texts: Stock widget doesn't save list of stocks

texts: I am running Lion and I wanted to add certain stocks to the Stock widget. I was able to add them fine and remove the default ones but everytime I go back to Dashboard the Stock widget is reset and the default stocks appear. Does anyone now how this can be fixed?


texts: Preview strips spaces from some lines in PDF documents

texts:
Has anyone experienced a phenomenon wherein Preview's "AI" for PDF text extraction sometimes strips spaces out of a line or two of text?

I'm working with some college documents and need to extract snippets of texts for various purposes. In some (thankfully rare but still hugely annoying) instances, Preview will copy a section of text and it will come out something like

"ThistextispartofaPDFdocumentthathasbeenaccessedusingPreviewonMacOSX.Ifyou try to copy the text sometimes things don't work right."

This effect seems to happen most often on the first line of a given paragraph, section, etc. and particularly on lines that are part of bulleted lists or the first line of an entire chapter/section where some text styling may be in use. Example:

"INTHISCHAPTERWEwillbetalkingaboutthePreviewapplicationforMacOS X. This application lets you..."

When I try to manually select the text character by character I can see the effect at work. The selection indicator will cover both the final letter in a word and the space following it at the same time.

This has mostly occurred on university-provided academic documents, so unfortunately I can't share an example (copyright) and I haven't found a document online that exhibits the problem yet. However, I do know for sure that this is Preview-specific, because the same document in Adobe Acrobat and SumatraPDF on Windows works just fine, i.e. the spaces are not stripped out of any lines. (However, Acrobat on Windows adds hard line-breaks at the end of each physical line of text, so then the arduous task becomes stripping out the excess line breaks - pretty much as bad as adding the spaces back in.)

I'm sure this is somehow related to the "AI" that Apple added to Preview to help it deal with columns and other strange PDF anomalies. However, no solution I have found is sufficiently trouble-free so as not to be just as annoying.

Anyone else seen this behavior?

Thanks


texts: Why does my iPod Touch automatically turn the volume all the way down?

texts: I have an 8GB iPod Touch, 4th generation.  Recently it has been automatically turning the volume all the way down, and it often won't let me turn it back up again.  This happens both when I'm using headphones and when I'm not.  It has also been restarting itself automatically.  It hasn't always done this--I've had it since December 2010, and it started doing it in May 2011.  Any suggestions?


texts: Where does Transmit 4 store temporary downloaded files?

texts:
If you have two remote locations in Transmit 4, say an S3 and an FTP location, and you move a file between these two locations, Transmit will automatically download that file, and then upload it.

Where does Transmit 4 store these temporary files?


texts: How to prevent monthly reminders from showing all the time in iOS 14 instead of when they actually need acting upon?

texts:
I want to be reminded of a task on a monthly basis and so have set a reminder with a monthly schedule.
However, if I 'complete' the current reminder, it still shows in the list with next month's reminder (date) showing.
This is utterly useless. If I see it there all the time I will just become blind to it.
I need monthly reminders to only show up at the point when the reminder is due and not before.


texts: Recording bar shows up in chat bar; can't remove

texts:
Ever since I upgraded to 9.0, a recording bar sporadically shows up in my text input window:

It overlays on text that I try to type.

I know I'm doing it, but I don't know how I'm doing it; nor do I know how remove it.

I cannot select it, changing keyboard layout via "123" or ":)" doesn't changing anything.

The only way I know how to remove is by turning the phone off and back on.

How do I remove this bar?


texts: I have a Mac with bootcamp and unfortunately i see myself using bootcamp far too often because I'm a developer and VS2013+SqlServer is way too demanding for my 8gb ram... but i use iTunes a lot... so i was thinking, if i create a Fat32 partition and put my iTunes folder there so i can point both my OSX iTunes and my windows iTunes and be able to not only read but write (app updates, new songs, etc...) will it work?!? or maybe the folder structure is different or something like that?!?


texts: Mac display failure when disconnecting form Thunderbolt

texts:
I have a MacBook Pro (the older one with a cd-rom), running OSX 10.9.1 and sometimes my Mac will sleep and never wake up. Usually this happens when I "sleep" the mac, unplug it from the Thunderbolt, then try to wake the Mac up at my other office with a different Thunderbolt. The screen will never come back. Tried safe restart, multiple combinations of plugged/unplugged to Thunderbolt and/or Power Supply, and open/shutting the screen.

It takes a very long time and many attempts to bring the screen back, usually by trying a 3rd Thunderbolt screen. There is clearly some sort of display issue, but the parameters are known. Any ideas what the precise problem is and how to fix it?


texts:
I have an iPod touch and its WiFi seems to have this "awkward" feature.

Lets say that A and B are two WiFi networks to which I have the passwords or are free.
When I move out of the range of A into the range of B, I seem to have to manually reconnect my WiFi to B.

Is there a way out of this continuous manual intervention?

I thought that WiFi connectivity is a one-time thing. Once I have logged into one network then I will again be automatically logged into it the next time I get into its range. But that doesn't seem to be happening on my iPod touch.

Can anyone tell me if there is a way around this issue?


texts:
My MacBook Pro (OS X 10.8) only has one port for an additional monitor but I want to add a third monitor. I have a spare Mac mini (OS X 10.5) and I want to use it to support a third monitor. Is there an app that will use another Mac as an extended desktop?

If one does not exist then I would like to know what frameworks and libraries I would use to write an app for both the Mac mini and the MacBook Pro? How would I write the drivers? I intend on connecting the computers using FireWire. I have been learning how to write Cocoa applications.


texts:
MS Excel for Mac has quite different shortcut keys than Excel for Windows.
Is there any comparison table?

Rather than this
http://mac2.microsoft.com/help/office/12/en-us/excel/item/64766a97-9258-4f78-9feb-2742ce769041

I want a table such as

Windows  Mac
F4      Ctrl+T   (Cell reference lock)
F2      Ctrl+U   (Cell edit)


texts: How long does it take to get used to the keyboard of the MacBook 12"?

texts:
I'm thinking of getting the MacBook 12" but I'm really scared I won't be able to get used to the keyboard. I'm in The Netherlands, it's not possible to return the product.

How long does it take to get used to the keyboard for people here and is there a really big difference once you're typing on it?


texts: My 13” MacBook Pro 2020 Thunderbolt port not working/charging

texts:
I bought this brand new MacBook Pro few weeks ago, now one of the two Thunderbolt ports are not working.
When the MacBook starts, the battery icon is black filled with a bolt inside. The system information says that the battery is fine and charged, the cable is plugged in but not charging. When I connect the actual charging cable it stays that way and doesn’t charge (I waited and checked for at least 10 mins). The other port works fine though. Crazy thing it doesn’t sound the “charger connected” ding when I plug in the charger. I’m using the original charger.
I Googled and read about resetting the SMC system which asks to press the special keys and power button for 10 secs. When the MacBook started, it showed the proper icon which was a black filled cell icon. I plugged in the charger into the same port and it starts charging after a few seconds. I removed the charger and it goes back to the same behavior.
As for the data transfer connection using the same port, I’m using a hub for that and it wasn’t working either with that port.
I’m new to Apple Ecosystem and I don’t have an Apple store around here to get it checked by them. So any help would be immensely appreciated because I’m pretty much losing my mind over this investment.
I also tried enabling and disabling battery health management mode; that didn’t help at all.
Let me know if anymore information is required to troubleshoot this.


texts: Find last location of iPad, not connected to Wi-Fi and off

texts: How do I find last location my iPad was used?  It’s not connect to WiFi  & is off obviously.     I just need to know if I just put it in weird place in my house or it’s actaully gone. Sick of looking:-((


texts: macOS - Determine current wallpaper path

texts:
I want to get current location of my macOS wallpaper. Is there a file or a command that will allow me to find this data?

I would prefer a way that would allow me to do it from the Terminal.

macOS: Mojave Public Beta


texts: iPhone 4 needs to restored, but I am concerned about losing photos

texts:
My iPhone 4 suddenly turned off and won't turn back on. I've tried charging it, holding the home and top button and plugging it into my computer. Nothing is working. When I plugged it into my computer, I received a notification that the phone is in recovery mode and needs to be restored to factory settings. I am fine with restoring it, but my concern is that I haven't backed up my phone for awhile and I don't want to lose the photos that were taken after the last time I backed up the device.

Is there anything I can do to restore the phone and still manage to save my pictures?


texts: Can not run Xcode 10.1 on High Sierra 10.13.6

texts:
MacBook Air 11' mid-2011.

When opening Xcode from Terminal, I get this:

Kukoda-MacBook-Air:~ kukodajanos$ sudo open /Applications/Xcode.app
Password:
LSOpenURLsWithRole() failed with error -10810 for the file /Applications/Xcode.app.

Do I need 10.0?

Following this thread: https://forums.developer.apple.com/thread/115847

Using Xcode.app/Contents/MacOS/Xcode executable:

Last login: Fri Jan 10 10:20:11 on ttys001
Kukoda-MacBook-Air:~ kukodajanos$ /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/MacOS/Xcode ; exit;
dyld: Library not loaded: @rpath/XcodeKit.framework/Versions/A/XcodeKit
  Referenced from: /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Frameworks/IDEFoundation.framework/Versions/A/IDEFoundation
  Reason: image not found
Abort trap: 6
logout
Saving session...
...saving history...truncating history files...
...completed.
Deleting expired sessions...1 completed.

[Folyamat befejeződött]


texts:
I develop mobile software. I have an iPod Touch 7th generation (A2178) which I need to update to iOS 13 in order to test a compatibility issue that some users have reported with an app. iOS 13 was released several days ago, and Apple and all news sources report that the iPod Touch 7th generation is compatible with iOS 13. However, both the Software Update section of iOS and the iTunes app on my computer are telling me that the iPod is "up to date" with iOS 12.4.1

Does Apple use delayed rollouts for certain devices? Is there another way to update to iOS 13?


texts: Automating pfctl to block incoming connections and IPs

texts:
I get a lot of unwanted traffic from Chinese IP addresses. I'm using an old Mac with OS X 10.7.5 (my Mac is ancient, so I cannot update further), so I imagine it's more vulnerable than a newer Mac would be.

This page gave an excellent tutorial about how to use pfctl to detect sshd "attackers" who violate certain rules and add them to a blacklist. In my naive understanding, this applies only to sshd connections.

How can I generalize that tutorial to block other kinds of traffic as well? In particular, I have unwanted traffic involving sshd, sshd-keygen-wrapper, and screensharingd, though I'd love to block any traffic that has too many simultaneous connections or too many attempts within a certain amount of time.


texts: Unflip mouse buttons in Microsoft RDC client

texts:
I have used an older version of Microsoft RDC client on an old MBP with mouse on the left side of the keyboard. I had flipped the left and right mouse buttons of the mouse in preferences, which made the right button behave as primary mouse button also in remote sessions.

