texts: Big Sur won't automatically boot from external disk

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I've used my iMac with an external SSD as the primary, boot disk for over a year with no issue until I've updated to Big Sur. The external disk was selected as the startup disk and on startup it would automatically boot from that disk.
After the update (and even while updating) my iMac won't automatically boot even if the disk was still selected as the startup disk. It is instead stuck prompting me to look at http://support.apple.com/mac/startup with a flashing folder icon with a question mark. To manage to boot I have to shutdown it and start it while holding the Option key, then after less than a second my SSD shows up, I can select it and the boot would proceed normally.
This is not a problem I can't live with, but I would like to fix it, especially to ease the process of updating in the future.
I recall reading about forcing the boot process to wait for all disks or a specific one to mount before continuing, but I could be thinking about a Ubuntu or Linux thing. Is this the right way, how can I do it? If not, is there another solution?

Update: I wouldn't call it a solution, but I've decided to go for a clean install, formatting the SSD and reinstalling Big Sur by booting from an a USB install media created from the installer downloaded from the AppStore. While the boot problem persisted during the installation, I managed to complete it using the Option-boot trick and after that it can now boot automatically from the external SSD (manually re-selecting it as boot disk may have played a role).


texts: Which USB keyboards will work with an iPad 3?

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It is possible to connect a USB keyboard to an iPad (3rd generation) using the camera connection kit.

However, my Apple keyboard does not work so which ones do?

Yes I know I could buy a wireless keyboard.


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I encountered an error while compiling an javafx application on mac in .app format, indeed this one, when double clicked, bounced in the dock as if it was trying to open and then close directly  without error message.
On the other hand, it is possible to right click on the app and select "Display the contents of the package" and by going to open the executable which is located in Contents/MacOS/"Name of the executable" this one open well. I don't understand why I can't open it normally.
If I open the console of the mac I have a "Failed to launch JVM" which is entered when opening via the app icon.


texts: How to format a Time Machine SSD so it can also host the backup for external booting

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I want to split an external 1TB Nvme SSD into 500/500 partitions - so one partition can be a target for Time Machine backups, and the second partition can be used as a target to be an external partition that can host that backup
So basically, if something happens to my Macbook, I can potentially borrow a Macbook Air that only has, let's say 256GB of storage, instead of using that internal storage, I can use the second partition on my 1TB backup SSD to restore the backup on and boot externally
Since there are so many arbitrary restrictions that you only learn about when you actually attempt things, I wanted to ask this question (As an example, maybe the backup partition has to be the second partition if macos can only be set up onto primary partitions etc. - or it might be impossible to restore a backup onto an external partition altogether)


texts: How to delete photos from iPhone 5 without removing already transferred photos from iMac?

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I have synced my photos from iPhone 5 to an iMac (running Mavericks).

Now I would like to remove the photos from the phone but I'm not sure how the syncing works. Will the photos stay on the iMac or will the removed photos be removed from the computer when the next sync occurs?


texts: How to change Home / End behaviour on Yosemite

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I want to change the Home and End keys to work like Windows/Linux.

CHANGE:

Home to Command-Left Arrow.   // Beginning of the line

End to Cmd-Right Arrow.  // End of the line

I tried using Karabiner app known as KeyRemap4MacBook. But it doesn't work on Yosemite while I write code on editors like Sublime Text, PhpStorm, WebStorm, etc.

I also did create a DefaultKeyBindings.dict file (with proper settings) inside ~/Library/KeyBindings/ and OSX/Library/KeyBindings/.

So, is there a way to remap the Home and End keys for glabally on my mac. I could use Terminal command too.
I don't want an app for that.


texts: Will two external displays harm my Mid 2015 MacBook Pro's integrated graphic card?

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Will connecting two external displays on my MacBook Pro Retina (Mid 2015) with an Intel Iris Pro 1536 MB harm my MacBook graphic card?
The only use that I need is for programming (C++, Java, Python). So, I wonder if it is going to shorten it's lifespan or something like that? One monitor would be connected via DP and other via HDMI or also via DP. Both monitors are 24" 1080p.


texts: Can I use Siri to remember a parking spot?

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Can I use Siri to remember a particular GPS location, then later navigate back to it? It seems like it should be possible but I don't know what the voice directive would be.

I occasionally use a car-share program that only offers two-way rentals. In other words, I have to return the car to the exact spot I picked it up at. It would be helpful if I could use Siri to mark the location where I picked up the car, so that later I could get turn-by-turn navigation directions back to that parking spot.


texts: How do I prepare a new device in Configurator without updating the device iOS?

texts: I need to install an in-house application on a few company ipods. In order to get  them into supervised mode I need to use the Perpare function of Apple Configurator. However, I cannot unselect the 'Update iOS' option, and the app to be installed is iOS7 only.


texts: Spotlight Cmd+Enter to open containing folder does not work

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When you type something in spotlight, highlight a result and hit Command+Enter, it should open the containing folder in finder (For reference). However, it does not work on my OSX 10.8.2 MBPR. The finder application comes to the foreground (the finder menu bar is shown on top of the screen), but no finder window on the location gets opened.

I have BetterTouchTool installed and thought this could cause it somehow, but, having it deactivated, keeps happening.


texts: iMac Core i3 mid 2010 hard drive removal and fan control

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I'm thinking of adding an SSD.  I'm getting conflicting advice as to what to do with the sensor cable if swapping the mechanical drive for an SSD.

I think in these units, there is a sensor cable that runs to the mechanical drive, rather than a sensor probe stuck on the drive.

I've read that some short this cable, some put a resistor on it, even some saying mover the sensor from the optical to here.  I have no idea if that is sound advice or not.

So it made me think, if I just do away with the mechanical drive entirely and unplug the sensor cable.  And swap out the optical for an SSD.  Will the iMac boot fine with this arrangement.  And will it be smart enough to realise that there is no HDD plugged into, let's say the main slot, and therefore not care about fan control at all for that drive?

For context, apparently if the sensor cable is not tackled, the fans roar at 100% for this model and similar setups, when doing a swap of the mechanical for an SSD.


texts: How to use 802.1X authentication with Edimax EW-7811Un USB Wi-Fii adapter?

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Edimax EW-7811Un, Mac OS X, Snow Leopard, 10.6.8.

According to the manual, you can use 802.1X tunneled authentication with Windows (it is mentioned e.g. on page 23, EW-7811Un User Manual).

However, the Wireless Network Utility under OS X (10.6.8) seems to have no option for 802.1X network authentication.

Since it's supported on Windows, the card obviously has the capability, so how is it possible to use it under OS X?

PS: I'm happy to edit any configuration file by hand and skip the graphical utility entirely, if necessary.


texts: iCloud shared calendars won't stay in view only

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I'm trying to share a calendar with my partner, and she is attempting to do likewise with me.

The first issue is that when sharing a calendar you do not get to select a permissions level, which has to be amended after it has been shared from the default or read/write to view only.  There's no fix for this that I know of, it's just annoying and worth a feature request.

The second issue which is more annoying is that the permissions level for either calendar is reverting back to read/write no matter how many times I ask it to use view only.

I've attempted to change from iPhone/iMac and Web, and the same issue each time.

I've removed sharing access full stop and then re-shared the calendars, no luck.

I do have a shared calendar with someone else that has stayed in view only, but that was shared ages ago so I don't know what I might have done differently then.

Any clues what to do to fix this?


texts: Which command to only output the IPv6 routing table?

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$ netstat -nr is great for outputting the Mac OS X IP routing tables.

However its output is long as it contains both IPv4 and IP6 routing tables.

Sometimes I wish to output only the IPv6 routing table. Which short terminal command can I use to only see the IPv6 routing table?


texts: netbiosd tries to connect to RFC1918 network addresses

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After installing Little Snitch firewall, I have got regular notifications that netbiosd is trying to make outbound connections to addresses in 10.88.0.0/16 networks. All my IP networks are in 192.168.0.0/16 space.

So, the question is, does anyone know why netbiosd is trying to connect to a non-routable RFC1918 network which does not exist? Where does it get this IP address?


texts: Open Terminal Window with Predefined Environment Variables (Including `PATH`)

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I'm trying to create a .command file which will open a terminal window with predefined Environment Variables (Including PATH).

I tried this:

#!/bin/bash

# Adding CMake to Path
export PATH=$PATH:/Users/Shared/CMake/CMake.app/Contents/bin/:

# Adding Ninja to Path
export PATH=$PATH:/Users/Shared/Ninja/:

# Adding GCC to Path
export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/gcc-8.2/bin/:

echo Path Updated

Yet when I double click on Finder I get this:

Path Updated
logout
Saving session...
...copying shared history...
...saving history...truncating history files...
...completed.
Deleting expired sessions...none found.

[Process completed]

Namely it is gone.

Is the a way to have a file which does the following (Maybe it has to be 2 different files, I don't know):

If clicked from finder will open a new terminal window with all the variables defined / updated (Including the PATH).
If run from terminal will update the current terminal state.

Any idea?


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I can't find any way to change (or cancel) the annoying shortcut "cmd+ arrow up/down" which jumps to top of the file each time i accidentally press the up/down arrows instead of right/left, for developers this shortcut is super annoying!

please help :)


texts: How to get Open File selector to show hidden files?

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I would like my Open File selector to be showing hidden files.  I am not sure if the same Open File module is shared among many applications that use it or each app has its own.  The specific app I have in mind with which I would like to enable this functionality is Sublime Text 2.  However, I do NOT want the Finder to be showing hidden files.

What I tried to do is execute

defaults write com.apple.Finder AppleShowAllFiles TRUE
killall Finder

from the Terminal but that changed it only in the Finder and not in the Open File selector for Sublime (exactly the opposite of what I was trying to accomplish).


texts: Safari spontaneously partially re-launches for one user

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macOS 10.13.6, Safari 12.1, running on a MBP (Retina) mid-2014. The system software and Safari are both up-to-date and the App Store shows no updates available.

Safari partially loads, however, when user "MM" logs in: without any user input, the Safari icon bounces in the Dock and the black dot appears below the icon. The Safari window does not appear, and the word "Safari" does not appear in the Menu Bar. If I double-click on the Dock icon, Safari loads completely, its window appears, and it seems to run correctly.

Safari does appear in the "Force Quit" menu (Apple Menu > Force Quit); when running either partially or fully, if Force Quit is selected, the dot disappears...and then the icon bounces, and the dot reappears. Activity Monitor shows a Safari process running; if forced-quit from within Activity Monitor, the dot disappears, then the icon bounces, the dot reappears, and the process reappears in Activity Monitor.

I created a Test User account, and the spontaneous partial launch does not occur when Test User logs in. It looks like there's something awry with user MM's files.

