texts: Prevent turning off the display when MacBook is physically dropped

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I own a 2015 MacBook Pro.

If you accidentally drop your MacBook, or it slips from your lap, the screen automatically turns off, and the device is locked. I could not find documentation on this feature online.

Recently, after some recent software update, I notice that this feature has been triggered a lot more frequently. In fact, it tends to be triggered when I am just normally holding my MacBook on my lap, and the device isn't falling at all. Sometimes, it is even triggered on a table if I place the laptop on top of the carrying sleeve (which isn't completely flat).

When it is triggered, I have significant difficulty getting it to turn back on. Usually, I have to raise it completely, and then unlock it. Sometimes, it just goes straight back to the black screen as I am typing my password in.

I am not sure if this is a feature or a bug at this point. Are there are ways to disable the turning off display feature on dropping completely?

Thanks in advance!


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I have a Macbook Pro and a QHD BenQ monitor here.
Should it be supported to connect these two devices using a HDMI to DisplayPort cable (So HDMI on Macbook DisplayPort on monitor)?

For me it just does not work, I tried replugging checking the channel on the monitor and detect monitors, no cigar.

For now, I'm back to my apple monitor, well a smaller one than I had before since someone snagged that when I was away. But I'd rather use the BenQ because when you're not living in a cave the Apple monitors are a strain on your eyes (glare reflection etc.).

Anyhow my question is in the second paragraph.


texts: MacBook not out-putting sound to Bluetooth devices

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I have a MacBook running macOS Sierra which has been successfully connected to my Logitech Bluetooth audio device.  Recently it stopped working.  Specifically, in sys-prefs/sound it won't select the device.  In other words, the Bluetooth connection is made, but it won't set as a sound device.  I checked this with other Bluetooth sound devices from other manufacturers, so I believe it's a general Bluetooth audio issue.

Does anybody have any insight into this?


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Recently, I noticed that on the files on my external hard drive are not shown in Finder. All folders can still be navigated, but the files are not visible. When I check the contents of these folders in terminal, I can see the files are still on those locations and can also be opened with VLC for example.

Does anybody know what the issue could be? I only found one similar question, where they suggested that the com.apple.IconServices was causing the problem, however the proposed solution did not help in my case.

I am working on OSX 10.8.5.


texts: How to disable a floating right arrow button that makes FaceTime calls

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My mom keeps accidentally FaceTiming me and we think it's because of a floating gray button with a left angle bracket on it:

I've been trying to help her remotely turn it off. She must have accidentally activated it somehow today, but she is unaware of how it happened.
Assistive touch is turned off (confirmed via screen share*). Nothing in control center is highlighted. I've tried searching for it on my phone to figure out what enables it, but I cannot figure it out. I have googled and all I find is suggestions to turn off assistive tough, but that is off. I don't even know how to google it. I've been trolling through assistive access, FaceTime, and phone settings and can find nothing related to that button.
What is this button and how do you disable it?
*UPDATE: I screen shared with my mom and had her go to settings > Accessibility > touch > assistive touch. It was off. I had her turn it on and a second floating button with a white circle appeared. I had her turn it back off and the circle button went away, but the arrow button remained.


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I have a problem with the sound from the headphone jack on my iPhone 3GS. Sound from the speaker is fine, but the sound from the headphone jack (on any headphones) is distorted at normal volumes. If I turn the volume down to about halfway then the distortion vanishes but the volume becomes barely audible.

I've just replaced the headphone jack with a brand new assembly, so it's not a problem with jack itself.

Anyone have any ideas?


texts: Wrong Macintosh HD icon after Catalina Upgrade

texts: After upgrading to Catalina 10.15.2 the Macintosh HD icon on my Desktop and other places is showing what looks like a Chrome disk image icon instead. I've tried restarting and running first aid on the volume with no changes. Any ideas how to restore the normal icon?


texts: Is there a way to mount my Android phone on my Mac Air desktop in order to transfer files like images and music?


texts: Update Macbook to newest supported OSX version?

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My Late 2008 Aluminium Macbook has 10.9.5 on it. The update tool offered me Sierra but then predictably told me I can't have it as this Mac is too old. I don't know what the last supported OSX version is for this Mac... is there a way I can get it?

In an ideal world I'd like to do a clean install as this MacBook is full of all kinds of crud I don't want anymore.


texts: MacBookPro crashed with pixel disturbed screen and 3beeps

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I have
MacBook Pro

15-inch, Early 2011

Processor  2 GHz Intel Core i7

Memory  8 GB 1333 MHz DDR3

Once a week it crashed with beep sound ( 3 times ) beep - beep - beep

Then pixel in the display ever time it crashes is as shown in screenshot
The only way to turn off the the laptop is by pressing power button for 8sec.


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Is it possible to download an iCloud backup of my iPhone to save offline? I want to achieve this without the use of iTunes syncing.

EDIT: I would like to download the backup onto my Mac and then perhaps save it on Google Drive. Let me describe my use case. My iPhone 5 does not have a lot of disk space. I used to use Garage Band on it, but I don't any more, and I'd like to delete it from my phone without losing its data, in case I want to access the music I made someday in the future.


texts: How does one send MIDI files from iOS Garageband?

texts: Simple as asked. There's already info for GB as target; what about source?


texts: Switching between Apps on Guest MacOS, on MacBook Air (MacOS Sierra like Host), Virtualbox

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I have both MacOS Sierra 10.12 for Host and for Guest using VirtualBox 5.1.10

I want to know how switch between applications on MacOS guest Side.

Cmd + Tab On Guest Side, but is taken like Host Side, and change Guest to another application opened Host Side.

How can I configure.

I have Windows 10 and CentOS 7 like Guest too, and they works perfectly with Alt + Tab, but for MacOS guest I can't find.

How configure combination for MacOS Guest and another combination for MacOS Host, to switch between their opened applications respectively?

Thank you.


texts: iPhoto - find all photos that look like this photo?

texts: All, is there a way in iPhoto to find all the photos that look like a given photo? I suppose I could use Face, but it's actually not for a face, so that's a bit strange. For example, I'd like to tag my pet's photos with the pet's name. I also would like to find all the photos I took of plated food, etc.


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I'm using 2 screens and I keep hitting the bottom of the second screen and the dock jumps to that screen. The problem is it doesn't jump back if you do the same on the original screen.

Is there anyway to stop it from moving? I will never want it on anything other than the original screen, it just freaks me out.


texts: How do I turn on / off 'text to fit' in Keynote 9.2

texts: Driving me crazy - Text to fit doesn't show on the presentation I am creating, but does show when I open a apples template slides (under - Inspector - Format - Text - Layout - Under text inset tick box) Is there any way I can disable it on my presentation ?


texts: Can I boot my recovered SSD as a Mac OS X installation

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I recovered an SSD from an old, upgraded 2008 Macbook Pro with a broken keyboard in order to recover the data from it.

Initially I was planning to put it in my other Mac Pro and simply copy the data as if it was another drive, but then another idea came to my mind. What if I could boot that SSD from my Mac Pro?

I don't know if it's possible to set the SSD as a boot drive and start a MBP installation on another machine.

Otherwise I though it could be possible to save the drive as an ISO image and boot is using a virtualization software on my other Mac. Is this even possible? (AFAIK virtualization from another Mac is permitted and legal).


texts: Script Editor keeps opening up by itself

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I don't know why, but Script Editor opens up repeatedly. If I close it it will open back up again. There's nothing there, it's just a blank "script".

How do I figure out the launcher of an application? I took a screenshot of the active programs in my dock as well, maybe one of them is doing this?


texts: Face time in a middle east version of iPhone in India

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I am planning to buy an iPhone 12 pro for my brother who is in Dubai now. But after a few months, he will go back to India.
Middle East version of the iPhone doesn't have face time installed by default because it is not supported in UAE. But, If he takes his iPhone to India, can he install and use the face time in India? We buy only the unlocked version.
I checked with the iPhone customer care. They say, ”it is completely based on the carrier you are using”. If I ask my service provider they are asking me to check with iPhone support.
Any suggestions?


texts: Internet Sharing on Mountain Lion not working

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I am trying to share an ethernet connection on a MacBook over Wi-Fi. I enabled Internet Sharing in the Sharing prefpane,

When I try to connect using an iPad, the iPad can see the network but cannot join. No error message is displayed if the network is unsecured, and if the network is secured, the iPad displays the error message 'Unable to join the network, "[network name]"'.

I have tried:

Rebooting the MacBook
Turning the connection on and off
Resetting the network settings on the iPad
Changing the IP address of the Wi-Fi on the Mac from the "self-assigned" address 169.254.31.70 to 192.168.1.1
Deleting /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.nat.plist (suggested in this AD question
Deleting, as suggested in this AD question:

/Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.nat.plist
/Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/NetworkInterfaces.plist
/Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.airport.preferences.plist

Doing, as suggested in this AD question,

$ sudo ifconfig en0 down
$ sudo ifconfig en0 up

What should I try next?


texts: Effects of Current Fluctuations on Charging

texts: iPhones, iPad, etc, all have their optimal specifications for charging. A power source that does not meet those specification results in a slow charge. However, what happens when the specifications (volt/amps) increased & decrease (fluctuate)? Will the power fluctuations cause damage to the battery? Assuming there is a voltage regulator to keep it from going too high, will this still cause damage?


texts: Photos App : Using Photos App on a library that is stored on a USB Flash Drive

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I would like to store my Photos library onto an external USB Flash drive.
I have found other articles explaining that it was possible to store a Photos library onto an external USB SSD or HDD and would like to do the same on a USB Flash Drive.

The reason for the above is that a USB Flash drive (i) holds enough space,(ii) is MUCH smaller and (iii) can always be plugged in.

In the case that this is possible I have some specific questions and would very much appreciate if someone could shed some light on this.

Is it possible to use a USB Flash drive to store a Photos library and access this library when I use the Photos app?
Does performance greatly suffer or is acceptable when using the Photos app (browsing or editing pictures) with the above configuration?
Would it be suggested to format the USB Flash drive to another more Mac friendly format? If yes what would be suggested?
On the other hand, in the case that I were to use an external HDD using USB 3.0, would the performance be equal or below to using a USB Flash drive?
Lastly would I need to remove the external drive from the exclusion list from Time Machine in the case that I wanted Time Machine to back it up?

Thanks in advance if anyone can provide some feedback.

