texts:
I installed the "Android File Transfer" to move some data. So far so good.

But there is one issue annoying me. Every time I connect my mobile via USB, the Mac changes to the main desktop and opens the "File Transfer" app.

So, is there a possibility to bear it down? I couldn't find any option to change it.
...the connection is not very stable, so every time I touch my mobile it dis- and reconnect and push the window.


texts: Terminal: Is there a way to be notified of activity when tailing an error log

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I often ssh into a machine and tail -f it's php error log. My ideal situation would be to leave this terminal window open in the background, but when there's activity from the tail command, have the terminal window be activated and moved to front, or notify me in some way that an error has been written. This way I wouldn't have to always keep space on my desktop reserved.

Does this make sense?


texts: Implement feature not available in Parental Controls?

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I would like to use (or write) a timer that I can setup to use with my kids on Mac OS X (Yosemite). The functionality which I would like, which I haven't found off the shelf is:

Set the timer for a period, T (e.g. 20 mins)
Print a warning to the screen at T-n (e.g 17 mins)
Lock the computer at 20 mins
Unlock with administrator access only

I've experimented with pmset schedule but it allows the user to override.

Parental controls as currently implemented don't work for this as we want to split their time into smaller units, and more than one kid uses the same login (and I've read that this feature is buggy under Yosemite)

This timer could be started via the command line or graphically.


texts: Maverick and adobe CS6 - is there any definitive answer?

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I'm on an iMac 2.7GHz i5, 16Gb RAM 1600MHz, mountain lion.
I use regularly licenced CS6, especially photoshop, illustrator and acrobat pro.

I'd like to upgrade to mavericks, but frankly, on the web there are too much rumors that this or that won't work then... I use my imac to work, I'm a freelance web developer, so I cannot have problems on my machine. It must work.

So, is there any DEFINITE answer to this issue? Apart to definitely stop using adobe products (I'll do it..).

thank you!


texts: Any way to force Macbook to display resolution above its native resolution?

texts:
This seems to be a duplicate of this question.  I'm not sure if I should reply to that question to "bump" it to the top, or if it is acceptable to "repost" a similar question if the previous question has not been satisfactorily answered after more than 5 years.
Anyway, in the linked question above, the commenter who tried to help seems to keep misunderstanding the original asker.  I, like the original asker, am curious as to whether it is possible to force my BUILT-IN Macbook display to run at a resolution HIGHER than its native resolution.
Now, I know that you can't create more pixels out of thin air, but as in the original question, I've seen my 1366x768 MacBook Air display mirroring a connected 4k external display, and it looks great and perfectly usable (even if the text is a bit blurry, obviously).
Is there a way to force my MacBook Air to run as a "4k" device (or anything above the native resolution) when it is not connected to an external 4k device?  I've seen that the computer can do it, so how can I make it do it on demand?


texts: How can I quickly view the dimensions of an image that I have open in Preview?  Looking at the menu options, I'm not seeing an obvious choice, such as "properties", to see such info.


texts: How to change resolution of external monitor from main monitor on Macbook Pro?

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I have a Macbook Pro with the four USB-C / thunderbolt ports, running High Sierra. I have a USB-C to DVI cable. I have tried an old 1680x1050 monitor connected it which works fine. However another 2560x1440 monitor does not; it just doesn't display anything when connected, the same as having no signal. That monitor works fine when connected to a PC at full resolution with a DVI to DVI cable.

I'm pretty sure this is because the resolution is too high for the cable. When I change it to mirror the displays in the System Preferences > Displays > Arrangement settings, I can control the resolution of the external monitor from the main laptop screen and set it to 1920x1080 and it works fine. However, as soon as I set it back to not be mirrored, the setting for the external monitor goes back to being displayed on that monitor at the max resolution where I can't see it.

Maybe I should have got a better cable, but being able to change the resolution for the time being seems like it should be really simple, but I don't seem to be able to do it.

Thanks


texts:
I have iPhone 5S and about two days ago updated to IOS 8.3 but now there are some apps that don't open like "youtube", "doulingo" or "Line" ( when I want to open youtube it is jumping out ).

Now it is appreciated if you help me to fix this issue.


texts: Why is Java SE 6 Legacy required to open Intellij?

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I currently deleted Apple Legacy Java SE6 on my macbook because I've already downloaded JRE8 on my machine and I think I no longer need the older version. After I deleted it, every time I opened Intellij it popped up a window and asked me to get Legacy Java runtime 6. In the meantime, Android Studio and Eclipse worked perfectly fine without popping up any window notifying me about the installing. So my questions are:

Is there any way I could use jre8 instead of jre6 to run Intellij?
Why does Intellij require me to install jre6 while Android Studio doesn't?
What is the benefit to install Legacy Java runtime 6?


texts: How can I tell how long Photos in Big Sur will be syncing?

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I upgraded to Big Sur several weeks ago, and since realized that my Photos library was not set to sync with iCloud.
I've toggled it back on, but the library is a little over a month behind.
Unlike earlier versions of Photos there's no indication of where it is in the syncing process. Earlier versions had a progress bar in Preferences, and would show current progress at the bottom of the library.
My Library just says "Updating" - it's been 16+ hours now. I realize it's a pretty big library (~30K items), but some idea of how long it'll be would be nice.
Any way to see progress?


texts: How does air-drop detect other air-drop devices?

texts:
It is clear from other posts that AirDrop "uses" Bluetooth Low Energy to "find" other AirDrop enabled devices. How does it do this? Specifically, how does an apple device differentiate between just another bluetooth device and one with airdrop enabled?

It could 1) try to pair with every transmitting device, 2) use the bluetooth friendly name, 3) additional data in the radio without pairing?

The BluetoothDeviceInfo structure that comes back from creating a radio on the Microsoft stack doesn't include any identifying info besides the Friendly Name: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa362924%28v=vs.85%29.aspx

The other possibility is that it tries to pair with all broadcasting bluetooth devices - but that could be slow.

Thanks for any help and/or insight!


texts: How to not show search results for the whole Mac?

texts: I am using macOS Big Sur, and notice if I use Finder and navigate to a folder, and search for a file by name, then it shows me results, but is for the whole Mac.  This is really confusing. I will have to remember to click it from "This Mac" back to "FolderName"  How do I make it search within that folder and its sub-folders by default?


texts:
Did anyone succeed in installing Mojave on the MacBook Pro 16”? It ships with Catalina but my corporate requires Mojave to connect to the corporate network.

I followed the instructions here but once I select booting from the Mojave external drive I get a “forbidden” icon and the system shuts down.


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I want to use Google Photos to back up my photos from my iPhone SE running iOS 10. I'm connected to Wi-Fi. I start the backup process and I connect my phone to power and then I lock it. It should just sit there and happily back up my photos. But if I come back to it after a few minutes, it seems like it had disconnected from Wi-Fi and that it only just reconnected after I unlocked it again. When I open the Google Photos app, it has to start backing up all over again.

How can I keep my iPhone connected to Wi-Fi while it's locked? (Like it should be!)


texts: Website won't open even after deleting SelfControl

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Possible Duplicate:
  How to disable Self Control application?

So I deleted SelfControl and when the website still didn't work I did the little terminal command things like killall SelfControl but it said no matching processes were found. I don't know if I should just wait or what. Help please!!!


texts: I just updated to iOS 5 on my iPhone 4, and now I can not edit my contacts. Where "edit" use to be is no longer there. If I type a new number on the keypad and hit add to existing contact, I can edit from there, but there is no "done" or "save". Not sure what to do.


texts:
I found scripts that lock a file w/ a specific path but none that lets me "lock the selected item/s in the Finder".
Could sb give me a hand with this?
Much appreciated.


texts: What is the best way to discover good iPhone apps?

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So I can browse the App store myself, and read ratings and reviews, but with the 100,000+ iPhone apps out there, are there better ways to do this?

Word of mouth? App review sites? Cool app-of-the-day? Any worthwhile "App-finder" apps?

Its hard to tell the difference between objective app-review/rating sites and the millions of other ad-filled spamsites out there.

So how do you find out about worthwhile apps?

(Edited to make community wiki)


texts: Prohibited sign - Can't boot after trying to open Raspian SD Card

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So I was following this tutorial https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eo4HphBdR10 and opened the folder of the SD Card. The Screen went black and I rebooted.

Now I get a Prohibited Sign on boot up.

In the Recovery mode (cmd + options + r) I see that my Macintosh HD is unmounted and repairing sais that something is wrong with the Disk.

I can't reinstall because the installer isn't finding any Disks.

What should I do ?


texts: How can I add signatures to Preview.app in Lion without using the web cam?

texts: Is it possible to add a signature e.g. from PDF files or from JPEG images instead of using a web cam? The problem is that I don't have a web cam and I would like to use this feature in spite of that.


texts:
I have a MacBook Pro 2016 15" with 256GB running macOS High Sierra. When I got the MacBook used, I was able to log in. The MacBook did not have an iCloud account linked so I linked mine up and enabled Find my Mac.

I tried to do a fresh install of macOS Sierra which cleaned out the hard drive but it says "An error occurred while preparing the installation. Try running this application again".

Disk Utility returns a code 8 for a corrupted system. Is this because I did not turn off the Find my Mac?


texts: What's the difference between the three wireless antennas in MacBook Pros?

texts: I’d like to know what each of the 3 antennas do.  I know one is a shared antenna (Bluetooth and WIFI) and that the other two are WIFI antennas.  What’s the difference? Why several WIFI antennas instead of just one?  Are ones for 5GHz and others for 2.5GHz?  Are ones for receiving and others for transmitting?


texts: Is there a way to simulate a numeric keypad on apple wireless keyboard in OSX?

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I'm tempted to get an Apple Wireless Keyboard but the lack of a number pad is a concern. I'm interested whether there is some form of software you can use where for example you hold some control keys down and you can use a set of keys like the following as a substitute numeric keypad:

7890
uiop
jkl;
m ./


texts: Import new signature without using isight

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My isight doesn't works, i use another mac for create my digital signature.

How can I import and set my signature on my mac ?

where storage it?


texts: Does iOS 7 cellular tethering limit the number of WiFi clients?

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I'm looking on Apple's site and can't find any published limits on how many clients can connect to one iPhone / iPad with cellular tethering enabled in the US.

