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I'm getting an SSD for my wife's MBP 2010. I was planning to install the old HDD and the new SSD into my MacPro and just use disk utility to copy all the info from her old disk to the new one. It would be easy enough and once the new disk is installed she can pick right up where she left off.

But I had an idea to reduce her downtime while the disks were copying. If I install the SSD into my MacPro first. then copy all the files over the network from her MBP onto the SSD. All I would need to do is bless the new SSD and I should be able to just swap the two drives and it should be perfectly bootable with all files and settings intact right? the MBP only needs to be down for the 15mins it takes me to change the drives.

I'm just a little bit confused about how Bless works though. It just lets the computers firmware know where to find the boot-loader right? but is that info saved in the firmware? or is it apart of whatever filesystem the Blessed files exist on? I guess what I'm asking is, if I bless the SSD while it's in my MacPro, will it mess up the MacPro's boot settings? and Not make the SSD bootable? Or will it work like I hope it does and just make the SSD bootable so that it can go into the MBP and just work? Or do I need to add extra options for that?

PS: yes I realize that this all just creates a bunch of extra work for me to save an hour (at most) of downtime on the laptop. But I had the idea and now I want to know.

Thanks!


texts: Can the iPad magic keyboard start dictation with a shortcut command?

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I want a physical keyboard shortcut to enable dictation on iPadOS.

I have two iPads Pro - one with the smart folio physical keyboard and another with the magic keyboard.  Ideally without moving my hands from the physical keyboard, tab to any text input and hold keys to activate the voice input button on the physical keyboard.

For now, I have to tap twice on the caret bottom right than tap on the mic button on the on-screen keyboard.

Is there a built in key shortcut for this or a way to add that using Accessibility to settings on iPadOS 13.5?


texts: "YouTube Kids" is cleaner than regular YouTube. Sadly, I haven't found any method of disabling autoplay. If it's possible, how can I disable autoplay?

texts:
My question
How can I disable the YouTube Kids autoplay feature — on iOS, on MacOS, or on any other platform?
Please assume:

I own a non-jailbroken iPhone.
I have administrator rights on my computer.
I can freely install any desktop browsers, mobile browsers, extensions, and/or userscripts that you want me to install.
I can also install uBlock Origin on my computer, and can create any custom element-hiding or script-blocking rules that you suggest.

Background to my question
"YouTube Kids" is YouTube's official interface for kids 12 and under. It isn't 100% safe for kids, but it's still cleaner than regular YouTube.
Children can watch YouTube Kids through the iOS app, through the Android app, or directly on the website.
It looks like autoplay is always on, and there's no way to shut it off. This means that, after one video finishes, the next one starts automatically. I think this is a suboptimal design, especially for kids. Various sources suggest that autoplay makes the service more addictive and mind-numbing.
I've looked in the parental settings and the kids' settings, and have found no way to disable autoplay.
There's a "timer" feature which lets you schedule the app to stop working in a configurable number of minutes from now (e.g. 30 minutes), but setting a timer is not the same as simply disabling autoplay.
This article indirectly implies that, on iOS, it may be possible to disable autoplay. But maybe that article is outdated and it's impossible nowadays.
Edit
I've made a Reddit post. The post asks about the idea of somehow using uBlock Origin to disable autoplay in the YouTube Kids web app. If that doesn't work, maybe I'll ask some userscripting community.


texts:
After seeing this question regarding the serverperfmode nvram boot-arg, I thought I would check my server to see its status:

$ nvram boot-args
nvram: Error getting variable - 'boot-args': (iokit/common) data was not found

Is this a normal response (i.e., if no boot-args have been set), or is something out of whack with my server.  Apple's support page doesn't mention the error.

My server is a Mac Pro running 10.11.6, off of a internal SSD.  And, Server.app is installed/configured.

Output of nvram -p shows the following variables:

efi-boot-device
bluetoothInternalControllerInfo
fmm-computer-name
efi-apple-recovery
SystemAudioVolumeDB
bluetoothActiveControllerInfo
SystemAudioVolume
eft-boot-device-data
BootCampProcessorPstates


texts: Lost all my baby photos when oldest son turned off family sharing, please help!

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My account is the master for family sharing. I’m missing important photos and want to find them of possible.

My son has turned off family sharing on his ipad air 1 approx few months ago. I only discovered yesterday that the photos were gone but my son says he did turn off a couple of months ago. There are no photos on my sons ipad  now - He says he deleted them.

The photos in question were taken with my iphone but they have vanished and I was updating to the icloud but they dont appear to be in there either.

Basically all of my photos have disappeared from my iphone 4 and the icloud. Is there anyway to get these back?


texts: 2012 MacBook Air screen immediately falls down, can it be repaired?

texts:
This is a low-tech question. I've been nursing a late 2012 MacBook Air which has been obsoleted by Apple. The folks who replaced my battery told me that they can't repair the mechanism that produces friction to hold the monitor at a fixed angle. It falls down unless I use something to hold it.

When pressed, the only solution they could come up with is to buy a second, used laptop of the same model and swap the entire display.

Is this really the way it is, or is there some way to tighten or replace the friction mechanism, or any clever hack beyond using string or some other object to hold it at an angle?

I can barely get it to remain stable at the exact vertical position, but can't type on it like that.


texts: Shove installed a launch daemon or agent popup window, what is it?

texts:
Please check the following screenshot:

Today, I suddenly have this popup window warning. I have no idea what it is.
Basically I have three questions.

(1) Is this BlockBlock app warning? I have no idea how to find which app triggers this warning. Is there a way to find out which app triggers a popup window?

(2) What is this warning about? Does it mean the app fpsaud auto installs something?

(3) Should I Block or Allow?

Thanks a lot.


texts: Endlessly repeating "There was a problem connecting..." error

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I'm getting constantly interrupted by the same error, "There was a problem connecting to the server "admin's MacBook". The server may not exist or it is unavailable at this time.  Check the server name or IP address, check your network connection, and then try again."

The server in question is my older Macbook.  A few days ago I needed to copy iSync from the old MB to my newer MBP so I established a bluetooth file sharing link.  When I was done I turned file sharing off again and shutdown the old Macbook.  Apparently my MBP (the newer one) is still constantly trying to contact the old MB.  How can I get it to forget that that machine was ever connected?

Here's the error dialog:

So far I tried following:

  System Preferences Network

Deleted BT connections

Then Open the Sharing and Disable Sharing

  Restart MBP

without success.

It would appear that the problem is related to having installed iSync under Mountain Lion.  Here is a copy of the console log at the moment that the error dialog pops up:

8/7/13 11:36:43.623 AM iSync[18691]: ApplePersistence=NO
8/7/13 11:37:13.632 AM iSync[18691]: [0x10010ba70] |Server|Warning| failed to connect to the server: NSPortTimeoutException connection timeout: did not receive reply
8/7/13 11:37:13.909 AM NetAuthAgent[18695]: ApplePersistence=NO
8/7/13 11:37:15.984 AM SyncServer[18693]: [0x7fd9d340bea0] |DataManager|Warning| Client com.apple.iSyncDU.IMEI356495004217990 image file path /Volumes/Applications/iSync.app/Contents/PlugIns/ApplePhoneConduit.syncdevice/Contents/PlugIns/PhoneModelsSync.phoneplugin/Contents/Resources/MOTV535.tiff does not exist.
8/7/13 11:37:43.786 AM iSync[18691]: [0x10010ba70] |Server|Warning| failed to connect to the server: NSPortTimeoutException connection timeout: did not receive reply
8/7/13 11:37:49.170 AM SyncServer[18693]: [0x7fd9d340bea0] |DataManager|Warning| Client com.apple.iSyncDU.IMEI356495004217990 sync alert tool path /Volumes/Applications/iSync.app/Contents/MacOS/sync-tool does not exist.
8/7/13 11:38:13.939 AM iSync[18691]: [0x10010ba70] |Server|Warning| failed to connect to the server: NSPortTimeoutException connection timeout: did not receive reply
8/7/13 11:38:21.018 AM SyncServer[18693]: [0x7fd9d340bea0] |DataManager|Warning| Client com.apple.iSyncDU.IMEI356495004217990 formatter bundle path /Volumes/Applications/iSync.app/Contents/PlugIns/ApplePhoneConduit.syncdevice/Contents/Resources/Formatter.bundle does not exist.

Now I suspect that because I simply copied over iSync, it's still configured for the other machine, which it cannot find.

Simply deleting iSync did not do the job.  launchd must still be configured to run whatever backup daemon got installed when I ran iSync.


texts:
After I updated to iOS 8.4, My iPad has been charging Very slowly.

Times:

12:00PM (noon) - iPad died, switched on charger. (1%)

1:30PM - iPad comes on. (2%)

3:00PM - 4%

4.00PM - 9%

5:10PM - 9%

What is wrong here? This is completely not normal. I have also got an iPad mini with the same charger. And charges much faster.

Charger:

10W Offical Apple Charger


texts: After a while, the trackpad or mouse requires me to click twice to be able to register a single click

texts:
I have two macbook pros, one summer 2009 model and a late summer 2011 model.  Both of these macbook pros seem to require me to click twice just to be able to register a single click.  It's almost like the app loses focus and I have to click twice.  I'm not running jiTouch and this happens with both the trackpad and the magic mouse.

This has been happening for months now and seems to be happening on both 10.6 and 10.7.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!


texts: Time Machine: How can you confirm a backup? Can you just delete the backup and it will automatically redo it?

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I use Time Machine to backup to an external hard drive. That external drive also has a lot of other photos and unique info on that drive, too.

I'm not sure my Time Machine backed up my whole computer because of the computer turned off in the middle of the first time I used it (recently).

Questions:

Is there a way to confirm that the backup on the Time Machine is complete?
Lets say I just want to redo the backup from scratch. I can't format the external drive since it has a lot of other unique info. How can I delete the Time Machine information and have Time Machine automatically redo the backup?


texts: Is there a safe way to move the /Users folder to a separate volume/drive?

texts:
I have an SSD on the way and will be moving my HDD to the optical bay slot in my MBP.  I want to boot from the SSD and store my /Users folder on the HDD.  I've seen the way that everyone suggest moving an individual account's home folder to a separate partition.

However, I want to move the ENTIRE /Users folder.  I don't want to bother with moving individual user accounts, and I want any new accounts I create to reside on the HDD without any additional steps other than creating the user.

