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The APFS drive I'm writing this text from cannot be located by macOS High Sierra. Everything that needs it misses whatever link is necessary to get to it. I can boot, I can use it, I cannot "find" it.

Finder shows it mounted and works fine with it.

What exactly is this error? How do I fix this?
diskutil list (it's /dev/disk1, and I've connected another drive since the images above)
/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *2.0 TB     disk0
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s1
   2:                 Apple_APFS Container disk1         1.9 TB     disk0s2
   3:         Microsoft Reserved                         16.8 MB    disk0s3
   4:       Microsoft Basic Data                         100.0 GB   disk0s4

/dev/disk1 (synthesized):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      APFS Container Scheme -                      +1.9 TB     disk1
                                 Physical Store disk0s2
   1:                APFS Volume                         1.6 TB     disk1s1
   2:                APFS Volume                         20.2 MB    disk1s2
   3:                APFS Volume                         515.1 MB   disk1s3
   4:                APFS Volume                         8.6 GB     disk1s4

/dev/disk2 (internal, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *4.0 TB     disk2
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk2s1
   2:       Microsoft Basic Data Media                   4.0 TB     disk2s2

/dev/disk3 (internal, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *8.0 TB     disk3
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk3s1
   2:                  Apple_HFS Media-1                 6.0 TB     disk3s2
   3:       Microsoft Basic Data Media-2                 2.0 TB     disk3s3

mount
/dev/disk1s1 on / (apfs, local, journaled)
devfs on /dev (devfs, local, nobrowse)
/dev/disk1s4 on /private/var/vm (apfs, local, noexec, journaled, noatime, nobrowse)
map -hosts on /net (autofs, nosuid, automounted, nobrowse)
map auto_home on /home (autofs, automounted, nobrowse)


texts: How fix broken Macports installation after manual deletion of app?

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I had GIMP installed via sudo port install gimp. This created the GIMP.app in /Applications/MacPorts/. I accidentally deleted it manually (or with AppCleaner, not sure), so every time Macports scans installed binaries, it warns

Warning: Error parsing file /Applications/MacPorts/GIMP.app/Contents/MacOS/GIMP: Error opening or reading file

This is also what happens when I try to install again. I uninstalled and cleaned the port, but installing again does not work; the .app is not created and the above warning shows. How do I fix it?


texts: I've been looking around for a few weeks now and still dont see any Thunderbolt adapters, like a SATA/eSATA adapter or anything similar, is it still too soon ? i just havent seen anything on Newegg or anywhere else.


texts:
After upgrading to Big Sur from Catalina, I remarked my fan was running continuously. Opening Activity Monitor I remarked that "com.apple.SpeechRecognitionCore.speechrecognitiond" was chewing through CPU at 37.3%.
Looking a likely candidate, and just being a bit anal about having a microphone in an always-on state, I wanted to knock that nonsense on the head.
There was a microphone graphic on my screen which presented the option to "Sleep" which when clicked then presented the option to toggle the mic to "Wake Up". Clicking this did nothing: Speech Recognition nonetheless kept the fan humming and chomping through CPU cycles.

After toggling every application's access to the microphone to deny access, "com.apple.SpeechRecognitionCore.speechrecognitiond" was still happily chomping through CPU.
Where is a setting to toggle the microphone off at OS level in Big Sur?!?!?!


texts: Not able to access data/partition on HDD after removing it from iMac

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hope I'm right here. I'm quite lost as of now.

tl;dr

Can't properly access data from an 3 TB HDD I removed from my dead iMac and hooked up via USB (2.0) to the new one.

Recovery software tells me, I can save about 1 TB weirdly named files.
Other software tells me, 2.2 TB are empty or unformatted.

EDIT As I think of it, the empty/unformatted 2.2 TB are the exact size of my Google Drive DFS partition. So, I don't care about that anymore. But I would love to access the other 800 - 1.000 GB, which is currently not possible.

Detailed version:

My iMac died a few days ago. No more booting possible. So I removed the SSD and HDD, hooked the 3 TB HDD into (several different to be exactly) external USB cases but it's just not accessible anymore. Disk Utility tells me, the size is about 800 GB. Several other Apps (Disk Drill, Paragon Recovery and some others) tell me, there is another 2.2 GB partition but it's empty or unformatted.

I ran a deep scan with Disk Drill and there are about 1 TB on data I can recover. But it's a crazy mess without proper file names.

The most important data was synced with Google Drive via Google DFS, wich could explain the crazy mess of files, found in Disk Drill. The problem is, the iMac died 4 weeks after the last proper Time Machine Backup. Why, I don't know. So I would very much love to retrieve some data I downloaded in this timeframe, and if possible, some 320 carefully collected movies in MKV format. Disk Drill found all of them, but gave them extra funny names and serves it as .webm format. I randomly clicked on one file and found an episode of GoT.

So that seems like first world problems and I can live with the fact, that my movie collection is gone for good. But I have a feeling in my gut, that I forgot something important in some other folder where I dump files to sort them "later". Well.

So, any help in accessing the HDD in a normal way would be great. I tried Windows too.

EDIT As I think of it, the empty/unformatted 2.2 TB are the exact size of my Google Drive DFS partition. So, I don't care about that anymore. But I would love to access the other 800 - 1.000 GB, which is currently not possible.

Thank you all a million!

EDIT: formatting


texts: Do I need to buy Growl in order to use the iterm2 growl feature?

texts: Seems the notification is not working, or do I need to buy the Growl from App Store in order to use it?


texts: Help! I want to remove Windows EFI Boot Entry, but can’t

texts:
I have used the following codes in terminal:

And here is what’s inside the volume:

Couldn’t find Microsoft and here are the partitions in disk utility:

I honestly don’t know what to do next... Thank you so much in advance.

Update 1

Done as u asked sir.

I don’t know much about these complicated stuff btw, i need u to tell me what to do, i just want to be able to install windows again on my macbook.


texts: Generation 1 AirPods only playing audio while inside charging case

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I lost my AirPods (generation 1) charging case 6 months back, so I now have the new wireless charging case.

I keep my AirPods inside the new charging case but now have a problem - if I take the AirPods out of the charging case, the sound of the music I'm playing on my iPhone doesn't come through. If I put the AirPods back in the charging case, the sound then starts coming through again.

Can someone advise how I might approach trying to fix this issue?


texts: How to run secondary Skype after recent Microsoft update?

texts:
After an update from Microsoft, /secondary Skype stopped working as mentioned in How can I run multiple Skype accounts in one computer?. I think they willfully want only one Skype should be working on a desktop.

The only one way I've found to run multiple Skype instances now is to just install the old classic Skype.

Is there any way to do it for new Skype?


texts: Is the white MacBook suitable for software development?

texts: I'd like to know if you think the white MacBook (2.26ghz, 2gig ram) is sufficient for software development (using Xcode, Interface Builder etc...)


texts: Can enterprise App Read its MDM Configuration file?

texts:
I have the following situation -

There is a school which distribute number of iPads to students, which deploy in-house app for student.
Basically the app will display the PDFs, Images and Videos form remote server.

Now the challenge is that, Class 1 student needs to fetch PDfs, Images and Videos form one link
where as Class 2 student needs to fetch PDfs, Images and Videos form another link.
Class 1 and Class 2 devices are managed via MDM server in corresponding Groups.

Now the app need to know which device group, the current device is enrolled into.
As we know the device Groups info is set via MDM server.

So the question is - is there anyways enterprise app can get information from MDM server about the device group it is enrolled in, so that it can change its app feature as per device group ?

Is there way to read the device configuration file via app ?


texts: Unzipping an archive, the folder icon appears under the archive

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I double-click the .zip, and the resultant folder shows up here:

Annoying, but eh. Is there any way to fix this? Similarly, anything downloaded to the folder shows up in the top left, piling on top of anything else that might be there. This ends up in a giant stack of mess that's annoying and cluttered. How do I fix such problems?


texts:
I have to solve following problem.

  iPhone 5 of which the OS has not been updated recently because of too less free space.

  Under Usage, it said that there was 0MB of free space. Suddenly, it shut down automatically. After pressing the on/off button, it will show the black screen with white Apple logo and stay there.

  Letting the battery become empty, recharging it and pressing the on/off button again (or on/off button and button below screen simultaneously) does not help.
  Nor connecting to a computer with iPhoto to remove data in order to add free memory: the iPhone does not show up in iPhoto.
  It is possible to connect to iTunes in recovery mode, but it makes no sense to install the latest OS in factory settings, since the iPhone was not updated using iTunes recently and might have insufficient space to install the most recent OS.

Is there anything I can try other than contacting an Apple store?


texts:
Whenever my Mac goes to sleep when its on battery, it straight away saves its contents to the hard drive and powers off, going into a deep sleep.

This gets really annoying when I walk away for 10 minutes to make a coffee for example and come back to have to wait up to a minute (depending on what I'm running) for the laptop to wake up. This only happens when its on battery though.

I have tried an SMC and cleared the PRAM/NVRAM but it hasn't seemed to work.

Admittedly the other day I was using a terminal command to disable hibernation when plugged into a power supply and must have mucked it up then. I don't seem to remember the command that I used and therefore can't use it to reverse it.

But yeah would there be a way to stop my laptop from hibernating the second it goes to sleep on battery power?


texts: My MacBook Pro MacOS High Sierra 10.13.5 Beta (17F66a) shuts down very time I close my lap top


texts: I don't understand why I can't save or take photo or video in my iPhone 6. I have 32GB and my photo gallery is empty. I did not install anything for example games and other app. When I record a video, appears a notice "full memory". I have just restart my iPhone 6 but it remains like before.


texts:
I download a ".ibooks" file for this free book and tried adding it to my iPhone library but it doesn't show up. Manually dragging it over doesn't work either.

Is it because .ibooks isn't supported by iPhone?


texts: How to turn off "terminal would like to administer your computer" message?

texts: I keep getting a warning message that terminal would like to administer my computer whenever I run standard commands, such as editing crontab in Vim. This never used to happen on my old Macbook. How do I turn off this feature?


texts: Experiencing audio issues with wireless CarPlay and iOS 13.2.3

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Used to have CarPlay connected via USB in my old car, but the new one is fitted with Wifi connection. Ever since I upgraded to the latest version of iOS I have an issue where the audio skips half a second every now and then (Random intervals between 10 and 20 seconds). It worked fine before upgrading to the latest version of iOS in the new car as well.

