texts: Looking for a grandma-safe way to create two-fold greeting cards

texts:
My Mom (+ 70) longs for the day when her Windows Paint Shop program would walk her through creating a 2-fold 8 1/2 x 11 card.   She could assemble the card one page at a time and not think about what needed to be upside down or right side up.  One single-sided page is folded two times yielding a somewhat floppy card.   Four pages (front, inside Left,  inside Right, back.)  Two of these pages must be printed upside down to make the folding scheme work.

The world has moved on to great-looking card stock requiring a single fold.  But she wants what she wants.  I want to give it to her.

I have set up 'Pages' with some text boxes with the appropriate ones rotated.  It works, but when trying to create a turn-key solution for a less savvy user it can be frustrating.  (Too easy to select the text box by accident and mess up the layout)

Wish list:
Drag and drop photos
Easy text placement
Would prefer to work with Pages, Numbers, iPhoto or Keynote or with we- delivered type tool.

Can anyone offer a turn-key, slick solution?


texts: As far as I can tell Homebrew no longer holds iodine and I can't see it in the Boneyard either. So I'm wondering if there is another good way to get it onto a computer running High Sierra?


texts:
Macbook Pro
-Safari, preferences, general, new window opens with - Favorites.
-File, new window.
I see Favorites, right click on the google icon, click on edit address.
What I see here is https:/www.google.com/?client&channel=mac_bm.
What is this?
Even when I edit the address it will go back to this one.
How is this extra part starting with the ? even added on in the first place?


texts: Can I send and receive iMessage on Mac without buying an iPhone?

texts:
I have an Apple ID.

Macbook Air has iMessage installed.

But I cannot figure why I cannot send and receive iMessage to friends.
I can only receive messages from myself.

Can you explain how iMessage will work on Mac?

Thanks.


texts: How to handle Numbers' automatic Data Formatting?

texts:
I'm trying to put together a sheet that calculates hours I work. One thing I want to do is calculate hours that are billable. So I have something like this:

Things that aren't billable or are already billed go to 0.

However, I'm having a problem with either the zeros that are generated or the field that adds them all together:

"Durations can't be compared to other data types." Here's my formula for the cell:

So, either the second value in the COUNTIF is giving me problems or the zeros above are (which is possible, since doing a simple SUM with a 0 value won't work either).

How do I deal with this? If I try to set the 0 cells or the sum cell at the bottom to the Data Format "Duration," it overrides my selection.

Is there a way to force a data format onto a cell with a formula?

If this is more suited to Super User, feel free to transfer.


texts:
I want to view Stanford's iOS programming course.

How can I see it without installign itunes on my PC and on my Android mobile device?


texts: Why does my iPhone disconnect from wireless when it is in use?

texts: Whenever I watch videos through the YouTube app on my iPhone 4 (iOS 6.1.3), after being on wireless for a while it will often spontaneously disconnect and start downloading from the 3G network. I only have a 200 MB data plan so this is a major problem. I'm guessing it is not app-specific, I just only happen to notice it with YouTube. I have 3/3 bars of wireless signal and my laptop in the same location has no problem so I don't think it's an issue with the wireless. I've tried restoring various levels of default settings and the entire phone to no avail.


texts: RSYNC recursive over Time Machine Backups identify unique files

texts:
i have an issue with my Time Machine Backup. To fix the mess i thought about waling recursively over all TimeMachine Backup folders.

Oldest Backup
RSYNC to NEW_TARGET

Recursively go over every Backup folder (Oldest Backup +x Days) and only copy files which don't exist on NEW_TARGET.

But there's a pitfall. The folder names got changed so:

"insurances"

in the Oldest Backup Folder might be renamed to

"insurences new"

on a more recent backup folder but might contain a lot of same files AND NEW files. So i'm looking for a solution which could handle renamed folders in some way.

I hope someone has a clue how to achieve a solution.

Chris


texts: What happens when you have two connected network interfaces?

texts: I have two connected network interfaces, ethernet and WLAN.  How does OSX handle traffic in this situation? When outgoing messages are sent which interface are they sent from? If I use tools such as Logmein.com, which interface does it connect through?


texts: I put some mp4 videos into a working iTunes U folder. How do I get iTunes to recognise them?

texts:
I want to play videos using iTunes U. I put them into the correct folder. But cannot see them in the iTunes U section in iTunes on os x.  Do I need to tag them or something?

My files are mp4. They are in the same folder as other files which work which I downloaded from the iTunes Store. What is different about the iTunes store files? How do I get my mp4 files to work in iTunes U?


texts: What is the best OS X version for iBook G4?

texts:
I have an old but perfectly usable iBook G4 (1.33 GHz, 512 MB RAM, 40 GB disk). I am currently running Mac OS X 10.4.11 but I'm wondering what sort of update should it take.

What is the most recent and recommended version to install in it?


texts: Is the iPhone 8 Plus case compatible with iPhone 7 Plus

texts:
I am wondering if the new iPhone 8 Plus is case compatible with the iPhone 7 Plus, meaning that I can buy an iPhone 7 Plus case today and would be able to use with my new iPhone 8 Plus once I receive it?

The reason for my question is that I cannot find the physical dimension of these models on apple.com.


texts: How can I fix an Install Failed error while installing Lion?

texts:
I downloaded the new OS X Lion from the App store. I am running the latest Snow Leopard on my 2010 15" Macbook Pro. During the download, it somehow stopped while I was away from the keyboard. When I returned, I resumed it again, and after download completion, began to install it.
When it rebooted, it began to install Lion, and when it was at the 33 minute mark, it failed.
See pictures below:

I got the error message:

Install Failed
Mac OS X could not be installed on your computer
Mac OS X couldn't be installed, because the disk Macintosh HD is damaged and can't be repaired.

I read somewhere that I should put in the original install DVD, and run the Disk Utility to try to verify and repair.
I put the disc in, booted it, and clicked through past the language selection, but made sure to wait for the top menu bar to appear to get to Disk Utility. I clicked on Verify Disk, and got this error message after it ran:

Invalid node structure
The volume Macintosh HD could not be verified completely.
Error: This disk needs to be repaired. Click Repair Disk.

After clicking Repair Disk, I got this error message:

Disk Utility stopped repairing "Macintosh HD"
Disk Utility can't repair this disk. Back up as many of your files as possible, reformat the disk, and restore your backed up files.

I'm also running Bootcamp, with Windows 7 installed in it's own partition. I don't know if that has anything to do with why I'm getting these error messages or not, or if that's why it thinks the hard drive is damaged.
How do I fix this?
I am unable to get back into Snow Leopard. Every restart leads back into the Lion install, which results in these errors. I think many others are having this issue as well.
I do have my files backed up (not in Time Machine, but manually on an external USB drive).  I don't mind wiping everything (including Bootcamp), but I rather that be a last resort.
Reference:

Install Failed - Disk is damaged on Apple Discussions site.


texts: Apple Directory / Profile Manager  - Restricting simultaneous same user logins on multiple  machines?

texts:
We are using Apple Directory for internal user authentication. We want to restrict a user to login from a single machine at any one time. I have been trying to find a way to do this in Apple Directory without any luck.

Is there a way to do something similar in Snow Leopard or Lion server?


texts: If I leave my chargers plugged into the wall socket at all times, do they consume energy or present a safety risk?

texts:
This is something I always wondered about: when I leave my charger plugged on the wall socket but not charging anything, is it still consuming energy?

Some notebook chargers have a led that is always on, so I guess it's consuming at least a bit. But what about Apple chargers? I want to leave my iPhone and iPad chargers always plugged under my desk (so I can just connect my device when I want to charge) but I'm worried they shouldn't be plugged all the time due to safety risks or phantom power consumption.

Is there any way to measure this to be sure?


texts:
I've done quite a bit of web searching and have not found anyone addressing this specific issue.

After upgrading to Sierra (macOS 10.12.2) the Application Switcher (horizontal popup with app icons that pops up when you type command-tab) is noticeably slower.

One of the reasons it is slower is the graphics draw times.
When it initially displays it paints from top to bottom.  The painting is so slow it is easy to see its progress (maybe it takes .3-.5 seconds).  Then when you release the tab key it redraws again with lighter colors then disappears.

Another problem I have is that the Chrome (even the Canary version) Hangouts extension is completely unusable because draws/refreshes are slow or repeat too often.  Those redraws occur as a series of rectangular areas around the window.  Each rectangle draw is slow enough to be visible.  Another Chrome symptom is that the tabs for each open web site flash incessantly. This all happens with hardware acceleration disabled in Chrome settings.

The Hangouts bug is the important problem since it is the only way I know of to get Mac notifications for instant messages through Google.

My hardware is a late 2010 Mac Mini with an NVIDIA GeForce 320M 256 MB graphics chip and a single monitor connected via a digital cable.

Also, I upgraded from an old version of macOS to Sierra, skipping at least two versions (Yosemite and El Capitan I guess).

The same 'slow draw' problem occurs in Safari when I open the attach file browser from Gmail.


texts: How can I play iTunes U videos on my iPhone?

texts:
For the first time, I had synchronized some iTunes U videos between my Mac and my iPhone and I was looking forward to watching them on the train. However, when I opened the "Videos" app on the phone, it just displayed the message "No Content. You can download videos from the iTunes store." There does not seem to be any other app on the phone that could play the videos.

When I connect the phone to my Mac, iTunes clearly shows that the videos have been transferred to the phone (On My Device > iTunes U).

How can I play the iTunes U videos on my iPhone?

(iPhone 5S, iOS 8.3, iTunes 12.1.2.27)


texts: iPhone sync hangs on 1st generation iPhone

texts:
I have a 1st generation iPhone which is suddenly failing to be able to sync with iTunes. It starts the sync process, but then part way through iTunes just hangs and becomes non-responsive. I have to kill the iTunes process to recover - even cancelling the sync on the phone leaves iTunes in a non-responsive state. The last status message in iTunes isn't consistent - sometimes it's copying an audio file from the phone, sometimes it's copying a video file to the phone.

Any tips for getting past or diagnosing the problem?


texts: How to enable iOS 4.3+ multitasking gestures on iPad?

texts:
Apparently Apple enabled multitasking gestures on the iPad in a 4.3 beta but later removed them... However those that managed to get them have maintained them through future updates (at least up to 4.3.2).

This site http://www.tuaw.com/2011/03/13/want-new-gesture-controls-in-ios-4-3-on-your-ipad-heres-how/ describes a way to re-enable them if you do a collection of steps and buy an app but that seems a bit drastic for basic functionality.

Are there any other free options to re-enable this feature?


texts: Change Banking Information in Apple developer account

texts:
I have a Apple developer account in US, for which I have listed a US bank account in Banking Information in iTunes Connect. Now, I want to edit/change  the bank account to an Indian bank.
Is this possible?


texts: Does Deepsleep (Standby mode) resets uptime?

texts:
Recently, I noticed that my MacBook Pro retina 15" 2015 mid takes a quite long time to wake up from sleep.

