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After a couple minutes of inactivity, often my fans start going on. I look at activity monitor and IMDPersistenceAgent is using 90-100% CPU. If I force quit it, it comes back.
I've attempted the following troubleshooting steps:

Disabling handoff
Signing in and out of iMessage
Disabling contacts for all account
Resetting NVRAM

I am forced to shut down my computer. Does anyone have any ideas?
Here are some logs:
error   17:38:41.720642-0400    IMDPersistenceAgent Main timer not started, can't start timing: post-processor
error   17:38:41.720674-0400    IMDPersistenceAgent Main timer not started, can't stop timing: post-processor
error   17:38:41.720710-0400    IMDPersistenceAgent Aleady stopped profiling
error   17:38:41.722263-0400    IMDPersistenceAgent Main timer not started, can't start timing: post-processor
error   17:38:41.722291-0400    IMDPersistenceAgent Main timer not started, can't stop timing: post-processor
error   17:38:41.722328-0400    IMDPersistenceAgent Aleady stopped profiling


texts: Can I watch the WWDC from the beginning when the event has not finished?

texts: I want to watch the WWDC tomorrow however I will traveling home from college. This means that I will miss some of it and do not want to start watching it half way through. Is there a way how I can start watching the WWDC at the beginning when I start watching it tomorrow?


texts: Would an unlocked AT&T iphone 5c work well with 2G/3G in India? AFAIK, India doesn't have 4G yet. So, I am not too worried about 4G/LTE. Would it latch onto 3G in India? I bought the phone in USA.


texts: I've moved to the UK and just got a new 5s phone and restored it from my old settings on my US iphone 5. One glitch I've noticed seems to be w/ iTunes music or podcasts showing up on the phone in songs when I didn't move them to the phone. I had 3 on there I didn't want. 2 deleted fine, just like any of the individual songs can delete. 1 podcast ep will not. I hold my finger down on it and slide to the left and no red delete option will show, but it will on any other song. I go to the ep, click the red lines in the top right corner to get me to the individual song again and while other songs will delete that way as well, this again will not. The red delete rectangle won't show. I hook it up to my mac and verify no podcasts are synced. The category is greyed out. The artist is not checked under artists, the individual ep is not checked, it's not in a playlist I've synced nor is it in genre I've synced. This is a complete mystery how this is still on the phone at all. It plays no problem, but I want it deleted off the phone entirely. I've turned the damn thing off/on a few times. How do I remove this? What's going on?


texts: Does iPhoto need to be open in order to download Photo Stream photos?

texts:
Apple's official documentation on Photo Stream states:

  My Photo Stream stores the last 30 days of photos taken with your iOS
  device or imported from a camera to your Mac or Windows computer, and
  automatically pushes them over any available Wi-Fi or Ethernet
  connection to each of the devices that you set up to work with iCloud.

  For example, if you take a photo on your iPhone (or save one to your
  Camera Roll), iCloud automatically stores the photo and pushes it to
  Photo Stream on your iPad, iPod touch, and other Mac or Windows
  computers.

What's not clear to me is this: does iPhoto actually have to be open in order for Photo Stream photos to be pulled down to my Mac?

The reason why I ask is because whenever I open iPhoto, there's a noticeable delay before I see any new Photo Stream photos appear, which suggests that those photos are being downloaded right then.

If this is indeed the case, given that Photo Stream only stores the last 30 days' worth of photos, does that mean that I'll start losing photos if I go longer than 30 days without opening iPhoto?


texts:
I am Looking for a program that let's me capture screen videos on Mac OS X.

I am requesting it for these two use cases:

Capture of a webcam. It should allow capturing only the webcam App window.
Creation of program tutorials. Ideally, it should allow mouse cursor magnification and visual click representation (like, making some visual effect when you click on anything).

A different program for each case use is fine if there is not a program that can do both.


texts: When I try to change my location for the App Store, it wint load. i go to fetured, my apple id thing, put in my password and everything, but when i click on the country/region button to change it, the page won't load. I have a working Internet connection.


texts: I recently bought a Retina Macbookpro and want to make sure I can keep it in good condition in the event I need to sell it in the future. Assuming the keyboard is not much different from the integrated keyboards of other computers in the product line; do you think I should buy a keyboard cover? It's not the type of thing I really want, but if it means avoiding wear on the keys' texture, I'll have to go for that. I know that the keyboards are back-lit, but do any of you with Macbooks or apple keyboards experience significant degradation of the keys into that oily look?


texts: My mac laptop randomly plays music and won't stop

texts: My mac randomly plays my iTunes music while I'm watching a movie or just using my laptop. I can't stop it because iTunes is never actually open. I've tried opening iTunes and playing music but they both seem just to play over the top of each other. The only way to stop the music is to restart the laptop


texts: What is "xART Remote Storage Daemon" in macOS?

texts:
I found in my newly installed macOS system there is a service running on port 61500 and the process command is /usr/libexec/xartstorageremoted
I issued man xartstorageremoted and found the manual of this deamon. After reading it I still don't understand what is this deamon used for. I searched Google and there is nearly nothing about it. Does anyone know something about it? What it used for in a common user's perspective?

The xartstorageremoted executable is a daemon intended to listen for save/fetch requests from the CoProcessor. This daemon is required for multi-partitions and multi-users support.
xartstorageremoted must not be unloaded and should only be run via launchd when a request must be handled.


texts:
Finally, vim 8.0 has been released! However, the pre-installed vim is vim 7.3 on my system(OS X El Capitan), and I want to upgrade it to the newest 8.0 version.

So how can I do this without messing things up? Would it be a good idea to simply override the vim in /usr/bin/vim? And what about compiling it from source?


texts: For some reason I can't open files on drive

texts:
I can't open the files on certain drive that is formatted as ntfs. I have Tuxera installed however. Here is an image on how they look:

The file with a lock is password protected as it should.

Any suggestions on how to fix this? For some reason the files I can't open are somehow transparent.


texts: Syncing iTunes between 2 accounts on the same computer

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I have 2 accounts (home and work) on my MacBook, and would like have both accounts accessing the same iTunes library.

I have some success by putting the iTunes Library in the public folder of my home account, so my work account can access the same files too. However, what I would like is to have my Podcasts sync as well.  So that when I plug in my iPhone, I can sync my Podcast regardless which account I am on.

Any idea how to do that?


texts: Empty favorites sidebar of third-party applications

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From my update to El Capitan (now at 10.11.3), I've some difficulties with sidebars.

My Finder's sidebar working very well and can be very complete :

But third-party applications (like Preview, Acrobat Reader, Sublime Text…) don't recovers Finder's sidebar in the window when, usually, you are opening a file :

I tried to add by drag'n'drop my favorites folders to the sidebar but each application has its own and if I quit and restart the application, I'm losing all my favorites, going back to the minimal sidebar (like second picture).

It seems this window is not an instance of Finder window, because as you can see in my 2 screenshots: Finder can shows my hidden files but not third-party applications.

Does anyone has a similar problem? Any idea to save definitively a sidebar for all applications?


texts: dd from dvd to apfs on Catalina is writing very slow

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I did
dd if=/dev/disk2 of="disk 1".iso bs=1m

where disk2 is a DVD video.  After about 30 minutes, dd spewed out the usual message of
7662+1 records in
7662+1 records out
8034680832 bytes transferred in 2007.685274 secs (4001962 bytes/sec)

but I didn't get my prompt back.  I checked (from another shell) and the image was 800+Meg and growing.  It is now 6.7G and still growing and I figure somewhere something has a ton of data stored.  Perhaps dd forks with one process reading and the other process writing with the data between the two going over a pipe.  But, this is new with Catalina.
Has anyone seen this before?  Is there a way to speed things up?  This is going to end up taking over an hour to copy one DVD.  This is on a laptop and the hard drive is an SSD.


texts: Macbook pro display problem: orange "smudge" appears near edge

texts:
Recently there have been weird display problems on my Macbook Pro (late-2016 model with touchbar, MacOS Sierra, Intel HD graphics 530 1536 MB).

Problem

I have included two photos of my screen, the first one in original color and the second one I edited the photo to make color differences more obvious. Notice that the left edge of the screen is orange-ish. On the other hand, screenshots taken by say command+shift+4 are perfectly normal (which is why I had to take photos...sorry for the bad photo quality).

This orange-ish "smudge" only appears when I put my laptop in the upright position for more than an hour (like in my backpack or against the wall), and the smudge only appears near whichever edge at the bottom. If I keep the laptop on a flat surface (like on a table), the smudge slowly goes away. It almost feels like something is flowing through the screen to accumulate at a low point.

Question

Is this a display (hardware) problem as I thought? What is the underlying cause? Is it fixable/repairable? I have been bugged by this problem for some time and google was not helpful...any input is appreciated! Thank you so much!!


texts: How to toggle with grayscale in Yosemite?

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I prefer greyscale over inverting color when working in low light plus in general as its less strain on the eyes. But its too many clicks to toggle the settings.
I am aware that to invert display color the shortcut is Cmd+Alt+Ctrl+8. And open Accessibility options with Cmd+Alt+F5, but there is no grayscale in the options.
Right now, I open Accessibility via spotlight, then choose display & toggle the check box. I am wondering of there is any shortcut key for that? If not, is it possible to make a keyboard shortcut.


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I am reading an old developer guide, that hasnt updated since 2007..

I want to access the file called preferences.plist located at /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/preferences.plist.

It should look like this:

However, at that location there is no such file. I only found com.apple.systempreferences.plist, but this is not the right one. My guess is that it was moved over the years. Where could I find it? It contains data about network configuration.


texts: How can I run an unsigned script in Automator

texts:
I can run the well-respected perl script exiftool from the command line in Terminal and achieve the desired result, but when I incorporate it in Automator as a Service I get a generic error message and the perl script is not executed. When I look in the system.log I find: "The operation couldn’t be completed. (OSStatus error -67062.)" i.e., Code object is not signed.

Correct, exiftool is not signed, and there is nothing I can do about that.  I had to bypass Gatekeeper to install it in Yosemite (10.10.5). But the script is well know in photography circles and has been used by many to edit the EXIF information in image files.

I tried to add the script or my Automator workflow to System Preferences > Security & Privacy > Privacy > Accessibility but the panel won't accept either.

Is there some way to tell Automator to accept this unsigned script or a command or switch I can put in my bash script to have it accepted?

