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I've been using the App Store through my Apple ID for a while and everything has been normal.

Now, all of the sudden, when I want to update an app or to download a free app after putting my password a pop-up message appears entitled:

  Verification Required

asking me to verify my payment info. In my phone's account settings, the payment information is set to NONE since ever, still there's a red message up saying:

  You must verify your payment info before you make purchases.

The thing is, I don't have any payment info, that is why I only use free apps. What to do?


texts:
The files with extension .tex on my Mac (running Mojave) exhibit some strange behavior:

(a) When I right-click such a file and select "Open With", the first choice is the "TeXshop" app.
(b) However, when I double-click the file, the file opens in the "Texpad" app.
(c) The file icon is a "TeXshop" icon.
(d) The "Get Info" panel, under "Open With..." gives "Texpad".

Any suggestions on how this can be fixed?


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I'm heading out internationally and do not want to drum up a large phone bill by taking calls while I'm away, yet I would like to have the phone to use over WiFi - FaceTime, iMessage etc.

Is there a way to turn off the phone function while keeping the ability to receive SMS messages?


texts: Appstore error 500 (com.apple.commerce.client)

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I've just formatted my SSD and reinstalled MacOS Mojave 10.14.3 (18D109). So this is a clean install. The first thing I did was try to install Keynote, Pages and Numbers.

The problem is: I cannot connect to my apple account through appstore and cannot install any app (I urgently need Keynote).

I found several people online with similar problems and followed some steps but all of them unsuccessful

I tried to sign out of icloud, restart, sign in

I tried to restart the laptop several times

I tried to clean some folder in the Library

I tried to remove the app-store configuration files

I tried to sign in on itunes and sign out

The current behavior is: I open the app store and see that I am not signed in on the lower left corner. Then I either try to sign in inputting my email and password but failing silently, or I try to install an app while signed out and it asks me to sign in. After inputting username and password the error 500 (com.apple.commerce.client) appears.

If I incorrectly insert my password, I expectedly see a message saying that the password is incorrect.

I would love to understand what the problem is and how to solve it.

Please help me!


texts: How to get different icon and layouts on different Spaces?

texts:
I love swiping between different Spaces. But, for as long as I can remember, I have wished that those Spaces would truly be different desktops underneath, with different icons.
It's kind of weird because different Spaces can have different wallpapers, but the icons remain the same.
I seem to recall a third-party app for this, circa 2004. It might have been iDesktop, but it seems a bit old now.
So (question), is there a good way or a third-party app to enable truly different desktops with different icon layouts underneath Spaces?
Thanks.


texts: what is the purpose of mds folder on a Mac

texts: I found out that contents of mds folder located at /private/var/folders/zg/jjtx0_k94pdc5p5q6gcvf4900000gn/C/mds gets deleted and back created quite often. I wonder, that is the purpose of this folder and it's content? It contains mdsDirectory.db, mdsObject.db and mds.lock files.


texts: Unexpected Finder message "This item will be deleted immediately"

texts:
I made a second user account (test, admin privs) and set the permissions of my second hard drive so that this account could read & write. The only thing I changed was the first line and then applying the setting to all enclosed folders.

Strange things happen.

My own user account is not allowed to write to the disk anymore. As I only added permissions, this seems nonsensical to me.
When attempting to move an item from that disk to the trash from my own account (not the test account), Finder gives me the message

  This item will be deleted immediately.

Which I had never seen before.

Can somebody explain this?


texts: MacBook Pro Early 2008 Fan running while in standby

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The fans in my MBP (MacBook Pro4,1) continue to run after closing the MacBook.
This is not because of the CPU running under high power, it's also happening when the CPU has done nothing for about 15 minutes. The fan runs either for about 5 hours or as long as it takes the MacBooks battery to get empty.

Info:
- I'm running 10.9.2
- I have this problem for about 2 years
- I ran an Apple Hardware Test
- I resetted the SMC and the PRam
- I reinstalled the MacBook with the original reinstall DVD (OS X 10.5.2) and updated version-by-version (10.6 -> 10.7 -> 10.8 -> 10.9)
- I replaced the battery
And it's getting worse with the time (until now, it stopped after about 5-10 minutes, but since last December, it doesn't stop anymore)

Note: Some people might say this is a duplicate of this question, but it's different, as in my case, the fans won't stop.


texts: How to get siri to "Play my radio station"?

