texts: Can't enter recovery on 2008 MacBook Pro 17"

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I'm trying to install Windows 10 on its own partition, based on this guide.

When I try to install the "rEFInd" utility, it warns me that it can't install because SIP is active, and that I should reboot to recovery and install it from there.

But when I try to reboot with Command-R or Command-Option-R I get the icon below, then a normal boot.

The MBP is running 10.11.4.

As requested by David Anderson:

MBP:~ zeev$ diskutil list
/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *240.1 GB   disk0
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s1
   2:                  Apple_HFS mbp1                    179.2 GB   disk0s2
   3:                 Apple_Boot Recovery HD             650.0 MB   disk0s3
   4:       Microsoft Basic Data BOOTCAMP                60.0 GB    disk0s4

MBP:~ zeev$ sudo fdisk /dev/disk0
Disk: /dev/disk0    geometry: 29185/255/63 [468862128 sectors]
Signature: 0xAA55
         Starting       Ending
 #: id  cyl  hd sec -  cyl  hd sec [     start -       size]
------------------------------------------------------------------------
 1: EE 1023 254  63 - 1023 254  63 [         1 -     409639] <Unknown ID>
 2: AF 1023 254  63 - 1023 254  63 [    409640 -  349995408] HFS+
 3: AB 1023 254  63 - 1023 254  63 [ 350405048 -    1269536] Darwin Boot
 4: 0B 1023 254  63 - 1023 254  63 [ 351676416 -  117184512] Win95 FAT-32

MBP:~ zeev$ sudo gpt -r show /dev/disk0
gpt show: /dev/disk0: Suspicious MBR at sector 0
      start       size  index  contents
          0          1         MBR
          1          1         Pri GPT header
          2         32         Pri GPT table
         34          6
         40     409600      1  GPT part - C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B
     409640  349995408      2  GPT part - 48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
  350405048    1269536      3  GPT part - 426F6F74-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
  351674584       1832
  351676416  117184512      4  GPT part - EBD0A0A2-B9E5-4433-87C0-68B6B72699C7
  468860928       1167
  468862095         32         Sec GPT table
  468862127          1         Sec GPT header


texts: How do I change the color of my Dock on Mac

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I am digging deep into my Mac's files to try and find how to change the color of my mac's dock. I have been able to change little things like the separator, indicator light, trash can, finder icon, etc. But I cannot find the file where the color of the actual Dock is.

I used this code to immediately go to the Dock folder

/System/Library/CoreServices/Dock.app/Contents/Resources

If you want a picture please ask and I'll edit a good one so you get the idea.


texts: How do I find out the status of a large download from the Mac App Store?

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I just started downloading OS X Lion, and it's 3.49 GB.

This is the extent of the user interface for the download process:

Is there a place to see the download progress? Can I pause and/or resume the download?


texts: Can volume automatically decrease during communication activity?

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A feature of Windows 7 that I really like that it can decrease the volume of system sounds/music by 50%/80%/mute entirely when it senses communication activity, ie. Skype call, Google Voice call, etc.

Is it possible to do this in OS X either out of the box or with a third party app?


texts: Is it better for performance issues to run Microsoft Teams on macOS or in a virtual machine with windows?

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Microsoft Teams is known to cause performance issues on Mac OS.
I have a MacBook Pro 13' 2020 with 16 GB Ram and I was wondering if it would be better for overall performance to run Teams on a Virtual Machine running Windows instead.
Some discussions:

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msteams/forum/all/performance-issue-on-mac-when-sharing-screen-in/9b96f652-d2d2-40f4-aaf8-a921273fd165
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-teams/why-teams-is-slowing-down-my-mac/m-p/1334064
https://microsoftteams.uservoice.com/forums/555103-public/suggestions/40410775-please-fix-desktop-app-performance-on-macos-cons


texts: Is there a way to delete something off your computer but not your itunes account?

texts: Memory on my computer is running low. Is there a way to remove stuff from my iTunes account (like delete them from my computer) and still have them on my account (not delete them off my account) so that I can access them on another computer?


texts:
My calendar has made copies of all the birthdays of my Facebook friends and has created individual calendar for each of those.

I cannot use the Calendar app at all. It takes about 10-15 seconds to load when I click on it. I have tried everything that has been posted on the forums and nothing works.

I currently have about 500 individual calendars in the app and my battery life on my brand new iPhone 7 iOS 10.2 is about 4 hours max, providing that is in 'Low Battery Mode'. Help please


texts: outlook for mac - wrong date on the sent items

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I have a problem using outlook for mac 2011, after I imported my emails, the sent items shows wrong date, When i open the message, it shows the right date, how can I fix it? i want to show the right date when i view the message and I open the message. tried to repair the identity but it didn't worked

thank you


texts: How do I view the iOS app store on a mac? (OS X 10.11.6)

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The default way to install an iOS app was through iTunes. Having not used iTunes in several years, I'm trying to put an app on an iPad I have, and can't for the life of me find the iOS store in iTunes.

What am I missing?


texts: I used to be able to change the signature color in Preview. This is no more applicable. And the camera signature yeilds black and white signature. Is there anyways to either color the signature after having it in the Preview of import colored one?


texts: Help with MacBook Pro (unibody) keyboard damage

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I have some scratches on my A key. I don't actually know where it came from but it looks deep and melted. Could it have actually melted due to the screen heat? And if so, why only that letter?

Also, is there a way to easily clean the keyboard? Or do i have to disassemble my notebook and put it all back together again?


texts: AlphaSSL intermediate CA certificate revoked

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I'm unable to access JQuery CDN as Safari states that the certificate AlphaSSL CA - SHA256 - G2 is revoked.

Recently, I also had this problem with Wikipedia. However, accessing the page in Firefox works, it only shows the error in Safari and Chrome.

Why did this happen even though the certificate states that expires in 2024?

What would happen if I click 'Continue'?

Browser: Safari Version 10.0
OS: macOS Sierra 10.12


texts: Is "ignore volume ownership" the default for non-system partitions?

texts: I realise it is the default for external drives but not sure about other partitions on a users system drive. I don't have separate partitions on my machine so I can't look for myself ;-)


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I have been noticing some Photo Stream issues with my 3 devices; iPad 2, iPhone 5, and iPhone 4. The problem is that pictures taken with the iPhone 4 will not populate to the other 2 devices, and vice versa.

The only difference that I see is that the iPad and iPhone 5 are logged into the same iCloud account (mine), but the iPhone 4 is logged into my wife's iCloud account.

Could this be the source of the problem?


texts: Change all photo durations at once in iMovie 10.1.1

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I'm doing a quick project in iMovie but it's anything less than quick! I have imported all the pictures I want, no videos/clips. I have added them into the project and want them ALL to be the same length. I can edit them individually but not all at the same time. How can i do this?

There was a suggestion on another site:
Window->Show Adjustments Bar

ALAS! This option does not exist in my copy I guess. I click Window and Show Adjustments Bar is not present. I want to change them all at once! This will help ALL future projects.


texts: Used my external hard drive as backup and now I can't see files that were previously there

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I wanted to save my data (around 150 Gb) on my external hard drive (Toshiba Canvio 1To), which already holds around 700 Gb of movies, old work, stuff that I don't use on an everyday basis.

I used Carbon Copy Cloner, it worked fine. But now I don't see those previous files anymore.

The external hard drive is full, but those files aren't displayed anymore: it only shows my backup. Tried the Shift+Cmd+., didn't reveal anything. Can someone tell me how to get them back?

Thanks.


texts: Find all executable files within a folder in terminal

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I have a folder myfolder that contains a huge hierarchy of files/folders.
How to find all executable files within this folder?

On Ubuntu this works: find . -executable -type f

But Mac OS X Mavericks (which also uses bash) fails to get it:

find: -executable: unknown primary or operator


texts:
I have scanned a few photos back in Dec 2013. They were scanned by 'Image Capture' app and they were imported into icloud via Photo at least two years ago.

Today when I browsed my photo on osx, I realised they are corrupted:

When I checked my iphone they are corrupted in the same way.

I want to know how can I find out the extent of damages to my photo collection. I have imported my entire family album and there are over 40000 photo and 2500 video. It is impossible to access them one by one by myself.


texts: How to add the current slide number plus the total slides in Keynote?

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I am wondering how I could achieve something like that in the current version of Keynote for OSX:

For example the current slide is 3 and the total slides are 10.
And I want to show it like (3 / 10) and so on.

I could do it manually, but is there some automation for it?


texts: How can I tell OS X to flag a name as being misspelled?

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I have a co-worked whose name is Jennett. In Pages, I added her to my local dictionary (located at ~/Library/Spelling/LocalDictionary) by right-clicking on her name and choosing Learn Spelling.

However, OS X is not flagging Jennet with one "t" as being misspelled.

How can I make Jennet with one "t" be flagged as being misspelled?

I assume this problem stems from the fact that jennet—a female donkey—is found in the OS X dictionary. However, given that I don't write much about donkeys, let alone female donkeys, I'd prefer to be notified when I'm misspelling a co-workers name.


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I just got the iPhone 4S, and it seems like my email is polling rather than push.  I set up my Gmail account, and emails do not come to my phone instantly.  It appears to be polling, rather than pushing.  I see, on average, about a 10 minute delay between when I see my email in my browser and when it comes to my phone.

Does Gmail push on this device, or have I set something up incorrectly?


texts:
Here is my situation: I am running Tunnelblick on my MacBook (running Mavericks) to connect to my own VPN, which comprises several machines, both at home and at remote locations. I can of course use the VPN-internal addresses to enable communication between my MacBook and other machines but I would like to prefer local addresses for a machine, if possible.

Example:

I have a server that is running an AppleTalk daemon for Time Machine. This server is part of the VPN and as thus it’s reachable under a 10.x.x.x IP address. However, when I’m at home I would like to use the local 192.168.x.x IP address so that traffic doesn’t have to go over the internet (and my rather smallish outbound bandwidth). Currently I edit /etc/hosts every time I arrive at the office or at home to facilitate the switch.

Is there any way to have this switch happen automatically?


texts: Upgrading SSD on mid 2014 MB: which SSD?

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I have a pretty simple issue.

The SSD of my mi-2014 Macbook pro (retina - MacBookPro11,1) seems to be too short (256GB).

So I'm considering buying a 1Tb SSD for my Macbook, but I read, here and there, that not all SSD are compatible (because of its format, "blade" SSD or something).

