texts: Why is the CAcert root certificate not trusted on iOS devices?

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I distinctly remember that when I bought my first iPhone and iPad a couple of years back, I was able to install the CAcert root certificate on those devices and iOS would trust the certificate. These days, however, I can't get this to work anymore. Whenever I install the certificate, iOS always marks it as "not trusted". What is the reason for this? And even more importantly, how can I fix it?

The devices I am talking about are an iPad 2 (iOS 7), an iPhone 3GS (iOS 6) and an iPhone 4S (iOS 7).


texts: apache error.log filter for some specific types of messages only

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Running the apache webserver on mac Catalina. If I do
tail -f /var/log/apache2/error.log

I can access the full list of messages produced. I have a lot of [:debug] messages like this one:
[Thu Oct 29 16:09:29.185993 2020] [:debug] [pid 1709] mod_hfs_apple2.c(397): [client ::1:54896] mod_hfs_apple: Allowing access with matching directory. filename = /Users/***/Sites/***/index.php, referer: http://localhost/index.php

I'd get rid of while searching for php messages only like this:
[Thu Oct 29 16:09:29.188124 2020] [php7:notice] [pid 1709] [client ::1:54896] PHP Notice:  session_start(): A session had already been started - ignoring in /Users/smartred/Sites/global_functions.php on line 3, referer: http://localhost/index.php

Is there a way to hide the first type of messages or stop these events from being logged?


texts: How can I set up a shell script as a wrapper to the main executable of an app?

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I have an application that I want to launch via a shell script that does some setup and then launches the app itself with some specific options. Ideally, this script would be run whenever the application would normally be launched, i.e. when I click on it in the dock, double-click in the Applications folder, launch from QS, or even click on a file that opens in this app.

Right now I have an applescript wrapper "App" for my script, but the downside is that it appears as a separate app from the main app that sits in my dock, so I have to remember to not click on the main app's icon, but launch this alternate app instead.

So is this something that is possible to do? One idea I had is to rename the main executable in the app to something else, and then replace it with my script. Is that a reasonable thing to do, or is there a better solution?

For those who are curious, I am trying to set up Emacs.app to launch a daemon and then open using emacsclient. Basically, I want to have this script launch instead of emacs (and I'm going to modify the script to take file arguments and open them as well).


texts: Automator: Filter Finder Items selecting wrong files

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I wanted an Automator folder action to automatically remove old downloads from my downloads folder whenever I download a new file (I wanted to avoid making this a scheduled job).

The workflow looks like this:

When I test it, it works fine - selecting only files older than 60 days. However when I actually download a new file to the downloads folder it sends the new file to the trash.

What gives? Is the timestamp on the new file not correct until after the download finishes or something?

EDIT: I discovered that it deletes the file being added to the folder no matter what. Meaning - if I drag and drop a new file to the folder, the workflow deletes it even though the time stamp is from today.


texts: Difference between flash drive and hard drive?

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I know it sounds like a silly question but my girlfriend is buying a new Mac Book Pro soon and we found that the flash drive mac's have less memory when it's a flash drive but more expensive whilst the hard drive mac has more memory but it's less expensive. Is this like a new and better version to pick the flash drive memory I guess? What's the difference? We need the best one because we recently lost all of our old files on our blog which really sucks so we are willing to get the best one so we avoid this issue in the future.

I'd appreciate any of your help, thanks a lot.


texts: How can I send/receive files from my iPhone over Bluetooth to my Mac?

texts:
Why is it so difficult to Bluetooth these two?  They are both Apple products and it seems inconceivable that it won't work.  I have tried several solutions posted online and can link but there is no data flow between them. Anyone solved this?

MacBook Pro with Mavericks & iPhone 4s


texts: How do I see all my failed login attempts (macOS High Sierra)

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I've tried the following commands:

syslog -F raw -k Facility com.apple.system.lastlog | grep <my_username>
cat /var/log/asl.log (DOES NOT WORK ON HighSierra)
who

Thanks to Scot, the following command works:

log show --predicate '(eventMessage CONTAINS "Authentication failed")' --style syslog --last 1d

The problem with this is that it does not give me the username of the account trying to be accessed.

Does anyone of any bash/Python programs or Terminal commands that will give me my failed login attempts (graphical login/ssh)?

See more info here


texts: How do I copy files from old iMac (2009) to usb using single user mode if I can't remember the exact names of the files?

texts: My old iMac (2009) won't boot and can't be repaired in single user mode. I want to back up a few files before rebooting, but can't remember the exact name of the files. Is there a command that copies all files, or is there a way of seeing what is on the harddrive?


texts: How to access an iPhone app's database and media files?

texts: How can I access the database of an iPhone app I have purchased to copy it to an Excel spreadsheet? And how can I access its media files to copy them to my hard drive?


texts: 1920 x 1200 resolution monitor with VGA not detected by Mac OS X 10.7.2

texts:
I recently got a Dell 2412m monitor with a screen resolution of 1920 x 1200.  But in system preferences it only shows 1920 x 1080.  I had it connected, beautifully, to my spare linux machine, so that's not the issue.

How can I get the correct resolution on my display?

Specs:
Dell 2412m
Mac OS X 10.7.2
Connecting with MiniDisplay Port to VGA


texts:
MacBook Air (13-inch, Early 2015) running High Sierra 10.13.6:

I'm trying to make space on my mac, and I found out that my download folder is 30GB heavy but there is nothing in it... What can I do?


texts: Is there a iOS5 bug regarding the video app forgetting at which time a video has to be resume?

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After upgrading my iPhone 4 to iOS 5 I recognized, whenever I close a movie mid-play by clicking Done and selecting it again, it will just restart and not remember where it was before.

This was remembered in the previous iOS release when videos where still located in the Music app.

The videos were not purchased through iTunes but converted from avi with ffmpeg (just to be complete).

Is this a known issue?


texts: How to keep a VPN connection alive on an iPhone?

texts:
I connect to a bunch of WiFi hot spots with my iPhone, and love that I have a VPN option.

One thing I don't love is that it disconnects from the VPN if the screen ever goes blank.

How can I keep the VPN connected so I don't have random emails or other data in the open for man-in-the-middle attacks?


texts:
How can I use the media keys (previous track, play/pause, next track) for Spotify instead of iTunes?
OS X 10.9.4


texts: Resolution problem on external display with Thunderbolt->HDMI adapter

texts:
Let me explain problem in quick bullets:

What I want:
I would like to use ultra wide external display with 3440x1440@50hz resolution with my MacBook Pro (Retina, Mid 2012).
I would like to use my Thunderbolt port on mac, and my HDMI 1.4 input on my display.

I can successfully connect my display using:
- HDMI -> HDMI with 3440x1440@50hz
- TB -> DP (via TB -> DP adapter) with 3440x1440@50hz

I can partially successfully (with limited resolution) connect my display using:
- TB -> HDMI (via TB -> HDMI adpater) with 1920x1080@60hz (max)

Question is:
Is it matter of my adapter? For me it seems like it doesn't support HDMI 1.4, but only lower standard. (I have no idea how to check adapter type/support. There was no information about that on the product box).
Or maybe that is basically not possible to convert signal properly with TB/DP -> HDMI adapter?

Please advise.
Thanks,
Tomasz

P.S.
I have MacBook Pro Retina (Mid 2012), GeForce GT 650M 1024MB, OS X El Capitan (10.11.3).


texts: Does Restoring a Time Machine Backup Repair the OS?

texts:
Ok I understand I can reinstall Mac OS from the Command + R Menu and the OS is reinstalled without touching (we hope) my files unless I erase the disk first.
However, what if I just choose to restore a Time Machine Backup?
Is any disk repair or OS repair performed or is it just a clone of the last backup?
Any corruption in the Time Machine Backup would  not be repaired but rather put back on its corrupt state?
Is the recommended Troubleshooting Procedure to always reinstall MacOS and then restore your TimeMachine Backup?


texts: Boot Camp Assistant stuck on creating partition due to EFI formatted as NTFS

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Boot Camp Assistant is stuck on ‘create a partition’. I have followed the guide as answered in the question Boot Camp Assistance is stuck on create a partition? but it didn't work after step 8. After I clicked on the "Next" button it says:

  Windows detected that the EFI system partition was formatted as NTFS. Format the EFI system partition as FAT32, and restart the installation.

What should I do?


texts: iPad photo editing app that exports edits as XMP to reuse in lightroom?

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Basically, I'm looking for Lightroom for iPad :) but until then, I'm trying to find an alternative.

To organize and tag pictures I'll be using Photosmith which integrates with Lightroom.

Now, I need an app to do basic editing of pictures (cropping, exposure, saturation). But I need an app will do this in a non-destructive way and that will make the edits available as XMP so that later, I can just copy the XMP as sidecar files and load them in Lightroom (or better, it could load them via a lightroom plug-in the same way Photosmith works).

PS: I posted the same question on photo.stackexchange.com, see here.


texts: How to sort files by date in Safari file picker

texts: When I am uploading file(s) in Safari using file picker, I have 3 view options (icons, list, columns). I cannot figure out how to sort files by date (e.g. date modified) when I am in columns view. Please refer to the screenshots below for the clarification (p.s. I am referring to sorting, not grouping):


texts: updatedb error - mktemp: too few X's in template ‘updatedb’

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When I run sudo /usr/libexec/locate.updatedb to manually update the locate database, I get this error:

❯ sudo /usr/libexec/locate.updatedb
Password:
mktemp: too few Xs in template ‘updatedb’
chown: missing operand after ‘nobody’
Try 'chown --help' for more information.
/usr/libexec/locate.updatedb: line 102: /var/db/locate.database: Permission denied
rm: missing operand
Try 'rm --help' for more information.

How do I resolve this?


texts: How can I get a list of potential methods for DefaultKeyBinding.dict?

texts:
I would like to take more advantage of being able to define shortcuts in the Mac DefaultKeyBinding.dict. However I cannot find a comprehensible list of what I can remap. Right now I am searching for every bit of functionality I want to find and hope that someone already posted an answer for that. I have just found that adding

{
  "@\UF702" = moveWordLeft:;
  "@\UF703" = moveWordRight:;
  "@$\UF702" = moveWordLeftAndModifySelection:;
  "@$\UF703" = moveWordRightAndModifySelection:;
}

enables me to use ⌘← and ⌘→ to move by word but I would like to extend this to ⌘⌫← and ⌘⌫→ to delete forward and backward until the end of word.

