is it a UNIX design decision?

Is there an explanation/documentation/ operation system design?


texts: What are the .py, .pyo, and .pyc files in /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/Extras/X11/xcb?


texts:
I have a folder containing over 2,000 web pages I've downloaded. Most of the file extensions are .html, though some are .pdf or .webarchive. My OS is Mojave.

When I highlight an icon in Finder, it lists a variety of metadata, including the source URL, the page title, author, and the date I downloaded it.

Is there a way to grab all that information - each file name, along with the source URL, page title, author and date downloaded - so I can put it in a Numbers spreadsheet?

I can do it manually, one file at a time, but that will take days.


texts: Does iOS 13 or Safari create automatic reminders based on visiting a website?

texts:
We run a web app that deals with "events" (generalized description, but good enough for this purpose). Each event has a page, with a due date. The event organizer creates the event page, including setting the due date, through our web app. Over the course of the usage of this app, they would also visit another page for the event that includes a simple javascript count-down timer to the due date. Our web app does not do any browser-based or "push" notifications that we are aware of.
We have been getting reports from a small number of our users that ask us to stop sending them reminders about their event after the due date has passed. The problem is that we do not, as far as we know, send any such reminders. These users have exclusively been on iPhone and iOS 13. With users that provide more information, it seems that the reminder is coming from Safari and they are able to delete/remove it.
What we're wondering is:

In iOS 13, are any such reminders set automatically, without the user needing to set them themselves? Or are all reminders created with explicit user action/consent?
Any tips for us being able to reproduce this issue on our test iPhones? We have been unable to do so thus far.


texts: Can Preview on Mountain Lion make animated pictures from a sequence of PNG?

texts:
I seem to recall making animated GIF from Preview.app on earlier OS, but can't find the options to make a GIF on the latest version of the app.

Can I use 10.8 Preview to make animated PNG or GIF?


texts: iOS Simulator installations fail on Xcode 6.4 on El Capitan v10.11

texts:
Could not download and install iOS 7.1 Simulator. Authorization is required to install the packages.

Facing this issue on Xcode 7 Beta 6 version too.

Can't seem to understand why?


texts:
One can use Preview to compress a PDF. However Preview on Mac OS X 10.7 does a too hard compression for my taste. There is only one compression setting.

Are there alternative tools that allows you to adjust the compression ratio?


texts: Get full path of script in PATH environment variable

texts:
I was wondering if there is a built-in command in Bash (or even something OSX-specific) that would display the fully resolved path of a script that is in the current PATH environment variable.

For example, my PATH currently looks like this:

>: echo $PATH | tr ":" "\n"
/usr/bin
/bin
/usr/sbin
/sbin
/usr/local/bin
/opt/X11/bin
/Users/Josh/Dropbox/Scripts/Bash
/Users/Josh/Dropbox/Tools/WinRAR/OSX

And there's a script in Dropbox called get-azurelogs.sh. That path is in my PATH variable for convenience, but if I wanted to display the complete path to that script, assuming I wasn't sure where it was, is there an simple one-liner way to display the fully resolved path instead of testing it at each of the directories above?


texts:
Is there anyway to have an iPhone remember which computers it trusts?

Everything I plug mine into any computer that I've already allowed it to trust, it asks me again, "Allow this device to access photos and videos?"

It is expected to ask once when I connect it:

  to a computer or other device for the first time, ..

and

  These computers remain trusted unless you change which computers you trust
  [reset location and privacy] or erase your device.

None of these resetting has been done to make the iPhone forget the computer.

https://support.apple.com/en-in/HT202778


texts: iPhoto gets stuck on finishing last import

texts:
I have this problem where iPhoto gets into a state where it won't quit, and won't let me import anything. If I try to empty the (iPhoto) trash it tells me I should "Wait until the import is finished". Only it isn't importing anything. So far my only solution to get it back to a usable state is to force quit it. Then it is good for another import, deleting the trash, or quiting.

