texts: How can I get emacs to see ZSH's environment variables when I open it from /Applications

texts:
When I launch emacs from ZSH, it works as desired.  Specifically, it sees that my HOME directory is /Users/myname/Dropbox, so it looks for .emacs.d there.

Unfortunately, when double-click the emacs icon in my Applications folder (/Applications/Emacs), this behavior is not present.  Launching with Alfred gives the same behavior as double-clicking the icon.

Is there any way I can make the GUI-launch more closely mimic the command-line launch?

I guess another way to ask this question is -- from what environment is the application launching when I double-click the icon or launch with Alfred?


texts:
I just installed a new version of Steam on macOS Catalina 10.15 (19A602) and got this unexpected request:

  Keystroke Receiving

  Steam.app would like to receive keystrokes from any application

I hit Deny since I can't see any good reason why Steam should need this. I can't find any answers, having looked at a thread on Reddit and Apple Support forums. This security article from Sophos, Synthetic clicks and the macOS flaw Apple can’t seem to fix seems to be related.

Why would Steam need this?


texts: Why is Growl showing redundant notifications for Keka?

texts:
Whenever I carry out an action in Keka, such as extraction or compression, I receive three Growl notifications. All are identical, but only one has the correct icon (Keka's icon) while the other two seem to display a missing icon.

I've checked Growl and there's only one Keka entry.

I'm running Growl 1.3.3 and Keka 1.0.1 (not App Store version).


texts: What is the difference among the various event schedulers for OS X / Darwin?

texts:
I'm confused about the differences among the three (that I know of) tools for scheduling running of code on OS X / Darwin:

cron
launchcd
pmset

I understand that cron is largely deprecated, but it is still used by some utilities (like Super Super!, for some reason), and that pmset has the ability to wake the computer to run specific jobs. But I'm not clear what would guide the selection of one over the other in general.

How do these three methods OS scheduling differ (especially on Mavericks, if things are different there), especially in the kids of tasks they are suited to, and how they behave during sleep or hibernation?


texts: Airport Time Capsule US power cord in Europe?

texts: I have a US power cord for my AirPort Time Capsule (802.11ac 2TB), and I want to use it in Europe (specifically Norway). The power outlets here deliver 220V rather than the 120V a US power outlet delivers. Will a simple plug adapter be enough, or will that fry my AirPort? That is, can the AirPort Time Capsule sold in the US handle 220V as well as 120V?


texts:
Possible Duplicate:
  What Window Management Options exist for OS X?

I've seen many, many utilities for resizing windows (BST, Moom, Divvy, SizeUp...) but I wanted to know if there were any available for free. Most of these utilities have a free trial, but I'd expect there's at least one available completely free.

So, is there one?


texts:
I recently got an old Mac Pro 1,1 for free, and was wondering what's necessary to get it running Windows. I know that you needed Boot Camp before Windows 7, because it didn't support the EFI, but would I need to install MacOS in order to do Boot Camp to do Windows 10? It only officially supports up to Lion because it is 32-bit, and I no longer have a Mac to create an installation disk with.

It also didn't come with a GPU, and I hear that aftermarket GPUs aren't supported by the EFI, so you don't get the boot screen, but once the OS is booted they work. I have a 290X Lightning, do I need to get an old Apple-supported GPU in order to install the OS?


texts: External Windows bootable drive freezes boot screen

texts:
I installed Windows on a 128 GB USB drive to run on my 2017 MacBook Air. I boot into it by plugging in the drive, holding Option key and select the Windows drive. It worked really well.

Yesterday, I booted up in to Windows as usual, everything went well, and suddenly, everything froze. I got a Blue Screen Of Death saying stopcode BUGCODE USB3 DRIVER. And as it told me to do, I restarted my Mac.

But now, if I start up and hold the Option key the Windows drive won't appear. And if I plug it in after I hold the Option key, the entire screen freezes for about 30 seconds and then the USB is ejected again.

I am still able to use my other USB to boot up in to Linux but if I boot into macOS, it doesn't even detect the Windows Flash drive. Windows (on another pc) seems to detect it but ejects the flash drive after 10 seconds. And I really don't know what to do.

The Flash drive does the same on other Macs.

How do I resolve the issue?


texts: brew: how to delete outdated version of package

texts:
Homebrew upgrades itself to brew. And it looks like the maintainers have not implemented some daily-used commands like brew cleanup.

So anyone knows how to delete outdated version of software automatically?

$ brew
Example usage:
  brew search [TEXT|/REGEX/]
  brew (info|home|options) [FORMULA...]
  brew install FORMULA...
  brew update
  brew upgrade [FORMULA...]
  brew uninstall FORMULA...
  brew list [FORMULA...]

Troubleshooting:
  brew config
  brew doctor
  brew install -vd FORMULA

Brewing:
  brew create [URL [--no-fetch]]
  brew edit [FORMULA...]
  https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/blob/master/share/doc/homebrew/Formula-Cookbook.md

Further help:
  man brew
  brew help [COMMAND]
  brew home


texts: How to format a USB drive and increase its available size?

texts:
I have a 32 GB USB flash drive which is currently formatted to 261 MB:

How can I reformat/erase that USB drive so that I access all 30.75 GB of it?
Disk utility won't let me change the size of the partition to 30.75 GB.
Update 1: I erased the drive. At the end, there was this dialog box.

Update 2: I took the path of least resistance and changed the size of the drive to 30 GB on a Windows machine (discmgmt.dsc utility).


texts: How to delete the originals of edited photos on iPhoto 11?

texts:
I have a 200 GB iPhoto library. Using the tips from this website: http://james.wikidot.com/blog:69 I tried to delete all original photos on iPhoto that I don't need anymore.

I ended up with a 130 GB iPhoto library... amazing, isn't it? Well... not really.

10 % of my videos are just black (thumbnails and video data, everything is just black).
All photos that I rotated have broken thumbnails.
Some of the photos are broken.

I'm getting my library back from time machine... but I was just wondering... Is there a safe way to delete all original photos from iPhoto and keep only the edited ones?


texts: 3xHDMI out of a single Thunderbolt port - 2015 MBP

texts:
I'm planning on purchasing 3 HDMI monitors to use as a workstation for my MBP. For the sake of ease and convenience, instead of using the native HDMI + 2 mini DP to HDMI adapters, is there any way to pull 3 HDMI connectors out of a single thunderbolt port?

I know that thunderbolt has the ability to daisy chain thunderbolt monitors together but I want to just break out 3 separate HDMI signals from the single port if thats possible, so that way I could just plug in power, the thunderbolt cable and that's it.

I've looked around the internet for a solution of some sort, and the only thing that has come even close is a thunderbolt hub such as the Caldigit Thunderbolt Station, but it only has 1 HDMI port. Are there any alternatives?


texts: How proxy authentication works before first user login?

texts:
For the creation of a tool which make uses of system proxy preferences, I am trying to understand their keychain usage:

From my current understanding, on MacOS (Catalina) the system preferences for proxies are

System wide (not per user)
Per network interface (e.g. wifi or wired)

So I managed to get proxy parameters and this seems to work fine in both user-mode and root-mode.

However, the proxy credentials (password) is stored in the keychain tool, more specifically in login.keychainwhich is user specific.

For example, if the proxy is named "proxy_test", I can retrieve the proxy password with the following command in user-mode:

$ security find-internet-password -s "proxy_test" -g
    ...
    password: "password_test"

However, as root user the keychain is not accessible:

$ sudo su
$ security find-internet-password -s "proxy_test" -g
    security: SecKeychainSearchCopyNext: The specified item could not be found in the keychain.

My conclusion is: Even if proxy preferences are system-wide, the credentials for proxy are saved in a user-specific keychain.

My tool is supposed to be a daemon running with root privileges, maybe before the first user had logged-in. In consequence this question: How is this supposed to work?

Is it possible that macOS establishes a network through proxy before the first login? In this case, which user credentials will it use?
Seems reasonable to create system-wide keychain and store the credentials there, but this is not how usually users works, so it would not work in most of the cases.
Or probably I am just very wrong in some of my conclusions.

The question can be summarized as:

How would a daemon running as root before the first user login access proxy credentials (password) from the keychain which are user-specific?


texts: What is the server URL thru which Apple updates occur?

texts:
I would like to know what is the URL thru which Apple updates occur.

I need this to setup caching for my Squid Proxy server.


texts: curl-config --ca returns a blank line, and other cert problems

texts:
This is a repost/update of this question on stackoverflow, which didn't get any attention so I'm trying a more specific stackexchange. My problem was originally that Cargo (Rust's dependency manager) isn't able to download crates because it depends on the native curl, and I think I narrowed the problem down to this certificate bundle issue.

I'm using OS X 10.11.6 (El Capitan), and recently my native curl installation started having issues with its certificate bundle. Specifically, when I try to make an HTTPS connection through Terminal I get untrusted connection error; class=Ssl (16); code=Certificate (-17), and the command curl-config --ca returns a blank line. Trying to configure curl's certificate bundle location doesn't do anything.

From what I understand OSX doesn't really let you mess around with its native curl installation, so I tried just reinstalling the operating system from recovery mode, but no luck.

More recently I found out that Safari is also not trusting some certificates (I usually use Chrome), I guess because it uses the same certificate chain as the native curl, and moreover I can't even connect to the App Store to try to update Safari because UNTRUSTED_CERT_TITLE. This is becoming a huge problem. I checked Keychain Access and it does show a lot of trusted certificates, so I'm not sure what the problem is or how to fix it.

So I guess my question is: how do I fix my native curl installation/certificate bundle?

One thing I've done which does work for some purposes is installing a separate copy of curl through homebrew and then changing my path variable so that it appears before the native one. Then I can make HTTPS connections through curl commands in Terminal, but Safari still doesn't trust certificates that it used to trust (like github), and I still can't connect to the App Store. (And, with regards to my original problem, Cargo is still using the native curl installation so it still can't download crates.)

Update

I managed to resolve my specific issues with Cargo and Git. First I used Safari to manually trust GitHub's certificate, and then Cargo managed to at least download the crates it needed. However, when compiling I still got several "linking errors" and when I tried to use Git I got the error message

xcrun: error: invalid active developer path ...

I fixed this error with xcode-select --reset as suggested here, and now Cargo and Git are working normally again.

