texts: Optimal configuration for MacBook with small SSD and big HDD?

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I am looking for an optimal configuration for a MacBook Pro that was converted to have two disks: primary one one SSD of around 100-200 GB and second one of 500-750 GB (the original drive that was moved to the DVD bay).

Objectives:

Maximize battery life - the secondary HDD should be used in such way that the OS will use power management on the disk.
Keep big files that do not need fast access to the HDD, this includes: pictures, music (iTunes), movies, downloads.

So, what mounts should be made and how?


texts: Missing two of the black "feet" at the bottom of my Macbook Pro/Started making a clicking noise inside

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I noticed a clicking noise comming from the underneath the keys around the number 5, 6 and 7 (make a circle with your thumb and pointer finger around those numbers, and thats where the sound is comming from). It mainly does it when I tilt the MBP back and forth or left and right. I turned the computer over and noticed the black foot on the front (nearest the spacebar, not the screen) left side was gone. The one on right has been missing for a while but it has a black "stick" in the center where the hole is.. But the one that I noticed is missing today doesn't have that "stick" in the hole and I can see right into the computer. I have put black duct tape over it to prevent any dirt or anything from getting in there. The noise has actually stopped, unless I tilt it forward nearly upside down..

1.) Does someone has any suggestions on what I can do to fix this myself?

2.) Is this harmful to the MBP?

3.) Is it okay that I put the duct tape on the "feet" holes tempararily?

4.) Should I try taking the bottom panel off my MBP and see if that little black stick fell inside?

P.S. - Please don't suggest going to an Apple store or Genius Bar because I'm in Laos (South East Asia) and there is none of which anywhere near me. It will be 20 days before I get somewhere that has an Apple store. Do you think the computer should be okay until then?

-Macbook Pro 13" 2009, Mac OS X Lion 10.7.5.


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I am a student who is looking to buy a Macbook. My budget is 1200 USD.

I will be using it for programming mostly.

I came across 2 laptops:

13-inch MacBook Pro Item Price:$1,134.00
  Hardware
2.5GHz Dual-core Intel Core i5, Turbo Boost up to 3.1GHz
8GB 1600MHz DDR3 SDRAM — 2x4GB
1TB Serial ATA Drive @ 5400 rpm
SuperDrive 8x (DVD±R DL/DVD±RW/CD-RW)

Air:

13-inch MacBook Air Item Price:$1,149.00
Hardware
1.6GHz Dual-Core Intel Core i5, Turbo Boost up to 2.7GHz
Intel HD Graphics 6000
8GB 1600MHz LPDDR3 SDRAM
256GB PCIe-based Flash Storage

Macbook Pro seems like it has more processing speed & more storage. However, Air Model has a Flash storage.

How much difference does the Flash Storage make? Is it worth sacrificing on clock speed for flash storage?


texts: Do the “Print to PDF” / “Save to PDF” options embed fonts in the PDF file?

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Specifically:

When doing this within the MS Office suite (Powerpoint, Word etc.), does the font get embedded within the PDF?
Does Preview.app embed fonts when “Saving as PDF”?
If I’m generating the PDF on a Mac, when I view it on other Macs and PCs, would the fonts be embedded?


texts: Can I control broken iPad from computer?

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My iPad's touch screen was broken about 1 year ago. I've dropped bottle on the screen and now the touch screen not working. I've sent it to service but the service hadn't repaired it, but the iPad is still working without touch.

Is it possible to control the iPad from my PC? if it's possible, I'd like to install an app called Duet Display to use my iPad as a second monitor.


texts: Synchronize only selected Google contacts on iphone

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Following these instructions, I was able to synchronize all my Google contacts to iOS.

However, this bundled together all my Google contacts: people without phone numbers, people I haven't communicated with in years, etc... I was hoping to see only my frequent contacts list.

Is it possible to only synchronize a selected group of contacts on the iphone? Alternatively, can I only show a few of the groups, as is possible with iCloud contact groups?


texts: Seemingly unrelated keyboard shortcuts conflicting

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I got a new work laptop (old machine died) and I'm trying to set up 1Password's keyboard shortcuts. On my old machine I had 1Password's autofill feature hooked up to ⌘ Command⌥ Option\. Today, I tried to enter that as the key chord for 1Password and was greeted with an error that ⌘ CommandC is already in use as the shortcut for "Copy" and can't be used by 1Password.
That's fine, I can figure out another shortcut to use in the short term, but I'm very confused as to why ⌘ Command⌥ Option\ maps to ⌘ CommandC. I have confirmed that this mapping does exist/work properly, ⌘ Command⌥ Option\ does copy text on my machine, but it's a brand new computer and I didn't set up that override, so I'm very confused as to what's happening.
Any explanations would be appreciated.


texts: Missing driver for printer - adobe postscript

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I have a Panasonic Workio 190 Printer.

It doesn't seem like there is a Mac driver (I'm on Mavericks). The only thing there is, is a Adobe PostScript Driver:

I've never come across this kind of driver before and I don't want to go and install the wrong thing. Is it saying that this driver would allow the printer to work with my Mac, and are there any disadvantages to using the Adobe PostScript Driver? It seems like the only option I have at the moment.

Any input would be much appreciated as to whether this is the software I need.


texts: Keyboard shortcuts for dynamic menu items (Keynote)

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I often find myself creating Keynote presentations with lots of extra slides.  I then go through and skip a bunch for a particular class.

To make this slide choice easier, I added a keyboard shortcut for the "Skip Slide" and "Don't Skip Slide" menu commands.  Unfortunately, they don't work consistently.  In fact, it only seems that one at a time will work, which I think is a function of the fact that the menu item changes based on whether the selected slide is set to be skipped or not.

If a slide is selected that is hidden, the "Slide" menu will show "Don't Hide Slide."  If I look at the menu by clicking "Slide," then the "Don't Hide Slide" keyboard shortcut will work.  But, then if I select a slide is that is not hidden, the "Hide Slide" keyboard shortcut won't work.  I can get it to work by opening the "Slide" menu (where I can verify that it shows "Hide Slide" and my keyboard shortcut).  But, after that, the "Don't Hide Slide" keyboard shortcut stops working.

My question then: How do I get to use a keyboard shortcut for a menu item that is not in the menu at a particular time?


texts: How can I block a given DNS from being used?

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When I get a list of DNSs that OS X is using, it shows 3:
Two from my ISP, and one is 192.168.1.1.

Is it possible to prevent OS X from using the third one?


texts: Don't really want to delete things but I cannot get OS 8 on phone due to lack of space. Have backed up phone using i tunes to the mac but don't know what to do after that. Can I delete music or photos and get them back easily after the download?? All the sites addressing this are confusing.


texts: Encrypting issue, laptop restarting all the time

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I started an Encryption process on my 12TB RAID 1 LaCie 2Big (APFS) a few days ago. The drive contained 2.5TB data.

The laptop was crashing and restarting several times. Then I plugged the drive into my iMac 2011.
The iMac is not restarting, but the process is extremely slow. It seems I would need weeks or months to finish.
Since that I have deleted 2TB data, only 500GB left (the most important ones), but the process didn’t speed up.
I’m trying to copy the data to another drive, but it shows that many files are corrupted; therefore I can’t even copy the files to another drive.

Can anybody give advice what to do? I would like to copy the data to another drive and to try to format the LaCie 2 Big, though I don’t know is it possible while this never-ending encryption is ongoing.

I’m on a late 2016 MBP, running High Sierra. Many thanks!


texts: I selected "manually release this version" - what next?

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I submitted an app to itunes connect. As I remember, I selected the aforementioned field instead of the other one with automatic release. Now my app status is ready to sale, what should I do next? Where should I "manually release" it? I can't see such option in itunes connect.

Thanks in advance


texts: Cannot type non-english text in html password fields

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When focus is on an html password field, the input languages options are limited to those using the Latin script only. If the language selected is some other language using a non-Latin script, like Greek, before going into the password field, it is automatically switched to one for Latin when focus goes onto the password field. This happens on all browsers I've tested: Safari (8.0.5), Chrome (51.0.2704.103), Firefox (47.0). I've tried it on Mountain Lion, Yosemite and EL Capitan.

I have tried disabling the keyboard shortcut for switching languages but the problem remains.

The option "Automatically switch to an document's input source" mentioned here is not enabled.

The non-english languages are simply disabled when focus is on a password field.

Here is a minimal html document which demonstrates the problem:

<form>
  First name:

  <input type="text" name="firstname">

  Last name:

  <input type="password" name="password">
</form>

Here is a screenshot when focus is on the password field:


texts:
I'm trying to install CouchDB using Homebrew but it gives me the following error:

Error: couchdb dependency spidermonkey was built with the following
C++ standard library: libstdc++ (from clang)

This is incompatible with the standard library being used
to build couchdb: libc++ (from clang)

Please reinstall spidermonkey using a compatible compiler.
hint: Check https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/wiki/C++-Standard-Libraries

I went to the given URL and yes: I am on Mavericks GM.
I tried a complete reinstall of homebrew but that still gives me the same error.

But how can I reinstall Spidermonkey with libc++?


texts: I am fairly sure MobileMe (and possibly Mail.App) had a feature which allowed you to send a non-delivery notification for an email. This is possibly the best way to battle spam, however I can not find this feature anywhere now. Has it been removed or is it hidden somewhere else?


texts: I hate that the caller id display moves across screen

texts: I have an iPhone 6s. Ever since the last update, when I get a call, the caller ID display moves across the screen like a news ticker. Instead of just glancing at it, I now have to wait for the number to complete its movement to see it.  Is there any way to get it back to just appearing all at once so I can see it?


texts: How to use a 3 TB hard drive on a MacBookPro7.1

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I have bought this hard drive: Seagate ST3000DM which is a 3TB 3.5" hard drive. When I connect it via a USB2 docking station, here is what OS X sees:

Disk Description :  ST3000DM 001-9YN166 Media   Total Capacity :    801.57 GB (801 569 726 464 Bytes)
Connection Bus :    USB Write Status :  Read/Write
Connection Type :   External    S.M.A.R.T. Status : Not Supported
USB Serial Number : (removed)   Partition Map Scheme :  Unformatted

Is there a software solution to this problem ? I have seen solutions that imply to buy a USB3 docking station but MacBookPro 7.1 only have USB2 ports.

Is there an hardware solution that don't imply buying a NAS, which is about two or three times the price of the disk itself ?


texts: How do I stop Time Machine swamping my wifi network?

texts: I use Time Machine to back up my MacBook Air to a Synology DiskStation NAS. This works fine, but because of the layout of my home I have to connect to my home network wirelessly. This means that when Time Machine is running a backup, it can swamp my wifi and stop other devices getting a decent throughput. Is there anything I can do to fix this? Is it a question of throttling Time Machine on my Mac, or should I instead set priority rules on the router itself? Or take a different approach entirely?


