texts: Two external keyboards of the same type have different mappings

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I use the Logitech K750 on my MBP at work and also bought the keyboard for myself to work at home with the same laptop (German PC layout!).
The problem is that one of the keyboards will always have the ^ and < keys swapped:

sudo rm /Library/Preferences/com.apple.keyboardtype.plist to reset the mapping
Plug in the K750 at work, select mapping: everything works fine
Come home, plug in K750, select mapping: ^ and < keys are swapped.
sudo rm /Library/Preferences/com.apple.keyboardtype.plist to reset the mapping
Plug in K750 again, select mapping: everything is fine
Come to work, plug in K750, select mapping: ^ and < keys are swapped.
Start from 1.

The behavior is super annoying and I can't get my head wrapped around what is causing the issue because it's the exact same keyboard-type.
What is wrong with my keyboards?


texts: OS X El Capitan - How do I specify individual sets of Hot Corners for different Virtual Desktops?

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I would like to have one virtual desktop where I have the "show desktop" hot corner, and second one where this is disabled, so that I do not always have to change the settings.

Can I customise virtual desktops with individual hot corners, or is there only one global setting for all virtual desktops?


texts: Error -36 "some data can't be read or written" when copying files from SD card

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I want to copy files from my SD card to my Desktop but for some of the files I get:

  The Finder can’t complete the operation because some data in “GOPR0054.MP4” can’t be read or written. (Error code -36)

I tried to use dot_clean because it seems to have done the trick for others:

dot_clean Path/To/Directory

Didn't work.

I have no idea what error -36 is or how it can be solved.
My SD card is in ExFAT format (if that matters).

I'm running macOS Sierra 10.12.2.


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I have an early 2010 27" iMac that is the family computer.  It has 5 user accounts on it. (Not sure if this is relevant or not).

Often times I'll come home and the login screen won't appear.  Usually I can ssh in from my MBP and kill that process and everything works.

This time, however, I see that there's a few hundred loginwindow processes running, and I can't kill them.  Doing a ps ax | grep loginwindow | wc -l told me there was 829 of them!

It started with a frozen screensaver.  I killed the ScreenSaverEngine process and it brought me to a stuck login screen.

I'm guessing there is a severe software conflict on the machine, but I am not sure how to diagnose this.  It is certainly frustrating to have to power off the machine.

Any ideas on what I should do to fix this issue?  How would I begin to figure out the root  cause?


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Question
What do I do with the script? Please explain in plain English in step-by-step fashion.
Background
I saw that you can display images inline in iTerm2

But when I clicked on the link to Download imgcat here it just took me to a url that had the script. But what do i do with it? copy somewhere? run it after?


texts: Is there a way to turn off the 4g so I can use 3g on my iphone 4s? I am going to be in a area that has very poor 4g and decent 3g. I am using ios 7. Unfortunately the toggle to turn off 4g in settings, cellular is missing.


texts: How to get all options for com.apple.finder.plist in ~/Library/Preferences?

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how people know what's possible to be changed via CLI in OSX / macOS if com.apple.finder.plist is a binary file and calling cat command for that file  shows only a binary gibberish output?

cat ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.finder.plist

I've found great option in macOS Sierra:

  Keep folders on top when sorting by name

What's the name of it's defaults write so that I can add it into my settings script?

Basically instead of guessing I would like to know where to find all possible options. Does Apple provide it somewhere? I know this site but it's not up to date...


texts: Why I cannot restore Apple TV from tvOS 10 preview?

texts: It just shows error "The Apple TV software update center could not be contacted. The requested resource was not found." Is there anything I can do to fix it?


texts: Remote desktop from a mac to windows machine, using direct connection eg Ethernet

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I work primarily off a Mac-book. I have a windows machine on which I do some .net development. I simply need to be able to use windows remote desktop on my mac to remote desktop to the windows machine, but not over internet. I want the connection to be established over local WiFi, or over direct Ethernet connection between the two machines, if that is even possible. There are many postings on this topic, but non specific to my case.

The closest answer I have come across is this here, which only mentions the possibilities, but not the implementation.

Are there any resources I could use to help me set this up, or if anyone knows how to?


texts: Will Apple replace my broken Lightning cable for free?

texts: I have an iPhone 6 and bought AppleCare for it. The Lightning cable that came with it is starting to split (see the picture). It still charges fine, to the best of my knowledge, but is it eligible for a free replacement under AppleCare?


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I have a iPod touch 6 running the latest version of iOS 12. I want to somehow copy a local folder onto my laptop. The folder have about 3800 images on it and it takes up about a gigabyte of storage. I tried to use iTunes, Google Drive, OneDrive, AirDrop, email and even plugging in the iPod directly and accessing the file system from there but I could not find where it has stored. It was a lot harder because I had 1+ GBs of data when the iPod only had 1 GB of RAM.
Does anybody know what the path is to the ‘On My iPod’ folder?
Any help will be appreciated.


texts: Where are the power-on jumpers on a mid-2013 MacBook Air logic board?

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I'm trying to locate the power-on jumpers on the logic board of mid-2013, 13" MacBook Air.  Similar to this question, but for the newer model MacBook Air.

I have disassembled and cleaned all components after I had a liquid spill. Computer seems to be charging ok now; previously was not. I suspect the keyboard is damaged but want to start computer to run a systems check.


texts: Late 2006 iMac Issue: Logic Board or Hard Drive?

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I have a question. I have a late 2006 17" White iMac, and it is having issues. I don't know if it has a bad hard drive (again..), or if it has a bad logic board, and I have no idea how to check it. I have taken this thing in many, many times for this same issue, but Apple just tells me it is a bad hard drive and just replaces it. Yet this issue continues to happen, and happen, and happen. I've been through 3 hard drives within the last three years or so.

Heres the symptoms:
~Won't stay on longer than 10 minutes without getting the beach ball/pinwheel of death (as I have begun to call it)
~Or, it will freeze completely (if music is playing, the last note it was on will just endlessly repeat.
~Screen will randomly go black with no way of getting it back. Only sign of life is a slight glow.
~Hates more than one application open at a time, and especially hates Firefox/Safari/really any Internet browser...
~Has bars and speckles of randomly coloured pixels in the display.
~Sometimes will not finish booting sequence.

What I have tried:
~ I tried installing a light version Ubuntu, as I had no money for the newer versions of OS X. The problems only became worse. (As in, the keyboard/mouse no longer worked, everything was crashing, nothing would stay open, etc.)
~Following a million different tutorials that are supposed to "fix" the problem, to no avail..
~I replaced the hard drive. This didn't work, and now I don't even have any sort of picture (I do have the slight glow like I mentioned earlier) when attempting to boot from a disc. I have made sure three times now that I replugged in everything that I unplugged, and everything is where it should be.
Is there any chance left for this poor Mac, or should I get my hard drive back and be rid of it? It is not under warranty, nor do I have any money to be able to buy a new logic board, and/or any idea on how to replace my existing one. I am not paying $700 to Apple for them to fix it either, as that is outside of my budget.

Any/all help with this is highly appreciated, and Thanks! (:


texts: How to increase font size of Eclipse globally?

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I'd like to know how to increase the font size for Eclipse so it adjusts the whole GUI to not look so darn small on my screen.

For NetBeans there is the --font-size switch which can be set in netbeans.conf, is there something similar for Eclipse?

(In case it's useful, I'm on Snow Leopard.)


texts: Can't unlock Macbook after sleep until powering off and on

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The problem occurs after closing the lid of the laptop and it goes to sleep. When I open the lid, I am prompted for the password for my user as usual. When I press enter, there is no reaction.

Now the only action I can do that gets a reaction is to push the power button twice to turn the screen off and then on. At this point, I am again able to enter the password, but this time when I push enter the masked password gets selected (the field doesn't shake). Same results for correct or incorrect passwords. Pushing the cancel or switch user button has no effect.

To log in again I cycle the power off and on. The problem recurs sometimes often (many times a day) and infrequently at other times.

I couldn't identify anything interesting in the logs; this is the leadup to me cycling the power in the system.log:

Apr 11 18:00:27 dresnick-mbp kernel[0]: kauth external resolver timed out (1 timeout(s) of 60 seconds).
Apr 11 18:00:31 dresnick-mbp.local identityservicesd[500]: <IMMacNotificationCenterManager: 0x7f8153215230>: notification observer: com.apple.iChat   notification: __CFNotification 0x7f8151611240 {name = _NSDoNotDisturbEnabledNotification}
Apr 11 18:00:32 dresnick-mbp.local WindowServer[132]: CGError post_notification(const CGSNotificationType, void *const, const size_t, const bool, const CGSRealTimeDelta, const int, const CGSConnectionID *const, const pid_t): Timed out 1.000 second wait for reply from "Firefox" for synchronous notification type 102 (kCGSDisplayWillSleep) (CID 0xa56b, PID 804)
Apr 11 18:00:32 dresnick-mbp.local WindowServer[132]: CGError post_notification(const CGSNotificationType, void *const, const size_t, const bool, const CGSRealTimeDelta, const int, const CGSConnectionID *const, const pid_t): Timed out 1.000 second wait for reply from "Microsoft Outlook" for synchronous notification type 102 (kCGSDisplayWillSleep) (CID 0xfa03, PID 465)
Apr 11 18:00:32 dresnick-mbp.local WindowServer[132]: CGError post_notification(const CGSNotificationType, void *const, const size_t, const bool, const CGSRealTimeDelta, const int, const CGSConnectionID *const, const pid_t): Timed out 1.000 second wait for reply from "Microsoft Lync" for synchronous notification type 102 (kCGSDisplayWillSleep) (CID 0x59a3, PID 477)
Apr 11 18:00:32 dresnick-mbp.local WindowServer[132]: device_generate_desktop_screenshot: authw 0x7f91f48773e0(2004), shield 0x7f91ed304810(2001)
Apr 11 18:00:32 dresnick-mbp.local WindowServer[132]: device_generate_lock_screen_screenshot: authw 0x7f91f48773e0(2004)[0, 0, 1440, 900] shield 0x7f91ed304810(2001), dev [1440,900]
Apr 11 18:00:42 dresnick-mbp.local loginwindow[74]: ERROR | -[LWBuiltInScreenLockAuthLion askForPasswordBuiltIn:] | Attempted to add an observer when already observing
Apr 11 18:00:42 dresnick-mbp.local WindowServer[132]: CGXDisplayDidWakeNotification [13749210101618]: posting kCGSDisplayDidWake
Apr 11 18:00:42 dresnick-mbp.local WindowServer[132]: handle_will_sleep_auth_and_shield_windows: Deferring.
Apr 11 18:00:46 dresnick-mbp.local identityservicesd[500]: <IMMacNotificationCenterManager: 0x7f8153215230>:    NC Disabled: NO

I'm running a MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2014), OS X 10.10.2


texts: Volume Keys not working with HDMI audio on mac OSX Lion?

