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I have a 27" 2011 (i7 3.4ghz 24GB RAM) iMac that I just replaced the drives (1 SSD and 1HDD) in 2 years ago. It runs pretty well now, but is just starting to slow down (and pales in comparison to my 2017 MBP). I'm considering dumping about $400 into it to add an SSD (and run both in RAID0), max out the RAM an replace the thermal sensor. I'm wondering if anyone has done any similar upgrades on a machine with close specs (specifically the age)? If so, did you get the boost in performance you were hoping for or is it just asking too much from a motherboard that old?

**EDIT/UPDATE**
there are some awesome answers/comments/info here - thanks everyone... much appreciated. My main goal is to have 2 high-performing machines. Like i said, I have a 2017 MBP that is great and this iMac is still pretty good for my purposes (no gaming or 3d animation). But once this iMac starts having trouble opening big Photoshop files while I have a bunch of files open elsewhere or performing operations in Illustrator on complex drawings (which I'm just starting to see the beginnings of), it's no longer "high performing".
I really like the idea of the Mac Mini, but I can't justify the $800-$1000 expense. I could sell the iMac for probably around $500-$600 (and would have no problem justifying the $200-$400 expense), but then I'd either have to buy another large monitor or live with just 2 24-inchers... which would make me sad, I think.
I am convinced that putting the $400 into the iMac is not the best idea. So thanks for helping me get there.
Decisions. Decisions. Gotta mull it over a bit more.


texts: Can I create a new contact from an unknown MMS number?

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I am looking for a way of creating a new contact using an unknown number that sent me an MMS. The new number is not detailed in the message itself. Is this possible? Currently I'm having to write the number down on paper so an alternative would be useful.

I'm using an iPhone 3GS with iOS4 installed.


texts: Move Archived Outlook Data Record to external storage

texts: I'm keeping a lot of old email archived in the OLM files (I was using PST in the PC). Unfortunately this is using 20GB of my 128 SSD and I'd like to move them in an external disk. What is the best way to do this?


texts: Is it possible to sync my iPad 2 with my iTunes library stored on my pc wirelessly?

texts: I want to be able to wirelessly sync my iPad with iTunes how I do this?


texts: Trouble opening an Excel file with preview

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I maintain a library that reads and writes Microsoft Excel files. Due to some recent changes neither Preview, Quicklook or Numbers can open the file. Is there are any way to get debug information from any of these (or the underlying libraries)?

I'm specifically looking for command like flags such as -d 4 which will provide more information as to why the Preview / Quicklook / Numbers can't open the file. ie. some kind of informative error message such as "can't parse the XML".

Feedback from the OOXML Working Group about relative references:

  What do you mean by a relative reference?  In RFC 3986, a relative
  reference is either an absolute-path reference (e.g., /foo/bar) or a
  relative-path reference (e.g., foo/bar).  OPC already allows both.

So this is a bug in the Apple software stack. I'll update the bug report accordingly.


texts: Mountain Lion - Does it allow different users to share database files using iCloud?

texts: If a small business wanted to share a common database between all of its employees, is it possible to create a single iCloud account for a specific App rather than for all the iCloud related software on the iOS device?


texts: Is there a way to prevent recent applications from moving to the far left when switching with Command-Tab?

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Given applications ABC; switching to C gives: CAB

Command-Tabbing to an application brings it to the left end of the Command-Tab cycle. Any way to disable this?


texts: Caps Lock button's green light not working after Mojave update

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I've updated to macOS Mojave from High Sierra recently. Since the update, the green light in Caps Lock button is no more working.

The button is working, but the green light is not.

MacBook Pro, 15-inch, 2017 model.

Is there any solution how can I fix this issue?


texts: What rtmp streaming software solutions exist?

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I've been doing some live streaming lately, and learned that Adobe's Flash Media Live Encoder is cross-platform. Unfortunately, it's been ludicrously unstable crashing occasionally during use, and always crashing when told to quit.

After searching for alternatives, the closest I came was Telestream's Wirecast product, which despite it's "affordable" claim, is $450 I don't have, and about $400 worth of features I don't need.

What I need in a rtmp/flash streaming client is:

Stability and a good native feeling client. Adobe's dark-grey drab interface is neither of these things.
A reasonable price. I'm willing to pay money, but triple-digits is pushing it. Free is always nice :).
Support for XML profile import. I'm unsure of any other specific term for this, but Nico Nico has a link in their streaming interface to download an XML file containing stream quality parameters, default device selection, and of course the URL of the streaming server. It's wonderful to simply tell FMLE to open this file, and then just click 'Start'.

I have no specific requirements of 'effects' or generally ways to change the stream. I use CamTwist as a front-end device to set the video however I want.

Has anyone used any other software fulfilling this purpose?


texts: How can I speed up a very slow Font Book

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Font Book is dead slow when looking for fonts. I noticed I have some 350+ fonts installed. Most of these I never use at all. My Mac is a 8 GB 1,7 GHz Midt-2014 MacBook Air.

Would it help to throw out a lot of these fonts? (Will macOS even let me do this, since most/all of them actually seem to be installed by macOS and subsequent updates?)

Is there anything else I can do to speed up Font Book? (Is this a performance issue that should be reported to Apple?)

~/Library/Fonts: 0 fonts
/Library/Fonts: 227 fonts (three groups of files dated 2012, 2014 and 2016)
/Library/Fonts/Microsoft: 160 fonts (all dated 2011)
/System/Library/Assets/com_apple_MobileAsset_Font3: 6 fonts (just installed)


texts: Can't seem to remove or alter website blocking restrictions on iPhone 6

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having given my daughter an old iPhone 6 (latest ios12) to use around the house I'm struggling to unblock certain websites. The error messages are slightly different whether in Safari directly or an in-app browser -
In-app browser says 'You cannot browse this page at "...." because it is restricted'
Safari says 'Safari cannot open the page. The error was: "The URL was blocked by a content filter".'
She was previously using a 1st gen iPad mini (ios9) and has her own limited/child Apple ID. On the iPad she would attempt to visit a website and upon being notified it was blocked, you could click a link to enter the parental password and unblock that site. Since restoring onto the iPhone it seems some of those restrictions have been passed on, in that some sites are accessible but others aren't. The problem is that when seeing an inaccessible site on iOS12, there is no direct link to unblock it.
Screen time was not set up initially, however upon turning this on, and either setting content restrictions to completely disabled, or having it enabled but having web contact set to unrestricted, or having web content limited but with specific urls in the 'always allow' section, I'm seeing the same behaviour whatever I do.
Where else can I adjust these types of settings?
Edit: I've noticed in settings/safari that favourites are greyed out and set to 'allowed sites' I can view any site which is already listed in favourites but cannot find anywhere to edit the favourites.


texts: What should I do when the menu bar seems frozen/unresponsive?

texts: Several times the menu bar on my Mac has frozen and I've had to restart the whole computer. I know that there must be a better way to fix a frozen menu bar than restarting. How can I kill the menu bar via Terminal?


texts: I'm getting an "iPhone Transfer Cannot Be Completed" message claiming my new phone doesn't have enough storage. It does

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I have a shiny new iPhone 12 Pro. It has 128 GB of storage.
I am transferring data (or trying to), from my old and busted iPhone X. It has 256 GB of storage, but I'm only using 60 GB of that space.
The data transfer starts as normal, but fails after about 10 minutes with an error that there is insufficient space on the new phone to take data over from the old phone. I even freed up about 20 GB, just to see if that would make a difference but it didn't.
What's going wrong here?


texts: Can you disable rubber-band scrolling in OS X Lion?

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In OS X Lion, is there a way to disable rubber-band scrolling? This is the bounce that occurs when the window is scrolled beyond the top or bottom edge.

I'm aware that non-apple input devices don't rubber-band and hope to find a setting or software to eliminate this on the Apple trackpad and mice.

Follow-up: There's a very good discussion on Apple Support Communities regarding this topic. Apparently defaults write -g NSScrollViewRubberbanding -bool false disables rubber band scrolling for some applications.


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As we know, Apple introduced it's new "rootless" feature in El Capitan that greatly restricts what the root user is capable of doing.  Unfortunately this feature breaks CPAN for Perl users.  One can install new CPAN modules but you cannot install a new version of CPAN — because that goes into /usr/bin/.  I know I can disable SIP but I'd prefer to work with it for a while.

Anyone know a solution to the CPAN problem?


texts: How can I let apps make changes using TouchID on MacBook Pro?

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How can I allow an app to make changes without typing in the password, but using TouchID on the Touch Bar instead?

MacBook Pro, 13", 2016, macOS Sierra 10.12.6

Example:


texts: Only see 70gb of space even though I have 250 gb hard disk Macbook air

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recently I messed around with my disk utility I am not sure what I did, but after doing whatever it is that I did I am only seeing 69.14 gb of space out of 250gb. Here is the image

I tried to go into the recovery mode to reinstall the os from scratch (catalina, the current os is mojave), but apparantly it is still only showing 69.14 gb of storage in recovery mode and I cannot even install on that due to insufficient memory space. I would highly appreciate if you could guide me in the right direction with solving this problem.

UPDATE - Here is the list of diskutil

UPDATE 2 -
The following image is disk utilit > View > Show all devices


texts: Can a 2012 Macbook Pro run a 4k display?

texts: I was thinking about getting a 4k display for photo and video editing. I just edit 1080p video and that was never a problem on my mid 2012 mbp non-retina with i5 and 8gb ram. It also was never a problem when I had a external 1080p display hooked up to it with a thunderbolt to hdmi adapter. Can the macbook run a 4k display even for basic tasks like web browsing and some stuff in sketch and affinity designer?


texts: Not getting developer option on iPad air

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In settings I am not getting developer option.
Tried with Xcode 6.1.1 (no clue).
can any one help to enable developer option on iPad air.


texts: What is the best way to move lots of photos between two iPads?

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The business I work for currently has two iPads: One third generation and one fourth generation. They are each tied to a separate Apple ID. The third generation iPad currently has tons of photos and albums that we would like to get onto the fourth generation iPad, preferably keeping the albums intact. Many of the albums have upwards of 100 photos.

