texts: Some of my photos disappeared from iPhoto recently. I did not delete them or format the hard drive. I have been a mac user since 2003 and am fully aware of the mac os and how it stores files. However this issue is new to me I have searched all system folders and packaged contents of iPhotos but the folders are missing? and they are not in the trash can either. Its like there is no record of the photos ever being uploaded except for a blank event in iPhoto events where the photos were originally uploaded and I could view them. Not all photos are missing only the most recent upload. I do not have time machine backups, so can't use this method to recover files, as I have just purchased a new macbook pro and haven't got round to setting up time machine yet (I should have known better). I tried using a 3rd party data scan software package and the software can locate the missing photos! however it will charge me to recover these photos. I don't feel I should pay for a 3rd party solution, because if a 3rd party data recovery package can identify the missing photos, why can't my mac os? has anyone experienced this problem? and are there any data recovery options I have overlooked to restore the photos without using a 3rd party software package?


texts: Is 4K monitor a good replacement for Retina display?

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I'm in the middle of reviewing different monitor options to finally buy one for myself. Please do not consider this post as a product placement. I'm not going to promote any particular brand(s), nonetheless I will paste a link to a particular one I found.

Basically as a MBP user, I fell in love in Retina display but I won't buy Apple Thunderbolt Display (27-inch) because I find this one as overpriced. I'm looking for something that will be as close as possible to Retina. Are 4K monitors good replacements?

I found one from Kogan (Kogan 28" 4K LED Monitor (Ultra HD)). Is it worth considering? Kogan was suggested by my workmate (we both develop software) who ordered one for his daily work. Not exactly this model but quite similar.

Can you share your thoughts or some recommendations?


texts: Hi I am migrating my Parallels install and VMs to a new machine. Is there an easy way to do this without having to reinstall all my software on my VM?


texts: Where can I find a list with all iTunes radio stations' names and comments?


texts: Preview virtual spaces in menu bar (like ubuntu)

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Is it possible to have a preview of the virtual spaces in the menu bar, like this https://github.com/maho2nd/enhanced-ubuntu-workspace-indicator?

More generally, I'd like to know which spaces are clear and which are occupied.

NOTE: I'm already using WhichSpaces but it only gives the current space as an index.


texts: macOS: find last time AirPods Bluetooth headphones were connected/in the range

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I have either lost my AirPods either someone stole them, and I would like to find more details to find which possibilities is most likely.
Unfortunately my AirPods are not listed under Find My (probably I forgot to activate that function). So what remains is to check the last time I was using them/they were in the Bluetooth range of my Mac.
In this precise moment I can ask my Mac to give me the list of visible (both connected and not) Bluetooth devices, the question is: is the history (time included) of connected/visible bluetooth devices logged somewhere in macOS?


texts: Why does un-paired/removed Apple Watch still appear as macOS unlock option?

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Several weeks ago I erased an Apple Watch I plan to sell/recycle. A few days ago I noticed it was still listed in iCloud Devices, so I "Removed from Account." All seemed to go well: it no longer appears in iCloud. I've confirmed it is gone from my AppleID account and doesn't appear in iCloud devices on web or any device.
However it still appears as an unlock option in System Prefs, Security & Privacy. This has persisted several days across restarts and Safe Mode on two Macs, one on Catalina and one on Mojave Mac.
Why would this be the case, and how can i remove it from Security & Privacy?


texts: How does one transfer old apps from one Mac to a new Mac?

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I have some app on my old iMac (Dasiy Disk, MS Word, etc) that I want to install on a new MacBook Pro. What is the best way to do that?

I tried taking some of the apps and saving copies in Dropbox and then opening from the new Mac. That didn't work.


texts: Macbook Pro periodically incredibly slow despite CPU being idle, and it cannot enter sleep mode properly

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My daughters McBook Pro (medio 2012) running OSX 10.10 suffers from 2 huge problems:

1) From time to time the computer seem incredibly slow in operation although CPU is 95-99% idle according to activity monitor

2) Fans and CPU stays on during sleep, leaving the chassis very hot and draining the battery

Problem 1) is very much on and off. It seems to be (relatively) fine after boot and even after "sleepmode" (although that only works partially), but after some time it degrades heavily. I still have no idea about the which amount of time / workload should pass before it degrades, but it does..
Sorting entries/changing panes in activity monitor, opening the apple menu, opening power settings, changing active window etc. goes from instant reaction to many (10-30) seconds of wait-time (with the strange colored working-wheel), and sometimes no reaction at all. Strange pauses many seconds when navigating in menus, again with the strange working-wheel

Problem 2) is 100% consistent and relatively new (few days)
Being the most consistent issue, I concentrate a lot on problem 2), although problem 1) is much more serious when it pops up:

When closing the lid for sleepmode, Sleep Indicator Light (SIL) turns solid and stays solid, which should mean DISPLAY sleep (https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT203576). Strange!!??

However, the fans stay (and cpu) stay on. If left for several hours with no A/C-cord connected, the chassis (back bottom) turns very hot and the battery drains.
When waking it up, I can see from CPU history (double-click the CPU-graph in activity monitor and let both run during sleep) that the CPUs have been running with high load during sleep!? Very Strange!!??

With terminal (grep'ing for 'Sleep' and 'Wake' in pmemset -g and a shell while loop with a date-command and a short sleep) I can see that it IS actually sleeping - but the CPU is running!!!???

In my System.log the last 20-ish log-enties, ending with 'hibernate_write_image done' and 'sleep' are logged (dated) at the time of wakeup, but I guess that is just a buffering issue...

When waking up, the fans turn off for a second or so and SIL is blinking once right before screen is turned on.

I have Reset SMC (I think - how do you know if it actually did anything other than making you look ridiculous using something resembling an IBM-grip on a Mac?)

I noticed that all power settings (Apple menu > System Preferences > Energy Saver) were set to "never". I lowered them all to a few minutes.
It seems like display sleep works, turns on SIL to solid, fans stay on, and it can be cancelled with pushing the power button a single time(not with mouse pad!?)
If I wait the time set to machine sleep, there is no change: SIL is solid, fans running. But after that it is harder to wake up; clicking on mousepad and pushing power button several times??
According to pmemset it has been sleeping and cpu load has been high during sleep (strange sentence!) as above.
I.e. the energy saver sleep reacts exactly as closing the lid.

Using apple menu -> sleep yields exactly the same behavior as the two other methods.

From other threads I know of 2 possible possibilities:
1) cleaning fans.
2) replacing HD-cable.
I will try them in that order, when I get the proper tools and spare parts, although I don't really believe #2...

Any other ideas??


texts: Applescript to Heart or Love or Favorite song

texts: Anyone know if there's away to heart/love/favorite a song in the new iTunes via applescript?  Basically I want the ability to heart a song from Apple Music without switching back to iTunes.


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I have the new Macbook 12 inch with 500GB, which half of the storage goes to the Windows 10 system. I wonder would 500GB Hard drive be enough for Time Machine for backup?

Also, I'm thinking of the Seagate Wireless Plus hard drive for it. Will wireless hard drives work just fine?
Waiting!! :)


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I am looking for an alternative to iCloud's calender sync between my Mac and my iPhone. Like many others, I really didn't appreciate the fact that you're now forced to use iCloud to sync your calender...

So I'm looking for an alternative to either locally via USB sync my calendar with my iPhone, are to get a server on my MacBook for this purpose, which would only accept connections from my LAN. Or a totally different application for both Mac OS and iOS, syncing over USB. What I don't want is uploading my data to a server that I don't own: iCloud, Google...

I have read this alternative: sync calendar and contacts without iCloud in Mavericks but the reviews are not really good for this app... erasing instead of sync is not an option for me!

Then I was thinking about something like Radicale, i.e. setting up a server but I'm a bit worried about all the problems arising from security issues etc.

What would you suggest? Is there even something like this out there?


texts: Previous deleted text keyboard shortcuts keep appearing

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I kept a bunch of keyboard shortcuts via System Preferences > Keyboard > Keyboard Shortcuts and over time, I deleted some shortcuts that are not necessary for me and added new ones.

Some time ago, it appears that the unwanted shortcuts appeared back when the added one didn’t appear — manually deleting them in the system panel only made them return.

How do I keep one set of keyboard shortcuts please?


texts: Why does iMessage recipient show as green when sending message thru Siri Shortcuts?

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I'm trying to use the built in "ETA" shortcut recipe. I add my wife as the recipient and run the shortcut. When it shows me the message for confirmation, her name is green, not blue.

When I actually send the message and look in the Messages app, I now have two different conversations for her. One is our historic message thread, the other has only this single message sent by Shortcuts.

Why is this happening, and how can I stop it?


texts: Is there a good, non-Google Reader RSS reader for iPhone/iPod?

texts: I'm looking for an app to read RSS feeds on my iPod Touch. I saw Reeder, but it looks like it only interoperates with Google Reader, as far as I can tell -- you can't just add an arbitrary RSS feed. Is there a good RSS reader that works without Google Reader?


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Prior to Mavericks, one could reverse the direction of a Magic Trackpad, using the following defaults commands, and magic five-finger gesture to reorient.

defaults write com.apple.trackpad.orientation TrackpadOrientationMode 1
sudo defaults write com.apple.MultitouchSupport ForceAutoOrientation YES

You can find more information here and here. Unfortunately, this doesn't appear to work in Mavericks. Does anybody know a modern incantation to bring back the old magic?

NOTE: this is not the same as reversing the scroll direction. It completely reverses all input and gestures on trackpad.

UPDATE: I got it to work. Ray Shan's "reboot the trackpad" might be part of the magic. Also, five fingers + hard click seems to be crucial to activate.


texts: How can I track the progress of dd after I've already started it?

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I'm migrating my HDD to an external hard drive so that I can do a clean install of macOS Mojave.

I'm using dd if=/dev/disk02 of=/dev/disk15s2 to accomplish the task.

disk02 is the Macintosh HD (SATA-HDD), disk15s2 is the WD External HD

I didn't realize that it wouldn't show me any indication of progress (the HDD has ~750GB on it) - this is the first time I've done this through the terminal.app in recovery mode.

Is there a way for me to track the progress in another terminal window while it is in progress?

I'm on a Macbook Pro mid-2012 running El Capitan.


texts:
I've been tasked with setting up an AFP share on a server running Mountain Lion. My question is mostly about best practices and to find out if I'm doing this right. My only prior experience has been (very) basic NFS and SMB shares focused mostly on Linux.

So here's the situation.

There will be (to start) approximately 7 or 8 users that will need access to various parts of the share. I basically need two access levels (for now). One that can access everything (an admin), and one that can only access a subset of everything. Pretty standard right?

