texts: Combine external mic and system sound and send output to HDMI

texts: I am looking to combine the system sound with an external mic plugged into the microphone jack and send the combined audio output to HDMI. Is this doable on my Macbook pro. I have tried different things with sound flower and creating aggregate devices and such without luck. I am able to create a recording in Quicktime which has the sounds sources mixed perfectly. But, I want to be able to send this output live through HDMI. Any help is greatly appreciated.


texts: Can't see Internet Radio in iTunes Libary despite it being checked in preferences

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How do I make it visible?

iTunes 11.1.5
OSX 10.9.2


texts: New to OS X - How do I navigate through finder?

texts: I am used to Windows because I simply go to computer and can click my partition and see my entire file structure right there. I can go to users, and then view my documents, and I also have the handy address bar in an explorer window. I just got OS X and I can't figure out how to navigate the file system, and I never know where I am in the file system. Can anyone give me tips on these two problems?


texts: iPhone connected to charger and shows charging but not charging battery

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Last night I charged up my iPhone 5c and this morning I woke up and it was on 1 percent. After this, I checked that the iPhone's charger was plugged in properly and it looked fine.

I turned on my phone to answer a message and the phone went dead. I don't understand why this happened because it had the lightning bolt there in the battery, indicating it was charging.


texts: The "Open" and "Save" system dialogs get taller every time I open them

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I'm using Mac OS 10.10.2, and I believe this problem only occurs with Mac OS X Yosemite.

Here is the dialog box I am talking about:

I just pressed Cmd+S on Ask Different to trigger this dialog.

If I were to close this dialog, and press Cmd+S again, this dialog will grow taller, by about 100 pixels, I'd say.

What is causing this? This actually is really annoying, as I find myself opening this dialog upwards of 30-40 times a normal work day, causing the dialog to frequently go off the screen, causing inconvenience in saving the files and similar operations.

Is there a way to fix this? I'm not really looking for a fix - I just want this bug to be recorded here, in the event of there being a fix in Mac OS X in the future (only after I upgraded to Yosemite, this started happening).


texts: Migrate files from OS 9 software and hardware to OS X

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I'm trying to migrate some files from my old PowerComputing PPC computer(SCSI) that ran OS 9.0.4 to my current MacBook Pro running OS X (default 10.9.4 but 10.6.8 avail via external disk). I've gotten most of the way there. Short version of my quest below in case it helps others, but have been hit by what appears to be a TCP/network configuration issue between the two networks.

Tried the obvious but they don't have compatible ports so no USB(new system but not old - thumb drive, external drive), no Firewire (new system but not old - External drive, target mode), SCSI(on old system but not new).

I found a path that has high potential though, Ethernet. I have an old Farallon adapter on the PPC system that takes the AAUI port and converts it to 10-base-T.

Had issues with the TCP/IP config on the old system. But went to the TCP/IP control panel to update connection to use DHCP instead of the old static values I had.
Hooked them both up to the same router and got the IP addresses. Tuned on file sharing via the Control Panel on OS9( and made sure I had a user with access and a password I knew)
Pinged to make sure there was connectivity
Tried to connect from OSX 10.9 to OS9 but failed with message about software being incompatible; Did some digging, and it turns out that Apple had removed some needed components.
I had an external drive that still had 10.6.8 so I tried that. Yeah - it connected
:-) (Use AFP - afp:// 192.168.0.7 in my case)
Started to copy some files. It got a little ways in and died and then disconnected the remote OS9 system.
it said that the data could not be read or written and gave error code - 36
If I go back and try it in smaller chances from where it died the copies work.
During my earlier searching I do remember seeing a post (which I can't find again) that talked about modifying some of the block sizes in the TCP config. Does anyone have any ideas of what they might be?

Thanks for any clues/pointers

Update- I'm getting closer. While it still does fail. I can do it smaller chunks when I hit an error. Since these are OLD SCSI drives the file size/count isn't as large as it would be on a new drive. So while not quick its not as bad as it could have been. I'm going to make one friend very happy. I found an archive of the very first website I had made for her years ago. Some drives are having issues are are saying I need to update the Drivers on it. Going to try everything else I can before I take what might be an irreversible action.


texts: Tried to fix filesystem type: FFFFFFFF-FFFF-FFFF-FFFF-FFFFFFFFFFFF and failed

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Initially, I had dual-booted Ubuntu on my Mac.
Several months later, I decided I no longer needed Ubuntu on my Mac so I decided to get rid of it. I attempted to this by using Disk Utility on macOS and erased the partition. It didn't work, only the swap partition was erased.

Afterwards, I've then accessed the Ubuntu version on my Mac, afterward, I found myself no longer able to access the Mac OS.

I found out that my mac partition had the same FFFFFF-FFFF-FFFF-FFFFFFF problem as this post (Partition type suddenly FFFFFFFF-FFFF-FFFF-FFFF-FFFFFFFFFFFF, drive unmountable)

I followed the instructions of the selected answer but now I can boot into neither of the OS (Before at least Linux was still bootable)

The current state of the machine is as the picture below:

My mac is a 2013 MacBook with 252 GB of SSD drive. It was running OS Catilina (the latest).

I'd really like to obtain my macOS back along with the data/files there.


texts: Will rsync copy extended attributes, ACLs, etc. reliably enough for Time Machine?

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I am copying a TM backup to a new drive over USB by drag&drop per Apple’s recommendation.  But since it is more than two terabytes, I am concerned about the risk of interruption.

If I try to resume with rsync -avAX will Time Machine be able to continue using it?  Another question/answer suggests I might have to ensure I have the latest rsync but will that be enough?


texts: How to pin a window on top of other windows in OS X?

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I used to use an app called Afloat that let me pin windows on top of all other windows on the Desktop. However, Afloat stopped being maintained at some point and it doesn't work with more recent versions of OS X.

I then used an app called Compulsion, which installed as a SIMBL plugin but then that stopped working with OS X El Capitan.

Is there a way to get either of these apps to work with OS X El Capitan? Or is there another solution I can try?


texts: Network's DNS queries redirection to localhost

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Before saying anything, I would like you to know that my experience in the field of network administration is about 3 days long, so please treat me like the newbie I am. I have also been looking around 2 of these 3 days trying to find the best way to achieve my objective, and I have found similar questions around the internet, but I have not been able to do it.

I am running an Apache2 server on localhost:8080 from a Mac OS X fully updated Lion. This Mac is connected through Ethernet (interface en0) to a wireless Access Point. In the AP, I have set up the gateway to be 192.192.192.1, and I have given that IP address to en0. The objective of this network is redirecting anyone's http/https petitions to the localhost of the gateway, showing them the page that apache is serving.

-If before this point there's any conceptual mistake, please let me know-

As far as I have understood, the best way to do this redirection is using the pf.conf file and pfctl, but the man page of pf.conf left me with a bit of a WTF face. I have found in freebsdonline.com these instructions to do something similar:

# --------- pf.conf ----------
int_if="fxp0"
ext_if="fxp1"

rdr on $int_if inet proto tcp from any to any port www -> 127.0.0.1 port 8080
pass in on $int_if inet proto tcp from any to 127.0.0.1 port 8080 keep state
pass out on $ext_if inet proto tcp from any to any port www keep state
# ------- end pf.conf -------

The thing is that this pf.conf seems to be forwarding packets between 2 interfaces, and I dont need that (do I?). Could you help me to adapt, or at least understand that lines? And is there anything else I need to do once that lines have been added to pf.conf?

P.S: If you know any easier way of doing this redirection stuff, I'll be glad to hear it. I though about using dnsspoof, but I haven't been able to find it for OSX.


texts: I've got a 2019 quad-core Pro. Recently I installed playonmac so I could play a couple of old computer games I love (like Championship Manager 01/02). However, whenever I play it the fan goes on maximum and the temperature shoots up towards 90. I wouldn't have thought this would be particularly intensive, any thoughts?


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I have a file encrypted.
I want to get the content of the encrypted file  and after that I want to encrypt the file with a new key.

openssl Type-of-Encryption-used -d -k "key of decription" in- file-encripted

The output is content of the file.

I want to encrypt the file with a new key every time it is decrypted. Every time I decrypt the file for get the content the file will be encrypted with a new key. How i can do it?


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I tried googling but didn't get any adequate results.

I have a 13 inch MacBook Pro mid-2010 and would like to upgrade the RAM. I have a ram module which says this on the front:

  8GB 2Rx8 PC3L-12800S-11-13-F3

and the company is SK Hynix.

On Apple's support page it states that PC3 RAM is needed. However, I'm wondering if my PC3L RAM would work. My current RAM is 4 GB and if I used this I could potentially increase it to 10 GB.

I ask because sometimes Apple's support pages don't give you the whole answer. For example, it is possible to have up to 16 GB of ram on my Mac model, but the Apple site says only 8 GB is possible. So I'm wondering whether my PC3L RAM could be used as well.

P.S. I don't want my Mac to explode or anything


texts: If the iphone gets stolen, if i wipe all the information from the iphone from my icloud account it can be usable?

texts: Lets assume that my iphone 5c gets stolen. If the person who has the icloud account wipe all the data (they dont block the phone just wiped) will it be able to get the factory definitons like its a new phone? so if the thief activated the phone we will not get asked by the icloud account password and id?


texts: Is there a way to let Mail always mark the messages coming from a domain as spam?

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I keep getting emails from a domain, which always use the same email address; every time I mark them as junk in Mail, but Mail keeps showing those email in my inbox.

Is there a way to force Mail to consider those emails as junk? Do those emails contain a header that forces Mail to consider them acceptable messages? As far as I can see, I only have the problem with those emails; other emails that I mark as junk are never shown again in the inbox.

The emails I receive are not in my Google Mail account.

Update: Mail allows to set some custom actions for junk mail. I forgot to say I edited those settings to be as in the following screenshot:

I simply added the last condition to the default ones used by Mail, to avoid messages coming from Drupal.org would be moved to the spam folder (it can happened that I receive messages about spam on Drupal.org, as I am a site maintainer there). As the condition before the one I added is "Message is Junk Mail," and as the spammy address is not in my address book, it not in my previous recipients, and I have already marked the email as junk, I would expect the emails to be marked as spam, always.

In the "Junk Mail" tab, those custom actions are enabled.

Still, even after I changed the settings for junk mail, I am getting those junk messages as if they were normal messages. This means that, having changed the settings didn't help, or make things worse.


texts: How to replace mp3 files with m4a versions in itunes?

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A few points before I get into my question/issue:

I am not looking for a way to convert file formats.
The library and all music is located on another Mac on the local network (so it is not indexed by spotlight and no spotlight-based applescript solution will work).
I am not willing to re-rip all the songs in my library, and in many cases I can't anymore anyway as I've let the physical CDs slip into oblivion over the years as I never used them.

