texts: AppleScript: "Repeat" Loop Only Works With Variable

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Very curious as to why this works (the context is an open and activated/frontmost Safari window displaying the "Customize Toolbar" sheet):
tell application "System Events"
    tell process "Safari"
        set entireContents to entire contents of sheet 1 of front window
        repeat with x in entireContents
            if class of x is image and description of x contains "My Extension" then
                set targetExtIconPos to position of image 1 of x
            else if class of x is image and description of x is "default set of toolbar items" then
                set defaultToolbarPos to position of x
            end if
        end repeat
    end tell
end tell

but changing repeat with x in entireContents to repeat with x in entire contents of sheet 1 of front window throws an error (and does so even if parenthesis are utilized as in repeat with x in (entire contents of sheet 1 of front window))?
The error I get is: execution error: System Events got an error: Can’t make item 1 of entire contents of sheet 1 of window 1 of process "Safari" into type specifier. (-1700)
This caused alot of headache before I randomly found it would work if I just assigned it to a var first...
Also is there a way to achieve what I am attempting here without using a loop at all? I feel like there is a way, but the syntax is just awfully hard and complex to figure out and nail down.


texts: How can I determine if my MBP running Snow Leopard has been attacked by a virus?

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5 yr old MBP Intel bought for video editing ran fine for 4 yrs, using Tiger & FCE 3.5.  Past year has been stormy.  Onset was unrecoverable crash dx'ed as not-worth-fixing logic board failure by genius at Mac Store.

Community-based Apple tech repaired logic board, which made computer bootable, but  occasional crashes recurred.  Additional servicing was done:  new 250GB hard drive, upgrade to Mountain Lion, followed by partial downgrade to Snow Leopard (clean install) to restore compatibility with FCE 3.5.

System seemed to be working but multiple worsening crashes began yesterday after transferring ~ 3 GB iTunes tracks from old Tiger CCC bootable clone.  Currently running an Apple Hardware Test from Tiger install disc.  But viruses apparently do attack Macs and I would like to know the best way to determine if my MBP is infected.

Any advice would be appreciated.  This is my first Mac, and I'd much rather be editing video than troubleshooting!


texts: Second monitor randomly turns off and on

texts: I have an iMac running 10.9.2 and sporadically the second monitor turns off then on. It's only off for a second or two. It's an Acer AL2216W. It's connected from display port to DVI.


texts: How to make your iPhone beep every 5 minutes


texts: Optimize filesystem for speed over integrity

texts: On Linux, I use the noatime,nodiratime,nobarrier,data=writeback mount optioins in /etc/fstab to trade filesystem safety/consistency/integrity for speed which makes sense for local development.  Is there a way to do something similar or to otherwise make such a trade off for the other OS X developers on my team?


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The video on my mid-2009 13" Macbook Pro freezes and becomes noisy sometimes, depending on the position of the lid, pressure, etc.

I opened it, and could reproduce the behavior by poking at the LVDS (LCD data) cable.

Is replacing the cable something the Genius Bar can do quickly, or am I better off doing it myself? The cable costs $20 online. I watched the YouTube videos showing how to remove the LCD -- I think I could do it.


texts: How do I resubmit a podcast to iTunes after Apple has rejected it once?

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Apple rejected my initial podcast submission but their rejection wasn't particularly informative.
The email I got from iTunes is the following

Dear podcast owner,
The following podcast has not been included in the iTunes podcast directory.
Name: The Bottom :: Radio Breakout Feed URL: http://www.radiobreakout.com.au/podcast?podcast=thebottom
Submissions may not be included in the directory for a variety of reasons. For more information, please see the podcast technical specification at http://www.apple.com/itunes/podcasts/techspecs.html.
Regards,
The iTunes Store team

I can't see any errors; it is a valid RSS/XML feed. When I added it manually to iTunes it downloaded and played the show correctly so the feed does work.
The feed is available at:
http://www.radiobreakout.com.au/podcast?podcast=thebottom
I've updated the feed slightly since trying to submit the podcast and I'd like to try again but I cannot see how to resubmit the podcast once it has been rejected. Is this possible? If so, can someone walk me through the resubmission process?


texts: Remove spacing between pages in microsoft word for mac

texts: How can I remove the spaces (header/footer areas) between pages in MS word? On my PC, I just double click the spaces and it automatically removes them. When I try on my Mac, it just opens the header and footer sections.


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The Mac Mini has an optical input and an optical output.
I want to route the audio from my Apple TV through my Mac Mini and then back out to my receiver. This way both devices are connected without any need for switching cables.

I use the app LineIn at the moment.
This works good for listening music via AirPlay, the audio from my Mac also get combined with the AirPlay music.

But when watching a movie on Netflix with the Apple TV the 5.1 (AC3 I think) signal gives problems. It keeps disconnecting randomly. In this case no sound is played with the Mac. The Mac must only pass the audio through.

I also used this terminal command:
defaults write com.cod3r.a52codec attemptPassthrough 1

It would be nice to enable this audio passthrough without the use of an app, is there a way to do that?
Are there other ways to passthrough the audio, other programs, tricks?
The way I have it now is not stable enough.


texts: Why isn't Alt-Tab working for switching windows of the same app?

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In my MacBook Pro running Lion, I use Command + Tab to switch apps, and Alt1 + Tab for switching windows within an app.

In my work iMac, also running Lion, Alt + Tab isn't doing anything, and I can't find any setting for that. Also, I dont remember tweaking anything in the MacBook Pro to get this to work.

note 1 - Alt is the same as Option on most Mac keyboards, but mine just has Alt printed.


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I have been on here quite a lot with all my issues. I have a project MacBook (early 2009, a1181, which is running OSX High sierra and Ubuntu along with a bootloader, refit or fEFInd, can't remember at the moment). The macbook gets really hot when charging, so much so that my friend got a burn just from picking it up!

The heat is on the bottom corner closest to the MagSafe port. The MacBook randomly shuts down and it takes longer for it to shut down when it starts up cold.

The shut down is so abrupt that you can hear the hard drive's arm clunk. When I try to power it on again, the indicator light turns on for a split second but goes out (hard drive also clunks as soon as the light goes out).

Is this a power issue? If you think you know how to fix it, please let me know!


texts: Why does shared WiFi connection from iPhone to laptop (personal hotspot) not go through phone VPN?

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I'm trying to share the WiFi connection from my iPhone to my laptop = personal hotspot. The iPhone connects to a VPN and a quick check on phone browser (whatismyip) shows that this works ok. However, when my laptop connects to the iPhone hotspot through WiFi, the connection does not seem to use the VPN. Instead, the IP range belongs to my internet provider, just as if the VPN was turned off.
Is this the normal behavior?


texts: Compatible RAM and SSD drive for macbook pro 2012 MD101

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I want to help a friend upgrading her macbook pro macbook 2012 MD101 from 4GB RAM and HDD to 8GB RAM and SSD.

Since I am not a mac guy myself, I need to ask you guys what is the compatible RAM modules for this particular mac model. Further more. As far as I know RAM modules should be 204pin SODIMM 1.5 volt?

Also does any kind of SSD drive would work (I assume so but again please confirm).


texts: iTunes 12.7 how to download all music from iTunes Match

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Mac OS 10.13.4, iTunes 12.7.4

Somehow my music library has become screwed up, and almost all of my 28,000-odd tracks aren't where they should be (according to iTunes). I can create a playlist of all the tracks, and I can export that playlist to a text file. But I don't see how to download those tracks to a library.

All of this happened following moving my Film library to an external drive, tho I don't see the connection. My TV Programs appear to be Ok.

Help!!


texts: quick to install and set up FTP server on homebrew for OSX

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I need the smallest and easiest FTP server just to grab some files during development.

Homebrew has a discrete selection brew search ftp but I'm unsure which is the quickest to setup.

I don't want to use the builtin FTP server.

Any recommendations?


texts: How to move a window to another space without using the mouse?

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I use spaces for having multiple desktops, but often need to move a program from one space to another.

I am aware of the various ways to do that with a mouse:

Click-and-hold on the title bar of window and drag to edge
F8 to show all Spaces and drag to desired location
Click-and-hold on the title bar, and use Ctrl+# or Ctrl+Scroll Arrow

But have not been able to find a keyboard-only method. I use Linux for one of my primary workstations which has this ability and I would LOVE to use it with OSX as well.


texts: Can I search for something on Google directly from Spotlight?

texts: Whenever I have to search for something, I have to open Safari and then type in it. Is there any way to search directly, like type it in Spotlight and press click something and Safari will open automatically and search whatever you typed in Spotlight?


texts:
I recently updated to macOS Sierra on my MacBook Air. I have started noticing that desktop applications will startup automatically.

I have noticed this with Facetime and Slack. Whenever I access Facebook via Google Chrome, Facetime tends to open up and when I access Slack in the browser, the Slack desktop application starts up.

I have checked that I have not set any shortcut keys and it keeps happening frequently. Has anyone else noticed this issue? What can I do to stop it?


texts: Launchctl difference between load and start, unload and stop

texts:
I was reading through the launchctl man page and have a few questions about its functioning:

What is the difference between load and start, unload and stop?
Where do I find the job label for a daemon, is it in the plist file?


texts: How to transfer audio files directly from Android device to iPhone 5s

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I have some audio recordings on an Android device that I wish to transfer to my iPhone 5s. I don't get a solution using iTunes.

I have to say that there are a ton of files and i don't want to have copies in the iTunes.


texts: Stop iPhone alerting me when I'm in a phone call

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When I'm in a phone call, I still get alerts for emails and texts. The noise will play and, if the phone is on Speaker, it will vibrate -- often leading the person I'm talking to wonder what that weird noise was.

Surely there must be a way to silence the phone while you're talking on it. It's very distracting to have beepings going off right next to your ear!


texts: How does Xcode communicate with an iOS device?

texts: I can plug in an iOS device and tell Xcode to run my app on that device or stop it. I can have the app paused at any time and use the debugger to debug the running app. How is this all possible? There must be some kind of a background process on iOS that acts as a liaison between Xcode and the debugger and iOS.


texts: I accidentally deleted my ~/.bash_profile, and want to know which apps will go down. What most common apps (development apps) use this file?


texts:
On an iMac 10,1 running Mac OS X 10.6.8, Finder crashes on every startup.

Safe Boot does not work around the problem.

When I log in normally, the Finder Crashed error messages always steal focus. I can barely access anything else, but I created a new user, and it still does it for that new user. I also disabled all startup items, this does not help.

The crash reports – example at http://pastebin.com/HfJH9gHH – seem very cryptic. As per a conversation in Root Access, the following file does exist (found in single user mode):

/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/Backup.framework/Versions/A/Backup

I tried Disk Utility from a USB drive (I created based on the 10.6.3 image), and Repaired Disk Permissions, and Verify Disk shows no errors.

What can I try next?

