texts: How do I delete a paused book from iBooks on iPad?

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While fishing for free books, I tapped purchase for a book which is larger than 500mb. I've noticed the size only after buying. I paused the download by tapping on the book.

Now I was not able to delete it from iBooks. Is there a way to delete the book from iBooks app? I could download from iCloud anytime. I don't want the book to be display in my iBooks shelf.


texts: I have an Airport Extreme on one floor and another one on the second floor as an extender. For some reason my device keeps connecting to the first floor Extreme - I know this because I can see it in the Airport Utility. How can I change this?


texts: If I remove my apple ID account on my Iphone 4s, does it delete the data on iCloud on that device only? I already have an Iphone 5s which is using the same apple ID. And planning to sell my Iphone 4s. Please help me. Thanks!


texts:
I just bought two iMac's at an auction, they were both wiped clean before the sale. The problem is when I turn them on I'm getting a screen with an icon of a folder with a question mark. So the guy wiped them but didn't reinstall it, or so I believe.

I did not get any of the disc's for the computer because it was a school sale, so I have no idea how I can installed the system so I can use them. I do have a Macbook Pro running Mac OS X version 10.6.8, however the disc that came with it didn't work on the large iMac's, which I figured it wouldn't.

My question is what do I do at this point? Is there a way to start them, Do I need to buy a disc?


texts: Replacing MacBook's SSD with a new one - how to clone?

texts:
so I have a MacBook Pro, a new drive (NVMe SSD), PC, and portable USB HDD.
The goal is to clone the MacBook's drive to a new drive (which cannot be attached to MacBook at the same time with the old drive).

It looks like I can attach the portable HDD to the MacBook and clone MacBook's drive to it and then attach both the new drive and portable HHD to PC and clone it again there. Is it possible, right?

Can I attach the new SSD to the PC and clone MacBook's SSD via network?

Another way is to buy an adapter for NVMe to connect to MacBook via USB but I would prefer to not do it.
P.S. I have an adapter for NVMe SSD to connect to MacBook


texts:
I've got an mp4 video file. I'd like to take the audio from that video, and create an audio file. The output encoding could be AAC or MP3, it wouldn't make any difference.

Which applications would be easiest to do this, and what steps should I take?


texts:
I had my email connected to an exchange server. I no longer have access to this server, but all the messages are still stored on my device.
I keep getting messages that I need to reenter my password. I can click cancel, and browse the messages, see the attachments and all.
Is there a way (free/paid) that I can extract all the messages from my device?
I don't want to remove the email account from my accounts, as I do want to keep the messages and attachments.


texts: Why is adding music to an iTunes library so slow?

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Adding new mp3s to my iTunes library, either by dragging and dropping or via file dialogs, can take up to 3 minutes per song, especially when accessing a network drive or NAS (the same files would copy in seconds). I am on Mac OS X Yosemite right, but I've also seen long times on Windows. My library is about 80,000 songs.

Is this a result of the size of my library? What happens behind the scenes as part of this process? Is there anything I can do to improve it?


texts: Does system integrity protection prevent nvram(8) from setting -x as a boot argument for safe mode?

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When pre-release macOS Sierra is in safe mode with -x as a boot argument in NVRAM, the following command works as expected:

sudo nvram boot-args="-v"

When Sierra is booted in normal mode, the following command is rejected by the OS:

sudo nvram boot-args="-x -v"

Please:

is that rejection to be expected with SIP?

As a workaround, I typically use Recovery OS Terminal to run the nvram command.


texts: Editing a color profile after calibration

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Is there a way to edit a color profile once you have finished calibrating the screen? I have a Dell S2340L, and after calibrating, I've noticed there is too much red in the greys.

Am I able to adjust this without going through the whole calibration process again?


texts: macOS Mojave stacks not grouping by type

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I have updated my MacBook Pro (15-inch, 2017) with macOS Mojave and everything is woking as per the need.

But I think new feature of macOS Mojave called Stacks is not working properly on my MacBook when I set Group Stacks By to Kind.

It just create one group with name Other and puts everything (Image, Doc, ZIP, Video) in that one group.

I tried changing Group Stacks and restarting my mac but no luck.

Is there any other setting for this which I am missing?


texts: on-demand launch agent restarting automatically

texts:
As title says I have created a on-demand launch agent that listens to socket and is launched on incoming connection. It works well and after it has done it's job I want to quit it. After quitting system automatically restarts it, OS probably thinks it died accidentally. How can I stop this behaviour? My launch agent is a Cocoa application (without GUI), I have tried quitting with 'exit(EXIT_SUCCESS)' and '[[NSApplication sharedApplication] terminate:self]'

My launchd plist is below:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
<key>Label</key>
<string>com.mycompany.mylaunchagent</string>
<key>ProgramArguments</key>
<array>
    <string>/Library/Application Support/com.mycompany.myproduct/myproduct.app/Contents/MacOS/myproduct</string>
</array>
<key>ServiceIPC</key>
<true/>
<key>KeepAlive</key>
<false/>
<key>Sockets</key>
<dict>
    <key>MyListenerSocket</key>
    <dict>
        <key>SockServiceName</key>
        <string>12040</string>
    </dict>
</dict>


texts:
Imagine you have Time Machine running with Yosemite.

You open TextEdit, create a new text document in which you actually write stuff.
You can turn off your computer, restart it, the document will still be there.
But you never saved it once, never. It's just a draft that gets saved as a draft (where?) - when you log out.

Then if you close the window, and lose this document, I assume there's a copy of it somewhere since every time you turned your computer off and on again, the document was there!

But... where would you now look for it in Time Machine?


texts: Desktop shows for split second on wake before password requested

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If I wake my Mac from sleep I always get a split second flash of my active desktop before the screen is replaced by my usual password unlock screen. When I unlock, I get my desktop as normal, as it appeared in the split second flash (i.e. It's a live flash, not a cached or buffered screenshot from when it was locked).

I'm not particularly fussed, it's merely annoying, but I imagine that simply filming the screen waking would allow a screenshot to be pulled from behind a locked display, which others may find a risk.


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When trying to run a PHP script from inside Terminal, the script is just echoed to stdout.  This happens if the script is executed directly (first line #!/usr/bin/php) called as an argument (/usr/bin/php ./test.php), or if the php command(s) is input interactively.

What could be the problem?

Computer is El Capitan Server, 10.11.6; and, no extra MAMP/Apache/PHP has been installed.  On a non-server El Capitan machine, things work as expected; so, I'm stumped...

Adding output of ls command:

sh-3.2# ls -lFa /usr/bin/php
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  10577264 Jul  9 11:51 /usr/bin/php*
sh-3.2#

Adding more output:

sh-3.2# ls -lFa /var/root/test.php
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  17 Nov 21 16:48 /var/root/test.php*
sh-3.2# cat /var/root/test.php
<?
phpinfo();
?>
sh-3.2# /usr/bin/php /var/root/test.php
<?
phpinfo();
?>
sh-3.2# od -c /var/root/test.php
0000000    <   ?  \n   p   h   p   i   n   f   o   (   )   ;  \n   ?   >
0000020   \n
0000021
sh-3.2# od -x /var/root/test.php
0000000      3f3c    700a    7068    6e69    6f66    2928    0a3b    3e3f
0000020      000a
0000021
sh-3.2#


texts: Pages: Fit two A5 page on on a single A4 page in landscape mode

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I want to print the same content twice on a page and then cut the page into two parts. Basically I want to start with an A4 page in portrait mode, and want to end up with (approximately) two A5 in landscape.

Can this be done?


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I created a Read/Write DMG file from a folder in my Mac, size is about 175GB. Then I copied the DMG to an external HD for backup. To ensure data integrity, I checked the MD5 of both, local HD and external HD copies of the DMG file and they are different! I reformatted the external HD and copied the DMG onto it again and it was different again. I did notice that the first MD5 of the DMG in the external HD matched the MD5 of the second attempt in the external HD, so it looks like the file is being copied consistently.

After all this, I created a simple txt file on the local HD, copied it to the external HD and checked the MD5s, they match as expected.

Anybody know why the MD5 of the DMG on the local HD is not the same when copied to an external HD?

NOTE: both local and external are HFS+

Edit 2:  I checked the sha1 on the said DMG files and they match... I wonder why MD5 does not match though. Still an open question.


texts: Can I create a Siri custom voice command that performs actions in an app?

texts: I can't seem to find any docs for this so was wondering if this is possible.  I have a SmartThings app on my phone for controlling my Samsung tv.  I was wondering if I could create a Siri voice command that opens the app, clicks the power button in the app, and then goes to a specific channel.  Not even sure where to begin or if this is even possible.


texts: Is there a way to save your custom keyboard shortcuts in a config file?

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Is there a way to save my custom keyboard shortcuts in a config file?

The reason i want this is so i can put that config file in the cloud (using git, dropbox, ...) and link this file on each os x computer that i have so my shortcuts are always the save on each computer.


texts: Can I have an Encrypted Partition in a 2 Partitions USB Stick?

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I have a new 16Gb USB key and want to take advantage of Disk Utilities feature to encrypt it, however I do need to move data from Mac to Windows from time to time.

Is is it possible to have one FAT partition and one Mac OS Extended Encrypted Partition on a 16Gb drive?
I've tried a number of times but cannot figure it out.

Thanks.


texts:
I'd like to say that the problem I want to solve is pretty simple, but I can't seem to find any good resources to tackle it.

I'd like to have an Automator application that will open all of my SMB/network shares (these are constant, but are sometimes not mounted) in a single window in multiple tabs. I can't seem to find any way to do it because Automator doesn't seem to address Finder tabs at all.

Any thoughts?


texts: Which graphics applications work with Intuos3? MacBook Pro laptop, Running Mac 10.14.6

texts:
I just purchased a used Intuos3 from our local university auction.  Plugged it into my laptop and everything seemed to work just fine.  The only problem is that I don't have an application that will allow me to draw.  Several programs such as TextEdit and Pages have no problem with the pen controlling the cursor but there is nothing on the page.  LibreOffice Drawing will not work.  I have tried gimp and reset the input devices trying them all, but it does not allow the pen to control the cursor.  I am running out of ideas.  Please send me suggestions of applications/software that might work.

