texts: How do I change the gender of Siri’s voice on the HomePod?

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This article implies there’s a “Language” and “Siri Voice” section in the HomePod settings of the Home app; unfortunately, these sections don’t appear for me:

How do I enable this configuration option?


texts: Can the 12-inch macbook charge from USB-A?

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While it's nice to have a laptop that can charge over a standard cable, USB-C is not yet ubiquitous. USB-A is: you can be sure that whatever hotel room or office you visit, you will find a place to plug in your USB-A charging cable.

If I buy a USB-A to USB-C cable, will it allow me to charge my 12 inch macbook (however slowly)? Is it safe to try?


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I would like to be using Facetime for audio calls only. When I open some contact on my iPhone I can see something like on the picture attached. The intuition tells me those two buttons within Facetime row should call using either video call or audio-only call. However it doesnt matter what button I click, it always starts the video call.
How can I start the audio-only call from contact card, like the one below? Many thanks


texts: How to split screen in TotalTerminal to end up with two terminals?

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Often when you have ssh'ed into a server, you could like a second terminal to continue right off there, without having to ssh again.

I know that iTerm2 can do it, but it feels buggy on multi screens.

TotalTerminal makes a solid impression but seems to lack that feature, unless I have overlooked it.  Is there a way to split the terminal horizontally or vertically and have two independent terminals working off the same place?


texts: Can I copy (myself) an app purchased through the Mac App Store to another of my licensed computers?

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I have some applications purchased through the Mac App Store, and I have two Macs.

Presently, if I buy an application on my Mac mini, I just go and launch the App Store on my MacBook Air, and then download the application again from "Purchases".  And vice-versa if I bought on the Air first.  Similarly, I apply updates for each computer separately. I expect this is how most people do it.

However, this practice consumes bandwidth. For small applications, it isn't a problem.  But what about big ones?  Say, the new Xcode, or a large game?

What I'm getting at:

Is it legal and is there a way to copy an application, myself, from one of my licensed computers to another of my licensed computers?  By "licensed", I mean both of my Macs access the Mac App Store with the same iTunes account, and therefore have access to the same apps, anyway.  I'm looking at reducing Internet bandwidth consumed, not circumvent license restrictions.

Might a simple file copy of the application folder work?  Or, is something like this not supported and I just need to accept that buying apps this way will necessarily consume N * download size worth of bandwidth for each purchase and update?

Consider, with iOS devices this isn't an issue, as long as you update one device, sync to iTunes, and then sync the other devices to iTunes– they'll get the updates without re-downloading.  How to do something like this for Macs?


texts: copy 501 directory from .Trashes of external drive, but not visible

texts:
I have a usb drive plugged in my Macbook. And I found I have mis-deleted several files, so I

cd /Volumes/MyUsbDrive/.Trashes

and I find a directory named 501, so I

cp -r 501 ~

from terminal, I can see the 501 directory was copied, but it is not visible from Finder. It has a long format of

drwxr-xr-x@

and even I changed the name of it, it does not display in Finder. All its contents are accessible from terminal through.

I use OS X 10.11.6.

Is it a bug in the OS X?


texts: Can you help me cure font outlines (as opposed to the font itself) showing up in webpages?

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I am having some issues with fonts rendering improperly across browsers. Essentially i am just getting outlines, an example can be viewed her.

For example on this page. http://book.cakephp.org/view/1442/link all of the navigation links in the teal bar appear as outlines.. as do the main nav items on the left side of the  screen. this is how my browser is showing this page

My first attempt at fixing this involved removing all duplicate fonts on my system ( there were a couple ) but that did not seem to fix it. A friend of said it was might be a conflict between Helvetica and Helvetica Neue installed but i need both of those fonts.. any suggestions?


texts: How to disable automatic wifi connection?

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When OSX already knows an wifi network it auto connects to it, but when it doesn't know the wifi network it will auto connect depending of the setting of the "ask to join" toggle setting in system preferences.

How do you force OSX to ask to join for every wifi network, whether it is known or not?  I don't want OSX to ever connect automatically.


texts: How do I stop the Adobe Creative Cloud app from auto-launching on login? I don't see any option of stopping this, and for some reason it's not in OS X's user login options.


texts:
I cannot see the characters of Aramaic in the page http://pes.scripturetext.com/matthew/1.htm How can I see them?
any help will be highly appreciated.


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The pass-code has been entered incorrectly on my iPad so many times that a screen showed up saying:

  iPad is Disabled. Connect to iTunes

I have tried two methods to restoring the iPad.

Connect the iPad to the computer. Hold down the home and power buttons at the same time. When the screen goes blank, wait two seconds, then release both buttons.  I went to Itunes and held down the correct buttons until apple recognized iTunes recognized the iPad was in recovery mode. I then chose the restore option on the screen. When Itunes finished and restarted, the same screen showed up: iPad  is Disabled. Connect to iTunes
Hold down the volume/home/power button at the same time till the apple icon shows up, release all the buttons. When this happened, the Apple diagnostics screen showed up and when I clicked Exit Diagnostics, the Ipad restarted, and went to the same  iPad  is Disabled. Connect to Itunes screen. When I chose the second option Start Diagnostics, It told me to go to apple.com/support.

Is there any way to fix this and restore the iPad? I do not need to save my old data.


texts: Certain apps on Mac OS Big Sur crash after upgrading from Catalina

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After upgrading from Mac OS 10.15.x (Catalina), certain apps and audio plugins suddenly started crashing with memory allocation errors. Reinstalling the OS did nothing and my searches on the Internet didn't seem to bring up anything useful.
Interestingly enough, in all of the crashlogs, the libsystem_malloc.dylib, libsystem_c.dylib, libsystem_pthread.dylib, com.apple.quartzcore are mentioned.
I am at a loss what to do and where to look next.
Thanks for any help!
Here are the crashlogs from two applications:

Emacs 27.1: https://pastebin.com/Tae4PMXz

this is a binary build of Emacs 27.1 from Homebrew Cask with no modifications whatsoever. Works beautifully on Catalina 10.15 (same build).

Reaper: https://pastebin.com/TWaAVgux

this application will crash as soon as the Structure VST plugin is loaded (you will see references to a subprocess in the log). Any recording app that loads this plugin will simply crash altogether.
Again, works beautifully in Catalina 10.15, same build, same apps, same plugin version.


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In my company AD we have a user cannot log in the Mac. The mac has bounded to AD, and the other users can log in without issues.

It happens after I removed her mobile home directory on Mac. I thought the next time when she logs in, a new home directory will be created but Mac login dialog just shakes as if she typed a wrong password.

Output of dsconfigad -show:

Active Directory Forest          = sample.com
Active Directory Domain          = sample.com
Computer Account                 = samplemacmini$

Advanced Options - User Experience
  Create mobile account at login = Enabled
     Require confirmation        = Disabled
  Force home to startup disk     = Enabled
     Mount home as sharepoint    = Enabled
  Use Windows UNC path for home  = Enabled
     Network protocol to be used = smb
  Default user Shell             = /bin/bash

Advanced Options - Mappings
  Mapping UID to attribute       = not set
  Mapping user GID to attribute  = not set
  Mapping group GID to attribute = not set
  Generate Kerberos authority    = Enabled

Advanced Options - Administrative
  Preferred Domain controller    = not set
  Allowed admin groups           = domain admins,enterprise admins
  Authentication from any domain = Enabled
  Packet signing                 = allow
  Packet encryption              = allow
  Password change interval       = 14
  Restrict Dynamic DNS updates   = not set
  Namespace mode                 = domain

Besides, when Mac rejects her, I found an event of Kerberos pre-authentication failure:

Kerberos pre-authentication failed.

Account Information:
    Security ID:        domain\username
    Account Name:       username

Service Information:
    Service Name:       krbtgt/sample.COM

Network Information:
    Client Address:     ::ffff:(mac ip)
    Client Port:        55959

Additional Information:
    Ticket Options:     0x40000000
    Failure Code:       0x18
    Pre-Authentication Type:    2

Certificate Information:
    Certificate Issuer Name:
    Certificate Serial Number:
    Certificate Thumbprint:

I found that when the Kerberos failures exceeds our login policy limit, she will be locked out.

I suspect a blank password is sent. Any ideas?


texts: Wifi drops intermittently on Macbook Air

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I have read the other articles with a similar issue but they don't have the exact same issue as I do, hence this post. The Wi-Fi on my macbook air keeps dropping intermittently but works perfectly fine on my Windows laptop and Android phones at the same time. I have been having this issue for over 4 months now.

Note: The Wi-Fi bars at the top right corner remain the same but the internet stops working.

Here are the details of my Macbook and router:

2011 Macbook Air with OS X El Capitan v 10.11.6
Router: D-Link model DIR 600M

I have tried the below options but nothing worked:

Formatting the system
Upgrading from Yosemite to El Capitan
Changing the Wi-Fi router from Linksys to Dlink
Deleting the folder /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration and restarting the computer
Adding 8.8.4.4 to the DNS tab of the Advanced settings in Network Preferences
Gave the Macbook to the authorized Apple service center in India. They monitored the connectivity on their Wi-Fi network for 48 hours and found no issues
Contacted my local Wi-Fi network provider but they have no idea either. They only configure the router.

The only thing that works is this:

Click on the wifi bar icon(at top right corner)
Click on 'Turn Wi-Fi Off'
Click on the same wifi bar icon
Click on 'Turn Wi-Fi On'

Can somebody please help?


texts: Are there any car holsters for the iPhone 4 like the one that came with my first Android phone?

texts: I'm looking for a holder like the one that I got with my first Android phone. It must hold the phone in landscape.


texts: Are all four SO-DIMM slots user-accessible in the 27 inch iMac (Late 2012)?

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I'm going to buy a new 27" iMac, but I think that the RAM on the Apple Store is really too expensive.

My plan is to buy with minimum (2x4GB) RAM and replace everything with 4x8GB.

Are all 4 slots designed to be user accessible, removable and replaceable?


texts: Messages issued by syslog not showing up in system logs

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I'm having some trouble with <syslog.h> in 10.5. I'm writing a small fork based server for class and I want to use syslog() to print a bunch of debug info. However, I can't find any of the messages I issue via syslog() while using Console (I'm looking in both all messages & system.log).

Here is a code snippet of a plain C:

#include <syslog.h>
#include <stdarg.h>

int main (int argc, const char * argv[])
{
    openlog("Syslog Test", LOG_PID | LOG_NDELAY | LOG_CONS | LOG_PERROR, LOG_USER);
    setlogmask(LOG_UPTO(LOG_DEBUG));
    syslog(LOG_DEBUG, "%s", "Hello, World!");
    syslog(LOG_DEBUG, "%s", "And goodbye!");
    closelog();
    return 0;
}

And I don't see anything in "All Messages", "Console Messages" or system.log. Any advice?


texts: How do I make/run a QEMU emulation of Windows8 through terminal

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I'm trying to make a Windows8 emulator using QEMU (which I downloaded via homebrew commands). I've searched on the internet for how to do this, and am utterly confused. The one site that made sense to me, the commands didn't work.