I have reinstalled macOS using Recovery. The odd behavior does not occur for user MM when the computer is started in Safe Mode. Manually deleting Safari caches from both the root level Library and the user level Library for account MM had no effect. Turning off the two Safari extensions had no effect. There are no automatic login items in user account MM.

I'm stumped. How can I further diagnose this, and what might I do to solve it?


texts: Monitor resets with OWC Thunderbolt 2 Dock?

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I recently got a OWC Thunderbolt 2 Dock and am hooking my monitors into it. I have Display Port to MiniDisplay Port going from the monitor to the dock, one thunderbolt cable going from dock to Macbook Pro, and one Display Port to MiniDisplay Port going from a second monitor to the MBP.

Every so often, the monitor hooked into the dock will simply 'reset' or disconnect and then connect again. Everything I had on that monitor moves to my laptop main display and then the monitor appears again.

I have checked the lights/connections and there is no poweroff of the dock. Has anyone else experierenced this or know of a solution?

UPDATE: After switching ports with monitors, the same thing happens with the second monitor in the Dock. It also happens with HDMI to the dock (which is why I went with DisplayPort -> miniDisplayPort in the first place).


texts: An apple script for google dictionary pronunciation

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The following is the link to Goole dictionary pronunciation files:

http://ssl.gstatic.com/dictionary/static/sounds/20160317/pronunciation--_us_1.mp3

If you substitute "pronunciation" with your own word, you get that word's pronunciation.

I wonder if it is possible to develop a script in mac which allows the user to type his word and the script fetches its pronunciation through the above link. I can already use the automator to fetch the definition for a new word (by using the code presented here) through the link below by adding words after the equal sign.

https://www.google.com/search?sa=X&biw=1440&bih=737&q=Dictionary#dobs=

But I don't know how I can insert words in the mentioned place in the pronunciation link.


texts: How to convert a .cer file to .p12 without the keychain password?

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I have to "codesign" a distribution certificate inside a .ipa file to deploy an in-house application for a company.

I have access to their developer account. The new provisioning profile had been successfully added at this point and then:

I download the .cer file from the company developer account
Add it to my keychain by double click on it
Right click on the certificate to export it to a .p12 file...

At this point, the option to export the file to .p12 is greyed out. I have looked for many way to do it on the web but I am still stuck.

I have no access to the keychain password of the file.

Do I have to recreate a certificate from my mac to get keychain access to it?

What is the right way to have this certificate as a .p12 file, ready to be codesign to my .ipa file using this command line?

codesign -f -s "iPhone Distribution: Company Name" Payload/MyApp.app


texts: How can I make a note in a Kindle book in Kindle for Mac?

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On the Amazon site, it says:

  Click on any word or click and drag over a passage to create a highlight or add a note within a book. Once you've selected text, a pop-up box gives you the option to Highlight, Add Note, Copy, or the More dropdown menu.

But that doesn't seem to work in the Kindle application I have on my Mac.

Is there a way to add a note in a book in Kindle for Mac?


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The edges of both the MacBook Pro (aluminum case) and the MacBook (polycarbonate) are exceedingly sharp. Depending on my typing position, they dig in my wrists, an unpleasant and painful experience. Can you suggest a solution?

Sanding is one option. Did you perhaps sand-off the edges by using fine-sanding paper made for wood? Could you post an image of the result? It's understood it will not be as pretty afterwards, but being plain ugly is not an option either.

Guards are another idea. People sometime use guards on furniture with sharp features to save their kids when bumping into them. Can you think of a similar product (off-the-shelf or homemade) for the edges of a MacBook?

Addendum

Looking back at this old question years later I'm puzzled at the critiques of ergonomics. It's a laptop (FHS). You can switch it on anywhere and start typing. It may be the least ergonomic desk and typing positions ever. Coffee shops, for one, do not appear to particularly choose heights for tables with an eye to typing positions, understandably.

Whether polycarbonate or aluminum, the hard edge is painful on bare skin. The simplest solution (maybe this should technically be an answer, albeit a cheeky one) is to wear long sleeves. (If it's just too warm, ) The second-simplest solution is to carry a handkerchief along with the laptop and fold it to protect your skin. Either mimics the suggested glue-on solutions, but avoids ruining the clinically clean closure of a Macbook's screen.

Apple, if You're reading this, chamfer the (expletive) sharp front edges.


texts: How do you disable the new invert screen colors on/ off notification in MacOS Big Sur?

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I've been using the control + option + command + 8 shortcut for some time to help me see text on websites that bother my eyes (this keyboard shortcut is enabled from the accessibility of the keyboard shortcut widget found in system preferences).
After updating to MacOS Big Sur, a large window now fades into the screen after I activate this shortcut which obscures the screen for several seconds until it's fade in and out animations complete.  Is there a way to disable the notification window so that I can work on my macbook uninterrupted like before?


texts: How to get rid of an spyware on iPhone 8 called News?

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I've been suspecting my iPhone to be hacked for quite some times now. After setting the two-factor authentication system on it earlier this week, a connection attempt has been made by someone else (I've received an authentication code on my second phone when I clearly didn't try to connect in any way).

So i've started digging into my iPhone and this is what I've found in the Siri and search list of apps:

A supposed app without an icon. This was the one and only app from the list that has this behavior. So I've used the search bar to find this app:

and it seemed like its hidding in the system files when I taped on it led me to the iCloud interface.

So first of all is it a spyware?  If yes, then how can I prove it and get information about who installed it (like getting the IP address it is sending information to for example)?

And finally, how can I get rid of it?

P.S.: Note that the official News app from Apple is called 'Apple News' and has an icon: Apple News Homepage


texts: How to remove my Photo Stream from my phone without losing any photos

texts: I need to make space on my phone to upgrade iOS, and an 800 MB Photo Stream looks like a pretty good candidate for removal.  The only problem is that it's very unclear to me what happens if I remove the Photo Stream: are the photos deleted from other devices?  (I'm not talking about deleting individual photos from the photo stream, but rather turning off Photo Stream on that device.  Apple doesn't make the consequences of that action 100% clear, and things I've read (which I hope are wrong) suggest that any removal on one device is carried over to other devices.


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I need to see historical USB usage on my mac.
I've tried

system_profiler SPUSBDataType | grep "Serial Number" -B5

but this only shows current.
Is there a command that shows historical?


texts: My iPhone 4s abruptly stopped working, and the display is now completely useless. The display shows small stripes when turned on. Can somebody help/explain why this happens?


texts: Install Boot Camp 6 Without Internet Connection

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I'm using an early 2015 MacBook Pro and just updated it to El Capitan. Right now I want to install Windows 10 on my MBPr using Boot Camp. But the problem is, if I don't connect to the internet, Boot Camp Assistant will fail to install saying that it can't download additional software. I already downloaded the Boot Camp Support Software before so I don't want to waste a time to redownload it again.

Is there any solution for Boot Camp 6 to keep installing Windows without internet connection?


texts: Is Grapher able to display values in the x-axis as (π/2), (π), (3π/2), (2π) rather than 1,57, 3,14, 4,71, 6,28 (and so on.. )?

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As title says....
Is Grapher able to display values in the x-axis as
(π/2), (π), (3π/2), (2π) rather than 1,57, 3,14, 4,71, 6,28 ?(and so on.. ) ?


texts: Why is my MacBook Pro beeping when performing a keyboard shortcut?

texts: When using any keyboard shortcut in any application, there is a beeping sound effect that is normally played when there is an error. However, the keyboard shortcut still works normally. I am using macOS Mojave 10.14.6.


texts: Finder icon size slider broken, how to fix?

texts: The slider in the bottom-right corner of Finder windows doesn't change the icon size for me. This is of course with "Icon View" selected. What am I doing wrong? It worked before, up until Lion.


texts: When I send iMessages to my wife they go to either her Mac or iPhone but not both

texts: On my devices I see two separate conversations. One goes to her phone and one goes to her Mac. I can't see which is which but she has only one phone number and one iCloud account. What is causing this and how to fix?


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I'm following this website's instruction so I can run Linux gui app on my mac:
https://kartoza.com/en/blog/how-to-run-a-linux-gui-application-on-osx-using-docker/
I've downloaded Kitematic (v0.17.7) and docker toolbox (v19.03.1) from github.
https://github.com/docker/kitematic/releases
https://github.com/docker/toolbox/releases
However, when I enter docker pull kartoza/qgis-desktop  on the terminal, I get the following error:
Cannot connect to the Docker daemon at unix:///var/run/docker.sock. Is the docker daemon running?

Does anyone know what could be wrong?


texts: System alerts and Mail in Mojave are no longer playing any alert or notification sounds

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I'm running Mail 12.4 on a macOS 10.14.6 system. For some reason I no longer hear any new mail notifications when a new message arrives. As near as I can tell I have Mail configured correctly to play a notification for every new message:

So far, I've tried creating a rule that matched every message and would play a sound, but that didn't help. I've also confirmed that Mail is set to play sounds for its notifications in the Notifications system preferences.
I later discovered that, in fact, no alert sounds are playing on this system either, and that the issue is not just limited to Mail. As near as I can tell, the Sound Effects section of the Sound system preferences is configured correctly.
How do I fix this?


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I recently backed up all my iPhone 6s photos to my media server (running Linux).  All of the Live Photo files are in a ".mov" format.  They play fine as videos, but I'd like to extract the high quality photo from each file.  I tried inspecting the file with ffprobe but that didn't give me much to go on

Input #0, mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2, from 'IMG_1419.MOV':
  Metadata:
    major_brand     : qt
    minor_version   : 0
    compatible_brands: qt
    creation_time   : 2016-02-10 22:27:35
  Duration: 00:00:01.47, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 9355 kb/s
    Stream #0:0(und): Video: h264 (High) (avc1 / 0x31637661), yuvj420p(pc, smpte170m/bt709/bt709), 1440x1080, 8637 kb/s, 11.59 fps, 15 tbr, 600 tbn, 1200 tbc (default)
    Metadata:
      creation_time   : 2016-02-10 22:27:35
      handler_name    : Core Media Data Handler
      encoder         : H.264
    Stream #0:1(und): Audio: pcm_s16le (lpcm / 0x6D63706C), 44100 Hz, 1 channels, s16, 705 kb/s (default)
    Metadata:
      creation_time   : 2016-02-10 22:27:35
      handler_name    : Core Media Data Handler
    Stream #0:2(und): Data: none (mebx / 0x7862656D), 43 kb/s (default)
    Metadata:
      creation_time   : 2016-02-10 22:27:35
      handler_name    : Core Media Data Handler
Unsupported codec with id 0 for input stream 2

Is it possible for me to extract the photo on Windows or Linux?


texts: Messages using email instead of phone number

texts: Messages shows the email of the person I am sending to instead of their phone number on some contacts. Why is it picking the email up for some contacts and the number for others


texts: Apple Music - Allowing Explicit Content Disabled

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I've just started using Apple Music and searched for Metallica. And most of their albums are greyed out. After sometime searching for the answer i could see that all the Albums with the Explicit Content is greyed out.

