texts: Make macbook store apps on one hard drive and data on another

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I just replaced my optical drive in my 2010 macbook pro 15 inch with my old 500GB hard drive that used to be in the HDD bay and placed a new SSD in the HDD bay. Now i have 256  GB of SSD storage which i would like to use for only my operating system and applications.

The rest of the data (music, movies, text files, pdfs, etc) i would like to be stored on my other Hard drive.

I reformatted both hard dives to be Mac OS X Extended (journaled) and am currently installing the SSD with OS X Yosemite.

How do I tell my mac that i want to install apps on the SSD but storing music and other stuff should be done on my HDD (which now is in the optical bay).


texts: \Trace/BPT trap: 5 when using open from terminal

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After upgrading to Maverick, I can't use the open command anymore from the terminal. Whenever I do, I get:

$ open http://google.de
Trace/BPT trap: 5

This is independent on the document chosen.

$ open -a Safari
Trace/BPT trap: 5

I use homebrew as well, if this helps.

My .profile is as follow:

export PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:$PATH
# Finished homebrew

# export PATH=~/bin:xs$PATH

export LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8
export LANG=en_US.UTF-8

and my .bash_profile is

alias emacs="/usr/local/Cellar/emacs/24.3/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/Emacs -nw"

export PATH=/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/opt/X11/bin:/usr/local/git/bin:/usr/texbin:$PATH

## Homebrew
export HOMEBREW_GITHUB_API_TOKEN=6fb92887ac7d8317656501ec1193e05e0f360d01
export PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:$PATH
source `brew --repository`/Library/Contributions/brew_bash_completion.sh

##
# Your previous /Users/rainerkrug/.bash_profile file was backed up as /Users/rainerkrug/.bash_profile.macports-saved_2013-09-06_at_11:34:21
##

# Finally add ~/bin at first location in PATH
export PATH=~/bin:$PATH

# define EDITOR
export EDITOR="emacs -Q"

# define infopath to get correct info manual of org-mode
# export INFOPATH=$HOME/.emacs.d/org-mode/doc:$HOME/.emacs.d/ess/doc:$INFOPATH/

The open command is the correct one:

$ which open
/usr/bin/open

Any suggestions?

Rainer


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I have an iPhone 5 with iOS 6.1.4. No third-party software like apps are installed --- the device is all but fresh from the factory.

The device gets non-responsive sometimes when I get an incoming call (about one call in 20) -- the phone keeps ringing but it's impossible to answer it because the touch screen won't respond. After clicking the lock button (on top of the device) a few times, the call is lost and the device gets back to normal, which makes me think this is an iOS bug and not a hardware problem.

Is there any workaround for this problem?

Edit: After using the phone more, I've noticed that the UI may suffer hiccups in many more situations (for instance when texting somebody a message); the phone freezes and becomes unresponsive for a few seconds. This behavior is obviously most annoying when you can't answer incoming calls.


texts: How do I copy photos from an iMessage chat to the iOS Camera Roll?

texts: When I long press on a photo someone shared with me in an iMessage chat I get three main options: Copy, More..., and Speak. More only presents options to delete all, or select some messages to forward to someone. Speak doesn't seem useful. So can I copy a photo into my camera roll?


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When I run which trap, it outputs shell built-in command.
$ which trap
trap: shell built-in command

According to the manual:

If arg is not present and -p has been supplied, then the trap commands associated with each sigspec are displayed. If no arguments are supplied or if only -p is given, trap prints the list of commands associated with each signal.

But when I run trap -l and trap -p, it outputs nothing.
On Ubuntu, I get all signals.
 1) SIGHUP   2) SIGINT   3) SIGQUIT  4) SIGILL   5) SIGTRAP
 6) SIGABRT  7) SIGBUS   8) SIGFPE   9) SIGKILL 10) SIGUSR1
11) SIGSEGV 12) SIGUSR2 13) SIGPIPE 14) SIGALRM 15) SIGTERM
16) SIGSTKFLT   17) SIGCHLD 18) SIGCONT 19) SIGSTOP 20) SIGTSTP
21) SIGTTIN 22) SIGTTOU 23) SIGURG  24) SIGXCPU 25) SIGXFSZ
26) SIGVTALRM   27) SIGPROF 28) SIGWINCH    29) SIGIO   30) SIGPWR
31) SIGSYS  34) SIGRTMIN    35) SIGRTMIN+1  36) SIGRTMIN+2  37) SIGRTMIN+3
38) SIGRTMIN+4  39) SIGRTMIN+5  40) SIGRTMIN+6  41) SIGRTMIN+7  42) SIGRTMIN+8
43) SIGRTMIN+9  44) SIGRTMIN+10 45) SIGRTMIN+11 46) SIGRTMIN+12 47) SIGRTMIN+13
48) SIGRTMIN+14 49) SIGRTMIN+15 50) SIGRTMAX-14 51) SIGRTMAX-13 52) SIGRTMAX-12
53) SIGRTMAX-11 54) SIGRTMAX-10 55) SIGRTMAX-9  56) SIGRTMAX-8  57) SIGRTMAX-7
58) SIGRTMAX-6  59) SIGRTMAX-5  60) SIGRTMAX-4  61) SIGRTMAX-3  62) SIGRTMAX-2
63) SIGRTMAX-1  64) SIGRTMAX

How can I output macOS trap signals?


texts: How can I make the new Podcasts app update iTunes played status?

texts:
I currently have iTunes set to sync all unplayed episodes of all podcasts to my iPhone.  (I'm a bit behind - there are nearly 70 of them.)  Today I downloaded Apple's new Podcasts app, and was pleased to find that it "picked up" the podcasts that were already on the iPhone.  I have listened to a few podcasts today, and just now synced to my Mac (twice).  I was disappointed to find that the podcasts I had listened to were not marked as played, either in iTunes on the Mac, or in the stock Music app, and therefore not removed from the phone.

I can't seem to find any settings for the Podcasts app - either in the app or in the Settings app - that might affect this behaviour.  Is there anything I can do to make the Podcasts app update the played status in the Music app or in iTunes without manually marking them as played or scrubbing through them?


texts: Fixed width font with better substitution for Greek/Hebrew/Chinese

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Some of my filenames are in Hebrew, Greek, or Chinese.  In Terminal, the font substitution for Hebrew in every fixed-width font I tried was unsatisfactory.  Either the Hebrew characters were smaller and fainter, or the horizontal spacing was extremely bad.  Changing the font size in Terminal apparently has no effect—changing font face or style instantly affects the shell window, but changing the size from 12 to 18 did nothing.
Is there a font I can install that will result in a better substitution with Menlo or some other MacOS fixed-width font? . I prefer sans-serif, but readability (which demands fixed-width) is more important.  And hopefully fixing the Hebrew won't screwup the Greek and Chinese!


texts: Working with attachments **to** a PDF file in Preview

texts: I've got a PDF that has something else (actually, another PDF) as an attachment. Like most Mac users I use Preview by default to view PDFs, and Preview gives no indication that I can find that there is an attachment, nor can I figure out how to access the attachment now that I know it's there. I was pretty confused until I tried Adobe Reader which immediately makes it clear that there is an attachment. Am I missing something here or is Preview essentially ignoring attachments?


texts: Is there a way to use Skype on iPad with audio chat only?

texts: I'm having first version of iPad and a USB headphone. is it possible to use skype on iPad? I'm on Wi-Fi.


texts: Are there any consumer style websites that offer WebDav support?

texts:
iWork for iPad now has WebDav export/import options, DropBox doesn't support WebDav.

Where can I find a service that has WebDav support? Besides setting up my own server, is there any consumer (and ideally free) site that does this?


texts: How can I use the system information to locate 48 GB of photos?

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I’m new to this Mac and have a month of experience. I think I have deleted every single photo on my laptop, and emptied recently deleted, and I'm getting this from the storage part of About This Mac...

I'm a youtube and really need to import footage & can't as I have no storage...


texts: macbook pro to external monitor 1920px via hdmi?

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I just got macbook pro 13inch retina and the default resolution is 1280px width, and maximum is 1600px.

If I connect this laptop to an external monitor via HDMI which has 1920px resolution, will the resolution really be 1920, since laptop's max is 1600?


texts: What does "when iMessage is unavailable" mean?

texts:
In the settings for the iOS 5 Messages app there is an option to send messages as SMS "when iMessage is unavailable". Under what conditions is this the case? Is it merely the obvious (no data connection available or the iMessage server is down, or the message sits undelivered for a time), or is it more subtle (for example, the service simply not having had time to confirm that the recipient has iMessage enabled, or that the recipient's device cannot be contacted at the time of sending)?

Phrased another way: what are the conditions under which an (intended) iMessage wold go undelivered, and are there other events that would cause a message to be delivered as an SMS?


texts: How can I delete an iOS app and preserve its data?

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I have a 16 GB iPhone and there are a few sizable (~1 GB) games that I have not played lately, but I would like to preserve my progress in case I play them again at some future time.

These games do not store progress in iCloud or some other network service; they appear to save only to the device.  If I delete them from the device, either from the springboard or with iTunes, their data is lost; it does not appear to be preserved in the iTunes backup.

What can I do to preserve data but free space on my device?


texts: iPhone 3G GPS is unreliable; seems to use assisted-gps only

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A few months ago the GPS in my 3G has become really unreliable.  The blue circle in google maps looks to be about 2 miles in diameter, and never shrinks to a pinpoint.  Apps like RunKeeper can never get a strong enough GPS signal.  This may have coincided with the iPhone not picking up wifi unless almost on top of the access point, but that could have been a coincidence.

Things I've tried that haven't worked:

Trying to lock on to a satillite when outside with clear skys for >30 minutes
General Settings -> Network -> Cellular Data -> Reset Settings
Restoring the iPhone from a back-up
Giving the phone a prelonged stern look

Any ideas greatly appreciated.


texts: AppleScript - Get the path to an application without opening it

texts: I need to store the path to Chromium to use later in the script, however running set chromium to (POSIX path of (path to application "Chromium")) in AppleScript Editor opens the application. How can I store the path to the application without causing the application to open. Hard coding the path worked, but I wanted to be able to find the application path instead.


texts: How to copy to folder: /System/Library/Filters?

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I am trying to create a new "reduced file size" export filter within preview.

Therefore I copied the original file to desktop, made my changes and then I tried to copy back to the folder. This seems not to be permitted. Even with admin account and with sudo on terminal as well.

sudo cp Reduce\ File\ Size.114dpi.qfilter /System/Library/Filters
cp: /System/Library/Filters/Reduce File Size.114dpi.qfilter: Operation not permitted

How can I move this file to the folder?


texts: Why is Apple using an older version of OpenSSL?

texts:
With the newest OS X Update (10.10.5), Apple is introducing OpenSSL 0.9.8. I browsed through the official OpenSSL page, and there I could get Version 1.0.2.

My question is: Why is Apple using an older Version of OpenSSL? Is it because of deprecated functions in Version 1.0 or what is the reason behind it?

