texts: What if I don't want my keyboard occupy 2/3 of the screen?

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I am sure fans like even this, but what if I don't like web page look like this

Is there any way to make keyboard widget smaller?


texts: How to erase Time Machine backups in trash?

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I have a lot of backup data from TM (>800Gb) in my trash and I can't delete it. Trying everything what I find in "AskDifferent" & also this. It's too long - over 2 hours left and nothing! I can not recover these backup folders or delete them one by one.
Maybe I should use Disk Utility and erase Time Machine property (it's under MacBook Pro.sparsebundle directory, not Time Capsule, where there are other files)? I need to save info in my TC, only erase backups in trash and others.

Please help...


texts: Xcode 10 runs really slow and slows my entire computer down

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I'm currently using Xcode 10.1 and it's driving me crazy, it slows my computer down to a point that it is unusable. Before I upgraded to Xcode 10 I was running the same project on Xcode 9 and High Sierra without any problems and with only half of the memory it currently has (8GB of Ram). I now have upgraded the memory to 16GB but it didn't make a difference.
FYI - I don't think the slow down has to do with Mojave 10.14.2 since I was experiencing the same issue with High Sierra and Xcode 10, which is the reason I upgraded to Mojave thinking that Xcode 10 would run smoother in the newest operating system.
Here are the specs of my computer:
Computer has a fusion drive.

Here is what I see in Activity Monitor for CPU and Memory usage:

Disk Activity

Any idea what could be wrong?
EDIT:
The Simulator may be the possible cause.
In the comments below I stated that the issue was resolved by uninstalling and reinstalling Xcode but I later found out that it wasn't true. The issue seems to be caused by the Simulator, what I noticed is that if I reboot my computer and don't use the Simulator, Xcode runs fine. But as soon as I use the Simulator, Xcode starts running slow even after closing the Simulator. I need to reboot and use Xcode without using the Simulator to temporarily fix the issue. I have been using hardware-devices for testing and Xcode seem to be running fine. Any thoughts?
Thanks


texts:
I have a Mac mini running 10.13.6 as a server.

Time Machine
homebridge
File Server
Content caching
Netinstall
Xcode
running VMware Fusion with Linux guest system

Since a few weeks, the whole system starts at  random moments.

What would be a way to troubleshot this?


texts: Mac OS X keeps to ask me if I want to allow iTunes to accept connections

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Every time I open iTunes, Mac OS X keeps to ask me if I want to allow it to accept connections, even if in the Firewall settings iTunes has been set to accept any connections.

I am not using a beta version of iTunes. How can I avoid this "problem"?


texts: Is it possible to mute notification sound on ALL apps?

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I want to enable the sound button (left side of the iPhone X), but then I got the notification sound whenever I got a message on WeChat. I'm fine with disabling the notification sound on WeChat.

But then, there are other, numerious apps that send out the notification and whenever I get it, the notification sound is alerted.

So far I only found it is possible to disable the sound one by one on each app, but is there any global setting that disables it? I use iOS 11.


texts: Restarting or resetting diplay and/or GPU without logging out or rebooting?

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I have a 2011 iMac 27" running Yosemite.

Is there a way to restart the monitor and/or GPU without rebooting the computer or logging off? Is there some sort of keyboard shortcut or keystroke?

I ask because sometimes my monitor freezes and displays greenish horizontal stripes. I suspect the rest of the computer is still operational (although I'm not certain of this), and I'd like to restart only the display.


texts: Spell check multiple languages at the same time, at the same input field?

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Is there an option to somehow combine multiple languages at the same spell check "session"? Form what I can find under Keyboard > Text it seems that there are only two options
1) Chose one specific language
2) Allow to detect language by text that is written

I do often mix words from multiple languages and it is very annoying that I have text that has red line under words. I do not want to turn off spellcheck entirely. I still need to verify that what I have written is correct. I just need to combo my preferred languages.


texts: There Are Screen Glitches on Normal Desktop Usage But not in Safe Mode

texts:
I've a iMac Late 2009 model with latest version of MacOS High Sierra and there are screen glitches/flickering on normal desktop usage but not in safe mode.

Where is the problem?


texts:
In the early versions of Mac OS X, only the first 8 characters of any password was used. Later Apple increased that number.

A proper password system stores a hash not the actual password. In that case, a longer password/passphrase is generally better so as to increase the chance of a generating a hash value not already pre-calculated. I assume Apple is using this hash technique for authenticating system login users.

It Mavericks, what is the maximum number of characters in a passphrase used by Apple's user account login?


texts: good dictionary which support text to speech or real voice pronunciation?

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I have just switch to a mac recently. Trying to find some thing equivalent to Babylon on windows but haven't found any.

I wonder if are there any good dictionary software which support real voice pronunciation or at least text-to-speech? Other functions like one-click translation is also necessary.


texts: Export reminders from osx Reminders app programmatically

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I need to get reminders list in any form (could parse it later) from Reminders app in osx (10.9.1)

I know that i could do it from menu, but i need it programmatically.

Perfectly it would be some console command or script. Maybe there is a common way to interact with osx apps visual interface (not so good, but ok). It is needed for personal use.


texts:
I recently upgraded to MacOS Catalina, on a 13-in, 2019 MacBook Pro.

I am installing some software, and the OS was complaining that it is not from a verified provider, so I decided to bypass it using:

sudo spctl --master-disable

However, I only got:

-bash: spctl: command not found

Here is my ~/.bash_profile

export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:
export PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:$HOME/.local/bin/
export PATH=$PATH:/bin:/usr/bin
export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/bin/
export PATH=/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:$PATH

Any ideas how to fix it? spctl is a default function, so I guess I deleted something.


texts:
I made an app (tested it works) and I want to make it run every day at midnight. Here is my PLIST file:

EDIT: after using @user3439894's code here is what I put in my PLIST

<?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>Label</key>
    <string>com.example.exampled</string>
    <key>ProgramArguments</key>
    <array>
        <string>/usr/bin/open</string>
        <string>-a</string>
        <string>/Applications/Calculator.app</string>
    </array>
    <key>RunAtLoad</key>
    <false/>
    <key>StartCalendarInterval</key>
    <array>
        <dict>
            <key>Hour</key>
            <integer>0</integer>
            <key>Minute</key>
            <integer>0</integer>
        </dict>
    </array>
</dict>
</plist>

When I run it using sudo launchctl load /Users/fbisurveillancevan/Desktop/LaunchMessageText.plist, it returns nothing. When I try again, it returns launchctl: already loaded The daemon/agent appears to be loaded, but does not run


texts: Configuring safari's search bar to complete by '/' delimited tokens (like firefox)

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I use a lot of various github.com URLs that I type by hand.
github.com/user/repo
Because I visit them frequently, I only have to type a few letters.
The behavior is better in Firefox: if I want to visit github.com/philippecarphin/repo, I type
   'gith' <rightarrow> 'p' <rightarrow> 'r' <rightarrow>

and for most other repos I visit frequently, this method is super fast in Firefox.
But in Safari, it completes full URLs instead of stopping at slashes.
I do 'gith'  and it completes to github.com, but when I type 'p', it completes to a full URL which is usually github.com/philippecarphin/some-other-repo, then I backspace the repo and write the one I want.
First world problem, but I still wish I could get it to complete by '/' delimited tokens.


texts: iPhone 4 upgraded to iOS 6 - restore ringtones from iTunes

texts:
The ringtones show up in iTunes, but iTunes says that it cannot find the songs in order to restore them to my iPhone.

How do I get these ringtones back without having to go and redo it again?


texts: Why can I see two Push settings in iPhone?

texts:
I know more or less how Push works, but why is there a Push on top (in Settings → Accounts & Passwords → Fetch New Data) then other options for iCloud, Outlook, Gmail etc?.

Is any of these related to My Photo Stream or iCloud Photo Library? Do these use Push or Fetch too?


texts: Do MacAlly keyboards require drivers to function?

texts:
I need to replace the keyboard on my iMac G5, and I'm considering the MacAlly keyboards, probably the iKey Slim as it's available for less than $20 with shipping and tax. It also has two USB ports on the back, which I need. My only hesitation is that I saw a review on Amazon that mentioned a driver problem. I'd prefer to avoid installing any drivers. The MacAlly site isn't of much help.

Can anyone tell me if MacAlly keyboards come with drivers? If so, are they necessary? If they are needed, am I best off buying an old Apple keyboard on eBay or is there another brand I should consider? (Kensington's Mac keyboard looks nice, but expensive.)


texts: How can I convert iTunes playlists from MS Win into OS X?

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I'm migrating a Win box into an OS X and I have around 40 playlists in iTunes. Exporting the playlists revealed some kind of dB table which I would like to process so I can replace the object MS path by the OS X path.

Any suggestion?

Thanks!


texts: Get error output from an double-clicked app

texts:
How can I get the output written to stderr and stdout from an app that has been installed by .dmg, and is opened by double-clicking its app icon in the /Applications directory?

(I can see the output when I call the app in a terminal by using the path /Applications/MyAppName.app/Contents/MacOS/myappname, but this doesn't help since the the app behaves differently when I double-click the icon.)


texts: Why can't I ssh using a port other than 22 with macOS 10.15.4?

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I'm trying to ssh to a machine that opens the port 8012 for ssh as opposed to port 22. When I ssh at the command line (ssh -p 8012 username@host), nothing happens. The -vvv option gives no pertinent information other than "trying to connect".

I can do ssh ssh://new@sdf.org (on standard port 22) without problems.

Further, on this Mac I have a VM running Debian. Within this VM I can ssh on the machine with the non-standard port 8012 without problems.

I also have a separate Windows machine where I also have no problems doing what I described.

Edit: output of ssh -vvv ...:

OpenSSH_8.1p1, LibreSSL 2.7.3
debug1: Reading configuration data /Users/[username]/.ssh/config
debug1: /Users/[username]/.ssh/config line 1: Applying options for *
debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh/ssh_config
debug1: /etc/ssh/ssh_config line 47: Applying options for *
debug1: Connecting to [destination] port 8012.

And then it gets stuck there.

Output of cat ~/.ssh/config:

  AddKeysToAgent yes
  UseKeychain yes
  IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_rsa

Uncommented lines of the output of cat /etc/ssh/ssh_config:

Host *
    SendEnv LANG LC_*


texts: Why does Intel Power Gadget fully freeze the system?

texts:
I have installed Intel Power Gadget. When I've tried to start the app it fully freezes system. I then need to reboot.

I have the problem with a MacBook Air (i7, 2012) with a clean install of macOS 10.11.6. On an iMac (i5, 2014) also U CPU model, and same macOS 10.11.6, starting the app works and it shows what I need.

Why does Intel Power Gadget not work on the MacBook Air.


texts: how to upgrade a jailbroken ipad3 (ios5.1.1) to ios 6.x and jailbreak it again?

texts:
I have a jail broken ipad3 with IOS 5.1.1
and I want to upgrade it to a newer version of IOS.
I have the following Problems:

which version should i upgrade to and how
can i keep my programs, pictures, movies, books, etc... after upgrade and jailbreak
i googled about 2 days and most people said that current version of available upgrade can not be jailbroken and we should wait untill 7, is it true? can we now upgrade to pilot IOS7?

thanks in advance


texts: Google Dropped Pin Link not showing in Website (Deskop) nor in Google Maps (iphone App)

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I have a Google-dropped-link.