Is there some other import process that I can kill to get iPhoto back into a useable state? I'm importing tiffs off disk.


texts: What is the shortcut for "Find the word at caret" in Android Studio for Mac

texts:
I see no shortcut key in Android Studio for "Find Word at Caret" (see 5th row below).

However when I searched IntelliJ IDEA documents I have found this.

I know the first option but I didn't understand the second one. What is N/A keyboard shortcut?


texts: How can I Unlock a iPhone 4S bought in London, in Denmark?

texts:
My friend purchased two iPhone 4S's in London. The salesman in London refuses to unlock the devices since you need a UK credit card, which my friend doesn't have.

Is it possible to unlock the devices when he gets back to Denmark, in a Danish phone store?  Or should he refund the device before heading home on Sunday?


texts: How to stop skype from automatically starting?

texts:
After installing skype it will always start whenever I login.  I'd rather it didn't do that.

How do I stop Skype from automatically starting?


texts:
I need to restore a 200 GB user directory from a Time Machine backup.  However it fails periodical with an error about the source file.  Different file each time.

bash-3.2# tmutil restore /Volumes/Tardis/Backups.backupdb/Lothlorien/\
2015-09-12-001849/Users/sherwood/ ~sherwood
Error (-47) (SrcErr:YES) Copying \
'/Volumes/Tardis/Backups.backupdb/Lothlorien/\
2015-09-12-001849/Users/sherwood/Desktop/@ToBeSorted.aplibrary/\
Masters/2011/04/19/20110419-051328/2009-09-23 at 10-34-21.jpg' \
to '(null)'
Error (-47) (SrcErr:NO) Copying \
'/Volumes/Tardis/Backups.backupdb/Lothlorien/2015-09-12-\
001849/Users/sherwood/Desktop/@ToBeSorted.aplibrary/Masters\
/2011/04/19/20110419-051328/2009-09-23 at 10-33-45.jpg' to \
'/Volumes/Users/sherwood/sherwood/Desktop/@ToBeSorted.aplibrary/Masters\
/2011/04/19/20110419-051328'
Total copied: 58331.73 MB (61165251760 bytes)
Items copied: 38889

If I attempt to run tmutil a second time:

bash-3.2# tmutil restore -v  \
/Volumes/Tardis/Backups.backupdb/Lothlorien/2015-09-12-\
001849/Users/sherwood/ /Volumes/User_Raid/\
/Volumes/User_Raid/sherwood: File exists (error 17)

Is there a particular syntax, a flag, to resume an interrupted restore?

Hardware:  Mac Pro 3.2 GHz quad core with 24 GB ram,

Software:  Mountain Lion.  tmutil version 2.0.0


texts: Could you interpret these screen resolutions from Google Analytics?

texts:
After choosing Macintosh in my Google Analytics stats and then choosing Screen Resolution as the secondary dimension, I get these numbers:

Which one of these are 15" Macbook Pro, 13" Macbook Pro, etc.

I'd like to know if the Retina screens are reported in their actual resolution. I don't see any stats for 2560x1600 and 2880x1800. Does this mean that these Retina screens are reported as 1280x800 and 1440x900 respectively?


texts: Can't put my new music I bought on my iTunes

texts: My new iTunes music I have bought on my iPad isnt showing up on the iTunes on my computer so I can put it on my iPod help!


texts:
This is my first question here. I am going to buy a new iPhone 6s and got confused. In my country we do not have any Apple authorised seller. So I have to buy from any mobile shop. I searched Google but not found exactly what I look for. Here is my simple question:

How can I see factory information of my iPhone?

As some criminals may buy a locked iPhone from Apple cheaply and illegally unlock it, then tell me that it is an original unlocked iPhone. I heard of some techniques of unlocking that we can do everything after illegally unlocking. This is why I want to see original data by serial/IMEI so that I can be sure that the iPhone was sold unlocked from Apple.


texts: Change iPad keyboard by modifying system files

texts:
I want to access the iPad system files on my computer, so that I can modify them to change one of the iPad keyboards to support my language.

