texts:
I lost my iPhone 4 and really need my text messages.  I always backed up everything to iCloud.  I don't have a new phone, but I do have a computer.

How can I go to iCloud and recover my texts?


texts:
I have a reasonably sized CSV file (40 Megabytes). I know that some apps won't work with certain encodings, and that they will throw error if the encoding isn't ASCII. But its alarming that even TextEdit.app is unable to open this file.

First I tried Numbers.app. I made sure this isn't a Launch Services error, because I opened the file within the app. It wouldn't load. The progress bar always gets stuck half way. When I open this CSV file with TextEdit.app, it wouldn't load either. Not even Google Sheets. The file is just 40 Megabytes and has only ASCII characters. Running file command in Terminal.app returns the following message:

file.csv: ASCII text, with very long lines.

I am able to open the file using Visual Studio Code but not in TextEdit.app. How can I fix it? I cleaned the file for any \r characters.

Update: Running wc -l file.csv command returns 176831. My system is a 2016 MacBookPro with 16 GB RAM.


texts: How to start auto start mysql? Getting "Path had bad ownership/permissions"

texts:
How can I auto start mysqld

I tried following https://stackoverflow.com/q/26476391/631619 but it didn't help

It seems like I have a ownership/permission problem, possibly related to from having installed mysql on this machine for a different user account.

I uninstalled and reinstalled but still get

$ brew install mysql
==> Downloading https://homebrew.bintray.com/bottles/mysql-5.6.27.yosemite.bottle.tar.gz
Already downloaded: /Library/Caches/Homebrew/mysql-5.6.27.yosemite.bottle.tar.gz
==> Pouring mysql-5.6.27.yosemite.bottle.tar.gz
==> Caveats
A "/etc/my.cnf" from another install may interfere with a Homebrew-built
server starting up correctly.

To connect:
    mysql -uroot

To have launchd start mysql at login:
  ln -sfv /usr/local/opt/mysql/*.plist ~/Library/LaunchAgents
Then to load mysql now:
  launchctl load ~/Library/LaunchAgents/homebrew.mxcl.mysql.plist
Or, if you don't want/need launchctl, you can just run:
  mysql.server start

WARNING: launchctl will fail when run under tmux.
==> Summary
  /usr/local/Cellar/mysql/5.6.27: 9883 files, 339M
16:55:49 pengo EQ-390 /Users/pengo
$ ln -sfv /usr/local/opt/mysql/*.plist ~/Library/LaunchAgents
/Users/pengo/Library/LaunchAgents/homebrew.mxcl.mysql.plist -> /usr/local/opt/mysql/homebrew.mxcl.mysql.plist
16:56:36 pengo EQ-390 /Users/pengo
$ launchctl load ~/Library/LaunchAgents/homebrew.mxcl.mysql.plist
/usr/local/Cellar/mysql/5.6.27/homebrew.mxcl.mysql.plist: Operation not permitted
$ sudo launchctl load ~/Library/LaunchAgents/homebrew.mxcl.mysql.plist
/usr/local/Cellar/mysql/5.6.27/homebrew.mxcl.mysql.plist: Path had bad ownership/permissions
$ l ~/Library/LaunchAgents/homebrew.mxcl.mysql.plist
lrwxr-xr-x  1 pengo  staff  46 Nov  7 16:56 /Users/pengo/Library/LaunchAgents/homebrew.mxcl.mysql.plist@ -> /usr/local/opt/mysql/homebrew.mxcl.mysql.plist
$

I can start mysqld manually however, ie..

$ mysqld
2015-11-07 17:02:22 0 [Warning] TIMESTAMP with implicit DEFAULT value is deprecated. Please use --explicit_defaults_for_timestamp server option (see documentation for more details).
2015-11-07 17:02:22 0 [Note] mysqld (mysqld 5.6.27) starting as process 21472 ...
2015-11-07 17:02:22 21472 [Warning] Setting lower_case_table_names=2 because file system for /usr/local/var/mysql/ is case insensitive
2015-11-07 17:02:22 21472 [Note] Plugin 'FEDERATED' is disabled.
2015-11-07 17:02:22 21472 [Note] InnoDB: Using atomics to ref count buffer pool pages
...

and then in another window

$ mysql -uroot
Welcome to the MySQL monitor.  Commands end with ; or \g.
Your MySQL connection id is 1
Server version: 5.6.27 Homebrew

Copyright (c) 2000, 2015, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.

Oracle is a registered trademark of Oracle Corporation and/or its
affiliates. Other names may be trademarks of their respective
owners.

Type 'help;' or '\h' for help. Type '\c' to clear the current input statement.

mysql>

Also fyi

$ l /usr/local/bin/mysql
lrwxr-xr-x  1 pengo  admin  32 Nov  7 16:55 /usr/local/bin/mysql@ -> ../Cellar/mysql/5.6.27/bin/mysql

Do I perhaps need to chown whoami for additional files?

I tried adding

export PATH=${PATH}:/usr/local/Cellar/mysql/5.6.27/bin/mysqld

to my .bashrc based on having

$ l /usr/local/Cellar/mysql/5.6.27/bin/mysqld -r-xr-xr-x  1 pengo  admin
11948736 Nov  7 16:54 /usr/local/Cellar/mysql/5.6.27/bin/mysqld*

but I still got the same errors.


texts:
So to try and give a quick backstory, I've been learning Swift in hopes of reaching the goal of a released piece of iOS software. Now I know that you need to be a part of the developer program to do this, so I looked into it today.

What I read and clicked through so I could get to the last step possible without actually paying, and I got to a page that said "You cannot enroll in the developer program right now."

Is this a problem, or is Apple just fixing it right now?

And here's a screenshot of the page, if it helps:

.


texts:
iOS6 used to have the option to disable automatic connection to specific Wifi networks. This is gone in later versions of iOS yet is crucial in urban areas with abundant open web login networks in cafés etc. Has anyone figured out a hack, a third party app or so, to bring back this crucial feature?

(Somebody else has censored this post, removing crucial details needed to avoid flak resulting from misunderstanding / not knowing the 3G signal/wifi issues where I live; see history for them. Manually forgetting a network after each use, or constantly turning wifi on/off, are not solutions!!)


texts: Import text from webpage directly into Numbers cells

texts:
In a numbers file I am using, whenever I open it I need to manually import a  specific value from a webpage.
Specifically, from this webpage I want to import the USD to EUR ratio. Any other similar webpages are welcome of course. :)
Any ideas on how to do it automatically?


texts: SMS Message doesn't state it has been sent

texts: I have an iPhone 4, sometimes I get the green sms bubble and sometimes an iMessage bubble.  At times it states sent as text message and sometimes it doesn't.  When it doesn't does that mean the message has been sent out?


texts: Is iBooks Author suitable for producing poetry?

texts:
in terse terms:

poets
       craft
              lines.

eBook readers wrap
    witlessly

Will Author for iBooks let us read

"Achilles' baneful wrath resound, O Goddess, that impos'd
Infinite sorrows on the Greeks, and many brave souls loos'd
From breasts heroic, sent them far to that invisible cave
That no light comforts, and their limbs to dogs and vultures gave;
To all which Jove's will gave effect, from whom first strife begun
Betwixt Atrides, king of men, and Thetis' godlike son."

instead of

"Achilles' baneful wrath resound, O Goddess, that impos'd
Infinite sorrows on the Greeks, and many brave souls loos'd
From breasts heroic, sent them far to that invisible cave
That no light comforts, and their limbs to dogs and vultures gave;
To all which Jove's will gave effect, from whom first strife begun
Betwixt Atrides, king of men, and Thetis' godlike son."


texts:
I'm regularly hosting gaming events for medium-sized groups of 50-100 people. So far, players typically used personal hotspots to connect to the Internet. However, I would like to fix this with an AirPort Extreme setup. Before I purchase the equipment, I would like to answer some questions.

The target setup consists of two AirPort Extremes wired together to create a giant WiFi.

Do the two AirPorts create a shared subnet where every client can see each other?

If yes, what's the maximum size of that subnet? Is it just a 192.168.0.x one with 255 max-clients, or can you go bigger?

If people move from one AirPort to the other one, will they keep the same local IP?
Does AirPort Extreme support UDP broadcasting?

If yes, do these UDP broadcasts work between the AirPorts as well? i.e. if one client is connected through the first AirPort, and the other client is connected through the second AirPort, will they see mutual UDP broadcasts?

Each AirPort Extreme is advertised to handle up to 50 clients. Does this mean that I have to place the routers in a way that roughly halve of my people are in range of the first AirPort and the other halve is closer to the second one? Or will the connections automatically be balanced between AirPorts?


texts: why is my iphone 5c opening apps uncontrollably by itself?

texts: my iPhone 5c is opening/ closing apps and typing randomly and uncontrollably without me touching the screen or even holding the phone, I am now also locked out of my phone because it has typed the wrong passcode in by itself and is disabled for 1 hour. what can I do to fix this and what could be the problem?


texts: What is the 'Mac OS X Base System' disk image on my 2011 MacBook AIr?

texts:
On my 2011 MacBook Air with Mac OS X Lion, I boot into Recovery mode via holding the command-R key during startup, if I go into Terminal and do a diskutil list, I get a list of 12(!) logical disks.  disk0 is of course the disk holding the main HD and the Recovery HD partitions (along with the GUID partition and the EFI partition).  But there is also a disk1 with partitions including one titled Mac OS X Base System that is approximately 1.39 GB big.  There also are 10 other disks of varying but small sizes.

What are these other logical disks (and partitions) and is there any way to reclaim their space?

Update: Here is a copy of the diskutil list output:

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texts: Finder window file view header looks odd - fix?

texts:
I think I set this up some time ago and it looks like a search or something but I want it to just be like my apps folder where I can sort. My mistake but very unintuitive how to remove this:

and make it look like this:

How do I remove thhat so it works like my applications folder?


texts: Is there a way to forward Growl notifications to Notification Centre?

texts:
Since there's a lot of apps that support Growl, and only a handful have been updated yet, I'd like to know if there's a way to convert those Growl notifications into Notification Centre notifications.

e.g. some kind of add-on for Growl or a 'proxy' of sorts so that the notifications all come through ML's Notification Centre.


texts:
I have Mac Pro 5,1 (Mid 2010) and I want to upgrade it's GPU to increase the performance of Windows under Bootcamp. I do not care about GPU power in OSX.

