texts: Change "copy of ..." when copying and pasting files in macOS Mojave

texts: I have a file called "text.txt" and when copying and pasting into the finder a copy is created "copy of text.txt" is there any way to change this? that is, when copying and pasting is like this: "text_1.txt" or something similar?


texts: How to stop Finder window from disappearing during drag and drop from Chrome?

texts: While downloading files, I want to drag them from the bottom download bar in Chrome, the Finder disappears behind the Chrome window when I try to drag and drop the file. Is there a way to lock the Finder window so that it stays in front of the Chrome window when I drag and drop. I was able to do this before I updated Google Chrome to the latest version so it might be a software bug on their end.


texts: Using rsync to sync between 2 Macs wirelessly

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I have two Macs, I would like to use rsync to sync the home folder, preferences (if it's possible) and Applications.

I want rsync to run automatically if any file in these two Macs are changed, I want it to be synced completely and wirelessly.

Is it possible to make a .command file after writing the codes?

I would like to have a full tutorial on this, I've finding a lot of softwares online and also asking it everywhere. I can't get a cheap or free option to sync my 2 Macs easily. Thanks a lot!


texts: How can I sync photos between iPhone 5s and iPad mini without using a laptop?

texts: I can do it using a laptop. But is there a way I can do it without passing them through a laptop each time?


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i have MacBook Pro 2012 with High Sierra, i tried the normal way and ran into this problem where it errors with, "Your bootable USB drive could not be created. There is not enough space available on the disc."

So I format it as exFAT as per this thread.

What I don't understand here is he said to make a fat 32 partition at step 4, but Windows can't install on a fat32 partition? So i boot my USB using OPTION at startup and it says Windows can't install because it can't install on the partition.

So I format it over there at the Windows and i ran into this where "Setup was unable to use the existing system partition because it does not contain the required free space." And it advises me to free up space on the EFI partition.

So i do this to free up space on the EFI partition, but it only frees up my EFI to 11 mb, is there anything else i could do for this or is there anything else I could do to dual boot Windows on my Mac?


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My goal was to install onto a 2019 Macbook Pro (with a T2 chip) :

OS X Catalina
Windows 10 Pro (1)
Windows 10 Pro (2)

I managed to do so by using Bootcamp for the first Win10, and a bootable USB to install the second Win10.

But when i hold the option key i'm only presented with two choices :

If i select Windows i'll be presented with the Bitlocker Password step and only after that i'll be able to choose between my two Windows 10 installations.

What i would like is to have the two separate Win10 presented after i held the option key like this :

EDIT :
Is there any way this can be done on a single internal SSD witouth using rEFInd but ONLY the Startup Manager from Apple ? and how ?

I can post more informations about my setup if needed.

Here is the output of diskutil list :

   /dev/disk0 (internal, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *1.0 TB     disk0
   1:                        EFI EFI                     314.6 MB   disk0s1
   2:                 Apple_APFS Container disk2         740.0 GB   disk0s2
   3:       Microsoft Basic Data                         129.7 GB   disk0s3
   4:           Windows Recovery                         569.4 MB   disk0s4
   5:                 Apple_APFS Container disk1         25.0 GB    disk0s5
   6:           Windows Recovery                         554.7 MB   disk0s6
   7:                        EFI NO NAME                 314.6 MB   disk0s7
   8:         Microsoft Reserved                         16.8 MB    disk0s8
   9:           Windows Recovery                         554.7 MB   disk0s9
  10:                        EFI NO NAME                 314.6 MB   disk0s10
  11:       Microsoft Basic Data Loisir                  62.0 GB    disk0s11
  12:           Windows Recovery                         554.7 MB   disk0s12
  13:                        EFI NO NAME                 314.6 MB   disk0s13

    /dev/disk2 (synthesized):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      APFS Container Scheme -                      +740.0 GB   disk2
                                 Physical Store disk0s2
   1:                APFS Volume Macintosh HD            10.7 GB    disk2s1
   2:                APFS Volume Macintosh HD - Data     25.6 GB    disk2s2
   3:                APFS Volume Preboot                 81.3 MB    disk2s3
   4:                APFS Volume Recovery                528.5 MB   disk2s4
   5:                APFS Volume VM                      1.1 GB     disk2s5

Thanks in advance.


texts: Can i remove OS X completely and install Windows?

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Can I completely remove Mac OS X from my system and install Windows 7 or 8 on it?

I do not want to use Bootcamp or create VM's. Is there any way at all?

The problem here is that i want to ditch OSX and install Windows on my mac machine forever.

Will I have to buy a Windows PC?


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I have a layout in Pages that I want to turn into a template. Here is what I have so far:

The green rectangle is an inserted shape.  I'd like to use that as a title bar basically and put text on top of it.  The other thing, I'd like to be able to do create a "title" template of sorts and whenever I need a title page, insert that template page and go from there.

How do I do this?


texts: Internal mic not working on 2008 iMac running 10.7.5

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I just got my iMac back from Apple---they had to replace the video card for me---and the internal mic is not working. In System Preferences -> Sound, I can select "Internal Microphone" or "Line In" and I get nothing on the volume bar for either when I speak. I moved the input volume slider all the way to right and I still get nothing, but oddly enough as I move the slider I register sound. Only while the slider is moving though.

I went to Utilities -> Audio MIDI Setup and made sure that the inputs were not muted. I also tried a few combinations of the "Format" options (44100.0 Hz and 96000.0 Hz each with 2ch-24bit, 2ch-20bit, and 2ch-16bit) but still no dice.

I went in to Garage Band -> Preferences -> Audio/MIDI and made sure that "Built-in Microphone" was selected under "Audio Input". Still no dice.

I tried restarting and pressing [command] + [option] + p + r until the third startup noise. I am not sure what this is supposed to do, but I found the suggestion on a forum somewhere. No dice.

Does anybody have any suggestions for what else I might try to get this working, or how I might find out for certain if the mic is broken? If my mic is broken, does anybody know of a good video or article detailing how to replace it on your own?

I would not be terribly surprised if Apple broke my mic during the repair since they made several other errors and I had to bring the computer back to them twice before the original problem was fixed.

EDIT: I plugged in an external mic that I own and the computer seems to be receiving sound through that. Any suggestions as to how I can go about fixing the internal mic?


texts: Restore Safari Favourites Bar from Time Machine

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I've had a strange occurrence I just spotted today - my Favourites bar on Safari has for some totally unknown reason partially reverted to a version from several months ago.
It has restored headers [& their contents] I have long-since deleted.

The headers I have most recently been using appear to be current - I don't change them often, but I can see sites in there that I've definitely only added recently.
So, the issue appears to be that old, deleted menus have returned from who knows where. Current menus seem OK.

As I have both Time Machine and Backblaze, going back over a year, I'm guessing all I need is to restore one or two prefs files from my backup to be back to 'normal'.

Does anyone know which file[s] & where they live?


texts: Am I going to lose my data on my Mac partition if I delete the Linux partition to extend my Mac partition?

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I have a MacBook Pro with two partitions:

macOS partition (200 GB).
Linux partition (100 GB).

When I enter the Recovery Mode and open Disk Utility, and click "partition" on my whole HD device, I can see a pie chart showing each partition and its size.

My goal is to delete the Linux partition and get back to the normal state where my Mac has a full 300 GB of storage instead of 200 GB.

My question is:
If on the pie chart I clicked on the Linux partition and clicked the minus "-" symbol, will it achieve my goal?

Is it going to delete my Linux partition and give its size to the Mac without losing any data on my Mac partition?


texts: Macbook Pro stopped syncing photos to and from iCloud suddenly

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I know there is a similar question but nothing suggested there worked, unfortunately...

I have an iMac (OS v10.13.6) which has the original photos and it syncs flawlessly with an iPhone X, iCloud.com, with iPad mini and, until recently with my MBP (OSv 10.13.6) . The latter, all of a sudden, stopped syncing while the others are in sync!
I have tried:
1. unchecking "iCloud photos" and rechecking.
2. Repaing the photo library
3. Unchecking iCloud photos >> Repair >> Recheck
4. Unchecking iCloud photo >> New library >> Recheck
5. Numerous restarts of the OS in between...

Nothing seems to help!
Any ideas?
Thank you in advance!


texts: Fortunately I was able to recover lost Stickies after Catalina update in \Library\StickiesDatabase. However, the text file is encoded in such a way that I can't read it. I can hardly recognize some words. How can I translate this into a readable text please? Thanks a lot.


texts: Install Mountain Lion to another drive without rebooting

texts:
I'm wondering if its possible to install Mountain Lion to an external drive (connected via esata) without rebooting from the host system?

I came across this hint suggesting that it was possible to do with Snow Leopard, but this method doesnt work with ML.


texts: Create an automation for WhatsApp's chat app?

texts:
I have the following code which uses the user's clipboard to WhatsApp's online API.
on run {input, parameters}
    set text1 to the clipboard
    do shell script "open https://api.whatsapp.com/send?phone=" & text1
    return input
end run

Now I want to check if the number matches the international code to use in WhatsApp's API correctly.
For example, if I copied a number 021 123456, I want to replace the first few digits with +994021 123456. What happened here is replace the first 0 with +994.
However if the number already starts with +994 then there is no need to amend it.
How do I create a code to do this?


texts:
how can I use applescript to type in a specified area on the screen? I've tried the 'keystroke' command, but it doesn't seem to work. also, how can I use applescript to display an image? thanks a lot if you answer. here's the code I have so far:

set theText to text returned of (display dialog "Put what you want to autotype here." default answer "" buttons {"OK", "cancel"} default button 1)
display dialog "select where you want me to type " & theText & " Your text will be typed in the area selected. you have 10 seconds to select once you click 'OK'" buttons {"OK"}
delay 10
say "typing"
--command for typing here
end
end
end


texts: alias youremail@me.com(icloud) from a custom domain (like Google Apps fyd)

texts:
Similar to how Google Apps for you Domain works with your own domain (by using the mx record settings). How would I setup icloud email to achieve this?
Custom domain is not suppored out of the box (and maybe will never be...?) so I could hack, like in the days before GAmail, when everybody forwarded to gmail.com:
Setup GAmail to forward all email to icloud. But then icloud should change all sender headers from me.com to my domain. Are there other consequences of importance? Or is this not recommended at all?

Alternatively, maybe the best route is to use me.com as a personal domain, and your GAmail as businessmail, and use them side by side. I believe mail.app can have a mailbox for each?

