texts: How to break away from LaCie Big Disk Extreme firmware, for its two disks to appear as two instead of one?

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Question

How can I reconfigure a LaCie Big Disk Extreme so that Mountain Lion will see both of its disks?

Background

Once, years ago, I accidentally did something bad to a LaCie device. Where normally its two disks appeared to Mac OS X as one larger disk, the accident caused the two smaller disks to appear. At the time, I chose to resolve the issue by reinstalling firmware with a LaCie-provided utility.

Now: I probably need to 'break away' from that RAID-oriented firmware – intentionally, not accidentally.

I don't want to create two volumes, neither can I place the disks in different enclosures.

I want to work with the two separate disks with the current enclosure, so that I can experiment with things such as ZFS.

When I last checked, in 2012, LaCie's firmware utility for this class of drive could not run on Lion.

Data in this enclosure is, always will be, disposable.

System information for the device

LaCie Big Disk Extreme LUN 0:

  Manufacturer:     LaCie Group SA
  Model:            0x1
  GUID:             0xD04B5A0E058DF1
  Maximum Speed:    Up to 800 Mb/sec
  Connection Speed: Up to 800 Mb/sec
  Sub-units:
    LaCie Big Disk Extreme LUN 0 Unit:
      Unit Software Version:  0x10483
      Unit Spec ID:           0x609E
      Firmware Revision:      0x102
      Product Revision Level: 912


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There is /private/var folder, but we can't create /var folder!
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I'm using OS X El Capitan 10.11.5.


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I'm making a column chart about certain dice rolls in the game Descent: Second Edition, and the problem I'm having is that there are multiple dice of the same color in the standard rolls. For example, you could roll a red die, or two red die. I would like to be able to color code the dice rolls, but with the fact that this can cause ambiguity, I would like to be abler to make  checkered pattern, with line borders, so one can see if I'm talking about "red-red", "red", or "red-blue-yellow."

I would also like to be sure that when I apply this pattern that it repeats, so it doesn't end up stretched or squashed depending on the columns height. If it came down to it, I could devise a "pin stripe" design to make that moot, but, that's the thing, I don't know my options.

Here's what I have now. Notice the ambiguity and confusion in the colors.

Here's what I would like to be able to do. Just by looking at it, you can tell what's being referred to.


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So I'm about ready to upgrade my mac (which is on the other side of the United States) to El Capitan. I'll only have access to the computer via Chrome Remote Desktop and SSH while this happens.

Has anyone tried this before, and is there anything I should be worried about happening or any need to have physical access to the computer?

I will have some physical access, but it will be either a couple of days away or will be very unskilled labor.

The reason I'm doing this at all is that I actually do a significant amount of work on this computer remotely, but I'm away from it long-term (I do development on it over SSH from my chromebook).


texts: Monitor remains grey after Apple logo during boot on Mac Pro

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The Mac Pro here (2008 model) started acting up as of yesterday during booting - when I turn it on, I hear the typical sound, the Apple logo appears, it disappears.. and the monitor remains in that grey tone.. forever - nothing else is happening. This machine has Snow Leopard installed. When I try to e.g. boot from my Lion USB Recovery HD, i plug in the USB stick, press alt during bootup, both systems (the SL one on the disk & the Recovery on the USB stick) appear, I select the Recovery HD.. and again, the same (logo, then grey forever).

What's going on here and what can I do?

Update:

following the numerous suggestions below (thanks!), I checked the verbose boot logging, but nothing too troubling appeared, well sort of. Right before the monitor turns grey again, the color of the logging font turns from white to pink?

This:

to this:

.. (the image is kinda off, somehow it doesn't capture the pinkishness of the color) then grey forever again.

Additionally I could enter safe mode, but the same is here.. colors seem strange & not entirely correct (I suppose it's not intended that way, right?):

I put the Nvidia 8800GT in the other slot on the mainboard, the same again. Is this a sign of a failing graphic card (the boot manager menu looks just fine)?


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I recently set up a new Boot Camp partition for Windows 10 on my early 2020 MacBook Pro, and want to know, is there anyway of disabling the Touch Bar within Windows 10? I have looked on the internet and don't see any option for this.
One way I have tried is going into Device Manager (in Windows 10) and removing the Touch Bar but that doesn't seem to work.


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This used to work fine but now (since installing catalina ?) I get permission errors when I try to mount my Time Machine volume from another Mac via afp://Major Bloodnok._afpovertcp._tcp.local
I get a popup:
I am fairly sure that the issues revolves around how Mac OS is mapping users between the two machines.  On the mounting machine I am logged in as rful011 (my corporated ID) with uid=501(rful011)
Finder says:

Note it says connected as russell which is another account that is present on both systems.
Permissions from the hosting system:

Note also that on this system the uid is different: uid=502(rful011) and the account name for Russell Fulton is 'russell'
In fact the uids of the two accounts are reversed.
I have tried altering the url to afp://rful011@Major-Bloodnok.. but it still connects as russell.
Any thoughts welcome :)


texts: Change font style for pdf's using Preview

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As shown in the screenshot there are no options for changing the font under tools. I went through all main menu options and no features for manipulating the color, size, etc are there.

This should be a dead simple operation - any tips here?

UPDATE  I had found references to preview having the ability to modify the text/font characteristics - specifically in the place my screenshot shows. They are not there however: is this a Yosemite specific limitation? https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4674837?start=0&tstart=0

Another update  One of the answers provided download links for pdfs. I have selected text field and right clicked. The screenshot follows: There are not any options for changing the font/font size: only the color. What is different for me?


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texts: What type of bracket to use for HDD/SSD in optical bay? (MCE vs. OWC)

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Looking for a bracket/adapter/caddy for installing a HDD/SSD where the MacBook Pro SuperDrive used to be.

There are two general types:

1) Minimalist open-type brackets (in the truest sense of the word):

Seems to allow airflow around the SSD/HDD, necessary?
Will it hold the drive firmly enough?
The OWC brand that I've seen is expensive. Are there cheaper alternatives to it? (Could not find.)

2) Space-filling caddies that mimic the SuperDrive's shape:

Are these heavier?
Do they ompede ventilation around the SSD/HDD and promote overheating?
This is how the iFixit and MCE OptiBay enclosures look like, as well as the cheaper ones on eBay.

What are their advantages/disadvantages? I have no experience with either.

What are important things to look out for when choosing a bracket?

I also know that the SuperDrive is fixed in place on the unibody enclosure at a lot of points — I wouldn't want to get a caddy that attaches with less. How can I ensure that with either type?


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I have a Pages document with two layout blocks that cannot be resized. The top one especially, is very narrow, extending from 2.5cm (on the left) to 13.4cm (on the right). The document itself is 21 cm wide and has 1 cm margins.
There is no way I can push my text further right than 13.4 cm. How should I proceed?
I have this very small Pages document exhibiting the issues, which I will
The document was originally imported from a .docx file. This may explain how the problem cam to happen. It doesn't explain why Pages now has a layout structure that's completely impossible to edit by the user. Edit: this document was created with Pages for Mac version 10.1(6913).
I may miss something, but I just spent 1 hour on the phone sharing my screen with a level 2 Apple support person, who failed to help, and basically advised me to use MS Word.
URL of this writable document:
https://www.icloud.com/pages/02EIFENQPkpOgBZWY-Bn6lMEw#Pages_layout_issue
In case of vandalism, I put a read only version of this document at:
https://www.icloud.com/pages/0SfFPGvoWh_hlS9GLtMDC8tZg#Pages_layout_issue_original
Thanks for your help


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In a standard corporate environment with PCs they are replaced approximately every 36 months on a revolving schedule.

In introducing Macs into the corporation, the IT department appears to be unable or unwilling to make a schedule for standard replacement, and thus the Mac users are getting upgraded ram and such, but their machines are older than the PCs.

What information should we be taking to the IT department to convince them to create such a schedule?  Should we expect the schedule to be longer than typical PC replacement schedules, or the same?  What aspects of a Mac make this a different equation than a PC?


texts: Mac automator to rerun a python script if first attempt failed

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I wrote a python script to automatically send emails and used automator to run it by run shell:

/usr/local/bin/python /Users/austin/PycharmProjects/assignments/assignments.py

This assignments.py prints 'successfully sent the mail' after emails are sent

I'm wondering if there is a way to let automator rerun this script if it did not receive the 'successfully sent the mail'


texts: Automatic shutdown hindered by sleep mode

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I have an iMac (late 2009 model) running Yosemite. Recently, I have set up automatic shutdown in the Energy Saver settings under System Preferences. However, if my computer goes into sleep mode before the automatic shutdown - which I have scheduled to happen after twenty minutes of inactivity - my computer will not shutdown automatically at the scheduled time.

The question: is there a way to make my iMac shutdown at the scheduled time even when it is in sleep mode, or is there no way to circumvent this and I'm better off with manual shutdowns or disabling sleep mode?


texts: How to copy files in /Applications/* using Terminal?

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# whoami
root

# pwd
/Applications/Calendar.app/Contents/MacOS

# cp Calendar Calendar.backup
cp: Calendar.backup: Operation not permitted

im curious to know why im not able to copy applications from a root terminal using the cp command?

sh-3.2# system_profiler SPSoftwareDataType
Software:
System Software Overview:

  System Version: macOS 10.13.4 (17E199)
  Kernel Version: Darwin 17.5.0
  Boot Volume: lily
  Boot Mode: Normal
  Computer Name: lily’s MacBook Air
  User Name: System Administrator (root)
  Secure Virtual Memory: Enabled
  System Integrity Protection: Enabled
  Time since boot: 2:03


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I have my work exchange account added to my iphone.  The problem is when I add a contact in my iPhone, the contact is automatically stored in the exchange account group.  This I do not want.  Is there a way that I can turn this bug/feature off?

Ideally, there should be an option to confirm which phone book I would like the contact added to.  Or at minimum have an option to save all contacts to the icloud.

Investigating a bit, it appears that if at any time in past I would have selected the exchange group contacts, then when I add any new contact it goes to the exchange account.  Subsequently, the only time I see that contact is when I show the exchange group in the contacts app again.

