texts: What does the "Flick only" setting of iPad's Japanese keyboard do?

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I've been using the Japanese keyboard layout for a while, but only recently I have noticed there are two options for the software keyboard layout, namely "Kana" and "Flick only". Can anybody tell me what the difference is, since they look and behave identical, as far as I can tell.

This is on a 1st generation iPad running iOS 5.1.1.


texts: iTunes + Music app: how to sync star ratings?

texts:
I have ~60gb of music on iTunes 12 and a 16gb iPhone 6.

I want to have music on my phone while saving some space for photos and apps
I want to be able to add star ratings to my music while listening on my phone and have that sync to my iTunes.  This way I can remove unwanted music from my collection while curating my "best music" smart playlist.

I used to be able do to 1 + 2, but since the most recent update to the Music app, I can only do 1.  Is there any way to do both?


texts: removed /etc/hosts on a mac and now can't sudo

texts:
I think I made a mistake by editing /etc/hosts within sublime text, because immediately afterward I was unable to run "sudo xxx".  It would ask for a password, and then never resolve once I'd typed it in.

I tried to edit /etc/hosts, but it always required sudo, which never resolved, so that didn't work.  In the end I just deleted the file, but I'm stuck now with not being able to recreate it without access to sudo.  Any ideas?


texts: Network topology: Internet connected on a leaf node?

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Before I go ahead and spend money on new kit, I'd like to run by you my proposed network setup to see if it's feasible:

Cable Modem <--> Airport Express <--> Airport Extreme
(bridge mode)                          |
                                       +------> Clients
                                       +------> Another Airport Express ----> Clients

The Expresses extend the wireless network from the Extreme.

The reason for connecting the Cable Modem to the Express is because of it's location in the house.  The Extreme is centrally located, and does a good job today, but I'm moving from ADSL to Cable, and that will be connected on the edge of the house rather than to the Extreme like it currently is.

a) Would this topology work?  Would the Extreme route traffic through the Express to the internet?
b) Are there any problems in this approach that you can envision?


texts: For the last month or so, I have been receiving notification windows in the upper right-hand corner whenever a volume is mounted or unmounted (i.e. portable hard drive, Time Machine, etc.) How do I turn these notifications off?


texts: Annotation in Preview under Yosemite: How to get back the old behaviour?

texts:
I am using Yosemite (OS X 10.10) on my MacBook Air mid 2011.

In the version 10.9 and before, annotation (making strokes or arrows) worked liked this:

Selecting the form you want to draw
Select the colour you want to use
AND THEN you can draw it by hand

The new behaviour is:

Choose the form you want to draw
And then, it's immediately there.

You have to move the form to the exact position and have no chance to draw it like in 10.9.

  Is this a bug or where can i go back to the old behaviour?


texts: How can I tell Firewall to allow incoming connections for Python running a specific script? (In this case: SickBeard)

texts:
I'm running SickBeard on my Lion installation, but I can't figure out how which Python version or script I should add to the Firewall rules allow connections from outside. In Console I get this message:

Deny Python connecting from <<external-ip:port>> to port <<my-port>> proto=6

So for now I've had to disable my entire firewall to allow for external control, but I'd much rather just allow Python to be connected to. I'm running Python 2.7.3 and I have already allowed the following applications to the firewall — to no avail:

/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/bin/python2.7
/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/Resources/Python.app
/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/Python
/usr/bin/python

Any suggestions?


texts: What's this separate "Phone" task section in app switcher?

texts: I was unable to google what the possibilities of this separate "chrome on mobile" task in the cmd-tab app switcher is. What's it supposed to do?


texts: Windows 8.1 under Boot Camp won't play audio

texts:
I installed Windows 8.1 under Boot Camp on my 2012 iMac yesterday, and everything seems to work okay except for audio. The audio mixer shows the audio bar moving, but nothing will play. I've tried with the built-in speakers and through external speakers. I tried using the Audio drivers that Boot Camp provided, but they crashed the audio and I had to go back to the default "High Definition Audio Device" driver.

I'm not even sure what to look for. A newer audio driver?


texts: Why won't the Calendar app sync all of my Google Calendars?

texts:
I have a Facebook Events calendar in Google Calendar, but the Calendar app won't synchronize it. It will sync all the other calendars like Meetup, ZipCar, etc, but not Facebook. The Facebook calendar won't even show up in the phone. I disconnected the account and re-connected it again but it still fails to show up. It does show up in the Google Calendar web page.

iOS 10.3.2, iPhone 5


texts: How to stop the brightness of MacBook Air Display from fluctuating?

texts: The brightness of display of my MacBook Air is fluctuating. It is getting black and bright continuously. I don't know what to do or how to resolve the issue.


texts: Show Extension Builder absent in Develop menu in Safari 13

texts:
I am trying to re-add several extensions to Safari 13 that "are no longer supported," by adding them back via "Show Extension Builder" in the Develop menu.  But that is no longer in the Develop menu!

Is there another way to return my older extensions like Amazon Assistant, Amazon Wish List, WOT etc., to Safari 13?


texts:
I have the old iphone 3GS
LATEST IOS

I used to open Itunes to put songs on the phone etc and if I wanted to I would (manually)sync my phone. Syncing the phone enacts whatever your options are set to. In my setup that meant, hitting "sync" would cause:

1  Backup- iphone backed up to the PC,

2  Calendar - iphone calendar synced with Oulook calendar on my computer

3  Contacts, that is the iphone contacts (phone nums, and any other info like street address, email address)  - synced with gmail contacts.
NOTE: In 2 & 3 syncing meant that any new contacts put in the iphone since the last sync, would be added to my gmail contacts and any new contacts in my gmail contacts that were not in my iphone were added to the iphone. So the syncing worked both ways. Handy, as if I ever lost my phone (apart from having the backup on the PC) my phone contacts would be in my gmail.

I did not do the above sync for some months and when I went to do it recently I find that Apple has changed things. The dropdown list that had gmail on it for selecting which email application you wanted your iphone contacts to sync to, no longer had gmail on it and it had to defaulted to Outlook. Certainly don't want contacts to go there.
So I unselected the contacts sync so now when I sync only my calendar gets done.

Apple apparently wants to be less connectable to non apple entities, so wants people to sync contacts with icloud. Useless for my purposes. :(

My question:
HOW TO sync, if possible, my iphone contacts with my gmail contacts even if it is a 2 step process. There are a lot of questions similar to this on the site but none seem to deal with the fact that I want to be sure that I do not cause any iphone contacts to be wiped in favour of what is in my gmail contacts or vice versa

( Back a few years, I thought I would make a new start with a clean slate on my gmail contacts so wiped them all and then synced, thinking all my iphone contacts would appear in my gmail contacts. Because the syncing process updates the other entity with the latest actions from and to each other, the iphone was updated by the latest actions which were in gmail contacts, so wiped the iphone contacts clean!
Was not happy)

With all this in mind, can anyone tell me how to do a 2 way update (sync) or if this is no longer possible to at least update my gmail contacts with any changes in my iphone contacts?

HELP is appreciated.


texts: I'm running a nearly vanilla installation of OS X Yosemite 10.10.1 with the usual Homebrew, MacPorts, and Fink.  I have barely anything installed with these utilities.  For some reason, my Terminal.app is not producing an audible bell, even with the preference enabled.  I have since enabled the visual bell, and at first it didn't produce a result either until I disabled the "Only when sound is muted" option.  I do not have my system's default audio device muted; it is in fact at 100% volume and fully functional.  It seems like Terminal.app is under the impression that my system audio is muted for some reason.  How can I get my Terminal.app to beep like it did in past versions of OS X?


texts: 2010 MacBook Pro does not DHCP on a certain network (WiFi and Ethernet)

texts:
As the title suggests, My Mac will not receive an address via DHCP from a certain network. No matter if it's connected via WiFi or ethernet, it always fails. Even when I boot into Windows 7 there's no luck (so it's not the OS). All the other computers, older MacBooks, and iPod/Phones work great on the network. Take it to a different network and it works flawlessly.

Has anyone else had this problem? Did you find a way to fix it?

Update: Manually entering a valid IP (copied from another computer that's on the network) gets me a connection. The issue seems to be just in the DHCP.


texts: I found but can't open eclipse.ini (bad parsing)

texts:
I know the trick with "show package contents" and I've gone to: $ECLIPSE_HOME/Eclipse.app/Contents/MacOS

However, the file in there is 'eclipse', rather than 'eclipse.ini'

Furthermore, when I open this file, sublime suggests that this is an application and shows me the hexadecimal values...
When I switch to UTF-8, I can see SOME English but most of it is still garbled...

How to open this file properly (and why it's not .ini like all of the internet says it is?)?


texts: I have a personal iPad with some work apps on it.  I just received an iPad from my employer.  The 2 have different iCloud accounts.  How can I move work apps from my personal iPad to the work iPad without having to pay for them again?  It only affects a couple of apps


texts: Manually update carrier settings after dismissing prompt

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My iPhone with iOS 10 recently popped up a dialogue prompting me to update my carrier settings and I accidentally pressed not now.

Is there a way to re-open that dialogue? A button that should be pressed somewhere? A page that needs to be opened in one of my apps? I have tried opening software update, Carrier settings, Phone settings, etc., but I just can't update my carrier settings.


texts: How to control manual double-side printing on Mac OS X Lion?

texts:
I have an HP 1022 printer attached to my Mac OS X Lion.

When I try to print a 4-page PDF file from Preview or Adobe Reader, it prints pages 1 and 3 and then all 3 lights on the HP 1022 printer start blinking.

I suspect that perhaps the printer or the system is in some kind of manual double-side printing mode, but I could not find where I can turn it on or off using the Mac OS printing dialogs.

How can one control manual double-side printing on a Mac OS X Lion?


texts: Replace text in Firefox, Pages, Terminal, BBEdit

texts:
I have a MacBook Pro running the latest Sierra.

I often find myself wanting to type I²C and have created System Preferences/Keyboard/Text to replace I2C. I can't seem to get this to work in any program (Firefox, Pages, Terminal, BBEdit).

The inbuilt omw doesn't seem to work either.

Is there any trick I am missing? I have set "Correct spelling automatically" and selected "Check my spelling as I type", which works for normal spelling errors.


texts: How to delete all the music from the iPad I'm planning to sell?

texts: I am selling my iPad as I have a new one. How do I erase all my music so there is nothing in the music app? I've deleted the music but the albums are still there.


texts: iPod songs all show as -0.00 seconds long

texts: I've come across a problem with my 5g iPod nano. For some reason all of the songs come up as being -0.00 seconds long. I've tried the normal soft reset, but this doesn't seem to have done anything. Any suggestions?


texts:
Is there an app available to help tune Wi-Fi network settings?

