texts: Replaced hard drive - trying to do a clean install of OS-X on 2011 Macbook Pro

texts:
I've seen plenty of how to's on how to upgrade if you have a working installation of OS-X, however I purchased this macbook used, it needed a hard drive and a keyboard.

So I put a new hard drive in it and installed Ubuntu temporarily.

How do I get the image of the newest OS-X onto a USB thumb drive? I can't access the mac store since I don't own any other Apple products.

Keep in mind I'm using a regular, non-mac external keyboard until my new one shows up.


texts: Will reinstalling Lion erase all my documents and applications?

texts: I am planning to reinstall my operating system because it has many glitches. However, I am totally new to this and I would like to ask you what actually happens when you reinstall Lion? Do all your files remain or not?


texts: How do I activate Apple ID on iTunes Store via Web?

texts:
I want to publish a podcast show on Apple Podcast. Apple requires an Apple ID that is activated on the iTunes Store for this process.
I am running Linux on my computers and Android on mobile devices. I don't have any Apple device at all. Nor do I have access to a Windows PC running iTunes for Windows.
Now, how can I activate my Apple ID on iTunes? Is there an iTunes web frontend available? Can the iTunes Store be accessed without Apple OSes or Windows at all?


texts: Compress $HOME Directory Using tar.bz2 | macOS 10.15.7

texts:
Not interested in using Time Machine in this case.
Trying to backup the $HOME directory and am producing an error at the same location no matter the command so far:

~/Library/Containers/com.apple.mail/Data/DataVaults: Cannot stat: Operation not permitted

The approaches I've attempted with so far are the following:

sudo tar -jcvf /Volumes/passport/michael_catalina.tar.bz2 .

sudo ditto -jV --keepParent --arch /Volumes/passport/home_catalina

sudo rsync -Paz -EH . /Volumes/passport/michael_catalina.tar.bz2
3a. sudo rsync -Pa -EH . /Volumes/passport/michael_catalina.tar.bz2 --exclude ~/Library/Containers/com.apple.mail/Data/DataVaults
3b. sudo rsync -Pa -EH . /Volumes/passport/michael_catalina.tar.bz2 --exclude ~/Library/Containers/com.apple.mail/Data
3c. sudo rsync -Pa -EH . /Volumes/passport/michael_catalina.tar.bz2 --exclude ~/Library/Containers/com.apple.mail

sudo tar -jcvf /Volumes/passport/michael_catalina.tar.bz2 . --no-mac-metadata

I've also tried the above in Recovery Mode.


texts: Is there a way to display an instance of BezelUI (brightness HUD, volume HUD) using BASH or AppleScript?

texts:
Long story short, I've written a simple BASH script to control the brightness of a non-Apple external monitor using ddcctl. It works, with a couple hacks.

It would be really cool if I could display a notification when the script is called, so the end user can be aware what the current setting is relative to min/max. I just found out about AppleScript's display notification function, which is cool—but the notifications don't go away on their own. I also found this essay on BezelServices, which is also neat—but I'm trying to do simple scripting, not creating an entire application.


texts: I can't make simple playlists with music I purchases ever since I activated apple music. How do I fix this?

texts:
I can't make playlists with any music I bought after activating apple music. I've been trying to make a playlist to burn the new Lamb of Gad album without success so I can listen to it in my car. I bought the album on iTunes. I've been trying for two days now.

When I try to drag a song into the playlist I get "iCloud Music Library Playlists can only contain songs from your iCloud music library.’
If you continue Lamb of God will only be available on this computer.”
A button says remove playlist and continue.".

That sounds like what I want but that's not what happens. If I click the button I only have 3 of 12 songs that will actually copy to the playlist and I have no idea how I even made that possible. There used to be a cloud icon I could click to download my purchases directly onto my hard drive (which is what I prefer because I want my hard drive to take priority over the cloud.). There is no such icon. I can't differentiate what tracks are in iCloud and what are on my computer.


texts:
What iPad PDF reader can I use to highlight text? I don't really care about annotations, saving, or transferring. It just helps me read better if I can highlight things.

It does not look like I can do anything other than bookmark pages with iBooks.


texts: What happens if you create another folder alongside the Contents folder in an application bundle?

texts:
I know the icons representing programs that end in .app are really a specially treated folder, and not a single file. And inside that folder, there is a folder called Contents, and in that folder lies all the guts of an application.

If one wanted to store information about an application (say, notes to oneself about crashes, workflows, or projects involving that application), just how bad of an idea would it be to create another folder inside the application bundle alongside the Contents folder? Would it break code signing? Make the folder stop behaving like an application bundle? Have no adverse side effects at all? Will folders inside the app bundle but outside Contents get clobbered in an app upgrade?

For instance, I bought Byword from the app store.
I have /Applications/Byword.app on my computer. /Applications/Byword.app/Contents/* contains the application itself. Could I create /Applications/Byword.app/My notes/* and store my own comments about the application there?


texts: macbook pro encounters prohibited sign while booting with USB

texts: My macbookpro is completely empty and the only option that I have is just internet recovery. I downloaded el capitan and with help of the terminal in the internet recovery build a bootable OSX el capitan. So when I hit c in startup, apple logo appears. Meanwhile progress bar goes half way and suddenly apple logo changes to prohibited sign. I also made a mavericks bootable usb. same results.


texts: Caldigit TS3 Plus, Ethernet slot always showing cable unplugged, my OS Catalina

texts:
I purchased Caldigit TS3 Plus today and try to use it's network function on my 2018 mbp. Ethernet slot always showing cable unplugged.

I confirm my network is normal (I connected this cable to other computer and it works).

Tried below procedures but not working.
A. Restart
B. Download official drive from Caldigit (though not necessary),installed and restarted
C. In network setting, hardware, set it to be manually according to some googled articles

I am supposing is it possible that not compatible with new OS Catalina?
What can I do now?


texts: Problem adding .ics file to Iphone X Calendar

texts:
I had a problem adding .ics files to my Iphone X calendar. I created an .ics file on my other Android phone and I am able to add this .ics-file-event to my Google calendar and many others. But when I send it to my Iphone X via Whatsapp, I can't add it to my default IOS calendar. It always says:

This invite is outdated

And there is no button to add it to my calendar. I am not sure, if it is a coding issue in my .ics file or something else. Surprisingly it's perfectly working on the Iphone 6 calendar.

That's my .ics file code.

BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
PRODID:-Nick//0.6.3//EN
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:dabfe592-49f3-4428-93cd-1026b90c0004
DTSTAMP:20190728T143648Z
SUMMARY:Test
DESCRIPTION:Test
LOCATION:Test
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20190914
DURATION:P1D
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR

Thanks for help


texts: Launch an app upon certain external trigger

texts:
In iOS 6 and with the iPhone 5 is there any way (even if it is a 3rd party app) to do the follwing things?

1) Lanch a certian application when

a) I pass a geo-fence (e.g. arrive home)

b) I get logged in to a WiFi hotspot with a certain SSID

c) the device is plugged to a power source

2) Close a certain application when

a) I pass a geo-fence (e.g. leave home)

b) GPS/Geo/Location is turned off

c) WiFi is turned

d) I get logged out from a WiFI hotspot with a certain SSID

e) the device is unplugged from a power source


texts: How do I use time machine to restore my entire computer, rather than a file?

texts: Is is possible? What is the easiest (most hassle-free) way of accomplishing this?


texts: I installed MacOS 10.15 public beta when it came out and I've updated to a few other betas. Since Catalina update came out, I've not been able to install it because it doesn't show up. I've deleted the beta profile and I'm still not getting the update.


texts: How can I make screenshots be true pixels?

texts:
It seems like all my screenshots end up being twice as many pixels as they should even though I run the screen in 1920x1200. If I screenshot this editing box, via command + shift + 4 it says about 600px across, but the screenshot ends up being about 1200px. See:

How can I remedy this?


texts: Can I prevent a remote Mac from entering sleep via a remote ssh connection?

texts:
Since I upgraded to Mountain Lion, i've the feeling my Mac (early 2008 iMac) goes to sleep randomly when i'm connected through SSH.

It's there a way I can prevent my Mac to go to sleep when i'm connected over SSH ?


texts:
I want to change one of my keys on my keyboard to a Compose key so I can easily type common accents or characters, e.g.: Compose+e+' -> é.

Is there a setting I can change or a program I can install to add this feature? For instance, I would like to use Caps Lock as Compose.


texts: What is ~/Library/VoiceTrigger/SAT ? Part of Siri?

texts:
What is this thing that we're not even allowed to look at?
sudo ls -late@ ~/Library/VoiceTrigger
Password:
ls: SAT: Operation not permitted
total 0
drwxrwxr-x  88 WGroleau  staff  2816 Feb 18 15:34 ..
drwxrwxr-x   3 WGroleau  staff    96 Mar 23  2019 .
WGroleau@MBP ~ %

https://appleinsider.com/articles/17/11/19/hey-siri-may-come-to-imac-pro-with-rumored-inclusion-of-a10-fusion-co-processor suggests it is for Siri.  The name suggests that, but I've always disabled Siri on MacOS (since it always misunderstands me on iPhone).  I understand the need for SIP, but preventing us from listing file names accomplishes absolutely nothing.
Of course, I can disable SIP and look, but that procedure is not fun.


texts: How do I automatically connect to a VPN when using Wi-Fi in OS X?

texts:
The FBI issued a warning regarding hotel Wi-Fi access points, and any other public access point.
I'd like to make sure my apple device always uses a VPN when using Wi-Fi. That way even if an attacker were to see my data, they would only see an encrypted jumble of bits. Note that this hack can also be applied to HTTPS connections.
How do I ensure that OSX automatically uses a VPN when using Wi-Fi?


texts: In Activity Monitor, how can Swap Used be more than Page Outs?

texts:
I am trying to understand the relationship between Page Outs and Swap Used as displayed in Activity Monitor.  Currently, Activity Monitor shows:

Page outs:  1.6 MB
Swap used:  8.1 MB

How can there be more swap used than the amount paged out?


texts: How to avoid 'Move to Applications folder' prompt?

texts: I downloaded the zip file of iterm, unzipped it and copied the iterm.app folder to /Applications from terminal. When I open the iterm file in applications, I still get the prompt to move it to Applications folder. Tried moving it to Users applications folder too. How do I avoid this error?


texts: How to automatically make Mac shutdown after Time Machine Backup

texts:
How can I make my Macbook automatically shutdown after a Time Machine backup?

I have a 40GB worth backup to do but I keep having to cancel it to go to bed. Would be great if I could leave it on to do it overnight.

Any suggestions of how to do this in ML?


texts: Mavericks mail.app to/cc header detail white color

texts:
my mail.app suddenly stopped showing me to/cc header detail in all emails. I had a better look at it and those headers are there, but are displayed in white color. Details on image:

I tried changing color via Command + T, but it seems that it only changes email color, not text color. I also tried to remove file from ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.mail.plist and restarting the Mail.app, but that didn't help either.

How should I restore to the default behaviour?


texts: Clicking help on Time Machine "to improve reliability, Time Machine must create a new backup for you" message cancels it?

texts:
On a fairly new machine running 10.8.3 I'm getting the message:

  Time Machine completed a verification of your backups on “<disk>”. To improve reliability, Time Machine must create a new backup for you.