However, when I plug the iPad to my Windows 7 PC, Windows opens it as a storage device with only some wallpaper. I can't see any system files.

How do I access the system and content files for the iPad?


texts: How to remove a very thin screen protector from an iPad?

texts:
I have an iPad with a "Paper-Feels Like" screen protector, which I now want to remove. I have tried toothpick, fingernails, etc., but it is so thin and well-placed that I cannot find an edge.

Apple support are convinced there is no protector at all.

Any other suggestions what I could try?


texts:
When using MacOS I install Rectangle (formerly Spectacle) and now I can maximize using a keystroke (not full screen, but maximize - it takes up the entire screen AND still shows me the menu bar at the top).
I'd like to set things up so that whenever a new window is opened (in any app) that the window starts out maximized.
Is it possible to do this in MacOS?
(MacOS Version: Catalina (10.15.6 beta (19G71a) )  )


texts: Apple Watch - Can third-party apps update the activity app's exercise ring?

texts: Third party apps usually have their own "record your exercise" button. Will the exercise ring be able to reflect data recorded by these apps, even if the automatic trigger for the Watch to consider something to be "exercise" is not tripped?


texts: iPhone Contact List Default Country Wrong

texts:
My wife's default country for creating contacts is the Netherlands.  The only solution I've found online is to go to:

Settings -> General -> International -> Region Format

That doesn't seem to do anything.  It's already set to the United States.  So I went and switched the country to see if it would do anything.  Nothing.

Anyone know another way I can set the default country?


texts: Migration Assistant estimated time remaining keeps climbing

texts:
I'm trying to move my files, applications, and system preferences from a Early 2015 Macbook Pro to a 2019 MBP. Here are the steps I followed:

Got an external hard drive and used it for Time Machine backup of my
old Mac. The total backup was close to 105 GB.
Booted up the new Mac, created my user account on it with the same name.
Connected the drive to new Mac, Opened "Migration Assistant" on it, and selected Time Machine
Backup as the option.
On the screen where it asks select the data
you want to transfer, All the checkboxes were selected by default,
so I did not wait for "Estimating File Size", and just clicked on
Next.

I chose to replace the existing user on the New Mac, whilst not keeping any files from it.

Hit Continue and let the process start. I first got a few screens such as "Preparing to transfer user accounts", and then said "Looking for applications and documents to transfer (n items processed)"

I left it idle for some time, and when I checked next, it had gone to "Transferring documents" screen, with an ETA of 18 hours 45 minutes. However, with every passing second, the ETA is increasing. It has been an hour since I recorded 18 hours, and it is now at "57 hours 42 minutes remaining" (and counting).

Also, the progress bar has not moved significantly. I can barely make out any movement.

Is this by any means normal? Should I leave it overnight, knowing that the ETA is not coming down, rather climbing? Or should I cancel it while I can?

I read in a few places that choosing to overwrite existing user account causes this, and advised to create a new user. But there was not enough validation on that post.


texts:
I use + signs in filenames to indicate quality of publications, e.g. Johnson 2013 +++.pdf. However, Finder gives me zero hits when I search for + either in filenames or file contents. I started using + in filenames under Windows, and I had not expected this error when I converted to Mac.

  I have no problem with other symbols e.g. ^, = or '. Also, I could replace or insert + in filenames with Automator without problem. But Finder does not even recognize a file named +.txt even when the + was inserted by Automator.

