texts:
I have some albums in my iPhoto 11, that contain personal photos. I want to password protect  particular albums or the iPhoto application itself.

Is there any way to password protect iPhoto 11?


texts: Can I change the application icon of an Automator script?

texts: I have created a couple of automator scripts. I was curious if there is a way to change the application icon on those scripts to something other than the robot.


texts: Saving files on lost focus in console Vim

texts:
I have been trying to setup the console version of vim to save any changed files when the Terminal window loses focus.

Following these instructions does not work.

Am I to assume that maybe the reason why this does not work for a console version of vim is because it's only intended to work with GUI versions, i.e. MacVim?

Is there a way to get this to work for a console version of vim?

I'm using the latest version of vim available in homebrew.


texts: Left arrow key not working after spill, even with Karabiner?

texts:
I'm on a Macbook Pro 13 (mid-12, not retina), macOS High Sierra. I spilled a few droplets of water (actual water) and my left arrow key decided to stop working. That's fair. Then I thought i don't use the right-alt key, so I tried to remap it using Karabiner-Elements. It didn't work (it was still registering as alt). BUT when I remap it to the right arrow key, it works!! I honestly don't know why that's the case. So I thought it could be a software issue, restarting the computer, and going into another user account (that's newly made) didn't help.

Oh and trying other keys also doesn't work. And I also tried an hidutil command and that didn't work. So I don't think the problem is from Karabiner.

So is there a reason why "softwarely" remapping the key wouldn't work?


texts: How to find out frame rate (FPS) of an AVI video on OS X?

texts:
Pretty straightforward question: How can I find out FPS of a video file on Mac OS X?

(QuickTime does not open the video because of not installed codec; but VLC does, though.)


texts: Can I have different audio come out of my computer and monitor?

texts:
I previously had my monitor set up through a VGA cable and I was able to play music through an audio jack on my monitor — All while listening to something else through my headphones plugged into my computer. Now that I switched from VGA to HDMI, it doesn't seem to do the same thing.

Is this possible with an HDMI cable? Or is this only a VGA thing?


texts: Why can't I copy from my mac and paste to my iPad in Universal Clipboards?

texts:
It's strange and probably not a duplicate question (since I've read a lot of questions with this issue, but none match with my problem).

I believe I've setup everything correctly. In fact, I can copy from my iPad and paste to my mac using Universal Clipboards, no problem. But the other way is not working: I can't copy text from my mac and paste to my iPad.

I've reset iPad, and it's working again. Copy from mac, paste to iPad. But only after a while, it's not working again.

Actual stuff: I was having a list of issues, and I'm trying to create a tasks for each issue in my ipad's asana app. Just copy text from mac, trying to paste to asana task as a title. About first 3 copy-paste, it works, but the 4th or 5th copy-paste, it's not working anymore (just like before reset iPad). Copy from ipad and paste to mac still working.

How do I resolve this universal clipboard stuff?

PS: apple.stackexchange really should have a tag name: Universal clipboards


texts: How do I set up a Mail.app rule for removing attachments?

texts:
While Mail.app offers a menu item for removing attachments from e-mail, I find myself wanting to make a rule for removing attachments from e-mails. Anyone knows how that can be done? AppleScript, perhaps?

So basically, a Mail.app rule that works like this:

If sender is suchandsuch and attachment type is executable (this is already possible).
Remove attachments from e-mail


texts:
I have some serious problems with the hosts file on my Lion 10.7.2. My hosts file is like following;

127.0.0.1 localhost
255.255.255.255 broadcasthost
::1 localhost
fe80::1%lo0 localhost

27.0.0.1 first.localhost
::1 first.localhost
27.0.0.1 second.localhost
::1 second.localhost

I have more than 2 local sites but I just cut is short.

I can't manage http://first.localhost/ to work. http://second.localhost/ works fine but http://first.localhost/ doesn't work. If I delete the last two lines (which corresponds to second) than http://first.localhost/ works.

How can I add more than one local site in my hosts file? I'm using Lion 10.7.2 which I upgraded today and all those problems arose after that upgrade.

Note: There is nothing wrong with Apache config files or any other file with the local web server, I know that it's the /etc/hosts file that causes the problem.

Thanks.


texts: Where is documentation for CJK input methods (Its)?

texts:
How the Chinese Pinyin IM & Japanese Kana IM work is obvious (at least to me) but I have been experimenting unsuccessfully for a while with one of the Korean ones.  Keyboard viewer helps, but using it is proctalgia (at least for me).  Plus, understanding how it works is probably much easier than memorizing several dozen keystroke sequences.

Trying to find documentation by web search (with "Mac" or "OS X" in the search input) gives me:

Many hits for Windows and Linux
Many hits for how to select the IM
One hit for System 8.5
One page about a free KoreanIM "from Apple" (NOT!) that is actually malware.

Are any of the CJK input methods documented anywhere in English or Spanish?


texts: I'm trying to create an AppleScript that filter certain files into different folders

texts:
I have various files / types, usually labelled in this kind of way:

000_160905_Iceman_Rumble_BA.jpg

There will be a variety of jpegs, PSD's, models etc and I need to find an automated way to file them away into various folders by date in some instances, by file types in other instances and by the initial of someone (BA).

Is there a way in AppleScript, where you can select certain characters from a file type (e.g the date in the file above), to automatically sync to another folder of my choice?

If anyone could help me here it would really save me!

Thanks


texts:
The specs for the third generation Verizon iPad say that it will be GSM/EDGE compatible. Does this mean that the Verizon new iPad will have a SIM card slot? Will I be better off with a Verizon iPad if I wanted the ability to connect to either CDMA or GSM networks?

Edit:

Will the Verizon model have a SIM tray? Will it be locked to Verizon? (Say I wanted to buy an iPad SIM card later from AT&T, would I have that option?)


texts: Is there a preference or anything that would somehow launch Facetime when opening Notes app?  This is really bizarre.  This happened for High Seira and Mojave when I migrated my data to High Sierra or Mojave.  I tried installing fresh with the disk wiped clean and reinstalling Sierra as well as Mojave.  But in either case Notes still launches FaceTime...really need a solution.


texts: I think my Apple ID was hacked, changed my password twice but failed, what to do?

texts:
I just had the weirdest thing happen on my iPhone 6s. I'm running iOS 10.0.2 and while I was sitting in my office, my phone lit up stating that a location in China is trying to access my Apple ID, I denied the access, but shortly after my phone started acting really crazy. No weird text messages or anything, but my iCloud/Apple ID was locked, I changed my password twice and tried to sign back in after unlocking and no luck. My location services also drained my battery in about 20 minutes from 98% to 39%.

What is going on? What should I do to reset everything and get my phone back to normal?


texts: How do I view an SSL certificate on my iPad from Safari?

texts:
I'm trying to view the SSL certificate for a web site on my iPad.

For example, how can I view the SSL certificate for this site?

https://encrypted.google.com/

Using Safari on the desktop, I can click on the small lock icon in the address bar to view the certificate details.

How do I do this on the iPad?


texts: I updated candy crush saga as instructed by King on my IPad 1. Now it doesn't work at all and won't even allow me to reinstall after I deleted it. Is that because I'm still running IOS 5.1.1? Can I upgrade my operating system to IOS 7 or 8 on IPad 1?


texts: iPhone 4S losing data connection while still showing 3G/EDGE symbol and appropriate reception

texts:
I sometimes discover that my iPhone 4S is no longer able to receive data from the cellular network, although the 3G/EDGE badge is still showing, alongside two bars. Usually I first suspect the application to have a problem, so I restart it, then go to Safari to open a random webpage. After some time with no loading whatsoever, I get the usual screen (sorry it's German, it basically says the page cannot be opened because the server won't answer):

This behavior can usually be remedied by going into Flight Mode and back - just tap once, wait for the little plane to arrive, and tap again.

So it's no big deal to get one's connection back once you have noticed the problem. Until then, you probably ask yourself why you haven't received any mails today or why nobody has answered your latest facebook poll for the last couple of hours... So especially for an "always-on" device that is supposed to push data to the user, this problem is somewhat annoying.

FWIW, I have witnessed that same behavior on my old iPhone 3G, but since that one had some WiFi troubles as well, I have always dismissed it as a minor hardware fault of this one particular device.

Has anybody else seen this on their device, and what can I do to stop it altogether? Is it a hardware fault and I should talk to Apple?


texts: How to play iPhone music from within Catalina?

texts:
iTunes was replaced with the Music application in Catalina.
I can no longer find the option to play music from my phone. Am I overlooking something or was this feature removed entirely?
From the Catalina Music application: Is it possible to play iPhone audio files through the lightning connection?


texts: Cannot activate any programs except Chrome -> coreservicesd crash

texts:
I suddenly started experiencing an error in which Chrome is the only application that will accept any input. I can use the mouse to bring other windows to the front, but they will not accept keyboard input.  The Dock also won't accept input - I can't apple-tab between applications.  If I hide Chrome, it still accepts keyboard input!  Any ideas on what would cause this or what a solution might be?  (I will attempt the "close chrome, restart" workaround, but that doesn't qualify as a solution)

Closing chrome just revealed that the whole OS had crashed.  A little more research revealed others have experienced this:
http://www.macsupportguy.com/viewtopic.php?f=26&t=47208

The errors in my system.log include:

Jan 16 12:12:41 eta /System/Library/CoreServices/Dock.app/Contents/MacOS/Dock[195]: LaunchServices/5123589: coreservicesd is running an unsupported version, 0       ( we are 10600000 ), so we cannot talk to it.
Jan 16 12:12:41 eta /System/Library/CoreServices/Dock.app/Contents/MacOS/Dock[195]: LaunchServices: _LSDoInitializeProcessesServices() returned 268435459, err      =-1  vers=0, we are 10600000. sessionID=0x2d00012

I'm on OS 10.6.8, but others ran into this (also with Chrome running) on 10.7.

The core of the crash may be this:

Jan 16 12:05:01 eta [0x0-0x17db7da].com.apple.systemevents[95826]: launchctl: CFURLWriteDataAndPropertiesToResource(/var/db/launchd.db/com.apple.launchd.perus      er.501/overrides.plist) failed: -10
Jan 16 12:10:02 eta loginwindow[70]: CarbonCore.framework: coreservicesd process died; attempting to reconnect but future use may result in erroneous behavior      .
Jan 16 12:10:02 eta hdiejectd[46853]: CarbonCore.framework: coreservicesd process died; attempting to reconnect but future use may result in erroneous behavio      r.