Thanks


texts: How can I evaluate which SSD adapter is functional with 2013 MacBook Air parts?

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I need to connect my MacBook Air 11" mid 2013 SSD drive to another Macbook since I have to initialise it in the right format.

I'm searching for an adapter that has at one side the right connector for the SSD and on the other side a USB port.
The problem is that I don't know which one to choose since a normal SATA port would be too big.
Just to be clear the SSD I'm talking about is this one:

it's so tiny and I don't know if there's a USB adapter for this one so I can remove the internal storage and mount it to another computer over USB or faster interface. What adapters can read Apple OEM storage from the Air?


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I would like to launch a Genius playlist for the currently playing song in iTunes via an AppleScript.

A prerequisite would be for the script to work when iTunes is in full screen.

And ideally, it wouldn't :

bring iTunes to front
leave an error message when genius isn't available for that song
depend on the system language

I found this script, but it doesn't work for me when iTunes is in full screen. Still, it's a great start.

It would maybe be possible to use the protocol the iOS "Remote" app uses, but that seems to be overkill.

Any help would be appreciated.

(the goal is to launch genius from softwares like Keyboard Maestro or Alfred)


texts:
I upgraded to macOS 10.15.3 and am having trouble syncing books from my Mac to iPad.

In the documentation I only see reference to iCloud. This would not be satisfactory to me.

Is there a way to sync my books like it was done through iTunes/Music?


texts: For some reason, my iSight wasn't working, so I used USB Prober.app to reveal that the device was suspended. Is there a way to resume the device (without rebooting)?


texts: How to display exact modified date/time in finder?

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I want to display the exact modified date/time in Finder. How can I do this?

As you may know, it's displaying things like like "yesterday" or "today" or just a date. I want to see the time component too as that can be important in some situations.

Thanks


texts: I just purchased iPhone 5s and as a surprise I see no 2G/3G toggle switch. Am from India and I stay in a place where I have poor 3G connectivity. D we have any app in the App Store that can facilitate this option?


texts: I have a brand new MacBook Air, have not saved any files to it yet.  But I just noticed there are files in AllMyFiles dating back to 1997.  Are they "borrowed" from the iCloud?  Although they are not arranged in folders like in the iCloud, the ones I have opened are also  in iCloud.


texts: Is it possible to change the font and button size of the format bar in numbers '09

texts: I need to increase the size of buttons and front on the format bar in numbers '9


texts: Missing Plug-in error while placing dashboard web clip widget on the desktop

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Hi before updating my macOS to 10.13.6 I was able to use the next command:

  defaults write com.apple.dashboard devmode YES

to drag my safari web clip widgets from Dashboard to my desktop, but after I updated the OS version to High Sierra I face the error after a widget is placed on the desktop doesn't appear and I see the error right in the center of the empty widget which had been placed on the desktop:

  Missing Plug-in

despite the dashboard widgets such as Clock and Calendar display on the desktop perfectly.

I googled about it but found nothing and can't guess what's wrong.
But I found that this feature of placing widgets from Dashboard to desktop works well with the same OS version which I use (High Sierra, 10.13.6.).
I guess something wrong with my OS / Safari.
I can't update my OS right now so I would be appreciated for advice about how to fix this without updating my OS to the latest.
Safari version: 13.0.3 (no updates available in AppStore for my OS version.

What I tried which did not help:

write com.apple.dashboard devmode NO
write com.apple.dashboard devmode YES
killall Dock
reboot

One of the web clips in the Dashboard is very important for me so I'd like to see it on my desktop again.

Thanks for your help!


texts: Why does Mail.app take three minutes plus to open?

texts:
For some time now, Mail.app takes three minute or more to display its window, and for that interval, is labeled "not responding."  There are several things that are related somehow:

During that interval, fseventsd consumes 82%±3% of CPU.
If we run /usr/sbin/repairHomePermissions, Mail launches normally, but the fix only lasts a couple of days.
If we rebuild mailboxes, it is not fixed; if we remove all the IMAP accounts and reinstall them, it is not fixed; but if we rebuild mailboxes after that reinstall, it is normal, but again, only for a day or two.
If we remove everything from /Library/LaunchDaemons, and reboot, it works normally.  Did that today, so I don't know yet how long it will last.

Here is what was in LaunchDaemons:
com.acapelagroup.iVoxHelper.plist
com.adobe.ARMDC.Communicator.plist
com.adobe.ARMDC.SMJobBlessHelper.plist
com.apple.installer.osmessagetracing.plist
com.barebones.authd.plist
com.malwarebytes.HelperTool.plist
com.malwarebytes.mbam.rtprotection.daemon.plist
com.malwarebytes.mbam.settings.daemon.plist
com.oracle.java.Helper-Tool.plist
com.paragon-software.installer.plist
com.paragon-software.ntfs.loader.plist
com.paragon-software.ntfsd.plist
com.prey.agent.plist
homebrew.mxcl.dnsmasq.plist
homebrew.mxcl.mysql.plist
homebrew.mxcl.unbound.plist
org.macports.rsyncd.plist

I believe all of that has been around for longer than the problem.  I recently got a new 2019 MBP with Catalina, upgraded to Big Sur, and used Migration Assistant to bring everything in from a 2012 MBP with Catalina.  This problem never occurred on the old MBP, and I think (not certain) that it did not start immediately on the new one.  I'm fairly sure I used it for weeks before this started happening.
Ideas?  It's going to take two days to find out whether removing some LauchDaemon is a permanent fix, and if so, weeks to figure out which one.  And it would still be a mystery how it interacts with permissions and mailboxes.
fseventsd is known to suck up CPU for Time Machine, but this problem has happened with Time Machine turned off and when the TM disks aren't even plugged in.  And opening Mail should be making roughly the same disk actions each time it is launched.
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2007/10/mac-os-x-10-5/7/
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/1502226
Another oddity (but I think it's unrelated) is that Photos.app is allegedly using a lot of energy when the Dock, ps -ef, and Activity Monitor all say Photos is not running.  (Though sometimes, photoanalysisd appears in Activity monitor briefly.)


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I somehow made a false move, and Logic Pro X changed the default track zoom for a project to "half screen height". I can't imagine any use for that feature, but there it is. It's a long tedious manual process to fix all the tracks, and when I create a track stack in that project it's created at half the height of the screen, and must be manually fixed. If I enable automation on a track, I must manually resize the track header to show the automation controls, and then I must manually resize it back to normal after I hide automation. This is immensely tedious.

Is there any way to make my project normal again?

I've read this page, and the part that claims to address my issue is simply wrong. The UI does not work that way.

The shift-drag suggestion in the documentation has no effect at all. The "Individual Track Zoom Reset for All Tracks" Key Command sounds promising, but it does the exact opposite: It sets all of my painstakingly corrected track heights back to half the height of the screen.

I found some practical-joke forum posts which suggested shift-double-click on the lower border of a track header. That of course sets all of my painstakingly corrected track heights back to half the height of the screen.

Another thing: I've had to red volume automation several times on one particular track since this disaster befell the project. I do it, and it works for a while, and then the automation is just not there any more. When I moved the audio to a duplicate track, automation stopped working: Automation says minus infinity dB, yet I hear the track loud and clear. I don't need a fade there, so  just split the audio to work around the bug. But now it keeps turning the fader on the track to zero anyway, with no automation. Is this a known syndrome?


texts: Have to reopen Chrome to have the sound again?

texts:
I don't know if anyone has this problem which is:

When I connect my headphone or disconnect it from my macbook pro. The video, music in Chrome don't work anymore ( it's mute ). I have to reopen Chrome to make them work.

Do we have any solution to fix this ?


texts:
How do I update shell programs like crontab for example?
On my Mac I've got version from 29th of December 1993, but on a server linux machine that I am using version of crontab is much better in terms of usability since it's from 19th of April 2010.

I am running MacOS Mojave and my bash version is :
GNU bash, version 5.0.2(1)-release (x86_64-apple-darwin18.2.0)

crontab on my Mac:

crontab on my Linux:


texts:
I have strange issue and let me clarify that I am new to Mac.

OS: OS X Yosemite
Browser: Some (Chrome + Safari)

Issue: I am able to open google.com or youtube.com but I can't access a certain site. My machine's firewall is disabled.

I have tried the following so far:

Changed DNS servers: (8.8.8.8, 208.67.222.222 and 208.67.220.220) -> not working.
Ping test: success but still not able to open site.
Another test from Terminal window:  curl siteurl and even sudo curl siteurl : No success.

Error Message : Connection refused. ( On Chrome I can see the error code ERR_CONNECTION_REFUSED).

From the above error code I assumed that there might be an issue with the proxy settings but the are blank.

I have another Windows machine with a temporary proxy (Fiddler). Now I have specified this machine address as proxy server.

I have tried to access the previously refused site and it opened successfully.

What is the issue here?  What is a solution?


texts: Why does Mac OS overwrite whole folders rather than merging their contents?

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I’ve noticed that if I have two folders of the same name but different files in each, copying one on top of the other (eg: from different parent locations) will cause the contents of the first folder to be wiped out by the second. Windows does not do this; It merges the contents of the two folders, making the operation far less destructive. On Mac it feels very risky.

Why is this?
Is it an option which can be changed?


texts: How to use Accessibility Shortcuts for enabling Display Color Filters?

texts:
As part of my evening routine, I have enabled Dark Mode and Night Shift to turn on in the evening. In addition, I like to turn on the grayscale/greyscale color filter option in System Preferences > Accessibility > Display > Color Filters > Enable Color Filters as shown in the screenshot below (1).

Now, instead of drilling down into the appropriate submenu to turn the color filter on | off, is there a way to add this option to the Accessibility Shortcuts list from the drop-down menu bar button as shown in the screenshot (2)?
--
Just to be thorough in my question, I want to show that the existing shortcuts do not include Color Filters as shown below. I do not see an option to add additional/new shortcuts.


texts: Help!!! I upgraded to Mavericks and a whole bunch of mail disappeared from my gmail inbox!

texts:
According to the Gmail web interface, I have 319 messages in my inbox, 51 of them unread.

According to Apple Mail earlier this afternoon, back when I was running Mountain Lion, the same was true.

I upgraded to Mavericks. Now I have 8 messages in my inbox. As far as I can tell, the missing messages do appear in the new "Archive" folder, but mixed in with all the other messages I've archived over the years.

Does anyone know what causes this and what can be done about it (besides restoring to my backup of Mountain Lion?


texts: Can I find my iPhone if it's lost and turned off?

texts:
My iPhone lost when I was skiing. I think its in the snow and nobody can find it. I'm sure that my iPhone has about 40% charge but it turned off because of the freezing.
Is there any way to find my iPhone with any apps when its off?


texts: What about generic lightning cables or adapters?

texts:
Are lightning cables that are not manufactured by Apple (off-brand or generic) legal?
If not, when does it become okay to sell them? Because obviously the 30 pin adapter is everywhere..


texts: Cannot factory reset a MacBook running OSX 10.5 using Disk Utility

texts:
I just bought a used 2007 MacBook running Mac OS X 10.5, 2GHZ Intel Core 2 Duo. I want to return it to factory spec to erase all previous owner's information and start fresh.

