texts: Swapping HDDs w/ Different OSX Versions, Possible?

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My situation: I have a "late '08 aluminum" Intel 64-bit MacBook, still have Snow Leopard installed, and XP via Bootcamp, all on the original hard-drive. Yes, it's my "legacy" setup. The HD is 7 years old, and every time I move the computer and the HD makes that clicking "disengage" sound for impact protection, I cringe a little bit.

What I want to do: I want to put in a new Intel SSD with the latest OS (Mavericks, Capitan, heck even Mountain Lion, whatever will work in my situation), and put the old HDD in a drawer. I want the ability to swap in my old HDD to use Snow Leopard/XP without any difficulties. I don't want to jeopardize backwards-compatibility with Snow Leopard at the bootloader or EFI level. I am worried that Mavericks, Capitan, etc. will go all crazy and re-wire the whole EFI, because Snow Leopard was the last version to use a 32-bit kernel, even though my Mac has a 64-bit Intel processor. (Source)

Extra info: I have never turned on FileVault, Time Machine, or signed in with an Apple ID on the current installation, but plan to use Apple ID on the new one. -- Model Identifier: MacBook5,1 -- Boot ROM Version:  MB51.007D.B03 -- SMC Version (system): 1.32f8

What I have questions about:

Which OSX version, if any, can I upgrade to without jeopardizing my old setup? So if I swapped in my old hard-drive, Snow Leopard and XP will boot as if nothing happened?
Once EFI firmware is updated to work with the latest OSX, is it backwards compatible with older versions by means of swapping in an old HD? I also know OSX has some form of Keychain security, but is it used in the booting process? I will use the same local username/password.
Does signing in with Apple ID on Mavericks/Capitan/Yosemite lock the EFI to that specific OS installation? Like an anti-theft kind of deal? I know Apple is big about security...

Thanks in advance for any expert advice in this situation!


texts: CarPlay connect automation fails when using text to speech

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I created an iOS automation which runs as soon as my iPhone connects to CarPlay. I unchecked 'Ask before run.' Every time it connects, however, the actions don’t run. Looking at the phone I see two notifications: one says it started the automation, the other says it failed (without providing a reason).
I noticed that when the first action is a wait command, then the second notification (about the failure) comes after the wait is over, so I have the impression that it is the following commands that make the issue.
I have stripped down the actions to a simple

Wait for 30s
Text to speech “Hello”.

Running it manually works, the automation fails after 30s.
There must be a way since I find many CarPlay automations online which seem to work but they don’t work for me.
Is there anything obvious that I’m missing?


texts: Two value-based axis for chart in Numbers 3.5

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I am trying to achieve a chart in Numbers 3.5 where both axis scale linearly.

Right now, my chart looks like this:

Obviously, I want the x-axis to scale because the 100.000 bytes message is MUCH larger than the 10.000 bytes message, and the current chart is misleading.

I can't find a way to do this - the x-axis is always labeled as a "Category" instead of a "Value". Any way to achieve this?


texts: Plugging MacBook Pro's display assembly onto MacBook Air Logic Board

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As a temporary replacement, can I plug a MacBook Pro 13" mid 2009's display assembly onto my 13" mid 2011 MacBook Air's logic board?

It is ok if it cannot close, or is not transportable. All I need is to be able to troubleshoot my MacBook Air.

I am wondering :

whether it will work
whether it can damage either the display or the laptop


texts: Filevault stuck on pause, can't reinstall macOS, can't upgrade

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I've had this issue for about a year now, but never cared about it. Now I'm very motivated to fix it. :)

So I wanted to enable FileVault for my system but somehow it got stuck. I'm running El Capitan 10.11.6. It's a MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Early 2013).

$ diskutil cs list
CoreStorage logical volume groups (1 found)
|
+-- Logical Volume Group EA8CE898-9E59-4AE3-A61A-0483E0348B70
    =========================================================
    Name:         Macintosh HD
    Status:       Online
    Size:         249490432000 B (249.5 GB)
    Free Space:   1152106496 B (1.2 GB)
    |
    +-< Physical Volume 0EE26D70-A5FA-40F6-BF42-20E30E4D47C9
    |   ----------------------------------------------------
    |   Index:    0
    |   Disk:     disk0s2
    |   Status:   Online
    |   Size:     249490432000 B (249.5 GB)
    |
    +-> Logical Volume Family 9756B87D-76C6-4923-AFD6-B183C6BFABB2
        ----------------------------------------------------------
        Encryption Type:         AES-XTS
        Encryption Status:       Unlocked
        Conversion Status:       Pending
        High Level Queries:      Not Fully Secure
        |                        Passphrase Required
        |                        Accepts New Users
        |                        Has Visible Users
        |                        Has Volume Key
        |
        +-> Logical Volume A84FF2DD-B511-47F1-BA9A-3E7BC522B42C
            ---------------------------------------------------
            Disk:                  disk1
            Status:                Online
            Size (Total):          247763697664 B (247.8 GB)
            Conversion Progress:   Paused
            Revertible:            No
            LV Name:               Macintosh HD
            Volume Name:           Macintosh HD
            Content Hint:          Apple_HFS
            LVG Type:              Sparse

I've spent a day looking up fixes and trying out solutions (dozens of times). Here's what I've tried so far:

Boot into recovery mode, unlock and repair disk. I get green checkmarks but no luck in unpausing encryption.
Boot into recovery mode, run corestoraged, no luck.
Both of the above in normal boot. No luck.
Tried to move the corestorage daemon but could not, the FS is read-only.
fdesetup disable did nothing as well. It succeeded but no change to filevault.
fsck_cs -y disk_identifier_goes_here succeeded but didn't unpause the Filevault conversion.
Tried to upgrade to Sierra but the installer complained about Filevault conversion in progress (https://i.imgur.com/k9ABpmI.png)
(After giving up hope, backing up to Time Machine) Boot into recovery mode, try to reinstall macOS there. Same error as 6.

So at this point. I have run out of ideas, and can't even start from scratch. How do I un-screwup my system at this point? I am okay with wiping my hard drive and restoring from a TM backup.


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We're currently sampling High Sierra 10.13.1 on a few machines in the office. One of the users is getting a strange issue after a password reset.

When she reboots she's prompted for a password as usual; using the new one doesn't work. Entering the old one we get the grey progress bar, and after a while a second login-screen appears, at which she then has to enter the new password.  How do we fix this? This kind of 2FA is quite undesirable.

Cheers,
Tink


texts: Can I use a letsencrypt certificate to secure macOS High Sierra Server Open Directory?

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I have services (mail, web) on macOS High Sierra Server protected with a letsencrypt certificate and that works fine. I'd like to extend that use of letsencrypt to Open Directory, to fully get rid of all that self-signed stuff. But when I select my letsencrypt cert for OD, the clients won't work with it presenting me with a "2100" error.

Now, my certificate is for serverhost.mydomain.tld and the server is configured as serverhost.mydomain.tld. DNS and all that is correct.

Information on the web about 3rd party certs is generally at least 4 years old (and not helpful). So, I'm asking a fresh question here. What steps do I have to take to have OD use my letsencrypt cert in a way that it also works on clients?


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Both Intel and Samsung supply windows only configuration software for their SSDs (Intel® Solid State Drive Toolbox, Samsung Magician Software for PC).

Is there anyway to achieve the same functionality under OS X?
And/Or is this functionality actually needed?

To clarify using Intel as an example (but samsung has something similar), their configuration tool can:

  Check and tune system settings for optimal performance, power
  efficiency, and endurance

(Note that this is separate from firmware updates - which both companies do seem to support for OS X systems)


texts: Keyboard shortcut to open Safari bookmark in new tab

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I know that in Safari you can:

Option-Command-# to open a bookmark in the same tab, or
Command-Click a bookmark in the favorites bar to open it in a new tab.

But is there a way to open a bookmark in a new tab with a single keyboard shortcut?
In other words, a shortcut like Option-Command-#, with the difference being that it opens the bookmark in a new tab.


texts: Installation of a .pkg file is nowhere to be seen

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I have gone through the install process of a .pkg file and when I look for it in /Users/~/Library/Application Support it's nowhere to be seen. I've only recently become a Mac user so it might be a newbie question but, how do I get to it?

MacBook Pro, OS X 10.7 Lion


texts: Dynamically setting HOME environment variable in a launchd script?

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Continue from this topic, I ended up with:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple Computer//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
  <dict>
    <key>Label</key>
    <string>com.saltstack.minion</string>
    <key>EnvironmentVariables</key>
    <dict>
      <key>HOME</key>
      <string>/Users/quanta</string>
    </dict>
    <key>ProgramArguments</key>
    <array>
      <string>/usr/local/bin/salt-minion</string>
    </array>
    <key>RunAtLoad</key>
    <true/>
  </dict>
</plist>

but I am wonder that: is there any way to set HOME variable dynamically? (instead of fixed code - /Users/quanta)

I have tried to add an EnableGlobbing key to the plist:

<key>EnableGlobbing</key>
<true/>

then changed the value of HOME variable to the tilde:

<key>EnvironmentVariables</key>
<dict>
  <key>HOME</key>
  <string>~</string>
</dict>

and restart the salt-minion. Here is what I get:

MacBook-Pro.local:
    - /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/pathname.rb:853:in `expand_path': non-absolute home (ArgumentError)
    -   from /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/pathname.rb:853:in `expand_path'
    -   from /usr/local/Library/Homebrew/global.rb:25:in `cache'
    -   from /usr/local/Library/Homebrew/global.rb:44
    -   from /usr/local/Library/brew.rb:17:in `require'
    -   from /usr/local/Library/brew.rb:17

It seems that expansion is only enabled for strings in the Program or ProgramArguments keys.


texts:
Can I use an iPhone without a SIM card as an iPod touch?

I do not know the previous carrier, because the Iphone was reset and has no sim card.

Is there any way I can use it as an iPod touch (without activating it) ?


texts: How do I make Apple Script open Script Editor and write a new script?

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I have tried to do

tell application "Script Editor"
    make new script with properties {name:"this is a test", body:"and
    more text"}
end tell

but it came up with the error

'error "Script Editor got an error: Can’t make class file." number -2710 from file to class"


texts: How do you perform a clean install of macOS High Sierra with APFS?

texts:
I have macOS High Sierra installed on my MacBook Pro already with the APFS format.