  Click Start New Backup to create a new backup. This will remove your existing backup history. This could take several hours.

  Click Back Up Later to be reminded tomorrow. Time Machine won’t perform backups during this time.

with three buttons: ? Back Up Later Start New Backup

When I click ? to get more information, the dialog is dismissed and nothing (apparent) happens.  The dialog comes up again when I manually trigger a backup, so it looks like whatever happened was the equivalent of clicking Back Up Later.  I'm able to repeat this every time the dialog comes up: clicking ? dismisses it instead of bringing up any help.

When I click, in /var/log/system.log I see:

Apr 10 16:43:05 blahdiblah.local com.apple.backupd[31047]: Recovery backup declined by user.
Apr 10 16:43:05 blahdiblah com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[247] (com.apple.UserNotificationCenterAgent[31120]): Job appears to have crashed: Segmentation fault: 11
Apr 10 16:43:05 blahdiblah.local ReportCrash[31920]: Saved crash report for UserNotificationCenter[31120] version 3.3.0 (28) to /Users/blahdiblah/Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/UserNotificationCenter_2013-04-10-164305_blahdiblah.crash
Apr 10 16:43:06 blahdiblah.local com.apple.SecurityServer[17]: Succeeded authorizing right 'com.apple.ServiceManagement.daemons.modify' by client '/usr/libexec/UserEventAgent' [11] for authorization created by '/usr/libexec/UserEventAgent' [11] (100012,0)
Apr 10 16:43:06 blahdiblah.local com.apple.backupd[31047]: Backup canceled.
Apr 10 16:43:06 blahdiblah.local com.apple.backupd[31047]: Ejected Time Machine network volume.
Apr 10 16:43:06 blahdiblah kernel[0]: AFP_VFS afpfs_unmount: /Volumes/Time Machine, flags 0, pid 31922
Apr 10 16:43:06 blahdiblah kernel[0]: AFP_VFS afpfs_unmount : We are the last mnt/sbmnt using volume /Volumes/Time Machine 0xffffff81c7084008
Apr 10 16:43:06 blahdiblah kernel[0]: ASP_TCP do_thread_read: no reqInfo found for reqID 9
Apr 10 16:43:06 blahdiblah kernel[0]: AFP_VFS afpfs_unmount : We are the last volume using socket /Volumes/Time Machine 0xffffff81c7084008
Apr 10 16:43:06 blahdiblah kernel[0]: AFP_VFS afpfs_unmount : afpfs_DoReconnect sent signal for unmount to proceed

Is anyone else getting this bug?

Does anyone know what the help button should link to?

This isn't the first time that this has come up, and while I've seen discussions about it here and elsewhere on the web, I'd like to check the Apple docs too.  While I'm interested in fixing the underlying problem causing my backups to need to be fixed too, in the immediate I just want to confirm this bug and find the link to Apple's documentation.


texts:
With OS X, how do I get Safrai's location-bar search to use a particular language? This problem arises because I live in Japan but I don't want Japanese results.

The following URL will let me do English-language searches regardless of my country:

https://www.google.com/webhp?hl=en

But how do I get Safari to do the right thing for me (search Google in English) every time?


texts: Restore 10.8.2 to original developer settings

texts:
So I am at a point in a rabbit hole of troubleshooting programming problems (a lot of it seems to involve my gcc and fortran compilers, but I have long lists of libraries interfering with one another) where I feel I need to just (somehow) get a blank slate and reinstall everything (and strategically not do a number of things), I have my time machine backups for everything, as well as file backups for all of my regular content. And have done the basic prep as recommended here

I am wondering if there are any other steps you might recommend either before reinstalling my OS, or instead of doing so(might uninstalling and reinstalling XCode help?)?

Thanks for any help- desperate times call for desperate measures!


texts: Holding Down Control at Startup Manager (Boot Disk Selection) Screen

texts: I noticed that when I hold the control key at the screen where you select a boot disk (the screen obtained from holding down option at startup), the straight arrow below the selected boot disk turns into a circular arrow (similar to the Time Machine icon). I clicked this circular arrow thinking it would take me to the recovery partition, but the computer simply booted seemingly normally instead. What did the circular arrow do differently than clicking the regular, straight arrow?


texts: Where does Firefox (Quantum) download updates prior to restart, and what should I delete to prevent a current update to occur after a restart?

texts:
Where does Firefox Quantum download updates prior to restart, and what should I delete to prevent a current update to occur after a restart? I want to manually update Firefox every time, but this time it I downloaded the update file by accident, and it's waiting for me to restart. I wish to locate it and delete it, so where is it storing it?  I found the following

/Users/[user]/Library/Caches/Mozilla/updates/Applications/Firefox/updates/0

but I don't recognize nor understand the files within it as:

update.mar
update.status
update.version

So I'm leery to delete these.


texts:
MacBook Air 2012 with Sierra 10.12.6

Something is draining my battery overnight.

The pmset -g assertions
Assertion status system-wide:

BackgroundTask                 0
   ApplePushServiceTask           0
   UserIsActive                   1
   PreventUserIdleDisplaySleep    0
   PreventSystemSleep             0
   ExternalMedia                  0
   PreventUserIdleSystemSleep     0
   NetworkClientActive            0
Listed by owning process:
   pid 117(hidd): [0x00052d7300099bbd] 02:56:54 UserIsActive named: "com.apple.iohideventsystem.queue.tickle.4294976712.3"
    Timeout will fire in 1440 secs Action=TimeoutActionRelease
No kernel assertions.
Idle sleep preventers: IODisplayWrangler

Turned off WiFi and anything that would wake it up or keep awake, problem remains. Battery is down to 5-10% in 8 hours of sleep time.
Battery is new (6 months old)

Charge Information:
  Charge Remaining (mAh):   7334
  Fully Charged:    Yes
  Charging: No
  Full Charge Capacity (mAh):   7340
  Health Information:
  Cycle Count:  15
  Condition:    Normal
  Battery Installed:    Yes

Following was active at lid closing time:
Mail, Skype, Chrome (with 10 tabs)

Found a suggestion to address the:

 Idle sleep preventers: IODisplayWrangler

by removing/resetting Printers and other stuff
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/7275550?start=0&tstart=0
No help.

Update:
Running log show --style syslog | fgrep "Wake reason"
shows noting in the hours of interest!

Manual method: Review Console system log ...
Found huge activity from Google Chrome reporting errors

Aug 16 01:22:29 myMBA Google Chrome[18176]: objc[18176]: __weak variable at 0x600001228a50 holds 0x2121212121212121 instead of 0x600000c279a0. This is probably incorrect use of objc_storeWeak() and objc_loadWeak(). Break on objc_weak_error to debug.

and Google Software trying to do update on repeated basis?

  Aug 16 01:40:11 myMBA GoogleSoftwareUpdateAgent
  Closed Chrome overnight, still the same.

More investigation (and it repeats following every 30 second all night long):

pmset -g log

UUID: C67362CF-C70A-4AC3-AB1E-EC803FD0563F
2017-08-18 04:53:46 -0700 Notification          Display is turned off
2017-08-18 04:53:46 -0700 Assertions            PID 117(hidd) Summary UserIsActive "com.apple.iohideventsystem.queue.tickle.4294968070.3" 07:57:39  id:0x0x90000926c [System: DeclUser kDisp]
2017-08-18 04:53:46 -0700 Assertions            PID 50(UserEventAgent) Summary BackgroundTask "com.apple.mds.3" 36:06:15  id:0x0xb00008082 [System: DeclUser kDisp]
2017-08-18 04:53:46 -0700 Assertions            Kernel Idle sleep preventers: -None-
2017-08-18 04:53:46 -0700 Assertions            PID 62(powerd) Created InternalPreventSleep "com.apple.powermanagement.darkwakelinger" 00:00:00  id:0x0xd0000937e [System: PrevIdle DeclUser SRPrevSleep kCPU kDisp]
2017-08-18 04:53:47 -0700 Assertions            Kernel Idle sleep preventers: IODisplayWrangler
2017-08-18 04:53:47 -0700 Notification          Display is turned on
2017-08-18 04:53:49 -0700 Kernel Client Acks    Delays to Sleep notifications: [AppleBacklightDisplay driver is slow(msg: SetState to 0)(984 ms)] [AppleIntelFramebuffer driver is slow(msg: SetState to 1)(420 ms)] [AppleHDADriver driver is slow(msg: SetState to 1)(409 ms)] [AppleHDADriver driver is slow(msg: SetState to 1)(441 ms)] [AppleIntelFramebuffer driver is slow(msg: SetState to 2)(1027 ms)]
2017-08-18 04:54:01 -0700 Assertions            PID 62(powerd) TimedOut InternalPreventSleep "com.apple.powermanagement.darkwakelinger" 00:00:15  id:0x0xd0000937e [System: DeclUser SRPrevSleep kCPU kDisp]
Sleep/Wakes since boot at 2017-08-16 16:47:11 -0700 :0   Dark Wake Count in this sleep cycle:1

Problem remains, something is draining the battery. How can I prevent this drain from happening?


texts: How would I open Terminal using BetterTouchTool? I tried using predefined action: open application, but I can't seem to find the Terminal app.


texts: How restore missing iMessage messages on iPhone?

texts:
I've found that some recent iMessage messages that were sent to me showed up only on my iPad instead of both my iPad and my iPhone. There are other questions at Ask Different that address how this could happen, but my concern here is getting the message streams back in sync so that both devices show the same history of messages. In other words, I want to get the missing messages to appear in the message stream on my iPhone (with the correct timestamps). Is there some way to force the iPhone to sync with the iPad or with a master message database at Apple?

Both devices are running iOS 9.3.5.


texts: Inconsistent charging of 2017 MBP 13" (A1708)

texts:
I own a 2017 MBP 13" (A1708) with the battery replaced about 6 weeks ago. Everything went nicely until this week, when it started charging inconsistently and coconutBattery shows 5-10W of charging. I plug the charger and it says "battery doesn't charge". Sometimes reconnecting the charger helps, sometimes not; the same is true about waiting some time. I've reset SMC couple time but it usually doesn't help. I’ve attached of screenshot showing coconutBattery output.
Also I’ve ordered a new charger and cable.


texts: What speed is the SATA controller in a July 2012 macbook pro?

texts:
I'm thinking about buying a macbook pro (latest 2012 version) and it seems sensible (from a financial point of view) to buy the standard built in hard disk and do the upgrade to SSD myself.

