texts: Airport Router DHCP Client Identification

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I have a 3rd Gen Airport Extreme (802.11n 3rd Gen Dual band) as my main router.  Attached to it are an Airport Express (802.11n 1st Gen Single Band) which is connected by and extends WiFi over it's wired ethernet, and also an Airport Extreme (802.11n 2nd Gen Single Band) which extends wirelessly.  I run a dual band network, the 2.4GHz network which is extended over the 2 slave devices (for want of a better description), and the main router also has a 5GHz network as it is a dual band router, and the guest network (which is an open network, no security).

In Airport Utility on iOS devices (I don't currently have access to a Mac to test the OS X application) I can select a device, select Wireless Clients, and list any clients that are connected to that particular device (from an access point perspective).

One problem with this is not seeing how can I identify which device is being shown in the list?  Most attached devices will happily have a real description, namely iOS devices, Macs and some PCs etc, but I have a whole load of devices for which I cannot easily identify what is being connected.  For example:

I sometimes just get the DHCP lease IP address shown as the client
I sometimes get a name that I don't recognise, i.e. Sue's iPhone or android-653246a714bc41f
I sometimes get the MAC address only
Sometimes (today, after I added a new access restriction) all the proper DHCP Client ID names are replaced with the MAC address for periods of time, and sometimes MAC addresses are shown when the client (example, Apple TV and Playstation 3) is in a WOL enabled sleep mode - still connected on the "physical" layer, but with no IP address assigned.

My reasons for wanting to do this are varied:

The Airport Express has a limit of the number of connections that can be made to it, so it might be nice to move some devices to another access point to relieve strain on it
Being a bit fussy, I like to be able to identify what is what generally
I have reasons for leaving the guest network open in terms of security (some old devices that only support WEP, some devices are such a pain to type passwords into like my TV receiver box that I simply don't wish to spend 20 minutes faffing entering a very lengthy password via a TV remote control unit...).  I know some people (Sue, and her iPhone) use my guest network without my permission, and I wanted to use access control to block these people as and when I see them use the network.

So, the problem for which I am asking this question is as follows:

How can I make the router set or remember a descriptive name for all devices, not just those that response to DHCP Client ID requests?

Sub question: How can I see all current DHCP leases, not just currently connected clients?

I have tried to use DHCP reservations against a PC that only ever shows up with the MAC address, to see if it wil then pick up the description, and it doesn't seem to.

I have set a year long lease on my DHCP, so should be able to identify individual devices with some accuracy etc to stop devices sharing an IP address

Everything uses DHCP, the only hardcoded IPs are the routers themselves.


texts: Export / Backup emails on iPad (Locally only)

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My email was hacked. The hacker deleted all the emails on the server and are unrecoverable.

I have the emails still sitting on my iPad which was originally connected through IMAP. I need to get these emails back.

How can I export these emails from my iPad locally without allowing a reconnection to the server (which would lose them all again)?

Edit: I have little experience with iPads in general. Are there are mail apps that I could download that would do a sync with the local emails that would then allow an export? (Clutching at straws here!)


texts: Cannot create a folder or access it at specific location on Mavericks

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Cannot create a directory and can neither go into directory.

$/Volumes/Iomega_HDD/Movies is an Windows NTFS file system mounted on my OS X Mavericks

so in the Movies folder if I try to create folder named 1940 it gives Input/output error but if I create outside Movies folder it gets created without any error.

if I type ls 194 and hit tab it gets autocompleted as if it is there, but if I then hit enter after autocompletion it again gives I/O error.

$:/Volumes/Iomega_HDD/Movies$ ll 1940
ls: 1940: Input/output error

$ ls -laO /Volumes/Iomega_HDD/
total 1120
drwxrwxrwx  1 Ciastopiekarz  staff  -       20480 Nov 22 15:30 .
drwxrwxrwx@ 4 root          admin  hidden    136 Nov 22 18:45 ..
drwxrwxrwx  1 Ciastopiekarz  staff  -           0 Nov 22 15:23 .Trashes
drwxrwxrwx  1 Ciastopiekarz  staff  -           0 Aug 29 00:17 .fseventsd
drwxrwxrwx  1 Ciastopiekarz  staff  -        4096 Sep  3  2012 Apple Computer
-rwxrwxrwx  1 Ciastopiekarz  staff  -           0 Apr  6  2013 Capture.PNG
drwxrwxrwx  1 Ciastopiekarz  staff  -       57344 Apr 14  2013 Footages
drwxrwxrwx  1 Ciastopiekarz  staff  -       12288 Nov 22 13:12 Miscellaneous
drwxrwxrwx  1 Ciastopiekarz  staff  -        8192 Nov 27  2012 Motherboard
drwxrwxrwx  1 Ciastopiekarz  staff  -       32768 Nov 22 18:04 Movies
drwxrwxrwx  1 Ciastopiekarz  staff  -        4096 Dec 22  2012 Projects
drwxrwxrwx  1 Ciastopiekarz  staff  -        4096 Aug 29 00:33 Softwares
drwxrwxrwx  1 Ciastopiekarz  staff  -       40960 Jan 30  2013 Songs
drwxrwxrwx  1 Ciastopiekarz  staff  -        8192 Aug 29 00:41 Tutorials

any idea how can i fix this ?


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I have an early 2015 Macbook Pro, and had High Sierra installed, on which I started having booting issues, due to which I finally resorted to a clean re-install via recovery mode to Catalina.
I was expecting some kind of new user setup on the new install, but when I fired it up, it reached the login screen. I could see the wallpaper, boot icons, text boxes and the blank user icon, but there was no text visible anywhere(No Username below the user icon, placeholder text in the text-boxes, {Sleep, Restart, Shut Down} below their respective icons)
P.S. On the upper tray, battery percentage and the Time still showed up as text.
Here's what I've tried-

I booted into safe mode. That made the text show up, but now I had the issue of no user being available on the system. The username below the blank user icon was "Other...". I tried logging in with blank parameters, the login on my previous install, the classic root/toor. None of them worked.

I booted in recovery mode, opened terminal-
/sbin/fsck -fy
#found no errors(It showed underallocated memory on my previous install, so guess that was fixed)
/sbin/mount -uw /
rm /var/db/.AppleSetupDone
#This file was not found, confirmed with `ls -al /var/db/`
reboot

Didn't change a thing.

In recovery mode, clicked Apple > Startup Disk
Selected 'Macintosh HD C macOS, 10.15.6'(the only available option) and then Restart
Again, took me to the text-less login screen.

Opened Disk Utility in recovery mode
This was the disk structure-

INTERNAL
|-Macintosh HD C         APFS    MacOS 10.15.6    11.08GB/500.07GB
|-Macintosh HD C -Data   APFS    MacOS 10.15.6    40.25GB/500.07GB
Disk Images
|-macOS Base System      DI Vol. MacOS 10.15.6    1.35GB/2GB
Ran the first aid on all volumes, no issues found, and didn't fix my problem.
Any help with this issue would be appreciated. This was my first time using a Mac, I hope I haven't made any blunders in the above solutions.


texts: On iTunes 11.4 where do you change the default settings for Podcasts?

texts: I am using iTunes 11.4.x, and every time I add a new Podcast I have to change the settings.  Where can I change the default settings so any new podcasts I add will have the settings I want?


texts: Are there iOS/iPad apps that work well to edit XML?

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I'm surprised that a google search doesn't turn up dozens of XML editors for ipad. All I can find are generic code text editors that happen to "support" XML. Well duh.

I'm looking for an ipad app that lets me edit arbitrary XML as something other than a generic text box with code completion. It could at least give me an expandable tree view of nested tags for example. And it could allow me to add a child tag or duplicate an existing one. Or do a structured search of the document based on identified symbols, or even some automated manipulation based on symbols. One of the main impetuses for creating XML in the first place was to enable a diversity of kinds of manipulation tools.

Does anything exist on ipad specifically for editing XML?


texts: Fix "You don't have permission" in home folders

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On a Macbook Pro with a new install of El Capitan, a friend used the only account, Admin, for a while. A few weeks later I made a copy of that home folder, renamed it "B", and created a personal account for her, short name also "B" and allowed it to "adopt" the "B" home folder. Account B also has admin privileges.

Using account B, she gets "You don't have permission to view its contents" messages when she tries to access her ~/Documents folder (and probably other folders as well but I don't have her machine in front of me at the moment). Seemingly, adopting the copy did not include taking ownership of its contents.

Is a recursive chown the proper fix? I'm hesitant to blast ahead and just try things as she's leaving for college tomorrow!


texts: Why does recovery mode keep failing to install OS X on a new hard drive?

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I had a hard drive die in my Macbook Pro (from ~2012) and I replaced it. I booted into recovery mode and tried to install an OS on the new SSD, but it keeps hanging at "installing additional components" and eventually (after several hours) failing.

I used command + l to see the logs, and it keeps counting up the chunks it receives, only to eventually say "Failed to verify InstallESD.dmg: hdiutil verify failed", at which point it restarts the download process.

At one point, I did get through the process successfully, but since that got me to a desktop with Snow Leopard, I immediately tried to update to El Capitan using the App Store, which also failed, saying "This copy of the Install OS X El Capitan application can't be verified. It may have been corrupted or tampered with during downloading."

Why are these installations failing?


texts: No signal at 2560x1440 resolution from early 2013 Retina MacBook Pro

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I have an early 2013 Retina MacBook Pro running macOS Sierra 10.12.5 connected to an ViewSonic VX2478 monitor using a MiniDisplayPort cable connected to a ThunderBolt port.  The monitor is detected correctly as having a default resolution of 2560x1440.  However, when I set it to the default resolution the monitor claims to have no signal while macOS seems to think everything is fine.  If I set the resolution to 1080p the display works fine.

When I started trying to make this work I had El Capitan instead of Sierra.  The problem was slightly different.  The monitor didn't display a "No Signal" error, but it didn't display anything, either.

I connected the display to my Windows laptop using its ThunderBolt port and the full native resolution worked fine.

I have tried the following:

Both a mini-DP to DP (included with the display) and a mini-DP to mini-DP cable (purchased new)
Reseting NVRAM
Reseting the SMC
Both Thunderbolt ports
Experimenting with various resolutions using SwitchResX
Disabling Automatic Graphics Switching

I haven't tried using an HDMI cable because I can't seem to find one lying around, and many of the solutions I've found to similar problems involve using a DisplayPort cable instead of an HDMI or DVI cable.


texts: Remove existing Facebook account from OS X

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I had synchronized my personal Facebook account on OS X Mountain Lion in System Preferences  > Mail, Contacts & Calendars through the Facebook tab. I removed it and synchronized my official account on it, but I'm still getting notifications for the personal account.