Today, I realized that my machine didn't wake up but actually boots up. How did I know that? I've just typed uptime command from a Terminal.app right after the screen shows up.

It says, for example,

  1:25 up 3 mins, ...

That means, my machine has been running for only 3 minutes and it does not take time before sleep into account.

Then, only one explanation is possible. My machine has been shut down between sleep and wake. And I misunderstood its new boot as wake up

Another rationale is, Deepsleep (Standby mode) resets uptime counter. Huh...

Which do you think more legit?


texts: Macbook Pro 2011 A1278 Keyboard Diagnosis

texts:
A MBP keyboard is unreliable to the point where a USB keyboard is a workaround.

Googled the issue presents many software based remedies.

What tests can be performed to confirm that that the problem is hardware? or software?

Is this a known defect with this particular model?


texts: Minecraft/Xbox Live not working when Content Restrictions are enabled

texts:
We recently had to enable Content Restrictions on my son's iPad, but now he cannot sign in to his Xbox Live account in Minecraft.

The iPad is currently running iOS version 12.3.1

In the Settings app on the iPad I go into 'Screen Time -> Content & Privacy Restrictions -> Content Restrictions -> Web Content'

We set the Web Content to 'Allowed Websites Only'

But now when we go into Minecraft on the iPad and try to sign in to the Xbox Live account we get the message "Sorry, something went wrong. Give it another try, or try on Xbox.com"

If we change the Web Content setting to 'Unrestricted Access', or 'Limit Adult Websites', Minecraft allows us to sign into Xbox Live.

We have tried adding https://xbox.com to the list of allowed websites, but that isn't working. What address/domain do we need to list that will allow Minecraft/Xbox Live to work within iOS content restrictions?

FYI - I've tried posting this question on Microsoft community forum (https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/xbox/forum/xba_modi/sorry-something-went-wrong-give-it-another-try-or/f36aaa4f-e30d-466f-a49e-0d80a8f7a867?tm=1561911439816), but no help so far.


texts: Macintosh Color Classic won't turn on and has weird boot chimes

texts: I recently got my hands on a Macintosh Color Classic that is known to not work in the hope of fixing it. I have the power plugged in, keyboard, and mouse. When I flip the switch on the back, I hear the fan come on, and then three monotone chimes about a second apart. I have searched for manuals or docs to tell me what these chimes mean, because they aren't the normal Sad or Happy Mac chimes. After those chimes, the fan remains on but the screen stays dark. Any ideas?


texts: How to set caps lock to work like shift on OSX (work only when down)?

texts: How do I set Caps Lock to behave like shift, working only when down, without memory?


texts: How to make title card visible in first frame of video in iMovie

texts:
I want the title of my video to be on screen from the very beginning of my exported video so it will show up in the video's thumbnail in the Photos app or in Finder.
All of the title overlay options I've tried in iMovie have a fade in effect so they don't appear for a moment and the resulting export ends up without the title visible in its thumbnail.
If there's some way to specify a thumbnail frame that Photos will honor, that would work too.


texts: Installation of OS X Snow Leopard on a new hard drive using a disk

texts:
I am attempting to install OS X Snow Leopard on a new harddrive. I am using a Mac mini mid-2010 Unibody. I also have the original Snow Leopard disk.

I used a guide on iFixit to replace my harddrive. Now, upon starting up, my screen is white, and has a flashing folder with a ? inside it.

I have tried multiple key combinations:

Pressing C before and after chimes with boot disk inserted (original) and no boot disk, nothing
Pressing option before and after the chime with the original hard drive and no boot disk, occasionally am able to select and enter the password for my wifi network on a white screen with the wifi symbol and a lov/drop down box with nearby networks, after accepting the password nothing eventuates from that point, merely a white screen, a wifi symbol and the network name - is there anyway to progress from here? Seems like best chance to proceed...
Pressing shift results in nothing
Pressing command + R results in nothing
Pressing command + option + R results in nothing
Pressing T results in the FireWire symbol appearing. I do not have access to this cable anymore (I stopped using it in 2011 as I hadn't used it since about 10 years prior.
Pressing command + option + R + P to reset the PRAM results in the usual chimes. Then, the white screen appears, then a black screen, then another second chime, and then back to white screen, then repeated.

Are there any more key combinations that I can try?

Also, I am not interesting in reseating the hard drive or taking the hard drive out again.


texts: Changing the title of an ssh connection without modifying remote machines

texts:
Is it possible to set the title of an ssh connection by just changing something on my local machine?

I mean I want ubuntu@ip-10-50-10-152 in the following picture to be changed to a name I like.

And I don't want to change any settings on the remote machine.

The IP address is difficult to remember, how can I change it to a more readable name?

I want to map each IP address to a different name.

The remote machines in my case are lots of Amazon EC2 instances. Some of them only exist for a few days. And new ec2s get created frequently.

I use iTerm2 as my macOS terminal. And I couldn't find any plugin that does the thing I want.

Or is there a better ssh management tool that can display custom text on the title of an ssh connection?


texts:
I recently installed the 10.10.5 update on my Macbook Pro, and now upon login with my home account, the dock won't launch (literally, there is no Dock process; killall Dock returns No matching processes belonging to you were found. Another command I've tried is sudo  /System/Library/CoreServices/Dock.app/Contents/MacOS/Dock, and this returns 2015-09-16 10:26:35.219 Dock[1854:178195] __33-[WVSpaces _initializeFullscreen]_block_invoke: fullscreen message error: Connection invalid). In addition, several standard user interface elements, such as command-tab, spaces, and trackpad gestures, no longer work. When I login as a guest user, though, everything works just fine. I'm confused how to get these UI elements working again.

Edit: I've checked the system console, and it appears as if the dock is constantly trying to launch, but failing.


texts: Mojave: Macbook Pro (2011) loads endless after password

texts:
so I try to fix this annoying problem of a pretty aged Macbook Pro (2011) with Mojave.

What I've done?
I created a TimeMachine Backup to move from the old HDD to a new SSD. The creation and importing of the TimeMachine worked like a charm and I can see the old user. Since there is currently no password for this user all I have to do is pressing enter to start to login. But here is the problem: The loading animation never ends and the login process runs endless.

I've already tried to several things to fix this problem:
- Reinstall Mac OS
- CMD + OPTION + R + P to reset NVRAM and PRAM
- Let it stay untouched (more than 20 minutes) but no progress

Do you have any tips how to fix this?

Thanks in advance :)


texts: Is it normal to have a MBP's temp at ~50?

texts:
My MBP runs very hot and I thought the fans were broken because there's no air blowing out the back and no fan noise as I used to hear in my older MBP so I installed macs fan control
Apparently, the fans are running mostly at around ~1200rpm and the temps are 50-55c, is this normal? should I modify the settings?
I can even feel the heat just from using the keyboard.


texts: Is it normal for a 27" iMac to have CPU core temperatures around 95C under 100% CPU load?

texts:
I have a 2017 27" iMac with a 4.2 GHz Intel Core i7. It's been having some issues lately where every now and then the entire system will gradually freeze, forcing me to hard reboot the computer. So to see if there's a hardware issue, I started running prime95 in stress test mode to see if any errors were detected.

After running for about 20 minutes, I checked the core temperature readings for my CPU and they were all hovering around 95 C. Ordinarily I'd think that's way too hot but with the design of the iMac I'm not sure. I stopped prime95 and after my system was idle for a little while the core temperatures are now hovering around 60 C.

Is that temperature too hot, or is this normal for an iMac?

edit: After the system was idling all night the temperature went down to 45 C, which is of course a good idle temperature. So no worries there.

edit 2: After doing more research I've discovered this is a widespread issue with the Intel Core i7-7700k, and affects all iMacs that have it. Apparently Intel claims its temperature spiking to 90 C during normal use and hitting 100 C during heavy use is normal. Seems wrong to me, but who am I to argue with Intel?


texts: Is there a hashtag on the English wireless keyboard?

texts: I have a wireless keyboard and can't find the hashtag. I have found it on my iPhone but can't find it on the mac keyboard


texts:
My computer's Calendar.app displays two calendars: mine (DB) and my wife's (MM), shared via iCloud; both computers run High Sierra. The sharing works just fine.

But now there's a number appearing next to her calendar's name:

What's the meaning of this number "1"? And now that it's a day or two later, the number has increased to "12." I could imagine it represents new entries in her calendar, but then it should go away when I look at it...and it doesn't.


texts: Can I use any Sim to activate/set up iPhone 5s

texts: I recently ordered a straight talk iPhone 5s from swappa. I plan to just use it as a wifi device but my question is, can I use any sim card for the initial set up or does it have to be specifically straight talk sim. Also does the sim have to be activated and working?? And after the initial set up and activation can I simply remove the sim card and the phone still work as a wifi device? Sorry this is my first time buying a phone.


texts: How do I get my Mac to focus when I switch windows?

texts: When I switch screens on the new Mac (Catalina, Pro), the tabs I am switching to loses focus and I always have to click to refocus it before I can do anything with it. How can I fix this? Before, when I switched tabs, I could always just type something without focusing the application first.


texts: What is the relationship between the OS release, the XCode release, and the default compiler?

texts:
If you run:

'cc --version'

or

'c++ --version'

on a modern OS X with XCode and the command line tools installed (in my case, Mountain Lion with XCode 4.6.x) you will see that the default C compiler and C++ compiler are clang. At some point previously, it was GCC.