Now, For the short version:

We have two different iTunes library files, both stored on the same local network server (another Mac) as the music files themselves.  My library and her library are different, but there is a fair amount of song overlap between the two.

I have used iTunes Match to replace about 5,000 of the songs in my library, with 256kb AAC .m4a files rather than the various qualities of .mp3 files I had previously.

Unfortunately this has resulted in a large number of broken file links in her playlists, because the old file reference was .mp3 and the new file is .m4a.  iTunes will allow me to manually re-link each file one by one, but cannot automatically find any others.

How can I get her library, to changes its references from the .mp3 files it knows about, to the newer .m4a files, where applicable?

Note that this does not apply to EVERY file in her library, only to those files that overlap between her library and mind, and that were matched by iTunes.

MORE DETAIL FOR THOSE WHO CARE:

I have a library consisting of about 15,000 songs, almost all of which are mp3s of various quality ranging from 96kb to 192kb.  I have wanted to de-duplicate this library for some time, as well as increase the quality of the tracks since storage is so much cheaper these days.  However the time & effort involved in doing so has been daunting.

Then yesterday I discovered (well, finally signed up for) iTunes Match.  After a bit of searching for various "power user" techniques, I found that I was able to reliably de-duplicate my library in a huge and automated way, bringing it down to the current state of about 15,000 items.  Not all of these are "music" however, many are audiobooks, podcasts, etc.  iTunes Match was able to match up about 5,000 songs, and uploaded a few thousand others.

Now to the problem.  My wife has a separate iTunes library file so that she can run iTunes at the same time I do.  We don't share all of the same music, but there is a fair amount of overlap.  My library is fine as I have re-downloaded all the 5,000 files with 256kb AAC versions from iTunes Match and deleted the old mp3 files.  But now my wife's library doesn't reference these same new files.

I can go through her "missing" songs one by one and locate them, but there are thousands of them.  The iTunes "find other missing files" feature is useless here, and finds nothing (I think because of the change from mp3 to m4a but I can't be sure).

So the question ultimately is - how can I, in an automated or batch way - get her library to look at the new .m4a versions of the songs, rather than the mp3 versions which are now gone?  I don't especially care about the metadata on her library since she doesn't use it, but I want to make sure any changes will not affect my metadata, as I do use it.

I considered editing the library xml file but realized that this won't help, as it's the database itself that would need alteration and the xml is just an output generated from the DB itself.

EDIT:  Hopefully my new "short version" is clearer for those who didn't understand what I was asking before.


texts: Can both Mac OS and Windows (via Bootcamp) agree on a unique dropbox folder location?

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I'm planning to install Windows 8 via Bootcamp. I want to know if it is possible to make a third partition to hold my dropbox folder for my both Mac and Windows dropbox instances? & If possible, what type of partition should I have so that both Mac OS and Windows become comfortable reading and writing to it?

p.s. I'm trying to avoid duplicate syncing and duplicate storage of the same dropbox content in my laptop.


texts: Why does iPhone 4 lose its VPN connection on sleep or screen lock?

texts: I've setup a VPN connection using AnchorFree.com on my iPhone 4 which works great, the issue I have is when my iPhone goes to sleep or screen locks the VPN connection appears to auto disconnect and doesn't reconnect unless I manually make it. I saw a thread here on apples forums confirming others are seeing this issue but no real solution.


texts: Will using a MacBook Air out in the sun damage it at all? Will it affect any of the paint, the screen, distort the laptop's form, cause excessive heat, or cause any other damage?


texts: iMac gets stuck on the "White Screen of Death" during startup

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I have a 27" iMac (from 2011) that's running Yosemite and each time I turn the power on, it shows me the Apple logo, it starts to load, and the screen goes white and simply hangs there.

To solve this problem, I've done all of the standard procedures: resetting the PRAM, trying to reinstall the OS from a USB stick, attempting to use the Internet recovery feature, etc. But no matter what, it ends up on the same white screen.

When attempting to launch into safe mode, this is the last thing I see before the computer cuts to the white screen:

Any help in getting the computer booting again would be appreciated.


texts: Reasons to prefer Little Snitch over the built-in firewall

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Every now and then I browse through software you must have on your mac type lists and more often than not somebody mentions Little Snitch as a must-have application.

Now what I think that many people ignore or aren’t aware of is that in fact OS X itself has an application firewall built-in (though hidden and the application layer inactivated).

I understand that Little Snitch maybe allows for a more fine-grained selection of ports and one may exclude only specific addresses from the traffic per application. However, I wonder if this is really needed for the average (and better-than-average) type of desktop user.

So my question would be in which cases is the built-in firewall not sufficient and when would one have to choose an external tool like Little Snitch.

(Note: I’m not speaking about controlling the traffic in a web or database server setup in which cases I thoroughly understand blocking certain connections whilst allowing only a small set.)


texts: Renaming files with special structure in a quick way

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I checked out the solution here, but it is not adressing my problem too well, because it does not use the specific structure of my naming.

I have a collection of files, enumerated and named in a systematic way, for instance

  filep-x

where x is a number that can be quite large and p is a marker for a "makrocollection". I would like to copy all files in such a makrocollection as a template and automatically rename all files copied as

  fileq-x

With other words, is there an option that I can replace names automatically using the terminal (like it is possible in many editors) without working with additional documents?

Thank you in advance!


texts: Naming conventions for naming files that would start with a dot usually

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How should i name music artists beginning with a dot (such as .38 special https://musicbrainz.org/artist/0330a83d-f61e-4989-adb3-afce3943c3ba ) so that they are not hidden from Finder because of the dot.

I realize that just removing the dot does the trick, but I'm looking to see if there is a for sensible naming convention for this.


texts: Yosemite and Teac A-H01 sound driver- alternatives?

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The Teac A-H01 requires an audio driver, otherwise the sound becomes watery. Teac hasn't released a driver since Yosemite came out.

Are there any workarounds? It seems like USB external sound is fairly standard, so perhaps there are alternative drivers available?


texts: Notification that ‘someone might be watching what you browse’

texts:
I got a notification on my iPhone. The notification reads

  Someone might be watching what you browse. Follow 3 steps to encrypt your web traffic and change your IP address.

What does this mean?


texts: How to I set the scroll direction to be "non" natural for any new users created on a Lion machine?

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When a new user account is created on a Lion machine, a "helpful" dialog appears to describe "Natural" scrolling.

I want to set the scrolling to be "unnatural" for any new users created - is there a defaults setting for that?


texts: No weather information in Yosemite Notification Center

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First off I know there's a Weather widget in Today view which is working fine for me. What I am referring to is the weather information that shows up right on top under the big date section for some users as below:

Whereas my Today View looks like this:

What gives?

Edit: For what it's worth, here's what my Location Services pane looks like:


texts: Two-fingered right click on iBook G4 OS X Tiger PPC

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I have a PPC iBook G4 and really would like to be able to have the two-fingered click to secondary-click functionality. I did a lot of googling, but nothing really came up, mostly stuff for other versions of OS X and for the Intel iBooks, not PPC.

I did eventually come across iScroll 2, http://iscroll2.sourceforge.net, but that says it is incompatible with my trackpad :(.

Does anyone know of any other ways I can add the two-finger click functionality?


texts: How to clone a MacBook Pro disk into bootable external device

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I would like to clone my MacBook Pro (15-inch 2018, macOS Mojave 10.14.6), which I will call "Mac", into an external USB hard drive, which I will call "backup".
I want to do this in such a way that I can completely wipe the SSD on the Mac, reinstall it from scratch (i.e. with Big Sur), and I can even gift this laptop to someone else and buy a new one, and at any moment I can plug the backup to a similar laptop (so no Apple Silicon) and boot from it.
What would the correct procedure be to achieve this goal?
Time Machine is not appropriate for this purpose, since it must first be restored, and I want to run the macOS Mojave on the backup, not whichever one is installed in the internal SSD.
I am not sure whether dd if=/dev/disk0 of=/dev/disk[USB] is sufficient:

Will FileVault cause me grief?
Is any (encryption?) information stored in the Secure Enclave which may
not be available on a different, albeit similar laptop? The Keychain (e.g. the Wi-Fi passwords), maybe?
Is the entire macOS Operating System and settings stored on /dev/disk0 or is there any information stored on a different storage medium on the Mac? (e.g. NVRAM)

My actual use case is to completely reinstall the Mac from scratch and copy data to the new installation only as needed, using the previous Time Machine, but I may need at any time to run the old image in case it becomes necessary on a moment's notice. Switching laptops is a real possibility - I might get a 2019 version or an iMac to replace this one, and I'd like to ensure the backup can still be booted from, and will contain all information currently available on the Mac.


texts: Does the Sport Loop have two lengths like the Sport Bands?

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All of the individual Sport Bands come with both a small-to-medium and medium-to-large adjustable band. On the other hand, the Woven Nylon band does not and clearly says so on its Apple Store page:

  Band Size

  One Size

  Fits 125-195mm wrists.

38mm, not 42mm

The Sport Loop is less clear on whether it has two adjustable bands or one. Does anyone know whether is does?


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Is there a widget for turning on and off Wi-Fi? I have to open up the settings and go to Wi-Fi to switch it off. For me, this is annoying and unacceptable. Just can't live with it.

I know:

What the Wi-Fi button on Control Center does
Control Center's behaviour has changed since iOS 11 update
How to turn off Wi-Fi from the Settings app

I just want quick access to WiFi toggle like on Android.


texts: Battery status in menu bar is not changing though It is charging?

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My Mac book pro 2015 is charging however the battery status is not changing. But when I toggle the button "Show battery status in menu bar" in Energy Saver it shows the correct battery percentage. So the battery status is not showing the current battery percentage value.

But It was working before.


texts: How to fix HDD failure on a MacBook Pro?

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My daughter's Mac failed to boot. I did:

Recovery Mode - would not allow to reinstall OS X, Disk Utility failed.
Internet Recovery Mode - doesn't work
Created external drive with OS X, rebooted successfully from it.
Tried everything "standard", not working, Repair fails.
Erased HDD (worked); rest no change, tried again Disk Utility etc. with no results.
Terminal attempts:

diskutil verifyvolume disk0s2
The volume could not be verified completely. File system check exit code is 8.
diskutil repairvolume disk0s2
The volume could not be verified completely. File system check exit code is 8.

fsck #1

fsck #2

Computer specs: MacBookPro7,1; HDD 500GB, model: WDC WD5000BPKT-00PK4T0 -

And now...I am finally short of ideas ;)
Any advice from the community, please?


texts: How do I disable auto-turn-on Bluetooth after rebooting iPhone?

