texts: How can I mount partition disk0s4 that became inaccessible after a clean installation of Mountain Lion?

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The hard drive on my MacBook Pro has two partitions. One with the OS and the other with data.

Yesterday, from a USB boot drive, I performed a clean installation of Mountain Lion to the OS drive. I created the USB boot installer from InstallESD.dmg that I received from purchasing the OS from the Mac App Store.

Now I can't see or mount my data partition.  I'm wondering if there's a problem with the MBR. In Disk Utility it shows up as "disk0s4", but it's greyed out.

Any ideas on how I can mount the data partition so I can get my data off it?

For diskutil list disk0 the result is:

/dev/disk0
   #:                                 TYPE NAME         SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:                GUID_partition_scheme             *500.1 GB   disk0
   1:                                  EFI              209.7 MB   disk0s1
   2:                            Apple_HFS MacBook OS    99.5 GB   disk0s2
   3:                           Apple_Boot Recovery HD  650.0 MB   disk0s3
   4: 46860E2C-2310-4F96-99F6-616D0B4CB55D              399.6 GB   disk0s4

Here's the result of diskutil info /dev/disk0s4

Device Identifier:        disk0s4
Device Node:              /dev/disk0s4
Part of Whole:            disk0
Device / Media Name:      MacBook Data

Volume Name:              Not applicable (no file system)

Mounted:                  Not applicable (no file system)

File System:              None

Partition Type:           46860E2C-2310-4F96-99F6-616D0B4CB55D
OS Can Be Installed:      No
Media Type:               Generic
Protocol:                 SATA
SMART Status:             Verified

Total Size:               399.6 GB (399629668352 Bytes) (exactly 780526696 512-Byte-Blocks)
Volume Free Space:        Not applicable (no file system)
Device Block Size:        512 Bytes

Read-Only Media:          No
Read-Only Volume:         Not applicable (no file system)
Ejectable:                No

Whole:                    No
Internal:                 Yes
Solid State:              No


texts: I cannot activate Setup Assistant Mac OS Catalina 10.15.1

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I accidentally deleted my admin account from directory utilities system. Now I'm using my standard account to login, in the system preferences there is no admin account but when I click the lock it requires admin name and password. I did some research and found out that activating Setup Assistant allow me to create my new admin account. I tried many ways but it ended up automatically log in to my current standard account every time I "reboot" my Mac.

When I enter mount -uw / it shows: "volume couldn't be mounted" and "failed with 77"

rm /var/db.AppleSetupDone echoes: "Override root...AppleSetupDone?" and "no such file or directory"

Please help me fix this


texts: Yosemite Mission Control does not show desktop bar or add button

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On a new Mac Mini with Yosemite, I cannot figure out how to add desktops to Spaces. As far as I can see, the preferences are the same on this new Mac Mini as on my MacBook Pro, but on the MBP, when I go to Mission Control, I see the desktop bar with an add button that appears when I move the mouse pointer to the top right of the screen.

On this Mac Mini, when I go into Mission Control, the windows open on my one desktop shrink and show on the screen, and the dock shows at the bottom, but no desktop bar at the top.

EDIT: I have added a whole screen (Cmd Shift 3) screen shot of what happens when I activate Mission Control. As you can see, the browser window goes much higher on the screen than it does on my MBP, where the desktop bar is. Also, no button appears when I move the pointer to the top right. One thing I did not notice before is that it does not show me all of the app windows I have open when activating Mission Control, like it does on my MBP. On that machine, all of the app windows I have open on a particular Space do spread out and show up in Mission Control.


texts: I am trying to run the iOS simulator on my mac but I can't find it when i search in spotlight. I have Xcode 4.2 installed. I thought iOS simulator was bundled with Xcode.


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I have the Airport Time Capsule (3TB) connected to a 3TB HDD via the Airport Time Capsule's USB2 port.

How can I set them up with RAID 1?


texts: I prefer my time zone to be UTC.  While I could simply choose my location as Reykjavik, Iceland, for which the official time is UTC, I would much rather have a way to use UTC without changing my location setting that way.  Is this possible?  I'm on Lion if that matters.


texts: MacOS & finder hang to beach ball after a couple of hard resets, won't go away

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I had to do a couple of hard resets (holding power button until it shuts off) because MacOS became unresponsive.
Now it's happenning every time, when opening a pdf with preview, or apps that used to work fine, now hang up with the beach ball and never come back, and some times the whole finder hangs.
It looks like something got corrupted because I made some clean restarts and it keeps happening, other than reinstalling MacOS, is there something that I can do to try and fix this?

Specs:
MacBook with intel core duo, 2GB memory
MacOS 10.6.7 still using the original factory install (plus updates) from about a year and a half


texts: Snow Leopard hidden app behavior in Lion

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Possible Duplicate:
  Can I get back Snow-Leopard-like application hiding (Cmd-H) in Lion?

I have 10.7 running on my personal laptop and 10.6 on my work machine, and recently noticed they act differently on hidden apps.

In 10.6, when I hide an app then hold down Command ⌘-Tab, it shows a list of all the open apps and the hidden app will be at the end of the app-switcher. This way, if I just press (instead of holding down) ⌘-Tab after hiding the app, it will not switch back and show that hidden app immediately.

However, in 10.7, Apple changed things up entirely: that hidden app will stay in its position after I hide it, so if I hit ⌘-Tab, I'll immediately unhide the app I just hid, which seems to defeat the point of hiding the app.

So I am wondering if there is a way I can get that 10.6 hidden app behavior back on 10.7?


texts: How can I disable the iMessage pop up when I turn on my Mac? It keeps asking me to sign in with my Apple ID. I don't want to set it up because I don't want to use iMessage. But the box keeps opening every time I turn on my Mac and it is getting frustrating as I have to go through 3 pages before I can turn it off.


texts: How to set up HP P3005x printer for double-sided printing OS X 10.9?

texts: My MacBook Pro having OS X 10.9 is connected to network printer HP LaserJet P3005x, but I can't print on both sides of the paper automatically, particularly the Word documents. Can someone guide me how to solve this problem?


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In Finder, the search bar in the top right corner has ceased to function. Observe:

Obviously, there should be something with the letter "s" in it. But no results appear. It's just blank. Anything I search for, anywhere I search for it, it all fails.


texts: Scanning External Drives (USB keys in particular) before mounting them

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I need your help: it happens quite often to me that I have to mount drives coming from the most diverse sources and, sometimes, with quite a high risk of being infected with god knows what. As a consequence I deactivated auto mount and I usually format them before mounting them if I do not need to access their content, it is nonetheless quite common for me to need their content: I was wondering if there was any software able to scan them before mounting them; I remember that when I was on windows some antivirus were able to do so (probably mounting them to some sandbox I suppose) and I was wondering if there was any alternative software able to do so on MacOS.
Thanks


texts: Is there a script/cmd that I can create/run that will allow me to install .dmg?

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I have been working on a "Mac Rollout Project". After I run the Macs through the Apple setup, I have a list of .DMG / Applications that I have to install. There is no particular order that the .DMG / Applications need to follow while being installed. It's just tedious.

Is there a way that I create a script/pkg/sudo on the Mac, That will allow me to automate this process?

(I have all of the applications that I need on an external hard drive)


texts: How to make hits of caps-lock get ignored unless also pressing shift?

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I want to prevent accidental presses of Caps Lock by configuring it to toggle only when you press shift at the same time. Is there a way to do that? I don't mind if I have to use the terminal to do this, but I'd prefer not to have to install 3rd party software.

Please note what I'm asking for pertains to what happens when you hold shift (or not) just when hitting the caps-lock key. The way caps-lock changes the behaviour of other keys wrt shift is a different question.


texts: Not getting white boot screen background on white iPad/iPhone (iOS 7)?

texts: Is this a bug I need to report or is this normal or what? On both my white iPad 2 and my white iPhone 4S running iOS 7, I thought the boot screen was supposed to be white/gray with a dark Apple logo, but I'm getting the black screen with the white logo. But since it's the same on both devices maybe I'm missing something. Any ideas?


texts:
I want to concatenate in BSD Join.

Data

Model Decreasing Constant Increasing
2025 75.5 82.5 89.5
2035 65.5 82.5 102
2050 49.5 82.5 112

and error configuration in ybar

Model Decreasing Constant Increasing
2025 2.5 2.5 2.5
2035 2.5 2.5 5
2050 7.5 7.5 7.5

which should be

2025 75.5 82.5 89.5 2.5 2.5 2.5
...

Unix variant join A B does work according to my friend.

Outputs from Head

$ head model1_ave.dat
Year Decreasing Constant Increasing
2025 75.5 82.5 89.5
2035 65.5 82.5 102
2050 49.5 82.5 112
$ head model1_ave_err.dat
Model Decreasing Constant Increasing
2025 2.5 2.5 2.5
2035 2.5 2.5 5
2050 7.5 7.5 7.5

How can you concatenate the two files in OSX Join i.e BSD?


texts: How can I get the window bounds for "Adobe Illustrator" in AppleScript?

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Apparently, Adobe doesn't have a single mechanism in place for people using a laptop and additional monitors with their products. As an Adobe CC user who primarily works from a laptop that connects to a larger monitor at home or school, ALL Adobe CC products open with a pop-up window that is outside of the monitor bounds. So you can't move, or adjust, anything.

It effectively locks the product.

The only workaround is to disconnect the monitor, wait for everything to shift over to the LapTop window where it makes sure to open everything inside of the monitor bounds. Then reconnect the monitor, and move everything over. Which is a MASSIVE time waster when you're dealing with 8gb of RAM and MASSIVE graphics files.

I've started learning AppleScript JUST TO FIX THIS RIDICULOUS GLITCH.

BUT... AppleScript and Illustrator don't work with windows and bounds together.

Can someone help me with whatever script I would have to write to get (and set) the Adobe Illustrator window bounds?


texts: Conflict with my Mac user won't let me connect to my site's FTP

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I realize this may be a weird thing to ask and that it doesn't make much sense, so I will clarify the issue here. It is a very bizarre issue that I do not understand why is happening and I do not know how to fix.

Here's the scenario: My Mac's user name is andyibanez. I am also the owner of https://www.andyibanez.com. I want to configure my website to use a different subdomain for FTP, SSH, and all those goodies, called ftp, so my ftp host will be ftp.andyibanez.com. So I created the DNS settings and tried to use them.

Here's the weird thing, though: When I open the Terminal app and type ssh andyibanez@ftp.andyibanez.com, the operation fails immediately, it doesn't even try to connect to the internet. I know it doesn't because it fails as soon as I send the command by pressing the Enter key.

ssh: Could not resolve hostname ftp.andyibanez.com: nodename nor servname provided, or not known

All apps I have tried to use SSH and FTP have failed immediately. That includes Cyberduck and Transmit.