I was trying to find a Apple's Cocoa documentation to get the full list of methods, but so far this is the best I could find: http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~jrus/site/cocoa-text.html

Any recommendations?


texts: Can I damage my machine if I restart it multiple times?

texts: Today I had to restart my rMBP multiple times (2-3 times, one after another) due to a software update, can it damage my machine (logic board, ssd, ram memory) at all? (long/short term)?


texts: Always prompt for Boot Device on Startup?

texts:
I have a MacBook where I have to dual boot Windows and OS X. When I hold the Option Key on startup, I get the nice "Select Boot Device" screen.

Is there a way to permanently enable this, so that I don't have to remember to hold option every time I restart?


texts: How To Permanently Remove Movies Directory

texts:
The directory ~/Movies:
16:43 $ tree /Users/ibodding/Movies
/Users/ibodding/Movies
└── TV
    ├── Media.localized
    └── TV\ Library.tvlibrary
        ├── Library\ Preferences.tvdb
        └── Library.tvdb

My .bash_profile deletes this every time on load, but it pops back up just as quickly.
I don't use any Apple applications aside from Finder and System Preferences. How can I prevent MacOS from recreating this directory?


texts:
after the upgrade to Catalina I have some problem with the USB hubs. I have three USB hubs (all working fine before the upgrade) that when plugged they are recognised once every 10/15 times. If I plug the usb hub and then restart my Macbook (12", USB C port only) they are working fine.
I can't keep logging out or restarting each time I need to connect one, and I have already tried to restore my Mac without using any backup (huge waste of time, really ). So I am looking for a way to kill/restart the USB service manually via terminal. The hubs are HDMI, Ethernet and USB hubs, each feature works fine without issue, just the USB doesn't work until restart.
There's no driver or anything to install as they always have been plug and play. I know that Catalina has removed any support to 32bit application but again, there's no software that was needed. It's not a matter of kext because as I said if I restart my Mac everything is working fine.

Anyone aware of how to kill restart the usb kext/process?

ps: Reset Pram didn't help :(

Thank you very much


texts: Partition Type: FFFFFFFF-FFFF-FFFF-FFFF-FFFFFFFFFFFF appeared when tried to remove Linux(UBUNTU 18.04) from dual boot from Mac

texts:
I earlier had dual-booted my MacBook Pro(2013), Catalina OS with Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. I wished to remove it, so I erased the unwanted partition in disk utility and restarted my mac, it did not show the macOS symbol in refind so I started in internet recovery mode. Afterwards, I

followed step by step till the step where I removed my third and second partitions.
Since my MacBook is working on Catalina OS and the guide was given according to the Sierra, I refrained from going further.
Please help me out since I'm not that terminal savvy.


texts: Public folders or "All Users" folder in Mac?

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I have a web server in OS X Server with an open source digital asset management system installed: ResourceSpace.

The main Web Root folder is shared via FTP and with permissions set to "All Users". I'd like to determine if "all Users" refers specifically to all the users in the OS X Server or if it is actually "Public" and it means anyone can access it (more like an "Everyone" permission in Windows).


texts: Time machine drive used for time machine before..can it back up a new drive without erasing?

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My MacBook Pro drive died a few months ago. Thankfully it was fully backed up to an external with Time Machine. I seem to grab something from the backup every week from various libraries, but I now need to back up my new drive. I am cheap and do not want to buy yet another external especially as the older backup is a TB and nowhere near full. Does anyone know if I can use the old external with the old HD back-up as a back-up for the new drive without having to erase and reformat (i.e., keep the old HD back-up in tact)?
Thanks in advance for a response.


texts: Does windows installed via bootcamp only have access to the partitioned part of the HD?

texts: If I have a resized OS X partition of 500GB on my 750GB HD (250GB unallocated free space), and I install Windows 7 through bootcamp on a 300GB partition, can I partition the 250GB free space on my HD from Windows? or can I only work with the 300GB that was partitioned for it through bootcamp?


texts: How to download photos from iCloud (iPhone 4)

texts:
I have an old iPhone 4 that I'm about to ditch. It has a couple of hundred photos on it, and I briefly looked into a way to access them directly from my Xubuntu laptop. (I no longer have Windows or Mac machines.) However, I decided against that route and decided to open an iCloud account, back-up the photos, and download them from iCloud through my browser. No problem, right?

Except that there does seem to be a problem. In iCloud.com it states that my iDevice need to be running iOS 8.x (don't remember the exact sub-version), and my phone is running 7.x, so I guess that's why the photos don't show. So I thought I could get them from the iCloud Drive and download them en masse without the benefits of pretty thumbnails, but there's nothing there either, despite the fact that apparently about 800 MB was uploaded from my phone.

I'm looking for suggestions on how I can get these photos off this ancient iPhone, or out of iCloud if they're in there somewhere. Thanks.


texts: Some songs in apple music can't be played. It is very weird cause in the start I could listen to these songs, and then suddenly they became unable to play. They just turned grey and it isn't possible to play them. It is very frustrating and I know that it hasn't something to do with my internet connection. It is like this at both my macbook and my iPhone. Have anyone else experienced this? And does anyone know if there is a way of fixing it?


texts: is it possible on a mac to quicky see the desktop along with the last active window?

texts:
Many times, I feel the need to keep the current window open while having access to the desktop.

A good scenario to picture where this could be handy is this:

Say, you are on a web page and you want to drag a picture to desktop. If you are seeing a piece of the desktop at that moment, then no problems, just drag the pic to that spot but, many times, it turns out that the entire desktop is covered by underlying other windows. Sure, there is a hot-corner trick you can apply that will get you the desktop, but that action will also take down the current window, the one you wanted to drag the picture from.

As far as I know, there is no way around this problem.
So I end up minimizing the underlying windows to get a piece of the desktop to drag picture onto.

But I'll ask it anyway...
Is there a way that would do what I'd like to do?


texts:
I have an iPhone 5s, bought 14 months ago (without Apple Care, so out of warranty).

Background Information:

Since I updated to iOS 8.1.1, my iPhone has been crashing infrequently, in: Blue screen, Apple logo, back to blue screen, Apple logo, etc. This would solve itself after an hour or two (sometimes more), and the phone would then be useable again.

However, even though it would take a long time sometimes, eventually the phone would crash again. I went to my local Apple Premium Reseller (iCentre Delft, the Netherlands), and they said I should restore the phone via iTunes. I did and it worked fine for approximately 5 days. But then, this morning, it crashed again. Same thing as before. But this time it DID NOT go back to usable, and I decided to try and hook it up to iTunes again. It wasn't recognized, however, and therefore I could not restore my phone. I called Apple Support, and they said I should put the phone into recovery (DFU) mode. I did, and it clearly shows the iTunes logo with the lightning cable. But now comes the problem:

The problem:

When I connect to iTunes, I get the normal messages requesting me to reset the phone (2). It starts just fine, but when the first white appears on the bar on the iPhone, it gets stuck (while the bar in iTunes keeps moving). 10 seconds later, and the blue screen pops up again, after which it heads back to the basic recovery mode screen. On iTunes I get error 9, which shows USB connection issues. However, I doubt that this is the case and suspect that it gives this error because it has nothing else to give.

Does anybody have any suggestions?


texts: Write a function in zshrc that can take a parameter and can handle flags

texts:
I usually need a chrome page opened to localhost:3000 when I am developing. So, I just run the following cmd:
/Applications/Google\ Chrome.app/Contents/MacOS/Google\ Chrome --app=http://localhost:3000

Since I use this frequently and sometimes my port changes. I want to write a function in zsh where ch will open chrome in localhost:3000 while ch 2500 will open chrome in localhost:2500.

So far, this is what I have managed to do:

ch () {
    command "/Applications/Google Chrome.app/Contents/MacOS/Google Chrome"
}

This opens a new chrome window but displays an error/warning in the console: /Library/Caches/com.apple.xbs/Sources/AppleGVA/AppleGVA-9.1.12/Sources/Slices/Driver/AVD_loader.cpp: failed to get a service for display 3

But when I add a flag:

ch () {
    command "/Applications/Google Chrome.app/Contents/MacOS/Google Chrome --app=http://localhost:3000"
}

Nothing happens and I end up getting an error:
ch:1: no such file or directory: /Applications/Google Chrome.app/Contents/MacOS/Google Chrome --app=http://localhost:3000


texts: How do I re-enable the Press and Hold character picker on OS X Lion?

texts:
I disabled the character picker by reading this other question, but I want to remove that change and restore the picker.

When I type -g ApplePressAndHoldEnabled -bool true into Terminal, it does not work.

How can I re-enable the Press & Hold character picker after disabling it?


texts: iPad Air aluminum scuffed badly. Should I worry about it?

texts: My 2 year old son managed to scuff the back of my iPad Air by pushing it on its back across a ceramic tile floor.  The worst of it is near the top by the mic.  Are these scratches merely cosmetic, or do I need to worry about the aluminum oxidizing?


texts: How can I make the App Store remember my password?

texts:
It seems that my iPod Touch (iOS 5.0.1) will keep asking for my AppleID password every time I try to install an application from App Store. It is really driving me insane.

I would be happy to add the password once at boot up instead of entering it each time.

I couldn't find a related option in Settings.

How do I change this behavior?


texts: Siri saved my reminder on the shared "family" list. How can I prevent this from happening again?

texts:
I asked Siri to remind me to purchase some personal items at the pharmacy, and right at that time the reminder appeared, I got an awkward phone call from a family member asking me why my reminders appeared on their phone.

I discovered this when I opened "reminders" on the Mac. Somehow the only reminder list I have is "Family". That means every alert I had appeared on their devices.   every.one.

Besides being exposed to a complete lack of privacy, how can I stop default reminders, of any source, from appearing on the family iCloud group?

Examples: Email, calendar, events, etc


texts: Why have pictures on Instagram got blurry since my iPad has been updated to iOS9?

texts:
I recently updated to iOS9 on my iPad4, and ever since then the pictures on Instagram have been blurry (It looked fine previously). Is this an Instagram bug, old Hardware, or something else?

Let me know if this is the wrong site to ask on.


texts: What can be done to use iMessage when it is stuck on "Waiting for Activation"

texts: I bought an iPhone 3GS and tried to activate iMessage on it, but it won't work. I tried everything to activate it, but it still says "waiting for activation". What should I do?


texts: Share internet connection from iPad to iPhone via bluetooth

texts: I can share my iPad's internet connection using Bluetooth to my Macbook Pro and my Android phone but my iPad and iPhone does not even seem to see each other when I try to pair them. I am abroad at the moment and have put a local SIM in my iPad and want to share the connection. Is this even possible? I can go iPad <-- BT --> some other device <-- WiFi --> iPhone but it feels stupid and is a waste of battery for no use at all!


texts:
After moving to High Sierra, I realized that I can’t use the normal bootcamp preferences any more, since Windows won’t detect MacOS on the APFS volume. Apples workaround is to hold down the option key during startup to bring up the startup manager.