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In general, when using Apple Music my most common option is to play "my radio station". I.e., this is a radio station made by Apple Music that incorporates my preferences and listening habits.
Traditionally, I would get siri to play this stations by saying: "Hey Siri. Play my radio station"
However, as of May 2021, this request only plays songs from my library. E.g., Siri responds with something like: "Now playing all songs in your library"
While I can go into my phone and click the radio station in Apple Music, I'd like to be able to issue a Siri command to play the station.
What is the current siri command for playing "my radio station"?


texts: Moving ipad pictures to a different computer

texts:
I previously have synced an old ipad with my computer. Then I gave my ipad to my dad to use.

Now, it appears, that ipad somehow keeps track of the pictures I sync'ed with my computer differently from the pictures my dad has currently taken. For example, when I open up this ipad on my dad's computer, the bottom of the iTunes shows 5G of "pictures", and 17.20G of "others", presumably the materials sync'ed with my old computer.

If I check the "Storage" of the ipad, it lists a few items, and one item being "synchronized from itunes".

if I click on "Pictures" tab, and I check "sync pictures", the itunes popup says something like "this ipad is already synchronized with another itunes database on "[MY OLD PC]". do you want to wipe out and sync the ipad with this itunes?"

I don't want to do that. I want to sync the entire ipad to my dad's computer, including the pictures I have taken before giving the ipad to my dad.

I frankly don't remember which computer I used to sync with this ipad long ago. I guess my question is, how do I sync ALL pictures on this ipad to a brand new computer?


texts: Run the Single User mode with rEFIt installed

texts:
I recently installed rEFIt boot for a small linux partition. I then tried to boot up into single user mode by hitting {COMMAND + S}, but rEFIts own terminal came up.

Is there any way to still get into single user mode while rEFIt boot is installed?


texts: How can I set a default contact for a phone number on iPhone?

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In my contact list, I have a number of contacts that share the same work phone number (synchronized from exchange server), because they are work colleagues. For instance:

James (Employee #1)
George (Employee #2)
Sarah (Employee #3)

the work name

I keep the home phone number for each contact so that when I want to speak to one of them, I can choose the contact and then where to try to reach them. I keep a separate contact for the work so that I can call there when I don't want to talk to anybody specific.

When anybody calls from the work  phone, I want the phone to display the work contact, not anybody in particular. Is there any way to specify that a phone number has a default contact?

Thanks!


texts: I'm trying to figure out what is using all of the memory in my Macbook Pro running OS X Lion. I have 8 GB of memory total.  When I quit all active programs except Finder and Activity Monitor, then run a memory cleanup (FreeMemory) it shows about 5 GB of Free Memory, 1 GB of Active Memory, and 1.5 of Wired memory.  Support docs say Wired Memory is full of stuff that "can't be moved to disk".  What is taking up all of that memory?  Is it the menubar processes?  I have mozy, last.fm, dropbox, and growl running in the menubar but they all appear in Activity Manager and don't appear to be using a significant amount of memory. I also run Parallels but it is shut down completely so I thought all of it's stuff should be written to disk.  Is it just Mac OS X using a reserved chunk of memory and labeling it "Wired"?


texts: Automatically make QuickTime fullscreen when opened

texts: Question above. I often use QuickTime for watching video tutorials, but I want to be able to start it in fullscreen automatically.


texts: Notification when user opens a certain folder in Finder

texts: I am really in need of a way to find out what window Finder is looking at so for example, if the user opens a certain folder I can get a notification. Is this possible?


texts: Ribbon tabs in Office/Word/Excel 2011 stop working

texts:
Occasionally some of the ribbon tabs in Office/Word/Excel 2011 become unclickable so you can't choose that tab. It's usually the ones on the left in my experience like Home or "Header and Footer". The only way around it I have found to date is to close and reopen the document.

I'm putting this question up so I can share an answer I just found after months of searching (probably was missing the right search terms). Hopefully we can also track if/when Microsoft fixes it.


texts:
is there a tested way to connect the Micro-DVI port of the Apple Macbook Air 1,1 (Early 2008) to the HDMI input of an HD TV?