I checked my Itunes settings and as i figured, the setting for "Restrict Music with Explicit Content" is checked.
But here is the strange part : I cant 'uncheck' the option. The option is checked and greyed out.

Anyone have any idea how to uncheck that option and get access to Explicit Content?

Note: My apple account belongs to the Indian Store.


texts: Support for special Natural Ergonomic Keyboard 4000 hotkeys on OS X 10.11

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I'm trying to get the special keys on my Natural Ergonomic Keyboard 4000 working under OS X El Capitan. Officially, Microsoft only offers limited support for this keyboard on Mac.

The multimedia keys (mute/volume/play) work, but the home/search/mail/calculator keys don't. The official IntelliType Pro software also lacks a way to configure the programmable hotkeys.

Are there any unofficial tools to get them working?


texts: MacBookPro10,1 had problems booting, now some system images are pink and fuzzy

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A friend just recently bought a MacBookPro10,1 (MacBook Pro Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2012) off of craigslist, it all checked out and worked fine until we erased the hard drive and reinstalled Mavericks (downloaded Mavericks from AppStore on my computer and used DiskMaker X v3.0.4 to create a bootable usb).

It would go through first stage of install (copying files), but after reboot it would hang on the Apple logo plus spinning gear thing. We figured out it would only boot in Safe Mode.

After a few hours of reinstalling and resetting stuff like NVRAM/PRAM and trying to get into AHT(unsuccessfully) and a bunch of other things, it finally would boot normally(without Safe Mode or any other keys pressed on boot).

It was very exciting, except on further use, some of the system images would come up odd colors and distorted/noisy. And it even freezes sometimes.

I guess it might be a graphics issue(?), but what would cause only some images to be like this? Is it still recoverable? Has anyone else had similar issues?

I really appreciate any help in advance! Thanks!


texts: How to Close Windows in Mission Control of El Capitan?

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This feature was previously under ALT when X symbols appeared to windows corners. Now, I see that it has been removed in El Capitan.

My settings in Mission control

How can you have close-window symbols in Mission Control of El Capitan?


texts: Data recovery on MBP 15’s SSD corrupted drive?

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It seems like I’ve used up all space on my MBP, and when I rebooted it it became corrupted/inoperable (when I go into disk utilities, Macintosh HD is “unmounted”, and when I press “mount”, nothing happens. On internet recovery, the same thing gives me “Alert: couldn’t mount disk”. Clicking “Repair” gives me “Alert: Partition map repair failed while adjusting structures to fit current whole disk size.”)
I was wondering if it’s possible to recover any data from it? I have some sensitive documents that haven’t backed up due to poor internet connection. On disk utility it says the drive could not be mounted and I can’t find the drive via the terminal.
Thank you!


texts: I have a soft symlink between the Documents folder on my main computer and a folder in Dropbox, say dbDocs. If I now edit a document, say thesis.tex, in dbDocs from another computer, will the symlink on my main computer see that thesis.tex has changed and sync this file back to Documents? Or will the symlink just overwrite the newly edited file in dbDocs with the corresponding file from Documents?


texts: MacBook Pro sleeps randomly on the train

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My MacBook Pro Retina (2014) running 10.12.3 has a strange behavior on the train - while I'm actually using it, it goes to sleep and the only way to wake it up is to close the lid and reopen it.
This happens when the mac is on battery power and on the train - doesn't happen when I'm in an office.

As instructed by https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3428817?tstart=0 , I ran pmset -g pslog in a terminal, and this is the log that I got after a few times of this random sleep happening:

pmset is in logging mode now. Hit ctrl-c to exit.
2017-04-24 08:35:17 -0700 IOPSNotificationCreateRunLoopSource
Now drawing from 'Battery Power'
 -InternalBattery-0 (id=5046371)    84%; discharging; (no estimate) present: true
2017-04-24 08:36:10 -0700 IOPSNotificationCreateRunLoopSource
 -InternalBattery-0 (id=5046371)    83%; discharging; 2:15 remaining present: true
2017-04-24 08:36:10 -0700 com.apple.system.powersources.timeremaining
2017-04-24 08:36:10 -0700 com.apple.system.powersources.percent
2017-04-24 08:36:10 -0700 com.apple.system.powersources

2017-04-24 08:37:00 -0700 IORegisterForSystemPower: ...Sleeping...
2017-04-24 08:37:08 -0700 com.apple.system.powersources.timeremaining
2017-04-24 08:37:08 -0700 IOPSNotificationCreateRunLoopSource
 -InternalBattery-0 (id=5046371)    83%; discharging; (no estimate) present: true
2017-04-24 08:37:08 -0700 com.apple.system.powersources

2017-04-24 08:37:08 -0700 IORegisterForSystemPower: ...HasPoweredOn...
  Wake Reason = XHC1
  wakeType = HID Activity

2017-04-24 08:37:08 -0700 IORegisterForSystemPower: ...Sleeping...
2017-04-24 08:37:12 -0700 com.apple.system.powersources

2017-04-24 08:37:12 -0700 IORegisterForSystemPower: ...HasPoweredOn...
  Wake Reason = XHC1
  wakeType = HID Activity

2017-04-24 08:37:12 -0700 IORegisterForSystemPower: ...Sleeping...
2017-04-24 08:37:14 -0700 com.apple.system.powersources

2017-04-24 08:37:15 -0700 IORegisterForSystemPower: ...HasPoweredOn...
  Wake Reason = XHC1
  wakeType = HID Activity

2017-04-24 08:37:15 -0700 IORegisterForSystemPower: ...Sleeping...
2017-04-24 08:37:19 -0700 com.apple.system.powersources

2017-04-24 08:37:20 -0700 IORegisterForSystemPower: ...HasPoweredOn...
  Wake Reason = XHC1
  wakeType = HID Activity
^C

Does anyone have any idea why this is happening, and what I can do to prevent it? I'd hate to have to service it.


texts: Is it necessary to open each app at least once after restoring from an iCloud Backup before Push Notifications will be generated?

texts:
Last week, I upgraded from iOS 12 to iOS 13 on my iPhone XS - all was fine. Due to upgrading to an 11 Pro, I then made an iCloud Backup on my XS, and then restored to the just-created backup on my new 11 Pro - again, all fine.

Since that time, however, I've noticed that I'm not receiving push notifications for the majority of apps that I have installed on my new 11 Pro - the only apps that appear to be sending me notifications are the ones that I've deliberately opened manually from my home screen - apps that I haven't yet opened since restoring from my iCloud Backup arn't producing anything - it's worth noting that they were working as expected after upgrading from iOS 12 to 13 on my XS before erasing it. So - things that I've tried so far:

Rebooting the phone

Checking the "Notifications" screen from within Settings.app - all notification settings are as they should be, and are enabled for apps that arn't currently producing them

Things that I deliberately haven't done yet:

Removed the apps that arn't currently producing notifications; I have a lot of these, and don't want to spend time re-organising my Home screen folders if I can avoid it!

Opening each app at least once to see if this begins to generate notifications (see my reasoning below for this)

So - my question. Upon restoring from an iCloud Backup, is it necessary to first open each app individually to force notifications to come through as they were doing before I restored? I have a lot of apps, but would prefer doing this than reinstalling them all individually. I don't remember having to do this when upgrading from my old iPhone 7 to the XS last year; I don't completely understand how APNS works, so can't figure out if my tokens will still be valid from my old iPhone or whether there's a simple solution to this that I just haven't tried yet. I'm not sure if the opening each app approach will work; I opened the Stack Exchange app upon restoring from iCloud to enter my login info, but as of yet haven't received any notifications - I know for a fact that I would have; I have new items in my Inbox that haven't come through as a notification on my new 11 Pro.


texts: Can you higlight a region (*not* text) in Preview?

texts:
I often have to work with large scanned pdf documents (law reports, not that it matters).

It's quite handy to be able to highlight key passages, but for the most part these documents have not been run through OCR, and so each page is just an image.  (I'm not interested in OCR-ing them myself, either.)

As a result, Preview's highlight tool doesn't work, as it expects to be highlighting text.

When I'm working on Windows, I use Foxit Reader's 'area highlight' function to work around this.  Basically, that just creates a transparent yellow rectangle when you click and drag.

In Preview, I can do the same thing by creating the rectangle manually, but that is quite fiddly takes far too long.

Is it possible to configure the highlight tool to just highlight the region you click and drag over, rather than the text in that region?


texts: trouble deleting files from an external drive

texts:
When I try to delete folders/files from my External drive I get the below error after being asked to enter my admin password:

The operation can’t be completed because you don’t have permission to access some of the items.

This volume is Mac OS X Extended (Journaled) and I am running 10.7.2

Permissions seem correct read/write and everything else is working fine.


texts: Can I share network access from Ethernet over WiFi?

texts:
I have 3 devices:

A Linux server
A MacBook
An iPad

I currently have no router. But, the Linux server and MacBook are connected by Ethernet through a switch. The MacBook and iPad are connected by Wi-Fi,  the Wi-Fi network is created by the MacBook.

The MacBook is able to connect to Linux just fine, through ssh and view webpages hosted on the Linux server. The iPad is able to view pages hosted on the MacBook but is unable to connect to the Linux server. It appears that the MacBook keeps the two networks separate. I tried using the internet sharing feature on the MacBook. Sharing Ethernet to devices through Wi-Fi, but it doesn't help because it's not the Internet I want to share it's a local network.

Is there a way to have my MacBook share its Ethernet connection over WiFi so that the iPad can load pages hosted on the Linux server?


texts: Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client on OS X Yosemite - CSD library signature verification failed

texts:
I just updated my MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Early 2013) to latest OS X Yosemite (10.10 (14A389)) and Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client (3.1.05182) is generating an error while trying to connect:

Posture Assessment Failed: CSD library signature verification failed.

Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client VPN User Messages, Release 3.1 - Cisco states following:

CSD library signature verification failed.
Description    The signature of the library could not be verified. This indicates a problem with the CSD library.

Recommended Action    Remove the library from the cache, and try a new connection.

Removing library from the cache did NOT solve my issue(

Any other ideas?


texts: Bootcamp/Parallels - how to use the the line-out on my MacPro

texts:
I have a 2010 MacPro which I'm multi-booting (OS X, Win 7) using Parallels and Bootcamp depending on what I'm doing.

