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I need to sync the Downloads folder to iCloud and then all the downloads should automatically sync with iCloud.

I tried to:

Create a new Downloads folder in the terminal of MacBook in the Documents directory.
Tried to move the default Download folder to the newly created folder.

When I tried to use the mv command to move the default Downloads folder to the newly created Downloads folder in Documents in the terminal, it gives permission denied error.

I am trying to achieve what was suggested by user PhillipHolmes in the below thread, please. Thank you:

How to sync an additional folder to iCloud Drive similar to how macOS Sierra does it?

Thank you


texts: Where does OS X store my Adobe product keys?

texts: I know that Keychain holds my WiFi and other passwords, but I'm curious to know where my Adobe and Microsoft product keys for things like CS6 and Office live. I'm using OS X Mavericks.


texts: How to open migration assistant on an ipad

texts:
How do I open migration assistant on an iPad-2?

I have tried in settings but can not find it.


texts: Moving time machine backup sparsebundle from Time Capsule to USB exFAT disk

texts:
I have a Time Machine backup on an Airport Time Capsule (name: computername.sparsebundle). Now I want to access that backup on a USB disk formatted as exFAT.
Several online resources describe the migration to a Time Capsule. My question relates to the opposite migration, away from the Time Capsule.
Is this possible? If so, how can I migrate this backup from the Airport Time Capsule (sparsebundle) to a USB disk formatted as exFAT?


texts: Is Google Translate Phrasebook sync available for iOS

texts: Is Google Translate Phrasebook app sync available on iOS


texts:
Probably even since some very recent macOS update i'm experiencing quite frequent crashes of SMB connections i use which run on Windows Server 2016 on a local vmWare Fusion machine.

Performance is normally absolutely fine but especially when i'm copying or creating new Files the folder listing blanks out and i get the beach ball. Finder is completely unresponsive and also trying to force umount via Terminal is of no help. Can't properly shut down so only a hard reboot is left to do.

I've tried mounting alternatively via cifs:// instead of smb:// but no luck (except slower performance) and also seen this happen the day before on a colleagues MBP.

Pretty much the same as someone reported back when Yosemite arrived. No answer here as well. Older quite similar question:
Samba issues (deadlocks and instability) in OSX 10.10.1?

I can find many similar error descriptions on various older posts in the apple discussion forums but none ever had any solution.

Tried this (https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208317) as well but didn't make any difference.

So trying here, anyone seen this behavior and knows how to get this fixed?

UPDATE January 12th, 2018:

Some new suspicion. I have a lowered MTU size configured due to a static VPN in the network to MS Azure cloud machines. I recently lowered the MTU even further down to 1400. After that i was experiencing Kernel Panics on the WiFi device instead of the SMB deadlocks. After raising MTU back to 1472 the Kernel Panics stopped and the SMB deadlocks returned. Now i've reset the MTU to the default of 1500. So far no more deadlocks or Panics, but it's been only a couple of hours with that change.

UPDATE January 23rd, 2018:

[default]
streams=yes
soft=yes
signing_required=no
protocol_vers_map=2
file_ids_off=yes

Is my final /etc/nsmb.conf which resulted in stable usage of SMB shares for over a week now.


texts: Can I transfer my purchased apps from iPod Touch 2G to the new iPod Touch 4g?

texts: I bought the iPod Touch 2g 8GB about 2 years ago and I now want the iPod Touch 4g 32GB. Is there a way that all the apps and music I bought on the iPod Touch 2g can be transferred to the new one I will buy?


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I tried to drag a DVD to  VLC app. Instead the entire DVD/CD drive just disappeared from Finder.  The drive is still there: I can play a DVD on it. But it does not show up in Locations.
Update 6 months later   I have tried two different external Cd/DVD drive's: both can play DVD/USB's but neither show up in Finder.

Note that it is enabled in the Preferences:

How can the DVD/CD drive be re-added to Finder?  I am on  Catalina with a Macbook Pro 2020.
Update Here are the Sidebar settings - showing that the External disks and CDs, DVDs, Ipods are enabled:

Another update After removing plists per the accepted answer and killing Finder (and auto restart of same) we get the external drive and CD


texts: How can I archive email offline in an indexable format?

texts:
When my emails reach a certain "age" I do want to keep them, but I do not want them cluttering up my Mail.app and taking up space on my server.

My current strategy is to:

filter them by sender, then
move all the filtered items to a working folder, then
Export that folder to my storage device (it saves in mbox format), then
Delete the contents of the IMAP/working folder

This does work to save space and cleans up my email client; however, it also:

Is a cumbersome process, and
Creates the non-indexable mbox format

Is there any way (method, or software) that will archive my emails on offline media in an indexable and searchable format? I would prefer to be able to search by subject, date, sender, sent/received, and content.

Any suggestions are appreciated. Thanks in advance.


texts: Why is Time Machine using 180 GB of my 250 GB for backups?

texts:
So this may be a misunderstanding as I am still getting to know my MacBook Pro, But can the majority of an internal drive be occupied by Time Machine backups?

I was looking at the space taken up on my 250 GB drive, and noticed it was down to 43 GB free. I was perplexed to say the least. So after a bit of digging I went into About this Mac -> Storage, and discovered 180 GB taken up by backup. I was even more confused because I use time machine on an external drive. I am not certain of the logic, I have tried to solve this myself but I no idea as to how to remove this dumb backup on the mac's HD. Maybe I am the dumb one, anyways could someone please explain to me how to fix it.


texts: How can I change the keyboard shortcuts in Terminal.app for the application commands normally invoked using the unmodified ⇡ and ⇣ keys?

texts:
That is, how can I change the keyboard shortcuts for the application commands (I say application commands in an attempt to avoid confusion with the use of the term "command" in the shell command sense, given that the application under discussion here is Terminal…), that, by default, are accessed using the cursor up and down arrow keys?

I would like to be able to move back and forth through my shell command history using some other pair of keyboard shortcuts than the arrow keys.

I just know somebody will (misguidedly) ask, so I'll state in advance that: the reason is that the unmodified cursor keys have been re-purposed (their new employ is no one's business but mine, and it certainly has no bearing on the answer to my question), and the shortcuts I'd like to use instead are ⌥-↑ and ⌥-↓.


texts: How can I remove Firefox using terminal?

texts:
I'm a beginner with Mac OS X. Would somebody please tell me how to fully uninstall Firefox using Terminal on Mac OS X Lion?

I'm experiencing hangs and crashes with Firefox 5.0.1, so I want to remove it then re-install it.

Thanks so much in advance.


texts: Would it work if I swap the hard drive between two Macbook Pro?

texts:
I have a 17" and a 15" Macbook Pro from about 2010.  The 15" one recently has some problem with the speaker.  Can I take its hard drive out and install it into the other 17" one?  Would it work?  The data I immediately want to work on is on the 15" one.

More detailed version info:

I looked up version information for my Macbook Pro by their serial numbers at https://selfsolve.apple.com/agreementWarrantyDynamic.do and compared to Apple's list of models http://support.apple.com/kb/ht4132 and determined

Macbook Pro 17", Mid 2010

Macbook Pro 15", Early 2011


texts: Macbook (8,1) Drivers for other Operating Systems

texts: I'm wanting to install a couple drivers like the keyboard, trackpad, airport card, etc to another operating system (Ubuntu 16.04 LTS). I saw some stuff about drivers for other models on the Ubuntu website but this model was never listed. Am I missing something?


texts: Looking for iOS virtual environment to run on Windows 10

texts: We are a team working from home and can't share iPad in the office due to pandemic.. We are looking for a virtual environment of iOS (iPad) to run on Windows 10 when it's time to troubleshoot iOS related questions. I am not sure this even exists for copyright and so on but I thought asking here might get me somewhere. Thanks in advance!


texts:
There is a weird logout issue on my MacBook Air (13", Early 2015), with macOS Sierra 10.12.4 installed. When I wake up my computer in the morning (it was neither turned off nor hibernated, but simply locked), I found that the system wanted to log out automatically. Since an application wasn't closed (that's Oracle VM VirtualBox, if it helps; an instance of VM was operating) the previous night, I saw a dialog asking whether I would continue to log out (probably in order to let me deal with the unsaved VM state). Also, I saw a file called "logout", 0KB in size, resided in the Downloads folder, which was created in the midnight.

Please help me figure out why this happens. It feels really strange. Thank you.


texts: Restore important app. data from iOS 10 after an upgrade to iOS 11

texts:
Following situation. I am using the "iSafeBox" Password Safe on my iPhone 6s where I keep all of my account and password details. After upgrading to ios11 however, I found that the app is not compatible and that the developer will not continue development. To make things worse, I also cannot go back to iOS 10 as it is not signed anymore...

I have an old iPhone 6 running iOS 10.3 and was hoping I could restore that one with the backup of the 6S, but iTunes tells me that the version is too old and cannot be restored with the iOS 11 backup.

When checking the backup of the iPhone 6S running iOS 11, I found that the unsupported app was still there and got transferred over into my itunes library. I am now wondering if there is any way I can extract that specific app + data, and load it onto my iPhone 6 running iOS 10.3, then continue using it there?

I am open to jailbreak and all sorts of shady stuff as long as I get back access to my passwords T_T

Thank you!


texts: How do I un-trust or remove blacklisted root CAs from mobile Safari on my iPhone or iPad?

texts:
The DigiNotar root CA has been compromised and has been blacklisted by Mozilla and Chrome. I've already un-trusted their root CA in Keychain on my OS X devices, but how can I do something similar on my iPhone and iPad?

Edit: I'd like to do this without having to jailbreak any device.

Edit: The i0S 5 update from Apple removes the DigiNotar root CA from your iDevice and also gets rid of trust for MD5-signed certs. See this Ars Technica article for details.


texts:
Is there a way to make the case statements in a switch be folded?

I am using the Xcode 4.5.2


texts: Hold Shift to temporary change keyboard layout in Mac OS

texts:
On a PC with multiple keyboard layouts, you can temporary switch to English by holding the Shift key.

Can I achieve this behavior on a Mac natively or with a third party extension?

I especially need this for Hebrew.


texts: How to stop iPhone users from sending iMessages and send SMS instead

texts: I used to have an iPhone, but I changed to an android (shock, horror!). Unfortunately Apple refuses to let me go and whenever friends message me the messages get sent as iMessages (unless they remember to specifically chnge the format). I never get these messages. They never get resent as SMSs automatically as is supposed to happen. How can I get my phone number deleted from the iMessage list. I've turned off iMessage on the old iPhone.


texts:
The voicemail on my iPhone used to work well, so basically if I click the voicemail button on the interface of Phoneapp, I would get a list of voicemail that I can choose from and listen to.

But recently, I found that whenever I click the voicemail button, I was transferred to a call as shown below and it looks pretty much like a virus to me.