In the sharing dialog, I can add shared folders and add users to the specific shares. So I've created the the shares and I was just going to add all the 2 or 3 admin users to all the shares, then the remaining users to the specific shares they need access to. The UI doesn't seem to expose anything of the nature, but can I manage the users independently of the shared folders? Put another way: can I mark a folder as belonging to a particular group and assign users to that group in order to grant them access to that particular share?


texts: Create El Capitan's bootable USB drive using Windows

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As I say in the title, I need to create a bootable USB drive with OSX El Capitan using Windows 10.

I can't start my Mac using OSX anymore and I want to perform a clean install. If I use Recovery my OS will be restored via internet, and it would be Mountain Lion. Is there a way to avoid this?


texts: iOS 11.4.1 Mail app w/ Exchange account keeps crashing “8badf00d”

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Summary: iOS 11.4.1 Mail app keeps crashing with a specific Exchange account. I didn't have this problem with iOS 10 on my iPhone 7 Plus. This all became an issue when I starting using iOS 11 and iPhone X.

I'm wondering is it something in my Exchange inbox that's causing the issue and if I can find out what it is, will deleting it help? Is this possibly due to a timeout issue? My exchange account has at least 300k emails in it. I'm in the process of cleaning that out.

I have done all the troubleshooting as far as deleting/adding the account again, restoring the backup of my iPhone, deleting read/delivery receipts from the inbox and it still crashes. I'm trying to decipher these logs/stack traces. I've attached part of a log below if that might help. Please let me know if this points out the issue and if I can fix it. Thanks in advance!

{"bug_type":"288","timestamp":"2018-09-05 09:09:24.12
-0400","os_version":"iPhone OS 11.4.1 (15G77)","incident_id":"48A9DAF4-59EB-44BC-AC64-BBF1195ACEBF"}

{

"build" : "iPhone OS 11.4.1 (15G77)",

"product" : "iPhone10,3",

"kernel" : "Darwin Kernel Version 17.7.0: Mon Jun 11 19:06:27 PDT 2018; root:xnu-4570.70.24~3/RELEASE_ARM64_T8015",

"tuning" : {

},

"incident" : "48A9DAF4-59EB-44BC-AC64-BBF1195ACEBF",

"crashReporterKey" : "89795b7b062045b5c64fe92ace4ef37c954cc667",

"date" : "2018-09-05 09:09:24.10 -0400",

"reason" : "scene-create watchdog transgression: com.apple.mobilemail exhausted real (wall clock) time allowance of 19.69 seconds\n\nProcessVisibility: Foreground\nProcessState: Running\nWatchdogEvent: scene-create\nWatchdogVisibility: Foreground\nWatchdogCPUStatistics: (\n \"Elapsed total CPU time (seconds): 24.660 (user 24.660, system 0.000), 21% CPU\",\n \"Elapsed application CPU time (seconds): 9.590, 8% CPU\"\n)",

"frontmostPids" : [

722,

58

],

"exception" : "0x8badf00d",

"absoluteTime" : 315751083593,


texts: did the following steps now disk is not recognized!

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So I did this for a flashdrive and it worked perfectly then I tried it for an external harddrive and it will not work. After entering:

sudo mount -w -t msdos /dev/disk3s1 /Volumes/MIXTAPE

I get this output:

mount [-dfruvw] [-o options] [-t external_type] special node
       mount [-adfruvw] [-t external_type]
       mount [-dfruvw] special | node

Please help! it will not let me recognize any disk at all when plugged in

Steps followed and worked for flashdrive but failed for other...
From the terminal:

Identify your USB by NAME and IDENTIFIER:

diskutil list

Output is:

/dev/disk3 (external, physical):
#:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE    IDENTIFIER
0:               FDisk_partition_scheme              *2.0 GB     disk3
1:                 DOS_FAT_32 MIXTAPE                 2.0 GB   disk3s1

In this case, NAME=MIXTAPE and the IDENTIFIER=/dev/disk3s1

Now unmount the USB:

sudo diskutil unmount /dev/$IDENTIFIER

Example:

sudo diskutil unmount /dev/disk3s1

Output is:

Volume MIXTAPE on disk3s1 unmounted

Now create the Volume directory - this appears to be the key!

sudo mkdir /Volumes/$NAME

Example:

sudo mkdir /Volumes/MIXTAPE

No output.

Now mount the USB to the Volume:

sudo mount -w -t msdos /dev/disk3s1 /Volumes/$NAME

Example:

sudo mount -w -t msdos /dev/disk3s1 /Volumes/MIXTAPE

No output.

Validate that the USB is now writeable:

touch /Volumes/$NAME/tmp.txt

Example:

touch /Volumes/MIXTAPE/tmp.txt

You should now be able to see that you were able to create the tmp.txt file on your USB in the Finder app or by:

ls -al /Volumes/$NAME

Example:

ls -al /Volumes/MIXTAPE


texts: Bluetooth Device Shows Up In Menu But Not In Preferences

texts: I have an issue where an old iPhone I no longer own shows up in the Bluetooth menu but not in the bluetooth preferences. Screenshots below. Anyone else experiencing this? How to go about removing the item "iPhone-FFFV" below?


texts: Can the default permissions on /dev/disk* be changed?

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Is it possibile to change default permissions /dev/disk*?

In Linux this is done in the udev configuration files; which is the equivalent on OS X?

I'd like to give group write permissions so members of the group operator will be able to perform write operations to external hard drives without using sudo (e.g. run virtual machines from external usb drives).

I tried to sudo chmod g+w /dev/disk2* but it doesn't persist as when the first write attempt permissions revert to 640 instead of the changed permissions.


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I have never upgraded iOS before and this is first time I would be doing. My current iOS version is 8.0.4(I guess) and want to upgrade to latest 8.x version(if possible) otherwise the default 9.x version as it's showing.

I want to know how can I take a restorable backup first on my Mac before going to upgrade? I am not so concerned about apps. My main concerns are books(Pdfs,epubs) that I open in iBooks app. Those app have not been bought within iBooks.

Is there anyway to take backup of books before I go for upgrade?


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I would like to completely disable calendar reminders, such as this.
I'm using Big Sur, and these reminders are associated with my Google account calendar.
I tried everything I could think of, but nothing works:

In System Preferences -> Notifications I disabled: Calendar, Mail, Microsoft Outlook, and Reminders.
I disabled everything related to Alerts in the Calendar app.
In Microsoft Outlook app, Preferences -> Notifications and Sounds, I unticked the "Reminder" checkbox in the Sound section.
In Microsoft Outlook app, Preferences -> Calendar -> Calendar Options, I unticked the "Default reminder" checkbox.

I really don't know what else to try... Any ideas?


texts: Any way to move contacts between groups on iPhone?

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Is there any way to move a contact in Contacts on my iPhone into a group? I can create a new contact in any group, but I don't see a way to move an existing contact between groups.

Seems like an oversight that I would have to go back to my Mac, or delete a contact and manually recreate their card in a different group, in order to do this.


texts: Can't tab between dialog options on Finder's Replace File dialog

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Despite enabling Full Keyboard Access for All Controls in the Keyboard settings, I can't tab between dialog options on Finder's Replace File dialog.

This worked fine in previous versions of macOS – I used it for years – but doesn't in Mojave.

I replace files several times per day so it's getting pretty annoying. It works on other dialog screens. Does anyone have a workaround or know why they removed a feature?


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I now own an iPod Touch 4 with iOS 4.3.5 on it. I jailbroke it a while ago, but since it made me too many problems I reset it and it's now locked.

My question is, will the new iOS 5 is going to support flash videos such as from megavideo.com?


texts: Full screen always enabled when opening app in OS X

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How can I set my Macbook Air to always open new apps in full screen mode?

Some apps already do it (Mail for example), but others are always opening as a small window, especially Safari when I close (cmd+W) all the tabs.

Is there a setting, a terminal command line, or anything to fix this?


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I am having trouble "attributing" some free space I have available on the Files partition to the volume which contains system files: an APFS encrypted container.

I would like to do this because I am no longer able to update some large application from within the App Store. I have already read some articles addressing the issue concerning resizing APFS containers but they still don't answer my question (or maybe I didn't clearly get the idea). I am running a Macbook Air under Catalina.

I put some screenshots that may give more useful information.

Reduce this volume to 90 GB:

Increase the capacity of the container to 160 GB:

diskutil list:

diskutil resizeVolume disk0s3 limits:


texts: How to completely disable password saving in Safari?

texts:
Safari keeps asking if I want to save passwords whenever I submit a login form.

Is there any way to disable this password saving feature completely?


texts: Play count / Last played statistics intermittently don't update in iTunes

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I have an iPod classic (160GB) which I sync with iTunes 10.6.0.40 using automatic syncing.

Generally, when I plug the iPod into my PC via USB, all of the Play count and Last played statistics update properly.

Yesterday I listened to 5 albums on my iPod, in the following order:

The Pogues - If I should fall from grace with God
Apples in Stereo - Fun trick noisemaker
Joni Mitchell - Court and spark
Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin III
Underworld - Dubnobasswithmyheadman

However, when I plugged the iPod into my PC, iTunes only showed that I had played the last 2 albums (Led Zeppelin, Underworld) and it was as if the other albums hadn't played (their Last played dates were back in 2010).

Any idea what may be causing this?

Why doesn't iTunes respect my diverse taste in music?

Edit: I have since upgraded to iTunes 10.6.1.7 and I am still seeing this issue, so I am now offering a bounty to anyone who can help me solve this.


texts: I have Facetime on my MacBook and Facetime on my iPad.  Of course I also have one Apple ID account.  Sometimes the family uses the iPad while I'm away.  I'd like to be able to call "myself", that is my iPad from my MacBook.  How do I do this?


texts: Can a 21.5 inch iMac (non-Retina late 2015 - 2.8 Ghz, Intel Iris Pro graphics, model 16,2) drive two external displays?

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I'm currently running a Dell U2715H at its native resolution (2560 x 1440) via DisplayPort as an external display, and I'd like to add another at that same resolution. The Apple specs on this model don't say anything about two external displays.

Is it possible to run two external displays with this model?


texts:
I'm using a macbook air 2014 with 8GB, also running Parallels a lot so wanted to reduce memory usage of OSX.

Already disabled voice dictation that freed up around 500 mb.

Any other tricks/tweaks?


texts: Cannot enroll in Apple Developer program

texts:
I have been meaning to finish my developer account and sign up for the iOS program, and since WWDC2015 just happened, I thought no better time than now.

Unfortunately, when I go to enroll, I am told

  "Sorry, you can’t enroll at this time."

I figured this might have to do with me being under 18, however, I have set up a corporation so I can bypass this roadblock. Furthermore, when I started to sign up previously, I had no issues up until this point.