How do I remove the personal account details permanently and stop the notifications?

Update

I have upgraded my Mac to OS X Mavericks 10.9, but the problem exists on the upgraded OS X version too.

Edit

I have found another thing with my mac. This issue happens only for my official account. If i have synchronized any other accounts. It doesn't happen. Working fine. What may be the problem with this?


texts: How to get (my father's) Macbook Password

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I first want to apologize if this is not allowed, I am super new to this website and I am desperate for information.

As the title says I am wanting to find out my late father's Macbook password. He had passed several months ago and I am just now going through some of his belongings with help from my mother. We finally got to his Macbook and realized that my mother does not know the password and neither do I. I know you can easily reset the password but for memories' sake (and curiosity's), I would like to find out the password and maybe keep it as I will be taking the computer since my mother has no use for it).

I have obviously Googled how to get the Macbook's password but I cannot find anything that is simple/clear or something that still works with the newest update (I would like to think my father kept it updated, but I am uncertain).
If you have any suggestions on any free programs, methods, videos, guides, etc., it would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.


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I was using Afloat 2.4 on my Mac with OS X Lion. Now all of a sudden it stopped working. The Afloat items disappeared from the Window menu, and reinstall does nothing. Anybody here have seen a similar case? How do I get afloat back?

Or are there any other app which allows me to keep certain window on top?


texts: Does gatekeeper not check apps stored in /Applications/?

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So I am not sure if this is supposed to happen but applications in '/Applications/' do not appear to be checked by Gatekeeper (As I previously asked and self answered about having to 'reset gatekeeper to default') the many exceptions I had added for various applications are now gone. However applications I know are not signed are still allowed to run.

After a manual check:

I manually checked things because I wanted to be certain that I hadn't made some sort of mistake. spctl says it's rejected but it can still open. Tor Browser shouldn't be allowed to run with my current ruleset that doesn't have a gatekeeper exception and with me only allowing apps from the App Store. If I download the Tor Browser Bundle from the Tor Project's website and try to open it I'm denied. Is gatekeeper not checking apps in /Applications/, or since I've run in the past - is there a separate exception list outside of gatekeeper, if so how would one reset that list as well? (Note: I did a reboot after the reset to default to be safe and the question still remains). Since I reset gatekeeper the apps hash is no longer exempt.


texts: Where are currently set wallpapers stored in Mountain Lion?

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I have set a wallpaper to my desktop, now I want to consolidate all my wallpapers into a single folder so the system can cycle through them.

How can I find a currently set wallpaper's location?


texts: Dashboard takes few seconds to update widgets

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I love the idea of the Dashboard, but there's one thing that pretty much kills it for me. When I activate Dashboard for a first time or after some extended period of time it takes it 3-15 seconds to update and actually show me things like time, calendar etc. I have a MacBook Pro and this is happening with default widgets (clock, calendar, calculator and weather). The entire idea of a dashboard that it's always one click away and the information should be available immediately.

So, does anyone know how to make OS X to update Dashboard widgets immediately or maybe somehow prefetch the data once every 15 min or so? Or does anyone else see this problem at all?


texts: Can't backup iPhone because no storage space left when there is?

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I am trying to backup my iPhone but iTunes complains that I do not have enough free space on my computer to do so.
I don't believe this is correct however, on my machine I have my Macintosh SSD (which has 90GB remaining), and an additional drive which has 300+GB remaining.
Many years ago I changed my MobileSync directory to a folder in my additional drive as there is a lot more free storage on there. I did this using a Symlink (article here covers how to do so), and it has been working as I can see all the existing backups up until now all stored in my second drive.
I am trying to do a backup of my iPhone now which I believe has around 140GB worth of data to backup, but I get the following error:

I'm not sure why its showing this error because there is no way backup is larger than 300GB, which is how much free storage I have on my second drive (where my backups are stored).
I can confirm the symlink is still there, as when I navigate to the MobileSync folder it directs to my folder made in the second drive.


texts: I just got my developer certificate from apple and I tried to add provisioning to my iPhone so I connected it to my macbook pro and everything went fine suddenly I started to get a black thin border around my screen.


texts: Where does music file from documents go when airdropped to connected devices?

texts: I download music on the documents app and I wanted to airdrop a song from my iPhone, to iPad. They are both connected so it doesn’t ask and just receives it. And that’s the problem. Idk where it is! I have a files app and documents app on my iPad and I looked and searched for it everywhere. It definitely received it because I heard the sound of when you receive airdropped stuff. I want to find it and delete it so it won’t take up storage. Someone, please help.


texts: How do you display time zone in Apple photos

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I've seen the following screenshot showing the time zone in the info display in the new photos app.

I can see how to see the time zone if I use the adjust time and date, but it doesn't display in the info display box.


texts: Change "from" address in Terminal `mail`

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When sending mail from shell, e.g.,

echo '123' | mail -s 'subject' name@mail.com

The recipient gets an email from "my-local-username@my-machine-name.local", e.g., "bob@macbook.local"

How can I change this to an email address of my choosing?


texts: SD card shows up as Internal in Disk Utility

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I recently Installed Sierra on my sandisk 32 GB sd card which was not bootable after I formatted it it shows up as Internal how to I fix this issue?

output of diskutil list:

$ /dev/disk0 (internal, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *121.3 GB   disk0
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s1
   2:          Apple_CoreStorage Macintosh HD            120.5 GB   disk0s2
   3:                 Apple_Boot Recovery HD             650.0 MB   disk0s3

/dev/disk1 (internal, virtual):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:                  Apple_HFS Macintosh HD           +120.1 GB   disk1
                                 Logical Volume on disk0s2
                                 C8FBDE46-9264-4EF1-8287-2AA808659654
                                 Unencrypted

/dev/disk2 (internal, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *31.9 GB    disk2
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk2s1
   2:                  Apple_HFS SD CARD                 31.6 GB    disk2s2


texts: How can I restore all files i deleted in the Applications floder?

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Actually, i just want to delete one file in the Application folder,but when i moved it to Trash, CleanMyMac notices me to use it to delete it clearly.

However after i clicked yes, it deletes all items in the Application folder,including Office,i works and Adobe etc.

I have re-installed the apps. But it seems the problem cannot be solved only by re-downloading the apps.

Facetime cannot find the camera right now and there is no responses when i click the right bottom.

Is there anyone can help me with this?


texts: MacOS Catalina how to change windows size without buttons?

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I have a big problem with Adobe After Effects launched on macOS Catalina:

Yesterday I worked with a second Display in 2K resolution and, like in Adobe programs, you cannot open them in a fully new Desktop so I just pressed the + button to fill the rest of my desktop size.

Today I want to work with Full HD Display and I cannot change my size of Adobe After Effects! It's beyond my desktop!

How to bring it to original sizes or move program which allows me to drag and resize it manually?


texts: Force a sync of iCloud Keychain from iOS to macOS?

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My passwords on my iCloud Keychain on my MacBook and iPhone are out of sync. There are several new passwords on each device that aren't present on the other. Following a Google search, I logged out of iCloud on my laptop and logged in again but that didn't work.

Is there any way I can force a sync?


texts: I had to clear my MacBook air as i had created an account with a password I couldn't remember, and I had an old apple ID linked to it that couldn't be logged out of unless I remembered the laptop password. So I cleared the MacBook, completely reset it up , and logged into my new, current apple ID. Now it says pages and numbers cost €19.99 ? I could probably live without these, but I had pages saved to my initial pages iCloud account.. so i really need it back.. Anyone know how I can re download these apps for free, and then will I be able to get the previous pages back? Any help much appreciated. - I also have completely updated the laptop so it has sierra, and all software is update.And I have tried logging out and logging back in in the different apple Ids . I don't think I made a computer back up.. Everything is on my initial apple Id.


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I have a MacBook Pro 13 inch and something really weird happened.

Earlier today it worked perfectly fine, a few hourslater I tried to turn it on and it was stuck at the startup. It has a little progress bar and the spinning wheel. I have tried the safe boot but it won't work, either.


texts: Why is my *first* time machine backup much larger than my disk space used?

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Why would the first backup on a new time machine shared drive be almost 100GB larger than the data stored on the disk?  I understand why subsequent backups will take more space, but this is a brand new backup and there's only been a few GB of disk changes since the backup started.

The picture below shows a 604GB backup of a 1TB system disk with 490GB available.

UPDATE: the backup didn't finish until it claimed to have backed up more than 700GB.

UPDATE: Although a big portion of my disk is Parallels VMs, Parallels wasn't running during the backup and hasn't been running for weeks. (I only need VMs to occasionally run some Windows software every month or two.)

What could be causing this?  I'm running MacOS Catalina 10.15.4 if that's relevant.


texts: Apple Developer Program enrolment outside of Apple listed regions

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I’m new to iOS development also and want to enrol in Apple developer program. My question is how can I purchase ADP from Bangladesh?

Anyone purchase ADP by Payoneer master card outside of USA?

Also have Visa Card from Standard Chartered (can't charge in USD).

Some people advice me to get a bank account in other country like UK, USA (don't know how they suggest me to do that while I'm not in that country!). However if I manage to get a physical address and bank account in any of these countries am I able to purchase ADP? What about tax or it is possible literally while you’re not in that country?

Anyone experienced purchasing ADP outside of Apple’s listed regions like Bangladesh?

Really appreciate if you've any solution.


texts: Is there software that implements John Siracusa's Spatial Finder concept?

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Grumbling about how Apple wrecked the Finder when switching to OS X has been going on since OS X was first released.

It's been ten years since John Siracusa outlined exactly how the Finder ought to behave.

With Mavericks, Apple stepped even farther from this Spatial Finder model, where it's apparently not even possible to have a double click/⌘↓ open a new window by default (it works in windows without toolbars, but the newly opened window will, by default, have a toolbar…).

My question is this: is there a third-party Finder replacement that behaves in the spatial way that Siracusa's ten-year-old manifesto calls for?