Extracts from the report at http://pastebin.com/HfJH9gHH (the full report is too long to paste here):

Process:         Finder [767]
Path:            /System/Library/CoreServices/Finder.app/Contents/MacOS/Finder
Identifier:      Finder
Version:         ??? (???)
Code Type:       X86-64 (Native)
Parent Process:  launchd [121]

Date/Time:       2013-05-04 11:45:05.442 -0700
OS Version:      Mac OS X 10.6.8 (10K549)
Report Version:  6

Interval Since Last Report:          -18769895 sec
Crashes Since Last Report:           319926
Per-App Interval Since Last Report:  -1661176241 sec
Per-App Crashes Since Last Report:   319929
Anonymous UUID:                      1B8A0C6A-8AFD-4016-88FA-E8A1EB1F61C0

Exception Type:  EXC_BREAKPOINT (SIGTRAP)
Exception Codes: 0x0000000000000002, 0x0000000000000000
Crashed Thread:  0

Dyld Error Message:
  Symbol not found: _kBackupBrowseOtherDisks
  Referenced from: /System/Library/CoreServices/Finder.app/Contents/MacOS/Finder
  Expected in: /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/Backup.framework/Versions/A/Backup
 in /System/Library/CoreServices/Finder.app/Contents/MacOS/Finder

…

Model: iMac10,1, BootROM IM101.00CC.B00, 2 processors, Intel Core 2 Duo, 3.06 GHz, 4 GB, SMC 1.52f9
Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce 9400, NVIDIA GeForce 9400, PCI, 256 MB
Memory Module: global_name
AirPort: spairport_wireless_card_type_airport_extreme (0x168C, 0x8F), Atheros 9280: 2.1.14.6
Bluetooth: Version 2.4.5f3, 2 service, 19 devices, 1 incoming serial ports
Network Service: AirPort, AirPort, en1
Serial ATA Device: Hitachi HDT721050SLA360, 465.76 GB
Serial ATA Device: HL-DT-ST DVDRW  GA11N
USB Device: Built-in iSight, 0x05ac  (Apple Inc.), 0x8502, 0x24400000 / 2
USB Device: Internal Memory Card Reader, 0x05ac  (Apple Inc.), 0x8403, 0x26500000 / 3
USB Device: DT 100 G2, 0x0930  (Toshiba Corporation), 0x6545, 0x26200000 / 2
USB Device: Hub, 0x0409  (NEC Corporation), 0x55ab, 0x06400000 / 3
USB Device: Microsoft 5-Button Mouse with IntelliEye(TM), 0x045e  (Microsoft Corporation), 0x0039, 0x06420000 / 5
USB Device: M2452, 0x05ac  (Apple Inc.), 0x0201, 0x06410000 / 4
USB Device: BRCM2046 Hub, 0x0a5c  (Broadcom Corp.), 0x4500, 0x06100000 / 2
USB Device: Bluetooth USB Host Controller, 0x05ac  (Apple Inc.), 0x8215, 0x06110000 / 6
USB Device: IR Receiver, 0x05ac  (Apple Inc.), 0x8242, 0x04500000 / 2


texts: How can I update an iOS device using Finder without backing it up?

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As of macOS Catalina, updating iOS devices is now done using Finder rather than iTunes. Thus, the solution proposed here which uses the command defaults write com.apple.iTunes AutomaticDeviceBackupsDisabled -bool true no longer works.
How can I disable automatic backups when updating an iOS device from Finder (as opposed to iTunes)?


texts: This thread here mentions MacTex but it is 2 GB in size and I am trying to find something as small as Apple's open command for modularized preview. How can I get something like pdflatex in OS X? Something like open-style modularized create for OS X?


texts: Striving to become power user on OS X (coming from Windows)

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I'm a long time Windows developer guy & did lots of lower-level stuff (hesitate to say power user). I'm very proficient on the command line and using PowerShell... but now that I've moved over to OS X I feel lost at times. I'm not talking about learning the stuff on https://www.apple.com/support/macbasics/pctomac/ rather, to start I'd like to get a better understanding of the organization of the file system & working in the terminal.

I see /usr and folders in there but my lack of understanding in what I'm typing when I go to install some developer utilities / tools (think stuff that involves Homebrew) feels like I've missed a lot of steps.

Any suggestions on where to crash course?


texts: Apple Hardware Accessories or third-party?

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I am running MacBook Air 13"

I need wireless keyboard, which I am going to use daily. Once in a while, I need to check some CDs or DVDs - mostly I take backup of photos shoot with camera and phone on CDs, so also planning to buy portable DVD and CD writer, which can work with MacBook Air.

Apple has both hardware available

Apple Wireless Keyboard - link
Apple USB SuperDrive - link

As you must be knowing, MacBook Air only has 1 USB port on each side, and lot of external DVD and CD writes comes with 2-usb cable. I am not taking about wireless CD/DVD writer, only USB writer.

I need your suggestion for both - keyboard and writer.

Should I go ahead and buy Apple ones, or are there better h/w available in market which is compatible with MacBook Air?

Thanks.


texts: Mac OS X running so hot when connecting to a secondary monitor

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MacBook Pro (16-inch, 2019)

I'm not sure if anyone else also experiencing this high CPU on their Mac Book and lead to a really hot fire . I’ve experienced this issue a few months after getting this Mac, since then I experienced it every day.
I’m currently on the latest OS BigSur. As you can this Mac is fairly new and fully loaded.
It's kind of sad when it's hot over an app like Chrome or when I connect to a secondary monitor and almost have nothing running at all, and Apple technician can't find anything wrong with it while I brought it to the store twice, and create multiple cases against this Mac. All they say is, they find nothing wrong with it, while I am suffering every day with these types of issues. They suggested me bring it to the store to have it look at, I did that twice, and they find nothing twice.

Issues
kernel_task
hit 1000%+, Mac OS X freeze and unusable have to kill it via a power button

Mail
Sometimes, I saw my Mail hit 170%+

Green Screen
During the CPU spike, I noticed my Chrome started to show Green Screen on a certain site, sections of the page, and even if I tried it on a new browser Brave - yield identical result.

More details, I asked here
https://superuser.com/q/1649154

Steps, I took
I tried calling Apple support multiple times, they walked me to reset SMC fan so many times, and it still seems to overheat back (same day). Reset the NV Ram, and not help. They suggested I upgrade the OS. I did that. They suggested I reinstall the OS. Install all apps one by one, I did that. Since I have no luck with Apple so far, I've decided to take matters into your own hands and did these steps :
Chrome
removing/disabled chrome extensions that I think it might have something to do with all of these. I asked here.

Mail
remove any old inbox that I think I don't need in this Mac

Monitors (driver)
tried with different monitors (34LGUC98 & Dell 34"), with USB-C & HDMI with Apple OEM adapter, while Mac connecting to a default power brick 96W. It got hot doesn't matter which monitor, or cables, I plugged in.
I've tried to install driver even if I don't think I need
https://www.lg.com/us/support/product/lg-34UC98-W.AUS

Balance Left/Right USB-C Ports
Yes, thank you for sharing the link in the comment section. I suddenly tried the first solution, and the result still remains hot  and huge lag, even after moving the plug  to the right side.

Room Temperature
To clear the doubt on room temperature, I turned on not 1, but 2 humidifiers in my room while it's 81° F which according to Apple recommended range (50° and 95° F).

Fan
I had to sacrifice/broke a fan to make it slanted pointed to my mac keyboard area while using it, so my fingers don't get burned and my Mac won't freeze while working, I don't believe anyone should go through all of these while spending over $4000 on a laptop.

Next Steps
I'm thinking to call Apple Support again and maybe have them look at my Mac remotely, but it feels like I'm going to stuck in the loop, where they will tell me to do the same things, waste so much of my times, and ended up ... nothing wrong with my mac while it's clearly is.
I just need my Mac to run like normal again
If anyone knows any better solution that I haven't try, please feel free to suggest.


texts: Can I fix VMware Fusion to correctly map the tilde / back tick on a British keyboard?

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I'm stuck with an odd keyboard layout in Fusion Player v 12.0.1 on macOS 10.15.7 (Catalina) and cannot seem to find a way around it.
The keyboard physically is a bluetooth Apple keyboard UK layout with tilde/back tick between he left shift and Z keys. This is set to 'British' in the system preferences and works fine (i.e. I can type `~§± and the correct symbols show in applications.
I'm running a new VM with Debian 10 in it but cannot find a way to get these keys to map correctly despite working in copy from Mac / paste to VM fine.
Is there a solution to the crossed over keys?


texts: I wanted to purchase an item in-game but I downloaded that game in a different account that I seemed to have lost. I now have a new account and I wonder if I can buy from that account instead.


texts: Should I create APFS volumes or a partition on an external disk?

texts:
I have just newly bought an external drive (not SSD), and was planning to create several partitions on it, for example to keep my files separate from Time Machine backups.

However, when browsing through the Disk Utility help guides, I found the following paragraph:

  However, with APFS, you shouldn’t partition your disk in most cases. Instead, create multiple APFS volumes within a single partition.

I don't need the files or the disk to be compatible with any other operating system – in that case, would it be the recommended option to set the disk format to APFS and then create "multiple APFS volumes" instead of a partition?

Or does the recommendation in the help guide not apply to regular external drives?

I hope this type of question is on-topic here, as it's my first time asking (I'm more used to stackoverflow), and I'd like to thank you in advance for your help!


texts: How can I make an Automator service run a shell script and display the output?

texts:
I'm using Automator to run a shell script (ffmpeg transcode to h264) as a 'Service', so that I can just right click the high res .mov file and select the service. It works fine, but as it's ffmpeg it would be good to see the output in a Terminal window. Is there a way to see the output in real time?

Shouldn't make a difference, but here's the script just in case:

for f in "$@"
do
/usr/local/bin/ffmpeg -i "$f" -c:v libx264 -vf yadif -pix_fmt yuv420p -crf 21 -preset slow -movflags faststart -c:a copy ${f%.*}_h264_yadif.mov
done


texts: To measure the effectiveness of Finder's search

texts:
I have noticed that the Finder's search misses many times matches from PDF documents even in strict Folder search.

It would be very nice to get information about possible skipped matches.
One skipped matched is like 100 minus points.
Adobe search seems to be the must use here otherwise.

Zhora's answer reminds me about the problem in hand.
The default search utilities of OSs are unstable because of variety of different filetypes.
I personally produce Tex files so no problem in indexing plain tex and searching fast.
However, my colleges produce WYSIWYG documents with PDF output.
This thing creates a demand for search programmatically.

One necessary approach in the effectiveness of search is to limit the search space.
I like chflags and .noindex extension in doing this.

How can you measure the effectiveness of Finder's search by Python or other language?


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When I make purchases from my Apple TV it won't automatically download to iTunes on my Mac Mini.

All software is up to date via the current versions available from the App store.
I have reset the Apple TV and resetup the devices.
Created new user on Mac Mini.
Signed into iTunes on the New account and the same problem exists.
Checked for available downloads via the "Store" option and get a message : "All purchases have been downloaded for this Apple ID."