Thank you, NDDonna


texts: How do I add a line from the end of a sentence to the edge of the paper in Pages?

texts:
If I have some text like:

Work Experience
Taco Bell
Apple Store
Disneyland

and I want a line drawn from the end of “Work Experience” to the right side of the page (to the end of the page margin, that is), is there a way to do that?


texts: Lowering volume on iphone 4 when button is broken

texts: My iphone 4 volume button is broken.  Is there another way to lower the volume of streaming music and/ or videos?


texts: External SSD won't unmount due to socketfilterfw

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When trying to unmount my Samsung T3, which I store various applications like Mathematica on, I am told it is being used by some software socketfilterfw

$ diskutil unmount /dev/disk2s1
Volume External on disk2s1 failed to unmount: dissented by PID=304
(/usr/libexec/ApplicationFirewall/socketfilterfw)

This also shows when unmounting using the GUI and checking in Console.app

I think socketfilterfw is involved in the firewall, however I'm not sure how to fix it or why it is happening, and whether or not it is safe for the SSD to force unmounting.

What options do I have?


texts:
I have a late 2008 MacBook Pro work computer. Here's the sequence of events:

I fully charge the battery
I unplug the Mac from the power cable
The Mac immediately shuts down

Before unplugging the Mac, I press the battery power indicator button and all lights are green. When I unplug the Mac I press the indicator button again and only one light is green.

I've tried resetting the PRAM, SMC and even bought a new battery but the problem persists. Here is the System Information.

How can I get my MacBook Pro to stay powered on when not plugged in?

Update: It was a dead battery. Apple gave me a new one for free.


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I am trying to get used to the Photos App on MacOS, but there’s one thing I can’t find, either in the Help or in all of my web searches.

How can I resize an image? By that I mean scale it down. I can find how to crop the image, but that’s not what I want.

For example, I have a large image, say 1280px x 960px. I would like to scale it to a smaller size, say 640px x 480px. This is the sort of thing you need to do to adjust an image for use on a web page.

I know how to resize using Preview app, and I have other applications which will do the job, but I would like to do it within the Photos App itself.

I will happily install an extension if required.


texts: Which font extension is used on both PC and Mac?

texts:
At the office I use a Windows running PC, in which tons of fonts are installed in .TTF, .OTF and .FON formats.

I am using an iMac at home and sometimes I have to finalize my designs at home.

So, may  I use these fonts on my PC as far as I copy them on Mac? Or should I look for their Mac versions?


texts: Using AppleScript to delete an event still existing in Calendar?

texts:
I'm trying to write an AppleScript that clears a calendar (an iCloud one) of all of its events. I have the following:

tell application "Calendar"
    tell calendar "Test calendar"
        set the_events to every event
        repeat with current_event in the_events
            delete current_event
        end repeat
    end tell
end tell

In the Script Debugger, I can see that the number of events in the list the_events is going down as it deletes each one. If I run the script again, Script Debugger tells me that there are now no events in the calendar. However I can still access and change the events in the Calendar app, be that on the same computer or on another device or the iCloud website.

What's going on here?


texts: Finder Running Slow When Running Big Folders

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I have a late 2012, 27 inch iMac, with a 3TB fusion drive and 32GB of RAM. I'm only using around 650GB of my Hard Drive's storage and rarely, if ever, push the limits of my RAM. I also keep my files fairly organised and regularly scan for viruses and malware. I should also note that even though my computer is nearly 6 years old, the hard drive was replaced with a new one last June (2017) so only has a year or so of wear on it.

Despite all of this however, I have been noticing that my Finder has been acting incredibly buggy lately to the point where I have to re-launch it multiple times a day. The bugs in question include:

1) Slow response time e.g. I will click, drag, or scroll, but the screen will freeze for a second before executing my action.

2) Constant beach ball of death - often for simple tasks like extracting zips and moving small files.

3) General crashing and freezing.

I have executed a number of general trouble shooting techniques such as:

1) Deleting PLIST files.

2) SMC/PRAM resets.

3) Disabling iCloud and any other file sharing services, such as Soulseek (which I still use lol).

4) Ran Disk Utility & a full system virus scan - neither of which detected any problems.

The rest of my computer seems to be operating normally - programs open in normal time, they don't crash or freeze - it is simply Finder which I am having problems with.

I have noticed, however, that these problems mainly occur when dealing with large folders - namely, my downloads folder, which normally has around 300 items in it (not junk) at around 23GB and my Music folder, which has 800 folders in it and is 195GB.

Is it natural for the Finder to struggle to deal with folders so large? Are there limits and thresholds as to how many files/folders one should keep in a folder?

Or should a Mac, in good health, run smoothly regardless of a folder's size?

I am quite worried by this, as the only other possibility that I can see is that my hard drive is dying, which I cannot afford to replace right now.

Any help and/or advice is greatly appreciated.

Kind Regards,
James


texts: Is there any way to use Safari 5.1's rendering engine for browser testing on OSX 10.8 (Mountain Lion)?

texts:
I have OSX 10.8.2 (Mountain Lion) on both my Macs, which comes with Safari 6.1. A couple of my clients have been reporting minor CSS errors using Safari 5.1, which I obviously can't install. This makes fixing these errors very, very difficult.

Are there any recommended methods for testing with the rendering engines of older versions of Safari? Would there be an appropriate vintage version of Webkit that would be able to install on 10.8, as the appropriate nightlies refuse to run?


texts: What can I use a iMac G5 17" 1.9GHz for?

texts:
I'm very new to the Apple world, and I want to buy iMac G5 17", 1.9GHz, 512GB of RAM (upgraded to 1.5GB) and ATI Radeon X600.

What this machine can do in real life? I mean, these numbers mean to me nothing, I want to know what can I do with thin machine? Can it play ~10GB .mkv videos?


texts: What does this blue dot in the Dock in Mojave mean?

texts:
I have this pale blue dot above Firefox (I have seen in on other apps also.)

I have only noticed this in Mojave.

What does it mean?

My Dock is in the vertical position.

Here is is in the horizontal position:

More info from Dock:

$ defaults read com.apple.dock.plist | grep "file-label"
                "file-label" = Siri;
                "file-label" = Launchpad;
                "file-label" = Safari;
                "file-label" = Mail;
                "file-label" = Contacts;
                "file-label" = Notes;
                "file-label" = Reminders;
                "file-label" = Maps;
                "file-label" = Photos;
                "file-label" = Messages;
                "file-label" = FaceTime;
                "file-label" = Pages;
                "file-label" = Numbers;
                "file-label" = Keynote;
                "file-label" = News;
                "file-label" = iTunes;
                "file-label" = Books;
                "file-label" = "App Store";
                "file-label" = "System Preferences";
                "file-label" = iTerm;
                "file-label" = Downloads;
                "file-label" = "Workspace ONE Intelligent Hub";
                "file-label" = "Activity Monitor";
                "file-label" = Firefox;


texts: LG UltraFine 4K Display monitor with 2 MacBook Pro. How to switch?

texts:
Could anyone tell me, if I will buy LG UltraFine 4K Display monitor and connect to it 2 MacBook Pro (2017 & 2020 models) could I switch between these MacBooks like as a separate Desktops?
If not, maybe you could suggest to me monitor that has that feature available?
And also, if I will connect both keyboard and trackpad for both MacBooks will it re-connect by itself each time, when I will switch the MacBook?
Thank you!


texts: Why is it that I can no longer access some folders in my old time machine backups and how can I get access?

texts:
So I recently had IT reformat my Mac OS 10.6 laptop to put a 10.8 image on it. When I first got it back I could still access all folders in my old backups, including the Library folder under my old user account folder. Now when I go into it the system tells me that I don't have permission to access it.

I have tried sudo to get into it from terminal with no luck. I don't remember if this problem started after I enabled backups on my new install of OS X. But this is very irritating. Any ideas as to why this is? I can no longer access "/Users//Library" for example. I just get a red circle icon with a white dash in it.

I tried changing the owner with chown. I tried changing the permissions with chmod to 777. No luck so far.

Why is this happening and are there any solutions for it?

Thanks!


texts: "Disk Utility stopped repairing Macintosh HD. Disk Utility can't repair this disk." What now?

texts:
When I turned my computer on, it got stuck on a gray screen (nothing, no apple logo, but occasionally a spinning wheel, and I could move the mouse). I rebooted in recovery mode and got the various messages when I tried to repare using disc utility: "incorrect block count for file 0.indexDirectory (it should be 1508 instead of 754)" then "the volume Macintosh HD could not be verified completely." Then the alert that this disk could not be repaired.

Are there any steps I can take now? I have a couple of external hard drives so if nothing else, do you know how I can back up files from my computer? I don't have time machine or anything like that set up. I'm not very skilled with computers so anything will help, even if it's just "go see a professional." I have school assignments saved onto my hard drive so I'm really hoping I can salvage them.


texts:
Is real-time translation possible on iPadOS 14? By real-time translation I mean that you say something and the iPad translate it in another language right away.
Siri translates but I should ask it to translate every single time, and also it repeat the original answer.
But I want it to be set so that when I say a sentence in English, it translates that to Spanish right away. I want to use it in conversation easily.


texts: Notification Center message via AppleScript/osascript -- specify an application name and icon

texts:
When sending a notification to OS X's Notification Center via AppleScript's osascript, such as in:

osascript -e 'display notification "Finished that long running task." with title "Finally!"'

The Notification Center shows "AppleScript Editor" as the notification's source:

Is there a possibility to specify a different source (as in application) and icon when sending a notification this way?


texts: Rollback possibility reg. MacPro5,1 firmware update (High Sierra)

texts:
I've read quite some posts reg. eficheck; in itself it doesn't seem too "worrying" (for security reasons it's probably quite useful, but that's a bit off-topic here)

I found this very interesting document here, which I unfortunately only understand partly (I suppose I could grasp it to 99%, but it'd take me 2 days - and maybe some others here already read this): https://duo.com/assets/ebooks/Duo-Labs-The-Apple-of-Your-EFI.pdf
In there it says: "[...] there appears to be another level of checking that takes place within Apple’s pre-boot EFI environment that prevents rollback to an older version of EFI. "

After I update to High Sierra, will I be able to roll back, incl. the older firmware - just in case the newer firmware reveals some disadvantages later on?


texts: Can I run one KeyQuencer Macro from inside of another?

texts:
KeyQuencer is a macro/automation app for Classic Mac System 7.

I have a bunch of Macros already defined and I'd like to call Macro A from Macro B.
Possible workarounds I've dismissed out of preference:

duplicate the code from A into B
put all code in external text files (Open allows you to use the contents of a text file as the macro)

Is there a way to easily call one Macro from inside of another?


texts: How to upgrade my MacBook Air from 10.6 to 10.9?

texts:
I was given a MacBook Air from my step mother because she never used it. I tried upgrading everything but every time I try to update it, it stays the same old version. Do i need to go to the store first?

