texts: How can I see what photo the photos app is currently downloading from iCloud?

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I am trying to create a photo book in the new photos app, but it keeps hanging 'downloading photos from iCloud'. I see under preferences, it is downloading '1 item from iCloud', which appears to be stuck (I have left it for days). How can I see what photo is currently being downloaded so I can remove it form the project?

Side-question, is there a way to tell if a photo is the 'full version' or the storage optimised version? (Apart from guessing by the file size)?

This is Photos v1.1 on OSX El Capitan (10.11), running on a 2011 MBA.


texts: Problem with exchange email account aliases in Mail for Mac OS X Mavericks

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I've always used Mail in Mac OS X but one day I decided I would try Outlook 2011 so I could manage rules and filters without having to go to OWA. I was not very happy with Outlook 2011 so I removed it and decided to go back to Mail for Mac OS X. Since trying Outlook 2011, I'm having problems setting up the Exchange account in Mail.

My company uses first.last@company.com and flast@company.com for our email address/alias.

When I setup the account, auto discovery finds everything just fine and logs me in and downloads all the mail, rules, filters, etc. stored on the server. The problem is in Internet Accounts in System Preferences, I now see two Exchange accounts. One for first.last@ and another for flast@

I didn't think too much about this since mail seemed to be working fine, but one day I noticed something when I did a reply all to a mail message. It included myself in the reply to fields. I thought maybe it was a setting in Mail that I overlooked when setting up the Exchange account. As it turns out though, the problem is that the first.last@ account is now somehow the default mail account on Exchange and the flast@ is what I'm replying with.

Checking System Preferences, I noticed that the first.last@ Exchange account doesn't have checks in the selection boxes for Mail, Contacts or Notes, but it does for Calendars and Reminders.

However the flast@ is exactly the opposite; it has checks in the selection boxes for Mail, Contacts and Notes, but not Calendars or Reminders.

When I try to enable Mail, Contacts or Notes in the first.last@ Exchange account I get an error dialog stating "There was a problem setting up the account. An unknown error occurred."

I do not experience this behavior on my iPhone 4S or my iPad Air.

I'm using Mac OS X Mavericks 10.9.4 and iCloud for my home accounts and connecting to an Exchange 2010 work account. Any information would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you.


texts: applescript: determine the date of last Sunday

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I need to take today's date and work backwards to Sunday and get that date.  so, for instance today is Monday, December 16.  I need to know that the previous Sunday was December 15.

I've tried several different approaches

set theDate to ((current date) - 1)
repeat until (weekday of theDate) = Sunday
    set theDate to theDate - 1 * days
end repeat

but have not had any luck.


texts: Using tmux and pbpaste, pbcopy, and launchctl

texts:
I have discovered that tmux breaks pbpaste, pbcopy and launchctl.

Is there a good way to make it play nice with these tools?


texts: How to make custom routes survive reboots?

texts:
I use a VPN to connect to the network of my company and add some routes.

After connecting and addding the routes it works just fine. Is there a way to permanently add the routes so that they survive reboots? Currently, I run a shell script to configure them after connecting to the VPN, but I always need to be root to do this.

I'm not experienced with OS X but familiar with UNIX.


texts: How can I select all files of a type in a non-Finder, application window?

texts:
The Applescript below looks at the front open finder window, finds the file type of a file that is selected, and then highlights all files of that file type. I.e., if a finder window has a mix of .jpg, .png and .webp files, the script finds the one file that is selected (such as a .jpg) and then selects all .jpg files.

try
    tell application "Finder" to set the source_folder ¬
        to (folder of the front window) as alias
on error -- no open folder windows
    --set the source_folder to path to desktop folder as alias
    --problem is a window can be open but out of focus
    beep
end try

tell application "Finder"
    set selectionList to {} & selection as list
    set selectedCount to count items in selectionList

    if selectedCount > 0 then
        set nameExtension to name extension of item 1 in selectionList
        select (every item where name extension ¬
            is nameExtension) of (folder source_folder)
    end if
end tell

How would I modify this so it works with an application like the FTP client Transmit? Transmit is Applescript aware and appears in the Applescript Dictionary.

Of course, simply changing tell application "Finder" to tell application "Transmit" doesn't work, since source_folder throws an error as it's looking for a finder window and not an application window.


texts: How does Apple know which passwords never to be saved?

texts:
When you input a new username/password combination, Apple (macOS and iOS alike) asks if you want to save the password, also offering responses of “never” and “not now.”

I understand the “save” response: the password is encrypted and stored in the keychain, and if iCloud is turned on, it syncs across devices.

I understand the “not now” response: make the decision another time.

What I don’t understand is the “never” response: The password, seemingly, has to be saved somewhere that the system can access it and, if it’s set to never, not prompt a “save password” dialogue after inputting it. Try a different username/password on the same website - you’ll see that it cues the dialog again, thus proving that it doesn’t save a list of websites.

Is this accurate? Does Apple actually save passwords you told it not to save, and “never” really amounts to “don’t ask me again”?

The same question may be asked for credit cards on supported OS’s.


texts: Numbers: is it possible to add multiple select elements?

texts:
I'm working on template in Numbers. Some cell in template can have only specific values from code lists, so I decided to add pop-up format for them.

But some cell can have multiple values from code list, so what I need is to add multiple select box (where I can choose several values from dropdown list). Is it possible to do with numbers?


texts: How do I troubleshoot WiFi networking issues with my iOS 12.2 iPhone 8? Can't load apple.com

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How do I troubleshoot networking issues with my iPhone 8 plus with iOS 12.2? I can't even load web pages like apple.com or status.twitter.com. The progress bar is stuck at 10%. It seemed to work OK with the previous iOS, but I only had it for a while.

Problem occurs with Podcast, YouTube, Safari.
I don't have any issues with my desktop connected via Ethernet cable.
I turned the phone off and on. It helps for a while.
An app called Ping Lite shows pings to 10.0.0.1, my router/cable modem, has 0% packet loss and about 10ms. Pings to google.com shows 0% packet loss and about 30ms average. Pings to apple.com times out 100%.
An app called Speedtest shows 12-17.8Mbs down and 2.4Mbs up, with ping 14ms.
I kill the app and start it again, but that doesn't seem to help.
When I turn on airplane mode and off again, then it works for a bit. After a while, the WiFi stops. YouTube will say "Not connected to the internet. Tap to retry."
Doesn't seem to help to rest my phone on the router.
My old iPhone 5/iOS 10.3.3 never had these problems.


texts: Run script through launch agent is failed

texts:
I try to run the next script through LaunchAgent:

on run argv
    set current_path to POSIX path of ((path to me as text) & "::")
    set common to load script (current_path & "common.scpt")
    set screenSharingApp to "Screen Sharing"

    try
        if application screenSharingApp is running then do shell script "killall '" & screenSharingApp & "'"
    end try
    repeat until application screenSharingApp is not running
        delay 0.1
    end repeat

    tell application screenSharingApp
        launch
        activate
    end tell

end run

But always I get this error: execution error: Screen Sharing got an error: Application isn’t running. (-600)

If I run the same script through Script Editor or Terminal is running OK.

What can it be? Why does it not work?

My plist:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
    <dict>
        <key>Label</key>
        <string>com.myapp</string>
        <key>StandardErrorPath</key>
        <string>/Users/user1/Desktop/stderr.log</string>
        <key>StandardOutPath</key>
        <string>/Users/user1/Desktop/stdout.log</string>
        <key>ProgramArguments</key>
        <array>
            <string>/usr/bin/osascript</string>
            <string>/Users/user1/Desktop/1.scpt</string>
        </array>
        <key>RunAtLoad</key>
        <true/>
        <key>StartInterval</key>
        <integer>300</integer>
    </dict>
</plist>


texts:
I need to make an applescript to press the keys fn + f8 at the same time. The only problem is those are both keys without names!

tell application "System Events"
    key code 63 -- Will press the fn key
    key code 100 -- Will press the f8 key
end tell

However, how can I get these two key strokes to happen simultaneously? I cant seem to do key code 63 with 100 down or any variation. Help?


texts: How to downgrade from MacOS Catalina to Mojave

texts:
Yesterday I made a blunder of upgrading my Macbook 2015(March) from Mojave to Catalina.

Since then I am facing different issues like applications not responding, terminal crashing, etc.

Now I want to get rid of it and reinstall Mojave. I know I do not have CD of it and I will take all necessary data backup. I do not have TimeMachine backup either. What can I do to downgrade?

Issues Images:


texts: Attempting to setup Exchange account in System Preferences causes crash

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I have two computers both installed with OSX 10.9.2 and on one computer I did this with no problem what so ever but on the other computer, when I attempt to setup my Exchange account in the System Preferences>Internet Accounts menu, it throws this error:

There was an error in Internet Accounts preference pane.

Having looked for a solution on Apple Discussion Forums, I have attempted to delete these files:

/Library/Preferences/com.apple.system preferences .plist

/Library/Preferences/com.apple.screensaver.<12digitHexNumber>.plist

/Library/Preferences/com.apple.desktop.plist

/Library/Preferences/By Host/com.apple.systempreferences.xxx.plist of them)

/Library/Caches/com.apple.systempreferences

/Library/Preferences/com.apple.systemuiserver.plist

followed by emptying my recycle-bin and restart the computer, but the problem persists.

Screenshots:

Console Excerpt (Link to view complete Console report)

Process:         com.apple.preferences.internetaccounts.remoteservice [970]
Path:            /System/Library/PreferencePanes/InternetAccounts.prefPane/Contents/XPCServices/com.apple.preferences.internetaccounts.remoteservice.xpc/Contents/MacOS/com.apple.preferences.internetaccounts.remoteservice
Identifier:      com.apple.preferences.internetaccounts.remoteservice
Version:         1.0 (1)
Build Info:      InternetAccounts-225004000000000~1
Code Type:       X86-64 (Native)
Parent Process:  ??? [1]
Responsible:     System Preferences [232]
User ID:         501
Date/Time:       2014-05-10 18:12:32.176 -0700
OS Version:      Mac OS X 10.9.2 (13C1021)
Report Version:  11
Anonymous UUID:  F82228C3-4125-D958-C4C9-1F3EF208729F

Crashed Thread:  11

Exception Type:  EXC_CRASH (SIGABRT)
Exception Codes: 0x0000000000000000, 0x0000000000000000

Application Specific Information:
*** Terminating app due to uncaught exception 'NSInvalidArgumentException', reason: '*** setObjectForKey: object cannot be nil (key: serverName)' terminating with uncaught exception of type NSException abort() called


texts: Basically the other day I left my macbook unattended at a coffee shop while I stepped out for a smoke. I feel as if I had something exfiltrated from it while I was outside. To cure my paranoia, I am making this question on due part. Can anyone tell me how I can view some kind of history or log file under OSX El capitan (if there is any) that can show me all USB devices that were connected to my macbook during a certain time or date?


texts: macOS Big Sur Startup Error - "Backup and Restore has Encountered a Fatal Error"

texts:
I have been getting this error message constantly upon startup:

From some quick research, I found out that this might be related to permission issues for Google directory in Application Support. So I went in and typed the following:
 sudo chmod -R 755 ~/Library/Application\ Support/Google

Upon restart, it still creeped in. I am not sure what this problem is anymore. Could anyone help me?


texts: Can I use automator to launch a keystroke when program is idle

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Can I use automator to launch a keystroke (cmd+R) when program PremierePro CS6 is idle for 1 minute. This keystroke would start program to Render videofiles.
Many Thanks, Jan.


texts: How to sort rows in Numbers without affecting the formula?

texts:
I have a table with a basic formula:

The 7th column (1038€94) is calculated with the formula 1133€34 - 94€40 + (empty cell). In others words, the 7th column is calulated by (value in the row above) - (value of the 4th cell of the row) + (value of the 5th cell of the row).

