texts: Changing Default Apache version on MacOS Sierra

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A DHS sweep of the network showed that one of the researchers Macs is running a non-safe version of Apache (2.4.25) and they would like him to update to at least 2.4.27.

He is having difficulty getting MacOS to use the new version of Apache rather than the one installed by default with Sierra. His issues are:

Mac OS X 10.12.6 Sierra

I have installed httpd 2.4.27 . . .  /usr/local/apache2/bin/
but the default httpd running is located at /usr/sbin/
I cannot install a new httpd into /usr/sbin/  - no write persmissions for sudo
I made a root user active - but "root" does not have write permissions for /usr/sbin/ either

I cannot find any source on the web that describes how to change the httpd path from the default system version (/usr/sbin/httpd) to a new USER installed version, like /usr/local/apache2/bin/httpd

What steps am I missing?


texts: Mavericks: notifications no longer displaying

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I recently upgraded to Mavericks (download from app store).

Before this upgrade, I could click on the the notifications UI element at the very top-right of the display; this would cause the whole screen to shift to the left and display a list of notifications:

Now, after the upgrade, this UI element simply turns blue during the mousedown, and nothing else happens.

Are there any known fixes or workarounds to this?

I should add I am experiencing a similar but not identical issue with the spotlight UI element:

When I click on this one, I just get a "bonk" sound and no spotlight search bar.  However I can use spotlight without problems from finder windows, etc.

I don't know, but I'm guessing these two issues may be related simply because of their proximity on the screen.

Other taskbar UI elements appear to be working normally.


texts: Failed to update brew: "The following untracked working tree files would be overwritten by merge"

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I'm trying to update brew but I get this error message:

  error: The following untracked working tree files would be overwritten by merge:
      Library/Formula/curlpp.rb
  Please move or remove them before you can merge.

The directory /Library/Formula doesn't even exist. What should I do?


texts: My MacBook won't recognize my external hard drive (Passport - that I use to back up the Mac!)

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I'm not techie at all.
But I manage the basics.

I've always backed up my MacBook (2009) on a Passport.  I just plug it in while the Mac is connected to power source & click the icon & it backs up.

Tonight - the Mac doesn't even see the Passport?

I have tried & tried.

The computer has been acting up in strange ways (not connecting to internet, lots of "spinning wheel of death", slow to open apps & slow to change apps) so now I am terrified.

Help?


texts: How to use Aquamacs on a non US keyboard?

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I occasionaly use Aquamacs on my Macbook Pro. I have also bought an Apple keyboard with a US english layout, because it is not practical to program on a Mac with a french (or more generally probably any non english) layout. These characters { } | \ ~ [ ] are not even on the keyboard, and you have to use various combinations of meta keys to get them.

Of course it doesn't work well when you need: M-\ , because typing backslash already requires meta keys.

So, how do you use Emacs on a non english keyboard, if that is even possible ?

I could switch the built-in keyboard layout to english, but that's not really comfortable to use it for a long time. I do it when I have no other choices, for example when at some point I need a lot of braces, but that's just temporary.


texts: Macbook pro showing "Starting Internet Recovery" instead of AHT

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I try to make a long AHT test on my mid 2014 Macbook Pro. When I press D (same with alt-D) on boot it says :

Starting Internet Recovery
Restart           Shutdown

After a few seconds, it launches the basic AHT test.

But the Apple document says it should show an icon where I can launch the long AHT test.


texts: How do I stop Xcode from replacing "selected" character with another character?

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I made some changes to some source code today, and noticed that when I replaced "inDirectory" in a Bundle.mainBundle.pathForResource call with "subdirectory" and subsequently put it back in, Xcode replaced letters other unrelated areas of code with the letter "i". For example, if my code is:

let path = Bundle.mainBundle.pathForResource(...inDirectory:)
let deluge = something

and I replaced line 1 with

let path = Bundle.mainBundle.pathForResource(...subdirectory:)

and then corrected the method call, now line 2 looks like:

let diluie = somithing

If I then try to replace the i's in line 2 with what's supposed to be there, Xcode "corrects" my "mistake" and puts the i's back in.

Edit: Under System Preferences->Keyboard, I unchecked "Correct spelling automatically", but that did not help.

Edit #2: I'm using Xcode 8.2.1

Update::
After playing around with my project some more, I discovered Xcode is just replacing characters I select with the undesired character. For example, in line 2 the above code, if I select "u" by placing my cursor immediately before it, then move the cursor elsewhere, Xcode will replace the "u" with an "i". Will someone please tell me how to stop this from happening?


texts:
So I have been searching for hours on this.

So I installed java 1.7 on my mac before I realized I wanted/needed to use 1.6. I have managed to change everything so that the command line sees version 1.6. My issue is that whenever I try to compile something in eclipse it is saying "Specified VM install not found: type MacOS X VM, name Java SE 7 [1.7.0_45]"

I tried to reinstall 1.7 to see if that would fix things. It hasn't.

I am in OSX 10.8

EDIT:

The solution for now was to blow away my workspace and check everything out again


texts: Accuracy of "Data Sent/sec" in Activity Monitor on MacOS Catalina

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I have a 2018 MacBook Pro i7 running MacOS Catalina 10.15.3. I'm uploading a 4.88 GB video to YouTube, using the YouTube Studio web interface in Google Chrome 79. My MacBook Pro is connected to my 5 Ghz SSID on my TP-Link EAP245 (Generation 1) access point, which is connected via gigabit ethernet to my Ubiquiti EdgeRouter X, which connects to my Netgear CM1000 cable modem. I don't have any VLANs or special routing rules configured.

According to the Network tab of Activity Monitor, I'm uploading data at roughly 10 megabytes per second (MB/sec). However, my Internet service is only supposed to support 35 megabits per second (Mb/sec), which comes out to about 3.5 megabytes per second.

I'm reasonably confident that there is no other major data transfer occurring in parallel with my YouTube video upload.

I can use the Python-based glances utility to observe that only a single network interface (my en0 Wi-Fi adapter) is pushing out approximately ~80 Mb/sec, which roughly matches the 10 MB/sec. that I'm seeing in Activity Monitor. When I'm not uploading a video, the idle utilization of the en0 network interface is only a few KB/sec.

My MacBook's en0 network interface is using the default MTU of 1500, according to ifconfig. All my other network devices use the default MTU.

In addition, according to my router's traffic monitor, I'm actually pushing out 44 Mbps (35 Mbps slightly over-provisioned).

Question: How can I explain the discrepancy between a 3.5 MB/sec. Internet service, versus the ~10 MB/sec being indicated by Activity Monitor in MacOS?


texts: Which part of the iPhone 8 Plus is this?

texts: I decided to repair my phone. I have succesfully disassembled and assembled it. But I got this part left on my table. Any ideas of what it is?


texts: How to get (logical) screen size from a shell script?

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Using system_profiler SPDisplaysDataType, I can retrieve the size of a Mac's display in pixels.
However, the command

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

(which I execute from my bash script using osascript) apparently does NOT return window sizes in pixels. It seems to be some other units. According to my experiments, on my MacBook Pro Retina, for instance, a fullscreen app (e.g., Keynote presentation) has a window size of 1680 x 1050.

So, the question is: how can I determine the screen size of a Mac from my bash script in the same units like the tell application ... uses?
Or, how can I determine the factor by which I have to convert pixels into those other units?


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There is the overall locking password, which prevents the phone from being used. Is there a way to pasword-protect on a per-app basis, e.g. lock mail, but not photos. This is under iOS 5.1 on a iPhone 4S. The password doesn't need to be different between apps, however.

EDIT: This is with a iPhone 4S, not jailbroken.


texts: Mavericks (10.9.5) Messages app is only showing what other people are typing, and not what I am typing! Has anyone else seen/fixed this?


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I have a mid-2013 Macbook Air (A1466) that has been freezing/hanging during the startup process. It is running Mojave 10.14.2.

This issue first began when I attempted to wake the computer from sleep by opening the lid. Instead of the normal login screen, everything stayed black. I held down the power button to shut everything down, and have been stuck with this freezing issue ever since.

I am usually able to type in my password and have a progress bar appear before it freezes about 1/3 of the way through. Occasionally it freezes immediately on the apple logo, other times it freezes at the login screen before I can type anything in.

I have tried the following solutions with no luck:

resetting the PRAM/NVRAM
resetting the SMC
booting in safe mode - freezes on progress bar
Diagnostics test - freezes on progress bar
Command-R - it freezes before the utility menu appears
Command-Option-R - it freezes before I can select a wifi network

In Verbose mode, it continues to freeze, although at different points. I've included a few pictures here since I have no idea what any of this stuff means.

Also relevant is that this is not the first time this has happened. I'm now running Mojave, but this issue occurred in High Sierra as well. In the past, I kept trying to login over the course of a few days and eventually was able to log in successfully. That was approximately 6 months ago, and everything was normal up until this latest incident.

I know the battery is due to be replaced soon, though I'm not sure if that's important.

Any insight into what could be causing this would be very appreciated! Thank you!


texts: Use an iPhone as cabled webcam / capture camera stream from hdmi out?

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I am wondering if there is a way to use an iPhone as a usb webcam. I saw solutions for wifi and friends but none of them seems to work for a cabled connection.

Alternatively, I know that it is possible to use the HDMI adapter and capture that signal with a capture card but as far as I'm aware this only means the screen resolution. I read some other reports though that depending on the app, the outputted resolution actually changes but couldn't find a source to confirm this.

The 6s camera is able to record in 4k, is it somehow possible to capture the full 4k or is opening the camera app the only way to "grab" what the iPhone is seeing? Could an app be set up to output the full sensor-grabbed stream over HDMI?


texts: Upgrade Cost From Previous MacOS Version to Sierra

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This is going to be a very simple and straight forward question. I do not have experience of using any MacBook. I'm a software engineer by profession and I'm considering to purchase a MacBook to get started with iOS development. I got some quotations from a local Apple Authorized Reseller and they are saying that they have 2 MacBooks that fall in my budget. Budget can be increased though. One is Apple MacBook Pro Retina 13.3" (MF839ZA/A). It has "Mac OS X Yosemite" on it. If I purchase this MacBook then can I upgrade the OS X to "Sierra"?

What will be the software upgrade costs from the following OS X versions to Sierra:

Mavericks to Sierra
Yosemite to Sierra
El Capitan to Sierra

What are the minimum hardware requirements or MacBook version requirements for me to install Sierra on it?