For users happy with push GAmail over imap on their devices, does icloud mail offer any advantages? A 3th solution is to just switch off icoud email, and only use icloud's other services...


texts: How to increase the middleclick area of the Magic Mouse?

texts:
I am using BetterTouchTool to set the gesture "Single middle click" to "Middleclick". I have problems hitting the small middleclick-area of the mouse at once :-/

So is there a way to increase the middleclick-area?

(Alternatively I use a two finger tap as middleclick, but I'd prefer the real thing :-))


texts: Can Super Duper perform "smart update" from SSD to HDD?

texts: My goal is to create a bootable backup of my SSD boot drive on an external HDD. I'm using a Mac Pro mid-2010, so I can swap out the boot drive should my SSD ever get corrupted. Is there any reason Super Duper wouldn't be able to "smart update" a clone of the SSD onto an HDD? (And should I consider alternatives to Super Duper?)


texts: YouTube video thumbnails not getting loaded

texts:
On YouTube webpage, instead of the video thumbnail images, I see only a blue box with a question mark in it. Any video on YouTube does not seems to work either. Can anyone help me? I am not able to find a proper way to solve this error.

Last action performed before encountering the issue: Installing Unity 2018.3 (it is working fine)

I have a mid 2010 13" MacBook Pro running macOS High Sierra 10.13.6


texts: TextEdit does not show recent documents in Yosemite

texts: I am new to Mac OS X Yosemite. How do I make TextEdit show recent documents? When I go to File and select Recent Documents, it does not show the last few documents like it used to.


texts: Catalina Custom Dock Icon Changes at Launch of Application

texts:
I changed the icon of an (third party) application (HIARCS Chess Explorer) using the usual method (SIP temporarily off, copy/paste into the get info panel icon, etc, etc.).  The icon changed to my custom one and it seems to work fine EXCEPT, unlike all my other Apple and non-Apple apps (several dozen) , the Dock icon reverts to the old, default app icon whenever the application is launched, and changes back to my custom icon whenever it is quit.  The display of the app in the folder 'Applications' and also the Dock applications launcher always shows my custom icon.  It is only the Dock icon which changes.
I found several png's as well as the icns file in the application package contents and I changed those files as well, but it did not change this strange behavior.  I also looked at the Info.plist but there did not seem to be anything odd there either.
I also did the usual killall Finder, dock, and delete of some Dock temp file with no help.
Is it possible that the application itself has hard coded its icon display at run-time?   How can I verify this?  If not, is there a way I can find where the default icon is living and change that too?  OR, what ELSE is causing this?


texts: Audio when connecting to and from monitor

texts:
I have my monitor Dell P2415Q connected through thunderbolt and the speakers connected through aux to my Dell monitor, so that I don't then have 5 cables going into my mac instead of 4 (Dell USB Hub, Ethernet(Thunderbolt), Charger and Monitor (Thunderbolt)).

The problem is, when I connect my mac with the Thunderbolt the audio option to choose the monitor as the output in system preferences, is only sometimes there (when it is, it works seamlessly). Also sometimes the audio plays from different applications on my laptop and everything else on the speakers.

The only way to get it to work is by running:

sudo kextunload /System/Library/Extensions/AppleHDA.kext
sudo kextload /System/Library/Extensions/AppleHDA.kext

and one time I ran that my whole system crashed with a terrifying error message from apple, so I am pretty scared to do that now.

What would you recommend I do?


texts:
I'd like to start my Macbook on a schedule or over network because it's not always accessible.
I've tried using Energy Saver, but the Macbook didn't power on at the scheduled time after our house's power came back on after the last outage.

Macbook Pro 5,3
OSX 10.7.5


texts: Is there a way to disable the integrated webcam without disabling USB webcams?

texts:
There are a number of documented ways to disable the integrated webcam out there. In particular, I have been using the approach that makes a number of system files unreadable:

sudo chmod a-r /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreMediaIO.framework/Versions/A/Resources/VDC.plugin/Contents/MacOS/VDC
sudo chmod a-r /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/CoreMediaIOServicesPrivate.framework/Versions/A/Resources/AVC.plugin/Contents/MacOS/AVC
sudo chmod a-r /System/Library/QuickTime/QuickTimeUSBVDCDigitizer.component/Contents/MacOS/QuickTimeUSBVDCDigitizer
sudo chmod a-r /Library/CoreMediaIO/Plug-Ins/DAL/AppleCamera.plugin/Contents/MacOS/AppleCamera
sudo chmod a-r /Library/CoreMediaIO/Plug-Ins/FCP-DAL/AppleCamera.plugin/Contents/MacOS/AppleCamera

The problem I am having is that this approach seems to clobber USB cams as well.

Is there an approach whereby I can render the integrated cam undetectable, but USB cams still work?


texts: where are the "best of the 90s", "billboard top 10 of 1982"-style suggestion lists in iTunes?

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I'm in the iTunes Store for the first time in forever, looking to buy some music.  (iTunes 11.0.2)

There used to be helpful lists like "best of the 90s", "billboard top 40" by year, and so on.

Where are all those helpful lists of songs?  They appear to be gone.  Please let me I'm wrong.


texts:
Today the left click of the mouse connected to my Mac mini is not working. I tried to change mouse and I tried the mouse on a different Mac, and it works. The problem still persists on my Mac mini.

Can this be a hardware problem? How do I resolve the issue?


texts: Unable to import into Photos from iPhone over USB?

texts:
I've been trying to sync Photos from my iPhone 5S to my rMBP. I connect with an Apple-branded 3 foot Lightning cable, and I'm able to sync to iTunes with the cable, but Photos for whatever reason is not acknowledging that my iPhone is plugged in.

Therefore, I don't get the additional Import button on the top of the Photos window. What steps can I take to resolve this problem?

Note: rMBP running El Capitan beta build 15A278b and iPhone 5S running iOS 9.2.


texts:
I'm looking to spice up Mojave a bit by adding colour to menu bar icons. Namely Wi-Fi and Battery icons.

/System/Library/CoreServices/MenuExtras/Battery.menu/Contents/Resources and found the following files:

UPSCharged.pdf -
UPSCharging.pdf -
UPSEmpty.pdf -
UPSLevelBlack.pdf -
UPSLevelRed.pdf

Having disabled System Integrity Protection and updated permissions to allow me to edit/replace these files, the menu bar icons remain unchanged.

Is there a way to recompile or alter these running icons once I’ve changed the files I believe have those icons?


texts: Secure traffic before connecting to wifi/VPN?

texts:
Usually when you wake up your MacBook, macOS automatically establishes e.g. IMAP or various background sync connections. How can I make sure that all traffic is sent over to VPN connection BEFORE I connect to wifi or my VPN connection fails?

I am using Apple’s built-in VPN client in OS X 10.12. VPN service order is set prior wifi in the OS X Network location. Also, the checkbox for for „Send all traffic over VPN connection“ is enabled.


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I'm working on my Mac for video editing from time to time and normaly use Windows and Linux. Thinking about to switch completely but there is one thing I'm so darn used to which held me back for years now.

On Windows or Linux taskbar (e.g. Avant Window Navigator) you click the app icon and the app and it's windows come to front. Now comes the important part!! IF you click a second time on the app icon the app (window) goes back to the taskbar, minimizes itself....

Is there any dock tweak or app which can do this??? I desperately need this as I'm used to this way for decades.

Thanks :)


texts: How do I find out which app is using my location in the background?

texts:
There is a hollow location icon present at all times in my iPhone's status bar.

How do I find out which app is causing this? There used to be a section called "Location Services" in Settings but I can't find it anymore. I'm running iOS 11.4.


texts: How to change the default folder viewed when finder is opened

texts: i just downloaded OS 10.9.2 after having 10.6.8 for the last few years. In 10.6.8, whenever I clicked on finder in the dock, I would get a finder window with the "user" folder opened immediately. in 10.9, this opens the "all my files" folder. Is there a way to change it back so that whenever I click on finder it, by default, opens to the user folder?


texts: Icons and other graphics have strange colored strips after waking Macbook

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I am running OS X Lion on a late 2008 model Macbook (not pro). From time to time, usually when left on and unattended, the battery gets low and it goes into sleep mode. I kick myself for letting it happen again, plug it in, and power back on. My session is restored as expected, but with some additional interesting graphic effects:

All of the application icons when Mission Control is activated have the same green and pink striped pattern background you can see just below the menu bar, and all over the UI of Activity Monitor. This never happens after a normal sleep/wake cycle- only after the battery dies.

I haven't been able to find anybody else experiencing this, let alone somebody who has come up with a solution other than just rebooting.

I have done a few hardware upgrades to this machine- I replaced the original memory with 8GB, and I installed a 128GB OCZ SSD a few months ago. My best guess so far is that maybe it's some sort of disk cache problem, but to be honest I have no idea. So here I am.

What causes this, and how can I fix it?


texts: Add a tone as an Alert Tone rather than as a Ringtone

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I have successfully added a tone to my iPhone 7, as explained in this Apple Communities discussion.

However it is getting added as a “ringtone” rather than as an “alert tone.”

How can I change it to an Alert Tone? It’s barely 1-second long. When syncing or creating the .m4r file, there is no option to select the type as either Ringtone or Alert Tone.

The reason I need this is to add a custom notification for a WhatsApp contact. WhatsApp only allows me to choose from Alert Tones.

So the way I see it there are two options:

Ask WhatsApp to allow to choose from Ringtones.
Add my own Alert Tone.

I am exploring option 2 here, because WhatsApp support isn’t being very helpful.


texts: Transferring from a Samsung Galaxy to a Mac

texts:
Is it ok to connect a Samsung Galaxy to a Mac for transferring photos?
I'm not sure if it is ok to do this with two different brands.


texts: Find my Phone investigation indicated a portable network?

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I noticed my MacBook Pro said it was offline when I signed into find my phone. I was using my MacBook Pro and it was not offline. I don't know what other MacBook Pro would be signed in under my Apple Id. I decided to turn off the offline MacBook Pro to see what would happen. My Mac is right here next to this computer and it is working.

I decided to check out Voice Over on my MacBook Pro and Fred voice said You are currently on a portable network. As I was trying to look up what a portable network is .. then my screen went dark came back on and I could not get it to say I was on a portable network by scrolling over the same area as before.

Can someone explain this?


texts:
I've noticed when in Zoom meetings, all audio playing on my computer, even to audio outputs which Zoom isn't using, gets distorted and becomes monophonic. I often want to listen to high quality music while on a Zoom, and having everything sounds essentially like a phone call does not help anything.
Any idea what could be causing this, and if it's possible to get around? I was thinking Zoom might be enabling some sort of communications mode but I couldn't find any information on that.
Obviously, enabling original sound and changing settings within the Zoom application hasn't done anything.


texts: Automatically stop a terminal script when locking MacBook Pro

texts:
I have written a bash script that I manually start when logging in onto the laptop, but I want it to stop running when I lock my laptop.