My local air space is starting to get congested and I want to make sure I'm using the optimal channel and settings on my router to avoid collisions and keep my WiFi as speedy as possible. I'm looking to run it on a 2010 MacBook Pro that supports up to Wireless N but I'd like to be able to tune the N and G protocols on my router (a D-Link DIR-655).


texts: Intermittent flashing ? after Sierra Update

texts:
I was required to update to Sierra to get Xcode on my machine. I did that yesterday. Currently it stands at:

Version 10.12.4
MacBook Pro (Retina,13-inch, Early 2015)
Processor: 2.7 GHz Intel Core i5
Memory 8 GB 1867 MHz DDr3

After this update,when my Mac goes to sleep or is shut down, about half of the time it displays the flashing ?, prompting hand-wringing from me. I start going through all of the steps for system restore, but often the SSD is not located during the system restore, and when I restart again maybe the mac finds the SSD and starts up normally. This is very annoying behaviour, of course.

I have had the flashing ? before, and I took it to an Apple service center in Trondheim where they held it for a month before returning it to me, with the diagnosis that the hard drive had unmounted physically and all that was required was re-inserting it. Great. Glad that took only a month.

I am tempted to believe that this is a physical hardware issue where the hard drive is experiencing intermittent hardware connection. But I've never experienced it shutting down in use, as you would think would happen if it were something like a loose connector, which makes me doubt this hypothesis.

I asked this question on the apple forum, and I'm going to be reprimanded for the solution that I'm leaning towards: removing the back panel myself and staking the hard drive to the connector with adhesive. Taking it to a service center is unworkable for the following reasons: a) Because I'm currently on a Greek island in the middle of the aegean, and b) because I can't afford to lose my Mac for a month again for some tech to do what I want, which he probably won't because staking a hard drive isn't in the Apple book.

Any ideas here? I mention the Sierra update because of course, a lot of signs point to that, but the intermittent startups make me think that is circumstantial.


texts: OSX control over MacBook Pro 17 line out minijack - Can I play music out to a device and throught the loudspeakers at the same time?

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I am trying to connect an analog subwoofer to the line out of my MacBook Pro 17. Apparently, contrary to the smaller models, the 17 inch's line out minijack switches between analog or digital, depending on software control from OSX. When you plug in some earphones, contrary to all other computers I have used, there is a lag between the moment in which the electrical connection is made and when the signal is sent to the phones (and loudspeakers muted).

That leads me to believe that there must be a way to tell OSX not to mute the speakers and to play audio through the minijack at the same time. But I have not been able to make it happen.

As soon as the analog external device (let us call it "headphones") is detected, in the "sound" system preferences, the choice switches from "Internal Speakers" to "Headphones", both of type "built-in".

I have examined options like installing Audio Hijack Pro, with the SoundFlower plugin and the Griffin iMic DAC dongle to trick the MBP into sharing a sound source between the speakers and the "line out" of the dongle, which may work, as the article in http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=725870 suggests, but sure looks like a square peg in a round hole.

All I would need is somehow to find a way not to turn off the speakers while the signal is also routed to the minijack (as it happened to someone else, who considered it a fault), so I may send an audio signal to my subwoofer.

I wounder if there is anyone who can illuminate me with a simple software only solution that may be a batch file to enter in terminal (and another to bring things back to normal) or an app that may do the trick.


texts:
I don't know how the shortcut file icon got stuck on the toolbar

Any idea how to remove it?


texts: How can I browse the hard disk attached to my Airport Extreme from my iPhone?

texts:
I have a gen 5 AEBS which has a total of 3 HFS+ partitions across 2 USB hard drives (USB hub in the middle).

On my Macbook Pro Retina, I can see all 3 HFS+ partition in the Finder. Finder shows the AEBS on the left side (under "shared) and clicking on the AEBS in Finder shows me all the 3 HFS+ partitions "on" the AEBS.

In a similar manner, I want to access the AEBS USB hard drives from my iPhone 5 but I couldn't find an app for that. Does anyone know of an app or in-built way for me to access the drives attached to my AEBS? I'm looking for access when I'm on the AEBS WiFi but if I can also access it from the internet, that'll be a nice bonus!


texts: How can I save iOS Notes that maintain remain formatted?

texts:
I have an iPhone 5 running iOS 8.4.1. I have many Notes that are formatted using bold, italics, carriage returns, etc.

How can I save these Notes off to my Windows laptop via iTunes or some third-party software, while preserving the formatting of my Notes? Such software would need to be able to sync those Notes back to my iPhone, while still preserving all the rich text.

I want everything to remain local to my devices, so I don’t want to use iCloud.

Thank you.


texts: How to call an external window-app in Scala (or Java) and WAIT for it to be closed?

texts:
I use macOS and, from Scala, I like to call the default text editor on text files. I want the user to be able to edit/modify the file, and be called back / notified in any form when this editing is finished, thus the editor quit.
Alternatively, a notification on any modification after saving (in particular the first) would do the job. Ideally there would be a notification when the external process is actually finished since the text file is only created temporarily by my app.


texts: All Yahoo Calendar Entries appear on iPhone a day earlier at 11pm-11pm

texts:
All Yahoo Calendar Entries appear on my iPhone / iPad a day earlier at 11pm-11pm.
Problem continues on both iPhone5s, updated to iOS 10.1.1, and iPad. (I have both Yahoo and [paid] Yahoo Small Business Accounts.) Reinserting the correct day/time on  iPhone lasts for seconds before the entry reverts to 11pm a day earlier. Fortunately, the Yahoo calendar remains OK, but it is not practical to attend client meetings with an iPhone/Yahoo incompatibility.


texts: Why preview.app refuse to open local link in PDFs

texts:
I'm trying to make a pdf with link in it to open local video files.

I succeeded to do it with Acrobat, and Reader open the files correctly. But Preview.app refuses. Regular http link are correctly open, but not file://

I need only Preview.app to make the finder launch the file, not open it inside preview. Since Reader.app can do this correctly, Does anyone have ideas how to correct this for Preview.app?


texts:
Is there any way to stay logged when pressing open in new tabs in safari private mode ?

For example if I'm logged to Facebook in tab A  an I use Open in new tabs then I will have to sign into Facebook again.


texts: AppleScript : convert decimal to hours / days

texts:
How can I convert the value on my script from decimal to hours / or day?

For converting decimal to hour I believe it's :

  hours + (minutes /60)

but my variable is in this format :

  23.498611111111

Somehow I have to get 23 set as a value (hours) and same for the two decimal after the "." but I'm not sure how to proceed

here is my full script:

set myVariableDateHere to "25/03/2019 00:00:00"
set myWantedDate to convertDate(myVariableDateHere)

to convertDate(textDate)
    set resultDate to the current date

    set the day of resultDate to (text 1 thru 2 of textDate)
    set the month of resultDate to (text 4 thru 5 of textDate)
    set the year of resultDate to (text 7 thru 10 of textDate)
    set the time of resultDate to 0

    if (length of textDate) > 10 then
        set the hours of resultDate to (text 12 thru 13 of textDate)
        set the minutes of resultDate to (text 15 thru 16 of textDate)

        if (length of textDate) > 16 then
            set the seconds of resultDate to (text 18 thru 19 of textDate)
        end if
    end if

    return resultDate
end convertDate

set myTimeDifResult to ((current date) - myWantedDate as string)
set daysV to myTimeDifResult / 86400
set hoursV to myTimeDifResult / 60 / 60

set hoursV to roundThis(hoursV, 2) --> -75.54
on roundThis(n, numDecimals)
    set x to 10 ^ numDecimals
    tell n * x
        if ((it mod 2) ^ 2 > 0.25) then return (it div 0.5 - it div 1) / x
        return it div 1 / x
    end tell
end roundThis

set final to hoursV

if hoursV > 24 then
    set final to (daysV as integer) - 1
end if

return final

update :

I figured out how two set both variable :

set the_decimalMin to hoursV mod 1
set the_decimaHours to hoursV div 1

but now I can't make the actual math :

set hoursV to the_decimaHours + (the_decimalMin / 60)

error :

  error "Can’t make the_decimalMin into type reference." number -1700
  from MyMinutes to reference


texts: How can I show the contact number of the Dialed contact

texts: I want the contact number to appear on the dialling screen when initiating call that if contact has more than one number I want to know which number I had dialled.


texts:
I'm running the Trouton script to change an Mac bound account to a local one but keep getting the error:

  Expected expression but found unknown token.

Tried others syntax fixes but to no avail. Can anybody suggest a fix?

First two lines of code (Line 84 in code file):

listUsers="$(/usr/bin/dscl . list /Users UniqueID | awk '$2 > 1000 {print $1}') FINISHED"
FullScriptName=$(basename "$0")

Full code is here at GitHub. Its too long to include all the code here


texts: Create 'New Email with Attachment (via web-based Gmail)' option in Finder?

texts:
I use the web version of Gmail (www.gmail.com; as opposed to a offline email client). I frequently send files as attachments.

I would like to be able to right-click on a file on Finder and, with one additional click, I would have a new blank e-mail message on Gmail (on a new window of my web browser; currently Chrome), with the selected file already added as an attachment.

This post shows how to to something similar. But the new messages opens up in Apple's Mail client.
How to create a 'New Email with Attachment' option in Finder?

Any ideas if what I want to do is possible?


texts: Is there a way to prevent SIGKILL after SIGTERM for a daemon\agent during shutdown\restart?

texts:
i have a daemon that must be finished gracefully. It should have CUSTOM amount of time before system sends SIGKILL and kills it.

Is there a possibility to do such thing on MAC?


texts: Can I use a USB keyboard with an iPad if I use a USB-to-lightning adapter?

texts: I know there are bluetooth keyboards and even wired lightning keyboards, but I'd like to get a large mechanical keyboard and it seems the wired ones only come in USB. If I use a USB-to-lightning adapter, should that work with an iPad?


texts: Can window focus with multiple displays follow the mouse on macOS?

texts:
I'm a new MacOS user and some things disturb me as it was more convenient on Windows.

One of them is the following: on a dual screen set up, I have to first click the second monitor for it to take the focus and only then do my actual work. On Windows, I was able to flawlessly switch from one screen to the other without the need to first focus it.