I suspect that the issue can be directly related to the Apple ID and will test with a Different ID tonight. I hope there is someone else who experienced the same issue that can assist.


texts: Internet Sharing won't show under Share settings on OS X Server 10.6.8

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I need to use the Mac Mini Server running 10.6.8 as an access point for my team at the office.

When I go under System Preferences>Sharing there's no Internet Sharing Option.

What to do?


texts: Battery life in Macbook Pro with Touchbar vs non-Touchbar model

texts:
Has anyone measured battery life on both for comparison?
Does the non-Touchbar model have better battery life?


texts: How to connect OS X Yosemite to a Windows based SSTP VPN?

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I am trying to connect to a Windows based SSTP VPN network. I am using OS X Yosemite, I was wondering if there is any solution that can allow me to connect to a SSTP based VPN.

For the record, I have already tried using EasyVPN, iSSTP, iSSTP2. all of which failed to connect, and they all seem to be not supported anymore.


texts: Trouble transferring Mail folders to a new Mac

texts:
I just bought a new Mac.

I want to transfer everything in my Mail install from my previous Mac to this new one. This includes all of the folders that I created "on my Mac"—meaning the contents are stored on the hard drive rather than on the IMAP server.

I've tried copying everything from the ~/Library/Mail/ folder as well as the Mail-related items in ~/Library/Preferences/, but when I launch Mail on the new Mac those 'local' folders aren't there.

I suppose I could manually export them from the old Mac and import them to the new Mac, but that seems incredibly laborious and unnecessary.

Any ideas? This is stumping me. Thank you!


texts: Subscription metadata should be included in the BINARY

texts:
My app uses a auto-renewing subscription, and Apple rejected it:

  We noticed that your app or its metadata did not fully meet the terms
  and conditions for auto-renewing subscriptions, as specified in
  Schedule 2, section 3.8(b) of the Paid Applications agreement.

  Your app's binary did not include the following information about the auto-renewable nature of the subscription:

  Title of publication or service
  Length of subscription (time period and content or services provided during each subscription period)
  Price of subscription, and price per unit if appropriate
  Payment will be charged to iTunes Account at confirmation of purchase
  Subscription automatically renews unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current period
  Account will be charged for renewal within 24-hours prior to the end of the current period, and identify the cost of the renewal

  Subscriptions may be managed by the user and auto-renewal
  may be turned off by going to the user's Account Settings after
  purchase

  Any unused portion of a free trial period, if offered, will
  be forfeited when the user purchases a subscription to that
  publication, where applicable

  Next Steps

  To resolve this issue, please revise your app or its metadata to
  include the missing information. Adding the above information to the
  StoreKit modal alert is not sufficient; the information must also be
  displayed within the app itself, and it must be displayed clearly and
  conspicuously during the purchase flow without requiring additional
  action from the user, such as opening a link.

  If the above information is in your app, please reply to this message
  in Resolution Center to provide details on where to locate it.

We have a Terms and Conditions button that opens a web view. We can put it inline in the app as a view controller that opens when you tap the button, rather than a web view.

Have you gotten this rejection, and what did you have to do to get them to approve it?


texts: Why can't I search files and folders on my external NTFS drive on Mountain Lion?

texts:
I have tried to re-index my external drive by removing it from Spotlight's privacy settings and putting it back there. I tried with mdutil in the terminal and I've got the following log:

bb:~ bb$ mdutil -i on -d /Volumes/TOSHIBA\ EXT
/Volumes/TOSHIBA EXT:
    Indexing and searching disabled.
bb:~ bb$ mdutil -i on /Volumes/TOSHIBA\ EXT
/Volumes/TOSHIBA EXT:
    Indexing enabled.
bb:~ bb$

I tried it with the root password and when I look for files on my external drive I still cannot find them through spotlight even though I know they are on the drive and I can find them by browsing folders.

Is there another way to index my drive?


texts: Stop iTunes from opening when a device is plugged in?

texts:
Since re-installing OS X (10.8), every time I plug in an iOS device iTunes opens up and shows an error message:

  iTunes could not connect to the iPhone "..." because it is locked with a passcode. You must enter your passcode on the iPhone before it can be used with iTunes.

I plug in various devices all the time, just so I can charge them. I do not want them connected to iTunes, I definitely don't want iTunes storing a copy of the device's passcode (or however that works) on my mac, and some of the devices plugged in aren't even mine.

How can I stop this from happening? It doesn't happen when I'm booted into 10.7 on the same mac, with the same iOS devices.

I already have "Prevent iPods, iPhones, and iPads from syncing automatically" enabled in Preferences.

EDIT: this particular device also has "Open iTunes when this device is connected" turned off, so it seems to ignore that setting.


texts: Is it possible to upgrade Ipad4 from IOS 7.0 to IOS 10 with the possibility to downgrade later?

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I have non jailbroken ipad 4th generation with ios 7.0 installed. I want to run some applications that do not support that old version and therefore I need to upgrade.

The device itself has version 9 downloaded but my understanding is that this will not work as IOS 9 can no longer be installed after 10 is out.

I did not find a reliable information about peformance of IOS 10 on ipad 4th and I'm afraid I can turn it to unusable device. Everything that I can find is about some initial versions of IOS 10 and I think it is a known issue that early versions of major releases have some performance bugs.

So don't want to risk and if possible I want to be able to downgrade to IOS 7 if performance is unacceptable. My understanding is that I need to save SHSH for my device which I don't have and I'm not sure if this can be done now.

The first question is if it is possible in principle to save SHSH for old version of IOS given that that version is no longer supported by Apple?

I think there are several ways to do that but I'm not sure if they work or not.

Option 1: Use iFaith

AFAIK iFaith can save SHSH for non jailbroken device.

Question I was not able to find answer to is:

does the latest iFaith support saving of SHSH for IOS 7? According to wiki the latest version is 1.5.9 and it supports IOS 5.3 but I'm not sure this information is accurate.

Option 2: jailbreak + RedSn0w/TinyUmbrella

I can jailbreak first so that I can use tools other than iFaith to save SHSH.

Questions:

Can jailbreak for unsupported version of IOS be done at all?

May be there is some other option to save SHSH I was not able to found. Or may be there is another way to have a backup plan for downgrade.

Any help is appreciated.

Update:

According to https://www.theiphonewiki.com/wiki/SHSH

  Apple only issues signatures for the currently-available iOS version,
  which disallows installing older iOS versions. But if you have saved
  signatures for an older iOS version, you may be able to use a replay
  attack to restore that version. Therefore it is recommended to save
  the signature for your device as long as Apple issues it.

But there is another note there

  Users often misunderstand this system and think that the SHSH firmware
  version they back up depends on the firmware version they have
  installed on their device. This is the case for iFaith, but not for
  TinyUmbrella. iFaith dumps the SHSHs from your device's storage
  (whatever's installed on your device, e.g. 4.3.3), while TinyUmbrella
  gets SHSHs from Apple's servers (whatever firmwares Apple is currently
  signing).

If this is true then option 2 cannot work and the remaining open question is if there exists a method to extract SHSH for IOS 7?


texts: How comes Spotlight started to show results half in English?

texts:
I am using High Sierra 10.13.3 and my system language is definitely set to Italian:

When I want to open the System Preferences (which are called Preferenze di sistema) I usually open Spotlight and start typing the name:

It used to work, but starting a few days ago results are appearing in English, while the rest of the UI is correctly translated.

Why is that? How can I fix this issue?


texts: How can I find which Homebrew package a certain file/binary belongs to (if any)?

texts:
I often find myself forgetting what I installed to get a certain command.  On my Arch machine, I can simply run pacman -Qo $(which <command>) and it finds the associated package.

Does anyone know of a way to do this using brew?


texts: How do I get current location by using Google Map or Apple Map

texts:
How do I get current location coordinate by using Google Map or Apple Map?

I want to copy and paste to email/whatsapp/waze.

I want some kind of this format. 3.1739161,101.984351

Anyone can help?


texts: How do I dock Table of Contents in Books on macOS Mojave?

texts:
I am on macOS Mojave 10.14.2 and using Books Version 1.16(1636.1).

When I am reading a book, the table of contents can be only shown on demand and in auto-hide mode.

Is there a way to dock it?


texts: Microphone / Headphones combo port does not work in BootCamp

texts:
I have an iMac (27-inch, Late 2013) that has a 4-pole TRRS headphone/headset combo port.
On OS X any  headset works nicely (e.g. the Apple iPhone headset with microphone).

On Windows 7 64bit with BootCamp 5.1,
the same headset on the same combo port does not work with the driver as delivered by Apple with BootCamp 5.1 (more precise: 5.1.5640 ).
Apple phone support just told me it is not their problem,
because it works on OS X.
So I tried installing a better driver on my own.

According to the Windows Device Manager,
my sound card is a Cirrus Logic CS4206B (AB 07).
The closest match I could find on the Cirrus homepage was this one:
http://www.cirrus.com/en/products/cs4207.html
(Go to Resources -> Tools and Software).

The same page is also linked in this related thread,
including a step-by-step installation guide,
but it doesn't work for me.
Did someone get a 4-pole headset to work including the microphone on an iMac with the Cirrus Logic CS4206B (AB 07) sound card?


texts: Internal microphone not working (Retina Macbook pro late 2013)

texts:
My internal microphone is not working. It picks up sound only when i flick the outer microphone location. When I plug a headphone with a microphone, there is no problem.

I took it to the genius bar and they seemed to think it was hardware related. They quoted me 500 CAD to replace the top case. This was not acceptable.

I think it is not a software problem. But, I cannot be sure. I think the connection between the logic board and dual microphone might be hindered.

I'm using the beta version of OS X yosemite, I wonder if reinstalling the os might fix the problem?

Is there any trouble shooting advice?


texts:
Why is Chess.app "required by OS X"?

I don't use it, and I can't delete it. Is it really required by the operating system?


texts:
I have a router, two devices (amongst other things) named device1.local and device2.local & 2 switches. Each switch is connected to the router. The two devices are not connected to the same switch. With this configuration, the devices are not able to communicate with each other through Bonjour. Using their IPs, on the other hand, works like a charm.

Now if I connect one of the devices directly to the router, everything is working fine.

Is this a Bonjour limitation? If so, it doesn't make much sense to me. What's the rationale behind this? Is there any to make this work at all (using additional configuration, in the switches or anything else)?


texts: How do I change the image display duration in the Catalina screensavers?

texts:
I am using macOS 10.15.2

I have tried: OS X Mavericks screensaver changes pictures too quickly: How do I slow it down? and it doesn't work. Then I tried: How do I control the image display duration in the Mojave screensavers? Here I can not find the mainDuration default of 3 (Points 6 and 7) and therefore not change it.