Trying to ping ftp.andyibanez.com doesn't work, either.

ping: cannot resolve ftp.andyibanez.com: Unknown host

At this point you may be thinking that I have misconfigured my DNS settings. Nope, I am 100% I didn't, for the following reasons:

All operations in regarding that host fail immediately.
I have actually tried a different computer (that doesn't have andyibanez as a user) and it worked fine. I was also able to connect fine using the Transmit iOS app.
I set up another domain as ftp.myotherdomain.com with the same things as ftp.andyibanez.com and it works fine. I can connect to it with no problems.

Of course, I have the easy workaround that I can connect with this computer by setting a different subdomain or even using the naked domain. So I can connect to SSH. I am asking this because I am really curious as to why this happens.


texts: Stuck on login for one user after migration assistant

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I recently got my MacBook Air 2018 fixed after having some cryptographic error.
I backed up all my data with time machine and I was able to transfer my data using migration assistant. I now have 3 users and I am only able to log in to two out of the 3. The third user is actually the only one I use and has everything on it. When I log in, (I know it’s the right password), I’m stuck on the loading page. I’ve been waiting for almost two hours.
I know there are threads that have a similar problem but the solutions offered didn’t really fit the criteria of my situation (meaning I was able to log in to other users except one). Please help I am so grateful it’s my university’s spring break I think I’d be having a panic attack if it wasn’t. Id really really appreciate simple and detailed instructions because I’m not knowledgeable on operating systems, etc. Thank you so much.
**I don’t know if this info is related to my problem but before I got my MacBook Air fixed, it  couldn’t update the OS due to that cryptographic error I mentioned before. So when I backed up my data it was on mojave. I didn’t realize my OS wasn’t updating until I needed to download XCode for class and it required the latest OS. I ended up wiping the whole disk after backing up my data and then going to a distribution center. Now I have the latest OS (Big Sur) and that is the backstory to my current problem after transferring my data back.
Here is the link to the spindump.txt file : https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Hscr19_0gnp_4TxW3XxtFgeirxVTIOy5/view?usp=sharing


texts: Why are my Events in iOS 8 iPhoto in a completely random order?

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Since upgrading to iOS 8, I've noticed that the Events list inside iPhoto is no longer in reverse chronological order. In fact, it's not in any order at all. This makes the Events system almost completely useless for me.

Is anyone else experiencing this? Is it a bug, or is there a setting I need to configure?


texts: Change JSON and CSS files to developer kind in All My Files

texts: In All My Files, CSS and JSON files appear in the Documents section, even though I would call them developer files. Is there any way I can change their kind, so that they appear as Developer files?


texts: How to fix when mac wakes up, chrome & safari showing weird colors

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When mac wakes up, Google Chrome and recently realized Brave too (safari was fine) showing weird colors on certain tabs, also recently found out, even if I share my screen with Chromecast same glitchy patterns are visible on the shared screen as well.
As far as I can tell, maybe redrawn sections of the browser window showing this, because some websites are partial others have glitchy squares all over the window.
Only way to fix it, restarting Mac, quitting browsers is not working.
Note: I'm using a USB-C connected external monitor, which runs with DisplayLink, I always had issues with this display on Mac (Asus Zenscreen), after recent updates on OsX it was fine, so I still have my suspects on it.
Is this a fixable issue? Any configurations to fix it?
MacBook Pro (16-inch, 2019) / BigSur


texts: Mac OS Sierra connected to SMB share keeps forgetting permissions at the folder level

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We have a Mac running 10.12.6

It connects to our SBS 2011 Server shares using SMB (CIFS makes no difference to the issue). For some reason Finder keeps forgetting that the user has permissions to access files and folders on the share.

For example if I have a Finder window open containing a few documents, I open a document, minimise Finder and do some work and then after a while I go back to the Finder window, I'll find I've been kicked out of it and forced up one level in the folder hierarchy. In that upper level I'm presented with stop signs and no permissions to open any of those folders or files. If I then go up one more level (or close the Finder window if there are no more levels) and then come back to where I want to be, permissions are restored.

The Mac doesn't seem to be losing a connection to the share, it just seems to forget the assigned permissions.

Other than the AD join for user login the Mac is 100% local and that share is simply mounted upon login.

In SBS Console. The share permissions are set to 'Everyone' and the Everyone group has full control. Then we split users into Security Groups and the security group is assigned full control at the folder level where needed.

Does anyone have any idea what's going on? This seems to be a Sierra based change.


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I have an app installed on my iMac running High Sierra 10.13.6. Normally I would just double-click on this app in the Applications folder and the app would start right up. Recently it stopped doing that. When I double-click on the app nothing happens. If I right click on the app and chose open, nothing happens.  Does anyone know why double-clicking doesn't work anymore?

When I show package contents and go to MacOs i can open the run.sh file. The contents are:
#!/bin/sh
source "/Users/username/anaconda3/envs/py34"/bin/activate root
"/Users/username/anaconda3/envs/py34"/bin/anaconda-navigator $@


texts: iPhone takes ~3 seconds to switch music tracks

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I have 600 songs in my iPhone's music library, with some of them being more than an hour long.
Lately (since iOS 7.1 upgrade) the songs have been taking around 3 or more seconds to change to the next/previous song, when changed from the lock screen or control centre.

If I do it from the music app, there is no such delay.

Why is this happening?
It never happened on pre-iOS 7.1- is there anything that I can do about this? I've already tried restoring the device to iOS 6.1.3 (via saved hashes), and the delay is gone.

Is this a bug in iOS 7.1+?

The device is an iPhone 4, and I have no desire to upgrade to a newer iPhone, since what I would gain would be very little.


texts: Most but not all of my Contacts are synching between my iPad, iPhone, and Macbook

texts: I have three Apple devices, a Macbook Pro Early 2011, an iPad, and an iPhone 5. The macbook appears to have all of my contacts synched but the iPad is missing a few and the iPhone is missing even more. Each device is connected to the same Apple ID and Contacts is turned on under the iCloud settings for each. I'm not sure what else I can do to get this straightened out.


texts: Creating High Sierra as VM under VMware Fusion

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I need to create a VM for macOS High Sierra to run with VMware Fusion. I would prefer this VM be created from my existing MacBook running High Sierra (a real, physical device), but that's not essential.

I have a current version (v 11.5.5) of VMware Fusion on my new-ish MacBook running Catalina - this is where I'd like to run my High Sierra VM. The MacBook running High Sierra also has VMware Fusion, but it's an old copy that can't be updated any longer.

What I've done so far:

I have read this Q&A which is related to my question.
I have contacted VMware technical support, asking basically the same question: How can I create a VM of my MacBook running High Sierra?
I have attempted to create a .dmg file of the HD in my High Sierra Mac using CCC

Results & observations:

For reasons I don't understand, my physical MacBook running High Sierra does not have a Recovery partition - perhaps it was not picked up during a previous upgrade to the HDD/SSD. Consequently, that option seems to be unavailable?

I d/l a file named macOSUpdCombo10.13.6.dmg from an Apple support site (don't recall the URL). However, when opening that file in VMware Fusion, instead of High Sierra, I get what appears to be an installation procedure. It was not clear where this was going to be installed, so I abandoned it. Has anyone else used this file to create a High Sierra VM under VMware Fusion?

This Q&A has a link to a utility named create_macos_vm_install_dmg which claims to "prepare macOS installer disk images for use with ... VMware Fusion...". I have not tried this utility, but am willing to try it - however I would much prefer to hear from someone who has used it successfully before I do. Will this utility create a (dmg) file that VMware Fusion can open and run a macOS High Sierra VM?
VMware tech support advised of availability of a suitable file at this location (hackintosh?). Before they sent me the link, the VMware tech support person asked me to recite a disclaimer during our phone conversation. This made me a little nervous... when I visited the site, I got a little more nervous :)  Has anyone used VM files from this source - are they OK?
I've tried to create a .dmg backup file using CCC. That has been particularly confusing - partly because it seems to have wrecked the network drive location where Time Machine keeps backups for my MacBook running Catalina. I'm afraid I am just not smart enough to use CCC.

How Should I Proceed?

I'm probably a little frustrated at this point. My experience with cloning machines in VMware was 3-4 years ago in a MS Windows environment - it was dead simple - literally a one-or-two-mouse-click operation. And I've used VMware quite a bit in a Mac environment, but recently that's been limited to virtualization of Linux OS... also dead simple to do.

All that aside, I need to get this (virtualization of macOS High Sierra) done for a number of reasons. All help will be appreciated.


texts: My Mac switches to speaker after locking the screen

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When listening to music, after locking my MacBook Pro (ControlShiftPWR) and leaving, when I come back after 5 mins, I can hear the sound from the external speakers and nothing from my headphones. I have to unplug and replug to get it back to normal.

Anyone experienced this behaviour before? I'm running Sierra 10.12.1.


texts: How can I get more information about my iPhone's Wi-Fi connection?

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Tapping the information icon in Settings → Wi-Fi → (current connection) shows me a small amount of network information (mostly IP bits) about my Wi-Fi connection.

I just enabled WPA3 on my network, though, and I want to confirm that my iPhone is using it.

On my MacBook, if I hold down option and click the Wi-Fi menu, I can see a lot of other information about my Wi-Fi connection, such as

Router address
Security (this is what I want!)
Channel and signal strength information

Is this information available in iOS and where?


texts: Why can't I create a directory under /opt without sudo?

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Mac 10.11.5 (El Capitan) here. I just tried creating a directory under /opt:

myUser$ mkdir /opt/bupo
mkdir: /opt/bupo: Permission denied

Why would I need to prefix this with sudo and then authenticate myself in order for this command to work? If I were to use sudo mkdir /opt/bupo, then what user would actually be creating + owning this bupo/ directory, would it be root?


texts: Installing a Windows partition on Mac HD - dual boot in short

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My current HD in my MBP is partitioned into 4 and all of them uses the Journaled file system of OS X. I plan to wipe out one logical drive so that I can dedicate it to a Windows OS (version 7/8). I don't want to boot Windows in a virtualized environment but rather boot up on its own so that I can make use of my MBPs hardware.

I recently tried Boot Camp Assistant but it wouldn't format a single partition because all of them have been supporting OS X's file system.

How do I approach this? Is there some sort of software that will allow me to manipulate the drives and then allow me to painlessly install Windows without the hassle I encountered while using Boot Camp Assistant.