In other words, on Mac, when I'm on a screen and just move the mouse to the other and start to, say, select some text, my action is just ignored (as it's only the initial focus) and I have to start it again. On Windows it just select my text the first time.

It is quite annoying, as I often switch from one screen to the other (dev tools on one screen, debugging browser on the other).

Is there a solution to this problem?


texts: How can I find a specific JavaScript identifier of a website?

texts:
I want to use JavaScript to set the scroll amount of a webpage in an AppleScript, using the second method described in this answer.

This answer focuses on one webpage in particular. I want to branch this method out, so that I can use it on any other webpage. I am unfamiliar with JavaScript.

So, is there some way that I can hover my mouse in a certain location of a webpage, and then I am told what the corresponding JavaScript identifier is? If that's not possible, is there a way to get the JavaScript identifier name of a specific visual element on a webpage?


texts: Whole drive gets wiped when attempting to re-format as NTFS for Windows

texts:
I am attempting to install windows 10 using Boot Camp on my 2014 13" MacBook Air with 256 GB of hard drive. Everything goes well untill I reach the Windows install screen. I select my language, keyboard layout etc., but when I go to select the partition that I want to install Windows on (I set it to about 100 GB), it says that the drive must be formatted as NTFS (exact error: windows cannot be installed on drive 0 partition 3).

I bypassed that my opening a DOS windows and doing these following commands:

type: diskpart
type: list disk (you should see only Disk0)
type: sel disk 0
type: clean

and that fixes the problem but it also wiped my whole Mac OS partition leaving me with one empty 233 GB drive that I can install Windows to. I want to be able to switch between the 2 OS. I am currently in the process of re-insatlling macOS using Internet recovery since my drive got wiped.

How can I make it not delete macOS while still being able to install Windows?


texts: Final Cut Pro, read/write via External Hard Disk

texts: Please forgive my silly question but can videos be edited on FCP via external HDD? My MBP is running out of storage and I want to start learning video editing where all everything is to be done through external HDD, no SSD involved. Possible? Thanks!


texts: Is there a setting for black and white printing from iOS?

texts: I have a color printer that supports airprint but I don't want to waste the color toner on random docs.  Is there a setting in iOS (iPhone, iPod, iPad) that would allow me to override and print black and white?


texts: Is my Mac partition secure if it has FileVault 2 but the Boot Camp partition is unencrypted?

texts: With a Macbook Pro Retina running OS X 10.10 and Boot Camp Windows 7, my Mac HD is encrypted with FileVault 2 and the Boot Camp partition is unencrypted. Does this weaken the security of the Mac HD partition?


texts: Dialing numbers from Contacts on iPhone when using a calling card or callback service

texts:
I've got a long distance calling plan where I call a number and get a busy signal. The service then immediately calls me back, and when I answer, I'm presented with a dial-tone at which point I can call any number I want, with really cheap rates, while only getting dinged for local incoming minutes on my iPhone.

The problem with this is that I can't find a way to access and "dial" numbers from my Contacts when I'm presented with the dial-tone. I essentially have to have the number memorized or written down beforehand.

When given the dial tone, I can access all my contacts, but there doesn't seem to be a way to generate the keypress tones from them.

Is this possible on the iPhone? Maybe some other app that I can launch after answering the call which will access numbers in Contacts and generate keypress tones?


texts: How to stop using Time Capsule as router?

texts:
I have a Comcast router XB-6T and it's supposed to be better/faster than using my Time Capsule/802.11ac as a router. I'm on a iMac running High Sierra 10.13.6.
Currently I thought I was using my TC as a router in bridge mode (however the Comcast guy set it up and the TC says bridge mode off).  I am not very hardware literate but I'd like to make sure I'm using the Comcast router.  We do have Ethernet cables plugged into the back of the TC that goes to other rooms/devices and one USB on the back of the TC that goes to a printer.
I'd like to know if someone can give me instructions how to no longer use my TC as a router and instead use the Comcast router. I'd like to keep the same Network Name and would also need to know if I need to move any/all of the Ethernet cables from the back of the TC and plug them into the Comcast router instead; I don't know if there is enough availability.
Currently the back of my TC the slots are all full. If it makes more sense not to mess with it then I won't. Can someone advise what would be best to do and how to do it?


texts: How -exactly- do I remove a specific directory, from my PATH, in OSX, Mavericks?

texts:
Ok - so this issue has become somewhat of a white whale for me. I have browsed some of the questions here, but I cannot seem to figure out how to, very simply, delete a directory from my PATH. (I should also add that I am very to to Mac, making the transition from Windows).

So: I have gathered that I can make a .bashrc, .bash_profile, etc etc, to ADD files to my PATH. I think I get that.

However what I cannot seem to find a direct answer to, is: How do I simply delete a specific existing directory, from my PATH? This is all I would honestly like to do.

Thank you.

EDIT: Why I want to remove a directory from PATH:

Long story short, homebrew put a directory into my PATH, that it no longer needs. It says I can remove it from PATH, and so this is why I would like to remove it. Here is a screen shot:


texts: When enabling Water Lock on the Apple Watch, do the hardware buttons also stop responding to input?

texts: When using an Apple Watch Series 2 or later, there's an option that can be activated from within the Control Center that locks all screen input; this is useful when swimming whilst wearing the Watch, but also prevents accidental taps during everyday use. I'm wondering whether activating this setting also disables input from the hardware buttons - I was mainly thinking the on/off button - it would be useful to know if the Emergency SOS feature can still be activated when it's enabled.


texts: How to use "diskutil corestorage revert lvuuid" on Yosemite if disk says it is not reversible?

texts:
I would like to make a partition for Linux. Here's what diskutil coreStorage list gets me (identifiers omitted):

CoreStorage logical volume groups (1 found)
|
+-- Logical Volume Group
    =========================================================
    Name:         Macintosh HD
    Status:       Online
    Size:         250140434432 B (250.1 GB)
    Free Space:   0 B (0 B)
    |
    +-< Physical Volume
    |   ----------------------------------------------------
    |   Index:    0
    |   Disk:     disk0s2
    |   Status:   Online
    |   Size:     250140434432 B (250.1 GB)
    |
    +-> Logical Volume Family
        ----------------------------------------------------------
        Encryption Status:       Unlocked
        Encryption Type:         AES-XTS
        Conversion Status:       Complete
        Conversion Direction:    -none-
        Has Encrypted Extents:   Yes
        Fully Secure:            No
        Passphrase Required:     No
        |
        +-> Logical Volume
            ---------------------------------------------------
            Disk:                  disk1
            Status:                Online
            Size (Total):          250140434432 B (250.1 GB)
            Conversion Progress:   Complete
            Revertible:            No
            LV Name:               Macintosh HD
            Volume Name:           Macintosh HD
            Content Hint:          Apple_HFS

and diskutil list:

/dev/disk0
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *251.0 GB   disk0
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s1
   2:                  Apple_HFS                         250.1 GB   disk0s2
   3:                 Apple_Boot Recovery HD             650.0 MB   disk0s3
/dev/disk1
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:                  Apple_HFS Macintosh HD           *250.1 GB   disk1
                                 Logical Volume on disk0s2
                                 Unencrypted
/dev/disk2
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *314.6 MB   disk2
   1:                  Apple_HFS YNAB 4                  314.5 MB   disk2s1

Currently FileVault is turned off.

Previously, I tried to run the command (on Revertible: yes (decryption required), with FileVault key), but I couldn't tell if it worked. Afterwards, I turned off FileVault, and it stopped being revertible.


texts: Can I delete unnecessary device simulators of Xcode?

texts:
I found that Xcode on my laptop consumes much of its storage, so I am trying to delete unnecessary files in Xcode.

There are four directories under Application/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/. I feel that WatchSimulator.platform and AppleTVSimulator.platform are not necessary, because I use Xcode almost only for basic iOS development.

I would like to know if I can delete those platforms directories directly?


texts: Boot external Windows 8.1 installation on Mac Book Pro Retina 2015

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In the past I’ve been able to run Windows 8.1 on a Mac Book Pro Retina Mid 2012 installed on an external hard drive using WinToUsb. I had OSX Mavericks installed on the internal drive.
After turning on the machine I could simply press „Alt“ to see all bootable drives currently connected. I could then select the Windows drive to boot into it.
I could even boot into it on another Mac Book Pro Retina Mid 2012 running first Mountain Lion and then Yosemite using the same procedure.
I now bought a new Mac Book Pro Retina 15“ Mid 2015 and tried to boot into Windows, but the drive doesn’t show up next to the OSX drive.
I’m now wondering what causes this and only know the hardware has changed and it came with Yosemite preinstalled.
How can I fix this and is it still possible to use external Windows drives with this new Mac at all? What exactly is causing this, the new hardware or operating system?
Apple support couldn’t help and say they only support Boot Camp installations on internal drives. Installing to the internal drive is no option for me, since I would like to keep the old Windows installation without reinstalling and I like to save the expensive internal SSD space.
Thanks a lot in advance!
Update
I had the chance to test on another Mac Book Pro Retina Mid 2012 which was just updated to Yosemite. I could successfully boot into the external Windows installation on this machine. I therefore guess it's a change in hardware and not Yosemite causing the issue.


texts: How do I send invitations for Calendar events with locations?

texts:
If a Calendar event has a location associated with it, no invitations are ever sent to any of the invitees. In fact, once a location is added to an event, no subsequent updates about changes to the event are ever sent to any invitees (including the addition of the location).

This failure is silent. No warning is given, the invitees are simply never informed of the event at all. This happens regardless of whether the invitees have iCloud addresses or not (in most cases, for me, all invitees are iCloud users).

I con reproduce this 100% of the time on both macOS and iOS. This error suddenly appeared recently, and since then I've learned from several friends that they have experienced the same problem.

How do I send invitations to events with locations from Calendar?


texts: Who makes non-white iPhone earbuds similar in function and design to Apple's default earbuds?

texts:
I like the default iPhone earbuds, but I'd prefer a color other than white, which is the only color Apple makes them. Are there any other good earbuds that have the following characteristics?

Have all the iPhone-specific controls
Are earphones/earbuds, i.e. do not go inside the ear canal (since those are uncomfortable and always pop out of my ear)


texts: iPhone graph of - Average sleep per week or month

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I am trying to track my sleep, currently using Pillow.  But there is a lot of variation in my sleep per night. I’m looking for an app that displays a graph of the average hours of sleep per night for a week so I can more easily see how the average is changing over weeks and months.

