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I have a Raspberry Pi I want to automount on my Desktop (Yosemite 10.10.1).  I've installed OSXFuse (with the MacFuse option) and SSHFS both from https://osxfuse.github.io/.  I'm using the password method for now and will establish certificates after I get this problem solved.

The following command works fine from Terminal:

/bin/mkdir /Volumes/RaspPi ; echo "mypassword" | /usr/local/bin/sshfs myuserid@192.168.8.16:/ /Volumes/RaspPi -o workaround=rename -o password_stdin -o allow_other -o defer_permissions -ovolname=RaspPi

Placing it into a launchd plist worked the first day.  The volume would get mounted and if I ejected it, launchd would remount it.  But subsequently it has failed with the error:

kernel[0]: OSXFUSE: user-space initialization failed (4)

The RaspPi mountpoint gets created in /Volumes, but the volume doesn't get mounted.

The plist contains these lines:

    <string>bash</string>
    <string>-c</string>
    <string>/bin/mkdir /Volumes/RaspPi ; echo "mypassword" | /usr/local/bin/sshfs myuserid@192.168.8.16:/ /Volumes/RaspPi -o workaround=rename -o password_stdin -o allow_other -o defer_permissions -ovolname=RaspPi</string>

I reviewed a lot of discussion about OSXFuse working via Terminal and not in launchd, but none of the solutions dealt with "initialization failed (4)".  They all seemed to deal with a socket problem and error 57.  I tried a few of those solutions, but they did not help.

Any suggestions?


texts: MAC OS X 10.8.4 Login Stuck on password - Restart logind service?

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I have a remote MAC that is stuck on the login screen for the local user. The login screen is stuck right after the password was entered. I can login to the remote MAC with ssh and run commands. This MAC is hosting a database for other users so I would rather not restart it if possible.

Is there a command I can run that would restart the core service logind so that I do not have to restart the computer?

If the answer is no, can I restart the computer using sudo shutdown -r now remotely over ssh?


texts: Can't control monitor volume with keyboard on 2018 Mac mini

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I just decommissioned my 2011 iMac and replaced it with a 2018 Mac mini and a new 27" monitor. The iMac is where I used to play audio and controlling from the keyboard (F10 - F12) was never a problem. I am now connecting to the new monitor via HDMI (v1.4). It will play audio, but I can't control it from the keyboard - I get this instead:

When I go to the Sound in System Preferences, this is what I see for output:

This leads me to believe that connecting via display port might possibly give me the ability to control via keyboard? I can't seem to get a USB-C to mDP cable to send a signal, so I'm guessing I need Thunderbolt 3 to mDP. Does anyone know if that will work before go and buy the cable?
Any other tips that may work for getting control of the audio on the keyboard when connected via HDMI v1.4?


texts: Applications for finding iPhone 4 locally?

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Like many people, I'm having trouble finding an iPhone 4 for purchase in my area. Right now, I'm using an advanced Twitter search to monitor tweets in my area, looking for people celebrating the purchases of their new iPhones, and I'm calling local personal electronics stores after they receive their shipments.

Are there any applications (web or Mac) that could assist me in my search? Feel free to include applications that weren't designed for this purpose. I'm looking for an iPhone 4, but software that helps with this search could help others looking for hardware at other times also.


texts: Why is my Magic TrackPad losing functionality after Fast User Switching several times?

texts: Basically, after using Fast User Switching to go back and forth between my wife's login and my own, we begin to experience loss of capactive touch functions on the Magic TrackPad. This occurred on both Snow Leopard and now Lion. A little more detail is in my post here: https://discussions.apple.com/message/15712385#15712385


texts: Save my Clash of Clans village to Game Center

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My son was playing Clash of Clans on my iPhone in my Game Center. I then started playing it but never saved it to my Game Center and now it says if I want to save it I  will have to go to his level. I transferred his to his iPod.

My question is how can I save mine to my Game Center now without going backwards to his village ?


texts: Is it safe to Symlink your applications folder?

texts: If you had a NAS and you were going to store all your applications on there, would it be safe to - on the computers accessing it - replace their application folder with a symlink to the folder on the NAS?


texts: Sharing screen snippets from Windows 10 to iPad 7

texts:
Is there a good way to share screen snippets taken with Windows⇧ ShiftS to an iPad?
Window's cloud clipboard requires Microsoft launcher.


texts: Is it possible to password protect access to a folder with your macOS password?

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I'm trying to figure out the best place for me to backup my Lastpass CSV and it seems like the best place to put it would be on my full-disk-encrypted macbook, but I would like to be able to require a password before someone is actually able to read it.

I know I can password protect a folder with a chosen password but that's likely something that will be forgotten.

Is there a way to set the permissions of a file to require the Admin password before viewing the contents?


texts: VMware - Switch between macOS Guest and Host

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I am running macOS High Sierra as guest OS using VMware on a host running macOS High Sierra. The guest OS is running in full-screen.

I am looking for a mechanism (possibly a keyboard shortcut) to switch from guest OS to host while keeping guest full-screen in it's own separate Space/Desktop.

I am effectively looking for a key-sequence that will be recognised only by the host and not the guest instance of macOS.

Any idea about how to do this?


texts: Photos.app doesn't play audio from videos recorded by Olympus camera

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Apple's Photo.app has no problem playing the audio from some videos (for example, videos recorded by an iPhone). But it does not play the audio from videos created by an Olympus SZ-31MR digital camera.

These videos do play within Photos, but they are silent.

When played in Quicktime Player (and VLC), the audio plays correctly.

According to Quicktime Player, videos from this camera are encoded as "H.264, 1920 × 1080, Millions; 16-bit Integer (Little Endian), Stereo, 32.000 kHz"

This is in OS X El Capitan (10.11.2) and Photos.app 1.3 (350.23.0), but the problem is not new. This thread on discussions.apple.com claims the problem is the audio codec used by the Olympus camera.

Is there a way in which I can play these videos and get sound, without having to find the individual video files and open them in Quicktime.app? Any of the following solutions would be acceptable:

Some kind of install (a Quicktime plugin?) that fixes the behaviour in Photos.
An alternative photo browser that can import (or view in place) the Photos library and which can play the audio in these videos. (I've tried Lyn, but that has the same behaviour as Photos.)
Some way of transcoding these videos so that the audio plays in Photos. I have lots of videos and import new videos regularly, so a convenient interface would be important here.


texts: Mavericks update broke keyboard shortcut for switching Spaces

texts: I've upgraded to Mavericks from Mountain Lion. I've used the keyboard shortcut "Control" + "number" to switch between Spaces. The upgrade broke this. I've checked System Preferences and all the settings are the same as before. Is there a fix to restore this feature? Thanks


texts: How to permanently unhide the Users Library folder in Catalina

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I would like to permanently unhide the /Users/<myname>/Library folder so that it is always viewable in a new Finder window. Please note, I am NOT referring to the Option+Go menu method. MacOS version is 10.15.2

I have tried:

chflags nohidden ~/Library
killall Finder

This does not have the desired effect. I would prefer not to resort to:

defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles TRUE


texts: I am trying to copy a whole bunch different files' contents into one big file. Is there a way to do this without having to open up each individual file and copying and pasting the contents? Is there a quick way to just right click a file and copy the contents directly? Thanks in advance!


texts: How can I use a Linux box's display as a third display for my MacBook Pro?

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At work, I have a MacBook Pro that I use as my primary machine. I also have a RHEL6 box that has a dual-head graphics card. When my KVM is switched to the Mac, the second display that is hooked to the Linux box is not being used.

I know there is software the enable other computers to act as displays over a network without an additional physical display connection. Is there software that supports a Linux workstation being the third display for my Mac?


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I was wondering if there is a script I can add to Safari 13.0.1 to make the active tab move to the left.  The description of what I am trying to do is here; https://blog.burkeware.com/2015/12/01/tab-stack-for-safari/
I clicked the link and then downloaded. When I clicked the extension to install, the box popped up that says my version of safari doesn't support this.

Is there some script out there I could get this action accomplished, and what are the steps to get that script installed?  I have used some script before, but only with Automator.

Maybe someone out there could update the old Tab Stack to work with new Safari.

Hopefully someone can help, thanks
Cap'n


texts: Why are my lights always "Updating" in Apple Home?

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Over the past weeks, after working pretty reliably for several months, my Hue lights spend most of the time "Updating" (and unusable) in Apple Home. Restarting and force-restarting the Home app does nothing, nor does restarting the iPhone.

Is this a known bug? Is there a fix?


texts: How can I define Control and Command buttons on a Microsoft Sculpt Ergonomic Desktop keyboard?

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I want to use my new MacMini M1 with a Microsoft Sculpt Ergonomic Desktop keyboard.
It doesn't have a Command key so in order to use the hotkeys starting with Command I switched between Command and Control. But i also would like to use the hotkeys starting with Control, what is the best way to do it?


texts: Is the "Battery Is Not Charging" state harmful?

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I have an Early 2015 Retina MacBook Pro. Sometimes I forget my charger and end up using my girlfriend's charger, which is for a 2011 MacBook Air, with a MagSafe to MagSafe 2 adapter.

When I do so, the Battery status menu reads "Battery Is Not Charging", but the charge level in Activity Monitor appears to stay constant, so I can keep using my computer.

Does this harm my battery in any way?


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I have an Xubuntu server set up with SSH. I can connect to it using Putty on Windows and via a Chrome SSH plugin on my Mac. However, when I use terminal client it just hangs for a bit and then I get a connection reset. The debug output is:

ssh xxxxx@xx.xx.xx.xx:2222 -v

OpenSSH_6.2p2, OSSLShim 0.9.8r 8 Dec 2011
debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh_config
debug1: /etc/ssh_config line 20: Applying options for *
debug1: /etc/ssh_config line 102: Applying options for *
debug1: Connecting to xx.xx.xx.xxx:2222 [xx.xx.xx.xx] port 22.
debug1: Connection established.
debug1: identity file /Users/xxxxx/.ssh/id_rsa type -1
debug1: identity file /Users/xxxxx/.ssh/id_rsa-cert type -1
debug1: identity file /Users/xxxxx/.ssh/id_dsa type -1
debug1: identity file /Users/xxxxx/.ssh/id_dsa-cert type -1
debug1: Enabling compatibility mode for protocol 2.0
debug1: Local version string SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_6.2

Does anyone have any advice?


texts: If I want to use VS to use Xamarin.iOS and Xamarin.Android do I have to keep Xamarin Studio installed on my Mac? VS has always been my favorite IDE, I don't really like Xamarin Studio.


