texts: Show text using Large Type without relying on third-party applications

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Apple has this amazing feature called 'Large Type', chiefly implemented into Address Book. When you look up a contact, you can right-click the phone number and click 'Large Type', and it will display it very largely across your screen.

This function is relatively popular for many uses. Users who watched Leo Laporte on TWiT.tv on weekends will see Large Type being used to display wrap reminders to him during his radio show when his iMac is on camera.

As far as I'm aware, the only ways to invoke this are (1) the Address Book function as demonstrated above, or (2) directly via Quicksilver's Large Type plugin, or (3) Applescript invoking a function of Quicksilver or some other application that supports Large Type.

Since I've stopped using Quicksilver, and don't use LaunchBar, I'm left high and dry for putting arbitrary text into a Large Type banner.

Since it's obviously a core feature of OS X, how do we invoke it with arbitrary text under Lion?


texts: Phone is off / black when I plug it into charger, only the Apple logo is displayed

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My small nephew dropped my iPhone 4s. There is a small crack on the screen. Now the iPhone is off / black and when I plug it into a charger only the Apple logo is displayed.

How can I retrieve my photos & contact list from the mobile? Is it not repairable?


texts: Can I change sensitivity of line input level? (as opposed to setting the volume)

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I'm connecting a standard stereo tape output to an iMac line input socket. Setting input level in System Preferences > Sound > Input > Line In requires the slider to be barely "off the stop" before the blue level meter hits hard right.  Can I lower the line input sensitivity somehow?  There's no output level control on the tape output.

I'm running Mountain Lion.


texts: How can I remove an autocomplete suggestion from Safari's address bar?

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A site that I visit frequently used to be located at:

http://www.site.com/sub/dir

But now it's just located it:

http://www.site.com/sub

The problem is, I visited the original location so often that Safari suggests it as the Top Hit and autocompletes it, even though it no longer exists (it returns a 404). So I start typing http://www.site.com/sub... and Safari fills in the rest with the old URL that no longer works.

How can I remove the old URL so Safari no longer autocompletes it? I already went and found the URL in my history and deleted it, but it still suggests it as the Top Hit.


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We can enable/disable smart quotes for many apps by going to Edit → Substitutions. However, In Google Chrome, “Substitutions” does not exist. When searching online, though, it seems that it might’ve existed at some point, as I find multiple posts on how to disable the feature.

Is it no longer available (and if so why) or is it something on my side?


texts: Can I get files off an iPhone 4 that is stuck in a firmware update loop?

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So I updated my iPhone 4 to iOS6 today (using the built in updater on the iPhone). The phone did some stuff for a while and then rebooted with a progress bar which never updates. If I leave it long enough it reboots and then shows that bar again.

Annoyingly I have some stuff on that I didn't back up, is there any way to fix this? Even if I didn't care about the data on the phone, I can't get iTunes to do anything and the phone will just reboot to this progress bar screen.

Not once have I had any error codes from iTunes. I'm more concerned with the data at this point and can probably force the device into restore mode once I have the files I need.


texts: Mapping Home and End of Apple keyboard in VMWare fusion

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I have mapped the Home and End keys of my apple keyboard to work PC style: Go to the beginning of the line and end respectively. (Using DoubleCommand if that is important, I am aware of other ways of doing this, and open to alternatives if that would solve my problem)

I use Windows 7 using VMware fusion (primarily for C# development on Visual Studio). When I have this set up (Home = Beginning of line...), I am unable to use this on Windows, when I have not set this up, it works "as expected" on Widows (to beginning of line) but on the Mac, I have the default mac behavior.

I tried remapping the keys using Vmware preferences, but the Home key is recognized as "Left" for some reason:

This is what happens when I press the Home key:

Currently I change this setting every time I switch between windows running Windows apps and those running mac apps, but I am finding it more and more frustrating.

Is there a way to somehow have both? Meaning some kind of setting that makes Home to go to the beginning of the line on both Windows and Mac apps?


texts: How can I save my web access login on the iPod Touch?

texts: Whenever I try to use the internet on my iPod Touch the Log In screen slides up displaying the log in page for the internet service I'm utilizing (like you'd typically get at hotels, airports, etc). How can I save my login so I don't have to log in every time I wake my device?


texts: Perian gave Finder broken 'click to preview' UI feature. Now, how do I get rid of it?

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I understand that Perian is (a) not being developed by its creators anymore and (b) it doesn't work on 10.9/Mavericks even though someone appears to releasing updates to it on GitHub (gathering from trying Perian on 10.9, none of said updates seem to be related to 10.9 support).

I uninstalled this now apparently useless framework by clicking the Uninstall button in preferences, then removing the prefpane and rebooting.

The problem is that FLAC files still are read as a 'musical' MIME type - or something - by Finder. They have the preview music icon when they should be blank, but more confusing is that hovering over them gives a Play/Pause functionality which never actually plays anything (the icon just starts 'spinning' when you click it) Check the screenshot.

How do I get rid of this leftover broken functionality?

Also note: when I press space on a selected FLAC file, Quick Look correctly makes no attempt to play it - but Perian has left another annoying mark as QL throws up the musical notes icon - as if you could play it in QL):


texts: For what does AppleTV have micro-USB port?

texts: I noticed that AppleTV has a micro USB port. How and why will one use it ?


texts: Metadata rejected- replied but no response 2 days after?

texts: My app status changed to Metadata Rejected because they needed to ask me something. I answered 2 days ago and haven't gotten a reply nor has it changed back to in review. Is this normal?


texts: how to delete an administrator on yosemite

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My roommate moved out. He and i are both administrators on my iMac. How can I delete him?
I have tried going into system preferences, users & groups, but even after I unlock it I cannot make any changes to his account.


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Having a problem with my recently purchased refurbished 2017 15" MacBook Pro. Yesterday it suddenly shut down and after rebooting, I noticed the battery was at 1% despite being plugged in. Now if it gets unplugged, the system shuts down instantly. When I click on the battery icon in the menu bar, it says:

Battery Is Not Charging
Power Source: Power Adapter

No warning about servicing or replacing the battery. The interesting part comes up when I check the system information. Under power, it lists:

Charge Information:

Charge Remaining (mAh): 0
Fully Charged:  Yes
Charging: No
Full Charge Capacity (mAh):   6736

Health Information:

Cycle Count:  4
Battery Installed:    Yes
Amperage (mA):    0
Voltage (mV): 12904

The fact that the charge remaining is 0 but that it's still thinks it fully charged leaves me to believe that this is what is preventing it from charging properly. I've Googled the problem pretty thoroughly but everyone I've come across with a similar issue has Charge Remaining: 0/Fully Charged: No.

So far I have tried resetting SMC, different outlets & leaving it unplugged with the clamshell open all night in an attempt to fully drain the battery. Does anyone have any  other suggestions short of taking it in for servicing? I bought this thing like 4 weeks ago so I'd rather not have to spend more cash on it already. According to the Apple website, this computer has had the battery recall issue taken care of already. Could the new one be calibrated incorrectly?

System Specs:

MacBook Pro (15-inch, 2017)
2.9 GHz Quad-Core Intel Core i7
16 GB 2133 MHz LPDDR3
Intel HD Graphics 630 1536 MB

Thanks in advance for any help you might be able to offer


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iPhone 4S suddenly have screen shadow, it start when i charge my phone, and now it didn't disappear.

Is this software defect? since i just update my phone to iOS 7.0.6 (two days ago as i remember).

Here is the actual photo of the shadow defect.

And here is the screenshot taken from iPhone (show now shadow)

Which make me afraid if this hardware defect because of age :(
My phone age is 2 or 3 years, it's new purchased. Never jailbrake. It is sad if iphone screen can only hold off 3 years (-.-")


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Browsing my launch daemons/agents with LaunchControl today, I noticed this funny-looking user agent with the label "com.appstart.AppStart":

  "/Users/jstrout/Library/Application Support/AppPolicy/AppStart" -i -c
  216107 -isn 5CE1E809-EF23-41E1-B157-B429F09DCCFF

Looking at the executable, it is a 517264-byte executable in group wheel.

I've googled all over, but find very few mentions of this file, and none of them informative.  Is this malware?


texts:
My Bluetooth Serial seems to always be busy.

lsof /dev/tty.BluetoothModem yields nothing.
sudo chmod 777 /var/lock seemed to have no effect.
screen /dev/tty.Bluetooth-Modem  tells me it's busy.

I rebooted.  I'm using Mountain Lion.  How can I possibly debug this?


texts: Where can I download the source code of SEDarwin project?

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I am trying to get the source code of SEDarwin project. TrustedBSD page related to Sedarwin(http://www.trustedbsd.org/sedarwin.html) says that that SEDarwin project has been moved to it's own website at www.sedarwin.org.But that website appears to be down.

I am particularly interested in the source code of MAC policy modules and MAC framework.

Any help regarding this is greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Ramkumar


texts: Wi-Fi fails to connect after OS X 10.10.2 Update

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I have a Mac Pro 4,1 that was just upgraded to OS X 10.10.2 (14C109).  I've used an ASUS PCE-AC68 wireless adaptor since Mavericks, and haven't had any problems before now.  I understand that this isn't exactly a supported configuration, but the card was plug-and-play since I first purchased it.

Since the OS X 10.10.2 update, the card regularly drops its connection to the router, and rarely is able to reconnect.  Running a command such as traceroute 192.168.1.1 to try to see if anything is happening between the computer and the router just yields timeout errors, although the System Preferences "Neworking" panel claims that the network is still connected.  Other devices have no problems connecting to the same network from the same location, including a MacBook Pro 10,1 running OS X 10.10.2.

Is there anybody encountering a similar problem or who might be able suggest ways to troubleshoot?  Thanks!


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I recently bought a CM Storm QuickFire keyboard. This keyboard is made for Windows. It works perfectly on Bootcamp, but when I use it on the OS X side, the keys are completely remapped.

the F key acts like F + down arrow
etc.

Does anyone know how to fix this? Or how to completely remap a keyboard?

Extra info:
I used an identical keyboard on a work computer (Mac) and it worked well. Any ideas why that would be?


texts: Dictionary lookup wider and taller (pop-up dictionary lookup styling) in OS X

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It's possible to change the font and the font-size for 3-finger lookup popup. You just need to edit css file for dictionaries you use, e.g.:

sudo vim /Library/Dictionaries/New\ Oxford\ American\ Dictionary.dictionary/Contents/Resources/DefaultStyle.css

find html.apple_client-panel body { and edit properties

Now I actually want to go further and make the entire popup area bigger - little wider and little taller. How can I do that?


texts: I recently bought a 4 TB Seagate Desktop Expansion external hard drive. However, after formatting it with Disk Utility the device still says 4 TB but the capacity says 1.8 TB. What is going on?


texts: Can iCloud's Documents and Data be configured to sync on a per-app basis?