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I have a mac mini 2011 with OSX Lion. And I have connected my monitor (with integrated speakers) through hdmi port. The sound is working fine, but the volume keys on the keyboard don't work.
When I press one of them the volume image appears on the screen but with a prohibited signal.

Is there a way to fix this and make my keyboard keys change the system volume?

By the way, they work very well when I use another audio output device


texts: Can I use my Mac to re-create an inverted audio noise cancellation effect?

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I would like to use my Mac as an audio cancelling device, like headphones that reproduce the outside noise in inverted form, so it cancels out (typically found in airports). With a normal pair of headphones, my Mac could record the ambient noise and send it to my headphones to achieve noise reduction.

Is there a program able to do this?


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So, I've found myself in a quite tight spot regarding my internal HDD.

I've got a 13" Late 2011 MBP, running macOS 10.12.1, which is behaving very strangely lately: Mail will refuse to open, with an error message complaining about network and home folder problems; Finder won't let me create new directories (they appear and then instantly vanish - they weren't created at all, according to my Dropbox log); and Disk Utility gives inconsistent results: sometimes it will say everything's fine, while other times it indicates disk corruption.

Stranger still, is that no external storage appears on my Desktop. They do show in System Information under the respective USB controller, but no signs of life either from Finder or Disk Utility.

I've tried rebooting the system to see if things would come back to normal; instead, I was greeted to a Kernel Panic at startup, complete with white text under a black background. After trying to use the recovery partition to run Disk Utility again, a second attempt would result in a "block sign" being displayed if I tried accessing said partition, and Internet Recovery's Disk Utility just hang up after an hour checking the Catalog File.

I was only able to boot back into macOS by trying to boot into verbose mode (Cmd+Shift+V), and for some reason the system came back to life. It still has the exact same problems as before, with the addition that, after choosing to send Apple a Crash Report, the "ReportCrash" process is now taking an entire processing core for about an hour, with no signs of high disk activity.

This is quite frustrating, given that it's been about 6 months I've replaced its original 750GB HDD for a 1TB Toshiba hybrid drive (1TB disk; 8GB flash), and things were working very smoothly until then.

Before I reboot my Mac again, I'd like to know if anyone has ever encountered a similar isse, and what can be done to minimize the damage. I have a 30-day-old Time Machine backup, and can read the drive using a secondary Linux machine in order to not lose more data, but as-is, what is the best course of action?

EDIT: After following @Allan's suggestion and running the Apple Hardware Test (online version) on extended mode, the HDD is indeed reported. The output is as follows:

Test Results
________________________________________

Alert! Apple Hardware Test has detected an error.

4HDD/11/40000004: SATA(0,0)

Pass Number: 1,
Total Time Testing: 44 mins 53 secs

Guess I'll try to image the HDD this night under Linux, using ddrescue, and restore to the older 750GB HDD; I'll follow up with more progress later. Thanks to @jksoegaard and @Allan for the moment!

EDIT 2: On trying ddrescue the drive oddly reported no read errors, even though almost every time I run it through fsck.hfsplus the reported results are different. I've also decided to check its S.M.A.R.T. data; to my surprise, it reports no reallocated sectors, but an alarmingly high rate of UDMA CRC Errors (11752, out of a 253 worst-recommended value).

I've decided to try to save as most as I could from my home directory using the Linux machine (fortunately only a couple uninportant files seemed corrupt, even though macOS refused to read the disk through an external SATA<->USB converter), and put back the original 750GB HDD on the MacBook, which is being currently restored from the aforementioned Time Machine Backup.

Next step is to return the HDD under warranty and try to claim a new one, I suppose. Thanks so much to everybody for the help!


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I had a Smart Search for my Photo Stream files located at ~/Library/Application Support/iLifeAssetManagement/assets/sub/, searching for JPG and PNG files. I found that not all files were showing up. So I went looking for them myself and was able to locate them.

How does this make sense? Why doesn't finder see the same results? The list of files was achieved using the find command at the prompt. I then passed a simple find result to wc to get the count, 153 files found via find in Terminal but only 75 in Finder using Spotlight? What's the deal?


texts: How to get the basic linux ps functionality in mac?

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In linux the basic ps command only shows very basic information about the processes running in the same terminal.

For example:

[root@localhost ~]# sleep 100 &
[1] 4071
[root@localhost ~]# ps
  PID TTY          TIME CMD
 4025 pts/2    00:00:00 bash
 4071 pts/2    00:00:00 sleep
 4078 pts/2    00:00:00 ps
[root@localhost ~]#

What is the way to achieve the same simple output in mac?

The ps without any options in mac, prints a lot more information than processes running in the same terminal.

Apparently there is no ps port from linux to mac for a good reason

About the ps that I have :
Running El Capitan 10.11.6

$ which -a ps
/bin/ps

$ ps --version
ps: illegal option -- -
usage: ps [-AaCcEefhjlMmrSTvwXx] [-O fmt | -o fmt] [-G gid[,gid...]]
          [-g grp[,grp...]] [-u [uid,uid...]]
          [-p pid[,pid...]] [-t tty[,tty...]] [-U user[,user...]]
       ps [-L]

Some example output

$ /bin/ps | wc -l
          69

$ ps | grep iTerm
 2462 ttys000    0:00.20 /Applications/iTerm.app/Contents/MacOS/iTerm2 --server /usr/bin/login -fpl hbaba /Applications/iTerm.app/Contents/MacOS/iTerm2 --launch_shell
 4157 ttys001    0:00.19 /Applications/iTerm.app/Contents/MacOS/iTerm2 --server /usr/bin/login -fpl hbaba /Applications/iTerm.app/Contents/MacOS/iTerm2 --launch_shell
 4241 ttys002    0:00.20 /Applications/iTerm.app/Contents/MacOS/iTerm2 --server /usr/bin/login -fpl hbaba /Applications/iTerm.app/Contents/MacOS/iTerm2 --launch_shell
 4296 ttys003    0:00.20 /Applications/iTerm.app/Contents/MacOS/iTerm2 --server /usr/bin/login -fpl hbaba /Applications/iTerm.app/Contents/MacOS/iTerm2 --launch_shell
 4380 ttys004    0:00.20 /Applications/iTerm.app/Contents/MacOS/iTerm2 --server /usr/bin/login -fpl hbaba /Applications/iTerm.app/Contents/MacOS/iTerm2 --launch_shell
 4456 ttys005    0:00.21 /Applications/iTerm.app/Contents/MacOS/iTerm2 --server /usr/bin/login -fpl hbaba /Applications/iTerm.app/Contents/MacOS/iTerm2 --launch_shell


texts:
Possible Duplicate:
  Why is it not possible to use the “cut” command to manipulate a file in the Finder?

I was fiddling with several settings a few days ago, and I'm pretty sure I did something that disabled the "Cut" option in Finder.

Anyone know where I can re-enable it?


texts: Airbook - is there key comand to turn my screen luminosity up

texts: I turned my luminosity all the way down using the sliding bar, now I cannot see the screen to turn it back up - I know, really dumb - so is there a keyboard way to turn the screen lumins up?


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I've seen this question for older versions of the Mac mini, but I'm struggling to find an answer for the Mac mini 2018.

I want to connect 3 identical monitors (22inch 1080p). I'm currently able to connect 2 monitors using HDMI-Thunderbolt 3 cables, but I'm unable to get the 3rd monitor to detect a signal. I have a 3rd HDMI-Thunderbolt 3 cable, and I also have a VGA to HDMI adapter I can use as well.

If I plug the VGA-HDMI cable into he HDMI port on the Mini, the two functioning monitors begin to flicker. The third monitor is still not detecting a signal.

The monitor is a 1920x1080, 75 Hz

Has anyone successfully configured a 2018 Mac Mini to 3 monitors using one of these configurations?

Thanks!


texts: In my iPad settings there is an app called null what is it?

texts: When I go to settings on my iPad it shows an app called null what is this? What do I do about it? Is it bad or nothing to worry about?


texts: Since I upgraded to Yosemite 10.10.5 (14F1021) on my MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Late 2013) the font size on my VMware Fusion is minuscule and I cannot figure out how to increase the font size.  Sure would like to fix this without asking my 2 sons to solve another problem!  It sure would impress them if I could fix this myself!


texts: Applescript to copy folder (and contents) to current location?

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I am trying to create a button on my Finder toolbar powered by applescript to make a copy of a set folder (e.g. /Users/James/doc) and all files/subfolders within it to the current location in Finder.

The motivation for this is that I have a LaTeX documentation format with subfolders such as img that I normally add to every new coding project in a folder called doc, so having a button that adds this folder would save me time instead of manually copying it across each time.

My applescript skills are not very good, I have tried:

1)

set x to ((the target of the front window) as text) as alias
set y to ((folder "Users/James/doc") as text) as alias

tell application "Finder"
    duplicate y to x
end tell

the error I get from running this first attempt is: Can’t make target of window 1 of «script» into type text.

2)

tell application "Finder"
    duplicate folder "Users/James/doc" to (the target of the front window)
end tell

which when run gives the error Finder got an error: Can’t set target of window 1 to folder "Users/James/doc".

(PS: I already know how to turn the applescripts into Finder buttons)


texts: I want to install Adobe CS 6 on an external hard drive but can't select the install location

texts:
My SSD is formatted case sensitive, so when I attempted to install I got this:

  Installation on case sensitive volumes isn't allowed. Please choose a case insensitive location.

But I can't select the install location.


texts: Is there a way to suppress notifications for "Tapbacks"?

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Is there a way to suppress notifications for Messages "Tapbacks", without surpassing other Messages notifications?

I'd like to continue receiving notifications for messages as I currently have them configured, but want to disable notifications for (only) "Tapbacks" because – (I can't possibly need to explain why). Is there a way to do this?


texts: Update my jailbroken iPhone 4 iOS 4.2.1 to iOS 7.1.2

texts: I'm new to this but I had my phone jailbroken years ago and they told me I had to stay under Apple's radar so I never tried to get it updated. Now I can barely use any of my apps, for instance I can't FaceTime at all any more. Can someone provide step by step instructions on how to update my phone?


texts: Yosemite three-finger lookup not working

texts: I have enabled the three-finger lookup, but it is not working since I upgrade to Yosemite. How to fix it?


texts: Require a Password When Woken From Sleep Only When Specifically Requested?

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I want to create one hotkey that puts my monitor to sleep without requiring a password to wake it, and another hotkey that puts my monitor to sleep which does require a password to wake it.

I'll be using BetterTouchTool to create the hotkeys - but how do I create one that requires a password and another that doesn't?  Bonus points if I can do this using Applescript since I already have a BTT/Applescript hotkey for when I'm leaving the house which turns off my Hue lights, mutes my Mac and puts my monitor to sleep.