I have an not officially supported graphics card in my MacPro, it needs a web driver, and I won’t see the startup manager since the web driver loads only after booting the operating system. I could choose the boot volume without seeing the startup manager, but strangely my USB-keyboard is not getting activated… which is strange, why can’t I use the keyboard, does this have anything to do with the graphics card?

So right now, the only way to change the operating system back from Windows to MacOS, is to physically install the old graphics card :-/

I’m disappointed that Apple didn’t warn Bootcamp-users about the whole APFS-compatibility-problem, and also that they don’t provide a fix for the bootcamp manager.

So the question again: is there another way to change the operating system without using the startup manager,
OR what can I do to persuade Mr. Startup-Manager to let me use the keyboard?


texts: What filesystem to use for a 10 TB drive connected to router with DD-WRT and Mac?

texts:
I am going to connect a hard drive to my router and let the router share the drive through SMB. The purpose is to backup my computers using Time Machine.
I realise that if I ever need to restore a large amount of data or have some issues with the drive, I might want to be able to connect it directly to one of my Macs. I am at loss about what filesystem I should use in such a situation.
Fat32 - doesn't support volumes larger than 2 TB
exFat - not (?) supported by DD-WRT (at least not out of the box)
Ext4 - very weak support in macos
NTFS - weak support in macos
APFS/HFS+ - weak or no support in DD-WRT
What are my options?


texts:
Today I clicked a link on Facebook and a dialogue window gave me the message:

  "The link needs to be opened with an application.  Send to:
  AddressBookUrlForwarder

Upon examining the link, it had the format:

  fb://photo/12345678?set=blahblahlblah

I've never seen a browser link with the "fb://" protocol before and certainly never heard of "AddressBookUrlForwarder".

So I did a finder search and came up with nothing.  Then I did a Locate search from terminal and found:

  /System/Library/CoreServices/AddressBookUrlForwarder.app

So I open "/System/Library/CoreServices/" in finder and that app doesn't show up.  But it's definitely there.  Thinking it must have some extended attributes or ACL I do an "ls-lae@" in the coreservices directory and for all intents and purposes it appears to be a normal .app directory with no @ or + or anything special to hide it from the Finder.

What the heck is going on?  What is this app?  Why is it not showing up in Finder?  What is an "fb://" protocol link?

I'm creeped out now.

Also, I'm using 10.8.4.


texts:
I have periodically used my time machine for years now. The last time I backed up was November 2017 and I started to try and back it up last night and it took ages to "prepare" and started to back up, but then kept failing. When I click the red (i) symbol on my TimeMachine it just says

  Time Machine couldn't complete the back up.

There's no further answer as to why. I ran it a few times and noticed that it now says that the last successful backup was June 2015. So I don't know what happened to the other 2 years worth of backups. It was still saying last back up was November 2017 on previous failures yesterday.

How do I resolve this?


texts: Checking number of reallocated sectors of HDD through Disk Utility, Mac OS X

texts: My MacBook was purchased in 2008. Yesterday I checked the number of reallocated sectors of the hard drive using Disk Utility. It showed there were no reallocated sectors. That seems strange since I haven't replaced my hard drive since 2008. Can I rely on Disk Utility for this information or I need to download additional software?


texts: Access denied on TimeMachine after formatting OSX

texts:
I formatted a Mac and installed the latest OSX. This Mac was using Time Machine with an external hard drive.

Now, I am unable to access folders on that disc that were created before the formatting.

In Finder they appear with a red stop icon and trying to open these folders give me an access denied error.

Trying to chmod or chown them gives me an error as well (with sudo obviously).

Here is what ls says about one of those folders:

drwx------+ 11 502  staff  -        816 20 aoû 19:11 Dropbox
0: group:everyone deny     add_file,delete,add_subdirectory,delete_child,writeattr,writeextattr,chown

I've also tried:
sudo chflags -R nouchg Dropbox/, it did not give any errors but did not fix anything.

Also:

sudo chmod -N Dropbox/
chmod: Failed to clear ACL on file Dropbox/: Invalid argument


texts: iPhone 4 updated and now wants me to restore or setup as new

texts:
I just updated my iPhone 4 from ios 4 to ios 7 and it looked as if everything was going fine. I saw things backedup; I saw firmware and software updated, and I saw things restored from backup. When the update was finished, I got the "swipe to set up" screen. It wanted to know what WiFi network I wanted to use, and it did not remember the password for that network. After reentering the password, it asked me to set up my Locations preferences. Then it asked me to do one of the following:

set up as new iPhone
restore from the cloud
restore from iTunes

Since I had backed up to iTunes prior to updating, I chose option 3. Although my iPhone was connected to iTunes, it asked me to connect to iTunes. I ejected the phone from iTunes (which sees the phone as it always did), and unplugged/replugged it. It said connected to iTunes for a while, and then went back to saying Connect to iTunes.

I cannot get past this point.

My worry is that the backup performed in ios 4 is not good enough for ios 7 and if I set up as a new phone and restore from my backup it will go back into the same loop.

I would really like to get my phone working soon.


texts: How vulnerable is 10.6 Snow Leopard to hacking?

texts:
My 2007 Mac Mini is used as a TV media device, for watching free-to-air TV channels and Youtube. It cannot be upgraded past 10.6.8.

I read somewhere that older OS X can be vulnerable to unnoticed outside hacking, cannot find the reference anymore. Is this so? Is there a way to detect?


texts: Features : Apple TV -vs- Apple TV app on Samsung Smart TVs

texts:
Is the Apple TV app on Samsung Smart TVs the same as a separate Apple TV ?

Can the Apple TV app on Samsung Smart TVs run other Apple TV apps, such as Netflix, Amazon Video etc.. or does the Apple TV app on Samsung Smart TVs just run iTunes pay per view movies / TV, and Apple TV+ subscription content. Whilst leaving Netflix, Amazon Video etc as standard "Samsung Apps" ?


texts: Hidden menu bar is shown on wrong monitor

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I have Automatically hide and show the menu bar selected in System Preferences > Dock & Menu Bar (macOS 11.1). On a single monitor, moving the mouse to the top of the screen shows the menu bar as expected.
With 2 monitors, however, the monitor in which the menu bar appears depends on which monitor the active window is in, not on which monitor your mouse is.
So if I have an active window in monitor 1, move my mouse to monitor 2 without clicking on anything and approach the top of the screen, the menu bar on monitor 2 won't show up. Instead, it will show up in monitor 1, which is not where I'm looking, so it always gives the impression that it's not being shown.
Is there a way to make it show on monitor 2?


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I originally started playing Clash of Clans on a first-generation iPad and connected it to my GameCenter.
I then got a third generation iPad, linked it to the first iPad's GameCenter account, and continued playing Clash of Clans on the new iPad 3.
My friend is giving me his GameCenter account, which is linked to HIS Clash of Clans village- is there any way I can transfer his village to my Game Center ?


texts: open -g command still opens application in the foreground

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When I run the command open -ga /Applications/Google_Chrome.app http://example.com the application behaves normally and opens the url in Chrome without bringing the application to the foreground.

But if I run the command open -ga /Applications/Google_Chrome.app without specifying a url, the application opens in the foreground.

However running open -ga /Applications/Safari.app works as expected and does not bring the application to the foreground regardless of whether a url is specified or not.

from the open man pages

  -a application
  Specifies the application to use for opening the file

  -g Do not bring the application to the foreground

Why is Chrome still opening in the foreground when the -g option is passed? And how can I make it not do that?


texts:
I just recently replaced the drive in my MacBook Pro and after partitioning the drive, formatting it correctly, and multiple attempts to install it  the process won't complete.
When going through the Command ⌘ + R menu, OS Mountain Lion start to download  but when it's almost finished an error appear in the install log that says "Failed to verify InstallESD.dmg: hdiutil verify failed" and the download strat all over again.
If I go through the Command ⌘+option ⌥+R menu, OS Catilina start to download and when it's almost finished an error appear that says "an error occurred when installing macOS Catalina".
I've read that both of these problems might be related to RAM so I took both out and reinstalled them as somebody suggested and still no luck. I really just want to make sure that it's the RAM before I go and spend any money. Any ideas would be appreciated!


texts: sending email via a hosted email address through iCloud

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I have an email address (bartleyemail@emailhost.com) hosted by Google, I would like to be able to send emails from the iCloud.com mail app from this address via my iCloud account (bartleyemail@icloud.com). I don't want to have to use my mail app. Is this possible?

(I can successfully send emails from that address via the mail app in OS X and iOS).


texts:
I have a problem with the Mac Mini 2018 and its bluetooth.
The problem is that I cannot see my mac via bluetooth with other devices.
Magic KeyBoard only works by wire. Bluetooth turns on and off, but can not create a connection with the keyboard, and also does not see other devices.

Already tried to do a reboot, reset the module, deleting files com.apple.Bluetooth.plist - did not help.

output logs bluetoothd when I turn on bluetooth:

2019-07-24 14:30:22.195 bluetoothd[1039:58307] [setSystemPreference] syncs returns false
2019-07-24 14:30:22.196 bluetoothd[1039:58307] [setSystemPreference] syncs returns false
2019-07-24 14:30:22.218 bluetoothd[1039:58307] Nonconformant HID device with vendorID 4c productID 26c does not specify HIDBootDevice
2019-07-24 14:30:22.373 bluetoothd[1039:58307] [setSystemPreference] syncs returns false
2019-07-24 14:30:22.373 bluetoothd[1039:58307] [setSystemPreference] syncs returns false
2019-07-24 14:30:22.373 bluetoothd[1039:58307] [setSystemPreference] syncs returns false
2019-07-24 14:30:22.384 bluetoothd[1039:58307] [setSystemPreference] syncs returns false
2019-07-24 14:30:22.384 bluetoothd[1039:58307] [setSystemPreference] syncs returns false
2019-07-24 14:30:22.384 bluetoothd[1039:58307] [setSystemPreference] syncs returns false
2019-07-24 14:30:22.384 bluetoothd[1039:58307] [setSystemPreference] syncs returns false
2019-07-24 14:30:22.384 bluetoothd[1039:58307] [setSystemPreference] syncs returns false

2019-07-24 14:47:23.585 bluetoothd[1214:76246]  manageStateMachine entry:
    clients(0)
    founddevices(0)
    failedNR(0)
    pendingnames(0)
    _currentActivity = 0

output of bluetoothd logs when trying to connect a bluetooth device (keyboard):

Create connection failed (0x4) for device: 10-94-BB-BC-8A-90

Has anyone encountered a similar problem?


texts:
Every now and then the icons in my Dock disappear completely after waking from sleep, except some of them go funny or fuzzy. See screenshot.