Has anyone else experienced this (yet), and possibly found a solution?
Car make is Volkswagen, but not sure this is valuable.


texts: Can the Date Created metadata be changed after the fact on OS X?

texts: I have a movie file. It was taken back in October but the date created is from last week. How can I change the date created information in the file?


texts: Why are my photos not restored completely from a computer backup?

texts: I downgraded my Iphone and after downgrading, I restored my backup downloaded in the Mac but not all of my photos are restored. I dont want to download my pictures from Icloud because it will not be chronologically arranged. I hope someone will help


texts: How to disable the Guest account in macOS Mojave using `dscl`?

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I've attempted to disable the Guest account using dscl as follows:

sudo dscl . -append /Users/Guest AuthenticationAuthority ";DisabledUser;"

However, it doesn't seem to work, why?

I know, I can disable the Guest account from the GUI, but I like to use the CLI.


texts:
Is it normal to have all this stuff in my path environment?

  /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.4/bin:/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.4/bin:/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.4/bin:/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.4/bin:/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.4/bin:/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.4/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/texbin

It seems I have included the same path many times. I have installed and uninstalled Python 3.4 and Python 3.4.1 a few times because I am still having problems in making the IDLE work correctly due to Tcl/Tk libraries compatibility and stability problems with Mac OS X. Is this maybe the reason of having apparently the same path repeated?


texts: How to prevent filename overlapping on an image preview?

texts:
After upgraded to El Capitan, the image in Finder preview are overlapped by the filename, e.g.:

Is there an option to prevent filename overlapping image preview?


texts: I'm using Bedtime incorrectly—but in what way?

texts:
I'm new to iOS and trying to understand how to use Bedtime. Its documentation is sparse to nonexistent, and learning by trial and error is naturally impeded by the 24-hour cycle, so I've come here in the hope that others have already elucidated a more complete understanding of its behavior and intended use.

This just happened:

20:30 Set bedtime to 22:30–06:30.
23:50 Set bedtime to 00:00–08:00.
00:00 Start sleeping.
06:45 Stop sleeping. Start carrying the phone in my pocket while listening to a podcast.
07:42 Wonder about #252617. Dismiss the "Do Not Disturb During Bedtime" notification. Open and close the Bedtime screen.
08:00 The wake-up alarm rings. Tap the stop button.

Expected outcome:

The sleep interval is recorded as either 00:00–06:45 or 00:00–08:00.

Actual outcome:

The sleep interval is recorded as 07:42–08:00:

I don't understand how it came to that conclusion.

What is the mechanism by which that happened?
What should I do differently next time to ensure that the recorded interval more accurately reflects when I actually slept?


texts: 2 or more iOS devices with different versions of iOS (7.x 9.x) & same App, will keep which App versions on iTunes sync?

texts:
I have several iOS devices with iOS 7.x to 9.x installed and they are all synced with iTunes on my computer. How can I manage the differing versions of my suite of apps on these devices when iTunes keeps only the latest versions of these apps? Some later versions of these apps just will not run on iOS 7.x.

How would it resolve this conflict given that it is managing both devices; both different iOS versions and App versions suitable for each.


texts: Is it possible to hide or move default macOS apps?

texts:
I am trying to cleanup/organize my applications folder which is difficult because I can't move most of the apps (Technically I can move them but a copy is locked in the same position).

Is there any way to hide the .app files of apps I don't want to see or some way to force them to move so I can organize the Applications folder?

Most of the methods I have seen involve deleting the apps but I do not want to do that.

What are my options?


texts: CalenderAgent: howto allow connection only if needed?

texts:
I use Little Snitch, and there I can see that CalenderAgent still connects to Google and iCloud even if iCal is not running.
For several reasons I want to allow CalenderAgent to make connections only if iCal is running.
I already tried to block it using Little Snitch but it didn't work.

How could solve this... maybe with a shell script?


texts:
I have some videos on my iPad, which have gone corrupt somehow. They do not play and say Unknown in the details.

I had taken a iCloud backup of these. How do I force them to be downloaded back to my iPad to replace the corrupt videos?


texts: Will iPhone SE connect to a 802.11b/g router?

texts:
I plan to purchase iPhone SE. The spec says the Wi-Fi module is 802.11ac (5 GHz band). However, my router is rather old - it supports 802.11b and 802.11g only (2.4 GHz band).

I cannot find information on whether a 802.11ac device can work in a backward compatible mode (i.e., on a lower frequency) with a 802.11b/g router or not.

So, will I be able to connect iPhone SE to a 802.11b/g router?


texts: Is there a way for iTunes video player to play/pause when it is in/out of focus?

texts:
I'm following a video tutorial, it's tedious to command+tab,spacebar when I want to pause/play a video. Is there a way for iTunes to start the video when the focused application is iTunes and pause the video when (going back to Unity game editor) iTunes is out of focus.

It would be much better if I mouse hover the video iTunes plays the video, and pause the video when the mouse leaves iTunes.


texts: How do I lock my mac without the screen going dark or going to the screensaver?

texts: When I used Alfred's Lock command my mac locks and shows a screen with a password prompt. I want to know if I can do this on machines that don't have Alfred installed. Is there a way to do by perhaps creating an automator service?


texts: Is it possible to open and watch RatDVD Files on a Mac?

texts: Is it possible to watch movies in the format of RatDVD on a mac? If yes, how?


texts: Apple TimeCapsule 2TB (2013) real life expierience; store data next to backups?

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Im having an old 2008 time capsule to store the backups of my system. Im planning to buy the new 2013 time capsule soon but need to know if it supports the following:

Backup data ( music, movies ) *beside the system backups without messing with them or
deleting them in any way?

I have tried this with my 2008 model but it would sometimes wipe the data.
Anyone can confirm this works correctly?

Also is the new wifi module really 3x times faster as claimed and in result backups your data a lot faster?


texts: Display Unread E-Mail Count on Loginwindow

texts:
Bit of an unusual case, but I'm planning to restructure how I use OS X when I next do a clean-install, such that I have a separate user account for casual use and work use, to keep things a lot tidier and to avoid distractions.

However, I'd still like to know how many unread messages I have in the other account, either visible from the loginwindow or by some other convenient means.

Is there any way to achieve this, e.g - by installing a script on the account I want to get a count for? Of course if the other account isn't signed in this won't work, in which case a last known count is fine.

I suppose maybe I'm just spoiled by smart phones that let you see message count (or even messages) from a lock-screen, but it'd be nice to have something similar without having to actually add the same e-mail account to Mail for both users.


texts: What are the keycaps of the A1016 keyboard made from?

texts:
I loved the Apple A1016 bluetooth keyboard. It's a shame Apple don't make this any more. In particular the key caps were made out of a slightly soft matte-finished material that felt very nice to type on.

Can anyone tell me what this material is?

I'm partly asking so that I might find a similar 3rd party keyboard - suggestions welcome. I did try a Ducky DK2108 Zero but it was noisy with hard plastic key caps and not really what I was after.


texts: How to stream quality audio without latency

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I'm trying to stream a live music performance from my living room.
I play a piano (digital) and live electronics (Ableton) via a MOTU mk3 connected to my MacBook Pro (13 inch,late 2014, Sierra 10.12.6).

My music uses live effects, so I need to have Ableton's output in my speakers or my headphones, otherwise I don't know what I am playing, since its not just the sound of my piano.

For video, I am using OBS studio and Black Magic mini recorder connected to my Panasonic G7 DSLR camera.

OBS Studio does not allow any interfaces that has more than two outputs which is why Soundflower or something similar is necessary. My problem is latency and quality.

iShow or Soundflower results in latency to my ears, which means I can't play my pieces properly. Loopback offers a better alternative, because it patches the sound directly from Ableton, meaning that within Ableton I still use MOTU as input and output, therefore my headphones give me sound without latency.

But with Loopback there are 2 issues: 1. It is $100 USD, which is absolutely too much for that and also for my budget. Also, I used it in trial mode before it expired, and I recorded the video from OBS and the sound of it was actually quite bad, a bit compressed and gloomy, very very different from what the Ableton output sounds.

So, I'm a bit frustrated because I feel I have tried it all I know, and most of the info online is either very old, or made for Windows or gamers. There's also lots of info for people that stream simple things like a podcasts, but in my case you have to keep in mind I do need to hear myself from Ableton because my instrument is not producing the final sound outcome in my living room.

How can I solve this problem of combining several audio channels with OBS's limitation of only 2 while maintaining a quality sound?

Any ideas appreciated, thank you so much!


texts: Is it possible to reassign the "Pinch with thumb and three fingers" gesture to activate Dashboard instead of Launchpad?

texts:
I don't really have a use for Launchpad, but the gesture to me makes sense for Dashboard. I experimented a little with BetterTouchTool, but it doesn't have the gesture available, and I'm not sure it would work well with the sequence of successive pinches and spreads to go from desktop Expose to overlay (normally Launchpad).

Ideally I'd like to see if there's a plist tweak that can be made somewhere that would keep the gesture behavior exactly the same, but substitute Dashboard for Launchpad.


texts: How do I force Keynote to sync with iCloud?

texts:
When I create new Keynote presentations on my Mac they are not showing up on my iOS devices. I noticed when I open a document from iCloud there is a dotted iCloud symbol in the file viewer.

Is there a way to manually force the sync to occur? Last time I resolved this by disabling my iCloud account and re-enabling it, this is pretty painful though as it takes awhile.

Anyone know why these documents won't sync?


texts: Cant buy new, download or update existing purchased free apps from cloud via iTunes 12.3.0.4?

texts:
For more than 48 hours, my computer has not been able to download apps - purchase or download updates. I see no error messages, but in the background there are no downloads at all?

My account seems OK as I can download on my iPad & iPhone with iOS 9.0.2

Why is iTunes 12.3.0.4 on Windows 8.1/PC not allowing me to buy & download free apps or update/ download existing purchases from cloud?


texts: Relationship between OpenType fonts and PostScript printers, and impact on printing performance?

texts:
In the pre-OS X days, there was an important distinction between bitmap fonts and PostScript fonts, and between QuickDraw printers (the Mac equivalent of "Winprinters") and much more expensive PostScript printers.  If you wanted to use a PostScript font with a PostScript printer, you needed to have installed on your computer the bitmap equivalent of one of the standard preinstalled PostScript fonts.  Later, it became more common to make sure that the PostScript font "suitcase" was in the right place to download to the printer at print time, and use Adobe Type Manager to display it antialiased on the screen.

In contrast, most fonts installed with OS X by default and available for purchase are either OpenType or TrueType format.  Many inexpensive laser printers now speak PostScript level II or level III, and in consequence include an even larger assortment of built-in PS fonts than PS level I printers such as the original LaserWriters.

