texts: Delete iCloud account from mac when the iCloud account doesn't exist anymore?

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I recently deleted my iCloud account and while doing so forgot to remove it from my iMac first.

Now, I get persistent notifications on my mac saying to "fix it", but in order to fix it, I have to remove the account. I cannot remove the account since it requires a password to do that, and when I enter the password it says "Account not found" (or something along those lines).

I called Apple support and their recommendation was to create a new user account and delete the old one. But doing that is an insane hassle since I have a very complex user account set up (I work as a software developer).

Is there a way to simply get this account off of my computer? Or, is there an easier way to fully migrate my entire user account over to a new user account without losing anything? (Including configurations in places like ~/.bashrc , ~/.bash_profile, desktop wallpaper, mouse scroll sensitivity, key repeat speed, etc.

If the solution for removing the apple account is fairly technical, I do not mind that. I would prefer not to have to create a new user account on my computer if at all possible.

I would even settle for leaving the broken iCloud account on there but being able to get rid of the intrusive prompts i get every now and again asking me to fix it.

This is the prompt I see constantly:

When I go into settings, I see this:

And when I try to click "Sign Out", and enter my old password, i see this


texts: Magic Mouse 2 automatically changes to double click?

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For some time now -once in a while- my mouse changed from standard single click to double click. I notice this when clicking on links in Safari, but also when clicking on a reply in Mail.
I assume that maybe I (accidentally) press a hot key that changes this, but so far I have not been able to track this down.
I have read some here and there it could be the double click speed, but in my settings I don't even have this option. Using the (black) Apple Magic Mouse.


texts: How to get client Mac to use caching facility from Mac OS X Server on Yosemite

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I have installed Mac OSX server onto one machine. Caching is enabled.

How do I now configure a client Mac on the same network to start using this cache for both web browsing and software updates?

I have tried System Preferences -> Network -> Advanced -> Proxies and enabled "Web Proxy (HTTP)" and entered the local IP of the machine running Mac OSX Server (192.168.1.24) and the port number 49524 but this doesn't work. I just see a blank white screen when I try and view any web page in Chrome.

Does anybody know the correct set up instructions for the clients? There appears to be very little to help me out on Google.


texts: Notifications greyed out after waking up from sleep

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I got a fairly new MacBook Pro and I am quite happy with it. The only thing that keeps happening all the time and frustrates me is that Notifications appear greyed and not responsive (when clicking on it etc.) after i wake the Mac up from sleep.
I use the MBP in Clamshell-Mode and hooked up to two external monitors and it does happen regularly but not every time after waking up.

Until now i keep using the terminal command

killall NotificationCenter

which does seem to help for some time.

Thank you all in advance and I hope there is a way to fix this.

Cheers!

OS: MacOS Mojave 10.14.1
Model: MacBook Pro 2018 15"


texts: How to properly install freetype2 devel package?

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I wish to install freetype 2 dev package so I can use the fontconvert tool in Adafruit-GFX-Library

Here is what I get

$make fontconvert
fontconvert.c:22:10: fatal error: 'ft2build.h' file not found
#include <ft2build.h>
         ^~~~~~~~~~~~
1 error generated.
make: *** [fontconvert] Error 1

The community says that it because I haven't installed freetype 2 dev properly
https://github.com/adafruit/Adafruit-GFX-Library/issues/224

(I used brew install freetype to get freetype ?1?)

Tried to follow these instructions:

https://opensource.ncsa.illinois.edu/confluence/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=61604031

But it just created a folder with all the files - I think that they should be located at another directory - but don't know where..


texts: I purchased an Ipad Pro 12.3" for my kid for school, and we purchased it directly with Apple. The carrier claims they delivered it and left it in the porch (we dont have a porch). Then their excuse is that Apple didnt request signature delivery so they left it at the door or porch and they cant do anything. I contacted Apple and they are doing due investigation, but I was pretty much told that they cannot block the device even if I ask for it and having the serial number which is in my receipt. Is there anyone that knows how to do this? I can check the info on the order receipt, but since it never reached us, it has no apple ID on it nor anything. It was stolen BRAND NEW on the package, or delivered to the wrong house.


texts: ios Shortcuts: get index of selected list item

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In an iOS shortcut I can ask the user to select an item from a list, but how do I access the selected index?
I need that in order to get at the selected object in the case where I’ve already converted the objects into more presentable text for the action sheet.
Update:
What I really wanted was to customise the user-facing string representation of an item.


texts: How to find out why finder hangs when "as List" / "as Columns" / "as Cover Flow" on Yosemite

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After a while, View -> as List and View -> as Columns and View -> as Cover Flow stop working: the Finder window will not update at all, or - for the Cover Flow the "selection" part will not show a selection but the Cover Flow itself will follow selection changes.

A temporary workaround is the solution at Finder doesn't work since Yosemite

But after a while, the issue starts to appear again.

Obviously something is interfering with Finder, but I've no idea where and how to get started, so:

How can I narrow this down to a cause?

I run a late 2013 Retina MacBook Pro with Yosemite (10.9.5) and a truckload of stuff including:

SwitchResX (I've disabled the extensions: no change in behaviour)
DropBox
Google Drive
brew
gfxCardStatus
TunnelBlick


texts: How to find MAC Adress of second system?

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I'm on Mac OS X 10.11 El Capitan, but have a second OS on my hard drive: Mac OS 10.6.8 Snow Leopard. I'm resetting my router and am therefore looking for the MAC hardware addresses of my two systems.

The MAC address from the system I'm currently on (10.11) I've found within the system report and in the internet preferences within the system preferences (menu "Hardware").

Is there a way to find the MAC address (somewhere in the depth of my hard drive) of my second system without rebooting into said system or is it even the same on both systems? Yes, I'm lazy.

Many thanks in advance!


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I logged in as the root user so that I could pull all the files from all users into one folder to then transfer to an external hard drive. I had no problem moving files to the root user desktop but trying to move, copy, or even delete files from the desktop results in a “preparing to move” dialog box that shows no progress even when trying to simply move an empty test folder.

I feel like this may be because of some error in permissions because the root user desktop is located in /macintosh hd/private/var/root/desktop/ and the private folder is hidden.

How do i get around this issue?


texts: Generate an iOS Project (.xcodeproj) with AppleScript

texts: How can I generate an iOS project (.xcodeproj) with AppleScript (without XCode)?


texts: Target Display Mode between two MacBook Pro

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I have TDM working with my iMac.  I am currently have two MacBook Pro (2012 and 2103) and was wondering if they support this?  I have not been able to get it to work.  Has anyone else gotten this to work?

I am currently running 10.10.2 on both computers.


texts: How do I delete items in my itunes download queue?

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Possible Duplicate:
  Delete a purchased file from ITunes Download Queue without downloading file

I have some episodes of a TV program in itunes (on my ipad) that I didn't download for a long time. If I try to download them now it says "download error. Tap to retry". A pop up says "Unable to download episode 13 - it could not be downloaded at this time". So I can't download them to delete them.

I also can't seem to remove these un-downloaded episodes from my itunes downloads queue. Nothing happens if I press the icon (like I would if I wanted to remove an app).

Does anyone know how I can remove them?


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Is there any apps for making geometric shapes (math)? I need to make shapes like rhombus and equilateral triangles.

I have already posted this in the math forum, but I think this is more related to apple.


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After force shut down I get continuous restarts with kernel panics. I’ve erased the disk and it restarts again when reinstalling macOS from Recovery Mode. Booting macOS/win from USB stick works fine. Apple Hardware Test and Diagnostic finds no errors. “diskutil zeroDisk force disk0” run from USB stick or Recovery Mode crashes at 10-11%.

I feel that there are bad blocks on SSD that kext doesn’t identify correctly but I can point manually.

macOS High Sierra 10.13.4. MacBook Pro 13” Late 2016, no TB

Thanks!


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Is there any way to set up and easily switch connection profiles in iOS4?

i.e:

Home - Wi-Fi on, Bluetooth off, 3G off

Work - Wi-Fi off, Bluetooth off, 3G off

Car - Wi-Fi off, Bluetooth on, 3G on

etc.

Would prefer an App Store app but would consider a jailbreak app if not available.


texts: Are songs streamed from iTunes Match stored somewhere on the Mac hard drive?

texts: I've installed iTunes Match and started to stream some songs. I was just wondering, where are they stored during streaming?I have a MacBook Pro, with Mountain Lion.


texts: 1Tb PCIe SSD in 2012 Retina MacBook Pro?

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Now that the late 2013 Retina MacBook Pro can be configured with Samsung based 1TB PCIe based SSD storage, would those fit into the late 2012 Retina MacBook Pro?

OWC describes about the 1TB configuration, but not about the specs.


texts: What it says in the title. There is no obvious way for me to remove an equation in Grapher. I used Grapher a few years ago and I probably knew how to then, but I cannot remember now.


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I have many small files (about 500). They are in right order. I would like to merge them.
Linux commands are also welcome because I can compile them in my OS X.
The command cat *.ts > masi.ts does not work well. The result stops at some points. I am investigating why this occurs.
Some parts of the videos are not in order.

Names of parts of videos where each file has a prefix HRmasi453-27012016.mp4.ts

1.ts
2.ts
...
100.ts
101.ts
...
200.ts
...
300.ts

so the filename is HRmasi453-27012016.mp4-01.ts ... HRmasi453-27012016.mp4-300.ts.
The command cat *.ts > masi.ts does not organise the video in the sequential order.
I think I should make a list before of all items in order.
Then, merge.

Pseudocode

Make a list of videos in order
Merge cat items in list

Do something like filename = prefix + itemInList without creating a new list in the while loop.
cat filename >> result.ts

How can you join the many video files, .ts, files?


texts: Macbook Pro Wi-Fi problems after Yosemite 10.10.5 update

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I've had my Macbook Pro for about a year now. It is a late 2013 Retina model running Yosemite. Until a few days ago, its Wi-Fi worked fine. However, after the 10.10.5 update, its Wi-Fi has become very slow and drops packets unless I'm a foot away from my wifi router. When I'm in my usual location of the next room, ping times go up to hundreds of milliseconds.

shanglin$ ping 192.168.1.1
PING 192.168.1.1 (192.168.1.1): 56 data bytes
Request timeout for icmp_seq 0
64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=944.501 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=325.487 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=3 ttl=64 time=78.760 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=4 ttl=64 time=126.286 ms
Request timeout for icmp_seq 5
64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=6 ttl=64 time=41.813 ms
^C
--- 192.168.1.1 ping statistics ---
8 packets transmitted, 5 packets received, 37.5% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 41.813/303.369/944.501/335.189 ms

None of the other devices on my Wi-Fi network are having a problem. I've tried removing plist files from SystemConfiguration, and I've turned off Bluetooth.