My best bet is to backup all the files I have in my other 3 partitions and then delete them so that I can give way to installing a new partition fit for Windows. I'm still adamant on experimenting because of the dangers I might encounter, say for example I might mess up my Master Boot Record and end up in frustration.

In short, this is dual-boot question - only with the difficulty imposed by Boot Camp, so I'm just looking for other alternatives/solutions on how to approach it.


texts: Booting an Intel Mac to Linux from a U3 USB drive

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Is it possible to boot an Intel Mac to Linux, or any non-OS X operating system, from the U3 partition of a USB drive?

I know that because OS X uses EFI rather than BIOS for the boot process, the only way to boot from USB is generally if you're booting an EFI-capable operating system -- meaning OS X. And (at least I think) I know that when a non-OS X operating system is booted, a Mac switches into BIOS emulation mode during the boot process, which actually disables USB support until the OS loads the appropriate drivers for the USB subsystem... which is why booting non-OS X operating systems is generally not possible from USB drives.

So this got me to thinking -- since you can boot any OS on a Mac from CDROM, and there are USB-based CDROM drives that one can boot from, what if a USB device emulated a CDROM? And that led me down the rabbit hole to the (now-extant) U3 spec from SanDisk, which did just that -- emulated a full CDROM on a partition of a USB drive.

So, is it possible to boot from this partition, and boot into a non-OS X operating system?


texts: How to deploy printer with Profile Manager

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Good evening,
someone know the best practice for deploy printer on a mac with Profile Manager?
I have add to my Server on System->Printer the printer with AirPrint and it is recognised, with model and position.
I use payload "Print", but the printer is deployed on mac only with "generic driver".
I have tried to install first the driver and after push the payload, but doesn't work. Always "generic driver".
The problem is, generic driver some function are unavailable... Some ideas?
Thanks


texts: Order minimized windows within an application

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I am currently porting from Windows to MacOS.
One of the cool features I liked about windows is the way it orders multiple windows of the same application.
For example, If you have 10 Chrome windows, it'll order the windows in the same order you opened those windows.
Whereas on a MacOS (I am using High Sierra 10.13.4), the windows are ordered alphabetically. So every time I visit a new website, the order in the application's dock icon would have changed depending on the title of the website. In my opinion, it is very annoying because you will have to scan each and every window to get to the one that you want.

So the question here is, is there a way on Mac where I can make sure that multiple windows of the same application are ordered in the same order that I open those windows instead of ordering it alphabetically ?


texts: On MacPorts, Mavericks, and generated PDF files with latex/xelatex

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So, I am using MacPorts and through MacPorts I want to use texlive in order to be able to build with latex/xelatex PDF documents.

Everything seems to be working fine, apart from the fact, that whenever I use a command of the form, say

open myFile.pdf

then in the terminal I get the error:

Trace/BPT trap: 5

However, when I attempt to open in a similar manner pdf documents that I have created in the past, then these other documents are opened without any problems. So, my feeling is that this particular issue has something to do with the recent MacPorts versions of texlive and the dependancies that are there at the moment. On the other hand, I am not really sure if I can post something like this as a "bug" on MacPorts. So, what about you guys? Do you experience something similar?

Side notes:

Since I also wanted to use kile I have poppler installed with the
extension +qt4+quartz.
Even if I open the pdf document on Preview (by first opening Preview and then the file using "File>Open ...") then I can not scroll through the document!
Using Okular and opening the dvi file, I can actually scroll the document.
Which brings us to the command that I use for translating the .dvi file to a .pdf file, which is "dvipdf", i.e.: dvipdf myFile.dvi

Any ideas on resolving this issue?


texts: Why does iChat launch itself whenever I wake my monitors?

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I'm using OS X Lion. Whenever I wake my monitors, the iChat screen below pops up:

When I let my Mac idle, iChat was NOT open. I never use iChat and would really like this dialog to go away permanently. I don't want to use iChat, period. And I certainly don't want to have to quit iChat every time I wake my monitors. iChat is not in my login items, all of the accounts have been removed or disabled, and I don't know of any other setting that might be causing this.

I thought I had licked this problem before, in fact I was so proud of myself (after searching for a solution for hours) that I blogged about it. But alas, after I restarted my Mac, the problem returned.

I don't have Chax installed (this question asked how to get this behavior, the opposite of what I'm looking for).

I'd be quite happy to uninstall iChat completely, if there were a way. I've considered some of these software removers like AppZapper but I suspect they will be unable to remove iChat for the same reason I can't.

My menu bar looks like this.


texts: Do Ubuntu VMs run smoothly on the MacBook Retina, 12-inch, Early 2015?

texts: I need Ubuntu 14.04 for a class I'm doing, but I didn't want to install it side-by-side. Does VirtualBox run smoothly on the MacBook (Retina, 12-inch, Early 2015)?


texts: USB pendrive/disk formatting clarification

texts:
I have three doubts regarding USB pendrive formatting.

Is there is any simple/quick way to format the USB pendrive from MacBook Pro?

Now, I am doing this by Applications/Utilities/Disk Utility -> Selecting the disk -> Tap on "Erase" tab -> Tap on "Erase..." option.

I remember, I can do this by right clicking on the Disk's name and by select "Format" option in Windows.

But, Mac shows the below options when right clicking on the disk in Finder.

What is the difference between these two options?

I'm always deleting files in a disk by Right clicking on the file -> Selecting "Move to Trash" option.

Deleted file get hided from the Finder. But the size of the disk remains same. Is the file really deleted?


texts: What is the layout of a real Apple supplied fusion drive?

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Would someone who has a fusion drive that they bought directly from Apple please provide diskutil output sufficient to describe the choices they made?

I've seen lots of different sets of advice for how to DIY it, and that's fine, but I'd like to know how Apple is doing it on the ones they sell.

In particular, the interesting part is the choice they made on locating the recovery partition. Is it "outside" the fusion drive? If so, is it located on the SSD or the HD? Or is it "inside"?

If it were up to me, I would be inclined to locate the recovery partition "outside" on the spinny disk, but before my SSD and retrofit kit comes in the mail, I'd like to know how Apple did it.


texts: How do you clean dust from the inside of a MacBook Pro?

texts: I have a 2010 MBP and lately I've noticed dust showing up underneath the keys and above under the screen hinge. I've looked at the ifixit.com tutorials here but they don't have any guides on how to clean dust. I also have AppleCare, but this thread mentions it doesn't cover cleaning dust. I imagine "dusty" would be subjective, but they could give you 2 cleans a year or something. Can anyone verify that they don't clean dust from parts? In the end I'll probably open it up and use a dust-buster, but thought it'd be good to check first.


texts:
I wrote a small Java desktop application using NetBeans, Java 8 and JavaFX 8 on my MacBook running macOS High Sierra. I can launch it from Terminal by executing a Bash script (mentioned below), but double clicking on the JAR in Finder fails (right clicking and selecting Open fails too) and I receive a suggestion that I look for errors in Console.app, but get no other clue as to what's failing. It's a very specialized app that I'll probably only distribute to a couple of co-workers who don't work in Terminal.

Google search has given me solutions that are out of date, the Oracle solution (out of date) provided a link that proved useless.

What do I need to do to be able make the JAR file executable from Finder? How can I get more information on what's wrong? Since it's not signed it might be that Gatekeeper is the culprit.

My script is in ~/bin which is included in PATH. I have a folder, ~/jars for Java apps, each of which has its own folder. In that folder I have copied my project-> ... dist app.jar and my libs folder that has external jar libraries. The script has execute permissions. Here is the script:

#!/bin/bash
java -jar $HOME/jars/myApp/myApp.

I can launch the app from Terminal or from Finder but the first time finder will think I want to edit it so I must choose Other and then choose Terminal.  BTW it works exactly the same in Ubuntu, I just copied the script, dropped it into ~/bin, and dropped the myApp folder in ~/jars.  It mostly ran but the JRE on the Ubuntu machine, while Java 8, is a little older version than the one on my Mac and I get a run time error after a while. I think that updating to the same version will solve the problem as I don't know how to force NetBeans to include the JRE.


texts: Install 1.69f4 (SMC 1.7) on MacbookPro8,1 running Yosemite

texts:
Dec 2018 Update:
I bought a new battery (A1322) in Sep 2016 for S$42 because my battery deteriorated further. My MacBook recognised the battery and it had no random shutdowns for a while. However, it was a bad choice because the new battery barely lasted me for a few months before it started to expand. It pushed against the MacBook trackpad until it cracked the trackpad glass.
With that, I decided to say goodbye to my old MBP and I bought a new MBP in Jan 2017.

My MacBook Pro (13-inch, Early 2011) (aka MacBookPro8,1) running OS X 10.10.5 Yosemite has just crossed the 1000 battery cycle count mark.
It now suffers from random shutdowns without me prompting anything. I am sure it is not a userland software problem.
What I have done:

reset my SMC several times
checked Console.app for .panic files - none exists

So I read further and found that Apple says upgrade your SMC to 1.69f4 (SMC 1.7). My current SMC version is 1.68f99. However, the update installer throws an alert:

The update is not supported by your system.

Turns out the system requirements are

OS X  10.7.5
OS X 10.8.2

but I am running Yosemite. Any advice?


texts: Is it possible restart Mac from 2nd monitor only without mouse?

texts:
My Mac has an issue where sometimes the primary monitor won't wake up, but the Mac thinks it is connected. So In such cases, I only see my secondary (much smaller) monitor.

Typically I cannot find the mouse cursor so I'm left with a monitor but no way to do anything. Restarting fixes it but I end up having to force-power-down by holding the MacMini power button then restarting... is there a way I can access the Restart menu option in this scenario instead?


texts: Is it possible to uninstall Xcode, keep the CLI tools and have a working Homebrew installation running on macOS Mojave?

texts:
I am trying to claw back as much disk space as possible, and I have no use for Xcode aside from the fact it provides the Command Line Tools I need for using Homebrew. Can I:

Remove Xcode (how to do so properly?)
Install Command Line Tools (I can download them as a developer BTW)
Have a working Homebrew installation


texts: Multiple git actions through TextMate Git Bundle

texts:
I have a default project that I work on through TextMate, and it is source controlled through Git. I have the Git bundle and I am able to separately run actions to add my files, then commit them with a message and then push to origin.
But, is there a way I can create a custom shortcut where I can run a command like:
git add . && git commit -m "some default message" && git push origin

through the Git Bundle via some shortcut, like cmd + g or something, so that I don't have to go through the individual actions in the bundle or having to switch to the terminal?


texts: I've been running Snow Leopard 10.6.8 for months. For some reason today I lost the ability to "regular" empty the trash. When I right-click the trash from the dock and select "Empty Trash" I'm presented with the "are you sure you want to secure empty the trash?" dialog. When I open the trash in Finder the button in the upper right corner says "secure empty trash". How can I regain the ability to regular empty the trash?


texts: Mac OS X Mountain Lion cannot share internet connection because of 802.1X protection

texts:
My notebook is connected on Ethernet using 802.1X. When I try to share the internet via Wifi I get the error message Your Internet connection cannot be shared because its protected by 802.1X

I dont have right now a option of not using a protected network. Is there a way to share the connection? I want to create an adhoc wifi network to test my devices.


texts: Activity Monitor data, in recent history?

texts:
Lately my MacBook Pro has a lot of moments where it slows down for a few seconds, stops responding to keys and touchpad, displays a rainbow wheel of doom, and then comes back. If I go to the Activity Monitor program, I see something like this:

The CPU was just getting loaded by something, but now it's not there, so I can't see what it was. It's hard to get to the Activity Monitor quickly when it's happening, because the entire system is slow and unresponsive.

