texts: Why other apple ID-s appearing constantly?

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I hard restarted, restored and updated my Iphone X 'casue it constanty kept turning off in the most random moments. When I started to setup and backup I saw other 5 apple ID-s popping up (I've never seen them before, and they're not mine), Iphone said that there were some purchases made with these ID-s and it wanted me to type in the passwords. Is it possible that I have some malware/spyware on my phone or it was hacked?

Thanks for any helpful answers in advance.


texts: Are bluetooth and wifi required for location based reminders?

texts: To get location based reminders to work, are bluetooth and wifi required to be enabled or just bluetooth?


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I was looking for ways to save money for a small business on Apple products. While I find that Apple makes the best products, it'll be too expensive for a new business, and will most likely seek some other company.

However, I saw this...

...on the Apple website.

In detail, what does "Own It" mean? I'm doubting that only $1 comes out of pocket.


texts: What side effects, if any, are there from issuing scutil --set HostName 'Fred'?

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I have read that you can change all of the three "computer names" associated with a Mac using the scutil utility.

The three names in question are ComputerName (the "friendly" name), LocalHostName (used only by Bonjour) and HostName (which is subsequently returned by /bin/hostname).

I understand that there are very few side effects from setting the first two.  Obviously if Bonjour clients are out there looking for the old LocalHostName then changing it will be a drag from their perspective, but otherwise this seems pretty side effect free.

I am no networking guru so the idea of changing what is reported by /bin/hostname is a bit spooky to me.  Should I be concerned?

For more background, what is reported by /bin/hostname changes, it seems, currently, with the weather.

Suppose, for example, my ComputerName is Chuggid (don't ask).  Suppose my LocalHostName is also Chuggid.

I've found that when I connect to some wifi hotspots, hostname returns chuggid.linksys.  When I am connected to my workplace's VPN, hostname returns things like xyz-abc.vpnpool.yoyodyne.com.

So my worry stems from the fact that I'm concerned that since I didn't come up with either of these names, when I arbitrarily decide to set my HostName to chuggid that this will cause all sorts of problems.

Is it "safe" to change all three Mac "computer names" to whatever I want?


texts: How to resize (grow) APFS partition that is at the end of the drive?

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[new info below post] -- I'm having trouble resizing an APFS partition on the 240Gb SSD in my Mac. I want to make all space available to the system partition "Macintosh SSD".

Output of diskutil list:

/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *240.1 GB   disk0
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s1
   2:                 Apple_Boot Boot OS X               134.2 MB   disk0s2
   3:                 Apple_APFS Container disk1         81.9 GB    disk0s3

/dev/disk1 (synthesized):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      APFS Container Scheme -                      +81.9 GB    disk1
                                 Physical Store disk0s3
   1:                APFS Volume Macintosh SSD           54.8 GB    disk1s1
   2:                APFS Volume Preboot                 44.7 MB    disk1s2
   3:                APFS Volume Recovery                509.5 MB   disk1s3
   4:                APFS Volume VM                      20.5 KB    disk1s4
   5:                APFS Volume Nieuw                   655.4 KB   disk1s5

I tried resizing the container, but this results in an error (see below). I believe due to the fact that the system partition is located at the end of the drive.

Mac-mini:~ admin$ diskutil apfs resizeContainer disk1 239g
Started APFS operation
Aligning grow delta to 157.073.416.192 bytes and targeting a new physical store size of 238.999.998.464 bytes
Determined the maximum size for the targeted physical store of this APFS Container to be 81.926.582.272 bytes
Error: -69519: The target disk is too small for this operation, or a gap is required in your partition map which is missing or too small, which is often caused by an attempt to grow a partition beyond the beginning of another partition or beyond the end of partition map usable space

Can anyone help me how to add the free space to the "Macintosh SSD" partition?

Thanks,
Koen

Update 1: Thanks for the quick response! Though, I got replies that it may be a duplicate with this post. I think it is not, because:
- I have no disk0s3 "storage" volume that may be blocking the space; and
- Running the command in step 3 in that post results in this error:

sh-3.2# diskutil apfs resizeContainer disk0s3 0
Started APFS operation
Error: -69743: The new size must be different than the existing size

Thanks again for any help, it is much appreciated.

Update 2: Output of diskutil info disk0s3 | grep -e "Partition Offset" -e "Disk Size" as requested by David Anderson:

   Partition Offset:          158130806784 Bytes (308849232 512-Byte-Device-Blocks)
   Disk Size:                 81.9 GB (81926582272 Bytes) (exactly 160012856 512-Byte-Units)


texts:
How will you rate your wifi experience and over all experience between Macbook and Macbook pro?

How much of that good or bad is to do with Aluminium body?


texts:
I have a 15-inch, Late 2011 macbook pro, i mainly use for programming, and occasionally watch a movie or two.

Its getting a bit sluggish, and i reckon its time to update the HD to a SSD one. So my question here is what SSD should i choose, and is there any things i should have a "heads up" with.

I have the stock 500GB HD installed atm. and after all these years i still have 400GB free, so i guess i could manage with a 200-250GB one.


texts: Switch to MacPorts SSH by default 10.8/10.9

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I've installed the MacPorts high-performance variant of SSH (sudo port install openssh +hpn) but now I would like to switch the default ssh command over.  However, there appears to be some moral panic around degrading the sandbox (which was only recently introduced) but I am also worried about integration with OS X's keychain and my server keys....

What all do I need to softlink into /usr/bin/ssh or is there a better way to do this?


texts: brew installed software (keg-only) which includes /usr/local/Cellar/*/share/man/ - No manual entry for readline

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I installed the keg-only readline

> brew info readline
readline: stable 7.0.1 (bottled) [keg-only]
Library for command-line editing
https://tiswww.case.edu/php/chet/readline/rltop.html
/usr/local/Cellar/readline/7.0 (45 files, 2M)
  Poured from bottle on 2016-11-22 at 22:40:10
/usr/local/Cellar/readline/7.0.1 (46 files, 2M)
  Poured from bottle on 2016-12-03 at 22:44:53
From: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/blob/master/Formula/readline.rb
==> Caveats
This formula is keg-only, which means it was not symlinked into /usr/local.

macOS provides the BSD libedit library, which shadows libreadline.
In order to prevent conflicts when programs look for libreadline we are
defaulting this GNU Readline installation to keg-only.

Generally there are no consequences of this for you. If you build your
own software and it requires this formula, you'll need to add to your
build variables:

    LDFLAGS:  -L/usr/local/opt/readline/lib
    CPPFLAGS: -I/usr/local/opt/readline/include

This package installs manpages:

> brew ls -v readline | grep man
/usr/local/Cellar/readline/7.0.1/share/info/rluserman.info
/usr/local/Cellar/readline/7.0.1/share/man/man3/history.3
/usr/local/Cellar/readline/7.0.1/share/man/man3/readline.3
/usr/local/Cellar/readline/7.0.1/share/readline/fileman.c
/usr/local/Cellar/readline/7.0.1/share/readline/manexamp.c

I can't see the manual. I get No manual entry for readline.

Howto view the manual with man readline?


texts: Enable full screen mode in iBooks on iPhone

texts:
A recent iBooks update (1.5, I think) mentions a new "full screen reading mode" that gets rid of the junk on the top/bottom of the screen.

How do I actually get into this mode on the iPhone? I can't find an option for it in themes or font option.

Or is it only available on the iPad?


texts: Chrome in full screen weird behavior when pressing option + command + M

texts:
If I have a Chrome window in full screen and press "option + command + M", my screen goes blank, opening a new blank chrome window. Is this some kind of chrome bug?

Demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWi-1GF-4OU


texts: Git repository workspace folder not displayed in Finder

texts:
I have a project in Eclipse that is not navigable in Finder. All the other projects within the same Git repository are fine and can be browsed with Finder.

This image should be displaying an Eclipse project folder, not what it is displaying currently. What's even more curious is that it shows a very old modified date. I have modified this project as of today August 27, 2013. The project runs and compiles fine, but is curiously messed up in Finder.

As stated earlier, all other repo project folders appear to be fine. Am I using an illegal/reserved word? Please advise.

The folder is navigable via Terminal, just not in Finder.

It also appears to be from the usage of .service in the project folder name. Since Git will not allow me to rename, I am looking for a way to get around this in Finder.

Edit

I have been able to confirm that the name is causing the problem.  Now how to rename via git in Eclipse.


texts: Is it okay to use an external flash drive to store a Photos Library?

texts:
I'm getting an M1 MacBook Pro from my employer which only has 512 GB of flash storage (my 2018 MBP has 1 TB), so I'll need to move my 350 GB Photos library to an external drive. I know that I could have Photos optimize for storage (I do have iCloud Library), but I think it's best to have the full-size Photos library stored somewhere.
Would it be okay to store the Photos library on an external thumb-type flash drive from a reputable manufacturer such as SanDisk, or should I stick to a more conventional external USB flash drive, such as the SanDisk Extreme series?


texts:
Gitlab-runner service not started after reboot. But if I login to my account, service started automatically. How start service automatically without login to my laptop?

uname -a
Darwin MacBook-Pro-Admin.local 19.4.0 Darwin Kernel Version 19.4.0: Wed Mar  4 22:28:40 PST 2020; root:xnu-6153.101.6~15/RELEASE_X86_64 x86_64

gitlab-runner -v
Version:      12.9.0
Git revision: 4c96e5ad
Git branch:   12-9-stable
GO version:   go1.13.8
Built:        2020-03-20T13:02:38+0000
OS/Arch:      darwin/amd64


texts: Why can't I update to iTunes 10.6 via Software Update on Lion?

texts: I'm currently running OS X version 10.7.4 and iTunes 10.3.1 -- I noticed iTunes 10.6 has the coveted full-screen mode, but I've updated everything in Software Update and there is still no mention of any upgrades to iTunes. Is it possible my hardware doesn't support iTunes 10.6? I'm using an early 2008 Macbook with an Intel GMA X3100, but that shouldn't make a difference to iTunes. Any other possible reasons why I wouldn't be able to update?


texts: How does one fix a MBP trackpad which is slightly tipping/popping out from its base?

texts:
I want to fix my trackpad for my mid-2010 MBP. It's partially tipping upwards on the left-hand side. Any ideas on how to fix this? Is it a relatively easy job? will I need to buy a new trackpad? or is there a way to fix the current one?

Thanks


texts: Script to unmount mounted image automatically after some time

texts:
I have a sparse image that can be mounted as an encrypted volume.
I want to make sure it doesn't stay mounted once I am done using it.

To get help doing that, I had earlier asked this question, but got no response.

So, I am asking this new, hopefully simpler question:

How can I do the following:

1) When the volume is mounted, a script should start running.