The reason we want to do this is that we would like to take one iPad to show photos to clients at different job sites, while keeping another iPad at our office for customers who come straight to our showroom. At the same time, we want to be able to keep all the other content on the iPads (apps, music, etc.) separate.


texts: Login screen freezes after the Lion 10.7.1 update

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After updating to 10.7.1 (the first Lion update) & restarting the system, it's not logging me in. As I give my password and press return it stays on the same login screen. I could move the mouse but there is no rotating wheel, just the same login screen. I tried starting Mac in safe mode but same thing.

Resolution

It was because of Login Hook script which was stopping the login action. Booted in Single User mode and moved the script away from the expected location. Thanks to bmike for the tips.


texts: are Mac mini (2.53GHz so called "late-2009" model) memory modules any different than ddr3 so-dimm modules I would buy for my pc laptop? I'm a little confused here. Should I buy modules especially labeled as "Apple" type?


texts: Prevent Apple Watch face from showing when Do Not Disturb on

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When Do Not Disturb is on, my Apple Watch still shows the watch face when I turn my wrist. This is a pain at night, because every time I move, I get a bright light shining from the Watch.

When Do Not Disturb is on, I only want the watch to be activated when I press the crown. Is this possible?


texts: Installing VMware on MacBook - Free version

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I need to install Windows 8 on my MacBook. So I am hoping to install VMware and then install Windows 8 on top of it.

I need to know if I need to install VMware Player or VMware Fusion? I am using this for non-commercial use so I require a free version.

Note: VMware Fusion is a licensed version, and I don't want to use it.


texts: Is there a way to stream what is on my Mac's screen to my TV?

texts: I want to buy a Mac App Store game, but I don't want to play it in an office chair: I want to sit in front of my TV! Is there a way to stream the video output of Mac, wirelessly, to my television? The TV is currently connected to a Playstation 3, Wii, and AppleTV, and if this is at all possible, I'd like to do it without having to "hack" any one of those devices. Is there anything I can do here?


texts: I have an iPhone 5c and I've been trying to log onto my iTunes and Apple Store in my settings, but I keep getting a "Verification Failed. There was an error in connecting to your Apple ID." error. I don't know how to do resolve this. When I go onto my iCloud on my iPhone it says that my email is not verified even though I went to my email and verified it, it isn't recognized as verified on my iPhone.


texts: I've taken a screenshot, how do I edit it?

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I'm used to taking screenshots in Windows and then editing them before posting them (with MSPaint)

How can I edit a simple image quickly on OSX?

I took a picture of a P.O. and I want to remove any PII information


texts: The operation can’t be completed because the item is in use

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I can not empty trash folder, getting message "The operation can’t be completed because the item “7” is in use."
Tried
sudo rm -rf ~/.Trash/*

Getting message that directory is not empty:

But looks like there is nothing:

Tried everything posted about this bug, even restarted under Command+R mode, first aid for disk done, nothing found, system consistency off, etc.
So, any help will be appreciated.


texts: Is there any Mac OS X app that I could use to show my Google Calendar on a Desktop?

texts: I would like to show a Google Calendar right on my desktop (possible one of them, not the one I'm using most often). Is there any app that I could use to do that?


texts: download Mavericks at app store, can i install?

texts: I have downloaded Mavericks from the App Store. Now I have the installation image, but I am afraid to install it because it might delete my files and programs under Mac OS X Lion 10.8.4. If I install Mavericks, will it all be deleted?


texts: what is "translate" and why does it want access to my keychain?

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I use Entourage for my email accounts but I keep getting a pop up saying
"translate wants to use your confidential information stored in "[my email account]" in your keychain. Do you want to allow access to this item?"

By always allowing I found the location through keychain - /usr/libexec/oah/translate but I can't locate it through finder.

I am worried that this might be malware, does anyone know what it is?


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Situation: a client is in Mexico currently. On his iPhone calendar, every event is off by a day. If a new event is created on a specific day it will put it in the calendar one day behind what you set. All synchronized calendars are also off by a day.
Upon searching on Ask Different I came across This post
Its mostly things I have tried already as I suspect that it has something to do with the cellular service in Mexico and time zones.
There are 2 other devices that he has with him, a iPad, and a MacBook. Those 3 devices are displaying the correct calendar information and reflect correctly across those devices. Once the calendar event is synched with his iPhone, the date is set back a day.
What I have done:

Turned off automatic time zones and set the date and time manually
Removed all calendar events and added them back
Created new calender events
Set time zone manually
Set time zone automatically

It's important that we can't reset the iPhone while on vacation. Does anyone have any experience with how to fix this?


texts: How do I restart iPad with broken power button and unresponsive screen?

texts:
My iPad 4 running iOS 8.0.x suddenly stopped responding only when in apps.  On the home screen taps and gestures work fine.

When I tap any app icon the app launches but doesn't respond to any touches or gestures.  This happens to both Apple apps (Settings, etc.) and third-party apps.

The iPad still responds to system gestures though, like four-finger pinch to go to the home screen.

I'm guessing a restart will fix this, but the power button is broken and the iPad is on a full charge.  Is there any other way to force a restart?


texts: Is there a way to enter Emoji just by typing?

texts:
I just found out that I can type (y) and get the upward likey thumb (in iMessages).
Now is there a way to type any emoticon? It might also be just by typing it's unicode.


texts: Time Machine not detecting changes in certain folders

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I recently noticed that TM does not update its backup from certain folders any more.

I have a deep sub folder inside ~/Documents, and when I create new folders or files in it, they do not appear in the TM backup. The backup contains, however, lots of files created until Oct 2, 2013. Which means that TM used to backup the contents of this folder.

Now, before you suggest that I have probably disabled backup for this folder - nope:

When I check with tmutil isexcluded for paths of files that didn't get backed up, it says [Included].
When I then added another disk as a second backup destination, that backup does contain the missing files. This proves that the source is accessible and can be backed up. So, any suggestions that the path may contain invalid chars or is too long doesn't apply, either.

Somehow the existing backup got stuck, preventing it from updating these particular folder contents.

The system log does not show any messages related to this.
A disk verification with Disk Utility does not show errors, either.

I could just erase the entire backup and start over, but I would rather not lose my previous versions.

Any ideas how to possibly "reset" or fix the backup so that it backs up the missing files again? I suspect that there's some kind of database that TM maintains to be able to quickly browse its backup folders, and maybe that's corrupt somehow, but I cannot find one.

Here's another idea: If the source disk was modified without OS X watching over it (thru fsevents), e.g. by booting from another system, the TM detects this and starts a complete comparison again, right? I wonder if I can trigger that, and that this will fix the issue.

In the past I've seen knowledgeable people indicate that TM backups can get broken once the backiup gets full and needs deletion of old versions (this is the case here), but no one was able to explain what exactly goes wrong and whether this can be fixed. If you know more details, please comment. I just might write a tool for that in the end :)

(I am an advanced Mac user and programmer; I am using 10.9.3)


texts: Does the MacBook Air draw power from the battery or wall socket when the battery is at 100% and plugged in?

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I have a MacBook Air 13" (late 2010 model). I use it both as a portable computer (i.e. not plugged in, drawing power from the battery) and as a desktop (i.e. plugged into the wall socket) regularly. I'm wondering what's happening when I use it in the latter situation.

From what I learned at Battery University, I know that you should minimize battery usage because the more charge cycles a batter has, the less charge it will be able to hold. In other words, when I use it in "desktop mode", I would ideally take out the battery and only use the wall socket as a power source. However, this is not an option on the MacBook Air.

So my question is if the battery is at 100%, the laptop is plugged into a wall outlet, and I'm using the laptop, where is the laptop drawing its power from? Which of the following scenarios is happening?

Wall Outlet -> Laptop
Wall Outlet -> Battery -> Laptop
Wall Outlet + Battery -> Laptop

If it's #1, that means I don't need to worry about keeping the laptop plugged in all the time.

I'm looking for empirical evidence of what's happening, rather than speculation made by individual observations. Here's an example of an answer I'm not looking for:

  I notice that the battery icon stays at 100% when my laptop is plugged in, therefore it must mean that the power outlet is the one supplying power.

Who said that? Where's the evidence that that's what's really happening? What if Apple is purposely hiding the fact that the battery is being drained a bit and then refilled? What if the power is going from 100% down to 99.6%, then back up to 100% constantly? Although it may seem like this wouldn't affect battery life as much as going from 100% down to 60%, the nature of Lithium ion batteries makes it so that 100 of these mini cycles is almost exactly like the one larger cycle.

Also, does heavy usage of the laptop affect where it draws its power from? For example, say I'm running a CPU intensive game (e.g. near 100% CPU usage), would it be able to draw all the power it needs from the wall outlet, or does it go into the battery reserves?


texts: How should I fix my Homebrew installation after upgrading OS X?

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Context

My employer gave me a MacBook Pro for development work; however, most of the development work I do in my research group is for Linux platforms, and for a host of policy reasons, I can't install virtualization software on this laptop. Homebrew looks like a good way in which to install these tools, especially because it looks very hackable (since it uses Ruby; MacPorts does not look hackable, because it uses Tcl). However, Homebrew relies on system libraries, and for security reasons, my employer may (and from what I hear, frequently will) upgrade my system at any time. I've heard that OS X upgrades will break Homebrew. (See, for instance, https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7779300/how-should-i-upgrade-xcode-after-upgrading-to-os-x-lion).

Question

How would I go about fixing my Homebrew install after an OS X upgrade? I am fine with deleting it and starting from scratch again, as long as I can do so in an automated way. (For instance, using Puppet plus a Homebrew provider to script a configuration that will automatically build upon running a shell script.) I've been Googling everywhere and can't seem to find any answers to this question.


texts: How to set multiple-author metadata for an item in iBooks?

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While I can edit books' author metadata in the list view, I can’t seem to be finding a way to set multiple authors for a single title. Is there any way to do this, so that I can have, let's say, two separate author entities for a book?

defaults read ~/Library/Containers/com.apple.BKAgentService/Data/Documents/iBooks/Books/Books.plist

...,
{
      BKAllocatedSize = 131072;
      BKDisplayName = "An Introduction To Software Architecture";
      BKGeneratedItemId = 409BAEEB1FD9D2272D63E97BFB7CDEBD;
      BKGenerationCount = 3;
      BKInsertionDate = 558100869;
      BKIsLocked = 0;
      artistName = "David Garlan, Mary Shaw";
      explicit = 0;
      isPreview = 0;
      itemName = "An Introduction To Software Architecture";
      metadataMigrationVersion = 20140106;
      modificationDate = "2000-11-13 17:55:48 +0000";
      pageCount = 42;
      path = "/Users/Sepehr/Library/Mobile Documents/iCloud~com~apple~iBooks/Documents/An Introduction To Software Architecture.pdf";
      releaseDate = "2000-11-13 12:55:48 +0000";
      sourcePath = "/Users/Sepehr/Books/An Introduction To Software Architecture.pdf";
      updateDate = "2000-11-13 17:55:48 +0000";
      versionNumber = 0;
},
...

