texts: How to crash an application to produce Crash Report

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I want to crash an application in order to produce the crash report and view it in Console.app. However, running sudo kill <pid> or sudo kill -9 <pid> closes the application but does not produce the Crash Report. The same with Force Quit.
I also googled for any "malware" application that can temper with program memory, "like WinDbg" can for Windows, but I could not find anything. All Google searches containing "mac", "app", and "crash" are about solutions to preventing apps from crashing.


texts: WeTransfer email received without ever using the service

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I'm am using a MacBook Pro 2012 using El Captain version 10.11.3

I received 5 minutes ago an email from WeTransfer (noreply@wetransfer.com) saying that "Your file has been sent to ***@libero.it. As soon as the recipient will have downloaded the file, you'll receive a confirmation email. Name of file: IMG_0508.mov", dimension: 30 MB", and there was a link to download. After 1 minute I received another email telling me that the file was indeed downloaded by the recipient.

The problem is that I never used WeTransfer, wasn't even aware of its existence 10 minutes ago! Apparently it's a legitimate service, which I never used. I don't know whose that email belong to (even though the email provider is well known in Italy) and I have no clue what is going on. Obviously I did not click on any link on the email, thinking it was just a scam mail that tries to make you click on the download button to install some malware.

But given that the company seems genuine, I'm worried that some hackers have somehow compromised my system and sent themselves a file with my stuff, and immediately downloading it (30 MB in one minute means the recipient is ready to receive the email). On the other hand I wonder why they would put my email address for me to receive such an email...

I disabled the wifi of the Mac and I am writing this from my phone. I also started a full system scan with BitDefender virus scanner (don't know how helpful it is, but still. I do it once in a blue moon though, never found anything)

So what has happened? What do I do now to protect myself?

Edit

I received another email just now. Apparently this person just sent me back this file, and WeTransfer informs me that I can now download this. So to recap: 1st email is about me sending file A to person B, 2nd email one minute later is to tell me that person B downloaded file A, and finally 10 minutes later to tell me that person B has sent me file A.

P.S. having trouble adding tags from the phone


texts: Xcode 6&7 performance on Macbook Air 2012-mid

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I'm planning to change to MacBook from my PC and I was thinking on buying first an older model as I can't afford a new one currently.
I would use this laptop for Xcode development as well so I'd be curious about the opinions and experiences you have regarding the MacBook Air 2012-mid and 2013-mid models with entry level CPUs and 4GB of RAM.
So my question is: Would it be enough for Xcode development? How fast it performs? Any experience?

Thanks in advance!


texts: How do I turn off automatic downloads and updates?

texts: I don't see any options for deactivating automatic downloads for OS X and individual apps in the App Store app.


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I've switched to macOS Sierra and am not able to get port forwarding working for localhost (http and https) using the loopback interface lo0. I'm using pf and following the existing instructions for El Capitan but without success:

https://apple.stackexchange.com/a/230331/81267, http://blog.brianjohn.com/forwarding-ports-in-os-x-el-capitan.html

Basically, I setup ifconfig:

sudo ifconfig lo0 10.0.0.1 alias

Then I create a pf anchors file: /etc/pf.anchors/myorganization

rdr pass on lo0 inet proto tcp from any to 10.0.0.1 port = 80 -> 127.0.0.1 port 3000
rdr pass on lo0 inet proto tcp from any to 10.0.0.1 port = 443 -> 127.0.0.1 port 7000

Add a reference to it in pf.conf (had to disable and then re-enable SIP to do this):

rdr-anchor "myorganization"
...
load anchor "myorganization" from "/etc/pf.anchors/myorganization"

I test the anchors:

sudo pfctl -vnf /etc/pf.anchors/myorganization

and the result looks good:

...
TRANSLATION RULES:
nat-anchor "com.apple/*" all
rdr-anchor "com.apple/*" all
rdr-anchor "myorganization" all
...

I've enabled them:

sudo pfctl -evf /etc/pf.conf

I've added localhost to my /etc/hosts

127.0.0.1   localhost

But when I browse to http://localhost I get ERR_CONNECTION_REFUSED. If I browse to http://localhost:3000 the site is working fine.

Update
I turned on pf logging and tried without the 10.0.0.1 alias:

rdr pass log (all) on lo0 inet proto tcp from any to any port 80 -> 127.0.0.1 port 3000
rdr pass log (all) on lo0 inet proto tcp from any to any port 443 -> 127.0.0.1 port 7000

And the first time I hit http://localhost, I see the log:

00:00:00.000000 rule 4294967295/8(ip-option): pass in on en0: (tos 0x0, ttl 1, id 59674, offset 0, flags [none], proto IGMP (2), length 32, options (RA))
    192.168.0.106 > 224.0.1.60: igmp v2 report 224.0.1.60
00:00:00.204784 rule 4294967295/8(ip-option): pass in on en0: (tos 0xc0, ttl 1, id 0, offset 0, flags [DF], proto IGMP (2), length 32, options (RA))
    192.168.0.3 > 224.0.0.252: igmp v2 report 224.0.0.252
00:00:00.093232 rule 4294967295/8(ip-option): pass out on en0: (tos 0x0, ttl 1, id 11047, offset 0, flags [none], proto IGMP (2), length 32, options (RA))
    192.168.0.77 > 224.0.0.251: igmp v2 report 224.0.0.251
00:00:00.111608 rule 4294967295/8(ip-option): pass in on en0: (tos 0x0, ttl 1, id 60629, offset 0, flags [none], proto IGMP (2), length 32, options (RA))
    192.168.0.106 > 239.255.255.250: igmp v2 report 239.255.255.250
00:00:00.102426 rule 4294967295/8(ip-option): pass in on en0: (tos 0xc0, ttl 1, id 0, offset 0, flags [DF], proto IGMP (2), length 32, options (RA))
    192.168.0.3 > 224.0.0.251: igmp v2 report 224.0.0.251
00:00:00.000120 rule 4294967295/8(ip-option): pass in on en0: (tos 0xc0, ttl 1, id 0, offset 0, flags [DF], proto IGMP (2), length 48, options (RA))
    192.168.0.3 > 224.0.0.22: igmp v3 report, 2 group record(s) [gaddr 224.0.0.251 is_ex, 0 source(s)] [gaddr 224.0.0.252 is_ex, 0 source(s)]

Subsequent hits to localhost add nothing to the logs and I see that the loopback interface lo0 doesn't show in that log, just en0 (Ethernet), so I'm not convinced this log output is relevant to the problem. I also tried adding en0 and en1 to the /etc/pf.anchors/myorganization file but same results.


texts: Repeated SSH password prompt when using config file

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I'm trying to use a simple version of the ~./ssh/config file, but whenever I try to connect to any host listed in the config I am repeatedly prompted for the ssh key password.

I'm not trying to save the password / use keychain like most of the other questions I've seen. I'm just trying to provide the password, but it keeps appearing like it is incorrect. It is not incorrect. I type this password hundreds of times per week, and if I delete the host info from the config file, it works fine. It is only when the host is in the config file that it repeatedly prompts for password.

I have tried rebuilding the id_rsa.pub file with command:

ssh-keygen -y -f id_rsa > id_rsa.pub

I have tried adding this to the config file

Host *
UseKeychain yes

Here's the only thing that is in the config file

Host my.hostname.com
  HostName my.hostname.com
  User myuser
  IdentityFile "~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub"

The user listed in config is not the same user as I am locally, if that makes any difference.

id_rsa & id_rsa.pub are both 600 permission

I'm not really sure where to turn on this. I've done a lot of searching and haven't found anything that seems to be similar. I'm on MacOS 10.12.6


texts: I sold my old iPhone and it says “offline” will texts messages still show up in it?

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I sold my old iPhone to my boyfriends ex girlfriend, I think I went in settings and reset all content and settings.
Will my old texts still be on it? And could it still be receiving my text and iMessages?
On “find my iPhone” the device is on the list, but it says “offline” does that mean I didn’t wipe it correctly and all my old texts and pictures and everything are still on it for her to go through?


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I have a folder of 6000+ PDF files (chapters, articles, etc.). I'm trying to weed out/sort those that I've just downloaded but never annotated. Is there a way to do this? Those PDFs that I've never annotated usually have the same "created" and "modified" dates, so I was thinking those criteria could be used (i.e., look for files whose modified date is later than/not the same as the created date), but I have no idea how to do that.

In other words, I need to be able to find any PDF on my computer that has been modified.

Thank you for any help!


texts: AirPort Extreme: Keep IP address from changing

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I've got an AirPort Extreme base station that I use for several computers and devices.
I set it to configure IPv4 with DHCP, but there's a problem with that: The IP changes from time to time (as reported in AirPort Utility and whatismyip.com).

I need the IP address to stay the same, so I set the AirPort to configure IPv4 manually, and left the settings there that were last setup automatically.

This arrangement worked for a while, but before long the Internet connection cut out (for all computers on the network). I set the AirPort back to DHCP and restarted, which fixed the problem. A day or so later, I switched back to manual mode. The same thing happened.

So, I currently have my AirPort set to configure IPv4 with DHCP. My IP address changes from time to time, which makes it impossible to exclude my traffic from Google Analytics reports. But, if I change back to manual, Internet cuts out after a while.

Does someone know what's causing this and a way to fix it (or otherwise keep my IP the same)?
I'm really bad at this networking stuff, so it's quite possible that I'm fundamentally misunderstanding something. Please correct me if that's the case.

Thanks!


texts: Can I buy songs from iTunes within my iPhone appplication?

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I'm new to iPhone development and sorry if my question sounds stupid. Just wondering is it possible that I can buy songs from the iTunes using my iPhone application I just saw some apps doing the same.

Any help will be greatly appreciated.


texts: Disk format for HDD with both APFS and HFS+ volumes

texts: For a HDD which will have both HFS+ and APFS volumes, is it better to format the disk itself in Disk Utility (on High Sierra) as APFS or HFS+?


texts: Does Homebrew get removed after upgrading Mac OS?

texts: I recently upgraded my Mac from 10.13 to 10.14 and I can't seem to find my Homebrew. /usr/local is practically empty; just MySQL remains. Does brew get removed after an OS upgrade? Should I install it from scratch? What about the packages I installed using homebrew on the older version?


texts: Macports update causes Macbook pro to heat up

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sudo port upgrade outdated

I type the above and the fan on my 2014 Macbook Pro Retina 15 sounds like a jet engine taking off. After about 10 minutes of the fan blowing hot air out of the side of my Macbook Pro, I stop the update for fear of my expensive notebook burning up. How could a simple software update cause such a reaction? This doesn't happen all the time, just if I haven't updated Macports in a while.


texts: How to stop Setup Assistant from showing up on every restart on Mac Mini with OS X Mavericks?

