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After upgrading to El Capitan (No complains apart of this one) XLD does not work anymore.

When I try to rip a CD, XLD crashes and I get the following trace back:

Process:               XLD [79196]
Path:                  /opt/homebrew-cask/*/XLD.app/Contents/MacOS/XLD
Identifier:            jp.tmkk.XLD
Version:               20141129a (148.2)
Code Type:             X86 (Native)
Parent Process:        ??? [1]
Responsible:           XLD [79196]
User ID:               501

Date/Time:             2015-10-04 14:49:21.854 +0200
OS Version:            Mac OS X 10.11 (15A284)
Report Version:        11
Anonymous UUID:        9CCBACF6-B42B-0DCE-94E2-6BD9C09609E5

Sleep/Wake UUID:       5458CA8F-9C1F-4CAB-8190-184CF714214C

Time Awake Since Boot: 56000 seconds
Time Since Wake:       680 seconds

System Integrity Protection: enabled

Crashed Thread:        11

Exception Type:        EXC_BREAKPOINT (SIGTRAP)
Exception Codes:       0x0000000000000002, 0x0000000000000000
Exception Note:        EXC_CORPSE_NOTIFY

Application Specific Information:
*** Terminating app due to uncaught exception 'NSInvalidArgumentException', reason: '*** +[NSString stringWithUTF8String:]: NULL cString'

Application Specific Backtrace 1:
0   CoreFoundation                      0x993309b9 __raiseError + 201
1   libobjc.A.dylib                     0x94324f11 objc_exception_throw + 276
2   CoreFoundation                      0x993308cd +[NSException raise:format:] + 141
3   Foundation                          0x90ce2fc5 +[NSString stringWithUTF8String:] + 96
4   XLD                                 0x0001c692 -[XLDController readPreGapOfDisc:] + 2354
5   Foundation                          0x90d15b37 -[NSThread main] + 45
6   Foundation                          0x90d158c2 __NSThread__start__ + 1550
7   libsystem_pthread.dylib             0x9512b794 _pthread_body + 138
8   libsystem_pthread.dylib             0x9512b70a _pthread_body + 0
9   libsystem_pthread.dylib             0x95128fa6 thread_start + 34

Thread 0:: Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread
0   libsystem_kernel.dylib          0x9401c07a mach_msg_trap + 10
1   libsystem_kernel.dylib          0x9401b464 mach_msg + 68
2   com.apple.CoreFoundation        0x9922b096 __CFRunLoopServiceMachPort + 214
3   com.apple.CoreFoundation        0x9922a4a1 __CFRunLoopRun + 1521
4   com.apple.CoreFoundation        0x99229c46 CFRunLoopRunSpecific + 390
5   com.apple.CoreFoundation        0x99229aab CFRunLoopRunInMode + 123
6   com.apple.HIToolbox             0x97919719 RunCurrentEventLoopInMode + 267
7   com.apple.HIToolbox             0x9791951b ReceiveNextEventCommon + 503
8   com.apple.HIToolbox             0x97919314 _BlockUntilNextEventMatchingListInModeWithFilter + 99
9   com.apple.AppKit                0x9cd5b976 _DPSNextEvent + 1053
10  com.apple.AppKit                0x9cd5aef0 -[NSApplication _nextEventMatchingEventMask:untilDate:inMode:dequeue:] + 1057
11  com.apple.AppKit                0x9cd5aac7 -[NSApplication nextEventMatchingMask:untilDate:inMode:dequeue:] + 121
12  com.apple.AppKit                0x9cd4e23b -[NSApplication run] + 1063
13  com.apple.AppKit                0x9cd148c4 NSApplicationMain + 1630
14  jp.tmkk.XLD                     0x00002d12 _start + 216
15  jp.tmkk.XLD                     0x00002c39 start + 41
....

The crash occurs when it reads the gaps before ripping.

Any suggestion why this happens? I re-installed the newest version.


texts: Setting environment variables for scripts run by launchd?

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I have a script that worked in the past, but seems to be having issues now (I believe it's due to Yosemite). What I had done was created an environment variable that was set to "false" and then my script would set it to "true" so that if the script took too long and started again before it finished it would not attempt to run again concurrently. However, it doesn't work anymore.

I set the variable initially with /etc/launchd.conf

setenv autoBackupImagesInProgress false

And the part of my script that doesn't work anymore is

#Ensure that this script isn't already running
if [ -z "$autoBackupImagesInProgress" ] ; then
   #Concurrency variable was not setup so this will not work;
   #edit .bashrc or .profile to include export autoBackupImagesInProgress=false
   #should be /etc/launchd.conf
   print "WARNING: Concurrency protection unavailable"
elif [ $autoBackupImagesInProgress = true ] ; then
   #Another process has already started this, but has not yet finished
   print "WARNING: Already in progress; aborting."
   exit 0;
fi

This works if I initiate the script from the terminal or Spotlight, but not when this is started with launchd. When run from launchd this will always print the first warning and never hits the elif.


texts:
Someone stole my iPad and I got it back. Now the device is requesting for activation using @icloud.com address which I can't remember setting up.

Though I still have my Apple ID login details but can't use it to log in. I tried using my Apple ID, but it didn't work, I logged into iCloud, but could not see the @icloud.com address. I requested Apple for my data, but still couldn't find the @icloud.com address.

How do I resolve this issue?


texts: Safari extension builder no "+" sign to add new extension folder

texts: I have an extension that I need to build back to safariextz, but there is no + sign to add new extension. In the tutorials there are + signs but they are old tutorials and there is no new information. How do I build extension?


texts: Chinese IME - Change the font used in the suggestions list

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Is there a way to change what font is used to display the 'suggestions' list in OS-X 10.6+ when using the Chinese IME (simplified)?  I've looked around in the preferences (particulary 'Candidate Window'), but found nothing.

The font used is not the standard new and pretty one, but the old blocky one with slightly ugly/odd looking characters.

I assume this will take some plist editing, but have no clue which one to look at.

~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.inputmethod.SCMI.plist doesn't have it
  ~/Librara/Preferences/Input Methods is empty

Update:

For the moment I have switched to QIM Input, and it is working pretty well. Linked to that page because the main site is not in english.  The app is very well translated though.

Pros

Many more options (most of which I don't understand)
Can change font face / color / size /background
Skinnable (sogu skins, ugly though)

Cons:

Puts characters and number selector together in same color, making it a little difficult to tell what is 'candidate #1, #2, etc'.  Maybe a skin can fix this.


texts:
So, I coincidentally noticed the following behavior:

Some windows can be closed by pressing the esc key, like the Preference window in any app or the 'Safari help' window or the 'Fonts' window in TextExit for example.

Other windows can not be closed by pressing the esc key, like the Safari browser window or the 'Special Characters' window.

The default cmd w always seems to work.

What is the rule for keystrokes on closing windows? When are we allowed to use esc ?


texts: MacMini is unable to communicate with devices on netwrok

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Devices:

Router: 192.168.0.1
MacMini 192.168.0.97
MacBook 192.168.0.19
Printer 192.168.0.99
Windows 192.168.0.49

So, my problem is that a strange one.

All my devices are connected to the same router.

Here are the Ping Results.

Router - MacMini: Response
Router - MacBook: Response
Router - Printer: Response
Router - Windows: No Response
MacMini - Router: Response
MacMini - Windows: No response
MacMini - Printer: No Response
ManMini - MacBook: Response
Windows - Router: Response
Windows - MacMini: No Response
Windows - MacBook: Response
Windows - Printer: No Response
MacBook - Router: Response
MacBook - Printer: Response
MacBook - MacMini: Response
MacBook - Windows: No Response.

Basically, my ping results are all over the place. Some devices can connect to others, but no vise versa.

All devices can ping the router, but the Router cannot ping all devices.

I have no idea what is going on here, and I'm not even sure where to begin.

I hope I've provided enough information, please let me know if I need to give more.


texts: Maverics VPN to Windows 2008 SSTP with Certificate (PPTP)

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I'm unable to connect to a Windows VPN using my macbook air 2013.
The VPN Settings given to me are,

Server URL
Username & Password
SSL Ceritificate
VPN Type - SSTP

I have added image on how to configure VPN connection on Windows. Please help on how to configure this VPN on Mac OS X Maverics.

Thanks.


texts: Do MacBooks support NVMe SSD drives via the use of a Sintech adapter?

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My question:

Can anyone confirm or disprove the support of NVMe drives (like the Samsung 960) by the Sintech M.2 PCIe SSD MacBook adapters for macOS Sierra and High Sierra, or would you have any information that could help me confirm or disprove this support?

Below are the results of my research so far.

SSDs comparison

"Official" MacBook SSDs

Officially supported MacBook SSDs are really expensive. For example, with the Macbook Air/Pro 2013, 2014 and 2015 models:

OWC Aura: $299 for 240GB, $399 for 480GB, $649 for 1TB
IFIXIT: $524 for 256GB, $649 for 512GB, $949 for 1TB.

Equivalent PC SSDs

Globally, an officially supported MacBook SSD (PCIe M.2 AHCI with a proprietary 12+16pin connector) cost from about $1 to $2 per GB, while equivalent PC SSD (PCIe M.2 AHCI and NVMe with a key M connector) cost from about $0.4 to $1 per GB.

NVMe:

Intel 600p: $196 for 512GB (low quality)
Samsung SSD 960 EVO: $219 for 500GB
Corsair Force Series MP500: $316 for 480GB

AHCI:

Kingston Digital HyperX Predator: $300 for 480GB
Samsung SM951: $450 for 512GB

So standard PCIe M.2 devices seems to be up to 3x cheaper than the MacBook PCIe M.2 SSD. Plus, NVMe SSD are globally way faster.

NVMe SSD compatibility?

Connector adapter

At first for the connector, I often seen the  Sintech adapter recommended to use the AHCI SSD above in a MacBook Air/Pro. The product page clearly stipules only compatible with a limited set of AHCI SSDs, but I do not see any reason for these "incompatibilities", as there is no other software/hardware standards for the PCIe M.2 AHCI models. It seems they simply give as compatible the list of the AHCI SSDs they've tested, and as incompatible the most known NVMe SSD models.

Interface compatibility

Then for the interface, what I understand from AHCI/NVMe is that it is only a controller interface, depending on the system drivers on the MacBook and not on the hardware itself.

Which seems to be consistant with:

  I emailed the store which sell that adapter and problem is that macOS doesn't support 3rd party NVMe SSDs, but Windows 10 and Linux do.

  -- From a Youtube comment on a upgrade video with a AHCI SSD and the Sintech adapter.

So Sintech may have given these NVMe SSD as incompatible not because of the adapter incompatibility, but because of the destination OS incompatibility.

