texts: Clear cached frameworks to reload OSX UI (graphics only)

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With the release of Yosemite I'll no doubt be needing to update our OS X UI at work, basically just white-labeling various parts of OS X. I lost my bash aliases a while back and have forgotten the command to reload the UI of OS X.

I'm looking for a way to tell the OS to clear any frameworks it might have cached somewhere and load them fresh from disk. The ultimate goal in doing this would be to force any changes you made to your .framework packages to get reflected in the OS.

Shutting down and logging off don't seem to do the trick. But there should be a bash command that will work.

Just to clarify, I'm not looking for a way to restart the Window Server, that won't really do what I want.

Here is an example of a framework that I'd like to refresh:

/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/LoginUIKit.framework/Resources

EDIT

For example, I used to be able to reload the following types of system graphics, I'm 90% sure it wasn't a chain of commands either, just a single magical UI refresher:

Finder Icons, Textures

Menu Bar Icons

Lockscreen Icons, Text

Function Key Icons


texts: Adding an entry to the hosts file on iPod touch 4G?

texts: Is it possible to add an entry to your /etc/hosts type file (or whatever the equivalent is) on an iPod Touch 4G without jail breaking it?


texts: Has Arrow Key Navigation Changed for Skim in Yosemite?

texts:
In Mavericks, I was able to scroll through PDFs in Skim by pressing the up/down arrow keys, with the down arrow navigating to later pages in the document, and the up arrow navigating to earlier pages. In Yosemite, it appears that the up and down arrow keys have reversed when viewing a document in either "single page" or "two pages" mode (not continuous); now, the up arrow goes to later pages, and the down arrow to earlier pages. Is this a Skim-only change, or is the change more system-wide? If it's system-wide, is there a way to change it back to the Mavericks behavior?

Edit: It seems that some people aren't able to reproduce this, so it might be a particular choice of settings that is causing this strange behavior.


texts: What is the Numbers keyboard shortcut to get in the formula bar of a cell?

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I am looking for a keyboard shortcut in Numbers to edit the current cell via the formula bar (if that is the right word). Screen shot:

Please note, I am not looking for this answer. That is how to put your cursor in the current cell, and not the formula bar.

Thanks.


texts:
I've tried to use a HomePod connected to my Mac to participate in Zoom calls. I wanted to take advantage of the clear audio and the echo suppression one has on the HomePod when, for example, having FaceTime Audio calls. Especially for really long calls, I would prefer external speakers over the AirPods, for example.
However, I have several problems using the HomePod for Zoom calls:

The audio I hear is delayed by several seconds, which is especially noticeable when the speaker is highlighting something on the slides with his pointer, and the video stream is not synced to the audio.
The microphone of the HomePod is not used. Instead, the internal microphone of my Mac or the webcam microphone is used. So, if I am unmuted, other people speaking in the call do hear themselves through my microphone.

I suppose, the HomePod just isn't made for that kind of use and I should buy a conference mic/speaker. But I wanted to rule out that this might be some kind of configuration issue with my Mac, first. Has anyone used the HomePod successfully for Zoom calls connected to the Mac (not dialling in through a phone line)?


texts: Is there currently (iOS 12) any way to let a friend or child try a game on an iOS device, starting from the tutorial, without losing my own progress?


texts: Change timezone in Russia 26.10.14 in mac os x 10.9.5

texts: Maybe somebody know. How you know, 26.10.14 in Russia will change the time-zones. My mac os x (10.9.5) will automatically change time to new time-zone ? How can i check this?


texts: What is this extra divider line on my Dock?

texts:
Mysteriously, this extra divider-line has appeared between any app I launch now and the previously launched apps?

What is the purpose of this 2nd divider line? Why is it appearing now? How can I get rid of it?

See this screenshot, with pink arrow pointing to the mystery divider-line.


texts: How to create a bootable USB for Mac OS X Server 3.0.2?

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I have the latest version of OS X Server (Version 3.0.2) downloaded of the App Store and basically I want to create a bootable USB for the installer.

However, looking at it, I'm not able to find the InstallESD.dmg and therefore I'm not sure how I can create a bootable image from this.

Does anyone know how to create a bootable for the latest server version of OS X Server?


texts: Extend an Apple wireless network with non-Apple gear

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I've got an Apple wireless network running (base station is an Airport Express, 2nd generation), and I'd like to extend to it a nearby apartment.

I've got an AT&T modem/router hybrid, a Netgear device. Is it at all possible to extend an Apple wireless network with a non-Apple router such as this?

I can connect to the Netgear box via Ethernet to configure settings, but I'm curious first if this kind of wireless extending is even possible.


texts: MacBook Air briefly wakes from sleep after 3 hours

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My MacBook Air (a few months old) randomly wakes from sleep roughly 3 hours after the lid is closed. The wake reason is given as EC.LidOpen, but in fact, the lid remains closed. The mac appears to go immediately back to sleep. I am not experiencing any negative consequences from this, but wanted to be sure I shouldn't be worried about malware.
For example (this occurs every night)

log show --style syslog | fgrep "Wake reason"
2017-03-18 01:33:44.916848+0100  localhost kernel[0]: (AppleACPIPlatform) Wake reason: EC.SleepTimer (SleepTimer)
2017-03-18 04:33:58.836023+0100  localhost kernel[0]: (AppleACPIPlatform) Wake reason: EC.LidOpen (User)

EDIT: using pmset -g log, I got more information on the mysterious wake-ups, which seem to be caused by mDNSResponder.

2017-04-14 10:23:12 +0200 Kernel Client Acks   Delays to Sleep notifications: [AppleBacklightDisplay driver is slow(msg: SetState to 0)(984 ms)] [powerd is slow(16830 ms)] [AppleThunderboltNHIType2 driver is slow(msg: WillChangeState to 2)(361 ms)] [RP03 driver is slow(msg: SetState to 0)(1277 ms)]
2017-04-14 10:23:12 +0200 Assertions            PID 173(mDNSResponder) Created MaintenanceWake "mDNSResponder:maintenance" 00:00:00  id:0x0xd0000806d [System: DeclUser kDisp]
2017-04-14 10:23:12 +0200 Assertions            PID 173(mDNSResponder) Released MaintenanceWake "mDNSResponder:maintenance" 00:00:00  id:0x0xd0000806d [System: DeclUser kDisp]
2017-04-14 10:23:12 +0200 DarkWake              DarkWake from Deep Idle [CDN] due to EC.SleepTimer/SleepTimer: Using BATT (Charge:81%) 0 secs
2017-04-14 10:23:12 +0200 HibernateStats        hibmode=3 standbydelay=10800                                                          741
2017-04-14 10:23:12 +0200 Kernel Client Acks    Delays to Wake notifications: [SSP3 driver is slow(msg: SetState to 3)(405 ms)] [SSP3 driver is slow(msg: DidChangeState to 3)(373 ms)]
2017-04-14 10:23:12 +0200 Sleep                 Entering Sleep state due to 'Maintenance Sleep': Using Batt (Charge:81%) 1189 secs
2017-04-14 10:23:40 +0200 PM Client Acks        Delays to Sleep notifications: [AirPort configd plug-in is slow(1835 ms)] [com.apple.apsd timed out(28012 ms)]

Edit:
 energy saver preferences on battery:
-turn display off after 15 minutes
-put hard disks to sleep when possible
-slightly dim the display when on battery power
-(power nap unchecked)

Power adapter:
-turn display off after 15 minutes
-prevent computer from sleeping automatically when the display is off
-put hard disks to sleep when possible
-(wake for wi-fi network access unchecked)
-(power nap unchecked)

One more edit: Noticed the 10800 here is exactly 3 hours! Is that a coincidence? Does anybody know how to read/change these settings? This is in response to pmset -g
System-wide power settings:
Currently in use:
 standbydelay         10800
 standby              1
 halfdim              1
 hibernatefile        /var/vm/sleepimage
 powernap             0
 gpuswitch            2
 disksleep            10
 sleep                15 (sleep prevented by coreaudiod)
 autopoweroffdelay    28800
 hibernatemode        3
 autopoweroff         1
 ttyskeepawake        1
 displaysleep         15
 acwake               0
 lidwake              1


texts: weird stuff. I went to user preferences and changed my simple user password for login, system preferences, etc to a longer one due to the fact that im bringing in the laptop, 2019 16" in for keyboard issues.  After the change, I logged out then back in to test the pw.  it worked.  shut computer down.  about hr later I needed to get a doc I forgot.  In trying to login the computer wouldn't accept the pw.  I had tested it and written it down - no good.  Called apple and they walked me through sys recovery command line to do an account add and pw change.  wouldn't work.  then a command line reset and the system said it took - I changed it back to a simple pw - 5 letter one.  logged out and then tried to log in w/ the new pw and it would not work.  I then tried the one wouldn't work, the reason for calling apple - and it worked!  But only for log in.  Prefrences pw was still the 14 letter old one.  Had to do ANOTHER reset and finally ok.  But now for some reason my computer has a new name - see "test's" name in attachment.  For some reason the computer took the test account name we created during troubleshooting to fix pw issue - what's up w/that?  What s with all the password issues?  Why would it let me change the pw then not work?  Anyone have any ideas or have this issue?  Finally, if id known that it would protect the data by changing the pw, I wouldn't have bothered.  Seems anyone can get into the computer...


texts: Can't enter username in form with Silverlight

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I have had to install MS Silverlight in order to carry out online marking of examination answers on platform 'RM Assessor'

The RM Assessor login page appears, with a username window and a password window. I know both of these.

The problem is this: when I type in my username, absolutely nothing happens. However I can type in the password.

There is a security setting in OS X which causes the problem and which can be reset. How do I know? I am marking exams for a second organisation which also uses RM Assessor and Silverlight. It took 90 minutes on the phone but eventually they found someone who knew what to do. But I can't contact them again.

So I'm stuck again.

MacBook Pro 15" Retina September 2012, OS X Yosemite


texts:
Can anybody explain how can I do this:

Add to context menu in finder element nested folders which contains of :
nested folders
 - template one
     - template two
     - template three

and each element will create a nested structure of folder in current directory.

So, if I choose in nested folders->template one, it will create in current directory nested structure of folders with template one.

What I did?

I made new Service for Automator.
Add action 'Create new Folder'

Everything works fine, but I can't understand how to tell Automator to create nested empty directories.
What Automator did instead?
Suppose I choose folder '/pathToFolder/ParentFolder/SourceFolder'.
If I select 'Folder' and hit 'makeNewCustomFolder', Automator would create a 'CustomFolder' like this:

'/pathToFolder/ParentFolder/CustomFolder' - on the same level of 'SourceFolder'.