How can I get more than one author added in the metadata for an iBooks document?


texts: How would one restore iCloud Drive documents from a local backup?

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Unfortunately, I had to suddenly replace a lost MacBook. It has about 200GB of documents (almost anything that matters) in iCloud Drive.

Open new MacBook
Full Time Machine restore via Migration Assistant
iCloud Drive is empty (and apart from app-specific directories, has been empty for about a day with no activity from brctl log --wait --shorten or iCloudStatus

(Presumably if I just leave my Mac powered on and connected to WiFi for several months or years, all 200GB will download to it and become available.)

So, I have four other Macs on my home network. What I'd like to do is just go to one of those machines and:

tar -zcvf icloud.tar.gz "~/Library/Mobile Documents/com~apple~CloudDocs"
Disable iCloud Drive's daemons from running or connecting to iCloud Drive (without disabling iCloud Drive from the user prefpane, which will delete the directory upon re-enabling it)
Move the backup to the new MacBook and expand it into its own "com~apple~CloudDocs" directory
Reenable iCloud Drive in such a way that it will respect the new files, the fact that they are identical, and neither corrupt anything or duplicate anything.

I've attempted this in less significant ways before and have never figured out a workable approach to either step #2 or step #4 Unfortunately, Google has been lousy for researching this because 99% of hits re about people restoring iOS devices from iCloud backups.

Any ideas?


texts: BigSur, external mouse not triggering hover effects

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NOTE: After reading through similar questions / answers here I was not able to find a solution. Mainly, because most answers say that unplugging / re-plugging mouse dongle in usb solves the issue, however I am not using any dongles.
My issue started few days ago on all of my mac machines where my MX Master 3 mouse connected via bluetooth is no longer triggering hover effects / functionality in any app and in system areas like dock. Every now and then it triggers them however, but rarely and usually on applications that are not even in the front / focused at the moment.
When mouse is connected, trackpad has same issue, however when I disconnect the mouse trackpad starts working correctly.
I installed all lates drivers (Logitech Options) and as far as I can tell everything is enabled correctly in general / accessibility settings. I also see logitech's Damon running in my activity monitor.
And of course, I removed my mouse from Bluetooth preferences and reconnected it multiple times. Still no luck.
At the time I was also connected to external monitor (it doesn't have any usb dongles either), but disconnecting from it had no effect either.
I'm out of ideas, hence decided to ask here.
EDIT: When I start in safe mode, mouses scroll wheel no longer works either. I also noticed that if I restart and use trackpad, everything works, but as soon as I move / click my external mouse it breaks again


texts: How does one type circumflexes in El Capitan?

texts: After updating to El Capitan I discovered that I was no longer able to type circumflexes. Before I was able to enable the "International Extended" keyboard in settings. Now it seems to be replaced with "ABC Extended", which does not permit me to type circumflexes in the way that I was used to. How can I input circumflexes in El Capitan?


texts: iPod Touch 5th generation; iMessages and Facetime doesn't work

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I recently got my iPod Touch, and a couple days ago, I was signed out of FaceTime and iMessage (not by my own doing) and I haven't been able to log back in.
I have already tried changing my DNS to 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.8.8, 8.8.4.4, I have logged in and out of my Apple ID on my iPod Touch, I have changed my email address and then changed it back, and I have used a different WiFi connection.  The message that pops up (after it fails to log in) says, 'FaceTime Activation Could not sign in.  Please check your network connection and try again.'  This happens for iMessage, as well.  I am using the right password and email, and I do not use an iCloud account.  What should I do to be able to log in again and keep my email the same?


texts: Easiest way to repeat MANY mouse clicks?

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Problem
I imported a large OPML file to a Feedly (a RSS/source aggregator web service), and the import got messed up. I now need to delete the entries on their website using Google Chrome, but there is no way to bulk delete.
Instead of manually clicking almost a thousand times, I'd like to quickly automate a Left-Mouse Click and loop it for as many times.
The reason I'm stating my specific use-case is because I am unlikely to ever use this particular automation again. I need a quick and dirty solution.

Question
What is indeed the fastest and easiest way to record and repeatedly perform a mouse-automation tasks, in macOS Sierra?

Solutions
I took a stab at macOS Automator's Watch Me Do but really didn't get it to work with Chrome as it seems to interpret Left-Mouse clicks as "Drag the scroll thumb in the scroll area" (??)1.
I also investigated some third-party options like Keyboard Maestro and Murgaa (not endorsing any of these, nor have I tried them), as well as some scripting alternatives like CliClick but I must admit that learning how to script with these utilities feels a bit cumbersome right now.
I'm preferably looking for a reliable, and free, Mouse/Click Automator circa 2017 with a GUI. Is there something like that which is recommendable? Or should I tinker more with Automator or something else?

1I've added Automator to the macOS Accessibility settings.


texts: Unicode normalization for filenames and copied text from pdf:s

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I have two issues that seem related. When copying text or filenames containing umlauts or e.g. å ä ö, OS X can't seem to handle the characters in a sane way. Apparently this is a well-known problem. For example:

http://support.wandisco.com/index.php?/Knowledgebase/Article/View/401/55/problems-with-umlauts--in-filenames-on-mac-os-x
https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/94418/os-x-umlauts-in-utf8-nfd-yield-package-inputenc-error-unicode-char-u8-not

Here is an example of the usual result when copying text from a filename or from inside a pdf in Preview and pasting it in an editor. The first line is the result, the other one is corrected.

The difference is clearly visible, since the current font (Courier Prime) doesn't support the first version.

Is there any way to fix this? Alternatively, is there any OS X-service available to "clean up" text or normalize it in the correct way?


texts: safari "find" does not work for partial word

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Sorry but I don't know how to describe this problem. Let's see a simple example below.

Take this page as an example, when I search(cmd+F) "comp", safari is able to find everything about it; but if I search "omp", nothing can be found! (suppose I want to find strings containing "complete")

This can be inconvenient sometimes because I may forget the spelling of the first several letters of a word/string, or I may be only concerned about the postfix, namely, finding all strings with a given postfix(or 'midfix') and the prefix can be arbitrary.

Can someone explain this issue and is there a way to resolve it ?


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This could sound like a really dumb question as I don't even know what I did wrong.  Please help!

I have had this LaCie backup (500 GB) for years since my friend suggested few years ago.  I have been pluging it in my mac every few months and just let it do its thing.  Luckily, I never have to retrieve any info from it.

Recently, I started using some Adobe software and now have a lot of large files in my lapto.  When I tried to back up today, I thought to myself: "I do not need all the old backups, maybe I'll just delete it all and start fresh!"

So I plugged in the time machine and just grabbed the whole folder that labeled as my mac's backup to the trash.  Without much thinking, I typed my password when a window popped and ask for administrator's password.

But now I can't backup my laptop as it says I have only 150 GB available and my it needs 300 some to backup.  Is it possible that I "accidentally" deleted my 300 some GB space from my LaCie??  I went to the trash folder trying to find "what exactly" I deleted but can't find anything and am very confused.  Please help?

Thank you very much.
Elsie


texts: How can I remove the white background from a profile picture?

texts:
I want to set a profile picture that has a transparent background, but when I do it gets a white circle in the background that I do not want. Is there a way to prevent this from happening, or maybe just set the alpha value of the colour it uses?

The original image does not have the outer white circle.


texts: Update trusted phone number: Cannot tap "keep using current number"

texts:
I am abroad so I'm using different SIM to that associated with my Apple ID.

I'm getting an annoying badge in my iPhone settings prompting me to "Update Trusted Phoned Number".

Which takes me to the screen shown below.

Infuriatingly I am unable to tap "Keep Using +bleh".

Is this a bug? I am able to tap 'Update to +blah'


texts: How to run an installed application as an admin?

texts:
Background
I'm running Catalina 10.15.7.
I run my macOS system as a limited user (I have admin credentials for admin tasks).
This mostly works fine, but it seems many apps, and sometimes Apple themselves, expect most users to be running their systems as admins.
Problem
Anyway, I had a program installed (Disk Drill), which was running fine, and then prompted me to install an update.  I installed the update, and now when I run the program I get an error window that Disk Drill can only be run by admins and then the app exits.
If I launch a terminal window and switch to the admin user and launch the app from the terminal, it starts just fine.
Question
How do I get this app to run as an admin?
Attempted Solutions
I tried changing ownership of the .app and .app/Contents folder to that of the admin user, but this didn't seem to make any difference.


texts: Surprisingly many network interfaces on macOS: are these legitimate?

texts:
ifconfig reveals a surprisingly long list of network interfaces on my MacBook, which is running macOS High Sierra (10.13.6): lo0, gif0, stf0, XHC20, en0, p2p0, awdl0, en1, en2, bridge0, utun0.

There is an F5 VPN client installed, but I've rebooted the MacBook since the last VPN connection.

Are all of these network interfaces legitimate or is this something I should worry about?


texts: Incorrect apostrophe character in MS Word 2011 on Mac

texts:
I'm using Word for Mac 2011. When using the default font - Cambria - extra spaces appear when I type an apostrophe followed by another character. See the screenshot at:

As you can see in the screenshot, the font for the apostrophe character (which includes a big space after it) isn't actually Cambria; instead, it's

ＭＳ 明朝 (Body Asian)

It seems that Cambria automatically uses this font for apostrophes, and that the apostrophe character for this font includes the extra space.

How should I go about fixing this so that apostrophes appear correctly? I'm guessing it might be some kind of font conflict, but I'm not sure: and I don't know how to fix font conflicts, in any case.