It's still on OS X 10.6.8


texts: Does OS X Yosemite tell you if you got your password wrong?

texts:
I just had, for no apparent reason, every Apple device decide that my iCloud account was faulty and I needed to re-sign-in on every device.  The first device I logged back into gave me "the third degree:" birthday, security questions, whole nine yards.
After that, I logged into iCloud separately via Web, and confirmed that my password is what I recall it to be.
However, over on my older OS X 10.10 Mac, I got no less than six popups asking for my iCloud password, so I had to type it a bunch of times.
Why does it keep re-asking the password? The password window indicates which app is asking, and several apps asked multiple times. (None of the apps are running at the time; it's iTunes, App Store and Facetime IIRC, none of which I use more than once a month).   When apps ask multiple times -- is that a different module within the app making a separate password request?  Or am I mistyping my password and it's not telling me that?
Because if it's failing my password silently, that spam of requests could quickly cause me to exceed my number of failed password tries, and then I'd need to reset the password. I've barely only memorized this one.


texts: How to run swift command while staying on breakpoint in XCode?

texts: In JetBrains's IDEs there is a option to launch custom commands while staying on breakpoint. Is there same functionality in XCode?


texts: Does Visual Voicemail work the same across all carriers?

texts:
I have an iPhone 4s on AT&T. I'm going to want to switch to an iPhone SE and also switch to Cricket Wireless. Cricket shows on their website that you can have 20 voicemails, but they also have a page giving instructions to set up Visual Voicemail in iOS.

On AT&T right now, I don't have to manage the voicemails. It appears that iOS downloads the voicemail from AT&T and deletes it from their servers. It's good because I never hit a limit to how much voicemail I can save and never have to manage or delete anything.

Does the same thing work on other carriers, like Cricket, being managed by iOS directly, or does it vary by carrier?


texts: I have an iPhone 4 and I'm borrowing an old iPhone 5s from a family member. I understand that they have two different types/sizes of SIM cards but would I simply ask my carrier (Verizon) to send me a smaller one or would it be more complicated?


texts: How can I press escape on a Bluetooth keyboard with my iPhone?

texts:
I sometimes use a BlueTooth keyboard with my iPhone, which is lovely for writing emails, but I run into difficulties when using terminal on the iPhone - I like to edit files with vi(m), which requires quite a lot of presses of the escape key, but every time I press escape, the iPhone interprets that as a request to go back to the home screen and sends me out of the app.

Any ideas?


texts: Apple Watch doesn't notify me of SMS messages

texts:
Whenever I get an SMS message from someone not in my contacts, my watch does not vibrate. I have my watch set to Mirror my iPhone's messages settings, and switching it to custom doesn't change anything. It doesn't matter if the sender is in my contacts or not (though I do have the "filter unknown senders" setting off).
This has been going on for a while, but I've gotten tired of having to manually pull up 2FA codes every time I need to login somewhere, since I can't just look down and my wrist and see the message pop up.


texts: How can I copy and paste multiple texts?

texts:
I would like to copy several different texts/things at the same time and paste them in any order.

Does anyone know any good Mac OS X software or plugin that can handle multiple copy/paste?


texts:
I noticed that sometimes Mail.app locks files. The lock itself allows for files to be moved to Trash, but doesn't allow Trash to be emptied. (Perhaps Trash should be renamed Thrash in this case)

Is there a way (via a terminal command or an app) to see which app locks the file and/or unlock the file without quitting the app?


texts:
I have a macOS Mojave (10.14.2) and I would like create a 20 GB MS-DOS (FAT) partition on my 128 GB APFS disk.

But Disk Utility constantly gives me an error:

My Time Machine is turned off:

My FileVault is turned off:

I also tried the followings:

tmutil thinlocalsnapshots / 9999999999999999 command to delete snapshots.
First Aid in Disk Utility, then restarted with Command + S and typed /sbin/fsck -fy in terminal. In both cases it said that my disk appears to be OK.
Tried to boot in Safe mode (Command + Shift) then start partitioning.
Tried to restart with Command + R then partition from Disk Utility.

The problem is the same with Boot Camp Assistant, if I try to install Windows 10.

Why on Earth Apple prevents their users to use another operating system next to macOS? Is this a nefarious business tactics? Because it seems not to have solution at all while having an APFS disk!


texts: So there are several audio related things I do with my phone (which is not iOS) that I do while at my computer, and it'd be grand if I could play my podcasts or take my softphone calls on it. Is it possible with Bluetooth, or any other wireless method?


texts: I have replaced my hard drive in mac book pro with SSD drive - Can I use that hard drive to replace the optical drive and have 2 disks?

texts: If I do the above will the drive need a caddy or will it just slot straight in ?


texts: XQuartz is not starting from within tmux

texts:
I'm using the standard apple terminal with zsh as my default shell.

In my ~/.zprofile (equivalent of .profile) I have the following line:

[[ $TERM != "screen" ]] && exec tmux

This basically makes shure that if I open a new window in zsh a new
tmux session is started, but tmux doesn't get started from within zsh
sessions running inside tmux subwindows.

This works fine but for one thing: I cannot start XQuartz. Everytime I launch an from the command line that requires X11 (like a gnuplot or octave plot) the terminal just hangs and nothing happens.

However, I noticed that when I just disable the auto-launching of tmux by removing the line above so that I can open a new terminal window and launch XQuartz from there, I can also use the launched XQuartz from within tmux windows.

This however gets pretty tiresome.

How could I fix this?


texts: iMac 2011 with dual drive HDD/SSD: missing recovery mode

texts:
I upgraded my Mid-2011 21.5in iMac (running High Sierra) with the ifixit-dual drive kit (i.e. installing an SSD on top while leaving HDD and superdrive in). Everything has worked flawlessly. I don't recall how I set up the install or the cloning, though. Possibly via Time machine.
Recently, my iMac had booting problems, it got stuck at the 100% loading bar. I was able to relieve this problem in single user mode with the commands given in this thread.
When trying to debug, I noticed that certain key combinations on start-up didn't work:
-safe mode, Diagnostics, recovery mode (also internet recovery), reset PRAM, choose boot device
What worked: single user mode, verbose mode
To be safe in the future, I wanted to re setup the whole system by doing a swipe and reinstalling High Sierra. I downloaded the app and the reinstall worked, but the key-combinations still don't work. I'm wondering why this is whether I set up the two drives wrongly. Terminal shows my SSD contains a Recovery partition. Find the diskutil printout below. How can I clean up everything and start from scratch? I already created a bootable USB with High Sierra, but holding option at startup does not work. Any ideas?


texts: Can anyone tell me How can I remove search.startnow Homepage from browser. It is quite irritating. Need permanent solution. Thanks in advance.


texts: Macbook Pro 13 early 2015, Internal ssd not recognized

texts: I have a problem seeing the internal sdd, I have it unplugged currently because if i plug it in it gets very hot in less than a minute. I bought an external T5 ssd and used the recovery option to install ios and it works fine. is there an external adapter to plug the apple ssd, so i can see if the fault is from the ssd or the logic board?


texts: Using The Terminal Command and Emacs To Play The Video Game "Tetris"?

texts:
OS X via the Terminal command and Emacs apparently allows you to access and play a version of the video game Tetris.

How do you accomplish this (and can you play via keyboard controls) ?


texts: Authenticate with phone instead of password

texts:
I understand that what I want is really strange.

We have something like shared build server (mac mini, yosemite), which is located in public place in office; basically everybody have physical access to it.

We have special user account created for our project needs, and all necessary tools / passwords etc are configured under this user account.

We have a rather big group of people, who should have physical access to this user account from time to time.

As a (predicted) result we have simple "password" which is known to everybody, even to people outside of this group.

Is there any way / third-party tool to use phone applications like Google Authenticator, which will allow access to this specific user account to a predefined group of people, without relying on just password?

In general I'm looking for any solution which might solve my problem - login to account with "public password" to specific people only.


texts: Is possible auto-refresh the Shared Links sidebar in Safari 7?

texts:
Is possible to set auto refresh for the Shared Links sidebar in the new Safari 7.
There's in "View" menu > Refresh Shared Links, but this doesn't have a shortcut to refresh. So either a way to have the list auto-refresh or assigning a shortcut would help.


texts: Cannot open Terminal on mac ("Not allowed to use" error message)

texts:
I cannot open Terminal at all because of this error message. (Probably the rudest error message I have ever seen on a computer.) This mac was originally a school computer and the permission to use Terminal was not given to me in the first place, so I have no clue about the method the "IT guys" used to keep me from using it, and therefore I do not know how to recover from it either. I have an admin account, though the account I usually use is standard, (I tried logging into other existent admin accounts presumably set up by the IT guys, but even in those accounts it was impossible to run Terminal), and I have already tried running permissions repair but it had no effect on the issue.

(p.s. I am not a very advanced user of mac, so descriptions fit for a newbie would be very much appreciated. Have seen a similar question on this website but it did not really help.)


texts: iOS 8.1..camera roll and photostream / deleted pictures

texts:
Before the update, photos saved to camera roll would automatically go to photostream, too. You could then delete them from camera roll but they would remain on your photostream.

Now, you can still add photos just like you could, but as soon as you delete them from your camera roll, they are also simultaneously deleted from your photostream.

Any help on how to keep your deleted camera roll photos on your photostream?


texts:
How many monitors can be hooked up to a Mac Mini?

I've only ever hooked a Mac Mini up to 2 monitors, but I'm interested in going up to at least 4. Is this even possible?

According to Apple's Mac Mini feature description page:

  You can daisy-chain up to six peripherals to a single Thunderbolt 2 port.

Does this mean that more than 2 monitors is possible?


texts: Is there a way to use fingerprint only for entering the iTunes & AppStore password?

texts:
I'd like to use my fingerprint instead of entering the iTunes password via keyboard.  However, for that to happen, I have to define a 4 digit passcode.

And despite the fact that on the Touch ID and Passcode page, i've deselected iPhone Unlock, it still makes me enter the password.

How can I use the fingerprint exclusively for entering iTunes and App Store credentials?


texts: About how large is a clean install of OS X?

texts: If you were to wipe a hard drive clean and install OS X Mountain Lion, with one user account and no user data files. (so simply OS files) How large, in disk space, would OS X (how much hard drive space would be used on that unused system?)


texts: formatting external drive multiplatform compatible filesystem from macOS High Sierra

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I have a 160GB external hard drive connected via USB I pulled it from a windows pc to MacBook running MacOS High Sierra, I want to format the hard drive to a file system that should work with Windows, MacOS and Linux operating system.

