texts: Oracle's Java 1.8 appears to not actually install itself

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I have searched for answers this problem, but nobody seems to have such a basic problem as I have. I have Java 1.7 installed and tried to install 1.8 - both through the Java control panel and manually downloading 1.8 (45) and running that. Each installation method appears to work without issue, however, Java 1.8 is not to be found on my Mac.

I have looked in the following locations:

/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines
/System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions
/System/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines

I even resorted to a comprehensive search after Spotlight failed to find it:

% sudo find / -type d -name jdk1.\*.jdk

That find(1) found the 1.7 installation, but not the 1.8.

So, I am puzzled, both why 1.8 did not install properly and where is it? I can mangle the links to install it manually, if somebody can point me to where I might find it, or even what I could have possible done wrong while "clicking OK" during the install.

Output from /usr/libexec/java_home -V:

Matching Java Virtual Machines (3):
     1.7.0_51, x86_64:  "Java SE 7" /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.7.0_51.jdk/Contents/Home
     1.6.0_65-b14-462, x86_64:  "Java SE 6" /System/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/1.6.0.jdk/Contents/Home
     1.6.0_65-b14-462, i386:    "Java SE 6" /System/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/1.6.0.jdk/Contents/Home

/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.7.0_51.jdk/Contents/Home

This is the log from an attempted install:

May 20 22:28:47 Jims-MacBook-Pro-2.local installd[749]: PackageKit: -----             Begin install -----
May 20 22:28:52 Jims-MacBook-Pro-2.local installd[749]: PackageKit: Install Failed: Error Domain=PKInstallErrorDomain Code=112 "An error occurred while running scripts from the package “JDK 8 Update 45.pkg”." UserInfo=0x7f9745c0c6d0      {NSFilePath=./postinstall,  NSURL=file://localhost/Volumes/JDK%208%20Update%2045/JDK%208%20Update%2045.pkg#javaappletplugin.pkg, PKInstallPackageIdentifier=com.oracle.jre, NSLocalizedDescription=An error occurred while running scripts from the package “JDK 8 Update 45.pkg”.} {
    NSFilePath = "./postinstall";
    NSLocalizedDescription = "An error occurred while running scripts from the package \U201cJDK 8 Update 45.pkg\U201d.";
    NSURL = "file://localhost/Volumes/JDK%208%20Update%2045/JDK%208%20Update%2045.pkg#javaappletplugin.pkg";
    PKInstallPackageIdentifier = "com.oracle.jre";
}
May 20 22:28:53 Jims-MacBook-Pro-2.local Installer[9364]: Install failed: The Installer encountered an error that caused the installation to fail. Contact the software manufacturer for assistance.
May 20 22:28:53 Jims-MacBook-Pro-2.local Installer[9364]: Displaying 'Install Failed' UI.
May 20 22:28:53 Jims-MacBook-Pro-2.local Installer[9364]: 'Install Failed' UI displayed message:'The Installer encountered an error that caused the installation to fail. Contact the software manufacturer for assistance.'.


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I have a macbook pro running Catalina 10.15.1. However this issue has been present since at least Mojave.

After a reboot it runs fine for a while (up to about an hour but I haven't measured) and then most web requests start to fail. This does not affect Chrome which is my main browser, but for example running:

curl https://github.com
curl: (35) LibreSSL SSL_connect: SSL_ERROR_SYSCALL in connection to github.com:443

Running:

curl http://example.com
curl: (56) Recv failure: Connection reset by peer`

A restart will fix both these issues temporarily.

I've tried using brew to update curl and libressl but they're both up to date.

curl 7.64.1 (x86_64-apple-darwin19.0) libcurl/7.64.1 (SecureTransport)
LibreSSL/2.8.3 zlib/1.2.11 nghttp2/1.39.2

How do I fix these connection issues?


texts: Drag and drop El Capitan Safari bookmark to delete it,but cursor consistent shows close button

texts: This problem random happened.I don't touch any settings it happened when I first installed El Capitan.


texts: Why do file transfers take a long time to stop?

texts:
I encounter this problem a lot, and I've also had it on Windows.

It doesn't matter if it's over a network, or locally on a hard drive, but file transfers never stop when I click the stop button. They always take 20-30+ seconds to stop.

I have encountered this issue across multiple Macs, and even on my old Windows PCs I used to use.

Is there something inherent about file transfers that cause this massive delay?


texts: Where is the temp file created by Disk Utility during erasure of free space kept on a non-boot volume?

texts:
I used Disk Utility to perform a secure erase of free space on an external non-boot drive, and ran into a problem and the process was aborted.

I see that the file is still there because the drive capacity has taken a big hit. So I need to know where the temporary file Disk Utility writes to is.


texts: hardlinks: does "original" mean anything?

texts:
man rdfind discusses the rules to decide which file is the original when it finds a duplicate.
When all the others are hard links to the "original," does that really mean anything?  I thought the actual file was identified by the node, and that each directory/filename just contained the same node.
Is there any significant difference—actually something in the directory entries that can identify afterward which is the original?  (with hard links; obviously symlinks are different)


texts: If I store my iTunes library in iCloud, can I listen without wifi on my iPhone?

texts:
I'm looking for a solution here, since my computer's hard drive is pretty well full.

I want to be able to store my music library in iCloud (or some other cloud if it's more suitable).

However, if I do this, will it still allow me to store some of that music content (select playlists or albums) on my iPhone, so that I can listen to them without streaming through the iCloud?

Thanks for any answers you can give!


texts: i have a 2003 10.6.8 and i  am not able to install vpn app as it prompt me that my macbook need to have 62 bit intel processor, can someone please advice or recommend an vpn app for my macbook please ?


texts: When I close the lid and open it later in the day, will command line programs resume?

texts:
I've been running a python script from the command line that's inserting data in a database for a couple of hours now. It will take at least half a day more before it's finished. However, I want to take the laptop with me to somewhere else.
My sleep at closing lid settings (if they exist) are at default (I've never looked at them). If I close the lid and open it in 4 or 5 hours, will the python script resume from where it left off? If not, can this be set to work in the preferences somehow?


texts: Pure Genius Or Pure Stupidity: Does An Old Mac G5 Make A Great BBQ?

texts:
This question has some humor as well as practical implications for owners of Apple Mac G5s.

I came across this earlier on today as an alternative recycling option:

Source Macgasm

Is this really a viable option (if a little extreme) & what other recycling methods exist for an old Apple Mac G5 ?


texts: Understanding which RAM chips are compatible with a Mac

texts:
I'm upgrading an eMac to 1 GB RAM (2 x 512 MB). A dude is selling the following chips, but I don't know what CL3, CL2.5, SDRAM, SDCL3, 168P and DIMM means. Could someone please explain what these terms mean, and most importantly: Which ones will work on the Mac?

1 x Kingston   512MB 133MHz CL3
1 x RAMOS TEK  512MB 133MHz CL2.5
1 x Samsung    512MB PC133 SDRAM
1 x TwinMOS    512MB PC133 CL3
1 x Winbond    512MB PC133 SDCL3
3 x Transcend  512MB PC133 SDRAM 168P DIMM


texts: Need to create a common workspace between two macs connected wirelessly in a network

texts: I need to create a common development workspace between two macs connected in a wi-fi network. Sort of like a shared folder. But the problem using a shared folder is that there are a lot of ownership issues and stuff. The ownership can be for both or an individual mac. Any ideas ?


texts: Recently added songs do not finish playing on my iPhone 6 Plus

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I just recently added several songs to my iPhone 6 Plus. Here is what I did:

Add songs to my playlist in iTunes in my MacBook Air.
Sync music to my iPhone 6 Plus

Problem:

When my phone is playing the recently added song, it does not finish. If the new song is 3 mins long, when it is somewhere on the middle, it will play the next track, but the display on my phone is still the same (the recently added song).


texts: Is there a way to monitor the signals an HID (Human Interface) device sends to the OS?

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There is a way in the mac world to monitor all the signals an HID device (a remote)  sends to the OS?
The final aim is to handle those and remap them to keyboard shortcuts.

More details: a Logitech remote I have (Logitech S510 media remote, a combo keyboard/mouse/remote) doesn't works on macOS (just the volume controls and few other buttons works). I was wondering if there is an easy way (in any language) to listen the remote signals and remap them.
So the first step is to find a way to monitor the signals and check if all buttons signals are recognized by the OS.


texts: How to use ABC Extended with standard British PC keyboard layout

texts:
The ABC Extended input is fantastic for inputing several diacritics, but it only seems to assume apple's own layouts, i.e. it doesn't recognise the standard British PC layout. Is there a way to make it work with the standard British PC layout, particularly re: the symbol mismatches between the two?

Standard British PC has shift+2=" and shift+'=@.

The Apple British layout has shift+2=@ and shift+'=".

In British PC, the key left of 1 is ` ¬, but in Apple British it is  § ±.

In British PC, the key left of z is \ |, but in Apple British it is ` ~.

In British PC, the rightmost key of the asdf row is # ~, but in Apple British it is \ |.

Suppose I definitely do not plan to use the Apple British layout at all, but may need to work with the standard British PC layout. Is there a way to reconfigure certain things for the ABC Extended input to be compatible with the standard British PC layout?


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I have read a lot about this online and would like to confirm once and for all.

Is it possible to retrieve SMS messages that have been deleted from my iPhone?

I know it is possible to get access to the sms.db file but that only holds the current SMS messages. I tried that and was successful in getting it off the phone but when checking the contents there were no deleted messages.

And this would not be relying on any backups either, i.e. I backed up my phone, sent a message and then deleted it without backing up before deleting. Is that SMS gone for good?


texts: Pair a bluetooth mouse with the keyboard only

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I have an iMac running OS 10.4.2. It used to have a wired mouse, but it doesn't work any more. I have a Magic Mouse (the kind that takes AA batteries) that was paired with another Mac before. I'd like to pair it with this one.

I can use CMD+space to open system preferences and see that the mouse is discovered. However I can't figure out how to access the pair button with the keyboard.

I've tried CTRL+F7 to change the way tabs move focus. That still doesn't let me focus the pair button.


texts: Install app on jailed iPhone, which is not available on App Store

texts: Is there a way to install an app, which is not available on the App Store, without doing a jailbreak?


texts: How do I delete useless Apple Apps on OSX?

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I tried using terminal with sudo or su, while I do rm -rf to Photos.app, Chess.app, Mail.app, DVD Player.app, iBooks.app, but it said Operation not permitted.

How can I delete these apps?

(OS X version is 10.11.1)


texts: Movie from iTunes: We've determined that your purchase does not meet the conditions for a refund

texts:
My toddler bought a random movie on Apple TV by accident (even a foreign language).

I tried to use a form to get a refund (Ask Different how-to):

how do you cancel a pending purchase in iTunes

which gives me this output after a millisecond:

  We've determined that your purchase does not meet the conditions for a
  refund.