But also Automator copy content of 'SourceFolder' into 'CustomFolder'


texts: Catalina misses dictionary content and can't download

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I just bought a new MacBookPro. In Dictionary.app on Catalina 10.15.1, One of my dictionaries(The WISDOM English-Japanese dictionary) won't return any result when I look up a word.

I looked into
"/System/Library/AssetsV2/com_apple_MobileAsset_DictionaryServices_dictionaryOSX/"
and found that there're no AssetData for that dictionary! (Assets for other dictionaries are correctly installed there.)

The Dictionary App nevertheless behaves as if the dictionary were installed, and list it up in the tab.

I toggled the checkbox of the dictionary in preference on/off again and again, restart app, reboot machine, but it never tries to download the dict contents.
I also tried to copy assets from another computer, but I cannot paste them since the System folder is protected.
I tried putting assets to "~/Library/Dictionaries" but the app doesn't recognize it.

Does anyone have similar issue or any idea to solve it?
Thanks.


texts: Why are there no hubs for the new USB Type-C Port?

texts: I'm assuming there is some sort of technical limitation. Why is it that all the usb-c hubs are passthrough single usb ports instead of a USB Type-C multiple port hub?


texts:
I'm running Mac OS X 10.9.1 using the Mail app (v7.1) to interact with my exchange email account.

Is there any way to configure the Mail app to show an icon in the task bar whenever I have new mail?

I have the pop up notifications and the red number in my hidden dock and alt-tab screens, however, I would really like to just have a non-intrusive little black mail icon on the task bar when I have unread mail. This is default on Windows with Outlook, I just haven't found any Mac apps that will replicate it yet.

Any ideas, suggestions, tips?


texts:
I recently update my Mac OS to Catalina 10.15.

I ran nmap I kept getting

  -bash: /usr/local/bin/nmap: Bad CPU type in executable

I've tried reinstalling it

brew uninstall nmap
brew install nmap

but I see no effect, I even try full path

⚡  Desktop  which nmap
/usr/local/bin/nmap
⚡  Desktop  /usr/local/bin/nmap
-bash: /usr/local/bin/nmap: Bad CPU type in executable
⚡  Desktop


texts: Cannot update Mac OS. "There was an error in Software Update preferences." Mojave

texts:
I am running Mac OS Mojave 10.14.6 (18G103).

I am getting notifications that mac os has a software update to be installed. However, when I open software updates in system preferences, I get the error "Preferences Error. There was an error in Software Update preferences." My mac will not update.

The only possible reason that I can think of that this might be happening, is because I tinkered with disabling badge notifications and mac os update notifications using a terminal command. The command I used was

defaults write com.apple.systempreferences AttentionPrefBundleIDs 0
killall Dock

I'm assuming my error has something to do with a corrupt or misconfigured .plist file but I'm not sure which file I should be looking at and how to check it. Could someone please help me debug this issue? Thank you kindly for your help and patience.


texts: Automatically login to Mac even when using Apple ID as Mac account password

texts: I use my Apple ID as my Mac's account password, so now I can't enable auto-login. Is there really no way to re-enable auto-login even if I'm using my Apple ID for my Mac account? Or is there something I can do to re-enable auto-login again so I don't have to type my password in every time I start up my Mac?


texts: Where does macOS Get Icons for W1 Audio Devices?

texts:
I recently noticed that macOS has an icon for every W1 enabled audio device in the Bluetooth preferences, but I'm not exactly sure where the system gets these icons.

In the screenshot below, the Beats Solo³ and AirPods were paired to my iPhone, and iCloud paired them to my Mac. It looks like the color of the Beats headphones in the icon do match the color of the real headphones as well!

I assume that either macOS has the images for every W1 stored somewhere or the system had to contact Apple to get these images. Just in case, I did check the following directory:

/System/Library/CoreServices/CoreTypes.bundle/Contents/Resources


texts: Downgrading to iOS 4 on my iPod Touch from iOS 5

texts: I installed iOS 5 on my iPod Touch 3rd Generation, but it slows everything down. I want to put it back to iOS 4. How can I do this?


texts:
Suppose I want to run an application I have downloaded and I am prompted with the following dialogue.

If I enter my username and password, being user that has administrator privileges, and press ok, does this mean the process can do absolutely anything (e.g. change my password or install a keylogger)?

This Q&A is the closest thing I could find on this site, but I wanted a more conclusive answer.


texts:
I just got a new iPhone 6. I synced it to my computer through the last backup I had saved from my old phone. Unfortunately, at the time I was using a different Apple ID, and this ID no longer exists. I want to sync it to my new Apple ID, but first I have to turn off Find My iPhone using the old ID. I can't do this because it no longer exists, but it still asks for the password.

I've tried entering in old passwords and sending an email to reset the password, but none of it works.


texts: How much time do I have left on my iPhone 4s

texts:
I just checked and it says the battery on my iPhone 4s is 30% charged. If I leave my phone off, how much time will it have left? What if I turn it off?

I need to know if I'll be able to use this phone 6 hours later.


texts:
I have about 23,000 MP3 files which I have imported into iTunes with the "Copy files to iTunes media folder when importing" setting unchecked.

Now I need to move the location of these files - just moving the whole parent folder onto a new drive.  Is there a way I can update the location of the existing library items in bulk?


texts: Installation of macOS High Sierra Update 10.13.4 failed; how do I recover without losing data?

texts:
This morning I updated macOS High Sierra from 10.13.3 to 10.13.4. It appeared to install fine (I got to the login window), so I clicked on "Shutdown", and when I got to the office, and turned on my Mac, it rebooted into recovery, with the Installer Log open, and a dialog that read, "The macOS Installation couldn't be completed".

I called Apple and they had me run a check disk, and the boot-up volume didn't have any error. My internal SSD showed up just fine, unlike what happened to this poor chap. Apple also had me try to restart in Safe Mode, but the Apple icon got stuck at 100% progress (3+ minutes waiting).

So, since my drive appears to be intact (I used Terminal to browse my data), is it possible to undo the update or reinstall macOS High Sierra and have the system work as it was before the update (apps and data still accessible)?

Note, I use Time Machine backups, and I have a 2TB drive with about 40% free space. There are lots of "snapshots" on the volume. Is there a way to recover the system to the Time Machine snapshot taken before each update? Or, will I need to reinstall macOS High Sierra?

Since posting this, Apple called me back and they said that I should be able to reinstall macOS Sierra without formatting the drive and I should be back to the state I was before the failure. I haven't tried this yet as I wanted to see if others have followed this or another procedure to recover from this failure without blowing up the hard drive and starting from scratch.


texts: How to remove monitors from list of sound output devices?

texts:
In my list of sound output devices I have
MacBook Pro speakers
Dell U2720Q
Dell U2720Q
My AirPods Pro

Sometimes my Mac switches output device to one of the monitors. I don't know when but I guess that it is when I take off my airpods.
I never want to use the monitors as sound output device. Is it possible to stop this from happening?


texts: Why is iTunes unable to recognize the content on my iPhone during sync?

texts:
When iTunes mounts my iPhone (this has also happened with my iPad), it's unable to recognize any of the content on the phone, so any changes to what it should sync are added on top of everything that it lumps into the "other" category, as if it doesn't recognize the data that's already on the device.

What's going on, and how do I fix it? I'd like to sync my phone without iTunes forgetting everything that's on it every time.

Screencap: All usage is "other", even though it's definitely not.

Screencap: Audio accounts for 4.9GB of its usage anyway – it seems like it just doesn't recognize the audio that's already on the device.


texts: How to select and move the shapes in Preview

texts:
An oval shape has been added to an image in Preview.app by using Mebu bar command Tools → Annotate → Oval:

I have no means to move this oval: trying to do so only results in getting handles to resize or re-proportion it:

What is the way to select the shape so to move it? I also did not find any obvious select tool on the toolbar.


texts: Google Chrome 68+ doesn't work behind corporate proxy on macOS

texts:
This started happening after my company pushed Chrome 68 update (we were using Chrome 65 until then) almost a year back. If I start Chrome up, it runs all well for a while (ranging from 5 minutes to a few hours). Then Chrome stops responding. It won't load any pages. Funny thing is, after that  if I try to access Safari, even that stops responding until I restart the system. If I switch back to the Chrome 65, everything starts to work fine.

This is happening with all Chrome versions that have been released ater Chrome 65. I have seen this issue on both High Sierra and Mojave.

My company uses a PAC file for automatic proxy configuration.


texts:
I'd like to get an external monitor for my 15" MacBook Pro, but the 27" Cinema Display is too large (and too expensive) for me.  Ideally I'd like a 21" version of the Thunderbolt Cinema Display but such a beast does not exist.

Is it possible to use a 21" iMac as an external monitor from a MacBook Pro via Thunderbolt?

Thanks.


texts: When I switch desktops with multiple displays, why is the focus on the main display is changing to the same application on the current display?

texts:
I am experiencing a weird issue. I have one external monitor and Macbook. I have multiple desktops on both displays. If I open an application, especially iTerm, Chrome, VSCode on the external monitor, another window of the same application is opening in my Mac display. This is only happening to iTerm, Chrome, and VSCode. I tried with Pycharm, Firefox, Brave browser they are working fine.
To understand it in a better way, consider this scenario
on Mac Display, I have these windows
Mac Desktop:

Chrome

iTerm

Mail

VSCode

on External Display

VSCode

iTerm

Chrome

Firefox

Say, Initially I have Mail in the Mac display and Firefox in the External Display.
I switched to iTerm / Chrome / VSCode in the External Display, the same window is appearing in the Mac Display.
I don't want this behavior, I want a window to be fixed in my Mac Display. How can I achieve that?

These are my Mission Control settings


texts: I scanned 24 pages on latest iOS, creating a 200 MB pdf. With Ghostscript and QPDF with default-like flags, I compressed it to 11 MB. Is there a way to remove bloat from the PDF created from scanned pages in the Files app without copying it to PC? Is this a bug?


texts: Network sharing using AFP command line: mount_afp: AFPMountURL returned error 2, errno is 2

texts:
I have a server with some directories exported for AFP.  I can mount afp volumes from Finder without any problem.