I realize I can go into system prefs > security & privacy and select "require password immediately after sleep or screen saver" but that would mean I'd have to enter my password every time I put my monitor to sleep, which is what I don't want.


texts: accidentally set my main folder as shared in public place

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I just figured my main folder under my user and everything in it was shared. Is there a log on my computer that checks whether someone downloaded from my computer? I remember there was somebody else with a mac on the same network and had the opportunity to download all my private information.

Thanks


texts: Preventing filesystem from locking up when automount NFS share from VM goes away

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I do a lot of web applications development, and I run a Fedora VM on my Mac to simulate the server environment.  Meanwhile, I run the IDE on the Mac side, and it requires a local filesystem to make changes.  Hm.

I solved this problem by exporting my code directories in Fedora via NFS and using automount on the Mac side to automatically mount the shares as needed:

# fedora:/etc/exports
/var/vhosts/ 192.168.182.1(rw,insecure,all_squash,anonuid=1000,anongid=1000)

# mac:/etc/auto_master
...
/vhosts auto_vhosts

# mac:/etc/auto_vhosts
* fedora:/var/vhosts/&

I love this setup because it Just Works and is maintenance-free... so long as my VM is running.

If I suspend or shut down my VM, however, everything goes crazy.  Any filesystem-related operations take forever (even seemingly-unrelated actions like launching iTunes or shutting down my system), and the Console fills up with lots of messages from KernelEventAgent about the mount not responding.

The issue persists until I restore my VM state.

One way to work around this issue is to always leave my VM running, but that sucks up a ton of RAM, and I'd prefer to be able to suspend my VM for e.g., games or other resource-intensive apps that I might want to run.

Is there a way I can keep my existing automount setup, but still have the flexibility to suspend my VM and have my Mac stop blocking filesystem operations waiting for the NFS connection to timeout?


texts: Why does OS X show a forgot password prompt when trying to boot or wakeup screen?

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Something came up today that bugged me a bit, I left my laptop on battery power before going to bed. When starting it up the battery was dead. I plugged it in, and here is what happened:

The startup progress bar came up for a while and then a forgot password prompt came up, with questions like:
"set a new password"
+ 2 other options that I can't remember (they weren't relevant)
and a previous and next arrows.

Puzzled, I hit previous and the dialog froze. I proceeded to restart again and ended up on the same dialog, I reset my password to the same as my previous and that was it.

Any idea what might have happened?


texts: How does an organization upgrade to Mountain Lion?  Is it possible to create a generic Apple ID and purchase multiple copies from the Mac App Store?  Are there any other available methods?  Once one Mac is upgraded, can a DVD be created and used to upgrade the rest?  How many license are needed?  Individual upgrades seem to be good for 5 installs, however I suspect that does not hold true for organizations.


texts: How can I change the background and text colour for messages in Mail.app

texts: I much prefer reading white text on a black background. Is it possible for me to configure Mail.app so that messages are displayed white-on-black instead of the other way around?


texts: Sound Output keeps reselecting built-in Output, from Bluetooth Device

texts:
I have a Logitech Blue Tooth audio adapter which has been working for like 2 years.  All of a sudden, in sys preferences, it automatically switches to built-in sound.

The bluetooth, is connected in bluetooth settings, and the sound device appears in the sound settings.  But when I select it, it selects for 1 second, then goes back to built-in sound.

I've restarted, shut-down and wait, reset smc, pram, reset bluetooth, reset device and none of that affects this.

Is this a bluetooth problem, a logitech problem, or a mac problem?  I can't get any help from Logitech because I have no credit with them and their support and website is trash.


texts: Does using one USB port reduce performance on others?

texts:
This was a difficult topic to search for on the Web, so I'll try asking here:

On a MacBook Air (13-inch, Mid 2013) with 2 x USB 3.0 ports, if I transfer files to an external drive using one port, does this in any way "eat up" the performance of the other USB port? Or does each port have its completely own bus / capacity?

A relevant side question is how the same applies to other multi-port setups such as:

the USB ports on Cinema Displays
the USB ports on Thunderbolt Displays
the Thunderbolt ports on newer MacBooks


texts: Upgrade from 10.9.5 to 10.10.* without App Store

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I can't open the App Store, and I can't open software update. I've tried all the troubleshooting advice I can find online, but none of it solved my problem, so I figured an OS update was overdue. I'm hoping that will fix it.

I can't seem to update without the app store, though!
I ran sudo softwareupdate --install —all and restarted (sudo shutdown -r now), but "About this Mac" still tells me I'm on 10.9.5. (Again, clicking the "Software Update" button tries to launch software update, but fails.)
Now, when I run sudo softwareupdate —list it says, "No new software available."

Is there anything else I can try before I have to take it to the Mac store?


texts:
I have been looking around to turn off "CMD + , (comma)" opening password manager in Safari but there appears to be no option to do so (maybe I missed it). The same shortcut is used as subscript shortcut in Google Docs and it is really annoying during essays. Does anyone knows how to do such thing?
Thank you beforehand!
-It is marked as duplicate but the answer is not relevant.


texts: Mail.app does not sync Junk folder with Gmail

texts:
I am running Mail.app on Yosemite with a few Gmail accounts on IMAP. Everything is syncing just fine, with the exception of the Junk folders: every time I use "Erase junk mail...", the emails are immediately deleted from the client, but they still show up in Gmail's spam folder.

This doesn't happen with the other folders (sent mail ecc): whenever I delete an item from one of these folders, the change is synced to the server. They are also configured in the same way in Mail.app:

How can I make sure that emptying the Junk folder in Mail.app deleted all spam from Gmail web as well?


texts: Two red lines/bars in iTerm2 window and error message about session ending, what is going on here?

texts:
I've been experimenting with threading and running bits of python from iTerm in MacOS yesterday. Today I opened iTerm and two windows opened, one with thick red lines inside it.
I received a Warning message from MacOS:

  A session ended very soon after starting. Check that the command in profile “Default” is correct.

I said OK, the window with the red closed immediately, and I quit iTerm.

Question: What is really happening here? I've never seen red lines appear in iTerm2 or a session close immediately upon starting. Is this just "one of those things" or could something be seriously wrong that needs attention?

I only have one profile, called default.

edit: after coaching in comments, I restarted iTerm2, same red lines. Engaged a second brain cell and realized I can move the error message out of the way, revealing the message in red in the iTerm2 window: Broken Pipe


texts: Will updating my software to Mavericks delete all of my files and software?

texts:
I'm a new Apple user and have the option to update my software to Maverick.

I know that on Windows when you install a new operating system, all of your previous data is wiped out. It's pretty much a reformat.

Will the same happen with Maverick or will I keep all the data I currently have?


texts: Mac Pro: Kernel panic during HDD boot and DVD boot

texts:
I have a 2007 Mac Pro (OS X Tiger 10.4.11) that cannot boot up anymore since a few days. I see the grey screen with the apple logo and the rotating circle. After a minute or so I get a kernel panic. All peripherals except the Apple keyboard are disconnected.

I tried booting from my install DVD, this gave a kernel panic too.

When booting multiple times in safe mode, this is the last line on the screen: "localhost mDNSResponder: Adding browse domain local"

What I already tried:

-Downloaded and burned another Install DVD, same problem (first disc is original)

-Switched the memory modules and booted with just 1 inserted

-Ran the Apple Hardware Test, no problems found.

-Replaced the DVD drive

-Ran fsck -fy , no errors

-Cleared the PRAM

Any ideas?


texts: Do iOS 11/12 have special features making it easy to share Wi-Fi passwords between devices?

texts:
I’m having 2 issues with Wifi:

Does iCloud Keychain sync Wifi network passwords, or just network names?
Does iOS 11 or 12 have a new Wi-Fi sharing feature where a iOS device logged into a Wifi-network near another iOS device will be informed that someone else is trying to join the network and given the option of sending them the password directly over-the-air, as it were?

I called Apple support, and the so-called "senior" adviser informed me that with respect to Question 1, only network names are synced via iCloud Keychain, and with respect to Question 2, it's not a feature about which they have any documentation.

Please set me straight!


texts: Local networking: File sharing permissions over AFP

texts:
I am having trouble getting read/write file sharing working over my local network.

I have shared a folder via AFP, named 'Pictures', with a specific user through System Preferences > Sharing.

By doing this I have successfully made it to the point where I can view the Pictures folder from another computer on the network.

However, when I attempted to move a picture from one folder to another on the remote computer, I got a message from Finder saying, "Finder wants to make changes. Type your password to allow this."

I have used the "Get info" panel on the source computer to recursively set permissions to "Read/Write" for all files and directories under the "Pictures" folder.

As a test, I went in to the Terminal and navigated to /Volumes/Pictures. I attempted to run a command similar to "mv /Volumes/Pictures/Folder1/Picture1.jpg /Volumes/Pictures/Folder2/" and I got a message saying "Permission denied".

However, to my confusion I could successfully run the commands "touch /Volumes/Pictures/Folder1/test" and "touch /Volumes/Pictures/Folder2/test".

All files and folders within the Pictures folder are writable and readable by the owner, within the POSIX permissions on the source computer.

Anybody have any ideas as to what could be going on here? Thanks for your help.


texts: How can I ditch iTunes and find a suitable audio player?

texts:
With the recent features added to iTunes player I find it to be pretty heavy and resources consuming, just to do just what I would like it to do, which is play music. It is almost becoming a full OS which I do not like.

Therefore, I'd like to find something lightweight to build some playlists based on the music I have on my hard-drive, possibly free (but not a requisite). Do you have any alternatives which you would like to share?


texts: Open a Mac installation disk as if it were on a Windows computer

texts:
EDIT: I have found a solution, I'll post it here, as I can't answer my own question yet. Not enough reputation, I have to wait 8 hours.

I found a workaround, by using VirtuaBox and Windows. I asked VirtuaBox to host the disc drive, and I could access the file just fine from the virtual machine. I hope this helped!

I have received a disc with a program I have to install.
The problem lies in the fact that I have to access a .txt file which contains the program's serial it – it's a personal back-up copy – and I do remember that this file is inside the disc.
The problem is that the serial can be seen and opened from Windows, but not from the Mac, which shows its own "version" of the disc: that is, the readme file, and the applications to install the software. And nothing more.
My question is, is there any way to access this disc as if I were reading it from Windows? That is, displaying the actual file system, without those Mac-only options?


texts: How do I get my iPad running iOS 6.0.1 to connect to my MS Exchange mail server?

texts:
I've gone through the adding procedure and it all verifies and looks good there.  However, it will not receive or send any mail (nor sync up contacts/tasks, etc).  It's just throwing the terribly uninformative "An error has ocurred" message.  I'm running the latest iOS - 6.0.1 - on this iPad 2.

Thus far, I've tried deleting and re-adding Exchange on the iPad multiple times.  I've gone into OWA to delete it from the mobile phones list there, but it's not in the list.