The hard drive is currently NTFS formatted, into 3 partition which I want to get rid of and just keep single partition.

I am just going to backup my media , doc, zips and tars

Any Help will be greatly appreciated.


texts: Making Time Machine Backups while Mac is in Sleep Mode

texts: I'd like my Mac to be able to save a Time Machine backup even when I have it in sleep mode. Is there a way I can have my Mac wake up at a certain time automatically in order for Time Machine to run?


texts: How to tell when time has been sync'ed with NTP server in Mac OS X Lion?

texts:
I know that a similar question has been asked at superuser.

But I tried to grep for "time reset" in my /var/log/system.log and I can't find any instance of it. In fact, I even searched in the eight archived copies of system.log (system.log.0.bz2 through system.log.7.bz2). All I found when grep'ing for the word "ntpd" are lines like these:

Feb 20 10:17:16 caspar ntpd[44498]: proto: precision = 1.000 usec
Feb 20 12:27:21 caspar ntpd[44625]: proto: precision = 1.000 usec
Feb 20 18:31:53 caspar ntpd[44625]: bind(28) AF_INET6 > <censored IPv6> flags 0x11 failed: Can't assign requested address
Feb 20 18:31:53 caspar ntpd[44625]: unable to create socket on en0 (7) for <censored IPv6>

Update #1

Following @Raolin's suggestion, I now see lines like this in /tmp/ntpd.log:

21 Feb 19:30:52 ntpd[2328]: DNS time.asia.apple.com. ttl 1900
21 Feb 19:30:52 ntpd[2328]: DNS time.asia.apple.com. minpoll 9
21 Feb 19:30:52 ntpd[2328]: DNS time.asia.apple.com. maxpoll 12
21 Feb 19:30:52 ntpd[2328]: DNS time.asia.apple.com. +iburst
21 Feb 20:02:32 ntpd[2328]: DNS time.asia.apple.com. ttl 4013
21 Feb 21:09:24 ntpd[2328]: DNS time.asia.apple.com. ttl 3507

I'm not sure if the lines containing 'ttl' means it's trying to sync.


texts: External HDD with encrypted mac partitions is no longer recognized

texts:
I have an external disk which I use for data and a TimeMachine backup. For some reason the partition table appears to be broken and I may already have worsened the problem by trying to fix it with testdisk, where I went through EFI/GTP -> analyze -> quick search and tried to restore all partitions, which tells me the structure is bad, so I restored the first two. I'm not sure what EFI System is good for, if activated it is mounted, but that wasn't the case before the problems started.

The 4TB disk is split into two parts around 2TB each, both standard encrypted macOS partitions.

I already tried to follow HFS+ Partition of Mac OSX is not recognized in Windows 10 Bootcamp but when I try to add the second partition, it says GPT partition #2 does not exist or is too big; skipping.

The same happened on another external disk. Both worked fine earlier today/a few days ago. The only change I see is that I used a different cable for one of the disks but not for the other.

So now that I have restarted my macbook, the second disk works again, whereas the first does not (presumably because I messed it up).

I would appreciate if someone can point me to a solution for this. Also I would be interested how this can happen at all.


texts: Can't Open Applications on Old Mac (OS X 10.4)

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I have a strange problem. I'm having to use an old PowerPC G4 in order to use DVD Studio Pro for a project I'm working on for a client. I have to use an old Mac and OS because the version of DVD Studio Pro I need to use in order to create the final deliverable is only available in DVD Studio Pro which doesn't work on Intel/modern Macs.

The specs of the computer are:

Processor: 800 MHz PowerPC G4
Memory: 1.25 GB SDRAM
Mac OS X 10.4.11

DVD Studio Pro was working fine up until recently and I can no longer open up the application. Every time I try to open the application it just hangs and I get the old loading spinner and it never goes away. The size of the project I'm working on is something around 6 GB so I figured it's just taking a while to load but I've left it running for several hours to no avail.

A couple questions:

Is there a way to determine where the program hangs? I'm not super familiar with application logs so I'm not sure exactly where to look for those. I'm sure those would give some insight. The app doesn't crash, it hangs and I have to Force Quit but I figure it couldn't hurt to look.
Could this possibly be a memory issue? And if so, are there any suggestions on what I can get to upgrade this computer so I can get through this project?

I tried to run the software through Parallels/Virtual Box etc and on a newer computer but there are a variety of reasons why that didn't work. I had it working fine (albeit very slowly) up until this past week.

Any help is greatly appreciate. Thanks!

Update

I turned on my Activity Monitor when I opened up DVD Studio Pro 3. To be clear, I opened up the application from the dock NOT by opening my project directly. I'm just trying to get the program to open up normally.

In the Activity Monitor, when I open up the application, these three processes start:

DSPX_AEncoderSer (Not Responding)
DSPX_EncoderServ (Not Responding)
DVD Studio Pro (Not Responding)

And as you can see they all stop responding. The DVD Studio Pro line item spikes to just over 50% CPU power and then stops responding. Nothing else on the system is eating up any resources.


texts: How to add another integrated dictionary to iOS9

texts: I am learning Russian language and I was wondering if I could add a Russian-English dictionary to built-in dictionaries of iOS. I want to be able to look up Russian words in iBooks app without leaving the app.


texts: Repeated window visual glitch MacOS Catalina

texts:
On a MacBook pro 13" from 2019, I have experienced a window glich causing the windows to duplicate themselves visually.

Yes, I know that this may be irrelevant because of how long the window is.


texts:
If I have a system with FileVault 2 enabled on the system and on the Time Machine drive, what happens if I change my system password? Is the encryption based on my login (being able to log in) or is the encryption tied to the password (somehow hashed to the password value so if it changes, the new password can't decrypt the files?)

10.7.4 running FileVault 2, migrated from 10.6.x installation, if that makes any difference...


texts: Automating numbers, Exporting the file as an excel document

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I have recently acquired a Macbook Pro (OS X Yosemite 10.10.4). I find the Numbers application satisfactory to work with, but I save the file as an .xlsx file after I am done. I need to make changes to the file repeatedly and save it repeatedly as the file is used as input by a program that can only read excel files.

As a consequence, every time I make a change in the file I have to go to the Menu bar, pick export as Excel, choose to replace the pre-existing excel file. I have gone through some tutorials of applescript used for 'Numbers', but I cannot find out how to automate the process of exporting a file as Excel.

on run {input, parameters}

    tell application "Numbers"
        activate
        tell document 1
            export as xlsx
        end tell
    end tell
    return input
end run

This is the code as it stands. Please let me know how to automate the process of exporting a numbers file as an excel file.


texts: iPod Nano keeps going/staying in recovery mode

texts:
Configuration:
Windows XP Pro + SP3
iPod Nano 1st generation, firmware version 1.3.1
iTunes 10.4.1.10

When I connect the iPod to the PC iTunes says

  iTunes has detected an iPod in recovery mode. You must restore
  this iPod before it can be used with iTunes

OK, that's what I do. I get a message that

  Your iPod has been restored to factory setting, and is
  restarting. Please leave your iPod connected. It will
  appear in the iTunes window after it restarts.

Then on the iPod the Apple logo appears for a few minutes, which then switches to a "Do not disconnect" message. Again after some time the recovery mode reappears in iTunes. I've cycled through this a few times, even on a different USB port, but no avail. If I disconnect the iPod I can walk through the menus, and reset it. The music of course has gone.

Is there a way to get the iPod out of recovery mode, other than with the iTunes function?


texts: Getting videos directly into the Videos app

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I often download videos from online courses on the Internet.

When I need to transfer them to the iPad, I have to connect them to a Windows or Mac running iTunes, and drop them in there.

Is there a way I could bypass connecting to the computer, and directly have the videos downloaded to the Videos app?


texts: How do I connect a Macbook early 2011 to a Sony trv 340 via Firewire

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I have a Sony trv 340, and need to firewire from the cam to my Macbook, but have no idea what is need for the Mac. Do I need a male end or a female to go to the laptop? I have no idea what I’m looking at, and don't even know how to start searching.

Any help appreciated!


texts:
I am certainly not the only one dealing with the issue (looking into questions here which deal with some aspects related to an iTunes Server or looking at the Apple Support Forum). So I ask:

What is a way of having a real (explanation of real follows) iTunes Server on a NAS?

Driving force of course is the desire to centralize my iTunes Library, photos, big data, that I do not want to carry around with my me. Solution: A Network Attached Storage (NAS). For all the other stuff except the iTunes library this solution is great. Of course I can put the library on it BUT:

I will not be able to stream content to my iDevice directly (I could if my Mac is, but not directly)
I cannot tell my library to stream some music to an AirPlay device from my iDevice (again, only if my Mac is on)
In principle: Without any other device(s) running, my library can do nothing. It is not stand alone! To stream content requires additional devices running.

Any NAS that can store any of my data (ok that's every NAS :)) and serves as a stand alone iTunes library I consider a real iTunes Server. I would consider it a real real iTunes Server if I can remote it via Apples Remote App and stream music/videos via Apple appropriate apps  (yes I kinda favor Apples solution whenever available).

I will give myself an answer for one possibility (an additional Mac) with pros and mainly cons. But I am very interested in other solutions (please as well do not hide disadvantages from your proposed solutions)!


texts:
The answer to just about everything gem related on El Capitan -- including installing fastlane -- for me has been using this switch -n /usr/local/bin

(So sudo gem install fastlane fails but sudo gem -n /usr/local/bin install fastlane works.)

How can I apply this to all gem operations automatically?


texts:
Background

A new spam page has started to appear throughout many "questionable" sites (movie sites, etc.). This new spam page fits in to the category of fake scans, MacKeeper, "YOU HAVE A VIRUS", etc. category.

Problem

The problem with this new page is that instead of just having a popup, the page actually initiates a download of a random 2kb (not harmful just contains random text) files repeatedly every ~1ms. The download folder fills up before you can close the window and you are left deleting 1000+ files. Unlike, a similar problem in which a page spam brings up the print dialog, there is very little time to react.

Failed Troubleshooting Attempts

I tried locking the download folder. While it prevented the downloads from...well...downloading it, a dialog box (see image) comes up. Usually, I could just dismiss this dialog box, but since the download is attempted every ~1ms, I a new dialog pops up every time I try to dismiss, preventing me from closing the window.
Force quitting Safari, which stops the download (after 1k's downloads) but then I loose all my other windows
Changing settings to ‘Ask for each download’ in Safari preferences. Doesn't work because 1k's of separate dialog boxes open prevent me from even closing the tab. Eventually crashing Safari.