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My Mac Mini is new.
I'm not sure if this issue was already there before installing Server.app.
Unsusual things happen with the system on EVERY RESTART: Messages Agent ask permission to use keychain to which I say "always allow" and it pops up again till I say only "allow"; Dock gets resete (all customization lost); it always notifies me that I can download iwork for free but I already did; it always asks for icloud password. It´s like it resets some stuff every startup.


texts: Reinstalling Everything after HD Replacement

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I'm about to replace my iMac's HD (250GB to 1TB). I'm planning to create an image of my disk right in m Time Capsule, and after the transition I need to clone the HD back.

Unfortunately Lion has no DVD, and I'm not sure if I should create one. Can I use my Snow Leopard disk to boot, and clone the Image to the new HD? Will the Time Capsule (which is connected via ethernet) be visible, and what about the difference between the image and the new HD in size? So, I'm not sure if it will work.

Another option would be to use the Time Machine backup to restore, but I'm not sure if I would trust it.


texts: How can my mid-2012 MacBook Pro Retina 15 run a 4K panel at 30Hz over HDMI?

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I have the first gen MacBook Pro Retina 15" (mid 2012) laptop. I'm on the latest MacOS X (10.9.4).

I just ordered the Seiki SE50UY04 which is a 50" 4K @ 30Hz display.

How can I run that display off my laptop, preferably right off the HDMI port on the laptop?


texts: How should daemons tell users about errors?

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I wrote a bash script that backs up certain files on my computer. To automate the running of the script, I set up an associated daemon that runs the script every day.

There are certain instances when I would like the daemon to print error messages. For instance, my script depends on my directory structure and it will run incorrectly if I move certain directories. If the directories on my system do not match those in the script, I would like the daemon to convey an error message so that I can update the script.

Here's the problem: if I were just running the script in the terminal, I could easily have it print an error message to the terminal. But when the daemon runs the script, it does not print anything to the terminal. (Does the daemon print to anything? Where does the printed text go?)

I can see several ways for the daemon to tell the user about an error:

Use the wall command in the script to print the error to all users
Use the launchctl -list command to manually check the exit code of the daemon (which the user has to remember to do)
Hve the script write to some external, user-created error/log file (which the user has to notice/check)
Use ASL or Syslog (see the Mac Developer Library) to e.g. write the error to an .asl file

Option 1 seems too simple. Options 2 and 3 feel unsatisfactory because they only work if the user remembers to check something. I don't know much about Option 4, but it seems built for more complicated types of errors.

What is the recommended way for a daemon to tell the user about an error? (Is this a question for Stack Overflow?)


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Is there any plugin for iTunes making it possible to tag the music with multiple tags (not ID3-tags or genre)? Just like last.fm does, e.g. "soft electronic african female-vocalist"?  Genres are so totally unusable to use as a music categorizer.

I use iTunes a lot for syncing various iDevices and streaming music to the Airport Express, so I'm not really interested in an alternative app, even though I might be if it supports more or less everything iTunes does and have some more features, but also being compatible with and updating the iTunes library.

A big bonus would be if it's also allowing hierarchical tag structures.


texts: Do the 2013 Time Capsules work as a NAS drive?

texts: Can I partition the 2013 Time Capsules to use some of their storage as a network drive?


texts: How to make Finder search within the contents of files

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In Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard through at least Mac OS X 10.11 El Captain, when you typed in the search box in Finder, a silver bar would appear below it. Starting from the left side of this bar, there is the text Search: and next to it there are two buttons that say This Mac and the name of the current folder in double quotes. In Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, and possible Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, there were two more buttons all the way over to the right that said Names (or maybe it was Filenames) and Contents. If Contents was selected, then Finder would look inside files for the text that is typed into the search bar.

I'm on Mac OS X 10.11 El Capitan right now and there is no such choice of buttons (i.e., between Names and Contents). This has bugged me for several years, but now I'm done ignoring it. How can I make Finder search in files' contents? I presume that on the older version of Mac OS X, when Finder searched file contents, it didn't change the Last opened date of each file, too (which is how I want it). I don't want to use grep or another application. I want to make Finder behave like this. I will only accept an alternative browser application if it is sufficiently like Finder in terms of features and design.


texts: Cannot change anything inside a folder, however it's not Locked and I have all the rights

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I copied several folders from my TM backup (made in El Capitan) to the current system (Sierra), (I also have different username than on the system where I made the backup if that could matter) and now their contents can be changed only via sudo.

I tried running sudo chown -R <my_name> <folder> — no effect at all.
Also tried running find . -exec sudo chown <my_name> "{}" \; from them — again no luck.
Also tried find . -exec sudo chmod u+rwx "{}" \;, sudo chmod -R u+rwx <folder>. Nothing changed anything.

These folders and all their contents show up in Finder as Read&Write for my user, and they also do not have Locked property set. Somehow this is not true in practice.

What can I do to fix this insanity?

I have found only one thing that actually solves it — copy the whole folder, delete old one with sudo, rename it back. But it's impractical for huge folders because it's slow and hurts SSD life.


texts: Dragged pages larger than source document

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I have a 35-page academic paper in foo.pdf created using LaTeX. The full document is 950 KB.

I want to extract the figures and tables at the end of document into a separate file, so I open the document in Preview and drag the pages I need onto the desktop. This creates a new file, foo (dragged).pdf which is 2.2 MB.

How can the last 10 pages of a 35-page document be 2.4 times larger than the original document? Is OSX adding lots of metadata to these pages? I consider this a curiosity more than a problem, but still...


texts: Iphone ringing when husband receives a call

texts: Why is my phone ringing when someone calls my husbands phone? The number shows up on my phone and says "from your iPhone".


texts: I am not able to open a .tgz file on a Mac. I tried unarchiver, stock software, commander, stuffit. What can I do?


texts: Why are these date-stamped docs sorted by name length, not numerical order?

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Here's a list of docs with date stamps at the end of the filename.

Some contained typos (which I'm about to fix) causing them to be one character longer than the others. This extra character changed the sort order in a surprising way.

Why is some name 2015xxx before some name 2014xxxX (when it is after some name 2014xxx)?

I'd expect the length of the filename to make no difference, and for it to sort by first character then second character then third etc. I'd expect all the 2014s to be together, followed by all the 2015s, regardless of length.

This is Finder on Lion. The sort is the same whether it is set to "Name" or "None". Fixing the typos caused the order to behave as expected (2014s then 2015s).

Is this some kind of feature designed to make files like version 9 come before files like version 10?


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I'm trying to copy a large amount of files from a hard drive to a time capsule. Around 200 GB.
Normally copying files in OSX is quite fast and simple, but I found this unmanageable, as before it starts copying it prepares to copy the files, And the number of files to copy slowly increases.

Normally this stage is over in the blink of an eye, but because of the large volume it took more than 20 minutes, I gave up after that.
What exactly is it doing in this time? Why does it need to do that, when I'm simply copying one folder (there is just one folder in the root level of the hard drive) so it knows that all the files are in there.

Is there anyway to skip this process, as it is actually faster, although more time consuming for me, to copy smaller chunks of it, one after the other?

Why can't it just copy all the 1s and 0s across without any of this preparing?


texts: Can't remove stalled "inProgress" Time Machine backup

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My backups stopped functioning.  The error message says problems were encountered when attempt to create the folder for the backup.  I looked at a list of folders and files on the backup drive and discovered a "package" from a few days ago with an inProgess extention.  I tried to drag it to Trash without luck. Then, reading a suggestion (by @grgarside) to another  user with - seemingly - the same issue, I went to Terminal and executed the suggested tmutil listbackups command, but the inProgress package did not appear in the resulting list (perhaps because it's a package rather than a file?)

Despite its path not being listed, I continued to follow the suggestions of @grgarside and executed the sudo tmutil delete /path/to/backup.inProgress command (replacing "path/to" with the path shown on my backup drive), but the result was this: No such file or directory (error 2)

Any suggestions?  Please note that I'm a total novice.  I had never heard of sudo nor tmutil until reading this thread.


texts: Copy filename of file selected in Finder to clipboard using Automator with Applescript

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I'm trying to create an Automator Application that begins with selecting a Finder item.
Before continuing I would like to copy the filename only, not the pathname to the clipboard.
How can I do that?
Thanks very much in advance!


texts: How to create a user without a password in Catalina?

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I have a new computer and want to create a guest user whom's all data is not deleted every time it logs out. On my old computer I just created a user called guest and left the password field empty but now, in Catalina, the password field is required (although my other computer's guest account remain passwordless even after upgrading to Catalina).

Any workarounds? Or can the password somehow be deleted after the account is created?

Please note: the built-in guest account functionality doesn't fit my purpose.


texts: OS X 10.8, unsigned application: reset open confirmation

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When I try to open an unsigned application by double clicking it in OS X 10.8's Finder, it rejects it. When I right-click the application and select Open, it shows a confirmation dialog. When confirming this with "Open", I can open the application the next time.

How I can reset this behavior, so OS X 10.8 will again reject to double-click this application?

I need this to test our application in a default environment without having to reinstall a backup.


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On new Macbook Pro, Power Chime runs. Whenever I delete from core services it comes right back. It makes a sound when plugging in your power cord even when the volume is at 0%.

The solution I have now to disable this annoying sound is an AppleScript application that runs on login to kill the process via terminal. Is there a better way?


texts: Is there a way to effectively diff snapshots of virtual machines in Parallels so as to see what files changed and or file content changes?


texts: As shown in the picture below, within the highlighted green area, is there a way to put a text in the center of the menu bar?


texts: I updated my iPod touch (3g) to the iOS 4, but my hard drive filled up 1/2 way through

texts: Part way through the iOS 4 update on my touch 3g my c: reached capacity. After clearing off some space I restarted iTunes. Now iTunes (and my touch) think that the latest version is installed. The touch still works fine, and it thinks it's running version 4, but it doesn't have any of the version 4 features! Is there anyway to force it to install version 4 again without doing a restore?


texts: How to enable trackpad gestures in windows(bootcamp)

texts: I have used Parallels. Windows installed in Parallel VM supports most of the trackpad gestures( including three finger ). How to enable them in Bootcamp version of Mac. Any external software to enable those features. By default, I only get these features.


texts: MacBook Pro 7,1 OS X upgrade to Lion or Mavericks

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I own a MacBook Pro 7,1 running Snow Leopard 10.6.8 and need to upgrade my operating system in order to allow my kids access Netflix as it says I need to update my browser.

