texts: USB device accidentally ejects with the slightest disturbance

texts: This is extremely annoying. 2009 MacBook Pro running OSX 10.7.5. I have an external hard drive connected via USB for Time Machine purposes. This device, and anything else connected via USB, frequently accidentally ejects with the slightest disturbance such as when I brush against the USB cable. It's very extremely annoying. The trouble doesn't come up as often with devices without a cable like flash drives, but sometimes it happens. It happens very frequently with devices connected via a cable. What is going on?


texts: Why can't an iPhone 6 and a mid-2011 MacBook Air see each other in AirDrop?

texts:
I'm trying to transfer photos, for example, from an iPhone 6 running iOS 8.1.3 to a MacBook Air, mid-2011, running OS X 10.10.2.

In either of these scenarios:

iPhone set to be discoverable by Everyone
Finder open to AirDrop on the Mac
Select a photo on iPhone, select Share, the Mac does not appear in the AirDrop pane

or

iPhone set to be discoverable by Everyone
Pick a photo on the Mac, select Share, Airdrop, no devices appear in the Send via AirDrop dialog

I have successfully used AirDrop from this Mac to other Macs in the past. Any idea why it isn't working with my iPhone? (I should point out that other features of Yosemite, such as receiving phone calls and SMS from the iPhone on the Mac, are functioning properly.)


texts: What is wrong with my Mac? Unknown df process

texts:
I am using a 13-inch MBP 2019 running macOS 11.1.
My Mac has been running extremely slowly starting today. It seems as though a process called "df" is the problem, but I can't figure out what it is:

What is it and why is it using all of my CPU? I was barely able to open the Activity Monitor because the computer was running so slowly and hot (spotlight didn't work, so I had to find it in Finder). The only thing that helps is restarting the computer, but it keeps happening.
I notice it happening because suddenly Internet pages won’t load in safari. Then a few minutes later the computer is running very hot and all apps stop responding. I can’t even shut down the computer without forcing it.


texts: Does OS X support a mechanism for security updates similar to apt-get?

texts: I have used brew to install software, is there a similar command line mechanism to download the OS's security updates?


texts: Finder spotlight tool not "grepping" through all file types?

texts: We've got this development stack that's mostly javascript, and if I'm looking for a variable definition or something I can use Finder's spotlight tool to easily find the file that contains the variable I'm looking for.  However if there's something I'm looking for that I know is in a JSON file, Finder won't return anything.  I looked through Finder's preferences as well as Spotlight's but couldn't find anything about extensions.  Does anyone know a fix for this?  Or maybe an alternative to Finder/Spotlight?  Thanks in advance


texts: M1 MacBook Air: Change resolution to 1920x1200 pixels

texts:
How can I change the resolution of my M1 MacBook Air (Silicon Version) to 1920x1200 pixels?
I tried so many softwares like QuickRes, SwitchResX and some other softwares/scripts from github. But nothing is working with the new M1 version. I can get 2048x1280, but I specifically need  1920x1200 this resolution.
Similar type question is asked in apple forum, but it looks like there is no working solution yet. Link below:
https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/668252


texts: Iphone 4 is acting glitchy.Should I update it?

texts: I've had my IPhone 4 since October 30th. Yesterday, it started acting funny.  I can't receive text messages and when I do receive calls they go straight to  voicemail. I'll get the voice mail several hours later. I can send texts AND make calls. I have reset everything on my phone and nothing has worked. I haven't updated anything on my  phone because it is jail broken and I do not want to lose my games. Is it possible that because I have not updated it's acting up? I know it isn't my account. Could there be anything else wrong with it?


texts: How to manually control processes launched on start?

texts:
Every time my Mac starts, about ~210 processes are launched, requiring about ~1000 OS Threads. With every Apple update this number increases. My laptop freezes for 1-3 min a couple of times per week because some process I've never heard of starts consuming 100% of CPU time till they likely crash. From googling process names the Apple process launch policy on laptops with limited battery life seems to be: launch every time everything for anything anyone might ever want to do.

Is there a way to do something about this?

What I've found:

Some of the processes are started by root (I don't want to do much about those).
However, most of them are started by my user, and most of those are for things that I do not need or that I have explicitly disabled in system preferences (keychain, messenger...).

I guess launchd is in charge of starting all these processes. I've found /Library/LaunchAgents and /Library/LaunchDaemons but these are just a small fraction of the processes that get launched, and none of them are system processes.

If they are all launched by launchd is there a configuration file for startup processes somewhere?

Note: I don't mind at all that a process gets launched when I do something that requires it. It is just that I find 200 processes, most of them for things I don't always need and a lot of them for things I've explicitly disabled, to be just nuts.

Update:

It seems that sudo launchctl list is a good place to start, one can then use launchctl load <service> and launchctl remove <service> to load/remove services. It would be nice to get a list of which services are safe to remove, and which services should never ever need to be removed, gonna experiment with that.


texts: Increase the time of the pmset countdown

texts:
Is there a way to change the delay time until a scheduled sleep/restart/shutdown occurs? It starts at 10 minutes (10:00), but I want to change it to 30 minutes (30:00).

As you can see above, the computer is scheduled to restart in 10 minutes via pmset.


texts: iPhone 4 asks me to log into an Apple address that Apple say doesn't exist

texts:
I have an Apple ID and a password that works fine on most things but not my iPhone 4. The address is example24@example.com.

But When I start up my iPhone, iCloud asks me to enter the password for example22@example.com. As far as I know I have never used this email address as an Apple ID. Consequently I have no idea what the supposed password is.

I have researched your excellent articles about changing apple id addresses but in every case it asks me to log out by entering the old password which I don't know.

When I try to change the password I get the message that example22@example.com is not an Apple ID.

In a perfect world all I want to do is completely delete any reference to example22@example.com but I can't do that without knowing what the password for that address is. If anybody can help I would be really grateful.


texts: OS X 10.11 El Capitan Preview's print preview different from print result

texts:
I've noticed something strange with printing PDFs via Preview on OS X 10.11 El Capitan. I've been printing PDF slides at 6 slides a page and they have always turned out like Figure 1.

After the upgrade to OSX 10.11, with the exact same print settings, they turn out like Figure 2 instead. I am printing with OSX's Preview, and the odd thing in OSX 10.11 is that the actual printout (Figure 2) looks entirely different from the print preview. (Figure 1)

I have tried printing my PDF on another machine running on 10.10.5 with the same set of print settings and it turned out like Figure 1, leading me to believe that 10.11 changed something.

It is too early to tell if it's really 10.11's fault, so I would like to see if anyone has encountered this rather odd and obscure bug.

Below are the attached print previews (it's a little small but I've labelled the slides with their slide numbers)

Figure 1. How the print preview in OSX 10.10 and 10.11 looks like, and how it is actually printed in OSX 10.10

Figure 2. How the actual printout in OSX 10.11 turned out instead (this is a photoshopped image of the actual printout because I didn't have a scanner to scan my picture in. But be rest assured this is how it looks like in real life)


texts: How to eliminate iOS Expired Certificate Popup

texts: I have an expired domain certificate showing up all over iOS.  I believe the culprit is an old email somewhere in one of my mail accounts.  How can I identify which email it is and delete it?  I tried to GREP on my mac and look for the domain and found two emails from 2014 and deleted them but the error still appears on iOS.


texts: 3rd party gaming mouse works before login but stops working afterwards

texts:
I replaced my broken gaming mouse with a new one and it doesn't work. The weird thing is that the mouse works when I reboot but only until I login, then the LEDs turn off and the mouse doesn't do anything (as if it is completely disconnected).

My setup is a MacBook Pro (Retina 15-inch late 2013) macOS Sierra.


texts: Using a Gamepad To Control Any iOS Device?

texts:
Gaming has taken on a whole new dimension since the introduction of the iPhone & definitely the iPad. Whilst these two Apple devices are great gaming devices, alot of games still try to emulate gamepads with onscreen buttons that are not so great.

Is there an App that will turn a gamepad eg an XBox 360 or Playstation gamepad into a controller for any game with touchscreen buttons & How to configure it ?


texts: MacBook Pro 15" 2015 iGPU slows down from normal 750mhz to 200mhz

texts:
I've faced with issue when sometimes after leaving sleep mode the iGPU is going into 200mhz instead normal 750mhz. The UI works slow, especially while you're switching desktops, scrolling in WebStorm and so on.

Here is some thermal data:

$ sudo thermal levels
cpu: 0
gpu: 0
io: 0

And some powermetrics:

$ sudo powermetrics -s gpu_power
Machine model: MacBookPro11,4
SMC version: 2.29f24
EFI version: 187.0.0
OS version: 18D109
Boot arguments:
Boot time: Mon Feb 11 13:59:37 2019

*** Sampled system activity (Tue Feb 12 17:39:04 2019 +0200) (5000.23ms elapsed) ***

**** GPU usage ****

GPU 0 name IntelIG
GPU 0 C-state residency: 98.22% (0.43%, 97.79%)
GPU 0 P-state residency: 1200MHz: 0.00%, 1150MHz: 0.00%, 1100MHz: 0.00%, 1050MHz: 0.00%, 1000MHz: 0.00%, 950MHz: 0.00%, 900MHz: 0.00%, 850MHz: 0.00%, 800MHz: 0.00%, 750MHz: 0.00%, 700MHz: 0.00%, 650MHz: 0.00%, 600MHz: 0.00%, 550MHz: 0.00%, 500MHz: 0.00%, 450MHz: 0.00%, 400MHz: 0.00%, 350MHz: 0.00%, 300MHz: 0.00%, 250MHz: 0.00%, 200MHz: 1.78%
GPU 0 average active frequency as fraction of nominal (200.00Mhz): 100.00% (200.00Mhz)
GPU 0 GPU Busy 1.78%
GPU 0 FB Test Case 0
GPU 0 [PSR] GPU + TCON are Off    : 0.00%
GPU 0 [PSR] Only GPU is On        : 100.00%
GPU 0 [PSR] Only TCON is On       : 0.00%
GPU 0 [PSR] GPU + TCON are On     : 0.00%
GPU 0 [PSR] Enter Count           : 0 (0.00/second)
GPU 0 [PSR] Abort Count           : 0 (0.00/second)
GPU 0 DPB on 0.00%
GPU 0 GT2 on 0.00%
GPU 0 GT3 on 100.00%

And here we go: 200MHz: 1.78%

And let me show iStat Menus output:

And only reboot is helpful. After reboot iGPU returns to 750mhz and UI works great.
Is it the Apple's bug? Someone faced with the same issue?
It's only about MacBook Pro 15" 2015 !! I have this issue on both (home laptop and on my work).
Looks like I've faced it only on Mojave..


texts: How can I prevent OSX upgrade messing up my apache ant install

texts: I'm a developer that uses Apache Ant as part of my build environment, but every time I upgrade my Mac to a new version of the OS (such as Yosemite to El Capitan) it breaks the ant install it there a way I can prevent this.


texts:
In my contacts, there is a contact wrongly labeled as 'me'. What should I do so that I can label the right person as 'me'? How do I change 'me'?