  Click the voicemail button on the lower right corner,

  You will be automatically transferred to a call,

Is this a virus or some mis-configuration of my iPhone?


texts: Prevent Mac to sleep when lid closed on Mojave / Catalina

texts:
So I saw a lots of old discussion on this topic, but I'm trying to find out an actual solution that still works on Mojave / Catalina, without the use of external monitor/keyboard/mouse/with power adapter.

When looking up Amphetamine, they claimed that you can only do it when the 4 criteria are met, and cannot overridden it.

But on the other hands, Anti Sleep provide the feature in their pro version...

So, which one gets the real deal ? Is Anti Sleep lying about it or Amphetamine (and all other caffeine app on the appStore) is out of date ?

I also heard about InsomniaX and built-in caffeine  but it's really not user friendly, and appear not to be supported anymore...


texts: Mac stuck in restart cycle after failed macOS Catalina update

texts:
I'm extremely worried about my MacBook. I tried updating to the official release of macOS Catalina a few hours ago but instantly hit a problem. I have not installed any beta releases beforehand.

I downloaded the updated and selected my drive as the install location. After a few minutes of the update seeming to go as normal, I was thrown a screen which said something like "macOS could not be updated on your Mac, there is not enough free space". It gave me the option to restart so I did that, hoping that I'd be able to log in and clear some more space for the install.

However, I restarted, entered my password then it seemed like the update instantly resumed. A few minutes later, the same error popped up so I pressed restart once more and the same cycle happened again.

Frustrated, I tried the obvious booting into recovery mode and selecting my main drive as the startup disk but whilst I was able to enter recovery mode, I wasn't able to select the disk - it didn't appear. I also tried booting into safe mode with no success.

I have done a lot of googling and most guides say something like "restart, log in and free up some space". The issue is, I can't log in. When I try to, it chucks me back into the update and the process repeats.

I would greatly appreciate it if someone could help me out - this issue is really concerning as I'm currently unable to use my MacBook and really need it for my studies.


texts:
I am looking for a quick way to sleep without closing the lid, or using the mouse.

If it matters, I have Lion version OS and a MacBook Air.


texts: My iPhone keeps telling me my cellular data is off?

texts:
I have an iPhone 6 and I haven't used cellular data, only Wi-Fi. And every night, only at night while I'm browsing, that tab or whatever it is called keeps popping up and saying that my cellular data is off. I don't understand why do I need to know that multiple times and after appearing a couple of times it turns my Wi-Fi off!

I don't know what to do. It's really annoying.. Some people said to turn off Bluetooth or something with the chip, I don't know, but my Bluetooth is never on because it wastes my battery for nothing. Not sure what to do, any help appreciated.


texts: Will Apple offer a discounted replacement for a water damaged iPhone 4S outside of warranty? The water indicators on the outside of the phone have not gone off, but the one inside on the logic board may have.


texts: Deleted .aae files and now the related photos are gone

texts:
I was manually copying my photos from my iPhone 6 running iOS 9.3.1 onto my Windows 8 laptop and deleted all the .aae files associated with the various JPEGs before copying them over. I immediately found that the JPEGs associated with the .aae files were rendered unmovable and inaccessible.

I understand that .aae files are used to keep a history of photo modifications so that one can revert if one wants in the future, but I didn't think they were integral to accessing my JPEGs as I've been able to delete them AFTER transferring them to my laptop before without issue.

So now, I have a load of great pics I can't transfer and can't access.

I also tried unplugging and replugging my iPhone to my laptop, but now the once-inaccessible JPEGs seem to have totally gone.


texts: Do the Mojave or Catalina patchers support AMD PC GPUs or do you need a flashed card for this?

texts:
In the past, I had used dosdude1's High Sierra patcher to get macOS 10.13 on an older Mac Pro. However, the GPU in this machine is a non-flashed AMD R9 270X, so I couldn't get a boot screen and had to rely on setting the boot drive either before rebooting or setting it from command line.
Recently I tried to see if I could experiment with Mojave and the newer patcher, but I don't seem to get the video card to wake up like it did with the High Sierra patcher. Of course, being a non-flashed card I can't see the boot screen so I can't tell if the USB gets recognized or not, but after letting it sit for several minutes I don't get anything and I wonder if it is going to even work with this graphics card. With the High Sierra patcher, it would eventually come to life so I could install the AMD 5xxx/6xxx patch (though my card is a 7xxx).
Anyone know? I think Mojave or Catalina might be pushing it for the old beast at this point, but any last drops of life I can squeeze out of it before I drop money on an M1 :-)


texts:
I'm a newbie macuser coming from Debian, and I'm a big command line user.
One one my preferred one is netcat (aka nc on mac). I especially loved the -e option which enabled to create a process that deals bidirectionnally with the strems.

Unfortunately, when I use the classic:

nc -l -p 6666 -e /bin/bash

Netcat does not agree with me, and I get this:

nc: illegal option -- e
usage: nc [-46DdhklnrtUuvz] [-i interval] [-p source_port]
      [-s source_ip_address] [-w timeout] [-X proxy_version]
      [-x proxy_address[:port]] [hostname] [port[s]]

What does that mean? Can I use this command in another way?

Thanks for your help,

Rob

PS: if someone can edit the tags, would be better -- netcat, nc are not known here :)


texts: 3Gs after 5.0.1 upgrade, all third-party apps can not open and work

texts: After iPhone 3Gs upgrade iOS to 5.0.1, all third-party apps can not open and work. Any advice?


texts: Why do I only get ethernet connection through the right usb port and why does it stop working if I unplug and replug?

texts:
I've been trying to use a usb > ethernet adapter to get a connection and have the following issue (Mid 2014 Macbook Pro, 13", BigSur 11.2.2):

Only the right side usb port works in terms of ethernet connection, left gets nothing
When I connected the Macbook right side usb, the first time I got an ethernet signal.
I then unplugged and tried again - no signal (no signal at any point through the left side usb port)
I restarted my Macbook, reset SMC and PRAM
Able to connect through ethernet on right side usb port only (left nothing), but as above, only works once. If I unplug and try again, no connection.
I can use other usb devices on both sides no problem - usb memory stick, mouse etc.

Any thoughts?


texts: How to fix a dual boot (rEFInd) when Windows is not booting?

texts:
I used bootcamp and rEFInd for dual boot of OS X 10.9.5 and Windows 7 on Macbook Pro 17" Early 2011. Worked well and stable.

I tried to setup a third partition, using the free space of the first one, and formatted it FAT using the disk utility of OS X. I did not touch anything from within Windows.

After this, rEFInd did not show up and

No bootable device -- insert boot disk and press any key

Deleted the newly created partition.

rEFInd shows up and lists two boot options. I can boot into OSX - but upon chosing the second option rEFInd cannot find a bootable Windows partition any more.

I am not able to add the free space to the OS X partition. There are 30 GB left and if I change the size of OS X from 50 to 80, it adjusts the value to 50 again.

The creator of rEFInd was so kind to point me to gdisk as a tool to solve this problem.

My partitions look like this

Partition table holds up to 128 entries
First usable sector is 34, last usable sector is 234441614
Partitions will be aligned on 8-sector boundaries
Total free space is 56299597 sectors (26.8 GiB)

Number  Start (sector)    End (sector)  Size       Code  Name
   1              40          409639   200.0 MiB   EF00  EFI System Partition
   2          409640        98749479   46.9 GiB    AF00  BVMACPRO
   3        98749480       100019015   619.9 MiB   AB00  Recovery HD
   4       156317696       234440703   37.3 GiB    0700  BOOTCAMP

MBR looks like this:

Number  Boot  Start Sector   End Sector   Status      Code
   1                     1       409639   primary     0xEE
   2                409640     98749479   primary     0xAF
   3              98749480    100019015   primary     0xAB
   4             156317696    234440703   primary     0x0C

gpt and diskutil output is:

$ sudo gpt -r show disk0
gpt show: disk0: Suspicious MBR at sector 0
      start       size  index  contents
          0          1         MBR
          1          1         Pri GPT header
          2         32         Pri GPT table
         34          6
         40     409600      1  GPT part - C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B
     409640   98339840      2  GPT part - 48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
   98749480    1269536      3  GPT part - 426F6F74-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
  100019016   56298680
  156317696   78123008      4  GPT part - EBD0A0A2-B9E5-4433-87C0-68B6B72699C7
  234440704        911
  234441615         32         Sec GPT table
  234441647          1         Sec GPT header

$ diskutil cs list
No CoreStorage logical volume groups found


texts: Calendar event repeating every month but on a certain day

texts:
Is it possible to create a calendar event repeating every month but on a certain day?

For example our window cleaner started on a Friday and comes every month but on the Friday. Calendar obviously works it out to be a Sunday but it would have been the Friday 2 days prior to that.

Is it possible to do such a thing in Calendar?


texts: Lightning-3.5mm adapter causes device to act as if remote button is continuously pressed

texts:
Since late last year (I forget exactly when), I've had a bizarre issue with my Lightning-3.5mm adapter (A1749, from Apple). When I plug it into my device (iPhone XS), and plug in a set of bog-standard wired EarPods w/ remote+mic, the device acts like I'm pressing the main button on the remote. It opens Siri, won't accept volume changes from the remote, and won't transmit audio from the microphone. I can listen to audio on the EarPods, but that's it - no volume control, no mic input.
I see the same behavior using the adapter on my iPad (6th generation) - immediate Siri prompt upon plugging in the 3.5mm side of the adapter. I can plug in the EarPods to the iPad's native 3.5mm jack and get the proper behavior. I've verified all of this with multiple pairs of EarPods.
This started happening on both my iPad and iPhone at roughly the same time, late last year (but I don't recall if it correlated with a specific iOS update). It feels like a software issue, but I have a hard time believing Apple would ship code that debilitates the adapter for this long.
The inside of the 3.5mm side of the adapter is clean, no conductive junk that I can see. I'm working on getting another adapter to test with. In the meantime, any thoughts?


texts: Last year I imported a video into iMove, edited it, cut pieces, etc and I have the result as a mov, but I want to also keep the original video file. I can still see it inside iMovie, but how do I get ahold of that file as a single simple file system file?


texts: What might be causing Safari 6.0.2 to crash several times a day?

texts:
Safari 6.0.2 randomly crashes on me several times a day. Today I checked the console logs after it crashed, and only found this:

  objc[2339]: Object 0x7f9b7b41cab0 of class NSUserDefaults autoreleased with no pool in place - just leaking - break on objc_autoreleaseNoPool() to debug

I'm running OS X Mountain Lion 10.8.2. Any ideas as to what may cause this, or can anyone point me to logs where I can find more information? This never happened before in OS X Lion.