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I have two tables such as

            Var_A   Var_B
5. Jan 2017 33.3    2.22
5. Jun 2017 44.44   3.33

            Var_A   Var_B
5. Feb 2016 22.2    5.55
5. Jul 2016 27.2    4.44

and I would like to plot them in one plot (scatter, line) that shows both variables Var_A and Var_B on the y-axis and one continuous time axis (x-axis).

How close can I get to this with Numbers v 4.3 on macOS?


texts:
I lost my old router, and I need to know its MAC address, only info i got is the log of my Mac (Yosemite), i have found that with this command i got a lot of info about the preferred networks (saved networks) on my Mac.

defaults read /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.airport.preferences KnownNetworks

And it outputs something like:

"wifi.ssid.<77696669 2d756e65>" =     {
    AutoLogin = 0;
    Captive = 0;
    ChannelHistory =         (
    );
    Closed = 0;
    CollocatedGroup =         (
    );
    Disabled = 0;
    LastConnected = "2014-09-19 19:20:23 +0000";
    Passpoint = 0;
    PossiblyHiddenNetwork = 0;
    RoamingProfileType = None;
    SPRoaming = 0;
    SSID = <77696669 2d756e65>;
    SSIDString = "heeeyomywifi";
    SecurityType = Open;
    SystemMode = 1;
    TemporarilyDisabled = 0;
};

But i see no MAC address :(, could this be done? or shall I search somewhere else?


texts: Cannot install Ubuntu One - nowhere to drag to?

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I am trying to install Ubuntu One on Mountain Lion. I follow the instructions here but when I open the DMG file, I can see nowhere obvious to drag it to as below:

I can run it fine by double clicking, but then I cannot unmount the DMG and Ubuntu One doesn't open when I restart, so it's not really properly installed. Any ideas? (maybe this is a noob question, I'm new to OSX)
Thanks!


texts: Missing ntlm_auth when running app with Wine

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I installed Wine using the .pkg from their website (installing the necessary dependencies like XQuartz beforehand). I was able to run the installer of the Windows app with no problem, but when I try to run the app itself I get:

err:winediag:SECUR32_initNTLMSP ntlm_auth was not found or is outdated. Make sure that ntlm_auth >= 3.0.25 is in your path. Usually, you can find it in the winbind package of your distribution.

Some googling around suggested that this might be due to not having Samba installed on my system. I installed it and started the Samba server, but I still get the same error. Any ideas about what else I could check?


texts:
Is it possible to find the location of an iPad via Dropbox activity?

We are looking for a 'lost' iPad and don't have any other app that might be able to give us information.


texts: Installing software while logged into admin vs standard user - what difference does it make?

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What difference does it make which account you're logged into when you perform an installation? I'm running 10.8

Just curious.


texts: Finder sort order not alphabetical (again)

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I know you might be annoyed by those questions, but here is my specific problem:

A list of PDFs, which is in no explaineable way ordered non-alphabetical. It is consistent between list and column view. Does anyone see the logic behind this or knows a fix?

The naming pattern is Konto_cccccccc_Auszug_20XX_NNN.PDF where cccccccc is the account number, XX is the corresponding year, and NNN is the number of the statement, padded with leading zeros. The visible part is Konto_ccc and XX_NNN.PDF. All statements are from the same account (thus have the same number).

As visible in the image, the last two statements from 2017 are at the top. This happens with no other 10th and 11th statement though. Also 2018_001 is at the top, below the last 2017 statements (wich is correct, relatively).


texts: iOS Mail is not text wrapping on some email replies

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Writing a new email on the iOS Mail app does the proper text wrapping once typing a sentence reaches the right edge of the text editor. Replying to an email may do this too, but that is not always the case.

It seems like desktop browser created long standing Gmail threads or perhaps threads with images  or larger HTML widths are more likely to create this issue when trying to reply through the iPhone app.

iOS Outlook seems to handles text wrapping properly:

Some people think this is not a bug, while some are infuriated about it. I tried turning OFF, then ON the Increase Quote Level, without success.

obs: this was tried on iOS 13.3.1.


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I tagged all my 3rd Party Applications with a tag called "Third Party" and then did a search in Finder for all applications with this Tag and saved the search. It seemed to work.
Then I noticed that some preference panes that were third party weren't included. So I removed the "Kind" search criteria and still no preference panes. I checked the Finder sidebar and there is a tag for "Third Party" and it does have the preference panes included.
I tried a new search with Kind = "macOS Preference Pane" but that returned nothing, even though I copied that from a 3rd part Preference Pane's Get Info window.
What is going on?


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How do I remove Safari from my Mac, OS 10.14.3?  Is this at all possible?

I have tried to drag it to the trash bin and it does say Safari is required by the OS but I wondered whether there was a way round this at all.

I've also tried sudo rm -rf Safari.app/ but it says operation not permitted


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Apple released iTunes update yesterday. Is iTunes on Windows store up to date? In store release date says 2017.
Is Windows store version updated same day as desktop setup release?
Are store apps updates checked, pushed automatically?
I forgot that I installed store version, ended up downloading exe then only I remembered that I'd installed store version.
It seems Apple removed check for updates in iTunes menu.
How to know if my iTunes is up to date?


texts: Keyboard, trackpad stops functioning on Yosemite when USB smartphone plugged in

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I am using a Retina MacBook Pro 15" Mid 2014 with Mac OS X 10.0 (Yosemite) installed. When I plugin my Android phone via USB, the trackpad and keyboard stop working. Things are still happening on the screen, though, so it's not completely frozen. The only button that works is power button. It happens like 20% of the time I plugin a smartphone. Tried various phones and the issue is still there.

dmesg: http://pastebin.com/sRU5gKTd


texts: How can I have an iTunes DJ-style playback on my iOS Device?

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I use iTunes DJ pretty frequently, it serves a great purpose for when you have no specific artist/album you wish to listen to, nor a loose collection of songs based around a single genre (Genius).

This issue is at it's worst when I'm driving, and wish to listen to music; Voice Command only gives me the ability to pick an artist, album, or playlist.

How best am I able to create something which uses my entire Music library, and can quickly, easy, and perhaps most important of all, safely, begin playing any random item?

Additionally, shuffle should be turned on, or some other aspect of randomization should be used as part of the accepted solution. One other important aspect is that I've explicitly mentioned the use of Voice Command, which only exists on an iPhone (3GS and 4).


texts: Why does Cellular Data usage summary include WiFi data?

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Under Settings -> Cellular Data there is a nice break out of how much data each app has used.  I expected this to allow me to identify which specific apps were using the most cellular data so I avoid overage fees.  My carrier tells me how much data I have used, but only gives a general category of where my data is going, which is useless for this purpose.

However, I have only had the phone a couple of weeks, and it is claiming I have already used 17.4GB of data.  However, per my carrier, I have actually used only 150MB.  It is obviously counting WiFi in the cellular figures.  But why?  Am I looking at the wrong spot?  Is there a bug in iOS?  Something I am doing wrong?  Something I need to enable? Could it be counting previous months on a different phone and need a reset somehow? Shouldn't it reset every month?


texts: Command + Tab won't restore a minimised app

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I'm on a Mac for the first time in 25 years. It is running macOS Sierra version 10.12.6.

When I press Cmd + Tab on the keyboard, I can cycle through the open applications, but if I Tab and release Cmd key on an app that is minimised, the minimised app won't open.

Is this the normal behaviour?


texts: Symbol/Special Character use in OS X and iOS

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I am looking to insert a special character or symbol into my documents, which are intended to be markdown formatted text files.  The symbol is intended to be used to represent a tick box or other tick/cross visual symbol (either empty, or actually ticked).  Examples provided below (inserted using Edit > Special Characters in Safari)

☐☑☒✓✕❏

Once I have used it in a file, I want the symbol to be readable regardless of whether I view the file through an app in either OS X or iOS, as well as capable of being inserted from any source including the iPhone keyboard

What is the best method of ensuring consistent input and viewing of such characters works across the board, is there a particular font family or Unicode code that will enable portability across my devices, and is there a simple way to insert them, possibly via text expander or autocorrect if they are not on the main keyboard?


texts: How to read 3.5 inches Floppies with 1.7MB on them?

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I have an external floppy drive (Teac FD-05PUB) that reads 1.44MB Floppies fine when they are formatted normally (classic 1.44MB MS-DOS format) but fails when floppies have 1.7MB on them (Microsoft's DMF 1680K format).
How to do that?


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What necessary and sufficient steps can one take, from the software side of the device, when (s)he is purchasing a used Apple Watch, to make sure the Watch is what the seller is claiming it to be?

Are the steps different for GPS and GPS + Cellular models?

I have never used an Apple Watch before. Would just syncing up the Watch my iTunes be a necessary and sufficient way to ascertain if the Watch is ok to purchase?


texts: 27" CinemaDisplay with (non Bootcamp) Windows 7

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I've seen various posts around the net that getting my 27" CinemaDisplay working with a native install of Windows 7 is apparently possible, but I cannot seem to get this working.

I have a Radeon HD 5770 in my PC: http://www.amazon.com/ATI-RADEON-VIDEO-GRAPHICS-0GCJ42/dp/B005F6SMOU

This card has a DisplayPort socket which I am connecting to my monitor with: http://www.frys.com/product/8001294?site=sr:SEARCH:MAIN_RSLT_PG

Does anyone have any info on how exactly they have this working?

I've downloaded the BootCamp 3.1 and 3.2 EXE's, but they both require 3.0 to run. I cannot find 3.0 online anywhere.

I've used the Boot Camp Assistant on my iMac running Mavericks, and installed the drivers it downloads to a USB key.
Running the setup.exe in the WindowsSupport directory and also running setup.exe in the BootCamp directory both immediately
start, then error with: "The installed encountered errors before Boot Camp could be configured".

If I go to the Drivers/Apple/ section, under either dir I can install the "AppleDisplayInstaller64.exe" just fine and it says the Apple driver is installed,
but my monitor does not turn on.

Also downloading "BootCamp5.1.5640.zip" from the Apple website and trying to run setup.exe states: "This version of Boot Camp is not intended for this computer model"

Is there any way to fix this? This just seems to be a driver issue.

Is it because my card doesn't have a native Mini DisplayPort and the adapter is causing an issue?

Thanks!


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I have a faulty battery in my Macbook Pro. Battery status is stuck at 2% and shows as "no charging".
I believe this is causing my CPU to be throttled, pmset -g thermlog outputs this:
Note: No thermal warning level has been recorded
Note: No performance warning level has been recorded
CPU Power notify
    CPU_Scheduler_Limit     = 100
    CPU_Available_CPUs  = 8
    CPU_Speed_Limit     = 50

Since the battery is already dead, I just want to either disable the battery or disable the throttling feature.
Is there a way to do this via software? I know I can probably open the laptop and unplug the battery but want to first try a software alternative.


texts: changing email of account to an already used email

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I have an old apple account with my actual email that I don't use anymore.  I don't care about the data on that account.