Others reported having no access to the UI and being forced to hard-restart the machine; I was able to reboot by sshing in and doing sudo reboot.  However, it would be best to come up with a solution to recover the machine rather than restart it - I lost a lot of work in this random crash.


texts: How do I create a groups OS X Mavericks Contacts app that remains local to my machine?

texts:
When creating a new group in the OS X Mavericks version of the Contacts apps the group is automatically synchronized to iCloud. I'd like to keep this group local to just the machine where I created it.

How can I make a group that stays local to the machine and does not sync to my iCloud account?


texts: Can't detect bootcamp partition on windows installation

texts:
I followed this site for the instruction on how to boot up windows on my bootcamp partition: https://www.hongkiat.com/blog/install-windows-on-mac/

Now I'm stuck in the VM ware installation.
The setup runs but once I get to the formatting page, the installer can't detect any storage.
I tried formatting  bootcamp to and ntfs using ntfs 3g but it still won't work. (I'm really not sure what I'm doing at this point)

Right now, I have the VM and the bootcamp partition of 60 Gb formatted in Fat32.

Now, I'm not sure if this solution will work, but how can I make the installer detect my storage so I can proceed to the next steps?

I have a macbook 4,1 early 2008 running on OS X lion (10.7.5) and I'm using VMware 6
I'm trying to install win7_32bit

Thanks in advance for those who will offer some help :)


texts: Migrating OS X Server from Macbook Pro to Mac Mini

texts:
We are running Mac Server version 5.1.5 on a MacBook pro running the latest version of El Capitan. We want to migrate this install to our MacMini running the same exact OS and Server versions.

What is the quickest and most efficient way to accomplish this?

Thanks,

Tony


texts: My son and I both play Tropic Escape. He connected to Game Center on iPod Touch and it replaced my game on my iPad with his iPod Touch account. Is there a way I can get my account back?


texts: Tags - best practice for using tags to replace hierarchical folder structure

texts:
I am interested in replacing my hierarchical folder structure with the tag system.

Are there any best practices (or do you have personal experience) of how to use tags as a replacement for the hierarchical file structure?


texts: Is it worth it to upgrade a mid-2007 MacBook (MB061LL/A) to use an SSD?

texts:
I would sincerely love a new MacBook, but I can't justify spending the prices that are being touted by Apple what with life to pay for and everything.  I upgraded my memory to 2GB a while ago, but am thinking of now upgrading the HD to a SSD seeing as the MacBook is still performing OK, just a bit lagging behind the times.

For the record, my MacBook is the 2.0GHz Intel Core 2 Duo (13-inch White) MB061LL/A version.  I have upgraded the HDD 2 or 3 times since this purchase in 2008.  The current RPM is 5400, but I have just found out I was missold as I have never knowingly bought a HDD other than 7200rpm (!).

Crucial recommends their 256GB Crucial M4 2.5-inch SATA 6GB/s SSD. But I know that the SATA controller in my model is only 1.5Gb/s. So is this actually worth the upgrade?

To give some idea on usage, I mainly surf the internet for long periods so no real heavy usage apart from spinning or streaming a film now and again. But I will now be looking to use this as my main music recording computer due to my dedicated PC dying.

Thanks in advance


texts: Why is my Final Cut Pro library file so bloated?

texts:
I have a bit of a problem with Final Cut Pro.  Specifically, my library file is now 22GB, which, on a 120GB SSD (I'm running a MacBook Air with OS X El Capitan) is way too big.  I've been careful to select "leave files in place" whenever I import media into Final Cut Pro, yet the library file is still growing and growing.  Am I doing anything wrong or do I just have to offload my Final Cut Pro library to a bigger drive?

UPDATE: I didn't realize until now that the different versions of Final Cut Pro were so different.  I'm running the latest version of Final Cut Pro X from the Mac App Store.


texts: Can I use AppleScript to paste a web text clip appended with source attribution and a timestamp, while maintaining embedded links?

texts:
Complete newbie here so please let me know if I need to clarify or otherwise improve my question. I have searched multiple times using different keywords and have not been able to find a solution to my issue, or make the ones I hoped were a solution work for me.

I want to create a AppleScript script that when triggered will allow me to paste a web text clip appended with source attribution and a timestamp, without loosing any embedded links within the selected text.

Here is a screen shot of what I want to achieve:

Not knowing much of anything programming wise, I was able to cobble together the following AppleScript script after a few days of web searching.

-- clear the clipboard
tell application "Finder"
    set the clipboard to " "
    delay 0.1
end tell

-- copy selected text
tell application "Safari"
    activate
    tell application "System Events"
        tell process "Safari"
            keystroke "c" using {command down}
            delay 0.1
        end tell
    end tell
end tell

-- open and paste web clip into specified TextEdit file
tell application "TextEdit"
    activate
    open "Macintosh HD:Users:Web:Documents:Web Text Clips:Web_Text_Clips.rtf"
    delay 0.2
    tell application "System Events"
        tell process "TextEdit"
            keystroke "v" using {command down}
            delay 0.1
        end tell
    end tell
end tell

-- get, format and copy source info and timestamp
tell application "Safari"
    activate
    set theLongDate to current date
    set theWindowName to the name of the front window
    set theURL to the URL of the front document
    set writeString to "- - - - - " & return & "From: " & theURL & return & "Page Title: " & theWindowName & return & "Date: " & theLongDate
    set the clipboard to writeString
end tell

-- paste source info and timestamp into predefined position of the specified TextEdit file
tell application "TextEdit"
    activate
    tell application "System Events"
        tell process "TextEdit"
            keystroke (ASCII character 31) using command down
            keystroke return
            keystroke return
            keystroke "v" using {command down}
            delay 0.1
        end tell
    end tell
end tell

-- copy content of specified TextEdit file
tell application "TextEdit"
    activate
    tell application "System Events"
        tell process "TextEdit"
            keystroke "a" using {command down}
            keystroke "c" using {command down}
            delay 0.1
        end tell
    end tell
end tell

-- delete content of specified TextEdit file
tell application "TextEdit"
    activate
    tell application "System Events"
        tell process "TextEdit"
            keystroke "a" using {command down}
            keystroke "x" using {command down}
            delay 0.1
        end tell
    end tell
end tell

-- save specified TextEdit file and quit TextEdit
tell application "TextEdit"
    save "Macintosh HD:Users:Web:Documents:Web Text Clips:Web_Text_Clips.rtf"
    quit
end tell

I was forced into this workaround because when I used the set command the embedded links got expunged from the selected web text.

While this script does work, it is quite cumbersome and slow. I have tried all sorts of different things, including some shell script commands, but so far nothing else has worked.

Can anyone help me in creating a more elegant and faster script that still maintains the embedded links in the selected web text?

I am running macOS Sierra 10.12.6.


texts: Install older compatible version of apps on iPhone 4 having iOS7

texts:
I have iPhone 4 with iOS 7. Want to install apps as Facebook and Viber. Current version of those apps not supporting iOS7.

But is there a way to get older version of those apps?

Or is it possible to install it from older version of those IPA files?

If possible by IPA where we can get it and how can we do it?

  I seen some guide through itune. But latest version of iTune not
  allowing that approach.


texts: Deleted Photos to reclaim iCloud space but none reclaimed

texts:
I have deleted photos in order to reclaim iCloud storage, followed by emptying both the Recently Deleted album and the macOS Trash. I also restarted my computer.

Yet my available storage hasn’t increased. What else should I do?


texts: Why file links appear in the folder sidebar and how can I prevent this from happening?

texts:
My question is related to Remove link to something that is not a folder in the Finder sidebar, but my problem is fundamentally different.

I still have file links appearing in my folder sidebar. But I know how to remove those links, I just right-click and choose the option Remove from the sidebar.

I actually have no idea how files end up appearing in there: I don't drag them, I don't do anything special. Actually, if I drag them, I get a nice Forbidden icon. So I don't get how they should even appear.

So why do they appear there and how can I prevent this from happening?

I have Mountain Lion 10.8.2.


texts: Messages and FaceTime stuck with temporary number

texts:
I recently changed my provider and got a new phone number, temporarily, while my old provider transferred it. During that brief period of about 48 hours, my Apple Account, Messages and FaceTime picked up on the change and set everything to the new number.

Now I've got my old number back, I cannot seem to force Messages and FaceTime to pick up on the change back to my previous number. I have managed to add my old number back to my Apple Account and Trusted Number, but it insists on keeping that temporary number (which is now no longer in service) as the main contact for Messages and FaceTime, which subsequently appends it into my Apple Account.

I managed to get the above to work by switching iMessage and FaceTime off, then logging out of my Apple Account, and switching off; finally turning everything back on again about 20 minutes later. However, this has no effect on the Messages/FaceTime choice of contacts, which is stuck with that temporary number.

What's the trick to fix this?

(iPhone 8; iOS 13.2.3)


texts:
Cannot connect MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2015) (10.13.3) to the internet through my Apple USB Ethernet Adapter. I am receiving this error under System Preferences/Network:

"Apple USB Ethernet Adapter has a self-assigned IP address and will
not be able to connect to the Internet."
IP Address: 169.254.59.248
Subnet Mask: 255.255.0.0

I can connect to the internet with the same ethernet port on my Windows 10 machine. When I replace the IP address with a the Wi-Fi IP address I use to successfully connect to the same network under "Using DHCP with manual address", the Apple USB Ethernet Adapter icon is green and displays the message "Apple USB Ethernet Adapter is currently active and has the IP address xx.xx.xx.252." However there is no actual internet connection (i.e., I cannot visit any website).

According to this solution to a similar problem, I can:

Find and disable whatever firewall is intercepting the DHCP return traffic. According to System Preferences/Security & Privacy/Firewall, my firewall is off. Is there anywhere else I can check for additional firewalls? Would firewalls somehow impact ethernet and Wi-fi differently?
Inspect the network traffic or the router logs to see if and why the Mac DHCP broadcast packet is being ignored. How do I check network traffic on my Mac? I am comfortable using the terminal.

I have also tried steps listed as potential solutions in this post:

To reset the firewall, go to the /Macintosh HD/Library/Preferences/ folder and remove the file called "com.apple.alf.plist," and then restart your computer. On my computer I went to /Library/Preferences/ and ran sudo rm com.apple.alf.plist
If that was already set, try the "Advanced" button, then "Renew DHCP Lease"
Removing their "Ethernet" config from the Network settings and then re-adding

Does anyone have other suggestions? Thanks in advance


texts: Restoring a Time Machine backup on Yosemite's clean install

texts: If I want to perform a clean install of OS X Yosemite, can I restore my Mac with a Mavericks Time Machine backup after the Yosemite installer finishes?


texts:
I have a shell script from a open source project, when I run it in terminal, I get the following error:

./configure: line 17678: syntax error near unexpected token `soup,'
./configure: line 17678: `  PKG_CHECK_MODULES(soup, libsoup-2.4)'

I googled on ineternet, someone encountered a similar problem, he suggested to install libsoup development package which might fix this problem. Then, I found the libsoup link.