2) The script should ask even hour whether the volume should be unmounted, and depending on the response unmount the volume (If that is too complicated, this will suffice as well: The script should just attempt to unmount the volume, and indicate if the unmount failed due to the volume being in use)

3) The script should stop executing once the volume is unmounted (ideally by "listening" for its unmount event, or if that's not possible, simply as the next step in the script's execution once it has effected the unmount -- the former having the benefit that even a manual unmount would end the script)

I have only very recently moved to the Mac from Windows and have no experience with AppleScript. So, a working script would be ideal, but if I am given pointers on how to carry out the individual steps, I should be able to piece them together as well, hopefully.

Thanks.


texts: Mac Pro hangs at startup showing white screen with spinning pie wheel

texts:
MacPro 1,1; lion?

startup hard drive failed (with loud buzzing).  Removed bad drive, installed replacement, inserted Lion USB drive, verified new drive using the Lion usb drive, started installation of lion on new hd, message on screen advised that it would take some time to accomplish, but after installation would shut down and restart. So I left the room to return a few hours later to a white screen w/ spinning pie wheel.

Repeated startup attempts (with or without lion usb drive inserted) proceed as follows:  startup chime, gray screen, gray screen with apple, gray screen, white screen with spinning pie wheel, all in the first minute then nothing further.

Since the lion usb drive is apparently no longer being recognized I thought I would try to do a startup with a mountain lion disk but I don't know how to insert the disk with the machine hung in startup. By the way, the system that was installed on the failed drive was mountain lion, not lion, if that makes any difference.  Time machine resides on external hard drive and will be connected and used to restore once machine can boot.


texts: Shortcut MacOS to go to the beginning of a document

texts:
Specifically as an example, I have a pdf document with 1000 pages and I'm in the page number 400 .. I want have a shortcut to move to the page number 1 and the page number 1000 ...

Is there any keyboard shortcut In MacOS to move to the begin and the end of a document no matter which third party app is running such as a pdf Reader, word document or any other software?


texts: How can I disable Skitch's "Discard Skitch Note" dialog when quitting?

texts:
I recently installed Skitch Version 2.8 (264391) and it keeps prompting me with an annoying popup window asking if I'm sure I want to "Discard Skitch Note" prior to quitting.

How can I disable this?


texts: How do I restart the iTunes matching process?

texts:
My main iTunes library was in the process of uploading to iTunes Match when I enabled iTunes Match on iTunes on another computer. I got a message saying that only one computer at a time could upload to iTunes Match, and because there were only a handful of items in my library on my secondary computer, I decided to interrupt the upload on the primary computer and quickly do the match on the secondary computer.

Unfortunately, once I did that, the "iTunes Match" sidebar item disappeared from the primary computer, and going into "iTunes Match in the "iTunes Store" just shows a page describing what I can do with iTunes Match.

How do I get my primary computer to resume the upload process?


texts: OS X Lion Migration - Problem with spaces configuration

texts:
Have any of you faced some problems with the new Lion Mission Control after migrating from Snow Leopard.

I have the following two problems.

The Finder window is generally hidden. When it is hidden, I have to context-click the Finder dock icon and select option -> This desktop.
Using quicksilver to switch apps, generally the apps will be hidden behind another app. For instance, switching from an alternate application to Firefox I will be shown Finder (with Firefox completely hidden behind it).

NOTE: The issue of Item 2 is when using full screen mode, a new feature in Lion, and could be the source of the issues.

As a last resort, I will be performing a new clean install.  Does anyone have suggestion as to how I may fix these issues without having to perform a clean install?


texts: Macbook Pro doesn't react to any key combinaton at start up

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I have a Macbook pro 2009. I had to do a hard reset on it. I was at the installing stage, when it just shut down itself, and now, when I turn it on, only the folder with the question mark is flashing.
But my problem is that, I cannot go back to recovery mode, or any other mode. When I shutdown, and turn it back (while pressing the right key combinations) and just gets to the flashing folder again.
Maybe I dont shut it down correcty? It doesnt even show the loading bar. Just a white screen, then the folder.
Any help?
Thanks


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I have been using my macbook pro since 2013. Around early 2017 I got a 275gb crucial ssd and installed it. It was working fine until about a month ago my macbook would no longer turn on. Took it to the repair store and they told me the motherboard had to be replaced. After replacing the motherboard my mac no longer uses my ssd to start up. After starting in internet recovery mode I looked at disc utility. My macbook recognizes my ssd, and it even passes verify/repair checks. However it will not let me mount it. After pulling up the command line and running:

diskutil list

I see:

/dev/disc0
    #:         TYPE NAME                            SIZE       IDENTIFIER
    0:       GUID_PARTITION_SCHEME                  *275.1 GB    disc0
    1:       EFI                                    209.7 MB     disc0s1
    2:       7C3457EF-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC   274.9 GB     disc0s2

as well as a few other discs that seem to be other local storages (all < 600KB)

I have tried running

mount /dev/disc0

and gotten

mount: /dev/disc0: unknown special file or file system.

when i run:

mount force /dev/disc0

i get:

mount: you must specify a filesystem type with -t.

So finally I try:

mount force -t /dev/disc0 and mount -t force /dev/disc0

and both return what seems to be a verbose/usage instruction message

Any ideas on what else i can do to get this disc to mount? It worked fine with the other motherboard! I'd like to avoid wiping it if i can but I am really not opposed to it as I backup most of my files to an external hard drive every now and then


texts: How to change application run command when started from Dock?

texts:
In Windows, you can edit an application shortcut and change the shortcut's target. How do you do this in Mac OS?

For example, I want to change my Chrome application to do verbose logging, by appending this to the run command: --enable-logging --v=1.


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I have a mac mini with two monitors but I often access it remotely over VNC. Screen Sharing (and other vnc clients) allow me to select a single display (or view both at once), but neither work well because if I view a single screen then windows will open on the other one, alerts will pop up, etc. It's also basically impossible to use with both displays shown at once on a 13in laptop screen.
I'm looking for a way to software disable one of the monitors so that I can switch to a single display when I need to.


texts:
When having one computer, it works great syncing your iphone with it, to get your stuff on the iPhone. However, having two computers, one at work and one at home, I wonder if it's possible to have a relationship like this:

 Computer 1 > iPhone > Computer 2

instead of the two computers battling against each other and removing files etc they don't have? It would be great if you could do this automatically, so I don't have to manually transfer files etc.


texts: Chrome loses sound input and mouse with Thunderbolt setup

texts:
Have a couple of weird things going on with Chrome and external devices on my MacBook Air 2014 (OS 10.11.6). I have a setup where I have several devices connected to my MacBook via Thuderbolt port connected to a Belkin Thunderbolt 2 Express Dock HD (namely, monitor, wireless keyboard, wireless mouse, headphones, Ethernet and external disk).

First, when I exit Chrome, my mouse sometimes stops working. Just does not react to anything. This has been happening pretty consistently with Chrome, and only Chrome - did not notice any other app behaving like that. After I disconnect the Thunderbolt cable and reconnect it again everything works again. The touchpad works fine all the time.

Second, sometimes (usually after disconnecting Thunderbolt cable and reconnecting it again) Chrome stops interacting with the microphone. I am talking about internal one - Chrome just ignores it, e.g. when I use Google Hangout, nothing can be heard. If I restart Chrome - without doing anything else - it starts working again. System sound configuration has internal mic selected and does not have any problem detecting and using it - but Chrome does.

Anybody encountered such effects or has any idea what could be causing it? It sounds rather weird but I had it happen multiple times and by now I'm pretty sure the conditions are as described, though still have no idea why.


texts: I can’t hear anyone and they can’t hear me iPhone 6

texts: My phone won’t let me enable speaker and no one can hear me and I can’t hear anyone else anyone know why? I’m not connected to Bluetooth and the speaker phone has a different colour basically saying u can’t enable it


texts: Keyboard binding: deleteWordForward not working

texts:
I have the following code in my ~/Library/KeyBindings/DefaultKeyBinding.dict file:
{
    "~f"        = "moveWordForward:";               /* M-f          Move forward word */
    "~b"        = "moveWordBackward:";              /* M-b          Move backward word */
    "~d"        = "deleteWordForward:";             /* M-d          Delete word forward */
}

The first two, M-f and M-b works as intended to move forward/backward one word, but the M-d button doesn't (it doesn't do anything). Any suggestions on how to troubleshoot this issue? Thanks!


texts: Safest way to activate a "backup" iPhone, to be kept on a lower version of iOS

texts:
I have a Jailbroken iPhone 6S on iOS 12.1.1, and I am really, really happy with my current setup. I want to stay on this version of iOS for as long as I possibly can—several years at minimum.

I have taken the somewhat drastic step of purchasing a "backup" iPhone SE from Apple, which I will keep on (the lowest possible version of) iOS 12, in case anything happens to my primary iPhone.

I've heard stories of Apple not allowing activation on iPhones with too old a firmware, so I assume I should activate my new SE as soon as it arrives. If I use my primary phone's SIM card to activate the SE, is there any chance of my primary phone becoming deactivated? Are there any other risks I should be aware of?


texts:
On my iPad 2017 (5th Generation) the Ethernet section in Settings (see image below) is not displayed.

Do I have to unlock it somehow (similar to Developer Tools on Android) or is this feature simply not available for my hardware?


texts:
This is just a curiosity: what's the reason I ended up having two different icons for two external hard drives?

In my case in the Finder I have:

The information panels for these two are:

On what basis did OSX choose these icons differently?


texts: How do I retrieve photos from an iphone backup?

texts:
I have an iphone backup with screenshots I'd like to extract. They aren't on icloud/iphoto.

Is it possible to retrieve them? I no longer have the phone.

Thanks.


texts: iPad Air - How to type exclamation point from the exclamation/comma key

texts:
This has been bugging me for a while. While I see the exclamation point in the exclamation/comma key, there is no way to make that key type the exclamation point. What I am able to do with the key is to type comma and single quote with the key.

What am I missing? How can I make exclamation/comma key to type exclamation point.


texts: What files do I need to remove to wipe every trace of iTunes from my Mac filesystem?

texts:
I would like to delete every possible file read, created or cached by iTunes on a Mac and reinstall the whole thing from scratch.

What do I need to delete? Obviously everything in /Applications/iTunes.app, what else? Here are some:

~/Library/iTunes
~/Library/Caches/com.apple.iTunes

Also files that iTunes uses, like (I am assuming) the various sync folders and services. What other folders/files am I missing?


texts: How to manage multiple Bluetooth mics on an iPhone?

texts: My car has Bluetooth integration, yet even when parked with the radio turned off, so long as the engine is running, the car's mic takes precedence over the very nice Bluetooth dictation mic I'd prefer to use. How can I force my iPhone to choose the dictation mic when parked without unpairing from the car?


texts:
I am thinking about purchasing an Apple Mac computer. But I am confused between the different types of Apple Macs available. I am clueless how to make a choice.