In order to get the most bang for my buck, I'd like to know what the maximum read/write speed of the SATA interface in a macbook pro supports? i.e. is it worth getting a 600Mbps or 300Mbps drive? Is it SATA 2 or 3?


texts: iCloud Photos on Windows: How to have full size originals downloaded automatically?

texts:
For disk space reasons I have decided to switch from the "have all my photos on my Mac" to "have all my photos pushed from my Mac to iCloud and download originals to a spare Windows 10 stationary with lots of diskspace for backup purposes".
I have now set this up so iCloud for Windows accurately reflects what happens in iCloud, but - as the documentation hints - only in the optimized versions and even with "Always keep on this device" checked on the Photos folder holding my photos the originals are only downloaded when I explicitly ask Windows to download it (and then kept)
I would like the default action to be "download originals always".  This is most likely a Windows configuration, as it appears that iCloud for Windows has been rewritten to work with Windows cloud support so it is this mechanism doing the heavy lifting, and probably not the iCloud client itself, but I am not familar enough with Windows 10 to be certain.
Any suggestions?


texts: Menu bar on web pages not visible in Safari

texts:
I am facing this problem when ever I am visiting any website that has go a Menubar on the top, then the part remains half invisible in Safari.

See below:

Here is screenshot of SoF site on Safari:

Facebook pages:

and Quora:

Anyone else faced similar problems?
Any resolution to this?

OS: Yosemite Version 10.10.2

Browser: Safari Version 8.0.3


texts: How to identify process based on the visible window?

texts:
On Unix/Linux there are some tools such as xwininfo, xdotool, xkill or xprop to identify a window's PID by clicking on it, but they only work with X11.

Is there any similar solution for macOS? To get the process PID based on its visible window (e.g. once clicking on it)? Ideally invoked from the command line.


texts: My MacBook Pro WiFi gets Internet access only while lid close

texts:
I think I modified something in my Mac Pro WiFi settings. WiFi gets Internet access only while lid is closed. If I type http://facebook.com, it shows nothing. If I then close the lid and open again, after a while it shows Facebook content.
I don't know what might be causing this problem.


texts:
I have an ethernet network that authenticates with 802.1X. I want to provide temporary access to that network over WiFi, using my existing Hardware (MacBook Pro). I know about Internet Sharing in the System Preferences, but it denies sharing an 802.1X connection.

I am aware that doing so is less secure than the 802.1X connection, but I still need this temporary workaround. Windows and Linux make no big deal on that either.

Is it possible to bypass that security restriction on Mac? If not, what approach might let me share my internet manually? (e.g. on the terminal, not using that built-in feature) Any ideas are greatly appreciated ;)

Thanks in advance,
Lukas


texts: Emacs crashes on Mac OS X with "Dispatch Thread Hard Limit Reached"

texts:
Emacs crashes on me once a day or so with the same error message in the dump:

  Dispatch Thread Hard Limit Reached: 512 (too many dispatch threads blocked in synchronous operations)

Google shows this causes many programs on Mac OS X to crash, so I don't think it's specific to Emacs. The thread limit varies, but it seems to be built into the OS. I tend to open lots of files and run shells which start other processes, all inside Emacs, so I'm not surprised that it's hitting the limit, but I'm not sure how to prevent it. Any ideas?

This is GNU Emacs 24.2, built and installed from Homebrew with --cocoa, running on a late 2012 Retina MBP 13" on OS X Mavericks 10.9.1.


texts:
[Apologies for the long question. It's not as complicated as it looks.]

Preable

I have a 160GB iPod Classic which I manage with the latest iTunes via Windows XP. I have ~10000 music tracks and many podcasts on the iPod. I previously created a smart playlist which included all tracks with a play-count of 0. I would then set the iPod to shuffle Songs and select this playlist. If I returned to it later, songs which I had listened too would not be on the playlist as it would update on the iPod, even without syncing back to iTunes. This worked well and I have now listened to all ~10000 tracks.

Album Shuffle

I would now like to listen to my music differently: rather than listening to all music tracks in a completely random order, I would now like to listen to complete albums, with the tracks in order. I know that I use shuffle "Album" for this.

The Potential Problem

However, it is likely that I will not always be able to listen to a complete album before I have to stop listening, or would rather listen to a podcast after a while, for example. This would mean that over time I would always end up listening to the first tracks of an album more than the later tracks, as each time I used shuffle "Album" I'd get a new album and would start listening from the beginning of that album again.

The Proposed Solution

To work around this, I've tried the following: I created another smart playlist which contains tracks which have a play-count of less than 2. This, at present, obviously contains only tracks with a play-count of 1, which is most of my music. I set shuffle to "Album" and then select this playlist. As I listen to tracks, their play-count increases to 2, so they fall off the list in future. When I return to the playlist the next day, for example, and the iPod selects a track/album, I presume it will then play only from the first track of that album in the playlist?

Example

For example, if I have listened to the first 5 tracks of an album and then stop, these 5 tracks will be removed from the smart playlist as their play-count will be 2. When I return to the playlist with shuffle "Album", should the iPod select one of the remaining tracks (or the album itself; I don't know how it "selects"), will it start playing track 6 of that album onwards?


texts:
When I run $ arch on my 10.9 2012 MacBook Pro, I get the output

i386

The manpage for arch says that

the arch command is 2-way universal, 32-bit only

However, $ file "$(which arch)" gives

/usr/bin/arch: Mach-O universal binary with 2 architectures
/usr/bin/arch (for architecture x86_64):        Mach-O 64-bit executable x86_64
/usr/bin/arch (for architecture i386):  Mach-O executable i386

OTOH, python2.7 is running as a 64-bit executable:

$ /usr/bin/python2.7 -c 'import sys; print "%x" % sys.maxint'
7fffffffffffffff

Also, the kernel is apparently 64-bit:

$ file /mach_kernel
/mach_kernel: Mach-O 64-bit executable x86_64

uname agrees:

$ uname -m
x86_64

..or does it?

$ uname -p
i386


texts: How can my son access my iTunes account from his windows 8 'sign on' on my computer?

texts: I want my son to be able to access my full iTunes library without signing in to my Microsoft account on my Windows 8 pc.  He has his own Microsoft account/sign in. I have tried Home Sharing, but this seams only to work if he has a different computer (and we only have this one). I do not want to create a separate iTunes account for him.  When he opens iTunes and looks at the songs list, he can see some, but not all of the songs in my library. Can anyone help?


texts: Is there a PGP/GPG Plugin for TextWrangler?

texts: Is there a PGP/GPG plugin for TextWrangler? If so, what is it called and how do I go about downloading and installing it?


texts: Screen capture app that captures a window even when minimized?

texts:
I'm looking for a mac app that captures the screen (video) on specific app window (for example, Safari), and keeps recording what that window sees even when minimized to the dock for example.
Or even if a finder window is over it (without recording that finder window).

Anyone knows an app that can achieve what I'm talking about?


texts: What is this built-in Apple app with a target-shaped icon?

texts:
On the Apple Watch, what is this built-in app with a target-shaped icon?
Launching it crashes instantly.


texts: keyboard shortcut to open a minimised window?

texts: If I use Mail and double click a message to open that message in a new window, then minimise the main mail window, then switch to a different app, what keyboard shortcut(s) can I use to bring back to main mail window, leaving the message window open?


texts: iPhone 6S restores apps to freshly installed state for no reason

texts:
I'm facing a weird problem with my 6S 64 gig device running iOS 9.3.2 (with no problems for over a month now). Multiple apps have their data reset to a freshly-installed like state without any reason. I'd open an app and see that it shows me the welcome screen and initial setup, much like you'd see when you installed the app.

I've seen WhatsApp, my bank app and Outlook go haywire. WhatsApp has done this multiple times now. I haven't reinstalled the apps or reset my phone yet, because I wanted to check online first if anyone else has encountered this situation, and if so, how they have resolved it.

Similar problems, anyone?


texts: What are my options for syncing a folder between a Mac and a PC?

texts:
Suppose I have 2 computers attached to the wireless network in my house, one a Mac and one a PC.  Suppose I want to continuously sync a folder on the Mac with a folder on the PC.  What options do I have?

My first thought would be to use something like Dropbox, but in this case I don't want the files to leave my network and go to the cloud.

Edit: NAS not available here, nor is an external drive.  Just the 2 computers.


texts:
I'm using a 2012 Retina Mac Book Pro running OS X 10.7.5. I am a Windows power user and an OS X neophyte.

Many of the keyboard and mouse shortcuts I know in Windows have functional equivalents in OS X. A feature that I find particularly useful in Windows is the ability to middle-click to close tabs (works across Firefox, Chrome, Visual Studio). This saves a user from having to click explicitly on a tab's "X" icon.

Is there a magic trackpad click equivalent to middle-clicking a Windows mouse?


texts: Why is finder asking to authenticate when copying to my external hard drive?

texts:
macOS Sierra 10.12.6 (MacBook Air)

I am trying to move a directory/folder from my local disk to an external hard drive. But I get an error that says:

  Modifying "Remote Disk" requires an administrator name and password

  To move "<your-folder>", click Authenticate.

But I do not see any button or link labeled Authenticate. Also, I read here there might be a solution involving right-clicking the destination drive then selecting Get Info button. However, there is nothing there I can click.

So how can I move this folder to my external drive?

Full screen capture movie .gif

Click here to see the full screen capture movie .gif.

Step 1.

Here is where I get the error message after attempting to move the folder.

Step 2.

The 'Get Info' window is no help.


texts: How can I create a keyboard shortcut for LaunchPad on OS X Lion (10.7)?

texts:
I know how to open Launchpad via a gesture, creating a hot corner and obviously clicking on it in the dock .... what I am looking for is creating a keyboard shortcut to open Launchpad. I tried going to System Preferences | Keyboard | Keyboard Shortcuts | Launchpad & Dock, but I cannot add any shortcut for the "Show Launchpad" checkbox that is there.

Has anyone figured out how to add a keyboard shortcut? I believe that would make Launchpad infinitely useful.


texts: Will App Preview video for iPad be shown for iPhone users?

texts: I made an App Preview video only for the iPad resolution and uploaded it to iTunes Connect. If I don't upload a video for the other iPhone resolutions, will the iPad video by shown on the App Store when an iPhone user comes to the store page?


texts: So the whole internet is full of joy for optimization of the new 7.1 update which makes the OS much more usable on good old iPhone 4. I haven't found anything, though, concerning the iPad 2. Are there any improvements for iPad 2 as well?


texts: Airpods Pro not switching between macbook and iphone, whereas works on ipad and iphone(both iOS/ipadOS 14 and mac big sur 11)

texts: Airpods Pro not switching between Macbook and Iphone, whereas works on ipad and iphone(both ios 14 and mac big sur 11). The switch between macbook and iphone is manual whereas from ipad to iphone and vice versa is totally seamless. Do I need to enable the feature in mac somewhere?


texts: IOS 6 opens RSS feeds in Podcast app - how do I prevent this?

texts: When I click on an RSS feed link in Safari in iOS, instead of opening the RSS page it opens the podcast app, which is not helpful and very annoying. Is there a way to disable this automatic redirect to the podcast app?


texts: If I create a MacOS VM, would it have the effect of doubling the draw on system resources?

texts: I currently run Sierra on a late 2013 MBP (Retina). I want to set up an environment where I can learn and experiment with programming in a Mac environment without the risk of doing damage or making a mess, so using a VM sounds like the way forward. I don't know much about VMs beyond setting them up; what I'm wondering is - applications and tasks aside - would running a VM of Sierra on top of the host installation effectively double the amount of system resources being used or do VMs not work that way?