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I'm considering buying DayOne, a journaling app for iOS and Mac that syncs through iCloud's Documents and Data feature. I already own the iWork app suite on iOS and Mac, and I do not want to use iCloud syncing for the iWork apps. Is there a way I can turn on the Documents and Data syncing on iCloud for use with DayOne without having the iWork apps sync through iCloud?

edit: Thanks for the iOS portion of the answer, Jonathan. I still would like an explicit answer about the iWork apps on my Mac, though. Has iWork '09 been updated for iCloud? If so, does each app have a setting to turn on/off iCloud storage? I read somewhere that there's a ~/Library/Mobile Documents folder where your files are stored if you are using iCloud, and I want to be sure that I do what is necessary to prevent the iWork apps from doing this once I enable Documents & Settings on my Mac. Please reference the source of your information. I'd rather not have to learn by trial & error. Has anyone already tried this?

edit 2: Sorry I didn't specify earlier, I thought it was an obvious assumption, but I'm using iOS version 5.1 on my iPhone and OS X Lion on my Mac (the latest released versions of both operating systems).


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I just rented a movie on Apple TV.  How do I give it a star rating, i.e 1-5 stars?

When you select a movie on Apple TV, it shows a rotten tomatoes rating and a star rating. In the past I stumbled across the star rating selector UI by accident- now I can't find it.

I have a third-gen Apple TV running 6.0.2.


texts: Is this possible? Prevent Live-Linux from booting and grabbing your files without encrypting your disc?

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I am a medium-experienced Power User with knowledge about most of the stuff (studying this since two years) and I know something about how Linux and Windows work; I have screwed up countless installations and stuff like that (dont want to bore you, just want to tell, that I know what I am talking about).

To the point:
A friend of mine has a MacBook, running OS X Lion and a hard drive with about 320 GB (not encrypted, at least not the part that is important) and he tells me that forcing a change of his password would automatically activate a self-destruction (complete wipe of the drive). This could be true and would be no prevention, since I don't want to change the password, I just want to get the files from his drive. So I can simply boot Linux from CD/USB and mount his drive, copy everything unencrypted, and done.

That's what I told him, his answer: "Well, that could work, but my Mac will automatically detect this and wipe the drive before anything gets copied." The main question: Is this bullshit?

From what i would expect, this would work like:
BIOS --> Linux --> Mount Disc --> Copy --> Start OS X --> Detect and wipe

So files should be there without the wipe, but he said it won't work, and OS X would be booted before Linux? I was really surprised, so I want to ask you guys.

He told me that he will give me his MacBook and I can try to get his files, but I don't want his disc to be wiped, so I ask here: is it safe to try it out?


texts: How do I find how much space the camera roll is using on my iOS device?

texts:
Since iOS5, when I want to find out how much space I have left on my iPhone I go to

  Settings > General > Usage

Where can I find out how much space is being used by the Camera Roll?


texts: How to skip the tools during installation which I don't want to install from this automated installation list for osx dev tools?

texts:
https://github.com/thoughtbot/laptop/blob/master/mac

For example I don't use Heroku so I want to comment out Heroku stuff. But I don't know how to do that. I have forked this script and want to customize it


texts:
I've formatted my old laptop in order to install Lion 10.7.3 version on it. During the installation process it came up with a weird looking error message, similar to the one in the next picture:

I'm wondering what's causing this issue and what can I do in order to solve the problem. It's a bit hard for me, a veteran Windows user, to get along with this type of OS.

Thanks in advance.


texts: Stop password characters from being shown

texts:
When I type in a password in iOS 11.4.1, the last entered character is shown only for a split second.

For security reasons, I do not want the characters to get echoed. How do I disable this split second preview and show only the dots instead?


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I recently upgraded to El Capitan and it broke my Macports as well as some of the compilers I use, so I'm trying to upgrade Xcode from 6 to 7.

First, I tried the ordinary way; i.e. click the "upgrade" button in the App Store. However, clicking it greyed it out for about 10 sec, and then it ungreyed as if nothing happened. It didn't show the usual "installing, 45 min remaining" progress bar that the App Store usually showed.

Then I went into /Applications folder and manually deleted the Xcode app and then emptied the trash. In Finder, I had the "details" view set up, so I could see date modified, size etc. For the size field for the Xcode icon/entry, it actually had a progress bar that was about 5% filled for some reason. I wasn't sure what this meant, but I deleted Xcode anyone. I only realized after deleting Xcode that this icon was not my previous Xcode version 6, but it was the App Store actually trying to install Xcode 7. I was confused because, as I noted above, when I clicked the update button in App Store, it didn't show the progress bar, it just momentarily greyed and ungreyed.

However, I then restarted my computer, and now when I go to App Store, the Xcode update doesn't appear in my Updates "panel" at all. I searched for Xcode in the App Store, and there's a button that says "install". I click it and nothing happens. I also tried searching for Xcode on google, and the page simply tells me to go to App Store. I guess my other options are to install the Xcode 7.1 beta, or re-install a previous version, say Xcode 6 from an installation file, but I would prefer to install the current stable version (although from App Store reviews it seems like the current Xcode is none too popular).

Anyone know how I can do this now? It seems like the app store process for installing Xcode 7 is majorly majorly screwed up, at least for my particular machine.


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I'm running Apple Mail 5.3 and Thunderbird 17.0.4 on Mac OS Lion 10.7.5. The system I'm running those apps it's an iMac with 3Gb of RAM and 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo.

I run both applications at the same time and I got those results looking with the Activity Monitor.

As you can see, Apple Mails consumes a little bit less than Thunderbird but uses more virtual memory.

My question is, which one has better performance? Apple Mail or Thunderbird? I ask this because that was a puntual test, and I don't know if they get stressed when looking for RSS feeds or email on the inbox.

Do you know any other mail app which works better looking on the performance?


texts: If you turn on iCloud Photo Stream, does it automatically share all your old photos with everyone? Or just the recent ones?


texts: Which directory does Mac OS X 10.10.x keep iPhone back up file？

texts: I backed up my old iPhone 5S with iTunes on Mac OS X 10.10，But It seems that it's not easy to find the folder. (In Windows，It's C:\Users\Administrator\AppData\Roaming\Apple Computer\MobileSync\backup)


texts: Time Machine bug - not enough space, folder cannot be deleted

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Backup is failing on a disk that is near its limit with the error message "not enough space". Weird as Time Machine is supposed to delete old backups as needed to store the new ones.
So, I tried to just reformat using Disk Utility and start fresh. That failed with the error message "disk could not be unmounted".
Next, I tried to make space myself by going into the backup folder and deleted a few of the older dated folders. It took forever to delete a folder via Cmd+Backspace, literally over 30min. :-( I tried instant delete (Cmd+Opt+Backspace) but it wasn't faster and failed on a folder with the the message "items had to be skipped" and the tip to unlock. The folder in question is not listed as locked though. On to the Terminal with "rm -rf folder" which resulted in "permission denied". Sudo of the same command just changed the error message to "operation not permitted".
It's also weird because the deleted folders are still shown in Finder - some processes still running. Only about 30GB on a 500GB disk have been freed so far (20 left initially to 50 now).
The especially troublesome folder I tried the "rm" on stands out as it has different permissions. All folders show "drwxr-xr-x@  3 root  wheel" while this one reads "drwxr-xrwx@  3 root  wheel". Some of the deletion processes are still shown in Finder as ongoing.
How can I just reformat that disk and be done with the nitty gritty?
Second best, how can I weed out by hand and delete some of the older backups, getting past the above snags?
System: Catalina 10.15.6


texts: Any better way to purge the inactive memory?

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Running purge command in the terminal to free the inactive memory isn't really what I think about Apple.

Lion isn't doing a great at all when it comes to free the inactive memory.
Free memory is reaching 16 MB and applications and the OS are becoming unresponsive, yet OS X isn't reclaiming the inactive memory.

After each session, I put the laptop to sleep. You can say that I shutdown my OS once a month.  Unixes after all aren't created to be rebooted.

OS X Snow Leopard was pretty sleek, I don't know but it looks it is a Lion thing (maybe due iOS brought to Lion features).

Any better way to reclaim the inactive memory on Lion?
[EDIT]
I got 4 GB of RAM


texts: Is it possible to close a script with a keypress?

texts:
In AutoHotKey, using the keyword "ExitApp" can allow the user to stop a script with a keypress.  For example, Esc::ExitApp can stop a script by pressing "esc".
Now, with a combination of do shell script (using a bash function like read) and on idle and then calling exit somehow, I thought this was possible in AppleScript.  However, inside of an Automator function, you can't save an AppleScript as "stay open" - pasting the on idle thing underneath on run only loops through idle once without providing opportunities for listening for keypresses.  Any ideas?
Example:  Let's say I have this script in an automator workflow:
on run {input, parameters}
    set i to 0
     repeat while i < 100
       keystroke "a"
       set i to i + 1
       delay 5
     end repeat
end run


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I believe this is the best forum to ask this question.

This issue is with iOS Safari's "Add to Home Screen", and is particularly specific to Google Keep.

I added "Google Keep" to Home Screen through Safari, and after logging in with an email ID (user A), I figured that I needed to login with some other user (user B). Now, Google Keep doesn't have a logout link within the Google Keep interface. Clicking on the signed in user's email address, the "Home Screen app" opens up the Safari browser for further working on that link. In short, there is no way of logging out!

What I have already tried:

Tried deleting the "Home Screen app" and adding it back, fresh! Yet, it holds on to the previous cookie/session, and auto logs in with user A.
Tried clearing Safari cache and cookie data from iOS settings!
Tried combinations of the above two.
Even tried using ?v=2 at the end of the Google Keep URL (https://keep.google.com/?v=2) and adding that to the "Home Screen", but ... the same!!

Is there any way of doing this? Or do I have to manually dig down into the iOS file system and delete the relevant plist or whatever way it's holding this data in?! And if I have to do the latter, can anyone point out which FS file do I exactly need to tackle?

It's for the first time that I am frustrated with iOS, but blame also somewhat falls on Google for not giving a simple logout link in Google Keep (or not having a full-fledged app yet)!!

Please help!


texts: Restoring Time Machine backup do a different user folder location

texts: I have a 27" iMac. Its original 1Tb drive failed a few days ago. I decided to replace it with a 2Tb drive and replace my CD/DVD drive with an SSD drive. The SSD drive is small - 128Gb. I intend to only have the OS and install apps there. All user data will be on 2Tb drive. Restoring all data on OS drive and moving it over is not an option - complete backup is 465Gb. Is there a way to force TM to restore my files where I want them?


texts: My iPad Mini won't turn on after charging

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Last night I went to use my iPad and found the battery was completely drained. So, I charged it, after a few minutes it turned back on, and I looked at the battery symbol and it had said that it was at 62% battery life.

I was somewhat confused, as just moments before it was completely dead. I left it to charge for a bit before taking it off charge to charge my iPod.