I can't see how to change the audio setting so that the line-out on the back of the 'Pro can be used as the default output. Do I need a new driver or something? I've tried using Windows Update but it tells me I already have the best available driver ...


texts: I can't find Shark on OS X Lion. The most recent Xcode is correctly installed, but I can only see Instruments. Has Shark been made obsolete by Instruments ?


texts: How to sync music from old PC to new PC?

texts:
I have a new iPhone 6 and need to get my non-purchased music from the old iPhone 4S to the new phone.

When I connect to iTunes on the new PC (with the old phone) and select Sync Music I get the warning asking me if I'm sure, and do I want to remove existing music etc. from this iPhone. And of course I don't because all the music I need is on that old iPhone. The old PC crashed and is no longer available. How can I transfer the songs to the new phone without having access to the old PC that the 4S used to sync with?


texts: Applescript to update year tag for audio files

texts: I have a lot of tracks in iTunes where the files are named "music-NNNN.mp3" with NNNN being the year the track was recorded. How can I use Applescript to automatically set the year tag for these files based on NNNN?


texts: How to give one time only camera access to Skype app

texts:
I want that everytime a videocall starts on skype, MacOS asks for my permission to give access to Skype. I don't want to give permanent camera access to Skype.

I am on macOS Catalina 10.15.5


texts: Prevent macOS Messages.app from quitting when I close its window?

texts:
I use a very specific workflow with the Messages app on the Mac:

Read my messages
Close the Messages window with CMD-W
Messages app is still running
When a new message comes in, CMD-Tab to the still-open Messages app
Press CMD-0 to re-open the Messages window

After closing the Messages window, the app has always remained open and running in the Dock and app switcher.

In Mac OS 10.14 Mojave, I similarly close the Messages window. After closing the Messages window, the Messages app is still in the foreground, running, and shows the menu bar.
When I click to some other app, however, the Messages app then immediately seemingly Quits.
The dot disappears from the dock, and (this is the key issue) I can no longer CMD-Tab to the Messages app in the app switcher.

I'm forced to go click the dock icon with my mouse or otherwise re-open the app, which is inconvenient and annoying.
After the app has Quit, besides being "Quit", it seems to behave more-or-less exactly how it used to behave pre-Mojave. The Messages process is still running and visible in Activity Monitor. Notifications continue to arrive. The dock icon gets badged.

How do I prevent Messages from quitting when I close its window?

rdar://46142132 - Mojave Messages.app should not quit when I close its window
Engineering has determined that your bug report (46142132) is a duplicate of 42085189 and will be closed.

Related links:

With Mojave (macOS 10.14), why does the Message app close itself?
Messages app now quits when close window?

Messages app quits on Mojave instead of closing


texts: I am looking for a good iPhone 5 case for parkour. As I often climb up walls and something like this the iPhone should be protected well. I found the Griffin Survivor, which is actually perfekt but very very thick... Is there an alternative to Griffin Survivor, which is protecting well (also the screen) but smaller?


texts: How to select all search results in MS Outlook?

texts: While trying to archive all emails meeting a search criteria in Microsoft Outlook 16.42 I select all and archive them. More un-archived emails meeting the original criteria then appear. How can I archive the lot of them in one fell swoop?


texts: Personal Hotspot crashed, now unavailable

texts:
I was trying to connect up using my personal hotspot.  I turned it on, and it seemed to start up normally.  I turned to my computer, which saw the connection, but couldn't successfully make a connection.  When I looked back at my iPhone, the option was completely gone.  I then went to the general -> network panel, and I see the personal hotspot, but the option just has the "wait spinner" going with no buttons.  This persists even after powering down and restarting the phone.

What do I need to do to get this back up and running.

A possible side effect is that I don't seem to be able to connect to my VPN, but that might be an unrelated issue with my VPN provider.  Not sure....


texts:
I created a smart playlist in itunes of songs with a playcount less than X, limiting to 3gb selected by album.  This seems to work properly.

When I sync with my 2nd generation ipod touch and look at the playlist on it, the playlist is in alphabetical order, sorted by album name and then by song name within each album.  I'd like to have everything in the same order as shown in itunes, or at least play the songs on each album in track order rather than alphabetically within each album.

How to?

I'm on windows xp


texts: Difference between "diskutil unmount" and "diskutil unmountDisk"?

texts:
Sometimes when I try to unmount a disk using the "diskutil" command I get the following message:

$ diskutil unmount /dev/disk1
disk1 was already unmounted or it has a partitioning scheme so use "diskutil unmountDisk" instead

when I replace "unmount" with "unmountDisk" it works perfectly fine.

So my question is, what's the difference between the "unmount" and "ummountDisk" commands?


texts: So when I search through finder on my mac, files in a specific folder won't show up. I can look at the files in the folder, but I can't search file names. This occurs both when I search "This Mac" and just in the folder itself. I'm running Big Sur. Any help would be greatly appreciated!


texts: How to curve type around a circle using keynote?

texts: Im trying to put text around a circle but I cant. I can do it like vertical, diagonally and horizontal but not circle.


texts: How do I change iOS iTunes Store Region?

texts: I was looking at movies reviews online, and a hyper link took me to iTunes, it said "Hey this isn't available in the US but it is in the UK, would you like to change stores?"  So I said sure, why not?  Now I'm stuck in the UK store.  I tried Settings -> iTunes & App Stores -> Apple ID -> View Apple ID -> Country/Region, but it doesn't work because of active subscriptions and passes (which I do have under the US store).  How do I get back the US store front for my iTunes Store on my iPhone?


texts: booting an iBook from a live linux usb drive

texts:
I have a live usb image that seems to run on my lenovo thinkpad that I'd like to get to work on an old iBook (Model A1007). Things I have tried so far

1) Just turning the computer on with the usb in the usb drive.
2) Holding the option key while restarting the computer
3) Following these instructuions:
http://ben-collins.blogspot.com/2010/08/booting-your-ibook-g4-from-usb-stick.html

but replaced all instances of "txbi" to "yaboot"

First

In this case I booted while holding down Cmd + Option + O + F
and typed:

 boot ud:,\\yaboot

This brings up a circle with a line through it icon.
Maybe this means it failed to boot from the usb device so I tried the alternative walk though after a restart and the same key combenation:

 > dev usb0

which returned

  dev usb0 ok

then

 > ls

returned

ff9a6d98: /disk@1
ok

then

 > dev disk@1

returned

> dev disk@1 ok

then

 pwd

returned

pwd /pci@f2000000/usb@18 ok

then

 boot /pci@f2000000/usb@18/disk@1:,\\yaboot

returned

boot /pci@f2000000/usb@18/disk@1:,\\yaboot can't open :/pci@f2000000/usb@18/disk@1:,\\yaboot

Does this suggest a problem with my usb drive? Or perhaps I am doing something wrong with this attempted way of booting from a usb. Any suggestions?


texts:
I am using OSX 10.7

When I move between different ethernet networks (e.g., at work using ethernet on an external display, at home using thunderbolt ethernet), the ethernet does not always connect. However, I don't get immediate feedback. Instead, I connect to wi-fi. However, wi-fi is both slower and less reliable than ethernet. Thus, I'd like to know whether I am connected to ethernet or not. Of course I can go into preferences and network settings to see whether I'm connected to ethernet, but it would be better if there was some form of indicator in the status bar, just as there is for wi-fi.
Thus, my question:

Is there a way of getting an indicator of ethernet connectivity in the OSX menu-bar?

Perhaps there is a free application that can do this.


texts: Macbook Pro early 2011 16G Memory Upgrade

texts:
I just purchased a Corsair 16GB Memory upgrade for my 2.4GHz 13" MacBook Pro, but I have not been able to make it work.

If I put both modules together or one of the modules alone the Mac wont bootup!

If I put one of the old (original) 2G Memory modules and a new one the computer will work ok and will recognize the 10G memory.

Any advise will be greatly appreciated.

Hector


texts: I have 2017  MacBook Air and it shows display problem           it did not fell but I dont know how this problem has come please help


texts: Delete a failed bootcamp partition MacBook Pro

texts:
I just tried to install windows with Boot Camp on my Macbook Pro running macOS Sierra. Just when Boot Camp wanted to split my Mac's hard drive into partitions, I stopped it, leaving some useless space taken up on my hard drive.

Now, I don't know how to delete that bootcamp space (about 40 GB); the bootcamp partition does not even appear in Disk Utility.

How can I delete this partition and free up its storage space?


texts: Can I save iCloud documents to the Documents folder as well as to iCloud?

texts:
Basically, I want to be able to save a copy of my iCloud documents that I made in Pages (on both mac and iOS) to my documents folder, where all my pre-iCloud documents are still stored.
to note: I still want to be able to save a pages document to iCloud, but I would like to have a way of getting to them from the documents folder.
 I hope that makes sense :)
 Thanks!


texts:
Strange one this. I have a new bare SSD I'm trying to add to my system. When installed in the enclosure I have set aside for this drive it will not show up on my system. To confirm the enclosure is not at fault I installed a mechanical SATA drive and that mounts correctly. To confirm the drive itself is not at fault I installed it in another enclosure and was able to mount and format it correctly. The pairing of this drive with this enclosure seems to be the issue.

So before I last resort to removing an internal drive and swapping with the new SSD, I want to see if there is a formula for testing or making an enclosure work. I noticed the SSD is rated SATA III. The enclosure is Firewire 800 so that gives you an idea of its vintage. Its a solid enclosure by Fantom Drives so its a decent product. Could it be the enclosure is only rated to SATA II or something weird like that. Is there a way around that limitation (firmware?). Or is this just the way it is?

Enclosure is powered by AC/DC adapter, not bus powered. Replacement generic Chinese power brick 11-13V 4-6A.

System: MacPro 3,1 32GB RAM MacOSX El Capitan 10.11.6

Enclosure: Fantom Drives GF500Q

SSD Drive: PNY CS900 120GB SATA III 6Gb/s SSD7CS900-120-RB

Reference Drive: Seagate Momentus 7200.4 500GB

Thanks
Adam


texts: Upgrade HDD to SSD in High Sierra and import a Time Machine backup

texts: I am thinking to put an external Time Machine backup (HFS+ files) from my old HDD on a newly installed SSD in my MacBook Pro mid 2012. Is this possible?  Will the SSD recognise and accept this backup? Or is it possible or advisable to install the new SSD with the old HFS+ system instead of the new APFS. All in High Sierra. How to go about?


texts:
I'm trying to install macOS Big Sur on a 2016 15" MacBook Pro using Internet Recovery (Cmd-Opt-R during boot), but I keep getting an -5101F error, with a link to apple.com/support.
I've tried an Ethernet connection and using Internet Sharing to create a WiFi hotspot from another Mac, but that doesn't change anything.
In addition, installing the much older macOS Sierra using Cmd-R also fails with the error The installation information on the recovery server is damaged.
What can I do?


texts: How to render external display in native resolution?

texts:
I've a UHD display connected to MAC via HDMI. But the external display is not rendering in native resolution.