On the iPhone (latest updates installed - 12.4.1) it opens first the website only with a button to open the app.

By clicking on it, it opens the app but does not show the location.

So I did type the link on my desktop browser (Firefox) and it does not show the link either.

If I click on the directions button the red-dot shows up.


texts: Can I upgrade from Lion to Mavericks? Or must I upgrade to Mountain Lion, first?

texts:
I never bothered to upgrade my 2012 MacBook Air to Mountain Lion. Currently I am on Lion.

Can I upgrade straight to Mavericks, or do I need to first upgrade to Mountain Lion and then to Mavericks?


texts: 30GB out of 32GB being used for wired memory?

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I have 32GB of memory and am downloading stuff over FTP using FileZilla. My memory usage is 31GB with 30GB of that being allocated for wired memory. Is this normal when downloading stuff over FTP?

UPDATE: after a bit more usage it looks like FileZilla was just a red herring. Kernel task is the one causing the ballooning Wired Mem usage. To be precise, here are the top three offenders and the wired memory usage.

  1732608 com.nvidia.web.NVDAGP100HalWeb
  6787072 com.nvidia.web.NVDAResmanWeb
  8089600 com.apple.driver.AirPort.BrcmNIC

this was obtained by running

kextstat | awk 'NR==1{ printf "%10s %s\n", $5, $6; } NR!=1{ printf "%10d %s\n", $5, $6; }' | sort -n

which i found here: Why does leaked memory appear malloced to kernel_task, and why can't OS X therefore garbage collect it

here are latest screenshots from activity monitor.

why would the wifi driver be using up 8GB of wired memory? why would nvidia webdriver use up 7GB of wired memory?


texts:
I started playing a video added from iTunes and about 10 minutes in the video stopped and the Videos app closed. Whenever I go back to the Videos app, it is a blank dark screen that won't respond to any input.

I tried doing a "force close" where I double hit the home button and then hold on a icon until I can press the minus. That didn't work. I restarted the iPad. Still nothing. I changed e settings so it doesn't start from where I left off. Still a dark screen.

It's an iPad 2 with whatever is the almost latest version. I'm on the road so I can't plug into my computer and get the latest version of iOS.


texts: I just bought a Galaxy note 8 and I am trying to access my files on my apple time capsule.  I just got my macbook air last christmas so I am not to familiar with how to use everything just yet.  I can access my files on my time capsule through my macbook and my husband can through his pc.  Is there a feature that needs to be enabled on the time capsule or my note for this connection to work?


texts: iOS Backup: Restore single program's settings?

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I have an iPod Touch and an iPhone. Both have the same certain application installed, but I want to transfer the Touch's app settings to the iPhone's app.

I already downloaded the iPhone Backup Extractor which lets me look into the backup. All human readable.

Is it possible to inject this part of the Touch's backup into the iPhone's backup and then sync it?


texts: AppleScript: Find all instances of "Folder" and list the contents in a drop down box/list

texts:
I'm trying to make a script I can use to find all instances of a folder, be it on the root drive, external drive or mounted networked storage, and list all the contents in either a drop down box or a selectable list in a dialogue window.

To pseudo-code it:

tell application "Finder"
    for (every instance of "*/Folder"
        append items in "*/Folder" to contentsList
    end for
end tell

I honestly have no idea how to actually do it in AppleScript since it doesn't natively have for loops, and I'm not sure about adding items to arrays in AppleScript.

Is anyone able to give me any pointers? Alternatively, being able to do the same in a shell script would be just as good.

Thanks in advance!


texts: ellipses dots in iPhone message app but no message sent

texts: So, this might be a bit of a dumb question but sometimes I text someone and then I get the ellipsis back and then I usually get a message. However, sometimes I never get a message back and am curious. Does this mean they started typing something they didn't send? Is it possible that they are texting someone else? More curious than anything.


texts: How do I share a chrome tab via AirDrop?

texts:
I'd like to share my current Chrome page on macOS via AirDrop to an iOS device so that I can open it up in mobile Safari.

If I use Safari on a desktop, this is easily done via: Share > AirDrop.

Is there an equally easy way to do this on Chrome?

How to Send Web Pages from Chrome to Your Phone and others recommend using a 3rd party tool called Pushbullet. This is cumbersome because it requires an extension to be installed on desktop Chrome, a 3rd party app installed on an iOS device, and will probably not open the page in mobile Safari (i.e. I'm guessing it'll open it up in mobile Chrome).

Handoff can apparently solve this problem, but that requires you to  be logged in to the same Apple account on both devices. Is there a way that this can work without being logged in to the same device, just as AirDrop via Safari works?


texts: "Save As..." in Mail Not Sorting by Date Received

texts:
I am a recent convert to Mountain Lion (new iMac arrived a week ago). Been using the "Save As..." option in Mail.app for years now to save chunks of email as RTFs.

Previously (in Snow Leopard), using "Save As..." would save your selected emails out into a single file (RTF by choice) in the sort order of your mailbox.

So for example, I sort by Date Received. My RTF file would be nicely organized by Date Received, and thus make a perfect monthly archive for thousands of emails.

Mountain Lion's Mail.app still has "Save As...". The only problem is that it appears to save the emails into my RTF file in completely random order. I cannot figure out WHAT the sort is, and it's completely derailed my workflow.

Does anyone have any suggestions? I can still copy/paste in the correct order, but that is only plain text and I need RTF for this.


texts: Differentiating Apple products by their MAC addresses

texts: Apple has registered a ton of MAC address ranges for its products.  Does anyone know whether it's feasible to reliably identify which Apple product (particularly iPad, iPod, iPhone, and MacBooks) a particular device is in network traffic via specific MAC address prefixes? In other words, is there something about the MAC address of an iPad that is distinguishable from the MAC address of a MacBook, for instance?


texts: Can't delete old Time Machine backups from Trash

texts:
I was trying to delete some old Time Machine backups from my backup drive. I am running into a few issues.

I tried the method outlined in this article of simply moving them to the trash. After I moved old backup folders to the trash, I tried deleting them from the trash, but got the following error:

I clicked "Get Info" and tried to set permissions for everyone from "Read Only" to "Read and Write." However, when trying to delete the folders I get the same issue.

I tried writing rm -rf '/Volumes/MacBook Pro Backup/.Trashes/501/2020-07-03-051423' in the terminal, but I get permission denied issues for all files in the folder. I am afraid to use sudo in front of the command in case this is not the correct way to delete the backups.

I tried finding the "Put back" option when right clicking the backup folder to put the backups back into the original location, but the option was not there.

I tried dragging and dropping the folders from the trash to the original backup location, but I get the following error:

Is there any way I can restore the old backups or remove them completely, without having to format my TM drive?


texts: Boot into Mac from Windows after failed Bootcamp

texts:
Don't hate on me too much for this one...

I put Win8 on my Mac Mini using Bootcamp, and all was well.  I switched back and forth a couple times between the two with no problems.  The problem started when I was trying to update drivers for my touchscreen monitor on the Win8 side.  I think somehow the Bootcamp drivers 'went away'....now I can't get back into Mac.

Is there a way to "manually" boot into a partition? I have tried using the "hold down the option key," but that's what I believe got messed up by the driver stuff.

Thank you in advance for any help.

Environment

Mac Mini running 10.7
No Optical Drive
Windows Style Wireless Keyboard/Mouse


texts: MacBook Air takes an eternity to come out of sleep

texts:
For the past few years I've been using a 2008 aluminum MacBook. The day the new airs came out I decided to switch so I purchased one to replace my well used MB. Lion has had its bugs, most of which aren't to bad, but one thing that is really annoying me is how long it takes the MBA to come out of sleep. I don't know if this is a MBA issue, or a Lion issue in general, but my MBA takes about 5 sec for the keyboard to light up, and then another 5 for the screen to light up. My old MB never took more than 5 sec. I would assume that an SSD would cause things to go lightning fast. What's causing it to take so long? Are there ways to make a computer wake up faster?

Notes:

This happens everyday even after restart
The time varies slightly, but just being asleep for a few minutes it takes just as long to wake as leaving it asleep all night.
Typically 4-5 applications open
Only 50GB of 256 GB HD used, has 4GB of RAM and 1.8Ghz i7 Processor


texts: MacBook Pro- wifi connected but no internet after unplugging ethernet

texts: I recently set up my modem/router through xfinity, and after activation I unplugged the Ethernet cord to try to connect my laptop to wifi. My phone is connected and working well but my laptop won't go online even though it's showing that it's connected to my network. I spent over an hour on the phone with Comcast troubleshooting, and we determined it has something to do with my computer. The computer was connecting to other networks just fine before I plugged in the Ethernet cable (it was the first time it ever had one plugged in) but now won't work on any wifi network including ones it had previously worked on. Help!!!


texts: How should I handle total freeze upon launching iPhone simulator?

texts: I updated Xcode (11.4.1) this afternoon and noticed the new iPhone SE 2 simulator option. Cool! My iOS app was running fine on my physical device and all simulator before this update, but now when I launch the simulator, it freezes my MBP (2019 16", Catalina 10.15.4) while attempting to run. I can still move the mouse, but nothing else responds, and I'm forced to do a hard reset. Anyone else having this issue? Any suggestions on how to approach fixing this? I don't particularly want to keep trying it, only to repeatedly force reset my Mac.


texts: Re-Enable Apple Java 6 SE from Command Line?

texts: So, I broke Java Preferences.app.  I'm on Mountain Lion. I had Java 6 SE (the Apple-distributed JDK/JRE) and Oracle's Java 7u10 preview. Trying to get a stub app to launch with Java 7, I unchecked the Java 6 SE checkboxes in Java Preferences.app. Now not only will my stub app not launch, but Java Preferences.app won't launch (it says there's no valid JRE 1.4+ available).  I understand this is probably because Apple's Java launcher stub is not compatible with 7u10 -- not sure how to manually re-enable SE 6, though.


texts:
I've used Migration Assistant to move my old user account from Windows to Mac. After a while the disk on my Mac being full. Now the Mac won't startup

I've tried to enter in Safe mode, but it doesn't start.
I've tried from Recovery mode>Terminal but there is follow error: no space left on device.

I haven't another Mac, only a PC.

How I can access to Mac disk and delete some files?


texts:
I would like to configure the Touch Bar of my MacBook Pro (13-inch, 2016) to display by default the static fn keys (esc, F1, F2, ...) all the time, since they are the keys I use the most.

For now, I only managed to configure the touchbar to be static selecting the 'Expanded Control Strip' option (in System Preferences > Keyboard > Keyboard), so it shows the esc, brightness, mission control, etc.