Setting aside the obvious limit where 1,000 devices would overwhelm the data connection in practice if they all want data at the same time, is there a hardware or software limit of perhaps 5 or 10 devices that can connect to one device over WiFi?


texts: Mac Book Pro Rretina (2014) will not charge

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I accidently drained my mac book pro retina battery and now it will not charge.  The power source is adequate and there does not appear to be any debris concerning the magnetic connector.
I have left my computer plugged in for days on end.  Have I ruined the battery?


texts: I am considering resetting the PMU on my Mac, but I'm am unsure what it exactly does. I know it resets date/time, but what other settings does it wipe?


texts: How can I get Apple mail or Outlook 2011 to look up SMIME encryption certificates for users?

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I want the ability to lookup an encryption certificate for SMIME in Outlook for recipients who have SMIME certs, but I just don't have their public key.

I noticed the keychain has a directory feature.  Can I use this to add a compatible directory to lookup their public key for SMIME encryption?


texts:
I'm troubleshooting a relative's Mac and the Finder sees her "Pictures" folder as a bundle. When I right-click to see the package's content, I can see that the folder seems to have the same structure as an iPhoto Library.

What could have caused this, and how can I turn the Pictures folder back into a regular folder?

I know this is a little vague. Obviously, the person doesn't know anything about that, never realized that the pictures folder was weird, etc. So I'm kinda left in the dark too.


texts: Permanently deleting trashed files after 30 days

texts:
Gmail has a nice feature that permanently deletes e-mails after they've been in the Trash folder for 30 days. This is pretty clever, because if I don't need a trashed message back after 30 days it's very likely that I won't ever need it again.

I want to do the same for my Trash folder in OS X to make the best use of my disk space. Is there an easy way to automatically delete trashed files after 30 days?

Meta note: I don't think this is a duplicate of another thread because there the trigger is "disk space drops below X GB" and the effect is "the entire Trash folder is emptied". I only want to autodelete files older than 30 days.


texts: Did Ronald Wayne ever disclose his reasons for leaving the company so early?

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I’m curious about Apple history, and this has puzzled me for a long time.

For any Apple fans like me, it’s a famous fact that Ronald Wayne sold his share of Apple very early on for only $800. Does anyone know why he sold it? I haven’t been able to figure this one out.


texts: How to move books from iBooks on my iPhone with iTunes on Mac?

texts:
The first thing I bought was an iPhone. I have a lot of books there in iBooks. Now I would like to sync this library across my other devices: Mac and iPad. I know that the base for devices is Macbook and syncing via iTunes.

But when I connect my iPhone to Macbook, and then try to set Sync Books I got a warning:

I definitely do not want to remove them from iPhone. What should I do then?


texts:
How do I show hidden files in one directory only? I have a development folder that I'd like to see hidden files in, but I don't want to see hidden files anywhere else on my computer.

Here is the code I tried in the terminal to show all hidden files but it's not what I want. Thanks!

defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles TRUE
killall Finder


texts: How to remove autocomplete items from the TO: field in Mail?

texts:
PROBLEM:

I have bogus entries in the autocomplete cache for the TO: field in the iPad e-mail application.

QUESTION:

How do I get rid of these entries that do not correspond to real e-mail recipient addresses?


texts: How to fetch an AirPort/Wi-Fi password using /usr/bin/security

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I have been trying to use /usr/bin/security rather than hard coding login/password information into scripts. For example, here's how you get the password for 'pinboard.in'

security 2>&1 >/dev/null find-internet-password -gs pinboard.in |\
grep '^password: ' |\
sed 's#^password: "##g ; s#"$##'

(Note: Someone who is better at grep/awk can probably combine those last two lines, just be sure to consider for when a password may have a " in it — or a space.)

What I can't do is figure out how to retrieve the password for a Wi-Fi network if all I know is the SSID.

I have even tried specifying the kind of data I am looking for with -D:

security 2>&1 >/dev/null find-generic-password -D "AirPort network password" -s MySSIDhere

but all I get is this

security: SecKeychainSearchCopyNext: The specified item could not be found in the keychain.

All I have found via Google has been about adding SSID password information on the CLI, but I want to retrieve it.


texts: NeoOffice extremely slow in Mac OS X 10.6.5

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I've installed the latest version of NeoOffice 3.2.1 on my May, 2010 2.66 GHz Core i7 MacBook Pro running Mac OS X 10.6.5 (8.0 GB RAM).

Regardless of what I do, whether its Writer, Calc, or Impress, the application's response has been extremely "laggy", (i.e. the exact opposite of snappy...can't think of a good word for it). It always takes close to a second before anything responds to a mouse click, and moving/resizing images is a pain also because the response is so slow.

Question: Is this typical OpenOffice.org/NeoOffice behavior in Mac OS X? Or is there a way to optimise its performance? I doubt it's my hardware being insufficient!


texts: iPhone 4S Otterbox Defender: Exposed speaker? Advice?

texts:
While I'm waiting for my iPhone 4S to come in, I'm agonizing over what kind of case to get. I've been quite well served by my Otterbox Defender for my old 3GS; the phone has bitten the dust once or twice but the phone doesn't have a single scratch to show for it.

I'm concerned, however, about the pictures of the case on Otterbox's website. It looks like the entire earpiece, perhaps along with the entire camera lens area, are exposed to the air. Someone asked about this on that page's Q&A section, and that's the only question so far that's been ignored.

I'm worried that dust and dirt are going to be able to get inside the case and stay trapped there, possibly damaging the device and hurting its later resale value more than if I just use a different, less protective case altogether. Of course, nothing hurts a device's resale value more than being dropped and broken.

So I ask you wonderful people: Do any of you have experience with this latest Otterbox Defender? Is  the speaker or the camera lens actually exposed to the air, or is there some protection there that I can't tell from the pictures? Are there any other considerations I should make before making my decision?


texts: Why does my MacBook Pro die without warning?

texts:
I have a MacBook Pro (about 18mts old) which has recently started to inexplicably die without warning. I'm running it on battery and, yes, it's getting close to the bottom end (between 10 and 25%). In the past I would get to about 10 minutes of life left and the "Reserve Battery" warning dialog would pop up and let me know that I'd better get on the adapter.

Not any more.

Now it gets to about 25% and then plik! it's black screen and dead. Instantly. No warning, nothing.

Some details about the Mac

Hardware: 2.5Ghz Intel Core 2 Duo 4Gb, 667Mhz DDR2 SDRAM
Software: 10.5.8
Model: 4.1
Boot ROM: MBP4.1.00C1.B03

Following advice from @Alex, I've checked the system logs (Console) and disk verification tool (Disk Utility) but they both come up clean. Apart from the instant death at low battery, there are no other dubious intermittent faults.

Edit to cover suggestions so far

Many thanks to all who have taken the time to address this issue. I've summarised the answers so far:

Look at the battery cycle count (About this Mac | More Info | Hardware - Power - Battery Information) - @glenstorey
Recalibrate the battery - @Lawrence Velázquez
Check hardware (RAM seating, hard disk etc) - @Alex

Final result

The whole thing about battery cycles being guaranteed by Apple appears to be a myth (at least the bods at my Apple Store were unaware of it). So I changed the battery and all was fixed. Back to normal.


texts: Could not login into Facetime and Message 10.8.2

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I did a clean install of Mountain Lion 10.8.2 on my MacBook Pro. Now I am facing some problem while loggin into Facetime and Message (could not sign in please check your network connection and try again). In console I am getting this message.

  apsd: Certificate not yet generated


texts: fn key + top row of function keys unresponsive

texts:
I have one of the new Apple Magic Keyboards. Magically, none of the function keys on the top of the keyboard, nor the fn key on the lower-left of the keyboard are responding when it's paired with my MacBook Pro (2012), running El Capitan. It works when paired with a different MacBook Pro, though.

Also, I had an older Apple wireless keyboard that suddenly started exhibiting the same behavior, which is what prompted me to buy this new one in the first place. So it looks like a software thing on this particular Mac. Any suggestions? I'm guessing I need to trash some keyboard prefs, but I'm not seeing anything that looks obvious in my ~/Library folder.

EDIT: Just adding that I tried in the Guest User account, and had the same issues. I then tried restarting in Safe Mode, and the keyboard worked fine, once I plugged it in via the Lightning Cable and paired it with the computer. So it's something borked on the system level, but again, I'm not sure what preference file to zap. Will keep looking!


texts: iTunes Store - Use My Credit Card Not Store Credit For A Gifted Item

texts:
I have some store credit on my iTunes account that I got couple months ago and am gifting a film on iTunes for my sisters birthday..
If i gift the film does the cost come off my store credit or my credit card?


texts: Creating a script that will execute a program and if it exits without crashing, will run it again

texts:
I've already asked this question in the UNIx exchange but I was told to ask here also about AppleScripts if the standard shell does not work.

I require a script that will open an application. Wait for it to exit, if the application exited gracefully (I.E: did not crash) relaunch it. Otherwise, keep the crash report open and exit the script. I'd like this script to run until I quit it manually.

So far the following has been suggested:

while open -W /path/to/application.app
do
    :
done

But this opens the application and then either on crash or exit will automatically run it again. I assume this is because open regardless of waiting or not will terminate with a normal 0 exit code. Unless of course open crashes but in this case it will not.

Any assistance with this is appreciated.

Thanks.


texts:
I have a jailbreaked iPhone 4 and I updated from version 5 to v6 in wifi.

The screen shows only the recovery mode, but when I connect it to iTunes, it detects the iPhone but needs to update it.

When I restore it to the last version or to v6 I get a restore error 2009

I tried with 2 different computers (win7-8) and 2 different cables, but I still get this 2009 error.

I tried to enter DFU mode with redsnow but it didn't work, as the power button doesn't work, and it showed again the recovery mode.

Any thought ?


texts: Find-my-iphone without internet connection

texts:
Will "Find My Iphone" work without wifi connection?
For instance, if someone were to steal my iPod they wouldn't be able to connect it without my passcode on the lock screen. And if they can figure out my passcode, what if they don't connect it to the internet? Would the app still work?


texts: Configure mail client for Adobe Acrobat plugin 9.4.0

texts:
Adobe Acrobat plugin 9.4.0 has File | Attach to Email ..., but selecting it yields the following:

  The SendMail doesn't know how to talk
  to your default mail client.  Please
  select a different mail application to
  use.

How does the user select which mail application for SendMail to use, and which mail applications does SendMail know how to use?


texts: store local1 syslog messages in /var/log/local1.log

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I would like to have syslog messages for the local1 facility stored in a file /var/log/local1.log. I've tried managing /etc/asl.conf but can't figure out how to modify it. It seems that Apple is no longer using a standard syslog or rsyslog.

I tried the approach described in Why is syslog not logging where I tell it to log? and it no longer works.