Note that it is possible to quit the program that Apple calls Finder.app.
Is there some other program I could launch in its place that would give me the behavior he describes, most notably the binding of one folder to one window that retains its state with regard to position, size, color, etc.?


texts: Remote Desktop that doesn't go through the cloud

texts: What is a simple and cheap solution that let's me see and control my OSX desktop from iOS that solely works over LAN and does not connect to the internet at any time?


texts: Does an iTunes backup to my computer save restrictions settings?

texts: If I have restriction settings on my iPhone 7, and I back it up on iTunes after the restrictions are put on, then will the restrictions be there if I reset my iPhone and the restore from the backup?


texts: Find my iPhone shows family members' devices

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I am trying to understand why are these devices showing when I log into Find my iPhone.

I checked each device (belongs to family members) and each is logged into their own iClouds with their own login info.

Turning off Find my iPhone on their device[s] stops it from showing up on the map, and turning it on adds it back.

Any help would appreciated.


texts: iPhoto Problem with colored spinning wheel

texts: I just spent hours in iPhoto making a slide show for my daughters wedding.  I have not yet saved my work because was still tweaking and all of a sudden got colored spinning wheel.  Is there a way I can save my slideshow before restarting computer to try and get rid of spinning wheel.


texts: macOS Catalina firmware corruption issue still "open"?

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Late 2019, there were a series of reports that the then-latest Catalina update corrupted Mac firmware and caused computers to be bricked. My computer (MacBookPro11,1) appeared to be one of those affected. The reason why I believe this is real is because I always do a hardware diagnostic check before and after an upgrade. Before the update, the computer reported no problems. Afterwards, it reported memory problems. The hardware could've failed at that exact time, but it's quite a coincidence.
My Mac is now a door stop, but so many months later, I wonder whether there are any solutions found other than replacing the mainboard? There was also an account of someone reflashing the firmware with some tool, but there were never any details on this and I was not able to find this tool.
Anyone have first-hand experience with this that can comment?


texts: After upgrading to El Capitan, Preview opens the sidebar. How can I permanently disable it without having coding skills? I saw other answers to this annoying problem, but I don't have the capacity to do it and don't want to mess up my computer trying it. Is there an alternative?


texts: Why can't I get an alert BEFORE the appointment?

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I don't use the Calendar very much, but recently after missing a weekly event twice, I put it in the calendar on the iPad with a "travel time" alert and a fifteen minutes before travel time alert.  Travel time is fifteen minutes.  I was busy on the Macbook and no alert came up there until the actual start time of the meeting.  This happened again another day on the iPad.

Is it a bug, or is there some obscure extra step that needs to be taken?

("Time to Leave" is ON in settings.)


texts: Time Machine not fully encrypted. Is it safe to use?

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I'm going to format my iMac today and I've just backed up to an external drive using Time Machine.

But I am using encrypted backup, so Time Machine needs to encrypt the whole drive (after it has backed up). Right now, it says "Encrypting.... 35%". So it will take a long time.

Can I safely format now and still use the Time Machine backup, even though it's not fully encrypted? I mean, will it work the same way as if it was encrypted?


texts: Can Lion support resolutions higher than 1920 by 1200 on the retina MBP main display?

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The new retina display MacBook Pro is advertised to have a native display resolution of 2880 by 1800. On the Lion 10.7.4 build, the system preferences limits the highhest resolution at 1920 by 1200.

Can this be raised easily in Lion? (and are there any undesirable side effects to changing this?)


texts: Location of power Logic on Macbook Air 13" A1369 main logic board

texts: Is there anyone who can help with the placement of of power logic components on main logic board? My macbook air is totally dead.


texts: How do I rotate an iPhone photo on my iPhone without losing EXIF data?

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I have iOS 4.3.3.

Are there any apps or methods that allow simple rotating of an iPhone photo (taken where the level sensor picked the wrong orientation), without losing the EXIF information?

Using ExifWizard app, it seems Adobe PS Express and PerfectPhoto both lose the original exif data upon rotate and save.

I know iOS 5 has a built in rotate feature but I'm not running iOS 5 here.


texts: How to prevent the status bar from appearing in an iPad screenshot?

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So if I have this image:

And I don't want the status bar in the screenshot:

What should I do?
Is there an easy inbuilt way out to prevent that bar from appearing on all screenshots?
If not, then what would be the quickest way to crop it out using the iPad itself?


texts: How to fix the iPad home screen being dark purple?

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My iPad Mini's home screen is really dark and I think it's because of something I have done.

I have removed emoji keyboard as I thought that was causing it but the darkness still remains.


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Is it possible to run top and group processes by COMMAND?
Seeing every single individual Chrome process not very helpful

PID                     COMMAND                           %CPU                  MEM
0                       kernel_task                       2.5                   1219M
82793-                  Google Chrome He                  0.0                   427M
15051-                  Google Chrome He                  5.3                   308M+
82557-                  Google Chrome                     7.1                   285M-
14398-                  Google Chrome He                  0.1                   253M-
14580-                  Google Chrome He                  0.1                   250M+
90                      WindowServer                      1.8                   218M-
82626-                  Google Chrome He                  23.1                  194M-
82666-                  Google Chrome He                  0.2                   191M-
86580-                  Google Chrome He                  0.7                   171M-
14596-                  Google Chrome He                  0.5                   164M-
82630-                  Google Chrome He                  1.0                   141M-
82633-                  Google Chrome He                  0.1                   135M-
82622-                  Google Chrome He                  0.5                   134M-
14592-                  Google Chrome He                  0.4                   131M+
82632-                  Google Chrome He                  0.2                   130M+
82663-                  Google Chrome He                  0.4                   130M-
82623-                  Google Chrome He                  0.4                   124M-
82621-                  Google Chrome He                  0.5                   119M-


texts: How can I force an application to be launched to the 2nd monitor?

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macOS X 10.10.1 Yosemite.

How can I force a newly launched application to open to a specific monitor?

Followup questions: Failing that, how can I force a new window that a current application is opening to open in a specific monitor?

And how can I move a borderless window?

My specific situation:

I have a two-monitor set up.  My games open in "Full Screen" mode and make the second monitor useless.  The game in Windowed mode does not have the green full-screen button available in the top left.  However, it does allow me to set a custom resolution and set it in borderless mode.

So I've set the game's resolution to 1920x1060 (my monitor's resolution minus 20 pixel height to account for the menu bar at the top).  If I launch this game with borders, I can move the window wherever I want, but I also have to look at the border around the edge of my screen the entire time, which I'd rather not do.  Plus, for some reason, the game handles edge-scrolling significantly better in borderless (or full screen) versus windowed mode.

I can't seem to figure out how to get the game onto my second monitor.  My first monitor has the dock on the left side, and that's where I want the dock to be.  But the game launches to this first monitor, and the dock sits over top of it.  I don't want to autohide the dock.  I don't want the dock in another position.

I'm looking for more control over this windowing system.


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I mean brew man, not man brew.

It says:

  Fetching: hpricot-0.8.6.gem (100%) Building native extensions.  This
  could take a while... Successfully installed hpricot-0.8.6 Fetching:
  rdiscount-2.1.8.gem (100%) Building native extensions.  This could
  take a while... Successfully installed rdiscount-2.1.8 Fetching:
  mustache-1.0.1.gem (100%) Successfully installed mustache-1.0.1
  Fetching: ronn-0.7.3.gem (100%) Successfully installed ronn-0.7.3 4
  gems installed Writing manpages to /usr/local/share/man/man1

So what have I installed? What does it do?


texts: How to set already-paired bluetooth devices again into discovery mode?

texts:
How can I set a Magic Trackpad (or, any other bluetooth device, I guess) into discovery mode, if it has already been paired to another mac?

Anything I find on google just mocks me.


texts: Why does Settings.app make reference to requiring a SIM card for the Auto Call setting of Emergency SOS, and not for the entire feature altogether?

texts: When navigating to Settings/Emergency SOS on my iPhone 11 Pro, below the "Auto Call" control the hint states that "Auto Call requires a SIM card". I'm trying to establish why this text wouldn't be displayed when referencing the entire Emergency SOS feature; surely a SIM is also required if simply sliding the Emergency SOS slider to call the Emergency Services too?


texts: Is there a way to get macOS to display the current calendar week in the menu bar, maybe as part of the date or as an additional information elsewhere in the menu bar?


texts: Administrator user can't visit pages in Safari as they are not approved in Parental Controls

texts:
I experience troubles regarding accessing some websites with Safari from the local network or outside.

The error says:
Ooops! You can’t even see pages on this website.
You can’t see the page “https://www.google.com/…” because it’s not on the approved list in parental controls.
To add this website to your approved list, contact your network administrator.
To return to the page you are looking at, click Go Back.

As you can see, the message says that parental control does not allow me to access this page. At first, I thought that the issue is that my network administrator does not allow accessing some pages but they told me that is not the case. Please note, I'm an admin on the system.

I checked online what the problem could be. They commonly say that parental controls could be set up or that /etc/hosts could blacklist some pages. I checked both, the parental controls are not enabled at all nor /etc/hosts contain anything that it should not.

The interested part is that I can access all the webpages without any issues through Google Chrome and Firefox.


texts: Open an ssh session in terminal with BetterTouchTool

texts: I was hoping to configure a keystroke command using BetterTouchTool to open a terminal window and run an ssh session. I do this a lot to connect to a RaspberryPi on my network. The execute terminal command seems to execute the command without opening a window, and all the help I can turn up on Google is people asking how to run commands without opening a window. So what would be the best method for me to open a terminal window and execute ssh pi@10.0.0.x in that window?


texts: Permanently disable Spotlight on disk that is used with rsync

texts:
I'm using rsync to mirror files from my internal drive to an external USB hard drive. This is the command I'm using:

/usr/local/bin/rsync --archive --exclude='.DS_Store' --delete-after --progress --stats /Files/ /Volumes/BACKUP2014B

So files not on the main HDD will be deleted from the backup disk. This means that the files telling Spotlight to ignore the external disk will be deleted at every sync. Is there some way to avoid that? I don't like the fact that Spotlight reindexes my drive every day, it's a lot of disk crunching.


texts: USB Hub affects WiFi only once every few weeks

texts:
It is documented that using certain USB C hubs. There even is an Apple support article that shows that this happens.
Now that's okay—I've come to accept that some dongles just don't cut it when coming to proper shielding. However, I have a hub and it exhibits some peculiar behavior. Most of the time it doesn't interfere with WiFi. However, it occasionally (once every one or two weeks) seems to cancel my WiFi signal. I know it's the hub's fault because when I unplug it, my WiFi starts working again. However, it starts working fine again after a while.
What could be a possible explanation of this?


texts: How can I really disable the Cmd to Win key mapping in Parallels Desktop 5?

texts:
Removed it from System Preferences > Keyboard. No go.
Remapped ⌘ Cmd to be Ctrl. No go.
Ripping out the ⌘ Cmd key shouldn't be the solution. Anyone?...


texts: How do I fix a blurry arrow in an alias icon?

texts:
I keep an alias on my desktop. It points to a Terminal shell script .command file. The alias arrow appears enlarged and fuzzy. It's pictured here next to a normal icon.