I would like to make the image duration screen saver different. Is this possible?


texts: Why is Spotlight contacting Yahoo i.e. Oath?

texts:
A very creepy thing is happening. Every time I turn on Wifi, I see a connection by Catalina's Spotlight to Yahoo's Oath service:

 Spotlight       49345 me   17u  IPv4 0x93dfe36e77e7a7ae      0t0  TCP 192.168.1.9:50976->67.195.228.57:https (ESTABLISHED)

You can get a list of all connections in Terminal by typing:

lsof +c 15 -n -i4TCP

Does anyone know why Spotlight feels it needs to contact Yahoo, which is a company I don't want to have anything to do with?


texts: Macbook Late 2011. Swapped HDD for SDD. Now I have read-only access

texts:
I have a MacBook late 2011 and some time ago I replaced the HDD with a SSD for a Windows partition. The HDD with macOS went to the place where the CD Drive was. I had this configuration for some months.
Now I wanted to swap the macOS HDD with an SSD too. The SSD I've got is a Samsung 860 EVO.
I made a copy of my current macOS system from the HDD to the SSD via USB using Carbon Copy Cloner. Then I installed the SSD in the MacBook.
The system now starts very quickly. But it seems the whole SSD is read-only! I can't even create a new folder on the SSD. I always get Error -50. All programs that want to write files do not work. Dropbox even tells me that there are problems with the permissions. Disk Utility's First Aid does not find any problems. I tried to fix the permissions but I get the message that I have no ownership of the SSD. I have not been able to get ownership because it seems to need root privileges. But I can't activate a root user, because I can't write to the SSD.
Now I have connected the formerly internal HDD via USB and booted from that. I can't write to the SSD either.
I had the same problem before. I had just tried a different SSD before. The same behavior. There I tried to reinstall with the System recovery on the SSD but the process always aborted with the message that the SSD was damaged. When I put the HDD back in the machine everything was fine. So I guess it is no problem with the connectors or wiring.
I can only imagine that the hardware somehow does not support this. But the other SSD in the machine is the exact same type.


texts: Problem with all day events on iPad calendar spanning multiple days instead of one

texts:
I'm having an issue editing all day events on my iPad calendar. If I reschedule an event to the following day, it now spans the two days instead of just one.

The issue only happens on my iPad. I can reschedule appointments on my iPhone without any problems. Date and time zone are set correctly.


texts:
I have connectivity problems and I suspect the latest firmware version 5.1.1 is the source. I think it's impossible to revert back to the previous firmware, but my last backup was from before the update so I have an idea and two questions:

If I restore from the pre-5.1.1 backup will the firmware be also restored, i.e., to pre-5.1.1?
If this is the case, and the problem was indeed caused by 5.1.1, then I would like to stay at that point in the update cycle, at least until 5.1.2 (or whatever). The question is: would I have first been able be able to backup my phone in its current state without affecting the pre-5.1.1 backup, and then (with the above restore done) restore, for instance, the videos and any other things not on iCloud, while leaving the firmware. (In other words, is there any way to cherry-pick parts of backups, as I would be trying to get the firmware from one backup and the content from another?)

EDIT: Should have said, it's an iPhone 4S.


texts: Insert date & time in latest version of Numbers

texts:
I've looked around online and have found references to an "Insert => Date & Time" capability in Numbers for OSX. But it's not there in my version of Numbers (3.0.1 -- 1483). Has this capability been removed?

I've pasted a screenshot of my Insert menu below.


texts: Publishing app under a different name from that of credit card

texts: I've recently completed a simple game, then I found out I need to be at least 18... No worries, you can let someone older publish it for you! Then how would anyone know it was ME who created it? Can my publisher register an apple ID with MY legal name but using their credit card / bank account and birthdate? Or can I use a different name (my name) when publishing it? Or can I at the very least write my name inside the game?


texts: iTerm colors for Prompt, Command, and Output

texts:
Right now my iTerm2 looks like this...

Everything is the same color and is hard to read. Can I make any of the Prompt, Command, and Output different colors like this?


texts: How do I stop my phone from turning off the display whenever I put my finger over the phone speaker?

texts: I have an iPhone 6, and recently I've found out that if you put your finger on the thing next to the front camera, the display will turn black. but I can't find a setting to turn it off. Anyone know where it is? Or if I can? This isn't just calls it's anytime.


texts: Did Apple get rid of autosave and versions in Mavericks?

texts:
(As a heads up, I've hardly used any versions of OS X newer than Snow Leopard. So, I might be missing something obvious here).

I recently installed Mountain Lion and after that Mavericks. While on Mountain Lion, I noticed the "new" versions and autosave feature (released in Lion, right?) that you could access via the context menu of a file in Finder or the arrow next to the file's app's window title.

But, now that I'm in Mavericks, I can't find it in either of these places.


texts: trying to install php fails because of python dependency?

texts:
I just wanted to install php on Mac
brew install PHP
...
==> Installing php dependency: python@3.8
==> Pouring python@3.8-3.8.6.catalina.bottle.tar.gz
Error: The `brew link` step did not complete successfully
The formula built, but is not symlinked into /usr/local
Could not symlink bin/2to3
Target /usr/local/bin/2to3
already exists. You may want to remove it:
rm '/usr/local/bin/2to3'

To force the link and overwrite all conflicting files:
brew link --overwrite python@3.8

To list all files that would be deleted:
brew link --overwrite --dry-run python@3.8

I don't pretend to understand why PHP has a dependency on python...I'd like just to use it.
I don't feel safe either rm te conflicting files as I need python...


texts: Why does my 2017 iMac work in every building except my office building?

texts:
I moved my iMac from home into my office and it would not turn on at all there. So I took it around the corner to a repair man and it turned on straight away at his shop. He suggested I get a UPS to see if that makes a difference. So I took it back to my office and tried plugging it into a UPS, but it still did not work. The input / output voltage on the UPS display read 245 volts (I am in Australia where the wall sockets should be somewhere in the range of 230-240V).  I figured that the voltage must be too high for the iMac, since the power at home (where it works fine) is 230-240V as it should be.  So I unplugged the UPS from the wall to run off the battery and the UPS started outputting 230V yet still the iMac wont turn on!

There has to be something wrong with my office building because the iMac works fine everywhere else! Is there anything specific to the iMac power supply that could cause this?


texts: How to find out which files currently in my iPod would be deleted or modified if I synchronize it?

texts:
The brief version of my question is pretty much what the title says:

  How can I safely determine which of the files currently in my iPod would be deleted or modified if I synchronized it in iTunes?

(The term "modified" is admittedly a bit fuzzy.  If more precision is needed, I'll define "modified" to mean that the old and new versions are not "equal", where files A and B are defined to be "equal" if diff A B produces no output to the terminal.)

(Of course, simply synchronizing the iPod and then "looking for what's missing or changed" is not an acceptable answer.  If you need more details, please read on.)

As I explained in another post, as part of a troubleshooting effort, I would like to enable synchronization for my iPod, in iTunes.

Unfortunately, I am almost certain that synchronizing this iPod with my current iTunes library would result in the modification or outright deletion of many files from my iPod.

The obvious solution of backing up the entire iPod, and restoring it later, is not an option, simply because at the moment I do not have a sufficiently convenient 150GB of disk space that I could use for this.  (In fact, the problem that motivates this post arose as I was trying to make some room in my hard drive.)

But I may have enough room to back up the subset of those files now in my iPod that would be deleted or modified upon synchronization.  Hence the question posed at the beginning of this post.


texts: Can a USB-C to mini DisplayPort cable be used with USB-C to Thunderbolt ports?

texts:
I have the above cable for my current set up of sending display from my PC laptop with a USB-C port to my 2010 iMac with a mini DisplayPort port. It works great.
I have now bought a mid-2011 iMac that does not have a mDP port. It has a Thunderbolt port. Which I guess is Thunderbolt 2.
The current cable is not working with this new set up (even though it will plug into the Thunderbolt port) and I cannot work out if the problem is trying to use the cable itself or if I am not setting it up properly.
So do I need a different cable if the only thing that is changing in the configuration is that instead of a mini DisplayPort on the iMac, I have Thunderbolt port on the iMac.
From other answers I think I might need a different cable but I still can’t quite work out what, or if I need one of those very expensive apple adapters.


texts: New MBPs run out of RAM while older MBPs don't

texts:
I'm running application tests, spread by ssh across five machines, each running several iPhone simulators.

On the three mid-2015 Sierra machines, I can run seven or so Simulators quite happily.

On the two 2016 touchbar machines, I can only run two or three: even four raise the 'Your system has run out of application memory' dialogue and halts the simulators (not something I've seen on the other macs, where the memory pressure is level at around 33%). I also notice that there's about 1G more 'memory used' on the newer machines, and 1G to 3G more in compressed.

There's only about 10G of swap in use - at least, at the point where Activity Monitor itself is paused(!) - which is about 6G short of where I'd expect problems to start.

I've tried switching the new machines into server mode with nvram boot-args="serverperfmode=1" but there's no difference.

The version of XCode and Sierra is the same for both, and both have maxproc increased to 2500 to accommodate the extra simulators, but I don't believe I've tweaked the old machines in any other way, so I'm at a bit of a loss to understand where the difference is aside from hardware.

I can't imagine the touchbar takes up much; is the screen going to eat into application memory? The fingerprint driver?


texts:
I have iPhone6 and it is working perfectly till now. The iOS version is IOS9.3.2

Recently I am facing the below problems

It doesn't recognize my touch strokes some times. It happens twice or thrice in a day. But when I lock explicitly by side button and then I unlock it used to work fine.

But today the problem become worse. The touch strokes working in correctly. Below are the problems
 - If I touch one thing another thing other thing is happening. Example is if I touch Phone app. It is opening browser and automatically types some letters in the address bar.

While typing problem is worse. If i try to enter password for AppleId/Wifi. If I type 's' it is typing 'oijh', something like that.
If I open phone app, it automatically calls some number and some times dropping the call.
If I open mail, it automatically opens some folders and some mail moving those into some other folder.

I have erased all settings and content. But still the same issue.

I don't understand what is happening my iPhone6. is it Virus got attacked? How to resolve this issue?


texts: Apple mail matching signatures with account aliases possible?

texts:
I use a gmail account with apple mail. It's very annoying that I have to pick a matching signature everytime I decided to change the from email alias.

Is there anything I can do that will allow me to match up a signature with each alias email address?


texts: Ways around the bootcamp 5.1.4 Windows 8 and above rule?

texts: I'm currently trying to do a dual boot with the Bootcamp Assistant version 5.1.4. I have a Windows 7 iso and flash drive and everything necessary. The only problem is that Bootcamp 5.1.4 requires Windows 8 or above. Are there any workarounds? Can I download an older Bootcamp assistant or just continue straight through with the current one, disregarding the regulation? Thanks for the help.


texts:
I got a Mac Pro early 2008 2x 2.8 quad-core for 12 years now. A few weeks ago, it stopped booting after 5 seconds. I restarted it and it was ok. But the problem came more and more often the next days, and today it just doesn't boot anymore. It stops after only 2 seconds. I've noticed that the CPU LEDS 5 & 6 flash in sync one time at the very end, when the fans stop with a last 'clic'.
I tried everything I could do before posting this question, I mean unplug all hardwares, cleaning, and I followed the very complete answer from @monomeeth Boot fail diagnosis

When I press the DIAG_LED, I got only the LED 2 on. So I don't know if the problem comes from the Logic Board or from the PSU... hope it's not both :(

I'm about to order a used PSU for trying, but I'd like to be sure.
The noob question is : if it's a PSU trouble, why the computer was able to start correctly sometimes ?