Many times I forget to unselect the exchange group contacts and then weeks or month later add someone to my contacts which then gets stored only in the exchange group contacts.  It doesn't get copied to the icloud even!


texts: Pop-up "Firmware changes detected" randomly appear

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This message just popped up on my Mac

What could have caused this?
I see the file eficheck.bin, how can I tell if my EFI firmware is OK?
After sending this to Apple, what happens next?


texts: Mac Audio output remove high pitch / high frequency sounds

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I suffer from tinnitus and sometimes, in videos or video calls, there is a random high pitch noise which is really irritating for me. Also, in video calls some people talk really softly and some are really loud.
Is here an app which can act as a high pass filter for high pitch and frequency sounds?


texts: How to retrieve emails from iCloud account that is full

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I recently received an email from Apple letting me know that because my iCloud storage was full I could not back up my devices and would not be able to send or receive mail. I did the usual deleting of unnecessary backups of emails, apps, and devices. I also purchased more storage.

This morning, I received my receipt for the new storage and a bunch of emails sent today. But I need the emails from yesterday and whenever they decided to shut down the account. How do I retrieve all the emails that I hope are in limbo somewhere?  Note: I sent an email from another account to see if I'd get an "undeliverable" message and nothing.


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I have been a Windows user and have recently started using OS X (I have Snow Leopard on my machine).

I wanted to learn about the basic applications in OS X (e.g. Terminal) and other commonly or some important utilities used in OS X. I know a lot of important apps come bundled or pre-installed with OS X, but I am not aware of a lot of them.

Could someone please point me as to where I can learn about such apps and what are the important apps which I should know about?


texts: Strange graphics behaviour after rm -rf /

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I've received sudo rm -rf on my machine (MacBook Pro 2017 13", Sierra). As it's expected, most of applications disappeared or stopped working.

I had to reinstall MacOS completely from the recovery partition, and it helped, but since then I have some strange graphic bugs in some applications. Mostly, games -- Steam and League of Legends. In Steam, I lack some elements of user interface -- please glance at the screenshot (it's supposed to show login and password input bars and some buttons). League of Legends manages to start up pre-game screens, but when the game begins it crashes with those things in logs:

LeagueofLegends[82544:636494] Error loading //System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/MobileAsset.framework/MobileAsset:  dlopen(//System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/MobileAsset.framework/MobileAsset, 265): no suitable image found.  Did find:
//System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/MobileAsset.framework/MobileAsset: mach-o, but wrong architecture
/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/MobileAsset.framework/Versions/A/MobileAsset: mach-o, but wrong architecture
Killed: 9

Could anyone please assist me? Any assumption of what could I loose with rm -rf that causes such behaviour AND is not fixed by system reinstallation, and how to restore it, would be greatly appreciated. I even tried upgrading to High Sierra, no difference. Before the sudo rm -rf both applications worked fine.


texts: Is there a quick way to connect bluetooth headphones to Apple TV (4th gen) when the in-app menu doesn't support it?

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Most apps allow me to quickly swipe down from the top of my "Siri Remote" and select my bluetooth headphones from the in-app menu but some apps (e.g. YouTube) don't offer that functionality so I have to dig into the Apple TV Settings to connect my headphones.

This is tedious - is there a better way?


texts: How to open a shell script in a new Terminal window and run it with administrator privileges

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I need to programmatically open a shell script in a Terminal window and run it with administrator privileges. I'm using osascript as it displays a convenient prompt for an admin login/password.

I'm currently using this :

osascript -e 'do shell script "open -a Terminal \"'"$appDir"'\"" with administrator privileges'

The trouble is, even after entering the credentials in the OS X prompt, the newly opened script will beg for a password at the first sudo command.

How do I pass the admin credentials to the opened script?


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I have a 4TB USB hard drive (WB Elements) that I want to mount On a Macintosh Pro 16.
Unfortunately it cannot be mounted and the Mac does not show up any error messages. It also does not show up on "Disk Utility". This same hard drive mounts easily on a linux system and data can be accessed. What is puzzling is that I could mount it a few months ago.
On that same Mac, a 2TB USB hard drive could be mounted. Any ideas on how to proceed?


texts: iPhone Picture Transfer Protocol (PTP) Control Disabled

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While working with software support staff regarding a problem deleting photos on my iPhone from my desktop Mac Mini, they reviewed the iPhone process log and said the PTP Control was listed as disabled. They suggested this situation can occur when a phone is managed by an outside entity like a work phone. My phone is only managed by me, so I'm wondering if there's a way to enable the PTP control on the iPhone again. Thanks for your help.
Jim


texts: How to delete the word in front of the cursor in terminal on Mac OS

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I've read fn + option + delete will delete the word in front of cursor. This works for me in any of the editors i use, or any other text fields (chrome, textedit etc). However in terminal, the key combination just outputs a single (. I have no problem deleting a word behind the cursor with Option + delete.

I have seen I can map a key combination to an action in terminal preferences, but I haven't been able to find much documentation on the these actions.

The desired effect can be achieved by pressing alt + d, but i would like to use the fn + option + delete key combination. A possible sub-question would be how do I map fn + option + delete to alt + d in the terminal preferences?


texts: Compiling git on Lion gets warnings about SHA1_Init is deprecated; what is the replacement?

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I compiled Git 1.7.7 from source and while doing so, got warnings about SHA1_Init and other related functions being deprecated on MacOS X 10.7 (I'm using 10.7.2 and although I have XCode 4.2, I am compiling with a home-built GCC 4.6.1, but that only changes details in the warning messages).

The header is /usr/include/openssl/sha.h; it contains notices such as:

int SHA_Init(SHA_CTX *c) DEPRECATED_IN_MAC_OS_X_VERSION_10_7_AND_LATER;

Does anyone know where it is documented why SHA1 is deprecated by Apple and what the proposed replacement is?

Illustrative messages:

$ make read-cache.o
    CC read-cache.o
wread-cache.c: In function ‘verify_hdr’:
read-cache.c:1172:2: warning: ‘SHA1_Init’ is deprecated (declared at /usr/include/openssl/sha.h:121) [-Wdeprecated-declarations]
read-cache.c:1173:2: warning: ‘SHA1_Update’ is deprecated (declared at /usr/include/openssl/sha.h:122) [-Wdeprecated-declarations]
read-cache.c:1174:2: warning: ‘SHA1_Final’ is deprecated (declared at /usr/include/openssl/sha.h:123) [-Wdeprecated-declarations]
read-cache.c: In function ‘ce_write_flush’:
read-cache.c:1403:3: warning: ‘SHA1_Update’ is deprecated (declared at /usr/include/openssl/sha.h:122) [-Wdeprecated-declarations]
read-cache.c: In function ‘ce_flush’:
read-cache.c:1448:3: warning: ‘SHA1_Update’ is deprecated (declared at /usr/include/openssl/sha.h:122) [-Wdeprecated-declarations]
read-cache.c:1459:2: warning: ‘SHA1_Final’ is deprecated (declared at /usr/include/openssl/sha.h:123) [-Wdeprecated-declarations]
read-cache.c: In function ‘write_index’:
read-cache.c:1598:2: warning: ‘SHA1_Init’ is deprecated (declared at /usr/include/openssl/sha.h:121) [-Wdeprecated-declarations]
$

Grumble: I can't yet create new tags 'sha1', 'openssl' and 'deprecated' which I consider might be appropriate.


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When I hit the left shift key the result is a capital W.

When I click the w without the shift key I get a capital W as well.

Any solutions?


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I restored my iPhone 4S from iCloud after recieving a replacement one from the Apple store. It took many hours for The applications and photos to come back but once restored, all of the photos on the iPhone are now low resolution.

How can I restore the photos, which were backed up to iCloud, back to my iPhone in their original resolution?


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I'm writing a script that will update an Xcode project's Info.plist. This script will be distributed to clients. In order to do this, I'd like to know what tools are more appropriate if I need to assume information about someone's system.

What I can assume:

They are on a Mac that can build iOS apps for iOS 6+

I find myself at a fork in the road, I can write the script that calls a PyObc methods in order to update the plist file. Or I can use PlistBuddy to do the same thing. I'm wondering if anyone has any advice to which would be a safer assumption?


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When executing an application I receive the following error:

./WordMaker WordMaker_BatchConfig.moos
dyld: Library not loaded: /opt/local/lib/libSM.6.dylib
  Referenced from: /Users/josh/Desktop/FabMapV2_MacOSX/bin/./WordMaker
  Reason: image not found

It appears that this library file relates to X11, which I have installed (i.e. XQuartz), however it is located at /usr/X11/lib/.

How do I fix this problem? Do I simply create a symbolic link to it or is there a better way / something that I am missing?

I am running OS X 10.8.4.


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In the new iWork Pages, there is by default 3 cells or columns in the header and I cannot remove the column back to its original one column header just like the normal header in Pages 09'.

If you see that in the image, it is NOT a table, but the header when the cursor hover on it.


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I'm trying to turn on spotlight for my NAS drive. I have it mounted in OSX 10.8.2 as the following:

 /Volumes/Trogdor (smbfs, nodev, nosuid, mounted by soltrain)

mdutil returns the following:

mdutil -as (removed non relevent parts)
/Volumes/Trogdor:
    Indexing and searching disabled.

When I try to enable it I get the following:

Noahs-MacBook-Air:~ soltrain$ mdutil -i on /Volumes/Trogdor/
                              /Volumes/Trogdor:
                                  Indexing and searching disabled.

I've looked for a .metadata_never_index file on /Volumes/Trogdor/ but do not see any such file. I've also added/removed the volume from the privacy preferences in the spotlight pref panel with no effect. Any ideas? I'd rather not use a separate util if spotlight should be working.


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My Aperture library contains a ridiculous amount of pictures (well over 30 000) which means it is extremely slow whatever the hard-drive and computer I use.

I want to split my library into separate libraries.  The split could be yearly or with a fixed number of pictures per library.

Should it be possible to do this automatically  (automator script, command line etc)?  If so, any suggestions how?

(This would probably be useful for iPhoto too)

My current solution is to use smart albums (but I encounter the difficulty of deleting the pictures:  Delete all pictures in an album from library in Aperture)


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I regularly listen to Podcasts from a radio station. These normally consist of a number of segments, which I download as individuals.

On my old iPod (iOS6) these played in Music in order.
On my iPhone5S (iOS8) they play in Podcasts in reverse order (last played first), regardless of the order I download them. If I select the 1st (usually the last unplayed in the list), it does not automatically continue with the list, although if I play the last it does, but the segments are in reverse order.