This doesn't seem a very standard scenario, but I don't want to always manually stop the bash script when I go for a bathroom break and lock my MacBook.


texts:
I'd like to run OS X Server, but not the website portion of it, as I'm using something else for that.

I'm trying to run SiriProxy, which must run on port 443, but that is currently in use even though web services are turned off. When I visit 127.0.0.1:443, I get the "web service is currently turned off" message.

How do I completely turn off web services and allow another process to listen on 443?


texts: Is there a way to auto-complete the open command in Terminal?

texts: I frequently use the open -a  command in Terminal to open applications via ssh. How do I make it auto-complete an application's name?


texts:
I watch a bunch of movies on DVD that I get from Netflix.  I'd really like to watch them from my iPad, but of course my iPad doesn't have a DVD drive.

Is there a way to have a DVD drive somewhere in my house, that can be connected wirelessly to my iPad?  In other words, some way to put the movie DVD into a separate DVD drive, start it playing, and have it beam the movie to my iPad, so I can watch it on my iPad?  Basically, read the movie from my DVD player and then stream it wirelessly to my iPad.  (I don't want something that would require my iPad to be connected via a wire to something else; that would leave me tethered, which is annoying.)

I know I could probably have a separate computer with a DVD drive and manually rip the movie and then somehow transfer it to my iPad, but that's a pain.  I'd prefer something more convenient: just put it into the player, press play, and watch on my iPad.  Is there a way to do it?


texts: What are some tips for replacing my MacBook Pro hard disk with SSD?

texts:
I would like to replace my MacBook pro hard disk with an SSD, without reinstalling everything. I am looking for your experience on

good SSD drive models that have good performance at a fair price
the relocation strategy so that I get my old system migrated with no trouble or pain from the old hard drive to the new one (including additional hardware needed, I guess a usb-sata connector)


texts: How to mount local folder with mount_afp in OS X 10.6.8

texts:
I tried to use mount_afp afp://user:111@127.0.0.1/home ~/Documents to mount the ~/Documents folder to the shared folder, but it shows the error like below:

  mount_afp: AFPMountURL returned error 62, errno is 62

What am I doing wrong?


texts: iPhone turns off display whenever covering the proximity sensor

texts:
I have an iPhone 7. Sometimes when I put my finger on the proximity sensor (besides front speaker), the display turns black. I can't find a setting to turn it off. Anyone know where it is? Or if I can?

This doesn't just happen when a call is in progress (which is expected behaviour), it happens anytime. Restarting the iPhone didn't resolve the issue, it start appearing again after a day or two.


texts:
I scanned my Mac for viruses using a nice open source GUI app called "KnockKnock" which was pretty useful to remove some unnecessary binaries from apps which I had deleted a long time ago.

But KnockKnock also reports some kernel extensions. I have a SAT Smart driver installed so I know that kext but the other seem to be doubtful and I have a feeling that they might be some type of malware. However clicking the 'info' button reports that it is developed by ATTO Technologies and sited by Apple CA, However I am still doubtful:

Is it genuine?


texts: Using an old Windows keyboard on a Macbook

texts:
I recently found my old mechanical keyboard and I want to use it on my Macbook Pro. It still uses an old PS2 connector so I went out and bought a PS2 to USB adapter.

When I plug it in, the lock lights on the side simply light up once and then I can't use it. The keys do not work and the keyboard identifier utility from System Preferences does not recognize it.

I'm guessing I need some sort of driver but where can I find it? It's an old A4Tech KeyWorks Office keyboard.


texts: Move windows between displays without dragging

texts:
I'm using a 2011 iMac running MacOS Sierra with an HDMI output connected to a projector. When I want to watch a film on the projector, I just drag iTunes over to the second display and watch. If I forget to drag iTunes back, it ends up stuck on the other display. This is because the Mac still sees the second display when the projector is turned off. This means the only way to get iTunes back on the main iMac display is to turn the project back on so I can see the iTunes window and drag it back across to the main display. This also happens to any other app I "leave behind" on the external display and forget to drag back over. What I've tried:

Quitting and relaunching the app. This doesn't work, as MacOS remembers which display the app was on previously and re-launches it on that display
Finding the app in Mission Control. This doesn't work, because each display has its own Mission Control. I therefore can't see the spaces on the external display in order to grab the iTunes window and drag it to a space on the built-in display
Right-clicking the app icon in the dock and selecting "Show all windows". This just displays my wallpaper with a message in the centre saying "No available windows" (presumably because the window is on the external display).

I am hoping there's a key combination or some other trick to force the windows of the app to move over to the current display.


texts: Can photo sync be as effortless as music sync, between macOS and iOS?

texts:
To copy photos from iOS (and make space for more photos) one connects the device (iPhone or iPad) with a cable to the Mac and opens Photos, then imports.

But with music things "just work" without the user having to do anything. I have "smartlists" set up. When the music (even just play count) changes on my Mac, they sync wirelessly and with no intervention on my part, not even triggering the sync.

Does such a convenience exist for photos? Is there a way to say "iOS: everytime you're on the same WiFi as my Mac, copy the photos over to the Mac, and delete the photos"?

Basically I'm looking for functionality similar to Dropbox/iCloud, but without any cloud or cloud-like features. It seems like a pretty obvious feature to add, especially in a homogeneous ecosystem, and so the question is: are we there yet?


texts: 10.8.3 update will not run - keeps asking for restart

texts: I have tried to update to 10.8.3 a number of times, however, when I come back from the necessary restart, the same message appears in the App Store - as if nothing had happened. please help with this issue. thank you.


texts: Why won't my Mac Pro wake from sleep at the scheduled time?

texts: I have a 2007 Mac Pro (running Lion) that has been on the same schedule for a long time;  it is set to go to sleep at 1am, and wake up at 7am.  Recently, it sleeps through its wakeup time.  If I press any key or anything, it wakes up immediately - and I notice the clock is off (it quickly corrects itself).  It is as if when it is asleep, it is no longer keeping time, and doesn't know when to wake up.  Could this be a dead button-battery inside?  I thought these were only used if no AC power was present (it always has power).


texts: Why it's not possible to save a PNG image from Preview when a mask is added?

texts:
While adding some annotations to a PNG image, using the Preview App, I added a mask to highlight part of the image -- Shapes » Highlight. After doing that I couldn't save the image anymore. I got the following error message:

  The document "[FILE_NAME]" could not be saved.

No detail about what is wrong was given. I tried different file names and directories. Also tried to use "Export" instead of "Save". Nothing worked.

Looking at Apple's support page I couldn't find anything about a specific format or something special about that tool.

I'm wondering what I'm doing wrong.


texts: How to remove unmounted drive folders from root directory

texts:
Recently I have noticed that in the / directory, there were a lot mounted volumes from my old NTFS drive (which I haven't been using for a long time). Several failed attempts to delete them are listed here:

sudo rm -rf My\ Passport* in bash, it just shows it is a read-only file, chmod tells me I do not have privilege to do this.
Cmd+i and try to change the permissions to read-write, Finder just tells me that as the system admin I have no access to these folders.

I tried one last straw to update my system to Catalina (which I was reluctant due to Spotlight problematic indexing problem reported by users), and these things are still here.


texts:
Everytime I restart/boot my mac and open up a mail application (thunderbird) or a web browser (firefox or chrome) I am always asked if I want to make it the default. This happens even if I click yes.

So, for some reason osx isn't remembering what I set as the default mail or web browser. I have already repaired disk permissions which didn't fix the problem.

Any ideas?


texts: How to restrict access to applications in Big Sur?

texts:
How do I put FaceTime in a folder and assign a password to the folder? The aim is not to have access to the apps without password.
I actually want to restrict access to minimize distraction ( tv app, FaceTime, App Store) and I was able to do that without any problem in Catalina, but with Big Sur it's another story.
I have already tried using screen time but I don't think parental control is the solution to my problem as I want to use the Mac for academic use.  I wanted to prevent myself from being distract by them, but still use safari without any problem. I actually did try activating screen time, but it's not effective (as I explained in screen time, we aren't able to to activate "Downtime limitations" and "limits apps" but still use Safari) so I'm looking for solutions.


texts: Listing Frameworks folder on Mac gives different results due to EWSMac.framework

texts:
I can't understand what is happening. I am using macOS 10.14.6. I am simply trying to find R.framework which is inside Library/Frameworks folder I get EWSMac.framework (I don't know what is this):

MBP:~ me$ cd Library/Frameworks
MBP:Frameworks sergiobacelar$ ls
EWSMac.framework

But when I do:

MBP:~ me$ cd /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources
MBP:Resources me$ cd ..
MBP:R.framework me$ cd ..
MBP:Frameworks me$ ls
AEProfiling.framework       PROJ.framework
AERegistration.framework    PluginManager.framework

I get the usual list of frameworks.


texts: IntelliJ IDEA + JBR11 uninstalled but still appears in Spotlight Search

texts: I have uninstalled the JBR11 version of IntelliJ and installed the standard version, but both versions appear in Spotlight Search. How can I fix this?


texts:
I just recently jailbroke my iPod 5th generation using an untethered jailbreak called Phoenix, but when I open Cydia I get the error: sub process /usr/libexec/cydia error 2. So I can't install or update ANYTHING. Here is some solutions I attempted and got no luck (in case you try to give the same one): https://www.reddit.com/r/jailbreak/comments/5r0k9f/help_subprocess_usrlibexeccydiacydo_error_code_2/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRqhVcW67co
There's one more solution I tried, but I can't post more than 2 links with a reputation of below 10, lol.
All I want to do is to be able to fix the error so I can update cydia and be able to install tweaks, because at the moment, I cannot. Thanks.


texts: I last used my MacBook Air November 2016.  OS was up to date at that time.  I have forgotten my login PW (though I am pretty sure I know what it was). I am unable to reset login PW.  It is not part of my Apple ID linked hardware.  My disc is encrypted. I believe that is why no disc options are given to reboot and then change PW.


texts: My son has a child account under my iTunes and when I approve a purchase for him it gets charged to my credit card, even though I have an iTunes balance credit from gift cards.  Is there a way to circumvent this, because he added his Christmas iTunes gift card under my iTunes, but we can't seem to use it for his purchases.


texts:
I have a macbook pro 13 late 2011. My setup: i have a HDD in the main bay for my files, and a SSD in the optibay with the OS on. The other day i received the message randomly out of the blue which states along the lines of "External drive was unsafely removed" (this was concerning the main bay drive). Ever since i havent been able to see my file drive.