According to Adobe, OpenType is a superset of the PostScript font format, and OpenType is supported by PostScript printers:

  OpenType development has improved both the support of Type 1 on Windows and the support of TrueType in the PostScript environment, ensuring that customers who use PostScript printers will have the best possible experience regardless of the font type used. Support for OpenType is part of the PostScript printing system, with the support of the latest AdobePS™ printer drivers and Adobe Type Manager.

Exactly what "support for OpenType" at the beginning of the second sentence means here is pretty unclear to me, though.  If I want to use a PostScript printer with OS X, will it make a difference in printing speed or quality if I use a font on the computer that is (or is not) in the list of fonts on the printer?  How does this work?

For example, if I print a TextEdit document in (OpenType) Helvetica to a networked LaserWriter, does OS X send PostScript code to the printer, which then uses its own built-in Helvetica font data in ROM to construct the glyphs on the page?
What if I use an OpenType font that's on the computer but not on the printer?  Does the font get translated into a PostScript font then downloaded to the printer (presumably a slower process just like it was in the pre-OS X days), which then prints with it as if it were built-in?
Or in the previous case do the OpenType glyphs get rasterized on the OS X side and then sent to the printer as a bitmap?
In either case, how does this affect the quality of printed output?
Whether the OpenType font is downloaded as a PS font or as a bitmap, I'm guessing this would take a lot more memory on the printer side than just sending PostScript code.  Should I worry about running out of printer memory (or at very least my document taking a long time to print) just as in the pre-OS X days?
Is it still worthwhile to seek out a printer with a built-in hard drive to store downloaded fonts, if I'm going to be doing a lot of printing with fonts that aren't part of the native printer-resident set?
Are there printers that get around some or all of these problems by coming bundled with OpenType fonts as part of their firmware, or at least printing with OpenType fonts directly?  This seems like the natural next step beyond inexpensive networkable printers with Postscript Level III support such as this Okidata model.


texts: When downloading in Safari there is significant upstream data, why?

texts:
Most of the time (all of the time?) when I download a large file using Safari from any website I see 1/3 as much data being uploaded. So if I'm seeing 3MB/s downloading I'll see about 1MB/s uploading. I'm not doing anything else.

What is being uploaded?

To be clear, when the App Store is downloading updates this doesn't happen. 3MB/s downloading in the App Store will show about 80KB/s uploading, which is commensurate with my vague memory of how TCP/IP verifies packets received.

Is Safari automatically doing something like Bit Torrent?


texts: MacBook not recognising internal drives (HD and SSD)

texts:
A week ago my MacBook crashed. When booting, a folder with a question mark showed up on my screen indicating severe trouble. I tried holding the Opt key while booting, but the Mac would not recognize any drives. I removed the HDD physically and enclosed it in a external USB enclosure. I could read/write and hence backup the data that way.

I tried:

erasing the disk and making a new recovery disk. The MacBook could not recognize the disk.
swapping the HDD with a Kingston HyperX SSD 120 GB. The Mac can find the disk, but won’t install either Lion, Mountain Lion or Snow Leopard on the disk. The installation reports problems with missing elements. I tried both Boot USB (L+ML), Recovery USB (L+ML) and the installation disk (SL). No luck.

Note: I can read/write on the SSD in the external HD enclosure - so it should not be a SATA controller related problem ...

Stats: late 2009 MacBook 13", all stuff in it is stock from Apple.

Suggestions as to cause and solutions for this issue would be much appreciated!


texts: How to ping a network host at regular intervals?

texts:
I am trying to debug WiFi connectivity issues on my home network. I have a Macbook and a Linux desktop client. I would like to run ping on both machines and compare their results. I am comfortable with Linux, this question is exclusively about the Macbook.
$ ping 192.168.0.1 | while read pong; do echo "[$(date +%s)] $pong"; done
...
[1596203814] 64 bytes from 192.168.1.254: icmp_seq=8900 ttl=64 time=9.800 ms
[1596203815] 64 bytes from 192.168.1.254: icmp_seq=8901 ttl=64 time=5.546 ms
[1596205241] Request timeout for icmp_seq 8902
[1596205241] 64 bytes from 192.168.1.254: icmp_seq=8903 ttl=64 time=26.988 ms
[1596205242] 64 bytes from 192.168.1.254: icmp_seq=8904 ttl=64 time=4.397 ms
...

As you can see from the timestamps there is a 20+ minutes gap at some point. I let the setup run for 3 hours and this happened on 5 different occasions. The Macbook was locked with Amphetamine running, the lid was closed but an external display was connected through a USB-C hub with HDMI output. I do not believe the Macbook can go to sleep under these circumstances.
Would anyone please know how I can fix my setup to ping at regular intervals, without any large gap?


texts: How can I disable the "No Backups for x Days" from Time Machine?

texts: Since I updated to High Sierra, I frequently get the "No Backups for x Days" notification. I used to be able to make this go away by turning off Time Machine in the System Preferences until I needed it, but there is no way to turn Time Machine off anymore. How can I get rid of these notifications?


texts: Accidentally plugged in earphone jack into USB port!

texts: So I wanted to plug in my earphone jack into my Mac but I was not seeing so I accidentally and gently without that much force I put in my earphone jack into my  Mac left usb port but it did not touch the pins. So should I worry that I have damaged my Mac?


texts: mail.app import error fails - home folder full

texts:
I was getting an error in Mail.app that the home folder is full. Yet the volume has 256G
of space. I've done this support process from Apple. Now I get a failure during import. I'm importing 250K of messages.

I just realized the drive has 44G free, but 251G available. I'm going to delete some photo cache.

Does the index have a limit?

Can a folder have a limit less than the entire drive?

I've run CleamMyMac and deleted caches, trash, etc.

______________________________________
Here is some of the info from EtreCheck

Hardware Information:
    iMac (21.5-inch, Mid 2010) - Vintage!
    iMac Model: iMac11,2
    3.06 GHz Intel Core i3 (i3) CPU: 2-core
    16 GB RAM - At maximum
        BANK 0/DIMM0 - 4 GB DDR3 1333
        BANK 1/DIMM0 - 4 GB DDR3 1333
        BANK 0/DIMM1 - 4 GB DDR3 1333
        BANK 1/DIMM1 - 4 GB DDR3 1333
Drives:
    disk0 - SAMSUNG HD502HJ 500.11 GB (Mechanical - 7200 RPM)
    Internal SATA 3 Gigabit Serial ATA
        disk0s1 - EFI (MS-DOS FAT32) [EFI] 210 MB
        disk0s2 - N**********1 (Journaled HFS+) 499.25 GB (454.48 GB used)
        disk0s3 - Recovery HD (Mac OS Extended) [Recovery] 650 MB

Mounted Volumes:
    disk0s2 - N**********1
        499.25 GB (454.48 GB used, 261.60 GB available, 44.51 GB free)
        Journaled HFS+
        Mount point: /


texts: Show Apple Contacts Birthdays in Google Calendar

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I have all my contacts on my iPhone including birthdays. Recently I switched to Google Calendar because of workplace requirements.
Unfortunately, I can't find a way to display the birthdays from my iPhone contacts inside the Google Calendar app on my iPhone. It only displays the Birthdays Calendar from the Google contacts, but I don't want to keep two different contacts in sync.
It would also be useful to get these birthdays inside the Google calendar.


texts: How can I invert spelling proposals on iOS?

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Is there a way to invert the behavior of the spelling proposal ?

By "invert" I mean :

Don't change what I have typed if I don't do anything special

AND

Select the proposal if I tap on it


texts: Can I hide purchased music from the Music app in iOS 10?

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At some point or another, I bought some albums on iTunes. In some cases, I've also ripped these CDs and imported them into iTunes. In older versions of iOS, I could hide purchased music from the Music app, but now that purchased music shows up, leading to duplicates like this:

Is there a way to hide purchased music in iOS 10?


texts: Any idea what happened to /Library/Receipts in Mac OS X Lion?

texts: Does anyone know why all the .bom files in /Library/Receipts moved to /var/db/receipts?


texts: Apple Watch pausing while being worn and paired with Heart Sensor

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I want to force my Apple Watch to track activities while using a paired heart sensor, but I don't want to wear the watch during certain activities i.e. when doing martial arts, etc.

However, once I take it off my wrist for such activities, the watch automatically pauses the activity. I tried to disable Auto Pause on the settings menu but to no avail. Thoughts?


texts: Why does my iPhone 4S's screen have a yellow tint?

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I didnt realise the yellow tint on the phone until my friend compared his screen side-by-side. There is a yellow tint on my phone's screen. I read around the net and some people state its the glue and will get better within a few days. Other sources say that its a polarization problem and will not be fixed on its own.

Can anyone shine some light on this issue ? Will it be fixed on its own over time ?

EDIT :

I compared it with 3 other phones, mine was the only one with a yellow-ish tint.


texts: Command, tab, and mouse click not working, rest of keyboard and mouse movement still works

texts:
A few days ago I posted about how my macbook pro had a glitch where everything except the volume, brightness, and mouse movement stopped working.

I am now having a similar but very distinct problem on the same device.  Now, the entire keyboard works, but the cmdtab shortcut to switch applications, the cmdspace shortcut to search, and the caps lock key do not work (caps lock did work in the other glitch).

Weirdly, I can type cmdT to open a new tab in Chrome, so the key itself must work.  Unlike in the other glitch, I can use the tab key as well.

Any ideas on how I can troubleshoot this?


texts:
I'm trying to connect to VPN on Mac OS X via several ways:

Native vpn client (doing something like this:
https://www.publicvpn.com/support/MacOSX105.php)
By Anyconnect vpn client
By Cisco vpn client

In 3 case I receive the 51 error and I read, that it's ok for mac.
In 1 case I recieve no errors, just can't connect.
In case 2 I receive error message: "the vpn server did not respond", but ping to vpn server I try to connect is successfull.

What I'm doing wrong? When I tried to connect in Windows by cisco vpn client, connection was successfull. Can the problem be in that the vpn is based on windows?


texts: MacBook Pro Lion + lavalier mic records nothing

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How can I record audio using a lavalier mic and MacBook Pro OSX Lion?

I have just opened my brand new Audio-Technica ATR-3350 Lavalier Omnidirectional Condenser Microphone. I tried to connect it to the jack just next to the earphones jack and record sound using quicktime player.

Recording works well without a mic, but when I connect the mic and choose Built in input: line in instead of Built in Microphone: internal microphone, only silence is recorded.

The microphone was tested on a Windows 7 notebook, and it works well.


texts: What services/apps can cause my iPod to be remotely wiped?