Is there any way of making iPhone5S (iOS8) behave like iPod (iOS6)?
(There is a similar 3 year old question - I hoped Apple would have fixed this bug by now.)


texts: VMWare Fusion OS X 10.13.5 GUID partition

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I'm using VMWare Fusion 8.5.10, and OS X 10.13.5 as client.

In VMWare I shutdown the vm first, then I increased the size of the virtual hard disk. Now in OS X I use Disk Utility to increase the size of the existing partition by deleting Free space first, then resize the existing partition to use up all the deleted space.

But Disk Utility says:

Operation failed...
An internal error has occurred and the disk for one of the specified operations could not be found.

Does anyone know how to work around this?


texts: Importing Google Calendar Reminders to mac Apps

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Is there any way to import reminders created in Google Calendar to ANY of the available free app in macOS Big Sur?
Ideally it would be nice to have a sync feature as well but I would be happy with just a single-time import from Google Calendar for reminders so that all future reminders can be created in the suggested app.
I am pretty sure that the native Reminders doesn't do that and neither does the Calendar app.


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Greetings. I want to be able to have a view of just the unread messages in the Junk folder. Thunderbird has a nice way to do this (essentially, "show only unread" while in the folder view), but I don't see anything similar in Mail.app. Further, when I try to make a Smart Mailbox whose two rules are "Message is unread" and "Message is in Mailbox - Junk", it never finds anything, even when Mail.app knows there is unread messages there because it shows a count.

Any clues would be greatly appreciated.


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I'm trying to get rid of the Time Machine icon in the menubar. Is there a way activate "Enter Time Machine" using a script or something along those lines? I know that we have tmutil, but it can not activate the main Time Machine view to restore files from.

Thanks.


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texts: How to configure MacOS firewall to block outgoing IP ranges?

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Recently I was watching a Gizmodo journalist's videos about her experiment with blocking outgoing connections to Google, FB, Microsoft and Apple. I wonder if it is possible to modify MacOS's built in firewall to block IP ranges that I specify, like all known FB ranges, coinhive etc.?

I used to configure ipfw but this seems to have gone away. I'm running Mojave.

I do not want to run any closed-source program like Little Snitch to accomplish this. I just want to configure Apple's firewall if possible.


texts: Why is Wine X11 not creating a window on my Mac?

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I have the wine software on my mac and I have a little problem here:

I try running my windows executable and I get this error in the console:

Application tried to create a window, but no driver could be loaded. make sure that your X server is running and that $DISPLAY is set correctly.
Application tried to create a window, but no driver could be loaded.
Make sure that your X server is running and that $DISPLAY is set correctly.
err:ole:apartment_createwindowifneeded CreateWindow failed with error 126

I have my DISPLAY set to 0.0 and WINEPREFIX set to x.

Please show me how to fix this with exact code/steps because I am new to this.

Thanks!


texts: Is there an escape sequence that will change the background color in Terminal?

texts: All of the approaches that I have seen for changing the background color in Terminal use applescript; is there an escape sequence? All of the hints that I've seen, like this one, use AppleScript. I want to put it in my .base_profile and in the 'ssh' command so that when I hop from system to system the color changes properly. (I sometimes have to hop multiple systems in due to connectivity issues)


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I am a new iPhone user, because Apple has formed an amazing partnership with Cochlear Corp (hearing-implant devices), so I can directly pair my cochlear implant with my iPhone. The app for this is called Nucleus Smart, but it has pretty limited functionality.

One issue is that when I open any app that can access sound, it switches automatically to my hearing aid. For example, even my solitaire app, with the sound option turned off, will still automatically turn on my hearing aid, and essentially mask all regular environmental sounds with the muted audio.

The developers of the app aren't particularly responsive, so I'm wondering if there is another app that can block app access to any sound output.


texts: My ipod doesn't start anymore. I didn't drop it or anything like that... It just went black screen while I wasn't looking. I can't start it and charging doesn't do anything. What can I do?


texts: How to make a particular app the default viewer / editor for ALL its supported file types at once?

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I want to make an application, say VLC, the default player for all the file types it supports, without going through all of them individually.

I might not even know what all the supported formats are (as VLC can read 100s of formats) and still want to set it as the default player for all of them.

I was able to do this using the terminal, with the procedure posted below.

Is there an easier way to do it that doesn't require the user to be a developer?


texts: iBooks Store: How do I know what format is used?

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I see a technical book on the iBooks store which looks interesting. The description tells me everything except:

What format (PDF, ePub etc) is supplied?
Does the book have DRM?

I don’t know whether the answer is always the same, but how can I find out about the book on the store?


texts: How do I add more than ~30 signatures to Apple Mail?

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I have a lot of signatures, since I like to include witty or insightful quotes at the end of my emails. I was adding them to Apple Mail today and once I get to about 30 or so the list of signatures starts to disappear, like so:

I tried to work around this by looking for the plist to edit them, but Apple seems to have closed off ~/Library/Mail, even to the superuser.
I know I can delete signature using the - button, and I can still add them using the + button, but I can't edit their names.
How might I add more signatures & edit their names?


texts: I just started using Safari and I notice the tools have no symbols to indicate their role. Is it normal or a bug? How do I fix it?


texts: What is AppSC extremely slowing down my MacBook Pro?

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I noticed that my OS X very frequently runs extremely slow and everything lags. I opened up Activity Monitor and I saw that something called AppSC is using up to 95% of the memory. It makes my computer run very hot. I immediately Force Quit the program when I notice it but it keeps happening.

Does anyone know what AppSC is?


texts: Is there any Application to view the Contents which are Saved to Offline?

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From an Application, I Saved the PDF Contents to Offline.
Now, Exit from the Application.
Are there any App's to View the Offline Saved Content from outside the Application.


texts: Is there a way to set/unset the execute bit on a file in osx 10.6.8 without using terminal (or bypassing it)?

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I would like to do the following:

chmod +x filename.txt

without using the terminal.  Is there a way to bypass the terminal and invoke a kernel system call ? I'd rather not write a program to do this.  Instead I was wondering if I could somehow simulate a terminal with (perhaps) an application besides terminal to invoke system calls.

I have already tried doing Command Key + i on the file to show the information GUI.  However there is no option for setting the execute bit.

Would appreciate help from os x administrator experts in the community.


texts: Partition corruption, still can see files in single user mode, would like to retrieve files

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The problem started after forcing the mac to shutdown. Since then, when trying to boot, it stays stuck at the grey apple with spinning wheel.
I've tried a few generic things to be able to access my data on my internal drive without success.
I first tried booting on the restore partition from mountain lion, but the same apple with spinning wheel issue happens, which makes me think that it's the partition that's corrupted and not the Volume.

I've tried booting the iMac in Target mode and do the following:

1) I've tried using Disk Utility to repair the disk, but when trying to "Repair Disk" on the hardware item (not the volume one), the output gives:

Verifying and repairing partition map for “AAPL FireWire Target Media”
Checking prerequisites
Problems were encountered during repair of the partition map
Error: Some information was unavailable during an internal lookup

2) Data Rescue and Disk Warrior hang when I open them and when the Target disk is connected, but don't when I disconnect it.

What make me thing that some data can be saved is the following

3) Using single user mode, I can navigate through the different users’ folders, I can even open their text files.
doing the fsck -fy command outputs: The Volume Macintosh HD appears to be OK.

When doing the /sbin/mount -uw / command, it outputs

SATA WARNING: Enable auto-activate failed
disk0s2: I/0 error.

followed by a few lines of gibberish followed by:

hfs: cat_delete() failed to delete thread record on volume Macintosh HD
hfs: Runtime corruption detected on Macintosh HD, fsck will be forced on     next mount
hfs_remove_orphans: failed to start transaction
hfs: hfc_btree_open: hfs_getnewvnode error 2

So I can’t mount the internal drive and I can’t seem to be able to mount an external drive to copy my files to it.
It seems that there’s no network connection in single user mode (unless I’m missing something), so I don’t believe I can send the data through networking and my laptop refuses to mount the Target disk.

There are some important documents I would like to save and I was wondering if there was some way to access the files on the hard drive the same way single user mode does it?

Thanks a lot for any answers!


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I got my Mac OS10.8.2, last month (Jan 2013), I had backup one iPhone using iTunes "Backup Up Now". Yesterday I did another backup again. But my Jan 2013 backup has not found in the Restore record. Is it auto merge?

I go to ~/Library/Application Support/MobileSync/Backup/[ID] only got 1 record which is last modified by yesterday date.

How do I retrieve my January record?

The reason why I need my January record is my photo.
Jan - Backup my iPhone (with 1 years photo), due to full to photo cannot take more picture into the iPhone storage. After backup, I removed all the photo.
Jan - Feb: I take around 1000 new photos.
Feb - Yesterday my iPhone sleep button got problem, I need to claim warranty, then I backup again. Then I found only 1 record in my restore record.

However, I can see my iPad got few records with date listed beside it.

Anyone can explain to me what is going on to iTunes, am I able to restore back Jan backup record?


texts: Make Hard Drive appear as Bootcamp for Parallels

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Parallels Dekstop 13.0.1 BE won't let me add a Physical Internal HDD to the VM system.

There is a SATA HardDrive in my system with a GPT partition table and a big (2TB) NTFS partition. I use it when normally booted in a Microsoft Windows installation located in another drive. The disk contains some user files and a few apps. There is no OS installed on it. The hard drive is recognized and works as expected under macOS too.

Please note: macOS (10.12.6) is installed on a third disk. I also cannot update: I had to downgrade because High Sierra breaks compatibility with some stuff I have and I don't like the root login without password thingie.

My VM is actually a proper Windows 10 installation on an SSD which Parallels sees as Bootcamp and it works fine both natively and in the VM. In the VM settings though if I try to add a HDD it asks me what kind of drive I wish to attach. I can either create a new/use an existing virtual drive or use a "real" Hard Drive (Bootcamp). Problem is, only the SSD is seen as an available disk (the one with Windows installed on it) while my 2TB data disk does not appear.

I guess that is because it's not a Bootcamp/Windows hard drive, only a common disk with some files on it. I tried moving my pre-owned license and installing Paragon NTFS on this machine. Again, the Drive works as expected, I can view/move/edit/create/delete/rename files on it but Parallels still won't let me select the drive as an additional disk for my VM?

TL;DR and core question

What can I do to make my internal disk appear as a Bootcamp hard drive (preferably without actually installing Windows on it)?