However, curl-config --ca still returns a blank line, and I feel like this is still a problem.


texts: Restoring all contacts from Time Machine

texts: My contacts on my iMac, OS 10.11.3 and iPad and iPhone are presently messed up beyond repair.  There are hundred of duplicated contacts and a number of duplicate groups.  I'd like to go back in my TIME MACHINE and restore all of my contacts for both my Mac and iCloud.   I can see 2 weeks back everything was good.  I do not know what to do from there.   RESTORE?


texts: Is it possible to trim some middle part of a video or screen recording on the iPhone or iPad to upload to YouTube?

texts:
I know how to trim start and trim end of a video or screen recording on the iPhone or iPad and upload to YouTube.  But what if there are a few seconds in the video showing my user ID and I hope to blur it out or cut that few seconds out, is that possible inside of iPhone or iPad?

One way is, I can trim the original into two videos. So for example, if the original video is 00:00 to 03:00, and I want to remove  02:00 to 02:06, then I can trim start / end to make video 1 as 00:00 to 2:00 and video 2 as 2:06 to 03:00 and then I have removed 02:00 to 02:06, but now I have two separate videos. Can I still somehow join them or upload to YouTube as 1 video?


texts: Why is delete items after import so slow?

texts:
I am importing thousands of photos from SD cards into albums on my Mac. Import is not super-quick but OK, but when I select "delete items after import" then it seems to delete about one image per second. Further, it claims import is complete but blocks more updates until complete, which gives the impression of hanging.

Is this a known issue and is there any explanation or workaround?


texts:
I need one of the root CA certificates, as a filename, to pass to a command-line program.  I could download it from DigiCert (and convert it to the required format, .crt) manually, but I figure it's easier to just use the CA that OS X must already have.  It's a common certificate, and all my Linux servers already have it, for example.

In the "Keychain Access" app, the correct certificate does exist, but I can't find anything that says where it lives.

Do these CAs exist in the filesystem, or only in an opaque proprietary format for OS X APIs?


texts: Enabling Time Machine for a USB HDD with NTFS

texts:
When I've plugged in my USB HDD (WD Passort Elite) for the first time, the system had asked me whether I want to use this HDD as time machine drive. I've chosen smth like 'decide later' and continued my work. When later I tried to setup time machine preferences I couldn't find the way to set my USB HDD as time machine drive. When I press 'Select drive for backup' i see empty list, nevertheless my drive is plugged in and works well.
Btw, it is ntfs-formatted, could it be a problem?

Thanks in advance


texts: How do I extract a large voice memo file off my iPhone and into my mac. It is too large to email.


texts: Ask for text, pass to terminal, in Automator

texts:
I am trying to create a simple Automator service to quickly change metadata on photos. I would like to be able to select x amount of files, run the service, and get a popup that asks for the f-number I want to change to:

At the moment this is set up to grab selected files in finder, and run the following terminal command:

exiftool -FNumber="1.8" -overwrite_original_in_place "$@"

(exiftool us an application used to edit metadata)

This command works, but the FNumber is hardcoded to 1.8. I would like to be able to dynamically specify the f-number via the "Ask for text" command. However, I don't know how I can ask for text and use the selected files as inputs at the same time. Does anyo


texts: I had mysql running fine on OS X until I accidentally installed it via homebrew as well. I cant start mysql using preference pane and I cant login to phpmyadmin using my root password. Is there anything i can do?


texts: How to create new message in iChat without sending, using Automator to grab selected text

texts:
I am trying to create a service that grabs the URL of some link, then create a blank iMessage with that URL in the body. Basically, I want to recreate that Message share feature in Safari in Mountain Lion, but with Reeder.app, specifically. "Copy Link" from the context menu doesn't always work, esp. when sending to a iphone, the URL drops, and all you get is the alias.

I've set up an Automator with Applescript, and I can definitely send a message to a buddy, if those things are specified. I'd prefer to populate that in iMessage, since I won't always be sending to the same person.

Below works, using set input as a proxy for automator's url grabbing at the moment.

set input to "http://aol.com"
tell application "Messages"
          set theBuddy to buddy "camelot@mac.com" of service "iCloud"
          send input to theBuddy
end tell

Also tried

tell application "Messages"
    set theBuddy to buddy "*" of service "iCloud"
    set input to invitation message of text chat of service "iCloud"
end tell

Both from https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3923965?start=0&tstart=0


texts:
I have a MacBook Air (11-inch, Mid 2012) MD223LL/A MBAIR 11.6/1.7/4/64FLASH running OS X 10.7.5. It shipped with Lion. I want to reinstall the OS on the laptop without an internet connection. Is this possible on these newer machines? What are the steps?

Use-case:
The main purpose of the Macbook Air is to use it on the road when i travel. recently, I was testing my client's app on it and made lots of changes to the OS settings. Experimentation led to instability and the fastest way to get back is to reinstall the OS to a fresh start. I want it to be possible from a placewith out internet as well. On top of  it, I just realized that I can't reinstall OS X even with wifi using the recovery console, it led to the screen saying 'Could not find installation information for this machine. Contact AppleCare'. I paid a per-incident AppleCare call and they said they do not support non-internet recovery anymore and I have to take it to a care center to reinstall the OS for me(in the post laptop era, owner has no control of OS installation any more). Probably I have to end up paying to reinstall OS X, but I think I would use a disk cloner from now on.


texts: Is there a way to specify that a certain app always stay in memory?

texts:
I notice sometimes when I open the Reminders app (after not having opened it for a while), it takes a second to load. This is presumably because it is no longer in memory and loading from SSD. Is there a way I can tell OS X to never remove Reminders from memory?

P.S. I minimize Reminders, not close it. Which is why it sometimes stays in memory.


texts:
I just got a new 2TB hard drive and I wanted to set up Time Machine. I did and now it is backing up stuff.
On this page (http://www.howtogeek.com/212445/how-to-use-a-time-machine-drive-for-both-file-storage-and-backups/) I read that "When you set up Time Machine, your Mac wants to use an entire external drive exclusively for backups."
Is this true, what does it mean exactly?
Also is it possible to view folders in a regular manner after they are backed up on the hard drive without using Time Machine?


texts: In Disk Utility, does Secure Erase include the Erase Free Space option

texts: ...or do I need to Erase Free Space as well as Erase with secure option. I'm prepping a Mac for resale.


texts: Mail.app message selection gets reset when clearing the search box

texts:
If I search for something in my mailbox, select the message I'm interested in, then clear the search box (because I want to see the other messages that came in around the same time), the selection resets and I lose my selected message.

I thought there was once some option like "View message in mailbox" that could be used to select a given message without filtering out everything else, but I can't find it anywhere.

Am I imagining things?  Does this still exist?

-- Edit --

Trying to clarify with screencaps.

I search for and select a message.

I clear the search.

The message I had selected has been deselected
The message list pane has scrolled back to the top

What I want is for the message I had selected to still be selected, or at least visible on the screen.


texts: How to recover deleted voicemail from iPhone 4S?

texts: I have the iPhone 4S. This morning, I had 2 unheard voicemails. I attempted to listen to them but no sound was delivered and the progress bar did not move. A few minutes later I looked down and my messages were no longer there. Is there any way to recover these deleted voicemails?


texts:
For some time ago, I've exported my voice memos from my iPhone to my Mac for back-up purposes using iExplorer and deleted the originals.

Now, again using iExplorer, I tried to copy them back to my iPhone, to their original place although nothing copied showed up under Voice Memos. Probably iOS has a database file concerning the recordings. I've the previous database as well but copying it will for sure mess up the current new recordings under iOS.

The web is crowded with how to export your voice memos to your Mac but no one is talking about how to import them back to your iPhone and since my try failed, is anyone aware of a possible solution?


texts: How to fix "macOS needs to repair your library to run applications" after High Sierra upgrade?

texts:
After upgrading to High Sierra, I'm getting this error message about 30-50 times a day:

Is there any way to find out what is causing this error?  Any ideas how to fix it?


texts: Question on display resolution macbook air 2010

texts:
My 2010 MacBook Air shows a max display resolution of 1440 x 900.
If I attach to a display like the Apple 27" with 2560-by-1440-pixel resolution, will i be limited to the what the macbook air can put out?

I never understood if this is a video card limitation or a display limitation.

I am looking to get more on a screen, not just bigger that I see on the MBA.

Also, should i be looking for a monitor that is displayport or mini displayport since this is what I have or should i not worry since I can use a mini displayport to hdmi or dvi adaptor?

PS, I also have a Lenovo that has displayport out on it that I will use the new display on too.


texts: Is there a program that allows you to create keyboard shortcuts that consist of regular keys?

texts:
I'm looking for a method that will allow me to turn custom, nonstandard key combinations into a currently-unused intermediary key (like F16 or something). The intermediary key would then be able to be recognized in other applications (such as FastScripts), so that I can finally assign this intermediary keyboard shortcut to whatever action within that application that I desire.

By "nonstandard key combinations," I mean combinations that do not incorporate any modifier key (that is, ⌘ command,  ⌥ option, ⌃ control, fn, or ⇧ shift).

Examples of nonstandard key combinations, pressed simultaneously:

1 + 0
A + D
space bar + V
W + 5
tab + Q

I have installed Karabiner, but I don't see a way to accomplish this in Karabiner.

Are there any programs that can do what I am looking for?

OS X El Capitan, version 10.11.6.


texts: How can I get Safari to save passwords for a logged in Facebook account?

texts:
The account is logged in on Safari, but I don't know the password.

Is there any possible way to save the password and get Safari to autofill the password when I log out and fill the username?


texts: How can I fix Error: -69877: Couldn't open device after interrupted formatting process?

texts:
This question, possibly the same question, has been asked: Couldn't open device

However, my question hopefully demonstrates a more specific scenario as the situation in which caused the error explicitly known:

The following done as a root user:

I plugged in my SD card and ran diskutil list to grab the internal device node (/dev/disk2)
I ran diskutil partitionDisk /dev/disk2 GPT UFSD_EXTFS4 New 100% (UFSD_EXTFS4 is ext4 provided by Paragon)
I saw that it was working, so I interrupted the process at step 2.
I attempted to rerun the command with the number of partitions explicitly stated diskutil partitionDisk /dev/disk2 1 GPT UFSD_EXTFS4 New 100%

I get the message:

Started partitioning on disk2
Unmounting disk
Error: -69877: Couldn't open device

Running gpt show -l /dev/disk2 yields

start     size  index  contents
    0  7741440

Running gpt destroy /dev/disk2 yields

gpt destroy: unable to open device '/dev/disk2': Permission denied

It seems to me there is some lock on device disk2. I just need to figure out how to release it.