I synced settings to mobileme from that computer.

Now on a different computer that has ~/Library synced from mobileme, Microsoft RDC client still has my left and right buttons switched. Even when I'm using a trackpad.

How do I set the one finger click of the trackpad as the primary mouse button in RDC?

I've looked at the RDC client specific settings in ~/Preferences/com.microsoft.rdc.plistand ~/Preferences/com.microsoft.rdc.LSSharedFileList.plist, tried plugging in a mouse and made sure that left and right buttons are not flipped, checked ~/Library/Preferences/ByHost/.GlobalPreferences.[yourMACaddress].plist as suggested in a blog post, looked everywhere in RDC client's settings and in connection specific settings, even had a look which files it has open, but with no luck. The one finger tap keeps on acting as the secondary click in RDC sessions.


texts: Why is my launchd job running at boot even with RunAtLoad key set to false?

texts:
I have a launchd plist file that I use to run a program at a selected time every day. It works, but it also runs the program whenever I boot the computer or unload and reload the job using the GUI program LaunchControl---even though I have the RunAtLoad key set to false?

The complete plist file is below; it is located in /Library/LaunchAgents/:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
    <key>RunAtLoad</key>
    <false/>
    <key>KeepAlive</key>
    <dict>
        <key>SuccessfulExit</key>
        <false/>
    </dict>
    <key>Label</key>
    <string>com.adbot.plist</string>
    <key>LowPriorityIO</key>
    <true/>
    <key>Program</key>
    <string>/Users/wcm1/programming/ricedh/adbot/adbot.py</string>
    <key>StandardErrorPath</key>
    <string>/tmp/com.adbot.plist.err</string>
    <key>StandardOutPath</key>
    <string>/tmp/com.adbot.plist.out</string>
    <key>StartCalendarInterval</key>
    <array>
        <dict>
            <key>Hour</key>
            <integer>10</integer>
            <key>Minute</key>
            <integer>30</integer>
        </dict>
    </array>
</dict>
</plist>

Thoughts?


texts: OS X El Capitan partial download issue? (125kb file)

texts:
I am having trouble downloading El Capitan.

I go to the app store and click download button for El Capitan.
Pinwheel spins for 5-10 sec then "download" button turns to "downloading" (this doesnt go away unless computer is restarted)
File appears in applications folder as "OS X El Capitan" with only 125kb downloaded.  File won't open when double clicked.

I've tried the following...
- check storage, i have 86 GB free

checked for unfinished downloads
cleared download folder in app store debug mode
deleted 125KB file and restarted
restarted in safe mode
ran disk utility (no errors found)

None of these have worked...  has anyone experienced this, know what's happening, or have any tips for next steps?  Internet board thus far have been dead ends.  Thanks!

note: i have 10.10.5


texts: Control arrow key to jump to the next word

texts:
I have OS X 10.6.8 and I run MS Word:Mac 2011.  I programmed the keyboard to allow me to jump from word to word in a document by hitting Control + Arrow key.  This makes word processing much faster.  However, I lost this ability after an update some time ago.  Now, when I hit  Control + Arrow key OS X cycles through what I believe are Spaces on my desktop.

This is hugely annoying and I have no interest in using Spaces.  I am perfectly happy to switch between apps using Alt + Tab.  How do I go back to being able to use Control + Arrow key to navigate in a document in MS Word?

Thanks!


texts: How do I create a script to create/modify local admin accounts?

texts:
This question is almost exactly what I need for my project at work. We have approx. 400 Macs on our campus, and the problem is they were not all set up identically. There are at least 4 different admin username and password variations.

What I'd like to have is a script that will:

1) Check to see what the local admin account(s) is called. 2) If the account isn't named properly, create a new one with the proper name. 3) Set the proper password. (Preferably it'd be obfuscated in the script)


texts: Quick easy question - if iPhone iMessages are synced to Mac, then somehow you get logged out of messages on the Mac, would any iMessages sent by your phone while you were logged out on your Mac show up on your Mac when you log back into messages on your Mac? Or are those messages sent while you weren't logged in just on iPhone and there will be a gap in your Mac messages for the period you were logged out?


texts: I want to leave my Mac locked, but display a web page (representing a web-based dashboard) in the lock screen. The idea is to leave this web dashboard showing 24x7 but without letting anyone else get access to the rest of the system.


texts:
I'm running MacOSX 10.5.8 on a MacBook Pro.

I was working on my computer last night. I finished work, closed the lid and expected the computer to go to sleep. I assume this is the Apple Safe Sleep mode. My battery was about 70% charged.

Tonight, I open up my laptop and discover that the computer refuses to start and battery has been completely discharged. When I plug the computer in again, all information from my previous session was lost. It's as if the computer shut down completely.

What's happening here? Shouldn't the computer go to sleep and save all information to disk? When I wake the computer up from sleep mode, shouldn't it restore all information from my previous session?

This only happens about 5% of the time that I close the lid. Usually, this works as I expected.

Update to answer @zneak's question:

This is the hardware model, according to About this Mac: More Info...: Hardware.

Model Name:       MacBook Pro
Model Identifier:   MacBookPro3,1


texts: How can you forward long headers in Apple Mail 8.1 using Yosemite (needed when reporting suspected fraud)

texts: also wondering if any way to have a return of incoming mail being individually numbered as existed in mail used with 10.6.8


texts: Macbook bluetooth connection with my earphone

texts:
suddenly my macbook air (High Sierra OS) starts to have problems with my earphones bluetooth.
After few minutes that I'm connected to my earphones, they start to make a scretch sound and after a while my macbook lose the connectivity with them. Sometimes happens that the laptop can't reproduce any sound with the earphones.
I've already tried with another mac and the earphones works correctly, I have this problem just with my mac.
I've already cancel my earphone from the bluetooth devices list and pair them again, but it didn't solve anything.

Anyone than can help me?
Thank you very much!
Cheers


texts: Macbook is slow when connected to Internet!

texts:
Once I connect to Internet (WiFi) suddenly everything on my Macbook acts like it's frozen when opening Apps... and every app I try to open takes 20+ seconds!

But as soon as I turn off WiFi or connect through a VPN, the issue is fixed!

Videos below:

When I don't have Internet connection and everything is fine:
https://streamable.com/6dmqd
When I connect to Internet:
https://streamable.com/13eei

Why does this happen and is there a way around it?

macOS is 10.14.6 and I've already tried fresh OS installation.

Edit: I see a lot of "trustd" errors in console, but even though it is allowed, LittleSnitch Firewall doesn't show any outgoing connection from trustd at all!

trustd errors (these 3 errors keep repeating in this order):

load failed with error code=-1001
finished with error - code: -999
HTTP load failed (error code: -999 [1:89])

I have also tried with an iPad and Windows machine, and they work just fine!

And tried this with another Macbook Air (2018) and it has the exact same issue!


texts: How to get everything from terminal mail(1) sent to my email address?

texts:
I'd like to be notified by email whenever a message gets sent to my terminal mail, how could I achieve this?

I see some information about cc'ing in this documentation, but I don't know how to use it in this regard.


texts: Disk Utility modal dialog opens partially off-screen

texts:
The New Image modal dialog in the Disk Utility application (on OS X 10.10.5) opens up with the Cancel button off the bottom of my MacBook Air 11's built-in display.  The green resize button, option resize, and option Window : Zoom don't bring it back on-screen.  How can I get the Cancel where I can see it to close the modal dialog, and/or do something else if another readable button appears to so allow?

Note that the answer to this question: How to decrease the height of chooser (file-picker dialog)
does not work with the Disk Utility New Image dialog on an MBA 11 (which appears to behave differently from a plain file-picker dialog).  ESC will close the window, but not allow you to actually see the Close button or any other useful buttons nearby for other operations.  Shift-drag-resize by mouse will expand but not shrink the New Image modal sheet enough on an MBA 11.  Making the Disk Utility window full-screen beforehand will not resize the New Image sheet to fit the MBA 11 display.  Any other ideas?


texts: My understanding is that most data uploaded to iCloud from an iPhone is encrypted on some server and that apple possesses the decryption key to this data. For example, files from the Files app can be stored in iCloud Drive, which can then be decrypted by Apple. But what about the generic iPhone backup that essentially stores a clone of the device in the cloud? Can Apple simply decrypt and view the full contents of your device when you back it up to iCloud?


texts: The Download of Apps from the Mac App Store is very slow

texts:
I've wanted to download an app from the Mac App Store. But the download is much slower than normally.

What can I do?


texts: Other than size, what's the difference between the iPad Air and the Retina iPad mini?

texts:
They both have an A7 processor, the new MIMO wifi, etc.

What, if anything, are the technical or spec differences other than screen size?


texts: Keyboard shortcut to move tabs around in Firefox on a Mac

texts:
The equivalent of it in Windows would be Ctrl + Shift + PgUp / PgDn. To reiterate, I am trying to move a tab's position forward and back within the windows via keyboard shortcut using Firefox v82 on macOS 10.15.7.
Can FireFox cycle tabs like it does in Windows 10?


texts: How to delete MacPorts user after using the Migration Assistant

texts:
My 2012 MacBook Air (11", i7 2GHz 8GB RAM) crashed and I had to erase the SSD and re-install macOS High Sierra with the Internet Recovery Mode tools. Once I had the working OS, I used the Migration Assistant to rebuild my system from a Time Machine backup. Upon restoring my system, I ended up with MacPorts as a User. I am at a loss to understand why this happened and am wondering if I should get rid of it?

$  port installed
Error: Current platform "darwin 17" does not match expected platform "darwin 16"
Error: If you upgraded your OS, please follow the migration instructions: https://trac.macports.org/wiki/Migration
OS platform mismatch
    while executing
"mportinit ui_options global_options global_variations"
Error: /opt/local/bin/port: Failed to initialize MacPorts, OS platform mismatch

I had originally started this computer with macOS Mountain Lion. I'd installed MacPorts when using macOS Sierra. Prior to the crash I had macOS High Sierra 10.13.3 (and that is what I have now).

As I recall, I've only used MacPorts ever to install one thing - I think it was Valgrind (which is not functional in High Sierra - so I don't need it). Of note - there is not a "MacPorts" User that I can login with or see in the Sys Prefs >>> Users & Groups:

...but there is a "macports" directory in /Users/:

Any ideas on why Migration Assistant would create a MacPorts user? Thought on how to and whether or not to nuke it (and any other MacPorts components?)

Update:

I removed MacPorts per their instructions: https://guide.macports.org/chunked/installing.macports.uninstalling.html

...and I removed /opt/local/bin from my $PATH, then deleted /Users/MacPorts.