I wish there were a way to click on those blue peaks and see the CPU usage data at that point in time. Anyone know a way to do something like that? In other words, a way to find out: "What was bogging my computer down 10 seconds ago?"


texts:
I would like to be able to selectively edit specific auto-fill form values in Safari - rather than just delete the entire form data for that site.

I know I can do the latter from Prefs > AutoFill > other forms > Edit… but I'd rather be able to remove only the the oddities my errant typing appears to have generated, rather than the actually useful auto-fills I already have in there.

As an example, from the Edit panel in Ask Different itself, I appear to have several aborted versions of "Formatting". I would rather have just the 'correct' entries.

A guess would be that the data resides in ~/Library/Safari/Form Values but that file seems to be either encrypted or perhaps binary - I can't tell which.

OS X 10.10.4 Safari 8.0.7


texts: Is there a way to selectively enable "Text Message Forwarding"?

texts:
Yosemite's new "Text Message Forwarding" feature is a great convenience for communicating with friends and colleagues who use SMS for texting, but it has the potentially to fatally* undermine 2-factor authentication schemes that use text messages.

Is there a way to limit which contacts' text messages can be forwarded?


texts:
I have a Macbook Pro 2015 running Mojave 10.14.6.
I have absolutely no sound output both from internal speakers and headphones, even the startup sound doesn't play. Microphone input is fine. The sound settings are OK, connecting and disconnecting the headphones is recognized correctly, no red light from the headphones jack socket. No peripherals are connected, Bluetooth is turned off.

I tried:

Reboot, multiple times
Install the latest system update
Reboot to safe mode
Reset PRAM
Run sudo killall audiod
Log in a guest account

Any other ideas? Thanks!


texts:
I'm a Linux/Windows user but in the near future, I might have to support users running macOS on questions related to file encryption/decryption using GPG.  I have to provide support without having my own macOS to try...  I don't need to know the details, but I would appreciate it if someone could throw a few program names to help me get started on my reading.  Of course, Google returned some options, but I can't tell based on a web page if that is "the" most common way for macOS users.
My understanding so far is that within macOS' terminal, I can run the gpg command which is part of OpenPGP.  Is this standard on any "recent" Mac or does a specific software package have to be installed?
I came across the GPG Suite which is commercial with a 30-day trial.  It seems that this is gpg with a GUI interface, GPG keychain, etc.  How is this option?  Is it common?  It seems equivalent in functionality to the Gpg4win for Windows.
So far, these are the two options for users that I have found.  Have I missed anything?  And would this be the recommended options for GPG under macOS or am I completely off?  Thank you!


texts: In TimeMachine, what happens during the "clean up" phase?

texts:
When TimeMachine runs a backup it goes through several phases.  There is the "prepare for backup", "backup" and "clean up" phases.  There might be more.

What happens during the "clean up" phase?


texts:
My iPhone 5 is frozen. I cannot turn it off and
when I try to restore it wont let me because it says I need to turn off Find My iPhone.


texts: Safari Redirecting http to (non-existent) https

texts:
Safari forces a redirect to the https version of a site I previously visited via https.

However, the https site no longer works and there is no way to prevent Safari form trying to load it.

Here is a related Apple Forums question, Safari keeps redirecting http to https


texts: Automate Mouse and Keyboard interactions similiar to OneClick for MacOS 9?

texts:
I need to batch a process that requires me to automate some key presses.  All I need to be able to do is hit the enter key, wait 5 seconds, hit the enter key again, wait 5 minutes, and then cmd + w to close the current window.

In the MacOS 9 days I would use OneClick by WestCode software:
http://www.macworld.com/article/15791/2000/12/13reviews2oneclick.html

Is there a similar tool for MacOS X, Snow Leopard specifically?  In this particular instance I do not need to can the focus of windows or anything else.  I just need to automate key presses within a program at various intervals.


texts:
I have just installed VLC for Mac, after I added a video file to my play list all I can see is this window + the audio played.

Please let me know how can I show the video playback?


texts:
I bought a used MacBook Pro, and I need to update some software.  When I click the 'update all' button to proceed, it asks for the App Store password of the old user's account:

How do I remove the old user's account so that I can update my software?


texts:
I'm trying to install the Tunnelblick open source VPN client on my Mac running OS X 10.10.5.

When I try to install the dmg I get the following error (see attached screenshot).

How would I make my /usr folder secure? The account I use by default is my main user account, but also the admin account for the computer. Would it be a question of making a my main user account a standard user and setting up a separate admin account?


texts: Unable to write to any external USB, even after formatting it

texts:
I have a MBP running OS X Mojave (10.14.2)
Any USB drive I connect is always read-only and I can never write to it. I've tried the following:

Multiple USB sticks
Multiple USB-C slots (just in case)
Formatting a drive as FAT32
Formatting a drive as ExFAT
Restarting (with and without the USB plugged in)
Confirmed the USB is write-able from a Windows laptop
Confirmed there is no physical write-protection switch on the USB

In each case I'm consistently blocked from writing to the USB drive, both from the UI and via the command line.
See below the "Get Info" display for a freshly formatted 32GB ExFAT drive. Note the permissions are "ready only" at the very bottom
Any idea what the issue could be here or what else I could try?
Thanks!


texts:
I have a MacBook Pro with a root mounting sector with problems. It becomes like this due to password changing in safe mode.
Now of course it doesn't turn up any more.
I tried repair with disk utility
I tried CMD+R using terminal
I tried several reparing softwares to save data

All without any success.
Any idea at least how to save data?

Thanks


texts: If I delete synced Google contacts on my iPhone, does that affect my google contact?

texts:
I needed some of my gmail contacts to email them and get some info, so I decided to sync my google accounts to my iPhone.
The problem is that I have some repeated contacts and I want to delete those from the iPhone, but I don’t know if that will just delete them on the phone or if it’ll affect my google contacts too.


texts: Pinning the Dock to a Corner in Yosemite/El Capitan

texts:
In Mavericks and prior, one could use the following commands to pin the dock to either the top or bottom corner of the screen, if the dock was placed left/right, or to the left/right corners if the dock was placed at the bottom, by using the following commands:

defaults write com.apple.dock pinning -string start

or

defaults write com.apple.dock pinning -string end

This is followed by killall Dock to restart the Dock. Now, in Yosemite, it appears that this option has been removed. Is there no way to get back this functionality in Yosemite?

Update: This is still not possible in El Capitan. Very disappointed in Apple.


texts: Is there an easy way to see my iPad screen from my MacBook?  I have Mocha VNC Lite and I can see my MacBook from my iPad, but I want to go the other way.


texts: Is it possible to disable single function keys?

texts: I know through System Preferences I can disable all the function keys. However, I really only need two of the function keys to have different functions. Rather than having to always press 'fn', is there a way to disable just these function keys?


texts:
I have an iphone 4s i just restored it and am running at 6.1.3 (latest version) I backed up my phone before the restore and have restored from the correct backup. I now have two problems:

I want to redownload all my apps from the store but when i access the app store and find an app I have previously bought this happens: E.G Instagram I search for Instagram and then where it should say install in that little curved edge box, it just says open. So I thought OH good I still have it downloaded! so I click on open and literally nothing happens. I click it a few more times. Still nothing! I am beyond confused. The same happens with all the apps that I have previously owned: Snapchat, Twitter, Facebook ETC.
all my music; the iphone recognises all my playlists and artists and all the albums and tells me their all on my phone but when i click on songs, there is nothing there absoultly nothing. And when I go to artist and clikc on artists to find a song, there will be nothing inside them. And the same happens in albums.

I have never done anything like jailbreaking or modifying my iPhone.


texts:
I know this is a long shot, but is there any way of using icloud or parts of it for syncing between two devices in physical proximity (using Bluetooth or ad hoc wifi) but without a connection to the Internet?

Or maybe a better question is: are there any apps (jailbreak or otherwise) that enable similar features to icloud without an Internet connection?


texts:
Recently I am stubborn enough to simply delete stuff that was in my mac. When I open up terminal, this pops up: (a screenshot of terminal with the code: Login incorrect login:)

I am not sure if I have accidentally deleted one of the supporting files for Terminal in my mac (this is just a guess)?

I've tried changing the shells. Typing in my username or even the correct password but it won't work at ALL. If there is no solution is a way to delete and reinstall Terminal?

Someone suggested I reinstall the OS. If that is the easiest solution, how do I do it? (sorry I am an IT noob)


texts: How to allow multiple network users to login on Mac machine which is enabled with File Vault

texts:
I have a scenario where I have connected all of our Mac machines to Active Directory (which is pain itself). However, after enabling FileVault from an Administrator account, I saw that network users can't log in even after enabling: Display login window as Name and password.
First I have to login with an admin account and then logout allows an only network user to login which is not an ideal solution.
There is some solution but what if I don't know the user and would like to make Mac machine open where random AD user can log in in that machine (FileVault enabled).
Any suggestion or solution will be highly appreciated.


texts:
The display on my iPhone 3GS keeps randomly fading in colour. Sometimes unlocking the screen is normal, sometimes faded its still visible but much paler than normal.