Is it even possible to do this anymore under MacOS? If not, is there a simple how-to that shows how to log to local1 and get the log messages?


texts: What's Firefox's default browser helper plugin?

texts:
On a freshly installed Firefox there is a plugin named:

  Default Browser Helper 537

It seems to be something from Apple but i couldn't find more information about it.

What is it and why it there?
Do we need it?

OS X 10.9 (and 10.9.1)
Firefox 25.0.1 (and 26)


texts: How do I actually disable Wi-Fi or Bluetooth in iOS 11 Control Center?

texts:
In iOS 11, I can't disable Bluetooth or Wi-Fi using the redesigned Control Center. It disconnects from any Bluetooth/Wi-Fi devices but the radios are still on, draining battery. It also doesn't disable AirDrop either. If I disable Bluetooth or Wi-Fi using settings this shows:

How can I quickly disable Bluetooth/Wi-Fi without having to go to settings?


texts: significant eye sight drop from using Macbook Pro retina

texts:
I've been using the Macbook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, late 2013 model) for 1.5 years now, and I've noticed my eye sight has dropped significantly since then. The time I spent on computer was the same as before (about 14 hours/day, I'm a programmer). Before this, I was using a desktop with mid-tier screen, and had no problem. Now my eyes get easily tired and strained after 30 minutes of looking at the Macbook screen.

If you have experienced similar problems, I would really appreciate if you can share any advice about it, and possibly solutions? My work is on programming, it hard for me to switch to another career :s

Thanks!


texts: Tethering: Tell iPad to treat Wifi connection as mobile data?

texts:
I am regularily tethering from my phone to my iPad. Basically this works fine -- except that, being on wifi, the iPad or various apps treat the data connection as if it was a flatrate. The same would probably apply when being in places, that apply a narrow data usage limit to their connections.

Is there some way to tell and iPad (mini) to consider certain Wifi networks as mobile data connection?

Update: I strongly prefer non-jailbreak solutions. if you know a jailbreak-only solution, please still state it for completeness, but I probably will not use it.


texts:
From last Monday I have this display issue:

MacBook Pro (13-inch, 2018, Four Thundebolt 3 Ports)
Intel Iris Plus Graphics 655 1536 MB
macOS Catalina 10.15.3

Tried all the reset recommendations but no effect.

What's interesting is that these lines track graphical elements and widgets in the user interface, for example when scrolling a web page.

On an external monitor, there are no such occurrences.

Is there any fix for this?


texts: How do I get the Unicode code of a character from the Character Viewer?

texts:
I recall that the Character Viewer showed me the Unicode value of any character I selected, but now it doesn't show it anymore.

How do I make it show the Unicode value as before?

If that makes any difference, I am using Mac OS X 10.7.3.


texts:
As I asked in this post, I could make it that a file in a directory can be renamed automatically, but I have some questions about this action.

Where to the workflow files are copied? When I run 'save as', it doesn't seem to show the directory where the file is copied.
How is this folder action stored and restored so that it runs automatically when system reboots? In other words, I guess I don't have to rerun automator whenever I reboot, how does this possible?

ADDED

I found that the automator workflow is stored in "~/Library/Workflows/Applications/Folder Actions/"
I also found that folder action from automator workflow is also registered by running "/System/Library/CoreServices/Folder Actions Setup.app"


texts: I would like to delete all the contents on my Iphone but the LCD and touch sensitivity is gone. What should I do?

texts: I already did a back up before and now I would like to delete all the contents on my iPhone, but the LCD and touch sensitivity accidentally went gone and blacked out. What should I do? Before the exchange of the new Phone from the Phone company to the old broken one. I would appreciate it if someone could teach me on how to delete all the contents. :)


texts: Buying used Mac mini to run latest Xcode

texts:
I want to get into iOS development, but unfortunately my laptop is running Windows 10 and I don't want to deal with virtual machines and other headaches related to developing with Xcode on Windows. I want to develop for iOS in a native apple environment. I also want it to run the newest version of Xcode.

So I've decided I will buy a used Mac mini, but I don't know exactly which is and isn't necessary. Also, I don't want to deal with buying a lower end Mac mini (one which doesn't fit the requirements) and upgrading it myself, since I have never done anything like that before and I don't need crazy computer power anyway. So basically....

How much memory do I need? How much memory does Xcode take up? Xcode is basically the only thing I will need on there, iOS development stuff only.

How much ram does it need to run comfortably? obviously not 1 or 2 GB like some older ones, does 4 GB or 8 GB work?

All the other computer terms like 2.26GHz Core2Duo and 128 GB SSD, are those relevant for my needs? If so are they enough?

I don't have a budget but I would ideally like to spend around 300ish including price of mac mini, monitor, keyboard and mouse.

Any help is appreciated.


texts: Does (High) Sierra set a higher bar for menu bar apps?

texts:
Previously with El Capitan, an app such as smcFanControl (2.6) could furrow in an obscure way into the OS.

Has something changed in either Sierra or High Sierra? After sleeping and waking up, the same app (in the same version) now requires re-entering the sudo password, or otherwise it fails to run in the menu bar.


texts:
I changed a username in Yosemite, and now everything under that username is wrecked.

Chrome won't work at all, saying it can't read or write to a data file.
All of my son's Minecraft data is lost, and the minecraft launcher won't run, saying something about Java not being able to set up a directory.

Both these things run fine under all other usernames.  Also, I can't establish Read/Write permissions for any folders at all, though the problem username is an admin account, and I have all the passwords to unlock the permissions manually and changed them in the "get info" area, and have changed them many times, the change never sticks.

I have tried Repair permissions, in the disk utility, and that hasn't worked either. How can I salvage Minecraft or possibly all user data?


texts: How do you add the resolution icon to the top menu bar on the Macbook Pro (retina)

texts:
I just got a MacBook pro retina to replace my old Macbook Pro.
I no longer see the screen resolution icon at the top icon bar, (where the Wifi, audio, Backup, etc Icons reside)

Do you know how to add that?


texts: What cable/adapter should I buy to connect a MacBook Pro's Thunderbolt port to a TV via HDMI?

texts: I have a late 2011 15" MacBook Pro with Thunderbolt/mini DisplayPort. What cable do I need which will transmit both audio AND video?


texts:
Can we use this technology on Macs?

Intel's WiDi software is only for Windows users.


texts: How loud a noise can MacBook Air speakers produce?

texts:
I can find official documentation about how loud the operating noise on a MacBook Air is

and information about the speakers

but no official documentation about how loud the speakers can be. Is there any official report from Apple about the maximum amount of decibels the speakers on any of its computers can produce? If not, what would be the best way to answer this question?


texts:
I wanted to remove the NTFS support I installed using Tuxera NTFS. When I checked out my preference pane, the option seems to have been greyed out. How do I uninstall it now?

I tried disabling it but still the "Uninstall Tuxera NTFS" was only greyed out.

Running - macOS 10.12


texts: Burn several hours of video to DVD using iDVD?

texts:
I've got a movie in iMove and I'd like to burn it to DVD. I used the "iDVD" export option in iMovie, but then iDVD refused to burn the DVD on the grounds that the DVD didn't have enough space.

How do I burn a few hours (~5 GB) of video to a DVD? I'm okay lowering the quality a bit, if I knew where in iMovie or iDVD to do so.


texts: What happens when a distribution certificate expires or revoked?

texts:
My app is already in App Store. Now my distribution certificate is expired. I know my app in App Store will continue running, but my questions are:

If now I have a bug fix in my app, does it mean I am not able to submit the updated app to App Store since my distribution certificate expired?
If I renew the distribution certificate, my understanding is that it is identical as revoke the distribution certificate and create a new distribution certificate, am I right?
If the answer to my 2nd question is "Yes", does it mean in future when I see my distribution certificate is expiring soon, I just revoke it and create a new one for existing app in App Store, am I right?


texts: Alternative to iTunes for managing videos?

texts:
I'm getting tired of fighting with Apple's iTunes to get it to play my non-iTunes media. I've tried the 32-bit trick, and MOV files I remove from the library and add back no longer show up in the Movies or TV Shows categories, so that trick fails, as well.

Every time there's an update, Apple breaks support for AVI, MP4 and — most recently — MOV files not purchased from Apple's iTunes store. So what alternatives to iTunes exist that manage to support a mix of media that Apple now seems to go out of its way to break?


texts:
I have Catalina 10.15, Music 1.0.0.426 (the Catalina music player), on a MacBook Air 13".

When the song changes, the equalizer settings change.  I don't mean that the sliders move; they are where I left them.  But the sound changes.  (I set the bass high, and the difference is very noticeable.)

Then if I make any change to the equalizer--choose a different preset, or move one of the sliders a little bit--the sound changes back to what I intended.  (i.e. it changes to the setting that I have newly chosen--which is usually pretty similar to what I had before the song changed.)  The updated sound setting lasts until the end of the song, it seems, and then I have to fix it again.

I don't know what sound configuration it's going back to when the song changes, but it's not the Flat setting.

This is pretty clearly a bug, and hopefully it will be fixed soon.  (I submitted a comment on the Apple feedback page, but who knows whether that has any effect.)

In the mean time, does anybody know of a workaround?  Is there is some setting that will stop this behavior from occurring?


texts:
I have been having trouble installing OS X Mavericks and I think I found the problem. It told me I couldn't boot up with Macintosh HD, so I verified my disk and I got this error: This disk doesn't contain an EFI system partition

So I figured out I can create one like this (tell me if I'm wrong): sudo gpt add -b 40 -i 1 -s 409600 -t C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B disk0 from this question, but they also said the "index" must be 1, so I can't have anything at that index.

I ran diskutil list and this is the output:

/dev/disk0
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *250.1 GB   disk0
   1:                  Apple_HFS Macintosh HD            233.0 GB   disk0s1
   2:                 Linux Swap                         4.0 GB     disk0s2

So I need to figure out how to move the indexes of Macintosh HD and that Linux Swap thing to indexes 2 and 3 instead of 1 and 2.

I don't know if this can be done without wiping and formatting my hard drive which I don't want to do, but if it can I would love to know how. Thanks!

