texts: Possibility of viruses from opening dmg file?

texts: While installing a file, the pop up with the fake flash player downloaded a dmg to my computer. Because I was already downloading something else and expecting to find it in my downloads I accidentally opened the dmg file. At this point I knew this was not the software I wished to download so I closed the window. The installer might have been left open for several hours past that until I ejected it and deleted it however. So I opened the dmg file and left it open for a while but I didn’t install anything nor run it. Am I good? Is there anyway to be sure?


texts: Mac mini turns off automatically by itself

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Ive got a mid 2012 mac mini which i have used constantly without issue for about 5 years. Today it seems to have developed a weird fault were it powers off by itself. I powered it back on just after lunch as it was off and when i came back it had turned itself off again.

At first i thought it might be a loose connection with the power cable or extension cord, but i checked them all and they are in tightly with plenty of slack on the cable.

As per suggestion in comments ive opened up the shutdown cause log and it seems to be caused by

localhost kernel[0]: Preview shutdown cause: -62 There are a couple of 5 listings also.


texts: Smart Folders : How to omit certain folders

texts:
I made a smart folder of all my .psd (Photoshop) files, so I can easily access them.

However, my smart folder has .psd files from apps such as ZBrush that use .psd format in their program. It also brings up .psd files from my Creative Cloud.

Is it possible to tell Smart Folders to exclude these folders?


texts: Contacts.app Sync with iCloud gives CoreDAVErrorDomain Error 1

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I'm completely clueless.
The contacts app does not sync with iCould and gives the CoreDAVErrorDomain Error 1.

I have tried deleting the app and do software update. Same thing.
I have tried backing up contacts, delete all contacts, sync with iCloud. It downloads the data from iCloud and gives the error again. Not all contacts are updated.
I have tried backup contacts from iCloud, delete data from iCloud, delete data from the contacts app. When i load the backup contacts to iCloud it give this error again. Can my data be corrupted? It loads well to iCloud again and it was backed up from iCloud...

I have an iPhone that syncs perfectly to iCloud and would like the MAC contacts to be sync'd with the phone.

Please let me know if I am making this question in the wrong place.
I have also looked for an answer first, but could not find one.


texts:
I bought a Asus SimPro Dock. I know it is not officially compatible, but I had a friends that uses it at works without problems. I connected it to my MacBook Pro 16 (2019) and it works for all the functionalities, except for the external monitor, the docking station instead works with a dell notebook and with my MacBook Pro 15 (2016). Initially I thought that the problem was Big Sur (my old MacBook has Catalina), but after a clean installation of Catalina also on the 16", the docking station continues to not working. Any advices?
EDIT monitor is a simple 24" HP, it has both HDMI and VGA and I tested both of them. They both works when connecting docking station to MacBook Pro 2016, and neither of them work with the new 2019 16" one
EDIT2 This morning I notice that the monitor works correctly at boot, until I put password. After that, OS start loading and after a couple of seconds the monitor shutted down


texts: New MacBook Pro doesn't auto-mount external drives

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I recently upgraded from a 2011 MacBook Pro to a new model, both running Catalina. Transferred my account over from the old one using Wifi with no issues. All my preferences etc. seem to be fine.
But, whenever I plug any external disk into the new MacBook, it will not mount automatically. I have to open Disk Utility and click the mount button. This was not the case on my old computer.
I haven't been able to find any kind of global preference that would disable mounting of disks. All the questions I find here and elsewhere are either about problems with a particular disk, or people who want to disable automatic mounting.
Any suggestions?


texts: Dictation on macOS frequently stalls the computer

texts:
For the physically incapacitated, macOS dictation is a lifesaver.
However, I find that frequently using this utility grinds the system to a halt. Responsiveness goes down to 0 over a few seconds, the fan kicks in, I have to go to Activity Monitor and kill anything with the word 'speech' in it.
This feature has become completely unusable.
I'm considering a fresh installation of macOS.
But is there anything that can be done, short of this drastic measure?
And what can I do to debug this phenomenon? Simply reinstalling is not intelligently going to the root of the problem. So how to go to the root?


texts: Gmail iOS app: What’s a work around to *save* all my deleted gmail messages?

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I want an easy way to save all of the messages I delete. Gmail automatically empties the trash after a few months. I want to keep all my deleted messages so I can find something several months later that didn’t seem important, but now is.
Can I create a script that will move the messages from the deleted or trash (or bin) folder to something like “archived forever” ?? Where Can I hired someone to do that?
I read most of my emails on an iPad and swipe to delete the messages. I know that I could select and move them to a folder that would not be deleted, but that’s a lot of work for the 75+ messages I get each day.
Thanks for any help... I can pay for quality help on this problem.


texts: Updated my jailbroken iPhone 4s to 6.1.3, stuck in Recov. loop

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My iPhone 4s was jailbroken, I think at 5.something or 6.0. I wish I remembered. I tried to update it to 6.1.3 via my phone in the settings menu. It restarted and told me to connect to iTunes.

I connected to iTunes to restore and got a 3194 error. I tried tinyumbrella but I cant kick my phone out of recovery mode. I went into DFU mode and used tinyumbrellas "fix recovery" options with no luck, iTunes returned a 21 error. I went back into DFU mode and tried to restore my phone through iTunes again, but now that I'm in DFU mode, I'm getting a 1600 error.

I updated iTunes to 11.0.2 (latest) and tried to restore again. Instead of immediately throwing an error, it's now downloading the iPhone software update and has 75 minutes remaining.

Not sure if this will make a single difference when it actually tries to install it, but in the meantime does anyone have ideas?


texts: Is there some kind of certification for Apple developers?

texts:
I'm looking for a certification as an "Apple developer" but I don't know if that exists.

I found http://training.apple.com/certification but it only offers certification for OSX and Apple software like FinalCut.


texts: How to start/join microsoft office live meeting on mac

texts:
How can we join/start live meeting on my macbook pro.
I have microsoft office installed.
Do i need any other software also.


texts: Macbook Pro 2018 (Mojave) - No WiFi hardware installed

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My wifi stop working and it display "No hardware installed" message on my Macbook Pro 2018. I've tried reset NVRAM and SMC but no luck. In system rapport it looks installed, on en0 BSD. Also i've tried to remove NetworkInterfaces.plist.

Ps: i have an MINIX NEO C adapter and since i've used that i had this problem. First time it started to work bi itself, but second time don't want to start anymore.


texts:
I'm actually working on a website development and I configured all the needed hostname on my /etc/hosts files.

Actually in our office we use an internal DNS for the QA servers and we override requests with hostfiles because hostname must be equal in both case, anyway.

I write (server-side) on the page the IP address that is serving that page and in my iOS Simulator there's no way to show up 127.0.0.1 it always show to me the QA IP.

I read online that the entry on the hosts file must be wrote one-per-line or the Simulator will not work.

Actually I have:

127.0.0.1 it.domain.test.com
127.0.0.1 us.domain.test.com

Before I had:

127.0.0.1 it.domain.test.com us.domain.test.com

Side notes:
My OS: OSX 10.10 Yosemite
Here we are behind a proxy.


texts: Can all music and playlists/ratings be transferred back from an iPod Touch to a PC?

texts:
How can I get my songs from my iPod Touch to my PC?

Some of the songs were purchased through iTunes, and others were ripped from CDs.

This is what happened:

The iPod Touch was set up to sync with my PC via iTunes, so my PC had all of the music on it.
The PC got infected with viruses and the computer needed to be formatted.
The music is now only on the iPod Touch and not on the PC.

Is there any way I can get my songs back to the PC from my iPod Touch (or iPad or iPhone since they all run iOS)?


texts: There is a bug in the sleep health app in iOS

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When I look at my sleep tracking I see the graph shows a spot for tomorrow for nine minutes. There's an end of year calculation bug.  It thinks I have nine minutes of sleep in the future.  It's currently December 31.  It also calculate the total wrong.

iOS 10.3.3


texts: remove music from my device in Itunes only

texts: I just want to remove all music from the my device file in Itunes. I do not want to change anything in my Iphone, just the content of the my device file.


texts: "Natively" add emails to Mail by PHP pipe script

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I found this awesome tutorial on how to send emails on localhost that will open your Mail showing you the email that was sent from PHP, however this is slightly annoying getting Mail to open when an email is sent - I have some tasks that run in the background which sends an email for development reasons for my site so I can test the emails.

I want to be able to not get annoyed by getting popped up with emails, instead I would like it to pipe it to Mail and show in my inbox when I click "Get new messages" so I can look into the email whenever I want not at the instant when the email is sent.

I've looked into where Mail stores their email ~/Library/Mail/V2, I was wondering if I could adjust the script to add the email there, but it looks quite complication so I don't want to risk having any confusion or corruption happening.

Is there any possibility to store the mails without any problems so Mail can add it to my inbox list via PHP?

Anything?


texts: How is the Y value for the Memory Pressure graph in Activity Monitor calculated?

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How is vm.memory_pressure's value bounded / calculated on OS X 10.10.2 - Yosemite?

I've researched several answers to this question and am trying a few things on the command line to get exact values rather than looking at the graphs in Activity Monitor.

With the system under light load:

~ ❯❯❯ sysctl -a vm | grep page_free && sysctl vm.memory_pressure && sysctl kern.memorystatus_vm_pressure_level
vm.vm_page_free_target: 4000
vm.page_free_wanted: 0
vm.page_free_count: 2683717
vm.memory_pressure: 0
kern.memorystatus_vm_pressure_level: 1

The kern.memorystatus_vm_pressure_level looks right, and appears to be what it uses to color the graph (green for 1-NORMAL, yellow for 2-WARN, red for 4-CRITICAL). However, vm.memory_pressure is 0 and the graph has some amount of green to it, and it's jagged, meaning the value is clearly changing over time, not just sitting at 0.

Under heavy load it looks like this:

❯❯❯ sysctl -a vm | grep page_free && sysctl vm.memory_pressure && sysctl kern.memorystatus_vm_pressure_level
vm.vm_page_free_target: 4000
vm.page_free_wanted: 0
vm.page_free_count: 32572
vm.memory_pressure: 1693
kern.memorystatus_vm_pressure_level: 4

Or this...

~ ❯❯❯ sysctl -a vm | grep page_free && sysctl vm.memory_pressure && sysctl kern.memorystatus_vm_pressure_level
vm.vm_page_free_target: 4000
vm.page_free_wanted: 0
vm.page_free_count: 5431
vm.memory_pressure: 277
kern.memorystatus_vm_pressure_level: 4

Or this...

~ ❯❯❯ sysctl -a vm | grep page_free && sysctl vm.memory_pressure && sysctl kern.memorystatus_vm_pressure_level
vm.vm_page_free_target: 4000
vm.page_free_wanted: 3220
vm.page_free_count: 805
vm.memory_pressure: 1
kern.memorystatus_vm_pressure_level: 4

Here's where I'm confused. None of these values alone could possibly be the Y value of the graph for a couple of reasons.