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I have a Macbook with several user accounts. Most of the accounts have administrator privileges. The computer's hard disk is encrypted using FileVault.

Is there a way to additionally encrypt each users' home directory so as to prevent other admin users from accessing the others' directories?

I'm (always) running the newest OS X (10.10.4 at the time of writing).


texts: Using an External HDD as a bootable Windows Disk

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I want to use my external HDD as a bootable USB drive so I can install Windows 7 via bootcamp but I am having trouble getting bootcamp to just use one partition of the drive.

When I get to the stage in Bootcamp where a bootable drive is created, Bootcamp teLls me it is going to delete all the data on my HDD, this is not what I want, I just want Bootcamp to use one of the partitions on the HDD to create the Bootable disk, but it doesn't give me that option.Does anyone know a know a way to solve this problem?


texts:
After reading the articles in the the latest Apple event (September/15) I remember reading something about Apple introducing the ability to restore backed up media/contacts to an Android device. I am not sure if this is an IOS 9 feature or an ICloud feature.

Since I read this I cannot find the original article or any other reference to this functionality.

Perhaps someone read or saw something about this and could provide me with a link or more details.


texts: Standard Windows Keyboard - wrong keys recognised

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I have a classic British Windows keyboard plugged into my Mac Mini. I'm sure I had it working but now it's not... I can choose between these two layouts but neither is correct:

My keyboard, like every other UK PC keyboard, has backslash to the left of Z, and nothing to the right of [ & ].

How can I reset this - reinitialise the keyboard?


texts: How can I download all MP3 files from a web site?

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I am wondering if there is any software available in OS X that can download all mp3s or specific type of file from a URL. For e.g. I have a url http://www.parweztv.com/Khan%20Adeeb/SURA-04/ and I want to grab all mp3 from this url instead of right clicking one by one and saving it.

Also wondering, if that can be done using wget or some terminal command in OS X?


texts: Display port not activating monitor for boot manager

texts:
I'm setting up an old mac mini (specs below) with a dual boot (Ubuntu) and I've run into an issue getting to the Apple boot manager or the EFI boot manager.  Essentially the monitor does not activate for either boot manager, however, if I wait or hit return straight away OSX loads, if I hit right and then return Ubuntu loads.  So the boot manager is there but the screen simply isn't coming on yet. As soon as an os loads the monitor comes on and works just fine.

The monitor is connected to the mac mini using a display port cable.  The monitor works just fine on other computers with the same cable.  I've tried a whole load of things:

reset PRAM or NVRAM and SMC
tried a different cable (display port adaptor to vga cable - so different port on the monitor)
did a fresh install of OSX (initially 10.6 and then updated to 10.8.5)
tried a different monitor (an old vga CRT)

always the same.  I'm now using the hdmi out of the mac mini (hdmi adaptor to dvi cable) and the monitor displays the boot manager as expected on boot up.

So the problem seems to be either the display port on the mac mini (which doesn't make sense - it doesn't work and then it works once the os is loaded) or perhaps a display port driver (is the driver that specific?) incompatibility with the monitor (but it does the same with a different monitor) - neither really makes sense.

Does the boot manager use its own drivers?  Could they be corrupt (across fresh installs)?  Is there something I'm missing here that I could try?

--

Mac Mini mid 2010, 2.4Ghz Intel Core 2 Duo
Nvidia GeForce 320m 256mb
OSX 10.8.3


texts: Airdrop Cancels Transfers with no error message

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Although there's free space on the target device, when I attempt to transfer a folder of media from my MacBook to my iPad Air 2 (circa 2014) running IOS 14.2, this fails reporting (on the MacBook) that the Airdrop was Cancelled after I accepted it and choose to save it to files.
Now I know I didn't "cancel" the transfer. And the same transfer SUCCEEDS on my iPad Pro (2018).
Why/How is this failing?


texts: How might I make a shortcut for switching my macbook into airplay screensharing mode with my apple tv?

texts:
Now that Apple TV shares synchronized audio&video from my Macbook without any limitations or constraints (seamlessly), it seems pretty common sense that there might be a (Launcher or topbar) shortcut out there that could toggle my airplay configurations between on and off. Is there?

Thanks


texts: Is it possible to fully separate corporate from private contact data on a BYOD?

texts:
I did some research on the various ways how corporate data can be protected on a user owned device (BYOD) running iOS.

My understanding is that, through mobile device management (MDM), I could create networking and usage restrictions for certain apps specifically. For example, I could require the user to be connected through a specific VPN in order to use app "X".

I also understand that data is separated logically in the way that, for example, the contact data retrieved from an Exchange Server is only available as long as the configuration setting for said server is active on the device. Deleting it also removes the contacts from the device.

What I cannot figure out is if there is a possibility to limit the scope of the contact data provided by such a corporate server without resorting to third party apps that containerize the data entirely. I'll try to make this clearer with an example.

On my private iPhone, I can allow apps such as WhatsApp or facebook to access my contacts. I am using multiple cloud accounts that sync contacts to my device but on my private device without any mdm, I am not able to restrict this setting to just one specific cloud account - if I understand correctly, "contacts" just means any contact the device has access to.

As the corporate administrator of an mdm solution, would it be possible for me to restrict this, i.e. prevent the user from giving access to company owned contact data to third party apps while not restricting him if he does so with the contact data held locally or coming from a private server?


texts: How do I use iMessages without a sim card?

texts: I recently received an iPhone 3G from a friend. She took out her SIM card, so I don't have a SIM on my iPhone. I heard that you can now text on iMessage using your email instead of a phone number. I went to Settings > Messages, and I put in my email address, but my friend's number is on top. I'm tying to delete it, but I can't. I also have no SIM.


texts: Can I add all Junk Mail to Mail's home screen?

texts: In mail I can add views like All Drafts or All Trash to my main menu, but I don't see All Junk Mail. Can I add this to Mail's home screen?


texts: How to grep with filename highlighted in one color, and the match highlighted in another color?

texts: On the Mac, I can't seem to use grep and have the filename highlighted (or in) a certain color, and have the matching string in a different color.  Is there an easy way?


texts: Unknown Calendar: where does it come from?

texts:
Within Calendar (6.0) on Mountain Lion, beside my own 12 calendars, I noticed a calendar named Calendar.

I didn't create it. All my calendars are coming from a recent migration
from Snow Leopard to Mountain Lion.

Where does this Calendar come from?
Is this a default calendar automatically created by Calendar (the application)?

Through an export (under ics format) I discovered that it is empty.

I'd like to remove this abnormal Calendar.
Does anyone know if this default calendar is necessary for one of the Calendar functions?


texts: Why is VLC verified every time I open a file that is supposed to open with it?

texts: I have downloaded VLC for Mac, and I installed it. Now every time I open a video that is supposed to be opened by VLC, it starts verifying again, like it is the first time and it will install it. I also don't see a shortcut in the Applications folder. What is the way around this?


texts: How to select a paragraph using 3D Touch

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On my iPhone 7 using iOS 10, I can hard press on the keyboard to move the cursor around. I've noticed on a few occasions that, instead of moving the cursor around, hard pressing on the keyboard will select a paragraph of text. However, I haven't figured out what aspect of hard pressing on the keyboard triggers a paragraph to be selected.

So my question is: how can I select a paragraph of text using by hard pressing on the keyboard and using 3D Touch?


texts: A way to run console commands in menu bar?

texts:
I have a couple of console commands that I a) want to run and stop at demand (optionally automated) and b) without opening terminal window and/or leaving it open, ideally from menu bar. Some of them require root.

(One example of such command is proximac — it forces certain apps to use proxy, useful when they don’t respect system proxy settings. I want to run it when I connect to SOCKS proxy at work, and stop when I leave)

What’s the best way or app to launch command line tools from the menu bar?


texts: Can I put a dummy app in the App Store to install a GPL app?

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Apps licensed under the GNU GPL are not allowed in the App Store (Mac or iOS) because Apple's terms and the terms of the GPL are mutually incompatible.

Could this problem be bypassed by releasing a non-GPL dummy application which simply downloads and installs the GPL application? Would Apple accept such an application?

If necessary, the dummy app could be marketed as a "downloader" or "updater" for the GPL app.


texts: Why can't I import AAC files downloaded with youtube-dl into iTunes?

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When I download a song with youtube-dl into AAC, then I cannot import it into iTunes. iTunes doesn't give an error. It just ignores it.

youtube-dl -x --audio-format aac https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abc123 --verbose

[download] 100% of 5.88MiB in 00:03
[debug] ffmpeg command line: ffprobe -show_streams "file:xxxxxx.webm"
[ffmpeg] Destination: xxxxxxxx-xxxxxxxxx.aac
[debug] ffmpeg command line: ffmpeg -y -loglevel "repeat+info" -i "file:xxxxxxxxxxxx.webm" -vn -acodec aac "-q:a" 5 -f adts "file:xxxxxxxx.aac"
Deleting original file xxxxxxxxxxxx.webm (pass -k to keep)

ffprobe xxxxxxxxxxxx.aac

[aac @ 0000006501ace3c0] Estimating duration from bitrate, this may be inaccurate
Input #0, aac, from 'xxxxxxxxx.aac':
  Duration: 00:12:39.84, bitrate: 249 kb/s
    Stream #0:0: Audio: aac (LC), 48000 Hz, stereo, fltp, 249 kb/s

It works with m4a.

iTunes Version 12.9.4.102

@nohillside Yes it happens with all AAC files I try to download with youtuble-dl. Yes it does work if I use mp3 also. Yes I am using Windows.

@slm I don't have any original AAC files to test with. All AAC files have been generated with ffmpeg/youtube-dl. I found this sample AAC file from http://samplephotovideo.com/2015/12/download-aac-mpeg-2-advanced-audio-coding-file/, http://cdn.online-convert.com/example-file/audio/example.aac, and was unable to import it into iTunes. Drag & Drop shows a red-circle-crossed and File > Add File to Library just ignores it.


texts:
The Android equivalent of Cydia is the F-Droid app. The associated F-Droid repo contains strictly free/libre/open-source software.