I already have a complete clone of my /Users directory on a separate partition I created for testing this out.  Is there a safe way (i.e. will not cause any problems with application or OS functionality) to direct OS X to utilize the new /Users folder?


texts: Password cannot unlock iPhone, and every several seconds screen turns off

texts: I am encountering a very strange situation. After rebooting, I cannot use my password to unlock my iPhone, and the lock screen says "Emergency" at the bottom. At the same time, there is no time display at the lock screen. And every few seconds, the screen will be off. If I connect it into a computer, when the screen is off, the USB connection is also cut. However, it seems I can pick up in-call, and the notification still works. Is there anyone who knows the potential reason?


texts: Instagram app narrow on iPad with iOS 12 update

texts: I updated my iPad mini 4 to iOS 12.  When I viewed my Instagram account it changed the size of the screen, made it narrow as though it is to be viewed on a phone. It's very annoying as I use this account a lot for my photographs. Can it be rectified, as when I contacted Apple they were unable to help, said they would notify the engineers at Apple. I reloaded Instagram and did a hard reset but to no avail.


texts: Why does OS X want me to "upgrade" from El Capitan to Yosemite Beta 4?

texts:
This is just silly:

If I try accepting (no, I wouldn't go through with it), it just says that the update is unavailable.  So why does it ask me to downgrade, and how do I get rid of this?


texts: Bootcamp Error: The startup disk cannot be partitioned or restored to a single partition

texts:
Earlier today, I tried to install a Boot Camp installation of Windows 10, but there was an error and was removing the partitions it made, but I accidentally closed the window and now I'm stuck with an extra partition.

When I run diskutil list, this is what I get:

FYI, this is a MacBook Pro 13 inch (base model) with Mojave 10.14.1.
What can I do to get my drive back to normal (with just the Macos installation)?


texts: AppleScript export variable to Numbers / Excel / SQL

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I would like AppleScript to add a new row on a number or excel sheet (or on a SQL database)

I have my data saved on a .plist which I can retrieve with

set myDateFromPlist to value of property list item "myDate" of p_list

the idea is to create a database or sheet with all the variables in the same row
(and add a new row with more data when running the script again

e.g

date |var1|var2|var3
date |var1|var2|var3

What I tried so far

tell application "Numbers"
    activate
    try
        if not (exists document 1) then error number 1000
        tell document 1
            try
                tell active sheet
                    set the selectedTable to ¬
                        (the first table whose class of selection range is range)
                    tell the selectedTable to add row below last row
                    tell the selectedTable to set value of first cell to myDateFromPlist
                    tell the selectedTable to set value of second cell to myTimeFromPlist
                    tell the selectedTable to set value of third cell to theIDFromPlist

                end tell
            on error
                error number 1001
            end try
            tell selectedTable
                -- editing statements go here
            end tell
        end tell

the issues with that :

1: numbers have to be open (but I guess that's might be a requirement anyway)

2: the data is always added to the 1st row


texts:
I use MacBook Pro Retina ME864 with Mac OSX 10.9.4 ,
Recently I download a Word file from internet which use Apple Symbol font and because I don't have this font on my system the characters shows wrong.

How can I install Apple Symbol font ?


texts: How to avoid ghost folder from encrypted drive?

texts:
I have an encrypted drive on my mac - it's a dmg file under my home directory.

I mount it when I need to work on the files inside (obviously).    In reality, this is "almost all the time".  IE after I log in, I mount the drive, and there it stays.

The problem that I'm having is when for some reason I reboot my mac (and, possibly other times that I have not diagnosed yet) this drive appears to not get unmounted cleanly, and leaves a ghost folder in /Volumes.

That becomes a problem because when I mount it the next time, a folder with a different name is created in /Volumes, and then any paths I had that were pointing to the original no longer work (email client's email folder, for example).

How can I avoid this?


texts: Does updating iOS force you to update watchOS?

texts:
First there was watchOS 1 which shipped with iOS 8.x.

Then there was watchOS 2 which shipped with iOS 9.

Now there is watchOS 3 which ships with iOS 10.

The question: if you start with watchOS 1 & iOS 8, and then update your iPhone to iOS 9 or 10, is the user then required to update their Apple Watch to the latest rev that comes with iOS?


texts:
I have just bought a Macbook pro. When I install it, I click login to icloud but I forgot question that I use and I don't use email to backup.

I can't speak english good.
Please help me recover icloud question for that case


texts: Why is "Verify Backups" in the Time Machine icon menu disabled?

texts:
I learned in Upgraded to Lion: Time Machine spends a LOT of time indexing backup that if I hold down the option key and click the Time Machine icon in the menu bar, the "Back Up Now" menu item changes to "Verify Backups".  But for some reason, on my MacBook Air, "Verify Backups" is disabled (greyed-out).  How do I find out why?

I'm running OS X 10.7.1, and have FileVault turned on for "Macintosh HD" (my internal storage).  My Time Machine backup is to an external USB HD, which I've encrypted.

Could that be why?  Does Lion not support "Verify Backups" with an encrypted Time Machine HD?


texts: Will a restore to default factory settings remove the firmware updates from my Iphone?

texts: If I restore my iphone to default factory settings will it remove the ios firmware updates and leave ios in the state it was in when I got the phone?


texts: Is there an inverse command to open in the Terminal?

texts:
By using open, I can open a file via terminal.

For example:

$ open ~/Documents/notes.pdf

opens the file notes.pdf in the Documents folder of my home directory. It shows up as a window. Now I'm wondering:

Is there an opposite terminal command with which I can close the opened window (besides kill <pid>)?


texts: Locating the iBooks folder in iCloud Drive (on Windows)

texts:
I need to get the iBooks that are saved in iCloud Drive, using Windows, in a folder path and / or command line solution.
This is a spin-off from Locating the iBooks folder in iCloud Drive which only has answers for Apple macOS command line (macOS bash), while I need this for Windows.


texts: I want to move my old pictures to iCloud to free up iPhone storage space (iPhone already at full capacity)

texts:
Basically I want to remove these pictures from my phone onto the cloud.
My purpose is to free up local storage as much as possible (for Apps and other stuff).
I'm doing this for my relative's phone, I don't use an iPhone. I have bought the the necessary storage, but I don't want to make a mistake and lose the photos.


texts: Keyboard / touchpad not working on startup

texts:
I dual boot MacOS and Ubuntu on a Macbook Pro and used to be able to switch between the two by holding the Option button on startup.

Recently this has stopped working; the keyboard and touchpad are unresponsive on startup and so Ubuntu boots by default. Once Ubuntu loads, the keyboard and touchpad work as normal.

Using an USB keyboard, I can hold down Option and choose to boot into MacOS. However, the internal keyboard and touchpad remain unresponsive when I reach the login screen (and after logging in etc).

Without the USB keyboard, I can't even reset the PRAM or boot into recovery mode. I have reset the PRAM using the USB keyboard, but this hasn't solved the issue.

I've also changed the boot order so that MacOS boots by default on startup, however this hasn't solved the issue either.

I'd be really grateful for any suggestions to get the Macbook Pro to recognise the internal keyboard and touchpad on startup.

Edit: I'm using a Macbook Pro, Retina, 13-inch, late 2013


texts: How can I make/receive Google Voice calls in Mountain Lion?

texts:
I use Google Voice as my main line now adays. However, having to leave Google Chrome open and logged into Gmail is getting in my way...

I was wondering if anyone has a way to get these calls to go to a VOIP app that is installed on the computer. Does such software exist?


texts: Help with Mountain Lion installation on USB - Wont boot internally

texts:
I'm hoping you can help me out with a strange issue I've been dealing with the past few days.  I recently purchased a 2008 Xserve.  I've been trying to get Mountain Lion on it without much luck, however I'm very close.  I know mountain lion is not 'supported' on this platform, but there is no reason it won't run.  I've replaced my mezzanine video card with a mountain lion (and lion) supported gt 120 from a mac pro.  I've installed mountain lion to a 500gb drive via USB off of my macbook pro, and edited the PlatformSupport.plist file to contain the proper board id from my Xserve.

Here is where the issue is: If I try to boot to Mountain Lion off this drive via USB on the Xserve, it boots and runs mountain lion buttery smooth.  When I place this drive into the first drive bay (internally) in the Xserve, it wont boot.  Its as though it cannot find the drive or boot partition.  It sits at a white screen and I eventually get a blinking folder with a question mark on it.  I feel that I'm so very close to getting this to work, and its driving me crazy.  Anyone have any insight?

Additional Information:

booting holding option or to the recovery partition while the drive is installed internally does not work either.
Installing Lion internally works fine, so I know its not a hardware issue.


texts: After I upgraded to High Sierra's APFS, afp://ipadress no long show me files on the remote computer’s APFS drive (only spinning drive shows up, and if the remote computer doesn’t have a spinning drive I cannot visit the computer). But afp://computername still works.


texts:
I am doing a clean install of Mojave on my MacBook - it has simply not been possible to upgrade from High Sierra to Mojave automatically.
I understand that it will overwrite all of the HDD contents
I know I can simply copy document files etc and then copy them back into the new system
But, will a Time Machine backup from the original High Sierra be able to reinstall all of my programs?


texts: Can I partially use iCloud with someone else's Apple ID without syncing contacts to my device?

texts: I'm using my mum's Apple ID on my new MacBook Pro, so, because of iCloud, I'm receiving all her emails, I have all her contacts, etc. I just want to use her Apple ID for iTunes, the AppStore and Facetime. Can I stop sharing all her data?


texts: These seem to take up loads of space.  Can I safely delete them or will it cause problems?


texts:
My 1TB Time Machine drive just filled up, apparently due a bug in Chrome. Since this issue has been open for a year and a half, I don't expect that Google will fix it any time soon.

Can anyone offer a work-around that will allow Time Machine to back up Chrome bookmarks, passwords etc, but exclude the ever-changing cache and history files?


texts: Cannot update iPad 1 to iOS 4.3 or higher

texts:
long time observer of answers first time asker of questions...

I don't post this here lightly and don't imagine that I haven't tried standard apple forums before coming here baffled.

I've been sent a build of an app in Test Flight but I can't install it on my iPad 1 because:

"Your device is running 4.2 GM which is less than the required version (4.3) for this build. Please upgrade your iOS install..."

I'm fine with that but when I 'Check for Update' on iTunes a helpful box comes up and tells me:

"This version of the iPad software (4.2) is the current version."

Things I have tried:

Restoring ipad to factory settings.
Ensuring I have the latest version of iTunes.
Deleting iPad back up (iTunes>Preferences>Devices) incase of corruption.

I have just downloaded version 4.3.5 from a third party and pressed 'Check for Update' (while holding down the Alt key), accessed the file and tried to upgrade that way...

iTunes now tells me:

"The Device "#### iPad 1" could not be updated. This device isn't eligible for the latest build."

Help...


texts: MacBook Pro not responding to power button

texts:
My Mac wont start up even with full battery and charger plugged in... There is no sound, no screen or any disk movement.

The same thing also happened a few weeks back and when I took it to the repair guy; he fixed it in a matter of minutes.

He held down the power button for 10 seconds, removed the charger and did something else and the system started working but I don't exactly remember what he did.

Can anyone tell me what those magic steps are?

I am currently out of town and can’t take it there again.