texts: Installing virtualenvwrapper on macOS Sierra - "-bash: /usr/local/bin/virtualenvwrapper.sh: No such file or directory" error

texts:
I'm a bit of a newbie to Python and definitely to virtual environments and Django. I want to install Django but it first recommends a virtualenv / virtualenvwrapper. A video I am watching recommends installing virtualenvwrapper so I just tried this, following these instructions:

https://virtualenvwrapper.readthedocs.io/en/latest/install.html#basic-installation
and
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/15101559/terminal-where-is-the-shell-start-up-file

I first ran

pip install virtualenvwrapper

which seemed to work fine. It generated some messages, ending with:

Downloading https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/e1/ba/f95e3ec83f93919b1437028e989cf3fa5ff4f5cae4a1f62255f71deddb5b/pbr-4.0.2-py2.py3-none-any.whl (98kB)
100% |████████████████████████████████| 102kB 5.3MB/s
Requirement already satisfied: six>=1.10.0 in /Users/rishi/anaconda3/lib/python3.6/site-packages (from stevedore->virtualenvwrapper)
Installing collected packages: virtualenv-clone, pbr, stevedore, virtualenv, virtualenvwrapper
Successfully installed pbr-4.0.2 stevedore-1.28.0 virtualenv-15.2.0 virtualenv-clone-0.3.0 virtualenvwrapper-4.8.2

I then had to follow the "shell startup" guidelines which mentioned adding these lines to be shell startup file:

export WORKON_HOME=$HOME/.virtualenvs
export PROJECT_HOME=$HOME/Devel
source /usr/local/bin/virtualenvwrapper.sh

I did this. Once I run $ source ~/.bash_profile on terminal, I am presented with this error:

-bash: /usr/local/bin/virtualenvwrapper.sh: No such file or directory

After searching online, a forum post recommended that I run:

which virtualenvwrapper.sh

and this gives me the result:

/Users/rishi/anaconda3/bin/virtualenvwrapper.sh

Note I have Anaconda installed for some (previous) learning. I now want to install/learn Django.

Searching online, one person recommended to copy the virtualenvwrapper.sh from the one directory to the /usr/local/bin/ directory. It also seems like I should have done this with sudo - i.e. should I have run the following?

sudo pip install virtualenvwrapper

I'm super confused - I never was good with server/installing stuff so I'd really appreciate guidance on how/what to install correctly in order to get my virtual environment working, and then hopefully I can use Django.

Perhaps you may recommend

just copying the Anaconda virtualenvwrapper.sh  file as suggested?
Or if I should install again using sudo then please let me know how to uninstall virtualenvwrapper (that I just installed) so I can re-install it,

or please simply let me know the steps I should follow as I don't want to mess anything up, if I haven't already!

UPDATE

I copied the file from Anandonda to the main folder as explained above, and then ran this. The following messages were generated, and now I seem to be good, I can use the workon command for example.

Rishi:bin rishi$ source ~/.bash_profile
virtualenvwrapper.user_scripts creating /Users/rishi/.virtualenvs/premkproject
virtualenvwrapper.user_scripts creating /Users/rishi/.virtualenvs/postmkproject
virtualenvwrapper.user_scripts creating /Users/rishi/.virtualenvs/initialize
virtualenvwrapper.user_scripts creating /Users/rishi/.virtualenvs/premkvirtualenv
virtualenvwrapper.user_scripts creating /Users/rishi/.virtualenvs/postmkvirtualenv
virtualenvwrapper.user_scripts creating /Users/rishi/.virtualenvs/prermvirtualenv
virtualenvwrapper.user_scripts creating /Users/rishi/.virtualenvs/postrmvirtualenv
virtualenvwrapper.user_scripts creating /Users/rishi/.virtualenvs/predeactivate
virtualenvwrapper.user_scripts creating /Users/rishi/.virtualenvs/postdeactivate
virtualenvwrapper.user_scripts creating /Users/rishi/.virtualenvs/preactivate
virtualenvwrapper.user_scripts creating /Users/rishi/.virtualenvs/postactivate
virtualenvwrapper.user_scripts creating /Users/rishi/.virtualenvs/get_env_details


texts: How can I uninstall Safari Technology Preview?

texts: I installed Safari Technology Preview, but want to get rid of it now. Clicking and holding on Launchpad doesn't do the trick, STP "wiggles" without a cross. The download is an installer, so I'm wondering if anyone knows of an uninstaller. Else I guess I'll just dump it in the trash.


texts:
/dev/disk1 (synthesized):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      APFS Container Scheme -                      +250.8 GB   disk1
                                 Physical Store disk0s2
   1:                APFS Volume Macintosh HD - Data     149.4 GB   disk1s1
   2:                APFS Volume Preboot                 79.1 MB    disk1s2
   3:                APFS Volume Recovery                527.0 MB   disk1s3

  $ mkdir /tmp/recv

  $ sudo mount -t apfs /dev/disk1s3 /tmp/recv/

  $ ll BaseSystem.dmg

-rw-r--r--@ 1 root  wheel  496664671 Jun 18 15:09 BaseSystem.dmg

  $ hdiutil mount BaseSystem.dmg

Checksumming Protective Master Boot Record (MBR : 0)…
Protective Master Boot Record (MBR :: verified CRC32 $D80226F2
Checksumming GPT Header (Primary GPT Header : 1)…
 GPT Header (Primary GPT Header : 1): verified CRC32 $3488C747
Checksumming GPT Partition Data (Primary GPT Table : 2)…
GPT Partition Data (Primary GPT Tabl: verified CRC32 $FB2C82B9
Checksumming  (Apple_Free : 3)…
                    (Apple_Free : 3): verified CRC32 $00000000
Checksumming disk image (Apple_HFS : 4)…
.............................................................................................................................................
          disk image (Apple_HFS : 4): verified CRC32 $E3D25767
Checksumming  (Apple_Free : 5)…
......................................................................................................................................................
                    (Apple_Free : 5): verified CRC32 $00000000
Checksumming GPT Partition Data (Backup GPT Table : 6)…
GPT Partition Data (Backup GPT Table: verified CRC32 $FB2C82B9
Checksumming GPT Header (Backup GPT Header : 7)…
  GPT Header (Backup GPT Header : 7): verified CRC32 $B193AD93
verified CRC32 $C286C93C
/dev/disk2              GUID_partition_scheme
/dev/disk2s1            Apple_HFS                       /Volumes/macOS Base System

  $ cd /Volumes/macOS\ Base\ System/

  $ cd Install\ macOS\ Catalina\ Beta.app/Contents/Resources/

  $ sudo ./createinstallmedia --volume /Volumes/test/

/Volumes/macOS Base System/Install macOS Catalina Beta.app does not appear to be a valid OS installer application.

Do I have to download full pack again, even when I just want BaseSystem to boot up?


texts: Recover iPad serial number from iCloud backup

texts:
I won't bore you all with the reasons why but I have an old iPad Pro that I replaced with a new iPad Air last month. I removed the iPad pro from Find my and other icloud services.
I now need the serial number of the device and don't have the box, receipt or anything like that. I thought I had written it down somewhere but stupid me cannot find that 'somewhere'. I don't have any iTunes backups of the device or anything like that, sadly.
What I do have is the old iCloud backup of the device taken just before setting the new device up. Is there any way to download/extract/view the backup of this device in iCloud and see if it has a serial number in there?


texts: Typing Pinyin with tone marks doesn't work

texts:
I have a Macbook Air.  Running El Capitan with British keyboard layout.  I have enabled Chines Simplified Pinyin input.  I am trying to type the tone marks.  For example, pressing opt+a followed by u is supposed to produce ū.  This doesn't work however.  Any advice?

I have seen mentions of US Extended Keyboard or ABC extended keyboard layout as being the culprit.  While this makes 0 sense to me, I have replaced the British layout with this ABC Extended one.  While now I can type the accented characters in it, they still don't work in Pinyin.  This is extremely annoying.


texts:
Recent iPhone update also updated Podcasts app. Which is now missing lots of features and it is broken.
I found Apple Podcasts app in itunes but there is no Review tab or button. I like to write a review for apple but don't know how. How do i do that?


texts: Stuck in a boot loop after failed update to Mavericks, can't reformat HDD

texts:
I recently tried to upgrade a 2008 Mac Pro from Snow Leopard (10.6.8) to Mavericks (10.9.2) using the free upgrade available in the App Store. The upgrade seemed to go without a hitch until the machine restarted, after which I get the Apple logo with a progress bar---it takes about 20 minutes for the progress bar to advance all the way and then the machine spontaneously powers off. When powered back on the process repeats itself.

So far I have tried:

Reboot into recovery using command+r. This works and I'm able to launch the Disk Utility. This shows S.M.A.R.T Status : Verified. Running Verify Disk on the HDD (topmost level of the tree) shows no errors. However, running verify on the Macintosh HD partition does show errors and asks me to run Repair Disk, which tells me I have irreparable errors and suggests that I back up my data and reformat.
Reformat. Still in recovery mode Disk Utility, I first tried running Erase under the Erase tab on

the HDD, resulting in: Disk Erase failed with the error: Couldn't unmount disk. (in retrospect this makes sense because initially I was booting to the recovery partition on the same disk)
the Macintosh HD partition, resulting in: Couldn't open disk.

Next I tried selecting the HDD and the Partition tab. I attempt to remove the Macintosh HD partition by clicking on the minus, but the system hangs on Preparing to remove partition.
Try USB recovery disk. After all of this failed I started to suspect that Disk Utility was refusing to make changes to the HDD since I was booting to the recovery partition on the same disk. I then made a bootable USB recovery disk using the Recovery Disk Assistant and am able to boot to it by holding the option key on startup. However I am still unable to erase the disk using the methods above and get the same error messages.
Try to force unmount HDD. It appears to me that the system is still mounting the HDD even when booting from the USB recovery, thus preventing reformatting. But attempting to force an unmount fails:

diskutil unmountDisk force disk1

results in

Forced unmount of disk1 failed: at least one volume could not be unmounted

I'm at a loss for what to try next. It seems unlikely to me that the disk is failing since the SMART status is OK, but I suppose that is a possibility too.

EDIT

Following @chillin's suggestion I tried booting to a Mavericks USB install disk, created following the instructions here. Holding option on startup I'm able to select the USB and boot appears normal, but with the same result that I am unable to unmount the internal disk to format, even using diskutil unmountDisk force disk1 (I get the same error messages for all methods described above). I do notice that the option to reinstall OS X has been replaced by an option to install, so I am confident that I'm actually booting to USB.

EDIT 2

Following @Édouard's comment I tried booting in verbose mode using command+v at startup. It seems that fsck_hfs is caught in a loop "repairing" and rechecking the drive, which it does 3-4 times before the machine gives up and powers down (see picture 1). The line /dev/rdisk1s2 (NO WRITE) catches my attention. Could this be why fsck is unable to make the necessary changes to repair the drive?


texts: Exporting a Logic Pro 9 Project to FCPX/Premiere Pro with all files kept the same

texts:
Is it possible to transfer all the audio files from logic pro to a video editing program so that they are all in the correct place and each file is separate?

I want it so it looks like it does in logic but I can place video upon it.