The only way I know of, is Micro-DVI -> DVI-D (Apple adapter) and then DVI-D -> HDMI (cable), with a separate audio cable: has anyone tested this? are there suggested cable versions or brands?


texts: Permanently grant right to control another app to Apple Script App

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I am using an AppleScript app (i.e., an AppleScript exported to an OS X app) to copy the message ID of an e-mail currently selected in Mail.app to the clipboard.

Whenever I run the AppleScript app, I have to confirm that it is allowed to read the message ID from Mail.app. That is, I get a popup asking:

  “Get-E-Mail-Message-ID.app“ wants access to control “Mail.app“. Allowing control will provide access to documents and data in “Mail.app“, and to perform actions within that app.
  This script needs to control other applications to run.

With two buttons, [Don't Allow] and [OK]. So I always have to click [OK].

Is it possible to permanently grant my app to read data from Mail.app?

I have already found System Preferences -> Security & Privacy -> Privacy, and checked the box under "Allow the apps below to control other apps.", but still get the popup whenever I run the AppleScript app.


texts: What's the password to the System keychain?

texts:
Some background:

I first got a Macbook Pro, 1, from my work. It was connected to the company AD. Since I had admin rights on this machine and didn't like having different AD policies forced upon me I reinstalled it to get a plain Mac OS X, free from any AD connections. 1 was then involved in an accident including water and broke. I then got a replacement Macbook, 2, which I reinstalled to get out of the AD like I did with 1. I then and transferred all data using Migration Assistant (the harddrive of 1 was not broken, however, the file system needed extensive repair).

So far, I didn't have any problems with my System Keychain. However, I then got rid of 2, after doing a Time Machine backup of it, and got a third Macbook, 3, which I wanted to do a clean install on.

Now when I try to read some wifi-passwords stored in the System keychain for 1 and 2 (by browsing to it on 1's old hard drive/the Time Machine backup of 2) on 3 I get an error message that the password I enter is incorrect. I am as sure as you could possibly be that I know the password to the account I had on 1 and 2 (I use the same password on 3) but obviously this is not the correct password to unlock the System keychain.

If I open my user keychain from 2 (from the Time Machine backup) I can unlock it using the password I used on my account on 2 (and 1 and 3). However, if I open the user keychain from 1's old harddrive I can't unlock it using the account password I used on 1. 1's water accident led to a lot of write errors on the harddrive and a lot of orphaned files but since all 1's keychains have worked on 2 I don't think the keychain files were affected.

So my question is something like: how does the OS unlock the System keychain after I login using my account password? Where does the OS find the password for the System keychain? In my user keychain? Apparantly, using the Migrations Assistant, iunlocking System is a non issue, while when I copy the keychain files manually something that is required is not transfered.

A final note: when I got 1 it probably came with some default password. It was 3 years ago so I don't remember. Can that be relevant here? Since I did a clean install (IIRC) I would be surprised but I guess there are different ways to reinstall a computer and I don't remember exactly how I did.


texts:
I spilt a little bit of juice on my Macbook Pro keyboard which causes the spacebar to stick (it still works but is not so convenient to use). I took it to a non-official Mac service where they told me that it needed some cleaning that would cost around $60. Then I took it to an official Apple service where the guy without any deeper investigation told me that a brand new replacement top-case is required for $600.
The computer is otherwise completely functional. I still have a warranty until February that would probably be void if a non-official service fixed it.

Do you think the $600 offer is realistic and this much has to be paid just to fix a sticky spacebar?

Update: my girlfriend accidently spilt a half glass of water on my keyboard, and after drying it, the stickiness vanished :D Gotta admit, Macbooks are of high quality and I should care more about my computer.


texts: Screen Time: how can I disallow bypassing limits?

texts:
It's too easy for me to click on those "one more minute" or "15 minutes" Screen Time bypasses.

Is there a way to really really block apps and websites and not being allowed to bypass the limit at all (unless going to settings etc.)?

I thought at some point there was a way but I cannot find it anymore.


texts: Can't disable fonts in Font Book after fresh Mojave install

texts:
I just finished installing macOS Mojave on a brand new 2018 MacBook Pro.