Any suggestions? I run OS X 10.7.5 (11G63) on a mid-2011 Macbook Air.


texts: How to make a mac detect all plugged-in devices? (via USB or otherwise)

texts:
I have an M1 macbook running Big Sur.
A monitor and a keyboard are plugged-in via a USB-C dongle.
When the laptop goes to sleep, it forgets about the connected devices. After waking it up with keystrokes on the laptop (not the plugged-in keyboard, because it doesn't work), I have to unplug and replug the dongle for it to detect the devices. Usually, I have to restart the monitor too.
I'm wondering if there is a way to ask a mac to check for connected devices without physically touching any cables?
Maybe sending a "wake signal" to the connected devices, too?


texts: Mac apache not working - apachectl configtest errors

texts:
I'm trying to get off of MAMP and run local versions of an AMP stack on my Mac, but when I try to start apache and run localhost from a browser, it's not coming up with anything.

In running apachectl configtest, I see the following errors, but I don't know how to fix.

Is there a way to do a clean reinstall of the AMP stack on a Mac? Is this even the recommended fix?

  httpd: Syntax error on line 527 of /private/etc/apache2/httpd.conf: Syntax error on line 8 of /private/etc/apache2/other/+php-osx.conf: Cannot load /usr/local/php5/libphp5.so into server: dlopen(/usr/local/php5/libphp5.so, 10): Symbol not found: _unixd_config\n  Referenced from: /usr/local/php5/libphp5.so\n  Expected in: /usr/sbin/httpd\n in /usr/local/php5/libphp5.so


texts: HDMI sound keeps dropping out after last update - macOS 10.13.5

texts:
I have an external monitor connected to the MacBook Pro 2017 with touchbar, and everything was working fine until the last update, now every day I have to reboot the computer to get back the sound through the display port or HDMI.

It doesn't show the Monitor when pressing on the speaker icon anymore, I tried killing all audio processes, coreaudiod, etc, logging out, sleeping, etc, the only solution is to reboot.

  System Version:   macOS 10.13.5 (17F77)
  Kernel Version:   Darwin 17.6.0


texts: Why is it not possible to install Windows 7 on any Mac models released since 2015?

texts: As of all Mac devices released as of 2015, it no longer appears to be possible to install any version of Windows 7; either officially via the Boot Camp Assistant (because Windows 7 isn't listed as a supported operating system), or unofficially (because if a Windows 7 ISO is flashed directly to a USB drive, it doesn't appear to be recognised). Could somebody confirm why this is the case - what was removed as part of these Macs that Windows 7 previously relied upon for a successful installation?


texts: Hard drive full with 200GB of used space that I can't find

texts:
All of a sudden I've run out of space. On my 250GB hard drive, 236GB is used up with only 13GB free.

I used Finder to find big files. Nothing significant.

I used tools like Disk Inventory X, OmniDiskSweeper and Purple Tree, but according to them I've only used up 40GB.

So somehow 200GB is used up, but I can't see where.

Time Machine isn't running (and never has). The disk has no partitions.


texts: Can my Mac save photos from iCloud Photo Library, but not upload to it?

texts:
Usually I take photos with my iPhone. On my Mac I have a more extensive photo library, and the masters are referenced from an external hard drive.

iCloud Photo Library is enabled on my iPhone, but not my Mac, because I don't want all of the full-resolution DSLR photos on my Mac to fill up my iCloud space. However, now when I take photos with my iPhone, it seems the Mac doesn't download them because iCloud Photo Library is off.

Can I somehow instruct my Mac to download photos & videos from iCloud, but not upload to it? (I see that Photo Stream is a separate option, but I believe it doesn't support videos. It might work to simply not open Photos while my external drive with the large library is connected, so it doesn't upload them, but continues to download in the background — but I'm not really sure that will work.)


texts: App Store won’t let me update from 10.13.4 to 10.13.6 - why?

texts:
I’ve got 10.13.4 running on a MacBook Pro.

When I go to the App Store it says in order to download the latest version of iMovie I need 10.13.6.

But there is no option to download 10.13.6 via the App Store.