So, do you know which 1Tb SSD I could upgrade my Macbook Pro with ?


texts: iMessage boxes are blue, but I noticed at certain times when I text other iPhone owners the messages are green and show as text messages therefore unable to show the read stamp.  I understand that this can happen when there's not I messaging available for whatever reason that  I'm not too sure about but does this also happen when someone blocks a person?


texts:
I have a MacBook Pro with Touch Bar. I plugged in my external 1080p display (HP 25bw) in clamshell mode and it almost works great - except the screen is too large for the monitor. My dock is too far down off the edge, and my menu is too far up.

For example, when I took the attached screenshot, the Chrome window fills the entire screen I can see:

I have checked and the display options are using native resolution of the monitor (1920x1080 @60hz).

Does anyone have any suggestions for me? Thanks so much.

Note: For any with this same monitor model in the future, thanks to @bmike I found the steps for disabling overscan for this particular monitor model here: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4994857?tstart=0


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I have an iPhone 4S. Whenever I try to send a group message to people who have iMessage and people who don't, I either get replies from 1 person but I recieve it as an individual text message or I don't get any replies at all. Everybody else in the group who has iMessage is able to see the replies as they would in any other group message. Please help!

*I have tried resetting it to the factory settings, turning iMessage and Group SMS off and then back on, and turning off my phone.


texts: What are these extra /Zone.Identifier files created during Windows Remote Desktop file transfer?

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Steps to Reproduce

Installs Windows Remote Desktop client for mac
Connect to a Windows 10 server, mounting a local folder over the connection
On the remote server, copy a pdf (e.g. my_file.pdf from a remote folder to the mounted Mac folder
Look at the mounted Mac folder locally on the Mac

Observed behavior

The pdf I copied is there.

A second file with the same name plus /Zone.Identifier is there. (i.e. my_file.pdf/Zone.Identifier (despite the slash, that's one file name.)

The contents when viewed in a text editor is:

[ZoneTransfer]
ZoneId=3

Issue

One Drive cannot sync files with slashes in their file name, so I get lots of errors whenever I do this, and I have to manually delete each one.

Questions

What is this file?
What put it there? Was it the remote desktop client?
Why doesn't it go away when I close the connection?
Why doesn't it happen for .txt files?
How do I avoid creating such a file?


texts: trying to run FSF emacs in character based mode ( -nw ) on Catalina

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After installing Catalina on my laptop emacs vanished so I installed the latest version from FSF.  Running it in a window (gui mode) works fine but I can't get it to reliably work in character mode in Terminal.

I can run it fine like this

  /Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/Emacs -nw

but when I try and create an alias I get an unhelpful error:

alias emacs='/Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/Emacs -nw  $1'
emacs
LSOpenURLsWithRole() failed for the application /Applications/Emacs.app with error -10810.

I found references to starting emacs using open in an alias but open keeps grabbing the -nw and if I use the --args to pass -nw to emacs I get the same error 10810 as above


texts:
I run the command

zless some.log

in OS X 10.11.5 El Capitan.

It closes when reaching EOF.

I checked aliases and I do not have LESS env variable set up but still it looks like zless runs with -Q or -q parameter on.

less command runs just as expected not closing after reaching EOF.

Any help would be appreciated.


texts: Edit .plist will hide both menubar and dock icon. Are there any way to hide the dock icon but keep the menubar icon?


texts: Downgrading OS X version from Mavericks to last OS upgrade?

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I had an Application I used a lot with kids in my family that ran on the Power PC Mac. It was an interactive Alphabet program by the Learning Company with talking cartoon Characters.  2 through 5 year olds loved it. It was based on a
Dr. Seuss's Book about the ABC's. Every letter was covered. The child could spend large amounts of time exploring each letter and little talking animations would come up. I upgraded my Mac laptop to Mavericks. Now the program will not work and there never was an upgrade of the program. How can I undo Mavericks and go back to the way my Mac used to be? I want that Power PC program back worse than an upgraded Mac.  Find me an ABC Program that Surpasses this Dr. Seuss program and I might reconsider downgrading. Can you please help me?


texts: How can I use different facebook account to sign in a game on iphone?

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I used a facebook account to sign in a game on my iphone ( the game is "top eleven"). Now I want to change the account and use another one because I have more friends in 2nd account.
Already used 2nd account's username and password in setting but didn't work, even deleted facebook app and installed it again and signed in with 2nd one but when I open the game it runs with 1st one.
how can I solve this problem ?
thanks


texts: Lost second Game center account of my daughter

texts: I updated the last iOS 7 for my dhaughters iPad. We have had the same apple ID for iTunes shop but different game center nicknames so that we could play same games but saved separately with our personal game develoments. Now after the update the game center is not letting me to log her in with her nickname but is telling that this name is already in use!? What can i do to not to loose all her games?


texts: Use a single shortcut to activate an app (might running in other spaces) in the current space

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Background: I have two spaces, one is for work and one is for entertaining. They are for different purposes, and it is a common situation where the same app is running in both spaces (for example, a web browser app can have 2 different windows, one is related to work and one to Internet browsing, and they are distributed in different spaces).

What I want to achieve: I like the ability to activate an app quickly by using a single shortcut (by using Keyboard maestro, or Karabiner, or BetterTouchTool, or whatever app you would recommend to me). This single shortcut can achieve several things in different situations:

When the app is not running in any of the space, then the obvious thing is to launch it in the current space
When the app is running and have window(s) open in the other space –

2.1. But there is no window open in the current space – then open a new window of this app

2.2. And there is already existing window(s) open in the current space – then resume the existing window(s)

Do you know how can I achieve this effect? I have tried many ways with the aforementioned OS assistant apps, but because they can only tell whether the specific app is running and is at the front (even if it is only running and at the front in the other space), but cannot tell if there is a window open or not in the current space, so I cannot achieve 2.1 and 2.2 both at the same time using a single shortcut.

If I activate the app (similar to clicking on the dock icon but with a shortcut) with window(s) running in the other space, then only 2.2 can be achieved not 2.1. In fact, nothing would happen in the case of 2.1, no popping out any window or switching to the other space or anything, because the system assume that the app is running and it already has its focus on it, while in fact the running window is on the other space so the current space cannot see a thing. You always have to follow with a next move, for example, command + N to create a new window, or just switch to the other space to check whether there is a window open, and it's overall a very jarring experience.

Or, I can always open a new window of the app in the current space using shortcut, but in that case only 2.1 can be achieved not 2.2. It's very useful to resume the existing window(s) where you have already been working on in the current space.

Hopefully I have made my conundrum clear enough. It would be much easier for me to navigate the whole OS if I can find a way to work this out, so thank you for any input!


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Having problems with photos syncing from iPhone 5s to PC running Windows 7. Long story short, my wife's photos sync to her computer, mine only syncs to 1 of 3 computers (all Win 7 Pro) all on the same wifi network at home. As mentioned, no problems on 1 of our computers with the photos populating within seconds of taking them. On the 2 that will not show them, I can only get iCloud to show "My Photo Stream" and "Activity" folders when clicking the "iCloud Photos" shortcut link in favorites when opening Windows Explorer

On the computer that does bring the photo from the cloud, I set it up to save them to a network drive and if I point the non-working pc's to that folder as default for iCloud, I still see nothing on my computer when double clicking "My Photo Stream"

Here's the kicker: if I click the "Open Folder" link in the above photo, the folder opens correctly and shows the files

Does anyone have any clues why these photos in the linked default iCloud folder are not showing on 2 of my computers? I've tried for many hours to figure this out and would appreciate any suggestions beyond the normal "reset iCloud" - "sign out then sign back in" - "delete account from phone and reload it" answers.


texts: Calendar entries showing up on wrong date

texts: All of a sudden calendar entries are showing up on the day before, instead of on the date entered on my iPhone 6. Example: a meeting entered at 10:00 Monday, October 24 is showing up on Sunday, Oct 23.


texts: Can I upgrade a previously purchased iPhone under the iPhone Upgrade Program?

texts: I bought an iPhone 6s Plus from Apple a couple of years ago. Can I enroll in the iPhone Upgrade Program and upgrade it to an iPhone 8/X?


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When I click an app to download it, It’ll start spinning and stay like that for a while. Eventually it’ll turn into the little cloud icon. If I click the cloud icon it’ll say the app has been downloaded and will download again at no extra charge. Then it’ll close the window and stay as the cloud icon. Nothing pops up on my home screen while “downloading” or anything like that.
I’ve tried the following:

Restarting my phone
Signing out of iTunes and back in
Updating phone
Resetting all settings
Turning data/ WiFi off & on


texts: Upgrading from Parallels Desktop 5 to 6 caused DNS query resolution "slowness" at Mac OS X level

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Anybody else feeling this/have any idea how to fix it without reinstalling Snow Leopard?
This seems very similar to problems PD used to have back in 2008 (forum link)

FWIW, my current network interfaces are:

$ ifconfig -l
lo0 gif0 stf0 en0 en1 fw0 vnic0 vnic1 vmnet1 vmnet8

(And yes, as you can see from the NICs, I also run VMWare Fusion 3.1.1, but the issue started upon upgrading to PD6)

$ ifconfig
lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 16384
 inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128
 inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1
 inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000
 inet6 fd18:d7ce:18ee:1e60:223:32ff:fea0:fade prefixlen 128
gif0: flags=8010<POINTOPOINT,MULTICAST> mtu 1280
stf0: flags=0<> mtu 1280
en0: flags=8863<UP,BROADCAST,SMART,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
 ether HH:II:DD:DD:EE:NN
 media: autoselect
 status: inactive
en1: flags=8863<UP,BROADCAST,SMART,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
 ether HH:II:DD:DD:EE:NN
 inet6 HH:II:DD:DD:EE:NN%en1 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x5
 inet 192.168.0.198 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.0.255
 media: <unknown subtype>
 status: active
fw0: flags=8863<UP,BROADCAST,SMART,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 4078
 lladdr 90:84:0d:ff:fe:ba:6d:2a
 media: autoselect <full-duplex>
 status: inactive
vnic0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
 ether 00:1c:42:00:00:08
 inet 10.211.55.2 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 10.211.55.255
 inet6 fe80::21c:42ff:fe00:8%vnic0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x7
 inet6 ::1 prefixlen 64
 media: autoselect
 status: active
vnic1: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
 ether 00:1c:42:00:00:09
 inet 10.37.129.2 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 10.37.129.255
 inet6 fe80::21c:42ff:fe00:9%vnic1 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x8
 inet6 ::1 prefixlen 64
 media: autoselect
 status: active
vmnet1: flags=8863<UP,BROADCAST,SMART,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
 ether 00:50:56:c0:00:01
 inet 172.16.155.1 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 172.16.155.255
vmnet8: flags=8863<UP,BROADCAST,SMART,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
 ether 00:50:56:c0:00:08
 inet 192.168.102.1 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.102.255

$ cat /etc/resolv.conf
nameserver 208.67.220.220
nameserver 208.67.222.222


texts: /Volumes/EFI - Firmware.scap & MBA41_0077_B12_LOCKED.scap

texts:
Sorry for bad english - this is computer translation.