I need Sierra for XCode 8.0+.


texts: If I delete a song I got in iTunes from my iPhone 4S (IOS 6.3) do I have to pay again to download it? I have never sync with a PC or MAC, so it exists only in my iPhone.


texts: Will grayscale increase or decrease battery consumption?

texts: If I turn on grayscale on my iPhone 6, will the consumption of battery increase or decrease?


texts: Failed downgrade - iPod touch with broken home button

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I tried to downgrade my iPod touch 4th gen iOS 6.1.6 to iOS 5.1.1.

I went on Redsn0w clicking extras/even more/restore/ipsw. Then I selected iOS 5.1.1 firmware. I stopped the process halfway. Now my iPod's screen is black and when I plug it into iTunes the device is not recognised.

The problem is that my home button is broken so I cannot press the power and home button to make the screen light up with the apple logo.

What can I do now to fix this issue?


texts: Thunderbolt Ethernet Bridge; Very slow outbound packets to LAN and Internet

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My 2012-era MacBook Air is connected to a 2012-era iMac via a Thunderbolt cable. The iMac contains a Thunderbolt-Ethernet bridge which in theory should allow the MBA to (1) participate in extremely fast file transfers with the iMac and (2) access the Internet and LAN without the use of additional ethernet cabling or WiFi.

Both operations work as expected, but with a catch: Sending TCP/IP traffic from the MBA to any computers on the LAN other than the iMac, or to any computers on the Internet, is incredibly slow. Receiving traffic works just fine. Sending a file from a server on the LAN to the MBA, for example, is very fast, and downstream speed tests initiated on the MBA via SpeedTest.net max out my Internet connection at 60Mbps. But all traffic originating from the MBA in the upstream direction is ridiculously slow; Traffic from the MBA to machines on the LAN or the Internet moves at around .08Mbps. A test via SpeedTest.net confirms. (Traffic between the MBA and iMac is very fast in both directions.)

Any ideas?


texts: How do I force Safari to ask me to save all passwords?

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I'm using 10.10.3. iCloud keychain is enabled.

Anyway, I find that Safari will ask to save passwords for some sites but not for others.

examples of sites where I get prompted: eBay, amazon, some local discussion forum, stackexchange

examples of sites where I don't get prompted: macrumors, xdc-developers and many others

I've checked the settings and "Auto-fill username and passwords" is enabled i the password tab. I've removed all passwords but it's still happening.

Any ideas on how to fix it?


texts: How to transfer documents from iPhone to my Mac

texts:
This is a beginner question.
I have some files (Photos, Documents, etc in various folders) in the Files.app in iPhone
I can connect my iPhone to my Mac using USB cable.
How do I transfer files from iPhone to my Mac using USB cable?


texts:
When I try to search something in Numbers, it will find in all sheets. Is it possible to search in currently selected sheet only?

MacBook Air macOS Sierra 10.12.3, Numbers 4.0.5


texts: Closing applications after documents are closed- OS X 10.8

texts:
When I use applications such as TextEdit and Preview, the application still stays open after I close the text file or jpg file. When I click the respective application (since it is still in the dock), the application prompts me with a window to choose a file to Edit/Preview. Is there a way to configure these applications so that when I close the text file or the picture, the application itself closes and I can avoid seeing that window?

For instance, this is the window that I see for TextEdit after I open and close a txt file with TextEdit, and then open the TextEdit application on my dock:


texts: Is there a way to limit the size of the Trash?

texts:
I just ran out of disk space and I have like 15GB in my trash. Is there a way to not keep items older than say 7 days or limit the size of the Trash?

I need a way to automatically keep this managed.


texts: Define different screen resolution when external monitor is plugged in

texts:
I have a Macbook Pro that I use both at home and at work. At home when I'm using it as a laptop, the standard resolution of 1440 x 900 is fine as it's closer to my eyes. However, at work I plug in an external LCD so that I can dual screen and the resolution of the Macbook screen is a bit too large for my eyes.

Is there any way for me dictate a smaller resolution when I have an external monitor plugged in? Or is there an app that does this?


texts: Does the new Macbook Pro with Retina display have user-upgradeable RAM?

texts:
I'm interested in purchasing the new MacBook Pro with Retina display, but it's not clear from the tech specs page whether the RAM is user-upgradeable or not.

Do I need to take into account future RAM usage when customizing my MacBook Pro order, or can I go with 8GB RAM and upgrade it later?


texts: iPhone works fine with car bluetooth for Playing Music but not working for Phone Calls

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After upgrading to iOS 13.5, I am facing issue while connecting Bluetooth of my car. I am able to connect Bluetooth of car for music and phone calls but after 2-3 minutes Bluetooth for phone gets disconnected and only music is working. Please note I am able to play music continuously.
Please note this was working fine since last 1.5 years before upgrading iOS 13.5, I have upgraded to iOS 13.6 but I am still facing issue.
Also note that I haven’t upgraded car music since the beginning, so I suspect that the issue introduced by iOS upgrade.


texts: As it seems there are suggestions for how to replace a character or a string with newline in Excel for Mac, like this one. But trying to reverse the process does not work; e.g., to type CTRL+J or ALT+0010 etc. Any advice on how to replace newlines in cells with, for example, space?


texts: How to reduce photos in iPhoto while keeping metadata?

texts:
I got carried away taking high-res and RAW photos, and now my iPhoto Library is just too big. Most of these photos aren't good enough to take up that much space,  but they're still good enough to keep. How can I reduce the sizes of my photos while maintaining iPhoto metadata (e.g., albums, rating, location) for them?

Extra props if:

I can do it as a batch process.
I can exclude certain photos from the reduction (e.g., only reduce photos without 5 stars).
It gracefully handles the relationship between the modified and original photos.


texts: Safari (macOS) does not play sound for web push notification

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I enabled notifications for slack.com in Safari to get push notifications for new messages. However, I don't get any sound with those notifications. The just appear in the top right corner of the screen, but the Mac does not play any sound.

I am using Safari 11.1.1 in macOS 10.13.5.

Any ideas?


texts: MacBook: Prevent mouse from switching to external monitor placed above main display

texts:
So I got an external monitor witch is positioned above my MacBook. Sometimes I want to use the Menu bar of my MacBook, and I often move my mouse too quickly and it goes to the secondary monitor.

Is there a button I can press to prevent my mouse from going to my secondary monitor, but instead trigger the menu bar to pop up in fullscreen mode?


texts: How to prevent MacOs from switching keyboard input method

texts:
I installed a perfectly fine and working custom layout and it works for everything I use. It is one of the Dvorak flavors if you’re curious.
The issue is that each time I open the App Store, it switches back to the default one. And I’m virtually unable to use it efficiently as I have to look at my keyboard to find keys. Same issue occurs on the login screen, I’m forced to use the default one and struggle to type my complicated password, for which I have perfect muscle memory in Dvorak. I use same keyboard layout on my Windows 10 computers and there it’s possible to have it as default.
I’m using Catalina 10.15.6

What can I do to end this annoyance?


texts: Is there any way to view a PDF in Preview in Full Screen? Quick Look works, but it doesn't have the 'remembering the page you were looking at' feature that I like.


texts: Is iPhone X (model A1901) totally useless in China?

texts:
This is a screenshot from the device that I have:

I was doing research which Chinese operator is compatible with my device.

iPhone X - Technical Specifications - https://support.apple.com/kb/SP770
iPhone models supported by China Mobile, China Unicom, and China Telecom's LTE, 3G, and 2G networks - https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT202909
What are all the differences between the iPhone X? How many different versions are there? https://everymac.com/systems/apple/iphone/iphone-faq/differences-between-iphone-x-a1865-a1901-a1902-models.html

From the links above I am reaching the conclusion that my device is totally useless.

More research, search engine "A1901 China"

https://www.frequencycheck.com/compatibility/dv0nTpj/apple-iphone-x-a1901-td-lte-64gb-apple-iphone-10-6/china

https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/travel-technology/1900185-iphone-x-a1901-china.html

  With Model A1901, LTE should work, but CDMA will not.

Honestly, no idea, I'm confused now. Maybe you'll know?


texts: Is there a replacement for Rosetta in Lion?

texts:
I have a few PowerPC Mac binaries I would like to run under MacOSX 10.7.

I guess Rosetta is not going to be Open Source, isn't it? Any petition about this? I would start one or contact someone at Apple about this if I would know whom or where.

Can Rosetta be downloaded somewhere or copied over from an 10.6 and made working on 10.7?

Then I thought about user the userspace QEMU emulation. This would be the same thing as what Rosetta was doing (right?). However, from here, it says

  target PowerPC on x86: Not working as the ppc commpage can’t be mapped (yet!)

I'm not sure what that means. I would like to work on this if this isn't too hard but not sure where to start. (Btw., because of this, maybe this question is better suited for Stackoverflow?)

Here is a mail from the mailinglist (from 2007) with some more information (not much though).

What are other possibilities?


texts: How can I pair an Apple Watch with a jailbroken iPhone 5c running iOS 8.4?

texts: When I attempt to do so, a prompt appears telling me to update my phone's iOS. I am wondering whether there is a workaround; I do not want to lose my jailbreak. Thank you in advance.


texts:
I need to know if I can make a warranty claim on a MacBook if there are oxide deposits on its motherboard. I live in a cabana close to the beach, so I am worried.

note: I don't have the Apple Care package with me. But my MacBook is just 8 months old.


texts: Is there a way to force a game running in full screen to become a window?

texts: I am playing a game called Bookworm on the Mac, and it starts as a full screen game, and the only way seems to be from its Options to choose not to run in full screen.  What if a game doesn't provide such option, is there a way to make it become a window?  (force the game to run in window mode instead of full screen).


texts:
I know it is impossibly to manage the order for the applets in the menubar (those which aren't apple's own). Yet is there an application or trick that enables this?

Eg. I have a calendar barlet that I would like to put to the left of apple's clock, and then apple's battery indicator, etc...


texts: iPhone 5 will not ring, it only vibrates

texts: I have my iPhone 5 set on "Vibrate on Ring" and the volume is not on mute, but when someone calls, it only vibrates. I've included it in Notifications Center, but that doesn't seem to do anything. Do Not Disturb has also been turned off. When selecting a ringtone it will not play, it only vibrates. How do I fix this?


texts: Unable to type the shortcut Command-Shift-B on Yosemite

texts:
On Yosemite (Mac OS X 10.10.4) I'm not able use the shortcut Command-Shift-B, while Command-Shift-<another-letter> works as expected.

I've double checked this in the Keyboard Viewer: pressing Shift, Command and B simultaneously won't show the B button as pressed.

That is, this is what I see when pressing the 3 buttons:

Same goes by pressing Shift-Command and then clicking the B in the Keyboard Viewer with the mouse pointer.