Any ideas why this would be and apart from downloading the combo update file direct from Apple’s website (eg not through the App Store) how could I get it to work ?


texts:
This question has been asked many times, and it keeps coming back. Without too much hope, here we go again:
Latest MacBook 16"
Catalina 10.15.6
Two Philipps 273V monitors connected via Satechi USB to HDMI adaptor
OS X fonts are OK
Acrobat fonts are fone
MS Office, Chrome - fonts are horrendously blurry
Tried to turn on/off font smoothing - no effect. Changed the monitor profile to RGB - helped a bit.
Needless to say, with Windows PC the monitors look fine.


texts: Safari plays YouTube videos beyond the end

texts:
I have the following issue in Safari 8.0.7 on OS X 10.10.4 when playing videos in YouTube: The video continues beyond the end of the track. The image and sound stop at the end of the video, but the timer continues to count upwards.

Here's a screenshot:

This is pretty annoying when watching a playlist with music videos. I have to manually skip to the next track when I notice that it's playing beyond the end of the track.

This works fine in other browsers, e.g. Chrome.


texts: Restore previous-released OS version(mojave) from catalina public beta

texts:
I followed this article. Now I'm on 10.15 Beta (19A512f), which I think it is beta 4, I'm trying to restore a timemachine backup of mojave(10.14.5).

My question is do I have to erase my entire disk to go back to mojave. I somehow managed to erase once before on a different machine. When I entered recovery mode again right after erasing, it seems like it tried to download a large image for a bare machine only using internet, but the timer stuck at 24:00. Basically, I couldn't access to mac OS utility at that time. Now I'm experimenting on another machine, and I don't want same thing happen again.

But as I skip Reformat and partition your startup disk step, I jumped to Restore from your Time Machine Backup step. I found that I have to choose between two destinations to restore, which I think it's something new brought by Catalina. Other the my backup drive, there are two other options. One is called Macintosh HD, the other is called Macintosh HD data. Both get similar info, I don't know which one it should be. So back to my question, do I have to erase entire disk. If I don't erase, which disk should be selected as restore destination. If I have to erase, does it mean the original OS installer on the disk would be gone as well, therefore I have to download the image from internet? But still after erase, do I still need choose between those two destinations? If so, which one.

I need to get back to stable version ASAP, so I can't simply unenroll the device and simply wait for Catalina release. And I also turned genius bar guys for help, they said Catalina bring security feature, they can't help me restore factory setting(install Mojave) either. Plus they said using beta version means you have to deal with issue yourself. Any solution other than these would help.

Thank you guys


texts: How to set screensaver as desktop background in Mojave and above

texts:
High Sierra, how to set screensaver as desktop background? explains how to use the Screensaver as an (animated) desktop background. Unfortunately the -background option to /S*/L*/F*/S*/R*/ScreenSaverEngine.app/Contents/MacOS/ScreenSaverEngine required to make this work isn't supported any more in Mojave and newer versions of macOS.

So how can a screensaver be used as a desktop background in Mojave and above?


texts: How to get my keyboard backlight back after Mountain Lion upgrade?

texts: I have a non-Unibody MacBook Pro running 10.8.2. After I installed Mountain Lion, the keyboard backlight does not light up any more. Is it a connection with the new OS, or is it a defect of my Mac?


texts: Restrict Access to wifi for certain devices

texts:
I have high school students and they stay up late at night streaming movies.  I don't want to restrict access for our college student who needs to stay up late to finish papers. Can I select devices that I wish to deny access to?