Upon rebooting, MacPorts is still a User that shows up in the login screen. Also I get the following from dscl:

$  dscl . list /Users | grep -v '^_'
daemon
Guest
macports
mixelpix
nobody
root

How do I get rid of this?


texts: Can I charge a MacBook Air using the Thunderbolt 1 port?

texts: I have a 2013 MacBook Air that is not charging. I suspect that the problem is the MagSafe port (or, more likely, the I/O board). An iFixit Answer implies that it is possible to charge it using the Thunderbolt port. Is this true? And if so, what cables would I need to actually be able to plug it in?


texts:
Is there a fix for this bug that causes my cursor to randomly disappear? It happens every couple minutes and it's incredibly frustrating because I'm constantly trying to figure out where my cursor is.

I'm running High Sierra 10.13.6 (17G3025) on a 15 inch 2015 Macbook pro with two external monitors.

Some additional details:

The cursor stays invisible until I right click or press cmd-tab. It seems to happen with several apps including Chrome and Atom, but I've noticed it happens quite a bit more frequently when I mouse over a kitty terminal window.


texts: I cannot get out of recovery mode (OS X Utilities) by resetting or reinstalling the OS

texts:
I bought a used iMac and when I turn it on I am shown the OS X Utilities screen. I would like to install the operating system but I cannot do so.

I have tried everything suggested on other questions on this topic:

Factory reset

I.e. formatting the hard drive (as instructed by Apple) and restarting. According to the Apple website, this was supposed to bring up the country selection screen, but it didn't. It simply takes me back to OS X Utilities.

Resintall OS X

There is an option to reinstall OS X El Capitan. After signing into iCloud (with a new account I had to make for this - I did not have one before) I get the error message "This item is temporarily unavailable". I have Googled this and tried the many fixes to no avail. Apparently the original user's iCloud account should be used, but I do not have access to this, nor do I want them to be linked to this computer.

Other macOS Recovery modes

Apple gives key combinations for other recovery options. I have tried all three of them as instructed but I am always asked to enter the iCloud details.

Boot from CD

I do not have the original CD with the operating system on it, nor do I have access to a computer that can burn a bootable disk. (This is not an option I want to consider to be honest - resetting an Apple computer doesn't require this according to the many guides and videos on this issue.)

Screenshots of hard drive formatting:

Screenshot of iCloud error:


texts:
When I try to open Keychain Access using Spotlight or Finder, I see an error saying: The Application "Keychain Access" is not open anymore. When I try to launch using open -a, I get:

$ open -a Keychain\ Access.app/
Unable to find application named 'Keychain Access.app/'

It was working fine until yesterday. A restart did not seem to help.

Update:

It looks like I shouldn't rely on Terminal's autocomplete while using open. Removing the trailing slash did not fix it. The new error is:

$ open -a Keychain\ Access.app
LSOpenURLsWithRole() failed for the application /Applications/Utilities/Keychain Access.app with error -600.

Update 2:

Somehow it got fixed on its own. Among the things I tried was a restart, opening the app via the Terminal, and removing the plist from ~/Library/Preferences. None of those seemed to have had an immediate effect, if any at all, but Keychain Access is finally opening for me.


texts:
I just recently bought an iphone this year, and need to know if it has any led flash light for letting my know that it's charging?

I have iPhone 5c, and it's got this setting for light for call and message alerts. I'm trying to look for a similar setting for when it's in charging mode.

Please could someone provide any help regarding this?


texts: MacBook Pro new battery not charging. Defective?

texts:
Model: MacBook Pro 13" Retina early 2015

My MacBook Pro had a battery in the condition "Replace now" so I bought a new battery on ebay and got it replaced. The problem is the MacBook identifies the battery but it is in the condition of "Replace now" and does not go above 0%. It was with 0% when I installed it since when I connected the power adapter the computer turned on.

I reset SMC and PRAM.
I'm almost sure my power adapter is fine and I can use the computer with the power adapter.

I'm thinking I purchased a dead battery and that is the problem?
What else could be the problem?

If you could give me your opinion on the battery stats on the image attached would help a lot.


texts: Messages in iCloud not exhibiting expected behavior

texts:
So I have Messages in iCloud enabled on my iMac - High Sierra, 10.13.6.  My iPhone - version 12.2 and iPad - version 12.1.4.  The issue id like to solve is this - on the iPhone an iPad when I delete a message, I get the warning / confirmation that if I delete a message it will delete across all devices, do I want to delete?  When I answer yes, the message will delete from the iPhone and iPad but not the iMac. When I go to delete a message on my iMac, I get no prompt / confirmation, the message will just delete.  I have sent numerous logs to apple, enabled a pin code for them to rest my iCloud account and sent them some sort of profile info, but they have been unable to get my messages to sync when deleting across all the devices.  I have also disabled and re-enabled iMessages in the cloud on all devices with no luck.

Can anyone help me to get the iMessages deleting across all devices?  I am almost certain it did work properly at some point, but started this after an update.  Sorry to not be more specific on what I did with apple, but I did not write down all the info - but they have collected a lot of info and I do not remember for 100% sure when it started to act up.  This has been ongoing for awhile now and they just won't respond any longer.  Tks much!


texts:
Mail.app seems built to punish us for not having inbox-zero.

I hear a chime telling me new mail has arrived, but with a list of mailboxes that look like:

how can I possibly tell which one has new new mail, as opposed to the old new mail? Or better yet, is it possible to make an email's newness expire after a certain period?


texts: What does the orange keys mean in keyboard viewer?

texts: I use the keyboard viewer as a cheat sheet so I can guide myself in the horrible fields of OSX keymaps and I realised that pressing some keys will display a few keys in orange. What does that color indicate?


texts: Access 'About this Mac' before creating a user

texts:
I've wiped and reinstalled macOS in order to sell a 2017 MacBook Pro. Of course, I forgot to take a screenshot of 'About This Mac' to get all the specifics (all I need is the CPU variant).
I've booted into Recovery Mode to access terminal and try a host of variations on system_profiler. None of them work.
I don't want to have to create a user just to view my specs and then have to wipe and reinstall macOS again.
Does anyone have a working 2020 method for accessing system information from the terminal before creating a user?


texts: iPhone 7 Live Photo - MOV file with different dates than JPEG

texts: Does anyone know why the MOV files have a create date (several days to a week after) the create date of the associated JPEG file?  This is extremely frustrating for someone who  likes to organize photos by date.  Thanks


texts: Does iCloud Drive sync while in sleep or while locked on Mac OS?

texts:
I've been digging through Google and Apple's iCloud documentation, and I haven't been able to find a clear answer on this.
Photos do sync while locked, but I'm more interested how to keep iCloud uploads going while I sleep.


texts:
I just received my iPhone 4 and Activity Monitor Touch and SYSTEM lite only show 247 MB of hardware memory. But the iPhone 4 is supposed to have 512 MB (of which 503 MB are actually available). I checked with a function of my own (derived from here), too, and it also just shows 256 MB of RAM. I'm running iOS 4.1. I don't believe this is a readout bug as other iPhone 4 owners told me they are shown 503 MB in those apps.

Can anyone confirm this on his own iPhone 4? What should I do? Contact Apple and ask for a replacement device? Or just return the device and buy a new one?


texts: Installing High Sierra on a Linux machine

texts:
I currently have (Arch) Linux on my MacBook Air (2012), and I want to install High Sierra on an external drive, so I can run the new eficheck. How do I do that, and without disturbing my existing Linux installation?

In particular I'm worried that the installation would mess up my current booting scheme.  It would be fixable, but I don't have time for that kind of problem now.  If it would just change the efibootmgr order, I know how to alter that.


texts:
Just ordered a MacBook Pro. Having never had one or used one I am unsure if my mouse will work.

Can I use my Logitech G5 with a MacBook Pro?


texts:
I have a MacBook Pro 13" Retina-display (Late 2013 model)
I recently bought a very cheap HDMI cable to plug it on my tv in my room (for Screen Mirroring and sometimes, Screen extend). Since it's cheap, I'm quite worried on a possible effect it would bring to my MacBook's resolution or display or maybe performance or at least, something.

Will it ruin my MacBook in any sort in the long run? Should I just forgo the cheap HDMI and invest on a better quality albeit being a bit more expensive, or Thunderbolt, perhaps? (Never tried Thunderbolt)


texts: Problem with iTunes Store and updating WhatsApp

texts:
So the problem is that I have an iPhone5 from my cousin, and yesterday I got a messages in WhatsApp from friends but I couldn't open WhatsApp. It said that I need to update WhatsApp. I went to the App Store and it required the password of iTunes Store but old email and password from my cousin, and I don't know the password.

Does someone have a solution for this? I also don't want to delete my WhatsApp because I cannot backup my chat history and also will not see the new messages that come in my WhatsApp.


texts: MacBook Air (1st gen) running really slow, basic apps crash and no internet

texts:
MacBook Air was working fine yesterday. Switched it on this morning and it wouldn't boot, just hung on grey screen.

Eventually got the MacBook Air to safe boot, now MacBook Air boots normally (but very slowly). Once logged on (not through safe boot) AirPort is connected with IP Address but Safari will not connect to internet.

Basic apps like Finder, System Preferences > Security, Transmit and AirPort Utility keep crashing.

Have tried the following:

Verify Disk is okay.
Repair Disk Permission ran.
Tried removing and adding AirPort.
Reset PRAM and SMC.
Unable to run AHT, can't remotely attach disk because MacBook Air can't be found on network by other Macs.

The current installation of OS X is only about 6-8 weeks old and has all the latest updates.

What's wrong? My thoughts are corrupt OS or RAM. I can't reinstall the OS with being recognised by another Mac and I can't test the hardware for the same reason. Am I missing something?

Rich


texts: MacBook trackpad unresponsive, not a hardware issue, plist problem?

texts:
On a macbook (unibody late 2008) the trackpad is unresponsive after normal boot. The arrow simply stays in the upper left corner. Adding a cable Apple mouse does not solve the problem. Neither do safe mode, resetting of PRAM, or other of these fixes:
(see https://www.technobezz.com/macbook-trackpad-not-working-fix/)

However, after booting from a USB-stick, the trackpad works fine! So I think it must be a software issue. I have inspected the plists in the Library folder at the root of the normal startdisk, but found no plists appearing to be related to the trackpad or mouse. However, in the individual users library such plists occur, but are these really loaded before logging in?


texts:
I'm looking for a program that will create a visual map of my home network, I've found lanmap but it requires too many programs to be installed to be able to run.