All the rows have the same formula in the 7th column.

The first column is a date. If I choose to sort the rows depending on this date, the formula breaks because Numbers keeps a pointer to the cells before sorting the data:

Is there a way to sort the rows without breaking the formula? Or make the formula uses the cell above without specifying the line in the formula?

Thanks


texts: Flashtool does not convert .swf to .png, says JPEG library not compiled

texts:
I've made this sh script to convert a bunch of swf files in a directory to pngs.

for img in *.swf; do swfrender "$img" -o "$img.png"; done;

This gives Error: No JPEG library compiled inrfxswf:

I've tried variants of this script, and they give the same error.

I am running El Capitan, and I have libjpeg and flashtools installed via brew.


texts: Prevent artwork synch in iTunes for iPhone

texts: I want to turn off my artwork synch!  I don't care if I have the artwork or not!  Is there a work around for doing this?  My phone always gets locked in a loop when synching and it is "stuck" on step 8 of 8 backing up artwork!


texts: Install 2 different OS X versions on the same machine/hdd

texts:
OK, here's my situation :

I am a developer needing to debug under different OS X versions
I currently own 2 macs : a MacBook Pro and an iMac
the iMac has Snow Leopard (10.6) on it - it came pre-installed
the MacBook has been upgraded to Lion and then to Mountain Lion (10.8)
I have purchased Lion & Mountain Lion via the App Store.

What I need :

Install OS X 10.7 along with some of the other installations (in a different partition? via something like Parallels? I don't know... Ideas?)

Questions :

What's the best way I could achieve that? (I don't care if 10.7 will go with 10.6, or 10.8)
Where can I find an installation package for 10.7? (remember, I've already bought it)

Note : I'll most likely do it using partitions. The core of the question is : WHERE is my 10.7 installation file???


texts: Transmission aborts automated shut down.

texts:
My ISP offers unlimited downloads at a certain time period at night, but I don't want to wake up to shutdown my MBP 13.3 at that time. I tried to specify a certain shutdown time using the Energy Saver option.

However, I found out to my utter dismay that Transmisison needs to be explicitly closed before it for the computer to shut down.


texts:
I am using 10.9 with Server app 3, and right now i am using an obsolete connection with TLS 1.0, RSA and AES_128CBC with HMAC-SHA1 (that cames by default).

While i was trying to upgrade openssl, i notice that when i tried to upgrade it says that openssl is not installed but it is.

remote:~ root# port upgrade openssl
Error: openssl is not installed
remote:~ root# openssl version
OpenSSL 0.9.8zg 14 July 2015

So i would like to know how can i upgrade it, and why is not being detected as installed?


texts: Apple Backup encrypted format specs? I need to decrypt part of a backup (for which I have the key) that iTunes won't restore

texts:
An odd one here:

Encrypted iTunes backup

backup completed successfully

Key stored in the Keychain (since the first backup of this device a long while ago)

Also stored in PasswordSafe and both keys match so I'd say I have the proper key.

Trying to restore, iTunes asks for the password, but "fills it in" - and then complains of the password not being valid!

I've tried typing the password -- actually typing all the "iPhone Backup" passwords for the rest of the family's devices in my keychain - and the result is the same!!

I absolutely need to recover some of the data in the backup (i.e., family pictures not stored elsewhere) so I'm looking for info on how the actual data is encrypted hoping I might try "raw decryption" on the content.

Given how fast the "not valid" response is, I'm hoping iTunes is trying to decrypt some metadata file and failing -- but that it might be possible to get to the pictures themselves.

Thanks a lot in advance for any pointers!?

--  Javier

P.S.: This also makes me worry about the reliability of the backups I have of the other devices; I've opened another question about this - How to verify that an iTunes backup is valid?.


texts: Can I detect if trackpad is touched by applescript?

texts: For exemple I want to type capital letters when my thumb is on Trackpad, and type lowercase letters when Trackpad is untouched


texts: Does the 2011 13" MacBook Air have a longer battery life than the old one?

texts:
My understanding is that the new MacBook Air 2011 is using a new Intel CPU that uses less power. I expected that should mean either longer battery life or a lighter computer, but I can't remember how much battery life they claimed the old one had...

Should I expect longer battery life from the new MacBook Air 2011?


texts: Can the now expired iMessage app still work with Lion?

texts: I want to use iMessage on an old Macbook which cannot be upgrades past OS X 10.7.  Apple provided an iMessage beta software, but it has expired and no longer functions. I'm wondering whether there is any way to keep using the iMessage service on the Lion OS?


texts: How to remove duplicate songs from itunes playlist?

texts:
How to remove duplicate titles from itunes playlist ?
When adding directories with mp3s to itunes that contains playlist files, it's listing twice (or more) the songs in the album view.


texts: photos library shows blanks after updating the library

texts:
What happened

opened my fairly big (1TB) photos library (stored on an external drive, backup/copy on a different external drive)
Photos started to update the library (no problems, took about half an hour or less)
Browsed through the photos, realized that there were many blanks:

In full screen mode, the images appear blank:

This is the same for all media, i.e. Live Photos, videos and portraits. However, all media is still in the library package (opened the files in Preview, no problem there) and all metadata (location, tags, lens info, date) is fine, too. Further, these photos are not camera-, location-, face-detection- or file name-specific. They seem to be totally random, however all photos taken before march 2015 are fine (I am probably reading into this, but Photos.app was introduced April 2015).
What I have tried so far:

Repair the library
Restart the Mac
Reset SMC and NVRAM/PRAM
Run first aid on both external disks
Copied the backup onto my work drive, opened it and it was updated as well. No change there (the blank images seem to be the same for both libraries)
Waited about half an hour to display a blank image, no change
Tried to export the original image and video, both fail with unknown error (4), yet some Portraits seem to be exporting fine
Tried to export (not the original) fails with The process couldn't be finished. (Cocoa-error-1), this time including Portraits

More info about the system

MBP 15" from 2017 with macOS BigSur 11.2.1

Both external drives have about 1TB of free storage, their total size is 4TB

I have opened a library after the Big Sur update without problems, but I am not sure if I have opened this library on Big Sur

The backup I have copied has definitely not yet been opened on Big Sur

iCloud is not enabled on this library and it is not the system library

My question is: Does anyone know how I can effectively get these blanks to disappear, without having to manually reimport all photos?

I have a couple more options/ideas up my sleeve, however, they will take a lot of time, so maybe someone here already knows a better/faster fix/idea than the following:

Copy my currently not-updated backup to an older Catalina Mac, hope it can be opened there
As suggested in this thread delete the corrupted libraries, then copy them back (really unsure how this would help though)
Update macOS to 11.2.3

Update #1

I have updated macOS to version 11.2.3 to no avail.

Update #2

I have talked to Apple support. Further things that we tried, all to no avail:

Change the library to the system library
Create another admin account and  open the library there
Start into safe mode
Imported problematic images into a new library, there they show up as normal

Update #3

It seems like I actually have already opened this library on BigSur as I just tried to open it with a Catalina Mac, which resulted in an error message, saying I would need to update the OS.

Update #4

I talked to Apple support again. The engineers didn't come up with anything/they don't really offer database repair. Their "advice" was to manually rebuild the library and use TimeMachine so that there is not only one backup but the history included. I had issues with TM and external drives a couple years ago, thats why I didn't use it. This is one of the unfortunate cases where investigating the issues took so long, it would have been much faster now for me to rebuild it right away.

FYI, I have looked into the following posts:

Photos.app creates blank images after importing iPhoto library
https://www.forbes.com/sites/bradmoon/2019/11/10/how-to-fix-a-damaged-macos-photos-library-when-the-repair-tool-fails/
https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/2227704-apple-photos-library-importing-blank-photos
https://recoverit.wondershare.com/mac-tips/repair-photos-library.html

However, none of these posts helped.


texts: Catalina is giving me 600% of CPU usage on accountsd

texts:
This is driving me nuts. Since I upgraded to Catalina (10.15.7), the accountsd process goes up to 680% of CPU usage:

The only thing that 'fixes' this, is logging out of iCloud, but then I loose access to my notes and contacts.


texts: How to remove Kaspersky icon on menu bar?

texts:
Downloaded the Kaspersky app just for fun and to give it go. It had a trial time so when the time was up, I simply just dragged the app into the trash can and then emptied it. However, the kaspersky "K" icon on the menu bar just won't go away.

It kept prompting me to update the app but I can't even update because I've already deleted it. It has the option for me to "quit" but when I restart, it appears again.

I've tried deleting the file over at library/applications support but it still won't go away.


texts: codesign still tries to access other keychains when adding --keychain parameter

texts:
we have a automated codesigning setup on our CI/CD infrastructure which is using the codesing command to resign a iOS application with a certificate located in a specific keychain. The codesign script works in general but I detected an unexpected behavior. Even though I tell the codesign command with '--keychain' the keychain it should use, it still tries to access the keychains from the keychain search list. If I add all keychains to the searchlist it will lock the execution on a certain call because it tries to access a password protected keychain which is in the search list. If I remove all keychains from the search list (except the login and the system keychain), codesign won't find the proper signing identity even when pointing to the proper keychain with the --keychain argument.

the codesign command is called as follows:

codesign --sign <signidentity> ---keychain <path/to/my.keychain> --force

This one happens on macOS 10.14.4 and 10.13.6. I also tried different xcode versions like 9.2.1, 9.4.x and 10.1.