Here is my current shell script:

for f in “$@”
do
exiftool -overwrite_original -AllDates-=1 "$f"
done

Thanks for any help.


texts: Has anyone working Parallel 7 on Mavericks?

texts:
I am using Parallels 7. And I was not going to upgrade to Mavericks because I don't have any money now :(

But surprisingly, Mavericks is free!!! And this made me to think about upgrade... The only problem is Parallels 7 on my desktop. I already received a mail from Parallels company that PD7 won't work on Mavericks BETA. Anyway production release may different with beta, so I want to ask is there any people who can success to run PD7 on Mavericks.

And if it runs, but not perfectly, please let me know what part doesn't work.

I have to run Windows (7/8), OS X (Lion/Mountain Lion), FreeBSD server (9/10), CentOS server, Ubuntu server.


texts: Using a folder as an sftp server on my iMac?

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Can I make a folder to an sftp server on my iMac that can be accessed with Cyberduck (or other software) remotely? I would like to access my iMacs files in my office from home.
How do i set it up?

As I understood, it would be better to have a dynamic ip address...


texts: iPhone pauses or plays songs when the headphone plug moves

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My iPhone 3GS has decided to pause music playing when the headphone plug happens to move a bit or to start playing music without warning for the same reason. Sometimes it also skips to the next song or podcast. It's very annoying.

Is there some way to tell my iPhone not to do that?

The headphones are original Apple headphones for the iPhone. I bought two pairs and it happens with both pairs but only with that iPhone. I have a second iPhone 3GS which doesn't appear to react like that.


texts: Internal mic not detecting audio - 2011 Macbook Pro Mavericks 10.9

texts:
Hey so I feel really dumb asking this, but I cannot figure out why my internal mic on my 2011 MBP recently stopped working.

Here's what I've tried:

Zapping the PRAM
Resetting the SMC by "Using the built-in keyboard, press and hold
the Left Shift, Command, Option and Power Button at the same time."
Quadruple checked audio settings: built-in mic, audio up, not muted,
voiceover off, detected by plugins, and so on.
Everything's up to date
Disk permission and everything are good

I feel like I've done more than that too. I can't figure it out. I've also tried using Skype, Garage Band, and other microphone accessing apps - none detect sound. It was fine about 2 weeks ago when I used Skype and FaceTime.

Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated. Thanks!


texts: Mavericks 10.9.1 - Copies fail *after* the data has been actually moved

texts:
I'm suddenly having a very strange problem on Mavericks.

When copying large files around my system, between local disks or to and from my NAS server, I randomly get a failure stating "The file ... could not be copied because it is in use."

The problem is that this error message appears after the data has actually copied. Suppose I copy a 1GB file. The progress bar moves, network activity occurs (if transferring to the NAS), and so on... The error appears as soon as the file copy should finish.

A reboot does not solve this. This is becoming almost reliably reproducible as well. I have no unusual system extensions installed and this behavior started to appear suddenly and seems to have progressively worsened. Initially when it occurred a second copy often would work, but now a second or even third copy often fails and it takes sometimes upwards of four copies to make it work.

I can successfully copy anything at the terminal using cp, but this isn't really a solution - this is such a simple operation and there is no reason it should be causing errors like this.

As i said, the most interesting part is that it is occurring after the data has actually been moved. When the copy fails, it then deletes the corresponding destination file.

It's worth pointing out that this does not occur if copying to the same drive. For example, hitting ⌘ Cmd+D to duplicate a file and make a copy on the same disk never fails. Even moving around the same disk works as it should.

(No, I'm not trying to move, but rather simply copy a file.)

Anyone seen this before?


texts: The icons do not update in the Finder or Get Info Tab

texts:
I recently changed my text editor default from 'Text Wrangler' to 'Sublime Text' but even then all the default icons for the files types such as .js and .php still show TextWrangler default icon. When I open the files, It opens in Sublime Text correctly.

What can I do to fix all these default icons?


texts: MacBook Pro does not recognize audio from usb c external monitor

texts:
I have a 15" MacBook Pro 2017 running High Sierra 10.13.5. I use 2 external monitors, one at home and one at work.

MacBook won't recognize output audio device from monitor when I plug it in. It doesn't show up in the sound menu bar either, all sound is coming out of internal speakers each time.

This started happening recently, past week or two. It only works if I restart MacBook, but I have to do it each time I connect it to the external display. The problem is not specific to one monitor either, as it happens with two different monitors.

Any ideas?
Thanks


texts:
Is there a way to access Journals publish by iOS iPhoto, directly from icloud.com, without knowing the link already.

Currently I have to "share the link with a friend" before I can access it on icloud.com, even though I have already synced it to icloud.


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Im playing music through my mbp 15" speakers and i keep getting a glitch were the sound will wont start playing i click on the sound up key and i get this icon, after a while (10 seconds) it goes away and i can get sound.

Any idea what might be causing it ? I tend to play music through headphones, but this error has occured when using the speakers..


texts: How to automatically highlight and save the search keyword in a pdf?

texts:
How to dynamically highlight and save, the keyword searched in a pdf document, with the Preview application?

For example, I want to highlight all the 'Apple' keyword in a document and save it, so when I open the document again, I see all the 'Apple' keywords are highlighted.


texts:
I have an A4 PDF document that has content all the way to the border and I want to print it out.

Hence I print out on A3 sized paper (i.e. I print on paper twice the size) and then cut it to the actual size.

Is there an easy way to add crop marks to the document when printing it?


texts: Extend Netgear CG3100 Router network with Airport Express A1088

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I have a Netgear router (CG3100) which is in my office and the base of our wireless network. A few rooms to the back of the apartment we have an Apple TV but the wireless connection here is flaky and keeps dropping out so I want to extend it.

I found an old AE base station (A1088) which is good and working - I understand though that this can't extend the Netgear wirelessly as you need all Apple products for that, but it can extend the network when connected by Ethernet.

Been searching for how to do this but can't find any info.. can anyone point me in the direction of some resources/how-to for this or let me know how to do it?

Cheers!


texts: AppleScript : add to plist instead of replacing

texts:
I have a script which add the current time to a plist.
Basically it's help me taking track of my overtime.

That's work fine if I run it once but if I run it more than once the primary
Plist is replaced by the value of the new one.

Can I add all in the same plist instead of overwriting ?
e.g

"Start Time 1 : 06:39"
"Start Time 2 :  21:05"

Where is my current script :

set ShortDate to short date string of (current date)
set myDate to date string of (current date)
set [dayLetter, dayNumber, MonthLetter, yearNumber] to the words of myDate
set t to (time string of (current date))
set [hoursInNumber, minutesInNumber, secondInNumber] to the words of t
set startTimeValue to (current date)
set startTimeClear to dayLetter & " " & dayNumber & " " & MonthLetter & " at " & hoursInNumber & ":" & minutesInNumber
set plistR to {startTime:startTimeValue, startTimeClear:startTimeClear}
tell application "System Events"
    set plistf to make new property list file ¬
        with properties {name:"~/Desktop/Time/myTime" & dayNumber & "_" & MonthLetter & ".plist"}
    set plistf's value to plistR
end tell


texts: Is it safe to disconnect external Time Machine backup drive, if the encrypting is not finished?

texts:
I have set up a 4TB external USB drive to use as a backup for my 2TB MacBook Pro. Everything seems to work all right, but the encryption takes forever, and the Time Machine insists on it being performed only when the computer is plugged in into a power outlet.

Since I would like to use my laptop as intended (as a portable computer), what can possibly go wrong, if I disconnect the backup drive, while it is still encrypting its contents?

I am running the latest Sierra on the 2016 MacBook Pro.


texts: How are command line commands stored in .bash_history?

texts: Command-line commands are collected in .bash_history. Fine! But not all. Often I close a terminal and try a day later to find a command with CtrlR, but bash tells me "command not found". Why are some commands stored in history and some not? How can I prevent lost commands? I use OS X 10.10.5.


texts: What is the most advanced JavaScript editor for OS X?

texts:
I tried Espresso but it lacks so many important features like no auto-parentheses, no auto-aliging.
What is the most advanced JS editor for OS X?
(please not Emacs for me).


texts:
After Catalina upgrade I have noticed my keyboard layout is different. I was using Croatian (e.g. Y was Z, @ was opt+shift+2).

Now it is switched to "Croatian - PC" which resembles Windows keyboard layout (Y is still Z, @ is opt+v).

There is another option, which is "Croatian" and is similar to what I had before, but with some changes (Y is Y, @ is opt+2).

Is there a way without some external tool and re-mappings to revert my keyboard to what it was before?


texts:
Is there a way to upload a folder from the Files app into a computer on the local network? The only solution I have found is to start an SFTP server on the computer, and use the app Secure Shellfish to expose that SFTP directory in the Files app. This solution is, unfortunately, very slow (maxes out at 9 MB/s in a network that can handle 70 MB/s).
PS: SMB barely even works, and is the slowest option ever.


texts: Unable to install Windows via Bootcamp without superdrive (mountain lion)

texts:
I have iMac (mid 2011) with latest OSX (10.8.2). Seems impossible to install windows without superdrive (it just doesn't work works fine on windows).

I have googled for solution but none of them worked. I tried bootcamp method, but when it restarts failed to find USB boot and tries to boot from bootcamp partition, which results no bootable drive found.

I am not sure if this is OSX restriction by apple, but All I know that I cant install it. If someone have any idea how to fake it or how to bypass this please let me know.

EDIT:

IT's all about installing windows 7 dual boot on iMac without DVD. I have edited plist file so I am able to Create Boot USB from bootcamp. When I click Install in boot camp, it creates partition as it should but when Mac restarts it wont boot from USB.

Edit 2: I have tried with refit, I can see my USB but when I want to boot from it it shows No bootable device error. I have created USB with both Basecamp option and Microsoft official USB creator. None of the worked.


texts: Unable to restore/reinstall/erase from recovery

texts:
I've just tried to install the El Capitan GM, which failed half way through with the error "This Core Storage operation is not allowed on a sparse logical volume group" and gave me the option to restart. Restarting just launches the installer again with the same error.

I then booted into recovery to try and restore from a Time Machine backup. The boot drive was visible, so I tried to restore to it but it failed saying that the volume couldn't be erased. Now the Time Machine restore can't see that volume. Neither can the Internet Recovery option.

The Macintosh HD volume is visible in Disk Utility, verify/repair report no errors. Weirdly, the erase tab isn't visible for that drive, it seems almost like it's locked.

This is a rMBP with an SSD so I'm ruling out a hardware fault for now.

diskutil list shows:

/dev/disk0 with 4 entries:
   0: GUID_partition_scheme - 251GB - disk0
   1: EFI - 209MB - disk0s1
   2: Apple_CoreStorage 250GB - disk0s2
   3: Apple_Boot - 650MB - disk0s3

/dev/disk1 with 3 entries:
   0: Apple_Partition_scheme - 1.3GB - disk1
   1: Apple_partition_map - 30KB - disk1s1
   2: Apple_HFS - 1.3 GB - disk1s2

/dev/disk2 - /dev/disk14 with 500kb untitled entries each.

