texts: iPhone keeps restarting itself every 3 minutes

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I just got an iPhone 5 from my friend. It worked well and I decided to restore it to reset it. Yet it is now restarting itself every 3 minutes so I'm trying to do a factory restore. While letting it connected to my computer I pushed the top and menu button and went to iTunes. I get this message ~without any interaction~:

  iTunes is downloading the software for this phone and will restore

~It seems to be stuck, but it eventually restarted but~ it keeps restarting itself every 3 minutes.

Between restarts I can start to set the IPhone or even to use it a bit as everybody does if I was fast enough to set it.

Update

I think I achieved to reinstall the OS, but it keeps restarting itself every 3 minutes.


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I'm a developer who mostly does web stuff in Ruby and C#, and I'd like to start tinkering with iOS and Mac development.

Over the last few month I've been trying to get fluent in one set of key bindings. I chose vi/vim because it just feels right.

I have the awesome ViEmu installed for Visual Studio on Windows which gives me a ton of the vim awesomeness side by side with Visual Studio power toys.

Is there anything like this for Xcode?

I know I could set up MacVim as the default editor but I'm not too interested in this as it means losing all of Xcode's Cocoa awareness.

The other option, of course, would be to go for the lowest common denominator and switch to emacs (as the Cocoa keybindings are based massively on emacs) but let's not think about that for too long.


texts: How to get tab completion for LaTeX in TextMate?

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For instance, try; \begin{ite[tab] but you get nothing.

How can you have tab completion for LaTeX in TextMate?


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Is there an option in macOS which would allow a 3rd party to install a system-wide sound effect on an macOS machine? Something similar to Windows APO (Audio Processing Object) technology:
"Windows allows OEMs and third-party audio hardware manufacturers to include custom digital signal processing effects as part of their audio driver's value-added features. These effects are packaged as user-mode system effect Audio Processing Objects (APOs)."
The technology enables users to easily enable/disable system-wide sound enhancement algorithms (see screenshot).
From the system tray:

From the device settings:


texts: How to manually trigger background image change?

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I have set the wallpaper to change every hour and have enabled it to cycle them in a random order. Sometimes the background image changes to an image that was set just few rounds ago and I'd like to rechange it to something else.

How to trigger the background change manually? So that next random image in the folder is chosen and the crossfade effect is played.

I'd love to hear a command line solution, and would rather not install third party software (although, if you have something to share, don't let me to hold you back — someone might find it useful).


texts: Automatically Inhibit sleep while transferring files over the network?

texts: I was transferring some files over the network and my macbook pro just fell asleep. I had the "Wake for network traffic" in Preferences>Energy checked. I am using High Sierra. It doesn't sound like Apple not to prevent sleeping while you are conducting an operation. This a bug or a feature?


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I am switching to macOS by getting a new MacBook Pro in a few days. I have never used a Mac before.

Where can I look for short guide or video tutorials that teaches macOS to power users. I am a software engineer, know Windows very well, and Linux relatively well.

Most of the guides I found are targeted towards non-technical users.


texts: How do I disable Image Capture (Yosemite) from automatically launching when I plug in my SD card?

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I used to be able to disable it in iPhoto but now iPhoto is not part of the OS, I don't want to download iPhoto to just use it to disable itself and Image Capture. Any way to kill the auto pop out feature?

Okay, got it finally.


texts: What is the default font that Mac OS X Lion use in it's apps, more importantly the Finder window?


texts: Can't see A1084 AirPort Express behind A1354 AirPort Extreme

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Can anyone please make any suggestions...? (Preferably, step by step instructions to resolve this issue).

I am using AirPort Utility 6.3.2 on a MacBook Pro running MacOS X 10.9.1 Mavericks.  AirPort Utility suddenly can't see my two A1084 AirPort Express base stations behind my A1354 AirPort Extreme (which is running Firmware version 7.6.4).  The Extreme is behind a CenturyLink Actiontec C1000A DSL modem, which is connected to the Internet.

If I use AirPort Utility set the Extreme to "DHCP and NAT," the utility shows that the Extreme has "Double NAT."

If I set the Extreme to "Bridge Mode," that issue resolves.

But, in neither case can I see the AirPort Express base stations.

There is a control to disable NAT in the Actiontec C1000A DSL modem's admin panel, but an attempt to make that change doesn't "take" when I click on "Apply").

Because the AirPort Express units are old, only the old AirPort Utility (v5.x) can be used to configure them - but, that old version does not run under Mavericks.


texts: How to remove the wallpaper from the bootscreen on FileVault 2?

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I have an Early 2013 15" Retina MacBook Pro and, as I take it with me places, I keep FileVault enabled. However, I don't like the boot screen having a wallpaper on it, or the fact that it shows my user picture in place of the logo. (I like the clean aesthetic of the standard boot screen.)

I'm wondering if there's a Terminal command or something to that effect that can remove the wallpaper from the boot screen and replace it with black, and/or remove the profile photo and change it back to the logo once the password has been entered and the system is decrypting and booting. I'm using macOS Catalina 10.15.3.


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I just got the latest MacBook Pro (2.6 GHz i7 Quad Core, 8GB RAM, non-retina).
But the packaging and overall appearance looks just like the older 15" one (I don't see any HDMI and stuff). Are the non-retina 2012 MacBooks supposed to look like this?

Whenever I search for the unboxing/review videos of the newest model, they only review the retina one.


texts: How can I find out which process was stopped by RansomWhere?

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I use RansomWhere, a tool to protect from ransomware. I have OS X Yosemite.

As far as I understand, RansomWhere just warns me whenever an app tries to encrypt data. It's up to the user to judge whether they trust a process or not. (And whether the application is one which should need to encrypt data.) The user is given the choice of Allow or Terminate each time there is a warning. It has warned me about several apps I trust and that I figure did need to encrypt data, and I have simply clicked Allow.

However, just now I got a warning about a process I don't know what was. The message said "is encrypting data", so I figuredd I had to hurry, so I just clicked Terminate immediately after seeing that I wasn't sure what the process actually was. After clicking Terminate, the dialogue box disappeared, and I heard nothing more from RansomWhere regarding the issue.

Now, I want to know what this process actually was and what was going on. I don't remember the details given in the message, just that I wasn't sure which process it was. I wish I would have taken a second to take a screenshot before pressing Terminate, but unfortunately, I didn't.

How can I find out which process this was and what was going on?


texts: Why are the alias so big in filesize in Mountain Lion?

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I noticed the alias(es) that I create in Mountain Lion are very big in filesize (for example an alias to a folder is 5.8MB!)

Compared to Leopard, they were just about 500KB.

Why is this? and is there a way in the system where I can make them smaller without resorting to creating alias via the terminal?


texts: Install Windows 10 on MacBook Pro 2017 (14,1)

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I had already figured out that I must use bootcamp assistant to install windows 10 on my MacBook Pro 2017 14,1 , otherwise if I just boot into a windows installation USB,it can't get my internal keyboard, touchpad and the PCIe SSD.
Does anyone know how to install it without using the assistant?


texts: How to transfer the data from an iOS app to the same app running on an M1 mac?

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I have an iOs app which I have been using to track personal data. I have found the same app on the App store on my M1 mac and can run it successfully. But it is blank because it was installed from the app store.
Apple  has disabled sideloading of apps froman iOs device to an M1 mac (Apparently they cannot decide whether to allow it or not as they disabled and re-enabled this ability a couple of times. )
If I backup the iPhone and look in ~/Library/Application Support/MobileSync/Backup
I can see the backup(labeled cryptically with a number) and the 256 folders in it.
I can view the files in XCode but only see images.
Documents are blank.
Even using iMazing, I can see the app and even transfer it to the mac desktop as an '.imazingapp'. But i cannot open or even examine the app to get my data. XCode only shows an icon-I cant even look inside it. There is no option to show 'package contents' when ctrl-clicking on the file.
The app has no ability to export data, send emails, etc.
How can I transfer my data from this app to the app running on the M1 mac? Ideally I wish I could just 'sideload' the app from my phone and the data would come with it. But NOOO, Apple does not allow that. Or maybe I am just ignorant of a trick that you all know.


texts: Files created by Windows on Lion SMB shares have 600 permissions

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I have File Sharing enabled in OS X Lion, and I'm accessing the shares using Win XP and Win 7 boxes. I can read and write fine, by when I create a new file, the permissions for that file defaults to 600, and is accessible only by the account authenticated with SMB. If I edit files, permissions are not changed. It is only new files that have this problem. This means other accounts on OS X cannot access the files, and neither can the apache server, which runs as _www I think.

Is there a way to make Lion SMB mark new files as 644 instead?


texts: Streaming media from Mac to VLC for Android

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I have few media files in my Mac which I want to stream on my Android phone. I have enabled File Sharing and enabled both smb and afp protocol. When I check in VLC for Android app, I can see my Mac's name there. However when I try to connect it, it shows me a login prompt asking me to enter username and password.

I tried my Mac's only username and password, but it didn't do anything. The username have spaces in it, so I tried some combinations (such as all lowercase, no spaces etc.), to no avail.
For eg. If my username on my mac is Abc Xyz, I tried Abc Xyz, Abc%20Xyz, abcxyz, AbcXyz etc. But it showed me empty directories.

So is there any way I can make that login prompt work? I even tried with giving Everyone access to the shared folders, but it still didn't work. By not working, I mean, the VLC displayed error The directory is empty or a login prompt again.

PS: I am on macOS Sierra (10.12.6) and the user have admin access.


texts: Is there a way to recover an older version of my iPhoto database?

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I tried uploading a photo from iPhoto to Facebook and the upload failed. I tried again, and it appeared to fail. Blaming my internet connection, I tried again. The upload worked. Then I took a look at the album online and two or three copies of the photo were in a moderation queue.

I deleted them, thinking all was well. Except it wasn't. The captions on all of my photos are the same as that one photo that uploaded a few times. I blame Facebook, but I'm wondering if I can recover an older copy of my iPhoto library from Time Machine and use that to restore my captions.

Is there any way for me to get an older version of my iPhoto library from Time Machine?


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I have some tiff files of (scanned docs) which are too large than required.

I tried to export with Preview while applying filter "Reduce File Size". The new file came out to be quite small 36KB while the tiff was 14.4MB. Guess what, the text now is too hazy to read.

Question is there a way to "set" the limit of the output file? Say 1MB. I could have been happy with that much reduction and still could read the text.

Although Preview is my favorite app on Mac and I don't mind using other apps which can help me achieve same result.


texts: Media Browser only shows videos and a few photos

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I have an older MacBook Pro (13-inch, mid 2012) that I just updated from MacOS Sierra to Catalina (10.15.1) so that I could download and use Pages. I also deleted my Photos Library and created a new one, making sure to make it the system default (Preferences -> General -> "Use as System Photo Library" is selected). I like to organize my files through the Finder, so I don't copy items into the photo library ("Copy items to the Photos library" is deselected).