First, vm.memory_pressure just sits at 0 almost all the time under normal load, and the graph doesn't sit at 0.

Second, they are not consistent with one another. Looking at the memory_pressure value, it is lower when it actually had wanted pages (3220 wanted and pressure of only 1) than when it had 5431 free and none wanted (pressure was 277). And somehow that's even lower pressure than when it had 32572 free (and had 1693 pressure).

So, when it plots that graph, what's the calculation for the Y value, and how can I get the data I need to calculate it from the command line? I'm looking to make a command line tool that will spit out a percentage of how high the current line would be on that graph, so I need to know how to calculate the value at any given time, as well as what the range of possible values are.


texts: AppleScript: alias reference is not changing after renaming a folder

texts:
I'm new to AppleScript and after doing:

set folder_name to "New_Folder"
tell application "Finder" to make new folder at desktop
set my_folder to result as alias
tell application "Finder" to set the name of my_folder to folder_name
get my_folder

I get: alias "/Users/frank/Desktop/untitled folder"

I thought alias was dynamic, why my_folder reference is not changing after renaming the folder?
i.e. alias "/Users/frank/Desktop/New_Folder"
How can I accomplish that?


texts: What's the best way in terminal to move a file from deep in one directory to deep into another?

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E.g. /desktop/a/b/c/file.txt and I want to move the text file to /desktop/x/y/z/

Thanks for any help!


texts:
As I don't have enough internal storage space on my MacBook Pro, I used to store my Parallels VMs on an external 500 GB HDD connected via Firewire 800. However, that drive eventually died, and I replaced it with a 3 TB Western Digital NAS.

Now, my Parallels VMs run extremely slowly. Actually, to be more specific – they seem to run at normal speed, but take forever to respond to UI inputs (e.g., when I click a button, there's a 30 to 60-second wait before it responds. But once it does, the UI updates smoothly).

Is there anything I can do to speed up the UI responsiveness, or is this just a side effect of running the VMs off of the NAS?

I run three different Windows VMs (two Windows 7, one Windows 8), and they're all equally slow, so it's not an issue with just one VM. I also haven't changed any settings or anything else other than moving them from the old FW800 HDD to the NAS.


texts: So I accidentally deleted the iMessages plugin from the Messages app on El Capitan. Now the app is broken and nothing works. Anyway I could get this back?


texts: Which setting in osx could block "ping localhost"?

texts:
How can I detect which setting in the OS X could block ping localhost?
IPFW, LittleSnitch no such rules?

Update 1:

> cat /etc/hosts
127.0.0.1   localhost
255.255.255.255   broadcast


texts:
I am struggling with the new Lion finder features. There are some subtle differences that are putting me off.

I used to have custom "go to" shortcuts in Snow Leopard. For example, I used to have a folder called "Tools," and I had assigned a custom keyboard shortcut from the preference panel. Now I am not able to find those options.

Does Mac OS X Lions still have those options? If it does have them, where can I find them?


texts: How do I use the `security` command-line tool to add a keychain?

texts:
I'm doing some remote Mac administration and finding myself needing to copy a keychain to the machine and then add it to the default list of keychains.

Using VNC and the GUI, this is simple: just double-click it and Keychain Access opens, revealing that it's been added. But how do you do this via terminal over SSH, so that it can be scripted? The security tool doesn't seem to have an "add-keychain" command or an argument to any other command that would do this, as far as I can tell.

How do you do this?


texts:
Is there any global Finder setting for "Keep Arranged By"?

I know I can set it on a per folder basis pressing Option - Right Click:

It is painful having to do this for every folder though...

Jonathan


texts: I deleted my appdata\roaming\apple computer\mobilesync\backup files and now I can't backup

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I deleted my appdata\roaming\apple computer\mobilesync\backup files.  Now I can't backup.

When I press Back Up Now, it waits a few seconds, then comes back and nothing is backed up.

How do I make it backup?


texts: In the past, with my iPhone 6s I was able to take a picture and then, on Windows, view the gps data. Now with my new iPhone XS, the GPS information is no longer there as well as a lot of other data is missing such as the Camera Make/Model, ISO speed etc. I have checked to ensure that location is allowed for the camera app. Any ideas?


texts: How to set up my iMessage account on my MacBook Pro?

texts: I've been trying to set up my iMessage account so that I can receive my texts and messages to my computer. I've set up my iCloud, and my AIM, and my FaceTime, but I can't figure out how to set up my iMessage, any help?


texts: Add Spotlight Comments without tags on OS X Mavericks

texts:
I would like to add comments to files or folders. On previous OS X versions, there would be a text field to add comments that become searchable via Spotlight.

Now, in OS X 10.9 Mavericks the text field now says 'Add Tags' instead of Comments. When I add text in there, it shows up system-wide. This is not ideal when I only want to tag a single folder with a unique phrase. Is there any way to get File Commenting back?


texts: Transferring PC files to MacBook Pro with Lion OS via flash drive

texts: I have a flash drive with all the files from my old PC.  How do I access / find this flash drive after it is installed, and can I save and use these files (Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook primarily)?


texts: Stop iPhone from vibrating when recording a voice message in Signal or WhatsApp

texts:
Whenever I start a voice message recording in Signal or WhatsApp my iPhone SE vibrates. This vibration can be heard at the beginning of the voice message. The phone also vibrates at the end of the voice message, when I release the "microphone" button.

Since this happens in two messengers independently, I suspect that this is a system setting. I was not able to find an option to turn this off. The phone does not vibrate when I use the built-in "Voice Memos" app.

Neither the silent mode nor the do-not-disturb mode have an effect on the vibration.

How can I stop my iPhone SE from vibrating whenever I start and stop a voice recording in a messenger?

iOS 12.0 (16A366),
iPhone SE (MP832DN/A)


texts: How can I enlarge my start up partition? I cannot drag the MAC OSX box (see below)


texts:
My Apple iPhone 5 doesn't charge attached to a laptop. It works fine attached to a wall charger. Plugging in the USB cable into laptop doesn't generate an audible feedback. I am running Windows 8.1 Professional.

How do I solve my problem?


texts: "this Apple ID has not y used with the iTunes Store tap to review " when I tap review nothing happens what do I do?

texts: i just got a iPad mini and I set it all up. Tried to download free apps but kept saying "this Apple ID has not yet been used with iTunes Store tap to review" when I tap review nothing happens what do I do ???


texts: How can I stop AirPort from waking my Macbook Pro?

texts:
Recently I have noticed my MacBook Pro is completely discharging when I leave it to sleep. After investigation I've discovered traces similar to the following in the Console output:

24/01/2014 18:35:11.000 kernel[0]: AirPort_Brcm43xx::powerChange: System Wake - Full Wake/ Dark Wake / Maintenance wake
24/01/2014 18:35:57.000 kernel[0]: Wake reason: XHC1
24/01/2014 18:36:01.000 kernel[0]: AirPort_Brcm43xx::powerChange: System Wake - Full Wake/ Dark Wake / Maintenance wake
24/01/2014 18:37:01.000 kernel[0]: Wake reason: XHC1
24/01/2014 18:37:05.000 kernel[0]: AirPort_Brcm43xx::powerChange: System Wake - Full Wake/ Dark Wake / Maintenance wake
24/01/2014 18:37:50.000 kernel[0]: Wake reason: XHC1
24/01/2014 18:37:55.000 kernel[0]: AirPort_Brcm43xx::powerChange: System Wake - Full Wake/ Dark Wake / Maintenance wake
24/01/2014 18:38:56.000 kernel[0]: Wake reason: XHC1
24/01/2014 18:38:59.000 kernel[0]: AirPort_Brcm43xx::powerChange: System Wake - Full Wake/ Dark Wake / Maintenance wake

And so on and so forth until it eventually kills the battery and it gives up altogether. Obviously this is, er, unhelpful and I'd like it to stop. I've unticked 'wake for network access' in the energy saver settings but it makes no difference. I've disabled 'allow Bluetooth devices to wake this computer' and switch Bluetooth off. I've also unplugged all peripherals before sleep to check it wasn't something else triggering it. I have, of course, tried restarting.

This is a mid 2012 MacBook Pro, currently running OS X 10.9.1 but it was happening with 10.8.4 as well.

Can anyone suggest how I can stop this happening?

Edit: More information, as requested in the comments

pmset -g log | grep wake gives pages of this

24/01/2014 18:33:55 GMT  WakeRequests           Clients requested wake events: None
24/01/2014 18:35:01 GMT  WakeRequests           Clients requested wake events: None
24/01/2014 18:35:50 GMT  WakeRequests           Clients requested wake events: None
24/01/2014 18:36:55 GMT  WakeRequests           Clients requested wake events: None
24/01/2014 18:37:44 GMT  WakeRequests           Clients requested wake events: None
24/01/2014 18:38:49 GMT  WakeRequests           Clients requested wake events: None
24/01/2014 18:39:15 GMT  WakeRequests           Clients requested wake events: None
24/01/2014 18:40:20 GMT  WakeRequests           Clients requested wake events: None
24/01/2014 18:41:24 GMT  WakeRequests           Clients requested wake events: None

interspersed with occasional sections like this:

24/01/2014 17:40:47 GMT  Assertions             PID 18(powerd) Created InternalPreventSleep "com.apple.powermanagement.darkwakelinger" 00:00:00  id:0xe000008ff [System: SRPrevSleep kCPU]
24/01/2014 17:41:02 GMT  Assertions             PID 18(powerd) TimedOut InternalPreventSleep "com.apple.powermanagement.darkwakelinger" 00:00:15  id:0xe000008ff [System: SRPrevSleep kCPU]
24/01/2014 17:41:02 GMT  Assertions             PID 18(powerd) Released InternalPreventSleep "com.apple.powermanagement.darkwakelinger" 00:00:15  id:0xe000008ff [System: SRPrevSleep kCPU]
24/01/2014 17:41:07 GMT  WakeRequests           Clients requested wake events: None


texts: AppleScript to Save Excel Chart as PNG Broken after Recent Update

texts:
I've been using this code as part of a larger script for the last year. Yesterday I upgraded Excel to Version 16.10 (180210) and I keep getting an Parameter error -50, which I've previously associated with permissions to access a particular file or folder. As suggested in some other articles I've seen, I have Excel alias the path, but that no longer seems to be working. Any suggestions?

Here's the code:

tell application "Finder" to set pth to container of (path to me) as text
set {wb, ws, chartName} to {"testChart.xlsx", "charts", "spend"}
set fn to pth & chartName & ".png"

tell application "Microsoft Excel"
    alias pth
    alias fn
    tell workbook wb to tell worksheet ws
        try
            save as picture chart object chartName picture type save as PNG file file name fn
        on error errMsg number errNum
            log errMsg
            log errNum
        end try
    end tell
end tell


texts:
This only happens with OSX updates, all general apps work fine.