I was able to release it by rebooting into safe mode (holding shift key during boot) and then rebooting back into normal mode. I would like to know, however, what exactly could be done to release this lock without rebooting.


texts: How can I view movie subtitles on a new AppleTV?

texts:
I have an .avi and an .srt for a Mandarin movie. I used HandBrakeCLI to generate a M4V file that I could import into iTunes. In iTunes there is an option to turn the subtitles on and off, which works beautifully.

But when I move over to my AppleTV and select the movie from my computer's library, the subtitles do not show when played. I don't see any option in the AppleTV UI to turn subtitles on/off during movie playback.

All I could find was a setting in the Settings menu to set subtitles to "English" - would this be a global setting? Regardless it had no effect on my movie.

How can I view the subtitles when I watch on my AppleTV?

FYI here is the HandBrakeCLI command I used:

HandBrakeCLI -i /Volumes/Drobo/Movies/Ip\ Man\ The\ Legend\ is\ Born.avi -o /Users/emh/Desktop/movie.m4v --preset="AppleTV" --srt-file /Volumes/Drobo/Movies/Ip\ Man\ The\ Legend\ is\ Born.srt --srt-lang English --srt-default


texts: Catalina ask password to delete user but password is always wrong

texts:
I start to think this might be a bug in Catalina.

STEPS TO REPRODUCE:

I formatted my Mac-mini to factory reset (don't remember if was High Sierra or Mojave)
I created a user at first startup.
I upgraded to Catalina
After Catalina installation I create a few users admin and non
With a new admin user I can delete other admin or standard users without problem but I cannot delete the user created previously to Catalina. The message says:

  to delete the user you need to enter their password

I did it several time, is the password I still use it to login with that user and it won't delete the account.

(See the problem when I try to delete the 4th user: no options is prompted)

So there must have been some sort of change between OS version and users created after Catalina cannot manage users created before Catalina.

I also tried to change the password for the user, the problem persists.

I also tried to remove the user through Terminal, no joy:

sudo dscl . -delete /Users/"yourusername"

returns:

<main> delete status: eDSPermissionError

<dscl_cmd> DS Error: -14120 (eDSPermissionError)


texts: MacBook Air screen switches off randomly

texts:
Title says almost all of it, and no, it's not that my display sleeps after inactivity. It was 5 seconds after touching the keyboard, last time. It's done it twice so far.

Other thing is that when you hit some keys on the keyboard for a few seconds, and it turns back on, you hear a slight bzzt sound. Very slight.

Should I be worried?


texts: An Apple TV tried to AirDrop me a system diagnosis archive. What happened?

texts:
I was using my macbook, which is running macOS Sierra 10.12.1 (build 16B2555), normally until this airdrop notification appeared:

Out of curiosity, I accepted the AirDrop and an archive started downloading.

The item finally downloaded, and I discovered it was an archive! To be exact, it was a .tar.gz file that I unzipped with archive-utility.

There are only 2 Apple TVs that could've sent me this file. Both are signed into the same iCloud account, but haven't been touched when the AirDrop request appeared. In fact, neither had been connected to the new Internet router we had installed earlier. I looked in the crash file and it mentioned TestFlight and other tvOS apps, meaning it's the 4th generation Apple TV.

A few hours later, I continued working until I got the notification again. I downloaded another error log and decided to look at it. Here is my error_log.txt:

[1;31mERROR:[0m Tracing is off - cannot save trace data to tailspin file
Sampling all processes for 2 seconds with 250 milliseconds of run time between samples
Sampling completed, generating report...
2017-03-06 02:55:36.471549-0500 spindump[2104:310691] Failed to find matching kernel in /System/Library/Kernels, /
Failed to find matching kernel in /System/Library/Kernels, /
Spindump analysis written to file /var/mobile/Library/Logs/CrashReporter/DiagnosticLogs/sysdiagnose/sysdiagnose_2017.03.06_02-55-34-0500/spindump-nosymbols.txt
2017-03-06 02:55:42.956842-0500 spindump[2112:310854] Failed to find matching kernel in /System/Library/Kernels, /
Failed to find matching kernel in /System/Library/Kernels, /

What happened? Did the fourth-generation Apple TV crash, or was is something else?


texts: How to Use BTsync's file sharing by Bluetooth?

texts:
I established the bluetooth connection between the devices.
However, the speed download/upload still stays low (< 1 MB/s) between the devices while it should be much higher with Bluetooth 4.0 in both devices: Macbook Air Mid-2013 (adapter) and Samsung Galaxy S4.
BTsync should use local network to share data between the devices in the sharing.

I contacted the BTsync support about the issue

  Unfortunately we don't support bluetooth
  so Sync establishes connection through LAN or internet, if there are
  firewalls and NATs it can be established through relay server. But
  Sync uses the best possible connection for synchronization. We'll
  don't plan supporting bluetooth in nearest future but we'll think
  about it.

So it is completely technically possible to support file sharing in the local network by Bluetooth.

How can you enable BTsync file sharing by bluetooth in OS X with Android?


texts: Is there a Recovery Key for encrypted external drives?

texts: When you encrypt your startup disk with FileVault, macOS gives you a recovery key. Does macOS also create one for external drives? If not, would it be possible to make it create one?


texts: How do I set up SSH to open a single application?

texts:
iMac 7,1 running OSX 10.10.3
Dell Inspiron 740, running Windows 7 Home Premium

My aging mother has a Windows PC and a Mac, which she prefers using. Sometimes my dad is using the Mac, so she's stuck using the Windows PC (it's specifically for her) until he's done. Her favorite part of the Mac is using the Mail app, which I've tried time and again to find an equivalent, but nothing's got everything. I've now had the thought to just set up PuTTY on her computer to open an Xsession via SSH, on a user specific to her, and have the Mail app open automatically. How do I set this up?


texts: Shutdown keyboard shortcut on MacBook Pro with Touchbar

texts: So on previous Apple computers, one could shutdown using the keyboard shortcut Ctrl + Option + Cmd + Eject/Power. However, the new MacBook Pro w/ Touchbar has neither an eject nor a power key. Does this mean that the shortcut no longer exists for this computer?


texts: Shuffling Songs from Multiple Playlists on iPhone

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I'd like to play songs from multiple playlists on my iPhone and iCloud. I use iTunes Match which clearly introduces some limitations.

The closest I've come is to create a Smart Playlist, with the rules stating to include songs from specified other playlists.

However, since iCloud does not sync smart playlists that reference other playlists, it does not make it to my iPhone. I can only listen to it from iTunes on my Mac.

Is there any other route to achieving this, without manually sweeping the songs whenever I make a change to one of the referenced playlists?


texts: Is it possible to mount a hard drive to the back of a cinema display?

texts:
I'm looking for a way to mount a Thunderbolt Hard Drive to the back of a Cinema Display.  I remember seeing a way for a hard drive to be mounted to the original monitor stand, but I am using this Sanus monitor stand below.

Can anyone think of a way to mount a hard drive to the monitor or stand and still keep the ability to rotate the monitor 90 degrees?

http://store.apple.com/us/product/H6017LL/A


texts: Connecting a hardrive to an ipad for iMovie

texts: Want to use my ipad for light movie editing computer. The 32 gigs is not cutting it. Is their a way to connect a hardrive to the ipad to use in imovie? I have in the past used icloud to store the bulk of the videos to edit on the ipad. This worked but i had to pay a few dollars a month, download the video files i wanted to splice and i could not work off line.


texts: Simple remote access to another Mac or PC

texts:
I frequently get asked by various poeple to fix or help them with their computers (Windows XP, Windows 7, OSX Leopard, OSX Snow Leopard, OSX Lion). What is currently the best secure, free (or cheap) and most imporantly simple way to remotely access the desktop of another Mac or PC over the internet from my Mac (OSX Lion).

It should be especially simple for the person at the other end asking for help because often they are not too computer-savvy. It should invlove nothing more than starting an application or enabling a checkbox in the settings. It would also be really nice if I could do remote access from my iPhone while I am on the go. It should also be possible to exchange files.


texts: double-side printing: blank pages are not counted as even?

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Mac OS X: 10.14.6
Preview: 10.1 (944.6.16.1)
Printer: Canon 2900

I followed this to print double-side: How to control manual double-side printing on Mac OS X Lion?

The problem: when choosing "Even only", the blank pages are not printed. Given an example: I have a pdf file with 10 pages: page 6 and 8 are blank

Odd only: will print 1, 3, 5, 7, 9
Even only (reverse order): only print 10, 4, 2

so the result is:

1 |
3 |
5 | 2
7 | 4
9 | 10

What is the reason? How can I make the blank pages are printed as normal (even) pages?


texts:
iPhone X running iOS 12.3.2 - 4 digit passcode.
iCloud backup, but has been deleted online as well have I changed Apple ID password.

I know that AES 256 bit encryption cannot be decrypted, and I know about the USB Restricted Mode.

The phone was past boot phase and had been unlocked once. However, when I lost it, USB Restricted Mode was enabled.
is it therefore impossible to brute force it? Because brute forcing such a weak code would be child’s play.

Also would it be possible for a hacker/police to just physically remove the hard drive from the phone, then insert it into some other machine and proceed to brute force?

I know about the fbi case with apple, but that was a while ago. Maybe things have changed? I know the Israelis forensic team and Greykit can unlock up to iOS 12.3. Mine version is 12.3.2

Also how does Checkm8 fit into all of this?