But I am not sure how to install libsoup on my MacBook ? Anyone could help me?


texts: How can I automatically tether on Macbook when I don't have wifi?

texts: Is there a way that I can detect that my mac does not have a wifi connection and automatically use my iPhone tethering without I have to go a select it from the menu?


texts: Virtual ergonomic keyboard for ipad pro?

texts:
Is there a virtual ergononmic keyboard available for the ipad pro?

I am coming from a Windows background and am happy with the physical Ergonomic Keyboard series from MS.

However when using the ipad pro, I would like to use it with a virtual keyboard, so it's easily portable.


texts: When syncing iphone 5, itunes hangs on backup stage

texts:
I have a new iPhone 5 (iOS 6.0.1) and successfully configured it with a backup of my old iPhone via iTunes on my Windows 7 PC. This basically transferred all my settings, media and apps.

I added some more music to my iTunes the next day and tried to sync my iPhone. So I plug in using the Lightning cable and click "Sync". I goes through the motions until it hits stage 2, backing up. Here it hangs and never gets past this stage. I left it on overnight the other day and it was in exactly the same state in the morning as I left it the night before.

I also can't seem to skip the backup stage by clicking the x. it just seems to freeze up for a bit when I do and then resumes the never ending backup.

Any advice on how to solve this as I literally just want to put 1 album on my iPhone and at the moment, this isn't possible.


texts: How do I open a file from TextEdit on MacOSX?

texts: How do I create a link in TextEdit on MacOSX that will let me open an external application?


texts: How to make red distinguishable from grey in Terminal profile "Pro"

texts:
The default for Terminal.app profile Pro is a black background with ANSI colors. Since the background is black the preferred color setting for Vim is background=dark. In this combination red text (emitted from syntax highlighting) is indistinguishable from grey text (at least for me):

"Foo" is red, "bar" is grey. A color picker reveals that red is rendered as R=243, G=222, B=222, so yes it actually is a slight bit more red than grey.

None of the color changing options in Terminal.app preferences allows me to change this to something that makes me recognize it as red. So how can i make red look red?

Edit (Further information from the comments): The issue is reproducible with any Vim (local or ssh remote, from OS X or mac ports) as long as Terminal.app is used for display.


texts:
iTunes refuses to copy some photos to my iPod with the following message:

  Some of your photos, including the photo “somefile.jpg”, were not copied to the iPod “iPod” because they cannot be displayed on your iPod

Note that loads of photos are not copied. How can I know which photos were not copied and why? They can be displayed perfectly on my mac.


texts: How to turn off a frozen iPhone with a broken lock button?

texts: What can you do when your iPhone is in Airplane Mode, the WiFi is off, and the lock button is broken. I can't log in to the phone. How can I turn it off?


texts: Can I run a program with ≥ 512mb of VRAM required?

texts: I have a MacBook pro 13-inch, mid 2010. I recently installed 8GB of RAM. I understand that the NVIDIA that is installed (NVIDIA GeForce 320M 256 MB) uses shared graphics memory. Does this means that the memory that is shared with the graphics card increases the total amount of VRAM? Could I run a program with a VRAM requirement of 512MB or maybe even 1GB?


texts: Exporting CSV with Numbers with different languages

texts:
I am exporting a file from Numbers to CSV and it contains language other than English, like Japanese or Russian.

After I export the CSV, all these funny characters shows up in the CSV.

Is there a way to fix that so Numbers can export as it is.

Thanks for your help


texts: Why is my time machine backup so large after updating from OSX 10.13.6 to 10.15.4?

texts:
Yesterday, I took my 2015 Macbook Pro running OSX 10.13.6 and backed it up using Time Machine to an external hard drive. I then immediately updated my laptop to 10.15.4. I plugged in my external hard drive to do back it up again using Time Machine, and the subsequent backup was over 70GB(!).  Looking at About This Mac -> Storage, I currently have an 256GB SSD, with 84GB of Photos, 78GB of documents, 18GB of Music, 7GB of Apps, 11GB of System, 16GB of other.

I can not figure out why this backup was so enormous.  What did Apple change so significantly over the past two operating system iterations? I know they dropped 32bit support for applications from 10.13 -> 10.14.  Could this be why this backup to be so large?

My cloud backup service (SpiderOak One), also decided that it needed to backup 40GB of stuff. It looks like its doing mostly photos in Photos Library.photoslibrary/originals, but likewise I don't see why it would need to do this.  I have it running constantly and I believe it was working and up to date prior to this backup.

I believe that these two issues are related. Perhaps Apple changed its file system yet again (like from 10.12 -> 10.13, where it changed  to AFS)?  Maybe it changed how it handles Photos?

Question:
1. Why was my Time Machine and SpiderOak backups so large?  The only thing I did was update my operating system.


texts:
I purchased an app 5 days ago and the the amount was debited in my account but my purchase history shows

  We were unable to authorize your credit card for this purchase. Please update your billing info.

What do i need to do?


texts:
I have iPhone 7 plus and I have upgraded to version 13.1 but all my contacts info has disappeared.  My contacts are still on cloud, but the problem is with the sync between my device and my cloud.

Any suggestions?


texts: Does the OS X log notifications from the Notification Center?

texts:
The helpful companion to the OSX notifications center Growl per default logs all received notifications. You can define how big the log may get or disable logging in the application.

Since the latest update Growl offers to forward all notifications to the OS X Notification Center.

Does OS X log Notifications Center messages as well? If yes, where can I find them?

Why I am asking this:

OS X logs all your downloads in a SQLite 3.x database. I want to know if something similar happens with notifications as well. This could be a privacy issue when thinking of private messages or e-mails if too much information is stored.


texts: Is Bluetooth and Wifi MAC address always sequential?

texts: This is related to the iPhone and iPad. Every single device I came across has sequential bluetooth and wifi mac addresses. Except for one device and I think it might be jailbroken I am not sure (it was a friend's phone). Is this always correct? Every iPhone/iPad has sequential mac addresses except for the jailbroken ones? If not is there a pattern between bluetooth and wifi mac address?


texts: How does iTunes know what albums to associate with each album artwork file?

texts:
I have recently been trying to systematically extract album artwork from my iTunes library, such that I can use them elsewhere.

I understand that all the album artwork is stored in the Album Artwork folder, inside iTunes-specific .itc2 files. I have researched and found that these files are simply wrappers for PNG, JPG, and RAW image data.

Which is fine - I can extract those images as I wish - however, I cannot determine how iTunes knows which .itc2 file belongs to each album. For playlist artwork, I have found that the second part of the file's name is equal to the Playlist Persistent ID found under the corresponding playlist in the iTunes Music Library.xml file. Yet it seems the same is not true for album artwork - there is nothing like an "Album Persistent ID" parameter.

So how does iTunes know which album each album artwork file belongs to?


texts: Early 2011 MacBook Pro SMC firmware update question

texts: OS has been upgraded to Mavericks. Can I still run the SMC firmware update 1.7 said to be for OS 10.75 and 10.82? Would it hurt anything to try this firmware update with the later OS?


texts: Why can't I remove Windows from my MacBook Air?

texts: I try to remove windows from my Mac. When I open Boot Camp Assistant and click continue, a notification appears.


texts: iPhone says there is not enough space/room to download an app, but there is

texts:
Cannot Download
There is not enough available storage to download "<APP>". You can manage your storage in Settings.

My brother gets this error message when we go to install a large app from the App Store. He has 1.2 GB free and the app is ~600 MB. Why is it doing giving us this error, and do I really need to clear more space? What else could be wrong?


texts: How can you get OSX if your hard drive crashed and you don't have the original DVD anymore?

texts: Yesterday my HD died. I thought about buying a new disk and reinstalling, but I can't find the original DVD that came with the machine (it's a MacBook 5.1, it came with 10.5). Suppose I want to buy and install a new operating system, how can I do it, considering that boxed dvds are no longer sold?


texts: Siri spells my child’s name wrong in texts. I tried all the suggestions given on here and it didn’t work. Added the field ‘phonetic spelling’ and spelled it the way Siri is spelling it. Then added the field “nickname”. When neither of those worked, I tried putting quotes around the correct spelling of the name. None of these worked. I just got an Xr. I even tapped on ‘tap to edit’and changed it but that didn’t work either.


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I changed my country. I want to change this info. in my apple ID so I can get apps for my country. I logged into my apple ID. In the ID info. The locations is disabled and there is this message next to the country list (that I can not update):

The country/region you selected for your account determines some
available services and payment methods. Your country/region cannot be
changed at this time. Learn more.

Why am I seeing this. How to solve the issue? I updated the country in the payment address to the correct country. My payment method is Paypal.


texts: mv Downloads downloads: Permission denied. Why?

texts:
I've found this question and answer about renaming "Downloads": How do I rename the Downloads folder (in Lion)? but it seems concerned more with how things look the the Finder. I do not care how things look to the Finder, I just think directories with capital letters annoying in ls output.
This is a case insensitive filesystem, why can't I use lower case names? Something is stopping me when I try to rename or delete, eg, "Downloads".
$ mv Downloads downloads
mv: rename Downloads to downloads: Permission denied
$ rmdir Downloads
rmdir: Downloads: Permission denied
$ mv Downloads foobar
mv: rename Downloads to foobar: Permission denied

I have not escalated to sudo because I suspect the above is a hint that things will break unless I do it the right way. Linux gives me the XDG user directories configuration as the "right way" to rename these "standard" (but kinda useless to me) directories. What's the Mac version of this?
This is largely about esthetics and I don't want to fix it with symlinks. And I don't really care if GUI stuff sees it as "downloads" or "Downloads" (which is close to that previous question) I want the directories renamed to lower case as seen by the Unix side of the interface: mv down*/*pdf project/docs/ type stuff should work, and cd; mv */recent-file some/where/else/ should not expand to cd; mv Downloads/recent-file downloads/recent-file some/where/else/ which is what I'd get with a symlink.
This is 10.15.7 ("Catalina")


texts: How do you specify which zip version to compress with?

texts:
I am trying to create a .imscc file, a common cartridge file used for interoperability between different Course Management Systems. It is essentially just a bunch of folders and XML files zipped up and labeled .imscc. However simply unzipping and rezipping with the standard archiving utility is somehow breaking the file and Canvas, the system I'm trying to import to, does not accept the file. Using zipinfo I discovered that the files generated by Canvas were zipped with version 5.2 while the standard zip utility uses version 2.1 and I'm hoping this is the source of the issue. It's definitely something with the zipping since the file sizes are different once I've unzipped and rezipped. (No hidden resource fork files I could find, for the record) I've tried the Canvas forums to no avail so I'm hoping someone here might know a way to zip a folder with a specific zip version.