Something like a weeklong rolling avg as a  smoothing function on top of what Pillow and the Apple Health apps give you out of the box.

Does anyone know of an app with a graph like this?


texts:
I cannot open my preferences in keychain. When I click on the preferences menu item, it just shows me this modal:

I was only using the keychain to deleted 1 or 2 certificates related to xcode for apple app distribution. Somehow the keychain just broke.
I have tried:

I have reset the keychain and delete references.
I have deleted ~/Libraries/keychains.
I have created new empty "login" and "Local Items" keychains multiple times, however the preferences stay broken and still open this dialog.
Restarted the mac multiple times.
Logged in and out of my AppleId/Icloud with no effect.

I want to access my keychain preferences in order to go to "Accounts" to ensure my apple ID is correctly connected since I use this to manage certificates in Xcode.
I am using the latest version of Catalina.
Please help


texts:
I want to be able to open any given app from the terminal, now I have tried

osascript -e 'open app "Calendar"'

I have tried for Mail, Calendar and Slack.. Slack acctually opens but it does generate a error msg in terminal.. The two others generates errors and doesn't open. The errors are Execution errors.

Now I tried with AppleScript, is bash better?

How can this be done?


texts: Creating an Automator service to add email messages to Reminders.app

texts:
I've created an Automator service that creates a reminder based on the selected text.  What I really want is to create a keyboard shortcut that gets the same result that you get by dragging an email into the Reminders.app.

The service I have just uses the text to create the title of the reminder, but when you drag an email into Reminders.app it uses the subject of the email as the title and adds a link to the email its self.

Is there a way to create a keyboard shortcut for this action or an Automator service?


texts: How does autorotation work on the iPhone (in terms of hardware, not software)

texts:
I have always wondered how the orientation/autorotation hardware works inside an iPhone/iPad/iPod Touch.

Originally I thought it was the accelerometer but I don't think it is as an accelerometer can only measure movement and the iPhone knows it's current orientation without any movement.

I have assumed until now that there is a little tilt switch inside the phone as well as the accelerometer and that this is used, but really I have no idea and Google isn't helping much! ;)

Anyone know how it works?


texts: Turn off location services automatically, when app is no longer in foreground

texts: I want location services to only be on when certain apps like maps are being used. I understand that maps stays in the background now since ios 8, and thus location services will stay on. Is there a workaround for this? For example disabling background services for certain apps


texts:
I have a MacBook Air, model 6,2 with an Apple 500GB SSD. I want to upgrade to a new MacBook Air but I'd like to transfer the drive to increase storage on the new MacBook to 500GB.

Is this possible at an Apple store?


texts: How to Auto-Hide the address bar in Google Chrome?

texts:
How can I hide the address bar in Google Chrome?  I found this article but I am unable to find a solution for macOS.  Ideally, I would like all toolbars to disappear similar to how they do in QuickTime. see images:

Is there such a solution available?


texts: Restoring an iOS backup to a device running an older version

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My iPhone has iOS 10 on it. My iPad Mini has iOS 9 which is the most recent version available for that device.

Can I restore my iPad Mini with a backup that I made from my iPhone? I only need my contacts and messages.


texts: How does macOS implement symbolic link in Mojave on FAT32 filesystems?

texts:
I remember in the past, not all types of aliases (as in the macOS feature) can be created on all filesystems. This is because symbolic link (as in the type of file) is a special Unix file type, whereas aliases (as in the kind of file with resource fork) utilizes resource forks (which on some filesystems creates the ugly "._*" files).

But today, I just created a symbolic link on my FAT32 USB pointing to a folder in my removable harddrive.

My question is:

1) How does macOS Mojave creates symbolic link on FAT32 filesystem?

2) Is it portable with other Unix/BSD/Linux systems?

3) Is it compatible with Cygwin?


texts: Mac OS Message App Badge - "mark as read" shortcut?

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Is there a way to remove the red Mac OS Message app badge without having to open the app and click on the message? I've looked through settings, preferences, etc... but the only thing I found is the ability to set "do not disturb", which is not what I want.

Details:

Here's one (of many) cases where the badge is unwanted. Each time I get a google verification code I see a notification at the upper right of my screen, giving me time to note the code so I can enter it. I want that, but I don't want the red badge on the message app (see image).

I know that that badge is from the notification I just received and want to make it disappear -- but the only way I know to do that is to open the Message app and open the message as if I'm reading it. Seems so unnecessary yet I can't figure out how to stop it. I can't use Message's "Do Not Disturb" feature since google uses a different number every time.

If there's no way to avoid this, I'd want, for example, to set up a "mark as read" keyboard shortcut


texts: Using same Apple ID with two of our phones, can they be linked

texts: My boyfriend and I are using the same Apple ID on both of our phones. I just want know how can I link my phone to his?


texts: Command line tools to replace bytes in a file

texts:
I need to write a script that patches a few bytes at a particular offset in a binary file. I know of textual tools for this task (sed, though I find it utterly hard to use) but can't find one for binary patching. Are there any?

If not installed by default, anything I can install with Homebrew would be acceptable as well.


texts: Why do I keep jumping between items when scrolling in reading list?

texts: Why do I keep jumping between items when scrolling when reading an item in reading list on iOS?


texts:
Now I have this iPad that's synced with my home iTunes. I need to add just one pdf onto it. So I installed iTunes here, but it won't sync iTunes to iPad. It wants to sync iPad to iTunes instead. Which is pointless, as the local library is empty. Both are logged on same iTunes account.

How do I make iTunes sync to iPad, so things can be added to the library and then synced back to iDevice?


texts:
I'm new to Mac OS X and I'm trying to install Xcode on OS X Yosemite.

First I tried using the AppStore, but when I click in "Install App" the App Store hangs (the little wheel in the top bar keeps spinning)

I tried installing using the command line by calling "gcc" to get the DevTools installation popup. Gcc and other utilities are installed, but not Xcode.

I searched the web and already rebooted the machine, cleared the Appstore cache but the installation doesn't start.

Has anyone had the same problem and/or knows how to solve it?


texts: How to import photos from new iPad 5 Mini to old 2015 MacBook Air, OSX 10.9.5

texts:
I'm trying to import photos from a new iPad that uses the newer Photos app to an old 2015 MacBook Air (OSX 10.9.5) that only has the old iPhotos app, but it's not working.

I keep getting an error on the Macbook saying I need a passcode on the iPad, but there's no request for a passcode on the iPad, and I've already selected 'Trust'.


texts: MacOS - can I disable F12, Ctrl-Left Arrow, Ctrl-Right Arrow?

texts:
I am using Microsoft Remote Desktop in my MacOS, the Windows is opened in full window so it has its own virtual desktop.

My Windows application heavily uses F12, Ctrl-Left Arrow and Ctrl-Right Arrow. But these shortcuts are associated with Mac to navigate virtual desktops.

Is there a way I can completely disable these keys from being intercepted by Mac?


texts: Can I make my external HD sleep automatically?

texts:
I have an external WD USB hard disk attached to my MBP which I use for backups etc. I've noticed that even when it's completely inactive, but the drive is mounted, that the disk is spinning constantly and the unit never goes to sleep.

In "Energy Saver" options I have "Put hard disks to sleep when possible" but since I have an SSD I guess it's not relevant. I had hoped that this option would apply to the external USB drive.

This is on an old MBP 2009 model. Is this a known issue or perhaps a fault of the drive housing?


texts: My relative died and I inherited her iPhone. Her number was disconnected. Can I get a new phone number and a SIM card from a store? How can I start using this phone?


texts:
OSX's speech assistant must be the most underrated feature of any product ever.

The complexity of speech recognition algorithms is colossal. I have been tracking their progress for years, as I have injuries from using the computer and depend upon speech recognition.

What is more, the recognition accuracy seems to be at least as good as Dragon/Nuance, without the appalling buggy front-end. I don't even require a custom microphone any longer. The MacBook's inbuilt microphone seems to be enough.

So I cannot say I am not grateful.

However, some things still drive me up the wall. If I say 'on' it will usually interpret 'en'. Which isn't even in the English language. And if I say 'script', it inserts 'prescription'. Which makes me want to punch something. If I want to say 'prescription' I will say 'prescription'.

Is there some way to disable these idiot presumptions? Some kind of "post translation" scripting I could do? Some way of intercepting the translated text and modifying it before it reaches the target app?


texts: Can I safely use my MacBook Pro HDD late 2011 with a late 2009?

texts:
I have a GPU issue with my MacBook Pro late 2011 which requires 3 weeks in repair (until the required parts come in). I took out the hard drive and put it in an external casing.

Can I safely use this hard drive on another MacBook Pro (late 2009) and still use my data/applications/OS X?


texts: How to normalize volume across regions in a Garageband track?

texts:
How can I normalize the volume across various regions in a track in Garageband?

Each region in my track has been recorded separately by a speaker with varying distances to the microphone, some are very loud in contrast to other quiet ones.

I've tried exporting with the "Auto Normalize" setting, but the loudest regions are still much louder than the quiet ones.


texts: Reset SMC: Can I use "SMCFlasher.efi -reset 1"?

texts:
I'm in a situation where I don't have working internal shift+ctrl+alt-keys and thusly unable to perform SMC-reset.

Related to others' issues with SMC-updates, there are instructions for re-flashing the firmware using rEFIt and utilities extracted from the official updater. One of the steps are:

SmcFlasher.efi -reset 1

With the description

  First need to get the SMC into the right state.
  "SmcFlasher.efi -reset 1".
  Your MBP fans should now quiet down.

Source

This is indicative of an SMC-reset.

Does anyone have experience with using this command? Does it in fact reset SMC, or is it a potentially destructive command?


texts: Search within specified folder gives results but within 'This Mac' gives none

texts:
I type Cmd-F and call up a search window; my search parameters are 'Name contains "xyz"'. Currently the search is limited to the current folder (~/library/preferences) and gives two results. Thinking to widen the search to see what extra files/folders might contain the term 'xyz' in their name I click the button to change the search from 'Preferences' to 'This Mac'. Now the search gives zero results.

Should not the search on 'This Mac' be wider than the folder-specific one? Surely it should, at the very least, return the two results from 'Preferences'?

Can anyone advise on this please?

Extra context: This is on a laptop that is connected to the Internet by wifi, but has no other external devices connected)


texts:
OSX server 5.2 is supposed to have this drop-down menu "Configure VPN for"

but I don't have it.