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I've learned that simply by adding an Exchange-based email account to my iPod's Mail app, I am implicitly allowing the administrator of the email system to remotely wipe all data from my iPod -- even though neither the (sparse) documentation nor the user interface seems to warn of this.

I don't find this acceptable, so I simply read my Exchange mail through the web interface.  No problem.

Are there other apps or services which implicitly allow other people to remotely wipe my iPod?  For example, if I add a Gmail account to the Mail app, am I granting the ability for a Google action (intentional or otherwise) to wipe my iPod?  If I use the Facebook app, does Facebook have the ability to wipe my iPod?


texts: How to transfer a movie (.avi) from pc to iPad without iTunes?

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I'm trying to copy a .avi movie-file that I ripped from a dvd that I own from my PC to my iPad. I've tried doing this with iTunes, to no avail, and frankly I'm sick of iTunes so I'm looking for alternative methods. So far, I have found none.

Does anyone know an easy way to transfer a file (specifically an .avi file), from a pc laptop (with windows Vista) to an iPad without iTunes? (Preferably through the usb connection?)

ps.: Don't worry about the .avi format, I've installed the flexplayer app on the iPad, which should be able to deal with movie formats other than .mp4 such as the .avi I've chosen here.


texts: Terminal System Error : (com.apple.Terminal): Requesting Policy ID's for System (while starting MacOS Terminal)

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Has anyone else seen an error message from "diagnostic_agent" while starting a MacOS Terminal (com.apple.Terminal)
MACOS TERMINAL PROCESS BUG: in (lockoutagent, diagnostic_agent, TCC, dasd)
POSSIBLE ERROR CAUSING PROCESS:
lockoutagent, diagnostic_agent, DeviceManagment, dasd

SUBSYSTEM:
com.apple.Terminal,
com.apple.TCC
com.apple.dmd
com.apple.appstorefoundation,
com.apple.duetactivityscheduler

DEBUG CONSOLE SCREENSHOT:

here is the details of the "console" and system logs
Requesting policy for bundle IDs: (
    "com.apple.Terminal"
)
Trigger: <private> is now [<private>]

No policies are set, everything is OK

-[TCCDAccessIdentity staticCode]: static code for: identifier com.apple.Terminal, type: 0: 0x7fdaf290bf80 at /System/Applications/Utilities/Terminal.app
responsible process has com.apple.private.tcc.allow-prompting entitlement
PID[240] is checking access for target PID[1718]
-[TCCDAccessIdentity staticCode]: static code for: identifier com.apple.Terminal, type: 0: 0x7fdaf0c27f10 at /System/Applications/Utilities/Terminal.app

responsible process has com.apple.private.tcc.allow-prompting entitlement
I'm thinking of just removing the virtual file link to terminal and then re adding the virtual link.  Its possible that some of the setting in Terminal got "messy" when I removed the keychain?
Thanks!
Asher
:)


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I have a 2012 MacBook Pro. A1278. It’s getting very very slow. Boot up is 5 mins. Random freezing. I thought it was just old. But I’ve done research and apparently it’s either the hard drive failing or hdd cable so I’m gonna replace both. SSD is gonna be faster anyways.

Question is: do I need to do anything to do a brand new install when ssd is in as I haven’t got a disc or usb install for OS X? I don’t want to clone or anything as all my important stuff is in cloud.

Thank you


texts: MacBook M1 Big Sur crashes every time when I open "About This Mac -> Storage -> Manage"

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Background: I'm using a MacBook Pro with M1 chip and Big Sur V11.1 (got it last month). One thing really annoys me is that when I connect my iphone, sync starts automatically and it takes up 20GB to when all iphone files are backed up.
Issue: So I wanted to delete the sync files using "Reduce Clutter" in "About This Mac -> Storage". It worked fine for two weeks after I purchased the MacBook, but recently it starts to crash every time when I open "About This Mac -> Storage -> Manage" and I wasn't even able to get the time to click "Review Files" under "Manage". I tried to restart the system but had no luck at all. See screenshots below for crash report.

Help: Does anyone else encounter the same issue? How to resolve it? Is there a way (say, command line) to delete synced iphone files without clicking "About This Mac -> Storage"?
"Manage-> Review Files" is a really convenient way to view and remove redundant files to save storage. It would be great if there is a way to revive that functionality if possible.
Thanks in advance!


texts:
Using MacOS High Sierra while had 6-7 unsaved word(V-16.23) document where I was working on. coz of my processor fan speed, I tried to check the 'Activity Monitor'. and found WindowServer is using almost 1gb so killed that process.
Then I realized all was for my unsaved word documents....I'm literally crying after losing all my data, Can someone please help me out?


texts: Problems with missing Launch Agents and Daemons

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I recently updated to new 10.10. However machine is on the end of its life and usually I would do a clean install. Somewhat I always have troubles with the update. Yet again, here is what happen when I did just an update:

Startup Items: ℹ
ChmodBPF: Path: /Library/StartupItems/ChmodBPF
Startup items are obsolete in OS X Yosemite

Problem System Launch Agents: ℹ
[failed]    com.apple.AirPlayUIAgent.plist [Details]
[failed]    com.apple.CallHistoryPluginHelper.plist
[failed]    com.apple.CallHistorySyncHelper.plist
[failed]    com.apple.cmfsyncagent.plist
[failed]    com.apple.EscrowSecurityAlert.plist [Details]
[failed]    com.apple.icloud.fmfd.plist
[failed]    com.apple.SafariNotificationAgent.plist
[failed]    com.apple.scopedbookmarkagent.xpc.plist
[failed]    com.apple.warmd_agent.plist [Details]

Problem System Launch Daemons: ℹ
[failed]    com.apple.awdd.plist
[failed]    com.apple.ctkd.plist
[failed]    com.apple.diagnosticd.plist [Details]
[failed]    com.apple.DiagnosticReportCleanUpDaemon.plist [Details]
[failed]    com.apple.icloud.findmydeviced.plist
[failed]    com.apple.ifdreader.plist
[failed]    com.apple.installd.plist
[failed]    com.apple.nehelper.plist
[failed]    com.apple.periodic-daily.plist [Details]
[failed]    com.apple.softwareupdate_download_service.plist
[failed]    com.apple.softwareupdated.plist [Details]
[failed]    com.apple.wdhelper.plist

In my observation not all of them fails all the time, but it does give rather hard time on my machine.

I tried to reload the modules with launchctl, but does not make a difference.

Do you believe those modules are duplicated with the new OS's modules and hance not needed? Can I safely remove them or repair the OS ?

Any suggestions how to deal with the problem are welcome.


texts: Keep Mac ON for background work with minimum power

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Say I am doing a long download.  How can I keep the Mac stays sufficiently awake but with minimum power usage?

I would also like minimum power when:

I am using it as a surveilance camera.
I want it to be available for requests from the Wi-Fi network.
Picasa/Google photo backup

OS X Yosemite

Also how do I avoid that some passerby put it to sleep (to sleepy)


texts: Help me un-clutter the first page of apps on Launchpad

texts:
I have grown very fond of a sparse first page of apps on iOS and want to hack, reverse-engineer, and/or fake out Launchpad to get a clean first page of apps.

Here is a picture from iOS that is analagous to what I want to accomplish:

I don't need a text overlay at the top (bars, ATT, time, etc...) or the row of icons at the bottom - I just want space on the first screen, followed by subsequent pages that can be totally full (or ideally also have flexible space). I don't need precise control such as a gap between say pages and numbers, but that would be really neat to emulate a layout exactly as pictured (three apps at the top, four at the bottom).

If it's not possible to hack in a true  into the Launchpad database, can anyone show how to make "dummy invisible apps" that I could one by one drag to displace the apps I don't want on page one?


texts:
Anyone know why blocking the Macbook Air's internal microphone hole (using a tape or finger) seems to almost completely disable recording? Surely, sound should penetrate through the metal case. Could it be that when the hole is taped, OSX thinks all sounds are ambient noises?

EDIT: Covering the microphone hole on my LG G3 phone hardly does anything though.


texts: Command key when running Mac through virtual box on Windows OS

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I just recently installed Yosemite in Virtualbox. Here's the installation video I followed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYMEb0ZCfes

My OS is Windows and I'm trying to run Mac using Virtualbox.

I had no problems with booting and stuff. After booting, Mac installation settings appeared, then the system asked me to set log in details (full name, username, password). However, while I am retyping my desired password, the screen suddenly turned black. I waited and did nothing. The next thing it showed was the start up screen where it asks for my username and password.

I tried entering my username and password, but it won't work. I knew I haven't completed setting my log-in details due to the screen turning black. I searched for possible solutions, one thing I'd like to try is to use Recovery Mode and reset the password (http://www.macworld.com/article/2868032/what-to-do-if-your-mac-refuses-to-accept-your-password.html).

However though, can't figure out how to key 'Command-R'. Does anyone know how?

Also, it would be great if someone could suggest other things that might work if ever pw reset through Recovery Mode fails. I'd appreciate it a lot.


texts: Clam shell mode without external display, keyboard, mouse

texts:
I have a latest 13 inch MBP retina, running 10.10.

I am wondering, is there a way to run the machine with the lids closed WITHOUT an external monitor, keyboard, and mouse?

We are using the machine as a server in a confined space, and would like to keep the machine closed, but still running.

Thanks


texts: ImageMagick. Multiple SVG files are only allowed for PDF and PS output

texts:
I'm running script /tools/generatepngall.sh from https://github.com/twain47/Open-SVG-Map-Icons to generate PNG icons from SVG-files.

However, there are errors:

Multiple SVG files are only allowed for PDF and PS output.
Multiple SVG files are only allowed for PDF and PS output.
convert: unable to open image `/Volumes/Data/Downloads/SJJB-SVG-Icons-20111021/pngall/accommodation_alpinehut.p.0092DA.32.png': No such file or directory @ error/blob.c/OpenBlob/2643.
convert: unable to open file `/Volumes/Data/Downloads/SJJB-SVG-Icons-20111021/pngall/accommodation_alpinehut.p.0092DA.32.png' @ error/png.c/ReadPNGImage/3995.
convert: image sequence is required `+clone' @ error/convert.c/ConvertImageCommand/946.
Multiple SVG files are only allowed for PDF and PS output.
Multiple SVG files are only allowed for PDF and PS output.

I can't understand what's wrong.

P.S.: I googled an answer, that it might be due to rsvg should have an -o before output filename, and I changed it in recolourtopng.sh, but the result is the same.


texts: Problem with Mac HDMI - Thunderbolt display to Sony (not a cable problem)

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I have a 13-inch Macbook Pro with Mountain Lion installed. I bought an HDMI - Thunderbolt cable months ago in order to watch movies, TV shows and whatnot on my TV (Sony Bravia). The cable had been working out great for me since I bought it; the audio and video quality was exceptional and it gave me an almost perfect HD experience whenever I watched shows on my TV via my Macbook.