There are other people successfully connecting to the same Exchange server with their iPads.

What else should I be checking?


texts: I've just downloaded iOS 8 but when it's asking me to set it up it won't let me skip setting up iCloud and it just resets itself! How can I skip this and set up the device?


texts: Mac automatically restarts after shutdown

texts:
I was using Win 10 on my 2017 21.5" iMac before, but formatted it and installed Mac Mojave again. Here format means I've formatted the data disk as well as system disk, merged all partitions and make only one volume. And installed Mojave.

Now if I select "Shutdown" in the Finder menu the Mac always automatically restarts instead. I am using power button to shutdown the computer. Sometimes, the computer restarts itself - without any action. Weird.

How can I fix or diagnose this?


texts: How to group certain apps and add as a stack to the Dock?

texts:
There is a set of apps I use for my job.
Instead of having them individually on the dock, I'd like to have them in a "stack" all together.

How can I create a stack on the dock and add these apps to it?


texts:
I want to have a Services menu item that takes the selected text (a URL) and escapes the percent character and the # character:

Replace % with \%
Replace # with \string#

I copied and edited an exisiting script that does similar text manipulation.  This seems to work fine except when the URL contains a &.

I think this has something to do with needing to use quoted form of string, but I can't quite determine the correct place to specify that.

Sample Input:

http://books.google.com?xxx&xxx%22+xxx#v=onepage&q=%22Search%20String&f=false

Required Output

http://books.google.com?xxx&xxx\%22+xxx\string#v=onepage&q=\%22Search\%20String&f=false

Code:

on run {input, parameters}
set sanatizedURLString to ¬
    (do shell script ("echo " & input & "  | sed 's/%/\\\\%/g' | sed 's/#/\\\\string#/g' ;"))
return sanatizedURLString
end run


texts: Force OSX to switch to the wifi access point with the strongest signal

texts:
I have two wifi hotspots set up. Comcast X1 Router (Wireless Gateway 1) and an Airport Extreme. Both networks are set up with the same SSID, passphrase, and WPA2 Personal.

Unfortunately, the wifi switch seems to work only in one direction. Initially I will be connected to the Airport extreme, as I get in range of the Comcast Router my Macbook (and iPhone) automatically switch to the stronger signal. When I move back to the airport extreme I stay connected to the Comcast box with inferior signal strength. I verified the signal strength with Wifi Explorer.

Turning the wifi on and off when close to the Airport Extreme will reconnect me to the Airport Extreme.


texts: High Sierra Xcode: which tools come with Command Line Tools installer?

texts:
Is this an accurate list? Is there official Apple Documentation detailing which commands get installed?

The Command Line Tools (macOS 10.13) for Xcode 9.3 installer was recently made available from Apple:

  This package enables UNIX-style development via Terminal by installing command line developer tools, as well as macOS SDK frameworks and headers. Many useful tools are included, such as the Apple LLVM compiler, linker, and Make. If you use Xcode, these tools are also embedded within the Xcode IDE.

I have macOS High Sierra 10.13.4 and Xcode 9.3 (9E145). From what I gather, these command line tools now are updated with the Xcode IDE installation per the Software Update tool automagic?

FWIW, the Additional Tools for Xcode 9.3 are also available.

Per this 2014 osxdaily.com article, the binaries are installed for the following commands:

ar
as
asa
bison
BuildStrings
c++
c89
c99
cc
clang
clang++
cmpdylib
codesign_allocate
CpMac
cpp
ctags
ctf_insert
DeRez
dsymutil
dwarfdump
dyldinfo
flex
flex++
g++
gatherheaderdoc
gcc
gcov
GetFileInfo
git
git-cvsserver
git-receive-pack
git-shell
git-upload-archive
git-upload-pack
gm4
gnumake
gperf
hdxml2manxml
headerdoc2html
indent
install_name_tool
ld
lex
libtool
lipo
lldb
lorder
m4
make
MergePef
mig
mkdep
MvMac
nasm
ndisasm
nm
nmedit
otool
pagestuff
projectInfo
ranlib
rebase
redo_prebinding
ResMerger
resolveLinks
Rez
RezDet
RezWack
rpcgen
segedit
SetFile
size
SplitForks
strings
strip
svn
svnadmin
svndumpfilter
svnlook
svnrdump
svnserve
svnsync
svnversion
unifdef
unifdefall
UnRezWack
unwinddump
what
xml2man
yacc

Are they updated as well? Is this an accurate list? Is there official Apple Documentation detailing which commands get installed?


texts: Why not use 1080p cameras for both front and back cameras on an iPad?

texts:
So a question that I've always been curious about are devices that contain two cameras (one for video chat, etc., and one for everything else). Of course, it wouldn't be such a big deal on devices with low-resolution displays, but because of the advent of the iPhone 4 and new iPad (/iPad 3rd Generation), those crummy VGA quality cameras really detract away from an ideal experience.

Using this article at PC Magazine, we can see that it could possibly be the price difference...

  ...The new camera is three times more costly than the earlier model...

Because looking at the teardown photo from iFixit really doesn't make it appear to be a physical size issue (not downplaying the cramped quarters of the real estate inside an iPad, but the VGA and HD cameras appear to be roughly the same size).

So at this point in the game, why not use the same higher quality camera for both sides of the iPad?


texts: Is the a CLI way to download all photos from a Photos.app iCloud shared album?

texts: Is there a way from the CLI on MacOS or Linux to download all the photos from a shared photo album (an album shared with me from another iCloud user, that shows up the shared tab on iOS or under the shared heading on MacOS) in Photos.app? I would like to setup a cron job to sync the photos locally so I can add them to the rest of our backuped data.


texts: Where is macOS 10.14 Mojave com.apple.Safari.plist ResponsiveDesignCustomPresetConfigurations?

texts:
Does anyone know where to find the equivalent of ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.Safari.plist ResponsiveDesignCustomPresetConfigurations on macOS Mojave? I have the same problem as this post, but can't find it on recently updated macOS:

This has changed since High Sierra.

Thanks in advance.


texts: Does the iPod Touch calendar support every other day scheduling?


texts:
I want to leave my Mac awake overnight so it syncs 4GB of data from Dropbox. I need to prevent the machine from going to sleep because that pauses the Dropbox sync

I've been using Caffeine to keep the computer awake, but it also keeps the computer unlocked which is insecure.

I need a method to keep my Mac awake (so that Dropbox can sync overnight) but also locked (so no one can read my email). It'd be great if this method also turned off the screen (to preserve power), but honestly that's not even 100% necessary.


texts: Is there a Google Calendar app for Mac desktop?

texts: I want to know if there is a Google Calendar app for the Mac desktop? I do not want to sync my Google Calendar to my Apple calendar. I want to have the Google Calendar app itself on my Mac. Has Google made this?


texts: iTerm2: Non standard characters are differently sized than other characters

texts:
Recently I changed iTerm2's default setting so that the default font size is larger when I open it up. However this increased font size only seems to apply to the standard characters. The non standard characters are still small when I open up iTerm2.

How can I make the non-standard characters the same size as the other characters?


texts: need help I screwed my macbook so bad thiere is one drive and no partitions, please read below

texts: So...I somehow messed up my macbook Pro model 1502 raetina 13" Late 2013, core i5, 4GB. I wanted to clean install High Sierra.  Long story short I now have a macbook with one, yes one, there is no base drive, there are no partitions at all.  I can't seem to find anywhere to download an installable version of high sierra anywhere.  Is it possible to make a boot drive from the macos that I can boot with to erase my one drive?  I'm sure there is a lot I don't know nor have thought of.  I greately appreciate any help you can offer


texts:
Installed 32-bit Windows instead of 64-bit on my MacBook Air 2011. The Boot camp drivers are for 64-bit Windows 8 so they can't be installed. It doesn't see any USB drive including my external DVD drive.

Are there are any work arounds other than reinstalling 64-bit windows?


texts: Mac App Store update issues after migrating to Retina MBP

texts:
I had a 2011 MBP and I just purchased the new RMBP. I used the startup migration assistant to port all my data, easy.

But I'm getting weird issues, when I opened programs for the first time I was prompted to put in my password.

Now, I am unable to update my apps (so far IMovie and IPhoto) through the mac app store, I get this error:

I only have one account and I am logged in to that account.

I've followed the instructions regarding repairing disk permissions and re-indexing spotlight found here


texts: iPhone XR take a second to go to sleep, instead of going out instantly

texts: I got my iPhone XR just days ago and just recently upgraded to IOS 14. Now, the problem I am facing is no way near crazy problematic. However, it is kinda concerning given it's a brand new phone. After updating to IOS 14, it seems like my iPhone is "taking its time" to go to sleep. Like initially, I'd press the power button and it would immediately go to sleep but now it actually takes a second to go out followed by the locking sound effect. I don't know if the problem is because of updating to IOS 14 or something else. I hope someone could help me figure this out.


texts: Can I automatically arrange the icons of the home screen according to the frequency of use?

texts: Is there a possibility to arrange the icons automatically according to the frequency of use? Top left: the most important, then the 2nd most important, etc.


texts: Why does Terminal swallow Ctrl+up/down keystrokes?

texts:
In Terminal.app on Snow Leopard, the key combinations Ctrl+↑ and Ctrl+↓ don't get passed through correctly. Instead Terminal.app receives a single ↑ or ↓ key stroke.

I have verified this by running cat -v, which prints the code ^[[A for both Ctrl+↑ and ↑, and the code ^[[B for both Ctrl+↓ and ↓.

I have looked through the keyboard shortcut settings in System Preferences, but nothing is mapped to them. Furthermore, the keystrokes work in MacVim (I first noticed this issue when these keystrokes didn't work for me in vim in the terminal).

I'm also running iTerm2, which doesn't receive Ctrl+↑ or Ctrl+↓ at all (as tested with cat -v).

Where can I figure out what's eating my Ctrl+↑ and Ctrl+↓ keystrokes in Terminal.app and iTerm2?


texts: Fusion Drive with SSD and HHD Hybrid Drive (e.g. Seagate Momentum XT 750 GB with 8 GB SSD): Good idea or plain nonsense?

texts:
I’ve seen numerous instructions on how to setup a Fusion Drive from your own SSD and HD, e.g. Can I make a DIY Fusion Drive?

Very silly question: How would a Fusion Drive built from an SSD and a Hybriddrive (take the Seagate Momentus XT 750 GB with built-in 8 GB SSD) compare to an SSD with a standard HDD when it comes to performance/power consumption/idle behavior?

Has anyone done this? Does this make any sense at all or is the "cascaded caching" (if one can call it that way) counterproductive?


texts: App for offline bookmark reading on iPad

texts:
I'm currently using Diigo for saving my bookmarks and reading them later on the iPad offline. However, it allows only the 20 last for reading.