I'm using iOS8.


texts: Is a file that can be shown by `mdimport -d2 file` in spotlight database?

texts:
I have a file that can be shown with the following command.

$ mdimport -d2 file.pdf

But when I use the following command to search for the file. The file won't show up immediately.

mdfind -onlyin dir_the_file_is_in "(kMDItemTextContent=='searchterm'c) && (kMDItemFSName=='*.pdf')"

After I wait for sometime since I open it with Acrobat, then the above mdfind command will find it. Furthermore, I actually can not tell whether it is because I used Acrobat to open the file or because I used mdimport -d2 file.pdf so that the file can be found as I did both.

Does anybody know why this is the case?


texts: How to get back Chinese Speech after upgrading to Mojave?

texts:
After upgrading to Mojave, I cannot use Chinese Speech any more. If I go to

Preference → Accessibility → Speech

and choose any of the Chinese Speech (Mandarin, Cantonese), for Ting-Ting, Sin-ji, Mei-Jia, it just gives me a "DONG" sound and doesn't work.


texts: How do I set it so Apple Notes checklist items don't move when completed?

texts: Googled it, can't find out how to do it. Seems like I saw a setting dialog pop up once.


texts: Can't switch Java version from 6 to 8 in macOS

texts:
I want to change my Java version from 6 to 8, But in Terminal, the active version is always Java 6.
I have run this command :
export JAVA_HOME=`/usr/libexec/java_home -v 1.8.0_271`

but Java 1.6.0 is still the active version.
Any suggestion or other way that I need to do or check first?


texts: Intermittent Active Directory login issues on Lion

texts:
We bought a 27" iMac for our CEO. And we brought in some consultants to hook it up to our windows Active Directory using ADmitMac. Back when we were on 10.6.x things were hunky dory. But then our CEO upgraded to 10.7 and the fun started.

The fun I'm referring to is a horribly maddening and difficult to reproduce issue where sometimes when the mac comes out of sleep mode it refuses to accept his active directory credentials until we reboot the system. Typically this happens at a critical juncture resulting in a very angry CEO. Angry CEOs are not good for stable employment.

Any idea how to isolate and fix this issue, short of just rebuilding the iMac and praying?

UPDATE: apparently clicking switch users also allows him to login.


texts: How to resume interrupted download in i.files app

texts:
I have installed i.files app version 1.6 for iphone. In description of this app in app store has been written it can resume download from broken point, now i have tried to download 2 or 3 files with this app, when download was interrupted and we click start , it start download from first start point.
Please help how this app works?


texts:
I added lustyExplorer to ~/.vim/plugin.  Then I ran MacVim and tried to run it with ":LustyFileSystemExplorer".  Error

  "Unknown Function: lustyExplorer#LustyFileSystemExplorerStart"

In the documentation it says:

Usage:
"                 <Leader>lf  - Opens the filesystem explorer.
"                 <Leader>lr  - Opens the filesystem explorer from the
"                               directory of the current file.
"                 <Leader>lb  - Opens the buffer explorer.
"                 <Leader>lg  - Opens the buffer grep, for searching through
"                               all loaded buffers
"
"               You can also use the commands:
"
"                 ":LustyFilesystemExplorer [optional-path]"
"                 ":LustyFilesystemExplorerFromHere"
"                 ":LustyBufferExplorer"
"                 ":LustyBufferGrep"

I also tried :lf and got Error:

  can't open errorfile errors.err

Am I executing it correctly?  What does the prefix <Leader> mean?


texts: Safari 13 update sets negative com.apple.quarantine -1 making multiple directories inaccessible

texts:
Updated to Safari 13 today on Mojave 10.14.6 and suddenly a bunch of my ~/Library/ directories are inaccessible via terminal and other apps (even with sudo).  Checking the xattr I see:

com.apple.quarantine -1

Directories affected:

~/Library/Calendars (previously 28)
~/Library/Cookies (previously 15)
~/Library/Mail (previously 19)
~/Library/Safari (previously 15)

Two other changes in ~/Library/ I found are with:

com.apple.metadata:com_apple_backup_excludeItem -1

Directories affected:

~/Library/PersonalizationPortrait (previously 61)
~/Library/Saved Application State (previously 61)

Now I can't access these directories via terminal or some other apps.  Interestingly I can navigate to the directory with Finder.  e.g. Navigate to ~/Library/Safari/Extensions/  But when I click on Extensions.plist, Xcode does not have permission to open it.

I can't seem to find documentation on what the negative values mean and how to change it because sudo doesn't even have permission to change it.

Something more weird is my High Sierra machine doesn't have these com.apple.quarantine changes.

Update:  It's very possible that multiple directories outside ~/Library/ are also affected because my next Time Machine backup was over 1 GB and the only thing that changed is the install of Safari 13.

Update 2: My High Sierra machine's next Time Machine was over 11 GB after this one Safari 13 install.  Something weird is definitely happening with this update.


texts: I use Alfred instead of spotlight but sometimes I accidentally press cmd + space( Spotlight Shortcut ) instead of double shift( Alfred Shortcut ). I want to disable Spotlight( shortcut + not run it in background as well )  so might not open it. Also, does Alfred use spotlight file indexing if yes then I might not want to disable that but if no I would like to disable that as well.


texts: Finding files with square brackets in filename

texts:
I have a ton of files - TOSEC ROM sets - on my Mac (El Capitan) that have filenames suffixed with a tag in square brackets - for example

Manic Miner (1983)(Bug-Byte Software)[a]
Manic Miner (1983)(Software Projects)[a]

I'd like to search for these files, with the aim of moving and/or deleting them.

If I try to search for the files using Spotlight:

... no files are found.

If I try searching for them via Terminal:

ls *[a]*.*

... I get a list of all the files in the directory.

What's the best way of finding all files with [a] in the filename, and moving and/or deleting them? Is there a way to encapsulate the [ and ] so a Spotlight search will work?


texts:
I have been trying to restore my 5th Generation Ipod touch from a backup which is stored on my computer. The restore process works fine, however after its' completion there is a white screen lock with a SLIDE TO UPGRADE option that prevents me from using the Ipod, unless I upgrade.

Since I do not wish to upgrade the software on the Ipod from the currently installed iOS version (9.2.1), is there some way to circumvent this lockout by Apple?


texts: Is there a way to show an icon in the status bar if iPad is muted?

texts:
I "accidentally" muted the iPad (four finger up, slide to the left, push mute button). After that in iBooks an interactive book didn't play ambient audio, which is OK if you remember the muting. But it was playing other sound effects which was confusing. I thought that something is wrong with the iBooks app.

After hours I noticed the muted button...

(My mute switch on the side is changed to screen locker.)


texts: Will App preview video for iPhone 5 be the first item on iPhone 6(+) app store

texts:
We have submitted an app preview video, recorded using an iPhone 5 along with our new binary. We have also gotten some screenshots for iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 plus using the simulator.

My question is, will users who use iPhone 6 or iPhone 6 plus see the app preview video for iPhone 5 as the first element when they look for our app or will they see the first iPhone 6 screenshot?


texts: iTunes Connect: Can I have one bank account for every currency I receive?

texts:
As I understand it, Apple does not do currency exchanges when they pay the app developers, they just forward the 70% share in the currency the customers bought it. So, if an app is available in different markets, the developer receives payments in different currencies.

Is there a way to enter one bank account for every currency? For example, I'd like to set up a bank account in EUR for payments in EUR, one in GBP for payments in GBP, and likewise for USD etc.

If all payments are going to the same bank account, my bank charges high conversion rates every time a payment in a 'foreign' currency comes in.

UPDATE: It seems that this is not possible, nor is it necessary, since Apple seems to forward all payments in USD. Can anyone answer if this is true? Does Apple pay European developers in USD?


texts: Download El Capitan Installer now that Sierra is out

texts:
I have recently been having issues with my mac and want to do a clean install. I still have Yosemite and thought it’s a good time to upgrade the OS. However, I am wary of jumping directly to Sierra when it’s so fresh.

My specific circumstances:

Sierra could run on my computer (early 2015 Macbook Pro), but I would prefer to install El Capitan
I have not previously downloaded the El Capitan installer

I realize apple provided a link to install El Capitan from Snow Leopard. However, when I follow the links to the app store to get the install file, I am met with this message:

  This version of OS X 10.11 cannot be installed on this computer.

Is there a way to download the El Capitan installer now that Sierra is out, for more modern computer? Searching El Capitan on the app store yields no results for the installer.


texts: Disassociate an Apple ID from a computer

texts:
There's a work computer (iMac) I'll soon stop using, which might be used by other people in the future.

While I've mainly used a separate work-only Apple ID on the computer, I suspect I may have used my personal Apple ID on the computer from time to time.

I want to make sure that my personal Apple ID isn't used in the future on the work computer. How do I ensure this is the case?


texts: Quickly send pre-written response on Mac mail?

texts:
I get a lot of emails from recruiters sending irrelevant jobs to me, so I have a standard response that I copy and paste into replies. At the moment I do this manually from a saved text file. Is there a quicker way of doing this?

I was imagining there would be some way to save a reply so 1 button or shortcut would send this reply.


texts: Comparing GPU capabilities of Mac models?

texts:
I'm considering replacing my four year old MacBook Pro non-unibody with an Air, possibly when the line refreshes. My one consideration was GPU output, though. I know my old GeForce 8600M GT isn't much nowadays, but is it better than the onboard 320Ms in the current Air line?

My main question, though: is there a reliable benchmark for graphics output, like Geekbench but for GPU?


texts: How do I move a folder in 10.9 Mavericks?

texts:
I am trying to move a large (100GB+) folder from the Desktop into a subfolder on the Desktop. When I drag and drop, it invokes a copy, and I do not want to wait an hour while it goes through with this (I will need to do several such moves.) I have read that holding CMD while drag-dropping will invoke move, but it does not. If I wait for a folder to finish the alleged "move" operation, it turns out to be a copy, with the original folder left behind.