Thanks in advance for your precious help !


texts: Can I sync the to do list in Microsoft Entourage to an iPod touch?

texts: Is it possible to sync the to do list in Entourage to an iPod touch. My Dad has his whole to do list in Entourage and would like to sync it with his iPod touch. How do I go about doing this?


texts: How to check whether the Mac OS X installation DVD I have is for my MacBook Pro?

texts:
I just tried to reinstall OS X on my 13" MacBook Pro with the installation DVD that I have (OS is Snow Leopard, I bought around 2010). I followed all the reinstallation steps correctly, but what I got is a "Mac OS X cannot be installed on this computer" error. I read lots of forums post about the solutions and tried everything, but nothing works. I tried zeroing the partition several times with GUI partition scheme, did PRAM/NVRAM reset. Nothing works.

So there's only one scenario I need to check which is whether the Mac OS X installation DVD that I have is for my MacBook Pro. Can anyone please kindly point out to me how I can check whether the disc is the correct one for my MacBook Pro?


texts: How to create desktop shortcut for Chrome profile and run two or more profiles simultaneously?

texts:
I am new to Mac, and I have my rough time (missing keys, wrong shortcuts and etc). But I don't give up. I am a JS developer with more than 10 years of Windows and Linux (Debian, Ubuntu) experience and I need another Chrome profile accessible on a demand. The easiest way for me is another icon in Dock (and on the desktop).
It is very easy in Windows - one just have to make shortcut and enter command line for chrome which looks like this:
google-chrome --profile-directory=Default

For OS X I found command line is

open -a "Google Chrome" --args --profile-directory=Default

How to make a shortcut in Dock and on Desktop using it?

Please mind the subject (question), it is important for me, that shortcuts has to allow running multiple profiles simultaneously. I didn't stated it first time, because it was obvious for me it will work that way (Linux and Windows just do it).


texts: How to install default/stock Terminal app?

texts: I uninstalled the default/stock Terminal app via AppCleaner. How to get the default/stock Terminal back without reinstalling Mojave?


texts: Grant "Full Disk Access" to Workflows run via the Services menu

texts:
I have an Automator Workflow installed as a service, that I run via Finder → Services → My Automator Workflow.

The workflow copies some files to a DOS formatted thumb drive, and them attempts to remove invisible directories from it before ejecting it. The device that then uses this drive doesn't like dot-directories like /.Spotlight-V100/.

Inside that Workflow is an AppleScript step, which includes a do shell script command, which uses an /bin/rm command which fails with the message:

The action “Run AppleScript” encountered an error: “rm: /Volumes/MERCEDES/.Spotlight-V100: Operation not permitted”

If I launch the workflow in Automator, I get the same error.

BUT, if I add Automator.app in System Preferences → Security & Privacy → Privacy → Full Disk Access, I no longer get that error when I run the Workflow from Automator, but I still get it when I run from Finder.

So, naturally, I presume that when the script is run by the Services menu, it's different process running it, and I've been trying to figure out (by watching Activity Monitor) what process is so I can whitelist. Processes I've tried unsuccessfully:

com.automator.runner.xpc
ScriptMonitor.app
rm

Does anyone know which process needs to be whitelisted for this use case?


texts: How do I scroll left or right in a text input field on my iPhone?

texts: Sometimes webpages are completely nonfunctional on a phone. There's no way to edit text that extends beyond the text box.


texts: How to get mailto links working properly with Outlook webapp in Fluid?

texts:
There is a handler for gmail in Fluid by default. I need one for the Outlook webmail client. I have set up Mail app to point to the Outlook Fluid app (how to here). I searched for similar questions here on Ask Different and found this post to be helpful as far as setting up a whitelist, but it makes no mention of the mailto handler, so I am creating this question here. In the other post, it was recommended to create a whitelist for:

outlooklive.com
outlook.com
live.com
outlook.com

Which I have. But, I decided to set the Fluid app to Allow browsing to any URL for now just to err on the safe side in getting over the hurdle with sorting out the mailto: handler first. When a handler is working, I will then turn on the whitelist functionality again and go from there.

Currently when I click mailto links in other applications outside of Fluid, it will open the Fluid Outlook app and bring it into focus, but all it will display is the inbox. It does not come up with a compose screen with email address, or subject or pre-filled text (if applicable).

I suspect that perhaps I need to configure a handler and possibly an extension in order for the Outlook Fluid app to open mailto: links as expected when clicking on a mailto: link in web browsers, pdfs, docs, apps etc.

I thought that perhaps the gmail handler could be repurposed to work as an outlook handler fairly easily but I'm not an experienced coder. Here's a screenshot and the code.

Pattern: mailto:*

Handler Code:

function transform(inURLString) {
    inURLString = inURLString.replace('mailto:', '');
    inURLString = inURLString.replace('&amp;', '&');

    var argStr = '';
    var splits = inURLString.split('?');

    var emailAddr = null;
    var args = {};
    if (splits.length > 0) emailAddr = splits[0];
    if (splits.length > 1) argStr = splits[1];

    var outURLString = 'https://mail.google.com/mail/?view=cm&fs=1&to=' + emailAddr;

    if (argStr.length > 0) outURLString += '&' + argStr;
    return outURLString;
}

I tried replacing the string var outURLString = 'https://mail.google.com/mail/?view=cm&fs=1&to=' + emailAddr; with var outURLString = 'https://outlook.live.com/?view=cm&fs=1&to=' + emailAddr; but no dice.


texts: Is there a way to install/hack iMessage onto Lion/10.7?

texts: My machine (MacBookPro2,2) doesn't support 10.8 and I would rather hold back on doing the upgrade (possible with hacks). So is it possible to stay on 10.7/Lion and get iMessage working?


texts: Syncing the documents and files from two accounts on one mac via iCloud

texts:
I have two accounts on my mac. One for fun, one for work, but there is overlap in some of the files I use between the two, so I want to have all files in my Documents folder accessible to both accounts.

For this I figured that if I synced the two mac accounts with the same iCloud account, Documents and Desktop would also be synced. It seems like that is not the case. Does anyone know a way to achieve this?


texts: Accidentally connected iCloud to my work machine and now I have a huge mess on my hands.

texts: So I don't really remember how this happened, but during some sort of update I accidentally signed into icloud with my personal account instead of my work account. Somewhere in this process I actually activated icloud, so now ALL of my work stuff from my work machine is in iCloud, I'm not entirely sure how to get it back on my desktop without also putting a bunch of personal info and documents on the machine, and I'm hoping to fix this before anyone notices a massive change in my bandwidth usage. Any ideas for how to do this?


texts: How to download the latest OS X El Capitan? Not update, not install, only download

texts:
How can I download the latest El Capitan? If I follow http://www.apple.com/osx/ it offers me to upgrade.

When I open https://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=1018109117&mt=12&ls=1&v0=www-us-osx-how-app-elcapitan there is a button "Download". I click it and the circle near it starts spinning indicating like download has started. The "Download" button itself got disabled. But nothing really happening. It has been spinning for 15 min now and I cannot see any OS downloads.

Where does it download OS to? How can I know exact state of the downloading? Now it looks like a bug - it spins but nothing is happening.


texts: Is it a good idea to run MacOS off of a flash drive?

texts: I have an old 2013 iMac and it is very slow because the hard drive is corrupted. I want to replace the hard drive with a new ssd, but before I do that I want to see how the computer would run with an ssd. Unfortunately, I don’t have any free ssds laying around to install macOS on, so I am wondering if using a flash drive would work well and as smooth as an ssd as long as I left enough room available?


texts: How can I fix iTunes to sync apps and musics?

texts:
I have used my own apple ID to sync music and apps for long times. About 5 months ago my friend installed a new app by his own apple ID on my phone and now unfortunately I can't sync any app or music.

iPhone 5s
iTunes version:   12.0.1.26
iOS version:     7.0.4

How can I fix this problem ?


texts:
The error:

Console log:

 2019-06-12 11:21:10+08 Williams-MacBook-Pro-6 softwareupdated[525]: SUBridgeOSUpdateManager: bridgeOS update prepare for 041-57074 failed: Error Domain=BOSErrorDomain Code=111 "An error occurred extracting the update or brain package." UserInfo={NSLocalizedDescription=An error occurred extracting the update or brain package., NSUnderlyingError=0x7f9c071cd9a0 {Error Domain=PKXARArchiveErrorDomain Code=101 "archive verify failed" UserInfo={NSURL=file:///Library/Updates/041-57074/BridgeOSUpdateCustomer.pkg#Payload, NSFileOwnerAccountID=0, NSFileHFSTypeCode=0, NSFileSystemFileNumber=23313017, NSFileExtensionHidden=false, NSFileSystemNumber=16777221, NSFileSize=327028014, NSFileGroupOwnerAccountID=0, NSFileOwnerAccountName=root, NSFilePosixPermissions=420, NSFileHFSCreatorCode=0, NSFileCreationDate=2019-05-21 02:38:18 +0000, NSFileType=NSFileTypeRegular, NSFileExtendedAttributes={
            "com.apple.quarantine" = <30303836 3b356365 33363731 393b3b>;
        }, NSFileGroupOwnerAccountName=wheel, NSFileReferenceCount=1, NSFileModificationDate=2019-05-22 02:42:43 +0000, NSLocalizedDescription=archive verify failed}}}
    2019-06-12 11:21:10+08 Williams-MacBook-Pro-6 softwareupdated[525]: Changing status (foreground bridgeOS prepare failed) for key 041-57074 from "preparing bridgeOS update" to "download error"
    2019-06-12 11:21:10+08 Williams-MacBook-Pro-6 softwareupdated[525]: Stopping transaction with ID [0x6]
    2019-06-12 11:21:10+08 Williams-MacBook-Pro-6 softwareupdated[525]: SoftwareUpdate: Removed foreground transaction [0x6]
    2019-06-12 11:21:10+08 Williams-MacBook-Pro-6 softwareupdated[525]: Running session-idle tasks.
    2019-06-12 11:21:10+08 Williams-MacBook-Pro-6 softwareupdated[525]: Checking for inapplicable local products remaining on disk for cleanup
    2019-06-12 11:21:10+08 Williams-MacBook-Pro-6 SoftwareUpdateNotificationManager[875]: SUAppStoreUpdateController: status for 041-57074: 041-57074 (a=0x3): download error (2806700848 of 2806700848) 80.0% 1.0s (error: Error Domain=SUErrorDomain Code=602 "An error occurred installing the update." UserInfo={NSUnderlyingError=0x7fc7500218f0 {Error Domain=BOSErrorDomain Code=111 "An error occurred extracting the update or brain package." UserInfo={NSLocalizedDescription=An error occurred extracting the update or brain package., NSUnderlyingError=0x7fc750038cd0 {Error Domain=PKXARArchiveErrorDomain Code=101 "archive verify failed" UserInfo={NSURL=file:///Library/Updates/041-57074/BridgeOSUpdateCustomer.pkg#Payload, NSFileOwnerAccountID=0, NSFileHFSTypeCode=0, NSFileSystemFileNumber=23313017, NSFileExtensionHidden=false, NSFileSystemNumber=16777221, NSFileSize=327028014, NSFileGroupOwnerAccountID=0, NSFileOwnerAccountName=root, NSFilePosixPermissions=420, NSFileHFSCreatorCode=0, NSFileCreationDate=2019-05-21 02:38:18 +0000, NSFileType=NSFileTypeRegular, NSFileExtendedAttributes={
            "com.apple.quarantine" = <30303836 3b356365 33363731 393b3b>;
        }, NSFileGroupOwnerAccountName=wheel, NSFileReferenceCount=1, NSFileModificationDate=2019-05-22 02:42:43 +0000, NSLocalizedDescription=archive verify failed}}}}, NSLocalizedRecoverySuggestion=You can try again to complete the installation., NSLocalizedDescription=An error occurred installing the update.})
    2019-06-12 11:21:10+08 Williams-MacBook-Pro-6 system_installd[896]: PackageKit: Removing client PKInstallDaemonClient pid=525, uid=200 (/System/Library/CoreServices/Software Update.app/Contents/Resources/softwareupdated)