The others are in the photo below


texts: User input in Automator's "Run Shell Script"

texts:
I have a Folder Action on a /Volumes folder. I'm checking when a specific disk is mounted (folder in /Volumes created), checking ssh to remote computer. If all present I run rsync there.

It was OK when number of files was low. Now only rsync's "building file list" takes 40 minutes. I want this action to ask before rsync for my decision. Better with osascript.

source="/Volumes/MyDisk/FolderToSync"

user="username"
host="myhost"
port="22"
path="/RemoteFolder/"

log="$HOME/RSync_$(date +%Y.%m.%d_%H-%M-%S).log"
rm $HOME/RSync_$(date -v-1m +%Y.%m.)*.log

if [ -d "$source" ]; then

    nc -z $host $port > /dev/null

    if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
        touch $log;

        osascript -e 'display notification "Do you want to RSync now?" with title "ssh"'

        rsync -czvaEP --delete --log-file=$log "$source" -e "ssh -p$port" $user@$host:$path;

    fi
fi


texts: terminal cannot navigate shares on Big Sur

texts:
mount a share like this:
sudo open smb://user:password@NAS/share

navigate to share
cd share

try to list contents
ls
ls: .: Operation not permitted

EDIT: clarification thanks to Greg's comment. 'sudo ls' fails as well.
In either case - using open smb://user:password@NAS/share or sudo open smb://user:password@NAS/share the folder is browseable in the finder but not in terminal.


texts: Changing the behavior of the red number on the Dock

texts: I have two accounts on Mail. I want the red number that appears over the icon on the Dock to only consider new messages in one of these accounts. How can I change this?


texts: How to decrease the delay to drag and drop files into windows via Dock?

texts:
The Dock (as of 10.7+) allows you to drag files over an application icon, invoking application exposé which allows you to drag the file over the window of choice and drop it in where you want.

The delays set for these actions are rather long for me.
I already checked the Secrets prefpane, no luck.

Is there a hidden preference to speed them up?


texts:
I purchased an iPad mini 2 not too long ago with the intention of using it as an eReader for the various PDFs that I own.  After uploading content to my iPad I tried to sort the content into different collections to help sort PDFs into different categories.  It turns out that moving PDFs into a collection does not remove the PDF from the original collection.  This is making it difficult to sort as not only do you have to search though ones you have already sorted, you have to remember which you've already sorted.  Is there a way to "hide" or remove PDFs from this main collection once they belong to another collection?  If not, is there another decent eReader app available for the iPad, or should I simply return it and find another eReader entirely?

**(Side note) It would be incredibly helpful if I could simply retain the folder structure that they are currently in, as they are already sorted and categorized on my computer.


texts: Can I install / downgrade to Mojave on a new MacBook Pro 2020 that comes with Catalina?

texts:
I'm planning on buying a new 16-inch MacBook Pro. However, it will come with Catalina, and I still rely on several 32-bit apps. I was wondering if it's possible to downgrade to Mojave?

I was thinking maybe through a Time Machine backup... I've restored from Time Machine before to downgrade from High Sierra to Sierra. Would it be possible to set up the new computer from a Time Machine backup with Mojave?

I'm worried the new hardware would not accept an older OS...

Thanks


texts: CPU Not completely Utilized in large workload

texts: I have a Macbook Pro with a i9 Processor and running Macos Catalina. I run CPU extensive tasks daily, but it never utilizes 100% of the CPU. I use Intel Power Gadget to check out my CPU performance.  Utilization never reaches 100%. Yet when I run the Cine-bench Bench-mark it reaches 100%. Can I know why this doesn't happen when I run any other regular app which must consume 100% utilization in order to actually run faster. I also made sure the software I am running is optimized in a way it can acquire many cores as possible. Hope you can share any configuration files that must be changed to in order for all processes capable of utilizing 100% of the CPU.


texts: Is there a way to turn on indicator that a directory item is a shell script in Terminal?

texts:
When I do an ls of a directory and a shell script is listed as a directory item, is there a way I can have a visual indication that it is a shell script ?

For example:

From /opt/local/bin
ls -l

Displays port from MacPorts as an ordinary item:

port

Can I have color coding, bold or some other way to see this ?  I know I can use file to check if it's a script, executable, etc., but that's an extra command I have to issue and is no better than trying to run port and then getting an error and typing ./port.

Thanks!

Scott


texts: Preview freezes on clicking inside (very small) PDF files

texts:
I have a bunch of small PDF files, which are a few hundred pages but generally less than 2 MB or so in size. Scrolling is perfectly smooth in Preview.app, but if I click anywhere inside the PDF, macOS freezes for a couple seconds. The issue is perfectly reproducible and happens every time for certain PDF files.

I'm running the 2016 15-inch MacBook Pro with Touch Bar. This really shouldn't be a hard task for the CPU, so I suspect there's some deadlock going on, like trying to contact some random cloud service. Does anyone know a fix for this issue?


texts: Script to change downloaded mac wallpaper automatically?

texts:
I want to change my mac wallpaper daily with microsoft bing images.
I found this script that download the daily picture automatically, but I sill have to set the wallpaper automatically.
Is it possible to write a script (either terminal or applescript) that set the downloaded picture as wallpaper automatically?


texts: deleting a large group of photos in photos (like from a game cam)

texts: I am trying to delete about 1000 photos taken on a game camera and transferred to Photos.  .  Is their a quick way to do this or do I have to do it one at a time in Photos ?


texts: Is there no possible way to keep the meta data on Preview after we added some text or shape?

texts:
For example, let's say we have an image on the Mac, and we added two text lines to the picture, one with the black or dark blue text as the background, and orange text at the foreground.
Now if we keep the Preview app open, we can arrange the text to different corners of the picture, or resize the text. We can just use "Export" to create the image we want for a few times with different text positions or sizes.
However, once we close the app, we now have the text un-editable (it is burned into the picture). Is there a (secret) way to have the text saved just as if we have the app open, so that the text is editable?


texts: relocating documents folder of ios applications

texts:
I have a jailbroken iPhone 4s with iOS 5.1.1. One of the things that always bothers me is that apps can't share files with each other.
So I thought I can circumvent that behavior by creating a symlink to a folder in /var/mobile/.

For my first try I used the Dolphin Browser from the AppStore (since you can download nearly everything with it). I renamed the original Documents folder in the apps folder and created a symbolic link to /var/mobile/SharedDocs.
Apparently that doesn't work. Trying to download something simply fails in Dolphin.

Long story short:
Did anyone else try something similar with success?
Any other ideas I can try?
Do I need to program some kind of mobilesubstrate extention?

This is my first post here and I'm sorry if I did something wrong ;)

Greetings
JunkiXL

P.S. Actually I didn't replace the Documents folder but the Downloads folder. Here are the full pathes to the directories:
- Original Download Folder: /var/mobile/Applications/734.../Documents/Downloads
-> renamed that folder for backup purpose.
- created a link with "ln -s /var/mobile/SharedDocs Downloads" in /var/mobile/Applications/734.../Documents


texts: Without Match, how do I remove songs from the cloud?

texts: My daughter downloaded a lot of pop music through my iTunes account which re downloads to my iPad and iPhone every time I sync them. How do I delete this music from the cloud. I do not use Match


texts: Applescript to set terminal window to specific size

texts:
I found this question Is it possible to define the width/height of a Terminal window with this command: osascript -e \'tell application "Terminal" to do script

and tried setting my Terminal window resolution to 1920x1080 with

osascript -e 'tell application "Terminal" to set bounds of front window to {0, 0, 1920, 1080}'

but the width of the window stretches over the entire screen and it's definitely not 1920x1080. My screen resolution is 2880x1800 (macbook pro 15" retina)


texts: Service crashes when using AppleScript to click menu bar icon

texts:
The following AppleScript code clicks the WiFi icon found in the menu bar (source):

tell application "System Events" to tell process "SystemUIServer" to tell (menu bar item 1 of menu bar 1) to click

Please complete the following steps to reproduce the bug:

In Automator.app, click File → New → Service.
Drag a Run AppleScript action to the workflow.
Paste the above line of code into the AppleScript body.
Save and title the Service.
Run the Service.

The WiFi icon is never clicked, and I am instead presented with the following (painfully ambiguous) error message:

Observations about this bug:

The code works properly when compiled and tested in Script Editor or Automator.
The Service works properly when the Service is triggered from within Automator (i.e., when the the frontmost application is Automator).
The bug persists no matter which menu bar icon is specified.
Adding administrator privileges does not solve the issue: do shell script "osascript -e 'tell application \"System Events\" to tell process \"SystemUIServer\" to tell (menu bar item 1 of menu bar 1) to click'" password "thePassword" with administrator privileges

Do you know what might cause this conflict?

Does a workaround exist, so that a menu bar icon can indeed be clicked by an AppleScript Service?

OS X El Capitan, version 10.11.6.


texts: How to play all songs by genre in iOS 8.4 Music?

texts:
I cannot seem to find a way to play music by genre after the iOS upgrade (**cough) to 8.4.

I've tried to workaround this with playlists (which I would have to do every change in my music library). But ok. I held my anger and accepted this. Tried to create playlist. Add songs > Genre, and saw no Add all button. Really?? Do I have to do a thousand taps to create my playlists?

Subquestion:
Is there an alternative app capable of playing songs by genre?


texts:
How can I list my Applications by date installed? Some applications are installed from a zip file or a .dmg image, and I know that the first one, at least, preserves the Date Modified from when it was put in the zip file or compiled or whatnot.

The result is that some applications I just installed have a Date Modified of months or years in the past. So, I could go to the /Applications folder and sort by Date Modified but that's not too helpful.

How can I list Applications by date installed in OS X?


texts: Macbook Pro keeps waking from sleep during the night and draining battery

texts:
My 15-inch MacBook Pro (Touch Bar, mid-2017) has always been plagued by issues with sleep.

After not using it for a few months, I started using it again yesterday and found out that during the night it drained about 50% of the battery on its own and went into "Low-power sleep" at about 6 AM (the type of sleep that you can only wake from by reconnecting the power adapter).