My Wi-Fi router is a Cisco E1200 running 802.11n on the 2.4GHz band. I don't think it can run on the 5GHz band. I've tried updating the router's firmware to the latest, but it has not helped.

Any suggestions that could help?


texts: I know that I can see the data usage of my iPhone 4(iOS 6.0.1) under: Settings → General → Usage → Cellular, Usage , but the counter has a bug - now it's showing over 16GB(for 2-3 hours tethering). Any Idea of the reason for this bug? If I use some app for counting the data usage, would it show the right usage?


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I just upgraded to Mavericks 10.9.3 from Mountain Lion and the emoticons / emoji are quite small in Messages. Sometimes I can't even tell the difference between one and another emoji.

When I open the emoji panel they are bigger, at the size I was accustomed to in 10.8. You can see in the picture the size they appear in a message, as compared to the panel.

I've tried making the font bigger in Message's preferences, but the emoji won't change their size either.


texts: How to switch between two Macs and one Thunderbolt Display?

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I have 2 MacBook Pros and one Thunderbolt Display (27 inch). Both MBPs support Thunderbolt connectivity and work fine with external display. I need a way to switch between 2 MBP, without changing the connection everytime.

Is there any hardware / KVM switch which supports this functionality?

MBP Models are as below:

MacBook Pro (13-inch Mid 2012)
MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Late 2013)


texts: How do I reboot my iMac, after I cleared a virus and the computer froze?

texts: Ran an virus scan which detected a geneio virus, removed the virus and the computer froze. I only have the Apple icon a spinning wheel. How can I reboot?


texts: Safari very sluggish and beachballs quite a bit

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I have an older iMac with 16 GB of ram and I'm running High Sierra and Safari 12.1.2. Recently, when I'm running Safari, I get very sluggish performance. I get a spinning beachball which lasts for up to a minute and constant page reloads due to "a problem". This is most notable when I go to the ESPN website but happens on other websites too. This doesn't occur using Chrome.

I have tried:

Restarting my iMac

Restarting Safari

Clearing the Safari cache

Closing other open windows

Trying Chrome

Nothing worked for Safari

Does anyone know what could cause this?

There is a very similar question that has been asked but the method mentioned there doesn't work for me.


texts: Does FileMaker Server 16 prevent use of the system apache in macOS?

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I'm running FileMaker Server 16 ("FMS") on macOS High Sierra, without the macOS Server package. I set the FMS web server components up on ports 8080 and 8443 because I wanted to continue running other web services on ports 80 and 443.

I notice that FMS runs /usr/sbin/httpd (i.e. Apache) under its fmserver user, with configuration at /Library/FileMaker Server/HTTPServer/conf/httpd.conf.

I was trying to configure the system Apache (at /etc/apache2/httpd.conf and using apachectl start), but couldn't get it working at all, even with the default config. apachectl -t said Syntax OK. There were no error messages or logs, and connections to port 80 were refused.

The only relevant thing I could find on the web is a report of the FMS installer refusing to install if Apache is running as part of macOS Server.

I was able to serve on port 80 using nginx installed via brew.

Is the fact that FMS is running apache preventing me from running it under another user?


texts: I modified the 'com.apple.screencapture.plist' file and now my screenshots don't save

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In Terminal, I executed the following lines:

defaults write com.apple.screencapture location ~/Desktop/
killall SystemUIServer

But try as I might, my screenshots never save to the Desktop. In fact, I have no idea where they go!

Here's a GIF demonstrating the problem:

Here's a screenshot of my keyboard settings (to show that there are no conflicts or that I'm not accidentally copying to clipboard):

Does anyone have an idea?


texts: How do you move ALL the data from an old drive to a new drive

texts: So, I'm going to replace the drive in a mid-2012 macbook pro with an ssd. What would be the easiest way to transfer all the data (files) from the drive to the ssd? Is it possible to have all the programs transfer over also? Do I have to reinstall the OS?


texts: Automate change in settings upon plugging mouse in

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I am using a MacBook Air running Sierra.

I like to use different mouse settings with my touchpad, and my USB mouse. To facilitate this, every time I plug my mouse in, I have to go to System Preferences and change the mouse settings (reverse scroll direction and adjust sensitivity). Is there any way by which I can automate this change (maybe using automator) in settings to occur automatically every time I plug in the USB mouse?


texts: Is there something similar to RemoteApp for MacOS

texts: I'm wondering if MacOS has something similar to the Windows RemoteApp that would allow publishing of an app that runs on the MacOS.  I use Windows as my main environment and wish to use iMessage on Windows.  Is there anything that will allow me to just have a published app instead having to do a full Remote (VNC) session?


texts: What adapters work from Thunderbolt to HDMI?

texts: My new MacBook Pro uses Thunderbolt to connect a monitor. My monitors have all HDMI or VGA plugs. So I was looking for an Thunderbolt to HDMI adapter in my favorite shop. But I can't really find one. Am I missing something?


texts: MacBook pro 2017 touch bar model.. Horizontal Lines on screen

texts: While logging in initially the screen doesn't show problems but soon as time moves after some minutes horizontal lines start appearing in the bottom of screen of black or multi colored that progresses till the entire area corresponding to the app dock is obfuscated... So when I shut down at this time and reopen it.. Some lines still remain and it increase like earlier and results in same... Only when I shut down for a long time.. The screen becomes normal after logging in.. But still after some minutes same issue is reproduced... Using Screenshot and analyzing the picture shows that the defect is not reproducible in Screenshot and is visible in direct display only.. Please advice


texts: As Lion now supports Resume, does it mean most softwares no long needs starting at login?

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As Lion now supports Resume, does it mean that most software no long need starting at login, as when they are open, they remain open in the next boot-up?
Of course it won't apply to those tools which only run once at login and auto quit afterwards.


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My coworkers always tell me to lock my Mac when I get up from my desk, or they'll mess with it. I think it's pretty obnoxious that I have to lock my computer each time I get up for anything, and of course, they messed with some of my settings recently.

I was thinking that, to get back at them, I'd purposefully leave my computer unlocked, but toggle some sort of siren to trigger if any button is pushed (except for some kind of preset escape sequence to disable the alarm). Is there some sort of app that would help me accomplish this?


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I just got a nice 4K monitor (LG 27ud68p-b) and, when connected to my 2017 MBP 15" via USB-C to HDMI, the refresh rate is noticeably slow and results in choppy moving images. Even when it's not a very compute intensive image like just moving the cursor around, it's pretty bad.

When using USB-C to Displayport, however, things are snappy and look great. What is the difference?

FWIW - I use HDMI with this laptop and different monitors and they are great.


texts: How to properly set SSD Fan Control on iMac late 2009 after SSD upgrade

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I’ve upgraded my late 2009 iMac 27” with an SSD hard drive.

Because of the fan noise, I’ve installed SSD Fan Control, but I’m not sure how to set it properly, avoiding to reach high internal temperature that could damage hardware.

Using “SMART” mode fan are very quiet; using “Auto” mode are more noisy.

For now my settings are the following:

What does “1100 RPM @ 45 C” means? On the screenshot you can see that the temperature is 38°C, but the fan RPM is 1499...

Do you think these are good settings for me?

Thanks very much for the help

Francesco


texts: What constitutes "significant changes" when releasing a new TestFlight build that has passed beta review?

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Is there any documentation or first hand experiences as to what constitutes significant changes to an app when submitting a new TestFlight build that has already passed beta review?

Apple asks: "Have you made any significant changes to this build since your previous submission?"

We added some in app purchases which turn on/off some features but those features already existed in previous submission so maybe this change isn't "significant".


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Through "System preferences -> Keyboard -> Modifier Keys" I had setup: Caps Lock as Ctl.

Then, I installed the new Karabiner (formerly KeyRemapForMacBook) to achieve the following key-remap:

Left Ctl = Fn
Fn = Left Ctl

But, setting up Karabiner meant that my "Caps Lock to Ctl" key remap made with "System Preferences" was lost. Now, Karabiner demands that I install yet another app (SEIL) to remap only the Caps Lock key. I think that is ridiculous and I do not wish to install another app just for remapping one key.

So, I removed Karabiner from my system and then set up the following key remap via "System Preferences -> Keyboard -> Modifier Keys":

Caps Lock = Ctl
Left Ctl = None (No key binding => dead key)
Fn stays Fn (NOTE: this doesn't bother me because #1: I don't use it much anyway and, #2: I am used to the Thinkpad "Fn on far left" style).

But, I am wondering, how does Karabiner do its magic on the inside. My understanding is that ultimately, Karabiner has to pass the key-remap configuration to the OS, right? Or does Karabiner insert itself into the system (i.e., as a kernel module) and watch all keys typed on the keyboard to detect the Ctl and Fn keys?

More importantly, is there anyway (similar to xmodmap in Linux) to achieve this key remap without Karabiner?


texts: Why are three newly-downloaded, up-to-date, unrelated applications not starting: "not supported on this type of Mac" *not a PowerPC problem*

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Today, I downloaded the latest stable versions of three largely unrelated programs: Pixen, Tiled, and Gideros Studio (free Gideros pack).
All three of these programs have crossed out icons, and return the same CoreServicesUIAgent pop-up alert:

"You can't open the application [Pixen/Tiled/Gideros_Studio] because it is not supported on this type of Mac."

I used these three applications, same versions, on a newer, more powerful Mac OS X Lion earlier in the day. My Mac (that has this problem) is running Snow Leopard.

(( I tried downloading Battle for Wesnoth to see if this would happen with all applications, but was unable to run Wesnoth. I believe I got a bad download mirror or something, because the folder didn't seem to decompile correctly and it took a long time to download (this is not important right now, I think. My main problems is these other applications). ))

Earlier in the day I successfully ran StarCraft 2 and a different game launcher. I also used Safari successfully. StarCraft 2 had an update for Macs today that appeared to prevent HotCorners from working at all while SC2 is the active application, whereas they normally worked fine while running SC2 in windowed mode (before today).
The SC2 mac-specific updates were defined as:

Command-click now properly issues a right-click command to the game.
Enabling the “Disable OS Keyboard shortcuts” option no longer causes a system hang on exit.

I'm not sure if this is important, but it was the only significant thing that happened prior to the topical error. It is only the new downloads that won't run at all, and these were downloaded after the SC2 update that appeared to affect the system (via HotCorners, at least).

I repaired my harddisk permissions, but nothing improved. When I ran the executable from Pixen.app/Contents/MacOS/Pixen, I was returned the following:

Macintosh-3:~ ~$ /Users/~/Downloads/Pixen.app/Contents/MacOS/Pixen ; exit;
-bash: /Users/~/Downloads/Pixen.app/Contents/MacOS/Pixen: Bad CPU type in executable

I got the same error for the other two apps.