I imported just a couple of folders of my pictures/videos into Photos. I can see all of them just fine in the Photos app. I opened a document in the Pages app and tried to add some photos through the Media Browser but only a few photos show up. It turns out that of the 1874 photos in my Photos app, only 7 random ones appear in Media Browser, and those aren't the ones I want to use. Curiously, 236/236 videos from the Photos app also appear in Media Browser.

As for this previous question, I tried leaving the Photos app and Media Browser open overnight, but this did not result in any more photos appearing in Media Browser. I've tried rebooting the computer many times, repairing the Photos library, and rebooting again (doesn't help). Apple's advice here applies if using iCloud Photos, but I'm not. All photos are located on my computer hard disk.

Adding photos through Media Library seems like the convenient way that Apple intended me to use, if I could get them to appear. Help?


texts: Is it actually safe for battery health to keep power adapter plugged if MacBook is charged (Mac OS10.15.5 )?

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Sometimes I do small gaming on my MacBook Pro and it discharges quite quickly while running games. I understand that this is normal for every laptop. But in the latest update 10.15.5, there is a "Battery Health management feature" but there is no description of what exactly it does.

So, my question is Is it safe to keep MacBook plugged while it is charged?

This question in my case is applicable for gaming and other heavy programs (Video editing, etc).


texts: How to disable WIFI extender in Airport Express but leave ethernet working?

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I am using an Airport Express as an extender for the purposes of using its ethernet cable for a network device. In this setup, The Airport Express also the behavior of extending my network from my Airport Extreme. However this is causing me problems with our Apple TV since the Airport Express WIFI spec is much slower than the Airport Extreme.

We don't need to extend the wireless network. Is there a way to turn off wireless extension and leave the ethernet connected?


texts: iOS Photos app: Inappropriate photo on People & Places section under Albums

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Someone took an inappropriate selfie with my iPhone X. For some reason it shows up as thumbnail under the People & Places section on the Albums tab. I find the thumbnail picture very annoying.

I have deleted the picture itself, but the thumbnail still persists.

How can I remove it?


texts: Updated Apple-ID password, will Find my Mac still work?

texts: I updated my Apple-ID password after losing my Mac. Will Find my Mac still be able to find it? If so, how does the authentication/identification work?


texts: How can I sync PDF files (and more) with my Mac and iPad?

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I know the iPad has the Book Shelf thing:

I know I can add PDF files to it - but:

Is it possible to sync that with my Mac so I can also read them on the Mac?
Is it possible to have them keep the same place (page / bookmark) synced?
Would I / can I use iTunes on the mac to pick up reading where I left off on the iPad?

If it isn't possible with the the native software, are there any apps that do this?

Also, is it somehow possible to add other reading materials (like webpages) to the bookshelf for reading later? I know that you could do something similar with Evernote but it seems odd to dump your PDF files in evernote as attachments to notes rather than having them as part of a library of some sort. Also not sure that Evernote can remember / sync your place in attached PDF files.


texts: What does "EFI system partition couldn't be created" mean?

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When trying to click "Repair Disk" on an external hard drive from Disk Utility, I got the following error message:

  ...
  Repairing the EFI system partition's file system
  Updating boot support partitions for the volume as required.
  Creating a new EFI system partition
  Problems were encountered during repair of the partition map:
  Error: Couldn't repair the partition map because a new EFI system partition couldn't be created.

What does this error message mean?  Is it just complaining because there is no EFI system partition, or is it something more serious?

This is an 3TB external hard disk I use for external storage (e.g., Time Machine backups, other data), and it is not bootable.  diskutil list shows that it is partitioned with 2 partitions (one for Time Machine, one for data) but no EFI partition.  I suspect the partition table was created under Linux rather than Mac OS X.  The disk has been working fine up until recently.  I did read Why does Disk Utility create EFI partitions on external disks?; that and other sources gave me the impression that a EFI partition is not strictly required unless you want to boot from the disk.


texts: IPV6 ip address not able to connect from my app when NAT64/DNS64 is connected

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SetUp Details :-

IpV4 ethernet cable is connected to MAC machine. Now as per apple documentation steps are followed. Where DNS64/NAT64 is created and hotspot is created.

Device is connected to wi-fi which is created by hotspot on mac machine.

Application status :-

My application is Push to talk (PTT) application. Now i have launched the application where i am establishing to connection to my server.

1) SIP Connection :- FQDN is provided to DNS64/NAT64 which mapped to ipv4 address. so DNS64/NAT64 gave me synthesised ipv6 address. Here TCP connection established successfully.

2) MEDIA Connection :- ipv6 address [Direct server ip] application has given to DNS64/NAT64 but TCP connect is failing as client is sending SYN but "route unreachable error is received".

3) From the browser of device , I am trying to open only ipv6 supported website but it showing "server could not found". But ipv4 and ipv6 both supported website is opening as it's taking ipv4 route.

Problem:-

Please provide a solution how to reach ipv6 address through DNS64/NAT64 network.

Reference :-
Below link i have referred to set up a hotspot  in mac machine.

https://developer.apple.com/support/ipv6/


texts: How do I get a missing activity from Watch to the iOS Activity app?

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I have an activity that is correctly recorded in the Activity app on my Watch but not in the Activity app on iOS. I have searched for solutions (not of which I can find are recent) and tried them all (all the permutations on rebooting and force quitting, both Watch and iOS, in various orders) but none have solved the problem.
All activities before and after the missing one are correctly synced with iOS.
I'm interested in whether anyone has had this same thing happen and found a solution.
How do I get an activity that is present in Activity on Watch but missing from Activity on iOS Activity to appear there?


texts: Conditional formatting when checkbox checked

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I am trying to make conditional highlighting accross whole row when a checkbox is checked. I found a tutorial to make this happen, but it doesn't work for me. If you know a better way to do this, please show me how.
At this moment I am trying to use formula from the tutorial:

Where A3 is the checkbox. When I check/uncheck the checkbox  I see in the bottom statusbar TRUE/FALSE state, but the formula is not working. In the example it's always showing "NOT YO".


texts: How to get screen to display a notification or indicator when Caps Lock is turned on or toggled?

texts: I'm on OS X Mountain Lion and would like to know how to do this.  I know the button has a light to indicate, but I'd like have and indication on the screen.


texts: How to merge folders based on file content rather than filename

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I have multiple folders containing thousands of deletion-recovered files from multiple recovery scans.

As per usual with deletion recovery, the recovered files have different names than the originals, and different names from one recovery scan to another.

So, short of writing a custom program, is there a tool (or product) that can compare files by content and ignore the filenames?

Ideally, it would allow deletion of recovered files when they content-match files in an "original" directory tree (e.g. iTunes library folders),
and, allow merge of two folders based on file contents rather than filenames.


texts: how to do move an appleinccertificate to the keychain? I'm not sure if it is a copy or not. it is currently on the desktop wall.. I've tries to drag and drop but it wouldn't allow it.


texts: What are the default settings for "Remote Management" under Sharing System Preference pane in macOS?

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I accidentally toggled the System Preferences → Sharing → Remote Management setting to Only these users:, and, now when I try to toggle it back to All users:, it asks what privileges to enable. But I don't know what the default privileges were and I don't want to open my computer up to any potential security issues.

Could someone take a screenshot of the default settings and post that up so that I can reset them to the OS defaults?


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I notice the syntax file for PHP for vim is quite out-dated.
Does anyone know where is these syntax file located in Mac so I can do the upgrade?


texts: Mail search not finding messages but Spotlight does

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When I search for a particular message in Mail.app, using the search field, even when I have the message in sight, Mail cannot find it. But, frustratingly, when I use Spotlight, it is able to find the message.

For example, I'll open a folder with a variety of recipes. I can see all the subjects and I see an email with the subject: "Smoothies". Typing in "Smoothies" into the search field brings up 0 results. But typing in "Smoothies" into Spotlight shows the desired message.

How can I get Mail.app to search correctly?

I'm running Mac OS X 10.11.3.


texts: How to migrate an OS X guest VM to a physical machine?

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I am running OS X Yosemite, and Parallels 10.

I have a guest VM running OS X Yosemite. I would like to migrate the guest VM to a physical machine. Is this possible? The reason is that the guest vm is just too slow, and I would be better off running on a physical machine. I have a number of developer tools installed and configured perfectly on the VM that would take a long time to download them on the physical machine. Thats why I just want to "migrate" to a physical machine.

I tried connecting an external hard drive to the VM, and creating a time machine backup, but it fails to even make the initial backup. The error message is:

"An error occurred while copying files. The problem may be temporary. If the problem persists use disk utility to repair your backup disk"


texts: Are all installations of OS X (10.8+) Case Insensitive (by default)?

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I'm going to be getting a refurbished machine and rather than keep my current OS (10.6.8), I need to upgrade to at least 10.8, in order to be able to communicate with devices that use iOS 9 (since you need a newer version of iTunes).

My current install is Case-Sensitive and Journalled, and it works well for me.  The issue is, I will also need a newer version of Adobe Acrobat (9 or higher), and everything I've read says it requires a Case-Insensitive file system.

So here's my question: if Acrobat is so popular and often used, does this mean that installations of OS X are by default Case-Insensitive, or does everyone have to reformat and reinstall OX S after the purchase Acrobat?


texts: Can I stop Mac while FileVault is Decrypting?

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As I asked above, I am leaving work and I have to bring my computer home.

Can I close the screen and resume it later?


texts: What car stereos work well with iPhone Bluetooth A2DP Streaming Audio

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The iPhone 3G supports Bluetooth stereo (A2DP) but lacks any volume control.  As a result, my JVC stereo with the KS-BTA200 Bluetooth adapter clipped stereo audio so horribly that I ended up removing the adapter and foregoing the Bluetooth hands free capabilities.  Now, I just use my AUX jack for music and a separate Bluetooth speaker phone (as long as it doesn't do A2DP).

Has anyone been able to get acceptable (not clipped) Bluetooth Stereo Audio from their iPhone to any car stereo?  What models work well?


texts: What are the iPad gestures for the new Chrome app?

texts: I cannot find the documentation for them anywhere.


texts: Printer deamon creates hundreds of symlinks

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Today I stumbled over hundreds of symbolic links in my OS X /tmp folder.

> …
lrwxr-xr-x    1 root      wheel    66B 10 Mai 11:42 554f27eaca409 -> /private/etc/cups/ppd/Photosmart_C309a_series_blu___iMac_Buero.ppd
lrwxr-xr-x    1 root      wheel    66B 10 Mai 11:42 554f27ed23fcd -> /private/etc/cups/ppd/Photosmart_C309a_series_blu___iMac_Buero.ppd
lrwxr-xr-x    1 root      wheel    66B 10 Mai 11:42 554f27ef71a19 -> /private/etc/cups/ppd/Photosmart_C309a_series_blu___iMac_Buero.ppd
…

I can delete them, but after minutes the folder is stuffed with those links.