Any help please?


texts: 10.11.2: QuickLook and thumbnails crashing finder

texts:
I have a strange problem: Finder crashes ("not responding") after performing one of these:

pressing space on a file that can be previewed with QuickLook, e.g. a sound file or an image
simply selecting a file that can be previewed with QuickLook when the finder displays the instant QuickLook pane

Also, all my thumbnails are not displayed. All files are shown with their file type icon and not with a preview icon.

Any ideas? I have already removed Flip4Mac in ~/Library/Containers/QuickTime to make sure no third party module is responsible for this.


texts: "Soft Return" character (Shift-Enter) on iOS?

texts: How can I enter a soft return character (Shift-Enter) on iOS?


texts:
I enabled the TRIM for my SSD on my MacbookPro using Chameleon SSD, and now the Mac doesn't boot any longer. I have tried to follow guides to reverse the TRIM but none of them actually work because my disk appears to be not mounted and does not appear in /Volumes/

When I open the Disk utility, the disk is greyed. If I try to mount it, I get an error : Try repairing the disk. And of course, when I run a repair, it fails too.

Sadly I have no recent backup (of course, would be too easy).

How can I mount this volume and reverse the TRIM enable?


texts: Stop spacebar triggering quicklook when using Quicksilver

texts: If I invoke Quicksilver and type "activity", and then press spacebar in order to finish typing "activity monitor", instead of a space being included in my search string, it invokes quicklook on whatever the current target is.  Quicklook also steals focus, so no further keystrokes arrive at Quicksilver.  Is there any way to prevent this?  I don't seen anything in the preferences.


texts: How can I create a custom colored icon font?

texts:
How can I create custom colored icon font as Apple did for emoticons?

I'd also need a font making tool that imports .svg images.


texts: Do any Amazon S3 clients allow automation for setting expiration headers?

texts:
I am using Transmit and the Firefox extension S3 Organiser.   Neither completely satisfies my requirements  as both tools lack the ability to set an expiration header.

This makes me cry, as I need to manually run a script to download files to a local machine, use an S3 API to set the expiration header, then upload the files back to the S3 server.  This is time consuming.

Does anyone know of a tool or client for Mac that allows the user to specify an expiration header?


texts: How to stop vibrating on new Mail using iOS 7?

texts: Whenever I get a new message in my mail, my phone vibrates. How do I turn off this behavior?


texts:
My late-2015 iMac (with an internal 1TB SSD) runs Catalina 10.15.6, and Mail.app version 13.4 (3608.120.23.2.1). Mail.app connects to an IMAP email account; the IMAP server hosts about 4500 messages. Spam Sieve (now 2.9.39) is installed as a spam filter, and has been in place for six years. All the software is up to date.
The problem: for the last month or so, Mail.app quits unexpectedly, many times per day. It relaunches without difficulty, and otherwise works briskly and correctly.
Before this, Mail.app used to quit only occasionally, perhaps a few times a year, or less. The new quits might have begun when I updated to 10.15.6.
At first, the new quits did not generate the dialog asking if I wanted to send an error report to Apple. Then on Sept. 28, 2020, I updated macOS to 10.15.7. Since this update, Mail.app continues to quit frequently without apparent cause, but the quits now offer the “Report” dialog and generate a visible error report. I am not, however, tech-savvy enough to understand the error report.
I booted into Safe Mode. The unexpected quits continued.
I created a new test user, for Mail.app to log into my IMAP account. Mail.app connected and loaded the IMAP mails. I enabled Fast Account Switching, so the test user remains logged in. In this test user’s use, Mail.app doesn’t seem to spontaneously quit.
The only difference in Mail.app in my regular user account and in the test account is this: in the regular user account, Mail.app contains mailboxes that I use as local archives.  These mailboxes exist only on the iMac and aren’t synched to the IMAP server, just like the “Archive” mailboxes that Mail.app itself can create. (I created my own mailboxes as I wanted to preserve the naming and sorting. Mail.app names every Archive as "Archive.")
These on-the-iMac but non-IMAP mailboxes contain about 60,000 messages. I have used this on-the-iMac manual archiving for years, going back well before the spontaneous quits began. It doesn’t seem that the mail in these mailboxes slows down or affects Mail.app’s operation; if I’m not searching or opening an email from this storage, Mail.app isn’t paying any attention to it. I can’t identify any other Mail.app differences between my regular macOS user account, and my new test user account.
What else might I try to diagnose the cause of these unexpected quits?
Update: Late on October 7, I downloaded a new Catalina installer from Apple and replaced the OS. Since yesterday, Mail.app hasn't quit. I'll let it sit for awhile, maybe a week. If Mail.app is still stable, I'll post my own answer.


texts: My iPhone 5s just randomly stopped allowing me to shut it off with the power button. I don’t understand why but every single article online says that it’s a relatively common problem and the way to fix it is a hard reset. I’ve done a hard reset three times and it hasn’t started working again. Odd thing is, after it’s been hard reset it won’t turn back on unless it’s plugged into a charger (despite it being at 78%) it will just flash the white Apple logo every 5-10 seconds or so. Does anyone know how to fix this?


texts: One can enter reminders in OS X in the Reminders app. But how can they be sorted by name or date? I can't seem to find out how.


texts: I can't resize my macintosh HD drive on os X 10.9.5

texts:
I have checked similar questions but didn't find an answer that worked.
I have a macbook pro late 2013 with OS X 10.9.5.

I have the OS X on the Macintosh HD drive (Mac OS Extended (Journaled)), windows on bootcamp and another 13 or so GB as "free space" (at the bottom)

On disk utility I don't even have the option to drag and change my Macintosh HD drive, and I can't seem to add the free 13GB to my main Macintosh HD doesn't matter what I do.

I did this in the past, and now just can't resize it at all - an image of my disk utility is attached. I just want to add the 13 GB of free space in the bottom to the main Macintosh HD drive. could you please help?

Thank you


texts: How to prevent iCloud from downloading (storing) certain files in an Xcode project in iCloud?

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I have enabled storing Desktop & Document Folders in iCloud. I keep my Xcode projects on Desktop. Every hour or so, iCloud will store files, inside of Pods folder present alongside the Xcode Project in iCloud. This is very tedious as I then have to click on each one of them one-by-one to re-download.

How can I prevent iCloud from downloading my files in this manner, for this specific Xcode project?

I have tried disabling iCloud for Desktop, but this results in me losing all my Desktop folders/files, so I could rather not go this route.


texts: Java and Flash Player do not work on Chromium

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I've just installed the latest version of Chromium. But, neither Java nor Flash Player work.

How can this be fixed? As far as I can see, Chromium no longer supports PPAPI and NPPAPI.


texts: Is there enough room inside a MacBook Pro 16" to fit a slim Tile?

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I'm thinking of upgrading sometime in the future to a 16" MacBook Pro. As someone who keeps my Mac with me on the go, I'm very cautious and alert, but still want to plan for the possibility that it might get taken.
I'm wondering if there's enough room somewhere under the bottom cover to fit one of those ultra slim Tile tags. It would go completely undetected long enough for the laptop to be tracked down, even if Find My Mac wasn't able to phone home.
As janky as it sounds, any smart thief would sit and try around T2 and macOS to disable things, or avoid connecting to the internet. But a random Tile stuck inside the battery compartment is the last thing most of them will think to look for, especially if it blends in with things.


texts: Can I share my iMac's internet connection via ethernet

texts: My iMac connects to the internet (and my local network) via WiFi. Is it possible for me to connect another device via ethernet cable to my iMac to access the internet from that device?


texts: Connecting 2017 MBP with DisplayPort Cinema Display

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I have a MacBook Pro 2017 13" with High Sierra. Is it possible to somehow successfully connect a 27" Cinema Display with Mini DisplayPort to my MBP with an adapter?
I have read from some people that it worked and from some others that it didn't work.
Can you guys tell if it is possible? Because I have the opportunity to get a 27" Cinema Display for quite a cheap price (but only tomorrow because the person is there for a visit tomorrow).
Would be kinda sad if I would purchase a Monitor for 460 Euros just to find out, that these two devices are not compatible and probably never will be in the near future because there is and will not be a working adapter for this specific case..


texts: Apple Mail shows plain text instead of HTML email

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I have a gmail account setup as IMAP in Apple Mail and recently some new emails coming through have displayed the plain text version instead of HTML. If I check the same email through gmail.com it shows the HTML fine but back in Mail I can't even change it to HTML under View -> Message -> Next Alternative.

This solution did not work for me:
defaults write com.apple.mail PreferPlainText -bool FALSE

I'm running Apple Mail 5.2 on Mac OS 10.7.3

I have just found that the same email message will show HTML when viewed in the All Mail Folder but not when viewed in the Inbox.


texts: What is the "rootless" feature in El Capitan, really?

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I have just learned about the "Rootless" feature in El Capitan, and I am hearing things like "There is no root user", "Nothing can modify /System" and "The world will end because we can't get root".

What is the "Rootless" feature of El Capitan at a technical level? What does it actually mean for the user experience and the developer experience? Will sudo -s still work, and, if so, how will the experience of using a shell as root change?


texts: Unlocking an iPhone with iOS 7.0.4 using SAM (Subscriber Artificial Module)

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I want to unlock my iPhone with a utility called SAM, or Subscriber Artificial Module.

I saved my activation ticket and used it to unlock my iPhone 4 running iOS 5.1.1.

A few days ago I replaced my old iPhone at an Apple Store an they gave me a new iPhone 4 with iOS 6.1.3.

I installed the update to iOS 7.0.4.

Is it possible to put my SAM activation ticket back on this new iPhone?

I have the original SIM card and the ticket which I have used when SAM came out in April 2013,  but I can't put it back on this new iPhone.

I'm wondering if I can use the SAM ticket and original SIM card in a different iPhone 4.


texts: My iPhone's Lockscreen clock wont update without unlocking the phone

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I have an iPhone 4 running iOS 5.0.1.  It is Jailbroken, and the time on the lock screen won't update unless I unlock the phone.  My friend's phone is also Jailkroken (a 4S running 5.1.1) and she has the same problem.

Has anyone else with this problem found a solution to it?  It is actually very incontinent and even annoying.

I have ClockHide and AndroidLocXT installed.  I'm not sure if those have anything to do with the problem or not.


texts: I'm on a big sur beta and I'm using Safari 14.0 (16610.1.23.1.3) and I saw that when I click on "Copy image", it'll copy the URL not the image. Did it happen also to someone else here? If so, do you have any fix for that?


texts: Can macOS change the @ symbol to be located with the "Q" key?

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I want the @ symbol to be on the "Q" key.

I need to switch between Linux and Mac daily. I don't want to think about which keyboard is under my fingers.

My ThinkPad keyboard is connected via USB to the MacBook. It works fine, except that the @ symbol is at the "L" key and not on the "Q".