Is there any workaround to do that yet? Running macOS Sierra 10.12.6.


texts: What is wrong in this command about grepping and pandocing?

texts:
I am thinking this answer which returns a broken PDF document in OSX 10.10.3.
The file test_dummy.tex is here.
pandoc test_dummy.tex -f markdown -t html | grep -E '(^<|^$|^ *$)' \
| grep -v "^<p" | pandoc -f html -o tables.pdf

where pandoc 1.13.2.1 and grep grep (BSD grep) 2.5.1-FreeBSD.
1 Mistake in test_dummy.tex -file (different than you having real LaTeX)
I installed Pandoc by brew install pandoc.
Something is wrong in the very beginning command
pandoc test_dummy.tex -f markdown -t html

returns a blank line, likewise pandoc test_dummy.tex -f markdown.
[fixed by the answer]

2 Connecting the full command still challenge
The command (with cabal Pandoc)
pandoc test_dummy.tex -f markdown -t html | grep -E '(^<|^$|^ *$)' | grep -v "^<p" | pandoc -f html -o tables.pdf

returns
! Package inputenc Error: Unicode char \u8:≤ not set up for use with LaTeX.

See the inputenc package documentation for explanation.
Type  H <return>  for immediate help.
 ...

l.134 ≤

[fixed the addition of this answer solves this part]
How can I troubleshoot this chain of commands?


texts: Fixing "The startup disk does not have enough space to be partitioned." error in BC Assistant

texts:
I'm running a Late 2014 iMac running the latest version of Catalina (10.15.3 as of 3/19/20), and I'm trying to install Windows, and nothing  is working.

I have a flash drive with a Windows 10 disk image on it created using BC's own support software installer, but whenever I try and install Windows Bootcamp Assistant gives me the "The startup disk does not have enough space to be partitioned" error.

I've tried turning off all Time Machine settings & running tmutil console commands to eliminate the local time machine snapshots.

After this I tried making a separate "Windows" partition using disk utility, but that won't work either. Even worse, after trying so many different solutions, I seem to have caused 200 GB or so worth of disk space to just disappear. Whenever I go into Disk Utility, it correctly shows my internal 1.12 TB drive, but the parition available to OS X is limited to 800 GB.

I've tried virtually every solution online, and to no avail. Any other solutions?


texts: What is this brown sticky residue in my MacBook Pro charge port?

texts:
I have just noticed a brown type of sticky residue in my charge port on my MacBook Pro, it wipes off but not completely and to me it smells like battery.

Can anybody tell me if I have a problem here, or if this is normal?


texts:
I'm in the process of reinstalling everything after a clean install (Mavericks) on an iMac. Mail seems to be working okay but none of my signatures are showing up in preferences. I have copied back the folder ~/Library/Mail from backup, which in turn contains V2/MailData/Signatures. In addition to a couple of sig-related preference files, that folder holds a whole load of cryptically-named files, each of which is stored twice -- once with a .mailsignature suffix and once with a .webarchive suffix.

When I launch Mail it seems to delete the .mailsignature files from the folder leaving only the .webarchive files, and as a result I am left with no signatures. Every time I copy the contents of the Signatures folder back from the backup the same thing happens; Mail deletes the .mailsignature files. I can also see that the AllSignatures.plist file gets re-written to empty (the one I'm copying in from backup is not empty). I don't know whether that is a product of the files being deleted, or vice versa.

Extra info:

I have iCloud enabled for Mail and my other Macbook Air (also with iCloud enabled for Mail) is showing my signature collection just fine (though I'm a bit worried that iCloud is going to tell the laptop to delete its signatures as well). Certainly iCloud is not pulling signatures over from the laptop, which makes me wonder what else is not being kept in sync. [I just created a Smart Mailbox in Mail on the laptop to see if it appeared on the iMac. It did not. So presumably iCloud is not correctly syncing on Mail, although Safari bookmarks are updating between the two macs]. That doesn't necessarily explain why the Signatures keep being deleted though.

Can anyone help?


texts:
I know that Mavericks removed the PreferPlainText preference, but I have a client that uses AOL and must use the web-client that always created HTML formatted emails with a text size of 10px....

I get a lot of email from her... Is there a way to fix this?

I've not up'd to Yosemite yet... Anyone know if its different there?

thanks!


texts: Epson Stylus Color Photo R200 won't print

texts:
I have a Mac Mini (late 2012) with Mavericks installed. It is connected via USB to an Epson Stylus Color Photo R200 inkjet printer.

When I print, the print job window says

Stopped - Unsupported colorspace = -1, 2 pages

I have run Software Update.  This is the first time I have tried to use the printer, normally it connects to my old PC and works fine.


texts: I can't kill the auto-correcting in Mavericks!

texts:
Running 10.9.2, I have gone in to SysPrefs and made sure Keyboard>Text is set to NOT auto-correct, I have gone to Mail Prefs and made sure spell checking is done after I finish, but no matter what I try, I can type a valid word (I do have to use some science words, and of course company and personal names) and auto-correct changes them to some crazy "corrected" word in a flash! I have to delete and try again, sometimes it works, more often it gets replaced again! This is annoying.

I saw another question with an answer that told of an overlay showing the original word and how to use arrow keys and enter to replace what was correctly written in the first place; that did not work in my test on an email messsage. Just as a test here (Safari browser), I wrote "c o o l g o n i a n" but without spaces) and it is turned into "Colonna", capped and everything!

What might I be missing? I wondered if there is a plist file I might remove to re-do a prefs for the Mac?

CLARIFYING: While I appreciate the info on turning off spell-check in browsers, I guess I failed to state that this is a system-wide problem, not just in email or browsers. If I write that cool word in Adobe Illustrator, it also changes it to Colonna. So I guess I'm stuck with it, but it makes me nuts trying to enter words "correctly" that get corrected as soon as I hit the space bar!


texts: Numbers, Keynote, GarageBand, iMovie but no app like Photoshop?


texts: Shell script to determine the file size in a folder recursively

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Can anyone provide me with a shell script that I can run against various folders to see where large files are lurking?

Many thanks


texts: All music gone in iTunes version 12.4.0.119 after upgrade

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All of my music in iTunes is gone.

I upgrade to version 12.4.0.119 from the previous version.

After I rebooted all of the music and custom playlists are gone in iTunes.

All of the media files are available on my hard drive and iTunes is pointed at this folder.

Is there an .xml file that I may need to move to another directory in order for iTunes to look in the appropriate place to 'see' the music and playlist files/db?

I am running Windows 7 64-bit on this machine.
I have no other issues with other applications.
My event log is clean.
I synch iTunes to an iPhone 5S.
All of my music and playlists on the phone are not affected by the issue as far as I can see.

I can't find anything of value on the Internet regarding this issue.  Perhaps I am using the wrong search parameters.

TIA


texts: Python editor for ipad with mercurial support?

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Is there a text editor for ipad which supports python and mercurial? It would be even better if there were a solution that also allows one to run and develop with django.

Any suggestions?


texts: Is there an app that shows iPhone call alerts on iPad?

texts: Is there an app out there that will allow me to see who's calling my iPhone from my iPad? This seems so simple, yet there doesn't seem to be anything in the App Store, leading me to believe it's not possible.


texts: Will I see performance boost if I add memory with these Page-In/Page-Out statistics?

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Currently, if I open Photoshop after a days time, the load up time is about 5 seconds.  If I close and open again (right after), the load up time is about 2 seconds (I assume this is caching?).  Can someone explain how adding memory will (if at all) increase performance here (4GB to 16GB)?

Background Info: My Page-Ins are about 2GB and my Page-Outs are about 60MB (iMac 12,2 4GB RAM).


texts: Keep MacBook Pro awake in a clamshell mode + HDMI switcher setup

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I'm running a setup with the latest Retina MacBook Pro, a Windows desktop and a single external monitor.

Both machines are outputting display to a HDMI switcher, which connects to the monitor. I can switch between the sources with a button on the switcher.

The problem is that everytime I switch to the Windows machine, the Mac goes to sleep since it's in clamshell mode and it has no display connected. The VPN connection I use for work on the Mac keeps disconnecting because the machine goes to sleep.

I've tried fiddling with the power saving settings and other third party programs (including Caffeine and NoSleep) that are supposed to keep the machine awake, but none worked so far.

I am running Mavericks 10.9.5 on the latest MacBook Pro model (SSD).

Any ideas on how to always keep the machine awake, even when I switch the display to the Windows desktop?


texts: A few days ago I tried to uninstall an app and now it won't reinstall. It just comes up with this blank icon and I can't reinstall it. I've tried to reset and hard reset, installing the app from iTunes and it won't remove. I don't know what to do. Can someone help me? I have iFunBox too. It also won't remove from Storage Settings. Here is what the icon looks like:


texts: Black Screen when Upgrading RAM in 2019 iMac

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I bought the iMac with 8GB of RAM, 2x4GB SO-DIMMs.
I wanted to upgrade to 128GB - 4 sticks of 32GB. I replaced the 8GB with 128GB (4x32GB). Same brand OWC, same power etc.
If I only use 2x32GB, in slot 1 & 3 or 2 & 4 it works. I tried 2 sticks and the 2 others; all 4 work. But, if I use all 4 at the same time, I have a black screen.
Any tip please?


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I have an TV which accepts a DVI and VGA input, and a retina macbook pro with Mini Display Port and HDMI. I needed to connect my mac to the monitor so I decided to go for an HDMI to DVI cable since it was cheaper than the Mini Display Port one.

When I plugged my mac into the monitor, the mac's screen flashed and the discrete gpu was activated, which would seem to indicate that it is attached to an external monitor. However, the monitor does not display an image and in a few seconds says that it is "entering power save mode" (when nothing is connected it does not display this, indicating that it detects that something is connected).

I tried using boot camp to see if that would help but there was no difference. I also tried an older mac. It did not have an HDMI port, but I had a Mini-Dvi to HDMI adapter. Again, nothing displayed.

I thought that it might be an issue with the inputs or the cable, but I connected an Xbox 360 to it and it displayed perfectly, so it must have to do with the mac

Any possible fixes to this issue?


texts: Macbook pro retina setting resolution to 2880 restored to 1440 after restart system

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System is Mountain Lion, these steps will reproduce the problem:

Select a primary resolution in System Preferences pannel, Displays. Select the 'Best for Retina display' (Other resolution in this pannel is also OK).
Use the SetResX to set the resolution to 2880x1800 (I tried some other programs, the same result).
Restart the system or log out the current account.

Then after login again, the resolution will restore to the resolution in setp one.

Is there a way to keep the resolution to 2880x1800 permanently?

Thanks.


texts:
my year 2009 Mercedes C class can pair with my iphone 5 no problem at all
the car speaker can receive phone calls and I can talk hands free, also when I am using my iphone in the google map nav mode, the speaker speaks well through bluetooth connnection

the problem is when I listening music or watch videos, the speak doesn't work....


texts:
I have an issue with my iPad; it is locked up with the message that iCloud Backup has not been done in over 2 weeks.

It won't do anything or go any further even when all conditions for backup are met.

I cannot even turn it off because I cannot slide to power off and I get no response when touch "OK" button on iCloud Backup notification.

Any ideas on resolving this issue?


texts: Can I use TouchID for a password in my browser?