Much Appreciated!


texts: How to stop Mail.app filling up with downloaded mail

texts: I have started using MS Outlook for mail and calendar management because of its tight integration and ease of handling mail. I have a Gmail account an iCloud account and a POP account with an Australian ISP. I sometimes have to open the old Mail.app to find an older piece of mail and when I do this tons of duplicate emails start rolling into the program. It’s a waste of time going through and deleting them as I have already dealt with them in Outlook. Should I archive all the old mail in Mail.app and then not use that app again or is there a better approach to this?


texts: Bluetooth tethering between Android device and MacBook

texts: I'm having some issues tethering my internet connection from an Android to my MacBook. It must be an issue with the MacBook, as it works on Ubuntu without a problem. A tried to re-pair the device and even remove the configuration from network settings and add it again but with no luck so far. Any ideas?


texts: Other Data on Apple - How do I clean cache and other unused data on Mac

texts: How do I clean cache and other unused data on Mac?


texts: Gmail Exchange accounts Cannot Get Mail, server connection failed, on new device

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I have an iPhone 4s and an iPad 2. The 4s runs iOS 7, the iPad 2 runs iOS 9.3. On both devices, I have two Gmail accounts (one is straight gmail, one is a business domain), configured as Exchange accounts rather than Google accounts so new emails are pushed, not fetched.

Now, I just got an iPhone SE, restored from a backup of the 4s (and by the way on Cricket when the 4s was AT&T, but doubt that matters as my problem exists on WiFi too). Everything works on the new iPhone SE except the Gmail accounts no longer can get mail or connect to the server. They still work on the iPad. I know at first Gmail blocked my new phone thinking somebody else had gotten my password but I told it that that was me logging in and I can use both accounts as regular Google accounts or signing in directly with Safari. But I don't want email fetched, I want it pushed like o the iPad and the old phone.

I have tried deleting the accounts and re-adding them, and in the Accounts preferences area it seems to successfully connect and doesn't tell me that I have the wrong password unless I actually have the wrong password. But in Mail it just cannot connect to the server and I'm at a loss.

Does anybody have an idea of the cause and how to fix this?


texts: How do I turn off presidential alerts on my iPhone?

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I already have Settings > Notifications (bottom) > AMBER Alerts and Emergency Alerts turned off, yet I still get Presidential Alerts.

How can I turn off Presidential Alerts?

iPhone 5, iOS 10.3.3.


texts: Gifting in iTunes to people in other countries

texts: Christmas is coming up, and I'm currently living in a country (UK) that's a completely different iTunes store from my family (US).  So I'm wondering if I can gift things in the iTunes store if I'm in a different country than the recipient.  If I gift something from the UK store, can someone in the US download the items?  I'm not even sure if there's a way for me to go to the US version, let alone try to gift an item from there.


texts: Will I be able to revert to El Capitain if I install Sierra on my 2015 Macbook Pro?

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I have a 2015 (purchased in late 2016) Macbook Pro with the following specs :

2.5Ghz Core i5
8GB of RAM
Running OSX El Capitain 10.11.6

It downloaded Sierra and is asking me to upgrade to the new version.

I want to do it, but I'm worried that the new Operating System will be too demanding for my laptop or that there are some things that I won't like, and I might want to revert in the future.

If I install Sierra, will I still be able to restore my Macbook to factory settings (including El Capitain) by doing a factory restore (where you hold CMD+R while it's booting, and format the drive to reinstall the OS) or will it always default to Sierra instead?


texts: Space issues with Mac Pro OSX 10.7.5 with SSD 120G as boot volume

texts: Issue is most obvious in Final Cut Pro (10.0.8), but has occurred with other apps. I can't find a way to lower the footprint on the SSD. I only have one user (me) and have nearly all the apps on the regular hard drive. No big data. Finder says my user directory is using 75.5G but there are only about 1G of files listed under the user directory. I understand there are lots of hidden files, but over 70G? Is this just an FCP issue, or am I missing something completely. Would the $20 for upgrading to mountain lion fix the issue?


texts: Bigger keyboard keys on iPhone 6 with iOS 8

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I want a default keyboard with bigger keys. That's it.

No Swype, no SwiftKey, nothing fancy, no other customizations—I just want… bigger… keys. I have thick fingers and I dont want to use auto correct or prediction.

I know it's possible, because one of the apps I use (CamScanner Pro) has a bigger keyboard (taller) which types significantly better. I am desperate to get that keyboard by default everywhere, or any other third party option or fix that will make my keyboard keys bigger.

How do I achieve this?

Minuum and Thick Buttons rely on auto predict and dynamically enlarge keys… way too fancy for me: simple, default bigger keyboard, bigger keys. I am happy to sacrifice screen area for bigger keyboard.

[edit - now many months later, I still experience this problem. Over time I have used several apps that offer a keyboard with bigger keys within the app. I don't know how these apps can offer such a keyboard while it is unavailable anywhere else...]


texts:
I got my hands on Chinese Airpod pro knock-off that came with Apple logo and surprisingly same packaging with additional buds.
Also to my surprise they were paired with iphone quite quickly just like a real airpod would by opening the case and pressing the button at the back. Now this makes me believe that they could have exact same H1 chip that comes with real Airpod pro.
Question: Does iphone detects the type of airpod by detecting the firmware on the H1 chip? Can H1 chip be duplicated along with the firmware such that it could fool iphone into detecting fake as real?


texts: Does using a hotspot while connected to wifi use cellular data?

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I'm confused about data usage / hotspot while connected to WiFi.

I'm asking because my Windows 8 laptop cannot recognize my friend's router, as in it can't even find it, however, my iPhone 4 can. I have connected using my iPhone 4 and turned on the "Personal Hotspot" feature.

Does this use my Data Allowance from Telstra, or will all internet/network traffic flow through to the router?

If the above answer is yes, what if I took out my SIM Card? Would it not work at all, or flow through to the router?


texts: Option to use AirPort Express with 1 TB harddrive for Dropbox equivalent

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I have an AirPort Express with a 1 TB harddrive, obviously this airport is connected to the internet and in the next month our house will be conected to the optic fibre network giving us 200 megabits/seconds connection speed. Now to me this looks like a great opertunity to store some fairly large files on a shared disk.

One problem is that the AirPort Express also functions as the backup device, so ideally we would only split of 100 GB so as to allow the other 900 GB to continue functioning as a Time Machine. Idealy this would be approachable from both inside and outside the network (with passwords!) so that I can connect to it from a university as well as at home.

Additionally the network has the following operating systems connected to it that would ideally also be able to connect to the harddrive: OS X Yosemite, Ubuntu 14.04, Windows 7 and probably in the near future a Linux Mint installation.


texts: My phone won't give me Storage no matter what I do

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So I try to download an app but a thing pops up saying I can't because I don't have enough storage on my phone so I go to my settings and I delete some apps and some pictures on my phone but it didn't do anything it still said I have 0 storage! So I get a flash drive and download all my photos on to it and then go back on my phone and delete them all ( well all most all of them I had 1300 photos  and I deleted like 700 photos)and I go back and there was no change my pictures was still using the same amount of storage and it still said I have 0 space left! It's making me mad! Please help! ( do I need a new phone??)
Ps.i also deleted a bunch of old text messages and group chats but that didn't do anything either!


texts: Mail app no longer automatically creates clickable hyperlinks when pasting a URL. How do I fix it?

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Since recently the MacOS Mail app no longer automatically converts a URL (that I paste) into a clickable hyperlink.
How do I fix this?

Working on MacOS Mojave 10.14.1 in Mail 12.1


texts: CATALINA: Override automatic mute triggered by Dictation

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PROBLEM
Transcription Step 2 Instructions indicates:

When you’re running Dictation, your computer automatically mutes all
audio that’s playing. To override this, you’ll need to run two
commands in Terminal

I have performed the write-commands and read-commands:
user@users-Mac-mini ~ % defaults write com.apple.SpeechRecognitionCore AllowAudioDucking -bool NO
user@users-Mac-mini ~ % defaults read com.apple.SpeechRecognitionCore

{
AllowAudioDucking = 0; }

user@users-Mac-mini ~ % defaults write com.apple.speech.recognition.AppleSpeechRecognition.prefs DictationIMAllowAudioDucking -bool NO
user@users-Mac-mini ~ % defaults read com.apple.speech.recognition.AppleSpeechRecognition.prefs

{
DictationIMAllowAudioDucking = 0;
DictationIMCorrectionCount = 0;
DictationIMIntroMessagePresented = 1;
DictationIMLastDictationDate = "619237426.7170759";
DictationIMMessageTracesSinceLastReport = 4;
DictationIMSensedMicActivityState = 1;
DictationIMSensedMicIdentifier = "SoundflowerEngine:0";
"DictationIMUpgradedTo10_15" = 1; }

RESEARCH \ REFERENCES

How to keep sound from muting while using dictation?
Anyone: please to add relevant links

OBSERVATIONS
Reference 1 (above) indicates BASH commands overrides mute trigger in Mojave in 10.14.1
Audio drives the input level meter as expected:

A speech audio file is started.  The text editor is opened: when Dictation is invoked, the input level meter goes dead (audio player automatically muted).
QUESTIONS
What can be done to diagnose why the BASH commands were not effective in disable automatic mute?


texts: Airplay: stream video and audio components to different Airplay target devices

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I'm thinking about getting a Libratone sound system that plays music via Airplay. I would have an Apple TV connected to an LCD projector.

My question is whether I would be able to wirelessly stream a movie from my iPad with this setup, such that audio goes to the Libratone and video goes to the Apple TV...

I couldn't find any information on this kind of setup.


texts: Why Mac App Store shows open button below the macOS sierra installer icon in the product page?

texts: Before when I had macOS sierra installed on my mac and when I used to open macOS sierra in the MacApp store there used to be an option to reinstall/download the installer but now I am seeing an open button below the macOS icon after updating to the latest stable build of macOS sierra


texts: How can I determine the sound volume from within a python script?

texts: I need to see when the sound volume on my Mac hits a certain point, in Python (and preferably without the need of any permissions). Any pointers appreciated.


texts: Paid consumables and App Store Terms & Conditions

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I have a friend who works for a charity that offers courses on a donation basis as a way to fund themselves. Recently the charity built an iOS app so people can download the course videos and other material to their devices. It also allows users to buy the courses by going to the charity website.

The app was rejected by Apple, as the people building it didn't know that all In-App purchases must go through Apple (yes, they are very green developers, and I wonder if it's the first app they built).

I'm wondering how the app could be changed, so the purchases don't break App Store's Terms & Conditions, and at the same time don't need to be done through Apple, even if they need to be done outside the app (on a desktop computer). The App Store Terms & Conditions that the app supposedly broke are:

  3.1.3(a) “Reader” Apps: Apps may allow a user to access previously purchased content or content subscriptions (specifically: magazines, newspapers, books, audio, music, video, access to professional databases, VoIP, cloud storage, and approved services such as classroom management apps), provided that you agree not to directly or indirectly target iOS users to use a purchasing method other than in-app purchase, and your general communications about other purchasing methods are not designed to discourage use of in-app purchase.