How do I correct the look of the arrow in this icon?

I have tried restarting Finder (also my computer) and recreating the alias.


texts: How to make battery indicator show battery status instead of UPS battery on MacBook Air

texts: I have a UPS system setup connected to my MacBook Air's dock at home. Whenever I look to check for the percentage of battery remaining on my MacBook Air (when not plugged in), it shows the percentage remaining on my UPS instead of my MacBook Air. Is there a way to change this to show my MacBook Air's battery instead?


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I have got macbook pro early 2011 model. Initially it came with Mac OS X Lion. Later on I upgraded it to Mavericks.
Recently I thought of upgrading it to Yosemite which I did. On successful installation I realised that It is extremely slow and
found out that it is encrypting my whole hard disk. I left it for hours and hours but it looked like it stuck on that process.
And also did not allow me to stop the process. I turned off my macbook using power button kind of hard stop thing. When I tried to
turn it on, it stuck on safe mode and nothing was happening. I could not log back in and I tried all the diifferent methods like PRAM reset,
safe mode, disk utility tool to repair the disk but nothing seemed to work. Luckily I had backup in Time machine from last
year which restored my system back to Mavericks. I started using it and it was working fine. Yesterday while closing my
system I used Power button and did that forced shut down kind of thing again and since then it is not turning back on properly.
it keeps going to safe mode. From safe mode I tried to restart the system but since then it stuck on Grey Barred Circle thing.

I decided  to use Internet recovery method when all other methods failed including safe mode, pram reset, single user command.
It looked like I will be able to restore my mac using my back up on time machine in external hard disk but it stuck on 85%
twice. And now when I am trying to re-install the orignal version of Lion OS X which came with my macbook using internet recovery mode
it is giving me an error, "you cant upgrade this version because newer version is installed". Please help me. thanks


texts: Preview: How to set over-under configuration instead of side-by-side in "Two Pages" view?

texts:
This question is about Preview (macOS builtin application). I am not asking for an alternative application, software of hack that "solves my problem". I know that there are plenty of ways of getting around this issue (eg not using Preview).

This is what you see when opening landscape documents on the "Two Pages" (CMD+3) view mode in Preview:

which is a very bad way of optimizing monitor space! Preview automaticaly puts pages side-by-side when the "Two Pages" view option is selected. This is perfect for portrait type documents. But for landscape type documents... not so much! Is there a way of asking Preview to render the pages in the over-under configuration, as oposed to the side-by-side configuration?

Example image of what I would like to see:


texts: iCloud hacked. MacBook Pro locked. Starts uni tomorrow. Help!

texts:
So we went on holiday 3 weeks ago and during the holiday my girlfriend received a notification saying that her iPhone was locked from iCloud. We got around it and changed the password to iCloud. Yesterday when we arrived home, and turned on the MacBook it was firmware locked. We can't do nothing.

I called Apple which could not help. Apparently they need to send it in for service which could take more than a week. Since uni starts tomorrow we really need to fix this ASAP!

Anyone in this community that are able to help?

It is a MacBook Pro from 2015 with no access to battery or RAM sticks.

This really really sucks!!


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I am a CS beginner taking udemy python course and trying to install pip in order to use matplotlib, pandas and so on in pylab.

I use IDLE 3.4.2 and latest version Pycharm

Tried
1. "pip installed pylab"

version not satisfies the requirement pylab,no matching distribution found for pylab;

2.same result with sudo before the first one;

3.sudo easy_install matplotlib

succeeded in terminal, but still no matplotlib module in shell)

4.brew install python 3

succeeded , but still no matplotlib module in shell, and every command looks like still for 2.7)

5.Anaconda Package based on preinstalling Macports

same result as 3

6.On cloud9.io

still can't import matplotlib

7.virtualenv/virtualenvwrapper

Both [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/virtualenv.py'

Then tried to uninstall both 2 and 3 python then install

8.brew rm -rf/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7

error:no keg argument

Downloaded Xcode

but "block compressed payload operation failed"

Result of "brew doctor": Warning: "config" scripts exist outside your system or Homebrew directories.

Having additional scripts in your path can confuse software installed via Homebrew if the config script overrides a system or Homebrew provided script of the same name. We found the following "config" scripts: /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.4/bin/python3-config /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.4/bin/python3.4-config /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.4/bin/python3.4m-config

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

Warning: You have MacPorts or Fink installed: /opt/local/bin/port

Warning: You have unlinked kegs in your Cellar

Warning: /usr/bin occurs before /usr/local/bin

Thanks for reading!

Answer in detailed direction will be appreciated as I am just a beginner having tons of stuff to learn from you.

Really frustrated by now.


texts: Connecting Macbook Air to Sony HDTV via HDMI

texts: I own an apple Macbook Air early 2015 version, I am not able to connect it to my Sony HDTV through mini DP to HDMI converter. Can somebody Help?


texts: Formatting of a web page messed up when using proxy

texts:
Background

For academic purposes I have to use an university proxy from my home in order to access some contents online available only with this method (PUBMED, a medical research database).

I have configured Firefox to connect through this proxy as explained in my faculty website.

The problem

However when accessing PUBMED I notice the proxy is working properly regarding the contents, meaning I can access contents usually unavailable without the proxy, but at the same time there are errors in how the page is formatted.

Everything happens to be in column in the left side of the screen.

I tried to disable all addons I had, but did not work.


texts: How do I make the Messages that are sent to me stop going to my Mac?

texts: Ok, so at my school, everybody was supplied with a Macbook Pro. I set up the Messages app and it was all great until the county decided to block it. Now, instead of receiving text messages on my phone they go to my Mac. I have no idea how to fix this because I can't open the Messages app. Please help?!


texts:
I have an iPhone with iOS 6.0.1. I need to update it to iOS 8 or later. I also have a MacBook Pro with macOS Sierra v 10.12.5.

Problem

My MacBook has Thunderbolt 3 ports, and no usb ports. My old iPhone only has a usb cable. (I don't have a Thunderbolt 3 to usb adapter).

Question

Is it possible to upgrade the firmware on the old iPhone given my situation?

I have tried via bluetooth, I can get the devices to pair, but then don't see the iPhone in my MacBooks iTunes.

Any help appreciated.


texts: Ways to unlock iPhone 5 with iOS 10 to reduce Home button presses

texts: I have an iPhone 5 and since I installed iOS 10 I have to press home button twice to unlock the screen. I hate having to do this. I feel that there is 200%  probability more than before that my home button breaks. Is there any other way to unlock the screen? Is it possible to go back to the 'Slide to unlock'? I would also hate to put the Assistive Touch button on the screen.


texts: Switching language input using Capslock: how to remove delay?

texts:
I have U.S. and Japanese (Hiragana) input on the keyboard. There's a feature in macOS "Use the Caps Lock key to switch to and from U.S.". So, pressing Capslock switches between U.S. and Japanese fine for the most part, but the problem is that if I press Capslock immediately after typing a U.S. character, it does nothing. I have to wait a few moments before I can press Capslock to switch to Hiragana. Likewise, if I'm in Hiragana and I press Capslock immediately after finishing typing Hiragana, it does nothing. I have to wait a moment before pressing Capslock to change back to U.S.

Anyone know how to remove this delay? It's frustrating.


texts: Donations and a webstore in an app. Does it attract a 30% cut still? 2021

texts:
We've had an app for many years, and when we developed it, we made all links to donations and our online webstore to be an external link, so that there was no money being transacted in the app.
This was to avoid the (let's call it the) 30% Apple tax.
My question is, does this still exist, and do we still have to send a user outside of the app to overcome this, or can we now have an in-app browser that allows for a user to be directed to a website which has a store (to buy physical goods), or collects monetary donations?
I understand there are provisions for not-for-profits, but most of the reference material I've found is related to using their in-app purchasing system.
I have found these rules here:
https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/guidelines/
This rule suggests that you shouldn't be using in-app purchasing, but it doesn't mention if you take payments via in in-app browser whether you'll cop the 30% penalty:

3.1.3(e) Goods and Services Outside of the App: If your app enables people to purchase physical goods or services that will be consumed
outside of the app, you must use purchase methods other than in-app
purchase to collect those payments, such as Apple Pay or traditional
credit card entry.

Can anyone clarify about taking payments inside of an app, and if my suspicions are still valid?


texts: Mail gone after clean install of El Capitan

texts:
After a few days of using El Capitan I decided to do a clean install today.
As always I backed up ~/Library/Mail and put it back after the clean install.

When I opened Mail after that, there were no accounts, no local mailboxes, no mail!

Since the I tried to restore every file that could be associated with Mail I could find from a TimeMachine backup:

~/Library/Mail
~/Library/Containers/com.apple.mail
~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.mail-shared.plist

Nothing has changed from that.

My Mails and Mailboxes are located in:

~/Library/Mail/V3

My Accounts are stored in the only file left in V2:

~/Library/Mail/V2/MailData/Accounts.plist

But Mail seems to ignore the whole ~/Library/Mail folder. Any ideas what I could do?


texts:
i have a MacBookPro 5,5 (Intel Core 2 Duo 2,26GHz) with Snow Leopard.
Actualy i've 2 ram block of 2GB (total 4GB) of DDR3 at 1067MHz.
Now i'm buying 2 ram bloc of 8GB of DDR3 but at 1600MHz, could i've problems?

This is the ram i'm going to buy:

http://www.amazon.it/Komputerbay-MACMEMORY-PC3-12800-1600MHz-204-Pin/dp/B009GYVK1O/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1392556082&sr=8-2&keywords=macmemory+16gb

I hope they will run at maximum frequency that motherboard support.


texts: How do I export a single frame from iMovie 10.0.3?

texts:
I might end up resorting to a screenshot, but I do not know

the movie's resolution, and would like an image at actual size.

I have tried lots of methods that came up when I searched online.