When I try this from the command line:

$ sudo mount_afp  'afp://me:mypass@my-server/home/me'  /Users/me/myMountPoint

I get the error
mount_afp: AFPMountURL returned error 2, errno is 2

As stated, I can mount my-server's /home/me using Finder and my credentials on that machine just fine.   Also tried with mount_afp -i ... interactive mode with no luck.

apparently, error 2 is:

error 2 siInitVBLQsErr: VBLqueues for all slots could not be initialized. or dsAddressErr: address error

Which doesn't help much


texts: All stills added to iMovie are blurry during playback

texts: I am desperately trying to finish this iMovie video for someone and I am having difficulty with the playback of my still images.  They look great/normal when scrolling through the storyboard, but as soon as I press play the images blur.  I am using iMovie 10.0.5 on a MacBook Pro from 2009.  Any help would be beyond greatly appreciated! Thank you!


texts: OS X change Admin user to Standard user with command line

texts:
I would love to send a Unix command through ARD that will change a OS X admin user to a standard user. The only thing I found close is

sudo dscl . -delete /Groups/admin GroupMembership USERNAME

which does remove the user from the list of admins, but they are still listed as an admin in the user preference panel, and can still use their account to authenticate for admin privileges.


texts: Mini DisplayPort and DVI cables not working?

texts:
I recently bought a Mini DisplayPort to DVI and DVI/DVI cable to connect to my monitor. However, when I connect my MacBook Pro (late 2009) to the monitor it doesn't work - laptop screen flashes blue, but monitor stays idle.

The laptop recognises the monitor ('Displays' in System Preferences shows 2 monitors); but the monitor does not seem to recognise the laptop (it just continues to scan and eventually goes to sleep).

So I borrowed a set of cables from a friend to see if the cables I bought were faulty. Tried all combinations of cables and all combinations worked - except for using the two that I purchased!

From testing out the combinations, I'm assuming that none of the cables are faulty.

From doing some research, I believe the DVI/DVI cable I bought is a DVI-D (Dual link), whereas my friend's is a DVI-D (Single link) - though that shouldn't make a difference should it?

The cables I bought:

The cables I borrowed:

Combinations tried

.             | CableA (Female) | CableB (Female)
--------------------------------------------------
CableA (Male) |  does not work  |     works
--------------------------------------------------
CableB (Male) |      works      |     works

Where:

CableA = Cables I bought
CableB = Cables I borrowed

I still don't understand why the only combination that did not work was using the two cables I bought - any ideas?

Would also like to know if there is a way to get the monitor working with the cables I bought.


texts: iMessage on iPhone 5s iOS 9.0.2 : Delivered isn't showing up on sent messages

texts:
In my iMessages that I send to other iMessage users the "delivered" text is not showing up after I press send, but the people who I sent it to say they received it and are able to respond.

Also my iMessage is claiming that I have cellular data turned off, but I don't.

I've already tried restarting my phone and I've checked that the bill was paid (it was). I've also already followed all steps suggested by apple on their support site. Still nothing. Its frustrating and I'd like to know if something has actually delivered.

Does anyone have any clue what is happening and how I can fix it or is it simply a bug in the programming of IOS 9.0.2?


texts: Suggestions for a Comprehensive Network Monitoring Solution

texts:
We are looking for something that can provide a view (GUI or CLI) of all network traffic on our network.  We are running all Apple computers, with SonicWall routers.  Essentially, we'd like to have the ability to see what someone is looking at on the Internet when we notice that they are exceeding a regular traffic quota.

I know we could use wireshark; but, I'm not sure if we can run that on the entire network and still be able to sift through all of the data that it would return, in a reasonable amount of time.


texts: I have HP Laserjet 1020 connected to Airport Express and, after installing HP drivers, can print from MacBook Air. But there is no way to print from iOS devices because they need AirPrint compatible printer. Firstly, i installed handyPrint on mac, and everything was fine, but it works only when mac is on. So I tried and Printer Pro Lite application on iPhone. App can see printer but doesn't print anything. So I try to understand is there any possible way to tune my printer as AirPrint printer to print whenever I want? Or maybe install the right app on iPhone which can print?


texts:
Can I run a Mac mini with an iPad as the only display?
Let's say that Sidecar has some kind of an autostart and when the Mac mini boots, it automatically gets started.


texts: Problems with the LDAP address book in iOS 6

texts:
When configuring an LDAP addressbook with older iOS versions, the phone connects to port 389 for plain text and to port 636 when SSL is enabled. Our secure LDAP service runs on port 636 and before, it was connected. Now, with iOS 6, it no longer connects. It is difficult for me to find out if it is attempting on another port (due to company firewall) but certainly not on 636. Has this been changed? And to what port number?

It appears to be not possible to change to another port number by appending :636 to the server name. When doing this, it simply does not connect anything anymore and it just shows a lookup failed. What gives?

The LDAP setup is very limited anyway.  There is no option to specify a BIND DN that I can find, and when entering a username and password it sends the username as a BIND DN, which of course fails because it isn't a syntactically correct BIND DN.

Did anyone get this LDAP client working? With what server? With SSL? What port does it use? Do you have LDAP logs that show how the BIND proceeds?


texts: Can I download the Yosemite install "app" on a MacBook Air, move it to an install USB drive, and install it on a MacBook Pro?

texts:
That is, is there a difference between the Yosemite install "app" that I would get on the Mac App Store, between the one I would get on a MacBook Air vs. on a MacBook Pro?

Trying to download it on my Air and install it clean on my Pro.


texts: Workaround for connecting two 2017 iMacs and using one as a second display

texts: I am using my iMac 2017 5k as my main machine and want to use my 21 inch 2017 iMac as a second screen. I have learnt from the previous question that I asked that the target display mode is not going to work. What are some workarounds to use the real estate on the second 21 inch 2017 iMac while on the main machine?


texts: Connecting multiple screens to the 2016 MacBook Pro with Touch Bar

texts:
I'm thinking about buying the new MacBook Pro with 4 USB-C ports.

I want to attach two screens, mouse and keyboard and ethernet to the MacBook Pro while using the fewest number of USB-C ports possible.

So what I need is an adaptor with:

two DP or HDMI ports (or one DP port with daisy chaining support)
two or more USB ports
an ethernet port

Best case would be a hub to which all devices are connected with a single connection to the MacBook Pro, including power supply. Worst case if attaching the MacBook Pro to the devices would require me to use all four of USB-C ports.

Given the answers up to far, I can tell that:

Daisy chaining might or might not work with the MacBook Pro (since it requires DP1.2 which is supported by the graphics chipset, but it's uncertain if it's supported by the MacBook Pro itself)
I can attach the monitors with two cables as a last resort, leaving me with two ports for the remaining peripherals.

What I still don't know:

Would daisy chaining work with a hub or does it require the first monitor to be directly attached to the MacBook Pro?
Does some kind of hub exist supporting attachment of all listed devices with a single upstream connection to the MacBook Pro?


texts:
I am trying to make a folder to go on a server, that people can add photos to and then the script sends them to the correct place, however I'm having trouble with the search part.

As you can see below in my code, the part where it finds where to send the folder to is commented out, because I have no idea what the syntax is for it.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

global theWatchedFolder
set theWatchedFolder to choose folder
on idle
tell application "Finder"
set theDetectedItems to every item of theWatchedFolder
repeat with aDetectedItem in theDetectedItems
    set jobNumber to display dialog "Please enter the job number for this photo." buttons {"Submit", "Cancel"}
    display dialog "File detected: " & jobNumber
    --tell finder
    -- search for jobNumber in (path to desktop)
    --set jobFolder to top search result
    --end tell
    --set colourFolder to jobfolder & /colour
    move aDetectedItem to the desktop --move to colourFolder
end repeat
end tell
if theDetectedItems is not {} then
activate
display dialog "test move complete"
end if
return 1
end idle

Also, I am concerned that if this script is on the server, watching a folder on the server, then it won't create a pop-up for anyone who adds a file to the folder on the server. Hopefully I am wrong but if someone could confirm this one way or the other then that would be awesome. Thanks :)


texts: Windows 10 not recognized mac high sierra (APFS system) partition

texts:
Today i installed windows 10 ver 1607 on my macbook air with high sierra 10.13 on it. but i cant find my mac partition via windows 10. I tried repair it with step that suggested in this  forum:

How can I make Mac Partition visible in Bootcamp (Windows 10 Anniversary Update)?

so after few tried, i found new partition, there was "Local Disk (D:)" with zero size. Of course I couldnt read my macintosh partition and windows suggested me for format it. so check disk management and found that mac partition still not have file system (RAW). then i realized that High Sierra had new system format that different with HFS format.

So can i make my windows read macintosh hd with APFS format? can someone give tutorial? i new in this type of thing.


texts: Late 2012 Imac 27'' constant beach ball loading and slow downs

texts:
I just bought myself an iMac 27'' late 2012 model.

I am constantly getting beach balls and the computer slows to a crawl taking anywhere from 30 seconds to a minute to get back to regular speeds.

My normal programs are:

Rubymine
Parallels Desktop
Chrome
Skype

I've used a laptop with less specs than this iMac and it never had these terrible hiccups. What can I do verify what is causing the issue?

8GB is more than enough for what I'm using - is it just the Apple-tax that requires me to have even more ram?


texts: Apple EarPods buzzing except when I'm touching the area around the MacBook Trackpad

texts:
I've been using the Apple EarPods with my MacBook Air for a while now. Since recently, they have been producing a very faint buzzing in the left earbud when I'm not touching the computer.

However, when I touch the areas around the keyboard, Trackpad, and screen bezel, the buzzing stops. But as soon as I take my hand off the aluminium unibody or the bezel, it starts buzzing again. Even if I touch the body very lightly, such as the very tip of my finger, it stops.

That being said, what's happening and how do I stop the buzzing in that ear altogether?


texts: Transfer PDF in iBooks from iPhone to iPad

texts:
How do I transfer a PDF I've saved in iBooks from my iPhone 6 to my iPadPro?

Thanks


texts:
I want to lock FileVault when I logout. I have two accounts on my Mac one admin and a standard user, only the admin account can open the FileVault. How do I lock FileVault so I need to unlock the FileVault when I logout of any of the two accounts?

As of now I only need to open the FileVault when I have restarted the computer. I use macOS Sierra public beta.


texts: How to fix a situation where a new iPad 2 causes other macs to disconnect from Wi-Fi?

texts:
I'm not sure what's going on here. I just got this iPad 2, and from the moment I connected it to my wireless network, my other Macs were kicked off, and haven't been able to pull IP addresses from the router.