The next morning the iPad was dead again. I put it on charger and all that happened was the logo would pop up, fade away, and repeat. I left it alone to charge and when I tried to turn it on, nothing happened. I've only had the iPad for two months, and this is the first time anything like this has happened.

It hasn't been dropped or damaged at all, at least to my knowledge. Any advice? I really don't feel like spending money at the Apple Store for them to tell me it's just some fault in my charger or something. I've tried most everything, including the Home/Sleep-Wake button reset.


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Is there any way to allow public (ie no user/password prompt) access to samba shares using the mountain lion built in server?

Even with Everyone set to read/write in System Preferences and the guest account enabled for sharing a password is always required when trying to connect from a windows computer (I've tried both 7 and xp).


texts: How can I stop AppleScript from converting variables like "\087" into their octal form when passing through bash?

texts:
I have a program I'm using to write xml with variables, and it passes through AppleScript and bash to form the final xml. However, one of my variables usually begins with "024", "054", or other three digit codes that paired with the "\" forms an octal character, like "," for "\054". Once they are passed through bash, they become replaced with these octal characters. These variables need to stay the way they are, because they are part of a file path the xml ultimately pulls from. Unfortunately, I can't change these variables because they're linked to many other things working properly, and the backslashes are obligatory too. I want to know if there is a way to stop AppleScript from implementing octal encoding on this script as it passes through. A colleague recommended using iconv, which I tried unsuccessfully, partially because I'm not sure how to use it properly. Here is the AppleScript for reference:

do shell script "echo \"<?xml version=\\\"1.0\\\" encoding=\\\"UTF-8\\\"?> <scratch project=\\\"TEST\\\"> <file>W:\\Sequences\\087_TLD_TL_Taking_The_Lead\\Shots\\TLD0640\\Versions\\MOV\\TLD0640_v0173.mov\\</file> </scratch>\" > ~/Desktop/Test.xml"

And the output:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <scratch project="TEST"> <file>W:\Sequences87_TLD_TL_Taking_The_Lead\Shots\TLD0640\Versions\MOV\TLD0640_v0173.mov\</file> </scratch>

Thank you for your help!

Edit: thanks Gordon Davisson for making the code viewable, and updated the codes to the bare minimum for reproducing the question.


texts: Does charging to 100% damage an iPhone battery

texts:
I have an XR and as I am indoors a lot of the time, my phone does spend a few hours charging at 100% (although I unplug at night).  It's rare that I let the phone run past 80% and even rare that it goes past 60%.

Is this likely to damage the battery?

This Macworld article says isn't optimal, although it won't necessarily damage your battery. However, I've seen other people stating that charging to 100% is very damaging which is why Ios 13 will have measures to prevent it. Further still, I've seen articles state that iOS 12 already is designed to cope with charging at 100%, and the iOS 13 improvements are more to do with overnight charging.

What's the correct answer?
Also, as should I shut down the phone at night if it is not charging?


texts: Is there a way to show import errors in iTunes?

texts:
When importing video files into iTunes (through either File > Add to Library, drag and drop, or the automatic import folder), is there a way to show errors or a log explaining why a file was not imported?

When using the automatic import folder, the rejected file is moved into the Not Added folder, but iTunes doesn't give any reason why the file was rejected. Is there a way to enable logging in iTunes to show what went wrong (e.g. wrong audio codec)?


texts: OSX Mavericks: reinstall Ruby without reinstalling the whole system

texts:
I was "wise" enough to uninstall system Ruby on my Mac. So the question is: how to install Ruby without reinstalling everything?

Maybe important:

I can't use AppStore because it wants credit card number, but I haven't got any
My friend has the same OSX version, can I copy some folders from his PC and recover Ruby in such way?


texts: EPUB files are not syncing through iCloud for iBooks along with iOS 9.3

texts:
Since 21 March 2016, I am able to sync any books via icloud between devices. It works pretty good for pdf. But it doesnt work for EPUB files. I have downloaded for my iPhone some EPUB file from the website and saved to iBooks, but it didn't appear on my another device, while the pdf did appear.

What is wrong?


texts: Cinch doesn't work | How do I enable access to assistive devices in OS X 10.9 Mavericks?

texts: Cinch requires us to "Enable access to assistive devices". However this option is not found on OS X Mavericks > System Preferences. Where can I find it?


texts: Display Arrangement disappears with 3 external monitors with MacBook Pro

texts:
I have been able to connect 3 external monitors to my MacbookPro. However when I started to arrange them in the Arrangement tab all monitors disappeared from the window. When I unplug one of the monitors the window fills again without any issues. Can't seem to get it working with all 3.

MacBook Pro (15-inch, 2017)
Version 10.12.5


texts: How do I run an interactive GUI application in pre-login environment?

texts:
I am interested in writing an application which runs in a pre-login environment, i.e. right after a user enters their username and password, much like how OS X does the initial account setup:

How does this work? I've used iHook to run scripts, but I'd like to use replicate the same look and feel of Apple's initial account setup.


texts: Revert an account's "full name" back to the original

texts:
I don't think this is a "short name" question. I changed my "full name" to include my last name, but I'd like to revert back to just my first name. When I try to change the full name entry under "accounts" back to "Richard" I can't, with the warning "Name is not available."

What gives? Is there a way to revert to my original short name? This is strictly cosmetic, right? The only place I see my full name is the right side of the menu bar (my short name has never changed from "richard"). Thanks!


texts: Mountain Lion sometimes hangs when mouse enters Dock – pointer is movable, but the MacBook Air seems otherwise frozen

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I have a mid-2011 13" MacBook Air (MacBookAir4,2 with Intel HD Graphics 3000).

Since installing Mountain Lion I sometimes encounter a problem when I move the mouse cursor over the dock to click something.

Sometimes I get pinwheeled, sometimes I don't.

Whenever the problem occurs:

there appears a 75% transparent label for a dock item
I can continue to move the mouse
the computer does not recover, I resort to a forced shutdown.

There doesn't seem to be any common denominators yet, other than it always happens as I mouse over the dock.

Is there a log or anything I can look at to rectify the problem?


texts: How to stop the hidden __MACOSX folder from being created when compressing files/folders in Finder

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When compressing files/folders in Finder, via the context menu, i.e. select the files/folders then right-click and select Compress ..., a hidden folder named __MACOSX is created within the zip archive.

How can the hidden folder named __MACOSX not be created within the zip archive?


texts: How power efficient are Apple's bluetooth devices?

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I learned from this post that I can hold the power button long enough to turn off the bluetooth keyboard.

I used Apple's bluetooth mouse around 5 years ago, and I just threw it away as it was a battery killer. Since then, I never have used bluetooth devices. Ironically, I use Microsoft wireless mouse which lasts months without battery change with Mac.

How battery efficient are Apple's bluetooth devices? Normally, how long do you use Apple's bluetooth devices without battery change?
Do I have to turn off bluetooth keyboard/trackpad whenever I don't use them? Do I have  serious battery drainage if I don't turn them off?


texts: How to replace internal HDD with SSD in Mac Mini?

texts: I'm a complete nube to Mac (bought Mac Mini 10/Apr/15). So far I have cloned OSX from Internal HDD to USB SSD which is to become my Boot Disk. The HDD is solely to hold a recovery partition, and Data i.e. Photos, Docs Music - how do I achieve this?


texts: Freetype Code Signing Error (Xcode 7.1) App Upload Issue

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I'm wondering if anyone can fix my problem? I'm trying to upload a project to the App Store. I'm using Xcode 7.1. I'm getting the following error related to code-signing freetype.

CodeSign /Users/me/Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData/SFML_App -xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/Build/Products/Debug/SFML_App.app
cd /Users/me/Documents/cplusplus/sfml/SFML_App
export CODESIGN_ALLOCATE=/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Toolchains/XcodeDefault.xctoolchain/usr/bin/codesign_allocate

Signing Identity:     "Mac Developer: me (xxxxxxxxxx)"

/usr/bin/codesign --force --sign xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx --timestamp=none /Users/me/Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData/SFML_App-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/Build/Products/Debug/SFML_App.app

/Users/me/Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData/SFML_App-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/Build/Products/Debug/SFML_App.app: code object is not signed at all
In subcomponent: /Users/me/Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData/SFML_App-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/Build/Products/Debug/SFML_App.app/Contents/Frameworks/freetype.framework
Command /usr/bin/codesign failed with exit code 1

Any Ideas on how to fix this?


texts: Moving full screen apps between monitors shortcut

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Does anyone know if it is possible to move a full screen app to another monitor using a shortcut? Or if there is no existing shortcut would it be possible with Applescript?

BetterTouchTool has "Move window to next monitor" as one of its predefined actions but this only works on desktops and not with full-screen apps.

Thanks in advance for any help!

Simon


texts: Rolled back from Catalina back to Mojave but I had two drives one for boot and other for saved files, realised old files are still around

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I rolled back from Catalina to Mojave because I was having issues, it was my first time to do so and foolishly didn't use Time Machine.

I have two SSDs, one for boot and the other for my files, and I realise that my files are still on the other drive but I can no longer access them, the folders have the red stop sign.

Is there a way to access the files and use those folders again as my main user folder?


texts: Pomodoro application which shows time in menubar

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Please advice a free application for Pomodoro time management which:

Can be minified to menubar and shows remaining time there (like tomighty):

Has a tasklist (like pomodairo):

Here is what I dislike about  mentioned apps:

Pomodairo can't be minified in menubar (instead it has annoying mini window which covers application you work in)

Tomighty is a timer without tasklist so you need to keep tasks on paper which I don't really like.

Here is related question I've asked at superuser.com.


texts: Import certificates into the System Keychain via the command line

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Is it possible to copy a certificate to a machine running OS X Snow Leopard, add it to the System Keychain, then set it to "Always Trust via SSH?"

And if so... how?


texts: mount NTFS for read/write failed, it worked before upgrading to 10.12.4

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I was able to mount NTFS drives for both read and write in OS X 10.12.3. But in 10.12.4, it failed

In this example, I used the OS X native NTFS driver. (I used NTFS-3G on Mac before but it was too slow )

sudo mount -t ntfs -o rw,auto,nobrowse /dev/disk2s1 /Users/somebody/Desktop/tmp

Here's the error:

mount_ntfs: /dev/disk2s1 on /Users/somebody/Desktop/tmp: Read-only file system

But actually there is nothing in folder tmp

I don't know whether it's only me who has this error or everyone has the same issue after upgrading OS X to 10.12.4

Do you know how to enable it?


texts: AppleScript: Take a file from a directory and find the file name and POSIX path. Next do a shell script passing the file name and path to the script

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AppleScript

On adding folder items to this_folder after receiving added_items
     try
          set filename to name of this_folder
          set p to POSIX path of this_folder
          do shell script "path to script/.sh" &p &filename
     end try
end adding folder items to

Shell script never gets the arguments.
Have tried several boards and several variations of the code above, but no joy.  What have I overlooked?