I have tried removing the drive and reseating with along with the SATA cable to the logic board. I have also tried the HDD on a different machine and the same mac in a enclosure, both didnt recognize the drive. I have also tried perfectly good tested drives in the main bay and they weren't recognized either.

Because my other drive in the optibay is working, im thinking the logic board is ok, but potentially have a dodgy cable and HDD in the main bay?

Can anyone help me narrow down the issue? Or is the next step to try replace the sata hd cable to the logic board, and try a different hard drive.

Thanks for your time.


texts: `CFPasteboardRef CFPasteboardCreate(CFAllocatorRef, CFStringRef) - failed to create global data` warning in vim

texts:
I just installed vim using brew

$ brew install vim

I am on a ssh connection to a MacOSX desktop. I am heavily using homebrew.

As soon as try to delete a character or copy something in vim, I get the following warning message:

[15020] CFPasteboardRef CFPasteboardCreate(CFAllocatorRef, CFStringRef) : failed to create global data

I suspect the vim is not able to access system clipboard.

There is ticket on macport (https://lists.macports.org/pipermail/macports-tickets/2016-May/205983.html), it looks like that it wasn't resolved.

I installed fakeclip plugin in vim but it didn't help either.

Any suggestions on how to get rid of this annoyance over ssh connection?

UPDATE

$ sudo -u dilawars vi filename

works great. So it is almost certain that issue is with access to clipboard.


texts: Finder window background colour or image for USB Drive

texts:
I would like to know how to add an image (if that's not possible then a colour) to the Finder window of my USB stick - just the stick not every window.
I have seen it on various .DMG installers (the ones which require the app to be moved into the applications folder often have an image with an arrow and a text telling the user to drag and drop) and now wonder how this is done for the window of a USB drive.

I have an application which runs straight from the stick itself without wanting to move it to the apps directory of the Mac. Every time I click on the USB drive I would like to see a custom image background (much like on those DMGs).

Search results returned old and obsolete ways or partial answers no longer supported by macOS Sierra.


texts: MacBook Pro 2016 15" w/ Touch Bar battery and overheating problems

texts:
I bought my base model 15" MacBook Pro w/ Touch Bar the day it was released, and I just received it yesterday. I've been copying and downloading all the data and files that I needed and the battery didn't last me more than 5 hours, if even 4. I have no idea what is wrong with it, but it's really overheating and I almost never hear the fan running, which also alerts me.

Today I played Crossfire, a game with very basic graphics, on Windows 10 Bootcamp and it was ON FIRE! I had to close the game because of the laptop's temperature. Again, I did not hear the fan.

Things I've done:

Reset the System Management Controller (SMC)
Run hardware diagnostics by restarting and pressing the D key while booting. This was the first time I actually clearly heard the fan. The overall results were that it found no hardware problems.
I called Apple, but they had no idea what they were telling me as they were following a written script, although a Senior Advisor was talking to me regarding the issue.

Now I have had it just for two days so far, and I have a two-week return period. Should I wait more and see how everything will work out, or should I return it?

Has anyone experienced the same issue? Is there anything else for me to try?


texts: How to get rid of different mouse tracking speeds on dual screen setups

texts:
I am using a MacBook Air 11" 2011 Model with Mac OS X Lion hooked up with a Cinema Display 27" and I am getting two different mouse tracking speeds (I am using a Apple Magic Mouse) when I move between the two screens in a two screen setup.

I have to move the mouse 20cm to move the cursor from one end of the 27" screen to the other.

However, I have to move the mouse 40cm to move the cursor from one end of the 11" screen to the other!

I can only adjust the mouse tracking speed in the system preferences, increasing it does make it faster on the 11" screen, but makes it too fast on the 27" screen...

Anyway I can fix this? This issue did not occur when I was running a MacBook Pro 13" when Snow Leopard and the same 27" screen.


texts: Apple Sudden Motion Sensor and Hard Drive Upgrade

texts:
I'm looking to upgrade a notebook hard drive and wanted to use the Hitachi Travelstar 5K750. Will it work with the Apple Sudden Motion Sensor? Do I have any way of identifying drives that will play nice with this technology? I've heard of problems in the past, should I be concerned?

I'm running a Macbook Pro 13" (2009). Thanks!


texts: I accidentally ejected an external drive in the finder, is there an option to hide or remove/disable eject button from finder?


texts: Safari 8.0.2 is adding www to certain domains - how can I disable this?

texts:
When I type or paste a domain into the Safari URL bar that starts with http://local it always adds www.

I'm a web developer and have setup dozens of sites with the local. prefix but now can't test them in Safari.

Does anyone know how to disable this? (without changing my naming convention, of course)


texts: How do you capture the screen with accessibility features turned on?

texts:
I'm trying to take a screenshot of my screen with Accessibility display features "Invert colors" and "Use grayscale" enabled, but the resulting screenshot images do not have any of the visual modifications. They appear as if the Accessibility features were turned off. Anyone know how to capture this type of image?

Normal: http://3gfp.com/i/normal.png
Inverted & Grayscale: http://3gfp.com/i/inverted-colors_and_grayscale.png

Update: If I capture a movie with QuickTime or ScreenFlow, I get the grayscale effects, but not the inverted colors. Then, I could grab a still from the movie.


texts: Downloaded Songs from Itunes are now not downloaded

texts: I have around 600 songs downloaded on my PC from Apple Music, but now even on my phone all my downloads disappeared and need to download them again. I checked the Apple Computer Folder in AppData and it shows it has 5.7 GB and 661 files but when I open one of the folders it is empty.


texts: Can an AppleScript Service discern if selected text is editable?

texts:
I have an Automator Service entitled "Calculator" that is comprised of a single "Run AppleScript" action. It takes the selected text and then performs a calculation on this input text.

If the selected text is editable, I would like the Service to type the result. If the selected text is uneditable, I would like the Service to communicate the result via a dialog.

I know how to achieve these outcomes in AppleScript. I understand that my goal is entirely feasible if I set up two, separate Services. But, is there a way for my AppleScript-based Service to automatically determine whether the selected text is editable or not, so that I can add an if <selected text is editable> then statement?


texts: xcode 6.4 + OX X 10.10 Yosemite - Problem with all simulators

texts: Anyone experiencing problems with Xcode 6.4 simulators? at first I though it was my fault and I was looking to find which part I messed up in my code, but when I go an actual device to test my project everything seemed fine. What I did is upgraded to to 6.4 yesterday evening and since then I have this problem. Tried to update 10.10 OS X but this didn't fix anything


texts: Applescript dialog - return/enter special keys (such as page down)?

texts: I am creating an Applescript that show a dialog where the user should be able to enter either any common character (such as a) or any special key (such as page down or ⌘). How can the latter keys/key codes be entered into a regular text field in an Applescript dialog?


texts: So I recently got a cool portable monitor, the travel case/stand of which as a magnet to hold the monitor upright and in place. I wasn't thinking and put my computer on top of the monitor while it was in it's case, kind of like a bookstand. I noticed a weird noise (like a 'computing' sound if you will) coming from the machine and assumed it was just the intensive processes I was running. It started to get quite annoying until I realized that the noise went away when I removed the laptop from off the case. I also regularly travel with the folded case and computer in close proximity. Am I endangering my computer by having this case anywhere around it? Is there anyway to check for damage? I seem to have all my files and the computer works fine.


texts:
I have to join a shared calendar for which i have a https url (like https://servername:5006/calendar/calendar.ics)

How can I join it on the Calendar App?
I only managed to subscribe to it, although when subscribing I cannot add my own events but only see what others are publishing.

It works perfectly using Thunderbird Lightspeed, but I want to be able to use the Calendar App for my convenience


texts: How do I create a shortcut on the desktop?

texts:
I was just migrated from a Windows machine to an Apple, which I was told would be seamless, but it's pretty seamy...

My tech (i.e., husband) told me I should drag-and-drop icons to the desktop to create a shortcut, since there's no dropdown-menu item saying "create shortcut."  However, all that did was move the file out of its logical spot into the desktop folder.  That is absolutely not what I want.

I'm having a hard enough time sorting folders by date or reverse alpha sort.  I don't know whether that's even possible using an Apple, but my first problem is the desktop shortcut.  For ergo-medical reasons, I definitely don't want to be navigating to my favorite folders, and I don't want to move them out of their logical places.


texts: Calendar starts up every time I boot up Mavericks. I cannot find a related option in its Preferences or in the Users and Groups login items page. How do I prevent Calendar from starting up when I log in to Mavericks?


texts: After moving my home folder to different drive, Photos behavior broken

texts:
I successfully moved my home folder to a different drive. All the special folders (Music, Pictures, Movies, etc.) have the correct icons. iTunes opens up and so does Photos. Etc. Life is good...almost.

But here's where things have gone south with Photos. Nothing catastrophic but certainly annoying. I believe the various incorrect behaviors I'm seeing with Photos are related.

New pics on my iPhone that used to sync automatically with Photos (via iCloud) no longer happen automatically. I can plug my iPhone in and import them into Photos, but this is annoying.
When I get the Finder window to choose a photo (say to upload to Reddit), I see Photos in the left panel, I can click it, and I see Photos library trying to populate, but it doesn't.

Another thing that isn't working is the Share menu option "Add to Photos". I can open something up in Preview, hit the share icon, and choose "Add to Photos" and it appears to succeed, but nothing shows up in my Photos library.

It really does sound like the system doesn't really know where my Photos library is even though it's a subdirectory of my new (but correctly configured) home directory.


texts: How can I supervise/monitor the iPhone of my kid?

texts:
I use an iPhone 8 and  my 12 year-old  daughter had an iPhone 6 just purchased.

I'm worried about Internet sites mainly and would like to monitor text messages of certain friends she has been in trouble with at school. I have spoken to her about this and it was one of the conditions she was allowed her own phone. Can my iPhone monitor her web sites and sms texts ? Can I block both from my phone?  I have seen some apps but was told they could be circumvented.


texts: AppleScript to spit out Incremented Number with Leading Zeros

texts:
So I am trying to create a simple script that will use a file to store an integer. When the script is called (in my case as part of a keyboard macro) it will drop in (where I'm typing) the current integer, with the requisite number of leading zeros. Then it will increment the integer (without the leading zeros) and write it back into the file.