Which GPUs are supported in OS X / macOS ? ( I also do not care about boot screen)

Thanks in advance


texts: How to speed up mouseover event happening on MacOS?

texts:
A lot of things have tooltips that appear once you let the mouse rest over the trigger area for some time. On my system the delay between when I stopped moving the mouse and tooltip popup is extremely large: about 3 seconds. How can I reduce this?
I tried to google and search system properties but found nothing.
The corresponding setting on Windows OS is found in registry:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Mouse: MouseHoverTime


texts: Most important MacOS folders to move from SSD to spinning HDD, and how to move them?

texts:
I recently installed a SSD on my Early 2009 Mac Pro. While searching the site, and finding many questions on the subject of SSD to HDD swapping, linking, and cloning. No one actually mentioned the folders that would be best to link.
I have symlinked /Users/user and /Libray on SSD to HDD, but feel like I might be missing one. Also, I noticed that this also saves most of my app settings, as Dropbox was able to simply startup without any configurations. Would this also be the case for mail, since I linked the whole /Library folder?
Currently I have Lion, and the Apps folder on the SSD. My goal is to have the data hogs linked from HDD to SSD. Would it be better to hard link them versus symlink?
Edit: I am running my OS on SSD, and want to symlink to folders from OS on old HDD. Which are the best candidates?


texts: Add PDFs to iBooks, without making a copy to com.apple.BKAgentService folder

texts:
TL;DR: How do I get rid of duplicate PDF files between the com.apple.BKAgentService iBooks folder and their original location?

My SSD is running out of space, so I'm doing some cleanup. A point that has come to my attention is a lot of duplication of PDF files added to my iBooks library (which I'm forced to use for viewing these files in my iPhone and iPad -- if Apple didn't force iBooks down my throat, I would steer as clear as possible from this abomination.)

As I recall, at some point in time, iBooks wouldn't copy your PDFs to the com.apple.BKAgentService folder -- I believe it was used for your purchased iBooks from Apple, or for PDFs/ePubs you downloaded in iOS Safari and then clicked on "Open in iBooks".

It looks like this is different now. When adding a PDF to iBooks, a copy is automatically made to the com.apple.BKAgentService folder, which is woefully inefficient.

Of course I could delete the other copy (not in com.apple.BKAgentService) of my PDF, but I like to keep them organized by folders, kinda like iTunes does with //.mp3. If this is were possible inside the com.apple.BKAgentService folder, this would be an acceptable solution to me.

I've also thought of individually symlinking each file in the com.apple.BKAgentService folder to their original location. Although this would be a lot of work, it would also be an acceptable solution to me, but I have no idea if this is going to wreak havoc with iBooks.

Any other solutions to the problem are welcome.


texts: Parallels Desktop 9 - wifi on Windows 7 VM

texts:
Parallels Desktop enables internet connection on your VM by sharing your current Mac's connection via ethernet-like network.

I want to access on my Windows VM wifi connection, not get it from Mac but to actually connect on it's own - how to do that if there's no wireless adapter device nor wireless icon in taskbar?


texts:
I ran the last command in my terminal on my macbook pro high sierra and in the output where entries for the root user. How is that possible? Should that user not be deactivated? Here are the entries for last root:

root      console                   Thu Nov 30 09:31 - shutdown  (00:00)
root      console                   Wed Nov 29 09:23 - shutdown  (00:02)
root      console                   Wed Nov 22 19:00 - shutdown  (00:00)
root      console                   Sat Oct  7 22:44 - shutdown  (00:00)

Thank you very much for your Help!


texts: Do terminal TTYs for iOS and macOS exist?

texts:
Seeing that multiple TTYs exist on FreeBSD and Darwin, and they provide the core of macOS and iOS, how would I access such TTYs? And would they be multiple instances of GUIs or would they involve terminals? I would very much prefer for there to be an environment similar to FreeBSD for testing purposes.

Please enlighten me as to whether or not such environments exist (or can exist) on Apple's OSes. I am interested in whether or not I can create one as a proof-of-concept, whether it can be on iOS 13 beta, iOS 5, macOS Mojave, or macOS Snow Leopard.


texts:
I got the following phishing email from “Apple”:

  Your ApрIe ID ( xxx ) was used to sign in to other device. Date and
  Time: 16 August 2017, 04:28 PM (GMT+10) Operating System: Linux

  If you have not logged in recently and feel someone is logged in to
  your account ,go to ApрIe ID ( Verification your account ) and update
  your account.

  ApрIe Suρρort

The “Verification your account” text contains a hyperlink to https://t.co/ccFy4cn8jr?=redirect.

When I click that link I get redirected to what looks like the official Apple website. How is this possible? Has the t.co link been adjusted/modified/redirected to protect people from going to the malicious website?

When I submit the HTTP request I receive the following response:

<head>
    <noscript>
        <META http-equiv="refresh" content="0;URL=https://appleld.apple.com.3c8fcfcffe480bc910-verify.info/?adu">
    </noscript>
    <title>https://appleld.apple.com.3c8fcfcffe480bc910-verify.info/?adu</title>
</head>
<script>window.opener = null; location.replace("https:\/\/appleld.apple.com.3c8fcfcffe480bc910-verify.info\/?adu”)</script>

Visiting https://appleld.apple.com.3c8fcfcffe480bc910-verify.info/?adu correctly triggers a “Malicious site detected” warning, unlike clicking the original t.co link.

What is happening here? Why does clicking the t.co link take me to the legitimate Apple website, when I should instead be redirected to a phishing website? Is it possible I am done any harm here caused by cross site scripting? Or is it only redirecting to a fake website?


texts: Why can't I connect to local devices via VPN when IP subnet is the same between both networks?

texts:
I have a VPN server running on my home network that I can connect to fine. The local IP subnet is set to 10.0.0.1 with the subnet mask set to 255.255.255.0. This works fine.
When I'm on a friends network, they have the IP subnet set to the same value as mine. In this case I can connect to my VPN fine (doing an IP check online shows my home IP), but I'm unable to connect to any local device.
If the friend changes their router settings to use 192.168.1.1 with a subnet mask of 255.255.255.0, everything works perfectly (and I'm able to connect to my local devices on my home network).

It almost seems like when the IP subnet is the same, there is a conflict where it will prioritize sending it to the local network instead of sending it through to my VPN connection. I have verified that all of my traffic is set to send over the VPN connection.

Is there a way on macOS to fix that so that no matter the local IP DNS subnet of the network I'm connected to I'm able to access my local devices on the VPN network?


texts: I erased Macintosh HD in disk utility, now I can't reinstall macOS Big Sur

texts:
So I wanted to reset my 2019 Macbook Pro, so I used CMD + R and went to disk utility and erased Macintosh HD... I then went to reinstall MacOS Big Sur and I got about halfway through the reinstallation but then it stopped and went to a prohibitory symbol with a black background and just states to go to Apple Support.
What have I done wrong, how do I fix this and get my Mac to reset properly?
Please any advice?


texts: Mojave install crashes after power on login

texts:
I have a mid 2012 MBA (4GB ram, 128GB SSD) that I have upgraded from High Sierra to Mojave 10.14. the upgrade finished successfully.

When I power on I am presented with the initial logon screen, and on entering the password the machine starts to load up but barely the progress bar moves before the machine crashes, and I am presented with the ‘Your computer restarted because of a problem’ screen, and then straight back to the logon.

In addition the logon screen is incorrect and all the text and buttons are in a hard to read grey against the logon wallpaper of mountains. It’s as though dark mode is prematurely active. I might add, this photo was taken on a camera, it’s not a screenshot.

I am able to restore from a bootable CCC backup successfully. I have tried this upgrade a couple of times, with a fresh download of the installer from MAS each time.

I have seen similar issues reported elsewhere, and users claiming that 3rd party Audio HAL components cause an error due to incorrect signing. I have no 3rd party audio products. They were also able to SSH in to view the dmesg to establish which extension was failing. I cannot SSH in, as I don’t believe the relevant servers are started at that point in the boot. I get no response when I try.

I’m prepared to give this another go if anyone has a solid explanation. I have yet to try a clean install but I’d rather sort out the upgrade install problem first. I’m not interested in a debate of the merits of either method.

Otherwise I’ll wait it out until the first patch release and try again.

Thanks

.


texts: What is the "maybe" caller id suggestion in the call log based on?

texts:
I got a call from a phone number that is not stored in my address book, and in the call log, under the number, a name was suggested: "Maybe: X" (where X is the guessed name).

Where is this guess coming from?


texts: This is something I don't particularly understand. I get that for Windows, activation exists to prevent software piracy, but you don't have to pay for iOS. Perhaps activation exists to prevent Android devices from using iOS or to prevent jailbreaks and downgrades? Anyone know the real reason why?


texts: Write optical disk with symbolic links intact

texts:
I'm wanting to write a blu-ray of some files that contains symbolic links (created using ln -s). The files contain both the symlinks and the targets of the symlinks.
When I write the disk using Mac OS' built-in Burn utility, the symbolic links don't work. For example, if I double click on the symbolic link for a jpg in Finder, I get a message:

The operation can’t be completed because the original item for “0002_24000796230.jpg” can’t be found.

If I try to do an ls of the file from the command line, I get:

ls: /Volumes/[media-path]/0002_24000796230.jpg: Unknown error: 10000

Is there an approach to get symbolic links working on an optical disk?
I'm aware that Rock Ridge extensions might be able to do it, but not sure of specifics.
I'm familiar with hdiutil being used to create images and burn disks, but not sure of specifics that would allow symlinks to work.


texts: mdworker process always at 100%, even when not indexing

texts:
I'm trying to understand why mdworker is always at 100% even when (apparently) not indexing. If I open Spotlight, there's no message telling me that a drive is being indexed. If I run fs_usage -w -f filesys mdworker, there's also no output.

Just to be sure, I've tried stopping and restarting the Spotlight service so it rebuild the db from scratch. I've let it run for about 12 hours but it's still running now at 100%. I've also excluded many folders from indexing.

Any idea what could be the issue? Is there any way to know what the process is actually doing?


texts: Can I change the color of the menubar in 10.9 Mavericks?

texts:
Does anyone know how to change the color of the menubar in 10.9 Mavericks?  Ideally, I would love it if I could make it black with yellow text.

Any ideas?


texts: Deleting all files except some from a folder using applescript

texts:
I am trying to write an Apple script to delete all the contents of a folder except one file (stage.txt). This is the script I've written:

tell application "System Events"
    if exists folder "~/Library/Application Support/ABC/CS" then
        delete (every item of folder "~/Library/Application Support/ABC/CS" whose name is not "stage.txt")
    end if
end tell

But I am getting the following error: "System Events got an error: AppleEvent handler failed." number -10000

Please help.

PS: If anyone knows any good tutorial to get started on Apple Script, kindly comment that as well. Thanks!


texts: What is the default "cursive" font for macOS?

texts:
I am working on a Processing project for fun and I wanted to use the cursive font that is usually called in HTML and everything else, "cursive" or "Cursive," but in Processing it does the default sans-serif (Arial I think). Does anyone know what the actual name of this font is? "Times" and "Marker Felt" do work, but "monospace" also doesn't.