Interestingly, if I attempt to move (drag/drop) a smaller folder, it does so without issue. What am I doing wrong?


texts: Why do iMessage and FaceTime continue to charge money even after activation?

texts:
It's been 2 or 3 months that I used to get alert from my carrier that a amount has been deducted and I couldn't find what those charges were for. It's today so happened that the alert of deduction and Apple ID verification came simultaneously and that directed me towards imessage and FaceTime. With a few google searches I found this Apple Support link very helpful, in that forum it written clearly

Depending on your carrier, it can be normal for the activation of iMessage and FaceTime to involve incurring a cost for sending an international SMS message.

And when I searched for the cost of international SMS in my country and carrier, it was same as the deduction amount that I got alerted for. Here is a screen shot of a SMS that I get

And soon after this I get a deducted alert from my carrier. To ensure that my FaceTime and iMessage are toggled on and activated let me attach images of them:

So, now it's clear that my Iphone 7 is sending international SMSs for the activation of imessage and FaceTime (which I say is already activated). Now, I have two questions:

Why it is sending those international SMS even after activation is done?
How to stop it? It has already cost a good deal of deduction.


texts: I've written some Objective-C in Xcode before, but I can't find any free software for writing HTML! I need to create a small website for an online course I'm taking, and figured that HTML is the way to go. Thank you for your help!


texts: Can't store multiple arguments with read -p in macOS terminal using bash

texts:
I am trying to store words from an input as parameters with read -p as follows :

    read -p "Enter your command: " cmd arg1 arg2
    echo "$cmd"
    echo "$arg1"
    echo "$arg2"

With this, $cmd contains all 3 inputs separated by spaces, $arg1 and $arg2 are empty. Any idea why?


texts: Screen dark except when brightness is stepped off of zero

texts:
As shown in this video, the screen is dark, except at the few first steps when the brightness is moved just out of zero.

The notebook works otherwise perfectly fine. The image on the external monitor is fine.

Have you seen this before or can guess what the culprit is?


texts:
I have a mid 2012 MacBook Air and it is looping on startup sound, stuck on white screen.

I have tried:

formatting the SSD and installing the latest version of macOS Mojave
resetting NVRAM and SMC

Neither of the above worked and my MBA is still looping on the startup sound.

However, if I try booting up from the same SSD on another MacBook it boots fine from it.

How may I troubleshoot this further?


texts: Is it possible for a mobile phone manufacturer (other than apple) to make their phone sync with iTunes and iCal?

texts:
I am wondering why some mobile phone company other than apple doesn't make their phone sync up to a Mac in the same way that the iOS devices do, and sync their calendars, music, etc. We can ignore the sync-by-wifi method for now -- even just using the regular cable to USB would be fine.

Is the barrier to this only a legal/licensing one?  Or is there also a software or hardware technique that is used by apple to prevent this?

(I am an iOS user that doesn't want a big slab iPhone in my pocket, so I would love it if some smaller phone would grab just the essentials from the mac. That's the context here.)


texts: Why do I have Apple certificates in my keychain?

texts: Today, i looked over my keychain and was surprised to find out that i have several apple certificates as part of it. I wonder .. what is the significance of them and how could i have possibly gotten them? (I am not a registered apple developer)


texts:
I was on the App Store, and accidentally started downloading macOS Sierra. I have no desire to download this, so I want to cancel the download, but I can't figure out how.

From what I have searched, you should go to the purchased section of the App Store, and cancel the download, but macOS doesn't show there:

What should I do?

The answers to Can I cancel a download of a Mac Store app? do not help me because:

The ~/Library/Application Support/AppStore folder does not exist.
Holding the alt key and clicking the 'x' button does nothing.
Running defaults write com.apple.appstore ShowDebugMenu -bool true does nothing.


texts: iPhone SE problems on 11.0: apps freezing and voice call problems

texts:
Right after update to 11.0.0 (and all further updates up to 11.0.3) my iPhone SE experience became quite painful. I have two different symptoms:

Many apps are freezing for several seconds at random moments often.
In few days after iPhone restart I can't hear my callers (and vice versa), when I restart my phone the problem is fixed for next few
days.

It's a 1 year old 64 GB iPhone SE MLM72RU/A which worked perfectly 1 month ago.


texts:
Is there a way, with the current AppleTV, to watch a bunch of Youtube videos without having to select each one by hand?

That is, either by entering some keywords to search for, or by providing it with a 'playlist' somehow.

Order isn't important.  Exact matching isn't important.

A method for doing this that involved streaming from a Mac would be fine, too, though I don't have a Mac capable of Airplay Mirroring, so that specific feature won't help me.


texts: Does iTunes Match just 'match' your library with songs in the iTunes Store?

texts:
I subscribed to iTunes Match a few days ago and it is obvious to me that it will not upload my entire library i.e. it only seems to be matching my library with songs only available in the iTunes store. For example, I have quite a few CD's of my own that are not available in iTunes Music Australia and I can see that iTunes Match is not allowing these tunes to be played on other devices, even Apple Devices! They are appearing 'greyed out' and won't play.

My understanding from subscribing to this service was that it didn't matter what songs you had in your library, it would upload ALL of your music (that's right, it said EVEN your own CD's when signing up).

This, to me, is a hoax. They don't actually Match everything if it is not available in the iTunes Store.

Does anyone out there have any answers? I have read quite a few threads out there, I have tried updating iCloud Music Library, unchecking and checking iCloud in preferences and to be honest there does not appear to be any other way to allow my own personal CD music to show in Apple Play unless it is available in the iTunes Store.

If this is indeed the case then there is absolutely no point in me subscribing to iTunes Match for $35.99 a year. I may as well just stick with the regular music streaming service at $11.99 per month.


texts: Can one fully remove certain applications from OS X?

texts:
I've owned and used Mac's since System 7, and, in all this time, I'm very comfortable having my Mac's configured as I want them to operate.

Certain things I've never used, and in addition to them taking up space, I don't even want them to open.

One app in particular, Mail.

Don't like it, never will.

On those few occasions where I've to 'email someone, this application will open, which means I gotta close it, and, send out the email the way I do.

Is it possible to remove Mail, as well as any of the default applications which come with OS X, or, if this isn't possible, is there a way to prevent Mail from even opening as an option?


texts: How to remove an iPhone from the device list in Console.app

texts:
Today I opened Console.app and I found that my Mac can read logs from an iPhone which I connected to build an app quite a long time ago. The problem is that I now cannot find a way to remove this iPhone from this list.

I checked Window -> Devices & Simulators in XCode, it is not there. I also checked in iTunes, found nothing

I have no clue how to get completely disconnected from this iPhone. Do you have any solution?


texts: My hard drive says 5tb but finder can only see 320gb?

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The drive has verified ok, disk repair sees no issue. I did a search in the Finder as advised. FOLDERS + CONTENTS <1 and it returned all my empty folders after a duplicate clean.

Then I said "Move to Trash" and the Finder crashed halfway through the move. But it also seems the command emptied full folders as well. And now I'm in no mans land. They are gone from the Finder but the drive says they are still there. I did hidden folders and there is not much. Screen shot attached.

Any ideas?


texts: Can't download apps after changing Apple ID password

texts: I changed my Apple ID password, after that I can't download apps, even free apps. It says need verification of payment info. Now what to do...?


texts: What are the 1st macbook models(year) that support booting from usb?

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So it appears there are a lot of questions requesting the ability to boot from usb on a Macbook.  Example and here

Now I believe these questions are missing 1 important point and that is that I believe it isn't possible on older machines.  So what are the first year macbooks that supported booting from usb?


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I used to use InsomniaX but it doesn't work for me right now.

I want to stop my MacBook from sleeping when I close the lid.


texts: What's the best way to place 4 pictures on a A4 sheet using the mac?

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What's the best way to place 4 pictures on a A4 sheet using the mac ? (or iPad / iPhone) ?
I need to create a pdf.

iPhoto seems not to have such functionality.
I would like to know if there is an easy way, before to use Photoshoot and manually resize them...

Thanks


texts: Hold for Authentication error when printing keeps coming back!

texts: Since updating to Big Sur in the fall we have many users who periodically get a "Hold for Authentication" error when printing to printers or copiers in our network environment. We have tried the normal troubleshooting associated with this error. Cleaning out the keychain, resetting the printing system, reinstalling the printers, updating the drivers, etc., but none of these solutions fixes the problem. The only way to fix the problem is either to log out of the MacBook or reboot. Usually a reboot is needed. After the reboot printing works fine until about 3 or 4 days and then the problem comes back. The kerberos ticket looks fine. We do use PaperCut, but I am not the authority on that so I can't speak to its set up in our environment. Our print servers are Windows and we have the same problem on the Server 2019. Also, we have seen where this problem pops up weeks after the user has updated to Big Sur. Our Apple Engineer has not heard of this problem and Apple Support has not helped. Has anyone else seen this issue?


texts: Adjust “home” address in Apple Maps without affecting Autofill, etc

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When I ask Siri to “direct me home,” I really mean that I want her to take me to my parking spot, which is about a block away from what Maps considers to be the location of my building. Due to one-way streets this can actually make a significant difference to the resulting navigation directions.
I considered updating my contact card “home” address to the address of my lot, so I am able to continue to ask Siri to “direct me home,” use the “Home” button on CarPlay, etc. But I still want any non-maps-related services (such as Safari AutoFill) to know my real residential address.
Is there a way iOS can distinguish these two concepts?


texts: Making Conflicting UIDs across a LAN of MacOS and Linux hosts Consistent

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I have an expanding network and while I have the long term goal of eventually implementing Active Directory hosted on a QNAP NAS. However, in the meantime I have the issue of where my MacOS machines have one set of UIDs for the 2 or 3 users I use while my Linux machine have another.

I learned that in Mojave you need to use dscl to change attributes like UID but I am not sure how I can set the UID scheme for new users to make the new Unix and MacOS accounts more easily line up going forward. While I envision Active Directory making this moot once its in place, I presume I must get my LANs UIDs and GUIDs under control first.
Aside from doing all of this manually by using tools like find and chown manually, are there tools for migrating to AD where normalizing UIDs for the same users across different hosts can be better automated and a reliable process with less risk of breakage? If not, I am pretty sure I know what I need to do and it will be gritting my teeth, but at least I know what it's going to take. If you have any suggestions that might make this easier and less dangerous please share your thoughts! For instance, I presume that no user should have it's UID changed while logged in, yes? Anwyay I welcome all thoughts and ideas!


texts: Logitech mouse scrolling weird after Sierra update; soggy inertia effect in native apps, choppy in third-party apps

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The update to macOS Sierra wrecked scrolling with my Logitech Mouse (which uses Logitech Control Center).