Update
This issue occurred again a few days ago, and I few a more informative error message:

It appears to have been due to me having an older version of the 1Password Safari extension which had a bug with Mountain Lion. I thought I had the latest version because I had the latest version of 1Password installed, however to update the browser extension, you need to run the browser install again. I think this may relate to the issue I experienced. I'll see how this runs for a few more days before declaring this as the true solution.


texts: preventing ssh command from opening xquartz on every session

texts: Whenever I use ssh, after I type the password, xQuartz pop ups in the dock and terminal window looses focus. This happens even if there's no an X session. Why? How to prevent this behavior?


texts: What is the cable that connects the logic board to the display in a Macbook Air?

texts:
My friend asked me to repair her Macbook Air (I swear I'll never touch it again) and while removing the panel surrounding the LCD screen with a razor blade (as shown on iFixit), I inadvertently sliced the display cable near the bottom of the screen.

What is the name for this cable? I can't seem to find a replacement - and I don't really want to bring it in to the Apple Store if I can help it.

Also, how easy is it to replace this cable - it's not soldered to the logic board or anything, right?


texts: how can i get mp4 from the internet onto my ipod touch

texts:
i have a URL like this for example: http://media.ch9.ms/ch9/2451/19bd8bd5-6f13-440a-a8b9-9ebd01582451/NYCDRMVVMS2_low_ch9.mp4

and i want to bring that into itunes and then onto my ipod touch.

what is the best way for going about this?


texts: Create driverless print queue in Mac OS 10.12+

texts:
I am trying to set up printers via bash script in Mac OS, using lpadmin with the -m everywhere option to let my CUPS server handle the jobs. This works fine from my Linux machines, however the Mac OS test systems (running OS X 10.13) fail with an error "lpadmin: PPD file could not be created"

The command I tried was lpadmin -p driverless_test -v http:/my-server-hostname:631/printers/HP_something -E -m everywhere

I can't see anything wrong with the syntax, and the backend works from the Linux machines, so no problem there either. I have also tried using sudo as well as activating the root account and becoming root.


texts:
Is it possible to convert a Package into an App?
I have a complete installer of El Capitan as a pkg file and I need to install it.  But first I need to make it an app.
I can't do it through the MAS because el Capitan is no longer available.


texts: I set a schedule wakeup in the energy preferences. It doesn't seem to wake up. Is the Macbook capable of waking up, turning on wifi and then running cron jobs while shut?


texts: Bluetooth speakers controls don't work with Spotify on macOS

texts: I own the UE Boom 2, a bluetooth speaker that has "Tap Controls" that allow pause, play and skip track. These features work fine when I'm using iTunes or soundcloud, but when I use the Spotify app, triggering the actions does nothing. How can I fix this?


texts:
I have an iPad 1, and MacBook with Snow Leopard 10.6.8. I want to record my iPad screen to MacBook and share the video file.

I thought I can use AirServer and downloaded it. I mirrored my iPad with AirServer. I am able to see the iPad screen through AirServer on MacBook, but I'm not seeing any option to record my iPad screen.

Could someone advise what I'm doing wrong here?


texts: What happens to iPhoto originals in Aperture?

texts: iPhoto and Aperture can use the same library. When you edit a photo in iPhoto, it duplicates the photo and keeps the original. Aperture on the other hand saves only the edits and not a new file. What happens to these 'originals' when I open a library that was only used with iPhoto in Aperture? Can I remove the iPhoto 'originals' or are they kept even though Aperture handles things differently?


texts: I don't want a digital asset manager but rather I'm looking for a Mac app that has similar features of iPhoto/Picasa but let's me work at the file level instead of a separate database. I tried iPhoto '11 with the "Copy items to the iPhoto Library" unchecked which takes me most of the way there but what I would like is that when I change a photo, I want that change applied to the photo file instead of on a duplicate.  And I don't want to Export to the file to see changes to my photos files.  I have 1000s of photos already on my drive organized the way that I prefer and I would I would like the photo files on my drive to be the master copy.   I was used the "Windows Live Photo Gallery" app which provided core photo management and editing capabilities.  Is there something similar on the Mac?


texts: Removing the sleepimage file in /var/vm in macOS permanently

texts: I run high sierra, and the large private/var/vm/sleepimage file has been bothering me. My computer has 16 GB of ram, which means sleepimage takes up 16 GB on my drive. I have read tutorials on how to remove it, but it does not work for me. I tried typing sudo rm -R private/var/vm/sleepimage in the terminal, but the terminal responds rm: private/var/vm/sleepimage: No such file or directory. What do I do?


texts:
I am reading an .ibooks file which I downloaded from the iBooks Store in the macOS iBooks app. On iOS, to zoom in on the text you can simply double tap or use a pinch gesture. However, it doesn't seem like you can zoom in on an iBook in macOS iBooks with those same gestures on the trackpad. Choosing Window > Zoom only affects the size of the window, and unfortunately not the size of the text.

So, is there any way to zoom in on a book in macOS iBooks?


texts:
My iMac Wi-Fi detects internet networks but it doesn't connect to any, but my other PC connects fine to them.

It is a second hand iMac, it worked fine when I set it up, it connected for a day or 2 then no more. It still can detect the network but can't connect. With another PC of mine I can connect fine to the network I'm used to and the same one that the iMac worked with for the first 2 days.


texts: Can I combine the address bar and the Google search bar in Safari?

texts: The only reason I am using Chrome over Safari is the cool feature Chrome has namely the address bar acts as the search bar as well. Is there a way I can enable this feature in safari as well?


texts: Apple TV can't stream video; no problem on iPad/iPhone on same network

texts:
I have a 4th gen Apple TV using tvOS 11.2 I believe.  The last week or so I've been unable to watch Netflix/Hulu/other streaming video sources on it; I can open the app for whichever service, but if I try to watch a show it either doesn't load or does load but is unable to play past a few seconds/minute at most.

I'm able to play the same video on my iPad or iPhone with no problem, as fast as I would expect it to play (no buffering), and my speed test app shows 70 MbPS, which seems fast enough.  The iPad and Apple TV are connected to the same WiFi router, as far as I can tell (it's an Eero, of which I have two in the house, but Eero at least thinks they're both connected to the lower floor one as they ought to be).

I've tried the basics - restarting the Apple TV, primarily - but that doesn't seem to help at all.  I also re-created the WiFi network.

Is there a likely potential cause for this?  Any additional troubleshooting steps I should try before considering it's possibly hardware?  I considered a factory reset and reinstall the OS from scratch, but it's not clear to me what that would necessarily accomplish unless the networking itself is faulty (as it's not isolated to just one app).

It also fails if I AirPlay streams to the AppleTV from the iPad, though as far as I can tell that doesn't seem to actually stream from the iPad directly when I'm AirPlaying Netflix/etc.


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I've installed some software on my Mac, such as R language environment, .djvu file reader, etc.

How do I remove them? There's no "Control Panel -> Add/Remove programs..."

I'm using a Mac Book Pro, but I suppose it's the same on all Macs.


texts: Can I reference a hundreds value of a number from a cell in Apple Numbers?

texts: For example, A1 has 12,345.00 I want A2 to output 345.00. Is this possible?


texts: How do I tell the iOS Music app to regenerate its metadata?

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To clear storage space in order to upgrade to iOS 8, I went to Settings/General/Usage/Manage Storage/Music on my iPad and deleted all my music (I have it all stored in iTunes on my Mac at home.)

I got the space back and installed iOS 8 over-the-air. But now when I go to the Music app, it looks like my music library is still there—the metadata (including album art) still shows. When I tap on a song, the name greys out and a "Stop" icon in a circle appears on the right hand side of the table.

(When I go into Settings/General/Usage/Manage Storage/Music, it tells me all my songs are still taking up 41.2GB, and lists each artist with their individual usages.)

How can I force the iPad to dump and regenerate its cache of Music.app metadata?


texts: Are there any performance limitations when running a VM of a Boot Camp installation?

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I'm planning on installing Windows on my Mac, and would like to be able to use both Boot Camp (for when I need to be able to use all of the hardware of the computer) and a virtual machine (for those times when I don't want to restart).

I noticed that both VMWare Fusion and Parallels allow you to set up a virtual machine which uses the Boot Camp installation, which is exactly what I want because I want to have one installation of all the programs.

However, I'm wondering if using a virtual machine with the Boot Camp installation has the same exact performance as creating a brand new virtual machine.

The thing that prompted me to think that they might not have the same performance is the marketing text on VMware Fusion's website:

  Boot Camp Improvements — Up to 5x faster disk performance with Boot Camp virtual machines and a new option to disable authentication.

... which I understood to mean that, in the past, a normal virtual machine (i.e. one that doesn't use Boot Camp) was faster than one that uses a Boot Camp installation, and now with the upgrade, it's 5x faster... yet it's still not as fast as the normal virtual machine (since then they would probably mention that it's now as fast as a traditional virtual machine).

Is there a performance difference when using a normal virtual machine vs. one that uses a Boot Camp installation in VMware Fusion or Parallels? If so, which one is faster and by how much?

Update: Since there are two attributes to compare, the wording is a bit confusing.
For clarification, let:

  A = Performance of normal VM on VMware Fusion 3
  B = Performance of Boot Camp VM on VMware Fusion 3
  C = Performance of normal VM on VMware Fusion 2
  D = Performance of Boot Camp VM on VMware Fusion 2

I understood the marketing text to mean B = D * 5, and I inferred A > B since they mention that Boot Camp needed improvements, and rather than saying it's now as fast as a normal VM, they give a "5x" figure.


texts: Sierra Finder aliases appearing as generic icons

texts:
Since updating to macOS Sierra, many Finder aliases appear as generic document icons rather than as the informative icons that were available in previous versions of OS X.

Is there something I can do to fix this?


texts: Trouble opening plist files in text editor

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From Finder, I can preview a plist file without any difficulties. For example, using Quick Look with ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.Safari.RSS.plist I get a nice preview of its contents:

However, if I then try to open the file, either with TextEdit, or any other editor (I've tried SublimeText, TextMate, Vim, Nano, and Coda 2 so far), the encoding appears to be off:

bplist00Ò_"FixedRefreshesInBackgroundSettings_(com.apple.PreferenceSync.ExcludeSyncKeys ¡ 2]^����������������������������`

Here's what it looks like if I open it with TextEdit:

I've tried changing the encoding in Sublime Text and other apps, but that doesn't help.

Any thoughts?

I'm running 10.8.4.


texts: What is CalNCService and why does it run hot in macOS Sierra?

texts:
Since the upgrade to macOS Sierra I occasionally see a service CalNCService running hot (i.e. on 100% CPU).  So going from the name, this seems to be some Calendar Service. I tried disabling Calendars in Internet Accounts Preferences, but this was no help.  One can kill the service or restart the computer, but the problem persists.  Usually, after a few hours or so it goes back to normal.

What is this daemon doing? How can I debug this issue?