MacBook Pro Retina, 15", Mid 2014, i7, 16GB memory, often plugged into a Dell P2715Q 4K Display. El Capitan.

I've tried killall Dock in terminal to no avail, and rebooting doesn't do anything much.

Any thoughts on what's causing this, or how to force OS X to clear its cache of the icons or similar?


texts: Accessing files/folders on home machine over internet

texts:
I have a Mac Mini that I run as a home server and I'd like to share some folders on it over the Internet. I need the following:

It needs to be a client app that talks to a central server (like Dropbox), not a server software that requires a public IP or VPN.
I should be able to access this anywhere over the internet through a web interface, or something else like webDAV etc.
It should just be an app, not something that requires installing any kexts or filesystems.

Note: I'm not looking for a cloud storage service, I'm looking to access the files on my machine remotely, but through a central third party service rather than needing a public IP to that machine or a VPN.

So far the only thing I've found that does something like it is the PogoPlug Software. However I find it rather unstable, very inelegant and requires installing a filesystem driver, which I'm not happy for it to do.

Are there any other services that offer something of the like but with a better made client app?


texts: Preview on Lion will open all images I opened last time, and need to close each window one by one?

texts: Say if I clicked open 10 image files, and 2 PDF files, and quit Preview, then next time when I click on 1 image file or just start Preview, all those 12 other windows will open too...  I was playing a clicking game to close them one by one... is there a quick way to make Preview not do that or "Close All"?   (while keeping other apps to open the previous state).


texts: Having trouble restoring individual GarageBand projects from Time Machine

texts:
I am trying to grab some old GarageBand project files from my live Time Machine backup that lives on an external drive that was formatted by Time Machine, and move them to my main desktop drive.
I can see three kinds of .band files in my Time Machine files, which I am guessing represent three different versions of GarageBand over the years.

I select a backup from fairly far back, like 2012, search for .band files in it, see a bunch of project files with different icons, ranging from the little guitar that GarageBand itself uses (I think these are the oldest projects), to a light gray rectangle (the medium-oldest), to a dark gray rectangle (the most recent projects).

I selected the group of files with the dark gray icons, clicked Restore, and got a message saying the enclosing folder was no longer there, to select another location.  I successfully deposted them in my Applications folder, and then moved them to a new folder I created on my desktop.

I returned to Time Machine to retrieve the other GarageBand project files, and now every time I select even one file of any type, even non-GarageBand files, I get the "volume has the wrong case sensitivy for a backup" error message when I click Restore.

Everything I have read about restoring selected files from Time Machine says that this should be simple operation with no problems as long as I select "another location" wherein to deposit my files.  I'm not trying to create a new volume, nor restore an entire Time Machine backup, just grab a few files like it describes on the tutorial for rescuing files one might have erroneously deleted.

On an Apple Community thread that someone else started that is now marked "complete", an Apple User named Comebackfreddy had a suggestion to someone asking this same question to put the selected files into the Trash and then open Trash and drag them to the target "another location" folder.  I would like to try that, but in Time Machine on Snow Leopard I do not know how to access the Trash folder from within Time Machine, nor how to put an individual data file into Trash.  Do you have a suggestion there?

I have rebooted my computer in case there was a messed-up pointer, nothing changed.  I am current through the 10.6.8 update to Snow Leopard, running on an iMac from 2008.


texts: Is it possible to use iphone as an usb or bluetooth webcam on imac?

texts: I have found many webcam apps, but all of them send the video signal through wifi, and this is not an option for me, because I need to use the phone hotspot at the same time I need to use it as a webcam. Is there a way to use the phone as webcam either through bluetooth, or usb?


texts: While browsing on my Ipad2 we'd like to take notes and save whole websites (not just bookmark them). The Evernote add-on on Chrome (on my PC) gives the exact functionality that I'm looking for. Is there an equivalent app for Ipad? Note that for a special accessibility reason we use Chrome instead of Safari. Thank you.


texts: How can I permanently dismiss Updates Available notifications?

texts:
With the Notification Center in Mountain Lion, I get an alert when software updates are available. The problem is, my only options are 'Details' and 'Update'. I don't want to interrupt my work to install the update and I don't want to launch the App Store to see what the update it. I just want to dismiss the alert so that it doesn't come back again. I know about the tip that swiping the notification off the side of the screen to make it go away, but it seems to come back a few minutes later.

I've looked in the System Preferences to change it to a 'banner' instead of an 'alert' so that it would go away by itself after a few seconds, but there is no option to control software update notifications. I've also closely read these two related questions and can't seem to make the answers there work for me to suppress repetitive update notifications.

I can turn off software updates all together, but I'm not really against the update notifications -- as long as I can acknowledge it and not have it bother me again.

Is there a hidden configuration option that I can invoke to control these notifications from re-appearing?


texts: Stop iCloud automatic download to harddrive

texts: How do I stop iCloud from downloading files to my hard drive? I opened up a folder and it immediately started downloading all contents


texts: Firefox 38 on OS X - there is no DRM - howto enable?

texts:
I found How to disable DRM in Firefox 38

I don't have those settings in my Firefox. See screenshots:

Howto enable DRM restrictions?


texts:
I have been having an issue I can't seem to fix. The WIFI on my 2017 Macbook Pro keeps cutting out, about once every 10-20 minutes. When this happens I lose internet connection and when I click on the wifi icon in the menu bar it shows that my wifi is on and connected to my network, but my network, as well as all other available wifi networks, are greyed out and I am unable to click anything. Turning the wifi off and back on temporarily fixes the problem.
Here is a list of things I have tried so far:

Restart computer
Turn wifi on/off
Remove network and reconnect
Remove wifi service and reestablish
Reboot router
Factory restore of router
New SSID, new channels, new wifi password
Reset the PRAM & SMC
Updated the Mac OS to Big Sur (from Catalina)
Ran Wireless Diagnostics

Running Wireless Diagnostics initially finds nothing when the internet is working, but then when this happened it does detect a "Dropped Wi-Fi Connection", stating that:

Your Mac experienced an unexpected Wi-Fi connection drop, which can be
caused by a combination of environment, configuration, and software
problems.
Provide the diagnostics report created in /var/tmp to an AppleCare
customer support representative for further analysis.

I looked into the logs, but am not really sure what I am looking at. And to make matters worse the applecare on this machine just expired.
Also worth noting that the network has been, and continues to work fine for all other devices (another macbook pro, two iphones, smart tv, etc.) and nothing major changed with the network before this occurred.
Any tips on what to try next?


texts: Is there any antivirus software that DOESN'T slow down Time Machine?

texts:
Time Machine making a backup to my TimeCapsule has been extremely slow.

I finally figured out that it was an issue with Avira Antivirus. So I looked for a better software. Seeing the reviews I went for Sophos which is another free software.

What a mistake! Same problem there and some others too.

So, let's forget about free software then, I thought. Let's get the number one software (according to Tom's Hardware) Bitdefender instead! But this time I won't be so naive. I'll do my research first. And after a quick googling I find they have the same problem as the previous to contenders.

So, is there any antivirus software that won't break vital functions for my Mac?


texts: How can I listen to just part of a single song, or just skip some time?

texts:
Sometimes I just want to listen to part of a song.

In Youtube I can set start/end times for a particular video.  I'm listening to this song and only want to start at 2:50, and end somewhere else.

This example is a 6 minute song... but I'm sure there are other refrains/etc in pop music that could want this.


texts: I am looking for an option to require a passcode to power off my iPhone. That way, if the phone is lost, the person who finds it cannot simply turn it off, rendering Find My iPhone useless. Is there a way to accomplish this?


texts: Change Firefox tab-switching  keyboard  shortcut

texts:
To move to the next tab in most browsers, you use ctrl+⇥.

Then, to close it, you have to reach over to ⌘+W.

I don't like switching modifier keys like that; I'd prefer to just use ctrl for both.
Is there a way to change the shortcuts so that both shortcuts use the control key? It would be great to switch this globally, but otherwise a solution for Firefox would be fine too.


texts:
The plastic coating of my (mid 2010, 13 inch) Macbook Pro's Magsafe charging port has almost completely worn away over time, exposing some kind of shiny metal surface beneath.

How important is this coating?

Is this a fire hazard or a risk to my laptop?


texts:
Is there a way to run AppleScript on mouse move?

Ideally I want to detect the mouse location and if it is in a certain to run a specific script.


texts:
I'm having problems after updating my MacBook Air:

the fan noise is very loud
the computer is very slow
the battery flattens quickly

I've tried the following:

Restoring the OS
Downgrading the OS
Resetting the PRAM

I also trIed resetting the SMC but I can't do it! When I press the left shift-control-option-power buttons the computer starts up immediately, so I am sure the SMC is not reset.

On the Activity Monitor the kernel_task is over 350% CPU all the time!!

The Boot ROM version is: MBA61.0099.B22
SMC version (system): 2.13f15
i7 processor
SSD

I don't know what to do - help please.


texts:
I have a Nas with my iTunes library, /Volumes/music is my itunes mediafolder.
I created one playlist and today I have something strange for some songs

+------------+-----------------+------------------+
|name        | artist          |album             |
+-------------------------------------------------+
|a movie name|                 |an album name     |
|from Video* |                 |from music        |
+------------+-----------------+------------------+

video is a volume on my nas…

 + i (information) for this song >
name : Dragon II (2013),
artist : empty,
album : Mozart greatest hit

Another mistake (red line is for /.../.../....nfo) :

In finder all is OK ("18 messe pour...") !

how to fix this ?


texts: Can a non-retina iMac with i7 3.5 Ghz and GTX775M handle three displays?

texts:
I am thinking about getting a used non-retina iMac with these specs:

Core i7 3,5 GHz
32GB RAM
1TB SSD
GTX 775M

Since I own two Apple 27" Displays I'd like to hook these up via Thunderbolt/MDP.

My question is: Can the iMac handle all the 3 displays (including the built-in one) or will I have UI lag/stutter? Will the iMac get hot? How would the fan noise be with this setup?


texts: Need to script User Experience preference to "Create mobile account at login"

texts:
In brief, I'm working for an organization where we support a school's infrastructure with JAMF Casper. All the Macs are bound to a Windows AD.

Currently, we have the student accounts stored on a network volume share, and they load on login, as the Macs are not set to create mobile accounts at login. This is not the recommended way to do it, and for good reason, as it causes problems.

