texts: Is it possible to change the file format of Grab.app?

texts: I know that you can change the format used by ⌘⇧3 and ⌘⇧4 (SE answer and external source), but is it also possible to change the format of Grab.app (uses TIFF)?


texts: iOS 12.2 unknown words can be dragged around, but why?

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By accident I've discovered the following:

I open the messages app and write some text in the message area
I write a word that the phone doesn't have in its dictionary and it gets a red dotted underline
I tap on it and it gains a pink highlight and the black menu appears suggesting alternative words

At this point I can hold my finger on the red highlight and then drag the word around the screen. It appears in a white background rounded rectangle with a superimposed green plus, while the misspelled word in the message box is a grey color. The keyboard disappears.

I haven't been able to figure out what else to do with it- dropping it on various parts of the screen doesn't seem to do anything. I did wonder if it added it to the dictionary but it seems like such a bizarre UI for doing this, and the next time I write the word it still suggested as a misspelling..

What is this functionality for?


texts: Mail.app has no entry for from: gmail-account

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I'm using OSX10.11.4. I've got several mail accounts and use mail.app to receive and send mails. One of these accounts is a gmail Account. I'm able to receive all mails with mail.app but I can't send a mail from my gmail Account.

With all other accounts it's possible to receive and send, gmail is the only one where I'm only able to receive but not to send mails. If I want to send a mail the gmail account is not listed at the from dropdown-field.

I used default settings to set up the account at mail.app and does not change something.

Hope someone has an idea.


texts: Apple Script - How do I check if the bounds of a window are equal to specific values?

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I know that the following code can adjust the bounds of a specific window

set bounds of (front window of application "Notes") to {0, 0, 540, 300}

But how do I check if the bounds of a window are equal to specific values?

(macOS Catalina)


texts: 15" MacBook Pro 2016 External Monitors cause screen flickering

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I've had my Macbook for a while, and since I now have gotten a new desk and monitors, I've hooked them up for a dual external display setup. I've linked the products I use below.

HDMI Cords x2
HP Pavilion 21.5-Inch IPS LED HDMI VGAMonitors x2
Redragon M601 Gaming Mouse
2 Official Adapters

When I wake my Mac from sleep, often times the first monitor turns on, and begins flickering, dimming the display and then going black, and repeating the cycle. Again with the MacBook display. The third monitor often just doesn't turn on, which I imagine is causing the infinite loop.

I've contacted Apple support numerous times and setup Genius Bar Appointments. I've reset the NVRAM and all of the things you can reset on boot. Anyone know whats going on or why this is happening? Preferably how to fix it.

Anything is appreciated.


texts: Recover in-memory Pages data from failed hibernation wakeup

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My girlfriend's Macbook crashed while attempting to restore from a hibernated file. The progress bar stopped at ~10%, after which we restarted the computer for a normal startup.

This hibernated memory image had an unsaved document open in Pages, which we'd like to recover. There is a sleepimage in /private/var/vm, which I assume is the hibernate image which never got correctly restored. We backed up this thing to keep it alive.

We tried to strings sleepimage | grep known_substring but it returned nothing. grep -a known_substring sleepimage also did nothing, so I'm assuming that Pages didn't keep the text data in memory as plain text.

Edit: After reading this answer on Binary grep I tried to perl -ln0777e 'print unpack("H*",$1), "\n", pos() while /(null_padded_substring)/g' sleepimage, again being fruitless. I padded it with nulls in order to attempt a match for UTF-8 text. Then I tried with .* globs between each character –- still no dice.

So Pages probably doesn't store text by any common encoding in memory. I would need to find a translation rule between ASCII string and Pages data representation -- I'm thinking maybe some kind of Objective C string buffer. To me it seems very weird to store character data as anything else than a sequence of characters, but this seems to be what Pages is doing.

If you have any idea on how to figure out the in-memory representation of text inside Pages, it might be very helpful in solving this problem. Maybe I can dump and read the process memory in some simple way?

Another possible solution is simpler -- I'm assuming it is somehow possible to reboot the computer from this sleepimage, but I can't find any documentation as to how you would proceed with that. Some other users (macrumors) seem to have encountered this, but for all the forum questions I've found, none of them have responses.

The OS X version is Snow Leopard, 10.6.8.

Complex suggestions involving programming are welcome. I do C and Python.

Thank you.


texts: Wirelessly play audio from an iPad to a Mac

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Is it possible to send audio from an iPad to a Mac to make use of speakers connected to Mac? Either Bluetooth or WiFi will work, it doesn't matter to me.

The problem is, it's much easier to play something on the iPad because of its excellent music apps infrastructure (for example, TuneIn). However the iPad speaker quality is poor, and I am searching for another way to listen to music from it.


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Hi. In my workspace I have these frequently used folders that I keep in my dock, but I find it annoying that I have to right click and click "open" every time i want to open them. Is there some way I can click the folders and it just opens?

I know that making an alias does the trick but I also like to drag files right into the folder on the dock and an alias doesnt let you do that.

Or does someone else have some creative idea to do both. Thanks. Im working on El-capitan.


texts: Applescript and SpeechRecognitionServer: reading in a file as "listen for"

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In place of the list in

tell app "SpeechRecognitionServer to set theQueryList to listen for {"list item 1", "list item 2"...}

I'd like to read in a text file that contains the list. Something like

set theQueryList to read POSIX file "/Users/username/folder/text.txt"

The file text.txt contains a list, written out as

"list item 1", "list item 2", ... "list item n"

without brackets and in utf8 (I hope) format. (I created the file by cat'ing it in Terminal.)

This works, somewhat. I mean: I can display the list from text.txt  in a dialog, and I can use it in a repeat loop. But it doesn't trigger SpeechRecognitionServer when spoken. (I don't know a better way to say this.) I should mention that when I paste the list from this file into the script, it works fine. So the list items don't seem to be at fault -- nor how I say them.

Apologies if I'm a bit fuzzy in my wording here. Grateful for your ideas. Thanks.


texts: When I turn my iphone 5 sideways it has no problem going into landscape mode but when I try to lock it, it goes back to portrait mode


texts: Yosemite upgrade frozen, what should I do?

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I'm trying to upgrade a Macbook Pro to Yosemite. It downloaded everything just fine, restarted the machine into the installer process. That went just fine until it just stopped.

It's on the "Installing on 'Macintosh HD'" screen with a progressbar sitting at around 60% and says "About 29 minutes remaining". It's been sitting in that same spot for over two hours now.

Does anyone have any advice on what to do at this point?

UPDATE: I ended up holding down the power button to halt the machine, turned it on again, and hoped that it would start okay. It did. :)  It just appeared to restart the install process, and everything was fine. It got to the last minute or so and took quite awhile, but it did finish.

Apparently having Homebrew installed, or something else which stores a bunch of files in /usr/local, will cause this last-minute slowdown of the installer. You can either move those files before you install or you can just wait it out during the last minute.

I'm really not sure what caused the installer to halt at the 29 minute mark. But just turning it off/on did not hurt anything.


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Please refer to the Mac OSX search attributes mentioned below. Any idea what's the difference between "Document Container" and "Folder Name"? Also what's the expected value of "Containing Folder Names" - a slash-delimited list of folders?

This question comes to me because they don't seem to work as expected. For instance, I've setup a Smart Folder using "Folder Name" like this:

This doesn’t give me any result at all, despite the fact that I have several pdf documents stored in a folder named "pdf". The same goes with "Document Container":

For "Containing Folder Names", I don't even know how to specify the value that would hit a match. Trying this one doesn't give results either:


texts: Why can't I open downloads from Google Chrome's download bar?

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For some reason, clicking on downloads in the Google Chrome download bar does nothing any more; I'm pretty sure it did until some time recently, but it's been a while since it did.

Also, choosing "Show in Finder" doesn't work. So, it seems that Chrome in general can't open anything in the Finder.

If anyone knows what is causing that, I'd love to know it, or alternately, how I could go about troubleshooting it myself.

Edit in response to comments:

I've tried re-downloading it, although not running it from another directory; I'll try that at home.
I'll give it a shot.
No, the downloads list is no more functional than the download bar with respect to Finder integration.


texts: How to turn off display by pressing the power button of MacBook Pro 2016? (Changing the behaviors of the power buttons)

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I'd like to know how to change the behaviors of the power button of the MacBook Pro to have "turn off display" function. (As far as I know, default setting of a single press of the button gives you nothing or switching users depending on situations.)
I noticed a similar question was asked many years ago in the link below.
How do you change the behavior of the power button in Lion?
However, this terminal tip is outdated (press to sleep is not default anymore) and I want to have the display turned off instead of hibernating the whole system or popping up a dialogue. My university Ethernet disconnects any hibernated devices and that's why I'd just like to have the display off (and locked simultaneously).
(I added "turn off display" button at the far-right side of the Touch Bar, but it's definitely a waste of Touch Bar real estate. More Touch Bar space for scribbling videos is desired...)
As I couldn't find anything that satisfies my situations above, let me ask you all. ♂


texts:
I tried to rename the hard drive of my Macbook from "Macintosh HD" to something else without the freaking space. However, after renaming it, many of my applications showed errors immediately and I stupidly restarted my computer.

Right now, I cannot log in to my user account because of an error. Everything is blocked.

If someone can tell me how to change the harddrive name back without logging into my previous account?


texts: Is it possible to install Linux packages on OS X?

texts: I know that the Mac commandline is very similar to that of Linux operating systems, so it would be nice to use some features of Linux in my Mac, specially installing Linux packages. For example, in Linux we can install a package by simply typing sudo apt-get install "package name" at the prompt. Is it possible to do something like this on Mac?


texts: Cannot move files from one drive to another in Mac OS X El Capitan 10.11.3 (they copy instead)

texts: When I try to move a file to my WD My Passport Ultra external drive it just copies the file. It doesn't actually move them. What can I do to fix this?


texts: I would like to write a script to change the service order from Ethernet 1 to Ethernet 2.  Any help would be appreciated.


texts: Macbook Pro (Mid 2012) Battery Not Charging

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I have a Macbook Pro (Mid 2012) 13" unibody and having issues with a battery that is not charging.

Here are the specifics:

Battery is not charging
Magsafe light not illuminating at all
Macbook is being powered off of the charger
Current battery charge level remains relatively unchanged as long as the computer is being powered by the charger
Macbook will not power up/respond with charger connected and battery removed
I have 2 chargers, both exhibit the same behavior
I just replaced the battery with a new OEM battery, no change
Macbook sees the battery
Condition = Normal

Health Information:

Cycle Count:    1
Condition:  Normal
Battery Installed:  Yes
Amperage (mA):  0
Voltage (mV):   11898

Here is what I have done so far...