The only one that worked for me was a screenshot, but that runs into the size issue.

Some sources suggested various options under the "Share" button, but none of those options come up when I click that button.        The options that actually show up for me are

Theater  and  Email  and  iTunes  and  YouTube  and

Facebook  and  Vimeo  and  CNN Report  and  File .

Some sources suggested a "right-click", or showed a menu being brought up looks

exactly like those that come up from right clicks.        However, I have tried button+click

for each button from among  fn , control , option , command , shift  ,    both on the

normal display and the full-screen display, and none of those brought up any such menu.

Some sources suggested starting by copying a small segment of the movie into a new project.

However, I cannot figure out any way of creating a new project, and although I can easily

create a new event, I can't figure out any way of getting a significant part of the window to

correspond to the new event, whereas the sources I mentioned in my previous sentence

show that having been done for the projects.  If I instead drag the segment over

the name of the new event and let go, then it moves the entire movie to the new event.

Other than just taking a screen-shot without knowing whether-or-not

the screenshot is at the actual resolution, is there any way to

extract a single frame from iMovie 10.0.3 that actually works?

(In particular, a way of playing it at actual size that lets me advance frame-by-frame would suffice.

However, bear in mind that I do not know the actual size.)


texts: How are network file system mount paths defined in Lion (apart from Directory Services)?

texts:
Checking Directory Services for network file system mounts, i.e.

sudo dscl . -list /Mounts

and

sudo dscl . -readall /Mounts

returns nothing, yet the /etc/fstab file is deprecated in Lion. Why is dscl returning nothing and where are the mounts defined if they aren’t by Directory Services?


texts:
Having upgraded from Snow Leopard to Mountain Lion a few days ago, I find that most of the 'man' entries from section 3 (programming functions) are missing.  For example:

phillip-millss-macbook-pro:etc phil$ man fopen
No manual entry for fopen

Exploring with the terminal shows me that all that remains in man3 directories within the 'man' search path are things related to Perl.

Is there something extra that I should be installing to get the reference information back?


texts: Download the USB installer on macOS X Catalina

texts:
I'm trying to download the USB installer of macOS X Catalina but I'm getting an error:

Update not found The requested version of macOS is not available.

I'm already on mac os Catalina 10.15, I'm not trying to update, I want to download the USB installer.

Below the error I'm receving, a screenshot and a gif.


texts: I have a Mac Screen that doest have any ports, instead having only a thunderbolt 1 cable coming out of the back. i have a non-apple pc that doest have a thunderbolt. i do not want to spend $70 on a good adaptor. Help?


texts: Just bought the magic mouse 2 it's working but not scrolling up and down.  When I go into system preferences and click on mouse, it shows there is no mouse found!  Help!


texts:
I had a Mac mini. Then the HD broke. So I took an HD from an old Windows notebook. I moved this HD from the Windows notebook to the Mac mini. Now Mac mini correctly starts with Windows XP (what a mess).

So what I want now, is to replace Windows XP with an OS X, but as soon I insert the original Mac mini install disk, my device will spit it out. The same DVD is read on the other Windows computer. Why? What happened? And above all: what can I do????


texts: Prevent Sierra from opening a Window for a new Volume

texts:
I have a mobile LTE modem that I connect to via Wifi. Whenever I connect via USB (for charging) Sierra opens a /Volumes/Web Connection Finder window. How can I prevent that?

I can't use bless as the volume is read-only.

I also tried setting

defaults write com.apple.frameworks.diskimages auto-open-ro-root -bool false
defaults write com.apple.frameworks.diskimages auto-open-rw-root -bool false
defaults write com.apple.finder OpenWindowForNewRemovableDisk -bool false

but they had no effect.


texts: Connecting Thunderbolt 2 device to 2010 Mac Pro

texts:
I have a Pegasus RAID array that connects to Thunderbolt 2 ports. I'm looking for a way to hook this up over USB 3 to my Mac Pro.

Does anyone have any suggestions? There is for example this: http://www.apple.com/shop/product/MMEL2AM/A/thunderbolt-3-usb-c-to-thunderbolt-2-adapter

But I don't know if it would work since it would not be connected to a host device.

Thanks!
K.


texts: Does apple actually name classes as WTF?

texts: In the screenshot below, find the stack trace and look at the last stack(s). Is that just a programmers (@Apple) frustration or is there any acronym? I tried looking for some meaningful values


texts: iPhone plays particular album staticky through a particular system

texts:
I have one album on my iPhone — A Perfect Circle, Mer De Noms — that sounds horrible when I play it through a particular system, my Harman/Kardon HK 3480 via AudioQuest Beetle (Bluetooth). It sounds great on other systems, even turned up quite loud. I don't have problems with any other albums or songs. It's the same for every song on the album.

Even when volume is lowish/medium, it sounds staticky as HELL on louder parts of the songs, and maybe sounds a bit like the signal is getting clipped, not sure.

I have already reimported the album at a higher bit rate (320kbps VBR), to no avail. I then also renamed the old imports, and imported it freshly, to avoid using the old track settings.

I retain the same compression on my iPhone as desktop. The EQ and playback level of each song is set to the default.

My iPhone has iOS 12.0.1 installed (the latest), but it had this problem with previous versions.

How can I get this album playing correctly again?

UPDATE: I actually remimported again with MP3 compression, I renamed everything before the import, and got the same result again. I'm pretty sure this has to do with the source album.


texts: I lost my iPhone 4s the other day and I went on find my phone but it said it was offline, so I clicked lost mode but have been checking every day, what does it mean by offline? is it cos the phone is off or that it doesn't have internet or broken? if someone has stolen the phone surely they cant use it? as I put it in lost mode or if they did could I at least track it? or is there a way they can get round this? I'm so confused and lost without my phone :(


texts: How can I get Quicksilver to open bookmarked URLs in Chrome?

texts:
I'd like to be able to trigger QS and then start typing "gmail" or "weather" or the name of whatever bookmark I'd like to open, and have the previously bookmarked site open in Chrome, my default browser. Is it possible to do this with Chrome?

(I was able to do this with Quicksilver on my old G5 Mac, although I used Firefox on that machine.)


texts:
I have been using Cisco Meraki for mdm and its has been working fine. I have observed today that it is asking for a shared mailboxes password after an ios gets updated. Can you guys help me out?
Thanks


texts:
I just started with Charlie Miller and Dino Dai Zovi's Mac Hacker's Handbook and was doing the tutorials. This includes getting to know things like 'otool'

otool -f \bin\ls
Fat headers
fat_magic 0xcafebabe
nfat_arch 2
architecture 0
    cputype 16777223
    cpusubtype 3
    capabilities 0x80
    offset 4096
    size 39600
    align 2^12 (4096)
architecture 1
    cputype 7
    cpusubtype 3
    capabilities 0x0
    offset 45056
    size 35632
    align 2^12 (4096)

I tried to find something about that first cputype in /usr/include/mach/machine.h, but found nothing. Clearly I am missing something.


texts: Is it possible to connect two 4k monitors to one thunderbolt port?

texts: I want to buy the new macbook pro 13" without touchbar and be able to connect two 4k monitors AND the charger. But this macbook only has 2 ports.


texts: Linux' `ps f` (tree view) equivalent on OSX?

texts:
How can I get a tree view like the one below on OSX?

vartec@some_server:~$ ps xf
PID TTY      STAT   TIME COMMAND
11519 ?        S      0:00 sshd: vartec@pts/0
11520 pts/0    Ss     0:00  \_ -bash
11528 pts/0    R+     0:00      \_ ps xf

To clarify, I'm mostly interested in the tree structure, not the extended information.


texts: How can I type the Multiply symbol (“×“) on iPhone?

texts:
I was using speech recognition to send a message in WhatsApp, and when I said “multiplied by” this sign appeared:

I can’t remember seeing this symbol on the default iOS keyboards, so I wonder if there are other ways to input this character (and maybe other characters?) into the phone without using speech recognition.


texts: Password Reset using Mac OS X install media

texts: I forgot my password for my imac. If I reset my password using the Mac OS X install media, will I loose all data stored in my computer?


texts: I transfer a picture folder from desktop to an imovie project in 10.0.3

texts: How do I transfer a folder from desktop to an imovie 10.0.5 project?


texts: How to install an homebrew formula without updating homebrew itself?

texts:
When I install or reinstall a formula, homebrew automatically update itself before installing the formula.

When working on a slow connection, this is annoying. How can I cancel this automatic update?


texts: Facebook message notification showing blank message

texts:
Since I updated the system to 10.11.5, the Facebook message notification is not showing message text.

Is this a bug in this software upgrade of OSX?


texts:
I upgraded my mac to use an SSD for System and Applications and moved Users to a second HDD. iTunes will not allow me to authorize.

Here are my paths:

/Mac/... (System, etc)

/Volumes/Pig/Users/
  /Volumes/Pig/Users/arrow
  /Volumes/Pig/Users/Shared
  /Volumes/Pig/Users/wildcat

Currently permissions on Pig are 755 system:wheel on /Pig, /Pig/Users, and /Pig/Users/Shared.

Error on starting iTunes:

You do not have enough access privileges for this operation

Error on authorization attempt:

There was an error storing your authorization information on this computer.

The required directory was not found or has a permissions error. Correct this permissions problem and try again, or deauthorize this computer if the permissions cannot be changed.

This computer was previously authorized. I've deauthorized everything in my account so now we're starting zero. I've also followed the Apple Support Article regarding this issue. http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1277?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US

I understand the gist of what's going on here, I'm just not sure how permissions need to be set up on the second HDD to accommodate iTunes.

Thanks~~


texts: Why it shows "You are opening the application 'Xcode' for the first time?

texts: I am running XCode v.5.1 in my Mountain Lion, I don't know why, but I'm getting this message after a successful start of Mac computer. I was already using this version of XCode before and now suddenly it's showing me this message? What's wrong? It is something that Apple forgets its my first run?


texts: How to force Mac OS X ML not to auto connect to Wi-Fi

texts:
For my work I need hundreds of open tabs in my Chrome. When I restart, Mac automatically connects to Wi-Fi and all tabs get loaded which consumes much memory. I don't want this.

What I have to do is manually turn off Wi-Fi, then launch Chrome. When all tabs get loaded with "Unable to connect to the Internet", I turn on Wi-Fi. This helps me not waste memory on unused tabs.