Any ideas?


texts: How to prevent `Your computer was restarted because of a problem` window showing up?

texts:
After a reboot or direct shutdown I keep getting the following message:
Your computer was restarted because of a problem. Click Report to see more detailed information and send a port

[Q] I just don't want to see this message everytime. By default cant it be always selected as Ignore and the window does not show up when computer starts-up?


texts: Can I backup my new iPhone 6s from my 5s that has an older ios installed?

texts: If i use iTunes backup from my old device will it just backup my data and settings? I'm worried it will downgrade my ios. And I want the latest update..


texts: How to restore select files from Time Machine and fix permissions issues

texts:
I like doing things from the command line (eg copying only 24 select files by wildcard from my time machine backups) and Time Machine's extra permissions and protections catch me out every time.

Information on how to work around all the permissions is out there, but you have to know what you're looking for and find solutions to about 3 different problems.

So how do you restore those files with correct permissions?


texts:
In the Finder of my new Mac, there are two things I don't understand:

1) in the sidebar Desktop and Documents are placed under iCloud.

2) the Desktop and Documents folders are not shown in Macintosh HD ==> Users ==> SoftTimur in Finder, even though in a terminal we can see that they are physically in the folder of SoftTimur.

Does anyone know why it is like that?

PS: ls -lO returns

total 0
drwx------@  5 softTimur  staff  -  160 Dec 21 10:50 Applications
drwx------@  5 softTimur  staff  -  160 Dec 22 22:29 Applications (Parallels)
drwx------@ 13 softTimur  staff  -  416 Dec 22 17:41 Desktop
drwx------@  5 softTimur  staff  -  160 Dec 22 17:41 Documents
drwx------+ 20 softTimur  staff  -  640 Dec 22 21:53 Downloads
drwx------+ 63 softTimur  staff  - 2016 Dec 21 20:47 Library
drwx------+  5 softTimur  staff  -  160 Dec 22 17:41 Movies
drwx------+  6 softTimur  staff  -  192 Dec 22 17:41 Music
drwx------   4 softTimur  staff  -  128 Dec 22 22:45 Parallels
drwx------+  6 softTimur  staff  -  192 Dec 22 17:41 Pictures
drwxr-xr-x+  4 softTimur  staff  -  128 Dec 20 16:41 Public
drwxr-xr-x   5 softTimur  staff  -  160 Dec 22 22:34 Startup

PS: in Mac Finder:


texts: Safari can't open the page because Safari can't establish a secure connection

texts:
I am running Mac OS X 10.7.3 in VirtualBox. The reason is I have to deploy an old iOS app to the app store. And it runs on Xcode 4.3.2. If I try running the xcode on a newer version of Mac OS X, like 10.9.5, I would get an error “This installation of Xcode 4.3.2 requires Mac OS X 10.7 Lion.” My iPhone app is 100 percent complete and 100 percent working. I just need to deploy to app store. When I try to deploy on 10.7.3 on VirtualBox, I first try to go to Apple’s Developer Portal. I get the following message:

  Safari can’t open the page. Safari can’t open the page
  “https://developer.apple.com/account/overview.action” because Safari
  can’t establish a secure connection to the server
  “developer.apple.com”.

I am looking for the quickest way to deploy this to the store. What can I do?


texts: How can I bypass a third-party app from taking over the screen and preventing keyboard shortcuts?

texts:
I have a distance testing app I’m using, and it uses some malicious techniques to close Finder, prevent keyboard shortcuts, and make itself fullscreen. I would like to bypass this ability for my own nefarious purposes, but I don't know how. I've tried Command-Tab, shortcut keys, and more, but none of them are working. Is there any way I can institute a system automation, command line shortcut, or something similar to bypass this app's system control?

(By the way, when the app first launched, it requested permission for Desktop folder access (that's where the app is located on my Mac) and System Events control.)


texts: What happens if you delete the contents of the EFI partition?

texts:
So, I was playing around with the diskutil command.  Then I thought of mounting the EFI partition. It mounted successfully and I viewed its contents. When I right-clicked on a file I saw an option to move it to the trash.

So I was thinking: what will happen if you delete the contents of the EFI partition? Will they be recreated when you wipe the entire disk and reinstall MacOS?

PS: I would also like to know where the EFI partition is located?


texts:
My Drive app is unable to load a files from the icloud drive. I tried sign out and in, also turning off and on iCloud Drive but still loading.

Any ideas?


texts: Force Time Machine to perform a deep traversal?

texts:
How do I force Time Machine to perform a deep traversal? I've had this happen when I needed to once before, when it took about 120 minutes to go through 500 GB and Time Machine found about 10 GB worth of data that changed, which was exactly what I wanted at the time.

Now however, I'd like to do this again, but I can't seem to do it. I've tried resetting TM by trashing com.apple.timemachine.plist, booting from my Snow Leopard startup disk (even though I'm running Mountain Lion), and probably other things that I can't think of right now (I've been spending hours on this problem so far).

When I try to perform a backup, TM wants to backup my entire drive, which is about 500 GB, when I know that not everything has changed. I can even use TM to explore folders and go backwards in time and see that many folders have not changed in a while. So, I'd like to force TM to re-index my entire drive so that it picks up only the small changes rather than decides to back up everything.

Perhaps, is there a way to purge the File System Event Store, where Time Machine goes to see what has changed recently? I assume that currently it probably lists that everything has changed, perhaps due to something I did while trying to fix this problem over the past few days.


texts: How do I enable apps created in Fluid to access location data for my computer?

texts:
Some of the apps I am trying to create need me to share my location to function at their best, but fluid app seems to not allow this. I have looked through all the settings, but I can't find this setting.

Google Maps, for example, does not allow me to automatically see my current location nor do my facebook and other social apps.


texts: Why can't I forward from my host port 8080 to guest port 80 (Mojave)?

texts:
I'm running a virtual machine so I can work with Wordpress; I have a database on my VM Linux machine in VBox and I'm using a Mac. I have to be able to use my mac to go to localhost/wp-admin so I can test code changes to my WordPress templates.

I have created a pf.anchor called com.user.forwarding and it says

rdr pass inet proto tcp from any to any port 8080 -> 127.0.0.1 port 80

my pf.conf file says:

scrub-anchor "com.apple/*"
nat-anchor "com.apple/*"
rdr-anchor "com.apple/*"
rdr-anchor "org.user.forwarding"
dummynet-anchor "com.apple/*"
anchor "com.apple/*"
load anchor "com.apple" from "/etc/pf.anchors/com.apple"
load anchor "org.user.forwarding" from "/etc/pf.anchors/org.user.forwarding"

in my VBox, with NAT, my settings are:

and in my hosts file is:

##
# Host Database
#
# localhost is used to configure the loopback interface
# when the system is booting. Do not change this entry.
##
127.0.0.1   localhost
255.255.255.255 broadcasthost
127.0.0.1   mywebsite.com
::1     localhost

when I go to localhost:80/wp-admin, I get 'Safari can't open the page "localhost/wp-admin/" because the server where this page is located isn't responding.' My VM has nginx and mariadb running.

I've searched for the sysctl.conf file on my mac and it doesn't exist. I've done everything in here (except play with sysctl file which doesn't exist on my machine)

What's going on???


texts: Can my Apple ID password be recovered in Keychain Access?

texts: Is it possible to find an Apple ID/iCloud password in Keychain Access? Where can I find it?


texts: Importing HVEC files as JPEG and h.264 onto Windows computer?

texts:
I have a load of files on my phone in HVEC format (which I want because that's how they sync with Google Photos) but now I want to have them on my actual computer in JPEG and MP4 format (because the tools I use aren't compatible with the newer format).
Is there a way to do this please? Whenever I try to import the files it says " The device is unreachable " and have absolutely no idea what to do :(


texts:
I did not find any solution for my problem, so I'm asking this here:

My 2017 iMac won't read a 128 GByte SDXC Card (used to store photos in my Canon 5D Mk IV). It mounts and (most of the time) the files show up in Finder. But if I try to copy or import any of the photos from the card (for example into Lightroom), my mac tells me that it can't read the file because it's corrupt or something. I tried several solutions from this and other forums, but none fixed the problem.

The Filesystem is ExFAT and it's a Lexar (95 MByte/s) SDXC Card. My iMac has no problems to read from a 64 GByte SD Card from Samsung.

My PC and Windows Laptop can copy files from both cards without any problems (so it cannot be corrupt files or a corrupt filesystem).

Any ideas?

Kind regards,
Frank


texts: How can I sync the new "people" (face recognition) metadata across devices in Photos (iOS 10 and MacOS Sierra)?

texts:
The new Photos updates for iOS 10 and MacOS Sierra includes a much more powerful and integrated approach to organizing photos by who's in them.  It's built around powerful, on-device facial recognition.

But once it does its automated thing (finding the faces it thinks are the same person), there's still a lot of manual merging and labeling to be done if you have a lot of photos and are as obsessive about organization as I am.

For example, if you have, say... three thousand photos of your daughter, Photos will find almost all of them, but may guess they're 5 or 6 different people.  So you have to merge the buckets that all are one person, assign them a name (so you can search by it), etc.

But unlike other changes (edits, deletions, organization into albums, etc.), manual changes to "people" data don't seem to sync at all by default.

Is there really no way to do this?  It seems bizarre that one of the flagship features Apple's touting in this Photos update doesn't play at all with what was Photos primary selling point over iPhoto - everything synced on all your devices.


texts:
There is an error "This root certificate is not trusted" in my Keychain Access.

What is "Apple Configurator"? And what should I do about this error?


texts: Prevent webpages from binding to certain keyboard shortcuts?

texts:
I'd like to stop webpages from binding to ⌥ (Option) only shortcuts.

E.g. these can be bound to:

⌘+V
⌘+⌥+K
⌘+⇧+E
⌘+⌥+⇧+X
etc.

But these I want to prevent being bound to (so that their default comes into effect, I have set them up as dead keys/special character keys on my keyboard to type symbols I find important):

⌥+/
⌥+⇧+E
etc.


texts: Play key opening iTunes even if Spotify is currently selected

texts:
I normally use spotify for music, but I go from time to time to iTunes to listen to some Podcasts.

Sometimes I have both applications opened, and when I want to stop one, I select the application and (⌘ + tab until finding the app) and I hit space which stops playing it.

The thing is that I developed that habit because of the play/pause key wasn't working, and was only stopping iTunes if it was opened.

I would like the play/pause key (and all music related keys) to work on the app that I selected last, is that possible or configurable?