(Originally posted at https://stackoverflow.com/questions/16873412/incorrect-apostrophe-character-in-ms-word-2011-on-mac)


texts: If Short Name is enabled on iOS and two contacts share the same first name, how will their last name be displayed with the default setting?

texts: When navigating to Settings/Contacts on an iOS device, an option called "Short Name" is listed; briefly, this allows a user to specify how they'd like names to be shown within apps that support this feature. If enabling this setting and keeping it at the default of "First Name Only", assuming that a user has two people with a first name of "John" in their contacts - both having different last names, how would iOS display this? Would it simply ignore the last name entirely (as dictated by the "Short Name" setting), or are exceptions made in this case - so that, for example, the first name and first letter of a contact's last name will be shown?


texts: How to uninstall Zoom outlook client from outlook 365 from Mac

texts:
I have searched everywhere but cannot find any way to remove this Outlook addin. It is a very annoying and keep on sending update alerts every 5 minutes.

I have contacted the MS Office Support and they said the following:

  Navigate to the ribbon under 'Home' tab > click on 'Get add-ins' option > click on 'manage add-ins/My Add-ins' option in the left column > try removing the Add-ins that you would like to remove.

But there is no option called "Get add-ins". Attaching the image:

I tried searching for anything with Add-in in every menu and every ribbon and still didn't get any answer.

MS Office support didn't reply back after this and because probably even they don't know how to fix it.


texts: How do I share my iCloud storage with my family in iOS 11?

texts: I purchased a 200GB shareable (Family Sharing) iCloud storage plan but my family members can't see it on their devices. How do I fix this?


texts: Online collaborative whiteboard / drawing app for iPad

texts:
I'm searching for a web-page + iPad app which I can use as a collaborative whiteboard.

Specifically I would like to draw on the iPad and share (in real-time) what's drawn on the web-page.

Any suggestions? The web-page must be free of charge, I don't mind paying for the iPad app.


texts: Screen goes black for a few seconds intermittently with Mac Mini 2018

texts:
I purchased a Mac Mini 2018 and connected it to my Dell 42" monitor via HDMI.
I works fine except that the screen goes black intermittently and comes back after 3 or 5 seconds.
The monitor and cable works well with other computers.
I also checked the connection and upgraded the OS to the latest one.
Nothing helps.

I unplugged the HDMI cable and plugged it into USB-C using an adapter.
It has no problem.
So I guess the HDMI port has an issue.

Do any of you have this problem?

Sam


texts: How do I disable Mojave's Finder quick actions for images?

texts:
I have a few folders with a large number of images that I typically sort by modification date.

Sometimes I'll accidentally trigger one of Mojave's new Quick Actions, such as rotating the image. This incidentally updates the modification time, moving the image to the top of the list. Even undoing the action won't restore the old modification time.

They are shown in a bar at the bottom of the preview pane. Next to them there is a handy "More..." button, with a Customize option. This links to System Preferences, where it looks like you can easily disable the ones you don't want.

However, this does not disable the keyboard shortcut, which is what I tend to hit by accident.

How do I disable either these actions, or the shortcuts triggering them?


texts: Is it possible to connect an external camera to an Ipad Mini?

texts:
My son has started doing stop-motion animationusing his iPad Mini 4, but using the built in camera can be quite restricting in terms of positioning and ease of use. We thought we'd buy an external webcam as these are often used by the stop-motion community but all my initial research (discussions.apple.com for intance) says an iPad can't use one.

Is this really the case? I'm surprised given the normal Apple support for creative work.


texts: how to connect to samba share consistently on el capitan

texts:
I have a file server which I can successfully and consistently connect to on android and windows. So I know the IP address and connection details. However when I try and connect using mac osx finder - connect to server or a third party utility it fails.

What do I need to do on El Capitan to get SMB shares working successfully in the sidebar of finder?

it just times out saying cannot connect - while my other devices all connect no problem.


texts: Does apple review apps during the holiday break?

texts:
I had assumed they wouldn't be reviewing apps during this Dec 22-29 break (ARGH!) but on appreviewtimes.com there have been several postings both today and yesterday.

Does anyone know if they still review apps? iTunes connect is supposed to be shut down.


texts: accepting Xcode license without having whole Xcode

texts:
I have installed XCL(Xcode command line) through xcode-select --install therefore, not whole Xcode installed.

and I can see the path

xcode-select -print-path
/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools

However, I need to accept the license, but it complains that the Xcode is not installed

sudo xcodebuild -license
xcode-select: error: tool 'xcodebuild' requires Xcode, but active developer directory '/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools' is a command line tools instance

If you recommend me to install whole Xcode first ? should I uninstall XCT first ? and if so how !


texts:
I only use Google for my contacts, which works well. However, when I add a contact from, say, the Messages app, the contact gets added to my Mac but not to Google. Then I have to use Cobook to move them... etc.

Is there a way to avoid using contacts "On My Mac" and only use Google contacts?

My iCloud has Contacts unchecked, which doesn't help.


texts: Does using Sleep with FileVault negate some benefits of FileVault?

texts:
As I understand it, FileVault makes you login before you computer boots to the OS in order to unlock the drive. This means someone getting ahold of your laptop when it is off cannot get at the data.

What are the implications of using FileVault with sleep? I assume the drive is still considered unlocked during sleep. Anyone that opens the sleeping laptop would have to know your login to do anything with the computer, but is the data insecure to someone very determined at that point (assuming they can't guess your password)?

I was considering turning on FileVault but since I never power down, the answer to this will help me decide what value there is in doing so.


texts: Filtering out mailing lists on the server

texts:
Apple Mail is good at filtering mailing-list email into my junk folder, and my iPhone is good at recognizing email from a list.  I'd like to move this capability to some server-side filter rules and unburden my phone. Unfortunately I don't know what it is that Apple Mail looks at to make its decision.

Can somebody please explain, in simple terms, what to look for?  I've tried 'from address contains' and 'subject contains' and 'mailing list contains' without much luck. Truthfully, I'm not sure what to put in 'mailing list contains' except that my email address isn't it. I am aware that I'll have to accept the lists I want before purging the ones I don't.

Looking for any help or advice on getting this set up.  My email server is Cox.


texts: How do I choose the disk to install macOS Sierra?

texts:
I'm so new to macbook and I just download and update macOS to the latest version and it's not able to complete the installation. However I manage to get to the recovery mode but there's still a problem.

When I select install macOS on the recovery mode, I am asked to choose the disk but I couldn't select Macintosh HD as it said,

  'You may not install to this volume because it is currently being
  encrypted'

How do I fix this? Please help

Thank you


texts: iPhone 7 only showing restore screen when plugged into a wall charger but not when plugged into my macbook air

texts:
My iPhone 7 will only display a restore screen when plugged into a wall charger. When unplugging the phone from the wall charger, the screen will turn back. If I try to use the iPhone charging cable to connect the phone to my Mac, the screen will remain black.
I'm using a 64GB iPhone 7 and a 2015 MacBook Air running Big Sur, version 11.1.


texts: I can't convert from HFS+ to APFS an external SSD volume I created for testing

texts:
I created an external volume with macOS High Sierra.  When I try to convert it to APFS with Disk Utility, the "convert to APFS" is greyed out.  I tried unmounting the volume first, then it's not greyed out, but when I try to convert, I get this error: The operation couldn’t be completed. (com.apple.DiskManagement error -69546.).

I heard that having "cloned" a volume may prevent it from being converted to APFS.  I don't remember if I cloned it or not.  I created it with El Capitan, then upgraded it to High Sierra.  Now it won't convert to APFS.

Any way to do the conversion? such as terminal command or something?


texts: How do I unlock my iPhone-4 so I can use it in Mexico with a Mexican carrier?

texts: I love my iPhone-4 and I am about to move to Mexico where AT&T and Verizon are not viable carrier options. What is the safest way to unlock my iPhone so I can continue to use my apps (and new ones I may acquire later) with a non-Apple approved carrier?


texts: Which upgrade should I consider for my usage: RAM or CPU?

texts:
I plan to buy the new 2017 13" MacBook Pro with Touch Bar for the new semester. However, I'm trying to decide between upgrading the RAM or the CPU.

I'm currently a Math major and plan to use it for things involving maths operations, like running Mathematica, factoring really big primes, graphing 3D contour plots etc. I'm also a bit of a gamer. Another consideration is that I really don't want the computer heating up, as I currently have the fan-less 2015 Retina MacBook and overheating is a common issue.

With this specific usage in mind, I'm really wondering what would benefit me the most: upgrading to the i7 processor or increasing the RAM to 16GB?


texts: /usr/local doesn't exist in fresh install Yosemite

texts:
I am trying to install ssh-copy-id, and it wants to be placed in

/usr/local/bin/

but when I do

cd /usr/local/

it responds with

-bash: cd: /usr/local/: No such file or directory

Is this because I have a fresh install of Yosemite and the changed the location of /usr/local/?


texts: Local reverse/duplicate image search for Mac?

texts:
I'm searching for an application to find duplicate images.

In my Linux days, there was a nice Gtk+ application which I could provide some folders and which would list all duplicate images based on some algorithm to determine image-equality (It could detect duplicate images even if one image had a lower resolution or was color shifted)
It was also possible to modify the threshold to prevent false-positives.

So far, I found nothing for Mac OS X which could do this.

Nice GUI is a plus.


texts: Cable / io spec for using 2x external displays on an iMac

texts:
Im looking at buying a new 21.5" iMac.

I want to connect 2x external 1080p or 4k displays to this, these displays will have either HDMI or DVI conncetion.

I notice that there is 1x mini display output on the iMac so i can use a convertor to use that for 1x display. But what should i use for the second external display ?


texts: Will my experience be compromised using AirPods Pro with Bluetooth 4 only hardware?

texts:
I have a MacBook Air 2014 with Bluetooth 4.0 and I’m considering to buy AirPods Pro. I assume that it makes sense to promote an accessory with the lowest standard they're compatible with, and AirPods Pro are promoted with Bluetooth 5.I can’t find answers to things like does Stereo sound or Spatial Audio require 5.0. The Wikipedia article  only mentions iOS devices.
Will a macOS 4.0 device compromise AirPods features in any direct way?


texts:
The latest macOS 10.13.2 update apparently didn't install well on my MacBook Pro 13" with Touchbar.

On every boot the system loads the update installer but gives then an error message that the install file was not found. Since the update installer would load automatically on every boot this results in a boot loop. However I figured out that I can force to boot into macOS with ALT+R which has been a temporary fix for me since then.