The leading zeros part works, but for the life of me I can not figure out how to store the value of the 'counter' variable in a file so that, later, when I call the script again, it will pick up where it left off.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Here is the error message I get:

    error "Can’t make \"z:Users:zachphillips:Dev:AppleScripts:counter\"
    into type file." number -1700 from
    "z:Users:zachphillips:Dev:AppleScripts:counter" to file

And here is the code:

    set theFile to "z:Users:zachphillips:Dev:AppleScripts:counter"
        open for access theFile
        set fileContents to read theFile
        close access theFile

        set counter to fileContents as integer

        on add_leading_zeros(counter, max_leading_zeros)
        set the threshold_number to (10 ^ max_leading_zeros) as integer
        if counter is less than the threshold_number then
            set the leading_zeros to ""
            set the digit_count to the length of ((counter div 1) as string)
            set the character_count to (max_leading_zeros + 1) - digit_count
            repeat character_count times
                set the leading_zeros to (the leading_zeros & "0") as string
            end repeat
            return (leading_zeros & (counter as text)) as string
        else
            return counter as text
        end if
    end add_leading_zeros

    add_leading_zeros(counter, 2)

    open for access newFile with write permission
    set eof of newFile to 0
    write counter + 1 to newFile
    close access newFile


texts: Stolen Mac - Help Finding Serial Number?

texts:
My apartment was broken into yesterday and my Mac (Mavericks) is gone. I'm trying to dig up the serial number for the police, but I'm having zero luck. Here's what I've done so far, to no avail:

Checked Find iPhone through my iPhone and iCloud.com (didn't iCloud show the serial number at one time?)
Checked https://supportprofile.apple.com/
Searched my emails for one from Apple from purchase (found an email with an almost 3 year old Order Number and a Crucial email with some specs)
Searched for the box my Mac came in

Here are some things I still have that may help:

An external drive used for Time Machine
My iPhone used the Mac for iTunes syncing
Programs connected to the Internet, like Dropbox and TeamViewer

The police have been here already and I've contacted my renter's insurance. I have the Mac Locked and on Notify When Found. But I would really love that serial number. Any ideas I haven't thought of or found online?


texts: Would Mac OS X be able to distribute processes to the various cores in an Intel i7 Quad Core processor even if the applications are not multi-threaded?


texts: cannot see photo clearly from ipod touch library locally

texts: I have an ipod touch and ios 9.1. When I started to use an iCloud, all my photos have uploaded to my iCloud account. So when I'm offline I cannot see particular photo clearly, i have to find somewhere wifi for internet connection to download this particular photo from my iCloud account. Is there any setting where i can set all my photos to be fully loaded from iCloud account whenever I want to see any of them. Thanks


texts: Dell E2720HS flickering as external MacBook Pro monitor

texts:
I have an MBP 2012 model. I have Dell E2620HS and connecting it with an HDMI adapter via the Thunderbolt port. It has been flickering as it comes on and off.
I tried reconnecting cable but it didn't help. My OS is mojave 10.14.6
Edit: here is a video of flickering


texts: How do I use say command creatively to prank my coworkers/friends?

texts:
I'm designing a creative / funny prank for OSX via command line. By running in the background, most users would not notice it when she/he first starts using the computer.

Using say command with creepy voice (Deranged) is my best bet. Setting volume to very low during saying the sentences is even more creepy! My problem is, I don't know how to grab current current volume to set it to the same volume after saying.

sascript -e "set Volume 2"
say "Naaame I see you" -v Deranged -r 20
sascript -r "set Volume 0"
sleep 600
sh thisscript.sh

Can I get the current volume and store it in a variable using unix shell scripts?


texts: Fan noise expectations for 2019 27" iMacs

texts:
I have a question concerning fan noise and overheating in 2019 27“ iMacs. I am about to choose one, either the base model or the 9th gen core i5 for more processor power.

From your experience with previous models, does loud fan noise due to overheating also occur for the base models, or is this a problem of the higher end processor choices?

It seems that the thermal design power of the base model currently is 65W, but both for the 9th gen i5 and the i9 it is 95W. Would this mean that the high end i5 is as bad as the i9 in terms of expected fan noise, i.e. similar problems as for earlier i7s should be expected? For the graphics cards, it is currently 120W vs 150W in favor of the base model.


texts: My battery died toward the end of Yosemite installation. Now login screen freezes

texts:
My Yosemite installation was at "less than a minute remaining" for about 5 mins. Then my battery died. When I charged and turned on the power, I got to the Yosemite login screen. When I log in, the password succeeds, then the login screen reappears but the screen freezes.

I've tried it about 20 times now. Same thing happens every time.


texts: Is there any way to move the itunes files (not just the music library) to another folder?

texts:
I'm running iTunes on Windows 10 and I'm trying to move the iTunes folder out of the root of my music folder. I want that folder to have only music.

All I can find is instructions on how to move the 'iTunes Media' folder from "Music\iTunes\iTunes Media" to another spot. I want to move the whole iTunes folder, including .itl and .itdb files.


texts:
I recently switched to MacOS and some aliases in ZSH which were working on a linux system is giving me headaches in MacOS. To be specific, pwd variable inside alias is using the same directory where it was sourced from. I have to resource .zshrc from different directories for zsh to recognise pwd properly.

Here is what I mean. My content in .zshrc is:

alias myls="ls -lrth $(pwd)"

and here are the results:

~ source ~/.zshrc
~ cd ~
~ alias myls
... myls='ls -lrth /Users/myusername'

~ cd ~/Documents
~ alias myls
... myls='ls -lrth /Users/myusername' <--- It should list content for ~/Document
~ source ~/.zshrc
~ alias myls
... myls='ls -lrth /Users/myusername/Documents' <--- Sourcing again fixes it

Can someone tell me why do I have source my .zshrc again and again to be able to use $(pwd) while it works forever in linux in a single source?


texts: How can I increase the font size in the Help system?

texts:
If I open the Help for an application, the size of the font is (for me) quite small. Is there any way to increase the size of the font?
By "Help", I mean the help system/viewer that is presented after pressing ⌘ command? or selecting the help option from the Help menu bar item in many applications. Once the Help system opens a window and text is visible, pressing ⌘ command+ does not have an effect. I could not find any obviously-relevant options in the macOS System Preferences, though I may have missed something.
Update 2020-12-18: I was wrong – I was actually pressing ⌘ command=, not ⌘ command+, and that's why it didn't work. In one of the comments, I explain what led to this.


texts: Trying to install drivers manually without admin pass

texts:
Hi I'm trying to install the drivers for xone on my Mackbook Pro running 10.9.5.
I don't have admin rights and it is in .pkg file form. Help?


texts: How can I listen to a voice memo in background like iPod and open some other note taking app on iPhone 4?

texts: I tried, but my voice memo gets paused. If this isn't possible, is there any way to import voice memos to ipod (kind of workaround)?


texts: How is Lyft iOS app able to detect reinstall?

texts: On iOS 14.4.1, I deleted the Lyft app (long pressed on the app icon and then clicked "Remove App"). I then reinstalled the app, and when I opened it, I was already logged in. My understanding of iOS's privacy model suggests that this should be impossible - all local data should be wiped, and the app shouldn't be able to detect that it was reinstalled (as opposed to installed for the first time). How might Lyft have done this?


texts: Executing cd in a bash function called by subshell causes extraneous output

texts:
Consider the bash function:

func() {
  cd /;
  echo test;
}

Calling it does what you'd expect:

~:>func
test
/:>

But when called from a subshell (eg using backticks or $()) it performs very strangely.

~:>func() { cd /; echo test; }
~:>echo $(func)
test Saving session... ...saving history...truncating history files... ...completed.
~:>

This issue does not appear if cd is not executed in the function:

~:>func() { echo test; }
~:>echo $(func)
test
~:>

This is causing issues with some scripts that rely on certain output behavior, eg CLASSPATH=$(func) where func is complex and requires the use of cd.

What's strange is that this worked fine before. It did not start to happen until recently, but I don't know what would have caused it.

Note: alias cd reports "alias: cd: not found" and which cd returns /usr/bin/cd which is a script that is identical to another Mac which does not have the problem.


texts:
I just got my new macbook pro 16 inch yesterday, upgrading from a 2016 macbook. I am slightly worried at the battery life thus far. This morning for example, I have been browsing the web to check email and read websites- nothing too intensive and no streaming video or anything even approaching that. However, the battery has dropped over 20% in an hour from doing this, with the fans on pretty loud at times. I also had other apps open in the background, including Xcode, but with nothing actively running- xcode was simply open on a project but nothing was built etc.

I have the i9 version, so I expected that the processor will run a bit hotter than my previous laptop. But the battery life seems abnormally bad... Can anyone advise me if this is normal/any quick fixes for it?

This is the output from Activity Monitor:

iCloud is uploading some files right now, but the process 'bird' in particular is taking up a lot of CPU all the time.


texts: MacBook Pro charge cycle counter in battery?

texts: In a MacBook Pro, is the counter for charge cycles in the battery or in the motherboard?   (I'm thinking it should be in the battery, but I've taken apart a MacBook Air, and those batteries don't appear to have any place to put a counter.)


texts:
Today, out of the blue, my iPhone kept poping up a message that said my password was incorrect for my email account. I went to settings and reentered the password (I'm 100% sure this is the correct password). But the message kept popping up.

I tried to go my Apple password and have a link sent by email to change my password. But no email ever arrived. Any suggestions?


texts: What happens if I remove the localhost address from /etc/hosts

texts:
I have looked at the hosts file before but never thought of this. The hosts file overrides the DNS addresses so it can be used to forward sites or to block them.

When looking at the file, the default says this.

# Host Database
#
# localhost is used to configure the loopback interface
# when the system is booting.  Do not change this entry.
##
127.0.0.1       localhost
255.255.255.255 broadcasthost
::1             localhost

What happens if remove or change the localhost configuration file? Would it prevent my Mac from booting. Would I be able to boot into recovery mode and revert the changes or would I have to reinstall the OS? If I had bootcamp would I be able to fix it by booting into Windows?


texts:
My mother's iPhone has collected over 1000 family pictures from the camera, emails and WhatsApp. I am definitely not an Apple guy and I don't know where to even begin.

I'd like to save all the pictures on my computer and delete them off the phone. This will help me backup the pictures + create space on the iPhone.

What is the simplest way to do this without installing iTunes?

I do not have a MacBook or any laptop with Apple operating system on it. I do have an iPad though.


texts: How to re-encrypt a decrypted partition that says "The Core Storage-targetvolume is already encrypted"?

texts:
I encrypted a Lion partition called "Storage" and it worked perfectly. I needed to decrypt it momentarily because I had some issues, but now I want to encrypt the same volume again and it says "The Core Storage-targetvolume is already encrypted".

