texts: Finder copies files in two steps and does it as a transaction

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I need to organize thousands of files between different locations and there is an unpleasant issue with file copying from a local computer to a NAS. The problem is that Finder copies large bunch of files in two steps. In the first step it creates all those files in the destination location for a some reason, they are all empty there. It's a lengthy process. In the second step Finder actually starts copying content. It takes even more time. It looks like a transaction. Finder copies all files or nothing. But I don't need a transaction. In my opinion, a more common way is to copy files sequentially, one by one (or in a small groups). It's faster, it allows user to cancel copying in any time and prevents him from losing progress in operation.
Is there any way to prevent Finder from doing such a transactionality and make it copy files sequentially in one step?

Local computer: MacBook Pro, OS X 10.10.4 (Yosemite).
NAS: homebuilt server, FreeBSD 10.1 and Samba 4.2

ps: I do know about the alternative ways to copy files (console, file managers). My question is about the Finder and OS X behavior.


texts: Old folder icon in Google Drive app on OS 10.10 Yosemite

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Have this little problem, anyone knows how to fix it? Update the app didn't help. Tnx!

So, with the help of @John the solution finds me. Thanks again!
As for new icon I used this from dribble. Hope this post helps someone else!


texts: Pair Apple Magic Keyboard with wireless dongle

texts: Is it possible to pair an Apple Wireless Magic Keyboard with a USB receiver? I want this so that if I plug a laptop into my dock, the laptop will automatically connect to the keyboard (Not with Bluetooth)...


texts: Sharing only one workspace in remote meetings

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We use bluejeans & zoom at work. I often have different tabs and don't like closing everything. I'd prefer to open a new workspace for meetings and then be able to shift back and forth but let users see my old workspace. Is it possible to share only one workspace through some mac setting when I share my mac screen?
I am on catalina and I use a 2018 macbook pro if that matters.


texts: How to include recent security patch (APFS plain password vulnerability) into already downloaded macOS High Sierra installer image?

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Several hours ago Apple released a fix update for macOS that solves the issue with "Vulnerability Exposes Password of Encrypted APFS Volumes in Plain Text".

My question is:

Straight when High Sierra became available I pulled the Installer (last icon in the bottom right corner).

I assume that this files does NOT have recent patch included since it was downloaded before the fix was created / released. Now pretend that I will make a bootable USB flash drive and install this version of High Sierra in another MacBook. To get the fix I will pave to go to App Store and search for updates but what if (in theory) I won't have internet connection on that Mac?

Exact question:
How to always get installer with recent fixes? Should I remove that file from /Applications and re-download it each time new minor version (10.13.X) will be released?

On my main Mac I noticed that High Sierra is versioned as 10.13 but after installing the update the version stayed unchanged. It's not 10.13.1.


texts: How to confirm Finder's rename prompt using the keyboard?

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Using the keyboard, how can I confirm the rename prompt from Finder?

If I press return/enter the “Keep .doc” option is selected. Using the keyboard arrows ←, ↑, → and ↓ doesn't seems to help. Neither the tab key.


texts: "Ineligible" iCloud Songs on iOS devices

texts: I have some mp3's ripped from a language CD, "Lesson 1", "Lesson 2" and so forth. Some of them are uploaded to iCloud with iTunes Match, for some it says "Ineligible". I don't really need them in the cloud, but on my iOS devices. How do I get them there, as the music sync is disabled when iTunes Match is turned on?


texts: Siri thinks the city on my Facebook is one of my home addresses

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When I want to use Siri involving my home address, such as navigate home or remind me something when I get home, it always asks me to clarify "which home address?" It gives one option that is the home address I put in my contact card in Contacts (it lists the street name and number), and it has another home address (it doesn't list anything, but I believe it's referring to an address that it imported from being connected to Facebook, and that address just has the city (not the street).

I don't want Siri to think that the Facebook entry is something to ask me about every time. What can I do to fix this? I'd rather not erase the city I have in Facebook. And I'd rather not erase the home address I have on the phone and put my full home address in Facebook. Seems like a basic thing.


texts: ExFat usb hdd do not appear in disk utility or in /dev/disk*

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I have to MacBooks (both on 10.15.7):

MacBook Air 2015 year
MackBook Pro 2018 year

And two HDD drivers:

ExFat
Mac Journaled

And Mac Journaled works perfectly with both MacBooks(which means that USB ports working fine on Air). However, ExFat one can only be seen on Pro (Which means that ExFat drive is not corrupted)
When I plug ExFat into Air -- nothing happens. I can't see it in /dev/disk* and in Disk utility. But disk is working (led is on and it is vibrating)
I tried restarting and resetting NVRAM it hasn't helped
Can someone suggest a possible solution, please?


texts: Installed Windows 8.1 on Mac Air withouth Bootcamp drivers

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During the installation, Mac asked to install Bootcamp drivers, but I chose to skip this step and just install Windows. However, now Windows does not work well.

Some problems I've noticed are:

No sound
Bad video performance
No right-click functionality on trackpad

How can I install the drivers now, after having installed Windows 8.1?


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I have a 2008 macbook with a 2.1 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo.

I am in the process of upgrading to Lion.

I currently have 2GB 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM

What's the maximum amount of RAM I can put in and it have an effect?


texts: Two Clash of Clans accounts on one device

texts: I have been playing on two clash of clans accounts on one device for a long time but just recently i cannot switch from my lvl17 to my lvl75. The switch villages option is not popping up for me and I don't know why. Can anyone help me get my main account back?


texts: App that retains data between installations. iCloud Keychain has never been enabled

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I noticed that Pinterest app on my iPad (iPad 4, iOS 10.3.3) keeps log in credentials after delete/reinstall. As a iOS user and not a programmer, I managed to find out from some posts I could understand, that iOS apps can keep data between instalations on Keychain, iCloud or Dropbox.

Pinterest never asked for access on iCloud, Dropbox or similar cloud storage. I suppose it stocks login data in Keychain and do not delete it when uninstalling.

Please help me to understand: is it a local keychain that iOS apps can use, different from iCloud Keychain? Is it so that only the iCloud Keychain could be user enabled / disabled, the local keychain beeing an always on iOS feature that every app developer can use whithout requesting user permission?

I ask this because I never enabled iCloud Keychain on any of my iOS devices. Or does Pinterest app use other iOS feature that I don't read about to retain log in credentials?


texts: Mavericks to include better window management solution?

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Up until now, I have used a program called Stay to maintain my preferred location and sizing of all my apps.  My main use case is that I have two external displays that require me to rearrange my applications after unplugging the displays (which is quite common going to/fro meetings).

Since Mavericks is supposed to enhance the support for multi monitor setups, I was wondering if this new support eliminates the need for a third party solution.


texts: keyboard shortcut to lock screen doesn't work if finder menu visible

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I have a keyboard shortcut set for lockscreen - ctrl-shift-F15 but if the finder menu bar is visible, the shortcut doesn't work.  This is in El-Capitan on a macbook pro 2015 and I am using an external microsoft natural keyboard 4000.

I followed these steps in setting up the lockscreen shortcut:

http://www.macyourself.com/2013/01/27/how-to-lock-your-mac-screen-with-a-keyboard-shortcut

Thank you !


texts: Confused: Will Find My Mac work if the thief just did the hold ctrl and power button restore?

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Recently had my macbook pro stolen. It's a mid 2012 model with mountain lion so it can reset the OS by just by holding ctrl and the power button. I've done it many times myself so I know all they have to do is go erase the Mac HD and then reinstall OS.

I tried to use Find My Mac and it still says offline. It's been almost two weeks. I know there's a chance the thief just may not have turned it on yet but if all they did was erase my HD and reinstall OS, will Find My Mac stop working? I don't want to waste anymore time hoping to get it back if it's that easy to do so. Please help me out!

Someone please help..idk what to do. I've read on other questions that I still may have a chance, how?


texts: Can you only partition a hard drive once?

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I am trying to create two partitions on my fairly old macbook air (2015 macbook air running Yosemite 10.10.5) My goal is to be able to dual boot ubuntu and from what I've seen i need to partition part of the drive for ubuntu and then create another partition that is slightly larger than my ram. I assume I should be trying to change partition layout but its greyed out.
Here is the diskutil for @Jean_JD
/dev/disk0
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *251.0 GB   disk0
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s1
   2:          Apple_CoreStorage                         169.5 GB   disk0s2
   3:                 Apple_Boot Recovery HD             650.0 MB   disk0s3
   4:       Microsoft Basic Data UBUNTU                  80.6 GB    disk0s4
/dev/disk1
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:                  Apple_HFS Untitled               *169.1 GB   disk1
                                 Logical Volume on disk0s2
                                 232B9688-C0ED-4C8C-911D-E64019CA8B1F
                                 Unencrypted

Ive also tried partitioning untitled Mac os extended drive but I can only partition it once. Thank you for the help though everyone, I think I making a second partition for swap isn't needed for Ubuntu.


texts: Inconsistent color inversion on images on Mojave

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Is there any way to get consistent color inversion on images when inverting colors on a MacBook Pro 2012 using Mojave?
I use color inversion and light mode to get the darkest screen possible for extended periods of document editing, but some images (for example the apple.stackexchange symbol and the words 'Ask Different' at the head of the page here) revert to their standard colors and become difficult to read.
When it's just website headers there's no huge problem, however some online notes I have to read will periodically use images which refuse to invert relative to the background and thus become unreadable, for example

with the top image standard and the bottom image inverted. Is there any way to get all images to invert, regardless of their designation in the HTML/CSS code for a site?


texts: How to reset iPhone to factory settings from computer if screen doesn't work?

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I dropped the phone and the screen is not responding.
Before I take it to get it fixed I want to restore the iPhone to factory settings because I'm logged in on my apps, and I don't want the person fixing the phone to get access to my Facebook and other accounts.
I tried to turn it on again but the screen is not responding.

How can I reset my iPhone from computer if the screen doesn't work?


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Nothing serious but a bit irritating :)

A removable USB storage, formatted as FAT32 (actually this is an Android tablet but it doesn't seem to matter), is used on several Macs, all running the same OS (Mavericks) at the same patch level.

On one of the Macs, and only that one, when the media is inserted and the FS mounted, the first opened window (the top of the file hierearchy), displayed as a list, start to be displayed wedged at the bottom of the list (as if the window has been fully scrolled down). On all the other Macs it opens wedged at the top.

Other removable medias don't exhibit that behaviour on the "different" Mac (they start listed from the begin, at the top, the opening window is not scrolled down).