I have an Airport Extreme hooked through my main computer. I have found where to see the devices that are using the Airport, but I can't identify which computer is which. Anyway, the most important question is can I turn of access to individual devices when I wish to? (Right now I just unplug the wifi.)


texts: How do I make my USB pen drive writable?

texts: My pen drive is currently read-only, how can I change this?


texts: Can't connect with localhost or 127.0.0.1 on High Sierra

texts:
I get a 404 error message when I try localhost or 127.0.0.1.
This is also true if I try localhost/~username
I assume apache is running or I would not get 404. I have stopped and started and restarted apache.

hosts file looks like this:

name: localhost
ipv6_address: ::1

name: localhost
ip_address: 127.0.0.1

httpd.conf show this as DocumentRoot

DocumentRoot "/Library/WebServer/Documents"
<Directory "/Library/WebServer/Documents">

$ ps -ax | grep '[h]ttpd'
gives:

12912 ??         0:00.79 /Applications/TextEdit.app/Contents/MacOS/TextEdit /etc/apache2/httpd.conf
xxx-MacBook-Air:/ myusername$ ps -ax | grep '[h]ttpd'

The error log at var/log/apache2 is empty. Well iow that directory is empty.

Finally, this is the 404 message:

!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">

    <title>Site Not Found</title>

    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale = 1.0; maximum-scale=1.0, user-scalable=no" />
    <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
    <link href="//fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Lato:400,700" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">
    <link href="/local-error-page-assets/errors.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">

404

Site Not&nbsp;Found

The site you requested does not have an associated route in Local.
If you continue to get this message after refreshing, try restarting the Local site.

If the error persists, check the Local Router Logs in Local by going to
Help &raquo; Reveal Local Router's Logs.

if I click on a link in the source like:

<link href="/local-error-page-assets/errors.css" rel="stylesheet"

it serves up the css no problem from this address:

http://localhost/local-error-page-assets/errors.css

I can't find "error.css" anywhere on my computer. Does it exist? I thought if I could find that file I would know where the server really was looking.

Any ideas? Thanks


texts: AppleScript: complex script for WIFI login, getting time and launch screensaver

texts:
Experts!

I'm new to apple script and struggling with its complexity...But maybe someone can help.
The thing I want to do my iMac:

The iMac is used to work as a HighEnd slideshow for an artist work. Its extremely important that the iMac gets the correct time for displaying the slideshow.

So what the iMac needs to do:

iMac wakes up every morning at 8 AM and gets to sleep at 11 PM (done by Energysaver)
iMac toggles Wifi on and off (see script1 below)
Starting Safari (script 2)
iMac finds the correct Wifi and logs in (missing)
Login Page of Wifi needs a "click in checkbox" to accept terms of use (SCRIPT 3 I tried to adapt a script found on the net, but doesn't really work)
iMac waits until a dedicated time (9 AM) and launches screensaver. (SCRIPT 4 is launching, but waiting until specific time is missing)

Any helps & suggestions would be very much appreciated!!
Andreas

What I have:

--SCRIPT 1

set status to do shell script "networksetup -getairportpower en1"

if status ends with "On" then

    do shell script "networksetup -setairportpower en1 off; sleep 2"

end if

set status to do shell script "networksetup -getairportpower en1"

if status ends with "Off" then

    do shell script "networksetup -setairportpower en1 on"

end if

--SCRIPT 2

tell application "Safari" activate

end tell

--SCRIPT 3 clicking the box to accept terms of use

to clickID(theId)

    tell application "Safari"

        do JavaScript "document.getElementById('" & theId & "').click();" in document 1

    end tell

end clickID

--SCRIPT 4 is needed to get the time, wait and launch screensaver

set ntpdPID to do shell script "pgrep ntpd; exit 0"

if ntpdPID is not "" then

    do shell script "systemsetup -setusingnetworktime On" with administrator privileges

end if

try

    tell application id "com.apple.Screensaver.engine" to launch

end try


texts: Update multiple devices with one download using iTunes?

texts: I have multiple iOS devices: iPhone 5, iPad 2, 3, air.  Is it possible to use iTunes to make one download and update on all these devices?


texts: Volume not appearing in Finder -> Devices

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I have a SD card that's mounting but not appearing in Finder's sidebar under devices.
I've tried running chflags nohidden /Volumes/SMICROSD/ in terminal but the volume does not appear in the sidebar.
Other volumes appear in the Finder sidebar under devices when they are mounted.
I borrowed a USB SD card reader and the volume populates Finder's Sidebar when installed through that. It is mounting but not appearing in Finder -> Devices when installed into the Mac's builtin SD card reader.
OSX 10.10.5


texts: AppleScript executes itself again after a reboot it initiated. How to avoid that?