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I am using a button on my site that opens multiple pop-up windows in one click.

Since the update of September 20, 2017 - it doesn't work and only one window pops up at a time.

On my other Mac - which has the Safari 10.1 version - it works.

Tried to find answers on Mac rumors and other sites with no success.

I have two questions :

Is it possible to open multiple pop-up windows on Safari 11? If so, how?
How do I restore to Safari 10? I searched the web for answers but couldn't find any.

Anyone has an answer for me or could guide me to the right place?


texts: Why am I getting virus alert after clean formatting MacBook Pro 2014?

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I recently clean formatted, erased everything on the hard drive of, my MacBook Pro 2014 and installed OS X El Capitan.

I also installed Sophos Aniti-Virus, but Sophos is detecting Android Apperhand virus in my clean installed Mac.

The alert is showing everytime my MacBook Pro logs in. Later it vanished from the Sophos Quarantine Manager!

I have attached the snapshot below.


texts: Mail app on OS X 10.10 goes blank with Office 365 Account after displaying for a minute

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I am having an issue viewing email on Office 365 with Mail app.

After clicking on the Office 365 mailbox to read the emails the message list goes blank after about a minute, I then have to click on another mailbox then back to the Office 365 one to view the messages again but you only get about a minute until it does it again. This is frustrating when you are reading a long email.

This only happens with Office 365 accounts, I also use iCloud and Google mail accounts without any problems in Mail.

I have run connection doctor but it says everything is ok.

Has anyone any ideas? Or come across this before?


texts: Equivalent of disabling services in Windows to lessen CPU/RAM usage for OS X?

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When it comes to the underside of things I know a lot more about Windows than Mac/OS X, so I'm not sure if OS X is even like this in this aspect but what I'm wanting to know is I used to very thoroughly disable system services in Windows for things I didn't need like network file sharing and quick user switching, just to name a couple, to make the computer run lighter.
It worked great on aging systems and I was wondering if there was an equivalent of such a thing for OS X that I could pick through and at my risk disable just to help my old Late 2006 iMac?


texts: On OS X Yosemite, where are the image files for system UI elements such as buttons, sliders, menus, traffic lights, etc. stored?


texts: Tracks are listed in the wrong order when iTunes is importing CDs

texts: I am importing a CD to iTunes and find that when it appears the track listings are in the wrong order. The tracks themselves are labelled correctly as in track 1 and track 8 etc. but appear in the iTunes import page in a scrambled order. Can anyone help?


texts: I am looking for an iOS app that works like a simple counter but also does simple calculations like running averages. There is an android app called multicounter but I have not found an iOS equivalent. Basically I need to clickable counter for errors and success rate. success count/(error+success)


texts: Changing Graphics Card on a 2006 Mac Pro

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I have a 2006 Mac Pro running an ATI 1900XT graphics card, but since it is acting as a server (Windows 2008 R2), 99% of the time it's running headless (Remote Desktop does the job) and the graphics card is producting quite a LOT of heat (can heat a 2 liter bottle of Coke in about 40 min) I would like to replace this card with something cooler and quieter.

I am wondering is there anything that needs to be done to a graphics card that would allow it to be used on a Mac? I would prefer not to spend 2x or 3x the price of a bog-standard PCI-Express "PC" graphics card for a machine that wont be connected to a monitor all that often. I am seeing Mac-specific graphics cards (Nvidia GeForce GT 120) for about 120 EUR on Ebay, but can pick up an NVidia GeForce 210 Graphics card for 30 euros.


texts: My mom's iPhone battery is suddenly draining very fast (its losing 1% in a 10 second time period when the screen is on), so I checked the battery health in the Settings app, and it says it has 51% maximum capacity. We are going to replace he battery regardless! But even if the battery is very bad i don’t think it’s supposed to drain this fast. My question: what can I do right now to stop it from draining so quick while I look for replacement options?


texts: Replace text with predefined value in browser

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I used to have a tool on my PC that would allow me to prefill text when I enter certain "codes". For example, I would type $test123 and it would replace that text with a sentence that I had setup.

Is there a similar program on the Mac that also works in any browser?


texts: Start/Stop Internet Sharing via Terminal in Yosemite without AppleScript

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Okay, I see this question has been asked a few times before (here, here, here and here), but none of those really answer the question for me.

I don't want to use the AppleScript suggestions provided to enable/disable Internet Sharing since future updates to the System Preferences GUI may break the AppleScript, as was the case in the linked posts above, and the solution seems a little clumsy, to be honest.

On Yosemite, sudo launchctl load -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.InternetSharing.plist no longer works as there's no longer a .plist called InternetSharing.

I tried
sudo defaults write /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.nat NAT -dict-add Enabled -int 1
which I saw somewhere else, but that only toggles the actual checkbox in System Preferences and doesn't actually enable IS.

So ultimately, my question is this. What processes do I have to call from the command line to enable Internet Sharing, or conversely, what processes do I have to kill to disable Internet Sharing?


texts: How can I disable requiring a verification code when making purchases with Family Sharing enabled?

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My wife and I have Family Sharing setup. I am the organizer, and she is set as a Parent/Guardian. Over the last month or so, whenever she buys an app in the App Store on her iPad, it prompts for her password, and then also a verification code that is sent to my devices.
This is very annoying for her, and I have no problem with her making purchases without me verifying them, so we would like to turn this feature off so she can buy anything on the App Store without getting a code for me. However we don't see any setting that would control this - all we can see is an option for approving purchases made by children in our family (we don't have kids so this feature is turned off).
Does anyone know how to disable requiring a verification code when making purchases on the App Store?


texts: Is it dangerous to interrupt the post-OS X update optimizing?

texts: When I log in after every OS X update, I get a push notification saying that my computer is being optimized and that performance and battery life may be affected until it's complete. Is it dangerous to restart my computer again immediately after getting this notification? (I have to reboot in order to make my manual Continuity activation work.) And if so, how can I tell when the process is done?


texts: Want to update from OSX 10.6.8 to OSX 10.9

texts: When I go into my apple software updates on my OSX 10.6.8 computer to update to an OSX 10.9, the computer tells me that I do not have any new updates. How can I update to OSX 10.9 if it does not give me that option?


texts: Remotely wiping an iPhone which doesn't open

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My iPhone 6s (iOS 11) is not powering on, and in order to bring it for service, I have been asked to remove it from my iCloud account first. From what I have understood, removing it from my account will keep it locked with my passcode and won't erase the device. Do I need to erase it before removing it from the account?

I checked Apple's documentation, which doesn't clarify whether an iPhone configured to be erased will do so when coming online after having been removed from the iCloud account. Specifically for removing it from the account it mentions:

  If the device is offline, the remote erase begins the next time it’s
  online. You receive an email when the device is erased.

  When the device is erased, click Remove from Account.

So in case of sending a remote erase command and removing a device from the account, will it still be erased? Or do I need to wait for the successful erase e-mail before removing the device from the account?


texts: Mac hangs after Snow Leopard installation

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I have a white 2007 MacBook, 2.16 GHz, 3GB RAM.
 It was happily running OS X.6.1 for a while but a friend borrowed it and left a lot of rubbish on it, so thought I'd reinstall Snow Leopard and then up to Lion again. Tried OS X.5.1, X.6, & X.6.3, all Apple original DVDs.

After they say "Installed successfully", when I must input info: name, address, postcode, phone No., where will the computer be used?, job description etc.  click is held continuously  and I get the spinning ball and the machine hangs. Any ideas?


texts:
I have ~15 years worth of photos synced between my Mac (Photos) and iPhone.
This issue was present with my last iPhone, I upgraded maybe 4 months ago.
The iPhone always shows "(x) Photos, (y) Videos, Syncing..." at the bottom of "All Photos".
My Mac always shows 8 fewer items than my phone.
I have "download originals" checked on both ends. Oddly, I created smart albums for every year of photos captured going back to the earliest photos I have, and created non-smart albums (so that they would sync to the iPhone -- smart albums don't sync) for each year. This was to narrow in on the 8 items that aren't syncing. However, the reported number of items contained in each album on iOS exactly match the number on macOS, so I'm at a loss. I just want my libraries to be completely in sync and I don't want to manually go through 7,000 photos to figure out which 8 are causing issues.


texts: Device Manager fails to start on a macOS Server 5.2

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I have setup a working Open Directory Master on on Mac-Server-1 running macOS Sierra and macOS Server 5.2 (latest as of today).  I have also successfully started the Device Manager and enrolled a client computer with no problem.

I have now also setup a working Open Directory Replica on Mac-Server-2 running MacOS Sierra and macOS Server 5.2.  However, when I try to activate the Device Manager on the Replica, it stays Disabled.

Is this by design that Device Manager can only be active on the Master?  Or is this a bug?

Steps:

In macOS Server -> Profile Manger -> Device Manager, status is Disabled
In macOS Server -> Profile Manger -> Device Manager, I click Setup... button
New window appears telling me I can manage devices.  I click Next
The window now changes and asks me for a Name, E-mail, Telephone, and Address (presumably to generate a certificate?)
I enter the info, and click Next
The next window appears, telling me to click Finish.  I do.
The window disappears, returning me to the macOS Server -> Profile Manger window, where the status of Device Manager still shows as Disabled

Ideas?

Edit1: I tried uninstalling Server.app and deleting /Library/Server/* and reinstalling the Replica from scratch.  Same behavior.

Edit2: I tried reinstalling the entire server from scratch.  Same behavior.


texts: PHP not running after upgrading to Catalina

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I've followed all the tutorials, updated httpd.conf and other files. Apache works fine but PHP does not seem enabled. Pointing to php_info.php =>

<?php phpinfo() ?>

I formerly ran High Sierra with no problems with apache and php. Upgrading to Catalina evidently broke that. PHP is not enabled though the module line is uncommented in httpd.conf. Nothing in the setup indicates PHP is not running but when I point a browser to a PHP file, it does not process the page but just displays the code - as mentioned php_info.php does not show the info page, just the php code.

This is the apache/php installation that came with Catalina.

