texts: How to clear the settings of default app to the files with special file extension?

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I set the default app to open the files with special file extension by mistake: the app could not open them at all for they're only file fragments (or, say, no app can until I combine them as one file).
So I want to clean the settings of default app (set no default app), but no solutions found. Any ideas? Hope for your answers!


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When I try to do the following calculation using Calculator app I get 0.

$E=N_A\frac{h\cdot c}{\lambda}$

where N_a is Avogadros number 6.022x10^23 mol^{-1}, h is Planck's Constant 6.626 x 10^-34 Js, c is the speed of light 2.998 x 10^8 ms^-1and \lambda is the wavelength of light, so lets say 400 x 10-9 m

I should get 299 kJ mol-1 but Calculator gives me a big fat 0.

If I input Planck's Constant and try a simple operation on it it returns 0.

Obviously the issue is with small exponentials but they are not equal to 0!

Am I overlooking something obvious?


texts: Where to get a copy of Boot Camp's Unattend.xml file?

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I have a 27" iMac that originally had a Fusion Drive and I had previously installed Windows 10 on it using the Boot Camp Assistant.  I recently upgraded the storage in it and in the process of reinstalling everything, I opted to go with two large independent drives rather than the Fusion Drive setup.  Now I'm trying to reinstall Windows on it and it looks like I've painted myself into a corner.

When I run the Boot Camp Assistant, it complains that Boot Camp cannot be installed to a split Fusion Drive.  OK fine, I'm comfortable doing it manually, so I partitioned the drive and made myself a bootable Windows USB stick with the Boot Camp Support files on it.  It works splendidly, except for one tiny problem:

My Apple Bluetooth keyboard and mouse don't work.  All I can do is stare at the Windows Setup screen with no ability to click or tab over to the install button.  And unfortunately, I don't have a wired keyboard or mouse to plug into it either.

When the Boot Camp Assistant creates the Windows partition, it copies the Boot Camp Support files over for you and does something to make sure Bluetooth drivers load during the WinPE portion of Windows Setup so that wireless keyboards and mice work properly.  I assume it's doing this with an Unattend.xml or Autounattend.xml file.  But since I can't run the Boot Camp Assistant anymore, I can't examine the temporary environment it creates to see exactly how it's doing that.

Does anyone know how the Boot Camp Assistant loads drivers into the Windows preboot environment?  If it's just an Unattend.xml file like I suspect, you can just copy/paste the contents into your answer.


texts: Lost the Option to Boot into macOS After Quitting Internet Recovery (Bootcamp)

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Background story:
I have a MacBook Pro ("Core i7" 2.6 15" Touch/Mid-2018 2.6 GHz Core i7 (I7-8850H)) with Windows 10 installed using bootcamp.
I am not sure about the macOS version, but it must be before Mojave. (You will know the reason why I cannot check it now)
I wanted to install Ubuntu (a Linux flavor / varient) as a third OS, attempting to "triple boot".
I followed an online tutorial (https://robpickering.com/triple-boot-macbook-pro-macos-windows-10-linux/).
First (Subtitle in the tutorial: "Create Partition for Linux"), I needed to create a partition for Ubuntu by shrinking the volume of the bootcamp partition, which had enough space, in Windows OS.
Unable to do it through the inbuilt Windows disk management tools (diskmgmt.msc), I used a third-party software EaseUS Partition Master 13.0 following another online tutorial (https://www.easeus.com/partition-manager-software/windows-cant-shrink-volume-partition.html) and succeeded.
Then (Subtitle in the tutorial: "Install rEFInd"), I was asked to disable macOS's System Integrity Protection (SIP) in order to install rEFInd (a Boot Manager), by booting into macOS's Recovery.

Now this is the crux:
I rebooted the computer and held down Command-R as instructed.
The screen only showed a spinning globe and I was asked to pick a network. After some research, I believed I launched into Internet Recovery instead of simply Recovery. So, by holding down the power key to reboot, I retried multiple times and still got to the same screen.
Note: At this point, I was still able to switch between macOS and Windows 10 and run the OS normally by holding down Option during booting.
Having failed continuously, I decided to give Internet Recovery a try.
Due to limited choices, I selected a quite-stable-but-not-too-stable private wifi as the network, and just let the globe spin.
After about 30 minutes, the globe was still spinning and nothing showed up. I decided to reboot the computer by holding down the Power key.
Everything is still normal.
Then I repeated the same thing but for about 1 hour, still to no avail and similarly forcefully rebooted.
Held down Option key while rebooting.....OH MY GOD! I lost the option to boot into the macOS.
In the selection screen, there is only Windows 10 available, but with no other choices!
After some time calming down and attempting to find solution (which did not succeed), I decided to launch into Internet Recovery but this time REALLY for recovering my macOS.
I waited 10 hours.
Still a spinning globe.
At that moment I had jobs to do and I could only forcefully shutdown the machine.

Help! :
I would like to ask for suggestions of the best things to do now, in order to save this mess.
If there is any method, I would also like to know whether my data on macOS and/or Windows 10 would be safe, and which step is risky, which step is not.
Due to physical constraints, I may not be able to find a stable wifi. A wired household network may be available.
I have a spare USB (16GB) and SD-card (128GB). By "spare" I mean empty.
I can still only go to Internet Recovery but NOT Recovery.
Not having to visit Apple Store or buying new thing is preferred, and I also do not want to mess up with my friend's MacBook.
But all advice and explanation are welcomed and appreciated, so please feel free comment if you come up with any ideas!

Thanks in advance. I would be very happy if you could help! :)


texts: How can I record synthesizer music to iPad?

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I have an iPad Air 2 and I just bought Loopy HD.

I also have a Roland synthesizer with MIDI output. Is there a MIDI to lightning cable?

I want to play something on my synth and add it to Loopy.

Thanks!


texts: "Disk not ejected correctly" msg from 2016 MacBook laptop

texts: I sometimes use the laptop periodically throughout day without unplugging it or the external drives.  However, if it puts itself to sleep as a result of a period of inactivity, when I reawaken it, I get the message "Disk not ejected correctly"    How can I get rid of this message as I have not removed the disks at all, the data is not corrupted, and I have not told the computer to go to sleep!


texts: Does iCloud backup overwrite existing data?

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I got a new iPhone and since I had installed a lot of things over time I don't need/want anymore on my old one, I installed the new from scratch, downloading apps, adding the needed accounts, imported WhatsApp msgs via WhatsApp backup etc.
Now what's missing is e.g. my old SMS/iMessage and Signal history.

Since there's no export/import mechanism I tend to use iCloud Backup to get the missing pieces from the old to the new iPhone - and to save space and make it fast I removed everything I already have like music (can be synced later) and photos (already on my Mac in Lightroom) and most of the apps.

Question now: If I create a new iCloud backup on the old iPhone with only a small set of apps (thus focusing on SMS/iMessage) and restore it on the new iPhone, will this just add the missing pieces or also clean up the new device and remove everything that's not in the backup (and by that destroy everything I already set up)?

And if it would destroy existing data: is there any other way to get SMS/iMessages into the new device?


texts: How do I use two different desktops on two different monitors with Lion?

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So I want to use two different desktops on my two different monitors in Mac OS X Lion. The only options I can find are extended desktop and mirror desktop.

Is there any way to use two desktops simultaneously and pin one to each monitor? Either a native OS X functionality or (cheap) third-party solution?

The reasons for desiring this are essentially so I can have the two monitors functioning completely independently of each other. I would like two menu bars (the program SecondBar achieves this to a limited extent) and two docks (I haven't found a good program to do this). I would also like the ability to, for instance, play a game on one monitor while have the other free for browsing and typesetting.

(I have considered using a VM program like Parallels or VMware to create a second instance of OS X and pin the VM to my second monitor, but I would like something a little less memory intensive if at all possible.)


texts: Can I use an old TV as a monitor for Mac Mini?

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I have an old TV with following sockets:

Front:

Back:

Can I use this TV as a monitor for Mac Mini (2012) ? If so, do I need any adapters?


texts: how to i add/remove photos in the ios 10 movie feature

texts: not sure how iOS 10 chooses the images for its People movies, but i'd like to add/subtract some.  anyone know how to do this?


texts: Automatic removal of items from the trash after 30 days

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Since Sierra, we can tell the Finder to remove items from the trash after 30 days. I have some questions about this:

How can I tell how many days are left for a given file in the Trash?

Where is this information stored? Get Info ⌘I doesn't help.

When does the Finder actually delete a file that has been 30 days in the trash?
Right after the machine wakes up on the 31st day, for instance?

Are automatic deletions logged somewhere?

I'm running High Sierra if that makes any difference.


texts: To prevent Finder from showing .noindex files

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I can restrict Finder searching files by adding .noindex -extension, this thread.
However, I want hide those files in Finder search.

How can you prevent Finder from showing .noindex -files?


texts: Where can I find free WMA Conversion Software?

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I have a huge collection of WMA files (from my Zune days). And of course, my iPhones can't do anything with them. Does anyone know of TRULY free (preferably open-source) WMA conversion software? Is that even legal? If it exists, someone please let me know where to find it. I've been searching, and only came up with AVS Audio Converter...which is "free..." They give you a free trial, but each encode has a voice logo over your file. I could just use Audacity to edit that out, but who wants to go through that?

Anyway, please let me know if free WMA conversion software exists anywhere on this world wide internetz.


texts: Batch update Apple Keychain passwords using terminal

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I have 41 webform password items stored in Keychain.  Each item has the same password (since each of them is a different wifi router in our building).

Every few months, I need to update all of these items to reflect the new password set up our sys admin.  Is there a quick terminal script that I can use to batch update the password of any item whose name contains "10.18.124." from "oldpw" to "newpw"?


texts: Simcity 5 on the new Macbook 12" 2016 Model

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I bought a Macbook 12" early April 2016 Model the other day and I really want to know if t will run Simcity 5. I tried running 'Can I Run It' but that doesn't work on Macbook's so I need some help to know if my Macbook can run the game before I purchase it. Thank you.

Simcity 5 Requirements:
Processor: Intel Core i5 or faster
Ram: 4GB
Graphics Card: NVIDIA GEFORCE GT 650M, 660M, OR 675MX OR FASTER
-These are just the recommended specs and not the minimum specs so these specs can be lowered.

Macbook 12" 2016 Model Specs:
Processor: 1.1GHz dual-core Intel Core m3 processor (Turbo Boost up to 2.2GHz) with 4MB L3 cache
Memory: 8GB of 1866MHz LPDDR3 onboard memory
Graphics: Intel HD Graphics 515


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Does anybody know a free alternative to Charles (an HTTP debugging proxy), preferably with a GUI and similar features?