Disk Utility's Erase buttons is greyed out.

How can I do this? I have no startup disc.


texts: iPhone X unable to connect to cell network after being in basement

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iPhone X, Model MQAG2QN/A, Verizon

I work from home in the basement, where I have a poor or non-existent cell phone signal. The iPhone shows 4 gray dots near the WiFi icon, and 'No Service' in the Control Center:

This is expected and unsurprising - however, when I go back upstairs or outside, the phone often continues to show the "No Service" and does not connect to the cellular network. If I restart the phone, it connects and operates as usual.

I'd like to avoid needing to constantly restart my phone. Unsuccessful steps taken so far:

Made sure I am on the latest iOS version (13.3.1 at the time of this writing).
Checked for a Carrier Settings update from Settings > General > About.
Reset network settings from Settings > General > Reset > Reset Network Settings.
Turned the cell connection on/off from the Control Center.
Turned Airplane Mode on/off from the Control Center.
Turned Cellular Data off/on from Settings > Cellular.

A potentially unusual aspect is that I have an EU model phone on a US network (Verizon).


texts: iOS and Objective-C Training in Melbourne

texts:
I'm sure this is not the correct forum for this but figured it was pretty close.

Does anyone know of any courses in Melbourne Australia for iOS development?

I've been developing in the MS arena my whole life and am looking at getting into Objective-C with regards to mobile devices but cannot seem to find any courses.

Any help would be greatly appreciated thank you.


texts: How to stop Catalina from continually telling me I need to sign in again?

texts:
Ugraded to Catalina 10.15. The doc shows a little notification icon above the System Preferences App

Opening the System Preferences shows this

So I click continue which gives me this

So I click continue which brings me here

I enter my password. About 7 seconds later the notification disppears

But 5 seconds after that this appears

Everything seems fine but then 15 seconds later the notification at the top appears again. Have repeated 4 times now. This happens on both my Macs

How do I fix this so it stops asking?


texts: Where is Remote Desktop Connection for Mac in Office 2011?

texts: I've just installed Office for Mac 2001 (v14.3.3), on this page (http://www.microsoft.com/mac/remote-desktop-client) it says "Remote Desktop Connection for Mac 2 is included with every edition of Office for Mac 2011." but I can't find it anywhere.


texts: Mac with 2 monitors, how do i switch virtual desktops on one monitor only?

texts:
I have 2 monitors for mac, one extended the other.

How do i switch virtual desktops on one monitor only?

For example, When I do 4 fingers swipe left/right on screen1,  I expect the switching happens on screen1 only.

BUT both monitors will switch virtual desktops at the same time, how do i avoid that?


texts: iPhone stuck at Apple bootup after attempted evasi0n deletion

texts:
I have an iPhone  5c, I have it jailbroken, and I was trying to take it off. So, stupidly, I went into iFile and started  deleting anything I saw about evasi0n, Cydia, or any tweaks I had installed.

I'm guessing it was a big mistake, because now my iPhone:

A. Is stuck at the bootup and

B. Won't connect to a computer.

Could anyone please help?


texts: How do I publish a book in the iBook store for both the UK and the USA?

texts:
my one friend from UK want to publish a book for UK and USA ibook store

I found this page http://www.apple.com/itunes/content-providers/book-faq.html it has all the info  but there is a section about U.S. Tax ID

My friend lives in UK and don't have any bank account in USA but have a Bank account and credit card in UK
my question if my friend is only want to publish book for UK store, will he need  U.S. Tax ID?

Please guide how he can upload the book to iBooks store and people from USA and UK should be able to download the book in iBooks app on their iPad and iBooks.

He has his book in ePub format.


texts: how to turn off my keyboard on my macbook?

texts:
the "a" button is busted and behaves as if it's constantly being pressed down. I have a wired keyboard ready to use but I can't figure out how to turn off the keyboard here. I tried Control + F1 after enabling "Use all F1, F2, etc keys as standard function keys" but that's not doing anything.

This "a" problem is making it incredibly difficult to code.


texts: Issue about the external display on macOS Mojave

texts:
After I install macOS Mojave, the external display became very strange.

First of all, I have a MacBook Pro (15-inch, 2016), and I'm very sure I'm not in the mirror mode because I can put different applications on each display.

When I tried to switch between desktops on the external display (that's my main screen), the one on the MacBook will switch with it. This is very annoying because the desktop I can use now is very limited.
When I play the movie in the full-screen mode, the other display will be pure black.

These only happen after my update to Mojave, so I guess it is the problem of the system. Am I the only one have this problem?


texts:
I've searched online; I have found lots of information around HOW to assign/remove tags, but very little around how people USE them. (that in itself might be the sign that not many people actually use them? :)

The best I could find is that some people use them for categorising work; e.g. "Final", "Research", "Draft", etc.

However, although this is a very legitimate way of using them, I feel that still doesn't use tags to their full extent - namely, the ability to have more than one tags attached to the same file. In the example above, a file is either 'draft' or 'final'. You can achieve the same result using nested folders, although that is different visually.

How do you use them? Or alternatively, can you suggest a link/site/blog that explains how they use them?


texts: How do I use MS Exchange 2003 with OS X?

texts: My company still relies on the antiquated Exchange 2003. Besides using Windows in a virtual machine, has anyone found any type of workaround to enable Exchange 2003 access with OS X apps (Calendar/Address Book/Mail)?


texts: Can't reduce size of OSX partition in bootcamp

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I'm trying to install Windows 7 Pro (64 bit) onto my new macbook air (OSX Yosemite 10.10.2). I'm using the Boot Camp Assistant and am at the point where it's asking me to create a partition for windows (with a slider). It won't let me reduce the Mac OSx partition smaller than 38 Gb. It currently says it's using 20 Gbs for OSx (18 Gb free), but I can't make it so that the MacOSx partition is only 20 Gb, which will give me more space for Windows.

Can someone please advise/tell me how to do this? or do I manually have to partition the drives and install Windows w/o using the bootcamp assistant.

Thanks

Edit: OSX Yosemite on a Macbook Air (Early 2014). After inputting "diskutil cs list", I get "CoreStorage logical volume groups (1 found)". I just received it last week so it's pretty new. Holding Cmd-alt-r-down took about 3 minutes to boot up. I do have an external flash drive (64 gb, exfat) and I don't use time machine.

I do not plan on upgrading/using the MacOSx, I just want to have it in case I need any warranty repairs (My coworker told me you need to have OSx installed for them to run diagnostics, else they won't touch your system).

Output:

CoreStorage logical volume groups (1 found)
|
 +-- Logical Volume Group 0415F924-645A-47A7-B045-936E0F0AAD94
     =========================================================
    Name:         Macintosh HD
    Status:       Online
    Size:         120473067520 B (120.5 GB)
    Free Space:   0 B (0 B)
|
+-< Physical Volume 536E4C17-EADB-4B7E-B71C-783BB62E2681
|   ----------------------------------------------------
|   Index:    0
|   Disk:     disk0s2
|   Status:   Online
|   Size:     120473067520 B (120.5 GB)
|
+-> Logical Volume Family 17DE7604-0810-4971-86F5-DDD56E0979AE
    ----------------------------------------------------------
    Encryption Status:       Unlocked
    Encryption Type:         None
    Conversion Status:       NoConversion
    Conversion Direction:    -none-
    Has Encrypted Extents:   No
    Fully Secure:            No
    Passphrase Required:     No
    |
    +-> Logical Volume 20593179-3E19-4A57-99D6-A713D13CE2FD
        ---------------------------------------------------
        Disk:                  disk1
        Status:                Online
        Size (Total):          120154296320 B (120.2 GB)
        Conversion Progress:   -none-
        Revertible:            Yes (no decryption required)
        LV Name:               Macintosh HD
        Volume Name:           Macintosh HD
        Content Hint:          Apple_HFS

Update 2: diskutil cs list now shows

 No CoreStorage logical volume groups found

but I still can't slide the bar Past 38Gb (19 Gb free) for the Mac Partition.


texts: Consolidating music from three drives to one

texts:
I am trying to consolidate my music and videos on my Laptop. It is in 3 places:

C:\Users\RajMore\Music
D:\Entertainment\Audio
E:\Entertainment\Audio

I want to put all the music in a single location C:\Users\RajMore\Music so that I can carry a single laptop and not have to worry about taking my External HDD or having to remove the D drive to put in my DVD drive.

I have just about 60 GB of music. 10 GB on C, 20 G on D and 30 GB on E. I have 86 GB free on C, so space is not at a premium.

Metadata is the stuff about the music / video that is not stored in the music / video item - it is stored in ITunes.  For example: Start of song, end of song, rating (I use this when for good songs to DJ), video start time and end time etc.

How do I do this and not lose metadata regarding the music and videos?


texts: Is there a way to hide folders in OSX like you can in Windows? And if so then how?


texts: How To Sandbox Individual Applications On OS X Mavericks

texts: I am trying to Sandbox Firefox on OS X.  I know on Linux, you have AppArmor.  On Windows, you Sandboxie.  Is there something built into OS X that will allow me to Sandbox individual applications?


texts: Lots of Finder windows opening all at once

texts:
Last Sunday I was looking through Finder on my mid-2011 MBA.  (I was clearing out my 'cache' and 'preferences' folders.)  I must have either clicked something (I use an external mouse) or pressed something on my keyboard because suddenly all the folders started opening in separate Finder windows!  There were lots of them and they completely covered the screen!  But then I closed all the folders (when they'd finished opening...) and my screen looked normal again.  Is there a menu option for 'opening finder folders in individual windows' or something??  Or a key combination that I was unaware of?  Grateful for any help - intrigued!

Thanks

Harry


texts: Change font color when posting new iCal events

texts: I have an iMac with OS X version 10.9.4. When using the iCal application I cannot change the color of a new event I post to match the color I've  chosen for the event.  Example: If I post a Red color coded event the lettering for my description is black.  I want the description I type for my Red event to be Red, not Black.  It would stand out as what color code the event is. Currently if I post a new Calendar event and choose a color for it just a small dot appears next to black font description of my event.  I want colored font to match the colored dot on my calendar.  Additionally there is a Gray Birthday event option but I cannot place any personalized  Gray color coded birthday events. I want the typing font color to match the event color for new iCal events I add and I want to be able to post Birthdays using the Gray color set up on my iCal menu.


texts: pboard making Mojave slow closing down apps

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I have a laptop with Mojave (10.14.6 (18G3020)) and I noticed it is becoming slow at closing down apps. The rest is fine. But closing down apps is noticeably slow -- it takes about 5 to 10 seconds to close an app -- irrespective of what apps and what the computer is otherwise doing (or how many apps are open). I noticed that when I close an app pboard consumes all of the CPU time. I have no idea what is going on, and why pboard is acting in this novel and annoying way.

killall pboard

does in fact solve the issue, but the problem of what's wrong with pboard and why it interferers with closing apps (but not at other times) is still unresolved.