I also tried this Request a refund for an App Store or iTunes Store purchase

I don't wish to use phone support. Is it possible to use other process/form?


texts: How do I uninstall Korg audio drivers from a Mac

texts: I'm trying to get Korg's DS DAC 100m working on my son's Mac Book. Our first try was to just plug it in, but the Mac did not recognise it as a sound device. Then we downloaded the driver software from http://www.korg.com/us/support/download/software/0/529/2584/ and ran the driver installer. Now when we plug in the DAC to his Mac the Mac hangs for a few seconds and then reboots. I know how to uninstall drivers on a PC, and I know how to uninstall apps on a Mac, but I cannot see how to uninstall a failing sound driver from a Mac. How do I do that?


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What are only necessary processes (minimal set) for OS X work?

What are the differences in the sets for different versions (Lion minimal set, Mountain Lion minimal set)?

What are the processes that are not needed for the OS X operates?

I know the descriptions of the processes (here: http://triviaware.com/macprocess/all), but I don't know what is the minimal set of pprocesses to start the OS X (Mountain Lion) with GUI, (e.g. without dashboard, without notification center).

Update:

I would like to have a minimal set of processes/services for the system can boot and launch the minimal graphical desktop environment (like KDE/Unity/GNOME in Linux world) + possibility to launch the terminal (simple bash) + possibility to launch/quit processes + process monitoring + (optionally) finder. All the other processes needed I can find out using additive approach/cycle (try to do an action - find out needed processes/services/libraries - add it)


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I've written a script for fresh macOS installs that installs Homebrew, Cask, and a bunch of apps I like, along with creating a .vimrc file.

Thanks to an answer by daniel Azuelos (located here: Best way to check in bash if Command Line Tools are installed?), a part of the script checks to see if Xcode command-line-tools are installed.

When command-line-tools are not installed, this error gets displayed to the user:

xcode-select: error: unable to get active developer directory, use `sudo xcode-select --switch path/to/Xcode.app` to set one (or see `man xcode-select`)

I'm hoping someone can help me suppress this output.

The function that is ran to do command-line-tools check is:

function check_clt() {
    if type xcode-select >&- && xpath=$( xcode-select --print-path ) && test -d "${xpath}" && test -x "${xpath}" ; then
        echo ""
        echo "The required Xcode command-line-tools are already installed! Moving on!"
        sleep 3
    else
        instructions
        sleep 45
        xcode-select --install
    fi
}

I believe I can use 2 > /dev/null to suppress the error, but I'm not sure in the function where should it go?  I've put it before each && in the if statement, but the error message still appeared.

Using Nimesh's suggestion, I've edited the function:

function check_clt() {
if type xcode-select 2>/dev/null >&- && xpath=$( xcode-select --print-path ) 2>/dev/null && test -d "${xpath}" 2>/dev/null && test -x "${xpath}" 2>/dev/null ; then
    echo ""
    echo "The required Xcode command-line-tools are already installed! Moving on!"
    sleep 3
else
    instructions 2>/dev/null
    sleep 45
    xcode-select --install
fi

}

Running the script still produces the error to the user:

Last login: Tue Sep  4 20:40:13 on ttys000
vimusrs-Mac:~ vimusr$ cd Desktop/
vimusrs-Mac:Desktop vimusr$ chmod +x mai.sh
vimusrs-Mac:Desktop vimusr$ ./mai.sh
xcode-select: error: unable to get active developer directory, use `sudo xcode-select --switch path/to/Xcode.app` to set one (or see `man xcode-select`)


texts: How To Convert a Terminal Command into an ".app" file?

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I want to run a command every-time I click an app icon. I want that app icon in my launcher or app drawer and dock.

The Command I wanna run is this (posted here)

open -na "Google Chrome" --args --profile-directory="Guest Profile"

UPDATE 1:

I've created a "Chrome.sh" file on desktop with above command as content and running

sh chrome.sh

opens up the window that I want. now how do I convert that to an ".app" icon?


texts: Backing up iOS Health Data takes enormous space?

texts:
I got an auto generated e-mail from Apple telling me that my iCould Drive was almost full

Dear Benny Skogberg,
Your iCloud storage is almost full. You have
499.728 MB remaining of 5 GB total storage.
            Upgrade to 50 GB for 9,00 kr per month

Your iCloud storage is used for iCloud Mail and to keep
the most important things on your iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch safe
and available, even if you lose your device. iCloud Drive and apps
like Keynote, Pages, and Numbers also use iCloud storage to keep your
files up-to-date everywhere. To continue to use iCloud and to back up
your photos, documents, contacts, mail, and more, you need to upgrade
your iCloud storage plan or reduce the amount of storage you are
using.
The iCloud Team

Looking into the Backup, I saw the health data used more than half of the backup for it's data, and I come to think why. Do they store videos/images of health data? Other apps are less than 100 MB.
What makes the Health Data generate Gigabytes of Backup data?


texts: how to move contacts en mass from one iCloud account to another

texts: I need to have two iCloud accounts, one for work and one for play/personal. Is there an easy way to move all contacts from one iCloud account to another via iCloud.com. For example, if I have 400 contacts in my personal iCloud account and none in my work iCloud account, how would I lift them from the personal account to the work account?


texts: Why does Find My Mac require a Recovery partition?

texts:
Just for my curiosity and knowledge, about Find My Mac, one of the condition is to have a local OS X Recovery Partition installed.

Why?


texts: Block site from being on Safari Top Sites

texts:
I have the following issue: some sites I use quite often, as facebook, appears at the top sites with several different urls, depending on the person I chat and so on. I remove them manually, which is quite boring. I would like to know if there is any way to block facebook and other sites from being add to Safari's Top Sites. Someone knows how to do that?

Thanks!


texts: Applescript System Events Keystroke broken after 10.9.4

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It seems like the recent Mavericks update has broken the keystroke command in applescript -- whenever my script reaches that point, it freezes. (I currently have ~20 zombie osascript processes...)

Furthermore, there isn't anything in the accessibility options to allow applescripts to automate keystrokes.

This is my script currently.

tell application "Terminal"
    activate
end tell
delay 0.1
tell application "System Events" to tell process "Terminal"
    keystroke "t" using command down
end tell
tell application "Terminal"
    do script "cd ~/some_folder_here" in front window
end tell

If there's a way to tell terminal to directly open a tab (or if iterm 2 can do that) that could also be a solution.


texts: How can I keep my Mountain Lion MacBook Pro display at maximum brightness?

texts:
I have periodically noticed that my display has been a bit dim, and have brought it up to maximum brightness... only later to find that my display was about halfway on brightness. I can't rule out a stray keystroke, but it seems to be several notches down a lot more often than I would accidentally hit F1. As far as I can tell this happens when the computer remains on and I remain logged on.

Especially when operating on battery power, does Mountain Lion dim the display automatically? Is there a way to turn off or circumvent this?


texts: How to install a specific version/build of Safari?

texts:
A customer has reported a bug in Safari 10.1.1 (11603.2.5) which I cannot reproduce in Safari 10.1.1 (12603.2.4) on macOS Sierra.

Everything is updated in the App Store.

Is it possible to install a specific build number of Safari?
If not, what accounts for the different builds on different machines?
Are there release notes available at the level of build numbers?


texts: Restoring <= 10.6.8 lid-open Clamshell Mode in Mountain Lion?

texts:
In Snow Leopoard and earlier, you could open the lid of your laptop after you had activated clam shell mode and the display would remain inactive until you disconnected the external monitors.

In Mountain Lion (and Lion?), the behavior is to immediately turn the display on.

My question is, is it possible to restore the earlier behavior?

Note that none of the solutions listed here actually restore this behavior. The boot-args option is especially egregious as it disables the internal display completely until you reboot. This is far less than desirable.

If you need more detail about the specifics of the Pre-Lion behavior, leave a comment.


texts: Desktop wallpaper changes only apparently

texts:
I've followed all the solutions proposed to make the desktop wallpaper change, as it apparently it doesn't, but the only solution I can achieve is getting the default wallpaper after rebooting.

However my issue is slightly different than the one other users have reported.

When I change the desktop, I can see in the system preferences that it has changed, and even when using mission control, or switching from a space to another, I see the new wallpaper, until I go back to the desktop (either the current one or the new one).

So it seem that the wallpaper actually changed, but is "overlapped" by the default one, as it's using multiple layers.

I'm not sure if I've made the issue clear.

I don't have any application playing with the wallpaper (I use to have Kuvva (www.kuvva.com) installed, but then I've removed using a specific uninstaller).

Oh, and my system is a Mac OS X Mountain Lion.

Anyone has a possible solution?

UPDATE
When changing the wallpaper, the system log doesn't show anything in particular, except, sometime these two lines (but this is not a constant):

Sep  6 13:05:36 new-host.station System Preferences[23804]: *** WARNING: -[NSImage compositeToPoint:operation:] is deprecated in MacOSX 10.8 and later. Please use -[NSImage drawAtPoint:fromRect:operation:fraction:] instead.
Sep  6 13:05:36 new-host.station System Preferences[23804]: *** WARNING: -[NSImage compositeToPoint:fromRect:operation:] is deprecated in MacOSX 10.8 and later. Please use -[NSImage drawAtPoint:fromRect:operation:fraction:] instead.
S

The uninstaller I've used has been provided by the Kuvva support team: this is the only feedback I got from them. Further question never got answered.
And no, I didn't install it from the App Store.


texts: Apple TV App - How to group Movie and "Making Of" to be shown as one?

texts:
I imported some movies into Apple TV, these show up perfectly fine in the Movies section of Library. But for some of the Movies, I have Making Of videos, Missing Scenes, trailers or similar.
I want them to show up as one Movie Item in the library, similar as for TV series. Is this possible?
I saw there is a possibility to do this with the iTunes Extras feature. Is this the only way to achieve this? Are there recommended tools for doing this, or must this be done manually?


texts: Some Apps Appear in Mission Control but Not in the Application Switcher

texts:
I was wondering why there is a discrepancy between the apps and windows that appear in Mission Control, versus those that show up in the application switcher (CMD+TAB). Mission Control always seem to show more apps and windows than the switcher, and offers the "complete" overlook on what's really running.

Here is an example of two windows that are "caught" by Mission Control, but not the application switcher.

For example, the macoS Fonts window:

Or the menu of Google's Backup & Sync Finder "Share" extension:

Is there any logic and/or reasoning behind this discrepancy?
Is there any way to configure what will appear, and where?
Ideally, I would like all apps and windows (at the very least, those caught by Mission Control) to appear in the application switcher as well. How can I achieve this?

Thanks!


texts: Can a Macbook Pro A1398 drive two Dell U2515H and at what resolution?

texts:
I'm planning to use 2x Dell U2515H monitors with my 15" mid-2015 Macbook Pro 2.2Ghz (model number A1398) with Intel Iris Pro Graphics. According to Apple, it can drive:

  Dual display and video mirroring: simultaneously supports full native resolution on the built-in display and up to 3840x2160 pixels on up to two external displays, both at millions of colours.