I click install to update to the latest version, I get a couple prompts confirming I want to download and allow my computer to restart. Then nothing actually downloads, it gets listed as recently installed but also shows in my updates available section too.

After checking the logs, I found this is more than likely a permissions error.

Does anyone know what user groups + folder permissions the updates require for OSX? I've run the health check etc on my drive and all seems to be fine.

Because the log is quite long, I've made a pastebin.
http://pastebin.com/4DeRUBzh

Edit:

I'm running El Capitan, but this issue has persisted since upgrading Yosemite.

I've tried resetting Home folder permissions & ACLs, this did not correct the issue.


texts: How can I enable search by filename in finder on Lion

texts:
Before switching to Lion (on Snow leopard) I used to open a directory (like my Downloads) and start searching using the search box at the top right of the finder window for a file and there was an option to restrict the search to "filenames" only.
The "filename" option does not show up by default for me, is there a way to bring it back?


texts: What to do with equipment for old PowerBook 5300c and other Equipment?

texts:
I found a box with equipment (PC Cards, cables, etc.) from my old PowerBook 5300c and I wonder what to do with it.

Here in central Europe it seemed that nobody needs something like that.

Are there people somewhere else in the world who still use 68k PowerMacs and would have any use for such things?
I'd happily donate the parts if I knew that they are useful for somebody...

remark: this question is not not meant as a small ad, but I'd like to know if there are maybe charitable societies which would distribute such technical equipment to people who benefit from it.


texts: APFS Volume Total Shows Less Free Space Than Container and How Can I Reclaim Space

texts:
So I have a bootcamp volume which has windows installed on it. I used MiniTool partition wizard to shrink the bootcamp size from 60 GB to 40 GB to reclaim 20 GB for my Macintosh HD.

That operation successfully executed and as you will see, container for APFS is at 190 GB now. But my Macintosh HD is still occupying 165.4 GB. I tried resizing using (/usr/sbin/diskutil apfs resizeContainer /dev/disk1 0) but to no avail. Does anyone know how I can reclaim the 20 GB space I freed up before and use container to its max capacity?

What surprises me a little is that this freed 20 GB doesn't show up in UI of disk utility but can be noticed in cmd output of diskutil list:

$ diskutil list
/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *251.0 GB   disk0
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s1
   2:                 Apple_APFS Container disk1         190.0 GB   disk0s2
   3:         Microsoft Reserved                         134.2 MB   disk0s3
   4:       Microsoft Basic Data BOOTCAMP                42.9 GB    disk0s4
   5:           Windows Recovery                         471.9 MB   disk0s5

/dev/disk1 (synthesized):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      APFS Container Scheme -                      +190.0 GB   disk1
                                 Physical Store disk0s2
   1:                APFS Volume Macintosh HD            165.4 GB   disk1s1
   2:                APFS Volume Preboot                 21.1 MB    disk1s2
   3:                APFS Volume Recovery                519.0 MB   disk1s3
   4:                APFS Volume VM                      2.1 GB     disk1s4

Thank you so much for all your help in advance!


texts: WIFI and Bluetooth not connecting at same time..on my Tauras keyboard

texts:
I have the iPad 2 and it has always worked, however, I have had it paired with the WIFI and Bluetooth and it has worked for 2 years, for the past week it will not connect the Tauras AKB34 keyboard to the Bluetooth and the WIFI  at the same time.  I am unable to use the keyboard, but the iPad 2 still works manually.
I have tried everything I know and nothing works.

I cannot find any battery to change on the keyboard, if there is one.
Thanks for your help,
Nancy Doyle
Maine.


texts: How to show all running launchctl daemons/agents?

texts:
When I run:

sudo launchctl bslist

... it shows all the running /System daemons, but I have some running from /Library/LaunchDaemons and it is not showing those.

How can I show them all?


texts: Wireless Display Adaptor not detected by MacBook Air

texts:
I am trying to display my MacBook Air screen on a TV screen, using a Wireless Display Adaptor. The TV is not an Apple TV. Although the Display dialogue under System Preferences show the option to "Show mirroring options" there are no devices detected alongside "AirPlay Display".

I have tried the function "Detect Displays", but this makes no difference - the Mac is not able to detect devices.

Could this be because the Wireless Display Adaptor is a Microsoft device?  The device documentation suggests Macs should be able to mirror ok.


texts: Can I use multiple displays on a MacBook Pro using a TV connected by Thunderbolt/HDMI?

texts: With a MacBook Pro, can I  watch a film on the TV connected externally to HDMI while browsing the web on the MacBook screen?


texts: I have a Verizon iPhone 5c. Is it unlocked so that I can just go to T-Mobile or AT&T prepaid, by just popping in the SIM card?


texts: MacOS Photos on Mac mini does not import/see all photos from iPhones

texts:
When I connect my iPhone SE to MacOS Photos, not all photos on the iPhone shows up for import.

In MacOS Photos import, it says:
Already Imported (483 items)
New Items (4 items)

and on the iPhone SE, it says:
1.220 Photos, 40 Videos

Setup: Mac mini (Late 2014, macOS Sierra 10.12.6 (16G1036)) with iCloud account and my wife's and mine iPhone SE (iOS 11.1.2), each with separate iCloud accounts. I want to import all photos from the iPhones to the Mac mini, back them up to iCloud and then delete them from the phones.


texts: iPhone 4 car kit for sound and video recording, and charging

texts:
I need a kit that I can mount in my car on the dashboard where I can do the following with my iPhone 4G:

Use GPS
Record Video from the forward facing camera (toward me) or the rear facing camera (away from me / through the front windshield)
Make phone calls hands free (using the speaker phone or the headphones kit that comes with the iPhone or with a Casette Adapter for iPhone)

Is there a mount that I can use for this?


texts: Modify Bluetooth plist DeviceCache and retain changes?

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I was following this page: Anyone able to connect gioteck VX-1 (PS3 controller) via Bluetooth? to modify the bluetooth plist settings on my Mac to allow a Chinese PS3 controller to work with my Mac.

Specifically, I was trying to change the ClassOfDevice and Services. Because from what I can tell, the Chinese PS3 controllers are fully functional, they just don’t have the ClassOfDevice and Services stored in their Bluetooth chips. Thus my Mac thinks the device isn’t functional.

Unfortunately, Mavericks seems to wipe out any changes I make to the plist as soon as I try to connect the controller over Bluetooth.

Does anyone know how to retain the changes to the Bluetooth Plist?


texts: Outlook for Mac - do not automatically add meetings to calendar

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In Outlook (both for Windows and for Mac), the default behavior is to automatically respond with tentative to meetings requests, which results in meetings automatically added to the calendar.

I receive a lot of meeting requests, and only need to attend a few of them (which I manually accept), so I'm not interested in all those meetings requests cluttering my calendar.

Is it possible in Outlook for Mac to prevent meetings automatically being added to the calendar?
I found I thread on how to do it in Outlook for Windows: http://www.msoutlook.info/question/747, but wasn't able to configure it in the Mac version.

I'm using Outlook for Mac 2011, Version 14.3.2.

Thanks,
Ido


texts: change the command+tab and command+` behavior in Mountain Lion

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When it is a switch between applications, we use Command+Tab, and when it is a switch within an application, we use Command+`.

Can I just use Command+Tab for all cases, as in Windows?


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Some time ago I had installed Pow to run my sinatra apps.
Now today I wanted to use my Mac's built in web sharing to test an html file as rendered on my iPod Touch.

I browsed to 10.0.1.20/~francesco/ which is my personal site folder and recived a 404 error.

I think this error is because of the Pow installation. In fact if I point to 10.0.1.20 it tells me that Pow is running.

How can I tell Pow to run only if I point to my_app.dev or othermyapp.dev?
Is this a way to correct this issue?


texts: How do I export a website to an app in safari? There is this feature in iOS 7 called 'save to home screen', I'm looking for something similar on OS X.


texts: Can’t increase partition size of cloned volume in Mac OS X 10.11 (El Capitan)

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I have a MacBook with a 120 GB SSD. I bought a new one with 240 GB. I cloned the content from the old one over with an ICY BOX cloning device. I inserted new SSD in the MacBook and everything is fine and works. But I then noticed in the disk utility that the size of the partition is still the old one (120 GB).

So here is what I have tried so far:

I dragged the partition in the pie chart to use all unlocated available space. But then I get the error from MediaKit: "Error: -5341: MediaKit reports partition (map) too small".
I ran GParted on a USB flash drive, mounted it and gparted noticed some errors with the partition. it immediatly repaired it. Then I tried to increase the partition within GParted. But this was not possible. GParted can't increase HFS+ format. But after repairing it with GParted, disk utility does not show free space any longer.

I ran Terminal and diskutil resizeVolume. But it breaks up with an error message: "Error obtaining partition map size information"

And now I am completely lost. What’s wrong and what can I do to reclaim the additional space?


texts: How to set up Time Machine to back up to a specific folder in my Synology NAS?

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I'm trying to set up Time Machine to back up to my Synology NAS. I need it to back up to this folder:
/Shared/BACKUPs/MacBookPro2010
So on my Mac I go to Finder -> Go -> Connect to server
and specify:
afp://192.168.1.105/Shared/BACKUPs/MacBookPro2010
I then provide user and password and it connects.
But when I go to time machine and click "Select Backup Disk" it shows "Shared" and if I select it, it starts dumping backup files into the root Shared folder on the NAS.
How do I coax it to put the backup into /Shared/BACKUPs/MacBookPro2010 instead?


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I would like to rename the "screencapture" utility triggered with the shift+cmd+3 keys, in order to take screenshots from a program that recognizes and disables this utility.

Specifically, I want a different name to appear under ps when that utility is running.

Is there a way to rename or alias this utility system-wide?


texts: How do I expand the file path in Spotlight in Yosemite? In previous OS versions it would scroll to see the entire path, but now it only shows the end of the path preceded by ... Many of my files are PDFs of scientific literature and all I can see in the file path upon holding the command key is the end of the title.


texts: How to unlink Apple account from laptop?

texts: I'm going to have to trade in my work laptop and it's connected right now to my personal Apple account for things like the app store etc. How do I unlink the Apple account before I get a new computer?


texts: Does using a third party(non-Apple) MagSafe 45W power adaptor cause power problems with MacBookAir

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I had to replace my power adaptor of 2010 version MacBookAir with a third party power adaptor (because it was cheaper) a few months down the line I am having to force wake up my MacBookAir and worried that the third party adaptor may be slowly damaging internal power circuitary. Am I right to be worried?