EDIT: killing pboard solves the issue for a while, but then it crops up again.  The problem happens for different users.


texts: Where can I get a copy of Mountain Lion that I can resell with my Apple hardware?

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I'm looking to turn over some older Apple hardware I have and all of the gear has been upgraded to the latest Mountain Lion using the App Store version of Mountain Lion and my Apple ID. Section 2.B of the EULA for Mountain Lion makes it clear the license I purchased for Mountain Lion via the App Store is non-transferrable:

  B. Mac App Store License. If you obtained a license for the Apple Software from the Mac App Store, then subject to the terms and conditions of this License and as permitted by the Mac App Store Usage Rules set forth in the App Store Terms and Conditions (http://www.apple.com/legal/itunes/ww/) (“Usage Rules”), you are granted a limited, non-transferable, non-exclusive license

Where can I obtain a transferrable license for Mountain Lion? I don't see any way to buy Mountain Lion outside of the App Store. Do Apple Stores carry Mountain Lion on DVD or USB thumb drives? I see no mention of this on their Canadian store web site.

I have Snow Leopard DVDs for these machines, but having them running Mountain Lion makes them more attractive resale units.


texts: skill -KILL -u $user Command on Max OS X?

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Is there an alternative for the skill -KILL -u $user command on the Mac OSx. The basic requirement is I want to log out my current logged in user at end of shell script

This program logs out Linux log in user .


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In my locale digits are represented like this: 100,90 (instead of 100.90 as in the USA), but, even using a PC keyboard, OS X 10.7 is replacing the . in the numpad with a  , via software

This is REALLY annoying, for example:

I type IP address: 192,168,1,1
I type terminal commands: ,/myscript.sh and so on

How I could swap the , for a . but only on the numpad?


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I have Logic Pro X 10.2.4.

I never noticed this problem before today:

I started having the same problem as shown in this reddit post:

  everytime I try to upload an mp3 file into logic, it speeds up the audio by a whole lot. I've made sure that the sample rate of the audio file and the project is the same but it still doesn't make a difference. All the previously saved projects that had audio imported into them don't have a problem but if I try to upload a new audio file into those projects, I am encountering the same problem

I have noticed that this doesn't affect only mp3 files (downloaded from the internet), but also m4a files recorded in my iPhone (with the factory voice recorder app) and sent to my MacBook.

The sample rate of Logic (in Project Settings > Audio) is 44.1kHz, as is the sample rate of all the files I try to import (except potentially the m4a files, soxi doesn't work on m4a though so I don't know their sample rates).

Here is an example of an audio file which I may attempt to import:

https://soundcloud.com/george-bakewell/originalrecording

here it is after dragging and dropping from Finder into Logic:

https://soundcloud.com/george-bakewell/logicmangling

It sounds like some parts are just ... skipped. It sounds the same in Logic playback and after exporting (bouncing).

I'm temporarily using the 'fix' that the reddit OP noted:

  I managed to bypass the issue by just converting all of my mp3 files to wav files.

I just ran a few quick

ffmpeg -i originalrecording.m4a originalrecording.wav
ffmpeg -i originalrecording2.mp3 originalrecording2.wav

etc.

Drag and drop the WAV files instead of the original files, and logic no longer chops them up weirdly.

How come this happens though?

What's the root of this problem, and how can it be resolved?


texts: Make `hostname -f` return fully qualified hostname

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How can i make hostname (i.e. the unix commandline tool hostname, invoked in terminal) return a hostname including the domain information?

At the moment, hostname, hostname -f and hostname -s return the same name, all without the domain information, but host <hostname> returns the full hostname:

$ hostname
> jvf-imac
$ hostname -f
> jvf-imac
$ hostname -s
> jvf-imac
$ host jvf-imac
> jvf-imac.fritz.box has address 192.168.178.31

The question is not about how I can get the full hostname in general. Some scripts I use rely on hostname -f to get the fully qualified hostname, so I need to make hostname -f return the correct hostname. Anyone any idea?

Updates

System Overview

System Version: OS X 10.10.5 (14F27)
Kernel Version: Darwin 14.5.0
Computer Name: jvf_imac

Content of resolv.conf (shortened)

domain fritz.box
nameserver 192.168.178.1

DNS Setup (shortened)

$ scutil --dns
resolver #1
  search domain[0] : fritz.box
  nameserver[0] : 192.168.178.1
  if_index : 4 (en0)
  flags    : Request A records
  reach    : Reachable,Directly Reachable Address

resolver #2
  domain   : local
  options  : mdns
  timeout  : 5
  flags    : Request A records
  order    : 300000

resolver #3
  domain   : 254.169.in-addr.arpa ...

...

resolver #7
  domain   : b.e.f.ip6.arpa ...

DNS configuration (for scoped queries)

resolver #1
  search domain[0] : fritz.box
  nameserver[0] : 192.168.178.1
  if_index : 4 (en0)
  flags    : Scoped, Request A records
  reach    : Reachable,Directly Reachable Address


texts: Google Mail doesn't download label as folder

texts:
I use GMail for push mail on my iPhone. I need that feature to sync my contact, calendar and email with Google. Setup is done using Microsoft Exchange following official tutorial from google at http://support.google.com/mobile/bin/answer.py?hl=en&topic=14252&answer=138740

The problem is, it seems the push mail downloads all of my labels on GMail, which is 200 labels, and it annoys me. (Screenshot below)

Is there any solution to remove that Label/Folder?


texts: Wine in OS X: Issues with paths that include spanish special characters

texts:
I have installed Wine via MacPorts on OS X El Capitan so I have a standard wine setup. I am having the following issue:

My default language in OS X in English but I am Spanish therefore some of my folders and files have characters like "á,é,í,ó,ú,ñ,¿". For some reason Wine cannot display Spanish characters properly. For example, I have installed AIMP 4, and everything works perfectly except Wine cannot display Spanish characters in their names. See the images below for more information.

(First image shows how it should like, second image shows how wine encodes this path names.)

Does someone know how to fix this? I have already tried changing the path setting "LC_MESSAGES=es_ES.UTF-8 wine path_to_exe" but it does not change anything.

Thanks in advance.


texts: How to hide AppleTVs from the phone speaker options?

texts:
Is there any way to remove AppleTV from the speaker list on the Phone app in iOS? I am running iOS 13.1. I tried disabling Allow calls on other devices but that did not solve the issue.

In the pic below, I want only the iPhone and Speaker as options


texts: How do I delete a purchase that is on my music that I don't want

texts: How do I delete a purchase which is on my music that I don't want


texts:
I have noticed in that past 24 hours that two rigid and straight "lines" have developed as bulges on my Mid 2010 MacBook Pro 15 inch.

They are noticeable when looking at it in the light and you can easily feel that they are raised above the case.

They appear on the outer shell of the case (right of the mouse and near the keyboard)

The bottom of the Mac is not warped. The hard drive also appears to be in good condition.

Initially, I thought this was due to a battery failure and removed the battery. Despite this, the battery was fine (not warped or bulging). I noticed that the two bulges in the case appear over where the hard drive is in a MacBook Pro.

There is also a "semi circular" bulge near these two lines.

What could be causing these if it is not the battery? Also, is there any chance that these bulges could expand?

Edit: After further inspection it appears to have occurred exactly over the bridge that holds the hard drive in place. (the long black piece with the two screws in it).

I have added a picture. Sorry, they are really hard to see.

Note: The two lines look like shadows and are somewhat difficult to see in (any) photo.

Edit: more photos

The second image (below) shows what is under the bulge. Maybe something looks out of place?


texts:
Is it possible to do two-way screen sharing on Skype mac? if I share my screen with someone, the other person is unable to share theirs with me (thought their camera works). Is this a Premium feature? I've looked on http://www.skype.com/intl/en-us/features/allfeatures/screen-sharing/#t_tab_mac but its unclear if this supports two way or not.

thanks


texts: Yosemite - Pre-release: How do I opt out installing the beta seed?

texts:
Last night Apple put forth 14B17 a Pre-release: OS X Update Seed 10.10.1

I don't want to install it, but it doesn't go away.

I tried downloading the 'normal' Yosemite from the App Store and reinstalled it over the old one. All is well but the Pre-release update is still there bugging me to upgrade.

How do I disable it? There should be a file somewhere that survives a OS X reinstall (in place upgrade) but I can't figure out where.

Later edit... You're right. However my Change button had no text in it and it was small. I think this is a localization issue/bug. Change to English and there it was. Thanks!


texts: Howto resize copied HFS+ partition above original size (320GB)?

texts:
I am running OS X Lion and my laptop has a 320GB drive. I bought a larger drive (750GB) and cloned the entire device from the old drive to the new using GNU ddrescue. After cloning everything looks fine but of course I have a lot of free space.

Initially, resizing the original 320GB partions using Disk Utility was not successful dragging the partition to the full disk size and pressing “Apply” changed nothing), so inspired by this answer (which gave me the promise of being able to recreate my recovery partition), I tried to delete the recovery partition first to make sure there was no partition in the way for the resize. Still, resizing (enlarging) the partition is not possible.

Listing the partition map using diskutil looks like this:

$ diskutil list /dev/disk2
/dev/disk2
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *750.2 GB   disk2
   1:                        EFI                         209.7 MB   disk2s1
   2:                  Apple_HFS Macintosh HD            319.7 GB   disk2s2

Trying to resize from the command line I started to have a look at the limits for resizing:

$ diskutil resizeVolume /dev/disk2s2 limits
For device disk2s2 Macintosh HD:
        Current size:  319.7 GB (319728959488 Bytes)
        Minimum size:  319.1 GB (319106846720 Bytes)
        Maximum size:  319.7 GB (319728959488 Bytes)

So for some reason, I am not allowed to resize the filesystem in /dev/disk2s2 to use the full capacity of the drive.

Any ideas why there is this limit and how to surpass it?