So, is there a way to force Mac not to auto connect to Wi-Fi? I still need it "Remember networks this computer has joined" since I use my company's secure network and I don't want to reenter all the credentials all the time.


texts: How to use another mirror with Macports?

texts: I'm a newbie to Macports and I really wonder how I can change the default mirror to https://mirrors.tuna.tsinghua.edu.cn/macports. What's more, when I use Macports to install softwares from source, it always downloads from https://pek.cn.packages.macports.org which is not available, and I want to use https://mirrors.tuna.tsinghua.edu.cn/macports/distfiles instead. Can anyone help me? Thanks a lot.


texts: Create bootable EFI system partition from macOS Installer's firmware files (.scap, .fd)

texts:
Any macOS installer contains a folder (e.g. called EFIPayloads) with EFI firmware files named MP61_0116_B17_LOCKED.scap, MBP114_0172_B09_LOCKED.fd or similarly.

How does one create a working EFI partition from those?

What I do know already:

The EFI partition requires particular values in the GPT.
An EFI partition is a FAT32 volume with a folder structure like this:

EFI
    APPLE
        EXTENSIONS
            Firmware.scap                  (always there)
        FIRMWARE                           (optional)
            EfiUpdaterApp2.efi
            MP51_0087_00B_LOCKED.fd

What I do not understand:

Which files do I take from the macOS Installer, and where do I place them in the EFI volume? E.g, do I use the .scap file matching the Mac model and rename that to Firmware.scap, whereas a model-matching .fd file (which may be optional) then goes into the FIRMWARE folder?
Is EfiUpdaterApp2.efi needed to run the firmware, or is that only a leftover from an older firmware update process and can be removed?
Can I create a universal EFI boot partition, containing the firmware for any Mac model, so that I can put that onto an external disk and boot practically any Mac from it for which I've included its .fd or .scap file?

Update

This answer suggests that the files in the FIRMWARE folder are not loaded when booting the system but are rather just used to flash the ROM. So, if the particular Mac had already installed the particular file into its Flash ROM once, it won't be needed any more and can be removed from the EFI partition.

I also did a test where I renamed the top "EFI" folder to "EFI-OFF" and rebooted a MacBook Air 2015. This resulted in a new EFI folder being created in the EFI partition with the same Firmware.scap file. This suggests that neiter files need to be present at boot time at all, at least on recent Macs. Meaning there's no need to create a bootoable EFI partition at all. I wonder if it still may contain additional support for Macs whose boot ROMs can't be updated, such as adding support to boot from APFS volumes, perhaps.

Background:

Recently, a friend got his EFI boot partition overwritten, whereas his main Mac boot partition had remained intact. Without this EFI partition, the Mac would not boot any more.

I then tried to repair the damage by copying my Mac's EFI partition to his Mac, using iBored (which I wrote myself, so I know what I was doing, trust me on that).

But that did not help - the Mac would still not boot.

After a while I figured that his rather old Mac (a MacBook Pro early-2009) probably required a different EFI firmware than the other Mac from which we tried copying the EFI firmware.

After some digging I found the mentioned .fd and .scap files in a macOS installer, which appears to prove my theory. Hence I would now like to get some more information on how this all fits together.


texts: Why does Time Machine hang/freeze on "Backing up..."?

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Lately, whenever I try to back up Time Machine to one particular external drive, it gets past the "Preparing..." stage (most troubleshooting documents talk about fixing problems with hangs in this stage). The status says "Backing up..." and the subtitle will say "Copying X GB of Y GB..." but it will make no progress even if I leave it overnight.

What's wrong?


texts: Safari keyboard shortcut for iCloud tabs?

texts: Is there a keyboard shortcut for the iCloud tabs in Safari (7.0.5)? So far I have to click on the cloud button to view iCloud tabs.


texts: iPhone not reacting when connected to electricity

texts:
today in the morning when my phone woke me up i couldn't turn off the alarm clock (you just have to swipe to the left and everything is fine). It didn't respond to any touch gesture till i disconnected the phone from the power supply. After that everything went well!
What was that? Could it be that the phone got too much power??


texts: I have a small office setup where I control certain functionality of a set of iPads. One of the things I need to do is to be able to allow a set of iPads to AirPrint, while keeping others from doing the same. Is there a way through either the Apple Configurator, or the iPhone Configuration Utility, to disable AirPrint by device?


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A few days ago, I got my Macbook Air battery changed at an Apple store. Since then, about once a day, I've had a "kernel panic" crash, which seems to happen randomly while I'm working. (I've never seen this before.)

I did an extended memory test, which showed no problems, but a disk test on the built in 128 Gb SSD showed these errors:

Checking catalog file.(It should be 67667 instead of 67668)
Invalid directory item count(It should be 38 instead of 37)
Invalid volume free block countFile system check exit code is 8.

The popup advised repairing the disk using the Recovery HD (Command R on startup). I've done this, but, from the recovery screen, the disk shows no errors, and Verify says the disk is fine. When I rerun the disk check inside OSX, the same messages pop up.

Any idea what's going on here? Is it possible that the hard drive was damaged during the battery install?


texts: If I back all my data on to iCloud will this free my memory on my phone as I only have 8GB and would like more pics songs etc , hope people can help!


texts: How do I move a USB Time Machine backup to a Time Capsule?

texts: Is there a safe way to move a Time Machine backup on an external USB hard drive to a Time Capsule?


texts:
I run command less

ls /usr/bin | less

got many lines of directories.

2to3-
2to3-2.7
AssetCacheLocatorUtil
AssetCacheManagerUtil
AssetCacheTetheratorUtil
BuildStrings
CpMac
...

How to enumerate them ?


texts: I'm looking for a small app that will let me move any selected text (ie in a text box or another app) into my chosen text editor (in this case Sublime Text 2), and when I save will move it back to where it came from. I remember reading about such a thing ages ago, and google has failed me. Please tell me what I can do to solve this problem.


texts: A1342 MacBook distorted speaker motherboard issue

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I have an A1342 MacBook I cobbled together from spare parts. It works perfectly except the rear speaker atop the optical drive outputs distorted audio. The two speakers underneath the keyboard work perfectly. I also verified the speaker itself isn't the problem by taking a good speaker from another working MacBook. All audio from that speaker on the motherboard outputs distorted audio: the startup tone, the beep code when no ram is installed, etc. Resetting the PRAM didn't accomplish anything. The speaker connector on the motherboard looks fine (it's not loose or broken). What on the motherboard is causing interference with the speaker circuit? Why is this happening?

Thanks.


texts:
I want to use matplotlib in Python, but it gives me this error:

  ValueError: unknown locale: UTF-8

So I searched the internet and people suggest that I should edit my .bash_profile. But when I open it I can't edit since it is locked! So I searched about unlocking .bash_profile, this time people suggest using this command in terminal:

sudo chown My username ~/.bash_profile

But after entering my password, it says:

  chown: My username: illegal user name

Why does it say my user name is illegal? I have no idea what to do about. I would appreciate if someone can help me.


texts:
I would like to be able to use my home server (2012 Mac Mini) as a OpenVPN client with two network interfaces.  My plan is to connect a small switch with an Apple TV and Roku to one thunderbolt ethernet port and then connect the internal ethernet port to my wider network for internet access, sort of like this;

Apple TV 3>>>
              dumb switch >>> eth1 >>> Mac Mini > OpenVPN > eth0 >>> fibre router
Roku 2 XS >>>

Any ideas what I would need to do to make this work?


texts: How to test and debug website on older version of Safari

texts: We're trying to test and debug Safari 7. I've used the Safari dev tools to connect to a physical device and use the inspector to view the page. That works fine, but I don't have access to a physical device with Safari 7. Tools like Browser stack or saucelabs I can see the issues, but I can't debug in an emulator. Does anyone have a solution to this?


texts:
there is a apple wireless keyboard and the apple keyboard with numeric keypad.

Which one is better for the overall healthy of my wrists and arms? I suffer from RSI and I want to buy a wireless keyboard but I'm afraid it will injure me.


texts: Mac with 2 monitors. How to change screens?

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My mac is connected to 2 displays. Mac is in the center, one display is in the left and one in the right.

Sometimes it happens that when I disconnect and connect my mac from displays, display 1 becomes 3 and 3 becomes 1.
If I change their location inside Display section in System Preferences location becomes correct but all icons from display 1 stays on display 3. The same for display 3 whose icons are on 1.
Is it possible to fix this without relocation of physical monitors?


texts: No sound through HDMI with Mac Mini Connected to Projection TV

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This is similar to this unanswered question and to this question, but it uses different hardware and can't be solved in the same way as that 2nd question is solved.  The bottom line is that I get sound from my Apple TV, from the BD player, but not from the Apple TV.  I'm using a MacMini 7,1

Here's a diagram of my layout:

I have three video and sound devices (Apple TV, Mac Mini, and a BD player).  Each has an HDMI cable running from the device to the Metra HDMI switcher.  The Metra switcher also extracts the audio, which goes through a TOSLink digital audio cable to a Sonos Playbar, which is part of a home theater sound system (including a woofer and two rear speakers).  The video from the Metra switcher goes through an HDMI cable to the Sony video projector.

It's worth noting that I had a similar problem with the BD Player.  At first I had a Sony BD player, but it would not send sound to the Sony projector.  It took me a while, including over an hour on the phone with the sales guy at Crutchfield to figure out that the Sony BD player and the Sony projector were talking to each other and, basically, the projector was saying, "I don't have speakers."  The Sony BD player got that and decided, since the projector did not handle sound, it would not send audio over the HDMI output to the projector.  We solved that problem by swapping out the Sony BD player for a Panasonic and it works fine.

The problem with the Mac Mini is that it is not sending sound out through the HDMI cable.  When I go to the Sound preferences, there is no HDMI device I can pick for output.  (I suspect this is because it recognizes the Sony projector and knows it doesn't have sound.)  I've tried using Airplay to send sound to the Sonos system that way.  It worked once, but with sound lagging behind video 2-3 seconds.  Next time I tried working on it, I could not get Airplay to send audio to Sonos at all.

One problem is that the only sound input the Playbar has is the TOSLink jack, so I can't pull sound from the headphone/audio jack on the Mac and get that into the switcher or Playbar without converting the sound to HDMI or to digital - and then I'd need some other switcher.

I did try using Airplay to use the MacMini through the Apple TV.  It could have been my imagination, but I was pretty sure there was a bit of an audio lag that way, as well.  Just barely noticeable.  (And if I do this, how will that work when playing games?  Won't there be lag with screen updates? And if I do that, is there a way to start the screen sharing with the Apple TV instead of going to the Mac just to start screen sharing, then go to the Apple TV?)