A snippet of my code (though not necessary as this is a question about macs and not code):

textFont(createFont("Cursive", width*0.75/9));

Post-scriptum: I did check font book and wikipedia, but not thoroughly.


texts: Problem syncing book downloaded using iBooks

texts:
Using iTunes I tried to sync my iPad with my PC after downloading an epub book using iBooks on my iPad.

However I get an error stating that my PC is not authorized to sync the book to my iPad and after getting this error message i noticed that the book that I downloaded is no longer available in my iBook library on the iPad, which is weird because the book was already on my iPad in the first place.

How do I resolve this issue?

I'm a relatively new user on the iPad so I apologise if this may seem like a silly question.


texts: How to force files saved to the system's Downloads folder to be stored on an external drive?

texts:
I tried using symbolic links but they make me lose the default's Downloads icon which I don't want.

Is there a way I can just made files saved or downloaded to the system's Downloads folder be automatically moved and stored to an external drive?


texts: Is iCloud is not backing up my iPhone completely?

texts:
My iCloud is not backing up my device (iPhone 4 with iOS 5.0.0) completely.

When I try to backup my Contact List or Mails via iCloud; It only backups the newest added contacts or recent mails. (Beginning from last restore) For example. I have 220 contacts, I added 10 more after updating to iOS 5 (fresh restore) When I run iCloud. It only backups the 10 contacts.

Is this how it is supposed to work?


texts: How to burn Windows compatible CD on Mac OS X Mountain Lion

texts: I burned a CD with pictures and PDFs on my Mac Pro but my Windows machine cannot read the CD. Should I have burned the disc differently to make it Windows-readable?


texts: Mac Battery malfunctioning in just 2 years

texts:
It's just been 2 years since I have been using my MacBook air. I use it for mostly for reading books, videos on YouTube or movies. The battery shows "service needed". The battery cycle count is just 312. I have shown it to the service center and they told me that the battery needs replacement.

Now I don't understand what has happened to the battery. My usage of the laptop is just normal. Also I did leave it attached to the charger even after 100% charging but that is only more  beneficial for the battery as many posts here state too.

Then why has the battery started malfunctioning when apple promises 1000 cycle counts and it's just been 312 counts.

What can be the issue. Was the battery that I originally got faulty.


texts:
I have a hidden user on my neighbours MacBook pro which I user to manage some scripts for backing up his huge media library, he is a music producer and is technically challenged
I used the sudo dscl . /Users/xxx -create .... IsHidden to hide my user and the system preferences / Users to move the home directory to /private/var/hiddden/...
so far so good, I can ssh in to manage the cmd line stuff and rsync jobs
I can't log on using the gui though...
default 03:12:05.709613 +0100   screensharingd  Authentication: SUCCEEDED :: User Name: paddy :: Viewer Address: 192.168.1.46 :: Type: N/A
default 03:12:10.803429 +0100   SecurityAgent   no record name: paddy
default 03:12:22.583579 +0100   SecurityAgent   Looking for user "paddy" with UID (-1) on node "/Search"
default 03:12:22.591238 +0100   SecurityAgent   no record name: paddy
default 03:12:22.591282 +0100   SecurityAgent   No user list was generated by the search for "paddy" with UID(-1) on node "/Search"
default 03:12:22.813423 +0100   SecurityAgent   User info context values set for paddy
default 03:12:22.813463 +0100   SecurityAgent   Unknown user "paddy" login attempt PASSED for auditing

Any ideas?


texts: OpenGL 2.0 on Windows 10 on VirtualBox on El Capitan

texts:
Some software running on Windows 10 requires me to have OpenGL 2.0.
I'm running Windows 10 in VirtualBox, which is on El Capitan.

How do I install OpenGL 2.0?

Please explain as if speaking to a layman. :)

Error message given by the software:

  Required OpenGL extensions: GL_VERSION_2_0, GL_ARB_framebuffer_object, GL_ARB_texture_compression, are unsupported. Please update your computer's graphics drivers or verify that your graphics card supports the listed features. If this error persists after updating the drivers, you will most likely need to upgrade your graphics card.


texts: Is there any way to update the Bootcamp assistant app?

texts:
We have a late 2011 MBP here and ideally I could do with having the more recent bootcamp assistant due to the various options available.

I can't seem to be able to edit the plist as shown in previous similar questions.

even with a sudo chmod 777 etc (yes I know 777 is overkill)

I would appreciate any help with this as really can't be doing with sourcing a legitimate CD and license for W7/8 in 2017

Thanks for help in advance


texts: iPod app of my iPhone connecting to internet

texts:
On iPhone 4 IOS 4.3.5, if I start playing music the iPod app is getting or sending information from internet.

To reproduce it :
kill the ipod app using the "taskbar"
then play some music
your will notice the turning "wheel" of data transfer during a few seconds

I am not using Genius or Ping.
I have already the song cover.
I don't have any vocals

Do you have an idea of what kind of info is sent or received ?

Update : I am trying to connect through fiddler on my PC
Fiddle is acting as a proxy and will let me inspect the data
BUT the wifi proxy settings is returning from manual to disabled all the time !


texts: Mac boot menu not showing up with different keyboards

texts:
I have a Macbook White from 2010. I have been using it for a while and everything works except the internal keyboard which is broken because of a tea spill. An external PC-keyboard (USB) is attached though but it doesn't work properly.

I had installed Yosemite and it worked fine, but later I decided to reinstall Mountain Lion again.

I tried to enter the boot menu with the alt-button to reboot to my second partition but it didn't work.

So I've changed the Start Volume in the System Preferences in Yosemite which was successful but now I'm stuck in the 'Mountain Lion Install'-partition which just loads to a grey screen and nothing else happens.

Is there any solution guys?


texts: I'd like to isolate the vocals on a track I have using Logic.  Can anyone provide some advice on how to do this please?


texts: Are there any apps or tools that allow visualizing multitouch finger positions for iOS screencast/recording?

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I'd like to have a visual indicator of multitouch finger positions as I record the iOS screen of an iPad using AirPlay.

This seems like something that would require a jailbreak. Luckily I do have my iPad JB'd but my searches have not turned up anything.


texts:
This is MacBook Air 2012 A1706
Now it doesn't even power on.  It just makes 3 short tones.

Where could be a problem?


texts: Mail Preferences Dialog broken since TimeMachine re-installation

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I recently installed a SSD hard drive into my friends computer. I then set up the computer based on the TimeMachine backup.

We had to fix the permissions on the Library folder to get some of the applications working again.

Now in the native Mail.app when he opens the Settings ⌘ + ; he'll only see the empty signatures screen:

How can we get the regular settings dialog to work again?


texts: Macbook Pro 11,3 No longer has a serial number

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THE ISSUE:
Mac OS No longer has a serial number and shows "Serial Number (system): Not Available" in system profiler.
STEPS TO PRODUCE THE PROBLEM:

I had a botched filesystem runnig mac os Catalina 10.5.7, and so i decided to do a clean  install, and then do an internet recovery. To be sure my ssd was totally clean including the efi partition, i zero'ed the drive with dd. Then, booted to internet recovery, which oddly booted up to Big Sur recovery even though i never upgraded to Big Sur. I decided to install Big Sur anyway via internet recovery, and after the install, i noticed that in "About this mac" as well as through a terminal command, that my serial number was labeled as "unavailable", and is no longer recognized in the MLB of the "Mail logic board."
Furthermore, i noticed that my icloud automatically signed my mac out from my icloud interface in the settings panel on my iphone. I never signed myself out before erasing.

EXPERIMENTS AND QUIRKS:
One more strange quirk is that apparantly, this somehow also deactivated all of apples DRM (digital rights management) for any of the apps that i had purchased. I concluded this, because after the clean install from internet recovery, I DID NOT SIGN INTO ICLOUD. Then, instead of importing my files with migration utility, i simply dragged and dropped my digitally purchased app store apps from my time-machine backup, onto my clean install. After removing time machine drive, i opened the apps, and low and behold, all of them worked perfectly without asking me to sign into icloud, or log into the app store. How is this possible?
MY IDEAS PERTAINING TO THE ISSUE:

Supposedly, once a certified apple technician burns a serial number into your logic board, it is impossible to remove unless you have specialized software that contacts apples servers with a registered signature and encryption key, and waits for apples servers to send authorization to write or remove the serial number from the logic board. Assuming that apples technology is impenetrable, then you would have to assume that someone stole apples special software and one of their keys, and used it on my logic board remotely to deserialize my mlb.

The other possibility, is that apples hardware and logic boards are flawed, and they can erase their oen serial numbers. other than that, im out of ideas.

MY QUESTION:

Can someone explain how i lost my serial number, and explain the weird quirks (missing drm, unauthorized deregistering my mac from icloud) that are happening as a consequnce?

Then, can someone please tell me how I can get my serial number burned back into the mlb so that i can use imessage on my mac again?

I found a website with some software called BlankBoard Serialzer at https://www.macintoshrepository.org/26584-blank-board-serializer?ns=1
Could anyone tell me if this sofware is safe to use and if I should use it to re-burn my serial number into my mac?

Thanks for any help! Check screenshots below!


texts: Make OS X Mail show the most recent message in conversation

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I like how Mail groups related messages together in a "conversation", but I hate how it always by default shows the oldest unread message in a thread--even if it is months old! This has gotten me on a couple of occasions where I will see a new email come in, click it, and see a message from months ago, but not realize that I'm not seeing the one that just came in.

Anyone know how to make Mail always scroll to the top/newest message in a conversation when clicking a message?


texts:
I am trying to SSH my iMac from an Ubuntu server (without root access), but the command just hangs without ever connecting. I enabled the "Remote Login" from the iMac's settings, but here is what happens when I try to ssh from the server:

$ ssh -v mymac -l mylogin
OpenSSH_7.2p2 Ubuntu-4ubuntu2.1, OpenSSL 1.0.2g  1 Mar 2016
debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh/ssh_config
debug1: /etc/ssh/ssh_config line 19: Applying options for *
debug1: Connecting to mymac [129.67.12.95] port 22.

I am also confident it is not because of the server, because we tried from two different servers and a Mac laptop, same problem.


texts:
I've just inherited an iMac from a departed coworker. It is a 27" unibody model with sandy bridge i5 (not slim, so, from mid 2011).

It came automatically booting Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS as its default OS when it starts up. I've never used Ubuntu before, but I was able to find my way around enough in the file explorer to find that there appear to be two hard disk partitions: one for Ubuntu, and one for OSX.

I would like to boot into OSX, but none of the methods I've found from googling seem to work.

Most notably, I can't get seem to get into the startup manager. When I restart the computer, there is no chime that I can time my pressing and holding of the "option" key to, but I've tried it many times waiting various amounts of time after the grey screen comes up, and no matter what, it always just boots Ubuntu. When it restarts, it goes to a grey screen for a few seconds, then do a dark burgundy screen for a few seconds, then back to a grey screen for a few seconds, before the Ubuntu startup screen appearing.