I am using a Macbook Pro with Touch Bar (Mojave 10.14.1)


texts: Does iphone have an activity/ diagnostic log

texts:
Don't know whats going on ... I am listening to music and all of a sudden it gets paused. The impression is that i got a call without actually getting it.

I suspect one application, but have no proof its the one.

Is there an activity log i can take a look to see what happens when it happens?


texts: What power class does an iPad and an iPhone have?

texts:
I am doing antenna simulations in order to visualize the electric field produced by an iPhone and an iPad. In order to do so, I need to know what typical power output these devices have.

From Wikipedia it is said that:

  Whereas a mobile phone can range from 21 dBm (125 mW) for Power Class 4 to 33 dBm (2W) for Power class 1 [...]

I need to be more precise than this, so I was wondering if anyone knew what power class a regular iPad and and iPhone is?


texts: help in writing script to mount external hard drives

texts:
Using: MacBookPro (Retina, 15-inch Mid 2015) macOS HighSierra V 10.13.2; Internal HD has 250GB.

In order to save space in my HD-internal, I have 5 USB connected external disks which are for backups and storage of images, files, etc.

I like to eject these devices when I no longer am using the laptop. I often used to get warnings device(s) not properly ejected. So, to prevent any potential disk damage, I eject these using a script I found in the internet.

I haven't been able to find one script that will mount those devices. I am hoping some one here will assist me in creating this script.

BTW, It is my first time here; I'm a 77 yo with very limited talent in using these technologies and I will appreciate any help you send my way.

DP


texts: Iphone 4S is displaying black screen but is still on. Can't restart because lock button is broken

texts: I'm trying to fix my brother's phone. The screen is completely unresponsive. I tried swiping around to try getting the passcode wrong to see if it would vibrate to no avail. The phone's lock button is broken, so I can't restart it that way, and it was never used with a computer, so when I tried to plug it in and fix it that way, iTunes asks me to confirm that I want to allow this device access by clicking something on the phone (which obviously I cannot do). I read somewhere that the LCD connector may be loose. Could this be the problem? Is there any way to fix this? Thank you!


texts: Why is this item bold in the Bluetooth menu?

texts:
Can anyone tell me what the bold text means in this image of my Bluetooth menu?

It seems that the mouse might be interfering with my keyboard, and I'm wondering if this is trying to say that?


texts: How Do I delete apps with the new iOS 11 update? I does not allow me to delete the app when I hold it down and it wiggles


texts:
I live in a building where I am connected to the university network for internet. I am not allowed to connect a router, or I will be kicked off the network. (This rule was created after wrongly configured routers blocked internet access for the entire building.) They expect people to connect their computers all through ethernet.

I have multiple computers including a MBA and an iPad, so I don't plan to abide by this.

I know I could configure one of my Macs for internet sharing, but it would have to be running all the time. Since I own an Airport Express I was hoping I could use it instead. Is there a way to configure the Airport so that the network administrators can't detect I'm using a router?


texts: Send 1 bookmark from IOS to Mac w/o iCloud or Email

texts:
I do NOT want to sync all my bookmarks across all my devices via iCloud, etc. Far too many bookmarks on my Mac that don't need to be on iPad, etc.

But sometimes I find a site on my IOS device & I want to have that site bookmarked in my Mac automatically or at least send the site link to my Mac to put it into my Mac bookmarks folder later.  I can't find any way to do this. Any ideas?


texts: The ads from Cydia are really intrusive and slows down the application a lot. How do I remove them?


texts: Enter day tasks in Calendar without times

texts:
I feel constrained when I need to enter start and end time for a task because I know it can take another amount of time than entered.

Can I somehow just make a list of tasks for a day, one after another?
I saw all-day tasks, but I don't think these are what I need.

As an alternative, what tasks list could you recommend please?


texts: Is there any keyboard shortcut for entering El Capitan’s split view?

texts:
El Capitan’s new split view is an interesting feature. At last, OS X users have a feature at their disposal that has long been available on various Linuxes or on Windows. However, I have not yet found any way to enter it with the keyboard alone, without any mouse or trackpad interaction.

Yes, I am a keyboard junky and I think the ⊞ Win + ← or → keyboard shortcuts that are available on Windows or on many Linuxes are very handy. I would appreciate anything similar – a setting, a menu entry, or even an extra app or script.

The BetterTouchTool allows for setting keyboad shortcuts for Maximize Window Left and Maximize Window Right. However, that is not quite the same, since it does not make use of the proper split view.

So, is there a way to enter the split view with a keyboard shortcut?


texts: stop an open Terminal from blocking overnight macOS update

texts:
When macOS tells me an update is pending and I choose to do that overnight, I often still have a few Terminal windows open when I leave for the day.  The next morning, macOS says that it politely declined to close those windows, and thus not try to update.  So my workday starts with twenty minutes of waiting for the update to run.

How can I tell macOS to kill Terminal and anything else that might prevent the update from running?

Catalina 10.15.4, if it matters.  In Preferences > Software Update > Advanced, all the checkboxes are checked.


texts: Caps lock key response delay on Apple Wireless Keyboard

texts:
I've noticed a semi-handy feature on Apple Wireless Keyboard: quick pressing the caps lock key won't enable the caps lock, it needs a determined push. Benefits are obvious, it prevents accidental all-caps text when you actuALLY INTENDED TO PRESS 'A'.

Is there a way to hack this around? Adjust it or remove it completely? I like the idea, but for me it is more of a speed bump than a seat belt.

I have checked the keyboard preferences and the usability preferences as well. Keyboard delay is off and repeat delay is at minimum. There are no delay on other keys (well, except the eject key, but it requires even more determined press), and there is no delay when turning the caps lock off.

I'm on a Snow Leopard Lion and the wireless keyboard came with the mid-2010 iMac.

EDIT: It seems like the functionality is in the driver rather than in the keyboard itself. When using the keyboard in Windows 7 the caps lock key works in a regular manner. The drivers that Windows uses are standard HID Keyboard drivers provided by Microsoft.


texts: How run a .py (python?)-script in Xcode?

texts: Hi I got the complete code, but I don't know how to run the script. The script is some plot of a function, can one run the script so that the plot is shown in xcode?


texts: What does it mean if the phone does half a ring before going straight to voicemail?

texts:
So many times, I'll call someone (iPhone to iPhone) and the iPhone will ring once, but goes to voice mail immediately about halfway through the ring.

What are the possibilities? I'm assuming the phone is dead could be one, but I know that's not the case. Maybe they could also be on the phone?

Then I'll call 10 minutes later after they text me back saying "whats up," and it rings normally. I figure they must have been on the phone? But I thought it normally gives them a choice whether to drop the current call or not, so maybe that'd take more time than half a ring?

I called 3 times, and all 3 times it rang half a ring, and went to voicemail.


texts: Stop moving desktop with multiple Chrome windows

texts:
I recently have really annoying issue with Chrome.

I am using Mac OSX 10.14.5 Mojave with Chrome version 75.0.3770.142

Here is the issue. I have two Chrome windows and I put each window to each desktop like Chrome window 1 for desktop 1 and Chrome window 2 for desktop 2.

Of course each desktop has different applications like terminal, Acrobat reader etc. Say I am doing some text editing with my terminal in desktop 1 and I need to find something via Chrome in desktop 1. When I switch application via Cmd + tab (like usual) from terminal to Chrome, then it suddenly moves to Chrome window 2 that is in desktop 2.

All other applications is okay i.e. switching apps in desktop 1 only happen in desktop 1 (not moving desktop 2).

Does anyone have similar problem like this?

I also turned off Automatically rearrange Spaces based on most recent use in mission control and quit the hole Chrome windows then do it again. But anything was helpful.

Any comments are appreciated!


texts: How do I import my OSX Keyboard Shortcuts?

texts:
After a clean OS install, is there any way to recover my OS Keyboard Shortcuts from a backup of my previous User folder?

Is is somewhere in Library/Preferences?

I tried copying ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.symbolichotkeys.plist (based on another thread here) but that did not seem to work.

(I'm referring to various shortcuts set up in System Preferences > Keyboard > Shortcuts, particularly > 'App Shortcuts')


texts: Can't transfer PDFs & eBooks from iMac to iPad 3 on iOS 6

texts:
I see there are loads of questions on this general theme, but I couldn't find one that was precisely . my situation.  If I just missed it, someone please point me to it.

I have an iMac running Sierra and iTunes 12.8.0.15, and an iPad 3 running iOS 6 (and I do not wish to upgrade it at all).  I have a number of PDFs and epubs that I used to be able to transfer to the iPad via iTunes, but that no longer works.  The books have also all been deleted from the iPad when I tried to do a sync from iTunes.

The "Books" option in iTunes has suddenly vanished before my eyes today (the one under "Settings" in iTunes).  iCloud Books also does not appear to work since even if Books are enabled in iCloud on my Mac, they don't appear on the iPad.  Not sure if iOS6 even supports iCloud books... I thought it did but could be wrong.

Anyway, bottom line is I simply want to be able to manually download my books to the iPad since I use it primarily as an e-reader these days.  Is this possible and if so, how?


texts: Mac Pro 1,1 (2007) Not Updating To El Capitan

texts:
I recently purchased an old Mac Pro, from eBay to use it as an advanced CPU performance computer as opposed to my 2012 MacBook Air that can't endure much. So far it is working, I have gotten a wireless dongle to connect, and I thought all was good until I went to my App Store to upgrade to El Capitan. When I click "Get" on it's page. I get this error:

We could not complete your purchase.
This version of OS X 10.11 cannot be installed on this computer.

I checked the Apple Upgrade page and it is all good. A quick look at the forms, still all good. Even a Google search on other locations on the internet did not help me. So, I have decided to present your ever so luxurious minds with my preposterous issue. I was wondering if any of you knew how to get my Macintosh to update. Is there some stupid mistake I am missing, is it seemingly unfixable? If you need my computer specifications, here they are:

Processor:  2 x 2.66 GHz Dual-Core Intel Xeon
Memory:  4 GB 667 MHz DDR2 FB-DIMM
Graphics:  NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GT 256 MB
Software:  Mac OS X Lion 10.7.5 (11G63)

Thank you for your efforts in advance.


texts: Is there any way to lock my mac without sleeping and without the screen saver activating?

texts:
I want my Mac to stay awake on the login screen, but without activating the screen saver.

I have tried a lot to no avail. I have tried to change Energy Saver settings, which only take effect when I'm logged in.

After press Control + Command + Q, these settings no longer apply.


texts: I need to record a demo on my iPad's screen where I narrate what's going on but I also want the sounds from the iPad to be in the video. It seems that choosing the Mac Built-in Mic option causes only my voice to be in the video while choosing the iPad Mic option cause only the sounds from the iPad to be in the video. What can I do to put both in the video?


texts: When I open System Preferences, go to Privacy, unlock the pane with my password. When I click on the 'Turn on Location Services' checkbox, the computer freezes, and the box turn blue and immediately turns white. How do I fix this?


texts: How can I set dark mode for Word documents

texts:
Microsoft recently released the Dark Mode for MS Office for Mac. While the Dark Mode sets the interface to dark color palette, the page area itself still remains white and the text is black.