===============================

I really have no idea why these three unrelated apps aren't running. Symptoms of a virus? I've never dealt with/experienced virus infections on any of my Mac systems before. Any insight into the causes of this are welcome.

Thank you in advance for your time. I can provide more information if it's needed.


texts: Applescript/Automator task to change default downloads folder

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I need to create an automation to make a new folder named by my selected text and then make that folder the new default Safari downloads folder. This would be the default folder when I click on a download file link from a webpage until I run the script again for a new selection.

edit: this may seem trivial but I have to click a URL to download 5-8 .pdf files (I have to click on each file separately) per order for about 30 orders a day and I have to make a folder named by the the order number to put the files in. I have done a lot of research and I'm not sure if this is something that can be done with AppleScript or if it also requires Shell script and is something I will have to pay for to be developed. I did post a freelancer post hoping someone could code it but I'm looking for an easier solution from someone smart in these boards. thank you so much for any help or guidance.


texts: Is there a terminal command to enable Continuity - handoff on unsupported OS X?

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It is known that Apple sometimes drops support for new features such as Continuity on older OS X releases or older Mac models, sometimes those new features not necessarily hardware dependent.

I've used a few terminal commands to enable hidden features on my Mac in the past, so I'd like to know if is there a Mac Terminal command or another safe workaround to enable Continuity feature on non supported Mac models?

I own a Mac Mini mid 2011, 8GB, Intel 2,3GHz running OS X Yosemite 10.10.5.


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How to execute a Folder Action or another Automator script when I make changes to a folder?
And by changes I mean not just deleting or inserting new file, the most important for me is when the content of a file is changed the action will be triggered.


texts: Use iPhone as sound output device for MacBook

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I want to connect headphones to my iPhone (7), and then play all audio from my MacBook (Pro with Retina, 15" Mid-2015), through the headphones connected to my iPhone.

macOS Mojave 10.14.6, iOS 12.4.1

How can I do that?


texts: Early 2015 13" MacBook Pro Retina Won't Power On

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It worked fine prior to vacation, never used it while away, schlepped it in computer bag, only removed from bag at airport security on the way there, and again on the way back.
I know the bag didn't get too hot because my candy bars didn't melt :-).
Plugged it back in on its stand the next day and nothing happened when I pressed the power button.
What, I've done so far:

Opened the back, unplugged battery, can boot with battery disconnected while plugged into power, but runs slow due to no battery.
Thought maybe battery went bad even though it only had 3xx cycles, so bought iFixit kit and replaced the battery.

Still would not power up. Displayed the battery as made in 1979 at that time.

Watched Louis Rossmann video and cleaned out JTAG connector, booted normally, ONCE, after that, with full speed and good readings on CoconutBattery, (battery made in March 2020, 1 cycle).

The motherboard is not dirty at all, it lives on my desk on a stand, except when on vacation, but thought I saw small bits of solder between legs on JTAG under microscope, used tweezers to clean.  Would like to remove the connector, but don't really have the equipment to do so, it is way smaller than the boards I used to rework for Seagate back in the early 90s.
Issues before and after battery replacement have been somewhat intermittent in terms of power connector LED and CoconutBattery readings.
I have removed and reseated the part the MagSafe connector, connects to (power module?).  It's not dirty.
I would hate to replace the logic board, but sending it for repair would be a similar cost to replacing it.
What can I do to fix this problem?


texts: BootCamp The startup disk does not have enough space to be partitioned even if it does

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So, I'm trying to install windows 10 through bootcamp and I have this problem:

when I check for free space I see this:

Even if I free a couple of more gb the error remains the same. I turned of Time Machine and deleted all the cache. I see there are similar questions but none of the solutions has worked for me (usually deleting tm, cache or actually seeing that there was less free space).


texts: Keeping the dock visible without affecting window size?

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Is there any way to keep the dock visible without it affecting the size of windows?

On my MBP 13" I have the dock hidden since it simply takes to much screen real estate, but working with a tablet I feel the need to have it visible at times. And I don't want to hide/unhide with a shortcut, I just want it to show on top of my windows.


texts: How can I download the source code for iOS?

texts:
I read an article that said the JailBreakMe hacker reads through Apple's source code to try to find flaws.

I am curious and wondering: how do we get the source code for iOS?


texts: Duplicate Inboxes on iPhone Mail — How to get rid of?

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On my Mail application, I have 2 accounts configured — Work (Account 1 in the screenshot) and Outlook.

For some reason, the application shows duplicate inboxes for both of the accounts. I have clicked on ‘Edit’ and de-selected the duplicate inboxes (to hide them) but they keep re-appearing! How can I get rid of these duplicate inboxes?


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The used disk space reported in About My Mac is inconsistent (MacBook Air, mid 2012).

Notice that the used space for Apps is greater than my disk size. I tried different ways to fix it (Disk Utility, fsck command, etc.), but nothing helps.

Any suggestions?


texts: How to run a Visual Studio on Parallels Desktop with Elevated privilages via dock icon

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I have a OS X Mavericks with Parallels Desktop 9 hosting Windows 8.1 on it. Windows has Visual Studio 2013 installed.

I am working in Coherence mode. If I run Visual Studio from Start menu or some other way, it appears in OS X dock. I can choose to Keep it in dock.

But I need VS to start with Elevated (admin) privileges. The devenv.exe, which is a Visual Studio executable, doesn't have a Compatibility tab where I could check the Always run in Admin mode, which would solve my problem.

How can I have Visual Studio in dock and have it being executed with Admin right?

Thanks.


texts: Remove keyboard and dictation icons in iOS 11.x text entry

texts:
When I open any text field so that the keyboard appears, there is a line under the keyboard with only two icons, the "world" icon that lets you change keyboards, and the "dictation" icon, which I will never use.

These take up a considerable amount of vertical space. Is there any way to turn these off?

UPDATE:

As you can see, there is a large blank portion below the keyboard. The world and microphone icon normally appear here, but even with them turned off you get all this space being wasted.


texts: Disable 'open this page in [Application]' prompt (iOS)

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I currently have an application called App Icon, which allows me to theme my iOS device without being jailbroken, by having web bookmarks on my homepage that open the other application that I want.

The problem is I have a theme for the Spotify application (or any for this matter), now when I open that shortcut, I always get a prompt asking me if I want to open that URL in Spotify.

As you can see, that is a bit of a problem since I want it to open the application without me pressing 'ok' every time. Is there a way I could disable this prompt (preferably for the specific home screen bookmark) or not?

If it helps, I am running the latest version of iOS 9.


texts: Is it possible to share iCloud Notes read-only?

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I've just written up instructions for my Mum on how to use the AppleTV but I'm scared she's going to accidentally delete the contents of the note. Is it not possible to share a note "read only"?

There's a label saying "People you invite can make changes" but there seems to be no way to edit the permissions before inviting.

Maybe this is coming in iOS 11?


texts:
I want to be able to spam the jump button without having to hit the space bar multiple times, and I have a line of code but I'm not too sure what it is doing.

tell application "System Events"
    key down "space"
    delay 10
    key up "space"
end tell

I'm new to coding so it is kind of confusing, I want to be able to be in game, hold space bar, make it spam space, when I let go, it stops. (Without having to tab out)


texts: Missing disk space after failed bootcamp partition

texts:
So a bootcamp installation failed and now I'm out 400gb of space on my drive. I have looked and found solutions but unfortunately I don't have the sufficient know-how to apply them to my situations.

I checked the drive with "First aid" in Disk utility and everything came back with no errors.

iMac (Retina 5K, 27-inch, Late 2015)
10.13.6 High Sierra

/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *121.3 GB   disk0
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s1
   2:          Apple_CoreStorage Macintosh HD            121.0 GB   disk0s2
   3:                 Apple_Boot Boot OS X               134.2 MB   disk0s3

/dev/disk1 (internal, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *2.0 TB     disk1
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk1s1
   2:          Apple_CoreStorage Macintosh HD            2.0 TB     disk1s2
   3:                 Apple_Boot Recovery HD             650.0 MB   disk1s3

/dev/disk2 (internal, virtual):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:                  Apple_HFS Macintosh HD           +1.7 TB     disk2
                                 Logical Volume on disk0s2, disk1s2
                                 FE896926-6556-4167-9727-6AE772587267
                                 Unencrypted Fusion Drive

CoreStorage logical volume groups (1 found)
|
+-- Logical Volume Group 5B113CF5-AF4E-437D-86BA-94CC9773F3C8
    =========================================================
    Name:         Macintosh HD
    Status:       Online
    Size:         2120528027648 B (2.1 TB)
    Free Space:   458921852928 B (458.9 GB)
    |
    +-< Physical Volume 5C572DA8-7561-4DF2-8CC2-F6BB9092B444
    |   ----------------------------------------------------
    |   Index:    0
    |   Disk:     disk0s2
    |   Status:   Online
    |   Size:     120988852224 B (121.0 GB)
    |
    +-< Physical Volume B439E586-F1C5-4163-84B1-F8C7A95543CF
    |   ----------------------------------------------------
    |   Index:    1
    |   Disk:     disk1s2
    |   Status:   Online
    |   Size:     1999539175424 B (2.0 TB)
    |
    +-> Logical Volume Family 5F980324-88C8-402D-849C-F43C14D00DD8
        ----------------------------------------------------------
        Encryption Type:         None
        |
        +-> Logical Volume FE896926-6556-4167-9727-6AE772587267
            ---------------------------------------------------
            Disk:                  disk2
            Status:                Online
            Size (Total):          1654999875584 B (1.7 TB)
            Revertible:            No
            LV Name:               Macintosh HD
            Volume Name:           Macintosh HD
            Content Hint:          Apple_HFS
            LVG Type:              Fusion, Sparse

Any help would be greatly appreciated, thank-you


texts: I'm running iTerm2. When do a text search ⌘ F, pressing Return moves the highlighted occurrence back (the previous occurrence). Is there a way to make it move to the next (forward) occurrence?


texts: I am thinking about purchasing QuickTime Pro for Windows, but I have not been able to find a list of video file formats that it takes as input.  Does QuickTime Pro for Windows convert .mpg files to .mov?  Thank you!


texts:
My iPad 3 is noticibly less sensitive to my stylus than my iPad 2. (For instance, on my iPad 2, barely brushing my stylus against the screen, even in the slightest, has an effect; on my iPad 3, I must apply enough pressure to visibly deform the tip of the stylus.)

My question is: is there a setting to change this sensitivity?


texts: How can I make my headphone jack work on my Macbook Pro 15" Retina Display, it quit working randomly

texts:
So I have been using different headphones here and there, but also running a synthesizer program out of my headphone jack into the mixer for live audio performance.