I have my current account which uses an email I can no longer access.  I want to change it to use my old email, but can't since its associated with the other account.

Can I delete the old account in such a way that I'll be able to set that past email as the email of my current apple account?


texts: Words are selected in a weird way in iPad Pro Books!

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In Books in IPad Pro 11 inches, iPadOS14.5, sometimes when I want to select part of a text, the first word on which I click is selected like in the picture, and move as I scroll, and doesn’t go away unless I close Books and open it again.
Why is it like that?
How to get rid of it without closing Books?


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I have been the owner of an iMac 27' for the past 3 years. I have had the problem of the machine automatically powering off (for no reason at all) since almost day 1. After trying everything, including having the local iCentre change almost every part, I am still struggling with this problem.

On the UPS display which I have attached to the same mains the iMac is attached to I have started noticing that the voltage input fluctuates between 230v and 237v (I believe that in our country the voltage should be 240v). Does anybody know if the iMac has an inbuilt mechanism to shut off automatically as a protection mechanism when voltage fluctuates?

Did anyone encounter the same problem? Do you recommend any particular UPS / stabilizer?

Update: My error message is 'Previous shutdown cause: 0'


texts: Can I use my Apple ID to download apps I've purchased onto a friend's iOS device?

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Im buying an iphone for my friend, which knows nothing about technology, im planning to download apps for him.

Can i use my apple id store  and download what I already purchased with my iphone (so that I can download them for free for him)?


texts: Catalina and old application compatibility regarding new file system access rights

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I am trying to make Time Lapse Assembler work on Catalina but no luck so far. I can open the UI and input files etc but when it comes to writing a destination file it gives an error without giving much explanation.

My guess is that it has something to do with Catalina's increased per operation access rights but I am not sure.

I tried to give write access to Time Lapse Assembler on ~/Downloads, I tried to write on a SD card, tried to create a file with (chmod 777) everybody but no luck either.

I wonder if there is a trick to explicitly disable checks or if there is any other trick to make Time Lapse Assembler work on Catalina.

Exact error message on the pop up dialog is: "Error encoding file: There was an error accessing the destination file. File may already exist and be opened in another application. Close other applications and try again.


texts: Chrome back/forward gestures reversed on Big Sur

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At first Chrome back/forward gestures stopped working after upgrading to MacOS Big Sur.  I went into trackpad settings, unselected and reselected "Swipe between pages".  It still didn't work.  Then I changed it from 3 fingers to 2 fingers.
You can say it "works" now, but it goes the opposite direction.  To go "back" I swipe right.  To go forward I swipe left.
"Scroll direction: Natural" is selected.  If I unselect that it fixes this problem, but then the vertical scrolling direction is reversed.
Anyone else seeing this?


texts: Why won't photos import from iPhone after upgrade?

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Since upgrading to Catalina I can no longer import photos from my iPhone into the Photos app.

I can drag photos from my desktop into the library, but clicking either "Import selected" or "Import all new items" from the device menu fails to work. No error messages. In fact it shows the circular progress meter, then nothing. Photos not imported.

Important to note is that my .photoslibrary directory is on a network drive over AFP. Despite being rather slow, this has always worked in the past and still works for all other functions.

I tested a local library on the startup disk and photos can be imported, so I suspect the network drive is the issue.

Any idea how I can fix this?


texts: How to stop the Mail app from running every 10 minutes on the Mac?

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I have Mountain Lion on an 27" iMac, and recently, for some reason, the Mail app launches every 10 minutes or so, and I have to quit it every time.

In the Preferences of Mail, I already tried every possible way to tell it not to start itself, but every 10 minutes or so, it still launches and I have to quit it manually.  I don't know whether it is because I set in Gmail calendar to send email alert on some special events in my Google Calendar, but that should be handled by the Gmail server, not the Mail app...

I don't know whether it is related to the Notification Center, as the last few times, I notices messages popping up at the top right corner of the screen, and the Mail just started to run all by itself as well.

Is there a way to stop it from running automatically?


texts: App that displays real or fake busy data-visualization?

texts:
I'm working on an indie film that needs the cliché l33t hAxX0r "really busy screen (with cascading Matrix-y code and scanning and maps and other cryptic junk) that looks sophisticated, but make real geeks scoff with ridicule", as used in every cybercrime analysis or hacker scene in the history of cinema (except for Mr. Robot, who actually got it right).
Are there any apps that do this purely aesthetic cyber readout data-visualization overkill?
Or any ready-to-go presets for apps that might look similar, like iTerm?


texts: License and royalty specifics for AppleLoops in Logic

texts: If I use any of the AppleLoops supplied with Logic 9 in my project, will I be subject to an liability or royalty? If yes, how can I reach those persons who lent their voices to the loops?


texts:
I have an external USB drive and want to encrypt it. I have seen many 'suggestions' on how to do that, but I do not see any option to encrypt the drive. I am using MacOS 10.13.2.

I have see, for example, this answer. But in step 9, when I right click the drive (on the Desktop or the Finder), there is no option 'encrypt'. Before that I have formatted the drive in the 'Mac OC Extended (Journaled)' format. No option for encryption in the Disk Utility either ...

So how to do that? Maybe the option was forgotten in the new OS version?


texts: Apple Music downloaded songs when Cancel subscription and never connect to internet again

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What happens when you subscribe to Apple Music and download songs to a device and then permanently disconnect the from the internet and then use a different device (say pc) to cancel your subscription?

Do you keep your downloads in the first device until you connect to the internet again? How does Apple "tell the device" that the membership is no longer in place if you never connect to the internet again?


texts: .config directory does not exists after upgrade to Catalina

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After upgrading to Catalina the .config dir doesn't seem to exist in the home directory of my user.

How can I fix this? I doesn't seem to be able to simply create it because folders starting with a dot are system folder.

Currently my home dir looks like this:

No wonder some apps like visual studio and brew are complaining about the missing .config-folder.


texts: How do I save a screenshot with the ISO 8601 date format with Applescript?

texts: I am building a script that saves many consecutive screenshots. I would like to save the files in the ISO 8601 date format.


texts: iMac 2013 Catalina, stuck on partitioning

texts: Ive looked through countless forums and coding and hours of support from Apple both through forums and phone, yet have found no solution to the simple issue I'm facing. When clicking Install when prompted to partition the disk, the download seems to be unresponsive for hours.


texts: I have the 15 inch MacBook Pro 2016, is there a way to plug in 2 hdmi displays into 1 port.


texts: iCloud Drive Documents Folder Not Syncing After High Sierra New Install

texts:
Today I have just got an SSD installed in my Mac Mini 2012 via an authorised service. I did not ask for data migration because I wanted to start "fresh".

After the initial boot, I found out they have put an image of the New MacOS High Sierra. I followed the installation wizard.

Now, after entering my iCloud details I noticed email accounts were setup, Photos started syncing, etc. All good.

However when I open the finder and go to the Documents folder, it's empty.

Is there a way to manually trigger the sync process?

Thank you

PS FYI: The SSD was shown as APFS and I had to manually enable FileVault.


texts: How to install an app on iPhone from a second machine?

texts:
I actually took many hours this morning to find out how to do it, but I want to see alternatives to it.

I got my iPhone in sync with my iTunes at home, my first machine. I could "just" bring the app folder/file back home and sync through that. It works just fine.

The question here is on alternatives to that. Jailbreak or not, how could we do it on a second machine?

edit: I mean to install an actual file like application.app or application.ipa just like they are on the Mobile Applications folder or on iPhone's own /Applications one.


texts: How do I have Safari (v12) auto download PDF files

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On previous versions of Safari, I have been able to auto download PDF files by using the following code in Terminal:

defaults write com.apple.Safari WebKitOmitPDFSupport -bool YES

When I got a new MacBook Air running Safari 12, this option no longer works.  Does anyone know of a solution while still using Safari.  I run a lot of reports that I need to download and not just view.


texts:
I am looking for a password manager that works on iOS and OS X (and syncs passwords between those) that is open-source.

Currently, I use mSecure on my iPhone, but I would like to switch to an open-source option.


texts:
My DisplayPort connection is buggy and will only work when in a position that I can't ever seem to find. I've sent it off to repairs and the guy said that the board connecting to the socket is cracked and needs to be replaced, but he couldn't find a new board to replace it with.

Because of that, I'm wondering if I can connect my MBP to my TV monitor using the other outputs on my MBP instead of using the DisplayPort. This has led me to this and has left me wondering, is it possible to just connect an ethernet cable from my mac into that and then my TV?

There is an option listed in the hardware settings of the Ethernet section in the network settings pane that mentions AVB/EAV Mode, which it apparently allows streaming audio / video over ethernet?

To me it sounds like it would work, but I want confirmation before I go out and buy these adapters.


texts: Spotify on Mac: Songs constantly won't play and get skipped over

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An example:

My friend running the app right next to me is able to play the same songs without a problem from his phone, yet on my Mac app it just skips over them. I've been having this problem for lots of tracks for a long time. Has anyone else had this problem? Any solution?


texts: How to quickly move mouse cursor between monitors?

texts:
I have two external monitors, positioned horizontally on each side of my MacBook Pro. When I am working in the far left or far right screens, I find it a little annoying to have to move the cursor all the way across to get to the opposite side (usually requires multiple swipes on the touchpad).

Is there some easier way to do this? I already have BetterTouchTool installed but did not see anything in there that would do this. I was thinking of some kind of key combo shortcut I could use that would jump the cursor to the next screen.


texts: Is there a way to build a simple iPad pen yourself?

texts: I wonder about the technology used by the multitouch and the pens and brushes that are sold. Is this really high technology or can we build a pen for ipad ourself ?


texts: How to use Screen Sharing if I don't know the remote Mac's IP address

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I have the credentials for the Mac, but there is nobody in the room with the machine to check the public IP address.

If I know the public IP, I can connect to the mac. Unfortunately the ISP provides only dynamic IPs, so I guess it changed recently.

Is there any other way to gain access?


texts: How can ZFS be used with encryption on OS X?

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Ideals:

protection of home directories should be better than in Lion (for multiple administrators: FileVault 2 alone is less secure than FileVault 1)
resizing a file system should be simple and nondestructive.

I'll begin with an answer should be good for released and beta builds of ZEVO on OS X 10.7.4. It does not meet the ideals above, but it's food for thought.

Wish for Mountain Lion and greater versions of OS X to offer better support in these areas.