Update: In the log console I find this when calNCService starts up:

warning: dynamic accessors failed to find @property implementation for 'serialNumber' for entity ABCDAddressBookSource while resolving selector 'serialNumber' on class 'ABCDAddressBookSource'.  Did you remember to declare it @dynamic or @synthesized in the @implementation ?

Update2: The Service is connected to syncing reminders.  Disabling reminder sync under Internet Accounts makes the service go back to normal, enabling it again makes it go back to 100%.  This seems independent of the server. I have a bunch of recurring reminders and first had this problem with my account on fruux.com. Then I migrated all to iCloud and now its the same there.

Update3: Still very present in 10.12.1. and no reply on Apple Support Communities.

Update4: Another morning, another calNCService.  I have also manually checked the exported .ics of the offending reminder list.  It looks totally harmless.  About 40 Reminders with nothing special in them.

Update 5: Still all the same in 10.12.2

Update 6: Confirmed in 10.12.4. Iterating: This seems to be some housekeeping task. When I activated the reminders after the upgrade the problem was not triggered for more than 24h. But now it is back. As before, it can be simply stopped by deactivating reminder sync under "Internet Accounts"

Update 7: The bug seems to be still present in MacOS 10.13 High Sierra, it is less severe, though. I have been letting the corresponding reminders account activated. During an uptime of 13 days CalNCService clocked in a CPU time of 1:07:01 (31h), way too much, but less than e.g. "kernel task" (7:16:16).

Update 8: Still present in 10.13.4. I have two machines with MacOS and it happens on both of them. It seems to be connected to reminders added via some API such when you add reminders via Launchbar.  The CPU time of calNCService seems to be correlated with how much I use Launchbar or Siri to enter reminders.


texts: How to configure OSX to not to sort new files in a folder and how to prevent new Finder windows pop-upping when unzipped?

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I have to unzip a bunch of files in a bunch of different folders. So I select one file to unzip, then move onto the next file. But as I set a bunch of files to unzip, they start to complete and start popping up new windows!

Pretty soon my screen is covered with new windows popping up constantly and it becomes a pain to navigate, whether it's to select new files to unzip or do something else.

Secondly, on Windows I've used to have my newly created zip-files to be in the end of the file list, ie. they appear as the last item in the Explorer when viewing the folder's contents.

On OS X, though, the zip-files get sorted automatically, which is not what I'd prefer.

Questions:

How to configure OS X to append new files in a folder to the end of the folder (regardless of how its sorted)?
How to configure new folders to not pop up when unzipping has finished?


texts: Powershell install keeps asking for a password

texts:
I'm trying to upgrade my version of powershell to the latest version 7.0.1 using brew. The install seems to be stuck on disabling some ruby gems and is constantly asking over and over again for my password.  I've tried uninstalling as well and I get the same password loop over and over again.  I know I'm putting in the correct password as when I intensionally put in the wrong password I get the sorry message before it asks for my password again.

I'm a bit stumped as this point on what else to try besides removing the two folders that contain the powershell files.

How can I correctly uninstall powershell that was installed using brew if the uninstaller won't work?


texts: weird ZSH issue (resolving environment variable)

texts:
using ZSH mac latest. In .zshrc I have:
export ZSH="~/.oh-my-zsh"

that directory exists:
cd ~/.oh-my-zsh
me@Imac-Retina-2 .oh-my-zsh % ls
CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md  README.md           lib/                oh-my-zsh.sh-SAVED  themes/
CONTRIBUTING.md     cache/              log/                plugins/            tools/
LICENSE.txt         custom/             oh-my-zsh.sh        templates/

but trying to resolve $ZSH fails:
cd ~
ls $ZSH
ls: ~/.oh-my-zsh: No such file or directory
cd $ZSH
cd: no such file or directory: ~/.oh-my-zsh

it's not related to the particular $ZSH variable. For example, I can define export PDQ="~/Downloads" and cd $PDQ fails (no such file or directory), but cd ~/Downloads works just fine.
I have NO CLUE...anyone? ♂
This seems to be only related to the filesystem, other environment vars work and resolve just fine in apps, etc...


texts: Why won't Time Machine work with a drive connected to an Airport Extreme?

texts: Is there any technical limitation or engineering reason that could possibly be behind the inability to RELIABLY use a connected USB drive with Airport Extreme for Time Machine?


texts: How to control sound of connected external monitor?

texts:
I know this is not natively supported in macOS, but I think it could be easily solved by an app that does the following:

Set the sound volume on the external monitor to a desired maximum level.
The app is a global volume slider for all the sounds generated by the MacBook.
You can use the app to easily control the sound volume of the external monitor.

Is there an app that does exactly this?

EDIT:

I tried SoundFlower but it was buggy and caused problems with other sound extensions. I discovered Sound Control which exactly does what I want. Even the built in macOS sound control works.


texts: Hot Corners for Mission Control stop working

texts:
I set the upper right corner of the screen as a Hot Corner to activate Mission Control. However, some time after setting it, the Hot Corner stops working. Keyboard shortcuts still work.

Going back into System Preferences, changing the Hot Corner to some other action and then back to Mission Control resolves the problem temporarily. But eventually it fails again.

This wasn't always a problem with Lion. Mission Control Hot Corners used to work fine. I'm not certain, but I think the problem started with the 10.7.2 update. Either that, or some other software recently installed on my Mac is causing a conflict.

Any idea on how to resolve the unreliable Hot Corners?

27" iMac Core i3, OS X 10.7.2


texts: Add SSD to iMac: Thunderbolt or internal?

texts:
Is there any thunderbolt SSD which can be as fast or at least not much slower than internal one from OWC? I want to use is as system disk. It will be good to have two thunderbolt ports on this thing to daisy chain display.

It will be also a big bonus if I can buy it in Europe (because of specifics of organization where I am working).


texts:
Is it possible to add an entry to the bundled Japanese-English dictionary?

I'm using Dictionary version 2.2 (155) on OS X Lion.


texts:
I have an app up for review that includes IAPs. The App has had the status of In Review for three days now. When I went to the IAP page in iTunesConnect, I noticed that all my IAPs had been changed to Developer Action Needed. When I clicked on each of the IAPs, the english language was highlighted and they were marked as rejected.

I went ahead a made a small change to each of the IAPs description and now all of them are in Waiting for Review. Today marks day two of the IAPs with the Waiting for Review status.

Is there something I need to do to get the review going? I have had no feedback from Apple and I am hesitant to upload a new binary, as that will push the review out for another week.


texts: Where is MySQL installed for the included Apache server?

texts:
I'm trying to set up Web Sharing... phpinfo() shows MySQL is installed, but I can't find it. Terminal says "command not found" when I try mysql.

I have no idea what I'm doing, or even if this question makes sense.


texts: How can I reduce the size of iCal files?

texts:
I've exported one of my Google Calendars – 336kb
I then imported it into iCal and exported it without modification – 1.7mb

Is there a problem that would the file size increase so much?

Is there any way to trim the fat?

-- Mac OS 10.7.2


texts:
With Command W you 'hide' most of the apps excluding the ones with tabs.

But then when you do Command Tab, the hidden app doesn't show up.

How come?
How do you quickly bring back focus?


texts: How to download Xcode header files for Mac OS Catalina?

texts:
I'm using Mac OS 10.15.4 Catalina.

macOS Mojave had a known issue whereby users need to download missing Xcode headers.

I have no headers in /usr/include

Multiple StackExchange questions and blogposts addressed this question, by recommending users do (roughly) the following:

#run installer via command line
sudo installer -pkg
/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/Packages/macOS_SDK_headers_for_macOS_10.14.pkg -target /

https://silvae86.github.io/2018/07/05/fixing-missing-headers-for-homebrew-in-mac-osx-mojave/
https://donatstudios.com/MojaveMissingHeaderFiles

However, I cannot find /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/Packages/.

I tried removing the command line tools and re-installing as follows:

$ (sudo) rm -rf /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools
$ xcode-select --install

However, I still don't see:

/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/Packages/

How are these header files made available for Catalina users?


texts: What does this mean? "When purchased, this movie will not be available from iTunes in the Cloud"

texts:
In the iTunes Store, specifically in regards to movies, what does this mean? "When purchased, this movie will not be available from iTunes in the Cloud"

I'm seeing it on the individual movie page for the new Indiana Jones bundle

Can the movie only be downloaded once?

Can I download the 720p version now, and then download the 1080p version later?

I don't really care about streaming from the cloud; I have a Mac mini setup as an iTunes "server", I'm just concerned that I'd only be able to download one version, one time.


texts: How to delete tags from a large number of files

texts:
I have created by accident about 70 tags. by copying them into the finder tag window by accident.

I am using only 6 of them.

How can I delete all the 70 tags except those 6?

I tried to do it from finder but the process is so slow. I would choose some another method.


texts: I accidentally caused one of my encrypted drives to start converting into a decrypted drive. How can I stop it?

texts:
One of my external hard drives used for Time Machine backups has an encrypted HFS+ volume. While in the process of trying to re-associate the backup with my system, I accidentally told it to start decrypting the drive.

I don't want it to be decrypted! However I can't find any way of telling my system to stop! After searching around, I've found that you can use diskutil to stop a drive that's in the process of being converted to encrypted, but found no mention of any way to do halt a decryption conversion.

Help! What can I do? It's going to take forever to decrypt this massive drive, and I don't want it to even do that!

edit: This question is different from this one in that I am not using FileVault to encrypt this drive. It is an external drive with no macOS system on it used for Time Machine backups -- FileVault isn't involved.


texts:
Coming from the Windows/Ubuntu world I enjoy a lot of macOS things, but one thing that drives me crazy is the lack of new file button in the finder. I know that you are supposed to save the file from the proper application but I hate it.

Is there a Finder plugin (or anything like an Alfred workflow) or an alternative explore manager that have this functionality?


texts: Changing the Country & Region with Gift Card

texts:
You can assume that I am able to change Country & Region. I am trying to change my Country & Region to Germany, though i do not own a German debit Card to do the verification. I am currently living in Germany and I have a german phone number, i tried with that as well but it accepts only numbers from O2 mobile company which i dont have.

Am I able to change Country if I buy and use a German Gift Card? Or if I cant with that either any help please?


texts: Podcast-containing playlists on modern iPhone

texts:
I have used iTunes to create various Smart Playlists that contain podcasts using intelligent criteria (unplayed and most recently added podcasts;  least recently played music + 3 hours of unplayed podcasts, etc.)

I am able to transfer these playlists to a 3rd generation iPod Touch running iOS 6.1, or a brand new Nano, and get the listening experience I expect.

When I sync the playlist to an iPhone 6, it creates an empty playlist on the device (if it were only podcasts), but the requisite podcasts show up in the Podcasts app.   I had a similar problem with the iPod Touch years ago, but I was able to delete the Podcasts app.  It looks as though this deletion is not possible on the iPhone.