Why? How?
How can we get rid of that?

All this has been ineffective:
- The window has been thoroughly scrolled up before ejecting the media.
- Changing and reverting the order and/or the sorting of the file list in the window before ejecting has no effect, switching to icon or column view and reverting is no more successful.
- The file hierarchy of the media has been cleaned (._* files, .Trashes/, .fseventsd/, etc. have been wiped).
The Finder Preferences seem to be the same across all the Macs.

Any trick or hint where this may be tweacked, cached, sticked?
On the Media? on "the" Mac? buried in the filesystem or in the preferences?

Thank you for your answers.


texts: Is there a scale indicator bar for the Maps app on iPad?

texts:
I'm using Google Maps in the Maps app on my iPad but I cannot find a scale bar.
Where is the scale bar for Google Maps in the native Maps app on an iPad?


texts:
I am wanting to know if it’s possibly to see a MacBook password without changing it.

Is this possible?


texts:
In the Windows server world, when you connect a computer to a Domain, you have the option of logging into the computer locally if there are local accounts.

Consider this scenario:
I have a Mac with a local admin username called "localusername." I then set up the Mac to use the local Open Directory Master for logins. I then want to login to the Mac as "localusername."

Is that possible?

Here's a second scenario:
I have a Mac with a local admin username called "spandex." I then set up the Mac to use the local Open Directory Master for logins. I then set up an Open Directory user with the username "spandex." I then want to login to the Mac as the LOCAL instance of "spandex."

Is that possible?

Thanks to everyone!


texts: How to delete all photos from iCloud library without having to manually delete every 1000 items?

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I have a friend which has 2 TB of media data. I backed it up to my PC and now I want to delete all files from iCloud so that she has free space again, but I am restricted to delete 1000 items at a time. She has more than 400.000 files so this is a time consuming task...

Is it really designed that stupid or is there an easy way to delete all media?


texts: How to use different contacts on different iPhones with the same Apple ID

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My daughter and I use two iPhones, both connected to the same Apple ID. At the moment I see my daughter's contacts merged to my contact list, but we'd like to use our contact lists separately from each other.

I met the similar issue when I set up FaceTime, however that issue was resolved by using different emails in FaceTime settings. It looks like I can't solve the issue with contacts the same way.

Does anybody know how to use different contacts on different iPhones with the same Apple ID?


texts: MacBook (mid-2012) stuck on white screen

texts:
So I casually shut down my MacBook on Thursday night using the normal configuration. After a while when I switched it back on, a white screen appeared and that was the end of it. Later, a black screen appeared and asked me to hit Ctrl+Alt+Delete, but upon pressing those keys nothing happened, so then I restarted my laptop in Internet Recovery Mode from where I deleted my Windows OS from the BootCamp and then tried reinstalling the Mac OS (Yosemite).  The installation progress happens just fine until it gets to the last 3 minutes, where the progress bar gets stuck. Upon checking the Installer Log, it seems like the computer keeps running into various kinds of errors such as: "Could not find package ref", and "Chunk download failed, retrying". I left my laptop overnight to continue with the progress, and the installation was just stuck. HELP!!!!

P.S. I was running High Sierra and Windows 10 prior to this issue.


texts: How to combine "Choose folder command" with "adding folder items" function with Applescript

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I'm using a folder action to create a "hot" folder, which immediately duplicates the files placed in this folder to a specific backup folder.

This is the script I'm using as folder action and it works fine:

on adding folder items to this_folder after receiving these_items
   tell application "Finder" to duplicate these_items to folder
   ("Macintosh HD:Users:photograper:Desktop:Target:")
end adding folder items to

But I want to run this folder action like a normal applescript and trigger the "adding folder items" function  with a "Choose folder" command. So I can manually point a specific source and target folder and get the script running.

I tried this, but no result:

set this_folder to choose folder with prompt "Select source folder:"
with multiple selections allowed
set target_folder to choose folder with prompt "Select backup folder:"

on adding folder items to this_folder after receiving these_items
   tell application "Finder" to duplicate these_items to target_folder
end adding folder items to

Any suggestions how to combine the two parts of scripting together so they can interact?

Thanks!

Patrick


texts:
In Chrome, when I download a file with an extension that the OS doesn't recognize (in this case, .erb, the dialog defaults to appending .txt to the end of it. I highlight the .txt and delete it before hitting save, but then I open the directory and find foo.erb.txt where I should find foo.erb.

How do I get the system to save the file with the extension I told it to?


texts: Configure: error: clang version 3.0 or later is required - but I already have it

texts:
I'm trying to follow this RVM installation guide, supposedly for Snow Leopard 10.6.8 (I should point out that $ rvm -v returns -bash: rvm: command not found), but when I run $ curl -L https://get.rvm.io | bash -s stable --auto-dotfiles --autolibs=enable --rails it ends in this

Error running './configure --prefix=/Users/mac/.rvm/rubies/ruby-2.2.0 --with-opt-dir=/usr/local/opt/libyaml:/usr/local/opt/readline:/usr/local/opt/libksba:/usr/local/opt/openssl --disable-install-doc --enable-shared',
showing last 15 lines of /Users/mac/.rvm/log/1427567557_ruby-2.2.0/configure.log
[2015-03-28 15:33:08] ./configure
current path: /Users/mac/.rvm/src/ruby-2.2.0
PATH=/usr/local/opt/pkg-config/bin:/usr/local/opt/libtool/bin:/usr/local/opt/automake/bin:/usr/local/opt/autoconf/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/bin:/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/bin:/usr/bin/python:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/opt/X11/bin:/usr/local/git/bin:/usr/X11/bin:/Users/mac/.rvm/bin
command(5): ./configure --prefix=/Users/mac/.rvm/rubies/ruby-2.2.0 --with-opt-dir=/usr/local/opt/libyaml:/usr/local/opt/readline:/usr/local/opt/libksba:/usr/local/opt/openssl --disable-install-doc --enable-shared
config.guess already exists
config.sub already exists
checking build system type... i386-apple-darwin10.8.0
checking host system type... i386-apple-darwin10.8.0
checking target system type... i386-apple-darwin10.8.0
i686-apple-darwin10-gcc-4.2.1: error trying to exec 'cc1': execvp: No such file or directory
i686-apple-darwin10-gcc-4.2.1: error trying to exec 'cc1': execvp: No such file or directory
configure: error: clang version 3.0 or later is required
There has been an error while running configure. Halting the installation.

Then I ran:

$ which clang
/usr/bin/clang
$ clang -v
Apple clang version 3.0 (tags/Apple/clang-211.10.1) (based on LLVM 3.0svn)
Target: x86_64-apple-darwin10.8.0
Thread model: posix

I keep getting the same error message when I try to install RVM, even after restarting. There's clearly something weird about the fact that the target is 10.8.0 and that is not even addressed in the guide, so I really need actual help with this.

Updating my OS isn't an option so please don't bring that up.


texts: Is it safe to use my Indian MacBook Pro charger in America using a simple adapter?

texts: I am using a local adapter to use my Indian MacBook charger in the US. I am wondering is it safe to use so.


texts: Can I ask Time Machine to backup only some data to a smaller disk?

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I have two backup hard discs for Time Machine: 1.5TB, and 1TB. My backup fits in 1.5TB, but Time Machine sometimes complains that it can't backup to the 1TB disk, because the space is not enough.

Can I ask it to automatically select only some directories to back up, instead of failing to back up? I still want everything backed up to the 1.5TB disc.

I'm not using the 1TB hard disc, anyway, so I would like to backup some data to it rather than none, in case both my computer and the 1.5TB hard disc fail.


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I have a guest staying in my apartment and I would like her to use my iMac as guest. But when she boots it, she sees only the login to my account and cannot find any reference to the guest account.  How does she find the login to the guest account?

(iMac late 2015 OS updated recently)


texts: How can I search the iPad only apps/games on iTunes?

texts:
I can browse the iPad apps/games but they are often also iPhone/iPod. How can I search only among the iPad apps/games and not iPhone/iPod apps/games?

Is there any filter os something in iTunes?


texts: Using Terminal to truncate filenames in directory

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I have about a thousand jpegs in a directory that have filenames such as

1300-Kazoo-Pkg.jpg
1314-Learn-to-Play-Piano-withKid.jpg
1314-Learn-to-Play-Piano.jpg

I want to shorten them to the numbers before the first hyphen.

I have tried using for f in *.jpg; do mv "$f" "${f/-*.}"; done but I can't figure out what to add to get done what I want done.

Any suggestions?


texts: Can I change the role of a particular key on mac?

texts: Can I assign a functionality to a particular key in the keyboard , specifically I don't want enter to be used for renaming rather than opening a file or document , can I assign the functionality by my own ?


texts: Logitech wireless mouse not working with gigabit ethernet adapter plugged in?

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I am seeing baffling behavior with my wireless mouse (connected via USB) and my gigabit ethernet adapter plugged in simultaneously.

If my mouse is plugged in and working fine, if I plug in my gigabit ethernet adapter (even without the ethernet port plugged in) to EITHER thunderbolt port, my Logitech m510 mouse stops working completely.

I have plugged in my external monitor to both thunderbolt ports, and it doesn't affect my mouse at all. What the hell is going on here?


texts: How to download an iPhone backup from iCloud to my Mac?

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I recently switched to a new phone.  I’d like to delete the back up of my old iPhone from iCloud to save space there.  However, I’m a little paranoid about backups and data loss, so I’d like to download the old backup first and retain it on my Mac or an external hard disk.

The only options I’ve found are proprietary third-party software, which (a)  is pricey and (b) raises security/privacy issues, since it sounds like they (not surprisingly) need to handle your Apple ID credentials.  Is there any way to download iPhone backups from iCloud to a Mac, without closed-source proprietary software?

An ideal solution would be an official Apple tool (commandline tools are fine with me); open-source third-party software would also be better than closed-source; or software provided through the App store would be OK, since that implies at least some minimal security auditing (as I understand).


texts:
HyperSwitch Alt+Tab behaviour stopped working 2-3 days ago. It simply does nothing.
I haven't changed my HyperSwitch's preferences and I don't remember installing or updating anything that would create a conflict.
However cmd+tab window preview is working, so the app is clearly up and running.

Is anyone experiencing the same problem? Or everything works well?
I have already contacted the creator of the app to get some support.

Meanwhile, is there any free app with the same Alt+Tab window scrolling feature?


texts: external hard disk was vanished after updating Mavericks OS!