Apple software update says I have latest available software.

Can I download Lion or Mavericks from anywhere?

As I don't really want to risk going to Yosemite in case it renders my MacBook Pro useless.


texts: Internet from personal iphone hotspot not working on macbook air multiple user accounts

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I'm using an Iphone SE to create a personal hotspot from my (unlimited) mobile data.

The issue occurs when connecting to this hotspot with my macbook air running High Sierra 10.13.4

When I connect to the hotspot, it works very well on my own user account either by wifi or through usb.

However, when my wife logs in with her personal user account instead (on the same macbook), web pages don't seem to load. She has connected using wifi and usb. In the network setting everything looks to be working properly, however there just doesn't seem to be any data coming in.

Does anybody has any knowledge why this is happening and how to fix it? thanks!


texts: After disabling iCloud Photo Library, cannot re-enable due to insufficient iCloud Storage

texts:
In an attempt to troubleshoot an apparently "stuck" upload process with iCloud Photo Library, I tried a suggestion I read about in Apple's own forums: Disable and then Re-Enable iCloud Photo Library.

Unfortunately, after doing so, I've apparently run into an unforeseen edge case from Apple. My iPhone refuses to re-enable iCloud Photo Library due to insufficient iCloud storage. The assumption from iCloud seems to be that all my local photos would be "new" to iCloud. In reality, my iCloud storage is adequate, since all my local photos should be detected as duplicates and not actually added to the iCloud Photo Library.

At the moment, it appears my only option is to upgrade my storage just for the purpose of re-enabling this feature. Am I overlooking any other clever solutions?


texts: I cannot boot Ubuntu 16.04 on MacBook Pro(Mid 2012, macOS Sierra)

texts: I had updated my Mac 3 days back from El Capitan to Sierra. I had dual boot(Ubuntu + OSX). Before the update it was working perfectly with default boot as Ubuntu and by pressing option key I had OSX booted. But after the update I cannot boot Ubuntu. I have important files in Ubuntu, please help me.


texts: Folder tree in Finder sidebar (or stuck to Finder)

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Is there a Finder plugin (maybe SIMBL plugin) which allows one to see the directory structure in the Finder's sidebar (instead of Favorites, Shared, Devices) or in an attached window?

Something like this:

There is Cover Flow, but it's not what I need.

Also I don't need any Finder replacement; I just want to fix this missing feature in Finder.


texts: Is it possible to recover a deleted APFS volume?

texts:
Nothing’s been changed or formatted. The “container” is not mounted and the volume I accidentally deleted still shows up in the Boot menu at startup.

How would I go about recovering this APFS volume?


texts: How to reformat a time machine drive to use on a PC

texts: My sister used to be a mac user and recently switched to a PC. She has her mac stuff backed up on  two hard drives, one is formatted as a time machine. We've transferred all her important files to the other one that is not a time machine, so the time machine one is empty. She wants to use the time machine one as a backup drive for her PC but I"m not sure how to get it to reformat... help?


texts: Is it normal for iOS updates to fail or to take hours on launch day?

texts:
After just accepting the iOS 7.0 upgrade dialog on my iPad, the gears spin for a moment and it looks like the download will start, but then the install fails.

Is this something I can fix?


texts: Accessing files on external drive through USB

texts:
I am using a MacBook Pro Late 2011. I lately took out the hard drive and replaced it with a new one. The old HDD still has OS X installed on it, so basically I did nothing before taking it out. Now I want to access some files on it, so I have a SATA to USB bridge. When I spin up the drive, I can find it in Disk Utility and with diskutil list, plus in the system report under the USB tab.

However, when I connect it, I get a message saying "The disk you inserted was not readable by this computer". As a result, I cannot access it in the Finder. I thought that maybe I could boot from the disk because it has OS X installed and all, but the disk is not shown if I access "Startup Disk" in the system preferences. It does also not show if I do a reboot and hold down the option key.

Where should I go from here? Does anyone know how I can read the contents of the disk? It has never been used for anything else than OS X, as it has been in my Mac since I bought it. Ideally, if I could access the files from within my current installation of OS X, that would be perfect, but whatever works...

Any help is much appreciated!

EDIT: The hard drive is a Hitachi 5K750-500 (500GB). It is the standard one that the MacBook was delivered with. The SATA to USB adapter is an ICIDU AI-707944 ("Hard Disk IDE/SATA to USB 2.0 adapter").


texts: How to stop iPhone calls from interrupting bluetooth connection on mac

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I have a Jabra Evolve2 65 headset. This headset is bluetooth-paired with both my Mac and my iPhone.
If I am in a call on my Mac (say, Microsoft Teams or Zoom), and someone calls on my iPhone, the iPhone overtakes the bluetooth connection and start ringing, effectively kicking me out from the call which is running on my Mac. In other words, the iPhone hijacks the bluetooth connection from the Mac while I have a call running on the Mac.
I was wondering if there is a way to configure the bluetooth connection so that it does not interrupt an ongoing call if a call comes in to the other device.


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I can't play any type of media or hear anything (with or without head/ear phones) on my iPod Touch 4th gen running on iOS 6.

I press play on the selected item but the play button immediately turns into a pause button.


texts: How do I delete all files from a directory tree where the filename contains special characters such as öäüß

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I have a problem with my backup program which means that I need to delete all files and folders in a specific directory tree where the filename contains special characters, in my case the German ones such as öäüß and their capital equivalents.

I'd be quite happy to do this using the terminal but none of the commands I have tried has matched any of the files. Can anyone suggest a command I could use which would match these files?

For example, I've tried

find -name *ü*

however none of the files are matched. Any help would be appreciated.


texts: Mac login screen shows 'other..' user, possible malware?

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I was cleaning my mac files in the /libraries/launchdaemons & /launchagents folder with suspicious files. After restarting my mac the "other..." user appeared. My root user is already disabled, does this mean someone is hacking into my mac? If so, how can I fix this?

P.S. I have already deleted recent applications from my mac that may have caused this.


texts: How to disable location services? (MacOSX 10.6.8)

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I just downloaded an application, that asked me permission to figure my location. I said "OK, let's see what happens".

Next thing I know, my lat/long with 4 decimal places and a pin on a Google map precisely show where I live, That's a bit too accurate for comfort. In 10.6.8, I didn't think it would know my location so well.

How did it do that? Did it look up my IP address?
How do I disable that? I definitely don't want any app to know my location (and send it back to god knows who), with or without my consent.


texts: Minimum Charging requirements for an iPhone

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I am making a thermoelectric charger, which uses heat to charge a phone (with a Peltier module) I use a 0.9v - 5v DC-DC booster and it can charge a Samsung. But when I plug it into an iPhone, it sometimes shows "Unlock iPhone to use accessories" and doesn't charge. Other times it doesn't even show anything.

I am testing it on an iPhone 7 and XS. Both didn't work but a Samsung S7 and a power bank charged.
What are the requirements for charging an iPhone and what can I do to fix it?


texts: What are the criteria for when siri speaks a response on the watch?

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iphone 8 running IOS 13.1.2, watch 4 running 6.0.1

If I push the crown and ask "is it going to rain today" I get a graphical response of the "weather circle" set to the precipitation percentage, but no spoken response.

If I push the crown and ask what's the forecast for today" I get the same weather circle, but set to cloud coverage with the temperature in the middle, and a spoken response of "here's the forecast for today"

If I push the crown and ask "is it going to rain tomorrow" it says "sure looks like it's going to rain" and I get the 10 day graphical forecast.

I don't recall what the behavior was in past versions since I didn't really use siri a lot.

How do I get it to say "yes, it's going to rain today" or "looks like clear skies today" or something along those lines?


texts: Can't copy to FAT32 MBR file size more than 2 GB

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For some reason I can't copy file more than 2 GB size on a FAT32 MBR USB.
I thought the maximum file size limit is 4 GiB (exactly 4 GiB-1 Byte)  on a FAT32.
I've reformatted the USB again with Disk Utility, FAT32 MBR.
Same result.

can’t be copied because it is too large for the volume’s format.

Please help. This is urgent. I'm using High Sierra.


texts: Why does my FCE export to DV take forever?

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I am exporting a sequence from FCE 3.5 with these settings:

Export Using QT Conversion…
Quicktime Movie>Options
    Deselected "Prepare for Internet Streaming"
    Video
        Size>Dimensions>"HD 1920x1080 16:9"
        Settings>Compression>Quality>Best

The export progress window pops up and tells me that it will take 9 minutes. Over the course of the next 2-3 hours, it bumps up to 4 hours or so. After letting it sit overnight, the progress window reads 2 days. I have tried this twice and I still get between 44-48 hours in the morning after it has sat overnight. Any suggestions why this would be taking so long?

Computer Specs:
13" MBP running 10.6.8
2.3 GHz Intel Core i5
4 GB DDR3 RAM

EDIT: I am not exporting it to a DV Stream. I accidentally put it as exporting to a DV Stream, but I was actually exporting it to a QT movie.

   Render window after sitting all night (probably close to 15 hours)


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I wanted to create a separate photo album with my wallpapers on my iPhone 4s. So I synced the photos from my computer, but now on my phone I have my "Wallpapers" album and a duplicate album "Photo Library", I tried deleting one or the other but that option is unavailable.

Does anyone know how I can resolve this?

Thanks.


texts: Why are Apple Watch activity rings moving on by themselves?

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I am observing my Apple Watch activity rings are moving insanely. I did talk to customer service they were also unable to help me. Did anyone face the issue before?

What happened today?

I wore the watch to the gym and started the Aaptiv app in my iPhone 7 Plus. In the workout I did use my workout app.
After the workout was over, I found the watch using aaptiv app by itself, no idea how and why?
And my activity rings are increasing insanely.

I did unpair and pair the watch. I uninstalled the aaptiv  app from Apple Watch. But still the problem persists.  I don’t know how to factory reset the watch. I did not try this option.

How can I stop the rings from increasing without any movement?


texts: What does the Delete key do on the English QWERTY keyboard?