All my Macs are running Lion. The iPad 2 is running iOS 5.1.1 and has no problems with internet connectivity. I'm using a Motorola Surfboard SBG6580 cable modem with built-in g/n Wi-Fi. That device has been serving me well for over 2yrs, except for the occasional firmware snafu with Comcast. The DHCP service is turned on.

Regression:

I tried creating reservations for each device on my network, thinking that there was maybe some IP conflict, but that's not the case.
I've tried statically assigning IP's to my Macs as well. Even that doesn't work.
The Airport icon has an exclamation point, and the troubleshooter isn't helping either.
I've restarted all of my devices many times.

Any advice how to fix this situation would be appreciated.


texts: Is there any way to use iOS Remote to control an Apple TV without Home Sharing?

texts: This is an office environment and while we all have iPhones and would like to use Remote with the Apple TV we don't want to all use the same Home Sharing account to do so.


texts: Hibernate file is too small; how do I fix it?

texts:
I upgraded my Mac to 16G of ram a few years ago. I just noticed that /var/vm/sleepimage is only 8G, which likely explains why I've never been able to get my Mac to hibernate.
How can I fix it? SIP isn't letting me delete the file.


texts: MacBook Pro 13” 2019 Retina Display causes artifacts. What could have gone wrong?

texts: The screen has flickering issues and also displays horizontal lines. Tried resetting SMC and NVRAM/PRAM & everything I could find on youtube. (issue started 1 day after Big Sur update)


texts:
Join.me exports screen recordings in WebM format. I can play WebM files using VLC but I can't edit them. Searching for a solution brings up hundreds of spamware 'video converters'.

Is there a simple way to edit WebM video files on MacOS?


texts: "You can’t sign in at this time" when signing into iCloud

texts:
I recently upgraded my fairly new MacBook Pro to OS X 10.11 (El Capitan). I started the Notes app, hoping to see my notes, but they weren't there. I clicked on iCloud in the Settings app and typed my Apple ID and password, and a dialog box showed saying "You can’t sign in at this time. Try signing in again.".

I am sure I am typing the right Apple ID and password because I can log in from my phone, and I can log in from the iCloud website.

I tried deleting my ~/Library/Application Support/iCloud/Accounts directory as described here and that didn't seem to do anything.

I tried the procedure described here and that didn't work either.

Why is this happening? What can be done about it?


texts: I am using afplay to play a song and I want it to be repeat. Is it possible just using afplay?


texts: What can someone access on my iPhone if they set up their iCloud account on my device?

texts:
Here is the situation: I am going to meet someone, who will set up their iCloud account on my device.

Is there any way to remove their iCloud account from my iPhone?
Can they find me if I let them set up their iCloud account on my iPhone for 15-30 minutes?
Can they access my iPhone's secret information that may allow them to find the phone's location?


texts: How to use Apple earbuds with PC laptop?

texts:
I'd like to be able use my wired iPhone earbuds with my PC laptop. My laptop has the standard 3.5 mm audio jack.

So from what I can tell, I need a female lighting to a male 3.5mm adapter.  So the first problem is that I can't find something like that at all.

The closest thing I found is this monstrosity below.  I would plug in my earbuds into the right most slot.  Then buy a male to male 3.5mm adapter and plug it in to the adapter on one end and my laptop on the other.  And hope that it works.

So my questions:

Is there a better way?
Would the setup I describe even work, given that I am only using the right side of the device?

P.S.  Found a product that meets my requirement.


texts: Unable to open some apps from iOS 12 Shortcuts

texts:
In the iOS 12 Shortcuts app, I'd like to build a shortcut that opens a specific app. This app doesn't have any specific integration with Shortcuts, but it's sufficient to just have the system open the app. So I added an "Open App" action to the end of my workflow — but the app I want to open does not appear in the list of choices for the Open App action.

I noticed that a small fraction of apps on my phone are missing from the Open App list. It seems pretty random: Apple Pages is missing but Keynote is not, some but not all games are missing, etc.

Is there some reason that I cannot open certain apps via Shortcuts?


texts: Buying an app on one device; rating from another

texts: Is there some restriction on which device you can rate from?  I like to browse the iOS app store via iTunes from my MacBook, so I often stage apps there for download on the next sync with my iPhone. I just tried to rate a so-installed app from my iPhone and (after typing in and submitting  a review) it said that I need to own the app before I can review it. Is there some sort of synchronization that I have set inappropriately?


texts:
How to print onto virtual letter paper which exists as PDF?

New to the Mac OS X world and with MACs. From the windows world I have a virtual letter paper with my e.g. logo, headers, footers existing as a PDF file.

I would need to be able to universally print onto this existing PDF, as if it were e.g. physically from a printing shop and inserted into my real physical printers paper tray.

Having now looked around in the Apple and MAC world, I kind of lack a way to use that "save pdf" or generate PDF file that is built-in to the OS X operating system itself, but pre-merge and mix it with my vector/pixels of my own supplied PDF virtual letter paper resulting in a nice official document e.g. for business cases and such stuff.

I read about OS X automator and even pdftk and all, and on Windows it is really simple by means for example of a virtual printer.

But on the Apple platform, it seems that there is just no way to put a background (my virtual letter paper coming from my own PDF) properly beneath anything I would like to print, as Apple or any application seems to put white pixels (instead of transparency) when they generate via their own OS X built-in means to generate that PDF.

What am I missing here? What if I wanted to for example print to a blue paper or a green paper as the most simple examples of this use-case? The Apple system or any app(lication) on it, seems to always generate a non-transparent and white-pixeled virtual paper, where my own virtual letter paper cannot compete with and cannot shine through.

Also via the automator I only found ways to stamp onto the saved PDF (thats fine for stamps saying such stuff as specimen, or example, or draft and such things) and printing below (underneath) of the actual document would be kind of near impossible because of that opaque white generated pixels/paper of the OS X system itself.

Also the automator only allows for images/pixel files to be used as stamp ontop/below, and my letter paper comes as PDF / vectorised already.

Is there really no concept on current MAC OS X to mix during the built-in way to generate PDFs with my own pre-defined document / PDF? Or is there no virtual printer driver software which would do this in its own way on the mac platform?

Any existing product for the MAC OS X platform I could buy? Thanks in advance.


texts: Mavericks Bluetooth : Connections from undesirable (unpaired) devices... Where is the Advanced Bluetooth option?

texts:
My problem :

Recently I started to use a Magic Trackpad for my MacBook Air (Mid 12), and discovered some annoyance :

I regularly see some devices connected to my Mac by Bluetooth, the one that I never paired...

One of this devices is my FitBit One, which is not paired to my Mac, but still can connect and use it's (fitbit) battery...

Some others devices appear from time to time with different names, that I do not recognise... Sometimes I know when another device, that my Trackpad, is connected because the trackpad starts to freeze.

I tried to "remove" an unwanted device, but it keeps reappearing...

I can't even imagine what I can do, since the bluetooth options are really limited...

Question :

Is there some way to have an advanced bluetooth options? So I could "force" all devices to ask a permission before even trying to connect to my Mac?

I found some screenshots of advanced view here :  Securing Bluetooth

But this is an old one and I am afraid that in Mavericks the only "advanced option" is limited to "alt + bluetooth" which gives nothing useful to me.

If anyone have an idea how to fix this problem (but still keep using my trackpad :) ), it would be great to share with me :)

Thank you in advance!

EDIT (29/08/14)

Some precisions : I detected this problem by seeing my FitBit One battery life going from one week to 48 hours, exactly from the moment I started to use BT on my Mac.
I use my Magic Trackpad only at work, and I already checked, if I leave my Mac working all night my FitBit will loose somme battery life in one night, and my Mac is the only device with BT enabled...

Here the link where you can see my One listed as Connected, but I never paired it or was asked to. Link


texts: How to display USA content on my AppleTV while I'm in Mexico using hotel wifi?

texts:
How can I display USA content on my Apple TV while I'm in Mexico using a hotel's wifi?

(I've been told that AppleTV may only show Mexican content while I'm in Mexico.)


texts: Using VPN configuration which require 'tap' kernel extension on Mac OS Big Sur?

texts:
I use an institutional VPN service by connecting using tunnelblick and the supplied configuration file. Apparently, the configuration file requires tunnelblick to load the "tap" kernel extension which is no longer allowed by macOS Big Sur. The tunnelblick developers have posted that this issue cannot be fixed: https://tunnelblick.net/cBigSur.html. They suggest disabling SIP to use such configs but even that might not be supported in the future. Is there any other client equivalent to tunnelblick that can be used? Is there any other workaround to make this work?
This is the other linked article: https://tunnelblick.net/cTunTapConnections.html


texts:
I'm running into a an issue where Siri can't connect to her servers from behind our corporate proxy connection. What's interesting is that this isn't an issue on our iPhones behind the same proxy.

Any ideas?


texts: iPhone 4 no longer detects SIM card, how can I fix it?

texts:
Since 3 months I do have an iPhone 4, 3 weeks ago i started to get no SIM card installed error increasingly more frequent. Right now the phone is unusable. I went to a sales office of my mobile supplier, they tried a different sim card. But this did not solve the issue unfortunately.

They want it now for reparation, which means i loose my iphone for 2 or 3 weeks. Are there any other possibilities, on the internet I read a few sites which speak about sticky tape or applying some glue to the simcard slider. But I don't want to run the risk of losing my warranty and ruining the iphone's interior.

I have the feeling that the problem is only at the slider, so I'm a kind of dissatisfied with the iphone being taken in 2 weeks for service.
Are there any other options?


texts: External Bluetooth 4.0 dongle on 2009 iMac

texts:
I have a late 2009 iMac and I am developing a BLE app for iOS. At this point of time I don't have an iPhone or an iPad either to test the app on, so I have to user the simulator for the same. My questions are
Can I test Bluetooth functions on a simulator?
Will the external Bluetooth 4.0 dongle work for the app (will it not clash with the in-build Bluetooth 2.1)?


texts: Why can’t I enable True Tone on my iPhone 11 anymore?

texts:
I noticed today that True Tone has disappeared from my iPhone 11 settings. Even in the control center I can't find it anymore. I rebooted it but it didn't come back.

Any idea on why it's gone and how I can get it back ?


texts:
I have a clean install of macOS High Sierra with APFS Encrypted file partition.
During install I checked the "decrypt at login" option, but each have a different password. I now want to change my APFS password but I haven't been abled to:

"change password" is greyed out in the Disk Utility for my APFS volume.
diskutil apfs changePassphrase ...  returned an error saying it can't do it.

Any idea how I can do that?