The scrolling behaviour is erratic because I'm actually assaulted by two issues:

In native macOS applications, like Apple Pages, there is an ”inertia-ish” effect that slows down the scroll and introduces some sort of acceleration-like movement akin to the worst nightmares from Windows 10.
In third-party applications, like Google Chrome, the scrolling is quite fast but not fluid; it's choppy and non-linear with sudden jumps and stops. Because of this, it feels like the computer is laggy when scrolling a page, but it's probably due to the way the software scrolls.

Sierra just came out, but I'm not that hopeful that Logitech are capable of tending to issues like these, so I'm afraid I will have to do something about it myself.

I have tried checking the settings of System Preferences > Mouse and System Preferences > Logitech Control Center > Vertical Scroll but came up with nothing except temporary band-aid tweaks to make it feel better.

Edit, Broken Mouse Buttons: Also related to this, is the issue that the Forward/Back buttons on some Logitech mice have stopped working. I was able to mitigate this issue by binding those buttons to keystrokes in Logitech Control Center, e.g. (⌘ + ←) and (⌘ + →) for Google Chrome. Possibly, something like BetterTouchTool, Steermouse, or USB Overdrive could be used to intercept the OS functions Forward/Back in case the keyboard shortcuts above aren't global for all applications. Regardless, with BetterTouchTool, you can set application-specific keystrokes and bind them to mouse buttons.


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A friend of mine experiences the following behaviour while using a macbook quite normally (no heavy loads, etc.). She is returned to her log in screen and apparently logged out, because after logging in again all applications are closed and sometimes work is lost.

The problem happens approximately once a month for a few years now.
The problem persists after updating to Maverick
I would say there is no issue with a full disk or excessive RAM demands by the programs in use. (mostly browser, skype, etc


texts: iMac 27'' mid-2011 stuck on startup (grey screen)

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Okay, so I'm having the dreaded grey screen on my iMac - precisely :

i'm having it doing a normal startup
i'm having it trying to boot from recovery partition
i'm having it trying to boot for internet recovery
i'm having it trying to boot in safe mode
verbose mode is no help because it ends with a grey screen before I've time to read anything
i have a windows partition which also fails to boot, except in safe mode - from where I can access all my HD partitions without any error by the way
fsck -fy in single user mode reveal no volume error
an extended Apple Hardware Test reveal no hardware error whatsoever
replacing RAM modules didn't change anything

So I'm stuck : what can possibly cause the problem if it is neither the OS (remember I'm having trouble with both MacOSX and Windows), and nor the hardware (at least if AHT is indeed reliable) ? I thought a driver might be involved, but I haven't upgraded or changed any driver on my machine since ages ago, and it worked perfectly fine until last sunday.

If anyone has an idea, please help, because I can't even point out support with a possible cause for failure here.

Thanks


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How much extra security do I get by downloading and running code only in a guest account. My normal user data is safe. Shared data is write able somewhat, but I can do a search for writable areas and cut these down

I want to download a tool but the more I read about the NSA and all their friends the less and less code I want to run on my box. I figure I can run as guest and that shouldn't have write access to much. Is there a way to run a normal GUI app in something like a FreeBSD jail?


texts:
I just want to restart my iPhone not turn it off + turn it back on.

In Android there is an option.


texts: How to install Apache into a custom directory?

texts: How to install a copy of Apache into a local custom directory via Terminal (to ~/Desktop/ for example), so it can live without conflicts with another global version of Apache and I cant start and stop it from there?


texts:
I'm certain I used to be able to charge my iPhone from my laptop's battery.
Yesterday when I plugged it in, the iPhone wouldn't charge from my laptop.
My question is: Can I charge an iPhone XS from my Macbook Pro 2015 when my MBP is running on battery?


texts: Get Numbers & Pages et al. on macOS 10.11 El Capitan

texts: I have some old macs which cannot update to OSX 10.12, however this is the minimum requirement for installing those applications from the app store. Please could someone advise how to get an older, compatible version of this software legally through Apple? Thanks!


texts: Can iCloud be used to sync personal videos in the Videos app?

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My mom has an iPhone 5 with some exercise videos in the Videos app, which just total about 150MB.

After getting an iPhone 6S Plus, can those videos automatically transferred to the new iPhone through iCloud sync?  I believe the new iPhone is set up as a new iPhone but not "restored from backup", and it may keep the new iPhone from having older stuff that isn't needed.  But just the videos, can they be sync'ed by using iCloud?


texts: Unable to update Remote Desktop using App Store

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Apple's Remote Desktop recently updated but I'm unable to install the update from the App Store, where I get the message:

  This update is not available for this Apple ID either because it was bought by a different user or the item was refunded or cancelled.

I purchased Remote Desktop before the App Store existed (or at least I think I purchased it through a different channel).

How do I update ARD if the App Store won't let me?


texts: How to prevent OS X's 'screen' command from resizing the terminal upon entry?

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I usually run my terminal sessions in 132 character wide mode in iTerm.  However, when I start the 'screen' command, it re-sizes the terminal back to 80 characters.

Is there a way to prevent this?


texts: Do I have to wait days for my library to upload again after accidentally logging out of iTunes?

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About 15hrs ago I accidentally logged out of iTunes on our main Mac. I literally realized my error straight away, so logged back in immediately and didn't think anything of it.

I then redeemed two gift cards and all was good with the world, until I went to quit iTunes. I got a warning saying that iTunes was uploading to the music library and asking me if I really wanted to quit? I cancelled and let it continue because I was going to bed anyway.

But today my internet has been painfully slow at times and just now I wanted to chill out and watch Netflix. It was having a hard time connecting and buffering and then I remembered iTunes. So I went back to my Mac to quit it and got the same error! I cancelled it again and then clicked on the little activity icon to see the following:

At this rate I'll be waiting for days for all this to upload again.

I don't understand what's happening here? We have two Macs, two iPads and two iPhones. Does this mean accessing my music library has been compromised on all devices while I'm waiting for everything to upload again?

Surely if we're still logged in on all our other devices iTunes on the main Mac  doesn't need to do all this again? I was only logged out for about half a minute.

My questions:

Do I need to wait for iTunes to finish?
If I quit iTunes,  what does that mean for the other devices in the meantime?
If I quit iTunes and then launch it again, will it start uploading from the beginning again or will it continue form where it was?


texts: How can I circumvent XProtect and re-enable Java Applets?

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So, Apple has again updated their XProtect malware definitions to block Java Applets. Unfortunately, my wife's employer's VPN requires an Applet to be run in order to fully establish connectivity. She woke up this morning to discover she couldn't connect to work.

I have little hope that her employer's IT organization will do anything to resolve this anytime soon, so I'm trying to figure out a way to override XProtect and re-enable Applets. Yes, I understand the dangers associated with such.

I haven't yet tried updating the XProtect.meta.plist file to change the version information, but I suspect that wouldn't be a durable fix even if it did work temporarily, as the XProtect daemon would presumably re-download updated definitions.

Anybody knowledgeable on the inner workings of XProtect?

The computer is still on Snow Leopard, running Java 6.


texts: MacBook keeps losing connection to external monitor when waking from sleep mode

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Using my Macbook Pro on Catalina 10.15.7, when my Mac wakes from sleep mode it loses the connection to my Samsung monitor. I have to unplug the hdmi cable and reconnect to get it to detect my monitor again.
Is there anything I can do to prevent this?
My MacBook details are:
Model Name:    MacBook Pro

  Model Identifier: MacBookPro16,

  Processor Name:   Quad-Core Intel Core i5

  Processor Speed:  1.4 GHz

  Number of Processors: 1

  Total Number of Cores:    4

  L2 Cache (per Core):  256 KB

  L3 Cache: 6 MB

  Hyper-Threading Technology:   Enabled

  Memory:   16 GB

  Boot ROM Version: 1037.147.4.0.0 (iBridge: 17.16.16610.0.0,0)

  Serial Number (system):   C02DF018P3YV

  Hardware UUID:    1185ACE8-96B4-5B4C-A7A1-604EEAAFAC70

  Activation Lock Status:   Disabled


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I've searched both here and in all of the iTunes' preferences tabs. I wish there was a way to disable it from autostarting for one user.

I need to be sharing my wife's iMac for a while, but each time she connects her iPhone to charge, I get iTunes and iPhoto starting and wanting to import and sync.

How can I disable iTunes to autostart on one user account (but not others) on the latest OS X?

(Bonus question is how to do the same with iPhoto :))


texts: Text Services Keep Losing Their Keyboard Shortcuts in Mac OS Sierra

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I keep having the repeated problem of the Mac text services losing the keyboard shortcuts that I assign to them (in System Preferences > Keyboard Pane > Shortcuts > Services), ever since upgrading to Mac OS 10.12 Sierra.

I have a large set of Automator workflow text services that I use, and I assign keyboard shortcuts to each of these text services for speed of access. For example, I've set up a workflow that inputs the current text selection, and uses that to search eBay. My keyboard shortcut for this text service is Ctrl-Command E.

However, every now and then, all the keyboard shortcuts I assign in the System Preferences simply disappear (except for the default shortcuts, which remain).

This is very annoying, because it takes a while to re-enter all the shortcuts again, and I keep having to do this, as they keep disappearing. Often they will disappear after I have added a new keyboard shortcut to a service.

Is anyone else having this problem, and are there any workarounds for this issue? This glitch never occurred before, until I upgraded to Sierra.

Does anyone know where the file containing the assigned keyboard shortcuts is located? At least if I could take a copy of this file, it would be easier for me to restore the keyboard shortcuts after they are mysteriously deleted.

By the way, I don't have iCloud switched on (I understand that keyboard shortcuts sync over iCloud, when iCloud is on).

(Just for Google searching, some synonyms: Mac Keyboard Shortcuts, Apple Keyboard Shortcuts, Finder Keyboard Shortcuts, Disappearing, Vanishing, Losing, Reverting to Default).


texts: Change to different icloud account on iOS9

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I've configured an iPad with an iCloud account that I don't want to use anymore. I've changed the iTunes and App Store account to the right one. Now I want to change the iCloud account as well. I can logout, but don't know how to change the email address or account name.

How can I change the account I use for iCloud?


texts: Can I "unstack" RAW+L or RAW+JPEG in Apple Photos?

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I often shoot photos in a format that includes a JPEG alongside RAW.