How can I set the page to dark mode, i.e. dark page area and light font color?

Or does keeping the page area white follow some kind of Apple design guidelines? But again, in BBEdit you can select a theme with dark background and light text.


texts: Do Google Chrome and Safari keep sending my IP address to websites while in the background on iOS

texts:
When you are not actively using Safari or Chrome, but if they are in the background still with open tabs of websites that were visited while in the foreground, do they keep refreshing and sending my IP address etc. to the websites?
(iOS)


texts: Mac Calendar App not Syncing Google Calendar

texts: I have removed the account from my computer. I have cleared the Calendar cache multiple times. I have refreshed my Calendar. I have made sure that calendar syncing is active on the Google side of things. I feel like I have tried everything, but I still cannot get my Google Calendar to show up on the Mac Calendar app. Also, no I did not accidentally hit the arrow beside the word "Google" to hide the calendar. I do not know what else to try to get this resolved.


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My group at work writes a lot of papers, and as a result we all proofread for each other.  However, some people like to print out the documents and edit by hand, while some prefer to edit electronically (myself being the latter).

Before upgrading to Mavericks and Preview 7.0, I noticed that the previous version of Preview in Lion had a very nice feature for annotating documents.  When I wanted to add a comment, a sidebar would appear with an area for me to write in, and a line drawn to the point where the correction is required.

Now, however, I cannot seem to find this function.  What is worse is that adding a Note places a small icon over the text which then expands to the full note.  This is fine if everybody is editing electronically, however those who print the paper only see that little icon.  For us, this renders Preview pretty much useless throughout the group.

Is there a way in 7.0 to use the feature I'm talking about?  I am hoping that I am just too unfamiliar with Mavericks/Preview7 and that the feature wasn't removed.  Otherwise, I'm going to need to find another app to replace Preview for editing documents.


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I have a launchd job plist that runs a simple shell script that invokes rdiff-backup to backup a remote directory over SSH to my computer. The job runs every hour and it works well.

Except the other day there was a power failure* and the rdiff-backup job was interrupted. The next time launchd ran the script, rdiff-backup failed and logged it's failure to the path specified in the plist. launchd, noticing the abnormal exit code, stopped trying to run the script.

And I had no idea for six days.

Obviously I don't want a notification of the exit code every time the script finishes. What can I do to be notified only of abnormal exits?

(*) turns out my UPS battery was passing the self-test when invoked, but didn't actually have the ability to power even a minimal load for more than 3 seconds.


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I have a MBP which half of the time is used via a (4K Dell monitor & bluetooth apple keyboard & mouse) and half of the time is used on its own. The main use case is software development.
I'm considering buying an apple tv iff the following setup is possible.
Use the (4K monitor & apple tv & keyboard & mouse) as a thin client through which I remote-connect to the MBP, so that

the MBP can lay anywhere in the flat (I have good wifi/ethernet infrastructure)
I don't have to plug-in the DP/HDMI cables every time I sit to the desk

Is this doable?


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Is there a way to break out or have independent docks across displays?

I have a MacBook Pro (circa 2009, 10.6.8), which is connected to a Dell UltraSharp display, and I keep going to the bottom of the Dell display to invoke the dock.


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I would like to buy an external Blu-Ray drive. I have a specific model in mind (the LG CP40NG10), but I'm open to suggestions if anybody has a different one they recommend.

The documentation says that it has "Mac support: Yes (DVD)", but does this imply that it has Blu-Ray support on Macs? There is a new Mac Blu-Ray player software package and tips to read video Blu-Ray discs with MakeMKV + VLC.

Does anybody know if it's possible to read Blu-Ray discs under OS X with this LG drive or where I can find a list of hardware supporting these two software products?

I have a MacBook Pro Core 2 Duo 2.53 GHz on OS X 10.6.8.


texts:
I can't find anything about this on Google, but it appears Safari on IOS8 no longer supports javascript: bookmarklets.

Can anyone confirm this?

Is there a workaround?

I'm using iPhone 6 plus if for some reason this matters.


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I'm trying to create an app to toggle voice control on and off, as for some reason Catalina removed the link between dictation and voice control thus ridding itself of the ability to use a keyboard shortcut for voice commands. I'm trying to ad that back by creating an app. Am ridiculously disabled (think one step below paralysed) and for my setup this functionality had become very useful.

Here is what I have so far, but unfortunately its not working:

tell application "System Preferences"
    reveal pane id "com.apple.preference.universalaccess"
    delay 1
    tell application "System Events"
        tell window 1 of application process "System Preferences"
            select table 1 of scroll area 1
            delay 0.1
            select row 12 of table 1 of scroll area 1
            delay 0.1
            click checkbox "Enable Voice Control"
        end tell
    end tell
    quit
end tell

It highlights the correct row in the accessibility options but doesn't quite get as far as clicking the checkbox. Results in this error:

The action “Run AppleScript” encountered an error: “System Events got an error: Can’t get checkbox "Enable Voice Control" of window 1 of application process "System Preferences".”

System Events got an error: Can’t get checkbox "Enable Voice Control" of window 1 of application process "System Preferences".

Could someone please offer some direction on where I'm going wrong?

Thank-you!


texts: Why will QuickTime movies load but not play on iMac running OS 10.7.2?

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When I run QuickTime to play a movie (let's say a .avi file), the movie loads but the movie doesn't play. I click on the triangle button in QuickTime to play the movie and nothing happens. If I advance the progress bar to some random point in the movie, the screen just shows a still image of that point in the movie. QuickTime just doesn't "play" the movie.

Strange thing is that QuickTime works perfectly fine in my wife's login on the same computer as well as when I log in to a "test" account on the same computer.

I have tried to delete what I think are the plist files for QuickTime in my log in. However, the problem still persists.

Does anyone have any further troubleshooting tips? I am happy to reinstall QuickTime but since it is built into the OS, I don't know if that is possible. If this is possible, can someone also give me a walkthrough of how to do this?

Thank you.


texts: Only HTTPS websites working otherwise I receive ERR_CONNECTION_REFUSED

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I am facing annoying problem of only HTTPS websites working on my Mac (in all browsers). I can only visit Google, YouTube, Facebook, Yahoo etc.

So far, I tried following:

Websites shows error of: ERR_CONNECTION_REFUSED
I have uninstalled Anti-virus
Turned off firewall
Changed DNS, to 8.8.8.8, 8.8.4.4 (Google), 208.67.222.222, 208.67.220.220 (Open DNS), 0.0.0.0
My network is ipv4 supported (but not ipv6) so most websites should work.
I tried ping websites that are not opening on browser e.g: dailymotion.com , but I transmitted and received packets without loss.
Reinstalled Yosemite but problem still persists.
Everything works when I use VPN (e.g hotspot shield), so my guess is DNS is messed up.
I tried flushing DNS using sudo killall -HUP mDNSResponder

P.S Everything works in Safe Mode and using mobile hotspot

Here is traceroute, and curl verbose. So the issue is with only http websites.

When I use sudo pfctl -s nat, I am getting following response: “No ALTQ support in kernel ALTQ related functions disabled rdr pass inet proto tcp from 192.168.1.100 (my IP) to any port = 80 -> 127.0.0.1 port 9882”. By removing port forwarding using sudo pfctl -F all, the websites works for few seconds only

Any suggestions please ?


texts: Most suitable Mac OS 10.6 through 10.9 for early 2009 iMac

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I have an early 2009 iMac (9,1), currently running Mac OS 10.5. Now I want to use it as a media center and install XBMC, which only supports Mac OS 10.6 and upwards. The question arises, which OS version is the one that gets the best performance out of my system.

It is a 24' iMac with a 2.93GHz Core 2 Duo processor and 4 GB of RAM.

Which OS between Snow Leopard and Mavericks will be the smoothest on my system? Has there been some comparison of the performance with different OSs?


texts: I am thinking about buying a magnetic iPhone 4S case but I'm not sure whether it's safe. Can this magnetic case be harmful for the inner parts of my iPhone 4S? The case looks exactly like this:


texts: Terminal will not open new window on startup with Sierra

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After upgrading to macOS Sierra, Terminal no longer opens with a new window on startup despite having the preference enabled. I have to click on the dock icon to open a new window. Is there a way to make Terminal honor the preference setting?

Here is a screenshot of my preferences


texts: Can you use the command line on a Mac to get to a networked Mac?

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I have a networked mac desktop and a wireless laptop.   I would like to use the desktop mac to test web pages from the laptop.   The mac desktop has a php/mysql/apache server outside the router for testing.

How do I get to my network using the command line from the laptop?
I do cd ~ and I get my laptop hard drive
I do cd / and I get one level higher
I do cd Network and get no directory

Is this only possible with a Mac Server? It seems like the CLI should see the other mac on the network since I have logged onto it from the network and have the other mac hard drive visible on the desktop.
thanks,


texts: Changing movie genre in AppleTV (4th Generation)?

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Apple TV (4th Gen)
MBP (15" w/ TB)

I have a few hundred movies purchased through iTunes, some have mismatched genres, some I'd like to create my own.

Examples:

Rush Hour 1 & 3 are marked as Comedy
Rush Hour 2 is marked as Action & Adventure
Grouping all James Bond movies under a genre of the same name

I found this article from 2009 that explains how to do this with AppleTV out at the time.

On my MBP:iTunes, I can CMD+Select multiple movies > Get Info > Change Genre. This is reflected in iTunes on my MBP, the article then states

  Now re-sync your Apple TV (in the Devices section of iTunes, select the Apple TV and click Sync) and you’re done.

On my MBP:iTunes, there is nothing listed under Devices.

Do I need to turn on Home Sharing to have the genres updated on the Apple TV or does the device no longer "sync" local genre changes vs. iTunes defaults?

Follow up question: If this can be done, is there a way to specify sort preferences per genre (e.g. list Bond genre movies by year)?


texts: Is removing network access to a shared Time Machine drive mid-backup similar to unplugging a physical drive?

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I'm considering using FreeNAS to provide Time Machine network shares for Time Machine backups of 5-10 Macbooks.  One thing I like about this approach is that users simply have to join the network (e.g. open my Macbook), and the Time Machine backup will commence.  This is advantageous as there is no drive that the user must remember to plug in.

The disadvantage is that users will surely simply close their laptops and leave the network, effectively "unplugging" the Time Machine network share.