Other partitions work fine with decrypting and encrypting, just not this one. Perhaps it has something to do with my home-folder being on the "Storage" partition, but it is strange that encrypting worked the first time and now it doesn't anymore after I decrypted it.


texts: “Unable to load photo, an error occurred while loading a higher quality version of this photo” error message in Photos (iOS)

texts:
I’m trying to view a photo on my device but it’s incredibly low quality and has a white information button in the bottom right, which when pressed says:

“Unable to load photo, an error occurred while loading a higher quality version of this photo”

I have plenty of storage left, I’ve tried running the Photos app with low power mode off, restarting my phone etc and nothing helps.
It’s especially frustrating as I’m sure I never set it to ‘optimise storage’ and typically the one photo it’s lost is one of my absolute favourite memories and photos of my wife. Sigh.
Is there anyway I can get this back please? Thank you


texts: Computer crashes on login, greeted with flashing folder icon

texts:
So here's what happened
I was happily using my Macbook as usual, and I closed the lid like I always do when I put it away.
When I came back and wanted to use it again two hours later, I open it up and type in my password. Strangely I'm greeted with the infamous spinning beach ball of death, and after a minute or two of the computer not responding I close the lid again.
I then hear the boot sound, and thinking the computer simply crashed and rebooted I open the lid, only to see the flashing question mark folder.
Doing some research I find that it means the computer can't find the boot drive, so I reboot into Internet recovery mode, and try to select the boot drive... Nothing's there. I then go to Disk Utility to try and see if I can repair the drive. All I find is the base system, to which I don't have write permissions, and as such am not allowed to repair or format.
What do I do? I don't want to lose all the precious work I have on it, and I don't have a time machine for backups.
It's a late 2011 13 inch Macbook pro with 8 gb ram and a 2 tb hard drive
New Information:
The computer boots fine from the hard drive if I connect it via USB, so I suspect it might have something to do with the cable, but I'm not sure.


texts:
I own a vintage "LC II" (a.k.a. "Macintosh Performa 400") with System 7.x installed years ago. Unfortunately I'm not able to log in anymore, because after the initial boot the screensaver fires up and locks the screen with a password.

I would like to know either if:

there are any key combinations or such to "unlock" screensaver/log in?
there are any key combinations to "reset things"?
there is a easy–to–follow guide to create installation floppies to re-install from scratch?


texts:
We are using a software in window environment which provides the following feature to prevent a data leak. This software is protecting a folder which contains a lot of AI and PS file in window enviroment.

This software protect the file in the following way:

Passive encryption when file is saved so the file can't be opened in other computer if the whole harddisk is stolen.
Prevent unauthorized USB access the file is prohibited to copy to any external storage.
Limit the file access only in intranet, if the computer can't connect to intranet the file can't be opened.

In window, the software is based on Minifilter which is a Microsoft Technology

Can someone suggest a similar Data Leak Prevention software for mac OSX?


texts: Can I configure my iPhone to play audio files through ear speaker instead of the bottom speaker?

texts:
My company utilizes a voicemail system which sends audio files as email attachments. These audio files playback via QuickTime in iOS which pushes the audio out via the phone's speaker. Which is great for a Mumford and Sons song, not so great for voicemail. I can hook up headphones for private listening, but when I am without headphones wanted to use the phone's ear speaker instead.

Using an iPhone 5 and iOS 6 is it possible to play audio files played back via QuickTime with the ear speaker? If not via QuickTime is there an app for that?


texts: Mavericks in Mac App Store shows install button without text and won't download

texts: I am trying to upgrade to OS X Mavericks from 10.7.5 but every time I click the install button in the Mac App Store, it looks like nothing is happening and now the button is all greyed out and I can't do anything.


texts: changed Apple ID password on iMac, need to sync with other system passwords?

texts:
I have a very very difficult time remembering passwords. I changed Apple ID password and system required manual entry of other passwords.

Here's my question. How do I sync all system passwords (Apple ID, iCloud, keychain, locked screen, un-lock system preferences) so I only have one password and if I change that password, all the other passwords change automatically?


texts:
I have following problem: I have Boot Camp Windows 7 on my MacBook Pro (OS X 10.10.2). I observed, that I couldn't connect USB flash drives to that Windows system, so I installed all Boot Camp drivers from the Boot Camp Assistant. I copied them to a USB flash drive and installed them on the Windows 7 partition. The problem was, that when I connected a USB flash drive to my Windows 7 partition, it was recognized as Generic USB. I actually couldn't eject it anymore. I read somewhere that this error was caused due to a version of the Intel USB driver i had installed earlier. That's why I deleted the Intel USB driver in the control panel. Now I can't seem to connect USB flash drives at all. I tried to drag the drivers to the Windows 7 partition via VMware, but it didn't work. When I double-click on setup.exe, it won't start.

I have access to following programs or systems: VMware Fusion, Boot Camp Assistant, Windows 7, OS X partition.

How can I install the Intel USB drivers since I can't use an USB on my MacBook?


texts: Windows on a partition BSOD's within a minute of startup after Windows Update

texts:
iMac, 27 inch, mid 2011, 3.1 GHz Quad Core i5, AMD Radeon HD 6970M

BSOD error message: SYSTEM_THREAD_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED (igdkmd64.sys)

From what I've read elsewhere this seems to be an issue with the Intel Integrated Graphics Driver (Intel HD 4000) But disabling the driver still causes the bug because igdkmd64.sys is still present. At one point I had deleted igdkmd64.sys and disabled the driver which stopped crashing but videos wouldn't play either. The two might or might not be related.

Has anyone else had this problem and found a solution to it?


texts: I cloned a Windows 10 laptop to an external SSD running on a pre-UEFI MacBook Air 2012

texts:
I have no audio on my MacBook Air under Windows 10. Also some other problems typical for pre-UEFI MacBooks. I'm going to try to fix through DSDT (whatever that is) following this tutorial.
...or using a script called valor somebody made on an Apple forum
But, they work through DSDT, and I took a file from my macOS, but I have no bootcamp partition. I just plug in my external SSD and boot. I don't understand the connection my windows will see with this file.
edit: here is link to the valor script thing, don't really know what the heck the guy concocted
http://www.howeitworks.com/valor


texts: Parallels doesn't recognize Windows 8 Bootcamp

texts:
I just upgraded my OSX to 10.8.3 and installed Windows 8 via Bootcamp.
For some reasons Parallels (8.0.18354) doesn't recognize this Bootcamp partition. It doesn't show up in the Parallels Wizard used to create a new virtual machine.

What can I do about this?


texts: How to disable the Trackpad zoom in Chrome or TextEdit

texts:
In Chrome or Textedit I always accidently end up zooming with the build-in trackpad on MBA with Mountain Lion. How do I disable the trackpad function for zooming in application specific.

Looking into the com.apple.driver.AppleBluetoothMultitouch.trackpad.plist it is not clear what function is it and how do I disable it in Terminal.

From the example:

defaults write com.google.Chrome.plist AppleEnableSwipeNavigateWithScrolls -bool FALSE

I was thinking of doing the:

defaults write com.google.Chrome.plist AppleEnableZoomWithTrackpad -bool FALSE

But I do not know the actual entry name for it.


texts:
I have English and emoji keyboards enabled.

In iMessage, I can just type "serbia" and I get the emoji for the Serbian flag.  However, in Signal, when I type Serbia, I just get Serbia and Serbian as suggestions.  I have another friend using the Signal app on iOS who does get emoji recommendations from his keyboard, so I have seen that it is possible, but all my recommended auto-replacements are textual.  I don't understand why this is different on my iPhone X and his iPhone 7.

It's very annoying to have to scroll through all the emojis and pick one rather than just type a word and get it.

What is happening and how do I fix it?


texts: Tag the currently open file (not via Finder)

texts:
Is it possible (either natively or with a 3rd party app) to tag a file that is currently open and focused without depending on that app to support tags?

I want to be able to easily and quickly add tags to a file I am editing with my text editor. This editor doesn't support adding tags itself. I also don't want to have to find the file in Finder and add tags there.

I was wondering was this possible, maybe via something like Alfred?


texts: AppleScript at Startup and specific time

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I'm trying to run a startup AppleScript, and a AppleScript which run at a set time (I hate the automator / calendar approach)

on idle

    set currentTime to current date
    if the weekday of currentTime is (need to do for Tuesday to Saturday) then
        do shell script "kextunload /System/Library/Extensions/AppleHDA.kext " password "..." with administrator privileges

    end if

    --only check once a day
    return 24 * 60 * 60
end idle

the only issue with this approach is the script it's running all the time, using memory and also I'm not sure how to calculate the correct time yet. (24.60.60 is every 00:00 right?) I would like to run it at 05 AM

if I understand it right, adding the script.scpt to /Library/LaunchDaemons will make the script run all the time even if the user is logged out, or logging with the screensaver on right?

I read about a another approach with seems even better, basically using a Plist to launch a script at a set time.

PS : would all this work if the disk is encrypted ? and can I use AppleScript to log an user at boot with the screen off (or discreetly)so I can start open some apps without have security issues.

Can I have your help and advises about which approach is the best one?
Many thanks in advance.


texts: macOS "Verifying Microsoft [Excel/Word/Powerpoint].app" over and over again

texts:
Here's the problem I'm having with Microsoft Office apps:

I see this dialog several times a month when I launch Microsoft Word/Excel/Powerpoint.
Very frequently, the verification process hangs, and I need to force-quit.
Even when it succeeds, it often takes several minutes or more.
Worse yet, even after it succeeds, it's often only a matter of a few days or weeks before macOS seems to need to reverify the app again. (I.e., if the Mac is "whitelisting" the app once it successfully verifies it - that whitelist only lasts for a few days or weeks).
Needless to say, this is extremely annoying.
I appreciate that MacOs is trying to keep my computer safe from malicious viruses and programs. However, is there a way to ensure that, once whitelisted, a program can remain whitelisted?
In case it's relevant, I'm running macOS Big Sur (v. 11.2.3), and v. 16.49 of the Microsoft Office for Mac apps.


texts:
For privacy purposes I use different email accounts for different tiers of services and correspondence, including social media. My Apple ID address is NEVER used or given out and I use alias’es for my iCloud email correspondence.
I know that Facebook links profiles among their different services, in many cases through the phone number, so they basically know that it is the same person in Facebook/Instagram than the one on Whatsapp.
My question is:
Does Whatsapp have access to my Apple ID address? Or is the address not shared on iOS, although Whatsapp may use the account to do the iCloud Backups? I’m askimg because by no means I want to be a linkage between my social media email accounts (or any other address) to my Apple ID address.
Also, when an app tries to use Apple ID to create an account on iOS, you always have the option to “Hide email address” from the app. Hopefully thats the case for Whatsapp (but what about the iCloud backups?)
Thank you


texts:
The HDMI port on my MacBook Pro doesn't seem to be functioning normally.