See figure - MBA41_0077_B12_LOCKED.scap (# 2) - is the actual firmware of my MacBookAir4,1, which is was used to update firmware, but that such Firmware.scap (# 1)? And the date of the change Firmware.scap 14.04.2016, although I have no new downloads, and even more so, no changes are made?

Thanks in advance for your answers!


texts: Using External Monitor. Want Mouse to move Up/Down, not Left/Right?

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I've got an external monitor and want to be able to use the monitor above the laptop.

It seems I'm supposed to use "Spaces" to support an external monitor which I have done and I've set up two spaces for this. Unfortunately it seems that I'm only able to move between spaces by moving my mouse cursor from left to right instead of from top to bottom and vice versa. Given the layout of the monitors it is really unnatural to have to move from left to right in order to access monitors that are stacked.  I can easily do this on my Dell laptop running Windows but is there a way to do it with my Mac's OS X?  Stumped.

(source: mikeschinkel.com)

Thanks in advance for the help.

-Mike


texts: How to unlock a locked user account using Terminal

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How can I unlock a locked user account( after user entered password x times ) using Terminal on Catalina.
I check if the user is locked by doing sudo pwpolicy -u username -authentication-allowed which gives me User <username> is not allowed to authenticate: Failed record policy "Authentication Lockout"

What I tried:

sudo pwpolicy -u username enableuser - says enabling account but user is still locked

sudo pwpolicy -u username -setpolicy "isDisabled=0" - I know it's deprecated but I tried it anyway and it didn't work

sudo pwpolicy -u username -setpolicy "minutesUntilFailedLoginReset=0" - getting desperate here. didn't work

Any ideas?


texts: 50Hz hum from macbook air headphone port

texts:
I bought a pair of Brainwavz M1 headphones today and when using them with my Macbook air there is an intermittent buzz regardless of whether or not there's sound playing and irrespective of the volume of the air.

I'm fairly sure that it's 50 Hz noise from the power but curiously when I unplug the charging cable the noise is still there but not quite as loud.

If I touch the body of the laptop the humming stops whether plugged into power or not.

The headphones have a rated impedance of 32 ohms.

Is there anything I can do to stop it?


texts: Why is Chrome aggressively consuming CPU cycles?

texts:
I literally have 0 tabs open, and yet Chrome is consuming a very significant amount of CPU resources, and quickly draining my battery...

Why?


texts: Do I need to be enrolled in Apple Developer Program to publish apps as a part of organization

texts:
I have an apple account that is NOT enrolled in Apple Developer Program. I became a member of another organization using their invitation and they gave me the role of "Admin" in iTunes connect.

However, I do not see the option of publishing application to app store from iTunes connect when I am logged in using my apple account.

Question:

Do I have to pay 99 bucks to be able to publish apps on app store even though my apple account is a part of this organization.
If 1 is true, then why is apple charging me again even though the organization have already paid them.


texts: Help! kernel_task / Mac OS System eating hard drive space

texts:
I have a very unfortunate problem. My Mac OS System is eating free disk space right before my eyes till my system becomes unresponsive.

I already deactivated and deleted Time Machine backups.

Finder says I have 100 GB of free space, but I constantly get (running low on disc space error). and Clean my Mac is reporting that I only have 8 MB of free space.

I checked the Disc Utility and my SSD is showing 100 GB of free space and (100 GB of purgeable), but it's nested inside another drive called "Container Disk1" and this one has only 8mb of free space (which is again nested in APPLE SSD SM1024F Media).

I tried first ad on Container Disk1 and it shows the following error "warning: Overallocation Detected on Main device"

I checked with DaisyDisk and it's reporting that there is 100GB of purgeable space, I tried to delete it, but it fails.

I manually deleted everything from Library/Cache/ to no avail.

Activity Monitor says that kernel_task wrote a massiv 185 GB to the HDD :(

it seams like every free mb is being written to some undeleteable area or the free space has not really been deleted.

How to I fix this? Help

Edit: Mac OS says my System is 600GB big, seems very wrong!


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I was trying to format a brand new Micro SD Card using https://www.sdcard.org/downloads/formatter/, however, after 30 minutes, it failed. Every attempt thereafter also failed with this message;

[ERROR] Invalid end of sector signature: 0x2211
[ERROR] fat_check_validate_boot_sector returned error: 22 (Invalid argument)
[ERROR] Initializing cached values failed: 22 (Invalid argument)
[ERROR] Generated invalid volume. fat_volume_create returned: 22 (Invalid argument)

This happened on 2 brand new SD cards. The very first time they show up, after trying to format them, they seem completely dead.

Disk Utility also fails to do anything with the SD cards. I've tried to format them on a Windows machine, but they don't show up at all there.

I'm completely lost on what to do at the moment. I'm afraid that if I go out and buy another new SD card, the same problem will just happen again.

I'm using a 2016 MacBook Pro, with sd card -> USB -> thunderbolt.


texts: How can I remove Finder and Trash from my dock (for Mojave)

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I've got my first ever Mac and was wondering how to remove Finder and Trash from my dock (and put them in Launchpad instead).

I've tried some of the solutions on other questions but they don't seem to work on my Mac.  Ideally I would like the icons to be removed automatically on start-up too.

Thanks :)


texts: What gets copied (and what doesn't) during a Target Mode copy?

texts:
I recently cloned my old, dying computer into a new one, using Target Mode and a Firewire 800 cable via Recovery Mode.
Everything looked perfectly identical. I launched Safari on the new computer, and all the tabs I was browsing were there.
But when I opened Chrome, there were no tabs open, and the extensions were uninstalled.
I'm trying to understand what happened, and where these files were copied for Target Mode to omit them.
Which files does Target Mode copy - and which files does it not copy - when cloning a hard drive with Recovery Mode?


texts: Can't sync smart playlists that contains podcasts

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I have a smart playlist that pulls the latest podcasts, however when I try to sync the playlist to my Shuffle 4th gen, nothing happens. Smart playlists with "normal" audio files, syncs fine.

Anyone know how to troubleshoot this?


texts: How does one access Team Foundation Server from an iDevice?

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Sometimes I need to access a document from TFS on my iPhone/iPad (for example, in a meeting), but the web interface is so clunky, it's nearly impossible.  Specifically, I can't bring up any attachments.

Is there an iDevice client that has been known to work well?  I've seen 2 on the App Store but couldn't make either one work.


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I have 2 VPNs that I have created on demand profiles for. One is for an OpenVPN server that connects when my iPad is on cellular and disconnects otherwise. The other one automatically connects only on my school's wifi and is an AnyConnect server (only protocol usable at school).

Both of them connect and disconnect fine, but only when their respective VPNs are selected in the VPN settings. However, I have to manually switch them when switching networks--if the cellular VPN was in use, it will disconnect when I connect to school wifi but the school wifi VPN won't connect until I change the current VPN in the settings, which kind of beats the point.

Is there any way to have them switch automatically? Right now I have the settings in two separate profiles, would combining them make a difference? Or am I out of luck?


texts: Am I supposed to have both a Library/Privileged Helper Tools & a Library/PrivilegedHelperTools folder?

texts: Library/Privileged Helper Tools is empty. Library/PrivilegedHelperTools has 3 items belonging to known installed applications within it.


texts: When you turn your ringer down during the day, so it only vibrates when someone calls, this also turns down your alarm. Is there a way to keep your alarm volume constant when you turn down your ringer?


texts: Why does AirPlay disconnect when opening Pokemon Go?

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I use Plex to watch TV/Movies (which stream from my home network) and I AirPlay it to my Apple TV. When AirPlaying, I have no problem navigating away to check my messages, etc.

However when I open some apps, usually games such as Pokemon Go (I like to wait for Pokemon while watching casual shows), it disconnects the AirPlay. Seconds later I hear my show playing through my phone speakers and I have to navigate to the Plex app to stop it.

Why does this happen and how can I prevent AirPlay from disconnecting?


texts: iMac - 2nd display not working using thunderbolt - HDMI

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I recently bought an LG monitor to use as a 2nd display but my iMac (mid 2011, running Mac OS X Lion) doesn't detect it.

It's connected using a Thunderbolt-to-HDMI-cable (which I bought from The Apple Shop the other day).
What could be the cause of this bad-detection behavior?


texts: Not getting notification when I get messaged by a random number

texts: I seem to not get any notifications when I get a text message by a random number. This can be infuriating when getting a verification code or such. I still get the "1" next the icon but thats it, I get no notice.


texts: "file not sent" from Android to Macbook, whereas they're paired

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I'm trying to send a file from Android to Macbook via bluetooth. I pair them successfully and when I'm sending a file from Android, it just ends up saying "file not sent". In the Macbook does happen nothing at that time, no pop up window or something.

That's it.


texts: Address smart group based on mailbox? Or Tags?

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I have manually created mailboxes in Mail and would like to create a rule that moves all future email from those senders who currently exist in one of those mailboxes to be sent to the same mailbox. That is: Any incoming mail from a sender who already has a message from that sender in ManualMailbox_A should be moved into ManualMailbox_A.

Is there a way to define a smart contacts group to do this so that the Mail rule can use "Sender is member of Group"? Some other way?

I am trying to avoid having to manually fiddle with putting senders into contacts and groups, and would like to just drag message into mailbox and have all future mail from that sender redirected to same mailbox — and of course have multiple senders put into single mailboxes.


texts: install binary file != move binary to path folder?

texts: What is the difference (is there any?) between sudo install -c -o %username% binaryfile usr/local/bin and just moving binary file to usr/local/bin?


texts: Type a special character with a regular keyboard

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I am trying to reinstall an iMac but I don't have the original Apple keyboard. Instead a  "regular" keyboard is attached.
I can't find out how to type the "at" symbol (@). I need it to enter my Apple ID so I can download Mavericks to reinstall the sytem.