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Using iPhone 7+, iOS 11.1. Every time I reboot my phone, my Bluetooth automatically is turned on. This is NOT wanted and very annoying. I only use it with my remote shutter button when using my cam, which is rarely. How do I disable the auto-turn-on?

p.s. I obviously know how to turn it back off via control center. But the point is I shouldn’t have to turn it back off, and back off, and back off, and...you get my point.


texts:
On my old MacBook, I could hit ⌘ cmd + ⌥ alt/option + space and get a new Finder window with the sidebar (Downloads, Documents, etc…).

On my new Mac, that same command only gives me a Spotlight window which excludes the sidebar.

Is there a way to get the hotkey shortcut going again so that I don't have to ⌘ cmd + ⇥ tab to the Finder each time to hit ⌘ cmd + N?

I am on a Mac i5 MacBook Pro.


texts: Can Terminal access the microphone in Catalina? (for SoX, FFmpeg, Ecasound, pyaudio etc.)

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When I try to record audio from the command line with programs such as SoX or FFmpeg it doesn't record anything and ends up with a flat-line recording. I am guessing this is due to privacy restrictions from macOS Mojave/Catalina. This is similar to the issue Audacity is having, in which the fix is opening it from the terminal to trigger a request for microphone permissions.

This answer suggests granting Terminal access to the microphone from System Preferences. However, it will only show up in the list if Terminal requests it. So is there a way to grant an application unrequested permissions?

I also saw that Apple tech support have said non-GUI apps can't access the mic. Does this mean command line audio recording is completely broken? As it seemed to work perfectly on previous versions, could there be a fix for it like there is for Audacity?


texts: USB 3.0 (Type A) to USB-C on Early 2015 MacBook Pro for HDMI

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I have an early 2015 MacBook Pro with Retina Screen and USB type A ports. I'm trying to declutter (and come up with a way of easily switching my peripherals between my windows laptop and my Mac) and there are a plethora of USB-C hubs with HDMI out. Is it possible to use a USB-A Male to USB-C female adaptor to use this port for HDMI out on my machine?

I have a USB 3 type A docking station at work that outputs DVI and Display Port that I use with my Mac, so I'm aware that my laptop will output video over USB, but I've tried the above configuration and the laptop sees the hub as USB 2.0 and no display is detected.

TLDR;

Can I use a USB-C hub with a Type-A to Type-C adaptor to get HDMI from my Early 2015 MacBook Pro with no USB-C port?

It may be my flawed understanding, but I am under the impression that USB-C was just the type of connector and independent from the spec, so I don't know why this wouldn't work.


texts: Logging out and in resets modifier keys to defaults

texts:
Open Keyboard Preferences
Set modifier keys (I like to reverse option and command)
Log out
Log in
Modifier keys have been reset to defaults

I just upgraded from 10.7.5 to 10.8.2, might be related.

Every time I open Keyboard Preferences, I see the following in my console:

  System Preferences[570]: [BluetoothHIDDevice][initWithHIDDevice] Unable to get Object ID from IORegistry

.. so that might be related.


texts: What PDF Viewer can be used to present slides on High Sierra?

texts:
I give a lot of talks using PDF slides built with LaTeX beamer. I was very happy with Skim, because it offers you to synchronize two Skim windows, s.t. you don't have to mirror the screen, but instead use both displays at their native resolution and also be able to watch the thumbnail sidebar etc. on your own display without your viewers watching (similar to what PowerPoint and Keynote offer with two displays).

However, as we all know, Apple has rendered PDFkit unusable since Sierra and Skim uses PDFkit for rendering. The main issue that rendered PDFkit unusable for presentations is the fact that it first shows a low resolution version of the content, before actually showing the high resolution rendering. This is very bothersome in the context of overlays.

In Sierra one could circumvent this by scrolling through the entire presentation beforehand, which apparently built up the cache of high resolution renderings
In High Sierra this is no longer possible, every time a page is shown it is shown at low resolution for a split second

Thus, I'm looking for alternative PDF viewers, which support two displays without mirroring but do not rely on PDFkit for rendering. Adobe Acrobat renders fine, but is not so suitable for presentations.


texts: Blaupunkt 4k LED TV as external monitor for MBP mid 2012 retina issue

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I initially connected the MBP 2012 retina 2.7 GHZ to the 4k display it showed me 3840x2160 correctly. But when I was optimising some display settings I changed to 1080p after that I no longer get the 3840x2160 option at all.Yet I could still load into my Windows with the 4k at 30 hz. It would be great to know how can get the 3840x2160 resolution option back.

It would be interesting if anyone could tell me if they have successfully shot upon 4K with 60 hz on mid MCP retina. If so would be great to know how you accomplished it.


texts: Apple maps view route duration without traffic

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I am going to the airport tomorrow morning for a flight, the current time on maps shows as:

The average time to drive 25 miles considering this is a motorway route is around 30 minutes.

I want to view this route without traffic, as at 3/4 am I doubt there’ll be even any traffic.

How can I view this route without traffic?

I have tried:

1) Searching for traffic settings in the settings app (no results found)

2) Going to maps -> info and turning traffic off:

The route still shows as red and the same duration. After turning traffic off I have tried to restart the maps app etc.

I am on iOS 13.3.1. How can I fix this?


texts: Slow Macbook Pro Early 2008 Running on Mountain Lion (Possibly due to GPU Failing)

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I have a Macbook Pro (Early 2008) running on Mountain Lion with a Samsung SSD. Just a few days ago i've noticed significant lag when switching desktops or using any intensive video program and generally the whole desktop experience feels really "heavy".

I run the AHT just today and i've got this error "4vdc/1/40000003" which is allegedly a problem with my video card and also after checking the GPU temparature, it's constantly on 78 celcius.

What should I do? Is it definitely an issue with the Graphics Card or The hard drive?


texts: How to prevent password reset using OS X installation disc?

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I want to set a master password for the whole machine, but it appears this can be easily bypassed.

It is possible to reset the Mac OS X Password using the OS X installation disk and Password Reset utility.

Isn't this a security flaw?
Can this be stopped by other than encrypting the whole hard disk?


texts: Is there any way to transfer data from old phone's sim card to iPhone 4?

texts: I recently got the new iPhone 4 but it doesn't have my contacts and old text messages etc. I previously had the iPhone 3gs. When I upgraded my iphone 3gs to iphone 4 they gave me a new sim card but it was basically a replica of my old sim card (eg.same number).


texts: Configure MBP back to factory but with most recent OS

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What I'd like to do is get my MBP back to an "out of the box state": fresh install, recovery partition. However, I believe my partition is for OS as it was on October 2013. What I'd like is a fresh install of newest version and recovery partition being an installer for newest version. At time of writing, El Capitan.

What steps would I go about to have a fresh El Capitan install and an El Capitan recovery partition.


texts: Traffic to IP addresses matching local network not sent over VPN

texts:
I have an active VPN connection (L2TP) and try to access a server with IP 192.168.1.29 in the remote network.

If my local network uses the same subnetwork (192.168.1.0/24), connections to that subnet are not routed through the VPN, so the connection to the remote server fails. If my local network uses a different subnetwork (e.g., 192.168.2.0/24) the connection succeeds.

Is there a way to access my server in the first case?


texts: Advised setup for: Parallels, Time Machine, Security, Windows 7, and MS Visual Studio 2010

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I just bought the latest MacBook Air 13". I run Parallels with Windows 7, but I'm running out of disk space quickly.

So, I'm now considering moving the VM to an external hard drive. With that I want the following:

Use the external drive as backup location for my Mac with Time Machine.
Have the VM on the external hard drive and develop in Visual Studio. I think the speed of the drive is important since building applications can be resource-intensive for both memory and disk.
Have the disk encrypted so in case I lose the drive my data at least will not be accessible for other parties.

I think a 100 GB - 500 GB drive will suffice.

Is the above even possible and what interface would be recommended? Thunderbolt?


texts:
New with 10.9 is the ability to easily create a bootable drive from the installer that is downloaded from the App Store, with a single command createinstallmedia in the Terminal.  This link at MacWorld has details.

I encountered a problem with this, with an Error -9999 when trying to erase the USB drive I had inserted.

The error occurred while booted into 10.6.8; but since that particular computer also has a 10.8 partition, I booted from it and tried the same command with the same USB drive.  It was able to erase and create the boot drive successfully.

Don't know how widespread this problem is; but, if this occurs to someone else who does not have the newer OS available to boot into, I'm wondering if there is any other way to fix the error; or if the Disk Utility methods of creating the boot drive will need to be used.


texts:
If I look at the Window menu in Terminal, it lists a shortcut to switch to my first tab as Option+Cmd+1 (and second with ...+2, etc). However, both Option+Cmd+1 and Cmd+1 switch to my first tab.

Is it possible to change this behaviour so only the listed command works? I'm trying to remap Cmd+9 and Cmd+0 to cycle tabs, but Cmd+9 doesn't work -- it's trying to switch to the 9th tab (whether it exists or not).

My System Preferences > Keyboard > Shortcuts > App Shortcuts menu lists only my cycle tabs commands. (And they show up in Terminal's Window menu.)

macOS 10.14.3


texts: What SMS apps exist on the iPhone that support ascii emoticons, not emoji?

texts:
This is an open question, but it is a logical followup of my previous question asking for an emoticon keyboard app.

It appears it is not possible to define a system-wide keyboard that supports ASCII emoticons. Instead, specific applications can provide a custom keyboard or another way to easily input emoticons.

So what replacements for the SMS app do provide shortcuts to input ASCII emoticons? For use by people unfamiliar by all those weird punctuations.

I am looking for something similar to the Messaging keyboard on Android. (Thanks to VxJasonxV)

The app should not require a jailbreak.

Bonus points for apps that also display ASCII emoticons graphically.

UPDATE: Now iOS does allow system-wide third party keyboards, so this question is no longer really relevant. However I keep it alive because the answer "no third party app can do SMS" is still correct and useful.


texts: Change Modifier Key While Application is frontmost

texts:
What I'm trying to accomplish is to intercept or change Command and replace it with Control for use while another application is running and frontmost.

Is there a way to temporarily change modifier keys on the Mac using a script?

For example, an applescript could be saved as Stay Open and would intercept a keystroke and change the keystroke to another keystroke.


texts: How does OS X decide when to switch graphics processors?

texts:
I use my early 2011 15" MacBook Pro for nearly everything under the sun - I often monitor which GPU is active using gfxCardStatus. I've noticed some idiosyncrasies in how OS X decides when to switch graphics processors:

MOST apps that require X11 will trigger auto-switching, but not all
It seems every app that requires java will trigger the auto-switching, though I've not tested this with non-GUI apps.
Some apps (like Mathematica or XCode) which COULD require a high-performance GPU will force movement to the discrete card straight away, even if only fired up for a trivial task (dynamic switching in-app would be cool, off topic)
Many legacy apps (silverlight) which have no business asking for my discrete card will force it regarless
Finally, some apps (GIMP, in particular) which could definitely benefit from a discrete GPU actually don't ask for it at all.