Source: Apple Security pages


texts: Microsoft Onenote iPhone app is not syncing

texts: Any tip for troubleshooting? I've already tried closing and reopening my notebook.


texts: Repair Disk Permissions in Terminal seems to hang

texts:
OK, I tried following (OS X Yosemite) the instructions here

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT203538

And I went into Terminal and typed in the following

diskutil resetUserPermissions / id -u

But now it's been showing a line of little rotating slash marks for a good couple of hours. I wondered if it's just one of those processes that takes a ton of time like when you do some kinds of file repair or whatever.

I also wondered what would happen if I interrupt this and try restarting. I have a TM backup so worst case I can restore from there and try again.

The Mac BTW is a 2010 Macbook Air. So it's about at the limit of what can run Yosemite at all.


texts: How can I set the Mac OS X terminal history to act like linux when using up/down arrows?

texts: I'd like for the mac os terminal app to scroll through my command history the same way that it work in linux, if possible. Currently, if I push the up arrow in the terminal, it will scroll through each and every one of my recent commands even if the last 50 were the same exact command. On most linux systems I've used, this behavior will scroll backwards through command history, but most importanlty it will skip duplicate commands. Is this behavior possible in Mac OS X terminal app, or do I need to use a different terminal app? Thanks.


texts: Is their any way to control or limit mac applications from creating files and directories that aren't necessary or are malicious?

texts:
Does anybody know if it is possible to stop certain applications from creating files on your computer but still run them? Maybe something similar to pythons venv but for .App files instead. I'm a little ocd with developers leaving behind unused files on my Mac even if they are harmless.

Stuff like this is why I want an option to do this.
https://www.macobserver.com/tmo/article/how-manage-the-secret-software-that-google-chrome-installs-on-your-mac

I know you can view where files are going to be installed if the program uses a .pkg or installer application, but this doesn't really help if you want to use the program. A good answer for this would be to set up a virtual directory where these programs think they are installing to the system files and if the user isn't happy with the program they can easily nuke the virtual environment and start over fresh.

Does anybody know of anything like this?

Thanks so much


texts: How to automatically mount network share when iPhone backup screen is opened in Finder?

texts:
I would like to trigger a script that mounts a drive when I open the iPhone's device page in Finder (like shown here).

Currently, I have the iPhone backups in an APFS volume, which is inside a SparseBundle, which is on a SMB share on my NAS.
Before running an iPhone backup, I mount the drive by manually running a shell script.
Since I work on a MacBook the LAN with my NAS is not always available, hence the detour with mounting manually. But triggering the mount process automatically when entering the page in finder seems a good idea.

Is there any event fired to attach such a script to?
Or maybe there is any other sensible method to mount the drive automatically?


texts:
This is a bit of an unusual question but I have a Mac server that gets hit with a lot of DDoS attacks. Usually my data center's mitigation system catches them but sometimes they slip through. When they do, they often can completely kill my system's TCP/IP. Even accessing localhost does not work. TCP/IP is completely dead. But the system is not frozen. It still runs perfectly fine otherwise. I know this because once I reboot the system, I can see all of the log entries from my scripts from the entire time it was offline. I have screen shots of the desktop from when it was offline.
Rebooting the server in this state returns it to normal. But I'm hoping there's some way I can restart just the TCPIP stack without rebooting the whole OS? That would at least let me regain access to the machine in a way that, while clumsy, would be significantly less so than hard remote reboots via IPMI.
This is all just a band-aide while we work out ways to shore up the DDoS mitigation. But it would be a good band-aide. Also useful, and along similar lines, would be a way to hard flush ALL TCP connections, established, half open, everything including all state information.


texts: Install Mac OS X via network across different subnets

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We have more than 70 subnets and lots of switches. I want to install Mac OS X to client computers. By the way the computer may have an operating system installed or not. I want to put an Apple Server in one place and all clients install Mac OS X from there. In the local network everything is fine but in a different subnet net install does not work. I searched some techniques but I think they are not for us.
For example my Mac OS server's IP is 10.10.4.40  and the destination computer's IP is 10.10.12.23

Also our switches' configs are fine for netboot/netinstall (portfast and etc.)
But our technicians says "Computer cannot see the OS X Server".

I also read bootpd, Apple shell script solution vs. but the main problem is destination computer may not have operating system.

Please give me easy way to do it.


texts: Is there an app for iPhone to record the audio output streaming of any other app ?

texts:
Is there an app for iPhone/iPad to record the audio output streaming of any other app ?

I need to record the audio streamed from other apps and not the audio from the microphone.

thanks


texts: OS X: When a notification is closed in one computer why it is still present in another computer?

texts:
Got two computers with the same OS X version, with the same account name and Apple ID, I will call these two equipments A and B.

When a notification pops-out from Calendar app in A the same goes for B, when closed the notification in A, B still shows the notification. The same is true if closed first in B then A keeps showing the notification.

This means that while using A and closing these notifications if you go back to B the same notifications need to be closed again.

Is there a way to make OS X aware that some notifications in B were already viewed and closed in A (sync)?


texts: How should I encode my music for preserving the sound quality and be able to play it on iTunes and iOS?

texts:
I have several CDs and other FLAC collections (classical music but not only). I want to add them to my iTunes library but I am looking for some recommendations regarding how I should encode them in order to keep the best sound quality and without running out of disk space.

I found Max conversion tool for converting them but there are too many formats and configurations to choose from.

Also I do want to use a format that is able to use keep tags, like MP3.

The winning response should contain a numbered list of formats compatible with iTunes and iOS, ordered descending by the sound quality:

Apple Looseless
format X, (extension), bitrate, vbr
format Y, (extension), bitrate, ...
...

Please specify the format name clearly, preferably including the codec, like "MPEG-4 AAC", "Apple Looseless", "MPEG-4 HE-ACC", "LAME MP3", "AAC ADTS", "MPEG-4 Audio versus Apple MPEG-4 Audio",


texts:
I'm quite new to Numbers (and spreadsheets programs in general) but I need to create a simple line graph based of a spreadsheet but for some reason Numbers is not making the lines of the graph even though the data is there.

What I'm doing wrong?


texts: I have a DVD I was trying to rip, and handbrake froze up when scanning it.  I tried to eject the DVD by dragging and dropping it to the trash, which trashed the icon, but didn't eject the DVD.  I then forced Handbrake to quit, but without an icon on my desktop to select, how can I eject the DVD?


texts: when it say "Built-in battery", then does it mean that "battery is not user-replacable"?

texts:
Read this line in iPhone 2G specification http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPhone_2G

Built-in rechargeable Li-ion battery 3.7 V 1400 mAh

So, "Built-in battery" means "battery is not user-replacable"?

Is that true?

Or, "built-in" means "hard-welded" (ie fixed forever)
& "not user-replacable" means "user can replace if using special tool but Apple does not encourage user to do that"


texts: How to merge back the encrypted folder back to main drive

texts:
Have one encrypted folder and have erased the content of it. But not getting any option to merge the space back to the main partition.

 This comes after we enter the password or rather mount the encrypted drive.

As we can see that the Disk Image is of 10GB. I want this space to merge with other drive: Macintosh.


texts: Startup Sign in screen MacBook Pro - Strange option box says Home - Switch with options of Keyboard, Pointer, or Location. What is this?

texts: When I restart my MacBook I get the sign in screen or the Startup Sign in screen and lately a small window I guess it would be Called is sitting on top with its own x to close out but it is a  Strange option box that has a black back ground with white writing and it says Home - Switch  with 3 options under that have a icon and one says Keyboard, middle one says Pointer, and last one says  Location. What is this?


texts: Angle Bracket Characters in Apple TV2 On Screen Keyboard

texts: I've speen a while trying to figure this out to no avail.  On 4.3.1 Apple TV2's Onscreen Keyboard, I can't find some characters, in particular angle brackets (< and >).  I know some characters can be accessed by holding select over the 'master' character, but none of them seem to have < and > in 4.3.  They were present in 4.2 firmware version keyboard, which was of a different design.  Thanks in advance!


texts: Where can I get a signed iOS 8.2 .ipsw file for iPhone 4S?

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Until about a week ago, Apple offered a signed version of iOS 8.2. Now the file is not signed anymore. Is there any place where I can still download the signed version of the file? Does anyone still have a copy?

Background: I'm writing an iOS app that I'd like to test on my iPhone, but my version of Xcode can't handle iOS 8.3. As far as I can tell, there are only two ways of making Xcode compatible with my phone: either upgrade OS X to Yosemite or downgrade iOS to 8.2. I'd rather downgrade the phone, I only use it for testing anyway.

Links:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xcode#Version_comparison_table
https://ipsw.me/iPhone4,1

(Or did I misunderstand the signing process? Maybe the file hasn't changed, and the signing somehow happens during installation?)

UPDATE: Yes, I did misunderstand the signing process - during installation, an Apple server has to approve the file for the phone. :-(

But I found another way to make Xcode on Mavericks talk to my iOS 8.3 phone: I downloaded Xcode 6.3 from developer.apple.com, installed it to /Applications/Xcode-6.3.app, and copied /Applications/Xcode-6.3.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/iPhoneOS.platform to /Applications/Xcode-6.2.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/iPhoneOS.platform. Started Xcode 6.2, and could run and debug apps on my phone from Xcode. Also works for Xcode 5.0. More details: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/29556950/iphone-running-ios-8-3-shows-up-as-ineligible-in-xcode-6-2-any-solution/29727982#29727982


texts: I Signed on Mac Store For First Time And Downloaded App.Pop-up came which says welcome to app store and it has new apple privacy icon with two man shaking hands and i clicked continue is that normal process or some adware ?


texts: Applescript alias is not updating after renaming a folder

texts:
I am still learning Applescript, but I am trying to script some automation for me.

I am trying to get it to create a folder based on user input and then create a sub-folder with contents duplicated from another template folder.

The newly created folders and a file will be renamed based on user input.

Then finally get it to open the newly created file.

However, I am having a problem with it not updating the alias so when I try to open the file it is pointing to the path before the name change.

set {text returned:artistName} to display dialog "Name of Band/Artist?" default answer "" buttons {"Cancel", "Continue"} default button "Continue"
set {text returned:songName} to display dialog "Name of Song?" default answer "" buttons {"Cancel", "Continue"} default button "Continue"

-- This is the session template folder that will be duplicated
set newSession to "Macintosh HD:Users:Chris:Documents:Pro Tools:Automation Templates:New Session_48k"

set clientFolder to alias "Macintosh HD:Users:Chris:Desktop" -- For Testing

tell application "Finder"

    -- Create a main folder to store song session folders
    set artistFolder to make new folder at clientFolder with properties {name:artistName}
    -- Duplicate template into new folder
    set songFolder to duplicate newSession to artistFolder as alias

    -- This gets the session file (Is there a better way to do this)
    set sessionFile to every file of songFolder whose name extension is "ptx"
    set PT_file to item 1 of sessionFile as alias

    -- Change the name of the session folder and Pro Tools file
    set name of PT_file to artistName & "_" & songName & "_0.0"
    set name of songFolder to artistName & " - " & songName

    open file PT_file using "Pro Tools"

return PT_file

end tell

This is what is returned

Result:
alias "/Users/Chris/Desktop/Artist/New Session_48k/New Session_48k.ptx"

How do I get it to point to the actual file location?