Sorry if this is in the incorrect section of stack exchange but I do not know where to to place it.


texts: Can Mac OS lion and Win 7 (Vmware Fusion) Access Fat32 Partition?

texts:
Is it possible that I can make partitions on Mac other than the one holding OSX as FAT32. I want to access it via Mac and also when I run Win7 on Vmware Fusion. I can then add that FAT32 partition as Shared Network folder and access its data.

The following is the partition structure I would like to use:

MacOS = 100GB
VmWare Fusion Win7 = 120GB
myStuff Partition = 280GB (which is Fat32 or exFat)

I want to access myStuff partition via OSX as well as VMWare Fusion.


texts: Is there a way to restore the iPhone's oleophobic screen coating once it's worn off?

texts:
My iPhone 4 is about 15 months old now and the screen has completely lost the oleophobic property is had when it was new: finger smears now show up just like they do on other phones. Contrary to the comments on this question I've never cleaned it with any sort of solution: all it's ever had is the occasional wipe with a cotton cloth (well, T-shirt :), although of course it will also have been rubbed in the pocket of my jeans. It's never had a screen protector but is completely unscratched and undamaged.

So it seems the coating does wear off over time without using any kind of chemical agent. My question is, is it possible (either at Apple, a third-party service centre or at home) to re-apply it and get the screen back to its fresh-from-the-box state?


texts: How to create HFS partition on Windows 7 machine

texts:
I've got Windows 7 running on my computer and I would like to partition my D: volume, make it HFS+ but I cannot find any tool that will accomplish this.

Anyone had done this before? Is it possible? I have EaseUS partition tool but it does not support HFS/HFS+.


texts: Preference Panes can't be opened, says it doesn't work on PowerPC

texts:
I can't open my network preferences anymore. It says that Network Preferences don't work on a PowerPC-based Mac, whereas it's actually an Intel. (2.0 ghz core 2 duo, 10.6.7) I've tried the following:

repair disk permissions
reset PRAM
Trash network .plists
copied Network.prefpane from other Mac and replaced it

And nothing of these changed a thing. Ethernet still works. I can't find anything online either about it. Anyone has an idea?

EDIT: now I can open hardly any of the preference panes. Only Bluetooth, MobileMe, Parental Control and Universal Access still work.


texts: How to make a message appear on the screen?

texts:
I'm trying to set up a kind of intercom system between Mac, Windows, and Linux boxes at home.

Question: How can I make an arbitrary message appear on the graphical screen of Mac OS X?

For instance, I'm looking for a command such as:

$ show-message "Time for dinner!"

which shows Time for dinner! on the graphical screen, maybe in a dialog box.


texts:
just purchased a 2010 Mac Pro, running High Sierra.  It has 12 lovely cores.

But, when I look at the CPU activity in the CPU History half of the rows are blank (image below).

Does this suggest one of my CPUs isn't working?


texts: Network issues since upgrading to Yosemite - Unable to find local systems

texts:
I am on a Windows corporate network. Since I've upgraded my MacBook Pro (2014) to Yosemite from Mavericks, I am unable to find local machines on our network via DNS.

I can get onto my corporate network.
I can connect to any machine, webpage, server throughout the world via the DNS name. ( I can connect to Google, Yahoo, etc. with no problems)
I can find local systems via the IP address.

What I cannot do is find our local systems via DNS names. For example, I can ping 10.1.0.233 but I cannot ping flubert.prod.local even though that machine's IP address is 10.1.0.233.

This is an issue for many of us Macheads. Many haven't upgraded from Mavericks to Yosemite because of this issue.


texts: How to choose the correct resolution for a 5K2K monitor on macOS?

texts:
I just bought a LG 34wk95u, an ultra-wide 34” monitor with 5120x2160 native resolution (named 5K2K).
I connected my MBP 13” 2018 to it with thunderbolt.

Please correct me if I’m wrong, but the only way to have the maximum display quality on this kind of monitor, if to have :

1:1 resolution (5120x2160) -> native resolution
or 1:2 resolution (2560x1080) -> because every pixel is x2 horizontally and x2 vertically, so the scaling is perfect.

As soon as we try other resolution, scaling can not be perfect, and text will be a little more blurry (this can be verified running a 4K video on the monitor, pausing on some text). Plus, as stated in macOS display settings: "scaled resolution may affect performances"

The thing is, with 1:1 resolution, everything is way too small on screen, I can't read text. But with 1:2 resolution, everything is too big (et I don’t have enough space on my desktop, 34” becomes useless).

If I change font sizes, I can notice 2 issues:

I need to do it on every software (complicated).
If I take my mac with me to work in a coffee, or just in my bed, font sizes will be wrong on the MBP retina display.

I don’t know what to do.

Should I keep 5120x2160 res but increase font size is every software?

Should I use 2560x1080 res and decrease font size in every software?
Should I use 3360x1417 res, having a normal size for everything, but
accept that the display quality is lower that it should be? (at
1100€, it hurts…)

Should I change of monitor and take one with a lower native
resolution?

I'll use this monitor as a software developper who wants lots of real estate to display in the same time: code, terminal, web browser, debuguer.

Thanks for sharing your experience.


texts: Siri: How to add an item to specific Reminders list AND set a reminder time?

texts:
TL;DR: Is there a way for Siri to create an item in a specific list, and add a timed reminder to it?

iOS 9 Siri is able to  add an item to a specific Reminders list in this fashion:

  Hey Siri; Add bread to my shopping list

However, I am struggling to find a 'syntax' that will add an item to a list, and set a timed reminder. Here is one example of my attempts:

  Hey Siri; Add book laundry time to my todo list and remind me in one hour

Siri doesn't seem to understand the "latter part" about the timed reminder. It also happens that that Siri will not place it in the correct list, but instead interpret the whole sentence as the string content of a reminder placed in the Inbox.


texts: Stop Mavericks from opening apps on the second screen?

texts:
I have a MacBook Pro and connected an external display to it, so far, so great. However, Mavericks seems to insist on opening new applications on the secondary display, even if the currently active (key and main) window/app is on the main display. Incredibly frustrating because they have different screen sizes and it messes terribly with my saved window sizes. Is there any way from stopping Mavericks from doing that? I only want apps to open on the main display, or at least have them remember on which display I closed them last time.

In case it helps, this is my display arrangement from the system preferences:


texts: How do I import Notes from my iMac to my iPad?

texts: Notes from my iMac do not appear on my iPad or iPhone, what could be wrong?


texts: Is it possible to move full screen apps in Mission Control to be at the beginning, (before space #1)?


texts: Sharing a folder of files using iCloud Drive single-file sharing

texts:
With recent changes in macOS High Sierra it is now possible to share individual files out of iCloud Drive, but no option to share an entire folder and its containing files.

Q: Is there a workaround that would allow sharing an iCloud Drive folder by leveraging the sharing of a single file?

Options that come into mind are archives (like ZIP) and disk images (Disk Utility).  The downsides of these solutions are that they need to be opened/mounted before use.

Please note: Any solution must be based on iCloud Drive. The intention is to specifically not use Dropbox and other third-party software or cloud services.


texts:
I can very easily see timestamps for texts (SMS) and messages (wifi? not really sure what this is) on iOS messenger by swiping to the left. However, in the Messenger app on OSX (10.11.6 El Capitan), I cannot for the life of my get these timestamps to appear (swiping, right-clicking a message, app options and context menus, etc.)

How do I show timestamps for messages in the Messages app on OSX? The best that Messages gives me is a collection of messages that is "around" a timestamp that is apparently relevant, e.g.


texts:
I have reinstalled macOS Sierra on my machine. After installing Oracle MySQL Community Server 5.7.15 (mysql-5.7.15-osx10.11) I tried to stop the MySQL server from the console. I got back the following error "ERROR! MySQL server PID file could not be found!".

I have done some research on my own but it did not manage to find a solution on my problem.

Any suggestions?


texts:
Maximum number of apps icons & pages in folders & total pages on iPhone from iOS 7 thru till 9.0.2?

Maximum number of:

Total Pages on Springboard outside folders
Total App icons allowed in iOS folders

Pages of icons inside each folder
App icons per page of iOS folders

For each iOS version from 7 till now on 9.0.2

Please share.

PS: Only other such post I found is this for an iPad which does not cover the specific quantities & detailed numbers I am asking, nor is it asking for iPhone, nor the change/ shift of these numbers thru iOS versions.


texts: Default value for `NSGlobalDomain InitialKeyRepeat `?

texts:
What is the default for NSGlobalDomain InitialKeyRepeat?  I believe the value is 20, but I'm trying to verify this in order to understand the dynamics of shifting the value.

Most suggestions I see simply tell you to set it to defaults write NSGlobalDomain InitialKeyRepeat -int 12, but I've not been real happy with this and as I have a system that takes some time to startup, I don't like the rinse-and-repeat method of rebooting several times to tweak it.  If we know the default value then this will take the guesswork out.

One person went so far as to say that lower values were slower than higher values, but again, I don't trust that.

FWIW, The most common changes I'm seeing for getting back quick repeat settings in 10.12.x (Sierra) are:

defaults write NSGlobalDomain ApplePressAndHoldEnabled -bool false
defaults write NSGlobalDomain KeyRepeat -int 1
defaults write NSGlobalDomain InitialKeyRepeat -int 12


texts: How can I edit the keyboard shortcuts in notes

texts:
As the title says, how can I edit the shortcuts in the notes app?

Right now Font Bigger is obtained by pressing together cmd and = I would like to use cmd and + instead. Is there a way to change this setting?


texts: How can I write a script to open multiple terminal tabs and execute code in them?

texts:
I want to be able to open the terminal application and have it either automatically run a script that opens several tabs and run an arbitrary set of commands in each. For example I would like one tab to open, change directories, and run a rails server; have another open, change directories, and tail a log file; etc..

Is there a way to do this either with a shell script or applescript?

I found this question but it seems to hang if I want to open tabs with commands that don't end (like running the rails server).


texts: Keychain popup freezes my safari when I visit specific sites

texts:
So I'm usually a chrome user, but ever since buying a macbook pro, I switched to safari because chrome drained my battery like mad and it generated too much heat. The transition wasn't bad, I actually like Safari....but the problem is that it freezes every time I visit reddit, Facebook, instagram, twitch, etc.

Whenever I visit the mentioned sites, Safari asks me if i want to allow it to store confidential info to keychain. The moment it pops up--without clicking on any of the options--the rainbow beachball cursor appears and I have to force quit the application. I've done this like a dozen times today. Is there any way to fix this? I'm using chrome to type this out and my macbook is already too warm for my lap.

Here's the console messages that generated after crashing safari by visiting Reddit and Instagram:
http://pastebin.com/pmS3BRe3

I cleared all the messages and performed these tasks in this order: Clear Display > go to Reddit (crashes) > force quit safari > open safari > visit instagram (crashes) > force quit safari.

BTW, I'm using the 2015 retina macbook pro model and using El Capitan. But this issue also existed in Yosemite.


texts: How do I control Finder and App Store notifications in OS X?

texts:
Notification Center in OS X (10.9, Mavericks) provides a way to control configure notifications for various Apps such as Mail or Safari, but seems to provide on settings for controlling notifications from Finder (e.g., improperly ejected drives) and the App Store (e.g., the availability of updates).