However, the last couple days I have been running into some major problems with this display connection and has left me quite confused and frustrated. Basically, the Macbook is no longer able to detect the display! I connect the TV to the laptop and ensure that the connection settings are proper (ie, I have connected to HDMI 1 and proeprly set the TV's input to HDMI 1 as well). The Macbook's screen will flash once and the TV will go from the blue "No Signal" screen to a blank black screen. Previously, this is when the extended screen from the Macbook would appear on the TV and I can drag windows onto the screen. Unfortunately, none of these occur (can neither see the computer screen on my TVnor be able to drag windows onto the extended screen).

I have tried a plethora of troubleshooting steps; I have restarted the computer many times, turned the TV off and on, tried connecting the cable at different times (when just TV is off, when just Macbook is off, etc). I have also read up endless forum posts about this issue, but have yet to found a worthy solution (sorry, to many forum posts to put on this Question. It is a simple Google search away...)

Before I beg the world for help, I would like to share one piece of pertinent information that may be helpful. I have isolated this to a Macbook problem, not a problem with the cable or TV. I connected my other laptop (a Dell XPS with Windows 7 installed) to the computer with the same HDMI - Thunderbolt cable and I was able to successfully watch a Simspons episode on the TV with top-quality audio and video.

All help is much appreciated, especially if it saves me a trip to the local Apple Store. Thank you in advance.


texts: APFS - Other volumes in container problem

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I ran into issues with my Macbook Pro running High Sierra 10.13.4.

The problem is that Other volumes in container metric are showing over 176 GB of space taken and I am not able to reclaim it back. I am not running Time Machine on this computer.

The diskutil apfs list command is showing me following result:

Pretty much the Capacity In Use By Volumes is showing 225.4 GB, but the sum of listed volumes is ~51 GB.

I have no idea where my 176 GB of disk space is.


texts: iTunes shows App Updates Badge, but no updates are available

texts: On my iTunes page, it is showing a 7 next to Apps to indicate I have 7 apps with available updates.  When I click on the link to show available updates, regardless of which iTunes account I have, it always shows "No Updates are available".  How can I see what apps it thinks I have updates for, or reset that counter?


texts: MacBook Air turns off whenever lid is closed after High Sierra update

texts:
Ever since I updated my MacBook Air to High Sierra, it turns off almost every time I close it. Sometimes when it is closed it'll actually restart - I can tell because it makes the Mac "ding" startup sound while the lid is still closed. Do you have any suggestions for how to fix this?

Here are the full specs of the machine:

MacBook Air Mid 2012

4GB of Ram

13" Display

After more investigating, here are some further details:

When I press "Sleep" from the Apple menu and when I close the MacBook Air, either way the computer goes into a sleep state from which it cannot be woken. The only way to wake the computer when this happens is to do a long press on the power button (to turn off the computer) and then to do a short press on the power button (to turn it back on). When the computer comes back on it shows the "You shut down your computer because of a problem" error dialog. If I am using the computer and then I shut it and do not open it for awhile, I will sometimes hear the computer make the startup sound and the Apple logo on the back of the screen will light up while the laptop is closed.


texts: iCloud backup size after iPhone migration

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I use iCloud backups for long time.  When I started out I could easily backup a 128GB iPad Air and a 32 GB iPhone5s to the 5GB of default iCloud storage. I recently switched phone to a 64GB iPhoneSE and now the backup size increased a lot with no apparent reason.  Here's a screenshot of how the storage breaks down.  It's in German, but I think it's clear. There is about 1GB of app data including photos and the total backup size is 4GB.  Before the switch to the new phone it was 2GB total with 1GB app data.  What are these 2GB and how can I get rid of them?

Update: Here is another observation. If I delete my iCloud backup and do a fresh backup it comes at about 2GB total size (which is what I expect).  After two days including taking lots of pictures, transfering them to the Mac, syncing them back etc., however, I was back at 4GB.


texts:
We used to use Mobile Iron to configure our users' Exchange email on their iPhones.

Recently it was decided to stop using Mobile Iron. I'm not sure how the rest of our IT dept managed the transition, made about a month ago.

Currently, an iPhone user's Exchange email server setting is incorrect, probably set to work with Mobile Iron.

Is the Exchange email server editable in the iPhone Mail app?

I can't seem to edit it.


texts: Sound not coming from headphones when plugged in

texts:
Material:

MacBook Air 13-inch (MBA), Mid 2013, 1.7 GHz Intel Core i7, 8GB RAM, OS X 10.10.2;
24-inch LED Cinema Display (3 cables: power, USB and Thunderbolt);
iPhone 5 (and above headphones, with integrated mic).

Problem/issue:

when the a/m MBA is connected to the Cinema Display and I plug the headphones, the sound still comes out of the Cinema Display, instead of the headphones;
when the a/m MBA is NOT connected to the Cinema Display and the headphone is plugged in, sound is cut from the MBA speakers and is redirected to the headphones as it should be;
in order to get the sound redirected to the headphones, I now have to launch System Preferences, Sound and switch manually to Headphone port;
I also tried to change the headphones, but the problem remains.

This started maybe a week ago (but after upgrading to 10.10.2, from 10.10.1, not saying that the upgrade is at fault, though).
Any ideas?


texts: Mail shows 100% usage for Gmail account, doesn't rebuild

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For some reason Mail shows me 100% account usage on my Gmail account. I've deleted most mails with attachments, erased deleted items and did a rebuild. However, the account information still shows 100%, I don't get new mail and nothing seems to work. When looking at gmail.com, there's 1% used.

I've already removed the account and added it again, restarted the Mac and now I'm running out of ideas.

Anyone knows a solution?


texts: Adjusting the scale in GarageBand track visualization?

texts:
I've recorded some audio from an external mic and an acoustic guitar with a mic. I can hear it just fine when I play it back, but in the visualization it is almost invisible. There are just some really small bumps on the otherwise straight line.

Is it possible to adjust the scale of the visualization?


texts: Make iPhone apps think no external monitor connected

texts:
How can I make iPhone apps think that no external display is connected?

I am using a 30-pin to A/V adapter, and an iPhone 4 GSM with 7.0.4 jailbroken.

I was hoping to use iFile to change a setting on the iPhone, but I'll try any solution.

Thank you for the help!


texts: How to reach the max Turbo Boost frequency with a 10-core iMac Pro

texts:
According to Apple my 10-core iMac Pro should Turbo Boost to 4.5GHz when running single-thread tasks. The OS installed is Mojave.

When running a Mathematica code using only one kernel, Intel Power Gadget says that the frequency is 3.8-3.9GHz rather than 4.5GHz. The room temperature is 24ºC and the fans are going at the minimum speed. Note that a single-thread tasks is equivalent to a 5% load as their are 20 threads available thanks to Hyper-threading. See plot:

Perhaps the task I am running somehow does not demand the max Turbo Boost frequency. Could someone suggest a task/computation that could make my iMac Pro reach the advertised 4.5GHz?

Note that I am not asking what Turbo Boost is as this has been answered Here.


texts: Sharing settings report (security audit)

texts:
I am new to Mac administration and struggling somewhat on how to programatically report in the settings in the Sharing Preference panel (10.7 and 10.8). Basically - I want to report in which settings are on and off. I have imagined writing a script to be able to report this status back.

I can see that for some of the settings I can use 'systemsetup' (remote login, remote Apple Events) but for others I am at a loss to where to go check to see if the following options are enabled:

DVD and CD Sharing
Screen Sharing
File Sharing (both for AFP and SMB)
Printer Sharing
Scanner Sharing
Remote Management
Internet Sharing
Bluetooth Sharing

I am less concerned about if the service is active (i.e. currently in use by someone) but initially want to just report if the options are checked on.


texts: Message icon says I have messages to read but I do not. How do I delete the shown numbers?

texts: How do I delete a text message that is not there for me to delete?  The number still shows that I have messages but I do not.


texts: How to deal with a non responsive app/process?

texts:
Firefox does not respond. How can I quit it other than by Force Quit?

I can kill it by using the left upper button (X). Is there a better method other than to Force Quit?


texts: How to filter out only searchable PDFs from amid a myriads PDF files?

texts:
I have a folder containing only PDF files from amid which some are searchable PDFs (OCR'ed scanned documents). There are almost 6000 PDF files in the folder and I need to filter out (copy/move to another folder) only the searchable ones.

How can I achieve this, please?


texts: Make BootCamp work without external drive

texts:
I've just read that since ElCap's release it is possible on some Macs to install Windows without DVD nor USB drive, just by providing ISO file. My MBP8,1 is quite old, though, and it is old enough to not support the USB option. I've edited the Info.plist to unlock USB, but I would really like to use BootCamp without any drive at all (I don't have any right now and I want to install Windows). Is there any way to make it possible?

UPDATE: What I'm asking is 'Is there any way of enabling ISO install like USB one?'; I know that I can install Windows using some VM tricks, but it's not very quick nor is it simple.

I am using latest OS X 10.11.2, and I want to install Windows 10 on the same drive as OS X, if that helps.


texts: FaceTime - How to direct communication to specific devices?

texts:
I have an iPhone and a MacBook. My wife the same. Is it possible (and how) to specify which devices should be called?

For example, when one of us travels, we want to be contacted on the phone, from the computer, and when the other travels, the reverse.

I suppose we can turn it on and off on the various devices, just wondering if there was another way. (What happens when you forget?).

Thanks


texts:
I tried to install omnet++ on my Macbook pro (OS 10.10) yesterday. I got an error so I delete path in my bash-profile.

Now, every command I try to run in my terminal shows an error of command not found. I try many ways but did not find a answer.


texts: How can I AirDrop my photos and videos from my iPhone5 to my MacBook Pro Retina?

texts:
iPhone 5 is running iOS7.
Macbook Pro is the 15" MacBook Pro Retina on Mavericks.

I have AirDrop enabled on both but the phone and Macbook don't see each other. Both keep searching, searching, searching ...

FYI, I have enabled Bluetooth and WiFi on both devices are also on the same WiFi network. There is also no firewall between them and they are within 2 feet of each other.

Apple tech is supposed to "just work" and it almost always does so intuitively but this one has me scratching my head. What is going on here?


texts: MacOS 10.10 on 4 GB memory bloat: which launch daemons/agents/services can I disable? And how to discover the names of the culprits?