Thanks for any help.


texts: TextMate : Keeping my KeyBindings after an update

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I'm using TextMate 2 with some custom KeyBindings. I change them in /Applications/TextMate.app/Contents/Resources/KeyBindings.dict. It works great, but everytime I update them app they get reset. (I guess the update replace the whole .app).

Any suggestion how I could prevent that (= not set again my keybindings).


texts: Mac Excel won't recognize Spanish/Portuguese accents (UTF8 or ANSI)

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I'm working with Excel to open a delimited (tabbed) txt file that contains Portuguese and Spanish accents. As you can see below, in the third row there is a title "Último Año" that is correct.

However when I import the file into Excel the text is misinterpreted as "Ãšltimo AÃ±o".

The correct codepage would be Unicode UTF-8 or ANSI. I tried several options, like using the import file options from Excel to select UTF-8 (and other formats) but the result is always weird.

Does anybody know how to interpret/display the correct latin accents on Mac Excel?


texts:
I have AquaTerm and Terminal both.

Whenever I do a search in the spotlight with query "term" it shows up AquaTerm before Terminal. Terminal matches better, so it should come first.

Why does spotlight search for "term" result in AquaTerm before Terminal?


texts: In itunes, how do I view entire album of currently playing song?

texts: If I have a playlist of songs, and I want to go from a song and play the entire album, I can't see anyway to do this except manually finding album in music list.  There must be a better way.  This is using itunes 10


texts: Can I restrict the times during which iTunes downloads podcast content?

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I have a capped ADSL account that splits my bandwidth allocation 50-50 between anytime and download time (midnight to 6am). I therefore prefer to have any downloading happen during download time so as not to max out my anytime bandwidth and require top-up purchase.

I subscribe to a number of podcasts in iTunes and would like to be able to restrict the downloading of those podcasts to download time. Does iTunes (on Windows) offer any way to d this?


texts: Can I recall (cancel) the erase my iPhone command

texts: I had lost my iPhone, and I initiated the erase iPhone using iCloud. But, in the meanwhile, I found the iPhone. I am holding it in airplane mode, and it is still not wiped. I'm aware that if I turn on internet for it, it will probably start erasing all. I would love if I could cancel the erase command. Is this possible? Otherwise, I would just have to erase it, and back it up from iCloud backup. I would rather, not do any of that and just cancel the erase command. Is this possible?


texts: Chosing the right charger: MacBook7,1 White A1324

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I bought a used MacBook with identifier MacBook7,1, it's the white 2010 version (A1342). However, it already came with an off-brand charger and the text on it has gone washed off it seems, so I can not reliably tell which charger I would have to buy.

What I do know: I have to use MagSafe 1. According to a datasheet, it may as well be 60W.

Now, I have seen some bricks with USB-C to MagSafe 1 cables and additional USB ports - which would be handy to charge additional devices when on the go. But I am afraid of accidentially picking the wrong wattage.

What do I have to look out for, exactly, when picking a charger? I also live in Germany, if this is any important in terms of outlet, power delivery and alike. I'm a software-, not a hardware guy :)


texts: Will I be able to upgrade to iOS 7 on iPod Touch 4G?

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I bought an iPod touch 4G and I'm looking forward to iOS 7... until I read on this site that it is only compatible with the iPod Touch 5G. Does that mean that I'm "Out in the woods" for security? Or does this just mean I don't get the new Airdrop, iTunes Radio, and camera filters?

I don't mind that much that I don't get the new look (although if I could, it would be nice), but I just want my device to be secure.

The thing that I don't get about this is Apple supported the iPhone 3GS up until now (It is three models old), but when another device is one model old, "No! We can't support this device!" Apple could be changing it's views on how to run their business so they make more money, but I like my iPod Touch just fine. In fact, I like the older design better and I can't see running out to the store to spend 300 bucks to get a design I don't like as much just to have a security upgrade.


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I use a VPN to connect to my work network. It works fine for accessing internal resources, but getting out to the internet over the VPN can be spotty. (Not because sites are blocked. It's just slow.)

Is there a way to segment traffic so that VPN works over the ethernet connection but access to the internet goes over wifi?

I don't have a lot of experience with networking but I'm comfortable with the Terminal and shell scripting.


texts:
(Edit: Fixed to be workable but still an open question - please see bottom)

I've tried using both the official version from Gimp's website as well as the one from http://gimp.lisanet.de/Website/Photo_editing.html.

Both exhibit the same problem:  I can't locate any of the other windows like Layers or Toolbox.  The only window shown is the one displaying my image.  I've searched the interface for an option but can't find anything to reveal the hidden ones.

I'm sure it's not a bug and I'm just ignorant but can someone please tell me how to get the other windows to display?

Some further info:

Both versions of the application showed some of the other, probably default, windows when I began using them.  However, upon subsequently opening the program, only the window with my image is displayed.
I tried switching Gimp to Single-Window, and that helped once in lisanet.de's version.  But after I re-opened Gimp, all I see is this now (even if I toggle it on and off):

Thanks for the help.

Edit: In lisanet.de's version I just realized that "Hide Docks" was checked in Single-Window mode.  Oops!  Sorry about that.  However, I'd still like to know how to get the other windows to show up in non-Single-Window mode.


texts: Is there an equivalent to Page Monitor or an app for iOS? Using ipad 4


texts: So, what is the "Master Device" in Multi-output device? Cause I'm trying figure out how MIDI Aggregate Devices work, I need to now what is it.


texts: Share MacBook Ethernet connection with Nintendo Switch via USB

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I have a MacBook that is connected to the Internet via an Ethernet-to-USB adapter. I am already successfully sharing this connection with an iPhone via the Sharing panel in System Preferences, per the instructions here.

What I'd like to do is also share this connection with a Nintendo Switch that is connected to the MacBook via USB. Is this possible?

I've tried enabling the "To computers using: USB 10/100/1000 LAN" selection, but that doesn't seem to work. I wonder if there is something else I need to do or troubleshoot to get this working.


texts:
Is it possible to use a Macbook Pro 15" (latest) in a setup where an external LCD is connected and used as the primary screen while at the same time the Macbook's own screen is used as the secondary screen (= extends the primary screen to the right)?

(I'd like to work on a big monitor and use the Macbook screen for auxiliary stuff like Terminal windows.)


texts: Macbook 12,1 (OSX 10.11.4) will not boot SSD clone of OSX 10.9.5 from MacbookPro 11,1

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I am trying to create a boot disk for an older MacBook Pros that I have (MacBookPro 11,1 running OSX 10.9.5) which I plan to then boot from a newer MacBook Pro (MacBookPro 12,1 running OSX 10.11.4). These machines have essentially identical hardware with only 1 difference - the Pro 11,1 has a 500GB SSD, and the Pro 12,1 has a 1TB SSD.

However, I have run into some problems, and I am stumped. Any advice would be very much appreciated.

Here is what I have done:

(1) Create a Carbon Copy Clone of OSX 10.9.5 (Mavericks) running on my MacBook Pro 11,1 using the instructions on the Carbon Copy Clone website. The backup disk in this case is a SanDisk Extreme 500 Portable SSD.

(2) Test that the machine from which I created the clone (MacBookPro 11,1) can boot from the SSD. This works absolutely fine, with no hiccups.

(3) Attempt to boot from the SSD on the newer MacBook Pro 12,1 (which is running OSX 10.11.4 - El Capitan). This fails; all that I see is the 'No Access' Symbol

(4) Update the /System/Library/CoreServices/PlatformSupport.plist file on the SSD boot disk to match that on the MacBook Pro 12,1 based on advice offered at this URL. Now when I attempt to boot from the SSD, I get slightly further - in fact I get past the 'No Access' screen, and I make it to the expected grey screen with the Apple logo; however, at that point things simply hang (in fact the spinning wheel never appears below the apple logo like i would expect).

I've tried some other things. For example:

I tried again from scratch, wiping the disk & re-cloning, several times in fact, just to verify I wasn't missing something obvious.
I ran a 'Repair Disk' in disk utility on both the drive I want to clone, as well as the SSD backup disk. However, i still get the same problems.
To eliminate the possibility that this has something to do with the disk itself, I created a clone of the MBP 11,1 on a western digital drive that I have laying around, and ran through steps (1) - (4) above. The Western Digital behaves identically to the SanDisk SSD, leading me to believe that these problems have nothing to do with the External Drive itself.

Any help would very much be appreciated - The problem suggests that there is some compatibility issues with the Pro 11,1 and the Pro 12,1, given that the SSD boots fine from the Pro 11,1. Anyway, I have been reading many forums, but I am stumped.


texts: Do i get a Mac OSX DVD when i buy a Mac Mini computer?

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And if not, how do I reinstall the system in case one day everything goes wrong?

Thank you.


texts: FaceTime HD Camera not working on MacBook Pro 2016

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I have a MacBook Pro 2016 (with Touch Bar), yesterday I installed Snap Camera (by Snapchat) and it worked while I was on a video call. Afterwards, when the call had ended the green camera light got stuck on.

I force quit all apps but it stayed on, I then restarted the Mac and the light persisted through the whole reboot. So I then shutdown the Mac and it turned off.

Since then, camera has not worked. I reset the SMC, PRAM and am currently waiting for macOS to reinstall (didn't wipe data).

It sounds like there is a hardware issue to me, but just seems like a funny coincidence that it occurred immediately after finishing a video call where I had just used Snap Camera for the first time.

My Apple Care has now expired, so guess I'm out of luck? Anything else I can try?


texts: I and my wife own three Apple devices. MacBook Pro, iPad 2 (only Wi-Fi) and iPhone 4S. All of these are registered with the same Apple ID and Gmail account. With FaceTime I can call to IPhone, but I cannot call from my iPhone. Probably because iPad or MacBook do not have a unique id. How can this be fixed so I can use FaceTime in any direction? I do not want more than one Apple ID as it makes trouble in App Store and iCloud.


texts: Can Safari copy both the URL and page title during a drag-and-drop?

texts: I frequently want to paste a URL and page title into a document or email message. When I drag and drop a URL from Safari and other browsers (by dragging the URL icon) I see the page title being dragged with the cursor. However, when I drop it in Terminal or in a Gmail message in plain text, I get the URL only and when I drop it in Textedit or in a Gmail message with rich text, I see the title only (with the link). Can I get both?


texts:
For every other application package I've looked at, there's a Paste option available in Edit menu after selecting the icon in "Get Info" dialog. For Google Chrome, there isn't.

Why is that (i.e. is Chrome blocking the change somehow)? How can I get around this and change the icon? I'm sure there are apps for handling this, is there a way to do it without one?


texts: Centrally Managed Apps/Home Folders on Mac OS X Lion Server

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I'm trying to allow access for multiple Mac clients with OS X Lion and user directories on a Lion server so users can login from any Mac in the network and access their profile.

I also want to install/autoupdate software or put configs on all clients.