  3.1.3(b) Multiplatform Services: Apps that operate across multiple platforms may allow users to access content, subscriptions, or features they have acquired elsewhere, including consumable items in multi-platform games, provided those items are also available as in-app purchases within the app. You must not directly or indirectly target iOS users to use a purchasing method other than in-app purchase, and your general communications about other purchasing methods must not discourage use of in-app purchase.

So I'm wondering which of the following might be OK, or break the Terms & Conditions; please let me know if there are other options!

Only allow access to the content that has already been purchased, without any mention that more courses are available.
Show other courses, but without a price and some text saying "log in to the website to know more".
Show courses with a price and text saying "log in to the website to know more".

For what I know, having a link to an external website to do the purchase is against the Terms & Conditions, so that's out of the question.


texts: Is it possible to change the screen display names in MacOS for a multi monitor setup

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I have a 15" MacBook Pro (with Catalina 10.15.1) with a multi monitor setup using USB-C adapters:

I've using this setup since Maverick, as you can see in the next screenshot, the 3 screens have the same name C24F390 just with a (n) number appended:

Which causes confusion every time the video adapters are connected and disconnected, since the order (and therefore the numbers) change.

Is there a way to change the screen display names in System Preferences or maybe with a third party App? It will be very useful to send a windows to a specific screen but as the names are just the same it is a little uncomfortable (I will like to rename the 3 screens: L, C & R, which stands for Left, Center & Right screen).

The order is not a problem itself, but the screen names are, because sometimes I disconnect an adapter to work on specific tasks and I just want fewer screens.

If you need more information, just let me know.

Thanks in advance.


texts: I recently bought a macbook pro retina 2012 and later tried some fps game, e.g. Team Fortress 2. I plugged an usb mouse and noticed my it's movement is kinda weird or like unresponsive or something. It seems like my mouse movement has some kind of inertia, smoothing, acceleration or something, but it doesn't feel comfortable when gaming. Sometimes even a touchpad seems easier to play with. What am I experiencing and how can I make it like in windows?


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When I lock my screen, sometimes it shows my iTunes library, other times it shows a screensaver, and other times it shows photos.

I don't want it to do any of these things, I'd like it to just show a black background or maybe a picture.

Is there a way to customize it?


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I have just ordered one of the new Nov 2018 MacBook Airs that only come with Thunderbolt 3 (USB-C) ports. Just looking for a simple clean solution for a high performance adapter using the USB-C physical connector.

Notes:

I am aware of the many USB-C to gigabit ethernet adapters that exist -- but I am looking for an adapter that takes advantage of Thunderbolt 3, the lower latency, and lower overheads. For example, on my old MacBook Air (2014), I use a Thunderbolt to Ethernet adapter ---> NOT a USB to Ethernet adapter.
I am aware I can buy a Thunderbolt 3 to Thunderbolt adapter, and then plug in my Thunderbolt to Ethernet adapter ... but I don't want a double dongle. Who does?

Does there exist a Thunderbolt 3 to Gigabit ethernet adapter?

(n.b. the rest of this should be made into an answer and edited out including this editor's note...)

Note on the USB-C to Ethernet that Apple sells (Belkin)

If you read the reviews on the USB-C to Ethernet adapter that Apple officially sells (made by Belkin), there are a number of reviews that suggest that speed is throttled by using the USB-C adapter (compared to Thunderbolt).

A review by Elias A states:

  "Compared the old macbook dongel that has thunderbolt with this one. Got close to 1000Mbits. With this Belkin USB-C dongel I get around 200-300 Mbits"

A review by William S states:

  Not really gigabit
  This adapter is only recognized as a 100BaseTX, even if you try to set it manually. Returned it and bought a Thunderbolt 3 (USB-C) to Thunderbolt 2 adapter since I already had an old Thunderbolt to Ethernet adapter from Apple. This combo may not be elegant, but it gives me full gigabit speed

It is these reviews that prompted my question. There are other reviews that note that Thunderbolt also involves lower system resources than USB-C.

Update after buying Belkin USB-C to gigabit Ethernet adaptor

Based on one of the answers below, I unfortunately purchased the Belkin USB-C to gigabit ethernet adaptor ... and report below some comparison timings which reflect very poorly on the product.

In the following tests, I compare the speed to transfer, on the same Cat6 ethernet network, over the same cables, through the same routers:

2014 Macbook Air:  using Apple Thunderbolt to Ethernet adaptor
2018 Macbook Air Retina:  using Belkin USB-C (plugged into Thunderbolt 3 port) to Ethernet adaptor

Test 1:  3.8GB file

2014 Mac - Apple Thunderbolt adaptor:  35 seconds
2018 Mac - Belkin USB-C:  110 seconds. (Repeat tests returned 35 secs)

Test 2:  9.6 GB folder (with many files)

2014 Mac - Apple Thunderbolt adaptor:  5 min 50 seconds
2018 Mac - Belkin USB-C:  6 min 45 seconds

Test 3:  4 GB movie

2014 Mac - Apple Thunderbolt adaptor:  63 seconds
2018 Mac - Belkin USB-C:  87 seconds

The Belkin adaptor also got very very hot, and smelled burnt. I cannot explain the wildly variable results from the Belkin product either. An adaptor that returns worse results on a much faster 2018 Macbook Air (using USB-C) than Apple's own Thunderbolt adaptor on the 2014 Macbook Air frankly beggars belief. Whether the fault is the Belkin unit (of which there are many complaints on the Apple store site) or some inferior aspect of using USB-C compared to Thunderbolt ... I cannot say.

I will be returning the Belkin unit to the Apple store for a full refund: the product or technology is plainly inferior to what was available 4 years ago.


texts: Tell git not to use my GitHub account (Keychain) for public repositories - it's a privacy issue

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Whenever some script or Git clones/pulls something from GitHub I don't wish to send my GitHub Account, if the repo is public.

How to make sure I won't be authenticated with my GitHub user with Keychain?

> brew search geoip
geoip                                                                                geoipupdate
Error: GitHub
The GitHub credentials in the macOS keychain may be invalid.
Clear them with:
  printf "protocol=https\nhost=github.com\n" | git credential-osxkeychain erase
Or create a personal access token:
  https://github.com/settings/tokens/new?scopes=gist,public_repo&description=Homebrew
and then set the token as: export HOMEBREW_GITHUB_API_TOKEN="your_new_token"

> git credential-osxkeychain erase
host=github.com
protocol=https


texts:
I was wondering if someone could tell me how to close a TCP/UDP port on a Mac completely.
I don't want to kill a process or anything behind it. I want the port to be closed off completely.
Thanks,
PN


texts:
I'm a newcomer here (you can tell by my question).

To remap a key, do I just replace the two hexadecimal values for the key I wants to be changed and use the entire string in Terminal?

0x63 for 0x53, and does that replace the entire "0x700000004" and "0x700000005", for example?

$ hidutil property --set '{"UserKeyMapping":[{"HIDKeyboardModifierMappingSrc":0x700000004,"HIDKeyboardModifierMappingDst":0x700000005},{"HIDKeyboardModifierMappingSrc":0x700000005,"HIDKeyboardModifierMappingDst":0x700000004}]}'
)


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wlan-141056:part_u_2 prova$ ls
-2e-5_cas 0_cas     10e-5_cas 20e-5_cas 40e-5_cas 5e-5_cas
wlan-141056:part_u_2 prova$ cat -2e-5_cas 0_cas > prova
cat: illegal option -- 2 usage: cat [-benstuv] [file ...]

What's wrong with merging two files using cat ?


texts:
If I delete a backup will it delete all of the photos and videos in that backup?

I have photos and videos in iCloud that I want to keep but I don’t have enough available space to backup again.

By deleting the backup, will it delete all those photos and videos I want to keep?


texts: Why is Wake-On-LAN not working on my MacBook Pro with LogMeIn?

texts:
Hey guys, as of this date (2011-05-24) I have the:

Latest version of LogMeIn Free running on my MacBook Pro
The Latest version of Snow Leopard
I have the mid 2009 17" unibody MacBook Pro

On my MacBook I have the "wake up from lan" box checked in the energy savings settings.

My MacBook is also plugged in, and the Ethernet cable is plugged in. I always leave the Airport on on the macbook so that's on too.

It's now in "sleep" and the lid is closed.

When I go to the LogMeIn dashboard it says offline... is this because the Wake-On-Lan is not working? Has anyone had this issue or know how to fix it?

cheers


texts:
My friend has just bought an iMac off eBay, but the hard drive wasn't fully wiped - it came with the guy's user account and was obviously registered with his Apple ID still.

What we want to do is install OSX again, but first, format the drive. This is simple and I've done it before but the question is will the installer let me do this? My friend hasn't owned a machine with Lion before and I've read in several places that the Apple ID has to have a copy of Lion registered to it for the transaction to work.

Is this possible? We'd be doing it using the recovery partition.

Cheers


texts: Big Sur bluetooth keyboard not found after changing batteries. Mac mini

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My keyboard battery's got to 5% so I changed to new ones. Keyboard was not discovered by mac so I restarted the machine. I now have the login asking for a password and the bluetooth setup assistant telling me the keyboard is not connected and to make it discoverable.
I have tested the keyboard on another mac mini ru ning high Sierra and it works fine.
I can't enter a password to get the big sur mac mini started - any suggestions on how to proceed ?


texts:
What are some alternatives to iTunes for managing music on a mac?

It should uspport flac files.


texts: Is there a command line program or script to monitor VRAM usage?

texts:
I have a mid-2014 MacBook Pro [2.8 Ghz i7 (4980HQ Haswell/Crystalwell), NVIDIA GEForce GT 750M (2040 MB VRAM)], running 10.13.6, connected to a Dell P2715Q 27" 4K external monitor.   Since the last High Sierra security/Safari update, Expose on my Mac has become quite laggy (~1 - 2 sec delay between when my mouse cursor reaches a hot corner and when it activates).  It's much less laggy when I unplug the Dell and use the MBP's internal monitor—at which time, because it no longer needs to drive the 4K monitor, it has switched from the discrete GPU to the integrated Intel Iris Pro graphics (1536 MB VRAM).

I've checked CPU, GPU, and RAM usage in Activity Monitor while activating Expose, and all stay fairly low (<50%).  That makes me wonder if the lag is caused by high GPU memory pressure, but I don't know how to check VRAM usage (other than by installing iStat Menus).

Neither top nor vm_stat provide this info. Is there a Terminal command for this?


texts: when I receive a text from my husband's phone, there is no ringtone. The message shows up on the screen, but there is no alert tone. Other texts are fine.


texts: Apache2 not running on High Sierra without Homebrew

texts:
This is a post I have found on this issue:
Apache2 (Httpd) not working after update to High Sierra

But I have a situation where httpd is not running
after setting preference -> sharing ->web  sharing on

The relevant factors:

I bought this machine used with Sierra installed.