Only when I remove all printers, the symlinks will not be created.
Is it normal? How can I prevent it?


texts: "Installing" MySQL JDBC .jar file for MATLAB

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Goal: "install" JDBC drivers for MATLAB to use

This article indicated that one can put the JDBC driver .jar file in:

/Library/Java/Extensions/

.bashrc and .bashrc_profile were configured with CLASSPATH

export CLASSPATH="/Library/Java/Extensions/"

Command Line tests:

Users-MacBook-Air:~ user$ ls -l $CLASSPATH
total 3936
-rw-r--r--@ 1 user  wheel  1004840 Feb 26 13:28 mysql-connector-java-5.1.46-bin.jar
-rw-r--r--@ 1 user  wheel  1004838 Feb 26 13:28 mysql-connector-java-5.1.46.jar
Users-MacBook-Air:~ user$ echo $CLASSPATH
/Library/Java/Extensions/

Questions

Is there any other steps I need to perform to install the JDBC driver?
How can I test from the command line that JAVA can 'see' the JDBC driver?
Is it enough to have the .jar files on MATLAB's javaclasspath?

SYMPTOM

MATLAB is unable to open up a database connection to MySQL because no suitable driver found.  Ideally, there would be a test to confirm that the issue is in MATLAB and that the JDBC component is properly installed.

UPDATE

Added JDBC driver path to MATLAB's javaclasspath:

>> javaclasspath('-static')
        STATIC JAVA PATH
    /Library/Java/Extensions/
>> ls -l /Library/Java/Extensions/
total 3936
-rw-r--r--@ 1 user  wheel  1004840 Feb 26 13:28 mysql-connector-java-5.1.46-bin.jar
-rw-r--r--@ 1 user  wheel  1004838 Feb 26 13:28 mysql-connector-java-5.1.46.jar


texts: Is it possible to turn on the light that indicates that the camera (on a MacBook) is on without turning on the camera? (Then it could be used as an indicator for something else.)


texts: Do 64gb and 128gb SDXC cards work on the Macbook Air 2011?

texts: I'm considering getting a SDXC card to extend the drive space of my Macbook Air. I just want to make sure both the 64 GB and 128 GB SDXC cards work on the 2011 Macbook Air.


texts: MacBook Pro high CPU with external monitors

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I recently ordered two 4K monitors (LG 27UD88). I connected them using Mini DisplayPort to DisplayPort Adapter cable to my MacBook Pro.

When I have the monitors connected, the CPU load is very high with fans  running at 5500-6000 RPM and a processor temperature of 54°C. This does not seem healthy to me. It's kernel_task which is using absurd amounts of CPU (sometimes spikes up to 600%)

Things I've tried so far

Before I used to have a high CPU load as well (with the additional monitors connected), but that got resolved after following the instructions in this article, CPU usage is too high with Yosemite and an external monitor, kernel_task spikes to 600%+.
Disabling X86PlatformShim.kext
Resetting the SMC.

This all seems very odd to be. I have a maxed out MacBook Pro which can't handle two monitors?

Here is the system configuration:

MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2015)
Processor: 2,8 GHz Intel Core i7
Memory: 16 GB 1600 MHz DDR3
Graphics: AMD Radeon R9 M370X 2 GB
          Intel Iris Pro 1536 MB
Storage: 500GB Flash Storage

Information from sensors:

UPDATE #1:

Here is the information on the GPU load. It seems that the GPU load is high, but that the processor of the AMD Radeon is not used. I'm currently looking into this, if you have any suggestions on how to make more use of the AMD Radeon GPU please do.

I do have Automatic graphics switching turned off (this should increase high-performance graphics).

Also the system preferences tell that the AMD Radeon is being used for the external display. Though the iStat data suggests otherwise.

Update #2:

I've installed gfxCardStatus and put it to discrete only. Looks like the AMD Radeon GPU is actively being used. This does not make a difference.

Update #3:

I've ran iStat for a while now. Looks like the CPU has many spikes, even up to 90 degrees. This would obviously trigger the fans to start blowing (also the MacBook itself feels hot near the processor). Looks like the average temp at the moment is 70 degrees.

Here is the CPU frequency:


texts: I got an iMac g3 450 mhz (summer 2000 i think) and i want to upgrade its memory. I know i need PC 100/133 168 pin . I already got one 512mb from amazon with those specs although it didn't work. For some reason all the memories that say they are compatible with mac are x3/4 the price of the rest of same technology. Any suggestions as to where I should look for memory or any spec I should be looking for in order for it to be compatible ?


texts: How to change terminal folder font color

texts: I use terminal with the fish shell. I played the themes and colors in fish_config as well as the ANSI colors in the terminal preferences. Nothing I do can change the folder font colors. How do I get rid of this ugly purple-blue color?


texts: Preview disables clickable links in PDF files

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When a Mac Preview user sees a link in the PDF and tries to click it nothing happens, although the mouse cursor changes indicating that the link is clickable.

Users using other applications than Mac Preview such as Acrobat have no problems.

Does Apple Preview disable clickable links in PDF in general or is it PDF dependent?


texts: MacBook Pro 2018 - "You can't open the application "iTunes" because it is being update"

texts: I was installing the updates for iTunes because I wanted to connect my iPhone to my Mac. However, I closed my MacBook prematurely since I didn't realise that they were still updating and now iTunes can't open again. How can I check its current updating progress (if it is at all)?


texts: How can I get colored folders back in Mavericks?

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With the launch of the new tagging system in OS X Mavericks, the ability to color the actual folder line in the finder appears to be gone.

Is there anyway to bring this back??


texts: How to delete macOS Catalina update files

texts: My MacBook Pro Early 2015 is with macOS Catalina 10.15.2 installed and I'm running out of space (it only have 128Gb of SSD). I figured out that the version 10.15.4 was already pre-downloaded, and it's occupying 3.0 Gb of disk space, and I don't want to install. I don't like to update unless there's new relevant features to me, like dark mode in Mojave. And plus, Catalina is pissing me off: A thing I hated on my Android times is having to manage so much permissions when I only wanted to use my apps. Now this crap is implemented on macOS and I'm so annoyed that I'll go back to Mojave when I finally buy a new SSD. But even in terminal, system refuses to let me delete the update files, and I really need space cause I'll need to install a second version of XCode for a project (My disc have only about to 5Gb remaining). Someone knows how can I delete it without install the update? (the update is in Library/updates folder)


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I've heard anecdotal evidence of iOS 6 seriously impairing the performance of the iPhone 4 (and had a poor personal experience with it on iOS 5). I was wondering if anyone has had any problems upgrading older iPads to iOS 6.

We've got an original iPad and an iPad 2 and aside from not wanting to lose Google maps I'm worried that the update will negatively affect our devices.

Is this worry backed up by reviews or experience of those who have upgraded already?


texts: How to make a playable DVD iso from a VIDEO_TS folder?

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I used to have a script that converts a VIDEO_TS folder into an ISO that plays ok in VLC but it's gone.

Anyway, this command gets me most of the way there:

hdiutil makehybrid -udf -udf-volume-name $folder -o $fullpath.iso $fullpath

Except that when I tried it on one DVD, it skips the menu selection. Is this likely a problem with the one DVD I tried or do I need a different tool / different options to get the menu to render properly?


texts: What is "Entering Sleep state due to 'Dark Wake Thermal Emergency'" from pmset log?

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Command:

pmset -g log|grep -e " Sleep  " -e " Wake  "

Last night I see 5 instances of

  Entering Sleep state due to 'Dark Wake Thermal Emergency': Using AC


texts: Increasing the number of reminder snooze options in MacOS

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This is an issue I've faced for such a long time on both macOS and iOS, though for the purpose of this question I'd like to focus on macOS as that is where, I hope, manually editing settings files might even be a possible solution to this problem.

If a calendar alert pops up on macOS, we're presented with some quite usable snooze options: 1 minute, 5 minutes, 15 minutes, 30 minutes, 1 hour, 2 hours, 1 day, or 1 week:

On the flip side, if a reminder alert pops up on macOS, one only has the option to snooze it for 5 minutes, 1 hour, or until tomorrow, with nothing in between. This has obvious implications: if there's something you want to do in 15 minutes or 30 minutes, you don't have that option. You can only push the reminder to 5 minutes over and over, or push it a whole hour and risk not getting to it in time:

On iOS, its even worse. If a reminder pops up, a user can only choose between "mark as completed", "remind me in 1 hour", or "remind me tomorrow" with a hard press on the iPhone 7.

I feel like Apple has decided that a reminder is for something to be done NOW (or in 5 minutes max) and doesn't want people postponing reminders in, say, 15 minute increments. If anything, it's Calendar time slots that might be marginally more immediate and fixed in time than reminders, aren't they? I think it's crazy to only have a choice between 5 minutes and a full hour to postpone our reminders, while being forced to go into the reminders app to manually change the time for each alert!

I've read through prior posts on here and other forums, skirting this topic, but there doesn't seem to be a conclusive answer.

Is there any way to manually edit the native list of reminder postponement duration options to at least match the calendar snooze options, or are we totally out of luck save for downloading software such as Snoozemaster which doesn't natively sort the problem, or having to specify a reminder snooze time via Siri (difficult in a quiet office environment)?


texts: What power is going in or out of a USB-C port?

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How do I tell how power is moving through my MacBook Pro's USB-C ports? My shiny new MacBook Pro (15", 2016), comes with four USB-C ports.

Sometimes power comes in through one of these ports, as when I charge the machine from Apple's included official 87 W power adapter, or another power adapter. Sometimes power goes out through these ports, as when I use them to power my iPhone or an external accessory like a hard drive.

Does macOS provide any tool that can tell me the net flow of power through every one of these ports? Or is there a third-party application which can do so? The benefit of this is it would let me manage my battery better, and also understand if cables, hubs, and power adapters are performing as intended.

The closest thing I can find is to go About This Mac / Overview / System Report / USB, where I see three fields: Current Available, Current Required, and Extra Operating Current. I don't quite understand what these fields mean. Also, they purport to describe current (in milliamps), rather than power (in watts). Without knowing the voltage I cannot know the flow of power, and my understanding is that voltage does indeed vary on USB-C power circuits.


texts:
I bought a Macbook Pro 15 inches 3 months ago. It's running on Mac OS X Snow Leopard and it has 4GB of RAM.

I consider having a fair use of this computer :
- surfing (Chrome)
- developing (Fraise)
- gaming

But after some hours of use, here is what happens :

It's in french but you can easily see that only some tens of MB (Mo) are still available, whereas the sum of all launched processes is far to reach 4GB...