I have replaced the battery with a new OEM battery, but this did not solve the problem.  I have also tried doing an SMC reset and a battery recalibration (remove battery, wait 5 seconds, plug in Magsafe, hold power button for 5 seconds, etc...), but none of the common possible fixes have worked.  The next step would be to replace the DC-In board, but I wanted to see if I can get any more specific insights before I go throwing more $$ at the problem.

So, my more specific question would be, based on the information I have provided, is if the issue can be narrowed down or isolated to a particular part or area of the system, and/or if there are any other possible fixes or troubleshooting steps I can attempt?

Below is the full text of the system power report:

Battery Information:

Model Information:
Serial Number:  W00505W75D3LA
Manufacturer:   SMP
Device Name:    bq20z45
Pack Lot Code:  0
PCB Lot Code:   0
Firmware Version:   201
Hardware Revision:  000a
Cell Revision:  165
Charge Information:
Charge Remaining (mAh): 4240
Fully Charged:  No
Charging:   No
Full Charge Capacity (mAh): 5781

Health Information:

Cycle Count:    1
Condition:  Normal
Battery Installed:  Yes
Amperage (mA):  0
Voltage (mV):   11898

System Power Settings:

AC Power:

System Sleep Timer (Minutes):   0
Disk Sleep Timer (Minutes): 0
Display Sleep Timer (Minutes):  0
Wake on AC Change:  No
Wake on Clamshell Open: Yes
Wake on LAN:    Yes
AutoPowerOff Delay: 14400
AutoPowerOff Enabled:   1
Current Power Source:   Yes
Display Sleep Uses Dim: Yes
Hibernate Mode: 3
PrioritizeNetworkReachabilityOverSleep: 0
Standby Delay:  4200
Standby Enabled:    1

Battery Power:

System Sleep Timer (Minutes):   15
Disk Sleep Timer (Minutes): 10
Display Sleep Timer (Minutes):  15
Wake on AC Change:  No
Wake on Clamshell Open: Yes
AutoPowerOff Delay: 14400
AutoPowerOff Enabled:   1
Display Sleep Uses Dim: Yes
Hibernate Mode: 3
Reduce Brightness:  Yes
Standby Delay:  4200
Standby Enabled:    1

Hardware Configuration:

UPS Installed:  No

AC Charger Information:

Connected:  Yes
ID: 0x0000
Revision:   0x0000
Family: 0x0000
Serial Number:  0x00000000
Charging:   No


texts: What functionality do 'marks' offer in the El Capitan Terminal?

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Since upgrading to OS X El Capitan, I've noticed a change in the Terminal: Executed lines show an opening bracket on the left, and a closing bracket on the right, as shown in this screenshot:

Similar questions have been asked here:

https://superuser.com/questions/974714/previous-commands-wrapped-with-square-brackets-in-os-x-terminal
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/32888295/why-is-a-being-added-to-my-prompt-after-upgrading-to-os-x-10-11
Changes to Terminal in El Capitan
Why is there a left bracket before my bash prompt?
New Terminal behavior after upgrading to OS X 10.11

Some of the questions are referring to these brackets as marks, and the Terminal's Edit menu has a couple of entries related to marks, for example:

Edit > Marks > Mark as Prompt and Send Return
Edit > Clear to Previous Mark
Edit > Navigate > Jump to Previous Mark

Is there a summary of what these marks can be used for? I have not seen any reference to this new feature in any of the El Capitan feature overviews.


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While trying to modify a property list I was rather surprised to receive the following error

sh-3.2# cp com.apple.mDNSResponder.plist com.apple.mDSNResponder.plist.backup
cp: com.apple.mDSNResponder.plist.backup: Operation not permitted

and the Console has the following log entry:

10/28/15 1:12:55.886 PM sandboxd[118]: ([13463]) cp(13463) System Policy: deny file-write-create /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.mDSNResponder.plist.backup

Which goes against the traditional UNIX paradigm of giving a user enough rope to hang themselves and a couple feet more. So my question would be, how can I configure sandbox permissions on OS X 10.11? I can't seem to find much documentation on them. Even where to store them seems ambiguous as I see them in framework bundles, in /System/Library/Sandbox/Profiles and /usr/share/sandbox.


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I saved a web application to my home screen, but the icon on the home screen opens a different URL. Somehow the URL of the bookmark that was saved to the home screen does not match the URL that was in the address bar.

Steps to reproduce

On an any iOS device... (I used an iPhone XR)
Browse to https://bc.thrive.health/covid19app/home
Press the Share  button
Choose "Add to Home Screen"
Notice that the URL in the pop-up prompt https://bc.thrive.health is different from the URL in the address bar.

What causes this? How does iOS determine what URL will be used when adding to the home screen, and in what circumstances can it be different from the URL in the address bar?


texts: Stop Chrome from switching to dedicated GPU

texts:
Is there a way to prevent Chrome from switching to dedicated GPU?
But just Chrome. Not the gfxCardStatus way.

rMBP (late 2013)


texts: Keyboard shortcut to change the behavior of function keys?

texts:
Is there a shortcut for toggling the behavior of the function keys between standard and the media functions printed on them?

I know I can do this in the Preferences, but it would be great to achieve this quickly from the keyboard.


texts:
On iPhone you can immediately lock all sensitive information by pressing the side button five times.
On Mac you can hold down the power button.
What is the equivalent for Apple Watch?
Also, since your Apple Watch can unlock your phone and/or Mac, what is the full panic sequence needed to secure all Apple digital devices from a "break down your door, hands up" threat actor?


texts: How to access the equalizer in iTunes 11?

texts: How do you access the equalizer in iTunes 11?  Or is just gone?


texts: Where is Active Directory configuration information stored?

texts:
I'm curious as to where Active Directory configurations are stored on Mac OS X 10.6. "man dsconfigad" and "man dscl" are both silent on where those utilities store/read their information.

In particular, I want to find where the AD binding authentication information is stored (hopefully securely?).


texts: Son playing on IPad instead of doing homework

texts: My son is playing with his IPad instead of doing his homework on it.  Is there an app to see what apps he is using along with how long he is on each app?


texts: Can I know in what Mac macOS was installed for a given storage?

texts: I sometimes need to get some forensic information from Macs. One is this: I have a hard drive, SSD or flash storage that I removed from a mac and that has macOS installed, I then install it in another same mac or into an external enclosure so I can either start the mac from this storage or connect it to a USB port; can I get any information from that storage, such as from a log file, that would let me know in what mac the macOS was installed?, such as the serial number of the mac, or the MAC address (Physical address of the network card) or at least the Mac model of the Mac that was used to install the operating system?.


texts: Is there a way (probably an app) that lets you see all global (and possibly local) keyboard shortcuts that have been defined? Something similar to ActiveHotkeys on Windows. I dislike assigning new keyboard shortcuts without being sure that they won't cause shortcut collision.


texts:
Is there a way (perhaps using a third-party app) to make one of my Spaces permanently locked to a single app (in this case, TextEdit)?

I want to have all my TextEdit windows and nothing else in one Space, at all times.  I never want TextEdit to open windows anywhere besides my TextEdit-dedicated Space.


texts: Keyboard shortcut in Word 2011 to send document as email attachment?

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In MS Office 2011 for Mac, there is a useful menu option under:

File > Share > Email (as Attachment)...

It's a very quick way to get from editing to email.  Is there a way to assign this to a keyboard shortcut? I'd be be glad if I can do this with the already-installed tools, but would consider a third party tool as well.

What I have tried:  Word's own keyboard tool under "Tools > Customize Keyboard..."  I can find no listing of this menu item (under 'file' 'share' or 'email').

Nor does the OSX (Mountain Lion) Keyboard Shortcuts preferences tool help.  I've tried a shortcut for both "Share" and "E-mail (as Attachment)".  The first one shows up in the MS Word "File" Menu, but does nothing in practice except blink the menu header.  The second one simply does nothing.

Is there a way to set up a keyboard shortcut for this option?  If not, do you have any other quick solution for achieving the same effect?  These are often files that I receive via email, so I'd rather not have to explicitly save them, note the location, then attach them from within an email program.  I want a quick edit & send.  The copy n my outbox is enough of a backup for me.


texts: Where to find files like pictures and music from Mac hard drive?

texts: So my father has a Mac that doesn't boot so I'm copying files from the hard drive to a USB. I am not a Mac user and am having difficulties finding where all the files like pictures and music would be stored. I would appreciate if people explained where I can find his desktop, music, and such. I am accessing the Terminal from the recovery section.


texts: I have a Panasonic DV camera which I cannot download via fire wire on the Camera and the USB on the iMac. (iMac doesn't pick up the camera). Apple recommend use of the thunderbolt port. I cannot trace a firewire to thunderbolt connector cable. Firewire to USB I have, and I am able to get a female USB connector. However, I cannot find a thunderbolt to USB to make this option possible. Anyone any suggestions please?


texts:
So UI printing fails with no reason as always.

I hope that I can get more details by printing from command line.

Tried

smbutil print //user@host/share file

got:

smbutil: unknown command print

Do I have to install something?

(I have OS X 10.10)


texts: OSX increase display font size without changing display resolution?

texts:
I am using an iMac 5k display. The system display font is really too small but the only way the system gives, the casual operator, to change the size of the system display font is to reduce the screen resolution. This frustrates me since I have a 5k screen and I want to use it for fine lines and large text/fonts simultaneously.

Another solution is to put my nose up against the screen or wear reading/computer glasses – these solutions are not what I seek.

I would imagine that there is a way to change this font size setting by using the console/terminal.

Does anyone know how to do that and would you be so kind as to share the information?


texts: Can an 85w MagSafe charger (model#: A1172) be used safely with a MBPro 13.3” retina?

texts:
I’ve read through a few threads on here on this subject - which give very detailed information - but just wish to ask, by way a safety/ sanity check, the following...

I have a MacBook Pro 13” Retina display (early 2013), which uses a Magsafe 2 60w charger.

The original, 60w charger has failed and I wish to confirm whether this charger I have will be safe to use with my MB Pro:

Apple 85w MagSafe charger for MacBook Pro.
Model#: A1172
Input: 100-240V-1.5A 50-60Hz
Output: 18.5V 4.6A

Link: full charger specs here >>

I have this from an earlier model MBPro I had.

If I wire this up, by soldering a Magsafe 2 replacement power cord to the board, will this work safely with the MBPro 13”?

Despite the info’ on other threads here confirming that it’s fine to use a 85w MagSafe with a mac that normally uses a 60w charger, I’m unsure whether this one will be safe due to it being an older model than those refered to; ie. older, larger/ rectangular model rather than the more recent square ones.

Would this be safe/ compatible despite this?