One of the first things I usually do is disable all unnecessary fonts.

This time, the option to disable the font is grayed out for every single font.

In the Finder the file permissions are as follows:

system: Read & Write
wheel: Read only
everyone: Read only

How can I disable fonts in Font Book on OS X Mojave?


texts: How to view Google Chrome Media Cache in macOS?

texts:
I am able to access the Google caches on macOS here:

~/Library/Caches/Google/Chrome/Profile 2/Media Cache

But the files are as here:

I want to see them in their original form. While I can do this using tool on Windows, I couldn't find any for macOS. How can I do this on macOS?

Extra info: I'm developing a game with pixi.js and all the assets look good on most other browsers. But Chrome's cache somehow messes things up. I want to understand how the cache is held & find a way to fix the problem.


texts: An iTunes Applescript that appends to tag only when it doesn't match part of the tag string?

texts:
I'm trying to find a way to add a keyword or group of words/tags/strings to a set of selected iTunes tracks if they haven't been added. A use-case would be to add extra metadata in a comment such as (live) or (remix).

If some tracks previously contained (live) while appending, then it would not append it- only the non-matched files. So a comment tag containing (remix)(fast)(accordion)(random) would become (remix)(fast)(accordion)(random)(live) afterwards. However, if reapplied, it would skip this track.

The closest thing I can find is Smart Append, but its for Windows only (being JavaScript).

The well known Doug has an append to tag script, but it doesn't have any detection capabilities. I peeked into the code (by right click > Show Package Contents) and can't seem to wrap my head around editing the script.

Anyone know of an existing script or a way to modify the existing script?


texts: Trying to get iOS 4 iPod app on a jail broken iOS 5 iPad without totally downgrading

texts: I'm one of the many haters of the new music app because of its useabiliyt. I have an iPad 2 with iOS 5.1 installed on it. Is there any way to download the old iPod app from iOS 4 onto my current device?


texts: Macbook cannot find Magic Keyboard in Settings - Keyboard - configure bluetooh keyboard

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I have paired the wireless Apple keyboard with my MacBook and I am writing this on the new keyboard. The problem is, I can't configure it in the settings. "No keyboard found"?

I want to set the wireless keyboard's language to English and keep MacBook's keyboard as German. Currently I must switch the language via menu bar.

So… Is it even possible to have two different keyboards with two different languages at the same time?

Hope anyone has got a solution. I've tried rebooting the MacBook and disconnecting the keyboard and re-pairing.

System: MacBook Pro 15 late 13, OS X 10.11.5


texts:
How does the GUI interface for force quitting applications (⌘+⌥+esc) work?

e.g.
Does it work like killall Finder which would send a TERM signal by default?


texts:
I've created a symlink using:

sudo ln -s ~/Applications/calibre.app/Contents/MacOS/ebook-convert /usr/local/bin

I can see the command ebook-convert in /usr/local/bin.

Then I've added /usr/local/bin in my $PATH. I can see it when doing echo $PATH.

/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin

But I still can't use ebook-convert from terminal and I get the error:

-bash: ebook-convert: command not found

What am I missing?


texts: AppleScript 'choose from list' - I'm having trouble with Multiple Selections

texts:
I have a series of AppleScripts which are saved as apps. For simplicity sake let's say the apps are literally named App1, App2, and App3.
I've made a simple list that asks the user to make a selection, then opens that app. It works fine for single selections…

choose from list {¬
    "App1", ¬
    "App2", ¬
    "App3"} ¬
    with prompt "What would you like to do?" with multiple selections allowed and empty selection allowed

if not result is equal to false then activate application (result as string)

But I also need to be able to select multiple apps at the same time and launch them all together (or sequentially).

Currently, if I pick App1 and App3 I get a Choose Application dialog saying "Where is App1App3?" which obviously doesn't exist.

How can I change the code so that it sees the selections as separate apps and launches them correctly?


texts: App to change pitch of the sound coming out from the mac

texts: I use a mac retina and want to change the pitch coming out of my mac. Its like if I am listening to music, I can up the pitch (like in garage band) and make it sound like a chipmunk singing. Is there any free apps to do that?


texts: Mountain Lion Notification Center glitches

texts:
I’m experiencing a number of issues with the Mountain Lion Notification Center and Dock. Just wanted to check whether anyone else is having similar problems.