However, I would like to know the steps involved to perform a clean installation of macOS High Sierra with the APFS format?


texts: iPhone 5s shows SIM Not Valid after sending it home from USA

texts: I have bought an iPhone 5s from USA, and sent it back home, however it shows "SIM Not Valid". Is it factory locked, country locked or something else? How can I fix it?


texts: Can we use only the bottom mic while recording audio using iPhone 6

texts: For a school project, I need to record a video (60 fps) with audio recorded only from the bottom mic. The default Camera app seems to use all 3 mics while video recording, which creates a distorted sound. Is there a video recording app which allows controlling which mic to use? I am using iPhone 6


texts: What MIDI hardware do iOS 4.2 compatible devices support?

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(Apologies ahead of time if this question belongs in the audio production stack exchange. Since this question directly involves iOS, it seemed more appropriate here.)

A while back I ran across a webpage which claimed to have a maintained list of which midi devices were tested on iOS devices for compatibility. Does anyone know where I could find this list or one like it?

(For those interested, it was discovered during the betas for 4.2 that, by using the camera connection kit, one could connect certain midi devices to the iPad and transfer midi data back and forth.)

Thank you,
-b


texts: Launch Center Pro URL-scheme syntax for launching an action

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Recently I've been using the Workflow app to create home screen shortcuts that launch third party apps via their respective URL-schemes. This avoids the annoying initial time it takes LCP to load up its home grid on my iPhone 5. However, I've been unable to move one particular third party URL-scheme onto my home screen because it involves an unfortunately necessary lc-callback, and thus needs to be launched from within LCP in order to work. (Lc-callbacks are LCP's special workaround for when an app doesn't support URL chaining via x-callback-url. One has to manually return to LCP from the third party app, but once done the workflow may continue on.)

Does anyone know LCP's own specific URL scheme syntax for launching an action? I've tried things like 'launch://action={{ACTION_NAME}}' but this only opens LCP and nothing else.


texts: Has the Time Machine option to ""Delete all backups of" disappeared in Big Sur?

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I have a folder that gets filled with large files that I want Time Machine to remember while retaining the option of regularly forgetting these large files. For this and up until Catalina I would regularly enter Time machine, go to this folder and use the command Delete all backups of... (see for instance the screen capture of @Inder 's answer in this thread). As of my recent upgrade to Big Sur I no longer see this contextual menu option.
Is it gone from MacOS for good? Is there an alternative that does not involve under-the-hood sudo-type terminal surgery?
Thanks!
PS. I had a look at How to delete a file from Time Machine backups in Big Sur? but the issue, as I understand it, is different. I am looking for a way to delete all backups of a given folder, not a single backup (snapshot) of the whole system. Answers that call for bypass look a bit too scary for my taste.


texts: How do I disable the "theme loaded" message in zsh

texts:
Im using zsh as my default shell and loving it. I have random themes enabled, and whenever I load a theme it displays a message on my terminal. How do I disable this message?

Im talking about
[oh-my-zsh] Random theme '/Users/r3dsm0k3/.oh-my-zsh/themes/ys.zsh-theme' loaded...

How to disable it from showing in the terminal ?


texts: Has anyone had any luck getting their Apple Watch show up in Xcode's Bluetooth Explorer?

texts: I've tried "Show Device Discovery", "Low Energy Devices, and "Near By Devices". It's likely that it won't show up, but I was hoping someone might have had some luck.


texts: Modify keys on one keyboard (ish device) only and not on other keyboards

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I got a three pedal foot switch USB thing. It works like a USB keyboard and the three pedals type out "a" "b" and "c" when I'm in a word processor. I could reprogram these keys if I had a windows PC, but I don't. Is there a way to keep my abc keys on my normal keyboard working the same, but remap or modify just the footpedal keys so that i can get them to do different stuff?
To clarify; I want to modify the keystrokes from one keyboard device, but not my other keyboard i normally use for typing.
The footpedal is iKKEGOL if that matters.


texts: Logic Studio 9 : Is it possible to use tracks or buses as "virtual devices"

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Inside Logic Studio, you can re-map all your track output to specific buses and use those buses as inputs for other tracks.

I was wondering if it was possible to somehow use those buses outside of logic.

Basically, here's what i'm trying to do : I want to link a track to my Skype audio input so I can create insane real-time voice filter effects.


texts: How to access Google Hangouts chat on Mobile Safari?

texts: I don't want to download the Google Hangouts app on my phone. Is there a way to access Google Hangouts chat using a mobile browser such as mobile Safari?


texts: How can you stop sites from sending unwanted or 'enforced' downloads in Safari?

texts: I'm not the only one who has been plagued lately with seemingly well-meaning sites suddenly warning me that some piece of software on my Mac is out-of-date and that I need to update 'whatever' (often Flash).  Then, my browser just goes ahead and accepts their download (probably malware) onto my computer and I can't stop it.  How can we stop Safari from downloading files without asking first?  It seems that these infected sites 'push' the downloads on you, and Safari does nothing to stop it.  BTW I'm using Sierra (10.12.6) and Safari 12.1.2.  I hear that this happens with other browsers as well.  Open "Safe Files" after downloading checkbox is not checked. Any ideas?


texts: Is it possible to prevent repeated location usage warning prompts in iOS 13?

texts: I have a couple of apps which I have set to Always On location usage. I'm sure that's what I want, and it's not going to change any time soon. iOS 13 prompts me about each of them every day or two. I would like to disable these prompts. Is there any way to do that currently?


texts: Poor battery performance after SSD install

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I recently installed a Crucial SSD into my Macbook Pro (2.66 GHz Intel Core i7), and now the performance of my battery is probably about 50% of what it used to be.

I've tried to reset the PRAM, but the OS loads so quickly that it I've never been able to trigger, even though I'm quick with hitting the keys.

Any suggestions for improving performance, and/or resetting the PRAM?

Thanks


texts: Lost my Downloads folder both from Dock and Finder

texts:
I did something stupid apparently and lost my Downloads folder both from Dock and then when I opened Finder to drag it down to the Dock it somehow got deleted in the desktop.

Now although I can see the folder exists (e.g. by searching in Spotlight) I do not know how to restore it in the Dock and in Finder as well.
Any help please?


texts: How to search for documents on OSX that are NOT contained within a given folder using Finder, Spotlight or some other native tool?

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I have a bunch of formatted spreadsheets scattered all across my computer. There are literally thousands of them. I want to get them all into a centralized folder and have mostly done that, i.e. most of these documents are located inside of a single folder (recursively anyway, there are some within subfolders of that single folder), there are a few stragglers however, maybe 5% of them. Currently in my Finder/Spotlight search results, I have to sift through thousands of files located in the correct location to find them. (note: I wasn't able to find a way to sort the documents by their locations/parent-folders...that would be a potential solution here, but I'd have to change the title of the question)

So I'd like to search for documents NOT contained within a given folder. I've tried this so far without success:

I'm guessing I could use Automator but feel like that's a little hardcore given the strength of Apple's native tools, terminal commands being even more-so.


texts:
2 iPhones show on my iPad as being backed up. I only have one, so I guess one is my old phone. I would like to delete it but I'm not sure which one I should delete, I don't want to remove the wrong one.
How can I tell which is which?


texts: How does one separate a Numbers spreadsheet with multiple (4) tabs into separate files?

texts: I have been given a spreadsheet with 4 separate tabs/sheets. I would like to separate them into different files. I know that I can cut-and-paste and create new files but is there a simpler/easier way to do that?


texts: Why can't I run my MacBook Pro in clamshell mode?

texts:
I'm following these instructions to use my mid-2009 MacBook Pro in clamshell mode with a Bluetooth keyboard and trackpad. The keyboard and trackpad are paired with the computer and I've got the external display hooked up, but the computer is going to sleep when I shut the lid. I have Allow Bluetooth devices to wake this computer checked in System Preferences, so I can hit some keys to wake the computer while it's closed. It wakes up and shows me the lock screen, where I start typing my password... only to have the computer go right back to sleep after a second or two.

Why won't it stay awake?

Clamshell mode behaved properly when I was using a USB keyboard.

I'm currently using NoSleep to work around this problem, but I'd like to know the root cause.


texts: Clean shutdown/restart from terminal in 10.7+

texts:
I have a headless system that is controlled remotely that I need to shutdown/restart in an automated way (without the use of VNC or local keyboard/mouse).

Using various commands via SSH or via my daemon work as expected and restart the machine:

sudo shutdown -r now or osascript -e 'tell application "System Events" to restart'

However these commands cause the OS to reopen windows of any running applications even though the following are all true:

When logging out normally Reopen windows when logging back in is unchecked
Only the item I want to start with the login is listed in System Preferences > Users & Groups > Login Items.
defaults write -g ApplePersistence -bool no is set
System Preferences > General > Ask to keep changes when closing documents is checked or unchecked
System Preferences > General > Close windows when quitting an app is checked or unchecked
Recent Items is set to any value (has no effect)
~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.loginwindow.plist contains TALLogoutSavesSate set to NO

In my case I can't actually use the applescript since 10.7+(?) warns when another machine is network shared with AFP or SMBed causing the shutdown to fail. The shutdown command forces the restart without popping up a dialog which is exactly what I need. However when the machine starts up I want exactly one application to start at login, and it is listed in Login items.

The machine is set to automatically log in so this application can run but if any other windows were open (Terminal or TextEdit with unsaved changes) want my shutdown/restart script to force close any open applications without saving and NOT open on next login. I also would rather not for-loop through all the user processes sending each a SIGTERM or SIGKILL manually before sending the shutdown command.

I am fully aware this may cause data loss (if the user did not save their document) but this this is typically an unattended machine that I want a restart to take the machine to a known state, not the state it was left in.

AFAICT none of these work to cleanly shutdown/restart the machine in 3.7+.


texts: Is hibernatemode 25 broken on macOS High Sierra and can it be fixed?

texts:
Following the instructions on this article, I've had hibernatemode 25 working since Sierra, El Capitan, and probably Yosemite. It's set via:

sudo pmset -a hibernatemode 25

Beforehand, it worked like this:

If MacBook is plugged in and you click Sleep, it goes into normal sleep. and wakes normally.
If MacBook is unplugged, memory would be saved to persistent storage and the laptop would shut down.
Plugging the MacBook back in or pressing keys on the keyboard would show your login screen, but with a white overlay and a loading circle. When the memory is finished loading it allows you to log in.

Now what it does is:

Drains battery power.
Crashes the laptop.

Every time I've tried to resume my MacBook from Hibernate, plugging it in or pressing keys doesn't work. I press the power button and it turns out that the entire MacBook has crashed! It's done this about 3 times now and I'm tired of losing my work.

I use Hibernate on Windows profusely and as my MacBook gets older and slower, I don't want to be reopening all of my applications every day. If it could work just like Windows, it would be as good as Windows.


texts:
After creating an Apple ID in another location, I am forced to enter payment information in the iOS, Mac, and iTunes stores.