Actual Location: /Users/Chris/Desktop/Artist/Artist - Song/Artist_Song_0.0.ptx"

It seems like I am having a very similar problem to the question posted here: https://macscripter.net/viewtopic.php?id=47244

However, I don't understand how to apply the solution to my script.


texts: MiniDisplayPort to HDMI adapter not working

texts:
OK, so I bought an MiniDisplayPort to HDMI adapter off dx.com and it doesn't work, before I angrily demand a refund I want to know whether there is anything I can do to get this to work.

I have a 2013 13inch MacBook Air

I have heard that I probably should have either got an official apple (sponsored) one (for 40 dollars) or instead of Mini DisplayPort to HDMI get a Mini DisplayPort to DVI and then a DVI to HDMI adapter.


texts: How do I switch between corresponding .h or .c/.m files in Xcode 4?

texts: In Xcode 3 I could click a button in the top-right corner of the code editor to switch between header and implementation (.c or .m) files. Now in Xcode 4 there is no button like this around the editor. This would be even more useful now than it was with Xcode 3, because I'd like to click a class in the Symbol view to pull up the relevant .h file, then click a button or keyboard shortcut and get to the .m file.


texts: So I am using TeamViewer to remote control a Windows PC from a mac. I can use the control key on the mac to active the Ctrl key on windows but it feels clunky. What I was wondering is it possible to remap the command key to the Ctrl key only when using TeamViewer?


texts: How to omit file extension from zsh autocomplete?

texts:
I'm new to zsh in Catalina. In .zshrc, I currently have

setopt CORRECT
setopt CORRECT_ALL

When I run a java program from the command line, I want only:

% java ProgramName

If I type java Pro autocomplete adds the rest of the name but also appends .class. (Or, if I have the source file in the same directory, it appends the . after the name) and I then have to delete .class (or hit the backspace once) before I can run the program.

Is there a way to get zsh autocomplete to omit .class (and .) but only when the initial command is java?

I'd prefer not to install something like Oh My Zsh which might alter my other zsh settings.


texts: Photo app is unable to handle a photo and shows '1 item' in a summary. How to identify and remove it?

texts:
In the iCloude Manage storage dialog, I can see

However in the photo app, it shows

Obviously a photo is misclassified as an item. Maybe it is corrupted.

How can I identify this 'Item'?


texts: Preinstalled audio, photo and video data size

texts: Have recently purchased new MacBook Pro 13″ 2015 (128 GB) and noticed that "About my Mac" displays 1.31 Gb Audio, 750 Mb photo and 410 Mb Films. Does it mean that someone else stored this data on the notebook or it's preinstalled data by the manufacturer?


texts: How to remap "right option" key to "control + option + command + shift" in Karabiner?

texts:
This is my first experience with the mac app Karabiner.
I was wondering how to map following key:
right_command = shift + alt + ctrl + cmd?

NOTE:

There is one macro already available for caps-lock to bind it to shift+alt+cmd+ctrl.

But, I would like to get the combination for right command, since cap-lock is useful when I have to type acronyms like NVM, AKS, ASAP and so on.


texts: Magic Mouse: replace single finger swiping/scrolling with two finger swiping/scrolling

texts:
I sometimes accidentally trigger the horizontal swipe/scroll gesture on my magic mouse. Especially in X11/Inkscape, if I work zoomed in on a big canvas, this often moves my canvas several screens to the right or left and I have to carefully swipe/scroll back to my original view.

I would like to make the swiping more explicit by allowing only two finger swipes, which should then just work as vertical/horizontal scroll gestures, as if I had triggered them on a normal mouse (with 2 scroll wheels).

Preferences > Mouse > More Gestures > Swipe Between Pages (two fingers) does not help. I also already tried to map (globally) single finger swipes and scroll actions in Better Touch Tool (BTT) to No Action. But they still work in all apps.

What else can I try, i.e., what other tools can I use or what other system settings can I change (via Terminal) to make it work?

System specs: Macbook Pro Retina, Magic Mouse, OS X 10.9.5 (Mavericks), BTT 0.9985

Update: Please note that:

I had been using BetterTouchTool version 0.9985 (as stated above)
I also tried MagicPrefs (some older version)

If someone provides a detailed, convincing solution that solves the above problem, I will try to reclaim my now abandoned Magic Mouse, validate the solution, and gladly accept the answer.


texts: How to make ffmpeg use correct libfreetype version?

texts:
I have a PHP application that uses ffmpeg with libfreetype.  I installed both ffmpeg and libfreetype from macports.  But I keep getting this error:

2013-08-30 14:44:21 - Generate poster - Create thumbnail using ffmpeg.
2013-08-30 14:44:21 - Generate poster - FFMpeg lib found.
dyld: Library not loaded: /opt/local/lib/libfreetype.6.dylib
  Referenced from: /opt/local/bin/ffmpeg
  Reason: Incompatible library version: ffmpeg requires version 17.0.0 or later, but libfreetype.6.dylib provides version 15.0.0

otool -L /opt/local/lib/libfreetype.6.dylib shows

/opt/local/lib/libfreetype.6.dylib (compatibility version 17.0.0, current version 17.2.0)

But I also noticed another version on the system.  otool -L /usr/X11/lib/libfreetype.6.dylib shows

/usr/X11/lib/libfreetype.6.dylib (compatibility version 15.0.0, current version 15.1.0)

So I suspect maybe ffmpeg is trying to use that library.  But I'm not sure.  Any ideas how to fix this?


texts: Is there a way to tell a Macbook to bump up the clock speed of the processor?

texts:
I have a Macbook 12 inch that has a processor (CPU) running at 1.2GHz but with Turbo Boost up to 2.6GHz.

It is feeling a little slow sometimes, probably because it is running at 1.2GHz and not doing any Turbo Boost.

Is there a way to tell the processor to run at 1.8 or 2.0GHz regularly?


texts: Switch windows in Mission control with the keyboard

texts:
Possible Duplicate:
  How to choose a application without using the mouse in Lion Mission Control?

Is there any way so switch between windows in Mission Control without using the mouse?

In exposé you were able to switch windows with the arrow keys, but in Mission Control is not possible, even disabling the "Group windows" setting.


texts: iPhone and iCloud storage not fill but isn't allowing me to take a picture

texts:
i have an ihphone X with 64GB of storage and 200GB of icloud storage. as you can see bellow both of them have still available space.

Unfortunatelytely the "iPhone storage full, can't take a picture" notification still pops up. i tried workig something out via mac but nothing changed, also my iCloud storage says it's at 1% deespite the fact it has 114GB left... Can someone help?


texts: Not able to install Netbeans IDE (PHP bundle) on OS X El Capitan

texts:
I am trying to install Netbeans IDE (PHP bundle) on OS X El Capitan.

I am getting following error

  NetBeans IDE cannot be installed. This software can be installed with
  Java 7 update 10 or newer. Please download and install the latest
  update of Java 7 from
  http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/index.html and
  restart NetBeans installation.

Following is error screenshot

PHP and some other bundles (HTML, C/C++) don't need separate java as they include JRE as mentioned on Netbeans downloads page - https://netbeans.org/downloads/

  HTML/JS, PHP and C/C++ NetBeans bundles include Java Runtime
  Environment and do not require a separate Java installation.

am I missing out something here?


texts: Adjusting velocity range of note input on GarageBand iOS with MIDI controller

texts:
I am trying to get the best possible results in the realm of note velocity with my keyboard MIDI controller in GarageBand. The keyboard itself is touch sensitive, but the velocity sensitivity is very basic and uneven.

I'm using a Samson Carbon 61 keyboard controller with GarageBand iOS, specifically on an iPad Mini.
The keyboard's "velocity curve" can be controlled via the hardware, but all the built-in options except for full velocity (touch sensitivity off) seem to be too quiet to be usable. You can get loud notes, but it requires you to really attack the keyboard.

Now, there is a "velocity slider" on the GarageBand interface that allows you to control the range of note velocity, ensuring that the note input won't be too loud or too quiet. But sadly, this seems to only affect the on-screen touchscreen keyboard on the iPad.

Is there a way to get GarageBand to control the velocity range of note input from the MIDI controller?

If not, is there another way to get the iPad to even out the uneven touch sensitivity from the controller without turning touch sensitivity off?


texts: How can I remove a folder from the itunes library

texts:
I added a folder (a network share) to the iTunes media library (File -> Add Folder to library).
I didn't find a way I can undo this operation.
What am I missing? how can I remove this folder from the iTunes library?

I am using iTunes 10.2 in Windows 7 32bit.
Edit: I configured iTunes not to copy media files locally.


texts: MacBook Air with Bootcamp, wanting removable Linux devices without rEFInd

texts:
Most of the questions here similar to my question regard triple booting and using rEFInd, which I'm not trying to do.
My Mac drive is only 128GB, and I've cut into that with Bootcamp, so I'm looking to boot Linux distros via microSD. So far, I've only gotten a Chrome OS on a microSD workable from the Mac's boot menu, but I'm failing to get Ubuntu.
This mentions something similar: Linux on Macbook, dual-boot, without rEFind, but it's for Dual boot. I did try taking their advice of copying the ../ubuntu/grubx64.efi to ../boot/bootx64.efi, but the results were goofy. With the microSD inserted, the boot menu still only displayed MacBook and Windows, and when selecting Windows, I got the MokManager error, but it still booted into Ubuntu anyway after leaving it for about 30 seconds. When removing the microSD and booting to that volume, Windows boots to the Grub bash screen. The only way I've found to fix this is to replace bootx64.efi with the Windows version. Basically the same problem you run into after installing Linux to an external drive when Bootcamp is already using that EFI folder.
When I installed Ubuntu to the microSD (/dev/sdc), I also installed the grub bootloader to the sdc volume which I was installing Ubuntu on, so that the bootloader did not damage my Mac OS or Windows boot processes.
I have tried deleting the Secure Boot option (shimx64.efi) to deal with this, but that causes Ubuntu to fail to boot anymore from microSD. So does replacing the Windows/bootmgfw.efi -> boot/bootx64.efi, although that lets me boot Windows again.
Of course, I'm trying to get it so that a separate menu item that says "Ubuntu" (and all future distros) when inserted, as I'd like to make use of other microSDs and USBs for the same purpose.
How should I go about altering the EFI folder and items, without causing Bootcamp to fail? (I've already mucked up that boot several times when testing different options, so I keep restoring from a backup folder.)
Is there a file in the EFI folder I need to edit to add volumes to be added to the boot menu?


texts: Relentless message "macOS Updates Installed" ever since last OS update

texts:
Since my last OS update after every restart the following message pops up:

  macOS Updates Installed.
  Your computer restarted to install these updates.