Everything always works fine, except for yesterday, it started that no headphones/speakers will work anymore for anything coming out of the 1/8" headphone jack.  Yes, I have them plugged in all the way, yes i have tried different headphones/speakers etc...  Yes I have gone into settings/audio and selected the proper output and made sure that nothing is muted, all sound is balanced and that it is turned up.  The headphones just put out the most faint level of audio that isn't easily detected unless you really press the headphones onto your ears.  All this while the regular Macbook speakers work if you unplug the headphones.

I need my headphones to plug in so I can mix audio that has to be done this week, yet I can't get any sound through them.  I have tried all things online to reset certain functions of the computer, and the closest Apple store is over 2.5 hours away.  What makes this situation worse is that I have Apple support by phone but I am unable to speak due to strained vocal cords, so I am kind of in Limbo, is there anywhere to chat online?


texts: Login into google account on Iphone 5s not possible

texts:
About a month ago my Iphone 5s updated and afterwards I couldn't log in to my google account on my Iphone, when I try to log in from any other device it works completely fine. Neither in the youtube app nor when I try to log in to my gmail account in the safari browser. I always get following message:

When I click on next following instructions are shown:

I did everything as told and it didn't change. I searched google, and nothing could help me. I uninstalled the youtube app, reinstalled it, still no changes.

The only intresting fact is, that I am logged in to my gmail account in native mail app and this works completely fine.

I could try to reset the whole Iphone, but I would prefer to find a better solution than that.


texts: App or Script to Move a Window Between Desktops With Only a Keyboard Shortcut?

texts:
I need a way to move a window between desktops in Lion/Mountain Lion with a keyboard shortcut only (i.e. no mouse involvement). From this similar question, I'm aware that it can be done by holding down the title bar of a window and activating the Move to Left/Right Space shortcut, but that doesn't meet my requirements.

I don't much care how it's achieved, as long as it's relatively efficient and can be activated by a keyboard shortcut (if it's just a script, that's fine, I can assign a keyboard shortcut to it another way).


texts: Why is nsurlsessionid connecting to docs.bigassfans.com?

texts:
I saw heavy CPU usage,d then a large upload and checked Little Snitch to see that nsurlsessionid is connecting to 'docs.bigassfans.com'. I know that nsurlsessionid is a system process that syncs to iCloud but docs.bigassfans.com and  the relationship with Apple?

docs.bigassfans.com, if typed into Safari's address bar, shows a XML file like:

<ListBucketResult xmlns="http://s3.amazonaws.com/doc/2006-03-01/">
<Name>docs.bigassfans.com</Name>
<Prefix/>
<Marker>
<MaxKeys>1000</MaxKeys>
<IsTruncated>true</IsTruncated>
<Contents>
<Key>Parallax Page/</Key>
<LastModified>2015-10-27T15:30:01.000Z</LastModified>
<ETag>"d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e"</ETag>
<Size>0</Size>
<StorageClass>STANDARD</StorageClass>
</Contents>
<Contents>
<Key>Parallax Page/Test/</Key>
<LastModified>2015-11-24T13:04:00.000Z</LastModified>
<ETag>"d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e"</ETag>
<Size>0</Size>
<StorageClass>STANDARD</StorageClass>
</Contents>
<Contents>
<Key>Parallax Page/Test/images/BAF_Destrat_LandingPage_Graphics_JG.jpg</Key>
<LastModified>2015-11-24T13:06:58.000Z</LastModified>
<ETag>"1ba687971f886857466e0dc8c40c040e"</ETag>
<Size>62907</Size>
<StorageClass>STANDARD</StorageClass>
</Contents>
...

This is an Amazon bucket and Apple seems to be using Amazon along with Azure and others for iCloud but who in Apple would use docs.bigassfans.com? Should i think of that as a red flag?


texts: How to fix Safari 6 on Mountain Lion that doesn't show the full URL in the address bar unless I click it?

texts:
For instance, Ask Question page URL on this site is shown as apple.stackexchange.com, but when I focus on address bar, it becomes apple.stackexchange.com/questions/ask.

I tried resetting and restarting Safari, disabling extensions and dragging the default set into the toolbar but nothing helps.


texts: Cannot find OSX El Capitan installer after installation

texts: I just downloaded and installed Mac OSX El Capitan via the App Store and want to install it on another machine via USB , but I can't find the downloaded installer. Where did it go? I have limited MB's on my internet connection , so I don't want to download it again!


texts: MacBook Pro won´t let me log in after PRAM

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I was having a problem with a pointer so after installing latest system updates with no effect on crazy pointer, I did a PRAM reset.

From then on, a log in page has changed:

my user name has changed (in past i was using my whole name as login name. Some months ago, I changed it for a 'nickname'. But now, after PRAM reset, the old/previous user account name appears.
there was another account 'guest' not secured by password. Now the password is required.
'my account' with changed user name doesn't accept my valid password. When typing a password incorrectly for 3 times, there is pop-up to log in with my apple ID. That does not work either. The password is correct.

I am using this:

MacBook Pro 2011 late
latest operating system with updates
I never changed my apple ID since created
changed my Apple ID last year
changed my computer password also about a year ago


texts:
I recently moved from Windows to OS X, so maybe I'm asking a frequently-asked question. But I did some googling and didn't find a solution yet.

I have a lot of videos on my drive from my SONY camera. The format is MPEG-2 Sony, which is not a standard MPEG-2 format.

How can I use these videos and import them on iMovie? Could QuickTime MPEG-2 Playback Component for Mac OS X help me? Or what else could I do?

Thanks everybody!


texts: Sync Safari tabs but not history between devices

texts: How can I sync my Safari tabs between my iPhone 7 and my MacBook Pro without syncing the two browsers' history?


texts: Can I show keyboard shortcuts (hotkeys) on Mac OS X?

texts:
When I right-click on a link in Firefox in Mac OS X, I get a menu like this:

Now most of these items have keyboard shortcuts, so I can quickly press a single key instead of moving the mouse to a specific item. For example:

t = Open Link in New Tabk = Save Link As... etc.

However I have no easy way of finding out what they are.

Is there a way to highlight or visualize these shortcuts, for example by underlining them like this:

 (photoshopped example)

This is also how Windows does it. Something like that possible on Mac as well?

P.S. This doesn't specifically relate to Firefox, just took this as an example but I would love to see keyboard shortcuts in general.


texts: shutdown multiple Macs after a runtime of 24 hours?

texts:
Can I shutdown multiple Macs in my office (9-10 Macs) in my office after checking their runtime? I have one Mac, which acts as a Server (with the OS Server application). SSH is also enabled on every Mac, so logging on remotely is not a problem. I want to write a script that checks:

if the runtime >=24h then shutdown mac

Now I don't know anything about scripting on a Mac but I've done this before with powershell and windows machines.

Curently I have this script:

#!/bin/bash
BOOT_TIME=$(sysctl -n kern.boottime | sed -e 's/.* sec = \([0-9]*\).*/\1/')
CURR_TIME=$(date +%s)
MAX_UPDAYS=1 #Days

DAYS_UP=$(( ( $CURR_TIME - $BOOT_TIME) / 86400 ))
    if [ $DAYS_UP -ge ${MAX_UPDAYS} ];then
        echo Mac is going to shutdown
        shutdown -h now
    else
        echo No shutdown needed
fi

but don't know how to run it on the remote Macintoshs


texts: Windows XP doesn't recognize devices on Mac

texts:
I installed a Windows XP on an iMac beside Mac OS X. When i start Windows XP it appears that it doesn't recognize devices like network card, sound card and video card as well as other devices. It cannot connect to the internet, so i am trying to download the device drivers from the Mac OS.

Is there any way to do that, any links where can I download the drivers necessary for Windows XP to recognize all devices?


texts:
Very weird my QuickTime Player Icon just Shrunk. How can I get it back to normal Please?

Also This is what it looks like even when magnification mode is turn on for the dock.


texts: Terminal: grep recursive - don't search in symlink contents

texts:
When searching with grep -r, it avoids following symbolic links by default. This is true for directories, but grep still inspects the contents of files that are symlinks.

For instance, if I have a framework with the following structure:

+-- MyFancy.framework
    +-- MyFancy              (symlink to ./Versions/A/MyFancy)
    +-- Versions
        +-- A
            +-- MyFancy      (the actual binary file)
        +-- Current
            +-- MyFancy      (symlink to ../A/MyFancy)

grep -r "string" MyFancy.framework prints:

Binary file ./MyFancy matches
Binary file ./Versions/A/MyFancy matches
Binary file ./Versions/Current/MyFancy matches

This causes the search in such structures three times slower.

How can I make grep exclude symlinks?


texts:
I'm not familiar with OS X. I'm trying to find a way to get a modem (Huawei ETS 1201, which I believe can only be connected using a USB cable) driver for OS X Leopard (on a MacBook Pro) for a friend.

After failing to find a driver from the company's website, I was wondering whether it would be possible to use a Windows driver in any way (like some sort of Virtualization?) or whether I am likely to be able to find an unofficial driver for OS X.

TIA


texts: Album added to iTunes library but not listed in Albums and Songs section

texts:
I added a new album to my iTunes (version 11). It has been copied to my Media folder and it plays fine. But it's not listed in my Albums, Artists and Songs sections. I would like to see the artwork in my Albums or list of songs.

I'm able to find the album by searching. What to do? Any ideas?

I believe that adding it again might help, but how do I remove it from my library when it is not present anywhere except search results?


texts:
I am trying to find a way to make my mac see .dSYM files as hidden. I know I could do:

chflags hidden / -name *.dSYM

but the next time I create a .dSYM file it wont be hidden. There must be a way to tell finder to hide a certain file type (all currently on my machine, plus all that I will create in the future).

I am assuming that just because it is hidden, it wont affect my ability to use the .dSYM files when I am running cgdb in terminal? Or do the have to be not hidden for cgdb to be able to find them?

(I am on Mountain Lion)


texts: Is there a way to see System Information before first user is added?

texts:
I have a Mac that someone asks me to help them sell.  They already wiped the hard drive and put a fresh installation of macOS on it. Upon boot, it's at the "Welcome" setup with no users intialized yet.

Is there an easy way to see the System Information and version of macOS currently installed on this machine without creating a new user? I'd like to leave this machine in a clean state without having to re-wipe the hard drive with a new installation.


texts: Dropbox syncing RTF-editor for iPad with color markup possibilities

texts:
I'm looking for an app for iPad in which you can:

Sync with dropbox
Save and edit RTF-files
Color markup text (in addition to making text bold, change fontsize, et cetera)


texts: What is the workflow between iWork apps with iCloud?

texts:
I have Numbers and Pages for iOS and the Mac. With iOS 5, I can create documents and spreadsheets in iCloud. How can I access those same iCloud documents in the Mac versions? Even better yet, if I want to create a document in the Mac version, how can I save it in iCloud to begin with?