Thanks greatly for any help with - best wishes, AE


texts: Automator to save all images in multiple mail messages

texts: Is it possible to use automator to save all images from my Mail? I use Apple mail with 3 accounts, I want to filter messages by a criteria and get all the images from the messages? Can anyone tell me how can this be done?


texts:
I'm looking to do away with my Boot Camp partition. Now I've bought a 2 TB external drive, and I was wondering if it's possible to either install a Boot Camp partition onto the external drive, or failing that, how much of a performance drop I'll see if I install a VM via Parallels Desktop onto the external drive.

It's a USB 3 external drive.

My Mac is a MacBook Pro late '13, 2.4 GHz Intel i5, 8 GB of DDR3 RAM


texts: Recovery partition in the middle of the file system

texts:
I have a problem with my recovery partition. Before update to the el-capitan I had both osx and windows on the same ssd disc created with Boot Camp. The problem is that something went wrong during the upgrade to el-capitan, and I decided to remove the windows partition through Boot Camp. My disc has 250 GB, but for my system is available only 180GB, and I'm not able to find how I can extend the size of my partition. Below I'm attaching the screen from Disc Utility.

Do you know how can I use my free disc space? Probably I have to move my Recovery partition to the end of my disc, but I'm not so sure about that.

And here is the print screen from diskutil list command:


texts:
New iMac, newest version of Mavericks. When using Apple apps (it seems like all of them) a curious bug or feature can be observed when selecting some text.

A simple way to exhibit is to slowly select some text in the Safari address bar using the mouse button. While continuing to hold down the mouse button, move the cursor out of the text field and release the button (make sure you have moved completely out of the field before releasing the button). The cursor will continue to appear as an "I", instead of changing to a pointer (or whatever it should be given what the mouse cursor is now over) as might be expected. You probably will have to do this twice in a row to get it to happen.

Curiously, the same behavior is not observed in some non-Apple apps, so perhaps this is actually considered a feature somehow. I can't see how it could possibly be a bug because it is so obvious.

So my questions are - does this happen on your Mac? Any idea if this is a bug or a feature?


texts: Application to save state of all open applications and windows for context switching

texts:
I'm looking for an application that is able to capture the state of my mac (open applications, open folders, open files, window sizes, etc) such that I may be able to restore it to this state using a hotkey or equivalent.
I want to be able to have different 'mac states' to switch to on command so that when I am switching contexts, I am no longer having to go through the process of opening each application along with the folder/file I was previously working on.
I've found some decent answers on here including an in-depth look at manipulating .savedState files using apple script but I was hoping for a less tedious solution.


texts:
Unfortunately, I installed some of the apps mentioned on this list, and confirmed that the versions I have are still compromised by XcodeGhost: http://researchcenter.paloaltonetworks.com/2015/09/malware-xcodeghost-infects-39-ios-apps-including-wechat-affecting-hundreds-of-millions-of-users/

Of course, I have immediately removed them. But what I am concerned about is whether they have managed to hide the virus anywhere else in the system? The article doesn't explicitly address this, but did the virus manage to break out of iOS sandboxing?

Also, relatedly, does anyone know if the infected apps collected anything else besides those already reported by Palto Alto Networks?, e.g. texts, contact info, etc?

  Current time Current infected app’s name The app’s bundle identifier
  Current device’s name and type Current system’s language and country
  Current device’s UUID Network type

It's already been reported here that the malware phishes for iCloud passwords: http://researchcenter.paloaltonetworks.com/2015/09/update-xcodeghost-attacker-can-phish-passwords-and-open-urls-though-infected-apps/


texts: Stating the obvious, but, how do I get all my greasy finger prints off my screen? (Or for that matter, any kind of the usual dirt).


texts: Pip Installed Tools: "command not found" | Homebrew Installed Python Tools Work Fine

texts:
I installed Python 3 with Homebrew and a tool I was installing through Homebrew auto-installed Python 2.x. So, I have both and pip (etc) is installed for both, unlike the macOS default Python.

Python tools that I download through Homebrew/Core work fine. Anything I install through pip, pip2, pip3 gives me a bash response of "command not found".

ImgurDownloader
-bash: ImgurDownloader: command not found

ImgurDownloader -h
-bash: ImgurDownloader: command not found

Pip, itself, finds these tools installed without issue and believes they are all set up and ready to go.

pip show ImgurDownloader
DEPRECATION: Python 2.7 will reach the end of its life on January 1st, 2020. Please upgrade your Python as Python 2.7 won't be maintained after that date. A future version of pip will drop support for Python 2.7.
Name: ImgurDownloader
Version: 1.0
Summary: Download and discover imgur albums
Home-page: https://github.com/tiberiuichim/imgur-album-recursive-downloader
Author: Tiberiu Ichim
Author-email: tiberiu.ichim@gmail.com
License: GPL3
Location: /usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages
Requires: xdg, click, awesome-slugify, requests
Required-by:

The problem is not restricted to the tool used as an example above; it happens with every pip installed tool.

What's going on? Are the two Pythons crossing wires? Is there something missing from my path?

/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:~/Developer:/usr/local/ardua:/Applications/LibreOffice.app/Contents/MacOS/soffice:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/opt/ncurses/bin:/usr/local/opt/nss/bin:~/Library/Python/2.7/bin:~/Library/Python/2.7/lib/python/site-packages:/usr/local/opt/python2/bin:/usr/local/opt/python2/libexec:/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages:/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages:/usr/local/opt/sphinx-doc/bin

I can't figure out how to fix this because I don't understand what's broken.


texts: how to change NFS share name as displayed in OSX without reconfiguring NFS server?

texts:
I am mounting an NFS share named "storage" from my-host-here1.com. I also want to mount another NFS share named "storage" from my-host-here2.com.

I just want to know how can I change the share name as shown in Finder so it's easier for me to know which is which.

e.g.

"storage" from my-host-here1.com will be displayed as storage-here1
"stoarge" from my-host-here2.com will be displayed as storage-here2.

I set the auto-mounting by dragging the NFS share icon in my desktop to the login items in System Preferences.

I did search the net before creating this topic but not getting any luck.

Thanks very much :)

update: I am able to manually specify a share name when mounting via /etc/auto_master. BUT the share does not show in finder like shares (samba or NFS) made via Finder -> Connect to Server.


texts: What might be the problem with the authorization of my laptop while syncing the iPhone?

texts:
I tried to sync music onto my iPhone using iTunes.

The process was halted by a dialog box that said my computer wasn't authorized to sync the iPhone, so I have to authorize it. I did that and again tried to sync the iPhone, but the dialog box appears every time and the syncing process gets stopped.

Is there something up with iTunes or is the problem with the iPhone? I'm running iOS 7.1.1.


texts: Can I install an App from the Spain App Store (US Store is my default)?

texts: I'm in Spain for a few months and I have an Orange prepaid SIM card, and I'd like to install Orange's "mi Orange" app for checking my balance, usage, etc. The app is only available in the Spanish App Store. Can I install it?


texts:
I installed mysql via homebrew in osX 10.10. It comes with plist file located in /usr/local/opt/mysql/homebrew.mxcl.mysql.plist. The contents:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
  <key>KeepAlive</key>
  <true/>
  <key>Label</key>
  <string>homebrew.mxcl.mysql</string>
  <key>ProgramArguments</key>
  <array>
    <string>/usr/local/opt/mysql/bin/mysqld_safe</string>
    <string>--bind-address=127.0.0.1</string>
    <string>--datadir=/usr/local/var/mysql</string>
  </array>
  <key>RunAtLoad</key>
  <true/>
  <key>WorkingDirectory</key>
  <string>/usr/local/var</string>
</dict>
</plist>

I created a symlink, added permissions and stuff and said launchctl to load it and save.

sudo chown root:wheel /Library/LaunchAgents/homebrew.mxcl.mysql.plist
sudo chmod 644 /Library/LaunchAgents/homebrew.mxcl.mysql.plist
sudo launchctl load -w /Library/LaunchAgents/homebrew.mxcl.mysql.plist

But after reboot it doesn't load mysql as well as it doesn't save the entry. I can clearly see this using sudo launchctl list | grep mysql

How can I get the item to remain in launchd subsequent reboots?


texts: MacBook Pro RAM Failures when testing with rember

texts:
I am facing with an interesting problem that; if I use my both memory modules ( 2 x 8gb,1333 ) I am having memory issues and macbook crashes.

I did run some hardware tests (Pressing D during the start up of the machine) and while both modules connected having the issue written something like;

Alert! Apple Hardware Test has detected an error.

4MEM/9/40000000 0x84e9dc18

If I repeat the tests over and over again while both memory modules inserted; having the same issue with the last hex part (I assume it is the address on the module) different.

I am running the "Rember" tool to test the memory as well and again if both modules inserted it is failing but there is no issue so far while only one slot is being used.

Tested different slots with same module as well to understand if the issue is with the slot. But no luck (if I can call this luck. LoL) to reproduce the issue.

p.s : On all my tests (I did see 2 times different errors related to HDD (Samsung Pro SSD series).

Is there anything else (a tool a missing test etc..) I can try to see whats going on here with my machine guys ?

edit :

Model  : MacBook Pro (17-inch, Late 2011)
OS Version  : Sierra 10.12.6 (16G29)
Memory Brand : Corsair 8GB (per modeule)

  Problem started to happen on since 4 days. (I just closed the the
  screen down and put it into my bag). When I took it out at the airport
  to show it working to security guards I saw it was too hot. And then
  observe the problem.


texts: Cannot get postfix to listen on wifi interface (en1)

texts:
I have a Mac running 10.8.4 which I am using as a server which is only connected to my network via Wifi (en1), however I cannot get the stock postfix process to listen on en1.  I have tried a variety of inet_interfaces settings, for example the default setting of all, gives:

# netstat -an | fgrep .25
tcp6       0      0  ::1.25                 *.*                    LISTEN
tcp4       0      0  127.0.0.1.25           *.*                    LISTEN

I have also tried:

inet_interfaces = 192.168.1.100, 127.0.0.1
inet_interfaces = 192.168.1.0, 127.0.0.1
inet_interfaces = $myhostname

But I can see no listen on en1.  Can anyone advise?  Should I ditch the stock postfix and use the Macports one?