Question

How can I prevent spam downloads in Safari?

UPDATE:

Heres the code causing the download (got it by disabling JavaScript and looking through code manually):

 function download(g, h, j) {
                var k = new Blob([g], {
                        type: j
                });
                if (window.navigator.msSaveOrOpenBlob) window.navigator.msSaveOrOpenBlob(k, h);
                else {
                        var l = document.createElement("a"),
                                m = URL.createObjectURL(k);
                        l.href = m, l.download = h, l.click(), setTimeout(function() {}, 0)
                }
        }
        function bomb_ch() {
                var g = Math.random().toString(36).substring(20),
                        h = Math.floor(50 * Math.random() + 25);
                while (true) download(h, g, g)
        }
        function ch_jam() {
                bomb_ch()
        }

Note: I had some issues running the JS on a custom page. It froze instead of downloaded. I was able to emulate the download by using a setInterval() function calling a the download function.

More info: https://blog.malwarebytes.com/malwarebytes-news/2018/02/tech-support-scammers-find-new-way-jam-google-chrome/


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There's a few songs that I've added to iCloud Music Library using iTunes on my PC but it seems that some of them didn't upload correctly because (1) they never play past a certain point on my iPhone and (2) deleting and re-adding them to my library on my iPhone doesn't made a difference.

So, how do you re-upload a song to iCloud Music Library? Preferrably without removing it from my iTunes library as I assume that this will delete the play count.

I've tried using File | Library | Update iCloud Music Library.


texts: Bluetooth performance worse after Yosemite update

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I have a bluetooth trackpad and a pair of bluetooth headphones and ever since I upgraded  to Yosemite I've been having problems with both.

The trackpad fails to re-connect after the laptop wakes up more often that it before as do the headphones, on top of that the headphones are a lot choppier, to the point I can't listen. When connected to my phone they work flawlessly.

I'd unpaired & re-paired both devices & also removed them by deleting them from the .plist file directly, this improved things for a few days, but now it's back to the same problem.


texts: My 6S screen has gone black. What do I do?

texts:
My 6S screen has gone black.

How do I reset the display functionally?


texts: Any shortcut to go to user account window?

texts:
Is there any keyboard shortcut to go here?

EDIT: This script does not work

on run {input, parameters}

    (* Login menu has to be the last! *)

  tell application "System Events"
    tell process "SystemUIServer"
      set n to number of menu bar items of menu bar 1
      tell menu bar item n of menu bar 1
        click
        repeat with i from 1 to 10
          try
            if name of menu item i of front menu contains "Login Window" then
              click menu item i of front menu
              exit repeat
            end if
          end try
        end repeat
      end tell
    end tell
  end tell

  return input
end run

EDIT2: I made this Automator Script (when I execute it, it works) but when I try to assign it a keyboard shortcut it does not work.


texts:
I foolishly forgot that renting a movie on an iPhone meant you had to watch it on that phone.

Is there anyway to just watch it on a Mac (which is authorised on the same Apple ID)? Not neccessarily to transfer it?

I have airserver app on my Mac, but when I try AirPlaying it to the Mac, it opens a window that looks like QuickTime (but isn't), and says Can't play Content not authorized.

Or is it possible to delete it from my phone and redownload it on my Mac without paying again?


texts: Is there any free/paid Windows emulator for Mac OS X?

texts:
I am new to Mac and I am looking for a Windows emulator for Mac OS X. I want to use an application which is not available for Mac.
Please recommend the strengths and weaknesses (including cost) of the various options available.


texts: Prevent a Mac from waking up from keyboard or mouse?

texts:
I put my PowerMac at work to sleep so that I can use Wake-on-LAN to do remote work on it. However the office cleaner often touches the keyboard or the mouse button unintentionally. So the question is:

How to disable mouse and keyboard wake up; to just use the power button and wake-on-LAN to wake/sleep instead?

Don't tell me to disconnect mouse and keyboard.


texts: How do I prevent keyboard shortcuts being synced from my iPhone to my Mac?

texts:
I use some keyboard shortcuts on my iPhone. This helps a lot, e.g. when typing gn which is replaced by Good night!. These shortcuts are synchronised to my Mac via iCloud.  On my Mac I use TextExpander as a sophisticated keyboard shortcut tool and don’t need these iOS shortcuts, as I have hundreds of Mac abbreviations and don’t need shortcuts that work on a phone but not elsewhere.

The answer to my question is pretty obvious: All I have to do is to unable System Preferences → iCloud → Documents & Data. However, a lot of apps rely on this setting being enabled.

What else can I do to prevent the synchronization/use of these abbreviations on my Mac?


texts: After upgrading to Catalina `csrutil disable` doesn't seem to work anymore

texts:
I just upgraded to Catalina and now the csrutil disable command no longer lets me edit locked folders. I mostly just want to customize the icons for native apps like Finder and Launchpad. I typed in csrutil status and it confirms that it is disabled, but I no longer have permission to edit these apps or add to their resources folders.

The upgrade is very recent, but has anyone found a solution yet?


texts: How to make iCloud on Windows sync bookmarks with Safari, not Internet Explorer

texts:
I'm trying to get iCloud on my PC to sync its bookmarks with Safari, not Internet Explorer.

According to Apple's documentation, it is possible to sync iCloud bookmarks to Safari on Windows:

  You can sync bookmarks between your computer and your iOS device. When
  syncing is enabled, all bookmarks will sync. You can sync bookmarks
  with the following applications:

  Safari (Mac OS X)
  Safari for Windows (Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Windows 7)
  Microsoft Internet Explorer

My bookmarks are syncing fine between iPhone and iPad, so I'm sure I've got that end set up correctly.

I do have Safari 5.1.1 (7534.51.22) installed on my Windows 7 PC.

However, my iCloud control panel is only offering me the option to sync Bookmarks with Internet Explorer, and not Safari:

Things I've tried:

I've read through the notes on Apple's iCloud: Troubleshooting iCloud Bookmarks, and can't see anything about it failing to spot that Safari is installed.
Uninstalled and re-installed Safari

Is there anything else I should try, to get iCloud on Windows to offer syncing with Safari?

(I daren't turn on syncing Bookmarks with Internet Explorer, as I have hundreds of bookmarks there, that I don't want synced to my mobile devices)


texts: Any good ways to easily do a 4-way split screen on OSX? I love split-screen and would love to also have 4 (in four corners) in addition to 2 (left-right).


texts: My old e-mail address was disabled and I need to delete my iCloud account with the old account info, I had updated my Apple ID with my new e-mail address, now I cannot delete the account on my iphone because it is grayed out. I tried changing my apple ID e-mail back to my old account, but since that e-mail has been disabled it cannot send a verification e-mail. What do I try next?


texts: Certain Commands are not Found in Catalina's Zsh

texts:
This is sort of a specific question that seems like it would be better suited over on Atom's user blog, but I figured I would post this here as well as I have actually asked it there and have received no response.  I've been having some issues ever since being pushed to switch to Zsh over Bash in macOS Catalina.  A lot of the issues seem to be surrounding commands not being recognized under certain circumstances.

As mentioned, the issue I'm currently having has to with with Atom editor and the shell commands that can be installed with it.  After downloading Atom and running the Install Shell Commands in the Atom menu, you should be able to launch Atom via the command line with the atom <file> command.  My issue is that, the command is not recognized at all until I manually the launch the application once.  If I try to use the command, I'm greeted with zsh: command not found: atom.  After the application is launched manually (outside of the command line), Zsh no longer reports that it cannot find the command atom command, and it begins to work.  This all resets as soon as I turn my computer off and on.

Does anyone know what could be causing this?  This never happened pre-Catalina.


texts: Copy contents from one excel file to another using Applescript

texts:
I am trying to copy contents from a source excel file after editing a few rows and paste that into a new workbook. Tried the following code, but it doesn't copy the contents or show any error. Please let me know what I am doing wrong, I am new to applescripts.

tell application "Microsoft Excel"

open workbook workbook file name sourcefile

replace (range "A:A" of worksheet "Sheet1") what "US" replacement "DA"

save active workbook

tell active sheet

    tell used range

        set rc to count of rows

    end tell

    set src to range ("A1:D" & rc)

end tell

set newbook to make new workbook

set update remote references of newbook to true

save workbook as newbook filename targetfilename

tell active sheet

    set dst to range ("A1:D" & rc)

end tell

activate

copy range src destination dst

end tell


texts: Does the built-in VPN client connect to SonicWALL?


texts:
I have been noticed unique behavior between virtual desktops on my Macbook. For example, Mail is in Space 1, my browser in Space 2, and Autocad in Space 3. Seemingly at random intervals, it will change Space 2 and Space 3, so I end up with, basically Space 1, 3, 2 (but they are labeled space 1, 2, 3).
Is this a feature, or something that can be fixed?
I'm not sure if it is related to the question, but I have also noticed that sometimes when I do the four finger swipe to change spaces, it jumps two spaces.


texts: How do I unlock portrait mode in iPhone?

texts: My screen has a lock with an almost full bordering circle around it ending with an arrow. This is located in the top right of my screen. Just inside the battery %. How do I turn this lock off so I can use landscape mode?


texts: Prevent employees from using anything else but my proprietary application

texts:
I will be getting several mac minis for different branches that will have installed my software application which I need my employees to use. I need to make sure of the following:

When the computer starts for my application to be on in full screen mode
For the user to not be able to exit the app
For the user to not be able to start plugging in their personal usb sticks and try to hack/view movies on the computer - one solution would be to lock the computer away and expose only the touchscreen graphic display. I suppose if my application automatically covers the full screen then the user would not be able to go into the finder app and browse through their files.

Most elegant solution is preferable, as long as the solution gets the job done effectively without any round about ways to by pass this setup.


texts: Spam email addresses hiding in iPhone calendar sharing

texts:
I got some spam events in my Apple iCloud calendar events and have been able to delete them by deleting the calendars. However, when I make a new calendar, I am finding it's being shared with two Chinese fake emails. It only shows in the iPhone calendar app.

In the App, I click Calendars at the bottom to show them all - in the iCloud if I press the i button at the right side of the relevant calender, it says "shared with/add person" - when I click this it has my own iCloud email address and two Chinese spam email addresses. These two reappear with every iPhone iCloud calendar I make and I can't delete them. clicking on them just brings up a "new email" to that email address.