When I plug it into the TV, the screen temporarily turns black as if it is connecting to the TV, the mirror connection even comes up and I can see the other display (My Tv) and change the settings.

However, on my TV it shows a No Signal message. What is the reason for this? When I hook my Xbox 360 up via the same port, it works flawlessly on the TV. This leads me to believe the is a problem with my laptop. It was just working a couple of days ago, and detects the external device just fine. What is the reason for the No Signal/black screen issue?


texts: jDownloader-like command line tool or lightweight GUI App?

texts:
I use jDownloader which works great, but takes a lot of time to load and surprisingly takes a lot of time also to start and stop downloads.

I'd like to have a similar functionality* but with a command line tool or a really light-weight GUI App. (but command line preferred)

* It mainly processes pages and links to known download sites and gets linked files and manages its downloads.


texts: mount "nolocks" option ignored on Mavericks 10.9.1?

texts:
I'm not 100% sure if this is just my misinterpretation of the mount output, or if this is actually an issue.  I'm mounting an nfs share with the following command:

mount -t nfs -o nolocks,noowners 10.0.0.1:/vol/shared ~/shared

But when I look at the output of mount I see the following:

10.0.0.1:/vol/shared on /Users/ryan/shared (nfs, nodev, nosuid, noowners, mounted by ryan)

Why isn't nolocks listed in the options?  The reason I need this option enabled is that the server I'm connecting to doesn't have locking enabled, and when I try and use the share I experience extremely slow performance as a result (at least this is the most likely reason).  I'm fairly sure that it isn't mounting the share with locking disabled, because I'm still experiencing the same issue.


texts: How to close all Finder inspector windows?

texts:
In Finder, I had a ton of files selected, and I ran Get Info instead of Show Inspector. This opens an info window for each file, instead of a single multiple info window.

How can I close every info window without restarting Finder ?


texts:
my MBP's keyboard has mostly stopped working.  esc to f12, tab, backspace, all arrow, meta(⌘ ⌥ ⌃), and shift work, noting else.  Caps lock won't even light.

Up until the word caps lock I was using the virtual keyboard.  It seems to come and go.  Any thoughts on why most of the keys don't work but not usually needed keys do?

It started with the E-O keys a few days ago and now its all character, number, and space keys.  Some how I feel its not a hardware problem...


texts: I want to update my iPhone 5s from iOS 9 to iOS 10, not iOS 11. Is it possible?

texts: My iphone currently runs on ios 9.2. I want to update it to ios 10 so that I can use an app I need for school. I dont want to update to ios 11 yet though. Is it possible to update to an earlier version of ios or do i just have to update to ios 11? Thank you!


texts: What bitness is Mountain Lion kernel, because `uname -p` returns `i386`?

texts:
I know, the answer should be 64, as Apple dropped support even for their early 64 bit models BUT:

Nathan-der-Graue:~ max$ uname -p
i386

while on the other hand:

Could someone please explain this to me?


texts: Automator script to click button on web page generates “The operation couldn’t be completed." error

texts:
The AppleScript below is supposed to click the first element with the magnifier class on a predefined web page.
The script runs successfully if you comment out the JavaScript line, do JavaScript "document.getElementsByClassName('magnifier')[0].click();"
From the Chrome console, this line of JavaScript executes successfully.
But if you include the JavaScript line, the following error occurs:

The action “Run AppleScript” encountered an error: “The operation
couldn’t be completed. (com.apple.Automator error -212.)”

Anyone have any ideas what the problem could be?
on run {input, parameters}

    set searchString to input as text

    set AppleScript's text item delimiters to space
    set searchString to text items of searchString
    set AppleScript's text item delimiters to ""
    set searchString to searchString as text

    tell application "Google Chrome"
        tell front window
            set curTabIndex to active tab index
            set URL of (make new tab) to ¬
                "https://www.yellowbridge.com/chinese/dictionary.php?searchMode=C&word=" & ¬
                searchString
            set active tab index to curTabIndex

            delay 2.0

            do JavaScript "document.getElementsByClassName('magnifier')[0].click();"
        end tell
    end tell

end run


texts: iMac 2009 HDD failed so I installed a new SSD. I have a TM backup on an external drive, but now I can't figure out how to get the system up and running. I tried cmdR to bring up the recovery mode but I get alternating Apple logo and round circle with a diagonal line through it.


texts: Choppy Fullscreen Flash or HTML5 video playback in Chrome on Mac Pro

texts:
Does anyone know how I can solve this annoying issue of fullscreen video in Chrome displaying very choppy and jumpy?  It's unwatchable.  I've had the problem in Chrome ever since I got this 2014 Mac Pro.  It's not the Chrome pepper flash plugin because I've disabled that and it's no different, and besides - it behaves the same with YouTube's HTML5 video player.

I've tried disabling all plugins, disabling all extensions, and it still is the same.

Apple won't help as fullscreen video works beautifully in Safari - even 4K Youtube video.  The problem exists with Youtube, Vimeo, etc.  I have noticed that some news websites videos play fine when fullscreen if the transition to go fullscreen doesn't make the screen blink - like it's trying to change the resolution (like is the case when youtube/vimeo videos go fullscreen, there is a slight blink and delay when going to fullscreen mode). If I try going fullscreen with Facebook videos - the sound plays but the image is black.

Please help - I have no idea what to do. The behaviour is the same in Mavericks and Yosemite.


texts: How to make `sudo su` run startup scripts?

texts:
Supposedly the bin/sh shell that is the default root shell is not strictly a "bash" shell, but is a POSIX compliant equivalent.  According to this site, when you invoke the shell executable of a "POSIX compliant" shell, it runs any of the "profile files" listed here:

$HOME/.bash_profile
$HOME/.bash_login
$HOME/profile.ksh       ($HOME/.profile on UNIX systems)
$HOME/.profile

I've tried putting them all in /var/root and none of them execute when I run sudo su from my terminal.

Running sudo bash works, by the way.  But why doesn't sudo su?


texts:
I find myself bookmarking webpages on my MacBook often, with the intent of reading them later. The problem is that my bookmarks end up in the bookmarks bar and then are lost as new ones are bookmarked.

I'm looking for a tool to help me organize my bookmarks so that I can write a note along with the bookmark, and perhaps store a screenshot of the page, or even the text offline.

What are my options for a MacBook running Snow Leopard?


texts:
I've used The Unarchiver for this purpose, but it doesn't support extracting encrypted 7zip files. Can anyone suggest any other freeware for this?

BTW I'm using Mac OS X Leopard 10.5.8


texts: Why did iOS 11.0.1 delete a year worth of photos?

texts:
I was really enjoying the smooth UI improvements in iOS 11.0.1, until I realized something: after the update, all my photos from October 2016 to the present are gone.

Today I tried the 11.0.2 update, optimistic after reading a note that it fixes a problem where "some" photos may be "hidden" (haha on both counts--good joke, Apple!), but this did nothing--all these photos are deleted from my phone.

I did backup the phone a couple of months ago, which I try to do fairly regularly, and thus have most of the photos on my laptop, but still lost 2 months' worth of pics.

I can't imagine why Apple would allow an update like this into the wild. Do they not test for this scenario? Behind completely bricking someone's device, this has to be up there as one of the top things not to do when delivering a software upgrade.

Looking at free space on the device, it's about ~5.5GB now, whereas before it couldn't have been more than 1-2GB.

That space had to have been my photos, so it would seem like they're simply gone.

Does anybody know if there's some trick setting or solution I need to use here?


texts: Stuck on finishing import (from external hard drive to computer hard drive)

texts: I started the process of importing my iPhoto library from an external hard drive to my Mac with a newly replaced hard drive.  I have roughly 180,000 photos and it looked like it was uploading all day.  Now it seems to be stuck on "finishing import".  Do I just wait?  Is this a lengthily process, too, or is it really just stuck?


texts: OS X Yosemite multiple desktops with different files

texts: Is there a way to have a second desktop which you can put individual folders and files on it, so that the first desktop is clear without any files?


texts: External monitor not recognised- MacBookAir

texts: I have the same problem with my new MacBook Air (May 2013) as others have stated with MacBook Pro. All was good until I played around with the resolution. Now the second monitor is not seen at all in the System setting; the monitor's power light is on (The monitor is not faulty as I plugged it into my Windows netbook) MacBook Air, monitor connected using VGA adaptor. I have unplugged everything, re-booted, and spoken to it nicely (and harshly). HELP as I have been using two monitors since 1994 and am lost without both. Thanks in advance for any assistance you can offer.


texts:
I done a mistake playing with bootcamp.
I create a small Windows partition 72GB, with bootcamp. But I realized that was too small, so I decided to deleted it with Disk Utility (I know.. WRONG choice).
So I create a new windows partition (with bootcamp too) larger approx.200GB, to try to delete the first one. After that I used bootcamp to delete windows partition. But that deleted just the last one (the big one).
So I tried this How to remove a container disk and reclaim space with main partition?
To delete the two partitions.
I done some stupid thinks because now I have 472GB unusable.
Is Anyone now how to transform this "freespace" to merge it to my Machkintosh HD main partition.
For formation I have and iMac 2014 with fusion drive.
Thanks a lot

NB : I done it in recovery mode without success.
Update 1
Hello and thanks David for thoses precises explainations.
I do what you ask :

I create the new MyBackup partition
After I a create a bootable usb flash drive and start a terminal on it
I have an error during the repair volume command as you predict

So i do : diskutil apfs deletecontainer disk1s2 Dummy
But I'm not sure to have what you explain. I haven't disk0s2
So I prefered to post you the diskutil list to be sure what I have to do next.

Thanks again !


texts: Gatekeeper passing strange arguments on first launch after download?

texts:
I maintain a macOS application. Some users (but not all) report an issue (I suspect, those running Catalina), where the first time the app is launched, it crashes. All future launches work okay.

I've managed to reproduce this, and it's crashing in the argument parsing code. My suspicion is that Gatekeeper is passing some unusual argument on the first launch (the one where it shows the 'this is an application downloaded from foo.com' dialog).