Is there any setting that might prevent the B from getting pressed?


texts:
I just upgraded our iPad Pro to 10.2 and noticed it the video app was replaced by TV app. I seem to have lost all videos synced from iTunes to my iPad. I tried deleting and reinstalling the TV app and also resyncing the videos through iTunes but no luck.

They show up in the storage used but no way to access them. They are supposed to be available in the Library of the TV app but my Library page is completely blank with no options.


texts: Catalina upgrade leads to permanent "system has run out of application memory"

texts:
After upgrading to Catalina I get a permanent error message stating

  "Your system has run out of application memory"

which appears in a dialog that obscures my active windows.

This appears when I have a typical basic set of applications running. Prior to Catalina I was able to use the same set of applications, and then run additional applications (even heavy workload development applications) without any issues. This state of affairs continues even after quitting most apps:

Since this dialog repeatedly steals focus, it is now impossible for me to get any work done. How do I prevent this dialog from appearing?


texts: How to troubleshoot network issues on macOS

texts:
I have a MacBook Pro running macOS Catalina and I've been having issues with the internet connection. Every few minutes (sometimes up to a few hours), all programs connected to the internet stop working. The error is usually a timeout.
The WiFi doesn't disconnect or anything. And if I manually reconnect to the same network it starts working again.

I highly suspect that the issue is with my integrated router, but the router is locked by the ISP so I can't access the logs.

I would like to be able to rule out hardware/software issues in my Mac. How can I analyze this on my Mac?


texts: Re-enabling virtual iPad keyboard with paired Bluetooth keyboard

texts:
I have an Apple bluetooth keyboard (A1255) paired to my iPad. Pressing the keyboard's eject button lets me hide or display the virtual keyboard. It makes sense to hide it with the external keyboard attached.

Is there a way to turn the virtual keyboard back on, while the BT keyboard is still paired, but without having physical access to the BT keyboard?

The reason I ask is because the keyboard can remain paired to the iPad throughout my whole house, so it's easy for the two to be physically separated by a few rooms or a floor but still paired.


texts: MS Office on the App Store: will it work with an existing 365 subscription?

texts: Microsoft's Office apps have recently become available on the App Store. Can I use my existing Office 365 for Business subscription with these apps?


texts: Is it possible to schedule running Mail.app rules?

texts:
I have a number of rules in Mail.app (these ones work!) to move e-mails which are X days old to trash.

I'd like to run these rules at a specified time, eg: midnight. In this case, the particular rules will move e-mails which are older than 1 day to trash.

I use Mail Act-On and Mail Tags, but cannot find any functions there.

Is it possible with Mail.app natively? If not, is it possible with some plugin? Ideally open-source.


texts:
I asked: "Should I wear a jacket today"

It replied: "Sorry Nathan, I can't look for places in France"

What does that mean? (Yes it's true I'm in France)


texts: Excel iOS app: Keyboard shortcut for Edit cell

texts:
I am used to using F2 as the keyboard shortcut to edit a cell in Microsoft Excel for desktop.

The Excel iOS seems not to have this shortcut (see Use an external keyboard with Excel for iPad).

What is the corresponding keyboard shortcut for Excel for iOS?


texts: What is sh in the accessibility permissions in Catalina?

texts:
Not sure what this is, but I upgraded from High Sierra and it asked me to enable it.  This isn't on my Macbook Pro running Catalina.

How can I tell if this is needed?


texts: When using the Spotlight search at the top right of a finder window, I often want the search to be non-recursive, i.e. only look at files in that specific directory, not any directories within it. Is this possible?


texts: Is it possible to add custom online source to Dictionary app? Like the one for Wikipedia.


texts: Remove video from iPod Nano 6th-generation

texts: I did not know that we can't play videos on an iPod nano 6th generation. I added a video (180 MB) to my iPod but I can't access it . I cant see it in iTunes nor on my iPod. But when I connect my iPod to my system, in iTunes it shows that 180MB is occupied with videos (in the bar graph shown below which also shows the space occupied by songs, pics, etc). Can anyone please and tell me how to delete that video?


texts: Why does Apple not support Power Nap on some of the Macs that have Power Nap capability?

texts:
Apple has already released the OS X Mountain Lion Technical Specifications which lists some Macs as excluded from certain features of Mountain Lion including:

Power Nap

When is a Mac excluded from a this feature? Is it a hardware limitation?

I ask because I learned that AirDrop for example is excluded from some Macs as they don't support the ad-hoc Wi-Fi networking which is required to use AirDrop over Wi-Fi.

I heard that Power Nap might require Intel‘s Smart Connect Technology and is therefore excluded from most Macs. However, this is unlikely to be true as the MacBook Air (Late 2010 Mid 2011 or newer) is already listed as supported - but Intel's Smart Connect was just about to be announced around 2011.

Some 2010 hardware, for which firmware was apparently seeded by Apple (example: MBA13SMCSeed_2010.smc within publicly available 2010MBA13.pkg), is currently unlisted under Power Nap in the specifications.


texts: Show exposé/"All Application Windows" from the dock

texts:
Is there anyway to show all the windows for one application (aka Exposé) from the window icon on the launcher? I know it is possible by right-clicking on the icon and then "Show All Windows", but I wanted a more direct way, for example:

Long pressing on the app icon to show exposé;
or
Double-clicking the icon;
or
Shift/Command/... + click;
or
If the application is already on focus, clicking its icon on the dock will show exposé.

Is this possible?


texts: How do I check an iOS device's battery health?

texts:
I am looking for a way to check the current health of a battery for iOS devices, similar to how coconutBattery works for OS X.

How can I check the battery health for an iOS device?


texts: I just bought a new mac and when migrating my old to my new mac, I accidentally put it in a different user. Is there a way, I can combine both users?


texts: I have the music logo stuck when I click music,

texts:
I have turned it on and off, hit the music app and it's still frozen.

What other options do I have to fix this issue?


texts: Would an SSD make developing in Eclipse (much) faster?

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I'm developing a lot of Java software with Eclipse. My MacBook running Snow Leopard 10.6.8 with 4GB RAM and Core 2 Duo is very slow.

Would it help to use an SSD and upgrade RAM to 6 or 8 GB? I've read that SSD will make my MacBook much faster, but will it have an effect on Java development?


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On Google Chrome running on Windows 10, is it possible to open iTunes links in the browser rather than trying to open the iTunes desktop client? I don't want to start this heavyweight software for the purpose of viewing apps, given that with play.google.com the equivalent for Android works perfectly fine without a desktop client.

It seems to affect only /de/ links, e.g. this /de/ link tries to redirect to the desktop client, while the /us/ version does not.

It also doesn't occur consistently for all links. For instance, for the Steam Link app, both the /us/ and /de/ links open in the browser, without trying to redirect to the desktop client.


texts: OS X: Running both ethernet and wireless with different networks

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I'm in a corporate LAN situation where I have a wireless LAN that will give me access to the outside work, but no access to the corporate servers and a Corporate Ethernet which will give me access to the corporate servers but not the outside world. As I need both to do my job I'm endlessly switching networks or turning wireless on and off to get things done.

I've been looking into how I can run both wireless and ethernet together and have DNS work across both, but I'm struggling to understand how to set it up.

I think I may be able to do it using /etc/resolver/ files, but so far all I've been able to do is hang my requests rather than get resolving errors back.

Has anyone solved this situation and how?


texts: How to open excel files attached to emails using AppleScript?

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My goal is to write a script that opens an attachment in excel when activated by a mail rule. It does not need any loops to go through multiple emails or attachments, just run once per email and then start again when the mail rule is next activated.

Basically, all I'm missing is a way to set a variable to the alias of the attachment and then open the file in excel. Unfortunately I am very inexperienced and do not know the syntax needed to do so. Any help is greatly appreciated.


texts: printtool keeps requesting admin to modify admin settings

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Im running OSX 10.13.x. Using a standard user account (not admin).

If i have a printer window open, i keep getting a popup that asks for administrators privileges to "Printtool is trying to modify the printer settings" (see attached screenshot).

If i close this popup i can still print fine, but it keeps popping up every minute or so until i close the print window.

Any ideas why this is happening and what i can do to stop it ?

The screenshot in question is for an HP laser jet printer, but i get the same
issue for a range of different printers, so believe its something to do with OSX rather than the printer/s.


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I have one Mac Mini with Server installed and the NetInstall service On. It looks like this:

I plugged an ethernet cable into this Mini, and plugged the other end into a MacBook.  I'm now trying to boot the MacBook to the netboot image.

I tried holding down Option during boot; the only option I see is the local HDD.  I tried holding down N during boot; it does not find anything.  What else to I have to do to make this work?

I tried turning on the DHCP server on the Mini but that doesn't seem to provide addresses to either machine.  Not sure why auto-assigned addresses wouldn't work for this though, since this is just an isolated ad-hoc network.

If this works I will add a network switch so I can do 5-10 Macs at once.  So I'm not looking for an easier offline solution that will only let me do one at a time.


texts: Chrome: Keyboard shortcut to leave address bar and focus browsing area?

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Related: Chrome: Keyboard shortcut to go to Address Bar?

You can go to address bar by ⌘+l / Ctrl+l, but how can I go back to, or focus, the browsing area again?


texts: Green screen while starting up MacBook Pro

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For last two three days I have been experiencing this problem. My MacBook Pro looks like this while booting up:

But after running for 30 or 40 min this thing goes normal, no problem at all after that time. A strange thing is it happens when there is a long gap between successive booting up of it.

I have tried resetting NVRAM and SMC but no luck.

My MacBook config is as follows:

macOS Sierra Version 10.12.5
MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Early 2015), 2.7 GHz Intel Core i5, Memory 8GB 1867 MHz DDR3, Graphics Intel Iris Graphics 6100 1536MB

Any help?


texts: Which version of Oracle is suitable for Mac OS X Lion?

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I just bought my Mac few days ago and I am trying to install Oracle Express for work purpose on Mac OSX X 10.7.1.

I've downloaded Oracle 10g R2 from here but when I run the installation shortcut,I got the following messages

No pre-requisite checks found in oraparam.ini, no system pre-requisite
checks will be executed.
Preparing to launch Oracle Universal Installer from /tmp/OraInstall2011-10-13_02-58-18PM.
Please wait ...
tokwan:~ tokwan$ java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: /private/tmp/OraInstall2011-10-13_02-58-18PM/oui/lib/mac_osx/liboraInstaller.dylib:
no suitable image found.
Did find:  /private/tmp/OraInstall2011-10-13_02-58-18PM/oui/lib/mac_osx/liboraInstaller.dylib: mach-o,
but wrong architecture

I did try to check the pre-requisite from here.but I'm not sure if I am following the right guide because some of the instruction and output are differ from what it suggested.