I could not find a way to change the configuration of the Mac to match my needs.

How to solve this?


texts:
I want to install metasploit, and I know that xcode is needed. Now the problem is, that even though xcode is on my computer and I downloaded it from the app store, this occurs:

./msf_install.sh -i -p msfconsole -r
[*] Log file with command output and errors /tmp/msfinstall-Oct-03-15-003057.log
[*] Verifying that Development Tools and Java are installed:
[*] Java is installed.
[*] Xcode is not installed on this system. Install from the Apple AppStore.


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Attached a picture of my dongle which I use to connect peripherals to my macbook. A bit of a shame with my shiny/mate macbook pro. I'm looking for a new monitor and I was wondering whether there are usb c monitors available having the same connection/functionality as my dongle (ethernet, sd 2xusb, hdmi not realy necessary).
Preferably available in Europe.


texts: How to configure the battery percentage at which the mac will hibernate

texts: I've replaced my macbook pro battery with a non-official one and since the battery lasts a few hours less that the original one did at first (6h < 9h) when my battery starts running out at 1% there's not enough battery power to perform the hibernate to disk, so I always end up with a forced shutdown. Is there anyway to tell the mac to force the hibernation at a 5% of battery or something like that? I've tried pmset but that only work if you have an attached UPS.


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I am working on macOS Mojave unified logs,which are as follows:

2019-04-29 11:16:07.480418+0900 0xc2       Default     0x0                  0      0    kernel: (AppleSMC) Previous shutdown cause: 5
2019-04-29 11:16:16.029045+0900 0x708      Default     0x0                  0      0    kernel: (IOPlatformPluginFamily)    Shutdown cause was a PWROK event (Same as GEN_PMCON_2 bit 0)
2019-04-29 11:16:16.029046+0900 0x708      Default     0x0                  0      0    kernel: (IOPlatformPluginFamily)    Shutdown cause was a PWROK event (Same as GEN_PMCON_2 bit 0)
2019-04-29 11:16:16.029048+0900 0x708      Default     0x0                  0      0    kernel: (IOPlatformPluginFamily)    Shutdown cause was a SYS_PWROK event (Same as GEN_PMCON_2 bit 1)
2019-04-29 11:16:16.029049+0900 0x708      Default     0x0                  0      0    kernel: (IOPlatformPluginFamily)    Shutdown cause was a SYS_PWROK event (Same as GEN_PMCON_2 bit 1)
2019-04-29 11:16:16.029051+0900 0x708      Default     0x0                  0      0    kernel: (IOPlatformPluginFamily)    Shutdown cause was a THRMTRIP# event (Same as GEN_PMCON_2 bit 3)
2019-04-29 11:16:16.029051+0900 0x708      Default     0x0                  0      0    kernel: (IOPlatformPluginFamily)    Shutdown cause was a THRMTRIP# event (Same as GEN_PMCON_2 bit 3)
2019-04-29 11:31:33.524822+0900 0xc2       Default     0x0                  0      0    kernel: (AppleSMC) Previous shutdown cause: 1
2019-04-29 11:31:42.320623+0900 0x71f      Default     0x0                  0      0    kernel: (IOPlatformPluginFamily)    Shutdown cause was a PWROK event (Same as GEN_PMCON_2 bit 0)
2019-04-29 11:31:42.320623+0900 0x71f      Default     0x0                  0      0    kernel: (IOPlatformPluginFamily)    Shutdown cause was a PWROK event (Same as GEN_PMCON_2 bit 0)
2019-04-29 11:31:42.320625+0900 0x71f      Default     0x0                  0      0    kernel: (IOPlatformPluginFamily)    Shutdown cause was a SYS_PWROK event (Same as GEN_PMCON_2 bit 1)
2019-04-29 11:31:42.320626+0900 0x71f      Default     0x0                  0      0    kernel: (IOPlatformPluginFamily)    Shutdown cause was a SYS_PWROK event (Same as GEN_PMCON_2 bit 1)
2019-04-29 11:31:42.320628+0900 0x71f      Default     0x0                  0      0    kernel: (IOPlatformPluginFamily)    Shutdown cause was a THRMTRIP# event (Same as GEN_PMCON_2 bit 3)
2019-04-29 11:31:42.320629+0900 0x71f      Default     0x0                  0      0    kernel: (IOPlatformPluginFamily)    Shutdown cause was a THRMTRIP# event (Same as GEN_PMCON_2 bit 3)

What do the following mean:

Previous shutdown cause: 5 (Previous shutdown cause on High Sierra means normal shutdown). Can it be the same in Mojave?
"Shutdown cause was a PWROK event" (Same as GEN_PMCON_2 bit 0)
"Shutdown cause was a THRMTRIP# event"

Comments/observations are welcome


texts: Mute all notifications for Microsoft Teams?

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Is it possible to mute all notifications in Microsoft Teams on iPhone?

Ideally there would be some mode that would allow me to mute all Teams notifications for one hour, two hours, eight hours, etc.

Logging in to Microsoft Teams on iPhone is quite unwieldy, so it would be convenient to stay logged in at all times. However, I rarely want to get notifications from the Teams app except for when I work remotely.

I also don’t want to adjust notification settings per team since I am member of quite many teams. And I don’t want to set the phone in silent mode since I still want to hear calls and SMS notifications.


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Cheers! Which RAM will be better for my iMac 27" mid 2010 with i7 2.93GHz and MacOS 10.9.5:

this, this or ADATA DDR3 SO-DIMM 8GB 1333? Also I have saw Kignston KVR1333D3S9/8G but according to it data-sheet it works with 677MHz instead of 1333MHz (as I understood my iMac supports up to 32GB 1333 MHz PC3-10600 DDR3 SO-DIMMs with 204-pin). Which one is better?

Actually I want to get 20GB of RAM - 8GBx2 new plates + 2GBx2 of stock memory.


texts: How can I use an external HD to boot from in Snow Leopard?

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Recently my OS X Snow Leopard has been taking a really long time to boot up. Suspecting that something might be wrong with the HD I did a disk verification using the Disk Utility. It showed me an error message stating that i need to repair the disk using the disk utility from the installation disk.

However, my CD ROM does not function properly and I am unable to boot from the installation disk.

Is there any way I can use an external HD to boot from?
Any solutions that you could suggest?

[EDIT]
Unfortunately I dont have access to another mac


texts: MacOS doesn't fit external screen and I don't know how to stretch it

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Model: MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Late 2012)
Graphics: Intel HD Graphics 4000 1536 MB
Monitor: Samsung U28E590D 28-Inch UHD
Using HDMI cable to connect to the monitor.
Things I have tried:

Option + click to see all the possible resolutions
Reset NVRAM
Reset SMC
Using SwitchResX
Playing the the monitor's settings

Nothing works! I have absolutely no idea how to fit the OS to the screen. The text also looks a little blurry.
How it looks like: https://imgur.com/2ZZx68D
Help on fixing this would be very appreciated!


texts: Rearrange styles in the Microsoft Word Quick Style Gallery

texts: Is there any way to re-arrange the order of the styles in Microsoft Word's Quick Style Gallery?


texts:
I have a MacBook Pro mid 2013.
As you may have guessed from the title, it won't boot.

Neither the Disk Utility boots.

The only thing I can do is boot from a bootable USB (CMD + OPTION + R) with OSX installer in it.
Problem is once it gets a little over the Apple logo everything becomes white, the fans start spinning like crazy and everything gets stuck.
Same thing if I try with the Internet Recovery OS (CMD + OPTION + R): it goes with the countdown, reachs the end, flickers, restarts, gets to the half of the apple logo, and then white screen :D

Any idea how to fix this MF?


texts: Are cheap 2.5" external hard disks constrained to Exfat and incompatible with Time Machine? Is this a physical limitation / hardware issue?

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I bought two 2TB 2.5" external HDDs that came with the following warning message in a Readme file contained in the drives.

"The drive can only be formatted with Exfat and cannot be formatted in other for mats, suchas NTFS, FAT32, FAT. Otherwise it will cause the hard drive t be unusable!
This hard disk is only suitable for windows system and XP system not suitable for PS4, xbox macbook,tv, etc.
The disk needs to be inserted into the USB interface of the device's motherboard. If the transfer method is used, there may be insufficient power supply to the disk."

Both drives appeared to work straight out of the box. However, I got errors when trying to partition them (I use a MBP, mid-2015 Retina, MacOS 10.3.3). Now one of the external drives has become unusable. So...I'm guessing this could be because these are cheap no-brand drives which I ordered from China, similar to these:

https://www.amazon.com/Womdee-External-Drive-Portable-Compact/dp/B0832PLGLZ?th=1
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/223984609481
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/373049736464

And I'm guessing the manufacturer has assembled them or configured them in this way (limited to Exfat) in order to cut costs. My questions are:

Why/how an external drive can be manufactured to be permanently only Exfat?
Is this a hardware constraint or physical limitation imposed by the manufacturer or by the USB to SATA bridge used?
Is there a way to overcome this so that I can use them for Time Machine backups?...Has anyone been succesful in backing up with Time Machine on these types of 2.5" external hard drives?

Attempts at finding answers:

My investigation so far has brought me to this:
https://apple.stackexchange.com/a/150702/182479 (which hints that it could be related to the controller of the external case)

From the Terminal query below, it appears that the drive is a JMicron device. I've now got in touch with JMicron and waiting to hear back (will post updates here). In the meantime, if anyone can shed any light and answer/respond to any of the above questions I'd very much appreciate it.

diskutil info /dev/disk1:

   Device Identifier:        disk1
   Device Node:              /dev/disk1
   Part of Whole:            disk1
   Device / Media Name:      JMicron Generic Media

   Volume Name:              Not applicable (no file system)

   Mounted:                  Not applicable (no file system)

   File System:              None

   Content (IOContent):      FDisk_partition_scheme
   OS Can Be Installed:      No
   Media Type:               Generic
   Protocol:                 USB
   SMART Status:             Not Supported

   Total Size:               2.0 TB (2000398934016 Bytes) (exactly 3907029168 512-Byte-Units)
   Volume Free Space:        Not applicable (no file system)
   Device Block Size:        512 Bytes

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

   Whole:                    Yes
   Internal:                 No
   OS 9 Drivers:             No
   Low Level Format:         Not supported

Below is a screenshot showing the readme file and the warning contained in it.

NB. Question asked earlier to try and restore the unusable drive here Unusable 2.5" external HDD. Partition failed with the error -69760: Unable to write to the last block of the device. Exfat only? Repairable?).


texts: Can I remove battery while my iPhone 4s is still on?

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I've had this annoying problem with my phone that has happened a few times now. Basically it just totally freezes. My top button is broken, so I can't turn the phone off using that. My assisted touch no longer works, because the screen is pretty much completely frozen.