Is this a side-effect of WWDC? What can I do?


texts: Where are my finder windows after a reboot

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I have a late 2011 MBP, running Mac OS X 10.7.5, 2.3 GHz Intel Core i5, with 16GB 1600 MHz DDR3.

When I reboot and I try to open a Finder window with command + n or from the menu

File > New Finder Window

I see the window open and then disappear somewhere off to the left or right off the screen.

If I open multiple windows the same thing happens.

When I invoke App Expose I can see all the Finder windows I opened but as soon as I close App Expose they disappear again.

I cannot drag or select the windows in any way.

When a second monitor is connected I tried dragging them onto the second monitor but that does not help either.

The only thing I found works is:

Press: command + alt+esc ;
Select Finder;
Click Relaunch.

Normal behaviour resumes.

Is there any way to troubleshoot this behaviour and stop it?

Update:

This has just happened again, and this time I took a video.

When the finder windows appear in this video, that is when I am changing desktops with command+ right.  As you can see I cannot get the finder windows to show up at all.


texts:
I am trying to use an AudioUnit plugin that requires a USB security authentication key. The first time I installed the Audio Unit I didn't have the key. When I received my key and authorized the software (Antares Auto Tune with the iLok USB key) the plugin did not show up.

I attempted to remove the cache files to force Garageband 10 to find the plugin but none of it worked.

The strange thing though is I can open Garageband 6 and the plugin shows up and if I create a new account on my computer the plugin shows up but this is suboptimal.


texts: MacBook Pro 13" screen recognized as external display

texts:
I recently installed macOS Mojave on a late 2011 MacBook Pro that normally doesn't support Mojave. I used this patcher tool so that everything works properly with the Mac: http://dosdude1.com/mojave/. Unfortunately, not everything worked well. My built-in screen is being recognized as a projector, which prevents me from being able to dim the display. That also makes it so that the screen does not turn off when it is in sleep mode. I find that annoying since I have to shut down my computer every time I'm not using it.
I'm guessing that is a problem with the patcher tool not being able to install all of the kext files, so if anyone has any solution to that, it would be greatly appreciated! Thank you!


texts: How to set noatime for startup drive in Mountain Lion?

texts:
I've followed instructions to set the noatime flag in Lion so I can reduce SSD usage but it isn't working for me on Mountain Lion.

I'm still seeing this after restarting:

$ mount | grep " / "
/dev/disk0s2 on / (hfs, local, journaled)

Has anyone got any suggestions how to mount the startup drive with mount flag noatime?


texts: I am looking for a note taking app with white text on a black background that works with iCloud. Apps for Mac and/or iOS will work. Any recommendation?


texts: Is it possible to turn down the brightness of an external monitor via controls on mu Mac?

texts:
When using my old Thunderbolt monitor I loved that I could turn down the brightness from my Mac keyboard, but on the 2 new monitors I've bought recently, I can only turn down the brightness using their clunky on-monitor system.
Are there any 3rd party monitors that:

Ideally can turn down the brightness via software controls on the Mac or
Have Very easy to use and accessible brightness buttons on them?


texts: Does apple sign macOS as they do it for iOS

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As we know Mojave 10.14.3 is already released but 6gb non pausable download is not possible due to network issues I’m having, so I’m trying to install the initial mojave 10.14(18A391) downloading through torrent or other trusted sites and then update to 10.14.3

My doubt is

can i install 10.14 now?

Is apple still signing 10.14(18A391) like they do for iOS?


texts: How to show phone number instead of email address in Messages?

texts: On a iPhone 4s my text messages show my email address not my phone number . How do I change it everything I have read is telling me how to do from a newer phone


texts: Can I partition an iPod (nano, classic, shuffle) for use as a flash drive?

texts:
I have made an iPod nano appear as a flash drive by going to iTunes and checking "Enable disk use." However, I am short of a large enough USB key to hold a bootable Windows 8 installer for use by Boot Camp. Because Boot Camp needs to wipe the drive used, can I create a partition in Disk Utility of the iPod and install to that?

Does iPod still work after  creating a new partition for use as a flash disk?


texts:
For a long time I had only one email account in my Mail.app and had all my sections (inbox, sent, junk, trash, ...) nicely organised in the Mailboxes sidebar. But recently I added another account and now I've all my accounts separated by section instead of by email.
Is there a way to have it like:

email1@example.com
    inbox
    sent
    junk
    trash
    archive
email2@example2.com
    inbox
    sent
    junk
    trash
    archive

instead of:

inbox
    email1@example.com
    email2@example2.com
sent
    email1@example.com
    email2@example2.com
junk
    email1@example.com
    email2@example2.com
trash
    email1@example.com
    email2@example2.com

I understand why apple did this, to have a practical way of viewing all my emails inbox at once but I don't need it and always check my accounts separately.


texts: Launch App with Automator when system is idle

texts:
My idea is to dim the display when the system is idle for 10 seconds, and with a keystroke or trackpad activity revert to original (I want to preserve battery automatically and not using a screen saver - I need to monitor some activity but with low display light). I could not find such application so I decided to make solution with Automator.

I found application Shady which can dim display when it start and if it is active (in front) with keystroke Q will quit.

So, how can I make a script in Automator to start Shady when the system is idle for 10 seconds and then wait for any keystroke or trackpad activity, then send keystroke q to quit Shady? The script should be active all the time, so when another 10 second idle time happens, start Shady again.


texts: How can I keep an app open in the background?

texts:
As I was using an app on my iPhone, I accidentally hit the home button. I quickly reopened the app. But instead of it resuming where I left off, the app had to load all over again. (This was Clash of Clans and I was in a raid!)

Is there a way to keep an app open in the background?

Such a feature would also allow me to quickly check something and then return to the app that I was on.


texts: macOS Calendar pushes, doesn't pull? iCloud & iPhone push & pull

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My iCloud Calendar appears to be working (from any web browser). My iOS Calendar appears to be working (from my iPhone). My macOS Calendar appears to be pushing changes to iCloud, but not pulling changes from iCloud:

If I create, edit, or delete an event on iCloud.com, it immediately appears on my iPhone, but not on my Mac.
If I create, edit, or delete an event on my iPhone, it immediately appears on iCloud.com, but not on my Mac.
If I create, edit, or delete an event on my Mac, it immediately appears on iCloud.com, and on my iPhone.

Also:

If I click Menubar / View / Refresh Calendars, changes still aren't pulled to my Mac.
If I change Menubar / Preference / Accounts, Refresh Calendars from "Push" to "Every minute", and wait a minute, changes still aren't pulled to my Mac.
Waiting overnight and over days doesn't fix the issue.
Only if I quit macOS Calendar app and relaunch the app, then changes are pulled to my Mac.

This problem only appeared after replacing a 2011 "High Sierra" MacBook Pro with a 2018 "Mojave" Macbook Air. I've tried signing in/out of iCloud everywhere. I've wiped and rebuilt the machine. I've spent hours on the phone with Apple, to no avail. Any help, please?

macOS 10.14.2 Mojave
iOS 12.1.1


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I have a very simple rule set up in Mail like the following:

If [any] of the following conditions are met:

[From] [Contains] @gmail.com

Perform the following actions:

[Move Message] to mailbox: Gmail

That's about as basic as you can get: if an email comes from a certain domain, move it to a certain folder. That's it.

But it doesn't always work! Seemingly random messages will just sit in my inbox and never move to the folder unless I manually select them and Apply Rules.

Am I misunderstanding how rules are supposed to work? What's going on?


texts: Use Web browser and Latex using iPad, Monitor, Apple Mouse and keyboard

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I own a ASUS monitor (VGA, HDMI, DisplayPort ports), and am about to buy a computer to use it with.

I usually use Apple devices, so I am oriented towards getting a Mac mini. However, I suspect that this could be an overkill, since the only two things I would be using on the computer would be browsing the Internet (PDFs, quick information, so no videos or detailed graphics involved) and use Latex (a lot).

So my question is, can an iPad or similar be more appropriate for this use case? Is it possible and realistic/convenient to connect it with monitor, mouse and keyboard and use it as a computer? I repeat: I just need something that makes Latex and Google Chrome work well, without delays or silly incompatibilities. So for example, the signal should arrive decently to the monitor, which is a 27''.


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Is there a way to make the iPhone's Calendar App support timezones with appointments, or is there an alternative App that has multiple timezone support? I have a friend with an iPhone 4 (4.2.1) who travels around quite a bit and always struggles to book appointments with people when he's outside of his home country, the U.S.

The conversation might go something like this:

  [The scene is a New Zealand Beach on a Sunny January 5th]

  "Let's met for lunch a 2pm, sushi, my shout"

  "Sweet, so, 2pm new zealand time is 12pm yesterday american time, so I'll put it in my iCal at 12pm yesterday"

He needs iCal to be smart enough to adjust to the timezone of the country he is in. His iPhone does figure out local time from his telco and adjust that when he enters a new country.


texts: How do I change the selection in BBEdit's Currently Open Document pane with the keyboard?

texts: When I open more than one document in BBEdit, a Currently Open Documents pane is shown. I can change the selection in the pane (and change the document shown in the editor pane) with the mouse pointer. Can I change the selection in the pane with a keyboard shortcut?


texts: Is there an OSX workaround to configure a "unifying" receiver without Logitech's control center?

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I have two Logitech wireless devices (keyboard and mouse) that work well on my ppc mac (running OSX 10.4.11). Each has a little USB unifying receiver that came with it, each receiver being paired with the device it came with. You're supposed to be able to pair both devices to a single receiver, but Logitech wants you to download the Logitech Control Center in order to do so. I just finished "cleaning house" on my system, removing unwanted and residual third-party stuff, and I'd rather not install some "bloatware" if there's a way I can manually pair both devices to one receiver. Add to that the fact that Logitech no longer offers a version of LLC that runs on 10.4.I've seen some people mentioning SteerMouse and USB Overdrive, and might check them out, but is there any other option? I don't care about customizing the buttons, just pairing both devices to one receiver.I hope this isn't considered off-topic. I realize the question centers around Logitech, but I'm hoping there's a way to access configuration setting with OSX.

Thanks!


texts: If I download a free podcast onto my iTunes and onto my iPhone does it still use data from my contract?


texts: How to make Google Chrome Helper not use as much CPU

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I've found solutions for this problem but they dont seem applicable now in 2017.

For some reason, Google Chrome Helper is using a lot of my CPU and fans are going full blast.  I found this link on Apple's site that seems to help everyone but I can't seem to find it on my version of Chrome.  I have a MBP running 10.9.5.

They mention to go to Chrome > preferences > settings > show advanced settings > content settings (under privacy).  Then click the 'click to play' button under the Plugins section.  However, there's no plugins section and so I can't do this to try to fix the problem.  I'm using Chrome version 56.0.2924.