How can I get rid of it?


texts:
What is the simplest a way to have the desktop wallpaper cycle through images that are in subfolders?
This is not possible using the normal way of setting a wallpaper in

System Preferences --> Desktop & Screen Saver

The format of the images:

>Wallpapers
-> Folder one
--> one 1.jpg
--> one 2.jpg

-> Folder two
--> two 1.jpg
--> two 2.jpg


texts: If I use Apple Tv as a separate display on Mavericks will it transfer sound

texts: I want to get an apple tv, so I can wirelessly use my tv as a separate monitor, now with mavericks I know this is supported. I was wondering if this means I can also transfer any sounds from my computer to my tv, otherwise it's sorta not worth getting.


texts:
I have a 13-inch Macbook Pro from late 2011 and recently upgraded it to macOS Mojave using this patcher tool: http://dosdude1.com/mojave/. It has some preinstalled kext files that make the Mac work properly, but not everything works perfectly.
One of the main problems is that the built-in speakers are not being discovered by the computer. I tried plugging in headphones, but that didn't work either. I did a bit of research and found a kext file that might do the job, but I would need to find what audio chip the Mac uses.
If anyone knows what chipset the 2011 Macbook Pro has, or know another way to fix this issue, please let me know! Thanks!


texts: Is Night Mode in iOS really sight-friendly?

texts:
I am pretty used right know to reading things on dark backgrounds and I feel that my eyes get less tired than with regular white backgrounds, especially while programming or basically any activity that involves hours looking at the screen.

My question is, on iPad and iPhone, how does Night Mode really work?
I mean, does it iluminate the black pixels on the screen, or does the OS keep them off so that your eyes receive the less amount of light possible?

It could seem to be a little silly, but for me is very important as I use this device for reading a considerable amount of time.


texts: Need to solve “Can’t be opened because it is from an unidentified developer" by any other way than changes the Security and Privacy settings

texts:
We have created one .app application which will place some files under the user location “/Users//Library/” on executing that.
Basically, that app is a shell script app in which .app file is created by using the platypus tool on Mac.

While double clicking the created .app file we are getting the popup below.

We know that this error can sort out by change the Security & Private setting under System Preferences. But, as we are going to share this .app to our customers, we don’t want our customer to do that settings change.
Is there any way to avoid this popup? I mean by code level or by doing any kind of code sign?

We have tried to sign the code with self signed certificate, apple developement certificate and Mac developement certificate but facing that issue still.


texts: Severe Bluetooth Connectivity Issues - OS X Yosemite+El Capitan

texts:
Ever since Yosemite, Bluetooth connectivity on my very modern MBP w/Retina has been absolute garbage. My workspace includes the Apple wireless keyboard + Magic Trackpad, and I usually am also using Bluetooth headphones (specifically these August EP650's which have been fantastic when paired with other devices/Macs).

The problems begin with pairing these devices to the Mac, which usually is around a half hour process of the Mac not finding the devices/refusing to connect. Once connected, it is only a matter of minutes before the devices start to lag out. In the case of the Trackpad, I am referring to the fact that it will be jumpy when trying to scroll, and won't register clicks/taps. The audio on the headphones is even worse, making music or podcasts virtually unlistenable with the constant skips and lag. The keyboard tends to be the most stable of the bunch, but occasionally I will type out a sentence and not see it display on the screen, only to then see the entire thing spell out rapidly a second or two later.

I have filed an issue with Apple and they have been absolutely useless in resolving this. I send them Bluetooth Diagnostic Reports on about a weekly basis, but they have not responded in over 4 months. This is extremely frustrating as this never used to be an issue before Yosemite+El Capitan. I have wasted numerous hours trying to debug it, such as the following:

Holding SHIFT+ALT and clicking the Bluetooth icon in the top bar, which reveals the debug menu, and then selecting DEBUG>Reset The Bluetooth Module. This usually results in about a 5 minute 'grace period' before the issues arise again
From the same debug menu, I've tried "Factory Resetting All Apple Devices" which is also useless (and also a pain because I then have to re-pair which takes forever).
Disabling the Handoff feature (the one useful feature added in Yosemite). This was recommended around 4 months ago when Apple was responding to my bug report.
Resetting the SMC & PRAM - at first I thought this worked but alas no dice.
I've tried some other tips that involve setting some BluetoothAudioAgent properties via the terminal and they have (so far) not solved the issue.

I thought that El Capitan would resolve this but I was wrong. It in fact got noticeably worse. It is a work machine and the LAN/equipment technician guy here can't figure it out, and because it's not my machine I'm not able to just take it in to Apple (plus I'm not going to pay to repair a machine that isn't mine). On top of that, I don't think this is a repairable hardware issue, because the Bluetooth was working so smoothly before Yosemite.

Any suggestions you might have are greatly appreciated, I am at my wits end.


texts: Twitter notifications on ios appears just for selected users. I want the same in Yosemite

texts:
In iOs you can setup notifications in order to receive them only from users you activate them for.

Is it possible to achieve the same in Yosemite notification center?

Thanks


texts:
On a work iMac 27" Intel i5 that wouldn't boot when I got it. Did a restore to Yosemite. Tried to install El-Capitan, which didn't go well at first (I would download it and then get a message telling me it was corrupt when I tried to install). This morning, I re-downloaded and the install kicked off (progress!). However, it stalled and now shows the grey apple and a progress bar (about 95% completed). It's been like that for hours.

I tried to re-start but it goes right back to this screen. I ran disk utility, but nothing came up.

I'm not a mac user, so I'm not sure what steps to try next. Do I need to do another restore to Yosemite?


texts: Can I use Air Display on multiple iOS devices at the same time?

texts: I use Air Display to convert my iPad in to an extra monitor when I'm not using it.  However, I have other iOS devices lying around, too.  Is it possible to use Air Display to turn multiple iOS devices in to extra monitors at the same time?


texts: Insert MathType Equation is disabled in Numbers

texts:
I am running Numbers 3.1. When I try to select the Insert > MathType Equation... option, it is disabled.

There doesn't seem to be anything in the help related to this feature.

How can I use this menu option?


texts: Weird folder names in ~/Library/Preferences

texts:
These empty folders are in my Library > Preferences.  Have I been infected with malware?

I am running OS X 10.10, Yosemite, with the latest update on a Mac Mini.


texts: My Apple devices always seem to slow down over the years

texts: It seems like every time I buy an Apple product the speed of it always slows down. I bought an iPod a year or two ago and the speed at which it launches apps and runs the apps have slowed down. Is there any way to fix this? Like buy an iPhone and it will never slow down?


texts: Why is iPad Pro suddenly displaying some apps wider than actual screen?

texts:
Recently (perhaps with iOS 13.6) my iPad Pro has begun trying to display some pages slightly wider than the iPad screen. For example, one app has controls that used to appear at the left and right edges of the screen, and now they’re beyond the edges (see above image). It’s as if something thinks the iPad screen is slightly wider than it really is. I'm not able to slide the display to access the controls.
I've also seen some Safari pages with the same problem, which is why I suspect the OS rather than the apps.
I've restarted the iPad, and I've turned off all Accessibility zoom functionality, with no effect.
It doesn't happen with all apps, nor does it happen with every window of a problematic app. I haven't figured out what the common thread is.
Does anyone know of a fix for this?


texts: Can't Control Volume on Lockscreen with Volume Buttons on iPhone

texts: I upgraded to iOS 5 and I just noticed that I can no longer control the volume level on the phone by pressing the volume buttons while the screen is locked. I recall distinctly that I was able to do this on iOS 4. Has something changed or did I miss something?


texts: Add a custom dictionary to manageable dictionaries?

texts:
Is it possible to add a custom dictionary to use for the "Define" feature on iOS?

For example, I want to add a dictionary of unix/linux commands so that in situations like this a definition is provided:


texts:
I'm using iTunes 10.6.3 64-bit on a 13-inch Mid 2010 MBP running Mountain Lion OSX 10.8.1

When I pause a movie in full-screen mode in iTunes, the resume/play button remains greyed out.  The only fix is to exit full screen mode then resume from a regular window, and then switch back to fullscreen.

How can I resume playback when watching fullscreen content?


texts: I have an old Mac Mini 2011. It used to work perfectly fine. However, when I turned it off for a couple of hours, it stopped to boot. Only fans are working hard when I switch it on. Screen is black, does not reach the Apple logo, also, a keyboard does not respond - caps button is always off.


texts: How to Delete Drive That is Missing From a RAID

texts:
I had a RAID drive fail. I replaced the bad drive with a new one and, after some work, got it up and running. I want to delete the bad drive from the config. This is the latest listing:

AppleRAID sets (1 found)
===============================================================================
Name:                 Data
Unique ID:            A14C84DA-C663-4FFB-95BB-8D102912A2E5
Type:                 Mirror
Status:               Degraded
Size:                 2.0 TB (2000054910976 Bytes)
Rebuild:              manual
Device Node:          disk5
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
DevNode   UUID                                  Status     Size
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
#  -none-    1BAC60DD-CA77-444D-B4C4-BDAB73248240  Missing/Damaged
1  disk4s2   9BB10E86-07CF-4F6A-8886-FCC3607E4729  Online     2000054910976
2  disk2s2   FC76DA2A-4FDD-4795-A3B6-D35770476FCF  Online     2000054910976
===============================================================================

I just noticed when pasting this, the status is still degraded. When I tried to remove it I got this error:

@ Yamadoshi (curt)| => sudo diskutil appleraid remove 1BAC60DD-CA77-444D-B4C4-BDAB73248240
Password:
Usage:  diskutil appleRAID remove MemberDeviceName|MemberUUID
    RAIDSetVolumePath|RAIDSetDeviceName|RAIDSetUUID
Remove a member or spare from an existing RAID set.
Ownership of the affected disks is required.
Example: diskutil AppleRAID remove disk2s4 /Volumes/RAID
     diskutil AppleRAID remove 11111111-2222-3333-4444-555555555555 disk5

How do I get rid of the missing drive? Do I have some other problem given the Degraded status?


texts: I have a Mac mini that fell from a desk, my kid was playing aroung and it hit the floor, I picked it up and it stared up but when the Apple logo comes up the little cricle appears and thats it, it wont boot, up, I dont know what to do, I tried some of the commands booting up and they dont work but i dont know if its because i have a wireless mouse and keyboard. Also, i gotta mention i have a CD stuck in the drive that I cant get out. Please help, any idea of what i can do?


texts: What program can print source code well on OS X?

texts:
I am looking for an OS X application to nicely format and print source code from a variety of programming languages.

Line numbers would be nice
Constant width font
Printing the contents of the clipboard would be a real plus

Does something like this exist (besides the obvious programmers' editors), free or reasonably priced?


texts: How can I add a new search engine to Safari without any 3rd party add-ons?

texts: I know add-ons such as Glims can do this, but I would rather stay away from them.  Any native (or more likely semi-native) way to do so?  If it matters, the engine I would like to add is duckduckgo.


texts:
Sounds on my iMac stopped playing, also it seems that I have a problem with iTunes and Voice Memos app, iTunes won't start and shows an error message with code 9405, and Voice Memos simply crashes!

I have tried the following possible solutions with no luck:

I tried    using headphone jack, USB and Bluetooth headphone and none
of them    worked.
I have rebooted my system many times.
I have double checked    that my volume is up and the audio output is
on right source.
I have    made a new account and there I had the same problem.
I have killed    coreaudiod process.

when my system is starting, the logging sound plays, so it is not a hardware problem. I can also play some noises in Audio MIDI Setup.