P.S. I also have FileVault turned on, with the same password as my login (so different from the APFS Encryption).


texts:
I have some web applications (java applets) which have trouble running with Java 7 and java 64 bit.

The tech support wants me to install Java 6 and disable Java 7, here are the instructions:

  Please download and install the Java update named "JavaForOSX2013-05.dmg" from Apple for better security. For OS X 10.7 and above: http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1572
  After that, please follow the instructions below to re-enable the Apple-provided Java SE 6 web plug-in and Web Start functionality: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5559

Security-wise, is it safe to setup OS X this way?


texts: Problem with iPad personal hotspot on OS X 10.11

texts:
I'm having problems with iPad tethered USB internet share (personal hotspot).
OS X 10.11. (15A226f) and iOS 9b (13A4325c)

Tethering via USB to iPads internet has worked before, but as far as I remember it stopped working after updating OS X to 10.11., so most likely the problem is NOT iOS 9, but the OS X 10.11

I'v already tried rebooting both devices, reconnecting everything etc., but nothing seems to work.


texts:
I can not run Xcode 7.0.1 on my MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Late 2013, 4GB of RAM, 128GB SSD, 20+GB of free space, OSX 10.10.5). I downloaded the DMG file from Apple, and can run it on my Mac mini (Late 2012, 16GB of RAM, 1TB HDD, 200+GB of free space, OSX 10.10.5), but can not run it on my MacBook. The DMG file seems intact and I can browse the contents of Xcode.app; it is seamlessly copied to /Applications folder. There is no error code or whatsoever, except the phrase "The application "Xcode" can't be opened."

Xcode 6.0.1 runs perfectly on my MacBook.

Any thoughts?

UPDATE

I tail ed /var/system/system.log as patrix suggested and here's an interesting line:

kernel[0]: exec of /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/MaxOS/Xcode denied since it was quarantined by Microsoft\x20Remote\x20Desktop and created without user consent, qtn-flags was 0x00000006

WTH?


texts: How can I remove my data but keep the OS when putting my MacBook up for sale?

texts: I want to delete items off MacBook but leave the Mountain Lion OS. How can I do this


texts:
function ls-by-added() {
    # Doesn't work well for files having '(null)' as their DateAdded, which some do.
    mdls -name kMDItemFSName -name kMDItemDateAdded -raw -- *(D) | \
        xargs -0 -I {} echo {} | \
        sed 'N;s/\n/ /' | \
        sort --reverse | \
        sed -E "s/^.*\\+0000 //" # removes the timestamps
}

It doesn't work for dotfiles:

ls-by-added
foo
How Automated Recommendations Affect the Playlist Creation Behavior of Users_k2opt.pdf
research_report_dc_02_k2opt.pdf
research_report_dc_02.pdf
thebookofshaders_k2opt.pdf
thebookofshaders.pdf
A New Kind of Science
- Books alias
Hein J. L. - Prolog Experiments in Discrete Mathematics, Logic, and Computability (2005)_k2opt.pdf
Hein J. L. - Prolog Experiments in Discrete Mathematics, Logic, and Computability (2005).pdf
geMsearch- Personalized Explorative Music Search.pdf
Lumanote- A Real-Time Interactive Music Composition Assistant.pdf
How Automated Recommendations Affect the Playlist Creation Behavior of Users.pdf
Computability-and-Logic_k2opt.pdf
Computability-and-Logic.pdf
(null) .rm
(null) .foo
(null) .DS_Store

What am I doing wrong? I tried mdimport . on the working dir before running the command, but it didn't help.


texts: Can I make GIMP work as a MacOS X Service?

texts:
I would like to be able to use GIMP as a MacOS X Service. That is, I want to be able to select an image in a document, choose Services->Edit Image in GIMP, bring the image into GIMP, make changes, save it out, and have the image updated.

The Services menu worked really well in NeXTSTEP but most MacOS X users have no clue what it is for. It would be nice to be able to start using it again.


texts: Has Apple ditched the enter key symbol in their mac devices international keyboard?

texts:
The return key in Apple's keyboard layout has two functions, the return key ↩; and the enter key ⌤ (which is produced by fn+return).

However, the new Macbooks has no ⌤ symbol engraved on keyboard! Does that means it's not supported anymore? I know it sounds silly but I use the return/enter combinations a lot in my apps?

Appreciate any answer because I want to upgrade and not sure if the enter key is not supported or just missed in keyboard?


texts: MacBook Air attempting to shutdown after a couple of seconds of inactivity

texts:
I have a a MacBook Air that works fine except popping up a shutdown dialog if left untouched for a couple of seconds (seems to be a consistent duration around 3 seconds or so). Hitting Cancel or Esc prevents the shutdown.

If I keep fidgeting around with the keyboard or trackpad, there's no shutdown attempt. I can even place something on the Fn key to keep the OS from shutting down.

It seems like some inactivity timeout etc. gone awry.

When taken to the Genius Bar for initial assessment, the guy there said it was probably the power button needing a replacement. But, I don't think this is the case, as the power button is functioning normally: I can still press it to explicitly initiate a sleep/shutdown.

There's a chance this was triggered by water damage. There was a recent water spill incident to which I acted quickly by turning off the machine + turning it upside down + not using it for a long while + keeping it in a box with rice to absorb any leftover humidity. But even if this is a water damage, I can't imagine a damage that manifests itself with this very narrow malfunction of wanting to shutdown on a short period of in activity. Absolutely nothing else seems to be wrong with the machine.

Any pointers? Any things I can try to (a) diagnose the root cause fix or workaround the problem?


texts: Why my RAM runs at 800 MHz in 4 slots of my mac pro instead of 1066?

texts:
I've got a Mac Pro 4,1.

I had two KVR1066D3Q8R7S/8G planks in it and it ran on 1066 Mhz.

Now I've bought two planks of KVR1066D3Q8R7S/8GI (the same with "I" at the end - stands for intel certification). I've got 32 Gbs, but the system says they run at 800Mhz.

Why? Is there a way to fix it? Is it because I use four slots instead of a triple setup? Will 3x8Gbs perfom better than 4x8 or is it better to have more RAM?

UPD1:
If I use either three of the sticks, they all run on 1066, when i insert the fourth one, everything drops to 800 Mhz.

UPD2:
That's what I have found here:

  Single-processor
  computers have four
  memory slots. Depending
  on the model, you can
  install 1 GB, 2 GB DIMMs,
  or 4 GB DIMMs.
  The processor’s memory
  controller has three
  memory channels. DIMM
  slots 1 and 2 have their
  own channels; slots 3 and
  4 share a channel.
  For optimal memory
  bandwidth, all three
  memory channels should
  be used, and memory
  should be balanced across
  the three channels.

  Note: Populating slot 4
  slightly drops maximum
  memory bandwidth,
  but depending on the
  applications used, overall
  system performance may
  benefit from the larger
  amount of memory.

But it is still confusing. I thought the bandwidth that is being described is overall bandwidth not like all chips are dropping to 800 Mhz...


texts: How can I better understand iCloud security for 1Password data?

texts:
My understanding is iCloud uses server-side encryption of customer data.

I am no expert but what about the data e.g. of an app like 1Password which can syncs very sensitive user data to many devices via iCloud.

Since 1Password purposefully encrypts data before sending it to iCloud, does this mean the data cannot be looked up by Apple employees?


texts: How can I use an audio device's other channel for input to iChat and Skype?

texts:
I have an external microphone setup that I like to use for audio and video chats. My audio interface has four input channels, and my primary inputs to this interface happen to be its channels 3-4. When I view System Preferences -> Sound -> Input and select the interface, I see levels as would be expected, but doing the same in iChat or Skype preferences show no level.

When setting up GarageBand to use this interface, I notice that it provides two stereo channels: 1-2 and 3-4. I am thus led to believe that System Preferences shows a total of all levels on all channels, while iChat and Skype simply default to the 1-2 inputs and ignore the rest.

Is there some way to send channels 3-4 of my external audio interface (it's a ProSonus Inspire1394) to iChat and Skype? I couldn't find anything in Audio MIDI Setup to help out, but maybe someone knows specifics.


texts: suspect message "sshd-keygen-wrapper would like to receive keystrokes from any application"

texts:
I am receiving this message about "sshd-keygen-wrapper would like to receive keystrokes from any application", here is a screenshot:

I find it suspicious... this binary is located at /usr/libexec/sshd-keygen-wrapper and never had this message before. the closest to a solution that I found is that it is harmless... does anybody know a bit more about it?
(disclaimer: I am using a MacOS, and this relates mainly with unix / linux software - so after some thoughts, I thought it was more apporiate to post it here than on another forum.)


texts: NVMe Samsung 960 evo (with adapter) + MBA mid 2013

texts:
Hello I recently upgraded my MBA with new ssd Samsung 960 Evo 250 GB. I am using adapter ("M key M.2 PCIe AHCI SSD Adapter as SSD for MACBOOK Air 2013 2014 2015 A1465 A1466 Pro A1398 A1502" from Ali). Everything worked fine - installation and running system for few days.

But now I have problems that it keeps itself turned off and now when I started MBA, I get error - folder with question mark and MBA keeps restarting.

Is there any way how to fix this, or I need different SSD?


texts: HP Deskjet driver for Big Sur - OS X 11.0.1

texts:
I recently upgraded my MacBook Air from Catalina to Big Sur. Following the upgrade my ancient HP Deskjet F380 printer no longer works. When I try to use it I get various popups like this one

I've tried reinstalling the printer, and using HP Easy Start to install new drivers, but there doesn't seem to be any compatible drivers available. Is there any solution other than buying a new printer?


texts: Must I reformat my hard drive to reclaim space from unused 2nd partition?

texts:
I wanted to see if I could also have Ubuntu on my Macbook alongside the usual OSX. Now, a year later, I want to remove the Ubuntu and the space associated with it on the hard drive. That is, my hd is partitioned into two separate spaces.

My question is, if I want back the space that Ubuntu took, must I reformat and delete everything on my Mac?


texts: Possible to Hide Mac Partition When in Windows?

texts:
I've found out that if I install Windows 7 and use the Snow Leopard Boot Camp drivers (Which I need for the graphics chipset drivers.), the Mac partition appears and is read-only. I'm quite concerned about this, because if my Windows partition is infected with malware, it could be a possibility that the hackers could take data from my Mac partition, even if it was read-only.