I don't have many extensions installed on Chrome (just Webex, Google docs, Okta).  I have Flash installed too, which I think is taking some resources but there are times I'm not watching video or using anything with Flash and it's still using 150% CPU.

What workaround can I do with this version of Chrome to make Google Chrome helper from using > 150% CPU?


texts: So I had these headphones and they worked for about a week and then suddenly they just don't fit into my phone. I have to press them really hard and hold it there. Other headphones fit just these don't. They're Apple headphones btw.


texts: How can I mount a thumbdrive to my iPhone?

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I have a jailbroken iPhone 6s running iOS 10.3.3. I'd like to be able to connect a r/w thumbdrive to my phone, but I don't know what kind of adapter I'd have to buy/make. Does anyone have any suggestions how to do this?

I'll likely be able to mount it in a terminal GUI (NewTerm2 in this case) using fdisk and then mount, but if needed I can install other commands.

Lightning<-->USB (a)


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My Macbook Pro running Mavericks picks up my ISP's (native) IPv6 support with automatic configuration just fine on bootup. I'm using an AirPort Extreme 802.11ac (2013) with default settings.

If then connect to an IPv4-only VPN, I lose IPv6 connectivity, as expected.

However, when I disconnect from the VPN, my Macbook Pro will not pick up IPv6 from my ISP until I reboot, as not expected. Configuration remains on Automatic, it just won't configure itself.

How can I make it immediately reconnect to IPv6 when I quit the VPN?


texts: why does itunes "optimize" my photos every time i sync

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Every time I sync my ipod touch, I sit there and watch "optimizing photos x of 1000" which takes forever.

To be clear, I am not adding any more photos.  Shouldn't this only be a one time thing to optimize photos?
Why does it need to do this step every time?


texts: Should I block incoming connections from "netbiosd"?

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My (application) firewall settings are configured to block incoming connections from netbiosd. I don't recall setting this myself, and wonder what the consequences are.

What are the consequences of blocking incoming connections for netbiosd? If  I generally block incoming connections as a precaution, should I block netbiosd as well?


texts: iPhone 5 can't open webpages when VPN is on

texts: I'm using iPhone 5 and iPad 2, not jailbroken, with iOS 6.1.4 and VPN turned on. Safari and any other browser apps can't open pages.


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I lost an important sqlite file during the upgrade to iOS 9 beta. Luckily the file is backed up on iCloud.

When restoring from the iCloud backup, iOS downloads the data file along with the app, but then deletes the app and file immediately during the process (most likely due to the app is not a finished app available on the App Store; it is under development).

So my question is, is there a way to restore that beta app's data file?

Or, is there a way to prevent the restore process from deleting apps that it thinks should not exist?


texts: Is Home screen 3D Touch menu on supported iPhones user customizable?

texts: Attached is a screenshot of what appears when I force touch (3D Touch) on the 2Do app running on an iPhone X. Annoyingly, the action view doesn’t contain Search item. Can I alter the menu so that it has a search option (like Apple Music - screenshot attached)


texts: I lost all my calendar events after updating to iOS 7

texts: After updating to iOS 7 on my iPhone 5, I lost all the events on my calendar in the months previous to the update.  How can I recover those?


texts: Time Machine backup permissions set to 711 after a restore

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Had to erase and restore my internal drive on my MacBook Pro. I selected restore from Time Machine my settings, User accounts, and Applications after doing a fresh install of 10.8. Now my Time Machine volume does not show the old backups I need to finish my restore.

Looking at folder in the finder all the folders in /Volumes/TM/Backups.backupdb/hd are locked. Looking at the permissions in Terminal I see the folder is:

root@MBP_LOCAL /Volumes/TM/Backups.backupdb> ls -la@
total 0
drwx--x--x   3 root  _unknown   102 Jan 28  2012 .RecoverySets
drwx------   2 root  _unknown    68 Oct  5 23:08 .spotlight_repair
drwx------   2 root  _unknown    68 Nov  9 03:34 .spotlight_temp
drwx--x--x@ 60 root  _unknown  2040 Nov  9 09:58 mbp
    com.apple.backupd.BackupMachineAddress    18
    com.apple.backupd.HasRecoverySet       3
    com.apple.backupd.HostUUID    37
    com.apple.backupd.ModelID     13

The extended attributes look ok and match my system UUID and mac address but the 711 does not seem right. What gives here since the ACL is set to:

drwx--x--x@ 60 root  _unknown  2040 Nov  9 09:58 mbp
 0: group:everyone deny add_file,delete,add_subdirectory,delete_child,writeattr,writeextattr,chown

So I assume something changed to 711 during the install or restore. What are the proper permissions?


texts: iMac keyboard for programming. Is that comfortable or I should buy another one?

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I'm planning to buy an iMac next month. I'm a software developer. I usually use the Microsoft Keyboard for my programming tasks, It has a great ergonomics. I tried iMac's keyboard in the store but didn't get a chance to sit down and use it for an hour or so to understand if that works for me. Anyone is using it for heavy programming and can tell me if that is comfortable for hours of coding ?

Thanks :)


texts: 10.9 server keeps losing correct permissions on /private/tmp

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about 2-3 a week our 10.9 server machine starts filling logs with 'unable to write to /private/tmp/..." errors.  many per second.  the permissions to go 755 apparently.

it's easily fixed with a manual setting of permissions or a disk util repairpermissions.  but if uncaught, it causes problems for the server (of course).  nothing obvious in logs just before these errors start.

i can't figure out what's causing this to go wonky repeatedly.  has anyone seen similar behavior?  not sure what's causing it.  nothing suspicious in chron or launchagents/daemons.

i'm using sns iscsi initiator, in case anyone else out there has seen this problem.


texts: How do I read and/or search the history of text messages from my iPhone? Some messages are SMS, others are iMessage, often interleaved within the same conversation. My understanding is that the phone keeps the entire history (which is why there is the "Load Earlier Messages" button, which is incredibly tedious to use, slows down with each additional click and offers no [obvious] way of searching).


texts: Are there iOS apps for taking notes with Apple Pencil in color, grid, and with pages to print?

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I am searching for an app, in which I can take notes during lectures. To be more specific I would like to find an app which extends the default notes app in the following ways:

Creating a color palette (eg. I would like to have darker colors, but it seems like I can only pick one color at a time)
Changing grid size (I would like to make the grid a bit smaller, so it fits my handwriting better)
Option for pages (Ideally I would like to be able to print my notes, but the $\infty$-paper cuts my handwriting in half)

Other features (like pdf annotation, text recognition etc.) are not important for my use case. The recommended apps I was able to test (Notes, INKredible, Nebo, Sketches, Paper, Quicknotes) didn’t fulfill these requirements. Due to cost I could not test Goodnotes or Notepad+.
I hope there is an app satisfying my needs, to specially to vouch for a paid app if that’s the only fit for my requirements.
Can any app do some or all of my requirements?


texts: I'm running an iMac with a 2.8 GHz Intel Core i7 with 12 GB of DDR3 on OS X 10.9.5 and am getting tearing with playing CS:GO. I'd like to fix this. How can I disable Vsync in 10.9.5? What does this have to do with Beamsync?


texts: Sharing Ipad between 2 Apple IDs, 2 computers

texts: My wife and I share an ipad 2, ios7. We have separate PCs. Can we have separate Apple IDs and connect the ipad to each computer under the individual ids? Example, I connect and back up etc under my Apple ID, then later she connects, backs up, purchases etc to her computer using her Apple id.


texts: autocomplete in zsh after `npm run tdd` command

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I'm using OS X 10.10.3, I have installed zsh. And every time when I want to run a specific test I configured in package.json to execute npm run tdd followed by the test file.

In linux systems if I press tab after this command:

npm run tdd ~/

will show me the folders or will attempt to autocomplete the instruction, however this doesn't happen in zsh on OS X, it just makes the noise like there are no recommendations for this.

How can this be fixed?


texts: Third Party Mini Display Port to VGA or DVI Cables

texts: curious if anyone has any experience with any third party Mini Display Port to VGA or DVI cables? I noticed the cables on ebay selling for around $16. Compared to the official cables that run for around $35 seems like a bargin. Wasn't sure if the quality is the same or if anyone has any experience with buying them. Thanks!


texts: Why does my MacBook Pro take so long to go to sleep?

texts: My MacBook Pro takes an awful long time to go to sleep when I close the lid. Considering that I generally want to close the lid and then carry it somewhere, I want it to be fully asleep so I don't have any hard drive issues. Is there anything I can do to speed up the process?


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I'm having a lot of trouble finding anything that can help with my specific issue, and it really bugs me because I feel like I cannot be the first person to try and figure this out.

I have one of the new 2016 Touch Bar MacBook Pros that I need to reinstall macOS. Typically whenever I need to reinstall OS X I just use my external SSD with a preinstalled El Capitan and run the DMG after some configuring, but with the latest MBP I've realized that I have to use Sierra since El Capitan is not supported. I only have about 1gb left of free space on my external SSD so I can't just upgrade to Sierra and go from there.

Is it possible to host my Sierra DMG on my local network via something like OS X Server or DeployStudio on my other Mac?

That way I can just hold the Option key down as I boot up and connect to my Wi-Fi network and have it "see" the hosted image like a NetInstall or something similar.


texts: List movies as text in iPad 2 native video application, no preview graphic

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I would like to see more of my video titles on the same screen using iPad 2's native "Videos" app.  But the video summary page wastes space by showing a rectangle preview of each video.  Is there a way to list iPad 2 movies in a table containing just title and other textual data about the movie?

The iPhone displays videos as a table of titles and other info, without any graphic of a video preview.  Can I get the table of titles on the iPad?


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I've had a work Exchange email account on my iPhone for over a year and recently wanted to sync the calendar as well.

I go into account settings on my iPhone, turn on Calendar syncing and opt to keep my local iPhone calendar. The calendar events (and the actual additional calendar) never appear, any ideas?

We use Outlook 2003 and Kerio Mailserver, however this setup works fine with my iPad (where I have the additional calendar).


texts: Need to install SL on Mavericks external drive

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I have a 2012 iMac 21" with the latest Mavericks.  I also have a need for a bootable Snow Leopard external drive so I can run Boot Camp with XP.  I purchased a Snow Leopard Retail install disk only to find the iMac refuses to boot from it and instead I get a blue screen with Black insert showing unix style error messages.  Sorry, but unable to capture these.

I have no doubt I am missing something here, but at a loss for what it is.


texts: How do I stop Apple from offering me iTunes 11 as a software download in OS X

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I don't want to disable Apple software update, I just want to prevent myself from accidentally overwriting my iTunes 10 with a working Party Shuffle/iTunes DJ with the new iTunes 11. I have iTunes 11 at work, where it doesn't really matter what I've got installed because I can't play music during the day, and I've tried to come up with some combination of smart playlists that effectively duplicates iTunes DJ... but it doesn't work. The tools aren't there.