If I lock and unlock the screen several times it usually clears it but then after a period of non use its back to pale when I unlock, or not, as the case may be

Can't find any info anywhere relating to anything like this. has anyone any ideas please?


texts: I am using OpenCv on Big Sur and I am unable to get the pop ups which show us the image

texts:
import cv2
import numpy as np
def tell(x):
pass
cv2.namedWindow('rackBarsWindow')
cv2.createTrackbar('B','rackBarsWindow',0,255,tell)
while (1):
img=cv2.imread('logo.png')
img=cv2.resize(img,(512,512))
b=cv2.getTrackbarPos('B','rackBarsWindow')
b=str(b)
cv2.putText(img,b,(100,100),cv2.FONT_HERSHEY_SIMPLEX,1,(255,255,0),1,cv2.LINE_AA)

#print(b,g,r)

k=cv2.waitKey(1) & 0xFF
if k==ord('q'):
    break

cv2.imshow('iam',img)
#print(img)

cv2.destroyAllWindows()
please help me


texts: Watch AppleTV and XBOX One on my LG UltraFine 5k / MacBook Pro?

texts:
I have searched high and low, but can't find a good solution. Any help is appreciated!

I have a MacBook Pro 2016 w/TB. I have the LG UltraFine 5k monitor, which I absolutely love. The resolution, color, and brightness are stellar. I knew I would be limited with this monitor in terms of video connections--just one TB3 port.

I have reached my pain point and would like to see if there is a way to use other things with it. I have an XBOX One and an AppleTV that I would like to be able to view on my monitor, but of course, that means that it has to somehow go through my MBP.

I assume that there is no adapter that will permit the LG UltraFine's TB3 port to accept HDMI. Is this true?

I assume that a TB or USB HDMI capture device won't work with the AppleTV due to HDCP. From what I have read, it would work with gameplay on the XBOX, though. But, I'm guessing that if connects the AppleTV to the HDMI input on the XBOX, it will enable HDCP. I'm also worried about the lag that such a setup would introduce. I'm not a super gamer, so a little lag would be acceptable, but I'm not sure it would even be ploayable.

Does anyone have any suggestions? Is there even a possibility to make this work?


texts: How fast is 256GB to 128GB on mid-2013 MacBook Air?

texts:
I've tried finding the comparison reviews of the performance differences between 128GB and 256GB PCIe SSDs of mid-2013 MacBook Air 11" and 13" (which now have been carried over as the early-to-mid-2014 MacBook Air 11" and 13", too), but some comparisons don't even mention which SSD they've tested, and others only present a single size for the mid-2013 Air models.

How much faster is the 256GB SSD compared to the 128GB on mid-2013 MacBook Air?


texts:
So, I have a folder in my ~./Trash folder, and I can't seem to delete it. It's named __MACOSX, and I've tried everything I can think of to get rid of it. Finder won't start at all because of it (it starts for a bit at login, but then crashes/freezes), the terminal freezes up when trying to remove it (both as me and as sudo), and it even freezes up when auto-completing (tabbing) after typing the first few characters of it. Any suggestions?

Update: doing a normal ls lists it just fine, but an ls -l to try and find out more about it freezes the terminal:

polaris:~ rob$ cd .Trash/
polaris:.Trash rob$ ls
__MACOSX
polaris:.Trash rob$ ls -l
^C^C

(Pressing ^C doesn't do anything)

Another update: Onyx's trash utility freezes while deleting trash or secure deleting trash, SuperEmptyTrash crashes,


texts: Photos Shared Album - corrupted character display bug in Chrome

texts:
I have created a Shared Album in the Photos app and have given it a name.
When I share a web link to the album, the photos display properly but the album name and other textual information is garbled in Chrome.
The same web link displays properly in Firefox and Safari.
What would be the best mechanism to report this error to Apple?


texts: Boot Question Mark. Unable to write to last block of the device

texts:
I am having trouble with my MacBook Air a1465. Turning it on displays an image of a folder with a question mark inside. Looking for how to solve the problem, I tried to clean the NVRAM, with ALT + CMD + P + Q. NVMRAM was successfully cleaned but the issue was not resolved so I tried to reinstall the system through OS X Utilities. When turning on the computer I press the CMD + R keys, I correctly enter OS X Utilities. If I select Reinstall OS X option, a screen opens to install OS X Mountain Lion, but when selecting the disk no disk appears. Again in the menu of OS X Utilities, I enter the DIsk Utility option, here if the disk appears (120gb SSD), but when trying to format it or create a partition after a few minutes an error appears "Unable to write the last block of the device ”, and the disk disappears from the list. To see the disk again I have to clean the NVRAM again.
I tried erase with the formats Mac OS Extended (Journaled), Mac OS Extended (Journaled, Encrypted) and the message is always the same. I also tried to create a partition that occupies the entire disk with the same two formats, and I also get the same error .
I also tried to create a disk image so I could restore it later. I select New Image, try to save it to an external disk, and after a few minutes a message appears saying that the device is not configured.
I also want to comment that you start a Linux Live-CD, the computer starts correctly, but it never detects the disk, neither when installing the OS from the Kali Linux installation menu, nor after booting the Live-CD with the command fdisk -l.
I attach an image with information from the disc.

TOSHIBA THNSN2128GSPS
EDIT:
output of diskutil list


texts:
Company portal has Windows authentication with SSO.
But iPad is not domain member, so ask password on every SSO company site.
Is there a way to setup iPad for domain authentication ?


texts: Device name in network has a number in parenthesis and it is incrementing

texts:
My iPad's name used to be Behdad's iPad for many years, but a few days back, it was automatically changed to Behdad's iPad (4) and when I manually deleted the number, it was soon changed to Behdad's iPad (8). Now that I'm writing this, it is currently Behdad's iPad (543), which has been changed from Behdad's iPad (284) from yesterday!

A few points to consider:
It all started when I installed YazFi package on my ASUS RT-AC87U router with Asuswrt-Merlin 384.13_2 firmware on it and my current network configuration is as follows:

I have two networks, one is 192.168.1.0/24 and another is 192.168.2.0/24.
All my devices occasionally connect to any of those networks, including my iPhone and my MacBook Pro.
This naming thing happens on both my iPad and MacBook Pro (but not to this extent, as it is currently sitting on `Behdad's MacBook Pro (7)", but not to my iPhone.

Do you have any idea on why this happens and how can I make it stop? I'm worried it messes something with iCloud, as these names appear on my iCloud device list.


texts: How can I make Safari or Chrome remember my messages in contact forms?

texts:
As a customer, I contact businesses through contact forms on their websites, and often I forget the exact wording of the message and when I sent it.

(Often, I need to re-send messages when I don't receive a reply and an email address isn't listed on the site.)

How can I make Safari remember the contents of the <textarea> and <input> fields of the <form> element? Preferably timestamped.

Is there a Safari (or Chrome) extension that does this?

This question applies mostly to Mac OS X, but also relevant for iOS devices.


texts: MBPR / OSX Lion system volume doesn't affect output

texts:
I've got a 2013 MBP-Retina with Cinema and Thunderbolt Displays (1x each).  It used to be that the default audio output was one of the integrated audio devices in a display, and I could control the volume from the keyboard (or the slider) as usual.  However, somehow the system has gotten into a state whereby the audio indicators change with the keyboard, but the actual output volume does not.  I can change the output volume for a specific device from system settings, but the system volume controls seem not to affect it.

What's going on, and how do I get back to normal?


texts: Now when Chrome is 64-bits, how do I install the Java plugin?

texts:
As long as Chrome just was 32 bit, the Java plugin was not supported since Java for Mac OS X is 64 bit but now when Chrome (since version 39) is 64 bit, how do I install/enable the Java plugin?

Googling just returns old results such as

https://java.com/en/download/faq/chrome.xml (that refers to this blog post http://blog.chromium.org/2014/08/mac-chrome-when-im-sixty-four-bits.html)

https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/2429779?hl=en (talking about Java 7, I have Java 8).


texts: Is there a place to install command line programs on OSX without an admin password? I've tried /bin and /usr/bin, and I have permission for neither. Like a ~/Applications, but for the command line.


texts: Macbook is not starting up / random shut down

texts:
I was working on illustrator and suddenly my laptop went off, and is now failing to boot. Random lines are appearing on my screen as it tries to boot. Below is a link to a video I made of the issue:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=79b5ThdXIjM


texts: Search iCloud keychain for all accounts that use a specific password

texts:
I used one of those services that scans the internet for compromised passwords, and some passwords I recognized came up, and some that I didn't.   In any case, I want to search my keychain for all account credentials that are using that password so that I can go and change them, however the manual method of going through each one is too slow / painful.

Is there an easy way to retrieve all accounts from Apple's iCloud Keychain that use a specific password (assuming you have regular access to the keychain) -- I am aware of solutions for local keychains, but all my passwords happen to be locked in the cloud and the local keychain solution doesn't work for them.


texts: Is it possible to run Windows VM from bootable SSD?

texts:
I have made a bootable Windows 10 SSD, which I use to boot into Windows on my iMac. This works fine, Windows runs natively and SSD over USB 3 if fast.

But now, I want to have my cake and eat it to - I would like to be able to boot into OS X (Sierra) and start a Windows VM which would boot from the same SSD instead of virtual hard disk. Is this possible at all?


texts: How to uninstall Microsoft Silverlight from Mountain Lion?

texts:
I'm trying to uninstall Silverlight and install an older version to get Netflix working again.

I updated Silverlight to version 5 not knowing that Netflix would end up throwing a N8109 error. Netflix FixIt recommended uninstalling and reinstalling Silverlight.

Here is what I tried:

Closed all browsers and dragged Silverlight to bin from /Library/internet-plugins
Also cleaned out Silverlight files from /Library/Receipts and /Library/Application Support
Tried using AppCleaner to find and delete Silverlight - Just ended up not being able to find it in any of the categories
Restarted my computer a bunch of times after every uninstall strategy - only in vain
Tried using Spotlight and Finder to find any traces of Silverlight, again to no avail.

Every time I try to install the silverlight.pkg (downloaded using the link Netflix provides while trying to play any video) the wizard detects a newer version of Silverlight on my HardDisk-Mac HD.

The one thing I noticed was that no matter what approach I took, I always found Silverlight app on my Launchpad which again I couldn't delete straight out.

Anybody been able to break through this wall?


texts:
My MacBook Pro (Mac OS X Snow Leopard) would not start up and the apple service guy suggest me to take the internal hard drive and back up the data to another computer using an external hard drive adaptor.

I did that and connect the "Externalized internal hard drive" to another PC. The hard disk is named "Macintosh HD" and I can only see system and application files but not any other directories or folders.