Does Apple document how it chooses when to switch cards? Can apps make an OS-level request for the discrete card if it exists?


texts:
I did this command in terminal and got this results. Is anything suspicious here that why nsurlsessiond is hugging the bandwidth? (I have turned off iCloud Drive and Stuff)

sudo lsof | grep nsurlsessiond

 UserEvent    17            root  txt       REG               1,2      19152 16564038 /System/Library/UserEventPlugins/com.apple.nsurlsessiond.plugin/Contents/MacOS/com.apple.nsurlsessiond
nsurlsess   166  _nsurlsessiond  cwd       DIR               1,2       1190        2 /
nsurlsess   166  _nsurlsessiond  txt       REG               1,2     433584 16602450 /usr/libexec/nsurlsessiond
nsurlsess   166  _nsurlsessiond  txt       REG               1,2      32768 37043674 /private/var/db/mds/messages/se_SecurityMessages
nsurlsess   166  _nsurlsessiond  txt       REG               1,2    3334144 36961452 /private/var/folders/zz/zyxvpxvq6csfxvn_n0000000000000/0/com.apple.LaunchServices-1030.csstore
nsurlsess   166  _nsurlsessiond  txt       REG               1,2     622896 16259470 /usr/lib/dyld
nsurlsess   166  _nsurlsessiond  txt       REG               1,2  381434142 16648622 /private/var/db/dyld/dyld_shared_cache_x86_64
nsurlsess   166  _nsurlsessiond    0r      CHR               3,2        0t0      302 /dev/null
nsurlsess   166  _nsurlsessiond    1u      CHR               3,2        0t0      302 /dev/null
nsurlsess   166  _nsurlsessiond    2u      CHR               3,2      0t150      302 /dev/null
nsurlsess   166  _nsurlsessiond    3u   KQUEUE                                       count=2, state=0x2
nsurlsess   166  _nsurlsessiond    4u     unix 0x954683f445eec9d        0t0          ->0x954683f3d417e95
nsurlsess   166  _nsurlsessiond    5u    systm                          0t0
nsurlsess   166  _nsurlsessiond    7u     IPv4 0x954683f4c140735        0t0      TCP 192.168.107.135:57938->defra3-vip-bx-006.aaplimg.com:http (ESTABLISHED)
nsurlsess   166  _nsurlsessiond    8u     unix 0x954683f3d417e95        0t0          ->0x954683f445eec9d
nsurlsess   166  _nsurlsessiond    9u     IPv4 0x954683f4c140735        0t0      TCP 192.168.107.135:57938->defra3-vip-bx-006.aaplimg.com:http (ESTABLISHED)
nsurlsess   166  _nsurlsessiond   10w      REG               1,2  134202708 37151618 /private/var/folders/zz/zyxvpxvq6csfxvn_n00000s0000068/C/com.apple.SoftwareUpdate/CFNetworkDownload_7ergSw.tmp
UserEvent   207   miladghattavi  txt       REG               1,2      19152 16564038 /System/Library/UserEventPlugins/com.apple.nsurlsessiond.plugin/Contents/MacOS/com.apple.nsurlsessiond
UserEvent   207   miladghattavi   35r      DIR               1,2         68 16654163 /Users/miladghattavi/Library/com.apple.nsurlsessiond
nsurlsess   299   miladghattavi  txt       REG               1,2     433584 16602450 /usr/libexec/nsurlsessiond

I entered the command twice; while nsurlsessiond was downloading stuff and the data didn't seem to have change. So I'm guessing this is not the amount of data downloaded by this process, right? Is there anyway to have the information of what it's downloading/downloaded?


texts: How can I use my fourth gen IPod classic to play podcast episodes in correct chronological order?

texts:
The default order when I download podcast episodes to my IPod is reverse chronological, such that the most recent episode plays first. I'd like my podcasts to play in correct chronological order, such that the oldest episode plays first. I have tried:

Pressing play on the podcast folders on the IPod rather than individual episodes
Going into my Mac's podcast app to change the settings on individual podcasts to play in sequential order
Setting individual podcasts to custom play settings, changing episode order to "oldest to newest"
Creating my own podcast station, setting station's play setting to "oldest to newest"

After each of the last three steps, I would remove my podcasts, sync, add them again with the new settings, and sync. The IPod still plays the most recent episode first. Many suggestions I see when you google this question involve using playlists, which no longer exist in the current podcasts app for Mac. Ditto the title.


texts: Why are my Login Items cleared upon restart?

texts:
Since I have been using OS X El Capitan 10.11.3 (Beta 15D13b), most of my login items are not remembered. With the exception of Dropbox and WD Quick, all other applications I put into Login Items (e.g. Chrome, Mail) are removed from the list again after a reboot.

This is quite annoying; none of my apps launch (regardless of whether I've set them to hide at default) and the list is apparently cleared upon launch.
What is the cause for this, and how can this be solved?


texts:
For quite some time I've been having a few problems with menubar icons. Specifically long ones being cut off.

Here the Adobe Icon and the play icon (for an app called Bee) are being cut off

What the play icon should act like:
http://www.neat.io/bee/docs/the-short-list.html

I am running Yosemite.

Is there any way to fix this?


texts:
When I choose "Show All Data" from an activity in Health (iOS 8.1), I see a long list of data points with associated source app icons; but this list almost always seems to be incomplete and not to correspond to the data displayed in the dashboard.

For example when I choose "Walking + Running Distance", I see a bunch of data from "Phone", but none from recent days (the most recent entry is over a week old; today is Oct 21)

despite recent walks being recorded correctly in the dashboard ("Today" is Oct 21),

and despite the fact that those walks are from a different source (which I can confirm by choosing "Share Data" in the activity and selecting the source).

Is "Show All Data" not working properly? Is there a setting I need to adjust to get it to actually show all data?


texts: Songs in my library "cannot be played on this iphone" anymore

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After updating to iOS 10, most of the songs in my library that I could play before now won't sync and the error message I get is

  Some of the items in the iTunes library, including "Song name", were not copied to the iPhone "iPhone name" because they cannot be played on this iPhone.

But I could play these items before, nothing has changed.

When I check the media format of one of the items it just says:

kind: MPEG audio file
bit rate: 320 kbps
sample rate: 44.100 kHz
channels: Joint stereo
encoded with: LAME3.99
format: MPEG-1, Layer 3

From what I know this is just an MP3 with constant bitrate, a format that the iphone did support one week ago...


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I bought a new keyboard that, of course, works almost perfectly, minus the media buttons. Luckily it has open source drivers specifically for linux and mac, but unfortunately the media buttons (specifically the next/previous) do not work.

I have the ability to run a command when they are pressed; I was hoping to recreate the Apple Keyboard next/previous functionality where it skips the song of the most recent media player.

I've found several scripts that will skip iTunes or Spotify individually, but I have music in both that I like to listen to.

How would I tell the last played media player next track?


texts: Boot Camp Assistant: error while formatting flash drive

texts: Hello everyone. A few days I tried to install Windows 10 on my MacBook 13' mid 2010 running OS X Catalina. That was a horrible experience. First I edited info.plist in Boot Camp's contents, everything worked fine until I started to make flash drive. I've normally chosen flash that I've already formatted(Fat32, master boot record) in Disk Utility and clicked on start. Boot Camp wrote that he is formatting my flash drive and when the progress bar was half full, it shows me error message "An error occurred while formatting flash drive"(this is an approximate translation from Russian). Than I thought that the problem is out of non-supported OS X and installed maximum supported High Sierra. In this OS I couldn't even start program, it closed immediately after editing info.plist(no commands in command line helped).  Also I tried to install El Capitan, but it also caused a problem: installer is damaged. I read in internet that I just need to change the date on my computer but it didn't work.  Without despair I tried to make flash drive with command line. Most of files were copied except install.wim. It told me "/Volumes/windows10/sources/install.wim file too large". But part of this file was copied so I tried to install Windows. Laptop restarted, white than black screen and shows me a problem: "non-system disk press any key to reboot". I also tried to install windows directly without boot camp, but when windows was installed and Mac was rebooted after installing any software or drivers, it caused me problem with wrong start. And yes, this computer can run windows 10, I've already installed it on my old hdd (I changed HDD on SSD, so I can't access to old HDD).  I don't think that problem is with my flash drive, because I've installed with it Windows 7  on another average computer(We have 2 windows computers in my family) a few days ago. If you can, please help me with this problem


texts: Is it possible to have multiple branding for the same app in the AppStore?

texts:
I have an app on the App Store

Duolingo-like for various topics

I want to customise the experience based on the user that logs in to my app:

Change branding (logos, colors, ...)
Different content in the app

User 1:
Peter hello@peter.me
Have access to the topics Gaming with 5 coures
Logo X, color blue

User 2:
Sarah sarah123@coolmail.com
Have access to the topics Travel with 8 courses
Logo Y, color green

My question is:

  Am I going to be rejected from the store?

(Cause screenshots of the app doesn't reflect my branding)


texts: Macbook Pro does not recognize brand new internal hard drive

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I have a 13.3" mid-2012 2.5 GHz Macbook Pro and wanted to upgrade the internal HDD from the factory standard 500GB capacity to a 1TB. I popped the bottom case, discharged any static, undid the screws on the drive bracket, pulled the old drive and installed the new drive.

After putting the Macbook back together, I booted from a USB thumb drive and launched disk utility. In DU, I can see the thumb drive, but I can't see the new hard drive at all. Booting from Internet Recovery is the same.

What's more, I repeated all of these steps on a different Macbook, and the results were the same there -- drive not seen. Bad drive right out of the box, yeah? Rare, but it happens.

So I got a new drive, same capacity, different brand and same result: I don't see the drive in Disk Utility at all, no matter how I boot.

I was thinking that these drives just needed to be formatted, even though both indicated they were Mac compatible, which I presume means pre formatted in FAT so both Mac and PC could read them. Is it possible that these drives are shipped raw and totally unformatted (first was Seagate STBD1000100, SATA III, second is Western Digital WDBMYH0010BNC-NRSN, SATA II)?

If they are indeed unformatted, how the heck am I supposed to format them when Disk Utility can't see them at all? I don't have an external drive available, but I suppose I can wrangle one with some shenanigans.


texts: MBP 16": Relative ambient heat of i7 v. i9

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So for me a very important aspect of devices is their ambient heat. I have an annoying kind of eczema that causes rashes on my hands/skin if I have sustained contact with something warm, and it can be triggered by computers etc.

I am wondering if anyone has numbers on how hot the i7 chips are compared to the i9's in the new MacBook Pro 16".