Thx in advance!


texts: How Do You Force Quit (i.e. Kill/Crash) the Foreground App on iOS Devices Without a Home Button?

texts:
On iOS devices with a home button, it was possible to kill the foreground application by:

Pressing & holding the power button until the "slide to power off" screen appeared, then
Pressing & holding the home button until the foreground app is killed

This would cause the foreground app to exit immediately. I've used this occasionally over the years when a bug in an app was severe enough that a regular "quit" triggered by swiping up on the multitasking view was not sufficient to get the app back into a usable state. It has saved me from having to un-install/re-install misbehaving apps on a few occasions.
I can't find any official reference to the above "force quit" procedure on Apple's current support article (https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201412).
Googling "force quit" is also not helpful, as the results are full of articles giving instructions on how to quit applications from the multitasking view (which is not actually "force quitting"/killing).
Does anyone know the procedure to kill the foreground app on iOS devices without a home button?


texts: Unable to browse Image folders through Whatsapp

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On opening whatsapp, if I want to send any photos via option 'Choose Existing Photo' to any of my contacts, the only thing I can browse is 'Camera Roll' and 'Favorites'. Apart from these two I have many folders in my iphone.

Can someone help me how can I let whatsapp see the rest of the folders? Is there any setting I need to change?

Any help much appreciated. It's becoming very painful to share photos and the only method right now is via copy and paste individually.


texts:
I'm looking for a method to run a script (well, a single shell command) when my laptop wakes from sleep.

This question has been asked before, but 8 years ago (for OS X Lion), and several of the answers require third-party products that are now no longer developed.

Another option might be for the script to run at any time, once per day, when it's up and running, but I don't want it to miss an allotted time slot just cause it's not awake. I'm not so bothered about triggering a script at sleep time.


texts: How to set a fixed title for a terminal in Mac?

texts:
I am working a lot with terminals in a Mac with OS 10.13.6 and I want to set a title of a terminal (I have several terminal tabs open).

I know that I can select the tab, go to Shell -> Edit Title and set the title of the terminal.

However, when I - for example - run a command, login to some other computer etc. - that title is always overwritten.

How can I have a FIXED title for a Terminal Tab FOR ALL TIMES (except I turn off/reboot the laptop)?

Complete example so that my question is REALLY understood:

I open a terminal in the Mac
In the manu of the Terminal I select Shell -> Edit Title and change the title:
The title of the tab is like I want it:
In that terminal I start ipython (AS AN EXAMPLE!!!).
The title has been changed. This NOT what I want!
I still want the title to be 'Test Title'.


texts: iTunes on PandaBoard/Raspberry Pi or other single board computer

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Has anyone being able to get iTunes to run on a single board computer like PandaBoard or Raspberry Pi?

I would like to do this to build a low cost, low power-consuming media center. If one could bring iTunes to run on such a low cost single board computer, it could be utilized as a music/video server which could be controlled via Apple's Remote App on iOs devices (e.g. I could stream music to AirPlay speakers or videos to Apple TV). I would also be able to stream music/videos it to my iOS device or Mac when Home Sharing is activated.

So, is this possible? Is there such a computer that is fast enough to do video streaming, running iTunes, attach HDD? Or are they all too slow? Any other obstacles?


texts: Where on the target computer can I find the files the Migration Assistant left when the migration process was interrupted?

texts:
As a newbie, I decided to use Migration Assistant to copy my files from my Sony Viao windows platform to a newly purchased macbook pro.

Within the process the connection was interrupted, as it is taking ages to copy 300GB. The decision was made to copy them on a HDD and manually move them to the Mac.

However, I kept on looking for the files which were processed halfway, I am not sure where I could find them.


texts: How do I use spell check in OSX with several languages?

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I often need to write emails in French that contain English technical words and it seems that the spell check in OSX can't understand that a document can contain both languages.

The result is either French or English words are red-underlined and this isn't pretty.

I've tried the trick on How to make Firefox to spellcheck in multiple languages simultaneously? that consists in merging several .dic and .aff files downloaded from titoBouzout/Dictionaries but the grammar check is less precise than the default OSX one.


texts: What are Mac alternatives to Storage Spaces in Windows 8/Windows Server 2012?

texts: I like the Storage Spaces feature in Windows 8/Windows Server 2012, but since I'm mostly working on Mac computers I would like to know if there are any Mac alternatives or equivalents.


texts: Can I use Apple TV First Gen as a wifi extender?

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I have my router on one end of the house and my xbox on the total opposite side. My mom won't let me run an ethernet cord down stairs and won't let me reposition the router in the middle of the house. All i have is a first gen apple tv and since it has wifi and an ethernet port, I thought I could use it in some way to get the wifi signal and repeat it through the ethernet to my xbox. I have seen people put leopard on the first gen aTV and I thought maybe I should do that as a last resort (the sharing internet option). I come to this amazing community for help incase there's an alternative to my last resort.

Thank you!!


texts: Do you see video artefacts on your MacBook Pro when opening the Java control panel?

texts:
Calling all MacBook Pro 15" 2018 owners, particularly owners of the 2.6 GHz model. Would you be willing to test something on your 2018 MBP? (15”?). Install the latest Java JRE (https://download.oracle.com/otn-pub/java/jdk/8u192-b12/750e1c8617c5452694857ad95c3ee230/jre-8u192-macosx-x64.dmg).
I see weird video artefacts every time when I do this:

The test needs to be performed without an external display attached as it appears to involve the discrete GPU.

I need to figure out whether my MBP 2018 needs a repair before I leave the country on Tuesday … The issue isn’t permanent, by the way! If you relaunch the Finder, it goes away.

I'm running OSX Mojave 10.14.2.


texts: Can I use the iPhone's cellular internet while connected to the Apple TV?

texts:
I need to be able to access the internet during presentations involving the Apple TV and the iPhone, using the Apple TV as the AV link from the phone.

My experience has been that connecting to a wifi network disables the data connection to my carrier.  In many cases the wifi network I attach the phone and the apple TV to have internet access, so it's no problem.

I anticipate having to present in a situation where the wifi network won't have internet access.

Is there a way I can set up the iPhone and Apple TV so I can use the phone's internet data while still connected to the Apple TV?


texts:
I have about 20 login items in my profile, and I often can use Alfred from the very beginning stage of the system start, but sometimes not. Will be great if I can say the system to load Alfred first and then the others.

Is there anyway of doing this?


texts: After restoring FTP server in High Sierra, how to log in to localhost?

texts:
I followed the instructions here https://apple.stackexchange.com/a/312273/72004 to get an FTP server running on High Sierra. But when I log in to localhost, it doesn't recognize me as a user.

% ftp localhost
Trying ::1...
Connected to localhost.
220 ::1 FTP server (tnftpd 20100324) ready.
Name (localhost:[my username]): [my username]
530 Login incorrect.
ftp: Login failed

What gives? How can I restore myself as an FTP user? Thanks!


texts: Should I use the manufacture's print driver instead of secure AirPrint?

texts: I've noticed that macOS appears to default to using secure AirPrint as it's printer driver over the manufacture's printer driver. Any reason why I should choose one over the other?


texts: Add Cut file/folder option to right click or Context menu

texts: I use Lion on my Macbook pro 13". I would like to add a context menu item called "Move" or "Cut" (just like Copy) and when I go to the desired location and hit "Paste", it should Move the file/folder I selected and paste it there. Is this possible in Lion?


texts: How do I open TCP ports 7080 and 7090 for use with Merlin?

texts: I'm trying to set up Merlin server on my Mac to send a GANTT chart to my iPad. I need to open TCP ports 7080 and 7090 for it to work. What's the best way to open those ports?


texts: Replace Messages app with something else and have it use my phone number?

texts:
Is there a way for me to use a different app to send/receive SMS messages on my iPhone, and still use my same phone number?
It'd be great if it could become the default for sending messages on my iPhone, without jailbreaking.
So I'd like an app that

defaults to sending SMS messages, even for contacts that have iMessage
reuses my existing phone number when sending/receiving SMS messages

So in theory, it's like I have an Android phone, and only know how to send/recive SMS messages ;-)
EDIT: Note my main problem is that when I have iMessage disabled, other people still try to send me iMessages, which I dont get if I have iMessage disabled of course!


texts: time machine recover from specific sparsbundle

texts:
My time machine has three sparsebundles. Obviously something wen wrong long time ago.

I am also missing files for a while and most probably they are in the oldest sparsebundle.

How do I access a specific sparsebundle and explore files in them?


texts: Force Quick Look to treat .in files like .txt files

texts:
I would like Quick Look to treat files that have .in extension like regular text files, meaning show me the contents of the file after I click spacebar on them.

How can I configure my system to work that way?


texts: My mail in iPad is acting terrible.  Many mails seem to have their contents and the header (sender, cc and subject) mixed up,  contents from one mail have the headers from another mail.  How do I fix it?


texts: Sync MP3 files from iTunes on Mac to Apple Music on iPhone

texts:
I have a MacBook Air running macOS Mojave and an iPhone 6 running iOS 12.

I have MP3 files from a friend that I put on to my PC using a USB drive. They play fine in iTunes. However, they do not show up in my Apple Music on my iPhone.

I'm guessing this is because I did not purchase them from the iTunes Store, but I'm not sure why.

How do I get the MP3 file from iTunes on my Mac to Apple Music app on my iPhone?


texts: Finding iPhone 3G firmware version after full reset

texts:
I "reset all settings and erased all data" on my iPhone 3G yesterday using iTunes. The phone is locked to At&t, and since I do not have a SIM from At&t, I am unable to go past the lock screen to view the firmware and the iOS version.
What firmware and iOS version does iPhone 3G have after completely resetting it using the latest version of iTunes?


texts: Can't mount Volume via Applescript as a login time

texts:
So I have this script that I saved as an application and added it my login items.

tell application "Finder" to mount volume "afp://Data_Cube.local/Scotts Stuff"
delay 5
tell application "iTunes" to activate

However when I login I get an error dialog with this message "Connection is invalid.
Finder got an error: Connection is invalid. (-609)"

If I click the edit button in the error dialog it opens up the Script Editor.   I press the run button and the volume is mounted just fine.

Any ideas why my volume won't mount when used as a login item?   FYI I'm using Yosemite.


texts: Python continuously crashing after Catalina update

texts:
During my regular development tasks, there is no problem with python. I can activate my virtual environments, interpreter and keep on development with no error whatsoever.

However, randomly MacOS pops up "Problem Report for Python" dialog. This is started after I've upgrade to 10.15 Catalina.

I have no idea how to fix it since everything related python is working correctly as far as I can see.