Even when trying to purchase a Free app, I am forced to enter payment information, and the None option is not present.

I am in the US.


texts:
I've just made a fresh Yosemite install and noticed two strange security defaults

Firewall is disabled
User is created as an admin account

It is hard for me to imagine how a disabled firewall is a sane default, but I wonder if having my main user being an admin is OK.

Is the current privilege scaling built into OSX good enough so we no longer need a separate admin account?

Any good Apple reason for which the firewall should be disabled?


texts: My SSD works on every computer except mine

texts:
I've asked several questions on Ask Different about an Intel SSD that I'd bought and tried to use in a DIY Fusion Drive in my early 2011 13" MBP. The Fusion Drive worked for a few weeks and then quit on me. The HDD works fine, but  whenever I try and install OS X on the SSD, it hangs right around the part of the installation where the logs say it's extracting all the packages. The first extraction took around 15 minutes, but the next one hadn't moved after an hour. I'm resurrecting this topic because today I decided to play with it at the IT company where I'm interning this summer, and my boss and I ran a few experiments that made things a whole lot more interesting...

Things that work perfectly:

Installing Linux Mint on it on a PC
Installing Windows 10 on it
Installing Mavericks on it when it's plugged into my sister's computer (mid-2012 13" MBP)

Things that don't work:

Installing Mavericks, Yosemite, and the El Cap Public Beta when the SSD is plugged into my computer (they all hung)
An un-SSDlike boot time (several minutes) when I plugged it into my computer after having given it Mavericks with my sister's computer

So, why does my SSD only hate my hardware? I'd get it if it was a bad drive, but apparently the thing is in proper working order if it's plugged into any computer except mine. What's going on???


texts: I just got my airpord new and I noticed It keeps disconnecting from my laptop it works fine with my phone but at times works on my laptop and at times it doesn’t


texts: 15 inch MacBook Pro A1226 (2009) died suddenly

texts:
I have a 15inch MacBook Pro circa 2009 (model number A1226) Over the last week or so it has shut down unexpectedly when there is battery power and when its plugged in. It restarted fine and then worked for another few days before it did it again.

Today it shut down and will not turn back on. Once its shut down the battery no longer charges.

Any ideas what could have gone wrong?


texts:
Diskutil found some problems on my drive that need to be fixed in recovery mode. However the it department installed a password in the firmware. Is there anyway to start diskutil without the firmwarepassword? It only needs to fix some issue is in the partition table.
I tried to launch in single user modus. But apparently this only works if you don't install a firmware password.


texts:
I know that you can get live logs from XCode, LemonJar, or cfgutil, but these are all in real time.  Is there any way to access logs from before the phone was plugged into the computer?

Thanks!


texts: I can no longer install any apps from the App Store to my iPhone as the only way to now do so is via Touch ID which I cannot use on my phone. How can I download apps from the App Store without using Touch ID?


texts: Trying to copy archive from one network share to another while ignoring the tilde character

texts:
I've been trying to copy an archive volume from one network share to another.  Because most of these files are Mac files, I am using Mac Terminal to do so.  I've tried every combination of cp, rsync, and ditto that I could come up with.

The problem lies in the fact that many of these files have a similar name and every once in a while I'll come across one that has a tilde character in the file name.  Depending on what variation of cp or rsync command I use, when it comes across this it either fails, stating that file already exists, or, skips the file with the tilde all together and continues on with the process.

For example: "28910 BP Umba Show.SIT" is treated as identical to "28910B~1.SIT" and therefore will not copy to the new archive location.

Any help is greatly appreciated, thanks in advance.


texts: What are "Write Only (Drop Box)" permissions?

texts:
I noticed under Sharing & Permission in folder/file info that I have a weird third type of permissions. Next to Read & Write and Read Only, I also have the option "Write Only (Drop Box)".

I was hence wondering what these permissions are. Are they related to the Dropbox app?


texts: Weird Distorted Paint Screen When Waking MacBook Air 2017 (High Sierra)

texts:
Once in a while when waking my MacBook Air (from being off the charger and closed to open), I see a weird paint screen flash for a second (probably less then that). It kinda resembles that paint like-screen they show off on the iPhone XS (I don't think there is a connection between the two, but I say this so you can get a example of what it looks like). It also goes away like a screensaver, it like pops out and goes to the lock screen. (when you wake from a screensaver, that motion is what it kinda looks like when it goes away).

What is this that I keep seeing?


texts: I have little use for key repeat for most keys (aaaaaaaa whatsamatah with you?). However, it's very useful for delete and the arrow keys. Is it possible to have only certain keys repeat?


texts: My Time Machine backup has 100+ dated backups.  What I'd like to be able to do is extract the backups for a particular folder to another location, with the result being like TM's archive (where multiple references to unchanged files are just links to 1 copy).  Effectively, this would be a copy of the original TM archive, but only for the selected folder (and it's subfolders).  Is there any utility which can do this?


texts: Remove Chrome Policy. Error: Domain (com.google.Chrome) not found

texts:
My Chrome browser is managed by organisation. This was intentional since in my previous company we used one extension for work. Thus, this is not a malware issue.
I cannot remove this policy now. I tried with following from terminal:
defaults delete com.google.Chrome ExtensionInstallForcelist

The error I get is:
Domain (com.google.Chrome) not found.
Defaults have not been changed.

These are my Policies at the moment:

ExtensionInstallForcelist is the one I want to be removed.
I also tried the Chrome Policy remover for Mac as explained here:
https://support.google.com/chrome/thread/6453928?hl=en
However this is not doing anything. I tried few times, installed even signed Apple version of this tool, restarted laptop, tried from terminal, I reseted Chrome settings after it... nothing.
Any help is appreciated!


texts: How do I get rid of iCloud connection between iPhone, iMac and iPad?

texts: How do I get rid of the iCloud connection between my iPhone, iMac and iPad?


texts:
Today the heartbleed OpenSSL exploit was announced in the wild, which allows an attacker to surreptitiously detect and steal private server keys (allowing them to MitM and decrypt your encrypted data and steal passwords).  This affects OpenSSL versions including 1.0.1f which is the version on my up-to-date Mavericks computer Mac (because I used port/brew to install other software which updated my openssl without me realizing it):

$ openssl version
OpenSSL 1.0.1f 6 Jan 2014

This demonstrates I am not using the Mavericks version of OpenSSL:

$ which openssl
/opt/local/bin/openssl

OpenSSL released a fix today in 1.0.1g and I wonder how I can get this fixed version installed over my current version?


texts: Is there a way to make the clip longer?  I thought of maybe looping it or duplicating it but I can't figure out how.  The slow motion option won't work either.  Do the presets in the movie trailers stop you from doing this?


texts: How To Resolve Finder Graphical Errors on macOS

texts:
I've had a very strange Finer error caused by recent macOS High Sierra betas that affected Macs running macOS 10.13 as well as macOS 10.12 Sierra. This error causes an entire Finder window to show visual artifacts when opening certain folders on either an APFS or HFS+ volume.  After moving the cursor or the affected Finder window, the window may look something like this;

Attempting to use Disk Utility to repair the affected volume does not resolve this issue, nor does restarting the affected Mac (even in Safe Mode).  Without formatting this disk, how can I prevent Finder from exhibiting this graphical error when opening particular folders?


texts: Copy/Paste working inconsistently (El Capitan, Macbook Air)

texts: I'm using a MacBook Air from late 2010 or so, and I've recently noticed that my copy/paste abilities have become significantly reduced. Within an app itself it usually works without a hitch, but occasionally if I try to paste between apps (like, say, use a messaging app to send a link to someone), it'll usually either paste the last thing I copied within the app or nothing altogether. Right now, I'm just looking for some kind of quick, lasting fix, as this is making my usual workflow significantly more difficult.


texts: My iPhone 4 keeps losing contacts under various conditions: first after an app crash followed by a manual reboot; all the other times after the battery becomes empty.


texts: Can I recover deleted viber messages after my phone is erased?

texts:
My device is Iphone 6, I had deleted some messages from my viber, then I erased my phone 2 days after that, then I noticed there was information I need. I don't have back up of any sort.

can I somehow recover those messages? if yes how likely?


texts:
So I got my first Apple laptop, a Retina MacBook Pro.

I heard that its best to let the laptop discharge until 0% in order to restart the battery cycle or something like that. However I know that lithium batteries have no memory effect and the only thing I would be restarting is the time estimator that shows how much time is left for use.

I may be wrong so I want expert advice from you guys here, do I need to do anything regarding charging my laptop?
Also, how much time am I supposed to expect when surfing the web, you tubing, Facebook, occasional Photoshop, Dropbox, etc.?


texts: How do I connect my iMac to a Windows SMB share drive

texts:
I work in an organization that runs a Windows network of 1000s of computers with Windows 7 installed. We have lots of SMB share drives that store information. My job is a new role for a graphic design area and I've been setup with an iMac.

Now the problem: This is the only iMac in the organization and I'm not familiar with share drives. I've been told that I've had my "credentials" set up and should be able to connect to an SMB share drive that contains all our fonts, images, and videos.

How do I connect my iMac to this Windows SMB share drive?


texts: MacBook Pro RAM upgrade is causing beeping sound?

texts:
I just upgraded the RAM in my MacBook Pro (15" 2 GHz Intel Core i7 - early 2011 model) from two 2gb modules to two 4gb modules. Started up just fine and ran great for about 10 minutes. Then the screen froze and the computer started beeping. After some google searches I found that it is caused by either a) bad RAM or b) the RAM is inserted incorrectly. My guess is that the computer shouldn't start if it's bad RAM. Others online report their computers beeping on startup. I tried repositioning the RAM to make sure it's in tight. The same thing happened.

The computer recognizes the RAM - it shows up in About My Mac. The RAM is Corsair 8gb 1333 MHz DDR3.

What's going on?


texts:
I seem to have some sort of problem with Google.
My Gmail account in Mail is marked with a little 'problem squiggle'. Connection Doctor says that login to both the IMAP and SMTP server failed.
If I click on the squiggle, I get a dialog saying "enter the password for the account in Safari".
This brings up a window in Safari that stays blank.
Google searches in Safari also do nothing, just sitting there, until eventually saying "Failed to Open Page".
Google Books, Maps, Translate, and all other Google services just don't work.
All other websites and email accounts work fine. I have tried different DNS servers. Google services work fine using another browser (Vivaldi).
This on Mojave. I suspect it's something to do with 'certificates' or some such.
The problem is intermittent, but occurs often. Despite this, I have actually had some email through on my Gmail account, while it claims to be not working.


texts: How to manage software that isn't in the App Store?

texts:
I'm a Linux sysadmin. I naturally try to apply Linux-y solutions to Mac problems. One problem I'm currently having is managing software on end-user laptops at scale, when the software I want to add is not available in the App store.