I bought the upgrade to get the cheaper i9 (2.3Ghz) and am finding the device very very warm even when the CPUs are just sitting there at 1-3% (and I'm in a cold wintery room, so the internal heat is overcoming the air outside too).

I don't know exactly what's making it so warm (iStat menus shows the batteries, palm rests, and thunderbolt ports as being the hottest parts), but am curious about how this computer would compare to the i7. I seriously considered buying the i7 just to have a cooler computer but the upgrade was cheap enough and I wanted the better GPU so I went for it.

If it turns out the i7 IS significantly cooler than this i9, I might trade it in for the sake of my long-term skin health.

So the question again: Is there data out there about the relative ambient and under-load temperatures of the i7 v. i9 versions of the MacBook Pro. If so, is the i7 meaningfully cooler under normal circumstances.


texts: DNS works in terminal but not elsewhere in Mac OS

texts:
I have an issue similar to the one in this question: DNS not resolving on Mac OS.

Things out on the Internet work fine. Local machines in my company, however, fail to resolve, including the servers I'm trying to work on.

We use local DNS servers and my Network preferences show only those local DNS servers. (192.168.20.10, 192.168.25.10)

Trying to get to them via hostname.companyname.local or hostname.companyname.com fails in mac OS apps (Safari, Firefox, Chrome, RDC, etc). However, if I use dig or nslookup in the terminal, it comes back just fine:

dig hostname.companyname.local

; <<>> DiG 9.8.3-P1 <<>> hostname.companyname.local
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 16841
;; flags: qr aa rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;hostname.companyname.local.        IN  A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
hostname.companyname.local. 1200    IN  A   192.168.25.24

;; Query time: 3 msec
;; SERVER: 192.168.20.10#53(192.168.20.10)
;; WHEN: Thu Nov 20 11:36:49 2014
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 54

So, why does it work in Terminal and why doesn't it work in Mac OS? (Using Yosemite.) The answer from the previously linked thread about bouncing mDNSResponder sounded promising, but that doesn't appear to exist in Yosemite.


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My Mac OSX Snow Leopard got exploited by the Flashback malware. There's a summary by F-Secure that I'm trying to follow in order to remove it. This link is similar, and provides a little more detail.

The first step is to type the following:

bash-3.2$ defaults read /Applications/Safari.app/Contents/Info LSEnvironment
{
 "DYLD_INSERT_LIBRARIES" = "/Applications/Safari.app/Contents/Resources/.NeroLite \022@.xsl";
}

This shows the malware. The next step is to do the following:

bash-3.2$ grep -a -o '__ldpath__[ -~]*' /Applications/Safari.app/Contents/Resources/.NeroLite \022@.xsl
grep: /Applications/Safari.app/Contents/Resources/.NeroLite: No such file or directory
grep: 022@.xsl: No such file or directory

As you can see the file path includes .NeroLite \022@.xsl and the space backslash combination has got me confused, and the system can't find the file. Anyone how I can locate this file? What is the \022@ trying to do? How to complete the next step?

UPDATE1

I've tried the following:

bash-3.2$ grep -a -o '__ldpath__[ -~]*' /Applications/Safari.app/Contents/Resources/.NeroLite\ \\022@.xsl
grep: /Applications/Safari.app/Contents/Resources/.NeroLite \022@.xsl: No such file or directory

bash-3.2$ grep -a -o '__ldpath__[ -~]*' "/Applications/Safari.app/Contents/Resources/.NeroLite \022@.xsl"
grep: /Applications/Safari.app/Contents/Resources/.NeroLite \022@.xsl: No such file or directory

bash-3.2$ ls /Applications/Safari.app/Contents/Resources/.Nero*
ls: /Applications/Safari.app/Contents/Resources/.Nero*: No such file or directory

bash-3.2$ grep -a -o '__ldpath__[ -~]*' /Applications/Safari.app/Contents/Resources/.NeroLit*
grep: /Applications/Safari.app/Contents/Resources/.NeroLit*: No such file or directory

UPDATE2

I executed the following commands:

# sudo defaults delete /Applications/Safari.app/Contents/Info LSEnvironment
# sudo chmod 644 /Applications/Safari.app/Contents/Info.plist
# defaults read ~/.MacOSX/environment DYLD_INSERT_LIBRARIES
2012-04-01 21:42:40.706 defaults[891:903]
The domain/default pair of (/Users/myuser/.MacOSX/environment, DYLD_INSERT_LIBRARIES) does not exist

Which is good, according to the first link above.

THEN I REBOOTED THE SYSTEM. However, when I then try to start Safari, it won't start, but instead gives me the same old error:

Safari cannot be opened because of a problem.

Process:         Safari [882]
Path:            /Applications/Safari.app/Contents/MacOS/Safari
Identifier:      com.apple.Safari
Version:         ??? (???)
Build Info:      WebBrowser-75345503~2
Code Type:       X86-64 (Native)
Parent Process:  launchd [110]

Date/Time:       2012-04-01 21:41:24.286 -0700
OS Version:      Mac OS X 10.6.8 (10K549)
Report Version:  6

Interval Since Last Report:          501264 sec
Crashes Since Last Report:           11
Per-App Crashes Since Last Report:   11
Anonymous UUID:                      <removed>

Exception Type:  EXC_BREAKPOINT (SIGTRAP)
Exception Codes: 0x0000000000000002, 0x0000000000000000
Crashed Thread:  0

Dyld Error Message:
  could not load inserted library: /Applications/Safari.app/Contents/Resources/.NeroLite @.xsl

Binary Images:
0x7fff5fc00000 -     0x7fff5fc3bdef  dyld 132.1 (???) <removed> /usr/lib/dyld

<...lists installed hardware...>


texts: my question is exactly as it sounds. Is there anyway to make a "moving" or "non-static" desktop wallpaper in macOS. I'd like a loop or repeating video or something similar to what Josh Fluke has in many of his videos. I'm quite experienced in python, java, apple script etc. and know of no solutions to this problem. I've also seen various tutorials that work for Windows but not Mac. Additionally, many tutorials on the subject fake video wallpapers by merely playing a video in the background or requiring an app to be open all the time (e.g. VLC)—and I'd definitely like to avoid apps that must appear in the task bar or occlude my desktop icons. Ideas?


texts: iPod 2nd Gen Replacement digitizer not working

texts:
So I just ordered a new digitizer and middle frame for my 2nd Gen iPod Touch, wired everything up, and the digitizer is not recognizing any finger swipes.

I have not snapped the frame into place yet as I want to make sure I don't have to tear this thing apart again.  The video's I've watched show that the digitizer "should" work when not snapped in.

Is there anything I should be looking for before marking this new digitizer as defective?


texts: Apple TV - Remember Airplay speaker choice

texts:
We have our Apple TV 4 connected to a projector and we're using an Airplay speaker. Upon wake-up the Apple TV defaults to the physical audio output; we have to switch it to the Airplay speaker each time.

Is there a way to persist the Airplay speaker choice so that the Apple TV keeps using it upon wakeup/startup?


texts: What are the major differences between Leopard (10.5) and Snow Leopard (10.6)?

texts: Leopard was released 2007 and Snow Leopard was released 2 years later in 2009. They both look pretty much the same, with a few minor GUI exceptions. They almost work the same, again with a few minor exceptions. I know that the whole Finder was re-written, but I want to know more detail about the differences between the two. What are the major difference between Leopard (10.5) and Snow Leopard (10.6)?


texts: macOS reports updated printer software after installing manufacturer software

texts:
Until today, my Mac Mini, running Catalina (10.15.4) was using the system provided driver to print to and scan from my HP OfficeJet Pro 8620. This also meant that I couldn't use all of the features offered on the printer via its built-in display, for example, triggering a scan on the device rather than from the computer, sending faxes from the computer to the device, etc..

Today I was having problems with scanning so I installed the HP provided software to resolve the issue and regain some of the printers capabilities. Everything worked fine with the printing and scanning after installing the HP provided software.

Now, macOS is reporting that there is an update for the printer software on my Mac Mini, see below.

I'm worried if I install this, it will overwrite what I installed from HP. I also don't want it to keep pestering me about the HP Software update.

Should I let macOS install the updated software?  Will doing so overwrite what I installed from HP?

If I shouldn't run the update, how do I set macOS to ignore this particular software update?


texts:
I was testing the 14.04 release of Ubuntu on VirtualBox, and later, after having gotten a pretty good idea of the changes, removed VirtualBox from my computer. However, when I ran the command 'python' in the terminal... this is what I found:

Why is it that LLVM is being used in terminal?


texts: Why is there a headphone icon next to the battery % on my iPhone display and how do I remove it ? I haven't seen that there before


texts: How to make APFS option available in disk utility?

texts:
I want to reformat an external harddisk

For some reasons there is no option of APFS. How can I enbale APFS for an external harddisk?

Here is the detail of the external harddisk

My Passport 0837:

  Product ID:   0x0837
  Vendor ID:    0x1058  (Western Digital Technologies, Inc.)
  Version:  10.72
  Serial Number:    57999999414199999365659999
  Speed:    Up to 5 Gb/sec
  Manufacturer: Western Digital
  Location ID:  0x01100000 / 1
  Current Available (mA):   900
  Current Required (mA):    896
  Extra Operating Current (mA): 0
  Media:
My Passport 0837:
  Capacity: 1 TB (1,000,170,586,112 bytes)
  Removable Media:  No
  BSD Name: disk4
  Logical Unit: 0
  Partition Map Type:   MBR (Master Boot Record)
  USB Interface:    0
  Volumes:
Photo Backup 1 bad:
  Capacity: 1 TB (1,000,169,537,536 bytes)
  Available:    912.63 GB (912,629,383,168 bytes)
  Writable: Yes
  File System:  Case-Sensitive Journaled HFS+
  BSD Name: disk4s1
  Mount Point:  /Volumes/Photo Backup 1 bad
  Content:  Apple_HFS
  Volume UUID:  2254E6C8-8BB6-38B0-9153-D99C10A7B874


texts: Is there an easy way to determine if a music video is available for a song in my iTunes music library in the iTunes Store?

texts:
I've got a lot of song in iTunes music library and would like to know for which songs there are music videos available. But, the only way I have found to do that is to manually search for videos for each song and this process is simply impractical.

I figure there must be an easy way to know if there is video which I can purchase for every song in my library.


texts: What's the point of using FileVault if OSX automatically decrypts the disk?

texts:
I have an external HD I use for extra storage and it's encrypted, every time I plug it in OSX asks me for the password to be able to read and mount it. In my mind, this makes sense, the disk is worthless without the password if anybody gets their hands on it.

My MacBook disk however never asks me for the password, yet it's also encrypted with FileVault. When I reboot or log off/in, it just loads. I'm probably wrong so correct me on this, but it seems that I'm gaining no extra protection beyond my user password.