I'm a little bit at the end of my ideas of how to solve this issue. It feels that the --keychain argument is bugged or doesn't do what I think it should do.


texts: Why do I get a 'connection to the outgoing server "smtp.gmail.com" failed' message in iOS Mail?

texts:
Today I noticed I have 3 emails stuck in my Outbox, and when I try to re-send one, I see:

If I press Settings, then select "SMTP  Gmail SMTP Server", and "Gmail SMTP Server" (under PRIMARY SERVER--it is the only one shown as "On"), I see:

I can't edit anything here.

Has Gmail changed the way their SMTP authentication works? How do I fix this?


texts: Quick way to preview all pages in a PDF file

texts:
Is there a quick way or software for MacOS that makes it easy to quickly preview all (or many) pages in a single PDF file. Optimally, it would preview a PDF with multiple pages, similar to how Quick Look shows multiple files.

Currently in Quick Look, I have to scroll through the pages (this does not give me the overview I would like). Alternatively, I'll have to;

Open PDF in Preview,
Open print dialog,
Choose layout and select 16 pages per sheet,
Save as a new PDF, and then
Quick Look or open the new PDF. Which gives something like this:


texts: How to accept incoming network connections in OS X 10.11 El Capitan?

texts:
After logging in the following message appears:

Do you want the application “Microsoft Word.app” to accept incoming network connections?

How do I allow Word to accept incoming network connections in El Capitan?


texts:
I have a MacBook Pro that I installed Windows 8 on via Boot Camp. I've managed to boot to it, before, but since then I've made two new partitions on the disk, and I'm afraid it's messed things up since I can't boot to Windows anymore.

Now when I select which partition to boot to, I can only see my Mac OSX, A backup partition, and the Recovery partition. The Windows partition does appear in Disk Utility though.

What have I done wrong?


texts: Xcode 4.6.1 install hangs at "Installing - less than one minute" on Lion

texts:
I have been trying to update to Xcode 4.6.1 (from 4.6) on OS X 10.7.5.  The install gets most of the way through, then hangs out at "Installing - less than one minute" indefinitely.  Based on old threads about similar problems I've ensured iTunes and iTunesHelper are both not running.  I've restarted and tried again.  What else can I try or look into?

...

and I wonder if this has anything to do with it?


texts:
I'm relatively new to the App Store (not new to Objective-C, though) and I'm wondering how easy it is to track how much money each individual app you have in the app store is making.

I have an App in the store already, and I haven't received any sort of income statements yet so I don't know how they're split up, but I have a friend who wishes to work on my next project with me - we want to split the profits 50-50.

Say I have two apps in the app store, is there a way to find out how much each app is making, if they both use the same revenue models (fremium, iAds w/ IAP)?


texts:
I've just updated to macOS 10.12 and when I try to execute srm in Terminal, it says -bash: srm: command not found.

Is srm removed? How to fix this?


texts: Does the 2015 Retina MacBook have firmware target disk mode?

texts:
I've read the user manual and FAQ on ports for the new 2015 Retina MacBook and can't tell if it supports target disk mode.

Apple's article on target disk explicitly says Firewire and Thunderbolt are required for target disk mode but the excellent iMore review article says:

  You can transfer data at up to 5 Gpbs over USB 3.1, USB 3, or USB 2, or over ethernet with a USB adapter. (Including target disk mode.)

For the purposes of this question - target disk mode is exposing the internal MacBook storage using firmware and not the OS X installed on the computer itself.

What is needed to place this Mac in target disk mode and connect it to another computer that would presumably see it as a USB 3.1 Gen 1 hard drive?


texts: Noob struggling to tell terminal to install scikit-image 0.16.2 for Pyxelate

texts:
I'm using macOS Catalina version 10.15.7
I think this should be a very easy install, but apparently not.
At first, I spotted terminal told me I don't have Cython. Ok. I installed it, then it gave me a long ass error command, which I have no idea to solve. I barely know what it meant.
And Pyxelate can't take newest version of scikit-image.
Is that my clang's file isn't match the pip3? If so, how can I fix that? I really have no idea.
  13 warnings and 1 error generated.
  4 warnings generated.
  error: Command "clang -Wno-unused-result -Wsign-compare -Wunreachable-code -fno-common -dynamic -DNDEBUG -g -fwrapv -O3 -Wall -I/usr/local/include -isysroot /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/SDKs/MacOSX10.15.sdk -I/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/SDKs/MacOSX10.15.sdk/usr/include -I/usr/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/numpy/core/include -I/usr/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/numpy/core/include -I/usr/local/include -I/usr/local/opt/openssl@1.1/include -I/usr/local/opt/sqlite/include -I/usr/local/opt/tcl-tk/include -I/usr/local/Cellar/python@3.9/3.9.1_6/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.9/include/python3.9 -c skimage/restoration/_unwrap_2d.c -o build/temp.macosx-10.15-x86_64-3.9/skimage/restoration/_unwrap_2d.o -MMD -MF build/temp.macosx-10.15-x86_64-3.9/skimage/restoration/_unwrap_2d.o.d" failed with exit status 1
  ----------------------------------------
  ERROR: Failed building wheel for scikit-image

ERROR: Command errored out with exit status 1: /usr/local/opt/python@3.9/bin/python3.9 -u -c 'import sys, setuptools, tokenize; sys.argv[0] = '"'"'/private/var/folders/34/x6521nrj71sb1tmxtpcxsj4c0000gn/T/pip-install-25qrnc9w/scikit-image_5d68c8ee27804ffa8db02d899fd06b99/setup.py'"'"'; __file__='"'"'/private/var/folders/34/x6521nrj71sb1tmxtpcxsj4c0000gn/T/pip-install-25qrnc9w/scikit-image_5d68c8ee27804ffa8db02d899fd06b99/setup.py'"'"';f=getattr(tokenize, '"'"'open'"'"', open)(__file__);code=f.read().replace('"'"'\r\n'"'"', '"'"'\n'"'"');f.close();exec(compile(code, __file__, '"'"'exec'"'"'))' install --record /private/var/folders/34/x6521nrj71sb1tmxtpcxsj4c0000gn/T/pip-record-hddyaqi4/install-record.txt --single-version-externally-managed --compile --install-headers /usr/local/include/python3.9/scikit-image Check the logs for full command output.


texts: Software for burning AAC files to MP3 CDs?

texts:
iTunes is lacking some features I could really use for burning MP3 CDs for the car audio system.

Ability to convert AAC to MP3
Ability to group non-album songs into folders

In itunes, the process appears to be:

find all the songs you want to burn to an MP3 CD
figure out which songs are not in MP3 format
tell itunes to make duplicate versions of these files in MP3 format
figure out which are now the MP3 versions and drag them into a playlist
edit the copied MP3s' meta data to 'fake' a new album so it's grouped on the CD correctly

Is there a piece of software that can do what I'm looking for and/or is there a way to do what I want in iTunes that I'm somehow missing?


texts: Audio MIDI Setup keeps changing sampling rate of MBP speakers

texts: I have a MacBook Pro 13" with 10.12.6. When I set the sampling rate to 96,000 Hz but after a few minutes the app changes it back to 48,000. Is there a reason for this? How can I stop it from happening?


texts: APFS on RAID: recommended course of action?

texts:
I recently upgraded my Mac Mini Server's dual SSDs and found myself needing to re-create the RAID-0 array from scratch. (I am running the mainline High Sierra 10.13.1 on a 6,2 MacMiniServer from 2012.) I did this from the command line and formatted the filesystem as APFS. The command

diskutil appleRAID create stripe RAID APFS disk0 disk1

executed without a hitch and I found myself with an apparently fully working dual SSD APFS RAID-0 array.  I later used Carbon Copy Cloner 5 to repopulate the drive with my the system's contents, and the operation proceeded without a hitch.

Alas, when push came to shove, I found myself with the cryptic error message

Error loading kernel module cache 0x7

being repeated endlessly on the screen. (Fortunately I had the presence of mind of setting booting in verbose mode before undertaking this operation, I don't know whether this would have been visibile in an ordinary configuration.)

There wasn't even a bootable Recovery Partition available. I had to boot into Internet Recovery Mode, which despite its ancient appearance was somewhat helpful: Disk Utility saw the individual drives and their slices, and the RAID array that was spanning them, and reported it as healthy and populated. Unfortunately the Time Machine Recovery client didn't report the drive as being a legitimate target for restoring to.

Apple support was no help at all. The excellent folks at Bombich Software (makers of Carbon Copy Cloner) were much more helpful, despite it being their Thanksgiving holiday.

Meanwhile I literally had to leave the country to resume working at another branch office with a working system because I have an urgent project to complete (I never anticipated rebuilding the machine would take more than a day).

I have now resolved that when I get back to my stricken machine I'll reformat the array as HFS+ and re-image onto that. Quite probably that will work (essentially the same exact situation I was in before I began this, albeit with much bigger SSDs).

Long story short: APFS on RAID looks like it should work, and some report it does, but in my experience it did not and I was unable to figure out why. Beware and be prudent. I will try again if and when Apple announces it officially supports APFS on RAID (which I assume they will do at some ppint, just as they have promised to make it available on hybrid Fusion Drives).

Is there anything any of you could recommend I try before I resort to reverting to HPS+? I am very religious about my backup policy and therefore I have no qualms about running RAID-0 in terms of reliability. The question is whether I can somehow make the existing situation bootable or whether it is a foregoing conclusion.


texts: Can You Stop the Migration Assistant Midway Through?

texts:
Can the Migration Assistant be stopped midway through? I began the wireless transfer from a Mac Mini to a new MacBook Air last night. It still says it's going to take 40 hours. Unfortunately, I can't wait that long, and the process is taking up both of my computers.