I upgraded it to High Sierra.

I attempted to set localhost as home page in my browers.

The browser responed by indicating they cannot connect to localhost.

I did some Googling and found the post this references.

I did not install Homebrew on this machine.

I have never used Homebrew.

But there may be a possibility that Homebrew was
installed at some point and upgrades to the system have not undone it.
I do find in /etc/Apache2/ an httpd.conf~previous
and many files in ./extra with ~previous appended to various files.

The question is: how can I verify if Homebrew was installed and if so can I safely run the uninstall script found?

There is a related issue with ethernet interfaces:
When a browser is used to contact localhost and puts up an error claiming it cannot conntect to localhost, I have noticed that I loose access to
the internet (App Store will not connect claiming I don't have an internet connection).
BUT I can access machines on the local network via file sharing. So I know the interface is working.

I would like to get this straightened out. I do
developement and want localhost to work. I like
to have localhost as a landing pad home page for
my browsers.

Thank you for time and attention
JK


texts: Find device information when Activation Lock is activated

texts: Is there a way to find the time and date of when Activation Lock was activated on an iPad? Also, can I find the IMEI and serial of the iPad? My iPad has few iCloud IDs and I know just 1 ID. What can I do to get useful information about which iCloud ID caused the iPad activation lock and when?


texts:
How can I connect an older iPod touch second generation to a lightning dock?
The iPod has a 30 pin connector and the dock is a lightning connection.


texts: How to download Mountain Lion installer after changing a store?

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I'm going to upgrade my machine with ssd drive, so I want to make a clean install. I was told that I can redownload the installer via Mac App Store, but the problem is that I used the store of other country for buying ML and now I'm using a different one (my country was introduced to it's own app store just recently, so I changed the store), so there is no Mountain Lion in Purchases section.

I've payed for it once, I don't want to pay for it for the second time. I know I can get it from torrents but whether there is really no 'legal' way?

p.s. I know about internet recovery posibility but the speed is an issue so it would be much better to get an installer in advance before the actual installation and stuff. So the question is 'how?' :)

upd as through the comments, i should be able to log into previous store but it's not.

i press flag in bottom right corner, then select my previous store, then
i choose 'purchases' section, it writes 'you should log in to see your purchases'
i log in, the app tranfers me back to my store

I know I can switch the store in my Apple ID settings but it is quite a bit painful — i should rebing the credit card, i'm cleaning my purchases list which is obviously not very cool.


texts: How to selectively (un)subscribe IMAP folders in 10.9 Mail.app

texts:
I cannot find a way to selectively subscribe to IMAP folders in Mail.app in 10.9

Is there a way? Am I missing something there? It seems the IMAP implementation in Mail.app is still quite buggy and plays especially bad with dovecot IMAP servers.


texts:
Every time I boot up my iMac this message appears: 'cannot connect to [the name of my old iMac] server.' The old iMac was finally laid to rest several months ago. How can I remove it from the network preferences in my iMac?

I'm using MacOSX 10.12.6.


texts: Revoke an applications access to keychain passwords

texts: I granted an application 'always allow' access to my keychain, i no longer want to have this application set to this, is there a central place where i can see which applications are allowed to access items / passwords in the keychain and then remove them as wanted ?


texts: Is there any way to verify that OSX 10.8.1 installed correctly?

texts: When I was installing OSX 10.8.1, when the install when to reboot Finder refused to shut down citing a mount point problem.  I force closed Finder at which point the post-reboot install started without the system having fully rebooted.  Is there anyway to verify that nothing went wrong with the install?


texts: Maximum dimensions of Mobile Safari viewport on iPhone 4

texts: I need to know the maximum width and height of the viewport in Mobile Safari, iPhone 4, without the height of the statusbar on top and the bar with the forward/back/bookmarks bar at the bottom.


texts: Is there a quicker way to clear cache on Safari mobile?

texts: Is there a quicker way to clear cache in Safari on iPhone besides going to Settings -> Safari -> Clear Cache?


texts: Can GPS be used by more than 1 app at a time

texts:
I'm looking at various apps which use GPS tracking, and was wondering if more than 1 app at a time was able to gain access to the GPS data?

For example I might want to use one app with route planning for cross country running in order to know where I should be going, and a second app to record where I actually went, and my speeds/splits/averages etc.

Because the apps are using the Background service for location data, does this limit which app is getting the data?  Only 1 music app at a time can play in the background, is the location background service different?

I would test this myself, but the apps I am looking at are not free, and I don't want to pull the trigger if I cannot use them as I want.


texts: When i try to download the google chrome app on my iphone or ipad, it redirects me to a page that says it will download the app...but jus keeps redirecting and wont load. How do i get it to load?


texts: How to remove a file that 'ls' finds it but 'rm' does not?

texts:
I have a weird situation with a file that sticked into my file system and apparently there is nothing I can do to remove it. There is a file in the Trash folder of my external hard drive, and it can not be deleted. Trying with mac "Empty Trash" it says the file is in use:

"The operation can’t be completed because the item “Funny Film” is in use."

I tried to remove the file/folders from command line:

$ pwd
Volumes/My Book/.Trashes/501/Clip old/Funny Film

$ ls
000␀0000.␀P4

$ rm 000␀0000.␀P4
rm: 000␀0000.␀P4: No such file or directory

$ ls -i
ls: 000␀0000.␀P4: No such file or directory

$ ls -l
ls: 000␀0000.␀P4: No such file or directory

$ stat ./000␀0000.␀P4
stat: ./000␀0000.␀P4: stat: No such file or directory

I had this problem for some time now. I have tried several different things without success. The external hard drive have been used over ftp, with Windows, Ubuntu and Mac operation systems. How it is possible that 'ls' finds the file while 'ls -l' failed? More importantly, how I can fix the situation and delete the file?


texts: Can iTunes Match recognize songs recorded from analog sources (line-in, cassette, vinyl LP, or FM radio), or only digitally-extracted CD audio?

texts:
This question about converting cassette music for an iPod inspired me to ask:

Can the iTunes Match service provided by Apple recognize songs recorded from an analog source, such as recording via analog line-input from a cassette player, an LP turntable, or any other device's line-out .. say, even FM radio?

Has anybody tried a variety of analog sources with iTunes Match?  Was there any success, mixed or otherwise, or no success?

What is publicly known about the iTunes Match analysis process or algorithms, and knowing how those may function, is it reasonable to expect that the service would work on an analog recording as well?  Other than quality, is there something inherent to music extracted/ripped digitally from a CD that lends itself to easier analysis for matching?

UPDATE:  I found this thread at Apple Support communities which contains strong anecdotal evidence that audio recorded from vinyl LP can be matched.  I'm still interested in knowing if other sources can be matched as well (cassette, FM radio, etc.)


texts: Recovering Data from iPad Stuck in Boot Loop upon Update to iOS 9

texts:
I attempted to update my iPad 3 (NOT jailbroken... yet) running iOS 7 to iOS 9 a few months ago, but ran into a major issue: whenever I tapped on "Continue" on the "Update Completed" screen, my iPad would simply restart itself and show the update screen, which often would be unresponsive to swiping. I know many others have had this issue when updating from iOS 7 to 9, and some found a fix, but before I'm prepared to wipe my iPad and depart with my data, I'd like to try to salvage as much of it as I can. Unfortunately, I was foolish and forgot to back up my iPad before I updated because I figured the update would go flawlessly, since it had been so smooth on my iPhone.

The challenge now is to try to gather as much data as I can before wiping. So far, I've been able to get my photos through the Photos application on my Mac running Yosemite, but I'd really like to get all of my data from the Notes app off of my iPad. In order to do so, I've used a few file managers, but can't find the directory anywhere, so it must be in root. Getting access to root would give me access to a lot of other data as well, so that would be ideal. But I know that root access is something you can only gain by jailbreaking, and I don't think my glitching iPad is even capable of being jailbroken at this point.

Given all of this, is it possible to get any other data off of my iPad before I wipe it? If so, how? Would jailbreaking help? And how would I jailbreak with my iPad in this state?


texts: Thin green lines on boot, then screen goes grey (late 2011 MBP – 8,2)?

texts:
Last night I was using my late 2011 MBP (higher res screen, dual Intel/AMD graphics), and the screen suddenly went black. I left it go for a minute - no change. I open and closed the lid – it suspended just fine, but opening the lid back up gave me nothing. So, I killed the power.

Turning it back on, the screen now had thin green lines overlayed over the apple logo boot screen. This stays for a moment – until the loading scroll bar reaches about 1/3 to 1/2 of the way across – and then the screen goes grey.

The same thing happens if I try to launch recovery, internet recovery, or diagnostics whatever. BIOS shows ok (except the overlayed green lines), and then a grey screen. If I hold option, it will show me disk selection (I triple boot OS X/Linux/Windows). But in all cases, the screen goes grey when I try to select something.

The only thing I was able to get to run was internet based diagnostics. I ran extended tests, and no problems were detected (yeah, right).

I've also tried resetting NVRAM, but it doesn't seem to work properly. Usually it boots, goes bong, reboots, and then loads. Instead, it booted, went bong, and then the screen went grey. It never restarted itself.

At the moment I am pretty sure it's either an issue with the the display cable if I'm lucky, or the dedicated graphics adapter or the motherboard (Intel graphics are on-die on the processor) if I'm not.

I have NOT tried hooking it up via dongle to an external display to see if the issue exists there as well, I'll try that this evening.

Has anyone else experienced this issue? Any other possibilities I could look into? I'm assuming that a repair at the Apple Store will be prohibitively expensive.


texts: How do I change my gmail app language to English without changing my iOS language setting?

texts:
I want to set my gmail iOS app to English without changing my iOS system-level language. Is it even possible?

Thanks,


texts: How to bridge vboxnet with Wi-Fi on OS X 10.10 "Yosemite"

texts:
I am trying to bridge two interfaces on OS X 10.10 "Yosemite" but somehow this does not seem to work for virtual interfaces:

The network on Virtualbox goes over "Host Only Network"

Is there a way to overcome this? I want to bridge 192.168.56.1 with the Wi-Fi in order to make my virtual machines visible to other computers on the internet.


texts: Restoring data deleted from Directory Utility

texts:
When trying to rearrange user accounts, I deleted some data using the Directory Utility (data on a user account under "Users" in the Node "Local/Default").

I would like to restore this data.

I have a Time Machine Backup available from before the change. What file would I need to look for to restore, or what other steps must I take?


texts: How to get the shortest file size on aliases?

texts:
I realize a bit of why they are so big. Actually, they used to be small enough (around 2kb) and still magical about keeping the file link.