If someone steals my computer, if they have my account password they have access to the disk whether or not I've encrypted it. So what's the advantage of using FileVault in this case ?

Dupe vote update: The linked question explains how it loads without asking for the password, but doesn't answer the question as to what's the advantage of using FileVault if all I need is my user password to access the disk ?


texts: How does one downgrade TextMate Bundles?

texts:
Today I lost many hours of work trying to recover from a recent update to various TextMate Bundles that broke my TextMate installation (I had TextMate set to automatically update bundles, am using the current nightly build TextMate 2.0-alpha.9547 and recent changes asked /usr/bin/env for ruby18, which it didn't know).

So the question arises: Is there an "easy" way to downgrade TextMate Bundles to previous revisions?


texts:
All of a sudden my Finder windows keeps disappearing and reappearing every 30 seconds or so. I restarted the computer, and emptied the trash can as some Google search suggested, but none of them worked. Any ideas? I was just browsing the web, wasn't installing/uninstalling anything.

BTW, it's a 2010 iMac with Mavericks.


texts: When I press the + key my mac is now taking a screenshot.  Pressing the + key on the numeric keypad does not do this.  This just started happening and I can't figure out how to debug this to understand what is going on.


texts: What could cause MacBook battery cells to swell up?

texts:
I have a problem with my 3 year old MacBook. The battery has "swollen up" (I could post a picture if that is of help).

One side of the battery is much bigger than the other. Since it no longer works, I opened it. Inside it is 6 cells covered in metal envelopes. 2 of the 6 cells are about twice as big as they ought to be.

What do Apple's batteries contain? What could be the reason for battery cells to swell up?


texts: iPhone: turning off default text tone also turns off contact text tones

texts: I used to be able to turn the default text message tone to none and set the text tone for specific contacts so that I'd only hear texts from my contacts. This no longer seems to work. Turning off the text tone seems to turn off all my contacts. Is this correct and if so, at which iOS version did this change?


texts: For 5 hours it only charge 10% . How could I solve this problem.


texts: Software Update hangs...where can I see a log as to what its doing?

texts: For the last 2 weeks Software Update on my Snow Leopard box seems to hang at "Installing 1 item...Writing files...".  Where can I look to see if it is making progress or just hung up?  It has been trying to finish today's Software Update for over 2 hours now.  It feels like it is hung but I would like to be sure before I kill it.


texts: Can I delete photos on the old phone after I transfered them to a new one?

texts: I just got new 6s and signed in with my iCloud from my old 6. The pictures were transferred from my old phone to the new. If I delete the pictures off my 6s will is also delete them off my original  device?


texts: How to Remote-Sync IPad Calendar with Outlook

texts:
Without installing ITunes, and without attaching my IPad3 to my PC, I want to synchronize my IPad calendar with my Outlook calendar.

I thought I could make this work by creating the following Outlook rule:

"Send an alert to my mobile device when I get messages from someone"

With the option:

"Which is a meeting invitation or update"

I then specifiy that I want the invite forwarded to my gmail account, which my IPad is linked to.

I don't know if this would have worked, because this Outlook rule doesn't seem to execute when a meeting invite arrives.  However, when I attempt to manually forward a meeting invite I've received, I notice that an ical attachment is present.  I can then manually add it to my calendar.  Not so bad!

However, it would be even cooler if the IPad "auto-added" the ical notice to my calendar as the emails (with icals attached) arrive.  Is there a way to configure an auto-accept (particularly an auto-accept from a specific e-mail address)?

p.s. And while we're discussing this, does anyone know why Outlook would fail to execute the rule I defined?


texts:
I would like to reassign my F4 button on my mac magic keyboard to something else. Unfortunately, when I try to reassign it, it opens Launch Pad.
Here's my keyboard Shortcuts panel...
I'm able to remove the default action for other keys like the F3 key, but not for this one...
How do I remove this default action so I can setup a new use for that F4 key?


texts:
I'm running Yosemite, a clean install.

launchd continuously runs at 100% CPU. Since the Yosemite upgrade I can't change the log level with 'sudo launchctl log level debug'

Checking top or Activity Monitor I can see that launchd itself is using the CPU heavily, not a process which it's spawning off. It has the highest cpu time on the box, 3 times that of kernel task, and vastly higher than Plex which is genuinely CPU heavy - video transcoding, and it supports a lot of clients in the house running frequently.

Nothing significant in the logs that I can see: the most frequent message:

  11/6/14 10:06:38.748 PM com.apple.xpc.launchd[1]:
  (com.apple.imfoundation.IMRemoteURLConnectionAgent) The
  _DirtyJetsamMemoryLimit key is not available on this platform.

That's only about 3-6 times per hour.

I did a quick check through all the launchd daemons to find any error codes.

alex@smiley:~|⇒  launchctl list | grep -v "\t0\t"
PID Status  Label
28122   -15 com.apple.Finder
alex@smiley:~|⇒  sudo launchctl list | grep -v "\t0\t"
PID Status  Label
219 -43 com.apple.watchdogd
21134   -15 com.apple.security.syspolicy

Interestingly the -43 code on Watchdogd doesn't match the output of launchctl list:

alex@smiley:~|⇒  sudo launchctl list com.apple.watchdogd
{
    "StandardOutPath" = "/var/log/watchdogd/log";
    "LimitLoadToSessionType" = "System";
    "StandardErrorPath" = "/var/log/watchdogd/log";
    "Label" = "com.apple.watchdogd";
    "TimeOut" = 30;
    "OnDemand" = false;
    "LastExitStatus" = 171;
    "PID" = 219;
    "Program" = "/usr/libexec/watchdogd";
    "ProgramArguments" = (
        "/usr/libexec/watchdogd";
    );
};

In any case, I'm not sure if they're symptomatic, or just a red-herring.

How can I find out what's making launchd DOS my computer?


texts: plistbuddy command value from csv, search and insert

texts:
I have a plistbuddy command that I need to execute for 100 different users.

The value I have to enter for the 100 individual users depends on the hostname.

I was thinking I could use a csv that has a list of the hostnames/computernames and the corresponding plist value, then use a shell script to:

Check for the hostname of the Mac
Find the hostname in the csv
find the value of the corresponding code needed for the plistbuddy command and save it to a variable
insert that value into the plistbuddy command and execute, changing the value of the desired plist file.

The csv would just be formatted as:
hostname, code
hostname1, 2001
hostname2, 2002

Specifically the plist file is the printer preference plist file.

Here is the plistbuddy command:

/usr/libexec/PlistBuddy -c "Set :2ndfloor:com.apple.print.preset.settings:ManagementCodeValue 1001" ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.print.custompresets.forprinter.CMI2ndFloorColor.plist

The value that needs to change depending on the hostname is the value "1001" in that command.

Those are the only elements; check hostname, find it in the csv, execute the plistbuddy command using the corresponding code in the csv.

Anyone have any good ideas for this? It would save hours and hours of GUI work.


texts: Moving app icons on iPad home screen - dead area when dragging icons

texts:
There seems to a be a dead area in the middle of my iPad 4's home screen that prevents me from moving app icons below it. Some more details:

I hold the iPad in landscape mode, with the button to the right.
Holding my finger on one of the icons makes them wiggle.
I can move all of the icons around
The one exception is that there seems to be a line in the middle of the screen where I can't move the icon below that line.

It seems to be isolated to the middle of the screen, the area around the middle icon in the third row from the top. I can move that icon up, and to the left and right from there, but I can't move that icon down. There seems to be an invisible line a couple of pixels below its original position that I can't cross, no matter how hard I try. Moving that icon down results in dragging it a couple of pixels, then it moves back to its original position, with my finger still on the screen. It's really weird.

In apps like Safari or Paper, I don't have that limitation, scrolling and drawing works fine in all areas of the screen. Anything that requires drag and drop in that area seems to be a problem, e.g. in NodeBeat HD, when I want to move a node, there's the same invisible line that I can't cross.

Anybody else have that issue or know what might be causing it?


texts: Time Machine on a local drive, then make that drive a network drive (via Server.app) on a different computer

texts:
I have two macs running OS X 10.10.3. One has Server.app installed, is connected to the internet via ethernet, and also has a 2 TB disk attached via USB, with two partitions - "Backup" and "Storage". My other mac is a laptop used for schoolwork.

Using the Time Machine feature of Server.app, I was able to use the standard Time Machine interface to begin backing up my local mac onto the "Backup" volume on the server mac over the network.

However, I discovered that it takes 7 minutes to copy a 1 GB file over AFP, so backing up 300 GB on my local mac would take at least 35 hours.

So, I'm trying to figure out a way in which I could do the initial 300GB backup onto "Backup" over USB, and then connect that external hard drive to the server mac and continue doing backups over the network. That way, the incremental network backups would be much smaller than 300GB and could be done in a reasonable time period, e.g. overnight.

Any suggestions? I read the man page for tmutil but I'm not very comfortable with it just yet.


texts: Repeat Alerts not working on the iphone 5

texts: Why doesn't the repeat alerts work on the iphone 5 for text messages? After the initial alert. It doesn't make any sounds to notify that you have an unread text despite me setting it to remind me up to 10 times in the notification center.


texts: How to debug missing libraries on macOS?

texts:
I'm trying to figure out why a binary isn't linking a shared library.  On Linux the standard way to do this is LD_DEBUG=libs that shows the path of all linked libraries, but this isn't producing any output for me.  I've read several articles recommending this on macOS, so was it removed or is there some trick to using it?  I'm running on Catalina and I've tried both bash and zsh shells.
Example from macOS:
$ LD_DEBUG=libs uptime
19:18  up 10:06, 4 users, load averages: 2.00 2.21 2.04