Is there any way to turn off Mac partition support while booted in Windows?


texts: iOS 7 iPhone how can I close my running applications?

texts: I have an iPhone 4 and just updated the software to i OS 7. Before I updated the software I had been able to close my running apps to keep from running down the battery. I can't figure out now how to close them. Is there a way or do theft close themselves or what?


texts: Get rid of text slide in iphoto 11 slide show

texts: I added a text slide to a slideshow. I can't get rid of it. If I delete it, the neighboring picture gets deleted, too. If I re-add the picture, the text slide reappears with it.


texts: What is the coding to program my F1 key to launch the Safari application using Karabiner?


texts:
I have an iPhone SE, running iOS 12. As part of a programming course I do, we made some apps. 4 in total.

Whenever I try to open one of these apps I get this message:

However when I go to settings and verify it tries to verify it as shown here:

But then it goes back to say not verified. How can I fix this?

EDIT: I am connected to WIFI and it works


texts: What application can open the .waveform file that the Voice Memos app creates?

texts: I plugged an iPhone into my Ubuntu desktop and browsed the available files. In the Recordings directory I could see my voice memos, including a .waveform file, which I understand contains the visual plot of the audio. What application can open this file?


texts: Recover data from corrupted APFS external volume

texts:
In less than 2 months, Finder has managed to corrupt 2 external hard drives and make the data inaccessible. First time I gave Apple the benefit of the doubt, but when it happened AGAIN on another drive after Finder became unresponsive when trying to unmount... I blame APPLE on my pain. Anyways, the data is still there as I can see from a data recovery program, but I have to pay to recover all the data.
Here's my question: How can I do this on my own? The data recovery software is able to find my files by scanning the raw data on the disk. If I could figure out what tools or commands it uses, then i'd be able to do it on my own.
Some research suggests booting my machine on kali Linux, then using the DD command to access the data. Anyone familiar with this?
Big Sur 11.0.1
External volume: HDD APFS


texts: External Disk not recognized, can't unmount, cannot erase

texts:
I have an external drive which is only recognised running diskutil list in Terminal, not in the GUI version or Finder:

/dev/disk1 (external, physical):
#:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *500.1 GB   disk1
1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk1s1
2:                  Apple_HFS Backup                  250.0 GB   disk1s2
3:       Microsoft Basic Data XHDD                    249.6 GB   disk1s3

I have tried the following:

diskutil verifyDisk disk1

Problems were found with the partition map which might prevent booting
Error: -69808: Some information was unavailable during an internal lookup

diskutil verifyVolume disk1sn
diskutil repairVolume disk1sn

Error starting file system verification for (bad disk ref): Disk object invalid or unable to serialize (-69810)

diskutil repairDisk disk1

Problems were encountered during repair of the partition map
Error: -69808: Some information was unavailable during an internal lookup

diskutil eraseDisk JHFS+ Untitled disk1

Error: -69888: Couldn't unmount disk
or:
Error: -69877: Couldn't open device

For the first error I did subsequently:

diskutil unmountDisk force disk1

Which most of the time was sucessful. If not, I even tried to find processes that interfered with the drive (found here: stackex/os-x-cant-unmount-disk)

sudo lsof|grep disk1

Which did not find any processes.

In fact, now i can't even get to the unmountable part and alwas get the:

Error: -69877: Couldn't open device

Is this thing really done or is there more to do here?


texts: Apparent display bug with Arabic letter sequence lam meem alef

texts:
I've noticed that on Mac, in any of three Web browsers (Chrome, Safari, Firefox), the sequence lam mim alef (لما) is sometimes displayed incorrectly. It should look like this:

But instead it looks like this:

(Ignore the black/white color flip -- I had to take screenshots in different contexts.)

Notice,

The mim is completely gone!
The lam has the "hat" on it that's normally associated with the initial form. This is expected, because it's in the initial position.
But it also has a tail sticking out to the right, which is not normal for an initial form.

By contrast, the following letter sequences seem to be displayed correctly:

(lam+mim, and mim+alif).

And the "compulsory" ligature lam+alif is displayed correctly:

Where the sequence is displayed incorrectly:

In some web pages, such as this one (look for آلمان / Germany)
In the URL bar (and status bar) of Chrome, Safari, and Firefox (try this Forvo URL).

Where the sequence is displayed correctly:

On some web pages (e.g. Forvo or Google Translate)
In LibreOffice
On Windows (I tried the above "where it doesn't work correctly" places)

Since it works in some web pages and not others, and not in the URL bar, does that mean it's likely to be a font problem?

When I copy and paste the characters from a place where they display correctly to a place where they display incorrectly, they display incorrectly. I.e. they're the same characters, but the display is different depending on where they're shown. (And the reverse is also true.)

I happen to be using these letters in a Persian context, but they're Arabic letters and I believe the issues are the same.

I'm not an expert on either Arabic or Persian, so there could be something I'm missing... please let me know if I'm misunderstanding the issue. However I've searched the information I could find on Arabic and Persian ligatures, and there doesn't seem to be anything corresponding to this display form.

Also if anyone can suggest a better place to ask this question, I'd appreciate the tip.


texts: On the iPhone and iPad, is there an app that can search a webpage or Twitter every few minutes and pop up notifications?

texts:
For example, the app can be set to search on the Twitter channel https://twitter.com/itunescarddeals for a custom phrase such as "Best Buy" or "PayPal" for such sales events, every few minutes or every 30 minutes, and show a notification on the iPhone or iPad when such tweet is found.

Or equivalently, it doesn't need to be Twitter specific but can be a webpage https://twitter.com/itunescarddeals

Is there such an app?


texts: How to disable major release upgrade in Mojave?

texts: I am thinking of not wanting to upgrade from Mojave to Catalina because, so far my setup & configurations of different apps like web-dev stuff and mobile-app development are all working and in proper order. It has taken me a long time to get to this point. Fear of breaking apps - esp 32-bit ones (if any) in the new upcoming version of MacOS has made me think of not going for the upgrade. How / Where do I disable a major release upgrade ?


texts:
I've had my Magic Mouse for about two weeks with a MacBook Pro 13", and I'm starting to notice quite a latency in the movement.

It gets really bad whenever any performance heavy operation is going on, that creates almost a half a second latency. This happens even for small things, like when a web page is being rendered, sometimes even while nothing is happening.

At first I thought batteries might've caused this, even though it was at 50%, so I changed them for new ones, which (subjectively) helped for about two hours, but it's still really laggy.

I also tried using the mouse on different surfaces, again it seems to work a little better on the table than on my mouse pad, but it's a little laggy everywhere.

Is this behavior normal for the Magic Mouse?

edit: I've been using my Macbook with 24" LCD at 1920x1280 resolution. When I plugged out the monitor, it seems that the mouse runs much more smoothly, even when I run applications like Photoshop.

Could the external monitor be causing such performance lag? But on the other hand, when I use it with USB mouse Logitech G5 there is no lag, not even on the 24" ...


texts:
I am trying to update to El Capitan.  I am being asked for my Apple ID and password.  I entered both correctly however I am being asked to enter a verification code after the password (see screenshot).  This makes no sense, it's absurd, and very unlike Apple. Any thoughts on how to fix this?

Note:  I updated the password using the 2-step verification process, but the new password still does not work.


texts: Print jobs cancelled if waiting too long?

texts: I tend to send things to print, even when not connected to my printer (via usb). This allows it to print the minute I connect the printer, which is nice when I am on my laptop. It used to work, even if I didn't connect my printer for a day or two, but now it doesn't. The print jobs seem to die after 3 hours. Any help?


texts: Is there any way to select part of all lines in Pages?

texts:
Is there any way to select part of all lines in pages? For example: I have 100 lines with 100 characters each and I need to select 20 characters from each line.

Can I do it with some kind of shortcut or it is not possible and I have to do it manually?


texts: I really need to change my apple account country. I would like to see a TV show but I can only find it in the US store, and because I am in the Emirati store, it won't show up in that store. I do not understand why apple has placed the 'country store' system because when someone in a different country wants to buy a certain item, they aren't allowed to. Can I change my account store or is it not possible?


texts: Is there a way to set the disk caching behavior on macOS?

texts:
I have an 8GB RAM MacBook Pro that struggles under my workload and I regularly have yellow memory pressure. I do notice that during these times, the disk caching (i.e. 'Cached Files') is taking up ~1GB of RAM. Though I am well aware that files in RAM is much faster than if it has to pull it off the disk, the machine DOES have a pretty fast SSD and I'd be willing to have less disk cache in favor of more application RAM.
Is there a way to set the amount of memory (or behavior rules) around how the OS utilizes disk caching? I'm a bit surprised that when memory pressure gets bad, it still insists on using a good chunk of my RAM to cache instead of at least cutting that in half.


texts: Search a folder that is excluded from Spotlight

texts:
I have excluded a folder from Spotlight, because this folder has a lot of files so it often fills up the results, no matter what I'm searching for.

However, sometimes I still want to search this folder. So, I tried opening the folder in Finder, then searching using the box in the top-right corner of the window, then selecting Search: "Folder_name" to limit the results to just that folder.

This method does not show any results, however. I assume it's because the folder is excluded from Spotlight search. So, is there any way that I can perform a manual search on the folder still, whenever necessary?


texts: VMware Fusion 6.0.3: "reclaimable" stays zero for Windows 7 VM

texts:
I have a Windows 7 x64 Update 1 guest VM on a host with OS X Mavericks (10.9.2) and VMware Fusion 6.0.3:

The Windows 7 guest has a sparse HDD of 30 gigabyte, with about 5 gigabyte free, and the latest VMware Tools running.
OS X indicates the full size of the VM directory is (32,2 GB on disk) for 655 items (most of the items are in the various caches, most of the size is in the VMDK files)

VMware claims that VMware Fusion can reclaim space, but in my situation VMware Fusion never shows it can consolidate.

I tried this again with a Windows 8.1 110 gigabyte HDD that has about 10 gigabyte free: same result.

This is what I tried to force VMware Fusion to recognize there is something to consolidate:

shutdown the VM
defrag the VM, then shutdown the VM
defrag the VM, then shutdown the VM and restart VMware Fusion
defrag the VM, run sdelete -c C: inside the VM, then shutdown the VM, then restart VMware Fusion

Still no luck: the reclaimable size stays zero (see image below).

What should I do to force reclaim of the disk?


texts:
New iMac Specs:

Mid-2017 iMac
Retina 4K 21.5 inch
3.0GHz quad-core Intel i5 CPU
AMD Radeon Pro 555 with 2GB Memory
1TB Hard Drive
8GB RAM

macOS Catalina 10.15.2

It keeps hanging, lagging or freezing with the rainbow cursor for 1 or 2 seconds. Sometimes, even YouTube and Apple Music stops playing for the same time.