Is there any website or a resource that I can check which lets me compare the different offerings? It would be nice if I can compare between different computers side-by-side to see how the features and specifications differ?


texts: Applescript - Open password protected excel file

texts:
Is there a way for Applescript to open an Excel workbook (.xls) that is password protected?

I see that in the library there are functions to check if a workbook has password, but I do not know the proper syntax for opening a wb with password protection.

Tell application "Microsoft Excel"
  -- set theWb to path of .... etc.
  open theWb with password "abc" ? <--- what should go here?
end tell


texts: Accessibility: How could I kill menu transparency improving legibility

texts: How could I get rid of transparency on big sur?


texts: Would it be possible to turn the field test into an app?

texts:
When you dial 3001#12345# on an iPhone, it brings you to field test, which gives you cellular info and stuff like that. If I got the source code for this, would it be possible for me to turn it into an app using Xcode that I could just open from my home screen. It would be much easier than dialing that every time.

FieldTest.app:


texts: how do you load the US Department of Defense Certificate into an iPhone?

texts: How do you load the US Department of Defense SSL certificate (or any SSL certificate) into  iOS?


texts: What is a Group's Password field used for?

texts:
When creating a group using the command line, I can use dscl as follows:

sudo dscl . create /Groups/testgroup
sudo dscl . create /Groups/testgroup RealName "Test Group"
sudo dscl . create /Groups/testgroup gid 999

or I can use dseditgroup:

sudo dseditgroup -o create -n /Local/Default -r "Test Group" testgroup

(here, I let dseditgroup automatically assign a GID)

Many of the posts providing guidance for creating a group also include this command:

sudo dscl . create /Groups/testgroup passwd "*"

and the man page for dscl says the parameter to passwd (in this case "*") is a user_path.
In the man page details for passwd, it only talks about it being used to change a password for a user, nothing about how it applies in the context of a group.

when I run

sudo dscl . create /Groups/testgroup passwd "*"

I am prompted for "Password:" and it accepts my admin password (only), and creates a Password field in testgroup.  The value for this field displays as an asterisk.

Most (though not all) of the groups on my machine have a Password field such as this.  I can scan them quickly using:

dscl . -readall /Groups Password

When I create a Password field for a group like this, does the asterisk indicate some kind of special user_path?
Does the field keep track of which user the password is for, and what the password is?
Once a Password field is created for a group, when and how might it get used?
thanks!


texts: How to print and email PDF from any OS X application on PDF letterhead?

texts:
On the Windows PC there is a nice eDocPrinter PDF printer driver from Iteksoft that prints from any Windows application to a PDF file overlayed with a PDF of the corporate letterhead and even attaches the result to a new mail message in the default mail client.

Regression

The Automator.app in 10.8.5 doesn't seem to overlay PDF files, Automater.app only overlays image file formats.
There is a PDF printer driver project at sourceforge which doesn't overlay and doesn't e-mail.
Then there is the PDF Letterhead app, which isn't a printer driver, loses it's settings on every quit and requires the creation of an intermediate temporary PDF file because this isn't a printer driver.

Who can give a hint how to create an new mail message having a PDF document attached that is overlayed with a PDF letterhead using the Mac OS X print dialog?


texts: How do I get the 'Calendar' app to display on the Dashboard?

texts:
[MacOS C-Error]

As per the title.  I've tried using ctrl up-arrow and dragging onto that 'desktop' but my drag is rejected...

I want to be able to see my appointments at a glance in the Dashboard, not just a static calendar with a clock.

While looking for answers to this question, I came across something called DashCode, which I understand does not exist for MacOS Sierra.  Can this be used to wrap the calendar app into a widget?


texts: Admin account no longer accessible on MacBook Pro running El Capitan 10.11.6

texts:
After installing El Capitan, I cannot login to the admin account I was using for the install. I have other admin accounts that work fine, but this was the main one I use with all my important files. I have tried deleting this admin account but the system freezes.  All other accounts work fine.

Any suggestions as to how to access the admin account or how to delete it?


texts:
After I installed Yosemite on my MacBook Air, the battery icon is just an X.

I have tried restarting the computer, and turning off the computer, then back on, but nothing is happening! Even the charger won't recognize that it is plugged in. This Mac is less than two years old, the battery should be fine.


texts: Your Apple ID or password was entered incorrectly - Eror while login

texts:
I tried to login with my apple id to develper.apple.com and application loader

But is giving the error -Your Apple ID or password was entered incorrectly

I know my login credentials are right.

Please help..


texts:
My iPod touch (2G 32GB iOS 4.1) is stuck on this screen

(image from the iPhone restore assistant page). I guess that means that I need to sync with iTunes, but unfortunately when I try I get

There's no way I can enter the passcode, and (as far as I can see) there's no way I can reset the device without connecting it to iTunes somehow.

I have followed the troubleshooting steps on that page to no avail, and there's no mention of passcodes there. I've tried this on the usual sync PC and on my laptop. I'm hamstrung a little in that it's an old device and none of the side buttons work anymore so I can't try power off / reset but I've tried letting the battery run out and restarting it to no avail. I do still see pop-ups for my calendar appointments over the iTunes sync image. I've tried pretending the keypad is there and entering my passcode but no luck.

What does that screen mean? Is there any way to forcibly reset the software in iTunes even though it won't connect because of the passcode, or is there any way I can reset the software from outside iTunes? (I can't find anything on the Apple support website or in the manuals.)

I've seen this thread on MacRumours which has the same problem; it sounds like it was fixed by resetting the iPod. As above my top button is broken so I can't do that, but I did try letting it run flat which I assumed would do the same thing and that didn't help. There's also this thread in the Apple forums but there's no solution there: just that the restore worked the next day, whereas I can't even get that far.


texts: Can an Apple TV 2 be operated without HDMI plugged in?

texts:
(This question is related in goal, but not method.)

Shortly after launch, I bought the new Apple TV. A few months later, my girlfriend and I broke up and the HDTV went with her. Apple TV returned to his box, never to be seen or heard from again. I know, terrible!

I've been pondering how I could send tunes to the stereo in my office without running a 20ft cable to my headphones jack, since all the error noises would be pretty disruptive and whatnot. Then I remembered, Apple TV has a Toslink port.

I think that using this, this and this, I should be able to just AirPlay from iTunes. I'm worried, though, that the set-top box might be a bit offended that I don't plan on giving it an HDMI buddy.

Has anyone done this before?


texts: How to remove app which is greyed out, can't be deleted, won't open and doesn't appear in apps list?

texts:
I have this app with a greyed out icon which I'm trying to delete.

I tap and hold, and it asks me if I want to delete it and its data. I confirm and nothing happens.

I try to open it and nothing happens.

I go to Settings>General>Usage and it's not in the list.

I reboot the device and it's still here.

Is there another way to force deletion of this (ghost) app?


texts: Permission denied when accessing backup directory

texts:
I used iTunes to make a backup of my iPhone. I can see the backup directory using Finder, at /Users/ronaldfischer/Library/Application Support/MobileSync/Backup. Strangely, when doing something like

ls "/Users/ronaldfischer/Library/Application Support/MobileSync"

or

du -ms "/Users/ronaldfischer/Library/Application Support/MobileSync/Backup"

I get an error message i.e. ls: MobileSync: Operation not permitted. But when I do a

ls -ld "/Users/ronaldfischer/Library/Application Support/MobileSync"

I see

drwxr-xr-x@ 3 ronaldfischer  staff  96 Sep 15 14:08 /Users/ronaldfischer/Library/Application Support/MobileSync

Hence I should have suffient permissions, plus Finder too can go into this directory without requiring me to switch to root rights.

Where does the permission problem come from?

UPDATE:

Running xattr on the directory MobileSync showed that it has the attribute com.apple.quarantine being set. This attribute is usually set on (usually an executable) file which is downloaded from somewhere, and ensures that MacOS is asking you "Do you really trust this file?" the first time it is opened. Maybe the attribute has been set because backing up my iPhone in effect means that external programs are downloaded.

However, this is likely not the reason of the strange behaviour, because I also get an operation not permitted, when I try to remove this attribute using xattr -d. Furthermore, @Seamus said in his comment, that he did not have this attribute being set, but also has no permission. Perhaps it is a glitch in this OS version? I'm still running Mojave (10.14.6).


texts: Downloads and Updates still ask for old AppleID password

texts:
I signed out from my old AppleID and it was removed from my iPhone.  However, the iPhone still asks for the old AppleID and password when downloading and updating apps.

How can I solve this?


texts:
How do I make AppleScript count exactly?

According to AppleScript, the following equation would be true:89723443578920345892 / 2 = 448617217894600000000

That, though, is not true. What can I do in order to make AppleScript actually count without rounding it afterward?


texts: You know when you're on the mac and you tap f4 and all these apps and games you already deleted is still there. How do I get rid of them?


texts: Upgraded to Big Sur, and now screen sharing doesn't work even though I granted app permissions

texts:
I recently upgraded to the Big Sur OS.  Previously I was able to share my screen when using Slack, MS Teams, Zoom, and so on.  After the upgrade, I was prompted that I needed to explicitly give screen recording permissions in my System Preferences.  So I did ...

However, even after restarting my computer, I still can't share my screen.  For example, on Firefox (one of the apps in the list), I get this message

when I try and share using Google Hangouts.  What else do I need to do to enable screen sharing for my teleconferencing apps?


texts: Process called "ItYoingm" using over 90% CPU and over 106GB memory - root user

texts:
I have recently downloaded Catalina on my Macbook pro and every now and again my fan goes into overdrive, even when I'm hardly using any programs.

I opened my Activity Monitor and there is a process called "ItYoingm" using over 90% CPU and over 106GB memory. The user is "root" user and the process group is "launchd(1)" and then parent process "kernel_task (0)"

Does anybody know what "ItYoingm" is and why it's using so much CPU? I can't find anything on google.

As it's a root user process I feel nervous about quitting the process. Can anyone advise?

I'm not very tech savvy so I would appreciate answers in layman terms please!


texts: Why does my son's name come up on my icloud messages when I use my mac to send one?

texts:
I am the only user signed up on my macbook.  My son's name comes up as the sender when I message someone via the mackbook.  Also, why aren't texts to my phone coming through on my macbook?
Thanks, everyone!


texts:
In iPhoto 09, how do you close the editor without closing the Event you're working in?