Additionally, the HDMI video output van:

  Support for 4096x2160 resolution at 24Hz

Will I be able to drive two of these bad boys at native resolution of 2560x1440?


texts:
I am trying to use numbers to plot a chart of my electricity consumption.
I have  a table that looks like:

date
consumption

01/01/2021
10

15/01/2021
110

17/01/2021
140

10/02/2021
180

As you can see the measurements are not taken at regular intervals (I am nerd but not to that extent).
If I try to generate a graph selecting this table I would have something like this:

As you can see the X axis is regularly spaced: the 4 points are equally distant and one could infer that the consumption is simply linear.
By adding in column A all the possible days of the year and in column be the corresponding value, I have this result:

From this graph I can detect that there is an acceleration of consumption between the 15th and 17th of January.
In other words, the second graph is drawing each point in the right moment in time.
Is there an option to do this automatically without having to add every single day of the year (or hours, in other use cases) to a column?
Thanks!


texts: Creating a GROUP via Users & Groups in command line

texts:
I'd like to script the action of creating a group via Users & Groups and binding it to the admin account and enabling remote login for the same group enabled service and support.

I'm vaguely familiar with commands like dscl - but I'm not sure if this is even the right command

I've seen sudo dscl localhost -append /Local/Default/Groups/thegroupname GroupMembership theusername - to add an admin user to a group  BUT  What should be put for GroupMembership - if this command is correct   - The name of my group is Service and Support


texts: Will Parallels Desktop harm the hardware of my MBP?

texts:
I am running VM, PD in particular, on my MBP.

I have encountered several scary things today: machine noise (sounds like "Kah-Kah") occurs while I am in 64-bit Windows 7 in VM.

Will the PD actually harm the hardware of my MBP? The sound is really scary!


texts: Automatic punch hole removal for scanned PDFs

texts: Does anyone know of a tool that can automatically bulk remove punch holes from scanned PDFs? It should really do its job mostly autonomously since it will be used on a few hundred pages. It should be compatible with Yosemite (10.10.2).


texts: How to Sum text values like numbers in Numbers?

texts: How can I translate text values into numbers and sum the result?


texts:
I'm having issues with my macbook air 2011 HDMI connection.  I am connecting through thunderbolt. Here is the problem; sometimes my mac connects to HDMI. Most of the time, it does not.  Once it is connected, it will work flawlessly as long as I leave it connected. Once I disconnect it, odds are it will not work again for a while, no matter how many times I reset/shutdown the computer, with power cable or without.  However, every once in a while, it does reconnect, and I haven't figured out why or how.  The only maybe hint I have is that when I connect it to another monitor, it might or might not work, but if it does work, it might then work on another monitor. Also, if I plug in another macbook, it might sometimes facilitate connection when I plug my macbook in afterwards.  Another hint is that at the apple store, on a same monitor, my HDMI would not connect, but after booting through their in-store LAN OS, it would work flawlessly. Most likely a driver-related issue, but have not figured out how to fix this. FWIW here is my display info :

13.3-inch (1440 x 900)
Intel HD Graphics 3000 384 MB

I can so far guarantee that these things are not the issue:

Monitor - I'm experiencing the same issue on multiple monitors
Cables - I've replaced cables and tested them with other macbooks while trouble shooting - they still work.
OS - I've formatted my entire OS. Even went to the apple store to have the mini apple partition wiped and reinstalled. That did not fix the issue. (Although wiping the mini partition did allow me to directly connect to HDMI a first time, so it helped reset something).

Any help would be greatly appreciated!


texts: Can I redirect to an alternative DNS Lookup server depending on domain request

texts:
Background

I had a problem loading images from a particular website. ( more details of that here)

Someone at work Suggested I change my DNS servers to openDNS and see if that resolves the problem.

As they thought it may be that the DNS server from my provider is what was slowing down the page/image loads due to the cross domain calls with its javascript.

It turns out that this was indeed the case.  The images loaded as expect with the new DNS servers ( google 8.8.8.8 and  8.8.4.4)
Changing back the Problem reoccurs.

But I do not really want to change my DNS servers. Especially for just one site.

Question

Is there any way I can use my normal DNS server addresses. But have a proxy (PAC file) that redirects to an alternate DNS server when this web domain (cultofma.com) is used.


texts:
TL;DR: Can I disable IPv6 on an iPad?

Strange issue that I've just figured out. For months I've been seeing content show up in Netflix that should be unavailable to me (I'm in Canada), or things that should be available not showing up. Sometimes I'll pause a show and when I restart it, I'll get an error that it's not available in my region!

I just realized that I'm getting my IPv6 connectivity through a Hurricane Electric tunnel, which of course is American. I'm thinking this explains a lot of the transient problems I've been having with Netflix, especially w/r/t regions. My primary device for viewing is an iPad, so I want to disable IPv6 on it.

It doesn't seem like it's possible; I can't even see what my IP is from the network settings, but thought I'd throw it out there and see if anyone know any tricks. Thanks!


texts: Procedure to Upgrade SSD without borking-up MS-Office License

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I have upgraded a Macbook 500GB to a 128GB SSD.  MS-Office 2011 detected the change and the licensing failed.  I would like to avoid this problem in the future if at all possible.

I would like to upgrade a 128GB Macbook air to 1TB: is it possible to create a 128GB partition to let Office think that it is on a 128GB drive and not bork-up the license?  If yes, how is it this done?

I am seeking to avoid dealing with licensing keys if at all possible and simply upgrade the SSD


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I just got a new Macbook Pro, and even though I have been using Time Machine and I could use the Migration Assistant, I've accumulated so many files throughout the years that I thought it would be great to start fresh and transfer only what I think is important. Of course transferring my personal files is straightforward, as well with Notes, Calendars, Contacts, Reminders, Safari, KeyChain, etc. where iCloud makes it really easy. But then there are is the data of some applications that it's very hard:

Messages (I can't seem to get it right, and I've seen this post)
Stickies
Photos
iTunes
etc.?


texts: quad boot MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2014) -- will 10.11.6 -> 10.12 affect boot/partitions/etc?

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Possibly this question cannot be answered, or maybe it will be deemed an opinion...? But, I recently had a Windows 10 update that forced me to reinstall all 4 OSs and again set up the perfect balance of boot loaders I wanted (Debian is the first one - I am not using rEFInd anymore, nor want to).

So. As it may be difficult to know what the upgrade does, can I protect this boot stuff on /dev/disk0s1 ? Would copying it (dd maybe?) and then replacing what is there be sufficient? Or would I also have to backup my gpt partition table (gdisk) too? Other things?

I can provide other information if necessary, but here is a question I have yet to address about something else that contains a lot of info about my laptop: https://superuser.com/questions/1296542/out-of-the-blue-linux-mint-makes-the-unmount-and-mount-sounds/1297114#1297114

TIA!


texts: All applications cannot open unless Internet is off

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I'm running macOS Catalina 10.15.7 and today I have a problem with starting up programs.
If I try to open any application from the Dock, it'll bounce forever, and in some cases freeze the screen entirely. On the other hand, if I turn my Wi-Fi off, everything opens instantly. So the only way I was able to type this message was to turn my Wi-Fi off, open Google Chrome, and turn the Wi-Fi back on. This is completely reproducible, I have basically a clean install of the OS, and doing the typical things like clearing PRAM didn't change anything.
The issue is very closely tied to having Internet. For example, if I have Wifi on but the internet is not working, then everything opens fine too.
I strongly suspect that macOS is doing something dumb, like waiting for a response from a slow server before allowing an application to open, possibly as part of its mandatory notarization. Mathematica is infamous for doing something very similar, but there's an option you can select to keep it from trying. Is there something similar for macOS?
This is indeed a widespread issue, currently climbing up on HN.


texts: Why has the edit button disappeared from my iPhone in Mail?

texts: Up until I updated my iPhone a few days ago, I could go to "edit" in my email and "mark as unread" when I need to come back to the message later. This feature has disappeared. Is there anyway to get it back? How do I mark an email as unread?


texts: How to set Mail.app to always open URL's in the external browser in the background?

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I'm on Mountain Lion and in Apple Mail whenever I click a link in an email it opens my browser in front of Mail.

I'd like to keep reading the email and open all links behind Mail, then switch to my browser and read the links later.

I'm aware of right clicking a link and selecting "Open Link Behind Mail", and I know of the "command-click" method to achieve that. But I want that to be the default behavior, so I don't have to do any extra clicking, I just want the links to always open in the background. How do I set it to do that?


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My fastmail account messages are often garbled text such as this:DQo8IURPQ1RZUEUgaHRtbD4NCjxodG1sPg0KPGhlYWQ+PG1ldGEgaHR0cC1lcXVpdj0iQ29u dGVudC1UeXBlIiBjb250ZW50PSJ0ZXh0L2h0bWw7IGNoYXJzZXQ9VVRGLTgiIC8+PG1ldGEg bmFtZT0idmlld3BvcnQiIGNvbnRlbnQ9ImluaXRpYWwtc2NhbGU9MS4wIiAvPjxtZXRhIG5h bWU9ImZvcm1hdC1kZXRlY3Rpb24iIGNvbnRlbnQ9InRlbGVwaG9uZT1ubyIgLz48dGl0bGU+
which go on for pages. Occasionally I will get a message from a company and I can tell from the links which company it has come from but the header tells me its has come from someone else, e.g. The links suggest the content is from Pinterest and the headers says it has come from Amazon or Ebay
n; overflow:hidden; font-size:0px; line-height:0px; height:0px;">=
=0A                Hi Alan, We have new jobs for you, including t=
his =0A            =0A        =0A        =0A       =
    =0A                =0A     =
          =0A=0A =
                  =0A                    =0A                        =0A =
                          =
=0A                                https://www.totaljo=
bs.com/JobSearch/EmailLink.aspx?ReturnUrl=3Dhttps%3a%2f%2f
www.totaljobs.com%3fDCMP%3dR_EM_JBE_TJ_AUT_JBE2_070420_T8SD&GUID=3D8=
215f0193f7f4999a36cd36dff1da9de&domain=3Dfastmail.fm&
batchinstanceid=3Df0f10517-d923-4523-b4ba-d463ad903e96&umid=3D202=
This overwrote an existing email (I can no longer read) from the Japan Centre
00407120244-026839The messages are fine when I use the fastmail app on my phone


texts: Finder Window when Uploading or Opening Files Missing Items

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For some reason, my file window when I am opening a file/folder or uploading something the sidebar is missing a lot of items which makes navigating to my destination a pain. What am I missing? My normal finder window is fine and isn't missing any items. I tried to go into the library>preferences>and deleting any com.apple.finder.plist like in another thread but I didn't find any files like that in my library. I searched my entire mac for them and didn't find any.

I'm using El Capitan.


texts: What program(s) can I use to open an .xlsx spreadsheet for editing on my Mac

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I can double-click the file and a browser preview opens that looks like excel.... but it is basically just a browser preview feature and it is read-only.