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I recently did a Yosemite (10.10) clean install on my 4 GB 2010 MBP, but it now has so much memory bloat due to unnecessary launch daemons/agents /services that it causes frequent beachballing; excessive memory pressure.

This is not a duplicate; I did research manpage/docs on launchctl, launchd, Yosemite/Sierra whatsnew guides, AskDifferent, SO, Apple.com, many Mac enthusiast blogs/forums and many other sites for over a month now; see comments below for examples of the many Google keywords searches I tried; also, the answer is very MacOS-version-specific. This is driving me nuts.

I'm looking for a minimal configuration: no crap like iCloud, iTunes etc. Just the absolute minimum set needed to run the OS. Clearly stuff like 'CloudPhotosConfiguration' is unnecessary bloat. (For reasons we will not go into here it doesn't make much economical sense to upgrade 8 GB RAM + SSD).

Question: How do I find out which launch daemons/agents/services I can safely disable on my mid-2010 MBP with 4 GB running Yosemite 10.10?

Activity Monitor doesn't show any obvious whales, although system memory usage when running Safari > when running Chrome. Below is a dump of which launchctl items had Status -44 (killed due to inadequate memory). Based on reading blogs, some are notorious (e.g. com.apple.bird), some are believed to be unnecessary, some cannot safely be stopped:

clear; launchctl list | awk '($2 == "-44") { print $3 }' | sed -e 's/com.apple.//g' | sort -f

com.apple.
accountsd, AirPlayUIAgent, bird, CalendarAgent,
CallHistoryPluginHelper, CallHistorySyncHelper, cfprefsd.xpc.agent,
cloudd, CloudPhotosConfiguration, cloudphotosd,
coreservices.appleid.authentication, coreservices.uiagent,
DataDetectorsDynamicData, icloud.fmfd, iconservices.iconservicesagent,
imdpersistence.IMDPersistenceAgent, InputMethodKit.UserDictionary,
internetaccounts, MailServiceAgent, Maps.mapspushd, nsurlsessiond,
nsurlstoraged, pbs, photolibraryd, pluginkit.pkd, printtool.agent,
recentsd, secd, secinitd, security.cloudkeychainproxy3, soagent,
spindump_agent, tccd, telephonyutilities.callservicesd


texts: Macbook Pro can only startup with external hard drive connected

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Here are the facts:

13 inch, mid 2012

It gave me the grey screen with the flashing question mark folder one day, and I got an external hard to install the MAC OS X operating system like the apple support pages said.

My MacBook Pro now works....until I take out the external hard drive, then it's back to square one with the same problem. I determined that in Disk Utility, the external hard drive I used to reinstall Mac OS X is being used AS the startup disk needed to get my computer working. My MacBook no longer has an INTERNAL hard drive listed, and it is not the kind where the battery can be removed from the back. I need to know if there is any way to make one before I take it to the shop.


texts: Can I upgrade from iPhone 4 w/ iOS7 to iPhone SE and iTunes restore?

texts: Can I upgrade from iPhone 4 running old iOS7 to iPhone SE running iOS 9 and use iTunes backup restore functionality so that I don't have to reinstall everything?


texts: how to transfer everything from one icloud to another icloud in same iphone

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i want to transfer everything from one iCloud to another one in same iphone. i want to finish iCloud and i want to have a new one.
is there any one to help me?


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Back on Mac OS 10.7, there was an encrypted file called Form Values in the folder /home/Users/${user}/Library/Safari. This encrypted file contained all "auto-fill" form values in Safari. I don't know if this file still exists on current version, but during some analysis of an old mac of mine, I found this encrypted file and wanted to dig into it.

This file seems to be encrypted with a key contained in the user's login.keychain. I have the key (256 bits long) but I was not able to find the correct way to decrypt data.

According to this answer https://apple.stackexchange.com/a/198290/332020 the file is encrypted with AES-128 bits. But none of my implementation did work (AES-128 with first 128 bits as salt, 128 after as key, ECB, CBC, ...). Since Mac OS 10.7 was released in 2011, I also tried 3DES, without luck also.

Does someone know more about the encryption process?


texts: How to Wipe Badly Imported Contacts from iCloud

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My boss has a MacBook Air and an iPhone, and pays for iCloud. We also use Outlook here. We discovered that her contacts weren't being synced properly between her phone and Contacts.app, and attempted to merge them. What we've discovered instead is that we've somehow created inexact duplicates, with the duplicates containing vCard flags marking what kind of data each contact is using:

I don't recall exactly what we did to achieve this - I assume we imported some vCards and hoped that iCloud would sort through the duplicates - but is there any way to erase these contacts without manually stepping through, and has anyone seen this before and can advise how to stop this happening in the future?


texts: Does an app downloaded on one device automatically show up another device using the same Apple ID?

texts: If two people are sharing an Apple ID and one decides to download an app on their device will it show up downloaded on the other persons device? This may sound like a crazy question but I am pretty certain it can't happen but I was wanting to double check.


texts: my ex gave me his old iPhone and set up the cloud thing for me. He has changed the password so I can't download apps or anything. Also he got me a good deal with Talktalk. The contract is his but I'm paying for it they my bank. Problem is Talktalk will only talk to him and any correspondence goes to him. How can I get out of this situation and control my own stuff?


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I'm currently using pyenv and pyenv-virtualenv, which i've installed via Homebrew. I've added if which pyenv > /dev/null; then eval "$(pyenv init -)"; fi to enable shims and autocompletion and if which pyenv-virtualenv-init > /dev/null; then eval "$(pyenv virtualenv-      init -)"; fi in order to enable auto-activation to my .bash_profile.

Suddendly, running brew doctor, the following message shows up:

"config" scripts exist outside your system or Homebrew directories.
`./configure` scripts often look for *-config scripts to determine if
software packages are installed, and what additional flags to use when
compiling and linking.

Having additional scripts in your path can confuse software installed via
Homebrew if the config script overrides a system or Homebrew provided
script of the same name. We found the following "config" scripts:

/usr/local/var/pyenv/shims/python-config
/usr/local/var/pyenv/shims/python2-config
/usr/local/var/pyenv/shims/python2.7-config

What should i do to fix the problem?


texts: Chrome-like inline search highlighting in Safari?

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I just switched over from using Chrome to Safari and I really like it, but I find the search function in Safari very limiting.

Are there any extensions for Chrome-like highlighting in Safari? For those of you that are unfamiliar with it, I'm referring to ability to highlight all instances found on the page. Also, a great feature of Chrome highlighting is when it shows the instances on the scroll bar, so I know where the keyword is most densely (or sparingly) used.
More details on this: https://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/13651/is-there-a-name-for-the-ui-that-marks-key-positions-in-a-scroll-bar


texts: What is a typical transfer rate for a Time Machine backup over FireWire?

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I am doing a TM backup for the first time to a portable disk from my macbook Pro(mid 2010) over a firewire connection (both ends).
The disk only contained a folder of around 20GB of manually backed up stuff before I decided to TM to it (left the folder). Now it's only done exactly 580MB in 30 mins (around 19.33Mb/min) is this normal?


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Mac has a neat little feature where I can (while grabbing a portion of the screen) hit spacebar and click on a window to capture it (and the surrounding shadow), for example:

I've searched for this on Google, but its stupid algorithm keeps searching for similar words, even when I put it in quotes (like mac "record window only"). I want to capture a video of a window only (including cursor of course).

How do I do this? What application do I use?


texts: If Ethernet is added to a bridge, mdns no longer works

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When I create a bridge with Ethernet, mdns no longer works.

Testing steps:

Verify mdns working(success):
ping macmini.local (or any other server on the network support mdns)
System Preferences -> Network
Delete Ethernet, click Apply
Manage Virtual Interfaces -> + New Bridge
Check mark Ethernet, then click Create
Click Apply
Reboot (Must reboot or flush dns/mdns cache)
Verify mdns no longer working(fail):
ping macmini.local (or any other server on the network support mdns)

Anyone experiencing this? Any solution?

PS: Above is easy to revert:

Delete bridge, click [Apply]
Add(+) Ethernet, click [Apply].
If dhcp is use no additional steps, else re-enter manual config and click [Apply].


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Right now I'am using npm start to open a desktop app (i.e nodejs server) which uses electron framework.
So when ever I want to open that desktop app I have to open the terminal, go the application directory and use command "npm start" to open the nodejs server i.e desktop app.

I want to write a python scrip to create a desktop app, and when ever I double click that desktop icon, it should internally uses 'npm start' command to open that desktop app.

Can any one please help me, and my application directory is as:
/Desktop/Electron/charityapp.


texts:
I'm looking to buy a MacBook Pro (13"), but I want it to be as quiet as possible.
So, which MacBook Pro doesn't have fan? Only the Gen-5 Broadwell CPU?


texts: Is there a way to force iTunes to reset volume levels for audio tracks?

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I have around 17000 tracks and I think quite a few of them are leveled improperly, is there a way to have iTunes do it again?

I have iTunes Match, is this going to cause problems?


texts:
Preface: I have opened a new issue in the Chrome bug tracker because no-one could help so far.

On my OS X Mavericks, Chrome shows an annoying issue: When I open a longer web-page, like the list of questions here on SE, the first scrolling action after a couple of seconds is delayed by about 1/10 second.

This is not restricted to scrolling by mouse. When I hit the arrow keys for scrolling, the delay appears too. I have read almost all posts about scrolling lags on OS X, but all issues I have found seem to be different. My machine is really fast and I cannot complaint about other performance issues. I'm using Chrome 34.0.1847.137 and my system is

Usually, the issue shows as follows. I read a bit on the page, scroll down and the reaction on the screen is delayed. When I don't wait a few seconds between two scrolling actions, everything is fine. This is really annoying because after a while you really pay attention to this issue and it drives one crazy.

I have tried to turn on the frame-rate monitor in Chrome, but this looks fine. Funny enough, it shows the same delay. During scrolling this monitor constantly tracks frame-rate. During the delays, the frame-rate monitor freezes too.

I have tried to turn off extensions and tweak the chrome://flags/ settings without success. It seems like Chrome is going into some kind of hibernate after some seconds.

I should mention, that no other applications show this behaviour. I have tried Safari which seems fine and in other applications I haven't noticed anything unusual.

Does anyone has a solution for this?

Additional information: I need to wait about 5 seconds without doing anything before the issue appears. So when I navigate, scroll, etc and then wait 5 sec, the scrolling delays. Every scroll-direction is infected: up, down, left and right.


texts: Selectively Disable Notifications/Alerts Calendar

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Is it possible to only receive notifications in a shared calendar of events that you are invited to or that you created yourself?