I can also see a few ways to "shorten" it, including one I've been using for a long time already, which is a simple service to create symlinks instead. There's an issue there:

Symlinks are not aliases

They break way too easily. An alias can keep linked to the origin most of the times.
Some software will treat symlinks differently from Aliases. Here, each one have their use, and eventually I'll use one or another.
Not as easy to create as aliases -> use CMD + ALT while dragging n' dropping files!

So, forget symlinks for this question, please!

As for the actual way to shorten it (described on the already linked apple forums) they are way unpractical. First you need to install Shrink Alias with Shortcuts (because the first is unsupported in newer OS X's and the second is a hack to make it available as a Service) and Delete Data Fork workflow. Then manually apply both to each alias. Eventhough you can do it by selecting all files in Finder, again, you still have to do it for each time you create aliases and it's many hacks to keep updated on the next OS'es.

Isn't there a simple Service Workflow, Automator or AppleScript which could do  all that automatically whenever I create a new alias, maybe by hooking up on the Alias Manager?

I doubt there is a secret to help with any of this...

How about some other new idea about all this?


texts: Bundle ID not transferred when transferring an app

texts:
We received a new transferred app from other company. Now we have to update its versions and release it on the App Store.

The problem is that we can see the app in iTunesConnect. But to upload a new version we need to have the Bundle ID and the existing Bundle ID is not shown.

How do we obtain it?


texts: Fastest way to get picture from iOS camera to desktop "file upload" dialog?

texts:
When I'm on OS X and on a website see a [File upload] button, half the time what I want to upload is a picture, which I would like to take right then on iOS camera. Currently this means doing the following:

click [file upload] button
open up iPod
go to camera app
snap the picture
connect iPod to Mac with USB cable
open iPhoto
import the picture
click on the imported picture
choose "show in finder"
drag the image from finder to the file upload dialog

Is there some way I could just somehow upload from iOS camera directly? So that it would go something like this:

click [file upload] button
choose "upload from iOS camera"
open up iPod
go to camera app (or even have it start automagically)
click "snap & send to Mac open dialog"


texts: Text deselecting when using Logitech mouse scroll wheel in Sierra

texts:
I'm using a Logitech Performance MX mouse and since upgrading to Sierra I'm having difficulty when using my scroll wheel to select large amounts of text. Usually, I scroll while holding left mouse and this has always worked. Now when I scroll, it deselects the text that I have selected.

Could this be a driver issue?


texts: Hindi not supported? - iTunes Connect (App Store)

texts:
Trying to create a new app and while Chinese, Russian, Japanese, Arabic and Korean was created without any issue, Hindi gives an error:

  App Name must not contain the following characters: जी वं त ...

Any idea? Hindi isn't supported?


texts: Keep a book/ audiobook on iphone but delete on Mac

texts:
I use Books app on Mac to sync my audiobooks between Mac and iPhone. If I delete a book on Books app on Mac that gets deleted on iPhone as well when I sync it the next time. How to delete the book on my Mac but keep it on my iPhone the next time I sync it.
The other way, to delete on iPhone but keep it on Mac is mentioned here.
But I want to do the other way around. Any help is appreciated.


texts: Chrome: full screen shortcut does not work

texts:
Suddenly after using chrome for around six months on macOS, (first Mojave and then Catalina), the (very useful) Full-Screen shortcut (Ctrl+Cmd+F) has stopped working.

Both, clicking the green button and selecting full screen from the view options work just fine, but chrome rejects to respond to the keyboard shortcut. The other shortcuts that I use on Chrome like forward and back work fine too. The full-screen shortcut also works on all other apps I use.

Chrome version and macOS version:

Google Chrome   79.0.3945.88 (Official Build) (64-bit)
Revision    c2a58a36b9411c80829b4b154bfcab97e581f1f3-refs/branch-heads/3945@{#954}
OS  macOS Version 10.15.2 (Build 19C57)

Is this a known issue on Chrome or macOS Catalina? Is there anything I can do to fix it?

Rebooting the computer does not fix this and it is consistently reproducible on my machine. (MacBook Pro 2018)


texts: AppleScript to tell Adobe Reader to close a certain document

texts:
Adobe Reader has N documents open. One of them has a known filepath and title and it needs to be programmatically closed. How to go about doing this in AppleScript? Specifically, how can I:

Talk to Reader
Access a list of documents currently opened
Select the document I need to close among the list above (I know: document path on the filesystem and document title, not necessarily "position" (e.g. frontmost, background, 3rd tab, or similar) or order in which it was opened)
Give Reader the command to close the file, not changing the active/frontmost document if the document to close was not in front of the user. Remembering which one was active, quickly switching to the one to close and back to the previous one is acceptable if it can be done almost imperceptibly

Hopefully this is a precise definition of the task, thanks for your help.


texts:
I often end up in a situation where I connect via public Wi-Fi connection, and it's severely crippled (HTTP only, no SSH, no SMTP).

I want to set up some kind of HTTP tunnel for all traffic in the system (OSX) and bypass the restriction. I have a bunch of Linux boxes on AWS that can host the server-side bit.

What are my options?


texts: From the terminal, how can I disable iTunes from running when a device is connected?

texts: Using terminal, I want to disable the feature of iTunes that causes it to run whenever a device is plugged in, but I want to do this entirely from the terminal, so that it can be part of an OSX setup script.


texts: USB Keyboard barcode scanner inputs wrong digits only in OSX

texts:
I'm having a bit of a weird issue with my barcode scanner under OSX (El Capitan). It's a generic barcode scanner, Proster branding, with a Megawin USB-UART chip inside so it acts as a USB Keyboard.

When I try and use it in OSX to enter a barcode into TextWrangler for instance, it inputs digits OK, but they are all wrong - the barcode entered is nothing like the barcode scanned. Using the scanner in Windows, the barcode is entered fine.

I've tried putting the device into serial mode (it doesn't show up in OSX), tried changing keyboard layout in the detection wizard, and fiddling with some of the other settings, but no success. Any ideas?


texts: How to restore network preferences in OS X?

texts:
I took my SSD, plugged it into another Mac, and booted the system (OS X 10.10.4) there. When I opened the Network Preferences, I was surprised to find, that all VPN services had disappeared. I am guessing they are somehow bound to the Mac address of the network device. When I took the disk back to the original Mac the VPN connections did not come back...

Is there a way to restore the VPN settings from my Time Machine Backup? What files do I need to restore?


texts: iCloud event invitation delivered by email instead of by calendar app

texts:
I can connect to icloud via two emails:

xxxxxx@gmail.com - primary, and xxxxxx@icloud.com - secondary. Is it important which email was used to invite me to event? On the device I can be logged via both of them to EXACTLY THE SAME ACCOUNT. Currently on the device I am logged in via xxxxxx@icloud.com. Shouldn't I get invitation in calendar app even an invitation was adressed to xxxxxx@gmail.com?

Because when invitation was sent to @gmail.com I was invited via email, otherwise I get notification via calendar app. Is not weird?

I need to understand this.


texts:
I just saw this question and answer:
My Notes app accidentally got deleted from my iPhone 4s...

So apparently it's possible to erroneously hide system icons.  How can I do this?  I'm sick of the Weather and Stock icons taking up space.  My iPhone 4 with iOS 5.1 isn't jail broken.


texts:
I'm trying to watch a protected WMV file on my Mac, but it seems that neither VLC nor Flip4Mac support DRMs. Well at least all I get is psychedelic images, such as this one:

Is there any way to play such videos on Mac OS X without resorting to any virtualization software?


texts: Export pdf annotations only using preview?

texts:
I use Preview on OS X and GoodReader on the iPad for reading and annotating pdfs. GoodReader allows me to 'view summary' which is a plain text list of all highlighted sections and comments added to the pdf.

Preview allows you to view annotations in a sidebar but I can't find a way to export them. I really want to create a .txt file of just the pdf's annotations.

Does anyone know of a way of doing this, either with Preview or another app whose annotations can be viewed on GoodReader and vice versa?


texts: Why can't my MacBook Air (Late 2010) stay cool?

texts:
I have a MacBook Air bought in early 2011. Lately it just can't seem to stay cool. With normal load, the CPU hovers between 80ºC and 100ºC, and if I use iStat / Fan Control to turn the fans up to full, completely idle my laptop will still only cool to 75ºC.

I've opened it up and taken a look, and there isn't an obscene amount of dust in there, though I did give it a good vacuum and dusted it with compressed air. In particular, the part of the heat sink where the fan blows through seemed a little clogged, but I took to it with a vacuum cleaner. This hasn't had any noticeable improvement.

I'm wondering if I need to look into the heatsink, since the fan seems to run correctly (there was some dust caked onto the fan blades, but nothing that stopped it spinning).

Here's a screenshot I took of iStat:


texts:
Is it necessary to create the bootable USB from the same kind of device in which you wish to use it. I want to create one for my MBP (for which I have deleted the recovery drive as well) and I have a working Macbook Air.

So if I use my Air to create the drive for MBP, will it work?


texts: iCloud preference pane loads indefinitely and prevents access to System Preferences

texts:
When I open System Preferences, it opens straight to the iCloud pane, which loads a spinner, states that it is loading, and then runs until I give up. While the spinner is up, I can't quit the app or load the pane, nor can I access any other preferences.

I don't have an iCloud account, and I'd like to quit the pane to make changes to my system. Is there any way to disable the pane or this behaviour?


texts: Print All Files in Folder and SubFolders

texts:
I had 5 folders each with a couple of files (2-3).
I wanted to print all of them in one shot. I found ways to do it in Linux but I couldn't get them to work here.
The two alternatives I found for Linux were:

find -type f -print0 | xargs -0 ls -t
find . -type f -printf "%T@ %p\n" | sort -nr | cut -d\  -f2-

How do I accomplish this on a Mac?
I'd prefer not downloading any package for this and to accomplish this solely through terminal.


texts: How to select the Bluetooth device using command line?

texts: I have two Bluetooth trackpads, one at work and one at home. Is there a way to select one or the other from the command line. My current workflow is going up to the bluetooth menu, hovering over to home or office and clicking on Connect, but I wish I could do this from the terminal.


texts: Encrypting a USB for use on Mac *and* Windows

texts:
I have an external USB drive and I would like to encrypt it – preferably on Mac, however Windows is an option. The USB should be ready to use for both Windows and Mac without the use of third-party software. Using third-party software for formatting and/or encryption is not a problem.

Using Disk Utility, I can only format the drive to a non-encrypted FAT32 or ExFAT. Using another format makes the USB drive unreadable on Windows computers.