Answers may be added or improved after any of the following:

release of OS X 10.8
improvements to ZEVO
improvements to ZFS (encrypting ZFS is currently limited to Oracle Solaris).


texts: How to run custom AppleScript in the background at all times?

texts:
Given an AppleScript file designed to poll for an application dialog box every 30 seconds, how can I easily setup my Mac OS so that this AppleScript file starts every time I login silently in the background?

Code for the script ( in case interested ) is listed below, and is designed to click "Later" on the AirMail Beta app:

repeat
    if (exists application "AirMail Beta") then
        tell application "System Events" to tell process "Airmail Beta"
            if exists (button "Later" of front window) then
                click (button "Later" of front window)
            end if
        end tell
    end if
    delay 30
end repeat

The above script works, but if anyone can think of a better way to auto-click a dialog without writing an AppleScript that polls every few seconds, feel free to offer such a solution in comments.  Mainly though, I'd like to know the best way to manage AppleScripts designed to run continuously so they can be enabled / disabled and startup without being seen at login automatically.


texts:
I am using the terminal on an Apple M1 MacBook. I try to use a cli tool that is not build for aarm64, so I get this error message in the terminal:
zsh: bad CPU type in executable

Is there anything I can do to use this cli tool e.g. with emulation or something? How can I run binaries on a M1 based Mac in the Terminal that is not natively built for Arm?


texts:
Anyone have solution for my issue? My iphone 5, ios 9.0.2 stuck on lock screen.

Sleep / wake button is not working for years (https://www.apple.com/support/iphone5-sleepwakebutton/). I live in Indonesia, bought that iphone in Singapore. All I can say is, I can't ask for replacement

What works for me:

assisitive touch
home button
mute / unmute switch
volume up / down while accessing "Voice Control"

Other than that nothing's working

Touch screen on OTHER than assisitive touch is not working. So I can't do any slide, etc.

I tried to use assisitive touch to turn off my iphone but I can't swipe the "slide to power off". I can show control center via assisitive touch but I can't touch anything. Hard reset (holding sleep/wake + home button) is not working because my sleep/wake button is not working.

I think it might be related with "notification center" because I can't open notification center via assisitive touch.

All I can do right now is waiting till my battery runs out (hope this issue will be gone after it restarts)

In web programming terms, it seems that there are some kind of z-index difference blocking the layer other than "Assisitive Touch layer"

What was happening (in case any of you can replicate it):

my wife was borrowing my iphone (LCD still off)
WhatsApp chat notification came
she clicked home button (while the LCD still glowing)
boom! that's all

PS:
I don't want to wipe my iphone, I have a lot of important data in my iphone


texts: Technical reason why Safari 9 doesn't support modern sites

texts:
I am still using Mac OS X 10.9.5 (Mavericks) on one of my machines so as to be able to run older versions of Adobe software etc. I prefer to use Safari as a web browser because it is designed for the Mac, but the final version of Safari for Mavericks (v. 9.1.3) no longer supports certain sites.

These are often ones where an incomplete circular device keeps going round and round without loading whatever it is trying to load. This doesn’t look like a Mac ‘busy’ cursor and it is not browser-specific. An example (trying to load a series of references in response to my query) is shown below (from www.flybase.org) within a red outline I added:

The problem seems to be with some JavaScript files because the error page in the Develop menu shows the following:

I can work round this using Firefox, but, as an amateur web designer, I am curious to know what the — presumably more recent — web technology is that Safari 9 does not support.


texts: Mac os not showing after install windows 10 with boot camp

texts:
I'm unable to switch windows to Mac os after installation of Windows 10. working only with restart and holding options key. why this boot camp not working.
Attached screenshots for reference:


texts: 16GB of RAM makes MacBook Pro's fans go wild before sleep?

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I recently:

installed 16 GB of RAM (1600 MHz);
on my late-2011 15-inch MacBook Pro;
running OS X 10.7, aka Lion;
with an Apple SSD drive.

According to Apple my MacBook Pro only supports a maximum of 8 GB at 1333 MHz, but the chipset supports more (both GB and MHz) — but I'm aware that it does not mean it'll actually be compatible with my machine.

The problem:

Whenever I put the laptop to sleep (by closing it), it takes a while, and the fans start spinning very loudly before the computer finally reaches sleep mode.

The reason is likely to be Safe Sleep — but why are the fans going crazy?

Is there something wrong with my Mac?

How do I prevent this without disabling Safe Sleep?

Would updating to OS X 10.8, Mountain Lion, help?


texts: Improve GPS accuracy by disabling cellular data

texts: I need my iPhone 7 Plus GPS accuracy to be very precise (without continously changing the blue dot position). My cellular data connection is often sloppy. Does disabling cellular data improve GPS accuracy? Does the GPS depend on cellular data at all? I thought the GPS partially relied on cellular data to improve its accuracy.


texts:
What might cause quicklook to 'freeze', as it were.

quicklook has gone south to some degree, some files are QL-able, other not,
and we're speaking of the apple plug-in type (pdfs, txt, jpg, etc.)

Even whilst running the Topher 'fix', terminal hangs
after either the qlmanage -r or qlmanage -r cache.

Cheers, and thanks in advance for any light
your available time might hereby shed. :)

Running OSX, ver 10.6.6 on an iMac


texts: Is there a way to figure out when was my ipad / iphone disconnected from charge cable?

texts:
Ok, it may sounds weird but I just found my iPad in the trash (yeah you've read it right haha). So the last thing I remember that I connected it to the charge cable. After I arrived home I've found it in the trash disconnected from the cable. I thought I may can find more information from some history of logs or something.

It's a mystery.

Was it my girlfriend?
Or our cats?

Can you help me figure this out?


texts: Can not copy in Google Docs using Safari

texts:
I've had this problem for a little while now (can't recall what would have triggered it). I'm using Safari 6.0.5 on 10.8.4 on an early 2011 15" MBP.

When I try to copy anything using the keyboard from google docs nothing happens - I also hear an audible error noise. I think it's Safari saying "HAHA - sucker". Anyhow, I can paste into GDocs with whatever is in the clipboard at the time. I also use PopClip, which gives you the option to copy text when something is selected - that works as normal. If I try to copy something from the edit menu, I get the "These actions are unavailable via the Edit menu, but you can still use:" error dialog.

Cleared cash, disabled plugins, restarted computer...etc...none of the typical troubleshooting stuff works.

Ideas?


texts: Mac internal trackpad and keyboard not working on Yosemite

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I have found some threads describing this problem on Google, but none of them provided an (working) answer.

I have installed beta of Yosemite on my MBA (2013). I made no back-ups, but it's my secondary computer and I have no important data here. The problem is: internal trackpad and keyboard stopped working suddenly - during internet browsing on Safari. What's more, mac was running pretty slow during the first hours after the problem occured. Then, this issue fixed itself.

When I connect mouse and keyboard via USB - it' all OK.
What I already did:

-PRAM Reset

-SMC Reset

-checked all what I could in system settings UI

-Reinstalling OS X

-Hard reset (erased disc) to factory settings with Maverics OS.

However, it should not be a hardware problem - I can enter recovery mode ( Cmd + R ) with my internal keyboard.

Does someone has any more suggestions ?


texts: How to connect a Pioneer XW-SMA3 AirPlay speaker to WPA Personal wifi network?

texts:
I just bought a new Pioneer XW-SMA3 AirPlay speaker system but have so-far been unable to connect it to my home WiFi Network. The speakers come with an Ethernet port so I am able to connect it via that and configure it, but nothing I do will connect it to the wireless.

My home network is served up from an Apple Airport Extreme (bought at the end of 2011) secured via WPA2 Personal (all my other devices connect to this just fine including the Wii, iPhones, friends' windows boxes etc) as per the following screen snap (SSID obscured):

When I configure the speakers I am given the following security options:

However when I choose WPA2-PSK(AES) (which I am told is the equivalent to Apple's WPA2 Personal and reboot, the speakers still don't connect and when I reconnect via Ethernet the config shows me that it's selected WPA-PSK(AES) instead. See:

I've tried dumbing my network security down to WPA/WPA2 Personal but that made no difference, and I've also tried selecting the WPA2-PSK(TKIP) option in the speakers' config but when it reboots it shows as WPA-PSK(TKIP) instead, analogous to the AES setting.

I have also tried updating the speakers' firmware to the latest version just to be sure but it made no difference.

I've triple checked the obvious things like the SSID name and the password.

I lodged a technical support request with Pioneer but got no answer, and so today I phoned them and they told me that “We are not networking specialists. We can't help you.” which is utterly useless.
I am hoping someone here has succeeded in connecting these speakers to their WiFi.  Googling the problem gives me no sensible results.


texts: What is the length of a frame in Final Cut Pro in seconds? Possible to specify it?

texts: It took 23 frames and 0.92 seconds for the ball to travel from the first picture to the second so one frame is 0.04 seconds long, with 0.1 slowness (so the speed of the ball is roughly 150 km/h). How can I specify the length of the frame? Is it possible to specify arbitrary precise frame length in time?


texts: How to change the system folders (Pictures, Movies etc)

texts:
It used to be possible (before Big Sur I think) to rename and remap the system folders (Pictures, Movies etc). What I am trying to do is move the folders to Dropbox like this:
sudo mv ~/Documents ~/Documents_old
ln -s ~/Dropbox/Pictures ~/Pictures
When I do that I get the following message:
mv: rename /Users/neilthompson/Pictures to /Users/neilthompson/Pictures_old: Operation not permitted
I know that it used to be possible because I have been doing it since 2014 but just moved to a brand new machine and now it doesn't work.
Anyone know of a workaround?


texts: How do I turn off "Close windows when quitting an app" with `defaults write`?

texts: It's easy to manually turn off the "Close windows when quitting an app" feature, but how do I do it in a script with defaults write?


texts: can't change permissions on /usr/lib folder

texts:
Im trying to install an iLok crack at /System/iOSSupport/usr

After installing the plugin, and trying to Replace a libstdc file  at / usr / lib / (with a file from an archive for the current version) but i can't modify this folder, instead this alert pop up: "you cannot complete this operation because you don't have the necessary permission".

I have this files for the crack:
10.10.5_libstdc .6.0.9.dylib.zip
10.9.5_libstdc  .6.0.9.dylib.zip
10.8.5_libstdc  .6.0.9.dylib.zip

Im running Catalina 10.15.3
do I need to run another version for this?
do I have to treat rights with DiskUtility?


texts: Activate passcode lock after 30 mins of inactivity?

texts:
I have a jailbroken iPhone 4S. The current time options for a passcode lock are:

Immediately
After 1, 5, or 15 minutes
After 1 or 4 hours

However I would prefer using 30 mins or 45 mins, something in between. Is there a Cydia app that allows me to modify this?