Is there an equivalent Cydia repo that only hosts libre software? (A repo where it is trivially easy to filter for libre software is acceptable.)


texts: I can't remember my iTunes password and the email it's tied to is no longer active

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I have been trying for months to log into my iTunes account on my iPad but my usual choices of passwords are not working. When choosing "forgot my password" it wants to email me at an old Verizon.net address that has been long disabled. Before arriving at the security questions it prompts me for my birthdate, of which it too says is invalid...I'm at a loss. I know my birthdate is correct but I am stuck. Is there any way to find out the password when the email it is tied to is long gone?
I even attempted to start over by creating an entirely new Apple account but I can't reset my iPad without the old password. Aargh! Please help


texts: Pros and cons of enabling “Put hard disks to sleep when possible?”

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I'm not big on saving electricity at all and I'm trying to decide whether to select Mac's “Put hard disks to sleep when possible.”

What are the pros and cons of doing so?

For example, can I expect the hardware to last longer by keeping the hard disks on 24/7 versus putting them to sleep?

I'm using MacBook Pro (2017) running Sierra (10.12), but question is also interested in other (future) versions.

And why is “…hard disks…” plural when there's only one?


texts: Is it taxing on the mac computers' performance to have multiple user accounts and not log out of them?

texts:
I have separated my digital life into 2 user accounts on my macbook into work and personal. In order to switch between these two accounts more easily I usually lock the screen and switch to the other account without logging out.
I was curious if this is costly on my machine's performance? One other way I'd like to ask this question is, do you think mac OS stores a "snapshot" of the user account in the storage to be reopened when you unlock the account? or is it taking up space in the memory this way?


texts: MacBook Air 2015; Login and recovery mode failed

texts:
I’ve been having problems with my MacBook Air (Early 2015). Since installing an update to 10.13.6 (From 10.13.3, I believe) the computer freezes once the progress bar fills up on the login screen. Rebooting has not resolved the issue. I have tried to enter safe mode and recovery mode (Command-R); the result is the same, and the computer will not transition to the recovery mode interface.
Option-command-R and Shift-option-command-R generate error messages -5101 and -2003 respectively, which don’t seem to be often  cited on these forums. Similarly, a PRAM/NVRAM reset has been unhelpful.
Single user mode (Command-S) works fine, but I haven’t found any set of commands which has fixed my problem. Verbose mode is inconclusive, and the text stops updating after a minute or two, except for ‘busy timeout ‘IGPU’’ messages. I have also considered that this may be a hardware issue, but have never experienced problems with this laptop before.
Has anyone experienced something like this before or does anyone have a possible solution?
Cheers
Edit:  Attached are two images of the final screen before timeout messages start happening. The command line doesn’t seem entirely consistent each time I start it up: some additional messages appeared here. Unfortunately, it doesn’t let me post a video.

Note: the image at the bottom is of the latest state of the screen.
Regarding Target Disk mode, I don’t have a second computer on hand right now, but I’d be able to set that up in the near future. I don’t have an external display.)

UPDATE 2:

![enter image description here]
(https://i.stack.imgur.com/04dfs.jpg)

These are logs after entering the command ‘exit’. I got IGPU messages after this; this time though, the syntax is ‘kextd stall, (240s): ‘IGPU’. Hopefully this is helpful, but from what I understand it could mean any number of things. Presumably the AppleKeyStore messages are also useful?

I now have access to another computer. Since this mode is mostly used to get files from a Mac, what specifically should I be looking out for?

As I mentioned initially, ‘Option-Command-R’ and ‘Shift-Option-Command-R’ don’t work either: I have since tried them again, and ‘Option-Command-R’ returns error message -5101 (after typing in correct internet password). ‘Shift-Option-Command-R’ boots into Internet Recovery (with the spinning globe), but then seems to go back to the login screen, which is always a dead end.

So I guess I should be looking for any fix to this which doesn’t  require the login screen to take effect. I haven’t been able to find a solution allowing me to reinstall macOS and bypass recovery mode - is that possible?
EDIT: When the Mac is on, I also sporadically get the voiceover message ‘To choose English as your main language, press the ‘return’ key...’ I think this has something to do with recovery mode.


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I'm not sure what's causing it, but suddenly the systemd process just started using about 150% CPU (according to my iStat menu). I checked in Activity Monitor and it said the same. I checked the CPU temperature and it was almost 100℃ so I immediately shut down. I turned it back on and the same thing happened, so I shut down again and, after trying a couple more times, logged into the guest account.

So now I'm in the guest account, everything's fine, but obviously I can't stay here forever. I can get some additional information if you need it, but I don't really want to go back into my user unless it's necessary (100℃ is very high).

Any solutions?

(p.s. I'm running High Sierra 10.13.4 Beta. I'm tempted to get off the Beta version, but I'm not sure how)


texts:
I am using bluetooth keyboard and I want to swap the fn and control keys.
Is it possible?


texts: Macbook7.1 (Macbook mid-2010 ) White unibody bottom rubber falling off

texts: The bottom cover on my Macbook7.1 (mid-2010) White Unibody is beginning to fall of. I tried using some glue that a guy from a repair shop I could use for rubber-on-aluminium. I tried it and all I got is an awful smell of the glue which sticked right off, and couldn't hold it for long.I can clean the glue off, and I can try a second time to stick it back. Anyone any suggestions on a glue? Or a cheap new bottom rubber cover for my Macbook? Thanks guys!


texts:
Does anybody know how to configure the status bar (bar size, icons and font size, and so on)?

I'd like to do it while keeping the screen resolution, of course.

I've browsed and searched both Ask Different and the web to little or no avail.


texts: Seeking for some advice of Mac Mini vs Macbook Pro both maxed out specs

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I am looking for some advice about getting a macbook pro or mac mini. Basically, the case with me is that I currently have a mid 2014 macbook pro that is a base model. I use the macbook pro at home and on the go, so it was inevitable that the ram and hard drive space was not enough for me. I am considering upgrading to the macbook pro model 13" with processor and ram maxed out along with 512 GB of disk space. However, I recently noticed that most of my heavy duty work (i.e.: running matlab/data analysis/VM at the same time, which are typically done at home and with my current set up at home, I have 2 27" monitors connected to the macbook pro). So, I recently thought about the mac mini and how it might be a better decision while using my macbook pro on the go. I just turned out to be a laptop guy so I never really thought about getting desktops but I really enjoy the portability of laptops but mac mini to be honest is also not to immobile also.

So I'm looking for some advice. I noticed that if I were to buy either, they both have i7 processors while macbook pro has turbo boost up to ~3.3 GHz with 3MB of shared L3 cache and mac mini has 3.5 GHz 4mb shared L3 cache. Though I'm unsure about the hyper threading capabilities of the Mac mini compared to the macbook pro. Seems to be a majority of the difference would be the disk space, if I'm correct.

Or the 3rd option is just to all out and go for a refurbished mac pro, which I noticed has 12GB of L3 cache + 10GB of memory for base, which is just insane but I do have a limited budget and can't afford to get upgrades for the mac pro.

What are your recommendations ? I appreciate any advice and thanks in advance.


texts: How to enable faster WiFi Roaming with Mac OS X & Airport base stations

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How can I change the way Macbooks roam on the WiFi network? I would like to speedup the roaming of Macs (and maybe other devices).

Is there a setting on the Airport base stations or in Mac OS to speedup AP switching for example?

Currently the network is built around 1 main Switch interconnecting 1 router and 4 Airport base stations using the same SSID:

3 dual band Airport base stations
1 Airport 2.4GHz base station

On the 5GHz band, there is no overlap as each base station uses its own channel.

On the 2.4GHz band there is a very slight overlap between 2 base stations which are at opposite sides and at different stories of the building.


texts: Creating Network Between Macbooks for Screen Sharing

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I have 1 Macbook Air and 1 Macbook Pro.

Macbook Pro screen is broken so I log into Macbook Pro by Screen Sharing app on my home local network and view it in my Macbook Air.

But for traveling, e.g. Hotel, how can I create a network between Macbook Air and Macbook Pro so that they can find their IPs and connect through Screen Sharing app?

Is it necessary to have router or modem to have those computers in network? Or is there any cable solution between computers that it can allow me to use Screen Sharing app?


texts:
I have Outlook 2016 and I'm trying to pickup my gmail using IMAP.  I can receive emails, but it does not send when doing a test send on setting up the email. Error code: 0x800cce05

SMTP Server:
smtp.gmail.com
My outgoing server requires authentication (ticked)
Port: 465 (SSL). Also tried 587, SSL, TLS

It works fine on my mobile, works fine with Office 2010. Works fine with Windows 10 mail. But not with Office Outlook 2016.


texts: How can I remap arrows keys to other short cut?

texts:
I am a programmer, I need to use arrows keys a lot, so can I remap these keys to other keys?

I have downloaded the karabiner, however, I cannot define the complex modifications rules myself, karabiner only provide default rules. Yet, I want some new rule, like arrow up can be triggered by fn + i.


texts: Music app that integrates well with Synology NAS

texts:
I'm looking for music software that will work well integrating with a large (~1TB) music collection on a Synology device.

Requirements:

Fast searching
Fast connection
adapts happily to NAS being available/not available (no need to manually reconnect/reload)
keeping up to date passively when files are added to the NAS library.
ability to easily copy files over.

I have a synology NAS and I have iTunes Media Server running on it. It fulfills a number of these but fails pretty extremely at #1 and 2.


texts: I lost my iPad, can I track it if the battery is dead?

texts:
If the battery is dead, how can I track my iPad? What if it says iCloud offline on device? Is it because my iPad is wiped or the power is dead?
- if so, how can I figure out the seriel number on my iPad to track it in that sort of way


texts: Cannot input password when selecting network SSID to perform internet recovery

texts:
So after hitting command + R I am brought to a screen that prompts me to select my wifi network. Once I select my network SSID I get a field where I can input the password to my network however I am unable to select the field to enter my password. There is a lock icon to the left of the password entry field and a spinning indicator on the right.

As a result I am unable to perform an internet recovery as I cannot connect to internet.


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I have quite strange issue. I've bought new D-link router I can manage at 192.168.0.1 - I can log in into router interface but for some of subpages (in fact for most of them) I'm getting "Router not found". I'm using Wifi.

I've verified it on Ethernet on Windows - it's working fine. I've also verified it using Wifi on Windows tablet and it's also working fine.