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After accomplishing a clean Mavericks OS installation on my MBP, I've plugged my external hard disk (HD), with USB, and it was working fine. It should be noted that, the external HDD has NTFS format. After few hours, I have updated the OS as it was requested. But now, after updating the OS, the external HD doesn't show up in the finder, desktop or disk utility.
 I have checked it with another laptop and found out, there is no problem with external HD.

Update: I have even installed Paragon, which allows to write on NTFS disks, but it didn't solve the problem.

How can I fix it?


texts: How should I use Two Step and/or Two Factor authentication with many Apple accounts?

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I have the following accounts

A personal iCloud account that secures my keychain / Facetime
A personal iTunes account
A work developer account for the App Store (not shared, I exclusively use it)

Question

How can I enable Two Step, or Two Factor for more than one accounts above?

Background

I have a mid-2012 Retina, a 2016 MacBook Pro, Watch 2, and iPhone 7.

I use the same iCloud account on all devices, therefore I can only use two factor authentication for one account listed above.

When I try to reenabled "two step" authentication for the other accounts, I don't see the option anymore within the idmsa portal.

How do I enable either 2 step, or 2 factor in the above scenarios?


texts: Why the launchd has multiple instances per user (not only me and root, but also _spotlight and _windowserver)?

texts:
I found that the launchd process has multiple instances in the process list. What is looking interesting is that there are four users under which these launchd processes are running:

root
< current_user[i.e. me] >
_windowserver
_spotlight

As described in Apple's docs (Creating Launch Daemons and Agents), launchd will be launched per user. But why are the users which requires launchd such as _spotlight and _windowserver. I would expect only root and <current_user[i.e. me]>. Why both users (_spotlight and _windowserver) require the launchd? I would appreciate for any references to Apple docs or any other resources.

the process parent-child relations are as following:

kernel_task(0,root) -> launchd(1,root) -> launchd(130, _windowserver)
                                       -> launchd(150, <current_user[i.e. me]>)
                                       -> launchd(470, _spotlight)


texts: Why is my /usr/local/bin only accessible by root user? Which rights to fix it?

texts:
I recently wanted to use pod to update the path of a framework.

Cocoapods is installed and can be find here :

/usr/local/bin/

But surprise! It is set to root only access :

ls -l /usr/local
drwx------   504    wheel  bin/
drwxr-xr-x@  john   staff  include/
drwxr-xr-x@  john   staff  lib/
drwxr-xr-x   root   wheel  share/

So I can't use pod because in any case :

pod install realm

  heeeyy dude, you can't access pod cause you are not root .!.

sudo pod install realm

  heeeyy dude, you can’t use pod as a root! .!.

I feel that this folder shouldn't be set as 'root only' because:

It is in the env PATH of the usr
gem install pod in it?
http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Filesystem-Hierarchy/html/usr.html basically says :

  '/usr/local' is widely regarded as a good place in which to keep self-compiled or third-party programs.

I know Linux isn't a BSD but still, it doesn't look that much different no o.O

Finally here are my questions:

I searched and there is no user with the uid 504, is this suspicious?

(I checked it with ""dscacheutil -q user | grep 504"")

What are suposed to be the rights and owner on the folder?
Is there someone who had the same problem?
Any idea about why this happened?


texts: Why don't accepted event invitations through MS Exchange show up in iCal?

texts:
I'm using Lion's iCal and Mail.app, and I've started working in a company where everyone uses MS Exchange. I haven't connected iCal to Exchange. When I receive an event invitation (sent with Outlook) by email in Mail.app, I get the normal options of Maybe/Decline/Accept. When I click Accept, the sender is notified and the email is moved to the Trash. But the event itself does not show up in iCal.

I've poked around a little already. The entire invitation email is base64 encoded and has a vCal attachment with the event. When I manually base64-decode the attachment and put it into a file, I can double-click it, and it gets imported into iCal.

But I guess this is supposed to work automatically when I click Accept. Of course, in Mail.app's prefs, the "Add invitations to iCal" setting is set to "Automatically".

Is there a way to make this work properly?


texts: Bluetooth connection to Sony Bluetooth Headphones (Macbook Pro 2014 / iPhone 6s)

texts:
I've purchased set of Sony Headphones (WH1000XM2).

They are great, but I can't figure out how to have two simultaneous connections with my MacBook and iPhone.  The headphones will connect to either individually but not at the same time.  I want to have it that I can listen to music on the Mac, and answer a call on the phone when it comes in.  I have tried this with a PC and iPhone and it's fine.

I believe I need to create a A2DP connection on the Mac, and a HFP connection on the iPhone. That's based on the info here - http://helpguide.sony.net/mdr/wh1000xm2/v1/en/contents/TP0001513163.html

I've downloaded Apple's Bluetooth Explorer and tried various settings related to "Disable Hands-free profile" and "aptX" but nothing works. I’m at the stage where I’m testing random permutations as I don’t understand the options.

Does anyone know if this can be done?  Headphones will be going back if not.


texts: Why can't I set a metadata content provider on Plex?

texts:
There's no Set Content button when I add a media source in Plex (0.9.3.4) to select a metadata provider.

I've installed Plex on a Mac Mini running Lion and added a content source.  To add the source, I went to Video Plugins -> Add Source.  I added a folder called movies from my smb share by clicking Browse, selecting the folder, and clicking OK.

Now all tutorials and screenshots I've seen show a "Set Content" button on the Add Video Source menu, and this button allows you to set a metadata content provider.  I see all the buttons (Browse, Add, Remove, OK, Cancel) except Set Content.

How do I set a metadata provider for Plex if there's no Set Content button?


texts: Is it possible to identify what the parent program/app is from a running process?

texts:
I'm able to find processes using top or ps. That's no problem.

Sometimes I find that some processes are taking up a lot of memory or cpu and I'm trying to identify what the root program is.

For instance, the process sort sometimes just ends up taking 2-3 gigs of memory over like 4 hours. I'd like to know what program initiated the sort process so I can try and fix it.


texts:
Can I see the history of what I've typed into Spotlight?

If not on default macOS, are there third-party apps that will add this?

I want to be able to look back through things I've searched for, I use Spotlight for things like translations and so on and it' since to be able to refer back to past searches to jog my memory.


texts:
Long story short, I downloaded a file as a replacement for an app that no longer works on Catalina (macOS 10.15). This file is locked, and I cannot chmod it to let me unlock it. Even sudo fails.

I need to delete this file. How can I delete it? It doesn't seem I can...


texts: Does "Group Message" mean that all recipients would "see" each other?

texts:
I was wondering if I send a message to two (or more) people using iOS5, will the message automatically be a "Group Message"?

So, does that mean that in the above picture, John would know that I've sent "msg" to Peter, and Peter would know that I've sent "msg" to John?


texts: Do you get notifications for new email from your other Gmail accounts?

texts:
I am new to iOS and from Android I am used to getting (g)mail notifications for all of my accounts. I have 4 connected to the Gmail app, though I only get notifications for the main one (the one I added first and is on default everytime I open the app). I checked the notification setting but there is nothing to configure. Is there a way to get notifications for every account?
I've seen one post here from about 8 years ago but I'm not sure if it is still relevant. I use the newest iOS on iPhone 12


texts:
I'm trying to sync my college email with my iPhone 4s. I used to have an android phone and I had the gmail setup through my college's email. It's hosted by GMAIL.

If I try now, I get invalid un/pw for imap.gmail.com.

Is there a setting that I'm missing? I have imap enabled on the gmail settings.

Thanks!


texts: Time Machine error message "Disk is nearly full", but it's not

texts:
When I use Finder to look at the time machine, on a 6 TB disk, it reports 480 GB for one of the computers being backed up there, and 570 GB for the other one (where I saw the error), and 4.1 TB available. Both of these make sense, based on the contents of the computers they are backups of.

However, I receive the error message Disk is nearly full.

Any ideas?

MacBook Pro, macOS 10.12.4
Time Machine connects to a Time Capsule that is on the network


texts:
I have a macbook pro and a osx of 10.8.4 in installed on it.
I also have VirtualBox 4.2.14 and extension 4.2.14r86644 installed on it.
I installed windows8 64bit and now I have problem with usb drives.
My windows8 guest operating system didn't recognize my usb drive, although I made a filter for my usb drive.

What can I do and how can I find the problem and solve it?


texts: Android Hotspot doesn't work on Macbook pro

texts:
I'm completely new to the Mac world. I am trying to connect my Macbook Pro (13" 2020
with Catalina 10.15.6) to my Android Hotspot. This seems to work because my macbook can connect to the hotspot and it responds to the ping. But whenever I try to open a web page the result is the same as not connected. Is anyone else experiencing this problem?


texts: Find mail rules that are no longer being used

texts:
I have over 80 rules in Mail, many are for automatically filing mail from service providers to folders. Some of these are probably obsolete, as they were for temporary situations, or refer to providers that my company no longer uses or havee changed the address they send from, and I'd like to clean them up. Is there any way to find out which rules have been used recently and which ones haven't?

If I suspect a rule is no longer needed I can mark it as inactive, then see if any unwanted mail shows up in my regular inbox. But with so many rules, that's a cumbersome process.


texts: Apple Developer Enterprise Program - Change Account Holder

texts:
I have access to our company Apple Developer Enterprise Program account as Admin. The guy with the Account Holder role left the company a few weeks ago, but his Apple is still linked to the account as Account Holder.

How do I change my access type from Admin to Account Holder?


texts: "no route to host" / "host is down" cycle

texts:
I'm working on an application that uses UDP-broadcast for discovery. For what it's worth, I'm using ZeroMQ's pure-java implementation project, JeroMQ (but I don't think this is germane to the problem).

I've noticed something strange when I run the application on my Mac -- It will send the broadcast once per second a few times without issue, and then I will get a NoRouteToHost exception, followed by 15-25 seconds of SocketException with the message "host is down". Then the broadcast will go through for another 4-10 seconds. The exact number of successes and failures in the cycle fluctuates a bit, but it's always roughly 5 successes followed by roughly 20 failures.

I have also observed this pattern by using the OSX native ping utility targeting any address on my subnet that doesn't respond to icmp (including [/24 subnet].255) -- A handful of "request timeout" responses (as expected) followed by exactly one "No route to host" and then a couple dozen "host is down" messages. Eventually I get another half-dozen timeouts without connection errors and the cycle repeats.

I observe this behavior on a conventional Access Point 802.11 network, and also an ad-hoc wifi network.

This issue does not happen from a Debian VM or from a Raspberry Pi running Raspbian Stretch.