Here is full log message. Any help is appreciated.


texts: Remote Simulator to Windows option doesn't exist

texts: How can get Remote Simulator to Windows when it doesn't exist?


texts: Virus Scan Windows 8 Bootcamp Partition from OS X?

texts:
Is there any software I can use to scan a bootcamp partition on OSX for viruses from OS X?

I prefer to run the scan from OS X because:

Typically Windows anti-virus solutions are more like full suites that
require an installation. I do not wish to install anything like that
because it would incur a performance penalty.
As I understand it, running the scan from outside the OS you're
scanning means that anything potentially malicious on the OS won't
interfere with the scan.

I suppose I could use a bootdisk of some kind but that is difficult because some bootdisks are not compatible with macbooks.

So I figure if OSX is already hosting/aware of the Windows partition I should be able to easily scan it from OSX right?


texts: Not able to delete calendar event in iPhone

texts:
I'm facing this issue that i have accepted a friend's invitation for call and it got added as a calendar event in my iPhone. Now the issue is when i'm opening it, there i'm unable to find the edit button from which i can delete this event from the calendar.

Has anyone faced similar issue like this. Any help is appreciated.


texts:
I recently bought a MacBook Air 13", to use at my university (Technical University of Denmark).

But when I am using my laptop in a place with many other laptops, OSX crashes every 5 minutes (kernel panic). Other people have experienced the problem here: Apple Support Thread

Someone in the thread suggests disabling IPv6, but this does not solve the problem.

Have anybody in here experienced this problem, or can anybody figure out a solution?

I use: OSX Version 10.7.2, Build 11C74


texts: How to limit bandwidth of a specific app (iTunes)

texts:
I'm currently downloading another series of 24, and I'm also downloading photoshop cs6 beta in Safari. iTunes is steadily downloading 24, several episodes ahead of where I'm watching, but photoshop CS6 is downloading much slower (if I pause 24, then it speeds up significantly)

Given that it's downloading several episodes ahead, I would like to slow down iTunes so that Safari can download CS6 faster. (but not pause iTunes because it's getting close to peak times when my connection is throttled, so it's best to use as much data as possible beforehand)

Is there a built in feature of OSX or iTunes that lets you allocate bandwidth to apps?
Or is there a 3rd party app that allows you to do this?


texts: Yosemite - Require password after sleep is disabled

texts:
I am trying to prevent the system to always ask for the password when it wakes up from sleep.

I have a MacbookPro with Yosemite 10.10.5.
User has admin rights and password different than the iCloud one.
FileVault is off.

The System Preferences > Security and Privacy > "Require password [5 seconds] after sleep or screen saver begins" is disabled and there's no way to enable it.

If I execute defaults read com.apple.screensaver i get:

{
    askForPassword = 0;
}

If I execute defaults -currentHost write com.apple.screensaver askForPasswordDelay -int 3600 the defaults don't change...


texts: I have a 2009 MacBook Pro 15". What would I need to buy in order to be able to use my LED HDTV with it, and which wireless keyboard works the best with it?


texts: How to get rid of ios beta update messages?

texts:
I keep getting these, awful, pop-ups - almost every time I open my phone from lock.

A new iOS update is now available. Please update from the iOS 11 beta.

I'm on 11.2 (15C5092b).
Software Update page says:

iOS 11.2
Your software is up to date.

So: What is this mess? and How do I get rid of it?


texts: Lost admin privileges on user account during rename, trying to access data from that user account

texts:
I wanted to rename my user account and followed the following Apple support directions: https://support.apple.com/hr-hr/HT201548

Per the instructions, I created a new user account with admin privileges, and while logged in under the new account, I first renamed my original user folder (under /Users/ (via Finder > Go To Folder)). Next, under System Prefs > Users & Groups, I right clicked on my original account and clicked advanced options. I changed the account name field to match what I had just renamed the user folder. The “Full name” field was my full name. Notably, I did not edit the “Home directory” field (I believe this is what caused my problem). I hit OK and restarted, and when I logged in as the original user, whose name I had just tried to change, my data was gone, I got all the prompts to set up my Mac, etc. Under System Prefs > Users & Groups, I noticed that both the account I was logged into and the admin account I’d just created to do the name change had lost admin privileges (both were “Standard”). When I tried to unlock and access advanced settings, none of my previous admin username/password combos worked.

I read this thread: < Renaming user failed, lost admin rights> and ended up booting up in single user mode to create a new user with admin privileges. I was able to grant admin rights back to my original user account. However, this account still had none of my data. Under Advanced Options in System Pref, the "Account Name" field for the original user had not changed -- it was still the original account name which I had tried to get rid of.

Under /Users/ I can see that my data is still there a user folder -- its name is the name I had tried to change in the "Account Name" field for the original user, yet it isn’t associated with any of the users listed under Users & Groups. It’s in limbo.

How can I regain access to this user account and it’s data? I thought about simply changing the "Account Name" field of one of the users with admin privileges which I can access in Users & Groups match the user folder name, but I don’t want to overwrite the data in that folder.

Thanks!


texts:
I updated to iTunes 11.0.2 very recently, and I'm fairly certain this version specifically brought a change of wording regarding deleting songs from iCloud, and I'm curious if there's changed functionality to match.

After perusing Apple's support documentation, it seems I was correct:

I intend to replace the current version of this song, and figured the easiest way to ensure everything updates would be to delete the song from iCloud and my Library, and then import the new version.

Now that the functionality of deleting songs has changed, how do I delete the song from both my local library and iCloud as well?


texts:
I have the problem that QuickLook does not allow me to preview .txt files, despite being plain text. For instance here

you see—no preview. Pressing Space does not help

However, Spotlight does show me the preview

How can this be? I am quite sure that originally, text file previews worked.
Could this have to do with MacVim being the default application for this file type? I am on 10.10.4 and have the following QL plugins installed:

BetterZipQL
iBooksAuthor
iWork
QLColorCode
qlImageSize
QLMarkdown
QLStephen
QuickLookJSON
Suspicious Package
Video
WebP


texts: Missing folders after OS X El Capitan upgrade

texts: Anyone else upgrade to El Capitan only to have all their folders disappear? Looks like all my files are still there but they are all under "All my files", years worth of archiving gone! Any help would be much appreciated :)


texts:
I messed up with my trackpad settings. I am also using bettertouchtool.

The problem is three finger drag has completely stopped working. None of trackpad settings in system preferences or options under accessibility are helping.

Is there any way I can reset trackpad settings to original, the way it came with factory. I tried resetting PRAM, not helped. Any way to get back the default trackpad settings.


texts: Would it be possible to set up a BLE mesh so that IPhones and Macs could pair to the mesh, initiate AirDrop, and use the access points as wifi repeaters (or just run the data through the existing network), allowing airdrop to happen at longer ranges than the native antennas of the devices would allow?


texts:
I want to add a second IP address on my Mac like on Ubuntu.

On Ubuntu I use this:

$ sudo ip addr add 192.168.1.12/24 dev eth0

On my Mac I used this:

$ sudo ifconfig en0 alias 192.168.1.12/24

On Ubuntu every computer on my local network can reach 192.168.1.12, however on my Mac it's not the same behavior, I can reach the local IP only on the computer and not on the others.

Do you know what can be the problem?


texts: Change Black Macbook Pro screen to something cool when music is playing?

texts: When I am playing music on my Macbook Pro and don't touch the computer for a while, the screen goes black and the music is still playing. How do I change the black screen to something cool that goes with the music?


texts: Two Identical Monitors Plugged in with USB-C

texts:
I have two identical Lenovo P24h-10 monitors plugged into my Macbook.  Each one has it's own USB-C cord.  I thought about using a single Display Port cord and then daisy-chaining them together, but each monitor has USB outlets that I'm using to connect my peripherals so I don't need a separate hub.  I've noticed there is a 50% chance that the display arrangement will be flipped every time my computer wakes from sleep.  I think this is because there is no way for my computer to differentiate between the two.  Is there a way to set a name on my monitors?
In the Display Preferences, each monitor is listed as P24h-10 (1) and P24h-10 (2), and they can change.
This seems like a really silly problem to have.  I'm hoping there is an easy fix, but I've been scouring the internet for weeks now looking for some help.  Any thoughts?


texts:
In the Mac Mail app, copying an email address of someone in your address book (e.g. from the header of some message) and pasting it elsewhere (e.g. in Text Edit) will result in "first_name last_name <mail address>" being pasted rather than just mail address or at least  "<mail address>".

There used to be a Preference setting for this (see e.g. this osxdaily.com article), but this does not seem to work under Yosemite.

Is there a way to paste only the mail address, also if multiple contacts are copied under Yosemite?


texts: Where is the dividing line (mount point) of the two iOS partitions?

texts: I know that iOS has two partitions, but I've never found anywhere that gives clues as to where they split. Is one partition on / and the other on /var/mobile/, or are all the user profiles (/var/root/, /var/wireless/, etc) on the second partition (at /var)? Is it possible to resize these partitions? On the same note, is /var a symbolic link to /private/var/ or is it the other way around?


texts: Youtube-dl is returning errors when grabbing from Mixcloud

texts:
In short - I thought my earlier Python 3 enquiry would solve my problem with Youtube-dl but it didn't. I am working through a reddit enquiry I put in a couple of weeks ago and am now a bit stumped:

https://www.reddit.com/r/youtubedl/comments/frq8kr/am_getting_errors_when_grabbing_things_from/

For clarification I'm just looking to grab some mixes whilst working from home during lockdown.

My mac is an aging 2012 iMac, am running 10.12.6, XCode is 8.2, Python have 2.7 that it was installed with, 2.7.16 and 3.7 something.

Youtube-dl is only appearing to pick up 2.7 however;

e.g. youtube-dl --verbose - returns the following;

[debug] System config: []

[debug] User config: [u'-o', u'~/Downloads/%(title)s-%(id)s.%(ext)s']

[debug] Custom config: []

[debug] Command-line args: [u'--verbose']

[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8

[debug] youtube-dl version 2020.01.01

[debug] Python version 2.7.10 (CPython) - Darwin-16.7.0-x86_64-i386-64bit

[debug] exe versions: avconv 11.4, avprobe 11.4

[debug] Proxy map: {}

Usage: youtube-dl [OPTIONS] URL [URL...]