Does anyone know an app that enables reading older history items offline?


texts: smb server not showing in the Finder sidebar under Locations

texts:
I installed samba on linux.

From Finder > Go > "Connect to Server …" I can connect to the server and see my folders.
The server shows up in the Finder sidebar under Locations.
When I unmount the server it disappears from the sidebar and doesn't come back.

What do I need to do so the server always shows up in the sidebar when it's running?

I've tried various things I've found on the web. No joy.

macOS 10.14.3
samba 2:4.5.16+dfsg-1
Linux pi 4.14.98-v7+ #1200 SMP Tue Feb 12 20:27:48 GMT 2019 armv7l GNU/Linux


texts: How to download a web site with specific cookies set?

texts:
I want to download a site with specific cookies set. I tried SiteSucker but found there are no options to set headers. So I could not set a cookie.

Are there other Mac tools or apps I can use?


texts: I can't get my ex husbands apple id out of the family  ipad. Now I have a ton of apps to update and he won't give our kids his password to update them.


texts:
I need to utilize numerals with macrons positioned over them for the mathematical notation involved in the Hermann–Mauguin notation of crystalline space groups.

OS X has nice Unicode support, so having digits with combining macron is not a problem. See: 4̄ (4 + macron above it; the macron is like a bar).

However, as soon as I try to paste it into Word 2011, it gets displayed incorrectly (the macro is offset to the left, looking somewhat like a superscript: 4–).

Here's the macron, correctly displayed in UnicodeChecker:

and here's the one pasted into Word:

So, how can I manage to input/paste combining macrons in Word 2011?


texts:
My system

I'm running a 13" retina MacBook Pro and using El Capitan 10.11.6.

Model Name: MacBook Pro
  Model Identifier: MacBookPro11,1
  Processor Name:   Intel Core i7
  Processor Speed:  2.8 GHz
  Number of Processors: 1
  Total Number of Cores:    2
  L2 Cache (per Core):  256 KB
  L3 Cache: 4 MB
  Memory:   16 GB
  Boot ROM Version: MBP111.0142.B00
  SMC Version (system): 2.16f68

Issue

Often while working in a low ambient light environment, I'll turn down the screen brightness to make the display more comfortable to work with. Several times, immediately after turning down the brightness, the system will raise it up to max again.

I turn it down.

The system turns it up.

This goes on for several minutes and continually interrupts/blinds me.

My Display settings allow automatic brightness adjustment. But this is in a room often with no lighting other than the laptop so it should be adjusting down if anything.

Even after turning this setting off and closing System Preferences, the brightness still is changing automatically. I have also tried resetting the System Management Controller (SMC).

How do I a) prevent this from happening and b) actually turn off automatic brightness adjustment?


texts: How is the iPhone 7 waterproof if its charging port is exposed?

texts:
as someone interested in Electronics, this has bugged me for far to long, and I am hoping someone can put an answer to end this annoyance.

My current idea as to how:

the entire port is isolated with Transistors, when the power cord is plugged in, those transistors open and allow the port to function as a normal data/charging port, but this is far to simple I know.

I am aware that this may be better suited to electronics.stackechange.


texts: How do I create a file with a custom file extension?

texts:
I've just been trying to create a .crt file, so I can copy the contents (text) from a web page in to it, but Mac OS doesn't seem to want to let me do it easily.

Normally in Windows I would right click > new file, or even open notepad and save as (as it lets you save with any extension), but TextEdit in mac forces me to save as RTF, and I seem to be unable to rename it in finder afterwards?!

I ended up opening the terminal and executing touch cert.crt just to create the file. I need to explain this process to some other users - there must be a simpler way.


texts: How to fix thunderbolt to vga display port?

texts:
I have a MacBook Air (13-inch, Early 2014) and a third-party thunderbolt to vga adapter. I have had the adapter for over 2 years now and it has given me no problem at all. Suddenly, this week the macbook stopped detecting different displays. Here is what I have done to solve the problem:

Tried combinations of different screens, different VGA cables with the adapter
Checked if the adapter was working via a colleagues laptop (adapters seem to be working fine)
Tried different third party adapters
Resetting SMC and NVRAM
Updated the OSx from El Capitan to Mojave
Performed first aid and hardware check from Disk Utility
Tried installing the MiniDisplayVGAFirmware update

Nothing seems to work. On El Capitan the screen of the laptop would blink, after plugging the adapter to the Thunderbolt port, as if it recognised the screen but would not recognise the screen. On Mojave the screen does not even blink

I still have to try it with the official Apple Adapter but I do not want to buy it and realise that that is not the problem.

What do you think could be the issue? How can I fix it? Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Thanks in advance!


texts:
Does anybody have anything in the "Look Me Up By Email" tab? I'm trying to understand how to remove an item from "Look Me Up By Email". This app was uninstalled a long time ago and it's still showing on my Mac.
I also did a clean install of macOS Catalina. I don't know what more I can do. It's a bug or maybe I have a virus on my Mac (MacBook Air early 2015, macOS Catalina 10.15.1)?

I received a letter from MarginNote, but there's nothing useful here!

This is just a residue in the look-me-up list.The app does not have
access to refreshing the list when it is uninstalled on your devices.
We do have forwarded this issue to Apple’s dev team about this issue
and hopefully, it could be fixed eventually. A couple of words about
this if what you are actually concerned about is your privacy
protection. The feature is added in MarginNote 2 given that app
supports sharing an exported notebook to a fellow MarginNote user so
that some sort of teamwork can be achieved. It serves only this
purpose and no more than that. Plus, ticking it off in the list is
already an effective measure to turn it off for good. To sum up, it is
a left-over option that can be turned off and will not affect your
(un)using of your macOS device.
Regards, MarginNote Support Team


texts: What happens to those people who have completely switched to an iOS device and don't have a CD drive? Then, when they want to rip a CD/DVD to their iOS device, they can't. Is it possible to connect an external CD/DVD drive to an iOS device?


texts: I have just changed my Apple ID, but made a typing error. No verification. Not searchable via find my Apple ID

texts:
Just logged in to amend settings on my Apple ID. When entering new email, must have typed it wrong. Never received verification and now can't log back in.
Can't 'find Apple ID' as I don't know what my typo was.

How else can I retrieve it as am now logged out on all my devices.


texts: Can I change the resolution of a png from 120x120 to 180x180?

texts: I have a 120x120 png and I need it to be converted to a 180x180, is this possible using iPhoto or other Apple software for a mac? I do not care if the picture turns out good or not I just need it to be that size. I am running OSX Yosemite.


texts: How can I ignore DS_Store settings for a given drive?

texts:
I regularly use a network drive (using SMB), along with a bunch of other Mac users. Because those other Macs leave the window view settings in .DS_Store files, I'm constantly having my windows open using other people's last-view settings. Is there any way I can somehow tell the Finder to ignore .DS_Store settings for a given volume?

(I know there's a way I can stop my system from leaving .DS_Store files, but setting that same preference on every Mac that might access the volume is not an option.)


texts: Control AirPods Pro noise control on Windows

texts:
I love using my AirPods Pro because of the noise canceling, but it would be better if I could control it on Windows.  I know you can squeeze the stem to disable and enable it, but is there any software I can get that will let me control it from Windows?
Thanks


texts:
The previous question provides answers for Windows and other addons are for older versions of FF, or do not answer the question.   This is a specific question for OSX.

Chrome has a built in task manager under "Tools" to look at the process within Chrome, extremely beneficial in locating a stuck page.   What is the similar feature in firefox?

I need to identify what is causing it to run slowly, and the addons they suggested dont work for OSX or are outdated, and Chrome's about:memory isn't recognizing FF

FF Version 17.0, OSX version 10.8.2 Build 12C3006

How to get to Task Manager:

Task Manager:

THIS IS NOT A DUPLICATE OF:

  Possible Duplicate:
  “Task Manager” addon for Firefox?


texts: What is the location of this Application's file?

texts:
This application shows in Finder at path (with target):

Macintosh HD/Applications/Trans_Helper.app/Contents/MacOS/applet

and I have not been able to successfully start it with launchd, using

~/Applications/Trans_Helper.app/Contents/MacOS/applet
//  or
/Users/myusername/Applications/Trans_Helper.app/Contents/MacOS/applet

Repeatedly seeing the following in console:

… com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[150] (com.mahogany.sarah[1156]): Job failed to exec(3). Setting up event to tell us when to try again: 2: No such file or directory
… com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[150] (com.mahogany.sarah[1156]): Job failed to exec(3) for weird reason: 2
… com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[150] (com.mahogany.sarah): Job should be able to exec(3) now.

So, I am concluding that the file is not referenced correctly.

In case it helps, the plist file in ~/Library/LaunchAgents looks like:

<dict>
    <key>Label</key>
    <string>com.mahogany.sarah</string>
    <key>ProgramArguments</key>
    <array>
        <string>~/Applications/Trans_Helper.app/Contents/MacOS/applet</string>
    </array>
    <key>StartCalendarInterval</key>
    <dict>
        <key>Hour</key>
        <integer>15</integer>
        <key>Minute</key>
        <integer>25</integer>
    </dict>
</dict>

EDIT: It finally worked using suggested changes AND removing the tilde from before /Applications. (This is, incidentally, exactly what the Finder > File Info displays for the applet)

<dict>
    <key>Label</key>
    <string>com.mahogany.sarah</string>
    <key>Program</key>    // Change here and removing 1st char of string on next line
    <string>/Applications/Trans_Helper.app/Contents/MacOS/applet</string>
    <key>StartCalendarInterval</key>
    <dict>
        <key>Hour</key>
        <integer>15</integer>
        <key>Minute</key>
        <integer>25</integer>
    </dict>
</dict>


texts: USB keyboard, unaffected by settings, repeating keys when held together

texts:
Key Repeat and Delay Until Repeat settings work fine and are immediately applied for the MacBook keyboard in TextEdit, but have no effect on the USB keyboard - even after reboot.

If I hold hi, the result is hhi via the USB keyboard. Further, if I hold hit, the result is hhihit.

Another example, if I hold ca, the result is cac via the USB keyboard. Further, if I hold cat, the result is cactac. So different keys seems to give different behavior.

Any idea how to disable the repeating letters upon holding on the USB keyboard? Since it makes it difficult to type quickly. Also a bonus would be to have the keyboard settings applied to the USB keyboard.

TeckNet Kraken LED Illuminated Gaming Keyboard
macOS Sierra 10.12.3
MacbBook Pro (15-inch, Early 2011)


texts: How can I tell Automator to display an image with Preview but actual size?

texts:
I am trying to have Automator do a simple task: display an image, but actual size. The problem is that Preview by default wants to 'fit' the image on the screen, but there appears to be no way to tell Automator to tell Preview to do it 'actual size' instead.
Is there a way to do this or do I simply have to find another way and avoid Preview.app?


texts:
I want to sell my iMac (2011) and I want to reset the system and remove all my data. I tried the Command-R method. It wants me to enter my Apple ID and password but I don't want to do this! I want to pre-install the fresh OS X and let the new user finish the set up as he would after buying a new iMac (enter/create his own Apple id, time zone, etc.).