System support

Finally for the system, macOS now support NVMe SSDs, from unofficially OSX El Capitan (with a patch to boot) and natively macOS High Sierra (even as boot, see an article about the NVME support and a confirmation from the Hackintosh community).

I sent an email to Sintech to get more informations on their adapter. I got a reply with some references (added to this post), but no answer since.

Edit (23/06):

  Unfortunately, we are busy in other projects, and still can't get new system to test it.

Similar researches

After I created this post, I seen there is some people with the same question in other communities, waiting at the same step. I share the links there in case of some of them got a return from a test with the Sintech adapter or an other one.

On IFIXIT - MBP early 2015 SSD can upgrade with Samsung 950 pro?

Por Chumjan (02/27/2016):

  I think about to upgrade. Samsung 950 pro is interesting. But i'm not sure it can use for this model.

trumanhw (12/21/2016):

  You can buy an adapter from M.2 to MBPr or Air for about $20... (...) The REAL question is if the NVMe protocol will be a hiccup (as in, I don't personally know that answer) ... and if it'll get the full speed of the 950. In principle, I don't see why it wouldn't. And I WILL be testing this out.

Fabio (06/10/2017):

  [ About the patch ]. It is meant to be used on hackintosh but I think it might work on a macbook pro from 2015 with the adapter and a nvme ssd like the samsung 960/950 evo/pro. If someone tries or has tried it please let me know.


texts: Migrating solid state drive to new machine

texts:
I had a solid state drive running Snow Leopard in a 15' Macbook Pro, unfortunately I fried the logic board and got a new computer. I'd like to use the SSD in the new computer (which is set up to run 10.8).

Is this possible? What is the best way to get my old solid state drive running in the new Macbook?

[edit]: I tried booting the new machine with the old SSD and it refused to book, playing three beeps over and over.


texts: How to ssh and remotely manage GUIs on my iMac with Remote Login/Management?

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I am having trouble being able to fully control my computer remotely. By fully, I mean being able to {manage files, access the terminal, access GUI, login} all while not allowing a local user to take over.

I need to be able to control the screen, to run an installer program, for instance. The problem that I'm having with screen sharing and remote desktop is that the local user can see me log in then take control with the mouse. Then they are logged into my administrative account. They also cannot use their account while I'm logged into mine. How do I avoid this?

Another problem I am having is that while the remote computer can be accessed via a public ip and it is listed in Finder on the LAN, there doesn't appear to be a way to simply find the computer remotely via iCloud. Remote login is an example program that does this. Even if I kept track of where the computer was plugged in to the internet, the ip may change. Is there a way to find the computer based on the account instead of the network address?

In summary, I want to:
1. Be able to run a GUI installer safely isolated from local users.
2. Be able to ssh into the admin account safely isolated from local users.
3. Be able to locate my computer to connect as dependably as "Find my Mac" does, using something dependable like my iCloud account instead of a network address that may change.


texts: How to set up identical/similar keybindings in a virtualized Windows 10 (VMware Fusion) and OS X?

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I am new to Mac and now also new to the Windows 10 environment so on a huge learning curve. I have managed to set up Office via VMware Fusion virtual machine on my Mac.

I need to find out how I can mainly find the @ key to work on the Windows side. Or is there a way to make the keyboard work the same on both sides for applications? I will be working in both environments seamlessly so if I can have the same keys work in both that would be great.


texts: iCloud Not Showing Files On Mac, Not working

texts:
I logged out of iCloud on my Mac, and all my desktop items were deleted. I was Able to restore them, but now my iCloud Drive files are not showing in my finder:

Even stranger still, when I try to drag and drop something from my iCloud Drive to my desktop, it appears as a file called (Data), no matter what it is:

I've rebooted my computer, turned iCloud Drive off and on, turned off documents in iCloudDrive options. Nothing has worked. Here are my settings:

I've tried everything, I have 6 months worth of work that I can't really access. I can manually download things from iCloud Drive, but not files. One project of mine has 1,200 files In it, so cant really take that route.
Any help would be appreciated.
This is what my desktop should look like:


texts: I turned off iCloud photos on my iPhone. After that, some of my photos have been lost. How can I find them again and then restore them?


texts: Any way to Have Different Brightness Levels for Different Virtual Desktops

texts:
As the title mentions, I'm looking for a way to have different brightness settings for the internal virtual desktops on macOS. It seems like an odd request, but it's extremely useful for when dealing with apps that fully support dark mode then switching to ones that don't.
I use Xcode in with dark mode theme and rank the brightness to the max and it looks absolutely gorgeous and allows me to work all throughout the night.
The issue is when switching to Safari to google search something and immediately get blinded by the bright white backgrounds of webpages. Currently I manually adjust the brightness every time I switch to the desktop with Safari and other apps that don't support darkmode.
Let me know if this is possible, I highly doubt it as I couldn't manage to find anything, but would love to hear what possible options are available. I'm comfortable with coding, if it means getting the result through terminal or python.


texts: Wifi connections stopped working MBP Catalina 10.15.5 (19F101) when combined with wired connection

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Someone on the internet said, make a new Location.  So I created a Location, called Docked by copying that.  Every other device in the house including two MBPs connect fine to all three networks in the house.

Nothing changed.  The PROBLEM is that even when I DO disconnect the wired network, the wifi still does not connect.
The other thing I noticed is that when the the computer is connected to a wired network, the "hostname" changes.  I don't know why this would matter.
~  % hostname
Marvin-MBP.local
~  % hostname
Marvin-MBP.home ( hostname when a wired network is connected)

The wired connection is accomplished with a Anker "Power Expand 5-1 USB C hub" which requires no driver, and seems to work fine.  Some combinations of reboots and creating and deleting "Locations" seems to (maybe) fix things for this MBP, until I reconnect it to the wired network, at which point the problems recur.


texts:
For a while now, my sent mail folder has been over/underactive. For over a decade, I've bcc'd myself on emails and handled the incoming bcc from the inbox. This meant I deleted the sent mailbox without concern.

The account I have a problem with is a google apps for domains

Recently, though, Mavericks mail has both funneled some of my BCCs into the sent folder (sporadically, the worst kind of error) and linked other messages in the inbox to the versions displayed in the sent folder. Trashing the message in the sent folder leads to deleting the inbox version as well as any version that I moved to a different folder.

Since this started, I haven't deleted any of those sent messages, which is possibly just an annoyance and kludge rather than a life-threatening disorder, but still.

I've tried tweaking the gmail folder settings, but no changes in behavior have been observed.


texts:
I've been using a Mac account for years. Just checked on my iPad that only posts made on iCloud the last 30 days are on Calendar. None of the older ones appear. I've already turn off and on on settings.

Thanks a lot.

Miguel.


texts: How do you access shared folders on a Windows machine from a MacBook Air?

texts: How do I connect to my Windows machine from my MacBook Air? I have tried using the Finder but it doesn't see the Windows machine.


texts:
I have a 27" screen which is connected to my mid-2012 MacBook Pro retina through a HDMI/DVI-D (HDMI on the MacBook Pro, DVI-D on the screen).

Before I was using a adapter DisplayPort+USB/DVI-D and I was able to get 60Hz refresh rate.

Now with the HDMI/DVI-D I have only 30Hz.

Is there any way to change (by forcing?) refresh rate to 60Hz?

Or is it a hardware limitation?

NOTE: I can't change the Refresh Rate value from System Prefs, the menu is disabled and the value is set to 30Hz.

EDIT: Here's the System Prefs window


texts: Can I upgrade my MacBook Pro using "generic" RAM?

texts: Has anyone tried just buying generic RAM (which is 1/2 the price) such as the Kingston or Corsair brands? I figure if it works just as well as the $200 pairs, why not! I am open to other suggestions as well.


texts:
New to the forum.

I wonder if it's possible to downgrade OSX to 10.9.4. I have a time machine backup running regularly and have also downloaded the previous version from apple website http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1755. I did not clone my disk before upgrading to 10.9.5 and don't have another installers apart from the one downloaded from apple website. There is mixed information available on this topic, some suggesting it's not possible at all to revert back to previous version at all. I would be grateful for detailed instructions on how to do this. Thank you

I have learned my lesson now not to upgrade so quickly and wait for other users to beta test for me.

Thank you in advance for looking into this.


texts: How do I get the 'Find My' map back in the Messages app 'details' popup on macOS?

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I used to have a 'Find my' map on the details popup in Messages, useful for quick access to that info.
It disappeared around the time I upgraded to Catalina, so I assumed the feature was pulled. However, when I got a new MBP 2 weeks ago, the feature reappeared, so there as probably something wrong with my old installation. It has now disappeared again, so why is that and how do I get it back?


texts: pkgbuild created package does not install correctly

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Have now used pkgbuild/productbuild to create a product archive, consisting of three packages (application, uninstaller, KEXT), that according to installer installs fine, no errors.

The KEXT is correctly placed in /Library/Extensions and postinstall script loads it nicely.

But my applications are not moved to the /Applications/Company/ folder. The folder is created, but the applications are not placed there.

The process of doing the component plist + distribution XML is so utterly simple so I just cannot fathom what the h*ll can go wrong ?

The package can be "installed" via Pacifist, albeit then the postinstall script is not executed.

Help?

Update:

Analyze phase (application resides in ./pkgbuild/app_path/ folder):

pkgbuild --analyze --root "./pkgbuild/app_path/" app.plist

Build phase:

pkgbuild --root "./pkgbuild/app_path/" \
         --component-plist ./app.plist \
         --install-location "/Applications/Company/" \
         --identifier "com.company.myapp.pkg" \
         --version "1.0" \
         app.pkg

Then the product archive, step 1:

productbuild --synthesize --package app.pkg distribution.xml

distribution.xml is then modified with correct background image, license, etc.

Step 2:

productbuild --distribution ./distribution.xml output.pkg

(I omitted the KEXT package as that works perfectly)

When installing "output.pkg", folder /Applications/Company/ is created but is empty.

SOLVED (see Grahams answer below):

By setting BundleIsRelocatable in the component plist files to false, the applications are put into the correct place.

Viewing the installer log, the application got "relocated" to where my Xcode project built the app, but still create the /Application/Company folder. A "slightly" peculiar behaviour I would say.

OSX version is 10.11.1.


texts: Is it normal to have a Macbook heat up when using a dual boot linux?

texts:
After successfully dual-booting fedora on my Macbook Air, i have noticed that the Macbook tends to heat up a lot faster than when I am using Mac OS X.