Can be any MacOS system setting that is causing problem with this? Everything else is working pretty fine - I have connection to router all the time, Internet is working also fine.


texts: How to backup external NTFS drive via Time Machine?

texts:
I currently have an external, HFS+ drive as my time machine storage that backs up my Macbook Pro Retina (Mac OS Mountain Lion 10.8.1). I also have another external NTFS drive (that I share with my Windows Desktop) which has all my photos etc which I would like to backup via Time Machine.

i.e.
Current

Macbook Pro Retina ===> external Time Machine drive

Desired:

Macbook Pro Retina ===\
                       +====> external Time Machine drive
External NTFS drive ==/

If I go into the Time Machine preferences, I see the external NTFS drive (as well as all other NTFS/HFS+ drives) inside the exclude list. I can also remove the NTFS drive of interest from this exclude list - thereby including it into the backup list.

The problem is that the settings aren't sticky. When I reenter the Time Machine preferences, the external NTFS drive is again seen on the exclude list. And the actual files themselves aren't backed up either.

So, how can I backup the data on my external NTFS drive via Time Machine?


texts: Can you save your app progress between different apple devices?

texts: I'm changing iPads soon for school from a old ipad to a new ipad air. I was wondering if I used the same Apple ID, could have save the progress from the games or apps I have in the old ipad and keep them in the new one. I know it saves the game so that you don't have to pay for it again just in care it isn't free. But, let's say I wanna save my Flappy Bird high score. If I get the app on my new ipad air, is there a way I could open the app up without having to start from 0 again. Also, documents in the notability app, is their an easier way to transport them to the new ipad. And music as well? Thank you very much!


texts: Per App setting for 'Use font smoothing when available'?

texts:
Historically this setting (System Preferences -> General) controls
  subpixel font anti-aliasing.

  Since Mojave deprecates subpixel rendering, it controls how much
  greyscale anti-aliasing is applied. That is, the text looks more bold
  when this is checked.

Is it possible to tweak this setting per app (defaults write stuff), especially for the menu bar?


texts: Where can I find screencapture to replace mine that is broken?

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Some days ago I've accidentally replaced my /usr/sbin/screencapture with a newer one from 10.8 with the hope of getting more options for that command.

However now it doesn't work and I'd like to get the older one (compatible with osx 10.5.8) to fix the problem.

Where can I find it?


texts:
Some of the shortcut titles take up too much space and are truncated. System Preferences cannot be resized, so I cannot see the full name.

Is there any other way?


texts: Apple Screen Sharing Only Controls One Display?

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UPDATE: I figured out in part what is happening, but not why or how to change this behavior.  When at the computer itself, Finder only activates the screen you are on when you click on the desktop(Finder) or a window on that screen. All other Finder screens are inactive.
When connected via VNC or ARD/ScreenSharing only the first screen becomes active even if that screen was not the active one when you first connected.  If another screen was active at the time you connect it becomes inactive and the first becomes active the first click that occurs. It is like the first screen has occupied all screen spaces.

ORIGINAL POST
As I mentioned in a previous question, I have a MacPro with 6 DVI monitors. We'd like to remotely manage it when necessary via Screen Sharing but it appears that only the first screen/display is actually controllable even though the content from all of the displays is visible. The menu bar is greyed out on all except the first screen and none of the apps are responsive.

This occurs both with the Apple Screen Sharing as well as via VNC. Both are enabled via Remote Management as opposed to Screen Sharing.

Is there a way to activate the rest of the desktops? On the rest of the laptops around the office with monitors and only two displays, this lockout does not occur.


texts: I am using a Mackbook Pro that I purchased in 2011 using OS X 10.8.5 and want to upgrade it to Yosemite

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I want to upgrade to Yosemite but before I do, I need to know if the upgrading process will require I reinstall all my apps once the upgrade is done. I am in the middle of a lot of work and don't have time to re-install every app again such as Photoshop, Lightroom and a host of other phoography related software.

Thanks for your help.

Charles


texts: Migration assistant doesn't see correct OS partition inside a Time Machine backup

texts:
I have been making TM backups from my laptop (within mainOS), to an external HDD. The laptop's storage was partitioned like this:

disk0s2: /Volumes/oldOS (JHFS+)
disk0s3: /Shared (either JHFS+ or APFS, am not sure)
disk0s4: / + /Volumes/mainOS (APFS container with 1 volume)

The oldOS partition has 10.11 I think, kept around for legacy software. It's pretty barebones, sharing no user data with the mainOS installation.
After failing to make block-device copies between the old and new machines (ending up with unbootable OS partition), I decided to go the way of clean OS installation + migration from TM backup. OS on the new hardware is the same (10.14.6 with latest updates), made a temporary user account to access OS updates, etc., and I launch the migration assistant - and I'm stuck because Migration Assistant only detects/shows the oldOS installation.
Is there any way out of this mess? Pointing Migration Assistant to the right path explicitly? Doctoring the TM backup to hide the oldOS partition?
I'm about to try restoring the TM backup to another external drive from another Mac so that I can present it to MA as a drive from another Mac and make changes to it as necessary. Will get back with results, and would appreciate a quicker way to get this done.


texts: How to pass user input to Apple Script then execute?

texts:
How do I configure Automator to ask for a text input (example: enter website url) and pass the answer to an AppleScript that executes this command:

video-dl (user input)

So, this would be executed in the terminal:

video-dl http://www.example.com/video.mpg


texts: Any iPhone free app could convert *.wmv file to *.MP4?

texts: I'm using mobile more often than notebook, so would like to have an app converting videos.


texts: My 3g dongle (micromax mmx352g) is working fine in the Mavericks in my MBP but in My MAC Mini which i upgrade to el capitan GM is not working .it's not even detecting the dongle. Is there any generic script or software that detects the 3g hardware and connect it internet via apn .


texts: Is there any way to get to 7.1.2 without going to 8 on my old iPad?


texts: What's the difference between launchd and folder actions?

texts:
Could someone please briefly explain to me the difference between launchd and folder actions?

Do folder actions use launchd?

Is one more efficient than the other?

Is one more powerful than the other?

Is one used more over the other?

What is the difference between launch and launchctl?

Thanks!


texts: Is there an easy way to make Apple Watch chime or tap hourly or more?

texts:
One of my planned uses of the Apple Watch was to use the Haptic technology to make a discreet tap on the hour and 20 minute marks, to gauge appointment times. But I was dumbfounded to see that Apple has not built any kind of a chime into the Apple Watch!

Does anyone know of an App or strategy that can do that without setting up hundreds of reminder or calendar notifications?


texts: How to use SSL tunnelling on OS X to give full internet access to some applications while you are on a restricted corporate network?

texts:
How to use SSL tunnelling on OS X to give full internet access to some applications while you are on a restrictive corporate network?

Details:

you want to be able to access some restricted destinations and/or ports with some applications from your computer but you are on a restricted network (corporate) - Even using a Torrent client.
you have an AWS machine running Ubuntu that you can use as a proxy (and you can SSH to this machine)
You cannot create a full VPN because this means that you will loose access to your intranet and you do not want that.


texts: macOS Sierra - 1.5TB partition is gone after trying to merge two smaller preceding partitions

texts:
Just used the dreaded newer Disk Utility to merge two smaller partitions. It seemed that the operation caused my main 1.5TB partition, last on the disk to reappear, empty, with the name of one of the smaller partitions.

Also a Recovery partition 600MB seems to have appeared and is now the last one on disk.

The old disk utility would never do this... I never asked for this recovery partition but here it is... I have a feeling that the merging went fine but it's the adding of the Recovery partition that screwed things up.

My files are there, I had about 1TB of data on it, about 2/3 of the space was occupied.

Any advice on how to recover from this? I plan to image the drive so I can dig into it safely.

Some details:

I deleted the empty 1.5tb partition in an effort to have test disk search the free space for info. Now it seems the larger partition is gone too.
The files I had on the main partition were very few and huge. There were about 7 files one was 287Gb and so on...

diskutil list
 /dev/disk2 (external, physical):
    #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
    0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *2.0 TB     disk2
    1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk2s1
    2:                  Apple_HFS 64 - 1                  64.0 GB    disk2s2

sudo gpt -r show disk2
     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   125000000      2  GPT part - 48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
 125409640  3781619495
3907029135          32         Sec GPT table
3907029167           1         Sec GPT header


texts: Backing up app data from two different devices to the same iCloud account

texts: Let's say I have an app that can back up to iCloud Drive, like WhatsApp, on iPhone #1. I back it up to iCloud Drive. However, if I have the same app, WhatsApp, on iPhone #2 which is connected to the same iCloud account, will I be able to back it up to iCloud Drive as well, or will my #1 backup be overwritten?


texts:
Is it possible to serve Mac applications like iPhoto over a network to X Window clients?

Our problem is that a broken Graphics card is causing a lot of stripes etc on the screen.
Other remote solutions doesn't circumvent the problem.

This is a G5 PowerPC.


texts: MacBook Pro: Can't change the screen brightness

texts:
On my MacBook Pro 2012, I can't change the screen brightness. When I click on the brightness keyboard controls, nothing happens. Under System Preferences → Displays, the Brightness slider is missing:

I have also tried with an AppleScript and when I run it, I hear an error sound:

tell application "System Events"
    key code 107
end tell

Where does the problem come from? How do I adjust the brightness?


texts: Every time I turn my iMac desktop on, I'm prompted to sign into iMessage. That wasn't a big deal at first, but it's become a huge annoyance because I can't just click X to get rid of it, I have to go through 3 pages of prompts asking for a password, etc. Have tried to figure this out on my own, but I have been unsuccessful.


texts:
Is there an easy way to make the mapping from kernel extension to the file it came from?

I can get the list of currently loaded kernel extension via kextstat. This gives me the bundle names, like com.AmbrosiaSW.AudioSupport or jp.plentycom.driver.SteerMouse. But how can I then find the actual file locations of these bundles? For example, the Ambrosia bundle is AmbrosiaAudioSupport.kext, and I can only find the bundle name in the Info.plist inside that bundle. I could grep the /System/Library/Extensions/ directory, but this does not necessarily contain extensions loaded after booting, and I assume there is a better way to do it?


texts: Is there a way to insert automator output at the cursor?

texts:
I have a simple script that generates different output every time it's run (e.g. generate a UUID).

Is there a way to write an automator script that simply inserts the output of a script at the current cursor location?