Features that I'm interested in:

Inspect HTTP requests/responses (header, body, etc)
JSON syntax highlighting and formatting
Request filter (by host, URL, etc)
Search
Would be awesome if it could render HTML (Charles can't do it)


texts: Is it possible to recover a lost stickies note?

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I use Stickies very much, and some of them are very lengthy and important to me.

Suddenly I lost a sticky which contained crucial information I need to recover. I don't know why it doesn't appear anymore since I don't remember closing it without saving.

Is there any way to recover past stickies? Thank you


texts: Run an AppleScript .app from Excel 2016 button on Mac

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I have an AppleScript .app file that opens a Word document. I have created a button in Excel 2016 that assigns a file name to a variable. I would like to be able to pass this filename to an AppleScript .app and run the .app by clicking the button.

Is this possible? If so, how?

Sub buttontest2()
Dim objdoc As Object

FileName = "/Volumes/256SSD/word docs/shortcut keys.docx"
tell application "Microsoft Word"
    launch
    open file fileName
end tell
End Sub
I do not know how to incorporate the tell loop into VBA. There is probably a better method for doing this bit I am not aware of it as I am just starting with Applescript


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iPhones have a dedicated Voice Memos app. iPads don't, despite running the same OS and also featuring a built-in microphone.

Since the answer to 1 is probably "no", what current alternatives do people use?
(ideally free simple app that works the same way like Voice Memos on the iPhone)


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I know how many USB ports the Mac Pros have, but what I can't find is an answer to how many dedicated USB buses they have. Reason being, I'm involved in developing an app that uses 3 Kinects to track motion, and each Kinect will require a dedicated USB bus.

Will a stock Mac Pro have 3 separate buses, or will I need to add an extra USB controller card?


texts: iPhone contacts off by one digit and/or swapped digits

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A few weeks ago, I erased and reinstalled my iPhone software (iOS 5.1).  I also decided to jailbreak it right around that time.

Since then, I've noticed that several of my contacts have the wrong information in my phone.  Mobile numbers (and in one case an email address) are sometimes off by one digit/character, or two digits are swapped.

For example, if my contact's phone number is 555-0391, I will discover (after sending a few texts to a complete stranger) that her number is actually stored in my phone as 555-0319.  A few days after I've fixed the number and obsessively checked to make sure it's still correct, I notice that it has changed again, this time to 555-8391.

I'm totally willing to accept that this is a case of user error, but I just want to check to make sure this isn't a known issue, being caused by a sync bug or malware, etc.


texts: Does OS X Keep A Log Of Downloaded Files On My Mac?

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Does OS X make a record or log of every file that has ever been downloaded on my Mac.

Is there any reason to view them (or even delete them) ?


texts: Is it possible to define a timeout on dead keys on OSX Mavericks?

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When you press a dead key such as an accentuation key, OSX will wait indefinitely until you press another key. I want that, instead, if you don't press the second key fast enough, it will just ignore the accentuation keypress.

Is that possible?


texts: Fullscreen app location in Mission Control

texts: Is is possible to make the fullscreen applications be put right next to the desktop you are currently on, rather than to the right of all existing desktops in Mission Control?


texts: Ordering of events when printing/pdf-ing from iCal

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Spent a few hours searching on Google and in other forums - I know this issue has come up before, but I couldn't find a single answer or solution anywhere.

It seems that when I go to print the calendar (or turn it into a PDF) it decides to completely randomly re-order my events. There seems to be no rhyme or reason to it. In iCal they are in a perfectly logical, organized order.  When I go to print, they appear randomly mixed around.

I have attached some photos: The first is from iCal, second is what the pdf looks like. Note that not only does it re-order the events from the way they appear in iCal, but the way it is re-ordering the events appears to be changing at random from day to day: compare the blue events on the 17th and 24th in image 2 - these events are repeating weekly events and were not entered into the calendar manually. There is absolutely nothing different about the events on the 17th and the 24th, yet they appear in a different order on each of those days. The orange events are not repeating events and were each entered manually on their given days, but they too are being re-ordered randomly from day to day. I've noticed that this isn't just an issue for all-day events - the exact same problem occurs when multiple events occur at the same time (8am, for example).

Has this just been accepted as an unfixable issue? Super frustrated, spent hours putting a year-long call schedule together for my residency program only to find it's a confusing mess when I try to print it or turn it into a PDF. If there is no solution, does anyone have suggestions for an easy to use app that I can use to generate a PDF calendar that looks similar?

I am using a MacBook Pro with 10.7.5 installed.


texts: Separate MacOS Dock positioning on different displays

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I've got two displays arranged like so:

I'd like my dock to appear along the bottom of my primary (horizontal) screen but show on the left of my secondary (vertical) screen.

Is there any way to do this on MacOS?


texts: Is a "2 GHz Intel Core Duo" really the same as a "2 GHz Intel Core ***2*** Duo"

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I'm trying to get Sling TV set up on an older iMac.  It has

10.6 (the minimum required OS),
2.5 GB RAM (~2.5 times the required memory), and
a 2 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo.

However, the Sling TV web site claims you need a "2 GHz Intel Core Duo".  I wasn't aware that there was such a thing, but Googling for the difference between them turned up nothing apparently useful, and even Googling for "2 GHz Intel Core Duo" turned up very little—most results refer to the 2 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo.  HOWEVER there is a page from Intel which mentions "2 GHz Intel Core Duo".  Is this a different CPU, or just another way of referring to the 2 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo?

If they are different CPUs, can I assume the Core 2 came later, and therefore I have a newer CPU than Sling requires?


texts: My mom is a devoted Apple laptop user. She's 95, and she finds it increasingly hard to find the cursor, so she lets her thumb wander around on the trackpad until she can spot it moving around. While doing so, she wreaks havoc with her dock and other things. Is there a way to make the cursor larger, red, or something so she can see it better?


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If you are a Mac user, and you happen to have looked at local folders using the terminal, you might have noticed, that a file foo.txt is there BUT also ._foo.txt. That is considered a "ghost file", something that Spotlight uses for indexing, as far as I know - just like .DS_Store.

I work across platforms - Windows, Mac, Ubuntu - and I want to get rid of these ghost files, since they pollute the explorer window on the other platforms quite a lot.

In order to delete these ghost files, I'd use:

$ find $DROPBOX_PATH -name "._*" -delete

...but of course, as soon as I re-visit the folder, a flood of these ghost files pop up once again...

So, how can I prevent these ghost files to be uploaded?


texts: Macbook Pro does not wake up from sleep, unless forced reset

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My 15 inch Macbook Pro (TouchBar) 2017, will sleep after the correct time but will not wake. on touch of the trackpad or press of the keys, the keyboard will light up and sometimes the fans come on. but no matter how long you leave it (hours+) it will not wake to the login screen.

I have indeed reset the NVRAM and SMC and boot into safe mode following an older guide to a similar problem -> Macbook does not wake up properly after several hours of sleep to no avail.

it is relly quite infuriating having to force shutdown my macbook and reboot it every time I take slightly longer to make a sandwich, especially when working on my university projects.

NB* not sure if this is relevant but I had to take it into genius repair for a damaged screen (£669) where they replaced the whole topcover in february.

I saw in the other post, a lot of people requested a pmset -g assertions so i've provided that below.

Assertion status system-wide:
   BackgroundTask                 0
   ApplePushServiceTask           0
   UserIsActive                   1
   PreventUserIdleDisplaySleep    0
   PreventSystemSleep             0
   ExternalMedia                  0
   PreventUserIdleSystemSleep     1
   NetworkClientActive            0
Listed by owning process:
   pid 483(sharingd): [0x000003cd00018270] 00:00:57 PreventUserIdleSystemSleep named: "Handoff"
   pid 332(mds_stores): [0x000003f6000b82ae] 00:00:16 BackgroundTask named: "com.apple.metadata.mds_stores.power"
   pid 181(hidd): [0x0000002c000980e6] 00:00:00 UserIsActive named: "com.apple.iohideventsystem.queue.tickle serviceID:10000039c name:AppleHIDKeyboardEve product:Apple Internal Keyb eventType:3"
    Timeout will fire in 600 secs Action=TimeoutActionRelease
   pid 148(mds): [0x00000403000b82af] 00:00:03 BackgroundTask named: "com.apple.metadata.mds.power"
Kernel Assertions: 0x100=MAGICWAKE
   id=504  level=255 0x100=MAGICWAKE mod=01/01/1970, 01:00 description=llw0 owner=IOSkywalkNetworkBSDClient
   id=505  level=255 0x100=MAGICWAKE mod=01/01/1970, 01:00 description=en0 owner=en0
Idle sleep preventers: IODisplayWrangler


texts: Installing ffmpeg through homebrew: dyld library not loaded

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After installing ffmpeg through homebrew without any errors and after confirming that it has been linked, I get the following error when trying to run it:
dyld: Library not loaded: @rpath/libopenh264.5.dylib
  Referenced from: /opt/miniconda3/lib/libavcodec.58.54.100.dylib
  Reason: image not found
zsh: abort      ffmpeg

I've tried it through pip, conda, the ffmpeg.org website, all to no avail. Any and all help would be greatly appreciated!


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This is the thing :

I have Xcode 4.3 on my MacBook Pro (running Lion)
I am stuck with 4.0.2 on my iMac (running Snow Leopard)

Given that I would really like to retain a SnowLeopard-running machine (for development purposes), is there any way I could get anything 4.1 or above, to run on my iMac?


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I have been using my MacBook Pro for nearly 2 years. I have no problem using iMessages both on my iPhone and Mac. However, today, I can't seem to be able to send any messages out from my Mac. There is no problem on my phone. Also, I cannot use FaceTime on my Mac.

I reviewed through the internet for some solutions, but nothing seems to work, such as deleting files, changing setting on the Flash Player.

How can I resolve this issue?


texts: How can I force MacOS to make a binary conversion of filesizes in MB, GB...?

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I noticed that MacOS (10.6) makes a decimal conversion for file sizes, instead of  binary:

Is there any way to force it to make binary conversions instead in Finder? Because my mind kinda works in powers of 1024, regarding the file sizes.


texts: iPad Pro Microsoft OneNote: How to get more space below?

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I have the latest iPad pro 2020 firmware and the latest Microsoft OneNote installed.

When using OneNote on my Windows computer I can use the little arrow below the scroll bar to get more empty space.

How can I do this on my iPad?


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How can I make a large integer in AppleScript? I suppose there is a certain byte limit which doesn't allow me to work with enormous numbers.

Is there any way around this except for using a float?


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When creating a partition with GUID Partition Map Scheme in Disk Utility, I'm getting "Partition failed with the error: Unable to write to the last block of the device". Same message when I try to erase the whole volume. Same for formatting for Mac OS Extended Encrypted.