Is there some special way to read data off a Macbook pro hard disk?


texts: Company Mac OS laptop must connect to Cisco AnyConnect VPN in order to access to the Internet

texts:
My company Mac OS X laptops (Mojave) are managed devices and in order for the user to connect to Internet, the user must first launch and connect the Cisco AnyConnect VPN otherwise the user is not able to connect to the Internet.
Just for my knowledge, I am looking for the specific file or configuration profile or settings that show me this specific rule.  It must be something on the system that I can see that the Mac system must be connected to Cisco AnyConnect VPN first in order to get Internet access.
I just want to see where this rule is located.


texts: Need advice on connecting Macbook Air to HP all-in-one box (Thunderbolt 2 to Thunderbolt 4, I think)

texts:
My daughter has a non-most-recent Macbook Air with what I thought was originally a mini-DP output but it turns out to be a Thunderbolt (probably v2 since the Mac is only a couple of years old). This particular model seems to have {audio out, USB-A, power} on the left, {SD (I think), USB-A, Thunderbolt 2} on the right (both listed front to back).
We want to use one of our existing monitors hooked up to another of our systems, without having to remove and re-insert cables all the time.
This monitor is fed via HDMI from a HP Thunderbolt dock (HSN-IX02) which only has a Thunderbolt/USB-C input, but many other outputs (HDMI, DP, etc). The monitor has HDMI, DVI and DSUB inputs of which the first two are in use.
I very foolishly bought a mini-DP-to-DP cable, thinking that would work just be plugging the Mac mini-DP output into the dock DP output, not realising at the time that:

the latter was an output rather than an input; and
the Mac output wasn't even a mini-DP :-)

So I think what I need is a cable with male Thunderbolt 2 at the Mac end and female Thunderbolt/USB-C at the dock end (the dock has a hard-wired input cable with male Thunderbolt/USB-C).
My concern is that all the cables I look at seem to assume the Thunderbolt/USB-C is at the Mac end (which is true for more recent models) and I don't want to blow more money on the wrong cable. In any case, the Thunderbolt/USB-C end for these cables is male and I need female.
So I guess my question is: will such a cable work from Thunderbolt-2 at the MAC to Thunderbolt/USB-C at the other end? I assume I will also need to purchase a female-female gender-bender to connect at the dock end as it's the wrong gender.
A secondary question is: what are my other options, if any, for external displays on this Mac? There appears to be no other output ports and I'd rather not have to buy another monitor since we have no place to put it.


texts: How can I exclude Facebook Messenger app usage from ScreenTime counting it as Facebook use on Mac?

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I have set a time limit with ScreenTime for the usage of Facebook. My phone is properly counting time for the Facebook app and website together and it doesn't disable Messenger when I reach the limit.

However, I recently installed Messenger on my Mac and whenever I reach the limit for Facebook, MacOS disables Messenger app too.

How can I fix that so that Messenger isn't disabled? I need it as messaging is needed for me to communicate with people, I just want to limit my time scrolling on Facebook timeline?


texts: Big file folder icon at the center of the screen when tried macOS high Sierra public beta

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Today, the long-waited macOS high Sierra was finally arrived. I  can’t help trying it after downloading it for several hours. But out of my expectation, the updating is stuck during the process of rebooting system. The a big file folder appeared at the center of the dark screen(see attached pictures). It popped out every 2 seconds. Very annoying!

I tried to turn off my MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Early 2015) and the problem persisted. How should I do it?


texts: iPad Mini - Stuck in black Apple & White Background loop

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I didn't even do anything to my iPad mini but the battery went out. When I charged it with my cable it kept on showing the white background and the black apple screen and now I can't turn it on.

Is there anything I can try in order for the device to turn on?


texts: Which were the first 500 apps on the App Store when it launched in 2008?

texts: The subject says it all. Is there somewhere a list of the first set of apps on the iPhone App Store when it went live in July 2008?


texts: App Store Broken Download Xcode (Mac Os X Mountain Lion) Debug, Reset doesnt help!

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I started download Xcode 4 within App Store, it made some 200MB, then I had to move and closed my MBP.

Afterwards it didnt restart the download and I was getting nervous clicking around.

End of story: App Store shows Xcode as "ready to install" (which is aboslutely impossible since there have been over 1G still to be loaded with not a too good broad band connection)

Clicking on install just yield and endless "wait.."

I also used the Debug view to "Reset Applications" - still shows as "ready to install"

Under /Applications there is no install X Code folder to delete

Viewing the download folder (from debug view) there is also nothing to delete

So the question is: how the hell am I supposed to fix this broken download?


texts: How can I make a playlist from a shuffle sequence?

texts: Every once in a while, my iPod does a spectacular job at shuffling the perfect set of songs. Is there any way to save this sequence to a playlist so I can replay it again in the future?


texts: Upgrade bash without using the terminal to fix iterm issue dyld: Library not loaded: /usr/local/opt/readline/lib/libreadline.6.dylib

texts:
Question

How can I upgrade bash or otherwise get a CLI to work?

Error

dyld: Library not loaded: /usr/local/opt/readline/lib/libreadline.6.dylib
  Referenced from: /usr/local/bin/bash
  Reason: image not found

Background

Out of nowhere iTerm stopped working.

I uninstalled then reinstalled the latest version. Still getting this error

Then i tried the default Terminal mac app. Now seeing this in there

I have been searching similar problems and they seem to all give instructions on how to update BREW or bash.

https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/issues/5799

https://gist.github.com/samnang/1759336

But the instructions are with the CLI, which i cannot access

Update 1

I changed the path per a suggestion in the comments. Now Terminal app works but iTerm still has a "broken pipe"


texts: Disable loopback interface lo0 on 10.8.4?

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For testing purposes (testing raw network speed over a number of cables) i have equippped my Mac Book pro with a Thunderbolt to Gigabit Ethernet Adapter besides the built-in gigabit ethernet connection.

Both interfaces have been assigned a manual IP in the 10.0.*/24 range.

Starting iperf with iperf -s --bind 10.0.0.1, then starting the client with iperf -c 10.0.0.1 yields speeds of over 40 Gigabit per second. I assume (correctly so according to some googling) that not the interface itself is used but rather the local loopback interface as both IPs reside on the same computer. So my thought was to disable lo0, even just temporarily by issuing sudo ifconfig lo0 down. Thies doesn't work (it might have worked once for a few seconds but I can't prove that). lo0 just stays up.

Is there a way to (temporarily) disable the local loopback interface lo0 so I can do my tests?

Thanks!


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There is an option to forward calls to specific number, but it forwards every call made to my number. I'd like set conditional forwarding, e.g. redirect call only when I am busy or not answering.

I was not able found any solution and have only found some "special" numbers (*61 etc.)

Is it possible (without jailbreak)?


texts: Cannot add free space into macOS partition because "the disk for one of the specified operations could not be found"

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How can I merge free space into the active partition "Macintosh HD"?

ADMINs-Mac:~ admin$ diskutil list
/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *107.4 GB   disk0
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s1
   2:                  Apple_HFS Macintosh HD            42.6 GB    disk0s2
   3:                 Apple_Boot Recovery HD             650.0 MB   disk0s3

I have tried the following:

  An internal error has occurred and he disk for one of the specified operations could not be found. This may be a temporary issue, try again.


texts: How do I get Messages to appear in the Notification Center?

texts:
I've configured Notifications to display Messages in the Notification Center, but no messages ever appear there.

Is there another setting that I'm missing? Are only certain kinds of messages displayed in the Notification Center?


texts: Can more than 10 devices be associated with one Apple iTunes account?

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I'm not an active user of Apple devices, and researching this for a project. I'm trying to have a group of MP3 players for shared use with a shared library. I wouldn't care if it costed more, but I'd really want the music to be shared. But, I am sure that paying double for double the device sharing isn't a feature. Note these devices will not have wireless (probably going to use like iPod shuffles or something with no Camera/Wi-Fi/Bluetooth, due to the project requirements.

From what I understand, no more than 10 devices where maximum of 5 can be Macs can be associated with an Apple ID. However, I am aware of Family Sharing feature. I'm not sure though if it's possible to have 10 devices associated with one Apple ID, share that iTunes library with another Apple ID and have another 10 devices, and so forth.

If this isn't possible, suggestions on how to get the largest shared music library on multiple devices, while maintaining an easy and automatic way to sync all music? I don't want the manager of these devices to have to drag and drop MP3 files on all devices. I'd prefer plug-n-sync functionality.


texts: Need to Back Up a MacBook that Won't Turn On

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I have a Retina MacBook Pro running El Capitan. Recently, the machine refuses to let me log in. After booting and entering my password, the Mac starts loading, but freezes once the loading bar is full.

With Apple Support, I tried booting in several different modes, restarting things, etc. I was unable to login or see anything other than loading screens. So, they had me book an appointment for the Genius Bar.

I am wondering if there is anyway to back up a Mac in this state. I have Googled and searched this forum, but all the methods require some functionality on the device that needs to be backed up. If I can't back it up, so be it, I just wanted to check as it has some very important files.


texts: can i use iMac (Retina 5k, 27-inch, Late 2015) as target monitor?

texts: i have an iMac 2020 and a late 2015 iMac. I wish to know if it’s possible to use the latter as target display monitor. and if yes, which cable should i buy? thanks


texts: How does Continuity and Handoff work and what are the differences?

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I am trying to understand how the continuity and handoff features work and what is the difference between them. I suppose handoff is for specifically transferring activities from one device to the other while continuity is being able to answer call from mac or reply to messages. Although the difference is quite small.

So how exactly do these work ? do they use the same multi peer connectivity framework ? And are these only available to devices with the wifi-direct chip ( 4s and above )?


texts:
I Can't control my iPad master volume with Siri, and I'm surprised about that.

Is there a way to do this control via Siri?


texts: Terminal command to move all loose files into a directory with the file name

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I have a folder containing thousands of files and directories. I would like to move all the files that are not contained in a sub directory into a directory and name it the file name, while leaving the files already inside of directories alone, ie:

create 'newdir'
move 123.mp4 into 'newdir'
change name 'newdir' to '123'
repeat


texts: Is there an iOS app or jailbreak modification that can activate true caps lock?

texts:
I'm using jailbroken iOS 5.1.1 and am looking for an app or setting that enables true caps lock.  Meaning, once activated, caps lock behaves like it does on a PC and stays enabled when you switch to numbers or even between apps.

As it is right now, caps lock is disabled when you go to the home page, switch apps, or even switch to number input.

If necessary, I'm willing to manually configure a custom keyboard to have capital letters in place of the default ones.  I'm even willing to downgrade the operating system for this.

Does something like this exist in jailbreak land or is there a hidden setting of some sort?


texts:
I have iTunes (10.6 40) and Match on my mac, as soon as I enabled match my "genius" playlists no longer work.

If I click genius on a track that is playing it says:

  Genius is unavailable for the song "Don't Drop It"

I click "Update Genius" and it says that the results have been updated, but never makes it available.