In Apple Photos (on macOS) these are "stacked" together by default. Is there a way to "unstack" them (as was once possible in Aperture, for example)?


texts: Using the space bar as a shortcut in finder to preview audio files

texts: I recently was given an old MacBook (Late 2007) running 10.4 from a family member. I'm using it basically as a backup for my studio computer. It's going to contain only the apps included in 10.7 and 1 additional NI audio product. My question is, my other mac and all I've ever worked on (and it's a few) have been able to use the space bar to preview a highlighted audio file in Finder. Is there a way to cut this off/on? I really like this feature and it saves me probably 30-60 minutes a day because I go through thousands of audio files a day.


texts: How to turn on "Hey Siri" when plugged in, but not always on

texts: I would like to have "Hey Siri" on my iPhone 6S when plugged in, but not all the time. Is there a setting for that, or was that feature lost with iOS 9 and 6S?


texts: Apple TV (4th gen) - ability to prevent episodes from playing consecutively?

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I've upgraded from 3rd gen Apple TVs to the latest 4th gen model, and I've noticed that almost all apps now play episodes back-to-back until they are manually stopped—"Computers" does this, "Netflix," "Disney Junior" and others all seem to follow this model.

Is there a way to disable this—globally would be best, or at least for the aforementioned three apps? Our young children were used to watching one episode of a show, then being done with TV when the episode ended. Now it automatically starts up a second episode and they understandably want to keep watching.


texts: macbook shuts down immediately after startup

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My retina MacBook Pro, running 10.12.6, has an annoying habit.

If I close the lid on 50% battery, the next time I open it, it wakes, I log in, and then a few seconds later the screen goes black and it shuts down.

Pressing the power button enough brings up the 'flat battery' logo.

My assumption was that the battery is reporting 50%, but is in fact flat.

If I plug it in to charge, it then resumes where it left off, but if I unplug the power, it will continue to work for another couple of hours.  So it's not actually drained, it just temporarily thinks it is.

What can I do, other than replace the battery?


texts: Is there a way via the command line to cause .icloud files to download?

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Under iCloud in the Settings app, I have "Optimize Mac Storage" checked and "Desktop & Documents Folders" checked under "Apps that store documents and data in iCloud will appear here:"

This will cause some files in my "Documents" folder to be offloaded and replaced with a small file ending in ".icloud". I can download them by clicking on the cloud icon in the detail view in the Finder. I can also use "find" from the command line to show which files have been offloaded, eg "find . -name *.icloud | more".

Is there a command line way to cause these files to be downloaded, either by file or directory?


texts: How to revoke the Health App's permissions to Messages

texts:
Under Privacy -> Health the App Messages is listed as an App accessing my Health data, and in the Health App, Massages is listed as a Source.

How do I revoke those permissions?

And is there a way to delete the Health App altogether?


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I'm fairly new to Macs, so I wanted to check if this was a good way to update my machine. Also I'll comment on my reqs so perhaps there's a better way.

So, I have a MBP 2010 160GB Snow Leopard latest. What I want to do is update to Lion, but, as many have suggested it may be a better idea to do a clean install. Also, I've been wanting to upgrade my HDD to a 320 or 500GB, so I guess this is a good oportunity to do both.

I was thinking in:

Purchase and download Lion and make a bootable DVD.
Backup all necessary files in TimeMachine.
Make the HDD upgrade.
Install Lion in new HDD
Restore files/settings with TimeMachine.
Enjoy!

Does this make sense? What worries me more is step 5... Do you think this is  a good approach or do you have a better alternative?

Thanks!


texts: How are iOS apps protected from theft by other developers?

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An app can contain proprietary resources like a Core ML model that a developer spent a lot of time developing.

According to this answer,
the app itself is not encrypted when it is downloaded to a device. What stops the developer of a competing app from taking the Core ML model and using it in his/her own app?


texts: Can You Make the Podcasts App Show Only Downloaded Episodes?

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I've never met anyone who loves Apple's podcasts app.  But I could make peace with it if not for one infuriating design choice that I can't figure out how to correct.

I have set up iTunes to sync all unplayed podcast episodes to my iPhone.  The Podcasts app is set to not download anything itself and keep only unplayed episodes.  So, I sync an episode, listen to it on the Podcasts app, and then the file is removed from the iPhone on next sync.  But it still shows up in the list, with a little cloud icon (#521):

Is there any way to prevent non-downloaded podcasts from showing up in this app?


texts: AppleScript to 'Bring All Hidden and Minimized Apps to Front'?

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Have been searching for an hour. I am halfway through, but not getting very far.

Does anyone know what code to use to 'Bring All Hidden and Minimized Apps to Front'?

Regards.


texts:
I have a problem with fresh installation of XAMPP. It listens on my local IP address 192.168.64.2 instead of local host 127.0.0.1

Where can i change this so that it listens on my localhost?


texts: How to disable profanity filtering on iOS 7?

texts: Recently upgraded from iOS 5 to 7, and noticed that if I receive an email containing a curse word, it's replaced with "(BLOCK)". Any way to disable this behavior and et back my F bombs?


texts: When does an automatic app update happen on iOS?

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Sometimes I have a very large backlog of app updates (20+) and other times I do not. Sometimes app updates happen when I'm not using my phone. Sometimes apps start updating immediately after I unlock.

What are the exact, technical criteria that govern when an automatic app update happens?

I think there might even be some sort of concurrency limit, like three at a time.


texts: How do you deal with the equations numbering in Pages?

texts:
How can I number equations in Pages following standard form:

P.S. No, I don't want to use MS Word... I usually write in LaTeX, however, some documents/papers cannot be given for a review in .tex format.


texts: How to set up an Applescript to remove attachments in Mail as part of a rule?

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I'm on Sierra and have MailActOn in Mail.

I want to set up an Outbox mail rule to run an Applescript that effectively will delete all email attachments on the message I am replying to, after delivery.

PS. For anyone unfamiliar with MailActOn, it allows me to run an Applescript as part of an Outbox rule. So, I suspect any Applescript that will just remove email attachments would help me achieve the above.

Thanks for any help.


texts: Does this usage pattern warrant getting more memory?

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So this is about an old MacBook Pro - just old enough to have user replaceable memory.
The memory usage usually stays in the green, but the size of the Cached Files + Memory Used usually adds up to the total memory. My guess is the computer tries to keep some RAM free for working.
I notice some lag in switching apps when many are open - even though memory usage is in the green.
Does this warrant increasing the RAM to 16GB from 8?
Attached are  pics - one from htop and another from the activity monitor, and another from top, to show the usage.


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Okay, so I'm gearing up to get a new machine so I'm looking at how I can organise things better. Now, currently I use an admin account as my main login account, but I know that that's probably not best practice, so I'd like to switch to a separate admin and non-admin account on my machine.

However, I'm a developer, and I do a lot of work in the terminal, so sometimes I do need to run commands via sudo, but of course that won't work the way I would normally run it (sudo foo, type current account's password). What I'd like to know is, knowing the details for an admin account on my machine, is it possible to run commands via sudo (or similar) from a non-admin account, without having to login to a different account each time? For example, could I trigger the enter admin password dialogue somehow?


texts: Request Mobile Site after requesting Desktop Site Safari

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I selected Request Desktop Site on a web page and now I want to go back to the mobile version. How?

I Google’d and got 20 results explaining how to get the Desktop version, but none how to go back.

Using Safari on iPad.


texts: File don't show with "ls -a" but was detected by Malwarebytes

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On the terminal, I search for the file com.pplauncher.plist on the directory
/Library/LaunchDaemons/

through the command ls -a, but such a file wasn't found. Later, I installed Malwarebytes and ran it. Then, it detected the file com.pplauncher.plist as a malware exactly in the same directory I was looking at.
My question is: why this has happened? I thought every file on my computer could be shown on the terminal.
PS: I was trying to delete this file because I found mshelper running on my iMac, which turns out to be a malware used to mine cryptocurrency.


texts: add a permanent static route in high sierra

texts: I'm adding a route to all 192.168.1.x ips through a gateway like so: sudo route add 192.168.1.0/24 10.0.0.2 .  How do I add this route permanently in High Sierra?


texts: Can I delete the .dmg files on my Mac once I install the app?

texts: I have recently noticed that my 8-year-old MacBook is slow when loading webpages, and I started going through my files to get rid of old stuff. After a while, I came across a file called "discord.dmg". I think this was the file used to install Discord on my computer, but now I am wondering if I can delete the .dmg without getting rid of the application.


texts: Can using Little Snitch make my mac Less Secure than its "out of the box" settings?

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Short Question
Im thinking about configuring little snitch to allow all processes incoming and outgoing network traffic.

By allowing "any process” incoming / outgoing rights will this make my Mac less secure than its default settings (default out of the box, eg. not using OSX’s in built firewall tool)

Longer Question with background

The reason i want to do the above is because i want to block incoming and outgoing network traffic for a few applications. I can do this no problem with Little Snitch, but if i turn Little Snitch on it will by default block all network traffic and require each connection to be manually approved. To get around this i would setup the "allow any process" incoming and outgoing traffic rights.

This way all incoming / outgoing is allowed as a global rule, but certain apps are blocked as a specific rule.

Would doing the above make my Mac less secure than its default settings (default out of the box, eg. not using OSX’s in built firewall tool)


texts: Enable flash player audio access in safari for a website permanently

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I get this request every time I try to use the microphone on the same web page. Is there anyway to set this so it stops asking for this domain. I understand the security ramifications; however I believe I can trust the site.

It would be nice to access this page without having to answer this on every entry on the page.


texts: Software to record and playback mouse movement/clicks and keyboard presses?

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I was wondering if there was any software out there that could record mouse/keyboard input and allow you to play back the input that was made?

I've tried using Automator but for some reason it's not picking up all my input and when I play it back it does the wrong thing and gets into a mess. I've also tried using Systems Events in AppleScript but I can't get the "click" command to work at all.

Thanks!


texts: Find files in current folder without spotlight

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I have often read about how good the MacOS finder is, but I cannot for the life of me work out how to get it to actually find something.

Is it possible to type in a partial file name in the Search Box and get it to highlight matching files in the current folder?

I can find files in the shell, and I also have EasyFind and Find Any File, but surely the MacOS finder can do a simple thing like that … ?

I don’t want to use Spotlight, as it doesn’t do the job simply, and I am looking for files on unindexed volumes.


texts: After login mac is stuck on progress bar

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I have 15 inc Mac book pro with Mavericks installed. I can successfully on the Mac but I cannot login to my account. Upon press enter I get progress bar and after that I get grey screen then nothing happened.