texts:
I want to modify cmd+c so that when I press it, it copies the entire line the cursor is currently placed on.

How do I accomplish this?

I want this configuration to be system-wide.


texts: CPU broken on my late 2013 Macook Pro. Is it worth replacing?

texts: My computer keeps restarting and after taking it into the Apple store and a repair store, both are telling me the CPU needs to be replaced. The Macbook pro is a late 2013 and it's like a $500+ repair. Do you think it's worth replacing or should I just buy a new machine? Also, is the CPU the same as the logic board?


texts: Different pricing of apps regarding regions in country

texts:
My customer asked me the following question:

"Imagine the situation you have an app that costs 0.99$. Is there any way to make this app free in certain area, such as chosen cities in a country? Obviously we would make a deal with city council that they allow this app to be free within the city"

The straightforward answers is "no, this is totally impossible", but after all I decided to ask the community here.

Maybe there is a way to set some promo codes in in app payments? I mean, the app download is free but to use this app after installation you must do some in-app purchase or fill the promo code to use the app for free. And these promo codes would be delivered to citizens in some way.

Do you have any idea how to approach such problem? Or maybe it's even pointless to look for any solution?

Thanks in advance


texts: Does macOS's Core Graphic Rendering convert everything into PDF?

texts:
That is, when you run games like Quake (which are, I believe in OpenGL), is every frame internally converted to PDF and then rasterized?

Or, when I do a game in UIKit/GameKit, it is also internally converted to PDF, frame-by-frame?

At least, I lost as I understood from the source: ARS Technica -Inside Quartz


texts: How can I track total data usage for individual apps on iOS7?

texts:
I have a data limited 4g contract and my iPad is downloading huge chunks of data overnight, daily. I need to be able to track how much data individual apps are using, however as I am connecting to 4g through wifi, I can't just check mobile (celluar) data usage.

How can I track the total data each app is using, both over mobile networks and wifi?


texts: Default to ActiveSync for Exchange Calendar

texts: Even though I have Exchange ActiveSync set up in my iPhone 6 settings, when I create a new appointment it defaults to iPhone calendar instead. How do I set the ActiveSync calendar as the default?


texts: iOS kindle app - where is the anotations file?

texts:
When using my kindle I can make all manner of annotations, which I can then view on the book I have anotated. This is also true of my kindle iOS app.

However, the kindle itself has a document on it called something like 'my annotations', which constains all the notes I've written on any book (this is handy when the note I've written on the book is something like 'buy milk'), but my iOS kindle app doesn't have this 'my annotations' document. Can someone tell me either how to get the same functionality out of the app, or why this is the case?


texts: Reuse Time Machine backup drive after migration to new machine - revisited

texts:
The answer by tubedogg to question Reuse Time Machine backup drive after migration to new machine described a procedure to do this.  It didn't address this issue:

JT-imac:/Users/jt>> sudo tmutil associatedisk -a "/Volumes/Macintosh HD" "Volumes/IoTMBU/Backups.backupdb/Latest/Macintosh HD"
/Users/jt/Volumes/IoTMBU/Backups.backupdb/Latest/Macintosh HD: Not a snapshot volume.

Stupid typo or fouled up TM BU drive?


texts: Custom keyboard I created with ukalele not working

texts:
I created a custom layout with Ukalele. This file is here: http://www.filedropper.com/koray1

The filename is: koray1.keylayout

I copied this file to /Library/Keyboard Layouts

However I do not see it available for selecting:

What am I doing wrong?


texts: Will the MAS prompt me to keep my Xcode 5?

texts: I have Xcode 5.11. If I try to install the newest (6.0) Xcode from the Mac App Store, will I be prompted to keep my current Xcode?


texts: How can I format the Time Capsule hard disk?


texts: My MacBook was stolen: can the thief access my files without my account password?

texts: My computer is set up to require a login after its been put to sleep and it has a fairly complex password, so I'm not worried about anyone guessing it. The MacBook was stolen, and I'm wondering if there's a way for that person to access my files, or will they just have to wipe the drive (hopefully).


texts: My macbook pro 13' 2015 keyboard and track pad not working

texts: Suddenly the keyboard and trackpad of my macbook pro 13' 2015 model stopped working, this issue happened when I upgrade from sierra to high sierra. Also I already tried re-installing the OS from the internet recovery way, still the issue is present. Then I tried booting my macbook pro on Remix OS (android) both the keyboard and trackpad is working fine.


texts: iOS in-app purchase: Keeping consumable counter in keychain, do I need to document export compliance

texts: The answer to iPhone - in-App purchase consumable correct approach on stackoverflow is very appealing for keeping track of consumables in the keychain. However, using the keychain for this purpose (not username/password), will it trigger the need to document export compliance?


texts: Viewing/Changing App paths used by `open -a foo.app ...`

texts:
When using open -a iTerm.app SOMEPATH from a shell-script or Emacs eshell command, it appears to launch a different instance of iTerm than the one in /Applications/iTerm.app that I'd expect.

Explicitly specifying the app path like:

open -a /Applications/iTerm.app SOMEPATH works as expected.

This leads me to suspect that there's a lookup table/database somewhere (probably part of LaunchServices) that's mapping bare .app names to an on-disk path, and it's somehow confused as to which it should be using (I do have multiple instance of iTerm on disk, from when I've been playing around with compiling from source. None are in my $PATH, however.)

Any suggestions on how to find what on-disk path an
open -a <non-absolute .app name> will use, and ideally, how it can be changed?


texts: Remove “Windows” Entry from Mac Boot Loader

texts:
How can I delete the "Windows" option

I have tried several option, but nothing seems to work

I even wipe out the Mac and reinstall macOS Catalina and nothing.

It shows when I connect the USB with macOS Catalina to install


texts: Can I harm my iPhone if I damaged my lightning cable chip or scratched the contacts?

texts:
I was using a Dremel to make the aluminum shell on a new lightning cable (long, braided) fit through the hole in my iPhone 6S+ case.

The aluminum shell got extremely hot. The cable seems to charge fine (didn't try data transfer), but I'm neurotic enough to worry that maybe the chip is somewhat damaged and something bad could happen in the future...Neurotic, right?

Also, I scraped some of the contacts (it was my first time using the Dremel!), which I'm guessing is no big deal either...?

Thanks :)


texts: How do I make my own terminal command with flags?

texts: So suppose I want to make a terminal command and I also want to add specific flags how do I accomplish this? What is the syntax for this and how do accomplish this?


texts: Deleting photos that have been backed up iCloud

texts: If I delete a photo from my camera roll after backing up on iCloud, will the backup (In this case, the photo I deleted) be affected?


texts: how do i backup my iphone 4 without knowing my passcode ?

texts: i forgot my pass-code and I've never had the change to back it up until now, is there a way to backup without knowing the pass ?


texts: Can the 1m Apple USB C cable charge the 13 inch MacBook Pro at full speed?

texts:
I'm wondering if the 1m Apple USB C cable can charge the 13 inch MacBook Pro safely at full speed (i.e. 60W). From my knowledge, all certified USB C cables support 60W charging, which means it should. However, it's really hard to tell if that's actually the case from the website, because the only thing it says on that site is that it's "recommended for use with the iPad Pro and the 18W power adapter."
I know that the 2m Apple USB C cable is able to provide up to 100W of power; however, I am interested specifically in the 1m cable which comes by default with iPads.
I have been looking at Apple support articles and none of them mention anything about this cable—they only talk about the 2m cable.


texts: How to clone an audio CD (including pauses between tracks) under Mac OS X Mountain Lion?

texts:
I need to clone an audio CD, including the defined pauses between tracks. Under Linux, cdrdao would do the trick for me, but I cannot get the version from MacPorts to work — it will not read from my SuperDrive.

Could someone please tell me how to clone a CD with a MacBook Pro under Mountain Lion?


texts:
The display shows up fine if I connect to an external display.

Is this a hardware problem that can only be fixed by replacing the entire screen? It's no longer on warranty (1.5 years, no AppleCare), and the customer support told me it'd cost $128 for a diagnose and $600-800 for replacement of screen, which I thought it'd be more worth just buying a new one.


texts: AppleScript check if Chrome Extension is installed

texts:
Using AppleScript, I need to check if Adblock Plus (ABP) is installed in the Chrome Browser.
After numerous attempts at trying to figure out how, I have come to the conclusion that it would be relatively easy to check if the ABP "firstRun.html" exists.

Or is there a more reliable script to check if this specific extension is installed?

Here is my script, however it always returns true. Please Help.

if checkIfABPInstalled() is true then
    log "FOUND"
else
    log "NOT FOUND"
end if

on checkIfABPInstalled()
    try
        tell application "Google Chrome"
            if ("chrome-extension://cfhdojbkjhnklbpkdaibdccddilifddb/firstRun.html") exists then
                return true
            else
                return false
            end if
        end tell
    on error
        return false
    end try
end checkIfABPInstalled


texts: How do I enable DNSSec on OSX? (Or DNSCurve)

texts:
I want to support encrypted IPSec communications, and DANE certs in DNS.  Notably, DNSSSec is a prerequisite is IPSec (secure IP addresses from DNS)

How can I configure my OS X computer to use DNSSec when available, and to refuse incorrect responses.