It's slow in everything, not just loading/writing on hard disk. I have tried a fresh installation of macOS with no results.

The memory is always empty and 70% of CPU stays in idle. I see no peak in usage on Activity Monitor. The hard disk is not full either. It's just strange. Has this been happening to anybody?

It has been like this forever. Having had a MacBook, I have never really used this machine except for now that I am home all the time.

Here is the report generated by EtreCheck: https://pastebin.com/4hbaLGte


texts: Siri repeatedly gives me a wrong response

texts:
Siri does not voice activate on my iPhone 6. When summoned by the home button & asked to make a call, it repeatedly plays a song from the play list.

For example, when I say "Hey Siri, call my mother" I get a response like, "I do not know who My mother is".

I have rebooted the iPhone, and also reset the settings. Any suggestions?


texts:
iCloud Drive is a file hosting service for devices running iOS 8, OS X Yosemite, or Windows 7 or later.

When will we be able to start using iCloud Drive in WIndows PCs? I can't seem t find that info anywhere.


texts: Exporting iPhone local calendar to MS Outlook

texts:
I'm searching for a way to export calendar events stored in local iPhone device as either ICS or CSV (outside of using iTunes), so it can be imported to Microsoft Outlook on Windows 7/10.
The important bit is that any methods that involve using cloud services (such as iCloud) are not acceptable, as per client's instruction.
I've tried a few tools but they do not have the necessary feature, for example, 3uTools export calendar in a compressed file that contains several plist files, which cannot be used to import to Outlook.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.


texts: My ex is a computer "expert". Is he using administrative privileges to remotely control/limit use of my computer?

texts:
My Ex knows a lot about computers - I know nothing about the hardware and infrastructure...
I bought my own personal MacBookAir for my private use only. I'm not able to change some settings or be the "administrator". Here are system preferences snapshots under Security and Privacy. It seems to look like I'm on a network under "WINS" (?) and I can't change anything in "Proxies" or "802.1X"

I turned on FireVault (with a recovery key) and FireWall. I also set a login password, required immediately, and only allow apps from the Apple Store.
The other pics are my WiFi setting and Directory Utilities if it's helpful. I have Komros installed and Avast and use them every time I log-on.
Thank you!


texts: What kind of adapter do I need to connect this external monitor?

texts: I have a MacBook Pro 2017.  I would like to connect an external monitor, an Asus MZ27AQ Designo 27” Monitor WQHD IPS DP HDMI Eye Care Monitor, but I'm unclear how or if this is possible.  What kind of adapter would I need to connect this type of monitor?


texts: My Macbook does not power up for more than a few seconds, and I have declared it dead. The only issue is that there is still a disk inside of it of Snow Leopard. The MB doesn't power on long enough to push the trackpad button, or do the PRAM Reset, or press the Eject button on the keyboard before shutting down again. Any ideas how to MANUALLY remove the disk?


texts: I'm using El Capitan and I want to change emoji shortcut which is ctrl+cmd+space. I want to change it to two buttons? Is it possible?


texts: Can I gift an ibook to multiple recipients as a conference giveaway?

texts:
I would like to gift a book listed on ibooks as a giveaway for 175 people at a European conference. Attendees all have iphones/ipads but are based across various European countries. I have all their email addresses and would email all individually but I seem to be thwarted by the fact that the destination of the purchasing store (UK) and the recipents store (various European countries./US) are not the same.
Can anyway suggest a solution?


texts: The operation can’t be completed because you don’t have permission to access some of the items

texts:
I am trying to delete files stored on a music system (NAD M50/52) on my network using a Mac (OS Sierra 10.12.6).  The music system HD is visible in Finder and, for the past 6 years or so that I've had it, I've been able to add or delete files (and edit metadata) using the Mac. That has recently stopped and when I try to delete some folders or files I get the 'Operation can't be completed.. permission...' message.  This only happens for some folders/files; others are editable and deletable.  When I use 'Get info' to view the folder properties, the Sharing Permissions part shows 'You have custom access' but there is no list of users, or no padlock shown.  I believe the music system HD is in Linux, but as I say I've been able to read/write to it in the past from the Mac, but not any longer now, at least not in every folder.  I've tried re-setting permissions using BATChmod but that did not work.  I'd be very grateful for any help/advice to fix this.
How can I understand / remove the permission error?


texts: I want a service like rescueTime for iOS. I'm pretty sure apps can't look at other app usage directly, but I think a vpn could track most of my usage, as I mostly do stuff that requires an internet connection. Are there any vpn's that have iOS apps that could summarize my usage?


texts: Where is the cutoff for overcharge protection in the iPhone 6? Is it in the charger or in the actual unit? I purchased a wireless charger adapter and pad for my phone and want to know if it is safe to leave overnight. once the electricity reaches the adapter it has no where to go.. if it were connected it would go back into the wire right? So is this wireless charging safe?


texts: Has "bounce" been removed from the Apple Mail AppleScript dictionary?

texts:
(Running Mavericks 10.9.5)
I have followed the instructions here on How to Bounce Emails in Mac OS X Mail. I am able to select the service and it runs without error but I don't see an email sent out in the Apple Mail Activity window and in a few tests bouncing mail to myself, I never receive the bounced mail.
I am looking in the Mail app's AppleScript dictionary for "bounce" and have not been able to find it. Has Apple removed the "bounce" feature entirely (and not just as a UI command)? If so, should I presume that the AppleScript "bounce" command below is failing silently? The message does get deleted
(Before anyone advises about not bouncing spam – I don't need this for spam, or at least typical spam. I need this because of having been added to some "BCC" mailing lists which it would be politically awkward for me to request removal from – such is my digital life. . .)
on run {input, parameters}

    tell application "Mail"

        repeat with eachMessage in input

            bounce eachMessage

            delete eachMessage

        end repeat

    end tell

end run


texts: Can a FileVault-encrypted partition be accessed using a password I supplied during OS X install?

texts:
I have a MacBook (Retina, Mid 2012 if it's relevant) which I installed Mountain Lion onto, creating one user account only (an Admin account). There is a Guest User, marked for "Sharing Only". The hard drive was encrypted with FileVault 2 at the time of install, and the recovery key stored away.

For various reasons the password to my user account was disclosed (but NOT the FileVault recovery key). I changed the password on my user account before it could be used, but the old password is still known.

Is the old password still retained with respect to the FileVault partition, and might enable someone to decrypt the FileVault-encrypted drive? Put another way, are my new password and the recovery key the only way to decrypt the FileVault partition?


texts: Disabling the iPhoto Photo Stream App badge icon without disabling shared streams?

texts:
When I have new photos available in my shared photo streams, the iPhoto icon in the dock has a red circle with a number in it, also known as a "Badge App Icon".

I went to System Preferences -> Notifications -> Photo Stream and disabled everything, but the badge app icon on iPhoto still shows.

For now I have disabled shared photo streams completely from iPhoto -> Preferences, and that has removed the badge app icon, but I would prefer to still keep it enabled.

How can I disable this badge app icon?


texts: Does Apple still make iMovie HD available to iLife users?

texts:
When Apple "upgraded" iMovie back in 2008 from its previous version to the completely rewritten program with a star-shaped icon, they kept the previous version available for download.

Currently, I can't find the older version of iMovie on Apple's site. My question is either a) is there still a legal way to get iMovie HD or b) when did it cease to be available?


texts: How do I extract X.509 certificates embedded in executables?

texts: This should be very simple, but I am unable to find a straightforward answer to this question. I have a few Mach-O binaries that have certificates embedded in them. Some of these might not be signatures, but rather root certificates that the code uses to verify other signatures with. Some of these might also be signatures. I'm working on some of Apple's core executables here, so that might help. How can I extract these from them?


texts:
I have a mid-2012 MacBook Pro (non-Retina). I was a Windows user from 2001 until May 11th, and I used to play a lot of casual games for Windows, e.g. Big Fish's Mystery case files series (Ravenhearst 1, 2, and 3, 13th skull, Dire Grove).

What do you recommend? Boot Camp or Wine?

Thank you in advance!

EDIT
What about WineBottler? http://winebottler.kronenberg.org/


texts: How do I bridge a wifi connection from MacOS

texts:
[I have used WiFi bridging in Windows 10 to share my WiFi with other devices. This was done on my Mac using Windows 10 on Bootcamp.  Specifically, I want to share WiFi to WiFi.

How can I achieve the same on macOS?

Here's what I'm seeing in Internet Sharing:


texts: Associate Apple ID with two different SIM cards (phone numbers)

texts: I live in Canada but travel to the States and when I do I put in my American SIM card which of course has a different phone number. Sometimes when in the States I get locked out of my account and it sends a verification code to my Canadian number, but I don't really want to put the SIM card back in the phone just to get the code.  Is there any way I can have the verification code go to both numbers simultaneously.


texts: If I remove the SIM from an iPhone, then will I be able to view the SMS Messages that I sent and received while the SIM card was in the phone after I take the SIM card out?


texts: How do I downgrade an Apple TV from tvos11 to any version of tvos10 without jailbreak safely? My Apple TV is 4th generation.


texts: How to recover files "emptied" from trash

texts:
I recently updated to macOS Mojave. I was experimenting with the new desktop stack feature. Long story short, I ended up creating a folder on the dock and putting all the files from my desktop into it. When I did this all the files stayed on the desktop, so I deleted them (moved them to trash). When I saw that the files were no longer on my desktop, but were still in the folder in the dock, I emptied my trash. That's when I found out that the files in the folder on the dock must have just been symlinks because once the trash was emptied, so was the folder on my dock.

Uh oh, I just mistakenly deleted all the files that I had on my desktop.

I searched google and see that there are programs (not produced by Apple) I can install to recover these files. I'm wondering if there is a simple (command line) way I can recover these files or if there is an official application produced by Apple that I can install to recover them.

How can I recover files that were emptied from the trash?


texts: Why is `lsof` so slow on macOS 10.13 (High Sierra)?

texts:
This is related to this question, but I am on OSX 10.13.4. lsof takes about a minute to run, even with the -n option on.

I can't even run dtruss to examine the system calls being made:

$ sudo dtruss sudo lsof
dtrace: system integrity protection is on, some features will not be available

dtrace: failed to execute sudo: dtrace cannot control executables signed with restricted entitlements

So, why is it taking so long? How can I speed it up?


texts:
I Googled how to do share my wifi connection from my Mac (new Macbook Pro)  to my iPhone (5S) and I tried their way.
System Preferences > Sharing > Internet Sharing
but then i don't have the same options they showed me.