The file came from a Windows machine.


texts: I've got a new iPod Touch, do I need a new Apple ID for FaceTime and iMessage

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We have a Mac, iPad2, 1 iPhone 4, 1 iPhone 4s and now have bought an iPod Touch for my son.

What is the best way for the iPod Touch to be able to sync previuosly download apps and music but enable Facetime and iMessage using his own details as my wife's details are used for her FaceTime/Apple ID?

Any help is greatly appreciated.


texts: Can iOS app bypass/skip the device passcode window if it knows the passcode

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To perform some important actions on iOS it's required to enter the device passcode, for example adding a VPN profile or installing custom settings config (new feature in iOS 14).
I wonder, is it possible for an app to do such actions bypassing/skipping the device passcode prompt window if it already knows the device passcode somehow. In other words, can an app enter the device passcode in the background without the user noticing it. Generally speaking, is it possible for a potentially malicious app to do bigger harm if it knows the device's passcode?
Thanks!
BTW I asked a similar question for macOS here and it seems that for macOS it's true.


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For a while now my Voice Notes on WhatsApp record blank. I mean you can’t hear anything. The same goes for Voice Memos app.
I can make cell calls without a problem, use speech-to-text and even record a video with sound.
I also noticed that when I record a video on WhatsApp, after that the Voice Note works normally I can record but after that the next Voice Note is blank again.
My hand is not on the mic when I record and I don’t think I have another app that is using the mic.
I’m new to iOS so I’m not sure what’s going wrong.


texts: Why is my jailbroken iPhone not booting?

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I have an iPhone 3GS with firmware version 3.1.3 running on tethered jailbreak (blackra1n). Yesterday the wifi didn't work so naturally I:

reset network settings (as I did once or twice before).
got the recovery mode screen (as expected).
Connected it to my laptop.
ran blackra1n.

and then, instead of booting like it normally does, my iPhone just rebooted itself and went back to recovery mode. I tried doing this several times with no luck. Has this happened to anyone? Any solutions?

Thanks.

Edit: This is pretty urgent, as currently I don't have a cell phone, so I would appreciate even half-ideas if you have any and don't have time for a full answer.

Update: I have restored my iPhone, but now I am stuck on activation, and can't seem to solve it. Tried using redsn0w, but it's stuck on "Waiting for reboot" after the second upload. Any ideas?

Update 2: Got redsn0w to complete the process, but after it finishes, it just goes back to the iTunes/emergency call screen...

Update 3: I was able to perform restore to 3.1.3, but now I just get the apple logo and it doesn't do anything... It seems problems are just piling on...


texts: What's the fish shell equivalent to `set -o vi` to get vi/vim key bindings to access command history and edit?

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I'm one of the "cursed ones" that got their start in vi instead of emacs so the shell editing commands I am used to are set in bash with set -o vi but this doesn't work in the fish shell.

How can I enable vi / vim style key commands in the friendly interactive shell that runs when you install fish from https://brew.sh?


texts: Can I place a picture in the email signature on an iPad Air?

texts: I am new to apple, so please forgive the simplicity, but I cannot figure out how to paste my logo pic in my mail signature.  I just  bought the IPAD Air last week, and I want to set up my company signature in the mail app.  I tried to copy and paste the signature from my GoDaddy workspace email, but the picture would not paste.  I couldn't figure out how to save and upload it either like you could on a PC.


texts:
CHM is an extension for the Compiled HTML file format.
There are many viewers with different quality.
xCHM has been my choice because of robust search, here their homepage.
I however just noticed that some files are incorporated with videos but my viewer cannot show them.

How can you view CHM videos in OSX?
Any good option for this.


texts: How to undo pressing Don't Trust on Apple Watch

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I want to test out my watch app on Xcode. So I plugged my iPhone paired with an Apple Watch Series 2 into my computer. The iPhone displayed a dialog saying whether to trust this computer or not, I clicked on trust and the iPhone is properly displayed in Xcode. In a minute the same popup appeared on my Watch, however I accidentally clicked Don't Trust on the Apple Watch, now the watch doesn't show up in Xcode. Usually to fix this for iPhone I would just plug the phone into the computer again, but I tried that, and the popup did not reappear on my Watch.

Is there a way to trust my computer again without erasing all datas on the Watch?


texts: Set Mail app so it won't mark messages as read on the server

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I am accessing my colleague's work email account (on gmail) using IMAP. The problem is that whenever I read one of the messages first, it is marked as read on the server and he often misses it. I would like to keep it unmarked on the server and mark it as read only at my Mail app.

Is there any way how to setup Mail app so that this behaves like this?

I am accessing his email because he often gets information that is important for me as well and this saves time because he isn't always online and he would have to forward most of it to me anyway.


texts: Compilation error with Mojave: error: ‘_Atomic’ does not name a type

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After updating to Mojave 10.14.4 and Xcode 10.2, I fail to compile GCC 8.3.0. The error message is

In file included from /usr/include/sys/sysctl.h:83,
                 from ../../gcc-8.3.0/gcc/config/darwin-driver.c:30:
/usr/include/sys/ucred.h:94:2: error: ‘_Atomic’ does not name a type
  _Atomic u_long          cr_ref;  /* reference count */
  ^~~~~~~

I have not found any clue how this can be fixed. The header in question is

struct ucred {
    LIST_ENTRY(ucred)       cr_link; /* never modify this without KAUTH_CRED_HASH_LOCK */
#if defined(__STDC_VERSION__) && __STDC_VERSION__ >= 201112L && !defined(__STDC_NO_ATOMICS__)
    _Atomic u_long          cr_ref;  /* reference count */
#elif defined(__cplusplus) && __cplusplus >= 201103L
    _Atomic u_long          cr_ref;  /* reference count */   // <--- this line
#else
    volatile u_long         cr_ref;  /* reference count */
#endif

Any ideas are highly appreciated!


texts: Custom name server removes the ability of visiting websites with 'dev' in the url

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I am a web developer and in my younger years I tried setting up a custom name server on my mac without really knowing what I was doing. I wanted to be able to visit my own website on adreses like 'sam.dev'.

I know that I succeeded at some point and threw the program, that helped me set it up, from my macbook because it was just a trial version.

Now, a couple of years later I notice that I cannot go to any website that has .dev or dev. in the url.

This means I cannot visit websites like nodejs.dev or web.dev

I have tried resetting my DNS but I can't get it to work again.
How would I go about resetting this and what did I do wrong?

more info:

scutil --dns significant return values:

resolver #8
  domain   : test
  nameserver[0] : 127.0.0.1
  port     : 20560
  flags    : Request A records, Request AAAA records
  reach    : 0x00030002 (Reachable,Local Address,Directly Reachable Address)

resolver #9
  domain   : dev
  nameserver[0] : 127.0.0.1
  port     : 20560
  flags    : Request A records, Request AAAA records
  reach    : 0x00030002 (Reachable,Local Address,Directly Reachable Address)

contents of etc/hosts

##
# Host Database
#
# localhost is used to configure the loopback interface
# when the system is booting.  Do not change this entry.
##
127.0.0.1   localhost
255.255.255.255 broadcasthost
::1             localhost
# BEGIN section for OpenVPN Client SSL sites
127.94.0.1  client.openvpn.net
# END section for OpenVPN Client SSL sites

I fixed my problem for .dev domains like web.dev but I still have the problem for sites like dev.to


texts: Loss of audio on MacBook Retina 15" 2013

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I have a laptop that's two weeks old. I plugged in my headphones for the first time today, and I had no audio, so I unplugged them and I still had no audio.

I have done the following:

Restart
Sleep
Shutdown
Plugged in headphones multiple times and turned
Checked for foreign objects
Reset PRAM and SMC
Restored from recovery console
Erased disc and restored new OSX from recovery console
Checked audio settings to make sure internal speaker, mute and volume and all ok.
Checked for light emitting from headphone jack
Checked that the micro switches in the jack are no depressed.

I am looking for more suggestions. I use the laptop for work everyday, so I can't afford to give it to Apple to fix at the moment.


texts: Is there a limit on logical volume size for FileVault?

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I'm curious about (and was unable to find documentation for) any size limits for FileVault in OSX (10.9.5 Server). I'm concerned about any sort of corruption/instability that could occur after encrypting a 70-100tb logical disk.

I've run into this as an issue with volumes larger than 70tb with TimeMachine and had to switch to a different product for my backups.

Ignore the "why are you doing this" or "why are you not using linux/bsd". For a wide variety of reasons, I'm stuck with OSX for this project and am unable to split the partition into smaller segments.

Any insight would be much appreciated!


texts: What causes LG screen colors to change when I install a Mac OS update?

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I have 2 Macbook Pro 15 inch from 2018.

I have updated one of the both with the last Mac OS update (not exactly the last but 1 before), and my 2 LG external screens (4k) are not usable anymore, it burst my eyes, especially on heat colors (i barely don't see any difference on dark colors, but for example, white on green really hurts your eyes).

Since i have the chance to have 2 identical Macbook Pro and i didn't update the second one, i made the test to plug it instead of the updated one (i am using 2 USB C port). And it still works fine!

It's been almost 2 years i have these Macbook Pro and these 2 screens, everything always worked perfectly, and the issue appeared right after the update on one of it.

What do you think i should do ?


texts: iPhone 4 does not wake up from being locked

texts: My iPhone 4 periodically does not wake up from being locked. I have to wake it by holding the home and power buttons. This is happening a lot more frequently as of late than before. It has the latest OS. It seems quite a few people have the same problem. Does anyone know a solution to this problem? None that I found on the Apple forum seems to solve it.


texts: User directory taking up an additional 100GB+ of space

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This is on my 2013 15" Retina MBP with the 256 SSD.

Before you ask, yes, I'm including the ~/Library folder.

My home directory is using ~175GB of space, which is pretty significant. I'm in a spring cleaning mood - however, I cannot seem to get even close to this value when hunting down the largest offenders.

Craigs-MBP:~ Craig$ du -shc *
 27M    Applications
 88K    Desktop
4.2G    Documents
8.0K    Downloads
198M    Google Drive
 25G    Library
8.0K    Movies
4.3G    Music
 11G    Pictures
8.0K    Public
408M    apps
3.2G    projects
 49G    total    <-- Note the convenient total

Just to be safe, I also check the .* files:

Craigs-MBP:~ Craig$ du -shc .??* | grep total
3.8G    total

So, roughly ~55GB.

I have booted into the recovery partition, and used Disk Utility to run First Aid on both the volume and partition, but it didn't pick up any invalid volume count/block sizes. Everything looked good.

I booted up Disk Inventory X hoping that it might find something I didn't, but it turns up the same values:

If I'm missing 5-10GB here or there, no big deal. But nearly 120GB of missing space? That's completely unreasonable. (And half my hard drive.)

Where do I go next?


texts: Does IFTTT app drain battery faster in iPhone (and Apple Watch)?

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The IFTTT app sounds interesting with endless possibilities. I have just installed it but skeptical about using it because of the possibility of battery drain. The app has to keep track of every event of the app you associate it with.

So, does the IFTTT app have a noticeable affect in battery consumption or just like any other 'average' background activity?