Whenever an error occurs, my screen flashes, I already verified that Universal Access » Hearing » Flash the screen when an alert sound occurs was unchecked, so it seems that my system knows that it can't play any sounds and flashes instead.

Update: I've also found out that GarageBand can play sounds, but I can't play system sounds or play sounds in any other app like VLC, Safari, Chrome, Slack, QuickTime player and ...


texts: How to unlink an AppleID / iCloud Account from an iPhone that's been used 3 times?

texts:
I work at a place where they re-issue iPhones to various employees.  One of these iPhones has been re-issued at least 3 times.  Which means that there are at least 3 Apple ID/iCloud accounts that have been associated with this iPhone.

The procedure was to wipe the phone ( Settings > General > Reset > Erase All Content) and then create a new Apple ID / iCloud account for the new user using the phone.

However...today we got a message that said Can’t Create AppleID This device is no longer eligible for creating a free iCloud account, and I believe that is because three people had accounts associated with it before.

I've tried loggging into their iCloud accounts on http://apple.com/find and the device is not listed there as it is preportedly supposed to be so I can unlink it.


texts: Use Apple Wireless Keyboard for PC and Mac

texts:
I need a wireless keyboard and mouse that I can switch between my MacBook Pro and PC.

I was looking at the Apple Wireless Keyboard, but I'm not sure if I can change from PC to Mac usage easily enough.

Does anyone have a similar setup?


texts: My iPhone 4 front glass broke. Screen is OK, I only want to replace the glass. Assuming I get a new glass, is it hard to replace it myself? Can anyone provide some step by step tutorial on how to replace it?


texts:
When printing in macOS, I can set the print quality in the Media & Quality section:

Is it possible to set the quality setting to ‘Best’ by default? It’s a bit annoying to change it every time (because I prefer to use ‘Best’ for most of my prints).


texts: iPhone 6 upgraded to iOS 10 and now Outlook calendar not syncing

texts: I have a Micosoft Outlook 2013 calendar account synched on my iPhone.  Since I upgraded the iPhone to iOS 10.0.1, the calendar is not upating.  I tried changing the calendar setting from push to fetch and back, and turning off the calendar in the account and re-adding it and neither worked.  Email for the same account is updating routinely with no issues.  It has been nearly 2 days, and because turning the calendar account temporarily off wiped the old data and it has not synched since I turned it back on again, I have nothing.  Please help me!


texts: Mac documents replaced by iCloud documents

texts:
Something strange happened, my documents (local to my MBP) have been replaced by my iCloud documents. I don't know how and when this happened.

Is there any way I can check how and when it happened and can restore it? I do not have a Time Machine backup


texts: How to install the 2014 NTP security fix on 10.6.8 Snow Leopard

texts:
For 10.6.8 would it work to open the 10.8 NTP update.dmg with pacifist and put in the new versions of the following 6 files?:

/usr/bin/sntp
/usr/bin/ntp-keygen
/usr/bin/ntpq
/usr/sbin/ntpdc
/usr/sbin/ntpdate
/usr/sbin/ntpd

I am not sure about including the ntptrace file that was in the 10.8 sbin directory. What does it do? Also what would the appropriate chown command be to get these files properly recognized?


texts: How many Apple IDs should one household have?

texts: To date my wife and I share one Apple ID for all Apple purchases and devices. We currently own a first and third generation iPod, iPhone 4, and will own an iPad 2 in the morning. Thus far having the one account has not been an issue, but with more Apple purchases to follow at what point does it make sense to have more than one Apple ID? What are the advantages and disadvantages of having one or multiple accounts? If we each had an iPhone would multiple Apple IDs be required? What's the relation to iCloud?


texts:
I accidentally deleted some files from my Applications directory. I don't recall exactly what but some of them included the Cellar directory.

Now, each time I try to open the terminal, it opens the terminal window but it immediately closes (i.e., less than one second).
Since, I have no operational terminal, I don't know how to solve the problem of re-installing the terminal or applying any fix.
I tried downloading iTerm and installing it but the exact same thing happens to it: the moment I open it, it closes.

Any ideas?

===Update===
Actually tried again, and this was the message that I got. When I click Ok button, the terminal closes immediately.


texts: Hide Adium (or any other app's) icon in the dock

texts:
I find it really annoying how the Adium icon is always at the dock being useless:

because to open the contact list, you can just use the status bar item, (the dock icon is just a waste of space according to me):

So is there any way to remove the dock icon of Adium (or preferably any app) and only keep the status bar item (fully functional)?

This may seem like a duplicate of Hide an application's dock icon but that answer hides the status bar item as well, after that nobody answered. Have any new techniques surfaced since 2011?

I would rather have a technique without another app, but if thats the only option then that'll have to do...


texts: MacBook Air 13 (mid 2012) shuts down at 50% battery without warning, SMC chip broken?

texts:
Some weeks ago I bought a second hand MacBook Air. The MacBook Air runs fine but always shuts down without any warning at around 40-50% in battery mode. After restarting battery is at 0%. First I thought the battery is broken. It was the original battery with ca. 500 cycles. So I bought a new battery and replaced it. But surprisingly the MacBook still shuts down at ca. 40-50%. I tried different things found searching through the internet including SMC reset, NVRAM reset, different OS installations (Sierra, high Sierra, Mojave and also running with a LinuxLive Usb stick), and battery calibration. All of these steps didn't help. So anyone maybe know what could that be?
Thank you

2018-10-18 22:01:47 +0200 Sleep    Entering Sleep state due to 'Low Power Sleep': Using Batt (Charge:39%)

Charge Information:
Charge Remaining (mAh): 735
Fully Charged:  No
Charging:   No
Full Charge Capacity (mAh): 5855
Health Information:
Cycle Count:    6
Condition:  Normal
Battery Installed:  Yes
Amperage (mA):  -927
Voltage (mV):   7586

System-wide power settings:
Currently in use:
standbydelay         4200
standby              1
halfdim              1
hibernatefile        /var/vm/sleepimage
powernap             0
disksleep            10
sleep                0
autopoweroffdelay    28800
hibernatemode        3
autopoweroff         1
ttyskeepawake        1
displaysleep         5
acwake               0
lidwake              1

UPDATE
I just charged the battery (in safe-mode) and the percentage changed from 47 to 100% during one minute...strange


texts: Documenting Packet Loss on Corporate Network

texts:
If you suspected intermittent packet loss on a corporate network that you have no authority over, as an IT guy how would you irrefutably document it?  (you are on a Mac, so any *nix toolchain is possible).

Thanks


texts: I restarted my MacBook and I had some important tabs open in Incognito mode. Will they still be open when I reboot?


texts: How to create a keybinding using the [fn] key as a modifier?

texts:
The half-size arrow keys on my MacBook are a little small for me. The keys I'd prefer to use are:

fn +  J  to move left
fn +  K  to move down
fn +  L  to move right
fn +  I  to move up

I badly want to use the "fn" key for this, both for ergonomic and practical reasons (ie: avoid conflicts with other apps).

Is this possible? How?


texts: Does LED Cinema Display work with non Mac systems?

texts:
Not sure if this question if more appropriate in this Mac site or a non Mac site, but:

Can the current (as possibly soon to be updated) Apple 27 inch LED Cinema Display be used with non Mac systems such as those running Windows or Linux? What would it take to make it happen?

Thanks.


texts: I logged out of iCloud on my iPhone and now it won't let me log back in

texts:
The password is correct and it doesn't even say its wrong. Instead I get a verifying message and then it never logs in.

I'm not sure what the issue is because my iPhone literally just goes back to the log in screen after it says verifying and that's it.

How can I troubleshoot this?


texts: macOS 11 Pyenv Python 3.9.0 Install Error

texts:
I am trying to install python 3.9.0 on macOS 11.0.1. I have the latest version of brew and the latest pyenv.
sids@Sids-MacBook-Pro ~ % pyenv install 3.9.0
python-build: use openssl@1.1 from homebrew
python-build: use readline from homebrew
Downloading Python-3.9.0.tar.xz...
-> https://www.python.org/ftp/python/3.9.0/Python-3.9.0.tar.xz
Installing Python-3.9.0...
python-build: use readline from homebrew
python-build: use zlib from xcode sdk

BUILD FAILED (OS X 10.16 using python-build 20180424)

Inspect or clean up the working tree at /var/folders/8s/jlqpkvqj21zcq8d5kw_ndz180000gn/T/python-build.20201129164129.61815
Results logged to /var/folders/8s/jlqpkvqj21zcq8d5kw_ndz180000gn/T/python-build.20201129164129.61815.log

Last 10 log lines:
  File "/private/var/folders/8s/jlqpkvqj21zcq8d5kw_ndz180000gn/T/python-build.20201129164129.61815/Python-3.9.0/Lib/ensurepip/__init__.py", line 210, in _main
    return _bootstrap(
  File "/private/var/folders/8s/jlqpkvqj21zcq8d5kw_ndz180000gn/T/python-build.20201129164129.61815/Python-3.9.0/Lib/ensurepip/__init__.py", line 129, in _bootstrap
    return _run_pip(args + [p[0] for p in _PROJECTS], additional_paths)
  File "/private/var/folders/8s/jlqpkvqj21zcq8d5kw_ndz180000gn/T/python-build.20201129164129.61815/Python-3.9.0/Lib/ensurepip/__init__.py", line 38, in _run_pip
    return subprocess.run([sys.executable, "-c", code], check=True).returncode
  File "/private/var/folders/8s/jlqpkvqj21zcq8d5kw_ndz180000gn/T/python-build.20201129164129.61815/Python-3.9.0/Lib/subprocess.py", line 524, in run
    raise CalledProcessError(retcode, process.args,
subprocess.CalledProcessError: Command '['/private/var/folders/8s/jlqpkvqj21zcq8d5kw_ndz180000gn/T/python-build.20201129164129.61815/Python-3.9.0/python.exe', '-c', '\nimport runpy\nimport sys\nsys.path = [\'/var/folders/8s/jlqpkvqj21zcq8d5kw_ndz180000gn/T/tmpqmtz59lr/setuptools-49.2.1-py3-none-any.whl\', \'/var/folders/8s/jlqpkvqj21zcq8d5kw_ndz180000gn/T/tmpqmtz59lr/pip-20.2.3-py2.py3-none-any.whl\'] + sys.path\nsys.argv[1:] = [\'install\', \'--no-cache-dir\', \'--no-index\', \'--find-links\', \'/var/folders/8s/jlqpkvqj21zcq8d5kw_ndz180000gn/T/tmpqmtz59lr\', \'--root\', \'/\', \'--upgrade\', \'setuptools\', \'pip\']\nrunpy.run_module("pip", run_name="__main__", alter_sys=True)\n']' returned non-zero exit status 1.
make: *** [install] Error 1

I am not sure why this error is occurring. Has it got something to do with the second to last line, where it includes: /private/var/folders/8s/jlqpkvqj21zcq8d5kw_ndz180000gn/T/python-build.20201129164129.61815/Python-3.9.0/python.exe It seems as though the .exe is being built, but I'm on macOS.
How do I fix this and install Python 3.9.0?


texts: How to resolve the "unable to install update" error for OTA iOS updates?

texts:
For some reason, I keep getting an error when I try to install an OTA update on my iPad. The update downloads without any issue, and I have over 1 GB of space free. I am currently facing the issue with the iOS 5.1.1 update. Screenshot of error below.