Apache error log:

AH00558: httpd: Could not reliably determine the server's fully qualified domain name, using Tobys-iMac.local. Set the 'ServerName' directive globally to suppress this message

[Wed Jan 08 22:05:26.428368 2020] [mpm_prefork:notice] [pid 159] AH00163: Apache/2.4.41 (Unix) PHP/7.3.9 configured -- resuming normal operations

[Wed Jan 08 22:05:26.428420 2020] [core:notice] [pid 159] AH00094: Command line: '/usr/sbin/httpd -D FOREGROUND'

[Wed Jan 08 22:09:52.550744 2020] [mpm_prefork:notice] [pid 159] AH00169: caught SIGTERM, shutting down

AH00558: httpd: Could not reliably determine the server's fully qualified domain name, using Tobys-iMac.local. Set the 'ServerName' directive globally to suppress this message

[Wed Jan 08 22:10:48.678248 2020] [mpm_prefork:notice] [pid 159] AH00163: Apache/2.4.41 (Unix) PHP/7.3.9 configured -- resuming normal operations

[Wed Jan 08 22:10:48.678307 2020] [core:notice] [pid 159] AH00094: Command line: '/usr/sbin/httpd -D FOREGROUND'

Access log:

::1 - - [09/Jan/2020:11:06:05 -0800] "GET /php_info.php HTTP/1.1" 200 18

::1 - - [09/Jan/2020:11:07:47 -0800] "GET /php_info.php HTTP/1.1" 200 18

::1 - - [09/Jan/2020:11:08:37 -0800] "GET /index.php HTTP/1.1" 304 -

::1 - - [09/Jan/2020:11:08:39 -0800] "GET /index.php HTTP/1.1" 200 16

::1 - - [09/Jan/2020:11:09:51 -0800] "GET /ePub%20Processing/process_toc-content.php HTTP/1.1" 200 7653


texts:
I work for a primarily Microsoft based IT support company, anyway today a Mac user asked me to setup RDP which I wouldn't normally have any issues with but I got onto the Mac and installed the latest RDP client from the app store (this was updated a couple days ago).

Anyway when I try to launch it from launchpad I get a crash every time, I tried reinstalling but it still does the exact same.

I am not experienced with Mac's at all so I am finding it hard to troubleshoot this, can anyone shed some light on this or point me in the right direction?

Process:         launchd [571]
Path:            /Applications/Microsoft Remote Desktop.app/Contents/MacOS/Microsoft Remote Desktop
Identifier:      com.microsoft.rdc.mac
Version:         ??? (???)
Code Type:       X86-64 (Native)
Parent Process:  launchd [133]

Date/Time:       2015-11-03 09:22:44.647 +0000
OS Version:      Mac OS X 10.7.5 (11G63)
Report Version:  9

Interval Since Last Report:          1197257 sec
Crashes Since Last Report:           13
Per-App Crashes Since Last Report:   12
Anonymous UUID:                      CA434F00-4590-4545-832A-B884258E0AD6

Crashed Thread:  Unknown

Exception Type:  EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGSEGV)
Exception Codes: KERN_INVALID_ADDRESS at 0x00007fff5fc01028

Backtrace not available

Unknown thread crashed with X86 Thread State (64-bit):
  rax: 0x0000000000000055  rbx: 0x0000000000000000  rcx: 0x0000000000000000  rdx: 0x0000000000000000
  rdi: 0x0000000000000000  rsi: 0x0000000000000000  rbp: 0x0000000000000000  rsp: 0x0000000000000000
   r8: 0x0000000000000000   r9: 0x0000000000000000  r10: 0x0000000000000000  r11: 0x0000000000000000
  r12: 0x0000000000000000  r13: 0x0000000000000000  r14: 0x0000000000000000  r15: 0x0000000000000000
  rip: 0x00007fff5fc01028  rfl: 0x0000000000010203  cr2: 0x00007fff5fc01028
Logical CPU: 0

Binary images description not available

External Modification Summary:
  Calls made by other processes targeting this process:
    task_for_pid: 1
    thread_create: 0
    thread_set_state: 0
  Calls made by this process:
    task_for_pid: 0
    thread_create: 0
    thread_set_state: 0
  Calls made by all processes on this machine:
    task_for_pid: 1136
    thread_create: 0
    thread_set_state: 0

Model: MacBookPro8,1, BootROM MBP81.0047.B27, 2 processors, Intel Core i5, 2.4 GHz, 4 GB, SMC 1.68f99
Graphics: Intel HD Graphics 3000, Intel HD Graphics 3000, Built-In, 384 MB
Memory Module: BANK 0/DIMM0, 2 GB, DDR3, 1333 MHz, 0x80CE, 0x4D34373142353737334448302D4348392020
Memory Module: BANK 1/DIMM0, 2 GB, DDR3, 1333 MHz, 0x80CE, 0x4D34373142353737334448302D4348392020
AirPort: spairport_wireless_card_type_airport_extreme (0x14E4, 0xD6), Broadcom BCM43xx 1.0 (5.106.198.19.22)
Bluetooth: Version 4.0.8f17, 2 service, 11 devices, 1 incoming serial ports
Network Service: Wi-Fi, AirPort, en1
Serial ATA Device: TOSHIBA MK5065GSXF, 500.11 GB
Serial ATA Device: OPTIARC DVD RW AD-5970H
USB Device: FaceTime HD Camera (Built-in), apple_vendor_id, 0x8509, 0xfa200000 / 3
USB Device: hub_device, 0x0424  (SMSC), 0x2513, 0xfa100000 / 2
USB Device: Apple Internal Keyboard / Trackpad, apple_vendor_id, 0x0253, 0xfa120000 / 5
USB Device: BRCM2070 Hub, 0x0a5c  (Broadcom Corp.), 0x4500, 0xfa110000 / 4
USB Device: Bluetooth USB Host Controller, apple_vendor_id, 0x821a, 0xfa113000 / 8
USB Device: hub_device, 0x0424  (SMSC), 0x2513, 0xfd100000 / 2
USB Device: IR Receiver, apple_vendor_id, 0x8242, 0xfd110000 / 3


texts: Which iOS presentation/slideshow app can be controlled by a Trust Wireless bluetooth remote

texts:
I want to use my iPhone (4S) with the VGA adapter to display presentations on a beamer (projector) and control the advancement with a Trust Wireless Remote Control for iPad.

The remote works well with music apps (iPod/Music, Rhapsody) and also in slideshow mode of the "Photos" app.

Unfortunately iOS does not (yet) support QuickTime movies with manual advance - which would be my favorite option.
Keynote for iOS unfortunately doesn't support generic bluetooth remotes (yet).

The best solution I've found so far is to use the "Photos" app and start a slideshow (of a group of images), which then can be controlled by the bluetooth remote.

Is there any app for presentations with the VGA adapter that supports bluetooth remotes?

As I have my iPhone with me anyway, I want to use as little (and least expensive) additional hardware as possible to give a presentation using a beamer with VGA input: the VGA out adapter and the bluetooth remote are working with my iPhone - I'm only missing a decent presentation app that supports both.

I would prefer a non-jailbreak solution that is likely to be compatible with new devices/iOS versions.


texts: How to stop iTunes auto starting and playing when a phone call comes in with BT headphones

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I get a phone call on my iPhone which is paired with QC35 headphones. At the point that the call starts, my mac starts iTunes and starts to play music through the same headphones I'm taking the call on.

I've tried disabling iTunesHelper but this continues to occur. Completely ridiculous out of the box behaviour.


texts: Is there a function in numbers that allows to select elements that have an index congruent to 2 modulo 3 for its row, from a given column?

texts:
I want to select and do the average of one every 3 numbers and the row index of the first is 5. So I want to select 5,8,11 etc

Is there a way to do it in Numbers?


texts:
What exactly has changed in regard to .DS_Store files creation with the release of Sierra?

Currently I am a bit confused about the behaviour (changes?) of Finder, the filesystem or certain GUI settings.

When showing all files like with defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles TRUE the .DS_Store files remain invisible. But then the Trash is always shown as 'full' since apparently that .DS_Store file gets recreated almost instantly? Of course, opening the Trash after just deleting it reveals nothing in Finder since TFF is now blind to .DS_Store files.

Can the Trash be taught to also ignore .DS_Store files?

Previously it was believed that Finder only creates .DS_Store files when accessing a certain directory hierarchy with a concrete 'view'. Now, after foolishly using Finder for copying a huge directory from an external drive to a user directory on the root volume that did not contain any .DS_Store files my cleanup routine revealed that apparently every hierarchy level had a new .DS_Store file added – despite never being viewed with Finder. Several thousand useless .DS_Store files created by just copying a folder structure?

Can somebody either at least confirm this behaviour, or even better know a way to prevent this obnoxious behaviour in Finder?


texts: Issue with Mail, receiving my own sent emails in Inbox

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I have 2 Gmail accounts hooked up to Mail.  One is an @gmail.com account, the other is a business account run through Google Apps.

When I send an email from the business account, the email always shows up in my Inbox as if the message was sent to me.

The "Automatically Cc or Bcc me" checkbox is unchecked in the "Composing" section of the Preferences.

If I send the email from the gmail website, no problems occur.  If I send an email from my "@gmail.com" address the problem does not occur.

Anyone have any advice?


texts: Having trouble copying text from PDF files

texts:
I’m using Mac Yosemite.  I am not able to copy text from a PDF document and paste it to other applications.  I have tried with both the Google Chrome PDF plugin and Acrobat Reader (v. Acrobat Reader 2015.010.20056).  In Reader, when I highlight text, right-clicking yields only the “Lookup Selected Word” in the menu and the Edit menu has the “Copy” option disabled, even though there is highlighted text.  Any advice on how I can cut and paste from PDF docs on my Mac?

Thanks, - Dave


texts: Get terminal application name from shell

texts:
I am used to my osascript aliases. In particular, I have nx for opening new tab and closing the old one.

However, my scripts use application name to send keyboard signals to it. Instead of writing it all many times i use my own variable term that contains terminal application name (it is always term=iTerm, no matter what terminal I'm using).

How do I fetch the terminal emulator's name I am entering command line with?


texts: Does Dropbox Auto Camera Upload work with iCloud Photo Library?

texts:
Currently, I store all my photos in iCloud Photo Library. However, I'd like to have another copy of them in Dropbox. Ideally, I'd want my iPad to upload all new images that I add to my iCloud Photo Library on my Mac or iPhone automatically to Dropbox. I have iCloud Photo Library configured to store only thumbnails on the iPad.

Does the automatic Camera Upload work when I do not download the full-res images to my iPad?


texts: How do you disable escape to exit fullscreen?


texts: How to make Chrome open a new window for external Links

texts:
As some people might know, the default behavior for external links of Google Chrome is quite bad. I'm using Spaces, and opening a link in some application outside of Google Chrome while being on a different Space than the last used window of Chrome results in Chrome switching to the last focused window.

This behavior is just bad.

I want to change this behavior. On Windows, this is possible: How can you configure Chrome to open new browser instances in new windows rather than in a tab?

Sadly, I don't think this is possible on OS X Snow Leopard.

I'm already using a tool called RCDefaultApps. This is a system-control panel where I can specify default applications for different protocols. It just lacks the feature to specify additional command line arguments for the default application.

Can anyone help me there? Every hacks (aside from creating a custom Chromium build) are acceptable.


texts:
I need a batch conversion tool to change PSD to JPG image files.

I have not seen a simple Automator action for this.


texts: Is there a way to set an alarm for sunrise, whenever that may be?