Here’s my setup:

I use an external display with my MacBook, however the two were physically disconnected (USB-C to Thunderbolt adapter is unplugged) during the night;
There were a Bluetooth keyboard by Lofree and a second-generation Magic Mouse connected;
Among other apps, Spotify, Telegram, iOS Simulator, XCode, Google Chrome and Firefox were running. I mention these because I once noticed Spotify seemed to prevent sleep. I’m not sure it was the culprit in this case;
In Energy Saver, the following settings are engaged:

Under “Battery”:

Put hard disks to sleep when possible;
Slightly dim the display while on battery power;
Enable Power Nap while on battery power;

In “Power Adapter”:

“Prevent computer from sleeping automatically when the display is off” is disabled
Wake for Wi-Fi network access
Enable Power Nap while plugged into a power adapter

I am aware Wi-Fi network access and Power Nap may be the culprits here, although if I remember correctly, past experimentation with these settings proved inconclusive.

Moreover, I’m reluctant to disable Power Nap because it allows the Find My Mac feature to work correctly, and I’d like to keep that functionality intact.

I’ve uploaded the output of pmsleep -g log in hopes that it helps troubleshoot. Reading through it I couldn’t locate a clear culprit. You can find it here: https://gist.github.com/gabrielecirulli/34462c195d703a577f23a80c3fc9dd28


texts: Why does the MacOS App Store ask for other users Apple ID password?

texts:
We have an iMac with two users A and B who

are both logged in
are both administrators
have different Apple IDs (and are both logged in to their's)

Today A wanted to update an app using the Updates function in the app Store and was asked for B's password. As usual, the Apple ID was not to change, it just asked for the password.  It was definitely A who first installed this app because B never uses it.  In fact, it is not even on the list of "purchases" of B (it's a free app, though).

What to do about it?

Curious Addendum: A got B to log in and update the app, which worked fine without even asking for B's password or asking to close the app which was running in A's logged in account. Usually, when A updated the app in the past, it would refuse to run an update while the app was running.


texts: Identify square icon with filled triangle up icon in iOS status bar

texts:
There's an icon just to the left of the battery percentage icon in the Status bar of my iPhone, which I am unable to identify.

I have tried looking for it in the Apple Support document, but was unable to find it:

Status icons and symbols on your iPhone

Does anyone know what does it represent? How can I remove it?


texts: How to reedit annotations in Preview on Mac?

texts: After PDF was annotated, saved and PDF closed I want to reopen PDF but I can not anymore edit it, can not select annotations, arrows. Any workaround?


texts:
What I am actually looking for is to get the app download statistics from iTunes connect. Ideally a dashboard would be possible with a full API.

There was this idea where some coding could be done in the iphone app section so as to determine if the app is being launched for the first time and so fire a url with the flag. Rather than intercepting or proxying the the communications from the iOS iTunes connect app, I would like to retrieve an app's download statistics from iTunes connect itself.

Is there a public API or private framework to reverse engineer this?


texts: Exporting PDF with table of contents hyperlinks in Microsoft Word 2011?

texts:
When I save a document in Word 2011 to PDF, the hyperlinks in the documents' table of contents and other cross-reference links aren't clickable. That is in the PDF document when I click on a table of contents item in Preview or Skim, it doesn't jump to the page containing the content for that item.

In contrast when I save the same document to PDF in Word 2010 (the Windows version), the PDF table of contents hyperlinks are created and works fine both on Windows (Acrobat Reader) and on the Mac (Preview and Skim).

Is there a configuration option that I'm missing in Word 2011? How to get Word 2011 to generate the table of contents PDF links? I've tried printing the document to PDF but it didn't work.


texts:
I installed httpd using brew.

I edited /usr/local/etc/httpd/httpd.conf and changed:

Listen 8080

to:

Listen 80

Restarted the service:

brew services restart httpd

But Apache's still listening on port 8080:

Benjamins-Mac-mini:~ benjamin$ sudo lsof -iTCP:80 -sTCP:LISTEN
Benjamins-Mac-mini:~ benjamin$ sudo lsof -iTCP:8080 -sTCP:LISTEN
COMMAND   PID     USER   FD   TYPE             DEVICE SIZE/OFF NODE NAME
httpd   24646 benjamin    4u  IPv6 0xcc42d5b2e5fcae09      0t0  TCP *:http-alt (LISTEN)
httpd   24647 benjamin    4u  IPv6 0xcc42d5b2e5fcae09      0t0  TCP *:http-alt (LISTEN)
httpd   24648 benjamin    4u  IPv6 0xcc42d5b2e5fcae09      0t0  TCP *:http-alt (LISTEN)
httpd   24649 benjamin    4u  IPv6 0xcc42d5b2e5fcae09      0t0  TCP *:http-alt (LISTEN)
httpd   24650 benjamin    4u  IPv6 0xcc42d5b2e5fcae09      0t0  TCP *:http-alt (LISTEN)
httpd   24651 benjamin    4u  IPv6 0xcc42d5b2e5fcae09      0t0  TCP *:http-alt (LISTEN)
httpd   34288 benjamin    4u  IPv6 0xcc42d5b2e5fcae09      0t0  TCP *:http-alt (LISTEN)
httpd   34289 benjamin    4u  IPv6 0xcc42d5b2e5fcae09      0t0  TCP *:http-alt (LISTEN)
httpd   34290 benjamin    4u  IPv6 0xcc42d5b2e5fcae09      0t0  TCP *:http-alt (LISTEN)

How can I force httpd to listen to port 80?

I tried restarting the service using sudo as port 80 is a privileged port, with no success.


texts:
So it turns out that I am not the greatest fan of Lion after all. Is there a way I can downgrade from the Lion OS to the Snow Leopard OS if I bought my laptop in mid 2011?

There are plenty of sites (http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2389334,00.asp and http://gigaom.com/apple/how-to-downgrade-from-lion-to-snow-leopard/ are two examples) that demonstrate how to revert back to Snow Leopard if your computer is older and once operated in Snow Leopard. But my MacBook Pro is brand new, and shipped with Lion. Trying to start in recovery mode (command - R at boot) , or from the Snow Leopard disk (C at boot) just results in kernel panics. Running the Snow Leopard disk from the Lion OS results in error messages ("You can't install this version of the application Install Mac OS X with this version of Mac OS X. You have Install Mac OS X 23.1"). And the one thing that does give me access to the Snow Leopard Drive (pressing option during startup with the Snow Leopard CD inserted and choosing "Recovery HD") only allows me to reinstall the Lion OS, not the Snow Leopard OS.

What should I do?


texts: In Mail.app I have several mail addresses and incoming mail to some addresses is already being forwarded to my primary mail address. I don't want to have an inbox for these secondary emails (I've got them on my primary anyway) but I want to be able to send from those addresses. I've tried adding my secondary account as usual, and then disabling it. But then I can't see that address' SMTP server to send from when sending. If I enable it, I can see it, but its mailbox automatically comes back. How can I have no mailbox for a mail account, but still be able to select its SMTP server to send mail from that address?


texts: Windows 7 install on MacBook Air without Bootcamp

texts: I burned  my DVD of Windows 7 64 bit to an iso file. Moved that file to my USB flash drive using Rufus, and when I boot while holding the option key my flash drive isn't recognized. Not sure what else to do but Bootcamp only supports Windows 8 or later.


texts: Finder's "Date Added" vs. "Date Created"

texts:
I would like to know what does Finder's "Date Added" mean exactly (added to where?), and how does it compare to the "Date Created" (coming from Windows, there isn't something similar there to "Date Added").

Thanks!


texts: Use AppleScript to move (not copy) GMail message in Apple Mail

texts:
How do I get AppleScript to appear to move (but not copy) a Gmail message in Apple Mail?
If I use
move theMessage to targetFolder

the message appears in both folders. (More precisely, the message ends up with two labels: inbox and that of the target folder.)
If I "move" the message in the app by dragging it from one folder to another, I get the expected behavior:  The message retains only the label of the folder it was dragged to.
What command do I use in AppleScript to get this behavior?


texts:
Can developer monetize application like following:

Developer develops application -> rents that application to certain person which pays to the developer monthly/yearly for such service, that application is content updated.

User (that downloads the app) itself is not paying at all anything.

Is this against the Apple monetization guidelines?


texts: Tilda becomes ± with bluetooth keyboard Keychron K2 in OSX

texts:
I want to type  ~/work in iterm2 but somehow it becomes ±/work. I am also unable type the inverted comma ` (the character shares the same key with tilda). It becomes §.

I am using a bluetooth keyboard (Keychron K2) with ANSI layout. I have already tried turning the keyboard on and off. I have also tried depressing the Fn key and other key combinations but there is no effect.

The keyboard has no such issue before.

The language is set to Australian

What is the likely cause of this issue? How can I fix it?

I am using a MacBookPro.

Edit:

Upon more testings, this is normally what I see in the System Preference.

However the moment I depressed a key, I can see the layout switched

The keyboard supports wired mode (see https://www.keychron.com/products/keychron-k2-wireless-mechanical-keyboard). If I connect the keyboard with the mac in wired mode, the problem went away
Before this problem appears, I have uninstalled Karabiner-Elements. I used Karabiner-Elements because I need it for other mechanical keyboard.


texts: Does PhotoStream copy videos too or just still photos?

texts: If I use PhotoStream to sync photos from an iOS device and my Mac, will it transfer videos too? Are the higher resolution videos from the new iPad treated any differently than other devices?


texts: How can I mount an encrypted disk image so that it is read-write?

texts: I have created an encrypted disk image containing a folder whose contents that I want to keep secure, using the disk utility app. I am able to mount this either by clicking on the image or by using the command line, however in either case, the mounted drive is read-only. I have tried various options including adding the -o read-write option to the command line mount command, however nothing seems to work. I am running under OS X 10.14.5.


texts: Mac Photos: Change Date of selected photos

texts: I'm searching for a way to change the date of multiple photo in the Photos App on macOS.


texts:
I have a MacBook Pro running the latest version of Yosemite and the most up to date version of iTunes.

When opening iTunes up it shows that I have 6 songs, I've tried to delete these songs multiple times by right clicking, pressing 'show in finder' and then moving them to the trash, but they still won't disappear from iTunes no matter what I do. I've even removed the caches folder but no luck even after restarting.


texts: How to open videofile in native resolution?

texts:
I have MacBook with 15,4-inch (2880 x 1800) display and for example I have video file for which
ffmpeg -i video.mp4 shows me
Stream #0:0(und): Video: h264 (High) (avc1 / 0x31637661), yuv420p, 2100x678, 961 kb/s, 30 fps, 30 tbr, 15360 tbn, 60 tbc (default)
Is it possible to open videofile of size 2100x678 on screen with resolution 2880x1800 without resize\rescale? i.e. I want pixel size of video match pixel size on screen.


texts: View a list of recent deleted items from Trash in macOS

texts:
I've deleted some big folders yesterday while on a shoot, to free up some space to be able to shoot tethered into the Mac. The folders where from past shoots and I've marked the folders to know which I had backed up in several places - just to be able to be on shoots and delete if necessary.