I have over 10K songs, so surely it can find a genius result for a G-Love or Jack Johnson song... but it never does.

Thanks.


texts: Can I set Mail to only send from one email address whatever the account?

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I use 2 different email addresses, and I have recently forwarded one to the other.

Eventually, I'm going to root out the first address and only use the second. But right now, in the second email box, when I'm replying to an email that was sent to the first email address (the address i'm going to root out), Mail defaults to sending mail from that email address rather than from the second email address.

Is this normal behavior, or is there a way to always reply from the second email address?


texts:
My iMac trash folder takes forever to clean out. I had 4 files in there today and when i went to empty it, it was saying there was 1,590,715 items in it.

Can anyone help please.


texts: MacBook Pro and air logic boards interchange?

texts: Can I interchange my logic boards from MacBook Pro  a1502 to a MacBook Air a 1466?


texts:
I am trying to install Mcrypt PHP module but encountering some issues:

Version of PHP installed: 7.1.16
macOS version: macOS High Sierra 10.13.6

Is the following command that I am running correct?

  Install the correct package, for me was 7.1.7 => homebrew/php/php71-mcrypt

brew install homebrew/php/php71-mcrypt


texts: Why does find-certificates have some missing?

texts:
I seem to have a certificate in the keychain that is only sometimes output correctly from security find-certificate on the command line:

security find-certificate -a -p | openssl x509 -text | grep -i comodo

The manual claims that this "Exports all certificates from all keychains". Specifying the system root keychain is no help:

security find-certificate -a -p /System/Library/Keychains/SystemRootCertificates.keychain | openssl x509 -text | grep -i comodo

Adding a query suddenly produces a result:

security find-certificate -a -p -c comodo /System/Library/Keychains/SystemRootCertificates.keychain | openssl x509 -text | grep -i comodo

The same query on "all keychains" has no result (this time an error from openssl because the input is now empty):

security find-certificate -a -p -c comodo | openssl x509 -text | grep -i comodo

What is going on?


texts:
Once in a while (3 times over the past four weeks), I don't exist. The message in the title of this question is my response when I try to run ssh while not existing. Also, when I don't exist, if I run id, it shows my uid and not my username as it otherwise does. And I can't use sudo:

; sudo date
sudo: unknown uid: 13799

Every time, the problem disappears spontaneously within the hour, and I exist once more. Fortunately, I always have a terminal window with a root shell in it around, so I can still poke around in the system. And I see nothing amiss, at least nothing I can make sense of, except perhaps these lines in /var/log/opendirectoryd.log:

2012-02-27 07:31:39.911 CET - 70535.351417.351419.351421 - Client: netstat, UID: 0, EUID: 0, GID: 0, EGID: 0
2012-02-27 07:31:39.911 CET - 70535.351417.351419.351421, Node: /Local/Default, Module: PlistFile - recordtype 'networks' attribute 'address' is not indexed: performance hit
2012-02-27 07:31:40.904 CET - 70539.351444.351448 - Client: launchd, UID: 13799, EUID: 13799, GID: 20, EGID: 20
2012-02-27 07:31:40.904 CET - 70539.351444.351448, Module: SystemCache - unable to find node 71E63E19-F41E-4AF3-89A0-F50FE5185E5B
2012-02-27 07:31:40.905 CET - 70539.351444.351448 - Client: launchd, UID: 13799, EUID: 13799, GID: 20, EGID: 20
2012-02-27 07:31:40.905 CET - 70539.351444.351448, Module: SystemCache - ODQueryCreateWithNode failed with error 'Node ID is invalid' (90001)

Those are from this morning, as I woke up the laptop (I have used odutil to raise the logging level a bit). I've been poking around with dscl, and everything seems normal – I can see all data on my own user – but I am not very familiar with directory services, so I may well have missed something. (How do I lookup myself by uid using dscl?)

So my question is twofold: Does this problem ring a bell? My google-fu is not up to finding anything relevant. And can you suggest things to try to get a further handle on the problem, tests to run, things to look for?

While I have been typing in this question, today's event ended, and I exist once more. So it may well be a week or more before my next chance to debug this. I'm on OS X 10.7.3, btw, on a MacBook Pro.


texts: Remote Mac user connecting via VPN to RDP into a Windows PC

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NB I don't own a Mac, so research and trying things out is not going to be straight forward.
So my client has a Windows PC. It has to be Windows since Sage won't run on a Mac. Until now the book keeper (who is a Mac user) has been RDPing into the Windows PC over the internet. This is not secure since RDP has been been pretty much broken. During a recent round of upgrades, I suggested we upgrade to a VPN which would allow the bookkeeper to continue to use RDP, but now more securely.
I set up the VPN, a DLink DIR 3040 with L2TP with a pre-shared key. I can connect to the VPN fine, and RDP into the Windows PC from my Windows PC over the internet just fine.
Went to setup the VPN on the book keeper's laptop. The VPN appears to connect. When I do traceroute I can see her packets getting routed through my client's internet connection. I can't RDP into the windows PC. I can't ping the Windows PC - it times out.
The book keeper is running Mac 10.9.5
The Windows PC is running Windows 10.
I don't believe the VPN or the Windows machine are at fault, since I can connect through the VPN flawlessly and can RDP to it from my PC. The problem appears to be with the Mac.
Several suggestions from the Googles:
The VPN is set up with "all traffic" going through the VPN.
I've also changed the order of preference so the VPN is at the top of the list over the Wifi connection.
I'm wondering if it's a weird routing problem since I can ping the router, but not the PC. As mentioned I don't think that's the router's config problem since I can RDP in from my PC. I did notice that the Mac set up some kind of PPP adapter for the VPN to go through and I was wondering if that was related somehow, but Macs aren't my strong suit.
Anyone got any thoughts?


texts: Is it possible to “sign in with Apple” to an app on my iPhone if someone else in my Family Sharing made an account on that app using “sign in with Apple”? I’m hoping to share their subscription, but can I do it since they used “sign in with Apple”?


texts: Create an index of PDF files selectable from icloud

texts:
I have a group of around 50 PDF files with related stuff.  My goal is to have a select list so I can open the relevant one without scrolling through a list of file names.

This was easy enough on macOS, i just created an HTML document with a bunch of anchor links.

I uploaded all the files to icloud.  And the Files app on iOS will render the HTML file.  But clicking on the links does not do anything.  Obviously I'd like it to launch the PDF viewer.

Does anyone know how to make this work on iOS?


texts: Restore MacBook Pro backup to a Mac Mini?

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I've got to drop my MBP (2010 model) in to the Apple store asap to get it repaired and it'll be out of action for a week during a time I need it most. My thought process is, due to the urgency of it all, to get a Mac Mini to tide me over until the repair is complete and keep working in the mean time.

If I buy a Mac Mini, could I just do a time machine restore of my MBP to that and be up and running? Are there any associated problems?

Second thought is also, could I just swap out the drive in the Mac Mini with that of my MBP and be up and running without issue? (I know I'll have to put my MBP in for repair with a drive in, got that thought covered).


texts: Accept Incoming Call from iPhone on Mac through AirPods (while Mac connected to iPhone Hotspot)?

texts: While I'm on the train using my AirPods with my Mac, how do I accept a call from my iPhone over the AirPods while using my iPhone as a Wi-Fi hotspot?


texts: How to migrate selected folders (including custom Library, Application Support and Music data) to second laptop with smaller hard drive?

texts:
I have an old MacBook Pro that I am replacing with a slightly less old MBP. Both are running Lion 10.7.2. (The older MBP has some hardware issues.)

The first MBP has a lot of music, video, application preferences, and symbolic links that I need to make sure get over to the second MBP, so that I can just swap the machines and, for the most part, be done with the swap.

The catch is that second MBP has a much smaller hard drive, so I can't simply copy over the Users folder, let alone run Carbon Copy Cloner, etc.

What is the best way to clone selected folders, which ensures that hidden files, symbolic links, files with special permissions, etc. are recursively included?


texts: OS X productivity application to block access to different websites?

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I am looking for an OS X application that would block you from accessing certain websites, like social and entertainment one and even hide applications.

The entire purpose is to create a working environment that allows you to focus on your job.

I have to mention that, the web-browser cannot be banned because it is required to normal use.

Also, the solution I am looking for should provide a way to harden the switching from no-distration mode to unlocked.

This question is about a software solution, so please refrain from recommending books to read regarding productivity.

I realise that using Parental Control and having a managed account would solve some of these but there are some essential problems:

Applications are not hidden, the system just asks for admin password, yuck.
You have to create the list of denied websites yourself, that makes it impossible to manager. Is there a predefined list that we can import?
How to share the documents I'm working on between the two accounts: normal one and restricted one.


texts: How do I change one font to another in Safari?

texts: Lets say I have a website with Trebuchet MS. How do I change all instances of that font into something more appealing, like Lucida Grande?


texts: How can I get notifications on my iPhone of Twitter hashtag mentions?

texts:
I must be missing something simple here. I'm not a big Twitter user, but this seems like something that should be obvious and simple.

I can get notifications on my iPhone (iOS 8) whenever certain people tweet. I want to get a notification when anyone ever tweets certain hashtags. Is this possible with the default Twitter app or perhaps some third-party offering?


texts:
New iTunes bumps up the font size and adds Genre images to Genre column view. I make custom Genres for sorting and don't need the visual hinting. Anyone know how/if I can disable this? I'm not able to find anything.

Otherwise I guess I'll just be using the Song view. I really liked the three column Genre sort up until now. :(


texts: App suggestion for low-friction way to log regular text entries?

texts:
I would like to keep a log of what I have been doing every hour during my work day.

I would like something (say, an app or menu-bar utility) that will pop-up every hour and ask me what I have been doing, allowing me to enter a few lines of text.

The fact that it would automatically pop up, and that it only expects me to fill in one text field would mean that it is a very low-friction way of entering information.

It would, of course, then have some way to let me view what has been logged post-facto.

Can you recommend anything that will let me do this?


texts:
I'm trying to play videos from my Mac to my Apple TV and am getting the error "cannot proceed. vlc not found".  I've tried running older versions of the software and updating VLC both to no avail.  Any help would be appreciated.  Thanks.

linked from: Can I stream any video played with VLC player to Apple TV?


texts: How can I get the raw text of an email in iOS Mail?

texts:
Does Apple Mail under iOS support the ability to get the raw as-sent text of an email? Alternatively, is there a way to forward an email as an attachment?