In the past the only way I've been able to really deal with this problem is by draining the battery and then plugging my phone in to turn it on. This seems to reset it and then it works again. In order to drain my battery I can either ask Siri questions (but unfortunately this also stops working after a while...plus it's annoying as hell), or play music from my iTunes. Playing music from my iTunes does the trick, but it usually takes almost 24 hours to completely drain my battery. Suggestions on draining faster are appreciated...

For today though, I have my first day of work tomorrow and it just went out. I kind of really wanted to have a functional phone for my first day, so I'm a little more desperate. I'm wondering if it would be okay to remove the battery/unplug it and put it back in while my phone is in the frozen state. Obviously the whole phone isn't frozen since it can play music, but the screen and all buttons just don't work. Could this break my phone? Do I have a pretty good chance of nothing bad happening? Thanks lemme knowww.


texts: Mid-2012 MacBook Pro hard drive failure (maybe? not really.)

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Mid 2012 MBP with OEM hard drive. I booted it this morning to a flashing question mark folder. I happened to have an external drive with OSX on it, booted to that external drive just fine. I opened disk utilities with the original hdd still inside the MBP, it wasn't listed in Disk Utility, couldn't find it in Terminal.

I popped the original hard drive out of the MBP, booted off the external drive to OS X, connected the original hard drive to a SATA-USB to the MBP, OS X could see it just fine. I ran a disk repair from Disk Utility, everything checked out, said it repaired a few errors, etc. Popped it back into the internal SATA connection in the MBP, and restarted the laptop (unplugged the external hdd). Flashing question mark folder appeared again.

Happened to have a second 2.5" internal hdd with OS X installed. Popped it into the internal SATA connection in the MBP to test perhaps a bad SATA cable, etc. That hdd worked just fine, booted OS X.

I tried resetting the NVRAM (command+option+P+R). I've basically tried everything I could think of, not sure why it's not booting the original hdd. Again, I booted off a different drive and the original internal drive plugged in via SATA-USB, I am able to view the contents of the drive just fine (naturally backed up all my data as I assumed the disk is failing).

Any thoughts, tests, concepts, theories, are all very much welcomed and appreciated!

UPDATE

I've since decided to unseat the internal sata cable and reseat the cable. Upon booting with the original drive, everything booted fine. After a several hours of use, and restarting, the drive wasn't recognized. I have reason to believe the SATA cable is bad. My question now, is there a way to tell if the cable is going bad or if perhaps its a logic board issue? If I'm able to boot external drives just fine, would that imply the logic board is operating normally? Or are we somehow bypassing that function by the nature of being external?


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Is there a software like ScreenWakeUp for an old iPad 1? Couldn't find on appstore

[EDIT] Jailbreak is an option.


texts: Connecting Dual Dell U2415 Monitors to Closed Macbook Pro (15" Retina, Mid 2012)

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I have a MacBook Pro (15-inch Retina, Mid 2012) with 2.3 GHz Intel Core i7, 8 GB 1600 MHz DDR3, and a NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M 1024 MB.  It has two Thunderbolt ports and one HDMI port.

I want to connect two Dell U2415 24-inch monitors at 1920 x 1200 at 60Hz with the MacBook closed.  I'm prefer for them to be daisy chained.  And have one monitor vertical (that probably doesn't factor into anything)

Is this possible?  What would be the best way?

Thanks for the help!


texts: Changed default mail client, but Spotlight still opens Mail.App; how to change it?

texts:
Because of some other bugs with Mail.App's handling of certain email formats, I've installed Thunderbird to give that a try. I configured it to be the default (from the Mail.App preferences). That seems to work.

BUT if I search for an email via Spotlight (Thunderbird's search is...well, I'm using Spotlight), clicking on a found mail item from Spotlight still launches Mail.App.

I suspect it's a setting in a plist; how can I convince Spotlight to open Thunderbird instead of Mail.App?


texts: Update from iOS 6 to 7, but not to iOS 8?

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So...I'm still on iOS 6.1. I know, I know, pretty much nobody has iOS 6 now if they can help it.
Well, I've recently freed up enough space on my iphone 5 to update to iOS 7, but I don't want the iOS 8, and I can't seem to get past that on the software update. Is there anyway I can get the 7 without having to get the 8 at all? Someone once suggested force update by computer, but I'm not sure how that works. Does anyone know, or am I stuck with iOS 6?


texts: Sometimes key "B" doesn't work on my preinstalled keyboard

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Although I have seen discussions on this topic before here and I tried all those options told by everyone, yet the problem persists with me.

So here is the thing->-

Its been 3 weeks since I bought a new macbook pro and when I start using it, sometimes keys like B, G, - stopped working eventually and after that I have to press long enough. Sometimes I pressed very hard and then after 4-5 seconds it started responding. But this is not a one-time behaviour. The occurrance of this is 4 times out of 10.

The text to speech service and mouse keys options are disabled already.
Even I posted on apple discussions
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5098212

Please help.


texts:
Poked at the system settings, display settings, and changed screen rotation setting to 180.
Immediately after rotation setting became read only, and then after 30 seconds it crashed.

After reboot i cant'go to system setting any more, it just says to me that it cant open display settings and hangs.

NVRAM reset (options+cmd+R+P) does not reset screen rotation setting, only everything else.

So. How to do rotate display back to default? Command line options anyone?

Macbook Pro 13", 2013, OS X 10.10.2


texts: External Hard Drive died – How do I recover those files from Time Machine?

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My external hard drive, which I was backing up with Time Machine, finally died. I want to retrieve some of those files, but when I go into Time Machine I can't navigate to those files because Time Machine does not show the drive.

I have examined the "Backups.backupdb" folder and can see that the associated drive still exists within the Time Machine backup, but I am having difficulty navigating to files (for some reason items within folders will just "disappear").

How can I recover my files?


texts: Why has the basic search function on external drives stopped working for one particular drive?

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I use several NTFS external disks with my Catalina Mac (for PC file exchanges).
None of them are Spotlight-indexed, and that's fine as it is not necessary: macOS has no trouble seaching the disks without Spotlight.
All of a sudden one of the external disks stopped being searchable.
macOS is unable to find any files.
On my other external NTFS disks there is no problem with the macOS search function. (and Spotlight is not enabled there either)
(Rebuilding the Spotlight index is N/A as Spotlight is not used.)
I have the feeling something in my macOS is messed up regarding that particular external drive. Pehaps a setting that got corrupted? Is there such a thing as a .plist or so for a drive that can be deleted and recreated?
What could be the cause of the basic search function not working on an external USB drive?


texts: Where are the audio files of "Voice Memos" stored on macOS Mojave?

texts:
There are no options for Voice Memos application to specify path to save.

Searching for the recording name also did not reveal any file in Finder.

I wish to edit the audio file in Audacity but I need to find the saved file first.


texts: Gmail doesn't work with default Mail app on iPhone 6 with data only

texts:
Like any normal person, I've hooked up my Gmail account to the default Mail app on iPhone 6. But for some reason it's not sending or receiving anything when I'm on data (Verizon 4G LTE), while working perfectly on wifi. I've tried my Outlook account also which works pretty much fine except for problems with sending on occasion.

On data trying to refresh inbox, I get a popup saying: "The mail server 'imap.gmail.com' is not responding. Verify that you have the entered the correct account info in Mail settings." On data trying to send, I get a popup saying: "The connection to the outgoing server 'smtp.gmail.com' failed. Additional Outgoing Mail Servers can be configured in Settings > Mail, Contacts, Calendars." Started noticing about a week ago. Anyone know if this is a known bug of some sort, or at least fixable?


texts: Where can I find the gray linen texture that's used as the Lion login screen background?

texts:
My company just updated to Lion, and I really like the gray linen texture that's used as the initial login screen background. I'd like to use it for my desktop background, but it's not one of the options in the Desktop preferences (in the Apple section, anyway.) I'm assuming the graphic exists somewhere, and if I know where I can choose it from the folders.

Can anyone tell me where this graphic is saved or what its filename is?


texts: Pastebot Mac software says Disabled in menu

texts:
I don't use Pastebot on this computer very often, but it has worked previously without difficulty.  Today, the menu shows "Disabled..." in grey text, and Pastebot doesn't allow me to copy & paste between Mac and device.

I downloaded the Mac preference pane and installed it again.  This seemed to work OK, although there were two messages about "... is from an unidentified developer", to which I said Open.
I followed the Pastebot process to pair my new iPad 4, and this seemed to work OK: the numeric password showed up on the Mac, and I typed it.  But I still see Disabled in the Mac menu bar, and it doesn't seem to sync.
This was working previously with my iPhone 4S, but it doesn't now.
Pastebot is turned on in the Mac pref pane.
The Firewall is turned off on the Mac.
The Pastebot support site doesn't seem to mention this possibility.
I can't see any relevant messages in Console.app.
Everything else about the Mac, iPad, iPhone seems to be working OK.

Any ideas how I might get Pastebot working again?


texts: External display connected via USB-C > VGA goes to endless sleep/wake loop

texts:
I have a dell external display connected to my mb pro 2017 (Mojave), but whenever i try to sleep my mac (with sleep command), it goes to endless loop trying to sleep and then immediately wakes up, because external display won't sleep.

Is there any workarounds / apps to prevent this behavior?


texts: How can I see which QuickLook plugin is responsible for which data type?

texts:
Sometimes, QuickLook doesn't work right with certain file types, even though it should. Or a file now looks different in QuickLook than it used to.

How to find out which QuickLook plugin, or .qlgenerator, is responsible for which types, and what to do about it?


texts: Background shape for paragraph styles in Pages

texts:
I was wondering if it was possible to achieve this in pages.

I would like to have a background shape for a paragraph style (heading 1). Currently I place them manually but it would be much better if they could be set in the style and added automatically.


texts: What is the Correct 'pf' Syntax for an 'iptables' Port Redirection Rule

texts:
I am looking to implement a rule like the following iptables rule on my Mac, to redirect traffic from my development workstation (hosting a development copy of a Ruby on Rails project) to another host on my LAN that is running the PostgreSQL database server. Without having to change the database.yml config file on my local copy of the code:

iptables -t nat -I PREROUTING -d 127.0.0.1 -p tcp --destination-port 5432 -j DNAT --to-destination 192.168.1.104:5432


texts: How to search in Mail.app within Gmail Chat history?

texts: I setup Mail.app to pull GMail data . I realized that I cannot search within my GoogleTalk chat history. Is there a way or a hack to get the chat history to my folders that get pulled as well so that my search results will include information from Chat as well.


texts: Why can't I create a directory on a mounted USB drive after mkdir, but finder new directory works?

texts:
I'm trying to create a directory on a USB3 mounted hard disk drive and it is failing even though the permissions are open:

bash-3.2$ ls -al
total 0
drwxrwxrwx+ 2 user  user    68 Jun  3 18:24 .
drwxrwxrwx+ 3 user  admin  102 Jun  3 18:17 ..
bash-3.2$ mkdir local1_test
mkdir: local1_test: Permission denied
bash-3.2$ pwd
/Volumes/MiniPro\ 2/test

The same operation works fine on the built in disk, but when I'm in a directory of the mounted USB drive it fails.  Is this due to my drive containing a space in the name?  Is this due to the drive somehow being mounted as read-only?  From the finder I cannot see the test directory.  I can also create it from the command line with sudo, but as myself, it fails.