By the way I'm on OS X mountain lion


texts: I tried using iTunes, but it only seems to have downloads for iPhone and iPad only. How can I get a version I can play on my iMac?


texts: Extern drive is owned by everybody? How do I fix this?

texts:
We have a MacOS X Lion server with a 140TB external RAID array mounted via a Fibre Channel interface. Whenever anybody logs in, it appears that they own all of the files. How do we set it up so that the partition is mounted by the system on boot and ownership doesn't change to whomever is logged in?  We also see this strange behavior when people "ssh" into the server:

08:58 jjj:/corp$ ls -l
total 15104
drwxr-xr-x+ 3 candy7  candy7       102 Mar 12 21:52 junky/
drwxrwxr-x+ 9 candy7  candy7       306 Mar 12 15:43 mist/
08:58 jjj:/corp$ sudo bash
root@jjj:/Volumes/Active01/corp# ls -l
total 15232
drwxr-xr-x+ 3 _unknown  _unknown       102 Mar 12 21:52 junky/
drwxrwxr-x+ 9 _unknown  _unknown       306 Mar 12 15:43 mist/
root@jjj:/Volumes/Active01/corp# su alex
alex@jjj:/Volumes/Active01/corp$ ls -l
total 15104
drwxr-xr-x+ 3 alex  staff       102 Mar 12 21:52 junky
drwxrwxr-x+ 9 alex  staff       306 Mar 12 15:43 mist
alex@jjj:/Volumes/Active01/corp$

I think that this has something to do with the 'no owner' mount flag, but I'm not sure.

The thing that has me confused is that we have another system where this isn't a problem, but it's running XServe RAID and this is a RAID from another vendor.


texts: Is a Mac Mini G4 capable of 1080p MP4/H.264 playback?

texts: Looking for a HTPC, and I noticed the G4 Mac Minis are relatively cheap to get. I just wonder, do they support 1080p playback for MP4/H.264 files?


texts: What is causing Safari to crash when dragging image or text?

texts:
I've recently been encountering an issue whereby dragging either an image or selected text on a webpage causes Safari (10.1, on El Capitan 10.11.6) to force reload the page (not a real 'crash', I guess, but a semi-crash). The page gets a slim alert banner at the top saying “A problem occurred with this webpage so it was reloaded” and a modal alert box pops up saying “Safari Web Content quit unexpectedly. Click Report to see more detailed information and to send a report to Apple.”

I've got a two screen setup with this iMac: the iMac's own retina screen, and a 'regular' resolution screen connected via VGA-thunderbolt adaptor. Further investigation has revealed that the ‘drag crash’ only occurs if the browser window is on the Retina screen. And it only seems to happen in Safari, not Chrome.

A workaround would be to move the browser to the regular screen before dragging anything, but that doesn't really gel with my workflow.

Anyone have any ideas how I can stop this from happening?
Thanks.


texts: Finder wastes /leaves dead vertical space between details and preview panels

texts:
As can be seen in the screenshot there is a large area in the middle of the screen that is unused .

I have not been able to reclaim that space by resizing the columns: instead the details panel seems to have a fixed proprtion of the Finder window horizontal width. Here is what clicking in the "dead space" does:

I have been using Finder multiple hours in the past two days to view images . I have killed it (via Activity Monitor) multiple times and even rebooted the machine: nothing changes the behavior.
Am I missing some setting/ knob to reclaim that space?


texts: XQuartz cannot generate any windows (even the built in terminal or xlogo)

texts:
getting a bit desperate here after trying everything I could find/think of — I'll just come out and say that I have a weak back ground in unix systems.

I use XQuartz 2.7.11 to connect to a RedHat server run by our group to use some software packages. I am able to login and connect to the server normally but when I try to launch an application, terminal opens XQuartz but it cannot generate any windows. I am having the same issue with another simulation code that is installed locally but uses XQuartz to generate some UI elements — the point of saying this is that I don't believe it is any issue with connecting to the server.

Furthermore, if I open XQuartz normally and try to open the XQuartz terminal nothing happens. Under XQuartz>Applications> there are also "xman" and "xlogo" options that don't do anything when clicked. Previously I remember clicking "xlogo" would open up a small icon of XQuartz in a window. So this seems like something is preventing XQuartz from opening any kind of desktop windows.

One last note, if I try to run a terminal command that normally opens XQuartz, then XQuartz launches but doesn't generate any windows like previously mentioned but also I cannot close XQuartz. Quitting XQuartz just causes it to restart a second later (likewise for force quit). The only way to keep it from reopening is to log out. This makes it seem to me like the original command that uses the X11 window server is continually trying to open it without success causing XQuartz to come up — even if I close terminal.

I noticed this issue the first time I installed Xcode and Python IDLE. I have since removed and reinstalled every combination of XQuartz and Xcode.

Looking for any suggestions short of reinstalling macOS.


texts: Reinstalling my Windows machine and wanting to preserve iTunes backups

texts:
Is there a way to preserve the backups from all my iDevices stored into the iTunes folder - photos, audio notes, SMS etc. and move them to the new Windows installation.

Is this possible? How?


texts: Setting Up Ecler Evo 5, MPC 5000 and Pro Tools 12

texts: I'm trying to set up the Ecler Evo 5 to read the Akai MPC 5000 via MIDI, and Pro Tools 12 to read the Ecler Evo 5 via FireWire. If anyone has a similar set up and knows the way to make these synchronize, help please.


texts: How do I get a backslash when in Japanese input mode in MacOS?

texts:
I've run in Japanese input mode for 6 years now. I generally had no issues. Now with OS X 10.10 (Yosemite) I can no longer type a backslash. This means in order to use the Terminal I have to completely get out of Japanese input and switch it US input where as before Yosemite if I was in Romanji mode things just worked.

How can I either (a) get it to work like it did before or (b) how do I type a backslash while in Japanese Input mode?

Note: Backslash is used in the Terminal and when programming very often. I can't imagine there isn't some way to fix this otherwise Japanese programmers would be up in arms.


texts: As a developer, how to display notifications on MacOS

texts:
I am trying to find out how to display a notification on a MacOS (macbook pro) machine.
I see this:

https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/LanguagesUtilities/Conceptual/MacAutomationScriptingGuide/DisplayNotifications.html

(Ideally there would be a Node.js binding to a C library which could allow me to display notifications without launching a child process which then calls apple scripts).

Having trouble finding this info on the google:

is there some API or C / Objective-C library that I can call to display a notification on a MacOS machine?


texts: How am I supposed to install El Capitan on a new SSD without recovery partition?

texts:
My old mac's hdd died. It's dead. So I got a ssd and installed it in the macbook.

Now how do I get El Capitan on there? I find lots of tips online that speak of creating a bootable USB drive from the Capitan installer. But I can't download the El Capitan from the appstore because the mac has got nothing to boot from.

On my newer macbook running Catalina, I also cannot download El Capitan from the appstore because it doesn't show up when searching for it.

What I did download is El Capitan's InstallMacOSX.dmg via https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT206886

But now I need to run/open this on the old mac with the fresh ssd.

I feel I'm stuck in a loop. I need a working OS to install an OS.....

Who can help me out here?


texts: Stolen MacBook running Windows via Boot Camp

texts:
My friend's MacBook was stolen. He was mostly using Windows with Boot Camp. macOS was not used at all.

How likely is it, that the thief may be able to reset Windows password?

Is it possible to transfer the hard disk to another computer and access it through Windows files.

And of-course, I don't want specific information about resetting password for accessing files etc. Only a confirmation what might be the worst situation.


texts:
I noticed some weird traffic pattern on my internet connection, tracked it back to my iPad, after some tinkering I finally realized that my iPad is downloading iOS 6.1 on it's own!!! I didn't ask for it, and there's no button or obvious means to stop it. For now, I've disabled the WiFi; but seriously, this is terrible, how do I stop it?

The device: iPad 2 - running iOS 5.1 - No intention to upgrade anytime soon


texts: Should I turn my iPad off to replace the MicroSIM?

texts: Should I turn my iPad off to replace the MicroSIM card?


texts:
I have Macbook Pro 16" 2019 model. Recently I bought Acer 4k Monitor VG280K.
I'm connecting it to Macbook Pro with HDMI which came with it and attached it with a USB C to HDMI converter which support 4k@60Hz.
I'm facing a very annoying bug. Sometimes randomly Macbook is rendering full 4k and sometimes its rendering only 1080p. I have to restart or replug the cable multiple times for it to render 4k.
I noticed others are also facing the same issue https://piunikaweb.com/2021/02/04/external-4k-monitor-issues-after-macos-big-sur-11-1-update/
I have talked with the Apple Customer Care but they were not helpful.
I'm also using this new monitor with Windows laptop and getting full resolution without a break, so the HDMI cable and monitor is fine.
Thousands of people like me are facing the same issue as mentioned here https://discussions.apple.com/thread/252174979
I patiently waited for 11.3.1 update and hoped it might fix it but it didn't fix it. I don't know what to do now. I'm stuck with this problem for months.


texts: Do files lose their UTI when copied to another file system?

texts: From what I understand, if you create a file on OS X it will have a Uniform Type Identifier. I'm not sure if it's part of the file system or the file itself. If you copy the file to another file system (say NTFS), will it still have the UTI associated with it if you copy it back?


texts: Incorrectly labelled albums in Apple Music

texts:
I sometimes come across albums in Apple Music whose tracks are incorrectly labelled. For instance, the second track of this album is entirely incorrect. Similarly, the first three tracks of this album are permuted.

If I download the album then I can change the song info in my library. But, is there any way to let Apple know that they have their songs incorrectly labelled, so that the album data can be corrected in Apple Music itself?


texts: Is there a Settings/System Preferences simulator for macOS/iOS tech support?

texts:
Frequently when offering technical assistance, I either want to follow along with my own instructions to make sure they are correct, or provide a screenshot to demonstrate my instructions visually. Often, it is sufficient to do so on my own device, but there are a number of problems that can come up with this method:

If my device is running a different version of the operating system, what I see is likely different from what the user sees.
If it is an area of Settings that shows sensitive information, I need to either use a Guest account without personal information or censor it later. The former is not possible on iOS without buying a dedicated device for it, and censoring images takes time.
Getting a screenshot from an iOS device to my computer is fairly simple, but the time adds up when compared to doing the same on macOS.
If there are device-specific settings, and I don't have a device with those capabilities (for example, none of my devices support Force/3D Touch), I won't be able to help.

Using Xcode's iOS Simulator is almost never a viable alternative, as its Settings app is greatly pared down and only includes a handful of options.

Does there exist some Mac app whose purpose is to simulate the Settings or System Preferences app of various devices and OS versions?


texts: How can I run Windows Software .exe on a PowerBook G4?

texts:
I have an old PowerBook G4 12" with 1,25 GHz and 786 MB RAM, actually MacOS X 10.4.11 is installed.

I'd like to give it to my son, but he likes (among others) to use learning games/software, which are made for Windows (.exe).

What is the best way to run Windows Software on this old Mac?
Do I need to install Windows in a VM,
or is there something like WINE which lets me install the .exe directly?