So where the hell did my RAM go ?


texts: photolibr is preventing my external disk eject

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I have my Photos library in an external usb3 disk. Usually, photolibr prevents the disk from ejecting, even if Photos is closed:

kukuruzasIII:yoAlcalde_mobile olmo$ lsof | grep DATOS
photolibr  504 olmo   17w     REG                1,7       458  1501411 /Volumes/DATOS 1/Photos Library.photoslibrary/Database/metaSchema.db.lock
photolibr  504 olmo   18u     REG                1,7  29851648  1393588 /Volumes/DATOS 1/Photos Library.photoslibrary/Database/metaSchema.db
photolibr  504 olmo   19u     REG                1,7     16440  1393590 /Volumes/DATOS 1/Photos Library.photoslibrary/Database/metaSchema.db-wal
photolibr  504 olmo   20u     REG                1,7 202260480   793818 /Volumes/DATOS 1/Photos Library.photoslibrary/Database/apdb/Library.apdb
photolibr  504 olmo   21u     REG                1,7     16440  1393592 /Volumes/DATOS 1/Photos Library.photoslibrary/Database/apdb/Library.apdb-wal
photolibr  504 olmo   22u     REG                1,7    169984  1393593 /Volumes/DATOS 1/Photos Library.photoslibrary/Database/RKAlbum_name.skindex
photolibr  504 olmo   23u     REG                1,7  16973824   793817 /Volumes/DATOS 1/Photos Library.photoslibrary/Database/apdb/ImageProxies.apdb
photolibr  504 olmo   24u     REG                1,7     16440  1393595 /Volumes/DATOS 1/Photos Library.photoslibrary/Database/apdb/ImageProxies.apdb-wal
photolibr  504 olmo   25u     REG                1,7  50577408  1393598 /Volumes/DATOS 1/Photos Library.photoslibrary/Database/apdb/Person.db
photolibr  504 olmo   26u     REG                1,7     16440  1393600 /Volumes/DATOS 1/Photos Library.photoslibrary/Database/apdb/Person.db-wal
photolibr  504 olmo   27u     REG                1,7 288997376   793819 /Volumes/DATOS 1/Photos Library.photoslibrary/Database/apdb/Properties.apdb
photolibr  504 olmo   28u     REG                1,7     16440  1393602 /Volumes/DATOS 1/Photos Library.photoslibrary/Database/apdb/Properties.apdb-wal
photolibr  504 olmo   29u     REG                1,7  13225984  1393603 /Volumes/DATOS 1/Photos Library.photoslibrary/Database/RKVersion_searchIndexText.skindex
photolibr  504 olmo   30r     DIR                1,7       986   790182 /Volumes/DATOS 1/Photos Library.photoslibrary

is it safe to just kill photolibr? it's not consuming cpu when Photos is closed, but the disk is having activity (the lights blinks some times).


texts: Remove desktop folder which is on the desktop and contains everything on the desktop

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I don't how this happend, but I feel like my machine is experiencing a Being John Malkovich syndrome.

There is a folder on my Desktop called Desktop which contains all the other folders on my Desktop. I want to get rid of this folder, but not the contents of my desktop.

Any advice?


texts: opening or unzipping Xcode 8.3.2.xip.file

texts: How can I "unzip" or extract files from Xcode.8.3.2.xip.file on 2009 MacBook?  Would you have to do it from the command line?


texts: Automatically launch a program or action when an external drive or disk is connected

texts: I have an external drive. Is it possible to launch a program or perform an action when I connect it or plug it in?


texts:
Someone I know's macOS Mojave got taken over by something called TotalResults.

In the process list it shows a lot of processes TotalResults running as root. There were signs in Chrome first, some extension and a weird gateway setting.

I couldn't find anything about this. Anyone else? Let me know before I wipe the machine

Screenshot:


texts:
The Skype app requires me to constantly launch it if I want to receive any messages on my iPad. Switch away, and a couple of hours later it goes offline and stops receiving messages/calls. There is of course no indication whatsoever of whether it's still running in the background.

Is there a fix for this? Is this a bug in Skype that can only be fixed by Skype developers, or is there something I can do about this? Like some sort of a setting to allow Skype to stay open in the background.


texts: Hostname changes in the terminal when connecting to some wifi networks

texts: When I connect to some wifi networks my computer hostname changes in the terminal - is this normal? Is there a way I can prevent this from happening?


texts: Fix 'Home' and 'End' keys on non-Cocoa applications

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Found that it's a common problem that the 'Home' and 'End' keys don't function as-expected on MacOS. Found this fix, posted on LifeHacker:

http://lifehacker.com/225873/mac-switchers-tip--remap-the-home-and-end-keys

The issue is that this fix only works on native/Cocoa apps and doesn't work on many of the other apps like ThunderBird and Eclipse. Will be thankful for any help, regarding this.

PS: I frequently switch between the beginning and end of the line and this has been so annoying lately that I switch to a vim window to edit code and use Eclipse only for debugging it.


texts: How to Sync my Mail app with my Gmail account?

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I want to start using my Mail app on Mac the same way I use it on my iPhone. On my iPhone once I read an email it is marked as read in my gmail account as well (if I access it from the web) and vice versa, this does not happen with Mail on my Mac.

If I read an email on my iPhone it is still marked as unread on my Mac, and if I read an email on my Mac it is still marked unread on both my gmail (the web interface) and my iphone. Is there a way to sync Mail with my Gmail account properly?


texts: Triggers on specifc applications in Keyboard Maestro

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How can I tell Keyboard Maestro to only enable a given trigger (e.g. a hot key) when a specific application is active?

For example, I would like a specific macro/hotkey that pastes without formatting to only be active when I am editing a document in Word or TextEdit.


texts: Read geotagging data from iphone photos exif data

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I shoot photos with my iPhone and localization services are active.

When I open a photo from my Mac Preview (tools > show inspector > exif) I can't see any geotagging data.

BUT, when I open the image with my Mac Photos it correctly positions a pin on a map.

So, my question is: why I can't see geotagging data (GPS latitude and longitude) if it is clear they are written somewhere in the image? If they weren't, how could the map position the pin correctly?

I tried various services online but I can't see any geodata either.


texts: What is the last version of Skype that will run on OS X 10.5 for a PPC Mac?

texts: I've got a G4 Mac Mini that is running 10.5.8 and the latest version of Skype (v 5.3) will not install on my machine because it is Intel only. What is the last version that would work on PowerPC?


texts: "at" symbol is not working in everyplace

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I have connected a Microsoft keyboard to my MacBook Pro 2019. Since doing this, the @ symbol is not appearing when pressed.
Case 1:

With the integrated keyboard, in Chrome, VSCode or another text editors, or even here typing:
Key combination: right option + q: nothing happens

Case 2:

With the external keyboard, in Chrome, VSCode or another text editors, or even here typing:
Key combination: right option + q: nothing happens

Case 3:

With the integrated keyboard, Slack, Notes:
Key combination: right option + q: @ <-- only that way works

Why I can't write at all the @ symbol with the external keyboard?
Why I just can write in some apps the @ symbol with the integrated keyboard?
This is the input source:

And this are the Modifier keys:
a) for integrated:

b) for external:

Note that I remapped the command/option in the USB keyboard, but with this keyboard there's no way I can write the @ symbol


texts: Safari randomly and periodically loses cookies

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It's been a while now that I'm facing this issue. From time to time, and on some websites, I have to either:

Accept again the cookies, and/or
Login again.

I'm using macOS 10.14.4 and Safari 12.1. It's quite annoying. Any suggestion?


texts:
I have a MacBookPro7,1 and the color profile for it is just horrible. All yellow and wrong looking.

However, when the Mac is first booting, right before it gives control over to the login window, the colors look fine. Right as the controls become interactive, the color profile flips to the yellow one.

Is there a way to find out which profile is the one that's used during boot?

I know I can set it with ColorSync Utility, but I can't figure out which it is.


texts: MacBook Pro keeps freezing, could Google Update be the cause?

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Last Dec (2012) my MacBook Pro (OS X Lion) started freezing, say 3 or 4 times a session. I ran both the Apple hardware diagnostic DVD (ran for hours, no problems),
and I ran a disk scan, no problems found.

The kernel.log message turns up these messages, at every single crash:

Dec 13 07:29:27 Gord-Waits-MacBook-Pro kernel[0]: CODE SIGNING: cs_invalid_page(0x1000): p=809[GoogleSoftwareUp] clearing CS_VALID
Dec 13 07:41:17 Gord-Waits-MacBook-Pro kernel[0]: CODE SIGNING: cs_invalid_page(0x1000): p=839[ksadmin] clearing CS_VALID
Dec 13 07:41:18 Gord-Waits-MacBook-Pro kernel[0]: CODE SIGNING: cs_invalid_page(0x1000): p=840[ksadmin] clearing CS_VALID

If you google for GoogleSoftwareUp you find a number of internet posts with the same problem. I found one page that suggested I turn off the update by issuing this command:

defaults write com.google.Keystone.Agent checkInterval 0

which is supposed to disable auto google updates completely.

That drastically reduced the crashes, but I still get a crash about once or twice a week, with the same Google Update related messages.

Anyone have any new ideas?

I suppose I should uninstall Chrome altogether next..


texts: If I disable the app store with screen time will my apps still automatically update if set to do so?

texts: I can't think of a quick way to test it out.


texts: A good (and inexpensive) images manager for Mac?

texts:
I'm dealing with a huge variety of image files (photos, vectors, icons, cliparts, etc.).

I've organized them in folders and subfolders, in order to find theproper sort of image, but I don't find a good way to quickly get what I need.

I've tried following solutions:

iPhoto
Picasa
Adobe Bridges
ACDSee

All of them have some kind of issue that I will resume here:

Unable to show all sort of iles (e.g.: if ti shows pictures, it doesn't show vector images, like .ai files)
Unable to handle a library (only browsing through the filesystem)
Unable to retrieve metadata (and therefore take advantage of an hypothetical search engine)
Unable to handle separated libraries (iPhoto and Picasa creates a single library, mixed with all images: personal and for work can't be spearated, unless using tags or folders)
Unable to display a single stream images (filtered or not filtered): they only shows the current folder/album files

I know that probably Lightroom and other (expensive) products would solve my problem, but they are meant for more than that. Instead, I just want to find a media library that only makes my life easier when looking for an image.

I've found a couple of questions here in that makes similar questions, but none of them really matches my needs (and anyway, the answer's always iPhoto, Picasa or some adobe products).

By the way, I've tried with Adobe Bridges because I have a free Adobe Elements license (so, no Lightroom).


texts: How can I force Google Chrome to translate the current page without using the mouse?

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When browsing the web with various inputs and other keyboard actions, traveling from the keyboard to the touchpad to right click is fairly obnoxious.