But, yesterday things went quick and I'm not sure if one folder got mixed with the others. So today I'm looking for a way to just see which folder/items I deleted/emptied from the Trash.

Logs, Terminal commands etc.?

Every Google search gets me to recovery posts.


texts: How do I backup account passwords and and other data on Catalina?

texts:
I have always relied on using an encrypted backup of my iPhone to preserve account passwords as part of the backup, so that these can be easily restored when I move to a new phone. But this feature relies on iTunes, which has been removed from Catalina.

How do I create an encrypted backup of my iPhone that preserves account passwords and and other data on Catalina, so that these can be restored when I get a new phone?


texts: Where can I find Siri's file, folders, database in ios files (I'm root)

texts:
I would like to modify some things on the OS including the 'Hey Siri' phrase, I've tried a global grep but no luck yet.

If someone has an idea, he is welcome


texts: How does one delete the error messages from XCode's Devices & Simulators window?

texts:
I have a long list of error in my devices window.
How do I get rid of them?
The errors persist even after removing derived data, restarting xcode, restarting the mac, or a combination of these....


texts:
Why do I get the following message in iTunes when syncing my iPhone(s)/iPad(s) to iTunes wirelessly on Windows Vista Ultimate?

  An iPhone has been detected, but it could not be identified properly.  Please disconnect and reconnect the iPhone, then try again.

Whenever I sit down at my Windows machine after being away for a while with iTunes running, I get several of these popups I need to dismiss before I can do anything in iTunes.


texts: Pressing first letter of user account name does not select user in login window

texts:
This has been irritating me for a long time and I have not found a solution for this whenever I have looked for one.

This problem has perplexed me maybe as far back as Mac OS X 10.7, but I can't be sure. We share a couple of Macs in our family of five and because of that we each have dedicated user accounts. In total that's five separate user accounts. After booting up we get the login window just fine. However, the only way to select the user account you wish to log in to is to click on the user's name. In the past we could just press the first letter of our username and that would automatically select that user for you. But this hasn't happened for a long time now.

The reason why I think it may not have occurred since Mac OS 10.7 is that one of our Macs is still on Mac OS X 10.6.8 and on that particular Mac we can still press the first letter of our username to select that account. The Mac this doesn't work on is an iMac using Mac OS X 10.11.6, but like I said, this has been happening for a long time, even before Mac OS X 10.11. It's not the end of the world, but it's surprising how annoying this is for us.

MY QUESTIONS:

Did Apple remove this feature for some reason?
If not, is there a setting anywhere to switch this feature back on?


texts:
I had Terminal and TextEdit open, a couple of Finder windows, and possibly another app or two.
This was a few hours after updating to macOS 11.1 (20C69) in case that is the cause.
In Terminal, I did su - Admin to change permissions on a directory with sudo.  I forgot to exit before trying to open a new file with TextEdit, so of course I got an error (one account can't open windows in another app's GUI).
Exited Admin and tried again.  Got the same error!  Quit TextEdit and re-launched—same error!
Restarted laptop and logged in again.  Now, Terminal and Safari can't be launched (possibly others).  Pop-up appears and vanishes quickly. After several tries, I finally managed to read the first line: "Application (app) interrupted restart."
Switched user to Admin to send this question.  Safari & Terminal both functioning on this account.
In the Admin account, interestingly, when tried to use sudo, I was rejected.  Did id and found that that the shell (in Terminal launched by admin account) was running my non-admin account!!! Had to su to kill processes (see my answer).
Cause and/or solution?


texts: Change Spotlight weather forecast from Fahrenheit to degrees

texts: In El Capitan Spotlight, you can search for weather forecast. Is it possible to change from Fahrenheit to Degrees?


texts: Does booting a 2015 iMac from an external disk require "touching" the internal disk?

texts:
The hard drive (a Fusion Drive) on my 2015 iMac has become badly corrupted, possibly getting into that state via some incompatible ram that had previous been installed in it. (The ram was removed and the computer is in its stock configuration now.) The computer won't boot past the login screen or boot into recovery mode without a kernel panic.

When I took it into have it examined by an authorized repair shop, the tech told me that because the kernel panic prevented booting into recovery mode or target disk mode, that the hard drive needed to be replaced. When I asked whether the drive could be wiped, she said no and that it was impossible without cracking open the computer.

Is this true? In a standard Windows/Linux based Intel architecture PC, any drive can simply be ignored at the bios level. Does corruption of the internal hard drive in an iMac really prevent any possible boot attempt via an external drive?


texts: Last year I purchased a Mac Mini from MacMall. It came without a manual or  instructions.  I'm trying to find a slot in the back to install a SanDisk card to view pictures off a trail cam. The slots will not take the card directly.  Yesterday I drove 50 miles to a Best Buy and purchased an Insignia adaptor which the salesman assured me would fit any computer made. There are only two tiny slots at the back of the mac mini and the Insignia adaptor is too large to fit into either of them. Can any one offer me some advice or must I assume the mac mini will not take any SD card.  Ron


texts: Capture month end values in Apple Numbers

texts: Is there a way to capture a cell value at a specified time in Numbers. For example if you have a stock portfolio and wish to capture month end values can this be done?


texts: How to install Windows 10 on external SSD that currently runs OS X?

texts:
I made the mistake of purchasing a MBP w/ only 128 GB of storage. When I ran out of space on the internal drive, I purchased a 512 GB external SSD, transferred all the data over to the SSD, and now run El Capitan on the external drive and use it as my main startup drive (in fact, the internal drive is completely formatted).

How do I partition the external SSD into two drives, one that runs OS X and the other with Windows 10? The reason I don't want to set up windows on the internal drive is because I want 256 GB dedicated to windows, leaving the other 256 GB on the external drive for OS X.

Boot Camp Assistant seems to only detect the internal drive, so I don't know how to properly partition the drive and install windows 10 on it. I've tried partitioning with Disk Utility as well, but when running Boot Camp again, it only allows me to partition the internal drive. Maybe there is a way to install Windows on the internal drive, and then transfer it over to a 256 GB partition on the external drive?

I'm very new to/unfamiliar with this kind of stuff, so I'm sorry if this is a poor question.

Thanks for your help


texts: How do I remove my visa from the App Store which has been declined?

texts:
Every time I try to download an app, it comes up with a message displaying "Verification Required". So I try to verify my information and it says it's declined. I've made purchases before and never had problems, I don't have any outstanding payments due. I'm only 17 for gods sake.

There is no "None" option when trying to cancel the payment option.

Also I cannot update or download apps, so snapchat won't let me into it because it says "Waiting..." And it's frustrating me. Please help asap!


texts: How do I download embedded media such as Flash video in Safari 6?

texts:
Possible Duplicate:
  How to mimic Safari 5 Activity window with Mountain Lion, to save FLV video files?

It used to be in Safari 5 and such I could open the Activity Viewer with ⌘⌥A, but no longer in Safari 6. How then do I download embedded files such as Flash Video from a website for offline viewing in Safari 6? Is there a Safari Extension (my Google-fu hasn't turned up anything useful on that front)?


texts: I think Chrome makes my computer run out of memory

texts:
Why are there so many "Google Chrome Helper" processes open:

I have been getting a lot of alerts lately because my mac is out of memory.

I wonder if chrome is the cause, and how I can fix this.

I only had 3 tabs open in chrome when I took the screenshot.


texts: How to type backslash in Russian on Macbook pro

texts:
I can't find the backslash key
either in low case or upper case(by holding shift key)
in Russian input method( I chose it on input source) on Macbook pro.

But if I choose russian pc input method, there is no "e with two dots above",
but in the place having slash and backslash.

Any one has the same problem?

Thanks,


texts: "The name you entered can't be used. The name is not available. Enter a different name."

texts:
I'm installing El Capitan on a MacBook Air that I aquired with no internal drive, so no previous OS.

I proceed through several steps fine until "Create a Computer Account".

But it doesn't like the details I enter and shows this cryptic error box:

  The name you entered can't be used.
  The name is not available. Enter a different name.

The worst part is that it now does not allow me to edit any of the text fields! I can click on them and drag and select them, but I cannot type new letters or delete existing letters, etc.

Is this a known problem? I can't find a solution to it via Google though I do find a tiny number of people asking about it. If not, what am I missing?


texts: How to recover dashboard stickies on macOS Catalina?

texts: According to the article Apple Confirms Dashboard is Going Away After 14 Years, dashboard has been removed within macOS 10.15, Catalina. I had some Stickies with information stored in dashboard and I would like to recover it if possible.


texts: 10.12 Sierra unlock screensaver by admin via security authorizationdb

texts:
I admin a bunch of Macs, and depend on unlocking user's screen saver as admin.
I've always done this editing /etc/pam.d/screensaver

This no longer works.  I need to do it via security authorizationdb.

I can do it with this command:

security authorizationdb write system.login.screensaver "authenticate-session-owner-or-admin"

This works ok, but then it shows a really clunky fake-looking dialog box for users every time they want to stop their screen saver.

What I want is to keep the traits defined by this string:

<string>use-login-window-ui</string>

but open it to admin.

Has anyone else had any luck (or interest) in doing this?

default rule:

$security authorizationdb read system.login.screensaver
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd"> <plist version="1.0"> <dict>
    <key>class</key>
    <string>rule</string>
    <key>comment</key>
    <string>The owner or any administrator can unlock the screensaver, set rule to "authenticate-session-owner-or-admin" to enable SecurityAgent.</string>
    <key>created</key>
    <real>472414282.07143301</real>
    <key>modified</key>
    <real>472414282.07143301</real>
    <key>rule</key>
    <array>
        <string>use-login-window-ui</string>
    </array>
    <key>version</key>
    <integer>1</integer> </dict> </plist>

command:

security authorizationdb write system.login.screensaver "authenticate-session-owner-or-admin"

changed rule:

$security authorizationdb read system.login.screensaver
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd"> <plist version="1.0"> <dict>
    <key>class</key>
    <string>rule</string>
    <key>created</key>
    <real>472414282.07143301</real>
    <key>modified</key>
    <real>498674468.80855602</real>
    <key>rule</key>
    <array>
        <string>authenticate-session-owner-or-admin</string>
    </array>
    <key>version</key>
    <integer>0</integer> </dict> </plist>


texts: How to diagnose a white-screen-of-death by moving kexts/plists/etc

texts:
I've been handed admin duties for a room full of iMacs running Mavericks (i.e. I don't know all of the configuration tweaks or installed software done by the previous admin). My first goal was to see if they could upgrade to Yosemite, so I tried it on one.

