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This happens to me when I'm editing a document (usually a Javascript script) in TextMate (1 and 2) and TextWrangler.

I have this document open in another app, and in certain occasions, the document within TextMate/TextWrangler would revert itself to the previously saved versions whenever I hit Cmd+S. This is very annoying as my changes are basically gone.

I'm pretty sure both TextMate and TextWrangler are not sandboxed. The version of TextWrangler I have is the one from the Mac App Store.

Anyone has any workarounds for this?


texts: Is mac sierra protecting me from erasing my hard drive and my sd card

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when I was trying to erase my sd card in fat16 format i entered the wrong device tree .(e.g. instead of writing disk3s2 i wrote disk2 when i executed the command it said permission denied(which was supposed to erase my whole drive).then when i again tried to format it the right way it again said permission denied.

newfs_msdos -F 16 /Volumes/KIRAN\ USB/dev/disk2s1

So here's my question why am I not able to format my drive and sd card via terminal


texts: "Inbox Zero" with Apple Watch Siri watchface and Activity?

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I am a big fan of Inbox Zero and any item left in my inbox means "I have yet to do this!"

The Siri watch face on my Apple Watch tends to follow this but there seems to always be one item left, no matter what I do, and this is the "Activity" item.

For example, today I went for a short bicycle ride. I'm not in the best shape so the short ride filled up my activity goal for today. I had already filled the "stand up" quota, I was close to my calories quota and the bicycle ride filled my exercise quota.

However, the Activity item is still there. I'd be the first to admit that is probably a "Good Thing™", considering the shape that I'm in, but it bugs me far more that I can't get "Inbox Zero", but rather "Inbox One-to-go".

Is there a way for me to say "When I've filled all the quotas I've set, please hide the Activity item"?

If this can (only) be done with watchOs 5, which is in beta, I would accept this as an answer, even though I'm on watchOs 4 (which would imply it isn't possible right now).


texts: How do I compress a file into .xip format?

texts: I wanted to compress the Xcode.app I downloaded from the app store into .xip format. Is it the same as compressing it to .zip and renaming?


texts: iPhone 5s touch screen is extremely buggy after repair

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My iPhone 5s fell out of my pocket and smashed the glass. Everything still worked perfectly. The touch screen was just as responsive as ever, and Touch ID worked fine. I had the glass (whole screen maybe?) replaced a few days later only to find that Touch ID didn't work and roughly the bottom right quarter of the screen was extremely glitchy (in regards to touch responsiveness). They replaced it with a white screen because they were out of black. I brought it back to have them repair it again and replace the white screen for a black one. They found out something wasn't plugged in completely with the Touch ID sensor. After this repair Touch ID is working again, but now roughly the bottom half of the screen is extremely buggy, in regards to touch responsiveness. 9/10 touches are misinterpreted, and the phone reacts as if I were scrolling, usually down, but often in other directions too. When I intentionally scroll the phone will almost instantly jump in a random direction about 3 or 4 times as far as it should. Sometimes when this happens I can hold my finger down and it will continue to jump in that direction.

What might be the problem? Is it possible I got two lemon replacement parts? Is there anything I should have this repair shop look for?

Edit: After taking it in once again and having them take a look at it, they found that one of the cables (digitizer cable?) was pinched. They didn't say if they replaced it or just removed the pinch point, but their attempt to fix it failed again.


texts: Enabling /bin/bash on Catalina - invisible to System Preferences -> Security & Privacy -> Full Disk Access

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I am having trouble enabling /bin/bash on Catalina - Macos 10.15.1

When I try to enable it using "System Preferences -> Security & Privacy -> Full Disk Access", the pop-up finder list doesn't show /bin/bash.

As you can see from this screenshot:

The permissions on bash seem OK:

  ls -l /bin/bash
  -r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  623344 Oct 24 02:34 /bin/bash


texts: Browse website developed in BootCamp via OS X/Safari

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If I develop a website in BootCamp under something like http://localhost:3458 can I browse that web site from within OS X?

I was thinking maybe using Parallels/Virtual Box to point to the BootCamp partition and get it running and then from within Safari somehow point to that virtual machine's localhost.

This would be good so websites could be developed in Windows/Bootcamp and then viewed from OS X to see if they render ok.

Would be also good to run up another virtual machine to look at the virtual machine with the web server on it eg/a Linux VM looking at the Windows VM to see how the website looks in Firefox etc

Can any of this be done?


texts: Can i play games from my macbook who's been on my phone? Please help

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I'm playing Township on my iphone.
I just found out you can play it on your macbook as well.
Is it possible to be continue with the game on my computer without starting over? I have connected my apps from my iphone to iCloud. Is there any chance i can keep playing my game but on my macbook?


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When running my MBP, I attach an external monitor, a keyboard and trackpad to it so I have two separate desktops which are contiguous; like it's a "fancy" desktop.

Back in the day on Mavericks, it behaved properly: when I unplugged the external monitor to, say, take the laptop into a meeting, it would just put all of the desktops separately on the built in display, roughly preserving which window stayed on which desktop so all you'd have to use was a run a restore tool like Display Maid to restore your window positions when you plug your external monitor back in. This was handy because you didn't have to manually clean up your desktop when done.

Now, with El Cap, it would seem that when you unplug the external monitor, it used the monitor count of whichever screen had the most desktops and merges the windows from the two "combined desktops" into one desktop in a way that seemed to be random, which is clumsy.

Worse, setting back Display Maid to restore the original configuration automatic doesn't work like it used to - previously it saved positions on all desktops in one action, but now it does it one screen at a time and forcing you restore eech desktop separately, which is tedious. It would seem that Display Maid is not great software anymore.

Is there some other utility out there that must work better so you can restore how your windows and desktop setup was as it was before you unplugged the external monitor. Any ideas?


texts: How can I make Safari open new tabs to the far right (end) and not immediately to the right of my existing tab which is the current behaviour?


texts: How to clear "bell" flag (icon, sound) in Terminal tab?

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The Terminal tabs in OS X can sometimes trigger a persistent "bell" condition where a bell icon appears in the title tab, and every time I navigate to that tab using cmd-tab, the alert sound occurs, and the bell icon fades away, and then whenever I change tabs again, the alert sound occurs again and the bell icon reappears. Switching screens can also trigger the same pair of alert sounds.

The upshot of all of this is that I can easily enter a condition where I'm hearing spurious alert noises many times per minute; it's irritating. Obviously, I can just close that particular tab, but this causes several problems--I many have long-running processes in the background of that tab, or a specific arrangement (the leftmost tab contains a particular job, for instance.

EDIT: I think I didn't make it clear that I don't want to disable the bell sound; I want it to occur when a bad thing happens. What I don't want is for a given Terminal tab to have a permanent error condition where every change to that tab sounds the bell.

Here's a movie:

https://brinckerhoff.org/tmp/terminal-bell-movie.mov

Unfortunately, these movies don't include the irritating sound--I think Apple doesn't want to make it too easy to capture computer audio--but you can see the bell icon disappearing and reappearing, and imagine the bell occurring for both of these.


texts: How to write fstab rules for an NTFS volume if the volume has no LABEL or UUID?

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Basically, I was following this tutorial to enable writing to an NTFS Volume (which works when the Volume has a LABEL or UUID).

I have an external USB drive with an NTFS volume that doesn't seem to have a label or a "Volume UUID", therefore I can't use LABEL=foo or UUID=xxx in /etc/fstab. How can I target this volume in fstab so that I can do something like

LABEL=box none ntfs rw,auto,nobrowse

or

UUID=56A9A02B-0590-458E-9493-1DECC2A8F109 none ntfs rw,auto,nobrowse

The following is what diskutil info /Volumes/box shows. As you can see there's no VOlume Label or UUID:

 ❯ diskutil info /Volumes/box
   Device Identifier:        disk3s1
   Device Node:              /dev/disk3s1
   Part of Whole:            disk3
   Device / Media Name:      Untitled 1

   Volume Name:              box

   Mounted:                  Yes
   Mount Point:              /Volumes/box

   File System Personality:  NTFS
   Type (Bundle):            ntfs
   Name (User Visible):      Windows NT File System (NTFS)

   Partition Type:           Microsoft Basic Data
   OS Can Be Installed:      No
   Media Type:               Generic
   Protocol:                 USB
   SMART Status:             Not Supported
   Disk / Partition UUID:    56A9A02B-0590-458E-9493-1DECC2A8F109

   Total Size:               1.0 TB (1000168488960 Bytes) (exactly 1953454080 512-Byte-Units)
   Volume Free Space:        725.5 GB (725534765056 Bytes) (exactly 1417060088 512-Byte-Units)
   Device Block Size:        512 Bytes
   Allocation Block Size:    4096 Bytes

   Read-Only Media:          No
   Read-Only Volume:         Yes
   Ejectable:                Yes

   Whole:                    No
   Internal:                 No

NOTE: In the fstab example above, the UUID I tried is that of /dev/disk3s1, which seems to have no effect. I've been able to apply fstab rules on other NTFS volumes when diskutil showed volume labels and uuids, which are missing in this case.

How can I write fstab rules for this volume?


texts: Sharing an iPhone Notes Folder, it disappears from Mac Notes and from iCloud Notes. Why? How do I share Notes without hiding them from myself?

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Notes seems to work well for syncing my own notes with myself between my iPhone and my Mac. But when I go to do something simple with someone else, like sharing a shopping list with my wife, it breaks.
On the iPhone, I can share Notes folders with my wife. If I do that, she can see them on her phone and I can see them on mine. But the instant I share the folder with her, even if she hasn't gotten the notification or opened it, it disappears from my Mac and from iCloud. It reappears if I turn off sharing.
On the Mac, I cannot share folders, I can only share individual Notes. Could this disconnect between the two flavors of Notes.app be part of the problem? Do they have different DOMs?
The Sharing function on this app appears to be a total kludge. The best advice I've gotten from searching this forum is "Sharing doesn't work; don't do it." Is that the best there is?
It works reasonably well for myself, synching between iPhone and Mac nearly simultaneously, so I use it all the time for my personal organization. I even use it for things like having a note open in both devices and dictating on my iPhone and then copy/pasting that text on my Mac (my Mac is really poor at dictation compared to the iPhone). I would like to not have to use a different app for shared notes. That's a very awkward workflow.
Is there a way to get the Sharing function in Notes to work without hiding the notes from myself?
Is there another app where both dictation and synching with my own devices work just as quickly, where sharing with someone else also works?
Thanks.


texts: It is possible to use iPhone as BT headset for the computer?

texts: I would like to use my iPhone as an BT headset, is it possible to pair it with the computer and to have it used for computer calls?


texts: Why my messaging services consume a lot of data recently?

texts: I found a similar question. But mine is regarding with Messaging Services. As you see the total data used is about 4.5GB. 4GB of them is used in recent two months. The Messaging Services is using about 2.4GB. I want to know why and how to disable Messaging Services because my phone is running in a private 4G network and we never use iMessage or Text Message etc.


texts: Need to automate copy / paste graphic selection from Preview to Google Doc

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I need to paste sequential rectangular selections from a PNG opened in Preview into a designated Google Doc.  I suspect AppleScript is the best candidate for this, but I'm open to using a more familiar language like Python or JS.  Here's some rough pseudocode for what I want to do.