I faced this issue with the 5.1 update as well, and ended up using iTunes for the update. I have the 16 GB wifi model of the iPad 2. Restarting the iPad doesn't help either.

My 3rd gen iPod touch has no issues with the OTA updates. This seems to be a common problem, and people have faced it on different devices as well. No one seems to have found a foolproof solution so far on the net.

Is there any fix for this, as the iTunes route is a much heavier download.


texts: FreeBSD Install DVD corrupted my Mac OS X harddisk

texts:
Recently, I have tried a FreeBSD 7.4 i386 Install DVD, just to see some screens of FreeBSD on my Mac mini Intel 2006. I was going to see (to remember) just several dialog screen of and perhaps I would try the Live CD feature of FreeBSD. And I did see them and later I ejected the FreeBSD Install DVD without changing anything on Mac mini's harddisk.

But after restart I found that Mac mini would not boot Mac OS X Leopard. Apperantly, some code on FreeBSD DVD must have tampered with someting on the Leopard harddisk.

When I checked the harddisk using another (working) Leopard with #gpt -r show disk0 as shown in this post: How to fix broken EFI partition? , the first entry is "pmbr" on that post, whereas it's "mbr" in mine, all other partitions and sizes are the same which makes me think that there's an easy fix for this problem.

Would you advise me to try the procedure on that post, would it help?


texts: Have Automator add original path to Spotlight Comment for a file when moving to the trash

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Is there a way to add the original path of a document as a Spotlight comment in Mountain Lion?

I have created an automator workflow that automatically adds the Timestamp and user when a file is moved to trash.  It also touches the file, so that its modified date becomes when it was moved (unless of course it is subsequently changed).  This way I can find files I deleted by accident more easily.  If I also have the original path to the document then I can put it back from where it came (for example if I deleted from search results).


texts:
My dock tells me I have 8 available updates:

I also got the notification asking to install updates. However, when I open App Store, I only see recently installed updates (with no updates to apps or software visible):

If the updates are real, how do I update, and if not, how do I get rid of the bubble?

Edit (more information):

$ defaults read com.apple.appstore
{
    "NSWindow Frame Preferences" = "0 116 1277 661 0 0 1280 777 ";
    "NSWindow Frame window_prefs" = "20 51 1240 726 0 0 1280 777 ";
    SeenOSUpdates =     (
    );
    Storefront = "143441-1,13 ab:WJ6jMoo1";
    appStoreBadgeCount = 7;
    "com.apple.appstore.WebKit2DeveloperExtrasEnabled" = 1;
    "com.apple.appstore.WebKit2ShowsToolTipOverTruncatedText" = 1;
    "com.apple.appstore.WebKit2SuppressesIncrementalRendering" = 1;
    "com.apple.appstore.WebKit2UserInterfaceDirectionPolicy" = 1;
    "primary.WebKit2DeveloperExtrasEnabled" = 1;
    "primary.WebKit2ShowsToolTipOverTruncatedText" = 1;
    "primary.WebKit2SuppressesIncrementalRendering" = 1;
}
$


texts:
Awhile back, I set up a cron job on my wife's MacBook to automatically backup her Safari bookmarks to Dropbox every morning using the following command that I found online (I forget where):

/usr/bin/plutil -convert xml1 $HOME/Library/Safari/Bookmarks.plist -o ~/Dropbox/Backup/Bookmarks/wife.xml

This worked swimmingly until all of her bookmarks were lost. When I try to import this file using File > Import Bookmarks in Safari, it says that it can't find any bookmarks in the file. I've opened the file up and looked at it and while I'm not terribly familiar with the XML plist format, it looks reasonably complete/intact.

I've tried renaming the file to wife.html and doing the same import process, but no dice. I was about to start writing my own little parser in Python but I figured I'd ask you nice folks before spending the time.

Is this something I can fix fairly easily? She has a buttload of bookmarks and I'd love it if this were easy :)

Thanks in advance - do let me know if you need any additional information to make providing an answer easier.


texts:
I have an iPhone that I fully plan to put on the iOS 11 public beta later this month, but I also have an Apple Watch that's going to be stuck on watchOS 3. Are there going to be any issues from that, such as my phone expecting my Watch to be on watchOS 4?

(I know that it's impossible to predict what bugs are going to be in a beta, I'm asking more about if anyone has experience running an iOS public beta alongside an Apple Watch on the latest stable watchOS release.)


texts: Fish shell installation using homebrew - iconv libiconv error

texts:
I am trying to install Fish shell using homebrew using command:

brew install fish

But the installation fails with the following error:

==> ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/Cellar/fish/2.1.1 SED=/usr/bin/sed
checking for library containing setupterm... -lncurses
checking for library containing nan... none required
checking for library containing iconv_open... no
checking for library containing libiconv_open... no
configure: error: Could not find an iconv implementation, needed to build fish

I tried searching around but no clear solution was found. System configuration:

$ brew --config
HOMEBREW_VERSION: 0.9.5
ORIGIN: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew.git
HEAD: f03104755df8cbfb720254bd88ac7594a3837d36
Last commit: 11 hours ago
HOMEBREW_PREFIX: /usr/local
HOMEBREW_CELLAR: /usr/local/Cellar
CPU: quad-core 64-bit haswell
OS X: 10.10.1-x86_64
CLT: 6.1.0.0.1.1413057044
Clang: 6.0 build 600
X11: N/A
System Ruby: 2.0.0-481
Perl: /usr/bin/perl
Python: /usr/bin/python
Ruby: /usr/bin/ruby

Could you please help to fix this? Thanks!


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I have an iphone with a lot of music. I would like to copy that music to my mac.  I do not understand how to do it.

Is there a tutorial that I can follow? I would prefer to do not install extra software. I have itunes already installled.

EDIT:

The automated way does not seem to work.  Here a screenshot

EDIT 2:

Apparently it is not possible to do it with itunes.  Is there a suggested 3rd party solution?.  I would also be happy of a solution using the terminal or some code.


texts: Finder/Disk Utility not showing exFat formatted internal volume

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I am using OS El Capitan 10.11.6 . I have formatted a partition (D - 90.1 GB) of the internal/builtin SSD SM0256G of my MacBook Pro with exFat, and copied some data onto it. It was working good, but when I restarted my MacBook, the exFat formatted partition D is not showing in Finder. I can't find it in Disk Utility. The space of 90.1 Gb which was allocated to D partition is shown as untitled. My question is: can I recover my data which I have copied on D drive?

The sudo gpt -r show disk0 output is:

gpt show: disk0: Suspicious MBR at sector 0
   start       size  index  contents
        0          1         MBR
        1          1         Pri GPT header
        2         32         Pri GPT table
       34          6
       40     409600      1  GPT part - C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B
   409640  176054680      2  GPT part - EBD0A0A2-B9E5-4433-87C0-68B6B72699C7
176464320     262144
176726464   48828120      3  GPT part - 48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
225554584     262144
225816728  107159736      4  GPT part - EBD0A0A2-B9E5-4433-87C0-68B6B72699C7
332976464     262144
333238608  155242608      5  GPT part - 53746F72-6167-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
488481216    1269536      6  GPT part - 426F6F74-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
489750752     483960      7  GPT part - 48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
490234712          7
490234719         32         Sec GPT table
490234751          1         Sec GPT header

sudo fdisk /dev/disk0 output:

Disk: /dev/disk0    geometry: 30515/255/63 [490234752 sectors]
Signature: 0xAA55
    Starting       Ending
#: id  cyl  hd sec -  cyl  hd sec [     start -       size]
------------------------------------------------------------------------
1: EE 1023 254  63 - 1023 254  63 [         1 -     409639] <Unknown ID>
2: 07 1023 254  63 - 1023 254  63 [    409640 -  176054680] HPFS/QNX/AUX
3: AF 1023 254  63 - 1023 254  63 [ 176726464 -   48828120] HFS+
4: 07 1023 254  63 - 1023 254  63 [ 225816728 -  107159736] HPFS/QNX/AUX


texts: When I turn on my MacBook Pro, I see the Apple logo and the progress bar but then it turns off

texts: When I switch on my MacBook Pro 2011, I see the Apple logo with progress bar but before it enters the next screen it turns off. Why?


texts: iMovie doesn't support Graphite appearance?

texts: I downloaded iMovie and to my surprise I realized that it didn't support the Graphite appearance option. iMovie's window buttons are colourful. This leads me to believe that iMovie has badly written code. I was wondering if there's something I can do to get that Graphite appearance?


texts: Why doesn't my Macbook detect network after sleep?

texts: every time that my 2007 macbook with lion goes to sleep, either manually (closing the lid) or timing out, i have to restart my computer to connect to the wireless network.  It fails to detect any networks at all until I restart, then it connects to my default network no problem.  What can I do?


texts: How to watch Apple TV+ shows on a TV without the Apple TV device?

texts:
I was wondering whether it's possible to watch Apple TV+ shows on my LG TV?

I tried (or can try) the following:

My TV has a Chromecast plugged in, but it doesn't appear to be an option.
I searched the LG store for an Apple TV+ app, but one doesn't exist.  Apple said in the press-release that one is coming but not yet.
I have an XBOX, but didn't find a way to stream from iOS to it either.
I also have an Raspberry Pi and I found code for an AirPlay mirroring server, which I would have to build.  But the site recommends RPi 3 for smoothness - I only have RPi 2.  So this could possibly be an option.

Anything else I can do (short of buying Apple TV device)?


texts: Mail.app inbox becomes blank after a few minutes of use

texts:
On a newly installed and fully updated Mountain Lion system, I see the following problem:

After a few minutes of using Mail.app (or even just letting it sit in the dock), the inbox becomes empty.  More precisely, the inbox of an Exchange mail account becomes empty.  If I let the program sit in the dock, I receive new mail notifications, but I can't read the messages because the inbox looks empty.

Restarting Mail.app is a temporary fix, but the problem will come back in a few minutes.

Has anyone seen this problem?  Are there any solutions?  I did not do anything special which could have caused this and my inbox is small (less than 100 MB---I did read that this can happen when the inbox is too large)


texts: Add a Delay for Displaying the Menu Bar When App is in Fullscreen Mode

texts:
When I work with an application in fullscreen mode (e.g. IntelliJ IDEA on macOS Sierra), the menu bar is hidden and shown only when I move the mouse cursor to the top of the screen.

The menu bar pops up after a short delay, but to my taste, that delay is way too short. I constantly trigger the menu bar by accident when I just want to click a button on the application's tool bar.

Is there a way to increase this delay?

Note: This has been asked before, but as far as I can see, not recently (this question asks about OSX Lion) – the answer was “nope, not possible”, perhaps this has changed with Sierra / High Sierra?


texts: Can I use 802.11ac instead of 802.11g for Personal Hotspot when both of my devices support it?

texts:
I have an iPhone 6 and the 2013 rMBP. Both support 802.11ac WiFi, yet the iPhone always sets up the hotspot as 802.11g for backwards compatibility (I think). Is there a way to change this? My unlimited LTE is capable of reaching 60Mbps and WiFi is becoming the bottleneck.