I don't need alerts or notifications to an event I only want to be aware of but not going to attend (like a dinner my wife is having with her girlfriends). Likewise, my wife doesn't need to know what time she needs to leave to get to a haircut appointment I'm going to.


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Recently (last month) I upgraded from Sierra to High Sierra on one of my Macs. I now am confronted with 200GB of the 500GB 'lost'. That is, when running OmniDiskSweeper as root, I find 255GB files, but according to df, 460GB is in use. Removing large files (e.g. I removed a 33GB directory with rm) does not increase free space. I've run repair on the volume (system in target disk mode, repair executed from another Mac).

The disk was full yesterday (unexepected) and the system died. What pushed it over the edge was CrashPlan crashing and writing 12.5GB cores. I used the string command to try to find where the core dumps came from but string gave errors like "malformed object LC_SEGMENT_64 fileoff field plus filesize extends past the end of the file". That sounded like file system corruption to me, hence the attempt to repair.

I first tried to remove those core dumps to free up data, and that worked to give me 40GB. But I removed more from the disk and I never got that space back. Not even the repair gave me my disk space back. I now have a file system with 210GB space missing.

I cannot use DiskWarrior as it doesn't handle APFS. So, what can I do?


texts: Time Machine keeps asking me to create a new backup, even after I fixed the sparsebundle

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I repaired my Sparsebundle on my Time Machine server using these instructions. I edited the com.apple.TimeMachine.MachineID.plist file and the com.apple.TimeMachine.MachineID.bckup as one of the commenters on that post said that was necessary for his to backup to work again.

However, just moments after starting up the backup, I get the Time Machine error that my last verification failed and I need to create a new backup.

I checked my plist file and Time Machine changed the VerificationState from 0 to 2, obviously without performing another verification.

It seems as if Time Machine is reverting to a previous plist file, or there are other places changes must be made to continue backups. I followed the steps exactly in the post, but still cannot backup to my sparsebundle.

I also tried removing the plist and bckup files, re-running the backup, but the files were simply recreated nearly instantly, and moments later I got the same error that my last verification failed and I need to create a new backup.

I am running macOS Sierra. What could I be missing?

Other users on Ask Different have suggested that my question is a duplicate of this question, but it is not. I understand why Time Machine initially asked me to create a new backup. I have found that many people have solved the initial problem by using these instructions, however there appears to be more to it. The top upvoted answer suggests I follow the same instructions I have already followed, and while I was able to repair the sparsebundle, my specific issue is that Time Machine does not recognize the plist setting reset and immediately asks me to create a new backup. The question is why won't my plistsettings take affect and allow me to run a backup?


texts: Service to underline plain text with a line of dashes

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I am looking for a text service that I can call from a plain text editor (BBedit for example) and will operate the following modification:
Before:
This is a line of text

After:
This is a line of text
----------------------

Thanks !


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With Linux, I would use netem and add a delay + reordering rule. I am trying to achieve the same under OS X, but unfortunately, I did not find anything on the pfctl manpage.
How can I achieve the reordering of the outgoing packets on my OS X box?
Thanks


texts: sync mail folders between desktop and iphone

texts: I access two different gmail accounts using IMAP in Mail.  I organize those accounts into folders on my Mac (both gmail accounts go into the same folders).  As soon as I put an email into a folder, I can no longer access it on my iPhone.  Is there anyway to sync my folders with my iPhone as well?


texts: iPhone 4 requires recalibrating the compass almost every time I use it

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My iPhone 4 asks me to recalibrate the compass by using a figure 8 motion almost every time I use it.

I'm wondering if this happens because my phone is defective, or if other people are having the same issue.


texts: Is there a way to get the VLC app for iOS now?

texts:
This app was taken down because of licensing reasons. People have reported that they were able to get the app loaded on new devices such as the new iPad (which was released after this app was removed) because the ipa was saved in their iTunes.

Now, I don't actually have the app. I did a long time ago on an iTunes installation (on windows) that is long lost in a dusty corner of a partition on one of my many many hard drives.

My understanding is that there is some sort of signing that happens where it's impossible to download the .ipa file from some source and get it to run on your iOS device unless you jailbreak and apply AppSync (which basically hacks and bypasses the app verification).

Does this mean that I am SOL for being able to watch my collection on my new iPad without either transcoding or streaming? I could settle for streaming but it really makes me sad that awesome software like this has been taken away from us.


texts: SSD OEM Exact Model, Part Number and Manufacturer in MacBook Pro (Mid 2012)

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Does anyone know the exact manufacturer, Apple part number or model number of a 512GB SSD drive in a BTO MacBook Pro (Mid 2012)?

I cannot find any teardown photos or System Information screenshots online. This would really help inform my decision on what SSD to purchase.

Note: I am asking for information about specific hardware specs that I can not find anywhere online and are not publicly available from Apple. I am not asking how to use System Information.


texts: Shortcut to restore minimised application

texts: Is there any shortcut solution to restore minimised app without command + tab twice and option?


texts: macOS 10.13: Entering sleep mode restarts iMac

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I have a problem on my iMac (late 2013) ever since I installed High Sierra (10.13 - 17A405). When my iMac goes into sleep mode because I'm away for too long, or when I manually activate sleep mode (with holding the power button for a few seconds), it always restarts because of an encountered problem.

This gets really frustrating since this is my iMac at my work place and it happens multiple times a day. For my work I have a few programs and browser tabs open and it gets really annoying having to "ready" my computer before I can get work done multiple times a day.

For a temporary "solution" I keep my iMac inactive period (before it goes to sleep) really high (on 2 hours or so), so that whenever I leave my work space for appointments it is still on when I come back. But that is no solution and I still get this problem a few times a day

How can I prevent these reboot? I already tried resetting the PRAM, but don't know what to do other than that.


texts: Is there a difference between PC4-21333 and PC4-21000 RAM for iMac 5K 27' 2019

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I am trying to upgrade my iMac 2019 5K 27' to 64GB.

Per Apple specs, the RAM should be PC4-21333, but the only one I seem to be able to find on Amazon or macsales.com seems to be PC4-21000.

Is there an actual difference, or is it just a rounding choice?


texts: Image problem : Can't Open with... Preview

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On Mojave 10.14.6, selecting jpgs on a server but I can't use Open with... > Preview

Preview is the default app for jpgs, and 'Open with' is working fine with other file types and apps.

Any idea what's the cause and fix?


texts:
I have heard of people getting email reminders from iCal, but I can't figure out how to do it. So the obvious question is:

How do I have iCal email me reminders?

As I see now that was removed. In that case is there a widget to let me email reminders to myself?


texts: How to replace a tag with another tag system-wide?

texts:
Say I have two tags, "Green", and "Green 1".

How do I replace all instances of the "Green 1" tag with the "Green" tag, across all files on my device?


texts: Why does the YouTube app know what I have watched on youtube.com in Safari

texts:
The YouTube app seems to have access to Safari's cookies because if you watch a youtube video in Safari, the app knows it.

Is there a permissions setting to prevent this?

Is this not an alarming permissions leak?


texts: Sandisk Ultra 3.0 128GB USB can't be detected on my Mac or Windows 10 after removing it

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I bought a Sandisk Ultra 3.0 128GB USB for my Mac, a few years ago, so I could move files to windows if I wanted. All was well and working fine until I accidentally unplugged the USB from my Mac while transferring a file to it. Now my Mac is no longer able to detect the USB, and my Windows 10 desktop can see it but can no longer read it. It shows up but is is showing that it has 0 gigs
Here are some facts:
•   The USB doesn't show up on Mac in system information, disk utility, recovery mode, or when I put in the command I found to show the active drives in Terminal... It seems to have become completely invisible. (I've made sure that Finder isn't hiding it)
•   On my Mac I've tried restarting / shutting off the machine, as well as resetting the VRAM and the SMC.
•   My Mac can still detect other USB storage devices when I plug those in.
It's a MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Early 2015) running OS X Yosemite.
Any tech genius out there with a solution or some sort of idea / suggestion?
Any idea would be appreciated. It seems the USB is no longer working, I just have no idea how to get the two machines to detect it so I can repair it or so I can get the files off it.


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After an update broke my 2015 MBP, I installed Ubuntu 18.04 on it (via USB). Now I want to go back to MacOS. When I boot into recovery mode (cmd+optn+R), I reach the usual menu of options. When I select the reinstall option, it takes me to the screen with the Mojave logo in a circle, and asks me which disk I want to install on.

However, no disks appear. Recovery mode doesn't seem to recognize that I have any hard drives at all

how can I reinstall MacOS on my laptop?


texts: How does an iOS device keep time when it is out of power?

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My iPhone is always running out of battery.  However, when I power it back up, the time is still in perfect synchronization.  This begs the question: "How does it keep time when it is out of battery?"

There must be some sort of 'ticking' mechanism in the phone while it is out of battery and, thus, not entirely out of battery.


texts: High fan speed and CPU temp with low CPU usage?

texts: I've been having intermittent fan speed and high CPU temperature when my CPU usage is nearly 0%. I don't run any weird apps. If I put my computer into sleep mode and wake it back up, this fixes the issue. I think this is an System Management Controller(SMC) issue, but I'm not sure. Anyone know how to fix this permanently?


texts:
Ever since I updated my MacBook to OS X 10.10.4 a lot of my current uploaded photos from 2015 (iPhoto) can not be found?
Am I able to get these back?


texts: Any way to continue using Google Backup & Sync on an older MB Pro (mid-2009)?

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I have an older (mid-2009, 13 inch) Macbook Pro (MacBookPro5,5) running Yosemite (10.10.5).  Lately whenever I start up or shut down, a dialog pops up letting me know that Google Backup & Sync is no longer supported for older operating systems, and that I need to upgrade my OS to Sierra (10.12) or higher in order to continue using it.  Unfortunately Sierra is not supported on this model laptop, so upgrading the OS is not an option.
Am I just out of luck?  Is there any way to continue to use Backup & Sync on this computer, or will I have to find an alternative cloud sync solution (e.g. Dropbox)?
(Fine print: I am aware that there is a patch that supposedly makes it possible to install Sierra on this model MBP. I have tried installing Sierra using that patch, without success, so for now I seem to be stuck with Yosemite.  If anybody knows another way to get this computer upgraded to 10.12 or higher I would appreciate that.)


texts: Generating Safari developer certificate from Windows? The old instructions that have since been removed

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NOTE: not sure if this is best forum among the StackExchange group of forums/sites for this question. Please recommend a better one if this is not the best one.