In case of catastrophic failure what recourse do I have, as the MacBook Air doesn't have a system restore disk?


texts:
I have a late 2011 MacBook Pro, with Sierra on it, connected to WiFi, and I am currently using Proton VPN to surf the internet.
I have a Windows laptop I cannot install software onto, like the VPN. I want to connect it to the MacBook Pro with an ethernet cable, and have the internet go through the Proton VPN connection.
How can I bridge this connection to the ethernet, if that makes sense?


texts: Gesture to hide rising notification in MacBook?

texts:
Is there a keyboard shortcut or hand gesture to quickly hide notification popups from the notification center when they're arriving? (the whole notifications bar is of course closed, and only the new arriving notification is shown)
This is instead of clicking the very little "X" on the small window


texts: Word for Mac: Quickly checking a check box

texts:
I have several Word documents with check boxes

On Windows, you can simply click them to change the status (checked / not checked). But the only way I found to check/uncheck the checkbox with Word 15 or greater for macOS is to double click it and then to switch the value in the form field options:

Is there a quicker way to change the value?


texts: How do you trigger search in iPad OS from anywhere without an external keyboard?

texts:
I know this is possible because I keep accidentally bringing up Spotlight Search randomly when I’m using apps. Not on the Home Screen.
I’ve searched and all I can find is that you can trigger the search either from the Home Screen, with an external keyboard, or with a11y controls and that there’s no other way.
If there’s a gesture for this I’d love to know what it is because I would actually use that.
iPad Pro (12.9-inch) (3rd generation) iPadOS 14.4.2

I’ve never used an external keyboard
I use the Apple Folio Case
I use an Apple Pencil
I’ve been having issues with phantom touches near the corner of the volume keys side and USB port side
It usually happens somehow when, in landscape, my hand is near the top left of the screen but I can’t reproduce it afterwards


texts: will my code keep running when Mac is in sleep mode?

texts:
I am running a code with AMPL. its very heavy model. I am wondering will my code keep running if my Mac is in sleep mode or if I close lid?

my Mac is pro 13 inch 2019.

when I started run the code my Mac made a noise very loud. it is very hot now. when it goes to sleep mode I think it become colder!
That's why I am asking


texts: Why do pages load quickly on Safari on macOS, but not on Chrome?

texts:
For the last week or so loading the exact same URL on Chrome is practically impossible, whereas Safari loads the pages instantaneously. These are not cached pages, either.

Any thoughts on this?

iMac (Retina 5K, 27-inch, 2019)
macOS Mojave 10.14.6 (18G95)


texts: Com.apple.finder.plist is missing and isn't being made automatically

texts:
My com.apple.finder.plist file is missing. I've looked in Library/Preferences and it isn't there, I already have hidden files and folders made visible, etc.

Whenever I restart my computer (by going up to Apple>Restart, or by Restarting by an application installation, which is how I came across this problem) every application closes and files on the desktop disappear, however, the finder stops responding and I HAVE to end up force quitting my computer which screws up the installation of the program I've been trying to install (SideSync by Samsung, if that's relevant.)

I can only see the desktop background picture and the bar on the bottom. I can't open finder, I can't Relaunch it by going to the Force Quit Application window.

Running a mid 2012 MacBook Pro with recently installed Mavericks.

Any ideas?


texts: Search Results Within System Preferences Not Highlighted

texts: This is just a minor annoyance, but usually, when typing in the search field inside of System Preferences, the icons for matching search results receive kind of a glowing background or highlight. Since upgrading to Mountain Lion, this doesn't happen on only one of my macs (early 2009 iMac). Has anyone else experienced this or know if there's a way to fix it?


texts: Read specific file in Time Capsule from someone else's computer

texts:
I recently lost my macbook, and fortunately I have all my backups in a Time Capsule. At the moment I only have an old window PC, and a friend who has a macbook.

The question is: how do we recover the files on the Time Capsule thanks to the macbook in order to copy them into my old PC ?

We tried to navigate to the data on the TimeCapsule (i.e. /Volumes/Data/my-computer.sparsebundle) we see the bands folder that seems to contain the data, but we are not able to see its contents with the Finder. Is there any way to do something like "mount" the my-computer.sparsebundle in order to navigate into it ?

We connected to the Time Capsule with Wi-Fi, and  my friend runs on a macbook with OS X 10.11.4.


texts: Why screenshot of same content appears more saturated on iPad 3 retina vs. Macbook Air LCD?

texts: When I scale a screenshot of the same image from my iPad 3 retina to that on my MB Air the resulting image appears more saturated (unsure if it's a uniform saturation). Why does this happen? Can I transform my screenshot from my LCD monitor to match a screenshot from my iPad 3 by changing the resolution, saturation, contrast, etc?


texts: How to diagnose insertion point/trackpad jitters?

texts:
When I’m typing in any application (e.g. Chrome, Safari, MS Word, Evernote), the insertion point often jumps around unexpectedly. I have this problem with the builtin trackpad and my magic trackpad at home. Caveat Since this is both a disease of the internal trackpad and the magic trackpad then it can't be the cable between the internal trackpad and the motherboard

My MBP has been for service once, I believe they changed a cable between the trackpad and motherboard. No dice. I have wiped the OS and reinstalled from scratch. I have booted in safe mode. You get the idea. I'm certain that most of the time I'm nowhere near the trackpad when it happens. (Like 10 seconds ago).

Is this hardware? Software? I must admit I don’t have a clue how to diagnose. My leaning is likely software.

MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Early 2015)
OS 10.12.5 (although this has been going on for over a year)


texts: Need help, tips, suggestions on downgrading Catalina to Mojave and dual-boot

texts:
iMac 21.5-inch, 2019
Shipped with Catalina
Goal is to have two volumes. One with Catalina, the second with Mojave.
I have already downloaded Mojave and plan to create a bootable drive using disk utility. Then follow steps to downgrade.
Wondering if I can shorten the process...but I can't find a guide that combines downgrading and creating a second OS volume.
Can I create a second volume, erase Catalina on new volume, and then install Mojave without losing data on original volume?
Or do I need to downgrade, create second volume and then upgrade that to Catalina?
Other tips and suggestions for this process are appreciated too.


texts: Can a Mac's part number be determined with a Terminal Command?

texts:
I need to determine the Apple Part Number 'MXXXXXLL/A' and do not have the original packaging.  Is there a way to do this from command line?

I don't need model #, I specifically need the part #.  Thanks.


texts: how to remove the shortcut on Finder top bar (see picture)

texts:
I don't know how I got these shortcuts on Finder's bar (look on the right). These shortcuts are on every Finder windows.
How to remove them ? What's those shortcut called ?

This picture is worth more than any description.


texts:
Somewhat similar to this question, but I don't just want to import.  I have a bunch of This American Life podcasts that I downloaded using iTunes on another computer.  I also have a This American Life podcast subscription on my current Mac with a bunch of podcasts downloaded.

I have already imported the old ones into iTunes.  They show up as two separate podcasts, with the same name and metadata.  The old ones have a "subscribe" link but I haven't clicked it, they're just sitting there.  The new ones are subscribed and regularly downloading new episodes.

How can I merge the old ones into the newer, subscribed version of the podcast in iTunes?


texts: Prevent finder from removing network shortcut from the sidebar

texts: Whenever I try to reach a folder from the network - and the server is not properly loaded yet (which is also another mystery, since it is always on) - Finder says it could not find the item and just removes the shortcut from the sidebar. Is there a way to prevent this from happening? The shortcut will always be the same, Finder should just try again later. Maybe I could automate the shortcut to get back?


texts: Set Services keyboard shortcut via script OSX

texts:
I need a way to set the following programmatically:

Specifically for shortcuts under Services, if that makes a difference. I'm wondering if this is possible via shell or AppleScript?

EDIT:

I've seen https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7219134/programmatically-add-keyboard-shortcut-to-mac-system-preferences but I'm still not clear on how to set a shortcut for an existing service.


texts: iMessage's from Macbook send as my email instead of phone #

texts:
I use an iPhone and a Mac.  I set up text forwarding on my phone so that I can text from iMessage on the Mac, but I noticed that my phone and computer are not always in sync.  For example, I'll get a text to my computer, but it won't show up on my phone.  Also people who receive my messages say that sometimes they come from my email (the @gmail.com below) instead of my phone #.  I posted screenshots below of my settings from my phone and computer.  Ideally, I would like all texts to be send from my phone # and my computer and phone to be in sync.  Thanks in advance for your help!

iMessage settings from computer:


texts:
I removed the EFI partition accidentally but I have it on a Time machine backup. Is there a way to simply move it from my external drive to my boot drive.

I've tried restoring the format of the boot drive EFI but it gives me an error.

bash-3.2# diskutil eraseVolume fat32 EFI disk0s1
Started erase on disk0s1
Unmounting disk
Error: -5344: MediaKit reports not enough space on device for requested operation

Any help will be awesomely appreciated.


texts: iPad Mini 3 - Removing standard built-in apps

texts:
How can I remove the built-in music app from my iPad, or at least remove the icon.
 My daughter uses the iPad and I don't want her to have access to some of the music and radio stations.


texts: I am booting an imac from a USB drive containing OS X 10.13. I get an infinite slideshow alternating between the following two images, which don't seem to coherently convey anything. I am able to skip the slideshow, but I am having other problems that I think might be more resolvable if I knew what the slideshow was supposed to mean. Any help would be appreciated.


texts: i have a macbook - 2012 and the ssd is full - only 32mb free - i cannot boot up . need to delete files but how?

texts:
My 2012 MacBook has a 240gb SSD, will not boot up.  I can get into disk utility, and it cannot verify disk or repair disk.  I can see that there is only 32mb free. I think this is the problem.

If I can free up some memory it may boot.  I'm a user but not an expert.  Help pls


texts: How can I disable CPU throttling on Late 2006 MacBook with no battery?

texts:
The problem I am experiencing is that if the battery is not present, the CPU is automatically throttled.  I have done some searching and have found that this is apparently by design, "in case the power supply cannot supply enough power, so the machine won't shut off."

Now, here is the problem.  I can't put the battery back in, because it started swelling up like crazy.  I can't really justify the cost of a new battery for a machine this old and I can't really afford a new computer, so I'm stuck with this machine.  It still works, but throttled back, a lot of things like flash video players are almost useless at the reduced CPU usage.

I don't really care if the machine shuts off if the supply can't keep up with power requirements.  My understanding is that this really should only happen if the supply is mismatched, i.e. from an adapter designed for a smaller machine, but even if its not it is just as intolerable to have to reload netflix every 30 seconds when it loses sync than an occasional power loss would be.  Besides, it is already losing power every time I need to move it somewhere.

So, what's the solution?  There has to be some way to override the throttling, right?

By the way, I have already tried sudo pmset -a dps 0 but that just gives me a usage message.


texts: AppleTV: can I watch movies from third parties?

texts:
Is there a way to watch Divx movies I usually watch with QuickTime or VLC player on my mac, on Apple TV ?

If I buy Apple TV I would like to watch movies I downloaded from third parties, and not only I bought through iTunes.

Does it work ?

thanks


texts: AppleScript updating photo dates, with off-by-one hour bug

texts:
I’m scripting Photos to update the dates on photos in an album, to make them match the order of photos in the album. These are scans of old photos so the modification dates don’t match when the photos were taken anyway.

It almost works but some photos get a date one hour too early. That looks like a time zone problem except that the photos have no location information, so I can’t tell where it would come from.

tell application "Photos"
    set currentAlbum to album named "Album name"
    -- Start with a date slightly in the past, based on the album size.
    set currentAlbumCount to (count of media items in currentAlbum)
    set photoDate to (current date) - currentAlbumCount
    repeat with currentItem in media items in currentAlbum
        set photoDate to photoDate + 1
        set date of currentItem to photoDate
    end repeat
end tell

After running this, the EXIF for photos has the time/date for some being an hour earlier than others-- e.g. one at 4:16:13 pm, the next one at 3:16:14, then 4:16:15, with no apparent reason why some are off by an hour.