Which seems to be most/all of the software I need to manage or install.

Browsers: Firefox, Chrome, etc. Not in App store
VPN clients: Tunnelblick, Viscosity
Internally managed Antivirus software

etc.

What is the "Apple Way" to manage software across an organization when that software is not available in the App Store?


texts: Stop Mail from downloading attachments automatically

texts:
How to stop Mail.app (version 7.0) on my Mac OSX 10.9 from downloading attachments automatically.

I have setup my Gmail account, and I want to be given an option to download attachments instead of having them downloading automatically.


texts: Is someone remotely accessing my iPhone?

texts:
Can someone watch you on face time auto without you knowing it?

On my iPhone there are calls I never made and the light turned on by itself saying facetime with a number by it.

Is someone watching me and using my phone?


texts: In the calendar app, you can select Hebrew, Chinese and Islamic alternate calendars, anyone out there can guide me on how I could create a new alternate calendar?


texts: How can I get bluetooth devices to connect without repeatedly opening the Bluetooth preference pane?

texts:
I have a bluetooth mouse (a Microsoft Designer Bluetooth) connected to my 2012 rMBP running Sierra.

The mouse works fine when it is connected.  For some reason, however, when it is disconnected in usual circumstances (sleep/wake, inactivity, etc), it usually doesn't reconnect, unless I open the Bluetooth preference pane.

I don't have to do anything in the preference pane.  Merely opening it suffices to get the connection working, and the effect is almost instantaneous, sometimes happening before the preference pane visibly opens.

Thus my questions are:

Why does this happen?  What does opening the preference pane actually change?
How can I get the device to connect properly, rather than needing me to open the preference pane every time?

I assume this is some sort of problem with power-saving configurations, but there are no user-discoverable options for this in macOS.


texts: iPhone plays podcasts in seemingly random order

texts:
Does anyone know why my iPhone has (suddenly) started playing podcasts in seemingly random order? I want podcasts to be played in the order they were downloaded (in iTunes), chronologically.

However, when I start listening to a podcast with more than two entries, the second entry iPhone plays is seldom the second in chronological order, but some seemingly random entry. Why is this and how can I fix it?

Update: Here's how the Music application's interface looks like on my iPhone:

I can't see a shuffle icon anywhere. The icon on the lower right hand side is the airplay icon. Here's a screenshot after tapping the "album art":

Here's a screenshot from while playing music:

There I can see a shuffle icon (finally), but it's not enabled (blue).


texts: I found an iPad on the street, how can I find its owner?

texts:
I have found an iPad on the street last night, it's an iPad Air (Wi-Fi Only) according to the model number (A1474).

How can I find its owner?

The iPad is locked. There's no SIM card to help me find its owner. There's another question on this site about an iPhone. But it's 6 yr old and may be outdated.

I thought about leaving it to the police, but according to what I read, they won't deal with it.


texts: How to stop iOS Mail from automatically downloading attachments?

texts: I would like to know how to stop Mail app on iOS 9.3.5 from automatically downloading the mail attachments. It is taking a lot of space on my iPhone.


texts: Prevent iPhone from connecting to WiFi when activating Personal WiFi Hotspot

texts:
Every time I turn on my mobile WiFi hotspot on my iPhone, it works great unless I am in range of a remembered WiFi hotspot that iPhone itself can connect to -- iPhone silently opts to use any WiFi data stream instead of my cellular stream, the latter of which I always prefer.

My phone's data connection is much faster than my WiFi connection, and it often takes me a while to realize why my iPhone's hotspot it so horribly slow: it is connected to the very WiFi access point I am attempting to circumvent!!

Is there a way to prevent iPhone from itself connecting to WiFi when broadcasting a WiFi hotspot of its own, without "forget"-ing all relevant hotspot encryption keys?


texts:
This may be a UK problem, Apple pay was launched in the UK today and it coincided with an update to ios8.4.

But I still have Passbook.. Is there a way of turning on wallet or has it simply not been launched in the UK yet?


texts: Can I set a Timecapsule to connect to a wireless network, and hook up more network equipment to it with cables?

texts:
Currently I have an older style Timecapsule 2GB, the flat type, connect to my cable modem, and distributing network to my apartment both through cables (Xbox, PS4, Apple TV) and WIFI (everything else).

I want to move this to a different room and in its place put a newer Airport Express thus having three base stations to provide wireless access to the network.

Reading the article leaves me with three concerns:

Move the Timecapsule to a different room and ask it to join the WIFI network set up by the Airport Express
Hook up nearby equipment (a computer and a NAS) to the Timecapsule, and thus spread the network to those units as well?
Still continue backing up my iMac and MacBook Pro to it, without changes (provided I keep its name)

I read this article: Wi-Fi base stations: Extending the range of your wireless network by adding additional Wi-Fi base stations and it has this section:

  Wirelessly Extended Network (802.11n)

I understand the part about being nearby, but the webpage mentions base stations as the unit you can use to extend and I'm not sure if a time capsule counts as a "base station" as it also mentions other types, so my question is, with the above setup, and the existing time capsule being the unit on the right, can I hook up a computer and a NAS to it using cables, and access them while connected to the left apple router over WIFI?

The setup would be:

Leftmost apple unit, connected to the cable modem with yellow cable, would server my Xbox, PS4, tables, MacBook Pro, iMac, using a combination of WIFI and cabled network
Rightmost apple unit, old time capsule
A server-like computer + a NAS connected to the time capsule using cables

So, in short - is the Time Capsule capable of working as a true Airport Base station?


texts: Any other major difference between iPhone and iPod Touch except telephone function?

texts:
Any major difference between iPhone and iPod Touch except telephone function?

What does the iPhone have but the iPod Touch doesn't have and vice versa?


texts: how to turn off hyperlinks in text messages on iPhone

texts:
I received a text message from my wife and on my end the phrase the crickets was underlined, and when I tapped it, it took me to a Wikipedia article on Buddy Holly's band The Crickets.
When I asked her if she had done something special on her end to cause that, she said no, and in my own text to her the words were turned into a hyperlink too.  This is happening automatically.
She was referring to the insects, not to the band.
What is this inane feature called and how is it turned off?


texts: How to set ⌘ + H to enable show hidden files

texts: I want my Mac to show hidden files when i hit ⌘ + H (like ubuntu). I can see hidden files by putting this defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles YES command in terminal but i want to get a keyboard shortcut for it. Also, if ⌘ + H is already used by some other process please let me know what might be the closest and most related shortcut for this new process and how to assign it to the respective, show hidden files process.


texts:
I sent my friend an iMessage about 4 hours ago, and the blue bubble appeared, but delivered text never appeared below the message bubble. I assume this means that the recipient did not receive the message.
I just sent them another iMessage and this time it said delivered.

Does that mean that my friend was able to receive both the messages or just the most recent one? And is the first message lost in transit?


texts: Distorted Audio from Speakers and Line-Out

texts:
I've been working on my early-2008 iMac of late, replacing the HD with and SSD, and upgrading the CPU to 2.8 GhZ. The SSD and new CPU seem to be working fine, except after I finished I ended up with this weird audio problem: ALL audio is distorted. I've shared a couple of links to demonstrate:

Clip of Middle C

Stars and Stripes Forever

This happens both through speakers and audio out. I cannot seem to find the source of the problem. I've tried the following:

Replaced the audio board
Replaced the audio board / logic board flex cable
Replaced the logic board
Booted off an external HD
Downgraded to Mavericks
Reset the PRAM
Reset the SMU
Terminated CoreAudio

NOTHING seems to work. The audio just keeps coming through like it does above. My only thought is maybe my power supply is shorting out and messing with the audio, but I don't want to pony up for a new component until I have a better idea.

Does anyone have any ideas?

Note: This only happens after I boot. The startup chime is not affected.


texts: Notifications stopped working for Messages (Mavericks)

texts:
I'm using a 27" iMac with Mavericks. About 2 weeks ago, Messages stop creating notifications whenever I received a message from someone. I used to get a notification in the upper right corner of the screen if Messages was in the background, but now I don't get anything. As a result, when people send me IM messages while Messages is in the background, I don't see them until later when I see the Messages window.

I didn't change any settings or anything like that. They just stopped showing up.

I don't see anything in the Messages Preferences about turning Notifications on/off either.


texts: Why is my mac stuttering / lagging every 2 seconds + USBC Monitor

texts:
I am having a weird issue. I was just connecting my new ultrawide monitor and now my mouse stutters every 2 seconds for about 200ms. (Rough feeling, not measurements done). This happens regardless if I plug in the mouse in the monitors USB hub or directly into the macs USBC plug.
Interestingly it stops stuttering when I disconnect the USB-C to the monitor and feed the video signal via HDMI.
Any idea what could cause this? I am having a macbook pro 16 inch model with the 5500m.
Findings

It does not have to do anything with the mouse, if i discconect the mouse completely, the mac touchpad stutters too.
Stuttering happens also on the macbook 16 screen with the monitor connected via USBc
Not just the mouse and moving windows are stuttering, also websites like testufo
sometimes it just ends stuttering after some time of usage
when changing the monitor resolution there is a timewindow of approx 20seconds where it does not stutter, then the stuttering begins again

Video
Here is a video of this happening:
https://streamable.com/zdr1pr


texts: Mission Control Won't Open and How Do you set up control + up arrow to make it work

texts:
Hello I'm trying to use the control + up arrow to see my desktops/apps that are open but it's not working. I am on 10.13.6 High Sierra.
I have spaces enabled and for some reason, the mission control won't work. I have tried the "killall Dock" in the terminal but that doesn't work. Please help!


texts: How to make a bootable disc in Yosemite?

texts: Many searches and tutorials all showed that if you drop an .iso file in Disc Utility and go to Burn it will make a bootable disc but when I do it in Yosemite it will burn a copy of the .iso file.  How do I make a bootable disc in Yosemite?


texts: How to recover a forgotten Apple ID without access to a trusted device or a IOS device

texts:
iPhone is considered to be the best in case of security. What should be done if the Apple ID is lost or forgotten and the iPhone is turned off, and there is no other way to start it?

This has happened with me twice and this time the problem is again the same. It's a big loss for me to buy a new iPhone every time. Please give me best guide so I can fix this problem.


texts: Why mouse zoom in,out not working on icloud.com find my iphon?

texts:
I am using Linux Ubuntu. When trying to use www.icloud.com/#find any mouse movements like zoom or scroll not working.