I have already tried the following:

Formatted on Mac using Disk Utility to ExFAT. Encrypted using BitLocker on Windows. Result: works on Windows, does not work on Mac.
Formatted and encrypted on Mac using VeraCrypt. Result: works on Mac, does not work on Windows.

Again, when I mention that the drive 'does not work', it does not work in a plug-and-play kind of way. Using terminal or cmd in any way, or third party software is not a possibility for the end user.

Is there anything I might have missed?


texts: Time Machine not doing incremental backups any more after unmounting one of my disks once

texts:
I have a problem with my Time Machine backups. I have two harddrives in my MBP and I unmonted my spinning harddrive once bc I was studying and it was getting annoying. As I knew I would need no files from my 'data partition' I resumed with only my SSD. When I mounted the harddrive again everything was working as before.

But since then my Time Machine is acting up. Whenever I want to backup it says that I dont have enough space and it would require ~660GB of additional space for the backup which accounts for my total amount of backuped data. I only have a 1TB backup volume, but that's more than enough space usually, so I think it is not doing incremental backups anymore.

My hardrive layout consist of my system disk Macintosh SSD and my data disk Macintosh HDD.

I tried to use tmutil to fix some things. I tried

sudo tmutil inheritbackup /Volumes/Time\ Machine/Backups.backupdb/MacBook\ Pro/

and

sudo tmutil associatedisk -a /Volumes/Macintosh\ HDD  /Volumes/Time\ Machine/Backups.backupdb/MacBook\ Pro/2015-09-09-134637/Macintosh\ HDD

but it didnt change anything.
Also when runing tmutil compare it would only show a difference of 8.3GB (last bit of output: http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=NhmZkfM6) instead of the reported 660GB.

The only reason to move on would be to delete my current backup and start a completely new one, which I don't really want to do as it is my only full backup on the harddrive.

What advice do you have from here?


texts: Using iCloud Mail account from Computers without Lion?

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If I understand correctly, MobileMe Mail will only work in the future under ICloud. For iCloud you need iOS 5 or Lion on an actual computer.

I have 4 Apple computers currently in use, I use mail on whatever computer I am on. Only one has Snow Leopard which can upgrade to Lion. One has Leopard and 2 have Tiger.

Does anyone know if at least one computer has the most updated OS that the information will show up on other computers?

I am not interested in an iPhone or iPad for email use since I require a full keyboard and tend to write lengthly emails.


texts: Corresponding ipfw rules in MacOS for this Iptables rules

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I need to give Internet access to a VM under Vmware fusion 7 in Host-Only mode. I know how to do it in Linux, with the following IPtables rules:

sysctl -w net.ipv4.ip_forward=1

iptables -A FORWARD -o eth0 -i vboxnet0 -s 192.168.56.0/24 -m conntrack --ctstate NEW -j ACCEPT
iptables -A FORWARD -m conntrack --ctstate ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT
iptables -A POSTROUTING -t nat -j MASQUERADE

But I can not find out how to do it in MacOS Sierra. Any help?

Thanks in advance!


texts: So my problem is that my mac is not booting up. Also,the OS X recovery HD is not available. Also, the internet recovery is not detecting my WiFi .. so i intend to clean install Yosemite on my mac. I have the Yosemite.app and a boot-able USB and windows. But i don't know how to install from the .app file . please help


texts: Cannot visit ebay.com with safari on MacOS Sierra

texts:
This is how I see] ebay on Safari (MacOS Sierra)...

I have disabled all extensions I have, restarted safari, but the problem persists.

The site appears well on other browsers. Any ideas.


texts: vmWare Fusion guest OS display resolution broken (?)

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I'm using vmWare Fusion 5.0.3 on Mac OS X, and the guest OS is also Mac OS X.

The problem: I can't set the guest OS display resolution to a reasonable value. "Reasonable" here means anything that will fit on my MacBook Air's 1440x900 screen. Right now it's using 1680x1050. I can get (a) a window that fits the 1680x1050 guest display but which is bigger than my physical display, or (b) a window that fits my display but scales down the 1680x1050 to a painfully small size so that it all fits. If I go to full screen I also get 1680x1050 scaled to fit the screen.

I tried resizing the window, but that just changes the window size and scaling-- I still get 1680x1050 on the guest OS.

I'm not too picky as to size, but I want something that actually fits on my screen.

For what it's worth, I do have vmWare tools installed. I reinstalled them just to make sure, it didn't help.


texts: keyboard shortcuts doesn't work on 'screen sharing'

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I'm using 'screen sharing' to control my remote personal macbook from the iMac @ work.

However, the shortcut for switching languages is not working (command + space), and i need to do it the hard way by going through 'system preferences -> keyboard'

perhaps there's a way to set a button to do this task, or any other simpler way ?


texts: I am interested in old school technology. The Mac OS X is based on UNIX. I am interested in the old school OS, Mac OS 9, what is this based on? Can it run the UNIX application? What is the file system in Mac OS 9?


texts: Dual Boot screen is not coming after installing win 7 via boot camp!

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I have installed the win7 on macbook white (via boot camp), and now I am not getting the dual boot screen at the start up, instead windows is starting by default :(

How I can fix this issue? Have I done something wrong when I was installing win 7?

Thanks


texts: Yosemite freeze at boot - no safe boot + I/O error

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Yesterday everything was fine but today my macbook freeze/stuck during the boot.

I've done this:

check + repair permission (nothing changed)
check + repair disk (nothing changed)
tried safemode (doesn't boot)
resetting pram with cmd+opt+p+r (nothing changed)
boot in verbose mode, shift+cmd+v and after "waiting for DSMOS" appear disk0s2: I/O error. (now 6 times, but it will continue I think )
tried to use fsck in single user mode and it says that the disk is ok
tried to reinstall the OS (nothing changed )

Any idea how to solve it?


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Safari's Open / Choose File Dialog Window fails to show for any upload or select file option. This appears to be universal and the dialog window fails to show regardless of which web app, or site is being used.
A new clean account and Safe Boot exhibit the same behaviour.

Safari: Version 14.0.2 (14610.3.7.1.10)
macOS Mojave 10.14.6 (18G7016)


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I'm running a Macbook Pro retina 13 inches early 2015 with 16 Go of RAM and a 3,1 GHz intel core i7 on OS X El Captain 10.11.1

I keep having some problems with airportd that crashes really often. Sometimes, when I click on the wifi icon on the menu bar, I have the rainbow crash cursor showing up and the menu is not popping up. Then, my mac starts heating up a lot and slowing down and I can hear a loud fan noise. When I check on the activity monitor, the airportd process is taking a huge amount a RAM and 100 % of the processor (sometimes more !). Actually, blued is also taking almost 50 % of the processor...
I have to kill it manually with the activity monitor for it to get back to normal. But the problem is that happens every 20 minutes in average.
I don't know what to do, this is really annoying, I beg for your help !

I keep having this in my system.log :

Dec 13 15:30:21 3wxmr8aqljon9umcd airportd[79737]: SecTaskLoadEntitlements failed error=22

I have that after I kill airportd after a crash:

13/12/2015 16:28:20,755 airportd[79737]: SecTaskLoadEntitlements failed error=22
13/12/2015 16:29:35,668 com.apple.xpc.launchd[1]: (com.apple.airportd[79737]) Service exited due to signal: Killed: 9
13/12/2015 16:29:35,777 airportd[3201]: _ipv6Request: Unable to attach IPv6 on awdl0 (File exists)
13/12/2015 16:29:35,865 airportd[3201]: airportdProcessDLILEvent: en0 attached (up)
13/12/2015 16:29:36,141 airportd[3201]: _ipv6Request: Unable to attach IPv6 on awdl0 (File exists)
13/12/2015 16:29:37,229 airportd[3201]: _createP2PDeviceInterface: Failed to create P2P device interface for en0 (Operation already in progress)
13/12/2015 16:29:38,877 locationd[91]: wifi scan failed with error: Error Domain=NSCocoaErrorDomain Code=4097 "connection to service named com.apple.airportd" UserInfo={NSDebugDescription=connection to service named com.apple.airportd}
13/12/2015 16:29:46,759 airportd[3201]: SecTaskLoadEntitlements failed error=22
13/12/2015 16:29:46,761 airportd[3201]: SecTaskLoadEntitlements failed error=22
13/12/2015 16:29:46,761 airportd[3201]: WARNING: AvStats (526) is not entitled for com.apple.wifi.scan, temporarily allowing request with background priority —— all entitlement requirements will be strictly enforced in a future release


texts: Where are the iCloud Drive Libraries icons located?

texts: Some apps, like Preview, Pages, or Keynote have folders with different default preview icons publicly visible in the iCloud Drive folder. Where are those icons stored?


texts: How to prevent Messages interpreting the @ symbol as a contact's name (inside an email address)

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With Messages in macOS Big Sur (and iOS 14), you can now 'mention' a person's name using the @ sign. This feature is described in Messages User Guide > Send messages > Use mentions in conversations, and on the Big Sur features page.
That's all fine and dandy when you're trying to mention someone's name. When you're just trying to enter an email address, it can be a downright nuisance. For example, if you're trying to enter bill@bobs-car-wash.com, and Bob happens to be the name of someone in the chat group, it'll automatically convert @bob into a shimmery blue capitalised 'Bob', and the comment will be directed to Bob.
I cannot find any other mention of this annoying behaviour anywhere. I guess it's reasonably unlikely for most people to stumble across (where the name of a contact is at the beginning of the domain name) and perhaps Apple didn't even consider this possibility.
Does anyone know of a way to work around this issue? (If not, I'll send feedback to Apple.)


texts: Continue writing iPhone Mail on Mac without the account configured on Mac

texts:
I have this very restrictive work e-mail account which I cannot add to my Mac (Airwatch), and I tried to write a long email with the iPhone screen shown via QuickTime and a bluetooth keyboard.

Suddenly the mail was available in the Mail app, and I was able to finish writing the mail on my Mac.

I have no idea how I made that happen (Altough I did insert an image into the mail on my phone).

Is this a feature I can activate intentionally ?


texts: How to use "open in terminal", and "two windows side by side" on mac?

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I'm a Linux user. I just bought my first Macbook but I still need some features from Linux that I think are also useful. For example:

Open in terminal (right click and choose menu to open the current folder path in terminal)
Two windows side by side (this feature from Windows.)

How can I get these features?


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I have the new iMac 21,5" and a Samsung G3 Station 1,5TB external HDD. When I plug my HDD, connecting to energy and via USB, no problems, Mac OS recognizes it and I can use it normally. The problem appears when I put my computer to sleep. When it wakes up, my HDD was unmounted and to use it again I have to remove USB cable and reinsert it.
This is annoying me. I have looking for suggestions or improvements to put it work better, but no idea.
If you have any ideas, please let me know.