Is there any way to type it or circumvent the Apple ID login?


texts: Stop Mail from previewing pdfs and images in the body of an email

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Is there a way in the Mail.app to prevent it from previewing pdfs and images in the body of an email.

So that instead you just a get a normal file attachment ?


texts: Need to replace a hard drive in a macbook

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I have been asked to "replace a hard drive in a macbook".

I'm able to physically swap out the drive, but I have no idea how mac software works. I have some questions:

If I put in a new hard drive, will I have to reinstall an operating system?
When you buy a mac, do they give you a copy of the OS on disc like buying a windows PC?
If the procedure much different between different flavours of macbook?
Are there any special tools required extra to a small philips-head screwdriver?


texts: How to check which files have been copied to the main hard drive and which ones have not been copied?

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I formatted my MacBook main drive some months ago and, in order to not lose data, I created a .dmg image of the hard drive before the formatting procedure and saved it to an external device.

Then, some days ago, I started a kind of data restoring, coping most of the backup files back to the main drive.

Now, I would like to check if all these mentioned files have really been copied back to my Macbook. Due to this, I am looking for an application theoretically able to analyze the files (in particular, their name, hash, etc.) contained in my external drive and find corresponding files on my Macintosh hard drive; if a  corresponding file is not found, the file should be highlighted. If a similar application actually exists, can you suggest it to me?

If there is not an application with the features above explained, can you suggest me a brief Bash script or AppleScript able to do that? I'm not familiar with both these languages, but I have a little Batch scripting background and I was thinking about some statements - e.g. the for loop, md5, etc. - which generate a filename plus MD5 checksum list for both drives, and which find correspondances. What about this? Can you suggest me some examples?

Note: This is not the same as How to confirm that a file has copied to a new disk without any errors?. The new data structure on the main drive is a bit different compared to the previous one, which is stored in the external drive. Due to this, a standard folder/volume comparison with a dry rsync run is not exactly what I am looking for.


texts: ipad ssh application with solid copy / paste support

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I have been using iSSH on the ipad when I need to ssh to my servers; however, one of the glaring problems with iSSH is that you don't have copy / paste support within the iSSH terminal application (supposedly it is there if you will run VNC, but that is not an option).

Has anyone got an ipad ssh application with good copy / paste functionality?  I need to be able to copy text from within the session and paste it into a browser (and vice versa).


texts: Dynamically adjust image canvas for images

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I am new to Mac.

In Windows OS, I use MS Paint to dynamically adjust the canvas using the mouse by dragging the borders within the GUI to paste multiple cropped images into it to create a single new image.

Is there a way to do this in macOS using Apple default or paid apps where I can dynamically resize the canvas using the mouse? Manually entering percentages or dimensions to resize the canvas (either in the app or in terminal) is confusing to me to achieve the right canvas size.


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I have been trying to create a service for toggling ethernet on off, but can't manage to get it right.

It is for os x high sierra.

So far I have this, it runs with no error and it does appear on my services menu, but it does not toggle the ethernet connection.

I have tried some code for airport and it works. But I really need it for Ethernet 1, en0.

on run {input, parameters}

(* do shell script "networksetup -setnetworkserviceenabled Ethernet 1 off" user name “xxxx” password “xxxx” with administrator privileges
do shell script "networksetup -setnetworkserviceenabled Ethernet 1 on" user name "xxxx" password "xxxx" with administrator privileges *)

return input end run

I have done some workflows recording actions for this but it just a bit creepy and it really is a hassle this way.

Any help would be so much appreciated.


texts: A single click on my trackpad occasionally acts like a double click

texts: I have a Macbook Pro and when I click with the trackpad, it will occasionally act like a double click. This happens whether I physically click the trackpad or if I just do a tap to click. I have tried changing the double click speed to no avail. It might be a hardware issue, but the fact that it happens when I tap to click leads me to believe it is at least not a mechanical issue (still possible an electronics/cable issue with the trackpad). I have also reset the NVRAM and the SMC (not sure why it would be an issue with those but I'm attempting everything). I'm on Yosemite.


texts: Delete key inserts a space on Python interpreter after upgrading to Catalina

texts:
I recently upgraded to Catalina  on my Macbook Pro (2015) and have this bizarre issue:

If I open up the Python interpreter in Terminal, I am able to type normally except for when I press the delete key. When I do that, it inserts a space.  This persists across all my Conda environments, as well as native Python installation.

I tried restarting, and plugging in an external keyboard, and the issue persists.
The delete key seems to work normally on everything else I've tried. It also works on my shell (zsh) and on interpreters for other languages.

Has anyone else run into this issue?


texts: Are you allowed to promote a Patreon page on your iOS app?

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Under section 3.2.2 (iv) of the App Store Review Guidelines, it says that the following is unacceptable:

Unless you are an approved nonprofit or otherwise permitted under Section 3.2.1 (vi) above, collecting funds within the app for charities and fundraisers. Apps that seek to raise money for such causes must be free on the App Store and may only collect funds outside of the app, such as via Safari or SMS.

Based on the above, what would be the implications of displaying a message such as "Support us on Patreon!"?


texts: how to upgrade unlocked iphone 4s to iOS 7.0.4

texts: How to upgrade my iphone 4s currently running on iOS 5.0 to iOS 7.0.4? I would want to get step by step instructions.


texts: Internal Disk is locked and Erasing is taking for ever

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I recently got an iMac they did erase the internal drive for me but for making sure every step is correct I tried to erase the internal drive myself from recovery mode before reinstalling the macOS.
but this time it stocked on erasing exactly on the "Deleting volume" step.
I waited for more than 15 hours but the progress bar was 0%

then I gave up and restart the iMac, this time I tried to reinstall from recovery mode, but this time in choosing the installation disk, I saw it's grayed and says "this drive is locked".
the only solution I found for the locked drive was to erase it again. but my erasing has problem as I said


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I have an Apple wired keyboard and a wireless Microsoft keyboard. I have been working with the Apple keyboard for a couple of months. Today I started my iMac and it didn't recognise the keyboard, I plugged the Microsoft keyboard (I worked with it for a year before I had the Apple keyboard) which works via USB (but wireless) and the iMac did not recognise it either. I tried the SMC reset, as shown here but it didn't work.

Any idea of what's happening? I appreciate your help.


texts:
I'd like to get the Preview app from 10.7 to work on 10.13. I've done it with the calculator by editing a file in contents folder. I guess the same can be done with Preview app. Unfortunately I dont remember what I did, or which file that should be edited.
Anyone who can help with this?


texts: How can I make Text to Speech use different voices for different languages?

texts:
I am learning French and sometimes need to use Text to Speech to fix my pronunciation. As English is my second language, I also sometimes use Text to Speech with it.

The problem is that the English voices do not have correct French pronunciation, and vice versa. I have to open System Preferences to switch between the two every time.

How can I automatically switch between the voices according to the language of the text selected to be spoken? If there is no way to do that, how would do it using Automator/AppleScript?


texts: Dual booting Mid 2012 MacBook Pro running Catalina with Deepin

texts: After the Catalina upgrade Macintosh HD is listed twice in Disk Utility.  One only has about 10gb used and the other looks like that's where everything is.  It has the label data in the name.  I read somewhere that this is normal.  I want to dual boot linux, thinking about Deepin, and need to create the install partition.  How exactly should I proceed?


texts: Enable Remote Management through terminal only works when I manually click off and on?

texts: I am able to turn the Remote Management on. But it doesn't work. For it to work the only way is i have to turn it off(after i used terminal command to turn it on) and turn it back again by checking the box. Any reason to why it does this. I tried typing the command to turn it off and on after i turn it on and that does not work either.


texts: Accidentally ejected External drive while downloading file, now having problems reading

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I'm hoping someone can help! I recently downloaded a torrent directly onto an external hard drive, (using a 2009 MacBook Pro and 1TB Seagate Expansion portable Drive) somehow during the download the drive was accidentally ejected, since this incident when I plug the drive back in it’s having problems reading.

The drive works fine for about 10 minutes, I can read/copy/paste and access files but then starts to wreak havoc; apps hangs, it hangs the Finder, etc.

I’ve tried repairing it in Disk Utility, which reads and repairs this disk but problems inevitably continue as described above.

I’ve deleted the Torrent file also. All my files on this external drive so re-formatting is not an option until I can retrieve them.


texts: Triple boot macOS High Sierra, Linux Mint, and Windows with rEFInd

texts: I have a MacBook 2015 running macOS High Sierra 10.13.4,I installed Windows 10 using Boot Camp. After that I created two partitions swap,root   to do installed Linux Mint. Finally I installed rEFInd to manage the three OS's,  but where reboot I can't access Windows. It's show message error "rEFInd - Booting OS Starting bootmgfw.efi Using load option '' BlInitializeLibrary failed 0xc00000bb ", How to fix it?


texts: iPad can't seem to view sites / pages that include the port in the URL?

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I've found that the iPad, using its Safari browser can't access web pages that include a port number in the URL:

http://www.example.com:8080/

or even

http://www.example.com:80/

In either case, the browser displays a message stating "Cannot Open Page, Safari cannot open the page because the network connection was lost."

I understand that port 80 is the default port for the HTTP protocol (443 for HTTPS) and that usually it's omitted from URL's as most (all?) browsers know to use the default (including Safari when running on Mac OS).

Before you ask, yes the sites are up and accessible (obviously the links above are just examples of syntax) and other devices (non-Apple phones, pads and laptops) can access the site - there is no issue with 3G / network coverage etc.

Is this a bug with the iPad - or is it something that's configurable?


texts: All downloaded files cannot be opened as they are 'damaged and should be moved to the Trash'

texts:
Everything I download will not open. OS X says the file is damaged and can't be opened and should be moved to the Trash. Like Adobe Reader, for PDF documents. JPEG files will not open. Office files will not open. Yet the thumbnail preview is perfect and I can flip the pages to see the information is there. I tried to download OpenOffice for the Office documents but it says the same thing, damaged, cannot open, should be moved to the Trash.

MacBook Air with Mountain Lion


texts: Zip file extraction corruption/issues - no unzipping into sub-folders

texts:
Something weird I've noticed with Zip files and OSX recently (both on 10.7 and 10.6.*).