I am fairly new to Mac, so any guidance would be appreciated.


texts: Reducing PowerPoint file size with retina images

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I am using PowerPoint from Microsoft Office 2016. I use a lot of screenshots (save the screenshot to clipboard and paste it in PowerPoint). When using the retina display, the presentation file size becomes a lot bigger compared to the same task using a normal display. That makes sense, since the same size images would be 4X as many pixels.

There seems to be a solution. You can go to File > Compress Pictures. However, I don't think that compresses the images properly. I can set the resolution to a very low setting. That makes the images very blurry and the file size is reduced. However, the file size it still much higher than using non-retina images without any compression. The non-retina presentation is smaller file and better quality in the end. I think that the way PowerPoint calculates the resolution, that still somehow does not take into account the retina conversion by the OS.

Is there a way to use PowerPoint with a retina display, but still keep the images to a reasonable size? Can I keep PowerPoint in non-retina mode somehow?

Looking at previous posts, there used to be an option to "Open in low resolution" in File > Get Info, but that does not seem to exist anymore.


texts: How to charge MacBook Pro quickly from an iMac?

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I am charging a MacBook Pro using a Thunderbolt 3 cable plugged into an iMac. This charging speed is exceptionally slow. The image shows 5+ hours to charge the laptop.

I am using:

2018 MacBook Pro 13" with Touch Bar
2017 Retino 4K 21.5-inch iMac
Apple Thunderbolt 3 (USB-C) Cable (0.8m)

This cable costs $39 retail. At this price I am expecting better performance for charging than what I'm getting here. How could I diagnose this issue?


texts: how do I create an ISO/CDR file from a hard disk?

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Presently I am attempting to back up my whole computer's primary hard drive to an ISO file.  When I attempt to do this using Disk Utility, I perform the following steps:

Open disk utility and choose the disk I want to create an image from in the left pane.
Click on File->New->Disk Image from "MyDisk"
Then I choose Image format->DVD/CD write master

Disk Utility runs for a long time, then as it nears the end of the operation it gives me the error "Filename too long" and quits.

As an alternative, I attempted to create an ISO file using hdiutil, but receive an error after the file reaches a size of 2 GB:

sh-3.2# sudo hdiutil makehybrid -iso -o /Volumes/Grieg/ChopinSnowLeopard.iso  /Volumes/ChopinSnowLeopard
Creating hybrid image...

hdiutil: makehybrid failed - Operation not permitted

If I try this alternative command, I receive a different error:

sh-3.2# hdiutil create -srcfolder /Volumes/ChopinSnowLeopard /Volumes/Grieg/ChopinSnowLeopard.dmg
diskimages-helper: DI_kextDriveDisconnect returned 268435459 ((ipc/send) invalid destination port).

Does anyone have any suggestions on how to resolve either of these problems?  TIA.


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I have created a Bash script that simply does ls -l.

In Mavericks and older versions of OSX I simply made a symlink to the script and put it in the /usr/bin folder (ln -s ll.sh /usr/bin/ll) and I could then execute the script using ll from any folder.

Since upgrading to El Capitan I am unable to load this script. I have disabled SIP so that I am able to create the symlink and the script is definitely executable. The location (/usr/bin) is definitely in the $PATH and I have even tried adding a path to the script into the $PATH too.

Nothing seems to work, all I am getting is -bash: ll: command not found.

I have restarted the terminal after each update to the $PATH and I have tried source ~/.bash_profile but neither are making any difference.

Edit: I also tried adding the current directory of the scripts to the $PATH and that was also giving the same error. In the end I have aliased all my scripts so that they will run.


texts: Permanently disable time machine prompting for external disks

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Is it possible to disable time machine prompting when inserting external disks?

I use an appliance with SATA disks that regularly formats the disks.  Whenever I plug such a disk in I get prompted again for time-machine - since the time-machine opt-out file is deleted.

This can happen 10s of times per hour and is rather frustrating.

I'd be happy for total disable of prompting, but better would probably to make it per interface (ie USB - i use a USB->SATA device) or per device (ie just the SATA dock I'm using)


texts: How to change lower case am/pm on the menu bar to uppercase?

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I find the time shown on the menu bar on mavericks a bit annoying. It's not perfect. The "AM/PM" is now shown in lowercase after upgrade to OS X 10.9 Mavericks. Back in the previous versions of OS X, it was displayed in uppercase.

Is there a way change the lowercase am/pm to uppercase?


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My laptop's hostname appears to be Georges-MacBook-Pro-Mid-2145.local,

$ hostname
Georges-MacBook-Pro-Mid-2145.local

Why is the number reported here 2145 instead of 2015? (I own a MacBook Pro Mid-2015, so I was expecting the host name to be Georges-MacBook-Pro-Mid-2015.local).

Did I do something wrong somewhere while twiddling about in the terminal or is it normal that the last numbers are... "random" (?)


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I have a mid-2010 iMac that I haven't used for a while. I wiped the disk and installed High Sierra (10.13.6). I don't remember the previous release of MacOS it was running with. It has a 3.2GHz i3, 1T HDD and 12G of RAM.
It's incredibly sluggish, clicking or typing will often result in the spinning wheel for a few seconds before anything happens. I've installed nothing on it beyond what High Sierra does by default.
My intention for this Mac is to use is for web browsing, writing, watching videos and music creation (with Garageband or other DAW).I have no intention of changing the HDD to an SSD - I don't think it's worth the cost and I have 2019 iMac that I have access to. This is just a secondary computer I'd like to have in my house.
Would an older release of MacOS fix this sluggishness? What release of MacOS would you recommend?


texts: Is there a way to connect two macs to a single cinema display? Of course I won't use them at the same time, but I want them to be connected to the display.


texts: In iOS 9, where is the "Usage" function in Settings?

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In iOS8's Settings page, I used to be able to go to "General" then "Usage" and it would tell me how much free space is available on the device, and how much space each app uses.

Where is this now in iOS9?


texts: "__git_ps1: command not found" from running "/usr/bin/env bash"

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When I run $ /usr/bin/env bash (but not otherwise) I get the error: __git_ps1: command not found
I've tried updating ~/.git-prompt.sh and ~/git-completion.bash for the version of git that I'm using. I've confirmed that the lines source ~/git-completion.bash and source ~/git-prompt.sh are present in ~/.bash_profile.
The error doesn't appear when I only open Terminal from Finder, but when I run $ /usr/bin/env bash the error appears every line.
MacOS 10.10.5, bash 5.0.17(1)-release, git 2.22.0


texts: I was just wondering what is an "iTunes card"? Also, what is an "iTunes card generator"? What is the use of it and how could anyone get this?


texts: USB Port of Macbook frequently stop working

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One of the two USB ports of my Macbook Pro stop working frequently.

Once I reboot the computer, then two USB ports work well.
But one of them (always the same one makes the problem) stops working.
I don't know when exactly it occurs and why it occurs.

How can I fix this?


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In insert mode, the text in front of the cursor is pushed forward when new text is inserted. For example, if the cursor is at position ^ and the word word3 is typed:

word1 word2
      ^

The result would be:

word1 word3word2
           ^

In override mode the result would be:

word1 word3
           ^

Can I switch between Insert mode and Override mode in OSX text editing?


texts: How to turn Mac OS X Lion into a web server?

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After using MAMP for ages, I found out I could actually use Snow Leopard's built-in Apache server. Now that I've upgraded to Lion, I have no idea how to do this anymore.

Do you know how to turn my Mac OS X Lion into a web server, so that I can easily run the latest version of PHP and MySQL in it? Also, how do I set the "localhost" aliases? I remember it was a httpd.conf file — something that I don't seem to find anymore on Lion.


texts: Cannot share video sound in Microsoft Teams using macbook

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I've got a macbook running macOS Catalina (latest updates) and I have to use MS Teams for meetings (teams must be used, restrictive environment).
Whenever I Share my screen of anything with sound (youtube video for example), meeting participants can see the video but not hear the sound.
I've found that this is because the teams app for macOS doesn't have the option to share system sounds like the ms teams app for windows.  MS has stated this is coming Q3 (which could be anytime now) https://microsoftteams.uservoice.com/forums/555103-public/suggestions/32616083-share-video-and-audio-during-meetings but I need an immediate workaround starting tomorrow if possible.
I also have an ipad if I can use that as a workaround some how.
Is there anyway to make this happen?
-Edit1- I have discovered that an old iMac running Sierra (not High Sierra) does not have this problem.  My best guess is that it is likely a Catalina issue (like so many others) but I have no way to confirm it.  Nor do I have anyway to test on Mojave.


texts: what is the style of command line editing used by the terminal emulator?

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in bash in gnome terminal in Ubuntu, the command line editing commands are by default emacs-style, and can be changed to vim-style.

In bash in the terminal emulator of Mac, the emacs-style commands don't work. Are the commands just those of a regular text editor?


texts: MacBook Pro, OS X El Capitan - Photo Problems

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I'm new to MacBooks and I take a lot of pictures. One of the things I appreciated of my previous Windows computer was that the photo organization was great.

On my Mac, when I download my photos into Pictures folder in Finder, it doesn't sync to my Photos Library. I have to go through and import every photo. And if I want to edit a photo in photos library, it doesn't update that same photo in my Pictures folder.

I have a blog so I'm all the time uploading photos online. And if I want to upload a photo that I edited and try to open it from Photo Library, it won't let me. It only pulls up the Pictures folder, which doesn't have any of my edits.


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I used to have a L shaped MagSafe charger for my 2010 MBA. Now I have my 2015 MBP I now need to use the T shaped MagSafe2 charger. The only issue is because the angle the wire is on the connecter (and not going in the port as much) this makes it very easy for it to fall out of my computer when I move it (it gets very annoying!).

Is it possible somehow to make the charger stronger without modifying it too much?


texts: macOS 10.14.3 runs incredibly slow on my iMac

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I updated to macOS Mojave 10.14.3 on a 27" iMac with 16 GB memory, and it is running super slow. It can take upto a minute to see the login screen, Preview is super slow. New folders are slow. Any help?

macOS Mojave 10.14.2 ran fine on the same machine. How do I resolve?


texts: OS X Kindle App: Where are the books located?

texts: I was expecting to find .epub or .prc files on my hard-disk, but didn't. Does anyone know: Where are the ebooks that the official Kindle App downloads located?


texts: Does taking live photos store a redundant MOV file?