EDIT

Still cannot find a feature, anyone knows any possible solution ?


texts: System crashes / logs out after visiting specific website

texts:
This might be a weird question, but I'm asking for some guidance for how to investigate this more. It's not a reproducible issue, but it happens often enough (e.g. a couple of times a week). Here's what happens:

When I visit this website: https://time.mk with Google chrome on MacOS 10.13.5 and a 13" MacBook Pro (2016), the entire OS freezes, not just the Chrome tab. I get the spinning beach ball and the computer is unresponsive.

Now, sometimes I wait for 30 seconds and the computer resumes as if nothing happened. Sometimes the entire Mac restarts on its own, and sometimes, I get logged out of my account. This happens only with https://time.mk which is the weirdest part.

I would appreciate some help on how to debug this efficiently. I don't see anything in particular in the syslogs, and the Chrome crash dumps are binary, so I don't know how to read them.


texts: Investigating performance bottlenecks on MacOS Catalina: dtrace

texts:
I have an old Mac mini that is now on MacOS Catalina. It is quite slow and tends to slow down over time. Years ago, I upped the RAM to 16 Gb, and that helped a lot to boost performance, but that effect seems to have faded. I know I can get an SSD also but I'm wondering if there may be any other issues.
I thought it may be good to see why sometimes it takes 10-20 seconds from when I type a git command in Terminal, to when the response comes. Perhaps there is a bottleneck somewhere. I googled and found this link that points to this blog post on Dtrace, so I tried to use Dtrace related tools. sudo iosnoop, however, gives the following message:

dtrace: system integrity protection is on, some features will not be available

I found also this q&a with some suggested command line tools like vm_stat 900 and iostat 900, but they don't seem to provide as much useful info as what Dtrace does?
So, the immediate question is, how to get the Dtrace tools working on MacOS Catalina?


texts:
For extra safety, I recently decided to make a second backup of my Macbook's HD. Initially I did so with rsync, because I was already using Time Machine for my first backup. But then I realized Time Machine can handle backups to multiple disks and decided to use Time Machine for the second backup as well.
However, when I try to delete the rsync backup in Finder, I get the following error message:

The operation can't be completed because the item "fd" is in use.

A little investigation confirms that it is failing on the backup's /dev/fd folder. I understand that this folder contains file descriptors (although I'm hazy on what exactly that means). I think perhaps what may have happened is that the file descriptors in use at the time of the backup were copied over, and these are somehow marked as in use. In any case, I'm wondering if anyone knows how I can safely delete these items?
(FWIW, I tried closing all open applications before trying the delete, which made no difference.)


texts: Absolute path to an application executable in OS X

texts:
I know where to find the executable file path to an app in Windows. For instance, Adobe Reader:

C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Reader 10.0\Reader\AcroRd32.exe

I need to give the path in a OS X because Excel is asking me for the path.
What should I write?
Will Preview work?


texts: Can you give me buying advice of a 6970 card in a 27" iMac for just Photoshop, Lightroom, no video or games?

texts:
Thinking of buying the 27" iMac---I've given up waiting for the new desktop.  Only to be used for my images, files up to 1GB, no gaming, no video production.

Will the 6970 card be worth the extra money?


texts: Deleted 20GB using 'rm -rf ' and 'df -k' has not changed (but 'du -k' is correct)

texts:
I was cleaning up old directories on my 256GB  MBPro SSD mounted on /dev/disk1.

At first

 df -k

was showing the expected increased  in available disk space on that Filesystem. However for the last half dozen invocations of "rm -rf  0.1%) change. In fact the entire available disk space slightly decreased.

There is no other substantial work happening on the system - and the Virtual Memory size has not changed.

Now double digit GB of data is quite sizeable. I can not understand how "df -k" could miss / neglect these changes.

Note: I did confirm that the directories being removed by rm -rf are in fact gone. In any case it took minutes to perform those deletions - so it was obvious things were happening.

Here is output before all the "rm-rf"'s:

20:17:50/shared $df -k
Filesystem                        1024-blocks      Used Available Capacity  iused   ifree %iused  Mounted on
/dev/disk1                          243915264 217388008  26271256    90% 54411000 6567814   89%   /
devfs                                     200       200         0   100%      694       0  100%   /dev
map -hosts                                  0         0         0   100%        0       0  100%   /net
map auto_home                               0         0         0   100%        0       0  100%   /home
localhost:/5Lcoijnnqm-dLj_GeL3j-A   243915264 243915264         0   100%        0       0  100%   /Volumes/MobileBackups

Here is the output after all the "rm -rf"'s

20:27:28/shared $df -k
Filesystem                        1024-blocks      Used Available Capacity  iused   ifree %iused  Mounted on
/dev/disk1                          243915264 217450876  26208388    90% 54426717 6552097   89%   /
devfs                                     200       200         0   100%      694       0  100%   /dev
map -hosts                                  0         0         0   100%        0       0  100%   /net
map auto_home                               0         0         0   100%        0       0  100%   /home
localhost:/5Lcoijnnqm-dLj_GeL3j-A   243915264 243915264         0   100%        0       0  100%   /Volumes/MobileBackups

Here is the du of the parent directory of the ones being deleted before the rm's.

du -d 2 -k > out

Last line of out: 58446128  .

So we had 58GB under that parent dir

Here is the du on the parent dir after the rm's:

du -d 2 -k > out

Last line of out2: 36830744 .

So: du is working - showing 20GB less. But df is broken

But what does Finder say?   Finder agrees with df !

BTW here is "Trash": shows it has been emptied so that is not the issue.

So then - why are the directories removed by rm -rf not being made available back to the O/S?

UPdate  I have removed another 20GB for a total of 50GB  yet still the same amount of disk space is reflected in both finder and df -k.

** Another update **
It appears that

sudo tmutil disablelocal

may have resolved this. Apparently time machine does local backups: and the deleted files do not really get removed until/unless it (lazily) decides to allow it.  Notice it is now 62GB free.


texts: Does installing Yosemite require an internet connection?

texts: After it has finished downloading, does installing Yosemite require an internet connection to install?


texts: Removing "shift" from a letter on iPad Pro with Apple smart keyboard

texts:
This is an odd one.
I was typing on an apple "smart keyboard" connected to an iPad Pro. "Notes"  REALLY wants to capitalize the first letter of each line, and "Mail" REALLY wants to capitalize any letter after you type a ":" character.

When I'm using the on-screen keyboard it is easy to see that the 'Shift' button is engaged, and press it to disengage it. However, for the life of me, I could not get the shift to disengage while I had the apple keyboard attached to the iPad Pro! I had to physically disconnect it in order to bring up the on-screen keyboard where I could then disengage the 'Shift' button.

Does anyone know a way to do this without disconnecting the physical keyboard?


texts: How to allow accessibility permissions from command line

texts:
I can give accessibility permissions to some programs by going in System Preferences -> Security & Privacy -> Accessibility, and manually adding the programs one by one.
Is there a way to do that programmatically, specifically via a bash script?


texts:
This is my first Mac computer (a MacBook Pro) and loving it! What I'm not loving though is the inconsistency of networking files between my main system and the Mac.

So long story short, I've Googled around and the fastest solution I found was on Windows 7, typing in "RUN" then "\ip address", then the login appears, log in and I'm in my Mac's files. The problem with this is that it's VERY inconsistent. More often than not, it won't let me connect to the Mac. I know it's not my main PC because other machines throughout the house connect just fine to each other while at the very same time I'm held back on the Mac.

My question is: is there a better way, a more consistent way to network between Windows 7 and Mac that doesn't involve me running back and forth with a thumb drive?


texts: Can I import an image to use for annotations or a signature in the macOS Preview app?

texts:
I use the Preview app (within macOS) and I'd love to add a traditional stamp to some documents.  I note that under Tools > Annotate > Signature > Manage Signatures... I can use either the trackpad or camera to add signatures.

Is there a way to import pictures (or even better, vectors) to my signatures without using the trackpad/camera?


texts: Wifi Keeps Dropping Macbook Pro 13in Retina Early 2015

texts:
I've tried everything I can think of. Resetting the router, changing the channel number and band.

The internet connection is fine, and then just hangs for a minute or 2, then returns to normal.

The wifi icon remains connected, and I have the latest 10.10.4 update installed. At first I thought it was a DNS bug with Yosemite, and have played with the settings such as changing DNS provider, changing the IPV6 to IPV4 only etc.

Driving me nuts. Has anyone had a similar problem? I've checked the surroundings with wifi scanners and have chosen the best channel available.

One thing I have noticed, it seems a lot more reliable on 5GHz as opposed to 2.4Ghz
It seems to affect my Macbook Pro Retina 13in Early 2015 a lot more than the other devices on the network.
I'm using a Virginmedia Superhub 1.


texts: Does a MacBook Pro need a power adapter to work in the Bahamas?

texts:
A classmate asked me if the US MacBook Pro adapters are usable in the Bahamas. It boils down to the type of electricity and outlets there, but being that I have no clue, I'm asking here.

Does a USA compatible MacBook Pro adapter require an adapter for the Bahamas?


texts:
My iPad keeps sending the message that it is unable to connect to the internet and my only option is to dismiss.

How do I find the subnet mask and ip address and router so I can manually try and set it up?


texts: Strange keyboard shortcut suddenly appears

texts: This just happened recently and rebooting did not solve it. Suddenly, whenever I type the key combination dt I get the date, e.g., 2020-10-27 just now. In order for me to type those characters I now have to put a space in between them and then delete it. This happens in any context whether it is a text editor, the command line, or any app. I checked all the keyboard shortcuts in Preferences and there is no such combination. There are no aliases for it. What could be causing this? OS x 10.8.5.


texts: Freeze slide while drawing on a Keynote slide in iPad

texts:
I use the iPad as the controller for presenting Keynotes (streaming from MacBook). When I use the pencil to draw on a slide, many times I put my hand on the iPad screen, which is interpreted as "next slide" closing the drawing mode and advancing me to the next slide.
Is there any way to freeze the current slide while drawing on it?


texts: Why is opencv not using all cores after upgrading to Mavericks?

texts:
I'm running a CPU intensive command on Mavericks (Opencv_traincasscade).  Under Mountain Lion the process used to use all 8 cores all the way though.  However after upgrading it drops to 1 core after a short time.

Could this be app nap? Is there anything I can do to fix this?


texts: My Date & Time settings are being ignored - com.apple.timed daemon keeps resetting my system time incorrectly

texts:
This is driving me nuts.

settings -> Date & Time -> "Set date and time automatically" is unchecked

In terminal:

$ sudo systemsetup -getusingnetworktime
Network Time: Off

There should be absolutely no reason whatsoever for my system clock to change. And yet, and random points through the day, I will try to schedule something on a remote server only to find my own clock is 3 minutes behind. (and it's 3 minutes every time) And every single time I'll open up the Date & Time settings to find that not only has my time changed, the "Set date and time automatically" box is checked and grayed out, even though my settings are locked!