I’m trying to do this because when I export and use the photos in other places (like Google photos) they get sorted by date, and I want to preserve the sort order.


texts: How can I move my local e-mail folders in Mail.app from my old Mac to my new Mac?

texts: Including all e-mail messages contained in these local folders ofcourse.


texts: Unlink iPhone from a computer and switch to another

texts:
I've just run into quite a big problem. I bought an iPhone, and the person who had bought it from the store for me had, being a nice person, helped me charge it.

Unfortunately, this meant that the iPhone is now synced to the PC that she has and not my MacBook Pro.

Is there any way to change this?

Thanks in advance.


texts: Why does my 2.5 TB HDD appear as a 2.2 TB HDD and a 300 GB HDD? How do I merge them?

texts:
I have a Western Digital 2.5 TB hard drive. (Model WD25EZRS) It's connected through an external USB dock to my iMac, running Mac OS X Mavericks.

In Disk Utility there are two volumes, totaling 2.5 TB but separate as 2.2 TB and 300 GB. How do I format / partition / group the volumes to use this was one large drive with one partition?

Adding image http://mattmanuel.brace.io/diskutil_for_stackexchange.png


texts: Is there a way to make Siri play BBC radio stations?

texts:
Is there a way (legitimate method or an ugly hack) to enable streaming of bbc radio (four) simply by saying a voice command to Siri?

On Amazon’s Echo, saying “play radio 4” begins streaming bbc radio 4 from tunein.

Maybe there’s a clever way using Launchpad, or Workflow, or some other app?


texts: When Organized by Conversation, Mail's Inbox sometimes sends out to wrong recipient

texts:
When Lion's Mail Inbox is set to "Organize by Conversation", an odd behavior often occurs. If I hit Reply to the latest email from my correspondent, the recipient in the new email is me, not this correspondent.

I'm aware that any of the emails in the Conversation can be individually highlighted (seen as a blue line around that email), and that if this blue line is around one of the correspondent's emails, hitting Reply definitely sets the new email to be sent to this correspondent. However, if nothing is blue-highlighted, and I hit Reply, the new email is set to be sent to... me. Which of course isn't the objective.

Whew, that was harder to explain than the issue, but I hope my question is clear!


texts: finder menu "Services>>New Terminal at Folder" doesn't work

texts:
It opens a terminal at the user directory, just like clicking on the terminal icon does. I'm popping up a menu in Finder, on the folder, and the folder is outlined to indicate it is the subject of the menu, but the terminal doesn't open on that folder.

Running Yosemite 10.10.5. In Preferences>>Keyboard>>Shortcuts>>Services "New Terminal at Folder" is checked.

Any clues/pointers how to fix this?

(I just discovered this "New Terminal at Folder" feature, so I don't know if it was ever working or when it stopped working.)


texts:
Is it possible to jailbreak an iPad 1 on a PowerPC?

I've tried Greenpois0n on PowerPC, but for some reason that doesn't work, so is there any other software I can use?

(iPad is running iOS 5)


texts: I am a left handed Mac user and I find that some features are not left hand friendly. In particular Notifications is quite bothersome. Most of the time my cursor is over near the left hand edge of the screen; that is the part of the workspace I tend to operate from and when an email notification comes up I have to move my cursor nearly across the full diagonal of the screen to get to the banner before it disappears. I quite often don’t get it. If there was a way to make the Notifications appear on the left hand side of the screen that would be great. Does anyone know of a way to do that?


texts: How to burn non-English subtitles into mkv using a mac application?

texts:
my smart TV app (samsung UE55F8000) doesn't render non-latin subtitles correctly and there is no option to configure it.

The only way to show non-latin subtitles as far as I understand is to burn subtitles into mkv itself on my mac and then transfer this mkv to TV set.

Can you please recommend a software to do this hard burning?

Best regards,


texts: Is the iPhone 4S hardware compatible worldwide with other SIM based networks?

texts: I particularly want to know if iPhone 4S can work with other networks that use SIM cards when the device is authorized to be unlocked. With these conditions, can it take a SIM card when traveling?


texts: Can you turn off the (the lighting) of the Touch Bar on the new MacBook Pros?

texts:
So I don't have a the new MacBook Pro here, but can you actually turn the TouchBar off, like you can turn off the backlit keyboard, when you're watching movie in example?

Searching on Apple.com to do some research didn't find any information about this function.

Can a tool or setting or script turn off the touch bar illumination on demand?


texts:
I am new to Mac and I don't know very much about the operating system. I am used to Windows where I had a C partition for the OS and other partitions for data. When I wanted a fresh install I only formatted the C drive.

What is the best method to use this on Mac? I don't want to use an external HDD or a stick – I want to have them on my 256 GB SSD. I don't know what to do. I don't want to lose my photos and videos so please advice me.


texts: Which OnyX setting resets my Chrome extensions?

texts:
I use OnyX to clear out caches and delete superfluous files to try to make my Mac run faster. I usually just run "Automation" with the default boxes checked.

However, after I do this, I find my Chrome extensions are reset. I have to log back in to Readability, Pocket, etc.

Which OnyX checkbox do I uncheck to prevent this happening?


texts: What do the Stack/Unstack options do in iOS Photos app?

texts: I am running the iOS 11 beta but don't know if this is a new option or if it's there in 10 too. On some of my photos, there is a Stack or Unstack option on the share sheet. If I select it, nothing seems to happen and I can't find any documentation on it. What do they do?


texts:
How can I make a 3G video call (not Facetime) from an iPhone 4 to another brand's 3G phone? Is it possible by default? or any apps?

Edit 11 November:

I just found this today: No 3G video calling on iPhone 4


texts:
I have a problem with a seemingly unremovable directory/bundle. I moved Spotify.app from /Applications to the Trash and later tried to empty the Trash.

The empty trash progress bar shows up but then nothing happens anymore. No error message, no progress.

Then i tried to remove the directory with the following commands

rm -rfv ~/.Trash/*
sudo rm -rfv /home/<user_name>/.Trash/*

Both never return, can not be aborted with ^c and provide no output at all. I considered some filesystem corruption, rebooted in recovery mode and ran the disc repair. It found an error and fixed it, but the problem did not go away and i still have the same behavior.

Another potentially related problem is wrong meta information in the Finder. Since some weeks ago i repeatedly find files where the Finder shows no filesize, type, creation date, modification date.

Any ideas how to remove the directory or what might be the problem?


texts: Showing "Return Completed" as status but didn't receive refund yet

texts: I have ordered an IPhone and the phone was not delivered(not sure about the reason) and was returned back to apple warehouse. The status in the order page shows as "Return Completed" on 22nd of December 2018. I didn't receive the refund yet. How much longer it might take for the refund to be completed.


texts: Read epub book purchased from iTunes on Windows

texts: I have purchased a book through iTunes, it is formatted as an epub. Is there anyway I can read it in a Windows PC?


texts:
I went to a coffee shop that had Wi-Fi this morning and they gave me the network name and password. In the top-right corner of my desktop there is the Wi-Fi menu, and I selected it to "Turn Wi-Fi On" It searched for a few seconds and correctly found their network.

I then tried to connect to it, but botched/fat-fingered the password and pressed Enter ⏎ by mistake. I then wasted about 20 mins trying to find a way to change the (bad) password that my Mac was using to authenticate with. I gave up and came home.

So I ask: How do you change the password for a Wi-Fi network?


texts: Install Mavericks on Unsupported MacBook 4,1

texts:
I've spent the last 2 days trying to install Mavericks on my MacBook 4,1. It is from Early 2008. It is unsupported, but I would like to install Mavericks on it. Is there a workaround for bypassing the system check or just generally getting it to install?

I've tried:

SFOTT (found out it's for Macs that have 32-bit EFI and/or processors; I have 64-bit versions of both)
Making a plain USB installer by using DiskMaker X (fails at the prohibitary (⊘) symbol when booting)
Doing SFOTT on a partition on the internal HD (same result as SFOTT)

Oh, and if you need it, here are hardware specifications:

MacBook 4,1; Early 2008
2 GB 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM
160 GB internal HD
2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
Intel GMA X3100 144 MB
64-bit EFI and processor
Current OS is Mac OS X 10.7.2 (11C74)

And one more thing: I don't want to give up trying.


texts: I've uninstalled Xcode and many apps were uninstalled too

texts:
I've uninstalled Xcode 4 to reinstall it:

sudo /Developer/Library/uninstall-devtools --mode=all

...and now I don't have Terminal.app and the Activity Monitor.app and I don't know what else apps were uninstalled.

I'm running Lion 10.7.2. Is there a way to recover this apps?


texts:
In the Finder of my mac, it often happens that some photos in a folder are displaying wrong previews. The set of photos which have this problem is random and unpredictable: sometimes among 10 photos in a row there is one with a wrong thumbnail. The wrong thumbnail is always another photo in the same folder. Rebooting the machine does not help, which means the wrong information is stored somewhere. When I duplicate the photos (as an experiment), the new copy is OK.

I wonder if there is a way to force refreshing the thumbnails.

MacBook Air (13-inch, Early 2014), OS X Yosemite (10.10.2)

I have also asked this question on https://discussions.apple.com/thread/6988345 but received no answer yet.


texts: iMessage coming up as new thread in text instead of continuation

texts:
If a person adds a new e-mail account to imessage would it then come up as a different thread or contact in my iPhone?

I received a message today from somebody I imessage and text daily, today when they imessaged it came up as a completely new text and an email address instead of a continuation of old conversation as it normally does, does this mean it is coming from a new phone number using e-mail account for messaging?

are there any other possibilities as to why this would occur?


texts: iPhone8 Showing Pictures On Device Even Though I Removed All Photos

texts: I don't get it.  I removed all my pictures from my iPhone8 but iPhone Storage is still showing pictures are in the iPhone8.


texts: How to enforce backup of an .ipa from iPad to iTunes/Mac?

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Usually, all the .ipas are backup up in the ~/Music/iTunes/Mobile Applications folder. I accidentally deleted an .ipa in the folder. Now, after syncing, the app is on iPad but the .ipa is not backup in the Mobile Applications folder. How can I enforce the sync to backup all .ipas to the Mac again?

My iPad is not jailbreak. I want to restore the VLC app (.ipa deleted from Mac) from iPad and install on another new iPhone ...


texts: Is selective upload to iCloud possible (i.e. apps only, no camera content)?

texts: My daughter has about 20 gig of movies and photos from her iPad which I backup to an external drive via Windows. I don't want all this content uploading to iCloud and syncing to my other devices, but I would like apps to do that. Is there a way to make this distinction with iCloud? Can iTunes do it?


texts: "Email already in use" Apple ID error message. How can I set it up?