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I have a mid-2015 Macbook Pro running Catalina (10.15.7). (2.8 GHz Quad-Core Intel Core i7, AMD Radeon R9 M370X 2 GB, Intel Iris Pro 1536 MB)
I have an Apple Thunderbolt 3 (USB-C) to Thunderbolt 2 Adapter.
I would like to drive a small USB-C to Displayport Hub - so I can use two 4K Monitors, but just switch one USB-c cable when switching between my work PC (USB-C) and my Macbook Pro. (I realise I could use mini-DP to DP cables from the Mac to the monitors - but switching machines would require changing 6 displayport plugs each time you change).
I have reason to believe this can work, based on this comment.
My question is: ** Can a Thunderbolt 3 (usb-c style) to Thunderbolt 2 (mini-DP style) adapter work in reverse?**


texts:
Possible Duplicate:
  How to show hidden files and folders in finder?

How do I show the hidden files in OS X 10.7 Lion?


texts: What's a good Windows RDP client for Mac?

texts:
I administer a number of Windows machines, and am trying to find a really good application to remote desktop in to them from my Mac.  I've tried CoRD, and I really like its library approach to saved sessions (as opposed to Microsoft's file based approach), and tabbed sessions are great when working on a bunch of machines.  Unfortunately, it's just too buggy for serious use, and given that it averages less than 2 releases a year, I have little hope that that will change.  Microsoft's official client is very bare bones and doesn't support connecting on non-standard ports (which I need).

Is there a remote desktop client for Mac out there that's both fully featured and not buggy?

Edit: Apparently the Microsoft doc I read that states that the Microsoft RDC client can't be used on non-standard ports is out of date.


texts: Can this 800 MHz iMac G4 boot into Mac OS 9?

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I'm trying to find a legacy Mac that I can use to boot into Mac OS 9. I've found an old iMac G4 in the classified ads, but it has Mac OS X currently installed and I'm not sure if it's compatible with Mac OS 9. This is what I could learn about it by looking at Hardware Overview in System Profiler:

Machine Name:       iMac
Machine Model:      PowerMac4,2
CPU Type:           PowerPC G4 (2.1)
Number of CPUs:     1
CPU Speed:          800 MHz
L2 Cache (per CPU): 256 KB
Memory:             1 GB
Bus Speed:          100 MHz
Boot ROM Version:   4.4.0f1
Serial Number:      <redacted>

Based on this information, it seems to match two different models on EveryMac: M8535LL/A and M9105LL/A. But only one of those models has support for booting into Mac OS 9. Is there any way for me to identify which exact model is this computer? Do they have different Boot ROM? I want to know for sure before I buy it, and I can't try installing Mac OS 9 on somebody else's computer.


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I'm doing like here is described

http://hunterford.me/mongodb-startup-item/

but my file called different and path is here ~/Library/LaunchAgents/homebrew.mxcl.mongodb.plist. and mongo is starting well, but after system restart i have go through two last command again

sudo launchctl load /Library/LaunchDaemons/org.mongo.mongod.plist
sudo launchctl start org.mongo.mongod


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I have an older Mac computer.  Apple tells me it will run OS thru El Capitan.  It is currently running snow leopard 10.6.8.

When I open "http://iTunes.apple.com/app/os-x-el-capitan/id1147835433?mt=12" I go to the Apple App Store and it says this is the El Capitan download.  There is a blue button on the left side of screen under the large X that says "Get".  If I click on this blue button, the button changes shade of blue as long as I hold the mouse button down, but nothing happens.  If I click on the down arrow on the right side of the blue button, I get two options, "copy link" and "tell a friend".

How do I download El Capitan?  I called Apple tech support (tier 2) and spend several hours downloading to 10.6.8, but Apple can not tell me why I can not download El Capitan from the App Store.  Any help appreciated!


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I use the PDF Expert app on iPad Pro to annotate documents using the Apple Pencil, and it works brilliantly. Now, I'd like to mirror the same work flow to my MacBook Air (so I can still look straight down at my iPad, which makes annotation easy), and ideally, run a screen capture program on my MacBook Air.

Two primary questions: 1) how do I most efficiently mirror (app suggestions), and 2) is there a way to run a screen capture program or any program that would accomplish the same thing on my laptop if I'm using my laptop as a mirror?

Thanks ahead of time. I open to any suggestions outside what I've proposed. Essentially, I need a way to screen capture (video) my iPad Pro workflow.


texts: Excel truncates csv lines after encountering commas even when a different delimiter is selected

texts:
I have a csv file in which the delimiter is ~ . In the Text to Data dialog the delimiter is chosen appropriately:

Here is one row for size:

 NCT00392171~outcome~1934277~O1~Outcome~temozolomide~NCT00392171~The Effects of Continuous 28-day (28/28) Temozolomide Chemotherapy in Subjects With Recurrent Malignant Glioma Who Have Failed the Conventional 5-day (5/28) Treatment (P04601)~Completed~Phase 2~Temozolomide~120~Interventional~results_reference~astrocytoma,glioblastoma,glioma,oligodendroglioma~20308655~4398002~Percentage of Participants Surviving at Six Months of Treatment Without Evidence of Disease Progression.~Rechallenge Glioblastoma Multiforme (GBM) (n=28)~""~Percentage of Participants~Number~35.7~~~~1383586~Participants~116~Measure~581541~Primary~Percentage of Participants Surviving at Six Months of Treatment Without Evidence of Disease Progression.~6 months~Participants who rec~Percentage of Participants~""~""~Number~1

The column of particular interest is "O" that happens to contain commas in it: an example entry is:

astrocytoma,glioblastoma,glioma,oligodendroglioma

when Text to Columns feature was invoked all of the columns to the right of O are empty - even though the original csv has entries for all of them.

It thus appears there were  a serious problem in excel handling of imports using a non-comma delimiter.  For those of you that have noticed this: do  have you found a workaround?


texts:
If I get a call while I'm busy with another call (call waiting, normal call, not FaceTime), can I reject that incoming call?

I'm using an iPhone 5 running iOS 8.2.

I didn't try anything till now, and I don't want to turn the call waiting off. I want to decide whether to accept or reject the incoming call while I'm on another call.

The screen that appears when I receive another call has only three options:

Hold the current call and ANSWER the coming one
Hang up the current call and ANSWER the coming one
Reply with a message to the caller (of the new call)
none of the options actually allows me to REJECT the incoming new call and keep the current one going


texts: Missing Lyrics option in Music app in iOS 11.1

texts: I recently upgraded to iOS 11.1 and none of my songs are giving me the options to play lyrics. Has this feature been removed or the option to display them been changed?


texts:
I'm using the following command to find certain files and delete them.
#!/bin/bash
files=$(mdfind -literal "kMDItemFSName == '123.test'")
IFS=$'\n'
files=($files)
for f in ${files[*]};do
  if [[ -e $f ]];then
    rm $f
    echo "deleted ${f}"
  else
    echo "file not found: ${f}"
  fi
done
exit 0

When I run it I receive this error:
Users/admin/Desktop/example.sh: line 5: syntax error near unexpected token `do
Users/admin/Desktop/example.sh: line 5: `for f in ${files[*]} ;do

Can anyone explain to me what this means and how I might fix it? Thanks!


texts:
I'm new to iTunes and I don't like that it lists all files ever played in the categories "Songs" or "Albums" for example. I only have a few albums on my mac, but I have listened to a lot of stuff, mostly from external drives.

My problem:
Saying I want to listen to some music, it's pretty hard to find the music which is actually playable, because iTunes shows all files ever played. Is it possible to show only files which I have actually imported, without turning on copy files to iTunes Media?


texts: Broken iPhone, no back-up - How can I access my contacts

texts:
So my phone's been in the wars. The screen died on me this morning, it struggles to charge unless I find the sweet-spot, fiddle with the wire and keep it in that exact position.

I haven't backed up the contacts on icloud or itunes (foolishly assuming it did that automatically).

I've been to EE and they don't save the contacts on the nano sim either...

Is there any way of extracting my contacts from the phone? I use it for work and not having those numbers, is not an option for me!

Thanks for any help you can offer.


texts: How does battery life compare with OSX vs Windows 7 (or 8.1) on an Macbook Air?

texts: Does anyone know how long the battery life is on an Macbook Air with Windows 7?


texts: How do I disable the rulers in Safari's WebInspector?


texts: Mid 2014 Macbook Pro Retina 15" monitor daisychain

texts:
I recently bought 2 Dell U2715H monitors to use in a daisy chain configuration to save on thunderbolt port usage. Everything I read said it would work with my Macbook, but so far I have not had any success.

My specs are: 2.5 GHz i7, 16GB DDR3 memory, NVIDIA GeForce GT 750M 2048 MB for graphics.

The first monitor is connected to my laptop via mini-dp to display port in of the first monitor. The second monitor is connected from display port out on the first monitor into the mini-dp in port.

I have enabled DP 1.2 on the first monitor, but I'm not sure if it should be on for the second. I did try it in both configurations but neither worked.

Based on the support pages I've read, my Macbook has DP1.2 support via Thunderbolt 2 and MST was allowed in update 10.10.3 (I'm on 10.10.5). My graphics card can handle this setup based on my research. Am I missing anything obvious?

All I get is a blank screen on both monitors.

Should I try updating to El Capitan?


texts: Any stock means of inserting a period by pressing the spacebar twice?

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I've grown to really appreciate the ability to press space twice on my iOS devices and have a period manually inserted without having to switch keyboards.

Though I realize the need isn't quite there on actual keyboards since the key is accessible at all times, I'm curious: Is there any way to get the same behavior using baked-in functionality on Mac OS X?

This is assuming the most recent version of Mountain Lion is installed.


texts: Wrapping youtube-dl into automator via applescript

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I am hoping to make an automator application that prompts the user for input (i.e. youtube url), and downloads it using  youtube-dl (already installed via Homebrew). After this, I am trying to use the command youtube-dl URL_HERE -e which fetches the title of the video. I am hoping to make a notification that says "successfully downloaded TITLE_VIDEO" after it downloads successfully (if it downloads succesfully). I am using the "Run Applescript" command of automator.

This is all I've gotten so far:

display dialog "What is the youtube URL you want to download?" default answer ""
set answer to text returned of result

tell application "Terminal"
    activate
    do script with command "youtube-dl -f 140 " & answer
end tell

display notification "Successfully downloaded " & TITLE_HERE sound name "Blow"

I'm new to applescript, so only basic functions/ones that can be explained easily.

What I'm thinking is to do the terminal command youtube-dl URL_HERE -e which will return the title of the video (TITLE), and set that to a variable and then pass that variable to display notification


texts: I don't know my SSH key passphrase cause Keychain managed it (pre-Sierra). What do I do now?

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After Sierra update, a new bug was found where ssh-agent no longer remembers the passphrase for keys added. Not surprised by their answer, Apple stated TL;DR: is not a bug, but a feature.