(I had also considered to install Linux on the machine (e. g. MintPPC http://mintppC.org/ ), to have a more recent OS, if that would help or make any difference...)

Darwine

I already found the PowerPC section in the WINE project, see PowerPC Mac, but I don't fully understand which options do exist in my case and which should be the best one.

They write:

  Older Macs using PowerPC processors are incompatible with code
  compiled for x86 (Intel and AMD) processors, unless the code is run
  under CPU emulation. Wine Is Not a (CPU) Emulator, nor does it include
  one.

So if I understand correctly, WINE will not work on a PowerPC Mac as it does on an INTEL Mac and I could use it only in combination with a CPU emulation like Q?!

Qemu

Furthermore there seems to be Q or Qemu, which seems to emulate a guest PC and therefore needs an installation/license for Windows (and maybe more ressources?)

VirtualPC

If I remember correctly, I have an old version of VirtualPC somewhere, if that might be a better option.

...?


texts: How to set a default font for outgoing messages in Mail on Lion

texts:
Mail in OS X 10.7 (Lion) doesn't allow me to set a default font for outgoing messages, and it's finicky when I change it in the message.

When I show the font bar (by clicking the A button at the top right of the message window), the font bar doesn't retain its value if I set it before typing any text.  If I change it and then start typing, it changes to what I set it as, but if I delete all my text then it reverts to default (Helvetica).

How do I get around this?  Is there a plugin to solve this, is it considered  a bug...?  I found the Universal Mailer plugin, which is now open source.


texts: Not receiving anything in Mail.app inbox

texts:
I have a Mac Pro, and I use Mail.app. Everything used to work fine with my POP account.

However, last week my incoming mail showed that it was being downloaded to my inbox, but it never showed up. I have rebuilt my inbox, and also re-initiated, and configured my POP account, but the same problem remains.

I have also an IMAP account, which worked fine before and since this occurrence.

Any clue or hints on what is going on?


texts: Is it possible to only run one application as non-retina whereas everything else is retina?

texts:
I have a Macbook Pro Retina 15" (Mid 2014). For whatever reason I noticed that one application (Netbeans) is a lot faster (the interface) when it runs in a non-retina screen (noticed this when I connected a second non-retina display).

I don't really like using a second display. And I also really like the retina graphics. Is it possible to only run one application (Netbeans) as non-retina whereas everything else is retina?

OSX Yosemite 10.10.5.


texts: Is it possible to reset an old iPhone but keep the operating system with all updates?


texts: Are there any Lion optimized text editors with VIM keybindings?

texts:
I am looking for a text editor with support for Lion's new features - specifically autosave, versions, and full-screen support.

I would also really like to be able to use VIM keybindings, either standard, or as an option. Does this combination exist?


texts:
I have installed macfuse and fuse-ext2 multiple times and yet they don't seem to work. I want to be able to mount and edit a Raspberry Pi image file (NTFS) on an SD card. Unfortunately nothing appears of the image file in Finder. What am I doing wrong? One more thing: there's a file that should be edited to be able to write files on the target image. Every tutotiral mentions it yet it cannot be found :

System/Library/Filesystems/fuse-ext2.fs/fuse-ext2.util

Any ideas what I'm doing wrong?


texts: I am starting to dislike the Finder. Does anybody know of a good Finder replacement, something Unixy or Nexty which will still work with all Mac OS X applications?


texts:
I have a 2020 MBP 13" running macOS Big Sur 11.1 Beta.
The Touch Bar no longer shows icons relative to the active app - for example, when using Safari I'd expect to see Safari-specific actions. Mine just shows the default set (brightness, mission control, media controls, etc).
It definitely showed app-specific actions previously - I'd expect to see them for Safari, Pages, Numbers, PhpStorm etc. No idea when this stopped.
I've tried resetting it to the defaults in System Preferences, but it's not the defaults that are the issue - it's when in an application.


texts:
Whenever some content is DRM-protected, screenshots of such content are masked. Even using Terminal does not avoid such problems.

Which processes in ps ax are used by DRM that is implemented by iTunes?

EDIT:
I posted this question originally on Unix & Linux with a bounty:
https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/254325/what-processes-are-used-by-drm?noredirect=1#comment443851_254325


texts:
I flew from Washington DC to Devon (UK) roughly 9 hours ago.

My MacBook knows that I am in the UK, but won't update the timezone.

How do I make sure that the MacBook keeps updating the time zone automatically?


texts: OS X no longer connects to network shares

texts:
I have a Mac Mini that I use as my home's central media server. However, the actual media files are on my Synology NAS.

To beef up performance and to make the connection to the NAS was kept I recently created a NFS share between my Mac Mini and my NAS. To do so I've set-up an automount to establish the connection.

But since today (a few days after moving to NFS and after the first restart since) I am no longer able to connect to any of my network drives. I have my Synology NAS, a Netgear media player and an Airport Extreme (with my backup drive). I am no longer able to reach any of them, not through SMB, AFP or NFS. All of them state that I don't have enough privileges to access the server. But I am using the same credentials as before and on one of them (the Netgear) I only need guest access.

Any idea what could have broken my network share access?

Edit:

My auto_master:

#
# Automounter master map
#
+auto_master        # Use directory service
/net            -hosts      -nobrowse,hidefromfinder,nosuid
/home           auto_home   -nobrowse,hidefromfinder
/Network/Servers    -fstab
/-          -static
/-          auto_nfs

My auto_nfs:

/NFS/media    -fstype=nfs,noowners,nolockd,noresvport,hard,bg,intr,rw,tcp,nfc nfs://diskstation.local/volume1/media
/NFS/files    -fstype=nfs,noowners,nolockd,noresvport,hard,bg,intr,rw,tcp,nfc nfs://diskstation.local/volume1/files

One thing to consider, I initially tried to automount in the Volumes location with the following auto_nfs:

/../Volumes/media    -fstype=nfs,noowners,nolockd,noresvport,hard,bg,intr,rw,tcp,nfc nfs://diskstation.local/volume1/media
/../Volumes/files    -fstype=nfs,noowners,nolockd,noresvport,hard,bg,intr,rw,tcp,nfc nfs://diskstation.local/volume1/files


texts: After logging into OSX all I see is a black screen

texts:
I am currently having an issue with my mac.

Turn on the mac
The apple logo appears followed by the login screen.  There are 2 logins, one is a guest login and the other is my login.
When I choose guest I am able to login
When I choose my login it shows the apple logo briefly and then a blank screen
When I tap the touch pad the screen briefly flashes the login screen but remains black
I can hear the volume indicators and when I press buttons I can hear sounds.

I have tried restarted several times but it does the same thing. I'll need some help finding the next steps to solve this black screen.


texts: IOS App - Start/Stop Timer Like App - Suggestion Needed

texts:
Hopefully this is the right place to ask as this is more about "looking for an appropriate iOS app".

I've got some noisy neighbors that do construction at all hours of the day and night. My city has noise ordinance restrictions and they are in clear violation. Reasonable conversation with them has failed on all accounts. They are perpetually working on their house and interior and from the looks of the place it doesn't seem like they'll be done anytime soon.

A bunch of my fellow neighbors are going to file a petition with the City in an effort to cite them for the noise problems. However, the petition requires a log of all the violations, and the more concise and detailed the log is, the more chance for further action.

In the past I've been using a Google Sheets document and when I hear the noises, I run over to my computer, fire up the document, note the start time and then I head back later and note the finish time. Or I'll use a piece of paper. It's a pest especially when it happens at 12:30AM and I'm in bed - I'm rather just close my window then climb out of bed and wait for my computer to boot up in order to keep a log of this stuff. With summer coming up, closing my window is going to be less of a solution.

Ideally I'd like to identify some sort of App that works like the iOS Clock's stop watch timer with the ability to add Notes. That way I can tell my neighbors to load this app, when they hear the noise push a "Start Timer" button, when the noises end push it again, and then add notes ("Banging and sawing with loud music"). Then we can export the results of this App to some sort of external document where we can compile a master list to submit to the city.

Reason I personally want it for iOS is that I have several older iphones laying around and would gladly keep one right by my bedside to use strictly as a logging service for this noise problem. My neighbors have iPhones as well so that's why I'd like the app to be iOS.

And yes, I realize I am probably over engineering this problem, but I figure having some sort of digital record of the neighbor's transgressions is better than scraps of paper scribbled on in the dark at 1AM that end up scattered around my nightstand.

Any ideas on what app I could use?

Edit: No, I don't need to actually record the noise. I just need a quick way to Start a timer and then an equally quick way to Stop the timer, so it makes an entry that I can annotate later. I'm thinking there has to be some sort of lap timer for runners that can be used to do what I'm thinking about.

Something like:

Entry #1) 5/23/18: Start Time: 11:30PM  Stop Time: 5/24/18 1:30AM.

Notes: Loud banging followed by sawing and shouting. (Note Added 5/24/18 7:30AM)


texts: Why is the audio is not working after upgrading to Yosemite?

texts:
After upgrading my Macbook Pro to Yosemite, the volume icon at the top right is greyed out and sound does not work.

How can I fix this issue?


texts: Why does Steam start when I login in 10.8?

texts:
"Open at login" in the Dock is disabled, "Run Steam when my computer starts" in Steam options is disabled, and it isn't there in the User "Login Items" tab of the System Preferences.

However it starts at login anyway.

Why does it so, and how do I stop it?


texts: 2017 iPad Pro reboots every few minutes after ios 12.4.1 update - how to fix

texts: My 2017 iPad Pro was updated 2 days ago to iOS 12.4.1. Since then, it has been almost continuously rebooting whenever I try to power it up. I have managed to shut down all open apps, have hard rebooted several times. Cannot get it to stay on long enough to do other diagnostic checks on battery life, remove apps etc. How do I fix this?


texts: How do I repair a corrupt Admin Password?

texts: I'm running a iMac with 10.9.5. Recently I installed Adobe CC, and ever since, I've been having issues with my admin password. My computer no longer recognizes it. So I'm effectively unable to update or install programs, or change any settings. Somehow it shifted from requiring a login password at start up, to logging in automatically, and then I get the message "accountsd wants to use the login keychain." The admin password works in this case. I reset my keychain, but that didn't solve the problem. I tried to repair the keychain, but that requires an admin password and in this case it doesn't work. I'm at a loss. Any ideas?


texts: How to initiate face scanning for Apple Photos on Mac Mojave?

texts:
My Apple Photos has 1000+ photos but it only scanned 100+. It says that it will scan when my Mac is charged and when the app is not used. However, it didn't seem to work.