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I would like to use my touch ID to fill in my password at any website. Is there a plug-in for that or is it still inpossible.

Example: Facebook asks me for a log-in on facebook.com and I want that when I lay down my finger on the touch id that it automatically fills in my password.

Do I need to dream on or is there a possibility to reach this?

Thanks in forward.


texts:
Recently I dropped my iPhone, breaking the screen, so I had that replaced with a new screen by myself that I brought from Amazon.

Now that I replaced it, the iPhone home button doesn't work at all because when I press it, it doesn't do anything, no matter how hard or many times I press it, it still won't do anything.

Later on, I took apart the iPhone and replaced the home button with a new one, and this didn't solve the issue and yet I don't know why it doesn't work at all.

I have pictures of my iPhone 3GS, hopefully it should help or whatsoever.

How can I get the home button working again?


texts: Apple keeps asking me to accept the new iCloud terms and conditions on my new iphone x. I have accepted the terms and conditions (many times) but the warning does not go away. Anyone that have a solution?


texts: RAM disks - can I use APFS and/or compression?

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I use a 200MB Ram disk to write some throwaway files that I use repeatedly but can forget from run to run and don't mind losing on a shutdown.  I often run out of space however and have to clean house.

This comes from a typical recommendation to mount a RAM disk until Macos:

can I use APFS instead?  Would there be much benefit in a Ramdisk?  Would it compress?
can I activate compression by default?  I am dumping out a bunch of throw-away diagnostic HTML files that would take a lot less space if there was transparent file system compression like you can do on NTFS.

                  old-school, what about APFS?

diskutil erasevolume HFS+ 'RAMDisk' `hdiutil attach -nomount ram://409600`

Diskutil itself doesn't help much:

Not one mention of APFS.

$ diskutil erasevolume -h

Usage:  diskutil eraseVolume format name MountPoint|DiskIdentifier|DeviceNode
Erase a single disk partition or whole, laying down a new file system volume
that will be empty of files. Format is the specific file system personality
name of the new volume, e.g. "Journaled HFS+" or a common alias e.g. "jhfs+".
Name is the new volume name (subject to file system naming restrictions) or
can be specified as %noformat% to skip initialization (to skip newfs). You
cannot erase the boot volume. A pseudo-format of "free" or "Free Space" will
remove the partition altogether, leaving a free space gap in the partition map.
Ownership of the affected disk is required.
Examples: diskutil eraseVolume JHFS+ UntitledHFS /Volumes/SomeDisk
          diskutil eraseVolume "Journaled HFS+" FooWholeVolEgRaid disk7
          diskutil eraseVolume ms-dos FOO disk0s5
          diskutil eraseVolume free free disk0s5

Not much documentation from Apple - it's terminal stuff.

Looking at man page we still only have old file systems.

Here's what using the GUI has to say:

Compressed Disk Images.  what's that?

I have also seen the term compressed disk image with regards to macos.  Does it have any relevance here?

giving it a try didn't help much:

Mount a 50MB

diskutil erasevolume APFS 'ram2'hdiutil attach -nomount ram://102400``

output:  No clear error, but no disk either:

Started erase on disk2
Unmounting disk
Erasing
Mounting disk
Could not mount disk2 after erase  not good
Finished erase on disk2

ls /Volumes doesn't show a ram2 disk

total 0
drwxr-xr-x+  4 root  wheel  128 Feb 26 16:03 .
drwxr-xr-x  28 root  wheel  896 Sep 30 13:10 ..
lrwxr-xr-x   1 root  wheel    1 Feb  8 12:51 MacHD -> /
drwxrwxr-x   8 jluc  staff  340 Feb 14 23:01 RAMDisk  existing one


texts: Yosemite on an Early 2008 iMac 20" with 4GB gives too many beachballs

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Question

Can you suggest a (series of) test(s) or monitoring that can show what is happening when the system fails, or some test that can show that the harddisk is borked or if some network issue is at hand?

Background

Upgraded from Mountain Lion. For a week or so it was like my box was on steroids, then I saw the beachballs more and more often. Took a backup, formatted my disk and re-installed Yosemite from scratch - no improvement.

Symptoms:

Last two times I started the box, Safari, which I just ran to save a wallpaper is stuck with a great big spinner. Nothing else can be run and even the top bar was missing. When I turned the computer off and on, I was sent to System utilities which made me suspect a harddisk failure is imminent and perhaps the root problem.
I have now let the computer sort itself out - when I woke it, all tabs in Chrome were in a state of loading, but immediately got the pages loaded and I have for now as I write this a very responsive system.
When in Chrome (my default browser, I sometimes get no response, then a beachball, then more often than not an "Aw Snap" or Kill page? which make me suspect a network issue (all other devices are happy with my time capsule - iPhone apple TV and iPad - yes I am 100% Apple here)

I contacted Apple Support with this story as a Yosemite issue and was told to re-install snowleopard which came with the machine. I want to make sure my iMac is borked first since then I will upgrade to a newer iMac instead.

The fact that I am now breezing along with no issues and pages loading and switching much faster than under Mountain Lion makes me want to first investigate if there is something you guys can detect based on some test you can suggest.

Hardware Overview:

  Model Name:   iMac
  Model Identifier: iMac8,1
  Processor Name:   Intel Core 2 Duo
  Processor Speed:  2,66 GHz
  Number of Processors: 1
  Total Number of Cores:    2
  L2 Cache: 6 MB
  Memory:   4 GB
  Bus Speed:    1,07 GHz
  Boot ROM Version: IM81.00C1.B00
  SMC Version (system): 1.29f1

UPDATE If your iMac slows down and hangs like mine, have a look in the console for hardware issues. An SSD in addition to the 4GB I already had resulted in a fast iMac.


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As a brand new Mac user this might be my naivety or an issue with the OS.  I bought a new Macbook Pro today and wish to partition the disk to allow Windows to be installed and Linux too.  I was advised in the shop that this was straightforward using the Disk Utility tool.  However, when I attempt to create a second partition, I am presented with the following:

Partition failed with the error: This Core Storage operation is not allowed on a sparse logical volume group.

Having scanned around for similar articles I see that this is a common problem when people have installed Yosemite on a SECONDARY partition.  In other words they already had a partition.

I also found that disk encryption may be an issue.  So I checked File Vault under Security and Privacy.  This tells me that File Vault is turned on for the disk Macintosh HD.  So I try to correct this but I'm advised that Encryption paused and that I should Connect power adapter to resume encryption.  And of course when I connect the power adapter this has no effect.

After 20 years on Windows I thought this would be different: a perfect operating system was my dream.  Please advise how to proceed, I'm stumped!

PS here's a dump of the diskutil output:

diskutil cs list

CoreStorage logical volume groups (1 found)
|
+-- Logical Volume Group 9E0A5132-A88C-446E-9B9C-E965476720A9
    =========================================================
    Name:         Macintosh HD
    Status:       Online
    Size:         499418034176 B (499.4 GB)
    Free Space:   0 B (0 B)
    |
    +-< Physical Volume 5F094D20-ED5A-4B42-AEC0-8D8C8BE6305D
    |   ----------------------------------------------------
    |   Index:    0
    |   Disk:     disk0s2
    |   Status:   Online
    |   Size:     499418034176 B (499.4 GB)
    |
    +-> Logical Volume Family 656C2707-25A9-4166-AAF9-A35C650C6DC4
        ----------------------------------------------------------
        Encryption Status:       Unlocked
        Encryption Type:         AES-XTS
        Conversion Status:       Converting
        Conversion Direction:    forward
        Has Encrypted Extents:   Yes
        Fully Secure:            No
        Passphrase Required:     Yes
        |
        +-> Logical Volume F227F884-C081-4AC8-8230-3FCF7E1F43A4
            ---------------------------------------------------
            Disk:                  disk1
            Status:                Online
            Size (Total):          499099238400 B (499.1 GB)
            Conversion Progress:   Paused
            Revertible:            No
            LV Name:               Macintosh HD
            Volume Name:           Macintosh HD
            Content Hint:          Apple_HFS


texts: Mystery IP cache problem one macbook all accounts all browsers

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Sister has a macbook running 10.15.6 Catalina used to manage a Wordpress site on a virtual hosting service.  As of a few days ago, the macbook fails to access the site and gets a "this site's IP has been changed" message.  Phone and tablet on her same home network can access the site fine.  I (on a different continent) can access the site fine.  Nslookup for the site on her macbook gives the same result as it does for me. Hosting provider insists it's an IP cache issue on her machine.
Things she has already tried:

sudo killall -HUP mDNSResponder
DNS set to GoogleDNS
Safari, Firefox, and Chrome, all same issue
New user account on Macbook, Safari, same issue
Safari History->Clear History
Safari Preferences->Privacy->Manage Website Data->Clear All
Safari Develop->Empty Caches
Safari Develop->Page Resources->Network->Ignore Cache
Many restarts of Safari
Many reboots

Some more things tried since I originally posted:

accessing the site from daughter's Chromebook works fine
curl on her sitename also retrieves the same error page on her macbook

How Do I Fully Flush Cached Redirects From Safari? seems like it might be relevant?  But perhaps not quite the same for Catalina?
Are we missing something obvious?  All suggestions much appreciated.


texts: How accurate is System Report on RAM speed?

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I have successfully replaced 2 * 4GB DDR3 1333 MHz RAM (Samsung) with 2 * 8GB DDR3 1600 MHz RAM (CnMemory). Everything runs fine and System Report is displaying the RAM is running at 1600 MHz.

Now I wonder how accurate this report is. I have learned the RAM clock rate is determined by the Front Side Bus (FSB), so I would have expected the new RAM to still work at 1333 MHz instead of now 1600 MHz.

So does System Report report the accurate clock rate of the FSB or does it report the advertised maximum clock rate from the DDR3 RAM somehow?

(I should have done a memory benchmark before the switch, but I really didn't expect these better results).


texts: Why 2 same files have different size on NTFS?