Google Chrome offers a "Translate to English" option in it's right click menu, something I find myself having to use often as I browse sites with English and another language.

Is it possible to invoke this option via a keyboard shortcut, or other non-mouse based method?


texts: Can I apply my iPhone 3GS backup to my iPhone 4S?

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As mentioned is a previous question, I made a backup of my old AT&T iPhone 3GS, then exchanged it for a new iPhone 4S at Sprint.

They transfered over my contacts. However, there's a lot of other stuff in that backup that I'd like to have on the phone. All my applications and their various configurations. For example, my GPS app has two years worth of saved locations.

On top of that, it looks like not all my contacts got transfered over for some reason.

So my question is, can I restore the AT&T 3GS backup onto my Sprint 4S phone without messing up it's Sprint-specific configuration? Will doing so cause the phone to think it's connected to AT&T?

Also, how exactly do you restore a backup onto an iPhone?


texts: Does the iPhone 4S generate a spark or detectable electric signal of any kind when receiving a call?

texts:
In my spare time, I am a volunteer for the fire brigade. Yesterday I was attending a lessons about preventing fires, and we saw a movie about a lady fueling her car while receiving a call. And "boom"! The fuel, and later the car, exploded because her cell phone got a call. The teacher told us it was because her cell phone gave an electrical signal (a kind of spark) and by so light up the whole place.

Since I tend to carry my iPhone 4S in my pockets all the time, I'm concerned about the risk of entering a building filled with some gas. If I get a call when I'm in such a building, I'm afraid I won't be around to answer the call anymore. :)

So, the teacher told us there are special cell phones which are explosion proof. These phones don't generate a spark or detectable electric signal of any kind when receiving a call.

Is the iPhone 4S such a cell phone? In other words, is it safe to carry an iPhone 4S when entering a building filled with gas?


texts: Whenever I attempt to delete a conversation thread in the Messages app on my iPhone, why is it asking me for confirmation? It used to be just swipe left and delete.


texts: Show an installed app's icon in Launchpad

texts:
I recently installed an app called NetLogo. I installed it via Homebrew Cask by running:

brew cask install netlogo

The app installation created a folder in /Applications directory. It comes with 5 .app bundles as shown:

The most used app out of the 5 is the one named NetLogo 6.1.0.app (second row, second last item from right). However, the icon for it doesn't show up in Launchpad. The icons for the other 4 showed up in Launchpad normally after the installation.

I can search for and launch the app fine using Spotlight.

Later I moved the 4 app icons in a Launchpad folder named NetLogo.

What could possibly be preventing NetLogo 6.1.0.app icon from appearing in Launchpad, and how can I make it show up? I have tried reinstalling by running:

brew cask zap netlogo

followed by

brew cask install netlogo.

I am running macOS Mojave 10.14.6.


texts:
I always loved the opportunity to create a standalone version of the Color picker instead of having to look for it between the apps menus.

Is it possible to use the character map as a standalone app?

Thank you


texts:
I have sets of MacBook screenshots with essentially one changing element that I want to combine/overlay on top of one another to create ONE image (not combine into one PDF with multiple pages or stitch images together like a panorama).
I've searched and only found solutions using Photoshop and Lightroom Enfuse (don't have either).

Any suggestions?


texts: Is a Thunderbolt cable usable between a MacBook and a non-Apple external display?

texts:
A Thunderbolt cable has a Thunderbolt-connector on every end. A Thunderbolt-connector follows the Mini Displayport specifications and should be usable between Apple devices as such.

When I connect a Thunderbolt cable from my 2015 MacBook Pro (i7 4890k, AMD M370X, 16 GB, 512 GB) to my 4K-display (Acer S277HK), the display powers down immediately and I can't power it back up again until I've removed the Thunderbolt cable. Is this normal behaviour? Is the problem in the cable, the display or the display's mini displayport connector? Or are Thunderbolt cables generally not supposed to function as Mini Displayport to Mini Displayport cables?


texts: Even though my inbox shows no mail, there is a note at the bottom of the screen that shows "787 Unread".   How can I clear or delete that note?


texts: Open page in new tab without closing menu

texts:
In my bookmarks bar in Chrome I have a folder with bookmarks. If I click the folder I see the links in this folder. I don't want to open all links in this folder, but a few. On Windows I can simply ctrl+click any link in this folder and it will open that page in a new tab without closing the current folder so I can quickly click the next link.
In Chrome on OSX once I click Cmd+link the page is opened in a new tab, but then it closes the Chrome foldermenu...is there a way to prevent that menu from closing?


texts: Remote Management Wizard Not Showing On First Use

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I have a new MBP bought through Apple Business and registered in Apple Business Manager. ABM is integrated with Azure Intune. On first use the Remote Management interface popped up but failed to obtain automatic configuration settings. I tried a few times, in the end turned the machine off.

I rang Apple and they said reinstall macOS. I did so, and since then I've never had the Remote Management interface pop up. I just get the normal consumer experience which is useless to me.

Apple believe there's an issue with the Intune configuration. I'm not convinced as I followed the Intune documentation for setting this up and everything checks out. Syncs are occurring, the device is visible as pending enrollment, good signals on both Intune and ABM side.

I think the mac is stuck in consumer mode now and doesn't know to check for MDM settings?

I've tried deleting the Macintosh HD - Data volume, erasing the Macintosh HD volume and reinstalling. No change. If I continue the consumer setup experience I just get a normal, non-managed mac.

Any ideas on:

A - Is it stuck in consumer mode?

B - Should I try anything on the Intune side? I'm contemplating deleting all Device Configuration policies to simplify things so only the Enrollment program token profile is left.


texts: Stop autocorrect in Microsoft Office changing custom symbols to emoji

texts:
I have set up a number of custom shortcuts for math/logic symbols to use in Word and OneNote, including the left/right arrow ↔. This works in OneNote, but I also need it to work in Word, but it keeps autocorrecting to the corresponding arrow emoji which is incredibly frustrating.
I have tried the following:

changing the shortcut to add a space after the ↔. This still corrects to the emoji.
selecting "change back to [custom shortcut]" – this does what it says, and corrects it all the way back to the shortcut, rather than to the arrow symbol I want
using the inbuilt shortcut \leftrightarrow (which I want to avoid because it's so much faster to type a three-character shortcut than that) also autocorrects to the emoji outside of math fields in Word
changing the shortcut trigger to something different. This still replaces the arrow with an emoji.

Within specified math fields, this issue doesn't occur, but I want to be able to continue to use these symbols outside of math fields, because that's the only way I can still use it within OneNote as well due to the way the Autocorrect dictionary for Office is set up.
I suspect that the issue is due to the fact that there is an inbuilt auto-replacement function for the arrow symbol to be replaced by the arrow emoji itself, much like how the smiley symbols started getting replaced by emoji a few years ago too, but I wouldn't know where to look to disable that to allow insertion of the actual arrow symbol itself. Any suggestions? Right now I'm copying and pasting but obviously this is not an ideal solution.
I am using Microsoft Word for Mac Version 16.46.
Thank you in advance, this is driving me up the wall!


texts: How do I change the iCloud ID on iPhone 5?

texts:
I lent my iPhone to someone who logged into iCloud with their apple ID. Now I want to change the iCloud account to my own, which can only be done by deleting the currently logged-in iCloud account. To do that, I have to enter the password for that account, to turn off the Find My iPhone app. There seems to be no way to remove the old account without knowing the password for it.

This is on an iPhone 5, with iOS 7.1.1.


texts: Share app with 3D touch context menu defined

texts:
When you 3D touch on a springboard icon you’ll either see a short list of developer defined controls, or you’ll see a generic “Share appname” control.

However, is it possible to share an installed app with 3D touch?
Or one would have to go find the app in appstore in order to share it?

For example, I want to share the music app, but when I 3D touch on it I only see some music I’ve played


texts: How do you change file associations on an iPad?

texts:
I would like to change .pdf files to use a different application when clicking on links in a browser.

How can I do this?


texts: After setting com.apple.screencapture disable-shadow, how can I make holding ⌥ re-enable shadows?

texts:
If you hold ⌥ (option) while taking a window screenshot macOS, it excludes the window's drop shadow in the saved image.
You can change default behavior to always hide shadows with
defaults write com.apple.screencapture disable-shadow -bool true

However, this makes ⌥ key do nothing when taking a screenshot, at least on Big Sur in my testing. Is there a way make window shadows hidden by default, but enabled if I hold ⌥ while taking a screenshot?


texts: Is there a wireless double-earred earpiece for iPhone?

texts:
Is there such a thing as a double wireless earpiece for iPhone 4?

I've just bought a wireless earpiece and argh! it's only single ear. I didn't expect that, I mean I didn't even know that anyone would ever sell single ear earpiece.

So basically before I go back to the shop and request for an exchange I'd just like to confirm is there even such a thing as a wireless double-earpiece for iPhone 4? (because I don't actually trust what they have to say)


texts: Waterproofing the iPhone 7 Plus for use in sea water

texts:
I use an iPhone 7 Plus with an Overboard waterproof bag.
I take a lot of photos and the waterproof bag is very cumbersome.
I've noticed the only holes in the iPhone are the charging port and the speakers. The rest of the iPhone looks sealed. If I put tape over the speakers and charging port, will that be enough waterproof my iPhone 7 Plus? Are there any other "holes" in the iPhone?


texts: Worthwhile replacing battery of 1st generation iPhone SE?

texts:
I am considering replacing the battery in my iPhone SE. It drops from 70% charge at room temperature to 10% charge in the outdoor winter cold, then shuts off, leaving me stranded without connectivity.
When I bought the phone several years ago, there was a high profile problem where iOS upgrades would slow the clocks on older phones to make up for the short battery life.  Due to public outcry, Apple agreed to replace the battery for free.  Since I don't use the phone much, I didn't take advantage of that offer initially, and when I decided to, it was too late.
If I replace the battery now, it would likely cost under $100, including tax (about 12% here).  It is a 1st generation iPhone SE [1], however, and I'm not sure how able it will be to host many more iOS upgrades.  At some point, Apple will not allow upgrades in order to avoid untenable customer experiences.
For those who have visibility into the technology trend, how likely is it that in the next year, the growing procesing/memory demands of iOS upgrades will make them unsupportable by 1st generation iPhone SEs?
I hardly use the phone (not allowed to have one at work, don't need it at home), so the $150/year of amortized phone cost seems...OK, I suppose.  When I need it, however, I really need it, e.g., navigating a new city, looking up things or communicating when doing milk run activities.
I suppose that it's not the end of the world to be stuck without iOS upgrades, but I anticipate running into problems with web apps and webpage compatibility, as well as stale security.
[1] Model MP822VC/A


texts: How to create iTunes smart playlist of playlists

texts:
I'm using iTunes 12.5.3 on Windows 10. I am trying to create a smart playlist that selects songs from other playlists, limited by storage. (Much like in How do I configure a Smart Playlist to show songs not in other Playlists?)