Now, it boots to a white/grey screen with a mouse cursor which follows my mouse movements.

I've tried all of the standard suggestions: reset SMC, reset PRAM, use recovery mode to repair disk and permissions. Nothing fixes this nor changes this white-screen-with-mouse-cursor behavior.

Booting into recovery mode works as on normal machines.
Booting in safe-mode gives the white-screen-with-mouse-cursor.

Although the first upgrade I tried was just from within the booted Mavericks OS, I also tried installing/upgrading again from Yosemite on a USB stick and it brought me to this same state of white-screen-with-mouse-cursor.

I then added a 2nd partition on the drive and installed a fresh Yosemite, and that worked. So, a stock Yosemite works. So I don't think there's anything wrong with the hardware.

Because I have a working, parallel MacOS, from which I can fiddle with the volume with the problems, I'm interested in removing/disabling low-level, non-stock additions to the OS: kexts, plists... all the stuff down in /System and /Library which gets loaded at boot time before the login screen is shown. Then, I can disable some add-ons, try booting the original volume, disable some other stuff, try booting again, etc.. But, I don't know a good, systematic way to go about this. Question: Where on the problem volume should I be looking for user-added mods/drivers/kexts/plists and how can I easily spot them among the original Yosemite stuff?


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Today I found an old iPod Touch and it seems like something is wrong with it so I boot it into recovery mode and try to restore it with iTunes. But there are something wrong and I have to manually restore it with the IPSW file. Now I am at ipsw.me and stuck while trying to identify what device this is. I went to checkcoverage.apple.com and enter my iPod Touch's serial number. It tells me it is OBS iPod Touch. Here's the result:

Here's a picture of the iPod Touch if it helps:


texts: Mid 2012 MBP shuts down claiming no power with charge at 30% or 40% or more

texts: I have two mid 2012 MBPs. Sometime last year they both started randomly shutting down and showing the 'please plug me in to power' image when trying to start them up. That would be fine if the batter was at 1% or less but this happens when the battery is at anywhere from 30% to as high as 48% full. The power cycle info says 500 cycles or so. Both of them do this. They are both patched current, always. I asked Apple they suggested NVRAM PRAM and SMC reset, as expected, which had no effect. Any ideas?


texts: Is it possible to force a specific program to remain in memory after closing it?

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Alfred is great, of course, and I use it all the time. However, if I haven't opened it for a little while it can take a few seconds to open the search-bar UI. Otherwise, it will open in less than a quarter of a second.

I believe this is to do with the fact that it is moved out of memory by the operating system, meaning it has to be copied back in next time I request it (note: I have a mechanical hard-drive, not an SSD, so that takes ages).

So my question is this: can I force macOS to leave an application in main memory even if I'm not using it?


texts: How to create link aggregates (bonded interfaces) in shell?

texts: How do you create link aggregates for network interfaces from the shell in Terminal on macOS 10.13?


texts: Open Java .app application bundles with double click on a Mac without Apple's Java 6

texts:
In short: On a mac with a clean installation of Yosemite, doubleclicking a compiled Java mac-style .app application bundle fails to launch the app, unless Apple's Java 6 is installed, even if the current version of Java for the Mac from Oracle is installed.

At length: When Apple developed the Java SDK for macosx, you could open a .app mac-style application bundle written in Java by doubleclicking its icon in Finder, its app icon will show up in your dock while it was running, and its menu items would live in the Mac OS menu bar. Java apps behaved almost like native Mac apps.

On the other hand, if you install the current Java SDK from Oracle, you can execute your Java application with java -jar YourApp.app/Contents/Resources/Java/yourapp.jar, but you get a generic dock icon, your menu items live on top of the window instead of menu bar.

And if you don't have Java 6 from Apple installed on the machine, which is not included in recent versions of the OS but still available for download from Apple at this location (but it's pretty out of date at this point), then you just get an error message dialogue: "To open YourApp.app you need to install the legacy Java SE 6 runtime." with a link to Apple's outdated implementation, even though you already have Oracle's Java 8 installed already.

On a Mac with Java 8 from Oracle installed, but not Java 6 from Apple, is there a way to open a Java app from finder, or retain these other native platform compatibilities? Is there a way to force a .app bundle to use your preferred Java installation?

I'm basically asking the same question as To open “Eclipse” you need to install the legacy Java SE 6 runtime. Is there a solution to this problem other than installing legacy Java 6?

Also this question may be relevant: Application is using Java 6 from Apple instead of Java 7 from Oracle on Mac OS X?

At the questions Run java bundled in .app from command-line and Why is Java SE 6 Legacy required to open Intellij?, it is suggested that you can force your Java .app bundle to use a newer version of Java if you change the JVMVersion in YourApp.app/Contents/Info.plist, but this did not work for me. Those answers are from Java 1.7 era, maybe it's outdated?


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I haven't been able to find the solution to my issue anywhere, so here goes:
I have a 15" MacBook Pro (mid 2015) and it's at all points a great device, with the only drawback being low storage (I only have the 256GB installed).
I am aware of OWC's solution and I almost bought a 2TB SSD, but then I remembered that the new macOS runs a bit differently, if I understand this right. I am not sure if the OWC's SSD would be even compatible with Big Sur (I also read somewhere that it's also completely incompatible with Windows 10 already, so no workarounds there?).
So, does anyone know how things stand right now with upgrading storage in "older" MacBook Pros in 2021?


texts: Is using the Magic Mouse 2 & original Magic Mouse on the same Mac unsupported in High Sierra?

texts:
I recently upgraded my mid 2011 Mac mini to macOS High Sierra. I purchased the Magic Mouse 2 about a year ago, but really loathe the charging port on the bottom (unbelievably stupid design, but I digress). As such, I kept my old (original) Magic Mouse handy for when I needed to charge the Magic Mouse 2. I never had problems with this use case in OS X El Capitan.

However, today when I tried to use the old Magic Mouse, macOS absolutely freaked out and neither of the Bluetooth mice could connect. I had to use a generic Logitech USB mouse to "forget" both of them (old and new), then I could reconnect the Magic Mouse 2 after it charged.

So my question: is the original Magic Mouse unsupported in macOS High Sierra? (edit: it definitely is supported, not the issue). Or perhaps I simply can no longer use the Magic Mouse and Magic Mouse 2 interchangeably?

Update 1: Forgetting and re-pairing both of the the mice was a temporary fix. Nothing else worked, including rebooting.

Update 2: Issue has returned. I again had to fight macOS tooth-and-nail to get the Magic Mouse 2 paired after using the Magic Mouse!

Update 3: One thing I forgot to mention: when the Magic Mouse 2 has lost pairing (after using the Magic Mouse) and I plug it in and switch it on, the "Mouse" section of System Preferences goes absolutely berserk, rapidly alternating between the normal screen and the "looking for bluetooth mouse" screen.


texts: How can I "Page Down" from the keyboard in an Apple Mail message list?

texts: With recent versions of Apple Mail, the Page Down key always applies to the message content pane (unless no message is selected), even if the message list had focus. However, you used to be able to type Control–Page Down to make it apply to the message list. This no longer works in OS X 10.9. Is there another way?


texts: Is the iPhone's eSim for the home or roaming carrier?

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The XR, XS iPhones feature eSIM capability. Assume that the user lives in the US and uses T-mobile.  Does it make sense to use the eSIM with the home carrier or to use it with roaming carriers the Caribbean and EU countries?

If I assign the eSIM to T-mobile (USA), can I expect the phone to roam exactly as if it had a conventional SIM card?


texts:
I want to create an AppleScript app with this perfectly working (bash) command:

cd /Volumes/MEDIAS/WORK/CONVERSION_VIDEO/PROXY_720P/INPUT/; for f in *.mov *.mp4; do ffmpeg -i "$f" -vcodec prores -profile:v 0 -s 1280x720 /Volumes/MEDIAS/WORK/CONVERSION_VIDEO/PROXY_720P/OUTPUT/"${f%.*}_PROXY_720P.mov" && rm "$f"; done

but I get errors with the variable "$f".

How can I launch it through AppleScript?


texts:
I have a Macbook Pro 13" with Retina Display running OS X Mavericks 10.9.4

I use Code Editors like PHPStorm which Require me to use the Function Keys as Keyboard Shortcuts like Command+F6.

But F6 just increases my backlighting.

I want the function Keys to do this special stuff when used alone and behave as normal Function keys when I add something before it like Cmd.

For example :
F11 should decrease volume,
but Cmd+F11 should be a shortcut


texts: Wi-Fi process using up to 16GB of memory

texts:
Sometimes when I switch Wi-Fi network or connect to a VPN via Global Protect the memory usage of /System/Library/CoreServices/WiFiAgent.app shoots up and my fans go mental. Why?

This screenshot is one of the worst times it has happened, the usage is not alway consistent sometimes its 2GB, sometimes 6GB etc etc

Basic macbook pro 13" 2017


texts:
My MacBook (purchased in 2007) with Windows XP installed through VMware software. I have some important software that works only in XP. My MacBook broke down and I purchased latest MacBook Pro (2015).

I am not able to install Windows XP because the Mac does not allow installation through USB or CD drive. Also OS X help seems to suggest that it won't support XP in Boot camp. Can anyone help me out?


texts: How can I leverage multiple iTunes libraries in a LAN to create an office jukebox?

texts:
Well, we all have Macs, we all have iTunes, and we want to be able to democratically enqueue songs on one of our Macs while being able to choose from everyone's iTunes libraries.

Is there such a tool?


texts: Can I update Clash of Clans downloaded with an old Apple ID using a new Apple ID?

texts: A new update in Clash of Clans has been arrived and it is asking me the password through which I downloaded this game but I don't know the password. How can I update it with my new Apple ID?


texts: iTunesConnect no longer allows tester gmail with plus sign?

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In the past, I used to use the same Gmail address for testing in-app purchasing (sandbox testing) by adding + sign to my email. For example, myemail+testapp@gmail.com

Now I am no longer able to create such user as I get the error:

  This email address is not available for use as an Apple ID. You may already have an Apple ID associated with this address. Please try again or sign in using your existing Apple ID.

I read that Google did not disable this as I can still us it on other places. But not any more on iTunesConnect Sandbox user page.

Can anyone confirm this?

Is there a way around this aside from creating a new Apple ID for each new tester?


texts: Identify iPad generation by box pictures

texts:
I found an auction, where someone put a new unpacked device in iPad 1st generation section for corresponding price of iPad 1, while its clear that it is not iPad 1 just by looking at 1st photo included.
The person selling the device didn't write any other informations beside that it has 16GB HDD and is brand new.
I have tried to contact the seller to confirm if this is 4th generation iPad or not, but did't receive any answer from him/her so far.