Q: Can someone show me how to get a playlist containing podcasts to show up on a phone?  TIA


texts: Can I retrieve an Xcode project I installed on my iPhone?

texts:
I recently executed a stupid "Discard All Changes" on my Xcode project that resulted in the project being deleted.

I haven't found a way to recover it yet, but I was wondering since I had installed the Xcode project on my iPhone for testing, if there is any way I can take the project from the phone, or if it simply doesn't work like that.

The app still runs on my phone.


texts: Mail on my IPhone 5s won't be delivered when app is not open

texts:
I have an iPhone 5s. I can't receive any e-mail when the app Mail is not open.
Instead, when the app is open I receive all the e-mail that someone send to me and appears instantly. What should I do to receive a warning when I receive a new e-mail?


texts: small button on the left-hand side of MacBook pro

texts:
I found a small circle button on the left-hand side of my MacBook Pro (late 2011)
If I push that button, 8 green lights are turn on and then off.
What is this button?


texts: iOS apps cannot be downloaded or updated

texts: I tried to update my apps today, and there appeared a notice said that "iTunes terms & conditions have changed. Before you can proceed you must read & accept the new terms & conditions". I selected OK and agreed the terms and conditions. Then there was another notice said 'download now: ***will now begin to download'. I pressed Ok. Then the first notice about the iTunes terms and conditions appeared again. All the process repeated then and it became an endless loop. I cannot download or update apps.


texts: Is there a way to change the order in which the finder alphabetizes?

texts:
On Linux,on GitHub, in bash on iTerm2, and generally by convention most everywhere else, the following files would have the following order:
_01_file
_03_file
_2_file

In Mac® Finder, however, they have this order:
_01_file
_2_file
_03_file

Can this behavior be changed?  If so, how?
Likewise, is it possible to have directories appear at the top of a list of files in Finder, as is common in Nemo/Nautilus?
To be redundant:
$ ls
_01_file  _03_file  _2_file

and:

Re: Allan's comment:

is there an option somewhere else that can change ascii precedence?


texts: How can I test a display resolution that's not listed?

texts:
I'm planning to give a talk at a conference, and I've been told that slides will be displayed on a screen with a resolution of "2048 x 1080 (16:9 aspect ratio)".

I want to see how my slides look at that resolution. I have a Macbook Pro (non-retina screen) running OSX Mavericks and no external display.

In System Preferences, I can choose between only two "scaled" resolutions: 1280 x 800 and 1024 x 640.

Is there a way that I can use an unlisted resolution?


texts: iOS/iPadOS e-book reading app with *multiple* *custom* dictionaries

texts:
I have lots of e-books. I read them both on my iPhone and on my Linux laptop.
So far, on my iPhone, I just use the built-in Books app. The problem is that it has a very limited selection of dictionaries and there is no way to add a custom one without jailbreaking.
On my Linux laptop, I use Calibre (https://calibre-ebook.com/). In Calibre, I can define multiple custom dictionary URLs and it's a breeze to switch from one dictionary to another while reading a book. It's really useful when I'm, for instance, reading a Forgotten Realms novel. I could just highlight "duergar" and the app would display the corresponding entry about those gray dwarves from the Forgotten Realms wiki.
Is there a good e-book reading app for iOS/iPadOS that allows me to define and quickly switch among multiple custom dictionaries? I know the Marvin app allows me to define a custom dictionary, but it's only a single dictionary and there's no way to quickly switch to another custom dictionary while reading.


texts: What API does iStat Menu use? (Mac power system sensors)

texts:
I am writing a script to procedurally measure certain power system parameters.

I am aware of system_profiler SPPowerDataType. However, this API only updates once a minute and sometimes provides quite different results than iStat.

iStat has a number of different sensors for current draw (amperes), all of which update once per second. It also has a power bus (PBus) voltage which updates once per second.


texts: How to restore a missing Recovery HD partition

texts:
I bought a second hand Macbook Pro which came with OSX Lion installed, when I wanted to clean it I found out that it had no Recovery HD partition. I confirmed this through the Disk Utility (enabled debug menu, showing every partition).

I am able to boot using Apple's Internet Recovery feature, but since Lion wasn't bought on my Apple ID, its only giving me the option to buy OSX Mountain Lion. Can I use that to completely reinstall my Macbook and create a proper Recovery HD partition, and then can I simply use Timemachine afterwards to recover my data?

Any hints or tips for this process would be highly appreciated.


texts: Terminal git:master after oh-my-zshell installation

texts:
I just installed oh-my-zshell.
And my terminal looks like the image now. What is git master there?
I installed oh-my-zshell on other macs, the look is not like that.
I am on the root here BTW.

Can you explain this, please?


texts: Concerned I may have accidentally dropped malware (or something) onto my system

texts:
First time poster in this part of Stack Exchange - apologies I have posted in the wrong section.

In short I have an iMac running 10.8. Most of the time I quite happily get about my business but about every 3-4 years I do something stupid. Today was one of those days.

Basically I was looking at an alternative method of running Mame (currently use the OpenEmu route). Basically downloaded SDLMame, then was going to go the QMC2 front end route for a GUI. Downloaded both, but when downloading QMC2 (from what is a legitimate site) - installed the package and it installed a folder into my Applications folder with no permission to access it. In short, I didn't like that at all (as that is a fairly non-standard thing), deleted the folder (securely) without installing the application file, and then ran Intego Virus Scanner with week old definitions, and ClamXAV. Neither picked anything up when downloading the packages (I always check all downloads that way) and neither picked anything odd up on my system afterwards (after deleting). In short my iMac hasn't behaved erratically since but I just wish to be 100% so is there anything else further than I can do? I have also run Etre Check, and it didn't pull anything obviously abnormal except for the fact that I need to update my Flash as there has been a new recommended version released etc.

I expect I may be having an over-reaction and it is possibly standard for that emulator (had never used it before) but I take the better to be safe than sorry approach.

Thanks in advance for any suggestions.


texts: Can I install Mac OS from another account?

texts:
I have two new Mac minis, which have Sierra installed. I need to install Yosemite and El Capitan on them. However, there is no old versions of the OS in the App Store.

Can I download old OS from some old account that has these versions in the App Store and install on my machine?
If yes, is this legal?
Can I use same installer on more than one machine? Is this legal?


texts: Unexpected files showing up with tar on OS X 10.6.4

texts:
When packing and unpacking a tar file on OS X today, I find myself looking at things like:

tar tzf ../tanuki-3.5.6.tar.gz
./._.
./
./._bin

I don't think I've ever seem these extra files starting with a '.' before. If I x the file, ls -a does not show them. What are they?


texts:
I visited the Apple Store yesterday to try out the new MacBook Pro with Touch Bar.

The Finder has a really nice black selection when clicking on an item. I can reproduce it by changing the selection color in Settings.app.

However, I don't want to change the selection color for the entire system as text becomes unreadable when the selection is black.

Is there a way to change the selection color only for the Finder? Maybe something new to Sierra? The MacBook Pro in the Apple Store had the default blue selection color, only the Finder was black.


texts: Why does my iPad automatically capitalise Bono but not the edge?

texts: Can anyone please tell me why my iPad automatically capitalises "Bono" but not "the edge"?


texts: terminal create file(file_name as bash arguments) then write text into it, relate to .bash_profile

texts:
I am using sublime, I guess any text editors work the same.
I've just learned from this form that alias won't work and I should use function.
here is what I come up with, in .bash_profile:

function sln() {
    sublime "$1" | echo "'use strict';" > "$1";
}

type sln does return the function I defined, as this:
sln is aliased to 'sublime "" | echo "'use strict';" > ""';
but when I do sln test.js, console says: No such file or directory
FYI: it works when I do sublime test.js | echo "'use strict';" > test.js, and test.js will open with text 'use strict'; at the beginning.
Can someone explain and offer some solutions? Thanks.


texts: How to fix EFI boot "Software Update is Required for this disk" when trying to boot linux?

texts:
I created a bootable linux USB following Ubuntu's tutorial. When I startup the machine holding Option an EFI Boot drive shows up. When I select it, it goes to Apple Logo Loading > Then Light Grey Screen > Apple Logo Loading Again > Then the messages below show up:

With internet, I can update whatever this is, it takes 4 minutes, then the machine reboots to normal Macintosh HD. When I boot back again it keeps asking for an update. I updated 4 times and it stills shows up.

Without internet, the message below shows up:

When I click "Startup Disk" the EFI boot does not show up and all I can select is my Macintosh HD.

 (this image is from a forum, my Macbook is up-to-date, MacOS Catalina 10.15.4)

Googling up I found this could happen because of T2 chip securities, I disabled all of it's securities in recovery mode. The problem persists.
What may be causing this issue? How can I fix it?


texts:
I cannot get my Map app on Mac OS X Yosemite to navigate a different country. For example, if I search for "Osaka, Japan", it kept finding me the nearly Japanese restaurant named Osaka...

How to get around this?


texts:
When I open 1-2 tabs with sites that have many images (e-shop as an example) the CPU usage gets to 100% for Chrome/Opera/Firefox.
What I've tried:

Reset Chrome to default settings
Disabled all extensions
Disabled "Use hardware acceleration" in Chrome settings
Checked task manager in Chrome. Couldn't find anything except that a process called "Browser" takes all the CPU (100%+)
Run malware check on MacOS with 2 different programs (avast and malwarebyte)
Run diagnostics after restarting MacOS

Looks like any browser with webkit engine suddenly started consuming 100% CPU on any site which has at least some dynamic content, maybe images or some JS or something like that. Basically any site.
MacOS version: Big Sur 11.1
CPU: 2,5 GHz Quad-Core Intel Core i7
RAM: 16 GB
Graphics: Intel Iris Pro 1536 MB


texts: How do I check the download progress of Mountain Lion through the terminal?

texts: I am downloading Mountain Lion, I know I can monitor download progress through the Mac App Store purchases screen but I want to know if I can monitor progress through Terminal.app using a shell command.


texts:
I am trying to recover a macbook air. The issue came when the unit updated to big sur, and the drive ran out of space.
With a thunderbolt cable, I have been able to remove some files to make some space, but still no luck. I get to the enter the user credentials as normal, and then a progress bar runs a bit, then black screen with apple logo and a new progress bar, and after a while the unit restarts.
What I have tried:

Resetting NVRam
Deleting the ".applesetupdone" file
Safe moode (Unit restarts after a few seconds of loggin in)
Recovery mode (The login fails nomatter what I do, even though the password allows me to login normally, and to use the disk in target mode)
Updating from a USB disc, this wont work, cause security settings disallow that
Internet Recovery mode - Same as normal recovery mode

As I see it, I can only pull all the users files from the harddrive, and delete the mac and install from new.
Any other ideas? Much appreciated.


texts: computer boots up and fades to blue repeatedly

texts: I have a MacBook Pro running 10.4.11 from 2006 or 2007 with a problem during start-up.  The computer will boot and then after showing the desktop, menu bar, and dock (but before icons appear on the desktop), the screen will fade to blue.  After a few seconds the desktop will reappear and then fade to blue again.  This cycle continues repeatedly.  Does anyone have any ideas?  Thanks.


texts: rEFInd not showing macOS partition, just Ubuntu

texts:
A week ago I installed Ubuntu gnome in dual boot on my MacBook Pro mid 2012 (macOS Sierra). I followed the installation guide, disabled SIP in Recovery Mode, installed rEFInd and everything went well.