The error I'm returning is the following;

ERROR: Unable to download JSON metadata:  (caused by URLError(SSLError(1, u'[SSL: TLSV1_ALERT_PROTOCOL_VERSION] tlsv1 alert protocol version (_ssl.c:590)'),))

The thought in the thread was people were thinking it was the OpenSSL libraries that needed updating. I'd hoped downloading a newer version of Python would have solved that but it didn't appear to.

Am a little stumped now and outside of my level of expertise which is frankly limited at the best of times.

I would be grateful for any advice or suggestions.


texts:
One of the new features listed in the iOS 6 release notes is

automatic movie mode for improved video sound quality

What does this feature do?


texts: How do I know if a time machine backup is running?

texts:
Due to APFS having a mind of its own and filling the hard disk with unwanted snapshots, I made a cron to run tmutil deletelocalsnapshots xxx. Later I found out that running this command while a backup is in progress will stop the backup. How can I know if a time machine backup is in progress to avoid running the command? The man page for tmutil doesn't list any status command.

Right now I'm doing the following in the script, since now backups mount at /Volumes/Time Machine Backups/:

ls -d /Volumes/Time* 2>/dev/null|grep Machin >/dev/null

if [[ $? != 0 ]]; then
     # run here tmutil snapshot deletion commands
fi

However, this doesn't seem to be very precise. The volume may be mounted some minutes later after a backup has started, and also stopping a backup leaves that mounted volume for a while. Finally, the name of the mounted volume might change in the future, making the check useless.


texts:
As a lot of people here, I updated my Maverick to Yosemite. I've a MacBook Pro 2011 (early) and a Apple Display connected with a Thunderbolt. My question is: am I the only one that see the font edge not so clear? It seems a little bit blurred but enough to be annoying.

In particular the font are really annoying in Safari tab title, and system bar.

BTW: I want back old font. Now.


texts: How do I bypass "this connection is not private" warnings in safari?

texts:
I am doing development work. We have some test equipment that uses a self-generated SSL certificate. When I try to browse to the equipment in our lab, I get an error that "this connection is not private". However, the only 2 options available are "Show details" and "Go Back".

Show details just lets me look at the info on the certificate, which shows all of the expected self-signed details.

There is no way to tell safari to acknowledge the error and continue onwards. At least not obviously. How do I bypass this error and continue onwards? I'm using safari 11, on OS X sierra.


texts: Set preview.app to default to "content only" view

texts: Is there any way to make (Mountain Lion) Preview's default view 'content only'?


texts: What is the MD5 or SHA1 checksum of the OS X 10.8.2 update?

texts:
I am choosing to download and utilize the OS X 10.8.2 dmg update method, since I have multiple Macs to update. For one reason or another, the download did not finish completely through the web browser. I continued and completed the download with wget --continue <url> in a terminal.

I would like to be sure that the file is without corruption, but Apple doesn't seem to post checksums with the downloads. What are the MD5 or SHA1 checksums of both the 10.8.2 delta and combo update dmg files?


texts: Can I retrieve deleted photos (beyond 1,000) from Photo Stream?

texts: Is there any way to access photos from my Photo Stream that were there yesterday before I stupidly downloaded my SD card with over 1,000 photos on it.  Are those earlier photos gone forever or stored somewhere in the Cloud?


texts:
I have a Mac Pro running dual Xeon X5675s (3.06 Ghz). I purchased 8 16GB PC3L-8500R DIMMs in the hope of upgrading it to 128GB. It sees all the memory, but it's only running it at 800 Mhz (PC3-8500 should run at 1066 Mhz). Is this a limitation of the amount of memory, or is it something about these DIMMMs that it doesn't like? I tried another CPU card (also with X5675s) and got the same result. With the original 4GB DIMMs, it runs at the expected speed.

ETA: I'm answering my own question. This is apparently a weakness of the architecture. If I remove the fourth DIMM from each bank, the memory runs at the correct speed.


texts: Possible to preload apps in supervisor mode and prevent them from being uninstalled?

texts: I don't have a Mac or a personal Ipad to experiment with. I am trying to prevent a user from removing certain apps (not all apps). Can I stop the user from removing individual apps on a supervised device?


texts: Sometimes, when one is installing a programme, a dialogue box will appear asking for an administrator password to allow the installer to ‘make changes’. That seems fine, but wouldn’t it be easy for an installer to fake this and send the password back to the author (and the IP etc.)? Is there a way to make sure this diologue box is indeed from the OS? (And see what exactly is being allowed?)


texts: Is it possible to mount an ext4 partition, Luks encrypted SDCARD on a MacBook?

texts:
I saw the question below and now I know that I'm able to mount a EXT4 disk in a MacBook:
Mount Ext4 on El Capitan
But I do need to mount a LUKS encrypted disk. Is it possible?


texts: Keep right angles in line connecting objects in OmniGraffle

texts:
Two part question, about connector lines.

Can I draw a line connecting objects that automatically breaks with right angle turns?

If not, I can manually create breaks while drawing a connector line by making single clicks. If going this route, is there a way to keep the breaks at 90-degree right angles?

Basically the same question as this one but about OmniGraffle rather than PowerPoint.


texts: How to use Keychain to Auto Login into Authenticated Websites

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I am running El Capitan.

I added login credentials into Keychain as follows:

Name/Where (the full web url)
Account (the login username)
Password (the login password)

I then launched the web page and was thinking that what keychain would do is auto fill the login credentials.

Nothing happened.

Am I mis-understanding what keychain is and does?

Is there a way on the macbook to auto populate the username and password on a website?

Thank you...and be kind please -- I am a long time PC user and just got my first macbook the other day so I am trying to learn and make my way around the new machine.


texts: Problems updating El Capitan to High Sierra using bootable USB

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I'm running into a series of issues while attempting to install High Sierra on a mid-2013 Mac Pro currently running El Capitan.

Both when trying to update using the standard installer, and when booting from a USB installer created following the instructions here, I run into the same issue:

Midway through the install, a dialog appears stating that "macOS could not be installed on your computer An error occurred while verifying firmware."

When I restart from this dialog, a new one appears after restart stating that "The path /System/Installation/Packages/OSInstall.mpkg appears to be missing or damaged."

When I attempt to search for OSInstall.mpkg from the terminal in recovery mode, the following command:

find / -name OSInstall.mpkg

yields this response:

find: /dev/fd/3: Not a directory
find: /dev/fd/4: Not a directory

So I don't appear to have an option to copy the install media to the expected directory as some users appear to have done.

I see that this is a problem other users have encountered, but most seem to have succeeded by installing from USB, which is failing in my case. What's the recommended course of action from here?


texts: How to find an older version of Microsoft Office 365 for MacBook 10.11.6

texts: The harddisk of the MacBook crashed. Now I want te re-install Office 365, but the latest version needs 10.12.0. My MacBook (medio 2009) has El Capitan 10.11.6. more is not possible. Who knows a solution?


texts: Apple software: moving Mail to an older computer

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My Macbook Pro under Sierra needs repair. While it is being repaired, I am reverting to an old machine running Yosemite. Does anyone know if the format of Apple Mail files has changed between Yosemite and Sierra?

My idea is to copy Library/Mail from the machine for repair to the Yosemite machine. Will that work? Are there other files (for Apple Mail) that I should copy before taking it to the repair shop? Presumably plist files should not be copied over.

Thanks, David


texts: Zulip desktop app has "no available windows"

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I have the Zulip desktop app installed on Mojave 10.14.6, and I often cannot open any Zulip windows. When I right-click on the Zulip icon in the dock and select "show all windows", I just see the message "no available windows." I have tried quitting and restarting the app, selecting "unhide" from the menu, reset (cmd-R), hard-reset (shift-cmd-R), and various other menu options (such as toggling which organizations to show), with no effect. I have even restarted my laptop without being able to recover.

I was able to recover the app once by uninstalling and reinstalling, but it soon disappeared again.

Is there any way to fix this in Zulip specifically or other apps in general?


texts:
I can't seem to transfer a file from my iPhone to my MacBook (running Big Sur 11.2) recently. I have already checked and that both devices have their Wi-Fi and Bluetooth on. Both devices are set in the "everyone" mode for airdrop. I cannot find the device in the airdrop menu on my phone, and it just shows "No People Found". I have handoff and firewall off on my Mac. However, it works when I send a file from my Mac to my iPhone.
I have searched other questions on this site, but those say that there are no response when they click on it instead of "no people found".
Edit: I've also tried to disable airdrop and enabling it again as well.
I rebooted my mac and it works now. I still wonder why it doesn't work though.


texts: OS X El Capitan: Connected to Wi-Fi / Personal Hotspot network but not connected to Internet

texts:
I recently updated to El Capitan.

But now when connection is established with my college's Wi-Fi network I am unable to use internet. Same goes for Personal Hotspots.

Everything was working fine in Yosemite.

How can I fix this?


texts:
I use outlook as client for an exchange server.

I created several rules that are local to the mac (as opposed to server side rules), and I want to apply them for past messages.

I can't find a way. - Even when I create the rule, I don't see any option to apply it to past messages.

It would be fine also to be able to move several selected messages to a folder, but when I create a filter it seems also difficult!!!
If I select all messages in the filter, upon right click on one of them, the selection goes away (because of the message preview I think)

If I select multiple messages in Inbox, right click is working and I could move all of them, but I must perform multiple selection manually...

Is it that difficult on Outlook 2011 overs 14.3 ?


texts: How can I open a file with extension DAA on Mac?

texts: How do I open a file with a .daa file extension on my Mac? Is there a Mac program that will convert it to an ISO image?


texts: Boot Camp install of Windows 10 gets stuck on first logo and spinner

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I follow all the steps of the official documentation https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201468 . I have a MacBook Pro 2016 with macOS High Sierra. The computer restarts automatically and attempts to boot into the windows setup.

As soon as the screen below shows up, the computer seems to freeze. The dotted progress spinner does not spin. I've waited for hours and nothing happens.

After I forcefully shutdown and restart into macOS, I can see that the partition was created fine.