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The title pretty much says it all.  I've been wanting a "Sunrise alarm" for some time, but have never been able to find a way to do it - at least not a free one.  In addition to much experimentation with the built-in alarms, I've tried I think every free app in the store that claims to do this, and literally not a single one has worked (they all fail in various horrendously bad ways).
Is there a free way to set a simple sunrise alarm?  Failing that, is there any low-cost (like under $5) app that will actually do this well, and works on iOS 12?


texts: How to change apple ID while it has been disabled for security reasons

texts: I just bought apple iPhone 4s from my friend but it throw an error "This Apple ID has been disabled for security reasons" is it possible that i change apple ID during this state? Or  is there any other way to change it?


texts: How do I get vim to work at 256 colors in iTerm?

texts:
I just got a new iMac, and installed iTerm (0.10).
On my last laptop 256 color mode worked fine, but I'm having trouble getting this to work on my new Mac.

I copied over all the settings, set $TERM to xterm-256color, but no dice.

I changed my .vimrc to the absolute minimum to try this out:

set t_Co=256
syntax on

Tried multiple colorschemes, too.


texts: How do I selectively sync music to my iPhone?

texts: I share an iTunes account with my children and they purchase music with the account on our Mac. How do I keep the music they purchase from appearing on my iPhone when I sync?


texts: How come compiling my .tex file with my alias is lagging?

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I have written an alias in ~/.bashrc to compile my tex files into pdfs. I am sure that ~/.bashrc is sourced.

alias p='rm -f *.pdf *.log *.aux;pdflatex *.tex;open *.pdf'

However, after I edit my .tex file in XCode, save, and run the command p in my terminal, the pdf that opens is a previous version, not the latest version. The pdf matching the latest version of my tex file surfaces after I run p several times.

What is causing the lag? My Mac Air runs Lion.


texts: Unable to move Mouse VirtualBox Snow Leopard Server Install

texts: I am trying to install Snow Leopard Server in a virtual machine, but I can't seem to get the mouse to work properly.


texts: Trying to convert Sony MiniDV tape (DCR-TRV19) to iMovie '09. Audio clipping is driving me nuts

texts: Folks: I'm running Mac OS X (10.7.2) and iMovie'09 on my 27 inch imac. I'm using a Sony dcr-trv19 that is connected via firewire to the camera. The audio, overall, comes in synced (time) fine; however, there is clipping at the higher frequencies that is really annoying. The only way to describe it is that you lose anything above 15hz or so. So every "S" is flat and you get the digitized effect on most words, etc. I've listened to the source tape via the camera in playback to my headphones and do notice that occasionally the camera picked up a bit too much audio, like it is maxed on the level and it hit the red and then digitized. However, that is seldom when compared to the overall level on the iMovie version where the majority of "S"s are cut.  Almost like sibilance effect on the digital side.  There are no apparent audio import controls to bring the level down, when importing, etc. What are my options to try to improve my import qualities?  I've considered upgrading to iMovie '11, but not sure it gives me more import power. Any other tools to import and assess what is going on? Thoughts?


texts: Portable UI Applescript for choosing any menu item through any hierarchy of sub-menus

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At the bottom of this page Apple explains how to use UI scripting to automate selecting menu items.  There are two hardcoded examples that I'm drawing on in an effort to write a generic library script for use in a number of projects that can choose any menu item from any menu through any hierarchy of submenus.

The TL;DR version of this question is: How do I do that?

But for some more detail, if desired...

...I've made some progress, and come up with a few approaches for this but each of them has one fatal flaw or another...

Option 1.

If all the parameters are text or lists of text:  eg:

on ChooseMenuItem(theApp, theMenuName, theSubMenusNamesList, theMenuItemName)

which might be called with eg:

ChooseMenuItem("TextEdit", "Format", {"Font", "Ligatures"}, "Use Default")

then I can use a bunch of text parsing and concatenation etc. -- including a repeat loop through  the theSubMenusNamesList parameter to carefully construct a script in a string something like "tell menu ... click ... tell menu item ... click ... tell menu item ... click ..." etc. and then:

run script theScript in AppleScript

Voila!  And this works.  Except when any of those parameters - particularly the menu name - doesn't exist.  eg. trying to connect or disconnect a bluetooth device through the bluetooth menu extra.  So...

Option 2.

If the menu is nameless then let's change theMenuName to theMenu and pass it in by reference.  eg:

tell application "System Events" to tell process "SystemUIServer" to set theMenu to (menu bar item 1 of menu bar 1 whose description contains "bluetooth")
...
ChooseMenuItem("SystemUIServer", theMenu, {"Magic Keyboard"}, "Connect")

Note, here theMenu variable and parameter as opposed to theMenuName.  After performing the set statement, theMenu variable is not text, it's an AppleScript object, something like:

menu bar item 6 of menu bar 1 of application process "SystemUIServer"

Proceeding from here this fails one of three ways.

2a. If I try to construct a script that includes: tell theMenu ... it tells me, not surprisingly, that ...the variable theMenu is not defined.

2b. If I pull theMenu out of the quotes: "tell " & theMenu & "..." or "tell \"" & theMenu & "\"..." it errors with: Can’t make «class mbri» 6 of «class mbar» 1 of «class pcap» "SystemUIServer" of application "System Events" into type Unicode text.

ie. it can't coerce the aforementioned menu bar item 6 of menu bar 1... into text (unlike in Option 1 where I could call the menu by name).

2c. If I try to pull theMenu's tell statement out of the constructed text script so theScript text variable is something like tell menu item ... click ... tell menu item ... click (without the initial tell menu ... click) and then:

tell theMenu
    click
    run script theScript in AppleScript
end tell

then it tells me the variable "click" is not defined.  I believe it's referring to the first "click" in theScript variable that run script is trying to ... well ... run. run script... can't seem to pick up any context from where it's called from, or if it can I haven't figured out how.

Option 3

I've tried to think through how I might somehow include actual tell menu item theSubMenuName ... statements (ie. not text strings of the same that I then try to run) inside the above-mentioned repeat loop, but since it's a hierarchy of tells I can't quite figure out how to make that work.  Maybe there's a recursive solution here, but my brain's hurting too much to figure that out.

Conclusion

So, I'm at a loss... I can't figure this out, but I also can't believe there isn't a way to do this.  My inclination is that there has to be some way to refer to menu bar item 6 of menu bar 1 of... in my theScript variable somewhere... but how?  Or if really not that, then some other ultimate solution here?


texts: How do you rotate inserts in Apple Mac OS preview 7?

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It happens that I noticed a text insert I had  pasted in an  image in Preview 7 (Sierra on MacBookAir had been rotated
I don't know how this happened but the text insert is definitely not horizontal.
So there must be a way to rotate inserts. I haven't yet found out.
Can anyone tell me?


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My mom purchased an iPad about 18 months ago.  She set up an Apple ID and then connected it to her PayPal account and purchased about 18 apps and games over a few months.  Her PC crashed and had to get a new one.  She installed iTunes on her new PC but kept telling her the Apple ID was wrong.  Come to find out when she set up her Apple ID she typed in her email address wrong by leaving out 1 letter.  So she just recreated a new Apple ID with the her correct email address and went on buying apps/games.  A few months ago her iPad crashed and needed reset.  The problem is that I can't get the games she purchased originally with the 'wrong' apple ID to play.  Is it possible to play these and I'm just doing something wrong?  They are on the iPad but when you open them they ask if you want to purchase to continue, but we've already purchased them, jut on a the other apple ID.  Thoughts??

Thanks!


texts: how to run open -n applicaton name from command line?

texts:
I got these two lines that I want to run from a script file (on Yosemite 10.10.3). It works when running from terminal

CX_LICENSE=LS
open -n /Applications/Inspire\ Designer\ 10.0\ GA/Inspire\ Designer.app/

I saved these two lines in a file and named it run ID. -rwxr-xr-x@  1 Administrator  staff         89 20 Jul 17:34 runID

If I double click runID then I get new window with

Last login: Mon Jul 20 17:22:27 on ttys002
dsa-mac1:~ Administrator$ /Users/Administrator/Desktop/runID ; exit;
: command not foundr/Desktop/runID: line 1:
/Users/Administrator/Desktop/runID: line 1: -n: command not found
logout

[Process completed]

any idea how to make runID work?


texts: How to hide App Store updates in El Capitan? Right click won't work

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The App store is nagging me to update OS X software (like iMovie, Photos) that I have no interest in. When I click or Control-click the white space of the suggested update I do not get a hide option (except for the banner for upgrading to Sierra, which I have hidden).

How do I hide an unwanted update?


texts: Freeing up space and it said I was using up more

texts: I wanted to free up some space on my iPad, so I looked at Usage, and it said Mail was taking up the most bytes, so I went to my All Mail and deleted all the adds (which was a lot). Then I went to trash and deleted everything in there. Then, I check Usage again. It had said at first mail was taking up 19.4 MB, then AFTER I deleted a ton of things, it went UP. Now, it says it's taking up 33.4!! It did the exact opposite. I deleted a bunch of stuff, and the amount of storage the app was using went up... what's happening?? Thanks!


texts:
I'm trying to fix a path-related problem with glib, but as part of this another problem has appeared:

brew install pkg-config
Warning: pkg-config 0.29.2 is already installed and up-to-date

Ok, good, so:

pkg-config --cflags glib-2.0
-bash: /usr/local/bin/pkg-config: Permission denied

Right, right...

sudo pkg-config --cflags glib-2.0
sudo: pkg-config: command not found

Does anyone know what's going on here?

Update: one of the commands fixed things:

pkg-config --cflags glib-2.0
-I/usr/local/Cellar/glib/2.62.3/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/local/Cellar/glib/2.62.3/lib/glib-2.0/include -I/usr/local/opt/gettext/include -I/usr/local/Cellar/pcre/8.43/include


texts: I forgot my Apple ID and my email password

texts:
My mother ask someone to make an Apple ID for her now she has forgotten her Apple ID and because someone else made it for her she doesn't know anything about his email and security questions.

Now her iPad needs to be updated but is locked to that Apple ID and we don't know how we can fix it.

Can someone please help us .

How I can change Apple ID without knowing Apple ID and email and security questions.


texts: How can I listen to Apple Music from my web browser?

texts: Is there a web player for Apple Music I can use to stream songs from my web browser?


texts: How to add space between cells' borders in Mac Pages (without removing the borders)? See image attached

texts:
I would like to create a table that looks like this:

Is that even possible in Pages?


texts: Unable to Run Update From 10.7 Lion to 10.11 El Capitan

texts:
I recently reinstalled OS X, which with my MacBook Pro (2012 Model) meant that it grabbed Lion from internet recovery. It successfully installed, and I installed some updates, but when it comes to upgrading to Mavericks or El Capitan, the App Store crashes, the download shows up in the Launchpad screen, but never downloads or even tries to download, and I'm left wondering why. Every google search reveals something similar, but nothing exact.