I don't know any details of how Ubuntu was installed, if it's an EFI setup, etc. What's the best way for me to figure out what's going on, and how to get it to boot into the OSX partition given that Ubuntu is currently the default, and I can't get the startup manager to appear?

I'm using a bluetooth keyboard, I've read about people having issues getting startup manager to appear when using a BT keyboard and that they have to wait until after the startup chime ends to press and hold the option key. But, again, I have no chime on startup.

Thanks for any help that anyone can give to see what's going on!


texts: What can the LCI (liquid contact indicator) tell you?

texts:
So the iPhone official website states

"An LCI will activate when it contacts water or a liquid containing water. The indicator's color is normally white or silver, but when it contacts water or a liquid containing water, it will turn fully red. An LCI won't activate because of humidity and temperature changes that are within the product's environmental requirements."

I also know that

Once the LCI changes color it does not come back; i.e. it's permanent

Can it tell you whether(=can you infer from the two statements above whether it is true that)

If no amount of moisture was present during the history of its use, to light the LCI, then no moisture was present to seep into the iPhone and damage it.
If no amount of moisture was present during the history of its use, to light the LCI, then no moisture was present to seep into the iPhone and expose the user to non-charging electrocution risk* (unless of course your hands are wet again)

non-charging electrocution risk = electrocution risk while not having the iPhone charged.


texts:
I was removing a wifi network and after removing it, my wifi icon is blank, showing a cross over it, while i hover over it which says Not Configured, I googled the problem but didn't find any solution to the problem, I tried reinstalling mavericks, while everything (user, setting and everything remain same) the problem remain same too. What can be the problem? How can I fix it?
  and


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Hallo I am annoyed that hot corners won't be disabled when I am playing a fullscreen game. So I want a quick way to toggle the settings. I found this command

defaults write com.apple.dock wvous-tl-corner -int 1

Unfortunately it doesn't change anything.
What can I do?


texts: Automatically unmount external drives when shutting down OSX?

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I'm running OSX 10.10 Yosemite. When I try to shut it down, if I have an external drive connected the shutdown stalls on a black screen with the mouse pointer visible, and movable.

This happens even if no applications are running when I shut down, so it doesn't appear to be the case that OSX can't unmount the external drive.

One solution that came to mind would be to write a bash script that would unmount all external drives, and to run that script on shutdown. Is this a sensible solution? How do you run a script on shutdown?


texts: How can I stop my MacBook Pro from automatically sleeping when I lock the screen?

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Whenever I lock my screen (via either the lock icon -> Lock screen or by using the Control+shift+eject key combination), my screen immediately turns off (not showing the screen saver), and the system seems to sleep.
This is inconvenient because it disconnects me from the network, causing Jabber to go offline / ssh connections to die.

I am constantly connected to AC, and am using the following Energy Saver->Power Adapter options:

Turn display off after: Never
Prevent computer from sleeping automatically when the display is off
Wake for Wi-Fi access

I have a 'late 2013' MacBook Pro running OS X 10.9.1.

Is there any way to stop this from happening?


texts: Earthed (Grounded) Stubby Plug for MacBook AC Adapter

texts:
Much hay has been made of the apparent grounding issue while using the stubby plug on a MacBook AC adapter.

While I understand it is completely safe to have a bit of grounding flowing through the user, those of us who live and work in the tropics would love to find a grounded (earthed) stubby plug adapter.

I see no reason this shouldn't exist, given that the longer cable is grounded via the metal stump on the AC adapter, but I haven't found one.

Notably, I am in Australia, where the plug head doesn't fold over anyhow, but I'd also love a US version.


texts:
I'll preface this question with the obligatory "I did something stupid"...

I wanted to factory restore my 2012 MacBook Pro.  I did Command-r, and later Command-Option-r, but both times Reinstall macOS failed after a while.  (I did not write down the exact failures but, in hindsight,  it may have been connectivity problems).

I then went into Disk Utility and saw Restore.
I guessed that restoring from "OS X Base System" into my main partition would at least take me back to the original OS version and I could upgrade from there.

Apparently, I was wrong.

Regular reboot now takes me into macOS Utilities and Disk Utility shows that my disk now has just one partition, a 500GB "OS X Base System".

I can't do a Reinstall OS since the only partition is in use, and I can't shrink the partition either.

Do I have any way forward from here?  (If it helps: I have other computers here and various USB drives. But I don't have any other Macs).


texts: I frequently used album ratings in iTunes in the past, but it seems in iTunes 12.2, these ratings have been replaced by the heart for Apple Music.  In list view an option for 'Album Rating' is still available but uneditable, while in grid view, which I prefer there is no visible rating for either the songs or albums.  Is there any way to bring the ratings back??


texts: Still possible to pin dock in OS X 10.10 Yosemite?

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Since 10.5 are so I have been using this command to flush the dock to the upper corner of the screen:

defaults write com.apple.dock pinning -string start ;

I can see that this is still present in the plist, but it no longer effects the dock. Anyone know if there is a way to restore pinning now?


texts:
Some of that darned Genieo got on my computer. I've deleted all the files that the various places online suggest.

I can find NO trace of Genieo anywhere in my files or libraries, but with Safari and Chrome, those Genieo style ad underlines and bubbles keep appearing.

Any ideas?


texts: How to get Office 365 E-mail notifications on iPhone, without synching the mailbox?

texts: I need to receive notifications on my iPhone whenever I receive a new work E-mail, but since I receive large quantities of E-mails using many GBs, don't want to actually have my E-mails load up and sync on the phone. Is it possible to setup the mail application to only notify me when I get a new E-mail in Office 365, but to not actually download and display the E-mails in the mail app?


texts: Finder freezes for several minutes when opening folder for first time after restart

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After I restart my computer, if I try to open a folder the wheel at the bottom of the Finder window spins and I get the beach ball. This happens for several minutes (over 5 minutes) while loading the files. Finder is completely unusable during this time.

I have a MacBook Pro w/ Retina on 10.9 Mavericks.

What I have tried (using advice from this question):
-Disable AppNap
-Clear Caches
-Reset Preferences

Also, my CPU usage is really high while it is trying to load. Any ideas what the problem could be?

Update:

Activity Monitor screen shot:


texts: How do I keep the Recovery HD and EFI partitions from automatically mounting on my MacBook Air?

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I've set Finder preferences on my MacBook Air running OS X 10.9.1 to show everything on my desktop:

I've noticed that storage partitions called Recovery HD and EFI appear there:

What are they? Is there a setting I can use to hide them?

I've noticed I can eject them, but they will reappear later, such as when I wake my MacBook Air after sleeping.

Update: I'm using Mountain (which I recommend), and it turns out either the "Mount all unmounted volumes on wake from sleep" setting was on by default, or I didn't remember setting it.

Since I turned it off those partitions have stopped mounting automatically.


texts:
I'm trying to install Java in order to use the Safari plugin. The "missing plugin" functionality redirects me to the Java download page, where I downloaded a file named jre-7u55-macosx-x64.dmg, which contains Java 7 Update 55.pkg.

Now, when I try to run the installer, I get the following error message:

  Java 7 Update 55.pkg can't be installed because its digital signature is invalid.
  The package may have been corrupted or tampered with. Get a new copy of the package and try again.

I'm not sure what to do here. I do need to install the plugin unfortunately. :-)

I'm running OS X 10.9.2 (up to date, as far as I can tell from the App Store) on a mid 2009 mbp, in case that makes any difference.


texts: Can I synchronize my iPad calendar with a similar online calendar?

texts:
My question is a little vague, I'm sorry. I'll try to make it clear.

I recently bought my iPad, and I fell in love with the calendar. I would like to start using it as my main calendar application, inputting all my future appointments and weekly tasks into it. I am afraid, however, that my iPad will become unavailable due to an empty battery, destruction etc. So what then?

Thus I wonder if Apple has some sort of online calendar to which I can sync my iPad calendar every time it's online or connected to a PC.

I'm very sceptical to syncing it with Google calendar, seeing as the calendars work a bit differently. In my GC I have layed out my tasts and appointments in "theme" separated colorcoded calendars. It seems my iPad will only let me work with one calendar, and the Google calendar will show up as a different calendar. I don't want it to work like that - rather I'd like to have full control from both the iPad and the synchronized online calendar.

If anyone understands what I'm after, I'd love an answer :-)


texts: How can I tell if the fans are operating correctly on my MacBook Pro 17" (2010)?

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My Mid-2010 17" MBP seems to be running warmer than normal recently; I've read that fan failure is not unheard of on systems of this age, but I don't know how to verify whether one or both fans is operating correctly.

I have removed the cover and checked that there is no obvious buildup of lint, etc., in the fans and they spin freely.


texts: How can I tell which apps are using up my graphics memory?

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Sometimes my Macbook grinds to a halt due to the GPU's onboard memory getting full. (I know this because the CPU use, RAM use and disk use are all low, and because closing things like Chrome tabs and large pdfs tends to resolve the issue.) To avoid this, I'd like to be able to monitor the use of my system's graphics memory.

There doesn't seem to be an option in Activity Monitor, but is there some other way I can tell (a) how much graphics memory is currently free, and if possible (b) which apps are currently using the greatest amount of it?

I'd much prefer a free solution over a paid one; a Terminal-based solution would be fine.


texts: Dictionary doesn't work after upgrade to Catalina - why there is no reference sources here

texts: There are not reference sources under "Drag reference sources into the order you prefer", how can I drag them? and how to add these reference sources(dictionaries)?


texts: Losing mouse cursor on external monitor with 10.13.4

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I upgraded from 10.13.3 to 10.13.4. The mouse works on the built-in screen but not on an external monitor. A PRAM reset as in this thread did nothing. Increasing the size of the cursor as in this bug report shows the mouse pointer but not the I-beam cursor (text cursor), then increasing the size even more shows both cursors. Confusingly, a Quicktime recording of these changes shows the cursor always present, and always the same size.

I am using Dell U2414H. Any fixes better than this work-around?

I add below screenshots for the cursor size when neither pointer appears, when only the mouse pointer appears, and when both mouse pointer and I-beam pointer appear.


texts: Is it possible to increase the font size in iTunes?

texts: How does one make the fonts that iTunes uses for things like app descriptions larger?  I know about Universal Access -> Zoom, but I'm looking for something a little more app-specific, like web browsers have.


texts:
I had a question on how iMessage message routing works.

Assume this setup:

Thing1:
iPhone 555-555-5555
Apple ID: thing1@me.com

Thing2:
iPhone: 999-999-9999
Apple ID: thing2@me.com

If Thing1 sends a new iMessage and selects Thing2's Cell as the destination, the iMessage appears only on Thing2's iPhone.