How can I fix this? Is there a way to delete downloaded update files?


texts: Why does "if exists" fail with a false positive?

texts:
The file, "Test.file" in the below code does not exist, yet the script returns true. Why? What am I doing wrong?

set thePath to (path to application support folder from user domain)

if exists thePath & "Test.file" then
display dialog "The file was found!" buttons {"OK"} default button 1
else
display dialog "The was file wasn't found." buttons {"OK"} default button 1
end if


texts: "The file seems to be corrupted" (Apple Music)

texts:
I cannot for the life of me seem to redownload two particular tracks. One of them is "Wake Up" by Arcade Fire.

No matter how many times I try and download it - iTunes will always complain that the file is corrupted.

I can't even remove it from my library, the "Delete Song" dialog seems to have no effect whatsoever.

How should I go about solving this?


texts:
I've noticed a black color coat on my Macbook screen.
 It's a very  thin layer coating and whenever I tried to
 clean the display,  I got some carbon black dust sticking
 to the cleaning cloth.

I would like to know whether I can
 re-coat my screen since the layer has been deteriorating ever since.

PS: MacbookPro is 15inch 2013 late December model.


texts: Album not eligible for iCloud Music Library. Why?

texts:
I have an album I bought the uncompressed version of (wav) and used iTunes to make an Apple Lossless version of. I've updated the song names, artist name, etc. I've met all the requirements: under 200MB, under 2 hours, bitrate ok (of course), and there is no DRM. But it still lists as ineligible. Why?

Here's the file summary.

Edit: This was flagged as a possible duplicate. It's not. So here's my edit.


texts: Macbook Air (mid 2013) daisy chaining two Dell U2715H?

texts:
I have a Macbook Air (mid 2013) and two Dell U2715H monitors.

I am able to connect the one monitor to the Macbook via the DisplayPort-MiniDisplayPort cable. This works great!

Now I want to connect the second monitor. This I can do via the DP1.2 (out) port on the first monitor and then attach it to the MiniDisplayPort in the second. Also works... well, not so great. It just mirrors the first screen.

Is there anyway to tell the Mac (Yosemite) that it's actually two monitors? Both the monitors and the Macbook Air seems to support DP1.2 and MST.

I have read various posts here on StackExchange and other sites, that states that this should both be possible and that it is impossible, so I'm a bit in the dark here.

One of the posts mentioned that it was a driver issue, and that it worked OK on Windows 7 and 8.

Are there any software or third party driver that would make it work?


texts:
I'm new to using iOS with regularity. (Employer-issued phone is an iPhone 7.)

I can't stand the built-in keyboard. I've installed Gboard, but I can't figure out how to get it to come up.

When I press the globe on the default keyboard I don't get Gboard as an option. In any event, I'd like Gboard to come up as my new default rather than having to choose it each time (which I currently can't do anyway).

What do I need to do?


texts: Apple Photos: can I force it to treat 'burst' photos as separate items?

texts:
I like the 'burst' feature in my iPhone for taking photos in low light conditions: it increases the chance of there being at least one photo without motion blur.

However, Apple Photos insists on treating these bursts as a group, which is really annoying.
My workflow:

take photos
import them
find the best photo of the burst
throw away all the others

Photos makes 3. and 4 needlessly difficult by forcing you into a separate interface for step 3. When you're done selecting a photo, it pretends to throw away the non-selected photos, but when I export the result I still end up with 10 photo files instead of 1.

I'd rather have all 10 photos available as separate items.

I'm using Photos 1.0.1.


texts:
Yesterday morning I received a series of messages (some personal, others of account validation) that were 36 hours old, while during this time I continued to exchange without any particular problem.
Likewise today, in the middle of an important conversation, I stopped receiving messages, I tried an online service to send an SMS to my number and I didn't receive it. After restarting the phone, the online service works but I still haven't received the messages from earlier.
I can't afford to wait several days waiting.
How to what messages I haven't received yet and how to prevent it from happening again?
Note. I was under iOS 14 Beta 4, I deleted the developer profile to see if I could go back to iOS 13 but now it just says "iOS 14.0, your software is up to date".


texts: How do I make windows save their position after re-attaching a display?

texts:
I know about How do I make windows save their position on screen after re-attaching a display?

However, that and all other related questions appear to be very old, and I'm hoping that there's a new way to do this.

Same question though: I have a laptop, I usually use it with two monitors. Some windows I pretty much always have in the same places. Other windows float, or are temporary.

When I unplug the laptop to go to a meeting, everything goes to the laptop screen. When I plug it back into the monitors, everything is on one monitor, and I have to go around moving everything back...

I'd like it to just remember where it was when I unplugged without having to explicitly save something, because it's not always going to be the same. I just want it to be as I left it...

Reasons the previous answer isn't satisfying:

1) it's 5 years old. What 5 year old answer is still valid in tech?

2) the program suggested: Stay, seems inefficient. It requires that I save a specific window layout each time. I just want it to go back to whatever I had before I unplugged. Stay appears to minimize all windows that weren't part of the saved settings, which is not really what I want.

3) I am REALLY hoping that in the last 5 years, macOS had fixed this problem, so the solution wasn't to use some other program, but to make some settings change.


texts: Pushing offline viewable content to iPads for Enterprise

texts:
We have rolled out a small deployment of iPads to our Enterprise using iPCU and with a little sweat I'd say we were pretty successful. Our company is pretty large and our demand for iOS solutions is growing. We're currently under a trial license with McAfee EMM (MDM), so we're still getting our feet wet with that.

This has naturally generated a lot of questions from our customers, so we'd like to find a solution to push a How-To document to these devices that pertains to our Enterprise. Has anyone found a solution for distributing documents to iOS devices that is viewable offline, without having the user to perform many steps? In a perfect world, we would be able to push a document/app to them w/o any intervention... however this goes against what I know about mobile distribution. The user must manually go into our MDM and download the app. Now I'm looking for the next best solution. Here's how I imagine it working... or other methods I've read:

1) Pushing a Web Clip to the device using a .mobileconfig on initial provisioning (not tested yet). The web clip points to an outward facing site where they grab a PDF. The PDF can then be saved to iBooks for offline viewing. The bad: They're not notified when we make a change to the doc. Or they forget to save the doc to iBooks. Or they don't download iBooks.

2) Develop an Enterprise App with all the content self contained. Contact users via email that the App is available in the Enterprise Store. Any updates to the app are presented as a badge... life is good. The bad: Developer is recompiling and redistributing on every change to the document. Or they don't bother to download the app, when they need it ... it's too late.

3) Drop box - Post the document through drop box for them to grab. The bad: Same as #1

4) Email everyone the doc or post to a website and fend for yourself. This just wont work in our organization.

I know I'm not the only one facing this problem. The key here is: the least amount of effort for the user, the better. Right now option #2 seems like the best solution, I'm just curious to see how others have solved this problem. Thanks


texts: iOS - how to get mail app to recognize and trust custom or self-signed SSL certificates from a profile?

texts:
Running iOS 10.2
I added the root certificates of CAcert to my iPhone profile using various ways:

directly from their website in mobile Safari
sent by email to mail app
by adding a profile with the Apple Configurator 2 software

each time the certs show in the profile, but they are marked as "not checked / validated" in red.

Everytime mail app tries to connect to the mail server a warning dialog pops up that it cannot validate the mail server. Consequently it does not connect. Plus the popups are very annoying.

On MacOS the CAcert certificates are added to the Keychain and MacOS Mail works just fine. Same with all browsers and Apache running on the same box. It's a wildcard certificate (*.example.com) that I se for all services. All fine except mail.app on iOS - this also used to work fine with mail app in the past as well, by the way (older version of iOS).

An ideas?


texts: How to create a Package, which runs a shell script?

texts:
While searching for a good (better) solution for this Solution, I try to solve my problem with Packages, but with no success.

My concrete problem looks simple:

Copy a file to /tmp (it's an configuration script)
Execute the following command:

sudo installer -allowUntrusted -pkg "esets_remote_install.pkg" -target /

So there are some (or a lot of questions):

To solve this problem, have I chose Distribution or Raw Package?
On a Raw Package (which also could included in distribution, I can choose Require admin password for installation, if this is checked, do I still need sudo before install?

My first try was to add the pkg and the file for temp to Distribution Additional Resources in Requirement & Resources and run the script via Requirement. Did not work.
My second try was to put it into the Raw Package Payloadand run the script via Pre-installation. Again, no success.
Even adding the package and the configuration to Additional Resources seems not solve my problem.

Thank you very much for all solutions and ideas. Even a console solution via pkgutilis welcome.


texts:
I try to change tilde key to shift.

I have success in it, but only for russian language.

I used KeyRemap4MacBook for it.

When I switch language to english this substitution stops working. How to make it work in both languages?

UPDATE

From KeyRemap4MacBook eventViewer I found that my target key code is DANISH_DOLLAR

And I set private.xml (~/Library/Application Support/KeyRemap4MacBook/private.xml) accordingly:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<root>
  <item>
    <name>TildeToShift</name>
    <identifier>TildeToShift</identifier>
    <autogen>__KeyToKey__ KeyCode::DANISH_DOLLAR, KeyCode::SHIFT_L</autogen>
  </item>
</root>

I clicked ReloadXML and watched results: nothing changed. I press my target key + a, expecting to get A(shift+a), but instead see §a

Update 2

Finally target key code is KeyCode::BACKQUOTE but not KeyCode::DANISH_DOLLAR although EventViwer showed DANISH_DOLLAR when I clicked target key.  This is because I swapped Tilde and Section keys.


texts: How do I build a charging station for 12 iPads?

texts:
I need to charge, overnight, about 12 ipads in 1 location. Are there pre-made charging stations? Should I just buy a surge protector with a ton of plugs? Do you have any other idea or advice?

I wanted to have a single computer to synchronize all the iPads. Will I have to synchronize them individually? If not, how many iPods can be synchronized at the same time?

I have 12 iPads I need to charge and synchronize. How can I do this efficiently and attractively?


texts: mount is adding a quarantine flag, causing: /bin/bash: bad interpreter: Operation not permitted - but not the usual suspects

texts:
OK, I'm having a similar problem to: -bash: Applications/mvim: /bin/sh: bad interpreter: Operation not permitted - but it's not the same problem. I'm getting the same result.