Situation: a .zip file with sub-folder and long file names within it. When it's extracted on Windows it extracts all items within their sub-folders properly. When extracted on OSX it does not extract them into sub-folders but puts them all in one folder and then takes the subfolder names and adds it to the file name so you have a super long file name like this:

folder/sub-folder/itemname.extension

But it's not in subfolders.

that make sense? Anyone figure out why this happens? I'm not sure what the character length is that triggers this because other files extract fine, just certain ones that exceed a character limit in the name...


texts: Copying data in recovery mode - is this a security flaw?

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My Mac crashed, operating system error, tried reinstalling OS, no luck.... anyway I need to do a fresh install so I am copying my data off the machine using command line and recovery mode.

My question is, I've copied the data without any issues, but isn't this a security flaw?

What's to stop me going to someone's Mac, starting recovery mode, open terminal, go to the Users or a user directory and copy off whatever I want?


texts: Constant application crashes on 4S running 6.1.2

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I have a brand new iPhone 4S, running 6.1.2, consistently crashing applications from core services like iMessage to Evernote and Tweetbot. Phone calls can be sent and received, but experience 1-3 second 'black outs' where I can't hear the conversation. These happen on approx 2-5 minute intervals. I've restarted, hard restarted (hold down buttons for 10 sec) and resynched to iTunes.

Useful context:
iCloud configured
Exchange email configured via Zenprise

I'm glad to do every rational troubleshooting step, I just don't know enough about logging to imagine where to start on this one.


texts: Yosemite keeps restarting or going into grey screen

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I have an iMac from 2011 and I have installed Yosemite as soon as it was released, without any issues before this one.

Here is what happened: it has suddenly shut itself off, after turning it on, it goes into the loading screen, loads to about half of the loading bar and restarts itself, this happens in a loop.
I have tried internet recovery. After choosing the network, connecting, and going through the loading screen, the screen becomes grey. Same thing when I try recovery mode or when I boot from external usb device. I am able to enter the verbose mode and I was able to do system check, which did not find any issues.

Not sure what to do and whether this is a hardware or a software problem.


texts: How can I stop my iPhone tagging a particular face?

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With the new update to iOS 10, the Photos app searches for faces in your pictures and groups them into albums.

One of my friends has an Android phone that superimposes a facebook chat bubble in the top right of her screen at all times showing her boyfriend's profile picture.  The Photos app has recognised his face within the bubble in all the screenshots she has sent me and these now appear as an album in faces.

How can I tell the app that I don't want this face to be tagged as a face?  Selecting them and pressing delete offers to delete the photos entirely, similarly I don't want to press hide as this removes photos from the library.  I have also tried "not this face", however this doesn't solve my problem either.


texts: Safari extension to monitor web pages for changes?

texts: I am looking for a Safari extension similar to Update Scanner (for Firefox) and Page Monitor (for Chrome). Any suggestions?


texts: Is there a spelling library or command line tool that can be installed to use on macOS command line Terminal app?


texts:
My husband's iPhone has the multi app icon and wanted to get the same on my new iPad.

Is it possible to get it on the iPad?


texts:
One of my staff just got a new Mac mini with the USB 3 ports and Mavericks. It has 2 Seagate GoFlex 3TB hard drives connected: 1 for Time Machine, the other for Dropbox files.

When the computer is restarted, the drives don't mount. They are not visible in Disk Utilities. Unplugging the drives and plugging them back in will mount them. I'd like everything to mount and Dropbox to start up automatically for this user, which worked on the old Mac mini she was using. Now she has to go through multiple steps every time she restarts, which is not ideal.

Any ideas what might be causing this behavior?


texts: How to add/remove applications from "File and Folders" inside "Security and Privacy" -> Privacy Tab

texts:
How to remove these bunch of files from here.
I use VS code, when I debug a program it asks for this permission that a file that is created while debugging wants to access your Document folder. And every time I have to allow it and then those files end up in Privacy -> "Files and Folders".


texts: Issue with audio for slideshow with Photos

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I have a problem when adding music to a slideshow in photos. When I add a piece of music and check the 'fit to music' the timing is never right and I'm left with about a minute of silence at the end of the slideshow.

Alternatively if I try and vary the time of the slideshow manually, it won't let me and resets itself to default time.

Both of these issues mean that I cannot get a piece of music to fit in time with a slideshow, which is proving highly frustrating.

I'm using a new MacBook OS X Yosemite 10.10.5 (14F27)


texts: Custom notification tones for WhatsApp iphone12

texts: I know how to customize the ringtone on WhatsApp, however, when I try and customise the notification tone, the list to select from only includes the default Apple tones - i.e. Aurora to Synth and Bell to Xylophone.  That's very frustrating. The custom ringtones I've made using garage band or uploaded aren't listed as options (which they are on the ringtone list)


texts: Macintosh HD is not visible on boot but is can be detected using Recovery on an installation USB

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I've transplanted the SSD drive between two identical MacBook Air's - both are 13" Early 2015 models - as one of them had died. Upon moving the SSD from the dead MacBook to the other one, booting the computer presents me with the folder and the question mark icon.

Holding down ⌥ Option on boot only gives me the option for network recovery. I created an installation USB using the same OS that is on the SSD (High Sierra) and booted into it. Here I can see the disk in disk utility and everything appears normal. I ran first aid on the disk and no major errors were found, only a few permission errors were fixed.

When selecting the Startup Disk option, I have the option to choose the SSD however upon reboot it cannot be seen again, only the installation USB is detected. (See below pictures)

How can I get the "new" MacBook Air to boot from the "old" SSD?

If there is anything I missed, please let me know!


texts: Network stops working, with "Can't Assign Requested Address"

texts:
On OS X 10.9 (but no prior version), every now and then, I start getting strange network errors.  I can still ping, but anything that requires actual content (like a web page) completely stops.

For example:

$ ping 80.68.93.197
PING 80.68.93.197 (80.68.93.197): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 80.68.93.197: icmp_seq=0 ttl=46 time=175.291 ms
64 bytes from 80.68.93.197: icmp_seq=1 ttl=46 time=172.519 ms
^C
--- 80.68.93.197 ping statistics ---
2 packets transmitted, 2 packets received, 0.0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 172.519/173.905/175.291/1.386 ms
$ curl http://dailyjs.com/
curl: (7) Failed to connect to 80.68.93.197: Can't assign requested address

It seems similar to this message thread, but I don't see an answer there.

I've tried deleting the ethernet interface and re-adding it, but that doesn't seem to help.

I've tried deleting the ethernet interface and turning on wifi, which shows the same symptoms.

A reboot might fix the problem, but it's rather intrusive.  Any ideas?


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I am having an issue recently which causes my MacBook Pro 2015, 15", to spontaneously (and randomly?) shut down.

These shut downs do not happen in Recovery Mode or Safe Boot.

Temporarily, before I am able to identify and fix the root cause, I would like to continue using my laptop.

I am actually very happy using Safe Boot for now, I can do almost everything I want to do.

However, I can't figure out how to enable audio output while in Safe Boot mode.

I know it's not really intended, so possible workarounds may be awkward, but how can I hear the sound output from my MacBook while it is in Safe Boot?

The only external speakers I have access to are my iPhone 7's (iOS 13.3) and lots of pairs of headphones (although idk if those count as "external speakers"). I added this information because I wonder if it's possible to stream the sound output through my iPhone perhaps (network connectivity seems to work fine while in Safe Boot), if it is indeed impossible to play audio on the MacBook while in Safe Boot.


texts: How to sync up a folder in amazon S3 with people in Austria

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My business is digital retouching here in the Pacific Northwest, and I have several photographers in Austria who I work with. Typically, both of us have macs running Maverick.

I would like to have one folder for each client that both of us can put images in and  out. I would like to use my Amazon S3 account like dropbox. My file sizes are large, like 20 to 30 gb

How do I go about setting that up with my Amazon S3 account? My level of experience is newbie.


texts: Shimo/Clean My Mac require passwords after messing with sudoers

texts:
I messed with sudoers file and sudo was not working. I fixed the issue (booted from recovery mode, mounted root filesystem and fixed permissions) and sudo is now working properly, but after this accident I got some problems with apps like Shimo and CMM X.
Shimo - Can't install helper tools after typing password. (Was working before)
Clean My Mac X - Asks for password every time it needs to delete some file. For example if I want to clean cache I have to type my password 20-40 times.
I have tried re-installing, new copy of macOS and apps as well but same problem.
So how to fix this?


texts: Meditation timer that reports mindful minutes to the Health app?

texts: Is there a simple meditation timer app that actually logs time spent meditating to the Health app as mindful minutes? I need just a simple timer, no guided meditation (and certainly no subscription). Preferably an Apple Watch app?


texts: Eclipse 4.2 on Mountain Lion: gatekeeper rejects as unidentified developer?

texts:
Just updated the mountain lion, and download the latest Eclipse 4.2 to upgrade the old one. However when opening the application, it shows that it is from an unidentified developer and the gatekeeper refuses to open it.

I know that there is an option to change the security and privacy option to allow it, however I want to know whether there is a way to just add eclipse into the list. Any hint on this?

More information: before updating I have the Eclipse 3.7.2 on machine, and after updating it works smoothly (I think I have added it into the allow list). So is there a way to do this to Eclipse 4.2?

Thanks in advance!


texts: I am having a problem with the Dock popping up when I have my mouse near the bottom.  Before, the Dock would pop up when the mouse was at the very bottom.  But the current behavior makes it difficult to access things like tabs on a spreadsheet because the Dock comes up and covers them.  What is to be done?


texts: How to get list of installed apps via iTunes?

texts: I need to know what applications are installed or were installed on devices which are associated with iTunes account. I don't have access to the devices. Is it possible?


texts: Is it possible to receive information from share action in a shortcut?

texts:
For example, I want to have a shortcut "get meta info from image" like this:

I open Photos on my iPad.
I Select an image and click the Share button.
I Select  "get meta info from image" shortcut in the popup menu.
The shortcut runs and it can receive the image which I selected.
The shortcut popup a dialog that has meta text information (e.g. name, size, ...).

I stuck in step 4.

How to make a shortcut receive information from share action?

Or is it possible to receive information from share action in a shortcut?

Thanks.

Edit:

Add screenshot of the shortcut I have so far


texts: Compress files with the output name same as Parent Folder with Automator

texts:
I've been searching the internet for a solution to this.  I would like to create an Automator workflow that will zip the selected files, name the zip the name of the Parent directory and save that zip in the current directory.