Trying to write to the disk from /dev/random prior to formatting doesn't change anything.

Filling with zeroes:

$ sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/disk1
dd: /dev/disk1: Resource busy

...and later:

$ sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/disk1
dd: /dev/disk1: Input/output error
1+0 records in
0+0 records out
0 bytes transferred in 0.250087 secs (0 bytes/sec)

Running diskutil:

$ diskutil eraseDisk JHFS+ "ext" /dev/disk1
Started erase on disk1
Unmounting disk
Error: -69760: Unable to write to the last block of the device

After all this, Windows sees the disk as an empty HFS volume, but when I try to re-format it with Windows Explorer, it reports: "Windows was unable to complete the format".

Using diskpart under Windows, "format" action remained stuck at 0% for 2 hours (which for a 500GB looks should be definitely "frozen"):

DISKPART> clean
DiskPart succeeded in cleaning the disk.

DISKPART> create partition primary
DiskPart succeeded in creating the specified partition.

DISKPART> active
DiskPart has encountered an error: Data error (cyclic redundancy check).
See the System Event Log for more information.

DISKPART> select partition 1
Partition 1 is now the selected partition.

DISKPART> active
DiskPart has encountered an error: Data error (cyclic redundancy check).
See the System Event Log for more information.

DISKPART> format fs=fat32

    0 percent completed

Trying to format with Computer Management > Disk Management: The format did not complete successfully.

Running multiple diskutil eraseDisk, per Tetsujin:

$ diskutil eraseDisk MS-DOS FAT MBRFormat disk2
Started erase on disk2
Unmounting disk
Creating the partition map
Waiting for the disks to reappear
Formatting disk2s1 as MS-DOS (FAT) with name FAT
512 bytes per physical sector
/dev/rdisk2s1: 976534720 sectors in 15258355 FAT32 clusters (32768 bytes/cluster)
bps=512 spc=64 res=32 nft=2 mid=0xf8 spt=32 hds=255 hid=2 drv=0x80 bsec=976773166 bspf=119206 rdcl=2 infs=1 bkbs=6
Mounting disk
Could not mount disk2s1 with name FAT after erase
Finished erase on disk2

$ diskutil eraseDisk JHFS+ macfs GPTFormat disk2
Started erase on disk2
Unmounting disk
Error: -69760: Unable to write to the last block of the device

$ diskutil eraseDisk MS-DOS FAT MBRFormat disk2
Started erase on disk2
Unmounting disk
Error: -69760: Unable to write to the last block of the device

$ diskutil eraseDisk JHFS+ macfs GPTFormat disk2
Started erase on disk2
Unmounting disk
Error: -69760: Unable to write to the last block of the device

$ diskutil eraseDisk MS-DOS FAT MBRFormat disk2
Started erase on disk2
Unmounting disk
Error: -69760: Unable to write to the last block of the device

$ diskutil eraseDisk JHFS+ macfs GPTFormat disk2
Started erase on disk2
Unmounting disk
Error: -69760: Unable to write to the last block of the device


texts: Mac Mini with Ubuntu how to restore MacOS

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I have a Mac Mini 2012 Server which has Ubuntu running on it. The issue I have is that I cannot seem to get it to boot from USB at this point in order to reinstall MacOS. Holding down Alt/Option seems to make a keyboard light blink and it waits until I let go. It then promptly boots Ubuntu again. I try Ctrl/Command+R and it boots to Ubuntu again. Same with CTRL+Shift+R.
I’m guessing the blinking light is the Mac saying it cannot find the recovery partition. Which I get... they were brand new drives right out of the box. The thing I’m confused about is that it is not giving me any option to boot from USB.
I still have the old drives where one has a 500+ mb EFI partition and the other has a 200+ mb EFI partition. I’m guessing the recovery software is in this partitions. I’m just looking for some guidance on the way to re-install MacOS from USB.
Another interesting thing was that I ran efibootmgr and there are references to a location from the Mac drive. One points to a file... the next points to the partition that file is in. Then there are two that are similar to MacOS but if not have that label. It’s my first time looking at this so I’m not sure if I should expect to see an option in the boot list for USB.
Any help is appreciated.


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I have a 2015 Mac Book Pro. I tried connecting it to an external Dell Model No. E176FPf using a VGA adapter, but nothing happens.  I'm guessing this monitor is just too old to be compatible with newer computers but I just wanted to confirm.
Thanks for the help.


texts: Wi-Fi Sharing for Development, using the same IP addresses and domain names from /etc/hosts

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I want to share my Ethernet through a Wi-Fi connection. I'm also doing Xcode iOS development. I have a custom change in my /etc/hosts file for a host pointing to 127.0.0.1. In my application, I want to be able to connect to my Wi-Fi hotspot using the custom domain in my /etc/hosts.

Here is my /etc/hosts:

127.0.0.1   my.test.com

And in my app running on an iPad, I want to connect to my.test.com without error.

How is this possible?


texts: In Fullscreen, disable auto-hiding Mac menu bar

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(on latest Mavericks)
While in VirtualBox (Ubuntu) fullscreen, on a Mac host, each time the mouse goes near the top, the Mac auto-hide menu bar appears - and I want to prevent that, or at least, since it's the annoying component, reduce the time it takes to that menu to disappear when the mouse goes down [currently it's ~1 seconds].
Ideally the time needed to trigger that menu should be higher than currently [instant] - eg like keeping the mouse on top for 1 whole second.
Illustration below shows the Ubuntu menu that has been overridden by the Mac menu when the mouse hits the top of the screen.

There are already a few questions like this one that are either old or not answered.
Any progress in Maverics, near 2014?


texts: How to always allow any app to do anything / disable Security & Privacy authorization dialogues

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Currently on macOS Catalina.
I work in sound design and audio development. I use several Automator-scripts and other workflow applications to control various stuff, and for every new project or when I make any change in any AppleScript, I get a nagging dialogue to "Allow for Keystrokes", "Allow for Accessibility", etc. Sometimes I have to re-authorize all my automator scripts after changing a single line in one of them.
This is killing my workflow, and this was implemented in macOS Mojave and forward with the new Privacy and Integrity-routines. On High Sierra this was never a problem, which was the system I used before.
I need to disable this permanently. I want any app to make any change it want. I know the risks, but I don't care. It is not a problem for me running an isolated systems with absolute control over all apps I use. I never install anything new, it's an audio workstation with bare minimum applications installed.
I've tried Disabling SIP, didn't help. Adding an application to "Full disk access" still makes me have to authorized it in all other fields. Sometimes, when I use application A to control application B, if doing changes in App A, the option to again authorize it to control B never shows up, and is not available.
Question is: Does anyone know how I can globally disable the Security & Privacy check in macOS Catalina so that any application I start can control/do whatever it want? If there's no "official" setting, is there no way to hack the underlying preferences or similar?
macOS should have a power user mode.


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Wired reported today that the new iOS9 software will only be 1.3BG in size. A great deal smaller than the 4.6GB of iOS8.

My question is quite simple - how is this possible? Was there a great deal of redundant code in iOS8?

Source - http://www.wired.com/2015/06/ios-9-new-features/?mbid=social_fb


texts: Will iWork '08 support autosave and versions?

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Will iWork '08 work support autosave and versions? I really only use iWork like twice a year, and don't feel like buying a new one.

EDIT: Wait! It supports app resume though! Yay! Does all app support app resume by default?


texts: Ordering an iPhone from different region

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So I ordered an iPhone SE from Apple.com It delivers in United States, But I Live in Georgia(Middle East) and The phone will be send to me by mail.

I ordered a phone with unlocked carrier but i'm still not sure if There are any problems with unlocking and using the phone with my local carrier? And if so how can i solve the problems?
Thank you.


texts: How do I change the brightness in iOS 7?

texts: I used to be able to double the home button and swipe right to change the brightness. How do I change the brightness in iOS 7 without going to the Settings app?


texts: Airpods use on macOS resets double tap action

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I use my apple airpods with lots of different platforms. On windows, iOS & Android everything is fine.

On macOS everything works too but it resets the double tap action to next track on both L/R (I like to have play/pause)

I have second generation airpods. Does anyone else know why this is happening and how to stop it?

FYI: I use tooth fairy on my mac to quickly connect and disconnect and am running the current 10.4.5 build of mojave.


texts: Downgrade Yosemite from back-up (not Time Machine)

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I've read some questions and posts regarding Yosemite downgrade from Time Machine back-up (like this and this) but I was wondering if the same thing would work for a bootable backup made with Disk Utility. Will this process work?

Boot the Mac from Recovery HD
Enter Disk Utility
From the restore tab, choose the internal hard drive as destination and the bootable drive as source.
Restore

Are there going to be problems due to Yosemite change in drive structure? (as suggested by this answer, if I understand it correctly)


texts: Time Machine "there isn't enough space" despite the backup disk being larger than mine

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My MacBook Pro is the 250 GB model.

I have a 320 GB external hard drive I am using as a time machine backup disk.

Right now the 320 GB hard drive has 16.14 GB of free space remaining.

The last two backups I tried today both failed because "the disk is full".

I don't see how this can be possible since Time Machine says

  The oldest backups are deleted when your disk becomes full.

How do I force it to backup?

Preferably without wiping the whole disk and making a brand new backup (I don't want to lose all incremental history).


texts: In TextEdit, if I type two `-` it is converted to one longer `-`

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I use TextEdit to edit my text.

If I type in a double -, it is converted to one longer -.

How to avoid this?


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Does Apple still support Newsstand apps? I searched a lot but I can't find any tutorial or a demo for such an app with NewsstandKit.

If this is not used anymore, why does the Newsstand background mode still exist & where can I use it?


texts: Does iOS hide your Wifi SSID information from your apps?

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I recently asked a very similar question for Android, where it is a serious concern that any app can record what Wifi SSID you've connected to.
There are these Google, SkyHook, and Apple SSID databases that allow anyone to know which ssid is located where, and the info can be leaked by your neighbour not just your usual devices on your own router.
To quote:

This means that even if you are on a VPN, even if you turn off wifi
scanning, even if you turn off location services and take out your sim
card, even if you stop broadcasting your router's wifi SSID, your apps
will be able to know what wifi SSID you are currently on.
This means that an attacker (read: the surveillance capitalism :) ),
can figure out if/when I am home, and which other devices that
are/were online have used the same SSID. E.g. all my family's
(mandatory) banking apps will know where my family members congregate,
and could change my insurance score, or other "insert dystopian
scenario here".
Considering what I described, I don't think there is any wiggle room
for you to ever hide your real location from a bad (state, corp,
hacker) actor. Am I wrong? Can I hide my SSID from the apps that are
on my phone?