Additional Information:

Snow Leopard 10.6.8;
On restart it works;
Disk utility cannot see HDD after it wakes up;
My HDD is formatted on NTFS. I don't know exactly, but it could be part of the issue. Unfortunatelly I can't format it to HFS+ or FAT32. My files and backup are all there.


texts: How to search by coordinates in Apple Maps?

texts:
Using google maps, looking for N45°11.760 E5°45.936 works to show the geolocation on a map.

Unfortunately this does not work on Maps.

Any idea how to do it ?


texts: Would and SSD or RAM be the better upgrade in this situation?

texts:
I feel I'm making this post more for validation than anything, but I want to get some of your opinions as well.

My friend contacted me the other day asking how she could make her MacBook Pro run a bit faster. I had her send me a screenshot of what she has and it's a Mid 2009 MBP with 4GB of RAM. I had her send me a screenshot of activity monitor and it shows she was using 8 MB of swap. In my mind, she is going to see a better performance boost from upgrading to an SSD instead of RAM, here's why:

Her swap memory is already pretty low. Now, she is running 10.10.1, which is more RAM hungry, but that's the beauty of an SSD. Even if she does need more RAM, her swap will be much more efficient because it's on an SSD. And, when it's not needing it, any read/writes will be exponentially faster than the current 5400 rpm 320 GB drive she has now.

She talked to her brother who said to her "upgrading to an SSD you won't see a difference unless you game." Which I then let her know is complete and utter.... you know. So I decided she could upgrade to 6GB of RAM for cheap and then get an SSD all for under $250. She told me that would be her ceiling.

Tonight she told me that because of what her brother said and another friend of hers said she is going to get a 1TB spinning drive and 8GB of RAM but she still wants me to help install it. I think a 1TB is honestly a terrible idea since that will most likely make read/writes slower, but that's just me.

So tell me... do you think my logic is faulty? Is more RAM really going to be a huge upgrade for her? Or am I making sense by thinking "if swap is needed, it's better it be from an SSD than get more ram that you aren't using in the first place?"


texts:
Does anyone know how to sync/open an already shared calendar on outlook for Mac onto my iCal?
I have a shared calendar on my outlook for Mac (not Outlook 2016), but I need to open and sync that cal to my ical.


texts: View passwords of all Wi-Fi networks my Mac has connected to in the past

texts: I have connected my Mac to lots of public Wi-Fi networks. I want to know their passwords. What should be the terminal command to list all the Wi-Fi networks whom I connected with in the past with their passwords.


texts: Free space on hard drive going up and down too much

texts:
On my laptop with macOS Sierra 10.12.5 (but it was happening with previous versions of the OS too), I get pinged by the system that I have only a few GBs left, I clean up, reboot, go from 4 GB left to 30 GB left, and within a couple of days, not doing anything special (not downloading movies or anything space-hungry), I get told again I have only 4 GB left ... I went through that cycle a few times now, and I'm wondering what could be causing that behavior, and how I could stop it. Any idea or pointers to what I should look at on my HDD to try and understand this? (sleep images, sparse bundles...)

Note: this question is not about using a disk inventory app to find the large files that take up too much space on my HDD. What I am interested in is why I got from 30 GB after boot to 4 GB without installing anything on my Mac. I want to understand which process is doing that and stop it.


texts: Finder.app won't open after I edited Info.plist

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I'm on macOS Mojave 10.14.3. I wanted to remove the Finder.app from the CMD+TAB, so I followed this tutorial and this solution to be able to edit the Info.plist file.

The steps I followed were:

Reboot into Recovery Mode
Run csrutil disable
Reboot into normal mode
Edit Info.plist as root
Run codesign -fs - /System/Library/CoreServices/Finder.app/ as root
Reboot into Recovery Mode
Run csrutil enable
Reboot into normal mode

After those 8 steps, I expected to get my system working normally, but without Finder.app showing up in the CMD+TAB. Instead, I got a system where I can't open Finder.app at all. When I try to open it, it will say "The application 'Finder.app' can't be opened."

So I decided to revert it, I did all the steps like before, but now I removed the additional lines from Info.plist. It didn't work, Finder.app still won't open, even after I changed Info.plist to the original state.

What can I do?


texts: How to update iPhone via iTunes without getting rid of apps that I purchased?

texts: I want to update my iPhone on iTunes but it says that it will delete all of the apps and media on my iPhone that I purchased.  I synced it but I don't know what to do next. It says it will only save my content.


texts: Can softwareupdate be used to automatically download (but not install) on the terminal?

texts: Could the Terminal command softwareupdate be used to download (but not install) any MacAppStore updates, say with a scheduled Calendar running an Automator/AppleScript script?


texts: Comfortable way to archive and log terminal input

texts:
I often want to reuse a terminal command that I already used in the past. I know two ways how to do this:

Use the "up" arrow to browse through old commands.
Copy a bunch of commands into a script.

Now I'm looking for something like an archiving tool, where I could comfortably collect useful terminal inputs. Is there something more comfortable than the "up" key or copying into scripts?


texts: I'm looking for a gps based altimeter app that records elevation to the phone. I will be out of cell range so it needs to store data on the phone.  Do you know of one?


texts: Taptic engine (trackpad) stays on after shut down from Windows 10

texts:
I have an Early 2015 Macbook Pro 13-inch Model that has 6 operating systems manually installed on it (High Sierra, Yosemite, Android x86, Windows, Ubuntu and Kali Linux). As I said, I installed Windows manually, without using the BootCamp assistant.

About 2 weeks ago, I upgraded Windows 8.1 to Windows 10. After that, I reinstalled BootCamp helper, since it was broken after the upgrade. It reinstalled successfully. It was all normal from that point.

However, yesterday I noticed that the Taptic Engine (trackpad) stayed on every time I shut down my computer when it was booted up from Windows 10 (this doesn’t happen when shut down from other OSes). Is this normal behaviour? If not, how can I fix it?

EDIT 1: I have just discovered something strange. If I shutdown Windows using Classic Shell’s shutdown button, the problem happens. But when I shut down using shutdown -s -t 0, it shuts down the computer and turns off the taptic engine too. I will disable Classic Shell and try to shutdown and tell the results.


texts:
I want to extract BSD.pkg file and pull some apache configuration file to cover my apache http.conf file.

I locate in /Library/Receipts/, But the BSD.pkg file is empty.


texts: Connect a Bluetooth keyboard as a game controller to an iPad?

texts: Is it possible to connect a Bluetooth keyboard as a game controller to an iPad?


texts: How can I open a text file with TextWrangler from the Terminal (command line)?

texts:
Often when I work in the Terminal (the command line) I need to edit some text files. I prefer to edit text files using TextWrangler.

How can I open a text file with TextWrangler from the Terminal?

I tried with /Applications/TextWrangler.app/ my_text_file.txt but it doesn't work since TextWrangler.app/ is a directory.


texts: Are macOS Spotlight privacy settings shared between parallel installs?

texts:
I have two independent copies of macOS Catalina installed on two different disk partitions.

Somehow, when I change Spotlight privacy settings in one of them, same settings and up applying into another system after I boot it up.

How is that possible and how can I fix it?


texts:
Ive connected 2 macs via ethernet "connect to server" using this method:
Send very large files through Ethernet between two Mac computers
I was able to connect and browse and use all the files on the shared computer, however once I connect to some sites on chrome I get the ERR_PROXY_CONNECTION_FAILED.
facebook, gmail, instagram all work fine while the macs are connected but a wordpress site and even 2 of my local NYC newspapers give me the ERR.
The second I unplug the ethernet cable from the shared mac, the pages all load.
How can I access both the sever mac files AND avoid the proxy errs.
(the server mac would be using wifi since the ethernet port is used to connect to the host mac) but either on the host or server mac, while plugged in, certain pages get the ERR.
Thanks
Rob


texts: Macbook pro 15" keyboard freezes only function keys work

texts:
I am facing a very weird problem with my MacBook Pro 15". I was working in Xcode 4.2 and when I option-click in simulator (to simulate multi tap) my keyboard stops working.  The weird thing is that only the a-z and 0-9 keys are not working...

By the way I am using a bluetooth mouse... and recently updated my system to MacBook Pro EFI firmware update and I am running OS X 10.7.2 Lion.

I had to restart my system to get the keyboard functionality back.

Is this a bug in the OS? How can I get rid of this problem?

Thanks in advance


texts: iOS Simulator installed apps location in Xcode 4.3.1

texts:
Where can I find the apps installed on the iOS Simulator?

I am running Xcode 4.3.1. I have found the location of the simulator at

/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/iPhoneSimulator.platform/Developer/Applications/iPhone Simulator.app

but for the life of me I can't find the installed apps.


texts: Can my Time Capsule assign an IP address based on client's MAC address?

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I need for the machines in my LAN to have static (by which I mean constant) private IP addresses.  Is it possible to configure the Time Capsule to assign IP address based on MAC address, so the hosts can simply use DHCP and get the same address each time?

(Note: I'm only concerned with the private IP addresses - 192.168.1.*.  Not with my TC's WAN address.)


texts:
Open/Save dialogs on my Mac (macOS 10.14.1) delay about 0.5 to 1 seconds.

How do I change this delay to zero seconds?


texts: The WiFi in my iPhone has stopped working. I tried turning it off and on, and resetting the network but it didn't work. Also my WiFi at home is fine so I think it's the iPhone.  Can anyone help?


texts: Apple ID or password is incorrect when restoring purchases from another Apple ID

texts:
I am having issues with trying to use software I purchased from the Mac App Store. I have two Apple IDs: one personal Apple ID that I've been using for years (an iCloud account) and a new Apple ID that was created when I set up my company-provided Macbook. The "company" Apple ID is associated with my work email, and is the primary Apple ID for my OS X user on my work laptop.

I was using software on the work laptop which I had purchased under my personal Apple ID (because I had paid for it myself; my work Apple ID does not even have a payment method associated with it) and everything was fine until the App Store updated this application.

After the automatic update, the application was back in "free trial" mode. When I clicked "Restore Purchases" I was asked to sign in:

  Sign in to download from the App Store
  Enter the password for your Apple ID.

However after signing in with my personal Apple ID I was told the password was incorrect. I'm 100% sure the password was correct.

  Your Apple ID or password is incorrect

What's really odd is that *after I click Cancel_ I get a second dialog asking me t sign in, but this time it recognizes that I need to use a second Apple ID.

  Sign in to use this application on this computer
  "App name" was purchased using the app store on another computer.
  To use "app name" on this computer, sign in using the Apple ID and
  password used to purchase it.