I cant find anything on Google about this, just how to block/remove events. How do I get rid of these spam email addresses sharing my iCloud iPhone calendars?

This is not about how to remove the events but finding that my calendar has been shared with two spam email addresses (probably appeared since the event hacking) that I now cannot remove.  I'd do a screen shot if I could share it.


texts: Zoom content not screen with Magic Mouse

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many windows users used to use Control + Mouse Scroll Wheel for zooming in and out.

But in macOS this doesn't work. I can zoom with gestures using touchpad, but I mostly use Magic Mouse.

There is an option to enable zooming screen, but not the content in Accessibility settings. This is not what I am trying to get.

Command + + on the other hand works in some applications (in most applications I need), but this is keyboard combination, is there any way to get the same result as Command + + but with Magic Mouse Scroll ?

I would be grateful for any help.

Thanks


texts: If Yosemite is free, why do I have to verify billing info?

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I am unable to upgrade to Yosemite because when I press the "Free" button it takes me to  a page where I must verify my billing info., then when I press done, it gives me "your payment method was declined" !!

Since it is free, why do I have to verify my billing info ?
and if my account is verified why is it saying declined, does it try to take money out of my account ?
and how then to install the new OS ?

Note: my current OS  version is 10.9.5


texts: Google Drive for cloud backing up mac - and losing a lot of local storage space?

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Just subscribed to the 2TB package of Google Drive to try to backup my Mac "continuously". However, within hours the 80GB+ of space I have on my Mac has now decreased to 20GB, and I am getting the out of memory errors.
I do not have sync checkboxed, but it seems that there is a lot of unnecessary previous local solid state space being lost here? What can be done?


texts: Samsung B2330H Stopped Working as Dual Monitor

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I have been using a Samsung B2330H as my second monitor for about two years now, and today it suddenly stopped working, displaying:
Not Optimum Mode / Recommended Mode / 1920x1080 60Hz / HDMI
I'm running a 2019 16" MacBook Pro with Catalina 10.15.7.  I'm not aware of any changes to anything in the OS before this stopped working.  All I did was pull the monitor cable out to take a call from the other room, and when I plugged it back in -- as I've done dozens of times before -- the setup stopped working.  I've tried three different HDMI cables and two different HDMI adaptors.  I've also tried a bunch of different settings in System Preferences > Displays, although none of them are 1920x1080 @ 60Hz.
The monitor works in mirror mode, but will not work as a separate display.  I can't tell if this is a hardware or a software problem, but I feel I've ruled out quite a bit on the hardware side.  Any thoughts?


texts: LCD model number or disabling discrete GPU for MacBook Pro 15 Retina 2012-2013

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While trying to replace the battery, I must have damaged certain connection to the discrete gpu. Whenever trying to use discrete gpu, the computer would freeze.
After trying to reset VRAM, it basically won't boot anymore. (There's a 5% chance of booting by juggling around reset VRAM and unplugging boards.)
I would love to fix it if possible, probably by permanently disabling the discrete gpu in some way, but not giving too much hope.
Rather I will probably just reuse my screen as external display.

So, do anyone know what's the lcd model number for it so I can get a controller board for it?
Thank you!


texts: Develop in-house app for another company signing with own Apple Developer Enterprise account

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My company has regular/yearly Apple Developer Program membership. At the moment I'm developing an app for another company, to be used only in-house. They are asking me to give them a signed IPA file.

Through the question:

Xcode : Can't Export in-house app .. provisioning profile error

I found out that I need to be enrolled in the Apple Developer Enterprise Program.

Now my query is, if my company takes the Apple Developer Enterprise membership, and we distribute and sign the app for in-house use, can my customer (the other company) use the IPA file with the signing from my Apple Developer Enterprise account for in-house use? Or must the siging be with their Enterprise account?


texts: How can I find out how much toner is left in my printer, which is connected to an Airport Express via USB?

texts: My Samsung ML-2850D printer is connected via USB to an Airport Express. I print to it from my Mac over WiFi. I want to check how much toner is left, so I know if I need to purchase a new cartridge soon. However, when I check the Supply Levels via system preferences, it says "Information Not Available." What is the best way to reliably find out how much toner is left?


texts: How to sync voice memos with itunes over air

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How can I sync my voice memos on iphone with my macbook over air?
It works with cable but I want to work over air. Is that possible?


texts: Installing Casper; a program that needs to be placed in a directory on my PATH

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I need to install software but I don't understand how to do so.
I have downloaded a file which contains 5 files which includes a
Unix Executable file which when I open displays this:

Last login: Tue Jul 19 14:07:37 on ttys001
laurens-MacBook:~ Lauren$ /Users/Lauren/Documents/casper-2.1/casper-1 ; exit;
/Users/Lauren/Documents/casper-2.1/casper-1: binary file /usr/bin not found
logout
Saving session...
...copying shared history...
...saving history...truncating history files...
...completed.

[Process completed]

One of the files describes how to install the program..but I don't understand how to interpret these instructions...

Any help would be very much appreciated!

  Installation Instructions for Casper
  2/09/2009

  To install Casper the entire contents of this directory should be
  placed somewhere on your filesystem. Then, the file casper should be
  edited such that CASPERBASE points to this directory. Lastly, the
  edited casper should be placed in a directory that is on your PATH.


texts: Inconspicuous microSD card adapter for MacBook Pro

texts: Does a microSD adapter exist that doesn't stick out of the MacBook Pro SD card slot?  I don't want to live in fear of breaking the SD card off while carrying around my laptop.


texts: Mysterious bar appears on top of desktop

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I have recently been seeing everything I type in my Safari search bar appear in a narrow bar on top of my desktop. You can see an example below:

What is the cause and how to fix it.


texts: How do I send text messages from an iMac OSX El Capitan to an Android phone?

texts: The recipient is not registered on iMessage, which leads me to believe he is not on an iMac.  I have received txts from him on my Android and I have his phone number.  Is there a way to do it on OS X without purchasing additional software?


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In Numbers (I'm currently running v3.6.2) after I have selected a cell/row/whatever, I want, without irritating my carpal tunnels, to format that text strikethrough.

In Excel, I just had to add the little strikethrough button to the top bar and whoosh it's that much easier to strike items from my ToDo lists.

In Numbers at the moment the only way I know to strike text is expand the right side format pane, click Text, find and click the advanced gear dropdown thing, and click the little radio button next to Strikethrough.

It's too much to bear! Just get me a single-click or two-key-combo solution!


texts: How can I rename a folder in Lion's Launchpad?

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I created a folder by dropping one icon on top of another.

Now I want to rename that folder, since the default name, "Utility" isn't the one I want.

According to all advice I find on the internet, I should open the folder and then double-click the title in order to rename it.

But, when I double-click the title, nothing is happening. Is there a lock somewhere I have to turn off?

This is what I tried:

Double-Clicking
Right-Clicking
Ctrl-Clicking
Option-Clicking
Command-Clicking

What else?


texts: iMac won't restart after upgrade to Yosemite

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Just made the upgrade to Yosemite but now my iMac wont restart or shut down. Whenever I try to do any of these it stays on a black screen with a mouse pointer, and I have to turn it off and back on manually.

Any help?


texts: Are there tools or guidelines for slimming an OSX installation down to the minimum needed to run particular applications? I would be interested in the case both with or without the GUI layer. A tool could be something like nLite for Windows.


texts: How can I find the owner of an obstinate iPhone?

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So, I have this iphone that my parents found. I need some advice on how to find the owner. It's a puzzler though.

It was dead and I'm an android user so I couldn't power it up to find the owners info. So, I took it to the Apple store assuming that since I thought Apple was all about service, they would just take care of it.

No such luck. They said they couldn't help me. They did let me charge it up though. Might I point out that it's really stupid how long you have to wait for usability when plugging in a dead iPhone.

Anyway, when it finally became usable (20 minutes of standing foolishly in the Apple store later), it immediately popped up a little message saying it had no sim installed and when touched it just displayed a lock screen. The store employee told me there was nothing that could be done with that except a wipe.

I doubt a carrier would be helpful since there is no sim. I was under the impression that the sim couldn't be removed from an iphone though. Is that inaccurate?

Anyway, it also said the date was December 31st and my parents just found it a little over a week ago so I'm assuming it was sitting in that location for quite some time, which isn't all that surprising considering where it was. I guess maybe the clock isn't updating due to the lack of a sim... Just a guess though.

So now the only thing I really have to link it to it's original owner is the background pic on the phone which isn't much to go on at all. ;) Especially since it's half covered by the missing sim message.

Any ideas? You would think in this connected world that this wouldn't be that hard. Unfortunately I think it might be.


texts: Is there an USB adapter for the Earphones that will let you use both audio and mic simultaneously for a phone conversation?

texts: I like the Apple Earphones (the iPhone headphone with audio, mic and remote) but I hate to keep plugging it on and off my Macbook Air. So I heard the only way to fix that is to buy a USB headphone so you can switch it on and off through software. Problem is that I like my Apple Earphones and I want to keep using it but now through USB. Is there a USB adapter that will work with the Earphones, in other words, that will make both headphone and mic work at the same time for a phone conversation?


texts: Putting MacBook Pro SSD into an external cradle

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My old MacBook Pro (2010) is now dead. It had a 500GB Samsung SSD inside (in replacement of the original HDD).

Some of the data where not in my time machine: I would like to extract the SSD and put it in an external USB cradle. As the SSD was the boot drive, do I need some special operation to read it when I'll attach it to my new computer, or is it enough to just put it in the external USB box?

--- EDIT ---
I put the SSD in an external USB3 cradle: the system mount it, but shows it empty! How can I retrieve my data?


texts: MacBook Air not booting, Boot loader not available, Internet recovery not available

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Recently I tried to factory reset my Mid 2012 MacBook Air. In order to do that:

I booted into Recovery mode with Command + R.
Then navigated to Disk utility and Erased Macintosh HD.
Then I restarted the Mac and booted into Recovery mode again (Command + R). Now clicked on Reinstall macOS.
It asked me to log in with Apple ID. I logged in with my Apple ID. (Before resetting, MacBook is running OS X El Capitan, and logged in with my friend's Apple ID).
After logging in, it shows an error: This Item is Temporarily Unavailable.
I tried to install via Internet Recovery Mode (Command + Option + R). But not able to enter Internet recovery mode.