How can I control Finder and App Store notifications in OS X?


texts: Downloaded items with Chrome always have incomplete icons

texts:
Whenever I download something with Google Chrome, all icons on the desktop has the unfinished icon.

It does it with all files types.

Is there a way to fix this issue?!


texts: Why is Chrome on MacOS inconsistently not recognizing 3 finger swipes?

texts:
I have used three finger forward/back swipe on MacOS for almost a decade in Chrome for forward/backwards on pages. This has consistently worked well and been flawless.
Within the past month or so, this has inconsistently been not working. I know the trackpad is working because my debugging has been:

Try to 3-finger forward/backwards in Chrome, it fails
Go to other app, use 3-finger forward/back, see it works (100% of time)
Go back to Chrome, it still fails

The part I am really confused by is that it sometimes works in Chrome still.
I can also consistently quit/restart Chrome to "reenable" this when it stops working.
Are there troubleshooting techniques to understand what might have changed to cause this? Or an obvious solution to fix this?
OS: 11.2.3 (20D91)
Chrome: latest version(s)


texts: How do I turn off News notifications on my Apple Watch?

texts:
Recently I started seeing News notifications on my Apple Watch:

I've confirmed that News is turned off in the Watch app on my iPhone under Notifications:

But I keep getting the notifications. I've tried turning News notifications on, and then off again. But I keep getting them.

Am I unaware of some other necessary setting that will disable these notifications?


texts: How to copy a transparent PNG file to iPad from a Mac

texts:
When copying a PNG file with transparent background to an iPad or an iPhone using an application like iTunes, the image is copied to the device but the transparent background turns white.

I have tried emailing the PNG file as an attachment. While it retains its transparency, I'm looking for faster ways of transferring such a file?

I'd welcome all types of answers, such as if anyone has tried using a file sharing software like Dropbox. I'm looking for a solution where the image with its transparency will be available on the device as fast as possible.


texts: How do I enable extended mode with dual monitors in OS X 10.11.6?

texts:
Equipment: Early 2015 MacBook Pro - Retina 13" with the Intel Iris 6100 graphics. Two Dell U2414H monitors. One MiniDP to DP cable connecting MBP to monitor #1. DP to DP cable connecting monitor #1 to monitor #2. OS X 10.11.6.

History: According to the specs for the Early 2015 13" MBPr the laptop is capable of supporting "Dual display and video mirroring: Simultaneously supports full native resolution on the built-in display and up to 3840 by 2160 pixels on up to two external displays, both at millions of colors."

According to Apple Support article HT206587 the video card does "support multi-stream transport (MST) displays at 60 Hz".

According to http://www.displayport.org/cables/driving-multiple-displays-from-a-single-displayport-output/ support of MST 1.2 means the laptop should provide "the ability to stream independent video displays from a single desktop or notebook video output".

Lastly, according to https://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/quick-reference-guide-to-intel-processor-graphics the video card is in fact capable of supporting DisplayPort 1.2.

Problem: When I connect both monitors to the MBPr and "Enable 1.2" on monitor #1, the screen from #1 is mirrored on monitor #2. After doing some research, it appears that I need to change a setting to switch from mirrored mode to extended mode in order to have two different screens. I did Enable 1.2 on monitor #2 as a test but there was no change.

Support: I called Apple and was told to call Dell. I called Dell and the tech informed me that it was definitely a problem with the source and explained how on a Dell PC you could switch between mirror and extended modes within the graphics settings. I again called Apple and spoke with a senior advisor. I was first told that it could only be done using Thunderbolt cables. I directed his attention to the support article and said the listed Dell monitors did not have Thunderbolt. I was then told my video card didn't support that feature but explained that he was referencing the AMD Radeon R9 M370X card which is not my card. He said he would escalate the issue.

Question: How do I enable extended mode?


texts: Siri Accounts Faults in MAC OS Catalina (10.15.6): (Process Demon Faults: accountsd + deleted + locationd) VERY slow CPU!

texts:
I'm seeing a common Mac OS Catalina (10.15.6) fault with accountsd/deleted and Siri? (com.apple.siri.e)?  It seems to be extremely serious!  Does anyone know the cause or solution for this?  My computer seems to be overheating a lot and has very very high CPU usage!?  Is this because of overheating or something else with Siri and a demon?
OS Version:       Mac OS X 10.15.6 (Build 19G73)
Is this a possible "malware" or virus?  Or some bug with SQLITE?
ACCOUNTS DAEMON (AccountsDaemon):
FAULT MESSAGES:
"TIMING: Daemon save took 1.291293025016785"
"Completed account save: YES - (null)."
Unentitled access by client 'com.apple.siri.e'
(selector: accountsWithAccountType:handler:)
"Error returned from daemon: Error Domain=com.apple.accounts Code=9"
"Cannot check access to a private account type: <private>"
"No TCC state found: <private>, <private>"
AMSAccountNotificationPlugin: [1E2C940E] Skipping biometrics update (not authed)
"Client <private> is not allowed to access accounts of type <private>."
Unentitled access by client 'CallHistoryPlugi' (selector: accountsWithAccountType:handler:)
"Error returned from daemon: Error Domain=com.apple.accounts Code=9"
AMSAccountNotificationPlugin: [1E2C940E] Refusing to post a com.apple.itunesstored.accountschanged notification because nothing on the account actually changed.
AMSAccountStoreCache: [1E2C940E] An ACAccountStore has no associated media type. Returning the default media type for the current process. accountStore = AMSAccountStoreCache | defaultMediaType = com.apple.AppleMediaServices.accountmediatype.itunes
"Cannot check access to a private account type: <private>"
"No TCC state found: <private>, <private>"
"Client <private> is not allowed to access accounts of type <private>."

Hardware Overview:
  Model Name:   MacBook Pro
  Model Identifier: MacBookPro11,3
  Processor Name:   Quad-Core Intel Core i7
  Processor Speed:  2.8 GHz
  Number of Processors: 1
  Total Number of Cores:    4
  L2 Cache (per Core):  256 KB
  L3 Cache: 6 MB
  Hyper-Threading Technology:   Enabled
  Memory:   16 GB
  Boot ROM Version: 162.0.0.0.0
  SMC Version (system): 2.19f12

SCREEN SHOT:
System Console "OS" FAULT MESSAGE:

What suggestions do people have about this problem?
Thanks!
Asher
:)
Here is a memory profile... from the command "kextstat -l -k | awk '{n = sprintf("%d", $4); print n, $6}' | sort -n"
901120 com.apple.kec.corecrypto
999424 com.apple.iokit.IOThunderboltFamily
1024000 com.apple.iokit.IOUSBHostFamily
1036288 com.apple.iokit.IOBluetoothFamily
1212416 com.apple.filesystems.apfs
1294336 com.apple.driver.DspFuncLib
1425408 com.apple.iokit.IO80211Family
1470464 com.apple.driver.AppleIntelFramebufferAzul
1753088 com.apple.nvidia.driver.NVDAGK100Hal
2981888 com.apple.nvidia.driver.NVDAResman
8196096 com.apple.driver.AirPort.BrcmNIC

here is a "top" command output...
PID  COMMAND      %CPU TIME     #TH   #WQ  #PORT MEM    PURG   CMPR PGRP PPID

458  deleted      70.9 17:27.80 8/1   7/1  79    4596K  0B     0B   458  1
570  Console      51.2 23:14.11 15    11   1243- 382M-  6460K  0B   570  1
573  diagnosticd  28.5 21:18.62 8     7    529   10M    0B     0B   573  1
303  sysmond      22.1 03:40.38 3     2/1  30    3820K  0B     0B   303  1
237  WindowServer 19.0 18:17.49 11    4    1862+ 340M   22M-   0B   237  1
682  Terminal     11.9 00:13.53 8/1   1    305-  29M-   5944K+ 0B   682  1
501  Activity Mon 9.6  21:51.42 5/2   3    1392+ 85M+   10M    0B   501  1
153  hidd         9.1  03:23.60 6     3    221   4476K- 0B     0B   153  1
819  top          8.0  00:01.29 1/1   0    28    3752K+ 0B     0B   819  684
0    kernel_task  6.3  04:49.91 171/8 0    0     66M    0B     0B   0    0
111  powerd       2.0  00:42.87 3     2    116   2592K  0B     0B   111  1


texts: The Apache httpd 2.4 server is bundled with Yosemite. It seems to me that the directories /etc/apache2 and /private/etc/apache are the same. However I don't see any symlink. Did I missed something ?


texts: How do I browse files in my `.backupbundle` backup?

texts:
I am currently trying to access my Time Machine backups manually, because the Time Machine feature was a little to slow for me and I needed the finder search. Before Catalina this was possible with the .sparsebundle but since then not longer. Every time I double-click the .backupbundle it says "This resource is currently not available".

I wonder if there is a way to mount/open this file to browse my backups. I read that renaming it to .sparsebundle would work but I don't want to destroy my backups – we all know that macOS sometimes do things different from expected ^^.

My Backup is saved on an Airport Extreme by the way. Which still works pretty well!


texts: Can I Search The Passwords Stored in my Keychain?

texts:
I use unique passwords for everything, and most of them I do not write down. I just let Keychain manage them.
As I'm sure you know, "i hacked your email, give me $800 in bitcoin" emails are all the rage these days. I know they are fake, these passwords are not my computer passwords or email account passwords. They are from online accounts, and I'd like to know WHICH online accounts.

So it would be very handy if I could look at the password, search keychain, and use that to determine which website I have an account on, had their security breached.


texts: WiFi password is correct but it is telling me it is wrong

texts: I know my WiFi password is correct, but just today it is telling me on my iPad it is wrong.  How can I get it to work.


texts: Can we modify UDID added in iOS developer portal?

texts:
I have an ios developer account. I by mistake added a wrong device Id in my devices. Can I modify the device id? I am able to modify my device name but not device id.

What can be done?

Please help and suggest.

Thanks.


texts: MacBook Pro Mid 2012 Internal keyboard "123..." produces unexpected characters

texts:
Hi guys i hope you can help me out. My old MacBook Pro 13-inch, Mid 2012's number keys seems to have been connected to some other keys. My symptoms are that the expected key pressed is entered followed by another predictable but unexpected key press.
My keyboard is Danish QWERTY and i've had this issue before, started right after i installed Wow Classic and enabled the setting About ignoring system inputs. First time it seemed to be resolved after some time went but the this time i was unable to find a resolution for much longer.