I was able to work around, by creating a folder in the finder named test which seems to have erased the old test folder but mkdir still fails.  Why did I have to use the finder to create the folder?

I went to do the test requested by fd0, plugged my USB drive back in again, and the issue is no longer showing:

bash-3.2$ ls -al
total 0
drwxr-xr-x   2 user  staff   68 Jun  5 10:12 .
drwxrwxr-x  13 user  staff  510 Jun  3 18:36 ..
bash-3.2$ mkdir local1_test
bash-3.2$ pwd
/Volumes/MiniPro 2/test

I did notice an odd item though:

bash-3.2$ cd /Volumes
bash-3.2$ ls -al
total 24
drwxrwxrwt@  7 root  admin   238 Jun  5 10:11 .
drwxr-xr-x  41 root  wheel  1462 Jun  3 18:29 ..
drwxrwxr-x  13 user   staff   510 Jun  3 18:36 MiniPro 2
drwxrwxrwx+  3 user   admin   102 Jun  3 18:17 MiniPro\ 2

Why do I have to entries, could that have been the source of the issue?  Both show the same contents of the USB drive, why are there two entries?

Here is fd0's test results:

bash-3.2$ mount
/dev/disk1 on / (hfs, local, journaled)
devfs on /dev (devfs, local, nobrowse)
map -hosts on /net (autofs, nosuid, automounted, nobrowse)
map auto_home on /home (autofs, automounted, nobrowse)
localhost:/UFZ8fiBtsQjvo5MXlysi8r on /Volumes/MobileBackups (mtmfs, nosuid, read-only, nobrowse)
/dev/disk2s1 on /Volumes/MiniPro 2 (hfs, local, nodev, nosuid, journaled, noowners)
bash-3.2$ sudo ls -ld /Volumes/MiniPro\ 2
drwxrwxr-x  13 root  wheel  510 Jun  3 18:36 /Volumes/MiniPro 2


texts: Lacie External Hardrive doesn't show up on Mac or in Disk utility

texts:
My lacie hard drive was making some strange clicking noises when I put it in  my mac. I have also tried this in a PC. It now is just not showing up in the devices and also when I try to access it in Disk Utility. It did show up once in Disk Utility but it did not allow me to press first aid. Now it is not showing up at all. I have tried different cables to connect it to the port too. It now is not making noise, it is silent with the orange light flashing but nothing happening.

Please help!


texts: Change the permission of package info on system app

texts: I am trying to change the sound of the PowerChime.app(/System/Library/CoreServices), when i plug in the charging cable. That means that i need to swap out the /Contents/Resources/connect_power.aif. but I do not have permission to. I have tried sudo chmod 777 / and sudo chown [user] Resources, that gives me a Operation not permitted. What can i do?


texts: I need to use Kerberos to connect to my network at work. The built-in kinit and ssh in Lion work fine for me. However, I need to get a new ticket and re-enter my password every time I restart the computer. Is there a way to make it remember the ticket after reboots (until it actually expires)?


texts: How to cancel Finder search via keyboard?

texts:
I'm having a difficult time understanding how to exit via keyboard a search I initiate in Finder ⌘F. I can search and see the results yet other that pressing the x with the mouse

which exits the search i cant figure out how to do the same with a keyboard.


texts: How to add a quick-launch icon in my Dock for a program I've downloaded?

texts:
I've downloaded jmeter and put it in my Applications folder.
I've made it executable.
I can cd to /Applications/apache-jmeter-2.11/bin and can run it in a terminal with

$ ./jmeter

or by double-clicking the icon from the finder.

How can I add the program as a shortcut (icon) on the main application icon launcher bar ('Dock') on a Mac, similar to programs such as browsers, MS Outlook, gitx, etc?


texts:
iCloud won't accept my password even after going to iTunes and restoring data from iPhone. I cannot use my phone to call or receive calls. I have the iPhone 4S.

What can I do?


texts: "Dead Zone" in multiple-monitor configuration

texts: This question concerns a Mac Pro running 10.6 with 2 monitors set side-by-side and configured as one big monitor. Recently I have found that sometimes a "dead spot" appears to my USB Apple mouse in the lower right quadrant of my left monitor. When my cursor was in this area, nothing was clickable (making a window active, scroll bars, buttons, etc.) on that part of the window. Other parts of that window that were out of the dead zone were clickable. I noticed that some of my Safari windows straddled the junction of the two monitors, so when I dragged those windows to be totally in the left monitor, the problem seems to have gone away. Any ideas as to what might be going on? I have had this hardware configuration for several years but this problem is very recent. Thanks.


texts: Create a font for use with the Japanese keyboard

texts:
Is it possible to create a Japanese-style font for use with the Japanese keyboard layout, where I type two letters or a vowel, for example ba, and it converts it into a glyph?

EDIT: Clarification. I want it to act just like the Japanese input source, but use my own glyphs.

EDIT 2: Renaming the question to make it more clear.


texts: iCloud **Documents and Data** discontinued on iOS 9/Yosemite?

texts:
I haven't been able to find a definite answer to this question.

I've upgraded my iOS devices to v9.0 and in both of them iOS "Documents and Data" is nowhere to be found. I got the prompt to upgrade to iCloud Drive, which I didn't do (*). When I installed iOS 8, I also didn't update and things worked as they did before.

Now I seem to be stuck in a weird limbo as Documents don't sync via iCloud but I haven't been able to find any definite answer on whether this is by design (I find it quite surprising as it's a bit of nowhere land). Or a weird iOS 9 bug.

Also, on the Mac/OSX front, is there any confirmation on whether Yosemite/El Capitán onlysupport iCloud Drive too?

(*): I have a work Mac running Mavericks that I can't upgrade to Yosemite, and a Mac Mini on Snow Leopard that I have the feeling won't be able to run Yosemite with anything resembling reasonable performance.


texts: Application installer add extention to my browser. Is mavericks following the path of Windows?

texts:
I have use OS X 10.6.8 for years and just recently did a fresh installation of Mavericks. One of the nicest aspects of OS X was the fact that after three years of use and installing tons of application, none of them, ever added any toolbar or extension to my firefox. As appose to windows that after couple of weeks, the browser looks like a circus.

Today during installing uTorrent on Mavericks, I noticed that my firefox was reset and upon opening my home page changed to yahoo as well as my default search engine. Later I noticed that it has also added an extension to my browser.

Is this a flaw in the Apple new OS? Was it always there and I was just lucky in three years of using Snow Leopard? Is there some kind of security mechanism that I have to enable?


texts:
I have set up several alarms that use songs on my iPhone (iOS 6).

Whenever I modify one of those alarms (or create a new one with the now default setting of one of those songs) the phone asks me

Download Over Cellular?
Additional fees may apply when downloading songs over cellular.
(Cancel) (Download)

What does it want to download? The songs are on the phone.


texts: Outlook 2016 Mac change order of accounts

texts:
Is there any way to change the order that multiple accounts are shown in the left (folders) pane of Outlook 2016 Mac's main window?  Or do I have to delete the topmost account and add it again to move it lower in the list?

Here's more info about why I want to do this:

I'm a new user of Outlook Mac 2016. I added two mail accounts (work and personal) and I want to keep them visually separate in Outlook. So I unchecked the "Group similar folders, such as Inboxes, from different accounts". But now my personal email account (that I added first to Outlook) is on top and my work account is on the bottom.

I'd like to reverse this order because I spend more time on work email and want to keep it on top.

In the PC version of Outlook I can just drag one account above another. But that doesn't work on the Mac version. Is there another way to reorder the accounts in the Mac version?

I know I can just delete and re-add my personal account, but I was hoping to avoid having to wait hours for it to sync years of email.


texts: Is there a way to boot from a USB on a MacBook Pro with disc drive?

texts: I know that on certain models of MacBook you can only install Windows from the SuperDrive—is there a way to circumvent this limitation? My computer is a MacBook Pro 13" from 2010, it doesn't have a disc drive and I want it to boot from a USB with Windows.


texts: Restrict a specific app to run only on MDM provisioned devices

texts:
We have a scenario in our current iPhone app development project.

We need to restrict our app to run only in our Maas360 MDM provisioned devices. Ours is an in-house app for our certain employees.

If somebody got the IPA and tried to run the app in a private device (not provisioned by MDM), app should fail to start. Our app use a Prod distribution certificate and a prod profile to prepare the IPA. Is it possible to link the certificate and profile to the MDM? If that happens, can somebody manage to get the MDM related profile and run the app in their private device? Please share your knowledge and thoughts for this scenario.

There is an option specify device info along with provisioning profile. we cannot do that as there will be new devices provisioned through MDM. we need all control through the single point - our MDM.


texts: Macbook Battery Cycle Count (Unibody White 2010)

texts:
I have a macbook white unibody 2010 (A1342) that is now 17 months old. I'm wondering if my battery is still good? The battery's information is below.

Design Capacity: 5200mAh
Current Capacity: 4578mAh (84% left)
Mac model: 6,1
Age of macbook: 17 months
Battery loadcycles: 187
Condition: Normal

Thank you!


texts: Reinstalling macOS High Sierra from Recovery Tools takes many hours on 2016/2017 MacBook Pros

texts:
I have recently purchased two new MacBook Pros. One is a 2016 13" MacBook Pro, the other a 2017 15" MacBook Pro. On both of them, I have had to reinstall macOS High Sierra from the Recovery Tools. On both machines, it has taken over 5 hours to install.

These aren't the low-end Mac Pros, these are the maxed-out config-to-order, with upgraded processors, drives, and RAM. So it is unfathomable that it would take so long to install macOS High Sierra.

I am currently waiting for the 15" MacBook Pro to install High Sierra going on 6 hours now. The progress bar does move, but ever so slightly. The "time remaining" is always 1 hour +/- 30 or so minutes, but obviously that isn't accurate.

Since posting this question, macOS is still sitting at 52 minutes remaining for the last hour. The progress bar has not moved a pixel.

It is normal for macOS High Sierra to install this slowly on these machines? If not, what can I do to reinstall the software more quickly?


texts:
Recently my macbook stop displaying the ´ when I hit Option + e. I can't even press the ´ in the keyboard viewer.

The others accents are working without any problems.

Anyone have any ideas to solve this? Is possible to reset all shortcuts on mac?


texts: Upgrading to Bluetooth 4.0 internally iMac 2011 21.5 (A1311)

texts:
Has anyone successfully upgraded the OEM internal Bluetooth2.0 to Bluetooth 4.0?