Or, if impossible, how can I at least convince Parallels that my HDD is eligible for use as a VM drive?


texts: Auto switch input source to English when entering Spotlight, typing URL in Safari, etc

texts: I don't have files with non-english names, and don't type non-latin URL's, so question is how to auto switch system input source in these occasions.


texts: How do I unlock a .plist file so that I can change it?

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I want to edit Info.plist for TextEdit. (Here's why.)  I'm running OS 10.7, and I do have Xcode installed.  But every time I try to edit the file, it's locked and I can't save my changes.

If I try to save it with Xcode, Xcode asks if I want to unlock it.  I say "Unlock", but then an error says The file "Info.plist" could not be unlocked."; it says that this is because I do not own it.

If I open Info.plist using vi in Terminal (vi Info.plist), I can't save changes even using :w!.  The error is E212: Can't open file for writing.

How can I make changes to TextEdit's Info.plist file?


texts: Why is my iPhone 4S running iOS 5 not showing in iTunes sidebar when using WiFi sync?

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I've enabled WiFi sync for my 4S and my first gen iPad, both running iOS5. When my phone is plugged in to my computer with a USB cable, it shows up in the sidebar, but as soon as it's unplugged it goes away. The iPad stays in the sidebar until I manually eject it.

It seems that my iPad is behaving 'correctly', at least based on This kbase article.

Toggling WiFi sync when the phone is connected doesn't seem to solve it.

I've also tried the steps outlined in this article to no avail.

This was a fresh install, I didn't import a backup from a previous device. I've restored and set up as new, and the same behavior happens.

I had originally thought it was because my computer had switched to an 802.11n 5Ghz network while my phone remained on the 802.11n 2.4Ghz network, but even when they're on the same exact network I see this behavior.


texts: How to see Contact Duplicates in Mac OS El Captian

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I am using the Mac OS Contacts app version 9.0 (latest).
I only have the option to "Look for duplicates..." which will then allow an auto-merge option if it finds duplicate. What it doesn't do is show me which entries will be merged.

Other Apple apps and the old contacts app allowed showing duplicates. This feature seems to have been removed in the last 3 (?) major Mac OS releases. Mac OS 10.6 had it.

How can I find out what will be merged before using the auto-merge option?


texts: MacBook shows it is charging when MagSafe is green

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My MacBook currently shows this  even though the MagSafe charger has a green light.

Does anyone know why this is?

If it helps I am on a MacBook Air late 2010 with 819 cycle counts, 4,995mAh (currently), max capacity is 4,995mAh and the original capacity is 6,700mAh. I am also running make in terminal which has set my fans on and is making my computer lag a bit since it has a lot to install.

Could the issue be the process it using a lot of power?

Edit

Just clicked on my battery in the toolbar while pressing alt and found out it says service battery could this be a reason as well? (the message keeps appearing and disappearing)


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I've been using Command ⌘+1~4 shortcuts for switching spaces on older versions of OS X.

But after upgrading to Lion (10.7.4), Command ⌘+3 and Command ⌘+4 do not work!

I need them to switch tabs in web browser and they are very useful shortcuts in Xcode too.

I looked in Keyboard in System Preference but couldn't find where they are defined.

Command ⌘+1 and Command ⌘+2 work in both Chrome and Xcode. (Command ⌘+5~6 works also)

I don't know why Command ⌘+3 and Command ⌘+4 do not work in any application!

My guess is they're defined for something else globally. But I can't find where.

Another guess is they're probably defined for 'Switch to Desktop 3, 4' since I've been using old version of OSX and upgraded to Lion.

Like DMan pointed out, after removing 'Switch to Desktop 1, 2', Command ⌘+1 and Command ⌘+2 work just fine.

But where's 'Switch to Desktop 3 and 4'??


texts: How can I recover from a "AMD-Action:downloadProduct:SP" during installation of macOS?

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Just wiped my hard drive on my MacBook Pro from 2013. Went to install a new copy of MacOS Sierra. I get the following error:

AMD-Action:downloadProduct:SP

I looked online and tried change the date using the Utility Terminal and the following command:

date mmddHHMMyy

Then did

csrutil enable
csrutil clear

Then I tried clearing the NVRAM using command + option + P + R on startup.

Still no luck. Still getting the same error message.
Apple support told me to go to a "computer repair store".

Any advice?


texts: Application Switcher showing up on wrong monitor display

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I have an early 2015 MacBook Pro running macOS Sierra. I also have two Dell UltraSharp Infinity Edge monitors connected to it via two Thunderbolt Mini DisplayPort outputs.

In the System Preferences, I've arranged my two displays such that the menu bar is located in the monitor immediately in front of me.  The second monitor sits to my left.

The problem I'm having is that when I hit Command + Tab to activate the Application Switcher, the switcher always appears in the monitor on my left instead of the monitor in front of me.  I would think that the switcher would appear on the monitor whose display has the Menu bar.

Is there some way to configure my settings so that the switcher will always appear in the monitor in front of me, that is, the monitor that holds the Menu bar?


texts: OS X doesn't allow me to change the input source for passwords boxes

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In my OS X El Capitan I can only use en-US input for all password boxes (other input methods are not available). But most of my password are in Russian.

How can I change the input source in OS X El Capitan?


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I have a 2010 Macbook Pro 17″

It does not have a Thunderbolt port. I believe about a year ago Apple released a 17" that had a thunderbolt port. I was thinking about upgrading to a newer 17" model but there is now 17" macbooks in the Apple Store. I want a new Mac, not anything from the refurbished section.

I checked MacRumors and there is no news about a newer 17". I also heard that a 17" with retina display seemed pretty impossible - because of the price / technology limitations etc.

Does Apple still sell a 17 inch portable Mac?


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I have an Apple HD display that has been in our IT depart for a few months now. It was working fine until recently (the past month or two). I can turn it on and it will work for a few days, but then it suddenly will stop working.  If I unplug the monitor, wait for a few days, and then plug it back in, the monitor will work again for a few more days.

I suspect the issue is the 90W power converter, but before I invest the 140 dollars I was wondering: Has anyone else had the same issue? If so, how did you solve it?


texts: I'm trying to open iCloud prefs in System Preferences, but I get a preferences error saying "could not load iCloud preference pane" (see screenshot). I have run disk permissions, and even installed a new OS using recovery mode, i can however open iCloud prefs using another user account on the same computer, any ideas anyone?


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I have a 20 iMac and an AppleTV 2 (the black one), and three external drives (2TB, 1.5TB and 1TB) that house all my music, movies and tv shows.
Up until now, I've never needed more than the one drive for everything, but now my 1.5TB drive is almost full and what I'm doing to keep things organized feels like a cludge so I'll just explain what I'm doing and hopefully someone will tell me what I'm doing wrong and how to fix it.
Right now, I'm using the 1.5TB (music, apps and tv shows) and 2TB (movies) for my media. After I've converted, tagged, etc. all my new shows or movies, I change the preferences in iTunes to the drive that contains whatever I'm about to add to the library. For example, if I'm going to add a new movie, I switch the "iTunes Media Folder Location" to the 2TB drive, add the movie, then change the preference back to the 1.5TB drive.
This just seems silly to me, and I know I could create a RAID but I don't want to move all that data around so there has to be a better way to do this.


texts: Create bootable macOS USB without using macOS

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I need to install macOS to a new SSD because the old one might be broken (MacBook freezes after couple of mins and will seldom start again - usually error screen showing a file with question mark). Obviously, therefore, I’m out of Macs and their app stores, so how am I supposed to download macOS and make a bootable USB so I can install it on the new SSD?

I can boot linux and windows and have App Store on iPhone and iPad.


texts: Diagnosis or Hardware Test on a mid 2009 Macbook Pro with MacOS 10.9.2

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I would like to test hardware on a mac book pro model from 2009 with Mac Os X 10.9.2 installed. Since it is running unreliably I would like to perform a diagnosis/hardware test.

What is easy to find on the internet is, that on pre 2013 models, the apple hardware test was to be run, on models after that, the apple diagnosis, see

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5781?viewlocale=en_US
and http://support.apple.com/kb/PH14291

Now I wondered what to do with a macbook that has had its OS version updated (10.9.2 Maverick).

I have plainly now  just tried starting the laptop while keeping D pressed multiple times and I never ended up in a AHT or diagnosis mode.


texts: How to disable mouse acceleration in Catalina?

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The command I've seen from How do I disable mouse acceleration AND adjust tracking speed in High Sierra?

defaults write .GlobalPreferences com.apple.mouse.scaling -1

Doesn't change the mouse behaviour at all.

I don't know where to download SteelSeries exact mouse anymore (nor if it works). Ideally a solution should exist that doesn't use third party software.

I have a logitech G203, Macbook Pro 15", macOS Catalina 10.15.2.


texts: Mac search no longer searching within files for text matches?

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Good day, I recently noticed that my Mac is not searching inside files any more. If you notice, when you put in a search string at the search bar in Finder, Mac will also look up that string inside files it can read the text in (Word, Powerpoint, TextEdit files, even Java, PHP, C/C++ files -- as long as the file can be read as text).

For example, if you look up "Hello World", it's going to look for all files containing in their filename and in their file content the string "Hello World" and show those files.

This is very handy because I can just search up a line of code I want to search and then all the files with that line of code will show up, I wouldn't have to check every file individually as it will get very tedious once the files in my code work reach 20+ files.

Does anyone know how to make Finder search within files again? I've tried resetting my laptop, as well as PRAM and SMC but to no avail.


texts: What does the 'lock' checkbox on the 'Get Info' - 'General' - screen do?

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What exactly this lock checkbox does and how it differs from the lock icon at the bottom right of the "Get info" tab.

PS: Diff. questions from - What does the lock icon on the 'Get Info' screen do?


texts: What's easiest way to share/collate fullres photos with family in 2019?

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My wife and I both take pictures on our iPhones. We have our own iCloud accounts. Sometimes we want to make albums of pictures selected from both our accounts. What is the easiest way to share high resolution pictures from both of us?