Today I wanted to go back to macOS and when I rebooted the system rEFInd did not show up, instead there was just Ubuntu loading. So I booted to Recovery Mode and reinstalled rEFInd (from that console I was able to locate my macOS files).

After rebooting I was able to load rEFInd page, but I cannot find the macOS "icon" to boot the system, just the Ubuntu one. Any hint on what may be the problem?


texts: Time Machine ridiculously slow after El Capitan upgrade

texts:
I recently updated to El Capitan, and told Time Machine to backup. It got stuck on Preparing Backup for hours, so I stopped it, deleted the InProgress file, rebooted and tried again. After ~30 mins, Time Machine was still preparing. I looked into activity monitor and backupd had only read ~140Mb, in 30mins... Looking into iStatMenus, I find that backupd tends to have a read speed between nothing, and 120Kb/s (If I'm lucky. It sometimes peaks up to to 500kb/s, and very rarely 1Mb/s). Spotlight is not indexing (As I heard sometimes Spotlight gets in the way of backupd), and the hard drive has gone to sleep in the time that I wrote this, rarely waking up for my Mac to briefly read something from it.

Here's what comes up in the console when searching for backupd:

I'd rather not have to reformat my hard drive, in case I ever want to downgrade back to Yosemite, however I am willing to if it solves the issue.

Also, it seems like whenever I reboot my Mac, the hard drive loses its Time Machine icon, and reverts back to an orange drive.

Screenshot of Activity Monitor, Disk mode at ~50 min mark:

EDIT: I've tried disabling and reenabling Spotlight for the disk, and I have also wiped the .Spotlight-V100 folder and rebooted. No change.

EDIT 2: What seems to be some errors has appeared in the console

EDIT 3: After many, many hours, Time Machine has finished scanning and is now backing up! I'd still like to know why it took so long (I didn't expect updating to El Capitan to take so long. I excluded system files as well, although I guess I'm in for another long wait since I just removed them from the exceptions list)


texts:
I configure my devices to only turn off the screen after a couple of minutes, and only lock themselves several minutes after (so I can quickly turn on the screen without needing to unlock them all the time), for example when outside walking for geocaching.
On Android, I have an application on my home screen which forces locking the phone (i.e. turns off the screen and makes it so that it requires the PIN when turned on again), which makes this scenario useful/secure. I would call this app when I want to turn off the device without needing to turn it on soon.
Which app do I need to install on iOS to achieve the same effect? (iPhone SE, iOS 13)


texts: Trying to install Ubuntu on a Macbook with a new hard drive and no OSX

texts:
The hard drive of my Macbook failed recently. After installing a new hard drive I would like to use Ubuntu as the operating system, not Mac OS x. I burned a Ubuntu .iso to a disc and when I power up and insert the disc into the slot, I still get the flashing question marks folder.

The macbook is macbook core duo, I think it was originally purchased in 2006 or 2007. The hard drive is completely blank and the only file on the DVD disc is the most current version of Ubuntu.

How can I get the macbook to read the dvd?


texts: Can't connect to wireless network at home with OS X 10.5.8

texts:
I'm having trouble connecting to the wireless network at my home. My brother recently picked up a new wireless router and provided me with the password. When I locate the SSID and enter in the password he told me, it waits for a few seconds then says "Connection Failed."

I can connect to the wifi on my iPhone 4 but because I do a lot of work from my Mac running OS X 10.5.8, it's imperative that I can connect to the wifi on my laptop. I can connect to other wifi networks (in fact, I'm at a Starbucks using their wifi right now).

I don't think it has anything to do with my Mac, but if it does, can anyone provide any insight or solution?

If it's with the router, how can I configure it to allow me to connect with my Mac?


texts: Is it possible to add attachments to iCloud reminders?

texts: I can add links to the Notes field of Reminders - but I don't seem to be able to drag files into there. Is there a way to link to a PDF on iCloud Drive perhaps?


texts:
I am writing an assignment about basic video editing software, and I need to mention video editing software that is Mac OS X compatible.

As a Linux user, I personally don't have access to a computer running Mac OS X and have never used one. I would therefore like to know what software comes pre-installed on Mac OS X (I'm not sure if this may vary for each release, but say for the 3 latest releases (10.6 - 10.8)), as well as the most used paid / free software available.

I'm not interested in every available application, but only the most commonly used for basic purposes.


texts: WhatsApp Chat Transfer from Google Drive to iPhone?

texts: My wife just got a brand new iPhone. I am just wondering, how do I transfer WhatsApp chat history from Google Drive to iCloud or directly to the iPhone. I have backed up everything to Google Drive. Just need to know how to get it on to the iPhone. I googled a bit and there are some tools out there. But all of them are Mac or Windows software. All my laptops at home are Linux (Ubuntu, Arch, Suse and Mint).


texts:
Today when I turned on my macbook I could see that the Desktop Background has been changed to Yosemite picture.
Then right after clicking on Change Desktop background... the background changed to the one I had, which was a green background with a dog in the center, except for the dog picture, it was only the green background.
After this I clicked again on Change Desktop background... and it changed again to the Yosemite picture.
Finally I went to finder file to see where the picture of the dog was, and when I clicked to see it, it was opened but at the same time 2 more pictures were opened.
After all this, I clicked again on Change Desktop background... but nothing happened. The Yosemite background didn't change this time.
All the time when this happened, my mac didn't have connection to internet.
Why? Is my mac hacked? Does it have a virus? What do I do?
Notes.

Every once in a while I see a message on the upper RHS (in the corner of the screen) telling me that I should update something related to the system but I always click on later and then the message vanishes.

Update
More details of the situation above.
3 pictures were opened by itself at the same time. I did not chose to open 2 of them, had I chose them then they weren't be displayed in the way they did because there is a standard way when one open several pictures at once. There 3 pictures displayed like  if I were selected 1, then the other and then the other within milliseconds.
That above plus the change of desktop background, it's 10000% strange.
I know that is stupid to think that I am hacked but have I another option than to this so?
So, how can I know if someone,  from another part in the world, is in my macbook?
Footnote. Related question of mine Why did my desktop background changed and why pictures were opened, if I did nothing to do so?


texts: I have just updated my iPad Air to 10.0.2 and now cannot find any Notes. I have checked iCloud and there is nothing there. Irrespective of whether a backup was made, upgrading should not remove user entered data, so why has this version upgrade removed all my notes?


texts: Is there an attribute that can show which process created a file?

texts:
Now, I can find out which processes are opening files dynamically.  However, for a file on my filesystem, is there a way to find out which process created the file?

I'm trying to differentiate a file I created by:

touch(1)

from one created by say, an NSAPI process running under my id.

lastcomm(1)

will give me information such as which tty is doing something, is that an attribute I can access?

Essentially, my id does a bunch of stuff.  Much of what my id does should be via applications, or from a terminal.  I'd like to find out more.  Suggestions?


texts: How do I restore the icons of the Dock's Applications folder?

texts:
For some reason, many of the applications' icons in the Dock's Applications folder were replaced by the default application icon. I've tried to clear the icon cache, but that didn't work. Below is a screenshot of the problem.

How do I restore those icons? And for that matter, why did this happen in the first place?

I'm running MacOS Sierra on a MacBook Pro Mid 2014.


texts: Change drives in Mac startup manager to display "Macintosh HD" instead of "EFI Boot"

texts:
I have a Mac Pro 3,1 running Catalina (patched by dosdude1's installer to work on my unsupported Mac). Initially, I was having problems with my GPU which led me to install OpenCore as per the suggestion of a forum user. I ended up solving my GPU problem without OpenCore so I formatted my partition (to APFS) and installed Catalina normally.

Currently I have Windows installed on another partition. My drives are as follows:

Physical disk 1:
Macintosh HD (Contains OS)
Windows HD (Contains OS)

Physical disk 2:
Windows HD 2 (No OS, for extra storage)

Physical disk 3:
Macintosh HD 2 (for extra storage, formatted APFS)
Windows HD 3 (for extra storage)

When I boot my Mac holding the Option key, I see:

"Windows"   "EFI Boot"   "EFI Boot"

Windows boots up Windows 10. Both EFI boot options boot up Catalina and I have no idea why they display this way.

In Startup Disk on Catalina, I see "Mac OS" and "Windows HD", which is exactly what I would expect my boot loader to look like.

In Startup Disk on Windows 10, I see "Windows HD", "Basic data partition Windows" and another "Basic Partition Windows". If I click any of the latter two, it boots up in Catalina.


texts: What is this mysterious Google Maps popup?

texts:
macOS 10.13.3
This window suddenly opened in the foreground.
It is not directly associated with any program, stays open if everything else is closed, can not be selected in any way, can not be moved or anything. At the time of it opening itself I am miles and miles away from the city of Berlin. This is the second time it happened, the last time being weeks ago.
Googling has not turned up any meaningful results. What is this?


texts:
I have an iPhone5C (running iOS10.3.3 - the latest it supports).
I normally use this as a second phone while travelling.

I wanted to let my wife use this on a trip, and login to her AppleID for contacts etc.
The phone currently uses my AppleID (which is also used for family sharing).

Our attempts to login to her AppleID fail with a message that the email is already in use.

We are obviously doing something wrong, but I can't seem to find what I should do.


texts: The "Disk Not Ejected Properly" notification will not go away on Mojave?

texts:
If I forgot to plug in my Mac to the power and came back a couple of hours later, it may show "Disk Not Ejected Properly" notifications (two of them on Majave).
But the notification display a "Show" and clicking on it has no effect. Clicking on the notification has no effect. So these two notifications are blocking all the view of other window content because they always stay on top of every other window. (they are blocking the tabs of Google Chrome)
How can they be removed?  Or else I have to close most everything and restart the Mac, which is a pain just due to this bug.


texts: Messages app on Mac syncing text messages but not iMessages

texts:
I am encountering problems syncing iMessages with my Mac. I can send and receive text messages and iMessages on my iPhone. I cannot send and receive iMessages on my Macbook, but I can send and receive text messages on my Macbook.