Any ideas how I can do this?


texts: Change mouse speed in terminal without restarting

texts:
I used this link https://paulminors.com/how-to-speed-up-mouse-tracking-on-mac/ which has a bash line that updates your mouse speed (beyond the default maximum):

defaults write -g com.apple.mouse.scaling your_mouse_speed

However, in order to make it work, you need to restart, which is kind of a pain. I assume what it's doing is really to change the preferences pane or plist? Thus, there should be a way to reboot just the mouse or the process that draws from the mouse settings. For example, if you change your speech synthesis .plist, you just reboot the speech synthesis core using a terminal command like killall SpeechSynthesisServer

Is there a way to do this with the mouse settings? I can obviously restart, but I'd rather not since I want this to be a quick thing.


texts:
We have enabled Time Machine on a Mac OS X server (10.6) with a big RAID drive. The server will be used by many users for their backup. How can we set quota so that every Time Machine backup takes up a limited amount of disk space?

We tried setting quota on the server with edquota but Time Machine on the client still displays all free space on the volume as "free" regardless of quota. Backup just fails on the client with a small message in the log file when quota is reached.

We also tried to set a fixed maximum size on the sparse disk image that TimeMachine uses but it gets reset to infinite size on every backup.

We don't want to partition and share the disk with one partition per user as that would mean hundreds of partitions (how many does OS X support? :-)

Any ideas?


texts: macOS Catalina beachball appears when I use TextEdit or Preview apps

texts:
I have a MacBook with macOS Catalina 10.15.3 installed.

I'm now noticing that whenever I open an image file with the Preview app, a beachball appears right about when I quit the app.

Also, a beachball appears whenever I open a text file using the TextEdit app.

Is there any way I can reset things to fix these problems?


texts: How do I see all iOS in-app subscriptions that I have active?

texts: If I subscribe to several iOS in-app subscriptions, such as magazine app subscriptions on my iPad, then how can I later show a list of all my in-app subscriptions?


texts: OneNote seems stuck with keychain. Can't log in

texts:
This is what happened: I upgraded my passwords on different services, including Microsoft's, which I only use it to work with OneNote. As expected, all apps with login changes asked me to re-login, no issues there.

Except with OneNote. I've been using OneNote in this MBP Sierra for a long time without any problem. It prompted me it couldn't sync with the cloud, understandably, and asked for the correct login info, so I did like I did with other apps. But here's what happens:

I enter my e-mail, click Next:

And that's all she wrote. I can't put in a password; it gets stuck there forever. I've tried reinstalling; reinstalling with a mac reboot in between; uninstall, update everything and install back... Always cleaning the plist's, cache's, etc. with CleanMyMac. No luck. It's the only office product I use. And it gets stuck whatever I write as the username.

I can log online fine. But OneNote in local is stuck.

I've talked to the "Office support team" on the chat, and then over the phone, to no avail. The phone assistant who was supposed to be the last resort could only tell me to sign out and in again, having missed that I'm not logged in. Well, they did give me a link to prior versions, same problem. So I'm thinking something's fishy with my mac.

I've observed weird behavior from the Console. At the beginning you could tell the thing was in a loop:

After reinstalling back the newest version again, I see this:

But then it goes back to the last capture with green arrows.

Reading "keychain" there made me think maybe OneNote has always stored the password there (I don't recall, honestly) and it has some meltdown because it's not a valid password anymore. So I opened the Keychain app and found one instance of "OneNote" with the password "M" (??). Weird. I deleted that entry... and it's still stuck the way you see it from the captures.

What can I do? Are there any caches or files I should do something with? It's still seemingly prompting the keychain...


texts: Force Macs to run Xprotect updater through terminal to get latest NTPD security patch

texts:
Apple released the the patch for an NTPD hole.  This patch is automatically updated if you have SystemPreferences-->App Store-->Install system data files and security updates; checked. Which we don't.

You used to be able to run in terminal the command:

/usr/libexec/XProtectUpdater

this would force a check for updates to xprotect.

It seems this command no longer exist in 10.9 and above, is there any other way to force a mac to run the data files and security updates through terminal?  Otherwise a solution to turn on just the check box for "Install system data files and security updates" and leave the rest uncheck.

Apple NTPD patch


texts:
With the old Dashboard it's possible to create a web clip widget from Safari.
As it seems like the Dashboard is getting phased out and the Notification Center is definitely a handy place to have widgets, is there any way to get this on macOS Sierra?

I can't seem to find an option for this in Safari and also cannot seem to find anything in the app store.
Does anyone know if there is a way to get web clip widgets in the Notification panel?


texts: How to eject a drive automatically after pen drive is plugged in?

texts:
I have set up a .plist file which would automatically backup my files whenever I plug in my pen drive but I would like to eject it after the process is complete. How do I accomplish this?

Here is my job definition - how do I modify it to eject my drive after backup is complete:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC -//Apple Computer//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd >
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
    <key>Label</key>
    <string>com.company.popup</string>
    <key>ProgramArguments</key>
    <array>
        <string>sh</string>
        <string>-c</string>
        <string>/usr/local/bin/backup</string>
    </array>
    <key>StartOnMount</key>
    <true/>
</dict>
</plist>

PS. I have put thus file under ~/Library/LaunchAgents


texts: Go to the beginning of song list on iPod Nano 4th gen

texts:
I use an iPod Nano 4th gen. There are no playlists, just songs.

I am wondering how I can go back to the beginning of the songs list.
Reading this, I tried pressing the VoiceOver button, but it says "All songs", and neither the BACK << or PLAY/PAUSE > || or VoiceOver buttons will start it from the beginning.

I have found that it is possible to restart from the beginning if I plug it on the computer to charge it and then unplug it, but I would like to be able to do this on the go.


texts:
I have two Macs on the same network, both plugged into my internet router.  I have screen-sharing set up on one of them, so I can connect to it using command-K in the Finder with a vnc:// URL, and that works great.

My router assigns IP addresses using DHCP, which in general is a good thing, but it means if a machine gets restarted or a DHCP lease gets renewed, I don't know what IP address to connect to (without walking over to the other machine to find out).

Surely my Mac already knows the IP address of my other Mac: in the Finder, I can see my other Mac's name and icon/type in the sidebar!  Unfortunately, Get Info doesn't display the IP address, or anything else useful about it.

How can I find out the IP address of my other Mac, perhaps using Zeroconf/Bonjour?  I'm fine with a command-line solution, if there's a simple one.

EDIT: I'm running Lion, and I think that OS X screen sharing broadcasts a Bonjour service announcement for it, but Lion's connect-to-server dialog box doesn't take advantage of it.  If this is something Mountain Lion does, knowing that would be helpful, too!


texts:
My mother is Russian, she lives with me but does not speak a word of English. I'm considering buying her an iPad for her birthday, but I have concerns since Russian apps would be hard to find in US app store. Is there a way I could access the Russian app store?

I tried a few online app search websites but as it is now, most of the games she would be interested in come in multiple languages and as soon as I open them in iTunes they switch to English.

Any suggestions?


texts:
On iPhone one can switch to the week calendar view by turning the device into the landscape orientation mode. If you are on a day the week shown is the week, where the current day was. There are always three days shown in the week view. The first day of the week is either the current day or the selected day is in the middle of the three shown days.

If you are on month view things get complicated. I can't really predict which day will be shown. It works for most times if you go two rows up from last row (week) shown. But this doesn't work for all cases.

What is the system behind showing the first week calendar day when switching from month view?


texts:
I'm trying to use quilt to manage a patch set. I installed it with brew, but I'm having problems adding files to the patch series. When I add a file, I get an error that stat cannot read file system information for the file in question. Like so:

myuser@myComputer quilt-wifi-combo-fw (master) $ quilt add "repos/GORP-SDK/GORP-SDK-6.1.0/77nnn_Li-Fo/version.txt"
stat: cannot read file system information for '%l': No such file or directory
stat: cannot read file system information for '%l': No such file or directory
Failed to back up file repos/GORP-SDK/GORP-SDK-6.1.0/77nnn_Li-Fo/version.txt
myuser@myComputer quilt-wifi-combo-fw (master) $

The file does get added to the patch, but doesn't work properly—it seems like it is hard-linked instead of being copied.


texts:
This article from the Apple Knowledge Base:
Reset the System Management Controller (SMC) on your Mac

describes very well which kinds of events are symptoms which might
be related to an SMC in need of a reset. But the relationship isn't
clearly established.

Is there any simple method to diagnose clearly the SMC state:

is it OK?
does it need a reset?

Something like (for NVRAM):

nvram -p

or

nvram -p | diff /etc/nvram.backup -


texts: pwd in bash is wrong after sending directory to trash

texts:
If I move a directory to the trash that I'm already cd'd into that directory, pwd will report no change in location.  I will still be able to do everything in bash normally as if there was no change in the directory, even though Finder says it doesn't exist.

pwd should always be accurate. This does not appear to be the case.

For example, I'm cd'd to this path:
/Users/me/Desktop/goingToTrash/subdir

If I move to trash /Users/me/Desktop/goingToTrash, pwd will report that I'm in /Users/me/Desktop/goingToTrash/subdir, even though the finder says it doesn't exist.  So if I recreate the deleted directory, bash will be working from the old directory (I'm assuming in the trash, haven't verified yet) instead of the new one I just created, and pwd will provide no clue this happened.

Much worse, if I "move to trash" a directory and I'm cd'd to one of it's subdirectories, then recreate the directory structure, from a sub directory I can cd ../subdir, I'm magically back into the "new" directory, even though the parent was "moved to trash" instead of remaining in the directory structure that was moved to trash.


texts: How to change Time Machine settings of a partly broken OS (e.g. by manipulating configuration files)

texts:
I have a broken Mac OS 10.6.8 here.

Startup is normal, login works, but most programs can't be started
Repair of OS with install disks fails
Backup via Time Machine is working
System Settings cannot be accessed

So I have a working backup and want to erase the harddisk to make an installation of 10.7 possible. The problem is, that the backup does not incorporate all files and folders I need. This is due to the settings excluding some folders. Is there a way to change the excluded folders manually?

I'm fine with a hint where to find the configuration files for Time Machine, so I can change them with an appropriate Editor.


texts: why my Mac disk size become zero while Mac running long time?

texts:
While my my Mac starts, it shows about 2GB free size but after running about 5-6 hours, I use Firefox and other apps at that time, then only leave the FF running (not close), other apps also in stop working mode I think. I close my Mac not shutdown. I do this because I am lazy to reboot my mac ... after about 5-6 hours, Mac report my disk size is full. I am confuse by this, anyone also face this type problem before?