I'm not able to select the type of VPN at all, I'm not sure why
 :

how can I have this option back?


texts: Shift+3 returns £ sign instead of # sign

texts:
When I press Shift+3 on my Mac, it returns £ sign instead of # sign. How can I fix it? Any ideas?
Input source - British - PC


texts: White screen for 10.12.2 upgrade on mac mini

texts: When I try to upgrade to 10.12.2, my mac mini reboots to a white screen. The mouse is responsive, but nothing is drawn. In previous upgrades, I could get past this by holding SHIFT for safe mode; and then the upgrade would complete. Not this time. There are no USB devices except the keyboard plugged in. I've reset PRAM/NVRAM, no change. I can boot to recovery. Any other suggestions?


texts: iMessage falsely reports "could not send"

texts: For some reason, since Monday iMessage on the iPhone 4S always tells me it couldn't deliver my message but the messages go through. Anybody have the same problem? Any idea how to fix it? I'm not the only one, a couple friends have it too, but Google didn't help.


texts: Does the password on OSX user account prevent someone from viewing your /user folder if they have the HD in an external enclosure?

texts:
Ive got a strong password on my user account on my macbook pro running OSX, which will prevent someone from booting up my laptop and logging in and viewing my files, but will this stop someone from being able to remove the HD from my laptop put it in a external hard drive enclosure and view all of my files using finder on another machine ?

Or are all the files stored in my user account encrypted using my user account login password ? If not how can i prevent someone from accessing these files if they get there hands on my laptop and remove the HD ?

Im running OSX 10.10


texts:
The goal is to upgrade a Mac's hard drive to an SSD.

Is it possible to boot Clonezilla from a USB stick on a Mac (iMac 2007/Mac 7,1) to clone a mechanical HDD to a SDD?  I do not have access to the target machine in my home / office and will have very limited amount of valuable time on the target machine.

Although there are reports of booting from USB, I am unable to find instances of booting a Mac from USB Clonezilla.  My concern is that there is some obstacle to booting Clonezilla or other hurdle that would prevent upgradomg the HDD to a SDD.  I would prefer that advance experience inform me that it is not possible because of X,Y,orZ so I do not waste my limited time on the target machine.

Although I have performed the clone exercise with other methods, my curiosity prompts the question: the hope is that someone has actually performed the task with Clonezilla or knows enough to confidently claim Clonezilla is possible.

UPDATE: I do not have access to said target machine & it is not mine to experiment with as I please. I am reluctant to experiment on machines that are not mine to satisfy intellectual curiosity.  The target machine is not mine. I am open to new ideas and appreciate suggestions that ultimately serve the goal & do not necessarily address the question.


texts: Can I decrypt and read a partition without booting it from another mac?

texts:
I have a HDD with a OS X data partition on it that is encrypted with FileVault. It also contains NTFS and ext4 partitions. This is not a boot partition. My boot partition was on a separate SSD. I can not use the boot partition to boot OS X anymore.

Can I take out the HDD with the encrypted partition, plug it with a USB dock into a macbook and unlock/read the data?

NOTE: I just need to recover one small folder from the partition that I could transfer on a usb stick.


texts: Angry Birds scores did not transfer from iPhone to iPad

texts: I uploaded all my Angry Bird games, Star Wars, Bad Piggies, etc., from my iPhone to my iPad. The games uploaded fine but all my hard earned scores are gone. Do I need to replay levels to get to where I was?


texts: In different programs the same size on "Actual" size shown differently, Bug?

texts:
Retina-MBP

I create new files in Pixelmator and Adobe Illustrator. Both files are of 100x100 pixels size. The resolution in Pixelmator is set 300, the resolution of export raster in Illustrator set to 300 as well. I use a retina Mac.

When I press "Actual Size" I expect that both programs will show the same size of the "artboard"/picture.

However, this "actual size" is different within these two programs. Even more - when I export the picture from Pixelmator it has a size of 100x100. However, from Illustrator I get unpredictable sizes of jpegs or pngs.

I completely lost understanding of what happens here. I do not even know what my customers actually see when I sent them the pictures.

When I try the make a screenshot - the pre-mark for PXM is 50x50 and 100x100 for AI! :??


texts: Exchanged HDD in MacBook Pro - OS X installation disk shows prohibitory sign

texts:
I exchanged the HDD in my 2007 MacBook Pro and removed the DVD drive because it was making a terrible noise every time I booted the MacBook.

The new HDD is a Corsair Force F120 SATA SSD. I formated it as HFS+.

Every time I try to launch an OS X Lion installation disk or USB stick I get the grey prohibitory sign and the machine shuts down after a while.

When I connect the old harddrive (with OSX still on it) I'm able to boot it up successfully.

Any ideas what is wrong?


texts: How to configure macOS Server 5.11 for CI with XCode?

texts:
I have a question. I bought macOS Server from the App Store. I want to achieve this basically:
https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/IDEs/Conceptual/xcode_guide-continuous_integration/
However, when I open Server, then on the left it is supposed to show XCode under Services, but it isn't.
I have posed my main question here:
https://serverfault.com/questions/1060038/how-to-let-osx-server-show-xcode-as-a-service
This is the main problem, but there seem to be a number of subproblems:

How to configure my router? (which ports should be forwarded?)
In XCode I enabled the Server under XCode > XCode Server ... (with the slider at the top right). I created the extra non-admin account on my Mac and permitted "node" through the firewall. Do I need to add a (non-guest) Server Account under Accounts in XCode?
In XCode, clicking Product > Create Bot ..., gives an alert: "Creating a bot requires that the project be under source control that is accessible by the server." Note: I put this project in the additional XCode Server logged in user account's shared folder, so I don't know why it wouldn't have access to it? What else/what is the default or best location for repo's and how can I set the location?
In macOS Server itself, how do I configure it? Under Julius's iMac Pro > Settings, ticking '[] Secure shell connections (SSH)' works, when I forward port 22 on the router and allow SSH in the macOS app firewall: I can SSH in over the internet (using my external IP). I haven't ticked the other two boxes. Under Julius's's iMac Pro > Overview the button Reachability Details... goves No available services (again, this is the main problem I think). I set Julius's's iMac Pro > Access to fairly restricted settings (only me, only this Mac), here it says: "macOS Application Firewall is enabled. Network access may be affected." However, I don't know how it may be affected, I can't add XCode here.


texts: Upload to business YouTube channel instead of personal channel

texts:
I created a business channel with my Gmail account and then accidentally also created a personal Google+ account with the same Gmail address.
I can toggle back and forth between these two accounts, but I can't upload to my business channel anymore from my iPad.

Any suggestions? I don't want to delete either account.
I have tried signing in on my YouTube app and toggling to my business channel before uploading, but it still sends the videos to my personal page.


texts: Focus menu bar Help menu Search field in different keyboard layouts

texts:
In the default U.S. QWERTY keyboard layout, pressing ⌘⇧/ (aka ⌘?) opens the Help menu item and focuses the Search field.
Pressing the keyboard shortcut and then typing allows you to easily search through the many menu bar commands.

However, in the Dvorak keyboard layout, pressing the same keyboard shortcut instead directly opens the "App Help" user guide in a new window. This is indicated by the "⌘?" keyboard shortcut appearing in the submenu item for the user guide.
In Dvorak, I am not given a chance to type. Pressing the keyboard shortcut only opens the mostly-useless help documents in a new window. The Search field is not focused. I can't search the menu bar items.

This setting seems to be controlled by:
System Preferences > Keyboard > Shortcuts > App Shortcuts > All Applications > Show Help menu
In QWERTY, the Search field is focused when this setting is toggled on; the Help window is opened when toggled off. The keyboard shortcut is hidden or shown in the menu respectively.

In Dvorak, this setting seemingly has no effect. Both toggle states open the Help window.
Do any other keyboard layouts have this problem?
Is there any way to set a keyboard shortcut to focus the Help menu's Search bar in Dvorak?


texts:
I use a 2015 Retina MBP (13inch) and have been experiencing wifi disconnections since I have upgraded to El Capitan. I am now using 10.11.5 and the problem remains. I am experiencing wifi dropouts on this computer only. My wife uses an old 2011 MacBook Air with El Capitan 10.11.5 and has no disconnections. My other devices iPhone + iPad Mini are also on the same wifi network and do not experience any problem. I have tried many of the usual suggestions such as: throw previous wifi preferences to trash, created new wifi profile/location with google dos, changed MTU to 1453 and disabling Apple Wifi Direct Network (awdl0) and nothing seemed to do the trick. I cannot seem to find a proper answer anywhere but have seen many people experiencing the same problem. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

side note: the only annoying "fix" is to manually renew my DHCP lease or turn off / on my wifi which takes longer to get back online. If i do nothing, it will get back online after a longer period (less than 1min).


texts: Cloning a half-full 500 GB drive to a 256 GB SSD drive

texts:
Before I buy a new SSD, I wanted to see if the following is possible:

I have a 500 GB HD in my MacBook Pro that is using only 240 gigs. Can I clone this to a 256 GB SSD drive? (My goal is to replace the boot spinning drive with an SSD drive.) Then use the 500 GB HD as a second drive in the SuperDrive bay.

Can I clone to the SSD if it's in a USB enclosure as well?

And what is the best cloning software?

I'm running OS X Lion, if that's useful.


texts: Format a SSD from Mac OS Extended to NTFS

texts:
I have a SSD formated in Mac OS Extended, and I want to format it to NTFS because I will use it on Windows.

To do it, I installed Paragon. I rebooted my MacBook. I checked if the driver was actived, and it was. So I went to Disk Utilty, but I have no choice to format to NTFS. Only Mac OS Extended is proposed.

I tried with Tuxera too. But same result, it didn't show the NTFS option.

Do you know any other way to format a SSD or a HDD from Mac OS Extended to NTFS ?


texts:
I've never used Time Machine before and I pretty much know how backups work but I'm wondering if my system will work out of the box once restored from Time Machine backup?

I mean I have tons of stuff on my Mac and configuring it all once something goes wrong will take me days. I'm talking about my whole programming environment including multiple Docker images, databases, hundreds of npm packages, custom system files (like "hosts"), hundreds of Applications with custom settings, some games etc.

If I decide to backup EVERYTHING and things go south can I just grab a brand new MacBook, connect my external hard drive with TM backup and it will import EVERYTHING meaning it will work just like my system before crash?