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I have a shell script that is run by an AppleScript app.
That shell script restarts the machine at some point with shutdown -r now.

How can I avoid having the AppleScript application automatically launch itself again after the reboot?

The app is not included in the startup items
The app is launched again just like any other open app when the shell script restarts OS X

The sequence is this:

I double click on the AppleScript app
AppleScript launches a shell script in Terminal
The shell script, at some point, reboots the system
The AppleScript app starts again after the reboot


texts: What is my MacBook's firmware password after using setregproptool?

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In attempting to automate setting up firmware passwords through DeployStudio, I accidentally wrote a bad script loosely based off Dash's post Setting a firmware password that did not work as intended.

#!/bin/sh
diskutil mount Recovery\ HD & wait
hdiutil attach -quiet -nobrowse /Volumes/Recovery\ HD/com.apple.recovery.boot/BaseSystem.dmg & wait
OLDPASSWORD= ""
CONFIRMPASSWORD= "password"
/Volumes/OS\ X\ Base\ System/Applications/Utilities/Firmware\ Password\ Utility.app/Contents/Resources/setregproptool -m command -p $CONFIRMPASSWORD -o $OLDPASSWORD
diskutil unmount force Recovery\ HD & wait
echo "New Firmware Password is Set"

If you can tell already, when setting the variables for OLDPASSWORD and CONFIRMPASSWORD, I should not have added that extra space because I got "command not found" errors.

However, I ran the script through DeployStudio (Postponed execution not checked) and a password WAS set. I just don't know what it is. I tried "password" and empty password. Does anyone have an idea what it could be? The only this else I could do is send the macbook to Apple Repair.


texts: iPhone tries to load local open WiFi login page over mobile data

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When connecting to my college's open WiFi network my iPhone attempts to open the pop-up login page over it's mobile data.

The issue is that this page is obviously only available over the internal WiFi, and thus the page cannot be displayed.

To fix this, I disabled the mobile data, connected to the open WiFi, logged in, and then re-enabled the mobile data.

I was wondering if anyone had any tips to make this a bit easier?

Thanks


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So when my iPhone 5S shuts down over night because of low battery, I have following behavior the next day, when I connect it to my laptop or my car's usb:

It turns on, tries to boot, but then dies because of a the low battery. This happens again and again for about 30 minutes. Then it will stay on with some percent of battery, charge as it should, and then last about one day.

I think this is because the battery is too low to boot. But Why does it turn on automatically? It's really annoying.

Even if the battery is broken, it just should not turn on.


texts: What is the most effective way for a iPhoto user to have all photos synced and stored in the cloud for sharing?

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If I make the switch in handling my photos on my Mac, from Picasa to iPhoto, then I need to have a way to have all of my photos synced and stored on cloud servers, for photo sharing online. (note, all photos, not just the most recent 1000.)

What is the most effective way for an iPhoto user to have their entire collection synced, stored, and shareable on a cloud server?

Thanks!!!


texts: Mid-2012 Macbook Pro, Dual Harddrives - Catalina Update Slowing Down, Always Beachballing

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I have a dual hard drive set up. The main one running the system is a 250 GB SSD. I am running a user (for Documents, Downloads, etc.) on a 1 TB HDD. I am also running 16 GB RAM. For some reason, the main SSD is saying 500 GB of files I have on the HDD are on the SSD (when I scroll over the green, I see the 500 GB), which I believe is slowing it down. Here is a screenshot of the About This Mac - Storage. I tried pasting the EtreCheck, but it wouldn't let me.

Here is a link to a post I did on Apple Forums, because it allowed me to include the EtreCheck - https://discussions.apple.com/thread/251966125