So, how do I do it, how do I selectively block updates for iTunes 11?

Edit/Update: All the helpful answers here are no longer useful.

Don't do it. Later versions of OSX ship with a newer iTunes and rolling back to iTunes 10 breaks some aspects of Software Update. I ended up having to reinstall and use Migration Assistant to restore from Time Machine to get a fully working system again.

Update: With Catalina they replaced iTunes with Music which is a whole new ball of problems. This question does not apply to Music.


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I have an NTFS external disk,

And I followed a stupid tutorial, it told me to repair my disk then I can delete the 'un-deletable' files in the NTFS external disk.

However, When I done the repair-disk, the files on the disk were missing.

But it seems all the files are still existing on the disk,

But couldn't be seen on OSX and Windows 7 (I used the parallel to inspect the disk)

How could I recovery the data on the disk, thanks T_T


texts: Can't add Quicksilver keyboard shortcut trigger

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I'm setting up a new mac and I can't seem to set the keyboard shortcut to triggers I'm creating, as I've always been able to do before.

I'm able to create the trigger, but then when trying to edit it, after clicking the (i) and attempting to click either the (empty) shortcut box, or the "edit" button next to it, the box flashes "Set Keys" for an instant, but then it disappears and I'm not able to set the shortcut.

See here (you might not be able to see the flash of "Set Keys" because of the gif encoding, but it's there albeit very brief:


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our internal software based on Zend throws Date Exception Errors for Excel Files from Mac Users. Same File stored on Windows passes.

So someone told me that in both OpenOffice and Excel for Mac (some here use the 2011 version) you can switch to "Windows Date Format" somehow but i can not find anything about this on google nor can i find it in the settings.

Any idea?


texts: How do I stop Apache from starting up automatically?

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I'm running Mac OS X Lion 10.7.2 and Web Sharing is turned off in System Prefs.

I don't think this is specifically related to Lion.

Basically, I'm a frontend developer and there are always backend developers messing around in my terminal trying to make my life easier, but not explaining exactly what they're doing. So I suspect someone put something somewhere to explicitly command my Mac to start Apache automatically on startup. Here's all I know:

ps aux | grep apache

shows that Apache is running

launchctl list

doesn't show Apache afaik, but if it did I wouldn't know what it would be called anyway

sudo apachectl stop

returns launchctl: Error unloading: org.apache.httpd

sudo apachectl -k stop

returns httpd (no pid file) not running

Any advice would be appreciated. Thank you.


texts: How to change my phone number on Facetime and iMessage?

texts: So I have already changed my number on my Apple ID and on my Gmail, but when I log in with my Apple ID on Facetime and iMessage it still has my old phone number.I restarted my phone but still the same.I look forward to your answers and I would really but really appreciate if you can help me!


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I am using my iPad with windows 7. So..everytime I connect my ipad to my pc, itunes downloads applications that I bought on iPad. So..to what directory does the Itune download purchased application from my iPad?

and..is there an option to prevent iTune from downloading apps from my iPad to sync?


texts: Should I be worried if the newest Macbook Pro specs are lower than my older Macbook Pro spec?

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I just went to Apple's website (July 2019) to find the maximum processor spec of a 15-inch Macbook Pro to be: 2.4GHz 8‑core 9th‑generation Intel Core i9 processor, Turbo Boost up to 5.0GHz

However, my Macbook Pro (15-inch, 2018) has a processor spec of 2.9 GHz Intel Core i9. Update: After reading the answer where six cores is important, I found the more official spec from Apple: 2.9GHz 6-core Intel Core i9, Turbo Boost up to 4.8GHz

Why has the processor speed gone down? Does it have anything to do with the heat problems I heard about in 2018?


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I have just started playing around with text editing using Text Wrangler. I have real estate sales data cut and pasted from a web site on which I have searched and deleted unwanted data and cleaned up the tabs and spaces nicely. However each data record is still split over 2 lines. One line starts with a letter (persons name) and the next starts with an address (a digit). This pattern repeats all the way down the document. How do I say "if line break is followed on next line with a starting digit, replace line break with a tab"

I assume that would put each record on one line ?


texts: Trying to use a data-only SIM card in an iPhone 7 running iOS 10

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So, I recently got an Android tablet (Samsung Tab E 8) from my carrier (Virgin Mobile in Canada) and it came with a nano sim card on a $15/month 3GB data plan. I’d way rather use this in my iPhone 7 than my current plan, and I've been trying for days with no success. I've established thus far that I need to change the APN settings to do this, but my carrier has blocked my ability to access these natively in settings>cellular>cellular options. I also attempted third-party solutions like unlockit.co.nz, which simply didn't work. I've moved on now to using Apple Configurator 2 on my Mac to create a custom configuration profile to change my APN settings directly, but all the APN info for Virgin Canada I can find online is not successful, and neither is the info I can find on the Android tablet. I've seen plenty of questions here and elsewhere about using iPad SIMs in iPhones, but I can't find anything with Android devices. In short, does anyone here know a bit more about this process, and (1) is it even possible to use this previously Android sim with my iPhone, (2) if so, any idea how?

I’ll add that in Canada, Virgin Mobile uses Bell Mobility networks to service all of there customers, and retain no network of their own.

Virgin Mobile’s sole page on APN connections http://www.virginmobile.ca/en/members-lounge/getting-started/phone/sim.html
Site with more Virgin APN settings, some the same as above, some different https://apn-canada.gishan.net/settings/os_41_2_ios_10ios_10_internet_and_mms_settings_for_virgin_mobile.php


texts: Can I use 4G LTE (Cellular Data) and Airplay using Wifi w/ No Internet connection at the same time?

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I've looked for an answer to this but still haven't found one that works.

I want to use my iPhone as my primary source of internet. I am currently an ATT Uverse DSL customer, but I want to cut the cord and use our current DSL modem/router, the one and only Motorola NVG510 for it's wireless signal only so that my wife and I can airplay from our phones to our Apple TV.

Is it possible to use our Cell Data to stream a video and then airplay that streaming video to our Apple TV at the same time?

*Using the iPhone as a hotspot is not an option.


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When I drag and drop an email to the Desktop it always moves to the top right (or the first free space near the top right).  I want it to stay where I dropped it.

When I drag and drop a file from a Finder window to the desktop the file does drop where I place it.

This is with both Mojave and High Sierra and I do have "Sort by None" in the Desktop preferences.

How to I get Apple Mail to drop a message where I place it on the Desktop?


texts: My display went black suddenly while I was online banking. I tried to do a hard shutdown but had no control over my keyboard. After approximately one to one and half minutes of attempting shutdown, the screen with my banking info reappeared. Any ideas? Was I breached? I checked my firewall and it showed as turned on. I also checked to make sure all share settings were turned off and they were. What else can I do to protect my info. especially while online.


texts: Fundamental difference between OS X 10.6 Install Disc that come with New MacBooks one that comes in Retail Box-Pack

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What is fundamental difference between OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) Install Disc that come with New MacBooks to one that comes in Retail Box-Pack (either Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard OS only, or Mac Box Set)?

Reason behind asking this particular question is, I have a MacBook (Late 2009) which was running Snow Leopard. I have another Mac, 15" MacBook Pro(Mid 2010).

My White MacBook got corrupted, and not booting up at all. I need to re-install Snow Leopard on it, but I have lost OS X Install Disc that came with it.

I have Snow Leopard Install Disc that came with MacBook Pro, but I don't know if this particular disc is optimized for MacBook Pro only, or can work with any Mac desktop or notebook.

Generally MacBook Pro have 4 GBs of Memory, while White MacBook have 2 GB.
May be, install disc that came with MacBook Pro is optimized to run on 4 GB, and not on other Macs.


texts: Privacy policy for publishing app on iTunes Connect?

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I have an app that I wish to sell via iTunes Store. I do not have a website for the app. How can I add privacy policy URL on iTunes Connect?

Can I add a PDF file URL for privacy policy which is hosted on a 3rd party website?


texts: Contacts and text messages merging after 13.1 iPhone update

texts: My boyfriend has an android for his personal use and an iPhone for work. I updated my iPhone to 13.1 and now both of his phones are combined in my text messages. I hate it! How do I fix this problem?


texts: 2011 13inch MBP - Can I use 2 external displays - one with MINI DVI and one with Thunderbolt?

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I have 2011 13 inch MBP running OSX Mavericks (10.9.4). 2.3 GHz i5 processor, 8GB DDR3 Memory and Intel HD Graphics 3000 512 MB (VRAM) Graphics.

I want to know if I can run 2 external monitors alongside my MBP display. That would make a total of 3 Monitors - 2 external and the MBP monitor.

I have read about solutions like Matrox DualHead2Go but I would like to know if there is anyway I can use one display on the Mini DVI port and the other on the Thunderbolt port?

I would prefer a solution which didn't require me to combine 2 monitors into 1 screen like the Matrox does. The reason for this is: I would like to use fullscreen apps on all 3 monitories.


texts: Can the iPad 2 be used for everyday telephony?

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Is it possible to use the iPad 2 as a kind of oversized mobile phone for everyday use?

Using the 3G functionality available in some models?
Using VoIP through WLAN?
Using other means?
With or without additional gadgets like headsets

and I mean not just theoretically possible, but really feasible with decent audio quality and a pleasant experience even for long calls.

Does anybody have experience with this?


texts: Is there any free solution to remove unneeded architectures from Universal ppc/intel binaries?

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I am aware about an application that is able to remove unneeded architectures from Universal binaries - XSlimmer.

Still, I am looking for a free solution for this because I am not willing to pay for this kind of service.


texts: How can I save my carefully constructed printer presets before I have to re-install my printer?

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My Brother MFC-L5750DW is refusing to print documents (worked fine this morning), and after restarting, checking for latest software and drivers (currently updating) I suspect it's time to remove and re-add the printer via SysPrefs.

Over the last few months I have carefully saved up numerous printing presets which AFAIK will all be lost when I remove the printer.

I don't want that - what steps can I do to keep these presets - is there a .pref file somewhere?

Anything else I should do first?

OS 10.15.4
Mac Mini (Late 2012)
Printer Driver (and Firmware) updating as we speak (released yesterday)…

Thanks!


texts: iTunes isn't installed on both user accounts on PC

texts: How do I change where iTunes is installed to on Windows? For example, on my PC, iTunes shows up on my husband's user name but not mine.


texts: Which animations will work on Keynote export to PowerPoint?