Apple's photo sharing seems to have some significant downsides:

Shared photos are not full resolution (i.e., when we try to print them out, they're blurry)
Pictures must be manually added by each person (and I'm lazy and don't always add mine)

Some possibilities I've thought about:

I don't know of a way to do it on a Mac, since the Photos app, as far as I can tell, can only access one iCloud account per Mac account. Tying to a Mac account means I need to log out of one account (which is a major hassle since everything we do is on one Mac account) in order to view the pictures from the other.
From one Mac account I could load the other library in a icloud.com browser window. This at least I can have them available concurrently, but they're not collated.
I'm sure most people, including us, have multiple devices and that enables viewing photos concurrently. But when, for example, preparing a photo album, you now need a way to transfer the original photos from one device to the one where the album is being prepared.
I don't know/think I want both of us to use the same iCloud account... because that ties everything we do together, e.g., we'd receive each other's text messages etc?
I could create a 2nd Mac account, have it download all the photos from the 2nd iCloud account. Then export them to a shared directory on the Mac, import them into the primary account. This would mean that the photos are either duplicated or removed from the original iCloud account, neither of which are desirable, besides being a bit time consuming as well as potentially deleting photo origination information.

This seems like a very desirable feature for families that a lot of people can't figure out. I realize that Best way to share all photos with partner asks more or less the same thing, but things may have changed in the meantime.


texts: I have problem with iCloud Photos. I confirmed it with uploading specific amount of photos to iCloud. If I upload 500 MB's of media, iCloud says Photos app takes 1 GB of space. I believe this occurs because it uploads both HEIC and JPG version of each photo. Is there a way to disable this feature? Because if i am to upload 200 GB's of media, it would take 400 GB's of space.


texts: How can I disable the Apple ID warning about not being signed into iCloud?

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On my work computer's Apple ID I only sign into "Media & Purchases" - to access my Music library. I don't have a reason to sign into "iCloud" and prefer to keep my personal iCloud off of my work machine.

Unfortunately (on macOS Catalina) the cost of this is that System Preferences has a permanent badge icon and I'm prompted to add iCloud every time I open System Preferences.

How can I turn off this warning without signing into my personal iCloud account?

Some solutions I've considered:

Use iCloud, but toggle off all syncing.
Create dummy Apple ID just to sign into "iCloud" (keep my regular Apple ID for "Media & Purchases").


texts: Xcode 10 Not Always Jumps to Location of Warning/Error

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After upgrading to Xcode 10, I have noticed that for some issues (not all) the source code editor no longer jumps to the location of a compiler error or warning when I click said issue on the issue navigator.

Any known fix to this? (other than "delete derived data", etc.)


texts: After Mavericks upgrade Chrome font is terrible

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I just upgrade to Mavericks and had some issues. Out of all the issues, one that I get frustrated the most is Chrome browser is not displaying font like it use to be. Here are two images taken from Safari and Chrome to compare.

Chrome:

Safari:

As you can see, comparing both Safari and Chrome, fonts on Chrome are more bold.  I use Chrome mostly for my development and the font use in this design is Open Sans font-weight 300.

Is this normal or there is a fix to have Chrome render the fonts more finely as Safari does?


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Suddenly, my iphone no longer has any contacts saved.

When I go to icloud.com, my contacts section is empty.

I tried: settings-> advanced -> restore contacts, but I see "no archives available".

Any suggestions for how I can troubleshoot this (or restore my contacts?)


texts: Why am I not able to run a website which ‘requires javascript’

texts: I am using an iPad mini 2. When I open this website in Google Chrome it says “This site requires JavaScript. Please enable Javascript to view the website.” Although I have enabled javascript, but still this website is not opening. Please help me.


texts: Finding Volume Label and Understanding the APFS Partition

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I would like to understand the Format Partition APFS on Linux Side.
I made this question https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/597308
I have a USB External SSD with 4 disk partitions. The file system of partitions are

APFS
ExFAT
ext4
NTFS

Now I would like to find the Label (The Volume is named 'APFS') on my APFS partition....

Using the command diskutil list Can you see the /dev/disk3.

Checking the https://developer.apple.com/support/downloads/Apple-File-System-Reference.pdf
Here another blogs

https://blog.cugu.eu/post/apfs/
https://www.ntfs.com/apfs-structure.htm
https://digital-forensics.sans.org/media/FOR518-Reference-Sheet.pdf

Here a resume that I made of the First structure or Format Header of APFS Partition.

I would like the position of Label ('APFS' I named like File System) of my Volume.
Checking my First 4096 first bytes on my disk

(About the picture above)Point 4: What does it mean that nx_efi_jumpstart_t have 00 00 00 00 | 00 00 00 00, where is there supposed to be an address?

(About the picture above)Point 2: nx_xp_desc_base How must be interpreted the bytes 45 81 00 00 | 00 00 00 00?, is it a relative memory position or absolute memory position or Jump?
(About the picture above)Point 6: nx_omap_oid How must be interpreted the bytes 46 7e 09 00 | 00 00 00 00?, is it a relative memory position or absolute memory position or Jump?
(About the picture above)Point 7: nx_fs_oid How must be interpreted the bytes 02 04 00 00 | 00 00 00 00?, is it a relative memory position or absolute memory position or Jump?
Thanks a lot in advance!


texts: Does the iPad use any type of controller for drive wear leveling? It seems like Sandforce is the only player in the field.


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This started today, and it scares the hell out of me. I thought the shutdowns were random, but I can easily trigger one by just moving the macbook.
They aren't quite shutdowns: the screen goes black, sometimes the leyboard backlight is still on, and the fans sometimes spin up in the dark state. It happened with a video in the background, which stopped.
I had this macbook in repair last year (liquid damage) and they replaced the entire top cover + fan. It wasn't cheap. Does anyone know if there is anything that can be causing this, that does not require an apple "genius" to fix.
P.S. I'm stuck in Armenia, which is at war, and it doesn't have a single AASP. I can't leave the country, I have to work, and I need this machine to work, so in a bit of a pickle.
P. P. S. Resetting the PRAM and SMC (in any conceivable order several times) did not seem to work.


texts: Is there a way to have two keyboard shortcuts for the same function?

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I saw these instructions to replace a shortcut

On your Mac, choose Apple menu > System Preferences, click Keyboard, then click Shortcuts. Select App Shortcuts on the left, click the Add button , click the Application pop-up menu, then choose a specific app or All Applications.

So I can add a shortcut named 'Copy' under all applications, and insert ctrl+C as the keystroke. But then cmd+C won't work as the Copy shortcut anymore.
Is there a way to have both?


texts: Macbook Pro crashes when I remove power while hibernated

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I have a late 2013 Macbook Pro (MacBookPro11,3) running OS 10.9.3 that I want to keep as locked down as possible since I have sensitive company data on it. To that end, I have turned on FileVault, set DestroyFVKeyOnStandby 1 hibernatemode 25, and set a firmware password. I have turned off Wake for WiFi access, Power Nap, and graphics card switching.

This set up works most of the time. However, I have found that it always crashes under the following sequence:

Sleep by closing the lid and then Hibernate while connected to power
Remove power. The display backlight comes on; wait for it to go out.

Boom, no more waking, now I have to hit the power button to reboot the machine. (If I remove power but immediately open the lid, then fully wake the machine by entering the firmware password and then the FileValut password, I'm fine.)

Of course I'd like a solution that maintains the protection of the data while the computer is sleeping/hibernating, but I'd settle for theories about what the computer is trying and failing to do when power is removed while hibernating so that maybe I can figure out a solution from there.


texts: Migration Assistant ... transferring from a Mac G5 with no display to 2014 iMac

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Our trusty 9 year old Mac G5 hit what appears to be a dead end ... the graphics card died and thus no picture, just a black screen. In desperation -- because we're a busy design and education company -- we purchased a brand spanking new 2014 27" iMac. Beautiful machine. That was the easy part. And we bought the necessary cables to speed the transfer of data and applications from Firewire (G5) to Thunderbolt (iMac).

Now here's the migration issue and request for help: In setting up the transfer of data from one machine to another, the procedure says to start Migration Assistant on both machines. The problem with the G5 is that the monitor is dead so there's no way to navigate to the Migration app in the Utilities folder. The Migration Assistant on the iMac therefore cannot locate the G5 and just spins endlessly.

I just learned that on older PPC Macs you could restart the machine and hold the "T" key down to force it into target mode. This may be the answer but wanted to post this in case it doesn't work and there's another solution.

Please advise and thank you in advance.


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I switched to Mac recently. So I have this question:

I am in Germany, however, neither I speak nor read any German. Is it possible to set the Mac language to English and the country to Germany so that I can use the German App Store. (sorry if I sound naive, I have never used one before). If yes, how?

Edit: I want to use the German version of the App Store because I don't have a credit card (I am a student). I need to buy a few apps for my education.

Thanks.


texts:
Is it possible to add an HTML Snippet to Numbers on OS X?

I would like to add some html code and have Numbers treat it as such, for example to use iframes embed websites into my document.

Would this be possible somehow?


texts: Cannot seem to add internal testers with existing iTunes Connect accounts

texts: I am trying to add internal beta testers to my app. The app is still in development, so I do not wish to submit the app for review for external testers. It seems the only way I can add an internal tester is if I add them as a new iTunes Connect User. When I try to though, I cannot because the Apple ID (email) of the person I want to invite already has an iTunes Connect account. Is there any way I can add people who already have Connect accounts as internal testers?


texts: Cant install bootcamp in MBR after internal SSD upgrade

texts:
I upgraded internal kSSD on my mac (MBP-2013) via Carbon Copy Cloner.

OSX loads fine, but for some reason I cannot boot into Windows that I have installed on external USB in MBR mode. Prior to changing the internal SSD the USB in MBR was booting fine. My

I do need to have Windows installed via BIOS/MBR to use external GPU. I tried installing via Virtualbox and via unebootin, but have the same result - when I restart MBP to continue Windows installation I see a cursor for a second and then the screen goes blank. Not black as if it was turned off but blank - the display is clearly working but there is nothing being displayed.

My latest steps:

Format USB as MBR/Fat32
Get to final stages of Windows 10 Installer in Virtualbox
Reboot hold ALT -> pick Windows
Blank screen

What can I do to get Windows installation to continue in MBR mode?

A note - if I format USB as GUID I can install and boot from USB windows just fine.


texts:
I am facing issues streaming Youtube videos on iPad (using the native Youtube app)

My connection speed is 3.1 Mbps, which I guess is decent for video streaming. Also I agree that I would not get the full 3.1 Mbps and would only get about 1/3rd. So I get around 1 Mbps based on speedtest.

Now what should I do to fix the Youtube streaming and is it a known issue with speed limits for the Youtube app ?