I can't seem to find a way to get the parent directory. I've kinda hit a wall here. Could anyone help me out?


texts: If iPhone will display Caller ID of person calling you by default

texts: I have an iPhone a few generations back (with AT&T) and it seems that every number that calls me it only shows the phone number and location, rather than the Caller ID and phone number pair. (Except for numbers that I have in my contacts, in which case it only displays the contact name, no number or location). I'm wondering if this is the default behavior of the iPhone, or what is going on. How do I make it so the Caller ID shows on my phone for whoever is calling me. And what is the default behavior of the major current iPhones in terms of this, that is, if they display Caller ID by default, or display Phone + Location by default, or if it depends on the provider and your account settings at places like AT&T and Verizon.


texts: Is it possible to define template files for the context-menu?

texts:
I often have to generate files (for example letters), which should have a certain content at the beginning (e.g. letter head,...). In Many Linux-Distributions there is a folder called ~/Templates - Every file in this folder appears in the context-menu/"File new" and is copied to the folder after selecting this entry.

Is something like this also possible in MacOSX 10.6.8?


texts:
I synchronise my contacts over iCloud. On the web (iCloud.com) I have more than 1'000 contacts which are synchronised on my Mac Mini at home, on my iPhone and iPad.

I then have a MacBook pro where only ~200 of them are synchronised:

If I switch off "Contacts" in the iCloud preferences and I switch it on again, I re-get the same ~200 contacts
If I create a new one on the MacBook it is correctly synchronised on all the other deviced
If I crate a new contact on iCloud.com it gets synchronised on all the devices (even the MacBook)
If I modify a contact on iCloud.com it then gets synchronised on the MacBook (but only if modified)

How can I force a re-sync?

Edit

Although the problem is similar to Force contacts to sync with iCloud right now the solutions provided do not help:

Closing and reopeningdoes not solve the problem
Re-booting does not solve the problem
Disabling and re-enabling iCloud does not solve the problem (see above)
Adding a contact does not solve the problem (see examples above)
Signing in and out does not solve the problem (see above)
Dragging the contacts to the local store and back to iCloud clearly does not work as I don't have the contacts on my mac
All the other hints refer to iOS

Edit 2

I am not able to export/import (drag in/out) the contacts to solve the problem as in the proposed duplicate. I have only 200 contacts on my Mac. The full content is in iCloud.

Edit 3

I tried the suggestion in the comments and created a group on the Mac Mini with alle the contacts. The group is synchronised to iCloud but in the MacBook I get it with the same ~200 contacts that where previously synchronised.

Edit 4

I also exported all the contacts on the Mac Mini and re-imported them. Almost no effect (on the MacBook pro I habe now 219 contacts). A couple (?) more, but still far from the >1000.


texts:
I am unable to sync purchased tv shows from my MacBook pro to my iPhone 4.

Instead I get an error:

  (show name) was not synced to "My iPhone" because you are not
  authorized for it on this computer

This seems to be the same problem- but with a movie
https://discussions.apple.com/message/16794815#16794815


texts: Is there any way to broadcast a part of your screen as webcam on OSX (for twitch, omegle etc)?

texts: Title: can you get a section of your screen recognised as if it was a webcam, so sites like twitch and omegle will read from it?


texts: Repeated requests to update icloud preferances

texts: I keep getting requests to update my iCloud preferences.  I do so by reentering my password the the requests keep coming


texts: I'm taking an economics course, and for whatever reason economists create graphs with the independent variable (price) on the Y axis and not the X axis. If I only have 1 dependent variable to graph, it's pretty easy just to swap the two, but I need to create a graph with price as the independent variable on the Y axis with multiple dependent variables on the X axis. Is this possible in Numbers?


texts:
When using Ubuntu I can save shell scripts in ~/bin. To launch them I just type the name of the script in the Terminal.
Is there an equivalent solution for OSX?


texts: Mac Ports keeps on re-installing Perl, Python, etc

texts: Every time I want to install something, mac ports keeps on re-installing Perl, Python, etc. although the same packages are already installed on the system. Is there some setting to avoid this?


texts: External monitor blinks when connected to MBP 13'' 2018 through USB-C to DisplayPort cable

texts:
When I have my Macbook Pro 13'' 2018 connected to the external display LG 27UL550-W monitor.
The monitor often blinks (becomes black) for a second or so randomly.
It happens even when the MacBook is connected to the power cable.
I connect using Inateck Usb-C to Display port cable
https://www.amazon.de/dp/B075Q5T6JT?ref_=pe_3044161_248799201_302_E_DDE_dt_1
The resolution is set to 1920x1080, that is, the screen renders each pixel with 4 pixels (HiDPI mode) with 60 Hz.
I use macOS 10.15.6 Catalina now although it happened even before.
How to resolve this issue?
Thanks!


texts: just upgraded iMac late 2015 ram from 12 GB to 28 GB and it became too slow to use

texts:
I had added an 8GB RAM along with existing 4GB when I purchased this iMac in 2016. For all this long it was running fine when lately I thought to add more RAM. So yesterday I added 2 more 8GB RAM modules and as I turned the system on it starts running to slow.

Apps which were running smooth earlier are now running too slow.
On Civilization VI i can practically see every frame moving every second, which earlier was running very fine.

Old config RAM

Slot 1 from bottom 4GB - system default RAM
Slot 3 from bottom 8GB - Hyper Kingston 1867 DDR3 RAM SODIMM

Now added RAM

Slot 2 from bottom 8GB - Hyper Kingston 1867 DDR3 RAM SODIMM
Slot 4 from bottom 8GB - Hyper Kingston 1867 DDR3 RAM SODIMM


texts: How do I setup access codes for shared printers?

texts: We've got a RICOH Aficio MP C4501 in our office that supports holding print jobs pending having a code input at the keypad (so sensitive documents don't print until you're able to be present to pick them up).  I'm not finding a way to set that code in the Apple print dialog, not even the setup dialog.  How do I go about using this codes feature on my Mac?


texts: MacBook Pro 15" Mid-2012 - Replacing a damaged 2.6 GHz logic board to 2.7 GHz one

texts:
I got a logic board A1286 mid-2012 non-Retina 2.7 GHz MBP.
On the board, there are two extra sockets; one is the right side of the fan connector and the other one is above the keyboard’s connector.
Mine also is A1286 2.6 GHz mid-2012 non-retina same as the new board, but the sockets of mine are empty, Should I be worried about the installation if there are no extra cables to be connected to those sockets?
New logic board: (Please enlarge the picture and see the red circles.)

My logic board:


texts: Touch ID setup fails on new (duplicate) user account

texts:
I duplicated my account based on this answer. After the procedure, macOS asked me to set up Touch ID.

I tried multiple times with many different fingers, but I couldn't get it to fully scan the fingerprint. The last "lines" would never fill up, and I couldn't get to the part where you're asked to scan the sides of your finger.

This process still works fine on the original account. No finger scans correctly on the duplicate account.

How can I make Touch ID work correctly on my duplicate account?


texts:
We accidentally deleted a person from Photos on the Mac.  Now all appearances that person's face in photos are still tagged with that person's name, but there is no bucket for that person in the Photos People view.
How do we restore the bucket with that person's name and then (if necessary) restore photos where that person is tagged to the bucket?


texts: Can't delete Linux partition with Disk utility

texts:
Weeks ago I created a new partition for Linux installation positioned after the Mac OS partition. I used the new larger partition to install Ubuntu (which caused the partition to be further partitioned into root, home, swap etc).

Now I'd like to delete that partition and resize the Mac OS partition back to full disk. Disk utility won't let me for reasons unknown.

Here is diskutil list:

/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *500.3 GB   disk0
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s1
   2: FFFFFFFF-FFFF-FFFF-FFFF-FFFFFFFFFFFF               80.0 GB    disk0s2
   3:           Linux Filesystem                         319.1 GB   disk0s4
   4:           Linux Filesystem                         399.5 MB   disk0s5
   5:                 Linux Swap                         600.8 MB   disk0s6

/dev/disk1 (synthesized):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      APFS Container Scheme -                      +80.0 GB    disk1
                                 Physical Store disk0s2
   1:                APFS Volume Macintosh SSD           54.1 GB    disk1s1
   2:                APFS Volume Preboot                 45.3 MB    disk1s2
   3:                APFS Volume Recovery                1.0 GB     disk1s3
   4:                APFS Volume VM                      8.6 GB     disk1s4

/dev/disk2 (disk image):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        +1.1 GB     disk2
   1:                  Apple_HFS IntelliJ IDEA CE        977.2 MB   disk2s1

/dev/disk3 (disk image):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        +1.6 GB     disk3
   1:                  Apple_HFS LibreOffice             1.4 GB     disk3s1

/dev/disk4 (disk image):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:     Apple_partition_scheme                        +179.1 MB   disk4
   1:        Apple_partition_map                         32.3 KB    disk4s1
   2:                  Apple_HFS Wireshark               179.1 MB   disk4s2

/dev/disk5 (disk image):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        +10.1 MB    disk5
   1:                  Apple_HFS Android File Transfer   10.0 MB    disk5s1

/dev/disk6 (disk image):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:     Apple_partition_scheme                        +196.8 MB   disk6
   1:        Apple_partition_map                         32.3 KB    disk6s1
   2:                  Apple_HFS Firefox                 196.7 MB   disk6s2

/dev/disk7 (disk image):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        +1.6 GB     disk7
   1:                  Apple_HFS Android Studio 3.1.4    1.4 GB     disk7s1


texts:
Right now, this is what my Terminal shows:

MyName's-MacBookPro:location MyName$

I'd like for it to only show my name, so something like this:

MyName$

When I browsed online for a solution, they said to edit my .bashrc file. I added the following line to my .bashrc:

export PS1="\u$ "

but there hasn't been any change, even after restarting Terminal.

This is the current contents of my .bashrc file:

export PATH="$PATH:$HOME/.rvm/bin" # Add RVM to PATH for scripting
export PS1="\u$ "


texts: Two finger tap selects text in web browsers

texts: Because of the selection I see a different context menu and it's really annoying. How to change this behaviour? It's the same for Chrome, Safari, and Firefox.


texts:
I dropped my macbook off my recliner a few days ago. It fell about 2 feet & it has a hard case on it. I didn’t think much of it but when I tried using it the next morning I was getting the folder with a question mark in it during start up. I came on the forums, tried many different approaches and solutions that worked for everyone else did not work for me.
I can’t erase the macOS base system nor partition it: it doesn’t give me those options. I factory reset my computer about a month ago as well because I was having problems with Catalina. I don’t have anything backed up & that’s fine (I have flashdrives w/ my important files) & I have a flashdrive with Mojave on it but it is locked and I can’t figure it out.
When I hold down the option key at start up it prompts my install Mojave drive but no other drive. It of course won’t let me install Mojave but when I went back to DU there was a new image tried erasing & partitioning that & all I got were error messages. If anyone has any idea what to do please help. Un-mounting disks doesn’t work either.


texts: Keyboard shortcut for Safari stop loading webpage button

texts:
While a page is loading, I somewant to stop it midway once the important bits have been loaded, and I don't want to continue loading the other unnecessary stuff on the page. This is especially the case with pages which are full of sidebars, images, scripts, etc.