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I have 2 same files residing on an NTFS filesystem:

Romans-MacBook-Pro:cut poma$ md5 src.mov
MD5 (src.mov) = 7d59d01e5efffe3a258eff86d8b775a0
Romans-MacBook-Pro:cut poma$ md5 copy.mov
MD5 (copy.mov) = 7d59d01e5efffe3a258eff86d8b775a0

According to ls they have same sizes and same attributes:

Romans-MacBook-Pro:cut poma$ ls -l@
total 10681888
...
-rw-r--r--@ 1 poma  staff   290300838 Jan 19 13:56 copy.mov
    com.apple.quarantine            22
    Mac_Metadata            20
-rw-rw-rw-@ 1 poma  staff   290300838 Jan 19 13:12 src.mov
    com.apple.quarantine            22
    Mac_Metadata            20

But according to Finder and mdls they have different size:

Romans-MacBook-Pro:cut poma$ mdls src.mov
kMDItemFSContentChangeDate = 2015-01-19 06:12:45 +0000
kMDItemFSCreationDate      = 2015-01-05 04:54:25 +0000
kMDItemFSCreatorCode       = ""
kMDItemFSFinderFlags       = 0
kMDItemFSHasCustomIcon     = 0
kMDItemFSInvisible         = 0
kMDItemFSIsExtensionHidden = 0
kMDItemFSIsStationery      = 0
kMDItemFSLabel             = 0
kMDItemFSName              = "src.mov"
kMDItemFSNodeCount         = 290301124
kMDItemFSOwnerGroupID      = 99
kMDItemFSOwnerUserID       = 99
kMDItemFSSize              = 290301124
kMDItemFSTypeCode          = ""

Romans-MacBook-Pro:cut poma$ mdls copy.mov
kMDItemFSContentChangeDate = 2015-01-19 06:56:04 +0000
kMDItemFSCreationDate      = 2015-01-19 06:56:04 +0000
kMDItemFSCreatorCode       = ""
kMDItemFSFinderFlags       = 0
kMDItemFSHasCustomIcon     = 0
kMDItemFSInvisible         = 0
kMDItemFSIsExtensionHidden = 0
kMDItemFSIsStationery      = 0
kMDItemFSLabel             = 0
kMDItemFSName              = "copy.mov"
kMDItemFSNodeCount         = 290300838
kMDItemFSOwnerGroupID      = 99
kMDItemFSOwnerUserID       = 99
kMDItemFSSize              = 290300838
kMDItemFSTypeCode          = ""

AFAIK resource forks should appear in ls -l@ as com.apple.ResourceFork attribute. There is no such attribute on my file. What may be the difference between them?

UPDATE: I didn't notice at first. Both files reside in NTFS filesystem which is accessed through Paragon NTFS driver v12.


texts: Any good multi-threaded SFTP clients for Mac?

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I am amazed that there doesn't seem to be a decent multiple connection capable FTP/SFTP client for Mac.

The only one I've seen is CaptainFTP, which looks awful, like it's from the last century.

There's also iGetter, which is equally ancient, and not really set up as a browser, more of a download accelerator.

I've been using lftp, which is amazing, but CLI only, which makes it a pain.

Does anyone know of either (a) a "modern" client app which supports multiple connections, or (b) a GUI for lftp?


texts:
My Macbook Pro running Mountain Lion slows down dramatically when the battery is below 4-5%. All the applications running are very slow to respond, and several have the "Application not responding" message when I right-click on them in the dock. Now everything works fine when the battery is above 5%, so I'm wondering what goes on when the battery is low that causes the performance drag. Basically, I have two questions:

What is causing this lag (for the sake of curiosity)?
How can I fix it (for the sake of practicality)?

System Info:

Device: Macbook Pro (Spring 2012) 13-Inch running Mountain Lion (10.8)
Memory: 8GB
Processor: 2.8 GHz Intel Core i7
Storage: 500GB SSD Drive with more than half free


texts: How can I make files invisible from to the shell?

texts:
I have various folders with custom icons (some added by Resilio Sync, and some by other things) which drive me crazy in the terminal.  Is there any way to hide them from the shell?

I know how to hide them from the Finder, and that's not what I'm asking about.  Deleting them is also not what I'm asking about.

Is there any way to make them invisible to the shell?


texts: Iphone app that will count up or down with voice

texts:
I am in need of an iPhone app that will count down or up from a particular number for a visually impaired individual.

For example if 60 is entered a voice would say 60,59,58,57 and etc.

Does something like this exist for an iPhone 6?


texts: iOS 10 no longer starts lock screen music player when headphones inserted

texts: Before installing iOS 10, whenever I plugged in my headphones (or car adapter), the lock screen music player would pop up (which is very convenient).  Was this a deliberate change to the OS, or some problem specific to me?  Is there some way to reenable this feature?


texts: Converting Audio to AC-3 using afconvert?

texts:
I'm trying to use afconvert to convert an audio file to AC-3 format. It's 5.1 audio, having already been converted from DTS to WAV (using ffmpeg, since afconvert doesn't seem to deal with DTS).

As you can see, I've tried various parameter incantations, including trying to use a different container formats, but with no success:

$ afconvert -f ac-3 test.wav
Error: ExtAudioFileCreateWithURL failed ('typ?')
$ afconvert -f ac-3 -d ac-3 test.wav
Error: ExtAudioFileCreateWithURL failed ('typ?')
$ afconvert -f caff -d AC-3 test.wav
Error: ExtAudioFileSetProperty ('cfmt') failed ('fmt?')

I have been able to encode it to an AAC file successfully, so it's presumably something with the AC-3 encoding, but Googling those errors yields no results. Does anyone know how to properly convert to AC-3 with afconvert?

If you want to do some testing yourself, I found some free 5.1 DTS sample files here. Note that while the file extension is .wav, they're actually DTS files, not WAV. To replicate my desired workflow, decode to a WAV file with ffmpeg: ffmpeg -i input.wav -acodec pcm_s16le -f wav output.wav, then you'll have a proper 5.1 WAV file afconvert should be able to work with.


texts: Moving photos from Photos app to my iPhone

texts: I have photos in the photos app on my Mac from a previous "back up" and now I would like to bring them back to my phone without having to use iCloud photo library. Is there a way to do it?


texts: Will external monitor damage my MacBook?

texts:
I have a MacBook Pro 2016 with touch bar (15”) and I consider making it my primary computer, as my iMac turned to be very old now.
If I will I need to get an external monitor and for that I’d like to buy the lg ultrafire 5k.
My only concern is I’m very worried making the MacBook a primary computer will shorten its lifespan, make it heat a lot and noisy and generally destroy it.
I’m a software developer and I work with my iMac 10+ hours a day with heavy use thus my worries.
If it will ruin the nacbook I’ll rather just get another iMac so it’s not a budget issue (I just rather wait for the new Mac Pro instead of buying the iMac pro now but if it’s in the cost of completely destroying my MacBook I’ll buy the iMac pro now).

Does anyone have experience with such issues or knows if I should be worried or not?


texts:
Greetings to the apple community.
I'm a newbie to mac and the terminal and I have no previous exposure to Linux.
I have only casually used computers. However I've been wanting to step up my game and understand a few basics.
I've installed this package http://maebert.github.io/jrnl/ which is basically to write entries on the terminal.
I've done so, and I've been following the tutorial.
However, I'm facing difficulty to edit my entries.
The documentation says that I need to change the ~/.jrnl_config file.
However, when I try to access it I get permission denied.

Harguns-MacBook-Pro-3:~ hargun3045$ ~/.jrnl_config
-bash: /Users/hargun3045/.jrnl_config: Permission denied

I have a very vague idea of user read/write permissions and about Root access, however I'm not very clear how I can go to the particular file and change settings.

Can a experienced user guide me?

Thanks!


texts:
I was trying to use iMovie but every time it eventually does this. I used to think this was May graphics overheating (because iMovie puts my temps around 180 when running) but I saw right before it happened it seemed to be auto saving. I can't tell if it is a hardware or software issue but I hope someone can figure it out. I know that it is graphics based because if I leave the computer idle for a minute the clock starts working but as soon as I move the mouse it freezes again. This issue appears other times when I am running my computer but mostly with iMovie.

Also, this is the first time it's happened: When I pressed the power button the options popup appeared, I dragged it along the screen and that seemed to clear out the bug. iMovie's rendering box is pink but I was able to get my computer's info after doing this to put in this post.

Computer Info

MacBook Pro 13-inch, Mid 2010

2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo

Upgraded 16 GB 1067 MHz DDR3

NVIDIA GeForce 320M 256 MB

OS X 10.9.2

Upgraded 1 TB Hybrid Drive


texts: Would MacBook Air 2018 handle a constant run of a Windows VM for the Development

texts:
My work involves having both Mac and Windows on a laptop.
While I need Mac for Xcode, I do some ASP.NET stuff tightly coupled with the Windows ecosystem.

I wonder if a MacBook Air CPU with 16 GB RAM would be enough to handle VMware Fusion with a couple of Visual Studio instances and debugging ASP.NET sites with the database on local MS SQL server?

There is an option of getting 13" MacBook Pro for a performance boost but I am frustrated with the touchbar as it's harder to use it with my fingers muscle memory. I'd like to avoid it as much as possible.


texts: Apple says I'm signing an app with old OS version, and I'm not

texts:
I'm trying to submit a Java-based app to AppStore. After having the worst headaches in my life trying to sign everything my last problem (I hope!) is this:

  Invalid code signature - Signatures created with OS X version 10.8.5
  or earlier [v1 signatures] are obsoleted and will no longer be
  recognized by Gatekeeper beginning with OS X version 10.9.5. To ensure
  your apps will run on updated versions of OS X they must be signed on
  OS X version 10.9 or later [v2 signatures]. For more information, see
  OS X Code Signing In Depth

I don't understand this message because:

1) I'm running a 10.10.1 version

$ sw_vers -productVersion
10.10.1

2) and my app is signed with version 2 signatures

$ codesign -dv MyApp.app
Executable=/Users/jess/git/MyApp.app/Contents/MacOS/JavaAppLauncher
Identifier=com.myapp
Format=bundle with Mach-O thin (x86_64)
CodeDirectory v=20200 size=286 flags=0x0(none) hashes=5+5 location=embedded
Signature size=4351
Signed Time=20/2/2015 16:31:42
Info.plist entries=20
TeamIdentifier=D38HW9S49C
Sealed Resources version=2 rules=12 files=15
Internal requirements count=1 size=204

(You can see the line saying Sealed Resources version=2 rules=12 files=15)

So, what is the problem ? What am I missing ?

Thank you


texts: iPod doesnt show songs, iTunes and Explorer does

texts: I have a black iPod Classic 160GB. I use iTunes on Windows 7 to sync songs. I can see the songs that are synced with the iPod, iniTunes. However, after ejecting, the iPod shows 0 songs. Going to settings show the decreased free space. Opening up My Computer, and I can see the songs in the ipod_control\Music folder. I have also set the songs to not be a part of a compilation, as suggested in this question. However, I have been unsuccessful in getting the iPod to show the songs. I am tired after fiddling with it since 2 days now. What gives?


texts: Allow only specific AD users/groups to login

texts:
I've been doing some testing as my company is planning to integrate our mac users into the windows active directory environment.

Joining/removing computers from a windows domain is cake, everything can be done via the Mac's Directory Utility.

Is there a way for us to control which active directory users or groups can login to this mac?

After joining a mac to a windows domain, anyone with a proper domain account can login to the computer. And by proper, I mean anyone from the domain by default.

Thanks!


texts: VNC display of macOS Catalina frozen on login screen after reconnect

texts:
I have revived my Mac Mini 3,1 with Catalina thanks to dosdude1's patcher - and so far, it worked great! But, this is actually a Mac Mini Server (from 2009). So the obvious application is to deploy it as a server - a home server, to be exact.

So I enabled remote administration (to also allow SSH) in order to also enable screen sharing. Then I made sure that VNC access is secured through a password. And when I connected the first time, it seemed perfectly fine. But eversince then, even after rebooting my PC, when I connect to the Mac Mini, I see two mouse cursors and neither of them moves. It's essentially frozen.