I have upgraded to the latest OS X Lion version (10.7.2) and while I see the new iCloud preference pane un System Preferences and I have enabled Documents In The Cloud, I cannot see to find their counterparts in the Mac iWork apps. Can someone point me in the right direction? Thanks.


texts: Can AppleTV stream content directly from iTunes in Windows

texts: Suppose I have iTunes in a Windows laptop. Can AppleTV stream the content from that iTunes directly (as it is supposed to do with iTunes in a Mac) ?


texts:
I was able to restore my iPhone and iPod but my iPad is "offline" preventing me from getting out of lost mode.  I also have a call in to Apple.

I've changed my Apple ID password and had to cancel my credit cards.

Any help out there?


texts: I have an older MacBook Pro (Mid 2009) that cannot start and need to reinstall OS X from USB key or disc. With another MacBook I tried to download OS X El Capitan but is not available, only macOS Sierra, but my laptop is too old for macOS Sierra. How can download OS X El Capitan or older version of OS X?


texts: How to transfer from iPhone album to Mac

texts: My iPhone contains pictures from camera roll and pictures I synced from my previous Mac to the iPhone album. The hard drive broke on my Mac and I couldn't recover the images stored on the iPhone albumns. On iTunes or iPhoto I can only recover pictures from Camera roll but not the albums.


texts:
When I Try to use Apple's built in dictionary, I only get Wikipedia:

As you can see, I have enabled English and Français, But I only get Wikipedia. I also don't have the 'Apple Dictionary' in the Reference Sources.


texts: Download update before asking for restart

texts:
Every now and then my Mac informs that there is an Update that needs a restart to install. Once I click on Details, there is a Button to install the update and restart. But once I click that one, there is a Download of more than a gig pending.

I would like to change this behaviour, such that the notification only appears when the Update is already downloaded. Is that possible? How can I achieve this?

Checking "Automatically keep my Mac up to date" doesn't seem to have any effect.


texts: How do i get the low battery warning back on my MacBook?

texts: I have a MacBook and I did not take care of the battery properly. It started to shut down unexpectedly at around 20% and then even at 30%. I got a new battery and it seems to work fine; it lets me get down to 6%. The only problem is that even with the new battery, a warning does not pop up telling me that it is time to plug in my computer. I was waiting for it to come up when my computer was at 6%, and instead it just died. I don't know if I need to change some kind of setting or what. Any ideas on how to fix this?


texts: Is it possible for me with a 2007 iMac running Leopard (2.16 Ghz Intel 2 Duo and 2 GB 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM) to upgrade to Mountain Lion? If not, is there any later version I can upgrade to? If I can upgrade to Mountain Lion, do I need to install an earlier version first? And if so, how do I do this?


texts: Quickly create/edit keyboard shortcuts for menu items

texts:
Currently, if I want to bind a new keyboard shortcut to a menu item, I need to go through a somewhat tedious, many-step process:

Open System Preferences, then Keyboard pane, then App Shortcuts
Click the + button
Find the application in the menu
Forget the exact name of the menu item I want to bind
Go back to the other application, find the menu item, remember exactly what it’s called
Go back to System Preferences and type that in the field
Type the desired shortcut and click “Add”
On testing it out, find that I somehow mistyped it and spend a couple minutes troubleshooting steps 5–7

For something so simple as binding a keyboard shortcut to a menu item, I feel like there should be a very easy way to achieve this in about two seconds.

Is there some sort of script or app which I can use to easily manage an app's keyboard shortcuts?

I would be equally happy with something resembling either of these:

A small script/background app which I can call, which prompts me to select a menu item and type my desired shortcut
A somewhat larger program which will list and let me edit every menu item and/or keybinding within a certain app


texts: List of Times and Dates a Specific App was Accessed on my Mac

texts: I would like to know if it is possible to use the terminal in order to get info regarding when a specific app was accessed/closed (history of the app usage). I'm pretty sure that my mac stores this type of info (it uses it for screen time... but screen time only gives you the total time, not the detail regarding when the app was accessed...) but I'm not sure how to access it. Thanks!!


texts: What is the keyboard shortcut for "Open With" in Finder?

texts:
How can I open a file with an application, other than the default, using a keyboard shortcut? I don’t want to change the default application for the filetype.

E.g. sometimes I want to open a .html file using an editor instead of a browser.


texts: How can I quickly adjust “Do Not Disturb” - “Allow Calls From” in iOS?

texts: I like to adjust which contacts can call me when “Do Not Disturb” is active, but going deep into the settings each time is tedious. Is there a faster way to adjust this setting?


texts: How can I diagnose an iPad that seems super slow to recharge?

texts:
I've had my iPad 1 for almost a year now.  For the past few months it has been charging EXTREMELY slowly.

Last night I plugged it in with 54% remaining on the battery life.  This morning it is only at 81%.  It charged for 17 hours!  Is this normal?  The battery seems to last just about as long as it used to (once it's finally charged).

I am using the standard wall charger.  I have also tried using my friend's charger and had the same result.  Any suggestions?


texts: No unread counter in Apple Mail Inbox folder

texts:
A few weeks ago Apple Mail stopped to display a counter of unread messages in my Inbox folder. It still works correctly in other folders and in Dock's badge. The mails are displayed as unread.
Any idea how to restore it? I tried this fix to similar problem but it didn't help.


texts: How to access GPS data from command line on jailbroken iPhone

texts:
Are there any binaries available via the command line to get information  from the GPS on a jail broken iPhone? I've searched through Cydia and haven't found anything, but I wouldn't imagine this would be something brand new that hasn't been developed.

Has anyone come across anything that can do this?


texts: How to make Terminal app tab labels static?

texts:
I'd like to have arbitrary labels that i create for each Terminal tab static. No matter what is going on inside terminal tab. Something like this:

But Terminal app keeps it changing on some events...

Is there some setting to prevent these changes?


texts: What kind of cloth and cleaner do the people who work at the Apple store use to clean MacBooks?

texts:
I have a MacBook and an iPad and see dirt and fingerprints all over it.

What kind of cleaner do the people in the Apple store use to clean all the Macs and iPads on display?

I figure that anything strong enough to handle that abuse (being in a store used by so many people) should be good enough for use at home.


texts: Google Drive on 3rd Partition with Windows 7 and Bootcamp

texts:
I have searched far and wide, hoping someone here has answer.

The goal is to have OSX and Windows 7 on bootcamp, with a 3rd partition that both OSs read/write.

Then Google Drive is installed on both OSs, and the sync'd google drive folder is located on the 3rd partition.  (The goal of this is to not have google drive use 2x the memory because it is replicating the data on both OSs)

I've read accounts of this setup being successfully used with Dropbox, but not google drive.

The latest saying it doesn't work, but no details stating why.
https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!msg/drive/8OHJt7NvdR8/8CJiBdaxs_4J

Hoping someone here has had success with this approach.


texts:
I'm having a few issues with syncing pictures, which I haven't really nailed down enough to ask a question about exactly, but the rough version of it is that I think that my Mac running iPhoto has already downloaded most of my photos (but not any of my videos) using photostream before I get a chance to sync using a cable, and this results in the following behaviour:

iPhoto finds a lot of duplicates when I choose the iPhone device and choose to sync
iPhoto offers a chance to remove photos from your device that you just synced, but because it did not sync these particular photo duplicates over the cable because they already existed via photostream it does not offer to remove them
So it keeps finding the duplicates on my phone, and I have no easy way of removing the photos en-masse.

Now, the above is just background really, but any thoughts of a workflow for Photostream and cable syncing in tandem would be appreciated.

The issue for which I am raising this question is to do with my camera roll, and how to empty it on my phone.  I am aware that I can cable it up and use Image Capture to delete them all, but I was trying to find a more elegant solution.  I am aware also that I can individually (or in chunks by tapping on each and every one) remove them directly, but that's dumb.  So when I found this section in Settings > General > Usage > Photos and Camera I was pleased to see I could left swipe the items to delete the contents:

Yay!  Well, sadly not, as it appears to do nothing at all.  I have deleted the camera roll several times, and every time I go back it's right there, and indeed all my photos are still available.  Is this supposed to work, am I doing something wrong, or have I got some weird issue because it works for you?

Using the same method to remove podcasts from within the podcasts app works fine.


texts: Why do my most recent iTunes music purchases not sync to my iPhone?

texts:
For some reason, the last 15 songs or so that I've downloaded won't sync to my iPhone. I've tried:

Removing all music by unchecking "Sync Music" (didn't actually remove the music for some reason) and then re-adding it.
Putting those 15 songs in a playlist and syncing only those 15 songs.
Rebooting the iPhone.
Rebooting the computer.

Nothing has worked so far. Has anyone experienced this and found a solution?

Note:

The computer is a Fall 2013 Macbook Pro 13-Inch running OS X 10.9.1 with the latest version of iTunes installed. The iPhone is an iPhone 5S running iOS 7.0.4.


texts: How can I restart Finder when it keeps "stopping" an stopped copy process?

texts:
Every now and then, mostly with USB sticks, Finder decides to copy forever, either at the end of the copy process (i.e. the files are already copied), or at the very beginning.

Stopping the process in the little window will make Finder announce that it is "stopping" and it will do that for a few hours.

I tried just killing and restarting Finder but the old Finder survives as a zombie and the new Finder never finished starting.

Is there another way of recovering from this problem other than restarting the computer?

Since I upgraded to Lion I found that restarts have become more common.

Update: In Mountain Lion it would appear you can't even restart to fix it!


texts: How to get full resolution from a Dell E207WFP connected to a 2015 MacBook Air?

texts:
I have a Dell E207WFP connected to an Early 2015 11" MacBook Air on Yosemite (10.10.5) (then upgraded to El Capitan 10.11.2) via a VGA cable. The monitor is documented to support 1680x1050@60Hz, but the Mac's Displays preference pane only offers 1280x1024 and 800x600. If I option-click on Scaled, it expands to offer 1920x1080, 1400x1050, 1344x1008, 1280x1024, 1280x960, 1280x768, 1280x720, 1024x768, and 800x600, but these still don't include the monitor's actual native resolution. A 15" Retina Early 2013 MacBook Pro running El Capitan (10.11.2) detects the monitor and its native resolution correctly over the same VGA cable.

I tried forcing the monitor to RGB mode using the instructions at https://apple.stackexchange.com/a/106937/43392, which folks on that post said helped Dell U2713H, U2713HM, and U2711 monitors, but it didn't improve the situation for my monitor.