I can click the little cross button in the address bar, but is there a keyboard shortcut for it also?


texts: why does Macos PowerChime use the network

texts:
PowerChime Sent Bytes:236 KB   Rcvd Bytes: 8 KB    Sent Packets: 7,210 Recvd Packets: 209
This alarms me!
Running Catalina 10.15.3 on a Macbook Pro 16"


texts: Symlinking ~/Documents to ~/Google Drive

texts:
I could not understand whether other questions had been answered, or if the answers were valid for my version of OS X (Mavericks), so I'm asking for the definite truth about the following:

Can I create a symlink so that ~/Documents, which opens with Cmd+Shift+O in the Finder, directly opens my ~/Google Drive folder?

The Finder won't let me remove the ~/Documents folder, and I wonder whether there is a workaround to that (hard symlink perhaps?). Thanks in advance, and sorry for the n-th question on that topic.


texts:
Is there a way to create a mailbox rule based on the currently highlighted message in mail.app? OSX 10.8.5

I want to create a rule from the application rather than have to go to Mail -> Preferences -> rules and create it there.


texts: How to export conversation history from Microsoft Communicator for Mac (2011)?

texts: Got a new Mac & trying to move my stuff from old Mac. I am unable to find a way to move the conversation history of Microsoft Communicator 2011 (version 13.1.2) from old Mac.


texts: Rebooting a Mac with a frozen application

texts:
I have just realized I do not know how OS X manages applications.

Today Google Chrome froze on my OS X Yosemite 10.10.2. After it froze, I simply quit it using "Force quit". I have even sent a report to Apple.

The Dock kept showing it as 'running', but clicking on "Force quit" did not have any effect. I restarted both the Finder and the Dock, but Chrome kept showing as 'running'. However, no process reminding me of 'Chrome' was listed in Activity Monitor or in ps aux in a Terminal.

So I decided to restart my machine and it was embarrassing:

So I was rebooting because Chrome was not responding, but my machine refused to reboot because I had to quit Google Chrome first, which was not among the running processes. Luckily, Apple has not yet removed the power button from their laptops.

When does this happen? Which "lock" file do I need to remove for telling OS X that a 'running' application is in reality not running?

PS. Isn't this a MS Windows 95-like behaviour? What a pity...


texts: Search Domains not seeming to work through DHCP on iOS/iPadOS

texts:
I have set Search Domains (DHCP Option 119) in my router, but it does not seem to be working on my iPad.
I can see on the router logs that it is being sent to the iPad along with the other requested DHCP information, but it does not appear in Settings.

It gets sent and is used by Windows (yet to test on Linux), so why not on iOS/iPadOS? Does it work for anybody else?


texts: What is the content of the $CLASSPATH variable in El Capitan?

texts:
I installed OS X El Capitan and, along with it, Oracle's Java 8 SDK.
I've already verified that, using java -version, java is correctly installed.
I need to add some user classes to the file path, but, when I use echo $CLASSPATH, I cannot see the actual path being used by OS X.
How can I know where should I install my user classes?


texts: How can I display the date on actual photos taken with iPhone?

texts:
I need some photos that I have taken to be dated. The date must be displayed on the actual photo (in a similar fashion to how one would think of film photos), but I have no idea how to do this? My understanding is there is an app that does this, but I haven't been able to find it.

Is there an app, or any other way, that would facilitate this?


texts: iOS 9.3.1 / OS X 10.11.14: Laptop doesn't show up in Airdrop locations on phone

texts:
In the past when I was sitting near my laptop (from early 2015) with the Photos app open on my iPhone (from fall 2014), when I would tap share a picture, my laptop would show up in AirDrop.  Now it is not showing up anymore!

From my laptop when I click on AirDrop from the Finder, my phone
appears, and I am able to share files from my laptop to the phone.
I have confirmed that Bluetooth and Wifi are enabled for both
devices.
From Settings>Bluetooth on the phone, I saw my laptop listed, but when I tried to connect, it failed.  I deleted it from the list of My Devices and tried to re-pair my laptop and computer using the Bluetooth File Exchange app on my laptop.  Even after seemingly going through the process correctly, it showed the laptop in the list of My Devices again, but as "Not Connected," and when I clicked on the info icon to see more, it said, "[Laptop name] is not supported."  But how could this be?!  I have the latest OS versions on both!
And now when I try to send from my laptop to the phone, which was working when I started debugging this, it says that "[Phone name] does not have the necessary services."  Again -- why?!  (However, when I share through the Finder from laptop => phone, it does work, although it's the reverse direction I need to get working again.)
I had the laptop under the setting "Allow me to be discovered by: Contact Only," but I switched it to "Everyone" -- no luck.

This is maddening.  Help!


texts:
I have two HomePod minis configured as a stereo pair, that is not recognized by my Apple TV. Instead I see each individual HomePod in the audio settings for the TV and can only select and play through one at a time. I have a very old Apple TV (a replacement is on order) and also a very old AirPort Extreme Base Station (also about to be replaced).
What version of Apple TV is required for a HomePod mini stereo pair to work?


texts:
I keep getting this error on my Mac (see attached screenshot).

It happened yesterday and now today again.

The dialog is not associated with any application (at least, when I select it, it does not change the menu bar). In exposé the app title that it is given when mouse over is "UserNotificationCenter".

I can't find any info about this error on-line and I wondered if anyone had any ideas or any way to investigate it further.

Running 10.11.3.


texts: Utility for Visualizing Network Traffic via SNMP

texts:
I'm looking for a piece of software akin to Cacti, one that is preferably much easier to set up, and has a high-quality frontend to it.

I had a headless Linux desktop that I used to poll my Time Machine and graph network statistics off of, but that computer is currently undergoing repairs, so I'm left with the remaining computers I have in the house, which are all Mac.

I have no specific requirements that I consider as a sticking point. My baseline of features would be something with the granularity that Cacti/RRDTool provide. Graphs with scalable units of time/history (configurable is a plus!), quick/easy to get started with little installation is preferable, something that perhaps just runs as a daemon/program and doesn't require a web server and detailed tailored configuration (read: discovery) would be just fine, and possibly even preferred.


texts: Sync Outlook mails with iPad 2 via iTunes or any without Internet connection?

texts: I haven't found any way for syncing my Outlook mails via iTunes with USB cable to my iPad 2. Do you know any method or program for syncing your mails to read them later on the iPad without an Internet connection?


texts: I recently decided to get the ios8 update for my ipad but after the update, the ipad came up with the sign that I had to plug it up to iTunes. So I plugged it up to iTunes and it said I needed to restore my iPad to get the update. My screen was stuck on the same sign that showed connecting to iTunes so I didn't have a choice but to choose to restore and update. After I updated it, it was restored but there was an activation lock. I didn't recognise the email that is came up with that it was linked to. It was a personal iPad that I used for school so I was the only one who ever used it. I'm unable activate it because I don't know what email it is, even more the password to it. I have kept my receipt for buying the iPad and everything and it also said to try and remove it from Find my iPhone which I did but it still says I need to activate it with the email I don't recognise. Should I just bring it an Apple specialist? I'm sorry if this is very confusing but I have a lot of school documents on it and I have so much work to do for upcoming exams. I'm sorry if it sounds shifty because I don't even recognise the email it requires but please if there is anyone out there who can help me, I would really appreciate it.


texts: Adjusting graphics cards settings in Mojoave to reduce overheating with external monitor (MacBookPro2018)

texts:
It seems common for MacBookPros2018 overheating when connected to external display (see other info about the general problem here, or here).

Despite there is no risk for HW, it's quite uncomfortable for who works on them.

I noticed that if I connect my MBP to an external display when it runs with battery, it does not get (so) hot.

I suppose that the MBP uses another configuration of its graphics framework when it is not connected to power adapter. Therefore, I hypothesize that if it used the same graphics configuration when it's plugged to the power, then the overheating would be reduced.

Is there a way to make the MPB use the same graphics configuration for external displays also when it is connected to the power?


texts: Well I do not remember my id and password as I never used it and all of sudden the activation lock pops up I have an I phone 6 plus i searched every where now I need some help.


texts: Now that Apple have stopped selling Click Wheel Games is there a repository for them?

texts:
I'm aware that I'm probably some kind of technological dinosaur but I love my click-wheel iPod. Now that Apple had stopped selling the click wheel games is there somewhere else I can get them?

Is there an equivalent to cydia / or jail-breaking my iPod classic to get home brew or the like games on it?


texts: Is this possible? How can I do it? I want to put applications in a folder in my dock.


texts: Change Finder Printing default to print 100%, not scale to fit

texts:
I am trying to print groups of pdf files without opening the files.

I am trying to print from either the automator app, which is a hot folder to print, or drag and drop onto printer.  Every time it prints the page scale to fit. I changed the setting in terminal to.....

defaults write com.apple.Preview PVImagePrintingScaleMode 0

Thinking that maybe those uses the preview app to print. That did change the setting if I open up preview but it did not fix the problem.

I have logged into CUPS but I am not seeing anything in there about scaling.

If I open the pdfs in preview or acrobat and manually print them and have the setting at 100% they come out correctly.

lp -o fit-to-page. ???  but do I just type that into terminal?  does it need to have a false on the end?

Not sure what needs to be done to fix the problem. Any help would be greatly appreciated.


texts: Can a Terminal Mark be added via a shell command?

texts:
MacOS' Terminal's marks are an incredible feature. They allow you to add a "marker" to a line, which can be jumped between. Documentation about these commands is available in Apple's own documentation, as well as previous questions here;

Why is there a left bracket before my bash prompt?
New Terminal behavior after upgrading to OS X 10.11
What functionality do 'marks' offer in the El Capitan Terminal?

I often have a need to run a command repeatedly, which I tend to do via a shell script that puts a command in a while loop with a sleep timer, or an execution counter with a limit. Paging through executions is difficult unless I remember to also add some kind of marker like echo "---------" in the command chain.