(note that I have unloaded and loaded postfix using launchctl between config changes).


texts: Getting syntax highlighting for Go working with Xcode 3 or 4

texts: Copied the syntax description files for Xcode included in the Go distribution as described here. However it still does not work in either Xcode 3 or 4. Has anyone gotten Go syntax highlighting to work in Xcode?


texts: How to control (only) Youtube Music with media keys

texts:
Is there a way to control only YouTube Music with media keys?
Currently, if I have YT Music playing in some window in the background and then open a YouTube video and want to pause the music - YouTube catches the media key.
I think it is configured to pass the media keys to the active/last active tab.
I rarely need to control YouTube with media keys so I would be fine with a setup that would work only with YT Music.
(I don't have Google Music Desktop app as that causes problems)
I also tried Google Chrome with disabled hardware media keys and the streamkeys extension which allows you to enable it for each site and define priority - next/previous track works but not play/pause. To be precise, pause works only when pressed within a second or two after play.


texts: Need El Capitan installer. Any Apple official link won't work. Need alternatives

texts:
I have a mid 2012 MBP. Came with Mountain Lion, upgraded to Mavericks in 2013 and never touched the OS X again. Long story short: I need El Capitan to run some work apps and it can't be newer because an essential piece of hardware won't work on Sierra or later. I installed High Sierra yesterday to confirm and because I didn't install El Capitan at the time, I can't do it now that Sierra/High Sierra are out. Is there a safe source here to download the installer (torrent)?

Thanks in advance.


texts:
I have a lovely jailbroken iPhone 4. Works fine. Very much enjoying being able to ssh into the device, but I can't help feeling I'm missing a few tricks with the ssh, would anyone be able to point me in the direction of where I might be able to do cool things? I'm interested to know if I can, for example:

Have the iPhone play music or make a noise via ssh command - would help when I know I've left it around the house somewhere...
Simulate a touch of the screen? (similar to, say, how Java's Robot package works on a desktop) Would be quite cool for executing macro commands...
Send an sms remotely (wishing now)
Any ideas? Anyone know if things like this are possible over ssh?


texts: How can I setup my printer to print in black and white as default?

texts: Is it possible to set up a printer, so it will always print in black and white?


texts: How do I create a blank desktop (on OS 10.7.5)

texts:
I realize that this isn't a new feature but I've never needed to use different workspaces on my computer until now and I'm having a bit of trouble.

I'm able to add a new desktop by entering Mission Control and hovering over the translucent + that appears and clicking on it. My problem is that when I go to that newly-created space, it's a copy of the existing cluttered original desktop. How do I create a blank desktop?


texts: iPhoto problem after upgrading to Mountain Lion

texts:
I had an iMac running Snow Leopard. When I upgraded to Lion, iPhoto didn't recognize the photo database and I spent a year organizing it again. The error message I received was something like: "iPhoto didn't recognize your backup".

I want to install Mountain Lion, but I am concerned that I will encounter the same problem again. What can I do to be sure everything will be work fine after installing Mountain Lion?


texts: Update to Yosemite: will I be able to sync iCal to iOS6/7?

texts:
I have Mountain Lion and want to upgrade to Yosemite.
I need to use iCal on my old iPad (iOs6).
I heard Yosemite asks you to update to iCloud Drive (that can't be installed on iOs6/7) and that you won't be able to sync some apps until you update.
Will iCal sync on Yosemite if you don't upgrade to icloud drive? If not, should I update to Maverick instead?


texts: I play Minecraft like many gamers and I am trying to make a profile where I can read the enchanting table language and I cannot get it to work. How do I change the folder that I used to edit it into a jar?


texts: I would like to ask whether it is possible to develop OS X application (especially for Lion) on a Mac mini, being able to test how the performance would be on a lower speed CPU. For example: development machine is a Mac mini (Intel Core i5 dual-core at 2.3 GHz); emulated test machine similar to a MacBook Air (i5 dual-core 1.7 GHz).


texts:
I tried to change the my login account picture.  But the options that are there are only default, recent and camera and no option for edit.

I am left with no options to select picture from any files other than take a picture of myself with the camera or use the default pictures or use the recent picture used from the default.

Anyone got any idea?  It sucks.


texts: How to set default scroll option for full-screen mode in Mac Preview?

texts:
Mac Preview always opens in single page or double page view when going to full-screen mode while I prefer continuous scroll. I know I could press CMD+1 every time but is there a way to set this scroll option by default on PDF file open?

Edit: I also tried the Preferences -> Opening for the first time, Show as: Continuous scroll. It still always opens files in single page view when going to full-screen mode. Is this some sort of bug?

Version: OS X 10.9.4 MacBook Air


texts:
In macOS Catalina 10.15.4, I would like to create a new folder in Finder, in the view where directories in Finder are organised with the second button from the left ("Show items as icons, in a list, in columns or in a gallery). Specifically, I would like to create a new folder inside a specific existing folder (let's call it "Folder X"). But I don't know how to do this.
What I have tried, is to highlight Folder X, then click on the "cog" button, and then select "New Folder". However, this just creates a new folder at the root of all the displayed folders. It does not create a new folder inside Folder X, even though Folder X is highlighted. So, the only way I know to do this, is to create the folder as above, and then drag it into Folder X. This seems very inefficient, and there must be a way to directly create a folder in Folder X.
How can I do this?


texts: What happens to Kernel Extensions when macOS is reinstalled?

texts:
I believe there are a few kernel extensions running in "my" macOS.
On a (probably) unrelated issue, I've been asked to reinstall macOS. Will any extensions be gone if I reinstall macOS (Catalina)? I'll likely use the "online" reinstall way. Or will the kexts stay put?

Asking for a friend.


texts: Is it possible to power a 4K display at 60 Hz with a DisplayPort/HDMI adapter connected to a USB-C hub?

texts:
I have a LG display which supports 4K at 60 Hz. I wanted to buy an adapter for my Macbook Air(2018) to use it with my notebook. I am confused about one thing though. I have read that USB-C to USB-C hubs don't exist. So, am I limited to using the one free port left after using one for power to be either occupied by DisplayPort adapters or something else one at a time?

I have seen that Apple and some other manufacturers have a USB-C to multi AV adapter which has HDMI and USB-C both as output but can't find one for DisplayPort. Is this because of higher requirements of the DisplayPort 1.3+ standard which allows it to do 4K 60 Hz not leaving bandwidth for multiplexing the port?


texts: OS X 10.8 in a VM on a Mac running Windows

texts:
I would like to get Mac OS 10.8 to run out of a VM on a retina MacBook Pro under Windows 8 host.

Do I need to buy an OS X Server license or can I use the one shipped with the laptop?
Where do I get the installation media for the clean installation?
What is the easiest way to get it installed in a VM?
What is the best virtualization software for this case? I'd prefer VirtualBox, but I don't mind paying if something else provides better compatibility and speed.


texts:
Via Remote Management (VNC) I am connecting to a virtual display on a Mac running Lion. VNC is working as expected, except Pages '09 documents show up blank. If, however VNC connects to the Mac and controls the physical display then Pages documents show up as expected.

Is it possible to use Pages using a virtual display over VNC?

VNC Clients that I've tested are: TightVNC & RealVNC running on Windows, or Apple's Screen Sharing app on Lion.


texts:
I am in the process of getting rid of some old Apple products:

Late 2009 iMac
iPad 2 (2012)
iPhone 4 (2011)

I've reset my iPad 2 using the feature in the preferences, to erase all content and settings.

I also plan to format my Mac by doing a clean install of High Sierra.

Would the above processes be secure enough for me to then sell / give my products away? or could data still be recovered?


texts: Why does my Macbook overheat and use so much CPU and energy when on YouTube?

texts:
For a long time now, my Macbook has been overheating and hogging my CPU. According to Activity Monitor, Google Chrome Helper is the culprit. Whenever I am browsing the web, there are usually ten seperate entries of Google Chrome Helper in Activity Monitor, each individually using around %0.5 of my CPU. On YouTube, one of these can spike up to using %82, with a second using %22. I don't understand the math behind it but its evident in the screenshots I took. I own an up-to-date MacBook Pro (13-inch, Mid 2012) so it could be a result of an old system but only Chrome and YouTube (or just videos) are causing this issue.

Here are some things I’ve attempted to control / solve this:

updating FlashPlayer
disabling extentions
turning off Unsandboxed plug-in access to "not allow any site to use a plug-in to access [my] computer"
turning off JavaScript (which, of course, just stopped the page from loading in - very power efficient and cool, but not the trade off I had hoped to accomplish)

I've tried other web browsing apps and they net similar results as Chrome. I believe it has something to do with videos in general that are being served

At the moment, I have had to use an app called MacsFanControl so my fan stops the CPU and computer from overheating as it used to get to around 50˚C. Now, it is sits at 40˚C with the fan running on high to prevent it increasing.

Am I missing controls or options to have less heat from the CPU of this era MacBook Pro?


texts: How can I change the URL of a networked Time Machine backup

texts:
The network configuration in my house has changed (new router), so my Linux server (where my networked Time Machine folder is housed) has changed.

'tmutil destinationinfo' yields:

> ==================================================
Name          : 500GB External
Kind          : Local
ID            : DF1F27B7-137D-4AE1-9BAE-CD4B603B74FC
====================================================
Name          : TimeMachine
Kind          : Network
URL           : afp://tmuser@192.168.0.12/TimeMachine
Mount Point   : /Volumes/TimeMachine-1
ID            : 2F2F2AC7-C4E5-4F2A-9E7F-8642D6BB441B

How can I change the 192.168.0.12 to something else without Time Machine thinking that it's a completely new backup target (and not realizing that the existing backup is ours)?


texts: CMD + = shortcut on non standard USA keyboard (bluetooth)?

texts:
I need to execute a shortcut key of CMD + =, problem is that the = on my keyboard (non usa, european) it is obtained by pressing the Shift on the 0 (zero)  ...

So I tried doing CMD + Shift + 0 but this doesn't work, infact it does something completely different.

In xcode the shortcut is used to "Size to fit content"

Anyone know what the solution is ?


texts:
I would like to use Quicksilver to insert a given text in the active window at the current cursor location. Is this possible?

One solution might be that I have a collection of files with the required text snippets and when I type the name I get a command that says something like "Insert content of file in current document." However, I could not find such a command in the default list. I also tried to install the "Text Manipulation Plugin", but it appears that it doesn't offer this kind of functionality. One answer on Superuser suggests that this might still be possible, but did not reveal how: https://superuser.com/questions/113645/keyboard-macro-program-for-os-x

Alternatively, I have looked into Applescript and it seems to be an easy exercise there. But I wonder if there is any alternative to writing dozens of Applescripts and triggering them using Quicksilver.


texts: How to share files with coworkers via internet? Securely?

texts: I have number of co-workers in other countries. I would like to be able to setup something like shared network drive so that we can all access the files and work together. What's the best way of doing that? Do I need Lion server for that?


texts: Family Sharing screen time shows black screen

texts:
Can I set screen time settings for my child's ipad from iPhone with ios 13?
Family Sharing is set up, I am the coordinator, child has kid's icloud account. The problem is that when I goto My Account -> Family Sharing -> Screen Time I get blank screen. Family members are visible on prev page.


texts: Keyboard shortcut CAPSLOCK-SHIFT-TAB not working in Chrome on external keyboard after CAPSLOCK modified to CONTROL

texts:
On my Macbook Pro with High Sierra 10.13.3, I have an Apple external keyboard. I used System Preferences > Keyboard > Modifier Keys... to make CAPSLOCK into another CONTROL key:

With this configuration, I can move one Chrome tab to the right with CAPSLOCK-TAB, very convenient.