For example, you can enlarge a photo with space, then go back to the event with space again (single-clicking the image also goes back). However, if I'm editing the image, clicking "Done", double-clicking the image, and pressing Escape or Return all take me back to "All Events". How do you close the editor only, so you can go back to the thumbnail view of the event, or at least to the enlarged photo view?


texts: Is it possible to include emoji in the app description in the App Store? Wouldn't the app be rejected or banned?

texts:
I have an app listed in the App Store. Don't you know is it possible to use emoji in the description of the app or use any kind of text formatting (italic, bold, underline)?
I have found the information about apps that were rejected due to use of Apple emoji in their icons but nothing is written about description/what's new/promotional text fields.


texts: Different Free Storage Amounts on External SSD

texts: This has really confused me. I recently bought an 1024 GB External SSD for my Mac mini, and put about 200 GB of files on it. However, whenever I click the space bar to see how much storage is left, it says that there’s only 710 GB left. Whenever I click get info, it says that the amount of storage left is 824 GB (which should be the correct amount). Is there a reason for this? Which one is the correct storage amount, and can I fix this issue at all?


texts: What specs to look for in a router to connect multiple Apple and non-Apple devices efficiently?

texts:
I have a router at the moment that keeps dropping Airplay connection between different iOS devices. I'm trying to find a better router that can withstand the amount of interference from various devices such as multiple iPhones, iPads, MacBooks, Windows laptops, AppleTV, and a TV.

I know the iPad (1 and 2) and the iPhone cannot use 5 Ghz wireless signals, yet the AppleTV and retina MacBook Pro do. So I am not sure if I need to get a dual band router that can send both 2.4 Ghz and 5 Ghz, or just stick to 2.4 Ghz single band transmitter.

I would appreciate your advice for what to look for in a router to achieve what I mentioned?


texts: How to determine wasted space by large chunk size on macOS RAID array?

texts:
Working on a system that was created with a macOS RAID array with 256k chunk size for the members. The drive was originally to be used for video and image editing and storage, but has now become a multipurpose drive that has a lot of smaller files on it.  How can I determine the amount of wasted space on the drive that might be caused by this large chunk size?
If it is too considerable I believe I'll move these files to another drive and recreate the array with smaller chunk size commensurate with the usage now.


texts:
I do online tutorials one at a time and in a Safari bookmark called Current I always update the address to my current tutorial. I want some terminal command which I can call to start Safari and open Current. Starting Safari is simply an execution of open -a safari in the terminal.

How can I start Safari AND open the bookmark?


texts: Am I likely to get a performance improvement upgrading iphone 4 from ios6 to 7.1?

texts:
I have an iPhone 4 that I didn't upgrade to iO7 because I'd heard a lot of people saying it hurt the phone's performance, and my phone's performance was already pretty terrible.

I've seen people saying that 7.1 is specifically faster for an iPhone 4, but only in comparison to iOs 7.0

If I upgrade my iphone 4 to 7.1 will it run better or worse? I use it as a backup device, mainly for music, so I'm ok doing without the improvements, but if I'm likely to get a performance improvement than I'm all over it.


texts: Where do I get the correct Boot Camp Support Software for my machine?

texts:
I have an old Macbook running Snow Leopard. I have used Boot Camp (3.0) to install Windows 7. I understand that after installing Windows I need to install the Boot Camp Support Software.

Before installing Windows 7, Boot Camp Assistant gave me the option of downloading the support software. However, it turned out that this wasn't possible. I got the error message "Download could not continue. The Windows support software is not available online." So I installed Windows hoping I could get the support software from somewhere else.

I've downloaded several versions of the support software from:
https://support.apple.com/downloads/%255C%2522Boot%2520Camp%25203%255C%2522

…but none of these work when I run them in Windows. I get one of two messages: "This version of Boot Camp is not intended for this computer model" and "Boot Camp x64 is unsupported on this computer model".

I have also tried running the setup on the Snow Leopard install DVD. With this, I get the message: "Boot Camp x64 is unsupported on this computer model"

Windows works but I don't have audio so I want to install the correct drivers Can anyone point me to the correct version of the support software?

Specs of my installation:

Macbook Core 2 Duo (4,1) Early 2009
OS X Snow Leopard (fully updated)
Bootcamp Assistant 3.0.4
Windows 7 Professional


texts: Get text from multiple webpages doesnt work if one URL is down

texts:
I have creating a simple workflow in Automator which will extract text from a list of URLs and save them into one text file.

The actions are:

Get Specified Text
Get Text from Webpage
New Text File

Whenever there is a problem with one of the URLs, Automator throws an error and stops working - is it possible to make it ignore the problem URL and continue?


texts: How do I restart my iPhone and why should I?

texts:
Often people talk about restarting an iPhone in the same way you restart a computer.

How do you do this, what buttons do you press?

Also how/why is this different to just turning off the iPhone using top button and then turning it back on?


texts: Google Calendar Notification not making any sound on iPhone 6

texts:
I am on iOS 12.1.2

I would like to use only ONE app for all my reminders and task management.

I think Google Calendar fits the bill nicely. Beautiful web-interface, pretty app, reminders, events etc.

However, there is one problem. Two actually.

I can't configure a sound for it like I can for Apples Calendar app.
Even if I allow sounds in Settings > Notifications on iPhone, and set notifications for events in the app itself. I get the notification alright, but no sound.

Ideally, I would like to hear a sound and be able to configure it.


texts:
When I'm on my iPhone, pictures downloaded from the Internet are automatically uploaded to my iCloud Photo Library.

I want the same thing to happen for pictures downloaded from the Internet when I'm on my Mac. Let's say I want to upload to the Icloud Photo Library every new image in the folder Downloads.

Is there a way to do it seamlessly ?


texts: shell script on mac to ssh path / CD in a dir

texts:
I am looking for a way to  in terminal

cd into dir1
Then in a new tab
cd into dir2
Then in a new tab
cd into dir3
Then in a new tab
cd into dir4

Then in a new terminal window
ssh into path1 and
then in a new tab
ssh into path 2 etc

is there a way I can create a script or a shortcut for cd-ing /  sshing  on a mac?

I thought I can create a script.command file and in that write
cd path 1

but that does not work. I get a message process competed and then it exits


texts: How to sync 30 days of mail in the mail app?

texts:
I find managing multiple browser windows on OSX a real pain with no solution, so I decided to get rid of some tabs.

I loaded up gmail into the OSX Mail client, but it wants to sync my entire account. Is it possible to sync only new stuff? Basically I want it to only sync the last 30 days and not everything...

It's trying to sync about 6gb worth of mail...


texts: iOS Application development Certification

texts: As we all know about the Microsoft Certified Professional Programs. I need to ask is there any institute offering online certification for iOS Professional Developer. I have visited Standford University, as it is offering a course but I could not get it that is it like MCP or not?


texts: Yosemite Server, adaptive firewall not stopping screensharingd attempts?

texts:
I'm not certain if the Adaptive Firewall in Yosemite Server 4.0 is just not working or just not working for screensharingd.  I have a Mac mini Server in a colo and get lots of attempts at screensharing.  So I turned on the adaptive firewall as per Apple docs and it does not seem to be doing anything.

Whats my next step?


texts: How do I refresh the devices in Image Capture?

texts:
For some reason, Image Capture doesn't always update the list of devices after I plug in my iPhone. Sometimes restarting Image Capture works, and sometimes it does not. Does this have to do with the number of images on my iPhone, which is several hundred? The fact that there's a passcode on my iPhone?

Is there a steady way to make my iPhone appear?

Edit:

The iPhone is indeed visible in iTunes. Connecting via the other USB port makes it visible in Image capture as well - after a wait.


texts: How do I upgrade an iPhone 4 from iOS 7.1.2 to iOS 8 or 9

texts: I have an iPhone 4 and I need to upgrade from 7.1.2 to iOS 8 or 9. I would like to ask how I can get iOS 8.


texts: Is it possible to disable Terminal's automatic tweaking of colors in Lion?

texts:
While it's great that Terminal now has built-in support for changing the ANSI colors, I find it annoying that it automatically adjusts the colors to improve contrast, which means the colors that I actually pick often end up washed out or off in some other way. Here's a screenshot explaining the problem:

This bugs me because I like to use the same color scheme in Terminal and MacVim, and with this handling of colors by Terminal, they don't match up to the ones in MacVim.

Does anyone know of a solution to this, besides switching to iTerm 2 (which I'd rather not – I like the rest of Terminal, especially some GUI touches like the pulsating visual bell). Thanks!


texts:
I have a Macbook Pro with 3 partitions:

HFS (OSX)
FAT (Ubuntu)
NTFS (Windows 7)

and I want to format only the OSX partition and do a clean install without touching the other operating system partitions.
In order to do this I also have to format the MBR partition or erase it? I have rEFIt, and I know it has a utility that checks/repair the MBR or so I think so, should I use it after I do the clean install?


texts: How to diagnose why plugins don't show in Photoshop?

texts:
I have some Photoshop plugins in a folder PSPlugins in my home folder.  When Photoshop runs, it doesn't see them.  I did put the correct path into the preferences.  Is there some way to determine why Photoshop doesn't see these plugins?  Does it really not see any plugins, or does it see them but doesn't like how they taste?

Does PS write a log file stating where it looks, what it finds, and any error messages?


texts: I'm using both a 3 year old iMac and a Windows 7 laptop. 80% of the time I am getting an "Invalid URL" error message. Problem exists with IE, Safari, and Chrome. All other sites (yahoo, netflix, amazon, etc) load up perfectly. I can also go directly to gmail.com and access my mail. Problem also with iPad2,iPad mini, and wife's 2 year old iMac. After being unable to get on I will come back a few hours later and be successful.


texts: macOS error: The application is not open anymore

texts:
I'm attempting to launch a macOS application.
When I select the file from Applications, or double-click the app's icon, I get the alert message:

The application "APP_NAME.app" is not open anymore.

I know it's not open... I want to launch the app!
What is the meaning of this error? How can I launch the application?


texts:
I have 2 partitions (2.6gb, and 150gb) on one of my (3gb) drives.
It had 3, but I removed one that wasn't used.

Disk Utility should allow me to expand the 'lower' (150gb) partition into the free space - but not the 'top (2.6gb) partition.

Is there a way, using terminal or an app, that I can expand that 'top' (2.6gb) partition into the free space?


texts: Dual login Windows and OSX on an Apple computer (not dual boot)

texts:
A couple years ago I was using the business center of an Embassy Suites hotel. They had Apple computers with a dual login screen where I could choose to login to Windows or OSX. This was not a dual boot setup. It was choose at login. I have not been able to find a system that does this.

Do you know of such a system that makes this possible? Again, this is for a dual login, not a dual boot configuration.


texts: How to fix an iPhone 4S with disabled iCloud settings?

texts: I have an iPhone 4S with iOS 7.1.1 and my iCloud is disabled (greyed out) in settings.  How do I enable it if I can't select it?


texts: adding a exception rule to do not disturb?

texts:
I talk to a quite a few Americans, I my self am English, they message me during the night but, I do not want to switch off notifications for that Skype chat, otherwise as always, I will forget to switch it back on, and will miss something...