OSX version 10.13.4

I've looked around online some with no success, perhaps because I'm having trouble phrasing the question?


texts: Upgrading to Photos errors "Library Version Too Old" and "Your library can open. . . "

texts:
My iPhoto app, version 9.2.1, has a grey icon with a no sign and won't open.  I'm running OSX 10.10.5, and I noticed a new app called Photos (version 1.0.1).  When I try to open Photos, I am prompted to choose my single iPhoto library to convert to Photos.  But when I click "choose library", I get the error

  Library Version Too Old Please upgrade your library “iPhoto Library” using the free iPhoto Library Upgrader available from Apple.

Okay.  So I download the library upgrader (v. 1.1) and follow the instructions.  It claims

  Your library can open with the current version of iPhoto and does not need to be prepared with this tool.

Turns out this tool is designed to prepared libraries from iPhoto 7 and earlier, so it's not surprising that it doesn't work with my deprecated 9.2.1 iPhoto.  But it's the only application I can find that matches Photos' description of an "iPhoto Library Upgrader".

How can I import my photos into Photos, given this circle of errors?  Many thanks for any clues!


texts: How to prevent one app from saving/restoring any Saved State

texts:
I want to turn off the restoring of an application window (in my case, iTerm).
How to turn it off, but just for this specific application ?


texts: Why can't I insert MathType Equation on Pages 2013?

texts: As you can see, I can't insert MathType Equation on Pages 2013, why? Is this not a built in feature?


texts:
I often listern to music on my macBook - when I unplug my headphones occasionaly forget to mute the speaker - so the whole office gets an earfull.  How can I set my mac to be muted unless headphones are plugged in. I'm interested to know if I can simply deactivate the built in speakers...

This has become more obvious recently when I use a bluetooth headset or similar - I walk away from the machine forgetting the headset is attached and as soon as I get far enought away my computer starts making noise....


texts: Migration Assistant move from Yosemite to Sierra: keyboard and trackpad behaviour different when using Microsoft Remote Desktop

texts:
I've done a Migration Assistant move of my apps/data/settings from a Yosemite machine to a Sierra machine.

After that I verified that all my "System Preferences" keyboard shortcut settings and trackpad settings had been copied over (they are; I had disabled most of them so Microsoft Remote Desktop gets all keys and mouse events)

On the Sierra machine, somehow these are note forwarded correctly:

Option-Space
Secondary-Click

With "Yosemite", both will get you the Windows "right mouse button" behaviour (firing up the context menu).

On "Sierra", this the resulting behaviour

Option-Space will get a blank space
Secondary-Click will paste the clipboard

How can I force Sierra to forward them as-sis to the Microsoft Remote Desktop session?

I'm using a "US" keyboard on both Yosemite and Sierra.

I've reproduced this issue with:

Microsoft Remote Desktop.8.0.23
Microsoft Remote Desktop.8.0.26
Microsoft Remote Desktop.8.0.29
Microsoft Remote Desktop.8.0.35
Microsoft Remote Desktop.8.0.36


texts: Can I upgrade my MacBook Pro Mid 2010 to 8 or 16 GB RAM?

texts:
I was told that I could only upgrade to 4 GB. I read on your site that as of 2014 it’s possible to upgrade to 8 GB or 16 GB?

Is this true and how do I do this?

Specs: MacBook Pro (13-inch, Mid 2010) 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo equipped with 4 GB 1067 MHz DDR3.


texts: How to disable Preview from opening up the last couple items viewed? osx lion

texts:
When I download a PDF and open it in Preview on OS X Lion, Preview opens the last couple documents that I viewed. It seems to arbitrarily open anywhere from the last document to the last x documents.

Does anyone know how to disable this feature?


texts: Remote Assistance/Screen Sharing from Mac OS X to Windows XP analogous to iChat's Screen Sharing

texts:
To help and teach older relative of mine who is on Windows XP I would like to have solution comparable to iChat's Screen Sharing.

Which means I can ask them for sharing their desktop with me (or get invitation from them) and to get full control over their computer with simultaneous audio chat while they can see what is on the screen and take control when they want/need.

P.S. As far as I know solution like RDC from Microsoft will let me to control remote Windows XP computer but will lock the remote user off the machine at the same time.


texts: Password problems changing users in Terminal

texts:
I'd like to switch between the default user in Terminal and the user 'postgres', created when I installed PostgreSQL 9.2.

If I type su postgres, I'm prompted for a password that I don't know and don't remember ever setting.  I try the root password and it doesn't work.

If I type sudo su postgres, I'm prompted for my root password, which I enter, and that works.

But now, if I try to switch back to the default user using sudo su user, I'm prompted for a password, and the root password does not work.  Neither does the password I use to log into that user in OSX.

I don't understand what's going on here--I've only ever set one password, but the only context in which it seems to work is when switching from the normal user to 'postgres'.  What's going on and how can I fix it?


texts: How to upgrade Safari from v11 to v12, not v13?

texts:
Currently Safari 13 is the latest version.

I'm running Safari 11, but want to upgrade just to 12 (12.1).

https://support.apple.com/downloads/safari only lists Safari 13.

Is there any place where I can find Safari 12 (12.1)?


texts: How to set the Screenshot directory with Jamf?

texts:
I'm using Jamf to configure my companies MacBooks and just recently got the request from Management, that every screenshot taken should be placed in a special Directory.

For now, the only thing I found is this:

https://www.maceinsteiger.de/how-to/screenshot-unter-mac-os/

It states that:

  defaults write com.apple.Screencapture location /Users/benutzername;
  killAll SystemUIServer

can be used to set the screenshot directory. And it works.

Though, are there any other ways to set the directory/path in a non terminal way or with jamf(mdm)?


texts: How can I force a folder and the contents to be downloaded locally and not uploaded to the iCloud?

texts:
I am trying to store a folder locally on my Macbook pro. I am running Catalina 10.14.4. Once I download the videos, they eventually all upload to the cloud and I have to redownload them. I am about to leave on a roadtrip and won't have internet access to redownload the file.
I have tried including a folder in the same location as the videos with .nosync in the name, but the files still upload.
Please let me know if you have any recommendations.
Thank you for your time,
Cameron


texts: Disk utility shows unattached external HDD

texts:
I have an external hard drive (WD Elements 1TB) that I use for Time Machine backups on my Mid-2015 Retina MacBook Pro 15" with macOS Sierra 10.12.3.

Lately, the drive doesn't get mounted any more when I plug it in. In Disk Utility, I see two instances of the drive when it is plugged in. When I unplug it, one of the instances disappears. The other one stays, even when I select "Eject" from the context menu.
After a reboot, the "ghost instance" is gone, and the drive gets mounted again on plugin. But after one or two eject/unplug/plug-in cycles, I have the same problem again. Time Machine doesn't do backups to the drive unless it is fully mounted.

Is there any way to forcibly "eject" the "ghost" of the unattached drive?

As requested, here's the output of "diskutil list" and "gpt show":

$ diskutil list
/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *1.0 TB     disk0
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s1
   2:          Apple_CoreStorage Macintosh HD            999.7 GB   disk0s2
   3:                 Apple_Boot Recovery HD             650.0 MB   disk0s3

/dev/disk1 (internal, virtual):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:                            Macintosh HD           +999.3 GB   disk1
                                 Logical Volume on disk0s2
                                 2E277268-61D5-4149-B45C-39204E7C1CD8
                                 Unlocked Encrypted

/dev/disk2 (external, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *1.0 TB     disk2
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk2s1
   2:          Apple_CoreStorage TimeMachine BFD         999.9 GB   disk2s2
   3:                 Apple_Boot Boot OS X               134.2 MB   disk2s3

/dev/disk3 (external, virtual):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:                            TimeMachine BFD        +999.5 GB   disk3
                                 Logical Volume TimeMachine BFD on disk2s2
                                 A7F8C874-D9AE-4818-98EE-C4D6F5DC610A
                                 Locked Encrypted

Offline
                                 Logical Volume TimeMachine BFD on disk2s2
                                 A7F8C874-D9AE-4818-98EE-C4D6F5DC610A
                                 Locked Encrypted

$ sudo gpt -r show disk2
gpt show: unable to open device 'disk2': Device not configured

$ sudo gpt -r show disk3
gpt show: unable to open device 'disk3': Resource busy

and two screenshots of Disk Utility:

External HDD attached:

External HDD not attached:


texts:
At random times Apple Mail rejects the current stored passwords for my gmail accounts.  When I go into Preferences>Accounts>Server Settings, the windows that are supposed to appear to change or update the passwords for incoming and outgoing mail simply are not there!!!
How do I update or change the passwords, then, in Apple Mail so that I can have my emails appear properly, as they do when there is no password issue being created by the site itself?

I found this unanswered question at discussions.apple.com: The link for the apple.com post

The link for the tigertech post that gives detailed instructions in fixing password issues

A screen shot of the tigertech post that shows what the Preferences>Accounts>Server Settings window is supposed to display


texts: Some apps I'm finding only on iTunes, isn't there a way to buy in directly on my iPhone/iPod touch?

texts: Some apps (e.g. Angry Birds) I'm finding only on iTunes, isn't there a way to buy in directly on my iPhone/iPod touch?


texts: I have an iPhone 7. Using the compass app, no matter where I walk on my property, the N and W coordinates are always the same. Shouldn't these change as I move from one side of the property to the other (a square acre)?


texts: Is something on the IO logic board burnt or..?

texts: yesterday, i plugged my macbook pro to charge, and my magsafe charger got a little burn where it connects to the magsafe charger (wall->magsafe). Now my macbook pro won't charge, no light, no nothing, but it still works perfectly. I tested it with a multimeter and indeed, no voltage and no current comming out the magsafe charger, burnt. Maybe that's from power fluctuations, don't know for sure. The magsafe port has no marks of burning or something. I tried to charge it with 2 different magsafe chargers, still nothing. Could something on the IO logic board be burnt or maybe some safety cautions kicked in?


texts: Add track to currently playing playlist in iTunes using AppleScript

texts:
Using AppleScript, I can add a track to a playlist by using a command something like this:

duplicate myTrack to playlist "myPlaylist"

which works fine. However, if the playlist is currently playing, that track will never be played. How can I add a track to a playlist and get it to play when the playlist gets to it (not immediately)?


texts: Mac mini 2014 4k + 2k Monitor Configuration

texts:
I'm interested in getting a Mac mini Late-2014 (specifically A1347, Macmini7,1, MGEN2LL/A), but I'm concerned by the multi-monitor specifications published by Apple.
The specs state:-

Video Support

Support for up to two displays at 2560 by 1600 pixels, both at millions of colors
Thunderbolt digital video output

Native Mini DisplayPort output
DVI output using Mini DisplayPort to DVI Adapter (sold separately)
VGA output using Mini DisplayPort to VGA Adapter (sold separately)
Dual-link DVI output using Mini DisplayPort to Dual-Link DVI Adapter (sold separately)

HDMI video output

Support for 1080p resolution at up to 60Hz
Support for 3840-by-2160 resolution at 30Hz
Support for 4096-by-2160 resolution at 24Hz

DVI output using HDMI to DVI Adapter (sold separately)

The thing that concerns me is up to two displays at 2560 by 1600 pixels -  the 4K resolution alone exceeds the pixel count of 2 2160x1600 monitors, which suggests to me that it might not support a second monitor at all if a 4K is connected. If the 4K already suffers a refresh rate hit, I'm concerned that a second monitor will either push it into slide-show territory, or not work at all. Obviously resolutions can be reduced, but that's a deal-breaker for me.
So, would 2014 Mac minis be able to drive both a 4K (3840x2160) monitor and a 2K (1920x1080) monitor simulataneously? Additionally, would the 4K monitor maintain 30Hz in this configuration?


texts: Is it possible to use USB output and audio port output at the same time?

texts:
I want to use two headphones simultaneously; one USB and another through the audio port listening to the same audio source (i.e iTunes, Spotify, or Netflix) at the same time. Is it possible?