I read about a bug in Mojave where you'd get an infinite login screen with certain settings - but this is Catalina, it should be fixed...I think?


texts: how to auto download a certain attachment in mail

texts:
I have looked on stack exchange and other sites for a simple applescript. I have found more complex scripts that it's hard for me to understand (not knowing a lot about the applescript syntax). So, here's my dilemma:
I need to automatically download an attachment (i.e. named "blank expense report") to a specific folder (i.e. "Inbox"). That's it. I can setup the mail rule with parameters to find the attachment I'm looking for:

I just need a simple script to download the attachment.
I have looked at these but just got confused trying to alter them and actually messed up some non-essential files on my computer. So, I'll stop copying and pasting code and just ask for some help.
Questions I looked at before this.
Save attachments from Mail.app based on subject
Automatically Save Attachments in Mail.app in 10.8 Mountain Lion


texts: Duplicate songs in Apple Music after syncing

texts:
Yesterday I switched from a PC to a MBP. I've been using Apple Music since it came out. I synced my phone and today I noticed many songs are duplicated, or extra songs I have deleted before are back on my phone, but all of those songs are grayed out and unplayable. The only option I get when I tap on it is to add it to a playlist or delete the song.

I can still play all my original songs, but the broken songs take up a lot of screen space. How can I get rid of these songs without manually deleting them all?


texts: How to have my iPad use Win 2008 server's internet connection?

texts:
I have an iPad that is connected to my network's wireless router. However, this router is connected to my Win 2008 server, which is itself connected to the internet. The iPad is unable to connect to the public url for the exchange server on the server and has erratic internet access, where Windows laptops are provided with faultless internet access, even when they are not a member of the domain.

How do I solve this?


texts: Podcast syncing between iTunes and iPhone doesn't work

texts:
I'm running iTunes 11.1, iOS 7.1, and Podcasts 2.0.2 for iOS, the latest versions of each. I'm signed into the same iCloud account on both my Mac and iPhone. Podcast syncing is enabled in iTunes, and the "Sync Subscriptions" setting is turned on in the settings for the Podcasts app on my iPhone.

Why, then, does podcast syncing simply not work?

Some examples:

If I've played through a podcast episode on my iPhone, the same episode in iTunes won't be marked as played (and vice versa)
If I'm partway through an episode, the playback position doesn't sync between my iPhone and iTunes
iTunes will download podcast episodes that I've already marked as played on my iPhone (and vice versa), even though I've set both to download only unplayed episodes
If I subscribe to a new podcast on my iPhone, it won't appear in iTunes (and vice versa)
Etc., etc.

I feel like I must be doing something wrong or am missing a setting somewhere, because if not, I can't believe that podcast syncing is this unreliable. It quite literally does not work in any way whatsoever.

I've tried turning syncing on and off, signing in and out of iCloud, etc. Podcast syncing simply has never worked for as long as I've been using the Podcasts app (going back to iOS 6).


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I recently bought an iPad2 (WIFI only) in addition to my iPhone 4 I already had. There are two reason I took the wifi only model:

I am not planning on taking the iPad everywhere I go. That's what the iPhone is for.
I have an unlimited data plan with free tethering on the iPhone. If I ever need Internet on the go, I just make a personal hotspot and use the iPhone's connection on the iPad.

However, in order to join that hotspot, I need to first take the iPhone, go to settings and then I can join the hotspot with my iPad. I guess it's a nice security compromise, however it is still a real pain if I use the iPad 2-3 times per hour over the day at work and have to go to the iPhone's settings every time. This also happens if my GF's iPhone 3G wants to connect to my hotspot (she has no data plan).

Is there a way to allow certain devices to join the hotspot at a moment's notice, without taking out the iPhone itself?


texts:
I bought a MacBook Pro mid-2012 non-retina from the previous owner.

Some parts of my MacBook like the top-left most area of the touch pad will get me electric shocks when I touch it.

At my living room downstairs, it kind of makes we want to drop my macbook. If feels like someone flicks my finger.

At my room upstairs, it feels like being bitten by an ant or something small with sharp appendages.

What do you guys do to prevent this?

A friend suggests buying original power adapter but I'm unsure how to verify if my current adapter is original.


texts:
I have a problem with an IMAC 27'

1: the osx was corupt so it wasn't boot anymore.
2: i changed the batery from the keyboard so, i canot use the keyboard for startup key combination to reinstal the operating sistem

All i want to do is to reinstal the operating sistem (i have the original cd) but i can not do anything. any command i try to do on startup, dosn't work because the keyboard was reset (i think). I put the cd in and now i can not eject because ... guess what... the keyboard not work, of course.

so, what can i do?

thank you very much


texts: My Chrome on Mac (with Mac OS Sierra) always starts with feed.snowbitt.com when I run it

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I always get redirected to site feed.snowbitt.com when I run my Chrome. I tried to:
-Delete Chrome from computer, and reinstall it. Didn' work.
-Clear all my content, browsing history from Chrome. Didn't work.
-I tried some free antivirus programs to scan my cimputer. Didn't work.

What else can I do?


texts: iPhone freezes for >30s whenever I install or update an app

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Issue

Whenever I install or upgrade an app after the install step (but before the app is able to launch) my device freezes for between 30s - and a couple of minutes (worst case).  During this, it's unresponsive to home button pushes, swipes, etc.  After the time passes, it resumes function as normal.

What I've tried

Rebooting, upgrading iOS to latest -- And perhaps most informing, this issue has followed me through 3 phones (2 iPhone 7, and one iPhone X) -- It seems to be with something that gets backed up, so that when I restore from backup the issue then persists.

Note -- It also freezes after I install apps using xcode development.  In this case, the freeze is long enough that X-Code thinks that the build has failed and gives me the message "iPhone has denied the launch request." -- But eventually it launches anyway (after the freeze part)


texts: Can I use my iPhone as a "remote" for my iPad?

texts:
iPhones and iPads both have several apps aimed to be remotes for the PC/Mac -- mostly geared towards specific apps.  That's not what I'm asking about.

I'm interested in any way of using my iPad and iPhone/iPod touch side-by-side where the iPhone presents a menu of commands to control the iPad -- things like shortcuts, or better yet, buttons that invoke user-definable macros.

Does it exist?

Does the iPad have any way of being scripted through an API?

Note: VNC is irrelevant to this question.


texts: Share the clipboards automatically when using Apple Screen Sharing?

texts: Is it possible to share the clipboard of my local machine and a remote machine automatically when using OS X's built-in Screen Sharing utility? The whole Edit -> Send Clipboard, Edit -> Get Clipboard routine starts to feel a little cumbersome if you're doing any regular copy and paste work between your local desktop and a remote session.


texts: Which uses more battery when tethering - Wifi or BT on iPhone 4S?

texts: I'm not really bothered which is quicker - I'm guessing this is wifi anyway. I just want to know which would allow me to get the most life out of my iPhone 4S when tethering to it with may MBP. Thanks!


texts: Copy apfs system partition to another mac

texts: I have a MacBook Pro (13-inch, 2017, Four Thunderbolt 3 Ports) that has broken keyboard and battery, so I will need to send it to Apple Store for service. I have another MacBook Pro with similar specs but 1 TB of storage with a macOS system and a Windows 10 system. My current plan is to shrink the Windows 10 partition, connect the broken MBP to the other MBP in target disk mode, use asr to copy the macOS partition over, and I should be able to boot of the other MBP. Would this plan work? Will asr copy blocks that have information on them (fs/meta/data) or will it conduct a block-to-block copy, including free blocks? I want to minimize read as the SSD have a limited lifespan.


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Sometimes, I can’t install and download a shortcut from outside the application which I previously installed or a self-created shortcut, but sometimes I can.

I have enabled untrusted shortcuts.

When I tap any link to a shortcut found on the internet (both qr codes and links), it switches me to the shortcuts app, but in the shortcuts app, this shortcut never loads. When I copy link to iCloud and open it, it says "timed out". I heard that there were a few days when shortcuts were broken.
My tablet was jailbroken using checkrain and the cydia icon is still on my home screen, but the JB isn't available and I rebooted. I use a vpn (DNSCloak) for blocking ads, but I don’t think that iCloud is flagged as ad.
Is there any way to make them work again?


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I was converting the recovery partition from Apple_HFS to Apple_Boot as per instructions here. It was successful. As an experiment though, I tried an intentional typo to see if it would reflect on diskutil list. It didn't, and the record is messed up.

As I'm not aware what exactly asr adjust does, I'm asking here first. What exactly does the command do, and how can I recover from such a typo?

Annotated terminal session:

########### Convert successful, reflected on diskutil ###########
test-session:~ pnda$ sudo asr adjust --target /dev/disk0s3 -settype "Apple_Boot"
Password:
Fsck /dev/disk0s3 ....10....20....30....40....50....60....70....80....90....100
Adjust completed successfully

########### intentional typo here ###########
test-session:~ pnda$ sudo asr adjust --target /dev/disk0s3 -settype "Apple_Boo"
Fsck /dev/disk0s3 ....10....20....30....40....50....60....70....80....90....100
Adjust completed successfully

########### oh sh*t ###########
test-session:~ pnda$ diskutil list
/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *121.3 GB   disk0
   1:         Microsoft Reserved                         16.8 MB    disk0s1
   2:                  Apple_HFS Macintosh HD            40.9 GB    disk0s2
   3: FFFFFFFF-FFFF-FFFF-FFFF-FFFFFFFFFFFF               650.1 MB   disk0s3
   4:           Linux Filesystem                         18.5 GB    disk0s4
   5:           Linux Filesystem                         261.1 MB   disk0s5
   6:           Windows Recovery                         523.2 MB   disk0s6
   7:                        EFI NO NAME                 104.9 MB   disk0s7
   8:       Microsoft Basic Data                         59.1 GB    disk0s8

########### mission abort ###########
test-session:~ pnda$ sudo asr adjust --target /dev/disk0s3 -settype "Apple_Boot"
asr: Volume adjustment failed: Invalid argument
test-session:~ pnda$ sudo asr adjust --target /dev/disk0s3 -settype "Apple_HFS"
asr: Volume adjustment failed: Invalid argument

.....


texts:
I have a new 2019 iMac with 8Gb of memory and a HDD (not an SSD). Yes it's the lowest-end 8Gb iMac from last year.
With no apps running, nothing in the apps to start on login, with a new virgin account created yesterday, with the latest MacOS installed, opening system preferences - just opening it - can take over 30 seconds. Every time. With a beachball wait cursor.
This is not just a little slow. This is unbelievably slow. This is slower than my 10 year old MacBook Pro.
I've run every test on it that I can think of. Checked for processes that are using CPU. Checked for free memory.
Does anyone have a clue?
Could it be misconfigured somehow that makes it truly unusable?
Update
If this performance is because of the hard disk then you are saying that Apple is selling a configuration of iMac (in early 2020) that is hopelessly misconfigured. It's as if they were selling a computer with a 128Meg disk or with 1Gig of memory. Can that actually be?


texts: What are the compression/resolution/bandwidth limitations of Airplay mirroring?

texts:
In a perfect world Airplay mirroring would display identical results compared to an HDMI cable. In other words, the frames per second, resolution, and image quality would be unaffected by the use of Airplay compared to using traditional means.