There does not appear to be an option in preferences to set to native resolution of monitor ?

Update :

With SwitchResX preferences I can display in native resolution of 1440x2560, this software is not free. This option should be available on osx ? Option clicking for more resolutions does not display the resolution of my monitor of 1440x2560.


texts:
I have an iPhone 6 and it has the following problem:

the phone can find my sim card, but can't find any network. It does everything, including finding Wifi- and Bluetooth-connections.

When I put off the location services after a hard reset, the iPhone can't find the correct time and date. When I take my sim card out and put it in another smartphone, the time and date on this phone is messed up too.

Only after I put on the location services and the Wifi, the phone is able to find the right time and date.

For info: Here in Belgium, we only have unlocked SIM cards, so it is nothing like that. The SIM card works fine in other smartphones, except for the time and date being out of order.

Does anyone have a solution for this?

Thanks in advance!


texts: What's the best way to install command line utilities such as GIT?

texts:
I'm a Windows/Linux guy that just got my Macbook Air. I do web dev, and am currently trying to setup this machine for some on-the-go development.

After some research attempts, I'm wondering: what's the best way to install command line utilities in Lion, such as GIT? Best as in easiest to install, maintain, upgrade etc.

As I understand it, there are some alternatives: macports, homebrew etc. Or in the GIT example, maybe just download the installer from their website.

Thanks.


texts: Is it possible to generate or update a recovery parition

texts:
We have started to replace hard drives in some MacBook Pros and Airs that are about 3 years old.

We found out the hard way that FileVault encryption requires a recovery parition.

If we install Mountain Lion or Mavericks from the USB installers that we have created, we do not get the option to create the recovery partition.

So far, we have only found 2 methods:

1) Internet Recovery - This takes a long time and usually installs Lion, which then requires an upgrade to Mavericks.  After upgrading to Mavericks, the recovery partition will reinstall Lion if the recovery partition is used to reinstall Mac OS X.

2) Take it to the Apple Store - This is not always practical in a business environment.

Is there any other way to do this?


texts: Can I undo changes made via "defaults write"?

texts:
I've been messing with Bluetooth audio settings to try to keep my Bluetooth speakers from popping by changing settings via defaults write, but I'm afraid I've made the problem worse.

I'd like to revert to the default… defaults, bringing them back to where they were originally or, more specifically, where they would be for a new user account or new system.  Is this as simple as using defaults delete on the appropriate domain and key?


texts: My daughter has an iphone and I would like to restrict when and who she can text with.  I'm aware that you can turn off the messaging completely but that's not wanted.  Is there a way to only allow texting to and from specific numbers.


texts: Restore files after changing disk format from NTFS to HFS+

texts:
My friend had an external drive with NTFS format. She started using iOS, so she formatted it to HFS+ using iOS Disk Utilities. She had realized her mistake and unplugged the drive just after formatting.
My question is if it is possible to restore at least part of this removed data? If so, what softwware do you recommend? Should I format this drive again to NTFS format before trying to restore it?


texts: Sensitivity to gross noise on battery charging lines of Lightning connector

texts:
Long ago, I docked my iPod Touch with 30-pin connector onto a cheap ghetto blaster.  I cranked the volume over an extended period.  Shortly thereafter, the battery of the iPod Touch could not retain a charge.  I am guessing that cranking the ghetto blaster caused damaging electrical noise to spike into the iPod Touch.  These days, I only connect media devices to the ghetto blaster via an old audio cable.

Now I own an iPhone SE, which I'm still paying off.  I am experiencing the low charge life that iPhones are known for.  If I charge it with the car's 12V source (older cars use to have cigarette lighters in the socket but mine only has a cover), I won't get caught running out of juice when I'm on the road and needing to navigate or look things up.

But I am concerned about noise damaging my much more expensive iPhone.  After all, it is a car, and the power sources probably weren't designed to be steady and quiet.  Heck, I imagine starting the motor causes really causes fluctuations in the 12V, and maybe when the A/C kicks in.

I can pick up a USB power adapter to plug into the 12V socket, and I always carry a USB-to-Lightning cable (expensive buggers).  The USB power adapter is only a few bucks at a car accessories shop, but $20 at a national electronics store chain (for a brand that isn't exactly high end).  The price difference is approximately 5-fold.  And generally, one gets what one pays for.

I will go for the much cheaper alternative if the risk to my iPhone is minimal.  That depends on the sensitivity of the iPhone SE to gross noise on Lightning port.  I won't even say on the powering lines, as I don't know exactly how Lightning is designed, and even if there were dedicated powering lines, the adapter may inject noise on all lines.

My decision should also depend on how easy and typical it is to filter or block such gross noise.  I suspect that we've been charging all manner of electronics in the car for a while now.  If the technology is a commodity technology, then even cheap adapters can be expected to filter/block gross noise.  There's no way to be sure without lab-testing each product; it's more a risk assessment based on what is likely.

I can boil the above down into two questions:

(1) Is the iPhone SE known to be sensitive to damage from gross noise along the Lightning port?

(2) How commoditized is the technology to block such noise in USB adapters for the 12V socket of a car?

Truly answering this requires a comprehensive study which is probably unaffordable to most.  I am only seeking information that can narrow down my complete lack of familiarity with the topic of either question, and enable a judgement call to be made.

Now that I've actually taken the time to describe the problem, I can't even say that the cost difference is the motivating factor. It's more the fact that I would feel far more gratified in having made a rational decision rather than just going for higher cost, which might make no difference in quality.  And if the information exists with which make a decision rather than a wild guess perhaps this might help others.


texts: Is it possible to download iOS 8 beta without Developer Account?

texts: My device is iPhone 5 (American version). Is it possible to get iOS 8 beta without buying access to Developer Account?


texts: 2015 27" iMac unexpectedly wakes from sleep after upgrade to Catalina

texts:
Before upgrading to Catalina, my 2015 27" iMac would reliably stay sleeping as long as I had manually put it to sleep from the Apple menu.

After the Catalina upgrade, I'd say at least 50% of the time, the iMac wakes itself up if it has been sleeping from more than about 5 hours (so, quite often overnight).

Wake for Network Access and Enable Power Nap are UNchecked.

I have a wired keyboard and a Logitech mouse that works via Bluetooth.

In Preferences-->Bluetooth->Advanced, "Allow Bluetooth devices to wake this computer" is UNchecked

Here are the results from pmset -g :

System-wide power settings:
Currently in use:
 Sleep On Power Button 1
 autopoweroff         1
 standbydelayhigh     86400
 autopoweroffdelay    28800
 proximitywake        1
 standby              0
 standbydelaylow      86400
 ttyskeepawake        1
 hibernatemode        0
 powernap             0
 gpuswitch            2
 hibernatefile        /var/vm/sleepimage
 highstandbythreshold 50
 displaysleep         10
 womp                 0
 networkoversleep     0
 sleep                10 (sleep prevented by sharingd, coreaudiod, UserEventAgent)
 halfdim              1
 autorestart          0
 disksleep            10

I also ran the Terminal command log show --style syslog | fgrep “Wake reason" after a recent awakening, and the last log entries were:

2020-06-11 20:59:49.029149-0700 localhost powerd[145]: [powerd:sleepWake] Wake reason: "<private>" identity: "<private>"

2020-06-11 21:51:50.752175-0700 localhost kernel[0]: (AppleACPIPlatform) AppleACPIPlatformPower Wake reason: RTC XHC1 (Alarm)

2020-06-11 21:51:50.752176-0700 localhost kernel[0]: (AppleACPIPlatform) AppleACPIPlatformPower Wake reason: RTC XHC1 (Alarm)

First, I don't know how to interpret these results.

Second, what is quite odd is that this last entry is on June 11. BUT, when I got up on the morning of June 12, I checked to see if the iMac had awakened itself, and it had not. At 8:30am on 2020-06-12, the iMac was asleep. BUT, at 10am when I went back again, it was awake.

So, shouldn't there be a log entry for the wake that occurred sometime between 8:30am and 10am on June 12?

Any help would be appreciated.


texts:
I want applescript to input into microsoft excel "No, (tab, tab again), Yes". I can't seem to make this work. I would preferably like it to start whenever I press a hotkey or something, but having to swipe over and activate the script should be ok.

Thanks, Nick


texts: El Capitan auto-corrects even though I turned it off in settings

texts:
I notice that things are being corrected even when I turn spell-check off. This happened on both of my computers, and particularly stupid spelling corrections are taking place, only since upgrading to El Capitan.

Example.. I updated a ticket at work "This is now on production" .. when I submit the update, I see it says "This is not on production" ...

At first I thought maybe I did a typo but this keeps happening.

Every single instance was where the word is actually spelled correctly however it replaces it with another word.

I've turned spell-check off so I am confused as to why it's doing it at all.


texts: migrating local USB to AirportExtreme USB for Time Machine

texts: I've got Time Machine backing up to a local USB hard drive (i.e. I plug it directly into my Macbook Pro). I now want to use this hard drive as the Time Machine drive hooked up to my AirportExtreme. Will doing so require reformatting the HD? Or will it be a simple plug-and-play


texts: How to hide the Flagged folder in Mail.app (Mountain Lion)?

texts:
Since upgrading to Mountain Lion, my Mail.app has sprouted a Flagged folder for each of my Gmail/Google Apps accounts.

I have no use for this and would like to disable or hide it - how can I do that?

To pre-empt some answers, no, this is not a folder that exists in either Gmail account, it's something that Mail.app has made up for itself, much like a Smart Folder.


texts:
I have 30-pin-to-USB cables that came with iPod touch 3rd generation, 4th generation, and iPad 3rd generation. Are the cables different? If so, how can I identify which is which? I notice differences in the width of the cable, color of the plastic part on both sides of the connector (gray vs. white), and the length of the rubber tube that covers the connector, but am not sure if these are just minor variants or they are different products.

I know that the newer models accept 2A current, as opposed to 1A on older models, and the AC adaptors are designed differently accordingly, but was not sure whether the cables are also different.


texts: Macbook pro 13 inch 2017 W/ touch bar - battery drain during sleep

texts:
OS Version I'm on is High Sierra 10.13.2

My battery seems to drain way too much on my new MacBook Pro 13 w/ Touch bar 2017 when it's supposed to be sleeping.  Things I've done after reading other posts on the issue:

Turned off power nap on battery in the settings
Turned on Do Not Disturb whilst sleeping

After a test yesterday, at the end of a day the battery went from 100% to 84%, I didn't open the lid once in that time.