Does anyone knows a native Mac app for the job?


texts: macOS Big Sur putting external HDDs to sleep

texts:
I just got the new Mac mini M1 set up earlier this week, and for the life of me, I can't figure out why it keeps putting my external hard drives to sleep.
I have four drives, one of which is being used as the Time Machine backup. These hard drives are all in one four-bay enclosure, connected via USB 3.0. I have triple checked, multiple times that the setting under Energy Saver that says "put hard disks to sleep when possible" is not checked.
I'm running macOS Big Sur (11.0.1) and wondering if this issue is related directly to macOS? Does anyone have any suggestions, or can confirm a similar issue with macOS Big Sur?


texts: Change Siri's default search engine on macOS

texts:
I recently upgraded my MacBook Pro to macOS Sierra and now have access to Siri. Whenever Siri searches the internet, it uses Bing, although I would prefer to use Google.

I changed Safari's default search engine to Google, but that did not affect Siri's searches.

How can I change Siri's default search engine?


texts: I've opened /System/Library/Frameworks/AppKit.framework/Resources/StandardKeyBinding.dict in vim, and it looks like jibberish. Is there a way to convert it to human readable just to see what it contains?


texts: Managing PreventUserIdleSystemSleep on MacBook

texts:
I have had some issues with the battery on my MacBook draining prematurely with the lid shut, and I think I have found a clue.

Following advice found elsewhere on the Web, when I issue:

pmset -g assertions

I see:

PreventUserIdleSystemSleep     1

The associated message is:

pid 10945(AddressBookSourceSync): [0x0000d8f9000192d5] 00:01:32 PreventUserIdleSystemSleep named: "Address Book Source Sync"
Timeout will fire in 1707 secs Action=TimeoutActionTurnOff

I gather that this is causing my MacBook to stay awake when the lid is shut, thus draining my battery. It’s not always the same process (Address Book Source Sync), and sometimes there is more than one process.

I don’t imagine that it’s supposed to be working that way, since it’s not supposed to drain my battery. How can I manage PreventUserIdleSystemSleep?


texts: External sound card, stereo sound to all speakers

texts:
I have an external sound card, it's SWEEX 7.1. If I plugged in, it shows at Audio MIDI setup and I can choose number of speakers, so I choose 6 speakers, because I have 5 + 1 speakers connected in my sweex sound card. I tested it by clicking to every speaker in midi setup and all speakers work correctly, which is fine, but...

What if I want to play stereo sound through all speakers? If I play some music from youtube for example, I can hear only two speakers.

So I've done some googling and found something called JackPilot, which allows me to do what I want, but you have to start JackPilot server first and after that set routing for every application separately.

I am looking for a some unified solution which will work after reboot without additional configurations. I guess Mac OS X does not provide such a feature out of the box, but I would be happy if something would exist, e.g. some 3rd party application.


texts: How to give feedback for an Apple app not listed on the Product Feedback page?

texts: For example, Notes app is not listed on the Apple Product Feedback page. And I want to suggest adding a Horizontal Line, like HTML <hr/> to Notes app.


texts: Set Microsoft Remote Desktop 10 to view another users session

texts: Is it possible to use Microsoft Remote Desktop 10, to remotly view another users session, so i can talk them through an issue (Teamviewer style) instead of making the host computers screen go blank, which is what MRD is currently doing to the host machine ?


texts: Mac Mini Keeps freezing and have to manually power down and restart

texts: I have a mac mini 2.3Ghz Intel Core i5 running 2GB 1333 MHz DDR3.  The mac keeps freezing.  Sometimes while I'm working on it, but often just when I leave it and it won't wake up and I have to hold down the power button to turn it off and then turn on again.  Any ideas on how to sort this?  Should I just upgrade the RAM or is it likely to be a different problem?  When it freezes nothing I try including force quit seems to work.  Thanks in advance, David


texts: Console log is full of tcp errors mostly from Safari, all coming from google domains

texts:
My console log the past week has been full of these errors. Generally they appear when anything accesses a google domain using HTTPS, such as loading fonts, or google analytics, or even google css files from their CDNs. How do I figure out what can do this? My ISP is brighthouse/charter. Until recently this didn't happen. I have switched DNS providers, cleaned the DNS cache, no extensions other than 1password, restarted, removed history, tried Chrome (same problems). No idea what to do now.

7/31/16 9:58:58.643 PM Safari[746]: tcp_connection_tls_session_error_callback_imp 224     __tcp_connection_tls_session_callback_write_block_invoke.434 error 32
7/31/16 9:59:52.353 PM Safari[746]: tcp_connection_tls_session_error_callback_imp 231     __tcp_connection_tls_session_callback_write_block_invoke.434 error 22
7/31/16 10:00:28.955 PM Safari[746]: tcp_connection_tls_session_error_callback_imp 240     __tcp_connection_tls_session_callback_write_block_invoke.434 error 22
7/31/16 10:00:56.088 PM Safari[746]: tcp_connection_destination_handle_tls_close_notify 239 closing socket due to TLS     CLOSE_NOTIFY alert
7/31/16 10:00:56.088 PM Safari[746]: tcp_connection_tls_session_error_callback_imp 239     __tcp_connection_tls_session_callback_write_block_invoke.434 error 32
7/31/16 10:00:56.090 PM Safari[746]: tcp_connection_destination_handle_tls_close_notify 238 closing socket due to TLS     CLOSE_NOTIFY alert
7/31/16 10:00:56.093 PM Safari[746]: tcp_connection_destination_handle_tls_close_notify 236 closing socket due to TLS     CLOSE_NOTIFY alert
7/31/16 10:00:56.093 PM Safari[746]: tcp_connection_tls_session_error_callback_imp 236     __tcp_connection_tls_session_callback_write_block_invoke.434 error 32
7/31/16 10:00:56.098 PM Safari[746]: tcp_connection_destination_handle_tls_close_notify 235 closing socket due to TLS     CLOSE_NOTIFY alert
7/31/16 10:00:56.098 PM Safari[746]: tcp_connection_tls_session_error_callback_imp 235     __tcp_connection_tls_session_callback_write_block_invoke.434 error 32
7/31/16 10:00:56.100 PM Safari[746]: tcp_connection_destination_handle_tls_close_notify 237 closing socket due to TLS     CLOSE_NOTIFY alert
7/31/16 10:00:58.632 PM Safari[746]: tcp_connection_destination_handle_tls_close_notify 234 closing socket due to TLS     CLOSE_NOTIFY alert
7/31/16 10:00:58.632 PM Safari[746]: tcp_connection_tls_session_error_callback_imp 234     __tcp_connection_tls_session_callback_write_block_invoke.434 error 32


texts:
Recently I'm seeing my time machine backups get big. On a typical daily time machine backup, they've gone from a gig,  to 5 gigs,  to today... Time machine wants to back up 329gb. I've not moved huge files around. I've not fired up VMs.

So far it's backed up 17gb of 329gb. What's going on? I'm running 10.9 on a 500gb SSD


texts: Handling permissions to run a bash script

texts:
I'm sending a bash script as a .command file to a friend. This person is not very tech savvy which is why I'm sending it in the first place, the goal is for the .command file to run through the shell operations for them. However when the attempt to run the script they get the run.command is damaged and can't be opened. You should move it to the Bin error. I believe this is a new version of the old unsigned developer prompt as apple is blocking out random code from their systems. Anyway I can have this run without too much complexity?
Edit: I'm open to using applescript if this will alleviate the issue.


texts: Is it possible to change the date of a photo in the camera roll?

texts: Can I change the date of photos that's in the camera roll?


texts: How do I stop repeat by clicking away from active window or pressing a key using AppleScript?

texts:
I'm attempting to write an AppleScript that keeps repeating an action until you press a key or click away from the active window. How would I go about doing that?

repeat repeatTimes times
tell application "System Events"

    keystroke firstText
    keystroke return
    delay firstDelay

    keystroke secondText
    keystroke return
    delay secondDelay

end tell
end repeat

i would prefer to modify repeat repeatTimes times to until keypress (any keypress) or until app not active or something. any ideas?


texts: I recently updated to Catalina and some commands are not being found. For example I have alias in my .zprofile for rm, mkdir, mv. mkdir works fine but rm it doesn't. Does anyone know why some commands are working and some not?


texts: I was trying to download a song from iTunes, but a sign "this item can't be played because it contains explicit content" appeared on my screen. I allowed explicit content for Music in restrictions, but when i am trying to download the song again the same sign appears.


texts: Can I make a song in my iTunes library into a ringtone

texts: I have a iPhone 6 Plus and was wondering if I can use a song that I purchased in iTunes as a ringtone for my iPhone?


texts: Wifi problems Mac OS X 10.8.2 MacBook Pro

texts:
There are hundreds of threads regarding Mac OS X 10.8.2 wifi problems, but no thread is describing exactly my issue.

I have a MacBook Pro 2011 with OS X 10.8.2. Since around two months I have trouble with my wifi connection.

After booting the Mac, wifi is working as usual. Connecting automatically and everything. Without any notice it stops working from one moment to another. Sometimes two minutes, sometimes an hour, but always at some point the wifi stops working.

The system stops showing other networks within my area and only shows my network. Disabling and enabling wifi shows me the "wifi enabled" icon without a connection, but looking into the network preferences clearly states that the wifi is disabled. In addition I am not able to enable the wifi in the network preferences.

Things I have tried so far:

Reinstalling the system (Time Machine Backup)
PREM Reset (can't count how often)
SMC Reset
Keychain - deleting all wifi connections and information

I have the Checkpoint Endpoint Client E75 installed. It makes no difference if I use it or not. In addition I have the problem with every access point. I tried public hotspots, my companies wifi (Cisco hardware) and home network. Don't believe this is related to the protocol used by the router.


texts: Editing track names in iTunes made difficult by invisibility of text

texts:
I use iTunes 12.1 on OSX 10.10.3. This has been bugging me for a while but crops up rarely enough not to google it for some time.