Is this normal?


texts: Script to raise a single window to the front

texts:
In a script I'm trying to find the Terminal.app window containing a specific tty device and raise that window to the top. Here's what I have in Applescript so far:

tell application "System Events"
  set foundWin to false
  if (name of processes) contains "Terminal" then
    tell application "Terminal"
      set theTabs to first tab of every window where tty is "$(tty)"
      repeat with theTab in theTabs
        if class of theTab is tab then
          set theWin to (first window whose tabs contains theTab)
          set selected tab of theWin to theTab
          set foundWin to true
        end if
      end repeat
    end tell
  end if
  if foundWin then
    --RAISE THE WINDOW?!
  end if
end tell

Where I'm getting stuck is the "raising the window" part.

Here are some things that are not quite what I want:

set frontmost of theWin to true -- this brings the window to the front of the group of Terminal.app windows but doesn't raise it above any other windows.

tell application "Terminal" to activate -- this brings every Terminal window to the front in a big stack. I just want the one window.

tell application "System Events"
    set theSysWin to first window of process "Terminal" whose name is (name of theWin)
    perform action "AXRaise" of theSysWin
end tell

This almost does it, but what it does is to raise the terminal window to the #2 position, still underneath the active window (if the active app is something other than Terminal.app.)

click theSysWin at {10,50} -- doesn't seem to do anything.

click first static text of theSysWin -- doesn't seem to do anything.

Is there a way to do this? It doesn't have to be in Applescript.

EDIT I did find this web page ( http://blog.coriolis.ch/2008/03/04/bring-any-window-to-the-front/ ) quoting an Obj-C/Cocoa call:

SetFrontProcessWithOptions(&psn, kSetFrontProcessFrontWindowOnly);

I'm not familiar with either ObjC or Cocoa, and this is (ultimately) getting invoked from a shell script, so not sure where to go from there.


texts: What steps can be taken to troubleshoot syncing in iCloud?

texts:
OK, I'm extremely frustrated as someone who is not all that technologically astute, and I tried to solve my iCloud syncing problem by looking here, but I truly don't have the first idea how Byword's and RTF files (rich-text) sync works.

I too have the dotted lines showing that documents are not saved to the cloud.

I have just been using the iCloud for document and PowerPoint presentation the same way I have used it over the past 10 months since I got my Mac, iPad and iPhone. It has always been syncing up to this point.

Now, my iPad and iPhone are syncing but not with the Mac and the Mac is just putting a document in the iCloud which sits there with the "waiting" dotted cloud around it.

It has been waiting for over a week.  What am I doing wrong?


texts: After updating to latest iOS13.4 my iPhone XR gets shutdown even when the batter shows 20%. Tried to browse more on this, it was explained that it is a firmware issue. Can anyone suggest how to recover from this, as its quite annoying to have such behaviour.


texts: Downgrade El Capitan Developer Preview to Yosemite

texts:
I've installed El Capitan Developer Preview .
Installation crashed at about 75% and then i could only boot in safe mode.

I wiped all the hard drive to reinstall Yosemite but it only displays 10.11 as an installation option.
However, installing it won't work either. It says this disk is locked (the one I just wiped).

Now I can not even unmount it again.

I tried in the Terminal to erase it, won't work either.

Anyone else having these issues, or has any clue how I can solve the problem (install Yosemite)?


texts: How can I determine the source of this permission message? “bash“ wants access to control “System Events“

texts:
I occasionally receive this permissions message in MacOS 10.15.5:

“bash“ wants access to control “System Events“. Allowing control will provide access to documents and data in “System Events“, and to perform actions within that app.

Googling around, PCrisk implies that this could be a virus/adware.  That'd be surprising - I'm pretty careful about what I install.
Is there any way to determine which application is attempting to execute a bash command?
Screenshot:


texts: I plugged my new iphone into my computer and it asked if I wanted to restore my old iphone settings.  I clicked yes not realizing I would lose everything from the last 8 months since I got the new phone.  Is there any way to restore what was on the new phone?


texts: Remove Re: AW: and other from subject in Mail

texts: Is there any possible way to avoid these long "Re: AW:"(and so on) in the subject field of Mail? I know that Thunderbird can replace e.g. AW: (that is the German version coming from Outlook) or SV: (Danish) with the proper Re:. Up to now, I could not find anything similar for Apple Mail.


texts: "open with" and Spotlight cluttered with different versions of files/apps

texts:
The app versions are not even in my Applications directory anymore. Is there something wrong or can I edit settings for that somewhere? It seems as if my backup drive is indexed as well. How to avoid that?

See screenshots:


texts: How do I Create a Macro or Shortcut to run a Command Sequence Terminal

texts:
The following was posted by Codler as an answer to a question of read/write difficulties on NTFS drive which worked perfectly.

My question is, is there a way for a noob like me to create a shortcut method of running these steps in Terminal instead of typing it in each time I want to mount the drive?

  Plug-in your device
  Write in Terminal diskutil list and look for IDENTIFIER where TYPE is Windows_NTFS.

  In this case it is disk1s1
  Then run the following:

diskutil unmount /dev/disk1s1
cd /Volumes
mkdir Elements
sudo mount -w -t ntfs -o rw,nobrowse /dev/disk1s1 /Volumes/Elements
open /Volumes/Elements


texts: Having trouble with Final Cut Pro disk space

texts:
When I try to load footage onto final cut pro, it says that i do not have enough disc space. Before I start loading, I have 320 GB of free space.
In total, I am trying to load 5 hours of footage.

What can be the problem?


texts: How to make Open / Save dialogues stay in same folder in OS X?

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OS X's open and save dialogues have a very detailed way of remembering (or forgetting, depends on how you see it) the directory you're working in. I have the impression it is saved individually for each app and dialogue type.

A use case: we have a file my/akward/long/path/logos/logo.ai which we want to convert to a png and then upload it to a website.

Illustrator: Open Dialogue: Browse to my/akward/long/path/logos/.
Illustrator: Save for web - Save Dialogue: We're somewhere else
(where we last exported to), browse to my/akward/long/path/logos/
again, save the png.
Chrome: Upload button, Open dialogue: Oh no,
again, we're where we last uploaded from. Browse to
my/akward/long/path/logos/ and upload the png.

I find this constant directory browsing extremely tedious.

I just want all Save, Open and possible other dialogues of all Apps to stay in the same directory. Until I change to another directory, then stay there.

Is that possible? Maybe with an extra app?


texts: How can I set up an email alert on my iPhone 6 or iPad

texts: How do I set up alerts on my iPhone 6 or iPad that are triggered for incoming emails from specific people?


texts: Move notifications to smaller display on the right side

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OS:  High Sierra

I have dual displays and want notifications in the upper-right corner of my smaller secondary display, which is to the right of my larger primary.  Initially, in System Settings, I moved the menu bar to the smaller display on the right, which achieves my desired notification location.

However, this also results in undesirable side effects, such as my volume and eject overlays showing on the smaller "secondary" monitor as one example.

Is there a way to force notifications to appear on the smaller display without moving the menu bar to this location?


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Where is my apps tab in itunes (ver 12.7.3)?

I am actually trying to find an app called RFK WiFi to change the settings but it does not appear in Settings app list of apps.  I thought I could change it on my PC in Itunes.  Now I learn I do not have an apps tab in iTunes.


texts: How can I rebind Caps lock to delete/backspace?

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I tried using DoubleCommand, but it doesn't let you hold down caps lock, and pressing it causes caps lock light to be enabled/disabled. Ideally I want caps lock to never be enabled and for the key to behave exactly as though it were the delete key.

Another problem that DoubleCommand has is that every second press just toggles the light, and doesn't delete a character.


texts: Macbook Pro early 2015 Trackpad has no click. Screen flickers and trackpad and keyboard freeze after wake up, even after NVRAM and SMC reset

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The trackpad's click often fails during normal use.

It fails when the computer is used in a horizontal position flat on the table, but when the computer is tilted at a 45º angle the click starts working again.

The computer has gone to sleep twice in the middle of use.

Now every time I wake the computer up from sleep, the computer's screen flashes green or with a pixelated image, and the trackpad and keyboard do not work, so I have to force shutdown and do an SMC restart.

I was using El Capitan when the problems started, and now I have updated to High Sierra with no improvement.

I used cocnutBattery to assess the battery health in case of swelling, but it says the battery is completely healthy. Apple diagnostics also couldn't detect any problem.

I have tried the NVAM and SMC resets many times to no avail.

Any suggestions?


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I have a MacBook Pro 15 with TB. The problem is that Siri doesn't hear me when a click the icon in the touch bar. I check my microphone settings and it looks good. I have macOS Mojave 10.14.5.

But when I click on the icon as I say, nothing happens. It doesn't show the small color waves that are observed when Siri is listening to you. I try to restart the computer but doesn't work. Here is a little clip of what happened.


texts: Can reverting to a previous Time Machine instance enable Keychain data access?

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A client is running 10.9.5 on a ten year old Mac. They recently reset the admin password so that it is now different from their keychain password. They've got a bunch of passwords stored in keychain/Google Chrome that they desperately need. Chrome wasn't logged in/synced so I can't get the passwords from passwords.google.com

I've found out that without the old keychain password I can't access the keychain data.

I however noticed that they have a bunch of Time Machine backups. Can I revert to a previous backup and login or get the keychain data?


texts: Why did the USB connector for the aluminium Apple keyboard have gaps on the plug?

texts: I used to own an Apple USB keyboard - this was the metal version that had a USB port on each end. From memory, the USB cable that connected the keyboard to a computer had several gaps in the connector itself. Out of interest, why was this the case? I recall that a USB extension cable was also included with the keyboard - I wasn't sure if it could be related to this in any way.


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I have a .bundle that is digitally signed. I can verify this by opening the bundle by selecting "Show Package Contents" and indeed there is a _CodeSignature directory underneath the bundle.

However, I am trying to figure out who is the signer of the bundle. Is there any way with Xcode, or any other tool, command line or otherwise, to view the certificate that was used to sign the bundle?


texts: Recoreding the screen as seen by the user with Zoom enabled

texts: Because of my impairment, I usually use the Zoom feature built into OS X, and I'm giving a presentation in which I'd like to show a video of how I use the web. To do so, I'd like to make a screen recording that shows the screen as seen with zoom enabled. Is there a way to do this, preferably with QuickTime or ScreenFlow?


texts: Backup and sync icon not showing on task bar.

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Just got an iMac running High Sierra 10.13.4. I ran Migration Assistant from my old Mac Mini running El Capitan 10.11.6 and all seemed to work fine. However, the Backup and Sync icon on the toolbar is gone. I tried a couple of times to re-install the B&S program from the google website and it installed just fine each time but the icon is still missing. When I click on the Backup and Sync application in the Application folder it opens up the Google drive folder but still no icon on the task bar. Note, when i ran the Migration Assistant the Backup and Sync feature was 'paused'.