My Messages app on Mac was working perfectly until I deleted items in my Keychain. I repaired and verified my Keychain afterwards, too. I did do a hard restart and removed all my accounts on my Mac and added them back. I also deleted my iCloud account and re-added it.

I have also disabled iMessages on my iPhone, then re-enabled it. Also de-paired and re-paired my iPhone and Macbook connection for iMessages. I still get the same behavior.

Does anyone have any idea what to do? I have googled and tried everything...

Anytime I send an iMessage through the Messages app, I get the "not delivered!" notice. Is there an error log I can check for iMessages that might give me hints?

Thanks.


texts: Is there a way to have an encrypted folder on macOS with fast read/write operations?

texts:
I've tried and used Disk Utility to create an encrypted image, so I can store data in it securely. However, when I tried to write files to this image, the write operation was too slow (to write ~50 GB of data, it would take 1 day as estimated).

My question: is there a robust alternative that allows creating an encrypted space in the hard disk to store data with fast read/write operations?

Edit: Adding details:

Device :

Apple MacBook Pro (15-inch, Mid 2012)

Processor : 2.6 GHz Intel Core i7
Memory : 8 GB 1600 MHz DDR3
Hard drive : APPLE HDD HTS547575A9E384

Rotational Rate:  5400
Partition Map Type:   GPT (GUID Partition Table)

OS version : 10.12.1

I am transferring data to an encrypted image on the hard drive. Its encryption type is 128-bit AES.

Source of data

The external hard drive that I am transferring data from : StoreJet Transcend Media.

Partition Map Type : GPT (GUID Partition Table)
Encrypted. Encryption Type : AES-XTS


texts: Find out which Internet sources are addressed by an app on iOS

texts:
I want to set up a whitelist in a router and I need to know what Internet addresses are consulted by a specific app on iPhone or iPad.

Are there tools for this?


texts: Delete some remembered text from Browser TextBox

texts: in Windows you can put the curser on text box (focus on it) and push down arrow key ( down ) and the list of all text that textbox was remembered was shown, then you can move on them by up and sown arrow key and if press Delete on highlighted text it was removed but I can't do the same in my macbook pro. it doesn't have Delete key and this button act as BackSpace and it won't act if you press fn + Delete  . any one have any idea to delete remembered text in macbook-pro(os x).


texts: iPhone 5S gets very hot and drains battery

texts:
My iPhone 5S is getting very hot and the battery drains like 5 % in 30 seconds. I've tried it all, restoring and stuff and I've read that the problem is with iCloud. So I've deleted my iCloud account from my iPhone and now it is cool.

But still I really need to use my iCloud.. Some say that you need to make a new iCloud email. But that doesn't seems to be a solution because I use that iCloud email with all my devices.

How can I find the problem in iCloud?


texts:
When I start a session programming on my macbook pro, I have a bunch of apps I'd like open and ready:

DevNull smtp java server (run from terminal with java -jar DevNull.jar)
Terminal shell in the tomcat/bin directory with startup.sh;tail -f ../logs/catalina.out running after rm -rf work and test webapp directories
IntelliJ running
after tomcat loads (fine with just having a timer), Firefox with my webapp loaded
after tomcat loads, Chrome with my webapp loaded
ForkLift
TextMate
Couple of Finder windows open in particular directories

Those are pretty core...  then it depends on what exactly I'm working on as far as other apps I need open.

So how do I write a script I can double click on and have all the above ready for me, saving me a couple minutes each day and being a little less annoying getting started?  Is there a nice app that can easily do the above for me?  Do I need to write a bash or python script for this? Or learn applescript?


texts: How to delete files in /System/Library/Desktop Pictures on Catalina?

texts:
I tried to delete files in the default desktop picture directory (/System/Library/Desktop Pictures) on macOS 10.15 Catalina with sudo permission but failed.

$ pwd
/System/Library/Desktop Pictures

$ sudo rm *.heic
Password:
rm: cannot remove 'Catalina Clouds.heic': Operation not permitted

Is there a hassle-free way to solve this problem?


texts: Can I plug my Iomega hard drive into my new BT Home Hub and access the tunes stored in it from my MacBook Pro wirelessly?

texts:
We have just acquired a BT home Hub router which has a USB socket. I have my music stored in an Iomega hard drive and normally plug this into the MacBook, which is a bit clumsy. ( I have told iTunes where to find my music when I am logged in. My partner uses the Mac to store her music.)

I was hoping to be able to plug the Iomega into the Home Hub which would send the music to the Mac (or indeed iPad) wherever it is in the house.

Does anyone know if this is possible and where I'd start; or should I just ring BT?


texts: On iOS 8 how do you access hi-res photos when you have the optimize photos on?

texts:
I the iOS 8 beta 5 they introduced the new option option, Optimize iPhone Storage keeps lower resolution copies of photos on device, and stores original high-res photos in iCloud.

How do you access the hi-res photos when you need them?


texts: Apple Maps Won't Navigate (Sporadic Problem)

texts:
Has anyone else ever had this problem? It seems to happen randomly.

I do on-site repair work, always going to a different location. So I use my navigation almost daily. I just use regular old Apple Maps. Sometimes I type in an address, sometimes I tell siri. Occasionally I send the maps over from my home computer (which may be one of the triggers of this, I'll need to do more testing).

So normally you pick your address, you hit "GO" and you're off with maps and verbal turn-by-turn directions. When this no-navigating problem happens, you hit GO, and you get a map, but it's as if you haven't actually picked your router. Yet somehow you get sort of an overview summary of the 'steps' of your directions, but it doesn't read them to you, or indicate turns coming up. Yet it knows exactly where you are. You can have your waypoint drive right down the route tracking you, and theres a blue route line, but they aren't "linked". It's extremely annoying. There doesn't seem to be a way to KICK it into navigating. The day I took the screen shot below, I was repeatedly cancelling navigation, and reinitializing my route, but it kept getting stuck and not giving me directions.

Does anyone else ever have this problem on their iPhone? My phone is an iPhone 8 running the newest iOS. I've had this problem in the past on my 6S too.


texts: What am I doing that causes zsh to silently change to vi mode?

texts:
I'm a software developer, and as such I frequently use Terminal.app. I've been using it for years. At some point in the last week or two, I started encountering this problem somewhat frequently; I've never seen it prior.

I use zsh as my default shell. I'll be typing out a complex command. I hit return, the command executes, and I see that it wasn't exactly what I wanted. I hit the up arrow, then arrow left to the part I want to change, and I use delete/backspace to clear out the part I want to change, but nothing happens. I also cannot type any characters.

Today, I found out that when this happens, zsh has changed to vi mode. I can hit i to switch to insert mode, x to delete a character, etc. Further, I can restore something resembling normalcy by typing set -o emacs. Prior to this discovery, I had just been abandoning the Terminal window in question and starting anew. Frustrating!

I am not sure what I might be doing to kick zsh into vi mode. I am definitely not typing set -o vi! It has to be either a bug or a very simple hotkey combination that I could be hitting by accident.

This only seems to happen to the local zsh on my Mac. If I'm ssh'd into a remote Linux machine, using bash or zsh on the remote machine (I've changed my default shell on some but not all of our servers), it doesn't seem to happen.

Furthermore, I've discovered that when I open a new Terminal window, it doesn't appear to be in vi or emacs mode. It behaves in a vaguely emacs-y way, but control+A doesn't jump to the beginning of the line, and the small handful of other emacs-specific keystrokes I'm familiar with also don't work. If I run set -o emacs, then those things start working.

If I run set -o | egrep "on$" (which lists the currently enabled zsh options) in a fresh terminal, neither emacs nor vi appears in the results.

I looked through my update/install history in the App Store, and I think this might have started when I installed Xcode. (I mostly develop Java stuff, and didn't have it installed previously, although I did have the developer tools installed.) It does not appear to correlate with the installation of any system-level software updates.

I did some googling and found no evidence of anyone else encountering this problem.

If it matters, I'm using:

Late 2013 27" iMac.
32GB, 1TB SSD, 3.5-3.9GHz i7.
MacOS High Sierra 10.13.4
zsh 5.3 (x86_64-apple-darwin17.0)
Xcode 9.3.1 (installed, but I'm not using it when any of this happened)

So, my questions:

does anybody know what I might be doing to cause the silent switch to vi mode?
is there a setting I can change so that this stops happening?
is there some logging or other diagnostic output I can enable to make it more obvious when this happens?
what is this non-emacs, non-vi input mode I'm seeing in a fresh Terminal window / zsh process called?


texts: iPhone app to show me my locations database

texts:
It seems that Apple stores GPS information (or GPS information of  hot spots) in the iPhone/iPad, and a hacker invented a tool to show the info on Mac. I think this is a pretty useful feature for automatically recording what I've been visiting.

Are there any apps for iPad/iPhone to track my GPS info so that I can extract the data to display on Mac later?


texts: Updating Enterprise apps on iPads enrolled in Apple's MDM server?

texts:
So I'm running into a weird issue here when trying to update an internal Enterprise app to a newer version with Apple's MDM server. Profile Manager runs on 10.9.2 and Server.app 3.0.3 and we've tested multiple apps across multiple managed devices.

The web interface says all devices are updating, but what I see now is that even when it has said it has updated the app on a device, if the app was running then the MDM server seem to think it has updated it while in reality the old app is still on the device.

Anybody else experience this? What did you do to get around it?


texts: Transferring contacts from iCloud to Android

texts: I have a Samsung Android phone and need to transfer my iCloud contacts to that phone. How do I accomplish this?


texts: I have only had this phone (iPhone 5s) a few days and transferred my number.  The problem is when my phone is on 3G it's no receiving iMessage, I have missed important messages.  Can anyone help?


texts:
So first you'll need to forgive me for the lack of proper terminology. My problem is this, when I open a finder window, and navigate down past the 3rd layer of folders, and then want to open the folder I am in, in a new tab, as the first folder row, or main tab window, all I am getting in the new tab is the folder tree that I have open in the existing tab replicated.

Now it might not be obvious because of how I have cropped the images, but i would expect to right click on the applications folder, open in new tab and expect only the folders inside of the applications folder to be listed, but they are not, both previous folder trees remain open. I expect it is something simple. But can somebody help me fix this please? I have Mojave 10.14.1


texts: How to check if invisible items are visible?

texts:
How do I check in AppleScript, if invisible objects are visible?
If visible, do: defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles 0
in invisible, do: defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles 1.

That should be one script, so I can change the visible with one click. Is that possible with AppleScript?


texts: Run Windows 10 on Mac from custom boot drive?

texts:
My Mac has specs for Fallout 4, but it won't run with wine like the others. I don't want Windows directly installed on my Mac because it corrupted my hard drive last time, instead I want to install it on a USB 3.0/Thunderbolt drive, where I can hold down a key while booting up my Mac with it plugged in to boot Windows 10. Or something like that. What I have is a Mac with Yosemite and a Windows 10 disk, I need to get an external drive capable of this $30-$50 preferably and suggestions are appreciated.