I have share your connection from: Thunderbolt bridge, wi-fi, bluetooth PAN, and bluetooth DUN.

When I choose wifi, which is what I'm supposed to chose from what i've read, I only get two options in the to computers using: Thunderbolt bridge and bluetooth pan but no wifi and neither is working

All the other share you connection from options allow me to do so with computers using wifi thunderbolt bridge and bluetooth pan.

What should I do? Thanks


texts: Pages 5 - Bullets and numbering are not being copied

texts:
I have a Pages 5 document that contains a bullets list. When I try to copy the content of the document into Mac Mail the text is copied without the bullets. That behavioral is reproduced with numbering list.

Is there a way to copy that list with the bullets?


texts: Sometimes when I visit friends and don't have my Mac around I still would like to watch some of the movies I purchased on iTunes together with them. How do I do this? Can I share movies with others just as I can share Apps?


texts: How does iOS know if a web site is restricted?

texts:
I don't add these web sites to the restricted list. Is the iPhone sending every page I visit to Apple? Random surfing will encounter a random  restricted site. In this case it renders this app broken because the 'allow' link doesn't work. Setting is currently set to limit adult content which allows me to use a white list and blacklist. I never added this site to blacklist. I only blacklist 3 sites.

How does iOS know that a website is restricted? Does it send it every page I visit to Apple?

How does iOS know if a website is restricted? Does it send it every page I visit to Apple?

See this is the BS I'm talking about:

iOS 10.1.1


texts: Console log flooded with "discoveryd: Basic Warn DD_Warn: Bad count; corrupt NSEC RDATA"

texts:
My console log is flooded with the message

discoveryd[51]: Basic Warn DD_Warn: Bad count; corrupt NSEC RDATA

They appear in bunches of many identical messages within only a few seconds, separated by short pauses (some seconds to some ten seconds).

I have a feeling that this started with updating Mavericks to Yosemite, but I cannot be sure as I am a fairly new Mac user for about half a year and am only now discovering the depths of the system.

Looking up the problem on Google seems to be extremely difficult as the msg string appears as an occasional side effect in many posted logs that discuss other topics.

My current system is 10.10.1


texts: Error in opening Microsoft Word through Terminal

texts:
I haven't been able to open Microsoft Word through Terminal.
I tried:

open -a Microsoft\Word

But I get this in return:

Unable to find application named 'MicrosoftWord'

How can I open Microsoft Word (I see it in Applications so I know it's installed)?


texts:
I just upgraded a MacBook Pro running Snow Leopard to Mountain Lion.

On Snow Leopard I was running iCal and had 10 years of history inside.

Now on Mountain Lion, this application was renamed Calendar, and I find all my 9 calendar names but they are empty.

I just get all the Birthdays and 2 subscribed calendars filled.

Looking at /var/log/system.log I found 2 hours of error messages like:

Sep  2 18:41:01 localhost mdworker[759]: UTF8 encoding failed for ÃloÃ¯se @ Juterbog
Sep  2 18:41:02 localhost mdworker[759]: Date validation error: EXDATE = ' 20020916T220000Z'
Sep  2 18:41:02 localhost mdworker[759]: Date validation error: EXDATE = ' 20021022T220000Z'
Sep  2 18:41:02 localhost mdworker[759]: Date validation error: EXDATE = ' 20020620T220000Z'
Sep  2 18:41:02 localhost mdworker[759]: Date validation error: EXDATE = ' 20010414T220000Z 20010415T220000Z'
Sep  2 18:41:02 localhost mdworker[759]: UTF8 encoding failed for vacances scolaires Ã©tÃ©
[...]
Sep  2 18:41:02 localhost mdworker[759]: Invalid char : (58) for mParamName in line 432
Sep  2 18:41:02 localhost mdworker[759]: Invalid char . (46) for mParamName in line 432
Sep  2 18:41:02 localhost mdworker[759]: Invalid char   (32) for mParamName in line 432
Sep  2 18:41:02 localhost mdworker[759]: *** WARNING Invalid component, discarding: Error Domain=com.apple.iCalendar Code=1000 "DTSTART is required for VEVENT." UserInfo=0x7fada22d24a0 {NSLocalizedDescription=DTSTART is required for VEVENT.}

These error messages look like they are clearly related with the migration failure of my calendars.
Unfortunately no explanation no error message was displayed to explain how to fix this.

What is the way to recover all my iCal personnal calendars?


texts: I purchased a new hard drive for my 2013 Macbook air from OWC. I've checked the hard drive seating, but the drive doesn't show up either in the Disk Utilities GUI or using diskutil list. Any other suggestions on how to get it to show up/mount?


texts: How do I transfer photo/video from Ipad2 to Windows XP computer? What driver when asks for new hardware found? (Don't have disk)

texts:
I have an ipad2 and windows XP service pack 3.
When put USB to Windows XP it recognizes IPad2 and I can hit "Trust this computer' on Ipad2.  However, the windows XP computer then says "new hardware found" insert installation disk if have one.

I don't have it.
The computer's new hardware wizard can then choose best to install the software (recommended)... It chooses "Digital Still Camera".  If I click "Next", it then says warning this has not passed windows logo testing to verify its' compatibility with XP and may lead to destabilization. So, if I cancel then the hardware (IPad2) is not recognized. Please help!

I know I need to get the proper software/driver installed on the Windows XP computer so it will show the IPad 2 in my camera & scanner area.  Once I do that, I need to know the next steps to transfer the photos on IPad2 also. THX!
PS- I do have up to date iTunes version on XP computer.


texts: Can iMovie Projects be stored in iCloud?

texts:
I have enabled iCloud for iMovie, but they don't show up in the iMovie Media of my other MacBook.

Is it possible to access iMovie Projects with iCloud?

iMovie is enabled:

Can't see iMovie in iCloud folder:

Neither in the web:


texts:
I've noticed that my time capsule continually whirs away and never seems to take any down time. This can't be good for the drives or for my power bill!

Is there any way to manually force the time capsule to go into sleep mode, powering down the hard drives and awaiting instructions?

Cheers, P.


texts: Macbook Pro mid-2015 15" swollen battery

texts:
I bought the MBP around 2016 April. Few months ago, around 2018 Nov, bottom of the device appears a bit uneven, with slight gap with my desk. Over past few months, it wobbles more and more serious. Today I brought it to Apple Store Singapore for diagnostic, specialist at Genius Bar confirmed that it's caused by swollen battery. Consider it was just after about 2.5 years use, I find it hard to believe. According to the staff, it depends on usage. If under heavy usage or often charge it overnight, it's normal that MacBook Pro's battery can become swollen pretty soon.

My battery charge cycle is under 300, battery life drops a bit but still strong (9 hours instead of 10). I rarely charge overnight, normally turn AC power off and leave my MBP in sleep mode. I do use my MBP heavily though, say 10 to 13 hours a day. However, I still find it hard to accept the explanation given by Apple Singapore.  I wonder if other MBP 15" users experience the same? Or... am I the isolated case?

-- edit

To make the question more specific, is it generally expected that, Macbookpro battery will start swelling after 2-3 years use if laptop usage is heavy, e.g. 10-13 hours a day? The concern is not about the slightly reduced battery life (the battery life is still strong), but the physical expansion. I'm asking this because I've used few other laptops before, among which I never experience battery swelling except one (after near 5 years use). If the experience with my MBP is aligned with most other users, which means it's just a matter that I should adjust my expectation, and include the near SGD300 battery cost per 2-3 years into my next purchaser's consideration; Otherwise, I will try to ask them to consider replacing without me paying the full cost.

-- update 2019/6/21

Apple has just announced a battery recall for Macbook Pro 15" mid-2015 model. They confirmed that these batteries may pose fire safety risk:
https://support.apple.com/en-sg/15-inch-macbook-pro-battery-recall


texts: OpenAFS and Mac OS X Yosemite 10.10.4 and Mac OS X El Capitan 10.11

texts:
I am the author of this blogpost on how to install OpenAFS on MAC OS X Yosemite. After upgrading Yosemite to version 10.10.4, OpenAFS stopped working. It accepts the Kerberos token but it seems unable to connect to the remote server. Can someone help me investigating this issue? I don't know what to do. I also tried to clone the git repo and compile the latest branch (origin/openafs-stable-1_6_x) but it doesn't work.

The only error I can get is:

02/07/15 09:11:38.000 kernel[0]: afs: Lost contact with file server xx.xx.xx.xx in cell yy.yy.yy (code -1) (all multi-homed ip addresses down for the server)

In the previous version, I would have gotten the same error immediately followed by the opposite (and positive) one:

02/07/15 09:11:54.000 kernel[0]: afs: file server xx.xx.xx.xx in cell yy.yy.yy is back up (code 105) (multi-homed address; other same-host interfaces may still be down)

Unfortunately, this second message is not happening anymore. Can this be happening because discoveryd is not there anymore in 10.10.4?

Update: I have also added to my blog post the instructions on how to make it work with Mac OS X El Capitan.


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If there is no system settings for this I am happy with a script or anything else that can solve this. Thanks in advance!


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iPad Console Logs & eMail headers from the Future

What does the  "-700" mean in an eMail header when next to Date/Time Stampt?

I've noticed some of my iPad Console Logs display as +7hours AHEAD of the time they were collected.

And recently, I checked an eMail Header and noticed the same strange time shift when forwarded.  (specifically to /from certain recipients).

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I have not found any location  on our planet which is 7+ hours ahead of PST Time?


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I'm worried about camfecting (webcam hacking). The built-in camera light on my macbook (running OSX) is not on, but it isn't hard wired so that doesn't say a lot.

Can I watch outbound traffic in activity monitor to detect data egress (live streaming seems most likely when camfecting is in progress)?


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What I should do?


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The OS X Man Pages lists out all builtin functions.
But where can I find the documentation of a particular one?

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> help fc
fc: fc [-e ename] [-lnr] [first] [last] or fc -s [pat=rep] [command]
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fc is used to list or edit and re-execute commands from the history list.
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This is what I find when I type diskutil list into terminal:

I tried manually deleting the BOOTCAMP partition using terminal, and then expanding the container: I tried using the diskutil apfs resizeContainer. But I got an error saying that the target disk has no space (i.e. it doesn't detect the free space).
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Right now, when I need to check a word in the dictionary, I open Notes, type in something, select the word and hit "Define..."

I'd like to directly type in a word and check something, similar to how I can just type stuff into Spotlight & look up definitions in OS X.

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