(I want to run this service from Thunderbird, if that makes a difference.)


texts: My iMac won't boot ( internal and external )

texts:
My iMac won't boot from an internal drive, even when I completely wipe it and reformat it and start up with command shift R.
Then I tried booting it from an external drive, but even then it wouldn't boot at all. I even tried other RAM so it shouldn't be the problem in this case.
It's a 27" iMac 2012.
Are there other things I can try?


texts:
Is there a way to use Mic/Line in as an output to plug a second set of earphones?

I gave a shot with JackPilot which is not compatible with macOS 10.12.3.


texts: How to insert the document to the end of the Word doc instead of the beginning?

texts:
I have finally figured out how to insert a Word document in to another Word document using AppleScript, but the code below adds it at the beginning of the document instead of the end (assuming, of course, that there is text in the receiving document to begin with).

on AddAttachmentFileToWordDoc(FilePath)
    tell application "Microsoft Word"
        set ContTemp to content of text object
        set StartRange to (count of ContTemp) - 1
        set endrange to StartRange
        set theRange to create range start StartRange end endrange
        tell theRange
            insert file at end file name (FilePath as text)
        end tell
    end tell
end AddAttachmentFileToWordDoc

Can anyone please tell me how to add the document to the end of the document instead? What am I doing wrong?


texts: How to Set my Mac's $PATH back the way it was before

texts:
I'm just getting started with Terminal, the other day I might have messed something up with my urs/local/bin. When executing echo $PATH it returns me with /usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin the original path was /usr/local/bin How do I set it back to factory settings?

Thanks in Advance for your Help.


texts: Arranging Windows/Applications via presets

texts:
Is there any software for OS X that can automatically arrange a workspace according to a preset?

By some sort of shortcut, I would like to launch applications and then place them in a certain way (position, size). It would be great if different arrangements are possible for multiple displays, if they are plugged in.

Budget: Anything from free to $15 USD (preferably free).


texts: Are notifications lost forever during scheduled DnD in iOS12?

texts:
In iOS12, notifications do not appear on are locked screen while scheduled do not disturb is in effect. This is a new feature, and I can understand the reason it has been introduced.

Is there any way to view the history of notifications that would have occurred during this time. If one opens the notification screen (by swiping down), notifications that occurred before and after the do not disturb period are visible, but nothing in between.

In previous versions, notifications could be used to view important news flash events that occurred overnight. Is there a method to view these missing notifications or perhaps modify the new behaviour.

Update:

I don't know why there were no overnight notifications the first time I used scheduled DnD after updating to iOS12 - maybe CNN had nothing to say for 8 hours. But it seems to be working as documented now. Both with Bedtime Mode enabled and without.


texts: What is the process EscrowSecurityAlert in Activity Monitor?

texts:
I'm a little worried about a process I see in Activity Monitor called 'EscrowSecurityAlert'
Descriptions provided other forums ranges from it being a sign of malware:

The threat to your Mac is CleanMyMac. Delete it.

through to it being harmless:

This should be perfectly fine as something

and descriptions I don't understand (I can't think of anything I use that requires 'data escrow'):

Escrow is a data security measure in which acryptographic key is entrusted to a third party (i.e., kept in escrow). Under normal circumstances, the key is not released to someone other than the sender or receiver without proper authorization. Key escrow systems can be considered a security risk at the user puts access to information into the hands of the escrow agent holding the cryptographic key; however, key escrow systems are used to ensure that there is a backup of the cryptographic key in case the parties with access to key lose the data through a disaster or malicious intent.

Question
Regarding the 'EscrowSecurityAlert' process - is this something that ships with macOS or have I installed it myself somehow?


texts: Show hidden files when searching in finder

texts:
I can see hidden files in Finder but when I search it doesn't find hidden files.

I have tried these two commands

defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles TRUE
killall Finder

I also change "File visibility" to "Invisible Items" when searching in Finder search

Can I make my searches easier than this?


texts: Could someone who has, or knows someone who has, used Colorware for an Apple product comment on their experiece?  I'm thinking about getting an third-generation iPad colored through Colorware, as they seem to be a solid coloring solution.  Are the devices returned in factory condition?  Does Apple accept colored devices if, say, a pixel died in the first month or so?  Does the coloring look professional?


texts: iOS / iPadOS mouse scrolling not working

texts:
I´m currently checking out the mouse support in iPadOS 13.4 on my gen 3 iPad Air. Scrolling does not seem to work anywhere. Is this by design or do I need to configure something to make it work?
According to the iPadOS features, it supports 3rd party Bluetooth mice

Mouse and trackpad support
iPadOS supports Magic Keyboard, Magic Mouse, and Magic Trackpad, as well as third‑party mice using Bluetooth and USB.

I tested it with the gen 2 Magic Mouse and I`m also using the Apple Smart Keyboard.


texts:
I recently tried to install rEFInd onto my Mac but it could not boot into the Ubuntu disk. To uninstall It I formatted my drive and reinstalled OS X along with my backup.

To avoid this issue again I would like to install it onto another partition. How would I do this?

Here is my disk layout

/dev/disk0
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *251.0 GB   disk0
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s1
   2:                  Apple_HFS Macintosh HD            217.9 GB   disk0s2
   3:                 Apple_Boot Recovery HD             650.0 MB   disk0s3
   4:       Microsoft Basic Data LINUX                   15.0 GB    disk0s4
   5:                  Apple_HFS rEFInd                  17.1 GB    disk0s5

I would like to install rEFInd onto disk0s5 and linux ubuntu on disk0s4 if this helps

Thanks


texts: Is it normal to be signed out of all services and accounts when moving iOS devices?

texts:
today I replaced my iPad because the old one was damaged. I restored from an iCloud backup. The restore went ok, but I must re-authenticate / sign-in to every app which connects to a web backend (which these days is all of them.) e.g. my banking apps didn’t know who I was.

Basically this will soak up most of my afternoon.

I have a vague memory that I did not used to have to do this in the old days of iOS, Maybe because I used to use iTunes backups...?

Anyway, I just wanted to check. Is this normal?


texts: What's the best way to rebuild the icudt51l.dat file in /usr/share/icu/? ICU (International Components for Unicode) is a set of C/C++ and Java libraries I think, that seem integral to OS X as built-in apps as well as apps using vital system services refuse to work properly or crash after this file got accidentally deleted. I'm attempting to retrieve it, but as this is on a system drive getting it back might not be possible.


texts: Does Yosemite still allow "per-user" Screen Sharing?

texts:
According to answers to questions on superuser and serverfault, OS X Lion had the ability to allow multiple users to simultaneously log in from other Macs and get a VNC session with their own desktop on the target machine (not necessarily running OS X Server, from what I can tell).

For instance, I could connect to our (as yet un-purchased) Mac Mini from a Cafe with my Air, while my wife connects from the living room with her white MacBook, while one of our kids is actually sitting right in front of the Mini using it without screen sharing.

There is no mention of this on Apple's web site, that I can find, but of course they're focused on new features, so that's no surprise.  It seems unlikely that they would remove features, but that's not without precedent.

So: can anyone confirm whether or not this feature still exists in OS X Yosemite?  (Or Yosemite Server?--although the answers to the other questions did not mention the feature requiring OS X Server.)


texts: iOS 13 App Store update missing from the Account panel

texts:
I transferred my wife's data to my prior iPhone SE (2016) today. The old iPhone was running iOS 12 and the new phone is updated to run iOS 13.5.

Everything seems to be working so far except for the App Store. When you go into the App Store and tap on the account icon at the top, it shows the account panel with her name logged in, "Purchased", "Redeem Gift Card or Code", "Send Gift Card by Email", "Add Funds to Apple ID", "Personalized Recommendations", and "Sign Out".

It should be showing a list of applications to update between "Personalized Recommendations" and "Sign Out", right? Or do these sections not show at all in the new location in iOS 13 if all of the apps were already updated prior to the phone change and in the old location in iOS 12?

(And if so, that's dumb that Apple can't apply the data from the old place to the new place!) I just want to make sure it transferred correctly before her old phone is repurposed for something else. Thanks for any insight.


texts: How to wipe certain files from Time Machine Backups history but keep recent copies of them in case of a full restore

texts:
I like Time Machine simplicity but I'd like to make it a little more space efficient: since system updates, apps updates etc change GBs, I'd like to exclude these only from older backups, keeping the last 5 or so backups full, bootable backups.

For instance: Let's say I have 3 time machine backups:

2016-12-08-225622

Applications
Library
System
Users

2016-12-09-225622

Applications
Library
System
Users

2016-12-10-225622

Applications
Library
System
Users

I want to be able to wipe Applications, Library, System... from the first two backups and be able to keep only their latest version, in this case 2016-12-10-225622. So it would look like this after the "cleanup":

2016-12-08-225622

Users

2016-12-09-225622

Users

2016-12-10-225622

Applications
Library
System
Users

This would be similar to excluding system files from time machine + using a boot clone, except you can get some bootable history if you want to (ie. keep the last 5 versions bootable).

It also works for other folders: what about keeping the Downloads folder history of the last month but not from the last year? This is a middle ground between excluding files and folders and keeping them.


texts: How do I disable the nagging to update to High Sierra?

texts: I am on Sierra and would like to disable the periodic nagging to update to High Sierra. I will do it when I am ready. Any easy way to do this?


texts: How do I open .html files and have them work with my external CSS and Javascript files on iPad? (iPad Mini 2, iOS 12.4.3)

texts: I am really frustrated here. I really would like this to work on my iPad, because it's for an important project, but no matter what I do, my html files refuse to connect to my .css files, my .js files, and any multimedia I have. Meanwhile, my site works like a charm on my Kindle Fire and all computers I've tried it on. Furthermore, I can't even open up my html files in a web browser, but when I open them in the default iOS file manager, they show up with no javascript, no css, and no multimedia.


texts: Error: Could not symlink bin/dvipdf when installing Octave

texts:
Note: A question similar to this one was asked here about a week ago.