The System Information | Displays pane claims the monitor is a "13.9-inch (800 x 600)", which is, of course, incorrect.

How can I convince the MacBook Air to use the monitor's native resolution?


texts: Windows bootcamp file path on 2008 Intel iMac

texts: My iMac hdd is starting to go and I am trying to recover files I had on the Windows OS through boot camp. I cant seem to find the path to get to my Windows directory. the only way I can get in the hdd is while I am in single user mode. I tried to connect as an external hdd to pc but it would not initialize the disk and when connected externally to Mac it does not even see it. In single user mode I can explore easily but I cant seem to find where the files are.


texts: Uninitialised disk after erasing one partition on HDD

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I have a 1 TB HDD and I had three partitions on it.

Two partitions had data on them and one was empty. However, when I was trying to move some files to the empty partition, it gave the error "file size too bit for partition type". Therefore I went to disk utility and erased the particular partition and gave the new format as MAC journaled. An error occurred as the partition was unmounted and now the entire disk is uninitialized.

It doesn't show the other two partitions as well. I ran first aid on the disk but the issue is still the same. The only other option disk utility shows are erasing the entire disk which I do not want to do because there is valuable data on the other two partitions.

Earlier this showed three partitions and now I only see this. I somehow want to access the data on the other two partitions.


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I have a problem with my iMac restarting when it should be shutting down. This doesn't happen all the time but appears to happen more frequently when I've had the computer on for a few hours.

What happens

I shut the computer down via Apple Menu > Shut Down
The shut down cycle completes
The computer immediately reboots

It doesn't behave like this Mac OS X never shuts down. The Mac responds to being shut down immediately.

Fixes I've tried

First I should state I've pulled out all USBs etc. The only wire in is the power cable.

Disk Utility

I've been in touch with Apple Support about this issue, and the only advice they could give was to run First Aid in the Disk Utility. Sometimes this allows me to shut down. Other times not.

Resetting the SMC

I've reset the SMC which doesn't help. This often leads to another issue which is freezing on reboot (Apple logo and progress bar that doesn't move). To fix this I reset the PRAM/VRAM

Reset the PRAM/VRAM

Resetting the PRAM allows me to shut down most of the time. Even then I have to do it 2 or 3 times before it works.

Complete reinstall/upgrade

I've also reinstalled the system twice, one time upgrading from El Capitan to Sierra. This has temporarily fixed the issue, but it soon comes back after a week or so.

Setup

iMac (27-inch, Late 2013)

3.4 GHz Intel Core i5

6 GB 1600 MHz DDR3

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 775M 2048 MB

macOS Sierra 10.12.5

EDIT: Current Energy Saver Settings

I'd really appreciate your help here guys, this has been going on a while and it's becoming a bit of a nuisance.

EDIT: This question appears to highlight a pretty common occurrence. I'm happy to invest more into the bounty to get an answer that resolves or at least identifies the problem causing it to happen.

UPDATE:

After going through the steps in the answer provided by @monomeeth, Apple Diagnostics uncovered an error NDT001: There may be an issue with the Thunderbolt hardware. I've run Diagnostics before, but this time I ran it straight after the Mac restarted from a failed shut down. I'll be taking it into Apple for repair, so I'll keep this answer up to date with the outcome.


texts: How do you hide the subject field of iMessages on OS X?

texts: Is there a way to hide the subject field of messages which appear in the top right corner of the screen when I receive an iMessage on my computer? I know there is a way to hide it on messages that come to my iPhone. Is there a way to do the same on Mac OS X?


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My Mac Pro asks for an e-mail and password.

I was unable to remember them; I got a new password, but I'm still receiving an error message:

  Unable to verify account name or password.


texts: How do I make messages on iPad stop interrupting my music

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I use messages on my mac and enable it on my ipad as well. When I play music (spotify) on ipad, it keeps getting interrupted by the iMessage. The interruption is the dimming of the sound. This is very annoying. How do I stop that?

Note that I don't want to stop imessage from coming in. But on the iPhone, when the phone is on silent and I am playing music, new messages don't disturb my music. I want that same functionality with the iPad.

Thanks.


texts: My MacBook Pro won’t let me erase my disk

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I'm trying to delete all the data off my MacBook Pro. I pressed command+r, went to disk utilities, selected my disk in the slot to the left, went to the erase tab. The "erase" button is faded so I can't click it. Format is at Mac OS Extended (Journaled) already, but it's also faded out. I tried command+alt+r aswell it also says disk can’t be erased because it is not mounted and when I try to mount it I get an error message.

When I tried to go recoveryHD by pressing command it keeps on restarting. What is happening ? How can I fix this?

My drive is a SATA drive


texts: Does the 2011 Macbook Air come with a OS reinstall USB drive?

texts: Reading through other questions I learned that the 2010 Air came with one, but I don't remember noticing any USB drives when I unboxed my 2011 Air (days ago).


texts: Best approach to backup and migrate Boot Camp

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I have a boot camp install which I also use from VMware fusion (for when I can't be bothered to reboot!) and I need to migrate from MacBook Air to a MacBook Pro.

Obviously time machine makes migrating a Mac a breeze... but any thoughts on Boot Camp? I don't have much on there but really don't fancy wasting time setting it up again. Although I would appreciate being able to increase the partition size.


texts: Do I need a router with Mac and these firewall settings?

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I am single home user in one apartment with no other users, living apartment block house with over hundred apartments.
I have cable internet and one modem.

Mac firewall has "block all incoming connections" and "enable stealth mode" enabled.
All sharing services are disabled.

Do I need a router? All ports are disabled with these settings (I assume at least) so is router needed?


texts: How to Make Gmail Remember my User ID and Passwords with Safari

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I work in marketing and have several Gmail accounts established exclusively for my clients advertising programs that I must access frequently. Until a few days ago, each time I opened any Gmail account the User ID (Gmail address) and password have remained saved and would populate as I entered the first character of the Gmail address I was attempting to open.

When a colleague asked me to open her Gmail account during a time when her system was down, I unintentionally clicked "never for this Web site" when Safari asked if I wanted to save her logon information and password. I realize now that I had clicked the wrong option and since that time none of the Gmail accounts are saved requiring that I enter the full address and password each time.

I've followed the instructions on the help menu but nothing has worked. I use Safari version 6.0.4 and Mac OSX version 10.7.5. Any suggestions would be appreciated.


texts: Jailbroken iOS 8.4 iPhone 4S device is now disabled and requires to connect to iTunes

texts: I broke my iPhone 4S touch "screen and glass last year and left it unused because i bought iPhone 5 .. anyway.. recently I decided to fix it. I bought new touchscreen&glass and it works. However I entered few invalid passcodes and now my iPhone 4S says "iPhone is disabled. Connect to iTunes". Its running on iOS 8.4 jailbroken and if I restore it to 9.3.5 i wont be able to use it anymore ... as there is no jailbrake for it. I even believe I may remember my passcode if i had the oprion to enter it few more times .... so what I can do guys to be able to use it once again? Is there any way to try at least one more passcode that I believe should be the correct one or what basically i can so now ?


texts: In many applications shift-tab will unindent: but it just indents further on powerpoint.  What is the shortcut?


texts: Trying to re-format via internet recovery, no entry sign

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I am trying to reformat my MBP 13" late 2012 as I've sold it on eBay. I have KnowHow support from PC World and they're absolutely useless and just the most arrogant people I've ever spoke to in my entire life. Anyway enough about that...

I was told to press CMD + R to start the recovery process on reboot, it comes straight up with internet recovery where it downloads and after that is complete it just comes up with a No Entry symbol for about 5 minutes then restarts and just asks me to login. I've rebooted and held down alt (option or whatever it's called) and I can see the recovery partition and when I select it, it will not load and asks if I want to restart. I've downloaded OS X Recovery Disk Assistant v1.0 to a portable hard drive and it does the exact same thing, it will not load the recovery assistant.

Does anyone have any ideas? Pretty much needed to get this shipped off today.


texts: IOS 9.X bricked my last device, so a replacement phone with IOS 7.X arrived.  Before upgrading to the latest 9.X: I am wondering if it is still possible to obtain the SHSH blobs should I wish to go back to 7.X.


texts: I recently migrated over from Notepad++ (and from Windows) and I am finding myself at an inconvenience without CTRL + T in Notepad++ which switches the current line with the previous line. I tried using Move selection (CMD + CTRL + ARROW), but it does not behave the same way.


texts: Simulating a touch on a phone screen without a finger?

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I'm trying to simulate a touch on my iPhone without actually touching it (with a finger) for an app I'm making, I already tried electricity and it didn't worked, what is the correct way of doing it?

edit: I'm trying to simulate a touch physically, I need to understand the touch screen mechanism to find some sort of material.


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My iPhone 4's dock connector is broken. I can still use it to transmit data to and from the phone, but I cannot use it to charge the phone. So, obviously it is not completely broken, but the pin that is used for charging seems damaged.

However, if you look at the iPhone connector pinout, it seems like a diffferent pin is used for charging via USB (pin 18) than charging with FireWire (pins 19 and 20).

So, if I would get a FireWire-based charger, it might work? Does anyone know whether this really could solve the problem?


texts: Sometimes downloaded pdfs in Safari don't open correctly on iphone

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Sometimes I download a pdf from a site, normally I can press the downloads button, see the name of the downloaded pdf and a preview, selecting the pdf shows me the pdf, every once in a while the preview does not appear, and selecting the pdf to some page that just says the name of the pdf and 'data', I can't work out how to view the pdf from this point. If I manually go to the downloads folder I can find the downloaded file and it shows the preview and opens fine.
If I repeatedly download the same pdf, eventually it shows the preview and works as I expect.
What is going on here, this is really annoying for me, is there a fix?


texts: Recovering deleted recording in Voice Memo missing sidebar

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I have Mojave with Voice Memo v2.0. According to Apple's docs, you can recover deleted recordings in the sidebar.
https://support.apple.com/guide/voice-memos/delete-vmc3c0776462/2.0/mac/10.14
My Voice Memo app has no sidebar icon to click.
I checked the preferences and my "Clear Deleted" setting is set to never, so I should be able to see them.
How do I get the sidebar to show so I can see the deleted recordings?


texts: Cannot properly set user, group, and group list for `chroot` on macOS?

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I want to chroot my current user on macOS 10.14.6 for learning purposes.

I've read man chroot and understand that the -u, -g, and -G may be used to specify the user, group, and group list of the chroot'd command.