If Thing1 sends a new iMessage and selects Thing2's email address as the destination, then the iMessage appears on Thing2's iPad and iPhone (and at this point, there's two separate conversations from Thing1 on Thing2's iDevices).

I had assumed that since the Apple iMessage servers know that Thing2 can receive iMessages at both their iPhone and iPad (via their Apple ID) that it wouldn't matter if the iMessage was addressed to either cell or email (and that iMessage would route it to all associated devices).

Is that not correct?


texts: HP LaserJet wont print OCR'ed file or Power Point file, sent from OSX

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I've got an HP Colour LaserJet Pro MFP M281fdw printer.

The printer works fine for word docs, images etc and PDFs (which are not OCR'ed)

If a PDF has been created from a scanned document then OCR'ed the file will fail to print.

By fail to print i mean :

When i try to print a 50 Page OCR'ed PDF the first page that contains no OCR'ed text prints fine, but the printer stalls and dosent print any of the other pages, i get an error on my laptop something allong the lines of can not connect to printer. If it have the same document but not OCR'ed and print it, it works fine.

When i try to print a 3 page OCR'ed PDF, none of the pages print, but instead the printer prints an error page, with the following :

ERROR : undefined
OFFENDING COMMAND : New
STACK :
/AAAAB+ *Times
/FontName

Ive spoken to HP Support and apparently this is a known issue they added the following :

The issue Prints from Power Point (I don't do any work in Power Point so have not verified)
The issue is to do with OSX. (I have tried using both the HP provided driver and the standard generic drivers, but the issue continues, apparently its to do with the way OSX handles printing, prior to the print being sent to the print driver.
The issue is not present on Windows (I have not confirmed)

Are there any known workarounds to this issue, other than if i want to print an OCR'ed document, convert it to a non OCR'ed doc first?

My laptop is running OSX 10.13.6.x, my laptop is connected to the network via Wifi.

The printer is connected to the network via a wired connection.


texts: iCloud/Google calendar sync issues on OS X 10.9.1

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I have recently upgraded to Mavericks, 10.9.1. I am trying to share my diary with my wife, we both use the OS X Calendar and I decided to sync using iCloud.

I also have calendars in Calendar synced through Google.

I went into System Preferences > iCloud and ticked Calendars. It told me it would merge all my calendars data in Calendars on My Mac to the Calendars in iCloud which is what I wanted.

I said OK, it then whirred away for about three minutes and then all my calendars on My Mac disappeared and were replaced by iCloud calendars, a bit more whirring and then I saw an error saying it couldn't access iCloud at this time, try again now or try later, I tried now several times and later as well all to no avail.

Getting desperate I went into System Preferences > iCloud and un-ticked Calendars. It told me all Calendar data would be deleted on my mac which I was not concerned about as I was well backed up.

All iCloud Calendars disappeared from the side pane leaving only the Google calendars left.

This is my challenge: I can't create a Calendar on My Mac. When I go to File > New Calendar, there is no option to create on on My Mac which was there before, in fact no option to create anything.

I have tried the usual computer reboot and logging out of iCloud to no avail.

I have logged onto iCloud and some of my Calendars are there but at this point I would be happy just to be able to get back to square one with my Calendars re-created on My Mac.

Any ideas greatly appreciated.


texts:
Even checking all entries in the finder preferences, the section SHARED never shows up.

So far this is what I tired: I killed the daemon running the preferences, cfprefsd, then I removed com.apple.sidebarlists.plist  and com.apple.finder.plist. After rebooting, the finder sidebar changed (all my settings were gone) but it still did not displayed SHARED. Any suggestions?


texts:
I use Apple Compressor to generate 60fps movie clips from sequences of PNG images. I use the HEVC coded with transparency. The resolution of the output movie is the same as of the input pictures, so no resizing is done.
Is it safe to ignore the Resize filter?


texts:
Having trouble with OSX on a MacBook Pro.

My system randomly locks up, becoming completely unresponsive to mouse or keyboard, then after a few seconds shows the OSX login screen, at which point it is responding to the mouse and keyboard again. There doesn't seem to be any specific thing causing it, from what I can tell.

I was wondering if this has happened to anyone else and if so do they know how to fix the issue?

If there is any commands that I can run to give more information please let me know. If it happens again I'll be trying to record it to put up on youtube.

Bought from apple site in April 2013 so not an old one.

Spec

2.9 GHz Intel Core i7
8GB 1600MHz DDR Ram
750GB HDD
Intel HD Graphics 4000 512 MB
OSX 10.8.4 (12E55)

Edit

Log 1 on pastebin.com
Log 2 on pastebin.com

Updated with the log from is happening a few minutes ago.


texts: AppleScript to show package contents of hidden original of alias

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I'm attempting to build an Automator workflow (which will be saved as a Service, so that I can both access it from contextual menus and invoke it with a keyboard shortcut), that will function much like the Finder's built-in "Show Package Contents" command, but which will additionally accept a package's alias as input. The service will satisfy the following:

It will only be available when the Finder's selection consists of a package or a package's alias.

Rather than show the contents of the package directory itself like the built-in command does, the Service will show the contents of the "Contents" directory (if it exists), located immediately within the package directory.

If the Finder's selection is a package or alias on the desktop, the Contents directory should be opened in a new Finder window. Otherwise, the Contents directory should be opened in the Finder window containing the selection.

My approach has been to have the script first determine whether the file is an Alias, and if it is, to tell the script to show the contents of the original. If the file is not an alias, I'd like to tell the script to simply show the contents of the input.

Excluding the possibility of an alias as input and assuming the input-package is selected in a Finder window, I can successfully write a script that shows the contents of the package's contents folder in the same window:

on run {input, parameters}
    set my_output to {}
    repeat with oneItem in input
        tell application "Finder" to set target of window 1 to ((oneItem as text) & "Contents")
end repeat
return input
end run

When I try to set up an "if...then...else" scheme, I fail.

I'm using the latest versions of all relevant software.


texts: Should I upgrade an old MacBook (2,1) to Mavericks?

texts:
I have this old machine:

  Model Name:MacBook
  Model Identifier:MacBook2,1
  Processor Name:Intel Core 2 Duo
  Processor Speed:2.16 GHz
  Number Of Processors:1
  Total Number Of Cores:2
  L2 Cache:4 MB
  Memory:3 GB
  Bus Speed:667 MHz

I've read that Mavericks is good for old machines ... but is this too old?
It's currently running 10.5.8.


texts: Is it possible to highlight text of inbox emails?

texts:
In Preview.app, I can highlight and annotate text in a PDF file. Can we do the same thing to emails in my inbox in Mail.app?

I have long time collaborate projects and I need to go back to previous emails very frequently — it would be great if I can highlight texts in emails.


texts: Cannot format newly installed HD in MacBook Pro mid 2012 13"

texts: I Just replaced Mac HD with HGST (a Western Digital co) TravelStar 500gb. I accessed DU using start+option key and start+command R key, but still cannot format. In DU I used the Erase tab, clicked the erase button, waited while it cycled, about 10 minutes, but did not format. Message was cannot erase. I followed steps in many forums. Can anyone tell me what else I need to do.


texts:
My Macbook and my iPhone are updated to the OS X 10.11 Capitan and iOS 9.0.1, but when I try to use my iPhone as a running device with Xcode, it tells me I can't use it because of the version of them.

I can't upgrade xCode (6.1). On the App Store, it tells me I'm on the latest version.


texts: iPad as Mac Display: How to return to Mac desktop from iPad home screen?

texts:
I'm using my iPad as a secondary display. The menu bar icon on my Mac is blue (active), my Mac desktop is on the iPad.
I press the iPad's home button. I'm now on the iPad's home screen. The Mac is still connected, the menu bar icon is still blue.
How can I quickly return to viewing my Mac desktop on the iPad?
Thanks!


texts: Connecting ipad to other computers, for importing selected music

texts:
I have a 1st generation ipad. I want to put selected music on it - not sync my entire collection.

I've managed it before, a year ago but forgotten exactly how and this time I can't get the ipad to appear in iTunes. I've tried to connect from both a Windows XP desktop, from a MacBook running OS X Yosemite 10.10.4, and from an old PowerPC, all 3 of which have the desired music.

How do I trouble shoot this?
Is using iTunes the correct way to go? I seem to remember just doing some kind of basic file copy, previously.


texts: Are there issues inherent to running dual 6-core processors on a 2009 Mac Pro vs a 2010?

texts:
I'm shopping around for a pre-loved Mac Pro with dual 6-core "Westmere" processors. Finding a decently priced 2010 base model is a lot harder than finding a 2009 with upgraded processors.

In talking to Mac Pro refurbishers, some tell me that one should not upgrade a 2009 Mac Pro with the 6-core "Westmore" processors for reasons of it not being as stable as the 2010 Mac Pro 6-core machine. Some tell me that it will cause the fan to run all the time. Others say there's no problem at all upgrading a 2009 Mac Pro with dual 6-core "Westmere" processors.

My question is, are there any inherent problems or disadvantages to upgrading a 2009 Mac Pro with dual 6-core "Westmere" processors vs starting with a 2010 Mac Pro and doing the same? The later is harder to come by and thus more expensive.


texts: Retina Nvidia Control Panel Settings for Gaming

texts:
I've had a retina MBP for about a year now. I want to start using it for gaming. I have read that I need to change the Nvidia Panel Settings. Does anyone know specifics on what I should change to optimize gaming performance? thanks

FYI this is for Battlefield 3


texts: MacBook stops recognizing Android USB until restart

texts:
For years of development I've never had this issue. Today my Galaxy S7 Edge (Android 7.0) suddenly isn't detected via USB connection by my MacBook (El Capitan). AFT, adb, Unity, nothing detects it any more.

Same for both USB ports. Bought a new USB cable, didn't fix the issue. Tried killing adb server, to no avail. Restarting phone doesnt help. USB ports do work with other devices. Only solution is to restart computer. Then it's detected for a few minutes but as soon as I build my android app on Unity3D and push to phone, the phone is again not detected shortly afterwards. Would have to restart my computer after every new build.

I haven't changed anything, been doing this process all the time without problem until now. How is this possible?


texts: Bash executes only ~/.profile but neither of ~/.bash_profile and ~/.bashrc

texts:
I have a strange problem with bash:

I switch my default shell to /bin/sh from zsh and it doesn't execute ~/.bash_profile or ~/.bashrc when I open a new terminal, it only executes ~/.profile.

What could be the problem?

I could probably source ~/.bashrc from ~/.profile but that does't seem like a good idea, e.g. it would break if I changed to another shell again.


texts:
Is there a way for Terminal to simulate pressing multiple keys at once? For example, Shift+Ctrl+R?