Here is the diskutil info of the drive:

$ diskutil info /dev/disk2
   Device Identifier:        disk2
   Device Node:              /dev/disk2
   Part of Whole:            disk2
   Device / Media Name:      ST975042 0AS Media

   Volume Name:              Not applicable (no file system)

   Mounted:                  Not applicable (no file system)

   File System:              None

   Content (IOContent):      GUID_partition_scheme
   OS Can Be Installed:      No
   Media Type:               Generic
   Protocol:                 USB
   SMART Status:             Not Supported

   Total Size:               750.2 GB (750156374016 Bytes) (exactly 1465149168 512-Byte-Blocks)
   Volume Free Space:        Not applicable (no file system)
   Device Block Size:        512 Bytes

   Read-Only Media:          No
   Read-Only Volume:         Not applicable (no file system)
   Ejectable:                Yes

   Whole:                    Yes
   Internal:                 No
   OS 9 Drivers:             No
   Low Level Format:         Not supported

and here is the diskutil info of the problematic partition:

$ diskutil info /dev/disk2s2
   Device Identifier:        disk2s2
   Device Node:              /dev/disk2s2
   Part of Whole:            disk2
   Device / Media Name:      Customer

   Volume Name:              Macintosh HD
   Escaped with Unicode:     Macintosh%FF%FE%20%00HD

   Mounted:                  Yes
   Mount Point:              /Volumes/Macintosh HD 1
   Escaped with Unicode:     /Volumes/Macintosh%FF%FE%20%00HD%FF%FE%20%001

   File System Personality:  Journaled HFS+
   Type (Bundle):            hfs
   Name (User Visible):      Mac OS Extended (Journaled)
   Journal:                  Journal size 24576 KB at offset 0x15e51000
   Owners:                   Disabled

   Partition Type:           Apple_HFS
   OS Can Be Installed:      Yes
   Media Type:               Generic
   Protocol:                 USB
   SMART Status:             Not Supported
   Volume UUID:              1914E88D-9558-3DBD-8254-9936B20E907A

   Total Size:               319.7 GB (319728959488 Bytes) (exactly 624470624 512-Byte-Blocks)
   Volume Free Space:        6.0 GB (5990821888 Bytes) (exactly 11700824 512-Byte-Blocks)
   Device Block Size:        512 Bytes

   Read-Only Media:          No
   Read-Only Volume:         No
   Ejectable:                Yes

   Whole:                    No
   Internal:                 No


texts:
I got a new MBP 13 Retina display, mid 2014. I get on the battery up to 5 hours at most. Is this normal? This is my first product from Apple so I do not know if this is as supposed or I got the wrong idea.

Configuration

i5 2.6Ghz
16Gb Ram
256Gb SSD

The tools I mostly use are iTerm, Virtualbox, Spotify, browsing and some editor. How long should I get according to this workload?


texts: Unable to open "Remote Desktop Protocol" (RDP) URLs from command-line

texts:
I am unable to open RDP URLs from the command-line.

Whenever I try to open RDP URL from command line by executing the following:

open rdp://localhost/

or any other IP address, I get the following error:

  The URL is not valid. Notify your network administrator.

I am able to connect to the host using Microsoft Remote Desktop (8.0.43).

How do I open RDP connection using command-line?

To clarify, this answer claims that there is no command to access MS RD app, but it's not correct, since running the open command opens the app correctly, however there is the following error:


texts: Can't delete files from remote Buffalo drive, "Permission Denied"

texts:
There are several files on a remote Buffalo drive that I can't delete. I'm using a Mac (OSX 10.9.5) and Finder reports the drive's filesystem as "SMB (NTFS)".

I have tried from the GUI and from Terminal, but I always get "Permission Denied":

Web$ rm -f LigatureSymbols-2.11.eot
rm: LigatureSymbols-2.11.eot: Permission denied

Even with "sudo":

Web$ sudo rm -f LigatureSymbols-2.11.eot
Password:
rm: LigatureSymbols-2.11.eot: Permission denied

Here is a directory listing:

-rwxrwxrwx  1 Web  staff    4096 Jun 26  2014 ._LigatureSymbols-2.11.eot
-rwxrwxrwx  1 Web  staff    4096 Jun 26  2014 ._LigatureSymbols-2.11.otf
-rwxrwxrwx  1 Web  staff    4096 Jun 26  2014 ._LigatureSymbols-2.11.svg
-rwxrwxrwx  1 Web  staff    4096 Jun 26  2014 ._LigatureSymbols-2.11.ttf
-rwxrwxrwx  1 Web  staff    4096 Jun 26  2014 ._LigatureSymbols-2.11.woff
-rwxrwxrwx@ 1 Web  staff   83542 Jan 30  2013 LigatureSymbols-2.11.eot
-rwxrwxrwx@ 1 Web  staff   82468 Jan 30  2013 LigatureSymbols-2.11.otf
-rwxrwxrwx@ 1 Web  staff  201950 Jan 30  2013 LigatureSymbols-2.11.svg
-rwxrwxrwx@ 1 Web  staff   83340 Jan 30  2013 LigatureSymbols-2.11.ttf
-rwxrwxrwx@ 1 Web  staff   62636 Jan 30  2013 LigatureSymbols-2.11.woff
drwxrwxrwx  2 Web  staff   16384 Mar  5 08:59 _notes

I am logged in as "Web", so it seems that I am the owner. It also seems that I have full permission (read, write, execute).

I tried looking for flags (such as "immutable") that might prevent deletion, but there don't seem to be any:

Web$ ls -leO
-rwxrwxrwx@ 1 Web  staff  -  83542 Jan 30  2013 LigatureSymbols-2.11.eot
-rwxrwxrwx@ 1 Web  staff  -  82468 Jan 30  2013 LigatureSymbols-2.11.otf
-rwxrwxrwx@ 1 Web  staff  - 201950 Jan 30  2013 LigatureSymbols-2.11.svg
-rwxrwxrwx@ 1 Web  staff  -  83340 Jan 30  2013 LigatureSymbols-2.11.ttf
-rwxrwxrwx@ 1 Web  staff  -  62636 Jan 30  2013 LigatureSymbols-2.11.woff
drwxrwxrwx  2 Web  staff  -  16384 Mar  5 08:59 _notes

I tried removing the "immutable" flag, even though it doesn't seem to be set, but to no avail:

Web$ chflags nouchg LigatureSymbols-2.11.eot
Web$ rm -f LigatureSymbols-2.11.eot
rm: LigatureSymbols-2.11.eot: Permission denied

I notice some "extended attributes" (@) on the files, but nothing that would obviously prevent deletion:

com.apple.ResourceFork     286
com.apple.quarantine        42
com.apple.metadata:kMDItemWhereFroms       137

And I can't seem to remove these attributes either:

Web$ xattr -c LigatureSymbols-2.11.eot
xattr: [Errno 13] Permission denied: 'LigatureSymbols-2.11.eot'

Not even with "sudo":

Web$ sudo xattr -c LigatureSymbols-2.11.eot
Password:
xattr: [Errno 13] Permission denied: 'LigatureSymbols-2.11.eot'

How can I remove these files from the drive?

Edit:
Is there any tool or method to "force delete" files without regard for permission?


texts:
My brother gave me his iPad 2. It doesn't update to iOS 10. How can I get it to allow me to download apps like Netflix. I know Apple cancelled the older version on iPhone and iPad to not be able to be updated, and I know if I didn't own app I can’t get past version, but there has to be a way or this iPad I have is basically a large camera you can FaceTime on.

Is there a way I can upgrade iOS on this iPad so I can install latest apps?


texts: After unlocking apple id and sign in to iTunes I cannot unlock my iPhone

texts:
I have got a second hand iPhone (5s) of my friend and it has been restored before and now has hello on the screen.

i get his Apple ID and password for that. My friend his self has iPhone 6 with the same Apple id and password and it is turn on and on line. So I connected the iPhone (5s) to iTunes for restoring again iPhone. Then iTunes asked me for applied and password. After entering applied and password, iTunes told me this applied  has been disabled and you have to reset password so I reset the password and ask my friend to check his email for verify and he did that and applied unlocked.

Now I sign in to iTunes with verified applied and password and click on my iPhone in iTunes. iTunes again says enter applied and password? I entered verified applied and password. Now again it says “you cannot unlock iPhone with m…@gmail.com.  Also I sign in to i cloud.com and in find my iPhone I can see just my    friend mobile Please help what is the problem? After unlocking applied and sign in to iTunes I cannot unlock my iPhone.  Please how can I solve this problem and unlock my iPhone, Apple id and password of my friend does not have problem because I can sign in to iTunes and I cloud from computer.


texts:
My StarTech sv215micusba KVM requires that I use Scroll Lock, Scroll Lock, Enter, but my Apple keyboard doesn't have a Scroll Lock key.  I found this reference:

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1216

But it refers to key combinations used for Windows functionality (driver-dependent).  What combo would I need to press in order to send the correct sequence to my KVM switch?


texts: Can a 3.7 Watt LiPo battery trigger the charging symbol on an iPhone?

texts:
I am trying to use a 3.7 Volt 1 Amp (so it's 3.7 Watts) Lithium Polymer battery to charge or at least trigger the charging symbol on an iPhone 5. I have charged the battery fully using the Lithium Polymer Battery charger. I plan on connecting the black and red wires on the battery with the black and red wires inside a lightning cable. Then, I will plug this lightning cable into the phone. I do not care how fast or how long it takes to charge the phone. I would just like to know if it will at least trigger the charging battery symbol on the iPhone. From what I heard, 2.5 Watts to 5 Watts with 1 Amp is enough to charge an iPhone 5, but I cannot find anywhere whether the iPhone detects this charging. I know my USB port in my older 2006 PC which only gives off 2.5 Volts can trigger it, so I believe a newer battery can easily do it.
All help is appreciated.


texts: I totally messed up today and I hope that you can help me. I have the latest version of the mbp. Since this is my first apple pc, I thought, that I can just install the developer preview, despite having a developer account. Everything worked fine and today I wanted to update to the new GM. I wanted a clean install, so I burned the image to a usb stick and installed it in the boot menu. Unfortunately it didn't work, so I deleted the hard disk (the macintosh part) and tried again. Luckily I had boot camp installed and can now use windows 8.1. Now I'm trying to reinstall mac os. I just found out, that I cant restore it, as the restore had changed to mavericks preview, which will also check, if I'm a registered developer. A USB Stick and a DVD didn't install me Mountain Lion nor Mavericks Preview. In fact the USB stick wasn't even recogonized. I was using the .dmg (you'll find in the internet) and the windows program TransMac. So do you have any idea, how I can solve this? I don't have a backup. Is there a cheap version of becoming a registered developer like for ios? Or can I just wait for the release of Mavericks?


texts:
The problem is - high pitched noisy tiny sound that u can hear only using more or less quality headphones. I use yamaha rh-5ma. And it's not the problem of headphones because I have different ones (sennheiser 555) and I can test in with different players like iphone or whatever. You won't hear this sound connecting standard iphone's earphones because the problem I hear is too faint for Apple's headphones to reproduce since they are lower quality than my preferred headphones.

So to make this sound on your mbp connect your headphones and then start to play something (youtube/itunes/anything that makes sound and basically activates the sound card) and then stop it. You'll hear this high pitched noise. The moment of start/stop playback can cause some different pitched artefacts. On different machines it goes in different way. Like in my MBP I have it in right ear but it's pritty annoying to ignore it. Like a tiny moskito. In different mbp i tried it it was less amplified but in two channels (left and right).

The problem is that not everyone is able to hear this sounds because not everyone hear this high frequency. (approx 14-17khz, can't really measure it because don't have that precise recording device).