   Define Hot Keys for CopyPaste and Done
   File Dialog to select destination Google Doc
   Open destination doc
   Set insertion point at end of destination doc
   Until Done key pressed:
       Activate Preview window
       On CopyPaste key pressed:
           Copy current selection from Preview
           Paste to destination doc
           Insert two newlines

The goal is speed up the many copy/paste operations that I'm now doing by Cmd-C, click destination window, Cmd-V, Enter, Enter, click Preview (so I can make the next selection).


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Yet again it happened. I forgot to update my macports and I'm wasting hours...

How can I automatically run

sudo port -v selfupdate
sudo port -v upgrade outdated

Let say every week? Note that it has to be ran as root...

How do you maintain you macports up-to-date?

Is something like suggested here is a good idea?


texts: How does the Summarize Service in OS X work?

texts: I’m quit impressed with the Summarize Service in OS X. But its unclear to me, how the service does the summarising. Could someone please explain this to me?


texts: Switching apps based on where user looks

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I am using MBP with external monitor, in addition to the build-in display. It happens quite often that I 'mentally' switch to other monitor, but the active application is still on different one, where I don't look. Then I start typing, or press some shortcut which leads to unwanted behaviour (e.g. I close an editor tab instead of tab in the chrome).

I was wondering is there is any app, which would use camera to guess where the user is looking and switch the active app accordingly. I am sure that it would not be perfect, but I would give it a try.

Any other suggestions to deal with my problem are also welcome.


texts: Registered my iPhone on my ex's Mac and now I have a ton of overages

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When I first got my iPhone 6+, I registered it on my now exhusbands MacBook. Since the divorce and the separation of accounts, I still have horrible "gaming" data overages. I've never played a game on my phone. I have no games downloaded. He has also stolen money from my credit card once I used it on my phone.

Does this mean he is still accessing it? I have changed my number and my Apple Id. (the password reverted back though). All the "usage" is done in the wee hours of the morning when im not even on my phone. Can he be causing it?


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Is it possible to use an iCloud email alias as the Caller ID for iMessage?

When I try to enter an alias on "Receive At > Add Another Email..." I always get an error popup titled "iMessage Activation" - "An error occurred while verifying your email".
I've also tried to go to appleid.apple.com and enter one alias. When I press save, the page shows some loading activity but stays the same and never saves the alias. I've tested it both on Safari and Firefox. With other email addresses it works fine.


texts: Terminal won't choose new window settings at startup

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I've been running into an odd behavior on 10.7 where editing Terminal preferences to launch a new window setting via "On startup, open" doesn't result in the changed terminal after a quit/launch.

Any idea what I may be doing wrong and/or how to trigger the new style?


texts:
For some ZIP file I end up with an "invalid argument"

Any ideas?

The file can at the same time be unpacked on another PC.


texts: Keynote movie playback ignores start/stop times, only in presentation mode

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I'm putting together a presentation in Keynote '09.  I've embedded a movie (created by exporting a keynote slide, so that I can continuously loop the animations).  I'd like to skip the beginning and end of the movie, since there are undesirable acceleration/decelerations in the animation.  I've gone into the Quicktime tab of the Inspector window, and set the start and stop points appropriately

|----------1-------------------2-----------|
           ^                   ^
    desired start       desired stop

When I hit 'Play' in the inspector, it works great.  When I double-click the slide in edit mode, it works great.  When I go into presentation mode, it doesn't work.

|----------1-------------------2-----------|
           ^                               ^
    loop 1 start                    loop 1 end

^                                          ^
loop 2 start                        loop 2 end

What's going on here?  Is there a way to avoid this behavior?


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I am quite confused about the iTunes sync process.

What I expect to happen is that whenever I add any new songs to iTunes, it should only sync those songs. I do not want to wait for the entire music library to be synced again. (Doesn't this also create duplicates?)

So how do I do this? I was reading online and some people said to use the "Sync only checked songs..." option and others said to use the "Manually manage..." option. What is the difference and which is the best way?


texts: AXSelectedRows: Getting selected rows for AXOutline

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I feel that AXSelectedRows has finally beaten me into submission :) After extensive research, I am stumped as to how to programmatically list the contents of AXSelectedRows; simply put, to get the selected rows of any given AXOutline.

It sounds trivial, but finding an answer has proven difficult - particularly due to the lack of online documentation (though I should probably buy a book!) Strangely, a lot of people just seem to want to programmatically select rows, instead of getting selected rows.

I am certainly close though. I have reached thus far:

set selectedRows to value of attribute "AXSelectedRows" of outline1

where outline1 is set to an AXOutline. Next:

set selectedRow to item 1 of selectedRows

This is where it becomes a little murky (after already failing to set it to row 1 instead of item 1). I would expect selectedRow to be of type AXRow (or row), but instead Automator output displays:

application "System Events"

That is, the item appears to be an instance of 'application "System Events"' - which leads me to believe that I'm overlooking something important. Having said that, I feel that I've tried every combination of value's, attribute's and row's - including some type-casting.

The frustrating part is that I can actually see the contents of AXSelectedRows in the Accessibility Inspector! And so I know that it exists. As a workaround, I am using:

set selectedRows to selected of rows of outline1

However, this is certainly not preferable as I still have to loop through the entire array in order to find the 'true' values, which could have performance issues for very large lists.

Any help would be hugely appreciated!


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In the Finder windows, the iCloud Drive and Downloads icons are missing from my sidebar. I use CleanMyMac 2 could that have deleted the icons by mistake?

I have rebooted the icons are still gone.

Yosemite 10.10.2 MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Mid 2014)

How can I get these icons back? Any idea what caused them to go away in the first place?

Update:

Can't I just drag the iCloud Drive icon into the info panel and change the icon like that? If so where can I find the original icon from?


texts: Apple Watch: Fastest way to adjust volume of iPhone

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Using the Apple Watch, what is the fastest way to adjust the volume of the iPhone?

Two assumptions/criteria:

When you raise your wrist, the view on the Apple Watch from your wrist, should be the watch face view; not the last view used.
Audio playing on the iPhone is coming from  any iOS app; not just Apple's Music app.

The fastest way I currently know of (by my expectations neither fast nor nimble) is to open the Dock by pressing the Dock button; navigate to the "Now Playing" view with the Digital Crown (having ordered that view near the bottom of the Dock list); and when the "Now Playing" view is active adjust the volume with the Digital Crown.

Unfortunately, "Now Playing" is not a proper watchOS application, and therefore cannot be brought up by double-pressing the Digital Crown, assuming it would've been the last app used.

I'm wondering if there is a quick way to adjust iPhone volume from the Apple Watch, using a keypress combination or something else.

I guess one option could be to tell Siri to "lower volume by 10 %", but I find Siri control quite tedious, and it will interrupt current playback. Issuing a percentage change is ironically also a very discrete action, because it cannot be fine-tuned without having to issue a new voice command.


texts: Is it possible to login via terminal in os x?

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What I want to achieve is that when the Mac boots, my session starts without me needing to type my user and password.

I have created a daemon that launches at boot time and this daemon will call the script that will contain the commands I'm asking for (providing by default my user and password I assume).

I can't configure my session to start automatically in System Preferences because if my script fails by any reason, then I need the login screen to ask for my credentials.

Is this even possible to achieve?


texts: Cannot restore Time Machine backup to internal HDD

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I royally screwed up today.

Long story short, in trying to help my wife fix a bug she was having in an app on her iMac, I accidentally executed an rm -rf ~/Library/Preferences. This blew away all the settings in her various applications. She is a wedding photographer, so I essentially reset her Lightroom back to defaults along with a flurry of other photo apps.

Woops.

She has Time Machine backing up to an external HDD. Luckily, there is a full backup from about 1 hour prior to my huge mistake. I want to restore back to this full image.

What I tried

1) I rebooted her iMac and held down Cmd + R. OSX Utilities came up.

2) I selected "Restore From Time Machine Backup"

3) On the "Select a Backup Source" screen, I chose her external HDD (yellow drive icon) which contains the backup. The drive is labeled Time Machine.

4) On the "Select a Backup" screen, there is a dropdown which says "Restore From". This is greyed out, and the text says "Macintosh HD on  iMac". This is odd to me, as it sounds like that is the name of the internal HDD on the iMac, despite me selecting the external drive in step 1? Anyways, all of the backups are displayed below. I select the time of the backup that I want, and I click "Continue".

5) The next screen is "Select a Destination". Here is where I am stuck. The first time I went through this flow, Macintosh HD was available as an option. I clicked it, clicked "Restore" and was immediately shown a generic error I cannot remember the wording of exactly. Something like "The time machine backup failed to restore". I rebooted the computer. Now when I go through steps 1-4 again, when I get to step 5, there is no drives listed on the "Select a Destination" screen. This is pretty terrifying, and I don't know what to do.

How do I restore my full Time Machine backup?


texts: Group/separate dock icons for applications that are running

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Is it possible to move all the dock icons for applications that are currently open/running to one side of the dock? e.g. when an application is opened, it gains a dot AND moves to the left side of the dock, so that it's easy to see at a glance which applications are running.

I'm looking for a solution which does not require me to hide all non-running applications from the dock (as some questions cover). I'd prefer a solution that I can enable through terminal or without additional software, but I'm willing to download additional software if necessary.


texts: How can I insert an image in Keynote 09 that retains a link to an external file?

texts: Or even better, how can I embed another .key file inside a keynote presentation. There was support to a "linkback" PDF functionallity similar to what Omnigraffle offers but it doesn't seem to be supported in the latest version


texts: My Macbook Pro is acting as if the SHIFT key were pressed when it absolutely isn't

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This started happening suddenly yesterday, and it's annoying/making my life impossible, to say the least.

I've tried searching for a solution but every solution given points toward a hardware issue. However, I'm sure I don't have any. I've checked in pages such as http://keyboardchecker.com and http://whatkeyamipressing.com and the SHIFT key doesn't appear as pressed—unless I actually press it, and when I release it, it shows as no longer pressed. However, my MBP still acts as if I were holding on to that key for dear life!