BTW I'm using a standard external HDD.


texts: root user can't create a file in /usr/lib

texts:
I am trying to follow this advice from stackoverflow and copy some library files from /usr/local/Cellar/openssl/1.0.1c to /usr/lib/.

I have tried cp, ln -s and even touch, but they all fail. I am using the root credentials:

joyce# whoami
root

In the right directory:

joyce# pwd
/usr/lib

But no write operation is permitted:

joyce# cp /usr/local/Cellar/openssl/1.0.2e_1/lib/libssl.1.0.0.dylib .
cp: ./libssl.1.0.0.dylib: Operation not permitted
joyce# ln -s /usr/local/Cellar/openssl/1.0.2e_1/lib/libssl.1.0.0.dylib .
ln: ./libssl.1.0.0.dylib: Operation not permitted
joyce# touch blah
touch: blah: Operation not permitted

Any idea how can I write to /usr/lib as root?


texts: Will this RAM work for me? (Late 2009 iMac)

texts:
I have a 27-inch iMac late 2009 desktop computer and i'm looking to upgrade my ram. The best RAM I can find is a Kingston 2GB, DDR3-1066, PC3-8500, CL7, DIMM.

What I currently have is 4GB 1067 MHz Ram

Will this be suitable? Or is this the wrong one?


texts: I recently purchased an iPhone 6S, and the motion tracking worked for a few days, but then in the past four days it has recorded no steps or flights climbed. This morning, the phone started recording data again, but only briefly (maybe 2 hours); it currently is not collecting any motion data. I've been using Apple's Health app and the FitBit app. I tried turning motion tracking off and then back on, restarted the phone, no luck. I'm on iOS 9.0.2. Any ideas?


texts: Files on a Computer seem to have decreases in quality

texts: Do files on a PC computer decrease in size/resolution as new files are added - to conserve space?


texts: Can I put a 160GB (late 2009) iPod's HDD in my 6th gen 120GB iPod?  Will this work, or are there other things that I would need to modify to get more storage?


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I accidentally deleted a photo from the "Recently Deleted" album and I need it back. I have an iCloud back-up but every time I restore the back-up, the photo is not in the gallery and I know for sure that the back-up was made before I deleted the photo.

Is there any possibility that I can recover the photo?


texts: What a good app to tag my favorite places?

texts: I travel a lot to the same 5 cities for work. Sometimes, if I have a spare hour or two I explore and sometimes on those explorations, I find great places. I'd like to tag those places on a map with an iphone app. But google map app doesn't allow that. I can't find software for this.


texts: How do I set the background color in the Apple Mail app?

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Current OS - 11.3.1 macOS Big Sur -
I have tried two methods of setting the background color in the Mail app.

I tried to select multiple messages and then select Format -> Select Colors -> Choose Color. This works but not as expected. I have to click off the selected messages to deselect the messages and then select the messages again, then deselect the messages again to get the color to show. I do not want to have to deselect, select, then deselect again to get the color to show.

The second method was creating an AppleScript to do the process above.

applescript
set background color of selectedMessage to blue
This has the same result as method one where I have to deselect, select, then deselect again in order to get the color to show.
Is there any way to avoid the select, deselect, select, deselect? I am archiving 10's - 100's of emails at a time and don't want to have to go back through all of the emails I have selected just to get the background color to change. That defeats the purpose of scripting/coding.


texts: Using lsof to find which process is connected to a unix file socket

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I have a server application that binds a unix file socket on /var/run/appsocket.
I have multiple clients which connect to this unix file socket, and I want to be able to determine which PID is connected to this unix file socket.
What I've tried:
sudo lsof /var/run/appsocket

Displays the following:

appserver 101 appuser    6u  unix 0x5d3497ad372af941      0t0      /var/run/appsocket
appserver 101 appuser    9u  unix 0x5d3497ad3aa380a9      0t0      /var/run/appsocket

This displays which process created the unix file socket, but not the one who is using it. If I list open files by my app client, I see that it is using the file handle 0x5d3497ad372af941 (from the list above).
I've tried using several solutions from here, but nothing worked.
I'm using lsof 4.89 and -E is not supported for some reason.
How can I make this connection between the file handle and the process which opened it?
EDIT
sudo lsof /var/run/appsocket | awk '{print $6}' | uniq | xargs -I {} sh -c "sudo lsof -U | grep {}" | awk '{print $1}' | uniq

Does the trick, but is not optimal whatsoever...


texts: Yosemite Time Machine Backup Failed Due to Full Disk

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I've run Yosemite for some time now, this issue is recent. My assumption has always been that Time Machine autonomously overwrites old backups once your time capsule is full.

So my question is :

How do I resume normal Time Machine backups without having to manually erase old backups. I know I can delete files from Time Capsule

Running:
10.10.2

Time Capsule :

461 GB of 2TB available...backup error is

  The backup disk needs 536.69 GB for the backup but only 460.78 GB are available. Select a larger backup disk or make the backup smaller by excluding files.


texts: Full screen ad on iPhone in place of lock screen

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I own an iPhone 3GS and use it as personal hotspot for my MacBook Pro via USB.

The iPhone is running iOS 5.1.1, and the MacBook is running a Mountain Lion preview.   However the question is not about Mountain Lion, nor is specific to Mountain Lion, so please bear with me.

The iPhone was in the locked mode and connected to the MacBook via USB when I pressed the lock button. However, instead of the usual lock screen and slide button, the iPhone showed a fullscreen ad:

(Ironically, it advertises a game called “Worms: Reloaded”.)

I was somewhat terrified by this so I didn't tap the image at all, and instead held the poweroff button. On choosing “Cancel” on poweroff confirmation screen, I was able to get back to my lock screen.

I don't know what would happen if I tapped the image, neither do I know if this was just an image or an executable. It's kind of funny that the ad says to push OK (YES) button, but there is no such button on the screen. I decided I don't trust this interface because of strange arrow positioning in the top left button so I didn't tap Cancel.

My phone is not jailbroken.

By the way, there has been a similar question without a screenshot but I'm not sure it is exactly the same thing.

My only guess now is that I have MMS enabled, and maybe there is a kind of MMS messages
that show up on the screen without being saved (like flash SMS), and maybe my carrier decided to spam me. I'm also downloading a malware scan software for OS X.


texts: SMC sensors failure while running on battery

texts: I have problem with SMC in MacBook Air 2016. While running on battery, data from SMC module freezes. In iStat Menus temperatures from sensors, RPMs, current meters and voltage meters from CPU aren't refreshing. Also fan sometimes switches on high RPM and runs continuously, even when laptop is quite cold. When I plug in charger, fan goes back to 1200 RPM and temperatures are being normally refreshed. I had this issue propably even before updating to Mojave. I tried resetting SMC, but nothing happens. What is the possible reason for this issue?


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I am doing a fresh install of macos Big Sur on a 16" MacBook Pro and I have managed to

backup all files I need
create a Big Sur install media
boot from this USB drive (Disabling Secure Boot, enabling boot from external drive)

Now I am running Disk Utility and I am presented with the following state

Internal (this is my internal SSD drive)

Macintosh HD (this is an APFS volume)
Macintosh HD - Data  (this is an APFS volume)

External (this is the install media I created)

Install macOS Big Sur

Disk Images (Not sure what this is)

macOS Base System

In the past I just erased Macintosh HD (the only internal drive) and would install the OS on it. Everything from OS data and user data would be gone that way.
Now I want to achieve the same but Iam unsure if I should erase both or if maybe one contains OS stuff I should not erase. Is this structure/naming even required?
What should do to have a absolute clean install OS, without bricking my machine?


texts: Macbook Air 13" (2017) keeps shutting down

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I'm aware this has been asked before, but didn't find for my specific model. Anyways, the problem started a couple weeks ago when the battery was below more or less 50%, but in the last couple days this worsen and it turns off when the battery is at any level below 80%.
When I connect the charger and start again, it shows a battery level of 60-70%, sometimes the battery level jumps weirdly from one level to another, like 42% to 64%.
I'm aware that the battery has had a lot of uses, my cycle count is around 740 cycles, and system report notifies "Service Recommended". Nevertheless Apple page says expected life for this battery model is 1000 cycles, and really didn't expect to start failing this early and with this extreme behavior.
Here comes my question, will a calibration of the battery hopefully solve this issues? (until obviously it reaches >1000 cycles). Tried resetting SMC (as here), didn't work (but also I'm not sure how to verify that I did the reset correctly).
I purchased the macbook new in march 2019 in official premium reseller (since in my country Apple does not have direct representation). Also I know that I might have to replace the battery, but I live in an EME country, and do not know if this is going to be very expensive, so in the short term it's not an option.
Thanks!
PD, here's my battery system report:
  Charge Information:
  Charge Remaining (mAh):   3057
  Fully Charged:    No
  Charging: Yes
  Full Charge Capacity (mAh):   4130
  Health Information:
  Cycle Count:  745
  Condition:    Service Recommended
  Battery Installed:    Yes
  Amperage (mA):    1954
  Voltage (mV): 8429

If helpful, I noted that "Full charge capacity" changes sometimes dramatically  when I check it from time to time (this is the same symptom as the battery level jumping from one to another completely different, I think)
Exact model: MacBook Air (13-inch, 2017)
Running on: Catalina 10.15.7


texts: I constantly get a never-ending spinning beach ball in Safari on tabs that have Google Calendar loaded

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I keep seeing the spinning beach ball on any tab that has Google Calendar loaded. It doesn't happen right away, it typically takes a while before it starts beach balling. The calendar works fine the whole time. Restarting Safari makes it go away.

Does anyone know how what could be causing this?

I used to get a message saying that the page has been reloaded because of a problem. Not sure if that's related but I haven't seen that with Safari 12 yet even though I have seen this behavior with that version.

Using Safari 12.0 now but this has happened with the last 2 or 3 major releases at least. I thought it could be an extension but Safari 12 has disabled all of my extensions except for 1Password.


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There seem to be multiple standards for image files representing the contents of a DVD.  For example, iDVD creates .img files if told to burn a file rather than a DVD directly.  However, Linux install disks (for example) that are too big to fit on one CD (over 740 Mb or so) usually come in the form of .iso files meant to be converted to a physical DVD using dd, Toast, Disk Utility, or a comparable program.  Disk Utility can also mount an .iso image on the desktop so that it looks like a drive, much as with .dmg files.  So, several related questions:

What exactly differentiates a DVD-size .iso from a DVD .img?
Is there a simple conversion path from .img to .iso?
Is .img an Apple-specific file format?
If .img is Apple-specific, should I be worried about archiving DVD images that I want to keep permanently as .imgs (i.e., is it possible that future software won't be able to read them)?