However, moving one tab to the left with CAPSLOCK-SHIFT-TAB doesn't work on the external keyboard.

It does work on the laptop's built-in keyboard, oddly.

This is not Chrome's fault, because I see the same behavior in the Sublime Text app.


texts: How to batch rename files to random characters?

texts:
I have a lot of photos with me that I want to rename. I want them to be 10 random characters. Is there a way to do it?

I am running macOS Sierra.

I didn't try anything yet.

I would prefer a free solution to this problem.


texts: I wish to get a 802.11ac wifi router that will get the most out of my iPhone 6. I have looked but can't find any specifications that say which would be the best match. Routers all seem to have an AC rating AC1750, AC3200 for example which I understand is total Mb speed for both 2.4G and 5Ghz. Where in the iPhone 6 specifications does it say what the speed is so I can find an equally capable AC router?


texts: A5 Printing on A4 with custom flips and unique layout / flow direction

texts:
How do I get the following print layout?

I would like to be able to print from anything, be that notes or a website or anything else.

My mac has only the following layout settings none of which satisfy my criteria. Do you know a way?


texts: What are all these extra hidden files (with hash digests) that I can only see when running "ls"?

texts:
Since upgrading to Yosemite, there seems to be an extra class of hidden files that are 'more hidden'. They are visible when I run ls, but not in my Finder (even though regular hidden files are visible on my machine).

For example, I can see .DS_Store in Finder, but then when I run ls in my terminal I can see extra versions:

.DS_Store
._.DS_Store.4ohM2f
._.DS_Store.b03KXd
._.DS_Store.zFFTiN

I suspect they might be some kind of revision history being saved for Time Machine, but I haven't set up Time Machine on my computer.

What are they and how do I get rid of them?


texts: How to configure 3G/4G dongle in macos 64bit version?

texts: I have faced this problem of not able to connect to 3G/4G dongles, currently the Huawei E3372 one. Was using Mobile Partner app & since the 64bit upgrade it has failed.


texts: Any app or script to track per process usage?

texts: I am running a process and I want to track it's CPU usage and in the end I would like to have a graph of time vs CPU usage. Any app or script for that? I googled and I couldn't find any. And activity monitor does not give graph of over the time of the process.


texts: How to remove metadata from image files using AppleScript?

texts:
I am using Catalina. I want to create an application using Applescript which which will remove metadata from dropped image files (onto its icon) using the unix utility exiftool.

I tried the following application in Automator but the AppleScript doesn't work (doesn't remove the metadata):

on open myFiles
    set bash_path_file to the POSIX path of myFiles
    do shell script "/usr/local/bin/exiftool -all= " & quoted form of bash_path_file
end open

I've researched many applescripts using google search and over here but none seem to work. So I'm doing something wrong. Any help would be appreciated.


texts: How to downgrade from El Capitan to Snow Leopard?

texts:
I am not happy with El Capitan, and it is also not compatible with both music hardware and software that I have, so I want to go back to Snow Leopard on my late 2009 iMac.
After installing El Capitan the CD drive on my iMac is not working, and I was unable to install Snow Leopard from it.

So I made a bootable USB that gets recognized when I hold option when the machine is booting. When I choose it, I get the white screen with the Apple logo, but it doesn't go into the installation phase. I have formatted my drive and no longer have El Capitan on it.

How can I install Snow Leopard? It looks to me(and I'm hopefully wrong about this) like El Capitan has blocked the option to downgrade to an earlier OS, and it is a bit infuriating that I am not in control of hardware that I have spent a lot of money on.


texts:
I am new to mac. I was wondering something.

When I download something from Internet (i.e. filezilla) it appears as a single file contained in a single icon. However when I double click it runs, and it doesn't need to install something.

When I move the file it still works. What I wonder are these programs single files. On windows same programs need installing and have multiple files etc...

What I wonder are this icons are containers or single file programs. How is this different from installable programs?


texts: "iTunes could not connect to this iPhone. This device is no longer connected."

texts:
I have a first generation iPad Air (with up-to-date iOS 8.1)

When I connect it to my 2013 iMac (with up-to-date OS X Yosemite 10.10) - it doesn't work.

Specifically - iTunes automatically launches, but then quickly shows a dialog window that says, "iTunes could not connect to the iPhone. This device is no longer connected."

(That's not a typo - it really says 'iPhone', not 'iPad')

Here's a screenshot:

Meanwhile - on my iPad - in the upper right-hand corner (where the battery life is displayed) - you can see the "plugged in" icon (lightening bolt) rapidly blinking on and off.

In other words - it seems like, when it's plugged in - it's rapidly connecting and disconnecting (several times per second).

If I click "OK" on that dialog window on iTunes - it instantly pops back up, and continues to do so as long as I keep the iPad plugged in.

So - bottom line - I cannot connect my iPad to my iMac.

I'm virtually certain that I was able to connect my iPad before I upgraded to Yosemite on my iMac, and iOS 8 on my iPad.

Thanks in advance for any help!


texts:
I will be able to use a former video editing "Mac Pro" :) for a bit, free to configure anything I want in software.

I would like to experiment with setting up OS X software RAID 0 with 6x SATA SSD.

No data reliability required, I will have to relinquish the box after a few tests.

Is this the very best I can get from the storage layer of this machine? Does it make sense to RAID 0 6x SSD drives? Will I be able to install OS X on the software-striped logical volume?

If you have theoretical arguments in favour or against, please explain your rationale. If you have practical experience with OS X software RAID with no parity, that would be ideal!


texts: How to mass delete photos on iOS after backing them up manually (no iCloud)?

texts:
I have an iPhone 11 Pro that I back-up regularly both to macOS and manually to windows (by copying the ###APPLE folders).
This phone is now full and I must delete older photos. Ideally I'd just delete the older ###APPLE folders but I believe this will mess the phone up.
I don't use iCloud since Google Photos is free and I also backup there for a worst case cloud scenario.
So how do I mass delete photos from the phone without messing it up to free up some space?


texts: So two days ago, i dropped my (already cracked) iPhone 6 in water, and it was in there for over a minute. I ran home and in less than 5 minutes, it was in rice. After 24 hours, i tried turning it on, nothing happened. I tried charging it for about ten minutes, and nothing was happening, so i put it back in rice. And although how to fix my phone would be helpful to know, that's not my question. Ir seems pretty hopeless to recover the phone, I am a photographer and just want to know how to get the photos and videos off of there. I have iCloud turned o on it, but i am 95% positive i turned off photo sharing. Is there any way I can still recover the photos? My life will be ruined if I can't, i love my phone more than my family and don't know what to do. Any suggestions? (or just how to get the phone working again)


texts: macOS Mojave won't install updates past 10.14.1 due to requirement for APFS formatting

texts:
I have a MBP 2012 I upgraded from High Sierra to Mojave after it came out as GA. I don't recall if I was asked about upgrading to APFS when Id id that, but at this time the main volume is Mac OS Extended (Journaled).

My current About This Mac...version is Mojave 10.14.1 (18B75). Now, when updates are advertised from the App Store, I'm unable to upgrade because 10.14.3 is required.

No OS updates show in the App Store, and when I searched for the updaters (10.14.2 Combo, etc), I can't install because the installer reports "macOS 10.14.2 Update can't be installed on this disk. This Mac can only install macOS on APFS-formatted drives."

I tried the search results recommending to boot in Recovery Mode and use Disk Utility, but APFS is not available as a type.

I have good backups and I can reformat the boot volume if I need to, but I have not done this before. Should I get a 10.14.3 installer to do this and boot from an external drive? The only guies and message boards I've found just keep saying to install 10.14.3 (I can't) or convert the disk in Recovery Mode (APFS is not available as an option.)

Any known-good ways to get my 10.14.1 upgraded so I can keep getting App Store updates?


texts: Can a MBA 2014 output 2560x1080 at 60hz?

texts:
I've got a MacBook Air 2014 and I want to hook it up to a LG 29UM65 monitor.

The native resolution is 2560x1080. Can the MBA 2014 (Thunderbolt 1) output at that resolution at 60hz?


texts: Is it possible to apply screen sizing settings and background to the first boot screen of Mac OS?

texts:
I am currently using Macbook Pro 2015 13" with Mojave due to lack of audio capabilities of new gen updates.
Whenever I boot my device, the screen settings are different then what I set on the lock screen as well as main screen. Is it possible to make boot login screen the same as lock screen?
Thanks.


texts: Is there anything like System Restore for Mac OS X?

texts:
I've been a Mac user for a few years now. Thinking about if it would be a good idea to set up a Mac for my parents, I came to think of the awesome feature of System Restore in Windows where making a System Restore point once a day would make it really easy to roll back any mistakes or installed software that made the computer not work well.

Is there anything like it, perhaps a third party application or some cool github project, for Mac OS X?


texts: Copy/paste OmniFocus actions for iOS on iPhone?

texts:
Is there any way to copy/paste actions in OmniFocus for iOS on the iPhone?

If I recall correctly, there used to be a beta feature you could enable in the settings which allowed you to press and hold on an action to show the "copy" option, but it's no longer there in the latest version.

Is there any other way to duplicate actions in OmniFocus without having to use another client?


texts: How to make your iPhone beep every hour?

texts: Is it possible to have my iPhone making a sound every hour ? And preferably during day time, like 12 hours a day, and moreover only during weekdays only ?


texts: What is this icon on top of the photo on the share sheet?

texts:
When on the share sheet trying to share a photo, I noticed this icon:

What does this icon mean?

Device:

iPhone SE (1st Generation) running iOS 13.4.1


texts: Can I redeem EUR iTunes vouchers in any EUR country?

texts: Can I redeem a 50 EUR iTunes gift card purchased in Germany in any other country of the Euro zone?


texts: Offload Unused Apps - Apps incorrectly labeled as Never Used

texts:
I’m running iOS 11.3. Recently I activated Offload Unused Apps in order to free up space. That is supposed to work by examining the date each app is last used, and offloading the ones you don’t use often. The problem is, my iPhone doesn’t seem to be tracking that “last used” date properly.

As the screenshot shows, when I go to Settings app → General → iPhone Storage, all the apps say Never Used, instead of displaying the last usage date.

This isn’t just a cosmetic thing; it is actually affecting the behaviour of Offload Unused Apps. I’ve had apps that I use frequently, such as my banking app and Google Docs, offloaded.