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A little over month ago I received an email from the Russian Apple website, asking me to confirm my email to complete the registration of my Apple ID. I am thinking someone possibly used my email by mistake. I did not click the authentication link. The message stated that if it wasn't me who registered, I shouldn't worry.

However, now I am trying to create an Apple ID but I get the error message:

  "Email already in use"

I have never registered for an Apple ID with my email address. Resetting the password through email authentication does not send me any email.

What can I do?


texts:
I'm doing development with the Windows phones, but I'd really like to ditch my Windows box.  I have access to a virtual Windows installation in the cloud, but I need to be able to deploy to, and debug on, my phone which is most decidedly not in the cloud.

I'm looking for software which provides virtual USB ports with client/server TCP/IP support, which supports intercommunication with OS X and Windows.  Anyone heard of anything like that?


texts: Blue screen when booting from USB backup of Mountain Lion

texts: I've not been able to startup my MacBook Pro. I made a backup of Mountain Lion using Lion DiskMaker 2.0.2. When I press option and the power button then select the USB drive, the grey screen with the apple logo and spinner appears then shortly after I get a solid royal blue screen. Is there anyway I can boot from the USB drive backup to fix my computer?


texts: Adobe Creative Cloud Color Replacement Tool Not There

texts:
Color replacement tool in Photoshop CC missing. It's usually behind the brush tool. Just updated and it's still missing. It's there on my desktop Mac, but it's missing on my MacBook Pro.

How do I find where to sync settings and/or find that control on Photoshop?


texts:
Recently, when I try to quit Mail, the Quit menu option is actually disabled and the keyboard shortcut doesn't work (it "beeps" just like when you try to do anything that isn't permitted). Screenshot for proof:

Any idea what's causing this and how I can prevent it from happening? The only "solution" I've found is to force quit Mail...

I'm running Mail 6.2 on 10.8.2.


texts: How do I roll back my iOS version? The 12.2 update has broken my WiFi

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When I updated my iPhone 8 to 12.2 (16E227), it broke the WiFi and now apps like YouTube can't connect and often times I can't even load apple.com in Safari. Podcast app also fails when streaming. When I restart the phone then it works for about a minute. When I turn airplane mode on and off, it works for about a minute. All apps are up-to-date.

However my iPad with iOS 9.3.5 works flawlessly. My Samsung laptop works flawlessly. Also when I turn WiFi off on my iPhone and use cell data, it also works.

A user said it wasn't possible because Apple "stopped signing" old versions, but  that doesn't make any sense. A signature is a static sequence of bytes. If you are familiar with cryptography, a signed file is just another file that uses the signer's private key. You don't "stop signing" something because signing a file is a one-time event, not an ongoing process. As long as you have the file, the file's signature, and the public key, you have a signed, verifiable file.


texts: Does anyone know why I've been getting thin rectangular outlines all over my desktop?

texts: These lines have been appearing and increasing in number.


texts: How do I delete forward on a Macbook Pro?

texts:
I know this:

Fn + backspace - "del" key (delete letter to the right) <-- where's the Fn key in the MBP?
Alt + backspace - Delete last word
Command + backspace - Delete whole line

Now... there is no Fn Key on a MacBook Pro. What key combination should I use, or it's a matter of simply: It's not possible?


texts:
I didn't have to do this before, but since a few days ago, the iPhone started to ask me to "Trust This Computer?" every time when I connect it to my Windows 10 laptop to access photos on the phone. I don't remember anything I did differently.

What should I do to make the iPhone always remember I have trusted the Windows 10 device?

iOS Version: 11.3 (15E216)


texts: All editing and sharing options disabled in Quicktime

texts:
I downloaded a video with these specs:

I'm unable to cut, copy, paste, trim and share since all these options are greyed out:

Why?


texts: Transfer WhatsApp chat history from Windows Phone to iPhone

texts:
I was trying to restore WhatsApp chat history by method described by "oa-" user here on the forum. But can not ask him directly Transfer the WhatsApp Windows Phone Backup file to  Iphone

The "1b6b187a1b60b9ae8b720c79e2c67f472bab09c0" file (check the link above) does not exist in the "1b" folder of my iPhone backup. So, how can I tell which file in the "1b" folder is related to WhatsApp Chat Backup to replace it with file from my old Windows Phone?

Thanks in advance.


texts: LDAP user VNC screen sharing suddenly broke. Other LDAP users work, local admin works

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I have a Mac (macOS Sierra 10.12.6) with a local admin user, a local non-admin user, and many LDAP users. One of the LDAP users can't login via VNC anymore, but can login via SSH.

The affected user can connect to the VNC port, and is prompted for a username/password.

After the password is accepted, they are prompted to either request to view the display of the current user, or log in as themselves. They choose to log in as themselves.

Then, they just see the Connecting to ... dialog and eventually it times out.

Other LDAP users are able to login via VNC and SSH, and the local admin and non-admin users can login via VNC. This has affected the same user on two different boxes (both running the same version of macOS), so I'm guessing this is some kind of LDAP configuration issue, but I wasn't aware of any LDAP properties that controlled screen sharing access.

What might have changed to cause one of my LDAP users to lose VNC?


texts: Adding contact on iPhone adds it to Exchange but not iCloud

texts:
On my iPhone running iOS6, I have the following accounts configured:

iCloud - Contacts, Reminders, Safari, Passbook, and Find my iPhone
Exchange (my work email) - Mail, Contacts, Calendars, and Reminders
Gmail - Mail and Calendars

I would like to keep my personal contacts (in iCloud) completely separate from my work contacts (in Exchange).

When I add a contact directly on my iPhone, it immediately shows up in Outlook but does not exist in my iCloud contacts (verify by looking in iCloud.com or Contacts app on my Mac).

I would like it so when I add a contact on my iPhone it gets added to my iCloud contacts, not my Exchange contacts.

Is this possible?


texts: macOS Preview has graphical glitch when copying using rectangular selection

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Whenever I open a .pdf (haven't tried with other formats) with many pages (at least > 5), Preview does this really annoying thing:

I use the Rectangular Selection tool to select an area of the .pdf I want to copy.

When I copy, the page does this:

When I click the area off, then I can see the page again.

Because I tend to make flashcards/store several selections of what I copied with the Rectangular Selection, I'd like to know what I can do to solve this issue.

Some useful information: I'm using macOS Sierra beta. I understand that this means I'll probably encounter more bugs than someone that isn't using the beta, but before installing a Release Candidate, I figured I could learn some stuff. I've tried deleting the .plists for Preview with no luck. When I zoom into the page (after pressing ⌘c and the weirdness happening), the page probably re-renders and the problem goes away. If I press ⌘c while zoomed in, the weirdness ensues.

Any advice on how to reinstall/format the app before that doesn't require a new installation would be much appreciated!


texts: How can I quickly change a setting that is "deep" in a menu?

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I need to toggle  "Allow Wi-Fi Calls" all the time.  Currently I have to do the following.

Tap Settings.  Scroll down to phone. Tap.  Find Wi-Fi Calls.  Tap. Toggle switch.

That's SIX things I have to do to change one setting.  And I have to change it all the time.  Is there a shortcut?


texts: Stop destroying network performance every time an app scans for wifi networks

texts:
While trying to debug poor video chat quality, I noticed that certain apps cause periodic ping latency spikes even while pinging my router.

I tracked the problem down to the fact that the apps (e.g. Genymotion, qbittorrent) seem to be scanning for wifi networks every few seconds. (When I turned on debug wifi logging, I kept seeing lines like Info: <airportd[74491]> SCAN request received from pid 76811 (genymotion) with priority 0 that correlated with the latency spikes.)

Is there any way for me to stop this from happening? It basically means I can't run Genymotion and have a video call at the same time because it'll stutter every 10-15 seconds.


texts:
I'm having a problem with this tutorial, when I have to list volume and assign the volumes to letters. In fact I'm getting only 3 volumes on my cmd.exe (volume 0 W7.X86X64 CD-Rom)
(volume 1 (RAW Partition 200M "Masked)
(volume 2 BCSS FAT32 Partition 1906M)

I don't have the volume BOOTCAMP.
I have one HDD (where I want to install windows) + one SSD (where is installed mac) on my macbook pro.

Thanks

No bootable device USB 2.0 MacBook Pro mid 2014


texts: Change label on USB drive in OSX Terminal

texts:
I am trying to write a program in Python that will rename a USB drive (from the standard "USB DISK" to my custom "MYDISK").

However, I can't find any way to do this neither in Python nor in OSX Terminal. (I figured, if I can make it work in Terminal, I can simply use os.system("command") in Python).

The USB drive is a FAT32 formatted flash drive on filesystem /dev/disk2s1, and it is by default mounted on /Volumes/USB DISK

What I have tried so far: (from http://techbu.com/2009/06/28/renaming-usb-drive-labels-in-linux)

sudo umount /Volumes/USB\ DISK            ## Works fine
sudo mlabel -i /dev/disk2s1 ::MYDISK      ## Command not found!

It seems that the "mlabel" command is not found in OSX Terminal. Is there an alternative?


texts: OS X Yosemite Server won't create websites

texts:
I'm having trouble creating a website in OS X Server (10.10.3) using the Website tab. I've created a DNS entry, so I have a green light when I enter the same domain name in the "Domain Name" field.

When I go to click on the "Create" button it turns grey for a moment, then back to blue. The dialog box stays open, and nothing happens. I've tried both with a certificate (port 443) and without (port 80), to no avail. All other settings are default.


texts: How can I send email through a Terminal window?

texts:
I'm trying to figure out some basic Terminal commands, so I thought I'd try out 'mail.'

I opened a Terminal window and entered the following:
mail (my email address)
(The Terminal then said "Subject:" without quotes) so I entered "test" without quotes.

"This is a test message"  without quotes

I then ended the message by typing . and enter, but nothing has send to my inbox.


texts: Only Cursor and Notifications Appear for First Few Seconds After Display Turns Back On

texts:
When my 2011 iMac's display shuts off - before the computer goes to sleep, but after a screensaver might display - there is frequently a 5-15second delay with the display coming back.

What I see is the backlight on the display come on, showing a completely black screen with the only exceptions being my cursor and any notifications in the upper-right that have appeared since the display shut off.

I can move the cursor around without trouble. I cannot interact with the notifications.

After a delay the rest of the display returns: the dock, open windows, etc... exactly as I left it.

I have only experienced this issue for the last 2-3 months. Is there a way to stop this delay? What causes this?

Update

I see the following in the activity console.