I'm wondering if there's a way to override and tell sound, "Just send through the HDMI output."  All I see as possible outputs on the Mac sound preferences is the built in speakers and a list of Sonos speakers.  (And, again, that was either not working or had a 2-3 second lag for sound.)  Or maybe there's a way to create a fake HDMI audio device to just make the Mac send audio out through the HDMI cable?

The bottom line is I want audio and video synced and and playing through the Sony projector and Sonos sound system.


texts: OS X Mavericks Maps: can't send direction to iPhone

texts:
First of all, I have solved the problem. It took me quite a while to figure out, so I'll share the solution here in case anyone runs into the same problem.

To put it short, you should be able to see a "Send to $NAME_OF_YOUR_IPHONE" entry in the share menu of Maps.app. If you don't, then turn on "Documents & Data" in OS X's iCloud settings (System Settings-->iCloud). If you want more context, read on.

First you need to make sure you Mac is running OS X 10.9 (which is sheer nonsense, how would you have Maps.app otherwise); your iPhone is running iOS 7 (I guess most iPhones do); and your Mac and iPhone are signed into the same iCloud account. If you do, and you don't get the right share entry, then don't try to sign out iCloud on your Mac, as some people suggested. I've tried it myself and it does not work for me. The problem is that, I'm not a big fan of mobile devices, so I usually have the "Documents & Data" sync option off; as soon as I signed out and signed in again, I turned off "Documents & Data", so nothing happened. Only when I turned it on and relaunched Maps.app did I begin to see my iPhone on my Mac.

So, that is my trick and it worked here. I'm not sure whether it would work for others, so if you tried my trick and nothing happened, please don't complain to me. Thanks.


texts: Is winSCP available for mac or only windows?

texts: I need a ftp for mac since my current viper ftp is corrupting my xml files. So just wanted to know if we have efficient FTP for mac users.


texts:
I'm trying to follow the instructions found here to install windows 10 on my iMac. But I get this error The installer disc could not be found as shown below:

This is my iMac specs:

Any advice guys please?


texts: Visio TV attached with HDMI to iMac zombie

texts: I've connected my Vizio TV with HDMI and thunderbolt (USB3?) to my iMac. It seems to work pretty well. But when I turn off the TV, the Mac still thinks that it's connected and behaves in dual monitor mode. Is there a setting, an app or a trick that would overcome this problem?


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I have an iPad with iOS 9 that is used by technological illiterate people of my family. These persons use basically facetime, messages and safari.

They manage that relatively well but if for some reason something happens that prevent them from doing that, they panic and start tapping in a lot of things, swiping here and there, tap tap tap and 7.32 seconds later they have managed to logout from messages and facetime, disable wifi, put the ipad on airplane mode, add members of the family to the facetime blacklist and all sort of things.

I have to spend hours reverting the device back to a useful state and they get pissed because they have to wait for me to use the device again.

Is there a way to prevent them from doing these changes but let them use facetime, safari and messages fully on the ipad?


texts: Macbook Pro 2013 slow startup from sleep since Yosemite

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I have an 8GB Macbook Pro (2013) and have recently upgraded from Mavericks to Yosemite. Everything has been fine except when I wake it from sleep. Firstly, it brings up the login screen but the picture and box for my password are disjointed and not in line. When I try typing  my password, the cursor moves but the box remains blank. When I enter my password the screen turns a transparent white and a loading bar fills up at the bottom of the screen before finally allowing me in. Sometimes it even starts a full reboot and I have to wait for a bar to fill up.

This only ever happened in Mavericks if I let my battery die whilst in sleep mode but its doing it all the time since I installed yosemite. Its really annoying as I move around a lot with  my macbook so often put it to sleep so I can wake it readily later.

I can hear my disk start up when I open the lid so I assume its hibernating rather than just sleeping and is dumping my memory to disk?

Any help around this would be appreciated.

ps. Also when running some python recently it decided to go black, fall on its arse and die out of nowhere. It then restarted and complained that it hadn't been shut down properly.


texts: Is there an AppleScript or Automator action to quickly edit Info for Video in iTunes?

texts:
I ripped the DVD set of a television series to my iMac. But now, the filenames are weird and there is no meta info.

In Automator, I see there is an action to edit Info for a song. That's great, but it doesn't really work for TV Shows - it won't handle the stuff that you'd see in the "Video" tab when viewing Info in iTunes.

Is there an Automator action for this that I can use? If not, AppleScript?


texts: How to sell comic books through Apple in-app purchase?

texts: I am working on a comic reader app which is almost same as other panel by panel readers. I planned to provide authors with a web interface where from they would be able to upload their contents and fix a price. But going through several articles, it seemed like Apple doesn't work in that way. Now I need to know, how can I provide a functionality like this. I was planning to collect all the books from the authors and login to Apple's portal to upload those books. But then also there is a restriction of 10k products on Apple's portal. I was wondering how giants like DC, Marvel or Comixology have overcame this. To be precise, I need to know if I want to achieve functionalities of comic selling as of Comixology, what approach should I follow to upload comics to store. Any help will be highly appreciated.


texts: unzipping split zip files named filea, fileb, filec, file1, file2,

texts:
I got my first mac today and Im really going crazy trying to do something quite simple

I have some split zip files called

somefilea.zip somefileb.zip    somefilec.zip somefiled.zip ... to     z.zip somefile1.zip somefile2.zip ...

I'm trying to merge these into the same folder and let the files they contain join into one folder.

I've tried app "the unarchiver" for this but I failed. It kept making new folders for every part.

Is there an unzip tool in which I can do this?
On windows I'd select them all, right-click, select "extract" in the winrar menu and it would do what I want.


texts: Not many years ago, there was quite a difference between accounts from different countries when it came to apps and music available for purchase. Nowadays I don't really see that difference, so I wish to change my AppleId's nationality. Is that possible? Will my purchased apps and music be kept with the new nationality?


texts: iPhone: doesn't change views when tilted

texts:
When browsing web pages I like to tilt for landscape view. It seems that I can't get it to rotate the image anymore.

Is there a setting for this?


texts: How to get the password hashes for a user in Mac OS X 10.10+, in recovery/single user mode?

texts:
I would like to view the hashes on my Mac, in either single user mode, or the terminal in recovery mode.

I tried to follow the steps described in OS X 10.9: where are password hashes stored. But I do not see my users plist file in the /var/db... folder, but I see root, nobody, daemon, and other .plist files. How can I find these files in recovery/single user mode?

Note: The OS I would be using is either OS X Yosemite or OS X El Capitan; both would be great to know.


texts: Test application for Retina and Non Retina

texts:
I have a MBP retina 13" running OSX 10.10.
I am developing an app for Mac App store.
Since I am having a retina display, I am not able to test the application for non retina models ? So how do I test my application for non retina displays.
Will it work if I reduce the screen resolution ??


texts:
Most of the time my MacBook Pro stop charging at 99%. But when I check the battery status it says battery is charged. My battery cycles is around 500. Does it means I needs a new battery or it is something else? Thanks.

I am using Mid 2012 MBP.


texts: Superuser account is disabled by default in OS X (Mavericks). But if you run sudo -l you will come to know that the admin user can execute all superuser commands. Then what is the point of disabling superuser? What are the actual differences between super user and admin user?


texts: Infinite loop "Are you sure you want to buy this item?" in the App Store

texts:
I have the latest Apple iPod touch. I just received a iTunes gift card and started downloading free apps.
When I try to download apps that are $0.99 or higher, it asks me for my billing information. After I hit clicked 'done', it asks me if I still want to buy the item. I say yes and it starts asking me for my billing info again and then if I'm sure again and again...
Can someone tell me what to do?


texts: Attempting to revert to Mac OS X Mavericks, now can't get out of OS X Utilities!

texts:
Here is my situation:  I have an MBP Retina 2013 with an SSD drive which I ran with Mavericks with no problems for about almost a year now.  I recently upgraded to Yosemite which seemed to work well at first, but I found that it kept freezing up after an hour or two.  This was unacceptable and I was unable to determine the cause so I decided to revert to Mavericks using my Time Machine backups, so I rebooted using cmd R.  I selected Restore from Time Machine backup and followed the steps including unlocking the FileVault.  It began to restore and then said it couldn't continue because of some sort of unspecified error.

So I tried to use the disk utility to erase the disk but the erase button was disabled.  I did verify and repair on the Macintosh HD which did not report any errors.

Then I attempted to begin a reinstall OS X but that only sees the "Recovery HD", it doesn't see my main disk partition so I can't install.

Then I rebooted, hoping to simply boot back into Yosemite but it continues to boot to OS X Utilities no matter what I do.  Now I try to do a Restore From Time Machine backup and its no longer able to find my Yosemite boot drive!  I try selecting "Startup Disk" which doesn't find any startup disks. Somehow the main drive seems to be lost, I'm unable to erase it or even access it, what do I do?

Top drive partition ("Macintosh HD") does show under disk utility Partition: Name Macintosh HD,  Format Mac OS Extended (journaled), Size 750.42 GB.

Edit: I've also tried booting to my DiskWarrior DVD but it just hangs on the Apple screen and never gets there!  My next approach is to build a Mavericks USB bootable drive and see if I can install from there.

It seems clear that my main hard drive is locked or disabled somehow, I just don't know how to get it turned back on.


texts:
I installed iOS 6 on my iPad and went looking for Passbook and didn't find it. I checked the AppStore and no results are found for Passbook.

Where is it?


texts: Can I mirror my iPad's display using the VGA adapter for use in a presentation?

texts: I would love to be able to mirror the display of my iPad on a projector for use in a presentation. Is there any software available to do this - on the AppStore or if necessary for use with a jailbroken iPad?


texts:
Power nap is a good idea when my laptop is plugged in at night.

However I notice that it also happens when it is not plugged in.

When I wake up in the morning I will immediately notice some emails in Mail.app which are from 2am. Then after a few more moments it will connect to Wifi then I will get all my emails.

I am not sleep walking. The computer is not plugged in. Is this behavior documented? Can I turn it off?