On my 2011 iMac, the Dock doesn’t show up immediately with the rest of the desktop UI on startup. Also, the icons sometimes “fall” from where they normally sit on the dock and appear jumping out from the bottom edge of the screen.
A more serious issue: on a 2009 iMac, the Notification Center sometimes stops working completely and freezes other parts of the OS UI when called. The Dock becomes irresponsive, Mission Control cannot be called, spaces do not switch, Cmd+Tab doesn’t work. Basically, I can only interact with the windows on the current space and the menubar. To “unfreeze” everything else, I have to “Force Quit” the Dock process in the Activity Monitor (killall Dock doesn’t seem to work). Though still after that, any attempt to call the Notification Center will result in another “freeze”.

Has anyone experienced anything similar? If yes, did you manage to find any solution and/or the cause of these problems?


texts:
I have two 2009 iMacs with OS X 10.9.2 and I am a Cox Communications subscriber. Both computers receive emails and can be used to delete and file them, but as of about three weeks ago neither will send emails. When I try, I receive this message:

  Cannot send the message using the server cox.net.

When I switch to Cox Mail, everything is fully functional, but because logging into that system is cumbersome and because I have four years of folders full of files in my Apple Mail, I prefer not to switch.

I have paid both iYogi (recommended by Apple) and Cox Tech Solutions (recommended by Cox) to correct the problem, but their fixes are always temporary. I understand that there might be a compatibility problem between Mavericks and iMap.

Can any of you recommend a course of action?


texts: How does WireShark work on OS X? What processes does it interact with?

texts:
I'm looking for deep/detailed research into how the MacOS TCP stack works. Namely, what are the files/Dynamic Libraries that offer this service?

What Libraries does WireShark interact with?

My goal is to trace a logical chain of drivers, processes, and configurations that enable a TCP connection to work.

I'll inspect the version of the files, their corresponding default settings, and anything else that can influence their behavior.

My goal is to diagnose the issue described in this question.


texts: Why is the "Encrypted" format not available in the list when erasing a USB flash chip in Disk Utility?

texts:
It shows up for normal, external hard disk drives. Is there a way I can force it to encrypt?

The installed OS X is El Capitan.


texts:
Last month I dropped my iphone4 and cracked the front screen really bad, but still worked. About a week ago I dropped it again and cracked the backing, again, still worked perfectly fine, but the other day I was talking on the phone and after I hung up it randomly went black screen and would not light up yet it still rings when someone calls. Therefore it still works but the screen does not. I Just need to know if there is a way that I can access my phone (pictures ect..) out side of icloud? Being a dummy I did not use icloud. ever.

By the way, I only have a PC so, phoneview will not work for me(so I think).


texts: Unable to find the backed up photos in iCloud

texts: I had an iPad mini which had some valuable photos in the Photos app. I had backed up the device on iCloud using 4.2 GB of my available 5 GB of space. Now that device is dead and is beyond repair. I thought I had the backup in iCloud and didn't take care to backup anywhere else. Now when I open iCloud, I see that it is completely blank. Is there any policy Apple has to delete the backup after a certain amount of time? Is there any hope for recovering these photos?


texts: Is there a way to know the last time I reinstalled a specific app?  Also, how many times I have reinstalled it?


texts: Issue with LibreSSL on my MacBookwith macOS Mojave

texts:
I am having issue for some time with my MacBookPro.

The issue is that my MBP is having some occasional hiccups (when it freezes for few minutes and showing rainbow beachball and then after few minutes it starts to work again) but as side effect I found that after that my computer cannot connect to sites via SSL with following error:

fatal: unable to access 'https://github.com/': LibreSSL SSL_connect: SSL_ERROR_SYSCALL in connection to github.com:443

It resolves only when I reboot my MBP.

I completely reinstalled macOS on this computer and it still persists. Has anyone experienced something similar and knows the solution?


texts: undelete (-W) with rm (BSD General Commands) - Operation not supported

texts:
How to enable undelete for files in my Downloads folder? How does this undelete works?