I've already verified that it's not the com.apple.quarantine flag.

It's not the line endings (script was created just from vi). I can execute the script by using:

bash simpleshell.sh

Here's the results:

fawkes:tmp kylar$ vi simpleshell.sh
fawkes:tmp kylar$ chmod +x simpleshell.sh
fawkes:tmp kylar$ ./simpleshell.sh
-bash: ./simpleshell.sh: /bin/bash: bad interpreter: Operation not permitted
fawkes:tmp kylar$ cat simpleshell.sh
#!/bin/bash
export FOO=Hey
echo $FOO
fawkes:tmp kylar$ which bash
/bin/bash
fawkes:tmp kylar$ bash simpleshell.sh
Hey
fawkes:tmp kylar$ xattr -l simpleshell.sh
fawkes:tmp kylar$

UPDATE: I don't believe it's the filesystem being mounted as noexec. I've tried running the script in 3 different places: /tmp, ~,  and /source.

UPDATE2: Ok, after more digging - I created the script inside /source, which is a mounted dmg. That's where I ran xattr -l and found nothing. When I cp'd the script to ~ and ran xattr -l, it then had the com.apple.quarantine xattr. On a hunch, I looked at the mount attributes for /source and found:

/dev/disk1s9 on /Volumes/code (hfs, local, nodev, nosuid, journaled, noowners, quarantine, mounted by kylar)

So when I mount this dmg it's getting set as quarantine. How can I tell mount not to mount it with the quarantine flag? Once I removed the flag in ~, the script ran fine.


texts:
I used more or less non stop my new Macbook Pro M1 for about 7 hours and noticed that at the end of the day the battery was already at 14% despite the fact it was fully charged when I started working.
While working I was using a second monitor, a wired keyboard, a wireless mouse and a USB hub.
The programs I actively used that day were Safari, Chrome, Sublime Text and iTerm2.
Safari, Chrome and Sublime were constantly using more or less 500 MB of RAM.
Apple said the new M1 had an autonomy of 20 hours so I'm a bit surprised that after only 7 hours of work it is already at 14%. Is this suppose to be normal? Is it the same for everyone out there?
Thank you.


texts: Mail on my Mac Pro running the latest update of High Sierra (newest OS I can use) keeps crashing when I use "Select All" to empty the trash

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Application Specific Information:
* Terminating app due to uncaught exception 'NSRangeException', reason: '* -[__NSArrayM objectAtIndexedSubscript:]: index 9223372036854775807 beyond bounds [0 .. 1]'
terminating with uncaught exception of type NSException
abort() called

Mail does not crash when I delete each email in the trash individually, only when I select them all then hit "delete." I have tried to delete the mail preferences, rebuilt the mailbox, deleted/reinstalled the account, reset the VRAM, erased the disk and reinstalled High Sierra (then restored from CCC5), ran disk utility from Recovery Drive, called AppleCare (very dismissive of my "obsolete" Mac Pro), booted into Safe Mode (same problem).


texts: Safari hijacked by Safe Finder. Change homepage preference greyed out

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I must've downloaded this virus when I was prompted to download Flash thinking it was the real software. Now whenever I open Safari I get linked to this search engine. I had this issue with Chrome opening up TapuFind and a few other search engines - I fixed this by completely reinstalling Chrome.

I've tried many methods to remove it but can't get it to un-grey out:

Tried changing in the preferences panel but it's greyed out.

I don't have "Profiles" in my System Preferences.

I tried using Malwarebytes but it didn't help.
I tried a safe start with Safari (opening the app while holding down Shift) but that didn't allow me to edit the preferences panel.
Tried booting into Safe mode, but again that didn't help to let me edit the homepage.
Tried cleaning the Cache entirely but again, didn't help (as well at that list thing).
I don't think I have a modified hosts file

Is there anything else I can do to resolve this issue?


texts: All Chrome browser windows go fullscreen for no reason on second monitor

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Anyone else experience this, have any idea how to prevent it from happening, or know what is causing it?

I roll with a bunch of Chrome browser windows open which have a varying number of active tabs. Some are fullscreen already, but most are on one of the desktops on a second monitor.

Every now and then when I click on a Chrome window all of the Chrome windows expand to fullscreen. Iirc, it is usually with an app switching click to Chrome on a browser window which is already fullscreen - then all the non-fullscreen windows expand.

specs: 15" 2017 MBP, 2.9GHz i7 16GB RAM, regular auto updates to OS and Chrome - currently maOS 10.14.2, Chrome 71.0.3578.98


texts: Graphical man pages viewer in Terminal.app

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There is a feature in terminal to view man-page of selected string in external window with ⌃⌘? shortcut.

But it has a priority to display preinstalled man pages. So for example I've installed gnu coreutils with homebrew and have edited man-pages search path. And if I do man ls in console I get man-page from gnu coreutils but help menu action gives me bsd man-page.

Is it possible to fix man-pages search path for it?


texts: Reinstall OS X due to compromised OS X partition whilst keeping Boot Camp

texts: I have an iMac with OS X and Windows 7 dual boot (which was installed via Boot Camp). Recently, the OS X partition has been compromised, but the Windows one works great. I have created a bootable USB with OS X Snow Leopard and I want to reinstall OS X. I have 2 questions: Will I lose any personal data after reinstalling OS X? And will Windows 7 still work after reinstalling OS X considering that it has been installed through Boot Camp?


texts:
I was given a iMacG4 (PowerPC)  and intend to give to an 8 year old for the purpose of web browsing and exploring python.  I would like to gain administrative (sudo) privilege.

Although I have access as a common user, I do not have the password, which means no sudo privilege.

Has anyone had success burning the OSX Snow Leopard .iso file to a USB stick via Rufus then boot from the USB stick to install OSX?  Maybe the better question is: Are the any unsurmountable obstacles that would prevent this mode of install.

Please indicate if you have successfully done this before and the details of hardware and software versions.  Thank you


texts: Has anybody had problems with Application Loader 2.5.1 update?

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The problem is that Software Update suggests me to install Application Loader 2.5.1, but each time I'm trying to install it, 71.4 disturb is downloaded and then installer throws an error "The update "Application Loader" can't be installed. An error occurred".

Anything else is installed without any problems.
Where should I start with resolving this problem?


texts: Formatted iMac in case sensitive instead of journaled

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Recently I tried restoring my iMac.
To restore it they said to go to Disk Utility, Macintosh HD, and to erase it in the journaled format.
I forgot to re-format it and I'm pretty sure I erased it in the format of case sensitive.

I then tried to reinstall Mac Os anyways but at the end of every Install, They said that there was a problem and suggested I do it again. I did it multiple times and kept getting the same result.

I don't know what came to me but I decided to delete everything except for the Apple HDD thing in the internal thin of the iMac. I don't know what to do, I'm completely lost and in desperate need of help


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I have a macbook pro (mid 2008). Right now I'm experiencing problems with the wireless connection at work. It goes on and off. Every time I loose the connection I have to turn Airport off and on again, and it works. But  this happens quite frequently.

The administrator says that he does not see network problems. Any idea of what could that be?


texts: Where are iTunes music files located, if they are not in Music/iTunes/iTunes Media?

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I recently rented a MacBook Pro because I needed to take mine in for a hardware recall. Before giving mine up, I transferred the folder ~/Music/iTunes and the file ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.iTunes.plist to the loaner laptop in order to have my music available. (I also made two separate Time Machine backups right before taking it in, and had an online backup service for extra peace of mind.)

As it turned out, only a fraction of my library was available in iTunes, some of the oldest files in my collection plus my purchases. (Also, when I made my first iPhone backup on this laptop, that large portion of the library disappeared from Music as well.)

My best guess is that, as an inexperienced user sometime in the past, I had turned off "Copy files to iTunes Media folder when adding to library" in iTunes Preferences. (I can't know for sure because I don't have my original Mac, but only those older files are in Music/iTunes/iTunes Media.) So as I added new tracks collected over time, they were added to iTunes but somehow not into that media folder.

I had deleted those source files over time, however, and they remained viable in the iTunes library. So now I am looking for where exactly they were located, so I can try to restore them from backup.


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At the moment, I am running OS X El Capitan (10.11.5) and Windows 10 in bootcamp on my MacBook Pro. I plan on upgrading to the macOS Sierra public beta when it comes out in July or so.

My question is, is an upgrade to macOS Sierra going to make my bootcamp not bootable anymore. I have seen on apple discussion forums, and people that I know have had problems getting their bootcamp to work after an OS X upgrade. However, I have also seen many others not having any issues whatsoever when upgrading.

I would just like to clear up my confusion, will an upgrade from El Capitan to macOS sierra render my bootcamp useless/unbootable?


texts:
I would like to move column 3 in numbers in between columns 1 and 2. In other words, I would like to swap columns 2 and 3. This is possible in Microsoft Excel.

I realize this is possible in Numbers by creating a dummy column and copying/pasting, but this doesn't seem like the "proper" way to swap two columns. Additionally, this creates problems if there are other columns/rows which reference these rows which are being swapped.

Is there a way to swap rows/columns in Numbers while maintaining these references?


texts: Preventing files from being renamed when camera uploads to Dropbox is enabled

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Is there any way to prevent files from being renamed when camera uploads to Dropbox is enabled in Mac OS X?

By default all imported image files are renamed into their timestamps:

I think to keep the original filenames:


texts: Terminal command to return network class

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I'm trying to construct myself a primitive network scanner, and I understand that there are multiple network classes and it has become necessary for my program to determine exactly what class of network the workstation is currently connected to.

I have trialled a few options which i consider to be needlessly complicated, such as truncating various commands such as ifconfig, however these methods are arduous and messy.

Is there a single Terminal command which can return simple output such as 10.0.0.0, thereby identifying the network class?