I am sshing into OS X from a Windows client (PuTTY) and am wondering if I need to configure the client or is there a native way for OS X to emulate these commands on the receiving end.


texts: iMac 10.6.8 pointing fail with Bluetooth enabled

texts:
10.6 Aluminum iMac w/wireless keyboard and trackpad.

Working fine long-term, no recent change to the h/w or system software.

All of a sudden pointing started operating as if permanently in mouse-down state.  In Finder, this means that the mouse would move around the last-selected object.  It is impossible to put the object down and so impossible to operate the Mac.  Restart doesn't help.

I turned off the wireless devices, replaced the wireless keyboard and trackpad with old, wired keyboard and mouse, and restarted. Normal operation was restored.  Tried putting back the the keyboard, but pointing was disabled the instant I re-enabled Bluetooth.  Now stuck permanently as if in mouse-up state, so impossible to operate.  Fail.

Temporarily OK with wired keyboard and mouse.  Ideas how to return the system to wireless keyboard and trackpad operation?

TIA


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OS X El Capitan - 10.11.6
MBP Mid 2015

I have file sharing setup to a folder on an external drive.  I use the sharing via VLC on my phone or on a fire stick.

The most recent example was watching a movie for more than an hour, pausing and coming back less than 5 minutes later and not being able to continue watching.  Confirming on the phone the file sharing seemed to be no longer working.  Going back to the laptop and turning sharing off and back on resolved the problem.

The laptop is connected to a power adapter and the power settings in adapter mode prevent the computer from sleeping automatically when display is off and the put hard drives to sleep when possible is not checked.

I had noticed that if the filesharing is working properly and I come back to the laptop and unclick filesharing, osx will come up with a dialog that says users are still connected to the sharing, would you like to end sharing in x minutes.  If I come back and the sharing is not working and unclick the sharing it doesn't give this warning.  Sometimes the problem is the firestick as I can see the sharing working on the phone but sometimes the problem is osx as the sharing has stopped working for both.  I am not too surprised the firestick stuff is a little unstable but the problems with osx and sharing surprise me.

Any thoughts as to what causes this?


texts:
Running yes > /dev/null takes my CPU usage to 99%.

The Macbook Air 2018 have a 2 core CPU (1.6 GHz Core i5 [I5-8210Y]). Why is the "% CPU" taken by this process so high?


texts: How to cd to a directory with a name starting with a "-" (minus)?

texts: We have some folders where the names are starting with a "-". If I try to enter them with terminal, cd interprets the "-" as an option. How could I manage this?


texts: Apple's DVD Player won't run (and why is hidden)

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I am selecting some old DVD's and CD's - to keep or garbage? Some old DVD's won't open in Quick Time neither VLC. So I decided to try the Apple's DVD Player since it seems burned to old dedicated DVD players. Is not in Applications list, is hidden, why?

Anyway, I tried to run it but it just shows up the interface and collapse. Here is the first part of the crash report...

Process:               DVD Player [6754]
Path:                  /System/Library/CoreServices/Applications/DVD Player.app/Contents/MacOS/DVD Player
Identifier:            com.apple.DVDPlayer
Version:               6.0 (5500.72)
Build Info:            DVDPlayerX-72000000000000~580
Code Type:             X86-64 (Native)
Parent Process:        ??? [1]
Responsible:           DVD Player [6754]
User ID:               501

Date/Time:             2020-03-26 16:33:42.965 -0300
OS Version:            Mac OS X 10.15.3 (19D76)
Report Version:        12
Anonymous UUID:        5D622C4B-9B9A-1324-5B1E-10A7B6CBB1AA

Sleep/Wake UUID:       BC5508BC-7AFC-4870-A114-9C25B077134A

Time Awake Since Boot: 36000 seconds
Time Since Wake:       21000 seconds

System Integrity Protection: enabled

Crashed Thread:        0  Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread

Exception Type:        EXC_CRASH (SIGABRT)
Exception Codes:       0x0000000000000000, 0x0000000000000000
Exception Note:        EXC_CORPSE_NOTIFY

It is possible to make it work? Why it's hidden? Any third part suggestion for Catalina?


texts: My iPad Air has a charging problem. it says its charging but it's not!

texts: My iPad Air says it is charging but it isn't and if I take the charger out and put it back in, it won't charge at all. What's happening?


texts: How to fix font issue on gimp with x11 or macbook pro

texts: I just installed gimp 2.60 in my macbook pro but my gimp appears in Nepalese font instead of English. How to solve it ?


texts: How to make specifics apps password protected even after passcode in iPhone?

texts:
I have passcode on iphone but sometimes i need to give my iphone to other to make calls. I want to make specific things password protected, things like mail, sms, contacts and some games.

Is it possible?


texts: Offline installation of El Capitan from a Windows machine?

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My macbook pro OS X is broken behind repair and I need to re-install the OS X. Unfortunately it seems the online installation is not working, because it stops downloading about half way through and never completes.

In any case, I only have access to Windows machines. Is there any way to create a USB bootable drive to install El Capitan on my macbook pro 13' (late 2014)?

Any other way to do an offline installation?


texts: MacBook Pro will not boot, begins to load then hangs with white screen

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I am unable to get my MacBook Pro to boot. It turns on, and the Apple logo + loading bar appear however after a minute or so of loading it eventually changes to a white/grey screen and just hangs.

The machine is a 15-inch MacBook Pro from early 2011 running OSX 10.10.5.

I have booted in verbose mode and I couldn't spot anything untoward however similar behavior was observed, just in verbose mode.

I can get to a shell with cmd+s but I'm not too familiar with OS X so I'm not sure where to begin looking for hints about the failed boot.

I tried to enter recovery mode by booting and holding alt and was able to get the screen up where you pick the recovery drive, but I experienced the same failed boot behavior as described above.

Prior to all this the laptop had a bit of an episode where the video went very funny, top half of the screen at the bottom, and the bottom at the top with some horizontal bars of random colors, like colorful TV static... And it flashes a bit like this just before it hangs at boot... leading me to think it might be something video card related but this is my only clue so far...

Can anyone help me as to where to go from here? Such as boot logs found from the command line, or diag commands I can run?


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Xcode 9.2 beta (9C30) was released today, but I have been unable to download it from developer.apple.com. I am using a non-paid Apple ID, but this hasn't caused trouble for Xcode downloads in the past. When I click the blue "Download" button next to the latest Xcode beta, I am presented with a "403 Forbidden" error.

I've tried using Chrome, signing out of my Developer ID, and clearing cookies/cache for apple.com, but nothing has worked. Has anybody else had this issue or know how to resolve this issue? Thanks in advance!


texts: How to differenciate Legitime Kext in Catalina?

texts:
Since I have updated to MacOS Catalina 10.15.5 I was notified about the Kext 3rd-party deprecation (Even notifying me I have 2 3rd-Party Kext loading by default at the start-up of the Mac). Since this, I want to remove all my 3rd-party Kext.

I'm inside /System/Library/Extensions but I can't even notice which are from Apple and which are definitively not.

I have also tried to perform in Terminal:

kextstat | grep -v com.apple

With no data. Only this: Index Refs Address            Size       Wired      Name (Version) UUID <Linked Against>

Post-Data:
I just don't want to remove any file without being 100% sure or I'm aware that I can break all the OS.

Help is appreciated.


texts: Python version different to Python Framework version

texts:
When I ask for my system version in python interpreter, the answer is 2.7.10 :

Python 2.7.10 (default, Jul 30 2016, 18:31:42)
[GCC 4.2.1 Compatible Apple LLVM 8.0.0 (clang-800.0.34)] on darwin
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import sys
>>> print (sys.version)
2.7.10 (default, Jul 30 2016, 18:31:42)
[GCC 4.2.1 Compatible Apple LLVM 8.0.0 (clang-800.0.34)]

However, browsing /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions, I can only find 3.5, why?


texts: How do I make Siri send text messages to a specific number?

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How do I make Siri send text messages to a preferred address?

I & someone else both have iPhones, and the other person often uses Siri to send text messages to me.  I generally send text messages to them using my iPhone.  Sometimes, however, I will use my Apple ID to send the message using the Messages app on my Mac (OS X 10.8.5), as it is often more convenient to type or send images from a personal computer than on a phone.

The problem is that when the other person tells Siri to send me a text message, it will send it to whichever address I sent a message from last.  This is problematic, since I will often not see a message until significantly later, as I am often not at my computer.

Is there a way to configure the person's iPhone to have Siri only send messages to my phone?  If not, is there a different solution I could use (short of not using my computer to send the message) to prevent this situation?


texts: Is there a way to access text services such as these through either Applescript or terminal commands?


texts: I have a 5th gen iPad on iOS13.1.2 and the Wifi will not toggle on

texts: Wifi will not toggle off and I have already reset network settings and wiped device. It is not the antenna because Bluetooth is working.


texts: Macbook Pro 2012 keyboard is typing weird symbols instead of letters and numbers

texts:
I have an Macbook Pro 2012.
I can't log in and change it because there are some weird symbols showing when I type my password. The numbers and letters keys show some sign so I can not change it from the dash board. I found out it was this weird symbol issue when I pressed command and r and opened Safari. I tried to reset nvram but either I don't know how to do it or it does not work.


texts: Is memory or storage in the 2018 Mac mini replaceable by the user after purchase?

texts: The tech specs of the Mac mini 2018 is unclear if the RAM or SSD can be upgraded by the user.


texts:
I hope this is not a repeat question—searching mostly turned up various versions of people having the opposite problem.
Is there a way to manually open a file as read-only?
The use case would be a file that I generally want write access to, but on a particular occasion want to be very confident I won't accidentally modify. For example, a shared document that I sometimes need to edit but currently only want to view. As a compulsive/instinctive saver, this would be a useful way to protect myself from myself.
I'm running Big Sur 11.2.1 on an early-2014 Macbook Air.
Obvious workarounds:

Get info, change my permissions to read-only, open; once finished, close, change my permissions back: This is a hassle.
Open, immediately Save As: Ideally I want to lock myself out before I even have a chance to break the file.
Duplicate the file, open the 'scratch' version; generally, delete the scratch version once I'm done: Still sort of a hassle, but the best Plan B I can think of.

Final thoughts:

I imagine this can be done from Terminal, and am happy to learn how, but any sort of GUI method would be best.
I imagine there's a way to create a service for this? Not sure where to start.

Thanks!!


texts: Can a SSH session be wrapped to appear as a distinct App?

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Fluid can create a .app wrapper around a webkit instance to turn any web page into an OSX Application. This script can do a less thorough job with Chrome. Is there anything that can do this for a ssh session, possibly through a Terminal or iTerm2 profile, or a standalone SSH client?

To elaborate:

I open Safari, then open a second Safari window for a particular website. Now cmd+tab and force quit and mission control and the dock and many other OSX features treat those two windows as part of the same app.