I understand that DNSSec is best done on a server, and have your workstation point to THAT, however, this also applies to OS X Server.


texts: Strange characters appearing in Terminal

texts:
When using Terminal, I sometimes get the following appearing.

Last login: Fri Dec 27 22:04:56 on ttys002
ޕ:~ agrimm$ cd ruby
ޕ:ruby agrimm$ cd ..
ޕ:~ agrimm$ cd ruby/
ޕ:ruby agrimm$ pwd
/Users/agrimm/ruby
ޕ:ruby agrimm$

With the following screenshot (in which it can be seen that the order of text isn't correct)

I'm using "Default login shell" in my Terminal settings.

The files mentioned in this answer seem normal. /etc/profile seems normal. ~/.bash_profile seems normal apart from rbenv, homebrew, and Java stuff:

# Commented out lines not included
if which rbenv > /dev/null; then eval "$(rbenv init -)"; fi
export PATH=$PATH:/opt/local/bin
export JAVA_HOME=`/usr/libexec/java_home -v 1.6 -a x86_64`

~/.bash_login doesn't exist

~/.profile seems fairly normal:

# MacPorts Installer addition on 2009-12-30_at_14:40:02: adding an appropriate PATH variable for use with MacPorts.
export PATH=/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:$PATH
# Finished adapting your PATH environment variable for use with MacPorts.

I'm using Snow Leopard. uname -a gives the following:

Darwin ޕ 10.8.0 Darwin Kernel Version 10.8.0: Tue Jun  7 16:33:36 PDT 2011; root:xnu-1504.15.3~1/RELEASE_I386 i386

The problem seems to occasionally appear and disappear.

How do I fix the strange characters and the order of text being wrong?


texts: Boot camp assistant: Size of winddows support software download

texts:
My boot camp assistant has been downloading "windows support software" for a long time. There is no speed indicator, or total download size.

I have tracked the network activity in activity monitor and it has so far downloaded 2.5GB and counting.

Does anyone have any idea how big this download is? It is unbelievable for them to have such a huge download without an estimate of time remaining or progress... what an absolute joke.

Update: The mac is a mac mini late 2012 running yosemite, trying to install Windows 8.1 retail.

The eventual download size was 2.8GB.


texts: How to see the full date on macOS Big Sur?

texts:
With default settings, the clock on macOS Catalina shows the current day of the week and the current time. You can click the clock to reveal the full date.
In the Big Sur update, this dropdown seems to have vanished, instead opening notification center on interaction.
I don't want to see the full date at all times. It takes up space in the dock, and most of the time the full date is not really relevant information. I would prefer to be able to use the old behavior if possible.


texts: How to share a Smart Album in Photos App

texts:
I am using the new Photos app in OSX and would like to share recent photos with the Apple TVs in my house by using Home Sharing.  The photos would be used for the screen saver feature on the Apple TV.  It seems as though the best way to do it is to use a Smart Album and set the Date range.

However, it seems as though Smart Albums cannot be accessed using Home Sharing as they do not appear as an option in the Apple TV screen saver settings.

Does anyone know if it is possible to share Smart Albums using Home Sharing?


texts: How to add shared email account to mail.app without integrating inbox

texts:
I have mail.app setup with several personal accounts and use my inbox as a todo list by archiving completed tasks/emails. I need to add a shared email account and can't archive the inbox items otherwise other people wouldn't see them, so now I have all the shared account inbox items filling up my inbox.

Is it possible to somehow add an email account such that mail.app doesn't combine its inbox with my other inboxes? The only solution seems to be to use a separate email client.


texts: Is it possible to install Mountain Lion on a MacMini 1,1 (Mid 2007)?


texts: Can podcasts be grouped or organised in iTunes?

texts:
I have a lot of podcast subscriptions in iTunes that cause a long scrollbar. This is exacerbated when a subscription is expanded and available podcasts listed.

It would be great if I could just group podcasts by type (eg, music, comedy, documentaries etc). I've been unable to find a way of doing this myself. Is it at all possible?


texts: iMac turned itself on after power was cut

texts: I left my computer sleeping but turned off the power by accident. Hours after the power was turned back on the computer booted itself up. It is plugged into a UPS. I don't understand how this could happen.


texts: How do I change iTunes to new email address

texts: I had used an answer for changing my new email address back to my old, as was suggested in a prior recommendation.  Now, the system wants to send a code to my old address in order to make the change. The problem is that I no longer have access to my old email address. As it stands, I no longer can use iTunes as it shows my old address in grey and it doesn't allow me to change it to my new address. What can I do?


texts: How to find out which process is sending huge data to the internet?

texts:
I have installed MenuMeters so I can see the realtime outbound date, sometimes it will display "out: 5xxKB/s" for a long time, so I want to know which process is sending data to the internet?

How to do that in Mac?


texts: Windows 10 installation using Boot Camp crashes in iMac with 'system thread exception not handled (igdkmd64.sys)'

texts:
I've installed Windows 10 Pro in my iMac using Boot Camp but when the computer is on for 3-5 minutes, it crashes and shows BSOD with the error 'SYSTEM_THREAD_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED (igdkmd64.sys)'.

I've searched online; everyone saying this is caused by the built-in Intel HD graphics card driver but my iMac has dedicated graphic card AMD Radeon HD 6500 and the driver is updated to current version.

I followed these steps to fix the issue but still no luck.

Disabled the Intel HD driver from device manager under display adapters
Renamed the igdkmd64.sys from C:/Windows/system32 directory (once I completely deleted)
Uninstalled Intel HD graphics software from Programs and Features.

…but each time when I restart the PC, a new igdkmd64.sys file exists in the system32 directory.

The problem is Windows Update always tries to install that corrupted Intel HD driver in the system32 directory.

I couldn't continue to do any work on Windows, because I don't know when it's going to crash.

This issue was not there when I was running Windows 8.1 for nearly a year and half, but when I installed Windows 10 its started to happen.


texts:
I need to transfer all apps from iPad 1 (without cellular) to another iPad 1 (with cellular). My eldest son plays some child's app on my old iPad 1. My younger son grown up so he want's to play this games too. As I have another one iPad 1 I wanted to install this apps on it. But they are don't support iOS 5 any longer.
So I'm looking way to clone old iPad.


texts: Resetting PRAM without a(n) (Apple) keyboard?

texts:
A while back I had an issue with my (2013) iMac not recognizing the keyboard after it was unplugged and re-plugged in.  I had to actually power down the iMac and power it back up before it would recognize the keyboard.  After taking it in to an Apple Store (a 30 mile drive, very inconvenient) they simply reset the PRAM and the problem went away.

Now I find the computer is not recognizing the keyboard again, but this time it doesn't even reset it from a cold boot.  I have tried the keyboard on another iMac and it works there, so I don't think the problem is the keyboard. I would like to try resetting the PRAM again to avoid a trip to the Apple Store if possible, but since the keyboard isn't recognized... well, how do I reset the PRAM?  Is there a way to do it without a keyboard?  Or is there a similar key sequence on a non-Apple keyboard?  I am currently using a Dell keyboard and it works for normal usage, but I don't seem to have all the keys I need to reset the PRAM - I have P and R but where are "command" and "option"?


texts: iPhone 7 has a cellular bug. Apple will repair - if i pay $$$ to have screen fixed too. Help!

texts:
iPhone 7 has a known bug that causes cellular service to sometimes fail - so the phone no longer works as a phone.
Took phone with this bug into Genius bar, and was told they'd repair it for free - if I also agreed to have them repair a teeny crack in the screen for $150. They would not fix the cellular issue without the screen repair.
Any ways around this?  Any way to get Apple to fix their bug for free?


texts: How do I search Mail.app by country code?

texts: I want to look at just the emails sent to me from the .ru (or any other domain code), and I'm not having ay luck. Searching from:.ru orfrom:".ru" doesn't work. A wildcard approach doesn't work either. Anybody out there know the trick?


texts: How do I delete photos from Apple Photos retaining only those marked as favorite?

texts:
This should be a fairly easy task to carry out, but I cannot seem to figure out a straightforward way of deleting all but favorite photos from the Apple photos app. One workaround is for me to create a smart album to pool all favorites together --> export --> delete all photos --> reimport, but this definitely is a waste of time especially with large libraries.
Am I missing something here? Any ideas?


texts: iTunes smart playlist not syncing to iPhone

texts: My smart playlists created in iTunes are not syncing to my iPhone.  I have resolved to copying the songs that are in the smart playlist to a regular playlist to get the playlist onto the iPhone.  Why is it that smart playlists won't sync?


texts: Setting up automatic red / green notifications for continuous testing and TDD?

texts:
Note: this was originally posted under stackoverflow, and someone sensibly downvoted it since it's really OS X specific.  So I'm reposting it over here, since it's been generally helpful.

I like doing Test Driven Development (TDD), and so I would like a way for my test suite to run whenever I make a change to a source file or test file.

In addition, I'd like the results of the test to display in an ephemeral "Growl" style window in the corner of my screen, showing a green icon if all tests passed and a red icon if one or more tests fail.

I know there is such a mechanism for node.js in mocha, and for ruby environments there's guard-rspec. But how do I create one for my [fill in the blank] testing environment under OS X?


texts: automatically reconnect to network drive when it is present

texts:
I know how to connect to a network drive on startup via the accounts preference pane, but when I lose my network connection, I have to manually reconnect to the drive.  How do I get MacOS to always attempt to connect to the drive when it is present?  I'm on Catalina.
thanks


texts: I'm getting lots of Samba "too many open files" errors. How can I troubleshoot?

texts:
I'm using Mac OS X Snow Leapord. My iMac's hard drive has been getting unexpectedly full, and I finally tracked the problem down to a huge file: private/var/log/samba/log.smbd.old, weighing in at 400GB.

I just ran tail -100 log.smbd.old to see the last 100 lines of that log file. What I see is a ton of "too many open files" errors.

This is a work machine. I do share files with other Mac users, and also access a shared Windows drive via Samba.

How can I troubleshoot these errors so the log file doesn't get filled with them?


texts: Is there a splitter for the Thunderbolt on my MacBook Air?

texts: My Macbook Air has only one Thunderbolt port, but I need to connect both to my internet cable and also to my VGA monitor. I have an adapter to do each, but obviously I can use only one at a time. What do I need to buy to be able to connect both the cable & the monitor?


texts:
What I’ve tried so far:

On this screen I hit ‘Download and Install’ and then ‘Continue’:

After that, nothing ever happens. I’ve waited for ~10h, left it connected to the charger the whole night.

My device: iPhone 6s 16Gb still with iOS 12.4.

Is it not possible to go directly from 12.4 to 13.1.3? What to do now?


texts: Activity Monitor doesn't show all CPU usage

texts: This seems to be new behavior in macOS Catalina.  While compiling a large C project with make -j8, the CPU is obviously pegged at 100%, but Activity Monitor doesn't show all the busy processes.  I have it set in the View menu to show All Processes.  I'm guessing this has something to do with Catalina's new sandboxing security features, preventing Activity Monitor from seeing what I'm doing?


texts: Sound not working when running OS 10 Yosemite

texts:
My sound does not work whe I try to turn up the volume it just show this

I tried looking on the forums but they didn't help.