I am attempting to install Octave on OS X Mavericks.  I ran the following:

brew install octave

which resulted in this error:

Error: You must `brew link ghostscript' before octave can be installed

So I followed this advice, which gave this output:

Linking /usr/local/Cellar/ghostscript/9.15...
Error: Could not symlink bin/dvipdf
Target /usr/local/bin/dvipdf
already exists. You may want to remove it:
  rm /usr/local/bin/dvipdf

To force the link and overwrite all conflicting files:
  brew link --overwrite ghostscript

To list all files that would be deleted:
  brew link --overwrite --dry-run ghostscript

I ran the last option, which printed a really long list of files.  I think these files might be related to my recent install of MacTeX, which worries me.


texts: Is it possible to switch to a specific keyboard layout via `defaults`, *.plist or similar?

texts:
I have figured out a workable shell script using osascript (AppleScript) to automatically switch to US keyboard layout when MacVim activates (triggered by Keyboard Maestro), and Swedish layout when it deactivates:

osascript > /dev/null 2>&1 <<-RAW
on changeKeyboardLayout(layoutName)
    tell application "System Events" to tell process "SystemUIServer"
        tell (1st menu bar item of menu bar 1 whose description is "text input") to {click, click (menu 1's menu item layoutName)}
    end tell
end changeKeyboardLayout

changeKeyboardLayout("Svensk - Pro")
RAW
exit $?

However, AppleScript is truly slow and I also don't prefer to see the text input menu in the statusbar to flash open when switching back and forth.

Question:

Is there an alternative to my AppleScript approach to instantly switch layout?

…I envision something like a defaults command or altering any .plist file as potential candidates for the job, only I don't know any specifics.

Two things related to the answer(s) I'm seeking:

I'm keen to have the change propagate instantly – faster than the sluggish AppleScript execution.
I prefer not installing new software daemons to achieve this. (Suggestions are always welcome, though, but 3rd party apps will likely not qualify as the accepted answer.)


texts:
When I boot up my Macbook Air (circa Sept 2013, running Mountain Lion), I get a folder with a "?", indicating the SSD is not visible. This started when I tried installing an Office upgrade, and powered off the laptop midway because it appeared like it froze :(

I ran AHT by pressing D at startup. It passed with "No issues found", refernce code ADP000.

I installed OS X on an external USB Flash drive, it boots up OK, indicating that there is nothing else wrong with the laptop. However running diskutil list when I've booted from USB doesn't show the internal SSD.

I have some important files on the internal SSD. Looking for guidance regarding what else I can do.


texts: How do I create a browsable index of my External Hard Disks?

texts:
I have 7-8 External Hard Disk Drives. I would like to be able to know the content of each of the drives (files and folders) without having to connect them to my system (cumbersome).

Is there and program that can create a browsable snapshot of the directory listing?


texts:
I want to assign the middle mouse button to the space key, so I can pan in Photoshop and illustrator without using the keyboard.

I'm sure something like that must exist for Mac OS, but I only find references to the opposite which is making a click with the keyboard.


texts: Converting FLAC into Apple Lossless [in Windows]

texts:
Like many people I have a few albums in FLAC format that I've picked up over the years. I'd like to retain their auto fidelity, but also have them in my iTunes and on my iPhone.

There's another question here that asks the same question, but it's only asking how to convert files under OSX. I'd like to do it under Windows.

Is this possible?


texts: How can I set duplex to be the default option when printing in Acrobat Pro XI?

texts:
I wish for duplex to be the default, but I must reset it each time the application is launched.  I would expect to find the option in the Print... dialog of Acrobat, however I do not find it in the dialog or its subdialogs including and I find no Print Setup... dialog.  I looked in Advanced but only find Output, Marks and Bleeds, PostScript Options, and Color Management as available and most of those include greyed out options, none being whether to print in duplex. This is for a Brother MFC-8910DW printer via USB. (Acrobat crashes when using wireless connection, this is supposedly fixed in Yosemite.) The Page Setup... and Printer... subdialogs give a warning message when you bring them up:

  The {Page|Print} Setup dialog box is provided by the operating system. To ensure that you can use the full print capabilities of Acrobat, please set all print options from the Application print dialog box. Do you want to continue?

Inside the Print Setup is the only location where I can choose duplex printing which is always off by default after launching the application.  It wouldn't be such a hassle if I could just leave acrobat running all the time, but it crashes about once a day, very buggy since version Acrobat Pro X after going to Mavericks.


texts: Add songs to Library when adding to playlist - greyed out

texts:
This is related to the question mentioned here:

Can I add song to an Apple Music playlist, without adding them to 'My Music'?

According to both that answer and to Apple's own support, this should be possible. Basically I want to add music from "Apple Music" to playlists, so I can easily find it again. I often listen to their selected playlists and want to save the best songs from there, on my own lists.

However - the checkbox option mentioned in the above, is greyed out for me. I cannot deselect it. So if I try and add music; I get a message that I must enable iCloud Storage before I can add the music to my library.

Any ideas as to why this option is disabled?


texts: How do I get iOS Reminders to recognize my location/geofence better?

texts:
I really like the idea of location based reminders, and would love to use them more.

When I first tried them, they worked great. I had it setup to remind me to do something when I got home, and the alert would fire when I pulled into my driveway. I have my home address in my address card as being my actual address, which routes correctly.

Now though, they never go off. When I go to the reminder, and then look at current location, it always seems to have a very exact address, but not mine. For example, I may live at 123 Main Street, but it says that I am at 432 Broad Road (which may be only a house or two away around a corner).

I have not seen a difference when being outside or inside. I used to think the location services were just not working correctly, but then when I went to the current location in Reminders, it was always a little off, and I figured thats why the event wouldn't fire.

Is there any way I can get this to work better? If anything, I would like it to be less sensitive. As in, let me know when I am very close to the location, which would work for me.

This is on an AT&T iPhone 4. My wife has a 4S, and hers only slightly works better. When using other apps, location is actually more precise, and usually only a house number off (I think due to how the underlying GIS system is done).


texts: iPad PDF reader app with seamless handwritting annotation experience

texts:
I am looking for an iPad app (Android app references will also be considered useful) which allows reading PDF files and annotating them with a stylus, resembling the experience I would have with a pen and a piece of paper as closely as possible.

This requires:

Not enforcing to go through button clicking, context menus or popups
every time I want to write something. (i.e. add annotation, accept
annotation). It completely breaks the reading experience.

I don't even care if that kind of a step-based work-flow is better if you want to edit/delete the annotations. I would be happy even if deletion/edition was not allowed, a good old cross-out would be enough for me.
The writing experience should be snappy and responsive. I don't want lines to follow my stylus-tip as I write, like laggy comets in orbit. A good example of good behaviour in this regard is Wacom's Bamboo Write App

Optionally it would be simply awesome if it was had handwritting calculator capabilities like MyScript Calculator. I am used to make calculations in the margins, when reading engineering or math-related books.

I have tried Goodreader and iAnnotate but neither of them comply with (1) or (2). Any suggestions?


texts:
I'm sending a Mail message with text that looks like a link. I've color-coded this text, and I don't want it transformed into an underlined blue link. How can I stop Mail from "linkifying" my text when I send it?

Note: I know that I can right-click on a link and select "Disable Link", but unfortunately 1) these links don't show up until the email is sent, and 2) disabling the link doesn't seem to change how it displays the email when it is received.

I did a test with the word link.google.com and this is what the raw source looks like after sending:

--Apple-Mail=...
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Content-Type: text/html;
    charset=us-ascii

<meta http-equiv=3D"Content-Type" content=3D"text/html =
charset=3Dus-ascii">link.google.com


texts: Can’t Install Mac OS X Leopard/Snow Leopard on 2007 iMac

texts:
A while ago, I upgraded the processor and RAM on my mid-2007 iMac so I could install macOS High Sierra. It now has an Intel Core 2 Duo Processor T9500 and 6 GB of RAM. Both the hardware and software upgrades went fine, but after using it for a while, I realized that the computer was much slower than before. Additionally, I didn’t like the iOS-inspired feel of High Sierra. Because of this, I decided to downgrade to Mac OS X Snow Leopard. I backed up my files, got my Snow Leopard Install DVD, and booted up the iMac. However, right after the language selection page, the installer read:

  Mac OS X can’t be installed on this computer.

I opened disk utility and formatted the hard drive in case that was causing the issue, but I received the same error. I would have tried my Leopard install DVD, but it is an upgrade disk, not an install disk. So, I got out the factory restore disks to install Mac OS X Tiger. This installer ran successfully, and the computer worked fine after the installation. However, when I put in the Leopard upgrade DVD, I got the same error. Same with the Snow Leopard install DVD. I have tried every solution I could find; resetting the PRAM, formatting the hard drive, updating all my software, etc. Nothing works. The only thing I didn’t try was bypassing the hardware check in the installer for two reasons: (1) I don’t know if it will be the same for an Intel iMac as it is for a PowerPC Mac, and (2) It is incredibly difficult to get the required files on the iMac since Tiger doesn’t support TLS 1.2. I suspect that the issue was the CPU upgrade. Should I try this solution, or is there something else? If the bypass is the way to go, is there a simple way to download XAR from the iMac? I have been trying to get this to work for weeks and it’s been incredibly frustrating.


texts: How can I empty my Camera Roll from my iPhone?

texts:
I don't want to save anything—just wipe out the Roll like one would reformat a digital camera's memory card. Is there any easy non-computer route? If there aren't any system settings, do any apps do this?

Assume I have too many to delete individually (1,000+).


texts: Does the watchOS version of the Voice Memos app enforce a time limit for audio recordings?

texts: As of watchOS 6, the Voice Memos app is now included allowing for on-the-wrist recording of audio content. Is there a hard-limit on the total duration of recordings made directly on the Apple Watch?


texts: Unable to access phone after update to iOS 12.1.4

texts:
I recently updated my iPhone 5S to iOS 12.1.4 and I can't access it anymore.  The phone says "Press Home to upgrade". My phone's home button is broken so I can't press the Home button. I have assistive touch, but the screen is not responsive to my touch.

I have also tried:

Trying to restart the phone. When I press the sleep/wake button for a long time, the Apple logo flickers before the phone shuts down. When I long press again, the Apple logo displays, then the white words "iPhone is disabled" and the smaller "please wait 1 minute" is displayed. Eventually, the same screen appears.
Trying to revert to a backup. After I tried 2 different cables which have been working previously, and making sure the USB input was working, the phone would not be detected by the computer itself.

Can somebody help me?


texts: I know there's a system wide preference to disable 'Restore windows when quitting and re-opening apps', but is there any way to have it restore only specific apps?. I would like to have Safari open in full screen every time I launch it.


texts: Time machine back up - how can I access my documents when my Mac has died?

texts:
My Mac has died (it's really old and has some kind of virus and has finally given up the ghost). Luckily I have a time machine backup on an external hard drive.

I really want to save my photos and documents directly to a couple of different hard drives but I'm not planning on buying a new mac.

How can I access my documents from my time machine back up?