I'd like to be able to report spam email to Spamcop.net, but I need all the headers and the raw source of the email, not just a copy of the rendered results.


texts: Is it possible to turn off external displays when I close the lid of my macbook?

texts: By default, when I close the lid of my macbook, the external display becomes the primary. It is annoying because I have to plug out the cable and charger to turn it off but I'd like that whenever I close the lid of my macbook, it puts the macbook to sleep and turns off external display? Is it possible?


texts: Can I trigger an Apple Script event before my Google Calendar event ends?

texts:
I'd like to receive a notification whenever a meeting is within ten minutes of ending.

I use Google Calendar, but I'm open to syncing my Google Calendar to Mac Calendar.

Can I set a Growl notification when my meeting has ten minutes left?


texts: Startup Security Utility Admin Permission

texts:
I have a company mac with admn privileges. There are also other hidden admin accounts installed. Wanted to boot windows from external disk to play some Indi coop games

To boot from external Disk I need to allow it in Startup Security Utility in Secure Boot with cmd + R

I can select my Admin user to authenticate. However my password is not accepted. There is no error message at all.

For example If go to terminal and type 'resetpassword' I can authenticate with this user and would be able to change others users passwords.

Is there some specific authorization policy for Startup Security Utility which needs to be granted ? Or is something broken for this user ?


texts:
Can someone explain to me please what the 'Mail' feature of iCloud syncing on macOS, iPad, and iPhone etc actually achieves?

I have searched online, and some articles from a number of years ago suggest that this syncs an apple @me.com account or similar (which i do not have)..

Obviously, in 2020, pretty much all mail services are online (Gmail, Outlook.com, Yahoo, Office365, Etc.) don't actually require 'syncing' via iCloud...

However, it would be nice to change settings for each of these accounts on device #1 (iPad), and perhaps see that reflected on device #2 (iPhone), etc..

The apple site is not actually that helpful in this matter..

Thanks!


texts: Lost Screen Recording on Mac OS Catalina

texts:
After recording my screen for a lecture on coding, I airdropped the screen recording to my laptop (only to have an error during transit). I pressed done on the screen recording, and it looks like that wasn't saved. I checked my desktop, and it isn't there next to my other recordings. It's not in the trash. As far as my Mac is concerned it never happened.
Am I just missing something? Or did my Mac just obliterate the file when I pressed done?


texts: Some PDF bills are printed out with empty squares replacing the text

texts:
I have some bills from my electricity and gas provider and all the bills are printed out with squares being displayed instead of text.
I already restored the Font Book to default fonts.
I have no problems with viewing any of those bills on my computer.
I have other PDFs and they are all printed out correctly.
If I open up the PDF which is printed out badly and export it to PDF within PREVIEW app, the output is same as on my printer.

What else can I do to restore the normal printing?


texts:
I just installed bash 4.4.19 through brew on my mac and configured Terminal.app to use it as the default shell. All of that works.

Now when I type ln -s $HOME/+TAB it gets autocompleted to ln -s \$HOME/. The default bash that comes with macOS 10.13 would instead auto-complete that to ln -s /Users/lars/.

How can I get the old behavior back so that $HOME auto-completes to my home directory?


texts: How do I find out what computers I have authorized?

texts:
I just authorized iTunes against a laptop and I was expecting it to be my third of five computers authorized on my iTunes account. But iTunes said it was the fourth.

How do I find out what machines are authorized against my account?


texts: How does using GMail via IMAP or Exchange affect battery life?

texts:
What are the differences with respect to battery life between using the regular Gmail setup as opposed to the Exchange setup?

I know that the Exchange allows for push, but is battery life affected much?


texts: Launch multiple applications and move them to separated spaces with one click

texts: Every time I'm starting using my Mac I'm opening app X, Y and Z and then moving them to separated spaces. Is there any easy way to do this automatically with one click? For eg. launch X, Y and Z, move X to Desktop 1, move Y to Desktop 2, move Z to Desktop 3 and minimize it.


texts: Broken Wi-Fi and Ethernet - Reinstalling OS X El Capitan

texts:
Recently on my mid 2009 MacBook Pro, the Wi-Fi suddenly stopped working. I tried resetting NVRAM and SMC but to no avail. I thought it may be a hardware fault, but before buying a costly Airport card, I thought of trying to re-install the OS again.

I'm not able to get into recovery mode as it takes an unreasonably long duration of time (perhaps infinite) in opening. It hasn't opened even after waiting for hours.

Since my Wi-Fi is not working and the ethernet port is not detected, I don't know how to download the OS to reinstall.

How do I recover out of this situation?

Currently running OS X El Capitan 10.11.6.


texts: Can AppleScript be able to click the menu extra of a 3rd-party app?

texts:
Many 3rd-party apps have small menu icons at the top-right corner of the menu bar such as Evernote, iStat, Parallels Desktop and so on.
I tried to write some AppleScripts to click those menu icons, but all failed.

Take "PD" for example:

tell application "System Events"
    tell process "Parallels Desktop"
        get properties of every menu bar item of every menu bar
    end tell
end tell

I can get multiple menu items such as "Apple", "Parallels Desktop", "File", "Edit", ..., "Help", which are apparently the top-left menus of PD.
Besides, a menu extra is also obtained and is described as follows:

{minimum value:missing value, orientation:missing value, position:{1338, 0}, class:menu bar item, accessibility description:"", role description:"menu extra", focused:false, title:missing value, size:{30, 22}, help:"", entire contents:{}, enabled:true, maximum value:missing value, role:"AXMenuBarItem", value:missing value, subrole:"AXMenuExtra", selected:false, name:missing value, description:""}

After verifying the position by Accessibility Inspector, I can confirm that this menu extra is the menu icon I want to click. Then I write this:

tell application "System Events"
    tell process "Parallels Desktop"
        click menu bar item 1 of menu bar 2
    end tell
end tell

or replace the "click" statement with:

perform action "AXPress" of menu bar item 1 of menu bar 2

or with:

perform action "AXShowMenu" of menu bar item 1 of menu bar 2

All of the above codes return the same result: missing value, and no menus show up at all!

As for the System UI Elements such as "input text", "date and time", "wifi", "battery", "VPN", the click method works. BUT for 3rd-party apps, it doesn't work.

So, how to click those 3rd-party menu extras via AppleScript?

Thank you so much!!


texts: Keep dual screen active with MBP and iMac, after hibernation/sleep

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I have an older iMac (2009) as a second monitor for a MacbookPro (2015). Both are running El Capitan. By hooking up a thunderbolt cable I can activate the second monitor feature using Cmd+F2 just fine. I only have one (wired) keyboard, so once activated I pull out the plug from the iMac into the MBP.

However, a couple of times a day I leave my system and it'll go into energy saving or hibernation. Afterwards, the dual monitor link is broken. I have to switch the keyboard from MBP => iMac, press Cmd+F2 and replug the cable back into the MBP.

It's kind of a nuisance really. Is there a neat way to prevent the "link" from breaking when the system goes to sleep?

Of course I'm not really interested in disabling sleep mode entirely, nor using a tool like caffeine for this purpose.


texts: how do I fix incorrect autocorrect in Safari?

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Whenever I type my email into Safari, (Safari only) whether it's in a text field or filling out a form it misspells it and it's incredibly annoying. The weird thing is that it isn't even my whole email, its just part of it, that it wrongly autocorrects. I can't find anywhere where I've ever typed it in wrong. Any suggestions?

When I type: "MyName@gmail.com" it autocorrects to "MyNam@gmail" before I can even type the ".com"

I have already tried to go to: System Pref. > Keyboard > Text   as well as Right-Click > Spelling and Grammar > Show Spelling and Grammar > "Learn"  but neither have worked.


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I just bought a new Mac Book Air 11", but it looks like it has a problem with WiFi. So, every 20-30 minutes I lose an internet connection. The WiFi signal strength is good and adapter doesn't disconnect from the router, but I can't open any web site and all my internet applications (Skype, Dropbox, etc.) goes offline. The only way to go back online is to switch the wifi adapter off/on. All other devices (iPhone 4s, iPhone 5, iPad 1, iPad 2, Samsung Notebook) work fine, i.e. only new mac book has this issue. I've tried to change all possible settings on my router and I even replaced it with new one, but it didn't solve the problem... I use Buffalo WZR-HP-G300NH with DD-WRT v24SP2-MULTI (10/31/11) std firmware.

P.S.> This problem occurs after awakening from sleep, i.e. it connects to my router and I even can access other computer in LAN, but it can't see WAN.


texts: How to transfer files between two disks without error 36 or permission denied?

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I've got the HDD out of an AirPort Time Capsule (2TB) that I have connected to my laptop via USB and a LaCie drive (4TB) via thunderbolt:

I've tried just copying and pasting "Data" (997GB) directly into LaCie, but I get an Error 36 message about halfway through. "Data" is a sparse bundle file. I ran dot_clean on /Volumes/Data and got the same error. I tried mounting "Data" to get the time machine backup, but copying the mounted files takes forever just to "prepare" alone. That is, I try to copy the time machine backup contents of the mounted "Data", but there is a "preparing to copy" prompt that loads like a million files first before it actually starts copying. For some reason the computer just shuts down sometimes too. How can I copy the contents of the AirPort Time Capsule (case sensitive) to the LaCie (case sensitive) without error? The drive gets ridiculously hot too during transfer...

Oh, and I tired running dot_clean on the mounted contents to see if that would do anything, but I get this:

Failed trying to change dir to .DocumentRevisions-V100
Bad Pathname: Permission denied


texts: Ok, so I've choose "white" theme while creating a presentation. Can I somehow add slides from black theme? Or can I change theme of my presentation?


texts: Mirroring iPhone 4 (iOS 7) to Mac without AirPlay Mirroring

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As the iPhone 4 does not support AirPlay Display Mirroring, is there any way to mirror the phones display OTA onto a Mac (or even any other computer) without using a non-OTA method such as a VGA/HDMI adapter or either Veency, ScreenSplitr/iDemo, or Display Recorder (I have no intent on recording the screen, however the 'Live View' feature of Display Recorder does not work on this device)?

Note: This particular phone is running iOS 7.0.6 and is jailbroken.


texts: Don't want iBooks to always paste the "Excerpt From" of what I have copied

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I read on iBooks, and some other resources and gather my notes in EverNote.
When I copy a text from iBooks to keep it as a note in some other external application like EverNote, it keeps pasting the source info which is so annoying and I have to keep deleting them after every copy-paste. For example:

“To bind this class using Ninject, I specify the value of the constructor parameter using the WithConstructorArgument method in the AddBindings method, as shown in Listing 6-20.”

Excerpt From: Adam Freeman. “Pro ASP.NET MVC 5.” iBooks. https://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewBook?id=4CB3769B56E7D2A905C0332D53D7E31D