Does anyone know how I can manually initiate the scanning process?


texts:
I have a weird problem on my 2011 MacBook Pro 15" running OS X 10.8.2.

Every now and then - say every two days - the system starts to ignore most of the keys I press for 2-3 minutes. It's like processing of keystrokes becomes incredibly slow. If I wait for ten seconds between each key, what I type is processed completely; otherwise kys wl b msng rndomly.

The system is not overloaded in any way when this happens. I'm usually writing something and this comes out of the blue.

Has anybody experienced the same, or could point me to some resources? I'm having a hard time coming up with a good Google query for this problem.

It is possible this was introduced by the 10.8 upgrade but I'm not 100% sure.

I managed to run top while this occurred again and the only thing that was runnng that usually isn't is Google's ksfetch. Will post more info if I catch it again.


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I found my .MobileBackups folder quite large, it weighs 160 GiB. Shouldn't the .MobileBackups folder be wiped after the Time Machine 'backup session'?

Since I have backup done on my external drive how can I get back my 160GiB of HDD space? Can I simply remove this folder or maybe set some limit of mobile backups?


texts: New iPhone 6 bought 4 months ago still restoring from iCloud backup

texts: Every time I try to download an update (iOS 9.2.1 in this case) on my iPhone 6 that I bought 4 months ago, it says I can't because my phone is still restoring from an iCloud backup. Why is it still restoring? The little wheel at the top is constantly going around.


texts: How do I create live wallpapers of similar quality to the default wallpapers?

texts:
If you look at the stock wallpapers, the perspective stays the same when you 3D touch and the animation plays in reverse when you release.

Custom wallpapers are different. Firstly, as soon as you touch the image blows up by about 10% cutting off the edges of the image, which is really bad especially considering that the display is already so narrow. Secondly, upon release, it simply fades back to the original rather than playing in reverse. For some wallpapers I could see how that might be what you want, but for me this isn't idea and I would like to keep the reversal.

Does anyone know how to create a custom wallpaper that does not "zoom in" and plays in reverse upon release?


texts: How do I install macOS Sierra now after all these issues?

texts:
I upgraded my iMac from El Capitan to Sierra about 6 weeks ago and all was working well. A few days back I decided I wanted to reinstall macOS Sierra so that I had a clean installation that wasn't upgraded from El Capitan, but was 'fresh' with no old files etc.

The first problem I ran into was an endless loop during installation so I posted this question: Stuck in endless macOS Sierra installation loop . Monomeeth got me past this problem by creating a USB installer.

Then I had an issue with kernel panics upon startup after reinstalling Sierra, so I posted this question: Finally reinstalled macOS Sierra, but now I get a kernel panic and William T Froggard and Monomeeth helped me get past that.

Then I got this error message:

Note that is a reflection in the photo, not a GPU problem.

So I followed the advice and tested my hardware. I selected the extended test and over an hour later the test found no issues. But when I restart and try again, it keeps bring me back to the above error.

I do not believe I have a hardware issue as there were no signs of problems before I decided to reinstall macOS Sierra. As I mention in my first question, I decided to reformat the HD by doing a 2 pass secure erase and this was successful. So I think that means I have no problems with my HD right? Plus the 1hr hardware test passed also.

Note that I have already tried booting into the recovery from the recovery partition, and from the internet. I have tried both these options many times. None seem to work. If I hold down alt/option during startup I see a macOS Installer option and a Recovery option:

I have tried both more than once and always get stuck in some sort of loop.

Either I boot from the macOS Installer option and get the error in
the first image above which goes round in circles because AHT finds
nothing and we do it all over again.
Or I boot into recovery and get the whole endless loop described in my first question Stuck in endless macOS Sierra installation loop that Monomeeth helped me with.
Or I try and boot again from the USB installer Monomeeth helped me create, but while it worked the first time to reinstall macOS Sierra, now I get a gray screen after selecting English for my main language. I'm not sure how this is even possible! Why did it work the first time but not now?

Obviously I wish I never decided to reinstall macOS Sierra, but now that I have, what do I do from here to get it back on this computer?


texts: How can I use one of the documents preview icon as the parent folder's icon in OS X?

texts: I organize my e-books and the supporting files in each folder. Is there any easy way to assign the parent folder's icon as the preview of the PDF file?


texts: How does one speed up an individual portion (region) of a track on garageband without altering the tempo of other tracks or regions? Altering the song tempo changes everything's tempo.


texts: Can you view a shared iTunes 11 library from iTunes 7, or use iMac as an Airplay target?

texts:
I picked up a beautiful old G3 Tangerine iMac.  Works (and looks!) great.

It has iTunes 7 installed on it.  I popped a music CD in it and it's a great little music player for my den -- sounds surprisingly good.

What I'd like to do now is one of two things:

1 - share my iTunes 11 library (from my MacBook) and play songs from the shared library on iTunes 7 on the G3 iMac

2 - or even better, use the G3 iMac as a sort of "Airplay" target, make song selections in iTunes 11 on my MacBook and have the music play on the G3 iMac

Any suggestions are helpful.


texts: If I turn off iCloud Camera Roll backups, do I still have the pictures somewhere?

texts: So when I'm asked if I want to turn off iCloud Camera Roll backups and delete the backup data from iCloud, will I still have the pictures somewhere? I don't get it...


texts:
In keynote I want to seamlessly animate a couple slides together with magic move.

However, this seems impossible because even setting the delay to '0' keynote still noticeably delays almost a whole second inbetween animations.

How do I make keynote not delay?


texts: How to delete System Extension BridgeAudioController.kext on Mac M1 running Big Sur?

texts:
For privacy reasons I always delete BridgeAudioController.kext on a Mac. This away, the built-in mic will stop working and nothing can access my mic. If I need it I'll just use an headset.
In MacOS Catalina this was relatively simple:

Start recovery with external boot disk so I can prevent the internal macOS from launching;
Launch terminal;
rm -rf /System/Library/Extensions/BridgeAudioController.kext

The clever move is to prevent the internal macOS from launching because, if it does, BridgeAudioController.kext will be marked has read-only by the system and just can't be deleted (even if the SIP is turned disabled).
For Catalina a similar situation is described by @user3439894 in this post: How to delete kexts in Catalina?
The Problem is that Big Sur external boot disks no longer include terminal.
Access to terminal can only be made through MacOS recovery / Options.
Any ideas on how to bypass this?
Thanks in advance,


texts: How to force iPhone Photos to drop locally cached originals which are already in iCloud Photos?

texts:
The Situation

iPhone Photos have already uploaded all originals to iCloud.
“Optimize iPhone Storage” has been chosen in iCloud settings.

The Problem
How to force iPhone Photos.app to drop locally cached originals to free space?


texts: I just bought an iPad 2. My daughter has an iPod. We set up her iPod for FaceTime. How can I set up FaceTime on my iPad using a different email address. I don't want both devices to ring. Is this possible.


texts: iPhone SE - Icons at the top-right corner seldom work in many apps

texts:
I just got an iPhone SE. I have a strong suspicion that parts of the screen (mainly top-right corner, but it might be top-left corner as well) are not responsive enough. On the other hand they work flawlessly in many apps. That's what confusing me even more. I'm pretty much sure it must be app-related but how can an area of the screen might be broken in so many popular apps?

Here are some screenshots:

Mail: Edit - Works every time.

Screenshot Editor: - Undo/Redo Arrow icons: Works every time.

Safari: - Refresh button: Works every time.

Spotify: - Cog Icon: This one is almost impossible to tap. Worked only 3 times out of 100 attempts.

Endomondo: - Bell Icon: Same story with the bell icon as with Spotify. Getting to notifications screen is nearly impossible.

Memrise: - The left edit icon works flawlessly, the right one does not. It's slightly better than with Spotify but still no more than 5% of taps work.

What's could possibly be causing this? I find it hard to believe that these apps would be that bugged. It's my first iPhone ever and I might be doing something wrong?

I just upgraded from iOS 11 to iOS 12 and it's the same. Reseting phone does not help. The screen seems to be working fine excepting these apps. I'm using glass on the screen but I think it must be a software-related issue. I'm wondering what all these broken apps have in common, do they all use WebView?

Any ideas? Is there any software that could help me test the screen (like displaying touch pressure full screen etc.)?


texts: Login to OneDrive OS X with School/Company account

texts: Is there a way to login and access your OneDrive account with the OneDrive application from the Mac Store with your school/company account? At the moment, my credentials are not recognized.


texts: Is there an iPad PDF viewer that can stay zoomed out?

texts: Some PDFs have fonts that are too large to maintain an optimal reading speed.  Is there a normal page-scrolling (not flipping) PDF viewer that can stay zoomed out at the zoom level you've pinched to?  Everything I have tried so far automatically zooms back to 100% after releasing the pinch-zoom.


texts:
My MacBook Pro Specs:

macOS Mojave 10.14.4 Beta (18E194d)
Processor 2.7 GHz Intel Core i7
Memory 16 GB 1600 MHz DDR3
Graphics Intel HD Graphics 4000 1536 MB

When using Autocad, Excel, or Adobe (apps), my laptop slows down tremendously.

Is there any way to speed it up/find out what is slowing it down?


texts: Create a automator application able to launch and quit from dock

texts:
I have a shell command thats runs endlessly, until you stop it using Control-C. When I run it from the Terminal, it goes something like:

$ /abspath/to/my-command
Command is running ...
Use Control-C to stop it.

I wanted to be able to launch this command easily from the dock, so I created an Automator application, with just a Run Shell Script component, where I wrote /abspath/to/my-command. Then, I saved "MyApp.app" in my Applications folder and drag & drop it to the dock.

So far, it works great, when I click the app on the dock, the command starts running. There's just one huge problem: I cannot quit the application! In fact, in the dock it doesn't even appear that the application is running. The only solution I have found so far is to do ps aux | grep my-command and then kill -9 <PID>.

How can I quit "MyApp.app" (like doing Control-C in the Terminal)?


texts: I'm often reading stuff on my Mac but then I want to switch to my iPad to read it there. Is there a simple way to copy text or an URL from my Mac to my iPad?


texts: Problems reinstalling OS X Mavericks on Macbook Pro (hard drive displays "locked" and I get "live file system repair is not supported" when repairing)

texts:
I'm trying to fix someone's Macbook, and I am a Windows user so I'm having trouble confirming that his hard drive is ruined or unfixable which is what I think is the problem.