We want to change the preferences on all the Macs in a smart group to choose "Create mobile account at login" so that the students will have managed mobile accounts when they log on, cached on the HD as is normally done. They'll be saving their work to a network volume, anyway, so it's not necessary to always load their profiles from a volume share going forward.

Is there a way to make this change through terminal commands which can be scripted, wrapped up in a JAMF login?

For that matter, I wonder if there isn't a repository of all the methods for changing any and all MacOS preferences via the terminal? Such a manual resource seems like it would very nice to have


texts: Why doesn't the screen command source my .profile?

texts:
When I start a new screen, the aliases that I have set in my ~/.profile do not seem to be sourced.

Does anyone know where I can change this or which file is actually read when starting a new screen?


texts: How often should I use the battery on my MacBook (which I exclusively use as desktop)?

texts:
Since getting my mb-pro 3 years ago, I've only used it as a desktop. A few times, the battery has kicked-in for a few hours while the power was out. Someday, I might want to task it as a laptop. For the sake of the battery :

  Should I be unplugging my mb from the wall just to use the battery?
  For how long should I run on battery?
  How often should I do this?


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declare -i s=${foo}; n=${bar}; mp=${baz}; cn=${qux}; mac_adr=${quux}
sudo hdiutil create -size ${s}b -fs JHFS+X -volname "${n}" -type SPARSEBUNDLE \
"/Volumes/${mp}/${cn}_${mac_addr}.sparsebundle" && echo "Done"

does not work, but

declare -i s=${foo}; n=${bar}; mp=${baz}; cn=${qux}; mac_adr=${quux}
sudo hdiutil create -size ${s}b -fs JHFS+X -volname "${n}" -type SPARSEBUNDLE \
"/Volumes/${cn}_${mac_addr}.sparsebundle" &&
sudo mv -vn "/Volumes/${cn}_${mac_addr}.sparsebundle" "/Volumes/${mp}" && echo "Done"

Works correctly

What am I doing wrong?


texts: Mac mini with Core 2 Duo will be good for Xcode?

texts: If I have a Mac mini mid 2010 with 4 gb ram and Intel core 2 duo, will it be enough to run Xcode with safari or chrome?


texts:
In previous versions of OS X, I used the UDF format extensively.

I recently had to upgrade to El Capitan, and now none of my UDF drives are readable (Finder prompts me to intialize the disk).

Since previous versions of OS X supported it, and since UDF is a popular and widely used ISO standard format, I suspect that I'm just overlooking something. How do I get UDF support back?

UPDATE:
I have discovered that there is a mount_udf command. I tried it out and it caused a kernel panic. I can verify that the drives worked on my old Mac OS X system, and still do work on my Windows and Linux machines.


texts:
With iTunes popupmenu

I have just restored my iPhone from a backup from March 2012. However all my apps made with Xcode was sadly not restored.

How can I back up everything?

Besides Xcode apps, which other things does iTunes backup not backup?


texts:
I want to do some user training on the new iPhone they are getting and I would like to be able to display the screen up on a projector while I am talking, similar to a Steve Jobs keynote.

Is there a way to do this without jail breaking?

Specifically, I would like to do this on an iPhone 4.


texts:
I am running macOS 10.12.5 and I am setting up a localhost and everything looks correct.  I used brew to install Apache (httpd), MySQL, and PHP.  I have changed the hosts file to point the localhost to the custom site and changed the vhost to:

<VirtualHost *:80>
  ServerAdmin webmaster@dummy-host.example.com
  DocumentRoot "/Users/me/site"
  <Directory /Users/me/site/>
    ServerName me.com
    ServerAlias www.me.com
    ErrorLog "/private/var/log/apache2/dummy-host.example.com-error_log"
    CustomLog "/private/var/log/apache2/dummy-host.example.com-access_log" common
</VirtualHost>`

I have updated httpd.conf to include the vhost file and the appropriate php modules needed.

When accessing 'localhost' by either 127.0.0.1 or the site name itself I receive the It Works! page instead of the files located in

DocumentRoot "/Users/me/site"
<Directory /Users/me/site/>


texts: I cannot find any reference on web that this app is only supported on new watches like 4 or 5.


texts: Pool multiple drives into a single network share in macOS 10.14 or later

texts:
I have a mac fileserver with multiple drives that I'd like to combine into a single pool (such that the filesystems appear to be combined together) and then have accessible as a network share, preferably using SMB.

The sort of drive pooling I'm after is similar to what's possible with filesystems like UnionFS, mergerfs, or mhddfs in Linux, or what can be accomplished specifically as a network share with something like Greyhole.

Edit: I should note that I need the drives to remain accessible as separate volumes so that I can protect their data using snapraid.

I've already found this question from earlier: Pool Multiple Hard Drives in ONE network Share

...but its answers are over five years old now and don't work in modern versions of macOS. In particular mhddfs is no longer maintained and isn't usable in macOS any longer. Unfortunately none of these other linux pooling filesystems are available for macOS.

Is there any way to accomplish this?


texts: Finder Tags not working for any SMB files

texts: I'm having an issue with Finder Tags and SMB share? I can tag a file with a colour. But when I go view in the tags it does not show for any SMB shared files? I have tried everything. Finder is creating a DS file. I have opened up the permissions etc. Just refuses to show the coloured tags? Anyone know why? If this does work for you please could you share you config.


texts: Pop up of Microsoft Outlook Calendar reminder on all screens / desktops possible?

texts:
I use Microsoft Outlook at work.

I happen to miss appointments/meetings because I do not notice the reminder of the event. Later I notice that the reminder popped up in a different screen on the main desktop.

Is there a way to make the reminder more prominent on Mac for Microsoft Outlook ?

Ideally I would like to see the reminder on all three screens no matter whether the desktop is shown or another virtual desktop.


texts: What are the apps in iOS app store which are used to fetch data from External Accessories?

texts: I am searching for some of the apps in App store, which have been developed to get data from External Accessories. Is it mandatory to have an MFi device, to download an app for the Mfi device?


texts: How to change pop up speed of "Press and Hold"

texts:
When pressing and holding a keyboard button, i.e. an a, a character pops up.

I recall that I was somehow able to change how long I need to hold a key until the Picker pops up on Yosemite.
I cannot find a place to change the popup speed on Mavericks though.

defaults read -g | grep -i press does not return anything.


texts: How to answer smart phone from multiple bluetooth headsets

texts:
I use a smartphone for my business, not a land line.  There are 2 of us who answer the phone, depending on who is busy at the time.

I am trying to find a solution which allows either of us to pick up the phone call, just as if the cell phone was the land line base and it can be picked up from any wireless extension phone (but using blutooth headsets/ear pieces)

Currently it automatically send the call to the first Bluetooth attached so the other person does not have an option to pick up the phone call.


texts: Restore from "iOS7 backup" to an iOS6 phone

texts:
A friend upgraded my device to iOS7. It didn't work properly so I downgraded it a few days later to iOS6.

I have backups both in iCloud and on OS X (iTunes). When I try to restore either I get a message:

  To restore this iPhone from this backup, you must first set up the
  iPhone as new and restore the software to the latest version.

Without this backup I am very inconvenienced, so I ask is it possible to restore an iPhone from a iOS7 Backup if you downgraded the phone to iOS6?


texts: How Can I Stop My Mac From Reopening Applications After A Power Failure?

texts:
I live in the woods and lose power frequently. When this happens, MacOS tries to restore every application that was open when the power went out. I don't want it to do this. How do i prevent this from happening.

Please note, i am not asking about preventing apps from opening after a restart.


texts:
I just added my Office 365 account via Exchange on my new MacBook Pro. After adding the account. I went into the Address Book app and saw that the global address list is empty. If I search for a person which I know is in that list it finds him or her, but the list still remains empty.

What can I do to make the list visible? If I access my Office account via the web I see the full list.

I have already tried the following:

Missing iCloud contacts on one device
Removing and adding my account


texts: Downloading entire website - freeware software

texts: Is there any freeware software (including command line utilities) to downloaded entire website recursively (aby kind of links, not only HTML files)?


texts:
I have a file that shows up in my 'Downloads' stack with the filename nMEMp5Qv.exe.part.

However, when I open Finder, the file is not in the Downloads folder.

Also, I can't delete the file from the Stack as you normally can...?

Any ideas/thoughts?


texts: Why is AU Lab not saving my output device settings?

texts:
I use the combination of Soundflowerbed and AU Lab on my MacBook Air in order to have a system-wide equalizer.

In AU Lab, when I open a document I previously created, the device selected in the output settings is not restored correctly. I saved the document with the "Built-in output" output device, but when I re-open the document, the output device is set to "Soundflowerbed (2ch)". So I have to manually reselect the right output device each time I open my document.

How can that setting be saved/restored correctly?


texts:
I have an old Mac and OS X won't start, it is stuck loading the OS.

I want to reinstall but it just ejects the DVD a few seconds after I put it in.

The Mac has an i5 3.1GHz CPU and 4GB 1333 MHz DDR33 RAM.

I don't know a lot about Apple computers, I mainly use Windows; any help would be appreciated.


texts:
How to create a "smart" Applications folder that unifies the content of other three folders?

In my machine I have three versions of OS X installed (for testing purposes) in different partitions, each having their own /Applications folder. How can I create a single "unified" view of these three folders that contains a union of all three? Preferably filtered to only those applications that can run in the current OS X version (as in the one currently running).

Thanks in advance.


texts: How to Change the Attribution Line in Mail 6.0?

texts:
The current Mail attribution line reads:

  On [Date], at [Time], [Sender Name] [Sender Email Address] wrote:

I would like it to read:

  Hello, [Sender Name] -- on [Date], at [Time], you [Sender Email
  Address] wrote:

Before upgrading to Mt. Lion and Mail 6.0, I was able to accomplish most of the above via this command line in Terminal:

sudo /usr/libexec/PlistBuddy -c 'Set :REPLY_ATTRIBUTION "\nHello, %3$@ -- On %1$@ at %2$@ (local time), you wrote:\n"' \
  /System/Library/Frameworks/Message.framework/Versions/B/Resources/English.lproj/Delayed.strings`

Unfortunately, when trying this in Mail 6.0, it no longer works.