Given that Time Capsule supports this exact use case (wireless Time Machine backups), I'm inclined to think that suddenly leaving the network mid-backup won't be an issue.  It would be nice to have confirmation from the community, though.

Will this cause problems?  What should I do to make this use case less error-prone?


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I've just downloaded GimpShop and wanted to run it on Lion.
So I've copied the app to the Applications folder and started it.
It starts, I can see it's doing something with cache and bam.. it goes away. The only thing left is X11 window with bash prompt.
I've tried closing the X11 app and running it again... nothing.
Is there any way I could start GimpShop on Lion?

Thanks

EDIT:
There's something wrong with font caching or immediately after fonts are cached.
If I remove the font cache directory it will go through the process of caching again and will close immediately after it [or in the middle, hard to tell].
I can see few files inside. If they stay there and I will try to start GimpShop again it will close immediately.

EDIT2:
So I've followed these instructions, but I'm still getting an error:

bash-3.2$ ./Gimp
/Applications/Gimpshop.app/Contents/Resources/init: line 7: dev/null: No such file or directory
Fontconfig warning: no <cachedir> elements found. Check configuration.
Fontconfig warning: adding <cachedir>/usr/X11/var/cache/fontconfig</cachedir>
Fontconfig warning: adding <cachedir>~/.fontconfig</cachedir>
/Applications/Gimpshop.app/Contents/Resources/script: line 17: open-x11: command not found
Unable to find application named 'XDarwin'
2012-01-17 00:39:24.040 defaults[74566:507]
The domain/default pair of (kCFPreferencesAnyApplication, AppleLanguages) does not exist
dyld: Library not loaded: /opt/local/lib/libfreetype.6.dylib
  Referenced from: /Applications/Gimpshop.app/Contents/Resources/lib/libfontconfig.1.dylib
  Reason: Incompatible library version: libfontconfig.1.dylib requires version 15.0.0 or later, but libfreetype.6.dylib provides version 10.0.0
bash-3.2$

Any tips?


texts: Import Chrome bookmarks to Safari under iOS

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I just wanted to know if it is possible to import Chrome bookmarks into Safari on iOS?

I’m using Safari on my iPhone but I am using Chrome for work. And now I just want to have all my bookmarks Chrome also in Safari, without using my computer to export the bookmarks and then manually import it on my Mac.


texts: sandboxd, pstopdf deny file-read-data and file-read-metadata

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In attempting to get cups-pdf working in El Capitan, I'm running into the error that pstopdf errors out.

The system.log shows that the sandbox kernel extension is denying read access to the following files:

deny-read-data /Users/USERNAME/.CFUserTextEncoding
deny-read-metadata /Users/USERNAME/Library/Fonts

Is there a way to work-around this issue? What's the appropriate thing to do for sandboxed applications?


texts: Security & Privacy issue: cannot edit options

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I am trying to set password when active the screen saves. This option is in Security & Privacy -> Require Password checkbox.

The problem is that this checkbox is gray - read only access - even if I unlock this in padlock. I am also using the administrator user.

How solve it? Is there any Terminal command to add the password?

I am using macOS Sierra 10.12.3.


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After doing the recent iOS 8.2 update, my photo stream has disappeared.

I have checked all through my phone and on the icloud and my photo stream is ticked.

All I have left is 3 folders: one says All Photos, one says Videos, and one says recently deleted.


texts: macOS Sierra mysteriously capturing keyboard shortcuts involving Cmd-Ctrl-Alt

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I recently noticed that certain keyboard combinations involving Cmd+Ctrl+Alt (Cmd+Ctrl+Opt) are captured by my Mac but cannot figure out what is doing the capturing. For example, Cmd+Ctrl+Alt+j/; both trigger their pressed keys on the virtual keyboard showing that they are not being caught. However, Cmd+Ctrl+Alt+k/l show the modifiers being held but neither k or l are shown as triggered. Of the letter keys on my keyboard here are the ones that do not work with Cmd+Ctrl+Alt: t, p, a, s, k, l, c, m, ,, .

The above failures occur when I have no apps running besides Finder so there shouldn't be any app specific keyboard shortcut conflicts. I have looked through and disabled every possible keyboard shortcut in the Keyboard pane of System Preferences. As far as I’m aware there should be no conflicting shortcuts yet there certainly seems to be something capturing these combinations.

So I guess 2 questions:

Can someone confirm that they can in fact trigger these combinations on their Mac? For reference I’m on macOS Sierra, Version 10.12.6
Does anyone know either what might be capturing these shortcuts or how I might go about figuring that out?

Thanks in advance and this is my first time asking a question so please let me know if there’s other information that I should add here!


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I have three Macs at the house and have the same user account setup on each of them. The users on two of the machines were initially set up using migration assistant to transfer user accounts.

When accessing the Advanced Options menu under System Preferences > Accounts >  > Advanced Options, I notice that the UUIDs on each machine are different. The User ID and Group values are identical.

Question: should the user UUID (different than UID) be set to the same on each of the computers? Any disadvantage if they are not? Does OS X use the uid (e.g. 501) to determine if the users on two different machines are the "same"?


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My company provided me with a secure boot stick from ECOS which shall boot Linux on any Mac or PC when plugged-in. However, my MacBook Pro (13-inch, 2019, Two Thunderbolt 3 ports, BigSur Version 11.2.3) does not detect the bootable device when I press option after having started. According to Disk Utility, it is a FAT16 system which prints me an error if I press mount in disk utility. Does anyone know a workaround?
As I need to use this stick for working from home, I really appreciate any kind of help!
Thanks in advance!


texts: App Store: Auto-renewable subscriptions as a service payment method

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There are a number of tutorials and blogs which suggest that auto-renewable subscriptions are not generally permitted by Apple in the App Store unless the app is a newsstand app.

The problem is, they are now all a few years old. Has anyone had any recent experience with the App Store review process and this kind of payment methodology; does anyone know if it is likely that an app which bills for it's subscriptions this way will be accepted?

I'm aware that you can use a non-renewing subscription for this, but it's not very user friendly.

For a quick usage idea, I have an app which will permit messaging whilst a subscription is active (no, not a dating app). Please feel free to move the question if it's on the wrong site.


texts: Least expensive prepaid data roaming with an unlocked iPhone in the US

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Will be travelling to the US a bit and trying to determine the least expensive way to get my unlocked iPhone online.

My provider (Rogers) has a standard US data roaming rate of $30/mb but also offers travel add-on packs that you can buy for 30 days of usage:

Add on packs are:

10mb for $30 ($3/mb)
25mb for $50 ($2/mb)
75mb for $60 ($0.80/mb)

Alternate carrier options I know of so far:

AT&T GoPhone prepaid service - $20 for 100mb, but you have to be careful not to tell them you are using their prepaid service with an iPhone and you need to muck with APN settings -- walkthrough one, walkthrough two.
T-Mobile's Unlimited $1/day Sidekick data plan - not sure if this is still offered.  Caveats are that T-Mobile will only work on EDGE with iPhone and you need alternate APN settings as well as possibly needing a (paid) proxy to use it

Curious if there are other options out there - I guess it's limited to AT&T and T-Mobile since those are the only compatible (or semi-compatible for T-Mobile) networks in the US...

Here's a wiki dedicated to prepaid data roaming, however it doesn't have much information on US (yet)


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I want to be able to cat the device file of a raw binary input stream from a midi controller. In Ubuntu, the process to do this was something like cat /dev/dmmidi1. However, I do not see such a file in OS X. There are, however, many more tty files than in ubuntu.

Is there a device file that I can cat, or do I have to get the raw midi stream from something else? How do I get the raw binary stream?


texts: When I play music from a playlist, how do I get back to the playlist?

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For example, in the Apple Music "For You" section, I start playing one of the suggested playlists. While that is playing, I am browsing around in Apple Music looking at other things (but still listening to the original playlist).

Now I want to go back to the original playlist. I can't find any way to do that, short of opening up "For You" and scrolling through it trying to find the original thing I tapped. (And it doesn't help that the "For You" section refreshes itself while I am scrolling, making it a frustrating moving target.)


texts: How to fix Users & Groups / Other Users?

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I don't know how, but suddenly there are a lot of "Sharing Only" under Other Users. On my other mac, there are no such thing.

Directory Utility screenshots.


texts: Force iPhone to remember "don't trust" setting when connecting to computer

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Every time I plug my iPhone into one of my computers to charge it, it prompts me to trust or don't trust. How do I force it to remember he don't trust setting? I don't want this specific computer to ever be trusted, and I don't want it to ask me every time.

All searches I've found relate to how to reset the warning dialog in case you've chosen the wrong option by mistake.

It's running iOS 10.3.3


texts: Permission denied error when copying to /usr/local/bin

texts: The GitHub setup page at https://help.github.com/articles/set-up-git has a section on password caching.  It states to download the osxkeychain and copy it to /usr/local/bin.  I downloaded the file, but get a permission denied error when I try to copy it to the directory specified.  How can I get this file copied?


texts: Storage not displayed properly in "About this mac" section

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Please refer to the image to see how Storage is showing me the space division.

Its showing amount of space available correctly but the division below is incorrect as you can see it is showing 249.72 GB for Apps and I only have 249.78 GB total space.

What can I do to correct this?

Edit :

Hi guys, thanks to everyone who responded and provided there inputs to solve my problem, really appreciate it. I don't know how but the space division is showing correct division now (I guess) , here is the snapshot of what is currently displayed :

I am not sure how it got corrected, the only thing I did was restart and immediately there was no change, but then I had some work and came back to the macbook again and saw the above scenario. Still not sure what does other signify and I am pretty sure that the space allocated to apps is wrong, is there anywhere I can check other than storage about how much space is allocated to Apps?


texts: Dictate and speak/read text from Terminal

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I have an idea in mind for a Terminal command I run often. I haven't found answers to these on my own, and they all have to do with voice/dictation:

Dictation in Terminal

Can I dictate to the Terminal? I've tried the standard Fn-Fn, but it only plays the sound effect that it makes when you've cancelled it. No microphone bubble appears either. Is it not possible to do this? I notice that in the Edit menu of Terminal, I find that Start Dictation is not greyed out; it's still an option.

I am positive that Dictation is setup correctly, it works great system-wide.

Reading output from Terminal

Can I get the output of one Terminal window and have it read to me by the system (via AppleScript)?  I am essentially trying to reproduce this behavior with continuous output (I want every line that follows the first to be read):


texts: Save file to hidden directory with standard OS X save dialog

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Using TextEdit, when I try to save example.txt to some hidden directory, for example ~/Library, I can't because save panel doesn't show them.

The only way I found was to save file to non-hidden directory and then copy/paste them to desired hidden directory.
This is pretty common for me, for example when I want to try I/O for console programs in Xcode, executables are in ~/Library/Developer/Xcode/ which is a hidden directory.