Many threads I've read revolves around using ssh-agent -A/-K but the problem is not the loading, but that I never wrote my passphrase down anywhere.

What do I do now? Can I retrieve my passphrase from Keychain?

PD: The reason I don't know my passphrase is the whole point of the setup was not to write down a passphrase but let keychain manage it in order to centralize passwords, as I followed some best practiced (I think it was GitHub's?) where they mentioned "using easy to remember passphrases are easy to crack; using random letters/number/symbols are hard to remember so you most likely will write it down, which is also insecure. The solution is letting keychain manage it" or something like that.


texts: Is there any way to use backspace/enter natively to go up/down in Finder.app?

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In macOS, it is hard to constantly press ⌘↑ and ⌘↓ while navigating to go up/down in the folder hierarchy.

Is there any way to natively achieve this in using the Backspace or Enter keys respectively instead, without having to rely on third-party program such as Keyboard Mastero? I tried applying a custom shortcut from settings to Finder.app, but it's not possible to apply Backspace or Enter as shortcuts at all.


texts: How to have new email notification while Apple Mail.app is closed?

texts: In OS X when Calendar.app is closed I get notifications about events; how can I have this work in Mail.app? While Mail is closed I want to get new email notifications.


texts: Control not working in iTerm 2 when using Programmer Dvorak keyboard layout

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I'm using the Programmer Dvorak keyboard layout and found that the Control key does not work in iTerm 2. Emacs is unusable as a result, and I can't interrupt processes with Ctrl-C. Interestingly, the only thing I have found control to do is that Ctrl-Z still sends SIGTSTP.

I've swapped the Ctrl and Caps-Lock keys at the Mac level, but undoing that has no effect. I use zsh, but running bash doesn't help. Everything works fine in Terminal.

How can I get a working control key?

PS: Reverting back to QWERTY does fix this, but that's not really an option.


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I have a 64bit Intel Core 2 Duo MacBook Pro. A lot of times, software that I want to use is offered in both 32 and 64 bit.

What version should I prefer?

I know that even some Apple's apps are not yet 64bit - I guess this means something. I also have read that there is no big difference except for maybe driver software. What do you think?


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I've got FreeNAS 9.3 server (HP Microserver N54L) and connecting to it via NFS from my multiple OS X systems (running OS X Yosemite 10.10.1). I've always had low performance over the network (1Gig ethernet) and have roughly 40 megabytes per second transfer rate, while locally on file server, write speed is about 140-150Mb/s.

via NFS:

$ dd if=/dev/zero of=test  bs=64k count=16k
16384+0 records in
16384+0 records out
1073741824 bytes transferred in 27.447623 secs (39119665 bytes/sec)

locally on FreeNAS:

$ dd if=/dev/zero of=test_local  bs=64k count=16k
16384+0 records in
16384+0 records out
1073741824 bytes transferred in 7.575698 secs (141735033 bytes/sec)

Wondering what options should I use for mounting NFS shares to increase performance? Only thing I came up with it to change protocol to TCP, which will increase rsize and wsize to 32768.

Using async option is discouraged by man page - Use of the async option may improve performance, but only at the risk of losing data if the server crashes because the client will not be making sure that all data is committed to stable storage on the server.

So question is: anyone figured out how to increase performance?

Thank you.


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How can I hide the Menu Bar? I am on mac Osx moutain Lion (10.8)

Yes, one can full-screen an app, but it does not solve my problem. Here are 2 scenarios to explain my problem:

Scenario 1:

I am running macvim in one space and Chrome in another. Chrome by default 'merges' it window top bar with the tabs, but macvim does not. So, on my macvim I can see both the menu bar and the window's top bar. While chrome's window is indeed useful (It contains tabs..), macvim's top bar is useless. All the info is in the powerline I'm using.

Scenario 2:

I have 2 displays, full-screen apps appear only on one screen and there is no way to have another app on the other screen (Unless if I missed that!). So I'd rather have, again, macvim on the first big display and chrome on the small one.  But then again, macvim's window topbar is here, taking useless space.

I hope I made the point clearer!


texts: Some books are appearing pink in Preview.app

texts: I recently copied some PDF books onto my MacBook Air (running macOS 10.12 Sierra). Almost 80 % of them appear to good. They are readable in Preview.app. They appear as they would have appeared on any other app. But some books are appearing totally pink. The background is totally pink. Even in the folder they appear pink. For clarity I am attaching the appropriate screenshots. I need help on how to solve this


texts: How to get fn + left key working on macOS after changing to zsh from bash?

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In case it is not clear fn + left key is simply the HOME button. It takes you to beginning of line. This seems to still work when editing a file (in vim) say so I think zsh does something with the bindings. fn + left now results in an "error" sound.

UPDATE:

posting this link here as it seems where to go for this kind of general stuff: What are the practical differences between Bash and Zsh?

Changing from bash to zsh costs everyone a lot of time and money. Apple has decided to push this on everyone for various reasons. There should be good defaults for everything. Home keys should work, PS1 should be reasonable. Old .bashrc and .profile translations should be automatically generated. Not doing this is stealing from users. We are bailing them out for their "bad" decision to use bash or equivalents bash's decision to change license.

How to make everything "just work" like for bash?

I use iTerm 2 like a normal person. Not sure if that is related.


texts: Terminal command to kick selected users off my network

texts: There are lots of ports in my small office but sometimes I want to kick out people who are accessing internet instead of doing their job. With arp -a i can look for all of the connected users. But how to kick them off a network. Please don't tell me Router's conf. I want to do this via terminal itself. There are ways to do that, i saw my friend doing that.


texts: Setting a durable pin-mark in maps by using Siri

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It's possible saying to Siri: "Show me my current location". Then it opens maps and marks the current position there.

One can then setting a persistent mark by using touch-screen.

Now I ask myself:
Is it possible to set this pin via Siri?

Or more precise: It there a command for saying "Hey Siri. Mark my current position in maps durable!"


texts: Is resetting iPhone to factory settings sufficiently secure to subsequently sell the phone?

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I have an iPhone 6 I want to sell. I just reset all the settings and removed all the data using the iPhone 6 option in the general settings. The phone now says "Hello" as a new phone would. I don't have a SIM card and cannot logon to the phone to confirm that all is adequately deleted.

Was the procedure I performed sufficient to adequately remove all of the data, such that another user would not reasonably be able to retrieve the data?


texts: How do I confirm extence/non-existence of hard drive on an old iMac?

texts: How do I open the case on an original (purple) iMac.  I want to verify whether or not there is a hard drive in the computer.  What safety precautions should I observe?  Apple profiler, run from the install disk does not find a hard drive, but I want to be sure. It's a PPC G3.


texts: Can I turn an old iMac (early 2008) into an external monitor

texts: I have a dead iMac 24" (Early 2008) that has a broken graphics card (and doesn't boot up to any system), I was wondering if I could convert this into an external display for my Windows PC, because it would be a shame to scrap it. If I can't then I guess I'll just take the hard drive out and scrap it.


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Same problem as this person.  I want to run a whatsapp backup since I want to completely restore my phone to factory and not restore from backup.
My iphone is:

Updated to latest iOS 13.2.2
No whatsapp update available (version 2.19.112)
Deleted whatsapp data in icloud
Toggled whatsapp under "iCloud" and rebooted in between
Verified my internet is working fine 100mbps+
Used wifi & cellular*
Have 4GB+ available in iCloud
Have 25GB available on iPhone
Backup size estimated at 2.38GB
Seems like separate bug, it won't back up under cellular ("waiting for wifi") even though iCloud drive is on under cellular.


texts: Tracks listed under "Manually Added Songs" continue to re-appear

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When syncing music to an iPhone, iTunes give you the option to drag individual tracks to a section labeled "Manually Added Songs" to add them to the device (as opposed to adding all tracks of an artist, genre or album). The "Manually Added Songs" section not only contains tracks "cherry-picked" in iTunes itself, but it will also contain tracks the were added within the device itself after your last sync (for example, by using the iOS version of iTunes to re-download a prior purchase).

This feature is behaving strangely for me: Tracks I downloaded manually from within the device a long time ago, continue to appear in "Manually Added Songs", even after I have manually deleted them from the device and even after I manually deleted them from the "Manually Added Songs" list itself (to avoid those songs being re-sent to the device on the next sync).

Essentially, this odd set of tracks (a few songs from album A, a few songs from album B, etc) continues to magically re-appear on the "Manually Added Songs" list regardless of what I do. The only way to not get these tracks sent to my device is to manually clear the "Manually Added Songs" list every time before I sync my device. This is clearly not the way this feature is supposed to work--sync should "trump" what's on the device, so once the "Manually Added Songs" list is cleared, that should clear those songs for good.

After complete re-installs of iTunes, iOS, OS X (for reasons not having to do with this problem), this problem persists even across two different phones. The one constant element is that we are dealing with the same iTunes (XML) library file. I would like to keep this file because of the play stats and whatnot, so if anybody can point me in the right direction (including hacking the iTunes library file), I would be ever grateful... I am tired of listening to those same songs! :P


texts: Apple's iCloud SMTP Server For Old Devices Does Not Work

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I have set up my iPod Touch 1G to use the iCloud mail servers as per http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4864. IMAP works, but SMTP, although it worked for the first ~24 hours, refuses to work, complaining that the username or password is incorrect. I tried manually using this SMTP server on my Mac (Lion 10.7.2) and it gives the same result. Is anyone able to send emails via smtp.mail.me.com or has anyone experienced this problem and has a fix for it?

EDIT: I have checked with a new iCloud account (set up on 4th Nov) and it works, so if anyone else has this issue it is a problem with your account. AppleCare, get ready!


texts: Unable to flip a clip horizontally in iMovie 10.1.6

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I'm running iMovie 10.1.6 on MacOS Sierra 10.12.6 on a brand new, 2017 MacBook Air.

I have a clip which I want to flip/invert horizontally so that writing which currently appears with writing in reverse, so it is unreadable.

I've read up a lot online and everything I find says I should select the clip, click on the icon above the clip preview which is like 3 overlapping circles and then select Video Effect and choose Flipped.

However, when I click on the 3 circles icon, there is no Video Effects option shown, only Clip Filter and Audio Effect, so I don't know how to get this done.

I'm tearing my hair out at this and would really appreciate some help from anyone who can solve my problem. I know I don't have much rep here - I wish I could put a big bounty on this question because it's driving me nuts!


texts: How to get old contacts back from Exchange on iPhone?

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A user has an iPhone that is using Exchange email.

The email password recently changed and the iPhone kept trying to connect using the old password, which kept locking him out of his email on his laptop and tablet.

I tried to change the Exchange details on the iPhone but it refused to authenticate, and I decided it would be just simpler to remove and re-add the Exchange account on his phone.

After I re-created the Exchange credentials, all was up and running. Thinking at first that all was sorted out, he later realized that most of his phone numbers were gone.

Is there a way to have the iPhone download the contacts from the Exchange server?

PS the iPhone6 is relatively new and I am not accustomed to iOS interface.