10/8/14 1:04:59.000 AM kernel[0]: PM notification cancel (pid 129, screens_connectd)

10/8/14 1:05:09.872 AM WindowServer[152]: CGXDisplayDidWakeNotification [193459014260005]: posting kCGSDisplayDidWake

10/8/14 1:05:09.873 AM WindowServer[152]: handle_will_sleep_auth_and_shield_windows: Deferring.


texts: How can I retain geotagging information on my iPhone pictures?

texts: Most of my phone's memory (almost 11 GB's of it) resides in my pictures and videos. I want to clear most of it but not even my completely empty iCloud storage can handle all of it. Anyways, when you're looking at your photos and you zoom out into "years" and you click one of those years, a big map will pop out and you'll literally see every single place you've taken these pictures at. I think that's really cool since I went to a lot of places last summer and in general think it's a cool feature. Back to the point, is there any way I could save that location information when I export these pictures to my laptop? Would a copy/paste just be sufficient? I don't have a Mac either, so I don't know if it will be harder or impossible. And if it is possible, is there some sort of app that you can use on your laptop to pull up that same view you have on your iPhone and see everywhere you took your pictures?


texts: Yosemite disables audio output on external monitor change

texts:
When I plug or unplug monitor so the screen configuration changes, or if I open/close the MBP lid, then:

The audio stops
When I try to change volume, the volume symbol is crossed like this: Ø

Can it be fixed somehow? E.g. on Skype calls it's very annoying.


texts: AirDrop: Problem with previous file sender

texts:
The story is like this:

File was trying to be sent via Airdrop, I can't receive the file, both of us were on the Airdrop window, nothing happens. Quit the connection. Days later, Airdrop still shows the sender (friend) whom isn't even around the proximity and has jammed up my AirDrop.

Anybody knows how to resolve this issue? Refer to screenshot for problem.


texts:
Has anybody played around with using braces in a formula? Syntactically, they seem to define collections inline in a formula. It would be great if we could figure out how to define multi-row collections. My apologies for not making this inline code but I think the paste is clearer.

But to give an idea of what I am talking about, the following will produce 2.

MATCH(TRUE,{FALSE,TRUE,TRUE},0)


texts: What location data will an Android phone provide to an iOS device that lacks GPS?

texts: Will my iPad 4 Wi-Fi only (or an iPod touch) get live location data for navigation purposes if I connect to an Android mobile phone that is enabled as a Wi-Fi hotspot?


texts: HFS+ Partition of Mac OSX is not recognized in Windows 10 Bootcamp

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I installed triple systems (Mac, Windows, Linux) on my Macbook Pro retina mid 2014 with rEFInd boot loader. Hfs+ partition used to be visible in Windows 8.1 Bootcamp.

But after updating to Windows 10, it doesn't show up again. I don't enable FileVault. HFS+ drivers installed on Windows 10 with the latest Bootcamp support drivers.

Please help! Thank you so much.

Below is the output from the following Terminal application commands.

diskutil list
diskutil cs list
sudo gpt -r show /dev/disk0
sudo fdisk /dev/disk0


texts: Is the Shown location of your phone on find my friends accurate if the the phone is offline

texts: My daughter lost or had her phone stolen.  I do not believe she had her find my phone on.   She went on to find friends through the icloud and it is showing  a location for her phone.  We are wondering if this is actually where her phone is. Or what is the app basing this information on.


texts: Why does Pages constantly freeze on a particular pages document

texts:
I'm writing a report (4000 words)on Pages in the past few days. However, since this afternoon, after I added a new picture to the report, this report has been constantly unresponsive whenever I scroll down/up or type something.
I've restarted macbook but it doesn't solve the problem.
I also opened a small document (200 words), everything works fine.
Macbook Pro 2018. MacOs: Big Sur 11.2.3


texts: BootCamp 5 + Windows 8 troubles (unsupported hardware?)

texts:
I preordered Windows 8 a while back, and as soon as I got it I tinkered around with BootCamp 4 (which technically only supports Windows 7) to get it up and running, since the only computer I have is a MacBook. It's been running fine, but since there's now BootCamp 5, which includes official Windows 8 support, I'd like to be able to upgrade. I figured the update would be delivered through Apple Software Update, but when I open it it only says there are no updates. So I downloaded the installer from Apple's support website but when I run it all it says is my hardware is unsupported.

The thing is, Apple's website says that BootCamp 5 supports the mid 2010 MacBook Pros and newer, which is exactly what I have.

I don't know what to do. It's not crucial that I get BootCamp 5, but it'd be ideal. Anyone know what I could do?


texts: Sometimes I want to look quickly at a large number of SVG files.  My options seem to be Inkscape, which is rather ponderous and slow to open, or a browser, which is unsatisfactory for other reasons.  Is there a tool that does nothing but display (not edit) SVG images?


texts: Can't start Time Machine backups on Catalina

texts:
Running OS X Catalina, I am unable to initiate backups of any sort from Time Machine. The target disk is an external drive with plenty of space (multiples of the space on the internal drive I'm trying to back up). Here's the UI error I get:

Digging in under the hood, I find console errors from backupd that look consistently like this:

Failed to create APFS snapshot with name
  'com.apple.TimeMachine.2019-11-17-174139.local' on volume
  '/System/Volumes/Data',
  error: Error Domain=NSPOSIXErrorDomain Code=28 "No space left on device"

However, there is space on this drive:

In case the cause was a file system error, I rebooted via Internet recovery and ran:

fsck_apfs /dev/disk1

and found no errors.

I tried to re-enable local snapshots, but it appears that command is no longer available in Catalina:

Any idea how to get Time Machine backups running again?

note: This question seems similar to this question, which also does not appear to have a satisfactory answer.


texts: How to safely eject a volume when the icon has disappeared?

texts: I was using an external hard drive and the icon has disappeared (the program used to mount the volume hung so I stopped the process with diskutil unmountDisk /dev/disk3) - so now I do not know how to safely eject it. It's an old external hard disk, and I can feel it spinning when I put my hand on it, so I don't want to take any risks.


texts: Automator "New File" workflow in Mojave returning “Not authorised to send Apple events to System Events.”

texts:
I have copied a workflow to create a new file from within the finder, saved in ~/Library/Services/. It runs fine from Automator and appears in the Finder > Services menu, but there's no "services" menu when clicking in a blank area within a folder.
I'd expect to right-click on a blank space in a folder (or the desktop) and use the contextual menu and activate it.
The main issue is that the script runs fine from within Automator, but not from the Finder:

The action “Run AppleScript” encountered an error: “Not authorised to send Apple events to System Events.”

Has anyone else had this issues with a working script?


texts: Make "Internal Speakers" a permanent option in sound options on the menu bar

texts:
Sometimes I use a headset with my iMac, but I often need to switch between both. Unfortunately, I need to unplug the headset every time to do this. This is a hassle, because the iMac is located far back at the table and is surrounded by documents and other things.

Back when I had Windows, I could just switch between "Internal Speakers", "Headset" and every other sound-system that was connected to the PC.

When using the options in the sound icon in the menu bar, the "Internal Speakers" option disappears as soon as the Headsets are plugged in.

How can I make them stay? I really would like to choose between both outputs without unplugging the headset.

edit: no workaround like in "Use internal speakers with others plugged in", just making "Internal Speakers" a permanent option without alternative solution


texts: Why am I getting command not found even though path to command exists in PATH variable?

texts:
On Mac OSX 10.10.1
I get command not found for anything installed in /usr/local/bin (however command is found if I use sudo)
PATH variable contains this path.
for example pip. Here are some lines from terminal:

Dylans-MacBook-Air:edX Dylan$ echo $PATH/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.4/bin:/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.4/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin
Dylans-MacBook-Air:edX Dylan$ ls /usr/local/bin
2to3            idle3.4         pydoc3          python3.4-32        rtmpdump        tclsh8.5        wish8.5
2to3-3.4        pip         pydoc3.4        python3.4-config    rtmpgw          tclsh8.6        wish8.6
easy_install        pip2            python3         python3.4m      rtmpsrv         tclvfse         youtube-dl
easy_install-2.7    pip2.7          python3-32      python3.4m-config   rtmpsuck        teacup
easy_install-3.4    pip3            python3-config      pyvenv          tclselect       udemy-dl
idle3           pip3.4          python3.4       pyvenv-3.4      tclsh           wish
Dylans-MacBook-Air:edX Dylan$ pip
-bash: pip: command not found
Dylans-MacBook-Air:edX Dylan$ which pip
Dylans-MacBook-Air:edX Dylan$ sudo which pip
/usr/local/bin/pip
Dylans-MacBook-Air:edX Dylan$

What could be causing this behaviour and how do I fix it?


texts: Garbage when printing pdf exported from Pages

texts:
I have an issue when printing pdf documents exported from Pages. The pdf looks fine in Preview but when printing, the printer (Xerox 3260 with latest drivers) just spits out almost empty pages with some garbage characters in the top. Printing directly from Pages works fine as well as printing pdf documents from other sources. Bug?

macOS Big Sur (11.1)
Pages 10.3.9
Printing over AirPrint


texts:
I have a problem with the Mail app. It always shows the wrong count after using it for a while. I already reset my spotlight index and also did the "Rebuild" in the app.

As an example below, it says "2" but no mail is marked (0 would be the right value)

Any suggestions?
I use outlook.com as a mail provider.


texts: Paralells Reports Missing Operating System with Windows 10 bootcamp Partition

texts:
I've installed Windows 10 Release Candidate on a brand new SSD drive. My Windows Bootcamp partition boots and runs correctly, but tends to crash ocassionaly. I believe this is due to bootcamp drivers that haven't been updated for Windows 10.

I've heard reports that running this setup through Parallels should resolve these crashes. When I open Paralells, however, I don't see the (typical and easy) bootcamp option:

(Notice that there is no bootcamp option)

After some searching, I've found this answer that links to an article about setting up the VM manually. I've followed the steps, but get the following error on booting:

Trying to boot from SATA drive 1...
Missing Operating system

I've even tried choosing a few different locations (SATA 0:2 - SATA 0:3)
but am still getting the same error.

I've also followed this Paralells support article, although I only did the first part where you run DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth, but am still having the same issue.

What is the issue here?

So my setup is:

OS X Yosemite 10.10.4

Paralells Desktop 10 10.2.2 (29105) Trial


texts: Can't install apps from App Store on iPhone with iOS 7

texts:
I upgraded my iPhone 4 to iOS 7 last night but now I can't download apps using the App Store on my iPhone. It's still possible to get the apps using iTunes on my computer and syncing my phone, but this is cumbersome.

I get errors as shown below:

  Unable to Purchase
  [app name] could not be purchased at this time. Please try again later.