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I have a Keynote (iWork 9) presentation and need to export it as PowerPoint. When doing it using File : Export : PPT the slides work properly, but most of the animations are broken.

Is there a animations compatibility list for exporting to PowerPoint? I found an old apple support article discussing the import, but nothing about export. Ok, I can assume some animation assignments from that article, but it is also marked as no longer updated.

Does anybody has a source for a full list? Or one based upon experience?


texts: iPhone 3Gs turns on and off itself when being charged

texts: My iPhone 3Gs turns off and on itself, again and again when I charge it, then it shows the battery sign but does not start. It all started happening after I updated my iOS. What should I do? How should I make sure that my data on my iPhone is not erased?


texts: Can Facebook and other iOS 5.0 apps be installed for iPhone 3G on iOS 3.1.2?

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I recently found my old iPhone 3G with iOS version 3.1.2. I'm planning to let my 4-year old nephew to use it. But then, I'm having a problem on installing apps like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, etc. because these apps only support iOS 5.0 or later.

How can I install the apps I mentioned?


texts: Bluetooth Magic Trackpad not recognized after sleep

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When I put my MacBook Pro (2011, 13") to sleep and wake it up again, the Magic Trackpad doesn't get recognized. I have to turn Bluetooth off and back on again to get the trackpad to work. It shows up in the Bluetooth menu at the top of the screen, but telling it to reconnect doesn't do the trick.

I have a USB keyboard, so I don't know if the same problem would be true of the keyboard.

Why might this be? Is there a way to have Bluetooth automatically restart when I wake the computer?

EDIT: I should mention that this has only happened since I upgraded from Snow Leopard to Lion last week.


texts: How do you change the behavior of the power button in Lion?

texts: On my Macbook Pro, whenever you press the power button it goes into sleep mode. How do I change this to do nothing?


texts: Why didn't my Macbook sleep (USB Keyboard/Mouse was connected, lid open)

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First off, let's begin with some research that I did before asking this question.

Now, in my situation, I was using my Macbook Pro (Mountain Lion) with an Apple USB keyboard connected to the computer. Also, a USB mouse (Logitech) was connected to the computer via a USB port on the keyboard. The computer was plugged into the adapter. I had to step away from my computer while using it (I left the lid open while I was away). Whatever I had to do actually took me away from my computer longer than I thought; I took a three hour nap. When I returned to my computer....it was neither in screen saver nor in display, much to my dismay because I had set the previously brightness to high. I certainly do not want to damage my screen by leaving it on for long periods of time and there could've been an extra risk from not going to sleep had the computer not been plugged into the adapter.

Hence, I would like to know what prevented my computer from going to sleep. Even if it went into screen saver or at least dimmed the brightness during those three hours, I would've been happy. My first diagnosis of the problem when I got back to the computer was to check my Power Settings:

Hence, my power settings would've already allowed my computer to sleep after > 15 minutes. This led me to believe that perhaps me having my keyboard and/or mouse connected to the computer prevented it from sleeping, but I found that to be far-fetched because I'm sure many people (especially in the workplace) leave their laptop, connected to a keyboard and/or mouse, for long periods of time. Certainly during those time the computer will be able to sleep displays.

The only other reason why my computer may have not slept was because of an open application running a process that disabled the computer from sleeping. These were the only applications that were open:

Chrome (there was a blog post draft open in one of my tabs)
Messages
Dash
Inkscape
XQuartz (because Inkscape is an X11 program)
Terminal (but no shells were active)
Google Drive

There were no file transfers in-progress, no movies or music being played. I am not sure how any of these applications could've prevented my computer from sleeping.

The final factor that I determine could have maybe (but very unlikely) played a factor was the way I positioned my laptop. IN order to provide myself with a more ergonomic workspace, I place my laptop on top of a shoebox on my desk in order to keep the screen near parallel to my straight eye sight.

Okay, this is all the diagnostic information that I can think of in order to help other out with debugging this issue. Thank you for all responses!


texts: iPhone 7 battery quickly discharges after using Philips dual USB car charger

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I drove a car for about 3 hours and during the ride my iPhone 7 was connected to the Philips dual USB car charger. All this time screen was on and also was using Waze app. In addition to this another phone was charging during the ride.

After this trip I noticed that my phone discharges very fast every time I charge it in classic way from home. Does it mean that my battery could been damaged because of the ride? Is there any options to solve this problem? The phone is year and a half old.


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For some reasons I could not install Boot Camp on my iMac.  I tried to defrag, reinstalled OS X, repair hard drive but nothing seems to be working. I kept getting error "The disk cannot be partitioned because some files cannot be moved".

I have VMware Fusion but it seems to be very slow to what I want to do on my computer. So my only option is Boot Camp (unless there are other software like Boot Camp out there).

Any suggestion I should do?


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Data

Brand new Macbook Pro 13.3" running macOS Sierra
New install of Chrome
No Touch Bar settings ever modified

Problem

Initially, Chrome would show custom touch bar icons. Like full-colour previews of each tab to switch between them. WhatsApp Web would have text auto prediction.

Suddenly, this isn't showing at all. In fact, in Chrome, there are no icons in the Touch Bar whatsoever, just the Escape key.

Question

Since then, I've tried playing with the Touch Bar settings and reinstalling Chrome, but nothing's made a difference. Any ideas how to get it back again?


texts: Trying to login to Pokémon Go with Google and I get a Error 403 code?

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I set up a Pokémon Go account for my 5 year old on an old iPhone and we've been using a hotspot so he can play. I also made him his own kids email account and Google account. A few days ago the app randomly logged him out and we can't get back into his account.
At first it said that I wasn't allowed to login because I don't have permission since it's a kids account. But now it's just giving me an error message. I'm at a loss, how can we get back in?


texts: How to unfreeze terminal when SSH connection dies?

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I"m using Mac 10.9.5 with bash shell.  Occasionally when I ssh into another machine and then the connection dies (e.g. the Internet goes down or I move to a new location), the terminal window with the open SSH session is frozen and the only way I seem to be able to move ahead is to close it and start a new session.

Is there some way to configure things such that if the SSH session's connection dies, I will be returned back to my normal bash shell, as it was before I executed my SSH command?


texts: How to close a window without the application quitting?

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The OS X menu allows exit, minimize and maximize:

  I know the following shortcuts:

Exit:      command+Q
Minimize:  command + M
Maximize:  ?

When I use command+Q to exit the behavior differs from clicking the red button.  I want the UI to close and the application to remain running.  Instead, the application exits entirely.

How can I accomplish this with a keyboard shortcut?


texts: How do I install a Bluetooth mouse with Boot Camp (Win10)?

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I'm trying to add a Bluetooth mouse to my Apple Macbook using Win10 on a BootCamp partition.

--I purchased the Logitech M557 Bluetooth mouse as it seemed to have a great record for robust installation.
--Mouse works great on my MacBook laptop with MacOS.
--Mouse works great on my HP desktop machine loaded with Windows 10.

I can NOT get the bluetooth system to successfully mate with the same mouse with Bootcamp / Windows 10 on the very same Macbook laptop.  I suspect that I need custom Windows bluetooth drivers for Bootcamp (which I presume should come from the Apple BootCamp folks...)

Via windows device manager, I've removed, added, updated drivers numerous times, all to no avail.  Now, the add bluetooth system sees the mouse, attempts to add it, but fails consistently at:

Bluetooth Mouse M557. Try connecting your device again.

I have no idea what is generating that code, but no matter what I try I get no where.

Anybody been here before?  Are there special Bluetooth drivers for Bootcamp / Windows?

Current driver info (as displayed in Bootcamp Windows)

Device Manager shows four BlueTooth Devices:
Bluetooth Radio
Microsoft Bluetooth Enumerator
Microsoft Bluetooth LE Enumerator
Microsoft Bluetooth Protocol Support Driver

Bluetooth Radio:
    Device Type: Bluetooth
    Manufacturer: Microsoft
    Location: Location 4097 (Serial HCI Bus - Bluetooth Function)
    Driver Files:   C:\WINDOWS\system32\DRIVERS\BthMini.SYS     File Version: 10.0.16299.15
            C:\WINDOWS\system32\DRIVERS\bthport.sys     File Version: 10.0.16299.15
Microsoft Bluetooth Enumerator
    Device Type: Bluetooth
    Manufacturer: Microsoft
    Location: Location 4097
    Driver Files:   C:\WINDOWS\system32\DRIVERS\bthenum.sys     File Version: 10.0.16299.15
Microsoft Bluetooth LE Enumerator
    Device Type: Bluetooth
    Manufacturer: Microsoft
    Location: Location 4097
    Driver Files:   C:\WINDOWS\system32\DRIVERS\Microsoft.Bluetooth.Legacy.LEEnumerator.sys     File Version: 10.0.16299.15
Microsoft Bluetooth Protocol Support Driver:
    Device Type: Bluetooth
    Manufacturer: Microsoft
    Location: Location 4097
    Driver Files:   C:\WINDOWS\system32\DRIVERS\bthl2cap.sys        File Version: 10.0.16299.15


texts: Which VPN Server Hardware is Best for Accessing from Mac Clients

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We are an all-Mac shop (well, actually, a mostly-Mac shop - we have some Linux servers running behind the scenes). We do web applications development and our files and source code is all hosted in-house.

Our Mac-toting consultants would like to connect to the office to access files (AFP to shared volumes), update source code (subversion over HTTP/HTTPS), and demo software (HTTP through a browser) when they are on a client site.

Traffic will be light. We are a small company (and cheap), and do not expect more than 3 or 4 people to be connected concurrently. However, we need the solution to be reliable. Many of our clients and consultants are abroad.

Which VPN Server Hardware is best for this scenario? I would prefer something that uses standard protocols - I understand that L2TP, PPTP and Cisco IPsec are built in to the OS - so something that uses these protocols will be ideal. (I have seen quite a few VPN solutions that have horrible, buggy, and badly supported client software). An added bonus would be support for iPads as well.

Naturally, I would like it to not be too expensive (I told you we are cheap), though what I really mean is that I am far more willing to pay for reliability and built-in support, than for features I do not need.


texts: I have a Lion machine and a Mountain Lion machine. Software Update has offered to upgrade Safari from 6.0.5 to 6.1 on both machines. Is this upgrade worth it? Any issues or glitches? I didn't find any comments on this upgrade on the web.


texts: Problems with resetting and old MBP "An error occurred during installation..."

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I'm trying to factory reset an old MBP, not sure how old but somewhere between 2009-2012. Weird things happen when I try to reset it though. I have tried twice and I get this error after download of the image is done, in other words, when the installation is about to start.