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I have a French AZERTY keyboard with a Backspace key (that can be modified with Fn into Delete) and to my surprise I saw on the Apple Store that the English QWERTY keyboard had a Delete key in its place, so I'm wondering if it's really a Delete key (erase right) that can be modified with Fn into Backspace, or not.
Edit: If I try on the virtual keyboard with American layout, the key does erase left.


texts: Excel 2016. Automatically creating ranges based on cell contents then conditionally formatting the range

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I haven't gotten into macro's yet which is why I am asking on here. but I have a spreadsheet that I want to set gradients to a set of diagonal cells but it is very time consuming when you have 60+ columns. I have a template that has the cells numbered diagonally.Here is a small example of the template.

     this goes on currently to 60 both right and down. I can fill in the numbers easily but conditionally formatting them diagonally is going to take a long time. I want to know if there was a way to just select an area and say select all cells in this area that contain the same number and create a defined range named whatever number it is and if that range already exists then add that cell to that existing range.

Example would be take all cells that contain "1" inside range "main" then create range "_1" and add cells to it. then repeat until all 60 ranges are complete.

then I would also need a way to take ranges "_1" through "_60" and easily add conditionally formatting to them for 3 color gradients to highlight the larger numbers in each range once I remove the numbers and replace with a formula. I might have to do this part manually but it would be alot easier if there were already ranges defined for each diagonal so I don't have to go and select area find cell containing "5", define range "_5", then conditionally format for each number 1-60(only 60 currently but it may end up being larger)

example of what one line with gradient looks like. will have gradient on each diagonal. might end up being 3 different colors to easily differentiate between each diagonal so you can tell at a glance what you are looking for.

I can do the gradients manually after the ranges are made.

I know this is most likely impossible but I would like to see as I have a quite a few of these to do and don't enjoy spending hours just formatting hundreds of cells manually.

a simplistic overview of what I need is

for all cells inside range "Main"
read cell
if range "-[cell]" exists
    [
        add cell to range
    ]
    else
    [
        define range named "-[cell]"
        add cell to range
    ]

once all cells are in a range I would like something to do the gradients for me. something like "for each range -1 through -60, do 3 color conditional format"

I know there will be alot more to it than that but that is essentialy all I need.

Let me know if this is impossible. it probably is but there isn't any harm in asking.


texts: Uninstalling all instances of apache, php and mysql

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So When I first got my mac mini, I installed things like apache, mysql and php - not knowing that apple either came with these or had a tool called mamp that would allow you to run these.

I thought this was like ubuntu and I could install and run everything my self. I soon got frustrated and installed mamp on top of what ever I was doing, which wasn't working, and got that to work - Unfortunately a side affect of that was, every time I updated a file or folder on the mamp server, I had to stop, start mamp just for the changes to take affect.

This isn't normal.

So my solution is to uninstall apache, php, mysql AND mamp and then just install mamp and get it working as it should.

How would I do this?


texts: Combining multiple files with same base name into subdirectories named the same

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For each shot, I generate 3 files: a .mov, a .xls and a .mp4
BC_0100_210117.mov
BC_0100_210117.xls
BC_0100_210117.mp4
If I export 100 shots, I end up with 300 files. All of these export into a single holding directory
I want to be able to combine all common name files into their own subdirectory and name that directory the same as the file basename, so I would end up with 100 subdirectories, each with the 3 matching files.


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I have an encrypted APFS volume that I do not wish to be unlocked automatically, however, every time a user logs in on my system they are prompted to enter a passphrase for the volume, every single time.

What I want to know is, is there a way to prevent macOS from trying to unlock specific APFS volumes when a user logs in, or even better, to only do-so if a password is found in that user's keychain (so I can have it auto-mount for some users but be ignored for others)?

I've already tried adding the volume to /etc/fstab with the noauto option, but while all other settings are respected when the volume is mounted, this one is ignored, presumably because unlocking of APFS volumes occurs before the volume is mounted.


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I'm a Windows 10 user, running macOS High Sierra 10.13 via VirtualBox 5.1.28.
I didn't fully understand how to share a folder.
The part that I did understand and did, is:

Devices → Insert Guest Additions CD image...

But then, in macOS, I type in the terminal:

sudo mount -t vboxsf release_builds ~/Downloads/SteamCMD-GUI

And I get the error:

mount: exec /Library/Filesystems/vboxsf.fs/Contents/Resources/mount_vboxsf for /Users/avi12/Downloads/SteamCMD-GUI: No such file or directory

Later, I checked the directory /Library/Filesystems, and found that:

Which means that, there's actually no directory vboxsf.fs, so there would obviously be an error.

The question is then, what part am I missing?


texts:
My MacBook Air 2017 13" has run out of memory. I restarted my computer, opened ONE safari page(stackexchange.com) and got these results.
(macOS Catalina version 10.15.2)
Any recommendations?
Thanks!


texts: Sharing & Permissions has two “everyone” entries, only for applications by Apple

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OS X 10.12.6, Sierra

My Sharing & Permissions says "You have custom access" and it's showing two entries for "everyone" where the first is set to "Custom".

This only seems to be affecting every single one of Apple's applications in the Applications and Utilities folders.  I have no idea what other files are affected but a random search only turned up all Apple applications.  All third-party applications are unaffected.
I did permissions repair using Onyx but it had absolutely no affect on these applications.
I cannot manually change permissions as the minus sign is grayed out after unlocking (see picture).  Even if I could, it would take a very long time to manually find/repair.
I do not know what triggered this problem as I just discovered it today.  However, I recently cloned my hard drive over to a new solid state drive using Carbon Copy Cloner.
I've already followed this official Apple procedure for fixing my Home folder permissions and I don't seem to have any problems there.
Everything appears to be operating, however, I'm seeing some strange problems like my ICC color profile will not stick after a reboot (permissions seem fine in the Library), but the ColorSync Utility instantly crashes when I click the "Repair" or "Verify" button.

I've already found and followed this thread, but the answer did not help.


texts: Will downloading Mountain Lion from Mac AppStore resume if I restarted/shut down the computer?

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I'm about to download OS X Mountain Lion from Mac AppStore, and I wanna know if downloading Mountain Lion will resume if I restarted/shut down the computer?!

Thanks...
Muhammad.


texts: MacBook Pro battery not charging error - long term fix

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I have a 2018 MacBook Pro 13 inch (the one without the touchbar). Over the past weeks, I have twice faced the situation where the charger is plugged in but the battery is draning and I get a "Battery not charging" message if I look at the Activity Monitor or hover over the battery icon.
Resetting the SMC seems to fix the problem but it reappears after a few days. Should I continue resetting the SMC each time or try something else? The laptop has a third party warranty but I cannot leave my home due to the COVID lockdown.


texts: Saved a file in the wrong location and I cannot retrieve it

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I was using ssh-keygen which at some point asked me where I wanted my public key and my identification saved. I typed \ by mistake and the result was:

  Your identification was saved in \.
  Your public key was saved in \.pub.

Now I cannot seem to find them. Can I find out what happened and delete those files? I could not find them with ls -la \. Actually it starts some type of prompt. Any help would be appreciated.


texts: I want to buy Mac Pro. I've found used 1 year Mac Pro with Xeon 3.5 6-core with 2xD500 which is cheaper around 1700 euro then new one. However knowing there's new Mac Pro coming (hopefully) this year I wonder if I should wait. The question is about potential new Xeon and new GPU and how much better in terms of performance it is comparing to old Xeon. Lately all the changes in CPU/GPU are to make them less power hungry rather than having more power so the changes aren't that big. What sort of power difference can one expect comparing new Xeon to the old one?


texts: /StartupItem/ Error, How to resolved the issue?

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I'm using Macbook Pro late 2011 and I'm getting this error in my startup.

I've already performed Repair Disk Permission in my Utilities;
I've also upgraded from Lion to Mountain Lion (10.8.3) but non of the solutions repaired it. I don't want to install fresh Mountain Lion and re-install again, it would be a tedious solution. Any idea how can this be resolved?

Errors Screenshot:


texts:
I'm filling a webpage using Applescript / Javascript,

one of them is a dropdown menu, which I fill with this code :

document.querySelector('select#reasonPopUpButton').value = '18';

the issue is the index change time to time.

Can I select the good menu using the title instead of the index?

Here what I tried so far :

tell application "Safari"
    do JavaScript "document.querySelector('select#reasonPopUpButton').value = 'Unauthorized purchase';" in current tab of window 1

end tell


texts: Time as x-axis in chart with Apple Numbers

texts: I'm trying to make an area chart in Apple Numbers (on Mac) where I have a series of values I want to plot on y-axis against time on the x-axis. Each value has a date that it occurred but the dates aren't equally spaced. Numbers is showing them as if they were equally spaced. Is it possible to plot them relative to their point in time?


texts:
I recently found out that the iPhone keeps (at least on older versions) your location data in a data file:

http://petewarden.github.com/iPhoneTracker/#faq

I have an iPhone on iOS 6 but my consolidated.db doesn't have the CellLocation table. The only table that has Lat / Lon information is Fences, but it's empty.

Has Apple fixed the security hole and stopped recording the data?

UPDATE

I found this article saying that Apple promised to keep the data for a shorter time:

http://www.yourdailymac.net/2011/04/apple-the-iphone-is-not-logging-your-location/

I'd like something more certain about which iOS versions are affected.


texts: 10.9.3 update failed to verify on three attempts, now what?

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I've tried to install the 10.9.3 update three times. Each time, the app store downloads, the machine reboots, and then up comes a dialog complaining that it could not verify the update. Upon clicking OK, it reboots and spends 7 minutes putting things back the way it found them.

Disk utility finds nothing to complain of, and there's plenty of space.

Machine is running 10.9.2, and it is a mid-2011 mac mini.

What do I do?


texts: Mac Mini 2011 and DP video output is unstable - blanks multiple times in 10 minutes

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I brought last year a Mac Mini 2011 (the base model with Intel 3000 HD). Yesterday I brought a Dell U2713H. I now run with two displays connected and the other displays have been reliable before adding the new monitor.

1) The monitor alone with the mac mini works 100% OK no mater the cable i use.

2) To my surprise, when i connect a second 1080p or lower res monitor to the mac mini the Dell monitor goes black for a few seconds out of the blue! Then after say a second or two the image returns. It feels like the cable loses the connection for a moment.

The issue appears ONLY when i connect the Dell monitor with the display port to mini dp cable and ONLY when the resolution is 1440p. If I set the resolution on the Dell monitor to 1080p or 2048x1152, everything works OK.

Tell me your opinion guys, the Mac Mini, the Monitor or the cable is to blame?

Tests also prove that the monitor is OK under windows 7 via bootcamp. It also works OK on a windows PC. It's an OSX compatibility issue (10.8).

This guy got exactly the same problem: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4546769?start=0&tstart=0

and: http://en.community.dell.com/support-forums/peripherals/f/3529/t/19479698.aspx


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I use iTerm a lot and keep the app in the dock. When I first start iTerm, it brings up a terminal window.