Is it possible to add marks via shell scripting? My searches so far only show the menu option and keyboard shortcut.


texts: In Search/Spotlight, can you exclude files within $HOME/Library?

texts:
I am trying to make some Smart Folders to compensate for the woefully useless Recents folder but I am having some problems trying to filter out things I don't want to appear.

One of them is excluding anything that is anywhere within the $HOME/Library directory or some approximation of that. I looked into the additional file attributes that are usable as search criteria that can be used in making a Smart Folder (in other words, the list that comes up when you click "other" in the search criteria menu) for things like "path", "has parent directory", or anything similar which would indicate the file/folder is buried in $HOME/Library somewhere. "Name" only pertains to actual file name and "Document Container" only pertains to the immediate parent directory. I cannot find any attribute whatsoever which might have the full path shown.

Is there a work-around for this, or perhaps, is there a file attribute that has this info that I am simply not seeing that is available?

Anyone know iff


texts: What do I type to produce the command symbol (⌘) in Mac OS X?

texts:
What combination of keys do I press to produce the command symbol (⌘) on Mac OS X?

(I copied the above symbol from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Command_key.)


texts: Extensive diacritics input in iOS/iPadOS

texts:
MacOS has an input method known as "ABC - Extended", which allows inputting most diacritics with any Latin letters. With it, "Alt" + various keys give a diacritic waiting to be composed, and pressing a letter produces the letter with the specified diacritic. For example:

Alt + E gives acute (´), which can be used to produce é or ń

Alt + U gives diaeresis (¨), which can be used to produce ü or ÿ

Alt + C gives cedilla (¸), which can be used to produce ş or ķ

Alt + B  and Alt + V give breve (˘) and caron/háček (ˇ) respectively, which can be used to produce Romanian ă and Pinyin ǎ.

My question: is there a similar way to input various diacritics on iOS/iPadOS? All of the system keyboards seem just to offer a limited set of accented letters.

.


texts: Is the battery in the new Macbook (the one with USB-C) replaceable?

texts: It seems that the new battery is glued into the computer. Does this mean that it can't be replaced, or has Apple somehow figured out a way to remove the glue?


texts:
Every so often when I double click the home button on my iPhone6 (to switch between apps or close apps) I see a memo along the bottom saying something like Safari – From "Your Mac Mini". My Mac Mini is my desktop computer an my iPhone6 is my mobile device, but I don't use or open Safari on either of them. I've clicked the memo before and it's usually just a random site I've recently visited on Chrome.

What are these memos for/about?
How do I stop them from happening?


texts: Logitech Webcam HD C270 not properly recognized by macOS

texts:
I purchased a C270 (in early February) that I use with my Mac. However in Zoom and other software it identifies as USB-camera #3 and the microphone identifies as Unknown USB Audio Device. When I plugged it into a Windows 10-laptop it was immediately identified as HD C270. I tried searching on the Logitech website for a new driver or anything but there isn't anything like that.

I find it a little annoying, especially since I also have a cheap USB microphone that identifies as USB MICROPHONE, I find it annoying that I can not see the proper labels in selection dialogs.

This is how the device shows up in system_profiler SPUSBDataType:

                Miscellaneous Device:

                  Product ID: 0x0825
                  Vendor ID: 0x046d  (Logitech Inc.)
                  Version: 0.12
                  Serial Number: A2CC4DD0
                  Speed: Up to 480 Mb/sec
                  Location ID: 0x14132100 / 20
                  Current Available (mA): 500
                  Current Required (mA): 500
                  Extra Operating Current (mA): 0

Is there any way I can add my own labels to this device?


texts: "com.apple.hiservices-xpcservice (Not Responding)" - What is it and how to stop it?

texts:
In my activity app I can see the an entity in red:

The process name says "com.apple.hiservices-xpcservice (Not Responding)"

What is this service? What is the impact if I kill it? How can I stop it from reappearing? There were some discussions on apple community forums but I cannot find the answers to my questions.


texts: How to disable line break conversion in Parallels Desktop?

texts: When copying text between a Windows client and the OSX host Parallels converts line endings, which is a big nuisance. Can this be disabled?


texts: How do I search the contents of all my Terminal windows

texts:
I have a large number of Terminal windows, that I keep open so I can have a record of what I did, and what the responses were.  The windows all have titles indicating the problem space they're for, but sometimes something gets done in the "wrong" window.

How can a do a single search across all the windows? Is there an app out there that will read the saved Terminal contents, and write them as text?  Even better, is there source code for doing that?

I have this AppleScript:

tell application "Terminal"
    set windowName to ""
    set windowContents to ""

    repeat with theID from 1 to (count windows)
        set windowName to the name of window theID
        log windownName
        set windowContents to the contents of every tab of window theID
        log windowContents
    end repeat
end tell

For which I get told:

error "The variable windownName is not defined." number -2753 from "windownName"

Final end product will be writing "The file is: \n", but AppleScript seems intent on keeping me from doing so


texts: Will Macbook Air 2017 benefit from Catalina upgrade?

texts:
I'm running Mojave on my Macbook Air (2017) and was wondering if anyone can recommend (or not) upgrading to Catalina now that 10.15.7 seems to be stable release.
I'm not using any 32bit apps, so no problems there.
However, is it worth actually upgrading? I know I can't use certain features (such as the battery health or sidecar), but should I do it for security, etc?
What are the experiences of other MBA 2017 owners after upgrade? Has anyone experienced slowdowns? Is anything actually better? Or should I just stick with Good Ol' Mojave?
Thanks.


texts: What Is The Relationship between "Users & Groups" and /etc/group?

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I want to setup a wireshark group so I can run it without being root.  I tried using the System Preferences tool, Users & Groups, to add a wireshark group but I didn't see anything show up in /etc/group.

Where is the group stored if it's not /etc/group.  Do groups set up in User & Groups have any relationship with the chmod/chgrp permissions?

I installed Wireshark via MacPorts and it doesn't currently set the permissions correctly to run as a normal user.


texts: Time Capsule (3rd Gen) seems to deny internet access to clients with a static IP address

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A bit of background on our: we have an Apple Time Capsule, 3rd generation, connecting to the internet through a cable modem (WAN IP is configured via DHCP).

As we can't get a signal across the house, but we do have interconnected Ethernet ports throughout the house, we've attempted to use a Buffalo (WZR-HP-G450H) router, running DD-WRT, wired to the TC and set up in bridge mode, as a repeater.

Our network was as follows:

192.168.0.1 : Time Capsule (Gateway, DHCP Server)
192.168.0.2 : Buffalo (Bridge / Repeater, DHCP Server turned off)
192.168.0.3 - 192.168.0.200 : DHCP Pool (Allocated by TC)
192.168.0.201 - 192.168.0.254 : Unallocated / Reserved

For some reason, this caused the internet to cut out every few minutes (all connections timed out, tested with ping 8.8.8.8). We called the ISP to come fix the problem, he (according to my mother) mumbled something about an IP conflict, and moved the TC over to the 10.0.0.x subnet, resulting in this setup.

10.0.0.1 : Time Capsule (Gateway, DHCP Server)
192.168.0.2 : Buffalo (Bridge / Repeater, DHCP Server turned off)
10.0.0.3 - 10.0.0.200 : DHCP Pool (Allocated by TC)
10.0.0.201 - 10.0.0.254 : Unallocated / Reserved

In theory, this works, although I can't access the Buffalo router's settings and I don't like that it's on a different subnet. I changed the Buffalo router back to 10.0.0.2, and the same problems ensued. Cue my mom complaining.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't see anything possibly wrong with the last setup. Additionally, while trying to set up an OpenVPN service on the Buffalo router, and after painstakingly experimenting with various port forwarding rules, I found that the Buffalo router couldn't access the internet.

I'll spare you the details, but it turns out I can't access the internet when I connect using a static IP, even if the settings are exactly the same each time. Some screenshots:

I'm convinced this has to with (or is the source of) all of our other network problems.

This problem is driving me nuts and I have absolutely no leads: I've called both my ISP and Apple Support and neither could give me any leads. If you have any ideas or pointers, I'd love to hear them.


texts: iphone 6 can't login to itunes and appstore?

texts: When i type my email and password and then click to login button, After a few seconds without having to happen return to first state . what to do?


texts: Rules for filtering spam that comes written in russian alphabet, Mail 4.5, OS 10.6.8

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I receive almost 99.99% e-mail spam in Russian.
I'm not sure why, but it makes it really easy for me to tell spam apart from real mail.

I use Apple mail 4.5 on MacOS 10.6.8, and I'd like to make a rule that somehow catches mails written mainly in Russian and marks them as junk.

So far I made rules that catch individual russian letters, but is there a more generic and efficient way of filtering it?

Actually I don't read Russian and don't receive any real e-mail in Russian.


texts: Can I easily delete apps I don't use from OS Yosemite without damaging other apps?

texts: To free up disk space, I'm asking if it's possible and safe to remove some apps from my Mac OS X Yosemite download that I never use. If "yes", how do I do this safely and, hopefully, quickly.


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I have a pair of 500 GB disks that are mirrored in a Mac.
I want to replace them with a pair of 4 TB disks.  Would the following process work?

Turn power off.
Remove one of the small pair.
Replace it with a 4 TB drive. RAID will appear degraded.
Using Disk Utility add the new drive to the RAID.
Allow it to rebuild.
Go have serious coffee.
Shut down computer.
Replace 2nd small drive.
Boot the computer, rebuild the raid.
At this point I think I should have a RAID with a 500 GB partition and 3.5 TB of free space.
Grow the file system to fill the disk.

Will this work?  Am I missing any details?

Uncertainties:

Can Disk Utility or diskutil expand a RAID file system that doesn't fill the disk?


texts: disable vibration alert selectively on iMessages

texts: When an iMessage comes in, I want to disable vibration. I just want the tone play. But when a call comes in, I want both vibration AND tone play simultaneously. Is there a way I can set that up on my iPhone (iOS 5.1). The reason I want no vibration with iMessages/SMS is to conserver battery. Let me know if vibration does not sap away my battery in which case I would not worry about this issue.


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iOS 7 on iPhone 4

Noticed that when I pair with my car's BT, the track skip button on the steering wheel doesn't do anything. Tried un-pairing and re- pairing. Toggled BT. It used to work fine on iOS 6. Tried multiple apps like Pandora and Music, both have the same issue.

Anyone else seen this?