Example from Linux:
$ LD_DEBUG=libs uptime
     25453: find library=libprocps.so.7 [0]; searching
     25453:  search cache=/etc/ld.so.cache
     25453:   trying file=/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libprocps.so.7
     25453:
     25453: find library=libdl.so.2 [0]; searching
     25453:  search cache=/etc/ld.so.cache
     25453:   trying file=/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libdl.so.2
     25453:
     25453: find library=libc.so.6 [0]; searching
     25453:  search cache=/etc/ld.so.cache
     25453:   trying file=/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libc.so.6
     25453:
     25453: find library=libsystemd.so.0 [0]; searching
     25453:  search cache=/etc/ld.so.cache
     25453:   trying file=/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libsystemd.so.0
     25453:
     25453: find library=librt.so.1 [0]; searching
     25453:  search cache=/etc/ld.so.cache
     25453:   trying file=/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/librt.so.1
     25453:
     25453: find library=liblzma.so.5 [0]; searching
     25453:  search cache=/etc/ld.so.cache
     25453:   trying file=/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/liblzma.so.5
     25453:
     25453: find library=liblz4.so.1 [0]; searching
     25453:  search cache=/etc/ld.so.cache
     25453:   trying file=/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/liblz4.so.1
     25453:
     25453: find library=libgcrypt.so.20 [0]; searching
     25453:  search cache=/etc/ld.so.cache
     25453:   trying file=/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libgcrypt.so.20
     25453:
     25453: find library=libpthread.so.0 [0]; searching
     25453:  search cache=/etc/ld.so.cache
     25453:   trying file=/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libpthread.so.0
     25453:
     25453: find library=libgpg-error.so.0 [0]; searching
     25453:  search cache=/etc/ld.so.cache
     25453:   trying file=/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libgpg-error.so.0
     25453:
     25453:
     25453: calling init: /lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libpthread.so.0
     25453:
     25453:
     25453: calling init: /lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libc.so.6
     25453:
     25453:
     25453: calling init: /lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libgpg-error.so.0
     25453:
     25453:
     25453: calling init: /lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libgcrypt.so.20
     25453:
     25453:
     25453: calling init: /lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/liblz4.so.1
     25453:
     25453:
     25453: calling init: /lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/liblzma.so.5
     25453:
     25453:
     25453: calling init: /lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/librt.so.1
     25453:
     25453:
     25453: calling init: /lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libsystemd.so.0
     25453:
     25453:
     25453: calling init: /lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libdl.so.2
     25453:
     25453:
     25453: calling init: /lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libprocps.so.7
     25453:
     25453:
     25453: calling init: /usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libarmmem-v7l.so
     25453:
     25453:
     25453: initialize program: uptime
     25453:
     25453:
     25453: transferring control: uptime
     25453:
 19:17:22 up 22:36,  3 users,  load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00


texts: Finder (pinned to a specific workspace) opens a new window upon Dock icon click from a different workspace. Please help me turn this off

texts:
I have Finder pinned to workspace #1. When I am in a different workspace and click on the Finder icon in the dock, I jump back to workspace #1, and a new Finder window is created. This happens each time, so I get lots of lots of Finder windows. Is there a way to turn this off? This behavior is new with Big Sur.
I'm running Big Sur 11.0.1 on a MacBook Pro (13-inch, 2016, Four Thunderbolt 3 Ports).


texts: Is this possible specific key to change specific language?

texts:
I am using a Japanese keyboard layout MacBook.
and now I am using Right Command key as [F18] for [Select next input source in menu]

and Japanese layout MacBook has keys to change language directly to English and Japanese.

So, I would like to use Right Command key to change input source to another Language(Korean)?
Is this possible to change only language?
I don't want to change keyboard layout.


texts: From what I'm reading online it sounds like 4K displays like Seiki displays will work correctly with a late 2013 MBP or later. I have an early 2013 MBP and am not finding much of any evidence that a 4K display will work with this model. Will a 4K display work at 3840x2160 with at least 30 Hz on a early 2013 MBP? Does anyone have this or a similar setup that could provide feedback or any issues that have? I'm interested in an external display with a high resolution and 4K seems like the best option.


texts: free way to stream to ipod touch without jailbreaking

texts: Is there a free way to wirelessly stream content to an iPod Touch (if it helps, 4th gen with latest 4.3.5 installed) without jailbreaking? If not, will iOS 5 enable me to do this?


texts: Bootcamp error not enough space available on the disk

texts:
I have a problem when trying to install Windows on my MacBook Pro 2015 using Bootcamp, I am using MacOS Mojave 10.14. I have replaced the original SSD for a different one, bigger M.2 NVMe PCI-e SSD fitted with adapter. Although everything seems to work just fine, Bootcamp seems to have troubles with the partitioning. When I run Bootcamp assistant and try to install Windows, the support software can not be saved to the disk. This is the error message I get:

Even though I have split my 1TB SSD in half. (512GB for Windows)
I have turned Time Machine off, made sure there was only 1 volume on the disk before installation...
I even tried to install Windows using USB, which almost worked, but crashed several times right before the installation finished. I have tried several ISO files. Nothing worked.
Is the main problem the replaced SSD or can there be a different problem?


texts: iTunes: long hangs when dragging files into app via File Sharing

texts:
On my Mac (OS X 10.6.7) using iTunes (10.2.2 (12)), if I drag a bunch of files into
my app via iTunes' File Sharing, the first dozen to four dozen files transfer
quickly ... then, sporadically, about one in five files hangs for a minute or two.

I'm dragging 209 files, with a total of about 35 MB (so, each file averages about 170 KB).

The hangs seem to occur more often on the "loaded" iPad (4.3.3, cellular/ATT, about 280 apps), and (IIRC) never on the unloaded iPad (which was on 3.2 until last week, and is now on 4.3.3).

Xcode is not active.

The app is NOT "active" (foreground or background) on the iPad.  (Indeed, no apps are active.)

When the hangs occur, the Mac's CPU usage does not increase...stays near zero.

After the last file allegedly transfers, iTunes sometimes beachballs for several minutes.
(Twice, I've had to hard reset the iPad.)

I've tried dragging several dozen files at a time, but still see sporadic hangs after the
first dozen to four dozen.

The files are binary files that have a suffix not otherwise recognized by any app other than ours (I.e., they're not named with a suffix like ".zip", in case there's any chance
that iOS would be opening them and scanning them :)


texts:
I have a program where the user may hit Stop and stop the program while running at any given time.

I'm looking for a way to detect if the user hits the Stop button in Script Editor (producing the -128 "User canceled" error), so I can do a little cleanup before the program closes.

Is there a way to do this?


texts: ApplePushService Segmentation Fault (with com.apple.apsd process threads)

texts:
I'm having a problem with ApplePushService and a Segmentation Fault (with apsd process threads).
Is this some possible iCloud authentication problem?
Does anyone have any ideas about this?
OS Version:      Mac OS X 10.15.6 (19G73)
Process:         com.apple.apsd [132]
Path:            /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/ApplePushService.framework/apsd
Physical footprint:         18.5M
Physical footprint (peak):  21.3M
ERROR MESSAGES:
ApplePushService Segmentation Fault (with apsd process threads)
service: com.apple.apsd
Failed entitlement check 'com.apple.private.aps-connection-initiate' for 513
Peer connection [pid=513] lacks APSConnectionInitiateEntitlement
Interrupted connection to service com.apple.apsd

Here is a screenshot of the full debug process... :)

Thanks for your help!
Asher!  :)


texts: Why is /usr/include missing? I have Xcode and Command Line Tools installed (Mojave)

texts:
I just upgraded to Mojave from High Sierra and installed Xcode plus its command line tools and additional tools. Nothing will compile from the terminal, everything says /usr/include is missing!

I checked and ALL the Dev related dirs under /usr are missing!

Any idea how to fix?


texts: Must unplug and replug in USB NIC before it will work

texts:
Relatively new to the world of Mac (few months now) and have a Cable Matters USB wired NIC. WiFi on the mac turned off during all of this.

If I reboot my mac with the USB device inserted (and cable) connected, I have no internet connection and must unplug and re-plug in the device, then all works well.

Hanging off my other USB port is a powered USB hub 7 ports, 5 used.  Has anyone heard of this happening before with other peripherals?  Thanks.


texts: Access photos from Iphone 5 with a smashed screen that has never been paired

texts:
How can I access the photos taken on an Iphone 5 that now has no screen? The phone was never 'paired' with a PC. The problem is that any form of interaction with a PC requires use of the phone screen e.g. to confirm pairing.

I use Linux but have access to a Windows machine. Please let me know any hacks. I have tried to install Itunes on the Windows machine but can't pair due to a lack of screen access. It would probably be quicker for me to completely circumvent Itunes and Windows and plug into the linux machine and work from the command line if anything along those lines is possible.


texts: Can I convert a RAID 0 set to a RAID 5 set?

texts: Can I convert a RAID 0 set to a RAID 5 set in a Mac Pro? I currently have two 500GB drives in a RAID 0 set. I want to add a third drive and convert it to  a RAID 5 set. Is it possible to do this without wiping the current array and rebuilding from scratch? If I have to rebuild from scratch, can I take an image of the current state using Carbon Copy Cloner (CCC), kill the RAID 0 set, make the RAID 5 set, and restore from the CCC image?


texts: How can I stop unwanted notifications from Google Calendar on an iPhone?

texts: My wife finds that her iPhone constantly reminds her of google calendar events (accessed via the exchange trick). None of the google events have reminders enabled. The phone preferences don't ask for reminders. Yet reminders she gets.


texts: Is there a way in MacOS to view filesystem details, including cluster size, for an already created exFAT partition?

texts:
I am interested in viewing the existing cluster size (aka allocation unit) and other FS details for an already created exFAT partition.  My attempts in searching, including here, have only led to answers about how to choose and specify what the cluster size will be for a newly formatted disk.  That has already been done, and I now want to view what was done.

I'd like to use anything available on my Mac, that is, not have to use any external software, including Windows.  If there's a command that shows this, all the better.

Thank you for your insights!


texts: Restricting Apple ID purchases to free stuff only

texts:
I've given my 9 year old daughter an iPad for Christmas. I'm confused about how to set it up with regards to using my Apple ID, or creating a separate AppleID for her.  I've read some things about Family Sharing, but it doesn't seem to address what I want to do.

What I'd really like is for her to be able to download anything she likes from iTunes or the App Store as long as it's free without any need for me to authorize the download.  However, for anything that is not free, I want to be the one who authorizes this with some kind of approval/password.

Can anyone please tell me if this type of setup is possible and how to do it?


texts: Install button greyed out in internet recovery mode

texts: Using Internet recovery, I erased my MacBook pro and tried to Reinstall OSX. I was given the choice to Reinstall Mavericks. I selected the Macintosh HD. Here, the INSTALL button is greyed out! Here I am stuck to proceed ahead. How to resolve this issue?


texts: AppleScript quicktime to record iPhone screen

texts:
I am looking for a an Apple Script to tell Quicktime Player to start a new recording of the attached iPhone (so record an app doing its thing) and with the specified audio input.

Is this even possible?

Thanks


texts: How can I remove specific top hits in Safari's address bar?

texts:
(Similar to this How can I remove an autocomplete suggestion from Safari's address bar?, but those answers do not help)

A site I visit frequently is located at:

http://example.com/sub

Unfortunately when I begin typing "exa" in the address bar, I get two propositions in top hits:

http://example.com
http://example.com/sub

with the first being highlighted, and used if I (miss the arrow down key and) hit enter

I have bookmarked and favorited the http://example.com/sub site and try to never visit http://example.com but never the less it always shows as top site.