The issue is that when I click twice on a track in order to edit the title, the text color changes to white on white background and I can only see the text because it is initially selected. Once I remove the selection, I see nothing at all. See the following gif:

I did not find a reference to such behaviour on google and am wondering whether this is a universal bug or related to my personal setup. Are there any system settings which could lead to this?


texts: How to fix errors running Photos library from network drive?

texts:
I have the commonly reported problem that Photos is stuck at 90% building its database. (The progress bar that shows "Curating Best Photos", "Gathering favourites", "Detecting Duplicates", "Analysing scenes", etc..)
Opening Console I can see numerous errors for photoanalysysd, starting with read failures such as "unable to open database file", then finally giving up with this incriminating message:
Error loading existing graph due to internal error, graph database is corrupt or missing,
rebuild required and will occur next time we attempt to open it

Rebuild does not succeed and I am not able to repair the library by holding Option+Command. This reports a failure also. In the Console repairing any photo library on the same volume gives me:
Library Repair failed for library file:///Volumes/photos/example.photoslibrary/.
Error: Error Domain=com.apple.library-repair.error Code=4 "(null)"

I don't know that these errors are related to the stuck progress, but it seems likely. I also note that I am unable to sync my photo library to my iPhone since this problem appeared. It always says the photo library is "not yet available".
The Photos library runs from a network drive, which I thought could be a factor. To be precise, it's an AFP sharepoint served from a NAS over a 1000Mbps wired ethernet. Photos iteself runs otherwise happily from the mounted volume.
I don't see a problem with the file permissions inside the .photoslibrary folder. Directories are 777 and files 666. The owner and group are valid when mounted on the local machine too.
I have read many solutions for this problem and none have worked. Some say it will eventually finish, even if it takes a week or more. Well, I've had this problem for about a year. I don't believe the process is working at all.
What can I do to repair the database manually? Preferably without losing any album data, although I'm more than happy to lose face and object recognition data. I don't want this feature anyway and would disable it if Apple would let me.


texts: APFS Container Resize error code is 49153 in High Sierra

texts:
I am trying to resize my partition using the following

sudo diskutil apfs resizeContainer disk0s2 450g ExFAT Ubuntu 50g

However I am getting the error:

APFS Container Resize error code is 49153
Error: -69606: A problem occurred while resizing APFS Container
structures

I followed the instructions listed on this thread: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/46424915/apfs-container-resize-error-code-is-49153 but they are not working for me. I also turned off automatic backups and rebooted my machine and still nothing. Any ideas on how to proceed?


texts: Is there a way to sync music between a PowerPC Mac and an iOS 7 device?

texts:
My friend has a G5 running 10.5 Leopard (the last supported version of OS X on PowerPC). However, after updating to iOS 7, syncing is no longer supported, as iOS 7 requires iTunes 11, which in turn requires 10.6 Snow Leopard.

Is there any way to get music sync functionality back on a PowerPC Mac without reverting to iOS 6, whether through some version of iTunes, or a 3rd-party tool, and without jailbreaking?


texts: USB-C to Thunderbolt 2 (mini-Display port) to HDMI

texts:
I have a monitor which I connect to an older Macbook Air using an HDMI to mini DisplayPort connector.
I also recently got a late 2016 Macbook Pro with 4 USB-C ports.

So, my question is: if I plug a USB-C to Thunderbolt 2 connector into the Macbook Pro, and then HDMI to mini DisplayPort connector into the Tunderbolt 2, would it work?

In short, would the following chain work: USB-C -> thunderbolt 2 -> mini DisplayPort -> HDMI work?


texts: How do I restore a previous version of my ssh keypair files?

texts: I was following the Github tutorial and I generated a new SSH key pair. But now when I'm online, Google keeps throwing up SSL errors (and so does everywhere else with SSL, for that matter). What terminal commands do I need to input in order to return to my original SSH key pair?


texts: How to eject my external drive when my Mac refuses because of Spotlight?

texts:
I have plugged an external disk to my Mac. Now, I want to eject it. But my Mac stubbornly refuses and says that an application may be using the disk.

I have not launched any app neither opened any file from the disk.

I have downloaded and installed the app What's Keeping Me? This app is quite nice. She tells me that the process mds is using my disk.

I have killed the process mds and several processes mdworker. These are for Spotlight. But such processes get spawned again.

How can I eject my disk from my Mac ?

I have Mac OS X 10.6.8.


texts: Can I view websites on an iPad in an iPhone sized window?

texts: I'm trying to test out how my website looks on the iPhone, but all I have is an iPad. Is there a way to force the iPad into iPhone size view window?


texts: Count contents of one column if an adjacent cell matches a query in Numbers

texts:
I have a spreadsheet maintained in Numbers where I record my practices at the range, which lists type of weapon (pistol, rifle, shotgun), as well as the numbers of shots fired.

I am readily able to calculate the total, but want a more granular overview.

The column recording numbers of shots is called "skudd", while the one recording type of weapon is called type. The formula I've got right now is:

COUNT(Skudd;COUNTIF(Type;"Pistol"))

This should return something over 1500 shots, but currently returns the result 28. The number of times at the range shooting pistol is 18.


texts: How to connect 4 monitors to Mac mini 2011

texts:
I want to connect 4 monitors to my Mac mini. I want to send the video output to an image wall, so the 4 monitors should show one big screen.

Which adapter(s) do I need for my plan?


texts: Sync Notes on iphone with a txt file on windows PC

texts: Is there any way to sync a txt file on the windows filesystem with a Notes file on the iOS device- iphone or ipad. I regularly take my notes on my PC but want them to be viewable on my iPhone. Could be through a cloud technology such as iCloud/dropbox. Any suggestions?


texts: iMac I/O very slow - hardware issue? How can I diagnose fault?

texts:
I have a 3 year old iMac (21.5-inch, Late 2013) running OS X 10.13.5 with 8 GB RAM and 1TB HDD.

It's been running very slow (takes minutes to open an Application, about 30 seconds to open a folder, etc). I've checked for viruses and malware but found nothing. I've scanned through log files in Console but also found nothing.

I decided to re-install OS X and was performing a backup. There's 650GB of files and Carbon Copy Cloner has taken 7.5 hours to backup 595 GB. Activity Monitor is running and on the Disk tab reports Data read/sec at 577KB and Data written/sec at 311KB.

This seems slow. No evidence of any resource problem (CPU is mostly idle, RAM fine, no network I/O at the moment).

Is the backup time normal? 8 hours to copy 600 GB seems slow to me but maybe not?

If the slow backup time is not normal, how can I diagnose if there's a hardware I/O problem?


texts: Ever since I installed IoS 9.3 on my iPad 2, the passcode lock doesn't work unless Require Passcode is set to Immediately. Specifically, whether I let the screen go dark after the Auto-Lock time, or close the cover, if Require Passcode is set to something else, I never get a passcode prompt, while if it's set to Immediate, I do. Has anyone else seen this?


texts: iMovie on Macbook download fail: "We could not complete your purchase." What could I do?

texts:
This MacBook Air 2017 has been freshly installed with Mojave. I wiped the disk before doing so.

After that, I went on to the App Store to download iMovie... but it won't download! The error message displayed above, and "cancelled" inside the popup box, was all the info given. What could this be? I tried deleting App Store preferences, cookies, restarting the computer, changing DNS to 8.8.8.8, changing wi-fi, but none worked.

Also, the download button was a cloud with an arrow, not the usual "GET" button.

I have signed in with the same Apple ID as last time- both for my iCloud and App Store.

Please help!

EDIT: Even other apps won't download. This problem is not specific to iMovie.


texts: how to set mac desktop background as working terminal

texts:
I would like to set my background to a working Terminal window even when I minimize all applications. I would like to be able to write commands on desktop but I don't know if it is even possible.

I have done some Google searching but I could not find any clues. If this is possible, could you explain the process of setting it up?

I am using Mac OS X 10.7.5


texts: finder search window – functionality of keyboard shortcut changes

texts: I use cmd + alt + spacebar to launch a new finder window on my mac. Sometimes however, instead of launching a normal finder window complete with sidebar (something like this), it instead launches a window without a sidebar, like this . Why does this happen and how do I prevent it from happening?


texts: Anybody have something like that hooked up yet for watching TV and other content on demand?  I've tried pvr's from Tivo and Windows Media Center and they have their shortcomings.  I'd like to have TV recorded on a server and accessible anywhere in the house.  At the TV I'd like to use an Apple TV to access it.


texts: OS X 10.10 File Vault - Restore from Time Machine Backup

texts:
Just for my curiosity and knowledge, from a Software and Hardware stand point prospective, if for any reasons I can not retrieve my Mac File Vault Password and luckily I have a Time Machine Backup (normal backup, not encrypted), after I erase my HDD and reinstall the OS X and restore from Time Machine Backup, does the entire data comes back to my MAC without any issue? Such as: ask me again for my File Vault password?

Thank you so much and have a wonderful day.


texts: Is it possible to change priority of focus for `play, next, previous` buttons for a specific app

texts:
I want to use Pause, Previous and Next buttons to control for Spotify. Only if Spotify is open they can control it. But along with Spotify when I open Apple Music app, if I hit them, they will control the Apple Music app and do not control Spotify. On Music app I only listen a brown noise so I just want it to run on the background.

=>  Related opened issue.
[Q] Is it possible to change priority of focus for play, next, previous buttons for a specific app such as for Spotify over Apple Music?


texts:
I downloaded IOS9 with the phone and went through the the location service and other yes/no screens.
I got to the screen that said lets get started and after that I just got the Apple logo and a progress bar, then the main screen for half a second then the progress bar again.
I did a hard reset and now it is stuck on the logo/progress bar screen. Well that's not quite true; if you wait for several minutes the progress bar disappears and then comes back. It always only gets to one third by the way.
I tried connecting to iTunes to download the build again but it tells me I have to respond on my iPhone. Which I can't because it's locked up.
Does anyone have any ideas please? I'm getting a bit desperate.


texts: What are the direct download links for iOS 7.0?

texts:
Direct download (i.e. from Apple servers) links for officially-released iOS firmware versions through 6.1.4 are listed here, with checksums:

http://theiphonewiki.com/wiki/Firmware

These firmware images can be used to do a restore within iTunes (option-click the "Restore" button) without downloading the firmware via iTunes, e.g. if you have several devices to restore on different computers or if the computer running iTunes is not as well-connected as another available computer.

What, if they exist, are the direct download links for iOS 7.0?


texts: Is It Possible To Still Upgrade To OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion?

texts: For those Mac owners still on OS X Snow Leopard, does the possibility exist to upgrade to OSX 10.8 Mountain Lion rather than to 10.9 Mavericks?


texts: Is there a way to add a data point for steps and workouts in the Apple Health app in iOS 10? I cannot find it.


texts: Routing localhost traffic to external IP address

texts:
I have a host with Mac OS and another machine (192.168.100.50) in the same LAN.
I would like to configure Mac OS in that way if I access localhost:443 it will redirect to 192.168.100.50:443.

I'm able to redirect ports inside Mac OS, so if I access localhost:444 it redirects to localhost:443 this way:

sudo sysctl net.inet.ip.forwarding=1
/etc/pf.anchors/dev:

rdr pass on lo0 inet proto tcp from any to 127.0.0.1 port 443 -> 127.0.0.1 port 444

/etc/pf.conf:

scrub-anchor "com.apple/*"
nat-anchor "com.apple/*"
rdr-anchor "com.apple/*"
rdr-anchor "dev"
dummynet-anchor "com.apple/*"
anchor "com.apple/*"
load anchor "com.apple" from "/etc/pf.anchors/com.apple"
load anchor "dev" from "/etc/pf.anchors/dev"

sudo pfctl -ef /etc/pf.conf

But if I change from any to 127.0.0.1 port 443 -> 127.0.0.1 port 444 to from any to 127.0.0.1 port 443 -> 192.168.100.50 port 443 it doesn't work.