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On my iPhone, when I backup my photos with photosync, I notice that I get two files for every live photo.  One HEIC and one MOV.  Eg:
Recents/IMG_0941.HEIC
Recents/IMG_0941.MOV
Recents/IMG_0942.HEIC
Recents/IMG_0942.Mov

What's not clear to me is if this is redundant or just a quirk of photosync.
Is this something the IPhone itself is doing (storing two files on the iphone) or is it likely that photo sync is extracting the MOV file itself?
Are the two files redundant (can I delete the MOV and get back to it from just the HEIC file?)


texts: Does the 'iPhone' label on a Contact's phone number enable any special handling?

texts: When entering a contact's phone number in the Contacts app on iOS or the Address Book on OS X, the number can be labeled iPhone rather than, say, mobile. Does doing so have any effect on how the number is treated by the OS or applications? Or is it provided for purely aesthetic purposes?


texts: MacBook Pro 2016 (sans touchbar) – headphone jack not going all the way in

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I just bought a new MacBook Pro 2016 (without touchbar) and noticed that the headphone jack doesn't go all the way in and sticks out a couple of millimetres:

Despite that it seems to be working fine. However, I'm still worried that something might be broken inside and it will come up later.

Is it supposed to be that way on the new models?


texts: Do iTunes Connect sales chart show updates as well as new downloads?

texts: Just curious, does the sales chart in iTunes Connect combine the stats from updates and new downloads?


texts: 2009 iMac as 2nd Monitor – Can't adjust brightness

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I am trying to use my 2009 iMac 27" as a second display for my 2013 MBPr 15" (both running El Capitan). I have connected the two with a thunderbolt cable and everything is working fine except one thing – once the iMac starts acting as a display for the MacBook, it switches to full brightness. When I open up display preferences, the brightness slider that is usually there is gone.

I have seen other people online who had this problem years ago, but was unable to find a solution. Is there any way to adjust the brightness on the iMac when using it as a second display?


texts: Are there any alternative Windows audio drivers for the MacBook Pro 13 Mid 2012 to enable the subwoofer?

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I have Windows 7 X64 installed onto my MacBook Pro 13 Mid 2012; I installed the OS using Boot Camp Assistant from within macOS, and installed the latest copy of the Boot Camp drivers (5.1.5621). Whilst all devices are working as expected, I've noticed that unlike in macOS, any audio that I play back through my speakers from within Windows sounds "tinny" and has no bass. My assumption is that only the left/right speakers are having audio sent to them, and the subwoofer is being left out of the mix - resulting in the somewhat flat sound. Does anybody know of a driver that I could use to replace the one included in Apple's Boot Camp driver set to enable this functionality? This version of the MacBook Pro appears to be using a Cirrus audio codec.

Thanks.


texts: Lines running down screen of iPod touch 4th generation

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It's almost like stuck pixels- except they're moving down the screen...? Recently, after turning on a 4th generation iPod touch for the first time in two or three months, I noticed that lines were running down the screen!  Rebooting is not helping. Is a restore recommended for this kind of situation? Is it a hardware or a software issue? With iOS 6 due in less than a week, should updating fix this problem? How exactly did this happen to the hardware? Would replacing the screen resolve this issue, or would the problem lie deeper in the hardware?

edit restoring did not help; the lines were shown even when booting at the Apple logo and when showing the 'connect to iTunes' image.


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I just installed High Sierra Developer Beta 8 on my 2015 Macbook Pro and I haven't been able to make Tuxera NTFS work with it. A few searches on Google seem to indicate that it does work with High Sierra, but all I get is an error when trying to mount my external HDD:

I read somewhere that Gatekeeper could be the source of the problem, but even after allowing it there, nothing changed.
So, does anyone have any clues about what may be happening in my case?


texts: In the iPhone's messages list, where does the date come from?

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This is maybe a weird question.  In the iPhone's "Messages" app, the first view is a list of all the chats, sorted by the most recent messages in each chat. To the right of each chat entry is a date (circled in my screenshot) which is the essence of my question. This date seems to be the date of the last message received in the chat, even when that message has been subsequently deleted from the chat.

Ultimately I was playing around in the sqlite database to see how the messages were represented in there and I can't figure this out.  The chat list seems to be sorted by the most recent current messages in each chat, but that timestamp shown can be the timestamp of a deleted message, which seems weird.

So, why does the messages app show a timestamp for a message that doesn't exist anymore, and where in the sqlite message database does that timestamp live?


texts: I have a 0th gen Apple Watch, which is getting incredibly slow these days. Is there any way I can roll this back to older WatchOS, even WatchOS 1?


texts: iMac loading bar gets stuck halfway then reboots

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OSX 10.11.5 iMac turns on fine but loading bar gets to just over 50% and then a horizontal bar across the screen shows, then the screen goes black then to white. It stays at white then iMac turns itself off and restarts. This happens every time I try turning it on, booting into the backup, booting into recovery mode, and even rebooting from single user mode: the iMac will still be showing the terminal doing its thing the the line appears and mac goes to a white screen then reboots.
Booting in safe mode and resetting PRAM and SMC have done nothing.
Any ideas? or tips on how to backup any data and reinstall OSX from single user mode?


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I'm trying to run Win 10 on a separated drive attached to sata optical drive bay. I ran into some issues about GPT partition over instalation processes which I could solve it by terminal commands. It was installed, booted up but after restarting it doesn’t boot anymore, it restarts on every attempt.
I’m running a Mac Pro 2010, Sierra OSX.
Please, would someone help me with that?


texts: Apple Keyboard A1016 loses Bluetooth after restart on Big Sur

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I'm typing this on my old but great A1016 Apple Wireless Keyboard on a 16" MBP running Big Sur with all of the updates installed. No problems except that the keyboard loses bluetooth connection after restart.
I read there were firmware updates for that keyboard but haven't found any. Would (perhaps) be able to install those with my older MBP 17 running High Sierra…
Would not want to exchange that keyboard against any of those new ones, it writes beautifully and so much faster than the aluminum ones. And it is sooo "clicky" ;-)
If anybody has an idea about this, help would be really appreciated.


texts: Share a USB printer over Active Directory domain network

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I would like to share a printer connected with the USB cable to my iMac with all the other Windows PCs that are part of a Windows Server 2016 Active Directory domain network.  Of course to do so, my iMac must be part of this network.

What I didn't understand is when can one say that an iMac is part of a domain network?  On Windows it is simple, just look at the information on the network and see if there is the word "domain network".

When on an iMac you go into the "network" setting and correctly insert IP, subnet, gateway (router on OS X?) and DNS (domain) can we already consider it part of the domain network? Or is it necessary to join the domain?

Ultimately, to share a printer from the iMac, is it sufficient to correctly configure the "network"?


texts: Plugging iPhone gives IP address on a new network interface

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Plugging my iPhone on my MacBook Pro shows me a new network interface en7 and allocates an IP address.

$ifconfig
en7: flags=8863<UP,BROADCAST,SMART,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
    inet 169.254.134.xxxx netmask 0xffff0000 broadcast 169.254.255.255

Why is this and what is it for?


texts: I copied a couple dozen MP3s to an iPhone through iTunes. To play them I used VLC however VLC does not play the next song. How do I have VLC play all the music on the device without having to constantly pick up the phone, turn the screen on and manually tell it to play the next song?


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I have a 2012 13" MacBook Pro (non retina). The power button is not working. Other then that the system was working fine. I tried to fix the power button by opening the back cover, disconnecting the battery, followed by removing and reattaching the keyboard wire. After I connected the battery and booted the system by connecting the MagSafe connector, the system booted really slow (I have an SSD, and it usually takes ~10 seconds but it took 3 mins) and the fans were at full speed.

The system became really slow and apps launched really slowly. I check the Activity Monitor and CPU was idle. So I figured out that I need to reset the SMC. But I don't know how to do it, as the power button is not working. I tried resetting with smcflasher.efi (from the smcupdate.pkg) by booting to rEFIt. It says the reset option is unavailable and figured it out that Apple locked down resetting/modifying firmware externally.

Is there any other method to reset SMC?


texts:
My MacBook has no optical drive. I have a Mac installation disc mounted and shared on a local Ubuntu machine and can access it, on the MacBook through the Remote Disc device in Finder.

However, the installation package and all sub-packages, have been stripped of the dot in their file names. Hence it is not recognised as an package.

Why is this and how can I install the software?

Thanks

(To share the disc I used openssh-server on Ubuntu and Macfusion on the Mac.)


texts: Mac Mini 2013 wakes immediately after sleep when USB drive plugged in

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I have a 2013 mac mini running osx 10.9.3. I used to be able to send the machine to sleep by going to the apple in the menubar and choosing sleep. After a recent update, when I do this the displays turn off, and my usb drives spin down. About 5 seconds later I hear a drive spin up and it immediately wakes from sleep.

I disconnected devices and found that my external usb drives are what are causing the issue. If I remove the usb drives, it will sleep normally. If I eject the drives but do not disconnect them, it will still immediately wake. I know this has only happened within the last month or so, as it used to manually sleep normally.

When I run syslog | grep -i "wake reason" I see the following wake reason kernel[0] <Debug>: Wake reason: XHC1.

pmset -g assertions yields the following output:

    Assertion status system-wide:
    BackgroundTask                 0
    PreventDiskIdle                0
    ApplePushServiceTask           0
    UserIsActive                   0
    PreventUserIdleDisplaySleep    0
    InteractivePushServiceTask     0
    PreventSystemSleep             0
    ExternalMedia                  1
    PreventUserIdleSystemSleep     0
    NetworkClientActive            0
    Listed by owning process:
    pid 28(powerd): [0x0000000900000636] 00:15:58 ExternalMedia named: "com.apple.powermanagement.externalmediamounted"
    Kernel Assertions: 0x104=USB,MAGICWAKE
    id=500  level=255 0x4=USB mod=6/10/14, 1:53 PM description=XHC1 owner=AppleUSBXHCI
    id=502  level=255 0x4=USB mod=6/10/14, 6:26 PM description=EHC1 owner=AppleUSBEHCI
    id=504  level=255 0x100=MAGICWAKE mod=6/10/14, 6:33 PM description=en1 owner=en1

One drive is a time machine backup, and one has my media. I'd rather not have to unplug the drives before sleeping every time, especially as this seems to be a recent development.


texts: Localhost Not Working After MacOS Sierra Upgrade

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I've tried other solutions I've found on StackExchange for this same problem, but must have a unique situation that is still causing problems. I have a hosts file setup as follows:

127.0.0.1               localhost.localdomain localhost     host.ciaciagi.com
255.255.255.255         broadcasthost
::1                     localhost.localdomain localhost     host.ciaciagi.com
fe80::1%lo0             localhost

I have httpd.conf setup and the line for LoadModule unique_id_module libexec/apache2/mod_unique_id.so commented out (as others have suggested).