Example:
1 enters F12/Volume up
2 enters <
3 enters $
My full 1234567890 enters 12<3$4¨5å6´789
(7 and 0 seems to be unaffected, 8 is Right arrow and 9 is Up arrow)
Having checked with external keyboards the issue is not present.
Changed language settings - issue persists
Checked wether any of Shift Fn CTRL ALT and CMD was enabled constantly with sticky keys and disabling them from "modifier keys" - persists
Tested with F1 and F2 as system and without - persists
SMC + NVRAM reset - Persists
Checked accesibilily settings - Nothing enabled under "Keyboard"
Checked "Mouse keys" - not enabled
Entered Accesibility Keyboard, pressing the 123... enters and highlight the correlating key when pressed on internal keyboard, pressing the key on the Keyboard interface doesn't.
Entered recovery with CMD+r and issue persists in terminal
Erased internal disk anyways to reinstall Catalina without a backup - persists.
I've been trying to locate some library folders, terminal commands (or even third party software to "block the input") to  but it seems like i have to live with it, any recommendations will be greatly appreciated!


texts: Where (how) can I print exported Cards (or books) from iPhoto

texts:
I designed a holiday greeting card in iPhoto (which is great) but I wanted to see if there was a cheaper option for printing. I'm able to export the card as a PDF by CTRL + right-clicking on the background

I tried to then upload my PDF to fedex-kinkos to see if they would do the printing but they said its a non-standard size and I couldn't make much progress.

Has anybody had experience with a 3rd party printer using iPhoto designed cards or books?

Thnks!!


texts:
iPad "Not Charging" with 3m USB-dock-connector cable

I just bough two 3-meter (10ft) USB-dock-connector cables on eBay. When I connect the USB connector to an Apple 12W USB Power Adapter and plug the dock connector into my iPad 3, I get the "Not Charging" message next to the battery icon. The cable works fine with iPods and iPhones. The normal Apple 3m cable works fine. I know the message is caused by not supplying enough current from the charger, and that charging still takes place, just slowly, but how is this possible? It seems that the iPad 3 requires around 2 amps (10W/5V) of current to satisfy its power hunger. 12W would theoretically supple even more current (12W/5V=2.4A). So what could be causing this apparent "current deficit"? Certainly a 10m wire could not have enough resistance to cause such a large current drop. This is DC so there can be no impedance issues. I doubt the soldering is so sloppy that the joints would have a high resistance but you never know… I have two such cables and both display the same behavior. I can't measure anything in the dock connector with a VOM because the opening and the pins are too small. What are some other possibilities that would reduce the current so much?

Additional information:

I was able to ring out the +5V (pin 1) and GND (pin 4) pins of the USB connector of both 3m cables and I found that the GND pin is NOT connected to the outer grounding shell of the connector like it is on the official Apple cable so that definitely is a problem. It means the USB +5V is floating and USB GND is not tied in with other GND pins. Geeze…

USB pinouts:

http://pinouts.ru/visual/USB.jpg

Apple dock connector pinouts:

http://www.allpinouts.org/index.php/Apple_iPod,_iPad_and_iPhone_dock


texts: Enhancement for switching inside a program on OS X

texts: Is there any software or tool that can give ⌘+` a visual interface just like ⌘+tab does?


texts: Apps' contacts access - one Group only, not ALL contacts. PRIVACY!

texts:
Apps (like WhatsApp) that require access to some Contacts, have no business knowing and analyzing ALL my contacts.
How do I restrict Apps' access to one group of contacts, (the group of contacts that I choose to use for that App) only?


texts: How to prevent OS X from launching programs from another disk?

texts: I just did a fresh install of Mountain Lion on an empty partition. How can I prevent the programs of the previous install from being shown in the contextual menus in Finder ?  I already asked Spotlight not to index that partition, but I still have references to them in the Open With menus.


texts: Why does "Open With" display so many instances of an app?

texts: When I select a file and right click on it to use the "Open With" option I see a list of the most likely applications for opening that file, but in my case, running 10.9.5, I see three and sometimes four instances of each recommended application for opening that particular file - see attached screenshot. Why is this? Is there a way to reduce that to one instance per app? If so, how?


texts: Is there The Way to get into Single User Mode w/o rebooting?

texts: Like with old-days-UNIX when you can just send a command to init and you're staring at black text screen with shell for your own use. ;)


texts: Family sharing, some clarifications needed

texts:
Recently we've set up family sharing. Now my SO has done an in-app purchase. So far no issue. But when I told her she was a little upset that there was no way to make the payment herself. Because obviously I got to see the purchase.

So, how can she pay for her own purchases, whenever she desires?

This article suggests it is not possible, except when using iTunes store credit or vouchers.

And will the receipts for purchases based on her iTunes store credit or vouchers also end up in my mailbox?

After all in many families there isn't just a single parent and then kids (in this context apparently handled as subordinates). It seems like this would be based on a view on the woman as stay-home mom with the husband paying for everything?!


texts: How to alias/redefine rm command in Mac terminal to do rm -v

texts: I need to see what files are removed. So I want to redefine rm to rm -v. Could you please help?


texts: Transferring Apps from One iPod to another

texts: I had to have my daughter's iPod motherboard replaced, and in doing so have had to re-download all the apps she had.  That wasn't an issue until she tried playing one of the games, and it was like she had never played it before...when we tried connecting through her game center (it still showed she was on the level she should have been), it wouldn't work because she had an older version, and the new version requires her to connect through Facebook to save her progress...I refused to sign her up to Facebook (she's 7), so wondered if I could copy the app from my son's iPod (the version she had before the repair) and put it on her iPod?  Would it copy the older version so she can continue to play (and still have access to her friends through game center)?


texts:
Under previous versions of macOS, to get an idea of what Time Machine was up to I could simply open Console.app and enter "backupd" as a filter in order to see lots of useful messages, in particular things like the space required for each volume being backed up, whether a deep traversal (full scan vs. event log) is being used etc., all very useful for examining slow/large/new backups and such.

However, under Sierra Console.app  has been redesigned and I can't seem to find any of these messages any more, just some stuff about loading preferences.

So my question is; is it still possible to access the same detailed Time Machine/backupd messages somewhere (not necessarily Console.app), and if so how/where?


texts: How to remove a Windows 7 bootcamp partition from Mojave?

texts:
I installed Windows 7 via bootcamp several years ago with much older version of macOS but now when I want to delete it via Boot Camp Assistant, it doesn't recognize my bootcamp to remove and also tells me I need to have my whole partition as one, which makes sense.

I read around and can try to remove my Bootcamp partition via Disk Utility but I don't think that would remove the Bootcamp menu and because I'm planning to install Windows 10, I'm not sure how things will go since I have already "a bootcamp" configuration.

Thanks.


texts: Transfer SSD from MacBook Pro 2009 to MacBook Pro 2012

texts:
I'm upgrading from a MacBook Pro  to a 2012 model. I installed a SSD drive on the 2009 unit. A few days ago, I got the black screen of death due to the logic board failing. I back up every 30 days using Time Machine, but was on day 27 or so, which means I need to capture many work days of files; etc.

How do I swap out the 750GB HDD in the 2012 for the SDD in my 2009 with my 2009 not booting up?


texts: How do I stop my external monitor from occasionally blacking out?

texts:
I have a 2011 MBP which is connected to a 1920x1080, 144 Hz monitor.  I am using one of these cables to connect it: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00YOQYQWY/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o03_s01?ie=UTF8&psc=1

On occasion the display will go black for a few seconds before turning back on.  It's not actually disconnecting since I would get a notification on my laptop screen of that event.  Sometimes I even hear a click noise when this happens.

It only happens when the resolution is set to 1080, even if I lower the refresh rate.  At lower resolutions it never happens.  If I use the DisableMonitor app to turn off my laptop's main screen my external display will still sometimes black out.  It seems to occur regardless of activity, as I can leave it idling with nothing on the screen or I can be playing an intensive game and it won't happen any more or less frequently.  This happens on Windows as well.

Anyone know the cause of this?


texts: What do I have to do to unjailbreak from Absinthe?

texts:
I'm a little new to the whole iPhone / iTunes world, but I'm planning on eventually jailbreaking my iPhone 4S with Absinthe. The instructions tell me to erase all data from my phone, then restoring from a backup after jailbreaking to get my data back.

But what would I have to do in order to actuall remove the jailbreak again?

The Absinthe README doesn't mention this at all, and the website doesn't seem to have that info either.


texts: How to move all photos from iPhone to iPad?

texts:
I would like to move all photos from iPhone 5s to iPad Pro 10.5. I want to move them, not copy or sync. Photos in result should be stored on iPad and deleted from iPhone.
I've read this article - https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201313 -

iCloud Photo Library - looks like it will use my iCloud storage. I don't want to upload my photos there and the storage there is relatively small.
Manual approach with iTunes - it will require to have a copy of all photos on my Macbook (which I don't want to do - I hate how Apple store/structure photos).

Is there any other way to achieve what I want?
Surely, it should be exactly the same file as shoot on iPhone - the same file size, the same exif data (no recompression!).


texts: Why do bluetooth speakers reconnect to device that is off?

texts: I have several bluetooth speakers, and more than 2 iOS devices. Once a speaker is paired with one iOS device (iPhone, for ex.), the next time I turn on the speaker, it connects (with beep sound) to that device again, even if that device is OFF, preventing it from connecting to a different iOS device I'm trying to use it with (iPad, for example -also previously paired with the speaker). I'm wondering if the latest Bluetooth specification has eliminated this annoying trate.


texts: How can I install Mac OS X Lion in VirtualBox, or any other type of virtual machine?

texts:
I purchased bought a license of Lion and heard that it supports virtual machine install.

I want to install Lion into my VirtualBoxVM on Lion on an iMac. How can I do this?


texts: Configuring AirPort Extreme with Existing Router

texts:
I'm setting up an office network consisting of:
- ATT ADSL2 Modem -> CISCO Router (198.x.x.x) -> Airport Extreme

I'm having an issue getting the Airport Extreme (6th Gen) to connect to the network. I want to use the AE to serve its own 5Ghz and 2.5Ghz network. The issue isn't configuring the wireless details - it is how to get the airport to connect to the router correctly.

Upon connecting the AE as a fresh factory default device, it reports:

What is the correct method to setting up the Airport Extreme in this instance?
I've tried the roaming setup on Apple with no success.


texts:
I'm encountering what appears to be a bug in the display of  > System Preferences > Keyboard: Shortcuts - App Shortcuts.

The shortcuts are functional, but as you can see, their names randomly display as ellipses.

The phenomenon seems random.  Quitting/reopening sys prefs will cause the badly displayed items to change.
Adding or deleting items also causes the display problem to shift to other items.
Selecting a name causes it to appear truncated.

As the prefs for keyboard shortcuts are stored all over the place, I'm unable to simply delete a .plist and try again, and given that I've got dozens of custom keyboard shortcuts, starting from scratch would be onerous.  I can replicate the problem in a fresh user account on the same system.

Obviously this isn't anything like fatal - the shortcuts work correctly - but working with them is insanely difficult.

I'm running macOS 10.13.4.


texts: I recently reinstalled  Mac OS X on my iMac to Mac OS X 10.6.3 then updated to Mac OS X 10.6.8 and now I am trying to update to OS X El Capitan but when I go to the App Store to download, I click the "GET" button and nothing happens. Nothing also happens when I try to do this with any other apps.


texts: Can't download app that is compatible with my IPad

texts: I was trying to download Call Of Duty Mobile which is compatible on Ipad Mini 2 but I can't download it and says it's not compatible, I checked again and I still can't download it on my Ipad Mini 2


texts:
Apple yesterday released macOS Sierra for public. The update weighs ~5 GB. I have two Macs with me: one is my personal, the other my office has given. Instead of downloading the installer twice (10 GB), It would be great to download the copy and once use it to upgrade multiple devices (iMacs/Mac minis).