I guess I should set up NAT somehow, but I'm not sure how to do that with PF to achieve that. So any help will be very appreciated.


texts:
Okay - so I have a relatively simple question but can't find a clear answer.

Say for instance I have a large video file in FolderA named something.avi.  Time Machine then makes a pass and backs this up.  Afterwards, I rename this file somethingelse.avi.

Does Time Machine physically copy all of this data a second time, or does it create a new link with the changed file name, which points to the data which has already been copied?


texts: Will iOS 14.5 mean my HomePod can use Spotify?

texts:
Does this article mean that the HomePod will also be able to use Spotify as its default music service when 14.5 is rolled out?
https://the8-bit.com/siri-now-allows-setting-a-default-music-streaming-service-on-ios-14-5/


texts: Map app for iPad that works while you're not connected to WiFi or 3G?

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About to drive across country and, while we're sporting iPhones, it sure would be nice if the navigator could use our iPad, non-3G, version to view maps while we're traveling. I've looked through the app store but the field is littered with impostors and the carnage of the poorly implemented.

Does such a thing exist? Is there a well-made, offline map app for the iPad?

Notes:

I'd need it to cover Canada (Eastern and Atlantic) and the North East United States (Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, upper state New York).
Obviously I don't expect it to do any positioning (does the iPad 2 even have a GPS radio?) so an app that just called up street level maps would be fine. We're old enough to understand how to find our place in the world without a GPS lock on. :)


texts: Remap Mavericks alt key without external tools

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For some reason the way you write an @ symbol doesn't work anymore. I'm on a german keyboard and it used to be ⌥L but now it is ⌃⌥L which is annoying as hell!

Where are these kind of things stored? I just want a .plist or anything and edit it. All these tools are so incredibly annoying!


texts: How do I get my computer name to show correctly in the finder?

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I recently upgraded to Yosemite and following that upgraded to an SSD drive. Life is good and I am happy with everything except that since the upgrades I am seeing a silly variety of names for my computer.

I renamed it to The Shire and now it shows up as The Shire(2) or The Shire(3). No matter how many times I change it back in Preferences > Sharing, it keeps adding all those extra numbers. There are times when I see four or five different iterations of my system - see attached image.

To add insult to injury, the old name of my system, the generic MacBook Pro (5) also shows in the list.

From what I have read this may have something to do with Bonjour, but I have not see any solutions out there for restoring order and correct names to list.

Sage advice is welcome.


texts: Why does this applescript not actually set the input volume to zero?

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I have this command that builds a script to mute the input volume. The input volume is not fully muted, though. It seems to be closer to 10% than 0%.

osacompile -x -e 'tell application "System Events" to set volume input volume 0' -o ~/bin/mute_mic.scpt

This is odd, because the slider bar is as far left as it can go, but as you can see from the attached image, sound still is registering. However, if I use the mouse to click on the slider at zero, then it does actually mute the input.

Why does this happen? Am I using applescript improperly here?

I can even replicate this with the basic AppleScript Editor, so I know it's not a problem with the compilation.

(Note: I originally took my cue for the solution to this problem from this question's answer.)


texts: brew doctor warning about Python config scripts

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Can someone please explain what I should do about the following warning from Homebrew:

Warning: "config" scripts exist outside your system or Homebrew directories.
`./configure` scripts often look for *-config scripts to determine if software packages are installed, and what additional flags to use when compiling and linking.

Having additional scripts in your path can confuse software installed via Homebrew if the config script overrides a system or Homebrew provided script of the same name. We found the following "config" scripts:

/opt/local/bin/python-config
/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/bin/python-config
/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/bin/python2-config
/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/bin/python2.7-config

Aren't these the original Python config files installed by OS X? If so, surely I shouldn't delete them? Are python-config and Python2-config required if I only use Python 2.7? Should I change my $PATH which is:

Oliviers-iMac:~$ echo $PATH
/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/bin:/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/opt/X11/bin:/usr/local/MacGPG2/bin

UPDATE:  I successfully uninstalled Macports and removed /opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbinfrom my $PATH, but I'm still getting the following warning:

Warning: "config" scripts exist outside your system or Homebrew directories. `./configure` scripts often look for *-config scripts to determine if software packages are installed, and what additional flags to use when compiling and linking.

Having additional scripts in your path can confuse software installed via Homebrew if the config script overrides a system or Homebrew provided script of the same name. We found the following "config" scripts:

/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/bin/python-config
/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/bin/python2-config
/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/bin/python2.7-config

How do I fix this? Thank you in advance.


texts: iPhone photos still stuck on "Restoring from iCloud"

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I'm on the second day of processing and it still shows under all my photos "Restoring from iCloud". Should it also show at the iCloud backup that its restoring?  Thinking about resetting my phone and do the back up or maybe I should just wait.

I have about 13k items altogether with pictures and videos. I think nothing is happening because the blue progress bar is not moving. I do notice when I unplug the power it will ask if I'd like to resume for an hour without power.


texts: Any iPhone app crashes whenever time radio dial is pressed

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Problem
A few weeks ago, I noticed that I could not add any new alarms on my iPhone.  Eventually, I figured out what was going on:

Whenever I press any button that launches a time-based radio dial (one of the pop-up context menus that has you choose a time or date), the app crashes.

Attempts to Fix It

I thought this was just a problem with the Clock app (I just use the standard iPhone clock), but when I tested other apps that have the datetime radio button, like the transit app I use, the same problem occurred.
I don't seem to have any other problems, other than this time-radio-button.  No other problems on other apps, and the phone otherwise is working fine.
I have tried all of the standard means of trying to fix something while in ignorance:

reboot the phone
reset all of the settings (that was a pain, but I did it)
uninstall and reinstall the offending apps

None of those efforts worked, and Google searching, I couldn't even find anyone who had a similar problem.
There was even an iOS update recently, and after the update, the problem was still there.

Any ideas on what could be causing the problem and what I might be able to do to fix it?
My iPhone details:

iOS version 14.2
iPhone Xs (model #: MT9J2QN/A)
256 GB, with 214 GB free


texts: iOS development on windows without any apple device?

texts: I want to do some cross-platform mobile development (Android, iOS, Windows Phone) using Xamarin, the problem is that I only have an android device and a windows machine. But I still want to be able to test my apps for iOS and I can't really buy a mac (and/or an iphone) just for this. I'm thinking about testing my apps using Appetize.io, but to do that I would still need a MAC machine to be able to build the app and upload to appetize. Is there any workaround for that?


texts: MRT process uses 100 % CPU after disabling Hyper-threading

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I have an early 2015 13" MacBook Air running macOS 10.13.6. After I disabled Hyper-threading by following the instructions in the Apple Support article:

How to enable full mitigation for Microarchitectural Data Sampling (MDS) vulnerabilities

the process MRT uses 100 % of my CPU. According to this question:

MRT Process using large unbounded amount of memory

it might be because my computer is infected, but I don't think so, as ever since I enable Hyper-threading again, the MRT process does not show up.


texts: Migrate from an early 2015 MacBook Pro running Catalina to a 2019 MacBook Air running Mojave

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I have one early 2015 MacBook Pro currently running Catalina 10.15. That’s my production machine;
I got a new 2019 MacBook Air which I want to make my main production machine; The Macbook Air is from summer 2019 and came brand new with Mojave installed;

Is there a way for me to migrate from Catalina to Mojave, using either the Migration Assistant or a TimeMachine backup? If I a restore from a TimeMachine backup, won’t it also restore the Catalina version of macOS on the new MacBook Air?


texts: Can I safely run command-line apps in single-user mode?

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Obviously fsck is pretty safe to run in single-user mode. I'm using gtypist to learn touch typing and would like to be able to run it in single user mode so that I don't have to load the whole OS just for a command-line app.

When I first try running gtypist I got a segmentation error 11, which "means that the program accessed a memory location that was not assigned". On subsequent attempt get "HOME environment variable not set."

I thought maybe I need to use su to login in as a regular user, but my user account isn't listed in /etc/passwd. Should it be?

Is it even "safe" to run applications in single user mode? If so - would I create a new user? Create an environment variable in the root account? I don't even see HOME listed as a gtypist env variable so maybe it's not a gtypist variable at all.

On side note, just learned that rather than reboot into single user mode one can just open terminal and sudo shutdown now, after which OS X will "quietly and consistently shutdown to single-user mode." Sweet.

EDIT:
I think this question and the suggestion to use ">console" may be a more succinct way of addressing and answering my question.


texts: Is it possible to find a specific iMessage from a conversation?

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Using an iPad Air (still running iOS 7), is it possible to search through an iMessage conversation to find a specific message (or highlight all messages) that feature a given string I've searched for?

So far, in my attempts, a search for a given string takes me to the last message in the conversation, which, given the (at least) several hundred messages, is not spectacularly useful. I suspect that, with an iMac, or MacBook etc, this would be easier, but I don't own one; and sadly the convenience isn't quite worth the cost of purchase.


texts: Can you prevent the iPhone browser from reloading pages?

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I commute using the subway so this means 20 minute stretches of no internet.

To give me something to do, I often open a bunch of web pages, say 3 or 4 before I'm offline so I can read them while I'm without a signal.

If I check my pages just before losing a signal, they show up perfectly and the internet icon doesn't show, hence my thinking that it's not reloading when I check.

After loosing internet, sometimes my web pages will display fine, other times they try to reload.

Is there a way to have them not reload so I can read them?

Any other alternatives?


texts: How to replace a Mac hard drive with a Windows hard drive and run Windows Vista

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History: My macbook hard disk failed after i dropped it and I need to replace my hard drive. I have a hard drive from a PC laptop that has Windows Vista 64-bit installed on it.

Objective: I want to replace my macbook hard disk with the PC hard disk and run the Windows Vista that is on it.

Problem: How do I do this without reformatting my windows hard disk? This hard disk probably has a MBR and no GUID partition (GPT). Is there a way for me to change the boot sector to GPT safely and the windows Vista SP1 will boot from it? I definitely can't run it as an external hard disk with external case since Windows Vista doesnt support USB booting. Is there a boot manager program that will add an EFI partition to my hard disk?

Random Idea: If there was a program that would allow me to transfer my windows partition to a backup drive, I could probably install OSX and then use bootcamp to setup the hybrid boot sector and then copy back my windows partition. That might be the perfect solution, if there's no way to move a windows hard disk to a mac.

Update:
I have read that it is possible to migrate a windows bootcamp installation using WinClone, so I will attempt to use winclone on the windows partition from my PC and then restore this to a fresh bootcamp setup using Winclone


texts:
I want to permanently change my keyboard layout. Every time I restart my computer, I have to add Spanish ISO layout and delete the US one.