Can kind-of rules be added to the do not disturb?

or is do not disturb do not disturb at all regardless.


texts:
I've got a 4K monitor attached via Dual Link DVI. It does 4K, but only at 30Hz.

It does 60 Hz up to 2560x1440; anything above that is 30Hz.

Is that a limitation of DVI?


texts:
I can't resize an image by dragging and dropping in Notes.

How do I resize an image in Notes?


texts: Finder shows me filenames and folder in inverted order. Why?

texts: OS X is showing me some folder and filenames, per default in reverse alphabetical order. Why?


texts: Change background login screen in macOS Sierra

texts:
I am trying desperately to change the login screen image (defaults to a blurred image) to any other image that I want. I have already tried:

How to change your login screen in macOS (and change it back)
How to Change the Login Screen Background In macOS Sierra, Yosemite, and El Capitan
Change login screen in Sierra

And I can garantee you, none of them work any more in macOS Sierra, they used to in previous versions of the OS, but not anymore.

I would really appreciate some help!


texts: How do I find out what my iBooks "authorized computers" are?

texts:
I saw a "Free" book on iBooks today and decided to download it.  I've never used iBooks before.

After it downloaded (and I entered my password), I clicked "Read", and iBooks said:

  Computer authorization was successful.

  You have authorized 2 computers out of your available 5.

I only have one Mac here.  (iBooks seems to be new with OS X 10.9, and this is the only Mac I've ever owned that is even capable of running 10.9.)  Is it including my old iPod Touch as a "computer"?  If not, how can I figure out what the other "authorized computer" is?


texts: Back to My Mac: BTMM kMMServiceFailureNotification

texts:
About a week ago iCloud's Back to My Mac service silently stopped working and will no longer start.

I discovered an error icon in System Preference's iCloud panel reporting the error: Back to My Mac isn't working because it couldn't start properly.

Following the trouble shooting steps provided by Apple has not fixed the problem. This includes restarting, and signing out & back into iCloud. An Apple support discussion thread, I cannot start Back To My Mac Since Wed Last Week, suggests this is not an isolated problem.

The system.log messages at the time of attempted enabling suggests an error occurred:

Jan 16 09:59:46 Mac-Pro com.apple.preferences.icloud.remoteservice[731]: AOSKit ERROR: LH request failed, url=https://p33-btmm.icloud.com:443/v1/hello, requestHeaders=
    {
        "Accept-Language" = "en-us";
        Authorization = "...";
        "X-Mme-Client-Info" = "<[redacted]> <Mac OS X;10.11.2;15C50> <com.apple.AOSKit/232 (com.apple.systempreferences/14.0)>";
        "X-Mme-Country" = GB;
        "X-Mme-Device-Id" = "[redacted]";
        "X-Mme-Timezone" = CET;
    },
    error=Error Domain=AOSErrorDomain Code=1000 "(null)" UserInfo={HttpStatusCode=503, DialogInfo={
        DialogType = Unknown;
    }}, httpStatusCode=503
Jan 16 09:59:46 Mac-Pro com.apple.preferences.icloud.remoteservice[731]: [AOSAccounts] : BTMM operation not successful
Jan 16 09:59:46 Mac-Pro com.apple.preferences.icloud.remoteservice[731]: [AOSAccounts] : BTMM kMMServiceFailureNotification dictionary <CFBasicHash 0x7f921e2ba590 [0x7fff7c6cd440]>{type = mutable dict, count = 2,
    entries =>
        0 : <CFString 0x7fff7b7cc170 [0x7fff7c6cd440]>{contents = "ServiceFailureErrorKey"} = Error Domain=AOSErrorDomain Code=1000 "(null)" UserInfo={HttpStatusCode=503, DialogInfo={
        DialogType = Unknown;
    }}
        2 : <CFString 0x7fff7b7cc110 [0x7fff7c6cd440]>{contents = "ServiceFailureTypeKey"} = <CFString 0x7fff7b7cc130 [0x7fff7c6cd440]>{contents = "ServiceFailureTypeEnable"}
    }

I have reported the bug to Apple as rdar://24219994

Is there any solution?


texts: All Safari Tabs lost after installation of Mojave

texts:
I had a lot of research tabs open in Safari. But all lost after installing Mojave.

I have Time Machine if that is of any help. I also checked "restoring all tabs from last session" without any success.

I'm a doomed or is there help? Thank you so much in advance!


texts:
Is there any full jailbreak for iOS 11.4 except Electra (it's for 11.2 — I cannot downgrade cause Apple doesn't sign that firmware anymore)? Because, honestly I think that Pangu Anzuchang is not a full feature jailbreak as it's just a web clip application which does not inject a kernel exploit (as Electra does, that's why it restarts the device), so what will you suggest?

UPDATE

iOS 11.4 is a stable release now. Any jailbreak methods are available?


texts: Where do I find the logs for OS X authentication attempts?

texts:
I'm on a personal computer, with Lion running and only a single user account on the computer. Is there a log file for authentication attempts (both for login attempts and password protected screensaver aka sleep mode)?

Mostly interested in the unsuccessful attempts. Is it possible to also see the passwords that were used to make those unsuccessful attempts?


texts: How to transfer apps from iPad to MacBook Pro

texts: I got a new MacBook Pro recently and I want to transfer my old apps into my new Mac, how can I do this?


texts: WeChat doesn't generate notification sounds on my iphone

texts: I've been using the WeChat app which often fails to generate a notification sound when new messages are received. I've noticed that it's a common problem and switching off the battery saver mode doesn't necessarily solve it. Does anyone know how to fix this problem on iphone? I'm using iphone 7 iOS 12.1.4


texts:
Ever since I upgraded to Mavericks, the Terminal prompt became a bit slower at coming back. It's not a huge deal, but there's now a slight noticeable delay before the prompt comes back (maybe like a quarter of a second)  which gets annoying over time.

How would I debug this issue? Basically, is there a way to see what exactly it's doing in that time? What are common causes of such a slow down?


texts: So, I installed Windows 10 on iMac mid 2011. This is unsupported, but I did it. And, what I did was install it over the main partition. Now I do not know how to go back to macOS. Any help? I beg you to help me! I tried booting a USB with High Sierra installation, but it is not showing up!


texts: How can I restore the El Capitan Messages notification sound (chime) to the old sound?

texts:
I've noticed when I receive messages in the Messages app in El Capitan, it plays the "Chime" sound from iOS 9.

I recall that in the previous version of OSX, or perhaps the one before it, the incoming Messages notification sound was simply a different pitched variant of the "send" message sound.

How can I restore it to the original Messages sound from the older versions of OSX?


texts: How to import a Shortcut workflow without iCloud?

texts:
With iOS 13.x it is no longer possible to share Shortcuts. Unfortunately Apple removed support to import a Shortcut via email or external link. We are using multiple devices in supervised mode. iCloud drive has been explicitly disabled. Data are shared within our private Cloud. As a current workaround we do restore from previous backups. However we do have import Shortcuts to existing devices.

How can we deploy Shortcut workflows without iCloud?

Error Message:

  Shortcut Cannot be Opened

  Importing shortcuts as files is not currently  supported. Please
  shortcuts using iCloud.


texts: Remote controlling a Macbook Pro with the lid down?

texts:
I have a MacBook Pro that I would like to use while I'm at work, but am reluctant to actually take to work because the environment is quite dusty.

I have been provided with a IBM Thinkpad running Windows 7 at work and would like the remote control the MacBook Pro from work over an existing VPN tunnel. Ideally, the laptop would just be connected to the power and the lid would be closed to prevent any dust or anything building up on the screen.

Is there any offical or advisable ways to do this? I imaging something like VNC but the fact that the lid would be closed and I may want to disconnect the VNC connection and reconnect after the laptop will have gone to sleep could be an issue.

The MacBook Pro is running OS X Lion and has an SSD drive (if that makes any difference to sleep issues, etc.).


texts: How does iTunes make its decision as to what artwork to provide?

texts:
I'm trying to download Album Art by right-clicking a track in iTunes and choosing Get Album Artwork.  Sometimes this works fine, but sometimes iTunes finds the wrong Album.

As an example, I have A Taste Of Things To Come from the Mortal Kombat Soundtrack.:

But this is the only track on that same album with Album Art, so I ask iTunes to Get Album Art for the second track.  This is what it finds:

The Quigley soundtrack, starring Gary Busey and Oz Perkins.

How does iTunes make its decision as to what artwork to provide for any given track?  And ideally, how can I encourage iTunes to make better choices?

I'm running iTunes 10.6.0.40 on a Windows 7 PC.


texts: External applications opening Safari links in new window rather than new tab

texts:
I've noticed that when an application, such as iChat or Twitter for Mac, sends a link to Safari it opens in a new window rather than a new tab. I can manually force it to open in a new tab by holding down cmd, but I'd like this to happen automatically. I don't recall links opening in new windows in Snow Leopard.

To be clear, I'm not talking about opening links within Safari itself, I've set these to open in new tabs already. I'm talking about external applications sending links to Safari.


texts: I am trying to keep the toolbar visible all the time....when I select 'View' the 'Hide Toolbar' is grayed out.  My wife has the same machine, and her's has 'Hide toolbar' not grayed out which I assume she could select and would get the result I am getting.  Any help would be appreciated, it's getting annoying now.


texts: What are possible consequences for the screen, when doing the replacement of iPhone 5s home button

texts: I need to replace the fingerprint sensor along with the home button on my iPhone 5s, but I am afraid of what would the consequences be on the screen. Right now, the screen assembly seems to be perfectly flush and tight with the frame. In particular, I know that there are often problems with closing it after the repair. Will I be able to close it just fine and will it be perfectly flush as it is right now? Any experiences guys? Any iPhone 5s repair masters? Thanks for any advice.


texts: troubleshoot applescripted typing missing shift key and numerics in windows xp under parallels 8?

texts:
I am using a Windows XP VM with Parallels 8 under Mountain Lion. I have a remote desktop connection from XP that does not allow pasting from the clipboard, but typing works, of course. I have an AppleScript simulating as if I typed the clipboard. However, the Shift key is not held down for modified keys, even though all keyboard layouts are in sync otherwise. Also curiously, numeric characters don't go through while "(" is turned into "9". See the full example below.

This happens in script-typing into XP desktop apps too, RDC only motivates why I cannot simply paste the clipboard. But this is a problem of scripted keystrokes in Parallels!

This only happens for this script and even only some keys with the script, the shift key is synchronized otherwise.

The remote connection is not super fast, but low speed did not break the use of the script in other cases (when I did not need the XP VM).

What is there to do?