I don't recall ever having this issue with my MacBook Air mid 2012.

Is this a software, hardware issue or both?

Thanks

UPDATE 01/01/2018 - Happy new year! So I did as suggested in reply.  Nothing was open preventing sleep.  20hrs this time on sleep and down to 78%.  This can't be right!


texts: iPhone screen recording without red bar suddenly appeared on my phone

texts:
This morning I woke up to a notification on my iPhone saying that the current screen recording session was stored to my camera roll. I didn't do any screen recordings lately (definitely not last night).

There was indeed a new recorded session in my camera role of about 17 seconds, dated to 4:56am this morning (I usually get up at around 5, but definitely didn't touch the phone prior to seeing the message).

In the recording, "someone" swiped down on my (apparently unlocked!) home screen (it is locked at night and is in airplane mode, just like last night), entered "mys" in the search bar, waited, deleted it, entered "dyn", waited, exited back to the home screen and then the recording stops. You can even see the airplane mode icon, meaning there was no remote connection possible. I recognize the home screen as my own in its current configuration.

Now what's bugging me: Let's assume I was sleep drunk and just can't remember doing all the above. The recording doesn't show the red bar it usually shows on my iPhone (SE) when recording sessions (I double checked right after). So even if someone should have sifted through my phone and accidentally turned on screen recording, the red bar should have been visible in the recorded session.

I'm on iOS 11.4.

I'm really lost here. I can't even see how someone should be able to pull off a prank on me, as there wasn't any internet connection available or anything. The phone is not jailbroken and never was. I bought it vanilla from Apple. I never noticed any other odd behavior on that device.

I appreciate any kinds of thoughts on this. I'm in a mixed state of curiosity, anxiety and confusion.


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My roommate brought me her iMac this afternoon because it's been behaving very badly since she upgraded to High Sierra. It turns out that her boyfriend has gotten a lot of malware onto it, and I'm having real problems getting rid of it.

The biggest culprit is a set of browser hijackers (they may all be related, or they may be separate malware, I'm not sure), including well-known ones like G-Search.Pro, and others (feedvertizus, beleelashopper, etc).

I cannot figure out where these things have stuck themselves to get rid of them. So far, I have:

Deleted any installed applications I didn't recognize.
Installed and run MalwareBytes, which claims I have no malware.
Installed and run AVG Anti-Virus, which claims I'm clean.
Completely deleted Chrome and Firefox from the machine and reinstalled.
Checked the LaunchAgents folders in /Library, /System/Library, and /Users/user/Library for anything odd.
Checked the LaunchDemons folders in the same places.
Removed anything from Application Support folders that looked suspicious.

All to no avail. A clean, fresh install of Chrome immediately gets infected with G-Search.pro and these other things. I'm at my limit of OS X knowledge so I have no idea where else to look.

Where could these things be hiding, or where can I go (are there system logs, etc.?) to find out?


texts: Force a file to overwrite instead of appending

texts:
I've got an application that won't overwrite a file with the same filename. It will only append the filename with a 'space 1'. If I write a file more than once I get something like this:

filename.jpg
filename 1.jpg
filename 2.jpg

What I need is to only ever have the newest file without the extra space and number.

Is there anyway around this? Perhaps an applescript running in the folder?


texts: Macbook Pro not detecting bootable USB with Yosemite

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I created a Yosemite boot USB, from the App Store version 10.10.1.

When I hold option during Boot, the USB drive doesn't show up on the menu.

I have an aluminium MBP, bought in 2009. It is the full body aluminium with the Superdrive.

Per Apple, this is my machine:

MacBook Pro (13-inch, Mid 2009)

The only drives I see when holding down option are Macintosh HD and Recovery. When I try to run recovery, it runs for a little and then goes to a "no" symbol, with the spinner still spinning. I am concerned that the HD may be dead/dying, but I don't want to jump to that conclusion yet.

How do I either boot to my USB, or just get a restore done?

I have already successfully backed up my files. I just want to restore the machine.

Edit 1

I made the USB Boot drive from this guide:

http://www.macworld.com/article/2367748/how-to-make-a-bootable-os-x-10-10-yosemite-install-drive.html

Specifically choice number 1, where I downloaded the OS from the App Store and ran the terminal commands on a pre-formatted USB drive.

Edit 2

Below you will see the Disk Utility for the USB drive. Not sure how to tell if it is a Boot disk or not.

Edit 3

The below screenshot shows EFI in Debug mode in Disk Utility.

For what it's worth, when I plug in this drive into my working MBP, I see the "Install OS X Yosemite" get mounted in Finder.

Edit 4

Here is a screenshot of the "Startup Disk" option within "System Preferences" on my working MBP that has the Bootable USB plugged in - which proves that it was properly created, I believe. You can check the screenshot to confirm though.

Edit 5

Output from bless --info... command:

$ bless --info /Volumes/Install\ OS\ X\ Yosemite/
finderinfo[0]:    597 => Blessed System Folder is /Volumes/Install OS X Yosemite/.IABootFiles
finderinfo[1]:    615 => Blessed System File is /Volumes/Install OS X Yosemite/.IABootFiles/boot.efi
finderinfo[2]:      0 => Open-folder linked list empty
finderinfo[3]:      0 => No alternate OS blessed file/folder
finderinfo[4]:      0 => Unused field unset
finderinfo[5]:    597 => OS X blessed folder is /Volumes/Install OS X Yosemite/.IABootFiles
64-bit VSDB volume id:  0xA76212D6C7E30EC3


texts: Using El Capitan, why can't I install some dmg files

texts:
I recently upgraded to El Capitan, and now I am finding I can't install certain software. For example, I needed to view WebEx. WebEx had me download a dmg, but when I clicked it to install, it opened briefly then failed silently.

Then, my Adobe Photoshop and Dreamweaver told me I needed to restore Java 6 (even though I have Java 8 installed and it is backward compatible). I downloaded the correct Java 6 dmg, but again when I tried to install it aborted silently.

I tried launching the dmg from the command line, but that doesn't seem to be recognized as an executable.

FYI, I had selected under security "Allow apps downloaded from Anywhere"


texts:
I have my MacBook Pro connected to a cell-enabled iPad.  Ping to stackexchange.com is less than 60 ms.  But web pages are taking ages.  A robot detector for a meta question has been there for several minutes, and the checkbox has still not appeared.

Mail is showing connection errors, as is iTunes.  I don't think it's cell filtering, as various things have worked fine on other occasions.  Maps was a little bit slow downloading imagery but not bad.

I thought perhaps having both USB and WiFi hotspot might be interfering with each other, but turning off WiFi didn't change anything.

The cell signal is poor in this apartment.  But wouldn't that slow down ping by the same percentage as anything else?


texts: Can I import photos from a locked iPhone to Mac?

texts: I recently messed up my iPhone and my screen's busted. I can't tap anything, but it'll tap randomly anywhere and everywhere. So I can't type my passcode and I'm trying to get all my photos back through iPhoto but since my phone died and I need to enter my password... I think you get the picture... Anyways, is there any way for me to get my photos back?


texts: How to Install OS X on new hard drive on a Late 2012 Mac mini

texts: I have a Late 2012 Mac mini. I want to replace the hard drive with a SSD. The computer place wants to charge $99 for installing the OS on top of the $129 for installing the new SSD. The tech said I can install the OS myself. Could someone please help me on how to do it so I can save $99?


texts:
My Macbook is connected to my router, running OpenWrt. In that router, I have defined a static host, pointing to a local IP address. Lets call it service.example.com, with IP 10.0.0.10. In public DNS, service.example.com is a CNAME of my dynamic DNS hostname which currently is not being updated due to the router being behind carrier grade NAT, hence the need to define the host name as a static host in my router.

This works. Sometimes.

Sometimes my Mac can't connect to service.example.com, because for some obscure reason it has decided that it will disregard the response of my local DNS server, and use something else. If I reset mDNSresponder's cache by sending a SIGHUP, it'll work again for an indeterminate amount of time.

I would like to figure out where mDNSresponder gets the wrong IP from. Dumping the cache is not possible: "XPC service returns error, description: State dump is only enabled in internal builds".


texts: Ethernet is connected but no internet access in MacOS

texts:
I am working on iMac Retina 4K 2017 with macOS Big Sur v.11.2.1.
The Ethernet is connected to the iMac but unfortunately no internet access.
I've tried these approaches:

I've created new location and add Ethernet with Configure IPv4 is Using DHCP.
I've tried Renew DHCP Lease.
I've tried to Configure IPv4 Manually and add Google DNS Server as my DNS Server.
I've re-plugged in the ethernet cable.
I've restart the iMac either before or after above configuration.
I've unchecked all Proxies.
Router has been restarted.
Etc. (i don't remember the others).

All the above approaches doesn't work at all.

I plugged in my cable on Windows PC and it worked beautifully! But unfortunately doesn't works in this iMac.
How to solve this ?


texts: Apple Remote Desktop- How to send Terminal Command to Networked computers

texts:
I'm hoping that you can help me with creating a unix script for sending a terminal command through ARD to multiple networked computers. I'm hoping to disable air drop on a set of 36 lab computers at my school. I can definitely manually enter the script below to turn off air drop, but it would be great if I could just do this "behind the scenes" and 36 at a time.

The script that works is:

 defaults write com.apple.NetworkBrowser DisableAirDrop -bool YES

I have limited knowledge of scripting/UNIX/ARD, but I'd love to learn. So far, all I've gotten is for terminal to open:
    open /Applications/Utilities/Terminal.app

However, I cannot get the script/text to run. Any help is greatly appreciated! Thanks,


texts: Is my iPhone cheating me with data usage? How can I check it?

texts:
I reset my data usage on my iPhone after asking this question, so at 28th of July. Since then I was using my phone all the time, watching YouTube, talking on Skype (both voice and text), downloading games from the App Store, using Facebook (including uploading videos and photos) and finally sending emails with attachments (photos, each photo around 1MB).

After 6 days of using my phone intensively, I checked data usage. It shows... 411KB sent and 2,3MB received.

I know it is not right - but how can I check real usage?


texts: Make Outlook default mail application on a Mac

texts:
I used the directions referenced in many places to make Outlook the default mail application on a MAC (by going to MAIL and clicking the Mail menu - Preferences to set it).