I tried all those online solution i.e press cmd + s and follow:

/sbin/fsck -fy /
/sbin/mount -uw /
mkdir /Disabled_System_Library_Extensions
cd /Disabled_System_Library_Extensions
mv /System/Library/Extensions/ATI* .
mv /System/Library/Extensions/AMD* .
touch /System/Library/Extensions
exit

But I have no luck resolving this issue (this is the second mac that happened). I can sure see both Hard drive (HDD) and see all the context in by using cd, ls etc.. commands in this mode.

I have also try changing the HDD that contain new OS (EL Capitan) but its the same old issue (also tried cmd+alt+p+r too). When I press Alt on startup I can see the HDD, so I guess the laptop can read HDD but cannot access it?

One things I have also noticed is that I cannot start anything and what I mean by this is if I press cmd + R to access disk utility I persist same issue, if I try installing new OS via USB i  persist same issue. AND sometime when I login and keep the laptop for few long then my screen turns blue which forces me to restart my computer and follow the same procedure.

It will be nice if someone can help, can access var/log via cmd + S, if anyone requires specific log let me know.


texts: Does memory size increase the weight of the iPhone 6 Plus?

texts: Are the 16, 32 and 64GB models the same weight or does increased memory increase the weight?


texts: It is possible to create/install an iOS app like the macOS parental controls?

texts: Is it possible to create a app like macOS parental controls in iOS for giving permission for accessing certain apps on the device?


texts:
When I come back to my Mac after it was sleeping sometimes the Ethernet connection is not working. I have to unplug and plug it again.

I am using macOS Sierra
Version 10.12.6

Any ideas?


texts: Use iPod Touch bluetooth to connect mobile phone and use dial-up for internet

texts: Is it possible to code a program which connects to my phone and use its dial-up service (GRPS/EDGE) to connect to the Internet?


texts: Numbers Won't Open On My MacBook Pro with OS X 10.8.5

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I'm not a tech or computer expert - I understand clear directions, but not tech-speak, so I'm going to put this as plainly as I can…

I've updated to the most recent system, OS X 10.8.5, on my MacBook Pro. My Pages and Keynote applications are opening and functioning fine. However, when I attempt to open and utilize my Numbers application, it either either does nothing, or flashes a message that the document can't open.

I have tried to search other answer sites for insight into what might be going on, without finding a direct answer. Would you please explain to me why this might be happening, and how I can troubleshoot the problem?


texts: What else except media and apps is using space on the Apple Watch?

texts:
Something unknown is using most of the space on my Apple Watch:

The listed apps/media account for at most 1GB, yet more than 3.5 are “in use”. What could it be and how can I reclaim some space?


texts: OSX 10.10.3 Update - App Store icon image missing

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After installing the 10.10.3 update I noticed my App Store no longer has an icon image, it's just a blank space now in the Applications folder and dock. This persists after a reboot and I'd like my icon back.

Clicking on the App Store text loads it just fine, just missing the icon, anyone else come across this or know how I workaround this other than a Time machine restore?


texts: How to remove App Store account on iPad?

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I am using an iPad 4 with iOS 8.1. I have logged out from another Apple account and logged in using another email address. However, the App Store keeps asking me for the password of the old account (showing its email and there is no way to change it). I have done a full reboot but no help.

How do I completely remove this account from the iPad App Store?
My dad seems to have the same problem with his iPhone 6, and what he did was restore factory settings. That will take me lots of time so I only consider it as last option.


texts: Password dialog appears for password-less SSH private key

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I installed my SSH private key in ~/.ssh/id_rsa. There is no passphrase associated with the key, however, whenever I connect to an SSH server, a dialog pops up and asks me to enter my password to access the id_rsa file.

If I cancel the dialog or enter an empty passphrase and click OK, the Terminal prompts me for a passphrase.

I have verified that the key is valid and does not require a password by connecting with the same key via other machines.

Something odd about my particular set-up is causing the problem but I can't figure it out. I'm currently running OSX 10.7.1 but the same problem was occurring with OSX 10.6.8


texts: I have an imac and most people that text me on my iphone 4 comes through on my imac via icloud. It's still working well for all my contacts except one and it comes up red. So when i recieve texts from this person on my phone I cannot see it or respond on my imac, and if I try to text them on my Imac it shows undeliverable?? Help


texts: How can I sign up for a non-free iCloud account (having exceeded the 3 free ones)

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I have an iPad that has exceeded the 3 free iCloud accounts but I'd like to sign it up for iCloud (and I'd be willing to pay), but how do I do it.

When I get the prompt that says I have exceeded the 3 free ones there is no option to pay for one.

Signing up on another device may solve my problem but simply stores up problems for the owner of that device as it uses one of their 3 free registrations which is simply storing up issues for them in the future.

Any thoughts greatly appreciated!


texts: For a small while now, my phone (an iPhone X on iOS 13) has sadly been stuck on the Control Center to where I can’t really use either one in any way. I’ve tried to use a function or go back; turn the phone off; or activate Siri; but aside from managing to get something flashing in the background, getting the Wifi thing to turn green, or being able to lock and unlock the phone (at which the Center pops right back up, no lock screen shown) nothing. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.


texts: Reading HFS standard and MFS on Catalina

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During the lockdown I decided to use some of my time to backup all the all Mac disks and floppies I have at home so I can store them in a somewhat more readable format that SyQuest cartridges and MFS formatted SD 400k floppies and finally free up lots of space in some libraries.

Doing so I eventually discovered that macOS Catalina can neither mount HFS "non plus" (Apple removed HFS standard support in 10.15, apparently just for the sake of it... Hating this approach to "old", even more when they're keeping support for FAT12 DOS floppies and removing support for their own floppies...) nor MFS (it's actually not supported since Mac OS 8, but from Mac OS X 10.4 Apple offered sources to build a MFS read only support using the great system expandability features that OS X inherited from NeXT).

So, after the still ongoing struggle to get data off damaged floppies (I started weeks ago and still probably have a couple of weeks to go) I'm wondering how to easily access that data from disk images. I know I can use emulators such as minivmac, Sheepshaver and Mojave on VirtualBox to access that data, but that would mean a lot more work to get readable data. I'd love to simply be able to mount old disks and access data through finder.

Chapter 1: HFS Standard

HFS standard options are still in /System/Library/Filesystems/hfs.fs plists, so I'm wondering if Apple disabled old HFS support through some external option. Does anyone know if there's any option to enable it back? (Maybe something like boot-args="no32exec=0" to run 32-bit code). Does anyone know what would happen if I took hfs.fs from Mojave and used it in Catalina? Would it possibly work?
thejoelpatrol/fusehfs GitHub repo -> managed to build it botching the code but when I mount Standard HFS images I get errors such as Device not configured
0x09/hfsfuse GitHub repo -> it builds and installs correctly, but when I try to mount old HFS images I get Plain HFS volumes not currently supported. Couldn't open volume: Undefined error: 0
hfsutils (https://www.mars.org/home/rob/proj/hfs/) -> these are the only working ones but they're a mess to work with. FuseHFS is apparently working with it, but surprisingly it doesn't seem to work
elliotnunn/machfs GitHub repo -> I was suggested this library, it seems a great idea, but using DumpHFS seems like using hfsutils

Chapter 2: MFS

MFSLives https://web.archive.org/web/20080517055506/https://developer.apple.com/samplecode/MFSLives/index.html -> this was the sample code that apple distributed from Tiger onwards. I read it was supported even on 10.8. Unfortunately it's built for 32 bit so Catalina can't use it (why do they keep removing features?) and I can't get it to build in Xcode.
d235j/fusemfs GitHub repo -> I can't find a way to build it either, even after updating the project, updating the code from linked repositories to the last version. Even if libfuse_ino64.2.dylib is in /usr/local/lib and that path is added to Xcode options I just keep getting ld: library not found for -lfuse_ino64.2

Unfortunately I'm too much of a noob to be able to edit those projects, but I think it would be great if Apple offered to its user the chance to read their old Mac data like we're able to do with old DOS disks.

Possible solution?

Apparently FuseMFS is using zydeco/libmfs GitHub repo (which is used in zydeco/minivmac4ios GitHub repo together with libhfs) to create a FUSE wrap to access those file systems, would it be easier to update FuseMFS making it buildable on Catalina and add there libhfs?

I'm just wondering it, but not being a developer I really don't know if it's feasible.

Thanks in advance :)


texts: How can I set a shortcut to close the window of TotalTerminal

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TotalTerminal is great. But, if it is not the active application, in order to close its window, I have to enter again the application.

Is it possible to set a shortcut to close the window of TotalTerminal, even if it is not the active application?

To close it, presently, I have to make it active and then press escape. But, if possible, I would like to have also a shortcut for command+W.


texts: App Shortcuts missing in Keyboard preferences

texts: I upgraded to Mavericks recently and it seems I am now missing the ability to set App Shortcuts. I only see the following in my Keyboard/Shortcuts preferences. Any thoughts on how to get App Shortcuts back?


texts: How do I display text in the middle of a dialog as well as a new line?

texts:
I am currently making an AppleScript and would like to know how to do the following things.

Display text in the center of a display dialog
How to create a new line inside the dialog


texts:
Is there a way to have multiple sidebars in Finder?

The Finder sidebar is useful for storing shortcuts to different folders. However it becomes lengthy quite quickly.

I want to have a different sidebar for each project I am working on, so each sidebar can contain different shortcuts to different folders.

Pathfinder does offer this functionality, but I find it a bit klunky to use and the program is quite expensive for just this one feature.

Are there any alternatives?


texts: Is it possible to get the iPad to play videos in the common formats?

texts:
I was looking for an easy to use device for my mum, who wants to occasionally grab movies to watch on the go. I didn't do my homework properly and just bought an iPad because it seems to be a synonym for "easy to use".

Until I found out that to watch movies using the built-in player, they have to be transcoded.

What would you recommend to make it easy for my mum to grab a movie from her computer and watch it on the iPad? Is there an app that would just play any format without transcoding? If not, what's the easiest way out? She's got a pretty slow PC; definitely not something I'd want to do video transcoding on.

P.S. I'm still wondering if I got this wrong, because it's a bit hard to believe. This is anything but easy-to-use at the moment :(  Am I totally misunderstanding something?


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We have a Macintosh being used by many people. They use Active Directory so they can get their own home directory in which documents can be cached, credentials are partitioned from other users, etc. The machine is running 10.9.