I use a USB keyboard, and have done so for a long time; nothing has changed in that respect, so I don't know what could be going on. I will say it's a Logitech MX Keys and, if you know that product, you'll now it's the buggiest thing in the world! So I disconnected it to see if perhaps a happy firmware update was culprit, but the issue continues with the USB keyboard off and/or disconnected.

Because this only leaves the internal keyboard as the possible culprit, I've tried disabling it to see what happens but apparently in MacOS Sierra 10.12.6 you can't do this. I've tried disabling it following instructions given in this forum. I've entered the following into Terminal:

sudo kextunload /System/Library/Extensions/AppleUSBTopCase.kext/Contents/PlugIns/AppleUSBTCKeyboard.kext

All I get is:

  (kernel) Kext com.apple.driver.AppleUSBTCKeyboard not found for unload request. Failed to unload com.apple.driver.AppleUSBTCKeyboard - (libkern/kext) not found.

And although it says you probably get an error but the keyboard is disabled anyway, I'm not seeing that: my internal keyboard still works fine and the issue persists.

Elsewhere I also read the workaround/solution for when this happens was to press SHIFT and, simultaneously, press CAPS LOCK several times (5-10 times). But this doesn't work either.

I've also checked, and Sticky Keys isn't enable. I've enabled it, pressed SHIFT 5 times, pressed SHIFT 5 times again, disable it again, etc., and the issue persists.

The only thing that's changed in my setup is that a week ago I added an external monitor connected to my MBP through the HDMI port. However, this was a week ago and the issue I speak of started yesterday.

What solves it? Well, clearing my Mac's cache folder and rebooting it seems to be the only way to fix it. That is, until it comes back late run the day.

Has anyone run into something similar? ANY input will be highly appreciated!

P.S. As you can see, this text has been written in normal sentence form, i.e. not entirely in Caps, which is weird, right? Because I'm having the issue right now, as I'm writing this message. So how do I know that my MBP thinks the SHIFT key is pressed? Well, when I click on a link it sends it into my reading List instead of opening it (to send stuff to your RL you click holding down SHIFT, of course); when I click somewhere on this text, for instance, it paints the text from the last place the cursor was to the place I've clicked, as if SHIFT were pressed; when I click on 2 or more files on my desktop it selects them, as if I were group-selecting them pressing SHIFT; etc.

P.S.S. Nor does my computer boot in Safe Mode when restarting. When I restart it starts out fine; it's later on it become wacky.


texts:
Border may not be the correct term for what I'm describing but I would like to change the color layout in OS X.

That is, when I open a browser or the terminal, the borders are a light gray color. How can I change this color?


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I would like to sync my music library across both my Macs. (one way sync from Machine A to Machine B)
I currently already am able to sync across the music itself using rsync, however I would also like to sync the iTunes libraries which consists of the files being synced.

So to be clear, I have two copies of the files.. one on each system. I do not want a central based system they must be independent from each other as they may not have contact with each other at all times.

I have tested by simply syncing across the iTunes library database and making sure that the file paths for each file is correct however iTunes does not pickup any of the files.

Anyone else done this or know of a way I can do this?


texts: OS X El Capitan 10.11.3, need explanation of Console message

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Can anyone give me an idea what exactly does this mean a message in my console:

symptoms: -[NetworkAnalyticsEngine_writeJournalRecord:fromCellFingerprint:key:atL0I:ofKind:lqm:isFaulty

Also this:

starting airdrop server for user 501 wake

This happened when computer was asleep and Wi-Fi was disabled.


texts: Any way to sort each column differently in the Finder?

texts:
Is there any way in the Finder to sort each column in column view by different criteria? When I select a sort order, it applies universally to every column.

For example, I would like to sort a particular folder by kind, but the contents of a subfolder of that folder by date.


texts: Connect my watch with family iPad for Fitness+

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Ive got Apple Fitness* shared with my family.
My wife has an iPad (with her own account, but part of the family sharing group) running 14.3 - capable of running Fitness+.
Can I pair my watch to the iPad for the purpose of workouts only?


texts: Can I get my Mac to wake from sleep for an SSH connection?

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I use Infuse on my iPad to play videos stored on my Mac.

However, after a few tens of minutes, the connection drops, and it doesn't reconnect. Restarting Infuse doesn't help. When I walk over to the computer, the hard disc light (it's an external disk) is off. When I move the mouse, the hard disc light comes on, and Infuse starts working again.

I tried unticking "Put hard discs to sleep when possible" and it made no difference. I tried resetting NVRAM and SMC and that didn't work either.

I now ticked "Prevent computer from sleeping automatically when the display is off". Inufse now works reliably, but I don't like that the Mac is wasting energy, and possibly shortening the life of its components.

Configuration:

iMac 5K (Late 2015), running 10.12.4, connected via Wifi
Infuse Pro 5.4 on iPad 13-inch running iOS 10.3.1
The connection is via SSH.

How do I let my Mac go to sleep but wake up when Infuse connects via SSH?


texts: iPod Nano 6G stops playing when display turns off

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My iPod Nano 6G stops playing music when the display turns off either by time, or by pressing the "Sleep/Wake"-button.
This effect is fully reproducible but only appears with certain headphones, namely:

Sennheiser CX 1.00

JBL Synchros S100i

With several other headphones, the iPod keeps playing music when the display turns off.

Any advice how to get those headphones working with the iPod?


texts: Garageband workaround: Tempo change post-recording?

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Is there a way to change the master tempo in Garageband after you've already recorded some audio tracks?

Use case:

Create analog audio tracks (e.g. record guitar, voice, etc.)
Manually figure out the tempo of the recorded audio
Set the master tempo to this value
Add a drummer track which plays at this tempo

Any time you change the master tempo, it re-times all the tracks, which is exactly NOT what I want it to do.  I want it to not touch my analog audio tracks, and just add a drum track at the tempo I specify.

I realize Garageband isn't really intended for use as a DAW, but this seems like such a simple -- and common -- use case.  Yes, I know I could create the drum track first and pay along with it;  but that's not the question.

Any ideas?


texts: How to rollback and override to a specific date within a Time Machine backup

texts:
my situation is kind of weird. I've totally crashed my system yesterday after installing bootcamp/windows 8.1 (bad partition format). Fortunately, I have a full backup Time Machine on a Drobo 5D (firewired). Since Drobo 5D need specific drivers to read data, I could not reinstalling the OS from Time Machine Backup.

So I have reinstalled a fresh OSX El Capitan from scratch. After created the user and installing drobo drivers, I have bound the Drobo 5d Time Machine backup Disk to the Time Machine OSX service. I've done this because I though it was the way to do it... Error! When I went to restore, I have not seen my old data but just the new installation.

When I go to directly within Drobo Backuped Disk, I see All Past Folders AND new Folders.

I've tried to restore the backup user with migration tool App but no success, the same user as the fresh install, not the old one (with all my apps).

Now I think I've corrupted my backup. Is there a way to rollback this issue?


texts: No + sign in Contacts app on iPhone 5 with iOS7. Now I cannot add any contacts at all and all my old contacts were lost, too

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I was trying to restore my iPhone 5 because I was running out of space and the other category was taking up too much space, so I decided to restore it. However, I don't know what glitch happened during the restore, I could not restore my phone using any of the old backups so I had to restore it as a new iPhone.

I got most of my data back on my phone after doing this, except for some apps, but I had most of my other stuff still on there so I was okay with this restore. However, all of my contacts disappeared! I had made a backup of all my contacts as a .vcf, so I had figured out a way to get them back on my phone but my problem is that the + sign that should appear on the Contacts app to add new contacts is missing. Thus, I can't add any of my old or new contacts on my phone! Apple online chat support asked me to do all this step one more time, i.e. restoring it as a new iPhone, but nothing changed. I've tried going to my messages and add contacts via that, but that doesn't work either. Any help would be much appreciated!


texts: How to check a log of which tasks have been opened on a Mac?

texts:
I'm running macOS 10.15.6 (19G2021) on a Late 2018 Mac mini. For the last few months, I have been observing a somewhat strange phenomenon: Every hour or so, usually when running the Chrome browser, a task opens for a split second and then closes again. The currently active window becomes inactive during this time, then enters the foreground again.
To figure out which task is causing this, I'd like to create/look at a log of all tasks that are opened and closed on my Mac. Then I could have a look right after it happened.
I couldn't find any log entries of opening/closing tasks in the "Console" app. Do you know a good way of checking a history of all opening/closing tasks? Possibly, this phenomenon could also be due to Chrome's graphics system refreshing somehow. Malwarebytes doesn't find any threats on my system. Thanks!


texts: How to get Messages to connect to Facebook chat?

texts:
I have the very same configuration for messages on two different Macs (home and work). At home I have no problem in connecting to the Facebook chat via the jabber protocol, while at work it simply doesn't connect and rises an error saying that it cannot connect to the host chat.facebook.com

I have no proxy problems here: I can chat from the website and even using my iPhone connection via Hotspot it doesn't solve the problem.

I'm sure the settings are ok because they are the same I use on the working computer.

Any help?


texts: Mac Pro 4,1 (Early 2009) Sierra Compatibility?

texts:
According to this list my tricked out mac pro won't run Sierra. Tricked out with 20gig of memory a big SSD and lots of HDD. Sad.

.

Historically how has Apple enforced this? And has there been a way to defeat it? Or is there an actual hardware reason as far as anyone knows?

Thanks!


texts: MacBookPro Pro A1278 - Wifi connection "dropped" when "idle"

texts:
Is it "normal" for the Wi-Fi connection to "need" reconnection when the Mac is "idle" for a brief period?

It is the same when the Mac is on Ethernet / LAN connection as well as on a USB Wi-Fi adaptor?

I am running macOS High Sierra 10.13.3


texts: How to add custom keyboard shortcut to highlight text in foxit reader on macOs?

texts:
Foxit Reader : 4.4.1
macOs Big Sur
I want to create a custom shortcut for highlighting text in foxit reader mac.
Currently what I do to highlight text is: Select the text -> Right click -> Select Highlight.
I want to set this process to Select the text -> Press cmd + H on keyboard
I think there is a 3 key shortcut already but I want it specifically to be the above shortcut. Is it possible?


texts: Can you Manually copy User Folder to new Mac?

texts:
I've had an issue with an old Mac where I can no longer boot into it. I plugged the drive into another computer and I can access my user folder.