I already took a look at patch management tools like munki but they don't seem to do what I'm looking for or their purpose/usage isn't clear.

I would be glad if somebody could point me in the right direction.


texts: Apple TV gen 2 will send optical audio signal when i patch it though a TOSLINK 1to2 splitter to my Bose speaker

texts: My Bose system only has one optical audio input so I added a toslink 1to2 splitter.  I can play my TV sound going through the optical audio cable to the splitter and then to my Bose system, but the Apple TV optical audio cable will not work when I put it though the splitter.  It does work if I put it directly into the optical audio input on the Bose?  What is going on?  Any help would be appreciated!


texts: How does external GPS device work with iPhone and iPad?

texts:
It seems iPhone (and iPad) actually has a standard feature that is called external GPS device?
I hope to find out more about it:

First of all, why would we use an external GPS device?  I can understand if it is wireless-only iPad, then it has no GPS hardware and it is "best guessed by wireless", so an external GPS device can help, but what about for iPhone -- why do we need it?

If it is external GPS device, is it by BlueTooth only?  Can it be by WiFi, or by lightning connector, USB-C if it is iPad Pro, or possibly, another other method? (such as using the Internet to pass the location to iPhone, instead of BlueTooth?)

Does it in general work for iPhone and iPad both?

So the device can also move around from the true GPS location, such as for whatever reason, simulate a location that is 20 feet away? Or even to 50 miles away? What are some examples of such devices?

The question is to understand about "external GPS devices", which I never knew is actually a standard feature for the iPhone / iPad.


texts: How to install High Sierra on a second partition on a MacBook which already runs Mojave?

texts:
I am running macOS 10.14 Mojave on a MacBook Pro with a single APFS volume. For testing I would like to intall macOS 10.13 High Sierra on a second volume / partition to be able to switch between the two versions.

I found a lot of tutorials how how to add Mojave when using High Sierra. However, the other way round (adding the older High Sierra to the newer Mojave) seems to be not that easy.

Luckily I still have a the old High Sierra installer file, so this problem is already solved. However, when trying to run the installer I only get a waring, that this file is too old to run on the current os (Mojave). So I cannot even start the installation.

Any idea how to solve this?


texts: changed user path and lost aliases in .bash_profile

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I reinstalled mountain lion recently and had to reset my git path. Everything was working fine until I realised I had to do it for every project so I tried to change the default system path by sudo bash -c '( echo /usr/local/git/bin > /etc/paths.d/git )'

Apparently I should have left it alone as I don't really know what I'm doing. My command prompt is now unknown-00-26-bb-0e-a8-1f:~ mantismamita$ (mantismamita is my username so that part is normal) and I have lost access to my aliases located in .bash_profile I'm also back to square one with my original problem as my git path is no longer correct. I should mention that I'm at a different IP address as I'm on holiday so that may have influenced the prompt.

I would be eternally grateful if someone could help me get out of this muddle.


texts: Disk Utility cannot erase USB drive (error -69877: couldn't open device)

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Disk Utility (macOS Catalina 10.15.2) fails to erase my USB drive (64GB key, currently formatted in exFAT).

/dev/disk2 (external, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *64.1 GB    disk2
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk2s1
   2:       Microsoft Basic Data Lexar                   63.9 GB    disk2s2

I've tried a bunch of commands that I've found here and there in the terminal, but none of them worked, like:

➜  ~ diskutil eraseVolume exFAT MyName /dev/disk2
Started erase on disk2
Unmounting disk
Error: -69888: Couldn't unmount disk

➜  ~ diskutil eraseVolume exFAT MyName /dev/disk2s2
Started erase on disk2s2 Lexar
Unmounting disk
Erasing
Error: -69760: Unable to write to the last block of the device

➜  ~ diskutil eraseDisk FAT32 MYSD MBRFormat /dev/disk2
Started erase on disk2
Unmounting disk
Creating the partition map
Error: -69877: Couldn't open device

➜  ~ diskutil eraseDisk free EMPTY /dev/disk2
Started erase on disk2
Unmounting disk
Creating the partition map
Error: -69877: Couldn't open device

My USB drive appears as read only when i do CMD+I, I tried repairing the permissions but that failed too.

➜  ~ diskutil resetUserPermissions /dev/disk2 `id -u`
Ready to reset user permissions on disk2
Error encountered attempting to reset permissions for user 501 home directory on disk2: Permissions are not enabled on the disk (-69861)

Thx in advance for the help :)


texts: 10.9: External monitor not recognised after monitor sleeps

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This issue started happening after I updated to OSX Mavericks.

I have an external monitor connected to my Macbook Pro (2010), and everything works just fine and dandy.. until my Mac doesn't have any activity for a bit and turns off the screen (NOTE: not the whole Mac is asleep at that point, it's just the screen).

Then when I swoop around on my trackpad to wake it back up, it won't recognise the external monitor the way it used to. Suddenly the arrangement is flipped (i.e. it's now below my Mac rather than above it), and the resolution is switched to 800x600 rather than the normal 1680x1050.

When I then pull the plug and plug it back in (while my Mac and its screen are wide awake), it finds its old configs again and fixes the resolution and arrangement.

Has anyone experienced anything similar, or is there a fix available? Or should I just consider this an unresolved bug, report it to Apple and hope for the best?


texts: Can I set a password on an existing dmg?

texts: I am just wondering if it's possible to set a password to existing dmg image. There is no such option at Disk Utility.


texts: How can I install Snow Leopard on a new iMac or install FCP6 on Lion?

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I'm in a situation where I purchased a new iMac and need to install my editing software (Final Cut Pro and After Effects).  Only thing is I have FCP 6 (Studio 2) and also FCP 7 (Studio 2) upgrade install DVDs and Lion won't install FCP 6 because it containts PPC code.

I'd like to either:

install Snow Leopard on this computer, but I'm not sure if I need certain firmware drivers (anyone know where to get them and create a brand new Snow Leopard install DVD?)
or, at the very least, I would like to be able to install my video software on Lion.


texts: Command for resolving ip address for host entry in /etc/hosts?

texts:
I'm looking for a command that will let me resolve a host name in /etc/hosts to its corresponding IP address.
nslookup ignores entries in /etc/hosts file.
ping will find entries in /etc/hosts but is difficult/slow to capture the output.


texts: Where do we find our reviews in iTunes App Store?

texts: Is there a place where we can find our own comments in the iTunes App Store so we see how many consider our comments as good ones for example?


texts: How to repair encrypted disk image which suddenly stopped recognizing password

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I was in the middle of remotely backing up to a mounted encrypted sparse bundle (using rsync) when the machine was rebooted.  Since it was an orderly shutdown, presumably the image should have been unmounted properly.  However, now when I try to mount the drive using the correct password, I get the error:

hdiutil: attach failed - Authentication error

How can I fix this issue?  I tried using Disk Utility but it seems like until I actually enter the password I can't do anything, but it refuses to recognize the password as correct when I enter it.

I would prefer to not have to throw away the archive and rebuild it from scratch, as it is quite large (terabytes).


texts:
I have a workflow (LaTeX editing in Emacs) which produces PDFs that I then examine in Preview. Preview is smart enough to re-load the PDF when it changes, but it only does so when I click on the application and bring it to the foreground.

Is there a way to tell Preview to re-load the document (and stay in the background) using the command line?

Edit: To follow up, I'm perfectly happy to do a little AppleScript hacking or whatever (I've never used AppleScript, but it can't be too hard).


texts:
I am in China and bought an iPhone 4s here. It has been updated to iOS 8.1.2 . I want to change the App Store country from China to India.

How do I do this?


texts: How to get and set metadata of a m4a file?

texts:
I am trying to automate some changes in m4a metadata and would prefer doing it through AppleScript other than popular solutions like mutagen.

How can I address m4a files metadata? I need not only setting metadata to specific values, I need to read these values first.

Basically what I need to do is, set TRACK_NAME to ARTIST + " - " + TRACK_NAME, and then TRACK_NAME to ALBUM_ARTIST. This is required for my media player to not spread compliations all over the library. It doesn't know any better, unfortunately.


texts: Import Outlook mac archives in Windows Outlook 2010

texts: How can one import Outlook mac archived files in Windows Outlook 2010? Given that the size of the archived files is 48GB, can it be done safely?? I mean NO LOSS of Data or any other files???


texts:
Has anyone seen this before? It's happening with any camera app (Skype, Photo Booth, Hangouts) so it doesn't appear to be software related. I'm assuming it's a hardware issue but I'm wondering if anyone else has seen this before.
Thanks!


texts: Why is is not possible mark text in my Terminal window anymore?

texts:
I am an eager Terminal user on Mac OSX Yosemite. From time to time I mark text in the Terminal window to copy(right click or cmd+c) onto the clipboard.

For some reason it suddenly stopped working! I can not mark text in the terminal window anymore by clicking and dragging the mouse. I have been looking for a way to turn marking off an on(on Windows Command line tool there is such a setting for some reason), but I cannot find any option for controlling this.
Even though it is not possible to mark with the mouse, I can select "Edit"-"Mark everything"(freely translated from the Norwegian OSX version :)) from the file menubar at the top of the screen - and mark everything works fine. I can see everything marked and I can copy and paste as expected. There is however no way I can affect the marking with the mouse - after marking everything it cant be unselected with the mouse.

Does anyone have any tips for how to enable marking with clicking and dragging the mouse again?


texts: Open /dev/rdisk0 gives "Operation not permitted" error despite using sudo

texts:
On Mac OSX Mojave 10.14.6, the following simple code does not work anymore :

#include <stdio.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/stat.h>
#include <fcntl.h>
#include <errno.h>
#include <string.h>

int main(int argc, char** argv)
{
        int fd = open ("/dev/rdisk0", O_RDONLY);
        if (fd == -1)
        {
                fprintf(stdout, "open(%s) error = %s\n", "/dev/rdisk0", strerror(errno));
                fflush(stdout);
                return 1;
        }

        return 0;
}

It gives :

open(/dev/rdisk0) error = Operation not permitted

This happens even when running the executable using sudo.

This code used to work under 10.13 and earlier versions.

Thinking this might be due to SIP, I gave the Terminal and the executable Full Disk Access but it didn't help.

Is there another way to get around this issue? How do I open /dev/rdisk0 now ?

Thanks in advance


texts: How to add export formats to Preview.app?

texts:
Is there any way to teach Preview how to export/save (and not just import/open) additional formats? If so, how?

As you may know, Apple has removed several export formats from the default dialog in recent OS X versions. They are still available if holding down Opt/Alt, though. Yay for “expert features”!