What are the current limitations of Airplay?

Can I stream a 1080p movie through Airplay onto my television (through Apple TV)?
Can I play a first person shooter through Airplay without lag?

Assume a powerful 2013 iMac.

I would appreciate any information related to frames per second, resolution, image quality, bandwidth, lag/delay, and what factors are associated with these limitations.


texts: User login password not working for sudo

texts:
My user login password not working for executing sudo in terminal and I cannot unlock Users & Groups preferences. I tried to write password in editor and paste it but no success on macOS 10.13.3

What's a path to get an admin account so I can fix things up?


texts: We use two independent Apple IDs in Messages.app, which I want to keep private. But if I log out of one and log in with the second one within Messages (not the computer itself, but the Apple ID in the Messages.app), the conversations from the previous account are still online, and the second person can see them. Is there a way to link the conversations to the account, so that they dont show up unless you are logged into the account that sent them?


texts: How to skipt the prompt for time-triggered automation Shortcuts in iOS13?

texts:
I have created a simple shortcut that collects certain data and displays it via a push notification. I just told the app to run my shortcut every day at 10AM.

The feature certainly works, however there’s this annoying thing when the first thing I get is a notification asking me if I want the shortcut to be run. It runs only after I confirm it. This is very annoying since it defeats the purpose of automation which implies that the shortcut should be run automatically without any input from me.

For people here that are familiar with the matter, is there a way to bypass this annoyance?


texts: I added my username to /etc/sudoers but using sudo still asks for password

texts:
I entered my username in the sudoers file, but when using sudo in scritps, it still asks for the password.

This is my sudoers file:

~: ls -al /etc/sudoers
-r--r-----  1 root  wheel  1297 Aug 14 11:44 /etc/sudoers

Contents:

...
%admin  ALL=(ALL) ALL
petruza ALL=(ALL) ALL

(http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=F38RxeYP)
(I also tried with %petruza but didn't work either)

I have a script to start XAMPP, but it asks for the password anyway:

sudo /Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/xampp start


texts: how to search files modified between a specific time in a date

texts:
In mac os, how can I search the files modified or used within a specified timespan on a date?

For example i want to get the files used between 10am to 4pm on 10/30/2018. Can this be done either via finder or terminal?


texts: Quicktime Playback Speed is not functioning

texts:
I am not able to change the PLAYBACK SPEED in QUICKTIME PLAYER on my Macbook Pro, MacOS Big Sur.
I know where the options are, but selecting different speeds has NO EFFECT.


texts: 2016 Macbook Pro can no longer use recovery partition

texts:
I have a new MacBook Pro..so I cloned my old one Sierra 10.2.3 over to the new one. Everything worked great however now I can't use the recovery partition anymore on the new MacBook Pro. It comes up with the "no smoking" symbol in white.

The recovery partition exists....and has data in it. Just can't boot from it. Is there any easy way to restore the recovery partition?


texts: IMAP setting for hotmail in Outlook v14 for mac os x

texts:
I got for a few years a hotmail account and get my mail into outlook with POP setting.... everything is fine... But now i got a iPhone and iPad and there is some setting to get IMAP hotmail (m.hotmail.com) wich work fine for ipad and iphone, but NOT for outlook...

How to make outlook sync hotmail as IMAP ?


texts: I am trying to quit named, but it keeps popping up. I tried removing the configuration an key files, unloading it from launchd, you name it. Yet it keeps starting. How do I kill it permanently?


texts: What app can I use to create mockups for websites?

texts: I'm looking for a free or commercial software for Os X to create mockups for websites. Any suggestion?


texts:
On occasion cannot rename or delete files & folders on a Windows Server 2012 R2 SMB share from a Macbook.

Mac OS X 10.10 build 14A389a

The SMB share has granted "Everyone" with Full Control permissions.

Windows 7 desktops access the share without issue.

Error messages received are:


texts: I currently have OS 10.6 want to upgrade OS

texts:
I currently have OS 10.6 - Safari and other browsers are no longer supported.
My problem is I have Adobe CS4 Design and web software and I don't have a few thousand dollars hanging about to upgrade CS4
SO.....
Does Lion work with Adobe CS4 - or should I just start saving my pennies for more expensive software?
I had heard that OS 10.6 was the highest OS I could get with CS4.


texts: On my iphone 5 I could make apps "disappear" by double clicking on the home button and then temporarily remove the ones in regular use by holding finger on them until the shook then cancelling by pressing the cross.This preserved battery power. On the iphone 5s this system doesn't work. Anyone have an answer?


texts: Cannot access a web server of macos from my android smartphone on same network

texts:
On macos, I did the following.
$ mkdir foo
$ cd foo
$ vi index.html
$ cat <<EOF > index.html
> <!DOCTYPE html>
> <html>
>   <head>
>     <meta charset="UTF-8">
>   </head>
>   <body>
>    test
>   </body>
> </html>
> EOF
python3 -m http.server 3333

Then I tried to access 192.168.1.xx:3333 from my android device, but it failed(the error message is "Cannot access the site"). Why? On macos web browser(Chrome), I was able to see the index.html page.
By the way, on System Preferences > Sharing, I checked Remote Login, and I turned off Firewall.


texts: Connect and run commands over SSH using script

texts:
I'm using a series of commands for deploying my files to production. This is currently done manually.

Is it possible to make these commands into an executable file? So that I don't have to copy paste these commands each and every time.

When the first line is executed i.e., connecting to the root server, it will ask for the password and I have to paste the password: xxxxxxxxxxxxxx

ssh root@server
pwd: xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
ssh-agent bash
ssh-add bi-master
cd /home/trans/bimaster
git status
git pull git@bitbucket.org:xxxxxxxxx/bimaster.git master

Note : I'm the admin of the server, Since the project is been done by different teams as of now, we have decided to do manual deployment (cannot use Jenkins or any other tools for automated deployment), as we have to check the status of some files.


texts: How does FileVault 2 recovery key stored in iCloud work?

texts:
When requested during the full disk encryption process, one option is to store the recovery key in your iCloud account.

I stored mine in iCloud, but frankly I'm confused as when I look at the drive contents I see NO files even indicating a recovery key.

So what exactly is happening?  Also, how is this used during the recovery process?

Also, if you put your recovery key in iCloud, how is more than one device handled (i.e. macbooks)?


texts:
What file systems can work with OS X File Tags? (HFS+, ExFAT, NTFS, etc.)

I have an NTFS data drive in a Windows machine that I might move to an external hard drive enclosure, if I can use Tags with the NTFS drive from my new Mac.  (it's a Seagate drive, so I'd use their free OS X NTFS driver)

If NTFS will not work with OS X File Tags, what other file systems will work with it?

Assuming that File Tags work with some file system that a Windows machine could read (including using third-party drivers), what would happen if I had tagged a file or directory, then disconnected the drive from my Mac, then attached it to my PC, then moved or modified the tagged file or directory, then disconnected the drive from my PC and connected it to my Mac?  Would the tag still be associated with the file?


texts: GUI applications installed with homebrew cannot be launched using Spotlight

texts:
I have installed cocoa versions of both Emacs and MacVim using homebrew. After the installation, the actual applications are installed in /usr/local/opt/emacs/Emacs.app and /usr/local/opt/macvim/MacVim.app

They are then symlinked to /Applications

They now appear in my Applications folder, but if I want to start them using Spotlight, they do not turn up in the search results when I start typing (like other applications do)

Is there anything I can do to remedy this?


texts: Process owned by a user remains active after the user logs out

texts:
I share my MacBook Air1 with my son. When he is logged out2 of his user account and I look at the activity monitor in my account, there are several processes owned by his user that are still running:

When I took the screenshot3, the processes were all at 0% CPU, but I noticed them because com.apple.geod briefly rose to the top with around 5% or 10% CPU.
In fact, I only startet up the activity monitor to check whether another process owned by my son was active again. He is playing Fortnite on this MacBook and a few days ago, after he had logged out and I had started using the computer, the cooling fan became very noisy, so I checked the activity monitor and saw that a process called EpicWebHelper owned by his account used a lot of CPU, until I killed it. I edited the launchd plist for that process to keep it from starting every time the computer was turned on. I guess it's nice for my son to have his game running when he logs in, but what I don't understand is:
Why does a process owned by a specific user remain active when the user logs out?

Notes.

MacBook Air, mid 2012, macOS 10.15.7
My son logs out via the Apple menu.
All the processes shown in the screenshot are owned by my son's user account. I just cropped his username to protect his privacy.


texts: How are brew services different from launchctl services?

texts: On MacOS, how are brew services different from launchctl services? is there a way to use snap on a Mac to run services instead of brew?


texts: How do I confirm that an audio CD has been converted to bin/cue bit for bit

texts: I am archiving my CD collection onto an external hard drive. I have been using Toast to create bin/cue files so that I will have an exact copy of each CD. However, many of the bin/cue files are being copied with gaps or dropped sound in them. When I rip the same CDs into MP3 or Apple Lossless, the music transfers without any drops/gaps. Is there any way to ensure that the bin/cue file is copying the CD bit for bit? And how do I know whether the problem is Toast or the CD drive?


texts: Not able to install macOS Catalina 10.15.6

texts:
I am not able to install the macOS Catalina 10.15.6 from a macOS Catalina 10.15.5.
When I execute the update from Settings, the Mac restarts, shows for a second a "progress bar" (like the install progress bar) and then start booting.
Then it starts properly and don't show any error message and the update continues appearing on Settings.
I'm running:

MacBook Pro Retina 13" (Early 2015)
macOS Catalina 10.15.5


texts: Extensions are disabled in `php.ini` and they still show up on `phpinfo.php`... why?

texts:
So, I finally decide it to switch from windows to Mac after 20 years, and I love it! I have so many questions...
I've installed apache, php, mysql, imagemagick using homebrew and I have a couple of questions...

In httpd.conf, im loading the PHP module like so:

LoadModule php7_module /usr/local/opt/php@7.2/lib/httpd/modules/libphp7.so

My php.ini is here:

/usr/local/etc/php/7.2/php.ini

When I look at the phpinfo.php I see all these extensions (or modules) that are enabled:

But, when I look at the php.ini file, I see that those extensions are disabled

;extension=bz2
;extension=curl
;extension=fileinfo
;extension=gd2
;extension=gettext

Don't get me wrong, everything works perfectly, but i'm one of those people that likes to understand how it works...

Any reasons why my extensions are disabled in php.ini and they still show up on phpinfo.php?

EDITED


texts: Using UI scripting to enter text in a file dialog

texts:
I am very, very new to using AppleScript. I need to enter text into the search box. So far the script looks like this:

on run {input, parameters}

    tell application "myApplication" to activate

    tell application "System Events"
        keystroke "o" using {command down}
    end tell

    return input
end run

This launches the app and fires the command-o keyboard shortcut to show a file dialog. Now I just need to enter text in:


texts: mac won't start after "sudo chown -R $(whoami) $(brew --prefix)/*" command

texts:
I tried to install a program and it alwaysed lacked permission on /usr/local.
I tried sudo chown -R $USER /usr/local but then found out that doesn't work anymore with High Sierra.
So I tried sudo chown -R $(whoami) $(brew --prefix)/*  . That brought an awful lot of "Operation not permitted" in the terminal.