Thank you for spending the time to answer, if you have any questions please comment them down below


texts: Stop Safari from opening FaceTime when a site contains a phone number

texts:
When navigating with Safari to some sites that have phone numbers, Safari diligently opens FaceTime when I click on a phone number. Is there a way to prevent this?

I am currently tempted to delete the FaceTime app from the Applications folder, but I hope there is a less drastic way to do this.

more info : Both Chrome and Firefox propose the option to 'open FT' or cancel. I was looking for a similar setting in Safari.


texts: How can I control my iPhone from my Mac?

texts:
Yes, there are a million ways to control your Mac from your iOS device, but I want to do the opposite.

The scenario is that I'm sitting at my computer, with my iPhone charging in a stand in front of me, and something on the device interrupts me.  I want to respond in a second or two, without having to remove the device from the stand, or take my hands away from my keyboard and trackpad.

I do not need to see the iPhone's screen on my computer's monitor.

Is this possible?  If so, how can I do it?

UPDATE

I am not asking this question, which is only concerned with controlling one single app, an entirely different situation.  To quote that question:

  Actually, I really just need to control my own App, for testing purposes.

Nor am I asking this question which is specifically about seeing the screen of a broken iPhone, which I explicitly stated I don't care about.


texts:
I have a WD external usb3 hard disk. I'm having a similar problem as mentioned in number of posts, which also offer solutions I've exhaustively tried. But of course some poster will ask me to list them all. I"ve closed many, googled for ages, here's some tabs that were still open when I finally posted.

How to make my iMac recognize my USB external hard drive?

How to Erase External USB Drive Which Won't Mount & Isn't Recognized

How do I recover a HFS+ journaled drive?

USB Drive Will Not Mount, Not Listed in Disk Utilities, but Found In System Profiler

In my case, I plugged the HFS+ formatted drive into my Windows 7 box and installed HFSExplorer and the drive mounted right away on Windows and I was able to copy files from it. The drive isn't damaged.

Here's some other things I've tried:

rebooting
using system information to see the usb devices (the drive is NOT listed)
swapping between 3 different known working USB cables
trying the usb port on the left of my MBP and the usb port on the right of my MBP
trying connecting USB hubs to the USB ports, verifying that these show in system information, THEN connecting the drive to those hubs
Connecting the drive to another Mac (yep, works just fine. Read/Write. Disk Utility verify doesn't report any problems).
Connecting drives other than this one to the MBP and confirming they work on both ports, behind hubs, and so on

this mac will not see this particular drive.

any ideas?


texts: Can I have photos on my iCloud but not held on my iPhone?

texts: I've just found hundreds of old photos which I am going to scan into my iCloud but I don't want them to be added to my iPhone. Is there anyway I can do this?


texts: How to validate authenticity of app downloaded from App Store?

texts:
How can I be sure that an app I download from the App Store is indeed from the vendor it is supposed to be?

Anyone with a developer account can potentially pretend to be for example "a bank" and sell a fake app through the App Store.

The only way I can think of is that you go to the website of your bank, verify the SSL certificate and from there follow a direct HTTP link to the App Store.

Any other way of making sure the app is authentic?


texts: iTunes Match Songs Don't Appear on iPhone

texts: My iPhone 5S says it has synced with iTunes Match but some music is missing from the iPhone.  I have Show All Music turned on.  Is there some way to debug what is happening?


texts: How do I change the playback speed in iTunes?

texts:
On the iPhone I can speed up the playback of podcasts to 2x.
Is there a way to do the same in iTunes?


texts:
Is there a way for me to quickly join my code into one line in Xcode with a keyboard shortcut or button?
For example, can I turn this
int main() {
    printf("Hello Stack Exchange!\n");
    return 0;
}

to this in Xcode?
int main() {printf("Hello Stack Exchange!\n"); return 0;}

Thank you.


texts: I have a Macbook Pro 2012 I received this error when I ran Disk Utility Disk Utility: Invalid Disk Label @ cksum mismatch

texts: I have a Macbook Pro 2013 OS 10.10.5. Its beach balling really bad. I ran Mbam scan and no malware was found I ran Disk Utility and it gave me the Disk Utility: Invalid Disk Label @ cksum mismatch. I also ran time machine


texts: Fresh macOS install: Console.app displays errors/faults. Is that to be expected?

texts:
I have installed a fresh copy of macOS 10.13 on an empty drive. After logging in I checked for errors/faults in Console.app. I didn't expect to see any errors let alone faults but Console.app displayed quite a few of both.

I rebooted but this didn't get rid of the displayed errors and faults.

Q: Should a fresh installation of macOS ideally display no errors/faults in Console.app?

Specs/Details:

macOS 10.13 High Sierra (10.13 (17A365))

installed using Apple's Installer from the Mac App Store to an external HDD
Location Services: On
Share Mac Analytics: Off
Apple ID/iCloud is still turned off
macOS Volume: HFS+ on external HDD

MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Mid 2014)

Magic Keyboard connected (Bluetooth)
Magic Trackpad 2 connected (Bluetooth)
Network access using Wi-Fi (WPA2)
external HDD connected (2.5", USB 3.0)

Some Console output (faults only, deduplicated and without obvious iCloud-related messages, full log on pastebin):

fault   preference  com.apple.apsd  apsd    apsd    <private>: Preferences may have changed, checking for any relevant changes
fault           apsd    apsd    Failed entitlement check 'com.apple.private.aps-client-cert-access' for <private>
fault           apsd    apsd    Failed entitlement check 'com.apple.private.dark-wake-push' for <private>
fault   xpc com.apple.apsd  apsd    apsd    Interrupted connection to service <private>
fault           apsd    apsd    Peer connection [pid=383] missing server
fault   daemon  com.apple.apsd  apsd    apsd    Unknown environment '<private>'
fault   daemon  com.apple.apsd  apsd    apsd    User <private> is not bootstrapped, loading persistent connections may fail
fault   User Defaults Daemon    com.apple.cfprefsd  CoreFoundation  cfprefsd    rejecting read of { com.apple.SubmitDiagInfo, root, kCFPreferencesCurrentHost, no container, managed: 0 } from process 495 because accessing preferences outside an application's container requires user-preference-read or file-read-data sandbox access
fault   User Defaults Daemon    com.apple.cfprefsd  CoreFoundation  cfprefsd    rejecting read of { kCFPreferencesAnyApplication, kCFPreferencesAnyUser, kCFPreferencesCurrentHost, no container, managed: 0 } from process 493 because accessing preferences outside an application's container requires user-preference-read or file-read-data sandbox access
fault   User Defaults Daemon    com.apple.cfprefsd  CoreFoundation  cfprefsd    rejecting read of { kCFPreferencesAnyApplication, oa, kCFPreferencesAnyHost, no container, managed: 0 } from process 638 because accessing preferences outside an application's container requires user-preference-read or file-read-data sandbox access
fault   User Defaults Daemon    com.apple.cfprefsd  CoreFoundation  cfprefsd    rejecting read of { kCFPreferencesAnyApplication, oa, kCFPreferencesCurrentHost, no container, managed: 0 } from process 638 because accessing preferences outside an application's container requires user-preference-read or file-read-data sandbox access
fault   User Defaults Daemon    com.apple.cfprefsd  CoreFoundation  cfprefsd    rejecting write of key uuidOverrideDNU in { com.apple.rtcreporting, root, kCFPreferencesAnyHost, no container, managed: 0 } from process 495 because Operation not allowed
fault   User Defaults Daemon    com.apple.cfprefsd  CoreFoundation  cfprefsd    rejecting write of key uuidRespectDNU in { com.apple.rtcreporting, root, kCFPreferencesAnyHost, no container, managed: 0 } from process 495 because setting preferences outside an application's container requires user-preference-write or file-write-data sandbox access
fault   default com.apple.iconservices  iconservicesd   iconservicesd   Failed to move temp file <private> to <private> with error: <private>


texts: Back To My Mac access through router without UPnP or NAT-PMP support?

texts:
Will having a router at one end, but not the other, supporting UPnP or NAT-PMP be enough to initiate Back To My Mac connections in both directions? That is, also in the direction of a computer behind the router that does not support UPnP or NAT-PMP?

The Apple knowledge base article on setting up Back To My Mac lists an "AirPort base station (AirPort Extreme, AirPort Express, or AirPort Time Capsule) or other Internet router that supports UPnP or NAT-PMP" as one of the requirements.  It does not seem to explicitly state that routers on both ends must support UPnP or NAT-PMP.


texts: How to figure out what app is beeping at me?

texts:
Every now and then, on my Mac, I hear a bell.  I have no idea what app it is, or why it's beeping at me.

My first thought was that it's coming from the Notification System in OS X 10.8 (I never heard such a thing on 10.7), but I turned off the sound notifications for every app listed in the Notification preferences.

Is there any way to tell what app is doing this to me?

UPDATE: I think it might have been Mail -- it has its own sound notification preferences, apparently.  But I'm not certain, and the question as written still stands: how do you know where sound comes from?


texts: Just activated old iPhone and App Store is trying to make me pay for an app I've already paid for

texts:
I had an iPhone app on my iPhone 5s now currently under repair that had a $100 app called GIS kit.

I am connected to my iTunes account with the App Store, and have a bunch of apps that it's allowing me to download via the cloud download icon, but not this one.

So, a really quick way to answer this question would be with another question, and that is, does Apple even allow app creators to charge users twice for what is supposed to be a one time payment for an application?

I just activated this phone, have not done a hard reset or anything like that, so I'm hoping the GIS kit application simply just does not recognize that I have already downloaded it. But it could be something else, worst-case scenario I actually have to pay for it twice. Hope not.


texts:
While trying to install (dual-boot) Pop!_OS 20.10 I found /dev/nvme0n2 of size 8KiB on my MacBookPro13,1 which made the live-installer of PopOS crash just before loading the partitioning page and the installer.log say
[INFO distinst:crates/disk-ops/src/parted.rs:31] opening disk at /dev/nvme0n2
[INFO distinst:crates/disk-ops/src/parted.rs:37] unable to open disk; creating new table on it
[INFO distinst:ffi/src/disk.rs:452] unable to probe devices: failed to create new partition table on "/dev/nvme0n2": Invalid argument (os error 22)
[ERROR distinst:ffi/src/lib.rs:48] libdistinst: pointer in FFI is null

Gparted fails to read nvme0n2 with Invalid argument during seek for read on /dev/nvme0n2.
/dev/nvme0n1, which is my nvme-drive works just fine. So, what is nvme0n2? It does not show up on macOS and Google does not give many results either.


texts: How do you install the Facebook app on the first generation iPad?

texts:
I tried to download and install the Facebook app on a first generation iPad and I get popup saying: "this application requires iOS 7.0 or later".

How do I get this app on to my iPad?