$ rm backupstore.files.tar.gz
$ rm -W backupstore.files.tar.gz
rm: backupstore.files_.tar.gz: Operation not supported
$ ls -W
AdBlock.safariextz          launch (1).ica              mysql-connector-java-2.0.14.tar.gz      launch.ica              mysql-connector-java-5.1.41.tar.gz
$ rm launch.ica
$ rm -W launch.ica
rm: launch.ica: Operation not supported

Infos about the filesystem

$ diskutil info /dev/disk1
   Device Identifier:        disk1
   Device Node:              /dev/disk1
   Whole:                    Yes
   Part of Whole:            disk1
   Device / Media Name:      APPLE SSD SM0512G

   Volume Name:              Macintosh HD
   Mounted:                  Yes
   Mount Point:              /

   Content (IOContent):      Apple_HFS
   File System Personality:  Journaled HFS+
   Type (Bundle):            hfs
   Name (User Visible):      Mac OS Extended (Journaled)
   Journal:                  Journal size 40960 KB at offset 0x11991000
   Owners:                   Enabled

   OS Can Be Installed:      Yes
   Recovery Disk:            disk0s3
   Media Type:               Generic
   Protocol:                 PCI
   SMART Status:             Not Supported
   Volume UUID:              D27270EB-9784-3B29-A1EE-D26DBC2BD22E
   Disk / Partition UUID:    FC74BE3D-F4EA-4FD1-B362-D651EB68CFA1

   Disk Size:                499.0 GB (499046809600 Bytes) (exactly 974700800 512-Byte-Units)
   Device Block Size:        512 Bytes

   Volume Total Space:       499.0 GB (499046809600 Bytes) (exactly 974700800 512-Byte-Units)
   Volume Used Space:        104.3 GB (104267853824 Bytes) (exactly 203648152 512-Byte-Units) (20.9%)
   Volume Available Space:   394.8 GB (394778955776 Bytes) (exactly 771052648 512-Byte-Units) (79.1%)
   Allocation Block Size:    4096 Bytes

   Read-Only Media:          No
   Read-Only Volume:         No

   Device Location:          Internal
   Removable Media:          Fixed

   Solid State:              Yes
   Virtual:                  Yes
   OS 9 Drivers:             No
   Low Level Format:         Not supported

   This disk is a Core Storage Logical Volume (LV).  Core Storage Information:
   LV UUID:                  FC74BE3D-F4EA-4FD1-B362-D651EB68CFA1
   LVF UUID:                 544B362A-53F4-41FF-B1AD-BE52860C04CA
   LVG UUID:                 C92FBB59-95F2-4E6B-AABA-39267836FCE3
   PV UUID (disk):           6C0409A0-8BBB-4BFC-B422-37782F7EA2B5 (disk0s2)
   Fusion Drive:             No
   Encrypted:                No


texts: Shortcut to open/close sidebar in Notes app?

texts:
In Safari, you can press  Cmd ⌘  ⇧  L  to open/close the sidebar. When pressing this shortcut in Notes however, it creates a list.

What's the shortcut in Apple's notes app to toggle the sidebar?


texts: Restrict iPad's 3G internet connection to certain applications

texts:
When I am using my iPad out of home (using 3G connection), I only check twitter or email, which uses very low bandwidth. But after the minutes, I can see that it consumes almos 50MB of data, so it seems to me that it is using other applications in the background (itunes, system, whatever ...).

I would like to know how can I force my ipad to only use internet connection for certain applications (mail, echofon) when I use 3G connection, and blocks internet access for all other applications.


texts: TextWrangler always comes to front when switching monitors

texts:
I have a late 2012 mac mini running OSX 10.9.3 and I'm curious if there is a setting that needs to be changed or if this is some sort of bug. I'm working with two monitors; one plugged into HDMI and the other using the display port with a VGA adapter.

Regardless of which application I am using on my VGA monitor, when I switch to the HDMI monitor by clicking into an application, TextWrangler comes to the front. I've searched through system settings and TextWrangler settings, but I couldn't find anything to fix this problem.