I was hoping perhaps Yosemite's instant hotspot would be able to tell the iPhone what kind of a network to set up?


texts: Ambient light sensor not working when moving from light to dark rooms with an iPhone or iPad

texts:
Over the years, I've collected a few iPhone 4's and 4S's, as well as a couple iPad 2's and a new/third generation iPad. They're all equipped with an ambient light sensor that darkens the display in dark settings or brightens it in bright settings. All in all, this has proven to be a boon to me over the years, and made my experiences with the iOS family of devices a generally positive one.

However, I've noticed a consistent problem that still has yet to be addressed on any of them, and it seems like it wouldn't really be much of an issue for Apple to fix: Though it works without a problem (and very quickly) to adapt to the changes from a dark to a light room, none of my newer iOS devices will dim when moving back to a dark room; regardless of how much time I give them. The only fix to this particular issue being to shut off the screen, then turn it back on, which instantly sets it to its auto-dimmed state.

I won't accept that I've somehow managed to accrue a collection of the only iOS devices that have faulty ambient light sensors, and I know that it's not a fault of all of Apple's devices with the sensors (because my iMac, MacBook Air, and MacBook Pro will auto-brighten and dim all day long as the sun shines and then gets covered by clouds, only to emerge triumphant a few minutes later).

So what gives? Is there a fix that I'm missing? Is this a "feature"? If not, why hasn't Apple bothered to fix it?

For the record, this has been on every increment of iOS since 4, (unfortunately) including iOS 6 on the devices I use for development.


texts: How to turn off the screen without sleep on a MacBook Pro with Touch Bar?

texts:
Is there any shortcut for it?

I tried Control + Shift + Touch ID, which didn't work.


texts: In Xcode editor, is there a way to open files in a new tab only if one is not already present, and if it is, then switch to that tab. If it isn't possible to do so via the preference settings, can it be done via script?


texts: Why is my computer name new-host-2.home on the network?

texts:
I configured my computer name to "Macbook of Matthieu" in the network sharing preferences.

However, this name end up being used: new-host-2.home, how can I change that?


texts: Went to High Sierra via clean install instead of upgrade by wiping "Macintosh HD". Old boot camp now is unable to "locate the macOS boot volume"

texts:
It's actually just a minor inconvenience because I can reboot and hold down Option to get back into High Sierra.

I'm mainly hoping to find out if there is a way to "update" this existing boot camp installation so that it can find the new macOS volume again. That way I won't want to try to reinstall windows again.

I'm sure it's just some partition/volume handle setting stored somewhere in the bootcamp system in Windows.


texts: How do I play HTML5 videos with unsupported formats on iOS?

texts:
When browsing on iOS I find that I increasingly come across sites where the site's video format is not supported by by iOS Safari or Chrome.  At one such site, the error reads as follows:

  The video you are trying to watch is a format not supported by the HTML video tag in this browser.

What is going wrong?  Is there any way to play such videos on iOS?


texts: iPhone: How to ensure iBook files are stored locally

texts:
There was a bug in iBooks. When file storage capacity is low, iOS deletes some iBooks files. The bug was that it deleted many files even if storage capacity was ok.

And I lost a bunch of PDF stored locally on my iPhone.

Today I synced again a few PDFs from Mac iBook  →  iPhone iBook.

Have two questions

how to check reliably that files are stored locally on iPhone (ie not iCloud)? I mean, I could use the airplane mode and see if files are still openable ... but maybe there is a cache or something.
actually, how to reliably use only local files - and get rid of iCloud access, at least for iBooks [ iCloud is off on my iPhone for iBooks, but files disappeared anyway ]?


texts: I would like to study C using iPad. Just simple programs. So, is there a C compiler for iPad?


texts:
I tried to install win 8 on mac using new bootcamp. the problem is that bootcamp formats the drive as Fat 32, and the installation does not start because it needs NTFS format. when format bootcamp drive as NTFS manually and install the win 8, win 8 does not start up. i get the beginning black screen with no change. Can anybody help me here?

Thanks


texts: Brand new Macbook Pro retina fail Memtest

texts:
I have a brand new MacBook Pro Retina (8GB, 256GB SSD), which has experienced some issues for past few weeks.

I decided to run memtest after a complete OS X reinstall.

Here's the log :

Copyright (C) 2004-2008 Tony Scaminaci (Macintosh port)
Licensed under the GNU General Public License version 2 only

NOTE: No command-line arguments have been specified
Using defaults: Test all available memory, one test pass, no logfile

Mac OS X 10.9.4 (13E28) running in multiuser mode
Memory Page Size: 4096
System has 4 Intel core(s) with SSE
Requested memory: 5943MB (6232047616 bytes)
Available memory: 5943MB (6232047616 bytes)
Allocated memory: 5943MB (6232047616 bytes) at local address 0x0000000101000000
Attempting memory lock... locked successfully
Partitioning memory into 2 comparison buffers...
Buffer A: 2971MB (3116023808 bytes) starts at local address 0x0000000101000000
Buffer B: 2971MB (3116023808 bytes) starts at local address 0x00000001babac000

Running 1 test sequence... (CTRL-C to quit)

Test sequence 1 of 1:

Running tests on full 5943MB region...
  Stuck Address       : ok
  Linear PRN          : ok
Running comparison tests using 2971MB buffers...
  Random Value        : ok
  Compare XOR         : ok
  Compare SUB         : ok
  Compare MUL         : ok
  Compare DIV         : ok
  Compare OR          : ok
  Compare AND         : ok
  Sequential Increment: ok
  Solid Bits          : ok
  Block Sequential    : ok
  Checkerboard        : testing 19 of 64

FAILURE! Data mismatch at local BUFA address 0x00000001a144b978, BUFB address 0x000000025aff7978
BUFA Data: 0xaaaaaaaaaaaaaaae, BUFB Data: 0xaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

  Bit Spread          : testing   1 of 128

FAILURE! Data mismatch at local BUFA address 0x00000001a42e09f8, BUFB address 0x000000025de8c9f8
BUFA Data: 0xfffffffffffffffe, BUFB Data: 0xfffffffffffffffa

  Bit Flip            : testing   3 of 512

FAILURE! Data mismatch at local BUFA address 0x00000001a0d4f978, BUFB address 0x000000025a8fb978
BUFA Data: 0x0000000000000005, BUFB Data: 0x0000000000000001

  Walking Ones        : testing   3 of 128

FAILURE! Data mismatch at local BUFA address 0x00000001a18c1978, BUFB address 0x000000025b46d978
BUFA Data: 0xffffffffffffffff, BUFB Data: 0xfffffffffffffffb

  Walking Zeroes      : testing   4 of 128

FAILURE! Data mismatch at local BUFA address 0x00000001a21bd978, BUFB address 0x000000025bd69978
BUFA Data: 0x000000000000000c, BUFB Data: 0x0000000000000008

*** Memory Test Failed ***  Please check transcript for details.
Execution time: 512 seconds.

The guys at the Apple Store are sure there is no problem with the RAM.

So why Memtest is failing ? Is it normal ?


texts: Thunderbolt to VGA monitor blank in Boot Camp Windows 7

texts:
I have a 22" external monitor connected to my MacBook Pro (late 2011) via Thunderbolt to VGA. When I boot into Windows 7 x64, the screen seems to work and is mirrored during the boot screens, then it goes blank at the login screen. It stays blank after I log in to Windows. The built-in screen on the laptop works fine.

The monitor works fine in OS X Lion.


texts: Which iPhone will work with handoff in between macs and itself. I'm looking into buying one and I want to make sure I could use handoff.


texts: No sound via HDMI except in Kodi application

texts:
Everything was working fine weeks ago and now I've started to experience the problem of having no sound. I'll give some background.

I don't have sound anywhere except for when I use Kodi. This means than when I play Spotify, Youtube, system sounds, the command say in terminal - no sound!

My output device in Preferences and in the upper menu and also in Audio Midi Setup is my receiver. It actually shows the correct device name and type as HDMI.

My setup is a Mac Mini, running Sierra 10.12.1 that is connected via HDMI to my receiver. The receiver has a HDMI connection to my TV and analog audio connection to my speakers. Video and sound have all been working but now I only get the video. So to reiterate, there is video in the TV but no sound from any of the speakers.

The weird thing here is that when I start up Kodi and play a movie I have sound.

The make it even more weird is that when I fire up Spotify and play a song I get no sound. If I now, while Spotify is playing startup Kodi and start playing a movie then the Spotify sound will also appear overlaid by the sounds/music from the movie. Once I quit Kodi I don't have Spotify sound anymore. I can see from the interface that the song is still playing.

If I change my output to Built-in internal speakers all sounds appear. Once I switch back to HDMI I have no sound.

Any ideas what is causing this? Any ideas how to debug this issue? I don't see any audio references in Console nor dmesg. Not sure how to continue debugging this situation.

Some things to note:

The volume bar is greyed out in the menu. Even when I run Kodi and I have sound and I cmd-tab and check the volume bar it is still at 0 and greyed out
Changing the volume from the commandline like recommended in this article has no effect.

Here are my Kodi settings


texts: How to see the results of Apple TV's network tests?

texts:
I can run the network test inside the settings menu. But at the end I only see "Network test successfully complete".

I don't see what speeds the Apple TV 3 is actually getting at that spot in the house. It's a pretty dumb thing thing to conduct the test and not have even the basic stuff (like xyz Mbps) reported back!

Are those results posted somewhere else on the Apple ID? Or can I pull them off the Apple TV somehow? Note that the Apple TV is NOT jailbroken and is running the latest OS.


texts:
I am thinking initramfs -filesystem in this thread.
I run unsuccessfully brew search busybox and no including package in Google clearly.
Busybox is included in Linux by default but not in OSX.
Different internals so not necessarily possible in OSX.

How can you install busybox in OSX?


texts: List of all packages installed using Homebrew

texts: Is it possible to and how do I get a list of all the packages installed on my Mac using Homebrew?  I am not interested in packages installed outside of Homebrew.


texts: How can I modify a PowerBook or iBook G4 to install Yosemite or Sierra?

texts:
I own a PowerBook G4 A1104 with 512 mb of ram and 1.5 ghz and I also own an Ibook G4 1.33 Ghz 512 ram. I have seen videos on youtube of people turning their ibook g4 and imac g4 into  machines running from Yosemite to Sierra.

How can I accomplish this?


texts: X Quartz opening on new blank desktop on Mac

texts:
I'm having a problem where if I run anything that uses xquartz, the GUI opens on a new black 'desktop' that doesn't have the dock, any icons or the top bar. I'm not sure why, and, for my uses, I need the programs to run on one of my regular desktop screens.
Earlier this year, I was trying to set this computer up to allow XForwarding to a remote computer, so I may have changed something that is causing this to happen, but I thought I had gone through and reset my ssh_config file and sshd_config file in case this is causing it to happen by reseting things to be commented out.
I can't think of anything else or what I might be able to do to stop this from happening (before trying to set up ssh, this was not an issue that I rememeber but I am not absolutely certain that it is what is causing the problem). Any ideas?
Thank you!
Bethany
Computer Specs:
Mac Pro 2017, OS: Mohave 10.14.6 (18G6032)


texts:
I have a macbok pro late 2008 , running the latest OS apple will allow - el capitan.