I also created a bootable USB drive and tried to install macOS High Sierra. Tried to open boot options by holding Option key while starting the Mac. But still boot option was not available.
I really ran out of options, so I followed the procedure outlined in the link, which involves simply making a bootable USB drive and restoring it to Macintosh HD.:

https://www.siliconsquad.com/how-to-fix-macbook-error-this-item-is-temporarily-unavailable/

Then I tried to boot again, got prohibitory symbol.
Then tried to boot into recovery mode, but unable to boot into recovery or to macOS.

Now, I do not have any other option to fix my Mac. Please advice on how can I fix this. I'm in desperate need to fix this.

I tried all the above using an external USB keyboard as well.

Updated:

I even tried to clear NVRAM with Option + Command + P + R. but not luck at all.

Looks like most of the key combinations are not working while booting.


texts: Event sync between iPhone calendar and outlook 2016 calendar results in a time zone error

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I have a IPhone 6S w/ IOs 10.2 and Outlook 2016 (office 365) in my Menovo ideapad 710S 64 bits with Windows 10.

When I add a new event in ICloud calendar, the event apperas one hour later in the  Outlook calendar, and when I add a new event in Outlook calendar it appears one hour earlier in ICloud Cal.

Both devices are setted in the same time zone. How can I discover or correct this time zone error?


texts: How can I slow down the speed a video is played back on an iPhone?

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I'm viewing courses on coursera (a free classroom site) and the material is just going too quickly.  I need a video player that can slow down the speed of the video just a little bit so I can follow along.

It seems that most video players highlight the ability to stream video, etc, but nothing seems to slow down the speed it plays.

Is there any applet that allows me to play an MP4 (or similar offline file) at a slower rate?


texts: How to check processes CPU usage history in macOS

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My MacBook Pro ran into something weird this afternoon, it'll freeze for a few seconds every few minutes. I didn't run anything unusual. When I open the Activity Monitor, sometimes I can catch a huge spike on the CPU usage after it just passed. But there is no way for me to tell which processes caused those spikes.

So I'm wondering if there is any way for me to check process's CPU usage history.

P.S. By freezing I mean the mouse cursor still moves but nothing is responsive.


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I'm trying to install Kitabu on Mac OS X 10.7.4.

When I tried to use gem install kitabu --pre to install kitabu, I got an error

ERROR:  Error installing kitabu:
        kitabu requires Ruby version ~> 1.9.

And the preinstalled ruby is not version 1.9.

ruby -v
ruby 1.8.7 (2011-12-28 patchlevel 357) [universal-darwin11.0]

Can I update preinstalled ruby to 1.9? If that's not possible, how can I install ruby 1.9 so that I can run it when gem is executed?


texts: I deleted partition and now I don't see the free space in Disk Utility

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so I do have a problem. I create a backup partition, by mistake via Time Machine on my disk. I wanted to deleted 'cause it was above half of my memory. I couldn't, so I type some commands I found on internet, and now I don't have that partition. But I don't see any free space in Disk Utility.

I'm Pole so that's why language is polish. Anyway problem is that my disk is 500 GB, but I can see only 200GB claim, by "MacOSX". How can I add those almost 300GB space to "MacOSX" partition? I tried using Stellar:

So I know it's possible, but i don't have money on full version of the program. So I ask You for help. How can I do it for free?


texts: Is there any Mac software to handle archives (zip, rar, 7z, tar, etc.) that allows browsing?

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I am looking for a software to handle archives on OS X.
I know there are many of them quite easy to find, but none seems to have the most basic feature that most Windows archive applications have: browsing!

I mean, most OS X unarchivers, when they open an archive, they just unzip it... then ask you for target location in the best case.

What I want is something such as WinRAR or 7zip, which is basically an explorer (ie. Finder) that opens archives.

What I want is precisely this! I want to be able to browse any archive without extracting it, opening files directly from the archive and then be able to modify it so that the file is actually modified in the archive.
I want to be able to drag'n'drop a file to and from an archive to extract/add it.

Those features are so useful when modifying directly JAR files contents, JAR files MANIFESTs, war webapps conf-files and so on...

Thank you.


texts: Can the clock speed of my 2011 MBAir i7 be slowed to conserve power?

texts: Most of what I do with my 2011 i7 MBAir could be done with 10% of the available processor power. Is there a hack to slow the processor to conserve battery for the 95% of the time I don't need it?


texts: Is there a programmatic method to detect a click on a Notification Center bubble and run a custom action under Mountain Lion?

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I appreciate that Notification Center is in its infancy but I was wondering if anyone had any idea how to intercept clicks on the "bubbles" that are generated and run your own actions.

Specifically, I'd like to be able to launch a local Twitter client rather than the website when clicking on a tweet notification?


texts: iphone (or ipad mini) as a helmet mounted display

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I like to watch educational videos from coursera on my iphone or ipad mini while I walk.

I was thinking of making a helmet mounted mount where I could essentially do without holding the ipad in my hand - perhaps using a bicycle helmet as a starting point.

Question: Do you know of something like this that already exists?

Note: The TregoBag will not fit my requirements I think.

Thanks.


texts: Spanish to English dictionary on Mac's dictionary app?

texts: Is there a way to add Spanish to English dictionary in mac's dictionary app so I can see the definition of word by tapping on a word?


texts: Using old iMac, missing parts, as monitor for a PC

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I have found a lot of answers for this, which say Target Display Mode. Problem is, the iMac in question here runs Snow Leopard and predates Target Display Mode.

Furthermore, this iMac was just replaced. I am attempting to salvage parts from the iMac, including its display and hard drive, to use in a PC build.

Is there any way a very old iMac can be used just as a passive monitor?


texts: How to separate mouse and trackpad scroll settings using terminal?

texts: Currently the scroll direction for mouse is bound to trackpad. Is there any way to unlink them without downloading any third party apps?


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Does anybody know if I can connect my MacBook Pro via a cable to the box on the wall that is connected to a digital antenna.

I'm renting a property and don't want to buy a TV I just want to watch free view via laptop. I do have a broadband connection....would that be easier.


texts: How to send to front/back ("z-order") when editing an image in Preview

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I have added an oval to an image in Preview and would like to either send it to back or change its transparency:

Well maybe the transparency were asking too much of Preview  - but the others?

Why are they disabled?  Is there a way to get the oval to not blot out the area it covers?

Update: Attempt to set transparency:

Note: the oval has become completely invisible now: the blue dots show the location of the timid object:


texts: Can I generate an Apple ID recovery key with Mac OS Mojave?

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I have two-factor authentication enabled for my Apple ID.  I want to generate a recovery key in case I lose access to my 2FA devices/phone numbers.
Apple has a support article https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208072 which gives instructions for generating a recovery key on a Mac in system preferences. However, when I go to System Preferences > iCloud > Account Details > Security, there is no recovery key option.

Does this mean I cannot generate a recovery key with Mac OS Mojave? Is there an alternative method to generate a recovery key?


texts: Terminal window displays odd text after being resized

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If I open a terminal window, and then shrink it as far left as possible, and then enlarge it again, it displays some odd text, including some of the letters in my hostname:

Any way to fix this?
Note: I'm guessing this is a bug, since when I go fullscreen, and then go back to a window, it goes back to normal and won't happen again.
Update: Some other weird stuff happens when I resize the window from using commands within the window.


texts: Install Windows 7 with Bootcamp on OS X Yosemite with USB Key

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I have an iMac (bought in 2011) and I recently upgraded it with Yosemite.
I am trying to install Windows 7 on it via Bootcamp.

However, its optical drive does not work, so I chose the USB key solution using the trick of modifying the file info.plist of Bootcamp (type 'usb bootcamp youtube' in google to see a video of this trick).

So I follow the process religiously and end up with the classic and famous boring screen 'No bootable device -- insert boot disk and press any key'.

So I tried to use Unetbootin ( http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net ) to make my USB Key bootable, and tried to boot on it through the screen that appears when you maintain the Option key (Alt button) while starting the mac. Result: I never managed to have my Unetbootin-formatted USB key appear on this screen :(

I read some stuff about reFit ( http://refit.sourceforge.net ) and GParted, but I just don't know how to use them...

If someone managed to install Windows 7 on his/her iMac with Yosemite using a USB Key, please help me understand why I can't see the USB as a boot option.


texts: Why folders keep shifting their positions?

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I bought a new MacBook Pro 15-inch model with highest specifications in this June. I also installed newest version of Mac OS X, Lion (updated).

Yesterday, I turned on my computer and noticed that some of the folders on my desktop were rearranged. Today, the same thing happened again. I would like to ask you what the possible problem could be?

I did not touch any of the ".DS_Store" files.


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I can't find any definitive answers on a fix to the sound popping present on my MBP 2016 - running Big Sur 11.1. Outside of an acknowledged bug, does anyone have any guidance on a fix?
Symptoms:

After unknown trigger, popping or cracking sound when playing music through the MBP 2016 speakers

Solutions Investigated:

I've seen references to power-levels, but on AC Power with a 100% battery it still occurs
Killing coreaudiod seems to help, but not eliminate, the pops

Thank you


texts: Selectively disabling notifications in macOS

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At random intervals, DropBox pops up a notification telling me that it's almost full and that I should buy an upgrade. There is no way to disable this notification within the DropBox app (it's how they make money after all), but I would like to block it.
However, I still want to see other notifications from DropBox. So I want to block notifications from this app selectively based on their content, e.g. only if they contain the string "almost full".
So:

Is there a way to do this from within System Preferences? (It seems not but there's no harm in asking.)

Is there a way to do it by typing something clever at the terminal?

Is there a reputable third-party app that can do it?

PS: I'm 100% certain there is no feature in DropBox to disable these notifications. The question is about whether there is a way in MacOS or a third party app to filter notifications from a given app selectively based on content. Presumably, if a solution exists, it will not be specific to the DropBox app but will be a general solution to the problem of filtering notifications.


texts: Is there a way to make Preview not open all previously opened files?

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Usually when I use Preview, it is when I see a .jpg or .png and I double click on the file to take a look at the file, but sometimes Preview will open up all the .pdf and .png I opened previously, possibly taking up a couple hundred of MB and opening 7 or 8 windows.

So it is a case I hope an app will not open all previously opened files.  I know it can be done by clicking File, pressing Option, and then choosing Close All, but is there a way to tell an app not to open all previously open files such as for the case of Preview?


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I have a iPhone 6s (16 GB) and the current iOS version is iOS 9.3.4. There is 2.6 GB free space on the device.

When I go to Settings → Software Update, iOS 9.3.5 is available for download, but it is not downloaded. It just says Update Requested and nothing happens.