Is this also how iOS works? I'm aware Apple itself knows what wifi and what color underewear all of your family members are wearing, and that it is selling (yes, sells less data than others but still also sells data) or otherwise using conclusions from analyzing that data and then sending/selling, to other services and/or third parties. But, does it technically allow apps to build this kind of explicit connected device (e.g. SSID) history?
Also, (since I'm less familiar with iOS) is there a feature where your iPhone constantly scans all devices around you (wifi and bluetooth) to improve location or other features? And if so, which specific device names ever end up being visible to your apps? (and how to prevent that)


texts: DELL WD15 DOCK with Macbook Pro 2018 - max resolution issue

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I am the owner of a DELL WD15 Dock and a Dell U3818DW monitor.
I bought the dock to quickly switch between both of my macbooks.... But seems happen to not work as I'd like to.

On my Macbook Pro 2017 13", on Mojave 10.14.6, on the display options, if I press "option + scaled" to get the full list of available resolutions, I can get 3840 x 1600. On that one, the dock works like a charm.

On my Macbook Pro 2018 15", on Catalina 10.15.5, the maximum resolution I can get is : 1920 x 1080. But it works if I use the HDMI apple adapter (but it is not handy to unplug the monitor from the dock every time).

Has anyone ever faced that situation? Please tell me you found a solution!
Thank you anyway, and have a great day,
PS : the monitor is connected with HDMI.


texts: iPhone7 transmits excessive _sleep-proxy._udp.local mDNS messages

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I noticed suddenly increased battery discharge rate while my phone is on home Wi-Fi. Fired ngrep and observed mDNS packets with a rate about one per second. Other phones on the same network don't exhibit this phenomena. I provided network dump to Apple support but even second level and supposedly next level support were completely clueless and demonstrated very strong absence of any mDNS knowledge.
Here is the one of the packets
  00 00 00 00 00 03 00 00    00 00 00 01 0f 5f 63 6f    ............._co
  6d 70 61 6e 69 6f 6e 2d    6c 69 6e 6b 04 5f 74 63    mpanion-link._tc
  70 05 6c 6f 63 61 6c 00    00 0c 80 01 08 5f 68 6f    p.local......_ho
  6d 65 6b 69 74 c0 1c 00    0c 80 01 0c 5f 73 6c 65    mekit......._sle
  65 70 2d 70 72 6f 78 79    04 5f 75 64 70 c0 21 00    ep-proxy._udp.!.
  0c 80 01 00 00 29 05 a0    00 00 11 94 00 12 00 04    .....)..........
  00 0e 00 7d c6 91 0c c3    cf aa ce 6d 8c 77 87 5d    ...}.......m.w.]

There are several other Apple mobile and desktop devices on the network and none transmits nowhere near as many packets on port 5353 as this particular iPhone.
Has anyone seen or can explain this behavior?


texts: iPod touch 4th Gen stopped working with iHome iP90

texts: I have an iPod touch 4th generation that I had been using with my iHome iP90 until today.  All of a sudden today I get a message saying that "This accessory is not supported"  Then when I remove my touch the sound no longer works.  When I reboot my sound returns.  Any ideas?  Really confused because all was fine until today.


texts: How are MacOS Terminal settings backed up in iCloud?

texts: I wonder if anyone has managed to find out any Apple documentation that details how macOS terminal settings are stored in iCloud and then propagate across new machines as soon as you sign into iCloud. I just jumped on a new MacBook Pro, and found that my tcsh preference magically appeared in terminal (I hadn't changed a thing, bash is the OS default).


texts: NAS Server disconnecting from SMB connection

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I can't figure it out:

Every few minutes I have to connect to the NAS Synology (DS1517+), DSM number (DSM 6.2.1-23824) from my MacBook: Go>Connect to Server... then select the folders I need.

Experiencing this from past few weeks, it never happened before. One possible reason to this can be: We ordered a NAS Extension and after attaching it, our original NAS server failed to start. It was the hardware issue and had to order a replacement of the original box.

Also, some forums says its Hibernating issue of the local volumes, but this isn't the case with me. I checked that NAS Status LED is off, which means it is not in Hibernation.

Meanwhile, I have done an indirect mapping to avoid re-connect using this by @heesoo post.

Any ideas how to solve this?

Thanks in advance for your insight!


texts: Canon imageclass MF4420w printer cant work with mac osx 10.8

texts: There seems to be no legit drivers available for the Canon MF4420w imageclass printers which dont seem to work.


texts: Replacing a macbook air 2016 I/O Board and Flex Cable

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I am trying to find a replacement part for my macbook air 2016 (model-A1466) I/O board and flex cable.
The cable has a part number printed on it:
821-1722-A
C-{4 digits which I can't remember}

I found a replacement part with the same product number, but the 4 digits on the second line are different.

Does that matter or do I need an EXACT match?


texts: I really want to know what is proper the cpu temperature for my Mac book

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I'm using Mac book pro 13 inch , 3.1 ghz i5 dual core.

I have set up Mac book fan control and I am able to check the temperature.

I was just surfing the internet, and the cpu temperature shows about 65-75 degree Celsius. which made the fan run

Is it normal thing to happen???

I cannot find any proper temperature for my Mac.

I also looked up at some website but it does not have my MacBook model.

https://www.intelmactemp.com/list

please help me


texts: Is there a way to temporarily enlarge the mouse pointer like Apple's "Shake to find" does?

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I'm aware of Apple's "Shake to find" feature, which enlarges the pointer (too briefly for me), and I occasionally use it.

I'm also aware of (increasingly unstable and out-of-date) third-party programs like "Mouse Locator" and Mouseposé, both of which suffer from lack of upgrades to keep up with Mac OS versions.

I'm looking for a way to trigger the temporary big cursor effect of "Shake to find" without shaking the mouse - as I want to keep the cursor near the thing I want to highlight.


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I was recently given an iMac (24-inch Early 2008) without a hard drive. Following the instructions on iFixit, I gave the computer a hard drive, installed Mavericks on it, and didn't notice anything damaged/broken.

The computer worked really well a few times, then began not starting up properly.

Disk Utility didn't report anything wrong.

Nevertheless, it would either start properly, then work for a while and shut down (or not), stay stuck on the startup chime, the screen would remain blank at startup, or display typical kernel panic messages such as:

I reset SRC, same problem. When trying to start Apple Hardware Test (starting up with D key pressed), the screen would remain black and a sound would be heard "du-du-du-du-du" until I force it to shut down.

After finding articles about similar issues, I opened the RAM trap and removed the two 2GB bars of RAM that were inside:

Since then, when I try to start it up, the screen remains black and I hear a sound every second which is not the startup chime.

Is this a kernel panic problem or a logic board problem?


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I bought a MacBook 2, 1 at a market day and the user didn't wipe the computer.  I was wondering how to format it to basically start fresh. I’ve  tried booting to recovery mode and Command Rdoesn't seem to work.  I also tried the
advice from the following thread and it didnt seem to work either:

Clean wipe iMac running 10.4.11 OS X?


texts: How can I make an iOS device a NTP server ? The reason for this is, the network of devices I have don't have internet connection but are connected via Wifi. So just want to create a device as a server and let others to associate themselves to it.


texts: Macbook Air Panic on Boot, "Unable to find driver for this platform: \"MacBookAir7,2\"

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I have a Macbook Air that isn't booting into macOS. I'm repairing it for a friend, and they said this issue started suddenly for no reason, but I can't be 100% sure.

Normally it hangs on the apple logo progress bar screen. Booting in verbose mode, I can see the first error is  ACPI Error: Hardware did not change modes (20140828/hwacpi-ea) followed by a few other ACPI Errors and then the panic with backtrace. I've attached a screenshot of the panic. This happens on normal boot, from the recovery partition, internet recovery, and a USB installer. The only thing that does work on it is an Ubuntu live USB, which works great. I've cleared the NVRAM and SMC, and I've also tried reformatting the SSD with no success. Apple Diagnostics also comes back with no errors. I'm out of ideas. Any suggestions are greatly appreciated!


texts: Safari does not go back to Google when search was issued in URL line

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I enter some search words in the URL line of Safari. Upon pressing ENTER, I get the Google search result page. I click on one of the search results and of course, Safari takes me to that page. Everything as usual, nothing special so far.

BUT now, when I hit de "Back" button in Safari, it won't take me back to the google search, but to the last other page visited in that tab. So that means, when checking out multiple results, I always have to repeat the search. Very annoying.

How can I configure Safari to take me back to the search results when hitting "Back"?

I use Safari 10.1.1 on a Mac Book Pro with macOS Sierra 10.12.5.


texts: RMB menu on document title in Preview gone with Mavericks?

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One of the greatest features OS X had (inherited from NextStep AFAIK) was the fact that the document name in a window's title could be right-clicked in order to get a drop-down menu with the parent folder hierarchy.  (This is also mentioned in View location of a document open in Preview, but that still refers to the old method that no longer works with Preview 7.0 from Mavericks.)

However, after the update to Mavericks, this is no longer possible at least in the Preview app, which now shows a (much less useful) menu for renaming, tagging, and moving(?).


texts: Force OS X Finder to always show dimensions of images in sidebar

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OS X Finder does sometimes, but not always, show the dimensions of an image selected in Finder, in the sidebar. Why? Is there a way to force it to always show the dimensions? It seems very arbitrary when it decides to show and not to show.

Note: this folder is on a local drive - the default Macintosh HD.


texts: Force touch Home Screen Quick Actions to use app in folder without notifications? (IOS)

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I just discovered that I can check apps with notifications with force touch on a folder. Is there a way to enable force touch for ALL apps in a folder, not just those with notifications?

This would be SUCH a useful feature. It would basically allow me to put all apps on one screen and access them with quick gestures. I hate having to move to the middle of the screen to access apps in a folder, so clunky. Makes quick access non-viable.

If not, is there a quicker way to access apps in folders than going to the middle of the screen?


texts: What is this icon in Apple Watch Control Center?

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I noticed this icon in Control Center on my Apple Watch recently and didn’t recognize it. It’s not listed on Apple’s support pages about Control Center (a b).

(bottom left)


texts: Can I recover my Safari history after running CCleaner?

texts: I did a default delete of Safari data using CCleaner. Is there any way I can recover my browser history and more importantly the exact timing I viewed a website?


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I'm sure I've seen this before, but I upgraded an older MBP (2011) to an SSD.  I boot to a High Sierra installer that i created and format it to Apfs, but then the drive is greyed out - it states it needs HFS+ to install.

Is this because this machine does not yet have the updated firmware that allows it to install on apfs?