This is the user, group, and group list of my current user:

nlykkei-mbp:tmp nlykkei$ id
uid=501(nlykkei) gid=20(staff) groups=20(staff),502(access_bpf),12(everyone),61(localaccounts),79(_appserverusr),80(admin),81(_appserveradm),98(_lpadmin),33(_appstore),100(_lpoperator),204(_developer),250(_analyticsusers),395(com.apple.access_ftp),398(com.apple.access_screensharing),399(com.apple.access_ssh),701(com.apple.sharepoint.group.1)

After executing the following chroot, I would expect that uid=501(nlykkei), gid=80(admin), groups=80(admin), but this is not the case:

nlykkei-mbp:tmp nlykkei$ sudo chroot -u nlykkei -g admin -G admin / id
uid=501(nlykkei) gid=20(staff) egid=80(admin) groups=20(staff),502(access_bpf),12(everyone),61(localaccounts),79(_appserverusr),80(admin),81(_appserveradm),98(_lpadmin),33(_appstore),100(_lpoperator),204(_developer),250(_analyticsusers),395(com.apple.access_ftp),398(com.apple.access_screensharing),399(com.apple.access_ssh),701(com.apple.sharepoint.group.1)

How can I properly execute chroot, so that uid=501(nlykkei), gid=80(admin), groups=80(admin)?

Furthermore, in the man page of chroot, why is there a "-" in -user (same for -group)?

man chroot:

chroot [-u -user] [-g -group] [-G -group,group,...] newroot [command]

...

If the -u, -g or -G options are given, the user, group and group list of the
process are set to these values after the chroot has taken place.  See
setgid(2), setgroups(2), setuid(2), getgrnam(3) and getpwnam(3).


texts: How can I restore Spotlight to menu bar?

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I removed the Spotlight icon from the menu bar. I would like to restore it.

I tried the recommended method:

sudo mdutil -a -i on
sudo chmod 755 /System/Library/CoreServices/Search.bundle/Contents/MacOS/Search
sudo killall SystemUIServer

…which did not help. The command keys still work, but I would like to see the icon. I read the suggestion to reinstall the system and would prefer not to do that.

Does anyone have a different suggestion?

Problem solved: The article from OSXDaily worked perfectly. Thanks to all who responded.


texts: When I record my screen using quicktime, it looks like this:

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Using most recent Mac and Quicktime software.

When I record my screen using QuickTime, and choose to record a selected portion, the resulting recording looks like this:

What is supposed to be a black and white video shows these strange diagonal pixelated patterns, and then some random green pixels in the same pattern. You can still see the video playing underneath, but its totally obscured, like its a puzzle that's been rearranged if that makes sense.

Anyway, what's happening? This doesn't happen if I record my whole screen. As far as I can tell it only happens when I choose a window to record in.

Not sure if this is relevant, but I'm using a plugin called Soundflower to record my computer's internal audio along with the QuickTime screen recording of the video.

Thanks!


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I bought a MacBook pro from a guy who I met in online . Everything looked perfect at the time of purchase.
But later, I  connected it to the Internet and all of sudden it got a locked screen over there. When I tried contacting the seller he seems off and gave no response. I feel suspicious now and planning to take it Apple store today for further actions. In the worst case if it’s stolen, they may help to find the owner. I am also leaving the country in one day.

Any other suggestions welcome to help me either unlock it or reach the owner.

Edit:  It seems like a stolen Mac only . My bad purchasing it. Is there any other way I could find owner myself so at least return to them since I have less than 24 hours for my travel?


texts: How to open Chrome's Internal Pages from terminal

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I want to open chrome's internal pages like chrome://version via terminal. I know I can use the open command to open any URL, but how to open the internal pages?
I tried open -a Google\ Chrome "chrome://version", but It thinks chrome: is some folder and gives me this error

The file /Users/devuser/chrome:/version does not exist.


texts: Time Capsule Multiple Backups: Both Encrypted?

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Got new Time Capsule. Got new iMac (OS 10.8). Hooked up Time Capsule and enabled encrypted iMac backup.

Next, to my (little bit older) MacBook Air (OS 10.7). Trying to enable encrypted backup, but "Encrypt My Backup" checkbox is disabled (greyed-out).

Opinion differs. Some say MacBook Air backup is encrypted too, because "entire volume" of Time Capsule is encrypted by iMac.

Not convinced. No user feedback on that from MacBook perspective.

What is the answer?


texts: Wineskin - Problem with launching java programs

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I am trying to launch a Java program that needs JRE 8. I tried installing it onto my wrapper with the installer, but it showed a message in the style of "Oops, no new executables found, maybe the installer failed?". The solution on my other computer was to download the compact version in tar.gz, put the jar into the jre1.8.0_60\bin directory, cd to it with the Command Line Shell and then run java -jar program.jar. I tried the same on my computer, but this error showed up:

C:\Program Files\jre1.8.0_60\bin> java -jar program.jar

# A fatal error has been detected by the Java Runtime Environment:
#
#  Internal Error (0x80000100), pid=71, tid=49
#
# JRE version: Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (8.0_60-b27) (build 1.8.0_60-b27)
# Java VM: Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (25.60-b23 mixed mode windows-x86 )
# Problematic frame:
# C  [KERNEL32.dll+0x1d4d2]
#
# Failed to write core dump. Minidumps are not enabled by default on client versions of Windows
# An error report file with more information is saved as:
# C:\Program Files\jre1.8.0_60\bin\hs_err_pid71.log
#
# If you would like to submit a bug report, please visit:
#   http://bugreport.java.com/bugreport/crash.jsp
# The crash happened outside the Java Virtual Machine in native code.
# See problematic frame for where to report the bug.
#

C:\Program Files\jre1.8.0_60\bin>

In the file hs_err_pid71.log, there was the same text as in the Command Line. but with an additional information. I put it on Pastebin because of its length.


texts: How do I prevent OS X from making ".filename" files?

texts: I'm not sure of the consistency but sometimes OS X makes hidden .filename files where filename is a name of another file in the same directory. I want to know how to disable this since USBs I insert and copy / move files to / from keep having this and it's annoying to have to delete them every time I plug the USB onto a non-Mac computer.


texts: How to get the PID of every window of every process?

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I'm using the following simple script:

tell application "System Events" to get the title of every window of every process

Which works by printing titles of every window (the same with position). Is there any similar way of printing process id (to which it belongs) of each window, using AppleScript?


texts: Is it possible to pair iPhones to a specific bluetooth device or connect them to my Wi-Fi network via NFC tags?

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With the new capabilities of iOS 13's Shortcuts, I'm aware that events can be automated with NFC tags. However, can events be triggered by programming the tags for iPhones without having previously added such a shortcut? Such that anyone can come in and tap their phone to a tag to connect to my network?

Furthermore, can this be accomplished for pairing to a specific bluetooth device? I know this is possible with a shortcut, but I am wondering if it can be done on iPhones without any Shortcuts previously added.

If neither are possible, I could just create a QR code for the Wi-Fi connections, however I'm guessing you can't create a QR code to pair new devices to a bluetooth device.


texts: As far as i know, there are only two ways to get altitude, by GPS or by barometer. GPS is not usable in indoor room, And iPhone5 doesn't have a barometer. But iPhone 5 can give a relative accurate altitude without barometer. How could it be possible?


texts: How can I downgrade the OS on a Mac to the original one it came with?

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If I buy a mac with OS X 10.6.5, and then I upgrade it to OS X 10.6.6, how can I downgrade it back to OS X 10.6.5? I don't mind having to reinstall the entire operating system if necessary.

Could this same method also be used if I upgrade to OS X Lion (OS X 10.7)?

The reason I'm asking is because I heard that OS X 10.6.6 removed support for installing boot camp using a Vista CD, and that's all I have. Thus, if I ever want to wipe my computer and reinstall everything, I want to be able to still use a Vista CD to install boot camp.


texts: iTunes Wi-Fi Sync, copy photos from iPad to PC?

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I want to copy photos from iPad to PC (iTunes). On iTunes, I click the iPad icon, and then click "Photos" from the left panel. It shows "Sync Photos" on the right. But the problem is that when I click the Sync button, the pictures on the iPhone are not copied to the PC. Only the reverse was true (PC -> iPad).

Doesn't Apple support copying photos from iPad to PC? Or did I do something wrong? How can I copy photos from iPad to a PC on the same home network wirelessly?

If possible, I do not want to use the USB cable, because it is cumbersome than Wi-Fi Sync. I do not want to use iCloud as a middle man (iPad -> iCloud -> my PC) either, because I know a lot of people's pictures were leaked through iCloud.


texts: How to delete orphan images from Notes.app on Mac

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I have an image that shows in the “Browse attachments” view in the Notes app on Mac, but when I right-click on it and choose Show in Note, it doesn’t return any note, as it was deleted previously.

Is there a way to remove this orphan image? And if yes, how?


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How do I make my windows partition show up at boot time without holding option?

I had this setup on a Macbook pro way back when that was setup this way. I recently bought an iMac and would like to decide which partition I want to use at runtime without holding option. Is this still an available feature? Right now it automatically loads the windows partition.


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My second hand 2013 iMac has been running really slowly.

I have already done a complete wipe and reinstall, but that didn't help.

trying to get to the bottom of this, and suspecting imminent HDD failure, I booted from a USB El Capitan installer, then ran diskutil in Terminal, and discovered a whole bunch of additional disk images.

dev/disk0 is the internal physical disk, formatted as GUID journalled, with the EFI partition at 209.7MB, and the main Apple_HFS partition.

dev/disk1 is my USB Flash installer, also with EFI partition of 209.7MB and the main Apple_HFS partition.

dev/disk2 is a GUID disk image (Recovery Partition?), with a 209.7MB EFI partition and a 6.5GB Install ESD partition.

Here's where it gets weird: Disk3 is also a GUID disk image, with a 2 GB Apple_HFS OS X Base System. These four devices show up in the GUI Disk Utility.

Then I have disk4 through disk16, with no type and named "untitled", 7 of which are 524.3 KB (disk5 through disk9 & disk13), 2 are 6.3MB (disk10 & disk16), 1 is 5.2MB (disk4), then 2.1MB disk3), 2 are 1.0MB (disk12 & disk15).

If I do diskutil info /dev/disk'n', I get the following Mount Points:

 /dev/disk4 - Mount Point: /private/var/log
 /dev/disk6 - Mount Point: /private/var/tmp
 /dev/disk7 - Mount Point: /private/var/run
 /dev/disk8 - Mount Point: /System/Installation
 /dev/disk9 - Mount Point: /private/var/db
 /dev/disk10 - Mount Point: /private/var/folders
 /dev/disk11 - Mount Point: /private/var/root/library
 /dev/disk13 - Mount Point: /Library/Preferences
 /dev/disk14 - Mount Point: /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration
 /dev/disk15 - Mount Point: /Library/Keychains
 /dev/disk16 - Mount Point: /private/var/tmp/RecoveryTemp

I tried running fdisk -i -a hfs /dev/disk'n' (where 'n' is the number of the disk I want to remove), but I get "Resource busy" for all of them except dev/disk12, where I got "could not open MBR file /usr/standalone/i386/boot0: No such file or directory"…

I then get:
————————————————————————————————————————————————--
———- ATTENTION - UPDATING MASTER BOOT RECORD ————-     —————————————————————————————————————————————————-

Do you wish to write new MBR and partition table? [n]

How do I get rid of these additional disks?