My Mac is Mac OS X v 10.6.8.


texts: Message about Apple ID used in another Mac

texts:
I have received this message in the screen:

"Your Apple ID is now being used for iMessage and FaceTime on a new Mac."

I indeed updated OS in another Mac, which would be an explanation for this message, according to previously solved questions on this matter.

... but I updated it three days ago, and that machine is supposed to be switched off, far away from here.
Should I worry?
Does the expression "is now being used" mean that it is being used at this precise moment?


texts:
I've installed a new version of Safari and now it refuses to open and doesn't allow me to downgrade.

Someone pointed I had to reinstall the whole system. I'm reading on how to do it right now, but is there a provisory solution?


texts:
I installed Alfred on a 10.13 machine a few days ago and it doesn't see Simulator app.

I tried to reinstall Alfred, clear Alfred cache multiple times, rebuild Spotlight index. No luck.

It works fine on the other machines out of the box (as it always used to do).

Simulator folder is added to Alfred's paths.

What could be wrong here?


texts: Does iTunes Home Sharing transfer in-app purchases?

texts:
My wife recently got an iPhone and, being that I'm an iPhone user already, I set up iTunes Home Sharing (under my Apple ID) so that I could share some of my purchased apps with her.

While paid apps transferred to her phone without a problem, in-app purchases that I had made under my account didn't transfer over.

Is this the correct behavior? Our phones are set up under different Apple IDs, but I was still able to transfer purchased (paid upfront) apps to her – which is completely allowed under the Terms of Use – so I assumed the same would apply to in-app purchases as well.


texts: How can I make reminders appear on my lock screen?

texts: I just upgraded to iOS 10, and I see that there's a Reminders widget on my lock screen. I added a couple of test reminders to the Reminders app, but they don't appear on my lock screen. If I touch the Reminders widget on the lock screen, I'm taken to the Reminders app (after logging in), and there my reminders are visible. What do I have to do to get my reminders to show up on my lock screen?


texts:
I have the latest i2cssh installed

dmanna-a01:Downloads dmanna$ brew info i2cssh
i2cssh: stable 1.3, HEAD
https://github.com/djui/i2cssh
/usr/local/Cellar/i2cssh/1.3 (5 files, 6.5KB) *
  Built from source on 2018-06-04 at 16:11:43
From: /usr/local/opt/i2cssh/.brew/i2cssh.rb
==> Options
--HEAD
    Install HEAD version

But whenever I try to ssh to multiple machines like below:-

i2cssh -Xi=/tmp1/vnera-infra-ec2.pem -l support -b -d row -m "10.153.190.196,10.153.189.27,10.153.189.220"

This does not seem to work and just opens the multiple terminals without the ssh prompt

The above command worked perfectly in Mac Sierra.

Versions

Iterm2 - 3.1.6
Mac OS - 10.13.4

Can someone let me know what is going wrong?


texts: My iPhone only shows the Wi-Fi symbol even when I'm using data?

texts: I noticed when I was checking a notification the other day that even when I was using 4G or LTE data, my phone just showed the Wi-Fi symbol, even when I turned Wi-Fi fully off. I am on an iPhone 5.


texts: Swift Playgrounds on MacOS performs badly, spinning up the fans and working the CPU

texts:
Using the basic "Learn to Code 1" playground results in the MacBooks that I've tested on, including a 2020 MacBook Air, working far harder than I'd expect. The fans spin up and the CPU usage increases more than I'd expect.

The performance settles down if I leave the application running, I see the high load whenever I type and change the program.

The app is compiling some Swift code and displaying a fairly simple game interface to show the results. What can account for this poor performance on a capable machine?


texts: Twitterrific doesn't save my last read tweet

texts:
I'm giving Twitterrfic a test drive. I'm not sure about the issue but it looks to me the Twitterrfic doesn't keep my last read tweet after a relaunch.
I mean Nambu and Twitter official client save my last read tweet, thus I can scroll through all the new tweets. Twitterrific scrolls me to the newest tweet.
I can't read the tweets while I'm offline.

Any way to make Twitterrfic behaves like Nambu or Twitter?


texts:
I just got a MacBook Pro and am in the process of trying to get GNU commands installed. I'm following this guide, but I don't know how to do:

Then add the following line to your .bashrc or .zshrc:

export PATH="$(brew --prefix coreutils)/libexec/gnubin:/usr/local/bin:$PATH"

I did a cd; ls -a and I don't see any files called .bashrc or .zshrc.

Additional Info:
Running Yosemite 10.10.3 on a MacBook Pro. Already have Xcode installed. Total newbie at this.


texts: How to make a bootable partition from scratch?

texts:
What I want to achieve is to make a new bootable partition on my MacBook's SSD, so it should be possible to press Option key on startup and choose this partition to boot from.

Why do I need that? I just successfully compiled XNU kernel from sources, found some drivers (kernel extensions), so now I want to boot this kernel and to load bash after boot process finishes. The key idea is to make a minimal Mac OS, just with command line interface.

Here is the output of diskutil list:

Alexanders-MacBook-Pro:~ aperechnev$ diskutil list
/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *251.0 GB   disk0
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s1
   2:                 Apple_APFS Container disk1         250.8 GB   disk0s2

/dev/disk1 (synthesized):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      APFS Container Scheme -                      +250.8 GB   disk1
                                 Physical Store disk0s2
   1:                APFS Volume Macintosh HD - Data     99.8 GB    disk1s1
   2:                APFS Volume Preboot                 83.8 MB    disk1s2
   3:                APFS Volume Recovery                525.5 MB   disk1s3
   4:                APFS Volume VM                      1.1 GB     disk1s4
   5:                APFS Volume Macintosh HD            10.9 GB    disk1s5

What I want to achieve first is to see the new partition as an option to boot from by pressing Option key and to get some error when I try to boot from that partition.


texts: Encrypt Time Machine backups without deleting old backups?

texts:
I'm on Mavericks (10.9.5). I have an external USB drive that I use exclusively for Time Machine backups.

I just realized that the backups are unencrypted. Is there a way to configure Time Machine to encrypt all backups on this drive, both existing backups and future backups, without erasing the existing backups?

This answer indicates that it can be done with "sparsebundles", but the post is 5 years old and it seems risky.

Is there an easier way?

Update: I was mistaken that the backups were unencrypted -- they are actually encrypted. I was fooled because Time Machine preference window includes the word "encrypted" below the listed backup disks, but only if the backup disk is plugged in. If the backup disk is not plugged in, Time Machine still lists the backup drive, but it loses the label "encrypted". Doh! In Disk Utility, I verified that the disk is encrypted with FileVault2; moreover, OS X prompts me for a password when I plug in the disk. Would still like to know the answer to my original question though.


texts: iPhone 4 would not turn on unless it is plugged in

texts: So my phone would only turn on when it's plugged in and I just bought it yesterday so I'm kind of frustrated because I don't know what do about it.


texts: How do I force a partition and format on a USB key in OS X Mountain Lion Disk Utility or from CLI diskutil?

texts:
I have a brand new Memorex TravelDrive 64GB USB disk which is being troublesome.

It's formatted FAT16 on MBR, which is not so nice, and I'd like to put it on HFS+.

I've tried to do this through the Erase and Partition tabs in Disk Utility, as well as from the CLI in Terminal.app via a couple different methods:

$ diskutil partitionDisk disk4 1 GPT HFS+ newdisk R
$ diskutil eraseDisk HFS+ newdisk disk4

In those, disk4 represents the special device or disk identifier (i.e., /dev/disk4) and newdisk is the arbitrary name I'm giving the new volume on the disk.

In all cases, the process hangs trying to unmount the disk.  I've done a bit of investigation, to no avail:

Tailing the Disk Utility log while it's running (tail -f ~/Library/Logs/DiskUtility.log) doesn't provide any useful information.  All I see is:

Starting next Erase job: 6 with no options
2013-03-03 00:51:57 -0500: Preparing to erase : “newdisk”
2013-03-03 00:51:57 -0500:  Partition Scheme: GUID Partition Table
2013-03-03 00:51:57 -0500:  1 volume will be created
2013-03-03 00:51:57 -0500:      Name        : “newdisk”
2013-03-03 00:51:57 -0500:      Size        : 63.92 GB
2013-03-03 00:51:57 -0500:      File system : Mac OS Extended (Journaled)

dmAsyncStartedForDisk for disk4
2013-03-03 00:35:30 -0500: Unmounting disk

and it hangs there, thus having me need to "Stop Progress" from the Debug menu after 20 or 30 minutes.
Trying to figure out if something has hold of the disk for some other purpose doesn't reveal anything either -- ps aux | grep fsck returns only one process:

ryan        4967   1.0  0.0  2432768    588 s003  R+   12:57AM   0:00.00 grep fsck

Anyone have thoughts on how to figure out what's going on here?


texts:
So I rebooted my 2011 iMac running High Sierra the other day and was greeted with a message saying my library had to be repaired and was prompted for my password. After trying to cancel out of it several times and even restarting by pressing power button, I finally entered my password for it just to fail anyway in whatever it was trying to do. Apparently I needed to fix my home folder permissions, which I was not able to do successfully, but that's a whole other story.
My main issue is that after creating another user account to use while I figured things out, I realized that not an hour before the reboot, I pasted a valuable number on what have been my 1st sticky note in eons. Then I checked my latest backup and of course ~/Library/StickiesDatabase was not a part of it.
When I Search this Mac for StickiesDatabase, the only one found is one from an old, old archived system, which leads me to believe it might not be finding all of them (a permissions thing perhaps). It's definitely not in the old/non-working user's Library any longer - I'm guessing the 'Library Repair' wiped that out? Is, is there a remote chance of recovering that file? Any suggestions for where it may be since all of that user's Home directory contents seem to have been removed?
Thanks!!
PS - because it pulled that 'Your Library needs to be repaired' nonsense out of nowhere, does that sound like the hard drive had some sort of mini-crash? Disk 1st Aid didn't find anything wrong. I've already switched off of that system (it was only a matter of time) but need to know if it needs to be officially decommissioned or it can stay in the lineup for less mission-critical use.


texts: iPhone "Other" storage still present after Erase All Content and Settings

texts:
Was hoping I could restore it to factory settings and recover some space. I just finished an ‘Erase All Content and Settings’ on my iPhone 6s 16GB. I have not signed into anything, installed any updates, or installed a single app. I did not restore from any backup (iCloud or iTunes). iOS 11.4

This is the storage as is stands after the reset:

How can I clear/recover the 4GB of "Other" storage being used? Is there a "deeper" wipe than ‘Erase All Content and Settings’ available?

Update: The device has been removed from our MDM program, reset and the storage still remains consumed.