Is it possible to restore this whole user account on a new Mac?
Could I just paste it in the Users folder in the new mac?
Is there a way to create a time machine backup of that
user folder which I can then restore from?


texts: Command "istats" gives "-bash: istats: command not found" after "gem install iStats"

texts:
I wanted to use iStats in command line/terminal mode, so I did the following:

I installed iStats with the command gem install iStats as per this answer to an AskDifferent question;
However, when I issue the command istats I get a -bash: istats: command not found;
Issuing the command gem list shows me that iStats is installed (*** LOCAL GEMS *** and in second position it reads iStats (1.6.1);
I checked and the app resides in /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/2.6.0/gems/;
Issuing a gem environment command shows the following - INSTALLATION DIRECTORY: /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/2.6.0;
I uninstalled the Gem by issuing gem uninstall iStats;
Then issuing gem list shows that the app was indeed removed;
Then I issued gem install iStats that gave the following output:

Fetching iStats-1.6.1.gem
Building native extensions. This could take a while...
Successfully installed iStats-1.6.1
Parsing documentation for iStats-1.6.1
Installing ri documentation for iStats-1.6.1
Done installing documentation for iStats after 0 seconds
1 gem installed

Issuing istats command gives again -bash: istats: command not found.

Any ideas?

System used (just in case):

macOS Mojave Version 10.14.5
Ruby version: ruby 2.6.3p62 (2019-04-16 revision 67580) [x86_64-darwin18]
MacBook Pro (13-inch, 2018, Four Thunderbolt 3 Ports)
Processor: 2.7 GHz Intel Core i7
Memory: 16 GB 2133 MHz LPDDR3
Graphics: Intel Iris Plus Graphics 655 1536 MB


texts: How to install gpg without Admin password

texts:
I have a monitored OS X laptop that I would like to put GNU Privacy Guard (gpg) on.  Of course I can't because I don't have Admin rights, but I was hoping there is a way to install it in user space through a virtual environment or chroot, or some other wizardry, or by exacting the package files.

Obviously I only need console access to the app.


texts: MacBook Air 7.1 (early 2015) freezes for five to ten minutes after login

texts:
Recently, my MacBook Air 7.1 (early 2015) has been very slow on startup. That is, the system boots quickly, and then I'm able to login, and the desktop begins to load. Initially, I have control and can open one or two applications, but after about thirty seconds, the desktop freezes. Typically, this lasts around five to ten minutes.

I checked login items under the Users & Groups menu, and there were only two applications listed. I disabled them, but the problem persists.

I was able to view the system.log before the slowdown began, and the last entry with which the log was populated was

(com.apple.imfoundation.IMRemoteURLConnectionAgent): Unknown key for integer: _DirtyJetsamMemoryLimit

Later, once I regained control, I could see that this entry appears in the log a large number of times, about ten to fifty1 more times during the next ten seconds, and then not again until about five minutes later, when I regain control. My understanding is that this is just recording the fact that the system is running out of RAM, and has to being paging, which would be consistent with the slowdown / loss of control.

The questions are two. First:

What is causing the system to hang and how do I fix it?

However, I appreciate that that's a difficult question to answer, and, in any case, I would really prefer to know:

How do I figure out what's going wrong?

That is, what other steps do I need to take to understand what's causing the slowdown? It would be nice if I could use htop or something similar to log memory usage during that period, but I'm not sure how to start it running in time. Similarly, I have tried to look through system.log during the same period, including using

cat /private/var/system.log | cut -d: -f4- | uniq -c

to identify the most common messages, but nothing, other than _DirtyJetsamMemoryLimit, jumps out.

1: Since repeat messages are logged as ---last message repeated N times--- it's hard to count exactly.


texts: El Capitan installed but App Store says there was an error

texts: I just updated to El Capitan. The installation seems to have gone through with no problems, and the operating system works well. However, under the App Store tab "purchases", El Capitan is shown as "An error occurred" in red, and the clickable icon offer the option "Download". Should I download it again and re-install?


texts: How to reinstall OS X on a wiped MacBook Pro mid 2010

texts:
So I wiped the HD on my mid 2010 MacBook Pro, and trying to reinstall OSX via Recovery I get this error: the feature is not available at the moment and to try later.

I already had a chat with the support and they said that they can't give me any help, not even paid, because the MacBook is listed as vintage and to try the online recovery, I tried it to no avail.

Unfortunately I don't have any installation disks nor backup Apple products nor Time Machine backups, I only have access to this Windows PC I'm writing on at the moment.

I guess I could try to install the OS via USB but I can't find any legit way to obtain the installation files.

The system before the wipe was 10.9.4 Mavericks.

I really don't know what to do now, any help will be much appreciated.


texts: Why does my Twitter account keep reappearing in System Preferences/Internet Accounts?

texts:
I delete my Twitter account from "Internet Accounts".

Within 10 seconds the Twitter account reappears.

How can I get it to reset?

Companion problem is that my Twitter account shows up multiple times in Notification Center

What I have tried:

Revoke access in Twitter account
recovery disk/resetpassword (reset ACL)
did a Safe Boot
changed account from standard to administrator


texts: Add an iPhone number to other iOS devices to receive iMessages/Facetime calls via the phone number?

texts: I bought an iPad for school and have been enjoying using iMessage and (especially) FaceTime, and I have recently acquired the new iPhone. So I'm wondering if there is a way I could add my iPhone's number to my iPad to receive iMessages and take FaceTime calls sent to that number, rather than having to rely on my phone 24/7 for these features.


texts: If I erase my iPhone, will this erase my iCloud too?

texts: If I erase my iPhone, will my iCloud be erased too?


texts: iPhone 6+ Deleting Photos does not release memory

texts: I tried settings-safari-advanced-website data - delete. It released most of my memory but no all. I still have a couple of LOCAL DISK files that cannot be deleted and take up several GB


texts: In OS X is it possible to specify which network connection an app uses?

texts:
My ethernet connects to the LAN, my airport connects to a different network (it's another mac sharing a VPN connection). I want all apps except the iPhone Simulator to connect via the LAN.

Is this possible?


texts: Cannot Sign In to enable iTunes & App Store within iOS Simulator

texts:
In iPhone SE Simulator (iSO 10.3, running directly), I'm going to Settings, Apple ID/iCloud and trying to enable iTunes & App Store which is Off (I was manage already to log in to Apple ID).

When enabling, I've got the confirmation message to Set up iTunes and App Store. After Continue I'm asked for the password.
When typed password and Sign In, I've got the following error:

Could Not Sign In
There was a problem connecting to the server.

Why this happens and how to fix that? Or it isn't possible to use App Store within iOS Simulator?

I've internet access inside Simulator and date/time is set correctly.
When checked the HTTPS traffic via tcpdump, it is happening both ways to https://17.248.144.170/.


texts: How do I create a new iCloud account for my daughter's iPad?

texts: Two middle school daughters with new iPads (had to purchase for school). I will keep my AppleID on them for apps and music but want to create their own iCloud accounts for their photos, school work etc. How do I create a new account?


texts:
I'm working on getting Python installed on my Mac 10.5.8 and I have been having a heck of a lot of trouble.

The standard downloads at Python.org do not show a compatible version.

They have 10.3 - 10.6 for 32 bit
They have 10.6 - 10.7 for 64 bit

I tried downloading and installing the 32 bit version for 10.5, yet when launching the IDLE, it "Unexpectedly" quits.

I've been told that Python comes pre-installed on Mac OSX computers, but when running "python" in the terminal I receive this error:

william-johnsons-macbook:~ Will$ python
dyld: unknown required load command 0x80000022
Trace/BPT trap
william-johnsons-macbook:~ Will$

If anyone has any advice or other references not on the python.org site, I would really appreciate it.


texts: How can I turn on the browser's cookie functionality?

texts:
After I changed my Gmail password (on a PC), and try to login (with both the new and old password) on the iPod Touch, the browser shows:

  Your browser's cookie functionality is turned off. Please turn it on.

The mail app is working fine with the new password on the iPod. The problem is just the browser.

Any idea how to solve this?


texts:
Something weird just happened.
I got a warning that my disk was running out of space. I knew that it had like 15GB free before and wondered where all the free space went.
I checked Activity Monitor which showed me that kernel_task wrote around 16GB of memory to disk. I kept observing and noticed that it went up at a rate of around 1GB per minute.
This went on until there were 0 Bytes left on my disk. This made my macbook basically unusable. I couldn't even open Web pages and when i tried to shut it down, it froze.
I did a forced reboot and the lost memory is back now. kernel_task is not writing to disk like crazy as before either. Anyway, I'd like to know what happened there. Any clues about what could've caused this?


texts: Why is third monitor always mirroring one of my other two?

texts:
I have a 2017 Macbook Pro connected to an HP Thunderbolt hub. From that hub, I have two USB-C -> DVI cables going into two monitors. For my third monitor, I have a DisplayPort cable from the hub to the monitor.

The two DVI monitors work correctly and show up in System Preferences > Displays > Arrangement. The third monitor (the DisplayPort one) does not show up in the displays. Additionally, it is always mirroring one of my DVI monitors.

What's interesting is that if I unplug one of the DVI monitors, the third monitor starts working correctly and shows up in the Arrangement tab.

Is it not possible to have 3 monitors running where two are DVI and one is DP?

Edit: The resolutions of the two monitors using DVI are 1920 x 1080 and the resolution of the monitor using DP is 2560 x 1440.


texts:
I was trying to use this website: https://guitar-tuner.appspot.com

But it wasn't working at all even after I allowed it access to the microphone.

I suspected this may be to do with me having six different "microphones" (input sources—I have both soundflowers, a device for my TV, and a bunch of virtual ones from Loopback)

I thought maybe Safari was using the wrong microphone, so I went to these two sites to check that and neither worked (they didn't even prompt for microphone access):

https://www.onlinemictest.com/
https://www.onlinemictest.com/microphone-settings/mac-os-x/


texts: "Backups" are taking up over 60 G on my MacBook Pro

texts: Do I need to keep these backups as I use a Lacie external drive to backup? How do I get rid of them on my computer?


texts: Macbook Air 1.1GHz quad-core 10th-generation Intel Core i5 vs MacBook Pro Core i5 2.4GHz 13" Retina (Late 2013)

texts:
I have a MacBook Pro (Late 2013) 2.4 GHz Dual-Core Intel Core i5 and I've been waiting for the new keyboard to be added to new macs in order to upgrade because my trusty "old" MacBook has been around the block… (USB port not working, scratched screen, busted speaker, etc. )

The new MacBook Air seems like a worthy contender… Just trying to figure out if I'd be actually downgrading in terms of speed

I'm sure for web browsing and watching movies, it doesn't matter. The only processor intensive stuff I do would be:

Big illustration files in Affinity Photo/Designer
Same in Photoshop/Illustrator
Files with a ridiculous amount of frames in Figma (out of my control)

TL;DR: 2.4 GHz Dual-Core Intel Core i5 vs 1.1GHz quad-core 10th-generation Intel Core i5? About the same? Better? Worse?