Can someone tell me how to get the correct Last Used dates to be tracked?  I’ve checked that Settings → Privacy → Share iPhone Analytics is turned ON, but that doesn’t seem to fix it.


texts:
At work, I'm connecting my MacBook Air 11" to a Lenovo L2230x Monitor (aka L2230xwA) to extend my display.
Given that the MacBook Air has no Ethernet connector, today I thought I might put the monitor's USB Port Replicator feature to good use. Long story short, this monitor embeds a USB 2.0 Hub that connects to your laptop through a USB-A to USB-B cable and exposes:

3 downstream USB ports
1 Ethernet 10M/100Mbps port
Multimedia ports: audio line-out + microphone-in jack

The 3 USB ports work out of the box, but no luck with the Ethernet port!

In the user's manual (pdf), the steps are simple:

  Install the USB Port Replicator driver for L2230x Wide [...]
  Connect a standard 10 Mbps / 100 Mbps Ethernet connector to the Ethernet  connector on the monitor, and wait until the device is fully configured by the Windows operating system.

So I looked for a driver, but on the Lenovo support page I could only find the USB driver for Windows 7, Windows Vista and Windows XP.

Where could I find a driver to be able to use the Ethernet port?
Or did anyone find a workaround to make use of it on a Mac?


texts: Can AppleScript search deeply for the largest file contained below a folder?

texts:
I need to make an AppleScript that would find the biggest file in selected directory (even if its inside another folder) and show full path on screen.

This is what I have so far, but it doesn't work:

set theItem to quoted form of POSIX path of (choose folder)

set theSize to (do shell script "/usr/bin/mdls -name kMDItemFSSize -raw " & theItem)

on open f

set filePath to do shell script "dirname " & POSIX path of f as string

display dialog theFilePath

I'm not sure how to tell what isn't working from the script above. Can you help with the next step in making this work?


texts: How to reset Launchpad order in macOS High Sierra?

texts:
I'm not sure how to reset my Launchpad so my apps are in alphabetical order on macOS High Sierra.

I've tried running

defaults write com.apple.dock ResetLaunchPad -bool TRUE;

killAll Dock;

which worked fine with macOS Sierra but since updating to macOS High Sierra, this command no longer works.

All it does is separate the built-in apps to be on the 1st page but the installed apps are not alphabetical (see photos below).

  Page 1 of Launchpad (built-in apps)

  Page 2 of Launchpad (not in alphabetical order)

Any thoughts or suggestions?


texts: How can I set up an iOS compatible network pdf printer?

texts:
I would like to have the ability to generate pdfs from the applications on iPad and iPhone that are print capable.

What I am asking for here is an object that would appear as a printer in OS X, but is actually set up as a virtual printer, a bit of software that anything that can print sees exactly as a printer, that can be shared over a local network and will list in any apps on any iOS devices that are currently running print-capable apps.

Simply put: how do I set up a local network pdf printer for iPad?

I need this to work with iOS5 and Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard.


texts: Applescript click action working, but generating a System Events error

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I'm working with an AppleScript that turns off (but does not quit) Hazel. The script works fine but generates a syntax error.

Here's the part of the code causing the error:

tell application "System Events"
    tell process "System Preferences"
        set frontmost to true
        click radio button "Info" of radio group of window "Hazel"
    end tell
end tell

And here's the error:

  System Events got an error: radio button "Info" of radio group of window "Hazel" of
  process "System Preferences" doesn’t understand the “click” message.

I'm sure there's a simple fix, but I'm new to AppleScript and not much of a programmer. Any help would be greatly appreciated.


texts: Use USB Iphone tethering for Macbook and use AirPort for Printer

texts:
I already set up the iPhone tethering to have Internet on my Macbook via the iPhone phone-line. I'm using it via USB because I want to use the Wifi from the AirPort for a connection with my printer - which works as well.

The problem is: It won't work at the same time, leaving me offline as soon as I connect the AirPort with the printer. It seems like that my Macbook prefers the AirPort for Internet, but doesn't recognize that my printer is no internet-connection. So the iPhone tethering is still on, but I don't have internet access...

Anyone with a solution for this specific problem ?!


texts: How to tell if my iPad is connected to WiFi using WPA3, WPA2, or no security at all?

texts: In Settings > Wi-Fi, I tapped the i-in-circle info icon to get details on a network connection. But I did not notice any mention of what encryption might be in use.


texts: How can I remove this half-downloaded app from my iPhone?

texts:
On my iPhone homescreen there's an app which in an half-downloaded(actually, more like barely downloaded) state -

(In case you're curious, I was trying to download Rage during it's on-sale-for-free-period)

Now, I can't get rid of it from my home screen. I can hide it in a folder, I can install the downloaded app next to this "Loading" shell having downloaded the app later in iTunes.

iTunes won't let me delete this item from my home screen - the "x" overlay for uninstalling an app is not coming up either.

So, how can I remove it?

bmike just helped me with some troubleshooting, but we weren't able to get this question fixed, yet. Here's the conversation between the two of us. Would appreciate any other answers.


texts: Keys not working after cleaning under key caps [macbook pro early 2008]

texts:
I was using my father's computer while mine was in the shop, and thought I would clean out under the keyboard to be nice. Unfortunately, I managed to break his D key in the process.

Needless to say, he's very unhappy about it.

I'm not quite sure what the issue is - the "rubber spring" or cup is still there, but even when pressing on it with my finger, it does not register the key press. The only thing I can think of is that the rubber cup is not connected to the plastic layer underneath as it is with the other keys.

Any help would seriously be appreciated. I would prefer not to have to spend money on such an old machine.

Thanks.


texts: Does exists some console utility for keyboard layout switching in Mac OS X?

texts: For example, there is xkb-switch on Linux. Is there some analog in Mac OS X? I googled but found nothing. Yes I know about AppleScript but it doesn't fit to my purposes.


texts: How to code-sign my python script / package packaged for mac using pyinstaller without using xcode?

texts:
I have written a python script and bundled it using the PyInstaller.
The executable file inside the dist folder works fine on my Mac. But not on someone else's Mac even if they've set "App Store and identified developers".
So it seems I require Apple Developer ID and credentials. Please let me know how to create certificate for the same and code sign my package.
Can I do it without Xcode ?


texts: Can MBP 16" ( Late 2019) retina screen can be replaced with non-retina non-Apple screen?

texts: I am getting some lines on one end of the screen I went to Aptronix (Apple retailer in India) customer care they are saying its pressure damage. I have never dropped the laptop nor hit the screen accidentally, but there some little scratches from normal usage. They mostly likely do not want to cover me under warranty so I am searching for alternate options. I wanted to replace my etina screen with a non-retina display like some UHD screen or any other screen.


texts: In Xcode, how can I utilize new UI APIs for Yosemite, but then revert to older ones for older OS'?

texts:
I have been looking all over the place and can't seem to find an answer. (I'm probably not using the correct terminology)

I'm building a simple AppleScript ObjC program and I want to use the new UI API for Yosemite (NSVisualEffectView) but, as expected, it crashes when I open it on Mavericks. How could I get it to use old APIs instead without having to create a completely different app?


texts: Can a deteriorating battery cause screen flickering? [Early 2015 macbook pro retina]

texts:
I have a early 2015 macbook pro with a Retina display. I'm at about 950 charge cycles, and have had the "service battery" indicatory since last summer.

I noticed that occasionally my screen does this flickering thing. It happens maybe a few times a day. Each time it "flickers" is usually just a single off/on cycle. Could this be associated with the battery? Or could be having some other hardware component issues?

I've reset my SMC a few times since last summer, but it didn't solve the flickering.


texts: How can I retrieve image files from a damaged zip archive file?

texts:
When i tried to unzip using the Mac default Archive zip utility and the error message: Error 1 - Operation not permitted.

Then I tried using 7zx and got the error message: Cannot open the files as archive file

How can I retrieve image files from the damaged zip archive file?

Are there any tools to retrieve at least some of my files from the damaged zip file?


texts: How do i pass variables' values between subsequent applescript runs? (persistent value between script executions)

texts:
I have an applescript that I run like a cron job. Within this applescript, i have variables that act like boolean switches (i.e. on/off values). With subsequent runs, depending on whether the boolean variables' values are on/off i need to take certain actions.

Q) What are the different ways this can be done? (would appreciate sample code).

Cheers.

Answer) plist or property files seem to be the way to go.

credit to daviesgeek for pointing me in the right direction. for those interested i've written helper sub-routines as follows:

-- read the plist file
tell application "System Events"
   tell property list file plistfile_path
      tell contents
         set someLocalVariable to value of property list item "someLocalVariable"
      end tell
   end tell
end tell

on create_plist_file(file_path)
    -- create the plist file
    tell application "System Events"
         -- create an empty property list dictionary item
        set the parent_dictionary to make new property list item with properties {kind:record}

        -- create new property list file using the empty dictionary list item as contents
        set this_plistfile to ¬
            make new property list file with properties {contents:parent_dictionary, name:file_path}
            -- add new property list items of each of the supported types
            make new property list item at end of property list items of contents of this_plistfile ¬
                with properties {kind:boolean, name:"someLocalVariable", value:false}
            -- make new property list item at end of property list items of contents of this_plistfile ¬
            --     with properties {kind:string, name:"stringKey", value:"string value"}
    end tell
end create_plist_file

on set_someLocalVariable(bool_val)
    tell application "System Events"
        tell property list file plistfile_path
            tell contents
                set value of property list item "someLocalVariable" to bool_val
            end tell
        end tell
    end tell
end set_wasAllTransfersStarted


texts: MacBook Pro (late 2013) w/ Yosemite & FileVault won't boot: LCD light only, no other activity

texts:
After lid-sleeping my machine with ~10% battery left, a few hours later, attached to AC power,  it would not wake from lid-open, keypress, or short power-button-press.

After doing a long-power-button-hold to force-fully-off, another press of the power button caused the LCD light to come on (apple logo illuminated on reverse), but no other screen activity (screen black) or startup sound. Leaving it in this state for tens of minutes didn't result in any progress. No noticeable fan activity. Capslock LED unresponsive.

Only a long-power-button-press would turn off the screen LCD. Repeated long-power-button shutdowns and then power-on attempts resulted in this same LCD-light-on state, but no other activity.

I tried "resetting the SMC" several times (in case my hold-timings were wrong), with no change in symptoms. I did not yet try "resetting NVRAM (fka 'PRAM')", as that article suggests timing the CMD-OPT-P-R press after hearing the startup chime, and there was no chime.

During these attempts AC plug went from amber to green, indicating charging/charge-level-monitoring was still working.

Also tried holding D during startup for 'Diagnostic Mode'; no luck.