Info about my device,

MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Early 2015)
2.9 GHz Intel Core i5
OSX El Capitan 10.11.6


texts: Using the sidecar feature with macOS catalina, is it still possible to use the iPadOS feature to capture the screen to a video?


texts: Apple Mail - my sent email marked as spam in client's inbox

texts: Email sent from the same address, but sent from my iPhone, are being received as normal. It seems that only email sent from my computer (Mac Pro 2013, trashcan) are being marked as spam in my client's inbox. My email address is my own domain (my first name at my https domain dot ie) and I have been emailing some of these clients successfully for a decade. Can anyone help? My domain is not blacklisted. thanks


texts:
I am looking to implement a rule like the following iptables rule on my Mac.
sudo iptables -t nat -A OUTPUT -d 10.244.1.8 -p tcp --dport 4369 -j DNAT --to-destination 127.0.0.1:4369

Context: In my current setup I am port forwarding a container in k8s through kubectl port-forward and I am trying to, when I ping the IP of the running erlang node on the container be able to translate this IP into the localhost to carry the processing (the setup can be found on this post https://www.mendrugory.com/post/remote-elixir-node-kubernetes/)
Thanks in advance!


texts: User Data Migration from HFS+ Disk Image

texts:
I got the following

source: the disk image of a iMac4,1 Intel32 from 2006 running the preinstalled 10.4.4
target: an iMac6,1 Intel32 from 2006 running the preinstalled 10.4.7

This use case isn't covered from the migration assistant, so:

Is there any way to apply all user data and installed programs from source to the target Mac?

My current status is:

I got both partitions on the target Mac's disk
I can access the source partition from MacOS, but not checkdisk.
I copied the user-data, but how do I register this new user with the system?
I copied the program I need, but now it is unregistered. Need the install CD.

I am a total Mac noob but rather familiar with low level linux.


texts: VirtualBox 5.1.8 installation didn't install kernel extensions. How do I fix this? [macOS 10.13]

texts:
When I installed VirtualBox it said that the installation "failed" but I still got VirtualBox.app in my applications folder.
When I try to boot windows 7 VM, it says "Kernel drivers not installed (rc = -1908).
Online solutions are saying I should "restart the host". I checked my StartupItems folder and it's empty.

So I guess the installer failed to install kernel extensions.

So there's this thing called SIP which prevents installing kernel extensions. Should I disable it for now?

What do I do? I need a Windows virtual machine in 8 hours...


texts: How to set a table of contents line numbering to not start at page 1, in Pages '09?

texts:
I am writing a document which requires the table of contents side-numbering scheme to start on the page after the table of content itselt. Basically the first 8 pages of the document should not count against the auto page numbering you can turn on.

There will be eight pages before this document that should have a custom side-numbering with roman numerals instead of the ordinary numbering, this should not count against the numbering format of the rest of the document that starts at the page after the table of contents. Is this possible with Pages 09?

If it is any help, here is the required template that the document should fulfill. (It's in norwegian): http://www.ub.uio.no/publisere/studenter/maler/mac-duo.docx


texts: Macbook White Mid 2007 will not boot even on Mac OS X Lion bootup USB

texts: I see the gray screen and nothing shows up for minutes on the screen not even the blinking question marked folder. Does anyone know how to get it to boot as I have a new hard drive I installed and want to install Mac OS X Lion via the time machine backup. The old hard drive works fine but the boot up using the USB stick does not work.


texts: Only after SMC reset will Windows 10 under Boot Camp start

texts:
I recently installed Windows 10 via Boot Camp. The first time everything goes well, but after booting back into macOS, I get an error message on macOS. It seems that error message is messing up the next time I am trying to boot into Boot Camp and Windows 10. That second time it seems to start Windows, but eventually defaults back to macOS.

I have figured out that if I do an SMC reset, I can boot up Windows, but I first have to pick a restore point to make Windows work, and use Windows. Bit cumbersome.

I have a brand new 2017 iMac 27"/3.8QC/8GB/2TB


texts: Updating app that were downloaded with a different apple ID

texts:
I got my dad's old phone and had previously downloaded certain apps. Redownloading these apps was not an issue but when the apps needed updates, it needed me to input my dad's Apple ID password for all the redownloaded apps. How do I transfer these apps to my AppleID?

If I can get advise for this or info that there is no real solution, that would be very helpful.


texts: How to hide specific shares in the sidebar from Finder?

texts:
I want to hide some specific shares in the sidebar from Finder because I never access them and it get's confusing if everyone in my local network is online.

Is there a way to hide for example only the shares marked with the red arrow?


texts: How to reverse sort order in column view

texts: In OS X Finder (Yosemite), I want to browse files in column view, arranged by kind, and sorted by filename Z-A.  How can I change this from the default A-Z sorting?  I've tried switching to list view and reversing it there, but when I switch back to column view, it goes back to A-Z.


texts: Carrier name in the status bar not showing

texts: I noticed my phone not displaying my carrier name (Vodafone UK) in the status bar at the top of the screen, but then after a few minutes it came back (I’m running iOS 12.3.1). Does anyone know what happened?


texts: How to fix a distorted "File and Folder" view after upgrading to Mountain Lion and deletng Houdini?

texts:
When I had Lion, I used Houdini to show hidden files and folders. But after I upgraded my OS to Mountain Lion, it seems like Houdini is not working correctly. So I deleted Houdini.

But now it seems like my files and folders in Finder are distorted (see image below). I'm not sure if this because of Houdini or because of Mountain Lion bugs.

I already tried sort by name, it sorted at the moment. But when I reopened the same folder, the file back distorted.

How can I fix it?


texts: Reading App for iPad with build-in translator

texts:
Reading articles in foreign languages is a good and fast way to perfect language skills and I am sure the same thing must have occurred to others before me as well.

I am searching for iOS app for iPad built for reading texts, where, apart from the "define" option for certain words that are available systemwide, one also has the option to translate the word to a given language - in case I am reading foreign text and do not know any particular word.

Ideally the app should support this for PDF's with selectable text, for most of my texts are in those, but if there is no such, I could also convert my PDF's to desirable format.

I checked a number of such apps but so far, but the only one I found with a "translate" option is PerfectReader, which uses Wiktionary as a dictionary; the problem is its vocabulary is practically unusable.


texts: Can't restore or update IPhone - TATSU declined to authorize

texts:
I'm attempting to either restore or update an iPhone 5 which won't boot. It's stuck on the apple logo boot screen. Hard reset does nothing.

I have tried normal restore mode via iTunes and DFU mode.

I'm signed into iTunes as the same apple ID as the phone.

I've authorized the mac for this apple ID in iTunes.

each time I try and either do update or restore I get the following error from iTunes:

iphone could not be restored (updated). TATSU declined to authorize this image on this device for this user.

Anything else I can try? it does not matter if I lose the data on the phone. Just needs to work again.

Also is there a way to view the boot sequence from my mac or the phone either via terminal or xcode or something so I can see where it's hanging in the boot sequence?


texts:
I did

  iostat  -Id disk0

on my MacBook Pro (MacOS Sierra) and found the total number of reads/writes done on the SSD. Is it true that this is indicative of the age of the MacBook? Should a new MacBook have very few reads/writes? Mine has a power cycle count of 10 but a very high number of transfers (2050247) at 28.6 KB/t i.e. around 55GB worth of reads and writes. Something seems off here...


texts: How to "synchronize now" the ipod touch with google calendar?

texts: My ipod touch synchronized well with google calendar. But I would like a "synchronize now" button, is there something like that?


texts:
Quite often I have a situation when photos are taken both from iPhone (which would record GPS coordinates) and at the same place/time with DSLR which will not add any location information.

Is there way (tool) to analyze Photos library and mark photos from DSLR with location information using photos from iPhone taken at the same time?


texts: Unable to take screenshot in MacBook using shortcut shift+command+3/4

texts:
On macOS I type the key combinations: shift+command+3/4

While taking the screenshot sound is audible but the screenshot is not getting saved in desktop or anywhere. I have searched in spotlight and in finder as well.
Also checked the shortcuts in keyboard option; all are checked.

How can I look at where the system stores the actual screen shot location and validate / reset that it's saving files to a writeable location?


texts: Need a formula for a conditional formatting of a cell based on another cell's data

texts:
I'm trying to highlight a cell based on another cell's data

Example:

  A               B
 100% (green)     1
   0% (red)       1 or greater
   0% (white)     0

So I need to conditional column A so that if it shows 100% Green, 0% with a 1 or greater in B Red, and if it's 0% with a 0 in B white.

Any Ideas?


texts: Force wider viewport size in iOS Safari?

texts:
Is there any way in iOS Safari (or third party app) to force a larger viewport? I'm fine scrolling around a website to see content but I'm not fine with sites hiding content when I use a narrower than desktop device.

Ideally I would like to set my width (say 1024) and then have my iPhone browse with that width and drag around to see the page. Kind of like magnifier but in reverse.


texts:
After installing iOS 10, I found that the screen on my iPhone 6s turned on at seemingly random times, and it slightly annoyed me. I now know that this feature does what it is supposed to (turn the screen on when the phone enters certain positions), but I want to disable it.