My Macbook has a spanish keyboard but I use OSx in english.


texts: Can't use "Back to My Mac" screen sharing using iCloud ID in Lion

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Screensharing is broken for me in Lion. In Snow Leopard I connected using mobileme for verification. However since upgrading my machines to Lion and my mobileme ID to iCloud, I'm unable to screenshare using my iCloud ID.

The Mac Mini I'm trying to connect to shows up in my finder. If I select the Mini, hit the "Screen Share" button and "Connect using an Apple ID" which has my icloud (.me) e-mail selected, I try to connect and I get an "Authentication failed" message.

Back to My Mac is turned on in iCloud preferences on both computers. Under Accounts, my iCloud e-mail is associated with the Admin account.

Not sure if this is just a bug that needs to be fixed of if there's something I'm missing here..


texts: Finding Apps that do not appear in Macbook dock

texts: I recently got a macbook pro. Shouldn't programs like iMovie and GarageBand appear in the dock? When I search for them, I cannot find them. When I go to the App Store to download them, it tell me that they are already downloaded. Where can I open these applications?


texts: Python script executable opened by text editor

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I have a simple "Hello world" script that I want to turn into an executable. The problem is that even though I went through the steps of declaring the path of the Python interpreter in the first list of the code and made it executable via chmod, it does not run as an executable. Instead when I click it my text editor opens up the file. This sounds really stupid, but I've tried everything. ./hello.py prints Hello world in the Terminal.

I've tried changing the file to open with the Terminal instead, but it's greyed out.

#!/usr/bin/python
print 'Hello world'

What I typed in the terminal:

chmod +x hello.py
./hello.py

Output:

Hello world

The problem is that double clicking the script opens text editor instead of running it as an executable.

What I tried:

Changing what the file uses to open itself by having it default to the Terminal, but OS X grays out that option.


texts: What options exist for ad free web browsing on iOS?

texts:
In OS X I can use extensions in most browsers to block ads. This offers an distraction free browsing experience.

For example: In Safari, Chrome and Firefox I can use Adblock or Adblock Plus. Both extensions use filter lists which you can find here. You can also manually add filters and add sites on which you accept to see ads (e.g. apple.stackexchange.com).

What options exists for ad free web browsing in iOS?


texts:
I have two Apple Cinema displays connected to my Mac Pro, System preferences sees both displays for audio output, however Logic is only sending audio out of my secondary display, not my main one, and there is only one Display Audio option in Logic settings.

More info:
if I unplug the secondary display's USB cable, and reset the Logic audio output, it goes to the main display. However, if I quit Logic and then reopen it it reverts audio output to the secondary display, along with sending my workspaces there.


texts:
Just two days back, I bought a MacBook Pro. I have just decreased the resolution of the display and started one game. Suddenly, my MacBook made an annoying beep sound and the front light was also blinking. After I restarted the system, everything seemed fine.

I just want to know what the problem was?

Edit: So the problem is reproducible. Whenever I start the game, the MacBook Pro starts flashing the front light and beeping.


texts: MBP 13' (mid-2010; 7,1) 2.4 Core 2 Duo P8600 supporting 16 GB RAM under Win7?

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I’ve got a MBP 13′ (mid-2010) 2.4 Core 2 Duo (full specs below) that I’m now operating solely under Win7 64Bit. It formerly run as well under OS X 10.6.8, relatively to which the firmware seems up to date (MBP71.0039.B0B).

Would my system recognize 16 GB RAM if operated under Win7 64 Bit? Or would it require the latest firmware (MBP71.0039.B0E) of OS-X 10.7.5 (which was never installed on my MBP) anyway?

As far as I have read elsewhere, using 16 GB RAM under OS X seems to definitely require this later version of OS X (including the respective firmware update); so I'd like to know whether this is an issue of OS X or (as I suspect) the firmware.

Modellname: MacBook Pro
Modell-Identifizierung: MacBookPro7,1
Prozessortyp: Intel Core 2 Duo
Prozessorgeschwindigkeit: 2,4 GHz
Anzahl der Prozessoren: 1
Gesamtzahl der Kerne: 2
L2-Cache: 3 MB
Speicher: 4 GB
Busgeschwindigkeit: 1,07 GHz
Boot-ROM-Version: MBP71.0039.B0B
SMC-Version (System): 1.62f6


texts: Would an Apple Watch charge any quicker if connected to a 12W USB power adapter?

texts: I understand that all Apple Watch models ship with a 5W USB power adapter in the box, but I'm curious as to whether the Watch would charge quicker if paired with a 12W power adapter. Is there any official information anywhere that outlines the maximum wattage that an Apple Watch can take?


texts:
I manually transferred some of the fonts from my old Mac via Fontbook to my retina MacBook Pro. After doing this the font for system popups broke. How can I fix it?

Here is an example:


texts: Escaping variables when using open 'smb://$LOGIN:$PASSWORD@$SERVER/$PATH'

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I'm trying to connect to a server using variables. However I get it to use the variables instead of the variable name.
So far I've tried:

/usr/bin/open 'smb://"$LOGIN":"$PASSWORD"@"$SERVER"/"$PATH"'
/usr/bin/open 'smb://$LOGIN:$PASSWORD@$SERVER/$PATH'
/usr/bin/open 'smb://\$LOGIN:\$PASSWORD@\$SERVER/\$PATH'
/usr/bin/open smb://$LOGIN:$PASSWORD@$SERVER/$PATH
/usr/bin/open 'smb://\'$LOGIN':\'$PASSWORD'@\'$SERVER'/\'$PATH''
/usr/bin/open 'smb://"$LOGIN:$PASSWORD@$SERVER/$PATH"'


texts: How can I move virtual memory swap files to a different drive or partition?

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note: This is a question that I asked on SuperUser a while ago. I'm re-posting it here because I think it belongs here.

By default, Mac OS X stores its swap files in /private/var/vm/. I would like to place the swap files in a different location. How can it be done?


texts: iBooks is synchronising with iPad but not with iPhone

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iBooks is synchronising with iPad (mini2) but not with iPhone (5s). All devices have the same settings and updated to the last OS although with iPhone synchronisation is going only in one direction: if I'm adding any book/pdf from iPhone in iBooks it's appearing in all devices. At the same time if I'm adding book from Mac or iPad in iBooks, iPhone cannot see it.
Has anyone faced such problem? Any tips how to fix it?


texts: I shared a web page via Safari (8 on Yosemite) once. Now the last recipient shows up in the menu. How can I delete it from there? See picture for how it looks.


texts: Why my Time Capsule shared drive keeps refreshing?

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I use my Time Capsule to share files across my machines.

On my MacBook, when I open the shared disk in Finder, and expand some folders, it starts to "refresh" after a few seconds again and again.

If I click on a file, it loses the selection, and the directory tree disappear and appear, like being unmounted and mounted quickly.

Edit: I realized that what was causing that was some folders with accent in their names (like: Música). Once I removed the accent, this behavior stopped. Is this a known bug?


texts: Is there a way to limit a smart playlist by the year field in iTunes 12

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I run a rather complicated stack of smart playlists to populate my iPod with music and videos, from the top one that pulls out the files I added to my library first, to the middle range that sorts that playlist by how many times I have listened to the files, to the actually used playlists that sort it out by media type (i.e. TV Show, Audiobook, and music genres)  These low level playlists I have I usually limit to 23 items since this is the most I can have on one screen without scrolling, however I have stumbled across a small problem.  I like to listen to my music by year, the oldest stuff first, but I have no way to LIMIT the playlist by this field.  I can limit by random, but then my audiobooks show up all out of order, same with artist and album, sometimes I'll get the third book in the trilogy before the first one.

Can playlist limit matches by year so I can always get the earliest stuff first?


texts: iTunes 12.5.5.5 can't go back/forward while in Music search -- Error Occurred, try again

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While in Music search/surfing through albums, songs and stuff sometimes you want to go back/forward (cmd + [/cmd + ]).

And I noticed today this problem:

Error Occurred, please try again later

So I just do in new search for my artist to find.  Movie and other stores are working fine.

In Console I got this:

default 21:53:40.156296 +0200   iTunes  TCP Conn 0x60000058b6d0 started
default 21:53:40.224167 +0200   iTunes  Setting identical now playing info, skipping update.
default 21:53:40.226106 +0200   iTunes  TCP Conn 0x60000058b6d0 event 1. err: 0
default 21:53:40.226163 +0200   iTunes  TCP Conn 0x60000058b6d0 complete. fd: 59, err: 0
default 21:53:40.226350 +0200   iTunes  TCP Conn 0x60000058b6d0 starting SSL negotiation
default 21:53:40.374577 +0200   iTunes  TCP Conn 0x60000058b6d0 SSL Handshake DONE
default 21:53:40.514791 +0200   iTunes  TCP Conn 0x60000058b6d0 canceled

Anyone got a clue?


texts: Deleting srt files from vlc app in iPad Mini

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I have installed VLC app in my iPad Mini and have been enjoying movies. But the srt files I have transferred to my iPad cannot be removed even after I have deleted the movies from my iPad.

Before there were only some files, so it was not a problem for me but now it's been a mess. I tried to delete it from the iPad but the files aren't visible there. I don't have Macbook. I tried to delete via Windows, but the delete option doesn't work.


texts: Recover deleted folder from user/library

texts: I have accidentally deleted a folder /Users/me/Library/Application Support/Postgres/ through the use of a third party uninstall app (CleanMyMac). Is this folder gone forever or can I recover it? I haven't restarted the system. The folder contains the postgres db and I don't run time machine, I have a backup of the db but it's old so would like to recover if i can


texts: How can I disable the eject key on my mac keyboard?

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I have a Das Keyboard for Mac that includes an eject key just to the right of the backspace key and to the left of the home key. I never need to use it, and it accidentally press it constantly which causes my CD tray to open. It's really annoying.

Is there anyway to disable this key?

If there's a way to keep the key's other functionality that's accessed by holding various modifiers (for example controlshifteject to put the display to sleep) that would be great. However if there only method disables the key entirely, I'm okay with that.

Note that I'm using Sierra so using Karabiner is not an option.


texts: Where do the Notes associated with Gmail accounts get synced to on iPod touch?

texts:
I noticed that notes, like Calendars, get synced with a Gmail account on the iPod touch.

But where do they get synced to? Where can I access them online?


texts: Why does music keep getting erased from my iPhone?

texts:
I keep all of my music stored offline on my iPhone 6s (iOS 10.3.3). iCloud is entirely turned off. My iPhone's drive is also nowhere close to being full.

I just recently bought an album, and I'm experiencing this weird issue where the songs in this album keep getting removed and I have to re-download them.

Something that might be noteworthy to mention is that since I bought this album from the U.S. store, the titles were originally in English. I then converted them to their original given names by the Japanese artist (iTunes/Music app has never complained about this in the past).