I have deleted and repartitioned the HDD, and there are no other partitions except "disk2" - and a partition under it called "Mac OS X Base System Image". I have tried correcting the date in terminal, as it was a couple of hours off. This didn't work. The authentication in the beginning of the download goes through just fine. I have tried searcing for similar issues, but people seem to get errors before the download starts, which the date-fix ultimately corrected.

Tldr; Download of OSX-image finishes, weird error occurs when installation is about to start, then exits, undoing everything.

Any suggestions on what to do next?

The text reads: "An Error occurred while preparing the installation.  Try running this application again."


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I've configured OSX to force all Finder windows to open in tabs - because this really takes care of all the clutter.

The thing is, there's a shortcut to close all Finder windows, CMD+OPTION+W - and this will conveniently exit and quit all Finder windows completely.

But this does not work for a window with multiple tabs. I've searched Stackexchange and Apple Forums high and dry, and I cannot find a solution. I'd be interested in ANY WAY to achieve this, an AppleScript, a keyboard shortcut...EVEN a third-party app.

Any help would be appreciated, thanks.


texts: Are tags retained on Time Machine backups and in Trash?

texts: When viewing by tags in Finder I get no results from Time Machine or Trash.  Are tags not retained by Time Machine or Trash?  What about external disks?  Spotlight is configured to index everything, no exceptions.


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My iPhone 5 cannot make any backups anymore. My last backup is from June 2015. I have checked if:

I have enough space in iCloud (about 3 GB).
The size of the backup (approximately 790 MB).
Removed many photos from my iPhone.

Followed these steps:

Turn off iCloud drive, reboot, and turn on safety backup again (no success).
Turn off iCloud, reboot, and turn on iCloud again (no success).
Sign out of iCloud. turn off phone, turn on again and login to iCloud again (no success).
Removed my latest backup in iCloud (which turned of safety backup) and turned on safety backup. Again with no success.

And what makes it even worse is that the iPhone reports no error message telling me why my backup failed.

How can I make this work again?

Links I already read and used:

iPhone 5 backup to iCloud not starting

Can't backup iphone to icloud

In Dutch: Kan geen reservekopie meer maken in iCloud met iPhone 5


texts: macOS Sierra: Why do I have to enter the password for my private key?

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I recently upgraded my computer to macOS Sierra. Everything went fine, but somewhere along the way something got changed (probably something I did) and now every time I try to ssh into another machine the terminal prompts me to enter my password. If I type the password and enter it the ssh session works as normal. But why do I have to enter my password at all? What can I do to fix this?

Side note: I have tried changing the file permissions to no avail. They are currently 644 like the public key.


texts: Bookmarks in Safari: Type bookmark name to go to it

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I have a bunch of bookmarks named things like "CNC" "FB" and "HQ" and the like.

I'm a bit of a keyboard junkie. I want to be able to access these quickly, by typing CMD-L, and then such initials into Safari's address bar.

Sometimes it works, the initials make it into the Top Hits

This allows me to down cursor and press return.

But, most of the time the google search comes up first. That's so much pressing I might as well have just used the pointer.

I saw Quickly Access Safari 6 Bookmark & History Address Bar Suggestions with the Keyboard? but I don't want to disable the suggested search, just down prioritize it under my bookmarks, which surely should be a better hit than random stuff on the internet.

So, in a nutshell - can I customize Safari to have have "Bookmarks and History" to appear as the first (top result) section to replace Top Hits?


texts: Is there something like "Mac OS X manager" to control all Macs in one network?

texts: It's needed to control from a Mac (turn off, install software, etc.), all another Macs connected to the same network (in the same classroom). Is there a software for it?


texts: How can I avoid accidental right-clicks now that the Macbook trackpad is so big?

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I just bought a summer-2018 Macbook Pro, with a very big trackpad.

The result is that I frequently experience accidental right-clicks when I click but one of my other fingers is touching the trackpad.

Is there a way to change the area where it is possible to double click or do something else to avoid this hyper-sensitivity?

It is especially a problem in Photoshop where I frequently get secondary menus when I just want to move something.


texts: "Unable to write to the last block of the device" After Catalina OS X®

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I tried installing Catalina 10.15 from an external USB drive created on windows, because from Apple store a message "Could not contact server" appeared.

The setup was going great and at the end the iMac Late 2013 8GB RAM i5 core booted but there was only an folder icon with a question mark inside. There was no way to boot Catalina. So I instaled Mavericks on an external drive which came with the iMac when it was bought.

It all went great until I tried to update it and "Missing firmware partition" came. (Tried in both Internet Recovery and Recovery HD)
I tried erasing the internal drive (drive0) in all possible formats and partition maps as well as secure options, tried to create an image but it always says that it is unable to read last block of device.

So I went through all solutions available, tried all given fsck commands trying to erase it, sometimes I/O input/output error showed and there is no partition map as well. Before I tried to install Catalina I remember I erased the disk in HFS+ format.

TestDisk analyse was tried and it couldn't find anything.

Somehow I succeed installing El Capitan and then Sierra on the external drive. After that missing firmware appeared and I searched through apple updates EFI SMC etc. but there was no update that could be installed.

VMware Fusion virtual machine was created, High Siera --> Mojave---> and it was cloned to main external drive. Everything went great but in every OSX Disk utility the internal drive couldnt be formated and it is shown uninitialized. Tried terminal commands, different disk format and recovery software, OSXFUSE, even updated bash to 5.0. nothing worked.

Installed new virtual machine OSX Catalina and cloned to USB but now it restarts at random times and I'm having troubles cloning it to main external drive.

Do you think the Internal Drive is dead, might it be just the cable, should I try Wine emulator and try Windows software to format the hard drive? I think if I try to format it in Windows it will all work great but I couldn't do it with win VM or bootcamp which requires to be installed on internal drive.
I have no time machine backup.

Thank you,

Best Wishes and Catalina sucks.


texts: How can I make songs I delete in iTunes also delete songs of synced devices?

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I have an iPod Touch 5 and and an iPad 1 (don't ask), and I have them both set to sync entire library with iTunes. My library mainly consists of mp3 files stored on my computer, with a few iTunes purchases here or there.

I like to keep a small library of songs on my devices, but I'm having trouble deleting songs from iTunes, the iPod and the iPad all in one action. If I delete songs off iTunes directly, they stay on the iPodPad until I delete them manually. If I delete songs off only the iPodPad, iTunes puts them back on next time I sync. Is there a way for me to just do this in one action?

Also to throw a spanner in the works, a lot of my library songs are no longer on my computer (broken hard drive I haven't gotten around to fixing), but are on my devices. So I can't just simply unsync and then resync the entire music library, since iTunes won't be able to put the broken-hard-drive songs back on the devices.

(This is kinda irrelevant anyway, I don't think I should have to resync the entire library just to delete a few songs)

Looked around can't seem to find an answer. This thread is similar, coincidentally no answer too... https://discussions.apple.com/thread/6122231

TL;DR: How to delete some songs off my entirely-synced iTunes, iPod and iPad without doing them all separately?


texts: What photos are these and where do they come from - I haven't added any

texts: Every time I plug in my iPhone and sync, I get the message "Syncing and Copying Photos" even though I haven't added any photos to sync. Any idea where they might be coming from?


texts: The full size of the Fusion Drive is not available for repartitioning

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Any help would be greatly appreciated, I've found so many similar questions but none that match mine exactly.

I created a partion on my 2013 iMac in order to test out the Yosemite upgrade. I decided to proceed with the upgrade from current Mavericks 10.9.5 but now I'm unable to reclaim the space dedicated to the Yosemite install, 1.5TB (half of my HD).

System info

GRAPHIC NVIDIAGeForceGTX775M 2GB GDDR5

PROCESSOR  3.5GHz Quad‑core Intel Core i7

MEMORY 32GB 1600MHz DDR3 SDRAM‑4X8GB

HARD DRIVE  3TB Fusion Drive

I was able to delete the partion, but the space allotted to it in disk utility is greyed out, and there is no drag to resize option for my remaining HD.

Ive tried in safe mode and recovery mode.
I've verified and repaired all disk permissions to no avail.

1) Has anyone successfully reclaimed entire HD after partitioning a Fusion drive

2) Based on the output below can someone help me identify the partition I created by either a UUID or Identifier? I've found many instructions online but dont know which disk/volume I should be attempting to resize/delete.


texts: How to stream Spotify from iPad to receiver?

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I would like to get some answers on how I can stream music from Spotify on my iPad to my home-cinema receiver.

Exactly what hardware do I need to invest in?


texts: How to lock the mouse to one monitor in a multi-display setup. (On a Mac)

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I've been looking for a way to lock the mouse to one monitor in a dual, or more, display setup.

[Edit:] The application that I am programming will be run in full-screen mode only, at all times. This means that it doesn't matter whether the mouse restriction is to the game window itself, or just on one monitor regardless of the applications being run. [ /Edit]

I'm programming in flash, and I know that until 11.2 comes out, it can't be done in flash, so I have to find some way to do it on the Mac OS itself, 3rd party software, or through hardware.

I'm looking for any and all suggestions on how to accomplish this by ANY means, or alternative solutions to Flash if it can't be done.

I've found 3rd party software on Windows 7 that allows me to do this, however I could not find one with Mac support.

Background info:

Using flash with Adobe AIR
Application going on a Mac Mini
Application is a game, one monitor shows the game, the other monitor has a separate application running
The two apps are connected through a localConnection object.
Using AS3

Question Summary:

How can I lock the mouse to one monitor in a multi-monitor display on OSX? Any and all suggestions are welcome.


texts: Is it possible to connect a Macbook Air 2013 to Macbook Pro 2009 through a thunderbolt cable in order to transform the latter to a second Display ?


texts: Why can't I delete messages from my IMAP account on my iPhone 4?

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I have an iPhone 4 and have set up mail with an IMAP account. When I delete a message a popup says Unable to move message - The message could not be moved to the trash folder.

How can I fix this?


texts: I go to users and groups, I put in my admin password, I click on the user, the user is a standard user, I press the - button, and then nothing happens. I can't do anything from that point other than leave the Users and Groups box and go back to System Preferences. It just sort of freezes. I have rebooted, nothing is working.


texts: Recovering SSD after Ubuntu live USB corrupted partition table?

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I'm running a mid-2012 MBP with a WD green SSD inside. I needed to install Ubuntu for university so I tried to do so via a live USB. While doing the installation I accidentally clicked on the option to erase my entire drive and install Ubuntu but I pressed back as soon as I saw the partitioning wizard show up. So it shouldn't have done anything, right?

I then clicked on the other option which allows you to install on a specific partition, but noticed that I had a bunch of these Linux partitions that I haven't made. After rebooting I found that I can no longer boot to macOS. After some googling I found someone else with the same problem.. They claim that the Ubuntu installer:

  overwrote a whopping 2MB of the APFS container without confirmations or warnings

Their solution was to format and reinstall macOS. I unfortunately have some important notes on there that I hadn't backed up, is there any chance that they could be recovered?