Default formats

JPEG
JPEG-2000
OpenEXR
PNG
TIFF

Additional advanced formats

ASTC
GIF
ICNS
KTX
Microsoft BMP
Microsoft icon
PBM/PGM/PPM
PVRTC
Photoshop
PostScript
QuickTime movie
SGI
TGA


texts: What codecs can be used by iOS ringtone files (.m4r). I know only about AAC and ALAC, is there anything else? I can't find any official information on this question.


texts: Oracle VM not working after upgrade to Catalina

texts: Prior to installing Catalina, I updated Oracle VM to version 6.1.16. Now after successful OS upgrade my Windows 10 VM is not working.


texts: How to assign different ReFit icons for multiple Mac partitions?

texts:
I have 2 different OS X partitions on my Mac. I use ReFit to boot them.

But since they're both the same OS, it shows the same icon for both of them, which isn't their disk icon that I can change.

Is there a way to use a specific icon for each partition? Or is there an alternative to ReFit that will let me do this?


texts: How to use Emacs shortcut key in Mac OS?

texts:
I know Mac OS supports to some Emacs short-cut key to move cursor in text editor, e.g. Command + f/b/p/n to move cursor left/right/up/down, Command + v to page-down. In Emacs Meta + v is page-up, however the Option + v in Mac OS does not page up but instead print '✓'.

What should I set in Mac OS to make Meta + v works in Mac OS? My OS is Yosemite.


texts: Is there an option of liquid cooling/heatsink replacement for mid 2011 Mac Mini?

texts:
I'd like a quieter/more efficient cooling system but I don't know if there's anything out there for a Mac Mini.

Any hardware options?


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I'm attempting to upgrade to MacPorts 2.3.5 on a PowerMac running OS X 10.5. The upgrade is failing with the error:

Error: org.macports.checksum for port py27-setuptools returned: Unable to verify file checksums.

More of the output:

$ port upgrade outdated
...

--->  Computing dependencies for py27-setuptools
--->  Verifying checksums for py27-setuptools
Error: Checksum (md5) mismatch for setuptools-28.8.0.tar.gz
Error: Checksum (rmd160) mismatch for setuptools-28.8.0.tar.gz
Error: Checksum (sha256) mismatch for setuptools-28.8.0.tar.gz
Error: org.macports.checksum for port py27-setuptools returned: Unable to verify file checksums

I tried to manually install it but got the same error. The manual installation came from MacPorts Issue 43307:

$ cd /opt/local/var/macports/distfiles/py-setuptools
 PowerMac:py-setuptools$ sudo curl -k -O
 https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/s/setuptools/setuptools-28.8.0.tar.gz
 Password:
   % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time
 Current
                                  Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left
 Speed
 100   315  100   315    0     0    894      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--
 948

$ sudo port install py27-setuptools
 --->  Computing dependencies for py27-setuptools
 --->  Fetching distfiles for py27-setuptools
 --->  Verifying checksums for py27-setuptools
 Error: Checksum (md5) mismatch for setuptools-28.8.0.tar.gz
 Error: Checksum (rmd160) mismatch for setuptools-28.8.0.tar.gz
 Error: Checksum (sha256) mismatch for setuptools-28.8.0.tar.gz
 Error: org.macports.checksum for port py27-setuptools returned: Unable to
 verify file checksums
 Please see the log file for port py27-setuptools for details:
 /opt/local/var/macports/logs/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports
 .org_release_tarballs_ports_python_py-setuptools/py27-setuptools/main.log
 To report a bug, follow the instructions in the guide:
     http://guide.macports.org/#project.tickets
 Error: Processing of port py27-setuptools failed

I can't remove Python 2.7 because it removes SSH and some other programs I depend on. Removing SSH means I lose access to the box. I'm not sure where the SSH/Python dependency comes from. I've built OpenSSH from sources, and the dependency does not exit in real life.

How do I finish the 2.3.5 upgrade?


texts: How can I open a file in its default application from the command line in OS X?

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How can I open a file in its default application from the command line?

For example if I have a file foo.doc, can I type command ./foo.doc into the CLI and have that file open in Word?

Note: on my linux machine, I would use xdg-open but that doesn't work on my Mac.


texts:
Is it possible to change/modify the word prediction engine used by Apple in its touch bar predictions?

For example, can it be replaced by Google's auto-generated suggestions (similar to what's on Google Keyboard) or modified in a way such that I can add words to the dictionary from which words are predicted?

The default touch bar predictions don't seem to learn much from what I type on my keyboard. I personally find Google keyboard suggestions (on smartphones) much better as compared to ones on the touch bar. I am a new macOS user and I am not sure if Apple allows one to do this.


texts: iTunes Match hangs at step 2 and does not complete

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I have been trying to get iTunes Match to work for a week. It keeps getting stuck at Step 2.  To try and fix it I have been stopping and starting Match, sometimes it gets further and other times it doesn't get as far.

Today I have another problem, when I start iTunes Match it gives this error

"We could not complete your iTunes Store request. An unknown error has occurred (4002)."

Now I can't start iTunes Match all.  Have to say I am very disappointed with how difficult it is to make this service work.

-- Edit --

I left iTunes Match running overnight. This morning iTunes had "quit unexpectedly".  Now it is starting all over again (sigh).


texts: How to view Chrome browsing history on ipad?

texts:
There is no item 'History' in 'Chrome menu' as suggested here:

http://support.google.com/chrome/bin/answer.py?hl=en-GB&answer=95589


texts: Booting to Recovery Mode won't work anymore

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I have an upgraded MacPro 5.1. I recently installed Catalina and had to use a patch from dosdude.

I had to disable SIP using crsutil disable command. I successfully installed macOS Catalina and the system runs great.

Since I did this I am having problems getting back in to Recovery Mode using the usual boot shortcut ⌘ CommandR key combo.

I have an RTX 580 graphics card in though. I don’t see the full boot screen but I am pressing both keys as soon as I hear the boot chime. Can anyone offer any advice?


texts: What color space is iPhone's 7 "Wide color display (P3)"

texts:
Newest iPhone 7 claims to have "Wide color display (P3)". What exactly is this, a color space? Could this be Adobe RGB, or just a different space created by apple?

How does it compare to sRBG and Adobe RBG?


texts: Messages in iCloud Won’t Delete from macOS

texts:
If I delete a message from Messages on my iPhone or iPad connected to Messages in iCloud, it gets deleted from all my other devices. However if I do the same from my Mac also connected to Messages in iCloud, the message/conversation only gets deleted from the Mac.

How do I make message deletion work correctly from a Mac?


texts: MacOs with High Sierra problem persistant after fresh reinstall

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My wifi card is trying to make a connection to a seemingly random IP address on the local network. The Mac Mini 2011 is connected to the local network via Wifi. I completed a fresh re-install of MacOS High Sierra from USB and the wifi card still tries to make this connection.
Packet capture of network traffic with Wireshark shows that the network card is calling out roughly every 1 minute 30 seconds, attempting to make a connection to an IP on the local network (192.168.86.173, Port 7000) by sending a SYN packet. Then several re-transmissions of the SYN take place, since there is no response from the IP the client is trying to reach.
I have ping and nmap the IP 192.168.86.173, but no response. I have used network scanner and no device shows on that IP.
I looked up port 7000 and only found a file-server that uses UDP, not TCP. (https://www.auditmypc.com/tcp-port-7000.asp), and something called Gryphon for automobile testing that uses TCP (http://www.networksorcery.com/enp/protocol/ip/ports07000.htm).
Does anyone know what is causing this?  Why would this be persistent after a fresh reinstall?


texts: Does apple pages sharing strictly require an iCloud account?

texts:
My client is attempting to share (via an email address) a Pages document.

I walked him through using his iCloud account to do this, which worked.

However, his first choice would be to have the file come from his business email. Is this possible with Pages?


texts: MacOS Catalina terminal tab doesn't remember its own previous commands

texts:
I upgraded from El Capitan to Catalina recently; when I click ↑ in any terminal tab it used to toggle previous commands executed within that specific tab only, but now it will show commands for all tabs which is very annoying
Is there any setting to fix that?


texts:
Please help me with this issue. I followed the instruction here to download ctorrent with:
brew install ctorrent

but it turned out errors like this:

Error: No available formula with the name "ctorrent"
==> Searching for a previously deleted formula (in the last month)...
Warning: homebrew/core is shallow clone. To get complete history run:
  git -C "$(brew --repo homebrew/core)" fetch --unshallow

Error: No previously deleted formula found.
==> Searching for similarly named formulae...
Error: No similarly named formulae found.
==> Searching taps...
==> Searching taps on GitHub...
Error: No formulae found in taps

I sought for the workaround but haven't found out yet. Below is my system information:

ProductName:    Mac OS X
ProductVersion: 10.13.6
BuildVersion:   17G10021
Homebrew 2.2.13


texts: Folder on external, NTFS formated, drive empty after mounty and fstab changes

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I have Mojave installed on Mac and an external NTFS formatted hard drive.

a) tried to get writing permission via the terminal
sudo nano /etc/fstab LABEL=NAME none ntfs rw,auto,nobrowse

b) installed mounty and ran it with the same intention

Now folders with big amounts of subfolders and data are suddenly "empty". Some other folders seem fine. I have not done any changes to any of the folders, nor deleted data. File recovery software doesn't show these folders nor the data in them.

I am a bit stressed out, because they contain big amounts of my work and I urgently need the data on Monday.

Thanks for any hint on how to solve the issue.


texts: MacOS 10.14 Mojave public beta public Wi-Fi problem

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I can not connect to a single public Wi-Fi hotspot that does not require a password but instead shows a pop-up window pointed to captive.apple.com

The pop-up opens blank with the error "The web page couldn't be loaded"

Any idea on how to fix this?


texts: random "broken" alias from Keynote presentation

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So for over a few months now ive been having issue with the Keynote application creating these 'broken alias' files on my MacBook Air randomly from time to time(10.13.5 High Sierra; APFS Volume). Ive been working with a iApps Senior Advisor from Apple about this case, but we cant seem to figure out what's causing it as it appears out of the blue, more commonly now if i restart my computer. The Keynote application is version 8.1 and the presentation(s) themselves are in the 'single file' type by default.

The alias & options: https://imgur.com/a/2UAkjEP
Fixing option: https://imgur.com/a/dedu7Dc

I cannot fix the alias, selecting 'delete' does nothing as well as dragging it into the trash. The only solutions ive been able to do is the ts4040 fix or restart my computer into recovery mode and boot back out into normal.

Currently i changed the presentation to 'package' than the defaulted 'single file' as of now and i havent experienced any broken aliases when restarting my computer; but i still dont know why this is happening when it's a single-file...

At this point ive deleted the original presentation and started completely from scratch; but i still get this broken alias file, more commonly if i restart my computer. The iApps Advisor gave me a quick fix when this first started happening for preforming a ts4040 which reset permissions on my computer; but that seems to temporarily work. Screenshots are down bellow of this 'broken alias' file.