Indeed, I can go into console and see exactly what's doing it:

Apr 27 04:07:35 ... timed[6289]: settimeofday({0x5ae2e857,0xf2489}) == 0
Apr 27 09:19:03 ... timed[6289]: settimeofday({0x5ae33157,0x17a8e}) == 0
Apr 27 12:55:56 ... timed[6289]: settimeofday({0x5ae3642c,0xf2a7c}) == 0
Apr 27 13:30:42 ... timed[6289]: settimeofday({0x5ae36c52,0x54746}) == 0
Apr 27 14:36:03 ... timed[6289]: settimeofday({0x5ae37ba3,0x9c8e5}) == 0
Apr 27 15:52:35 ... timed[6289]: settimeofday({0x5ae38d93,0x61a78}) == 0
Apr 27 15:52:45 ... timed[6289]: settimeofday({0x5ae38d9d,0x57751}) == 0
Apr 27 17:00:04 ... timed[6289]: settimeofday({0x5ae39d64,0x4f83b}) == 0

I think I know what's causing timed to fail: I'm VPN'd in all day, and corporate firewalls stop me from connecting to the NTP servers properly

$ sudo ntpdate -u time.google.com
27 Apr 18:05:22 ntpdate[41606]: no server suitable for synchronization found

Still, I'm not sure where to go from here. SIP stops me from messing with this daemon

$ sudo launchctl unload /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.timed.plist
/System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.timed.plist: Operation not permitted while System Integrity Protection is engaged

What should I do from here? How bad of an idea is it to disable SIP and kill timed?

This is on a 2015 Retina Macbook Pro and macOS 10.13 High Sierra


texts: Somewhat new to Homebrew. As I understand it, Homebrew Cask looks for apps in its Github repository. I don't know how they get there, but I assume that the app or the link which lives at Github is not supplied by the developers of the associated app. So, then, is a download from the Cask repository an exercise of trust in the Cask maintainers?


texts: Homebrew says my Python installation could cause issues and I'm not sure what to do

texts:
I'm just getting started with web development and I'm trying to set up my environment, and I can't do that until Dr Homebrew has discharged me from N00bcake Hospital. This is what I'm getting:

Warning: "config" scripts exist outside your system or Homebrew directories.
`./configure` scripts often look for *-config scripts to determine if
software packages are installed, and what additional flags to use when
compiling and linking.

Having additional scripts in your path can confuse software installed via
Homebrew if the config script overrides a system or Homebrew provided
script of the same name. We found the following "config" scripts:

  /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/bin/python-config
  /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/bin/python2-config
  /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/bin/python2.7-config

Warning: Python is installed at /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework

Homebrew only supports building against the System-provided Python or a
brewed Python. In particular, Pythons installed to /Library can interfere
with other software installs.

I'm worried because I already have a working installation of Python which is a good enough algorithm playground, and I don't want to leave my framework worse than it was before, but I reckon I should do what Homebrew says if I want to continue. Should I just run $ rm -f /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework and call it a day or is there something else I must do? $ python --version && python3 --version returns

Python 2.7.6
Python 3.3.2

and $ brew --config returns

HOMEBREW_VERSION: 0.9.5
ORIGIN: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew.git
HEAD: 1304a2b29a3de5da2b31e1656bf772eea2a78dc1
Last commit: 5 hours ago
HOMEBREW_PREFIX: /usr/local
HOMEBREW_CELLAR: /usr/local/Cellar
CPU: dual-core 64-bit core2
OS X: 10.6.8-i386
Xcode: 4.2
CLT: N/A
GCC-4.2: build 5666
LLVM-GCC: build 2336
Clang: 3.0 build 211
X11: 2.7.7 => /opt/X11
System Ruby: 1.8.7-p249
Perl: /usr/bin/perl
Python: /usr/local/bin/python => /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/bin/python2.7
Ruby: /usr/bin/ruby => /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/bin/ruby
Java: 1.6.0_65

which brings up another odd thing: I was certain my processor was a 32 bit Intel Core Duo and that's why I couldn't update my OS, but this says dual-core 64-bit core2. What is going on?


texts: What is my iPhone downloading in the background?

texts:
Is there any way to find what apps are downloading stuff in the background? And what stuff they are downloading? I've done a little research and gather it's the Background Transfer Service doing the work. But no hint of how to monitor what its doing. This other question is a bit more general and the answer was "there's no way to know" but it's a bit old and the answers aren't authoritative.

About once a week when I plug my phone in and it's on WiFi I find it's suddenly downloading hundreds of megabytes of data. I can figure out a bit of what's going on from my router, an HTTP connection to aaplimg.com, but all that tells me is it's something on Apple's CDN. Short of running a packet sniffer I have no way to see what is being downloaded or by what.


texts: How to set AirPlay device name of the hosting computer?

texts:
In the AirPlay device list, the name of the hosting computer is always "computer", independently of the computer's actual name.

Is there any way to set this string to a more "expressive" name?

EDIT

Setting the host name in the sharing section of the "Systems Preferences" does not work, as the following images demonstrate:

Mac:

iPad:


texts: Hard drive not showing up on Disk Utility, but showing up on System Information on Macbook Pro

texts:
Other answers on here have said to kill the fsck process in activity monitor but I can't find that in the monitor. I've tried searching for processes with 'hfs', 'exfat', and 'fsck' and I haven't gotten any hits back. I've attached a screenshot of the System Information screen.

I've also tried using diskutil in Terminal but it doesn't show my hard drive there.
/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *251.0 GB   disk0
   1:                        EFI EFI                     314.6 MB   disk0s1
   2:                 Apple_APFS Container disk1         218.0 GB   disk0s2
   3:       Microsoft Basic Data BOOTCAMP                32.7 GB    disk0s3

/dev/disk1 (synthesized):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      APFS Container Scheme -                      +218.0 GB   disk1
                                 Physical Store disk0s2
   1:                APFS Volume Macintosh HD - Data     188.8 GB   disk1s1
   2:                APFS Volume Preboot                 81.7 MB    disk1s2
   3:                APFS Volume Recovery                528.9 MB   disk1s3
   4:                APFS Volume VM                      3.2 GB     disk1s4
   5:                APFS Volume Macintosh HD            11.2 GB    disk1s5

I've tried accessing the external drive on my iMac and it hasn't shown up there either.
I recently installed Bootcamp on my Macbook if that helps?


texts: Macbook5,1 Crashing Multiple Times Per Day

texts:
My Macbook5,1 running El Capitan 10.11.6 has been crashing multiple times...

250GB SSD/94GB free
I have tried to 'clean up' hard drive by deleting some memory-intensive files and cleared Desktop.
Not able to run a Apple Hardware test due to age of machine but just passed a Power-On Self Test via Diagnostics.
I have unplugged all external items (keyboard, monitor, etc.)
Generally only running Chrome, Excel and Word when the crash occurs.

I've included the latest crash report below and thanks in advance for anything you can do to help ...

Anonymous UUID:       D7D433A6-6CD7-61AB-1444-2D6DE4CDA79B

Tue May 22 14:42:19 2018

*** Panic Report ***
panic(cpu 1 caller 0xffffff80141d0c0b): Kernel trap at 0xffffff80140f71b7, type 14=page fault, registers:
CR0: 0x0000000080010033, CR2: 0xffffff801e6a3b78, CR3: 0x00000000073ed000, CR4: 0x00000000000026e0
RAX: 0x000000000000005d, RBX: 0xffffff8014905bc0, RCX: 0x0000000000000000, RDX: 0x0000000000000005
RSP: 0xffffff8074d2bcc0, RBP: 0xffffff8074d2bd00, RSI: 0xffffff801e6a3b68, RDI: 0xffffff8014905bc0
R8:  0xffffff8014905b78, R9:  0xffffff801e6a4690, R10: 0xffffff8014905b78, R11: 0x0000000000000000
R12: 0xffffff8014905bc0, R13: 0xffffff802002e000, R14: 0xffffff801e6a3b68, R15: 0xffffff801e6a3880
RFL: 0x0000000000010086, RIP: 0xffffff80140f71b7, CS:  0x0000000000000008, SS:  0x0000000000000010
Fault CR2: 0xffffff801e6a3b78, Error code: 0x0000000000000009, Fault CPU: 0x1, PL: 3

Backtrace (CPU 1), Frame : Return Address
0xffffff8074d2b950 : 0xffffff80140dbb52
0xffffff8074d2b9d0 : 0xffffff80141d0c0b
0xffffff8074d2bbb0 : 0xffffff80141eca63
0xffffff8074d2bbd0 : 0xffffff80140f71b7
0xffffff8074d2bd00 : 0xffffff80140f7626
0xffffff8074d2bd70 : 0xffffff80140ef5af
0xffffff8074d2bdc0 : 0xffffff80140c7269
0xffffff8074d2be10 : 0xffffff80140c71c7
0xffffff8074d2be60 : 0xffffff80140c3983
0xffffff8074d2bea0 : 0xffffff80140d36a5
0xffffff8074d2bf10 : 0xffffff80141ba82a
0xffffff8074d2bfb0 : 0xffffff80141ed276

BSD process name corresponding to current thread: WindowServer

Mac OS version:
15G20015

Kernel version:
Darwin Kernel Version 15.6.0: Tue Jan 30 11:45:51 PST 2018; root:xnu-3248.73.8~1/RELEASE_X86_64
Kernel UUID: ECB8B1A1-7E15-34CB-825F-C366E2635655
Kernel slide:     0x0000000013e00000
Kernel text base: 0xffffff8014000000
__HIB  text base: 0xffffff8013f00000
System model name: MacBook5,1 (Mac-F42D89C8)


texts: iPhone 6 low on storage and becoming non-functional

texts: I have a 64gb iPhone 6. I've been butting up to my local storage limit for a while now but yesterday all my photos disappeared and most of not all of the apps on the phone no longer open. I've deleted several very large apps, but every time I do the available storage only goes up temporarily before getting very low again. I've been able to open a couple apps now but still no photos (the app never even opens). I've tried syncing to computer but it doesn't recognize any photos on the device. This happened once this summer but only lasted for a few hours. This is well past the 24 hour mark. I would prefer to back up the photos before going the nuclear option of restoring it. Any ideas of what I could try would be appreciated?


texts: How can I completely de-authorise my account from iTunes (mac)?

texts:
I'm using a different apple ID now.  So I switched accounts like this:
- I signed out of the old apple ID in System preferences > iCloud.  Then signed in with the new one.
- I signed out of the old apple ID in App Store > Store.  Then signed in with the new one.
- I de-authorised the old apple ID in iTunes > Accounts menu > Authorisations. Then authorised the new apple ID.
I restarted the computer.