If I minimize its window I expect to be able to click on iTerm in dock to bring the iTerm window back into view. But this doesn't always happen. Often it doesn't reopen the window. I'll try clicking on the icon several times but it never opens the window. If I right-click on the dock icon it'll list the open windows. I can select one but it still won't open.

This happen with other apps too. In Messages or Mail, when this happens, I'm forced to select a new message window to get a new window. I'm running High Sierra, 10.13.5 on my iMac. I've tried restarting normal and restarting in safe mod but nothing works. Does anyone have a clue of why this is happening?


texts: Bluetooth headset microphone very low when connected to specific macbook

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I've got two macbooks, one late 2013 model and another newer one that I use for work. I've got a pair of B&W PX7 headphones which I use on my work macbook and phone without any issues.
However, when connecting them to the older macbook, the microphone is extremely low (might not pick up sound at all. Testing in sound preferences gives no indication, but on zoom I will get a weak (one red bar) sound level at times).
I've checked the MIDI settings as well and can't see anything weird. The built-in microphone works without issue. Any ideas?


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I was using gdb recently on my Mac and I was annoyed with the incessant popup which always shows up when I try to use gdb:

I read on StackOverflow that you can make this popup go away with the following incantation:

$ sudo security authorizationdb write system.privilege.taskport allow

It seems to have worked, but now that I'm done with gdb for the time being, I thought maybe it'd be a good idea to reset this authorization rule back to its default value. But, upon inspecting man security I see no way to do this. Is it even possible, and if so, how?


texts: Copy paste a file inside a folder in List view

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I am new to MAC

Lets say I have a folder named outer_folder and inside this folder there is another folder called inner_folder which has a file named inner_file1.pdf

I opened the outer_folder in List view and then clicked on the arrow next to inner_folder and copy pasted the inner_file1.pdf expecting that the copy of the file will be created in inner_folder but the copy was created in outer_folder instead

Is this a bug or is this how MAC is supposed to work? Is there a possibility to change this so that the copy is created in the inner_folder?


texts: Is Jailbreaking And Enabling Bluetooth File Transfer On iPhone 4 Financially Secure?

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I want to use iPhone 4 for sensitive information. Will jailbreaking, downloading unofficial apps (not registered in Apple's App Store) and enabling Bluetooth file transfer cause a chance of sensitive data theft? Can unofficial app turn out to be malware?

Is sim free iPhone already jailbroken?


texts: I recently bought a new iPhone 5. When I was going through my contacts today, I noticed a lot of email adresses stored along with the other numbers. I didn't even know most of them! What has happened?


texts: How can I get a video *into* the photo/video gallery on an iPad or iPhone?

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Let's start by assuming that I have a perfectly compatible file. (In my use case, I was literally trying to get a video I took on my iPhone, that lives in my iPhone photos/video gallery, onto my iPad, so this isn't about conversions or codecs.)

Now, there are many ways to transfer and watch the the video, but I can't find a single darn way to save it with my other videos and photos:

If it's short, or I'm willing to clip it, I can email it to myself, but unlike photos, clicking on a video enclosure doesn't allow you to save it to the native app.    You can open it in vlc, good reader, etc.
If it's under 180MB, I can upload it to Dropbox from the source device (iPhone for me) and then access or watch it on the destination device (iPad for me).  But I can't save it to photos from Dropbox on the iPad

Why do I care, if I can access it and even watch it as described above?   Two reasons:

I like having things organized in one place.   I don't want to have to remember which vids are in Photos, vs. Dropbox, vs. Good reader, etc.
Most apps that use video (including Apple's own iMovie, for frack's sake) can only open and access movies located in the photos app.

Please tell me I'm missing something elegant, if not obvious?


texts: I've lost everything on my iphone4, how do I put my library back? Syncing doesn't work

texts: First my phone said "No wi-fi" so I reset everything on the phone, the phone now has nothing on it & asked me to set it up again. I opted for 'restore from back-up' instead of 'new phone', now it is instructing me to connect into itunes but it syncs all the songs & stops & the phone still instructs me to connect to itunes - I'm going around in circles. I don't know how to get my phone back to how it was. can anyone help please. I don't have Ninety something dollars to call apple for help.


texts: What processes run while my Mac is asleep?

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What processes, if any, run while my computer is put to sleep (not hibernation mode)?

For example, if there's an application which prints a line every second to a file, will it print lines while the computer is asleep? If I have an application running doing video conversion, would it continue its process while the computer is sleeping? If I have an IM application running, will I receive messages while the computer sleeps?


texts: Re-applying ComboUpdate to Sierra after later SecurityUpdates are installed

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It is often said that one troubleshooting attempt for macOS is
The universal panacea for macOS problems: install the Combo updater
On a machine running macOS 10.12.6 an attempt to do so will result in the ominous error message from Installer.app:

macOS Sierra update can't be installed on this disk.This volume does not meet the requirements for this update.
Similar to the error message here on Ask Different: macOS Sierra update can't be installed on this disk.This volume does not meet the requirements for this update

Without giving away the slightest hint at what the requirements really are.
After searching the net it appears in this case to be caused by later SecurityUpdates installed that increment the build number:

If you previously installed Security Update 2017-001; then that's expected, at the moment. The installer script checks for a build version of 16G29 or older; but after 2017-001, you'll be on 16G1036.
Perhaps Apple will eventually refresh the combo package to reflect recent changes.
Apple Communities: 10.12.6 Combo Update, Nov 7, 2017 10:38 AM

The machine in question runs 10.12.6 (16G1408) and had the SecurityUpdate 2018-003 applied. A freshly downloaded ComboUpdate from Apple: Download macOS Sierra 10.12.6 Combo Update Date: Post Date: Jul 19, 2017 reveals an installer package that is dated to 15. July 2017 at 10:19. So, no updated ComboUpdater as hopefully hinted at in the community answer at Apple.
How to fix this situation?
Preliminary ideas: Rolling back a security update seems not really possible. Would just changing the build number of the installed system and then re-applying Combo and Security update solve this impasse?


texts: Exchange Time Capsule hard drive with PS4 Hard Drive

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is it from the data and values possible, to exchange the PS4 and Time Capsule's Hard Drive?
So built in the PS4 the Time Capsule hard drive and in the Time Capsule the PS4 Hard Drive.
Could anyone say me if it so possible and works fine?


texts: 2010 Polycarbonate (White) MacBook: Has anyone tested to run with 2x1600MHz DDR3 16GB memory?

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I am looking to add more RAM to my 2010 Polycarbonate unibody MacBook. It has Core 2 Duo with Nvidia 320M chipset.

I've read that this model can run 16GB RAM (even though Apple states otherwise), and I've seen people running it with 1333MHz sticks instead of the 1066MHz ones as well. macOS reports the memory to be running at 1333MHz as well.

Now my question is, can it run 1600MHz sticks as well? It's much easier to get those sticks nowadays.


texts: Keyboard bugs (some keys doing strange stuffs)

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Since this morning the keyboard is exhibiting some strange behavior:

"!" key is adding a "@" after the "!"
"i" key is adding a tab after the "i"
"k" key is toggling the caps lock after the "k"
"." key is adding a ">" after the "."

and reciprocally:

"@" key is adding a "!" before the "@"
tab key is adding a "i" before the tab
toggling the caps lock is adding a "k"
">" key is adding a "." before the ">"

I'm using OS X 10.8.5 Mountain Lion on an iMac 27" with an Apple USB French keyboard with the numeric pad (see image below).

I saw this article on resetting the keyboard but I don't find /Library/Preferences/com.apple.keyboardtype.plist on my Mac.

Any idea on what I should do?


texts: How long does it take to get confirmation?

texts: I am an iOS developer and I just enrolled in the mac developer program. The site says i'll get confirmation in 24 hours, what is the 'normal' time in which confirmation is usually received?


texts: Why doesn't my iPod Classic show all the songs it holds?

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I recently bought a new iPod Classic 120GB, mainly to use on my Numark iDJ2 but also for general use.

I have it set so that all my iTunes songs are automatically pulled over to it and when I look at its contents on iTunes all my songs are there. However, if I unplug it and then search through it manually, some artists don't appear. (I haven't yet found a pattern.)

The only reason I mention my iDJ2 is that I have Numark's 'Librarian' software installed on my iPod so that the iDJ2 can categorize and play all of my songs. I don't see how it should be responsible for this problem though.

Any help much appreciated and let me know if you need any more info.


texts:
I use KDE4 on my Linux machines, one of the tools I use a lot is KOrganizer. I love its TODO list which supports hierarchical (nested) tasks.

Could someone recommend a similar application for Mac? If it could synchronize with CalDAV server, that would be great. So far I failed to find any such tool.


texts:
I have a folder owned by root:admin. I would like to change permissions of all files inside, so I can edit them without sudo, but recursive chmod fails:

$ sudo chmod -R u+w some-folder/

does nothing. Any ideas how to fix it?

At the same time changing permission to a single file works seamlessly.

Story:

I installed a Python package from GitHub repository via pip, as an editable install. I am contributing some changes to it, but doing sudo for every edit and every git command is not convenient (I guess - neither safe).

EDIT:

$ sudo chmod -v -R u+w some-folder/

returns nothing.

Path is below:

/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/


texts: Dynamically loading an Automator action based on a filename

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I would like to create an Automator action that will load an external Automator action based on a portion of a filename, on folder drag.

For example:

Filename[Type1].xxx
Filename[Type2].xxx
Filename[Type3].xxx

Type 1 - 3 will run a specified automator tailored for that file.  Is this at all possible?


texts: How can I make macOS require my password once per day, before Touch ID?

texts:
My Mac is configured with Touch ID and most of the time I want that, but I want to configure a policy such that the first time I wake it up after 6 AM it requires my password, or such that it requires my password once every 24 hours.

Is that possible? If so, how?


texts: Where is macOS Internet Recovery stored?

texts: I read on another site that you can use macOS Internet Recovery to install macOS on a blank SSD? Where would the files be stored? On the firmware? If there any way that the firmware could be erased? (I.e. would running sudo rm -rf / on the disk also wipe the firmware or is it more complicated than that? Is there any way that the firmware could be erased?). I'm working on a disaster recovery plan incase I ran a stupid command like sudo rm -rf /.


texts: Why is Skype using over 1 GB of iCloud backup data?

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A few weeks ago I began getting notifications warning me that I was running low on iCloud space. I didn't think much of it until I checked my iCloud backups.

To my surprise, between my iPhone and iPad, Skype was inflating the size of my iCloud backups by over 1 GB.