This is incredibly irritating and I'd appreciate any help.


texts: iPod Touch 9.3.5: Noting app that zeroes in/highlights the word upon search

texts: For months I've been trying to find a "Noting app that zeroes in/highlights the word upon search", but to no avail. Does someone perhaps know of any such app?


texts: Folder actions has stopped importing photos into iPhoto

texts:
I have had a problem for the past week where a folder action created in Automator has stopped importing photos from a folder into iPhoto.

I have tried:
Repairing disk permissions.
Deleting the script from library/workflows/applications/folder actions, and then recreating it from Automator once more.

Neither of these worked, and some googling seems to indicate that many people on the Apple support communities have similar problems, so perhaps an update at some point has broken this functionality, and I was unable to fix it.

OSX 10.8.4
iPhoto 9.4.3 (720.91)


texts: My iCloud sync is totally broken. I have a set of files on web icloud drive app which are not downloading to my devices (iphone, macbook pro) and when I add files to iCloud folder on my devices they are not uploaded. Also my Apple Books are not syncing too. Probably other things are broken. Only thing that syncs is Photos. Can I somehow reset the iCloud drive entirely and start from scratch? Btw, I tried every possible proposed solution on the net for the sync problem to no avail.


texts:
I had a iPhone that was in my ex boyfriend's name he took it from me before I could erase any of my contents out of it.

I asked him to do it and he won't. Now he is calling people I had saved on the phone.

Can I do a master reset on the phone without having the phone so he will stop harassing people that is stored in the phone?

I have tried to contact the Verizon store but they said nothing can be done.


texts: So I did this thing. I sent this imessage and but the guy on the other end didnt have wifi I guess. It didnt say "sending" at the top and it didnt say delivered. So I turned on Airplane Mode, sent the imsg as a text and after it failed to deliver I held down on it, selected more then clicked delete. And now I'm paranoid and wondering whether or not he actually got the text. Can anyone help?


texts: Directories showing as files when browsing a Time Machine backup on Windows

texts: I have to grab some files from a time machine backup and I only have a Windows PC.  I downloaded the HFS+ filesystem drivers from MacRoumers (here) and plugged in my Time Machine Drive.  Everything appears normal, until I transverse into a specific backup.  There I see the "Library" directory, and every other folder (Desktop, Movies, Music...) are files.  It's like this in every backup instance, and I'm stuck.  I don't recall these folders being symlinks to earlier backups, but I could be wrong and these drivers don't support symlinks.


texts: How do I configure Gmail in Mail.app to sync the mail messages with multiple clients?

texts:
I want all my mails to stay on Google server (as I read them from multiple clients and from the web), being able to delete then from the client (deleting them on the server as well) and do not retrieve all 3GB of them when first configuring the program.

When trying to add a new Gmail account, Mail doesn't ask how to configure it, so it’s not the Exchange configuration I'm after.

How do I configure Mac Mail app so that it works with Gmail like iOS's mail application does when configured with Exchange server?


texts: Terminal stuck at error won't accept any commands.

texts: I was trying to install CLI package from github but I messed up during the process and ended up getting this error. It is persistent and won't go away. Terminal wont accept any commands like mkdir, ls, clear screen. To fix this error I ended up deleting the info.plist file for the terminal ( I am not a very smart person) which somehow bricked terminal and it won't start anymore. I decided to download iTerm, and it still launches with the same old error. What am I supposed to do. Please help me .


texts: In the Applications folder (El Capitan iMac) there is no Applescript editor. I've also checked the Utilities folder, but didn't find it. I don't think I would have mistakenly trashed it. Should I download a new one?


texts: Is the grounding wire forwarded to the Magsafe connector? There are these 2/3 pin adapters and it's so much easier to convert a 2 prong connector while travelling than the bulky three prong ones. I do know the dangers of not grounding an equipment that needs grounding but -- does the Macbook Pro need it?


texts: How do you cancel 1000's of iTunes Match downloads on the iPad without swiping each one?

texts:
I accidentally asked iTunes to download all my music from match to the iPad. There are 2500+ songs in the queue now and they won't download before my flight tomorrow. The music downloads are blocking more important app upgrades.

I can't cancel each one individually since it would take hours.

How can you cancel all downloads in one go?