Thank you.


texts: How to select multiple photos in an existing movie in iMovie on iOS?

texts: When I tap on a photo from the '+' sign it only lets me add that photo to the movie. How do I add multiple photos at once? I'm aware that when creating a movie for the first time, we get the multi-select feature but can we get this for an existing project too? Please help


texts: Can you wipe a MacBook pro's ssd if it doesn't have a firmware password?

texts:
My MacBook Pro got stolen, and I have file vault enabled but not the Firmware password, too strange on Apple's part not to set it on by default when you set a user password or at least to raise awareness about it. I'm an advanced user but never thought about the firmware password.
Anyway, my biggest fear now is that the thief can erase the disk using recovery mode, reinstall macOS and have a new apple id configured, allowing him to bypass the "find my iPhone" notification and lock.
Is that doable? If so, that redeems the whole anti-theft features of "find my" worthless!


texts: Odd Red Lines in Windows 7 Games on 2013 rMBP

texts:
Last September, I upgraded to a late 2013 model rMBP (Core i5 2.4ghz with Intel Iris 5100). It has largely been fantastic for gaming in Windows 7 — I've played through Bioshock Infinite, Dishonored, Dark Souls and others all without many problems and with a good performance and quality.

However, some games give me a really odd glitch when certain settings are enabled. Spec Ops: The Line, The Vanishing of Ethan Carter, and Borderlands 2 (so far) have all displayed odd red lines/artifacting, and though I can sometimes remove them by fiddling with settings, I was hoping someone would know if there is any root cause of this. I updated to the latest drivers this morning while trying to fix this, and there was no change.

Screenshot of the glitch in Borderlands, where the glitch is apparently tied to the Depth of Field setting:


texts: There is a non removable, outward protruding speck on my MacBook screen, Apple is denying warranty coverage

texts: A few days ago I noticed a black speck inside my screen, someone suggested it is a thunderfly, others to use a microscope. I took pics using microscope, please help me to classify what the speck is, Apple is denying warranty :(


texts:
I kind of like iPhoto 8, but it's unmantained, is there an alternative that:

runs on 10.6
imports iPhoto library (events, albums, Facebook albums, hidden photos), and works more or less like iPhoto itself
is actively mantained
if it's not free, it offers an almost-fully working demo, i.e. limited in time but not in features (to be sure it actually works)
if it's not free, it has a reasonable price (i.e. 5~15€)

My problem with iPhoto itself is that the newer version requires 10.7, and the version I'm using has some very annoying bugs, such as every time I click on a Facebook album, it resets its privacy to "friends only".

(likely such a software doesn't exist, but searching for such a topic brings up such a mess that I'm not sure, it might be well hidden)

If you know of a program which doesn't have all these features, but have most of them, feel free to list it anyway (no Picasa).


texts: APFS/High Sierra - `tmutil deletelocalsnapshots` not deleting snapshots

texts:
Listing local snapshots yields this

> tmutil listlocalsnapshots /
com.apple.TimeMachine.2018-01-30-194719
com.apple.TimeMachine.2018-01-30-211627
com.apple.TimeMachine.2018-01-30-224917
com.apple.TimeMachine.2018-01-30-234619
com.apple.TimeMachine.2018-01-31-014151
com.apple.TimeMachine.2018-01-31-024107
com.apple.TimeMachine.2018-01-31-034442
com.apple.TimeMachine.2018-01-31-044108
com.apple.TimeMachine.2018-01-31-054441
com.apple.TimeMachine.2018-01-31-064120

and i try to delete a local snapshot but running this

> sudo tmutil deletelocalsnapshots 2018-01-30-194719
Deleted local snapshot '2018-01-30-194719'

but listing the local snapshots again showed that the snapshot has not been removed

> tmutil listlocalsnapshots /
com.apple.TimeMachine.2018-01-30-194719
com.apple.TimeMachine.2018-01-30-211627
com.apple.TimeMachine.2018-01-30-224917
com.apple.TimeMachine.2018-01-30-234619
com.apple.TimeMachine.2018-01-31-014151
com.apple.TimeMachine.2018-01-31-024107
com.apple.TimeMachine.2018-01-31-034442
com.apple.TimeMachine.2018-01-31-044108
com.apple.TimeMachine.2018-01-31-054441
com.apple.TimeMachine.2018-01-31-064120

Just for fun i wrote a little bash script to delete them all (which also avoids any typos).

for date in $(tmutil listlocalsnapshots / | perl -pe 's/com.*(2018.*)/\1/'); do echo "deleting $date"; sudo tmutil deletelocalsnapshots "$date";  done

Strangely enough, i can repetitively run that command above and it will always show the same output:

deleting 2018-01-30-194719
Deleted local snapshot '2018-01-30-194719'
deleting 2018-01-30-211627
Deleted local snapshot '2018-01-30-211627'
deleting 2018-01-30-224917
Deleted local snapshot '2018-01-30-224917'
deleting 2018-01-30-234619
Deleted local snapshot '2018-01-30-234619'
deleting 2018-01-31-014151
Deleted local snapshot '2018-01-31-014151'
deleting 2018-01-31-024107
Deleted local snapshot '2018-01-31-024107'
deleting 2018-01-31-034442
Deleted local snapshot '2018-01-31-034442'
deleting 2018-01-31-044108
Deleted local snapshot '2018-01-31-044108'
deleting 2018-01-31-054441
Deleted local snapshot '2018-01-31-054441'
deleting 2018-01-31-064120
Deleted local snapshot '2018-01-31-064120'

Why are my snapshots not deleting? I am quite low on storage space (13gb of space - the snapshots would not even clear when i had 2gb of free space left)


texts: MacBook Pro Mid-2012 Hard Drive Cable Broken

texts:
So I had a problem few days ago. My MacBook was freezing all the time without any obvious reason. Googled for some time and figured out that HD cable was acting funny. So I bought a new one, but my new one came with no brackets. Tried to replace it and broke this little cable

I'm not really sure why but I decided to give it a try and booted it as it is. MacBook runs fine so far. I understand that it needs to be replace and all but can anyone tell me what that cable for and what consequences I can face?


texts: Making Homebrew and R.app live together happily

texts:
I just upgraded to Mavericks (10.9.2) and after years of using MacPorts I decided to use Homebrew.  I successfully installed Homebrew, but brew doctor shows:

brew doctor
Warning: Unbrewed dylibs were found in /usr/local/lib.
If you didn't put them there on purpose they could cause problems when
building Homebrew formulae, and may need to be deleted.

Unexpected dylibs:
    /usr/local/lib/libtcl8.6.dylib
    /usr/local/lib/libtk8.6.dylib

Warning: Unbrewed .pc files were found in /usr/local/lib/pkgconfig.
If you didn't put them there on purpose they could cause problems when
building Homebrew formulae, and may need to be deleted.

Unexpected .pc files:
    /usr/local/lib/pkgconfig/tcl.pc
    /usr/local/lib/pkgconfig/tk.pc

Warning: Unbrewed static libraries were found in /usr/local/lib.
If you didn't put them there on purpose they could cause problems when
building Homebrew formulae, and may need to be deleted.

Unexpected static libraries:
   /usr/local/lib/libtclstub8.6.a
   /usr/local/lib/libtkstub8.6.a

All this stuff comes from R.app, from the OSX specific website.  Now, I prefer to use the standard R.app rather than the Homebrew version (for a number of personal reasons).  Can I safely ignore these warnings or there will be a problem?


texts: Interested in flashlight/torch that uses iPhone LED flash

texts:
I am looking for a physical flashlight or torch that uses the same kind of LED light as the one housed in the iPhone's flash.  I do a lot of shadow puppetry, and the iPhone's LED makes very crisp shadows, while in other LED torches the shadows blur.

Curious if anyone has any leads, or if anyone knows about the specific kind of LED that is used in the iPhone's flash.

Thanks!


texts: Trouble with 13 inch MacBook Pro & about buying AppleCare

texts:
This is the 2nd time I have trouble with my 13" MacBook Pro, which I have purchased a little less than 1 year ago, in october 2011.

First time it was 6-7 months ago—the logic board was short circuited—, about which I have posted here. As it was under warranty, I got it repaired.

Now, about a month and half ago, when I was using it, a reddish tint appeared on the screen and after few moments the screen start displaying different colors.

After that, whenever I turned it on, there was no desktop display. Instead it was only showing different colors like red, green, blue, grey etc. one at a time & in full screen. I mean, the whole screen shows one color and nothing else is visible. At that time, within 2-3 days I got to fly to south-Korea on a business trip for a month and I thought I will get it repaired after getting back. But now the trip is extended and it looks like I won’t be able to get it repaired in warranty time.

What can be the reason for this defect? Why is it showing different colors on screen?

It’s warranty is expiring on 10th of October.

My question is: can I purchase AppleCare from Korea and use it for my MacBook Pro which I purchased from India?

Also, can AppleCare be registered after the warranty expires? Because Apple says on its web site to buy AppleCare before warranty time is over. It does not say anything about registering it.


texts: Changing the default size of iTerm2 when it opens

texts:
I feel like this is a pretty stupid question but I Googled it and played around with it and still didn't figure it out so here we go:

When I open iTerm2, it opens in a default size. How can I set it to open in a different window size?


texts: MacBook Air with small SSD, BootCamp, Windows 7. Can I use an external hard disk for dual boot?

texts:
I'd like to setup a dual boot onto my MacBookAir 128GB, with Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate in BootCamp. However, I'm already close to the 128GB limit (games + CS suite + Eclipse + XCode + a lot of Web development tools).
Therefore, it would be ideal for me if I could use the same HDD I will run my Time Machine saves on... when it's finally delivered!
The question is therefore: is it reasonnable to create a dual partition on that and run Windows 7 from the first one?

Would MacBook Air tolerate launching Windows 7 from an external disk?
Is there a risk (save for USB deconnection) that HDD might not be a working solution, as in too much lag? Could (eventually) a Thunderbolt external SSD be an acceptable workaround?


texts: Compress a folder via a command line while persisting its icon

texts:
I have a folder with a custom icon (via NSWorkspace's setIcon:forFile:options).

I would like to zip the folder so the custom icon is preserved after unzipping.

Currently, I call

zip -r9 Folder.zip Folder

When I uncompress it via Finder, the uncompressed folder does not have any custom icon and the folder contains an item named Icon?.