This KB-article is about a similar shift-key issue from previous versions, even RDC-specific, but did not solve my problem:
http://kb.parallels.com/en/9129

Here is the script:

on run
    repeat with theItem in (the clipboard)
        tell application "System Events" to keystroke theItem
        delay 0.01
    end repeat
end run

This is what I tried to copy and paste (by scripted typing):

  ~!@#$%^&*()_+

  QWERTYUIOP{}|

  ASDFGHJKL:"

  ZXCVBNM<>?

  `1234567890-=

  qwertyuiop[]\

  asdfghjkl;'

  zxcvbnm,./

This is what I got, see the messed-up order of rows, even, and even the cursor was before the x in last full-length line, not at the end — somehow it jumped to the beginning of a row before typing more.

  `1234567*90-+

  qwertyuiop[]\

  asdfghjkl;'

  -=

  qwertyuiop[]\

  asdfghjkl;'

  zxcvbnm,/

  xcvbnm,./

  `


texts: Sound and heat when lid is closed - MacBook Air

texts:
Can you damage screen or something because of:

Playing loud music when lid is down?
Running some processor/videocard-intensive applications that heat the laptop, while lid is down?


texts: OS X unable to update outdated app icon in Launchpad

texts:
I have an app which is installed in OS X. It needs a certain software patch currently to make it run successfully in the latest OS, and we are sending the patch as a standalone separate app, which when installed, does the necessary things (mainly updating a Config file within the <MyApp>.app folder in /Applications). After this, double clicking the app icon in Finder launches it fine. But when we try to launch it by clicking the icon in the Launchpad, it doesn't open. (this is the problem which we are solving, it won't open even from Finder by double clicking without the patch).

So I tried to refresh the Launchpad by these things:

rm ~/Library/Application Support/Dock/*.db
defaults write com.apple.dock ResetLaunchPad -bool true; killall Dock
cd $TMPDIR../0/com.apple.dock.launchpad/db/ && rm db*

Nothing works. It still doesn't open. Only upon restarting the Mac does the Launchpad click work and the app launches.

Is it possible in any way to fix this without requiring a restart?

OS - Yosemite, El Capitan both.


texts:
I'm on Lion.

Everytime I try to shut down my laptop, I get a popup that tells me that iTunes has interrupted the shut down.

When I try to shut down again (without quitting iTunes, or changing anything), the shutdown proceeds normally.

Any ideas what's causing this?


texts: Convert Eudora 6.2 on Apple to 2011 Outlook on Apple

texts:
I have MAC Power PC running OS 10.4.11 with Eudora 6.2.

How can I convert the above to a later MAC OS to run 2011 Outlook email?

Happy to pay for a service, as I am not very technical.


texts: When I drag a pix from Photos to the desktop, why doesn't it stay where I dropped it?

texts:
I'm using El Capitan and the Photos app.

I drag-and-drop a photo from Photos onto a visible spot on my desktop.

The problem is, the photo icon appears elsewhere on my desktop, so to do anything with it -- double click to open in another app -- I have to minimize my application to locate it wherever it end up on the desktop.

I feel like Mac OS X didn't used to do this, that it file icons appeared exactly where they were dropped.

Is there some setting I have to enable/disable to make this work?

Thanks!


texts: Is there a way to get the mouse to automatically focus on an active window?

texts: I have a dual screen setup and its easy enough to switch between active applications but I was wondering if there was a way to bring the mouse over to the other screen.


texts:
I'm not very familiar with iPhone's iCloud backup mechanism and I have searched online expecting for an answer. Unfortunately, I got into confusion more than finding myself an answer.

What I have understood so far is;

In the phone settings -> under your apple ID -> there's iCloud. Entering in shows how much space I have used and underneath that, says Apps using iCloud (where the Photos says off). However, when I click the "manage storage" under iCloud  shows the storage plan following with backup,secure,WhatsApp,iCloud Drive... etc. Further selecting on Backup shows the phone (e.g.: Joe's iPhone) following with Photo Library,again WhatsApp, Facebook.. etc.

Now my question is why is it under Apple ID shows "APPS USING ICLOUD" and further drilling down toward "manage storage" under STORAGE shows another backup?

As I have pointed up on point 1, WhatsApp shows in both places. Does that mean it is backedup twice?

I'm not sure whether I'm making the point right but I'm a bit confused as to how the mechanism is working? whether do I have to necessarily do a complete backup or enable certain require backups such as WhatsApp, Photos/Videos, Viber... etc?


texts: How to see Gmail labels on the actual emails, in Mail.app?

texts:
Is there a way to view the labels from Gmail in Mail.app on an email, while the email is in the inbox, without opening the actual email (like in Gmail)?

The image shows the emails labeled as K, D, and S (on the right bottom corner of each email):

This image shows how there are no lables shown on the actual emails, while in the inbox, in Mail.app:


texts: Using CMD+Tab two switch between applications focuses the wrong window in the selected application

texts:
Say I’m in Chrome and I have three Chrome windows open. Window #2 is focused. I cmd+tab to Apple Mail (or any other open program), then cmd-tab back to Chrome and Window #1 is now focused. Happens every single time, and in every application with multiple windows.
I’m in Big Sur v11.1.


texts: The screen of my iPhone 6 suddenly stopped responding to any touches registered below the middle of the screen. I can still use the home button and the other buttons, but the lower half of the screen is totally unresponsive. I had just gotten the phone slightly wet and am concerned that I may have damaged the hardware somehow.


texts: Is it bad to stop the Mountain Lion installer halfway through an install?

texts: I already have Mountain Lion.  I started installing it again (it warns you that you already have it).  I realized I don't need to install it again.  The install is halfway finished.  Can I just quit the install, or is it actively overwriting files?


texts: Why is my iPhone 6 wireless working on b/g mode?

texts:
My router is AirPort Time Capsule which supports wireless ac. My iPhone is an iPhone 6 that also supports ac mode.

I was looking at data in AirPort Utility and for my phone it was showing it is on mode 802.11 b/g which I think is old and slow but my iPad 3 was on 802.11 a/n mode.

Does that mean there is something wrong with my iPhone wireless?


texts:
I noticed my MBP got really slow, which must be strange with SSD and 8GB of RAM.

So I opened the Activity Monitor to discover a process called ubd keeps its CPU usage very high, about 120% most of the time:

I found a thread that discusses the issue but it is related to having hundreds of iCloud certificates in the keychain, which I don't.

How do I go on with diagnosing the issue?


texts: Connecting to a Folder on a Different Partition Using AFP or SMB

texts:
I'm in the process of setting up a DeployStudio system. Part of the requirement is that the server be able to connect to a Repository of files.

On my server, that Repository is located on the partition "NetRestore-Images."

I've adjusted the permissions to the folder to R/W for everything. I've verified that File Sharing is on and is set to share by AFP and SMB. I've verified the folder is showing up in both the File Sharing System Preferences Pane and OS X Server File Sharing.

Despite this, I cannot connect to it. I get an error saying that "Share does not exist on the server."

I have tried the following addresses: (For the purpose of this example, I'll be using 192.168.0.1 as the server IP)

afp://192.168.0.1/Volumes/NetRestore-Images/Repository
smb://192.168.0.1/Volumes/NetRestore-Images/Repository
nfs://192.168.0.1/Volumes/NetRestore-Images/Repository

I've also tried with the DNS Server Name (which I'd prefer not to use)

afp://psu-nx-01.corp.walrus.net/Volumes/NetRestore-Images/Repository
smb://psu-nx-01.corp.walrus.net/Volumes/NetRestore-Images/Repository
nfs://psu-nx-01.corp.walrus.net/Volumes/NetRestore-Images/Repository

I've tried doing it without the NetRestore-Images and a few other variants but nothing seems to work.

Any suggestions? I just want to be able to mount this folder directly.


texts: I try to make sd card with raspbian software, but on my windows PC from work i don't have enough permissions to do it. Unfortunately it formatted into multiple partitions. Now i can see only one in Mac Disk Utility with 300 MB (sd card have 64GB). Somebody has idea how to fix it back to get full space?


texts: How to remove the device name from the bash prompt?

texts:
Is it possible to remove the device name in my shell commands to "save space"?

My-MacBook-Pro:~ username$

to

~ username$


texts: How do I disable the face2face plugin for Mail.app?

texts:
I have recently installed and tried to use face2face plugin for mail and I have tried to delete it, however the plugin still seems to be active and I don't know how to disable it.

http://www.chungwasoft.com/face2face/ is the link for the plugin.

I have deleted the plugin from the ~/Library/Mail/Bundles folder and it hasn't stopped the plugin.

I would really like to revert mail back to the way it was before this.

Thanks in advance.


texts:
Probably because OSX uses different naming conventions for devices files and because OSX uses Core Audio audio subsystem (not ALSA or OSS) there are no devices such as:

/dev/sdp
/dev/audio
/dev/mixer
/dev/snd/*

So, where are audio devices file in OSX?


texts: Selecting only what I want to select on Mac

texts:
Selecting text with trackpad or mouse has become super annoying experience - my Mac thinks he knows better than me what I want to select and will extend/shrink the selection to fit some hidden rules.

Sometimes I can not select the specific subset of a word no matter what, the last resort is to hold shift and use arrow keys.

Is there a remedy to this madness?


texts: How secure is it to allow Safari to remember passwords on my iPhone?

texts:
What key does it use to encrypt the stored passwords? If it uses the phone's unlock code, what key does it use for phones that don't have one set up?

If someone had access to the hard drive contents (e.g. by connecting it to a Linux machine), how easy would it be for them to decrypt the saved passwords?


texts: iPhone 5s goes to airplane mode by itself

texts: How does my iPhone 5s get to airplane mode if I do not go into Settings and change it manually to airplane mode?


texts: iPhone 5s display behaves strangly on swipe/click

texts:
For 3 days now, my iPhone 5s has some strange symptoms.

When I click or swipe on my phone, sometimes it's not doing what I expect. I can click and swipe, but my request either gets ignored or something completely strange happens (like opening a random app or options etc).

Here are some symptoms that I can reproduce whenever my phone is not working:

I can always press Home and see all apps, but I can't close when I swipe from the top; it's just ignored.
I can't turn my mobile phone off. The swipe from left to right that is needed to shut it down is ignored.

Sometimes my phone is working, and sometimes it acts as described above.

I tried the following to fix it:

Shut phone off and start again.
Restart phone with holding Home + Power for 8 sec. This is the only option that I have when phone is buggy. After restart the phone always works, but after a while it shows the symptoms again.
Reset phone to factory reset. After restart the phone always works, but after a while it shows the symptoms again.

I have also upgraded to Version 12.1.2(16C104) (was before on 12.?).

I don't really know why its not working. My last hope is to downgrade it back to 11.*, but the bug has only appeared in the last 3 days and I have had version 12.? for quite some time now. Also downgrading the phone is no long-time solution.

Are there any suggestions what I could do to fix this problem?