Any solutions?


texts: Disable page curl animation in Lion's iCal

texts: I can live with the skeuomorphic skin of the new iCal, but the useless page curl animation when switching months is both slow and jittery. Is there any way to disable it?


texts:
In Windows if I entered several commands and built up a little history, I could execute previous commands by typing a prefix at the command line and pressing F8 (Windows Keyboard shortcuts) to cycle through all commands in my history matching that prefix. Is there any equivalent in MacOS?

By way of example If I sequentially executed these commands

dir .
echo IgnoreThis
dir /b %TEMP%
dir /s .
dir /b %USERPROFILE%
echo IgnoreThis

If I then entered

dir /bF8

I would first receive an autocompletion to

dir /b %TEMP%

and if I pressed F8 again it would autocomplete to

dir /b %USERPROFILE%

For another example if I instead entered

dirF8

For the first, second, and third times I pressed F8 I would get

dir .
dir /b %TEMP%
dir /s .


texts: How can I stop iTunes uploading my tracks from my iPhone 6s to iCloud?

texts:
The answers already posted to questions similar to mine don't seem to apply to my phone. I can keep individual tracks on the phone by pressing the download button, but with nearly 2000 songs on the phone, this seems like a long task, with no guarantee that the song won't simply upload again. Is there a way (as for photos) of preventing it?

Using the Cloud is difficult where 3G/4G reception is poor, underground in London, and it uses up my data allowance very quickly indeed.... However, I do need email and calendar to be up to date, so I don't want to turn off the Cloud entirely.


texts: MacBook Pro 2020 13 Inch Powering Off When Closing Lid

texts: Every time I close my lid on my MacBook Pro it powers off completely. When I turn it back on, it gives me a something went wrong error. I was getting a "sleep wake failure" error before. It's a brand new computer and I've done a hard reset already. I deleted the "sleepimage" file from /private/var/VM/ as recommended in another post. I still have this issue. Any help would be appreciated.


texts: I have an early 2011 MacBook Pro that has now 1 terabyte of storage, but want to connect a external hard drive via the fastest connection possible. It didn't come with USB 3.0 but 2x USB 2.0 and Thunderbolt port. Can I get a male Thunderbolt to female USB 3.0 adapter?


texts: What kind of data does Spotlight index and store on OS X?

texts:
With Spotlight it's possible to find almost anything on a Mac computer, but to know everything, Spotlight must keep this information somewhere.

Regarding text (txt, doc, pages, etc,) files, Spotlight indexes not only the file name and metadata, but also the content.

What kind of data does Spotlight store and how does it index text files? Does it keep metadata when the file is being deleted?

When you edit work files from flash drive, does it keep index and content of that files after flash drive was removed?


texts: the top of my photoshop is hidden under my mac menu and I can't seem to get it back to normal


texts:
A simple one, I guess:

I recently bought a new (unlocked) iPhone, and at the same time changed my phone subscription to another operator. How can I set the PIN code on the new SIM card to something other than the default? With a quick look, I couldn't find anything related in iPhone settings.


texts: Encrypted forgot password NO Recovery Key

texts:
I forgot my password to my Macbook Pro and I dont have the recovery key. I dont ever remember putting my computer on FileVault lock...to the point well forgot my password. I need help :'(

I have tried the new method I found with the corestorage list on terminal. But I always need to key in a passpharse. I receive " Error: -69749: Unable to unlock the Core Storage Voulume.

I really dont want to try to erase everything I have so many memories in there.

Please someone help!
Apple Store was no help at all.


texts: Slow OSX booting with black screen before apple logo

texts: Every time I boot my macbook, there is always a black screen before the Apple Logo pops up. The blackscreen stays for around 15-20 seconds. How can I resolve that problem?


texts: Deleted Files from my IPhone still shows up when I hook my phone to Itunes

texts: I deleted Music and Video from my Iphone 5, 8.1.2; But whenever I hook it up to the PC it still shows the deleted files as ghost datas under "On my device", furthermore Itunes says that my device has 6.05gb free space but my Iphone says 8.00gb free space. What is wrong with this? Thank you for the help.


texts:
Ok, so I've come across a (seemingly) common problem in High Sierra: annoying problems using Contacts.app/AddressBook (not sure why they don't just call it AddressBook.app, but that's irrelevant at this point).

For a while, I thought the problem was on my end. To isolate this, I deleted my AddressBook folder in it's entirety and restarted. Now, with a fresh (empty) AddressBook, I still am having the same problems: the app hangs and I can't add/search/edit/delete etc... Nothing. Unfortunately, I am unable to decode the .hang file - I don't have a ton experience in this area. That is to say, it's not giving me any relevant information that I can discern.

Lastly, I did the exact same thing (fresh, empty AddressBook) and then rebooted in Safe Mode. This did not resolve the problem.

I've poured over the logs within Console, to no avail. I can't seem to get a consistent error message of any kind, so not sure what path to pursue at this point. I've not tried Sysdiagnose, yet.

P.S. iCloud sync has been OFF for this whole process.

EDIT: Here are the three errors I get

1. AEGetDescData of non-desc type 'reco' not a good idea

2. Exception caught during decoding of received reply to message 'synchronousDonatedMeCard:', dropping incoming message and calling failure block.

    Exception: Exception while decoding argument 0 (#1 of invocation):
    <NSInvocation: 0x60800026db40>
    return value: {v} void
    target: {@?} 0x0 (block)
    argument 1: {@} 0x0

    Exception: value for key 'right' was of unexpected class 'NSError'. Allowed classes are '{(
        CNMutableContact,
        CNEither,
        CNContact
    )}'.

3. Error retrieving contacts from daemon: Error Domain=NSCocoaErrorDomain Code=4101 "connection to service named com.apple.contacts.donation.agent" UserInfo={NSDebugDescription=connection to service named com.apple.contacts.donation.agent}


texts:
Seems to be a very simple question, but i cannot find the answer in the many many documentation that is around on Applescript.

I have a non-scriptable application for which i want to open a file using the File Open dialog in the application. This is what i came up with so far:

tell application "CubicSDR"
    activate
end tell

tell application "System Events" to tell process "CubicSDR"
    set position of window 2 to {-1920, -296}
    set size of window 2 to {1635, 500}
    click menu item "Open Session" of menu "File" of menu bar 1
    ......
end tell

Then i have tried to select a file, open a file, click a file, nothing seems to work.
This can not be as hard as it seems considering that this is such a common operation.
Does anybody have a code sample i can work off?


texts: Audio player for transcribing and taking notes of meeting recordings

texts:
I am looking for a macOS audioplayer that helps me to relisten to my recorded meetings and at the same time make notes.

The player should

support global hotkeys (without requiring the app to be in the foreground) for rewinding a few seconds, pause, and play
and also allow adjusting the playing speed (e.g., 1.5x).

I have tried several solutions yet: VLC, iTunes, QuickTime. But none of these fulfilled all of my requirements.

Currently, I am using otranscribe.com which is tedious to use as it only supports some very basic formatting (e.g., not bullet points) in the text section. Because of that I am using GoogleDocs to write my notes which requires skipping back and forth between tabs.

Do you have any suggestions? A free solution would be nice but I am also open for paid/commercial solutions.


texts: Why there is no cancelling mechanism for filevault?

texts: Is there a technical reason? Once it is started you have to wait for days and it is extremely annoying.


texts:
I just upgraded to Mavericks (late I know), and I'm not much liking the new Finder sorting system. I had it arranged by modified, for workflow reasons, but I liked the grid too, not the coverflow rows that happen now.

Is there a way to have the grid and 'arranged by modified'?

EDIT
By grid I mean the old icon layout, which now only happens with 'arrange by name.'


texts: prevent Lock Screen from showing user FullName

texts:
Is there any way to prevent the lock screen from displaying my full name?

It's a privacy matter and I would like to keep my personal data away from other people.
I know I can turn my screen off, but if someone tries to unlock my computer, she/he will be able to read my Surname.
It's also a Company machine, so I have to keep my full name in the system settings, I cannot change the name within the system.

I would only like to not show the user surname in the lockscreen.

Can it be done?


texts:
I'm running my Mac under 10.9.2 and have about 75 scanned Tiff files which need to be processed through the OCR app, TesseractGUI 0.3. It works very well for me but balks at .tiff extensions and Alpha enabled files. In small batches I've been using Preview to Export, deleting the second "f" and unchecking the Alpha. This manual file adjustment works well.

Time to put Automator to use. I've gone through Apple's "Basic Tutorial" but there's not enough detail to find my way. I've been having a devil of a time getting inexplicable running errors.

I've conceived of a routine where whatever is put in a "Process" folder on the desktop will automatically delete the second "f" in the extension and uncheck the Alpha. Then move the revised file to a "Processed" folder also on the desktop. That way I'd still have my unchanged originals as well as files TesseractGUI will accept.

Appreciate some guidance.


texts: How to disable Spotlight and mds_stores on Mac OS Catalina

texts:
EDIT: I appear to have a temporary fix using mdutil - see the end of the post - but I am not sure if it is a permanent fix, so I am still interested in answers.

I have an iMac running Mac OS 10.15.4 (Catalina). My problem is that every few minutes, /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Frameworks/Metadata.framework/Versions/A/Support/mds_stores starts up, and keeps going until my hard drive is full, and then seems to give up and give me my disk space back. (I believe it is not a "disk" now, but I will stick with the terminology). Not only does it make my disk full at unpredictable times, it also uses a lot of memory.

mds_stores appears to be the indexing program used by Spotlight; I am happy to disable both. I never use Spotlight.

I have followed the suggestions at https://www.technipages.com/macos-sierra-enable-disable-spotlight , i.e. disable System Integrity Protection, run

sudo launchctl unload -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.metadata.mds.plist

and then re-enable System Integrity Protection. But it does not work. It does not appear to have disabled Spotlight (I can still see a magnifying glass icon in the top right corner of my status bar) and it certainly does not stop my real problem: mds_stores running and filling up my disk.

I have also seen it suggested that I remove the index files via:

sudo rm -rf /.Spotlight-V100/*

However on this version of Mac OS (10.15.4, Catalina), there is no directory /.Spotlight-V100

20-Apr-20,15:26:46 ~> sudo ls -a /
Password:
.           .VolumeIcon.icns    .vol            System          bin         etc         private         usr
..          .file           Applications        Users           cores           home            sbin            var
.DS_Store       .fseventsd      Library         Volumes         dev         opt         tmp

I have also see the suggestion (at http://itechinspector.com/mds_stores-process-consuming-high-cpu-usage.html and also at https://discussions.apple.com/thread/8658455 ) to run sudo mdutil -a -i off . When I originally posted this was not working, but when I tried later in the day it did work:

20-Apr-20,21:35:27 ~> sudo mdutil -a -i off
Password:
/:
2020-04-20 21:35:40.665 mdutil[8406:156351] mdutil disabling Spotlight: / -> kMDConfigSearchLevelFSSearchOnly
    Indexing disabled.
/System/Volumes/Data:
2020-04-20 21:35:40.778 mdutil[8406:156351] mdutil disabling Spotlight: /System/Volumes/Data -> kMDConfigSearchLevelFSSearchOnly
    Indexing disabled.