Is there a setting can I use to do so?


texts: How do I export emails to PDF without the "See More from..." history expanded at the end of the messages?

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I want to generate a PDF of an email correspondence. I don't want my PDF to include, at the end of each email, a quoted history of every message prior to it.

I open a conversation in Mail. I do not click the "See More from..." options i.e., don't expand them. The email looks the way I'd like it to in my PDF. I select every message in the conversation. I then choose File → Export to PDF  and save the file. I open the file and all the "See More from..." messages are expanded! I then have to go through the PDF manually and delete the unwanted pages.

Another option I've tried is printing the file to PDF, but a similar issue occurs. In that case, I can select which pages to print, rather than having to delete them after the export, but would rather the "See More from..." messages not be included in the first place.

How can I export the emails without the "See More from..." messages?


texts: Why is ~/Documents a symlink to itself, and how should this be fixed?

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I'm a programmer diagnosing a customer's issue with our software. We're having some problems writing into the user's Documents folder in macOS Mojave 10.14.6.*

It turns out that the customer's ~/Documents folder is a symlink to itself, causing ELOOP errors when calling file APIs, and a Too many levels of symbolic links error when attempting to view its contents in the Terminal with the ls command.

However, in the Finder, the folder displays normally, and appears to contain 15GB of contents.

The first time we saw this issue I wrote it off as an unsolved mystery, but this is the second customer we have seen in the past few years with a Documents folder that is a symbolic link to itself.

So my questions are:

How is this possible?
What can cause this configuration? Is there any legitimate reason it might be configured this way?
Is it safe to tell the user just to move all the contents somewhere safe, delete the folder, and then recreate it in the Finder?

* The path is obtained by passing NSDocumentDirectory into NSSearchPathForDirectoriesInDomain.


texts: Can I manually limit the %CPU used by a process?

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I would like to limit the amount of CPU time dedicated to certain processes (e.g. Firefox, Safari, ...).
I can't understand why such programs, even when not used (nothing loading, no animations, running in the background, ...), are so resource hungry. Why must a browser eat 50% or more of my CPU? Can I limit it to 10%?


texts: What is the purpose of padlock when Bluetooth Preferences is opened from the debug menu?

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When Bluetooth Preferences is opened while holding Shift+Option (bluetooth debug menu) a Padlock appears to the right of the "Turn Bluetooth Off/On" button.

Anyone know what this is for?


texts: Does the iTunes notification center (Today view) not display the track for live streams? Mine only shows for tracks in my library. In the case of live streams, it is simply blank. The main iTunes window, and mini-player, show the live track info just fine.


texts: Is it possible to install only MongoDB command line tools on MacOS?

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I'm working with docker and containers and I'd like to install and use only mongodb command line tools (mongodump, mongorestore etc ...)

I unsuccessfully checked the docs.

Is it possible to install the command line tools only?


texts: Grey screen when booting from original disk, doing Internet recovery or booting from High Sierra boot disk

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I own a MacBook Pro from 2012 that pops a gray scren everytime I try to boot.

When I try to boot from my original disk, the screen is gray with a question mark folder. I tried Internet recovery and it seems to work out. When the loading bar is full, a screen with Apple logo appears for like 10 seconds, and then a blank grey screen, nothing happens even if I wait for a while.

I then tried to boot on Linux mint with a live key to test the hardware, it fails to install, and the screen remains blank for a while as well, same for any other Linux distribution.

Lastly, I tried to boot from a High Sierra disk that I created using a friends MacBook. The screen asks me to install it, I do so, and after about 80% of the loading bar, the screen turns grey again...

It does look like a hardware problem, but I can't manage to load hardware test by holding down D key.

What is the reason for this behaviour? How can I resolve this issue?


texts: Bash-completion breaks hosts tab completion

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Prior to installing Bash Completion, hitting the "tab" key after an "@" character would autocomplete hostnames listed in /etc/hosts.

For example, if I started typing:

drush @lo [tab]

It would autocomplete to

drush @localhost

Since there is an entry in /etc/hosts for

127.0.0.1 localhost

After installing Bash Completion, that functionality no longer worked. Is there anything I can do to restore that functionality while also keeping Bash Completion installed?


texts: After Big Sur 11.1 replaced beta, No Safari available

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No problem converting from Beta to Big Sur 11.1non 2016 MacBook 12 except for Safari. The beta Safari remains, is not compatible, and I haven’t been able to locate installer for the right Safari.
This is a new/clean install so there is no backup as none needed. How to remove the beta?
Chrome is installed and apparently healthy
Thank you.
C


texts: Which disk to choose when doing a clean install of MacOS Catalina?

texts: Right now I am doing a clean install of Catalina. I have erased the Macintosh HD and the Macintosh HD -Data. When I tried to install the OS it gave me these two choices again. I couldn’t find anything on apple’s website on this choice of drives. I chose now the Macintosh HD because it is defined as the system drive but I am not sure. I would be happy if you provide some information or a reference about this.


texts: Official macOS System security prompt or possible malware? [macOS Catalina]

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Why I'm Asking: I've used all Apple operating systems since OS X Snow Leopard and I've never seen this security input prompt, or that symbol anywhere on mac's official system security prompts.

I'm not asking IF being asked is malware. I understand that sometimes macOS will prompt you to sign-in again. The unusual part of this window is I've never seen this style before. Especially the Red "!" logo. It isn't used anywhere I know of when you need to sign back in. In summary, this System Prompt doesn't seem legitimate and it has been spoofed before with malware.


texts: Why does OS X Mavericks freeze while typing comments on StackExchange Pages in Safari?

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For a couple of days i am using OS X Mavericks and Safari for browsing. Sometimes while writing questions or comments on StackExchange pages, the computer freezes, and on the screen appear suddenly some black points like pixels. Not just in the section of browser, but also everywhere on screen. Then i must hard shut down the computer, by pressing the power button.

This happened to me until now 5-6 times, in 2-3 days. It was always while typing. Maybe it has sth to do with Javascript, i dont know.. Using Chrome i did not have this problem until now.

This is my Safari version: Version 7.0 (9537.71)
This is my OS X version: 10.9 Build 13A603

Anybody else having this issue?


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I remember growing up in the 80's and my parents would be astounded that the Commodores and Apple II's of the time would be as powerful as a computer that used to take up a room. (I didn't quite get it at the time). At that time the most powerful computer was a Cray.

Now the tables have turned. Moore's Law continues to march and now I'm the one who is astounded.

Assumptions:

In terms of metrics, I'm interested in instructions/calculations per second.

My question is: Does the Apple Watch have more processing power than a Cray 2 Supercomputer?


texts: Terminal: disable printing/output of keyboard commands

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I have the same problem as this person – I am running a C script and somehow when I pass the EOF signal with Ctrl+D, ^D gets printed to the console.

My question is therefore: is it possible to disable outputting ^D and ^C and the like whenever you press Ctrl+D/Ctrl+C?

Thanks in advance for any suggestions!


texts: How can I disable the screenshot sound on iPad?

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How to get rid of the screenshot sound on iPad? (iOS 7)
I have tried muting the iPad but it doesn't work.


texts: Where should I install new (source code) software on a Mac?

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I am new to the Mac philosophy, but I have been using Ubuntu since a while. Now I am using Mac at work, and I have to install a few programs, not apps, from source code distribution.

I did try to gunzip a folder in /usr/local/ but it says permission denied. Same result with sudo. The su command just freezes.

Is /Users/ a better place to go? I suppose I do not need permission to write in there, right?

Where should I install new software (from source code distribution) on a Mac?


texts: Is it free to forward text messages to your Mac?

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I hate logging in to my bank account from my Mac via 2 step and having my phone in the other room. I want to set up text message forwarding to my Mac, but I'm wondering if it comes with an extra charge. I understand that sending text messages from your Mac will cost you, but what about receiving?

How does the forwarding work exactly? Does it send an extra text message or does it redirect it via the internet?


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Does the iPhone save contacts in the internal storage, SIM card and iCloud (if activated)?
I can see an option in Contacts to import from SIM.
I wonder if the iPhone stores contacts in all these places.


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Pages 5 on my iPad and iPod does not seem to be syncing with iCloud, while my Mac is. I've tried everything there is online. Yes, my Documents and Data is on for iCloud, I've tried resetting Documents and Data, etc. They won't download them from iCloud and won't upload. The documents have an upload icon on them, but they won't upload.
Any help would be great.
Thanks!


texts:
Possible Duplicate:
  What apps are available for subscribing to podcasts directly on the iPhone

Does anyone have a clever hack to subscribe to podcasts on iOS? The important characteristics are. Obviously one can use iTunes and sync, or manually download directly from iOS. I'm looking for something that automatically downloads podcasts as they become available (when on wifi) and doesn't require me to plug in to a computer.

Thanks in advance for any suggestions you might have.


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Years ago, I turned on "announce time on the hour," but when it turned out to be stupid (for US locale, instead of "Ten o'clock" it says "it's ten hours") I turned it off.

Three days ago, when I wasn't even near the laptop, it started announcing time again.  I knew I hadn't changed it, but I looked and it was still Unchecked.  There have been no recent updates to the system to explain the change in behavior.

I tried turning it on and back off, but it continues to announce.  Before I turned it off again, I also changed "on the hour" to "every quarter hour" but it is still only doing it on the hour (when it shouldn't do it at all).

Why? and How to fix?

I moved Library/Preferences/com.apple.menuextra.clock.plist to /tmp but that changed nothing (and changing the setting did not recreate it).  I opened that file in Xcode, and it contains only two of the eight time preferences.


texts: MacBook Pro Retina 13" Late 2012 SSD Upgrade

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I've done some research before, which led to the installation of an SD card adapter, together with a 128GB microSD card, which doubles the available storage capacity (original SSD storage was 128GB). Unfortunately that's far from enough and I am considering a further upgrade.

I've again done some research and found this, which is unfortunately almost double the price of ordinary mSATA or m.2 SSDs, which are readily available on the internet these days.

Therefore I am looking for alternatives, as I am not willing to pay this ridiculous premium for Apple-compatible hardware.

Now I've also found this thread, which mentions the possibility of the installment of an ordinary 2.5" SATA SSD into the laptop.
This seems to be possible, at least if iFixit is any kind of authority.