I've tried signing out and signing in again, I've tried enabling debug and clearing cookies and resetting the app store, I've even copied and deleted the com.appstore.plist and com.apple.appstore.plist.

I'm at my wits end here. If not for the fact that I use OS X, I would wipe it and install Linux in it's stead. Any help would be appreciated.

UPDATE:

Per the request of J.C., I've run the download with the console open to get some diagnostic information. Here are the two lines that show up in the console when I start the app store and download El Capitan.

5/6/16 10:24:02.302 AM com.apple.SecurityServer: Failed to authorize right 'system.install.apple-software' by client '/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/PackageKit.framework/Versions/A/Resources/installd' [266] for authorization created by '/Applications/App Store.app' [259]

5/6/16 10:24:02.324 AM com.apple.SecurityServer: Failed to authorize right 'system.install.software' by client '/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/PackageKit.framework/Versions/A/Resources/installd' [266] for authorization created by '/Applications/App Store.app' [259]


texts: iPad Safari missing bookmarks, favourites and reading list

texts: My iPad Safari bookmarks, favourites & reading list have disappeared. It won't let me bookmark or favourite any sites either. I've tried a hard restart, switching off iCloud & deleting cookies but to no avail. Is there a way to solve this?


texts: Making a default window size and preview size for folders on a Mac

texts:
I work for a photography company and we have just switched to Mac for showing our photos directly to our clients when they come to our booth. The change to Mac has changed how we show our photos. We are like a roller coaster ride where it takes your photo and you walk up to a booth to view them.

Our problem is that I want to show them in a folder with a size just below fullscreen and in cover flow (with a BIG preview size). The trouble is that customers are the ones who are using them and so they will close to the window. I have 4 Macs open to customers at a time with hundreds of viewers in a weekend.

When I reopen the folder it has been saved in cover flow but the folder window is smaller (nowhere near fullscreen) and the size of the preview to folder ratio is very small for the preview size I want (again this is in cover flow).

I want to be able to change this default sizing like I can for cover flow always defaulting. I know it would just take 10 seconds each time to resize, but a year from now that will add up to hours.

Also, what would be even better is if they close the window that it will automatically reopen it or reopen a specific window?

This is not in the program "preview". This is when I am viewing folders (read only) and they need to be viewed well in cover flow.


texts: Link Displays Between Two iMacs (Late-2015 Retina running Sierra and 2017 running Mojave) Using Thunderbolt-to-Thunderbolt

texts:
I'm hoping someone can help me (and that this is possible, considering I just spent an arm and a leg to facilitate this setup).
I have a late-2015 iMac (27" Retina 5K display, running Sierra) and a 2017 iMac (21.5", running Mojave) and am hoping that I can connect them for dual display. I have them connected via Thunderbolt-to-Thunderbolt with the TB2 to TB3 adapter. For whatever reason, I'm not able to use Target Display mode on my 2015 iMac, and I'm suspecting it's because the model doesn't support it. ETA: The other mac doesn't show up in either System Preferences > Displays menu
I'm hoping someone can offer advice as to what I'm doing wrong or a possible workaround for this issue, as I have no use for both iMacs separately but would greatly benefit from using one as an additional display - even if the answer is simply that I can't do it, it will at least allow me to stop spinning my wheels and give up on this pipe dream.
Any suggestions are welcome!


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I have a first generation iPad 32GB WiFi model (MB293LL) running iOS 5.1.1.

I haven't used the Music app for some time; I generally listen to Pandora.  However, I recently bought some music on iTunes and wanted to listen to it.  I cannot get the Music app to run.  It opens, but all I see is the basic app frame and controls - no content - and then it crashes.  I've tried rebooting the iPad and it doesn't fix the issue.

I'd like a solution, or at least some further troubleshooting steps, that I can try other than "backup your data and reset the device".  If anyone has any suggestions, I would sure appreciate it.


texts: How do I remove a single key combination from the Mac Keyboard shortcut menu?

texts:
I know I can set shortcuts by clicking on none and entering my chord. But I can't figure out how to set it back to none without clicking "Restore Defaults" which destroys my entire config, also it means I can't remove any default shortcuts.

Right now if I really want to remove something I just give it some ridiculous key combo I'll never press, or just disable it but this seems dumb, especially for things that I still want to show up in context menus, but not have shortcuts.


texts: Missing Photos after airdropped from Mac to iPhone

texts:
I airdropped a folder of photos from my Macbook to iPhone. The photos are occupying the space (I confirmed from storage info) but they aren't showing up in Photos or in any other application. How can I retrieve them?

Regards


texts: Can "defaults write" command line configure the menu bar on macOS?

texts:
I would really like to use a script to enable these things on macOS High Sierra, by using defaults. I know how to create the script in .bash_profile, as I will use a function for it, and then just run the function in the terminal. However, what I'm missing are the actual strings to enable the following:

Displaying of Bluetooth icon
Displaying of Volume icon
Displaying of battery percentage
Displaying of full date

Are any of these programmatically settable by using Defaults, and have they changed a great deal between 10.6-10.13?

Ok, based on what IconDeamon said in the comments section for this post, I was able to go and edit ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.systemuiserver.plist and was able to see a list of menus that I have enabled.

However, this does not necessarily take me to the place I want to go to. Ideally, it'd be good to find a list and be able to solve this. I mean, okay, now, thanks to help on this forum, I know that the ones I wish to display are:

/System/Library/CoreServices/Menu Extras/Script Menu.menu

/System/Library/CoreServices/Menu Extras/RemoteDesktop.menu

/System/Library/CoreServices/Menu Extras/Bluetooth.menu

/System/Library/CoreServices/Menu Extras/TimeMachine.menu

/System/Library/CoreServices/Menu Extras/AirPort.menu

/System/Library/CoreServices/Menu Extras/TextInput.menu

/System/Library/CoreServices/Menu Extras/Battery.menu

/System/Library/CoreServices/Menu Extras/Volume.menu

/System/Library/CoreServices/Menu Extras/Clock.menu

and that the menu can have a _5 or a _3 at the end to signify where it should go. But..? It's not exactly a user-writable textfile I can just edit.


texts:
i recently just upgraded to osx lion(july 30 here). Today I just received a receipt from itunes of my purchase with the receipt date as 01/08/11.

I have read about recurring charges from apple about this but not for credit card(i think the problem was paypal). I immediately double checked my account and sure enough there was only 1 purchase.

Im still paranoid though. I am in  the philippines and I wouldn't want to call their US number(maybe only as a last resort). Was this just a matter of the receipt email being a week late? or is it a real double charge?


texts: Show Space/Desktop Number in Mac OS X Lion in Desktop Top Bar

texts:
In Snow Leopard, it was possible to display the space number in the top right corner of the status bar.

How do you do that in Lion with Mission Control?


texts: My old MBPs motherboard has a faulty HDD connector, are there any other places on the motherboard I could connect storage to?

texts:
Right now I'm making a persistent Linux usb stick. I don't like the idea having the USB stick plugged in all the time and possibly losing my work if it gets jostled. Is there a work around that will allow me to place a USB stick inside my macbook where the HDD would go?

Or, could the OS X recovery partition be used as a persistent OS?


texts: file content loss "Zero bytes size" on Mac OS X El Capitan

texts:
I occasionally find empty files instead of more or less important documents.  Fortunately no real damage so far because I have many backup systems (including good old paper).

The file exists with its name intact but the content is empty. The file is displayed by the finder with "Zero bytes size" (to be correct: it should be "Zero byte size").

The file type is usually jpg or pdf.  These are the types I include in LaTeX documents and refer to with Unix hard links (ln).

I have been tracking this problem for a long time but found no explanation and no way to reproduce systematically.

I even wrote a script in order to detect the replacement of a full file by an empty file with the same name at backup but yet could not pin it down.

Has anyone noticed the same phenomenon?


texts: MacBook Pro Keyboard Backlight Error Icon?

texts:
When I use the Keyboard Backlight buttons (F5 and F6) I get this error icon?

https://ibb.co/bwod2T


texts: Whats the last OS X that supported Power PC?

texts: I still have an old Power PC machine and was wondering what the latest OS X build I can install on it?


texts: Recover deleted user data — user deleted via System Prefs with “Delete home folder”

texts:
Earlier today, I deleted a user (through the Users and Groups pane in System Preferences), and of the options “Keep home folder”/“Move home folder to deleted users”/“Delete home folder”, I chose “Delete home folder”.

Unfortunately, I realised afterwards that I hadn’t copied all the data I wanted from the account — I’d copied the “Documents” folder, but had forgotten I had some images in “Pictures” on that account that I didn’t have elsewhere.

Is there a good way to recover the deleted files, in this scenario? The only advice I can find from googling is to use third-party file recovery software; reviews of these vary widely, and most of them are fairly expensive, so I’d like to get informed advice before spending my money.

I’m on Catalina 10.15.3, if that’s relevant.  I’m very happy with using commandline tools if they can be helpful here.


texts: Loop. Can't installing High Sierra clean from USB

texts:
I recently installed an SSD hard drive for my Mac Mini, and all fine until I've tried to do a clean installation of High Sierra via USB. What I've done is download the installer to usb memory stick by following the steps described in this tutorial:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVkMvO60SAs

that is, configuring the pen through Terminal, etc, etc ...

Once formatted the new SSD in APSC format, from the Utilities menu of MacOs I click "install High Sierra" and after several minutes of loading bars with apparent normality, finally it goes to a black screen with the apple and a load bar that never complete, and after that, it comes back to the previous menu of MacOs Utilities as if nothing had happened. And so in loop again and again.

How can I proceed with the installation from here?


texts: Mail rules to play a sound only work for 'apply rules

texts:
Running latest Catalina, Apple Mail, etc.
I have a rule that says if (conditions) Play Sound (custom sound).
It works fine if I highlight a message already downloaded and 'apply rules'.
However, I never hear the sound when the message is first downloaded - even though there are subsequent moves of the message from a following rule with the same conditions, i.e., the message IS moved.
Is this a bug, or is there something I am not understanding?


texts:
I'm using a Mac at my new job and I often want to have a clear view of my desktop quickly. So far I've bound the Exposé - Desktop function to my mouse and it works okay, but the moment I want to just bring one app back from the dock, they all come back and it's frustrating.

Is there a way to show my desktop and actually put all my apps in the dock, kind of like the bottom right corner of Windows 7/8? There is this restriction that I can't install anything on my work machine. If there's nothing in Yosemite, will there be something in El Capitan?


texts: Exporting the filepath of all music files to a text file

texts:
I'd love to know the syntax within Terminal to export the filename and path of all my music of various types (I have legacy Windows .wma files too). I'd presumably export those file to a .txt or .xls file and sort by path.