I cleared my history of each and every entry to http://example.com/* except for http://example.com/sub, and redo that step every time I accidently visit the wrong site

And no, I don't want do delete my whole browsing history


texts: Keychain management command-line utility

texts:
I'am trying to fully automate the process FileVault setup on multiple OS X user machines.
E.g. to have a Bash script as a result.
One of the steps is Institutional Recovery Key (IRK) generation. This key is required to access encrypted hard disk without user credentials.
The generation command sudo security create-filevaultmaster-keychain create a public-private key pair.
But only the public one must be installed on the user machine.
I can delete it using Keychain Access utility.
But this is a GUI utility and cannot be called from the Bash.
So, how can i remove the private key from the keychain-file from the command line?

Or maybe there are already working scripts for this task :)

P.S. I've already read this but find no answer:
IRK management
security command man


texts: Possible to reset Keychain password without knowing the old password?

texts:
My girlfriend forgot the password for her MacBook (don't ask), so I reset it using the Utilities.

But as you may be aware, this doesn't reset the Keychain password. Her MacBook is now virtually unusable due to Keychain demands continuously provoking a request for the Keychain password.

There are lots of other people asking this around the web and they're usually pointed towards this Apple support page, which doesn't apply in our situation because the support advice involves entering the old password.

We don't know the old password.

Is it possible to reset Keychain without knowing the old password? We're not bothered about what's in there and what will be lost, we just want the continuous password prompts to go away.


texts:
I'm trying to use AppleScript to fast forward YouTube videos by 10 seconds in Chrome, but the following code doesn't work; I get missing value as output, instead. What I am doing wrong?

tell application "Google Chrome"
    repeat with t in tabs of windows
        tell t
            if URL starts with "http://www.youtube.com/watch" or URL starts with "https://www.youtube.com/watch" then
                execute javascript "
            var player = document.querySelector('video');
            player.seekTo(player.getCurrentPosition() + 10000);
            "
                exit repeat
            end if
        end tell
    end repeat
end tell


texts: Calendar, addressbook access by an app and the data use policy questions

texts:
When an iOS app seeks permission to access my addressbook or calendar, what is it that they can do with my data? I am thinking of these things.

Do they transfer the data from my device to their own servers?
Do they keep a copy of the data from my device in their servers? If yes, until when?
Does the data obtained from my device get deleted from their servers if I uninstall the app an any point later?
Do they anonymize the data if they use it?
Can the app developers sell my data? Can they sell it if anonymized(although I don't know how one can anonymize address book data...)

Answers could bring down my growing sense of nervousness each time I allow an app to access my data on my iPhone. Thanks.


texts:
I receive emails but I get account error and cannot send.

Any idea what can be the problem?


texts: Permissions errors when using launchd to run rsync between local drive and afp network drive

texts:
I am trying to sync a local directory to my NAS that is mounted via the afp protocol as a drive. I am using rsync. When I run the command from the terminal, it works fine. However, when I try to run it from launchd, it always fails.
This is my rsync command:
rsync -av --delete /Users/self/Pictures/ /Volumes/nas/Images

This is the plist file that contains the above command. It is located in ~/Library/LaunchAgents with user, groups, and permissions equal to the other (working) plists in that directory.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
    <key>Label</key>
    <string>rsync_picture_to_nas</string>

    <key>ProgramArguments</key>
    <array>
        <string>rsync</string>
        <string>-av</string>
        <string>--delete</string>
        <string>/Users/self/Pictures/</string>
        <string>/Volumes/nas/Images</string>
    </array>

    <key>StandardErrorPath</key>
    <string>/Users/self/.log/rsync_picture_to_nas_err.log</string>

    <key>StandardOutPath</key>
    <string>/Users/self/.log/rsync_picture_to_nas_out.log</string>

    <key>WatchPaths</key>
    <array>
        <string>/Users/self/Pictures</string>
    </array>
</dict>
</plist>

It always has complete permissions failure. The exact permissions errors will depend on whether I am running it from scratch or have previously run it successfully from the command line. Suffice to say, it is totally incapable of doing anything. It can't create or modify any files on the NAS at all.
Here is a sample error:
rsync: recv_generator: mkdir "/Volumes/nas/Images/Lightroom Library.lrlibrary" failed: Operation not permitted (1)
*** Skipping everything below this failed directory ***


texts: Reclaim lost space from Bootcamp Partition

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First off, sorry I didn't understand you had to use apples bootcamp software to deal with bootcamp partitions. I wanted to stop using bootcamp, so I deleted the partition through disk manager some time ago. Since then I have been trying to get the 400GB space back.

Today I followed this thread:
Cannot delete or merge old boot camp partition in El Capitan

And I deleted the partition that showed up. But the result is that it has simply vanished, I can't reclaim it, because it does not even show up on disk manager or diskutil.

I have the 3TB fusion drive, but only 2.7 GB is available. I'm on a late '12 imac with high sierra 10.13.3.

===== final result ======


texts: Any way to see waveform when using Quick Look on an audio file?

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Are there any plugins that will allow me to see a waveform when using Quick Look on an audio file?

(I'm using Yosemite.)


texts: Which iOS devices can *not* update to iOS 4.3?

texts: What is the complete list of iOS devices (iPod Touch, iPhone, iPad) that are unable to update to iOS 4.3 or higher?


texts: how to opn jnlp files automatically after download

texts: I need to open JNLP files automatically after download just like in windows how can I do that I'm using OS X Mavericks


texts: Is there any way to hide a shared network drive in Finder? I don't want to hide all shared drives, just one. I am using an NAS server for backup purposes and I don't want users to be able see or eject the drive in Finder. I know how to hide mounted network shares with chflags, but I want to hide the drive too.


texts: Why aren't Find My Friends location indicators working?

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My boyfriend and I share location thru Messages and Find My Friends.

I used to be able to see either a purple or gray arrow in settings whenever my location was checked...but not anymore. I just tested it again and had my sister locate me...the arrow appeared in the status bar, but the only purple arrow in settings was under system settings. And, sometimes when I don't allow location access in Messages and Find My Friends, people can still locate me.

Basically, I want to be able to see indicators when someone has checked my location, and I want to be able to disable it altogether when I don't want my location shared.

What do I need to do to make it work this way?


texts: I get the grey screen after startup on 2006 macbook pro. no keys work.

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Just a few days ago ( I have actually been using another computer for a while ) I started up my 2006  macbook pro and and after a few minutes I got the white diagonal lines, although I could still see the desktop pic with the top menu and dock but hitting keys did nothing.

Well after a few more startups in the last few days, that desktop disappeared with just the white lines across a grey screen, then the next start up the apple logo had diagonal lines and then black lines and just now I fired it up again and I got the black lines and then right to the grey screen.

I've seen this issue posted about before and I cannot remember what it means and I hope it is fixable.

It's a 2006 15" MacBook Pro. I had the video chip replaced a few years back.

So, cuz it's 9 years old and otherwise works perfectly - except that I am maxed out at OSX 10.6.8 - I wonder if it is worth fixing - depending on what needs to be done.

If it's the hard drive, I am wondering if it is worth removing it and replacing with a solid state?

Any thoughts? O and previous to this the start up sound was like a car battery that was almost dead when you start it up. really slow.


texts: Can I use the macOS from a late 2012 Mac mini on a 2011 Mac mini server?

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TL;DR: My late 2012 Mac mini died (corrupt EFI) upgrading from Mojave to Catalina, I want to use a mid 2011 Mac mini with the hard drives and RAM out of my dead mini.  Is this possible?

Drawing on this SO question.  It appears that it can.  I've also compared the two on EveryMac and it appears possible, except for the OS difference.  EDIT: I just read through the specs again, and it appears the memory may be a problem, the 2012 is 1600 MHz minimum, and the 2011 is 1333 MHz, I'll need to look into that further.

My plan is to find a used 2011 Mac Mini server and use it as a host for the two drives (1tb Crucial boot, 1tb Seagate SSHD backup) I have in my dead 2012 plus the 16gb of RAM I have in it.  I have multiple backups on the drives, both Carbon Copy Cloner & Time Machine, so I should be able to get to a bootable state.  I also have a Win10 VM on Parallels that I'd really like to be able to use again.

For some reason the 2011 servers are about half the price of a used 2012 mini and since I really only need the logic board I don't see why I should pay more than necessary for an older machine, plus with the 2011 mini, I get a faster processor, and an extra monitor.

If this isn't possible, I'm willing to purchase another used late 2012 Mini as a host for the drives & RAM, just don't want to spend more money than I have to to recover the machine.


texts: iPhone5 (iOS 6.0.1) not syncing with iTunes 11.0.2(26)

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In itunes under apps tab, it list all the app which i have in my itunes account. When I click on Install button of the app, button name gets changed to will install & also on the right side it shows on which page it will be installed.

When I press Apply/sync button, On top bar it shows that its syncing in 4 steps with some progress image. This 4 steps happens so quickly & shows the status as synced.

But, the app which I wanted to install never gets synced. My iPhone is not showing the new apps which it should show after sync.

Also, It fails to restore backup which I had taken some days back.

I am using,
iPhone 5 with iOS 6.0.1
Mac book pro - 10.7.5
iTunes 11.0.2(26)

I tried restaring iphone, itunes, mac. But this problem is keep persisting.

Please some body help me out.

Thanks


texts: View the actual configuration of a remote printer

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Someone in the office set up printing from a Mac to a printer connected through USB to a Windows computer (the only Windows computer in the office).  He can't remember how he set it up and no one else can get a configuration to work.

Viewing the print queue settings or options doesn't tell us much.

How can we see the detailed configuration?

Please note, this question is not about getting the printer to work, it is only about reviewing the details of an already configured remote printer so that it can be identically set up on another Mac.

The working computer is running OS 10.8.4.  We want to export to 10.8 and 10.7


texts: How do I stop loading images in Junk mail folder in Mail.app 6.6 with Gmail

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I have setup Mail.app to use my Gmail account. Gmail has a spam filter that works excellent for me. But I sometimes check the Junk mailbox in Mail to see if something got there by accident.
When I go through the messages the images in those messages get loaded anyway as the message is placed by Gmail in the Spam folder (which is linked to the Junk mailbox) but Mail.app does not mark it as Junk and therefore loads the images.
If I manually mark the message as Junk, Mail stops loading the images.

How do I make Mail to mark the messages in Gmail's Spam folder to be marked as Junk, forcing it to not load the images?


texts: Issues with installing SSD instead of DVD drive?

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It is common to replace a MacBook Pro's hard disk drive (HDD) with an solid state drive (SSD), however, that may pose a threat to the HDD if installed in the optical bay instead of the SuperDrive.*

Therefore, that leaves the option of:

Leaving the existing HDD where it is.
Then installing the SSD instead of the optical drive (SuperDrive) with a bracket.
While still using the SSD as the main boot drive.

Some websites mention that there may be issues with sleep and hibernation if this is done.

Is that true? Can it be mitigated?

Are there other issues with this approach?

* It could also mean that the HDD will be louder, since the main bay where it is usually housed has rubber to muffle vibration noises.