I have tried to find the dmg file but I haven't been able to find it, instead I was redirected to the App Store. Any help would be appreciated.


texts: I have an iPhone 6. How can I use two Bluetooth audio devices and the 3.5mm audio jack together?

texts: Me and my friends want to listen to music together. Two of us have Bluetooth Headphones (Beats Solo2 Wireless, Beats Studio Wireless) and one has a wired headset. Is there any way to use all three of these together?


texts:
I downloaded iOS 8.4 this morning, and activated Apple Music. I started browsing, and found an album I wanted to add to my library. When I tried to add it, I was told that I needed to enable iCloud Music Library, and was directed to the settings.

However, when I try to enable it in the settings, I get an error saying that "iCloud Music Library can't be enabled". No further details are available. This error occurs whether I choose to "Merge" or "Replace" my device's current library.

What do I need to do to get past this error?


texts:
I tried connecting my Mac-Air to my TV using the HDMI adapter. The volume is very low. Even cranked all the way up, it is still not loud enough watching hulu, netflix etc.

Any suggestions?


texts: Will I be able to use Find iPhone if my battery is dead?

texts: Will the location of my iPhone be updated if the battery is dead? Is there any way to know if the battery on my iPhone has died?


texts:
I'm running tmux and creating many sessions to various servers. After opening 128, I can no longer open new ones, or open new tabs in Terminal. The error messages is:

forkpty: Device not configured
Could not create a new process and open a pseudo-tty.

Is there any way I can increase the number of ptys?


texts: iPhone 4s leaking weird substance, has 2 small shadow bumps on the side of screen, and is getting hot very quickly

texts: It is only a little more than a year old! On the bottom right of the screen, there are 2 small bumps of shadows, it has been heating up VERY quickly, and is leaking a very weird, clear, oil-like substance. I have shutting it off but it didn't work! Also in the middle right of the screen there is a patch of very white splotches!


texts: Directly input "duration" data type into Numbers formula

texts:
I am trying to create a formula in Numbers which takes a duration and calculates what percentage this is of another duration.

For example, I have a duration of 1h 30m in cell A1. I want to calculate what this is as a percentage of 9h. I am trying to output 17%.

I tried diving the cell A1 by 9, but this (rightfully) outputs a duration as A1 is being divided by a number. I need to divide A1 by another duration (i.e. 9h) in order to get a fraction. Is it possible to do this directly in the formula? The only other way I can how to do it is by inputing a duration of 9h into cell B2, and then writing =A1/B2. However, I would prefer being able to avoid using the auxiliary cell B2 when performing this calculation.


texts:
Which app do i use to get terminal on my iphone 5?
I got something that i thought was terminal, but im not sure. I want to modify my iphone using terminal.
I downloaded serverauditor already.
Please help.


texts: Upgrading to Catalina from Mojave stuck at "Estimating time remaining" for days!

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I was upgrading my 2015 Macbook Pro running Mojave to Catalina. It is stuck at a black screen with the Apple logo and "Estimating time remaining" for several days now.
During that time, I hard rebooted several times out of frustration after hours of waiting, each time I got a normal-looking login window and I then input my username and password and got logged in, after which it resumed to the same black screen with the Apple logo and "Estimating time remaining". But the progress indicator kept at approximately the same location which is about 1/6 of the entire length. There were also a few times when the machine shut down itself and when I found out about it I pressed the power button to start it manually. After that the normal-looking login window showed up again and I then input my username and password to log in. And the same black screen with the Apple logo and "Estimating time remaining" show up again but the progress indicator stayed at approximately the same place. It is the third day it has been doing that now. What should I do?


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Is it possible to (auto) 'mount' folders as Volumes?
I have a large DAS Volume, 'Data', that contains all my data.
To make paths shorter and more future proof, I'd like to have Volumes like

/ContentTypeA/
/ContentTypeB/

Instead of using

/Data/ContentTypeA/
/Data/ContentTypeB/

etc, which is where the data actually resides.

Any ideas on how to do that? It's not a big problem. Just curious.


texts: macOS Catalina: Whenever I attempt to take screen-capture via Terminal, I only get image of naked desktop background

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Whenever I attempt to take a screenshot using Terminal (command: screencapture -is ~/Desktop/insertimagename.jpg), I receive an image of the desktop background. Despite taking a screenshot of programs in fullscreen mode, I still receive images of my naked desktop background.

I used to be able to take screen-capture of images with the aforementioned command with no problem. I suspect that I may have accidentally altered a setting or two in Systems Preference a few days ago.

I am still able to take screenshots successfully with the shortcut "command + control + shift + 4" and "command + shift + 3," however I am not able to do so with Terminal.

Is there a way I can return to taking screenshots with Terminal? I've attempted other command lines in Terminal (e.g., "screencapture ~/Desktop/screenshot.jpg"), however I still receive images of the naked desktop background.


texts: When was the compact cube charger introduced for the iPhone?

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Does anyone know when the compact cube charger was introduced for the iPhone?

I am looking for an official source, either from Apple's website or an industry magazine / web article.

It was 2008 at the latest; I did find an Apple webpage on the 2008 recall of the AC mains prongs coming loose.


texts: How to fix poor font rendering in Mac iBooks?

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The font rendering in iBooks (version 1.0.1) on my Mac (Mavericks 10.9.1) is outright horrible. The text is jagged and rough looking. I've tried changing the font but that doesn't help, it still looks bad. Does anyone have a solution to this problem, or have I just gotten too used to the smooth look of iOS iBooks?

Edit: This is on an early 2008 Mac Pro, on a 22" screen with 1680x1050 resolution, and on a 24" screen with 1920x1200 resolution. Font or font size does not matter. I've only seen the problem in iBooks, not in any other app. Notes and other UI text is fine, it's just the actual text I want to read that's jagged.
As a comparison, my mid 2011 27" iMac shows the text beautifully.


texts: I've created multiple DMG files from the same folder - checksum is different on each?

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Quite some time ago I've noticed that even if I create DMG files from the same directory, with same files and etc, the results are always different. Not only their size is ~15 bytes shorter/longer from one another, but their SHA checksums (and their contents, when being viewed from the HEX editor) differ drastically. Just out of curiosity, I've created 5 compressed unencrypted DMG files from the same folder containing nothing but a single text file. The results are:

0.dmg | size - 26 204 bytes, checksum - 5ba9ba0ee4d8ec5ba4718f1b491baf31c2c4e642
1.dmg | size - 26 221 bytes, checksum - a86d76f6c07ee5a81c0aefb31b6fd40ef787ebd5
2.dmg | size - 26 235 bytes, checksum - a31f4cf29e4e2858b7ac63c82574499200d81108
3.dmg | size - 26 209 bytes, checksum - f3c19414279b6d6b94b90341453906e4a69e28dd
4.dmg | size - 26 217 bytes, checksum - 9603c0334125762fc7908343e3ee400e038fe779

I've been browsing the internet hoping to find anything about the "data randomizer in APFS", but... obviously couldn't find a single thing, and in addition, not a lot of people actually knew about this "feature". Is there any info about it?

I'm running macOS 10.12.6, the DMG files were created using Disk Utility, but I get the same results with hdiutil.


texts: Mobile data connection lost on iPhone 5S

texts: I have iPhone 5S with 10.1.1 iOS and sometimes happens to me that I loose mobile data connection. In other words in top left corner on my screen there is provider (operator) and right next to it I usually have LTE. This LTE disappears from unknown reason (even in places that are 100% covered by LTE, but that is ok, I can accept it) but the problem is that it doesn't come back until I restart iPhone completely. I tried to restart data connection or some other things, but nothing worked. Only turning off and on again completely. Has anyone experienced this or have suggestions? Many thanks


texts: How to "Secure Empty Trash..." (wipe free space) on OS X El Capitan?

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Before OS X El Capitan, when viewing the Trash folder and pressing the "Alt" key you have been able to Secure Empty Trash... however this feature has been removed from OS X El Capitan!

Does anyone know how to reactivate this option via Terminal? Is this possible?


texts: How do I Find a string in a file and place a string above it?

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I would like to find the String __MARKER__ in someFile.txt and place a String above it (e.g. Hello World!).

How would I do that using sed?

sed -i -e 's/__MARKER__/Hello world\n__MARKER__/' someFile.txt

However, after running the above snippet, the contents of someFile.txt is below:

Hello worldn__MARKER__

Contents of someFile.txt before manipulation:

__MARKER__

Contents of someFile.txt after manipulation:

Hello World!
__MARKER__


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I‘m trying to make a siri-shortcut which let you shutdown your mac.

https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/7c625a68308740d9b84cc0eaa9353055

The command is:

sudo shutdown -h now

But when I run this command I must enter my password can I do something to run this command without the password?

Sorry for bad english


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I have activated the Keychain Menu Bar icon so I can relatively easily click Lock Screen to lock the screen of my MacBook.
Is there a way to do this with a shortcut or via the command line? I know you can lock the keychain via the commmand line, but I cannot seem to find the how to lock the screen as well.


texts: iPhone 5s reset password—wrong date of birth

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I was having problems with my daughter’s iPhone 5s touch screen. I was advised to do a factory reset, as this could rectify the problem. After I did this I encountered Activation Lock.

You’ve guessed it, she can’t remember her Apple ID password. We tried to reset it, since she can’t remember her email password either, we can’t login to her email. We then opted for the security questions, but it’s rejecting her date of birth.

What options do we have?


texts: Where does Apple announce upcoming press events?

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Most tech news web sites publish stories a few days before upcoming Apple hardware/software announcment press events.

How do they know that there will be a press event?
I couldn't find that information on Apples web site.


texts: Xcode Simulator - Show White Devices Instead of Black

texts: When I run Xcode Simulator the devices are simulated with black cases. I'd like to be able to toggle to show devices with white cases to see them easier. I don't see a setting in Xcode for that. Can it be done?


texts: Built-in GUI-based ASCII only editor for OS X

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I am trying to programmatically invoke an OS X editor from a script which:

does not add smart quotes or any non-ascii characters while editing
will work "out of the box" on any standard mac system
allows the user to click the mouse to position the cursor

Sadly Nano and friends do not allow cursor positioning, and Apple lost its mind with TextEdit upgrades and really destroyed that editor!

My best hope is that there is some programatic way to configure TextEdit to behave as an ASCII editor.  Alternatively, is there a third party editor whose license allows that I can include with my script to serve this need?

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USAGE CONTEXT
 I have a python script that runs 'out-of-the-box' on any mac.  Now I want that script to invoke an editor on an ASCII file that I need stay as an ASCII file.
I don't want to require the user to do manual configuring, I want the script to initialize itself.  Ideally it would not change any global environment settings, but I can give that second requirement up, if I have no choice.


texts: Is it possible to upgrade the ram of MacBook pro 2017 from 8GB to 16GB in India?

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Config:
MacBook Pro (13-inch,2017, Two Thunderbolt 3 ports)
Processor 2.3GHz Dual-Core Intel Core i5
Memory 8GB 2133 Mhz LPDDR3