So: time for my 1st 'Genius Bar' appointment, in fear some hardware had gone bad! (See self-answer below for results.)

Full configuration info:

Hardware: MacBook Pro (late 2013), 13', integrated graphics only

OS: Yosemite (10.10.5) using FileVault full-disk-encryption.


texts: When you upload a file from online storage to a website, does the file get stored in the Mac?

texts: Online Storage can be dropbox, google drive whatever. You only have files saved there but not on the mac. But when you upload from the online storage directly to a website, i am guessing the file has to go thru the mac, and does it get stored somewhere in the mac, then?


texts: Time Machine monitoring app using data from the "tmutil status" command

texts:
I'm sure the information is irrelevant to the question, but I'm running macOS 10.14.6.

Just today I discovered the very interesting tmutil status Terminal command. For instance, while the menu bar icon merely displays "Preparing backup", this command provides actual progress information, similar to this:

Backup session status:
{
    BackupPhase = ThinningPreBackup;
    ClientID = "com.apple.backupd";
    DateOfStateChange = "2019-10-06 15:54:55 +0000";
    DestinationID = "XXXXXXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXXXXXXXXXX";
    DestinationMountPoint = "/Volumes/XXX";
    NumberOfChangedItems = 2020012;
    Percent = 0;
    Running = 1;
    Stopping = 0;
}

It bears mentioning that this information is continually updated (as fast as I can rerun the command in Terminal), letting me know the backup is progressing, whereas the menu bar icon shows no progress at all during this phase.

And after the actual backup starts, this is printed:

Backup session status:
{
    BackupPhase = Copying;
    ClientID = "com.apple.backupd";
    DateOfStateChange = "2019-10-06 16:14:36 +0000";
    DestinationID = "XXXXXXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXXXXXXXXXX";
    DestinationMountPoint = "/Volumes/XXX";
    Percent = "2.26301435425844e-05";
    Progress =     {
        "_raw_totalBytes" = 68715697586;
        bytes = 1727829;
        files = 30385;
        totalBytes = 75587267344;
        totalFiles = 2093070;
    };
    Running = 1;
    Stopping = 0;
    "_raw_Percent" = "2.514460393620488e-05";
}

Clearly this is much more information than the menu bar icon or System Preferences pane provides. On the other hand, it's not too user-friendly: one has to run the command periodically in Terminal, and parse the text output.

Is there a GUI app that presents this information in an easier to read way, which is automatically updated?


texts: Disk usage: How to only show max depth folders?

texts:
I want to use the du command so I can find the folders on my system that are bigger than a certain size.

The problem with du are the results I get.

For example, I get all theses folders as results:

~/Downloads/MyFiles/MyPictures/Folder1/
~/Downloads/MyFiles/MyPictures/
~/Downloads/MyFiles/
~/Downloads/

When I only want to have :

~/Downloads/MyFiles/MyPictures/Folder1/

How can I do that with du or any other command?


texts: How to disable One-Finger swipe for Magic Mouse on windows

texts:
Using Magic Mouse 2.0 on Windows 8.1 turns into disaster.

It is hard to click anything without scrolling the screen. Is it was possible to disable one finger swipe?

Is there any utility for windows that enables control over mouse settings?


texts: Whited00r 7.1 on iPod 2G MB model iTunes error 6 when restoring

texts: So I am trying to get Whited00r 7.1 on my iPod Touch 2G MB using iTunes on MacOS Mojave.I used the installation guide and used the included iREB for Mac to put it in pwned DFU mode.So I put it in pwned DFU mode,open iTunes and option-click the "Restore" button,selected the custom Whited00r ipsw for my ipod touch 2G MB,then it says "Preparing iPod for restore" for mabye 2 seconds,and the the screen on my iPod goes white and it says"An unknown error occured (6)".I am currently using iTunes 12.9.5.Also,when I tried to do the same with recovery mode being stuck at "Preparing iPod for restore" forever and then finally after about 3 minutes it gives me error 1604.I am using the usb port on my computer,not on the keyboard or hub.Any help(Yeah,I know you stack exchange guys take FOREVER to answer)?


texts: how can I configure a mac to modify parent directory timestamps when programs touch files

texts:
I would prefer to have all parent directories timestamps modified when a file is modified by any program.  Is this possible on a mac?

Basically, for huge build systems with 100 directories, we would only have to scan 100 directories and dig down recursively into a very small subset of changes to create a very fast efficient build.  This could bring build times from 10 minutes down to 2 minutes.

Is something like this even possible?

thanks,
Dean


texts: What's the proper syntax for the Terminal MV command when you want to move a folder's contents, or is there a better approach?

texts:
For testing purposes I have two folders in my User folder: Source and Dest
There's a file in the Source folder that I want to move to Dest, and delete Source in the process.
mv ~/Source ~/Dest moves the Source folder and its contents into Dest. I don't want Source to be subfolder in Dest; I want it gone.
mv ~/Source/ ~/Dest yields the same results, which surprised me because I thought adding / to the end of ~/Source/ would cause its contents to move independent of the source folder.
mv ~/Source/* ~/Dest does what I want but I read somewhere that some files (.file ?) wouldn't be copied.
Plus, I don't want to change the file timestamps, ownership, attributes and whatever other hidden stuff exists beyond my paygrade.
I'm starting to think I should use a two-line script instead, to ensure that the copy is exact:
ditto ~/source ~/dest
sudo rm -rf ~/source

Am I overlooking anything here? Is the 2-line script the best one?


texts: Transfer music from iPad's iTunes to MacBook's, devices have different iTunes accounts

texts:
My Dad has an iPad with a lot of songs downloaded onto its iTunes library. Is it possible for me to put the songs onto my MacBook?

The iPad uses my Dad's iTunes account and the MacBook mine.


texts: How can I install Windows 7 on a Retina MBP with no optical drive?

texts:
I'd like to install Windows 7 on a MacBook Pro via Boot Camp.

However, the only distribution of Windows I'm aware of is on a physical disk, like this one here sold on Amazon.

My MBP doesn't have an optical drive. It can't read disks like that.

Does Microsoft offer an way to buy Windows 7 via a download?

And if so, can I then copy the downloaded installer that onto an external USB hard drive and install from there?

Or is the only option to buy an external optical drive? (If that's the case, any guidance on which one to buy -- can I get away with a generic one or do I need to shell out $80 for Apple's "Superdrive?")

I'm hoping there's some kind of workaround here, because I'd hate to spend money on a drive I'm only going to use once.

I actually have another Mac that does have an optical drive. Could that help me out somehow?

Any advice, help, or guidance would be greatly appreciated.


texts: IMAP folder named Notes does not appear in Mail.app

texts:
I have a folder on my IMAP server named « Notes ».

I have deactivated the use of the IMAP account by the Notes.app, but the folder is still not visible in Mail.app.

Is there a way to have this folder displayed as a normal folder ?


texts: Setting a clipboard kind without setting "styled Clipboard text"

texts:
I am developing a tool to add a HTML-ized version of a text to the clipboard. Currently, I'm using applescript to manipulate the clipboard.

Unfortunately, I realized that in addition to the entries I ask it to add, it also adds the entry styled Clipboard text. This, I believe, causes applications like Pages to fail to paste the HTML-ized version.

To see the current state of the clipboard I use (with the word "while" in the clipboard).

$ osascript -e "the clipboard as record"
«class utf8»:while, «class ut16»:while, string:while, Unicode text:while

I add the HTML variant as follows (the HTML is encoded as a hex string):

$ osascript -e "set the clipboard to ((the clipboard as record) & {«class HTML»:«data HTML3c6d65746120636861727365743d277574662d38273e3c7072653e3c7370616e207374796c653d22636f6c6f723a20236364303063643b223e7768696c653c2f7370616e3e3c2f7072653e0a»})"

After adding the HTML variant, the clipboard contains:

Unicode text:while,
string:while,
styled Clipboard text:«data styl01000000000010000E00030000000C00000000000000»,
«class utf8»:while,
«class HTML»:«data HTML3C6D65746120636861727365743D277574662D38273E3C7072653E3C7370616E207374796C653D22636F6C6F723A20236364303063643B223E7768696C653C2F7370616E3E3C2F7072653E0A»,
«class ut16»:while

Pasting this into Pages (-09) cause the plain text version of the text to be inserted.

However, when copying the same from the gmail editor in Chrome it can be pasted with highlight information into Pages. In this case the clipboard contains:

«class utf8»:while,
«class HTML»:«data HTML3C6D65746120636861727365743D277574662D38273E3C707265207374796C653D22636F6C6F723A207267622833342C2033342C203334293B20666F6E742D73697A653A20736D616C6C3B20666F6E742D7374796C653A206E6F726D616C3B20666F6E742D76617269616E743A206E6F726D616C3B20666F6E742D7765696768743A206E6F726D616C3B206C65747465722D73706163696E673A206E6F726D616C3B206C696E652D6865696768743A206E6F726D616C3B206F727068616E733A206175746F3B20746578742D616C69676E3A2073746172743B20746578742D696E64656E743A203070783B20746578742D7472616E73666F726D3A206E6F6E653B207769646F77733A20313B20776F72642D73706163696E673A203070783B202D7765626B69742D746578742D7374726F6B652D77696474683A203070783B206261636B67726F756E642D636F6C6F723A20726762283235352C203235352C20323535293B223E3C7370616E207374796C653D22636F6C6F723A20726762283230352C20302C20323035293B223E7768696C653C2F7370616E3E3C2F7072653E»,
«class ut16»:while,
string:while,
Unicode text:while

My conclusion is that the difference is the styled Clipboard text entry.

So, over to the real question. How can I set the HTML entry without setting the styled Clipboard text entry.

I have tried several approaches. For example, I have tried to set the clipboard to only contain a string and a HTML entry, but still the extra entry is included. I have also tried to set the styled Clipboard text entry to the empty string but that also set all the plain-text entries to the empty string as well.

I don't think the pbcopy command line tool is powerful enough to do this, as it set the clipboard to a new value.

While I'm currently using applescript to do this, I'm open to using any tool available, preferably a scriptable one (so that I don't have to ask the users to perform a compilation).


texts: Soundfonts in GarageBand: where can we select the .sf2 files?

texts:
I am trying to use soundfonts with GarageBand '11 (version 6.0.5). I downloaded 2 files from HammerSound, I put them in Library > ...Banks, and, in GarageBand, I created a new project, went to the right side and set "DLSMusicDevice" below "sound generator".

Now I don't see where I can find the sf2 files. If I click on a line in Effect, I can choose between Audio Unit Effects or Effects from GarageBand.