How to fix it / how to compress the folder properly?


texts: How do I pin notes to the top of the list in Notes.app?

texts:
In Notes.app (the default notes app that ships with Mac OS X since 10.8), is it possible to pin notes to the top of the list, regardless of existing sort order?

You can pin notes to the desktop (i.e. open notes in separate windows) but I'm talking about a feature akin to Simplenote's pinning that simply places notes at the top of the list.

In the screenshot below of Simplenote, you can see the dot to the left of the 'Reminders' note indicating that it's pinned to top. On the right, you see the 'Pin to Top' feature. Does this exist for Notes.app and if not, how can a solution be hacked to support it?


texts: Apps won't download or update on iOS 9.3.2

texts: I have an iPhone 5c with the newest iOS, 9.3.2.  Every time I try to download an app or an update, the loading icon shows up.  Immediately after that, it goes back to the download or update icon, without doing the download. Resetting the iPhone in all ways doesn't work.  Please help, I've tried almost everything.


texts:
So I'll just list the symptoms I've experienced in the last few hours, so far I can't seem to find a pattern, suffice to say the macbook is virtually unusable for my purposes. It's a 2010 Macbook white:

Can't open Chrome
Refuses to remember wifi password each time I reconnect
Mail.app thinks it's offline
Time keeps resetting to 12:00am
Turns off randomly

I'm leaning towards blaming the battery, given the power loss and time resetting, however shouldn't there be a watch battery keeping time? Also I don't think I could explain the other issues blaming the battery. I suppose it's possible multiple things broke all at once. Thought I'd ask however and see if this isn't a known issue.

Thanks for any advice.


texts: Dropping files on a network share results in incorrect permissions

texts:
I've got 2 Macs running OS 10.6.8. I've configured one to automatically drop certain files in a folder on the other Mac. I've used an Automator script to do this, it logs in using a user name [copier] created for this purpose, and then copies the files.
This used to work reasonably well. Recently however the files are copied with the wrong permissions. The copy has read&write permissions for user [copier] and 'no access' for everyone else. It should have read&write access for everyone. The folder permissions do have read&write access for everyone, so that's not it.
How can I set the permissions of files that get copied into this folder?


texts: Automatically eject disk image x minutes after mounting

texts: So I have an encrypted disk image that I use to store sensitive files. However, I often forget to eject it when I'm done, which obviously negates the whole point of encryption. What I'd like is some tool, setting, etc. (perhaps a cron job?) that monitors when a specific disk image is mounted, waits a specific duration of time, and then displays a message notifying the user of imminent ejection. If the user does not opt to reset the timer, or doesn't respond, the image is ejected. Alternatively, it could also eject when the screen saver activates. Do any tools like that exist?


texts: Mis-Typed iCloud Email Address. Want to create new iCloud email address

texts:
I made a foolish mistake when creating my iCloud email address.  There was a misspelling that I did not catch.  Now, my iCloud email is unacceptable to me with this spelling error.  I understand that one can not edit the email address.

Items:  I have iPod Touch, iPod, iPhone, and iPad.

AppleID:  I have only one.  It is NOT a mismatch of iCloud email address to AppleID.

Default Email:  This is correct and it is NOT my iCloud id.

Actions taken so far:

on apple.com website, under account management, I deleted the verified iCloud email.
on the ipad, under settings/icloud I clicked "delete account" with addition option of delete everything in lieu of "keep on iPad"

Results:
/fail.
When I reactivate the iCloud on my iPad, the settings automatically revert to the unacceptable iCloud email with the mistyped/misspelled id.

What I Need Help With:
I need someone to help me identify the ways to do the following:

delete the old iCloud id that I don't want
create a new iCloud id (abc@me.com)
associate the new iCloud id with my AppleID and all my iDevices


texts: Does anybody know how (if possible) to print a whole conversation thread in Mail.app?


texts: Merge two disks to RAID 0 and keep my installation

texts:
I've got two 128Gb SSDs installed in my MacBook Pro.

Originally I had one for the system (named Calcium), and one for the /Users folder, symlinked into the first (named Users).

As I ran out of space on Users, I shrunk the Calcium partition and created a 50Gb partition named "Swap" on the first SSD, from where I symlinked some folders back into /Users (namely, my iTunes backup and my work folder).

Now I want to get things a little cleaner before preparing my migration to the upcoming Mavericks release. I'd like to setup a RAID 0 with the two drives, keep my ~75Gb Calcium partition (lowering it to 64Gb is OK), and enlarge my Users partition to take the whole remaining space.

I have a spare 500Gb HDD lying around in a FireWire 800 case and a bootable USB stick with the Mountain Lion installer on it, so my plan is:

Using my existing system, copy all data off Swap (about 40Gb) onto a folder of the 500Gb
Boot off the USB installer and start Disk Utility
Create an image of Calcium onto the 500Gb drive using Disk Utility
Create an image of Users onto the 500Gb drive using Disk Utility
Wipe my two drives, create a RAID 0 with them
Re-create a Calcium partition (64Gb is enough) and restore from the image
Re-create a Users partition with the remaining 192Gb
Restore Users from the (smaller, 128Gb) image
Reboot the system from Calcium
Transfer data that previously was on Swap (not needed to boot) directly to the new, larger, Users.

According to that other similar question I believe that should work, and my existing system won't be confused when being restored.

My questions :

do you confirm I won't run into problems with this process? No data loss, no boot problems, no confused OS?
what image format should I use when imaging the partitions at steps 3-4 using Disk Utility? The default read/write format produces a DMG that's fully restorable
can I backup a 75Gb partition on a 64Gb image (for Calcium) if it has less used space than total space on the original partition? yes I can, in fact it's the default behavior of Disk Utility when you backup a partition
similarly, can I restore a 128Gb image on a 192Gb partition (for expanding Users)? yes I can


texts: Why does my 3TB Seagate HD keep formatting as a Logical Volume Group

texts:
This is really annoying. I have a brand new Seagate 3TB 7200 RPM hard drive that I am trying to format/partition in Disk Utility. Every time I change any settings or erase the drive, it changes it to a Logical Volume Group and subsequently changes the partition to a Logical Partition. Then I have to use Disk Utility in terminal and manually erase it.

This is really weird because I have two of these exact same drives and I zeroed out and partitioned the first one a couple of months ago without any issue whatsoever. I am not doing anything different than I always do when setting up my HDs.

I'm running OSX 10.8.4 on a 2009 Mac Pro.

Edit:
I am not trying to make a Fusion Drive. The drive will be partitioned as GUID Partition Table with 1 partition and Mac OS Extended (Journaled) and then when I erase the drive or change the number of partitions, or the partition map—any of these adjustments makes it instantly a Logical Volume Group. Again, to clarify, this is ONE drive, I shouldn't be able to make it a fusion.


texts: ssh terminal window closes immediately when opened

texts:
I am seeing some odd behavior when using the Terminal app to open an ssh window to a remote machine. I normally connect to many different Linux servers from my MacBook Pro running Mac OS X 10.7.3, with Terminal 2.2.2 (303).

I have a list of the servers' IP addresses in the New Remote Connection window's ssh group. When I select one of the servers (10.x.y.120, for instance), enter a username, and click Connect, an ssh window opens and I can enter my password and get to work.

However, starting yesterday, for a couple of the machines (10.x.y.182 and 10.x.y.194), when I follow this procedure an ssh window opens and then immediately disappears. For other servers, the window opens as usual.

Here's the kicker: If I open a terminal window on my MacBook Pro itself, then run ssh on the command line to the machine that I can't reach through the New Remote Connection window, the connection works perfectly. It only fails when I do it through Terminal.

I have tried deleting the entry in New Remote Connection, and creating it again, but that didn't help. This is happening on a machine that was just restarted. One thing that did change was that I applied the latest Mac OS updates over the weekend. I don't remember which versions they were.

Things used to work last week, so something broke recently. Are there any logs I could look at for more information? Are there any configuration or data files that might have become corrupt? Thanks in advance for your help.


texts: OSX Activity monitor (energy) shows terminated terminal app with high average energy impact

texts:
I use my macbook like desktop (always connected to electricity) 95% of the time, so I never noticed this before. However, I had to use it on battery last few days and it surprised me how short the battery charge lasts. My macbook isn't new (about 2 years) but I would still expect it would last longer than 2 hours doing nothing but displaying static web pages.

I checked activity monitor to see where the culprit is and it shows terminated Terminal app with very high avg energy impact, even though I didn't use it in couple days. There is also Chrome app showing about quarter of the Terminal's value, but that is expected as it's the app I am actually using (and the average is higher than usual because I was watching some videos recently). After that, pretty much nothing of note. I have no idea about the values so I don't know if the values are high or not. See attached screenshot for more details:

I googled a bit about this, but I didn't find any screenshot that would show terminal app with such high impact and that got me worried. Is it possible there is something wrong with my system? I can't find any Terminal app running anywhere.

I am running El Capitan 10.11.4 on MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2014)

EDIT:

After restart, terminal app disappeared and estimated remaining charge time almost tripled. I am not sure how to interpret this, it would seem like something started terminal app with heavy load and either kept closing it that it wouldn't show in the activity monitor or it was somehow hidden (I am OSX noob, so I have no idea if any of that is possible). I will try to see if I can determine what and why started that Terminal process


texts: Is there a way to animate the replacement of one object by another in Keynote?

texts:
In Keynote, I would like to show some text and then have it replaced by an image. It would be awesome if I could do that by using the cube effect, having the text and image on different faces of the cube and then rotating the cube so the photo replaces the text, but I cannot find a way to do this. I cannot even find a way to get multiple build effects to run simultaneously.

Is it possible to combine a build in and a build out animation in one step? If so, how do I do it?

If that is not possible, what are my options for creating a presentation where a text item is replaced with an image while the rest of the slide stays the same? Magic Move does not seem to handle replacing things, only moving them around.


texts:
My headset doesn't work on my iPhone (4)
But it works on another iPhone.

Sometimes when I turned off my iPhone & unplug the headset it works but now.

How can I fix that?


texts: rMBP Trackpad slips when trying to scroll?

texts:
Hello I just got my first ever MBP Retina and I was wondering if this is normal :

Sometimes I try to scroll upwards or downwards (natural way) and the mouse moves instead of scrolling the page up and down. Im not sure why this happens, is there a specific way how I should position my fingers on the trackpad ? Or perhaps the distance between each finger ?