I already tried using disk utility in internet recovery, but it just tells me that in order to repair the drive I need to "run disk utility in recovery", which is nonsense as I'm already in recovery. After some more googling I found that using diskutil through command line could work, but after running diskutil verifyDisk /dev/disk1 and diskutil verifyDisk /dev/disk1 I get the error message:

  Error: -69767 This disk doesn't contain an EFI system partition; if you want to start up your computer with this disk or include it in a RAID set, back up your data and partition this disk

Which leads me to believe that I need to remake my EFI partition? This is what diskutil list shows:

It goes all the way up to disk19 with tiny <5mb partitions.


texts: Lot of files got deleted in my external hard drive

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I attached my external hard drive to my mac book air. And due to some issue, I had to manually power off my mac and restart. After the restart, I realized that many files in my external hard drive got deleted and mac created two folders inside the hard drive. .Trashes & .mediaexplorer. There is no content in the .Trashes folder. .mediaexplorer contains following directories.
drwxr-xr-x  1 userid  staff   4.0K Aug 29 21:53 ..
drwxr-xr-x  1 userid  staff   240K Aug 29 21:52 cover
drwxr-xr-x  1 userid  staff     0B Jan  1  2018 .
-rwxr-xr-x  1 userid  staff    32K Jan  1  2018 media-shm
-rwxr-xr-x  1 userid  staff   512K Jan  1  2018 media-wal
-rwxr-xr-x  1 userid  staff   1.3M Jan  1  2018 media

Inside .mediaexplorer/cover/ all the deleted videos were present in the form of directories.
-rwxr-xr-x  1 userid  staff   4.4K Aug 14 19:51 /Volumes/HARD_DRIVE_NAME/.mediaexplorer/cover/VIDEO_NAME_mkv/02_21_42.jpg

Is there any way to recover all these videos? Thanks in advance.


texts: With the release of iOS 11.2.1 an essential feature of my Apple TV was removed

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I have an 3rd generation Apple TV which I use as a home hub. After remote access was disabled from Apple because of CVE-2017-13903 and turned on again with iOS 11.2.1 it stopped working remotely for shared users with the Apple TV.

Here are the changes to HT207057:

This is the version of  Dec 15, 2017.

And here the version of Mar 27, 2017 as it looked on Sep 27, 2017:

I am a bit unhappy about this because I don't really use the Apple TV for watching, so it would be a bit overkill to buy a 4K one. What could I do?


texts: Is there a way to add a login item in the terminal without triggering a permission dialog on macOS 10.14 and above?

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For context: I am working on a script whose purpose is to install a specific application and also add it to the user's login items. This program may need to be deployed to a large number of systems so it is desirable that it be installed without any user input on the target machine.
Currently this is being done via a command along the lines of osascript -e 'tell application "System Events" to make login item ...' which works fine in versions of macOS prior to 10.14. However, in more recent versions executing this command triggers a dialog requesting Automation (AppleEvents) permissions, which prevents the install from running unattended.
Is there either an alternate way to add a login item that does not require additional permissions, or else a way to grant the required permission without user input?


texts: Folder selection in Finder's column view

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I'm running 10.8.4 on a MBA, and I've run into a little inconsistency in Finder's behavior. I have two accounts on my machine, an admin account and a user account. In both accounts I have Finder set to open new windows in the home directory in column view.

If I open a new window and try to select a subfolder with a keystroke (eg. D for Desktop), it only works in the admin account. In the user account it seems to be interacting with the home directory's enclosing folder instead of its subfolders. So if I type S it selects /Users/Shared rather than /Users/user/Spoon.

I know it's a small thing, but it messes with my workflow, and I'd like to know why the inconsistency. Any ideas?

Update: I tracked down the cause, with a little help. Someone recommended I look at System Prefs > Keyboard > Keyboard Shortcuts. I did, and noticed the Full Keyboard Access radio button at the bottom of that page, where you choose whether the Tab button cycles through all controls, or just Text boxes and lists. I remembered that I'd set it to "all controls" in the standard user account, but not in the admin account. Sure enough, changing it back to the default "Text boxes and lists only" fixed the behavior.


texts: How to save contacts in iPhone so it can be used for transferring it to my HTC Desire?

texts: I want to transfer my contact from iPhone to HTC Desire so is there any way to do it. As I have more than 200 contacts in Contact list in iPhone and I don't want to enter it manually.


texts: Cannot sync iPhone contacts with Facebook [iOS 12]

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The title is self-explanatory. All recent online tutorials (like this one) tell me to go to Settings -> Facebook -> Update All Contacts, but this option simply doesn't show up for me. Actually the whole section "allow these apps to use your account" doesn't show up.

Has anybody encountered similar problems and managed to circumvent them?


texts: Set Specific Podcasts to Show as TV Shows in iTunes, using AppleScript

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I'm using on online TV recorder to record TV shows. Those recordings are downloaded as a podcast to iTunes. My following Applescript should just grab those podcasts, update some info fields and finally mark them as "TV show" to have them show up under "TV Shows" in iTunes.

It works very well, only the part where I want to set the video kind to TV show doesn't seem to work.

set video kind of aTrack to TV show

I also had a look at this Doug's script that does something similar and I can't find any difference.

Here is my full script:

on matchRegExp(regex, txt, |caseSensitive?|)
    if |caseSensitive?| then
        set ci to "i"
    else
        set ci to ""
    end if
    set theRubyOneLiner to quote & "s = '" & txt & "'; s =~ /" & regex & "/" & ci & "; puts Regexp.last_match.to_a" & quote
    set theCommand to "ruby -e " & theRubyOneLiner
    set theMatchData to do shell script theCommand
    set tid to AppleScript's text item delimiters
    set AppleScript's text item delimiters to character id 13 -- new line
    set theMatchData to the text items of theMatchData
    set AppleScript's text item delimiters to tid
    theMatchData
end matchRegExp

tell application "iTunes"
    set myLib to library playlist 1

    set pods to every track of library playlist 1 whose genre is "Podcast" and album is "Online Videorecorder"

    set ofi to fixed indexing
    set fixed indexing to true

    with timeout of 3000 seconds
        repeat with aTrack in pods
            set desc to long description of aTrack

            try
                set episode to last item of my matchRegExp("(Folge|Episode) (\\d+)", desc, true)
                set season to last item of my matchRegExp("(Staffel|Season) (\\d+)", desc, true)
            end try

            set series to name of aTrack
            set title to description of aTrack
            set cat to category of aTrack

            try
                set video kind of aTrack to TV show
            on error m
                log m
            end try

            set episode number of aTrack to episode
            set season number of aTrack to season
            set show of aTrack to series
            set episode ID of aTrack to title
            set description of aTrack to desc
        end repeat
    end timeout
    set fixed indexing to ofi

end tell


texts: Connecting wireless keyboard to non Apple monitor

texts: I have just purchased a MacBook Air. I have a non Apple monitor that I wish to use. I have connected the Air and the monitor correctly. My Apple keyboard ( had a previous owner) will not work with the monitor or the Air? How do I get these to work?


texts: How can I respond in a definitive fashion to an app pestering me about a permission?

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Why?

In that case, I think of Steam, which keeps requesting access to the Accessibility Panel. I don't think I want that, because Steam is not an Accessibility tool.

What?

I'd like to say "No, I don't want to give you access, stop asking".

NOTE: Buscar's answer clearly explains why it needs to be accessed, which makes the problem a non-problem.


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Actually i am learning to write with the Dvorak Keyboard. In the system configuration for Language and Text i have three Dvorak options (Left, Right and Querty) but none for spanish (with 'ñ' and accents).

There are a way to configure Dvorak for spanish ?


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I ordered an iPhone 6. I've used an Android phone for the last few years. What specific steps to I need to take to:

Keep my location from being disclosed
Disable ALL automated uploading or backing up of my info to the cloud
Prevent automated updating of things


texts: Bash Autocomplete Script with El Capitan

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About a week ago, I added the following to the end of my .bash_profile script so set up tab completion for man pages:

function _man_pages()
{
    local cur opts prev
    COMPREPLY=()
    cur="${COMP_WORDS[COMP_CWORD]}"      #Get the current word
    prev="${COMP_WORDS[COMP_CWORD - 1]}" #Get the previous word
    opts=""
    if [ "$prev" = "man" ];
    then
        #We didn't use a section number
        #This lovely regex converts from the file path to the name of the page
        opts=$(find -E "/usr/share/man" -regex ".*/man[1-9n]/(${cur}.*)\.[1-9n].*$" | sed -E 's/^.*\/(.*)\.[1-9n].*$/\1/')
    else
        #We entered a section number
        opts=$(find -E "/usr/share/man" -regex ".*/man${prev}/(${cur}.*)\.${prev}.*$" | sed -E "s/^.*\/(.*)\.${prev}.*$/\1/")
    fi

    COMPREPLY=( $(compgen -W "${opts}" -- ${cur}) )
    return 0
}

complete -F _man_pages man

However, when I updated to El Capitan this morning, it stopped working. I've successfully run the regex portion of the script in my terminal itself, so I'm confident that they are still correct. Can anyone explain why this is happening, and/or how to fix it?

Thanks!

UPDATE: After doing a little more digging, I've discovered that it still works for most man pages, just not man 2 or man 3. After looking in the correct folder it was before, the folders man2 and man3 are gone. I'm still able to do "man pthread_create" and get results, so those folders must have gone somewhere. I'll be back when I know more.


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I used the Unsubscribe plugin for Mail.app, but it is now a part of TrustedID (http://www.unsubscribe.com/), so now I can't use it anymore and want to remove it.

When I want to uninstall the plugin from inside the Mail.app preferences, nothing happens when I hit the button Remove Unsubscribe Plugin. There's nothing in /Users/MyUserName/Library/Mail/Bundles that looks like the Unsubscribe plugin.

How to uninstall deprecated Unsubscribe plugin from Mail.app?


texts: iPhone 11: Subtle clicking sound and vibrational feedback on performing several actions

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A few days ago I noticed a silent click-sound and a subtle vibrational impulse when performing several actions on my iPhone 11.

Examples of such actions are:

activating buttons on the control center like bluetooth or flight
mode.
all two-finger zooming gestures in fotos
tapping the flashlight or camera on lock-screen (without actually activating it)
performing the upwards 'home-swipe'

I am quite sure this behaviour wasn't there until a few days ago. I am running the latest version of iOS 13. System Haptics is turned off.

I tried resetting the phone and even did a device firmware update but the clicking is still there.

Has anyone else observed this behaviour with their iPhone 11 and might even have a solution?