What can I do to know if my Mac has a problem that can be fixed?


texts: Need help to understand how this find command works

texts:
I'm a beginner on OS X and I believe this command will make a list of all files and subfolders of specific folders

find /Volumes/Documents/ -exec stat -f "%N %Sm" {} + >~/Desktop/test.txt

I don't know how to figure out what this actually does.


texts: Where is the autoexpect command line tool on OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.5)

texts: On a fresh OS X 10.8.5 install, I was surprised to find no autoexpect tool.  Where'd it go?


texts: can I have mulitple apple ID's backed up to itunes?

texts: My husband's iphone, my daughter's iphone and my iphone/ipad all have separate apple ID's - so we have 3 apple ID's in our household.  I have itunes on my laptop and pack up my ipad and iphone regularly - they both have the same apple ID and my itunes account "knows" one is an iphone and one is an iPad.  How do I set up my husband's and daughter's iphones to back up?  Can I add them to my existing itunes account?  do I need to download separate itunes programs on to my laptop?  how do I keep them all straight on my laptop?  and when they are backed up, where do their photos and videos go?


texts: Send "Here I am now" location report in a Messages.app thread on a Mac

texts:
In iOS, we can send our current location as a message within a discussion thread on Messages.app.

➥ Can this be done in Messages.app on a Mac in Mojave or Catalina?

I am not asking about people already actively sharing their location on an ongoing basis. I am looking for the "Here I am right now" post of current location offered in iOS. The result is a fixed location, an unchanging report. In iOS it presents as an item in the Messages thread, with a map and pin-drop. The user can tap to be taken to the Maps app with that location.


texts: Is it possible to have 2 iCloud email accounts in IOS 5?

texts:
Under a Mobile Me Family Pack, I set up a secondary email account for myself, giving me two "username@me.com" addresses. When I transitioned to iCloud, I used my primary Mobile Me account, which I set up on my Mac and iPad. In June of 2012, Mobile Me will cease to exist, but I still need to use that second account. Is it possible to have both my primary iCloud email, and that secondary account on my iPad? (On my Mac, i just set up another User Account, and used it to "migrate" that second Mobile Me account to iCloud.)
I would Only need to sync Mail to my iPad for the latter, so would not be concerned with duplicating Adress Book contacts, Calendar etc.


texts: Can’t change phone time - set automatic time grayed out

texts:
Currently traveling in Europe on a cruise with intermittent cell coverage. Having to change my phone and watch time frequently. Seems to be impossible to do manually. The set time toggle is locked in automatic.

Any idea what I am missing here?  Tried disabling location services for time zone.


texts:
Is there a way to toggle between Fn (multimedia keys, brightness, etc) and F keys (F1, F2, ...) per app? I used to use an app that could perform this but now I just can't remember it's name.

As a developer I use a vmware fusion virtual machine to maintain some windows apps, and it would great if I could just enter the VM with the keyboard toggled to F keys, and when I get back to the OSX the keyboard gets toggled back to Fn keys.

Any ideas?


texts:
After investigating Box, Dropbox, Crashplan, Mozy, Carbonite, backblaze.com I'm struggling to find a service that offers all the following:

Backs up files to the cloud, that is accessible 24/7 on mobile and
web
Can mail a bootable backup of your system on demand
Works with macs

Does any service like this exist?


texts:
I have bought an Elgato Eve HomeKit-compliant weather sensor. It works well enough but unfortunately its accompanying app does not support data export.

From what I understand about Apple HomeKit, other apps should be capable of accessing HomeKit data that is stored on the same device (as e.g. from the weather sensor), if I permit them to do so.

So is there a (perhaps generic) iOS app that would allow me to see all HomeKit data stored on my iPhone and to export it (e.g. send CSV file by e-mail, or similar).

UPDATE In terms of Apple's HomeKit framework temperatures seem accessible as HMCharacteristics e.g. of type HMCharacteristicTypeCurrentTemperature inside an HMService of type HMServiceTypeThermostat. I have not found yet whether the HomeKit framework natively supports the notion of historic data (e.g. past temperatures). Apple's HMCatalog sample app indicates that the specific device also maintains a number of private characteristics, some of which could (perhaps) be related to historic data. Alternatively it could also be that all temperatures arrive in Elegato Eve's app as notifications and that hence historic data is only supported on the level of this app.


texts:
I'm trying to use Focus, an app that redirects blocked websites through localhost. However, while this works properly with Chrome and Firefox, Safari gives me an error message as in the attached image.

If in the web address I replace localhost with 127.0.0.1 everything works fine. How can I fix this?

The content of my /private/etc/hosts file is the default one, i.e.

##
# Host Database
#
# localhost is used to configure the loopback interface
# when the system is booting. Do not change this entry.
##
127.0.0.1   localhost
255.255.255.255 broadcasthost
::1             localhost
fe80::1%lo0 localhost

EDIT: Here is a screenshot of my proxies.


texts: How to add a Japanese name that does not appear in the Kotoeri registry? (OS X 10.11)

texts: On OS X 10.11 El Capitan, I am trying to add a word to the Kotoeri lookup dictionary. It is a name that does not come up when you type the Hiragana. The way to do it pre-10.10 no longer works. How can I add the word?


texts: Acknowledging an Exchange calendar response triggers a new invitation

texts:
I have Calendar connected to an Exchange 2010 server. I created an event with several (~40) persons. When someone answers I sometimes (not always) have a notification in Calendar with an "OK" button.

If I click "OK" the invitation is sent again to everybody.

I also noticed that sometimes when I snooze an alarm the other invited persons receive a notification per email.

Edit 1

This happens with each and every event that I create on Exchange, not only the example above.

Edit 2

Is there a way to solve the problem?
Or is there a way to gather more information (for example logs)?

Edit 3

I just noticed that when clicking on "OK"

Calendar sends an email to the attendees (I found it in the "Sent" folder) with the invitation attached (which makes no sense).

BEGIN:VCALENDAR
METHOD:REQUEST
PRODID:Microsoft Exchange Server 2010
VERSION:2.0
BEGIN:VTIMEZONE
TZID:W. Europe Standard Time
BEGIN:STANDARD
DTSTART:16010101T030000
TZOFFSETFROM:+0200
TZOFFSETTO:+0100
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;INTERVAL=1;BYDAY=-1SU;BYMONTH=10
END:STANDARD
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
DTSTART:16010101T020000
TZOFFSETFROM:+0100
TZOFFSETTO:+0200
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;INTERVAL=1;BYDAY=-1SU;BYMONTH=3
END:DAYLIGHT
END:VTIMEZONE
BEGIN:VEVENT
ORGANIZER;CN=:MAILTO:********
ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=NEEDS-ACTION;RSVP=TRUE;CN=HÃ¤ubi  J
 Ã¼rg A. (ID PPF):MAILTO:********
DESCRIPTION;LANGUAGE=en-US:When: Thursday\, January 29\, 2015 2:00 PM-3:00
 PM. (UTC+01:00) Amsterdam\, Berlin\, Bern\, Rome\, Stockholm\, Vienna\nWhe
 re: STB H11.1\n\n*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*\n\n\nORIGINAL TEXT\n
SUMMARY;LANGUAGE=en-US:Archivmigration
DTSTART;TZID=W. Europe Standard Time:20150129T140000
DTEND;TZID=W. Europe Standard Time:20150129T150000
UID:484366B6-E758-4B66-B590-E42D1797C805
CLASS:PUBLIC
PRIORITY:5
DTSTAMP:20150123T152428Z
TRANSP:OPAQUE
STATUS:CONFIRMED
SEQUENCE:1
LOCATION;LANGUAGE=en-US:STB H11.1
X-MICROSOFT-CDO-APPT-SEQUENCE:1
X-MICROSOFT-CDO-OWNERAPPTID:2112993755
X-MICROSOFT-CDO-BUSYSTATUS:TENTATIVE
X-MICROSOFT-CDO-INTENDEDSTATUS:BUSY
X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:FALSE
X-MICROSOFT-CDO-IMPORTANCE:1
X-MICROSOFT-CDO-INSTTYPE:0
X-MICROSOFT-DISALLOW-COUNTER:FALSE
BEGIN:VALARM
ACTION:DISPLAY
DESCRIPTION:REMINDER
TRIGGER;RELATED=START:-PT15M
END:VALARM
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR

This does not seem to be generated by Calendar (PRODID:Microsoft Exchange Server 2010), it seems that Calendar sends back the confirmation it received.

Edit 4

I am using Calendar 8.0 on Yosemite but the problem was already present on Mavericks before the upgrade.


texts:
I set up a shell script to synchronize two directories, this is the code:

rsync -rptDH /source /destination

Source is a local directory and destination is a smb mounted NAS drive.

I added the -H option because I am very interested in keeping the hard links existing in the source.

When the script is executed I get the following message:

  kernel[0]: smbfs_vnop_link: warning: pid 774(rsync) hardlink(filename)

I suspect there is a problem in keeping hard links in the destination disk. Is there a way to solve this?


texts: Can't get Safenote to open; freezes on loading screen

texts:
I've had the Safenote app for quite a while now and have a lot of useful notes in there. But now it won't open—it's frozen on the loading screen. Is there any way of getting it working again?

I'm using an iPhone 4 running iOS 5.


texts: Saving Calendar entries when deleting exchange account

texts:
Recently left a job and am deleting the Exchange account from my MacBook Air associated with the company. I no longer have access to the account (password has been changed, naturally) but I would really like to keep my calendar entries, mainly because I wasn't religious about where I placed appointments and I'd like to be able to look back and see what I did when at some point.

So, is there a way to either delete the Exchange account without deleting existing entries in Calendar (un-sync it or something?) or quickly copy all entries from one account into another.


texts: I purchased a game on my iPhone and can download it to my iPad. But it says that I still need to purchase it to not to play in the "free mode". I have already paid on my iPhone. The iPad and the iPhone, both are associated with the same account.


texts: organising apps by multiple levels of folders possible?

texts: I like the idea of putting our apps in "folders" , but is there anyway we can furthur put those "folders" into "folders" ?


texts: Change Vendor/Product Id of a USB Dongle

texts: I have a Broadcom USB Bluetooth Adaptor that I am working with, and for my project I need to change the dongle's Vendor ID and Product ID. I have tried editing the IORegistry, but it appears they are read-only from the IORegistry. I've tried editing IOBluetoothFamily.kext, but bluetooth becomes unavailable after a reboot. Any suggestions to spoof or flash a new PID/VID onto the dongle?


texts: Is there a way to do per-application rules in pfctl/alf?

texts: I'd like to implement a mitmproxy for a single application on my mac. Pfctl doesn't natively have (from what I can see) support to set rules based on the application source/dest of the packets, but the Application Level Filter (ALF) does. Is there a way to combine the two? From what I can see, the only rules you can apply to ALF is a simple accept/deny flag, nothing more. I'd ideally like to apply a 'rdr' rule within alf


texts: Is there a way to refresh a Finder file listing?

texts:
I love my Mac and how things generally just work. Now and again, however, one finds a few annoyances. My latest one is that I cannot find a refresh button anywhere to update a file listing in a Finder window.

Please note that I am aware that refreshing is generally not needed as new files are automatically added to Finder windows. In my case I have a NAS on my network, and to update a file listing in a NAS folder I currently need to change directory to somewhere else and then back again to see new files.

Is there a way to request an updated file listing in a Finder window?


texts: Spotify Offline Mode: do I need to launch the app within 30 days? (when I'm online)

texts:
If I use Spotify in Offline Mode on my iPad, I need to go online within 30 days or I will lose the offline songs.