Also, in order to download version 11.* I need to know if I have a Global or GSM model. At the bottom of my back of the phone is nothing as suggested here: https://apple.stackexchange.com/a/85943/318324 in my settings I found that I have the model: ME341LL/A


texts: Adding a dictionary in different language and enabling spellchecking for that language too?

texts: I always install the system with English and have no idea how to add a Spanish dictionary and spellchecking on my mac, how can it be done?


texts: How can I list the partition table of an unmounted disk image?

texts:
I want to prepare Raspian Jessie found here in SD card for Biosignal Pi, instructions found here, but I have only OS X 10.11.3 El Capitan of Macbook Air 2013-mid now.
The image is in fstype format so it is not compatible with OS X.
Verifying that using the correct hash by
openssl sha1 /Users/masi/code/2016-02-26-raspbian-jessie.zip which gives

SHA1(/Users/masi/code/2016-02-26-raspbian-jessie.zip)= 4a841dffd02197548bf2329b90a0a44eeeebb4ab

which is the correct hash found in the website so not corrupted file.
However, running SHA1 on the .img returns different SHA1 than with David

masi$ openssl sha1 2016-02-26-raspbian-jessie.img
SHA1(2016-02-26-raspbian-jessie.img)= da39a3ee5e6b4b0d3255bfef95601890afd80709

One step requires me to list the partition table of an unmounted disk image. On Linux I would use fdisk -l, but OS X fdisk image.img gives

Disk: 2016-02-26-raspbian-jessie.img    geometry: 0/4/63 [0 sectors]
Signature: 0x0
         Starting       Ending
 #: id  cyl  hd sec -  cyl  hd sec [     start -       size]
------------------------------------------------------------------------
 1: 00    0   0   0 -    0   0   0 [         0 -          0] unused
 2: 00    0   0   0 -    0   0   0 [         0 -          0] unused
 3: 00    0   0   0 -    0   0   0 [         0 -          0] unused
 4: 00    0   0   0 -    0   0   0 [         0 -          0] unused

where you can see that the system does not recognise the image.
I try to mount the image 2016-02-26-raspbian-jessie.img in DiskImageMounter.app application but I get


texts: iTunes 12.2 blank tab, in the song section

texts:
Just updated to iTunes 12.2 and noticed that there is a blank column I would like to delete:

Is this possible to do? Thanks for the help.


texts: Does Mail.app send or can request read receipts?

texts:
I was wondering whether Mail.app is able to send read receipts (or maybe it does silently?) or create emails that require those?

I know such a feature is available in Outlook.


texts: How can I run a script on a Mac before Airport starts?

texts:
I wrote a small shell script to spoof my wireless interface mac address. I'd like to run this script on my mac (snow leopard) before the airport utility starts and attempts to connect to an access point. Where would I put this script or what appropriate startup file is referenced where I can have it call my spoofing script?

Here's my little bash script:

$ cat spoof_apple_mac_wifi_mac.sh
#!/bin/bash

#bring en1 down
sudo ifconfig en1 down;
#generate random mac address
MAC=`/usr/bin/openssl rand -hex 6 | sed 's/\(..\)/\1:/g; s/.$//'`;
#change mac address with ifconfig
sudo ifconfig en1 ether $MAC;
#bring en1 up
sudo ifconfig en1 up;


texts: Can I leave Family sharing on one device while staying on the other?

texts: I'd like my MacBook to stay on the family plan while removing my iPhone from the family plan. Both of these devices are under the same Apple ID. Can this be done?


texts: How to upgrade a 3rd generation iPad to IOS 7?

texts:
I have a family member with a 3rd Gen iPad (a1416) currently running iOS 6. They need to install an app that requires iOS 7. When looking at the system upgrade page in settings, it shows iOS 9 which I believe isn't compatible and also would probably run pretty slow anyway.

Is it possible to upgrade this 3rd Gen iPad to iOS 7? How can we do that? Thanks!

PS: I've already looked at Upgrade iPad to newer (but not latest) iOS but the site mentioned in the answer there doesn't offer a signed iOS 7 image.


texts: Permanent solution to slow open/save dialog?

texts:
I've experienced the fairly common slow open and save dialog box issue that seemed to come about with Mavericks and stick right through Yosemite.

The following solution has worked temporarily for me:

1) In Terminal: rm ~/Library/Caches/CloudKit/CloudKitMetadata*;killall cloudd

2) In Activity Monitor: Force Quit cloudd

But the problem always returns. I wanted to share the above temporary solution, but also to see if anyone has come upon a permanent solution yet.


texts: iCloud Photo Library content fills up 16GB phone

texts:
My wife has an iPhone with little storage and has iCloud Photo Library enabled on her Mac and iPhone. Recently it's been hitting the limit of the phones storage and breaking other apps.

I would have thought that Photos would be smart enough to keep on thumbnails of the oldest photos, but about 80% of the phone storage is Photos.app and it just keeps downloading more.

What's the best way to handle this? The only options I have come up with are (1) curating photos and videos harder - deleting less good photos etc. (2) disabling iCloud Photo Library completely and only sync certain shared albums.


texts: Why do external drives spin up for webpage rendering?

texts:
I recently went to some webpage in Chrome and noticed that my external harddrive had to spin up before the page would render.  Does anybody know why OSX does this?

I've noticed it in a few other programs when I get to a file/open dialog, but rendering in Chrome?


texts: Backtick/accent_grave is overwritten by § char

texts:
When I type the backtick char the output becomes § on my keyboard. I have tested this in multiple apps and I have also double checked in Karabiner-Event (KE) viewer to make sure that it is the backtick that I am typing. In KE it sais the character I'm typing is 'accent_grave_and_tile'. I think this means that my keyboard is outputting the backtick but somehow it is being converted to the § symbol.

Language is set to english in sys pref
Keyboard input source is set to U.S
I have tried switching btw multiple input sources
Tested multiple languages under text &  languages in sys pref

Thanks,
// hjalle


texts:
Apple publishes the iOS version distribution across all devices:

Is there a way to see the iOS version distribution for a given app that I have published?


texts: Security Q:A new app fails signature verification. What steps are appropriate to address this?

texts:
I downloaded an app, and after installation, it fails signature verification:

codesign -vv Amazon\ Music.app
Amazon Music.app: a sealed resource is missing or invalid
file added: /Applications/Amazon Music.app/Contents/Frameworks/update.ini

What I've tried:
I don't think it's a transmission error; aside from any internal checks, I downloaded the .dmg twice, over https (URL), and got the same crc32 both times: 74ecf8ab

The installer checks out fine:

codesign -vv */Am*er.app/
Amazon Music/Amazon Music Installer.app/: valid on disk
Amazon Music/Amazon Music Installer.app/: satisfies its Designated Requirement

Adding

   -R='anchor apple generic'

doesn't help.

Anyone come across this before?


texts: Can you see old messages on a SIM card free phone?

texts: Can you still see old messages on an old SIM card for an iPhone 4? Mine died a few months ago, AT&T techs took out the SIM card when they gave me my new phone, but now my parents are trying to "fix" my old phone to be nosy! Yikes!


texts: Can I do iOS like dictation on OS X Lion?

texts:
Dictation on the iPad is great.

I can use Dragon Tree etcetera but would like to use an iPad like voice dictation program instead for simple tasks.

Can I do the same thing on my OS X 10.7.4 iMac?


texts: MacBook Pro (2018) Overheating issues (Latest Mojave)

texts:
I recently bought the Macbook Pro (2018) base model with the following specs -

2.2 Ghz 6 core i7
16 GB RAM
256 GB SSD
Radeon Pro 555X 4096 MB
Intel UHD Graphics 630 1536 MB
Mojave but this problem existed even in latest High Sierra

It overheats. The exact temperatures of each location are given here [
but the laptop is generally uncomfortably hot to touch.

Does anyone else here have the same problem?
How do I go about diagnosing this? Here is a screenshot of running processes.[


texts: How to get Mail.app to display duplicate messages on Big Sur

texts:
I am using Big Sur and found that the mail app hides the duplicates of the messages.
Recently I used the following comment but doesn't work on Big Sur
defaults write com.apple.mail _AlwaysShowDuplicates -bool true


texts: TimeMachine backup gets stuck during "Preparing Backup"; can't mount .sparsebundle file

texts:
I've twice now tried to initiate a TimeMachine backup, and both times they got stuck during the "Preparing Backup..." stage. I think even on the same file, as shown in tmutil status which got stuck both times when processing file 1117289. I've restarted the computer.

According to some support links on the web, I should try to get rid of the .inProgress file on the TimeMachine backup server. From what I understand, it's located in the .sparsebundle file corresponding to my backup.

However, opening the contents of the sparsebundle, I do not see it. When I instead try mounting the sparsebundle, I get the following Finder error message:

  Image: my-backup.sparsebundle | Reason: Resource temporarily unavilable

I'm not sure what the issue is here. I'm running TimeMachine on a Synology NAS on the network. Running macOS 10.12.4.


texts: Music Home Sharing not visible in iOS 10

texts:
How do I access Home Sharing for Music in iOS10? I'd like to stream music from my Mac iTunes Library.

When I go to the Music app, there are no contents:

Home Sharing is active in iTunes on my Mac serving the audio. I can see the Library contents using the Remote app, and I can also access the Mac Library from another Mac.

Home Sharing is active on my iPhone, I'm logged into my Apple ID in my iOS Settings > Music.

Has this feature been removed, or is there something I'm missing here? This Apple support page, last updated May 2016, says it should be possible in what appears to be iOS 9.


texts: How dangerous is it to share my iTunes ID?

texts:
Someone I one shared my iTunes library with, which contained purchased content from the iTunes store, contacted me and asked me for my iTunes ID because music they had copied from library in to their own library was causing iTunes to prompt them for this information.

It seems like I use my iTunes ID for so many things, I don't want someone else to have it.

What's the danger in sharing this information?


texts: In Yosemite, the 'Alerts" Alert style notification dismisses on its own

texts:
I've setup the Thyme app's notifications to be "Alerts" style, which requires the user to interact with it to dismiss it:

However, they dismiss on their own after about 5 minutes. How to configure these so they never dismiss on their own?


texts: How can I change the default font size for composing in Sparrow?

texts:
I use Sparrow as my email client.

Recently, I sent an email with some wacky font sizes.  Now every time I compose a message, the default size is too small.  Even after I fix it, it reverts to the (small) size if I move the cursor to a new spot.

It seems like this would be an easy to find preference for default font and size, but I can't find the darn thing anywhere.  And it doesn't seem to be in Sparrow's online support.

I expect to be embarrassed by the answer, but can anyone point me to the right place?


texts:
I am currently working remotely due to the pandemic, and am attempting to identify the physical room that a set of lab iMacs are currently in. Our CMDB states that these machines are in Room A; however, another staff member states that they are in Room B. The location matters in this particular instance.