I want to do the upgrade to enable AirDrop with my iPad Pro and iPhone X.

This site OSXWIFI claims it can be done without any soldering or cutting of cables...simply plug'n'play.  It does seem a little pricey though.

Any thoughts?


texts: How can I download streamed content in Safari?

texts:
Activity Viewer seems to have been removed from Safari 5.2. I used it to download streamed content.

Is there a workaround to do that without Activity Viewer?


texts: Old ipad charging indicator comes on but doesn't hold a charge. Doesn't build charge either? Any suggestions already tried cable and new transformer.


texts:
I've been fighting this for months and I can't seem to get it to sleep consistently.  I've talked to Apple Support on the phone and they couldn't help me.  I've taken it in and he guy got it to sleep but shortly after leaving, it did it again...

I've run pmset -g after several attempts to get it to sleep and the following are reasons why it fails:

sleep                10 (sleep prevented by backupd-helper, powerd)
sleep                10 (sleep prevented by apsd, powerd, powerd, backupd-helper)
sleep                10 (sleep prevented by Google Chrome, Google Chrome)
sleep                10 (sleep prevented by apsd, powerd, backupd-helper)
sleep                0 (sleep prevented by coreaudiod)

As you can see, every time is a bit different but the culprits are generally the same.  A full pmset -g reads:

Active Profiles:
Battery Power       -1
AC Power        -1*
Currently in use:
 standbydelay         4200
 standby              0
 womp                 0
 halfdim              1
 hibernatefile        /var/vm/sleepimage
 gpuswitch            2
 sms                  1
 networkoversleep     0
 disksleep            10
 sleep                10 (sleep prevented by backupd-helper, powerd)
 autopoweroffdelay    14400
 hibernatemode        3
 autopoweroff         1
 ttyskeepawake        1
 displaysleep         10
 acwake               0
 lidwake              1

and a pmset -g assertions

4/27/14, 4:06:16 AM CDT
Assertion status system-wide:
   BackgroundTask                 0
   PreventDiskIdle                0
   ApplePushServiceTask           0
   UserIsActive                   1
   PreventUserIdleDisplaySleep    0
   InteractivePushServiceTask     0
   PreventSystemSleep             0
   ExternalMedia                  0
   PreventUserIdleSystemSleep     0
   NetworkClientActive            0
Listed by owning process:
   pid 46(hidd): [0x0000000a0000126e] 00:37:52 UserIsActive named: "com.apple.iohideventsystem.queue.tickle"
    Timeout will fire in 594 secs Action=TimeoutActionRelease
Kernel Assertions: 0x4=USB
   id=501  level=255 0x4=USB mod=4/26/14, 4:21 PM description=EHC2 owner=AppleUSBEHCI

For a while it seemed that when my external monitor was connected, it wouldn't sleep but it happens also when my monitor is not connected.  I've got it configured to go to sleep when my monitor is connected via the command sudo nvram boot-args="iog=0x0" as I find it annoying to have to unplug my monitor when I want the laptop to go to sleep.

I've reset both the SMC and PRAM, which neither have helped.  I've reset defaults for Energy Settings and unchecked allow incoming connections.  I've even shut down nearly everything running and it just won't go to sleep!  I usually have to shut down the laptop because I've gotten home from work before to find my laptop running quite hot from just closing the clamshell and heading home.


texts: Is there anything like the clipboard manager Ditto for Mac?

texts:
I'm looking for a clipboard manager like Ditto for Mac:

  Ditto is an extension to the standard windows clipboard. It saves each item placed on the clipboard allowing you access to any of those items at a later time. Ditto allows you to save any type of information that can be put on the clipboard, text, images, html, and custom formats.

Meaning Ditto can store about 40 items. Ditto has some extra utilities:

searching in items
parsing plain text
keeping images as well


texts: Can I encrypt data on an external hard drive without reformatting it first?

texts:
I back up to an external NAS drive with 2 partitions, one using time machine and the other superduper to make a bootable copy of my mac.

I would like to encrypt the data on there but from what I've read I will need to move the data, format the drive and then move the data back.

Does anyone know another way to do this? or software that will enable this?


texts:
I'm looking for a plugin that will display me the text of HTML files in QuickLook rather than a preview of the rendered HTML.

Does anyone know of such a plugin?


texts: How do I install Darwin 13 on OS X 10.9.1?

texts:
I've recently bought a MacBook with OS X 10.9 and I've just updated it to 10.9.1 (x86_64-apple-darwin10.8.0 64-bit).

I'd like to install the version 13 of Darwin.

I've done everything proposed by this website, but when I try to make xnu, I have this error message:

Generating libkern/version.h from /Users/xxxx/Downloads/xnu-2422.1.72/libkern/libkern/version.h.template
install: target ‘version.h’ is not a directory
make[5]: *** [version.h] Error 1
make[4]: *** [build_exporthdrs_mi] Error 2
make[3]: *** [build_exporthdrs_mi_recurse_into_libkern] Error 2
make[2]: *** [build_exporthdrs_mi_recurse_into_libkern] Error 2
make[2]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
make[1]: *** [build_exporthdrs_mi_bootstrap_RELEASE^X86_64^NONE] Error 2
make: *** [all] Error 2


texts: iMac notified me when call comes in on iPhone. How do I turn this back on?

texts: A few days ago my iMac would notify me via a tone and a message whenever a call came into my iphone.  This was good for me but my iMac suddenly stopped doing this. How do I turn it back on?


texts: Wineskin: where does it download and install wine-mono and gecko?

texts:
I've started using Wineskin and, when I created the first wrapper, it told me that it couldn't find mono and gecko and that it could download and install them for me. The prompts were X11 modals managed by Wine.

It downloaded and installed them, and I can find them in the created wrappers, but I don't know where the source files have been downloaded to. They're not in ~/Library/Application Support/Wineskin.

I want to know where they are just because I don't want to leave behind useless large files when I'm done with Wineskin.


texts:
I followed the instructions here: Stop TextEdit to iCloud Save

defaults write -g NSDocumentSaveNewDocumentsToCloud -bool false

However, after a period of time, Textedit reverts back to blocking when I try to open or save a file. How do I stop Textedit from doing this once and for all?

I am using Yosemite 10.10.2. At first it's okay, then after a period of time, this default goes away. Also my host name keeps changing to 'new-host-3' or 'new-host-2.'


texts: Stop SuperDrive from checking for disks after wake up

texts:
I'd like to stop the SuperDrive from spinning up after coming out of sleep since the noise it makes is quite loud. The SuperDrive was 'fixed' at an authorized retailer a while back and it's made a lot of noise ever since. This is a 3 year old white MacBook, so it's out of warranty.

Is there a way to not have it check for disks after opening the lid?


texts:
I'm trying to install libgit2 on OSX, and I keep running into issues. Ultimately I'm trying to get pygit2 installed, which fails because it doesn't recognize libgit2 being installed.

libgit2's instructions are the following according to their github page:

$ mkdir build && cd build
$ cmake ..
$ cmake --build .

They then say that in order to build the universal binary for OSX, you can use the following when configuring:

-DCMAKE_OSX_ARCHITECTURES="i386;x86_64"

To me that means do the following:

$ mkdir build && cd build
$ cmake .. -DCMAKE_OSX_ARCHITECTURES="i386;x86_64"
$ cmake --build .

However, that doesn't appear to work. I still have pygit2 bomb out when I try and install it through pip.

$ pip install pygit2

This is the error I get:

In file included from src/pygit2.c:32:

include/pygit2/types.h:60: error: expected specifier-qualifier-list before ‘git_diff_list’

src/pygit2.c: In function ‘moduleinit’:

src/pygit2.c:231: error: ‘GIT_STATUS_CURRENT’ undeclared (first use in this function)

src/pygit2.c:231: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once

src/pygit2.c:231: error: for each function it appears in.)

*snip*

Command /Users/HOMEDIR/VIRTUALENVPATH/bin/python -c "import setuptools;__file__='/Users/HOMEDIR/VIRTUALENVPATH/build/pygit2/setup.py';exec(compile(open(__file__).read().replace('\r\n', '\n'), __file__, 'exec'))" install --record /var/folders/3v/7q7kyp3x4js3j0hvhmfkt6fw0000gn/T/pip-Sbr_Q3-record/install-record.txt --single-version-externally-managed --install-headers /Users/HOMEDIR/VIRTUALENVPATH/bin/../include/site/python2.7 failed with error code 1 in /Users/HOMEDIR/VIRTUALENVPATH/build/pygit2

Has anyone been through this rodeo before and can help out?


texts: Snow Leopard Airport Join preferred device-based network

texts:
Is it possible to auto-join device-based networks on Snow Leopard (i.e. preferred)?

For example, by device-based network, I mean either a printer or an ad-hoc network.


texts: How to add FaceID for family members to iPhones

texts:
We only have cellular phones in our home and with our older phones my wife and I could add TouchIDs to each of our phones, and add our children's fingerprints as well.  So, anyone could quickly use either phone.  It's not just a matter of convenience, but also if there is an urgent matter... perhaps not a 911 emergency, but an emergency none the less, our children can quickly use the phones to get help.

Anyhow, with our new iPhone X, I cannot find how to train it to open for more than one face.  How can we add FaceID for family members to our iPhones now?


texts: Is there an application for Windows7 (in bootcamp) to adjust the level of brightness of screen of iMac?

texts:
I want to darken the screen of my iMac because it is too bright for me. I use an application called shades, but it doesn't work in bootcamp.

I found the software for Windows Vista called VistaShades (link). Is there a similar application for Windows7?


texts: Firefox a way to export multiple opened tabs from IOS

texts:
where is Firefox storing list of all opened tabs on IOS in normal / private mode?
Why i am asking is that I have so may tabs opened after using iPad... now I need / want to export all of these to my PC but its impossible or too much time consuming to copy and paste ~400 tabs manually one by one from iPad.
Thanks!


texts:
I own a MacBook Pro purchased in 2014 that was shipped with OS X Mavericks already installed; since then, I have never upgraded to newer releases of the system software because I didn’t like Apple’s growing policy of restricting their customers in the use of their computers, but now I find myself almost forced to give up my obstinacy and to finally upgrade to the most recent version of macOS.  Before doing so, however, I’d like to set up a way to roll back to Mavericks should I ever want to.  I read this answer to Rolling back to a previous version of OS X Mavericks, which suggests “to attach a USB HD and clone the [startup] drive”.  But how can I do this?  How do I clone the startup disk?
Edit: Solutions that require the use of command-line tools are perfectly acceptable.

Addition
I succeeded in cloning the disk with the dd command; but when I try to set the cloned disk as the startup disk, by means of the relevant pane in the System Preferences application, an error sheet appears, with the following message:

You can’t change the startup disk to the selected disk.
The bless tool was unable to set the current boot disk.