I am sure that this is a preference misbehaving but since preferences for B&S are shown through the B&S icon, which is not being shown on the taskbar, i can't see to review them. What can i do ? How can I review the preferences (B&S is not in the System Preferences)? Any other solution?

Many thanks.


texts: Is it possible to initiate "delete from iCloud" from iPhone?

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I know, from within iTunes one can chose to remove an item from iCloud. Is the same possible from the iPhone?

Say you imported an album full os songs and don't like one or two and would like to delete it from iCloud directly from the iPhone.

Can this be done?


texts: My 2,5 year old Macbook Pro wakes from sleep every other hour after installing Mavericks

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Okay so, I own a 2,5 year old (Early 2011) Macbook Pro which works just fine. After the release of Mavericks I decided to reinstall it from scratch since I had been upgrading it step-by-step since Snow Leopard and it would feel good to reinstall it from scratch.

Well, I did that a while back ago, and only yesterday did I remember that I had forgotten to install an IRC client. So, I installed Limechat which is what I normally use. Well, today at work, I realized that my computer at home was logging in to IRC every other hour just to get a ping timeout 3 minutes later. Hm, that's weird.

So, when I come home I find this every other hour in /var/log/system.log (example has been cut for brevity):

Nov  5 14:30:50 pioneer kernel[0]: AirPort_Brcm43xx::powerChange: System Wake - Full Wake/ Dark Wake / Maintenance wake
Nov  5 14:30:50 pioneer kernel[0]: Previous Sleep Cause: 5
Nov  5 14:30:50 pioneer WindowServer[126]: _CGXHWCaptureWindowList: No capable active display found.
Nov  5 14:30:50 pioneer kernel[0]: wlEvent: en1 en1 Link DOWN virtIf = 0
Nov  5 14:30:50 pioneer kernel[0]: AirPort: Link Down on en1. Reason 8 (Disassociated because station leaving).
Nov  5 14:30:50 pioneer UserEventAgent[11]: Captive: CNPluginHandler en1: Inactive
...

At first I thought it was this new (?) feature called Power Nap, but it turns out that my Mac doesn't support that. So I figure it must either be something on my LAN that is waking it up through the wake-on-LAN mechanism, or something that runs locally on my Mac.

What do you guys think it could be?


texts: Large ping times in normal mode, okay ping times in safe mode

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I pinged google.com to see that ping times ranged from 54 ms to over 2000 ms on my MBA. After a quick isolation and testing, I figured that it was my MBA only issue. I log into safe mode on my MBA with Mountain Lion and I suddenly get ping times of around 15 to 30 ms, which I think are normal from my place and thus okay.

Now that I know ping times are okay in safe mode, how do I hunt down, what might be the issue with my MBA in normal mode? Any clear procedure you advise?


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If I check my activity monitor there is an instance of java that is constantly taking 5% CPU or more. I know that there is some app that are using java on my system and therefore my question is:

Is there any way to figure out what app that is using java without closing all running apps?

Note: All "main" applications is closed (No apps i dock) so I know that that it is one of my background/menubar applications.


texts: Recover Meteor JS MongoDB from Time Machine Backup

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I have recently recovered my Mac with a Time Machine Backup from the beginning of August. Today I ran an existing Meteor JS project and saw that the MongoDB documents were pretty outdated (latest document was from May 25th!).

Do you have any clue how to recover the missing documents? I have made a few backups between May and August but I would like to recover the latest.


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Looking at my iPhone via iTunes, i see a very questionable amount of "Other".

What is it? How can i delete it?


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I'm using macbook retina mid 2014 with storage capacity 128GB. When i check my storage About This Mac > Storage, its showing uses of movies occupying 3.96GB. I check all folders individually but i can't find a single video file.

And also why the "other" section occupying 56.04 GB of storage.
Here is the screenshot.


texts: What is the format for logging into a domain account in OS X?

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At the login screen, how do I login to a domain account?

For example, on Windows the username might be something like louis@contoso.local, where the domain is contoso.local.

Edit: The AD username happens to be the same as a local username.


texts: How to troubleshoot macbook's failing parts

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Not sure if its a software or hardware problem. When I turn on my macbook pro (2011) it asks me for a password, shows some progress bar after (it fills up to like 30%) and then it just reboots and starts the whole process again.

I tried all kinds of recovery methods (USB stick with repair tools, another USB stick with a fresh version of Yosemite, Internet recovery...) but I always end up at a grey screen and nothing is happening.

p.s. Apple hardware test says that everything is ok and no errors have been found.


texts: How would I remap Mac CMD to CTRL keys in Blender?

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I want to remap the command with the control in Blender application. I've tried using Karabiner and when I open it these are the default Blender options:

I wonder how I can add the command/control switch as well?

I've tried doing it by updating the private.xml file as shown below:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<root>
    <item>
        <name>For Applications</name>
            <item>
                <name>Enable at only Blender</name>
                <identifier>private.swap_command_and_control</identifier>
                <autogen>__KeyToKey__ KeyCode::COMMAND_L, KeyCode::CONTROL_L</autogen>
                <autogen>__KeyToKey__ KeyCode::CONTROL_L, KeyCode::COMMAND_L</autogen>
            </item>
    </item>
</root>

But it's wrong as shown here:

I want it to be appearing under the blender application item as shown below. Any advice please?


texts: Is Snow Leopard Server a good candidate for everyday use as a main OS?

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Although similar questions have been asked before [1,2] non of them fully address whether OSX 10.6 Sever is a good candidate for everyday use on a top of the line computer. For the really lazy;

1 - Discusses on the importance of having a high spec computer in order for OSX Server to perform to its best.

2 - Discusses on the appropriateness of using OSX Sever in a software development environment.

Getting on to the nitty gritty, my question is more focused towards whether using the aforementioned OS is a good idea for an advanced used (not so much in network related subjects) that desires to do both Software Development, Image/Video editing, and setting up shared services such as; Calendars, Webservices (Wiki's + Websites) and email.

When I say top of the range, I refer to the recently released iMac configured to the following specs;

Quad-Core i7 3.4Ghz (Boost to 3.8Gz)
8 Gb of DDR3 RAM
2 Gb ATI Radeon HD 6970M
2 TB of storage. Partitioned 1:1 between Mac and Windows

In terms of internet connectivity I run a 50Mbps fibre-optic downlink with 5mbps uplink.

The reason why I believe OSX Server will be an option to consider for me is the fact I plan to work on a startup with a colleague (with no IT Background) but we live in different countries for now, so the ability of;

Having an easy to use wiki
The ability to create VPN for accessing NAS files
The option of remotely setting up business related software and beta releases on their PC
Facility for sync and collaboration (Mail, Calendar, and Document access editing)

seem to represent an added value between the two. I obviously understand that having the server setup in a computer that will be getting switched off and on will disable the services, but appart form that is there any other advantage or disadvantage I am unaware of?

If you are familiar with any software that possesses similar functionality to what am looking for, please feel free to put your suggestions forward.


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I'm trying to decrypt my disk and turn off FileVault, but I can't do that. Firstly, the Turn Off FileVault... button is disabled.

Locked

Unlocked

Secondly, I try sudo fdesetup disable with Terminal but it also doesn't work. It returns FileVault was not disabled (-69595).

Edit
I've also tried doing it from recovery, but it doesn't work. For more info, see the comment on @n1000 's answer.

I'm running Mac OS Mojave (Version 10.14.1) on a MacBook Air 11" (Released in Mid 2013).
Thanks!


texts: Possible to have separate shortcuts for different text-to-speech voices?

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I know that it is possible to make Mac OS X to read the text with a keyboard shortcut.

System preferences Dictation & Speech->Text to Speech tab

But suppose I'm multilingual. Is it possible to have different shortcuts for different languages?


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Possible Duplicate:
  Wireless Keyboard disconnects

The wireless Apple keyboard that came with my iMac has a tendency to suddenly disconnect from my iMac without no sensible reason (its not the battery). The only solution I have found this far is restarting the iMac, which automatically reconnects the keyboard. I have tried reconnecting the keyboard through the bluetooth configuration, which gives no ohther result than making the toolbar freeze.

Any solutions?


texts: AppleScript: Activate all mail rules with "sort: " in their name

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I would like an AppleScript to activate all rules that have the string "sort: " in their names.

As far as I know this is how to enable a mail rule:

tell application "Mail" to set enabled of rule "sort: foo bar" to true

How do I get the names of all mail rules?
How do I filter these names for containing the string "sort: "?


texts: Adding photos to Shared Album, using the web

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I have some photos on a linux computer that I would like to add to a Shared iPhotos Album.

So I thought I would log in to my icloud.com account and add them there.

To my surprise, the shared albums are not even listed on my icloud.com account? Why not?

How can I add photos to my shared iPhoto album with a non Apple computer?

UPDATE: My Mac doesn't even show the Shared Albums, even though I use the same account as on my iOS devices.

UPDATE2: I am running MacOS10.13.6

UPDATE3: Thank you @fsb it was indeed an iCloud setting: "iCloud Photo Sharing" that wasn't enabled.


texts: How can one filter MULTIPLE processes in Activity Monitor?

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How can I look at several processes at once, instead of just one?

For example… typing in bash, shows bash processes.. how to I show both bash and say httpd?

First thoughts.. bash|httpd, no.  Or bash httpd, no.  Long story short, nothing i tried worked.  Is it possible?


texts: Can I use normal headphones in the iPhone 5S jack?

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I want to use my normal audio headphones with the iPhone to get a better quality of music in my 5S.

Explain whether it would not affect the phone in any case, if I am using the 3-metal-part audio headphones.


texts: When I open the App Store on my iPhone, it opens my Australian account by default. How can I change the settings so it opens my US account (which I do own legally).


texts: Automator action "Rotate Images" is incredibly memory-intensive

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I'm building an automator workflow to rotate images. It seems that sips and other image rotation possibilities do not actually change the bits of the image, but just flip a switch for orientation, and I need to change the image bits. Anyway, I'm building the workflow using the "Rotate Images" action and it seems like it uses a ton of memory when you rotate multiple images (which is kind of the point of an automator action). Apparently, after it rotates an image, it retains the memory and only releases it after the entire action is complete. And so I end up running out of ram and also swap!

Is there a solution to force it to release memory?


texts: Safari Version 14.0.2 on big sur problem selecting text in PDF

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I'm having some weirdness while trying to quote materials from a text PDF document. I recently updated to big sur and it may have something to do with that.
Can someone go to this PDF: https://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/text/Oral_History/Motorola_68000/102658164.05.01.acc.pdf
and try selecting text on any page after page 2? I can select fine on the first two pages, but not after that. I'm trying to figure out if this is a problem in Safari or the PDF itself.