I have a number of these lists already, which I created several years ago, with a previous version of iTunes.

My problem now is that I am unable to select any particular playlist in the smart playlist dialog. The playlist name is defaulted to "Music", as shown here:

Further, if I open one of my existing examples, the dialog will show the playlist(s) I'm harvesting, but won't let me edit the playlist names.

What is going on here? How can I fix things so this works?

I know that an alternative solution is recreate the rules that form the source playlists in a new smart playlist, with the additional size restriction. This is what I'm now doing as a work-around, but it would be preferable to just get the feature working like it once did.


texts: OS X Dock is showing invalid icon for Calender app

texts:
I've noticed an issue. Are you facing the same?

How to resolve it? I tried removing the icon & added back but issue remains.

It is showing two 15 as a part of Calender itself. Is there something that I've missed for understanding dock icon for Calender app?


texts: Login screen on macOS Sierra suddenly with gray background

texts:
yesterday after waking my Macbook Air (Early 2015) with macOS Sierra from sleep I was greeted with gray login screen. Now I have gray every time I wake up my Mac.

First time I had the same color as background on dock for some reason but that went away after I disabled "Reduce transparency" in Accessibility settings.

I did some googling and found that this may be related to FileVault (since everything is encrypted OS presents gray background) however I had FileVault turned on since I got my Macbook and never encountered this gray thing.

What is the cause? My main worry is that it might indicate some problems with my computer. Thanks.


texts: Can iPhone storage be read without the 4-digit password? Or is it encrypted?

texts:
I had a problem with the digitizer connector in my iPhone 5S so I can't use the screen anymore, I couldn't even unlock it to back it up.

So I send it to a logic board specialist to replace damaged connectors with new ones.

My iPhone is locked with a 4 digit password.

Is the data inside its storage accessible somehow without having the 4-digit password? like putting the storage in another logic board or connecting the storage to a computer using special devices and extract data.

Or is it encrypted and can be read only using the 4-digit password?

My iPhone is an 5S with iOS 8.3


texts: iBooks are not synchronized via iCloud between my Apple devices

texts:
I don't seem to be able to synchronize my iPad (2) and IPhone (5s) to access the iBooks documents saved across the devices. They are both updated to the latest iOS.  I Have looked into all the settings and they all appear to be OK, but still don't know if I am missing to set the the ones that engages the iBooks. I noted that in the iCloud "settings" I don't see the iBooks icon as I do with the Photos, Mail, Notes, contacts, Calendar, etc., which I manage to see across devices.

However, I don't find a way for iBooks to add it or for making it into my iCloud Settings screen menu.

Can I kickstart a sync to get iCloud working for iBooks?


texts: Bash doesn't support `show-mode-in-prompt` readline option for `vi` editing-mode on macOS?

texts:
I've played with vi command-line editing in Bash on Linux, and wanted to enable in macOS too, but while vi editing seems to be supported, I cannot get Bash to display vi's mode on the command-line prompt using show-mode-in-prompt?

set -o vi
bind 'set show-mode-in-prompt on'

Doens't Bash on macOS support show-mode-in-prompt readline option?


texts: Remove duplicate smart playlists in iTunes

texts:
Background: I relocated my music library to a different hard drive on my Mac.  In order to sync iTunes, I exported the playlist, edited all the file paths to the new location, and imported it back into iTunes.  It worked fine, except:

Now I have duplicate "most played", "most recently played", "classics" etc in the automatic playlists section in the left pane, both in iTunes and on my iPhone.  (My Mac is localized to Swedish, so these playlist names are my own off the cuff translations back to English.)

I have looked at the XML playlist file I imported and could not find any entries there which would have caused the duplication, so starting over does not seem like a viable approach.

I have added album art, play times etc to the songs in iTunes so I would rather not start over from an empty music library.  None of this is purchased via iTunes (and frankly I'd rather be without iTunes altogether); I have transferred my CDs to FLAC over the years and just converted them to MP4 for import into iTunes when I first got an iPod Touch a few years ago.


texts: Is it possible to right-click on a file in Downloads when displayed via dock?

texts:
Is it possible to interact with the files you have in the downloads folder directly via the dock? So think you've downloaded a file, you want to right click and select "open with...". If I click on downloads and have the contents displayed as fan or grid, I cannot right click on the individual files. It's simple but really annoying to have to open downloads folder on Finder just to be able to right click on a file.
I am on Catalina btw


texts: Using Command Line how to make the user an Administrator

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As soon I bind a Mac to the AD Domain, I usually log into the Mac with the user account.

Of course, under System Preference, User & Groups, the user account is marked as: Managed, Mobile

My second step, is to make the user an Administrator account because I want to allow him/her to install/remove stuff from her/his Mac.

So, with the GUI, System Preferences > Users & Groups > I select the user name and I check mark the option: enable Allow user to administer this computer and I restart the machine and everything works fine.  The user now is an Admin for that machine.

Question, how do I perform the above process with the command line in Terminal?  Not the bind process, but to make the user Admin for that specific machine.


texts: iPhone Music app: music with an iCloud status of Uploaded can't be played?

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I have a PC (running Windows) with a collection of MP3 files I ripped from CD. I installed iTunes (12.7.0.166) and setup iCloud Music Library, and it went through the uploading/matching process on my files.

From my iPhone (iOS 11.0.3, and which has iCloud Music Library enabled), I can see all of my library in the Music App. However I noticed that some files would not play - a popup would appear saying "Item Not Available" and "This item can't be played".

I did a little digging in my library, and I found that I have this problem with files with an iCloud status of Uploaded. I can play files with a status of Matched just fine.

The files with a status of Uploaded are not available on Apple Music or the iTunes store - e.g. Turkish music from the 60s. So they will never become Matched. But, I should still be able to play them as an Apple Music or iTunes Match subscriber - that is supposed to be a selling point of iCloud Music Library.

Is there something wrong with my library (iTunes side or iPhone side) that is preventing these songs from playing? I have fewer than 100,000 songs, so that is not the problem.


texts:
Today I wanted to download a free application from the AppStore.

First it wanted me to review my account settings, I accepted the license, then filled out the empty fields and it asked for my payment settings. Since I don't have US payment method, I had to switch to the Hungarian store, because no payment was not an option there.

They charged me (for around $4) and switched me to the Hungarian store. Later I could set it back to the US store with iTunes where I could check the no payment option.

So I have an US account again.

But since then I could not download any application. It starts to download it, finishes the progress bar and then this alert window appears:

Of course there is no problem with my Internet connection.

The application is installed nevertheless but the AppStore application could not see it as an installed app so I could not check the updates for it.

Update: In the /var/log/install.log it seems the installation has been finished:

May  4 09:33:16 krtek installd[14760]: PackageKit: ----- Begin install -----
May  4 09:33:16 krtek installd[14760]: PackageKit: request=PKInstallRequest <1 packages, destination=/>
May  4 09:33:16 krtek installd[14760]: PackageKit: packages=(\n    "PKLeopardPackage <file://localhost/Users/raszi/Library/Application%20Support/AppStore/414445104/mzm.cufsjzsc.pkg#com.most-advantageous.windowflow.pkg>"\n)
May  4 09:33:16 krtek installd[14760]: PackageKit: Extracting file://localhost/Users/raszi/Library/Application%20Support/AppStore/414445104/mzm.cufsjzsc.pkg#com.most-advantageous.windowflow.pkg (destination=/var/folders/zz/zzzivhrRnAmviuee+++++++++++/Cleanup At Startup/PKInstallSandbox-tmp/Root/Applications, uid=0)
May  4 09:33:17 krtek installd[14760]: PackageKit: Shoving /var/folders/zz/zzzivhrRnAmviuee+++++++++++/Cleanup At Startup/PKInstallSandbox-tmp/Root (1 items) to /
May  4 09:33:17 krtek installd[14760]: PackageKit: Registered bundle file://localhost/Applications/WindowFlow.app/
May  4 09:33:17 krtek installd[14760]: Installed "WindowFlow" ()
May  4 09:33:17 krtek installd[14760]: PackageKit: ----- End install -----

Update2:

Moving away ~/Library/Application Support/AppStore/ did not help the problem, update still not working:


texts: How to fix npm to find correct node enviorment?

texts:
I have installed homebrew via boxen. I did not know that npm update -g is a bad thing to do, as npm runs amok trying to update itself. Hence, npm stopped working. I am now trying to get node and npm back to work again.

I have installed the node via homebrew:

$ brew unlink node && brew link node
Unlinking /opt/boxen/homebrew/Cellar/node/0.10.26... 5 symlinks removed
Linking /opt/boxen/homebrew/Cellar/node/0.10.26... 4 symlinks created

Yet npm claims that

$ npm
nodenv: version `v0.10.26' is not installed

Running nodenv indeed shows that the current version is not found:

$ nodenv versions
v0.10
v0.10.21
v0.6
v0.6.20
v0.8
v0.8.8

I am confused as to why nodenev shows all the versions it does.

How do I fix nodejs and npm?


texts: I've changed my computer. My Time Capsule password (which I've forgotten) is in the old computer. How do I change the password to en Time Capsule in the new computer?


texts: Is a "Not Charging" iPad still drawing power when not sleeping

texts: When an iPad is "not charging" and is not sleeping, is it still drawing power from the USB port so it doesn't drain or at least drain slower?


texts:
A podcast I'm listening has issues in the last few episodes, possibly since the iOS 13 update but I'm not sure.

At some point in the podcast the playing stops. In the "progress view" at the bottom of the app the podcast logo and times disappear and it says "Not Playing". Looks like the app can't decode a specific part of the compressed audio. You can skip the bad part.

Podcast author says he had a few people telling him about the issue, but he didn't change anything in his production process. Is this a know bug in iOS 13? Were there changes in the file formats supported by the Podcasts app?


texts: How do I get Time Machine to work during Power Nap

texts:
I tested Power Nap on my MacBook Pro Retina (Aug 2012) and my Time Machine backup hasn't made any progress.  Even the hard drive light is out while the machine sleeps.

Energy saver is at the default setting of sleep after 15 minutes and Enable Power Nap is checked.

It just doesn't seem to work.  Are my expectations wrong?  Shouldn't it just back up while in "sleep" mode?

This is a newly re-installed OS with no special apps installed and no custom software besides MS Office.

Update:  My Mac is plugged into a Thunderbolt monitor (power and TB).  The drive is chained off the monitor.  Backups don't occur if the drive is directly connected (no monitor) nor through the monitor.  The laptop is always plugged in.


texts: How can I bulk-change the folder permissions on macOS?