Thanks for any pointer in the right direction ✌


texts:
I have a folder (let's name it main-folder and it's mounted via smb) that contains lots of files and subfolders. I want to copy half of the contents of main-folder to a local subfolder (let's call it my-folder). My problem is that one folder is common between main-folder and my-folder. And even though I have pressed the option key, I do not get the merge option.

I know I can use rsync and other similar commands which I've done lots of time. EXCEPT I can't use it this time as I am only copying half of the files/folders. Too tedious to write an exception list.

I was hoping for a similar behaviour when dragging files/folders in Windows Explorer.

Any ideas on how to make it work? Thanks a lot


texts:
Is there any way to run new Mojave apps (like Voice Memos, News, Stocks) in High Sierra?
I tried to modify info.plist in particular with stocks, but the app gives me an error, I suppose because some missing files. But, is there any way to run this app on High Sierra?
Here you can see the error in stock when I open the program (for no Italians: "borsa" means stock):
Dyld Error Message:
  Library not loaded: /System/iOSSupport/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/NewsArticles.framework/Versions/A/NewsArticles
  Referenced from: /Volumes/VOLUME/Borsa copia.app/Contents/MacOS/Stocks
  Reason: image not found


texts: All network folders are not visible from macOS

texts:
I am facing a weird issue with our co-workers' machines who are working on macOS.

We have File Server hosted on windows and end-user are accessing the network path from macOS Mojave. There is no problem with accessing folders and permissions are well configured. Once it is mounted, and people work on some network files for some time, then all shared folders will not appear. It sometimes lists up to A to G and the rests folder disappears. It is very inconsistent.

After unmounting it and mounting back the network, it lists all the folders again.

I have tried:

Force the Finder to gather all metadata first

 defaults write com.apple.desktopservices UseBareEnumeration -bool FALSE

Speed up browsing on network shares

defaults write com.apple.desktopservices DSDontWriteNetworkStores -bool TRUE

Disable Directory caching by setting the value to zero in dir_cache_max_cnt inside the file /etc/nsmb.conf

What would be the other solution that I can try? A restart helps and unmounting network path and mounting back it also resolve which is a temporary workout. I am looking for a permanent solution. Anybody who have faced such an issue? I will appreciate your support or guidance.


texts: Upgrading to Snow Leopard without optical drive

texts:
I am currently running 10.4- Tiger.  I never updated because my optical drive went out and I never got it fixed. I called Apple and they said that I could upgrade to Snow Leopard, but not Lion.  So I have purchased Snow Leopard, but don't know how to load it.  Here's what I've tried:

1) Remote Install- from an imac and mac mini.  It won't recognize the connection.

2) I made an .iso of my Snow Leopard disc in disc utility.  I put it on a flash drive and tried to boot.  No going.
I also tried to mount the .cdr directly from my desktop.  It goes through the beginning prompts and then says that I need to reboot to begin installation.  I suppose when it reboots, it loses the mount and doesn't begin the installation.

Long story short, any suggestions?


texts: Messages font size can't be changed in Yosemite

texts: I noticed in Yosemite, Messages has two menu options under the View menu, "Make Text Smaller" and "Make Text Bigger." But unfortunately neither option does anything at all. Is this a bug? Do I have something in my settings preventing this from working?


texts: I removed some songs from my directory, how do I tell iTunes to remove them from my library?

texts:
I have all my songs in a folder, when I need to add songs I do "Add folder to library"

Now I have deleted some songs from my folder, how do I tell iTunes to check which songs were removed and remove them from my library to remove them from my iPod?


texts:
I have been using Time Machine since its inception. For years, Time Machine caused my backup disks to be bootable. Very convenient for recovery operations.

Recently, I deployed two new Time Machine backup disks. Neither one of them became bootable. What gives?

Two system log messages generated by Time Machine:

2018-12-03 08:18:25.109094-0800  localhost backupd[46577]: (TimeMachine) [com.apple.TimeMachine:TMLogError] Failed to attach '/Volumes/WD Elements 1/Backups.backupdb/.RecoverySets/0/com.apple.recovery.boot/BaseSystem.dmg', error: No such file or directory

I see that there are directories /1/ and /2/,but not /0/. Is this a Time Machine bug?

2018-12-03 07:37:41.017509-0800  localhost backupd[46577]: (TimeMachine) [com.apple.TimeMachine:TMLogError] Failed to write unlock record UUIDs as extended attribute for disk '/', error: Error Domain=NSPOSIXErrorDomain Code=1 "Operation not permitted"

I am concerned that my new backup disks got off to a bad start. Comments?


texts:
I uninstalled Parallels Desktop, so I don't have a Windows VM any more. However when I type we into Spotlight, the Windows Weather app comes first, and if I press it, it says Parallels Desktop is not installed anymore.

How do I clean the cache or re-build the index?  (I am not sure what this operation is called)?

NOTE: I would like to avoid having to use sudo.


texts: From which year do MacBook keyboards have no issues?

texts:
Firstly, apologies for the somewhat vague, somewhat subjective question. I search for this question on Google and have spent the past 20 minutes wading through clickbait and misinformation along the lines of:

Define issues:

Dust accumulation behind keys causing a single keypress to cause n != 1 keypresses to register (mostly 2 or 0).

Define no issues:

What is considered normal for any properly functioning hardware (my guess is 1/10,000 perhaps? - so 1/10 devices would definitely be problematic)

Question

Starting which year can someone buy a MacBook Pro and be sure with a high degree of certainty that they're getting a functioning keyboard?


texts: Is there software to mirror a Windows PC via AirPlay?

texts: I would like to mirror my Windows PC to my Apple TV via AirPlay. I've found a few options which enable Windows Media Player to receive video via AirPlay. I've also found an application named Airfoil which allows you to stream audio from Windows. I know that the beta of Mountain Lion supports AirPlay mirroring, but is there a Windows option?


texts:
My MacBook won't boot. I did some research online and I realized that this is a common bug. It seems that sometimes the OS starts with a blank screen. I have tried all sorts of troubleshooting but it still does not work.

My final solution was to reinstall the OS using the Recovery Mode (boot and press the CommandR) but this also, unfortunately, does not work.

When I tried to reinstall the OS via the Recovery Mode, I get an error message that my disk is encrypted by FileVault encryption despite having entered my normal login password.

I also was trying to download a dmg file of macOS Sierra but it seems Apple only allows the file to be downloaded using another Mac computer. This is not possible for me since I do not have access to another Mac.

At this point, I don't know what to do. Can someone give me any suggestions to:

Restart normally without the blank screen
Reinstall the operating system


texts: Mass Load of Keyboard/Text mappings in Mavericks

texts:
Under System Preferences/Keyboard/Text, you can enter a list of "spelling corrections" which can easily act as a macro-replacement for quick typing.

It is easy to enter them one-by-one, but is there a way to mass-load a long list of mappings?

Say from some kind of text file like a .csv file?  Or could I potentially write something in AppleScript to do this?

Also, is there a limit to how many mappings I make?

I'm thinking on the order of thousands.


texts:
I have an iPad 3 3G/WiFi with iOS 9.3.6.
When I try to use the YouTube app, an "Update required" dialogue pops up, but when I try to update from the App Store, it just displays "Open" with no update choice.
Searching online, I found out that Apple has stopped support for this old tablet, is there anything I can do other than buying a newer version of iPad?
My iPad is updated to the latest version of iOS. Thank you for your help.


texts: Some information about an extra SSD drive in MacBook Pro

texts:
I have a MacBook Pro (6,2; mid 2010; 4GB DDR3, 2,66 i7) And for a while now, I've been thinking about building in a SSD in my Mac.

My first plan was to switch my 512GB drive with a 512GB SSD, but the prices of those things made me think again.
Then I learned about OptiBay, a company which allows you to switch your optical drive with a secondary hard drive.
So I came up with the plan to switch my drive with a 128GB SSD where I'll install Mountain Lion on and by so keeping my 512GB drive for all the data.

But the world of SSD is fairly new to me. So I've got some questions for those who are more familiar with this topic.

Which method would you use to switch the drive with the SSD? (OptiBay,...)
I heard some rumors about the performance of the SSD, something about limited times you could read/write the drive. Are those rumors true?
Is there a way to recover my optical drive and use it as an external drive (I think OptiBay offers such a way)
When will I gain the most performance gain? Installing only my OS on my SSD or when I install all my extra software on the SSD as well? Or which combination will give me the most performance gain?


texts: Cannot access any websites { other than google, yahoo, gmail, youtube and facebook (http type) } on macbook air

texts:
A week ago I had installed avast antivirus plus avast vpn for about an hour. That exact moment I encountered this trouble for the first time.
Then I uninstalled avast by clicking on the uninstall avast icon.
The problem still persisted.
Then  I didnt switch on mac for a day.
When I did the problem was gone and mac was back to normal. And i started downloading el captain on appstore.
Then I switched it off and restarted after sometime. The problem returned and the downloading showed error.
Then again after 2 days I tried same technique and the internet was alrite. But after i switched it off and restarted the problem began again.
I am not able to view any websites other than the above mentioned ones. Nor am I able to download any apple apps or update them on appstore.
I have tried Pram, safe boot, Nvprm etc.....
(I can view websites in safe boot mode but not in normal mode)

Can anyone please explain to me .. how to solve this???


texts: If we format and re-install OSX through recovery, will it install the latest version?

texts: If we format and re-install OSX through Recovery Mode, will it download and install the latest version of OSX or use the existing version? I'm asking this because I noticed that it is downloading some files during the re-installation.


texts: People can't hear me after about 5 minutes on my iphone6

texts: After 5 to 10 minutes into a phone call the person I am talking to can no longer hear me but I can still hear them. I call back and it works fine for a few minutes. In every other respect the phone seems to work fine. This problem occurs for all calls and makes no difference whether I call them on my iPhone or they call me. I do not use Bluetooth. It has IOS 12.4.5, I think it's up to date.


texts: Is there anything like NVELO Dataplex (hybrid SSD/HDD software) for OS X?

texts:
I'm interested in upgrading my old MacBook to using an SSD and moving the data drive to where the DVD drive is using an optibay.