Regards


texts: Mail app correctly marks spam but does not move it to the junk mail folder

texts:
as by message, Mail app does not bother moving mail correctly marked as spam in the spam folder -- this only happen when I am at home, and only during the week-end.  I suspect that the IMAP server is to be blamed.  I could try to delete the account and recreate it, but since it's my work email, and the server is showing some problems, I am quite lukewarm about this solution (Mail app problem in Lion).  Is there another less drastic way of solving the problem?

I'm on OS 10.8.3 all latest whistles and bells.


texts: JavaVM.framework deleted and not anymore able to install Java

texts:
/System/Library/Framework/JavaVM.framework and /System/Library/Java have been deleted from my disk. I thought of making things back to normal by running the last Apple Java update (Java for OS X Lion 2012-003 as of this writing) but unfortunately I'm facing the following error message:

A newer version of this package is already installed.

I still have java from oracle but I'd like to have the official one as well.

Any idea how I could get over this error message and proceed the install?


texts: Safari wants to access my keychain doesn't offer "always deny"... How can I implement this?

texts:
The only choice Safari asks me w.r.t keychain access is "deny" or "allow" or "always allow".

Why doesn't Safari offer me an "always deny" option in Safari?  How can I make the system "always deny"?

Will the "always allow" or always deny apply to the computer or to a specific website?


texts: Mouse jumps to input-bar text when using Google Chrome in Lion

texts:
I'm using Lion 10.7 and Chrome 13.0.782.

When I'm in Google Chrome and hit “Cmd-T” (new tab) or “Cmd-L” (change location) and any character, my mouse cursor jumps/changes its position to the Chrome input bar.

This is unwanted behaviour. Why is it happening, and how can one disable it?

Thank you for reading.


texts: Is there a dashboard widget for displaying (and monitoring or reloading) plain text files?

texts:
I use todo.txt as a todo list manager, and so my todo list is saved as a text file. I'd like for there to be a widget that monitors text files, so that it's not on my desktop, but in my dashboard. Is there a widget for this?

Also, I can't seem to figure out how to search for widgets in http://www.apple.com/downloads/dashboard/?r=dbw without looking through all the categories. Bug?


texts: If iOS's filesystem is case-sensitive then why can't I save a.pages and A.pages?

texts:
When I try to save document in Pages.app on iOS with the same name but a different case I get:

"a" is already taken. Please choose a different name.

I would expect that this would work if iOS is case-sensitive.


texts: Can a self-signed certificate use an IP address for an entry in Subject Alternative Name?

texts:
From https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT210176

TLS server certificates must present the DNS name of the server in the Subject Alternative Name extension of the certificate. DNS names in the CommonName of a certificate are no longer trusted.

According to these new requirements, should I be able to use an IP address in the SAN field?  I read an answer that stated or implied that it was possible, but I cannot make it work.  Obviously I realise that an IP isn't a DNS name, but... well I can hope.
I can workaround the limitation by setting up an mDNS (eg Bonjour) and use host.local style names (which does work) but this is not ideal for my situation.


texts:
The situation:

I work in a very quiet office using MBP Spring 2011 with an i7.
The problem is that when I put an intense but short workload for a few seconds on the CPU the fans spin up heavily, disturbing me and especially my office mates.

I elevated the MAC to get some air flowing under the body but that was not sufficient.

So I found a solution to limit the fan speed, currently limiting it to 3500 by using:

cd /Applications/smcFanControl.app/Contents/Resources
./smc -k F0Mx -w 36b0
./smc -k F1Mx -w 36b0

The question:

How dangerous is doing this?

My current line of thinking is: the cooling is now insufficient for intense long workloads. But if the CPU gets too hot it will just throttle or at worst the MBP might shut down, but nothing worse should happen. Many Laptops have dusty or broken fans and they don't burn out their CPUs either.

Is this a reasonable assumption or am I risking real damage here?


texts: Strange folder in trash does not delete even in safe mode

texts:
I have a very strange folder in trash that cannot be deleted, even in safe mode. It looks like this:
a/b/a/b/a/b/a/b/a/b...

"STM32NucleoPowerControl is the name of my old programming project I don't need anymore. Maybe this odd structure was generated by some crazy IDE? When I try to delete this folder, Finder says that the folder cannot be deleted because item "gcc" is in use. When I skip it, item "ARM" is in use, and so on with other files. Therefore, I have to skip all these files every time when I empty the trash. Thanks for help!


texts: How to launch browser in iOS Simulator from command line?

texts:
I want to launch the browser in iOS Simulator from the Terminal with specified URL.

Is there any command for it? So that I can write in a script which will take URL as argument and launch simulator with browser and URL open on it.


texts: How can I unpack .7z files via MacOS terminal?

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Looking to unpack a bunch of files.7z via terminal.

Is there a command-line tool built in, available or I shall install an application that comes with a graphical interface?


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Does Mavericks allow an install to a different drive than the current startup drive?
I am running Mountain Lion on a 2008 Pro Desktop and would like to try Mavericks without losing the old OS. I'd first like to see what apps run fine vs which ones I'd need to update. And also see the performance before fully committing.


texts: PowerPoint 2011 crashes when trying to format shape

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Whenever I try to format shape (for example edit line) in PowerPoint it crashes leaving me with this error message:

Microsoft Error Reporting log version: 2.0

Error Signature:
Exception: EXC_BAD_ACCESS
Date/Time: 2014-02-20 12:15:50 +0000
Application Name: Microsoft PowerPoint
Application Bundle ID: com.microsoft.Powerpoint
Application Signature: PPT3
Application Version: 14.3.9.131030
Crashed Module Name: WLMGraphicsDevice
Crashed Module Version: 14.3.9.131030
Crashed Module Offset: 0x000165cf
Blame Module Name: WLMGraphicsDevice
Blame Module Version: 14.3.9.131030
Blame Module Offset: 0x000165cf
Application LCID: 1045
Extra app info: Reg=en Loc=0x0415
Crashed thread: 0

It's worknig on Mavericks on Polish version

EDIT
If it's any help that what I found in system log;

Feb 20 14:05:01 MBPTest.local com.apple.IconServicesAgent[316]: main Failed to composit image for binding VariantBinding [0x25d] flags: 0x8 binding: FileInfoBinding [0x353] - extension: ppt, UTI: com.microsoft.powerpoint.ppt, fileType: ????.
Feb 20 14:05:01 MBPTest.local quicklookd[3607]: Warning: Cache image returned by the server has size range covering all valid image sizes. Binding: VariantBinding [0x803] flags: 0x8 binding: FileInfoBinding [0x703] - extension: ppt, UTI: com.microsoft.powerpoint.ppt, fileType: ???? request size:64 scale: 1


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Using other helpful answers on the StackExchange community I have a custom URI protocol registered on a client's machine. It points to a simple AppleScript that we can then change as needed. In testing on our Mac here, it works without issue with a link formatted like:

oururl://path/here

However, when trying to click that url on their machines, in Safari, Firefox, and Chrome, the URL is automatically changed to:

unsafe:oururl://path/here

So far I've been unable to find any additional information on why the "unsafe:" prefix is being added or how to address it. Any insight or workarounds?

Version info:
OSX 10.6.8
Safari 5.1.10 (6534.59.10)
Firefox 26.0
Chrome Version 30.0.1599.101

Thanks.


texts: Why do iPhones sometimes forget battery usage by app (Settings > Battery)?

texts: I've noticed that iPhones sometimes don't show the battery usage by app in Settings > Battery. The iPhones are otherwise working perfectly fine.  I'm seeing this happening in iPhone 6 and 5s at least.  The iPhone has not been erased or restored yet it sometimes doesn't show this information sometimes.  The next day you check and it shows the usage for the last seven days, then another moment it shows nothing.  The iPhones have lots of free storage space. There're no panics reported in Settings > Privacy > analytic data.  This happens regardless of having just restarted the iPhone or not.  Why does the iPhone have these memory losses?


texts: Is there an iOS wallpaper similar to Nexus Revamped?

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This is Nexus Revamped. Basically, it creates particles on the screen when users touch it.

I want to make an animated wallpaper: a kaleidoscope that spins when the user swipes on the screen.


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I was wondering if anyone can give me some advice on how I can use apple script to delete this folder?

Users/user1/Library/Application Support/Skype/tankitan


texts: Macbook Pro with abnormal CPU usage and unrecognised battery. How to alternative SMC reset

texts: This Macbook Pro (15" circa 2012) is giving me trouble. After a slight water spill incident, I removed and replaced the hard drive, optical drive and battery (warning sticker ignored). After another day drying I turned it on. However, the battery is not recognised, everything's happening slower and the mouse is really jumpy. I've also noticed the CPU load from the Activity Monitor remains steady at 80%-90% for the System (kernel_task). I'd like to reset the SMC to see what happens, but it doesn't seem to be resetting. The PRAM/NVRAM reset is working, just not the SMC reset (I'm using shift-control-option + power). Is there another way to do the SMC reset? Maybe open it up and poke around some more?


texts: How is genius info stored, and will editing a track's info change this?

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Does anybody know how songs hold genius info, and does changing a track name affect this?

Originally, I assumed each track had some sort of metadata which said how it should be turned into a genius playlist. This way, only songs with entries in gracenote would be able to make a genius playlist.

However, the other day, I bought an album, and when importing it into iTunes, fount it had no gracenote recognition. I added all the details (artist, track name, ect) manually.

A day or so later, I discovered that a couple of tracks could make a genius playlist, even when they weren't recognised on gracenote!

So now I assume that the data is held using the details that the track has (artist, genre ect.).

My problem is, if the data is stored by the details a track has, will changing the details remove the ability to create a genius playlist? I have many tracks where I have changed the details (ie. "Track" by "Artist feat. Artist" to "Track [feat. Artist]" by "Artist")

So does anybody know how this data is stored, and will it affect my genius playlists?


texts: Why does command up (⌘↑) from /Documents take me to /iCloud instead of /Users?

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In a fresh install of Mojave 10.14.2, the behavior of command up (⌘↑) in the Finder is odd...  In a Finder window, (⌘↑) from /Documents takes me to /iCloud instead of to /Users as expected.

When I option-click on 'Documents' in the finder window title bar, the finder shows iCloud as the parent of Documents. But, if I drag the Documents folder to a terminal window, I see the path /Users/me/Documents as expected.

Is there a setting to make (⌘↑) navigate to the folder's true parent instead of to iCloud?