Some of my friends have the same issue and some not.

What's the reason and how to resolve this?


texts: I believe that the answer to this question is "yes you can but you should not."  Explanation is below.


texts: whats the amount of time that can be lft on a voice mail message

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how long will voice mail record a message?  what is the amont of time you can leave a message on voice mail?
I'm trying to find out how long of a message the I ohone can hold if there is a time limt then it cuts of ???? will it record for long periods of time


texts: App Store: can't add a new credit card (too many are already associated)

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I use virtual credit cards to perform online purchases with my debit card, and I usually create a new one for every purchase (with a charge limit equal to the purchase's value).

I was trying to add a new one today to buy an app on the Mac App Store, and I got a message saying that it couldn't be added, as there were already too many credit cards associated with my account.

I did a live-chat with support, and they told me that there is a 5-card limit every 30 days, so apparently I can't perform any purchases for 30 days.

Is there any way around this? I don't have iTunes Gift Cards readily available in my country.


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Recently, I have been trying to install WordGrinder on Yosemite. First I tried getting the latest tar packages from the developers' website and using them, but I ran into some library linking errors with lua and ncursesw. I tried using MacPorts because I assumed that it would do all of that for me, but it turns out that the problems I encountered first were just confusion left over from some earlier dirty MacPorts installs - I ran port selfupdate and those went away. After yet more difficulty with MacPorts, I decided to reconsider building from source. But now, when I use make, I get the following series of errors:

Maat:wordgrinder-0.5.1 Matt$ make
CC .obj/release/src/c/arch/unix/cursesw/dpy.o
error: unable to open output file '.obj/release/src/c/arch/unix/cursesw/dpy.o': 'Error opening output file '.obj/release/src/c/arch/unix/cursesw/dpy.o': Permission denied'
1 error generated.
make: *** [.obj/release/src/c/arch/unix/cursesw/dpy.o] Error 1
Maat:wordgrinder-0.5.1 Matt$ sudo make
CC .obj/release/src/c/arch/unix/cursesw/dpy.o
src/c/arch/unix/cursesw/dpy.c:164:8: error: use of undeclared identifier 'KEY_EVENT'
                case KEY_EVENT: return "KEY_EVENT";
                     ^
1 error generated.
make: *** [.obj/release/src/c/arch/unix/cursesw/dpy.o] Error 1
Maat:wordgrinder-0.5.1 Matt$

First, I have to use sudo to get the compiler to access the output file (I don't think I am supposed to have to do that, but not the main issue), and then, when I do, I run into the other one, about the "use of undeclared identifier 'KEY_EVENT'". I went over the makefile and the README.Unix several times, but I can't make head nor tail of it. I read in another, unrelated issue with installing WordGrinder on OS X that "building on Mac is a pig," and now I can't help but agree. What is going wrong, and how can I get WordGrinder to install properly on OS X?

EDIT 3:
In the end, I wiped my convoluted /usr/local and /opt folders and reorganized a large portion of my filesystem. I installed Homebrew on the clean slate I had created, then installed lua and Homebrew/dupes/ncurses using Homebrew as per the steps Alistair listed in his answer. I then downloaded wordgrinder-0.5.2.1 instead of wordgrinder-0.5.1, because 0.5.2.1 had added Homebrew installation support. No more issues with the backspace key. At this point, wordgrinder-static would run, but wordgrinder wouldn't (again, as Alistair reported). Installing luafilesystem allowed wordgrinder to run, as I predicted in an earlier revision of this answer. I used Homebrew to install luarocks in my Cellar (brew install luarocks) and then used luarocks to install luafileystem in my /usr/local/lib/luarocks/rocks directory. wordgrinder now runs perfectly well, with no issues.

Many thanks to Alistair for all the help. I did learn a lot more than I already did in the process of trying to get this to work, and may be able to take on the rest myself - as I said earlier, I will document my results here as I come up with them.


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Some years ago I created a Project (using Xcode 3 under OS X 10.6) and created a Help File, naming this MyApp.help in accordance with the tutorial.

Under more recent OS Apple (in its infinite wisdom) decided to make all .help files packages and not display contents. You could still see the contents in Finder with Show Package Contents.

In El Capitan the contents of .help files seems to be hidden, but seemingly not in the fashion that was previously used to hide files such as ~/Library.
(It is still possible to display Package Contents in the finished .app to see these, so the intent does not seem to be to hide these from the end user.)

How do you get access to these files to modify contents and/or add new files? They are still there, and can be seen in the Terminal. cd PathToMyApp/MyApp.help/Contents/Resources

Edit
I was exploring the suggestions, without much success. After some trials I rebooted and could no longer see the files in Terminal.

I have a backup to an external HDD (using rsync) and could see all the files when mounted on Linux. (I can also load and edit in BBEdit through a Project).

I just tried again and they were all back in Terminal.


texts: Bookmarks not being synced from macOS to iOS

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I'm on High Sierra 10.13.6 on a MBP 13" 2015  and iOS 11.4.1 on an iPhone 7.
I have been using iCloud for several years and have never had any trouble with it.

However a few days ago, I noticed the Bookmarks and Favorites weren't syncing from my iPhone to my MBP, and when clicking on "edit" on iPhone's Safari Bookmarks I constantly got the message:

  Bookmarks are being synced. Please add the bookmarks once syncing has completed

I have tried setting off Safari iCloud sync on both devices, also deleted permanently bookmarks from both of them, deleted the file "Bookmarks.plist" from ~/Library/Safari and also deleted the file "com.apple.SafariCloudHistoryPushAgent.plist" from ~/Library/Preferences.

All that with no luck. The deleted bookmarks keep showing up on iOS Safari when turning back on Safari iCloud Sync on iPhone.


texts: Inconsistent start-up behaviour with external monitor

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I'm running a 13" 2019 MacBook Pro for home working.  My built-in screen is broken (long story, suffice it to say that I'm not able to get it fixed).
I'm still happily using the machine through a port replicator.  My problem is around the start-up behaviour of the mac, which seems totally unpredictable.
On good days, I turn on the power at the mains, plug the port replicator into the USB C port of the mac (lid closed) and the machine chimes and starts up - immediately using the external monitor, keyboard etc.  This is what I'd like to happen every time.
Other days, the machine doesn't chime and I have to open the lid to get it to power up.
Some days it also powers up, but doesn't use the second monitor until I go through a rigmarole of power up (when it presumably gets to the log-in screen - I can't see), disconnect the port replicator, reconnect it, close the lid and click on my external mouse.
I've had similar experiences with other macs and screens, so I suspect it's not my external devices or some effect of the damaged screen, more that I'm not understanding the "rules" that the mac follows at startup.
I can always get it to work eventually, but the unpredictable behaviour is an annoyance.  How can I get the startup process to use the external monitor with the lid down straight from boot every time?


texts: MacBook Pro battery drains when connected to AC power

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I've been experiencing a very annoying problem lately. Often, I've got my MacBook Pro connected to  power when I'm working from the office. At home, I often leave it unplugged until the battery is too low to continue at which point I plug it in.
The problem occurs when my device is connected to a power supply. My battery indicator shows 100% charge which is fine. But sometimes the battery starts draining and the menu bar icon says "Battery not charging," even when it's connected to a wall socket, and it keeps draining until absolutely dry. It doesn't even warn me the battery is running low because it shows "Power source: Power adapter" which I guess disables the Operating system low-battery warning. This has happened on multiple occasions.
I've already tried several things, I've swapped chargers, swapped wall sockets, started with as few tools/apps running as possible. But the problem comes back. I also can't really tie this to a specific app or behavior,  AFAIK.
Does anyone know what might be causing this behavior and what to possibly do about it?


texts: How to update Xcode from 7.2.1 to 7.3.1 using terminal (commandline tools)

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I just need to know if there's a way to update Xcode from 7.2.1 to 7.3.1 using terminal (command line interface)?

The reason is I updated the Xcode via Mac App Store and once it was installed, the Xcode is still showing the version as Xcode 7.2.1.

I've been searching here as well as over Google and I couldn't find any info regarding this.


texts: mac screen goes sleep mode even I set never sleep

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I want my mac screen never dim, never sleep, never turn off.

below is my power setting

Problem: my mac goes log out and goes screen saver mode if it idles for 15 minutes.


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I’ve been having issues with the Windows side of boot camp recently and after trying everything, I decided to just redownload boot camp. Now it is stuck in a loop during the installation where it says:
“The computer restarted or encountered and unexpected error. Windows installation cannot proceed. To install Windows, click “OK” to restart the computer, and then restart the installation”
Then once I click OK, it will crash and the cycle will start again. Same message then crash. I can’t get anywhere else.


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I encountered a popup similar to this one this morning while checking the weather report at http://touch.woodtv.com/forecast in Safari, though I have not been able to reproduce it.

The title is "about://(null)" and the text "Why you no play Candy Crush!!"  The popup occurred twice.  I tapped Cancel both times.

I suspect the source of this is rogue JavaScript in an ad network, judging from the fact that the screenshot below shows it in an ad-supported application, and when I saw it, I was on an ad-supported website.  My phone is not jailbroken.

I'm wondering if anyone is able to identify the source of the popup definitively.  Speculation is running rampant on Apple's support communities and elsewhere, from push notifications (delete Facebook and all your games!) to carrier notifications (which don't work on iPod Touches…), and my gut tells me little of it is helpful.  But I could also be very wrong.

(This is not my screenshot; it comes from https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5144627.)

UPDATE 1: The Candy Crush people have this to say, but I'm not (yet) convinced there's actually something installed that is to blame: https://forums.king.com/forum/candy-crush-saga/bugs-known-issues-ccs/recent-spam-why-you-no-play-candy-crush/?entryId=2326

UPDATE 2: Just reproduced it in the iOS Simulator while clicking around woodtv.com, but I'm not sure how to track it down further from here.


texts: Disable Specific USB Ports / Restrict Data Transfer from USB Ports

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In a work environment, I'm trying to "lock down" a mac computer so that files can't be transferred via USB storage device.

Problem is, keybord and mouse are plugged in through USB, but I would still need those enabled, plus the keyboard has two more USB ports on either side.  I could use a bluetooth mouse and keyboard to get around that, but then how can I disable the USB ports (And later re-enable with admin access)?

Or is there a way to limit the amount of data sent to/from as USB port? A keyboard and mouse wouldn't use that much, so then anything every X bytes/sec would get blocked?  I'm not sure what the solution is here.