Even more bizarre was that Skype's documents and data were using up 600 MB less on the devices themselves. (Screenshots from Settings -> General -> Storage & iCloud Usage -> Storage -> Manage Storage)

iPhone data

iPad data

The low storage warnings stopped appearing once I stated excluding Skype data from my iCloud backups, but I'm still perplexed as to why it was using so much space to begin with.

Is there a reason why Skype would need over 1GB of storage space?


texts: How to ensure security updates are installed without daytime interruption in macOS Sierra

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I have a Mac running Sierra that runs without any user intervention to control hardware. Every night it is scheduled to reboot and it automatically logs in and opens our control software.

I need to ensure that it automatically installs security updates, but avoid having it automatically restart itself during the day. Is there any way to ensure that any automatically triggered restarts would only ever happen at night?


texts: Getting 10.6.7 Build 10J869 installed on an 17" MacBook Pro 8,3 (Early 2011)

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I have a MacBook Pro8,3 (Early 2011) with 10.6.7 build 10J4139 installed on it and I need to get Build 10J869 installed.

Now, I can obtain a combo or delta update for build 10J869 from https://developer.apple.com/downloads, but neither seem to want to install on top of build 10J4139.

Any suggestions?


texts: How to Disassociate an Apple ID from a work computer

texts: How do I disassociate an Apple-ID from an iMac? I am trying to push updates on a work computer but I can not. I am unable to because a previous employee's apple ID pops up and I do not have the password. Does anyone have any suggestions?


texts: Set Time Machine to backup once per day instead of once an hour

texts: I use Time Machine to backup my Mac (running Mavericks 10.9.1). The backup process runs at the standard once per hour. This often slows down my machine while I'm trying to work on it. Understanding that it will provide less protection, is it possible to adjust Time Machine to backup at a different interval (e.g. once per day) instead of once per hour without installing third-party software?


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Following a factory reset, is my Airport Extreme 2013 no longer forwarding VPN traffic?

For years I have hosted a VPN from my home with various versions of Server.app (currently 5.6.3, latest for High Sierra) on various versions of OS X (currently 10.13, High Sierra) installed on a Mac Mini, wired through various ethernet hubs/switches to an Airport Extreme router (2013, 6th Generation running version 7.7.9).

Recently, my entire network went down.  Before I noticed this was due to a 8 port hub losing power, I factory reset the router (unplugged power, held down reset button, plugged in power, waited for lights to start blinking, and reconfigured router).  Neither the physical topology of my network has not been altered, nor have the IP addresses of devices on my network changed.

Now, everything appears to be working except for VPN.  I have had success forwarding various services (ssh, http, https) from outside the network to the Mac Mini.  I have a forwarding rule for VPN setup on the router (UDP ports 500, 1701, 4500; TCP port 1723), and the VPN service within Server.App enabled on the Mac Mini.  I am able to connect to the VPN service from within my network, but outside the network (e.g., iPhone over cell network) I receive the error message:

  The L2TP-VPN server did not respond.  Try reconnecting.  If the problem continues, verify your settings and contact your Administrator.

Attempting to scan for open ports on the router from outside the network reveals the ports for the other services (22, 80, 443, etc.), but none of the VPN ports (500, 1701, 4500, or 1723).  Attempting to scan for open ports on the Mac Mini from inside the network reveals the same situation.  This is the case both inside and outside the network whether I use my modem's external IP, a dynamic hostname (provided by ddns.net), or a subdomain on a CNAME entry for a DNS record I have control over.

I do not think my ISP is blocking VPN traffic as this setup worked less than a week prior to the network mishap.

I think something has gone wrong on the router.  I have tried these things:

enabled IGMP Snooping as suggested in this post: VPN Passthrough problems with Airport Extreme.
ensured IP ranges do not overlap (as suggested also in above post): wired static from .1 - .49; wireless static from .50 - .99; DHCP from .100 - .199, and VPN on .224 - .254.
ensured Back To My Mac is disabled on the router and the Mac Mini (indeed, I don't believe Back To My Mac exists as such on High Sierra).
taken the router out of the loop and connected the Mac mini directly to the cable modem.  Connections to the VPN succeeded.  This confirms that my ISP is not blocking VPN traffic, that the VPN server is working (for internal and external clients), and that the Airport Extreme is the problem.

Things I have not yet tried:

alternative VPN software (OpenVPN).  I think VPN in Server.app is working as I can connect to it on the internal network.
alternative ports, e.g., on the router forward 22 to 500, 80 to 1701 and 443 to 4500.  I have not tried this because I don't know how to configure the VPN client to try to connect on these ports.  It also seems not possible to configure the VPN server (at least the one within Server.app) to listen on different ports.


texts: Screen freezes but mouse/keyboard/sound working

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Lately I have been experiencing screen freezes when I am playing some games. Screen is locked, only mouse pointer moves. I can still hear and talk through vc and have sound from game. Keyboard is also working( I tested alt+tab + random gibberish on notes and it was saved). Until today I thought that only workaround is to force reboot my Mac but today I tried replugging my monitors and it worked too. I have m1 Mac mini from release day and this problem only showed about 1-2 weeks ago.
My setup:

Mac mini m1
1 monitor -> hdmi -> Mac mini
1 monitor -> hdmi -> usb-c hub -> Mac mini

This happens mostly when playing some games, not all thought.
Having workaround to replug cables is fine for now but I would prefer to fix it.


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My 2008 mac pro suddenly stopped communicating with my monitor(s) - it boots (chimes) but no signal to monitors - I have checked with multiple monitors and cables.

Have replaced the logic board, cpus, operating system (and HDD) and graphics cards but still doesn't work. Diagnostic LED 7 does not come on (GPU) showing it's not recognising the graphics card. LEDs 2,8,9 are on as usual (when diagnostic button is pressed).

Have performed reset of PRAM

My thinking is that the power supply to the PCIE slots is dodgy, but I do not know which cable this is, so I can't replace it.

Any advice would be really appreciated :).

Stay safe.


texts: How can playlists be preserved in iTunes?

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Steps to reproduce.

Turn off importing of tracks to iTunes Library
Import Tracks
Create playlists
Change file names or move files
Have broken playlists

I understand why this happens. It's because of the nature of linked files. Is there any way to have the playlists maintain integrity or fix them?  It seems even when I use iCloud music the playists are "brittle" and can easily break.


texts: Show/Hide only specific hard drives on desktop and/or sidebar

texts: Is it possible to show only specific hard drives on the desktop?  I have a MacPro tower (3,1) with 3 drives. The boot drive is running El Cap, but there is a legacy boot drive that I would like to keep live, but mostly I don't want users to access it.  Can I put the El Cap boot drive on the desktop somehow, but leave off the legacy drive?  Does not seem possible in the GUI, or by directly writing to the com.apple.finder plist.  Anyone have any tricks?


texts: What exactly does Background App Refresh in iOS 7 do?

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I upgraded to iOS 7 yesterday, and I read that iOS 7 allows applications to not only update themselves in the background, but also retrieve current data (like stocks, weather etc.) so they are already up-to-date when I launch them. Nice.

But what if I'm not at home in my WLAN, and my data plan is limited? Are data updates still fetched? As far as I know, app updates only happen in WLANs, but what about weather data etc.? The preferences screen says:

  Allow apps to refresh their content when on Wi-Fi or cellular, or use Location Services, in the background. Turning off apps may help preserve battery life.

Does this mean that apps that use location services can also drain my mobile data plan at will? Can I prevent that from happening (i.e. allow location services but prevent background data updates if not in a WLAN)?


texts: Reformat / resize an external hard drive removed from a NAS

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I have a 3TB hard drive that I removed from a NAS that is only showing as 800MB on my Mac.

Have tried Disk Utility (and terminal diskutil) but the hard drive keeps showing at the wrong size.

diskutil:

Disk Utility (Debug -> Show every partition):

Partition tab:

The disk in question is the one showing as 801.6 / 801.57 GB. It is in fact a 3TB HDD.

I appreciate that this is something to do with Linux and the mac not reading ext2,ext3 etc..

Don't mind losing all the data on the HDD, just cant figure out how to reformat this drive.

Thanks in advance for any help.

EDIT

I believe this could be an issue with the caddy that I am using not supporting HD greater than 2TB.

Will source an alternative caddy to confirm this.

EDIT

This problem was due to the caddy not recognising HDD greater than 2TB. Is a common problem on older hardware.


texts: Mac Pro - some keys in default shift mode

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My Mac Pro keyboard was working fine few minutes ago, but some keys are typing in shift mode now. What should I do to fix it?

I thought of restarting the laptop but suddenly realised I wont be able to log in.

A-Z in non-caps mode appear like:

aBCdefghijklMNopqrstuVwXyZ


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I'm loosing track of all my shared iCloud files throughout my Mac. Is there a way to automatically tag newly shared files with a tag called Shared for example, then remove the tag when it is no longer shared?

I tried creating a Workflow via Automator, but I didn't see anything like this. Is there a way to do this or a better alternative?


texts: User fingerprint sensor to control media playback

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Is it possible to use the MacBook Air's fingerprint sensor to control things like media playback?

I haven't seen anything about this, so I decided to ask here. My guess is that Apple's T2 chip blocks the fingerprint to 3rd party apps, but I'm not sure if I'm correct.


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Connecting my Blackberry to my Mac I'm able to install the drivers that show up and install some software.

But other than that nothing is working.

No device is showing up in Finder.

No Blackberry application added to "Applications".

The only thing I see is the following in /Library/Application Support/Blackberry:

The Device Manager doesn't appear to open anything.

Am I missing something.  This is a work BB so is it possible they locked down the ability for me to see in OS X?


texts: Mac OS reinstall - what to backup for manual restore?

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In the next few days I'll have to reinstall my Mac OS/ Snow Leopard computer.
I'm trying to figure out what to backup first. I’m not talking about the user data but rather OS specific things like in windows ini files, applications settings, some of the registry entries etc.  I'm rather a windows guy and all the Mac stuff is a bit new form me.

The plan is to use a clean install and not the “Archive and Install” option, I’ve read how it works but am not sure how to use such archive anyway. I also plan to do a full OS backup with the TimeMachine in case something goes terribly wrong :) no plans to use it otherwise.

So far I plan to back up the following items (the plan is to restore them all manually, after the install):

OS usernames and passwords,
Network configuration,
Browsers bookmarks (FF, Safari, Chrome, Opera),
Users home folders (just in case, have no plans to use them afterwards really, should be deleted a few days after the reinstall as soon as I know everything works smoothly and I’m not missing any private data),
Xcode developer profiles,
Passwords, keys and certificates from Keychain Access app,
Deauthorize the computer in iTunes.