I have 2 sticks of 2GB RAM. This is above the original specs but due to a firmware upgrade some years ago, it now works with 4GB of RAM

My mbp reboots no more than twice a day, usually averaging once a day or day and half.

I had a lemon of a battery before that swelled like crazy and bent the flimsy alumimum cover. I now have a replacement battery.

My theory is that the problem is down to one of 3 things but these are just theories I'm not mac expert. So I'm here to find out what likely is the real cause...

contacts for the battery shorting out occasionally
faulty battery
RAM problems, unfortunately I never had any success before on any other computer with ram testers so i don't think running one is going to help here. They even say so on the internet, they can prove defective ram if they spot it, but if not - maybe it's defective, maybe not. That said swapping out the ram and testing each stick would mean I would need to run a week on each stick. Because it is basically guaranteed to fail in a week but a couple of days of uptime in inconclusive. I count uptime to include sleep mode.

Which brings me my "smoking gun" question... I believe this will pinpoint the problem once someone knowledgeable about macs and hardware reads this.

The reboot problem will occur even when in sleep mode. Or hibernating mode. Ok not sure about actual sleep but when you choose sleep and go to hibernating - i.e. it has to restore from disk later. Sometimes coming out of it will restore state, sometimes it will do a fresh bootup.

And of course it can reboot at any time during normal operation. Reboot might be too strong a word, i think it just turns off.

So what does that indicate? would that be ram problem or a battery problem?


texts: Generic RGB Profile Color Picker Problem

texts:
I am using the Generic RGB profile instead of the Color LCD profile (in Display → Color Settings). But when the generic profile is active, my color picker picks darker colours.

For example, if I repeatedly pick a color from the picker, it gets darker each time. So it doesn't pick the same color, it takes the color and gives me darker shade of this color. This problem only happens in the Generic RGB profile, not in the Color LCD profile.

I tried this on my MacBook Pro 2011 (it is also Mountain Lion) and the problem remains. Is this a problem unique to Mountain Lion, or something else?


texts: Change spotlight's calculator to degrees?

texts:
I use spotlight to perform calculations constantly, but at the moment the type of project I'm working on measures all angles in degrees.

Is there a way I can make spotlight's trigonometric functions default to degrees instead of radians?


texts: Applescript / Google Chrome : open a link in a new tab

texts:
I use this to open a link (the url is unknown):

tell application "Google Chrome"
    tell tab 1 of window 1 to set OpenfirstTab to execute javascript "document.getElementById('TransactionHistory').click();
"
end tell

is there a way to have AppleScript to open in a new tab, in the background using the javascript with not known URL

my workaround for now is to duplicate the first page and open the link on the duplicated page, by the website don't handle that very well and it's not always working


texts: HomeSync / Mobile - Settings & keychain missing

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I've recently rolled out an Open Directory domain in our office. The domain has been set up so user profiles are synced with the server via HomeSync, so we could use FileVault2 to encrypt the machines.

I recently got a new workstation and connected it to our domain. Upon logging in using my network account, I found that none of my settings or keychain were there. Thinking the settings sync might be a feature of HomeSync, I imported our workgroup profile which has HomeSync enabled on it. When logging back into the machine, HomeSync did it's thing and copied my user profile to the local machine but it wasn't until I logged in that I realised that my settings and my keychain STILL hadn't copied over.

Is there something I need to do to ensure that settings centralised for each user?

Server and clients are running 10.8


texts: Securely erasing all data on iPod Classic so that it cannot be recovered

texts: Restoring iPod Classic would not work because it simply erases "offsets" to data. Is there any software dedicated to this? Since iPod Classic has many system files on the root, I'm not able to use any kind of software that blow up the whole drive. FYI, I'm a Windows user.


texts: How to execute veracrypt on the command line?

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How can execute veracrypt on the command line in OS X?
According to the Veracrypt documentation there should be a command veracrypt but it was not found.

Any advice ?


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I saw a video about the new iPad and it showed that you could disable LTE.

Apple had to increase the battery capacity in the new iPac because upgrades like LTE and the new display draw significantly more power.
Question

What's the battery life of the new iPad 4G with LTE disabled/enabled?
Apple's product specs are unspecific: "Up to 9 hours of surfing the web using cellular data network."


texts: Automating copying and pasting text on iPhone?

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I am cleaning up notes on my iPhone and separating them into distinct notes by cutting certain parts of the text, creating a new note and then pasting it. Is there any option for automating this process. Workflow is:

I could just highlight some text, press a button
I would immediately go to a new note and paste the highlighted (and copied) text there.

Would the Shortcuts app help at all with this?


texts: How can I navigate to individual windows?

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I have many many apps running in the background some are infact two or three windows of same program, i.e. Firefox 3-4 windows and Xcode 3-4 windows etc...

I know that I can switch using ⌘+⇥ but that only switches on programs and I want to go to each individual window.

I've tried spotlight and it's not what im looking for. Also, I do not prefer to install any paid software and would like to use build in features if possible.


texts: Magic Mouse battery level broken in Lion?

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After upgrading to Lion my Magic Mouse's level indicator seems to be broken.

For the whole week it was reporting solid 100% on a pair of used batteries that were about 65% before upgrading. I swapped the batteries naively hoping it'll change anything and it actually did. It's now solid 95%!

Screens from both system preferences and Bluetooth icon in the menu bar:

What's interesting, iStat Pro dashboard widget seems to be reporting a correct level:

Has anyone noticed such a problem? Or maybe even found a solution to it?


texts: Cannot "Enter Time Machine" from Mountain Lion

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Upgraded to Mountain Lion yesterday. Time Machine backups continue to run without any reported errors. (Backups are to a HD shared by a Lion Server on the network).

Problem is When I choose Enter Time Machine (or double-click on the Time Machine application icon) nothing happens. No window. No error. No...nothing. I do notice that the remote HD mounts in the Finder... but that's it.

I've reviewed a similar question which appears to be Lion (or perhaps Snow Leopard) related. But this is not acceptable as I don't want to erase my whole backup and start anew...as I can't afford to toss my only Lion backup.

Anyone know what's up? And how to get my TM working properly under MLion?


texts: Unable to delete third-party app from iPad

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I started to download Microsoft Excel app from App Store onto my iPad, but after almost an hour it was not yet half way downloaded (it's a huge file and I have slow wifi, so it's understandable). I decided to cancel the download. Now Excel is on the home screen and cannot be removed the usual way. I press and hold on it until it wiggles, then I click the x, and the usual message appears to ask me if I want to remove it, and I say yes, but nothing happens. The grayed-out Excel app icon just stays on my home screen.

How can I remove this app?


texts: Can someone please help me set up a Virtual Machine of macOS High Sierra using VirtualBox?

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I want to create a Virtual Machine of macOS High Sierra using VirtualBox 6.1 on my  mid 2014 MacBook Pro that's running macOS.

How do I do that?

I already installed VirtualBox.

How do I create the VM of macOS High Sierra now?


texts: Unlock sim after passing opportunity to unlock on iPhone startup

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This must be some basic stuff but I'm unable to figure it out.
I've restarted my iPhone, inserted my security code and then when the numpad appeared to insert my SIM pin code, I pressed the home button and now I can't trigger that numpad again to insert my pin code.

The only thing I see is Locked SIM in the upper left corner and can't do anything about it.

The question: How can I trigger the panel to unlock my SIM card again?


texts: AppStore is missing after updating to iOS 10

texts: Just yesterday night I updated my iPhone with iOS 10.0.1 but after updating I have found that App Store is not there so I cannot download and install new apps . I realised I cannot even delete apps from phone


texts: Battery life not like advertised on new MacBook Pro

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I bought a MacBook Pro 15.4" in September and the battery life is nothing like what is advertised. I'm struggling to get 4 hours out of it with wifi off and Ethernet as my network connection. The spec I choose wasn't the best, either: it only has the 2.2GHz Core i7 with the better graphics card model, no other additions.

I bought it because of its great battery life, I've tried turning screen brightness down and the keyboard backlight off and still nothing. I am mainly using it to type up lecture notes in the lecture so I am running it off battery power only using Word and PowerPoint. Should I be concerned and take it back to Apple? I know the Core i7 is power hungary but, still, this is ridiculous as it's less than a month old – I was expecting to be able to use it for a full day without the battery dying.


texts: How do I disable Wi-Fi roaming? (disable autoconnecting to the strongest AP)

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I can't find a way to disable Wi-Fi roaming on my Mac so I can connect to a specific AP and stay associated to it without roaming to the strongest AP. Is there any way I can do that?

My MacOS version is High Sierra 10.13.2.

I have already tried all airport JoinMode settings ( /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/Apple80211.framework/Versions/Current/Resources/airport prefs JoinMode) and the "airport-bssid" tool that is available on GitHub, and both solutions didn't work.


texts: Netatalk disk not shown in TimeMachine, manual connect via afp works

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I set up netatalk on Ubuntu to backup via TimeMachine to one partition there over my network. I can connect to the partition through the Finder Go... menue. But I cannot see an option to create a new folder. In TimeMachine this backup disk does not show up.

I tried using this Ubuntuusers' wiki page for netatalk v2 and using these instructions for netatalk v3. None works. I suspect a problem with my MacOS but don't know where to search. How can I make the backup disk visible to TimeMachine?


texts: Unable to remove item from dock in Yosemite

texts: Apple says to remove an item from the dock in Yosemite, drag it from the dock until you see a puff of smoke.  I drag it from the dock, it has a tag called "remove" but it never goes up in smoke.It just returns to the dock.


texts: Connected to wifi but the pages are just loading (internet is not working) on my iPhone

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About

iPhone 6

12.4.4

Issue

It is possible for me to connect to the wifi through setting >> wifi. After connecting, I tried using safari. The page is loading and loading and loading..... (never-ending). And for WhatsApp, they just show connecting...

I tried resetting the network settings and it didn't help. What can I do to fix this issue? Does this seem like a hardware issue or software?


texts: Vmware Fusion - No USB Devices on macOS 10.13 High Sierra

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No USB devices or the internal memory card reader appear in any VMWare Fusion guests.
There are posts suggesting that it's necessary to Allow vmware fusion in Security & Privacy Settings, but I have been unable to trigger the prompt to allow vmware fusion in the Security & Privacy panel in settings.
These are the links that I've been trying to follow:
Vmware Community: VMware Fusion 11.1 USB Connection Odyssey
Vmware Community: NO USB
Vmware Community: USB devices no longer recognised on VMWare Fusion 10
Update: Reverting to VMware fusion 8.5 did not resolve the issue - it displays the same behaviour as VMware 11.5 . VMware fusion 8.5 was able to access USB devices under macOS 10.12 Yosemite without any issues.
Macbook Pro 11,3
macOS 10.13.6
Vmware Fusion 11.5, 8.5