Often SSDs come with a licence for NVELO Dataplex software (which is windows only). This software is basically a windows driver that keeps track of commonly used files and moves then to the SSD, thereby giving you a hybrid SSD.

Is there anything like NVELO Dataplex for OS X or should I just put OS X and applications on the SSD, and put home folders on the HDD using symbolic links?


texts: Unable to delete files & folders from my USB drive

texts:
I got this USB stick with some music on it. I copied the content on my machine. Two days later I wanted to delete the data from the USB drive. The Move to trash option is missing, and if I try to drag and drop this into Trash can it doesn't work. This message pops up

The item “[file name]” can’t be moved to the Trash because it can’t be deleted.

What is causing the issue and how do I resolve it?

I am using a Mac running macOS High Sierra 10.13.6. The filesystem on USB drive is NTFS.


texts: In Pages on iPad, formatting to add line over paragraph?

texts:
I’m writing a document with Pages on iPad. When I select the “Heading 3” style it puts a line above the text, like this:

I can't find how to create that kind of formatting manually, outside of the named styles. Where is the option? Here is the part of the screen with formatting controls. I don't see anything to create a border or line above a text block.


texts: Create extra dock item that runs a bash script

texts:
I currently have the Terminal in my dock. I'd like to have another Terminal shortcut in the dock but with this one it will run a bash script which will do some stuff specific to that shortcut.
No, I cannot use .bash_profile since the original Terminal short cut will source that too.
This is pretty trivial to do in Windows, is it trivial on a Mac also?


texts: Looking for an external bluetooth switch to run an applescript

texts: I'm looking for an external bluetooth button/switch that I can program to do something specific, like open up an app / run a script. Does anything like that exist? Even if it can only do 1 specific thing that would be enough.


texts: How to redirect mail from a main inbox to only your smart mailbox?

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I have an Apple Mail smart mailbox set up to filter out all of the messages that contain a certain string in the subject line.

Now, the problem is that there are A LOT of these messages and so they clutter up my main inbox. As it stands, I can simply see the messages in the smartbox, but they reside in the main inbox.

Is there anyway I can get these messages to move from my main inbox to the smartbox?


texts:
My MacBook's HDD has 2 partitions. One has OS X 10.8 installed, the other one 10.9. I'd like to delete the first partition and merge the free space afterwards to the 2nd partition.

What's the easiest way to do this? Can I use diskutil eraseVolume/mergePartitions?


texts: How to get GPS Coordinates on Google Maps?

texts: Apparently, the feature to right click on a location ("what's here?) and get GPS coordinates for a location while in Google Maps has been changed recently.  Now all I get is street addresses or worse when I right click on a location.   Are GPS coordatines available through Google Maps now?  If not, can we get that feature back?   I'm simply using a laptop that runs MS Explorer---nothing fancy or overly-mobile or exotic.


texts: How does AppCleaner know which files to delete and how can I find them using command line instead?

texts: I am trying to figure out how to clean uninstall pkg apps on macOS without relying on third party apps.


texts: I am receving messages from my phone to my mac and I would like to turn it off, can anyone help? I am new to mac and really just can understand how to make my messages go to my phone and mac I would like it in just my phone.


texts:
I would like to add a folder to the left side of my Dock. When I try to do this it isn’t accepted. However, I can add it to the right side of my Dock. This doesn’t suit me for this particular folder.

My question is: Is there any way to add a folder to the left side of the Dock?


texts: When my iPhone is hooked up to iTunes, I can't sort music by Album

texts:
iPhone 5s
iTunes 11.2.2.3
Windows 7 OS

I synch on my Mac Pro at home...

When I get to work I have to use a Windows machine.

I authorized my iTunes app on my work machine.

When I view my iPhone music in iTunes, I can only sort by name and not by any other column.

How can I sort by Album when looking at music on my iPhone in iTunes?

EDIT

Picture added
See good column in green and nasty stupid head columns in red.

No comments about my music choices allowed...lol


texts:
I have a 2017 MacBook pro w/ touchbar and the Dell WD 15 dock (work issued it to me). The dock has thunderbolt, HDMI, and VGA on the back. A single USB-C cable comes off of the dock.

The issue I have noticed is that if all three of my monitors are plugged into the dock, the Mac only recognizes them as a single monitor so its just 3 monitors mirroring my MacBook.

Currently, I had to solve this by using a dongle for two of the monitors, leaving only one hooked up to the dock.

This is not that ideal, for cable management and the fact that USB-C is supposed to be able to handle multiple monitors.

Are there any driver updates or hacks I can apply in order to get these monitors to be independent and not show up as a single monitor? Is this an Apple limitation in place or something else?

Edit: Use this link to install the drivers and the DELL Dock will start working Drivers


texts: iPhone: How to make the Facebook app play videos in HD by default?

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I have an iPhone 6 and it annoys me that I have to click every time on HD when playing a video before it plays in HD. Does anyone know a way of making sure that all video's played in the FB iPhone app always play in HD?

PS: This feature already works on Facebook in the browser, but I can't find it for the iPhone app..


texts:
I noticed that both WiFi and ethernet are enabled simultaneously on my MacOS machine, so I was curious about how routing would work. I see the following:

myprompt$ netstat -rn

Routing tables

Internet:
Destination        Gateway            Flags        Refs      Use   Netif Expire
default            192.168.1.254      UGSc          173        0     en8
default            192.168.1.254      UGScI           2        0     en0
default            link#21            UCSI            0        0   utun2
...

Using ifconfig, I can see that en8 is the 100baseTX ethernet port, and I guess en0 is WiFi. I guess utun2 is my VPN connection.

For any IP address destination that is not in the routing table, which default route would be selected? Is it a random selection? Or is there some other table or something else that I could inspect to figure that out?

This machine is on macOS Mojave version 10.14.5


texts: iCloud Keychain in Safari Requires Password

texts:
I'm running macOS 10.14.4 with iCloud keychain. Safari is asking me to use touch ID or password every time I want to fill-in credentials. That wasn't the behavior since lately.

I saw some articles which advice to resent login keychain password, but that option is not available in the current version of macOS.

Is that behavior is by design or something is wrong with my security configuration?

Thanks,

Gil


texts: ScriptEditor application signed but not accepted by Gatekeeper

texts:
I created a small AppleScript app to launch a webservice locally using the built-in PHP webserver. It's an interface to generate XML configurations.

Since macOS Sierra those apps are moved to the AppTranslocation directory if they are not signed. I just became an Apple Developer to be able to export the script from Script Editor.app as an app, signed with my Application Developer ID. Yet, when I push everything to Github and download the package as a zip file, the signed app is still executed from the AppTranslocation directory. What might be the issue here?


texts:
I've upgraded my OS X to the latest Yosemite GM Candidate and cannot for the life of me figure out how to partition my SSD for BootCamp. Here are some screenshots of the problem:

And when i try to partition from Disk Utility:

What is the problem and can it be solved? I read somewhere something about needing to wipe my hard drive and start over with a fresh OS X install, but i really would prefer not to do that, any help is appreciated. Thanks.

P.S:
I've tried verifying disk permissions, and repairing in recovery mode. Nothing worked.

MacBook Pro with Retina display, OS X Yosemite (10.10)

diskutil list output

/dev/disk0
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *121.3 GB   disk0
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s1
   2:          Apple_CoreStorage                         120.5 GB   disk0s2
   3:                 Apple_Boot Recovery HD             650.0 MB   disk0s3
/dev/disk1
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:                  Apple_HFS Macintosh HD           *120.1 GB   disk1
                                 Logical Volume on disk0s2
                                 D2BB45DB-C690-47B2-BFF0-E0A5D812EE6A
                                 Unencrypted
/dev/disk2
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:     FDisk_partition_scheme                        *8.2 GB     disk2
   1:                 DOS_FAT_32 WININSTALL              8.2 GB     disk2s1

diskutil cs list output

CoreStorage logical volume groups (1 found)
|
+-- Logical Volume Group 312C0A5B-AC3E-4008-895F-6EDFDD386825
    =========================================================
    Name:         Macintosh HD
    Status:       Online
    Size:         120473067520 B (120.5 GB)
    Free Space:   35721216 B (35.7 MB)
    |
    +-< Physical Volume 5292E607-3F97-46C0-8E92-97BC853367D5
    |   ----------------------------------------------------
    |   Index:    0
    |   Disk:     disk0s2
    |   Status:   Online
    |   Size:     120473067520 B (120.5 GB)
    |
    +-> Logical Volume Family 736C4179-B89A-4EBE-90C7-F0CE4705D2B3
        ----------------------------------------------------------
        Encryption Status:       Unlocked
        Encryption Type:         None
        Conversion Status:       NoConversion
        Conversion Direction:    -none-
        Has Encrypted Extents:   No
        Fully Secure:            No
        Passphrase Required:     No
        |
        +-> Logical Volume D2BB45DB-C690-47B2-BFF0-E0A5D812EE6A
            ---------------------------------------------------
            Disk:                  disk1
            Status:                Online
            Size (Total):          120101797888 B (120.1 GB)
            Conversion Progress:   -none-
            Revertible:            No
            LV Name:               Macintosh HD
            Volume Name:           Macintosh HD
            Content Hint:          Apple_HFS


texts:
I have a PDF of a Ph.D. thesis in mechanical engineering, so there are lots of equations. No PDF app that I've tried on OS X (Preview.app,Adobe Reader, Skim, PDFPen) can show the equations properly; some symbols are missing (particularly integral signs). However, when I open the file in Windows (with PDF X-Change) the equations all appear right.

I don't know how the file was generated. Any idea of the cause of this issue?


texts: With FileVault on, is secure trash emptying needed?

texts:
I'm running Mavericks and have FileVault set for the whole disk. Is there any value then, in emptying the Trash securely? Given the whole disk is encrypted.

I'm not certain on how these two methods interact/ overlap.

Thanks.


texts: How can I make Apple Mail show the URL (in mails) when I hover over a link?

texts:
There is a related question for Safari but I am interested in a solution for Mail. The ⌘View menu.