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I've been using an app called JDisk report which pinpoints the biggest space hogs on my drive. I've been trying to run it on the family iMac but the results are quite inaccurate because the only thing my user account has permission to access (and therefore the only thing it can scan) is my user folder, shared folders and public folders. I tried using the chmod command which I though would change the permissions of the folder to which it was executed on and all folders within, but it only does it per-folder, which makes the process extremely tedious. There must be a better way to do this.

If it helps, I'm running macOS 10.13.6 High Sierra on a mid-2011 iMac (base 500GB model except the RAM has been buffed to 12GB)


texts:
Is Xcode (Using Xcode 4.2) optimized for a quad core processor? My real question is will Xcode's performance be noticeably different with a dual core i7 as opposed to a quad core i7?

I might be purchasing a new computer soon, and want to know if it would be worth it to go with the quad core 15" instead of the dual core 13". I'm not really worried about screen size.

Thanks!


texts: An unexpected error occurred while downloading the dictation language

texts:
I'm on Yosemite and trying to download Enhanced dictation language files for English (USA). Default language is set to English (Australia) I don't know why.

I'm getting this error. I have also tried the solution given here https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5480134 but it doesn't solve the problem.

Can anybody here help?


texts: Upgraded to iOS 11 iPhone 5S won't connect to data

texts:
I have an iPhone 5S that I upgraded to iOS 11 and now it will no longer connect to data when I have Wi-Fi and Bluetooth turned off.

My Carrier is T-Mobile and I have Wi-Fi Calling enabled.


texts: Can I share files from my external hard drive across my PC and Apple laptop?

texts:
I have a desktop PC with a pretty small hard drive.  I bought an external hard drive with 500GB of space and now use that for all of my pictures, music, etc.  Its almost full.

I am now in the process of buying a laptop and I am considering an Apple laptop.  The one issue I have is trying to figure out how I would access all of my content that I mentioned above.


texts: Mojave bootcamp assistant limits partition size

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MacBook Air 2015, Mojave installed, 125 GB flashdrive

We had a VM for windows, but with installing Mojave, deleted everything additional down to bare Mac OS and tried to install W10 with boot camp assistant (BCA). According disk utility, MacOS is taking 27 gb (including W10 iso file), free 93 gb. BCA partition keeps 47 gb for Mac, with remark 8 gb free. It will not go lower.

I used Disk Utility to make a disk partition of 30 gb for Mac, 90 gb for second partition. No problem. I deleted that partition, again disk space 120 gb, free 93. Tried again BCA, no dice, will not go below the 47 gb for Mac OS.

Any way to push this lower? I would like to go 85 gb for W10, 35 gb for Mac. That should be enough for both OS and some working space for extra programs, all larger data files go through external drives or cloud.

Update: Output from diskutil list

/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:     GUID_partition_scheme                         *121.3 GB   disk0
   1:                       EFI EFI                      209.7 MB   disk0s1
   2:                Apple_APFS Container disk2           30.0 GB   disk0s2
   3:                Apple_APFS Container disk1           75.0 GB   disk0s3
   4:      Microsoft Basic Data Data                      15.9 GB   disk0s4

/dev/disk1 (synthesized):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      APFS Container Scheme -                      +75.0 GB    disk1
                                 Physical Store disk0s3
   1:                APFS Volume W10                     745.5 KB   disk1s1

/dev/disk2 (synthesized):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      APFS Container Scheme -                      +30.0 GB    disk2
                                 Physical Store disk0s2
   1:                APFS Volume Macintosh HD            20.5 GB    disk2s1
   2:                APFS Volume Preboot                 44.4 MB    disk2s2
   3:                APFS Volume Recovery                522.7 MB   disk2s3
   4:                APFS Volume VM                      1.1 GB     disk2s4


texts: Stolen MacBook Pro, encrypted with FileVault. Can they still access it because of a poor password?

texts:
My MacBook Pro was stolen recently. I had it encrypted using Filevault and it required my password for login after woken from sleep.

My password however is just a word of three letters, not abc, def or klm but more like tfj, ksa, ale, etc...

My question is this can they still access my files in any way? Via the guest access maybe or by breaking the password?

Greatly appreciate your answers.


texts: What causes a full restart vs a resume when battery dies?

texts:
There are many times where if my macbook pro dies, it will simply resume where it left off once i plug in the power and turn it on. Other times, it will do a complete restarting and I will loose all my unsaved data.

What causes one vs the other? Preferably, I would like it to always resume instead of restart.


texts:
I have a contact, Niels; he has an iPhone too, and he uses iMessages, just as I am. For some reason, I've got 2 conversations going on with Niels although the contact card both contains the e-mail and the phone number.

When you delete one conversation, you delete both conversations.

Am I using iMessages the wrong way?
Is this a known bug?
Is my iPhone messed up with the use of BiteSMS and other jailbreak tools?


texts: Can't swap two columns in a Numbers table by clicking and dragging

texts: I'm trying to swap two rows in a Numbers table, but clicking and dragging on the rows I'm trying to swap is not working at all, like it normally should. What is the problem here?


texts: Reading PDFs on iPad without iTunes syncing

texts:
I am trying to read for an exam and I want to download exercises to my iPad. I have downloaded the exercises from here. I have no Mac laptop or desktop computer. I am tired of clicking every pdf one-by-one.

Trial 1: I bought the GoodReader app for iPad, but its developer said that I need a Mac computer (or something with iTunes) to download the folder like above. I have no Mac computer.

Trial 2: I am now trying things with iBooks software on my iPad:

How can I easily get them to iBooks without Mac?
How can I edit iBooks (iPad) directory on Ubuntu?
Is this easier with Amazon Kindle rather than with iPad?

I am not much interested in how you really get the PDFs from such directory structure to the iPad or other device, I am just trying to get more paperless because my printer is broken and not comfortable to read just with laptop.

Perhaps related:

How can I study efficiently and paperlessly?


texts: Why "sudo nano" can bypass csrutil / SIP when enabled and other apps can't?

texts:
Initial statement
I was installing open source ntfs-3g on my mac (Catalina). At some point, while crsutil was enabled (i.e. System Integrity Protection was on) , I had to modify one line in the ntfs-3g package and I couldn't write on the file due to the crsutil protection (I was using vim).
However, I found this answer https://superuser.com/a/1518414/1220896. With nano, I could modify the "protected" file without any reboot nor switching crsutil to disable.
And now, I am still trying to figure out how sudo nano can bypass SIP while sudo vim or any other text editor can't (update by the author: here I make the mistake of assuming it was SIP related).
Complete command:
sudo nano /usr/local/sbin/mount_ntfs

/usr/local/sbin/mount_ntfs is a soft link to /usr/local/Cellar/ntfs-3g/2017.3.23_3/sbin/mount_ntfs. In order to create the soft link, I had performed the csrutil disable/enable.
output of ls -ls /usr/local/sbin/mount_ntfs
0 lrwxr-xr-x  1 user  admin  45 Sep 18 16:33 /usr/local/sbin/mount_ntfs -> ../Cellar/ntfs-3g/2017.3.23_3/sbin/mount_ntfs

output of ls -ls /usr/local/Cellar/ntfs-3g/2017.3.23_3/sbin/mount_ntfs
8 -r-xr-xr-x  1 user  admin  613 Sep 19 14:17 mount_ntfs

Any idea ?

Update
The problem doesn't come from SIP as pointed out by the contributors to this question. I mark this question as solved and will try to find out why sudo vim could only access the file in readonly despite the permissions being well set.
I thank you all for your input.
As a personal not, i would say that sometimes being on the wrong path doesn't mean you can't learn from it --- consider this when replying to someone misleaded like I was.


texts: Cannot mount UDIF read-only disk image: readDataFork returned error 29

texts:
# hdiutil attach -nomount -noverify -verbose /private/var/root/Desktop/Adobe_Zii_2019_4.1.3__TNT_.dmg
正在初始化…
DIBackingStoreInstantiatorProbe: interface  0, score      100, CBSDBackingStore
DIBackingStoreInstantiatorProbe: interface  1, score    -1000, CBundleBackingStore
DIBackingStoreInstantiatorProbe: interface  2, score    -1000, CRAMBackingStore
DIBackingStoreInstantiatorProbe: interface  3, score      100, CCarbonBackingStore
DIBackingStoreInstantiatorProbe: interface  4, score    -1000, CDevBackingStore
DIBackingStoreInstantiatorProbe: interface  5, score    -1000, CCURLBackingStore
DIBackingStoreInstantiatorProbe: interface  6, score    -1000, CVectoredBackingStore
DIBackingStoreInstantiatorProbe: interface  0, score      100, CBSDBackingStore
DIBackingStoreInstantiatorProbe: interface  1, score    -1000, CBundleBackingStore
DIBackingStoreInstantiatorProbe: interface  2, score    -1000, CRAMBackingStore
DIBackingStoreInstantiatorProbe: interface  3, score      100, CCarbonBackingStore
DIBackingStoreInstantiatorProbe: interface  4, score    -1000, CDevBackingStore
DIBackingStoreInstantiatorProbe: interface  5, score    -1000, CCURLBackingStore
DIBackingStoreInstantiatorProbe: interface  6, score    -1000, CVectoredBackingStore
DIFileEncodingInstantiatorProbe: interface  0, score    -1000, CMacBinaryEncoding
DIFileEncodingInstantiatorProbe: interface  1, score    -1000, CAppleSingleEncoding
DIFileEncodingInstantiatorProbe: interface  2, score    -1000, CEncryptedEncoding
DIFileEncodingInstantiatorProbe: interface  0, score      900, CUDIFEncoding
DIFileEncodingNewWithBackingStore: CUDIFEncoding
DIFileEncodingNewWithBackingStore: instantiator returned 0
DIFileEncodingInstantiatorProbe: interface  0, score    -1000, CSegmentedNDIFEncoding
DIFileEncodingInstantiatorProbe: interface  1, score    -1000, CSegmentedUDIFEncoding
DIFileEncodingInstantiatorProbe: interface  2, score    -1000, CSegmentedUDIFRawEncoding
DIDiskImageInstantiatorProbe: interface  0, score     1000, CUDIFDiskImage
DIDiskImageInstantiatorProbe: interface  1, score        0, CSparseBundleDiskImage
DIDiskImageInstantiatorProbe: interface  2, score        0, CSparseDiskImage
DIDiskImageInstantiatorProbe: interface  3, score     -100, CRawDiskImage
DIDiskImageInstantiatorProbe: interface  4, score        0, CDARTDiskImage
DIDiskImageInstantiatorProbe: interface  5, score        0, CDiskCopy42DiskImage
DIDiskImageInstantiatorProbe: interface  6, score    -1000, CNDIFDiskImage
DIDiskImageInstantiatorProbe: interface  8, score     -100, CShadowedDiskImage
DIDiskImageInstantiatorProbe: interface  9, score    -1000, CCFPlugInDiskImage
DIDiskImageInstantiatorProbe: interface 10, score     -100, CWrappedDiskImage
DIDiskImageNewWithBackingStore: CUDIFDiskImage
CCachedBackingStore::readDataFork returning 29
CUDIFDiskImage::setBackingStore unable to open resource fork (29)
DIDiskImageNewWithBackingStore: instantiator returned 29
正在装载…
Error 29 (非法查找).
即将完成…
DIHLDiskImageAttach() returned 29
hdiutil: attach failed - 非法查找
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I tried to remove the metadata using xattr -c and cp without -a or -p, but both does not work. I run a scan on it using Disk Drill (dd it onto a ram disk) and there is some plist/pngs related, so there is definitely data in the file. How can I mount this disk image/access the files inside?


texts: Would "System" storage taking up 60 GB on High Sierra slow down my Mac?

texts:
I never configured Time Machine backups it so don’t think I have any in-place backups, however System reports it’s using HALF of my storage space and now my macbook's been working as slow as a snail.