If anyone has any suggestions regarding how to get this to work, I will be grateful.


texts: Flashing Folder on Mac Pro 1,1 after trying to Bootcamp

texts: So I bought a Mac 1,1 and it runs great, until I tried to bootcamp it the other day with an old windows HDD i had. I downloaded windows, and tried to bootcamp it and now it will not boot the Mac HDD, but if I hold option on boot the HDD shows up and then i can boot into it. I am on OSX Lion.


texts: Screen Shot or convert an ArtPro file using Automator

texts: I am attempting to turn an ArtPro (.ap) image into a pdf, but I can't find any existing or downloadable actions to do anything other than open a .ap file. Because of this I have resolved to Screen Print the picture, save, then convert, but now I can't find anything that will screen capture the image either D: Please help!!


texts: Moving finder window from one display to another

texts: Would it be possible to create an AppleScript to instantly drag one screen from one screen to another (say, center of the second screen)?


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The built-in holiday calendar on my iPhone 8 running iOS 12.4.1 is off by one day. For example, it shows New Year's Eve on December 30 and not on December 31.
So far I tried to :

Enable automatic date & time in Settings > General > Date & Time > Set Automatically = "On"
Desable the time zone override in Settings > Calendar> Time Zone Override = "Off"
Reset the iPhone
Switching off automatic date & time and entering my time zone then switching back to automatic
Switching off Location Services and GPS in Settings > Privacy > Location Services. then switching back on

What could I do next ?
Note: My personal calendar doesn't have the issue nor my MBP's calendar ; but  I added another location holiday and it have the same issue...


texts: Sporadic Double NAT problem with Airport Extreme Base Station

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I am currently using an Airport Extreme N Base Station (firmware version 7.6) connected to a cable modem to connect around 7 wireless clients  and two wired clients to the internet. Prior to this I was using the same Airport Extreme with a DSL modem.

I don't know if my current situation arose when I switched to cable or if it started after a firmware update to version 7.4. My base station will lose access to the internet multiple times per day at random intervals. Attached is a screenshot of an airport status message that describes the Double Nat issue that seems to be causing my internet outages but I cannot understand why this is a sporadic problem rather than a persistent one.

I have googled for a solution and am not seeing any for my exact situation. I have read that this type of problem occurs when there is one router attached to a second and both are using NAT and DHCP. I understand that the way to fix this problem is to put either the modem or the Airport Base Station into bridge mode.

I would prefer to put the modem into bridge mode but it does not appear that my ISP, Cablevision, allows me to make configuration changes to my modem. I have tried putting my Base Station in Bridge Mode and have turned off DHCP and NAT but this results in a green status light on my Base Station with no access to the internet.

Is anyone familiar with my problem and what I need to do to correct it?


texts: Started receiving copies of text messages sent on other phone after upgrading to iOS 7

texts:
I recently updated my iPhone to iOS 7. Now, any messages my wife sends on her iPhone (which is still on iOS 6) as well as any messages she receives are sent to me. She does not get copies of my messages, unless I specifically send them to her.

How can I prevent getting her messages?


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I painstakingly delete all my iMessages from my Mac (Mountain Lion) but every time someone sends me a new iMessage all earlier messages of that person AND others get downloaded. Is not there a setting that allows me to delete the iMessages permanently from my mac?

Interestingly, the same thing does not happen with my iPhone. Once I delete the conversation from my phone, its gone and at least does not show me the history again.


texts: Applescript: Keynote 6.6.2 start presentation

texts:
I checked this website:
https://iworkautomation.com/keynote/document-play.html
and

I tried this code to start a Keynote presentation:

tell application "Keynote"
activate
if playing is false then tell the front document to start
end tell

But it doesn't work.
The only solution I found was sending keystroke:

tell application "Keynote"
activate
delay 1
tell application "System Events" to keystroke "p" using {command down, option down}
end tell

Why the "start action" doesn't work?
I'm on Yosemite


texts: What does the option to "Allow Full Access" for my iOS keyboard do?

texts:
A keyboard I recently installed on iOS 8 provides an option (in Settings) to "Allow Full Access"?

What does this setting do?


texts: How can I stop my iPod connecting to my computer when I plug it in?

texts:
Seems like a strange question, but here is the situation: when I arrive at work, I want to recharge my iPod. The easiest way to do that is via the USB connection on my computer.

But if I plug it in, I have the minor irritation that the iPod goes straight to the Do not disconnect screen (interrupting playback). I then have to go to the Safely Remove Hardware and Eject Media option in Windows (Windows 7) to get what I really want: the iPod just charging as if plugged in to the mains.

Is there a simple way to prevent this? I don't have (or want) iTunes installed.


texts: Apps that have just gone free or are going to?

texts: Is there any way to know ahead of time which paid apps are going free, or does Apples RSS feed actually contain data for apps that have just gone free "today" ?


texts: How to remove non-essential files from Leopard

texts: I am cleaning up a really old mac to bring it back to use. It has an 80 gig hard drive and after wiping out downloads, documents, pictures, music, videos and unneccesary applications I am now stranded at about 48 gigs. I read that Leopard needs about 9 gigs, how do I get rid of the remaining 20 gb without reinstalling. Its been three and half years since I bought it and I could only find Part 2 of the recovery disk. (I have already gotten rid of iLife, iTunes, iWorks, Web Browsers, Printer Drivers etc as I need only terminal based facilities such as lynx and vi.) If anyone could point me to solutions for freeing up as much space as I can it'd be very helpful.


texts: Mac not showing external flash drive with turnkey linux installed

texts: I have been trying to setup a spare iMac (iMac12,2) that I have as a minecraft server, but whenever I try to make the flash drive installer, the mac doesn't recognize the drive in the boot picker (holding down option at boot)... the drive is bootable because an old macbook (MacBook4,1) that I have is able to boot.. I've tried installing rEFInd but when booting into the drive it just displays a black screen, and when using clover bootloader, it just boots into the GRUB bootloader... any ideas?


texts: Keeping Firefox's places.sqlite file from consuming too much space in Time Machine bakckups

texts:
My Time Machine backups often consist of Firefox's places.sqlite file (which, as I understand it, contains both history and bookmarks) and little else. When I clear my browsing history the file shrinks by about 80%. I think I have the following options:

Live with it
Exclude places.sqlite from being backed up and risk losing my bookmarks
Tell Firefox not to track history

Is there another option under which I track history without burning space to back it up?

BTW, running sqlite vacuum helps some, shrinking places.sqlite by about a factor of two. The command is sqlite3 places.sqlite "vacuum;".


texts: Disk Utility will not let me create new partition

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I am attempting to create a new partition from a 3TB Fusion Drive on Mavericks, but Disk Utility won't allow it. I successfully created a partition from the same drive last month, so I am not sure why it won't allow me to create another one. Does this have something to do with the Fusion Drive? Is there a workaround?

Thank you.


texts: pinch to zoom with magic mouse in Mountain Lion

texts:
I am unable to "pinch-to-zoom" on my magic mouse in mountain lion.  I am using better touch tool (but have tried disabling that and pinch-to-zoom still doesn't work).  In better touch tool under mouse > other gestures (zoom, etc.), it talks about changing sensitivities for normal predefined actions (which I think is what I want) and keyboard shortcuts (not what I want).  I have tried setting these higher and lower, but I still can't pinch-to-zoom with my magic mouse (like I can with my trackpad).

If anyone has any suggestions, I would much appreciate it!

Thanks,
Kevin


texts: Can I change the button "m" with space bar?

texts: My space bar won't work so I want to use the m button as space bar. Is there a way to do that? Maybe with the Automator using an apples riptide or something?


texts: Recently, I accidentally cracked my new MacBook Pro screen. There are rainbow lines going across the screen in different directions. I sent it into my school's IT place and they were going to send it into apple with an estimated cost of $800 since it was a tier 4 accidental damage. However, a while ago, the corner was dented from dropping it (I had a case but the case did nothing). Will apple fix that while they are fixing the screen? Or will my screen not be covered because my MacBook has a dent in it? Will it cost anything extra?


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I use an iPad Air 1 (8.4) and a MacBook Pro mid 2014 13''(10.10.4)
Whenever I try to connect my iPad to my MacBook with a lightning-usb wire it starts connecting but then disconnects immediately. This process is repeated multiple times a second and even crashes my MacBook.

As a result, I can't move the mouse or write with the keyboard anymore. Animations, slideshows or videos still continue in the background, but even after I close the display and open it again, only the cursor for the password input blinks, but I can't enter anything. Hard-reset is the only way to recover the MacBook.

The iPad behaves like nothing happened and just continues working.
Sometimes it just holds connection for a minute but that's only very few times.

I tried with different 10.10s and wires, but it never works.

As it turns out, it's a specific problem of one USB port go my MacBook, which usually works just fine, but now causes trouble.


texts: How to find out devices associated as iMessage client with my apple ID

texts:
Is it possible to find out what devices have been registered to receive iMessage with my Apple ID?

I can only see my phone number and Apple ID in iMessage settings, but not what devices are registered.


texts: What is the most classic keyboard shortcut for switching between input sources (languages)?

texts:
What is the most classic/used keyboard shortcut for switching between input sources (languages)?
Except for cmd+space of course which is used by Spotlight.


texts:
With the Mojave update a grey line appeared above every window, in either dark or light mode.

Is it possible to remove that line? Any sort of hack of "hidden" setting? I've tried with:

defaults write -app [AppName] NSRequiresAquaSystemAppearance -bool No

But that needs to be set for every app, and just reduces it a little bit, it doesn't remove it.


texts:
Installing and tweaking around some settings on the new version of iTunes 11 today, and when I was messing around in the "Store" settings, I clicked it to prefer 1080p downloads, only to be presented with this error message:

A bit of background on my specs:

Windows 7 Ultimate x64
Core i7 2600k O.C'd to 4.5 atm, base is about 3.7
20GB RAM
Nvidia GTX 580 Ti
Monitor: Acer 24" LCD 60hz @ 1920 x 1080 through DVI
Monitor: Dell 19" LCD 60hz @ 1280 x 1024 through DVI

As you can see, I doubt my computer specs are the issue for 1080p.

Is there an explanation why I would be seeing this error message?


texts: Why are emojis replacing website icons in safari?

texts: I have a iPhone 8 and I noticed a few months ago that when I go on certain websites such as ESPN, specific symbols such as the recruit rating stars has been replaced by random Emojis. I’m not sure why this is and I haven’t heard of it happening to anyone else.


texts: Clear large .MobileBackups files/folder?

texts:
Got some issues with temp files from Time Machine which is filling up my boot disk with over 400GB of files.

MacBook Pro 10.7.5

I have tried the command sudo tmutil disablelocal, restarting the mac and then the command sudo tmutil enablelocal but nothing happened.

Then after trying more than ones I have lost the folder ".MobileBackups" which I cannot see anymore from the finder through Go -> Go to Folder -> ".MobileBackups" and neither through terminal.

I have launched also the Disk and Permission repairs without success.