Since the subnets are the same for both rooms, we have no way of remotely identifying the location network-wise. I could, however, identify the location if I were to see through the webcam. I have SSH'd into Machine1, downloaded ffmpeg via curl and used this post to attempt taking a photo using the built-in camera.

Everything works well, except that Terminal does not have permission to access the web cam. Is there a command or CLI tool that allows me to set this permission?

Note that I am attempting to avoid enabling screen share to perform this permission setting task as I see it as more required cleanup in the end.


texts: sending texts messages to my own cell number and it always dupicates it why

texts: I sometimes send text messages to myself in the form of pictures, and it always sends me them in duplicate. one on the right and on the left hand side of my screen. does anyone know why my phone would do this?


texts: Automatically zip attachments on Mail getting sent

texts: How can I have a single file or several files that I dropped into an email on Mac, automatically become a zip file before getting sent?


texts: Is there a way to force US keyboard layout in Safari address bar?

texts:
I keep typing in Russian keyboard layout into Safari address bar by accident.
This drives me mad because I usually end up loading domain-for-sale pages.

Is there an extension or program to switch keyboard layout to US on ⌘+L before letting me enter the URL?


texts: After installing Windows 10 on MacBook Air, can I expect it run like a normal Windows laptop? Will all the software run normally ?


texts: Where is opendirectory/accounts/login information stored on macos

texts: I have encountered this problem of slow login (How can I debug an extremely slow login?), and have not found a solution. However, this phenomenon does not exist if I boot up into a fresh system. Since I have a backup of the system sometime ago that was working, I think that if I copy all the system files from that backup over, and then reinstall the system, the issue should be resolved. However, I don't want to copy all system files, because some of them can be outdated, some of them can be databases that are regularly updated, etc. Hence, I wonder if I can just copy over the opendirectory folders over and see if things get better (I have backups so I'm not afraid of breaking the system), but I don't know where is that information stored on disk. Where is the data files stored for opendirectory?


texts: Bug with regards to .tar.gz in Chrome when 'Asking where to save downloads'

texts:
Every time I try to download or save a .tar.gz file, I get something like this:

The popup is simply wrong, I've used the right .tar.gz extension. Clicking on Use .gz saves the file as .tar.gz, and clicking on Use .tar.gz saves the file as .tar.tar.gz.

Is there a way to fix this?


texts: Is there a way to identify color type using Keynote for iOS

texts:
I am wondering if you could find the exact color (using RGB, hex, CMYK, HSL, HSV, whatever!) of an object (like a rectangle) using Keynote for iOS.

I couldn’t find a way to do this on iOS, plus I don’t have a Mac (I'm on an iPad Air 2 running iOS 12).


texts: How to cleanup HDD after installing a new OS X version using TimeMachine?

texts: A very nice feature of TimeMachine is the possibility to configure a new Mac automatically. Nevertheless, when you switch from OS 10.6 to OS 10.8 using TimeMachine during installation, there are a lot of files that are not needed anymore in 10.8. Unfortunately, the setup does not recognize this and I have to remove them manually. Is there a possibility to remove all system files that are only needed for < 10.8 automatically?


texts: What is the best way to report a bug/feature request discussed here to Apple?

texts:
If a question asked on this forum does not get an answer because the feature requested does not exist (e.g. [1]), or it is agreed that there is a bug, ... what is the best way to report this to Apple?

This forum does I have found help in phrasing the question and problem, and if enough time has elapsed helps to reveal the limits of the understanding of a knowledgeable community on a topic. A question posed and edited here should therfore be very valuable to Apple.

So can one link to a description here and send it to Apple? And where would one send it? Or do they follow what is going on here so that there is no need to do that?

PS. I think it may be useful to have a tag for issues relating to how to submit issues to apple. Eg. bug-reports or something like that.

[1] For example: Does Preview.app's freehand tool allow one to select multiple shapes easily?


texts:
I have a 2011 MacBook Air with OS X Mountain Lion (I've upgraded from Lion). And ever since upgrading my escape key randomly stops working. And it's not that the keyboard on the laptop would be damaged as the same happens if I use Apple's Bluetooth keyboard. So I'm guessing it's a software issue.

Also in some cases pressing ctrl+esc achieves the same thing as just esc so I'm 100% it's not  a hardware problem.

Does anybody have any idea what this might be all about and how to fix it?

edit: the escape key stops working completely but it starts working again after I restart the computer.

edit2: this usually happens after the computer wakes from sleep. So it's not like that is just stopps working in the middle of using it, but rather after I put it to sleep (or just close the lid) and then open it again.

Has nobody got the same issue? Is there a better place to ask OS X related questions than Super User maybe?


texts: Can I run an SQLite operation from Terminal?

texts:
When I download transactions in Quicken Essentials for Mac, my bank adds "DEBIT PURCHASE" and other junk to the Payee info.

Quicken has no ability to find and replace globally.

But I dug into the Quicken data file and it turns out all the transactions are stored in a SQLite file.

I was able to open this file with Liya and then run a query, e.g.,

UPDATE ZFIPAYEE SET ZNAME = replace(ZNAME,'DEBIT PURCHASE - ','');

which cleaned up my transactions.

Is there some way I can run this kind of query directly from Terminal without having to open up Liya and then opening the file?


texts: When I save a screenshot I want to be able to specify any name I want (and maybe destination directory). Sharpshooter for mac does this, but it's a ridiculous $15. Cheaper alternatives?


texts:
Looks like the Russian layout included in Mavericks has wrong characters mapping. The layout image in preferences looks correct (see the image). But actual mapping of punctuation characters resembles the DOS ones a decade ago. E.g., to enter comma or dot i need to press Shift-6 and Shift-7 respectively, instead of Shift-? and ?.
This was a forced upgrade from previous mac os x version by my company. Any ideas how to install correct Russian layout?


texts: Am I allowed to install Snow Leopard on my MBP using someone elses install disc?

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I bought a 2009 Macbook Pro 13" used from someone and it doesn't have the install disc for Snow Leopard which is currently installed.  If I have to restore the computer someday can I use a friends Snow Leopard Install Disc?

I'm not sure how the licensing works.  All I know is right now I have a legit version of Snow Leopard on the computer. The install disc's are like $50 and I don't want to buy one unless I have to.


texts: Is Macintosh System Software 1.0 (Classic MacOS) Free?

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Since Macintosh System Softwsre 1.0 is extremely old, has Apple made it free to download? If so, is there a link to download it from?

I am just curious to try and run it in an hardware emulator and get a feel for the old operating system...


texts: Devs, can 3rd party apps access Safari's Reading List?

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Any chance iOS 5 lets devs access Reading List in Safari? A potential Read Later option for Twitter clients, etc.

I've been asking devs through Twitter for a while, but am yet to hear anything back.


texts: What's the better way to expand my small SSD?

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I have a retina MBP (MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2014)) with an SSD of 256GB.
Using it for a month or 2 now, I'm noticing that I'd like some more space (for using a Virtual Machine).
There isn't yet a way to upgrade the interal drive, and I've been wondering what the more efficient upgrade is:

Transcend Jetdrive Lite
(Claims Read speed of 95MB/s, Write 60MB/s)
USB3 memory stick (Bigger in physical size, smaller in disk space)
External USB3 SSD / HDD (Which is what I'd least like in physical size)

The ideal "upgrade" would be small size, so I can leave it in and forget about it, but fast enough to use for my Virtual Machines (and big enough).

Being a Windows developer I need to run full blown VMs. Currently I have 2 VMs on my SSD, both of which use the storage quite a lot (a server and a compile machine). I'd now like to use another VM, mostly to use as a thin-client to connect to customers' servers. This means that the third VM (the one on the extra storage) doesn't need to be as fast as an SSD, nor does it need to be as big. I think it currently sits at around 30-40GB.

Currently I do not know what kind of read / write speeds are enough for my thin-client VM, because it's more of a 'i'll know it when i see it' problem.

Does anyone have benchmarks or advice on how to proceed?


texts: Is there a FileVault compatible 3rd party Bluetooth keyboard?

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Whole disk encryption on macOS requires HID devices to be able to connect before most of the system has booted up. Logitech support recommends turning off FileVault (!!) or not to use Bluetooth (their HIDs come with an alternative dongle so that the OS doesn't have to deal with the wireless collection).
My question is: Does Apple even offer a way for 3rd party manufacturers to build FileVault compatible Bluetooth HIDs? And if so, is there a list of compatible non-Apple devices?


texts:
I know that Calculator app has ability to convert currencies but is it possible to get this shortcut in Spotlight like that:

currency 100 USD to GBP


texts: Can I set my Mac up to take a screenshot everytime I left click?

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I understand I am able to set my mac up to screenshot using timed intervals. But is it possible to set something up, in terminal perhaps, that would allow me to automate my screenshots so that every time I left-clicked a full display screenshot was taken?
I want to track my daily workflow for a university project.
Could I also direct the screenshots to a specific folder?
Thanks!


texts: How many lithium-ion batteries does a M1 MacBook Air (2020) have?

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I would like to ship a MacBook Air (M1 model released in 2020) from Japan to South Korea via EMS, but the EMS website says it is not possible to send a machine that has more than 2 lithium-ion batteries.
How many lithium-ion batteries the M1 MacBook Air contain? Also, does the adapter that one finds in the box have any lithium-ion batteries?


texts: How can I reset Location Warnings in the iOS simulator on Lion?

texts: Referring to the following question here, how can I reset warnings for locations in Mac OS X Lion?


texts: How much faster is an external SSD than external HDD if internal drive is SSD?

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I'm running intensive animation software and am having speed issues.
At the moment I'm just working from an internal SSD.
How much faster should it run if I put the project files on an external HDD?
How much faster should an external SSD be than an external HDD?
Is it worth investing in external SSDs in this situation?

My computer is a 2011 MacBook Pro running on Mavericks - 8GB memory and Samsung 840 EVO 750GB 2.5-inch Basic SATA Solid State Drive with AMD Radeon HD 6750M 1024 MB graphics. I'm running After Effects (3D animation software).

I just did a speed test on my internal drive and it's at approximately 390-460 MB/s write speed and 500 MB/s read speed.

My main question is whether there would be a significant increase in performance if I put the after effects project on an external SSD thunderbolt. And whether there's much in a Transcend 256GB StoreJet and a 256GB Lacie SSD Rugged Thunderbolt. My mac doesn't have USB 3.0

Thanks
Steve


texts: Where can I find of Apple TV apps that can be installed in France?

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I bought a French relative an Apple TV from the US as a gift. Until I can go there and see what the Apple TV App Store has to offer, I would love to see if there's a list of TV Apps that one can install in France to start giving them recommendations based on their tastes.
Where can I find a list of French Apple TV apps?