I'd like to know: is the change to clang as default attached to the OS revision (e.g. 10.6 vs 10.7), the XCode revision (e.g. 4.5 vs 4.6), some hybrid of the two, or something else altogether?


texts: What are the under documented differences between iPhone 6s and iPhone 7?

texts: I know about Apple spec sheet comparison of the devices it currently sells (iPhone 7,6s, and SE) but I'm curious about what isn't usually on the tech spec sheet like RAM and battery mAH.


texts: Using Ctrl-N,P,F,B arrow keys in Microsoft Word for Mac

texts:
I'd like to use Ctrl-N,P,F,B keys as arrow keys in Word for Mac. I believe this is the system-wide default mapping; it works on browsers, TextEdit, terminal, etc.
The first problem I encountered was that they conflict with Word's built-in keyboard shortcuts. Ctrl-P is "Print", for example.
So I disabled them in Tools->Customize Keyboard. For example, under "New Document", I deleted "Ctrl-N". But I think those keys are still being captured by the Word app, instead of the OS. So now nothing happens when I press those keys. The desired behavior is being able to move the cursor.


texts: Disadvantages of encrypting SSD disk at time of disposing of computer vs. at first use?

texts:
I know that one can encrypt a whole disk using File Vault when the disk is first used and loaded with user data.
Wondering whether encrypting at time of disk disposal would be equality effective?


texts: How to disable Finder triangle reveal animation in 10.7 Lion

texts:
In Finder's list view, you can click the little triangles to the left of folder icons in order to reveal the contents of the folder. In 10.7 Lion, this reveal/expansion is accompanied by a vertical sliding animation.
My problem is (a) the animation slows me down and (b) the animation will often hiccup even on my new i7 Mac Mini with external video card (especially on folders containing many files).
I've searched high and low on the googlesphere for a solution to this, but I've only come across these terminal commands, to no effect:
1
defaults write com.apple.finder AnimateInfoPanes -bool false

No effect on Finder, info panes don't seem to have reveal animation anyway
2
defaults write com.apple.finder DisableAllAnimations -bool true

No discernible effect on Finder
3
defaults write NSGlobalDomain NSAutomaticWindowAnimationsEnabled -bool NO

This does disable the zoomimg new window animation in all apps, but doesn't affect my issue
Is this an issue for anyone else? Does anyone have a solution?


texts: Mojave install failure "OSIInstallElement failed, Failure Reason: PKInstallErrorDomain:112"

texts:
I'm trying to install Mojave on a brand new 2TB Western Digital external hard drive.  I've formatted the drive as APFS.  The installer gets partway through, and then fails with

  macOS could not be installed on your computer
  An error occurred while running scripts from the package "Core.pkg".
  Quit the installer to restart your computer and try again.

Looking in /var/log/install.log, the relevant lines appear to be:

  2019-07-25 06:25:26-07 JoeMBPro installerdiagwatcher[231]: ------- Install Failed -------
  2019-07-25 06:25:26-07 JoeMBPro installerdiagwatcher[231]: Operation: OSIInstallElement failed, Failure Reason: PKInstallErrorDomain:112
  2019-07-25 06:25:26-07 JoeMBPro installerdiagwatcher[231]: This was an attempted clean install from Unknown to 18G84

Those lines appear five minutes after the previous log entry, which looks like an ordinary progress update (setting window alpha values to 0).  So I think that's all the detail we get.

Any idea what's going wrong here?  I've spent a day and a half dealing with one failure after another on this process, but this one has me stumped.


texts: £# key binding changed after El Capitan update

texts: I have a Macbook Air (13-inch, Mid 2013) running OS X El Capitan. Prior to upgrading to 10.11.4 pressing SHIFT + 3 returned the £ (pound) sign and alt + 3 returned the # (hash) key. Since upgrading these have been reversed! Can anyone advise how to switch this back? Why has this happened?


texts: How do I play FLV and MP4 files on my jailbroken iPhone 4, without converting the files?

texts: I have a jailbroken iphone 4. Is there  way to play MP4 and FLV files without converting them? I'd like to play them straight on my iPhone,since it takes too spend time to use iTunes to convert the files.


texts: Safari incorrectly demands to select an SSL client certificate

texts:
Several websites suddenly recently have popped up the dialog sheet in Safari requesting me to select an SSL client certificate. None of these sites (one example is forums.macrumors.com) actually use client certificates at all. It doesn't matter which one I pick, the dialog simply comes back. If I select cancel, then loading the site simply hangs.

None of this happens with any other browser, or with Safari on any other machine.

Where do I aim the scalpel to chop out this particular cancer?

Among the things I've tried... Looking at the console app, looking at the console in Safari (I simply get a message that loading failed because the site requires a client cert - which is wrong), disabling all extensions, deleting all website data.


texts: How to uninstall completely "Blackberry Device Manager"?

texts:
I've uninstalled the blackberry software from my mac using the original uninstaller utility. This software did not work properly, so it left a login item called called "Blackberry Device Manager" appearing on the "Users & Groups" tab at "System Preferences" with a yellow triangle signaling an error.

How can I delete this faulted login item?

Update
Here is a deeper Blackberry component cleansing procedure


texts:
I just found I can't see this emoji  (Flag of ROC — Republic of China, Taiwan), which is rendered as a cross in a box, on my mac with macOS 10.13.5.

I bought my Mac in China, but my language regional preferences are all set to the U.S. Is there any way to make this emoji visible again?

Here is a screen capture of how this is displayed on my computer:


texts:
I have some podcasts that I've put in a playlist, the playlist is supposed to sync with my iPhone - however when I try to sync with my iPhone, the podcasts doesn't sync.

I suppose this has something to do with my Podcast syncing options, options that are working well for me, so I don't want to change them.

Is there a way to tell iTunes that a podcast is no longer a podcast, but merely an audio file? I've tried to change the genre to no luck.

Any ideas? :)


texts: LSOpenURLsWithRole() failed for the application /Applications/darktable.app with error -10810

texts:
Darktable mysteriously stopped working on me yesterday.  I tried restarting my iMac, deleting and re-installing darkable and finally after going through some forums I tried running through the terminal:
    open -a darktable

That returned
LSOpenURLsWithRole() failed for the application /Applications/photo programs/darktable.app with error -10810
I tried chmod +x /Applications/darktable.app/Contents/MacOS/darktable
I also tried chmod +x '/Applications/photo programs/darktable.app/'

I have tried with several versions of Darktable and am beginning to think it has nothing to do with Darktable and something to do with MacOS...

Any ideas?


texts: Boot Camp Windows 7 Taskbar overlapping maximized windows

texts:
I have Windows 7 SP1 Home Premium x64 installed under Boot Camp 4.0 in OS X Lion (10.7.2) on the 2011 Mac mini and it's also hooked into Parallels Desktop 7 as a VM when I need it in OS X.

An interesting problem I've noticed lately is that when I'm in Boot Camp any window that gets maximized will maximize past the Taskbar and therefore cover the contents of the bottom of the window. This behaviour applies not only to maximized windows but even windows that are set to open at the bottom of the screen but usually stick to the Taskbar as a boundary (i.e. run prompt). This has become irritating as I use Download Statusbar in Firefox as an example and I can't access the downloads if they're covered by the Taskbar without hiding it first.

The reason I brought up Parallels Desktop earlier is because the Taskbar acts normally in VM state. Windows will adhere to the Taskbar as a boundary and everything works as expected. Only when I'm in Boot Camp does it ignore the Taskbar as a boundary and maximize the window to the edge of the screen.

I've tried a number of solutions Google has given me including unlocking/locking the Taskbar, moving the Taskbar around, modifying some Registry entries but nothing has worked. What did end up working as a last resort was reinstalling the Boot Camp partition but the problem came back later on.

Anyone here have some insight as to what may be going on with the crazy Taskbar and possibly a way to fix it?


texts: Is it possible to add funds to a US iTunes store account with Paypal?

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I'm Korean and don't have a US address or credit card, but I want to buy content from the US iTunes store.

I have a PayPal account connected to a Korean bank. Is it possible to add funds to a US iTunes account with PayPal?


texts: Whay does my Backspace key not delete in vi?

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The delete key works - delete text to the right.

But the backspace key (I'm using an external keyboard btw) moves left but doesn't delete (I am in insert mode)

However it does work OK (moves the remaining text left AND removes one chr) at the command line itself when I use command line vi (set -o vi) and insert mode.

I normally use tmux and iterm2 however I experimented with the basic terminal app and the problem persists (I am still using tmux though in case that is the issue)


texts: Can't remove screen protector from Macbook Air (2017)

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I have a screen protector on (I installed it, no one touches my laptop apart from me). It was a no bubble perfect fit on day one. But now I realise (after 7 months) that perfect fit was the greatest trouble for me. I can't even find its edge. Tried hairdryer, nails, scissors, tape, everything that was on the web. Couldn't even lift it slightly. It is adhesse and perfectly fit. I am also afraid I might pull of polarizer if I pull it up (if I could, doesn't seem possible right now) because it is so tightly fit.

Please suggest something.


texts: Hardware differences between iPad, iPhone, iPod models within a single family

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For Apple's mobile devices (iPod, iPhone, iPad):

Does Apple allow hardware differences among models of a single device family?

e.g. Do all iPad 3's have the same technical specs or is the Verizon iPad 3 technically different aside from the addition of LTE?

If there's any documentation on this (teardowns?) it'd be helpful for medical regulatory purposes so we don't need to buy 3 of each iPad/iPhone :)

For Samsung, individual carriers are allowed to customize each model of the S-whatever or Note whatever.

This leads to severe differences with components like the phone's mic sensitivity across the same device family. (eg. S3)

I want to know if Apple devices are susceptible to this kind of hardware fragmentation, or if Apple limits that.


texts: Will upgrading to 4GB RAM on a white MacBook work?

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I've seen discussions about upgrading memory but it was only for the MacBook Pro. I have a white 13" MacBook with 2GB memory, I'm considering about upgrading the memory to 4GB.

Is it possible to upgrade the memory from 2GB to 4GB with the white MacBook (late 2009)?


texts: Login screen characters all question marks, login info isn't working

texts: I just reinstalled high Sierra after my Mac wouldn't restart. The moment it loads up I am presented with this screen. My login credentials don't work. Can someone explain to me what this screen is and what I'm supposed to input?


texts: 15 inch Retina MBP clicky touchpad is no longer clicky on the left side

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So I am afraid that there is no way to tell what is causing this change, whether it is that I have been wearing out the trackpad on the left side (since that is where I rest my thumb to actuate the click) or whether it is because of something else (like the battery possibly expanding).

But what is definitely different is that the trackpad's very nice tactile click feedback is no longer working properly at the left side which is where I like to use it with my thumb. The resistance force (and "click") decreases proportionally to how close to the left edge that I press down. When pressing down on the trackpad from the middle of the left edge of it, it goes down with almost no perceptible click. However, the click is registered in the OS. This is sort of okay because it means it's still functioning, but now I can't really tell when I am clicking or not so I get phantom clicks.

Has anyone experienced a similar issue?


texts: Stop macOS VNC server from rendering remote mouse pointer

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Currently running macOS 11.2.3, and noticed that the system VNC server (enabled in System Preference -> Screen Sharing) always includes the mouse pointer in the video feed sent to the client, causing a shadowed mouse pointer on the client side (As VNC viewers would also render the mouse pointer locally to make a smooth motion). And the behavior is the same no matter if I use the Screen Sharing as the client on another Mac, or some third party VNC viewers on PC. While the Vine VNC Server does not have this issue and works perfectly.
So I wonder if there is a way to stop the system default VNC server from rendering the cursor of the remote machine. I have heard the rumors that the $80 Apple Remote Desktop can somehow configure this, but I haven't yet made the investment. Can someone confirm?


texts: How to install Mac OS X upon NTFS partition with Win XP on it?

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My original Mac Mini hard drive is waste, so, i've replaced it with an old hard drive with XP installed on it. Actually, computer starts correctly, and Windows XP is loaded. Now I want to format this hard drive using Mac FileSystem and install Mac OS X on it.