The last question speaks to the specific issue that brought this question to mind--I have a number of DVDs of home movies, painstakingly produced with iMovie and iDVD, that I would like to archive both as actual burnt video DVDs (i.e. for a DVD player) and as image files from which I can burn more copies if necessary.  But is .img the best format to do this, or are those likely to become obsolete?  Would .iso be better?  I'm interested in the general question of .iso vs .img (vs any other relevant formats) too, as the title of the question indicates.


texts: I want to install certain software and this requires system which supports at least OpenGL 2.1. Executing glxinfo | grep "OpenGL Version" returns OpenGL version string: 2.1 INTEL-10.24.45. On the other hand, according to Apple's documentation: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202823 my laptop, which is a Macbook Pro 13-inch, 2016, Two Thunderbolt 3 ports, has OpenGL 4.1 installed. Which one should I trust?


texts: Installing GNU compilers on PureDarwin/Darwin?

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I hope this is not off-topic, because there is no better place to ask this sort of questions on SO/SE. I have Downloaded and ran PureDarwin on QEMU using instructions here:

Now I want to know if there are any package managers? Can I install HomeBrew preferably here for example or even MacPorts? If none possible how can I install GNU C/C++/Fortran compilers (GCC/g++/gfortran) here? or if it is not a possibility is there any compiler on this operating system at all? My goal is eventually to provide some Open Source developers who don't have macs with an alternative to test their software or maybe create macOS compatible binaries/packages if possible. Thanks for your support in advance.


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i can´t fix this external disk

/dev/disk3 (external, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:     FDisk_partition_scheme                        *1.0 TB     disk3
   1:                       0xA2                         1.0 TB     disk3s1
   2:                       0xA2                         49.4 MB    disk3s2

gpt show: /dev/disk3: mediasize=1000170586112; sectorsize=512; blocks=1953458176
gpt show: /dev/disk3: MBR at sector 0
gpt show: /dev/disk3: MBR part: type=162, start=63, size=1953343287
gpt show: /dev/disk3: MBR part: type=162, start=1953343350, size=96390
gpt show: /dev/disk3: Bad CRC in GPT table at sector 2
gpt show: /dev/disk3: Sec GPT at sector 1953458175
       start        size  index  contents
           0           1         MBR
           1          62
          63  1953343287      1  MBR part 162
  1953343350       96390      2  MBR part 162
  1953439740       18403
  1953458143          32         Sec GPT table
  1953458175           1         Sec GPT header

sh-3.2# sudo fsck_hfs -q /dev/disk3
** /dev/rdisk3 (NO WRITE)
   Executing fsck_hfs (version hfs-366.30.3).
volumeType is 0
0000:  0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000       |................|
. . .
01b0:  0000 0000 0000 0000 1a93 bde5 0000 0001       |................|
01c0:  0100 a2fe bff5 3f00 0000 37a7 6d74 0000       |..........7.mt..|
01d0:  81f6 a2fe bffb 76a7 6d74 8678 0100 0000       |......v.mt.x....|
01e0:  0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000       |................|
01f0:  0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 55aa       |..............U.|
QUICKCHECK ONLY; NO HFS SIGNATURE FOUND

sh-3.2# sudo fdisk -r /dev/rdisk3
fdisk: could not open MBR file /usr/standalone/i386/boot0: No such file or directory

any solution???

this?

sh-3.2# sudo fdisk -u /dev/rdisk3
fdisk: could not open MBR file /usr/standalone/i386/boot0: No such file or directory

    -----------------------------------------------------
    ------ ATTENTION - UPDATING MASTER BOOT RECORD ------
    -----------------------------------------------------

Do you wish to write new MBR? [n] n


texts: Intuos 3 Drivers for Mac OSX Sierra (10.12)

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I have an old Wacom Intuos 3 tablet (with pen and mouse) that I occasionally use with my Mac (OS 10.12.6 - Sierra).
I noticed my Wacom Intuos 3 mouse was acting strange (clicks not always being registered). I tried to re-install the Wacom Drivers for the tablet to troubleshoot whether this was a hardware (mouse itself) or software (drivers) problem.
When I reinstalled the latest drivers that work with Intuos 3 tablets for Mac (Driver 6.3.15-3), the Wacom Preferences Pane kept saying there was something wrong with the driver and the computer needed to be restarted, and if the issue persisted to re-install the driver. I restarted my computer a few times and still had the issue, then I un-installed and I re-installed the driver and still had the issue.
I realized it was probably because the supported Mac OS versions were 10.8 - 10.11 according to the Wacom Driver site and searching "Intuos 3". I was running Mac OS 10.12.6.
I then tried installing the most recent drivers (Driver 6.3.37-3  for macOS 10.11 - 10.15) because I thought that might work with my newer Mac OS, and after installation the Wacom Preferences Pane kept saying there were no devices attached, even when my tablet was plugged in.
How do I get drivers for Intuos 3 that work with Mac OS 10.12? It used to work just fine, but now with no working drivers, my tablet is not mapped to my screen properly and using my mouse/pen is terrible.


texts:
my ifconfig lo0 looks like this:

lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 16384
options=1203<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,TXSTATUS,SW_TIMESTAMP>
inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128
inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1
inet 192.168.10.11 netmask 0xffffff00
nd6 options=201<PERFORMNUD,DAD>

I need to add inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000. How can I do it ?


texts: Setting Work Schedule with Outlook an half hour boundaries

texts:
We use Outlook at work for scheduling. By default, the work schedule is 9AM to 5PM. You can easily change this to other hours under Preferences, but you are limited to full hour boundaries. I can't, for example, change my start time to 8:30AM, I can only choose 8AM or 9AM.

Is there is away to set a start time and end time on half hour boundaries?


texts: How can quicktime record audio from two sources: mac and iphone?

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I use quicktime a lot to record screen sessions from my iphone.. I use this to share how my app behaves to my developers..

however right now i'm doing usability tests.. and what i would like to do is have someone sit in front of my mac, connect the iphone to my mac by usb.. and have quicktime record whatever they're doing on the iphone.. but i also want quicktime to record both the sound that's outputted from the iphone as well as their own voice when they speak (ie using the mac build in microphone).. how can i do that?

the problem is that by selecting the audio source from quicktime.. you can either select the iphone output OR the built in microphone.. it does not offer both

Update

in response to this answer:
this happens when i try to record more than one session at a time


texts: Using iTunes gift code while temporarily staying in another country

texts: I am from Russia but currently stay in another country. I got an iTunes gift code as a present from a friend in Russia. Can I use this code while I'm in another country? I believe my Apple ID country is set to Russia.


texts: iPad not playing compressed High Res videos?

texts: I have an iPad 3 and use Infuse and VLC to play videos on my iPad. Now I am having a weird issue. I am trying to play a TV series that a friend gave to me. The files are mkv. The resolution is 1280x718, which is surprising, as file size is only 90 MB for a 25 min video. Now when I play these videos on my iPad, the video sort of freezes every second. They play fine on my PC. I tried using both infuse and vlc but same issue. I think the files must be compressed in some way, as I have seen that 25 min of a 1280x720 video can be upto 400 MB in size, I have played such videos on my iPad, and they play fine.


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I have problems with connecting my iMac (2019 Retina 4k 21.5po 4096-by-2304 resolution, MacOS Catalina 10.15.4) on my Denon AV Receiver (AVR) s750SH and Epson 1450 projector.

To make it clear, input comes from the iMac to the AVR, then AVR outputs to the projector and then projector displays images.
I have no problem with input sources other than my iMac (DVD player, PC, or cable/sat). I m not sure where the problem is coming from, but I suspect it may be between Denon AVR and iMac.

Here is the description of my installation:
My AVR s750SH is connected to an Epson 1450 projector.
My iMac computer  is connected to AVR by an HDMI wire (ultra HD 48 Gbps compatible) through an USB C to HDMI adapter (4K 30Hz). The adapter is plugged in the Thunderbolt 3 of the iMac (since there is no HDMI port on the iMac).
The HDMI cable is plugged in input connector reffered as "media player" of the AVR.

The problem is that when I select the "media player" channel of the AVR to display the image coming from my iMac, the image of my iMac screen appears but is "on and off", like if there was a signal problem.

The 4k Signal Format setting in the AVR is set to "Enhanced" as recommended.

I tried to plug the HDMI cable in other input connectors of the AVR s750SH, but it was the same problem.
I also tried to unplug the HDMI cable of the AVR and re-plugged it on another monitor, in order to check if there could be something wrong with the HDMI cable and the USB C to HDMI Adapter, the result is that is absolutely no problem on this monitor.
(NB : I have not tried to connect the HDMI from the iMac to the Epson 1450 projector, it is a bit tricky to do because the projector is mounted on the ceiling.)

Would you have any recommendation to fix that?

Thanks


texts: How to restrict Internet, not just web, access for the guest account?

texts:
How do we set up the guest account so it restricts Internet access to all applications and scripts in all ports?

Using parental controls only restricts web access, and I'm looking how to prevent any application to access the Internet.

I'm looking for a free solution that works even if the (guest) user runs malicious scripts. USB access is required for the guest account.

In Ubuntu we can restrict user access with a command like this:

sudo iptables -A OUTPUT -p all -m owner --uid-owner example_user -j DROP


texts: macOS updated to Beta despite opting out

texts:
This morning I was surprised seeing that my Mac mini has updated to 10.12.2 (16C32e) beta although I did opt out under the System Preferences from receiving future beta updates .

I am an Enterprise Developer so I believe that this is part of the Developers Beta and not the Public Beta, I mainly develop on iOS and would rather keep working on a non-beta machine so that my development could go smoothly without any beta bumps.

Any suggestions?


texts: Are repeated FileVault-related harddrive problems a signal that I have greater hard drive problems?

texts:
I found a great answer in the forums for an incorrect block count/invalid free block count problem that Disk Utility diagnosed when logged in but couldn't see in Recovery HD mode. Turning off FileVault as instructed by user10355 allowed me to repair the HD and after logging back in and even after turning FileVault back on, Disk Utility told me I was problem-free.

Now, 2 days later, I have noticed my MBP15 doesn't always go to sleep after a period of inactivity the way it should. I ran Disk Utility again and it found another set of incorrect block count/invalid free block count problems.