  How do I get the Music app to stop deleting songs from my album?


texts:
I created an "emergency" image of my entire HD using the procedure explained in
Recover a dead hard drive using dd.

I spent a lot of time fine tuning my .bashrc and .profile files, but I cannot find them in the image. Do you know where it should be located? I already looked in a folder with my user name and in a directory called "Mac".

UPDATE:

The output is that I have a .dmg file with thousands of crazy files and directories that I cannot mount in my mac (How to mount a DMG image created with dd?), so I am using 7zip in a windows machine to explore the image file.


texts:
I ha a hard drive that died recently in my macbook, I've replaced the hard drive etc so no issues there. Unfortunately, it appears I wasn't backing up the notes app to iCloud, and I really need to get some back...

I've managed to get the hard drive spinning in a usb dock that I have so I can access it, but I don't know where notes was storing it's data. Any ideas?


texts: How does it affect the performance if an iMac 1TB internal hard drive is mirrored on an external drive?

texts:
I am getting an iMac 27 inch, and it will have a 1 TB internal hard drive, and I know we can set up the Mac so that this hard drive is mirrored on an external 1 TB hard drive using the built in tools of Mac OS X (Applications -> Utilities -> Disk Utility).

But the OS's system files, the swap file, etc, are all on the internal drive as well.  Will those be mirrored as well?  If so, won't that slow the system down a lot, since the external drive is usually slower than the internal drive.

Also, even if the OS's files are not mirrored but just the user's own files, will copying or file saving be slower, since instead of copying to the faster internal drive, the OS will report done only after the external drive is done as well?


texts: What's the advantage of buying an iMac over building a Hackintosh?

texts:
I'm not looking for a flame war or anything like that.

I am looking at (once I have some money, the hardest part) buying a iMac. Let's just assume one could build a fully working Hackintosh with one's current hardware.

What would be the advantage of buying a new 21" iMac running the same Mac OS X version vs. building a Hackintosh with better hardware?

The chances of me building a Hackintosh is low as I am, well, lazy. :) Just looking for reasons to buy a new iMac.


texts: WiFI does not work on Windows 10 BootCamp - Drops in and out

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Update: There was a new driver released on 4/20/2018 for Broadcom 802.11ac Network Adapter, version 7.35.118.83, but the Apple update is only now pushing it (7/9/2018).  Just installed it. Let's see how it goes.

WiFi is consistently dropping at random times regardless of network.

Question : how do I fix it so I have a reliable consistent wifi connection when I use Windows 10?

I have a MacBook Pro, purchased late 2017.

WiFi will randomly disconnect when I run Windows 10.  It works better on certain networks than others but it's always intermittent. Even on very robust networks it will eventually begin to drop. Once it drops it sometimes will simply not reconnect. Other times the drivers will randomly be disabled, not sure if this has to do with windows updates.

I tried manually installing and uninstalling drivers, rolling back drivers, installing and reinstalling the windows support software, and even using third party driver support software. Wifi connection still drops randomly with no perceivable pattern.

I went to the apple store and I was simply told that this is a windows issue.  I had windows running on a MacBook air (2010) and never experienced these issues.  It also seems they haven't come up with an update for the driver in almost two years. I ran out of ideas, any pointers on how to fix the wifi connection problem is appreciated.

Hardware info -

Manufacturer:   Broadcom

Description:    Broadcom 802.11ac Network Adapter

Driver version: 7.35.118.68


texts: User specific issue - All applications showing in finder as file type 'package', and will not launch

texts:
I have a 2011 Mac Mini running High Sierra (10.13.6).  While installing security update 2019-005 last month, the mini stopped in the final stage of updating, with the Apple Logo and progress bar showing less than a minute remaining. I didn't appear to be hung or frozen, the mouse was still responsive, but the install status stopped progressing.  I let it sit overnight, and the update never progressed any further, so I ended up power cycling the mini.

After the mini restarted, the primary administrator account that I use is not able to launch any applications.  In finder, all the applications in the /Applications folder are showing as having a file kind 'package', and not 'application'.  Because all the apps are not recognized as applications, all the dock shortcuts are displayed as question marks.  Strangely, other accounts (both administrator and standard user) on the mini are fine, and are able to launch these same applications.

Things I've tried so far:
- Disable gatekeeper - no noticeable difference with issue
- Reset ACLs on home folder of problem user
- Restart in safe mode - no noticeable difference with issue

I'm running out of ideas for troubleshooting as was wondering if anyone had any recommendations.


texts:
BitDefender's Dock icon pops up randomly and I have to quit again and again. I tried to contact the support but got only some generic response. Does anyone have the same problem and have a workaround?

Here is the example of the icon appearing after closing iPhoto:


texts: Will ext4 formatted disk configured as Time Machine over SMB be recognised as Time Machine disk when directly attached?

texts:
I've bought a new router (LinkSys WRT32x), flashed OpenWRT onto it, and set it up as a NAS server with a disk attached (formatted in ext4 because OpenWRT is a Linux distro).
I have the disk recognised as a Time Machine backup disk through Samba 4, and I'm now backing my MacBook Pro wirelessly.
However, if I have to recover from this partition, as it is formatted in ext4:

Will I have to do so wirelessly through my router (supposing my Mac can still access the LAN in whatever state it's in) or will the disk be recognised as a Time Machine backup when plugged into my Mac?
What will happen if I can't restore wirelessly, will my Mac even recognise the ext4 disk?

Any knowledge or advice appreciated, I am keen to learn.


texts: Is it true that iOS devices use a hard coded time.apple.com dns for an ntp server?

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I read that the only way to point an IOS device at your own NTP server is to change your dns sever’s record for time.apple.com to point at your NTP server so that when the iOS device requests the time from the hard-coded time.apple.com it returns that NTP server’s is instead of the one apple returns.

Is that true for all versions of iOS and does it work on iPod Touches?  Additionally, does it request on port 123 like most NTP clients?


texts: How to set topmost big contact entry in contact in iPhone 5C?

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When I open Contacts app in iPhone 5c, I see one contact displayed on the top of the list with bigger font and icon.

How to choose this entry?


texts: Siri is giving out wrong phone number for my business

texts: I am an optometrist and when people use Siri to find me Siri is giving my home number instead of my office number.  How can I correct this issue?


texts: on a imei check it said server down, please could someone tell me what it means, as I bought a sencond hand iphone 3gs and cannot get it set up, plus I need it unlocked as its on at&t network to work in the uk, all help would be appreciated, thanks


texts: Connecting Time Capsule (or AEBS) to a AT&T U-verse Router/Modem - Proper Settings and Setup?

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Today I am giving AT&T U-verse a go to see if it will be better than my current service provider. The general install went fine, but there are new intricacies that wreaked a bit of havoc on my network setup.

Before, I had a basic cable modem and connected my Time Capsule to the cable modem and everything was run from the Time Capsule. Pretty basic.

But with U-verse, they provide you what they call a residential gateway which basically is the hub for your internet and tv data (I think). It is a 2Wire 3801HGV. On the internet side, this hub serves as a both a wireless router and modem. It has NAT, dishes out IP addresses, allows wireless clients, etc. But, I wanted my Time Capsule to be the wireless hub since I use it for backup, etc.

So when the install was done, and I tried to connect the Time Capsule to the 2Wire, the Time Capsule blinked yellow. After some research, I realized this was probably due to the 2wire and Time Capsule fighting over dishing out IP addresses, but I am not 100% sure that is the case.

Anyway, to get around this issue, I turned off the wireless connectivity on the 2Wire, changed the Time Capsule to Bridge Mode instead of the current setting of "Share a Public IP address". I then connected an ethernet cable from a port in the 2Wire to the WAN connection on the Time Capsule, and everything seems to work ok connection wise. The Time Capsule light is green, and I can connect wirelessly from my computers at home.

However, I lose functionality. My Guest Network capability from the Time Capsule is gone. I don't think Back To My Mac is operational.

Is this the way you would have set things up? Is this loss of functionality expected? Anyway around this loss of functionality. I read, but did not quite understand, some people talking about DMZs and bypassing the routing on the 2Wire. Would that be better? Also, as a bonus, would you connect other direct-connect devices (Ooma, for example) to the 2Wire or to the Time Capsule?


texts: Create multiple bookmarks on iPad/iPhone home screen at once

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I have a list of about 10 bookmarks I want to create as iOS home screen icons. Are there quick ways to do this?

And is there a way to edit them once they're created?


texts: Disable the use of the "com.apple.quarantine" extended attribute on Mojave

texts: I recently got Mojave. Could somebody tell me whether it's possible to disable the use of the "com.apple.quarantine" extended attribute, for all apps that I have now or will ever download in the future? Thanks!


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As I've mentioned in another question, I want to upgrade an iPod 4th gen to iOS 5. It's currently on iOS 4.latest.

I'm interested in doing this in the fastest possible time. However, I right now all I have are 2 PCs around. However, I'll soon get access to a Mac.

I know (edit:Okay, it apparently is) it's  that iTunes on a Mac is not the bloated, slow, ugly monstrosity it is on a PC. In fact, it's quite decent on a Mac. Tons of features are faster and cleaner-looking.

So, my question: Will updating to iOS 5 on a Mac be faster than doing it on a PC?


texts: Changed user password by providing new password as hash not syncing to filevault 2

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I have been using

defaults write "path/to/username.plist" shadowhashdata '(really long hash info)'

to administer a local support account on our Mac's but I have found, and it may be since updating to 10.10.1, that the file vault password is not getting updated when this is run.


texts: Error in logs: kernel[0]: Validation failed, dataSuffix

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I've the following errors in my system logs when running Pages (or any iWork app):

Aug  4 19:01:09 kernel[0]: Validation failed, dataSuffix:
Aug  4 19:01:09 kernel[0]: b9 d5 6f e2 28 3e b9 48 82 12 80 33 10 14 01 9c 06 00 2b 20 8a e1 64 b1 da f5 90 a3 af ba 32 52 83 4a d6 25 08 d3 88 72 39 a5 2a 39 5e a0 f7 77 66 bb
Aug  4 19:01:09 kernel[0]: vnode_validate_compressed_file_Type4 error: 22
Aug  4 19:01:09 kernel[0]: Validation failed, dataSuffix:
Aug  4 19:01:09 kernel[0]: b9 d5 6f e2 28 3e b9 48 82 12 80 33 10 14 01 9c 06 00 2b 20 8a e1 64 b1 da f5 90 a3 af ba 32 52 83 4a d6 25 08 d3 88 72 39 a5 2a 39 5e a0 f7 77 66 bb
Aug  4 19:01:09 kernel[0]: vnode_validate_compressed_file_Type4 error: 22

What is causing that, how to debug that and how can I fix that?


texts: I connected a device to my USB port, but it's unclear how much current it is drawing. Is there a way from the command line, or otherwise, to determine how much current that device is drawing?