Is this a known issue, and how can I rectify it?


texts: Is Time Machine sufficient in the case of a reformat?

texts:
I installed OS X Server 4.0 on top of Yosemite and my VPN got hosed.  I've tried many things to fix the issue including attempted uninstall of OS X Server. Now I am going to re-install the OS.  In preparation for said install, I setup time machine for the first time.

Will time machine be able to restore files after a OS re-install or do I need to consider manually backing up files?  Second, will time machine restore the potentially broken part of my OS as well (considering I ran time machine after the fact)?


texts: Why are photos and videos always cropped on phone orientation?

texts:
Isn't the lens proportional in width and height? Is there a specific reason they are cropped to the orientation?

Does AVFoundation have API that would let me take full uncropped photos and videos? I’ve read through some of the documentation but nothing that would help me achieve this stands out.


texts:
I've got a little problem with my text messages; here's the background...

I had texted the family the night before but woke up with my phone dead. Once I had charged the phone to the point where it was able to turn on again, I saw various notifications which I had received whilst the phone had been dead. One of these notifications was a reply from the relative I had texted the night before, and although it only displayed their number (due to start up, contact names are not shown yet) I knew it was them. I could also see the preview of the message.

When I unlock my phone for the first time and check my Messages app the actual message is nowhere to be seen. I've tried manually searching for the message, restarted the phone many times but no luck. My Messages still works and I am able to still send and receive but I'd like to find this missing message.


texts:
I'm trying to install encfs, for which I need brew. I installed brew, but installing encfs is a pain.

bash-3.2$ brew install osxfuse
Warning: osxfuse-2.6.2 already installed, it's just not linked
bash-3.2$ brew link --overwrite osxfuse
Linking /usr/local/Cellar/osxfuse/2.6.2... Warning: Could not link osxfuse.
Unlinking...
Error: Permission denied - /usr/local/include/osxfuse/fuse/fuse_opt.h
bash-3.2$ ls -l /usr/local/include/osxfuse/fuse/fuse_opt.h
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  7187 17 Dec  2011 /usr/local/include/osxfuse/fuse/fuse_opt.h

How can I get this working? Using sudo is not allowed.


texts:
My wife is travelling in the US and has her Australian iPhone (which is roaming) and a iPhone with a US SIM.

I can iMessage her OK. I can also iMessage my daughter (in Australia).

When I try to send a message to both my daughter and wife it suddenly goes as SMS (for which I have to pay roaming charges).

Up until last night it was working OK.

How can I force my iMac to use iMessage NOT SMS?


texts: Bought additional iCloud space but it's not showing in Settings

texts: I just bought additional 50 GB of space in iCloud. I should mention that I had to change my credit card first because it was the first purchase in a while and the previous card expired. All went well. I received a security message from my ma bank, saying that my purchase went through, but when I checked in Settings, the available space still shows "0". I turned off the phone, still nothing. Anything else I can try? I wanted to sign out of iCloud as I saw some people being advised to do online, but I got a message that all my photos in iCloud library, drive, etc. will be removed from the iPhone. Unsure what exactly this means, I didn't risk it.


texts: External SSD not being recognized by newer (retina) MacBooks

texts:
So I'm in a rather strange situation. I have an SSD, and I am using a SATA to USB 3 adapter (basically an enclosure, as it is called) to connect it to my laptop. This worked fine with a mid-2012 MacBook Pro.

I tried to use this SSD with with a retina late 2012 MacBook Pro, only to find that it wasn't recognized at all by the MacBook. It didn't show up in the Finder, in Disk Utility, or even in the "System Information" USB section. It seemed as though it wasn't even connected. The USB ports on the MacBook are functional.

I tried formatting it with macOS Journaled, exFAT, and even NTFS, but to no avail. I decided to see if this would happen with other MacBooks. I connected it to another retina MacBook Pro, and it wasn't recognized. I connected it to a MacBook Air, and it was. When I formatted it to exFAT I connected it to a Windows computer, and it was recognized (and that's how I tried formatting it as an NTFS drive).

As some additional information, when I connect the SSD to the MacBook Pro, the enclosure light lights up, meaning that power definitely goes to it. However, it doesn't blink at all (which would suggest some operations were going on).

So from this, although I haven't tested an exhaustive list of computers, it seems as though the SSD won't work with newer, retina MacBooks. Is there any explanation for this? Is there any way in which I could make it work again? Is there a problem with my SSD, the adaptor, the USB 3.0 Micro-B 10 Pin to USB 3.0 Type A wire that I am using? Or is there a problem with newer MacBooks in general which don't allow such SSDs to be connected to the laptop with this adapter (which seems like the most likely of these)? Are there any drivers I need to install for it to work? (This doesn't sound likely, though).

Has anyone here had any luck with connecting an external SSD to their (retina) MacBook Pro?

Running diskutil list after connecting the external SSD, as was suggested by Allan in the comments, gives this output:

/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *121.3 GB   disk0
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s1
   2:          Apple_CoreStorage Macintosh HD            120.5 GB   disk0s2
   3:                 Apple_Boot Recovery HD             650.0 MB   disk0s3

/dev/disk1 (internal, virtual):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:                            Macintosh HD           +120.1 GB   disk1
                                 Logical Volume on disk0s2
                                 XXXXXXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXXXXXXXXXX
                                 Unencrypted

This is the same output that I get when I don't have the SSD connected.


texts: What would cause graphic glitches like this? (pics attached)

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I have a 2015 15" MBP fully maxed out - GPU, i7, 1TB, running fresh High Sierra install.

I've been having a ton of problems with it throttling (Intel SpeedStep kicking in) even under less than heavy usage. Recently the screen started freaking out, and I managed to capture video of it on my phone (imagine the image you're seeing with the various distorted parts flashing in and out).

The machine is covered by AppleCare. Took it the Apple Store, where it had problems booting some of their diagnostics, they sent it to a service center (along with my video caps). A week later they sent it back saying they couldn't reproduce the problem, sorry.

I'm fairly convinced this is a hardware/GPU issue - anyone ever seen this kind of distortion before?

I'd like to gather some more data points from others before going back to Apple.


texts: Different account with different display resolution

texts:
I am having two accounts on my Macbook Pro with Retina display. My wife doesn't like my current resolution, so she changes to a larger one. However when I switch back to my account, the OS doesn't switch the display resolution, if I change to my preference, it also affects her account.

Is there any way to make it work?


texts: Can anyone recommend a stop watch or timer which stays always on top?

texts:
My requirements for software or a script are:

I want to count hours when i am programming or browsing
Digits should appear on top on every app like browser or editor

Can anyone recommend a stop watch or timer app which  stays always on top on every application for macOS?


texts: Can I set up password protection for an external hard drive?

texts: How do I set up password protection for an external hard drive?


texts: keyboard shortcuts lost on iOS 8 upgrade

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After up grading to iOS 8 i lost ALL my customized "keyboard shortcuts"... be it over a hundred of them.

I spent ages setting them mostly for work and now have NONE. Tried upgrading to the latest update iOS 8.0.2 but still none.

Because of this issue I have not upgraded the 2 iPads and one other iPhone 5s to latest software - and they all still have my customized keyboard shortcuts

Any thoughts?


texts: Batch Removal of "Where from" Metadata Without a Handler

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I have many images that contain the "Where from" metadata in the "get info" section that shows the URL where they were downloaded from. I want to remove this information from all of them at the same time.

I created an Applescript that works when the shell script retrieves one image from the selected folder in finder. But when the shell script result is multiple images, I get the following error:

  xattr: No such file:

I need the Applescript to work without the use of a handler since it will be used in an application that does not accept handlers.

tell application "Finder" to set selectedFolder to selection as alias list
set folderPath to quoted form of POSIX path of selectedFolder

set getImages to "mdfind -onlyin " & folderPath & " 'kMDItemKind = *image'"
set selectedImages to paragraphs of (do shell script getImages)

set filePaths to {}
repeat with thisFile in selectedImages
    set end of filePaths to quoted form of POSIX path of thisFile
end repeat

do shell script "xattr -d com.apple.metadata:kMDItemWhereFroms " & filePaths


texts: I have a 4 yr old MacBook  and screen that has started to "bleed" into the viewing area

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I'm in college (poor),  I have a 4 yr old MacBook that has started to "bleed" into the viewing area of the screen making it difficult to see.

Will Apple replace this or do I have to buy a new one?
What other options do I have without spending a fortune?


texts:
I'm using MobileMe to sync my keychain between an iMac and a MacBook Air. Since both machines run Lion this error message pops up every other system start (or when waking up from sleep):
"An error occurred when configuring keychain syncing."

I have already reset the keychain on MobileMe and on both machines but the error message keeps coming.
Is there anything else I can do?


texts: How to change the frame color in Keynote

texts:
In Keynote, when adding a frame stroke, it is possible to change the background color.
However I am not seeing any way to change the actual color of the frame border (which always stays white).

Any advice for doing so?


texts: Automatic (or a quick) way to add page numbers to a pdf document

texts:
I have a macbook and am running Big Sur 11.2.2. I have some pdf documents with over a hundred pages that I need to put in page numbers. I'd rather not have to do this manually for every page, and was wondering if there's a quick way to do this?
Note that the pdf documents weren't originally word files, in which case I could just go into the word file and put in the page numbers and re-output it as a pdf.


texts: Is there a free Office App for the iOS to read Word, Excel, PowerPoint & OneNote files?

texts: I've looked around the AppStore for this but have not found one yet. Maybe my keywords are all messed up. Is there an app that will allow me to read files created by Microsoft Office on the iOS?


texts:
I jailbroke my iPad several months ago, and then could not open the Bloomberg app that I use for work. ("Device has been jailbroken.") I figured that work>jailbreaking (duh) and restored my iPad. I tried to open Bloomberg once more, and it said "Device has been jailbroken."

What does jailbreaking do that is irreparably detectable?


texts: Reclaiming Unallocated Free Space that might Have Gone to Recovery Partition?

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So, I have a pretty grave problem that I really need help with.  Earlier today, I decided to remove my old and buggy bootcamp partition and reinstall windows.  Problem was, bootcamp assistant didn't allow me to pick the same size as I previously had, so I decided to try to forcibly resize the Mac partition using diskutil resizevolume and then format the unallocated space into FAT32.

That's when my real problem started.  I was unable to use disk utility to convert that unallocated space afterwards, and a few boots later, I even think that the recovery partition seems to have taken the unallocated space for itself.

This is my main partition, for reference:

And this is what diskutil list shows:

So my question now is this: how do I return things to normal on my hd and reclaim all the space for the main partition?  Do I have to delete the Recovery HD partition and reinstall it afterwards?  Or am I making a mistake and the space is still somehow unallocated?