TIA!


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A click on "Install App" does nothing. No error message, no download.
I am trying to download an app appropriate for my installed OS.

I've rebooted and signed out/in at the app store. No change.

I'm editing because this appears to be the same issue. I signed out and into the app store, and am trying to update existing software.

This is the resulting error message. It references "other account" but this is the account I use, exact same ID I just signed in with.


texts: "Move focus to next window" short cut toggling window order if I interact with a window

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There is a very convenient keyboard short cut to go through all windows opened by the same application. For me (but it is not the same for everyone) it is Ctrl < to flip through the window in one order, and Ctrl > to flip backwards. So far so good.

The bug (I can't think how it can be a feature), is that the order of windows is toggled as soon as I interact with one window. Let me explain with an example

I open Mac mail, I create (Cmd N) say 3 new windows with topic Draft 1, Draft 2, Draft 3. If I use Ctrl < it flips through Draft 2 Draft 1 Draft 3 etc... and Ctrl > flips in forward order
now I'm on Draft 2, I modify the title to be Super Draft 2. Now Ctrl < flips in forward order ! Draft 3 Draft 1 Super Draft 2 etc... (and Ctrl > backward) !
I can reproduce the bug with safari windows (not tab, really separate windows), so it looks like it is not specific to Mail

This is very inconvenient : I can have a dozen draft email windows opened, and I'd like to go through them systematically and possibly modify some. This bug forces me to toggle between Ctrl < and Ctrl > semi randomly in order to be sure I cycle through all windows.

I'm on Mac Book Pro with Catalina 10.15.4 but this behavior is there since I learned to use the toggle window shortcut, one or two years ago.


texts: is there a tab snooze plugin for Safari?

texts:
I've been looking around on DuckDuckGo and App Store for a Safari plugin that will let me "snooze" (similar to this Chrome plugin). Coming from Chrome, I've really come to rely on the ability to just set a timer and kick tabs off to the background for a period of time and then return (this also frees up memory).
So far I've found nothing. I'm hoping I'm just bad at searching and am missing something.


texts: Disable shape detection in Preview's annotation tools

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When I try to draw a line on an image using Preview's annotation tools, it doesn't remain as I drew it but instead the line is drawn linear. How can I set it to be preset as nonlinear?

So looking to the images, I don't want it to be set like this:

Instead I want it to be preset in this way, instead of clicking the actual function everytime to make it nonlinear.


texts: Is there an iPhone app available that lets me track data usage on a per-app basis?

texts: I want to see which apps on my iPhone are using the most mobile data. I know I can do this in Settings > Mobile Data, but the list I get there is cluttered and in alphabetical order. I want a list of apps that I can re-order, so the apps using the most data are at the top of the list. Is there an app that does this? My Data Manager doesn't seem to (although it is great for other things).


texts: How can i disable the "mouse scroll wheel click" to view all windows feature in El Capitan

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Ive got a mac mini running El Capitan, i use a piece of CAD software which requires me to use the "mouse scroll wheel click" to move around the software.

This works fine on other machines that i have the software installed on which are running Yosemite, but on this machine running El Capitan the "mouse scroll wheel click" shows all windows, the same as pressing F3.

Is there a way to disable this feature in El Capitan ?

For reference im using a logitech LS1 Laser mouse which is a simple mouse which works plug and play, its not a fancy gaming mouse, and it driver software is quite limited (see attached screenshot of options). But because of the way the issue is only showing up in El Capitan im thinking its an issue / setting in the OS rather than on the mouse.


texts: how to upgrade my Hard drive on MacBook pro

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I have a MacBook pro version 10.9.3 with 2.9 GHz Intel core i7 processor. 8GB of ram and a 750GB HD. I'm running windows through parallels and allocated 4GM of memory to it and a used my bootcamp image (400gb).

When running parallels both sides are slow. I thought that maybe buying a SSD would speed things up. Is this true? If So will I be able to back up my partition when upgrading? What would be the best way to go about it?

Thanks for any advice!


texts: Commandline tools not installed with Server.app on Mavericks

texts:
I installed the Server.app from the App Store to use the bundeled postgres DB:

sudo serveradmin start postgres

Then I found out, that the commandline tool "serveradmin" (and others) have not been installed as implied by other postings.

Was this a change by Apple, or did I miss something?


texts: Extension cable for CalDigit Thunderbolt 3 Mini Dock

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Looking for an extension cable to the CalDigit Mini Dock, but none of the cords I'm getting are working. Could anyone point me to one that will work?
These are the two I've tried:
https://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/B0817SL37C/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o01_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
https://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/B074K318JK/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o05_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1


texts: How do I "blacklist" a wireless network on my Mac?

texts: My home wifi network is password protected, as it should be. My neighbor's is not. Because I have password protected my network, my computer continually joins my neighbors instead of mine. I have moved my network to the top of the list of the "preferred" wireless networks, but if my network is down for whatever reason my computer just re-joins the neighbor's network. I don't want to join my neighbor's network, ever. Is there a way to make it so that my computer will never join a particular network, i.e. "blacklist" it?


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Background/Config

Problem
Recently I had to reset my laptop and now I my Touch Bar is getting cut off at the right edge of the display. I am not sure it is physical damage or an issue in the computers software/firmware/hardware.
A picture of the issue is below:

Question
Is there any solutions to this? Or do I need to send my laptop in for replacement?


texts: Can you resize a Keynote slide without resizing text?

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I'm currently using Keynote to layout a web design, but I've made my slide too short. When I try to resize my slide, all the text increases in size, destroying my layout.

So my question is, is there a way to resize my slide without resizing the text?


texts: How can I fix a low speaker volume problem on my iPhone 6s?

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I have a 6s with iOS 9.3x installed. Out of the blue, the speaker volume became barely audible. By speaker I mean the the loud speaker at the bottom of the phone.

I've used headphones and bluetooth to see whether those are affected as well - those continue to work fine.

I've done the following - none fixed the problem:

Restarted the unit multiple times.
I've cleaned out the speaker and headphone jack.
I've blown compressed air at the problem spots.
I've toggled Settings/General/Accessibility/Phone Noise Cancellation and Hearing Aids options.
Various miscellaneous things that I've read about here and there.

I know that if I take it to Apple store, they will suggest restoring a new phone, which I don't want to do. Other than reinstalling the OS, what else can I do to try and fix this issue?


texts: Force install Mavericks or newer on a A1181

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In short, can it be done? and besides not getting updates whats the worst that can happen?

Its a 2006 model with coreduo


texts: What advanced calendar scheduling can Siri do?

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I just found out that Siri can do complex calendar schedules, such as scheduling something for every three days.  The calendar app has a very limited interface for complex scheduling, so I'm wondering what other calendar scheduling I can do with Siri that I can't do with the regular calendar interface?

One thing I'm curious about is whether it can schedule monthly "first ... of" repeating events.  For instance, I have a meeting I attend on the second Tuesday of each month.  Can I schedule that using Siri, and what is the best phrasing to use?


texts: Remote desktop to home from work / VPN / Dyn / ...?

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Occasionally I’d like to connect to my home computer from my work computer. Both run Yosemite.

I’d like to do this using Remote Desktop, as in I’d like to be able to run all programs on my home computer as if I was sitting behind it (view my Desktop, and access and run all my apps)

At work most outgoing connections are blocked. Can I get around this by using a paid VPN service whenever I want to connect to home? I have no experience with VPNs but do understand the concept and since I have admin rights on my machine I must be able to set one up.

Once the VPN is up and running I guess I can use any Remote Desktop app to connect to home?

Then the next question is that I probably need a fixed IP address or hostname at home, since I’m on a residential DSL connection that periodically changes IP. Would DynDNS help me with that? I see that Dyn also has a Remote Access product - would that let me see my desktop and run apps, or only access my files?

Can anyone confirm if this general overview is correct and possibly recommend a good VPN service and remote desktop app for this type of scenario?

I don't want to use iCloud!


texts: Low-res photos when transferred from iPhone

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I have an iPhone 4S running iOS 8.1.0

When I take photos using the built-in camera app, and transfer them off my phone using DropBox or PhotoSync the photos mostly end up as low-res versions. Not all of them, but about 90%.

I've spent some time trying to work out what is going on and its melting my brain.

Things I know:

The problem is related somehow to the iPhone camera app as it doesn't happen with Camera+.
The photos do exist on my phone at full-res. If I plug my phone into the laptop with the USB cable, a drive gets mounted and I can get to my photos, copy them off and they are there basking in their high-res glory. That rules out any dumb stuff like 'was I using the front-facing camera' or 'have you set the phone to store photos at low-res'.
If I use DropBox or PhotoSync they come through as (mostly) low-res.
I'm not doing anything with iCloud as I know that causes lower-res versions.

Any help would be appreciated as it is doing my head in!


texts: How can I set a web server in a specific directory in OSX Mavericks?

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I am running a web server in OSX Mavericks using the default directory location ($HOME/Sites). How can I add sites from distinct arbitrary directories ?

I have found instructions about how to change the root folder of the apache server, but I do not want to override the default location (I have things there) but to add new folders.


texts: Is there a way to sync Google Calendar with iCal without CalDAV or EAS?

texts: As part of the spring cleaning announcement in which Google announced that they would be killing off Google Reader, they also mentioned winding down the CalDAV API.  Given that Google's Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync support was killed off in January, will there be any way to sync Google Calendar with iCal (on iOS) after CalDAV is shut down (September 16, 2013)?


texts: Sync iPad & Dumbphone Contacts via Bluetooth?

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My Mom's main computing device is now an iPad. It's been working great for several months, but I'm trying to do what I can to get her to make use of its full capabilities.

One of the things I wanted to do was help her organize her contacts. Right now she's just using a dumb phone, but it's got Bluetooth and I'd love to find a way to transfer contacts from her iPad to the phones address book. I'm pretty sure this is a no-go with the built-in iOS functionality, but are there any apps that can do this?


texts: Search for files in external storage in Finder (and if possible, Spotlight as well)

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I have an external drive connected to my computer, as well as a home server.

I'm trying to search for a file that is on the server, but when I do a finder search, it only looks into the internal drive. I've tried it with my external drive, and same thing happens -- it does not look there.