Note that the cloned disk shows up in the wiew that presents the available startup disks to choose from.
If I try to set the startup volume from the command line, saying (after obtaning root priviledges)
bless --mount /Volumes/<volume name> --setBoot

the command executes without complaining, but its exit status is 3.  And indeed, if I subsequently ask
bless --info --getBoot

the answer confirms that the boot volume has not been changed.
What am I doing wrong?


texts:
I spilled water on My macbook-pro 2015 Retina and it is out of order.

It was my daily machine and I used it to synch my iphone.

I have an old MacPro.  I was wondering is there anyway I can push data from my iphone into the MacPro.  I am mostly interested in my music.  Is there a software out there that does this type iphone to computer synch.

Some background Info:

Display is dead.
I had encrypted the hard-drive on the macbook.  And I had disallowed remote access to the machine. Is there a way I can ssh into the laptop?
I cannot engage voice-over...I thought if I could engage voice over then that would be enough for me to navigate and enable remoting then I can transfter the files from the macbook.
Luckily everything is backed up except my music...I just don't want to rescan and organize all my music again.


texts: I'd like to be able to stop and (re)start the OS X routing daemon and review the routed configuration file(s).  I think this would involve using launchctl unload and load, but I don't know the name of the routing plist file... Any hints on how to track this down?


texts: Do I have to keep the .dmg files on my computer?

texts:
As a new user of OS X I am getting to know how it is to work with it every day and I started noticing things that went unnoticed previously.

One such question is, when I download a file from the Internet, for example the Skype app, I will download a .dmg file on my HDD. I can open it and use the app, however, when I close it and restart the computer, the app won't get installed to my apps as I am used to from Windows. Rather, I have to open up the .dmg every time.

I am sure there is a way to achieve what I want since I've worked with macs in the past and they had these apps in the applications window, so could anyone explain to me what am I doing differently and why is it this way?

I am aware of the fact that after I open the .dmg file, a virtual hard-drive copy gets created and that's why I see the HDD icon on my desktop, but that's about it.


texts: Can you use a single thunderbolt port to power two extended displays in clamshell mode?

texts:
Looking at cables that split a thunderbolt port to two hdmi ports, they all say that for windows you can have monitors in ABC mode, i.e. both external monitors act as extended displays, but for Mac they will only work in ABB mode, that is the two external monitors will mirror each other.
I am wondering if this is still the case when the MacBook is closed. Can it then drive two extended displays from one port?
If it matters the MacBook in question is the a MacBook pro 16-inch, 2019 with AMD Radeon Pro.


texts:
While playing a video in MPlayerX the right and left arrows skip ahead and back 10s respectively. When paused, the right arrow goes ahead 1 frame but the left arrow still goes back 10s.

How do I skip only 1 frame back? Is there some way to assign the left-arrow-while-paused to do this?

Could the "Extra options" in the "advanced" section of the preferences be useful here? is there any documentation on how to use this?


texts: Script that Automatically Does Something Every Day

texts:
I'm looking for a way to automatically run a shell script or command every time interval. I'm running a server and I want to backup some folders every day. I don't want to use time machine because the backups need to be just the raw data.

How do I write a daemon/application/script that will do this? The commands I need to run are pretty simple, and theres more than one I need, so it'd be great if there was a semi-generalized way to do this.


texts: Why are my updating iPhone apps "waiting..." forever?

texts:
I've got an iPhone 4, not quite sure which version of iOS, but I keep current.

Recently, I got an update for one of the apps, started it, and then for some reason it got stuck on "Waiting..." indefinitely.  Another app later offered an upgrade, and when I accepted it got stuck on "Waiting...".  This has been a few days now, with both 3G and wireless available, with no change.

The apps don't have the "delete" button when I touch and hold on them, and I tried deleting them in iTunes but after syncing my iPhone there was no visible change.  (They're free apps, so deleting and reloading is a fine solution, but knowing how to kick-start the updater would be nice.)  The App Store app simply tells me they've been updated.

Any suggestions?


texts: Any easy way to search for & replace characters in JPG file names in a folder?

texts:
Have a MacBook Pro 15 (Oct2009 vintage), and am running 10.8 (Mountain Lion).

Is there an easy way to search for and replace chars in JPG file names in a folder file list?

I'm working with over 70,000 JPG images, and close to 1000 duplicate names must be corrected. My preferred solution is to simply change the name prefix of each from 642 to 699. None of my 3 image browsers/editing programs can do this. I've already spent more time looking for an automation solution, than changing them 1 at a time would have taken, but would prefer an automation approach if there is one. The finder search function works great, sadly there doesn't seem to be a replace function to go with it. I'm not a programmer, so am hoping there is something built that might do the job.


texts:
I opened an internet radio app, HiDef Radio, that I have used before, many times, on my iPhone 4s with iOS 9.3. After connecting to a station and listening a short while, a window popped open saying:

  Apple Security
  Attention!!

  (6) virus detected on your iPhone!
  IP address 108.72.0.216 (not my iPhone's IP address)
  One of the last sites you've visited contained a Trojan, loading via the vulnerabilities of the browser.

  Click ok to start the cleaning process. After clean up, make sure to upgrade your system to the latest version.

  Install        Cancel

  Detected by Apple Firewall Ver 6.2.7

Clicking the Cancel button took my to the App Store for a VPN program, HotSpot Shield Free VPN Proxy which, as it turns out, I already have on my iPhone! But it was not running (and is not now, either) when the popup window appeared.

So what does all this mean? Obviously the popup is fake, there is no Firewall on iOS, the IP address is wrong, etc.

Is AnchorFree (makers of HotSpot) resorting to scare tactics to push their product?
Is the HiDef Radio app compromised?


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Edit: My initial question does not appear to have a solution. Instead I used an alternate method. Scroll down to see the alternate method.

I'm looking for a solution to mute my mic in Discord that I can then add to my touchbar via bettertouchtool.

BTT cannot send key combos to Discord for whatever reason. As far as I can tell I have two options.

Use applescript to activate the Discord window, send the key press, then hide the window. This works, but flashing the application up for a moment is annoying. Worse when it's on another desktop as it will flip desktops over and then back.
Use applescript to click the top menu  to click the Discord menu, and work down through the UI elements to click the Mute button.

I'm not experienced enough with applescript to make the second option work, but I think it could work. Using UI browser I was able to get the path to the UI element:

How can I make this work? Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks

ALTERNATE SOLUTION What I am wanting to do here does not appear to be possible, so I'm just muting my mic at the OS level instead of Discord, and then adding a toggle button to my touchbar with BetterTouchTool. This has the added benefit of working system wide. Here's video of it in action:

Streamable

In case anyone else was wanting to do this these are the steps I took:

1. Create a new Applescript with the following script:

property storedInputLevel : missing value
if input volume of (get volume settings) is 0 then
    set volume input volume storedInputLevel
    return 1
else
    tell application "System Events"
        set storedInputLevel to input volume of (get volume settings)
    end tell
    set volume input volume 0
    return 2
end if

Save the script somewhere.

2. Open up Better Touch Tool and create a new Touch Bar widget and set the widget to Run Apple Script and Show Return Value

3. In the window that pops up after selecting Run Apple Script and Show Return Value you'll want to erase the test line in the box and give your widget a name:

3.a Click the appearance and settings button

4. In the Appearance and Settings window you'll want to configure the following settings:

You don't need to set an alternate background color, but it helps to see you're muted at a glance.

For the icons you can use these:

Make sure that you set the Alternate color and icon if result matches regex setting to 2.

Click Save.

5. On the new widget you created click on the drop down for Predefined action and choose Run Apple Script (async in background).

6. In the window that popped up you'll want to click on Select Apple Script File and then Choose Apple Script file from Disk and browse to the script file you created earlier. Click save and you're done.

That's it. Your widget should toggle your mic on and off and the change should be reflected in the icon on your touch bar.


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Hi I am trying to undo partitions made from a failed Windows 10 installation but it keeps failing or it won't give me the option to undo it on Disk utility.
This is what my partitioned drive looks like
This what happens when I try to delete the partition using the "-" button

When I try to delete the other drive the "-" button is greyed out.
Please help, I don't know why its doing this. Here are the specs for my computer

I tried using terminal to delete and reformat the disks but it still would fail to delete the partitions
Here is what My diskutil list looks like


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This has been an ongoing problem for over a year now. When listening to music in iTunes, something is causing the audio to cut out for a second or two at seemingly random moments. I never stream music. All the music I listen to is stored locally on my machine. I've had the same machine for several years now and it didn't always do this. It used to play music perfectly no matter how many programs I had open or how many labor intensive tasks I was performing. In fact I can recall instances where I was doing some video editing which slowed the machine to a crawl. And even with the spinning wheel of death and everything being frozen, even then, if I were listening to music, it never missed a beat. But now it seems like the least little network activity or the least little bump in cpu usage causes not only iTunes but also audio through VLC Player to cut out. The problem has persisted through more than one complete hard drive wipe and across multiple versions of OS X. Also, I'm not sure if this is related but it seems like the overall output volume is lower them what it used to be. My system in a nutshell:

OS X El Capitan 10.11.4
iMac (21.5-inch, Late 2012)
Processor - 2.7 GHz Intel Core i5
Memory - 8 GB 1600 MHz DDR3
Graphics - NVIDIA GeForce GT 640M 512 MB
750 GB free of 999

I've searched all over the Internet for an answer to this problem and so far I've come up short. If anyone has any suggestions, advice or ideas; any feedback at all would be much appreciated.


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I encountered a bug in Safari, where an internal website that has NTLM Negotiate enabled keeps reloading.

Confirming with Wireshark, I see a continuous loop of Safari trying to request the page, and the server responding with 401.

Another instance of the application on another domain just works. The difference in the two responses from safari is that for the application it works it responds with a Kerberos AP-REQ response, but in the application it doesn't work, it responds with NTLM Secure Service Provider.

I also tested another application, and there the same problem happens.

Using klist -f I see the main Kerberos ticket, and a specific one for the domain it works, but not one for the domains it doesn't work for. I tried recreating the kerberos ticket, but that doesn't solve it.

Does anyone know how to solve this problem and why the ticket isn't sent to these domains?


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I wanted to test macOS Mojave 10.14.2 Public Beta so I downloaded and ran the macOS Public Beta Access Utility provided by Apple. However, I don't seem to have an option to download a full installer instead of directly upgrading to the beta. Do I really need to install 10.14.1 to a different partition and run the beta access utility from there to upgrade to 10.14.2? Is there a way to download the full installer for the beta?

Current OS: macOS Mojave (10.14.1)
Hardware: A hackintosh PC that works perfectly with macOS Mojave. I also have a Macbook Pro but I won't be installing the beta on it.


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