Cheers


texts: What results in the price difference for seemingly the same product?

texts: I am considering buy the latest Apple Mac Mini M1 with 512GB storage from Apple or from Amazon. Apple lists it at $899 while Amazon lists it at $859. What is the hardware/software different that results in Amazon being $40 cheaper than from Apple directly?


texts: There's a folder shortcut on my dock, next to the trash. Why is there and how do I remove it?

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I want my dock to be purely for shortcuts to the programs I use the most. Frankly it annoys me that you can't remove the Trash from the dock, but I can live with that.

What I really want to get rid of is this folder shortcut that I have next to the Trash. I think it's called a stack? It's to the right of the dividing line that separates my application shortcuts from the trash icon. When I right-click it, there's no option to remove it from the dock.

My question is two-fold-

Why do I have this shortcut there to that specific directory?
How do I get rid of it?

I'm very new to OSX, so forgive me if I'm missing something obvious here.

Edit: Screenshot of what I see when I try to remove it:

Edit2: I'm on Mountain Lion, 10.8.1.

Edit3: I should mention that the folder in question is not on my local machine. It's a networked drive, mounted at /Volumes/Student/Home/6514944/.


texts: Unusual problem regarding old water damage, new battery not charging macbook air mid 2011

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I have quite strange problem. I had some water damage on my computer few month ago. After it dried completely computer worked only when I unplugged the battery but if I unplugged the charger my computer was resetting itself (date and time were resetting, it took much longer to load)meaning that it had to be always charged in order to work. So I decided to buy new battery. After I inserted it the magsafe charger didnt work but the battery did (it was on the 50%). I tried also with two other chargers with no success. So computer was working just until my battery didn't drained completely. I did SMC reset wich didn't help. After I unplugged the battery computer worked again. What do you think is causing the problem? Can I do something to repair it? Is it wise to buy another new battery? Could it be a problem with a magsafe board or with a logic board? Can I replace these parts by myself and what are the costs?

Thank you for your help,

Greets


texts: So I am wondering if it's possible that Google chrome extensions can be updated even if the computer/device turned off?


texts: After I finish editing a movie with iMovie '09 under Mac OS X 10.6.4, is there a way to export the final product to Ogg Theora format? OR, is there a way to convert an already exported movie to Ogg Theora easily?


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I have a dozen or so mp4 files I downloaded from youtube. I would like to put these onto a DVD for a relative (He only has a DVD player, no PC or USB slot on tv)

I think DVD's have two folders audio_ts and video_ts. Can anyone point me to, or provide a workflow to convert the mp4 files to pal dvd's.

I will be using ffmpeg on a MBP OSX 10.10.5

I don't wont to lose any quality at all if possible. I have used ffprobe to get details on the mp4's, output is below. I have read some examples on converting the mp4's and outputting to a VOB file, but it doesn't mention anything about the audio and I'm at a loss with what quality will be be like.

Input #0, mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2, from 'movie.mp4':
  Metadata:
    major_brand     : mp42
    minor_version   : 0
    compatible_brands: isommp42
    creation_time   : 2015-10-18 17:44:18
  Duration: 01:29:29.38, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 1936 kb/s
    Stream #0:0(und): Video: h264 (High) (avc1 / 0x31637661), yuv420p, 1280x720 [SAR 1:1 DAR 16:9], 1741 kb/s, 29.97 fps, 29.97 tbr, 30k tbn, 59.94 tbc (default)
    Metadata:
      handler_name    : VideoHandler
    Stream #0:1(eng): Audio: aac (LC) (mp4a / 0x6134706D), 44100 Hz, stereo, fltp, 191 kb/s (default)
    Metadata:
      creation_time   : 2015-10-18 17:45:35
      handler_name    : IsoMedia File Produced by Google, 5-11-2011

I'd also appreciate a breakdown of ffprobe output, I'm confused that stream #0:0 video reports h264 and avc1 ? I thought these are two different types of video codec?

Many thanks.


texts: When I type a capital P in pages or safari, there is a bar above my keyboard that says an explicit name. How do I remove the bar and/or the name

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When I type "P" on pages and safari, there is a bar above my ipad keyboard that says an explicit result.

How do I remove the bar or the explicit result?


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Using a bash script on Mac OS X, how do I combine echo, say and read to make it cleaner and less line of code?  The below script works but to me there are too many lines.  Thanks a lot for your help.

#!/usr/bin/env bash

clear

echo -n "Enter your first name: "
say "Enter your first name"
read -r name
echo -n "Enter your last name: "
say "Enter your last name"
read -r lastname
say "Good morning ${name}${lastname}"


texts: Disable trackpad feedback? Don't want any tactile/haptic feedback when clicking

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Can I completely disable the haptic feedback from my 2015 MacBook Pro with Retina's trackpad?

I want to click without any kind of vibration/feedback.

Ideally it should feel like (as I imagine it would were this disabled) pressing onto a solid bit of metal. I.e. the case surrounding the trackpad.


texts: AppleScript – How can I _get_ UI elements' names, attributes, properties, classes programmatically without "guessing" via AccessibilityInspector?

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When I started to search for an AppleScript's generic way to "click onto Safari's context menu" of a selected item, there were a lot of questions on "how-to" on several levels of nomenclature.

How can I,  without having to use Accessibility Inspector,  investigate what "categories" of AppleScript UI elements an application is offering and what additional details AppleScript knows about them?


texts: Does "pmset schedule wake" work when the lid is closed at the designated time?

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I am using Air, which is in the sleep mode almost all day. I want to have it run a shell script every morning, so I set my Air to wake up at 7:00 using "pmset" command and run the script at 7:01 using another command. However, this does not work when the lid is closed and is unconnected to power at 7:00, and the script is not run until I wake it up by myself.

Does "pmset schedule wake" work when the lid is closed and connected to power?


texts: Retrieving data from Mac PCI SSD using windows PC?

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My MacBook Pro Retina (model no A1502) recently died so I have taken out the SSD to try and retrieve its data using my windows pc.

I slotted the SSD into a PCI-e 4x adapter and installed it in onto my windows motherboard.

The PC does not recognise the drive on file explorer but does show up using the disk management (partitioning) tool:

I have tried installing HFSExplorer but it does not identify any compatible drives and I cannot locate the file path of the drive as it does not show up.

As shown on the image the disk seems to be in working order and it recognises the drive.

Any ideas on how to extract its data?


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Can one use FaceTime on an iPhone 6 without being billed international rates?

I have a iPhone 6 bought in U.S. and I am going to China to visit family for six weeks. The iPhone region is United states. Do I have to change my region on my iPhone while I am in China in order for my U.S. WeChat account to work? Or do I use the FaceTime or iMessage apps?


texts: 'sudo ifcong en0 down' - does not stay down in OS X?

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My goal is to terminate all ethernet traffic through en0 until I bring it back up with ifconfig en0 up.

When I run ifconfig en0 down through terminal, and then confirm ifconfig and all interfaces are inactive.

However, the next day, I find that en0 is back up automatically. How can I find out what brought it up, and is there a better way to ensure it stays down?


texts: Unexpected behavior with php in Catalina + Apache2 -- classic "phpinfo.php" script produces a "Save" dialogue box, but no error msgs

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I am using the default installations of Apache2 and php7 that came with Catalina on a Mac AIR.
I am trying to run the classic phpinfo.php script:
<?php phpinfo.php ?>

My https.conf file contains:
AddHandler cgi-script .cgi .pl .py .php

I was getting AH01215 (8)Exec format error messages in the Apache2 error_log file. On another Stack, I saw the suggestion that I needed
AddHandler application/x-httpd-php .php

in my httpd.conf file. I added it. I no longer get AH01215 error messages; in fact I get no error messages at all, However, now all that happens when I run the script is that a Save dialogue box pops up and offers to save the script in my Documents folder. If I click OK, it does just that. I have been searching the Internet for an hour and I cannot find any example of this, or any idea off how to correct it. A second Stack page suggested this as a fix for another problem:
AddType application/x-httpd-php .php

I added that, too, with no effect. (I was careful to run apachectl -k restart, and to chmod 755 everything.) The thing that worries and surprises me is the absence of error messages in the error_log file.
I have run php scripts on Windows and FreeBSD computers without a shebang line -- I never thought they were used with php -- but I have seen other posters on other websites recommend the. (What I haven't seen is a response like "that fixed my problem".) The access_log file shows normal "GET" and "POST" 200 codes.
Python and Perl scripts run fine.
Any help appreciated.


texts: Control volume of individual apps on iOS

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I would like to independently adjust the volume of Google Music and an interval timing app. The only app I see is VolumePanel but you need to jail break your phone. Is there anything available for the stock OS?

Also, this is not a duplicate of this question, as that solution only applies to Mac OS.


texts: Are there Korean keyboard layouts for OSX 10.9 that mimic the iOS 7 Korean layout?

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On my iOS7 devices (iPhone 5, iPad Air), I added a Korean keyboard and I can operate it effectively.

On the Macbook Air, I added the "3-Set Korean" input source and I cannot operate it effectively. (Some characters are not available, and those that are do not stack correctly. I am a beginning Korean writer.)

How can I get the iOS7 version of the Korean keyboard, or something very like it, to work on OSX Mavericks?


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I have MacBook that was running Lion.

On a journey into finding the perfect operating system for me, I installed Arch Linux. Whilst doing this I wiped the disk (/dev/sda1) and created some Linux partitions.

Now, for reasons beyond my control, I'm in need of some Mac OS capabilities.

Yet, I have no idea on how to reinstall Lion. (I wiped the recovery disk, so it doesn't show up when holding option whilst booting, but luckily option-booting does still work). Is there anywhere I can get a bootable ISO (preferably free), from which Lion can be installed (through the App Store perhaps?). I have an old Snow Leopard disk laying around but it won't boot because of hardware incompatabilities (CPU isn't working).

Or, am I left no choice but buying a bootable Lion USB stick? PS: no bashing on Lion here from me. I like Lion, I like Mac. I just dislike the GNU tools available are always slightly different from their Linux counterparts, making cooperation with my Linux-loving peers a nightmare.

PPS: I would consider doing something "dark" to get everything working again. Also, I wouldn't mind losing my Arch partition, since I can always get it back from a backup.

edit

The machine I'm talking about is a 13" macbook pro 8,2.

The only tool I have is another macbook pro, an older one, that ran OS X snow leopard, but is updated to Lion recently. (aha, this can serve my purpose).


texts: Smart Playlist in Itunes based on file location

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I'd like to create a smart playlist in iTunes based on a specific folder (I manage my media library manually).

Is that somehow still possible in ITunes 12 (even if it involves scripting)?


texts: What is parent process of all the processes in iOS?

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Just as in UNIX based system the init process is the parent of all the processes and similarly, the zygote process in Android OS has the sole purpose of launching other processes.