Unfortunately seller didn't include photo of box back.(2nd photo shows "layout" of labels on it, but text itself cannot be read)
Now lets become Sherlock Holmes :)

1st photo shows front of the box, which may belong to any Apple
tablets, besides 1st generation which were packed in different boxes
with Ipad picture on top, in almost 1:1 scale

2nd photo shows us, that this is Ipad, not Ipad Air or Ipad mini.

On 4th photo we can see Apple logo. 3rd generation has ICloud logo
instead. So we now know this is either 2nd or 4th generation :)

There is also one more detail on 4th photo. Apple logo is silver. If am not wrong 2nd gen box has black apple logo instead.
For 90% this is 4th generation, but not sure. Can you help me decide if this actually ipad 4th by looking at photos above?:)


texts: How do I change the OS X updater App store user?

texts: When I go to do App store system updates it prompts for the Apple ID, but not mine...  It's asking for a former employee.  For now I can reset their password (as their old e-mail can be redirected) and continue to use that account.  However, long term I'd like to switch that over to a different Apple ID so that the ex-employee Apple ID can be entirely shut down.  How do I go about changing the Apple ID used for system updates?


texts: Address Book App adds the letter "n" to my notes

texts:
The Address Book app adds the letter "n" to notes of contacts in most of my contacts. In the Notes field I randomly see the letter added in front of names, numbers etc.

I have off course tried to delete the letter, but after a sync the letters are back. I see both 1, 2 and 3 repeats of the same letter in my notes.

What to do?


texts: How do I get my Macbook Pro back to normal and keep all my files when I'm in "macOS Recovery"?

texts: My "Notes" app was non-responsive and lagging so I manually shut down my MacBook Pro by pressing down the off button for several seconds (It's from 2013 or older and I think I have OS X Mavericks or maybe a newer operating system). When I turned it back on it was in "macOS Recovery" mode. How do I get it back to normal and keep all my files and everything?


texts: How to create Wi-Fi hotspot on OS X without having a connection?

texts:
I need to create a Wi-Fi hotspot on my OS X machine with no internet connection.
I need this in order to locally connect my Android smartphone via the hotspot and control the machine via an app (Unified Remote) for a presentation.
The place where I need this only has a corporate network which doesn't allow for such local connections.
I know this is going to work because I used to do this on Windows, but here the hotspot doesn't turn on until it has a wired connection, and automatically turns off if I unplug the ethernet wire.
Is there a way to turn on the hotspot even with no connections?

Thank you :)


texts: Using an iPod charging cable to charge an iPad

texts: I lost the original plug-in charger that came with my iPad.  I have tried using my iPod cable to charge my iPad (plugged into the USB port of my Windows laptop) but the iPad will not charge (or at least it charges extremely slowly).  I also have tried using another USB plug adapter with the iPod cable (plugged into a wall outlet) and it also does not charge.  What is going on here and how can I charge my iPad now that I have lost the original cable and outlet adapter that it came with?


texts: Will downloading LaTeX slow down my MacBook Air considerably?

texts: I've begun downloading LaTeX and the download is 2GB. My MacBook Air has a 4GB 1600 Mhz DDR3 memory and a 1.3GHz Intel Core i5 processor. Will this large download have any impact of the long-term performance of my laptop considerably?


texts:
There's been a lot of discussion lately about the 1970 iOS bug. How/why does it happen?

Is it due to the UNIX epoch at 00:00:00 1/1/1970, so anything negative causes a crash which Apple never accounted for since that date is way before the iPhone was even considered?


texts: iPad Safari scroll bar missing on some webpages

texts:
On this web page* when I scroll up or down, there is no scroll bar. So I have no idea where I am positioned or how much more of the page there is.

* https://sourceforge.net/p/snapraid/discussion/1677233/thread/51d86bb9/

Is this a bug in recent (13.4) Safari? Or something weird done by that website?


texts: How can I select a complete folder instead of a single file while cloning user SuperDuper in OSX for backup?

texts: I want to select the who lang comp lab folder for backing up (cloning) using SuperDuper software in OSX but it just allows me to select one file as an image. lang comp lab folder is inside mgserver folder which is a shared one. I have attached some photos which can depict this much better.


texts: How to change spelling library in Mac OS X with a shortcut?

texts:
Since I'm a Hungarian, but I learn and work in English, I switch the spelling settings in System Preferences approximately 50 times a day, because I'm constantly working with both languages.

Is there any fast way to change the spelling without opening the System Preferences every single time with a shortcut?


texts: Black line on the lower screen. Macbookpro2017

texts:
Why is there a black line appearing on the lower part of the screen? It also contains fragments such as letters from websites I visit to. How can I fix this?

Thanks for answering my question in advance

Soo... the problem is now worse than before

and later this day (tuesday november 6) this started showing up.

How much would it cost for me to repair this if it is a retina hardware issue?

The specs of my device is MacOS Mojave version 10.14, 13 inch, 2017, 2.3 GHz Intol Core i5, Intel Iris plus Graphics 640 1536 MB


texts:
Apps from OS X 10.9 (Mavericks) have started to ask me to restart when there are updates ready to install. Is it possible to completely disable this notification?

Screenshot of notification:


texts: Automator: "Run Shell Script" throws error because of missing "on" command

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OSX 10.11.4 here.

I'm trying to create a workflow for use with a hotkey, to run a simple shell script.

Created via: Automator -> New Service -> Utilities -> Run Shell Script, then set to 'no input' in 'Finder', and shell set to "/bin/bash".

For a trivial script, say, one containing nothing but "ls", it works.

But I'm only getting errors so far for the script I actually want to run, which includes a call of "on run", which seems to cause problems. After debugging a bit, I can bring it down to this:

on run {input, parameters}

end run

results in error:

Run Shell script failed - 1 error
-: line 2: on: command not found

Might have something to do with a missing path I figured, so I already tried working on that, e.g. by adding:

PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin export PATH

or:

PATH=/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin export PATH

as suggested here. Didn't help.

Note as well: I have Anaconda installed, which looks like it changed the path in .bash_profile. Then again, I'm not even sure if the bash environment invoked by automator looks at .bash_profile.

Any ideas what to try next?


texts: I'm tinkering with my Safari Bookmarks and want to better understand what's between me and syncing them with my Chrome Bookmarks

texts:
In /Users/myusername/Library/Application Support/Google/Chrome/Default/ I see a "Bookmarks" & "Bookmarks.bak" file. They both appear to have the same or similar data—but what are the differences?
Please let me know if this is the wrong place for this question. Thanks in advance!


texts: How to write a text in Terminal using AppleScript?

texts:
How can I insert a text into Terminal.app using AppleScript?
I don't mean to execute it (press Enter). Only to insert it.
My current script almost works:

tell application "Terminal"
    activate
    tell application "System Events" to keystroke "TextToInsert" using {}
end tell

The trouble is when this is executed by a hot key, e.g. CMD-T, and then the pressed CMD interferes with the keystrokes and changes the desired behavior.

I need either to tell the keystroke command to ignore any modifier keys or to use other command to write the text there. I think write should do it but have no idea how.


texts: How do you manually reposition faces in Mac OS X Yosemite's Photos App?

texts:
I'm not sure if this is a bug or just me missing something out, but when I try to manually add faces in my Photos app (go to photo, 'Get info', 'Add face'), a circle appears where I can name/tag the face.

When I go to drag it, however, it will not let me.

I have tried right-clicking and using all of my Ctrl, alt, cmd and shift keys. It will not let me drag the circle. The only thing I can do is name it, rename it or click the cross to delete it.

Again, I'm not sure if this is an actual bug or if I'm doing something wrong. But like this, all I can do is add circles that will pop up in random places of the photo.

No clue how to fix this, please help. Thanks in advance!


texts:
I'm planning a clean install of my MacBook Pro with OS X 10.6 and I want to make a partition (among others) only for the sleepimage file.

Here's the problem: the partition's size.

I know that this file is exactly the same of my RAM amount: 4 GB.

However the Finder's "Show information" panel says that it's arount 4.3 GB! Which one do I have to trust to?

And if it isn't enough, I know that each partition retains a 10% of its size (even if it's tunable in a second moment with tunefs); so I'm able to use (by default) only up to 90% of it.

I'm not expert enough to know if the HFS+ journaled filesystem will place any additional (hidden) file, but I suppose that I'm on the right way… can you tell me something more?

I really appreciate any help you can provide.


texts: How do I sync GMail contacts into my Mac?


texts: How to change citation language in Microsoft Word for Mac 2015 (15.17.1)?

texts:
When I add a source without a date to my Microsoft Word document in Microsoft Word 2015 (15.17.1) on OS X 10.11.2 and insert a citation, the inserted field states (Author, kein Datum) in German (kein Datum translates to no date). But I'm writing this document in English language and want the inserted field to actually state no date in English.

In the bottom line, Word states that the document language is English (UK) and my system language (System Preferences > Language & Region) is also English.

How can I change the language of the inserted field containing the citation?


texts: Where are the Flash temp/cache files in safari 9? They move every version

texts: Safari 9.0.2 under yosemite and el capitan: looking for where the cached flash video files are stored. It seems they change location every time there is an OS or Safari update. And are they accessible via Web Inspector when I have the page loaded/video running?


texts:
I need to remove iOS 4.2 beta from an iPad which I added using iTunes and the option+click Restore button feature.

When I click "Restore" in iTunes I get an error (image attached). I have the iOS SDK & XCode installed.


texts: How do I check all boxes in Alfred Snippets?

texts: I imported the Alfred Snippets Emoji pack except all the boxes to enable the many, many emojis are unchecked. How do I quickly check all these boxes? Manually checking each box will take a long while.


texts: OSX system and installation disk won't boot

texts:
Problem:

I cannot boot into system nor can I boot to the installation disk.

Errors I get in verbose mode:

BSD root: disk0s2, major 14, minor 2
disk0s2: media is not present
0 [Level 3] [ReadUID 0] [Facility com.apple.system.fs] [errType IO] [ErrNO 6] [IOType Read] [PBlidNum 2] [LBder First]
0 [Level 3] [ReadUID 0] [Facility com.apple.system.fs] [FSLogMsgID 1188483988] [FSLogOrder Last]
hfs_mountroot failed: 6
cannot mount root, errno = 19

What happened:

It all started with a slow laptop, Safari couldn't be killed, the only working browser was Chrome.
Than it the Mac started to freeze from time to time and I had to kill it.
I checked the Harddrive for errors but Diskutility didn't show anything.
Next it wasn't able to boot anymore.
First I fixed that by booting into Save Mode (hold Shift after Power Up bling) and it worked as before (slow) but started freezing up again very soon.
I tried to fix that by using the Snow Leopard Installation Disk and repaired disk and permissions with Diskutility.
It worked for an hour or so and then froze again. I killed it with the Power Button and after that I couldn't boot from hard drive nor from the disk! I tried the one that came with the laptop, but that one didn't boot either.