I am using OS X 10.10.5, and I would really like to see the real full link I would follow, especially with potential phishing mails.


texts: So when I got a new phone my apps that were downloaded previously still show that they have been downloaded on my previous phone? It's like the little cloud istead of the open.  Is that normal?


texts: Some applications in Big Sur do not respect Do not Disturb

texts:
When I enable DND I have some applications that do not respect it, for example, Viber, MS Teams, MS Outlook, WhatsApp, Transmission, and I'm sure others as well. Messenger, Telegram, Mail and other apps respect it.
To my understanding, each non-Apple application has to implement in their codebase the ability to monitor the Do not Disturb functionality of the OS (like they do with the system's theme - dark or light), but DND is not a newly implemented feature for Big Sur, it exists since for a while now; thus I wonder if there is any way to easily fix that or I have to wait for each app to push an update?
I'm on macOS Big Sur v11.2.2, DND is set to "Always On", on my Catalina MacBook Pro Viber seems to respect DND sound-wise, but still bounces in the dock.
If the issue is on my end, is there any way to kind of "reset" the DND functionality in my machine?
Thanks!


texts: messages keeps asking for password for jabber account

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Apple messages keeps asking for password every time I try to log in to my jabber account.

The password is correctly saved in the keychain (in fact I just go and copy it from there each time). Save Password to Keychain is of course always checked.

I can not find Keychain First Aid in High Sierra, it seems it has been removed. I tried creating a new login keyring, removing the jabber account and re-adding it (both from Messages and from System Preferences). I also tried adding imagent and Messages.app to the authorized applications list for that Keychain entry (as suggested here).

The only weird thing I encountered is that when the problem started I had two entries in keychain for that password. Now I only have one, no matter what I do.

I also tried resetting messages by renaming away ~/Library/Messages but this led to a "message database is upgrading, please try again later" prompt.

It seems that while creating a new account saves the password in the keychain as it should, Messages fails to read it.


texts: Spotlight Indexing of Google Drive File Stream Disabled on Restart

texts:
I recently got issued a Macbook Air M1, 2020 running macOS Big Sur 11.2.3. I rely on Google Drive file stream for my work and I have so far managed to successfully install the program. However, it seems I am having problems indexing the drive with Spotlight. Spotlight does not automatically index the drive, and I need to run: sudo mdutil -i on /Volumes/GoogleDrive/ every time I boot the machine up. It takes a while to index the 80 gigabyte drive and then it works as I like it. The only problem is that when I restart the machine it appears the index is gone and when I run sudo mdutil -s /Volumes/GoogleDrive/ it indicates that indexing is disabled. I'm hoping there's a workaround where the index will stick around so I don't have to enable it and wait everytime I boot the machine up.
There are separate instructions for installing GDFS on an M1 Mac, but since my install worked pretty seamlessly I didn't boot into recovery mode or anything like it suggests in there. I'm wondering if allowing user management of kernel extensions will help this problem, as I'd rather not tamper too much with this work computer.


texts: Chrome Apps in Login Items fail to start

texts: I have a Chrome App (packaged app, installed from Chrome App Store) that I want to start up upon login on my Mac (Mavericks).  I add the item to login items under my User in the Accounts area of Sys. Pref., but it (or any Chrome app) fails to start.  The app is located in Users > me > Applications > Chrome Apps. Any ideas why Chrome Apps won't work as login items? Is there something else I can do to get it to automatically start up?


texts: Talk to a remote serial device (USB FTDI) through a print server?

texts:
I have an FTDI USB device connected to an "Ethernet Printer Server" (specifically TP-Link TL-PS310U), and I can "see" the USB device as a printer:

Is there a way to perform serial communication with the device through Bonjour?

Observation 1: I can communicate with USB device without a driver when I plug it directly into macOS.

Observation 2: I have managed to communicate with the remote USB device on Windows by installing the software provided by TP-Link, which creates a virtual COM port:


texts:
I have a RAID disk where I keep my virtual machines.

Recently I created and deleted a few and noticed that the space taken up was not being reclaimed.

I tried deleting the .Trashes directory via Terminal but nothing changed.

Has anyone experienced this?  I don't want to have to transfer 1.5 TB of data to another disk and back just to fix this.

Update: I tried Verify and Repair disk in Disk Utility which did not fix it.  Here is the log FYI.

Verifying volume “RAID”
Verifying file system.
Using live mode.
Checking Journaled HFS Plus volume.
Checking volume bitmap.The volume RAID appears to be OK.File system check exit code is 0.

Verify and Repair volume “RAID”
Repairing file system.
Checking Journaled HFS Plus volume.
Checking extents overflow file.
Checking catalog file.
Checking multi-linked files.
Checking catalog hierarchy.
Checking extended attributes file.
Checking multi-linked directories.
Checking volume bitmap.
Checking volume information.
The volume RAID appears to be OK.
File system check exit code is 0.
Updating boot support partitions for the volume as required.


texts: How to modify text selection in applescript in an automator service

texts:
I wrote an Automator Service (intended for use on any selected text in any application) that modifies the length of the selection given a number/length that the user specifies.  Here's a snippet of relevant code that excludes all the other features/niceties of the service:

--Figure out whether the selection must be lengthened or shrunk
set lengthen to false
set mod_length to 0
if character_count is equal to 0 or n is greater than character_count then
    set lengthen to true
    set mod_length to n - character_count
else
    set mod_length to character_count - n
    --This is a trick to make sure arrowing affects the right side of the selection
    key code 124 using {shift down}
    key code 123 using {shift down}
end if

repeat mod_length times
    if lengthen is true then
        --arrow to the right
        key code 124 using {shift down}
    else
        --arrow to the left
        key code 123 using {shift down}
    end if
end repeat

The service works great in most applications, except Terminal.app (because the arrow keys are used to move the cursor on the command line and not the size of the currently active selection).  Ideally, this would actually work in Terminal, because that's usually where I need to use this service.

So is there a way to modify the length of selected text on any line in the history in a Terminal.app window (assuming the first selected character is position 1) using an automator service (and applescript inside that service) in a way that doesn't use the arrow keys?  E.g. I select the output of a command and run the service to adjust the length of the selection to a length I've supplied.

Background:

The reason I'm doing this is because my work involves DNA manipulation/modification and as a part of the debug process for these scripts, I sometimes need to briefly observe what has happened at a specific position in a DNA string output on the command line - quickly and dirtily - just to confirm an intended change had the intended result.  So this is just a quick way to visually find a coordinate in a long DNA string.  I eventually intend to modify this service in such a way that only certain characters are counted in the determination of the length of the selection (e.g. don't count numbers, spaces, newlines, etc).


texts: Using "Stop Time" option prevents play count from being updated

texts:
Im using the option to stop a song at specific time. However I realised that the Play Count does not update when this option is applied.

Following the issue from iTunes 11 where play counts do not update if crossfade is activated, is this another possible glitch ? Or has it always been this way ? Any workaround that can fix it ?


texts: How to have multiple icons for multiple instances of the same program?

texts:
I'm a Windows user who has to use a Mac for my job. My biggest frustration with the Mac is that I can't switch between multiple instances of multiple program easily. I have to keep a little bit of every window visible at all times so I can click on it to switch to that window.

Is there a way to easily switch between multiple instances of multiple programs on a Mac? On Windows, every instance of every program is in the taskbar, so I can just click on that instance to switch to that instance. I can also alt-tab to switch between windows easily.


texts: Associating Protocol handler in Mac OS X

texts:
Many tools support an item link feature using protocol; with a given link, I can open the page with the tool that created it.

For example, I can open the DEVONthink page that I made:

open -a "DEVONthink Pro.app" x-devonthink-item://2AD2E3D2-58B5-455F-99D4-C91D68C5F959

Can I teach Mac OS X that the x-devonthink-item is the "DEVONthink" protocol to make the command like this?

open "x-devonthink-item://2AD2E3D2-58B5-455F-99D4-C91D68C5F959"


texts: Install OS X/macOS on a Mac mini without a keyboard (10.11 El Capitan/10.12 Sierra)

texts:
How do you configure OS X/macOS on a (headless) Mac mini without a keyboard?

The Mac mini is connected via ethernet
A MacBook Pro is connected to the same network via ethernet
The Mac mini is at the first screen of a new OS X 10.11 installation

I want to login to the Mac mini using ARD (Apple Remote Desktop) but can't use the methods of 10.6 (serial number + IP address).

Thanks for any hints.


texts: Could not find videos taking space on iPhone

texts:
I am always running out of space on my iPhone (SE, 64Gb, iOS 12.1.2). I tried to managed everything managed via the "Settings > General > iPhone Storage" but there seems to be some media files I could delete.

When I connect my phone to iTunes, I can see that it is 10 video files, taking up more the 41 Gb of space, but impossible to locate them. I have no downloaded video on Netflix, Video, etc, ...

Screenshot from itunes:

Screenshot from the "Iphone storage" from the "Settings" on the iPhone

Any idea where these files could be? And how to delete them?


texts: how to fix can't install packages on MacBook pro 2012 catalina 10.15.7?

texts: every time I want to install packages for Xcode I am told I don't have permissions, let's say i want to install ruby from my terminal with rbenv there is always an error with permissions or cannot access directory because you don't privileges and i am using administrative account, even if i log in as root i can't give admin account access to system and still can't install packages which is becoming very frustrating when i want to develop anything.


texts: Adding narration after completing Quicktime screen recording

texts: I want to add voice-over comments at selected places of a long-ago created Quuicktime screen recording. When I import the video (mov format) into iMovie, iMove puts it into the timeline as a single-frame clip, preventing me from inserting audio segments here and there. Is there some route I could use that would cause the video editor (not necessarily iMovie) to present the Quicktime vidoe in its timeline as a long string separate frames? (I would then add audio segments beside selected frame sequences.) Thanks in  advance.


texts: I have an AirPrint printer with no Duplex functionality. When I want to print double sided documents from mac, I can easily print odd pages first, then manually reinsert the papers and print only the even pages. Is there a way or even an app to do the same thing on iOS?


texts: Time Machine error creating the backup folder on a spacious hard drive

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I have upgraded recently to Mavericks, and am setting up Time Machine on this system for the first time (it wasn't set up with the earlier OS, Mountain Lion.)

Time Machine successfully backs up once after I boot the laptop.  However, every time it tries to back up again while the laptop is running (I don't normally perform a full shutdown and reboot very often!) it fails with the error message: "An error occurred while creating the backup folder."

I would like to eject the drive and plug it in again to see if this helps, but clicking the Eject button in Finder shows this message:

and I have not wanted to do a Force Eject.  I have rebooted, and Time Machine successfully backed up once after that, only to fail again the next time it tried.

I do sometimes close the laptop lid or put it to sleep with the disk still plugged in, and it is still there when it wakes.

I searched the Console for Time Machine-related errors but could not see any.  (The Console won't display system.log saying I don't have permissions, but running syslog -C in the Terminal and scanning the output doesn't show anything either.)

How do I:

Solve the issue, so it successfully create the backup folder
Perhaps, see if it is Time Machine or another app that is preventing the disk eject?