But even after signing in (and yes, I am sure the Apple ID and password were typed correctly!) I still get (in red)

  Your Apple ID or password is incorrect

I am using Mac OS X 10.15.2 Catalina. I have signed in and out of the App store using both Apple IDs and even added my personal Apple ID as an iCloud account on the work MacBook, but nothing seems to resolve this issue.


texts: How to view CPU clock rate in GHz or MHz?

texts:
I am looking to get the new 12″ MacBook and as a result I would like to know the clock speed (in GHz) my current MacBook Air (late 2010) is running at so I know the processor on the MacBook will cope.

At the moment I know my processor running at the lowest frequency is 1.86GHz (as shown in System Information) and when I look in Activity Monitor as suggested here it only shows me the CPU usage and not the current clock speed. I have also looked at this suggestion but again it does not show me my processing frequency.

The reason why I want to find out the current speed my MacBook Air is running at is because Turbo Charge (explained here) can have it's clock run at various speeds from moment to moment. I have also tried Intel's power gadget software as suggested by @grgarside however my Air's CPU is not supported as shown here.


texts: Macbook Pro 15" (Early 2011) Black screen on boot

texts:
Hope there is someone that can help me, i've tried EVERYTHING. A week ago my other MBP broke, so I knew I had the old 2011 one, but when I charged it up and booted, nothing happened...the computer made the sound that it's on but nothing came on the screen, completely black. I took it to Apple repair shop, there they told me that the problem is in GPU. I googled it A LOT and it seems that it's a common problem with the 2011 MBP's. I read somewhere that it has 2 GPUS, one is the AMD and other is Intel Graphics and the AMD one is with the problem, so I even tried to change the GPU from AMD to Intel on boot, but it's quite hard to do when the screen is black and you can't see anything. Also tried to connect to external monitor so maybe I could see something through that, but nope, says 'No Signal' on monitor.

Is there anything else to do or is the only way to change the Logic Board?
Thanks.


texts: How long before WWDC are old models usually put on sale?

texts: I used to work as a salesperson at an Apple retailer. I remember that prior to WWDC Apple usually changed the target price on old computers before the new computers were launched. (I guess they are easier to sell before the new models come out). Are there any statistics when this usually happens and how much those prices change?


texts: iMessages on macOS showing showing prior sent message in the text field

texts: Sometimes when I open iMessages on my MacBook I'll find that a previously sent message is still in the text field as though I haven't sent it. It's inconsistent, I don't know how to reproduce it. I'm wondering if this is a bug somehow. Even if additional messages have sent since, it's remembering something previously typed in the field (as though it's caching it). Any ideas on how to prevent?


texts:
I installed a new bootcamp after a month and it worked fine, then I realized that I have low VRAM usage (128mb) and I tried to change it but failed but still everything was going fine until I closed my pc for a day.
After starting up again I couldn't open windows 10, it went black screen after the blue windows logo and i couldnt even open the task manager. I can change to my mac partition and use OS X but windows 10 is unusable. How can I fix this through OS X?


texts:
I am thinking about buying an iPad. I live in Germany.

From a past job, I have a gift card with Amazon USA. I would like to buy the iPad from there.

Customs issues aside, is the pre-installed iOS on an US-bought iPad capable of switching its language to German?

Are there other localization issues I need to be aware of? The most obvious one, the keyboard, isn't present in this case. Are there any other other possible problems I might run into?


texts: During jailbreaking iPhone 4 shuts down and can't start again

texts: I have an iPhone 4 which I tried to install Cydia on, and everything worked well. However, when I tried to put it in DFU mode, it shuts down. I attempt to power it back up but nothing happens. What could be causing this problem?


texts: Pages '09 flags file as modified after printing

texts:
I'm using Pages '09 with Mountain Lion (10.8.3).

Every time I open a file to just print it and don't make any modifications, Pages '09 flags it as modified.

If I just want to close ⌘+W this file, and to be sure I didn't make any unwanted modifications, I get this window:

.

The first choice makes me think I made an unwanted modification.
The third one is inappropriate if I didn't made modifications.
The second choice bring me back to the same state: document to close
and next the same warning window.

Is there an easy way to suppress this irrelevant warning window in such
a case, i.e. when I didn't made any modification and such a warning window is neither necessary nor usefull.

Is this bug fixed in any recent version of Pages?


texts: Typing in safari all of a sudden moves to a new textbox

texts:
Possible Duplicate:
  Why is this bar appearing in Safari?

Sometimes when I'm typing in (Japanese) a text box in the safari browser, all of a sudden a new thin text window appears in the bottom left corner and my typed text is transfered there. This box has no title or anything, just a minimize icon.

After that I can't type anywhere else. I have to close this text box and the tab I was working on. Only after I open a new tab does this problem to go away. What the heck is going on and how do I stop it?

You can see why I've had trouble googling this >_<


texts: Viewer for pdflatex/beamer presentation with reload and without blurry transitions

texts:
When using pdflatex to create a beamer presentation and then viewing it in Preview.app (single page or fullscreen mode), page transitions are blurry: when going to the next slide, a blurry/low-resolution version shows for about one second before it becomes sharp. This appears to be the case for all PDFKit-based viewers, e.g. also Skim.

Acrobat Reader does not suffer from this problem. On the other hand, it doesn't support reloading the underlying document when it has changed. So one has to close and reopen the file every time a change is made to the latex document, which is painful.

Is there a viewer for pdflatex/beamer presentations that doesn't do blurry transitions, but supports reloading?


texts: Why is file sharing missing from sharing preferences?

texts:
File sharing is not an option for me under 'sharing'.

The image above illustrates the lack of file sharing, but I do have the following items:

dvd or cd sharing
screen sharing
scanner sharing
remote login
remote management
remote apple events
bluetooth sharing

Any idea why certain macs have different items in the sharing pane?


texts:
I just purchased the Crosair Vengeance 2100 headset to use with Steam on OS X (Mountain Lion) and to use with Skype.

I can get the headset to be detected by OS X and set it up as a sound device but after a few minutes the audio and mic cut out with the only way to reset it is to pull the USB adapter out and put it back in (and then go reset the output devices in OS X).

Has anyone been able to get it to properly work on OS X?

Thanks.


texts: Backup files in internet recovery mode: cp command errors

texts:
I'm currently trying to backup files from my MacBook Pro (2011) to an external hard drive in internet recovery mode (my laptop has been stuck on the bootscreen for the past 2 days, I think the hard drive is failing).
In order to do so, I've been trying to use cp commands in the Terminal, but I keep receiving the error message "no such file or directory".
Here are the commands I've run (I used the information here to guide myself) :
cp -r "/Volumes/Macintosh HD/Users/myusername/Documents/" "/Volumes/nameofextHD/"
cp -r "/Volumes/Macintosh HD/Users/myusername/Desktop/" "/Volumes/nameofextHD/"
cp -r "/Volumes/Macintosh HD/Users/myusername/Pictures/"*.jpg "/Volumes/nameofextHD/"
I'm wondering if anyone could help me fix these cp commands please?
Thank you very much!


texts: Is there a way to get the OSX battery icon to display both percentage and time?

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I am working on a 2006 MacBook with Snow Leopard.

The battery level indicator has the option to show Time or Percentage remaining. I would like to show both.

Is there a way to enable this?
or
Can you recommend an app that will do it?


texts: What is the best way to backup epub and pdf books in iBooks?

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If you are going to format your computer, and you are running OSX 10.10 or newer, what is the best way to backup epubs and pdfs that weren't purchased from the iTunes store?

I have a lot of books, exporting them one by one could take a long time.
I'd ideally like to preserve highlighting and bookmarks.

Google unfortunately returns surprisingly little information on how to backup ibooks.


texts: Use another Macbook Pro with touchbar as secondary screen

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I have two MacBook Pros with touch-bar (with USB-C ports of course), and I wanted to know if there is a chance to use this other MacBook as secondary screen.

I tried to connect them together by plugging USB-C cable in both, but I don't see Arrangement tab in Display settings. Am I missing something, like software solution?


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I would like to make a Google search with an AppleScript. The code looks like this:

set search to text returned of (display dialog "Google Search" buttons {"OK"} default answer {""})
open location ("https://www.google.de/#q=" & search)

The problem is, how can I change the spaces to a +?


texts: Mouse click event being fired on right mouse-down AND right mouse-up

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I've run into an interesting issue while trying to migrate to MacOS.

Whenever I go to right-click something, a click event will be fired on the initial mouse-down event, and then a click event will be fired on the mouse-up event.

As an example, you can right click (hold the click down) to bring up a context menu, and then release the click while hovering over a menu item, and the menu item will be clicked.

Is there a way to force the OS to wait for a mouse-up event before it fires another click event?

It's frustrating coming from Linux and Windows environments that wait until a mouse-down AND mouse-up complete before firing a click.


texts: Is it possible to sync iTunes U feeds with non-Apple devices?


texts: Is there a detailed activity log on Mac OS X that lists my recent commands and actions?

texts: How can I see what I just did on my computer? For example, an activity log showing that I copied a file from here to there?


texts: Using iMac in Target Display Mode with a MacBook Pro

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I'd like to use my old iMac (27-inch, Late 2012) as an external display for my old MacBook Pro (13-inch, Mid 2009).

The hard drive in the iMac is failing, so until I get it replaced, I've installed MacOS Mojave to a thumb drive.  I'm able to boot the iMac, no problem.

However, when I connect the iMac to the MacBook Pro and press Command-F2, nothing happens.

I know the iMac supports Target Display Mode, because I used to use it for that when connecting to my old work laptop.

It's the same cable I used to use, so it's not a cable problem.

I've successfully driven my LG monitor using the Mini Display Port on the MacBook Pro, so I'm pretty sure the port is fully operational.

What could be stopping it from working?

Is there anything about booting Mojave from an external flash drive that might stop Target Display Mode from working?

Or is it possible that the MacBook Pro just can't handle driving that particular display?

Any suggestions on how to get this working?


texts: How to tell PackageMaker to Execute a bash script after installation

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I'm creating a new Installer using PackageMaker. I need to run a bash script after the installation is complete.

In the "Contents" column I have a folder, which is the folder I want to be installed on the target machine. Within the folder, there's a bash file I need to execute.

If I click on the distribution properties and go to actions, I can "open" a file as a "postinstall action", but it won't execute the script.

If I click on the Content::folder and go to "scripts", pick the directory containing the script and put the script name as "postinstall", I get a "could not copy scripts" error.

What am I doing wrong?


texts: If I encrypt my HD using FireVault, what happens to my (previously unencrypted) TimeMachine backups?

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As title goes ... I've been using TimeMachine for a while now and it contains a few months worth of backups. I went ahead and encrypted my disk using FireVault.

How does this affect my backups?

PS: I realize that I can just delete them and have TM start anew. But I am curious.