What is the name of the iOS equivalent process?


texts: How to remove unsupported format podcasts from iTunes download queue on iPad/iPhone

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I tried download some video podcast episodes a few days ago but the iPad displayed a message saying it can't download them because they were in a format it couldn't read.

The problem is they are now still on the download queue in the iTunes app.

Any ideas on how to fix this ?

Thanks


texts: how to fix the parallels so it won't make the cpu work in 100% and above(140%)

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I have seen that is a common problem:

http://forum.parallels.com/showthread.php?t=112661

but there is no solution or any relevant update. the parallel runs my win7 and when it startup it consume all the cpu power immediately and doesn't stop to do that for hours. does anyone know what is the problem?

I have the most up to date max os X and parallel.


texts: How to re-install deb package from MobileTerminal (iOS) [jailbroken]

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I am trying to run a command to re-install an already installed package. Here is what I see that gives me a clue that I am on the right path, but it doesn't install the package:

su
******
apt-get --reinstall kr.iolate.simulatetouch

The system gives me an error, for which I presume because the .deb file isn't found? How do I tell terminal to download it, if I must? And from where? Here is the complete input/output:

AlarmNextGen:~ mobile$ su
Password:
AlarmNextGen:/var/mobile root# apt-get --reinstall in
stall kr.iolate.simulatetouch
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reinstallation of kr.iolate.simulatetouch is not possible, it cannot be downloaded.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
AlarmNextGen:/var/mobile root#

I am doing this from command line for a few reasons. Once I get the command to run, I will compile it into a script to do this with activator. The main reason for doing this is because this package ceases to work after the device is rebooted, and must be re-installed over again.

Thanks in advance.


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I don't know how to explain this, but since I've updated my OS X to 10.11.3, keyboard seems to lag. It's extremely subtle, but I am a programmer and an author, and I can feel the difference while coding or typing, and even it's something in the milliseconds-range, it's noticeable and disturbing. I've tried restarting etc, not using many programs at once, but no avail. It's noticeable everywhere, even as I'm typing this question here. I haven't installed anything extra.

I'm in a mid-2014 MacBook Pro with the built-in keyboard. The problem is keyboard language-independent. The problem occurs system-wise, from TextEdit to Safari to Xcode, even inside Windows apps using Parallels.

Is anyone having the same issue?


texts: Safari web browser do not find strings on a page in the common way

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How to switch Safari to a normal web page searching instead of finding only whole words?

Ex: there ase some words on a page: hello_world, ask_different. When I search for hello, world, ask, different - i search perfectly. But when I'm trying to search ello, ifferent, etc. - it gives me nothing.


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I want to configure my shortcuts to switch between multiple desktops. Currently, I am using Control as the modifier key, but that's a bit too difficult for me to reach. I want to use the Spacebar as a modifier key. So I can assign shortcuts like:

Space + C: Desktop 1 (Holds Google Chrome)
Space + I: Desktop 2 (Holds IntelliJ)
Space + T: Desktop 3 (Holds Terminal)
Space + P: Desktop 4 (Holds Postman)

The system won't let me use Spacebar as a modifier key. If I use Command (which is a bit easier for me to reach), then it collides with my copy and paste shortcuts.

I would prefer a native solution but I am ready to use an app as well.


texts: Where does OS X store the list of disabled fonts?

texts:
I am using Font Book a lot and manage my fonts with it. Now, I want to back up all my settings.

I found my collections in ~/Library/Font Collections

But where does OS X store which fonts are disabled? I want to copy this "list" and move it to my new mac.


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I have a really strange issue with my iPhone. I had an iPhone 6 and suddenly I would notice the rear case was very warm and the battery was being discharged at an excessive rate. I have an app called System Status Pro which shows CPU usage. When the issue occurred, the CPU usage was fluctuating around 20-30%. I left it thinking iOS was busy doing stuff, but the battery continued to discharge quickly (i.e. 100% to empty in an hour or so). I force restarted the phone and everything returned to normal. CPU usage averaging 3-5% with no apps running.

This issue continued to return randomly. I could last a week with no issue, then it would happen 3 times in one day.

My investigations so far:

The issue is not related to my phone’s hardware. I upgraded to an iPhone 8 (restoring my phone’s from a backup) and the issue continued
The battery app in Settings, which shows each app’s CPU usage does not show a particular app causing the usage
Background app refresh is turned off
No obvious Apple services (i.e. iCloud backup) are running at the time of high CPU usage
When the issue occurs CPU usage is always 20-30%. Never more, never less
It is not iOS version specific
The phone is not hacked/jailbroken
The phone does not have Enterprise certificates installed (which would allow non-App Store approved apps)
High CPU usage continues with no apps running (double clicking home button shows no apps running)
The only resolution is to restart the phone and usually a single restart fixes it, although occasionally it returns and another restart is needed, sometimes even a third restart. But restarting always fixes it eventually
I have 15GB free of the phone’s 64GB storage
I realise I could wipe the phone. This is my last resort and I want to avoid this

Has anyone experienced something similar?

Does anyone know how I can view CPU usage at a more granular level, ideally identifying each individual processes CPU usage?

Many thanks in advance for any advice!


texts: How can I keep iTunes meta-information yet replace mp3 with AIFF?

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I have invested a considerable amount of time to move my music collection from CD to Apple Lossless under iTunes. Earlier on and while short on disk space, I used MPEG encoding for some albums. I would now like to capture again those albums from CD, but in lossless encoding.

Is there any way for me to swipe an album in its previous place, while maintaining all accompanying (meta) information?


texts: Are pictures taken by camera apps worse than the default iPhone camera app?

texts: There are hundreds of camera apps on the App Store. I always feel that using the default camera app provides the best results, however some camera apps contain features that I like (burst mode, etc.). I was wondering if apps such as Camera+ and Awesomize have an impact on the quality of photos?


texts: Should I use homebrew or the official downloader to install nodejs?

texts: I recently bought a mac, and I need to know what the difference between installing nodejs (or any application for that matter) through homebrew and official downloader is? What's the recommended method?


texts:
I came over to Mac from Ubuntu. I've saved all SSH files I had in the .ssh folder in Ubuntu. There are three files

id_rsa
id_rsa.pub
known_hosts

Is it possible to reuse these files in Mac? If so, where do I put them?


texts: iPhone Mail not showing multiple attachments

texts:
I'm trying to send out an e-mail from a PHP script. The script works fine.

The e-mail shows up in Gmail as HTML, with an (attached) embedded image, and a small (< 1M) downloadable file attached as well. However, the iPhone doesn't show the second attachment. If I remove the image, the attachment shows up.

Is the iPhone capable of receiving more than one attachment at a time? Trying to find a solution didn't work as almost all results are for attaching images on the iPhone and not to it.


texts: Associate different Google Chrome profiles with different virtual desktops

texts:
I usually work in several Google Chrome profiles (like "My working me" and "My procrastinating me") and I prefer to keep those windows on different "virtual desktops". So, every time my laptop boot up, I spend few minutes on "dragging" windows at their destined screens. I know that I can "pin" specific apps to specific desktops by using "Options > This desktop" and it works great.

But I'm yet to figure out how to "fine tune" this feature for distinguishing between different Chrome windows (by Chrome profile). Is it possible at all?


texts: Remap command-arrow key to the same as ctrl-arrow keys (moving by word)

texts: I would like to be able to use Command arrow keys to navigate by word like you can with Ctrl. I've disabled the Mission Control mappings already. What's the easiest way to remap?


texts: In iMovie, is there any way to apply a PIP dissolve at the end but not at the beginning?

texts:
I am using picture-in-picture in an iMovie and it works great except that I can't seem to figure out if there is a way I can have a different transition into the PIP versus out of it at the end.

There seems to only be one selection where I can choice time and transition (like dissolve) and it applies that to both the beginning and end.

Is there any way to have a different transition in versus out of a picture in picture in iMovie?


texts: How do I get rid of "access privileges" popup message?

texts:
I have Windows 10 and I just upgraded to a new iTunes version. Now, every time a new song starts I get a popup message saying "iTunes could not connect to the iTunes store. You do not have enough access privileges for this operation." ... etc.
OK... I do not care about having access to the iTunes store; haven't shopped there in 8 years.
How do I make it so that the message stops popping up?
There is no "Do not show this again" box on it.
Thanks in advance!


texts: After a Time Machine restore, now it won't do incremental back up

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Due to the Thunderbolt 1.2 update, I had to restore from a Time Machine Backup, but after that, Time Machine won't do incremental back up any more.

The hard drive has 250GB of free space... It was 1TB and is used for backing up the iMac 27 inch which has about 700GB for the Mac partition (the other 300GB is for Bootcamp).

So after the restore, it won't incrementally back up any more.  It would try to back up everything from scratch and will fail because it tries to back up about 600GB into the 250GB free space and will stop.

Is there a way to make it work again?


texts: Disable iCloud Backup without deleting existing backup?

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I want to disable further iCloud backups from one of my devices, but I don't want to delete the existing backup files already in iCloud. I couldn't find any way to archive iCloud backups the way you can do with iTunes backups, so the only way to prevent an existing backup from being deleted seems to be to not make a new one.

Some context [Taken from comments]

I recently updated to iOS 10, but don't much care for it. I do have a full iTunes backup of the device, but it's rather old. I also have an iCloud backup from immediately before the upgrade (I wasn't thinking straight). I plan to make an iOS 10 iTunes backup, then restore the iOS 9 iTunes backup, restore the iCloud backup to get my up-to-date data, then make a new iOS 9 backup. Then I'm in a better position to play around with iOS 10 if I decide to. I don't have time to do that right now, though, and I don't want my iOS 9 iCloud data to be overwritten in the meantime, since you can't restore iCloud backup data onto an older OS version.

My device is currently running iOS 10.2.1. Is what I want to do actually possible?


texts: Syncing files not in Desktop / Documents via iCloud

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I have a folder containing scripts and files they operate on in a root folder /data. I would like to have them automatically backed-up as they get updated but I can't move them out of /data, as that's the folder most scripts use to locate their files. Is there a way to do this?

I use macOS Sierra Version 10.12.4. Thanks!


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came up here after a lot of looking around. Even seen a couple of examples of my issue,  JT not sure what to do. Have tried a bunch of stuff and still cannot not get drive to mount. Apple says to wait for a call back in a week after the holidays. Doubt that anyone is reading here now, but.....  tying anyway. Older HP external drive and recently upgraded to Mojave. Here is some of the details I posted on Apple ———-

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2

Not on the actual computer now but for the life of me can’t figure it out. Any ideas - all my back files are there. Tks Stumped.