Actually I have Mac Tiger DVD in front of me (DVD was sale to me with computer) but when I insert the disc in optical drive under Windows XP it tries to read than spit it off (i've tried with MS Office CD and it works).

The question is simple: what can I do to install Mac OS X if disk is NTFS partition and Win XP is installed?

Best regards


texts: How do I back up my old iPhone 4 onto a new Mac?

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As it said, i recently got a new apple mac and I want to backup my old iPhone onto it because i have a new iPhone 4S which i would like to get up and running.

I have all of my music and photos onto an external hard drive but i don't really want to loose my contacts, messages, apps, calendar entries etc.

Is it possible? Or will i just have to write everything down and re-enter it?

Thankyou :)


texts: Any idea why the pkg process in OS X Yosemite (10.10.2) would replace the Markup.appex plug-in Preview?

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I saw these three console entries today:

2015-02-10 17:31:05.596 pkd[451]: UNINSTALLED:com.apple.Preview.Markup com.apple.Preview.Markup(1.0) 0E04B4EC-64DB-4C7F-B79B-AD11187C18FF /Applications/Preview.app/Contents/PlugIns/Markup.appex

2015-02-10 17:31:05.600 pkd[451]: INSTALLED:com.apple.Preview.Markup com.apple.Preview.Markup(1.0) <__NSConcreteUUID 0x7fb3b8f4d030> 5DD65E58-F722-4DF9-9850-6098D7ADC739 /Applications/Preview.app/Contents/PlugIns/Markup.appex

2015-02-10 17:31:05.653 pkd[451]: PLUGIN REMOVAL:com.apple.Preview.Markup RESULT:3

I do not know what triggered that uninstall/install process.

I have seen that Markup.appex Preview plug-in in other two OS X Yosemite systems, but not in a stock OS X Mavericks system. The plug-in appears to be legitimate, apparently providing some Mail functionality.

But why would the pkg process remove and reinstall it today, with no warning or explanation (in the form of an entry in “Updates installed in the last 30 days” list in the App Store app?

The App Store app doesn’t show that anything got updated today.

Even though the Extensions preferences pane in System Preferences refers to extesions as “third-party” software, Google doesn’t provide me the possible developer for the Markup.appex extension.

I doubt that (if the plug-in is an Apple product), Apple would update it silently, unless this is a security problem being plugged.

I appreciate any insight into this by someone who is familiar with the plug-in or knows how third-party extensions are updated.


texts: Trouble repairing a corrupt Time Machine sparsebundle on Synology NAS

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I am having difficulty repairing a Time Machine backup.  After upgrading from Sierra to High Sierra, the Mac had difficulty finishing Time Machine backups to the Synology NAS.  Ultimately the Mac itself would not reboot and the hard drive was wiped with Sierra reinstalled at the Genius Bar.  (I was confident I had backups via the NAS).  When I tried Migration Assistant I notice that the backup is "Amanda's Macbook Pro.purgeable".

The backup is encrypted (as I had set up.)  I enter the encryption code and get the error "Some backups cannot be opened."  Then I notice that it says there are "no volumes found in backup".

I then leave migration assistant and go into the backup folder on the NAS.  I find the folder "Amanda's Macbook Pro.purgeable.sparsebundle".

In it there are a number of files and a very large "bands" folder.

The whole backup folder is 800+ GB which is about right for my MacBook Pro, so I know the information must be in there.

I make a copy of the entire backup folder to a separate drive so that I have a backup of the backup that is untouched.

I tried using the Terminal commands that many have outlined and had success with.  I run into trouble halfway through this process.

after sudo su - I perform chflags -R nouchg on the sparsebundle folder which takes a little time and then completes.

After, I perform hdiutil attach -nomount -readwrite -noverify -noautofsck on the sparsebundle folder

Here is where it seems to deviate from everyone else's experience.  Instead of the "GUID_partition_scheme" and "Apple_HFS", it only gives the disk name
/dev/disk1

I run the fsck_hfs -drfy /dev/disk1 and even fsck_hfs -p /dev/disk1 and I get a very fast process (less than a second, rather than the several minutes to hours) and no mention of a volume being repaired or not repaired.

I unmount and try to use the backup but still cannot and it doesn't look like the folder was changed at all.  I tried DiskWarrior on this as well (to a copy of the copy that I made to a second external HD) and still having issues.

Does anyone have any advice?  I would appreciate any help!  All of my children's photos are on this from the past 2 years and I would hate to lose them all.

Thanks!


texts: Installed High Sierra but Macbook still boots MacOS Installer volume and fails

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I recently installed MacOS High Sierra on my MacBook Pro, but now every time I restart my Computer it boots the MacOS Installer volume but fails to complete, because System/Installation/Packages/OSInstall.mpkg appears to be missing or damaged

Now, I've read here (here the installation failed with the same error message), that you can just select the regular HD to mount, which works, and install the update, but there's no update to be installed, as the installation actually was successful.
My computer works fine if I boot it with the HD.
Any ideas on why it still wants to boot on the Installer?

Specs:

MacBook Pro 13" 2014
MacOS High Sierra 10.13.3

note

In the link I provided, one of the answers suggested finding and moving the OSInstall.mpkg file, but I can't find it at all.


texts:
I'm trying to systematically remove profiles on some systems that were manually installed from github.
I'm going to do so with a policy from my MDM that runs a script, however, I can't get the script to read into an array properly.
So far I have:
profilesToRemove=$(profiles list | grep com.github.erikberglund | /usr/bin/awk '{ print $4 }') for i in ${(f)profilesToRemove}; do
    profiles remove  "$i" done

The problem is I continue to get a bad substitution error with ${(f) and I don't know how to proceed


texts: Installing Google Maps without an Apple ID?

texts: Is it possible to install Google Maps without an Apple ID?


texts: Preview says "The file couldn't be saved" for a pdf document

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Note this is different from the similar question Preview fails to save pdf forms because that other question is about pdf *forms but this is one is just a normal pdf.

I am using Preview for the first time on Catalina - but am a veteran on earlier platforms. I am unable to save an updated PDF

This is a PDF that I added some textboxes and a Tools|Annotations|Signature.

Any ideas?


texts: Remove command removed my important documents on El Capitan

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I have just made a stupid mistake that cost me a lot. I tried to uninstall a software on my Mac, it is this one here: Uninstallation Ureka and I followed the instructions in the link. On the terminal, I typed exactly as in the documentation:

rm -rf $HOME/.ureka

when I suddenly realised after a couple of seconds that this deletes all my important files! I killed the process before it ended but I think it deleted my home folder. All my school work, important files were there.
Is there a way I can get them back ? What happened? Could you help me somehow?


texts: Gmail/Mac Mail - how can I address disk space issues?

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I’m running High Sierra on a 2016 MacbookPro. My business account uses G Suite (Gmail). I use Mac Mail and sync to my business account. I have a few other email accounts but my business account is by far the biggest.
I’m running out of drive space. I currently am showing 50GB space remaining on the 1TB drive in this Mac. Mail is the biggest user of disk space, with /Library/Mail taking up 160GB of space.
I’m trying to free up space but I don’t seem to be doing a very good job of it. I have tried Erase Deleted Items, which got me a little. I created a smart mailbox for email with attachments that is older than 5 years, and am using Remove Attachments but it’s a slow process. If I try to do more than about 500 emails at a time, Mail crashes. And removing attachments from 500 emails takes quite a few minutes. I have about 30,000 emails in this smart mailbox so it’s going to take a while to go through all those, and I’m not even sure this is the best approach, because it doesn’t seem to be having much of an effect on disk space so far.
One thing I notice inside /Library/Mail/V5 are what appear to be two “accounts” (folders with letter/number names) that both are large in size. One is 81GB and the other is 72GB. Looking inside those, the smaller one appears to be “On My Mac”. It’s full of folders of filed mail (I am a filer. Everything I get that I want to keep gets filed according to client/project/etc.) The larger one contains several subfolders, the only large one of which is [Gmail].mbox, which contains All Mail.mbox.
I am pretty sure that is syncing “All Mail” from Gmail, and I think the problem is, because I am a filer, I end up with two copies of many messages: One in On My Mac and one in the Gmail Archive or All Mail folder, which is getting synced down to my Mac.
It seems if I could get rid of All Mail on my Mac I’d immediately free up 81GB of space. I don’t want to get rid of All Mail altogether. It’d be good to keep it around at Google in case I miss something. But I would like to not sync it down to my computer. I still need my inbox, and other Gmail functionality to work, but I’m wondering if there’s a way to stop syncing All Mail to my Mac. And, if that’s even a good idea.
I also see the option in account settings for Download Attachments, with the options All, Recent and None. I read that Recent refers to messages up to 15 months old. If I switch to Recent will that update the synced All Mail folder to remove older attachments on my Mac, or would I still need to manually remove them? This presumes that the attachments are the bulk of the issue.
Any advice will be most welcome - thank you!


texts: How to know the name of UI elements using Accessibility inspector (or any other tool)

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I'm trying to interact with a print dialog via Applescript.

What I want to emulate is the user setting a value on a specific dropdown.

Say I have:

tell application "System Events"
  tell process "Preview"
    set value of pop up button XXX to YYY
  end tell
end tell

How should I know the name XXX? For example, how would I distinguish between the "printer" and "presets" dropdowns?

I've opened the Accessibility Inspector, but from the information displayed there, I cannot spot a reference to the name or some other unique identifier for the specified dropdown.

I've seen many people using numbers to refer to the different dropdown, but I'm not sure this is good practice. What happens if Apple decide to swap the order of two dropdowns at some point?

Any help would be appreciated.

UPDATE:

Using 10.6.8 and inspector as suggested below, I get the following:


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In the past few months, I have been unable to paste text into XCode.

I can paste from xcode to xcode.

I cannot paste from anywhere else. The cursor moves the amount of characters that are supposed to be pasted, but nothing is actually pasted.

Sometimes, some of the text is pasted, but the formatting is all messed up.

Anyone have any ideas? Tried both Xcode 6.2 beta and Xcode 6.1.1

Thanks!


texts: Anyway to save contents of iPhone app to a PC?

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I bought a video course on my iPhone, the app essentially launches the videos in the standard iPhone video player.

I'm selling my iPhone and would like to recover the videos, or at least preserve the app data until I can figure out how to extract the videos from it.

I currently sync to Windows. But I have a MacBook as well if it matters.


texts: Where are Profile Manager Configuration Profiles Stored on OS X?

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I ask because I configured and installed a profile for a network account on my Macbook Air (10.9) to create a synchronized Mobility Home on a Mac Mini server (10.8).

However, I cannot login as this user on the server or my Air, because I receive the message that the home already exists. This occurs even though I have removed the devices from profile manager and the user from the group.