However, even after authorised the new Apple ID, it's the old one that still shows up in iTunes > Account, on top, even though it has already been de-authorised:

Screen Shot 2017-11-05 at 16.56.55.png
not only that, now, when I go to Account > View my account, I'm prompted for the old apple id and password, and if I use instead the new one, it won't go through, I'm prompted again for the new apple id and password.

Weird!.


texts: Is it possible to throttle the iCloud photostream sync in OS X?

texts:
I have a large iCloud photo library. Once in a blue moon my iMac running Yosemite decides to forget all about the synced libraries, and I have to re-enable the iCloud streams. However, my little DSL line will then be clogged for hours on end, because OS X downloads gigabytes of pictures.

Is it possible to throttle the speed to a certain setting, say 1MBit/sec? Or at least to pause the sync, without having to re-download everything?


texts: How do I install rEFInd on a MacBook running macOS Sierra?

texts: I've disabled SIP and tried to install rEFInd on my MacBook, which is not partitioned in any way by boot camp and is one single drive. The install of rEFInd says it is installing to /Volumes/ESP for the EFI boot and completes successfully. After rebooting, however, rEFInd menu does not come up when holding option key or anything. How do I get that installed so that it is usable?


texts:
I have a macbook pro and yesterday the sound just stopped working.I was funny cause I turn it off and tried and cool it down cause I thought that it's been so hot. after that it worked but after a few minutes it just stopped working.

Now there is no start up sound. there is no input and output device in system preferences.and No, there is not any red light. I also tried command option R P.

I don't know what to do. help me guys.


texts: How can I use a single monitor when connecting to a multi monitor machine using Screen Sharing, VNC or RDP?

texts:
I have a mac desktop and laptop at work, and I keep the desktop up to date with tools, code, etc, so it's my main machine.

When I'm working from home, I like to connect to my desktop since it's all setup - but it has 3 monitors, and when I connect using a single monitor, some of the apps I was running are on other monitors and can't be seen.

Even when I try and CMD+TAB to apps that are on other monitors, they dont show up.

How can I manage this better?


texts: How to set dark mode appearance to auto in terminal

texts:
I found the way to set dark mode:
defaults write -g NSRequiresAquaSystemAppearance -bool true

But have no idea set it to Auto with defaults write.
It could also be great to explain how you discovered this.
Thank you!


texts: I'll soon visit US where I want to buy an iPhone 6s (money reasons).My question is: will I be able to use it properly (full capacity) in Europe (Romania)? I read a couple of topics and found out there are problems related to LTE bands and others but I don't understand it yet.


texts:
I have iPhone 6s 64GB. I got 64GB because 16GB just wasn't cutting it. I didn't want to worry about memory being full. However last night out of nowhere, I got the message saying my storage is almost full.

Confused, because there was no way I used 55GB(actual storage) of space. So I headed over to my Manage Storage page, which had me even more confused.

As you can see, the apps that take up the most space are Photos, Spotify and Music. They don't even take up 10GB.. I added the Used storage by all the other apps and it does not even come close to 45GB. When I plug in my phone to my laptop, it says the storage is used by Documents & Data.

Before you answer my question, I am aware that Safari and Chrome take up cookies and cache. I am also aware that other apps can have similar data. Even considering all that, there is just no way I am using 52GB.

Just what is going on?


texts: How to delete Command Line Tools while keeping Xcode?

texts:
I recently purchased a new Mac and I am currently in the process of setting it up as a development machine.

Before installing Xcode I went ahead and installed:

Sublime Text
Sublime Merge

While setting up Sublime Merge I was prompted to install the Xcode Command Line Tools (Macintosh HD -> Library -> Developer -> Command Line Tools).

I went ahead and did that, and was able to successfully set up my repos on Sublime Merge.

I then installed Xcode which comes bundled with the Command Line Tools in its own package (Applications -> Xcode -> Contents -> Developer).

Right after installing Xcode I saw that in Software Update I had an update to the Command Line Tools and so I performed that.

I'm striving for a clean set up and was wondering whether or not I now have redundant copies of the Command Line Tools, if so, how do I (or do I even need to) get rid of the old tools safely?


texts: Can you put 2012 macbook air 13 inch ssd in macbook air 11 inch 2012?

texts: I am thinking about doing something like that. Or would it not work?


texts: MacOS vanished from reFInd and can't boot into MacOS anymore

texts: Last night I tried deleting UBUNTU and SWAP  partitions on my MacBook Air 2017 model. But I could not remove the UBUNTU partition in Disk Utility after removing the SWAP partition. So I tried to restart so that it might fix it but unfortunately, reFInd did not show me the option of booting into MacOS. I can only boot into UBUNTU right now and I want to delete UBUNTU and retrieve MacOS back. Is there any solution for this? I don't mind about data loss. I'm completely new to using a Mac, so please explain any complex terminology that you're using so that a noob like me can understand. Kindly help me out and thank you so much in advance, I couldn't be more grateful :)


texts:
How did you find out an existing printer's IP in lion?

In Snow Leopard you can do it in this way:

Open System Preferences
Select the printer that you want to find the IP for
Click 'Options & Supplies'
The IP is shown next to the 'URL:' label, and might say 'lpd://192.168.0.50/'

How can you do this in OS X Lion?


texts: How to manually set time zone on iPhone while still automatically sync time?

texts:
This is possible on basically all mainstream computer operating systems, like macOS, Windows 10, Ubuntu.
For example in macOS, I have these two settings (Set date and time automatically and Set time zone automatically using current location) separately. Similar settings exist in Windows 10 system settings, too.
However, on iPhone, there is only one option that handles both, or at least it seems like how it works, which is called "Set Automatically".
Basically, I want my time to be synced automatically so it is accurate as possible. At the same time, I want to be able to manually configure it to a time zone that is NOT on my current location. There might be a lot of situations where this is useful and it is possible on all computer/laptop operating systems.
If there is no solution to this due to iOS system settings limitation, is there any workaround? E.g. using some other way or even app to sync time automatically or on-need? One ugly workaround that might work is to manually toggle the above setting on and off again. iOS remembers the manual time zone setup when I do this, so it is not terribly complex. However, I still want to see if there is a more elegant way to achieve it, like in the computer systems.
PS: Turning location service off for "System Services / Setting Time Zone" does NOT work. The phone still gets local time zone when the above option is turned on. I do not know how it works -- maybe it gets time zone info from my carrier or using my IP address, etc.


texts: Is there a way I can add the italian language to Safari's built in spelling support?


texts: Use another Mac connected via thunderbolt as an audio input source?

texts:
Basically, what I'm trying to do is use one computer with AU Lab to process some audio (real-time, of course) and use that as an audio source for another computer.

Is it possible to use a thunderbolt-attached Mac as an audio output source or an audio input source, either with or without a third-party application?


texts: Can I use AirDrop if one or more of the participating computers is asleep/off?

texts: I'm currently AirDroppping 3 very large files and I need to know if the files will continue to transfer while I'm not using one of the computers.


texts: Any way to update now from iOS 7.0.4 to 7.1.2?

texts: I am trying to restore my iPhone 5s to iOS 7.1.2 but I only get error 3194. My hosts file is cleaned and I think it’s just Apple that doesn’t let me update to something other than iOS 8. Is there any other way to restore my phone to iOS 7? While trying to restore content and settings it got stuck in an endless spinner.


texts: Attempting to send video on WhatsApp causes crash

texts:
I've tried a bunch of different things but whenever I try to send a video on WhatsApp the app crashes. It works fine in safe mode though.

Any ideas?

http://pastebin.com/brjzVrBS

PS: I jailbroke the phone


texts: MacOSX how to ping local Windows machine by using $machine_name.local?

texts:
I have home network with 3 devices:

MacHighSierra
Windows10
WDMyClould

Bell Home Hub 2000 is the router, from my Mac, I can access #3 by doing

ping WDMyCloud.local

But the same thing didn't work for the Windows machine, I had to use IP. ping Windows10.local dosen't respond, but, ping 192.168.2.18 works

Any suggestions on how to diagnose and fix?


texts: How to know how much CPU and RAM I need for new computer?

texts:
I got a pimped up macbook pro (i7 3.3GHz i7) from late 2016 atm, but I feel like I could use a less powerful machine.

I would like to find out what's my current/peak average CPU and RAM usage to see if the new MBA has what I need for what I do. I'm hopeful there is a better way than to constantly look at activity monitor, and manually logging, to get this kind of info.

I'm not afraid to go into the terminal


texts: My iPhone / apple account might be hacked/ infected, looking for clarification and advice

texts:
Today I accidentally opened the Mail App on my iPhone after many years, never used it but it is connected to my apple ID/ iCloud. When it opened I noticed it had around 40 emails started. Each one was a 'compose a new message' window and each one only had the 'to' email address filled in, nothing else.

This is an old iPhone 4s, running iOS 8 - not my main phone, keeping it for nostalgia more than anything.

This could have been several years of me accidentally tapping on peoples email addresses, and the app automatically opens this - and me never cancelling those, they just built up. However I don't recognise any of those email addresses and they were personal email addresses I don't recognise.

I've checked my iCloud account and the linked hotmail/outlook account from my laptop and it doesn't look like any emails were sent or received from the account, other than my own emails (which were only about 4 or 5 in total) - so no suspicious activities there.

So either a bunch of emails and the 'to' field was started and filled in and nothing else happened or the traces of sent emails were somehow deleted - which I don't know if that's possible.

Could this be a virus/malware? Is this a known issue/ bug?

EDIT: I've also check the iCloud/apple ID and when I sign in, I get a permission request on my mac and a code is displayed which I have to enter to log in - so if anyone had entered my account, I would have know from my mac. Right?


texts: Do cheap iPad Lightning to USB camera adapters work?

texts: Do cheap iPad lightning to USB adapters (from websites such as eBay) work or can a get a genuine Apple adapter for a lower price somewhere? I do not want to pay at least $39 AUD for one. My iPad mini is jailbroken and I wish to use one to symlink apps to a USB flash drive because I only have a 16GB model and I'm always trying to find things to delete to free up space. Is it worth the money for an Apple branded adapter?


texts: Microsoft Wireless 900 Desktop and iMac running 10.11.6

texts: Will this desktop setup work with the iMac running 10.11.6?


texts: Notification message's delay before hide

texts:
I made a script to upload images, it shows a notification, but it stays on screen for a very long time until I close it by click.