Has anyone else ever experienced this issue before??? If you have, please comment bellow.


texts: iPad management in medium sized business

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Our developer is putting the finishing touches on an internal web application. We'll be using it on the internal network and through a series of iPads. The iPads will connect through our IPSec VPN to the web application. We'll have approximately 15 iPads when fully rolled out.

I fooled around with the iPhone Configuration Utility and set up the wireless credentials and VPN configuration, as well as locked down the music and video section.

There's a couple points that I'm not really that happy with. For example, I don't really want the Address Book or Calendar visible particularly. I've moved them onto a second page of Apps.

I also don't like that the VPN disconnects every time the device is put to sleep. I'd prefer if the VPN autoconnected like the Wifi does, but that's not so much of an issue as the automatic disconnection. I wouldn't even mind if the iPad remembered the VPN password, because the user has to type the iPad password, VPN password and then the application username and password, which makes for a bit of a tedious experience.

I don't see any configuration options on the device or the iPhone Configuration Utility.

My question is does anyone have any experience in the 3rd party vendors that use the additional enterprise APIs and if so, do any of these annoyances I've listed above possible could be handled using such a 3rd party company / software?


texts: Advantage of doing a clean Install of Mountain Lion?

texts: I have Mac OS X Lion 10.7.4 installed in my Macbook Pro. When I upgraded to Mac OS X Lion from Snow Leopard I did a clean install since some applications weren't compatible with Lion. I am planning to Upgrade to Mountain Lion now. Is it recommend to do a clean install? What are the advantages of doing so?


texts:
I installed an app named 'dayone' from App Store earlier, and then I was told that my OS(version 10.11.6) was not compatible with the current app version. So firstly I removed the target app, hoping to re-install that app later after upgrading the OS, and then did the upgrade(version 10.14.2)

However, after I upgraded the OS, I found that the app is still in the Updates list of the App Store panel. Clicking the UPDATE button won't install the app or update the app(there's nothing to update anyway since I had already removed it)

I suspect that the app was not deleted completely in the first removal, but I can't find anything about the app left in my mac.
Also it could be an OS bug?

Could anyone please help?
Thank you so much in advance.


texts:
I got an iPad 4th gen from 2012 with 16 GB space. It's in use daily.

For a few months now we have seen the iPad becoming more and more slow. Like, the Safari browser doesn't get up in under 10 seconds.

Also, when I start a game the game crashes saying "no space left on device". But in reality, there is more than 1 GB left.

I believe my flash drive is somehow broken. It shows me a total capacity of 13,05 GB instead of 16. I know, you may never see the full size, but missing 3 gigs feels a bit much.

Any ideas what I can do with this iPad to make it work nicely again or at least analyze what is going on?


texts: Bootcamp Assistant couldn’t roll back, How do I merge the volume back to Macintosh HD?

texts:
I basically tried to partition my 500GB hard drive to 350GB/150 GB ratio to install windows 10. However since the Bootcamp assistant could not download the windows support files it had to roll back. However, it’s been an hour since the process started and so I quit the BCA. I’ve uploaded a picture of  the list of diskutil list and I have no idea what’s going on.

I’d highly appreciate it if one of you experts can show me how I can merge them back into Macintosh HD as a single 500GB volume.

Thanks in advance !


texts: Connect iPhone to multiple output devices to play music

texts: How can I output music from an iPhone to a Bluetooth speaker and at the same time output to another sound appliance where the iPhone is jacked into? Like a Bose stereo device.


texts: Why do I lose my USB speakers after reconnecting with VMWare Fusion 3 running?

texts:
Here's my setup:

I have a set of Altec Lansing FX5051 speakers that I run through the USB port. I also run VMWare Fusion (sometimes in Unity mode, sometimes single window, I don't think it matters) during the day for my work on a MacBook Pro.

At the end of the day, I unplug my speakers (and a few other things) and take the laptop home for the night. I leave VMWare running, since there's no performance hit.

In the morning, I go back to the office and plug the speakers back in. However, when I attempt to listen to my music or podcasts, the sound comes out of my internal speakers. If I press the ALT key while clicking on my speaker icon, the Altec Lansing speakers are not listed. I should note that the speakers are listed as a connectable USB device from within VMWare.

So far the only solution I've found has been to shut down VMWare, unplug the speakers, and then plug them back in. On a couple of occasions I've been able to use VMWare Fusion to attach the speakers to the virtual machine, then detach them, and then it will show up, but this is not consistent. I've also tried using the USB Probe and the device does show up there, just not as a valid sound output option.

Any idea why this is occurring and how to fix it?


texts: USB ports not working, no paired magic keyboard, "no bootable device, press any key" on an iMac 2009

texts:
Sad story. I thought it was the HDD, so I ended up asking someone to reinstall macOS on it using their Recovery, and that worked. The hard drive booted up using their 2012?ish Mac mini. However, putting it back into my iMac resulted in the ominous message I was previously getting (" no bootable device, press any key") .. but how do I press keys when my USB ports decided to stop working the moment this message started showing up (at the end of a massive wipe and reinstall, including wiping bootcamp as far as I recall)? Ports all seem to give power, beyond that I have no idea unfortunately. I tried 4 different USB keyboards to no avail.

I lost my original magic mouse and keyboard during a move, I bought a new keyboard to see if that can solve my problem but so far, nada. Any clue on how to pair these bad boys
right at boot?

What's my next move guys? I'm at a loss and I'm sitting on a very expensive brick in a country with no Apple Stores, tearing my hair out.


texts: How to examine disks and their partitions via terminal?

texts: I am trying to examine my settings to prepare for a triple boot and would like to know how to completely examine my HDD before to make sure I know everything usefull for the project to know about it.


texts:
I have tried formatting and partitioning this brand new hard drive and it has failed on multiple computers using multiple methods. It is a LaCie Porsche Design 4TB hard drive.

Here is the commands I have been running:

$ diskutil list disk4
/dev/disk4
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *4.0 TB     disk4
   1:                        EFI EFI                     314.6 MB   disk4s1

$ sudo gpt -r show disk4
      start       size  index  contents
          0          1         PMBR
          1          1         Pri GPT header
          2          4         Pri GPT table
          6      76800      1  GPT part - C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B
      76806  976677835
  976754641          4         Sec GPT table
  976754645          1         Sec GPT header
$ sudo fdisk /dev/disk4
Disk: /dev/disk4    geometry: 60800/255/63 [976754646 sectors]
Sector size: 4096 bytes
Signature: 0xAA55
         Starting       Ending
 #: id  cyl  hd sec -  cyl  hd sec [     start -       size]
------------------------------------------------------------------------
 1: EE 1023 254  63 - 1023 254  63 [         1 -  976754645] <Unknown ID>
 2: 00    0   0   0 -    0   0   0 [         0 -          0] unused
 3: 00    0   0   0 -    0   0   0 [         0 -          0] unused
 4: 00    0   0   0 -    0   0   0 [         0 -          0] unused
$ diskutil unmountDisk disk4
Unmount of all volumes on disk4 was successful
sudo gpt add -b 76806 -s 976415691 -t hfs disk4
disk4s2 added
$ diskutil list disk4
/dev/disk4
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *4.0 TB     disk4
   1:                        EFI EFI                     314.6 MB   disk4s1
   2:                  Apple_HFS                         4.0 TB     disk4s2
$ diskutil list
/dev/disk4
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *4.0 TB     disk4
   1:                        EFI EFI                     314.6 MB   disk4s1
   2:                  Apple_HFS                         4.0 TB     disk4s2

Then here is where it appears I have ran into trouble:

$ sudo newfs_hfs -v "4TB" -J /dev/rdisk4s2
newfs_hfs: WriteBuffer:  pwrite(3, 0x10dfba000, 131072, 450764800): Resource busy
newfs_hfs: write (sector 110050): Invalid argument

Any ideas of what I might be doing wrong or what I can do to fix it?

Many thanks!


texts: Another simple question for those keeping track, but I was wondering how and where I could setup the startup routines for my mac. What I would really like is for email to open, messages and activity monitor to open but not in a new window, and for safari to open in fullscreen mode in a separate pane. Is this possible or at least where might I look? I'm less interested in accomplishing this as learning some of the more behind the scenes stuff related to the operating system.


texts: How to clear Trash after deleting old user profiles on macOS Catalina?

texts:
I probably did something that I was not supposed to do and now I ran into some kind of problem.
I deleted two old user accounts from my Mac inside System Preferences to get some space back. However the space did not become more so I checked the hard drive and found the two user folders still being there.
So I deleted both manually, which was probably not the best idea. They went to the Trash. However when trying to clear my Trash, the following error occurs:

The operation can't be completed because some items had to be skipped. For each item, choose File > Get Info, make sure "Locked" is deselected, and then check the Sharing & Permissions section. When you are sure the items are unlocked and not designated as Read Only or No Access, try again.

Next I tried to delete the two folders via Terminal using this command:
sudo rm -rf ~/.Trash/
This did not work either, I got the following error: Operation not permitted
Does anyone have any idea how to solve this problem. Thanks for your help in advance.


texts: Several of the apps on my Apple Watch were updated by their vendors, but for some reason the apps have been stuck in update mode for about a week now. Is there a way to resume the update? Restarting both the Apple Watch and the paired iPhone doesn't fix the problem.


texts: How to clear drive space used by Apple Mail App without removing Internet Accounts?

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I'm no longer using the Apple Mail app built into OS X and it is consuming 20GB+ of space from old mail. However, I do use Calendars and Messages on those accounts. I unchecked "Mail" on those accounts, but that doesn't clear the space. If I try to remove the Internet Account, it warns that it will delete all my Messages (the Messages App messages), which I don't want to do.

It has been suggested that I simply delete the folder where Mail App stores the messages ~/Library/Mail/V2 and/or ~/Library/Mail/V3.

Can I safely free up space from mail messages from Mail using this method?