Edit add info:

High Sierra previous os. run in safe mode, empty caches, remove .plist for time machine, try on another Mac, run iboysoft recovery software. cannot unmount as it won't mount. HP5000s drive. Drive just spins and spins showing activity but won't mount. connected by usb to MBP w/ Mojave. Tks! – Stumped 6 mins ago


texts:
When I copy from Excel (Microsoft® Excel for Mac Version 16.11.1 (180319)) and paste into the terminal (Versian 2.8 (400)) via pbpaste I often (but not always) get weird chars at the end.

Why is that? Can it be avoided?

I'm on macOS High Sierra Version 10.13.13, my locale is:

LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=


texts: Is there a macOS ssh client that allows me to type fluid commands?

texts:
Terminal and iTerm uses whatever method they are using to ssh that basically slows down if the network connection to the server is slow. All the commands I type would show up on the screen seconds later. Is there a client I can use where the command would render faster on screen regardless the speed of the network?

P.S., with UDP being blocked, I cannot use mosh.


texts: Lost mail from Outbox in Mail 7.1 (1827)

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I was having trouble connecting to my smtp server to send mail and had multiple emails (7) in my outbox.  I made a configuration change that I thought would work, selected all messages in the Outbox, right-clicked and selected "Send". Mail confirmed that I wanted to send the selected messages now, I clicked "Send" and the messages disappeared from my outbox.

However, the configuration change did not fix the issue and the emails were never delivered, and now they appear to have disappeared.  Is there any way to recover them?


texts: In a Service, how to get a URL from rich text?

texts:
I'm interested in making a Service (using Automator if possible) that allows me to perform an action on a URL.

If the URL exists as plain text, this works just fine.

However, if the URL is a link in rich text, then my service gets the link's title, rather than it's URL.

How can I obtain the URL when activating a Service on a rich text link?


texts: How can I find what process is starting apps in the background?

texts: I keep seeing CIJScannerRegister running. I'd like it to never run. Every time it appears I use launchctl to remove its listing and that kills the app. But it reappears later. I know where CIJScannerRegister lives and could delete it, but I would rather get whatever is starting it to not start it. I've looked through /System/Library/Launch{Agents,Daemons} and cannot find any matching entry in there. How can I find the process that is launching it and tell it to stop?


texts: How do you enable MouseKeys without using the mouse?

texts: Recently, I had to shut down a Mac with no mouse and only a PC keyboard with no Eject key.  (Incidentally, there are several solutions to that puzzle, and the one I settled on was to use the Terminal.) But as I first approached the problem, I thought: There is some universal access feature there to help if one can't use the mouse, isn't there? Yes: MouseKeys.  However, this nice page with the keyboard shortcuts for MouseKeys in Lion suggests that you have to enable a checkbox in a System Preferences pane before you can use it. So, how do you enable MouseKeys without using a mouse?


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I have MacUpdate installed (which I got with their Spring Bundle).

I noticed that it tries to check for updates every hour for some reason. The app itself is not running so it must be some agent or daemon.

Here's example log entry (with network off):

06/04/2011 22:33:00 MU App Search[1916] APP KEY 447266
06/04/2011 22:33:00 MU App Search[1916] Checking Updates
06/04/2011 22:33:01 MU App Search[1916] APP KEY 26968
06/04/2011 22:33:01 MU App Search[1916] Contacting Updates Server
06/04/2011 22:33:05 MU App Search[1916] found manual scan, no last notification 2011-04-01 09:17:54 +0200
06/04/2011 22:33:06 MU App Search[1916] APP KEY 6.282815
[...]
06/04/2011 23:33:00 MU App Search[2036] APP KEY 447266
06/04/2011 23:33:00 MU App Search[2036] Checking Updates
06/04/2011 23:33:01 MU App Search[2036] APP KEY 26968
06/04/2011 23:33:01 MU App Search[2036] Contacting Updates Server
06/04/2011 23:33:03 MU App Search[2036] found manual scan, no last notification 2011-04-01 09:17:54 +0200

I was looking for a setting that could determine the frequency (ideally switch it off completely) but didn't find anything.

Using Lingon I found one Agent that's suppose to run every day at 0:35 which would be fine, but as you can see from the log, it's seem to be run hourly.

Any ideas?

UPDATE

Did some testing and these are my findings...

After disabling the MacUpdate LaunchAgent it gets re-enabled by MacUpdate Destkop app every time it launches. Same happens if I delete it altogether.


texts:
So before about three years ago i had downloaded the apps; classic angry birds,tiny wings, and the full fruitninja using my app store account. But now ever since i bought a ipad mini, it doesnt show these record of purchased apps or even display these apps in the appstore when i type up their names.

Is there a way to work around this and restore my purchases and keep these paid apps?


texts: how to transfer song files inside the same iphone

texts: i downloaded a song via music free download app and wanted to know how can i move this song from this app to the iphone5 music app where is usually stored our music from Itune ??? please can someone help me


texts: In older versions iTunes played automatically the entire songs in an albume when I selected and pressed the play button. Now it only plays the first song then stops. What do I need to do to play the whole album?


texts: Apple keeps asking me to accept the new iCloud terms and conditions

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A pop-up will appear on my phone asking me to accept the new terms and conditions. To turn off these notifications, I need to turn off iCloud. Unfortunately, when I go into my settings to turn off iCloud, it requires me to accept the new terms and conditions in order to even turn off iCloud!

Does anyone know another way around this? Thanks.


texts: I accidentally deleted my Downloads folder as well as the sidebar item for it in the process of trying to fix it. How do I get them back?


texts: MacBook Pro mid2010 SSD optibay upgrade - SandForce?

texts:
I want to replace Superdrive in my MBP mid 2010 with Otpibay SSD.

I have 2nd revision (rev 2/rev B) of mother board replaced due to GPU problems.

Which drive should I consider? I would like to omit 1.5Gbps problem and have some TRIM/Garbage Collector. I wont spend to much money.

I'm thinking about:

Intel 520 120GB - SLI SandForce
Kingston HyperX 3K SSD 120GB - SLI SandForce
Intel 330 120GB - SLI SandForce
Samsung 840 Pro 128GB (TLC) - MDX
Samsung 840 120GB (TLC) - MDX

Should I worry about SandForce in Optibay?


texts: How do I install OpenSSL in ElCaptain if my HomeBrew it's broken?

texts:
After an upgrade from 10.10 to 10.11, my rails environment was broken.

I've removed the broken open-source projects/files and now I'm trying to install HomeBrew.

But I receive this message:

ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"
curl: (77) SSL: can't load CA certificate file /System/Library/OpenSSL/certs/cert.pem

But to install OpenSSL, I need homebrew. So, I'm stuck.

How can I get around this issue?


texts: Logging in automatically without removing the password

texts:
Is there any way to have OSX log in automatically in a certain account when starting up, without asking for the password, while preventing remote (or even local network) connections without password?

I have a computer that I use both as a home server and a media center, so it has to be accessible from outside world in a secure manner (SSH + Screen Sharing), but at the same time I don't want to key in the passwords every time my media center boots up, or more importantly each time it wakes up from sleep.


texts: Is it possible to make Preview prompt a dialog before quitting?

texts: I had multiple documents open in Preview, and then I accidentally pressed Cmd+Q, which quit the entire Preview program. Is there a way to make Preview prompt me asking if I want to close all documents before quitting?


texts: How can I change the scrolling direction of the mouse, independently of the trackpad?

texts:
In System Preferences > Trackpad > Scroll & Zoom, there is a checkbox called Scroll Direction: Normal, which allows us to change the scrolling direction of the trackpad, but it also changes the scrolling direction of the mouse. Is there a way of changing the scrolling direction of the mouse, without changing the scrolling direction of the trackpad?

I have a Razer: Deathadder Elite mouse, but I would like the solution to work for different and less sophisticated mouses.


texts: macOS Screen Saver From The Finder's Selection Via Applescript

texts:
I will like to be able to set and start the macOS screensaver via the Finder's selection using Applescript. I will also like to be able to choose which screen saver pattern will be displayed. For example: Sliding Panels, Shifting Tiles, Reflections, Origami, etc...

I will also like the screen saver to be randomized (or as shown in System Preferences, "Shuffle slide order").

I have searched the Internet on how to do this and I have not had any luck on finding a solution.

Here is the initial code I came up with but I am having issues making the screen saver start with the selected images randomized:

tell application "Finder"
    set theSelection to selection as alias
end tell

set searchOne to "find " & theSelection's POSIX path's quoted form & " -iname '*.jpg'"
set theImages to paragraphs of (do shell script searchOne)

tell application id "com.apple.systemevents"
    set current screen saver to theImages
end tell

I am currently using macOS High Sierra. Any help is appreciated. Thanks!


texts: Apple App Store: Create app page for upcoming app

texts:
From yesterday's iPhone 7 release event, Super Mario Run by Nintendo will be available on iOS soon. After searching same on iTunes, I found out that its iTunes page is available with NOTIFY button instead of the regular GET button.

How to do that? What is provision provided by Apple to show app's iTune page without actually uploading app ?


texts: MacBook Pro 10-15s delay on power button

texts:
I have very weird problem. When I want to power on my macbook pro after I press the button I need to wait 10-15s to see Apple Logo icon. It is so frustrating every time I need to restart my mac I need to wait 10-15s on black screen and later everything is working perfect. I have read questions on official apple website and they suggest that in this kind of problem I need to reset PRAM, SMC and select bootable disk to MacOS. After that I am still getting this problem.
I have done a clean instalation too and I am still getting this problem. Thanks for any help
Macbook PRO 2018 15,1 and I am running on latest Catalina


texts: Cleaning the membrane side of an unresponsive key? (MBP Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2014)

texts:
I've got an MBP Retina Mid 2014.  The "f" key has become recalcitrant and usually takes several forceful presses to make it respond.  I've already removed the keytop and its carrier and cleaned out the lint that surrounded them.  Though there was a lot of lint, that didn't solve the problem.

While the keytop was removed, I tried pushing down on the silicone 'nub' at the center of the key and noticed that the response was still intermittent.

This led me to believe that the problem is on the bottom of the silicone membrane.  While there are many online guides on how to clean out the top of the keyboard, there are relatively few reputable guides to cleaning the bottom side.

Given that I have a set of pentalobe drivers and a steady hand:

where can I find dependable instructions on cleaning the bottom side of the keyboard (i.e. where the keytop makes electrical contact with the bottom)?
how much does an entire replacement keyboard cost (if I choose to go that route... :)?


texts:
When taking a screenshot using the keyboard shortcut shift+command+3 it yields a screenshot with a filename of Screen Shot 2014-11-23 at 3.25.36 PM.png. I would like to make a change so that the filename would be scr-20141123-152536.png. This would be the same exact date and time but altered to what I have been using for the past 13 years on other systems - it just works better for me. Is it possible to make this a permanent change? And, if so, how would I make this change?