But do I need to open the spotify app when the device does have internet connection, or can I just leave it close, and it will automatically inform the server?

In other words, do I need to take care about it and open the app when I do have connection, or this is done silently in background as soon as I connect to the internet (even with the app close) ?


texts: Background menu bar stuff visible through current menu bar

texts:
So this is happening to my menu bar(Look carefully at the menu bar).Looks like menu bar of other apps is visible through it.

Making the menu bar opaque solves it but I liked the transparent thingy.

Have restarted the computer but it's still the same.Any idea on what's causing this?


texts: Mac terminal prompt's machine name becomes "bogon" after using traceroute

texts:
I was doing some traceroute test yesterday, and today, my Mac terminal's user prompt becomes

`bogon:~ myUserName$`

Also when I'm doing traceroute like:

traceroute www.google.com

it stops with this log:

bogon (192.168.0.1)  1.158 ms  0.908 ms  0.746 ms

192.168.0.1 is the address of my wireless router.
I still can surf the internet though.


texts: How to resolve "iTunes could not back up the iPhone because the backup was corrupt"?

texts:
When I try to sync my iPhone with my computer, I get the following message:

  iTunes could not back up the iPhone "iPhone Name"
  because the backup was corrupt or not compatible
  with the iPhone.

  Delete the backup for this iPhone, then try again.

Yet, here is no option to delete the backup. Where are backups stored / how can I delete the backup?

This is iTunes version 10.5.3 running under  Mac OS X 10.6.8.


texts: How can I sync my iTunes music library between two Macs for free?

texts:
I have a desktop system that I use as a server. I also have a MacBook Pro that is my main computer. I've done a lot of organization and cleanup of my music library and have it all on my MacBook Pro.

I'd like to be able to keep the music library on my MacBook Pro in sync with the desktop machine so that my wife can access everything from her own MacBook Pro.

I thought about setting up folder actions that would copy the files into the "Automatically add to iTunes" folder.  However, since I like to use the "keep my iTunes library organized" option, the files get moved into the iTunes music directory and I can't write a script that will compare my MacBook Pro's iTunes music library with the "Automatic" directory on the server.

Also, a simple file copy will not sync metadata like ratings and plays. Is there a free, automated solution for syncing iTunes libraries between 2 Macs?

Below is how I finally did it based on the rsync suggestion:

I used the link provided by James in this answer (but I took out the --size-only option after the first sync):

iTunes Utility - Merging Libraries

I also took out the --force option (because it's redundant when also using --delete). so my rsync command looks like this:

rsync -av --delete ~/Music/iTunes/ /Volumes/robert/Music/iTunes > ~/Automation/automator/logs/itunes_rsync.log

I then integrated this into an Automator workflow. Looks like this: Get Specified Servers ► Connect to Servers ► Run Shell Script ► Eject Disk.

Creating it as an iCal Workflow is screwy for me because I use MobileMe and the iCal event gets synced with my other machines where I don't want this workflow to run.  So instead, I created an agent using Lingon that runs the workflow every 8 hours.


texts: Can I use a non-Apple, Bluetooth keyboard with a MacBook Pro?

texts:
I'm currently operating on a late 2013 MacBook Pro and am eager to buying a wireless keyboard for my setup. I was looking at the Logitech MK345, which is a bluetooth mouse-keyboard combo, and thought it was quite what I needed. Although, it didn't really say anywhere that it worked with Mac. I tried looking for answers to see if non-mac keyboards function properly with OS X and only saw answers for wired ones.

I'm pretty confused... Should I take the risk of buying the keyboard? Any suggestions to what I should do? Thanks.


texts: Mail.app: weird, huge numbers of messages in title bar, Time Machine quit working

texts:
A friend has been having problems with Mail. Notably, Time Machine is no longer working within Mail, and Mail says it has huge and seemingly arbitrary numbers of messages in the title bar.

For example, while looking at a folder that clearly has just a couple dozen messages, the title bar says something like: "Inbox (6487431079 messages, 524981056 unread)". This is similar, with different numbers, for every mailbox. We ran out of time and I did not try it on a brand new mailbox.

This happened after my friend switched Internet providers, and all his old email disappeared. I tried "Mailbox --> Rebuild" to no avail. While in Mail, Time Machine showed no messages backed up since the switch, and no messages at all prior to the switch. He was using POP for both providers.

Using Finder, I looked through his backup disk, and found the old email and restored it manually, but it still has those strange numbers, and Time Machine does not work within Mail, although it still seems to be backing up his ~/Library/Mail folder.

I tried quitting Mail, deleting his ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.mail.* files, and re-starting, but no change in the weird numbers.

He was quite behind in updates, and I cycled through Software Update until nothing else installed -- still weird numbers. (This is Snow Leopard.)

Is there some other preferency file I should be deleting to fix this? Any other ideas?


texts: Why does my Qi charging base squeal as my iPhone 8 charges?

texts:
I just purchased a iPhone 8 and I was trying to charge it using my Qi charging base that I used on my former Nexus 6. The base worked fine on the Nexus 6 but on the iPhone, it squeals (not sure whether it is the iPhone or the base, but it sounds more like the base) and stops charging regularly. The charge level does go up during this process, but it is so irritating that I have to stop as I also fear damage to the iPhone. I used both the Nexus 6 and the iPhone USB power adapter and the result is the same. For me it seems that the iPhone pulls more power than the Qi base can support. It there a way to reduce the power drawn by the iPhone via wireless charging?

The Qi charger is a Itian model A2.

EDIT:
I found a solution to stop this Qi charger from squealing. I added a small padding on the bottom where the iPhone sits (around 1 cm or half inch) and the iPhone now is aligned well against the coil, which has stopped the squealing and charges at the expected rate.


texts: Change sound level when using earphones with iPhone dock

texts:
When using Music on iPhone the user is able to use a slider to change the audio output level.

However, when the iPhone is docked in the official Apple dock, using the earphone jack in the back, the slider to change audio level is removed from the interface.

I would prefer to use the docks audio jack as it keeps the earphone wire on the surface of the desk rather than floating out the top of the phone over a keyboard and getting in the way.

Is there a way to make the audio level changeable when the iPhone is docked in the official iPhone dock?


texts:
I'm usually running my Boot Camp partition in VMWare Fusion. When resuming the MacBook from sleeping (Boot Camp also ran in VMWare Fusion) the computer (OS X) told me it was restarted due to a problem.
Now the Windows 10 partition doesn't boot, either in Boot Camp mode or in VMWare Fusion.
The bluescreen error is 0xc0000225

I have run chkdsk c: /offlinescanandfix from a repair usb stick, but it didn't help.
I have tried to set the Boot Camp partion active using Diskpart from the Windows repair usb stick, but it told me that the partition couldn't. GPT? Don't remember.

I can access the Boot Camp partition from Finder in OSX.

My Mac is a MacBook Pro Mid 2015 running macOS Sierra 10.12.6


texts:
I use rsync to create a backup of my boot partition (Mavericks).
Everything is OK (during the backup) but the backup partition does not boot (it seems to loop infinitely).

I think I used the correct arguments to rsync, included the following
options:
--hfs-compression and --protect-decmpfs

Any ideas?

(of course, I used bless to make it bootable)


texts:
I have registered for Enterprise Apple Developer account and I am a Team Agent. I do not see Users and Roles in iTunes connect and https://developer.apple.com/account/ as well. Below are the screen shot for same -

Any help would be greatly appreciated.


texts: How do I block OS X's auto detection of shared drives?

texts:
I'm a little concerned that I have a bunch of drives from other people's computers showing up in Finder whenever I'm at a company site. I don't plan to access those at all.

I have sharing disabled, yet they still appear. How can I block their being detected?

And is there any security risk in their showing up? I ask because I noticed that one of these drives, without my asking at all, showed up in my Dock!


texts: How do I fix disabled diacritical/accent marks?

texts:
I'm running macOS High Sierra v10.13.3.

Holding a key — typically a vowel — down, by default, will enable a pop-up of diacritics to appear. A while back, I had apparently disabled this function, thereby enabling key repeat.

I had wanted to reenable this default, and therefore disable key repeat. The most obvious method that I had found via numerous forums and blog posts was entering the following into Terminal:

defaults write -g ApplePressAndHoldEnabled -bool true

I've performed this operation, and then restarted my computer, about a dozen times, and I still cannot disable key repeat and enable the accent mark pop-up to appear. As an additional remedy, I disabled key repeat in System Preferences — but to no avail.

Funny thing is: the feature works exclusively on TextEdit and no other application.


texts: I have a "Remove" button next to app icon on iTunes' app-page

texts:
In iTunes, on the app-page, I have somehow got a "Remove" button next to my app icons (left hand window). I can't get rid of the remove button and I'm afraid it deletes my apps permanently.

How did this come about? Does it mean these apps will be taken off iPad only or from iTunes altogether, as a permanent delete? How do I correct this, so that all apps are organised on specific pages (on the right hand window) whilst being able to choose which apps transfer to iPad and which stay in iTunes to use or transfer when needed?

Any help for my non-techno brain would be welcome.


texts:
On a few occasions now, when viewing photos in the "Photos" app, I have seen a small inset photo appear in the top left corner of the screen.

Insets seem to be triggered by some sort of downward swipe gesture, but I don't know exactly what triggers insets. I also do not know how they are of any use.

Can anyone shed any light on how to produce this inset photo and why it is of use?

This is what I'm seeing - NOTE THIS IMAGE WAS DONE IN PHOTOSHOP


texts: How to launch Hangouts Chrome extension via AppleScript?

texts:
I am trying to launch a Google Chrome extension in AppleScript or Terminal. By "launch," I mean replicate the act of clicking on the extension icon found in Chrome's toolbar.

The Chrome extension in question is Google Hangouts. Clicking on the extension icon creates a new pseudo-window in Chrome that houses the Hangouts dialer.

Here is what I've considered:

I uncovered the physical location of this extension on my hard drive:

/Users/Me/Library/Application Support/Google/Chrome/Default/Extensions/ nckgahadagoaajjgafhacjanaoiihapd/2018.123.418.2_0
However, I didn't find anything of significance.

I entered chrome-extension://nckgahadagoaajjgafhacjanaoiihapd/ in Chrome's address bar, which led to a "Your file was not found" message.
I do not know of a way to associate a keyboard-shortcut with the Hangouts extension. The Options item in the context menu of the Hangouts extension is not selectable (i.e., it is greyed out).
The Hangouts extension has a second shortcut, found in the systemwide, top menu bar. I tried programmatically clicking on the menu-bar icon with code like this (source):

tell application "System Events" to tell process "SystemUIServer" to tell (menu bar item 1 of menu bar 1) to click
But, I am unable to get AppleScript to click on any icon that falls to the left of the wifi symbol.

I am aware that Hangouts has a web interface (https://hangouts.google.com). However, any phone number that is given to the web interface is dialed by the extension (not by the web interface itself). So, interacting with the extension directly is more ideal.