Working switches in boot mode are:

CMD+V, Verbose
Option key,  to choose drive (it shows both the hard drive and the disk),
Shift+CTRL+Option+Power, Reset SMC (not sure if that worked),
CMD+Option+P+R, Reset NVRAM (pretty sure that worked)

Non of the others have any effect other than that the time until the spinning ball stopps spinning will be longer than a usual boot.

Questions:

What to do?
Is there a way to get a verbose boot mode for installation disk as well?
Help!

Hardware:

mid-2009-macbook-pro unibody with 160 GB harddrive, OSX Snow Leopard 10.6.4 (not sure)


texts:
I recently had an issue where some RSS feeds were causing my IT department to think my MBP was infected by ransomware and was connecting to a ransomware server.

Ransomware/malware can be 'caught' just by visiting a compromised website so one would like to think RSS readers, mine is Vienna, block the execution of all code in the pages they load. Is that so? My discussion on Vienna's GitHub page was far less than satisfactory on the matter.

So two things.  The first is to bring this issue to people -- I had no idea my RSS reader could be a potential source of exposure to malware.  RSS readers offer convenience, but apparently I need now to balance that convenience with the potential risks associated with malware.  I believe not many people are thinking of this issue and they might benefit from being aware of it.

Two, is there a way of sandboxing a RSS reader (ideally in the most complete way), so that it cannot be a source of malware?  is disabling JavaScript and plugins in the RSS browser enough (not really clear what plugins the internal browser has to start with...)?


texts: Does Mac have an display driver to go for higher resolution (than the current display)?

texts:
It used to be on a PC, when hooked up to a 1024 x 768 display, I can actually set the resolution to 1600 x 1200, and the display driver will pan to different part of the 1600 x 1200 section depending on where my mouse moves to.

Can a Mac do that too?  That is, if a Macbook Air only has a resolution of 1440 x 900, can I install some driver to have a resolution of 4k or 5k, and just have the 1440 x 900 showing the section of the 4k or the 5k screen, depending on where the mouse is?

I am looking for this function mainly to sometimes capture some screenshots when reading digital magazine using Zinio the web app, and want to capture the screenshot in 4k or 5k resolution even when the Mac is not hooked up to such display.


texts: Send file:// links to team members through browser, have them open in Finder

texts:
Scenario: A 10 person creative team works on PSD and InDesign files. The files are on a local server on the office. The people are in the office, too, and access the server through the Finder. They regularly make changes to the files on the server and need to tell somebody else about it. The other person wants to navigate to the files quickly without traversing the deep folder hierarchy in finder.

I created a OSX service a while ago that let you select a file in finder, press a shortcut and paste a file:// link (or was ist smb://? I can't remember right now) in iChat. The receiving person could click that link, a Finder window opened with the correct file selected. Very convenient!

Now the team abandoned iChat and uses Slack. So the browser is the place the link is clicked. How can I implement something like this in a browser? I want people to be able to click a link and have a finder window open in the correct location on the server.

My initial research says that it can't be done because file:// links don't really work from browsers. Or Firefox tries to open the file directly instead of showing it in Finder.

Ideas:

Browser extension (FF, Chrome, Safari)? I don't know enough about their APIs and how they relate to the OS file system.
A droplet that you can drag a link on to? That is less convenient than clicking though.

Do you have other ideas?


texts:
To debug configd it is suggested by man page to run it using

$ usr/libexec/configd -d

And you would kill it before launching it using SIGTERM otherwise it will launch again as follows:

$ sudo killall -SIGTERM configd

From man page of configd

 SIGNALS
 configd was designed to run without any intervention but if you insist on sending a signal to the dae-mon daemon
 mon then the following are available:

 SIGHUP   This signal, typically used to tell a daemon to reload its configuration, is ignored (there is
          no configuration).

 SIGTERM  This signal initiates a "graceful" shutdown of the daemon.

Problem is that SIGTERM is not gracefully killing configd. It is restarting right back up. Do you guys know any solution?

I also tried killing launchctl

$ sudo launchctl unload /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.configd.plist
Password:
/System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.configd.plist: Operation not permitted while System Integrity Protection is engaged

Also tried to disable system integrity protection for testing but failed:

$ sudo csrutil disable
csrutil: failed to modify system integrity configuration. This tool needs to be executed from the Recovery OS.

My platform

$ sw_vers
ProductName:    Mac OS X
ProductVersion: 10.11.6
BuildVersion:   15G1004


texts: Log/list of external/unauthorized programs that were given permission to open

texts:
When an app/program is not from an authorized developer, it cannot be opened directly because of security settings.

These security settings can be overridden by adding the app as an exception to the security settings, or by using the "open anyway" button in the security & privacy settings page.

Where can I see a full list (with complete paths) of all apps/scripts that were ever added as security exceptions in this manner? I suspect a previously "allowed by me"/installed app to be dirty and need to check.


texts: How to configure Terminal to be "Putty-like" when it comes to copy-paste with mouse?

texts:
As a long time Putty user, I love how upon selecting a text it gets copied  into the buffer and upon right clicking it gets pasted back in.

Is there a way to configure Terminal to behave the same way?


texts: Can viruses travel through pictures I took with my smartphone?

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I plan on uploading my photos/videos from my iPhone to my computer using a usb cable. I suspect that my iPhone may have a virus because I've been to questionable site on accident.

If I upload photos/videos I taken from my iPhone to my computer via usb cable is there a chance a virus can come through the connection?


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'Do Not Disturb' is set on an iPad Pro running ipadOS 13.3. It says "Calls and notifications will be silenced until Do Not Disturb is turned off" on the lock screen.

When someone calls me on Telegram, the notification still gets through, but in a weird way: before it's declined, instead of the Telegram call notification sound, I hear a regular call tone for half a second, and the screen lights up. Both are enough to wake me up, so 'Do not disturb' kind of fails it's purpose.

Here's what my 'Do not disturb' settings look like:

Is this an iOS bug, or is the app not honouring my 'Do not disturb' settings?


texts: Wiping all content under /Users but admin

texts: We have hundreds of computers with LDAP setup and when students login their profiles remain for life. IS there an easy script or something that could be run to clean out the entire /Users directory all but select users?


texts: Why doesn't window management software like Divvy work with Adobe Photoshop?

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I use both Divvy and SizeUp to manage my  windows. They work fine with application windows with the exceptions of Adobe Photoshop. They just don't seem to work with Photoshop. Whenever I apply them on Photoshop the window just acts bizarrely.

How may I address this?


texts: Does iCloud drive sync file create dates with macOS dates?

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MacOS Catalina 10.15.7:
I have been using iCloud drive for several months to manage project files.  Create dates are important. When I am viewing files in finder on iCloud, most of the create dates match the recent modify dates, so the create dates are incorrect. When I move the folder out of iCloud drive to my local drive, the original create dates appear.
Based on my research so far, I have noted the following:

there is a large volume of reported issues related to create date on macOS.  Most pertain to
photography but there others that simply pertain to incorrect create or modify dates.
from terminal,  ls -ltU  appears also to show the correct dates.
unix was not explicitly architected to track create dates and a version control system is recommended to track these accurately.

So, bottom line, I wonder if it's worth my time to troubleshoot this.  I wonder if there is any prospect of expecting dates to accurately a two-way sync if I am updating content on iCloud from an IOS device.
Does iCloud drive sync create dates with MacOS local folders?


texts: Iphone unwanted download stopping me from accessing main screen

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I plugged in my Iphone 4 into my computer to charge it, and I believe I turned off the Itunes from coming up (not quite sure).  Anyway, when I went to take my Iphone off the charger, there is something that is now downloaded or installed on my phone that I did not ask for.

It first comes up with "Hello", then "Bonjour", then "Hola", then hello written in Chinese, and all the other languages one by one appear... Some sort of voice over thing starts happening, it starts talking in different languages.

It is preventing me from going to the main screen unless I put in my network information.  I cannot access my icon home screen.  Help!  Without installing this software, whatever the heck it is, how can I get past this.  It has different languages, asks you to select yours, then asks for your network info.  Help!!!


texts: How to set up Touch Bar to show function keys in a specific VirtualBox virtual machine

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macOS allows you to change the Touch Bar to traditional function keys when you run specific applications. I have tried to do so with VirtualBox, and it works on the main VirtualBox window properly. The only issue is that when I launch a virtual machine, those settings lose their effect. The reason is that VirtualBox launches a differently-named executable file (from within its app bundle) in order to run the virtual machine in a separate process.

So, the question is: Is there a way to set up macOS to show the function buttons when running a virtual machine in VirtualBox (e.g. Linux or Windows)?


texts: OS X Lion Fullscreen App's Menu Bar - Increase wait time?

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Possible Duplicate:
  Add a delay to menubar dropdown in fullscreen apps

When you make an application full screen in Lion, you can move your cursor to the very top of the screen, wait about half a second, and the app's menu bar will pop down.

Is there any way to increase the wait time between when I move my cursor to the top of the screen and when the menu bar pops down? I find myself trying to switch tabs in Chrome and getting the menu bar to pop down by accident (so far, my only real Lion annoyance =p)


texts: Can I combine TextEdit files w/o copying and pasting?

texts: I’ve kept daily journal entries in Text Edit. Is there a way I can combine them into one file without cutting and pasting? I’m using TextEdit 1.1 on Mac OS El Capitan Version 10.11.6.


texts: Mac equivalent of ALT+010 for Windows (Replace Carriage Return/Line Breaks)

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I'm trying to do a find and replace in Excel 2016 for Mac, to replace all line breaks with a space.

On Windows I'd do CTRL+R for find and replace, then hold the alt key and type 010 which would insert a linebreak into the find field.

I'd then type a Space, and it hit Replace All.

I can't seem to workout how to do the keyboard equivalent on a Mac?

Any suggestions.


texts: Opening a new file in TextMate opens the last opened file as well

texts: Here is a small annoyance that I have with TextMate. When I want to open a new file in TextMate when it's not running it also opens the last opened file. Now for some cases that's just nice of him to do but in most cases I end-up closing the previous file. Maybe this is a simple setup/preference issue? Any ideas?