UPDATE: I don't want to install Macports or Homebrew, or other package management system or apps that require the user to disable system security in order to run.

My system: Mac mini, late 2012, OS X 10.10.1 (Yosemite)


texts: Can I have a screensaver use all monitors as one?

texts:
I can have screensavers show on all my monitors, but I would like one that would use all screens as if they were one big monitor (so the animation would flow from one to the other).
e.g. something like the swordfish screensaver:

Is that possible, are there any out there?


texts: How to merge multiple image files into one pdf file with page and its original size for every image?

texts:
I have some images and I need to print it to ONE pdf file with size of pages as size of its images. How can I do that?

In other words I would like to achieve sth like this:

Read rectangle is a pdf file with 8 pages. Content of every page is an image.

Now what I have is pdf file with 8 pages scaled to white paper size A4 and then the image is centered within every white page.


texts: Two different versions of Finder in OS X 10.8 after migrating from OS 10.3 Panther

texts:
While setting up new Mac Mini I checked the option to move files and settings from my old Mac to the new Mac. The old Mac was a 2008 MacBook Pro running OS X 10.3 Panther.

Everything seemed to go well and all my apps copied over to the new machine, but when I open Finder I get the old Finder window, the one from OS X 10.3 Panther. If I open a folder using Spotlight I get an OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion Finder window.

How can I fix things so my system only ever uses the Mountain Lion version of Finder?


texts: How do I buy a MacBook Pro with a Russian keyboard in United States

texts:
I am looking for a MacBook Pro MJLQ2RU, but there is no such model on store.apple.com. It's the same as MJLQ2LL but with a Russian/English backlit keyboard. I chatted with support, but they don't know such model.

Are there any stores that sell Russian MacBooks in United States?


texts:
How can I make Finder default to "list view" whenever browsing a removable drive (and it's subfolders)?

I need it to remember this preference even after the removable drive has been ejected and then remounted.

I'm running OS X 10.9.5.


texts: I have this MacBook Pro running OS X Version 10.9.5 and it works perfect in every way except for one thing; it will not get updates.  When I go to "About This Mac" and click on "software update" it will close out the window and --that is all.  I am back on the desktop.  there is no error messeges, or anything.  Any ideas what I can do to fix this?


texts: iMessage sent to me by spouse shows receivers name (mine).

texts: When I send her an iMessage there’s no problem, but on my receiving end from her, my name appears as if I sent message to myself. How may I stop this recent twist?


texts: How to prevent window resize when exiting Target Display Mode

texts:
Using a macbook pro, with a thunderbolt cable connecting to an iMac,
and using Target Display Mode [TDM] to mirror the display. I choose
the optimal resolution for the external display, which means more
pixels than I have when using the native display. (This is the
point. :)

When the iMac is disconnected (using cmd-F2 to exit TDM), the windows
all get resized and moved so they fit in the lower resolution
screen. I do not want this behavior. I carry my laptop back and forth
to work, and have several Mission Control workspaces that are used for
work only. Whenever I come in to work and connect to the big display,
I have to resize and move the windows back to where they were.

Is there any way to disable this resizing behavior? TIA


texts: How to make Chrome trust self signed certificates?

texts:
I have followed these instructions (available from Wayback Machine in case they disappear) to add the certificate of my Asus Router to the keychain but Chrome still refuses to trust it, with the error message "NET::ERR_CERT_COMMON_NAME_INVALID". However, Safari accepts it.

I have spent a lot of time on Google looking for answers and there are a lot of articles about this but they seem inconclusive (and many are old).

So how do I make this work?

In case it matters, the router is available both at 192.168.1.1 and router.asus.com (in both cases I use the port 8443).

Bonus: How do I make this certificate work from the outside (both in the case of a FQDN as well as when connecting using the IP-number).


texts: Why are some users visible with encrypted system partition on macOS Sierra?

texts:
I performed a fresh install of macOS Sierra onto a 2012 MBP13 non-Retina SSD.  The install was from a USB flashdrive installer, and I set up the system drive partitions manually with a case-sensitive encrypted system volume, a FAT partition that I later installed Windows on, and a case-insensitive unencrypted volume for Steam data (Steam doesn't work for some reason, but that's another question!)

Partition map while MacOS is running:

aluminum:Downloads dhm$ diskutil list
/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *500.1 GB   disk0
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s1
   2:          Apple_CoreStorage Aluminum                319.8 GB   disk0s2
   3:                 Apple_Boot Recovery HD             650.0 MB   disk0s3
   4:       Microsoft Basic Data BOOTCAMP                146.3 GB   disk0s4
   5:                  Apple_HFS Steam                   32.9 GB    disk0s5

/dev/disk1 (internal, virtual):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:                  Apple_HFS Aluminum               +319.5 GB   disk1
                                 Logical Volume on disk0s2
                                 xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx
                                 Unlocked Encrypted

During MacOS installation, I created a user account.  Then afterward, I created two more.  Now, when I reboot, I can choose MacOS or Windows (no recovery option).  When I boot MacOS, I get a chooser that offers "Enter Disk Password," "User 2" and "User 3"  (No choice to log into the account I made during installation.)

If I enter the disk password, then I get "User 1," "User 2" and "User 3," and everything works as expected.  If I don't enter the disk password and just log in as "User 2" or "User 3," I get a desktop but things don't work right (lots of "Please fix the library" messages.)

My questions:

Why can I log in as "User 2" or "User 3" even without entering the disk password?  (I would expect all the system-partition information to be encrypted, but it looks like there's at least some unencrypted information lying around.)
What's the difference between this setup and the alternative "Do a normal, unencrypted install, then turn on FileVault?"
Where can I read more about the various methods macOS uses to support multiple partitions, encrypted partitions, logical volumes & so forth?


texts: Macbook Air 2013 OS X 10.8.2 acting funny

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I have a MacBook Air 2013. Suddenly, on startup it shows a  sign, then the apple and it goes to disk utility. There I have 4 options. Restore from time machine, reinstall OS X, Get help online and disk utility.
I would like to reinstall OS X but that requires broad band Internet connection which I don't have. Is there any other way of getting around this and recover my OS X? By the way, I seem to have a disk 1 OS X 10.8.2 base system...
Can anybody help?


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I have a MacBook Pro and a Mac mini, both running Mountain Lion. This problem, however, started when I had Lion. I can remote in to my MacBook Pro just fine from my iPhone and iPad. But I can't remote into my Mac mini. It started out just fine and I could remote into the Mac mini from my iPhone, iPad as well as my MacBook Pro. Later (I was still on Lion), I could still log in from my iDevices but no longer could from my MacBook Pro. This behavior continued after installing Mountain Lion. Now, I can't remote in from anywhere. I want to avoid doing a clean install, but I will I have to.

I have tried switching from Remote Management under Sharing to Screen Sharing, and back. nothing works. Recently (before I lost the ability to remote in at all, but after I lost the ability to remote in from my MacBook), I also lost the ability to edit my parental controls on the Mac mini from my MacBook. Little by little, I am completely losing the ability to remote in/screen share to my Mac mini at all. Currently, I can only remote in via SSH for a terminal.

My network includes my AirPort Extreme, Time Capsule, MacBook Pro (mid-2010), Mac mini (mid 2010), iPad (3), iPhone 4S, and my father's PC. Only my father's PC is connected by wire. The rest is wireless.

If anyone can guide me in the right direction, I'll be very grateful.


texts: Allow Standard users to add a VPN account

texts: Is there a way to allow standard users to add a VPN connection? All computers are running 10.10.3


texts: iPhone Mail or GMail apps settings for Gmail label notification

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I am just wondering how can I set the settings of iPhone Mail App or even GMail apps that could make notification for new incoming message on particular Gmail label and not the inbox only.

I would appreciate if anyone could share how to accomplish this.

Thanks!


texts: What is the minimum charging requirements to charge an Iphone 7. Current and Voltage

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I am building a solar charge and need to know what is the bare minimum voltage and current needed to charge an iphone 7. Even if it slow charges it's okay.

Thank you guys in advance


texts: External monitor viewport appear shrunk in native resolution on MBP

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I am using Mountain Lion on my MBP, my external TFT monitor used to work great at its native resolution (1920x1080) when connected to the MBP.

However today after shutting it down and powering it up the resolution on the external monitor was on 800x600. In system preferences the 'Best for Display' resolution output was selected (wasn't that supposed to be 1920x1080?) when I clicked 'Scaled' and chose 1920x1080 the resolution indeed changed, however it is not taking up the whole screen. There are 1 inches to the left and right of the monitor that are not being used. Its as if the viewport is "shrinked".

I tried downloading SwitchResX but it did not help, when choosing 1920x1080 again the viewport is missing about an inch to the left and right.

Any thoughts?


texts: "Couldn't modify partition map" and "MediaKit reports no such partition" when attempting to format partition

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I'm trying to create a storage partition on my bootable Linux flash drive (see my other question on Super User). I formatted my provisional partition FAT32 using GParted. The Mac saw it just fine, although I forgot to look whether it could read the test data on the partition.

But when I went to reformat the partition, it came back with "MediaKit reports no such partition". When I tried using the Partition dialog, it said "Couldn't modify partition map" instead.

Any idea what could be causing this or how to fix it, preferably without losing my Linux partition?


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My question would be how to update to OS X El Capitan (the release-version on September 30th) in a "safe" way. Of course I'll make a backup of my whole machine, but I'm particularly concerned, as I've some homebrew-packages and ruby-gems installed as well as the zsh-shell (all in their standard directories, mostly somewhere in /usr/...). And I don't want that things get messed up.

Does anyone have experience with an update messing things up, or will it be no problem?


texts: How to get all my apps and data off iPhone 4s to new 5s

texts: I just recently bought an iPhone 5s but haven't set it up yet. Is there a way that I don't have to redownload everything onto my new phone?


texts: What is the current state of syncing Google Tasks and iOS Reminders?

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Right now Siri says "You don't have any reminders," whew. But then Google Tasks tells me I have at least 9 things to do today. Whoops.

Yes, I know this question has been asked before, but the answer is a moving target as integration with outside services gets tighter. And yes, I know there are third party services IFTTT, for instance. And I know there are other apps that provide reminder/task integration with Google Tasks (I use GoTasks).

But...

I like Google Tasks because it is integrated with my GCal.  And it would be swell to have Reminders integration. Then Siri could schedule and access my tasks.

What is the current likelihood I will be able to easily integrate iOS Reminders with Google Tasks?

I suggest leaving this question open, to reflect the moving state of this integration. I will check this as answered if someone offers native or relatively simple integration.

Update: Awesome, I just got the "Popular question badge" because this question has has more than 1000 views. But uh, not awesome: Not one upvote? And only one semi-sorta-answer?  Hmm.