I have read also the thread here "How to wipe huge .MobileBackups folder?" but it does not mention really this case.

sudo du -smx /* /.* | sort -n | tail -4
26473   /Applications
164833  /Users
209589  /.
209589  /..

df -m /
Filesystem    1M-blocks    Used  Available  Capacity  Mounted on
/dev/disk0s2     476120  417400      58469       88%       /

Disk usage details:
Audio     13.60 GB
Movies    15.49 GB
Photos     3.03 GB
Apps       8.51 GB
Backups    Zero KB
Other    397.50 GB

Is my 400 GB still missing from .MobileBackups folder or do I need to look elsewhere?

PROBLEM SOLVED by advise from Klaus

From the Apple support link

I started up the Mac in "safe mode"… and surprising the disk appeared with 278 GB free space !!!!!!

Then I rebooted the Mac (no safe mode) and the disk kept the 278 GB free space, and now my disk appears like this:

Disk usage details:
Audio     13.60 GB
Movies    15.49 GB
Photos     3.03 GB
Apps       8.51 GB
Backups    Zero KB
Other    180.24 GB

Free     278.38 GB !!!!

Still unclear to me what "other 180.24 GB" are used for… though not big deal.

A this point I will reactive the local snap shots with "sudo tmutil enablelocal" and will keep working as usual!

THANKS AGAIN KLAUS…. VERY WELL DONE!!!!

TIP: when I was in "safe mode" I kept the Mac in that mode for a couple hours as I saw from Activity Monitor that Mac was accessing to the disk in writing mode… so I left it to do its work until I saw no more activities on disk access.


texts:
I using macos 10.14.2 (18C54) with zsh (latest version I couldn't find any versioning with zsh). If I create an array from a string it works. But If i use a variable containing the string split does not work. Is this expected behavior or something wrong with my environment? What is the correct way to do this if I am doing it wrong?

~ arr=(foo bar)
~ echo $arr[1]
foo
~ val='foo bar'
~ arr=($val)
~ echo $arr[1]
foo bar


texts: Dropping items "in place" on Mountain Lion desktop

texts:
I run a multi-monitor setup at home with OS X ML as my main driver. Sometimes for a task I need to be able to drag-and-drop items from a folder to a particular spot on the desktop.

The problem here is that when I drag and drop an item on the desktop, it doesn't fall where the cursor is. It automatically gets moved over to the main monitor in the right column.  And I have to drag it back where I want it on the desktop. This is annoying.

How can I get osx to let me drop files precisely where the cursor is on the desktop?


texts: local sync of calendar and contacts between android and mac?

texts:
What is the preferred approach to locally sync (i.e., assume I have no Google account of any kind) the following data between an Android phone and my Macbook?

calendar
tasks
address book / contacts

I have done some digging online but apparently this is not a common use case. I found some information here, but it looks out of date: http://www.land-of-kain.de/docs/android_sync/


texts: How to use external mouse and keyboard normally in bootcamp with windows 7?

texts:
I just installed windows 7 using bootcamp.

I then connected an external keyboard and mouse. I understand that I need to change settings in order to use right click on the trackpad. My problem is that my external mouse's right click does not even work.

How do I enable right click on my external mouse?

Thanks!


texts:
I have a 24 inch, mid-2007 iMac purchased used. I don't know the original owner and it's out of warranty.

On the display is a series of tan or yellowish horizontal lines - all an approximate inch apart, for a total of about eight or so. The spacing between is regular. They're wider (about an inch wide) at the left and right edges of the screen and taper to nothing at the middle of the screen. They are particularly noticeable on light-colored or white backgrounds, such as a Pages document, most web sites, etc.

I'm certainly open to disassembling the iMac and getting at whatever it may be (the onboard GPU?) that's causing the problem. In fact I have opened the machine for an HD replacement and fanned and cleaned, but to no result.

I also use smcFanControl to boost the fans, as I thought it may be poor cooling in the machine, but this has no effect.

Does any one have ideas or suggestions as to what is causing these discolored lines?


texts:
I have the original MBA, and I have extremely high power consumption - see the screenshot (screenshot got while TextEdit only was running)

Is is normal for original MBA?


texts: Scrubbing chapters and not losing stop points on audiobooks on iPod nano

texts:
Is there a way to scrub through a chapter on the 6th gen nano? I have only been able to scrub chapter to chapter which isn't useful when you become distracted and want to rewind 30 seconds.
Is there a way to not lose the stop point in the audiobook when you plug into the computer to recharge battery?  When I connect the nano to my computer to recharge (auto add etc. is all disabled) the place you stopped at is lost.


texts: Why does my wired ethernet connection die periodically after a DHCP lease renewal?

texts:
I've got an Early 2008 Mac Pro (MacPro3,1) that is fairly healthy from what I can tell. It has survived OSX upgrades from the original 10.5 to 10.9.x (haven't pulled the trigger on Yosemite yet) and was always happy on its wired ethernet connection for years until probably a little over a year ago when I'd find from time to time that it would disappear from my home network. I am running it straight into a FiOS Actiontec router, but not sure that it is at fault since I've replaced those over time and the problem still exists.

What I see is that my Mac at some point just loses its ability to talk over interface en0. The router still registers it as connected (i.e. port light is on), but network stack on OSX thinks it is down. I can restore connectivity by doing sudo ifconfig en0 down and sudo ifconfig en0 up with a roughly 1-2 second pause in between. I don't see anything in the system log to indicate a failure other than the various applications which start complaining that they've lost network connectivity. The closest thing I've seen is a message about failure to REBIND, but it follows events for DHCP which normally occur fine. It has been happening for a while, but I want to say that it has been happening since 10.8.x.

It isn't like the network isn't regularly used as the Mac acts as my home's iTunes server and is left on all the time. As well, I don't have power saving features enabled which would suggest dropping the network.

Has anyone else seen this? It is quite frustrating those random times I want to use the Mac either locally or remotely and the network connection is dropped. I haven't seen anything that would indicate a hardware failure so I'm more suspicious of OSX.

I have found a situation where the problem occurs more often. When the Ethernet port is in heavy use (copying large files to the server), it seems to happen more often. When there is no such use, the machine can be OK for weeks. But when I need to copy large files across, the ethernet port can die several times a day.

I've even built a script to disable/enable the port. Most applications don't even notice that the port was down, so everything works again.

Because this happens much more likely under heavy load, could it be related to heat? My machine is full of stuff inside, but the dust has been cleaned away regularly.


texts: Apple Remote Desktop, Screen Sharing, and VNC: shift key halts keyboard input

texts:
Pressing the shift key in the Screen Sharing app completely stops keyboard input. That is, when I tap (for e.g.) the h key repeatedly, everything is normal until I press any shift key:
hhhhhh
^     ^---- here I hold the shift key, still tapping the h key, no letters appear
|
+---- tap the h key multiple times

Characters stop appearing until I release the shift key when characters appear normally.
I can reproduce this with Screen Sharing, Apple Remote Desktop, and a 3rd party VNC client. Entering capital letters everywhere else works normally.
What can I do to allow me to enter all characters into a VNC app?


texts: iOS mixes up calls from different contacts with shared phone number

texts: On my iPhone (iOS 12.1.4), I have several contacts who share the same workplace landline number (though each of them have their own extension numbers). After I call the workplace landline number of one of those contacts, on my phone's Recent Calls log, it shows the name of another contact with that same workplace number. How do I get my phone to display the correct contact name whom I actually called?


texts: Can any apps print from the iPhone? Preferably via WiFi...and to an Epson PX710 all-in-one in my case.


texts: 2015 MacBook Pro battery replacement at Apple store

texts:
I have an appointment scheduled for next Monday at an Apple store for a battery replacement on my early 2015 MacBook Pro with a Retina display. I was told that for this model, they need to swap the entire keyboard and track pad  in order to replace the battery.
Can the repair be done in the same day, or does it typically take several business days?


texts: Automator Workflow - Convert FLAC to MP3

texts:
I would like to have an Automator Workflow that converts FLAC to Mp3. Right now I am using this shell script which works fine and preserves ID3 Tags:

#!/bin/bash

for f in "$@"; do
    [[ "$f" != *.flac ]] && continue
    album="$(metaflac --show-tag=album "$f" | sed 's/[^=]*=//')"
    artist="$(metaflac --show-tag=artist "$f" | sed 's/[^=]*=//')"
    date="$(metaflac --show-tag=date "$f" | sed 's/[^=]*=//')"
    title="$(metaflac --show-tag=title "$f" | sed 's/[^=]*=//')"
    year="$(metaflac --show-tag=date "$f" | sed 's/[^=]*=//')"
    genre="$(metaflac --show-tag=genre "$f" | sed 's/[^=]*=//')"
    tracknumber="$(metaflac --show-tag=tracknumber "$f" | sed 's/[^=]*=//')"

    flac --decode --stdout "$f" | lame --preset extreme --add-id3v2 --tt "$title" --ta "$artist" --tl "$album" --ty "$year" --tn "$tracknumber" --tg "$genre" - "${f%.flac}.mp3"
done

Unfortunately, if I put this into Automator's "Run Shell Script" it won't work.
First it complained about unknown command for metaflac so I exported my PATH in the script. If I start the workflow now it runs for a second and is done instantly without converting the files. It is set to expect Files and Folders in Finder.

I also found this answer Converting WAV to MP3 using LAME and Automator but this also does not work. I suspect find is not aware of spaces in the path. This also does not preserve ID3 Tags.
Could anyone help me out with this? I am not very experienced with Automator at all. I don't want to use iTunes or other third party Apps. I just need a service which could be used with files or folders.


texts:
I am using istats to see the speed of my fans:

I ran a diagnostic by holding down d during a restart and it came up without any errors. I've also reset pram and the readings are still really high. Is there a hardware error? What do I do to get correct readings again? I am on a 2018 15 inch i7 macbook pro and I'm quite concerned because all I have are a few chrome windows, spotify, and a terminal open. Having a CPU temperature of 43 degrees seems absurd.

EDIT:
The widget Fanny also displays these speeds https://www.fannywidget.com/


texts: Screen resolution messed up when upgrading to latest Macbook Air

texts:
I have a macbook air 13' from 2013.

I just bought the same model, only newer.

I backup up everything on an external hard drive via time machine on the old mac, then used migration assistant to copy files and configuration to the new mac.

Of course both machines were updated to the latest Yosemite 10.10.3, as Apple suggested.

Things seemed to work smoothly, with a correct copy of everything.