My husband has a Mac. Can I restore my documents and photos onto his Mac without affecting his documents etc?


texts: Will my emails be kept if I upgrade from 10.6.8 to 10.11?

texts:
I have a (Mid 2009) Macbook Pro. I want to upgrade my MacOS X version from 10.6.8 to 10.11 but I have some issues.

I have so many important emails stored in Mail v4.5 on Snow Leopard that I don't want to lose. I wanted to know if I upgrade, will all my mail be kept in the new version of Mail?


texts: Time Machine restore stuck on “Preparing ” for more than 24 hours, how can I diagnose the nature of the problem?

texts:
Recently I got myself into quite a pickle that eventually required I format my Mac’s dual-SSD RAID-0 array and restore from a Time Machine backup.

Unfortunately Time Machine has spent the past 24 hours stuck on “Preparing [destination disk]” and shows absolutely no sign of progress. (The backup is hosted on a Time Capsule-emulating Synology NAS.) There is no information on what is going on behind the scenes, just a solid pulsing blue progress bar that doesn’t even initialize and start creeping rightwards. Before the process began there was some cryptic remark about encryption needing to be disabled subsequently re-enabled as FileVault once restoring is complete, and I authorized the request to erase the destination disk.

Quite suspiciously it asks me to acknowledge disabling encryption every time I restart the process, which might imply that some latent form of FileVault is lingering, but I have erased the disk several times and each time explicitly instructed the system to format as JHFS+, unencrypted and case-insensitive.

(Keep in mind that “disk” in this context actually means RAID volume, as the two physical SSDs each host slices of the unified striped RAID-0 volume.)

I tried dropping into the Terminal because I vaguely remember the

tmutil

commmand but it is not present in the barebones toolkit of the macOS installer.

Can somebody help me figure out what is going on?

Thanks.

(Tragic aside: while in a panic and desperately trying to unmake my unbootable APFS-formatted RAID array which I created and that got me into this pickle, I accidentally nuked my FireWire-attached CarbonCopyCloner backup, so I’m stuck using Apple’s blunt instrument with no information whatsoever.)


texts:
iOS 9 is just released today, like very 16GB iPhone user it is time to find / delete things to make space for Installation.

I backed up everything to iCloud first, and cleared 1.8GB of free space in order for Whatsapp to backup itself. After Whatsapp successfully backed up, I had 1.8GB of space left. I checked moments later and I only have 800MB left, and then slowly rises back to ~1.2GB after an hour. I waited a few hours more, ( iOS 9 refuses to download as you may have already know), the free space never went back to 1.8GB, it stayed at 1.2GB

After i download and Installed iOS 9, I actually had 2.3GB of free Space. Since I knew I had the original 1.8GB of free space, i thought iOS 9 and some App thinning magic makes that 500MB extra.

But after an hour the Free space went back down to 1.4GB.
Where did all that free space gone?

*Note I have I iCloud Photos turned on to space saving, but as far as I can tell the space for Photos has been a constant number.
*I know iOS9 will delete Apps to free space during installation and download them back later, but i am pretty sure that is not what's happened here.


texts: Scrolling of the terminal does not always stick to the bottom

texts:
When my terminal gives lots of output (for example when I am compiling something), by default the scrolling automatically sticks to 'bottom' of my terminal window.

But when I scroll within my output, and then scroll back to the bottom using my trackpad, this sticking effect is sometimes gone and sometimes it persists.

When I use the slider on the right hand side, the sticking effect persists, just like I would expect it to be.

Is this expected behaviour or a bug? Should the terminal stick to the bottom when I scrolled all the way down?

I created this terminal oneliner to try it out for yourself (downloads the linux kernel at 10k and outputs it to the terminal):

curl --limit-rate 10k https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/testing/linux-3.15-rc5.tar.xz


texts: Logitech MK850 Macbook pro Catalina Fn key

texts: Recently bought a Logitech MK850. It has Ctrl, Fn, Opt, Cmd buttons on the left. I'm trying to switch the Ctrl and Fn keys so that it's the same as the Macbook keyboard (which has Fn then Ctrl). Tried the Keyboard preferences but no luck - it doesn't seem to let me modify the Fn keys. Any idea how to map keys? (FWIW: recently switched to Mac and trying to get used to the new key layout)


texts: Accessibility — click a link/button by typing its text

texts:
Background: Voice Control lets you click links by just saying “Click <link/button name>”.
Question: How would I do this by typing instead of speaking? (Siri has a “Type to Siri” option, but Voice Control does not).  Is there really no accessibility option for letting the user type the text of the button they want to click?
What I’ve tried: I tried Switch Control, but it scans for links instead of letting you jump to ones matching a given text.  I’ve also tried Cmd+F in Safari to highlight links, but nothing I’ve found lets me click the highlighted link without using the mouse.  I’ve been using Mouse Keys to navigate instead, albeit slowly.


texts: I have an Apple TV 2, the one with a max of 720p. If I decide to upgrade to an Apple TV 3 for its 1080p goodness (or an Apple TV 4 in the future if/when it's released), when I log in with my Apple ID, will my list of favorite Podcasts transfer over? Or will I need to add them all over again?


texts:
I saw a video at some point recent.  In the video, the guy had an app that would replace certain phrases with other phrases.

Example:

I type "afaik" and it replaces it with "as far as I know".

My iPod is a gen2 running iOS v4.x and jailbroken.


texts: What is this 'Autoupdate' app that keeps popping up in the dock?

texts: I've recently seen this app show up in the dock a couple of times. Any idea what it is? I'm slightly concerned as it doesn't look very official and I fear it could be malicious:


texts: Does OS X respect Windows Server 2012 AD DS Fine-Grained Password policies?

texts:
Trying to setup fine-grained password policies, but Mobile Accounts on OS X seem to be hitting the default domain policy versus the fine-grained policy applied to the users.

Does the OS X AD plug-in support the fine-grained policies?


texts: Macbook boots up to grey 'prohibited' symbol

texts:
I'm having an issue with my '09 13" Macbook Pro. When I boot it up, it seems to be booting normally until about thirty seconds in, when the Apple symbol is replaced with a kind of 'no-smoking' symbol, without the cigarette in the middle.

I've removed the drive one and put it in an external holder, and repaired it using Disk Utility on my Macbook Air. It found some things, and said it repaired them. I then put the drive into my Macbook Pro again, and it booted once to only one of my partitions. It acted very laggy and slow, and eventually I had to force kill it with the power button. Now it does the same thing.

I'm in the process of removing the hard drive to try to repair it again, but I wanted to know if anyone here has any ideas on what this could be. Is it the machine itself somehow?

I see this:


texts:
After doing a standard, App Store upgrade of Yosemite it seems that the recovery partition is still Mavericks-specific. Whether I hold Cmd+R or Option and select the recovery partition it takes me to the Mavericks recovery. If I choose Reinstall OS X it kicks off the Mavericks (re)install screens.

Shouldn't there be a Yosemite recovery partition that replaced this? Is there any way to manually create the partition? Is this just how it's supposed to be with a Mavericks recovery partition after a Yosemite upgrade?


texts:
I have recently noticed, that I needed more space on my Bootcamp drive, so I unallocated 10 GiB in macOS using DiskPart. After that I rebooted into Windows and used "MiniTool Partition Wizard" to assign that space to the Windows partition.
It rebooted and expanded the partition as I expected, but afterwards I wasn't able to boot into my macOS again. It is cleary still there, but it seems, that I have to set a flag to make it bootable again.
Also booting into Recovery Mode doesn't work anymore - it's loading very, very slowly and gets stuck at 100% (I even left my notebook over night).

Does anyone know, how to set this flag using Windows?


texts: How to select all similar files in an directory

texts:
If I want to view images I made with my camera using Preview, I have to select all files separately. Because when I select all files (cmd + a) all the videos I made get selected (and opened in Quicktime) too.

So I was wondering how I can select only the images in a certain directory?


texts: ReadItLater-type app that saves web articles but also allows highlighting?

texts:
I use Pocket and I love it as a way of saving articles to read them later, and how it allows me to browse, search, and read them easily.

However, when I read articles, I like to create highlights (in yellow) and add annotations. Pocket doesn't offer highlighting.

There's a great OSX app for PDFs, Skim, that highlights and annotates perfectly when I'm reading a PDF. But it would be so much better to not have to convert a web page to PDF in order to highlight and annotate it.

I would like to be able to create my own library of archived web articles (like Pocket allows me to do) that I can tag, search, and mark up.

Is there a "read it later" type app that will allow me to create my own library of archived web articles that I can then highlight and annotate?


texts: How to best untangle messages on multiple apple devices?

texts:
Recently I’ve purchased a used MacBook Pro. Clean wipe, started with Mojave then moved to Catalina. The ‘Messages’ app wasn’t working at first. But I think I solved that by logging out of iCloud and then logging back in.

Now I’m trying to find some long lost messages (2017-2018) sent from my iPhone. They are not showing up on the phone or either Mac. Note: every device I’ve ever had as been set to: keep messages forever.

The old Mac has old messages but not new ones. The new Mac has new messages but not old ones. The phone has old and new messages but not everything and it’s also missing the ‘very important messages I can’t find anywhere but definitely did not delete’

I would like to not lose anything from now on.
Is it possible to recover messages from old backups or do they get rewritten/replaced?
Is it possible to have one device that is ‘the archive’ everything eventually downloads there and nothing gets deleted?


texts: MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Early 2015) keboard and trackpad are not working

texts:
As title suggests, keyboard and trackpad are not working. However, force quit (shift+control+alt/option+power) had worked.

Where is the problem and how can I fix it?


texts: On new iPhone, when I call people no one can hear me but I can hear them

texts: I got a new iPhone last weekend and have a problem: why can’t people hear me on the other end of the phone when I call them? Any tips on what the cause could be?


texts: How can I tell whether a drive is asleep?

texts:
Is there an application or command-line utility for Mac OS X to query a hard-disk to see if it is 'asleep' or 'awake' right now? (i.e. as controlled by Energy Saver / pmset disk sleeping preferences). Note that I'm after the current sleep state, not just whether the system will put the disk to sleep when its idle.

I have two hard drives in my MacBook Pro, an SSD for the System and a much larger "regular" mechanical drive for various large files I don't often use.

I'd like the physical drive to be put to sleep when not in use, and in general stay asleep unless I'm actually using it. I'd like this to be automatic, rather than mounting and unmounting the drive on a regular basis.