After that I wanted to install again with sudo. Then an error message showed sth like "sudoers uid is 501 should be 0" (cant exactly remember it)

Then I tried to restart the mac, but it never did... Just black screen. I heard the starting sound once or twice, but it never booted again or showed anything on the screen. Anyone any idea what happend and how to fix it?


texts:
What is this process and how can I get rid of it? I ran antivirus etc but without any success. Terminating it in the activity monitor won't change anything.

Sampling process 416 for 3 seconds with 1 millisecond of run time between samples
Sampling completed, processing symbols...
Analysis of sampling usernoted (pid 416) every 1 millisecond
Process:         usernoted [416]
Path:            /usr/sbin/usernoted
Load Address:    0x10ef1f000
Identifier:      usernoted
Version:         845.40.3
Code Type:       X86-64
Parent Process:  ??? [1]

Date/Time:       2020-11-02 14:29:16.852 +0100
Launch Time:     2020-11-02 14:24:15.500 +0100
OS Version:      Mac OS X 10.15.7 (19H2)
Report Version:  7
Analysis Tool:   /usr/bin/sample

Physical footprint:         11.4M
Physical footprint (peak):  11.7M
----

Call graph:
    2702 Thread_4148   DispatchQueue_1: com.apple.main-thread  (serial)
    + 2702 start  (in libdyld.dylib) + 1  [0x7fff6eaa8cc9]
    +   2702 ???  (in usernoted)  load address 0x10ef1f000 + 0x2cd5  [0x10ef21cd5]
    +     2702 autoreleasepool<A>(invoking:)  (in libswiftObjectiveC.dylib) + 46  [0x7fff6e75cd8e]
    +       2702 ???  (in usernoted)  load address 0x10ef1f000 + 0x3cce  [0x10ef22cce]
    +         2702 CFRunLoopRun  (in CoreFoundation) + 40  [0x7fff34c58489]
    +           2702 CFRunLoopRunSpecific  (in CoreFoundation) + 462  [0x7fff34bcfe3e]
    +             2702 __CFRunLoopRun  (in CoreFoundation) + 1319  [0x7fff34bd09c2]
    +               2702 __CFRunLoopServiceMachPort  (in CoreFoundation) + 247  [0x7fff34bd1ef5]
    +                 2702 mach_msg  (in libsystem_kernel.dylib) + 60  [0x7fff6ebea170]
    +                   2702 mach_msg_trap  (in libsystem_kernel.dylib) + 10  [0x7fff6ebe9dfa]
    2702 Thread_4198   DispatchQueue_20: usernoted_server  (serial)
    + 2592 start_wqthread  (in libsystem_pthread.dylib) + 15  [0x7fff6eca8b77]
    + ! 2592 _pthread_wqthread  (in libsystem_pthread.dylib) + 290  [0x7fff6eca9a3d]
    + !   2592 _dispatch_workloop_worker_thread  (in libdispatch.dylib) + 596  [0x7fff6ea5ec09]
    + !     2592 _dispatch_lane_invoke  (in libdispatch.dylib) + 363  [0x7fff6ea555d6]
    + !       2571 _dispatch_lane_serial_drain  (in libdispatch.dylib) + 597  [0x7fff6ea54c44]
    + !       : 2571 _dispatch_client_callout  (in libdispatch.dylib) + 8  [0x7fff6ea4f658]
    + !       :   2542 _dispatch_call_block_and_release  (in libdispatch.dylib) + 12  [0x7fff6ea4e6c4]
    + !       :   | 2534 ???  (in usernoted)  load address 0x10ef1f000 + 0x3829  [0x10ef22829]
    + !       :   | + 2532 ???  (in usernoted)  load address 0x10ef1f000 + 0xf6c5a  [0x10f015c5a]
    + !       :   | + ! 1427 ???  (in usernoted)  load address 0x10ef1f000 +
Sample analysis of process 416 written to file /dev/stdout


texts: Omitting photos when backing up an iphone to a macbook with itunes

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I have a 64GB iPhone 6 and a MacBook Air with a 256GB disk, about 20GB of which is empty.  There are about 24GB of photos and videos on the iPhone, all of which have been imported into the Photos app on my MacBook. Thus I have a backup of the phone photos on the MacBook.  But when I try to sync my iPhone to the MacBook through iTunes, it tries to copy all the photos into the backup and fails because there is not sufficient free space on the MacBook disk.  Since I already have a copy of all the photos in the Photos app., there is in fact no point in iTunes creating a second copy during the backup.  But everything else on the iPhone should be backed up.

Thus what I need is a way of telling iTines to backup everything on the iPhone except the photos.  However, I cannot find any way to do this (apparently rather simple) thing.  is it possible, or is there some work around?


texts: Computer access to music attached to a very old email address

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Possible Duplicate:
  How do I unlock my iTunes account when my old e-mail is unavailable?

For some reason my iPod music located on my computer has re-attached itself to a very old email address and I get an error that states my computer isn't authorized. I'm then asked to provide a password, of course no success there. They can't reset the password because I don't have access to the old email. I tried to add the old email to my current account, with no success. Suggestions?


texts: Mixing h.264 and AIC video files breaks iMovie thumbnails

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I have a set of six XviD .avi files. One of them is larger than the others. I converted them all to h.264 .m4v files with Handbrake, then tried to import them into iMovie directly.

Five of the files it copied over perfectly. The large one, however, it insists on transcoding to a .mov file using the Apple Intermediate Codec (which is more highly preferred for editing than h.264).

THE PROBLEM: When both types of files — h.264 and AIC — appear in an iMovie Event, the thumbnails in the Event Browser do not show up; all video files are displayed as blank gray filmstrips.

The thumbnails themselves are not corrupted; they are generated correctly. Deleting the thumbnails and the cache and having iMovie rebuild them does not help. They are simply not being displayed.

Even if I ask iMovie to go ahead and transcode the five smaller files, it refuses to; it copies them over as-is.

Even if I ask iMovie to NOT transcode the larger file, it refuses not to; it always transcodes it anyway.

I've seen recommendations to use several different "iMovie converter" apps, but they all seem like scammy crapware.

So what I need is one of the following four things, ordered from most to least preferable:

A way to make iMovie display video thumbnails when mixing h.264 and AIC video in the same event
A way to make iMovie directly import the larger .m4v h.264 file that it currently insists on transcoding
A way to make iMovie transcode h.264 video even when it can import it directly
A good, decent, usable, reliable, non-scammy third-party app that I can use to transcode (as many different kinds as possible of) video files into something iMovie prefers to use directly.


texts: Administrator priviliges request dialog does not accept my password

texts: I have recently installed OS X version 10.9 on my MacBook Pro. When I start it, it doesn't require any password but when I try to install Adobe Flash Player or other plugins I am asked to approve the installation by entering the password of the user who is now "Us" (different name). When I enter the old password I had before formatting and installing new OS X, it kept saying wrong password. Is there any standard password to use?


texts: Is it possible to add other networked sources to the Apple Dictionary program?

texts: The standard Apple Dictionary program in Lion provides access to Wikipedia. This appears to be a direct look-up (i.e., not to a cached local copy of Wikipedia).  I'd like to add other sources that way, such as for Urban Dictionary.  Can this be done?  If so, how?


texts: Something's eating my disc space - Mac OS X

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So something's swallowing about 800gb of disk space on my mac.

I've ran Disk Inventory X and Omni Sweeper, and both show that my main OS drive only houses 30 GB worth of data. 10GB of that is Home folders from the network share, and the rest I'm guessing is OS based guff.

But where the hell is the other 200 or so?!

Any ideas?

Thanks.


texts: MacOS command-line security updates: equivalent for apt-get update all

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I am accustomed to updating systems with sudo apt get update and would like to ensure MacOS security updates are installed from the command line.  This `software update' command was issued on my machine:

$ softwareupdate -l
Software Update Tool
Finding available software
No new software available.

The article indicates that the unix equivalent is:

sudo softwareupdate -r

The list command returned that no updates are available: Can I expect that if there were security updates for the OS, they would be listed for download?  I do not want to be misinterpret the response and think that the box is updated when it is not updated.


texts: Python script over a file using AppleScript and Automator

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I'm trying to run a python script over a file by right clicking it > Services > my service, without opening Terminal.
This is my first attempt to do something like this and first time using Automator and AppleScript.
The python script creates a booklet for printing from a pdf.
This is how I use it via Terminal:
pdfbook2 --short-edge --no-crop /Users/username/Documents/SomeFile.pdf

I came across this solution that is working perfectly, but opening Terminal (I prefer a simpler option if possible):
on run {input, parameters}
    set didThese to {}
    repeat with f in input
        set f to (f as text)
        if f ends with ":" then
            if f is in didThese then --check to see if we did this already
                --ignore
            else
                tell application "Terminal" to do script "pdfbook2 --short-edge --no-crop " & quoted form of POSIX path of input
                set didThese to (didThese & f) --load into memory for subsequent iterations of loop
            end if
        else
            --first get containing folder, then use that
            tell application "Finder" to set f to ((container of alias f) as alias as text)
            if f is in didThese then
                --ignore
            else
                tell application "Terminal" to do script "pdfbook2 --short-edge --no-crop " & quoted form of POSIX path of input
                set didThese to (didThese & f)
            end if
        end if
    end repeat
    activate application "Terminal"
    tell application "Finder" to set visible of process "Terminal" to false
end run

This is what I've tried but is not working. What am I'm doing wrong?
on run {input, parameters}
    do shell script "python /path/to/pdfbook2 " & "pdfbook2 --short-edge --no-crop " & input as text
end run

I've tried 'input as text' and 'input as string' running in automator seems to be fine but it does nothing when trying to run over a file.
Please note: I'm still using python 2.7 because of some compatibility issues with other software pieces I use for work.


texts: How to get Finder in Lion to set group permissions to read/write by default?

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To have group permissions set to read/write by default in Snow Leopard and Leopard, I used /etc/launchd-user.conf to set the umask to 002.

This still works in Lion in every app except the Finder. Actually, Lion's Finder does apply the umask when setting permissions, but if the group (or everyone) bit is set to zero, the Finder will treat it like it's a 2, which makes new folders' group permissions read only.

Out of curiosity, I did try using the old technique I used in OS X 10.4, using the defaults command to set the umask and NSUmask, but that doesn't work (which was expected).

I'm hoping to find a solution without having to use ACLs.

Does anyone know of another way to get the Finder in Lion to set group permissions to read/write by default?


texts:
I have installed a OSX server a long time ago for testing purpose. It shows up in my App Store

However I cannot install update on my iMac that's running El Capitan due to this error message:

I really want to remove it because apparently this package is preventing me upgrade to Sierra. Sierra installer requested this to be of latest version before proceeding any further.