I can ping 127.0.0.1 and get this:

$ ping 127.0.0.1
PING 127.0.0.1 (127.0.0.1): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=0 ttl=64 time=0.082 ms

I've run

$ sudo apachectl configtest
Syntax OK

I checked for a corrupt virtual hosts file. Everything was fine.

Restarting apache shows nothing significant (nothing at all):

$ sudo apachectl restart
$

Opening a browser and attempting to connect to http://localhost/ (I've tried 3 browsers and their private/incognito windows), I still get "Unable to connect" or its equivalent for the browser.

Any ideas?


texts: Disappearing error message and Safari windows

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When I close my laptop I have it set to automatically log me off. I closed my laptop while I still had some Safari browser windows open along with my iTunes.

When i opened it, I logged back on. I moved into my space with my Safari browsers, however I could not interact with any of them. When changing spaces and then coming back to it, I saw an window pop-up asking me if I wanted to quit Safari and all 4 browsers that very quickly disappeared.

I did not want to quit Safari, but because it disappeared so fast all I could do was change spaces to make it reappear and then press enter to make it go away, and lose my browsers.

Why did this happen and how can I prevent it?


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I know of just one song, but are there other songs out there?

James Dempsey - Model View Controller


texts: Tool or trick to require doubleclicking to launch apps from dock?

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Is there a way to make it so that launching an app from the dock requires a double click instead of a single click?  I find myself accidentally launching apps and then needing to force-quit them.

I'm hoping for some OS hack or third-party app.  Yes, I already have the dock hidden.

thanks!


texts: How to restore/re-create some folders from Time Machine backup of a different computer?

texts: I have Time Machine backup of computer A, a Macbook Pro mid-2010. I want to restore/re-create some folders backed up in that backup on a different computer, a Macbook Pro Retina mid-2014.  How to properly do this?


texts: How to use scrollwheel (middle mouse button) to open link in new tab in Chrome

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Before I upgraded to Catalina, in Chrome I could just middle-click on a link to open it in a new tab. And life was great.

After upgrading to Catalina, this still works in Safari but for whatever reason, in Chrome this now performs a "back" operation.

How do I revert back to the previous behaviour?

In System Preferences > Mouse, nor in Chrome settings, do I find any reference to either "scrollwheel" or "middle mouse button".

The device I use is a Logitech wireless mouse (not sure of the exact model but the sticker on the bottom says M525-C) with 2 actual buttons and a clickable scrollwheel inbetween.

EDIT 19-NOV-2019: I noticed that an update to Chrome was available so upgraded it to Version 78.0.3904.108 (Official Build) (64-bit). After this I see a change in behavior, but it gets even weirder now:

sometimes clicking the scrollwheel button behaves the way I want,
i.e. it opens the link in a new tab
sometimes it behaves the erratic way, i.e. it's the same as clicking "Back"
sometimes it does both, i.e. the linked page opens in a new tab but in the original tab it goes back to the previous page?!

EDIT 20-NOV-2019:
The current behavior seems to be related to the fact that the scrollwheel cannot only be clicked, but also moved left and right. In Chrome, moving it left is the same as clicking "Back", moving it to the right is the same as clicking "Forward".
So when I click the wheel, I sometimes (often) accidentally move it slightly to the left while clicking - which explains the "sometimes it does both" part above.

When I pay special attention, I am able to click without moving left and then it works fine (opens the link a new tab), but I use(d) this feature hundreds of times a day without thinking. It really affects my workflow to have to pay special attention every time I do this.

I am absolutely sure this is not how it behaved pre-Catalina so I still hope someone can help me get back to the old behavior (where it did not matter if I slightly moved the wheel to the left while clicking).

Additional note: I've installed Logitech Control Center but it says "No Logitech device found".


texts: How much space do audio recordings made by the stock audio recorder on iOS use per minute?

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My boss is going to make a very long audio recording using the stock audio recording app on an iPhone. I am worried that she might run out of space on her phone, especially if the app records in HQ.

My boss is far away, and I do not have an iOS device myself to test this on.

Does the app have different settings for audio quality?

How much space does the audio created by the app usually take up per minute? The recording will be of spoken words.


texts: How to add "All my Files" back to Finder sidebar?

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The "All my Files" icon in my Finder sidebar has disappeared, I may have inadvertently deleted it with an unlucky motion on the trackpad.

This helpful answer shows the following technique, but I have no "All my Files" folder to grab

This helpful answer suggests I could do it in Python, but I'm a little nervous about trying it:

#!/usr/bin/python

from FinderSidebarEditor import FinderSidebar                  # Import the module

sidebar = FinderSidebar()                                      # Create a Finder sidebar instance to act on.

sidebar.add("All My Files")     # EDIT: I'm guessing this will work

I found this tutorial but nothing about "All my Files" that I can see.


texts: Lost access to Linux BC partitions after OSX High Sierra Upgrade

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I have recently upgraded my mid 2013 MBP with High Sierra and now my Linux partition that I previously installed via Boot Camp is not available as an OS option when booting while holding the Option key.

Previously it showed as "Windows" (although its Kali). Now it does not show at all.

When inspecting with Disk Utility, I see both partitions along with the OSX partition, but the Linux ones show as "Disabled".

What do I need to do in order to get the boot loader to recognize the Linux OS on startup? Thanks.


texts: Uploading photos to Icloud and deleting on the Computer

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I started to upload my photos from Macbook to Icloud in hopes that I could delete from the Macbook to free up some space. Then I find that if I delete from Macbook, they delete from iCloud.

How can I delete locally nad have iCloud store all the photos?


texts: Error message on adding apple card in wallet

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I have iPhone 7 Plus running on the latest 14.4 IOS. I am trying to add my Apple Card to my Wallet:

click on the + sign in wallet
enter my apple login credentials
click Sign In
as soon as it signs in the error pops up: (null)-(null)

The error has only OK button so when I click on it I am taken back to my Wallet which has the rest of my credit and debit cards. I don't have a problem adding another card, this only happens with the Apple Credit Card.
I called Apple Credit Card support and they assured me the account and credit card looked OK. They then transferred me apple iphone support which went with me through my phone settings, got some logs etc and passed the info to their software engineers. Haven't heard back yet. Has anybody experienced this issue?


texts: What is the difference between "Learn" and "Ignore" in spell checkers

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When right-clicking a word in Pages and Sublime Text, the user is offered to either "Learn" or "Ignore" the word.

What is the difference between learning and ignoring? To me it would seem the same, that the word is simply "accepted" by the spell-checker and not highlighted as incorrect (red) anymore.

But since it's two different choices, there's obviously a difference. Couldn't find information about this anywhere.


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Is there any way to automatically mark junk mail as 'read' in OS X (10.6.5) Mail? A free or shareware utility would be nice.

My mail provider supports junk filters that automatically moves selected messages to the junk folder, but does not mark them as read. OS X Mail picks them up (IMAP) and displays the headers in the Junk folder as unread.

I would like to continue to use my mail provider's filters instead of just the 'Rules' in OS X Mail because otherwise I show tons of messages in my iPhone inbox, since it does not support filtering.


texts: Remove licenses from deleted user on OS X Server's VPP managed distribution

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We buy apps using Volume Purchase Program with managed distribution through OS X Server's profile manager.

One of employees left, so I removed his user account from OS X Server. However, the licenses for apps we bought him are still unavailable to re-assign to other users, and I can't remove them from his account manually because it has been deleted.

Viewing the app's info page in Profile Manager shows that we have 13 - 3 = 10 licenses in use, and only lists 9 people who currently hold licenses to the app:

Is there anything I can do to reclaim that license? I could re-create the user, but we don't have access to his Apple ID so I don't think we could re-connect it to our Profile Manager; and if we can't do that, I don't think we'll be able to see the app associated with his user.


texts: Chrome on OS X Yosemite Producing Garbled Graphics

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A couple of weeks ago Chrome started producing unusably garbled graphics for me, under OS X Yosemite 10.10.5.

It's perhaps easier to show than to tell.  For instance, Gmail looks like this:

...seems like it may be some sort of interlacing glitch, as if I adjust the window size I can get vaguely coherent things to display, such as:

I haven't changed any settings in Chrome; the issue seemed to appear at random.  Neither rebooting the computer nor restarting Chrome makes any difference.  Other browsers (Safari, Firefox) work fine, as does every other app on the machine.  The problem seems to be specific to Chrome.

Is there anything I can do to get Chrome usable again?

Edit - My chrome version is:

I'm pretty sure that says "46.0.2490.71".


texts: Using scaled resolution in Macbook Pro Retina can cause overheating?

texts: I'm using a late 2014 13 inch macbook pro retina. I'm using a scaled resolution of 1680*1050. When using this resolution, i don't know why, my laptop gets overheated. How can i fix it?


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I didn't run brew doctor since a lot of time. Know it tell me I should run brew link osxfuse. Here I show you the rest:

Newton:~$ brew link --overwrite osxfuse
Warning: Could not link osxfuse. Unlinking...
Linking /usr/local/Cellar/osxfuse/2.6.2...
Error: Permission denied - /usr/local/include/osxfuse/fuse.h

When I run it with sudo, it says it is better that I shouldn't do it. So I didn't try.
Here is the permission.

Newton:~$ ls -l /usr/local/include/osxfuse/fuse.h
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  246 17 Dez  2011 /usr/local/include/osxfuse/fuse.h

What can I do?


texts: How to automatically connect Mac's Wi-Fi to iPhone's hotspot

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I am searching for a solution to automatically connect my MacBook Air to my iPhone hotspot. I don't like to connect manually every time. Is there any way to connect automatically.

Can I write a shell script file which will try to connect to my Hotspot so that I can add that task to system startup? Does that work? Is there any command to connect to a hotspot?


texts: 1TB NTFS Seagate FreeAgent GoFlex external HD won't mount on Mac Mini

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I've been using my 2.5" 1TB external GoFlex HD on my Mac and it has been running pretty fine until last week when it stopped mounting out of the blue.

BTW It is NTFS-formatted because from time to time I freelance on companies where there's Windows and I can't have it Mac-formatted. The thing is that I can hear the noise it usually makes but it seems not enough power goes through or something power-related just stopped working.