I can not do that because Preferences is grayed out because I do not (nor am I allowed to on my work machine) have an iCloud account to reference in there or any other mail account. So what else can I do?


texts: How to troubleshoot Time Machine when backup always halts at some point?

texts: Everything starts ok but then it comes to a halt and does not move. Even the HD light stops :(


texts: I lost my iPhone and need help figuring out my iCloud email

texts:
My iPhone 6 got stolen at school and I'm trying to figure out a way to track where it is to see if I just lost it or someone took it.

Unfortunately I need to know my iCloud email. I know the password but I forgot the email. I don't have a back up email for it. It was an iCloud email and something fairly NOT simple. I need answers to how I can track it without knowing my email.


texts:
I'm trying to have my Mac Mini take over all my server's functions (I'm recycling the server hardware into a Linux workstation).  Its pretty much all done, except for the file-serving portions.  Currently I'm using MHDDFS (FUSE).  In a nutshell, it lets you give it multiple directories (in my case on different hard-drives), and have them be combined in a directory.  (e.g., /media/storage0/ and /media/storage1/ are accessible via /media/storage_pool/

What I would like to know is, does anybody know of anything that might act like this?

I know of NRAID/SPAN, but part of what worries me about that is (I think?) in SPAN the drives share a file-system, similar to a RAID level, which makes me very nervous.  (even though I keep backups)


texts: As a novice user how can I reinstall an old Mac?

texts:
I have used IBM PCs, and clones, professionally from 1981 until I retired in 1999.
I have never owned/used a Mac.

My neighbor gave me his older Mac (I think he bought it 5 years ago).
I want to clean it up, get rid of music and apps that I will never use, rename it, setup up networking etc.

Where can I find out how to do it?


texts: Is it possible to have audio follow window across multiple displays

texts:
I'm using multiple monitors and would like to have the audio from any particular app window come from the speakers associated with the display where the app window is shown.

Anyone know of a solution?

This is iMac Pro or MacBook Pro running Mojave. It would be any application that produces sound. I would like the sound directed to the display upon which the app's window is displayed.


texts: Is it possible to tether internet on the iPhone to an Ethernet attached device?

texts:
I have a hotspot connection on my iPhone 7 Plus phone that is extremely slow. The Internet on my phone is extremely fast. When I connect a device the connection is very slow. The device is a smart TV. I have an option to connect an Ethernet cable to my TV. I have unlimited data and hotspot plan.

Is there any way to use my phone hotspot to connect to TV
via Ethernet and will the connection be faster?


texts: "Preferences Error There was an error in Language & Region preferences" on Catalina

texts:
I recently was dealing with a display problem that caused me to delete several preferences files and reset things, fixed that issue but I've since been trying to get the rest of my stuff back to normal.
Dates on my computer are now set like 2018 M12 1
When I visit System Preferences, it tells me to fix this in Language & Region.
However attempting to navigate there gives me "Preferences error: There was an error in Language & Region Preferences"
I've tried:
-deleting the globalpreferences and preferencespane plists from the regular Library as well as the user one
-deleting the cache from library
-moving my whole  preferences folder
out of the user library (It didn't help, so i put it back.)
-creating
a new user and trying it from there
-booting in safe mode and trying
it from there
-repairing disk in regular and recovery mode
-reinstalling OS via recovery mode
-removing all custom preferences panes
-resetting pram
rebooting so many times
Any suggestions? Short of wiping the whole thing and doing a complete reinstall which would probably work but I don't want to do :/


texts: After update (to 4.2) iOS says I have 723 songs, but iPod.app says "No Content"

texts:
I have just updated to 4.2, and the space for my music is still taken according to iTunes, and the device "About" screen says I have 723 songs, but I cannot see it in the iPod app. I assume that another sync is required to activate the content again or something to that effect?

iTunes can see the content on my phone and even allow me to play it. I will attach some images to illustrate the issue. My photo library was updated and seems to work. I have also tried closing all apps, which did not help.


texts: How can one get last wakeup from screen saver time on Mac OS

texts:
One can use pmset -g log to get to the info about Wake and Start events of Mac OS. But pmset doesn't seem to make any special assertions to the log when system goes into screen saver mode, and what particularly of interest to me, when the screen saver quits.

What command or log file I can use to find out when the last wake from screen saver event occurred?


texts: How to change the order of input method in Mac OS X Mojave?

texts:
I'm using Mac OS X Mojave 10.14.5 (18F132) and i'm trying to change the order of the input method (different language), particularly I want to change the order of the 2nd and 3rd languages. Any idea on how I can do that?

Thanks a lot.
Arthur


texts: Can gaming damage my MacBook Air in the long run?

texts: I noticed my new MacBook Air getting kinda hot and the fan spinning up when running a 3D game. I know this Laptop is not made for gaming but I like to run a less demanding game from time to time. Also I'm not crazy and wouldn't do this in a already hot environment but technically it should not degrade the Laptop in the long run am I right?


texts: How can I rebind the return key so that it works consistently across all applications?

texts:
I tried rebinding my keyboard with Ukelele to switch the return key with the ' key. This works fine most of the time. There are just a few websites (that I've found so far) that aren't compatible with this change:

Facebook: Sending IM messages no longer works.
Google Docs: Does not allow you to insert new lines when editing word documents.
StackExchange: Pressing shift+return at the end of a bullet list does not insert a new bullet.

How can I get this rebinding to work flawlessly everywhere in the operating system?

I'm using Chrome 18.0 beta.

These are the applications I've found which don't recognize the return key after rebinding it:

Chrome
Microsoft Word (specifically when a dialog is open and the OK button is the default button. Pressing return should be the same thing as clicking the OK button).
Java apps


texts: Any OS X Whiteboard apps/software designed for large screen multi-monitor use?

texts:
We're looking at upgrading our static whiteboards to interactive whiteboards/smartboards, and one option is simply to buy 1-3 large multi-touch displays and hook them up to a Mac Pro, and use some whiteboard software on them.

Anyone know of any such whiteboard software for Mac that is designed to be used in such a way - namely multi-monitor support, plus multi-touch support?


texts:
The English language doesn't really include any accented words but other languages do.
Yet I like to write using accents and diacritics, as needed in each language (Romanian, French, German, etc.).

Unfortunately Mac OS X has never really made it easy to accent a letter before. Lion has simplified it, now accenting a letter is easy thanks to the Accent Menu -- example:

Still, if you take Romanian as an example, most of the specific diacritics are not reachable via the Accent Menu:

a » ă
s » ș
t » ț

Is there a way to edit the Accent Menu to add the accents that are used for a specific language?


texts: My auto-suggest disappeared when I updated to iOS 10.3.3. How do I get it back? It was so helpful to me.


texts:
I've got a "developer-old" folder besides for my "developer" folder. "developer-old" contains "headers", "SDKs", etc folders.

It'd be nice to delete this folder bc it takes up 10GB. Can I?


texts: How to map "$" character to "€" on French AZERTY keyboard

texts:
I'd like to have a direct access to "€" character by pressing the physical "$" key rather than having to do "Alt/Option + $".

I've been searching around and found this article:
https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/technotes/tn2450/_index.html

I try to use it, but "€" key code is not provided. Moreover, the layout is not for AZERTY keyboard. When I followed the provided example, instead of swapping "a" and "b", I ended up swapping "q" and "b".

Could anyone provide me with a solution please? Or the exact key code of "$" and "€" to use with hidutil?

Thanks,


texts:
I've just installed Sparrow on my brand new iMac. I found the Aliases pane in Sparrow:

I've Googled it and found some source say it similars to Shortcut in windows.
What the Aliases pane for?

Please help guys!


texts: Command tab switching to unexisting window

texts:
Command tab is not working properly anymore, it works pretty randomly.
If I switch several time between 2 fullscreen applications, sometimes it comes back to the desktop when no application is open, and I can see that the focus is on the application I wanted to switch on (from the top bar I can see the application name).

I already checked that: "when switching to an application, switch to the space with open windows for the application" is checked, but it still does not work. This is random, sometimes ok sometimes not


texts: /usr/bin Permission change OSX 10.9 Mavericks

texts:
I am trying to set up Java on Xcode and it needs to access /usr/bin/java at some point. But I cannot get hold of this folder and I get this message: The folder “java” can’t be opened because you don’t have permission to see its contents.

Even when I try to reach the permission through Get Info the system does not open the folder because of the same restriction.

I think it is possible to change the permission through Terminal but I am afraid to blow up something on my Mac. How can I change the permission safely?


texts: How do I connect power to a NVIDIA GTX 1070 Founders Edition in a 2009 Mac Pro?

texts:
I am installing an NVIDIA GTX 1070 in a 2009 Mac Pro. I have seen all kinds of cables selling on Amazon and eBay to power GPUs in a Mac Pro so I want to make sure I get the right one.

Looking at the NVIDIA GTX 1070 manual, it looks like I will need an 8 pin connector on the graphics card side:

But there are cables that have this 8 pin connector with either one or two 6 pin connectors that will connect to the Mac Pro main board.

The cable I ended up ordering has 2 x 6 pins and 1 x 8 pin connectors:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0749DQ3VX

Will this cable properly power the GPU and should I connect both 6 pin connectors?


texts:
Specs:

Early 2011 15" Macbook Pro (Sierra).

RAM upgraded October 2016, 16GB Corsair
SSD upgraded July 2016, 256GB SanDisk
Battery replaced January 2016
Logic board replaced February 2016 (replaced as result of qualifying for the gfx card recall.)

Basically a year old computer

Problem:

Yesterday it started crashing while signing into a user account -- while connected to power. The flow is as follows:

Boot (Grey screen with Apple logo)
Display user accounts
Sign in to user's account
Sign in progress bar
Crash at ~1/3 complete progress bar
Reboots automatically

Background:

Over the past 1.5 months the battery has become seemingly defunct.

Initially, it would crash after ~2 minutes of use after waking from sleep and running off battery. It would need to be connected to power in order to start up successfully.
After about 2 months of this, it began crashing while running off battery regardless of whether or not it had woken from sleep.
Now it (usually) crashes within seconds if the charger is disconnected.

When I went to the Genius Bar I was told it may be a bad battery. It passed all of their diagnostics, however, it seemed to heuristically lose charge quickly and the capacity came in at over 100% -- which is only expected from batteries right out of the factory.

This all seemed like a case of a bad battery until yesterday. Maybe these issues are not connected... but seems like they could be.

Troubleshooting:

So far I've tried:

Tried 4 separate properly 85W MagSafe chargers. Same results.

So it's not the bad battery.

Booted from an external bootable drive (running El Capitan). Same results.

So, not an issue with the SSD nor corrupt OS (I think. Booting from an external drive should bypass the internal drive completely. Yes?*)

Ran the extended hardware test. No issues found.