Is there another method to safely do this?


texts: Kernel task takes about 500% CPU after connecting external monitor

texts: I work with macBook Pro (15 Inch 2019, Catalina OS). I can't work with external monitor. 3-5 minutes after pluging in I have kernel_task that takes something about 500-900% CPU. I know there are some similar topics - the main suspect is overheating in such case. I have some changes in temperature, but it's hard to say for me if temperatures are still in ok spot. I have highlighted the biggest changes.


texts: Make selected text in Notes the default style (no custom fonts, colors, bold, underline etc)

texts: I'd like to be able to select some text in Notes and hit a key or something to make that selected text go "default". No bolds, italics, fonts, or big/small sizes. Is there any such feature?


texts: I have signed up with a .edu.pk domain and waiting for email verification, but it's been hours since I haven't gotten it. Is there any issue with .edu.pk and apple?


texts: How to get specific Times New Roman characters in Mojave

texts: If I enter the unicode number for a specific character which is supposedly part of Times New Roman (ex: u+2190) I get the character but not in Times New Roman.  Is there any way to compel this?


texts: iOS 9.3.5 recover photos with broken touchscreen

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I've got an iPad 2 running iOS 9.3.5 which has a touchscreen that doesn't work. I'd like to recover the pictures from it preferably without having to pay to have a screen replaced on what is essentially an unsupported paperweight at this point.
I've got a USB to 30pin adapter so I can connect a keyboard which has let me unlock the iPad. The problem now is that although it is unlocked I have to allow access/trust any computer I connect it to, which I can't do because I have to unplug the keyboard to plug in the USB cable.
My first idea was to pair it with a bluetooth keyboard. Unfortunatley iOS 9.3.5 seems to be horrificly bad at handling keyboards. Using Meta+Space I can get into settings but once in there I'm stuck. I can search within settings but can't get out of the search box and interact with the app iteself.
This issue is compounded by it not having any internet access.  Again if I could navigate settings I could connect it to wifi but that wont work. Of course because its not connected to wifi siri wont work.
I'm running out of ideas at this point. We are 1 button press away for getting the pictures off but there seems to be no way to get that input into the iPad. I've even tried the old hit the back corner of the iPad trick to re-seat the digitizer connection to no avail.
I have a Windows machine and Mac that can throw things at this iPad if anyone has any ideas.


texts: Notes not syncing to and from iCloud from OS X Yosemite

texts:
Okay, this is extremely frustrating and weird. I've had syncing of notes to iCloud turned on for a while, and I was never really able to figure out when the notes were synced. It always seemed pretty random. Anyways, my notes from iOS 8 on iPhone 5S are synced to iCloud just fine, but the Notes app on my Mac refuses to sync to iCloud. As a result, no edits/new notes are pushed to iCloud, and the notes from my iPhone are never synced to my Mac.

I have turned Notes on in my iCloud settings, but it doesn't work. I also tried to disable it and enable it again several times, but it just doesn't work. I have disabled Notes sync for all other Internet Accounts on my Mac, so it is only enabled on the iCloud account.

What on Earth is going on here? Thanks in advance!


texts:
Does anybody have problems with VNC on macOS 11+?
This is what I got after a fresh install (virtualized machine, VMware Tools version: 11333):

Here is what I've done:

Enabled everything required at System Preferences>Security & Privacy>Privacy.

Deleted file /Library/Preferences/com.apple.windowserver.plist.

Random restart actually solves the problem sometimes but nothing what survives reboot.

Restarting service
/System/Library/CoreServices/RemoteManagement/ARDAgent.app/Contents/Resources/kickstart -agent -restart
doesn't help either.

I access via Safari, the Screen Sharing app or VNC Viewer (6.21.118), all conducted from latest macOS (as of today 11.2.3) with same result. Sometimes, at least the background image is clear, but the login window (user picture and password box) is like the picture above.
What can I do more?


texts: Some of my text contacts appear in red on Ipad/wont send

texts:
Have a new iPad Air.

When I try to send a text, some of the contacts come up in red instead of blue and I cannot send a text message.

Any ideas?


texts:
I recently bought a 12" PowerBook G4 on eBay. I'd like to reinstall OS X to have a clean setup, but I can't find any original install discs online.

However, I found this one which says it's for 15" and 17" PowerBooks. Does that really matter? Could I use these disks with the 12" PowerBook?


texts:
MacOS Catalina, 10.15.6. iMac27 late 2012.
I have connected two external displays to my iMac and it often works quite well for a long period of time, but then suddenly, after waking from display sleep (not full iMac sleep), my iMac doesn't trigger the external displays any more. Sometimes I can solve it by powering off the iMac and then hoping it will trigger the displays again, but even this is not 100% fool proof. Sometimes I have to do this multiple times.
Things I've tried:

Only connect one display, doesn't matter.
Unplugging display cables, wait a few minutes, no result
Power off iMac, wait a few minutes, power on, works 50/50 of the times
Detect displays never gives any result.

Any tips?


texts: Where do iPhone voice memos sync to on my Mac?

texts: Is iTunes configured to sync voice memos from my iPhone? If so, where can I find them?


texts: How to transfer an App Store app after developer enrolment ended?

texts: I want to transfer an app from iTunes Connect. App was previously approved for Apple and was on sale. Now my developer license has expired. And now I can not find Transfer App and even Delete App button. Is there a way to transfer an app in this case?


texts: New MBP w/touchbar: How to change default brightness level?

texts: After unplugging/rebooting/waking, regardless of whether the power cord is plugged in, the screen on my MBP (15-inch, 2017, MacOS 10.13.2 [17C88]) will default to a brightness around 80%. Is there any way I can disable this, or at least change the default to something brighter?


texts: Does running both (XCode & Android Studio) at the same time overload my MacBook Air with only 8 GB of Ram

texts:
This IDE is for the Automation Testing Purpose.

Along with Appium Server, I need to run the Emulator of Xcode's iOS Emulator and the Android Studio's Emulator.

Does this Run smoothly in the 8GB RAM of Macbook Air.


texts: Is there a way to bring back search the web for spotlight?

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Spotlight use to be my one stop shop for typing anything that I needed information about. When it would fail, the result saying "search in web" would come up and that was a really nice fallback when that issue occurred because it generally sent me where I needed to go through Google.

Now, Apple has decided that's not going to be a listed item any more thus forcing me to select all, cut everything I had typed, type safari and launch that, possibly open a new tab and paste the search in there. While I would be proud of that little combo of keyboard shortcuts, the old method was five steps faster so I feel a little foolish needing to do this now.

My question: is there a way to re-enable search the web or a tool somewhere in homebrew or github that will give me that back?

Thanks in advance.


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I face a serious problem that keeps me from working. I had been making a presentation in Keynote on iPad (8th-gen) for about 4 hours and everything was ok.  Suddenly, Keynote stopped saving my presentation, and I can no longer share it and add new things. I have enough storage on iCloud and in the iPad storage. Also, I checked the Wi-Fi connection which is ok. I'm running the latest version of Keynote. iPadOS is 14.0.1
I don't know how to fix it. Help me, please.


texts: Web Inspector (Safari & Chrome): A/B testing changes?

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Is there any technique for A/B testing CSS changes made to an element in Web Inspector?

That is, evaluating before & after states (loaded vs changed) for a given element.


texts: What time stamp will show when an iMessage is received while phone has a dead batter / is turned off?

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An iPhone has a dead battery. While off, an iMessage was sent at 3:45pm. The phone was recharged and turned back on at 5:00pm.

Will the iMessage come through as being sent at 3:45pm or 5:00pm?


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Does Chrome consume more energy(battery) versus Safari?

I've seen reviews denoting Chrome drains the battery more than Safari.

I'm comparing these browsers by myself to figure it out how much difference between them.

Doing Browser benchmarks and regular usage and so on.
Monitor Energy tab on the Activity Monitor.

After that, I don't think much difference between them as reviews saying.

How do you think about it?

Tell me your experience about browser energy consumptions.

Thanks in advance!


texts: Forcing application to go to selected window on startup

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I run a multi-monitor set-up on a single "Desktop". All of my applications when opened run on the primary monitor, which is the smaller monitor. I would like to have some (e.g. browser, mail client) open on my secondary, with others (e.g. IRC, terminal, etc) on my primary.

I'm unsure if there's a method to do this natively or if this requires coding, however I'm happy with either solution.


texts: Excessive "Opening application for the first time" dialogs

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I often get the dialog box warning me that I'm opening an application for the first time.  But, it isn't the first time.  Some of these are applications that I use daily.

I seem to be getting more of these after an OS upgrade, almost as if some database got reset.  Can I do something to get these warnings to be generated properly?


texts: bluetooth keyboard not in keyboard preferences

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I have a Microsoft Surface Ergonomic keyboard and a 2016 touchbar MBP running macOS 10.12 (Sierra). The keyboard is connected to the MBP (I can type) but it doesn't show up in keyboard preferences (so I can't remap keys).

How can I get the keyboard to show up to show up in keyboard preferences? How can I remap the keys to be:

Windows -> Alt
Alt -> Command
Caps lock -> Control or Escape.

I'm aware of karabiner but am frustrated that is keyboard isn't showing up.


texts: Document displayed at the top of the Finder window

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I own a MacBook Air. I've recently been having this problem where I'm not sure what I click, but after viewing a document it will stay at the top of my Finder window. I have no idea how to get rid of it (not trash it, I mean just take it off the window).

Here's a picture of the problem:

The name of the document that is at the top of my window (obviously) is highlighted. I just want to get rid of that.


texts: How to find the associated apple-id for each app in your iphone?

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I have inherited an iPhone with many predecessors. Wasn't reset in the middle. Had multiple id's and applications installed.
I want to see a list of applications with the id that was used to install it, so that I can go about removing all apps not from my apple-id and reinstall them using my apple-id

+--------------+------------------------+
|   Appname    |        AppleID         |
+--------------+------------------------+
| Goodreads    | someemail@icloud.com   |
| Trello       | predecessor@icloud.com |
| findmyiphone | thief@icloud.com       |
| MangaRock    | otaku@icloud.com       |
| kindle       | someemail@icloud.com   |
+--------------+------------------------+

...etc. You get the idea, it can be any email address.

I know it would be simpler to just reset and install only my own apps, but then I'm using a lot of the other apps,  and want to know what they are so that I can install them.

You can get this information for one app at a time, via this method: http://www.macobserver.com/tmo/answers/how_to_locate_the_apple_id_associated_with_an_ios_app
However, that doesn't help when you have 200+ apps.
The data must be in the .itl file, as I searched the library.xml with no luck in finding the associated appleid


texts: How to tell which websites take your MAC address of your iPhone/iPad when visiting?

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how can you tell when viewing webpages, which ones are taking down your device info like MAC address, when you use an iphone or ipad?
Or how to prevent that information being taken?


texts: Need to download iMovie '09 on MacBook Pro 16" with iMovie 10

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I would like to transfer old Hi8 tapes onto my new MacBook using FireWire.  I have an old Digital Sony Handycam and all of the required adapters to connect it to my MacBook USB-C ports.  I tried importing a tape into iMovie 10 and while it did actually import the portion of the tape I played, the import screen on iMovie 10 had message "No Data Device Detected" the entire time and the audio could have been better. After doing some research it appears that maybe iMovie 10 is not 100% compatible with these old cameras but that iMovie '09 should still be.
So, I would like to download iMovie '09 onto my MacBook in addition to iMovie '10 that I already have.  In other words, I would like to have 2 different versions of iMovie on my MacBook so I can use the '09 version to import old Hi8 tapes and the '10 version for anything in the future.
Is this possible?  I did try to download '09 off the Apple site but after downloading it told me that I had downloaded an update and I already had the newer version so that bright idea didn't work.  I am not a coder so if there is a way to do this without making changes in Terminal mode that would be my preference.
TIA!