I expect this is because I have not updated the configuration profile on the account, but I cannot do so because I cannot log in as that user.

So, I'd like to purge any instance of these configurations. So far, I've tried the following:

Deleting /Library/Preferences/DirectoryService/
Clearing the MCX Cache as per this Apple KB article

I am asking specifically how to clear these configs, but if it comes up, yes, I have deleted the home folder on the Air and the Mini, and no, neither have a local account with the same name.


texts: How do I add more categories to Mac OS X Finder's sidebar?

texts: My Finder sidebar has two categories: Favorites and Devices. How do I add more categories?


texts: The fans in my MBP will continue to run for a minute or two after I close the lid. This is frustrating because I often want to close it and immediately put it away in its soft zipper case but I don't want to put it in the case while it's still spitting out hot air. Any ideas why the fans don't turn off immediately (or within like 15 seconds)? This started happening after I upgraded to 10.9.


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I am using Yosemite on MBP 15 mid2010

I already tried this tutorial
http://vadimk.com/2010/10/11/xerox-phaser-3117-mac/

Didn't work for me.

Also tried Splix:
http://www.guigo.us/mac/splix/

again, didn't work.

Any idea how to get the printer running?


texts: 27" iMac with mini display port and Windows 10 - use in target display mode?

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I have a 27" iMac, with a mini-display port. I do not have MacOS installed on it. Instead I have Windows 10 installed on it. Can I enable target display mode using this configuration?

If not, how could I get into target display mode without removing Windows 10 from the internal hard disk?

Model: Mid 2010 (2.8GHZ QUAD-CORE INTEL CORE I5, ATI RADEON HD 5750)


texts:
I don't know when I stopped working yesterday, but very likely I saved a file before shutting down my computer.

How can I find the (not system owned) file with the last save timestamp?


texts: Unable to reach server via local IP, only "localhost"

texts: For years I've been able to use my local IP to access local servers during development.  e.g. http://192.168.80.20:3000. It seems that after updating to macOS 10.15.4 this is no longer possible.  I can only access my projects with localhost e.g. http://localhost:3000. This is fine for when I am using a local client such as Chrome or iOS Simulator, but I also need to do testing across my local network from another device.  I'm not sure what changed!


texts: How can you replace macOS's bouncing dock icon animation?

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I often find macOS's endlessly repeating "I want your attention" dock bounce animation irritating, so I disabled it with the command defaults write com.apple.dock no-bouncing -bool TRUE , followed by killall Dock.

I'd still like a visual cue when an app needs my attention, just a subtler one. Can the bouncing animation be replaced with a repeating toggle between the normal and translucent appearances of an dock icon, or some other low-distraction animation?

NOTE: The translucent dock icon appearance applies when an app is hidden. It can be enabled with defaults write com.apple.Dock showhidden -bool TRUE. To be clear, if I can replace the animation as suggested above, I don't want apps to be repeatedly hidden and shown while the animation is playing. That is what I assume would happen if, as would seem logical, the translucency adjustment controlled by com.apple.Dock showhidden can't be set independently of the actual hidden/visible status of the corresponding application.


texts: How do I download songs in a playlist in Music?

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I used to be able to download all of the songs in a playlist from iCloud at once in Music, but the download button is no longer showing in the playlist title area it used to. It does show next to individual songs that haven't been downloaded, however selecting all and right-clicking now longer shows a download button in the context menu either. The only way I have found to download more than one is to go to the album, and the download button shows in the album title area.

Any ideas on how to re-enable the download button? Is this a bug?

Note: it does not seem to make a difference if the playlist only contains content I have purchased, uploaded with iTunes Match, or added to my library from Apple Music.

Album view with download button visible:

Playlist view missing the download button:

Download button missing from menu:


texts: Connecting Airport to switch to extend a network

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I have an Airport Extreme connected to the internet and a handful of Extremes/Expresses extending it wirelessly. It works OK. But when I connect one of the extending devices with an ethernet cable - on the theory that wired is better than wireless - things go awry. (My primary Airport Extreme starts dropping the connection, devices show that they are online, but they are not, etc. Basically, the network stops working.)

Once thing that I do that I'm not sure of is that I plug those devices into a switch as opposed to directly into the primary Airport Extreme. So my question is: Is this OK to do?

Thank you in advance!


texts: View only unread messages in macOS Messages

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Is there any way to view only unread messages in Messages.app in macOS?  The behavior I'd like is basically the same behavior as a Mail.app smart mailbox showing on unread emails.  The volume of texts I get for work makes scrolling down to find unread texts a less-than-ideal solution.

If I'm not mistaken, there's no way to do this directly in Messages.app, so a third-party or other solution would be fine.


texts: How to find and kill an installer that autostarts at boot time

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Asking on behalf of a child who doesn't remember if/when some application was updated and required a restart to complete the installation.

OSX 10.8.5 , MacBook Pro.   Here's what happens:  when rebooting, a dialog window comes up with the "package" icon and asks "Continue with Install?"  and one must select either 'yes' or 'abort'.

If 'yes' is selected, then a process owned by the user runs forever, incidentally consuming up a lot of RAM.  Whether 'yes' or 'abort' is selected, the same dialog comes up on the next reboot.

In Activity Monitor, the process is just called "Installer."

Things we know were not initiated: any system upgrade.

My offspring vaguely remembers starting to update "some app" which was later deleted from the machine.  Assuming that's the case, this installer appears to be hung trying to get to files that don't exist.

So, in any case, is there some file I can delete that will stop the installer from starting up on reboot?  If there is something I can do to provide more info on what/where this Installer app is, let me know and I"ll post it up.


texts: How to Install PIL in El Capitan with Pip?

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I would like to install PIL by Pip but the code is unsuccessful

pip install PIL
Collecting PIL
  Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement PIL (from versions: )
No matching distribution found for PIL

I know the outdated thread here about How can I install PIL on mac os x 10.7.2 Lion, and my versions should be ok, since they are most updated.
My Pip and Python versions in OS X 10.11.4 El Capitan

pip --version
pip 8.1.1 from /Library/Python/2.7/site-packages (python 2.7)

My pip is installed by sudo python get-pip.py of the mother site.
I have the newest xcode installed

gcc --version
Configured with: --prefix=/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/usr --with-gxx-include-dir=/usr/include/c++/4.2.1
Apple LLVM version 7.3.0 (clang-703.0.29)
Target: x86_64-apple-darwin15.4.0
Thread model: posix
InstalledDir: /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Toolchains/XcodeDefault.xctoolchain/usr/bin

How can you install Pil in OS X 10.11.4?


texts: OSX Stuck - Window manager is responsive, but can't create any process

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Shortly (seconds) after booting, the OS (10.6.8) becomes unresponsive. Not a single process can be created, but the window manager is responsive - I can switch focus between existing windows and some already loaded programs - e.g. Terminal, Finder, etc but I cannot run any new processes - opening a browser, or even executing "ls" from command prompt yields no results.

There are no obvious CPU hogs - I managed to quickly run "top -u" with no high CPU util at the point it gets stuck (at one point the top utility stops refreshing, I suspect it spawns a new process for each refresh).

Any clues appreciated.


texts: Will 3Tb SATA hard drives work in Xserve (Model Xserve1,1) and allow all the space to be allocated.


texts: After mounting a Windows SMB share, how can I determine the windows "creator" of a file?

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I've mounted a Windows SMB share to my Mac. On a windows machine you can open the "File Properties" dialog for folders in this network share and see different "Owners" for whoever created the file:

But on my Mac I'm not able to see this ownership information:

I've also tried mounting the share from the command line which works fine:

mkdir /Volumes/ShareName
mount -t smbfs //user@server/ShareName /Volumes/ShareName

But I'm not able to see any additional information via the Terminal when I look at the files in /Volumes/ShareName

> ll
drwx------  1 cwd  staff    16K Jan 22 14:04 .
drwx------  1 cwd  staff    16K Jan 25 11:16 ..
-rwx------@ 1 cwd  staff    11K Jan 22 14:05 Thumbs.db
-rwx------  1 cwd  staff    29B Jan 22 13:36 test.txt
-rwx------  1 cwd  staff     0B Jan 22 13:36 test2.txt

> xattr Thumbs.db
encryptable

xattr also doesn't show me anything useful in the extended attributes.

How can I find the "Owner" property on a windows SMB shared file?


texts: VLC subtitles: Why do I get these weird characters?

texts:
When I load a subtitles file with VLC I get these weird characters:

This doesn't happen with other subtitles files, so I was wondering what's this different encoding. The file is included in the mkv format, so I can't open it with a text editor.


texts: MacBook Pro 15-inches display not working: how to isolate the cause of the issue?

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On last Saturday I left my MacBook Pro (15-inches display, mid-2012 release) on during the night in order to finish some backup tasks and I scheduled its shutdown for a certain time using shutdown -h.

On the next morning, I turned the machine back on but, unfortunately, the display seemed to not work. First of all, supposing the issue was due to some software level failures during shutdown, I have made the following operations:

NVRAM/PRAM reset.
SMC reset.
File system analysis.
I was using two APFS containers - one for a data-only partition, the other for different OS partitions with shared memory - and Disk Utility printed some warnings related to the main OS partition.
Considering what has been just said, main OS partition initialization and clean macOS High Sierra reinstalling.

Despite all these operations, the issue still persists: the main display does not turn on but everything else works properly (for instance, using an external display through Thunderbolt connection, all seems fine).

That said, are there some other operations that you suggest to do in order to isolate and find the cause of  this issue? Since it seems, taking into account what I listed above, that it is not related to software layer, are there some simple checks that can be made on machine hardware without particular risk to generate further issues?


texts: How can I receive FM radio broadcast signals on an iPhone 4?

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I know I can download apps such as Wunder Radio or iHeartRadio that tune in to the same signal over the internet as is being broadcast over commercial FM stations, but I want to use my iPhone to receive input from a real FM tuner.

Many times smaller stations do not stream and often other services, such as audio of TV on a Gym, some museums and traffic warning stations as well as conferences where live translations in several languages are broadcast over different FM frequencies.

Is there a particular app for this or maybe a third-party device I can purchase?


texts: How to use ICE BLUE mic for FaceTime on iPad Air

texts: I've connected my ICE BLUE to my iPad Air 4th gen via a USB C to USB adapter (Syntech) and my ICE BLUE red light is on but when I test via a FaceTime call, the sound level on the receiving end of the call is no louder with or without the ICE BLUE.


texts: Can I prevent OS X 10.8 Mail.app smart mailbox configuration changes/corruption?

texts:
I have an IMAP account with number of archive mailboxes structured like

 + Archive
 +-- 1996
 +-- 1997
 +-- ...
 +-- 2011

I have configured a smart mailbox including all of these mailboxes plus INBOX and Sent Mail from the same IMAP account:

  Contains that match ANY of the following conditions:
    Message is in mailbox Account (in fact, Inbox/Account)
    Message is in mailbox Account (in fact, Archive/Account)
    Message is in Mailbox 1996 (in fact, Archive/Account/1996)
    ...