[It also gave me back a ton of disk space. I was sitting at 27 Gi free, which mds_stores would gradually gobble up. After running the above command, I suddenly have 55 Gi free; so I got back 28 Gi, more than 10% of my disk!]

So I appear to have a temporary fix, which I assume will go away next time I reboot. Does anyone know if that (or something else) disables Spotlight and mds_stores, permanently, for Catalina? (Because it looks like it might work a little differently to earlier Mac OS versions).


texts: Making Favorites in Finder collapse according to number of items in it

texts: I know favorites can collapse completely but how possible is it to make a dropdown collapse inside the Favorites itself so that when the items reach about 5, it automatically hides all others with a dropdown arrow for seeing the others?


texts: Redownloading iWork for iPad apps without paying for them

texts:
I bought an iPad Air 2 fourteen months ago. Recently I reset my iPad and now Pages, Keynote, and Numbers are not free — they ask for payment. How can I download them again without paying?

I tried to switch my iPad off and on and I tried another Apple ID, but neither of those worked. My device is fully upgraded to iOS 10.2.


texts:
I may just be missing the right terminology, spreadsheets have never really been my thing.  But I'm struggling to combine SUM() and VLOOKUP() for my needs.  (Assuming these are even the functions I want to use, there could be something better that I'm just not noticing.)

Given a lookup table of Customers, for example:

Name  |  Miles from Office
--------------------------
Bob   |  3.4
Joe   |  9.1
Tom   |  2.9

And a table of Transactions, for example:

Date     | Customer | Amount
----------------------------
1/1/2019 | Bob      | $1.23
2/1/2019 | Tom      | $2.34
3/1/2019 | Bob      | $3.45
4/1/2019 | Bob      | $4.56
5/1/2019 | Joe      | $5.67

How can I get a sum of "Miles" for the transactions?  For any given transaction I could do:

=VLOOKUP("Bob", 'Customers'::A2:B4, 2)

And that would successfully return 3.4.  But if I were to wrap that expression in a SUM() then how would I get it to run the VLOOKUP() on each item in the range being summed?  I tried:

=SUM(VLOOKUP('Transactions'::B2:B6, 'Customers'::A2:B4, 2))

Which I didn't think would work (but was worth a try), and indeed it didn't and just returned the first value, in this case 3.4.

(Specifically using Numbers in iCloud in my browser, if that makes a difference.)


texts: How can I prevent new iCal events from being all-day by default?

texts:
Up until Lion, I could double-click inside a particular date (in Month view) and it would automatically create a new event whose time that day defaulted to one hour.  I could then change the starting time, and the ending time would automatically adjust to be one hour later.  This was often good enough, and made adding an event very straightforward.

In Lion, the same action produces an all day event, which I then have to bring up in the Inspector, switch off All Day, and edit both the starting and ending times.  It's a good deal more work.  I don't see a Preference for this.  Does anyone know how to restore the pre-Lion behavior?


texts: GPS on iPhone 6 is not accurate or working at all

texts:
1 week ago my GPS worked very accurately on Google Maps. But now it's very inaccurate, seems like it works using 3g connection.

What steps i did:

Restarted phone;
Reset network/location privacy settings;
turned off then turned on location service;

But none of this helped me. Any advices?


texts: Time Machine says not enough space but there is plenty of space

texts:
I'm not sure what happened but I used to be able to backup to a drive shared with a networked Mac Mini using OSX server. Now all of a sudden it says there is not enough space.

So I reformatted the drive (12TB) and restarted the whole thing. However Time Machine now tell me there is not enough space. It says:

  The backup disk needs 5.35 TB for the backup but only 499.49 GB are available.

I'm not sure why only 499GB is available.


texts: Mount a Time Machine backup disk that will not mount

texts:
I just plugged in my external hd via USB for a Time Machine backup. However it will not mount.

I've:

Unplugged the hd
Restarted the computer
Plugged it back in

When I do this, Disk Utility spins and won't load. So I then:

Unplug the disk
Open Disk Utility
Plug in the disk and that shows the image above

When I press mount, it says the disk is already unlocked. However it will not show up.

This started after I tried repairing the volume, but it wouldn't repair. Now I can't select it.

Any options at this point other than erasing the whole HD and starting over?


texts: I would like to explicitly remove songs that I uploaded using iTunes Match, from the cloud. How is this done? And if I do remove the song, will it be automatically removed from all my devices?


texts: What causes my Mac to occasionally double my text inputs from various sources?

texts:
This happens both when I'm typing text from my wireless apple keyboard and also when I use my USB barcode reader to read numbers from the barcodes.
I don't know what causes the glitch to happen sometimes or not happen but often when I scan a barcode it will input the numbers to the text field twice consecutively, though not always. I have tried buying a different brand and model of barcode reader and it still does it, sso I know kno that it isn't my barcode reader responsible for the problem. Further, when I am typing on my keyboard sometimes characters or character sequences get duplicated with a slight lag, even with different characters typed successfully in between. This can actually be seen in action above with the typo sso and the 'kno' sequence where 'w ' was typed and then the 'kno' was repeated directly afterward, which I wouwold have corrected under normal circumstances but actually serves as a perfect illustration of the issue and wasn't deliberate.
Finally, sometimes when I print things to my zebra printer, two copies will be printed instead of one. These behaviors have been occurring regularly since I got the computer this April. I'm not certain if the double printing issue is caused by the same thing as the input problem, but it does seem sufficiently plausible as to be relevant to include.
How cow could I go about rectifying this?


texts: Why doesn't my iPod touch (5th Gen) have FaceTime?

texts: I bought my iPod touch (5th Gen) and there is no FaceTime icon on the home screen. I tried checking it in Settings but it's not there. How do I find FaceTime?


texts: Recovering an accidentally deleted  folder in OSX - no Time Machine or backup available

texts:
I am a longtime Windows user, recently switched to Mac. I replaced folder with another folder (they had the same name) thinking that OS X will merge the contents of both folders. But OS X deleted the original folder and replaced it with the new one. Windows merges both the folders (I do this often in Windows). I have now lost hundreds of files. I haven't enabled Time Machine. I've tried using Finder's Undo, but that doesn't work.

Currently, I am trying to recover my data using photorec. It shows estimated time as 7 hours, 31 minutes. Does anyone know any free data recovery software that's faster and more powerful?


texts: Access folder in which Photos stores its files

texts:
I have photos stored in the Photos app on my iPhone. I have installed the new Photos app on my Mac, and I'm using iCloud to sync pictures between Photos on my iPhone and Photos on my Mac.

On my Mac, is it possible to access the folder in which the Photos app stores my pictures?


texts: External monitor becomes blurrier as the resolution gets smaller

texts:
I am connecting a Macbook Pro 13" 2016 to an external monitor (LG 27UL500), that supports up to 4K resolution. They are connected via HDMI and a HDMI-USBC adapter (Apple brand).
I have tried three resolution options:

4K/UHD (3840 x 2160): sharp, but text/windows are too small.
FHD (1920 x 1080): amazing (Retina), but text/windows are too big.
QHD (2560 x 1440): very blurry, but text/windows are the right size. This last option is only available in the Display Options if I option-click the "Scaled" setting (instead of normal clicking).

I am confused by the fact that the QHD setting is significantly blurrier than the 4K setting. Online I have seen the explanation that in order to use the Retina option, one has to set the resolution to at most half the maximum (so FHD in my case). I see the difference, it is indeed nicer. But the "sharpness" of the non-Retina 4K is also fine for me.
Is there a way to get similar sharpness to 4K, while scaling windows to QHD, so that the windows/text are a bit bigger? Or is that simply not possible because 3840 is not divisible by 2560?
I have already tried the RDM software, which even gives a few additional options between 4K and FHD, but all of them are blurry. (Interestingly, the QHD setting via RDM is even blurrier than that same resolution set via System Preferences -- as in, text is almost unreadable. This makes me think there may be a software-related issue after all.)
Is there a fix in the settings / software? Otherwise, would a DisplayPort -> USBC adapter help? (instead of HDMI which I'm using now?)


texts: How to prevent open tracking in Gmail app on iOS

texts:
Google's documentation says:

  Images will always appear in the Gmail app on your iPhone or iPad.

(This is different from opening Gmail in a browser on a computer, where I see settings that provide a choice: either "Always show images" or "Ask before showing images".)

How can I read Gmail messages on my iOS devices if I want to ensure that my opens can't be tracked?

P.S. The page linked above interestingly does not say:

  "Sometimes, senders may know whether you've opened an email that has an image."

even though the "Computer" tab on that page does. I can't tell whether this implies that Gmail opens are NOT trackable in iOS.


texts:
I have downloaded a game on my iPad (hopefully free), played for a while. Then, after several days, the app crashed. The current situation is that this app starts, but during initial loading, it crashes. I've deleted the app and then re-downloaded it from the App Store, believing that the corrupted file had been deleted too. But the problem stays the same: crash at startup.

So my question is: when I delete an app, does it leave some files on the system? And if it is the case, is it possible to get totally rid of an app?


texts:
I've recently moved from Powerpoint to Keynote. While I am overall satisfied with the transition, I feel that there is too much clicking to do simple things. For instance:

If I want to align objects after selecting them, I need to press the Arrange tab > Align dropdown > Left. In powerpoint I just click Align left on the Quick access toolbar.
If I want to change the fill color or outline color of a shape, I need to press Style tab > Fill. In powerpoint I simply have to click the Fill color in the Quick access toolbar.

While this doesn't seem much, it is tedious to have to click on every single tab just to do something that would otherwise be done with a single click. This becomes worse if I am working with an animation and then need to work with a shape, adding 1 more click at the top to select Format

So my question is: is there such a thing as a "shortcut toolbar" or "quick access toolbar" in Keynote in the same way as there is in Powerpoint?


texts: How can I view invalid characters in a file?

texts:
How can I view invalid characters in a (text) file?

At the left is Notepad++ on a Windows machine. At the right is TextWrangler on a Mac machine. Notepad++ shows me what those invalid characters are, but TextWrangler just displays inverted question marks. How can I view those invalid characters (more meaningfully) on Mac?