Alas, no. I have an external monitor, which is perfectly recognized on the old mac, correct model and resolution:

But on the new mac, same exact model, just a tiny difference (Intel HD Graphics 6000 1536 MB, instead of Intel HD Graphics 5000 1536 MB), the screen is not recognized at all and the resolution is all messed up.

Been on this for hours.

I tried SwitchResX, didn't help.
I tried using both the official Apple VGA adapter and a third-party. Same results.
I tried pressing the alt key while choosing scaled on the display
preference pane to force 1920x1080, it works, but the x-axis is all
stretched smaller and moved about 400px to the right.
I tried changing the res via command line, didn't help.
I tried looking for mac drivers for BenqT220HDA, they don't seem to
exist as a separate file.
I tried flashing the NVRAM etc. Multiple times. Didn't help.

Ideas?


texts: Users getting "Denied access" to 10.14.6 server upon being kicked out

texts:
I recently set up a new macOS 10.14.6 server. It is a Mac Pro Late 2013 set up with about 20 users connected to a a Enstore RAID via an external SAS Card running Thunderbolt 2 external PCIe card.

I have issues with users being kicked off then when trying to reconnect they are being denied access. As if something has timed out or they have tried to connect too many times. (Server) performance mode is on.

There is no Active Directory/Open Directory active in the network and all the users are local sharing accounts.

I have tried both IP address and FQDN.
Those that do connect with SMB find that files and folders are missing. Is there a fix for this?

Update:

I came in this morning and SMB connections are refusing logins. I get this error when I try to log in.

  opendirectoryd[some_pid]: [default] Failed to open file <private> [2: No such file or directory]

Users can connect via AFP though.


texts:
I see on a Macbook Pro, you can expand your current storage space with SDHC or SDXC. Being a Linux user I know you can use RAID to expand storage with 2 disk, so storage looks like 1 HD. However, most of the time this setup happens when NO O/S is currently installed on 1 of the 2 storage units.

Would is be possible to expand my storage from the current internal flash storage that host the O/S to a SDXC card, so the storage virtually looks like 1 hard-drive from the mac os desktop?

This should be resolved software wise, however I do not think Disk Utility can accomplish or this can be naturally accomplish with out erasing the OS 1st(Which I do not want to do).


texts: Homebrew issues error while calling 'brew update'

texts:
I don't have much knowledge of all this so please forgive my incompetence. When I run brew update, it shows:

fatal: Unable to create '/usr/local/Library/Taps/homebrew-science/.git/index.lock': Permission denied
Error: Failed to update tap: homebrew/science
Already up-to-date.

But, when I do sudo brew update, it says:

bash-3.2$ sudo brew update
Password:
Already up-to-date.

Why does it flag the fatal warning when I run the command without sudo? FYI, to provide some context I am trying to install Octave regarding which I need to run brew tap homebrew/science.

Please let me know how should I fix this. If possible, kindly provide a link to a page/article where I can understand the reason for the warning.


texts:
I have recently enabled my Mac to backup photos from Photos.app to iCloud.

When I go to iCloud > Manage > Photos it says that there is 25MB of data in iCloud, however when I go to ~/Pictures and I right click on Photos Library and select Get Info it says that there is 1.1GB of data. I know this is true when I put them into another folder.

How do I force my Mac to upload my photos to iCloud?

This is not a duplicate of iCloud Photo Library - force upload since I have less then 250 photos so I am not exceeding the maximum limit.


texts: how can I convert the values of a table into percentage values rather than absolute values?

texts:
In Numbers, how can I convert the values of a table into percentage values rather than absolute values ?

The percentage are computed per column. The sum of the cells in a column is 100%.

i.e. http://d.pr/NNwn

thanks


texts: Two login accounts, admin account password unable to login

texts:
I made the mistake of making two accounts- admin account and standard account after upgrading to Yosemite beta 10.10.1.
(The reason? I read that it would be "preferable" to set this up because of the security flaw which still has not been addressed, but that's another issue).

When I login, I first have to login with my admin account & password.
Then another screen comes up with both the admin account and the standard account and a black rectangular shape at the left-hand side of the bottom the page which tells me to login. A white rectangle outline is on both the standard account image and the password section. I then enter my apple ID password into that white outlined rectangle. This is how I get into my computer.
(I had many many other problems from Yosemite which I have remedied slowly)

BUT the problem is:
I have locked myself out of the admin account somehow.
The admin password I login with, does not work anywhere else. For instance it does not unlock anything that requires to unlock the padlock - such as System Preferences.

I cannot access Disk Utility, cannot unlock or put in my admin password.
I cannot turn FileVault off or the Firewall
I cannot upgrade software that requires admin password.

What can I do to regain admin access? (I cannot do this in System Preferences because I am locked out). Do I have to reset my default keychain?
What do I need to do?


texts: What was the link to the iOS App Store story on selected apps from WWDC18 Scholars?

texts: I recall that there was an App Store story on selected apps from WWDC18 scholars, but I forgot to save the link before the App Store updated. Does any one still have the link to that story, and would be willing to share it here? Thanks!


texts: Is there a way to hide, stack or collapse menubar icons?

texts:
Right now I have far too many icons on my menubar. I know I can command drag them off of there. But I do need to use them on occasion. Is there any app that will combine menubar items into one such that I can click to drop down if I need to use any of those?

One example is my address book -> gmail address book sync. I don't actually need it in my menubar (it syncs periodically on its own). But when I remove it from the menubar, it stops syncing.

I'd even be happy with an app/script/tool that would leave it there but just hide it from me.


texts: Ensure files on finder show the icon of the default app, not the old deleted app

texts:
I deleted an app that used to be the default app for a file type, but its icon still remains in Finder windows:

How can I replace those icons for the icon of the current default app?

Things I have already tried:

Globally set the new app as default app for that type of file.
Manually removed things related to the old app (as per this tuto).
Relaunched Finder and rebooted system.

My OS version is 10.11.6 (15G31) (El Capitan).

Any help kindly appreciated!


texts: OSX, different keyboards with different input methods possible?

texts:
I was wondering if it were possible to tie in a different input method for each keyboard on a computer with multiple keyboards?

The reason I ask is I use a wireless keyboard with my macbook pro and thus have two keyboards available, and I use both English and Chinese for input.

One hassle I have switching between the input methods, even with an assigned hotkey.

Since I have two keyboards, wouldn't it be nice to have one keyboards input for one of the input methods and the second keyboard for the second input.

Is there a way to do this so I can change input methods by typing on a different keyboard?

Thanks.


texts: Disable HTTP traffic on my entire computer

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Is it possible to prevent all HTTP (or any other unencrypted protocol) on my mac while connected to an insecure network (any network without a password)?

In Chrome, I'm able to use the extension HTTPS Anywhere and click "Block all HTTP requests", however other programs that might be running in the background could potentially be sending HTTP requests without my knowledge.


texts: We run a small business, and the managers would like to have the calendars on their phones synced with each other so that they know what is going on with the other.  Most of them are using iphone and one is using an android phone.  Is there a calendar app that we can use.  Any information is appreciated.


texts: How to hunt down which tab or webpage (on Google Chrome) used a lot of memory?

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I already know Google Chrome was using a lot of memory for a badly behaving webpage. The issue was I don't know which webpage was doing that.

Sometimes after a day or two, possibly some webpage on Google Chrome might be using a lot of memory.

Some webpage might not be intentionally broken or harmful but it could be the analytics or the ad system having a lot of memory leaks in their code
Eventually, the Macbook swaps memory to disk and if unchecked, complaints of hard disk space running low arrive.

Using trail-and-error, if I close all tab and wait 2 - 3 minutes or quit entirely, then the hard drive all of a sudden gains back 2GB.

Is there a way to hunt down which webpage is eating up so much memory, other than by trail-and-error?


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Am looking to edit system preferences settings via the command line but cannot for the life of me find the correct names of variables.

  In Login Options under Users & Groups, I would like to be able to change the Display login window from list of users to 'name and password'.
  In Date & Time, I would like to know how I change the time to a server we use.
  Enable fields in Sharing
  Setup Energy Saver settings

It would be great if someone can help me out or point me in the right direction as I know you edit the preferences .plists but its knowing what to add or finding the preferred naming conventions.

Thanks.


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My iOS Youtube app was rejected based solely on section 18.1 (sexual content etc...) They sent me a screenshot with the search term ([s] [e] [x]) and the standard youtube videos displayed. My app is not just a youtube player it is targeted at a specific market and technically / UI features are all good.

Question is - Has anyone experienced this before? How can the other Youtube apps and also the standard Youtube player be accepted when the same search term returns the exact same results as my player... I am using the standard Obj-C / Youtube API's...


texts: Ghost podcasts appearing on smart playlist

texts: When I create a smart playlist that should only have podcasts, a "ghost" podcasts appear then disappears when I am updating my podcasts subscriptions. I've tried downloading the podcast again and then deleting it, but it keeps coming back. I've also searched through my library, and these podcasts do no t exists. Please note that I am not using the Podcasts app.


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On my MacBook Air (running 10.11.2), all my Prolific PL2303 USB-RS232 Adapters (USB VID_067B&PID_2303) ceased working out of the blue, literally over night. I have no idea what caused this.

The adapter shows up when running ioreg -p IOUSB as

+-o IOUSBHostDevice@14200000  <class AppleUSBDevice, id 0x10000063a, registered, matched, active, busy 0 (37 ms), retain 11>

The devices /dev/tty.usbserial and /dev/cu.usbserial are still created, but screen /dev/tty.usbserial won't work. screen opens without an error, but I can't do nothing. screen does not react to keystrokes.

I tried these adapters with Windows / Putty and everything works as supposed.

I uninstalled the old drivers by running

sudo rm -rf /Library/Extensions/ProlificUsbSerial.kext
sudo rm -rf /var/db/receipts/*PL2303*.*
sudo rm -rf /var/db/receipts/*ProlificUSbSerial*.*

and installed the latest Prolific driver from http://www.prolific.com.tw/US/ShowProduct.aspx?p_id=229&pcid=41, but no luck.

sudo dmesg shows

  PL-2303/X V1.5.0 start, Prolific

No other errors.

Still, no show.

Any ideas?


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I am getting a lot of conflicting information to this simple question.

Basically I need to understand which devices will support WiFi direct. Is this device specific or is this iOS specific?

Can I run a Wifi Direct App on say a iPhone 4s with iOS 7?

How about a iPad Mini and iOS 8?


texts: Simple way to see a list of installed iOS apps with their storage space size?

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The storage on my iPhone is nearly full. Most of the space is used by apps. I'd like to see which apps consume the most space on my device.

Is there a way to get a list of the apps with their corresponding used space? By "used space I mean the installation size (bonus for added user data).