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I am quite confused, I close the lid and then my mac book pro goes sleep and sometimes it seems to be in deep sleep and sometime it is not. I mean, sometimes when you open the lid, it will recover soon with a log-in window showing up quickly, sometimes it will show a white screen and a recovering progress bar at the bottom and then a few minutes later the log-in window.

What's the theory behind this? How can I prevent it from going to deep sleep mode? Thanks


texts: How can I move an email without deleting it from iCloud server?

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I have local rules on my Mac to move emails from certain people into their own local folders, and sound a unique alert.  The problem is that it appears that moving it causes it to be deleted from iCloud's IMAP server, and therefore not delivered to my iOS devices.

When I changed the rule to copy rather than move, I'm left with duplicate emails in the local Inbox folder (not surprisingly).

I tried creating iCloud Mail folders and using iCloud Mail rules to move certain emails into those folders.  That's fine, except that I can't sound the alert: it appears that Mac Mail rules only apply to mail coming directly into the Inbox.  (Also, only iCloud Inbox items get 'pushed' -- the mail in my JohnDoe folder can only be retrieved when Mac Mail polls every N minutes.)

I'm new to IMAP, so I may have missed the solution.  Can anyone suggest how, using iCloud Mail, I can:

See the same email in my Mac and all my iOS devices
Automatically route certain email to special folders and sound an alert, at least on the Mac

Thanks-
Chap


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Objective

To require the root password when changing wallpaper on my system when logged in as myself. Similar behavior to editing your security settings in Preferences where a password is required to unlock the page. Or in Keychain when viewing a password.

Outdated Solutions

com.apple.desktop.plist does not exist anymore. 99% of answers simply repost that protecting this file will solve my problem. This solution seems to have been outdated since 10.9.5 Mavericks. I'm currently on 10.11.6 El Capitan FYI.
Preferences affords no protections to the Desktop & Screensaver panel. You cannot stop anyone from changing the wallpaper there.
desktoppicture.db in ~/Library/Application Support/Dock is the alleged point of interest for protecting wallpapers, yet seems pretty much useless at stopping changes, even when set with read-only protections and owned by root.
The /System/Library/CoreServices/DefaultDesktop.jpg hard link doesn't correspond to the current wallpaper, just the default one.
Nobody seems to have the faintest idea where the link or file entry point to the currently displayed wallpaper is.

Attempts

Locking down the wallpaper requires I stop users from:

Using Use Image As Desktop Picture by right-clicking on images in Safari.
Using Services->Set Desktop Picture in Finder to change the background.
Using Preferences->Desktop & Screensaver to change the background.

I achieved 1 by setting ~/Library/Safari/Safari Desktop Picture to read-only and locking it. This stops any image from Safari from being set as the desktop picture.

That leaves me with either locking down preferences and removing the option to set desktop images via 2 or locking whatever file points to the current desktop image from being modified without a password. Well, because you cannot protect the Desktop & Screensaver pane in Preferences, that option goes out the window.

That leaves me with only one more solution. Finding whatever hard-link or file contains the copy or pointer to the current desktop image and protecting it. However, the problem is I just can't figure out where that is.

Notes

You might have to disable Apple's "System Integrity Protection" in order to adjust permissions on some files (desktoppicture.db for instance). That requires booting into recovery mode and disabling it with csrutil disable.
After disabling System Integrity Protection, I found I still couldn't change some files. I booted into Single User Mode and used fsck followed by mount -uw / to get past a read only error when adjusting permissions. Using chflags nouchg <file> before chmod 400 <file> allowed me to finally adjust permissions. Although I must say I was able to also adjust permissions in normal usage as long as I first used chflags nouchg <file> on my target before trying to adjust permissions. So single user mode might not have been necessary.

Summary / tl;dr

What file controls the currently displayed desktop wallpaper on macOS, and what steps must be undertaken to require root password for adjusting the wallpaper.


texts: How to install specific version of python on OS X

texts:
I need to install python3.4 on my OS X.
Tried to do it with brew install python3 and now I have python 3.5.1. But I need py3.4.

How can I install python3.4 on my Mac?


texts: How to turn off Finder Tabs in OS X Mavericks?

texts:
Initially I did not have tabs in Finder after installing OS X Mavericks. After pressing Command+T, now I always have at least one tab in the Finder window.

How do I turn the tabs off?


texts: The Download Preview window in the Dock - how to change sequence

texts:
Since 10.11, the order of items in the Downloads folder in the Dock has changed to alphabetic. Is it possible to change it to show by date?

Thanks


texts: Play powerpoint video or music while using other programs at same time

texts: How can you have Powerpoint to continue to play the music or video while you are working on another program? It always stops the music or video I am showing to the audience while I click out of powerpoint and work on email while they are watching the video.


texts: Found a 52.1GB file related to google in mac 'private' folder. can I delete this?

texts:
I checked the storage on my macbook and discovered the 'system' was using nearly 150 GB.

I looked around online and discovered the app OmniDiskSweeper. I gave it a go and discovered a massive file that appears to be related to google chrome, located in /private/var/folders/j9/T/com.google.Chrome/zip_cache-9F00A5C9-014F-4D48-AC13-2F74C26F4Fc7-31472-000034BBAF5DAD8A

Does anyone have any idea what this could be, and how it could be so large? can I delete it?

When i try manually searching for any of those files in finder, it turns up blank.  omnidisksweep is the only way I can see it (that I know of anyways) and thus the only way to delete it as well.  I really want to destroy this file but afraid to destroy some crucial thing on my computer.

Any advice greatly appreciated!


texts: Show all applications using keyboard shortcut

texts:
Problem:

Show all installed applications in the /Applications folder using keyboard shortcut.

Desired solution:

Potential utility/tool that runs in the background to show all applications upon keyboard shotcut. I know there has been a software that does this but do not remember the name.

Any suggestions?


texts: Is it possible to hide the address bar and status bar in iOS 7 Safari?

texts:
Is it possible to hide the address bar and status bar in iOS 7?

In a landscape app I'm currently using the below code to do it for previous iOS versions and it work well even on IOS 7: when opening the page it goes full screen and stay so.

JS:

window.addEventListener("load",function() {
    // Set a timeout...
    setTimeout(function(){
        // Hide the address bar!
        window.scrollTo(0, 1);
    }, 0);
});

HTML:

<!-- For iOS web apps -->
<meta name="apple-mobile-web-app-capable" content="yes">
<meta name="apple-mobile-web-app-status-bar-style" content="black">
<meta name="apple-mobile-web-app-title" content="AMC Walking Dead Story Sync">
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0, maximum-scale=1.0, minimum-scale=1.0, user-scalable=no">

The fact is that on iOS 7 iPhone and iPad when tapping the bottom of the screen the address bar and status bar appear and the only way to get rid of it is to change the phone orientation and then change it back to the previous orientation.
Is there anyway to avoid that manipulation?


texts: Sharing folder with video player using samba

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I'm trying to share macbook folder with asus o'play.

OS X recently updated to Yosemite.

Here is errors in log:

Nov 19 15:19:25 Mac.local digest-service[1046]: digest-request: uid=0
Nov 19 15:19:25 Mac.local digest-service[1046]: digest-request: netr probe 0
Nov 19 15:19:25 Mac.local digest-service[1046]: digest-request: init request
Nov 19 15:19:25 Mac.local digest-service[1046]: digest-request: init return domain: MAC server: MAC indomain was: <NULL>
Nov 19 15:19:25 Mac.local digest-service[1046]: digest-request: uid=0
Nov 19 15:19:25 Mac.local digest-service[1046]: digest-request: init request
Nov 19 15:19:25 Mac.local digest-service[1046]: digest-request: init return domain: MAC server: MAC indomain was: <NULL>
Nov 19 15:19:25 Mac.local digest-service[1046]: digest-request: uid=0
Nov 19 15:19:25 Mac.local digest-service[1046]: digest-request: init request
Nov 19 15:19:25 Mac.local digest-service[1046]: digest-request: init return domain: MAC server: MAC indomain was: <NULL>
Nov 19 15:19:25 Mac.local digest-service[1046]: digest-request: uid=0
Nov 19 15:19:25 Mac.local digest-service[1046]: digest-request: od failed with 2 proto=ntlmv1-with-v2-session
Nov 19 15:19:25 Mac.local digest-service[1046]: digest-request: user=WORKGROUP\OPlayer
Nov 19 15:19:25 Mac.local digest-service[1046]: digest-request: kdc failed with -1561745600 proto=ntlmv1
Nov 19 15:19:25 Mac.local digest-service[1046]: digest-request: guest failed with -1561745590 proto=ntlmv1-with-v2-session
Nov 19 15:19:26 Mac.local digest-service[1046]: digest-request: uid=0
Nov 19 15:19:26 Mac.local digest-service[1046]: digest-request: init request
Nov 19 15:19:26 Mac.local digest-service[1046]: digest-request: init return domain: MAC server: MAC indomain was: <NULL>
Nov 19 15:19:26 Mac.local digest-service[1046]: digest-request: uid=0
Nov 19 15:19:26 Mac.local digest-service[1046]: digest-request: init request
Nov 19 15:19:26 Mac.local digest-service[1046]: digest-request: init return domain: MAC server: MAC indomain was: <NULL>
Nov 19 15:19:26 Mac.local digest-service[1046]: digest-request: uid=0
Nov 19 15:19:26 Mac.local digest-service[1046]: digest-request: init request
Nov 19 15:19:26 Mac.local digest-service[1046]: digest-request: init return domain: MAC server: MAC indomain was: <NULL>
Nov 19 15:19:26 Mac.local digest-service[1046]: digest-request: uid=0
Nov 19 15:19:26 Mac.local digest-service[1046]: digest-request: od failed with 2 proto=ntlmv1-with-v2-session
Nov 19 15:19:26 Mac.local digest-service[1046]: digest-request: user=MYGROUP\OPlayer
Nov 19 15:19:26 Mac.local digest-service[1046]: digest-request: kdc failed with -1561745600 proto=ntlmv1
Nov 19 15:19:26 Mac.local digest-service[1046]: digest-request: guest failed with -1561745590 proto=ntlmv1-with-v2-session

There are some workarounds, but they are for desktops. How I can login to mac using, when there are no access to player settings?


texts: Is there a Terminal command to open a Mac menu bar item?

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Suppose I want to open a specific app which has an icon on the menu bar tray, is it possible to do it using a shell command?

In my case, there is an app called "Quick View Calendar" (available in Mac App Store) which shows up in the Menu bar, which I would like to open with a Terminal command and to use that code to run an Automator service to


texts: Will it work to turn off iCloud photos on 1 mac to allow pruning library on another mac

texts: I recently turned off iCloud in order to change Apple ID.  I turned it back on before the photos were deleted from my Mac #1.  Now it wants to reupload, but has to compare the photos to what is in the cloud.  I have a huge photos library of about 700GB.  I want to turn off iCloud for photos on Mac #1, let the photos be deleted from the mac, and then cull photos from the photos library on another mac which has iCloud turned on, before turning the cloud back on for the original mac.  My hope is to decrease the ultimate size of the library and I don't want to wait for it finish comparing the photos it thinks it needs to re-upload.  Is there any reason this won't work, or is a bad idea?  Thank you for any input.


texts: How to set "Tap to click" on guest accounts in macOS Mojave?

texts:
I setup new MacBooks with macOS Mojave having the "Tap to click" setting on in Trackpad settings. However, when a guest user logs in, this isn't set. Almost all other Trackpad settings are the same as the initial Admin user, except the "Tap to click."