Would anyone know something about this?


texts: Can't restore iPhone 6S to latest iPhone 5 backup

texts:
My iPhone 6S came today. I dutifully backed up my iPhone 5 to iTunes, as you can see here in the list of backups:

("Mattress" is the name of my iPhone.)

Great. So I set up my iPhone 6S as a new phone, so I could update the software to match what is installed on the 5. And then I went to restore the backup from today, and:

Where's my backup from today? Why can't I restore it to my new phone?

A clue: July 10th, the date of the backup I can see, is the day I installed the iOS 9 beta on the old phone. Registering the 6S for the beta program hasn't solved it, and neither has deregistering the 5 and creating a new backup.


texts: How many 1080p Monitors i can connect to MacBook pro 13 inch 2019 model with 4 thunderbolt port?

texts:
Can anyone please help me to connect my MacBook pro 13 inches with 4 thunderbolts to 3 external monitors ( one U2414H and two P2419H) ?

I tried connecting them using three type-c to HDMI convertors but I can only power any two of them with or without my built-in MacBook pro display.

any help would be appreciated, guys

my mac info:


texts: How does the new iOS 6 Limit Ad Tracking improve user privacy?

texts:
According to this appleinsider.com article, Apple has introduced new privacy functionality that can limit ad tracking in iOS 6:

  Apple was not happy to see third party developers and ad networks
  using iOS users' UUID (universally unique device identifiers) to
  perform sophisticated tracking of individual devices (web cookies,
  unlike UUIDs, can't track a specific computer, and can be deleted by
  the user), particularly when they tracked UUIDs down inside Apple's
  headquarters to spy out new models.

Apple has not publicized this feature much and has set the default state to OFF, and has placed the setting at .

If turned on, how does this feature improve user privacy? Does this setting really prevent advertisers from tracking individual phones/computers? Details have been limited, so I'd appreciate any information that can shed some light about the expected functionality of this privacy feature.


texts: Network users S-L-O-W on macOS High Sierra

texts:
I have an old MacBook Pro (Mid-2010 13″, 2.4GHz Core 2 Duo, 8GB 1067MHz DDR3) that I’m trying to set up for my daughter to use for covid-induced home school. I replaced the old HD with an SSD and gave it a brand new install of macOS High Sierra—nothing fancy, nothing imported; just a nice, new, clean install. I created a local admin account and it runs beautifully. But of course, it couldn’t be that simple.

My family uses network accounts from a Mac mini server that doubles as our file and media server. This allows us to log into any computer in the house without worrying about what’s where. The accounts just work, never any problems. But for some reason, when I logged my daughter into this brand new, perfectly clean computer, everything was s-l-o-w. Like, crazy slow: click a button and nothing happens for 10-15 minutes slow.

Anyone have any ideas? As I said, the local account works beautifully on the MBP, and the network accounts work beautifully on every other machine in the house. It’s just the confluence of this particular MBP and the network accounts that’s problematic.

Thanks!


texts: Did Apple drop the keyword 'Server' from the Mac Mini category?

texts: With the new line up of Mac Minis we can have up to 16 GB of RAM, and 3.0 GHz CPU, and therefore they can act as a server. But why did Apple just drop the 'Server' keyword from the Mac Mini category?


texts: My iphone 4s turns on while charging, but once on it turns off

texts: Recently my phone died and I plugged it in, and like usual it turned itself on. But I noticed that once the phone was turned on it wasn't charging. I tried a new charger, but all the chargers I have create the same outcome. I think this may be due to my phone and not the charger, does anyone know why it doesn't want to charge while on?


texts: Mac OS X Internet Sharing creates ad hoc network

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Every time I try to use Internet sharing Ethernet --> Wi-Fi, my Mac seems to create an ad hoc network, rather than using the currently connected wifi network.  How do I make my Mac share to the current wifi network, and have a static IP?

Alternate wording: How to share the ethernet-based Internet connection of a Mac with a computer that is part of router-based wireless LAN without Internet connection?

Router is an AT&T modem/router that has been repurposed for LAN/wifi.  The Mac is connected to an Apple Airport Time Capsule via ethernet, and the AT&T router via wifi.  I need to share the ATC internet to the AT&T router's LAN network, while giving the Mac an IP address of 192.168.1.1.


texts: How can we ensure that contact photos appear as either full-screen or as thumbnails on the iPhone?

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I've noticed that contact photos on the iPhone seem to appear in one of two modes:

Thumbnail: A small square image shown next to the contact's name or number
Full-Screen: The image takes up the entire display, overlaid by the caller ID and Swipe-to-answer controls

How the phone determines which mode to use isn't terribly clear. This question, for example, dealing with contact syncing, seems to have people experiencing different results depending on whether they set the photo on the phone, synced from Gmail, synced from iCloud, etc.

Does anyone know the canonical rules for when a contact image appears in full-screen or as a thumbnail? Is it related to image size / shape, or only to the source of the image?


texts: I have iCloud but I don't know how to use Find My iPhone

texts: So last night I was at home watching movies and I went to get on my phone and I noticed it missing. My phone IS on and I THOUGHT the ringer was on until I called it. Many websites say you can download Find My iPhone from iCloud but I'm not sure how to do it.


texts: 4K Monitor and performance issues with MBP Late 2015

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As a software developer I insisted on buying a 4K Monitor which used to work with my previous MBP 2017 quite ok.The Retina MBP Late 2015 has output that lags quite a bit when I use a scaled resolution.

The output is only OK if i try the 4k or 1080p resolutions which are not very optimized for reading things on the screen.

Is there any way to optimize this? The lagging performance can be seen when I do something with Java VM especially Android Studio.

UPDATE

I connected my mac book over mini display to display port since HDMI does not support 60hz. Lag means when you scroll the code editor in Android studio, it is not very fluent.If i type something there is a small time gap till i see the letters appear on the screen.


texts: Apple Cinema Display 27" with early 2015 MacBook Pro

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I have a 13" early 2015 MacBook Pro with retina, and i am considering buying a second-hand 27" Apple Cinema Display.

The 27" LED with single cable with three connectors (Mini DisplayPort, MagSafe, and USB 2.0).

What cables/adapters do I need for this display to be able to use full resolution the screen has to offer?


texts: App for eye-friendly eBook reading on iMac or MacBook?

texts: Is there any program that allows a user to read eBooks or PDFs in a way that does not bother the eyes, pretty much like what Kindle does? Maybe by reducing the illumination of the monitor and using some other tricks?


texts: How can I keep my home address private when sharing my vCard?

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Instead of handing over cumbersome (and likely to get lost) business cards, I like texting my vCard. However, I'd like to not share some of the information in my vCard—most importantly, my home address. Additionally, I taught Siri my entire extended family, which now gets shared with everybody I send my vCard to. This feels less than professional.

Here's the problem: I need my home address in my card if I'm going to get directions to Home using Maps. And I want Siri to know who's in my extended family. But I don't want to share this information when I share my vCard.

I sync my contacts through iCloud, so I was looking at my Mac's Contacts app to see if it had a solution. In Contacts preferences, I found this promising option: "Enable private me card":

What I was hoping for with a "private me card" was a way to set which pieces of information to share and which ones to keep private on a per card basis with just this one special "me card".

The only other solution I can come up with is to create 2 cards:

one for my own private use via Siri, Maps, etc
and another for sharing.

The downsides of this solution are that

it's inelegant (two vCards for one person) and
if a piece of information changes, I have to remember to update two cards, not just one.

Are there other options out there I haven't considered? Are there preferences in iOS, OS X, and/or iCloud that would solve this? And what is a "private me card"?


texts: MacBook Pro locked with Find My Mac and won't let me boot

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I was playing around with the Find My Mac iPhone app (just testing it out) and hit the "lock" option. My MacBook Pro is now locked and I have no place to enter the 4 digit PIN.

When I start it, it shows the Apple logo with a loading circle and it shuts down. If I start whilst holding alt it asks for the PIN, which I enter, then it shows three partitions: Macintosh HD, Recovery & Windows. If I select Windows it works perfectly, but the two others show the problem with the Apple logo and loading circle before it shuts down.


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I recently deleted some sketch files that I would like to try to get back if I can. I trashed them over a month ago, I used stellar phoenix to attempt to recover them, and it found the files. It did ask file size when creating a .sketch header, unlike the pre-configured headers (which have an exact file size set). The files are around 5.0 mb, so thats what I set for the max file size. When the files appear after recovery, the finder shows they're all (but one file) 5.0 mb. I try to open one, but then I receive "The document "filename.SKETCH" could not be opened." message. Am I approaching this all wrong, or are they just gone?

Thanks everyone


texts: App Store says an app is installed, but it isn't

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I've installed a new primary SSD drive on my mac, now I'm trying to download a few apps that I've already installed on my previous HD, but app store keeps saying they're already installed. But they are not.

Is there a way to tell Apple's App Store that these apps are not installed?

I've already tried the solution on the thread: App Store thinks apps are installed, but no success.

My old HD is still connected to my MBP, but as slave. If you guys need further info, just ask.


texts: Is there a Google Chrome version 50 supporting Mac OS 10.8.5?

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My Chrome 49 stopped receiving updates following Google's announcement of discontinuing support for Mac OS 10.8.

Is there any way to install any Chrome version 50 supporting Mac OS 10.8.5 manually?


texts: Is it possible to use push email on iOS Mail app with self hosted mail server?

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I use a self-hosted IMAP email server. In Mail.app on OS X, the app gets any new mail pushed using IDLE. On my iPhone however, the Mail app only polls every so many minutes.

Under Settings > Mail > Accounts > New email the option 'Push' is not available.

Is this not supported in the iOS app, possibly because of impact on battery life? It seems strange that the Mail.app on OS X can do it while the phone can't.


texts: iPhone 4s iOS 6 - how to clear Location Services memory

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I was viewing a site that asked for permission to access my location which I declined. Since then the site never asks again, it seems like the iPhone has remembered my choice so automatically declines.

Location Services are enabled and enabled for Safari. I have tried closing safari (from task manager) and disable/re-enable Location Services, rebooted iPhone.

If I view the site on a desktop in Firefox or other browser, it asks for location access everytime I refresh (even if I decline everytime) so I know it's not the site that's the problem.

My question is, is there any way to clear this "memory" that the iPhone has seemingly stored? Perhaps clearing Safari history would do it but I want to avoid that if possible.

Edit: Clearing Safari history and cookies doesn't have any effect.


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I'm trying to increase the volume from the increase volume button, but this is what it's showing:

I also checked the 'Sound' menu in System Preferences, but in the outputs tab everything is perfectly fine. What should I do? No volume is playing on my Mac.


texts: How to disable screenshot option shortcut in Mojave CMD+Shift+5

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Using Skitch, I now get duplicate screenshot options.

I want to disable the screenshot shortcut option in macOS Mojave.

How do I do this?