So, not an issue with RAM. I am going to try and run memtest if I can get access to a shell.

Left it idle for ~15 minutes at the login screen. Does not crash.
Spent ~15 minutes in the guest account (the safe account -- only Safari access) and messed around. Does not crash.
Spent ~2 hours of time in the "BIOS" pages. Hardware test, Disk Utility, etc. Does not crash.
Booting into safe mode (Cmd + S) displays BuildError(): error building a user of type

Hypothesis:

It seems the issue is occurring when the boot program is loading the OS. I don't know a ton about how things work at this level, but my guess is the logic board is the culprit and is failing during this handoff.

Questions:

Any ideas?
Could a bad battery somehow bust up power management -- or is it entirely isolated whilst connected to external power?
Have I done enough to rule out corrupt software, SSD, and RAM?


texts: Use Of Thunderbolt Between Mac Mini and Macbook Pro

texts: I have a Macbook Pro I recently purchased (13" 2015). I am now looking into desktop solutions, and think my needs make a Mac Mini my best option. I haven't used Thunderbolt before, and am wondering if I can use Thunderbolt to connect my Macbook Pro to my Mac Mini, thus making my laptop files accessible from the Mini on my external display. If that is the case, in addition to purchasing a Mac Mini, will the only other piece of equipment I need to make this connection be a Thunderbolt to Thunderbolt cable?


texts: If I delete the sound library from GarageBand on my Mac, can I reinstall it later for free?

texts: I have a MacBook Air and it doesn't have very much storage so I want to delete the sound library from garage band (not the whole app, just the sound library). if I do this, will I be able to reinstall it later for free, or will I have to pay?


texts: Is it possible to make the clock to show 0900 instead of 9:00 for 9AM? I’ve already tried changing the format under System Preferences → Language & Region → Advanced… but the setting doesn’t save.


texts: Why can't I use .app bundles symlinked into /Applications as default in the 'open with' dialog?

texts:
I have installed emacs with homebrew, with the --cocoa flag, which makes homebrew create an .app bundle in /usr/local/Cellar/emacs/<version>/Emacs.app. I have symlinked the .app bundle into /Applications/, to make it easy to open. The problem is that when I try setting file associations for files, I can't set Emacs.app as the default (the Add button is greyed out):

Now I could just copy or move the .app bundle into /Applications/, but that would require me to copy it over again every time emacs is updated via homebrew. Is there some other way to solve this?


texts: Why can't I navigate to /.ssh folder on jailbroken iPhone 5S

texts:
I have installed OpenSSH on my jailbroken iPhone 5S, I am trying to set up ssh keys for it but I need to get to my /.ssh folder. I try to cd there while at root with cd ~/.ssh but it says "not a directory". I then tried mkdir ~/.ssh and get "cannot make directory: file exists". So once again I tried to cd ~/.ssh and still nada. I navigated to ~ and ls, and once again no .ssh directory.

$ ls -ad ~/.ssh
/var/root/.ssh
$ echo ~
/var/root


texts:
I am having issues with WiFi connection since I started using Magic Mouse.
I'm using a 15" MacBook Retina mid 2012 with El Capitan.
The connection is much slower on the MacBook than any other devices when I run speed tests.
Ping is around 300ms instead of 10ms which I am getting on other devices. Also speed is lower on the MacBook.
Sometimes things are so bad that I cannot establish a connection to remote hosts and things go in timeout (e.g. http, Skype, and other protocols and ports).

I've read elsewhere that it's recommended to change the frequency which the router operates from 2.4 GHz to 5 GHz. However this is not an option for me as I don't control the network infrastructure of the places where I use the MacBook.

Are there any other fixes for this issue? If not, do you think I can ask Apple for a refund as they clearly are incompetent dealing with this?

Update:

See result of pinging google.com, from the screenshot it's possible to see how initially the ping time seems normal but then it went up or even goes in timeout from the exact moment when I switched on the Magic Mouse


texts: Ways to retrive deleted iMessages on iPhone

texts:
This may be a popular question, but I have not seen a very satisfying answer for it. It is unfortunate when one accidentally deletes iMessages because all of the history of that message is gone, and there appears to be no way to get it back on the device itself.

Are there existing apps that would recover messages onto the device?


texts: iMessage and FaceTime not working after changing apple id

texts:
Last time I got macbook and iphone from my brother. These devices were always connected with one apple id. I wanted to keep all apps and settings, so I did not create new apple id, I've just changed password, email, name of current apple id, so now it is only mine, not my broter's.
And I don't know why, but imessage and facetime not working, on both devices. I can log in icloud, and everything if fine, but when I'm trying to log in on imessage or face time this appears :

  "An error occurred during activation"

Before change everything worked.
I have tried almost everything. Please help.


texts: OS X ML 10.8.2 sound from certain applications going to non-selected sound card?

texts:
I have a USB sound card hooked up to my Mac.

This worked fine until this morning for some reason.

I selected the sound card as the primary output device in the Sound Preferences. When I adjust the volume slider, it properly chimes through the headphones attached to my USB sound card.

However, some applications aren't respecting that the sound card is selected as primary for some reason.

Example: iTerm2, the audio 'bell' sound is going through the internal speakers rather than the sound card. Also, if I drag and drop something into the trash can and empty it, all those sounds go through the internal speakers.

However, the USB sound device is definitely selected and when I use the volume control in the status bar, it chimes the volume through the USB sound card! What the heck is going on here?


texts:
The dropbox icon keeps reappearing in my finder toolbar, no matter how many times I Command Drag it off, or remove it in customize toolbar.  How can I get rid of this annoying button that keeps coming back?

The solution in this one answer does not solve my issue as the button is removed, but as soon as I open a new finder window it is back.  I am running OS X 10.10.2 (14C81f) with Dropbox 3.0.3.


texts: OS X client gets SSL certificate error when trying to join OD

texts:
I switched from self signed to signing my own certificates using a CA I created on the server. OS X Server has a list of the certificates outlined in blue now for its hostname, Code Signing Certificate, and OD Intermediate CA. I have the CA I created copied to my client.

How can I resolve this SSL issue?


texts: How can I remove duplicate and erroneous entries from System Profiler's list of "Installations"?

texts:
System Profiler ➞ Software ➞ Installations contains a list of every package you've installed on your machine.
For various reasons, there is some software I've had to reinstall more than once, such as Zoom. This software appears on the list of Installations multiple times.

There is also some software that I am quite confident has been fully removed from my machine, but which nonetheless still appears in this list.
These entries aren't harming me or anyone else, so I really should just leave them be. Unfortunately, their presence is inexplicably bothering me!
How is this list generated, and can it be cleaned up?


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I have an .ipa file in my Windows 8 Laptop. How can I run it on my Laptop.

I just want to run the app, use it in my laptop. I have no intentions of developing iPhone apps or making any changes in the .ipa file.

There must be some way to do this when - Can I develop iPhone apps in Windows? is possible.

Can someone help me out here?


texts: Replacing unibody MacBook trackpad contact

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The trackpad for my 2010 MacBook works perfectly except the small, round, metal contact push spring that registers clicks is sprung. Tightening the screw underneath the trackpad fixes it but, as it is tightened, there is less margin to click. Does anyone know if I can find a push contact anywhere? I've tried searching online but without result. Perhaps it because I don't know the element's technical name. Any information is helpful. Thank you.

I'm looking for something like this (http://hongjusilicon.manufacturer.globalsources.com/si/6008849837334/pdtl/Silicone-keypad/1130112657/Rubber-push-button-switch.htm).


texts: Is it possible RAM not compatible with Macbook Pro?

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As this is my first time dealing with HW of my Macbook Pro Early 2011 and need lot of money for service, I am quite nervous with this.

I want to upgrade my Macbook Pro RAM to 8GB. What I can find from Apple website is the current spec:

4GB (two 2GB SO-DIMMs) of 1333MHz DDR3 SDRAM; supports up to 8GB

I want to buy this RAM which is written for Mac Apple:

Corsair SO-DIMM DDR3 8GB PC10666 - CMSA8GX3M2A1333C9

Should I go straight away since the spec is equal? I just want to evade the possibility breaking my Macbook Pro.


texts: Move mouse to other display over an arrangement gap

texts: I have the following setup at home and I want to be able to move my mouse over the gap between the center lower screen and the lower part of the right screen (red line). Currently the mouse is blocked at the edge of the lower center screen.


texts: Which app is asking for elevated permissions by “Apple wants to make changes”?

texts: I have an associate who is getting elevated permissions pop-ups on their Mac with the message “Apple wants to make changes”. I suspect this may not be a legitimate request. How do I determine which process is asking for these permissions?


texts: Natively Installed Ubuntu On iMac - Switch Back Or To Windows

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I natively installed Ubuntu a few months ago following this tutorial. I am now wondering if it is possible to go back to OSX or Windows?

Currently when I hold option key on boot, I get a grey screen and only wifi connection settings are shown.


texts: Mac App Store app can't be uninstalled, won't finish installing

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So I went to download and install McSolitaire thinking it might be a fun game. Well, something went wrong during the install process. Now I've got a half-downloaded app in my Applications and the Purchases tab encourages me to re-install it, noting in red that an error has occurred. Deleting the app from Applications and returning to the App Store causes the app to reappear in Applications, still with the small slider indicating still copying.

At this point I just want it to be installed or gone. I don't really care if I play Solitaire using the app.

What do I do now?

Some screenshots for the discerningly minded:

and

Clicking install says:

and below that ...


texts: iPhone always thinks headset is plugged in

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My iPhone 3G is growing old -- yesterday I noticed that it didn't make any sounds anymore, and phone calls also muted (I heard nothing, other party didn't hear me either). It turns out that the phone erroneously thinks that a headset is plugged in. I noticed because the volume control popup shows "headset."

When I actually plug my headset in, everything works as expected. But unplugging the headset doesn't register on the phone; it stays in headset mode.

It seems that there's a small hardware switch that notices the plug, and this switch has failed.

Can I somehow clean the switch? Perhaps it's not broken, just dirty.
Can I take the phone apart myself (warranty is long gone), or should I have it repaired?

Looking at iFixit, it seems I would have to completely dismantle the phone to get to the jack (direct link). I'm not sure that's feasible for the layman, with any hope of it working again afterwards?

I realize that the phone's value is less than any repair would cost, so it's a matter of whether I can fix this myself, or need to spend €€€ on a replacement phone.


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When attempting to connect to smb://localhost/share, I receive an error that I ought to access the files locally. This is not always desirable. For example, this means I can not use my portable home on my Mac Mini that is serving the home directory.

Windows (via native SMB/CIFS) and other *nix systems (via Samba) can access local shares just fine. Why can I not do so on OS X?