Is there a way to make the "Tap to click" setting the default for guest users?


texts: What speed does the home network need to be so that Air Play is the same as connected by a cable?

texts:
If the home network is running 802.11n or 802.11ac, can the Air Play from a Macbook to Apple TV video playback be guaranteed to be the same as if connected by a cable?

There may be 2 Wifi or up to 3 Wifi data streams happening: (1) from the NAS to the Macbook (by Wifi), and then (2) from the Macbook to the Wifi router, and (3) from the Wifi router to the Apple TV. If the video files in on the Macbook locally, then there will be 2 data streams only (the (2) and (3) above).

Besides, is there a monitor tool that can show the data is only at a 33%, 50% or 80% of the max Wifi bandwidth, to show that it is running smoothly in general?


texts:
This problem started happening today. When using command + X using the Left command key, there seems to be no response from the Mac.
(Note: this is for cutting and pasting text.)
However, when using the Right Command key for cutting text, things seem to be working just fine.
The Left Command Key works fine when using any other Key combinations such as command + Space, command + C, command + V .
The Left Command on its own is working fine, just not with command + X
I haven't been able to pinpoint the issue yet, I tried a restart, but nothing yet. I'll post an update once I try clearing PRAM and SMC.
Update
Cleared PRAM / SMC.. No luck.
Update 2
I noticed that command + X just does not register at all if I press the Left Command key...


texts: What is standard for OS X filesystem? e.g. /opt/ vs. /usr/

texts:
What does and should go into /opt/ and what should/does go into /usr/?  My understanding is that /usr/ used to be for user home directories, but since they exist in /Users/ - what is the purpose now?

Is there a manual or guide to what all of the built-in directories should be used for?  Like what is /home/, or /net/?


texts: Can you turn off auto-complete/auto-correct in mobile Safari? It's awful for SO

texts:
I have an iPad Pro with a Logitech keyboard. It is almost useable for day-to-day light work.

However, the auto-complete/auto-correct feature in mobile Safari is truly awful when posting to Stack Overflow. In particular, it keeps converting back-ticks (`) to abbreviations like "1st" or "10th". Is there a way to turn off auto-correct for a specific website?

I found several posts talking about how to disable auto-correct in the HTML of a website. I'm talking about as a user.


texts: How can I charge my MacBook Pro at work?

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I have a 15" 2019 MBP and want to be able to charge it at work without carrying my adapter and cable back and forth. At work I have a Dell OptiPlex 7050 and two Dell monitors (one is HDMI, the other is VGA/DVI). Unfortunately, the way the office is set up I don't have easy access to an actual plug into a wall....

So far I've tried plugging my USB-C cable from my MBP to the Dell desktop. With that, the computer recognizes it's plugged into a power source (gets the little charging icon and says "Power source: Power adapter") but also states that the "Battery is not charging" and the percentage continues to drop. So that didn't work.

Are there any other suggestions?

Would be helpful to get input on a few things:

Is there a way to get the USB-C from the Dell desktop to work?
Would USB-A from the Dell desktop with a USB-A to USB-C cable work any better?
Do all computer monitors allow pass through charging? What would be the best way to go about trying this (HDMI? VGA? DVI? Or USB-A?)


texts: Blurry display in Windows 10 on VMware Fusion Pro on MacBook Pro Retina

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I have a 15 inch mid 2015 MacBook Pro Retina with El Captian on it. I recently installed VMware Fusion Pro in that and created a new VM and installed Windows 10 64Bit. The problem I'm having is that the resolution is very bad when I use to this Win 10 in my VM. The texts are blurry.

My Mac's resolution is 2880*1800 (Intel Iris Pro graphics) and i thought if i change my Windows resolution to the same values, it would fix it. But I can't even see that kind of resolution in my Windows display options.

You can see the blurriness in the text Identity and Detect. (I tried different resolutions and ended up with the setting 1440*900. I also adjusted the text size to be 125%)

How do I fix my resolution issue so that my Windows 10 is also sharp. Is it a problem where Windows 10 is not capable of supporting Retina displays ?

Here is another screenshot of what I am having. The left side is chrome in my Mac and right side is Chrome in my Windows 10.


texts: Game Centre cannot be quit in El Capitan 10.11.6

texts: Like this image suggests, the game centre cannot be quit, and there is nothing there. All I can do to quit the game centre is to force quit it. Does anyone know how to solve this? Is this kind of bug or something similar? I did not open the game centre before. This is the first time I open it since I installed el capitan.


texts: Proper backup procedure for upgrading to OS X Mountain Lion

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I'm rarely an early adopter of new software, but I'm taking the plunge today and buying Mountain Lion. I don't know if it will break anything important (I run a few rather obscure programs on my mid-2011 Macbook Air), nor if I will like it. I have a current Time Machine backup, but no bootable clone. I can afford to be without the use of my computer for a few hours should things go horribly wrong and I need to restore it.

I'm considering charging ahead and installing Mountain Lion with just a Time Machine backup (in part so I can get up and answering ML questions on this site!). Is this a reasonable course of action or incredibly stupid, and if so, what should I be doing instead?


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The instructions for a tool to move WhatsApp messages from Android to iOS say that I need to install:

* `Whatsapp.ipa` of the same version (google will help)

Whatsapp.ipa appears to be the app itself. How do I locate it? After backing up an iPhone using iTunes on a Mac, only the data seem to be in ~/Library/Application Support/MobileSync/Backup (with coded filenames). The apps do not seem to be there (as would be expected; that would be wasted storage).

A comment below this answer suggests that it's somewhere under ~/Library, but

> find ~/Library/Group\ Containers -name "*what*" -print

yields nothing.

(I'm working my way through this problem.)


texts: MacBook Pro lock screen hotkey without sleeping?

texts: I'd like to press a key combo to get my computer to the lock screen. In Windows the shortcut was Windows keyL. On Mac I press CMDALTPower which turns the laptop off and puts it into sleep. I want to just have it go to the lock screen with the monitor staying on.


texts: Do I need Lion on a MacBook to use iCloud?

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As a new user, I'm trying to wrap my brain around iCloud for backup and am wondering if the following things are all true:

Can I use iCloud to back up all the files on my MacBook?
To use iCloud, do I need Lion installed (as opposed to older Mac OS)?
After I've bought Lion, is there a fee to use iCloud with my mac?


texts: How to connect HP F1903 monitor to MacBook Pro?

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I connected my HP Pavilion F1903 monitor to my MacBook Pro using the Rocketfish adapter I purchased from the Apple salesman at Best Buy.  The monitor is turned on, but what's showing up on my laptop screen is not appearing on the monitor.  How do I get my laptop to talk to my external monitor?

PS:  My monitor is probably 7 years old, and my MacBookPro is less than 2 years old.


texts: Why does AirDrop keep turning itself off?

texts: I have iOS 11.2.2 Installed on an iPhone 8. Periodically, someone will try to send me something via AirDrop and it’s turned off. I NEVER turn it off. I never turn off Bluetooth. I do sometimes turn off Wi-Fi in order to disconnect from my home Wi-Fi when I’m driving away but I turn it back on after. When I find AirDrop turned off, I always turn it back on and then a few days later, I’ll try to use it and it’s off again. What could be causing this??


texts: How to disable SpeedStep/XCPM on Macbook Pro 11,1 OSX 10.10.2?

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Does anybody know how to disable OSX from throttling/underclocking the CPU on a Macbook when the battery gets low on power? I think the feature is called SpeedStep. The problem is that my battery is damaged and no longer works so I have to run my Macbook off of the power adaptor and I would like the system to run up to speed, instead of at 0.8 GHz, so I can use it until I get a new battery. I have a Macbook Pro 13" Late 2013 i5 2.6 GHz with Retina(11,1). It's running OSX Yosemite 10.10.2 with Darwin kernel version 14.1.0.

I've already tried these kernel patches with no luck:

perl -pi -e 's|\xe2\x00\x00\x00\x02\x00\x00\x00|\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00|g' kernel
perl -pi -e 's|\xe2\x00\x00\x00\x4c\x00\x00\x00|\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00|g' kernel
perl -pi -e 's|\xe2\x00\x00\x00\x90\x01\x00\x00|\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00|g' kernel
I've also heard of a "NullCPUPowerManagement.kext" kernel extension, but I'm not sure if that would work on my system. I know there are some hackintosh boot loaders, such as clover, that support modified SSDT and DSDT, but I'm not sure if that will work for my problem. Any help is greatly appreciated!


texts: How do restore an iOS 12 beta backup to a new iPhone running iOS 11?

texts: I have an iPhone 7+ that is running iOS 12 beta. I got a new iPhone X and I want to have it mirror the 7+ by restoring the X from the backup. When I try to do this process, it seems that the X gets the OS wiped and restored to iOS 11, there it is not possible to restore the iOS 12 backup. Is there another way of doing this? Or a workaround? Help! Thanks.


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Why are supported devices for Handoff feature so strict to a small set of devices?

http://support.apple.com/en-us/HT6555


texts: HD Video Capture software for Logitech Web Cam?

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I have a Logitech HD C910 webcam for which Logitech has no up-to-date drivers. They stopped updating for Mac at 10.6.

I would just write it off, like so many webcams before it. But it's an AWESOME camera. Its color balance and low-light clarity are just outstanding. It would be a shame to throw away such a great camera. Especially since I have several.

And, while the Logitech software crashes and burns upon launching, other apps can at least partially see the camera. FaceTime and PhotoBooth, for example. They don't have video capture, however. Final Cut Pro, which does have video capture, does not see it.

So...looking for recommendations for other applications or utilities I might use to capture video from it. Failing that, looking for replacement recommendations. Not from Logitech, apparently, because they don't seem to support Mac.


texts: search Apple Notes -> jump or highlight position where match search term in note

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I search all my notes for "fix". Apple Notes shows all notes where "fix" is matched.

When I click on one match "19/06/16 Howto fix replicati..." I have problems finding the term fix in this big note document. Some of my notes about 2000 lines.

Is there some jump to result or highlight result?


texts: Safari History gets deleted after a while?

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Okay, I've had this problem for like 2 years and I'm absolutely pissed off about it. For some reason, (even though I have set "Delete History" to "Manual") my Safari history keeps getting deleted. For example, my oldest entry is 2015, 29 January. Yesterday when I checked it, the oldest date was 2015, 28 January. So for everyday that goes, it keeps deleting my history!

Why does this problem occur? And before you say that I should delete my history file; I already did, I tried that back in October but I still have the same problem.