OS: macOS High Sierra 10.13.3
Hardware: MacBook Pro Mid-2015


texts: Mac Preview jumps between tabs in fullscreen mode in Big Sur

texts: I have a problem with Mac preview in the full screen mode after upgrading to Big Sur. In the full screen mode with a few tabs, when clicking a specific tab, preview after a few seconds goes to the specific one. When I choose 'Window -> go to the next tab' it works in the same way, also when choose 'Window -> name of the open file'. However, if I use the shortcuts Ctr+Tab (go to the next tab) or Shift+ctr+Tab (go to the previous tab) it works fine. Does anyone have a similar problem? Any solution?


texts: Upgrading from Mojave 10.14.3 to Mojave 10.14.6 (or at most Catalina), but not to Big Sur?

texts:
I have a MacBook Pro (early 2015) with MacOS Mojave 10.14.3, Safari 12.0.3 and XCode 10.3. The webpage I want to remote debug is opened in Safari on an iPhone SE with iOS 14.2.
The answers I got on StackOverflow suggest that I should upgrade my macOS Safari and/or my XCode version installed on my Macbook.
I see that there is a download for Safari 14.0.1 Beta 4 but it requires at least macOS Mojave 10.14.6.
From https://xcodereleases.com/, I see that my current XCode version 10.3 is the latest I can get given my MacOS Mojave version 10.14.3
So I definitely have to upgrade my MacOS version.
When I go to Preferences -> Software Updates, I see this screen:

Then if I click on "More info..." under "Other updates are available." I get this screen:

So it looks like I could upgrade to MacOS Mojave 10.14.6, which would allow me to install XCode Xcode 11.3.1 at most and also upgrade Safari to version 14
Great, but I fear that clicking on the "install now" button would also install the latest and recently released "Big Sur" because this is what i see on the Software Updates screen.
So this is my (indeed simple, but I wanted to provide more context) question: Can I make sure I upgrade to Mojave 10.14.6 only and not Big Sur from the Software Updates screen I see ?


texts: tic doesn't read from STDIN and segfaults when adding terminfo to support italics in tmux

texts:
I'm trying to follow these instructions to add italics support to tmux.

1) I tried running copying-pasting and running this command

cat <<EOF|tic -x -
    tmux|tmux terminal multiplexer,
        ritm=\E[23m, rmso=\E[27m, sitm=\E[3m, smso=\E[7m, Ms@,
        use=xterm+tmux, use=screen,

    tmux-256color|tmux with 256 colors,
        use=xterm+256setaf, use=tmux,

but that gives me:

tic: Can't open -

I'm guessing this is because OS X's tic doesn't support reading from stdin.

2) I then tried saving the terminfo to a temporary file named tmux.terminfo and ran it using tic -x tmux.terminfo

tmux|tmux terminal multiplexer,
    ritm=\E[23m, rmso=\E[27m, sitm=\E[3m, smso=\E[7m, Ms@,
    use=xterm+tmux, use=screen,

tmux-256color|tmux with 256 colors,
    use=xterm+256setaf, use=tmux,

However, I get this error message

[1]    32091 segmentation fault  tic -x tmux.terminfo

3) I also tried running tic without the -x flag, so that it doesn't treat unknown capabilities as user-defined.

That gives me this:

"tmux.terminfo", line 2, col 62, terminal 'tmux': unknown capability 'Ms'
[1]    35607 segmentation fault  tic tmux.terminfo

I'm on OS X 10.11.6.


texts: Bluetooth speaker connects to input rather than output - seems related to macOS Big Sur

texts:
I’ve got a bluetooth speaker (Bose Mini II SoundLink) that I’m trying to connect to my Mac. I was playing music through Tidal and it was working normally but then it suddenly disconnected, and now whenever I try and reconnect it, it will show up in input devices as it has a mic (under System Preferences > Sound) but not under output devices.
It seems after updating to macOS Big Sur my bluetooth devices are consistently having problems because some headphones of mine also refuse to connect with the audio unless I redo pairing every time.
Can someone tell me how to fix this?


texts: Pages: Communicate between multiple tables?

texts:
I'm creating an Estimate template in Pages. Each chunk of the estimate (shown below as "Itemized List Hourly") has it's own table, with each row containing a task, such as "CMS Training" and a low and high number of hours. Then the footer automatically adds up the prices. So far so simple, and I've got these tables working already.

Then I want one simple, separate table at the end of the document (shown here with the row "Total Project Price" that adds up the low and high "totals" from each of the other tables and displays it. So in the case of the tables shown below, the min should be $1,800 and the max should be $11,100.

Can Pages do this? Is there any way for tables to know about each other's contents? Below is a selection from my document so far (and how I'd ideally like it to look).


texts: Outgrowing Time Capsule: drobo, synology, os x server on mac mini?

texts:
We have 14 macs in an office backing up to a 2TB Time Capsule, which sometimes shows delays but generally works.  We need more space and while I can upgrade the drive to a 4TB I have a feeling we are working the hardware pretty hard so I'm looking at other options.

We are using the user account based backups on the time capsule; users backups should ideally be encrypted but at the very least need to have file permissions so that users can not see other users' backups.  I would also like to have a quota for time machine backup size per user, which I understand isn't really supported in OS X Server but can be done with hand-created sparsebundles (ugh).  With the drobo you have to create a volume per user but can enforce the size that way.

Does anyone have experience running Time Capsule successfully in an environment with around 10 to 50 computers?  I am looking at a Drobo (probably 5N), Mac Mini Server with a disk array, or perhaps a Synology unit.  4TB is enough for now but I would like the storage to be expandable.

Finally, should I be using a cloud based service like CrashPlan?  I really like the ability to restore a mac that has been lost or destroyed, and the fact that Time Capsule doesn't cause WAN traffic, but I don't like sys admin time.

Thanks in advance.


texts:
I recently set up a CardDav account on my iPhone 4S which is running iOS 6.01. It synced with my GMail account just fine, however, the Contacts app only shows those that are within the My Contacts group. I have a handful of other groups that I've created to organize my contacts, so not all of them are shown under My Contacts (what they call a contact group seems to be just a label).

My question is, how can I view/use all my GMail contacts on my iPhone, regardless of the GMail group they are in? Or is that something Google doesn't support yet?


texts: Why does iPhone text not suggest an American flag emoji?

texts: When typing out country names for example Canada, Russia, Mexico, Cuba, and China and all other country names I have tried using my iPhone with iOS 10 emojis are suggested with the respective flag for the country name I have just typed. When I type "America" this is not the case, why does typing the word America not suggest the use of the American flag emoji like so for all other countries?


texts: iPhone 5 and updates from my Hotmail.com account

texts:
Just got my new iPhone issued to me at work.  When I put in my Hotmail.com address it automatically attached all those contacts to my phone.  Since that time I have gone into the Hotmail.com contacts and cleaned it all up by deleting many unused and old contacts.
How do I get the phone to now update the new contact list??


texts: iMac 27" late 2009 running OSX 10.10.4 - please explain time machine to me?

texts:
I hope you can explain this to me.  I have a 1 TB hard drive on my iMac.  I bought a 2TB external drive for time machine.  It says that it makes backups hourly, daily, and monthly...and then deletes old backups when the disc is full.  Well, I had to wipe my external hard drive and start over tonight because I just kept getting the message that time machine couldn't back up my computer because it was full.  Is my 2TB external drive too small?  It's double the size of my computer hard drive...
Thanks for your help.


texts: Use Screencapture command to record screen -- How to get the audio source id?

texts:
I want to write a scheduled script to use the screencapture command to record the screen automatically in the background, just like this:

$ screencapture -v -V 60 output.mov -A xxxx

'xxxx' is the id of the audio source. I have to specify this parameter to record macos internal audio, using a virtual audio device like Soundflower, and without the specified audio source id, the captured videos are always muted.

How could I get all the audio devices' IDs in the simplest way? I tried many apps and scripts but still could not find the solution.


texts: Terminal command to remove custom icon from file (HFS+)

texts:
Context

In Mac OS X / macOS you can select a file in the Finder, click Informations then click the icon, and paste any image/icon that is in the clipboard. Now this file has a custom icon made of this image.

To remove it, the usual way is to select the file, click Informations, select the custom icon then hit delete and it removes the custom icon, restoring the default one.

Question

Is there a way to remove these custom icons from these files without having to open a Finder window? For example with a Terminal command?

Why

A file has a corrupted custom icon, opening the Finder in this folder causes the Finder to beachball and the HDD to freak out. But I still can access the folder content, and this file, from the command line, if I don't first open a Finder window. So I'm thinking that I "just" need to access the metadata differently to remove the custom icon.


texts: Losing synchronisation between iPhone and Outlook.com

texts:
My family is using outlook.com for their calendars. All events are stored there for all the family members, and everyone has access to everyone else's events (at least for reading, some for writing).

All of this works flawlessly with Outlook 2013 and/or the Windows 8 calendar app. And at first, it worked well with our iPhones. However, after prolonged use (a few months) it appears that synchronisation between iPhone and outlook.com stops for whatever reason: New events entered via outlook.com are not synched to the phone and vice versa.

The problem appears to be on the phones' side (not all of them fail at the same time, and synchronisation with all the other devices works). When I delete the outlook.com account on the iPhone and recreate it there, synchronisation resumes (but of course, all the events I entered on the phone are lost) and works again for a few months before failing again.

Any idea how to troubleshoot this?


texts: How to create bootable Windows 10 installer USB for PC?

texts:
I've downloaded Windows 10 from Microsoft and want to create a bootable USB stick for a PC. I've tried to flash the image with dd, but the stick did not boot.

Then I've flashed the image with bootcamp, it didn't boot either on my PC; it did however boot on my Mac.

How can I create a bootable Windows 10 USB stick to be bootable not on a Mac, but on a PC?


texts: What is the difference between millions and billions in printer/scanner colour settings?

texts:
The "Printers & Scanners" Setting preference pane has two color options: "millions" or "billions" of colors. I can't tell the difference. Is there a reason to choose one over the other? Perhaps specific circumstances?

I'm scanning old photos and determining the tradeoff for time/energy/file size. "Billions" appears to make photos three times the file size of "millions" and I can't discern whether there are archival benefits.


texts: How to Downgrade from MacOS Catalina to Mojave- Creating a bootable hard drive in APFS format

texts:
I'm following instructions on how to downgrade from MacOS catalina back to Mojave as Catalina doesn't support ProTools. I was following the instructions fine and then I got stuck in the process of making an external bootable hard drive. The webpage I'm reading instructs to make the drive in APFS format if my laptop is in that format and in MacOS extended journaled if my Mac is in HFS+ format. Well my Mac is in APFS format so that's the format I chose for the external hard drive. However during this next step in terminal, I'm getting an error message. APFS disks may not be used as bootable install media.
An error occurred erasing the disk.
But it would work if the hard drive was in MacOS extended journal format. My question is will my laptop launch MOJAVE from a hard drive in HFS+ format when my laptop is in APFS format? Or will that screw everything up?


texts:
I installed Mac OS 10.7.4 on my MBP last night, along with Safari 6. I was leery about installing Safari 6, but I figured I could cope with the changes. But, after using it for about 30 minutes I want Safari 5.1.7 back.