I tried almost everything there is, Mac won't list it with diskutil list on terminal. I even read this thread the exact same problem as mine. Here's the System Profiler and Console Log when I plug the HD in

  Product ID:   0x5021
  Vendor ID:    0x0bc2  (Seagate LLC)
  Version:  1.48
  Serial Number:    NA0CC59W
  Speed:    Up to 480 Mb/sec
  Manufacturer: Seagate
  Location ID:  0x14700000 / 15
  Current Available (mA):   1000
  Current Required (mA):    100
  Extra Operating Current (mA): 0

6/6/17 11:47:45.000 kernel[0]: USBMSC Identifier (non-unique): 0x00000000 0xbc2 0x5021 0x148, 2

I basically found a thread with the exact same problem:

USB Drive Will Not Mount, Not Listed in Disk Utilities, but Found In System Profiler

But one of the answers refers to stop the "fsck_hfs" process on the Activity Monitor, but there's no such process on mine maybe because it's not HFS.

Any ideas before shave all my head in dispair?

My specs: Mac mini (Late 2014), 2.6 GHz Intel Core i5 running El Capitán


texts: What is the best way to connect an external 4K display to an iMac 2015 for optimal performance

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I'm experiencing some kind of ghosting problem when connecting my iiyama 40'' monitor to my iMac 27'' retina 5K display (osx 10.11).  Not sure about the term ghosting but when moving screens (and mouse pointer) on the external monitor, they behave sluggish and the contrast whith the movement on my retina display is huge and therefor a bit annoying (it is not display lag).  I also had the same problem when connecting my iMac to a Samsung 4K tv (UE40JU6000) even in 'game mode'.  When connecting my older Macbook pro (late 2009) to the samsung tv or the iiyama the 'ghosting' is gone and the screens and mouse pointer are moving very smooth, just like on my iMac.

I made the connection with a Belkin 4K mini-displayport to HDMI cable both for iMac and Macbook. For the iMac I also tried a displayport cable (deliverd by iiyama) without improvement (not sure if its 1.0 or 1.2 displayport)

I also tried different resolutions on both screens and all available HDMI-ports on my iiyama.

The HDMI 2-port on the iiyama looks like the one to go. This port is suitable for 3840 x 2160 at 30 Hz.

Apple stating 30 Hz connection:
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT206587

full specs iiyama:
http://www.iiyama.com/gl_en/products/prolite-x4071uhsu-b1/

Any help would be highly appreciated

Rob


texts: How do I increase significant digits in Grapher?

texts: How do I increase the significant digits in Grapher?


texts: Apple Magic Keyboard 2 native function keys don't work

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I purchased an Apple Magic Keyboard 2 (the US layout model). I own a Macbook Pro 15" (Late 2012), updated to El Capitan (if relevant, this computer was running the El Capitan Beta prior to its release).

I turned on my keyboard for the first time and connected it using the lighting cable. A notification showed up telling me that the Magic Keyboard is ready to use.

When pressing the function keys, they don't perform the function they're labelled for (for example it's impossible to change the volume or brightness). All of the information I found on the internet so far didn't seem to reflect in my current situation.

These keys work correctly with the Macbook's built-in keyboard.

I am using the default US keyboard layout from OS X. When opening the keyboard viewer, the keyboard seems to be recognised as a non-Apple keyboard.

Another situation I've encountered is that when unplugging the keyboard after the initial set up, I get a window called "Keyboard Setup Assistant" which makes me press specific keys on the keyboard in order to recognise it, and ends up determining it is an ANSI keyboard. This seems like a strange behaviour.

EDIT: I also tried toggling the setting to use the F keys as standard function keys on and off, but to no avail.

EDIT 2: before using this new keybaord, I was using the old Apple Magic Keyboard, with the Italian layout, but OS X was configured to use a tweaked US layout (modified using Ukelele). For a while they were both connected to the system. I then unpaired the old keyboard.


texts: How many External Hard Drives can I plug to Airport Extreme?

texts: I need to backup all my computer data. I'm thinking of buying 3 External Hard Drives and connect them to Airport Extreme. Can I do this?


texts: Turn off desktop screen/keyboard when connecting via VNC?

texts:
When I VNC into a remote OS X machine (e.g. my office machine), the remote screen is showing everything I'm doing. It also unlocks the screen so that if I'm not watching that screen, someone can use the machine and get access to things I'd prefer them not to.

The usual method is somebody in the office pranking me by loading up a browser with cuteoverload and full screening it.

This bothers me since it isn't very secure.

Is there a way to turn off the physical screen/keyboard until I come back to the office? Or require someone to enter a password to use the remote screen/keyboard?


texts: Unable to send email with Mac Mail via Mailgun

texts:
Beginning in July of 2015, I've been unable to send mail using the Mailgun SMTP server using Mac Mail. To add a Mailgun account, I go to Mail > Preferences and under Account Information > Outgoing Mail Server (SMTP)

I choose the Edit SMTP Server List option. I select the options shown in the images.

When I hit OK, the account description in the Outgoing Mail Server (SMTP) briefly changes so that the "(Offline)" suffix is removed, but then it is quickly added back and I can't send with that account.

As suggested by Mailgun at https://documentation.mailgun.com/quickstart-sending.html#send-via-smtp,

I tried sending with swaks and was successful, though I had to change the password provided by Mailgun's example.


texts: How do I make a keyboard shortcut for the return key? For example, if I pressed ~ it would press return for me. I'd like to do this without applescript. Is this possible, or will I have to buy a functioning external keyboard because my return key doesn't work!


texts: Can I use an AppleTV when I travel off my home network?

texts: I have a first generation AppleTV and I am wondering if I take it on vacation and connect to an HDTV with an HDMI cable, will it enable me to pickup programming off the WiFi in my vacation are for viewing?


texts: Unable to use auto layout (ctrl + drag) on xcode after some time of using

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I am having a problem with Xcode. It works correctly but sometimes after a period of using it, when I ctrl + drag an element on Interface Builder autoLayout popup shows and disappears immediately. Also, when I want to set constraints manually, I can't do that, because every single click is recognized as a double click as shown in the gifs below.

I tried to find the cause of this, but I can't. To solve it I have to restart /logout every time which is annoying. I observed that in most cases this starts when I connect external monitor to my MBP and use Xcode on that screen.


texts: How to access web dev servers running on localhost with non-standard ports from the network?

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On one Mac in my household I develop applications with various tools like Jekyll or Meteor. They usually have their own default ports for their development web servers; Jekyll uses 4000, Meteor 3000, and so.

So on that Mac I'd go to 127.0.0.1:4000 (or localhost instead of the IP address) to access my application. I have another Mac on the same LAN and I'd like to see that too. I thought it'd just be 192.168.0.164:4000 (for example), but that's not working. Pinging that IP works fine though, and so does SSHing (if I enable it in Sharing). I thought the 192.168.0.164 therefore would just translate to that Mac's localhost and the ports and HTTP would work fine.. I'm clearly missing something.

They're both pretty much fresh Macs: not much installed software. The firewall was off by default. I couldn't see anything in System Preferences > Sharing that seemed appropriate. How can I get 192.168.0.164:4000/3000/whatever port working?


texts:
I have a afp share on my office network, is it possible if I were to add a spotlight comments field, have it show up on another machine which also has the volume mounted? The color shows up but nothing else.

Any help?


texts: Is there an equivalent to Microsoft LAPS for MacOS?

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I am looking for a way to randomize local administrator accounts on MacOS. For Windows, there is a solution called LAPS, which randomizes the local admin passwords (so that every system cant get hacked if a single password is compromised). I found a few projects on github, but would rather use a well known/Apple supported solution.
I have to recommend this to the person who administers these workstations. I'm just trying to make their life easier because most people don't like to do the research.
If there is a way to do this using jamf that would be even better.
What options exist to manage secure passwords like LAPS offers in AD environments for Windows?


texts: Why Does Time Machine Fail to Delete Old Backups?

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This on a 2017 iMac running Catalina with a 500GB boot drive which has 180GB free.
The Time Machine backup is a 1TB partition on a WD MyBook 25EE 3TB drive.
This worked fine for a few years. Some time in the middle of last year TM stopped removing old backups, eventually filled up the partition and refused to do any more backups. I tried to use tmutil to delete old backups, but that didn't work. I ended up erasing the partition and starting over. That was on November 11th of last year.
Now I find that none of the old backups (beginning November 11th) have been removed:
MrMuscle:~ mnewman$ ls -la /Volumes/TM/Backups.backupdb/MrMuscle
total 8
drwxr-xr-x@ 257 root  admin  8738 Jan 21 05:52 .
drwxr-xr-x@   6 root  admin   204 Nov 10 10:53 ..
drwxr-xr-x@   4 root  admin   136 Jan 20 15:13 2020-11-10-105328
drwxr-xr-x@   4 root  admin   136 Nov 11 18:43 2020-11-10-162243
drwxr-xr-x@   4 root  admin   136 Nov 11 21:16 2020-11-10-201658
<many lines snipped>
drwxr-xr-x@   4 root  admin   136 Jan 20 15:40 2021-01-20-081356
drwxr-xr-x@   4 root  admin   136 Jan 20 15:44 2021-01-20-121042
drwxr-xr-x@  13 root  admin   442 Jan 20 14:09 2021-01-20-140908
drwxr-xr-x@  13 root  admin   442 Jan 20 17:14 2021-01-20-171406
drwxr-xr-x@  13 root  admin   442 Jan 21 05:47 2021-01-21-054733
lrwxr-xr-x    1 root  admin    17 Jan 21 05:47 Latest -> 2021-01-21-054733

Note that ls shows a total of 8 items. That's obviously incorrect:
MrMuscle:~ mnewman$ ls -la /Volumes/TM/Backups.backupdb/MrMuscle | wc -l
     259

TM preferences says that the oldest backup is Yesterday at 14:09. And, if I "Enter Time Machine" that's the oldest backup that is accessible.
If I list the local snapshots, it only lists items from yesterday and today:
MrMuscle:~ mnewman$ tmutil listlocalsnapshots /
Snapshots for volume group containing disk /:
com.apple.TimeMachine.2021-01-20-060557.local
com.apple.TimeMachine.2021-01-20-070741.local
<many lines snipped>
com.apple.TimeMachine.2021-01-21-053743.local
com.apple.TimeMachine.2021-01-21-060436.local
com.bombich.ccc.039656C5-DEBE-4D49-8C0B-225D6B822607.2021-01-11-010839
com.bombich.ccc.1593C4E4-80E2-4E86-BFAD-09F6BC19C644.2021-01-18-010823
com.bombich.ccc.DE0A2A8B-C128-4A8B-816A-42EFC64E5BB5.2021-01-16-011013

So, what's going on here? Why is Time Machine not deleting old backups to free up space for new backups? How can if fix this?


texts: Is there a difference in performance between a the default scaling option and selecting a resolution?

texts:
I just got a new 27" 4k monitor. At default resolution, text and menu items are too small for me to be usable. In the display settings, there are options to "Scale" the resolution, but this comes with a notice that scaling may negatively impact performance.
I've seen online that one can option-click on the Scaled radio button and get a drop down of resolutions. I've done this and selected 2560x1440 and this is comfortable for me.
My question is: does the mechanism for choosing a different resolution via the drop down not degrade performance the way the default scaling options does? Or is it essentially doing the same thing, just via a different way of selecting the scaling?
In case it's helpful, I have two MacBook computers that I use this display for, with the following GPU information from the system report:

My work MacBook Pro 13", 2019, with Intel Iris Plus 655 GPU.
My personal 2019 MacBook Air 13" with Intel UHD Graphics 617.


texts: Playing/Pausing iTunes while another app plays media

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While browsing on Safari and listening to iTunes I come across a video and then press the "play" button on the keyboard (to stop the music while I watch the video) it starts/stops the video instead of the music (I have no control over the music).