Instead, after opening Safari, I can open my created-with-Fluid custom .app for the particular website. This gives me all the OS-native features of having two separate apps running.

Analogously, in Terminal or iTerm2 or a standalone SSH client (e.g. CyberDuck or SecureCRT) I can open a second window with a particular profile loaded that will ssh to a certain server. That window will, again, be treated by the OS as part of the single running app.

I am hoping for something like Fluid that will create a .app wrapper around any method of opening an SSH session to a particular server, which will then stand alone from any other SSHing I'm doing in my normal usage.


texts: Mailbox set as read-only when symlinking from an external storage

texts:
I have multiple mailboxes and I want to save space by moving some of them in an external storage. I'd like to still be able to view the email using Mail.app even if said mailbox is now located in an external storage.

After reading upon it, I symlinked a mailbox .mbox from the external storage to the original location ~/Library/Mail/Mailboxes/ however upon opening Mail.app, the mailbox that was moved to the external storage is set as read-only and no email can be added to it as well as any email content within the mailbox not being read. The read-only seems to disappear when I directly drag and drop a mail from Mail.app to the location of the .mbox in the external storage.

The OS is El Capitan and the external drive that I worked with is a 1TB HDD seagate drive.


texts: What properties must an iPhone case have to avoid antenna issues?

texts:
I have an AT&T iPhone 4, which may have antenna problems when held in some positions (i.e. the "grip of death").  To help with this, Apple gave away bumper cases which worked around the problems when the phones were new.  Unfortunately, my old iPhone case broke, so now I'm looking at new cases.

What properties must my new case have to be to avoid these problems with the iPhone 4's antenna?


texts:
Sometimes my Launchpad just look like this without any app icons. What causes this problem and how can I solve it?

I am using 2011 11″ MacBook Air with OS X 10.9.1


texts: What is the purpose of the extra room on Finder's "View Options" window?

texts:
I am running 10.6.8 on a late 2008 MBP.
I know this has been the look of the "View Options" window for a while, but I just really noticed all of the extra space at the bottom. It's now being used in 10.7.x for the new and altered "View Options," which takes advantage of the extra real estate, but was there any use for it otherwise?  In other words, are there other options or preferences that can be added to this space?


texts: Can iPad and iPhone remember more Google account logins just like Android devices?

texts:
On Android devices there seems to be unlimited Google accounts a user can log in and have the system memorize the user names and the passwords, so to log in automatically, it only takes one tap on the user name (which is an email address).

On iPhone and iPad, it seems that various apps using Safari to log in to Google and authorize the login. There is a 10 account limit, unlike Android devices. Is there any way to overcome this limit?


texts: How do you remove SSL certificate exceptions on iOS?

texts:
When connecting to a URL via HTTPS and the SSL certificate doesn't match (such as at a paid Wi-Fi hotspot), iOS shows a dialog asking whether the certificate should be accepted. If you accept the certificate, iOS adds an SSL exception and will never ask about that certificate again.

There are possibly two aspects to this: certificates accepted in Safari, and certificates accepted for network services in other apps.

The question is, how does one remove these exceptions, short of a full device reset? There seems to be no way to view or remove exceptions in the device settings.


texts: What's wrong with site layout under macos?

texts: Both in chrome and safari under macos layout of sites is often broken when browser is collapsed to half screen. This affects top sites too - facebook, google, apple store. However, it does not affect wikipedia or yandex.


texts: Are there advanced performance profiling tools (ideally, with a graphical interface) aside from DTrace?

texts:
Simply put, I'm looking for a utility akin to Windows NT's Performance Monitor (perfmon.exe).  The ability to specify which metrics I want to track (ex. reads/sec, writes/sec) for a given object (ex. Macintosh HD), and ideally, for all or specific processes.

The use case is we have a developer at the office whose MacBook has abominable disk performance.  I/O is bad enough to the point where it may be blocking.  It's evident from Activity Monitor that there's an average of 80-110 IOps, but at this point it'd be advantageous to pin down what the offending processes might be (it's certainly not mds or mdworker).  Although using DTrace scripts such as IOSnoop would probably work, a graphical tool (including non-free) that would provide easier visibility into these (and other) metrics would certainly be preferred.


texts: Can't trace origin of corrupted preference file

texts:
I keep getting a corrupted preference file that auto-regenerates. I can't seem to pin it to any recent downloads and google has not been my friend.

org.stereovision.exploration.plist

Can't tell if it is having any knock-on effects but as it does not appear in any console logs I am assuming that it is having no ill effects.

Regards
Pat


texts: Random Kernel Panics with Shutdown Cause: -64

texts:
I'm using Retina Macbook Pro 15inch (OS X El Capitan 10.11.5) and getting random kernel panics frequently since March 2016. (1 or 2 times a day or more)

This is a company laptop and bought in October 2015, my company admin have sent in the macbook to Apple Authorized Service Centre but they say no issue found and return it after 1 whole month. After get back the kernel panic still remains.

He also performed several fresh installation of the OS X (downloaded from Apple) and still get kernel panic.

I'm not sure whether it is a software-related or hardware-related issue as the Apple Diagnostics didn't show any problem.

Things I've tried :

Apple Diagnostic Test
Fresh install of OS X
Use EtreCheck (Report seems fine)
Use iStat Menu Pro to check on the temperature (around 40 degree celsius to 80/90) When kernel panic occurs, it usually stay at high temperature like 90 degree +
Does it means overheat causes kernel panic?
Resetting the SMC

List of software/tools that I used :

xcode
android studio
slack
skype
chrome
source tree
atom editor
node, npm
iStat Menu

But I still getting kernel panic every day...

If it is overheat, why it works normal before this? (from October 2015-March 2016)

If it is software-related issue, why after fresh install it still get kernel panic?

If it was hardware issue, why Apple can't find the root cause? >_<

I checked on the Console and found this (after kernel panic)

Previous Shutdown Cause: -64

May I know what does this means? I search through other posts and all of them are -62, -128, 0, 3, 5 and etc... None of them are getting -64

Apple is not making the shutdown cause available to public as well >_<


texts: iOS Simple Counter App with multiple counters and data export?

texts:
I'm looking for a simple tallying / counter app for iOS that supports data export, and assigns dates to the different counts.  It should also support multiple counters with titles.

Does anyone know of an app like this?


texts:
Recently my mac has started panicking and I don't really understand why.
The reason for the panics aren't always the same either.

Sometimes the reason for the panic is the same but the thread is different.

All the panics so far are in this gist (which as of posting only contains the most recent one).

The only thing I can pretty much say is I doubt it's Avira as I installed it right at the beginning and this issue is a recent one; I mention this because I read that sometimes kernel extensions can cause panics and Avira has a Kernel extension.

It happens whether I'm in the browser (Chrome) or my terminal (iTerm2).

I have 3 spaces open, 2 browsers and one terminal.

I'm running Tmux in my shell for multiplexing.

One last thing, unrelated, but why do some of the panics error with Bash? I switched my shell to Zsh.


texts: Stop Console.app from auto-scrolling while I'm reading a log

texts:
When using Apple’s Console.app to read logs, the window automatically scrolls to the bottom when a new entry is posted to the log. But I'm trying to read something in the middle of the log.

Is there some way to shutoff this auto-scroll-to-bottom feature?


texts:
Since a while back Apple Mail marks mail as read when searching. It's really bad when handling a large mailbox since it's easy to miss an email because you accidently marked it as read while searching.

Can anyone reproduce the error? When did it appear? Is there a setting to change it?


texts: "I" and "(","K" keys on the keyboard respond only after pressing them several times

texts:
"I" and "(", "K" keys on my Bluetooth keyboard don't work very well sometimes I need to press them several times before the input is print. My battery is at 100% and I think is a problem related to a software I've installed (Anaconda a Python distribution with Spyder) even if this problem occur in general use. I've tried to use Safe Mode but it continue to happen... How can I fix it?

note that in my keyboard I have to hold on shift to use one of these keys


texts: How do I display in console the domain names used by the OS X 10.10 DNS resolver?

texts:
I want to display the list and order of domains used by the resolved on OS X 10.10.

I know that they are taken via DHCP and you can overwrite them using network configuration tool but connecting to VPN can also change them and I do want to see the current list in the console.

How can I list them?


texts: Time Machine - move backup from local disk to network volume. Wrong case sensitivity?

texts:
I am trying to move a Time Machine backup from a Firewire disk (called disk1) directly connected to a computer to a network share, that is, from a folder in/on /Disk1/Backup.backupdb to a sparsebundle/disk image (called dmg1) stored in the network share.

Following some suggestions in a Time Machine FAQ I begun a new TM backup to let Time Machine create the needed disk image. As soon as the image was created I cancelled the backup.

Next step was to mount this new image (the resulting volume is called Time Machine Backup, TMB for short) and delete the /TMB/Backups.backupdb directory. Finally I was supposed to copy /disk1/Backups.backupdb to /TMB/. Unfortunately, this last step fails with an error message The volume has the wrong case sensitivity for a backup.

Apparently disk1 is not case sensitive (which was/is the default) but for some reason Time Machine sparsebundles are created case sensitive = you can't copy an old local backup (Or can you? Finder prevents it but "logically" it shouldn't be a problem to copy files from a case insensitive volume to a case sensitive volume. The other way around should, however, not work.) to the disk image that is necessary to use if you want to backup to a network volume.

This must be a pretty common usecase, especially since Apple themselves sell a simple NAS (Time Capsule) for this specific purpose, so how is such a migration supposed to be done? The only/most common advice I found when I google for solutions is to start over, but then you waste quite a bit of space as well as lose readily accessible backup history. Not good.


texts: Default contact group for new contacts in iOS 10

texts:
I use an iOS 10 device together with an Exchange server and several contact folders (some of them shared). When I create a new contact on the phone I have no control in which group it goes and this is really annoying. Back in older versions of iOS, I had the option to set a default group for new contacts (and then manaully sorted them in the correct folder).

Now in iOS 10 my phone is just putting the new contacts in one folder, which in my opinion it has chosen random.

Any idead how the default folder is determined and how i can set a default contact group?


texts: live screencasting solution that supports Power PC Macs

texts:
I have a Power PC and I have been wanting to do a live screencast of a this thing I do, but there doesn't seem to be a single widget out there that would help me out.

It is not just a matter of grabbing the screen, I have Snapz Pro X and it will work, but I want to share it with a bunch of people in real-time. There is no love for the Power PC architecture.

Any ideas?

:(


texts: Is there a way to resize on drag and drop in Aperture?

texts:
My photos are mostly 4000 x 6000 pixels.

I want to email smaller ones.  I use gmail in a browser.