Unfortunately in the original thread no one seems to have been able to find the right adapter. Has this become possible in the meantime, alas, has anyone found the right adapter to actually achieve this feat?

The last option I found, maybe the most promising one is something like this, an adapter from Apple's proprietary socket to m.2 or similarly to mSATA.

Now my question basically is: Has anyone made any kind of experiences with any of the aforementioned ideas and if so, how have they fared? What would you recommend, the adapter, the 2.5" hack, or the overpriced transcend version?


texts: MacOS - sending sound over bluetooth and video over HDMI at the same time?

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I've been using my 13" 2015 MacBook Pro with BenQ projector. I'm connecting these with simple HDMI and watching Netflix, that's all, no Apple TV, no fancy stuff.

Right now my projector is connected to 5.1 home theater but I need something more mobile and I've been thinking about a bluetooth soundbar, something like this one.

My question is, will watching movies using HDMI cable and streaming audio using bluetooth at the same time work? It will look something like this:

Macbook <===== HDMI CABLE (VIDEO ONLY) =====> Projector
Macbook <===== BLUETOOTH (AUDIO ONLY) =====> Soundbar

Has anyone tried it?


texts: Keep two people's music separate under one iTunes (Match) account

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My wife and I both have large music collections. We share my iTunes Store account, but she has her own iCloud account.

We recently had cause to add her music to iTunes Match. To keep our music separate, I was just going to make a regular playlist with each of our names and add to each the songs we were respectively interested in.

My idea was that for our Smart Playlists (My Top Rated, etc) we could simply add a criterion that the song must appear in our personal playlists. But lo and behold, iTunes told me that

  Smart playlists that reference other playlists are not supported by iCloud, and will not be uploaded.

Well, that's just great.

We could buy a second iTunes Match account for my wife, but then she would have to start using her personal account for all Store purchases, meaning we'd have to buy all her apps, books, and other non-music iTunes things all over again.

So it looks like I'm screwed, and that the only resolution is going to be that we have to start syncing via iTunes again instead of iCloud. But if there's any workaround that lets me listen to my favorite songs without hearing all my wife's favorite songs, I would love to hear it.


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This question particularly deals with the latest version of Google Chrome on Mountain Lion, but the underlying premise applies to other browsers/applications as well.

What I am wondering is: is there a way (via keyboard shortcut, or third party application) to open a series of minimized windows simultaneously?

For example, in Google Chrome, one might have four windows open (each with a set of tabs), that you minimized with ⌘ cmd + M. This leads to a few questions:

Once minimized, is there a keyboard shortcut to bring that window back?
Is there a keyboard shortcut that would bring all minimized windows back?

I would like to restore all minimized windows with a keypress, not just one at a time.


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When I click "Enable Ask Siri" in the Siri Preferences Panel

I get a message saying Siri sends information like your voice input, contacts, and location to Apple to process your request
I click Enable
The dialog dismisses, and Enable Ask Siri is still unchecked.

Why is this happening, and how can I fix it? Note I've rebooted, and ensured Notification Center is enabled, as mentioned in things I see when googling about this issue.
Note that this is a work computer, so it may have this feature disabled in some way? I have another work computer that it works fine on, both running High Sierra.
Here are the log messages from the Console.app
error   12:20:48.173926 -0300   siriknowledged  -[CKEventHandler setupNotifyHandlers]_block_invoke Received XPC event from notifyd: <private>
error   12:20:48.181428 -0300   siriknowledged  -[CKEventHandler setupNotifyHandlers]_block_invoke Received XPC event from notifyd: <private>
default 12:20:48.183930 -0300   suggestd    PPPortrait read Siri as disabled.
default 12:20:48.184209 -0300   silhouette  PPPortrait read Siri as disabled.
default 12:20:48.194735 -0300   suggestd    PPPortrait read Siri as disabled.
default 12:20:48.194972 -0300   silhouette  PPPortrait read Siri as disabled.
default 12:20:48.200372 -0300   suggestd    PPPortrait read Siri as disabled.
default 12:20:48.205963 -0300   suggestd    PPPortrait read Siri as disabled.
default 12:20:49.271304 -0300   SiriNCService   remote_device_copy_unique_of_type: device not found
default 12:20:49.271532 -0300   SiriNCService   remote_device_copy_unique_of_type: device not found


texts:
It appears that brew does not have a Julia formula. This is quite surprising to me, am I missing something?

Apparently there's a brew tap that can be used instead (staticfloat/julia). Before going for that solution I wanted to know if that's supposed to be the most straightforward way to do so.


texts: Mission control: Show all application windows in current desktop only

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How can I see all windows which belong to the same app in some desktop? (in OSX 10.9-10.10)

I know about Mission Control -> Application windows but it shows all windows from all desktops.

Say I have TextEdit with 5 windows opened (window1, window2, ...) in 2 different desktops. Window1 and window2 are in desktop1 and Window3,4,5 are in desktop2. Desktop2 is a current desktop. How do I see windows3,4,5 of TextEdit in desktop2 in a similar/same manner as Application windows?

Possibly a duplicate of How to modify app expose to show only open windows of current application on current desktop?


texts: Resizing dual boot partitions in Yosemite

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I have a dual boot Macbook Air with Yosemite and Ubuntu. I would like more space on my Ubuntu partition and need to therefore reduce the size of the Mac partition. I assume this will cause some damage to my Mac HD but I'm completely fine with that. The question however is; how in the world can we do this properly? The terminal diskutil gives me a very reasonable overview of the size of the complete HD and the partitions. iPartition for some reason spits out the unexplainable 85 gb as a current size and Macintosh's pride GUI the Disk Utility also is a bit out in the blue when it comes to what is actually on the total hard drive and how this is partitioned:

Also, adding the values of the independent disks doesn't total the space on the top disk. (Macintosh HD (91.4 gb) + disk0s4 (29.1 gb) is more than the selected disk's (also) 91.4 gb). In Maverick, partitioning with the Disk Utility used to be a dream, but now everything is locked and no button can be clicked anymore. I really need more space on my ubuntu partition, so what am I to do?

EDIT:

The terminal output reads the following:

$ diskutil list
/dev/disk0
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *121.3 GB   disk0
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s1
   2:          Apple_CoreStorage                         91.4 GB    disk0s2
   3:                 Apple_Boot Recovery HD             650.0 MB   disk0s3
   4:       Microsoft Basic Data                         29.1 GB    disk0s4
/dev/disk1
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:                  Apple_HFS Macintosh HD           *91.0 GB    disk1
                                 Logical Volume on disk0s2
                                 4F26F5C3-8D94-419F-AFF1-B652E9DCDEF4
                                 Unencrypted

And

$ diskutil cs list
CoreStorage logical volume groups (1 found)
|
+-- Logical Volume Group 08436957-C5CD-4DC6-B9FA-05B51A3EEFC8
    =========================================================
    Name:         Macintosh HD
    Status:       Online
    Size:         91387686912 B (91.4 GB)
    Free Space:   35364864 B (35.4 MB)
    |
    +-< Physical Volume FFC67A8D-65A8-415E-A594-D7A6BED71844
    |   ----------------------------------------------------
    |   Index:    0
    |   Disk:     disk0s2
    |   Status:   Online
    |   Size:     91387686912 B (91.4 GB)
    |
    +-> Logical Volume Family 56C0E988-502B-43D5-90DD-EFBE58143896
        ----------------------------------------------------------
        Encryption Status:       Unlocked
        Encryption Type:         None
        Conversion Status:       NoConversion
        Conversion Direction:    -none-
        Has Encrypted Extents:   No
        Fully Secure:            No
        Passphrase Required:     No
        |
        +-> Logical Volume 4F26F5C3-8D94-419F-AFF1-B652E9DCDEF4
            ---------------------------------------------------
            Disk:                  disk1
            Status:                Online
            Size (Total):          90999996416 B (91.0 GB)
            Conversion Progress:   -none-
            Revertible:            No
            LV Name:               Macintosh HD
            Volume Name:           Macintosh HD
            Content Hint:          Apple_HFS


texts: I can't download YouTube app from icloud

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I deleted the YouTube app about 3 or 4 months ago and I decided to download it again.
I went to the App Store and I looked for it and when I saw it the iCloud icon was not there, so I clicked on the app in the App Store. The iCloud icon is dull and when I click on it nothing happens!!! I tried uploading YouTube from Safari onto the home screen but still it just takes me to the website not the app.
I have a YouTube account and everything and I still get emails from YouTube but I can't download the app!!


texts: Should I turn the iPhone 12 out of the box?

texts: I just bought myself an Apple iPhone 12 -- my first iPhone. Should I turn it on and start using it “out of the box” or should I charge the phone first and then when its full, turn it on?


texts: How to enforce sandbox rules for the particular app?

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I wrote an sandbox specification file (inspired by files from /usr/share/sandbox and manuals like this) and now I can launch some app in sandbox with sandbox-exec $path_to_rules /Applications/$appname.app/Content/.... Fine.

Is there a way to enforce the rules when the app is started in regular way (Finder's "Open with...", etc)?

I thought about replacing the binary inside .app with wrapper script but it will be overwritten after app update and I will need to restore it every time.


texts: iOS app to transfer images, photos to another phone via Bluetooth

texts: Is there an app that can help me get connected to bluetooth in mobile phones manufactured by companies like nokia, samsunng, etc


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I am unhappy with the inherent insecurity of having to type in my system.install.root.user password when installing some applications.

I realize this is necessary to install to the system wide Applications folder.

Does anyone know how to set the default installation location to be the Applications folder inside my home directory?

Thanks,
Teo


texts: How Do I Transfer A Project File Created Using iMovie 7 To A Hard Drive?

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I've made a movie project in iMovie 7, but it's taken 3GB of space on my hard drive and I am lacking space right now, so I need to move it out onto a external hard drive.