Update: 4 months later, it's gotten worse, the "other" usage has consumed over 10gb at this point. Just tried factory reset from itunes instead of the phone itself, did not free any up at all. Device not associated with the MDM program.


texts:
Running macOS Sierra(Version 10.12.2 16C67).

I installed Wine version wine-1.8.6 (through a .pkg file). I opened up a game and it worked fine.

The next day when I downloaded Origin installer, it wouldn't open. When I double clicked on it, the Wine icon showed up in the dock and said it was open, but no windows showed up. When I clicked on another program(or on the desktop), Wine closed. Now when I try to start that same game I opened when I first installed Wine, the same thing happens that happened when I started Origin installer.

When I go to the terminal and type wine {path of .exe} I got this:

I installed wine tricks using brew install winetricks and it installed fine, yet it didn't change my situation.

winecfg works properly, and so does sh winetricks.


texts: Why does my iPhone Spotlight (Springboard) search show a little poop emoji in the corner?

texts: It's kind of cute, but why is it doing this and how can I change it?


texts: "opensnoop" utility doesn't work with spaces between filenames, how to fix?

texts:
I use "opensnoop"

/usr/bin/opensnoop

to show all files which are opened from different processes.

But when I want to specific a file with

sudo opensnoop -n "directory/filename"

i'm getting this error:

token too large, exceeds YYLMAX

I'm hunting around for a fix and found only this website. The author modified the opensnoop script:

  this is due to line 154 in /usr/bin/opensnoop containing
  inline string NAME  = "'$pname'";
  that produces a dtrace script with this quoting
  inline string NAME  = "foo' 'bar";
  and the first single quote ends the dtrace invocation leaving its input script incomplete.
  The quick patch is to replace line 154 with
  inline string NAME  = "'"$pname"'";

but i'm still getting this error message.

Can anybody help me? Or tell me another utility where i can show the app which is currently working with a specific file?


texts: How do I give accessibility permission to my AppleScript and System Events in Mavericks?

texts:
I've got this old AppleScript that uses a mouseclick function:

activate application "Safari"
tell application "System Events"
    tell process "Safari"
        click at {424, 699}
    end tell
end tell

It no longer works, probably due to a change in how the accessibility permissions works in Mavericks. You need to give permissions on an app by app basis. Unfortunately, SystemEvents.app is not in the list of apps to give permissions. How can I make it appear? Is there another solution that does not depend on downloading utilities from third-parties?

This is the error message I get:

error "System Events got an error: Can’t make {424, 699} into type list." number -1700 from {424, 699} to list


texts: Can't copy folder with files from external hard drive because of permissions?

texts:
I can't copy a folder (with files) from an external hard drive because of permissions problems. (You do not have permissions to the files in this folder.)

However, those files were created by me (on Snow Leopard - I'm on Lion right now). Is there any want to force or gain admin permissions on those files?


texts: Moving iPhoto to external drive on a MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Mid 2014) with 8 GB 1600 MHz DDR3

texts: I bought a Seagate external HD 500gb with my Mac. Recently started using Photoshop and Lightroom, which take up a ton of space. I was thinking of moving my entire iPhoto to the Seagate to free up space. Is this possible? If so, how would I go about it?


texts:
I receive notification (in both the notification center dock) of changes to our (family) shared calendar, though unlike my iPhone and Macbook Pro, the inbox is nowhere to be found on my iMac (Late 2013). The notification icon remains in my dock and I can't clear it. Any idea where or how I can get my inbox button back?

OSX El Capitan (v 10.11.6), Calendar v 8.0

What I see;

[notification in dock. Had to pull the image as my reputation doesn't allow more than 2 links. Urg]

[missing inbox in calendar application]

What I'd like to see (as available on my Macbook (2009. El Capitan) and iphone (4S) but missing on my desktop);

[screencap lifted from another post with inbox button. Also available on my macbook, running same OS]

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Has been driving me nuts for quite a while now.

Cheers!


texts: Xcode occasionally hangs while changing things like branches, targets

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Sometimes Xcode starts using lots of memory, CPU and hangs my computer. First mouse movements and all animations (like Dock hover) start lagging (audio continues), then OS completely freezes (audio continues) and later audio starts lagging and everything freezes. Fans are working like crazy at that point. If I wait around 15mins it is gone but I mostly do a force restart.
This mostly happens when I change a target and build the project, switch branches and wait, open another project and wait etc. I suspect it is something to do with the file system but I couldn't figure it out. I have couple of background applications running but nothing experimental, like Dropbox, Little Snitch, Malwarebytes (checked this, happens even it is closed) etc. Proxyman, Sketch, Zeplin, SourceTree, iTerm, Sublime Text, Slack, Telegram, Notion are mostly open all times.
My question is, how can I debug and find a solution to this without a fresh OS install? Is there any diagnostic / logging tool that I can use to -maybe- run in the background and check it when this happens? Or will OS logs or anything else help?
Notes:

Macbook 16inch - i9, 16GB
macOS Big Sur 11.1
Xcode 12.4


texts: Linking python as external build tool in Xcode 7 El Capitan

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I have been using Xcode 7 as my default python editor for some time now. The usual method to run python from Xcode is given here https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5276967/python-in-xcode-7/8636301#8636301.

But with the new release of El Capitan (OS X 10.11), the /usr/local/bin/ directory is locked and in the step in "Edit Scheme > Info > Executable" where the executable has to be selected from a pop-up window, since the SIP is enforced, this is not possible. I already own the /usr/local/ but this hasn't helped. It is worthwhile to note that this problem should not be python version specific.

Can somebody suggest a workaround for this?

I know I will receive suggestions for using other editors and engines such as Eclipse and Canopy, but no thank you (no offence to Eclipse or Enthought of course).


texts: How to disable com.apple.quarantine on Catalina

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I am constantly downloading files from our servers and they get marked with the com.apple.quarantine attribute.

How can I forever (and ever, until the universe collapses) prevent the OS from setting this attribute?

I know why it is there
I know how to remove it
There are other answers, that don't work on Catalina, regarding this, like Disable the use of the "com.apple.quarantine" extended attribute on Mojave so it is not a duplicate

It looks like on Catalina the 'defaults write com.apple.LaunchServices LSQuarantine -bool NO' solution doesn't work.


texts: Accessibility Inspector not working on Xcode 11.x, iOS 13.x on MacOS Catalina & Mojave

texts: I am unable to inspect any elements using the Accessibility Inspector on iOS 13.2 and higher simulators running on Mac OS Mojave or Catalina. Has anyone else also encountered this issue and if so, is there a solution to this? I did not encounter this issue on iOS 12 Simulators, though.


texts: Connecting Mac Book Pro 2017 to 2 Projectors via USB C

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Just wondering can I connect my 13" MacBook Pro to 2 HDMI projectors? I would like to extend the displays ( 3 display, 1 laptop screen and 2 projector screen) instead of duplicating if that is possible.

I have purchased one of USB-C Digital AV Multiport Adapter from Apple, and if it can connect up to 2 additional extended displays, I will go for another one.


texts: What's the easy way to convert all man pages to html?

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Sixteen years into the 21st century I remain baffled that we still have to go out of our way if we want to see a man page

rendered in a proportional font (that is, not Courier or similar)
with links to other referenced pages

There are tantalizing web sites with HTML man pages that have links, like this, but I haven't found such a site with pages updated for the current version of macOS. And of course a web site won't show man pages for software you've installed via Homebrew, etc.

Is there a solution to this problem? I've looked and looked. This

function manp {
  man -t "$1" | open -f -a /Applications/Preview.app/
}

renders a page and shows it in Preview (after you wait for a PostScript interpreter to convert it to PDF), but you don't get live links.

The man page for man says:

  HTML PAGES

  Man will find HTML pages if they live in directories named as expected to be ".html", thus a valid name for an HTML version of the ls(1) man page would be /usr/share/man/htmlman1/ls.1.html.

I could write a script to convert all of the man pages everywhere on my system to HTML, but I bet someone has already done this. And I bet they have also solved the problem of rendering SEE ALSO references as links, which the man command apparently doesn't do.


texts: OS-level virtualization (containers) for OS X

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I wonder why, apart from good old chroot, no implementation of operating system-level virtualization (or containers if you prefer) exists for Mac OS X.

Could it be due to kernel limitations or license restrictions? Or simply no one has yet launched a similar project?


texts: Problems running Britannica 2013 in OS X 10.8

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I recently installed the Encyclopædia Britannica 2013 Ultimate DVD in my Mac running OS X 10.8.2 Mountain Lion. In the box is stated that only 10.6 - 10.7 versions are supported, and indeed I've run into a couple of problems: both the "Timelines" and "A-Z Quick Search" windows display a blank screen.

I contacted technical support and the only answer I received was that OS X 10.8 is not a supported version, and they don't seem to be planning a patch to fix the issue. To the best of my knowledge, I'm on my own. It appears to me that the problem is related to the Java version in use, given that Britannica's application is written in that language. Maybe someone has faced the same problem and can suggest a workaround? for the record: I'm using JDK 1.7.0_13-b20


texts: Java 7 JRE Not Detected on Clean Install of Mountain Lion

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I know there similar questions on how to enable the Java 7 JRE on Mountain Lion when Apple's Java 6 JRE is installed as well.

But I just did a clean install of Mountain Lion, installed Java 7 JRE - not Java 7 JDK - and it is not being detected.

I see the Java icon in System Preferences. But Java applications are still prompting for a Java 6 installation from Mountain Lion. And running "java -version" from the command line also does the same.

Oracle's instructions seem to say that I do not need to do anything further then simply installing the JRE. And online tutorials I read also suggest the same.

Does anyone have an idea why this is?


texts: How can I access the remote clipboard when Screen Sharing into a Linux system

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I am using Screen Sharing to do vnc to my work computer running Linux,
however the Edit -> Cut,Copy, Paste,Delete commands are all greyed out.
Is there some way to enable these options ?

On a related question, I could get text from one vnc window to the clipboard when highlighted with the mouse, and can paste to the same vnc window, but I can't paste the same text to another vnc window... as if the clipboard isn't updating. Seems each vnc window remembers its own clipboard updates only,
which is not what I want. Would prefer clipboard info to be available to
all vnc windows, is this possible ?


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I want to reformat my MacBook late-2008 unibody aluminium with HDD.

Can I do that and then after I have reinstalled OS X go to Time Machine and recover everything? Is this possible?


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On a normal USB mouse you can change the mouse scaling in the terminal:

defaults write -g com.apple.mouse.scaling X

Where X is your scale; in System Preferences the max scale is 3.0. When using this trick on a USB mouse, there is a very noticeable difference: the cursor moves further when you move the mouse. However this trick is not working on Apple Magic Mouse 1 or 2.
How can I achieve scaling over 3.0 using the Magic Mouse? Bonus points for anyone who can do it without third-party apps and can do it while disabling mouse acceleration.