It worked just fine since 10.6 I believe. However, starting 10.8 upgrade, Mail.app sometimes loses this configuration, so this smart mailbox starts looking like

  Contains that match ANY of the following conditions:
    Message is in mailbox Inbox (yes, aggregated inbox of all the accounts)
    Message is in mailbox Archive (yes, aggregated archive of all the accounts)
    Message is in Mailbox No mailbox selected
    ...

I guess this might be related to mail.app Smart mailbox synchronization over iCloud, since I have desktop iMac and Air, and I'm using both. However, I failed to make a synchronized configuration which would be the same on box mail.app instances.

Could you please advise how should I configure this smart mailbox to avoid irritating bug?


texts: Apple Mail's "Remove Attachments" not removing attachments from hard drive

texts:
I'm trying to slim down my email archive by removing attachments I no longer need, using the "Message > Remove Attachments" command in Apple Mail.

After removing several GB worth of attachments within Mail, I noticed that my ~/Library/Mail/ folder wasn't getting any smaller. Digging into the folder structure, I found that all of the attachments I had 'removed' from the emails are still present in the filesystem, deeply nested in the ~/Library/Mail/ folder.

I've tried quitting and restarting Mail, rebuilding the mailboxes, and restarting the computer, but the files remain.

Are others experiencing this behaviour? Is it possible to have the attachments removed from the hard drive when 'removed' from the email?

Running macOS Sierra 10.12.6


texts: Any way to delete the app once it was opened ？

texts: I just created an app (Let's say Test1) with AppleScript. It's used to activate another app (Let's say Test2). What I want to do is to delete Test1 or move Test1 to Trash, once Test2 was launched. AppleScript, Unix shell, Python, Perl or other language is welcome. Any suggestion would be appreciated. Thanks.


texts: What's a good iPhone app for playing MP3 music?

texts:
I have an extensive collection of video game music that I like to keep completely separate from my 'regular' music (which I use iTunes to sync w/ my iPhone and the stock Music.app to play).

I'm looking for a good app that will let me import this separate collection of MP3s into the app and then play them. Most importantly, it must NOT pull in music from the stock music.app, as I want to keep these two separate!

I don't want a digital locker to sign up for and stream from (Amazon, etc)
ID3 tag meta-data support is a must, preferably w/ embedded album art
Needs to list songs by Album/Artist/Song Title, not just filename
Playlist is nice to have but not a must
I don't care how it looks as long as it's not total garbage
I don't care about downloading from the internet; I've already got the songs I need

Are there any apps out there that can do this? I've had no luck searching Google as all I find are questionable MP3 Downloaders, Youtube rippers, streamers, or authoring/remixing tools. :/

Thanks for any input you guys have.


texts: Automatic text replacement [substitution], space to replace

texts: It seems that to replace text (Prefs/Keyboard Shortcuts/Text), one has to type a space after the keyword, and this inserts a space after the replacement text. Is there a way around this?


texts: I have a .dmg file of approximately 32 GB and I want to encrypt it. When I try to, using Disk Utility > Images > Convert, I get an error "status 28". Any idea what this means?


texts: Has Apple solved the problem of new iPods not charging on old Bose docks?

texts: New ipod classic (purchased 2-25-12 from Target) DOES charge on our OLD Bose dock (pleasant surprise) whereas ipods purchased 1-2 years ago do not.  I am vaguely aware that the non-charging situation was deliberate by Apple (something about the pins) to avoid the possibility of the old Bose dock "zapping" the ipod (pardon my lack of correct tech lingo).  We even bought a new Bose dock to solve the problem, but kept the old one too.  Now, my daughters brand new ipod classic charges in the OLD dock!  Has anyone else experienced this and/or know what is going on? Thanks!


texts: Transferring iTunes library after Windows upgrade broke link to some songs

texts:
I replaced my hard drive and upgraded from Windows Vista to Windows 7.  Some of my songs were in one (or perhaps a few) folders which no longer exist.  The songs exist in a new location.  I know I can just add the new location to my library, but all my playlists with those songs will be broken.  Any ideas on how to approach this?

Maybe there is a file I can open in a text editor, and then replace the beginning of a lot of path names with the new path?


texts:
My shiny new late 2012 iMac arrived, but I can't seem to get it to respond to my Apple Remote.

I tried searching the System Preferences to see if out if the box it was paired to another remote, but I can't find that option any more.

I love using my Remote with iTunes and Plex. What can I do?


texts: Name of file won't go away as file title in Finder

texts:
Ultimately, this isn't a big problem but it is a bit annoying.

Something happened, at some point, to my Finder application.  Even after restarting my computer (even multiple times since this first appeared) the name of a file "CCBReader.h" appears written at the top of Finder.  It doesn't matter which  folder or file I select, it always reads "CCBReader.h".  I recall that this did occur after some point where I was looking at this file, but that was weeks ago.  Now, the file name is a ghost within Finder!

How can I make this go away?  See the image below for reference.


texts: SSH-Keygen Fingerprint and SSH giving fingerprints with lots of letters and numbers

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At the advice of another SE member (I'm cross posting here).

I've been using SSH and public key crypto for a few months. I've run into a new problem with my install of the newest public beta of OS X, and can't find an answer online.

When I run SSH-Keygen -lf in the OS X terminal, the fingerprint I get is:

SHA256:FAESFJ*(WY*(T$NGN(*G(NURGOUfj34n98tj8v3f485
[That's not the actual string, but you get the picture]

I'm used to something like

2048 0a:11:2b:33:44:55:66:77:88

Similarly, after deleting my old known_hosts file, when attempting to SSH into some of my machines, I was greeted with the standard warning that the host was unknown and to check the fingerprint. However, again, the fingerprint is being displayed as:

SHA256:[Mix of letters and numbers]

When I run ssh-keygen -lf on my ubuntu installation, I get the standard

2048 0a:1b:2c:[ETC ETC]

Am I doing something wrong? Is there another option or parameter I need to flick?

In the meantime, to make sure I'm safe, I did

ssh-keyscan [IP address] > /path/to/file
ssh-keygen -lf /path/to/same/file

The result was the same as what I was prompted with when I SSH'd in. So I'm safe, and not too worried about security. But I'd like to learn what's going on and if I'm doing something wrong.

Thanks in advance!

Edit: I should add that SSH-Keygen -lf used to work as expected before this upgrade. This suggests that I just need to flip a switch to change the output from gobbledygook to the more "traditional" fingerprint output.


texts: ME864LL/A Logic Board swap from MF839LL/A

texts: I've got a late 2013 retina MBP and I want to know if I can swap the logic board from a 2015 MF839LL/A retina MBP. Can anyone tell me if this board will fit? They look like they're the same size and both MBPs share the A1502 designation. Thanks!


texts: How to set a universal keyboard shortcut for a variable menu item

texts:
I'd like to set

  ⌥, (Option-Comma)

to Hide a window in MacOS, but unfortunately the menu says "Hide [name of program]" instead of the static "Hide" how can I make a key shortcut to this menu item (FOR ALL PROGRAMS, I don't want to do them one by one 100 times) if it's always different?

Also, I don't want to use ⌘H because that takes to long, I like minimize because it's fast, but I prefer hide.

(MacBook with Mojave)


texts: Can you change an MOV to an MP4 without transcoding?

texts:
How can change video container from .mov to .mp4 without touching the video itself? Preferably a GUI app.

I have a bunch of videos in .mov and since .mp4 is more widespread I want to use that, but I don't want to lose any quality.


texts:
I'm in the process of installing Windows 10 on my Macbook Pro (macOS 10.13.4/17E202, 256 GB of storage, no partition), but Boot Camp says I need at least 40 GB of storage.

So I freed up some space by removing some files, and "About My Mac" now shows almost 100 GB of free space on my Mac:

However, the Disk Utility shows only 33 GB of free storage... 3 times less:

The trash is empty, and I restarted my computer twice. I also used Onyx utility to free up some more space, empty caches, etc. But there is still this huge difference.

I tried to find "hidden files", that could cause this difference, using the Disk Inventory X app, but it shows 100 GB of free storage...

Another strange thing that happened: after I restart the computer, the status bar at the end of the finder shows 33 GB of free storage. But after 2-3 minutes, this number changes to about 100 GB... As if some cached values were used while the Mac is updating the folder sizes.

I'm pretty sure I have 100 GB of free storage, because I removed dozens of GB of photos and apps.

What's wrong? I'm kind of lost!


texts: Purchase from iTunes Store in Spain when travelling in Spain

texts: I have an Australian iTunes account, but am travelling in Spain and would like to download an app from the Spanish store


texts: Can iPhoto version 9.6 locate where photo was taken?

texts:
iPhoto 9.6
Can find the location where the photos were taken? I have several photos     of this person. The photos are originals.


texts: Stop iPad from automatically using iPhone data?

texts:
We have employees who are issued both an iPhone and an iPad.
The iPads are on Verizon and have unlimited data.

The iPhones are on AT&T and have limited data.

The problem happens when they are using the iPads and lose service. The iPads automatically switch on the iPhones hotspot and start using it. This is causing the users to go over their AT&T data limit when using their iPads.

Is there any way to stop them from automatically switching over to the iPhones data?


texts: Device will not acquire network address AirPort Extreme

texts:
I have an 3TB Time Capsule that is connected to Pace cable modem providing internet access.

I have a device Popcorn Hour, and NMT - Network Media Tank, that only had a wired internet connection, that is physically difficult to reach by cat-6 cable.  My solution was to use an Airport Extreme, configured to extend a "wireless" network.

The issue I'm having is that the NMT is not obtaining an IP address on the 192 network.  It shows a 169 address.  I did test the device physically attached to the 3TB Time Capsule and it acquired a 192 address.

So my question is why is the Airport Extreme not allocating a 192 address for the wired connection.

BTW: a netstat command to display the routing table did not show the device at the 169 address.


texts:
I'm working on an OS X 10.6.8 machine, for which I do not have superuser privileges.

I'd like to imitate the effect of adding an entry to the hosts file, i.e. have a certain domain resolve to a certain ip.

Is it possible to add configuration to my home directory to achieve this? Is there any other way to do this?


texts: How do I diagnose non-operational external USB3 hard disk drives?

texts:
I have a certain combination of portable external USB 3 drives and cables that do not recognize my drive on my Mac Mini 6,2 running OSX 10.8.4. Changing the ports have not helped.

In short - All my cables work with some hard disk or the other and all my drives work with some cable or the other. The cable - disk combination combination that does not work on the MacMini does power up the disk and I can feel the disk spinning. The non working combinations do not even show up the drive in the System Information app.