Am I missing something?


texts: Turn off mac at a specific time to force bedtimes

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I recently turned on a script on my PC to turn off my windows machine at a specific time. It runs as Admin, and I went as far as to make warning pop ups half an hour before hand. It was was easy as you can make scheduled tasks on windows...

However, I write this at 1:30 am. I am sitting watching youtube videos of things I don't care about on my macbook pro. I will be exhausted tomorrow.

How can I do the same for my mac?

I want to turn off the computer, as an admin so it cannot be stopped or delayed. I want to be able to set it to go off every few minutes, even if that means creating multiple routines. I'm thinking it should be a bash script.. but I am surely not the first sleepy programmer that has this need.


texts: How to fix delay between wakeup and password entry

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When booting up my computer, or even just awakening it from a long sleep, it takes a while for me to be able to enter my password. The box is there, but I can't move my mouse or type into the box. My screen is frozen. It usually lasts for about a minute, but sometimes longer.

Any ideas on how to analyze/fix this?


texts: Time Machine for MacOS High Sierra - Delete middle backups only

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I have spent years tinkering with complex features in Windows but am new to the Mac.  Time machine is not as straight forward as it appears.  The scenario I am looking to do, is within the Time Machine application, I would like to delete one or more backups that were made in the middle but leave some of the oldest earliest backups, and of course keep the most current backups.  This is to recover space and keep a record of my system as it was in certain known points in time just in case.  I use an external hard drive that is formatted in Mac format (HFS).

The Time Machine UI permits deleting all backups and deleting all backups before a given point but it does not seem to have an option to blow away just a specified backup (or backups) in the middle.

Is there a way to do this using the Time Machine UI?


texts: How do I schedule a root command to run at intervals?

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I need to run a script in intervals that requires a root user to execute. I created a plist that will call a script in ~/bin/test.sh.

user@MBP:~$ ls -lah ~/bin/
-rw-r--r--   1 root       staff   566B Feb  6 23:44 test.plist
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root       staff    51B Feb  6 23:38 test.sh

Here are the contents:

user@MBP:~$ cat ~/bin/test.plist
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
    <key>Label</key>
    <string>com.test.script</string>
    <key>ProgramArguments</key>
    <array>
        <string>sh</string>
        <string>/Users/user/bin/test.sh</string>
    </array>
    <key>StartInterval</key>
    <integer>30</integer>
</dict>
</plist>

user@MBP:~$ cat ~/bin/test.sh
#!/bin/sh
cp /Users/user/bin/dummy.txt /etc

Then I symlinked the plist in /Library/LaunchAgents.

user@MBP:~$ ls -lah /Library/LaunchAgents/
lrwxr-xr-x   1 root  wheel    31B Feb  5 06:28 com.test.script.plist -> /Users/user/bin/test.plist

But all of this doesn't work. When I look at /var/logs/system.log it just say:

Feb  7 14:42:12 MBP com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[242] (com.test.script`[925]): Exited with code: 1


texts: Thunderbolt Target Display Mode, iMac still running?

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I'm considering getting an iMac to be an external display for my Air via the Thunderbolt cable. When you put the iMac into Target Display Mode is it still available as a headless computer without a display?

UPDATE: close question, but oposite Will my iMac stay on if I use it's display in target display mode for a Mac mini?


texts: Disable screen auto-rotate on iPhone XS Max

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How to disable automatic screen rotate on iPhone XS Max ?
I'm not finding that option to disable it in the settings.


texts: Messages.app AppleScript handler Override 10 second script timeout

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I have a working Messages.app Applescript handler.  Most of the handlers are empty, except the "on message received" handler.  This handler runs a shell script which responds with outputs that are expected to be sent as responses to the message sender.

The issue: My Script takes between 6 and 12 seconds.  In the cases it takes over 10 seconds, Messages appears to have a default Applescript handler timeout of 10 seconds.  After 10 seconds a popup is delivered and Messages becomes unusable until the "Wait" button is pressed.  Upon pressing the button, the handler finishes, and all is well.

Possible Solutions:

Ideal: Disable/Change the Applescript messages timeout.
Make handler script pass enough information to respond to the same message into the script running under nohup or $ [script] & then have the script launch it's own Applescript to respond.
make Applescript try to click "Wait" button in messages before responding (not sure if this would work).

Thank you for any help!


texts: I have iTunes 10.6.1 installed on my Mac. My mac is version 10.6.7, and I cannot upgrade it because it is on an image with software update disabled. I just updated to iOS 6, and obviously can't downgrade. iTunes 10.7 is the first version of iTunes to support iOS 6, and iTunes 10.7 requires Mac 10.6.8. I have access to both Windows and Linux (unrestricted, unlike on the Mac), but my library is stored on an external HDD formated to HFS+ (OS X Extended), meaning it won't work with Windows (I believe the same problem would occur with a Windoes VM in Linux). iTunes doesn't support Linux, so I can't use it there. Is there some other way I could sync them?


texts: My son thinks he lost his iPhone whilst out cycling yesterday-he had no data til he got new months allowance which started today- this morning on find my phone it showed at house but we can’t find anywhere- does it show last place it was in when it had WiFi or is it still here now?- have ripped House apart! Thx


texts: Can't set own self-signed root certificate to "Always Trust" on macOS Sierra

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I have a root CA certificate I created for my personal software development needs. I want to add it to the keychain as a trusted certificate.

I am running macOS Sierra 10.12 which I just installed this morning.

I unlock the System keychain.

I added the certificate to the "System" keychain. It is showing up with a red X and the warning reads that "This certificate was signed by an unknown authority." This is expected.

I right click on it and select the "Get Info" item. A screen appears with trust details. Form the "When using this certificate" dropdown, I choose "Always Trust" and close the window. Nothing happens. The certificate remains untrusted. If I click on "get Info", the setting is still "Use System Defaults".

I was running MacOS X 10.9.5 previously. I had this exact certificate marked as trusted in the "login" keychain.

The same issue happens if I do the above steps in the "login" keychain.

If I select "Never Trust", I get asked for my password and to save settings. However, this is the opposite of my intention. I want to "Always Trust" this certificate. It's as if macOS is shifting its eyes and whistling, making believe it did not see me select this menu item.

What do I need to do to mark my own self-signed root certificate as "Always Trust"ed?


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I've always had an Ethernet cable to connect to, until now. There is a wireless Internet signal at my location but I think this computer may not have the hardware to connect? I don't see the antenna icon that would normally appear in the bar at the top on Wifi equipped machines.

What do I need to purchase for this computer so it can connect to a wifi?


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Every time I plug in a secondary display to my iMac, I manually switch to the display's audio output, and then manually switch it back to my external speakers after I unplug it. Windows remembers sound output preference by display and does the switch automatically for me. I'd like  the same on High Sierra.
In other words, I need the opposite of what people are experiencing in this post.


texts: Finder stacked icons in icon view causes finder to crash

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I have 2,260 photos in my Dropbox Camera Uploads folder. Somehow they all got stacked on top of each other. When the camera upload is complete, it launches the camera uploads folder in finder in this stacked view. This pretty much instantly brings my computer to a halt and crashes finder. I have tried refreshing every plist and cache I could find to get finder to "forget" this stacked view to no avail.

How do I get finder to completely forget all of it's "remembered" view preferences?


texts: Work computer shows "This connection is not private" warning on almost all sites

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My workplace allows me to use a Mac, but doesn't have much experience with them; their support is minimal if well intentioned, and generally as much harm as help. This includes installing antivirus software etc.

Recently, both Safari and Chrome have started showing the "This connection is not private" error with most off-site URLs. This is a recent change, and includes web sites I was able to access last week. I'm running MacOS 10.14.6 (18G87) with all updates.

This isn't a question of our IT deliberately blocking sites, as I can access them from my Windows computer (and in any case it includes sites that are clearly work-related).

In some cases, but not all, I'm able to bypass the warning by following the accepted answer for How do I bypass "this connection is not private" warnings in safari? (i.e. clicking through the "show details" buttons and entering my password), but this doesn't always work, and is pretty inconvenient besides.

I've also tried the other answers from that question, but these do not work. This is perhaps not surprising as that question refers to development work which involves self-generated SSL certificates, and my situation doesn't involve these.

I've also tried turning off antivirus software (insert scare quotes as you like), and that didn't help.

Note: When I look at the certificates on the problematic sites, I see the site's certificate but it's underneath a certificate issued by my workplace, and the browser shows my workplace's certificate as "Untrusted". I don't know how certificates work, but I'm guessing this is the problem and what I need to do is somehow make my browsers trust my workplace's certificates.

Any suggestions for working around this problem?


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I want to have to press the home button on my iPhone 7 iOS 13.5.1 for longer to activate Siri.
At the moment it frequently activates unintentionally because I have a habit of holding the home button for a few moments while lost in thought and exiting my current app.


texts: Can sleep password and screensaver password timeout settings be different?

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In El Capitan, is there a way to separate the request for password when the computer wakes from sleep from the request for password for stopping the screensaver?

See System Preferences --> Security & Privacy --> General tab: checkbox for "Require password  after sleep or screen saver begins."

I would like to keep the password request after the computer wakes from sleep, but I don't want a password to stop the screensaver.


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I have two macbooks. I want them to be exact copies. They have different CPUs, RAM, but they have the exact same drives.

I work on both of them. I never work on them simultaneously.

Can I setup something that will update what is new on the one, to the other?

I start doing something on macbook1, I want macbook2 to receive it via somekind of wireless connection.

I have an Airport Extreme, I can setup FTPs and whatever. Both macs will have high speed internet almost all the time.

I don't think DropBox is a solution. I have a lot of data and I don't want it on dropbox. CCC doesn't work bothways it has a source and a destination. Probably there is something with rsync, but is there an automated solution? OSX Server?


texts: Is there any way to prompt iOS to generate a password when it doesn't detect a New Password/Change Password field?


texts: What to do if repairing one disk made the other unrecognized?

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Originally I had two drives, an HDD and an SSD (my boot drive). The HDD had a 100gb partition on it that used to have windows installed on it, but that partition got locked and became unusable. When I tried to remove the partition I couldn't.

So I restarted into single user mode on that HDD (it also had OSX installed even though it wasn't my boot drive) and repaired the disk using fsck -fy. I then rebooted and couldn't see my SSD, so now I'm on my HDD, and my SSD seems to be nowhere to be found. It's not recognized in disk utility or anything.