Edit with output of diskutil list

/dev/disk0 (internal):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                         251.0 GB   disk0
   1:                        EFI EFI                     314.6 MB   disk0s1
   2:                 Apple_APFS Container disk1         134.0 GB   disk0s2
   3:       Microsoft Basic Data BOOTCAMP                116.7 GB   disk0s3

/dev/disk1 (synthesized):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      APFS Container Scheme -                      +134.0 GB   disk1
                                 Physical Store disk0s2
   1:                APFS Volume Macintosh HD            39.9 GB    disk1s1
   2:                APFS Volume Preboot                 19.9 MB    disk1s2
   3:                APFS Volume Recovery                520.8 MB   disk1s3
   4:                APFS Volume VM                      1.1 GB     disk1s4


texts: Have iTunes Link maker show localized images?

texts: Using the iTunes Link Maker, is there a way to have the "Available on the App Store" image show up localized? The image (the one with the black background below) always show up in English and having it localized all way would be nice. I know Apple provides localized graphics for download, but it'd be nice to have work on the fly with the iTunes Link Maker.


texts: macOS Photos.app - Names Missing on Shared Albums

texts:
Recently the names from users of my shared album have disappeared from the activity feeds (See picture) - this has only happened on the desktop, both the iPhone and iPad are fine.

Just updated to High Sierra and hoped the issue would fix itself - but nope, still a problem. Any ideas? Searching for answers hasn't revealed anything.


texts: Font smoothing for pdf files in OSX Yosemite Safari vs Skim

texts:
I produce a lot of pdf files using LaTeX and thus, I also read a lot of such files. After the update to OS X 10.10 the fonts are not smooth anymore. However, Safari seems to handle it much better than Skim (see screenshot for comparison).

The option "Use LCD font smoothing when available" is enabled; without it, the texts are almost unreadable. Anyone has any clue how to make the font looking better?

Screenshot 1 :

Screenshot 2 (left quick preview [spacebar], right Skim):

Hardware: I use non-retina MacBook Pro 2011 + Fujitsu 27" LCD attached with dual-head DVI.


texts: Prevent changing default app for some file extensions

texts:
Is there anyway to prevent that whatever app change the default app for some kind of files?

As an example, my default app for movies (mp4, mkv, avi, ...) is VLC, and I don't want this to be changed for whatever reasons.


texts: Computer Froze, Now Raid over iSCSI (APFS Format) is no longer mountable. GPT/MBR not present

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I was exporting video in Premiere and the computer froze so I had to restart. Upon restarting, I noticed the raid drive I connect to over iSCSI was not showing up on my desktop. However, it appeared in Disk Utility. The Physical Disk and Container were opaque, but the volume (CC-SYN 1) was greyed out.

The Container in Disk Utility shows "1 Not Mounted, 63.74 TB" and "Free, 32.22 TB." Its physical stores is disk3s2. Device is disk4. The volume is disk4s1, shows a capacity of 95.96 TB, Zero KB available and -- for used. Says not mounted. When I try to mount is gives the error:

Could not mount “CC-SYN1”. (com.apple.DiskManagement.disenter error 49225.)

Running First Aid on the container and volume produces the following lines of errors in the details:

error: (oid 0x407) apfs_root: btn: invalid o_oid (0x403)
error: (oid 0x407) apfs_root: btn: invalid o_type (0xd)
error: (oid 0x407) apfs_root: btn: invalid o_subtype (0)
fsroot tree is invalid.
The volume /dev/rdisk4s1 could not be verified completely.

Running First Aid on the physical disk produces no errors.

diskutil apfs list shows the following information for the raid drive:

+-- Container disk4 6B51753E-274F-48BB-A0C2-89600A5B5DFF
    ====================================================
    APFS Container Reference:     disk4
    Size (Capacity Ceiling):      95959023288320 B (96.0 TB)
    Capacity In Use By Volumes:   63742597726208 B (63.7 TB) (66.4% used)
    Capacity Not Allocated:       32216425562112 B (32.2 TB) (33.6% free)
    |
    +-< Physical Store disk3s2 1E687745-0C0C-499E-BE56-6734C2909458
    |   -----------------------------------------------------------
    |   APFS Physical Store Disk:   disk3s2
    |   Size:                       95959023312896 B (96.0 TB)
    |
    +-> Volume disk4s1 1BEFAA45-80CC-36F6-A360-C3B645F4687E
        ---------------------------------------------------
        APFS Volume Disk (Role):   disk4s1 (No specific role)
        Name:                      CC-SYN1 (Case-insensitive)
        Mount Point:               Not Mounted
        Capacity Consumed:         63740357574656 B (63.7 TB)
        FileVault:                 No

-

sudo gpt -r show disk4
        start         size  index  contents
            0  23427495926
sudo gpt -r show disk3s2
         start          size  index  contents
             0  187419967408
sudo gpt -r show disk4s1
gpt show: unable to open device 'disk4s1': Permission denied

I have gdisk installed (from a prior raid storage size increase bug), and noticed the following problem when running the command - sudo gdisk /dev/disk4

GPT fdisk (gdisk) version 1.0.4

Partition table scan:
  MBR: not present
  BSD: not present
  APM: not present
  GPT: not present

The partition table prints:

Disk /dev/disk4: 23427495926 sectors, 87.3 TiB
Sector size (logical): 4096 bytes
Disk identifier (GUID): A8A7FBD2-665F-4081-BACC-6CB2D4FB8F18
Partition table holds up to 128 entries
Main partition table begins at sector 2 and ends at sector 5
First usable sector is 6, last usable sector is 23427495920
Partitions will be aligned on 256-sector boundaries
Total free space is 23427495915 sectors (87.3 TiB)

-

It seems that when the computer froze it basically destroyed the GPT/MBR and now the computer doesn't know how to mount it. I'm not 100% sure if gdisk has a workable solution to basically get the volume recognized again without losing data. Tried to read as much as I could but never had the confidence to pull the trigger on some of the commands that could result in potential data loss. Is there a way to get this mountable again without data loss/formatting?


texts:
During my first day with a Mac, I imported some pictures from a SD card into iPhoto. After a few days I have decided not to use iPhoto and switch to Picasa instead.

My question is, how to get my original files from iPhoto. I know I could export them, but I am not sure this will give me the original files.

I am using iPhoto 11 (version 9.3)


texts: Lion hangs on boot with empty progress bar and then switches off

texts:
Today as I was working on my MacBook Pro, it became incredibly slow and almost impossible to work with. I spent five minutes trying to restart it from the system menu, and eventually I did.

It took it another ten minutes to switch off, and then I got the booting gray screen with the wheel indicator. I expected it to boot after a while, but apparently 20 minutes weren't enough.

I had to switch it off while booting and try again. During subsequent boot attempts, I would get a gray screen with a wheel and an empty progressbar that never moves (tested—I left it for three hours).

I inserted the Snow Leopard DVD so I could launch Disk Utility (as advised on the Internet) but it gave no effect. I still see the empty scrollbar, and worse, the MacBook turns off after a while (about 5 minutes after the start).

What are my next steps?

To recap my observations:

The first time I restarted the system via menu so apparently it saved the state
Second time I restarted it while booting
I do hear the chime
Then I see the spinning wheel, Apple logo and an ever empty progress bar
Now it turns off on its own after a while

Later Update

I tried holding D to launch diagnostics as described here. I heard the DVD slot make a sound about ten times, and then it spat out the Install DVD. I saw no diagnostics, and then it turned off again.

Holding C with the DVD inside gives me ten minutes of the optical drive sounds as if it were stuck (to clarify, I never had problems with it before). Then it rebooted and got stuck again.


texts:
In Cocoa applications (for instance, TextEdit) there used to be a completion functionality by which, pressing the esc, or ⌥+esc (apparently, it depends on Mac OS X versions), a list of possible completions for the word being typed appears. In latest versions, up to El Capitan, it worked with just esc; in macOS Sierra, apparently, it has been reverted to ⌥+esc.

Although I know that someone didn't like the use of just ESC, I found it very handy. Is there a way to enable it?

I tried defining it in System Preference > Keyboard > Shortcuts > App Shortcuts, but it seems not to accept esc alone as a shortcut.


texts: HDCP with Mac Mini and an external monitor

texts:
If I attempt to play movies on the TV app or Disney+ through the browser I am getting the following error:

This is with a newish LG 5K monitor connected to a 2018 MacMini via Thunderbolt.
Interestingly Disney+ works fine if I reboot into Windows via Bootcamp which tends to indicate the hardware is OK.


texts: Rename home folder to match account name (High Sierra)

texts:
My home folder name (bob 1) does not match my account name (bob)", but I want it to.

How I got here:

Got a new Mac
Didn't have the cables to transfer from previous Mac, so I just set up a simple test account with my same username "bob"
Once I had the cables I created a new account called "Admin" and then logged in as that account and deleted my previous test user account "bob" in System Preferences.
Migrated data from old Mac.
This resulted in a new account called "bob" but the home folder for that account was named "bob 1". I discovered that my deletion of the test "bob" account had not actually deleted the home folder called "bob".

While logged in as "bob" (which might have been a bad idea) I tried deleting the home folder called "bob" (from terminal) and then editing in System Preferences to change my home folder to "bob". After restart it walked me through the full setup and I realized it created a NEW home folder called "bob", and my old folder was still called "bob 1", except now my account was not associated with that folder (with all my actual data). So... restored from Time Machine.

Now I'd like to do it right. So -

I have a working account named "bob" that is linked to home folder "bob 1". I don't want to rename the account, just rename the home folder and have my account properly link to it.
I have an orphaned home directory named "bob" that I can delete via Terminal easily enough.
How should I go about renaming the home folder and maintaining (or re-establishing) the association between my user account and the renamed home folder? Or should I just give up and live with "bob 1"...


texts:
iCloud offers the service to remotely wipe (erase) a mac, as you can remotely erase an iPhone.
Where can I change this setting, e.g. disable it?


texts: how to change my command prompt to show current working directory

texts:
I'm trying to change my command prompt to display my current working directory, but it doesn't work for me. I have tried putting this in my bash_profile which is in my home directory:
PS1='\h:\w$ '
PS1='\h:$PWD \u$ '
and my prompt does change but it just shows the same as I'm putting in so it doesn't recognize things like \h and \w i think?
I'm running macOS Catalina 10.15.6


texts: Upgrading My MacBook Pro (Late 2013) Components

texts:
I have a MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Late 2013) with the following specs:

2.4 GHz Intel Core i5 Processor;
8 GB 1600 MHz DDR3 Memory; and
Intel Iris 1536 MB Graphics.

I wanted to upgrade the Processor and Memory but having read some passages online, it seems as though I will be unable to do so.