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In System Information, we can obtain information about the battery, e.g.:

Battery Information:

  Model Information:
    Serial Number:  D866192Q1NFFWLKE1
    Manufacturer:   SMP
    Device Name:    bq20z451
    Pack Lot Code:  0
    PCB Lot Code:   0
    Firmware Version:   702
    Hardware Revision:  1
    Cell Revision:  3241
  Charge Information:
    Charge Remaining (mAh): 8681
    Fully Charged:  No
    Charging:   No
    Full Charge Capacity (mAh): 9199
  Health Information:
    Cycle Count:    4
    Condition:  Normal
  Battery Installed:    Yes
  Amperage (mA):    -1131
  Voltage (mV): 12817
  Battery Installed:    Yes
  Amperage (mA):    -1131
  Voltage (mV): 12817

I'd like to know:

What does the Cell Revision field mean?
How are Cycle counts calculated?


texts: MacBook Pro late 2012, want 2 external monitors

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I know this question has been asked a million times but I can't seem to find the right answer for my MBP late 2012.

I have 2 monitors. One connects to my Thunderbolt via a Thunderbolt to HDMI cable. It works fine.

I bought the Elgato Thunderbolt 2 dock believing that I could plug in my Thunderbolt cable into this and then plug my second monitor into the HDMI port. Of course it doesn't work and I'm pretty sure it's not going to work....

Any thoughts on how I can connect 2 monitors? Both have VGA and HDMI ports.


texts: Show history of IP addresses assigned to iMac for a period of time?

texts: Is there a way to view the list of IP addresses that were assigned to my iMac over a period of time (e.g., the last 30 days)? I'd like to get this information from the iMac itself if possible.


texts: Mac OS X Terminal - Basic commands not found by shell

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I've had some problems recently with terminal.
The shell isn't able to execute basic commands, since they are not being found.

Here's an example :

-bash: ls: command not found

I've been doing some research and I suspect that it's the PATH, but I have no idea how to fix it or even look at it.

Any help would be much appreciated, I'm not the most knowledgable when it comes to this stuff, just fyi.


texts: VPN+Proxy: How to override main network settings

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I can establish a connection to my university VPN (Cisco IPSec). In addition I have to set a proxy, in this case I have the URL of a .pac file.

When I set this in the VPN-settings, the proxy is not used by Safari or Chrome. How can I set proxy settings for my VPN? I don't want to put this in the main network settings because I only need the proxy for VPN.


texts: Whats the best way to automatically start an app if its not running?

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I want to automatically start an application if its not running.   My use is case that if I quit a particular application I want to automatically restart.  Specifically in my case its the Messages app.

I always want to keep the Messages app running so if I quit Messages I want it to restart.

What's the best way to handle this?


texts: Installing 20+ operating systems on Mac without any virtualization

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For a scientific project I need to install these operating systems on my Mac Pro.

The catch is...

It has to run on a native hardware, no level 1 or 2 virtualization is allowed.

Here is the list of OSs I need to be able to boot to (some may be even added later):

1. FreeDOS
2. Windows 95
3. Windows XP
4. Windows 7
5. Windows 10
6. Slackware
7. Debian
8. Ubuntu
9. Arch
10. Gentoo
11. Fedora
12. Xinu
13. Minix
14. FreeBSD
15. NetBSD
16. OpenSolaris
17. OS X v10.0
18. OS X v10.1
19. OS X v10.2
20. OS X v10.3
21. OS X v10.4
22. OS X v10.5
23. OS X v10.6
24. OS X v10.7
25. OS X v10.8
26. OS X v10.9
27. OS X v10.10
28. OS X v10.11

Can somebody tell me if it's possible with some existing bootloader for Mac or not?

UPDATE:
This testing system doesn't have to have only 1 bootloader. For example, I can have 2 or 3 USB sticks with different bootloaders and the systems will be installed on the Mac Pro disk's partitions.


texts: Is there a way to display my desktop icons in all external displays? By default, these icons are displayed only in the "original" screen (the Macbook Pro screen), but I want to see these icons on all my displays.


texts: Why Apple watch Nike+ is in same price as normal watch?

texts: I am planning to buy an Apple Watch series 3 (GPS only) but confused between normal and Nike+ edition. If I purchase Nike+ edition, am I losing anything that is in Normal watch? If Nike+ edition is (Normal + Nike) then why Apple has kept price of both same?


texts: Can you record Face and Screen Capture simultaneously as two different video files in iphone

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Is there an app that can allow me to record my face and screen capture my iphone simultaneously and have a two separate video files saved? I'm making a reaction video and I need the face reaction as well as the screen capture. I've tried 'Go Record', 'Record it!' apps that makes the face videos appear on the screen. I'm not looking for that kind of recording app nor using two separate devices to record.
So in short,

Is iphone able to record two videos simultaneously?
If so, is there an app to do so.

Thanks.


texts: Will one or several shut down during filevault decryption harm things?

texts:
So I have a keyboard / mouse issue; neither built-in will work..

To troubleshoot that, I'd like to make changes and restart a couple times.

One thing I tried was disable FileVault manually from system preferences and now I kind of regret it since it now tells me "more than a day" until finished. My google search shows I can't cancel and now have to wait for it to finish...

I read online that when encrypting, you can continue using your laptop like nothing is happening and this makes me wonder if the reverse is true as well.

Can I shut down my laptop without messing up the decryption process & corrupt my SSD or my data?


texts: Is there a way to see the automator script in text?

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If i create some type of workflow on Automator, can I see the script in plain text?

For example, maybe get the script and push it out through Apple Remote Desktop to a remote computer?


texts: Remove background blur effect on Yosemite login screen

texts: Does anyone know how to disable blurring of the log in screen background images? I know it's a long shot, but I really miss being able to see my pretty background images :(


texts: How do i fix left click mouse behavior for Logitech M720 Bluetooth mouse?

texts:
I'm seeing the following symptoms on OS X Sierra:

After a duration of time, my Logitech M720 Triathlon Mouse will register all left clicks as a left-ctrl click. This results in web links being downloaded instead of opened - etc etc.

Turning off the mouse does nothing.

Turning off Bluetooth seems to reset to default behavior.

How do i determine whats causing this issue?


texts: Export long iPhone message conversation via command line to PDF or HTML?

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I'm looking to use the command line (Terminal or iTerm2) to export a long conversation to PDF or HTML in monthly chunks. I want to be able to do this regularly so I can make a regular backup and maybe I can find a nice pretty way to display it on the web or via Google Drive or Dropbox. Who knows..

If I have to write some code to do that, I think I can handle it. According to my research, those chat messages are stored as an SQLite database hidden somewhere in the application data directories for the 'Messages' application.

Are there any existing tools for this? I suspect because the SQLite method I mentioned is not an "official" way to access that data, it's likely not published on the web anywhere?

I've tried some of the commercial products but they are okay at best. Would like to get to the raw data if I can. Out of the commercial projects I've tried:

iExplorer
PhoneView
Decipher TextMessage

At this point I tried using iExplorer to export one huge PDF (2.5k pages). What I would ideally want (and what this question is asking for) is to be able to run a regular job via Terminal to update the HTML or PDF representation of the chat log.

UPDATE: For anyone else who has the same problem, I've been using iExplorer which apparently does work it just takes FOREVER because my file is huge. I want something that's iterative so I can run this process on a regular basis.


texts: Why does the pitch of my MacBook Pro changes when i plug something off the headphone jack?

texts:
I've been wondering about that for quite a long time already.
My MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2015) runs on Mojave (10.14.4) and whenever i'm plugging off my headphones from the MacBook to switch to the internal Speakers the pitch of the outcoming audio is about 3 semitones up and after about 15 seconds it switches back to the original audio signal.

Honestly i don't remember for how long this problem is occurs but i think i noticed it first after a major software version update.
As i'm developing myself i'm just curious how something like this can happen, it makes no sense to me at all. (I can only guess it's a software driver bug)

A good friend of mine was also running a Mid 2015 Macbook Pro 15" and he never had that problem.


texts: Is there a desktop pager for Mac OS Lion?

texts:
A desktop pager is a little program that sits in the corner or the dock, that allows me to switch desktops with a click, and drag windows between desktops.

Something like KDE had with kpager:

Mission control is very nice, but it works better when you use a trackpad and not a mouse, and it can be quite an interruption. To move windows between desktops with key combos you need some acrobatics (click and hold titlebar, then ctrl+⬅). With a pager, you could just fling the icon to a different desktop.

Is there a desktop pager for Mac OS (Lion)?


texts: Strange Clipboard behaviour on OS X El Capitan

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I've been experiencing a very weird clipboard behaviour on my mac.

This is my OS

I'm a developer and every now and then I need to copy paste code, text or even files around.

What I've been experiencing lately is that the clipboard is not being shared among applications.

For example I can't copy a url from Chrome and paste it into Safari. It doesn't give me any error, it just wont paste anything.

For example I just selected this page URL, but on the clipboard I see the URL dropbox added to my clipboard.

Another strange issue is that I use Sublime Text on a day to day basis, and sometimes if I need to copy and paste code somewhere else, it either wont paste anything at all or adds sometimes 10 new lines between each line of what I copied and sometimes 1000s of new lines in between. Which is very annoying.

I've tried restarting the clipboard from the terminal and from Activity Monitor and still the same issue.

Sometimes when I quit and reopen sublime, the issue in sublime itself gets fixed but for a short period of time. It then comes back.

I also use Alfred 2 for workflows and shortcuts which has a clipboard history, but when it starts happening it wont copy into it's clipboard either.

Sometimes copying and pasting works just with the mouse and sometimes not even with it.

I've also tried repairing permissions, run Onyx and repair everything.

UPDATE
I recently tried rebooting in Recovery mode to repair permissions as well as clearing the NVRAM but I'm still experiencing the same thing.

So far the only solution I have found is a reboot, which makes it work for a while.

Any clues?


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I have had a MacBook Pro (Retina, Early 2015) since October 2015.  Recently, I started feeling that the Bluetooth hardware might be defective.  It started a few months ago where I started being bombarded by Bluetooth pairing requests from different kinds of devices (even though the bluetooth settings say that my device should not be discoverable).

I did a clean install when I first started to encounter the symptoms.  I tried to follow different workarounds and fixes.  I found one which included modifying the bluetooth plist file but none of them seemed to be effective.  What's driving me crazy is that other people who have Macs in my office do not face the same issue!

More recently, I started getting a "Bluetooth unavailable" message from time to time. My Bluetooth headphones also keep breaking up constantly while they are connected to the MBPr.