I just cannot figure out how to figure out what is wrong. A cable - disk combination that refuses to work on the MacMini works just fine my Windows 8 Dell Notebook. Is there any way to diagnose the problem? How?


texts: Dark regions at the bottom of MacBook screen

texts: I've started seeing these dark regions at the bottom of my screen. They go away temporarily when I close the laptop, but come back every now and then. Is there an easy fix for this, or is there something wrong with my display?


texts: How to export Contacts version 9.0 data or .abbu file to .csv or other usable spreadsheet format

texts: In the newest Apple Contacts version 9.0, how do you export all contacts or an .abbu file to a .csv file or other usable spreadsheet format? Dragging and dropping to Numbers does not work. Exporting to Vcard does not work...only exports a small handful of vcards out of over 4,000 and data is not usable in Numbers, Excel, or Outlook/Windows Live Mail. Please help!


texts: Mounting a "Mac OS Extended (Journaled, Encrypted)" drive formatted in Lion on either Mac OS X Leopard or CentOS 6

texts:
I formatted a Seagate FreeAgent external hard drive on a system running OS X Lion (10.7) as "Mac OS Extended (Journaled, Encrypted)".  Everything works great on the Lion system.

However, when I try to mount the drive on a system running Mac OS X Leopard (10.5), it can't mount the drive; it complains that the drive cannot be read (I do not have the exact error message in front of me ATM).

I've also tried to mount the drive in my CentOS VM using the hfsplus module, but it can't find the HFS+ superblock.  I've mke2fs -n'd it to see if it can find an alternate superblock location, but none of the ones it found seem to work.

Is there a way to mount a drive formatted by an OS X Lion system as "Mac OS Extended (Journaled, Encrypted)" on a system running either Mac OS X Leopard or CentOS 6?


texts: Can't display content of emails on iPhone 4

texts:
I see my emails and can read the 3-line tags in my inbox, but when I go to open the message to read the full text, it is just blank - regardless of the size, number of recipients etc.
What causes this kind of behavior and how can I solve this issue?


texts: Missing Firmware Partition after NVRAM reset in MacOS High Sierra

texts:
Maybe someone can help me. Earlier today, I was working on my MBP and it wouldn't read my external flash drive, yet it read it last night before I ejected it. However, today it wouldn't find it. I ejected it and tried in my other MBP and my MBA, and my Windows 10 pc, and all three devices could read it. This led me to believe that my ports were somehow not working so I performed a NVRAM reset, and when I did, the screen went haywire, and I was looping at the login screen, which I have been doing for the last 16 hours. So, I ran a diagnostic on the computer and couldn't find any hardware issues. Not only is my screen jacked up, I can't use my flash drive and I can't access my work.

So, I swapped hard drives with my other MBP and it couldn't detect it, so I swapped them back, and the hard drive showed up on that one however, when I tried to command+R, it won't go to the utility disk. So, I tried going to shift+option+command+R, and finally the globe appeared, and I was able to attempt to recover from my time machine, but once the process started, it stopped and the screen went gray and has been that way for hours.

Now, after I put my hard drive back in my second MBP, it's not reading its hard drive at all. I am getting OS X Base System, and nothing more. My hard drive was working perfectly before I swapped it out, now it's not working at all.

I took both hard drives to best buy to have them tested, and they both are operable and both were cloned. Now, I'm getting the error message that MacOS can't be installed to that volume because it's missing a firmware partition. I don't know what to do now, as both my work and my school computers are inoperable, and I have no idea how to get them back up and running.

Please help me.


texts: What does this black bar represent in my iPod's Storage Capacity Indicator?

texts:
I was recently going through my (2nd Gen) iPod Touch's storage settings in the most recent version of iTunes and noticed that there is a small gray/black bar next to the "Other" storage section. I highly doubt that this is simply a drop shadow as other depictions of this graph do not feature such a bar.

What does this small bar represent?

Note: The small bar is outlined in red.


texts: Resource is busy, but lsof doesn't think so

texts:
Occasionally, I get file (typically after they are edited by Microsoft Word) that I can not delete:

> rm -rf foo.docx
rm: M_AI_SO.docx: Resource busy

However, lsof doesn't report anything, even I run it as root:

> lsof | grep docx
>

How can I determine who is locking the file. And even more important: how can I delete it without a reboot?


texts: Where did the usage bar go in itunes 12.5.1.21?

texts:
it used to be at the bottom along with the sync button.
I see no bar and button anymore


texts:
I have an issue with Apple Remote Desktop and am posting here as a last resort. About 10 hours spent trying to find a solution. Looking for those with more information on the matter. Errors occurring: "viewer and server are incompatible", "Unable to communicate". Attempting to connect via VNC.
Local (Home) Computer: Macbook Pro 2012 running macOS Catalina 10.15.7 (Unable to be updated to Big Sur due to the machine being too out of date)
Remote (Work) Computer: Macbook Pro 2018 running macOS Big Sur 11.0.1
I updated the remote computer yesterday to hopefully fix this issue. It was originally having the same issues with Catalina.
Expected result: Able to connect.


texts: Time Machine on Time Capsule backup verification never seems to complete

texts:
I have a MacPro running Mac OS X 10.7.4 with a Time Capsule connected by Ethernet.  When Time Machine runs a verify of the backups it seems to stall at 72%, and if I let it run a LONG time I think I have seen it jump up to something like 92% done.  But I am not at all sure I have seen it actually complete the verify (I typically end up doing Skip Verification.)  Right now I have a verify running that has been stuck at 72% for maybe an hour, and I have waited 12 hours and a good bit more without getting to completion.

Granted there a pretty good number of files and folders, and the backups go back over a year and half - Time Machine prefs shows 193 GB out of 998 GB available on the Time Capsule

My question is if I just don't have sufficient patience, or if there is a problem.  If there is a problem how do I attack it?


texts: iPhone 6S very slow after upgrading to iOS 11

texts:
Recently I upgraded my iPhone 6S to iOS 11 from iOS 10. After upgrading many animations stutter a lot, sometimes screen transition animations are delayed by seconds. When I press and hold on the screen to get the cursor selection magnifying glass there is a delay of about 3 seconds until I see the magnified text.

Is there any way to improve this other than downgrading iOS?

I'm currently on iOS 11.0.2.

See below for jankiness when pressing back button. There's a few seconds delay for the title to appear.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/zx5lo22wj4hhbjf/42CDDAD7-103E-4555-8E2D-511D655F2F70.mov?dl=0


texts: Sparrow always set itself as the default mail reader

texts:
I have Sparrow configured for my personal gmail account, and Mail.app for working.  However, every time I open Sparrow, it will set itself as the default .eml file reader, although I didn't config the Sparrow doing so (as in the following picture).  I like to use the Mail.app as the default .eml file reader, so every time after I use Sparrow, I have manually re-config the .eml file reader to Mail.app.

Is it a Sparrow's bug?


texts: Execute macros or scripts based on Magic Trackpad 2 Force Touch

texts:
I’m looking at getting a Magic Trackpad 2 with Force Touch, but want to know if I can create macros for the Force Touch actions?

I’m not taking about the the built in basic Apple support, but full on macros and scripting. I can’t find this listed on the Apple site other than “as developers add support”.

Has anyone done this with say BetterTouchTool, AppleScript or even Automator yet?

Thanks!


texts:
On macOs High Sierra I am trying to set a default icon for .pdf files: when I used Adobe Reader all the pdf files showed its icon, then I uninstalled it and replaced it with Foxit Reader as default app to open the same file. However all the pdf files now show a white icon and I would like them to show the Foxit logo instead.
I tried to copy-paste the logo from Foxit to a random pdf and it does work, but this cannot be applied to the whole configuration (this means that I should copy-paste everytime the logo in every single pdf file).
Is there a way to set the default icon?


texts:
As the Title states "Help with an Applescript for Outlook 2011 that moves all messages from a specific folder that match a source account to a different folder."

So, I have a "rule" that moves all new mail on my exchange account into a "Inbox" in a subfolder On My Computer. When I delete items form this subfolder inbox it goes into the "Deleted Items" On My Computer. I have made a sub-folder for "Deleted Items" in the same place as my "Inbox" sub-folder and I would like to run an Applescript on a schedule that can go into the main Deleted Items On My Computer and find the messages from that exchange account and move them into "subfolder/Deleted Items".

Googling about I cobbled the below together which will move ALL mail in Deleted Items:

tell application "Microsoft Outlook"
set topFolder to mail folder "AT&T" of on my computer
set destFolder to folder "Deleted Items" of topFolder
move every message of mail folder "Deleted Items" of on my computer to destFolder
end tell

The part I can't get past is now only selectively moving mail whose "account" is a specific value, like thus:

tell application "Microsoft Outlook"
set topFolder to mail folder "AT&T" of on my computer
set destFolder to folder "Deleted Items" of topFolder
move (every message of mail folder "Deleted Items" of on my computer whose account = "Att") to destFolder
end tell

Any help appreciated!!


texts:
My iPhone 5s storage increases for some reason. It used to have 4.3 gb yesterday and now it’s 7.48 gb! I didn’t do much. My photos are still there. I’m scared. What do I do and why is it happening?

Also system is decreasing size.


texts: Will using iTunes Match with a large music library use up all the storage space on my iPhone?

texts: I have 100 GB of music on my MacBook Pro and I have an iPhone 4. If I sign up to iTunes Match will all this music flood my phone?


texts: How do I check what is in my iCloud Music Library?

texts: I wanted to switch my Apple Store country but I got a warning that I have an iCloud music library that will be lost if I switch countries. But I looked in the music app at “My Library” and there weren’t any songs in there. Where can I see what is in my iCloud music library?


texts: Songs are in the wrong order in the Music app (macOS only)

texts:
A bunch of albums have their songs show up in the wrong order, when I look at them in the Music app (macOS Big Sur 11.0.1, although this has been happening in older versions too). When I look at the same albums in the iOS Music app, they show up just fine. I use Apple Music.
I can't figure out what's going on. When I right click -> Get Info, everything looks fine, the song order is set just right for all songs in these albums.
Any idea how to fix this?


texts: Why can't new cloned hard drives be used in 2009 MBP 13"

texts:
Ok strange one this and really can't figure it out.
Took out a dead 250gb apple (fujitsu) drive from 13" 2.53 intel core 2 duo
(mid 2009) model.

I cloned a copy of 10.6.8 using superduper to the new samsung 1TB 2.5" drive, test booted up via a sata/usb cable via the macbook pro and all working fine. My problem comes once the new drive is installed into the macbook pro it can't seem to boot from the 1TB drive at all. Disk utilities also does seems to be able to scan it correctly either and seems sluggish and it won't even let me format the drive via disk utilties either.