Details:

An early 2011 Macbook Pro, which was running Mountain Lion for a week on a new internal hard drive, now Mavericks
The drive is a 2TB Toshiba USB drive.  I formatted it at as Mac OS X Journaled.  Running Disk Utility and verifying the disk shows no errors.
The drive has about 800GB free space.
I am running from a normal (non-admin) user account.


texts: difference between tty[p,r,s][N] and pts

texts:
$ ps -ef | grep tty | grep root | grep "-sh"
root 25185 25184  0  Oct 14  ttyp4     0:00 -sh
root 22998 22997  0  Oct 14  ttyp2     0:00 -sh
root 25379 25378  0  Oct 13  ttyp0     0:00 -sh
root  1709  1708  0  Oct 13  ttyrf     0:00 -sh
root 27558 27552  0  Oct 14  ttyp5     0:00 -sh
root 28955 28954  0  Oct  1  ttys5     0:00 -sh
root 12124 12123  0  Oct 13  ttyq9     0:00 -sh
root 16255 16254  0  Oct  8  ttys8     0:00 -sh
root 13731 13729  0  Oct 13  ttyq1     0:00 -sh
root 24695 24694  0  Oct  8  ttys9     0:00 -sh
root 26969 26968  0  Oct  7  ttys7     0:00 -sh
root  3625  3624  0  Oct 15  ttyp6     0:00 -sh
root 22387 22385  0  Oct 13  ttys0     0:00 -sh
root  7946  7945  0  Oct  8  ttysb     0:00 -sh
root  1071  1070  0  Oct  1  ttys6     0:00 -sh

when I log in using SSH I get pts/1 let's saybut I do not understand why there are those root ttys[N]. Somewhere on google I found that it is equivalent to pts but the second question, why two different names for pseudoterminal? And the third question is for the command part of the ps output, is it just a pseudoterminal for sh (shell)?


texts: Flash firmware without CH341A programmer

texts:
In this Answer, user @y-h-wong commented that he flashed the bootrom without using a programmer. I'm guessing this was done from terminal somehow. Not sure if this is done from within OSX or from recovery terminal. Does anyone have the steps to do this?

Is the extraction process the same as if you were using the programmer?

I would like to install the full NVME bootrom drivers on my macbook air 2014 to enable hibernation properly.

A guide on MacRumors provided the step-by-step instructions to upgrade your SSD.


texts: Maximise window in OS X only using App Store extention

texts:
We know maximise a window in OS X (like we do in Ubuntu Unity or MS Windows) is not currently possible.

Are there any third party extensions available from OS X App Store to achieve this?

(I don't want to install applications that are not in App store for security reasons.)


texts: Can I change permissons so I don't have to enter the admin password everytime I try to delete a file (or folder)?

texts:
This has been an issue for several years. I am getting annoyed having to enter my admin password every time I want to delete or move a file or folder. They all have 777 permissions. Can I fix it?

-rwxrwxrwx@ 1 xxx  staff  89513 22 Jun  2015 /xxx/yyy
com.apple.metadata:_kTimeMachineNewestSnapshot     50
com.apple.metadata:_kTimeMachineOldestSnapshot     50


texts: iTunes cannot locate missing files after I've moved them to a USB

texts:
I've been using iTunes on Mac for a while, but my startup disk recently got pretty close to being full so I figured I'd move all my music I had there from the iTunes Media folder to my USB drive. However, after I've gone through and set the folder location to my USB's music folder, about 2,000 of my more recently downloaded songs have gone missing. Choosing to use a song's location to determine the location of other songs just tells me it can't locate any of the missing songs, even though all albums are in their own folder with all the files either named "1-01 song name, 1-02 song name etc." or "1 song name, 2 song name etc.".

I could go through and manually locate all of them, but I just can't do that when there are almost 2,000 songs missing. So I ask, is there a way I can somehow get all the files back into iTunes without having to manually locate every one?


texts: Converting Automator Action in applescript to bash script

texts:
I just wrote an Automator app using AppleScript (along with a couple of bash lines) to start FTP with a single click. However it runs more than a tad slow. Here's the code:

set ftpstatus to "off"
try
    do shell script "echo \"QUIT\" | telnet 127.0.0.1" & " ftp 2>&1 | grep  \"Escape character is\" > /dev/null"
    set ftpstatus to "on"
on error
    set ftpstatus to "off"
end try
if (ftpstatus = "off") then
    set ipaddr to IPv4 address of (get system info)
    set sun to short user name of (get system info)
    do shell script "sudo -s launchctl load -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/ftp.plist" with administrator privileges
    tell application "Finder" to display alert "FTP Launched and ready for file-transfer" & character id 8233 & character id 8233 & character id 8233 & "Address: ftp://" & ipaddr & ":21" & character id 8233 & "User Name: " & sun
else
    do shell script "sudo -s launchctl unload -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/ftp.plist" with administrator privileges
    tell application "Finder" to display alert "FTP session closed"
end if

Here's what the code does:

Check if FTP server is running
If yes, turn it off and throw a message box saying "FTP session closed"
If no, turn it on and throw a message box saying "FTP session open" along with my IP address and username

This script works like charm but since it's too slow, I am wondering if there's any way to convert it to a bash shell script. That should speed up things a lot. Any suggestions?


texts: Why does iStat Menus disable S.M.A.R.T. on my Mac?

texts:
I have set up a launchd job which checks my S.M.A.R.T. status.

After I installed iStat Menus my launchd job immediately threw me a popup saying me to backup all my files. I checked with Disk Utility and I saw S.M.A.R.T. status as Unsupported.

I immediately uninstalled iStat Menus using the official uninstaller and I found out that immediately after uninstalling that app my SMART status showed up SMART status: Verified. Phew!

Why did iStat Menus disable S.M.A.R.T.? Is there any specific reason I would like to know.

Here's how my script looks:

A=$( diskutil info disk0 | grep SMART )

if [ "$A" != "   SMART Status:             Verified" ]
then

osascript -e 'tell application "Finder" to activate' -e 'tell application "Finder" to display dialog "Your Drive is failing, Please backup all your important files now" buttons {"OK"} with icon stop'
fi


texts: Transfering files from PC to ipad 3 with out using itunes

texts: Just got an Ipad3 and want to transfer files from PC/Win7 to Ipad 3 with out using Itunes.


texts: Send an email as an attachment from iPhone

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This may be the most easy question to answer but I have struggled for few days now to get a proper view on how to achieve attaching an email on another email in iPhone 7.

I am a new iPhone user and would like to achieve

Attach existing email onto new email
Attach existing email to a reply/forward email

Is this at all possible?


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I'm not sure what I might have done, but all the sound effects on my iPhone X running iOS 13 seem to have been disabled.

I'm not getting keyboard clicks when I type. And when I send a text or iMessage, there's no swoosh sound, but it does vibrate. When I click the lock screen button, I don't get the feedback sound. When I receive a phone call, text, or iMessage it just vibrates, I don't get the sound effects I've enabled.

I checked the Sound settings, and it looks correct. The volume is in the middle, and "Keyboard Clicks", "Lock Sound", and "System Haptics" are all enabled. It plays my ringtone when I go into the settings screen, and testing all the assigned sound effects works. They just don't play in the appropriate apps.

I was using Waze a couple of days ago, and it was initially trying to send its audio instructions via Bluetooth to my car. I switched it over to the phone's speakers. Could that have affected other sounds?


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On a previous Mac I could switch languages and see a gray box in the middle of the screen that shows which language is selected. This is in addition to the small icon in the top bar.

With the new MacBook Pro and macOS Sierra this language feedback does not show. How to enable it?


texts: Upgrading a jailbroken iPhone from 3.1.3 without data loss

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I have a jailbroken iPhone 3GS with 3.1.3 and I want to upgrade it to 3.2.

Is it possible to do so without losing everything?


texts: Script that creates a mailbox (folder) based on the email subject

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I adopt the inbox zero approach, which means that I want to keep my inbox as close to empty as possible.

To achieve this, I need to archive emails quickly. The best method I found was to write a script that, when I right-click on an email, the script creates a new folder based on the email subject and then move this message to this folder.

This worked perfectly on Microsoft Outlook on Windows.

Now I switched jobs and I am using a Mac. Does anyone know how to achieve a similar result using Mail?

Thank you very much in advance.

For your reference, here is the script I used on Windows:

Sub folderCreation()

    Dim o_App As Object
    Dim obj_NameSpace As NameSpace
    Dim obj_folder As Folder
    Dim obj_NewFolder As Folder
    Dim obj_mail As MailItem
    Dim s_Subject As String
    Dim s_Date As Date

    Set o_App = Application
    If Application.ActiveExplorer.Selection.Count = 0 Then
        MsgBox "No item was selected!"
        Exit Sub
    End If

    Set obj_NameSpace = o_App.GetNamespace("MAPI")
    Set obj_folder = obj_NameSpace.PickFolder

    If obj_folder Is Nothing Then
        MsgBox "You did not make a selection"
        Exit Sub
    End If

    For Each obj_mail In Application.ActiveExplorer.Selection
        s_Subject = obj_mail.Subject
        s_Date = obj_mail.ReceivedTime
        Set obj_NewFolder = obj_folder.Folders.Add(Format(s_Date, "yyyy.mm.dd / ") & s_Subject)
        obj_mail.Move obj_NewFolder
    Next obj_mail
End Sub


texts: Is it possible to make all text fields in OS X editable with Vi keybindings?

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What I'm looking for is a way to use Vi-style keybindings throughout OS X, similar to how invoking:

$ set -io vi

in a Terminal will give Vi-style keybindings when using the shell.

I'm guessing this doesn't exist but it would be awesome if it did!

If it doesn't exist, anyone have an idea on how it could be approached using OS X's Cocoa APIs?


texts: How can I delete partially downloaded macOS installer files?

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I was downloading the Mojave installer using the following command:
sudo softwareupdate --fetch-full-installer --full-installer-version 10.14.6
When the download reached about 50%, I had to cancel it by keyboard interrupt. My system storage is now reduced by 3GB, and I can't seem to find any partial downloads in /Applications/.
So how do I delete the partially downloaded installer to recover the lost space?


texts: upload photos videos from iphone to ssh location?

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Is it possible to upload photos from iphone to an ssh location on local network?
I have a local NAS setup at home that is running plex that shares media with rest of family members. So I want to know if there is a way to upload photos and videos to an ssh location ?


texts: Is there possible to export XML from Final Cut Pro without open the Application?

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Is it possible to export XML from Fincalcut Pro without open the Application?

By XML I mean .fcpxml.

Why? Cause I want to do automate export and process the data programmatically.