The problem is that they periodically get a keychain error, where they're not synced after changing on the AD server. I don't know if the problem originates with a dialog box not being checked or a communication issue between server and machine (although there shouldn't be any problem with that...implementation of keychain and AD integration?)

We tried a solution suggested by an Apple engineer; turn off mobile accounts, hoping that there wouldn't be a keychain issue if the home directory doesn't persist on the Mac (no keychain file, no complaints about incorrect password.) The on-site IT person said that in testing, it appears that the home directories still persist across logoffs and restarts.

Using a local login doesn't have the keychain issue, but then users will log in and download documents, keep themselves logged into services like email, etc, making it easy to leak data to different people.

The onsite person wants to run a periodic script that just deletes home directories or the keychain files, but I'm afraid this is more of a band-aid rather than a solution to the problem.

Am I missing something with the not-creating-a-mobile-account settings to keep home directories from persisting? Or am I looking at the wrong approach to the problem? I'd prefer to have the OS solution rather than third party software if possible.


texts: Why does my 1st Gen Apple TV say my TV Shows are not authorized?

texts:
I'm trying to play two HD TV Shows on my jailbroken 1st Gen Apple TV. When I try to play them, I get the 'authorizing' message and then I see

'Your Apple TV is not authorized to play this content.'

An SD show works fine and music plays fine. Deauthorizing/Reauthorizing both the mac (itunes source) and ATV has no effect.


texts: Transfer iOS app data to a different account

texts:
I have an iPad 2 currently using my AppleID. I want to reset it
(almost) completely and change it to my girlfriend's Apple ID.

The thing is: there are 2 or 3 apps whose data we really don't want to
loose. They are free apps, so it's trivial to reinstall them under the
new account.

I only need a way of backing up the data of these apps under my Apple
ID and then restoring it under her Apple ID.

Is there a way to achieve this?

I'm not trying to transfer purchases or anything like that, just copy
some data.

NOTE: The software needs to be Windows or Linux.


texts: iTunes is not recognising my iPhone after upgrading to Lion

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I've just upgraded my Mac to Lion, and now my iPhone is not being recognised in iTunes.

I've tried...

Updating iTunes (to 10.5)
Checking for all updates
Restarting both the Mac and iPhone
Extracting iTunesHelper.app from the iTunes bundle and installing it into the Login Items list, and confirmed it's running in the Activity Monitor.

For the past 3 years I've been happy with the "It just works" idea, but not today. :(

What other options are there?


texts: Why does Pages all the sudden need permission to print?

texts:
I just tried to print something in Pages and got this:

The printer was paused, and I was asked to resume it, but this? Why?

Pages 4.3 on OS X 10.8.4.


texts: Cannot change case of an application name

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I have an application called LICEcap. It's a pretty handy app that allows you to take a GIF video of your screen.

But for some reason, I cannot change the case of the app name. It comes as "licecap.app" by default and I would really like to change its name to "LICEcap.app", but it just won't let me. I can change it to any other name, but whenever I try to name it "LICEcap", it just reverts right back to its all-lowercase "licecap".

How can I fix this?

EDIT: I've discovered something else which may or may not be helpful: If I go into the package contents of the app and change the instances of "licecap" in the info.plist file into "LICEcap", it lets me rename the app to whatever uppercase/lowercase I want, but corrupts the app (Finder says I should move it to the trash).


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I have a 13-inch Early 2015 MacBook Air (OS 11.2.5) with 128 GB, and I'm trying to clear some space for a game I want to install. So far, I've transferred my school assignment files into my external hard drive, and I've safely cleared my Music cache, which took over about 40% of my storage before. I currently have 51.36 GB available but I still want to clear more space. I saw this dyld folder and it had the largest amount of gigabytes I've seen ever since I cleared the Music cache folder; 9.78 GB!
Location:
~/System/Library/dyld
Can I delete my dyld folder, or at least several items of it only?
Thanks in advance.


texts: Can an iOS app that has access to Photos get all my photos?

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Can a developer collect my photos that I edited and saved in my iPhone album?

One of the function of the an app I am using is to edit photos and save them to my iPhone's album. In this case, can the developer collect my edited photos?

I did not upload any photos, nor did I share them with anybody.

Also, there is no mention of collecting user's content in the privacy policy of the said app.

Can anyone help me with this?


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I have a dream!

I wish I could import my photos in Lightroom, process them and add them to several different collections/published collections that would then show up as events in iPhoto. Think "Italy 2009", "Wedding", "The Children" and so on.

I can get part of the way today but some very important steps remain to solve.

I import my photos into Lightroom
I organize and edit them into published collections
I publish the collection to disk
I import it into iPhoto and I have very nice event that I can sync with my iOS devices

Here is what I can't do after this step

Edit an image and re-publish and have iPhoto replace it's version with the new one (if possible really replace it so that metadata like faces and locations remains)
Delete an image from the collection and have it removed from iPhoto, including all original/master copies. I have my original i Lightroom so unless it's a part of a currently published collection it shouldn't be in iPhoto. At all.
Have the (temporary) directory removed. I don't need to store this image in more places, Lightroom and iPhoto is enough.

So I guess the question is: can anyone solve any of my 3 problems or improve on the overall workflow?


texts: Can I use iMovie to edit a .mov file without altering the aspect ratio?

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I created a screencast using Snapz Pro X that gets saved in .mov format (H.264, AAC). I want to just cut a few seconds off the end of that file. The only video editor I know of that's installed on my Lion machine is iMovie '11. Can I use iMovie to remove part of the end of the video, but maintain the same dimensions (1146x1057)?

I tried to import the movie, create a project with just the parts I wanted, and then export via "Share -> Export Movie", but this:

makes the resolution worse
alters the aspect ratio
increases the file size


texts: How to make custom footer section stick to bottom of page in Pages 5?

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I'm trying to use Pages 5 to design my invoices. I have a fixed header section for the address and the logo, then a table which is part of the text flow and automatically continues on the next page.
However I would like to have a footer area attached to the bottom of the last page which contains my banking information.
If the table is short, I would like this information to stick at the bottom of page 1. If the table content becomes longer, I would like to have it at the bottom of page 2.

Possible?


texts:
I'd like to make the WhatPulse icon white to make it match the rest of the icons in Yosemite dark mode.

I've looked in the package contents of WhatPulse.app, but I don't find any images in the resources. Does anyone know where they're hidden?


texts:
I have an issue in a folder were some files, that was recently put there by an installer, does not show in Finder. Files are not hidden (ls -Ol), they show in Terminal, and has the same file permissions as other files in the same folder.
The only difference between the files are that they were recently put there by a .pkg installer.

To refresh the state of files in the folder, I need to use the search-function in Finder. After being searched for, the files become visible.

I looked through AD to check if there were others that has the same issue, but the only question I found was this -  Finder does not show files in folders and this What would cause normal files to be hidden from the Finder but not the terminal? - and the answers there did not solve my issue.

Did anyone see the same problem as I did and know how to solve it permanently without needing to use the search-function?

I use Yosemite 10.10.5.


texts: Notification Center "Show Message Preview" doesn't work

texts:
In Notifications Preferences, I have the "Show Message Preview" option disabled for Mail.app, but nonetheless, message previews still appear in Notification Center.

How can I fix this?

macOS Sierra, Mail.app 10.3


texts:
I have iTunes 11.4 running on Mountain Lion 10.8.5.  The iTunes permissions are constantly in need of repair and I'm considering moving to iTunes 12.  Can anyone tell me if they're using it on Mountain Lion, and does it work well or are there problems.
Thanks!


texts: Do Not Disturb keeps enabling itself on my Mac

texts: Do Not Disturb on my Mac keeps enabling itself at midnight or after every reboot even though I do not have it scheduled. As you can see from the screenshot below, DND is not enabled at all. What could be causing DND to automatically enable? I am running El Capitan


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I am currently using SFTP on my MacBook to perform file transfers with my brother's Linux (Ubuntu) system. Every time we need to share a file, I start the FTP server on my Mac by running the following command on Terminal:

  /Users/Amit/Documents/Scriptlets/ftps.sh open

The content of this script is as follows:

#!/bin/sh
if [ $1 = 'open' ]; then
sudo -s launchctl load -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/ftp.plist
echo SFTP opened
fi
if [ $1 = 'close' ]; then
sudo -s launchctl unload -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/ftp.plist
echo SFTP closed
fi
if [ $1 = 'check' ]; then
ftp localhost
echo check
fi

Once done, I give my local IP address, user name, and password to my brother who is already connected to my Mac over wifi and he uses that information to establish an FTP connection with me and share files.

The problem with this process is that I need to open Terminal every time I want to run this command and I need to enter my password there. Is there any way to automate this so that I just click an automator menu item on any of my Finder windows and feed it the password programmatically without manually opening up the Terminal program? Also, is there any way to ensure that my brother (or anyone I am providing my username and password) is able to access only a designated folder (preferably, Public folder) during the FTP session and nothing else?

Here's what I'd prefer to do every time I need to perform a file share with someone: I'd like to be able to just click on an (Automator) icon on my finder menubar to activate FTP on my system. Upon clicking, the Automator action should just open up FTP server on my laptop (the password being fed to it through the code itself) and throw a popup confirming the connection as active with the IP address that I need to relay to my brother so he could attempt to connect. Once the file transfer is done, I would like to just click on the same icon again and get a popup confirming that FTP has been closed. Is it too complicated a process?


texts: How can I find the macOS version codename?

texts:
I want to find the codename of my version of OS X / macOS.
E.g. Lion, Leopard, Mavericks, etc.
If I click the Apple symbol, then "About This Mac", I only get the version number.
Where can I find the Big Cat or California Location marketing codename?


texts: Is there a newer version of Office for the MacOS anytime soon?

texts: I was wondering if Microsoft is planning to release Office 2012 anytime soon ? Shall I wait for it or purchase Office 2011 ?


texts: in iOS 11.3 update screen an extra 2 is appearing with black color on iPhone 8?

texts:
When I was updating my iPhone 8 to iOS 11.3 I went to the Software Update screen and there I noticed an extra "2" appearing in black letter after the link
 image :-

after HT1222 an extra 2 in black font is there. It appears like this

  HT12222

I think there is some problem there. Should I update?


texts: PC user wants Windows/Linux key mappings

texts:
I'm a long-time PC and Linux user. Recently, I was given a mac mini (Yosemite) for my job. I've still got my full-size PC keyboard (with number pad).
There are several differences. The biggest one is control key is used as command on windows. The physical location of command (right below ZXCV keys) is physically discomforting for me to use.  It's just too tight of a space for two of my sausage fingers to fit in. So I remapped the ctrl-key to command. This works, and is comfortable, except when I need to use control, because I do a lot of terminal stuff (ctrl-X(background), D(EOF), C(break),O) I don't know where I remap actual control to.  I thought option as alt, but that does not work.
Additionally I use home and end keys quite a lot in terminal or chrome, and these don't function as in windows. Hitting end while typing in this box, it takes me to the bottom of the page. Hitting end in terminal takes me to the end of the scroll-back buffer. Previously, on my PC it would take me to the end of the current command, not the top of the scroll-back buffer.
Modifier keys (Sys Prefs: Keyboard: Modifier Keys):

CAPS: CAPS
Control: Command
Option: Option
Command: Control

Right of backspace I have:

Ins Home PgUp
Del End PgDn

Bottom Row of keys:

Ctrl Win Alt Space Alt Menu Ctrl

To recap:

Can I use Ctrl for both Option and Ctrl (when I set Ctrl to both Command and Control, it only does one)

How can I get home and end to work per line, not per screen

I' don't mind remapping the terminal key, is that is possible, though I am using iTerm as well as regular terminal.
Many thanks!


texts: Make existing PDF searchable ( OCR ) via command line / script

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I am looking for an offline scriptable tool that makes an existing PDF file searchable by running OCR on it, replacing the original non-searchable file with the searchable version, and can run unattended.