The argument-parsing code is pretty robust : it already rejects bogus arguments, so there must be something very unusual being passed. The problem is my local builds don't show the problem, and I don't know to reset the quarantine flag to trigger the fault again.
 (Also of course the crashes are in release builds, so the crash trace doesn't give me an exact location)

If I could trigger the quarantine warning artificially, by marking a local debug build as 'newly downloaded', I suspect this would be trivial to debug.


texts: What's causing my MacBook to freeze and reset keyboard settings when I bring it back from a long sleep?

texts:
The problem:

I recently got a 2018 15-inch MacBook Pro running MacOS 10.14.2 (Mojave).  I'm running into a really long freeze when I bring it out of a long sleep (e.g. by opening the lid after keeping it in a bag overnight).  Here are the symptoms:

The computer will wake up and display the login screen.  However, the password textbox is grayed out and does not say "enter password" and the menu bar widgets (such as battery, wifi, and the clock) are not displayed.
Keyboard and trackpad are initially unresponsive for several minutes.
Usually, the touchbar is on and the fn key can change the mode, but none of the softkeys have any effect.  Though, a few times the fn key has had no effect changing the touchbar mode during some part of the freeze.
Eventually the colorful spinning beachball cursor will appear, but the computer remains unresponsive.  The beach ball will usually start frozen and not spinning, but start spinning a few minutes later.
After 5-10 total minutes of waiting, the computer becomes responsive, password textbox becomes active, menu bar widgets are shown, and I can finally unlock it.
Some of the time, the keyboard modifier keys get remapped to the defaults (I swap control and command because I also use Windows).
Once during a freeze, the system crashed and rebooted.  The crash report listed the OS as Bridge OS 3.3 (16P3133) and the panic message was userspace panic: remoted connection watchdog expired, no updates from  remoted monitoring thread in 75 seconds.

What I've tried:

Rebooting
Resetting the SMC (using both methods in the comment below)
Repeatedly hitting keys in frustration during the freezes
Resetting the PRAM
Reinstalling the OS (in a way that kept all my data and apps)
Reinstalling JAMF (apparently a newer version that's supposed to have fewer issues with Sierra)
Wiping the disk and reinstalling the OS
Getting the logic board and "touch id board" replaced at the Apple store under warranty, and reinstalled from a Time Machine backup.  However, some people in this thread said their Bridge OS crashing issues were only resolved after several replacements.

None of these things have helped with the freezing problem.

System Information:

OS:

Mac OS Mojave 10.14.2 (and 10.14.3 and 10.14.5)

Hardware:

Model: MacBook Pro (15-inch, 2018, MacBookPro15,1)
Graphics: Intel UHD Graphics 630 1536 MB, as well as an AMD Radeon Pro 560X 4096MB that seems to be rarely active
Memory: 16 GB

Major Peripherals:

Kensington SD5200T Thunderbolt 3 Docking Station (archive link), connected via Thunderbolt 3
Apple wireless keyboard and trackpad, which are configured but off since I haven't switched over to using this Mac
Powered USB hub attached to the dock, with a Time Machine disk attached.

Other major software:

Parallels Desktop 14 for Mac Business Edition 14.1.0 (45387)
Jamf
Docker Desktop 2.0.0.2 (30215)
Office 2016/Office 365
FileVault encryption enabled (via Jamf policy)
Trend Micro Security 3.0.3044 (via Jamf policy)
Time Machine backup configured, using a HD connected to the docking station.


texts: Open a note or display dialog with application

texts:
I work with a colleague editing videos and I wish to trigger a dialog or a note document whenever he opens Final Cut, so I can leave messages for him to do the job. The machine has to stay always on, so I can't use any startup  method.

It's the same workstation same user account, we share the room in different shifts.

El Capitan 10.11.6 - FinalCut Pro 7 -- He enters after 18pm

Any advice on how to display a message when opening an application?


texts: Why USB stick formatted with exFAT on Windows is not mounting on Mac OS High Sierra?

texts:
I got a 64GB USB Stick formatted as exFAT from Windows containing a lot of files. The stick mounts without any problems on a Windows 10 system. My MacBook Pro running MacOS 10.13.2 cannot mount it. Instead the disk utility tells me it contains kind of Mac OS extended file system (German, sorry) but unable to mount (also information looks strange):

Or from command line:

bb-8:~ arne$ diskutil list
/dev/disk2 (external, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *62.9 GB    disk2
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk2s1
   2:                  Apple_HFS                         62.6 GB    disk2s2

Running fdisk tells:

bb-8:~ arne$ sudo fdisk /dev/disk2
Disk: /dev/disk2    geometry: 7651/255/63 [122915328 sectors]
Signature: 0xAA55
         Starting       Ending
 #: id  cyl  hd sec -  cyl  hd sec [     start -       size]
------------------------------------------------------------------------
 1: EE 1023 254  63 - 1023 254  63 [         1 -  122915327] <Unknown ID>
 2: 00    0   0   0 -    0   0   0 [         0 -          0] unused
 3: 00    0   0   0 -    0   0   0 [         0 -          0] unused
 4: 00    0   0   0 -    0   0   0 [         0 -          0] unused
bb-8:~ arne$ sudo fdisk /dev/disk2s1
Disk: /dev/disk2s1  geometry: 812/8/63 [409600 sectors]
Signature: 0xAA55
         Starting       Ending
 #: id  cyl  hd sec -  cyl  hd sec [     start -       size]
------------------------------------------------------------------------
 1: 00    0   0   0 -    0   0   0 [         0 -          0] unused
 2: 00    0   0   0 -    0   0   0 [         0 -          0] unused
 3: 00    0   0   0 -    0   0   0 [         0 -          0] unused
 4: 00    0   0   0 -    0   0   0 [         0 -          0] unused
bb-8:~ arne$ sudo fdisk /dev/disk2s2
Disk: /dev/disk2s2  geometry: 7609/255/63 [122243504 sectors]
Signature: 0xAA55
         Starting       Ending
 #: id  cyl  hd sec -  cyl  hd sec [     start -       size]
------------------------------------------------------------------------
 1: FF 1023 255  63 - 1023 255  63 [4294967295 - 4294967295] Xenix BBT
 2: FF 1023 255  63 - 1023 255  63 [4294967295 - 4294967295] Xenix BBT
 3: FF 1023 255  63 - 1023 255  63 [4294967295 - 4294967295] Xenix BBT
 4: FF 1023 255  63 - 1023 255  63 [4294967295 - 2474929407] Xenix BBT
bb-8:~ arne$

I have no idea why the volume is not mounting correctly. Any idea what to do without reformatting and loosing the data on the stick? Is there any option to manually mount the filesystem as exFAT using command line?


texts: How do I delete a file with a NULL byte in the filename?

texts: I made a file by accident with a filename of (NUL).xml, except instead of (NUL), it's literally '\0'. None of the methods I've tried have worked to actually delete it. Is there a way I can delete the file by an alternative reference?


texts: Planning to downgrade a brand new macmini to 10.6. How do I recover to mavericks if things go wrong?

texts: I have a brand new macmini. It comes with mavericks and I haven't booted the machine yet. I know for certain that I will erase mavericks and install 10.6. However, if things go wrong, I would like to be able to reinstall mavericks. and restore the situation as it was as out of the shop. What do I have to do in order to achieve this ?


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I have an RSS source link: https://www.zhihu.com/rss
and I want to have a look at its data, so I type the link in the browser (Safari), but I get the error below:

  No RSS reader is installed.

  Safari can't open "feed:https://www.zhihu.com/rss" because Safari can't display RSS feeds. You can search the Mac App Store for an RSS app.

How can I have a look at its feed data? I know the data is in an XML-like format, but I don't know how to take a look at it.


texts: Why can't websites access JRE in Yosemite?

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Please see the attached image which shows an error/information message I am seeing regularly since upgrading to Yosemite. I don't know which website is asking for Java, as there is a different site showing in Safari each time I see it, but I do know that I am using the latest version of JRE so it's not clear why this message is being shown.

Can someone please advise me the best way to check what process is generating this, and how I can fix it?


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I have an Ubuntu PC (IP: 132.195.2.2) set up which should be connecting through a switch to my iMac (IP: 132.195.2.1) in order to gain internet access. The iMac has "share internet connection" turned on. I've added the iMac's IP in the gateway, DNS and search domain field in the configuration for the eth0 on the Ubuntu PC. I also added the iMac's IP as proxy for all services. They can ping each other PC/Mac, but the only thing my Ubuntu PC gets when calling any URL is my addressbook server web admin page.

Any idea what I've done wrong or how to set this up the right way?


texts: Unable to link FaceBook account to High Sierra

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I'm using a late 2009 MacBook (A1342) running a clean install of High Sierra.

When I add my FaceBook account in system preferences, it seems to be successful but macOS continues to prompt me for the password even though it is correct. Upon visiting the FaceBook website, I see notifications for signins to verify. Each time, I confirm "this was me" and to add that sign in to the list of trusted signins. However, I continue to receive that same notification with each signin attempt.

Does anyone know how to fix this?


texts: How do I make iClip Lite work in newer versions of Mac OS X?

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iClip Lite is a Clipboard Manager dashboard widget, which won an Apple Design Award back in 2006. It's pretty great.

Unfortunately, the widget appears to have broken all the way back in Snow Leopard†. You can still save and retrieve clipboard items, but the preview of all those items is invisible. Without a way to see what was saved, the widget is pretty useless.

Can this be fixed?

† If not earlier—Snow Leopard is just the earliest version of OS X I have access to.


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Everybody uses the general OS X clipboard, which can programmatically accessed with pbcopy -general and pbpaste -general.
However I noticed that the manpage of pbcopy and pbpaste also mention:

-find pasteboard
-font pasteboard
-ruler pasteboard

Which all seem to function. But how can they be accessed outside of the terminal? And if not, why do they have these descriptive names?

I also noticed that there is yet another clipboard in OS X. Go to the start of a line of text and press ctrl + K.
Now go somewhere else and press ctrl + Y. You just yanked some text from a clipboard which is none of the above, as they are all still intact. What's up with that?


texts: Image in email attachment is not saving to the Photos app

texts: I'm trying to save some images from an email attachment in the Mail app. There are five images, but for some reason, only three have been saved in the Photos app. I have tried long-pressing the images and tapping "Save Image" and "Save 5 Images". All five images are jpg files. Nothing so far has worked. What is the problem here and how can I fix it?


texts: How much disk space do the "command line developer tools" take up?

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When I run git --version in the Terminal, I get prompted to install the "command line developer tools":

What exactly do I get from these "command line developer tools", and how much disk space will the installation use up? I don't want to drag along a whole bunch of useless programs just because I want to use a single command.
(Assume that I do not want to use Homebrew, for whatever reason. The question is asking about the disk space used up by an installation of Apple's "command line developer tools").