How can I do this?


texts: Where is a "Save As" button in Excel on my MAC Pro to save as a New File Name?

texts: Where is a Save As Button in Excel (or Word) on OS X  to save as a New File Name in a specific folder?


texts: Can't seem to auto-fill username and password in Fluid.app webapp

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I would like to use fluidapp.com to make a webapp for me to auto-login to uptodate.com.
I've used (and still use) fluidapp for my email and other websites and it saves my password so I don't have to login everytime. However for uptodate.com, it asks me for my password each time I quit and reopen the app (despite checking the remember me box). It does remember my username but it does not save my password.
I tried the code for userscripts mentioned in this link but it does not seem to work.
Here is the code I'm using (I used my username and password where indicated below):
// ==UserScript==
// @name auto-login
// @namespace http://fluidapp.com
// @description Auto-login for Uptodate, username/password stored in
userscript :-/
// @include *.uptodate.com/*
// @author
// ==/UserScript==

(function () {
if (window.fluid) {
var location = window.location.toString();
if(location.indexOf("login") > -1){
var username = document.getElementById("username"); if (username ==
undefined) return;
var password = document.getElementById("password"); if (password ==
undefined) return;
username.value = "myUsername";
password.value = "myPassword";
var flash = document.getElementById("Flash");
if(flash != undefined){ fHTML = flash.innerHTML;
if(fHTML.indexOf("invalid") > -1) return; };
document.forms[0].submit();
}
}
})();

I hope this helps! Thanks so much for all your help!


texts: I just installed Xcode 4. Everything seemed fine, but then, after poking around, I found that the ability to create Python and Java (And probably more) projects was missing. I asked Apple in apple store chat (on their web site) and was told that Python and Java are supported. However, I can't find where to make a Python or Java project - only C based files (and some more miscellaneous files). Does anyone know how to make Java/Python based files/projects?


texts: Circle-backslash symbol at boot on MacBook Pro mid 2012

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At reboot I get the circle-backslash sign on a MacBook Pro mid 2012 with an SSD.

The first time I pressed CMD + R and opened Recovery Mode from internet, ran Disk Utility and corrected an error on the EFI partition map. After the reboot everything worked fine.
As a double-check I made a reboot and the problem was back again. Tried a number of things, including resetting the NVRAM, resetting, the SMC, rerun Disk Utility (no more errors detected).
Every time i go into Recovery Mode I can just reboot and everything is fine. At the next reboot I still get the prohibition sign.
Looks also like randomly, after some power-off + power-on, the PC can boot back again in MacOS (something like 20% times ok and 80% ko).

I've disconnected the SSD and connected to a Linux PC so I could see SMART data for the disk. The disk looks in perfect shape with no errors and still 99% of available lifetime.
Also ran a Linux live distro on the MacBook from an external USB drive and performed a memory test without errors. The live distro works perfectly with no problems and boots properly every time.


texts: How do I create an Automator-based "Replace Text" Service that works with sandboxing?

texts:
I want to create a Service using Automator on macOS 10.12.6.

I selected:

  Service receives selected rich text in any application
  Input is entire selection ☑ Output replaces selected text

I then plan to transform the text using AppleScript. Easy enough, right? But I've created several Services using this approach, and when I select them in TextEdit, the services all fail. I see the spinner icon momentarily, and I'm not shown an error dialog.

In Console.app, I see this error:

sandboxd
Subsystem: com.apple.sandbox.reporting Category: violation
SandboxViolation: TextEdit(11092) deny file-read-data /Users/somebody/Library/Services/Demo.workflow
Violation: deny file-read-data /Users/somebody/Library/Services/Demo.workflow

How do I get my Service to comply with Sandbox restrictions?


texts: How can I turn off a Mac's display without sleeping the Mac itself?

texts:
Possible Duplicate:
  Is it possible to put the display to sleep without putting the whole computer to sleep?

I have an iMac, and sometimes I want to play some music over night, without the bright display. The display will be turned off automatically several minutes later, but I would like a button that turns the display off instantly and keeps the music playing.

How can I do this?


texts: How to open a Finder window even if one is open on a different space already, in Terminal?

texts:
I often use open . to open the current folder from Terminal.app. From time to time this doesn't work. The reason is that the folder in question is already open in some other Finder window on some other Space.

Hunting down this Finder window by searching all spaces takes too long. Neither do I really want to go a different space. I just want to open a new Finder window right there on the current space, regardless of other Finder windows open anywhere else.

I tried open -n . but this just hangs.


texts: How to change the location where iTunes stores backups of iPhones?

texts:
When I sync my iPhone 4 with my iTunes, the latter starts to make a backup before doing the actual sync.  This backup often takes a lot of time to make, which is very annoying.  What is even worse (imo) is that the backup is stored on my C-partition (where my WinXP Pro sp3 is installed and running).  I consider a backup being data, and I wish to store data in a different location than the one used for my operating system.

Searching the web, I found many people who were mad at the waste of time the mandatory backup caused, and I even learnt how to prevent the backup process from starting while syncing.  I could not, however, find any information for how to re-direct the location of backups made by iTunes, so I could choose a different partition than the default one.

Could anyone in this forum advise how to accomplish this?

Thanks for any help.

Wilbour


texts: Mimic Xcode's camelCase selection keyboard shortcuts in OS X

texts:
I spend a very large amount of time editing text in Xcode, and I would like maneuvering around text within the rest of the Cocoa Text System to offer an identical experience. There are 3 versions of cursor keyboard shortcuts that I use regularly in Xcode (only showing forward, non-selection-altering versions for brevity):

⌃+→Move cursor 1 subword forward (^camelCase -> camel^Case -> camelCase^)
⌥ Option+→ Move cursor 1 word forward
⌘ Command+→ Move cursor to the end of the line

The OS X default keybindings respect 2 and 3, but there is a disparity with 1. Outside of Xcode, ⌃+→ behaves like ⌘ Command+→. It's not applicable terribly often, but every time ⌃+→ takes me to the end of a line in Mail or something, it's like a little firecracker goes off in my brain. It's just annoying enought that I'm willing to invest in any hackery to "fix" the behavior once and for all.

To avoid covering old ground, I'm already aware of this little tidbit, and this list of selectors, but I'm not aware of any API in the Cocoa Text System for subword selection. Maybe there's undocumented API in there somewhere?

I don't always attempt to make camelCase selections outside of Xcode with keyboard shortcuts, but when I do I want OS X to obey.


texts: files locked in public folder when sharing via file sharing

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i share files with a friend from his macbook to my mac mini over my wireless connection.

i set my public folder as a shared folder & turned on file sharing in my system prefs.

my friend can copy files to my public folder, but when i try to open them they are all read-only (showing as "nobody - read & write, staff - read only, everyone - read only).  not sure why it says "nobody".

user permissions are set to read & write for my user, staff, and everyone for the public folder in system prefs.

i even tried adding a new sharing user for him with a password. he can connect fine & copy files fine, but when i try to open them they are read-only.  the folder itself and all files inside are set to read-only.

how can i make these files come over as read-write for me, so i don't have to set the permissions manually for every file?  thanks!


texts: Select last part of a string in iTerm2 using standard shortcut

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Using iTerm2, I am currently typing this command (notice the cursor at the end of addons):

If my terminal would be like any other text input I use on my Mac, I could use the shortcut Alt + Shift + left arrow to select the word addons. This is why I use the natural text editing key mapping in iTerm2, to be like other text editing tools.

However, I cannot find how to get the same behavior on iTerm2, which I would like to result in this after using the shortcut:

Is there any way to get this behavior using key mappings or something else?


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I'm trying to use an auxiliary LCD as a light-pad/bed/table by loading up a 1080p white .PNG in preview and setting fullscreen ON.

The problem is after several (20?) minutes of inactivity I get the Apple screensaver kicking in, and then have to enter my password.

How to prevent this?

Nothing in System Prefs -> Energy Saver works.

http://osxdaily.com/2011/03/21/temporarily-prevent-a-mac-from-sleeping/ suggests pmset noidle but that's also fails.


texts: External display flickers on one of the Mac ports

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So I got a usb-c adapter/hub that gives me VGA, HDMI and some USB ports. If I connect it to one of my Pro's two ports, it works fine. If I connect it to the other, both VGA and HDMI start flickering. The port on the Mac itself is fine since I tried it with a different adapter.

Can anyone give me a hint on why such inconsistency might exist. Could it be because one port is USB 3.0 and the other is (in my understanding) USB 3.1?

Update 1: I have a Macbook Pro 13inch 2017 no touchbar and I used this dongle: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0749JXV6R/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Update 2 Just tried it with a different Macbook Pro (13inch, with touchbar), same issue persists. The hub only works with one of the ports as if the two ports are somehow different.


texts: How can I ask Siri to turn OFF Do Not Disturb mode?

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As from iOS 6, I can ask Siri something like "Don't Disturb Me", and it replies confirming that Do Not Disturb is activated.

However, I have not been able to deactivate Do Not Disturb mode by voice.

What verbiage should I use?


texts: Mail shows 2 unread but there are no emails

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Recently my Mail app is giving me the 2 unread badge, but there are no mail messages in the inbox:

I do not remember when this started. I am on 9.3 beta but it started on 9.2 before I upgraded (using OTA).

Also, the hotmail I use does not sync trashing so my hotmail inbox includes all emails that I have deleted from my inbox.


texts: Why does Apple require an update to OS X 10.9 to access Beats 1? I have iTunes 12.2 installed, I can see Beats 1 in my iTunes app, I can even stream Beats 1 by manually opening its URL in iTunes. So why won't iTunes just let me listen to Beats 1 on Mountain Lion? As far as I can tell, there are zero technical reasons for why I'm having this problem. Anyone?


texts: How can I set up an Apple TV (4th gen) connection to a PPTP/L2TP VPN?

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I have in the offices an Apple TV with a custom app that allows each office to see a dashboard with data.

The problem is that this data is in the main server, in the office headquarters. Is there any way I can setup a PPTP/L2TP VPN connection (something always on) in the Apple TV so that the app could gather the data from the main server?

PS. Opening the data in a public link or changing the app is not an option.


texts: Duplicate icons after macOS Sierra upgrade and failed aol login

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I just upgraded to macOS Sierra and now have duplicate google chrome icons on my docking station (one works the other doesnt) and when I try to access my aol email it says log in failed although the password is correct.

Can anyone help?

Thanks!


texts: If I make a bootable pendrive running macOS, will downloaded apps and data persist on each boot?

texts: Sorry if this seems like a basic question, but I couldn't find a clear statement on this anywhere: I wish to make a bootable pendrive running macOS Mojave, so that I can run some 32-bit apps. So I want whatever apps and data I download to persist on the pendrive, on each boot. Is this the case by default, when I use the createinstallmedia command on Terminal, as suggested in Apple Support, to create the bootable drive?


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Netbeans is my usual IDE for developing.Today I formatted my mac and install a new lion.When I wan't to install netbeans,It I stuck at disk selecting step.I cannot choose my hard drive,the information below is like(sorry,I am using Chinese system and I don't know exactly what is said in English)'NetBeans 7.0.1 can't install on this drive,It can be installed but only use for Java 6'

I have no idea about issue,Is there anybody meet and solved this problem.