I worked with generating Safari developer certificate from Windows before, when it was actually supported (and as such building a Safari extension on Windows as well with Safari 5). Too bad that I didn't foresee Apple dropping Windows support with Safari 6 and along with that the instructions for generating Safari developer certificate from Windows. I never did save those instructions. Wish I did.

If I'm not mistaken (since I don't have the actual instructions), I believe from Windows, if one had the instructions, it likely should still be possible to generate the certificate request file to then submit on Apple's Safari developer portal to then generate/get the final developer certificate. So that one could build extensions on Windows Safari 5, if the extension need not be Safari version targeted/specific.

So if I'm not mistaken, I was just wondering if anyone had (archived) the old Windows instructions for generating the certificate request. Sure would be nice to see/read them, even if it doesn't work anymore, as a point of reference at least.


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I recently erased my bootcamp partition through Disk Utility. I couldn't use Boot Camp Assistant and got the following error:

  The startup disk must be formatted as a single Mac OS Extended
  (Journaled) volume or already partitioned by Boot Camp Assistant for
  installing Windows.

I erased the partition and not it's empty. I am trying to merge it with my mac OS partition so I can get all my space back but now I am getting this error in the terminal

  The given partitions are not on the same whole disk

when I use

diskutil mergePartitions JHFS+ ODMac disk0s2 disk1

How can I get my storage back fully on my MacBook Air?

Here is my diskutil list output:

    /dev/disk0 (internal, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *121.3 GB   disk0
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s1
   2:          Apple_CoreStorage APPLE SSD SMO128G Media 60.4 GB    disk0s2
   3:                 Apple_Boot Recovery HD             650.0 MB   disk0s3
   4:                  Apple_HFS                         2.2 GB     disk0s4

/dev/disk1 (internal, virtual):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:                  Apple_HFS APPLE SSD SMO128G M... +60.0 GB    disk1
                                 Logical Volume on disk0s2
                                 4A71281B-ECA8-40E1-A9D3-047D036A0788
                                 Unlocked Encrypted

GPT values:

      start       size  index  contents
          0          1         PMBR
          1          1         Pri GPT header
          2         32         Pri GPT table
         34          6
         40     409600      1  GPT part - C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B
     409640  117891928      2  GPT part - 53746F72-6167-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
  118301568    1269536      3  GPT part - 426F6F74-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
  119571104    4320197      4  GPT part - 48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
  123891301  113086842
  236978143         32         Sec GPT table
  236978175          1         Sec GPT header


texts: Macbook Pro Push Notification for Hotmail

texts:
I received a notification from Apple stating that push notifications for Hotmail is getting revoked on April 8th.

Can someone help me reactivating this notification?


texts: How do I upgrade my internal SSD using a third party if my current one is not recognized (failed)?

texts:
I have a Late 2013 MBP whose 1TB SSD (PCIe) decided to suddenly fail last week. I managed to wipe and reformat the drive via target disk mode, but I cannot reinstall macOS from target disk mode (I didn't know that part beforehand). Even after reseating it multiple times my CPU doesn't even know it's there.

My plan was to buy a crucial PCIe SSD + Sintech Adapter (Apple uses a propriety PCIe connection) to replace the SSD. In addition to propriety hardware, Apple uses proprietary firmware. The workaround is to update the firmware on the internal SSD before swapping it out, but I cannot access my internal drive from my CPU!

As a sidenote, I am confident it's not the logic board since I can boot from an external HDD + there are no issues according to the Apple Diagnostics Test.

How do I upgrade without paying $$$$ to Apple in my current predicament?


texts: Recompiling bash to avoid shellshock seems to have messed up bash

texts:
I probably shouldn't have even messed with it, but I followed the instructions to recompile bash here:
How do I recompile Bash to avoid Shellshock (the remote exploit CVE-2014-6271 and CVE-2014-7169)?

Following that recompile, if I run something like wget from terminal, I get the following:
-bash: wget: command not found

And that's not the only one. A lot of the usual bash commands seems to have disappeared for me. How do I do a complete revert of bash back to normal but with the current apple supported bash patch(es)? Is there a better way to fix my problem?


texts: Connecting to MacBook Air 2017 with usb-c connection

texts:
I have my work computer that I connect to my dual monitor setup, and my MacBook Air 2017 that I can't since it doesn't have a usb-c port.

Is there any way I can use the same hub with ubc-c connection for my MacBook?


texts: Show custom image in Mac OS Mojave Dashboard

texts:
I really like the Dashboard overlay in Mac OS Mojave. Can I add a widget to show an jpg image in the dashboard?

Thank you for reading.


texts: When I try to move the folder, the copying process begins

texts:
Why, when I move (using mouse) one folder into another, instead of moving, copying process starts? How to fix it?

OS X El Capitan
Folders are located on an external drive, GUID partition scheme, connected via USB.


texts: Mount a drive as to avoid "Disk not ejected properly"

texts:
I am developing with a device that interacts with my mac as a USB drive. When uploading a program, the device will automatically disconnect itself and reset. Because of this, my mac thinks a drive has been forcefully disconnected (without ejecting first), causing it to throw the "Disk not ejected properly" error. How can I avoid this error?

Thank you!


texts:
Once a link to a photo has been created in iCloud, is there a way to invalidate the link & remove the photo?
Deleting the photo does not invalidate the link AFIK.  The photo is gone from my devices, but the created link still shows the photo.


texts:
I would like to backup the /home directory on a macbook pro running osx 10.8.5 using time machine, unfortunately this is directory is ignored by default. According to this post:

On OS X, what files are excluded by rule from a Time Machine backup?

the file:

/System/Library/CoreServices/backupd.bundle/Contents/Resources/StdExclusions.plist

stores the list of built in exclusions where the /home path is under paths that are excluded. Can I delete the line that contains the /home directory in order to add it to the list of directories that time machine will back up? What are some unintended consequences that I might run into by doing this?


texts: How can I add extra groups to Finder's recognised kinds

texts:
presently when I attempt to group files in Finder (Yosemite 10.10.3) by kind the created Documents category creates a vast number of files including CSVs DOCX etc:

Is it possible to make this groupings more efficient, by:

Grouping files by extension -or-
Defining what extensions are classified where, for instance in case of the Documents category I would like for it to contain only PDFs and DOC/X-XLS/X files whereas CSVs could be in a separate data category. The developer category is particularly messy as it tends to contain hundreds of files, lot of them created automatically when working with *.tex files.


texts: I want to power off multiple Macs everyday at 23:30 (11:30 pm)?

texts:
I have this problem in my office that multiple Macs always run 24/7 and my boss said that I need to make it stop. Now I don't have much experience with Macs, I'm more the Windows type.

I have one Mac who acts as a server and would like to run a script or something like that to orchestrate the power status of several computers if that helps.

How can I shut down all of those 7-8 Macs remotely at 11:30pm?


texts: Is there a way to see all iPhone App Store purchases?

texts: I'm wondering whether there is a way to see all iPhone App Store purchases in a similar fashion that is available on Mac App Store in Purchased section.


texts: Is there a console interface for the Client Monitor on OSX?

texts: I'm writing a bash-script at work for controlling our Mac-computers (OS X Mountain Lion) remotely. Since we use FileWave in our Company we just have to remove an Application and restart the computer. Then it will be installed from the FileWave server. Another way to do it is to uninstall and run the Client Monitor under Programs and press "Verify". Is there any way to make this "Verify"-request via the terminal?


texts: Universal Clipboard doesn't work for some apps

texts:
Since I upgraded to iOS 14 I started having problems with Universal Clipboard. It still works, but not for all apps.
For example, it stopped working for Dashlane app. I tried every single solution I found to no avail. All solutions I found helps when Universal Clipboard doesn't work at all, but that's not my case here.
Sometimes things get even weirder. For example, if I copy some text from a web page in Chrome the text is shared with macOS, but if I copy the URL from the address bar or a word from it, the copied text isn't shared. I make sure the selected text is actually copied by pasting somewhere on my iPhone, but for some reason, I can't see this text on my Macbook.
It's worth noting that Universal Clipboard works just fine in the opposite direction, from macOS to iOS.


texts: Any way to get more powerful rules for Mail.app?

texts:
Is there a way to enhance Mail.app with better rules?
What I'm missing most is regexps and the ability to group conditions and not only get "If all rules match" or If one rule match"
Alternatively is there a way to use apple-scripts as rules?
Note:
I'm not after Junk Mail Filtering


texts:
I have a family member who has dementia. Their iPhone was taken away because they kept dialing 911. I gave the family member an iPod Touch, but they really want an iPhone. I took the SIM card out of the iPhone, but discovered that it is still possible to call 911.

Is there a way to disable the 911 dialing functionality of the iPhone in the United States?


texts: Is it possible to change the birthday format in calender?

texts:
I’m showing the address book birthday’s in the calendar app but I hate that every thing I can see ist “xx. birthday of N…“ and not mor because the labels are to narrow. To see who’s birthday it is I need to click on the event.

Is it possible to an other fromat like <name> (<xx>. Birthday)


texts:
I was curious how AirPlay worked and if it uses my Wi-Fi router, or some other technology?

I was trying to use AirPlay with my 2011 MacBook Air and the new Apple TV and it was a bit laggy. Would a router upgrade improve the situation?


texts: running python script of global keyboard shortcut in OSx

texts:
Hi I wrote a python script to get the size of the file of which I have URL I copied from browser or anywhere; I wanted to create a global keyboard shortcut so I tried to create using Automator > Service > Run a shell Script and selected \usr\bin\python

and pasted the below script to execute:

from pySan import utils
import Tkinter as tk
import urllib
import os
import sys

def main():

        root = tk.Tk()
        root.withdraw()

        # get text from clipboard
        data =  root.clipboard_get()

        if not data:
                print "nothing in clipboard to get file size."
                return

        site = urllib.urlopen(data)
        meta = site.info()

        if meta.keys():
                contentLength = meta.get("Content-Length", None)
                if not contentLength:
                        print "Failed to retrieve or no data available for size"
                        return
                length = int(contentLength)
                print "Size of %s: %s " % (os.path.basename(data), ''.join(utils.sizeof(length)) )
                sys.exit(1)

if __name__ == '__main__':
        main()

but it seems to give error, workflow failed. what am I doing wrong .


texts: How to Remove iOS dev/IDE/... from Xcode?

texts:
I need space in my SSD. I just need terminal tools in OS X El-capitan, not the Xcode IDE, not iOS, ... The space 10.49 Gb is just too much in my 60 GB disk partition. These PATHs do not work anymore so I cannot delete them

~/Library/Developer/Xcode/iOS DeviceSupport/
~/Library/Application Support/iPhone Simulator
...

How can you remove iOS/IDE/... from Xcode?