Edit with more information: the SSD is running mavericks, and the HDD has 10.8 on it which I think is mountain lion.

Also, in terminal ls /Volumes/ doesn't show the SSD.

After restarting my computer, the disk now shows up in disk utility, but nothing else.

When I run the diskutil list command in terminal, I got this:

/dev/disk1
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *750.2 GB   disk1
   1:                        EFI                         209.7 MB   disk1s1
   2:                  Apple_HFS Macintosh HD            749.3 GB   disk1s2
   3:                 Apple_Boot Recovery HD             650.0 MB   disk1s3

What does EFI mean? is that why it's not working properly? I'm also worried that because I have ReFit on my machine it's messing the indexing up or something.


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My friend's Macbook Air (latest High Sierra) suffers from icons crossed by white lines. It's like couple of lines of pixels missing completely or moved one pixel up.

The Wifi icon in the menu bar shows this glitch when it's alone, but draws properly when we select it. The clearest images go this are finder sidebar  icons (AirDrop, Documents etc) and menu bar icons (wifi, battery etc).

Some things to note:

We installed vanilla High Sierra and it still shows up.
Booted to Recovery Mode everything looks fine.

What might cause this so we can fix it or simply know the cause?


texts: Text substitution does not work with Slack on Yosemite

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I have a text substitution setup within the System Preferences. This works most places within OS X as far as I can tell, but it does not work in Slack. (Their native app for OS X version 1.1.4 - 2814)

Does anyone know why?

UPDATE
It looks like this is not specific to Slack at all


texts: can't sync Calendar events from Mac to iPhone

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Mac running OS X 10.8.1, and iPhone 4 running 5.1.1. Since upgrading to OS X 10.8.1 from 10.7.4, I can't sync Calendar events from the Mac to the iPhone. The opposite direction works just fine. I am using iTunes for the sync via USB, all calendars are checked in iTunes to be synced.

Any idea what may be going wrong?


texts: Airdrop Alternative for Windows/Mac/Linux?

texts: I am looking for something that does the same thing as Airdrop that would work on Windows/Mac/Linux. Because of hardware it would most likely have to be LAN-based, but I am perfectly fine with that. Anyone know of such a program? Thanks :)


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I have been trying to do a restore for a week and it continues to fail. I will post pictures below but in a nutshell I had a 1 TB drive in my MBP that was almost full. While it was taking an update a few weeks ago it became corrupt. I used the Time Capsule sucessfully to restore the drive and used it for about two weeks before attempting this HDD upgrade to the two TB.

This time the restore will run overnight or 1 hour or any random amount of time before I get the error message. I thought perhaps that I had a heat issue so I’ve moved things around to keep both the MBP and the TC cool.

It almost finished last night after placing the old HDD in and doing a inspection of the backup on the TM. It was actually doing a “clean up to the restore” when I went to bed only to fail again.

I am trying this using the Ethernet port although the back ups were done via wireless. My MBP is a late 2011 model and the TC was purchased in 2012. I still have the complete 1 TB HDD that I can fall back on if need be. Any advice is greatly appreciated.


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Highlight drop down menu is greyed out on OS X 10.10.5 in my preview.app.

I understand that's where the Alpha tool is? Suggestions please for gaining access to that menu command?


texts: iPhone 6 contacts appearing that I don't know

texts: I have contacts appearing in my iPhone that I didn't put there and don't know. How is this happening?


texts: My spacebar is broken, want help remapping it to my Option key

texts: I recently broke my space-key I've copied the space and I paste it to get the space when I'm typing. Can I get help mapping my key with Karabiner for Mac or any other key-mapping software?


texts: How do I type + (plus) character on a Swedish Apple Wireless Keyboard using US keyboard layout?

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I feel stupid asking this, but my thorough troubleshooting and Google searches rendered no clues…

I'm trying to get to grips with Vim (MacVim) and I've set up Keyboard Maestro to automatically switch to US Extended when MacVim activates – conversely switching back to Swedish Pro when leaving MacVim.

(Works flawlessly and is very neat since Vim's default shortcuts poses a fair amount of discrimination towards non-english users.)

Dismayingly, however, when using US layout I couldn't find a way to type a simple + character… Anyone out there (presumably swedes but others too) who can shed some light on this?


texts: declare -x messages appear in my terminal. How can I get rid of it?

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declare -x Apple_PubSub_Socket_Render="/tmp/launch-qoybJQ/Render"
declare -x Apple_Ubiquity_Message="/tmp/launch-DWchNf/Apple_Ubiquity_Message"
declare -x COMMAND_MODE="unix2003"
declare -x DISPLAY="/tmp/launch-zF43Un/org.x:0"
[...]
declare -x TMPDIR="/var/folders/43/z74xnym15tg55c3kyl0c05340000gn/T/"
declare -x USER="reshad"
declare -x __CF_USER_TEXT_ENCODING="0x1F5:0:0"

These messages appear in Terminal, how can I get rid of them?

Here's my whole bash_profile:

export PATH=/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/mongodb-osx-x86_64-2.0.2/bin:$PATH

# Aliases
alias apache="sudo apachectl restart"
alias httpd.conf="mate /etc/apache2/httpd.conf"
alias php.ini="mate /etc/php.ini"
alias bash_profile="mate ~/.bash_profile"
alias reload="source ~/.bash_profile"
alias vhosts.conf="mate /etc/apache2/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf"
alias vhost="mate /etc/apache2/vhost"
alias hosts="mate /etc/hosts"
alias php.ini="mate /etc/php.ini"
alias mysql="/usr/local/mysql/bin/mysql"
alias mysqladmin="/usr/local/mysql/bin/mysqladmin"
alias cms="cd ~/Sites/cms"
alias webapps="cd ~/Sites/webapps"
alias zf="/Library/PHP/Zend/bin/zf.sh"
alias mysqld="mysql -uroot -p"
alias reload= "source .bash_profile"

# Git
alias gst="git status"
alias gl="git pull"
alias gp="git push"
alias gd="git diff | mate"
alias gc="git commit -v"
alias gca="git commit -v -a"
alias gb="git branch"
alias gba="git branch -a"

# SublimeText
export SUBLIME_HOME="/Applications/Sublime Text 2.app"
export PATH="$PATH:$SUBLIME_HOME/Contents/SharedSupport/bin"

# MySQL
export PATH="$PATH:/usr/local/mysql-5.5.20-osx10.6-x86_64/bin"
source ~/.git-completion.bash


texts: Will the new iPad Mini update to iOS8 when activated the first time?

texts: My boyfriend bought me an iPad Mini last September and until now it is on the box he didn't open it because he wanted me to open it on my own, but the thing is the iPad will arrived here in the Philippines on December. My question is when i open or turn on the ipad is it updated to ios 8 right away or I will be the one to update it?


texts:
I'm currently waiting for iOS 7.1, so I jail broke my phone to test out some features until then.

What happens after I try to update to the new iOS ? Will I lose all pictures/data that I've created after my recent backup ? Or will I retain them and just lose the jail break ?


texts: How can I tell which volume the operating system is on?

texts:
I'll admit that I am kind of rolling multiple questions in to one here so please forgive me and try not to knock me for it.

I am new to Mac but I'm trying to port one of my Java applications to OS X. On Windows, it uses the hard drive serial number for something and I'm looking to do equivalent in Mac using the Terminal!

The close thing I can find is the volume UUID using diskutil info ..., which is fine (as long as this will always stay the same?): so my main question is which volume I should use, seeing as though three appear when I type diskutil list? Obviously it needs to have a UUID, but I would also like to use the volume that is least likely to change, which would seem to be the one with the operating system on to me!

So I would like to know which volume is the safest for me to use for this purpose, and if it varies on different computers - how to find it!

Thanks in advance


texts:
macOS layman here,
I'm trying to block websites natively with mixed results through Terminal using sudo nano /etc/hosts
My syntax is
127.0.0.1 www.website.org
::1 www.website.org

I've tried various iterations, with space, with tab, but there's a pesky little website that I can't manage to block.
eg. I've blocked lichess.org but haven't managed yet to block 4chan.org. I've searched the web but I didn't get any wiser. I don't understand how I can block one site with exactly the same syntax but I can't block another.
macOS Big Sur Version 11.2.3 (20D91) / Safari Version 14.0.3
Ideally I would like to do this on the back end without using Screen Time or Parental Control. Any help is appreciated.
EDIT:
127.0.0.1       www.4chan.org
127.0.0.1       4chan.org
127.0.0.1       https://www.4chan.org
127.0.0.1       https://4chan.org

127.0.0.1       https://boards.4channel.org
127.0.0.1       https://boards.4chan.org

::1             www.4chan.org
::1             4chan.org
::1             https://www.4chan.org
::1             https://4chan.org

::1             https://boards.4channel.org
::1             https://boards.4chan.org


texts: Safari quits and then "Apple wants to make changes"

texts:
Every so often, at least once a day it seems, Safari closes itself and then I get a pop-up prompt "Apple wants to make changes", asking me for my username and password to ... I guess authorise these changes.

I haven't been entering my username and password, I'm honestly wondering if it's a virus or so.

If I close the prompt it reappears, for a total of three appearances.

Then it won't reappear, at least immediately.

I can restart Safari at that point. Then the prompt reappears again, three more times.

What's going on and how do I stop it?

Currently I have Safari 13, but this happened since at least Safari 12 (it updated recently but was happening before then). I don't recall this happening before I got Mojave (but it might not be a Mojave-only issue).

Found this answer on the site for a different (v similar?) question, but those malicious files don't exist for me:

$ ls '~/Library/Application Support/com.SearchSystem'
ls: ~/Library/Application Support/com.SearchSystem: No such file or directory
$ ls '~/Library/LaunchAgents/com.SearchSystem.plist'
ls: ~/Library/LaunchAgents/com.SearchSystem.plist: No such file or directory


texts:
I just got a new Mac Air for my wife. Every time she starts it up (after installing software, crashes, whatever), it starts up logged in as administrator. This confuses my wife no end (where did all my stuff go?)

How can I make it just go to the login screen?


texts: Routing Audio from MacBook into iPhone 11 mic as input

texts:
I am trying to route audio from my MacBook Pro (2015 running macOS Mojave 10.14.6 (18G8022)) to my iPhone 11 pro max as its audio input (its microphone).
For example, I would like to play music from my iTunes or Spotify to my phone that is on a phone call (or even zoom/teams call). This can be wireless or through a lightning cable. I've been researching about it for hours and have not been able to find a solution. Is there any software that can do this?