Right now to do this I need to:

Select pictures
Export versions - select a size
Navigate in finder to the pictures
Drag and drop to my open compose window.
Clean up the created pix.

I can drag and drop full size pictures but an 6-8 megs each they make for obese email messages.

Is there a way to resize on drop?

Edit:

One comment asked about using an online drive, and working by reference.
Tried Google drive.  To hard to find a given image, even with a few hundred, as GD doesn't know how to search for keywords in images. I have 25,000 images.  I don't know which ones I will share ahead of time.  I  want to keep one canonical copy of an image.   I need to be able to search by keyword, and browse the results.

Apple Mail:  Does NOT thread the same way that GMail does. Does not label the way Gmail does.  I use Streak, an extension for Gmail, that allows me to 'hide' messages for later processing.  This is not compatible with Apple Mail.

E.g. I could, from Aperture email a set of photos at whatever reduction.  This breaks the thread.  Now, depending on whether the client responds to the Apple Mail message, or the previous gmail message, I will now have two threads from the same customer.  Viewing them sequentially is much more difficult.  Gmail has no tool for merging threads.


texts: Uninstalling Parallels Desktop 14 - Aren't there drivers or kernel extensions too?

texts:
When installing Parallels Desktop For Mac version 14.1.3, I was prompted for a password. I assume that means some kernel extensions or drivers were installed into macOS.

The official Uninstall Parallels Desktop for Mac page says simply to discard the Parallels app.

➥ Does that mean some macOS alteration is left in place?

Also, according to this page there is some other stuff left behind as well.


texts:
I have wondered to my self if I can search on YouTube through Siri (iPhone 6s), when I have tried the "help" with Siri it(she?) showed me how can I use it with Facebook and twitter.
My questions are this:

  How can I use "help" for a specific app (like "help with YouTube ") and get all the commands I need for the specific app.
  Are there any commands in the YouTube app? (like if the YouTube is closed and I want it to be open and search for a specific song)


texts: How well does the Apple Magic Trackpad perform as a mouse replacement?

texts:
I'm planning to replace my mouse entirely with the Apple Magic Trackpad on my desktop Mac. My work involves lots of typing (both code and prose). I also use Aperture quite a bit for processing photos. I don't play games; other than chess (Yes, it's that sad.)

Is the Apple Magic Trackpad capable of totally replacing the mouse?
How does its ergonomics compare to let's say the Apple Magic Mouse? Better or worse for the wrist.
Is it accurate enough for touching up photos with Aperture?
Thanks.


texts: Macbook air keeps disconnecting audio source

texts:
I have a new Macbook Air (2019 version) with macOS Catalina. My issue is that it keeps disconnecting the audio output I'm using. This has been occurring ever since I bought the mac 3 weeks ago, rendering it useless to play music.

If I plug in my headset with minijack, I'll get to play music for about 1-5 minutes, before the Mac goes into some form of epilepsy mode, where I can observe in the audio settings that the audio output (in this case external headset) is removed and added very rapidly, sometimes naming the source "unknown", like every half second for about 2-3 minutes, before resuming to play music.

If I physically take out the mini jack during this epilepsy mode, the Mac will play music from the internal speakers, which is now named "unknown". During this time I'm not able to change the volume, having to quit iTunes/Spotify to make the music stop.

This occurs suddenly and without any obvious triggers. Its been happening 2 times while writing this post. It seems to happens regardless of external monitors, what programs are running, and happens on 2 different headsets with minijack and even with my bluetooth connected Airpods.

Any ideas?


texts: How to use spotlight for system commands such as shutdown?

texts:
I want to type in Spotlight commands such as shutdown, reboot, suspend or lock and make it execute it, just like Alfred does.

How to make this possible with Spotlight?


texts:
I was watching Little Snitch for another process, and noticed df was making requests to various servers. I thought df was only for checking free disk space locally, but it appears to be doing more than just that.

It calls out to a number of servers (current count is 38 different servers) and sends a few bytes each time. Subset of servers include:

talk.google.com
safebrowsing-cache.google.com
jsfiddle.net
cdn2.sbnation.com
urs.microsoft.com.nsatc.net
api.facebook.com

It seems like some kind of tracker, and it certainly doesn't seem like the behavior I'd expect from df. It's located in /bin/df, and run by root.

Any ideas? Normal behavior and I'm just paranoid?

I've tried blocking it with Little Snitch rules, but it seems to ignore them.


texts: Enable guest user and location services with profile manager

texts: Is there a way to enable the guest account and location services with profile manager via built in setting or custom ad on?


texts: How to deactivate the ZTE Connect Manager for Mac?

texts: The Connect Manager for Mac that comes with the ZTE LTE modem model MF821 keeps running even when the modem is not in use, after doing Force Quit in Activity Manager, after kill -9 in Terminal, and across restarts. The program is poorly written, as it periodically causes CPU load spikes, during some of which the computer restarts itself. How can I deactivate Connect Manager?


texts: I've got a lot of bookmarks in Safari on my iMac. How do I get the same bookmarks show up in Safari on my MBA? Both using latest OS X with iCloud. I have checked Bookmarks in the iCloud settings, but no sync is taking place.


texts: I just changed my single user home directory to "/", can I return back?

texts: While deleting another user account on System Preferences, I changed the home directory for the primary user (System Preferences>Users and Groups>Users>Advanced Settings) to "/", because I already have done in the past two partitions of the same disk for two users, to separate applications and documents for both users, then I updated the second user to Catalina, and I moved both users to only one partition. Now after deleting the other user account (older version) while moving the applications back to the other partition applications folder and setting up the home directory to the actual partition (system preferences>user advanced settings) I realized that the apps I been recently moving to the dock didn't show-up (it was routed to the other partition I guess), so Instead of routing the home directory of the user to the actual partition I choosed "/" thinking that the directory routing flow could be actualized by the computer, instead of realizing that in this way the user was left out of both partitions.


texts: Kernel Panic loop on iMac and no startup mode works

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Hello so my iMac (late 2015) has been giving the following on startup:

panic(cpu 0 caller 0xffffff8013b9654e): dessert failed Buildroot/Library/Caches/com.apple.xbs/Sources/CoreStorage/CoreStorage-540.30.1/core/btree/btree_tmpl.h
Debugger called: <panic>
Backtrace (CPU-2), Frame : Return Address
* some bunch of hexadecimal addresses here *
Kernel Extension in backtrace:
HID: legacy shim 2
HID: legacy shim 2
[HID] [ATC] AppleDevicemanagementHIDEvenetService::processWakeReason
Wake Reason
System uptime in nanoseconds: 141914740

What I have tried

Rebooting with CMD+R - Still in the loop
Rebooting with Option+CMD+R - Still in the loop
Rebooting with Option+CMD+R+P - Managed to connect to WiFi then a loading bar for 10 minutes then back in the loop.
Rebooting with Shift+Option+CMD+R - Still in the loop
Rebooting with Option - I only get the Macintosh option. A bootable USB doesn't even show, even though I tried it on another Mac and it works like a charm.
Rebooting with D - Did the diagnostics, got "No issues found" and I was prompted that my Mac would startup in Recovery. Then I get stuck in the loop again.
Rebooting with N - Flashing world icon and that's it.
Rebooting with CMD+F - Thunderbolt icon and that's it
Rebooting with CMD+V - Vaultmode a bunch of scipt terminal lines, then back in the loop.
Rebooting with Shift - Not useful

I could not seem to access my iMac elsewhere. Any suggestions are appreciated. Thanks.


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I'm trying to configure a NetBoot image so that a script will automatically launch on the target machine after it boots from the image

I've been using this article as a reference:

https://medium.com/@fahimhossain_16989/adding-startup-scripts-to-launch-daemon-on-mac-os-x-sierra-10-12-6-7e0318c74de1

my question is: when the following command is run...

# -w flag permanently adds the plist to the Launch Daemon
sudo launchctl load -w /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.startup.plist

...where is the resulting permanent configuration entry stored on the hard drive?

To clarify: I'm not asking for the location of the .plist file, I'm asking how/where does the system remember the .plist files that you've configured to run on startup using the 'sudo launchctl load' command?


texts: How to turn on the volume of ipod touch with a broken volume button?

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My ipod touch's volume button on the side to increase the volume doesn't work, no matter how hard I press it against something. The volume down button works.

The music player's sound is at the max, but the device uses another volume that's very low in volume. I can tell when I plug it into a wall, the beep sound is not very audible.

How can I increase the same volume these buttons work on?


texts: does these battery stats are reasonable for rMBP? (max charge 98% after 25 full cycles)

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I have my rMBP for 14 months, during the first month I barly used it and it was off most of the time. today I'm connecting it to a display (unfortunately the fonts are blurry!) and the lid is closed most of the time. the power charger is connected most of the time (prevents the computer from sleeping). from time to time I'm openening the lid and disconnect the charger to let the battary drain.

Is it normal that my max charge decreased to 98%?

Thank you.


texts: Is there a hook for triggering scripts when a particular notification is displayed?

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I'm trying to set up some system behaviors to occur when particular iCal or GCal events begin and end. Is there a way to hook into the notifications system (e.g., via a LaunchAgent) to make the Mac run a script when a particular notification fires?

Note that I'm not asking about triggering a notification from a script, but rather the other way around.


texts: How to prevent automatic suspending / restore of applications?

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I have a MacBook Pro running macOS Sierra (10.12.6). I have two user accounts, one for work and one for personal use. Both are signed in, with the work account having some Chrome windows, Eclipse and the development environment running, and the personal account having some Chrome windows.

Very often when I switch from one user to another, do a little something, and switch back, all applications have been suspended / killed / something, and are automatically restarted when I log in.  This messes up many apps, workspace locations etc.

Is there any way I can prevent this automatic suspension / whatever from happening?

My laptop has 16GB of RAM, so it should be sufficient for both users.  I haven't seen any significant memory hogs with the activity monitor.


texts: Can't create events on iPhone 6 calendar

texts: The calendar + icon to add an event doesn't seem to be working - it's grey in colour and when I try to tap it, it doesn't do anything.


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Last night I discovered what looks like an unusual file named "~" (tilde) in the root of my "Macintosh HD" directory on my MacBook.

Finder reports the file is 2.2MB in size, of kind "TextEdit.app Document", and was created on 22nd January 2014 (so about a month ago).  I haven't noticed any operational issues with OS X or it's applications.

I haven't yet touched the file but would obviously like to remove it.  I am very conscious that '~' is a special alias to the user home directory and thus I would appreciate any recommendations in removing the file in a safe manner that isn't likely to nuke my home directory or screw up the operation of applications or OS X. I don't know whether to delete or rename and whether to use Finder or the command line.

It's entirely possible that I created the file by accident since I've recently been drafting and running various shell scripts that use the ~, user home alias.

MacBook Pro 15" (Retina, Mid 2012)
Yosemite