When you boot it up it takes you to OS X Utilities, and when I try to press "Reinstall OS X", when prompted to select a disk to install OS X, the hard drive displays "This disk is locked." When I go into disk utilities and try to repair disk, I eventually get "live file system repair is not supported"

I assume this is a sign that the hard drive is failed and in need of replacement, but I'm looking to make sure there's nothing I can do to fix it.

Also, I know on Windows I could boot from a USB device or CD, (say I have Windows installed on a flash drive or a Ubuntu disk), and I'm wondering what my options are there if I don't want to just buy a new hard drive. I'd really like to be able to boot OS X from a flash drive and simply use that as the internal hard drive, is that at all possible?


texts: Increase size of APFS partion in High Sierra

texts:
I replaced my 250Gb HDD with a 500Gb SSD. The problem is that after installing my new SSD and copying all my stuff onto it, my SSD reports it has a single partition of 250Gb and free space of 250Gb instead of a single 500Gb partition.

This has more than likely come about because I cloned my SSD from my old HDD (it seemed like a good idea at the time!).

If I open Disk Utility, select my SSD and click the Partition button it shows the free space and the SSD with a resize control on the border between the two. The resize control won't let me drag it to the left (clockwise into the free space) no matter how much I try. It also won't let me create a new partition in the free space.

My OS is High Sierra and the format is APFS.

I've had a look at some third party tools but haven't found any that work with APFS.

All the googling I've done on this subject suggests that Disk Utility doesn't work with all the features of APFS.

It seems it's possible to increase the size of a partition from the command line in Terminal but I can't find any instructions that deal specifically with my scenario. Here's the output from the diskutil list command:

...and the output from sudo gpt -r show /dev/disk1:

I've tried to resize the container using:

diskutil apfs resizeContainer disk0s2 500g

but this command throws an error:

  The size (500g) must not be greater than the partition map allocatable size

Can anyone help? Ideally I'd like to have a single 500Gb partition.


texts: What is kernel_task reading and writing?

texts:
On my machine, kernel_task has a very large number of reads and writes compared to my usage. I spend almost all my time online on google chrome.

Over the past month, Activity Monitor shows kernel_task having written over 300 GB, launchd having written 30 GB with Chrome 10 GB. kernel_task dominates my total disk i/o. And every day it seems to be writing something. About 20 GB or so every day I estimate.

What is it writing? Is there some way I can check and maybe disable some option? Time Machine is disabled on my machine so its not that. My total disk space is not increasing so it seems to be temporary writes which makes it worse. Some sort of log?

Thanks


texts: Is it possible to keep Mac App Store apps in the user application directory?

texts:
I have a MacBook Pro configured in the following way:

120GB SSD
    70GB OS X boot partition (10.8.2)
    50GB BootCamp partition
750GB WD HDD
    Essentially all used as my Home folder

Is it possible to keep some of the larger (less frequently used) application in my ~/Applications folder while still allowing the MAS purchased apps to receive updates? A simple alias will certainly not do the trick, but is there a way to create a symlink that will allow the linked file to receive the upgrade?

I'd like to remove some of the larger, less frequently used applications from the (space-limited) SSD… This makes me appreciated the elegance required in creating the FusionDrive framework!

Thanks in advance!


texts: Macbook Pro finder error -50 appearing randomly

texts:
I've done a lot of research about this problem, but cannot find solution. My mac randomly gives an -50 error - nothing can be written and ReportCrash is using like 200% of CPU... Restart helps, but only for a short period of time. I thought it is HDD problem, so I bought brand new SSD, but problem persists. I reinstalled OS, nothing helped. I also downgraded from OS X El Capitan to Yosemite, but nothing helps.

It totally drives me crazy, because I use my Mac for presentations for big audiences, and when it happens when I am presenting, it is horrible.

Thank you all for helping!
(Sorry for any mistakes, not a native speaker :) )

Macbook pro 2009 13" |
4 GB RAM |
2.26 GHz C2D |
240 GB Kingston SSD |
OS X Yosemite |


texts: More than 2500 systemwide processes on OSX 10.9

texts:
Attempts to raise the maximum number of systemwide processes above 2500 fail.

$ sudo sysctl -w kern.maxproc=2500
kern.maxproc: 2500 -> 2500
$ sudo sysctl -w kern.maxproc=2501
kern.maxproc: 2500
sysctl: kern.maxproc: Invalid argument

In an archived Apple article, it's mentioned that as of OSX Server 10.6, maxproc was 2500 for each 8 GB of installed RAM.

I'm running OSX 10.9 (non-Server), with 16 GB of RAM, on a 2012 MacBook Pro.

By comparison, the ubuntu linux VM running under OSX supports over 30 000 processes without any special configuration.

Is it possible to raise this limit above 2500?  I've already run up against the default limit of 1000 without a great deal of effort.


texts:
Is it possible for a mac to get infected by just visiting a URL?

I was searching for someone's profile when suddenly the URL browser showed a couple of re-directions and then my macbook started beeping.

Ever since, the ActivityMonitor is also showing high cpu activity...

I do not wish to download any mac cleaners or other software, but I wonder if I could check my mac myself to see if there is malicious software or something like that?

Are there any folders I should look at to see if there is something in them that is not supposed to be there?


texts:
I have been trying to pass photos to a shared album on MacOS High Sierra and nothing happens. Sometimes a little ball at the top fills up which seems to indicate it has transferred but it hasn't.

I have tried opening and closing it several times, restarting my laptop and closing the photos agent and still nothing.

Any other ideas?


texts: Why some folders have the .DS_Store but some doesn't?

texts:
Local storage

In some of my folder, I found something quite interesting:

Some folders have the `.DS_Store` but some does not

Network storage

.DS_Store files are not on the network store. Any reason?

Thanks.


texts: Mail.app stopped showing To: recipients in my header

texts: All of a sudden Mail.app is no longer showing in the header who is receiving the email, be it a group send or even an individual (me).  It is there but you have to scroll over that line to see the names. They just are not showing like they used to. How do I resolve this so the recipients are always seen?


texts: How to check status of Wi-Fi adapter through command line?

texts:
I read a few stacks on the internet but command line was used only to turn Wi-Fi on or off, but none of them to check the on-off status of Wi-Fi.

Any possible way to check status of Wi-Fi adapter on or off in command line?


texts:
I have been using this keyboard for the last 2 and a half years.

Eventually I noticed that Left Ctrl key stopped working at all. Means, when I push it down in some combination, like Ctrl-T, only T is recognized. Right Ctrl Key works just fine as well as other keys.

Another thing, is sometimes keyboard pushes Alt (Option) down and doesn't release it until I push it multiple times. It event keeps it pushed on reboot so Boot options screen appears on the reboot as if I held Alt key.

I tried it on another Mac and Windows computer, everything seems to be the same.

I am afraid it's hardware is broken, not software. Is there a way to make these keys work, do services repair them or should I rather buy a new one?


texts: Migrating iTunes library when replacing the hard disk

texts:
I am replacing my Macbook's hard disk and I have already a copy of all files I want to transfer over except for my iTunes library.

Since I sync my iPad with it, and have some apps, what is the best approach to backup and migrate my iTunes library to the new disk?

I don't have a 2nd computer, so I can't use the migration assistant.


texts: iPhone 7 never shows "LTE" even on LTE network

texts:
I have an iPhone 7 which I bought directly from Apple, and my SIM contract is with Three here in the UK. I have been using this phone happily since September, I had noticed the mobile data connection flips between 3G and 4G which I thought little of at first. I figured 3G = HSPA/+ and 4G = LTE.

However, the other week I was with a friend in the US who had recently got a 7 plus. She is with AT&T and I noticed that her phone was most often displaying LTE as the connection type. I thought this was odd as I had never seen this on my own iPhone 7 and had presumed that 4G meant LTE. I did a little googling and found some discussions which claimed that on iOS the 4G mean HSPA+ and 3G means regular old 3G. In this case I was double confused as my carrier, Three, supposedly has a 4G LTE network and so I should see LTE from time to time.

I understand that Three does not have an LTE-Advanced network, only regular LTE. So is this perhaps the distinction and confusion? 4G = LTE and LTE = LTE-Advanced?

Could somebody perhaps clear up what is going on? Do I need to contact my carrier to change the network connection settings on my phone? If I can make use of the iPhone 7's faster mobile data tech then I would like to as I am a very heavy data user. The reason I went with Three was for their unlimited data tariff.

EDIT:

As requested by owlswipe. A photo showing Speedtest saying the network is "Three  LTE" with the network icon at the top left saying "4G" which it did throughout the test. I am on 40th floor of a tower here so speeds aren't fantastic...


texts: How to make Alfred switch to currently open Chrome instead of opening a new window?

texts:
This used to be the normal behavior for me:

I have a Chrome window A open
The focus is in another program window B
I bring up Alfred and type Chrome
Chrome is the first result, selected by default
I hit Enter and...
The focus goes to the already-opened Chrome window A

That's the same as doing Command-Tab if there are only two windows open, each of a different applications. This is how I'd like it to behave.

Now I don't know what I did wrong to make this change (or if it was me at all), but this is what happens now:

I have a Chrome window A open
The focus is in another program window B
I bring up Alfred and type Chrome
Chrome is the first result, selected by default
I hit Enter (nothing different so far) and...
A new Chrome window C gets opened behind program window B
Focus remains on program window B

This doesn't happen with Firefox, for example, where the expected behavior continues working.


texts: How can I use my US-iPhone in South Korea?

texts: I have an iPhone 4S and I will be going to South Korea for a year for my 1st duty station in the army. What should I do? Can I get it unlocked or should I just by a phone over there? I need contact with my family.


texts: Apple charger port magnet has lost it's pull

texts: My friends laptop was dropped and fell directly on the power charging connector as it was connected to the charger.  Now the port still works, but the strength of the magnet that holds the connector is very weak, as if it has lost some of its magnetism.  That sounds pretty ridiculous of course, so I'm wondering if it's possible that the force of the drop dislodged the magnet so it is no longer close to the surface?  There is still some "pull in", but so little that the slightest tug on the cable pulls it off.  I've never seen the inside to know what the magnet looks like.  Is my theory plausible?  Any remedies short of opening the case?


texts:
This question has already been asked here. The accepted answer says it is not possible. Other answers provide a way to do it on linux but I have not check if it worked. I am most interested in knowing if there is a way to do it for mac (although you can post answers for linux as well).

I am only reposting this question here because the other question on SOF is more than five years old. Ideally, I would like to remap to <ESC> key to CAPS LOCK.


texts: What's the best NAS for home usage with Macs?

texts:
Please share your experiences and reviews about NAS (Network-Attached Storage) below. In particular, rate their compatibility with Macs, OS X, iTunes, Time Machine, AppleTV, and other Apple-specific tools. The goal is for future users to be able to easily find the best Mac-compatible NAS appliance.