So I am going through the FileVault off decryption procedure again to hopefully be able to repair the problems.

My concern is that maybe this is symptomatic of a problem worse than FileVault. Is my harddrive (mid-2012) going bad? Or are repeated problems with FileVault to be expected?

In case it helps, the initial problem I had that lead me to run Disk Utility and discover the incorrect block count/invalid free block count problem and then find the FileVault solution was not being able to restart because Adobe Illustrator was supposedly preventing restarting. But Illustrator wasn't running and not visible to Activity Monitor. Force quitting did show Illustrator as a choice to quit but it wasn't able to quit it and therefore couldn't restart. So I had to restart by holding the power button down. Mentioning this because it's another sign to me things aren't right.


texts: Login - Screen Flashes and Returns to Login Screen - Tried Everything Possible

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I have an absurd issue which pretty much nothing seems to be able to fix -

I have a 2011 Macbook Pro running Mavericks.
When I try logging into my main account with the correct password, the wheel starts spinning, but then the screen acquires a blue tint, flashes, and then returns back to the login screen, asking me to enter my password again.

I created another Admin account which seems to login perfectly. In fact, I am unable to login even through Safe Mode...

I tried the following things -

Removing the password - this resulted in a login loop
Resetting PRAM
Reinstalling Mavericks
Rebuilding the user account
Removing the LaunchServices files
Removing the cache files

I tried literally everything but nothing seems to work!!!

This problem happened right after I was trying to connect my Macbook to an external monitor.. It wouldn't show the screen so I kept inserting and removing the cable..

Please feel free to be as technical as you want. I'm a CS major :)


texts: How do iOS apps from the same developer retain and access login information after being uninstalled without the use of iCloud?

texts:
The following is a real-world example - I'm not an iOS developer, so I am trying to understand how this can be possible:

Create a new, test Google account and when done, create a test Apple ID.
Set up an iOS device, and at the stage where you are asked to enter the details to log into an Apple ID, choose to skip this for now.
When taken to Springboard, launch the App Store, and search for "Assistant". Tap the "Get" button, at which time you will be asked to log into the iTunes Store. Do this by entering the details for the just-created Apple ID, at which point the app will begin to download. Note that we have in no way logged into iCloud, and that we have just logged into the iTunes store for the purpose of downloading the app.
When the app has finished downloading, launch it and when asked to sign in, enter the details for the new Google account (created in step 1). You should now be signed into the Assistant app.
Go back to the Home screen, and remove the Assistant app; confirm when prompted so that it will be removed from the device.
Now, go back to the App Store, and search for "Gmail". Choose to download this - you shouldn't be prompted to log into an Apple ID, because iOS has saved the details when Assistant was downloaded.
Launch the app, and tap the "Sign In" button. Notice that the previously-entered Google account is listed - this will match the one used to sign into Assistant. Tapping on this account will allow you to access Gmail with those details, without being prompted to enter a password of any kind whatsoever.

For me, the most interesting aspect of this is that even after the Assistant app is removed, the details for the Google account entered into the app before being uninstalled are still remembered. I haven't been able to figure out how this is done; it can't be iCloud (because it wasn't enabled at the time of the initial installation of Assistant). Does anybody know how it's possible that even after an app is uninstalled, another app is able to read data previously written to memory by a separate app?


texts: Mini Thunderbolt to VGA not showing video on external monitor but Mac says it is

texts:
The external monitor used to be working before, but now, there's no video being sent. The monitor is sleeping when I connect, even though the mac says it's connected.

I am using a SyncMaster390b as the monitor.

I tried turning it on and off and reconnecting everything, but still no luck.

Any help?


texts: How do I clean up image thumbnail cache on 10.12 Sierra?

texts:
I want to know how to clean up image thumbnail cache on MacOS 10.12 Sierra.
Specifically:
The system cache (if any)
Cache for applications: XnView MP (if any)
Gimp (if any)
Now I understand none of them may actually exist, since MacOS, starting from Sierra, uses "dispersed" thumbnail storage scheme. but still, I just want to be sure.
Please help, thanks!


texts:
I'd like to tell an older person, how to open images from his USB stick or SD card and continue to the next images in the containing folder very easy.

On Windows, he can plug in the memory device, wait until an explorer opens and double click an image. Then he can use the arrow keys left/right to show the other images in this directory.

On OS X, you can open a finder after attaching, double click an image but in preview.app, which opens then, you can not navigate to the other pictures. Another option is to select all images (CMD + A) and drag and drop them to the preview.app-icon in the dock. But thats very error-prone if he accidentally rise the mouse button while dragging.

It's not a solution to import the photos in any application like iPhoto, Lightroom or so for this case, because the Mac is just for viewing them. They are always imported later on another computer. I'm afraid of the suspense, which files are the most up to date ones or to clean his Mac every two weeks.

I'd like to have a simple tool for that, I can install. Ideally, it will pre-load the next pictures I can navigate to, to speed things up. Windows does so.


texts: Create categories with iBooks (Mavericks)

texts: I need to regroup PDF which I have created into categories and to put them on my iPad. With mountain lion I used Calibre to create the categories and iTunes to put the PDF on my iPad as books. After the Mavericks update I realized that the books are now managed by IBooks. Unfortunately I can't use the categories created with Calibre in IBooks and I'm not able to create categories with IBooks. Do you have an idea to do that on Mavericks ?


texts: Is microphone quality different for iPhones and iPads?

texts:
Should there be any significant difference in quality between the iPad Pro 10.5 and iPhone 7 Plus, with respect to internal microphone quality?

My iPad Pro seemed subjectively worse at dictation, so I setup a quick test:

Removed cases from devices, ensured clear path to microphones
Recorded a .wav sample to playback to the two devices, to test
dictation, so the input wouldn't change.
Held bothe devices microphones about three inches away from the test speaker.

The iPad Pro has been consistently worse in these tests, even though it also has a dual mic setup. I speak pretty neutrally, without an accent.

Is it expected that iPad should be worse?  Any ideas to explain the difference?


texts:
On my iMac I imported my old Aperture Library to the new Photos app and then enabled iCloud Photo Library.

The library has about 10000 photos and I expected that once I started the sync Photos app would upload all photos at once.

I've been watching this for a few days, and it looks like Photos uploads data for about 5 - 10 minutes, and after that pauses for anything from 30 to 90 minutes.

Does anybody know if and how I could tell Photos to just keep uploading without any waiting period?


texts:
Yesterday I spilt a lot of water on my Macbook pro keyboard.
The laptop seems to work fine but a few keys don't work well.
Left control and left shift don't work,
Left alt and right alt are not tested.

How can I test if left and right Alt key work well?
This macbook pro is late 2011 version. I don't have Apple care.
What is the most recommended action I can take in this situation?

PS. Right after the spilt, I pushed a lot of keys to wipe out water with paper towel,
then flipped it upside down. (I didn't turn it off)


texts: Macbook feels a lot hotter than usual; are these temperatures normal?

texts:
I have an early 2015 13" Macbook pro with a 3.1 GHz Intel Core i7 processor.

I've been having some battery issues lately, that could be been attributed to charging my laptop and plugging in foreign USBs (I bought this iPhone 7 charging cable in Italy that doesn't seem to fit my macbook USB port very well, and it doesn't seem to allow my macbook to recognize the device, although it does allow it to charge) into my macbook pro when I was overseas back in July, or it could just be my battery is deteriorating (I have a 850 cycle count).

The first time I noticed issues was back in mid July when I was in Italy. Macbook battery bar showing as red; battery % jumps around; battery condition normal; out of US charging
But those issues were quickly resolved when I reset the SMC.

Last week, I started getting a "Service Battery" warning on my macbook. I've tried resetting my SMC a few times, but the error remains, so it appears that my battery will soon reach its life expectancy.

Today, I noticed that my macbook feels much hotter than usual. I'm not doing anything computationally expensive, so I have no idea why it's getting hot, and I'm wondering if it's connected to the battery issues I've experienced recently. I also checked activity monitor, and nothing appears abnormal. Below is the output from Macs Fan Control.

Are the temperatures way too high? I don't know why its reporting 45C for the ambient temperature. It's about 86F (33C) in my house.


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Recently, I attempted to re-install Mac OS X Lion on my 2007 iMac computer (EMC 2133), but during the installation process it got interrupted.  After rebooting it just displays a blank grey screen with no apple.  I think there is a problem with the firmware, because because here are steps I have taken to attempt to resolve the issue, which have not appeared to work:

Boot using the Mac OS X Lion DVD by holding C.  Screen remains blank.
Boot into hardware test by holding D.  Screen remains blank.
Boot into safe mode test by holding shift.  Screen remains blank.
Attempt to choose boot device by holding option.  Screen remains blank.
Boot into single user mode by holding Command - S.  Screen remains blank.
Reset parameter RAM by holding option - Command - P - R.  Hold until system reboots at least  three times, but after rebooting again the screen remains blank.
Boot using Disk Warrior 4.4 DVD by holding C.  Screen remains blank.
Boot using Tech Tool Pro DVD by holding C.  Screen remains blank.
Taking out the hard drive and re-initializing it on my older eMac with Mac OS X Panther.  The hard drive re-initializes OK but it doesn't change anything else, so it appears to be a firmware issue.
Boot into Apple Firmware Restoration CD 1.3 by holding the power button for a long time according to this link https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3962770?start=0&tstart=0.  I don't see the 3 quick blinks followed by 3 slow blinks then 3 quick blinks of any LED or tones, but instead hear one long tone and the computer starts up.  I put the firmware restoration CD into my DVD, but the screen remains blank.

A year or two ago I had installed rEFIt on my Mac and had it successfully booting to various devices.  At that time I think I had Mac OS X Lion installed.  At some time later I removed rEFIt and installed Mac OS X Mavericks, which worked without a problem.  Then a few days ago I decided to try reinstalling rEFIt (I should have probably used rEFInd instead, but rEFIt had worked previously for me, so that is why I had tried to use it again).  This is when I started having issues with booting into my iMac, but even removing rEFIt and re-initializing my internal hard drive has not resolved the issue.

Does anyone have any suggestions?  Is there anything else I can do to fix my iMac?  TIA.

UPDATE:

Please note that I clarified the steps I took for firmware repairs in step 10.

UPDATE 2:

OK, I now see from here https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202768 that the long tone from step 10 means that an EFI update is in progress, but even if I leave the computer on for a long time, the update does not appear complete.  How long should it take?  How do I know when it has finished the update?