My ultimate problem is my music is in many different folders (somewhere between 3 and 10 main places) and contain many duplicates - like 40GB of duplicates. I keep wasting time with software that doesn't work, but if I know where all the music is located (and exactly how big the files are), I can know how to better attack the problem - i.e., maybe I'll just drag them to a Windows machine (via a HD or Dropbox) where their folder merge options work better.


texts: Can't install macOS on macbook air a1237

texts:
I bought a macbook air with ubuntu on it and now I want to install macOS and I cant do it.
I tried installing High Sierra, Catalina, Snow Leopard, Mavericks and Mojave (show Apple logo when i start install) and I can't even get in recovery mode.
Can anybody can help me?


texts: Can I hide the sync icon in the menu bar on Lion?

texts:
This menu bar icon is useless and takes up space.

I use iCloud on Mac OS X Lion to sync contacts, calendars, and the like. On Snow Leopard I could use an option in the iSync preferences to remove this icon from my menu bar, but iSync isn't around anymore. Is there any way to get rid of it?


texts: Installation of El Capitan on Intel Core Duo taking so far 2 days. What can I do?

texts:
I am installing OS X El Capitan on a Mid 2009 MacBook Pro. Previously running an OS X 10.8.5. Incidentally my installation is taking now two days. I have tried holding down the power button but still no difference. It resumes where it stopped I feel frustrated and I want to return to my previous operation system. What can I do? Does it mean my machine has crashed? have I lost or can I recover my work? Making matters worse I can't tell what percentage of installation achieved? Apart from the bar that has moved from 0% up to around 75% and it's stagnant at that level. I am confused on what to do.

Any assistance?


texts: How to disable the physical sim and only use the eSIM on iPhone XS/iPhone XS Max?

texts:
I'm wondering if there is a way to turn off the Physical sim and use only the eSim on my iPhone XS Max. I travel a lot and I'm loving the use of eSIM.

I understand that I can turn off the eSIM if its required, but I wanted to know if there was any way to turn the Physical Sim off and leave only the eSim ON.

Note - I have an unlocked iPhone XS Max.


texts: 64 bit support with a 32 bit kernel in OS X Snow Leopard

texts:
I know that many apple laptops such as my Macbook 6,1 run a 32 bit kernel in OS X Snow Leopard. The kernel according to Apple can also run or "support" 64 bit applications. My question is how does the system do that?

A 64 bit OS can run 32 bit apps by default because the OS has emulators that catch all 32 bit calls and translate them into native 64 bit calls.

But how does the 32 bit kernel in OS X do that with 64 bit?

Hardware architecture virtualization? (if so, wouldnt this be slow as the conversion from 32 bit calls and memory addresses to 64 bit is a lot more intensive?)
Hybrid architecture design (i.e the kernel is designed with some 64 bit elements mixed in with the mostly 32 bit design?)

Apple docs and support doesnt seem to have anything specific on this. I am just curious!


texts: What are the "sleepimage" and "swapfile" documents?

texts: I was using Disk Inventory X and found a file called sleepimage in /private/var/vm/ It takes up 4 GB! I also found numerous other files in the same folder called swapfile0 swapfile1, etc. What are they and are they safe to delete so I can free up space? (almost 10 GB)


texts: Can an AppleTV wake a Snow Leopard Mac for playing back iTunes content?

texts:
Is it possible to have an Apple TV wake a WiFi connected iMac running Snow Leopard for playback of iTunes content?

I vaguely remember a new revision of the AirPort routers supporting this through Bonjour Sleep proxy, but I couldn't find real details on this on apple.com, other than a support document. I couldn't quite follow the final flow from the users perspective.


texts:
We can enable SFTP on our MacOS by going into System Preferences -> Sharing -> Remote Login

This works fine and we can easily connect to our local server by sftp localhost and then provide the password of the current user.

Now, some professional FTP Servers, allow you to connect to the FTP server by using a SSH key. (so you don't have to enter username/password).

https://www.cerberusftp.com/products/features/public-key-authentication/

I wonder if the SFTP server on MacOS can also be configured to authenticate users using keys rather than raw username/password.


texts: Is there a Mac equivalent to Windows 7's library feature?

texts:
Having several related files in different folders, I was looking for a way to combine them in the same view,  like the "Libraries" of Windows Explorer in Win7.

While Finder has great smart folder capabilities, I don't see any way to do this? Third-party tools are welcome.


texts: iMac stuck upgrading to macOS High Sierra

texts:
I am upgrading my iMac to macOS High Sierra, however it has been stuck at 28 seconds remaining for a long time now. Is there any way to resume setup without losing downloaded files?

The install log is as follows, along with the upgrade screenshot:

Apr  5 01:11:02 iMac InstallAssistant[10020]: Hardware: iMac14,1 @ 2.70 GHz (x 4), 8192 MB RAM
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Apr  5 07:56:11 iMac softwareupdated[398]: BackgroundActions: Automatic checking disabled
Apr  5 07:56:11 iMac softwareupdated[398]: BackgroundActivity: Finished Background Check Activity
Apr  5 07:56:11 iMac softwareupdate_notify_agent[401]: Handling notification event: UpdatesAvailable
Apr  5 07:56:11 iMac softwareupdate_notify_agent[401]: AssertionMgr: Take com.apple.softwareupdate.NotifyAgentAssertion-UpdatesAvailable assertion with type BackgroundTask for pid 401, id 0x869A
Apr  5 07:56:11 iMac softwareupdate_notify_agent[401]: Waiting 60 seconds before sending the notification to App Store
Apr  5 07:57:11 iMac softwareupdate_notify_agent[401]: Notifying with params: {
        AutomaticCheckDisabled = 1;
        SoftwareUpdateCount = 2;
        SoftwareUpdatesAvailable = 1;
        UpdatesRequireRestart = 1;
    }
Apr  5 07:57:11 iMac softwareupdate_notify_agent[401]: appstoreupdateagent notified
Apr  5 07:57:11 iMac softwareupdate_notify_agent[401]: AssertionMgr: Cancel com.apple.softwareupdate.NotifyAgentAssertion-UpdatesAvailable assertion for pid 401, id 0x869A
Apr  5 09:24:17 iMac osinstallersetupd[10026]: Is solid state disk returned: -69808
Apr  5 09:24:17 iMac osinstallersetupd[10026]: isConvertableToAPFS: was called on a APFS disk.
Apr  5 09:24:17 iMac osinstallersetupd[10026]: Target is not convertible to APFS: This volume is not formatted as Mac OS Extended (Journaled).


texts: SmoothDraw Alternative to Make Videos like Khan Academy

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I want to make educational videos like Khan Academy on my Mac. I am looking for a good app that works just like SmoothDraw -- which is what Khan Academy uses. I have found apps that let me draw on the screen using a tablet, however I have not found one that lets me scroll the "whiteboard" down in the way SmoothDraw does.

What app would you recommend as the equivalent of SmoothDraw for the Mac?


texts: Is it possible to copy iPhone data to Mac using Xcode?

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I connected my iphone to a my friend Mac which running Xcode to debug an app. After plugging, I clicked "Trust [this computer]" and it took some time to detect the device in Xcode. While debugging, he opened a window which I saw my photos on my device and he switched back again to debug window.

After fixing the app bug, I asked him to un-sync my device and he told me your data is just synced with itunes and when you unplug your device, I cannot see your data (photos) any more.

Actually, I am not convinced and I am thinking wherther he copied my iPhone data including my photos to his computer or not. I am sure he did not use iTunes during this process.

Can anybody tell me it is possible to copy iPhone data to Mac during Xcode debugging?


texts: Why are "People" different between macOS and iOS Photos?

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I had assumed that macOS and iOS photos would be synchronized through iCloud (assuming all iCloud features are enabled) but the people I see in "People" on iOS are not the same as the ones I see on macOS.

As of today, iOS has spent days finding people and has nearly completed the process, but when I look in Photos on macOS, I see two contradictory things, neither of which is very comforting:

Photos on macOS says it is just starting to scan for people, even though the process on iOS is nearly complete, and
Photos on macOS shows a different but larger set of people (with different photos, completely different numbers, and names, connected to contacts, which iOS lacks).

This is unexpected, since Photos is synced through iCloud.

What's going on here:

Why do Photos need to be scanned again for faces on macOS, even though they've already been scanned on iOS?
Why are there already Faces in macOS; and why are they different?
Why isn't iOS aware of the name sand contact entries associated with the people they do share (at least by actual person)?

Why are "People" different between macOS and iOS Photos (and how does that make any sense)?


texts: Why do I get different results for my IP when I type google "What is my IP" and when I type in macOS' terminal "ifconfig |grep inet"?

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I get different results for my IP when I type google "What is my IP" and when I type in macOS' terminal ifconfig |grep inet

Why are these results different on macOS version 10.13.2 High Sierra?


texts: SecurtiyAgent process offload work to SecurityAgentHelper

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Projects like Nomad-login (or nowadays Jamf-connect) use to modify the mechanism list in system.login.console authorizationRight.
I see that non-privileged mechanisms runs by SecurityAgent process, but it can sometimes delegate another process called SecurityAgentHelper which is an xpc service.
I wonder if the role of process SecurityAgentHelper is to serve as fallback to SecurityAgent and under what conditions does it offload task for the helper process.
Thanks !


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I've just got my new 2011 iMac (OS X 10.6.8), but connecting my HP LP2475w via a mini DisplayPort to DisplayPort cable leads to a very fuzzy screen. It's the correct resolution and refresh rate (1920x1200, 60Hz), and size-wise, everything looks fine on the monitor. However, everything, especially the text, looks horribly blurry. It's almost as if the iMac is outputting a 1920x1199 image or something, and the display is stretching it slightly. Like what used to happen with old CRT monitors when you set the image 1px too tall/wide.

Here's an image of what I see

And here's how it should look

Does anyone know what the issue could be?

Thanks!


texts: How can I resize an image within a table in Pages

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After adding an image (jpeg) to a table cell, I cannot resize it. The table is not locked, all arrange options are greyed out. If I triple click the image, it gets a blue bounding box but has no resize handles. I cannot resize the table cell itself; dragging a handle has no effect.

You can reproduce the problem by creating a new document based on the invoice template, inserting an image from Insert -> Choose into a selected table cell.

Pages version is 8.2.1 on MacOS 10.15.2

This question does not help


texts: Preview shortcuts to select editor tabs by index

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I am trying to switch rapidly back and forth between two related Preview tabs (different versions of a research paper). In other applications I would do this by selecting Command-[TabNumber]  e.g. Command-3 then Command-4 then back to Command-3.

What is the equivalent in Preview?  I did look at the help https://support.apple.com/guide/preview/preview-keyboard-shortcuts-on-mac-cpprvw0003/mac
 and also just tried a number of combinations without luck.


texts: Is there any app for electronic signature solution?

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Is there any app for signing the documents (PDFs) by electronic signature?

Similar to on-line solutions such as HelloSign, EchoSign, XolidoSign, eSignly, DocuSign, Signsquid, RightSignature, PDFFiller or free Fill and Sign PDF Forms (Android app), but as an application for OSX.