E.g., www.pdfscannerapp.com - does exactly what I need, but it's GUI only - not scriptable.

I am aware that Evernote makes PDF files searchable, but they remain searchable only when within Evernote.

I am not looking for perfect OCR, even a moderately acceptable OCR is fine, but I would prefer a small utility rather than a bulky software package.

(I am aware of a similar, but different question on AD: Looking for Software to Scan or Convert to Searchable and Signable PDF - however, I don't need to sign or fill PDFs, and my requirement is that the solution is scriptable)

EDIT:

1) Several utilities allow structured text extraction, however in order to be extracted, the text must be there; I am mainly referring to PDFs that are wrapped bitmaps, as is the case with plain PDFs generated by scanners.

2) I am not necessarily looking for a free solution, and I would be more than happy to pay for a good utility that just does what I need, but I am not looking for bulky applications with a million features that include an OCR feature but whose cost does not justify buying them just for the OCR functionality.

3) As stated above, I am not looking for perfect OCR, just a moderately acceptable OCR. Unfortunately, in my experience, tesseract is really below that threshold. I define "moderately acceptable" an OCR that can, say, OCR an utility bill so that at least the account number (customer number) is recognized correctly.

EDIT: "scriptable" or "automatable", that is, able to be triggered automatically and run unattended without human input whatsoever.


texts: How to disable iOS FaceTime notification sounds?

texts:
I don't want any sound-based notifications on my iOS device, but I still want the visual alerts.

Most apps (e.g. Messages, Reminders, etc.) have a None choice at the top of their list of notification sound options (or at least an On/Off switch, e.g. Gmail and Hangouts), but Settings / Notifications / FaceTime / Notification Sound yields no none option.

Nothing more regarding notification sounds is listed under Settings / FaceTime, nor in the app itself (which frustratingly has no in-app settings—I think the system settings are crowded enough even without adding app settings to them).

Am I missing something?

In the meantime, all I can do (it seems) is disable FaceTime notifications altogether.

2012 iPod Touch 5

iOS 8.0.2


texts:
I don't have an Apple TV, so I've never had an AirPlay button anywhere. However I noticed while switching apps in a call that the AirPlay button appears while making a call. Pressing it does nothing. Also when the call in on speaker the AirPlay button goes blue (and still does nothing on pressing it) Why has it suddenly appeared, whats it's use during a call?

Also I then discovered a program for Mac which allows you to AirPlay to a Mac, increasing the AirPlay functionality vastly. And tryed pressing the button when I had that working, it still did nothing. (though the Mac program works as I can send youtube videos and photos to it)  And in the photos app, opening the multitasking bar and pressing the AirPlay button does nothing. So what is it there for anyway?


texts:
What does it mean that an SMB-server explicitly supports Time Machine? E.g., on my NAS I can enable SMB and then I can also enable support for Time Machine. OTOH, there are routers that supports filesharing via SMB but does not support Time Machine.
What does this mean? Does Time Machine require an SMB-server to support some extension of the SMB protocol (or something like that) that not all SMB servers includes?


texts:
Since upgrading to Yosemite, the current application -- could be anything from Sublime Text to AppCode to Chrome -- will lose focus while I'm typing.

This happens with an external keyboard or an internal keyboard, with the computer lid closed (MBP Retina) and open.

Any advice or event hints?


texts:
I have been using VirtualBox for years to run Windows and many Linux distributions but recently I purchased the Parallels program and am currently porting over all my virtual boxes. All of them work flawlessly except Parrot OS (Debian based) and I just can't figure out why. I install it perfectly fine but when I try to boot it it hangs at the message below:

I have tried nomodeset, upgrading, booting from live (which also doesn't seem to boot), reinstalling the X.Org LightDM packages, tried pretty much everything I could find on Google. Because of this I think it is something to do with the Parallels settings and how it handles the OS.

The Parallels settings I am using are as follows:

2 Processors
3 GB RAM
128 MB Graphics Memory
64 GB Storage

I also have "Isolate Linux from Mac" selected under security

If you have any idea of something to try that would be much appreciated (since it is Debian based, Debian based fixes may work).


texts: "Winclone has been discontinued". Now what?

texts:
I just replaced my old 320Gb HHD on my MBP with a 240Gb SSD and I did not wanted to transfer the hole drive as it would not fit, as I have more than 60Gb of music and 110Gb of Photos and HD Videos.

So I started "blank" and, might say, did a good job :o)

but I really want to have my Bootcamp partition on my SSD instead hooking up the HHD all the time, and was searching for a tool...

Carbon Copy Cloner sounded great but:

then searching the forums I got Winclone and that was exactly what I wanted, but ... again

website is no longer available
Goggle cache page reported: "Winclone has been discontinued"

What are my options now?


texts: How can I use the output sound from GarageBand as my 'mic' for Skype or similar?

texts:
I run GarageBand on my MacMini with a simple USB audio interface. I want to be able to play my electric guitar through GarageBAnd so the sound with SFX is what is fed into Skype and other video chat sites, as if this were my microphone.

But I think selecting the USB device as my audio input will give me only the dry sound from my instrument, not the modified sound from Garageband?
So how can I do what I want without expensive equipment?

I have realised my USB interface has a mixer inputs/playback which means through headphones I can choose to select only the processed output from GarageBand if I set the interface as my audio-out... but how do I get that back into the Mac short of putting a cable from the headphone-out => Mac line-in?!


texts: I switched from the iPhone to a Samsung last May and today decided to charge my old phone to use it as a regular iPod. However, when I turned it on all of my music was gone. The computer I had it back up on crashed last year too so the music on my phone was the only copy. Any ideas on what happened or how I can recover it?


texts: Latest iOS 9 doesn't show WiFi symbol, even when connected to WiFi

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How do I display the WiFi symbol when connected to WiFi? iOS 8 used to show the WiFi symbol in place of LTE when connected to WiFi. Now, after the iOS 9 update, it always display LTE, even though I'm connected to WiFi. It shows I'm connected to my router in settings, and I also pinged my local router with a ping app.

iPhone 5, iOS 9.0.1.


texts: how to stop this bogon host running from my macbook?

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I have noticed from my macbook a new hostname is exposed with the name bogon

even if I block this mac address on the router, it comes up with a new one.
And  do not have any clue where is it coming from ?
please help.


texts: "geodMachServiceBridge" errors in Console App

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"geodMachServiceBridge" errors show up every few seconds in the Console App in macOS Sierra. Quitting process from within Activity Monitor didn't help.

Tried this solution (from here), didn't help too:

sudo launchctl unload -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.geodMachServiceBridge.plist
launchctl unload -w /System/Library/LaunchAgents/com.apple.geodMachServiceBridge.plist

Shows following error:

  Operation not permitted while System Integrity Protection is engaged

Googling relevant names "com.apple.GeoServices" and "GEODiskSpaceManager" didn't return any valuable results as well.

Before trying to disable SIP, decided to ask the community if anyone have any useful info. Thanks.


texts: Change directory for screenshots on IPad for using Dropbox

texts: I would like to change the directory for the screenshots in a way that dropbox uploads it automatially. There are a lot of tutorials on MAC OS but I cannot find it for IPad. Does someone knows how to save screenshots in directory that dropbox can uploads?


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I am trying to find a Display that can allow my iOS, MacBook Pro to connect to it wirelessly.

I am looking for a solution with the least number of hardware components (aside from the display).

I heard of software solutions like AirDisplay, Air Parrot, Reflection but I am seeking a hardware solution (something I can take to go for a presentation)


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I used to own an iPad 2. I didn't much care for it, so I gave it to my sister as a gift. She lives in a different state.

I thought I removed any/all of my account info from it. But apparently my Apple ID is still stuck on it.

How do I deauthorize it, so my sister can put her Apple ID onto it? Is resetting the iPad 2 to factory settings the only way?

I obviously do not physically have it in front of me anymore. I don't mind passing my password to my sister, and having her sign into her local iTunes with my account to deauthorize it, but she says that to do that she would lose all her current iTunes data.

Also, if there is a way to deauthorize it without a reset, will the apps I purchased still be accessible to her on the device?


texts: I'm searching a program for slicing a song (MP3, wav, whatever) automatically in different patterns.


texts: How can I share apps and music purchased on one apple ID between 7 devices?

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I have:

1 Macbook Pro for office use
1 Macbook Air for personal travel use
1 Mac Mini to run my home theater system
1 iMac that my wife and kids use
1 iPad v1 for the kids to play with
1 iPad v2 for myself
1 iPhone 3GS

I'm running into problems with iTunes telling me I've authorized too many devices. I have seen in some places people saying that I'm allowed to authorized up to 10 devices, 5 of which can be computers, but iTunes seems to be treating computers and other devices the same for me, limiting me to 5 no matter what.

Any ideas what might be wrong?


texts: Permission denied when I try to change a file’s access and modification times

texts: I can't change a file’s access and modification times. When I enter touch t- CCYYMMDDhhmm.SS file.example , I get "permission denied". It works for other files. I tried to use chmod +x file.example but I am not sure I am using it correctly.  What should I write, please ?