Is there a way to decrease the delay for this notification?


texts: AppleScript to display notifications of closed apps with each separated, with a coma ","

texts:
This is the AppleScript I am using..

    tell application "System Events"
set listOfProcesses to (name of every process where background only is false)
tell me to set selectedProcesses to choose from list listOfProcesses with multiple selections allowed
set myResult to ""
    end tell

   --The variable selectedProcesses will contain the list of selected items.
repeat with processName in selectedProcesses
do shell script "Killall " & quoted form of processName
    end repeat
repeat with s in every string in selectedProcesses
set myResult to myResult & " ," & s
    end repeat
tell application "Finder" to display notification "Apps closed successfully:
" & selectedProcesses

Please tell me a way to separate to results in displayNotification by a coma.
In this case, the two apps are Notes and Reminder..
The Notification looks like this-


texts: Is there a mac utility that can magnify parts of the screen?

texts: For some teaching efforts, especially running through tutorials, I'd like to zoom in on parts of my screen to show a room-full of people small text from the projected screen. Is there an OS X utility that will magnify sections of the screen as I move my cursor over it? I know about OmniDazzle but the magnifier is somewhat clunky.


texts: MacBook Pro won't boot after remove boot partition

texts:
I want to install W10 on my macBook Pro, after searching about a solution all ideas seems dont work with me.

Now, I Follow instruction for BootCamp, i restart my MBP, it gave an error message: No bootable disk found, please insert ...

I went with restarting and option solution I selected the EFI boot going to W10 and when I want install it on BOOTCAMP partition it wont.

when I want to return to the begening, i deleted the BootCamp partition and another partition wich has 600 Mo about, but when i want restarting with my Mac Ox it wont boot, i clicked on option, and here no Machintosh partition is here, I think that I deleted the boot partition.

please can somone give me a solution to reinstall it without formating my MAC


texts: How to prevent LAN overload triggered by running Win10 in a Parallels VM?

texts:
I have a strange problem on our LAN. Recently we included a Mac with macOS Sierra (10.12.6), and it has installed a Parallels VM with Win10. Our network speed is 50/50 Mbps, but every time the Win10 VM is started in that Mac speed drops to around 1Mbps download, and all other computers in LAN are no longer capable to perform some standard office online work.

Is it possible to limit the network card to for example 30Mbps so other computers can continue with performing their tasks?


texts: CPU throttling on Macbook with bad battery and Catalina

texts:
I've seen some answers for this but it references older systems and older OSes.

Can anyone update this for relevance in the Catalina era. I have a Macbook10,1 with a shot battery. The screen is broken so I am using it strictly as a media/airplay server to my TV and have no plans to fix the battery whatsoever. I would really like to recover the performance on this.

I have tried the remedies in other posts and the problem is there is no plist file with my Macbook model. One user mentioned letting the computer go into "default power saving mode naturally". But what does this mean? Can it be made into a script?

Finally -- i heard that w/o the battery GPU is also curtailed. Is that true and can there be a wholistic fix for all of this? Thanks in advance!


texts: Trying to encrypt external HD . GPT scheme required . Do not want to erase data

texts:
Hey so i'm trying to encrypt my external hard drive (Seagate) and I right clicked on it and selected Encrypt [name] from the menu.  Made my password but could not move forward because I got the error "A GUID Partition Table (GTP) scheme is required" so then I went into Disk Utility and tried to change the partitioning scheme but it looks like it will erase all my data.

How can I encrypt my external without erasing anything? I have a Mac (Mavericks)


texts: How can I see the old episodes of a podcast on iPad?

texts:
I have noticed that I cannot see all the episodes of a podcast in the feed section, even though I see it on the podcasts website. Can someone tell me how I can access the older episodes ?
I'd like to watch some episodes not being shown on the app but available on the website.

Thanks.


texts: Can I adjust the time delay for when the dock re-appears?

texts: I like to hide the dock unless I need it.  There is a slight delay before it will reappear.  Is there a Terminal setting I can change so that the dock will instantly appear when I move my mouse to the bottom of the screen? I like how things work but want to tweak the timing.


texts: Mail.app won't recognize a contact's name from my Address Book

texts:
I use Mac OS X Mail and have all of my work contacts in Address Book. When I receive email from one contact, the "From" field just displays his email address (as opposed to his first and last name) even though I have a contact card for him in my address book. For all other contacts, Mail displays their first and last names appropriately.

What's really weird is that if I hover over his address in the "From" field and click to bring up the context menu, there is an option for "Add to Address Book" (as if he doesn't have an entry), whereas for other contacts the option is "Open in Address Book." If I click "Add to Address Book," a new contact card is created for him even though I already have one with the same email address set up!

I've tried both assigning a first/last name to the duplicated card as well as merging the duplicated card with the original. In both cases, Mail "forgets" that the card exists and treats his email address as a new contact.

How do I get Mail to realize that there is, in fact, a contact card with his address?


texts: Is it possible to always start an application fullscreen?

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After searching online for some time I was unable to find a real answer.

It it possible to start an application (i.e. Chrome) in a way that it always goes fullscreen?


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I've added text annotations to a pdf with Tools > Annotate > Text. I'd like to search the text for a specific word, like 'Todo'. Unfortunately, doing a cmd+F to search for this text doesn't work.

Is there a way to make text annotations searchable (by this I don't mean highlights and notes, which I know can be searched)?

I'm using the latest version of Preview (Version 8.1 (877.7)) on OS X El Capitan.


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I own an iPhone SE running iOS 12.3.1.

I clicked on a webpage link to for Google Translate and got the message that about inability to log in to the App store.  I thought this might be due to the fact that I never log in to iCloud.  In the course of troubleshooting, I changed my Apple ID password, got forced to change my Apple ID from MyOldAppleID to AnEmailAddress@somewhere.com, logged out of iCloud from attempts made today, powered down, powered up, logged back in, got forced to use 2-factor authentication, found that there were two GUI navigation pathways to get to the App Store, and tried them both:

Settings -> Top option -> iTunes & AppStore
Settings -> iTunes & AppStore -> Sign In

In the 1st case, the "iTunes & AppStore" field stays "off".

In the 2nd case, the "Sign In" link remains blue, and the area to the right remains blank (I assume that it is unblank if I'm logged in).

In both cases, clicking on the App Store "Retry" button simply re-displays "Connot Connect to App Store"

I am in a foreign continent across the pond, so have limited options for getting real time forms of assistance.  I am also on the road (well, in a diner), so can't do lengthy power, consuming changes.  Not sure if there is an Apple store in Berlin, but not sure that I want to waste the valuable and short amount of time here running around the city fixing the iPhone problem, though frankly, I've already done to a significant degree.  However, I may have to suck up the inability to install a translation app.

The only thing that I didn't do was choose to merge my navigator options and contacts with iCloud during the login.  It doesn't seem logical for that to be necessary to access the App Store. I chose to switch to Apple to get away from being at the mercy of the juggernauts in privacy relinquishing ways.  If uploading contacts is needed to in order to access the App Store, then in essence, Apple is holding the phone functionality hostage for not just my own personal data, but also data of everyone I know, who never agreed to having their info in the cloud.  I hope this is not the source of the problem, but it's the only remaining wild card that I can think of right now.


texts: Correct procedure to grow an iSCSI partition from an expanded LUN

texts: I'm using the Daemon Tools iSCSI initiator.  I have created a practice iSCSI target and LUN on my QNAP.  At first, it was 7GB. I took the LUN offline and increased the size to 16GB.  I reconnected to the LUN, and I can see the extra space available at the target. However, I cannot seem to expand the partition to absorb the extra space, and even if I add a partition, it only takes from the original 7GB, even as I see the extra space there. Very strange behavior!  What is the recommended process to utilize a grown LUN within macOS. I'm 100% OK using diskutil in the shell. Just need some direction. Yes, the original 7GB partition is formatted as HFS+ and GPT.


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Trying to update homebrew, I get this:

$ brew update

error: Your local changes to the following files would be overwritten by merge:
    .gitignore
    Library/Contributions/brew_bash_completion.sh
    Library/Contributions/brew_fish_completion.fish
    Library/Contributions/brew_zsh_completion.zsh
    Library/Contributions/manpages/brew.1.md
    Library/ENV/4.3/cc
    Library/ENV/4.3/make
    Library/ENV/4.3/xcrun
    Library/ENV/libsuperenv.rb
Please, commit your changes or stash them before you can merge.
error: The following untracked working tree files would be overwritten by merge:
    CONTRIBUTING.md
    Library/Aliases/ag
    Library/Aliases/heroku

... etc...

Any way to just clean that up? Looks like it's using git under the hood?


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I have a house in france, and just charged the ipad mini with a french plug. It blew a fuse. Can I get extra french plugs from Apple for the charger cable???
I bought this french plug from amazon. Not good!


texts: Maximum number of audio channels over HDMI

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Is MacOS Mojave capable of sending more than 8 audio channels over HDMI?

For example, if I purchase a DisplayPort -> HDMI 2.0 adapter, will I be able to select more than 8 audio channels in the MIDI settings app?


texts: Why doesn't my screen turn off with this automator service?

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I have created an automator task to run a screen to turn my screens off, using the keyboard shortcuts section in the System Preferences I able to map this to a keyboard shortcut.

My automator script looks like this:

My keyboard shortcut mapped to the automator service:

If I press the Run button in the automator, the screens do turn off. However if I press the keyboard shortcut the Mac makes that error nudge noise and nothing happens.

Any ideas why it works in automator but not through the keyboard shortcut?


texts: Is there any keyboard shortcut to Force Quit all applications?

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Is there any apple Keyboard Shortcut to force quitting all of my applications?

I really need this sometimes because i have a old MacBook Air and it freezes if I put more than 14 applications. I just want to ask if there are any KeyBoard shortcuts to force quitting all of the applications using the Apple KeyBoard?


texts: Installing a different version of Apache and PHP

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I have OS X Yosemite, it comes with default Apache 2 and PHP versions. I want to set up a development environment with older version of Apache (2.2) and PHP (5.3). I have a product set up running on different Linux and Windows machines which runs on these specific versions.

How can I downgrade Apache to 2.2 from 2.4 and PHP to 5.3 from 5.5? I don't want to use XAMPP or MAMP, as I have other glassfish settings to take care of.


texts: Identifying which admin changed another admin's privileges

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Have a bit of a people issue and one user who has admin has changed another's privileges from admin to standard.  This is a university setting, but the student association not the university's network; I am the parent of the user who was (temporarily) demoted; some experience as a user but not admin using Linux and Apple systems (as well as Windows)...

The root user did not do it and privileges have been restored; current root user is not experienced as a sysadmin though.  Does OS X keep log files which would show who made this change?  assuming so, which log file(s) would need to be examined to get this information (I take it one needs to look at the asl logs through Console - but which logs?)  I do not have access to the system and need to describe this to those who will do it...

Any help would be appreciated.