But that doesn't apply only to TextEdit, I tried Text Wrangler, Photoshop, Grapher, only Blender, which doesn't use native window system allows me to save it anywhere. My question is, is this common behavior? Is there any workaround (except for saving it to non-hidden+copy/paste), or some hidden setting?

EDIT: adding picture

as below suggestted, typing / you can specify your directory, providing you know the exact path, but what if there are more than 1 hidden files in your path? On the left is save panel without hidden directories, on the right Finder with enabled hidden directories.


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I intend to buy a Blue Yeti microphone later today. I've been reading that you need two things for the yeti to work with GarageBand on iPad: the Apple Camera Connection kit (obvious really) and also a powered USB hub to avoid the 'device drawing too much power error.' I was wondering if this problem has been fixed with iOS 7 or not; do I Still need the USB Hub?

So, in short, my question is: Will I need to buy a powered USB hub to connect the Blue Yeti, or can I go straight through CCK without a hub?

Edit: Another question, will there be ANY sort of recording latency using this method or the Blue Spark Digital which is the other microphone I intend to look at. It's very important there is NO lag or latency when recording into the iPad


texts: User & Groups settings text top down and reversed

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When I go to settings -> user & groups then, all text and components in the container are reversed like the picture and clicking a component will not response anything.

It is shared mac mini with OS X Yosemite 10.10.2, I connected it with VNC client.

Logout and login do not help.

Can somebody help me how to fix it?

Edit

After reboot the mac, it is corrected.


texts: What Type of SSD is Used in the 2013 Mac Pro?

texts: Does the 2013 Mac Pro use M.2 solid state drives (SSDs)? I would like to upgrade my Mac Pro to 1 TB of storage, but OWC's SSDs are too expensive for me.


texts: Now that MagSafe is dead in favor of USB-C, how many types of MagSafe are there and how do I identify which one matches my computer?


texts: windows can't read my HDD installed in my dvd slot on MBP

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I've swapped my dvd drive with an HDD drive on my MBP 2008 non-unibody.
I can read it from MAC os but not from Windows.
I did configure it to be PC compatible...

Anyone knows why it's not seen as an addtional hard drive?


texts: CloudDocs > session folder filled with version of a Pages file

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I'm on a 2016 MacBook Pro with macOS 10.13.5

In (User)Library/Application Support/CloudDocs there is a folder called session weighing approx. 35GB.
Inside there is another folder called r(why r?) which contains a few thousand files, 99% of which are what seem to be incremental versions of the same Pages document.

Why are those files there?
Can I safely delete them? (for your knowledge, I have already copied the original final version of the file elsewhere for backup, just in case).

What is the use of this folder (apart from being the iCloud Drive mirror on the computer's drive)?


texts: Mac modifier keys are automatically getting restored to default bindings the next day

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So everyday, I change the preferences of modifier keys and set my caps lock to be the control key. The very next day, it comes back to being caps lock again.

This was a brand new 15 inch Macbook pro with Yosemite in it. I haven't installed any third party Mac app except for my development environment which includes - brew, emacs, jdk, vagrant, ansible, virtualbox. That's it. I did install few fonts but have not installed anything special.

Also, I made chrome my default browser and next day links on are again opening in Safari.

Is there some background service that might be restoring it back to normal ? I have no idea how to diagnose this behavior.


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I have a 2019 15" MBP which has had a string of issues, but is passing all hardware tests when serviced at the Genius Bar:
November 2019–March 2020
Mac freezes daily, usually towards the end of the work day (4–5pm), mouse and keyboard are unresponsive, reboot resolves the issue.
March 2020–September 2020
Mac becomes unusable multiple times during the day due to really high kernel_task CPU usage (sometimes more than 4000% when no apps are open). Reboot does not resolve issue, but turning the MacBook upside down in clamshell mode seemed to help (connected to external display). Some tasks such as a Skype call with video are essentially impossible. Resolved by reinstalling the OS without restoring from back up.
Now
Battery depleting at extreme rate, Mac is extremely hot even upon start up and fans almost always running at full speed. Now the icon in the upper right says "service battery", even though the battery has less than 400 battery cycles.
This just seems to me like there is some fundamental core hardware issue at play that Apple is failing to diagnose.
Has anyone experienced similar, or any insight into what is happening here?


texts: Why does my iMac take so long to go to sleep?

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Note: I have seen this question as well as this question, I don't believe that either pertain to this situation.

When I press the sleep button on my iMac it consistently takes 30-31 seconds to go to sleep. The computer is reasonably old, it is a early 2008 model and because of this, the hard drive is pretty full (only about 2GB left). When the computer sleeps there are no processes taking up a lot of CPU and most of the RAM is available. The computer wakes up reasonably quickly (1-2 seconds)

I would like to know why the computer takes so long to go to sleep, and if there is a solution to the problem.

Here are the stats of the computer:

OS X 10.6.8 (Snow Leopard)

2GB DDR2 SDRAM

2.8 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo

If anymore information is needed, just add a comment.

Edit:

Here is the console output when I put the computer to sleep.

8/20/14 11:58:36 AM kernel  PM notification timeout (pid 199, DashboardClient)
8/20/14 11:58:36 AM kernel  PM notification timeout (pid 199, DashboardClient)
8/20/14 11:58:36 AM kernel  hibernate image path: /var/vm/sleepimage
8/20/14 11:58:36 AM kernel  sizeof(IOHibernateImageHeader) == 512
8/20/14 11:58:36 AM kernel  Opened file /var/vm/sleepimage, size 2147483648,         partition base 0xc805000, maxio 400000 ssd 0
8/20/14 11:58:36 AM kernel  hibernate image major 14, minor 2, blocksize 512, pollers 5
8/20/14 11:58:36 AM kernel  hibernate_alloc_pages flags 00000000, gobbling 0 pages
8/20/14 11:58:36 AM kernel  hibernate_setup(0) took 0 ms
8/20/14 11:58:37 AM Apple80211 framework[113]   ACInterfaceGetPower called with     NULL interface
8/20/14 11:58:37 AM Apple80211 framework[113]   ACInterfaceGetPower called with NULL interface
8/20/14 11:58:37 AM configd[15] network configuration changed.
8/20/14 11:58:37 AM kernel  System SafeSleep
8/20/14 11:58:40 AM kernel  hibernate_page_list_setall start 0x25717000, 0x25728000
8/20/14 11:58:40 AM kernel  hibernate_page_list_setall time: 142 ms
8/20/14 11:58:40 AM kernel  pages 324460, wire 61471, act 103587, inact 609, spec 63, zf 3, throt 0, could discard act 88461 inact 32682 purgeable 14366 spec 23218
8/20/14 11:58:40 AM kernel  hibernate_page_list_setall found pageCount 165733
8/20/14 11:58:40 AM kernel  IOHibernatePollerOpen, ml_get_interrupts_enabled 0
8/20/14 11:58:40 AM kernel  IOHibernatePollerOpen(0)
8/20/14 11:58:40 AM kernel  writing 165142 pages
8/20/14 11:58:40 AM kernel  encryptEnd 73c9a20
8/20/14 11:58:40 AM kernel  IOPolledInterface::checkForWork[5] 0xe00002eb
8/20/14 11:58:40 AM kernel  PMStats: Hibernate write took 2552 ms
8/20/14 11:58:40 AM kernel  all time: 2552 ms, comp time: 552 ms, deco time: 0 ms,
8/20/14 11:58:40 AM kernel  image 0, uncompressed 410402816 (100196), compressed 197517516 (48%), sum1 1a4d5b57, sum2 0
8/20/14 11:58:40 AM kernel  wired_pages_encrypted 60968, wired_pages_clear 39229, dirty_pages_encrypted 0
8/20/14 11:58:40 AM kernel  hibernate_write_image done(e00002eb)
8/20/14 11:58:40 AM kernel  sleep


texts: Fixing Mac Mini that uses 10x normal power in sleep mode

texts:
When I return to my Mac Mini in the morning, the case is warm to the touch, even though at that point it's been sleeping for hours with the display off.

According to https://www.apple.com/environment/pdf/products/archive/2014/Macmini_PER_feb2014.pdf and https://www.apple.com/environment/pdf/products/archive/2012/macmini_oct2012.pdf the Mini should use under 1.5W in sleep, yet this one uses 15W.

After rebooting the device will sleep at 3W, but as soon as any user account is logs in, the minimum sleep draw seems to be 13W, with 15W typical.  All figures are measured with a Kill-A-Watt EZ. This is a quad core 2012 model.

$ pmset -g
Active Profiles:
AC Power        -1*
Currently in use:
 standby              1
 Sleep On Power Button 1
 womp                 0
 autorestart          0
 hibernatefile        /var/vm/sleepimage
 darkwakes            0
 networkoversleep     0
 disksleep            0
 sleep                0 (sleep prevented by coreaudiod)
 autopoweroffdelay    14400
 hibernatemode        0
 autopoweroff         1
 ttyskeepawake        1
 displaysleep         10
 standbydelay         4200

$ pmset -g assertions
2015-10-09 22:22:18 -0700
Assertion status system-wide:
   BackgroundTask                 0
   ApplePushServiceTask           0
   UserIsActive                   0
   PreventUserIdleDisplaySleep    0
   PreventSystemSleep             0
   ExternalMedia                  0
   InternalPreventDisplaySleep    1
   PreventUserIdleSystemSleep     0
   NetworkClientActive            0
Listed by owning process:
   pid 54(powerd): [0x0006fef70010029f] 00:06:33 InternalPreventDisplaySleep named: "com.apple.powermanagement.delayDisplayOff"
    Timeout will fire in 157 secs Action=TimeoutActionTurnOff
Kernel Assertions: 0x4=USB
   id=501  level=255 0x4=USB mod=10/4/15, 8:20 PM description=XHC1 owner=AppleUSBXHCI
   id=502  level=255 0x4=USB mod=10/9/15, 4:28 PM description=EHC2 owner=AppleUSBEHCI

All tests are done with USB devices other than keyboard/mouse disconnected.
What else can I check?


texts: Can I use any hardware on MBP retina late 2012 on a MBP mid 2012 (non retina)?

texts: My CD drive does not work on MBP 13 mid 2012 and I ended paying over the odds on a late 2012 13” retina which has a screen problem it does not turn on, when connected to external monitor it’s all well. Took it to few technicians and they can’t sort the problem out. I really can’t afford to spend 300 quid on a screen replacement. Any recommendations or guidance will be appreciated, I’m quite new to Mac products so might need some further assistance:)


texts:
As you might know, Preview has a lossy rotation feature.
Could you please recommend a tool that allows images rotation in a lossless way?