Model - MacBook Air (13-inch, Early 2015)
Processor - 1.6 GHz Intel Core i5
Memory - 4 GB1600 MHz DDR3
Startup disk - Macintosh HD
Graphics - Intel HD Graphics600 1536 MB
macOS High Sierra - Version 10.13.5

Can I check that this isn’t making me slow?


texts: Forwarding a single port from one network adapter to another?

texts:
I have a Parallels Desktop virtual machine with Host-Only networking. I want to set up Remote Desktop on Windows (port 3389) while not exposing any other part of Windows to the external network. Parallels adds a virtual network adapter that allows me to communicate with the Windows machine. On OSX I tried to add the following rule:

sudo ipfw add 100 fwd ,3389 tcp from any to 10.37.129.3 dst-port 3389

But it doesn't seem to work. Is there anything wrong with my rule? Is there another way of doing this?


texts: How do I navigate backwards forwards when there's no physical or screen buttons?

texts: I went on a movie streaming site and a bunch of "popups" came up, like suddenly I was in the appstore or some completely different tab. The real tab I wanted to go to is probably somewhere opened too, but what do I do now?


texts: Delete apps from Launchpad or from Finder?

texts:
Is there an advantage to delete apps from Launchpad (Hold one app like in iOS) vs from finder?

And why some apps cannot be deleted from Launchpad?


texts: Master volume control for multiple audio output OSX

texts: Few of the third party apps like soundflower and boom used to provide a master volume control for multiple audio output on OSX (aka combining USB audio output and 3.5mm output etc). None of the mentioned apps work anymore, say soundflower app cannot be loaded and boom 2 has a volume control but will not change the volume of multiple output devices. Is there someway on 10.11 to control the master volume of multiple audio output?


texts: iTunes downloading movie faster over WiFi

texts: For some reason iTunes will download a movie faster over wifi than with ethernet on my home network. When I do a speed test the ethernet connection appears to be a few mbps faster though... Why would it download slower on ethernet? (I turn wifi off when using ethernet via the thunderbolt adapter)


texts:
The issue I'm having is that I manage three Mac Mini servers. Two are for work, one is for me. I can log into our main work server and my personal box using WebDAV, however, the second work server rejects my login credentials with "The user name or password was not accepted by the server." errors.

The two work computers are pretty much mirrored in every way possible. The notable exceptions are the network (one is one city, the other a different one). Work server #1 is an Open Directory Master, the other is a replicant. The hardware is slightly different.

Server #1 is running 10.10.1; Server #2 is running 10.10.2. Both are running Server 4.0.3.

If I try to log into both servers through AFP or SSH, there are no problems. It's only when we try to access Server #2 that we're having issues on all accounts (both local and network users).

I believe WebDAV broke during a recent Server update, however, I can't pinpoint when that occurred.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.


texts: Can Mac OS X use a 1400x1050 projector's native resolution?

texts:
I'm trying to connect my MacBook Pro to a Canon LCD projector with a native resolution of 1400x1050.

The maximum 4:3 resolution that Mac OS X offers is 800x600. With the SwitchResX utility I've managed to get it to display at 1024x768, but no higher without using widescreen resolutions. In Windows running via Bootcamp I can use the projector's full native resolution (so I know it isn't a hardware issue), and projected images look a whole lot better.

Is running Windows my only option if I want to get the best out of a projector like that? Or is there some way of getting it working properly with Mac OS X?


texts: After restoring from Time Capsule, a "Reset Password" button appears on the login screen

texts: After sending my MacBook Pro out for repairs, I got it back as a factory reset, so I had to go through the process of restoring from my Time Capsule. After completing the restore, there's now a new "Reset Password" button on the login screen that I swear wasn't there before. I'm afraid to click the button and mess things up, so I just want to know: if someone were to get a hold of my laptop and click that button, would they have to enter the current password before they could reset it? It makes me nervous that that button is there. How do I get rid of it?


texts:
I would like to change the default settings for all podcasts.

I know you can edit each one of them individually, but I would like to change the default for all to "Download All" and  keep "All episodes".


texts: Can't complete OS X 10.10.5 software update in App Store

texts:
I'm trying to update my iMac to OS X 10.10.5, but there seems to be an error when updating.

When I press the update button a message appears to download and restart. When I press it the update starts to install. After some time it get blocked or a message 'show details' is shown, but even after pressing it nothing happens. The update still remains in the App Store.

How can I complete the update?


texts:
Basically the Title:

Is is possible to replace the CD drive in a 17" macbook Pro with a SSD/second HD?

I'm looking at buying a 17" MBP, and I am having a hard time deciding if I want a HD or SSD.

My MBA has a SSD, and it's very fast. However, I am already almost out of space.

My desktop (a windows box) has a SSD for the OS and often used programs, and a HD for long term storage. It works extremely well

Also, I think I have used the CD drive in my desktop about twice in two years, so I don't really need one, particularly in a laptop.

What I would Ideally like to do is simply replace the CD drive with a big HD, and use a SSD for the OS.

Is this possible? I can make up a custom bracket to hold the SSD in the CD-drive enclosure. However, I do not know what kind of interface the CD drive uses.


texts: How do I re-enable double tap to highlight on my trackpad?

texts: I recently did a fresh install of 10.8. Prior to this install, I could rapidly tap twice on my touchpad and, on the second tap, drag the pointer to highlight text. Now, with this new install, that feature is missing. I tried looking in the trackpad settings but couldn't find anything to re-enable this feature.


texts: How to recover files from a Macbook that won't boot which has an SSD

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My Macbook pro 2011 won't boot completely anymore (can't open it). In the recovery mode, I can see my disk (SSD) but when I want to download the last IOS on my mac, it seems my computer can't find my SSD.
Can anyone help me found out if my computer is retrievable and if not, is there a way I can recover my files from my SSD?
Thank you very much,
Chloe


texts: iPhone keeps asking for iCloud password (almost everyday)

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I've seen a few similar posts, but they are quite old, and the problem I have is not exactly the same, so here it is:

For a few months (and probably after I upgraded to iOS 11, although I don't remember exactly), my iPhone has kept asking for my iCloud password in the settings.

Nothing is blocked, if I don't enter my password I can still use the phone and all the services normally. However, it displays a notification and a red dot on the settings icon, and this bothers me. When I enter my password, the notification disappears, and it comes back after some time (a few hours, one day, three days...).

Here are a few screenshots of the "workflow" (sorry for the French on the screen):

Notification on the lock screen. It says:

  Update of Apple ID: some services related to your account will only be available once you are reconnected.

Notification in the settings, in the iCloud block

Message when I click on the notification. It says:

  Update of Apple ID: some services related to your account will only be available once you are reconnected.

Asks for my iCloud password:

When I reconnect, I'm redirected to the settings, with no confirmation message, and the notification disappears. And then, a few hours/days later, the loop starts again...

My iPhone is an SE running the last iOS (11.2.1). I've already tried to log out from iCloud and log back in, but it didn't solve the problem. Also, it's not a used iPhone asking for an old iCloud account. Any tips on how to solve this issue?


texts: Mac Pro 1,1 running any kind of latest version of macOS

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So I'm having trouble installing any kind of OS X on my 2006 Mac Pro 1,1. Sierra won't work. El Capitan won't work. Yosemite seems like it's really, really hard to get working and I haven't tried any other version before that.

I'm looking for a guide to follow, where I can install either Yosemite, El Capitan, or Sierra on it. I have a Macbook Pro where I've aquired the original installers ready to put on the machine.

My real questions are: Where can I find that guide? If this is impossible, what is the highest version I can install? Mavericks? Mountain Lion?


texts: Macbook Pro Won't Boot off of USB Flash Drive

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Model MacBook Pro 2010 6,2

OS X version  Yosemite 10.10.3

I used createinstallmedia to format and create an install USB stick.  This step went fine.  Command used was:

/Applications/Install\ OS\ X\ Yosemite.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia --volume /Volumes/HP-8 --applicationpath "/Applications/Install OS X Yosemite.app"

(One comment was that I need to do this as sudo.  The line before was 'sudo bash' so I end up with a root shell.)

Note that if you backslash the spaces inside the quotes it doesn't work.  Basic shell stuff, but I'm rusty it took me a bit to figure it out as the message talks about "not a valid installation package."  Unhelpful...

When I attempted to boot it, it starts up, I can select the USB stick.  When it boots I get the apple logo.  The progress bar gets a little over 1/4 of the way, then the screen goes to a grey barred circle ("No") and nothing more happens.

Edit: Booting verbosely the boot fails with [SearchForTransportEventTimeOutHandler] -- Missing Bluetooth Controller Transport!

Searches for this message find mostly forum posts related to hackintoshes.

The copy of installer is one that I've used on several macs, but before I've always been doing upgrades, not install from scratch.  (I suspect malware on this one, so I want to zero out the disk before reinstalling.

Note also that this mac has a superdrive.  I've vague recollections of a firmware  'feature' that prevented booting an installer off of a memory stick.


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The keyboard shortcuts Option-Left/Right Arrow is made for moving the cursor by words, as Apple described here: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201236 , but doesn't work on my MacBook Pro (15-inch, Mid 2010, OS X 10.11). They fail to work everywhere I can try, including but not limited to Notes, TextEdit, Mail, Google.com search field and iMessage text field. Meanwhile on my friend's MacBook Air (13-inch, Mid 2013, OS X 10.11), they work damn well! Anyone can help?

Note:

An Apple Wireless Keyboard is paired to my Mac, but it doesn't help.
System has been restarted several times, doesn't help.
Including Option-Delete and Option-Shift-Up Arrow, all the Option related shortcuts in the "Document shortcuts" session of https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201236 doesn't work.
The Option key is fine, I have tested it by shortcuts like Command-Optiono-H which works.