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It's been like this for months:

A friend of mine downloaded Angry Birds on his account, then signed out. Then a week later I said "I'm never going to play this." and deleted the app, however, the update still remains.

Hitting update returns "Unknown Error".  Attempting to purchase Angry Birds again or re-sintall it on any account (even my friends) returns "Unknown Error", and then "The app store encountered a problem. Please try again later. (4)"

How can I get it to go away!? It won't display my other app updates either! My update tab is just broken and stuck on Angry Birds.

Here's what I've tried:

Using AppZapper to remove App Store pref files. Works for a moment, then if you hit the updates tab it refreshes and goes back.
Re-installing Angry Birds
Changing accounts and trying the above.
Signing out of iTunes

Nothing works. Am I doomed to see that update forever?


texts: Cookies in Safari private browsing with iframes

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Update: Since doing some more investigation, I'm updating this question.

We're seeing some strange behaviour on our site for Safari users who are in private browsing mode. Our site is in an iframe which is on a different domain to the main window.

It seems like our cookies are being blocked by Safari when in private mode.

Interestingly, if the cookies already exist (ie. if we login through the main window, and then go to this page) then it allows the cookies and you can see them in the web inspector. But if you try to log in through this iframe when in private mode, the login fails, and it appears to be because Safari is blocking the cookies.

Is this a private browsing setting which can be changed perhaps? The information I've found about how private browsing affects the way Safari treats cookies has been inconsistent.

Any information or ideas that anyone has would be much appreciated.


texts: VLC 2.1.5 (all versions and 2.2.0) plays only audio not video

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My 27" iMac on Yosemite, presents the same symptoms described in  'VLC in Mac does not show video window 2'. I tried all the actions available ie reinstalling, trashing preferences, the solutions proposed in the above mentioned questions etc but the result is the same: for all formats on file open or on double click, the application opens a new video window who closes immediately and the clip plays only the audio track.
The same clips play OK on QT, RealPlayer, MPlayer etc.


texts: Using OS X of a new MacBook on an "old" iMac

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I have a late 2009 27" iMac. The iMac runs the default OS X version, 10.6.

This week I bought a new MacBook with OS X 10.8. Can I install the new OS X on my iMac without buying 10.8? Does the license allow this, and if it does, how do I do it? If you know how I can register OS X with my Apple ID, I can install OS X 10.8 via wifi.


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Is it possible to have an url that links to an individual email message on my local machine? So that if I click on osxmail://759847982 my mail client will open that specific message.

GMail can do this, but I wonder if it's possible in a native client.

I'm open to any application, it doesn't have to be Apple Mail.


texts: Shouldn't Siri be able to run on the new iPad?

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Siri has been made to run on older iOS devices some time ago. It was reported by MacRumors that special hardware is what sets the iPhone 4S as the exclusive device for Siri. Enter the new iPad.

The new iPad supports voice dictation, which, to me anyway, is a clear indicator of at least some of this earSmart technology making its way into iPad 3. Additionally, the new iPad has some sort of access token to Apple's servers, given the voice dictation feature. As discussed by answers to my question here, the new iPad is connecting to Apple servers for voice processing. Additionally, Voice Dictation would imply that the new iPad has access tokens for Siri's servers.

So, we have the hardware, and we have the token. The new iPad should be able to run Siri, pending an update from Apple or the jailbreak community.

Is this thought process correct? Have I missed anything?


texts: Keep external monitor connected when computer is locked

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On my 2016 MBP with an external monitor connected through DisplayPort, when I lock my computer, the monitor is immediately "disconnected", so when I unlock my computer, it takes up to 15 seconds to re-detect the external monitor and re-arrange windows.
Is there anyway I can make lock just be lock, and not a "mini-sleep"? My agenda here is not to conserve power (and I'm on full mains power), but to exercise good information security. It's annoying, and I'm finding myself not locking my computer when stepping away for a short period of time, which is bad INFOSEC.


texts: Is MacKeeper a contoversial App that new Apple Users should be educated to stay away from?

texts: I see adverts for this particular app all over the place. Is it true that people should stay well away from it, as it could potentially do more harm than good to your Apple Computer, and to your wallet!!


texts: Set an alert for an event in a subscribed calendar in iCal

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My meetup.com account allows me to subscribe to an iCal calendar that displays all meetups that I have RSVP'd "yes" to.

All of the events appear as expected, but none of them have an alert setting (e.g., display message 2 hours before).

Is there a way to set an alert for events in a read-only subscribed calendar?


texts: Used 2015 MBP Pro Retina dropped 300 mAh of Full Charge Capacity in three months

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Back in February I bought an used 2015 MBP Retina and it had 251 battery cycles and 8440 mAh full charge capacity. Now after almost three months I felt like the battery life decreased a little bit and I was shocked to find in system Information that the full charge capacity dropped form 8440 mAh to 8119 mAh.

I would like to add that I added 8 battery cycles, but other than that I used it plugged in mostly.

Is there any best practice to avoid this situation?


texts: Touchbar on Macbook pro 16" crashes when it tries to open

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I have the Macbook pro 16", which has a physical escape key now, and macOS Catalina 10.15.2. That means that there is less space on the actual touchbar. Even after configuring the touchbar "exension" preference to only have a few items, I'm always shown the same 4 options on the right, and the Configure in: Extension Preferences on the left.

If I press the < on the touchbar to expand the available options, you can see the animation expand to being too big for the bar (very quickly) and then it blanks out. Leaving you with nothing on the right side, but still the Configure in: Extension Preferences on the left.

To get the four defaults back, I have to press the Extension Preferences button and then exit out of the preferences.

Is there a way to tell what process is crashing or debug this?


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I really dont understand this. My school sells products to students via onthehub.com.

They offer a separate version of Windows 8 Pro that they claim is specifically for Macs. How does this make any sense? They say it is tailored to work with parallels or bootcamp and those type of things.

I am assuming they are only making the claim for 'security' sake? Let me know your two cents. I really just want to use it on my PC.


texts: Re-image Macs in bulk and administer them

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I've been called in to deal with the IT infrastructure of a small non-profit organisation that is going through a restructure. They have 6+ Mac Minis, an iMac, a MacBook, a MacBook Pro and a Mac server (not a Mac Pro, a silver desktop box).

I'm presented with the need to take backups of hard drive content, and then re-image them with 10.8, reinstalling Microsoft Office 2011.

With 10+ computers, downloading the OEM OS version 10+ times via Recovery, and then updating seems slow and pointless.

How can I re-image all these Macs in a sane way? Coming from a Linux background, this all seems overly complicated.

Bonus points if someone can point me to some free software that will help me administer all of these. I watched Google's talk on the matter, but there didn't seem to be anything out of the box.


texts: App Store Software Update download speed is super slow

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My connection right now is 200 Mbit/s download and upload for any kind of internet usage except downloads over the app store.

I want to download a software update and I'm getting maybe 1 Mbit/s.

I tried these "fixes" I found in the internet:

I turned Certificate Revocation List (CRL) in the Keychain Access preferences off.
I changed my DNS to 8.8.8.8.

It doesn't help. The downloads stay super slow. What can I do?


texts: Synology Mac OS X startup mounting folders via NFS

texts: A couple of years or so ago, I modified a script, according to a forum message, which would (I assume) automount the folders found on my Synology server, ie web, video, public, music, photo at startup time. This would then show these folders in the Finder window. I no longer have the Synology server running so as a result, whenever I restart my IMac (OS X 10.7.5) there are messages that pop up for each folder: "There was a problem connecting to the server "192.168.xxx.xxx". Now I can't remember what script I changed so I can comment out these commands. Can anyone help me?


texts: MacBook crashes with so much of heat while the lid is closed

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Sometimes, while I close the lid of my MacBook as it usually is while you don't use it, and leave it on the desk without connecting it to an adapter, I find that my MacBook is insanely heated. When I open the lid and check out the Mac, the OS has crashed and the trackpad doesn't function, forcing me to restart the Mac.

After the restart, the alert is shown with a message like: Because a problem occurred, it has been restarted.

This has occurred multiple times, possibly over more than 10 times in 2 years, also on my older MacBook Pro Retina. However, why does this occur while the lid is closed and the computer isn't working?

And finally, is there any possible way to prevent this? I don't remember if this problem happens when I connect it to an adapter.

UPDATE

In Diagnostic and Usage Messages pane in Console.app, I found the following log message:

9/14/16 06:54:57.000 kernel:
com.apple.message.domain: com.apple.kernel.tcpstat
com.apple.message.signature: tcpinfo
com.apple.message.signature2: mDNSResponderHel
com.apple.message.signature3: launchd
com.apple.message.summarize: YES

After that, the computer seemed to be not working and the next log message is the one when I found it was not working and thus restarted, which occurred in 2 hours later.

The last log message before the following:

9/14/16 06:54:44.436 Exchange Rates:
com.apple.message.domain: com.apple.coretls.client_finished
com.apple.message.signature: tls
com.apple.message.signature2: redacted_bundle_id
com.apple.message.value_events: 1
com.apple.message.value_alpn_received: 1
com.apple.message.summarize: YES
com.apple.message.value_ocsp_peer_enabled: 1
com.apple.message.value_ocsp_response_received: 1

There are 6 more logs at the exactly same time from the app, and the next log files before them is from com.apple.usage.app_activetime, occurred 2 seconds before them.

So maybe it the app Exchange Rate the one that caused the crash and forced me to restart? If so is there anything on me that prevents this (except uninstalling it, which is not a solution here)?


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I have something running that is syncing two directories. I want to turn it off but cannot figure out what it is. El Capitan, if that matters.

Can someone provide a command or tool that will reliably show the pid (and ideally the command) for every file read and write operation?

I assume this is possible with something dtrace-based but have not been able to figure it out.

(Login items are empty for the relevant user.  Crontab is empty for both the relevant user and root.)

Thank you for your help.


texts: Renew DHCP from the command line on a Mac

texts: Can I run command sudo ipconfig set en0 DHCP as a standard user which shouldn't prompt for administrative username and password?


texts: Regularly used hotel apps have a strange overabundance of acknowledgements that have not been there before on iPad pro MRT

texts:
My iPad pro is acting strange I noticed in the acknowledgement portion several with MRT ay the beginning in the Marriott and SPG apps.what is it and how do I get rid of it?
or should I iPad pro is acting a little odd I was looking through  I be concerned I know this is not something that has been there I know it's new and I mean there's just acknowledgement after acknowledgement with this MRT in the beginning


texts: What actually happen if we click the power button in iPhone?