My "plan of attack" was to download the 5.1.7 installer, delete Safari 6, and install Safari 5.1.7. After the installer finished downloading I ran sudo rm -rf /Applications/Safari.app. As expected that deleted the application file. However, when I opened the 5.1.7 package installer I get the following error.

I decided that the best way to get Safari 5.1.7 back was to reinstall Mac OS 10.7.4. But before I run the install I have a couple of questions.

Is the "Client Combo" edition the wrong thing?
Will it attempt to install 10.7.4 incorrectly?
Is there a better way of deleting Safari 6 and installing 5.1.7?


texts: Is Secure Empty Trash still necessary after maverick?

texts:
With Maverick, hardware is encrypted by default, do we still need to secure empty trash?

Can files still be retrieved after deletion since the entire hardware has been encrypted?


texts: Install Mac OS X Tiger (PPC) to External HDD with an Intel Mac

texts: I’m running 10.11 on my MacBook Pro and I’m wondering if it is possible to install a PPC OS X to an external HDD using an intel MacBook? Or is there an app that I can use to accomplish this?


texts: Deleting contacts on iCloud does not remove them from iPhone

texts: I've used iCloud's website to clean up contacts that were imported and the changes work...except - if I delete a contact on the iCloud website it does not get deleted on the iPhone. How can I force the deleted contacts on iCloud to be removed from the iPhone?


texts:
I recently purchased a Iphone 5 in turkey, and when i try to log in into the app store is asking me for a credit or debit card.
How do I by-pass this? Why I get asked for such info?
Thank you.


texts: How do I specify which Facebook birthdays show up in Calendar?

texts:
I do not want to disable all birthday events from showing up in Calendar from Facebook data, but I would like to specifically enable those that do.

Is there a way to do this?


texts: Mail.app stopped working after upgrade to OS X Mavericks

texts:
Mail.app is not working since the upgrade to OS X Mavericks. I read that I should try to uncheck SSL. However it won't let me. All my emails just sit in the outbox. Is there a way to remedy this or is there another mail software I can download?

I'm using Gmail which I know has types of issues and have accepted that but it's my business POP emails that is frustrating me.


texts: What good PowerPoint editing apps are there for iPad?

texts: It would have to be able to edit and view PowerPoint presentations. I'd prefer pptx support but I can live without it.


texts:
I'm using OS 10.11.1. I turned on Screen Sharing:

and disabled "VNC viewers may control screen with password":

But as you can see, it still says "Other users can access your computer's screen at vnc://...". Does that mean that, when "VNC viewers may control screen with password" is unchecked, VNC viewers can control my screen WITHOUT a password?
Or does it mean that VNC is disabled?

(Ideally I'd like to allow VNC over SSH, rather than with a password.)


texts: Stop-sign after boot and "Still waiting for root device"

texts:
Need some advice regarding a problem starting up my Mac Mini (mid 2011).

The other day I was browsing websites when the machine froze with the spinning beachball. So I was forced to power off/on my machine.

The machine started and showed Apple logo with spinning wheel as usual. But then the logo turned into a stop / prohitbited sign (a circle with crossing line). And everything stucked there.

I try other options several times by booting with:

Shift pressed (safe boot) - Apple logo appears then changes to stop-sign as before
Option pressed - Gray screen, nothing happens
Cmd-R - Gray screen, nothing happens
Cmd-Opt-R - Gray screen, nothing happens
Cmd-Opt-P-R - Double 'Ding' sounds but nothing happens.
Cmd-s or Cmd-v - This switches to black screen and show the text in my attached image. The most notable thing was the repeated message 'Still waiting for root device'

All my search results are telling this is a harddrive problem. Is there anyway I can confirm this? I have an external CD/DVD drive but not the Lion installation media ..

Luckily machine is still under 1 year warranty, but losing all the data in my drive wil be a great pain ..

Thanks!


texts: Open a link in Safari with a keyboard shortcut

texts:
In Safari, is it possible to navigate through links on the webpage by means of the keyboard?

For example, I made a search in Google and would like to open the first or second link from the web search. How could I do without using the mouse and clicking on the link?


texts: Bind Secondary Groups to Active Directory w/ Unix Extensions

texts:
I'm running Windows Server 2012 R2 w/ Active Directory and Unix Extensions. I have several linux/bsd hosts already connected to the domain via ldap and mapping the uid/gid/secondary groups properly.

I'm running a few mac's on 10.9 and 10.10 beta, I'm trying to figure out if its possible to map secondary Group IDs to the AD UnixGID and not the GID that AD creates..

for example, if i run id mikedevita on a linux box it gives me this:

% id mikedevita
uid=40001(mikedevita) gid=30000(Domain Users) groups=30001(Domain   Admins),30002(VMWareAdmins)
,30003(VPNUsers),30004(LinuxUsers),30005(media),30006(LinuxAdmins),30000(Domain Users)

if i run the same command, id mikedevita on my mac it gives this:

base% id mikedevita
uid=40001(mikedevita) gid=30000 groups=30000,701(com.apple.sharepoint.group.2),519395259(DEVITA\media),693256891(DEVITA\MacAdmins),703(com.apple.sharepoint.group.4),501(access_bpf),599473300(DEVITA\VPNUsers),613468898(DEVITA\VMWareAdmins),12(everyone),62(netaccounts),79(_appserverusr),80(admin),81(_appserveradm),1446817776(DEVITA\Domain Admins),401(com.apple.sharepoint.group.1),1873589173(DEVITA\RouterAdmins),416683223(DEVITA\Denied RODC Password Replication Group),206(com.apple.access_loginwindow),702(com.apple.sharepoint.group.3),33(_appstore),98(_lpadmin),100(_lpoperator),204(_developer),398(com.apple.access_screensharing),399(com.apple.access_ssh)

as you can see, the uid, and gid fields are mapped properly (40001, 30000) but all of the domain level groups which the user belongs to as secondary groups don't use the right group ID.

Is there a way to remap this?


texts: MacBook Pro with Retina display - three external displays under Boot Camp

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Is it possible to drive three external displays (3x 22" inch monitors, each at 1680 x 1050) on my MacBook Pro with Retina display under BootCamp / Windows?

A couple of guys have shown that it works under OS X. Can this work under Windows as well?


texts: I have one USB 2 and one USB 3 hub, both connected to a USB3 port of my mac. The USB 3 hub has a small number of ports, so I have to pick exactly what will use that hub. Both hubs are powered. I have one iPad 1, an iPad 2, an iPad Pro, an Apple TV4 and an iPhone 6. I develop apps for iOS, so I need these devices to be connected on the right hub for them. Will it make any difference to connect them on the USB 2 or 3 hub? I mean in terms of data transmission speed. I don't want to waste a USB 3 fast port on a slow device.


texts: Use another AppleID in iOS 7.1.2 AppStore?

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I use iOS 7.1.2 on my iPhone 4 and I would like to change my AppleID for the AppStore. In "Preferences > iTunes & AppStore", I already logged in with my new AppleID, and when relaunching Preferences, I am still logged in with my new AppleID.

But when trying to update an App from AppStore, I am supposed to type in the password for the old AppleID.
I cannot find anything in AppStore to change the AppleID directly.

Is there anything I forgot to do?


texts: iPhone 4 stays linked to a previous Apple ID after restore to iOS 7

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I bought a used iPhone 4 from a mobile shop in Abu Dhabi, UAE. It was in good condition but there was a Find my iPhone lock. I thought this is a normal thing, and can bypass it if I restore the phone - that's why I bought it.

I used the iPhone for one week, then tried to restore it with iOS 7.0.3 but after the restore, the activation screen showed "This iPhone is locked with an apple id  s.....@gmail.com". Then I tried my Apple ID instead, but was unable to use another id.

I went back to the mobile shop for help. He tried for one day but with no success. He said he bought it from Dubai from a person he doesn't have contact address or number.

How do I get the iPhone unlocked and can use my Apple ID with it?


texts: settings permissions on a big sur python desktop application

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I'm porting a Python/PySide2 desktop app to run on a Big Sur machine. It's built into a .app by py2app. All that goes fin and the app itself runs.
However, when run by the target user from the desktop it gets Permission Denied trying to do things on a CIFS volume - basic stuff like mkdir and so on. The user's CIFS permissions themselves are find - they issue is related to Big Sur's per-app security settings.
Specificly, if I invoke the app from the desktop, it gets permission denied for a mkdir (and any number of other simple things).
If I run the app's executable from a Terminal window it got a popup about allowing access to Network Shares for "Terminal", and once I said yes it ran ok.
All as the same user.
The access is tied to the invoking app: when run from Terminal it gets access, when invokes as the .app from the desktop, no access.
Looking in System Preferences under Security and Privacy the Terminal app has access to All Files and Folders.
If I add the Python app's .app to All Files and Folders it still doesn't get access. So I am at a loss. transiently, the app has had access, but a newly built version of the app does not.
On the hypothesis that the listing in the prefs pane just shows the app name, but is actually tied to a specific executable or bundle name, I pulled the permission and then added the app back in via the "+" and browsing to the app in /Applications. No dice. The app is listed, but its access have not been grants.
So I'm at a loss.
How do I inspect what rights an app has, or change them? Ideally from the command line, since the system prefs UI is unhelpful about details.
Any doco links or insight welcome.
Thanks.


texts: Help! After signing up for Apple Music, 'Media Services' on iPhone is gobbling up all my cellular data despite my settings to not use it

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I just signed up for the Apple Music service.  I have a fairly large iTunes library.  It did its thing overnight on wifi (or so I thought) and uploaded my library to the cloud from my mac.  Fine.  But today as soon as I left the house my iPhone immediately chewed through 1.5Gigs of data before my carrier luckily shut it down (I have a 1 gig plan).
The usage is all from the 'Media Services' item in system services, but I don't know what that actually is (cellular->System Services->Media Services)

All of the following settings are off and were already off before the data use, what else do I need to do to stop this?

Settings->Music->Use Cellular Data  (off)
Settings->iCloud->iCloud
Drive->Use Cellular Data (off)
Settings->iTunes & App Stores->Use Cellular
Data (off)

Could this have anything todo with iCloud Music Library setting, which I think was turned on for me as part of Apple Music?