Also, my Enable Power Nap while on battery power is off. This seems to be something else.


texts: Bluetooth app with XAMPP permission problem in Mac OS 11

texts:
I using a web GUI for controlling some Bluetooth devices. I use PHP shell_exec command to run our created Bluetooth terminal app. My fiction was work until Mac OS 11.
My customers upgrade Mac OS 10.15 to Mac OS 11. Apple added Bluetooth in Security Privacy settings.
I tried our terminal app, it is running. But it wanted to add Terminal app  Bluetooth in Security Privacy settings
I tried add httpd in Bluetooth in Security Privacy settings. But it does not work


texts: What is the correct usage of working folders and bookmarks in Versions (Subversion Client) for local repositories?

texts:
I have been using Versions, the popular Subversion client for OS X, to connect to remote Subversion repositories. These remote repositories you keep as bookmarks on the left side bar. However, when it comes to local repositories, I have to admit I am still a bit clueless. I see Versions has in addition to bookmarks, the concept of working folders. I am unsure if working folders are meant to be used separate of bookmarks or if working folders are meant to be placed inside bookmarks. What is the correct way to set up and check out a local repository?

Is the local repository folder A meant to stay separate from the folder B containing the files I want to keep under version control? Can folder B be a subfolder of A? Also, as far as how it works internally: Where are the past versions of files kept in the file system?

I created a local repository using Versions and I saw on my file system that many Subversion system files and folders were created on the local repository folder. Nowhere did I see the usual "branches", "tags" and "trunk" that I usually find on remote repositories that have already been created. Are those created by hand?

Some clarification on the barebones basics of local repositories would be appreciated. I am hoping to find out the correct workflow from set up to starting with my first check out. Thanks.


texts: While trying to install OS X El Capitan there was a brief power cut mid installation then the Mac tried to restart it first brought up the apple logo then brought up the prohibitory symbol. I can't get safe mode and I have done a hard restart all with the same thing can you help?


texts:
I am thinking about running dstat on Mac. But some of the locations of data are different from Linux: notice the /proc/stat:

Module dstat_cpu24 failed to load. (Cannot open file /proc/stat)
Module dstat_disk24_old failed to load. (Cannot open file /proc/stat)
Module dstat_net failed to load. (Cannot open file /proc/net/dev)
Module dstat_page24 failed to load. (Cannot open file /proc/stat)
Module dstat_sys failed to load. (Cannot open file /proc/stat)

Is there a reference detailing the mapping from the standard Linux to Mac?


texts: Is it possible to setup a Smart Album in the Photos app that would group all Live Photos? Neither app seems to provide a quick way to find all your Live Photos.


texts: Is there any App where I can show where I click on an non-jailbroken iPad?

texts:
I am using a mirroring app to present to people in a different geographic location, and I need to show them where I am clicking using different Apps, I know that PPT and Keynote already have those capabilities, but we are using iBooks and other Apps (in-house developments)

Thank you in advance!


texts: Using internet recovery to install Mac OS X on SSHD, then replace internal?

texts:
I have a USB 3.0 to Sata cable of which I will plug into a 500gb SSHD. I will try to install a completely new Mac OS X on it using the Internet Recovery option. Then transfer all of my files via USB 3.0 from the internal to the SSHD.

Afterwards, I will replace my internal HDD with the SSHD. Will this work? Will it automatically boot into my SSHD seeing as it is the only drive?


texts: I have purchase a iPad (non 3g model) and have also recently started using an application called Foreflight for my personal flight planning while getting my private pilots license.  I would love to be able to get a fix on my location - is there any way I can use a bluetooth GPS receiver with this application?


texts: How to restore a hidden file in Time Machine - can't find data file?

texts:
I followed the instructions in this question but still cannot restore my address book and iCal data. I found what I thought was the data file for the address book, AddressBook-v22.abcddb, but when I tried to import it, Address Book didn't recognize it as a valid importable file. What is the filename of the correct file to import from my TM backup? And I couldn't find anything that looked like an iCal data file.

My back story is that my hard drive crashed on my iMac, and I brought home a new Macbook Air to replace it. I'm just trying to copy my Address Book and Calendar data from my external hard drive backup to the Macbook.


texts: How do I clean out dust in the fans of my MacBook Pro?

texts:
How do I clean out the dust in the fans of my MacBook Pro? (I'm perfectly comfortable with opening my MacBook Pro up (Unibody 2008 edition with removable battery cover), but I'm not exactly sure how I would carry out the dust-cleaning procedure.

Recently my lower left part (In typing perspective) of my MacBook Pro had a really odd sound coming from it. I remember seeing a fan on that part and had saw lots of dust on it, but never did anything much about it.

Would I use my fingers to scrape out the dust in the fans? Or a can of compressed air? (Wouldn't that be counterproductive? I would be blowing all the dust into the MacBook Pro/the unibody case itself/onto the other components on the motherboard?)

Thanks in advance. :)


texts: 2015 MBP shutdown/boot problems - "X86PlatformPlugin Result 0" messages

texts:
I have a 2015 15" MacBook Pro (full specs- i7, GPU, 1 TB) running latest Mojave. I have verbose mode enabled for shutdown/boot.

Basically, shutdown and boot sometimes take minutes (occasionally five or more) - during that time the console just displays X86PlatformPlugin Result 0 messages over and over (and over).

Resetting the SMC tends to reduce the time, but it eventually starts to happen again.

I'm trying to avoid having to do a complete wipe and install.

Anyone have insight on what this message means and what is causing it?


texts: Why does "Library.ahk_ts" keeps appearing in $HOME directory?

texts:
Running macOS version 11.0 (20A5374i) {aka "Big Sur Beta 8"} on a 16" MacBook Pro.
I have noticed that a file named Library.ahk_ts keeps appearing in my home directory.
I am trying to figure out what app or process is creating it.
It appears to be a simple plist with a date/time stamp and nothing else:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
    <key>date</key>
    <date>2020-09-23T18:58:43Z</date>
</dict>
</plist>

I've deleted it a few times, only to re-appear in the next few days.
I don't think it's malicious or harmful. I'm just wondering where it came from (which app/process/etc) and why.
Google was no help.
Judging from the timestamp when the file was created (2:58 p.m. local time) I was on a Zoom call, but I had been on a Zoom call for about an hour, so I don't think it was anything Zoom related.
#stumped


texts:
I like to set my desktops a certain way for work.

I noticed that when I command-tab around my Spaces, it seems to switch around the order of desktops when I access with ctrl+arrow.

This is really annoying. For example I set my two terminal and coding/debugger screens to be adjacent, then I alt-tab to my email and all of a sudden the email screen is sitting between my two work screens.


texts:
iOS calendar add birthdays but no anniversary.
How can I add them from the contacts to the calendar?


texts: Time machine: network hard drive vs Time Capsule

texts:
I read that is possible to set up a Network Hard Disk in order to connect it to the router and perform wireless Time Machine backups on the Hard Disk.

What are the pros and cons of using a Network Hard Disk rather then Time Capsule?


texts: What’s the difference between diskutil unmount and diskutil eject?

texts:
On macOS (eg. Mojave 10.14), what is the difference between the diskutil unmount and diskutil eject commands?

For example, if I want to execute this from the command line (eg. bash in terminal), but I want to have the same, ‘safe’ result as though I had clicked the eject icon in the Finder:

which command(s) should I use (and why)?
what are the differences and side-effects between these two?


texts: Backup and restore application preferences

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I already have a backup of my system on Time Machine, but will it restore my application preferences too when I migrate to a new system? Even if it is Lion? (I come from Snow Leopard)
And what about those apps that have their data in Library>Application Support?

Do I have to manually copy and restore .plist files or is there a Backup app smart enough to copy them together with the .app file?


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I have no idea how to call what I'm looking for so bear with me.
I'm looking for a simple tool or method for displaying text larger than normal. At best screen filling.
Imagine me sitting at my desk and telling another person next to me to call a number which is in one of my emails. I can either read the number or, and here it comes, mark it, hit a button and see the number enlarged all over the screen so that it can be read 2m from me.
I frequently have to share a url with someone and here this would be handy too. I can't always use the "share" button.
Is this something that already exists? Usually I have to copy and paste the snippet into an editor and resize the font to some large size but that's not very cool.


texts: How to tell the difference between a legitimate Apple request for my password, and an app phishing attempt?

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If an app pops up a modal that looks just like the Apple password request modal, how can I tell the difference?

https://krausefx.com/blog/ios-privacy-stealpassword-easily-get-the-users-apple-id-password-just-by-asking


texts: MBP with Serial ATA hard drive vs PCIe-based flash storage

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I am not sure how much logical my question is but I am planing to purchase MBP for the first time and looking at the options I have in place, I am all confused.

I am looking at these 2 options

MacBook Pro with 1TB Serial ATA Drive @ 5400 rpm and 8GB 1600MHz DDR3 SDRAM
MacBook Pro 8GB 1866MHz LPDDR3 memory 128GB PCIe-based flash storage

there is some difference between the processor, but I am not much concerned with that.

I will be using the MBP for the development which includes a development editor (Eclipse), a tomcat server and some other tools.

My only concern is about the Storage as with the second option, it seems to be quite on the lower side.

Can any one suggest me what is the other difference between these 2 MBP (other than Retina display) which  can be critical in taking the decision (with the fact that I will be using it for development most of the time).

MacBook Pro 13-inch

2.5GHz Dual-core Intel Core i5, Turbo Boost up to 3.1GHz
8GB 1600MHz DDR3 SDRAM — 2x4GB
1TB Serial ATA Drive @ 5400 rpm
SuperDrive 8x (DVD±R DL/DVD±RW/CD-RW)
Backlit Keyboard (English) & User's Guide

13-inch MacBook Pro with Retina display

2.7GHz Dual-core Intel Core i5, Turbo Boost up to 3.1GHz
8GB 1866MHz LPDDR3 SDRAM
128GB PCIe-based Flash Storage
Intel Iris Graphics 6100
Force Touch trackpad
Backlit Keyboard (English) & User's Guide


texts: I've looked everywhere for the answer to this. And it is honestly a important question.  Is the iPad Smart Cover flammable?


texts: Can I run apps on iPhone without paying to be a developer?

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I am new to ios development.

I am using Xcode 6.4 and iOS 8.4.1, when I'm trying to run my app on
my device I get this message from xcode:

  No valid signing identities (i.e. certificate and private key pair)
  matching the team ID “(null)” were found.

  Xcode can attempt to fix this issue.

And when clicking "Fix issue" it suggesting me to enrol Apple's dev program. I would rather not be a paid developer - is that the only way forward?