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Are we turning it off?
Are putting iPhone on standby mode?
What mode are we putting iPhone in?
Can calls get in?

I noticed that musics from music video get turned off which sucks because I want to be able to put my iPhone on standby mode and keep listening to music.


texts: How can I make ctrl+right/left arrow stop changing Desktops in Lion?

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⌃ Control+→ and ⌃ Control+← switches desktops.

I actually had this enabled in Spaces on Snow Leopard, but I'd like to turn this off because I use those key combinations when editing in Eclipse. How do I turn this off?


texts:
Sidecar works well, but is there is any option to use my iPad camera and speaker as default while using Sidecar.

Catalina V 10.15.3 (19D76)


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I am about to buy an Apple charger on Ebay coming from USA, yet I am not sure if I can use it here in Europe, more precisely in Portugal.

I'm not concerned with the plug itself since I have the plug from my old broken charger and given that I can easily detach and attach it to the new charger this is not a problem.

My concern is related to the different electrical system used in USA and in Europe, so do I need to buy a converter or is it safe to use it ?

Best regards,

Filipe Silva.


texts: Unable to highlight top of pdfs in iBooks

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Highlighting text in a pdf with iBooks is quite convenient unless I am trying to highlight some text at the top of the page. The toolbar then hide what I want to highlight.
See the screenshots below where the first line gets hidden:

How can I circumvent this?


texts: I've been wondering how to organize my shows by Show, then season and then episode because I have, for example, 6 entries for Bones (one for each season), 7 for Star Trek TNG, etc. and it just looks like a mess (Imagine if you had all 22 seasons of The Simpsons), is there something else to clean this up?


texts: I have an application, and it's listed in installed applications and when checking for upgrade. I don't want brew bask to handle this application. Is there a way to unlink it from brew without uninstalling and then reinstalling again manually?


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I was trying to use the --parents option with cp (to create the non-existing directories in the target path) in the terminal but that option does not seem to be working in MacOS.

>cp --parents src_dir trgt_dir
cp: illegal option -- -
usage: cp [-R [-H | -L | -P]] [-fi | -n] [-apvX] source_file target_file
       cp [-R [-H | -L | -P]] [-fi | -n] [-apvX] source_file ... target_directory

Any alternative?


texts: MacBook Pro battery rapidly loses charge

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I have a MacBook Pro Mid 2010 that I changed the battery and logic board on, a few moths ago.

I have an issue with the battery that after a full charge and removing the charger plug the battery suddenly drops below 80%, but runs normal till about 50% and then the MacBook suddenly shuts down and doesn't turn on again until I plug the charger in again.

I've tried reseting SMC and calibrating the battery with no result.


texts: I added my account to my uncles so now we're doing family sharing, I recently got an Apple iTunes card for 15$ and can't use it because when I try to purchase something it goes to his credit card info to verify the purchase through him but I have credit so what's going. I'm getting fed up


texts: Reinstall OS X (Yosemite) without Internet Connection

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I have got very slow internet connection. Last time, it took me 8 hours to download the Yosemite installation files.
Is there anyway to clone a clean copy of OS X to another drive?

I have tried rsync in the Terminal after Bootup + Option. The rsync command is not available


texts: Facebook calendar exists, but won't display events in iOS 11.1

texts: The Facebook calendar is checked (picture below), and while the events do appear on my laptop, they won't appear on my iPhone calendar.  I uninstalled Facebook and Messenger, then logged out of my gmail account to remove all calendars.  It was odd that when I did this, the Facebook calendar option stayed yet the rest left (second picture), but after reinstalling everything the events still won't show up.


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I am having a very severe issue. I erased my Mac’s disk and reinstalled macOS High Sierra yesterday (I was already on High Sierra before reinstalling). I made copies of the drive before wiping it and I have all the data of the old disk at hand on external drives. (This is not a question about any kind of data loss, no loss occurred.)

Just after my clean install I wanted to reinstall all the passwords I had saved in Safari (I just store them locally, without using iCloud sync). I was absolutely convinced they were stored in the session Keychain, so I just opened the clone of my old disk and then ~/Library/Keychains/login.keychain-db and I almost had a heart attack when I saw they were not there. There was a lot of stuff, including my WiFi passwords, iMessage, App Store, Steam passwords, certificates and so on, everything was stored there EXCEPT all the Safari Internet passwords.
So I tried to copy the whole Keychains folder to my new install and replaced the new one with the old one. This had no impact. Still no passwords in Safari.
Because I don’t use sync services I have literally no way to access these passwords ever again if I don’t find the file where they were stored. Where does Safari 11 usually stores locally saved passwords on High Sierra? This is a very serious issue, I am locked out of literally everything including important documents.


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I’d like to have Bluetooth disabled automatically when I login to my user account. Is there any way to achieve this?
I’m running macOS Sierra, and have blueutil installed.


texts: Apple 2 network connection says Selected Appletalk Connection can't be found

texts: Apple ii is setup for ethernet with addon card. Link light is green, however I cannot ping google. It's setup for 10 Base T and used to connect just fine. I powered cycled my modem one day, and after a snowstorm it would no longer connect. I can access my default internal network fine, just not anything external. Also, other nodes work fine on the network, just not the Apple ii.


texts: How do I downgrade node or install a specific previous version using homebrew?

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I'm using brew. I have node installed, using brew. I want to use an earlier version of node.

Online, I find instructions such as, for example:

cd /usr/local/Library/Formula
brew remove node --force
brew versions node
git checkout 83988e4 /usr/local/Library/Formula/node.rb
brew install node

The problem I have with this is that brew doesn't seem to have a versions subcommand:

$ brew versions node
Error: Unknown command: versions
$ brew --version
0.9.5

I'm new to brew. Do I need to enable the versions subcommand somehow? Should I use a different subcommand instead? Is there a completely different method I should try?

I'm running OS X Yosemite (10.10.1); brew 0.9.5.


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I have a few aliases set up on my mac. But for some reason they don't seem to work anymore. I'm not sure why either. Even when I type in alias to see my list of aliases nothing happens just this:

Jonnys-MacBook-Air:~ jonny$ alias
Jonnys-MacBook-Air:~ jonny$

If I go into my ~/.profile script with nano I can see the script exists and has values though.


texts: Why would a Wi-Fi network not support Wi-Fi Calling?

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Currently my Verizon Wi-Fi Calling on iOS 9.3 works fine at home but not at work (which I control so I can modify it). The two networks have different base stations and routers but I haven't yet found anything different enough between them to account for the non-working Wi-Fi Calling on my work network.

In the article https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT203032 at the bottom in the Get Help section it states in point 3:

  Connect to a different Wi-Fi network. Not all Wi-Fi networks work with Wi-Fi Calling.

Is there a list of what is required to make a Wi-Fi network support Wi-Fi Calling? I have yet to find anything other than the ports listed on https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT202944 about what is needed for a Wi-Fi network to support Wi-Fi Calling.

Does anyone have pointers to more documentation or know what needs to be enabled for Wi-Fi Calling to work? Are there any debugging methods I can try out there?

UPDATE: I didn't end up making any changes on the network and now the Wi-Fi Calling is active. I'm just going to go scratch my head for a while and assume it was an upstream issue I hadn't had a chance to diagnose. Thanks all for the replies and information.


texts: Saving .mp4 file to iCloud drive, saying need more space but drive saying 147GB available!

texts: I have Macbook Pro, Sierra, 10.12.6.  I have activated iCloud and it shows I have 147GB available.  I am trying to copy 20GB .mp4 files to the iCloud and it is telling me I am out of space???  How do I get it to download to the iCloud storage I just upgraded to???


texts: what does an app do to satisfy the dock bounce?

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What does an application have to do that satisfies the dock system so it stops bouncing the app's icon?
I am writing an X11 app that runs via XQuartz. I can create an app bundle with an icon for the Desktop such that my app runs fine when I double-click it, but the icon in the dock bounces forever.
I am aware of the dock feature that allows turning off bouncing for all apps, that's not what I need.
Thanks for any info.


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I like smart quotes and curly quotes (unlike most people of the internet, apparently). I'm on macOS Mojave, Version 10.14.3. I have both of these preferences turned on:

TextEdit preferences:

System-level keyboard preferences:

However, whenever I launch TextEdit, Substitutions > Smart Quotes is turned off, and as I write, my apostrophes and quotation marks don't get converted into curly ones:

Currently, I have to manually turn on Smart Quotes every time I launch TextEdit. How can I make TextEdit always have Smart Quotes enabled at launch?

Thank you!


texts: Waiting for device. Xcode will continue when iPhone is finished WORKAROUND?

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This is not an unknown problem and is no doubt partially a very common one.
There are many solutions to issues with loading an app to a device and sometimes the simulator but this is very specific to the operating system updates and very consistent.
If you update the operating system on your phone before the Xcode app has been updated after that operating system update, it will not load and displays "Waiting for device, Xcode will continue when iPhone is finished".
Ive learnt after this has happened on at least 8-10 occasions over the last year that nothing I've found on Stack actually works (Hopefully this changes today).
The only solution (As far as I'm aware) has been to wait for 2, 3, or 4 days for the next Xcode update and then everything is back to normal.
Is there a workaround (which works specifically for this reason) so I can load the app onto my phone without having to wait for the next Xcode app update?


texts: Sound of internal soundcard gets completely warped and distorted on MacBook Pro

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In May i bought a refurbished MacBook Pro (16inch, 2019) and i have severe problems with the internal soundcard of this device. The sound generally is weird in the low frequency area and i got my MacBook running for around 2-3 days without restarting it the sound might get completely destroyed. (See demonstration link below)
I've already contacted the support and went through basic VRAM resets and all the stuff they do with you remotely. However it didn't help and my only choices are to completely wipe my HD and re-install macOS or to send my MacBook in.
I really want to avoid resetting my MacBook as it could cost me a up to 2-3 of work days to get it all set up again.
The reason why I'm asking for advice here is, to see if anyone can detect if this is hardware or software related problem or if it's unclear.
Here is a demonstration. And here is a link to the audio i played back


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I have three Macs on my LAN. Call them Mini, Ret, and Flat. All three have a user named 'chap', who's an Admin. Mini and Ret are running the most current version of MacOS 10.13, and Flat is running the latest MacOS 10.14. Mini and Ret are both set to permit screen sharing. Flat is my laptop.

(Note: when I say "screen share from A to B", A is local and B is remote.)

I can screen share from Ret to Mini, from Mini to Ret, and from Flat to Mini without being prompted for username/password. When I try to screen share from Flat to Ret, though, I'm always prompted to log in.

Ret and Mini have the same System Preference > Sharing settings for screen sharing. Automatic login of 'chap' is set for all three systems.