I've set up Energy Saver to put the disk to sleep, but I can't actually tell when the drive is asleep or awake (even pressing my ear against the laptop its hard to tell what's fan noise vs disk noise), so I don't know if I've appropriately divided my files between the two drives.

Is there some way of querying the drive to see if it's asleep, without actually waking it, so I can monitor this to see if its generally asleep or not?

I guess an alternate, equivalent question is, What is the Mac OS X equivalent of the Linux command:

hdparm -C <device>

Note: It need not be an exact, command-line equivalent. Any means of finding out would be useful.

Some places I've looked so far, without success:

The built-in Disk Utility and System Information applications don't seem to provide any information on sleep/wake state of drives.
pmset -g (built-in command) offers various query functions, but the events seem to be about the system sleep events, not disks.
smartctl -i -n sleep (smartmontools via MacPorts) seems to always think all drives are asleep for me! (would be interesting to hear if this is true for others)


texts:
I have a 2008 Black MacBook. The battery indicator says 'Not Charging' and if I remove the power adapter it powers off instantly.

I had OS X installed, installed Windows (Not bootcamp, Windows only) and then reistalled 10.6.8. Since reinstalling OS X the battery has never charged.

The battery only has 68 charge cycles on it, so it seems strange it would have already died.


texts: WhatsApp stopped running on my iPhone. It says it has expired and it requires me to update which I can't because I have an iPhone 4. It won’t run any versions of iOS newer than 7. Is there a workaround to bypass that restriction?


texts:
Omnikey is a very useful extension, allowing user-customizable URL-bar searching for Safari up through v.12.

Safari now nags for update to v.13. As I found previously, Omnikey doesn't work with Safari 13, or at least doesn't do so without some fussing.

I assume (but don't know) that Safari 13 is a mandatory inclusion when one upgrades to Catalina. Has anyone tried Omnikey on Catalina running Safari v.13? Do any of the workarounds discussed in my prior question allow Omnikey to function on macOS Catalina as before?


texts: Is Monitoring Apps drastically impact battery life?

texts: A user on this Product Hunt said that kinds of monitoring app such as iStatmenu, Menubar apps, that constantly poll the CPU for data, can drastically impact battery life. Is it true?


texts: Does Healthkit sync between devices? For example, if I have IOS 8.02 installed on  iPhones 4S and 5S, should I expect that data on the 5S Health Dashboard will appear on the 4S Health Dashboard?


texts:
Is there a way to lock the keyboard in Lion?  By "lock keyboard" I mean some way to make the computer ignore almost any keypresses, except some special "unlock" sequence.  Maybe an OS X feature or utility?  It's a laptop, so I can't just unplug the keyboard.

My desire stems from using my laptop to skype with my toddler's grandmother.  The kid bangs randomly on the keyboard and interrupts the call.  It's more fun if she can get up close to the screen, but then grandma disappears.

Any advice appreciated.


texts:
The "Empty Trash" is a bit non-specific for me, as it empties the trash on all connected volumes.  In order to empty trash from a single drive (for instance, on a USB stick), I've been going to the terminal and using:

sudo rm -R /Volumes/<volume_name>/.Trashes

What I'd really like is some App/Finder Extension/Menulet/etc that would let me empty the trash without having to run to the terminal (and without having to supply a password).

I could wrap the bash command in an Applescript/Automator script, but supplying the volume name is troublesome.

Any ideas?  Bonus points if I can choose to "Securely Empty Trash."


texts: What compression application would allow you to also encrypt a file?


texts:
I just upgraded to OSX Mavericks and now when I try to download something the icon that shows a loading bar while it's downloading doesn't change back to normal after it's done:

I'm using the most up-to-date chrome and I changed my default download location to desktop (both of these have worked fine consistently in the past)

I can double click the zip and it unpacks totally fine, it really seems to just be the desktop icon, but it's still frustrating. Any ideas why this might be happening?


texts: Why does my iMac reboot every day at the same time?

texts:
Every evening around 10:30, my iMac just stops and restarts. It's not a power outage because another iMac next to it (same plug) is not affected.

I'm thinking maybe a service that's set to run at that time, but I don't see it just shutting down the computer with no warning ..


texts: Automator turning well-aligned PDF documents upside-down, flipped -- unreadable in OSX?

texts: I have PDFs that are readable. When I combine the PDFs, the pages go randomly up-side-down and left-and-right. I have fixed this issue manually in Preview app but I would like to get the pages as they are originally in their documents. How can I get the PDFs right-combined i.e. readable?


texts: how to not show two version app when open file in mac osx?

texts: I copy OSX system with another SSD, and when want open file, you can see following, that means I can open file with the application in deprecated osx, but I want keep osx for restore oneday. how not show them.And I was confused always.


texts: How to download photos from iMac desktop to external drive (WD 1 TB My Passport )

texts: Bought a new iMac desktop and want to download loads of photos to an external drive I just bought (WD 1 TB My Passport.  I clicked initialize but still can't figure out how to download the photos to it.


texts: How can I remove the key labels from my Apple Wireless Keyboard?

texts: I want to achieve something like this. What would be the best way to remove the print from the keys, or can I find a shop that sells those keys with out a characters on them?


texts: All of a sudden, I can't empty my trash. At all. What now?

texts:
Possible Duplicate:
  Emptying the Trash: not working

Title mostly says it all. Nothing about my system has really changed that I can think of. I've been running Lion since shortly after its release, and I'm up to date on software updates.

I've restarted multiple times. I've done a permissions repair in disk utility. I can continue to put things in the trash, but I can't empty it. I've tried option-clicking the empty trash menu item (to skip the confirmation) as well as not doing that. Same result.

Every time, it just sits here:

Clicking the X icon to cancel the operation doesn't close it, either. The only way to get the window to go away is to kill/relaunch finder.

I'm worried that the SSD is about to die -- but I haven't had any other warning signs. Fortunately I'm pretty good about backups. Between Time Machine and source control repos, I shouldn't lose anything if it were to die, but my free year of AppleCare is over very soon, so I want to get it addressed if it is a hardware issue.

Any advice?


texts: How can I find my IP address - not my company's router, but my local machines

texts:
I run rails servers at ports 3000 and 5000.

What do I use (or how do I find) the IP address of my Mac?

Not the one used for web browsing which is my companies host supplied IP but rather my local machine one.

I imagine it would be 192.168.x.x?


texts: My iPad won't turn on even though it has charge

texts: my ipad 2 won't turn on after i dropped it. it had 93% charge and is still on charge but won't turn on. i have pressed the power button, home button and both at the same time. i don't have a iTunes account. and if i press both buttons i can hear it making a screenshot. the screen is navy blue, not black, so i know it is on, but not showing any display. if i try to restart it, there is no apple logo, just blue. what should i do?


texts: Why do some accessories work with the Lightning – USB3 Camera Adapter while others don't?

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Context

I borrowed an iPad Pro to work on while my laptop was down, but without a physical keyboard, I found it frustrating to type anything more than a short sentence on it.

After countless typos and wrist fatigue, I tried connecting a full-sized USB keyboard (specifically, this one) using the Lightning to USB 3 Camera adapter, and it worked perfectly! Volume control, screen brightness, function keys, all worked, pretty much identically to how a bluetooth keyboard might when connected to an iOS device.

But much to my confusion, it did exactly the opposite the next day. When I plugged the keyboard in, it didn't seem to be recognized by the iPad.

Tapping on a text field brought up the soft keyboard as usual, and none of the keystrokes I entered on the physical keyboard seemed to register. The escape button worked as the home button the day before, and the "fn" keys for media control as well, but not anymore.

I hadn't made any changes I think would have been significant (no iOS updates, no adapter firmware updates — unless those are installed silently, then I wouldn't know). The iPad wasn't even restarted. It was working fine one day, but after being disconnected overnight, it apparently decided not to recognize the keyboard at all?? There was no "This accessory may not be supported" popup that I have seen when plugging in inadequate cables, chargers, etc.

Question

I was a little disappointed, and found it so bizarre that I tried to investigate what exactly caused the setup to stop working overnight, and eventually came to the question of what makes a particular setup of iOS Device + USB Camera adapter + USB device work in the first place?

Normally with a USB accessory compatibility issue between a computer, the drivers/device tree would be the first place I would have looked, but the communication that happens through the camera adapter and the lightning port seems to be a black box. I recently got an iPad Pro (9.5-inch), and one of the first things I tried was using the hardware keyboard with it, but no success.

I jailbroke the iPad (iOS 11.2.5, using Electra1131 MPTCP), but I realized I have no idea where the USB-through-adapter-through-lightning devices are exposed, or if they even are.

Now I know that using the camera adapter for anything other than cameras, and some specifically listed devices certified to work with it is hit-and-miss, but I had always thought it was one or the other. The fact that it worked at one point and stopped working so very soon after has me dying to know what the culprit is, and how the communication works to let the iPad act as the USB host.

Are there drivers in iOS? Are they baked into the firmware of the camera adapter? Is it just a big mystery? Any pointers on where to look would be appreciated as well, bearing in mind I have access to the filesystem, and the system runtime, but usually not for third-party applications.


texts: Finder window, Save As prompt missing sidebar entries

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Check out this screenshot:

Why is everything missing in the sidebar? Normally I would see Desktop, Downloads, a custom list of favorite folders, Applications, Library, etc. Suddenly this started happening and it's super annoying because I have to browse everywhere manually on the right side. This is the Save As dialog in Chrome, but it's the same way in a regular Finder window. I'm in OS X Mountain Lion.


texts: When I want to install TeamViewer 10, why can't I select my system disk as the destination?

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Seems it happened when I want to install other softwares before (but I can't remember which). I have a 128G SSD as the system disk, but it doesn't even appear as an option in the installer. How can I deal with this?

BTW. My SSD's name is Macintoch SSD, which is not appeared on the following window.

UPDATE: 2014-12-30 I've reinstalled my OS X and now the TeamViewer .pkg can be installed correctly.

Translation of this window (according to my poor English, messages with en-US locale should be different):

Top: Installing TeamViewer

Left:

Introduction
License
Destination Select
Installation Type
Installation
Summary

Right:

Select a Destination
Select the disk where you want to install the TeamViewer software.

GlacJAY: ...
Macintosh HD: ...
TeamViewer: ...

TeamViewer can't be installed on this disk. You can only install this software on the disk that is running OS X.