I think there might be a hardware issue with my laptop.  Any thoughts?


texts: JasperSoft iReport Designer does not open when using only Java from Oracle, not Apple

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In my OS X Mavericks I did not install Java 6 from Apple, just Java 8 from Oracle, and everything (including Eclipse or IntelliJ IDEA) works fine, except JasperSoft iReport Designer, that just closes after you request to open it.

When trying to open from command line, using

open /Applications/Jaspersoft\ iReport\ Designer.app

I got:

LSOpenURLsWithRole() failed with error -10810 for the file /Applications/Jaspersoft iReport Designer.app.

After doing some research, it showed that maybe I could not have some dynlib on same place as Apple's Java have, or even using --jdkhome=/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.8.0_20.jdk/Contents/Home, but even doing those workarounds it didn't work.

After some more research, found

/Applications/Jaspersoft iReport Designer.app/Contents/Resources/ireport/etc/ireport.conf

And inside it, changed:

# default location of JDK/JRE, can be overridden by using --jdkhome <dir> switch
#jdkhome="/path/to/jdk"
jdkhome="/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.8.0_20.jdk/Contents/Home"

Now I can see the splash screen! It suggests that I could use --jdkhome, which I did, but it is possible that I did it the wrong way...
Anyway, just after the splash, the app closes again. Nothing is printed in terminal, but in console app I have:

30/09/14 22:02:39,663 com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[252]: ([0x0-0x24024].Jaspersoft iReport Designer[866]) Exited with code: 2

What else can I try?


texts: New email message with a global keyboard shortcut

texts:
I got, for the first time in my life, a Mac this Christmas and I was wondering if it is possible to create system-wide keyboard shortcut.

No matter what app I is using, is there a way to configure a combination of keys so that the new email screen in Mail.app opens? Or, to have the Compose message screen from Gmail?

I understand that I can use command + N in Mail.app, and C in Gmail web interface, but I would like a global shortcut.


texts: Can BTT detect mouse cursor moved to different monitor on another computer via Synergy?

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I am using the BetterTouchTool and I have a question about that.
Actually, I would like to run some shell script to change some of the key mappings on another computer. So can BTT detect mouse cursor moved to a different monitor on another computer via Synergy?
The Synergy app allows sharing a mouse and keyboard across computers. Synergy software shares one mouse & one keyboard between multiple computers & monitors. Easy download, install & configuration. A Symless product.
https://symless.com/synergy
My synergy setup: Mac (2019 late, Big Sur) as a server, Linux (CentOS 7) as a remote client.
Thanks,
Arsene


texts: Replacement battery for Macbook Air 2011: equal to or better than original

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I need to replace a battery for my Macbook Air 13" mid-2011. There is no Apple's own repair service where I live, and I'm fairly savvy with electronics to do my own repairs.

How can I identify batteries for sale that are either genuine Apple parts or determine if alternative replacement batteries they are at least equal, but preferably better than, the original MacBook Air battery I have.

By "equal or better" I mean that it lasts at least as many cycles. I.e. after equal number of charges, it keeps Macbook running roughly as long as the genuine battery on a single charge, given the equal load.


texts:
Where do the language indicator icons live in OSX?

I'm on OSX Catalina but if different on Mojave, would appreciate where it is on Mojave too.
I want to write a program that shows that icon in a different context.


texts: What can cause an iPhone 4 to not actually sync data when told to sync?

texts:
My iPhone 4 (iOS 6) has stopped syncing wirelessly (with my Mac) over the course of the past few weeks.  When I connect it via the cable, iPhoto pops up and I can get the photos off, but it doesn't start syncing the music / apps automatically.  I have to hit the "sync" button, and even then, it doesn't appear to be pulling the "last played" data off the phone.

The checkbox for "Open iTunes when this iPhone is connected" is checked, as is "Sync this iPhone wirelessly", and the "Sync Music" stuff... I haven't done anything over there.  I've restarted the iPhone several times, did a restore after 6.0.1 came out, and am considering reinstalling iTunes on the Mac (though I'm not even sure that's easy or possible).

What might be stopping the sync from being effective?


texts: Why does my iPad think I am in another state? When I go to Maps, it shows the correct location. When I want to order something off the internet, it autofills Oregon and I am in California. I did buy a refurbished iPad. Is there a setting I am not finding?


texts: 16 gb RAM specs for mid 2012 macbook pro

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I have a mid 2012 Macbook pro.

I want to upgrade it to 16 GB -- I know Apple does not support this but is possible.

I would appreciate it if someone can give me the specs of the RAM to order.

Thanks.


texts: iPhone does not ring through speaker with headphones connected

texts:
iPhone 11, iOS 14.1.
When the Bluetooth headphones are connected, the phone only rings through them, which means if I take the headphones off I can't hear the phone ring.
I'm hard of hearing, so I keep the headphones connected so I can hear people on the phone. However, it's very uncomfortable and profoundly difficult to keep them on all day. How do I make the phone ring through the speaker (loudly) even when the headphones are connected?
Turning the headphones on and off as necessary is also not an option because it takes so long for them to sync with the phone that callers hang up thinking they have a dead line.


texts:
I'm looking to buy a used iPhone 5s from eBay. It will be used as an iPod Touch for a while, but I'll be moving out of the US in about a year or so. Sprint phones are by far the cheapest, but as I understand it, you have to be a Sprint customer for 3 months before they'll unlock it for international use (which is a condition I likely won't be fulfilling).

Would I be able to buy a bad ESN phone and use it abroad, then? It sounds like GSM phones are better for abroad use, but they're a bit more and I'm just trying to go down the cheapest route.

Thanks in advance!


texts:
My problem is that Spotlight shows no results from internet sources (Wikipedia, iTunes Store, etc.).  I've reindexed my drive twice, cleared all the caches, and reset the NVRAM.  Still not working.  I have everything in Spotlight preferences checked.

But when I search for a stock there's no results.  Funny thing is, if I try it in Safari it works just fine.

What's going on?

The output of launchctl list | grep Spotlight is

 465    0   com.apple.metadata.SpotlightNetHelper
 466    0   com.apple.Spotlight

This might be a duplicate of the following question question, but there's still not a satisfactory answer (and that question asks about Yosemite, not El Capitan):

Spotlight does not show contents from internet!


texts: How can I locate unused drivers (kext files) on my mac which I see exist using kextstat command?

texts:
I've been receiving crazy kernel panics for years, and I've resolved to get rid of them once and for all.

I was recommended to remove all the 3rd party drivers that appear in the reports as they could easily be the culprits for the panic - one of those was the remote controller app by iospirit. I reoved the app as recommended by the devs, but I still see the drivers in the report, even though they're not supposed to exist any more on my machine!

This is what I see using textstat for the iospirit leftovers which I have not been able to locate:

kextstat | grep iospirit
  103    0 0xffffff7f8100d000 0x2000     0x2000     com.iospirit.CandelairIRBaseDriver (1) C2DBE90A-C38C-3012-8CEB-DF98F742553F
  164    1 0xffffff7f81010000 0x2c000    0x2c000    com.iospirit.driver.rbiokithelper (1.33) 6A3D7305-1A0D-38C4-A832-D84B69F0C492
  178    0 0xffffff7f83886000 0x2000     0x2000     com.iospirit.driver.AppleIRController (4001) DAF6B9AF-DF84-3081-9426-3B4FEDD14D09

Any idea how I can find those iospirit driver guys?

Performing a simple search for iospirit on "This Mac" finds nothing :(

Thank you!


texts: Why is my iOS Reminders app slow and unstable when invoked by Siri?

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I am a longtime user of the iOs "Reminders" app. And I most commonly create new reminders through Siri, for example by saying "Remind me to pay the rent at 6pm."

These Siri requests started taking a slow, long time to actually create the reminder.

I would make the Siri request, and then Siri would say things like "I'm on it," "Wait a moment," etc.
A very long delay would pass. It would take up to 15 seconds before it would act.
Then, it would actually even fail about 15 percent of the time, saying "Sorry, there was a problem with the app."
A side issue that is truly a bug but not the point of this post is that, after the Reminders app was approved in iOS13, my default reminder list appeared totally blank when viewed in the web-based iCloud reminders app. (It was OK (after an initial delay of several days) in actual mobile devices and in the macOS app.)

What caused this slowness problem, and how to fix?


texts: How many monitors iMac 21.5 4K can handle?

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Well, Im a programmer and I want bunch of monitors.

I have a 21.5 Inch 5K iMac, from 2017

Just bought a DUAL HDMI Adapter from StarTech.com

My intention is to have 3 extra displays because the Mac has 2 thunderbolt 3 ports so in 1 port I connected the StarTech adapter and in the other one a simple Thunderbolt 3 to HDMI adapter

But when they are connected together I have 2 random displays working, I cant get the 3 extra display to work!

In the past I have both thunderbolt ports with the single HDMI adapter and worked fine.

Im afraid that this iMac, due its 4K resolution, can't handle 3 extra monitors.

What do you say? Thanks.


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I am trying to configure Wi-Fi on an Apple TV 2 with WPA2 Enterprise.

The Apple TV asks for a profile so I am trying to configure one.

I set up the mandatory "General" settings

the certificate of the RADIUS server

And the Wi-Fi settings

When I install the profile or prepare the Apple TV via Apple Configurator (USB) I just get that the profile is invalid

How can I debug the problem? Is there a way to see a better error description or to validate the profile?

Edit 1

I tried as suggested with a minimal profile

The required general infos
WiFi with just the SSID (no security...)

I get the same error.

Edit 2

I enabled logging with

defaults write com.apple.configurator LogLevel ALL

after starting the "prepare" I get the error without any log entries. After clicking Stop I just get a single log entry

2016-02-18 15:47:53.177 com.apple.configurator.xpc.AirTrafficService[51010]: ERROR - 0ms - <ACUAirTrafficService: 0x7fca30d03420>: cannot call fetchOperationProgressForOperationID:reply: because: NSError: 0x7fca30d3eb60
Desc   : The operation is no longer available.
US Desc: The operation is no longer available.
Domain : ConfigurationUtilityKit.error
Code   : 0x65 (101)
 (ACUService.m:102)

Edit 3

I tried with "add profile" instead of prepare. In this case I am able to install a profile with the minimal Wi-Fi profile.

As soon as I enable WPA2 Enterprise it fails.


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login: /usr/local/bin/bash: No such file or directory

Now I can fix Terminal with this. But then in Terminal:

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