Can anyone confirm this? Am I unable to upgrade my device?

If I can upgrade anything, what can I upgrade and how can I go about doing this?

Thank you in advance.


texts:
Is there a Developer and Inspect feature in Mail.app?

Within Safari.app, I have a developer menu which includes an Inspect item which allows me to investigate issues with HTML in the browser.

Does such a feature exist in the Mail.app?


texts: Colouring text in a notification message created by AppleScript

texts:
The followng AppleScript code shows a notification message with the texts Text A and Text B both in black.

display notification "Test B" with title "Text A"

Is it possible to set their colour to, say red and blue each?


texts: iPad App that can store longer history than Safari

texts:
Is there an app that can keep longer than a week or so of browsing hisotry, which is what seems to be available in Safari?
The longer the better...


texts: I recently bought iPhone 3G from a friend, but i can't download apps from the official appstore because my iOS version is 4.2. Is there any website or even a way to install apps like facebook, without custom firmware like whited00r?


texts: Associated Voila files to finder by mistake

texts:
An associate of mine has managed to associate all his Voila files to Finder, and now he just has a bunch of folders for them.  He wants to revert this but, when he does, at Get Info he has no option to re-associate the folders/files to Voila.

How can this be fixed?


texts:
I am trying to run 2 identical MacOS on my MacBook pro.

I am following the following instructions: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208891

So far, I have added an APFS Volume, with flexible size, installed Mojave on it (following the installer wizard) and I can see it in disk utility:

However, when I try to change the boot settig in startup disk, I can't find it:

Why can't I see the new volume? Ideally I would like to be prompted on which volume I would like to boot from when I turn on the macbook.

Additional Information:


texts: How do I trigger a shortcut automation when disconnecting from Wi-Fi?

texts:
I'd like to create a shortcut that does something whenever I disconnect from Wi-Fi. How do I do this?

I know I can go to Shortcuts > Automation > Create Personal Automation > Wi-Fi, but this will only trigger when a network is joined, not when one is disconnected.

How do I trigger an automation when a network is joined?

The specific shortcut I'd like to do is:

✅ Enable Airplane mode when Wi-Fi network is joined. -- This is already done as it was simple to implement.
❌ Disable Airplane mode when Wi-Fi network is disconnected. -- This is the one I'm having trouble with.


texts: Turn OFF the white flash WITH 10.8.5 - the old solution is no longer an option

texts:
I have ALREADY tried:

Within the System Preferences/Accessibility:  De-Select Flash the
screen when an alert appears.
Toggling Select then back to De-Select
While I found the solution to delete:
~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.universalaccess.plist - 10.8.5
replaced Universal Access with "Accessibility", which has no
apparent equivalent file within the Lib/prefs.  If there IS, please
let me know.

I really hate the white flash.  REALLY hate it.

BTW: I did do my own research before asking this question, including on this AskDifferent website.  The solution found on AskDifferent and other sites only work on older Mac systems (up to ~ 2011).  The ones with UniversalAccess.

Thanks, in advance for any useful input.
- Scott


texts: Blinking question mark on folder on boot

texts:
I am attempting to boot up my 2009 MacBook Pro, but when it starts it immediately shows a white screen with a 'question mark folder' — it keeps blinking until the computer shuts down (unless I keep it in the charger, then it just goes on).

I have tried to do the start up whilst holding down the option/alt button, and only the arrow comes up. I don't have the startup system disk (or any other) but the system has been updated to OS X Mountain Lion from the Mac App Store.

Before this, there had been other problems: when I deleted things they didn't go in the Trash but instead it looked like it just deleted it completely. After some time it wouldn't save or download, saying there wasn't enough space (even though I deleted items).


texts: It's possible to forward/reverse a track with Apple EarPods remote?

texts: I am using my EarPods for running, but i can't forward or reverse any track with remote on EarPods. I always pick the iPhone from my pocket. Much like it happens in the e-books..


texts: What can cause 90 second delays joining a wifi network?

texts:
I have been using my Mac Book Pro (15" Lion, latest version) for coming on a year.
I used to open the cover, it would search for my wifi, and in 15 seconds I could start web surfing.

Suddenly, in the few weeks though, it is doing something strange...

It still finds the wifi connection in a few seconds (the Wifi icon shows all dark), but now it takes an extra 90 seconds plus until I can actually load anything in a browser.

I noticed that Skype connects after about 90 seconds, then a few seconds later Safari allows me to start loading web pages, and then a few seconds later Chrome will let me start loading web pages.

Very nerve wracking! Any suggestions for diagnosing this or speeding this back up again?


texts: How to switch to underlying window of the same application?

texts:
If I have 2 windows of the same program open (Google Chrome for instance), and I want to get to the underlying one, how can I do that -- without minimizing the fore window.

If I click the Chrome icon, in the bottom tray it justs shows me the window in the front. There is no window in the right of the tray since it it not minimized. If I command+tab, I just get one icon for the application, which focuses the window that is already in front.

The only way I know of to get to the rear window is to minimize (or move out of the way) the front window. I find this slightly annoying, (and sometimes even forget I have a second window open because I don't know of anything indicating there is a second window open?)

So is there another way?


texts: Mavericks Terminal - 'Command Not Found' for everything

texts:
About everything (even clear and open) is giving 'Command Not Found' on the Terminal.

If I do and echo $PATH, it gives me this.
/Users/username/Documents/android/android-sdk-macosx/platform-tools:/Users/merck/Documents/android/android-sdk-macosx/tools

The /.profile file is not even there in the Finder.

The environment.plist file in .MacOSX has this value.
bplist00—_SENCHA_CMD_3_0_0_$/Users/username/bin/Sencha/Cmd/4.0.2.67E

Can anyone give some pointers.


texts: How can I change the colour of the status bar on my iPhone 4s? It is blue now and I want it set to default?


texts:
I've been trying to setup reverse SSH tunnelling from outside my network to home but I've beet getting no-where. My setup is all Apple: two Macs behind an Airport Extreme, one at x.x.x.20 listening on port 22 and the other at x.x.x.30 listening on 10,022.
I've setup NAT on the AP to forward external ports 22 to the x.x.x.20 and 10,022 to x.x.x.30. I want the tunnel to run to x.x.x.20:10022.

I've been using this command from an apple device outside of my home network: ssh -v -f -N -R 22:localhost:10022 homeuser@myhomedoman.com as well as ssh -v -f -N -R 10022:localhost:22 homeuser@myhomedoman.com but either way, the logs on the x.x.x.20:22 listening machine show that the traffic goes to it and the x.x.x.30:10022 machine show no record in the secure.log file. I've even tried ssh -v -f -N -R 10022:localhost:10022 homeuser@myhomedoman.com and the traffic still hits the x.x.x.20:22 listening machine.

The strange thing is that when i run ssh -p 10022 homeuser@myhomedoman.com it connects to the x.x.x.30:10022 listening machine just fine. I've gone through every NAT rule in the Airport as well and there's only one rule covering port 10022 so it's not a NATing problem as far as the AP's configuration is concerned.

Either I'm doing something really wrong, there's a bug in Apple's implementation of reverse SSH tunnels or that the Airport is doing something funny with the traffic.
Has anyone else had this problem or found a workaround?

The guide I'm running to get the reverse tunnel running is http://www.vdomck.org/2005/11/reversing-ssh-connection.html

Thanks in advance!


texts: Connect to Raspberry Pi via Ethernet while connected to Internet via Wifi

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I have Macbook Air with a USB-to-Ethernet adapter connected to an Ethernet cable that is plugged into the Ethernet port of a Raspberry Pi. When I turn off my Wifi, I can VNC/SSH into the Pi.  However, when Wifi is turned on and connected to the internet, the Pi becomes unreachable through the ethernet connection.

I would like to be able to connect to the Raspberry Pi over the ethernet cable while remaining connected to internet so I can debug python scripts on the Pi and use VNC/SSH into the Pi while having access to the internet on my Macbook Air.

I have tried the following:

Changing the priority of the network services in System Preferences... Network...Set Service Order...move ethernet to #1 first priority
turning off the wifi, connecting to the pi, then turning on wifi but the connection drops

My network settings with ethernet plugged into Pi (but not working) and wifi connected to internet are as follows:

Network service order: AX88179 USB 3.0 to Gigabit Ethernet -> RNDIS/Ethernet Gadget -> KYOCERA USB Modem -> SAMSUNG Modem -> Wi-Fi -> Bluetooth PAN -> Thunderbolt Bridge

AX8817 USB 3.0 to Gigabit Ethernet Network Information:

Configure IPv4: Using DHCP
IP Address: 169.254.39.77
Subnet Mask: 255.255.0.0
Router: (Blank)
DNS Server: (Blank)
Search Domains: (Blank)

Wi-Fi: Connected to WifiNetwork with IP Address 172.15.2.123

$ping raspberrypi.local
PING raspberrypi.local (169.254.151.48): 56 data bytes
Request timeout for icmp_seq 0
Request timeout for icmp_seq 1
Request timeout for icmp_seq 2
Request timeout for icmp_seq 3
Request timeout for icmp_seq 4
Request timeout for icmp_seq 5
Request timeout for icmp_seq 6

My network settings when ethernet connection to Pi is working and Wifi is turned off:

Network service order: AX88179 USB 3.0 to Gigabit Ethernet -> RNDIS/Ethernet Gadget -> KYOCERA USB Modem -> SAMSUNG Modem -> Wi-Fi -> Bluetooth PAN -> Thunderbolt Bridge

AX8817 USB 3.0 to Gigabit Ethernet Network Information:

Configure IPv4: Using DHCP
IP Address: 169.254.172.210
Subnet Mask: 255.255.0.0
Router: (Blank)
DNS Server: (Blank)
Search Domains: (Blank)

Wi-Fi: OFF

$ping raspberrypi.local
PING raspberrypi.local (169.254.151.48): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 169.254.151.48: icmp_seq=0 ttl=64 time=1.387 ms
64 bytes from 169.254.151.48: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.734 ms
64 bytes from 169.254.151.48: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=0.761 ms

Any advice would be most welcome! Thank you.


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I have the 2 DVD Mac OS Install disks of the laptop.

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