Any thoughts why Ret is requesting logins from Flat (and not from Mini)?


texts: Custom Scheduling of Time Machine backups

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How can I customize the schedule at which Time Machine performs its backups?

I am annoyed by looking at the number of times I see the Time Machine backing up several MBs every hour and then the cleanup.


texts: Apps folder: View settings are always being reset

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I have a small problem with my apps folder (/Applications/).

Whenever I change the view settings, for example, the size of the text, and click "Use as standard", it works fine.

But after some time, definitely after reboot or logout, those settings are not applied anymore and the old, ugly style is being used.

I heard that the file .DS_Store contains these settings. There is none in my apps folder, so I created one, but it didn't even save, no warning or error was given.

In all other folders, this works fine.

Does anybody have an idea to make my apps folder to stick to the chosen view settings permanently?


texts: Get the UUID from a mostly dead hard drive?

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I have a mostly dead internal hard drive in my '07 iMac. I've switched the machine over to an external FW800 drive but every now and then, on reboot, the mostly dead internal drive will mount on boot and it's mostly dead status causes no end of trouble on the machine. My Spotlight indexing chokes up trying to read it, LaunchBar complains and slows down, Disk Utility won't launch -- it's not good having it active.

I can't unmount the drive it's so close to dead:

iansimac:~ root# diskutil unmount /dev/disk0s2
Volume Main  on disk0s2 timed out while waiting to unmount

I'd like to put an fstab entry together to stop it from mounting once and for all, but I can't the UUID for the drive. The diskutil call against it hangs up at:

iansimac:~ root# diskutil info /dev/disk0s2
   Device Identifier:        disk0s2
   Device Node:              /dev/disk0s2
   Part of Whole:            disk0
   Device / Media Name:      Main

   Volume Name:              Main
   Escaped with Unicode:     Main%FF%FE%20%00

   Mounted:                  Yes
   Mount Point:              /Volumes/Main
   Escaped with Unicode:     /Volumes/Main%FF%FE%20%00

   File System Personality:  Journaled HFS+
   Type (Bundle):            hfs
   Name (User Visible):      Mac OS Extended (Journaled)
   Journal:                  Journal size 81920 KB at offset 0x1d18000
   Owners:                   Enabled

   Partition Type:           Apple_HFS

It'll eventually time out, but it takes a long time to get there. I can't format the drive or wipe it, those actions fail. As does trying to repair it. It's just not worth the surgery on a late 2007 iMac to remove it and replace it so I'd like to leave it in place, but take it out of the way.

Is there some other way to get the UUID for the device that doesn't involve using the disk in anyway? Would it be cached in a file some place I could take a look at? I've looked at the output from diskutil and couldn't see a way to get it without involving the device. And the mount output doesn't say anything about UUIDs in its output.


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For some reason, the sounds for ringers, and alerts/notifications on my iPhone appear to not be playing anymore. Even though the ringer volume in settings is turned up almost to the max, the phone still only vibrates when receiving a call. And when the phone is placed onto it's charging dock, instead of BEEP ing like it normally does, it simply vibrates.

Interestingly, when I fiddle with the ringer volume slider in settings, the test ringtone plays just fine, and music audio cannot be played through the built in speaker.

What's going on?
please suggest some solution.


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Airdrop is not working on my macbook pro (early 2015, 13-inch, 8G, Mojave 10.14.6). To be more specific:

My macbook can see and send files to my iphone and ipad, but not vice versa. My iphone and ipad cannot see my macbook in the Airdrop available devices.
If I log out of my Apple ID, the airdrop function is back to normal, i.e. the macbook and iphone can see each other in Airdrop, and send files. However, as soon as I log in my Apple ID, the macbook just disappears from the Airdrop list, and no other device can find it anymore.
Other LAN-related function seems not working either. For example, if I turn on ''File Sharing'' in System Preferences, my other macbook cannot see it in ``Network'' of Finder.

I have tried:

Rebooting the macbook with or without Apple ID signed in.
Turning on and off ``file sharing'' in System Preferences.
Resetting PRAM with option+cmd+P+R while booting.
Turning on and off the ``firewall'' function in Security & Privacy, System Preferences.
Turning on and off wifi and bluetooth, allowing my device to be found by everyone/contacts/no one, etc.

I want to note again, that if I log out of my Apple ID, the airdrop function is back to normal completely. My macbook can be found and marked as a device of nobody's, and every function is working. However, as soon as I log into my Apple ID and authorise the macbook, it just disappears from the Airdrop list, and cannot be found by my ipad, iphone and other macbook anymore.
What on earth is wrong?? Any help is appreciated. Thanks in advance!


texts: Apps won’t download or install on iPhone

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My iPhone won’t download apps from the App Store. They say loading under them and it never starts downloading or installing. At first I thought this was a problem with my internet but I tried downloading small apps (around 70-100 MB) with data and on different WiFi hotspots but I still had the issue. What is this problem and how can I fix it?

(iPhone 6S with iOS 11)


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I recently installed OS X 10.11 on my Mac.

I tried to read a SD card with an Ext4 partition which wasn't even shown in Disk Utility, although diskutil did show it as a Linux partition.

I can't seem to mount the partition (the mount command seems to have changed, but I haven't explored this fully).

I had FUSE for OS X installed and updated to 2.8.1.
I also had fuse-ext2, but even though this was shown in Preferences, it shows "Not Installed".
I tried to re-install from the sourceforge site, but got the following error:-

This package is incompatible with this version of OS X and may fail to install.

Has anyone any solution to allow Ext4 partitions to be mounted.


texts: How to sort notes with Notes.app on El Capitan

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In the previous versions of Notes.app there was a possibility to sort the notes, either by creation dates or by 'last updated' dates.

I can't do that with El Cap, that's a bit annoying, I want my very old notes to stay at the bottom of the list even if I update them.


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How can I remap Command+f to search the current web page? In Safari it somehow is set as a shortcut for fullscreen, which drives me insane!

What I would like is to at least kill Command+f to act as a no operation or remap it to do text search in the page.

This is crucial to sort throught the posts of an assortment of comments under YouTube videos.


texts: How to add a custom widget to IOS 10? (Website)

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Is there any way to add a widget from a website to iOS? I'm not familiar with xCode, plus there's an annual fee of $99 to publish an app. Is there any way to add a widget from a website, similar to how you can add a website to your homescreen?

The Apple page about developer widgets offers no info:

  https://developer.apple.com/ios/human-interface-guidelines/extensions/widgets/


texts: Reinstalling Lion on brand new Mac Mini without internet

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I have just purchased a brand new Mac Mini which came with Mac OS X Lion. I then (maybe not so cleverly) tried to restore a previous hard drive image to the hard drive. Unsurprisingly enough, the computer wouldn't start. So I decided that I would go with a fresh install of Lion.

However, when I booted from the Recovery Partition, it told me it would take 5 hours+ to download "Additional Components" needed to install Lion.

I'm assuming that it meant it was downloading the entire 4Gb Lion operating system! Is there not a copy of this on the "Recovery" partition? Is there anyway to install Lion without having to download the entire thing?


texts: How can I erase Bluetooth devices on my Mac

texts: I had an bluetooth audio device (Bose SoundLink Wireless Mobile speaker) remembered on my MacBook Pro running OS X 10.8.5. Now I don't have it anymore and I want to link it with another audio device and it seems to be unable to forget the Bose one and link with my current device, how could I erase the Bose device?


texts: Comprehensive Clean out and migration of specific folders in Apple iTunes?

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These are the Folders and Disk space being occupied by the Data held on by Apple iTunes as laid out below:

I have written down some current thoughts & steps/ direction as well for each. There are lots of duplicates in the Backups & VoiceMemos (determined via a Duplicate File Finder).

Please help / guide me in organizing and doing a comprehensive clean out of things in these folders.

Items in Italics represent key questions on how to go about a certain part of this process?

Here is the Folder Tree, Space they occupy and Observations & Thoughts.

  C:\Users\Alex\AppData\Roaming\Apple Computer

    ..\Logs\CrashReporter – 300 M

  C:\Users\Alex\AppData\Roaming\Apple Computer\MobileSync

    ..\Backups – 24.5 GB

      Clean iPhone 4 Backup

      How to Eliminate Duplicates in iphone 5 Backup? (Search Again)

      Migrate?? iPad Backup? (What Size is it?)

  C:\Users\Alex\Music\iTunes – 39 GB

    Cache – 327 MB How to clear?

    iTunes Media – 28 GB

      Mobile Applications – 26 GB

      Voice Memos – 1.3 GB

        .m4a files: 20100618 – 20150319 (Maybe some overlaps??)

      Downloads – 700 M

        .TMP Downloads - DELETE

    iTunes Music – 10.8 GB

      Podcasts – 5.9 GB - >> Migrate / Export? How?

      Mobile Applications – 4.4 GB – How to consolidate to single MA folder?

      Older Applications – TaiChi – Economist World in 2012

        How to check if any/ which apps are being USED or SYNCHED?

        Some are being used.. and Synched

        Others are ancient.. Eliminate/ Migrateable

        Maybe Migrate all and then Sync back from Phone.. See what remains?

      Voice Memos – 240 M - How? Consolidate to Single VM folder

        .m4a files: 1/26/2011, 19040101, 20100703 – 20120506

      Music – 100 M

        Yoga/ Rave – (Poor titling and Tagging) – 45.6 M – Check & Delete

        Few Singles – 50 M – Migrate and Clear

      Books – 68.9 M – ePubs

      Downloads - .TMP - DELETE


texts:
How can I add wallpapers to iOS 7 without adding them to Photos.app ?

Is there a way to add wallpapers to native iOS wallpapers?


texts:
While uninstalling/removing home-brew, node, and yeoman...I noted that I don't have a .bashrc or .bash_profile in my home directory. I only have .bash_history present.

Why is this? Is this bad? If it's bad, how can I fix this?


texts: What happened to icloud.com/activationlock page?

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I'm working in a pawnshop and when people attempt to sell or pawn an iDevice, I used to check its serial number or IMEI in icloud.com/activationlock. Now, without that tool, I'm concerned about activated phones that bypassed the activation lock with third party solutions.

Once a co-worked bought an iPhone 5 with iOS 7 apparently without iCloud account, when she tried to reset the phone, the activation lock asked for the owner's Apple ID, then I found the Apple's official tool to check phones IMEI and since, it has been very useful.