How can I quickly play/pause my music without affecting the video?


texts: Backup to External in Recovery Mode (Terminal or Time Machine)

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Out of the blue, my iMac (late 2010, running El Capitan) started refusing to boot. The progress bar would take forever to reach 100%, and then it would just stop there once it reached it; all the while the fan running loudly.
I am able to boot into Recovery Mode, and I can even run Disk Utility (it doesn't detect any problems.) However, when I attempt to reinstall the OS, it tells me:

This disk has S.M.A.R.T. errors.
This disk has a hardware problem that can't be repaired. Back up as much of the data as possible and replace the disk.

I have an outdated Time Machine backup, made before I upgraded from Mountain Lion to El Capitan. Most of the data in the backup is the same, but there are a few GBs of new files I'd like to backup as well.
Since Disk Utility tells me everything is okay, am I able to somehow mount an external, and backup files? Possibly through Terminal? And If I were to use the drive with the old Time Machine backup on it, would I have to delete the backup before writing new data to the drive?
I'm not very computer savvy, but I can manage my way through Terminal with a lot of instruction. So please, try to answer in terms I will understand. Thanks.


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I want to implement a basic captive portal. For the test setup, I have a mac mini connect to wifi (192.168.1.1) and ubuntu laptop connected to it via lan.

What I am trying to achieve is for the the mac-mini to act as a router itself and assign an ip to the ubuntu-laptop and control its traffic. I am new to networking so I have no idea with what I am working with.

I have googled a lot of stuff and have seen some examples like the following

How can I setup my mac (OS X Yosemite) as an internet gateway
Using iptables and PHP to create a captive portal

As far as I understand, my mini has:

en0 which I believe is the wifi connection with ip 192.168.1.101
en1 which I believe is the ethernet connection. I believe need a DHCP server to assign IP to devices that connect with it which is available by default, right?
What does the sysctl do? The command sudo sysctl -w net.inet.ip.fw.enable=1 doesn't work and show sysctl: unknown oid 'net.inet.ip.fw.enable error
pfctl is the firewall and will do the actual blocking / redirecting.

As for how it should work, my understanding is the firewall will initially blacklist all ip/mac addresses. then for every new connection it will redirect to my localhost running apache where on successful login the php will remove the blacklisted ip. While I am hopeful to implement the apache/php part, I have no idea how the initial phase of gateway/ip/firewall stuff should be implemented.

TL;DR - How can I implement the gateway and firewall?

Assume that I am a total NOOB and detailed steps to work it out is welcome. But any help is appreciated. Thanks in advance


texts: Solution for moving WAV raw audio files from SD cards directly to IOS devices?

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I have WAV (raw audio) files on an SD card, recorded with a Zoom H4N digital recorder. In the field, I need a way to get the WAV files off of the card.

Here's what doesn't work: Apple's card reader only does images and video. I have one, I've tried it. (
Import wav files to iPhone using SD card reader )

I do not want to lug an entire Mac along, just to plug in an SD card and copy some data. (If I have a Mac, I can just plug the digital recorder in and copy data off.)

I'm looking at SD cards with in-built wifi -- eg Ascend's which has a companion IOS app. But these all seem to presume the SD card is in a camera of some sort.

Do I need to add software or hardware to solve this problem?


texts: How to copy an Error message from Xcode 8?

texts: I have seen this answer, which tells about copying a warning message(Which also does not work), however I always have to type that again in browser, How do i copy it


texts: Shared directory with Guest Ubuntu has become empty: a problem of virtualbox guest addition?

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I installed Ubuntu under Virtualbox in MacBook Pro with OS X El Capitan.

To share my OS X home directory /Users/tli folder with the guest Ubuntu, I downloaded the Virtualbox Guest Addition iso file to /Users/tli/Downloads/virtualbox/VBoxGuestAdditions_5.0.16.iso, specified it under the virtual machine's Settings -> Storage -> Optical Drive (see the screenshot below), and installed it under the guest Ubuntu.
Then the shared directory worked: my OS X home directory /Users/tli folder is mounted as /media/sf_tli, and I could access the content in my OS X home directory from guest Ubuntu.

But after restarting the guest Ubuntu and virtualbox maybe abnormally or maybe not (I forgot), the content of the shared directory became empty in the guest Ubuntu. To solve the problem, I tried to reinstall the Guest Addition, by clicking Devices -> Insert Guest Addition CD Image, but got the following error:

  Unable to insert the virtual optical disk
  /Applications/VirtualBox.app/Contents/MacOS/VBoxGuestAdditions.iso
  into the machine Ubuntu14.04.

  Would you like to try to force insertion of this disk?

  Details:

  Could not mount the media/drive
  '/Applications/VirtualBox.app/Contents/MacOS/VBoxGuestAdditions.iso'
  (VERR_PDM_MEDIA_LOCKED).

  Result Code:  NS_ERROR_FAILURE (0x80004005) Component:  ConsoleWrap
  Interface:  IConsole {872da645-4a9b-1727-bee2-5585105b9eed} Callee:
  IMachine {f30138d4-e5ea-4b3a-8858-a059de4c93fd}

Also see the following screenshot:

I feel it strange to look for the Guest Addition under /Applications/VirtualBox.app/Contents/MacOS/VBoxGuestAdditions.iso of my OS X, rather than /Users/tli/Downloads/virtualbox/VBoxGuestAdditions_5.0.16.iso which I specified earlier.

By the way, my user account under the guest Ubuntu is a member of group vboxsf.

What shall I do to make the shared directory work under the Guest Ubuntu?

Thanks.


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Let's say I used some Apple Loops in a 5 min contest video that's being sold to the contest host (So he can show a reference for this years contest). Might be uploaded on youtube + their site..

I have two apple loops and one of my own samples playing on and off, but the Apple Loops have more playtime and they're at a low volume when people speak and such which is for the most part of the video. They fade out come in again etc.

These two audio files (Apple Loops) including my own, still in the original form/format from Apple and I have only mixed them and arranged in one track.

Other than that, no further self compositions were added.
And if it makes any difference my own sample is played in the middle, so one Apple Loop in the beginning section and one at the end section.

Is this to repackage them as music beds (Illegal)?
Or is the "soundtrack" original (Am I cleared)?


texts: Is it possible to remove one word from iOS autocorrect?

texts:
I've had this phone for 5 years. In that time, I have occasionally added non-words to the dictionary by mistake, for example by tapping the wrong place on the screen. I want to browse my user dictionary and arbitrarily remove entries I dislike.

As an example: at some point, I fat-fingered my phone into thinking that do n is a correct spelling of don't. I think that means I need to remove "n" as a word, but many attempts with solutions like this one seem to fail in this specific scenario.

Requirements:

Erasing the entire user dictionary is not  acceptable.
Disabling autocorrect/predictive text (or whatever it's called) is not acceptable.
I am attempting to remove,not add words. Your answer must be specifically for removing words.
The ideal solution will allow me to browse my user dictionary and remove one or more entries. If that is not possible, a solution that allows me to spot-remove suggestions in situ is fine.
If you  suggest a third-party app, it must be available to the public at the time of posting, and any changes it makes must apply to the entire OS -- if it only cleans up e.g. the Messages dictionary, it will be rejected. I care about a whole OS solution.
No solution that requires jailbreaking, voiding the warranty, or doing anything illegal/dangerous will be accepted.
If the fact is it's not currently possible, I will only choose an answer to that effect if it cites authoritative sources.

Everything I've been able to find on the internet on this topic did not help. Your help is very much appreciated.


texts: Removing numerous ‘homepage’ entries from Contacts.app with AppleScript extremely slow

texts:
A syncing issue with Outlook left me with hundreds, if not thousands of duplicate contacts. After managing to merge duplicates without Contacts crashing, I was left with 177 contacts, most of which with many repeat homepage entries. Rather than dying of boredom removing these by hand, I put together some AppleScript to do this for me, thinking that this would take a few minutes. It’s been a week now – the script starts well enough but soon slows down continually and also takes more and more memory from the system, until the spinning beachball of doom appears halting the script. One issue is that I seem to only be able to delete a contact’s urls one at a time in sequence, instead of all at once.

So the question is, what have I got wrong making this script near useless? Could it have something to do with iCloud syncing? Or is AppleScript inherently inefficient? (The constant saving is there because of the random times the script would cease functioning.):

tell application "Contacts"
    activate
    with timeout of 72000 seconds
        set myPeople to people
        set numPeople to (count of myPeople)
        repeat with i from 1 to numPeople
            set myGuy to item i of myPeople
            set myGuyName to get name of myGuy
            set personUrls to (the urls of myGuy whose value contains "outlook")
            set urlNum to count of personUrls
            if urlNum > 0 then
                repeat with j from urlNum to 1 by -1
                    log ((time string of (current date)) & " – [" & i & "/" & numPeople & "] " & myGuyName & " (" & j & "/" & urlNum & "): " & (the label of item j of personUrls))
                    delete item j of personUrls
                    save
                end repeat
            else
                log "No problematic URLs found for " & myGuyName
            end if
            if note of myGuy is not missing value then set note of myGuy to ""
        end repeat
        save
        log "Final save"
    end timeout
    return
end tell


texts: What's a good graphical SFTP utility for OS X?

texts:
I need a small graphical utility, using which I can ssh to a server and see all the files and copy and paste (drag and drop) into my local machine.

I am running Snow Leopard.


texts: I have a MacBook Air 11 inch, connected to a Xerox monitor. For some reason I have 2 cursors, one lagging slightly behind the other. I tried unplugging the Xerox monitor, and that worked but when I tried it again, I still had 2 cursors