Is the dreaded mouse-click simulation the only way to accomplish what I want?


texts: How long does the DNS cache last in Mac OS X?

texts:
I know I can manually flush the DNS cache, e.g. with sudo killall -HUP mDNSResponder.

But how long will the cache last if I don't do this? Does it reset on a reboot?


texts:
I recently decided I'd try to use Messages.app instead of Adium as my all-in-one chat app, and was immediately stymied by the + button in the Accounts pane not working.
I click the button, it darkens to indicate I clicked, and then nothing happens.

I've tried adding it to Messages through System Preferences > Mail, Contacts & Calendars, just by checking the box next to Messages on my Gmail account, but that just gives me the error "There was a problem setting up the account.  An unknown error occurred."

I am using two-factor authentication on my google account, but my Mail account is properly set up with an application-specific password.  I imagine things might work better if I could add the account to Messages specifically, with a different application-specific password, but since the + button in Accounts isn't working, that doesn't seem to be an option.

Anyone else had similar problems and solved them, preferably without reinstalling the OS?

Edit: Running Mountain Lion 10.8.3, no updates available in Software Update.


texts:
I need to reinstall macOS on my 2011 iMac. The iMac was last running High Sierra (which is the last OS it supports) before I wiped it. I am booting into Internet Recovery mode on my iMac, but for some reason the computer seems to be retrieving Lion from Internet Recovery. This would normally be fine (I could just install Lion and then upgrade to High Sierra through the Mac App Store), but in order to install Lion, the installer asks for my Apple ID and password. I type my credentials in correctly, but the installer seems to be so old that it is unable to communicate with the Mac App Store properly, so it rejects my credentials and doesn't proceed with the installation.

Is there a way to get Internet Recovery to boot into High Sierra?


texts: I can't figure how to use Calculator in Catalina. Screenshot is where I keyed in 4 * 3 and an Enter, I get output of 3 instead of 12 and neither can I read what I keyed in nor scroll arrow-up for any previous result.  I thought I had some sort of mental blockage so I actually read the Calculator User Guide for Mac - still didn't find what I did wrong with the Calculator. I regret upgrading to Catalina, everything is just a disaster. I have to use Terminal for basic calculation, if someone can show me how to use Calculator like we used to on the Dashboard or on normal physical calculator...


texts: How does payware ensure limited amount of trial?

texts: I often use commercial software that is not free, and use the trial version first. My guess would be that it records the trial activation date in a file, and when it detects a certain period of time had passed the software stops working. However, that seem to not be the case; I have erased the whole disk for one time and reinstalled macOS, and those software still displays a message that the trial period is over. Thus it seems like the software collects hardware identification data and stores it in the server. Is that the case? If so, how can I stop software doing that (without my permission), or how can I change the hardware identification data?


texts: JPG photo filenames after an iPhone to "Photos app" import

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Since years, we centralize all our family photos on a (local) disk readable from Windows, Linux and Mac OS X. The filenames are usually something like D:\Photos\2020-05\IMG_76843.jpg or D:\Photos\2020-05\20200502_1256_2.jpg, when coming from various digital cameras or Android smartphones.

Now I have an iPhone, and I imported nearly 10 GB of photos with the Macbook "Photos" app. I don't want to keep them inside this app, my final goal is to manage the JPG files myself, and move them on the external disk (mentioned above). So I took all files from ~/Pictures/Photos Library.photoslibrary/Masters/ and moved them to the external disk.
(or ~/Pictures/Photos Library.photoslibrary/originals/ with Catalina). This worked.
After that I deleted Photos Library.photoslibrary (no longer needed, I will recreate a new photo library when importing next time; again, I don't want to use Photos app except for importing from the iPhone).

Question: I now have files like:

DE017ACB-5ABD-4113-B110-95DABF7F28F7.jpeg
DE017ACB-5ABD-4113-B110-95DABF7F28F7_1_105_c.jpeg
DE017ACB-5ABD-4113-B110-95DABF7F28F7_4_5005_c.jpeg

and there are two problems:

they are duplicates of different sizes (this is probably simple, I can do a script to remove the smaller files *_1_105_c.jpgand keep the original big file only)
the files are in  a totally random order!

Before I roll my own Python script (examining EXIF and recreate "new filenames" according to the datetime of the photo), are there tricks/things to know/techniques to recover better photo filenames from these random-looking filenames: DE017ACB-5ABD-4113-B110-95DABF7F28F7.jpeg?

More generally, is it possible to have less a mess with JPG filenames when importing photos from an iPhone?

Sidenotes:

I do automated backups, both locally and distant
we don't want to use a cloud solution to manage photos, and also not a cataloguing software (like Lightroom or similar)
Reason for this "I want to handle photo files myself": with this "plain JPG files in folders" method, photos can be read on every device (Win, Linux, Mac, etc.) without requiring a specific software that would probably be unmaintained/unavailable in year 2079, when my children will want to open them ;)
"Just JPG files in a folder" is probably the method that maximizes the chance of being opened in 50 or 100 years.
for my next import from iPhone, is there another software than "Photos" app that directly sets better filenames when importing? This seems to show that "Image Capture" would work better in my case: How do I import photos in OS X without using Photos.app?


texts: Trackpad and mouse require two taps/clicks to register first click

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I'm having a horribly frustrating issue that I can't seem to work out. Here are the steps to reproduce the problem, which happens with both an external Logitec VX mouse, the internal MacBook Pro Trackpad and the Magic Trackpad.

I move the pointer to a click location, and tap the trackpad. No click is registered.
I tap the trackpad again, and a click is registered.
I move the pointer to a new location, and tap the trackpad. The click is registered.
I let the pointer hold in a single location for some (as yet undetermined amount of time).
I move the pointer to a click location, and tap the trackpad. No click is registered. It again takes two clicks to "unstick" the click.

This happens all the time when I'm coding, and I'll click and drag something, go to my keyboard, and then go back to the mouse, and I'll have to double click to get a single click to register. If I let the mouse stand idle, I'll have the same issue.

I haven't been able to dig out why this happens. I have, on occasion, been able to restart my MacBook Pro and it would magically start working again, but then at some point it starts to once again misbehave.

Machine Specifications:

MacBook Pro 17-inc, Mid 2010
8GB RAM
OS X Lion 10.7.2


texts: Is the trackpad in the Mac Air connected to the keyboard?

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My wife spilled a little water on her Mac Air -- MD760ll/A which we got in August 2013 (just outside of any AppleCare warranty).  At first it was completely dead, but I removed the back and battery and sopped up the water and used a desiccant in a sealed box to dry it out even further.

Now it turns on, but the keyboard and trackpad don't work, however I can use the Mac with a USB keyboard/mouse.

Is the trackpad connected to the keyboard?  If that's the case is there the possibility that I would only need to replace the keyboard?


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I connected peripherals to my Mac via USB. When I put my Mac to sleep, the external microphone, for example, is still supplied with power.
Is there any way that once the Mac goes to sleep, that it will remove power from attached devices?
My idea was to use Hibernatemode 25 and that's what I did in the end.  The pmset manpage states that the RAM will be disconnected from the power.  This means that there is absolutely no possibility that the system will wake up in the idle state and start charging.  Why can't Hibernatemode 25 work and how can I turn off the power when the Mac is in sleep mode?


texts: Terminal script to create folders and copy files based on part of filename

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I have a folder with thousands of files in this format

filenameA - 1.ext
filenameA - 2.ext
filenameB - 1.ext

and sometimes

filenameB - 02.ext

I need a script that will read the files and create a single folder with each distinct filename before the " - #.ext" and then add all files with that same name into the folder.

From the example above I would have two folders 1) filenameA 2) filenameB -
 each with two files in them. The actual data has thousands of files and each group can have 1 to 50ish files, with sequential numbers added to the end.


texts: What's the difference between `/usr/local/bin/` and `/usr/local/opt/` on macOS?

texts: I found that homebrew will create symbolic link from both /usr/local/bin/ and /usr/local/opt/ to /usr/local/Cellar/xxx/xx.xx/xx after installing a software, what's the difference between /usr/local/bin/ and /usr/local/opt/? Because this two directories seems to be duplicates.


texts: Automatically change settings of Terminal when in full screen

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I often use emacs from a terminal (emacs -nw), and when comparing two files side-by-side (C-x 3) it is often useful to go into full-screen mode.  I'm using a 27" screen, so full-screen mode provides a lot of screen real estate, usually more than I need.  To counteract this, I typically increase the font size under Terminal->Preferences->Setings.

Is there a way to have settings -- e.g. font size -- changed automatically when going to full screen in a Terminal application?

I notice that one can define a preset Setting, which can be swapped out easily, but it would be nice if it was swapped out automatically when going full screen.


texts: IOS App that allows you to takes photos every X seconds and saving it in the camera toll (no time lapse)

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community

Is there an IOS app that allows you to capture photos every X seconds and automatically saves it in the camera roll (not like a time lapse that puts it in a single video)

Thanks a lot! :)


texts: Calendar cannot be updated on iPhone 6sPlus

texts: After iOS 9.3.5 update installed, I lost the ability to add events in my calendar. How can I restore this capability?


texts: How to fix the static screen on external monitor?

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I have a macbook air and this is what essentially happens:

I connect external monitor using thunderbolt to DVI converter
The monitor works correctly
I lock screen, monitor goes blank
When I log back in the external monitor starts showing static for about 30 seconds and fixes itself after 30 seconds. The monitor fixes itself even if I turn the monitor off and on again :D

The problem does not occur on either Ubuntu or on Windows if I connect my other laptop.

This has been the case ever since I got the mac and I am not sure if there is any fix for this. If anyone can help, please let me know.


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macOS Catalina
Version 10.15.7
MacBook Pro (16-inch, 2019)

18s video on YouTube: https://youtu.be/mk-jj-MZ-CM
Tiny preview below:

I like art but this is annoying.
Last time restarting machine resolved the issue but it's popping up again :(


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I'm considering using Migration Assistant to transfer everything from an old backup of my system to my current system because there are files that went missing when I upgraded my old system to El Capitan.

If I use Migration Assistant to transfer my user accounts, applications, settings, and "other files", will it copy over similar files and make unnecessary duplicates, or will it merge folders to preserve the newest version of a file?

Put another way, say that I have files/folders A, B, and C.
On my old backup, I have A, B, and C.
On my upgraded system, I have A and B, but C was lost in the upgrade process.

If I use Migration Assistant, will it overwrite A and B and add C to my new system from my old system?
Or will Migration Assistant copy over A, B, and C to my new system from my old system, creating two A files, two B files, and one C file, the result of which are unnecessary duplicates?

Ideally, I'd like to merge folders, so that the newest version of a file is preserved.


texts: How can I sync old messages between iDevices?

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Recently Messages stopped working on my Mac. Messages sent by my iPad and iPhone were synced to my Mac, but sending failed. After trying about twenty-eleven possible solutions from here, apple, and elsewhere on the internet, I rebooted my Mac.  This doesn't happen often.  The problem went away, but so did the last 2 months worth of messages.

Is there a way to sync past messages between multiple devices?

Iphone/ipad are on iOS 10, Mac is on Yosemite.