Rules:

Use a single answer for each NAS (no duplicates, please).
Vote (up or down) on any NAS you have experience with.

Also welcome: useful reference links, such as this one from xlr8yourmac.com.


texts: iCloud reminders (web site) - missing features?

texts:
This Apple KB article implies that one can create new reminders lists, edit details of reminders set as alert time, change folders of reminders, etc.

https://support.apple.com/kb/PH12088?locale=en_US

However, I don't see any of these options.  I can add new reminders and edit notes, but I can't do any of the other things it states.

Is the iCloud reminders web interface neutered now?  I don't have the "+ at the top" the article refers to.

As far as I can see, the only things I can do on the iCloud web site are:

add remidners
add/modify notes on reminders
change list colors/appearance
show/hide completed

I don't think there are any other possible functions - ?

Was hoping to use iCloud on the web as an interim since the macOS desktop reminders app won't sync with iCloud until Catalina.

Here is a screen shot taken on macOS Mojave with Safari 13.0.1...looks the same in the current version of Chrome for macOS as well:


texts: PHP MAMP user not finding /usr/local/bin

texts:
I have a website in a shared Linux hosting that uses Ghostscript. I use by php exec function that executes command line functions, gs commands to render PDF files, by simple gs commands.

gs -h (will display info)

However, in my Mac OS X MAMP web server gs commands are only executed by full paths.

/usr/local/bin/gs -h (will display info)

How do I configure my local system so "php" user will find gs (and other libraries) without full path?

EDIT: Command line by Terminal does not need full path either. The problem is only when trying to execute gs by exec PHP function.


texts: Distribution Profile issue - Submitting to App Store

texts:
I have an app that was built by vendors. They did everything including submitting the app to the App Store. So now I did slight modification to the app and want to update it in the app store. However, an error message pops up when we try to archive the app in Xcode. It first says that the team doesn't match, then prompts me to click fix it. I clicked fix it but finally it shows this message:

  Your account has a valid iOS distribution certificate but it is not installed locally.

What does this message mean and how to fix it?

I'm using Xcode 6.2. I have installed the Development and Distribution certificates on my Mac. Still getting the same error message.

This is my first hands-on experience in building iOS apps and deploying them to App Store.

How do I resolve this issue?


texts: How to open older .imovieproject files (folders) in iMovie '09

texts:
How do I open older .imovieproject files (they're actually folders folders) in iMovie '09?
I don't want to import the assets of the old project, I want the actual project to open on iMovie '09.


texts: Simplest way to record voice on Macbook Air

texts: I'm looking for the simplest way to record voice -- a two people conversation -- with a Macbook Air. The goal is then later to listen to it on the Mac and transcribe it.


texts: Small external hard drive in time machine

texts: I have a external hard dive that is smaller than the hard drive of the computer. Can I use that external hard drive as time machine but select just the most important information to be back up and perhaps a second hard drive for the rest?


texts: Using an iPad Pro and an Apple Pencil as a "tablet"

texts:
I was wondering if it is possible to use an iPad Pro sort of like a Wacom Tablet (or LiveScribe - but LiveScribe has a delay), where you can use the Apple Pencil to write notes on the iPad, and the notes instantly appear on the Mac's screen with no delay. This would be really useful for my online college assignments because half of the screen would be taken up with the notes I take on the iPad and the other half with the problems and I could easily solve algebraic problems.

I would prefer not to use screen mirroring just so it was easier to save the files on the Mac and interact with the scribbles directly on the Mac (zoom in, rotate, etc)

I would prefer to do it over Lightning cable just to avoid any WiFi delays my school has.


texts: I was wondering if there is a way to increase the number of seconds before Photo Booth takes a picture (currently 3 seconds) or if alternatively there is an app I can use with my iSight camera that will allow me to take delayed pictures (preferably many at a time). Any help is greatly appreciated!


texts: Can't restore closed Safari tabs on Catalina!

texts:
I have a big problem with Safari.  I had about 30 tabs opened and I restarted my computer.

Safari opens itself empty, without restoring any tabs and the "restore all tabs from previous session" is disabled.

I searched the solution for hours.  The fix seems to be restoring an older version of the file LastSession.plist from the Library folder with Time Machine.  However, this isn't working on Catalina as Time Machine isn't working with this folder and its files.

Anyone know a workaround? I had really important tabs


texts:
While prepping for the switch to a new computer, I made the dreadful decision to move files from the "All My Files" Finder view to a new folder. All of the files moved to the new folder, but left the old folders in all of the previous locations (now with no files in them). I've completely lost the file structure that organized all of the files into something meaningful.

I didn't realize my mistake until it was too late to "Undo". Is there any way to look up the previous location of a list of files?

OS X Yosemite 10.10.5
no Time Machine or other backups


texts: Why is this dialog being displayed when I start firefox?

texts:
I'm a beginner Mac OS user.

When I open Firefox I receive the dialog below, why doesn't Firefox just start? What is the point of the below dialog?


texts: How can I get my mail rules from Mavericks to Sierra without doing them over one by one

texts:
Or how can I export them?
Or even just print them?

There are far too many for me to do them over.


texts: Risks of upgrading from OS X 10.5.8 to 10.6.3

texts: Knowing little about OSX, a friend has asked me to help upgrade their machine from OS X 10.5.8 to 10.6.3; what are the risks of doing so, if any, and what is the best way to mitigate them?


texts: combine two audio inputs (microphones) for Zoom

texts:
I am trying to combine two microphones (usb & bluetooth, so no hardware option exists probably) to feed the combined audio to Zoom. I tried this with the Audio MIDI app (creating 1 aggregate device with the two inputs) of macOS and judging from the input level in system preferences it seems to work. Now I wanted to use this as the audio input in Zoom, however this did not work. It seems that Zoom somehow only took some of those channels effectively discarding one of the two microphones. Hence my question: is there some way to combine two inputs (ideally adjust their levels) and feed that to zoom?
I have read a couple of similar questions (just without zoom reference) such as here, but they mostly to point to Audio Hijack which looks great, but I find it ridiculously expensive for such a little task.


texts: How does Mountain Lion authenticate with Twitter w/o using OAuth?

texts:
I was kind of confused when I wasn't redirected to the Twitter page, to allow ML using my Twitter account for several things. In this case I had to input my username + password in the pure Mac gui and it just works.

How?! Basic Auth was disabled a few months ago.


texts: How do I check if an app is going through system proxy?

texts: I have set up a system-wide socks proxy in Preferences -> Network. How can I tell if some app follows or bypasses the system proxy setting. I need this because I have a program ported from Windows that seems bypassing the system proxy and I wish to check that.


texts: What size is this internal screw for the Macbook Air (A1466)?

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I just replaced the battery for my Macbook Air (A1466), but in the process I lost one of the screws (image attached). I initially ordered a standard replacement set from Amazon, but realized it may not contain the specific screw I need.

A lot of the replacement packages seem to be for the external screws. But the one I need is just this specific one. Without it my Macbook's trackpad does not register clicks (based on prior experience).


texts: I can't change country/region of my Apple account!

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I can't change country/region of my Apple account. The steps I followed:

Tap on the App Store icon in your home screen
Tap on featured on the bottom left corner of screeen
Scroll all the way to the bottom where your Apple ID info is
Tap View Apple ID, you may have to enter your password
Once the page loads change your country/region

I do not seem to have the option to change country/region, it is there it is shown but I can't select and change it. It happens both on my iPhone and on my PC application of iTunes.

Is there any other way I can change it?


texts: Is it possible for thunderbolt to transmit power to or from a Macbook Pro. Perhaps to power/charge it or power/charge an external device?


texts: I recently moved to USA for 10 months so I had to get an American number. Can I keep my old foreign number? If so how do I do that?


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Mac n00b here. I'm running an iMac (OS X 10.10.4) with a projector attached as secondary display (extended desktop) and I have to set the position of this secondary screen in a way that the two screens align exactly at the center. My primary screen is of resolution 5120x2880, my secondary of 1920x1200, so I would have to place the latter at exactly 5120/840.

Doing this using the GUI in Displays -> Alignment seems to be next to impossible, since there is no snapping at the center. Now I'm thinking, is it possible to to this via scripting somehow? Or by editing some screen setup config files?

Thanks much!


texts: Xcode 10: Failed to create Provisioning Profile - There are no devices registered

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When I try to create a profile to build an iOS app by going to Project → General → Signing, and selecting my Team (Personal), I get two errors:

  Failed to create provisioning profile.

  There are no devices registered in your account on the developer website. Plug in and select a device to have Xcode register it.

And:

  No profiles for 'com.my.app.id' were found

  Xcode couldn't find any iOS App Development provisioning profile matching 'com.my.app.id'.

I tried to check many tutorials and questions but nothing helped me to solve these errors. Many URLs take me to the Apple Development website, but there I only have the option to pay for the membership, and as I understood that's not necessary to build and run an app on an iOS device.


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I will be travelling overseas without mobile data. International SMS will be set up, but I have iMessage linked to this mobile number. I have other iPhones, iPads and Macs which also receive iMessages on this account.

Do I have to disable iMessage on all my devices before I travel to ensure when people send a message to my mobile number, I will receive it as an International SMS?

Thanks in advance.


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I have a Word document that has an image link (it has a URL associated with it).  I would like to create a PDF rendition of this document, preserving the image link.

When I save the document as PDF (File > Print... > PDF > Save as PDF...) the link is removed.  Text-based links (e.g. foo.com, http://apple.stackexchange.com) are preserved, however.

Is this a limitation of PDF or Word's PDF interface?  Is there a solution?


texts: Black borders with external monitor on MBA 2013

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I have a problem that I'm not able to fix. I'm getting black borders, some king of margin. The display doesn't use the full space in the monitor. I have a total of four monitors in my house and three TVs. I only get this problem with one monitor.

Note that I don't have this problem with my Mac Mini with the exact same monitor... only with my Macbook Air. I tried to plug the monitor with TB->DVI and with TB->HDMI. Same problem. I tried to switch cable. Same problem. I have a DIAMOND USB 2.0 DVI ADAPTER, and when I use it, I don't get any black border.

I have no "overscan" setting in the System Preferences.

My monitor is a I-INC iH282. There is no settings in the menu to adjust overscan or something like that.

Any idea why it does that? I spent my two last evening trying to find a solution on Google.

Thanks in advance!