First, I want to know why Apple got rid of that page? And there is another alternative to check the activation lock status of an iDevice?


texts: Remove Specific Text from Multiple Descriptions

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I've recently upgraded to iPhoto '11 (couldn't resist the pricing on the new app store) and as I'm adding more meta-data to my library and generally organizing things (places, faces, etc... I hadn't upgraded since '08) I've noticed something odd in my photos.  Every photo in my library has a description (though many are short), but it would appear that somehow the description of one of the photos has been appended to many.

I don't know if maybe I accidentally screwed up a batch change at some point in the past, or if the library upgrade somehow messed up, or what else may have happened.  But what I need to do is fix these somehow.

Now, manually editing is something of a daunting task.  Within a library of 21,248 photos, 18,858 of them have this additional text.  The one thing I do have going for me is that it's a specific string.  If there's a way to "remove this string from everywhere in the library without removing the rest of any given description" then that would be perfect.

Is there anything I can do like this?  Maybe even manually editing a library file in a text editor?  (Would that break anything else in iPhoto if its library was edited outside of the application, even while it's not running?)  Does anybody have any ideas?


texts: I would like to start over on one of my games. But each time I deleted it and downloaded it again, my data was still there. I’m not sure how to get rid of it. It is updated.


texts: Application not responding, process missing

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I have an odd issue. Sometimes it happens that application (happens almost always to NetBeans) is stuck in the dock with "Not Responding" - I can't open it, if I select "Force quit" id doesn't do anything (both from dock and from "Force quit" window.

The most annoying thing - there is no associated process that I could kill!

The only way to start application again is to restart the whole osx, which is PITA.

How can I force-force-quit of such application?


texts: Where can I find and download of old Garageband loops online?

texts: I had an old macbook for a while and that thing crashed, along with some of my music. I got a cheap toshiba for a couple years, saved up for a Macbook Pro. I bought the Pro in 2013, didn't much of the missing loops, but i'm trying to remake an old beat (the vocals sucked). The horns I chopped up are not available on the new GB, and I don't have any backups or versions of the horns without other instruments. Try as I might, i can't replicate this sound using music software or even live brass. Anyone know where I can find these old GB loops that were around from maybe 2006-2011?


texts: How many HD video minutes do I get per 1GB of free storage?

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I have 7GB free. If I give that to someone to record, what sort of ballpark figure would I get for a HD video recording? There may be about 10 individual videos being recorded over a couple of hours, if that makes a difference. Maybe just one hour long one.

I just want to know a rough figure but ideally with some maths so I can work it out myself.


texts: Keyboard malfunction progression: first ED, then FG, now T

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I have a MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Early 2015), and since a while the keyboard is malfunctioning. At first the E and D keys problematic, then F and G, and now it's T. To be clear, the others are working normally again. So now it's only the T that is a problem.
Can somebody explain why this happens, how this works, how it will proceed and if I can do something about it now?
This is not the keyboard with the butterfly design, that had so many problems. This keyboard is from before that disaster.
Small update: when logging in, the T does not work at all, so I had to change my password. I tried many things, long hard presses, in each corner of the key. In the end I had to use an external keyboard to login. Now - logged in - the T works more or less.


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I need to take photos and upload them in a web page. A resolution of 800x600 would be enough for me.

I go to Settings > Photos & Camera, but I can only find a configuration for the resolution of the video recording, but not the Photos.

Anyone know if there is any way to take photo with the camera in low resolution?

I'm looking to avoid having to use an external app


texts: Recover partition from NTFS drive with folder structure

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I ran disk utility and looked for errors on a NTFS drive that was working fine but had been ejected abruptly after the computer was forced to shut down. After that a bunch of errors just appeared in red and the disk became "empty". The only folder available is named "found.000" and cannot be opened.

I have been able to recover data from the disk with Data Rescue but the folder structure is not there. I have a bunch of folders like MP3 1, MP3 2, Documents etc. containing the files with the corresponding format and some have even been renamed.

I ran Test Disk and the geometry of the disk seems to be wrong but I do not dare to deal with it because I do not know Test Disk really well and I cannot find many information about head/cylinder numbers etc.

Is there any software that allows mac users to retrieve data with folder structure?

I am running Snow Leopard 10.6.8

This is the Test Disk log :

Disk /dev/rdisk2 - 500 GB / 465 GiB - 976773168 sectors (RO)
Current partition structure:
     Partition                  Start        End    Size in sectors

Warning: number of heads/cylinder mismatches 255 (NTFS) != 1 (HD)
Warning: number of sectors per track mismatches 63 (NTFS) != 1 (HD)
 1 P HPFS - NTFS                 2048  976771119  976769072 [TOSHIBA EXT]

Warning: Bad starting sector (CHS and LBA don't match)
No partition is bootable

0 D FAT32 715093261 1896786745 1181693485
FAT32 715093261 1896786745 1181693485
check_FAT: can't read FAT boot sector
Invalid FAT boot sector
0 D FAT16 LBA 2125262773 5909813675 3784550903
FAT16 LBA 2125262773 5909813675 3784550903
check_FAT: can't read FAT boot sector
Invalid FAT boot sector
0 D FAT32 LBA 1365415759 2816414404 1450998646
FAT32 LBA 1365415759 2816414404 1450998646
check_FAT: can't read FAT boot sector
Invalid FAT boot sector
0 D FAT12 2873871126 2963834879 89963754
FAT12 2873871126 2963834879 89963754

Thanks in advance.


texts: MacBook Pro, Yosemite: change Finder shortcuts

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I want to reassign  Cmd ⌘   Shift ⇧   F  to a custom command, but Finder reserves it to open 'All My Files'.

I have looked around Preferences-Keyboard-Shortcuts, but the Finder shortcuts do not seem to be listed, so I cannot remove them.

Is there any way to remove the Finder shortcuts so I can assign them to what I want?

Many thanks,

Will.


texts: Can I change the resize zones on windows in Yosemite?

texts: It feels like the "hit zone" for the resize handle on windows in Yosemite is about 4 pixels wide. Meaning when I want to resize something I end up hunting around for it for 3 or 4 seconds every time. Is there a way to change this activation zone? I'd rather not have to install a tool to fix it.


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I have run windows 10 on my iMac (late 2015, Catalina) over the last year through bootcamp with no issues. I only use it for video games. I recently built a PC for a better gaming experience and to free up space on my iMac. I am trying to retrieve my save files from the partition, but am getting a blue screen. There have been no changes made to my computer. One day I was gaming, the next day I get a blue screen.
I typically do a full shutdown before booting into Windows. That acts just fine - I select windows and it starts up. I first know something is wrong because of how slow it starts up. Then, it attempts a Windows update, gets about 50%, and then blue screens.
The specific error message is: attempted write to readonly memory
I knew bootcamp wasn’t the best option, but dang it if I don’t want to lose hours of gameplay.
I see two options:

fix the blue screen and get back into windows OR
retrieve files without accessing the partition (Guessing this is not feasible. That’s probably like getting something out of a box without opening the box.)

But I’m not even sure where to start.


texts: "Evernote Premium" text is hovering on my screen, despite Evernote app being closed

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I have some text hovering over my screen, in all my spaces, for at least the past 2 weeks. I cannot recall when this started. And, unfortunately, I do not know how to replicate it.

Several attempts to contact Evernote for support have been fruitless.

This is what the text looks like :

This text is there whether I'm in a terminal window, running a VM through VMWare, or watching a movie!

I have uninstalled and quit Evernote, but I'm beginning to think this is not a problem of Evernote.

This is a 13" Macbook Air from mid-2013 running OSX Yosemite 10.10.1


texts: Phantom podcasts after restore that won't stay deleted

texts:
I recently lost my iPhone 5 and had to restore to an old iPhone 4S until the iPhone 6 is released.  My iCloud backup was current so I lost very little.  My podcast subscriptions were maintained through the backup/restore and were available again in the Podcasts app after they downloaded the episodes I previously had downloaded and queued.  All of this worked as expected.

A day or 2 after the restore was complete, I noticed 3 stuck downloads.  They wouldn't complete and if I cancelled them they kept coming back and failing to download.  I didn't recognize the naming scheme of the episodes so I started looking further and found 3 new podcasts were listed in the application.  These podcasts were completely new to me and nothing I would have ever subscribed to or tried to download.  They are all on topics I have never podcasted on so I have full confidence they aren't renamed versions of other podcasts I've listened to before.  My suspicion is they are the result of either data corruption in the podcasts feed configuration from my backup/restore, or from data corruption in how Apple handles the sync.  Specifically they are:

TWIMA: This Week In Martial Arts
Edward Daniel Podcast
Cape First Podcast

I've tried everything that I can think of and everything I can find online short of removing the Podcasts application.  From recollection, this is what I've tried:

Edit the podcast list, and delete the offending podcasts - when I do this they do disappear but come back after the application is closed and reopened
Edit each podcast to remove the offending episode that keeps trying to download - when I do this the episode disappears but comes back after the application is closed and reopened
Subscribe to the podcast, wait, then unsubscribe to the podcast - no effect
Mark the episode as played and allow it to be auto-deleted - no effect
Turn on podcast sync in Settings - no effect
Turn off podcast sync in Settings - no effect
View my podcasts in iTunes - these podcasts aren't listed
Turn on podcast syncing in iTunes, find the podcasts, I can only find TWIMA and Edward Daniel, subscribe to them, then unsubscribe and delete them - no effect
Turn off podcast syncing in iTunes - no effect
Download other episodes of the podcast and delete those episodes and then the offending podcast - the podcasts disappear but come back after the app is closed and reopened, and the successfully downloaded episode is not shown, only the download that fails
(I'm sure I've forgotten other options)

I don't want to delete all my podcast subscriptions and delete the application if I can avoid that.  I have a lot of played history on some very long running podcasts that would take a lot of effort to store in text and rebuild afterwards.  If I uninstall the Podcasts app, will it remember my played history?  I would be willing to try that if it should keep my play history (after I've dumped my history to text JIC).  I'm also curious if another backup/restore would have some chance of success.

FWIW: I don't have any other podcasts applications tied to my iCloud/iTunes account that would be causing this injection.

Any help or advice on how to permanently deleted these episodes and podcasts would be greatly appreciated.


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For the past 2-3 months, I am having a weird issue on my Macbook Air. I was hoping if someone here can help me out.

First, spotlight stopped searching on my mac. In the picture below, I am searching for Sublime app on my machine but it only shows results from the web.

Second, search in outlook stopped working. No matter what I search, it always returned with no results found. In the image below, there should be many emails which has invoice in subject or body but it just shows no results.

Finally today, search bar in Safari started behaving weirdly. Typing here used to bring in my bookmarks but they don't come up. Even the enter key doesn't work.

A lot of my productivity has been hampered by this. Does anyone have a suggestion? Thank you.

[Edit] The issue for safari was resolved after I restarted my mac.