EDIT: also, I would prefer not to enter many passwords to do this so if possible that would be preferred, if nessesary I can but it would be harder. If it was my computer I wouldn't mind risking corrupting the HD.


texts: I am trying to connect my Huawei phone to my Mac. I get it as a new device and I can see it in the file manager. Now I would like point my Mac to some drivers of this small Huawei device. (I have them as .ini files or as .exe for the full installation package.) The thing is that I am programming for Android and did it easily on Windows (using Mac just for a couple of weeks). In Windows there is a great feature like "find device" and then just point it to .ini driver files. Is there any similar feature in Mac? I have installed some applications on Mac, like Huawei driver, Huawei modem something, also some mobilepartner application, but still nothing. Is there any way I can use the adb to connect to my device?


texts: How do I uninstall the command line tools for Xcode?

texts:
We have a bunch of Mac at work that no longer require Xcode or command line tools so we'd like to remove them so the compilers aren't hanging around and we don't have to keep updating them when updates arrive.
Before Xcode was in the Mac App Store, there ware install and uninstall scripts (perl in /Developer) to remove the tools, but now that Xcode is an app store app you are left with the tools if you ever install them.
Can we clean this other than wiping the OS for macs running 10.10 and newer?


texts: Is there a `watch` command native to Darwin/OS X?

texts: I have a script that I'm trying to port from Linux to Darwin/OS X. The Linux version currently depends on the watch command, which doesn't appear to be installed on Darwin/OS X by default. What's the native alternative?


texts: Why does OS X repeatedly prompt for certificate trust when joining WPA2 Enterprise WiFi

texts:
WHY does OS X always prompt for certificate trust when connecting to WPA2 Enterprise (EAP-PEAP in my case) networks, even if the certificate is already marked as 'trusted'?

Even weirder.. if I delete the cert from keychain access, then click 'Continue' to the first cert prompt, but the click 'Cancel' on the elevation credentials window.. I am somehow still able to connect to the WiFi network...


texts: Xquartz crash infinite loop in Mountain Lion?

texts:
I'm trying to get Xquartz to work in Mountain Lion, but when I click it, it starts up, then crash, then starts up again etc. It loops like this until I reboot or logout.

My console says this for every loop:

    8/15/12 10:00:21.806 PM org.macosforge.xquartz.startx[14953]: lockfile: Sorry, giving up on "/var/folders/vr/6swz_qtn60q0ld9lp_pbdqk80000gn/T//font_cache.lock"
8/15/12 10:00:21.806 PM org.macosforge.xquartz.startx[14953]: font_cache is already running.
8/15/12 10:00:21.806 PM org.macosforge.xquartz.startx[14953]: If you believe this to be erroneous, please remove /var/folders/vr/6swz_qtn60q0ld9lp_pbdqk80000gn/T//font_cache.lock.
8/15/12 10:00:21.830 PM org.macosforge.xquartz.privileged_startx[14842]: lockfile: Sorry, giving up on "/opt/X11/var/run/font_cache.lock"
8/15/12 10:00:21.831 PM org.macosforge.xquartz.privileged_startx[14842]: font_cache is already running.
8/15/12 10:00:21.831 PM org.macosforge.xquartz.privileged_startx[14842]: If you believe this to be erroneous, please remove /opt/X11/var/run/font_cache.lock.
8/15/12 10:00:21.893 PM org.macosforge.xquartz.startx[14953]: xauth:  file /Users/gav/.serverauth.14954 does not exist
8/15/12 10:00:21.953 PM org.macosforge.xquartz.X11.stub[14994]: Xquartz: Unable to locate waiting server: org.macosforge.xquartz.X11
8/15/12 10:00:21.956 PM org.macosforge.xquartz.X11.stub[14995]: Xquartz: Starting X server: /Applications/Utilities/XQuartz.app/Contents/MacOS/X11 --listenonly
8/15/12 10:00:22.305 PM SIMBL Agent[11494]: warning: failed to get scripting definition from /Applications/Utilities/XQuartz.app; it may not be scriptable.
8/15/12 10:00:22.306 PM SIMBL Agent[11494]: eventDidFail:'tvea' error:Error Domain=NSOSStatusErrorDomain Code=-600 "The operation couldn’t be completed. (OSStatus error -600.)" (procNotFound: no eligible process with specified descriptor) UserInfo=0x4001afc60 {ErrorNumber=-600} userInfo:{
    ErrorNumber = -600;
}
8/15/12 10:00:22.307 PM SIMBL Agent[11494]: eventDidFail:'tvea' error:Error Domain=NSOSStatusErrorDomain Code=-1701 "The operation couldn’t be completed. (OSStatus error -1701.)" (errAEDescNotFound) UserInfo=0x4001d7200 {ErrorNumber=-1701} userInfo:{
    ErrorNumber = -1701;
}
8/15/12 10:00:23.956 PM org.macosforge.xquartz.startx[14953]: /opt/X11/bin/xinit: XFree86_VT property unexpectedly has 0 items instead of 1
8/15/12 10:00:24.064 PM org.macosforge.xquartz.startx[14953]: /opt/X11/bin/xinit: connection to X server lost
8/15/12 10:00:24.065 PM org.macosforge.xquartz.startx[14953]:
8/15/12 10:00:25.066 PM org.macosforge.xquartz.startx[14953]: waiting for X server to shut down
8/15/12 10:00:25.113 PM org.macosforge.xquartz.startx[14953]: waiting for X server to shut down
8/15/12 10:00:25.114 PM com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[129]: (org.macosforge.xquartz.startx) Throttling respawn: Will start in 7 seconds

I don't know anything about Xquartz, so I'm not sure how to diagnose the problem.

I'm using Xquartz 2.7.2 found here http://xquartz.macosforge.org/landing/


texts: macOS: How to determine what interrupted screensaver

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I run macOS Mojave 10.14.6 on a MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Early 2013).

TL;DR: How can I find out what interrupted the screen saver?

I'm investigating an issue where the screensaver (which starts after 2 minutes of inactivity) gets interrupted automatically without user interaction. The Mac just sits there, with the screensaver playing, until the screensaver stops and it shows the desktop again.

Some more details:

It happens both when connected to the charger and when on battery power.
It happens after hours or days of use, and also right after a restart (or shut-down/start cycle).
It happens with no apps running.
It happens with WiFi and Bluetooth on or off (so, without any bluetooth peripheral or connection).
It happens even if I disable handoff with iOS (I tried this after googling and reading that this could be a cause).
All the "Sharing" options in System Preferences are disabled.
I have never installed any apps that artificially keep the Mac awake (e.g. Caffeine).
In Activity Monitor, if I check which processes are "preventing sleep", most of the time there is only one entry: hidd (Human Interface Device Daemon, that is, me interacting with mouse or keyboard), which is normal while I'm using the Mac. Sometimes, however, I can also see sharingd and useractivityd, although they disappear when I disable WiFi and/or Bluetooth, which makes me think that they're not the culprits.
The output of pmset -g assertions doesn't reveal anything interesting, as I can associate it to what I've already listed above.

So my question is: how can I find out what's interrupting the screensaver? Should I check the Console app? Is there a log anywhere?


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2016 MBP w/ Touch Bar is locking up randomly.
I'll have a few programs open and I'll try to open Mission Control or open a Stack in my Dock and it will 'freeze'

During these 'freezes' it can still move the mouse, and I can sort of use the Touch Bar but I can't get any apps to open, I can't use Mission Control, I  pretty much can't do anything but force shutdown the computer.

Also the Busy mouse doesn't appear.

During the freezes I've tried relaunching Finder to no avail.


texts: how to compile Marble (KDE) on macOS? No pre built package available

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Marble is an Open Source alternative to Apple Maps / Google Earth:

  Versatile, yet easy to use. Use Marble similar to a desktop globe; pan
  around and measure distances. At closer scale it becomes a world
  atlas, while OpenStreetMap takes you to street level. Search for
  places of interest, view Wikipedia articles, create routes by drag and
  drop and so much more.

From marble.kde.org deep link http://files.kde.org/marble/downloads/MacOSX/Marble-1.5.0.dmg

  Mac OS X Desktop

  The Mac OS X installer is outdated. We recommend compiling the latest
  stable version yourself.

Homebrew

> brew cask search Marble
==> Exact Match
marble

> brew cask info marble
marble: 1.5.0
https://marble.kde.org/
Not installed
From: https://github.com/caskroom/homebrew-cask/blob/master/Casks/marble.rb
==> Name
Marble
==> Artifacts
Marble.app (app)

there is no guide how to compile on macOS from source.


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I bought an iPhone 6 and I would like to use all the contacts from my iPhone 3GS.

Some of the contacts were stored in iCloud. The other ~480 contacts are on my iPhone 3GS. How can I transfer these to my iPhone 6?


texts: How to stop my High Sierra quit all my programs when I log out or go to sleep?

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Im using Macbook Air 2012. Should I downgrade system? its really anoying me :/
I currently have High Sierra 10.13.1


texts: Will Mavericks Server cache Yosemite updates?

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Will Mavericks server cache Yosemite updates?

I can't tell—is it possible to actually see the saved cache?


texts: Retina Mac shows gray screen when waking up

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This is the first time that my Retina MacBook Pro wakes up from sleep with a gray screen. After about 10-20 seconds, the MacBook falls asleep again.

Some points that might be relevant:

The only difference between power adapter and no power adapter is that with power adapter it does not go to sleep again.
The battery is almost full (I closed the lid last night when it was about 90%)
An external monitor was not attached when sleeping it, so I don't think How to fix a Macbook that does not always draw its internal screen after waking from sleep and having unplugged external display while asleep? applies.
I've run gfxCardStatus, almost always in "force integrated mode" (to conserve battery). And normally it wakes up correctly.
I run VMware Fusion 4.
All software is up-to-date and fully patched.

I tried to plugin an HDMI monitor and switch displays with Command-Fn-F1 and Command-Fn-F2, but that did not help (it would not switch displays).

Edit: I also tried logging in (see the comment by George Garside) but that didn't work (though the password field had focus, the screen didn't fade).

Before trying to:

reboot (by force a power off),
reset SMC
and/or reset PRAM/NVRAM

What options do I have that do not loose my work?


texts: Airport extreme after linsys router not finding my synology disc/sonos system

texts: My airport extreme is configured as bridge after a linksys (wifi) router. Using the airport I don't see the shared folders on my synology(DSM 4.2) in finder, except by connecting through the IP. This also means timemachine doesn't work using the airport network. Synology has fixed ip in network. Using the linksys wifi network or networkcable everything works fine. Same problem for my sonos system that isn't discovered  through the airport network except after switching to the linksys network first.