First I thought it was the new 1TB drive, but I've just had a 2nd drive delivered and cloned the same copy of 10.6.8 on to the 2nd new drive.
All boots fine via sata/usb cable then once installed in macbook pro it won't boot from the new drive. Tried holding alt to give boot options, it see drive and tries to boot but stops at apple logo.

Booted in via a clone of 10.9 on any external drive all boots fine and i can see the new internal 1TB drive. When I try to change the startup disk to the internal 1TB i get the drive is unable to be blessed. I know the drive is formated correctly and I know it boots via the sata/usb cable via the macbook pro.

My only think is there is something wrong with the sata cable to logic board on the macbook pro now? As any drive will boot with a system via usb, but once i install either of the x2 different new 1TB drives inside the macbook pro it won't boot and can't seem to format the drives either.

Any help would be greatful, not sure what i else i can do now?


texts: Repairing Mac SSD from Windows when HFS/APFS viewers don't work

texts:
My friend's 2015 13" MacBook Pro had water spilled on it, and no longer works.  I want to extract the files contained for him.

I removed the SSD from the Mac, and connected it to my Windows 10 laptop using a USB to M.2 PCIe M-Key slot adapter + Mac SSD to M.2 PCIe M-Key slot adapter.  The USB adapter now displays a solid blue light.

Trying to use both MacDrive 10 Standard (version 10.5.4.9) and HFSExplorer (version 0.23.1), I cannot see the SSD.  From Disk Management (version 10.0.18362.1), I can sort of see the disk (it's unknown, but it shows up).  I do not want to initialize the disk, because (I think) that would wipe the drive.

From my work's MacBook Pro, I cannot see it at all using Disk Utility (version 18.0).

I am wondering if the Mac's SSD is corrupted.  Does anyone have any tips to prove that it's corrupted?  I believe my hardware connections are good.

What I See

When I go into Computer Management --> Disk Management, here is what I see:

Using DiskPart (version 10.0.18362.1), here are the drive details:

DISKPART> select disk 1

Disk 1 is now the selected disk.

DISKPART> detail disk

JMicron Generic SCSI Disk Device
Disk ID: 00000000
Type   : USB
Status : Online
Path   : 0
Target : 0
LUN ID : 0
Location Path : UNAVAILABLE
Current Read-only State : No
Read-only  : No
Boot Disk  : No
Pagefile Disk  : No
Hibernation File Disk  : No
Crashdump Disk  : No
Clustered Disk  : No

There are no volumes.

It seems this unanswered question may be related: Retrieving data from Mac PCI SSD using windows PC?


texts: Can I Permanently Delete This File from Trash with Terminal?

texts:
I was trying to add sound file options for the native Messages app on my rMBP with El Capitan. I disabled "System Integrity Protection" (SIP), dragged in the new file, enabled SIP (with all the correct rebooting, as necessary).

I want to delete the file I added now. I was able to move it to the Trash, but it will not delete.

Rather than going through Restarting, choosing Recovery Mode, disabling SIP, restarting, deleting the file, restarting, choosing Recovery Mode, enabling SIP, and restarting, can I just input the following into Terminal?

sudo rm /Users/tmhahn/.Trash/Mailtone12.aiff

I'm just learning Terminal, so I wanted to ask before I attempted it.

(I know to be careful with "sudo" AND with "rm," which is why I'm confirming this is okay!)

If using the Terminal in this way is not advisable, do you have another suggestion?

Thank you for your assistance.


texts: To to disable a service form OS X by using recovery console?

texts:
I cannot boot my system anymore and I want to disable a service from loading and the only way to do this by using the terminal window from the recovery mode.

launchctl is not available in the recovery mode.


texts:
I am trying delete the crashing reports plist using terminal (OS Sierra):

sudo rm -rf "~/Library/Application Support/CrashReporter/*"

But nothing happen. What I am doing bad?
Thank you.


texts: How do iOS devices handle music storage when iTunes Match is enabled?

texts:
I have an iPhone 3GS 32GB which was packed to the brim with music. Yesterday I signed up for iTunes Match, and I noticed that the Music section of the device settings in iTunes (which used to allow me to select which playlists/songs/genres/artists I wanted synced) has been replaced with this:

iTunes also says my phone has 22.6 GB of free space, despite most of the bar appearing full.

How does my iPhone manage its free space when the device fills up? Will downloaded music automatically be removed when something else needs it, like an app installation or a new podcast? If so, how does it decide what to remove? Or, will I have to manually remove songs one by one if I decide to install all 782 MB of Rage HD again?


texts: Changing the default keyboard shortcuts in iTerm2

texts:
In iTerm2, ⌘W will close the current shell. In Vim, Ctrl W, by default, sets you up for a window command (e.g., Ctrl Wh moves to the window on the left, etc.)

I am new to using a Mac and haven't got completely used to the Command key, yet. As such, I am regularly closing my terminal session accidentally. (Fortunately, I'm running tmux, so my session is preserved, but it's nonetheless getting pretty annoying!)

Is there a way to change keyboard shortcuts in iTerm2? I realise it's probably unlikely and easier to change the Vim keybindings, but I don't want to change what I'm used to.


texts: How to recover 100GB missing from macOS after an update?

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Background: I recently upgraded my system to El Capitan. On the first run of the new operating system I ran more updates from the App Store that required a restart. However, while updating, it appeared to be hanging and my computer was getting very hot. So I decided to hard restart the computer. Then I let the installation run again with no issue. I don't know if restarting my computer while updating software caused me to lose about 100GB of data from my mac, but about 80GB were missing from the User Library folder. I know this because I have a backup of my old system (pre-El Capitan) to compare to. So far everything seems to work fine...

The question is: Is it worth checking to find out which files/folders are missing and somehow replace them, or better to wipe my hard drive, clone my old system backup to my cleaned hard drive, and upgrade again to El Capitan.

Possible solutions I've come to:

Use migration assistant to transfer my user accounts, my applications, and my "other files" to my new El Capitan system.
Find a way to compare what files are missing from my old system backup and my El Capitan system, and bring those over in some automated process...maybe by using the ditto command?


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For India they have Hindi language but it does not have an Indian flag on it. Is there any way to add custom flag images in menu bar?

even if its a hackish way to do it. I am ready for it. I just want to have Indian flag in menu bar.


texts: how do i erase all info on macbook air while still keeping microsoft word

texts: I received a  macbook with unwanted materials on it and i would like to start anew, but i need Microsoft Word for college. I am to afraid to try anything in fear of erasing the program. Please help.


texts: Can I use my 2013 MacBook Pro as dual monitor with my iMac 2020

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I am working from home now and it would be super helpful to have dual monitors. I have a 2020 iMac and a MacBook Pro 2013. Anyway I can use my MacBook for that? If not what’s my best cost efficient way to do this?
Thanks!


texts: Macbook Pro doesn't accept any incoming connections - Firewall disabled!

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My MacBook Pro running macOS Big Sur 11.3.1 doesn't respond to Ping, SSH, and Remote Access.
What I tried so far:

Made sure "stealth mode" was disabled on Firewall
Disabled the Firewall entierly
Resetted all network configurations (removing plist files on /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/)
Removed the Wi-Fi adapter and re-added it
Removed any VPN apps (wireguard)
Updated to the latest macOS version

It can access all devices on my local network, but no devices can access it.
I have no idea what else I can try.
Here's my files under /Library/LaunchDeamons/, if it helps:
com.adobe.ARMDC.Communicator.plist
com.adobe.ARMDC.SMJobBlessHelper.plist
com.adobe.acc.installer.v2.plist
com.adobe.agsservice.plist
com.aescripts.ZXP-Installer.helper.plist
com.ambrosiasw.ambrosiaaudiosupporthelper.daemon.plist
com.daisydiskapp.DaisyDiskAdminHelper.plist
com.daisydiskapp.DaisyDiskStandAlone.AdminHelper.plist
com.diebold.warsaw.plist
com.docker.vmnetd.plist
com.ea.origin.ESHelper.plist
com.google.keystone.daemon.plist
com.hanynet.icefloor.plist
com.intel.haxm.plist
com.macpaw.CleanMyMac-setapp.Agent.plist
com.microsoft.autoupdate.helper.plist
com.microsoft.office.licensingV2.helper.plist
com.nomachine.server.plist
com.nomachine.uninstall.plist
com.oracle.java.Helper-Tool.plist -> /Library/Internet Plug-Ins/JavaAppletPlugin.plugin/Contents/Resources/com.oracle.java.Helper-Tool.plist
com.paragon-software.extfs.loader.plist
com.paragon-software.extfsd.plist
com.paragon-software.installer.plist
com.paragon-software.ntfs.loader.plist
com.paragon-software.ntfsd.plist
com.soma-zone.LaunchControl.Helper.plist
com.stclairsoft.AppTamerAgent.plist
org.virtualbox.startup.plist -> ../Application Support/VirtualBox/LaunchDaemons/org.virtualbox.startup.plist


texts: When switching from Mojave to Ubuntu, then back to macOS, I cannot reinstall Mojave

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I had to switch from macOS to Linux momentarily for a short project and now that I'm done, I want to go back to macOS. Prior to installing Ubuntu on my Mac, I was running Mojave as my OS. I tried switching back to Mojave, but when I press ⌘R to enter recovery mode, only option you are given is Mountain Lion, so I installed it. Now when I tried going back to Mojave I am having the following problems:

When I click Get in App Store to download Mojave, and enter my password and email correctly I get following window:

Which is followed up by this pop-up:

Upon clicking LEARN MORE, it redirects me to this Apple Support site:

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208104 ("Learn about changes that might prevent you from editing your payment method or accessing the App Store and iTunes Store.")

But, my account has previously been used with App Store, and I also have all payment information down on my Apple ID. Any ideas how to switch back to Mojave?

I have tested this App Store issue by trying to install some other random app, so this truly is an App Store issue and not incompatibility problem of going from Mountain Lion to Mojave


texts: How do I get an operating system onto a new hard drive?

texts: I will be installing a new 500GB hard drive in my macbook.  It is a late 2008, aluminum, 13-inch screen.  Once I install it, how do I get an operating system that's 10.7 or newer (downloaded from the App Store) on to the bare/unformatted drive?


texts: Folder won't delete from Trash for "Can't delete "_ImageItems" because its pathname is too long"

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I'm trying to empty my trash on my iMac.  When I do, I can detete everything but 1 folder.  The one folder seems to reference itself infinitely.  Each time I click on the expander chevron, I get another folder of the same name with the same date.  When I created _ImageItems, there was only one level.
I've attached some screen clips.


texts: Does Migration Assistant migrate macports?

texts: New MacBook Pro here.  I am about to use Migration Assistant to copy over my old files from my old first-gen MacBook.  Will I have to reinstall macports manually or will Migration Assistant copy my /opt directory?