(iOS 6)


texts: How to set iChat status from the command line?

texts:
I'm trying to sync my Last.FM last played track with my iChat status... right from the command line. I've come this far:

curl -s http://ws.audioscrobbler.com/1.0/user/Da3X/recenttracks.rss |
    grep -m 1 -E -e "         <title>(.*)</title>.*" |
    sed "s/.*<title>//" |
    sed "s/<\/title>//"

which results in the currently or last played track like

The Black Seeds – Cracks In Our Crown

Is there a way to forward this string as the iChat / Messages status now?


texts: "open" command not working after upgrade to High Sierra

texts:
After my recent upgrade to High Sierra, the command line command "open" no longer opens much. I have tried it on PDF, PPTX, png. It does work on ascii text files. The 'Preview' app does open if I click on it in the Applications folder.

Does anyone know if there is a issue with running Preview from the command line after "upgrading"?


texts: Why aren't all my garageband loops present?

texts: It says I have to update the software but there isn't an update for garageband on the App store.


texts: Copy a folder(and its internal structure), but only include specific files

texts: I have a folder(with subfolders and further subfolders) that the final folder has many different file types. These file types include images(.png/.jpeg), videos(.mov), and text files(.txt). But I would like to copy the entire folder(with the internal structure) and only include .mp3's. Does anyone have any ideas how do do this. (please do not say manually because there are 100+ folders and the folder itself is 60GB, so don't tell me to copy the whole folder) Preferably, I would like if someone was able to give me a solution where I can outright move the .mp3's(while preserving the folder structure)


texts:
I'm looking for a OS X markdown (or similar) editor that has an edit and a view mode. I want to view the rendered document by default and have an edit mode to change the content. Just in the way most wikis work.

Day One uses edit/view modes but it doesn't let me edit arbitrary text files.

On iOS I found Trunk Notes.

I am not looking for an editor with a preview. I want to see either Markdown or rendering.


texts:
My text messages are still on my iphone5, even though I removed the sim card. Will I lose the texts when I install a new sim card?

I want to keep my old text messages. They document old events and conversations with friends.

I now have a new iPhone and want to give this one to my daughter.  What happens when she puts a new sim card in?

I'm trying to save the texts via screenshots, but it's taking a long time and she needs to use the phone.

Thanks for any help.


texts: I used to switch windows using win+1..9 on windows 7. Now switching to mac, i wonder if is there any equivalent feature in snow leopard? Or maybe there exist some third-party application support that?


texts: How can I combine internet from two sources on my macbook and get increased speed?

texts:
I have two sources of internet,

I want to combine both the internet sources and get increased speed.
I have noticed by testing, I can either use Ethernet internet or the Wifi Internet at one time, but by default both don't combine.


texts: App subscription confusion leads to billing

texts: I just downloaded an app yesterday and I accidentally agreed to the subscription which was about 100 dollars a year I cancelled it but now it says it expires next year so they billed me about $100. What do I do? Is there any way to fix this?


texts: Binding a keyboard shortcut to shut down

texts:
I want to bind a gesture in BetterTouchTool to the shut down menu that is invoked by pressing the power button on my MacBook Air.

It's fairly simple to bind gestures to keyboard shortcuts, so what I'm really looking for is a way to bind a keyboard shortcut to the shut down menu. You can't use the power button in BetterTouchTool, so I need to bind it to a standard keyboard shortcut such as Command+Shift+S.


texts: Preventing Spotlight from Indexing Files & Folders?

texts:
Spotlight is a very ingenious "tool" of OS X, attributable in no large part to its indexing feature. Hiding various files & folders is challenging even when using various encryption applications. I am aware there is a built in option, that allows you to mark as necessary, files, folders etc that Spotlight should not index.

Are there more effective, (possibly faster methods) of hiding files & folders from Spotlight's "prying eyes", therefore in essence protecting you from other prying eyes that may have access to your Mac ?


texts: iCloud delete and remove device and photos

texts:
Inexplicably I wasn't able to enter my 4 digit password on my iPhone anymore. I tried so many times that my iPhone was deactivated.
I powered off my iPhone and restarted it, but no chance.
Afterwards I asked to delete my iPhone from iCloud.com, but first I requested to erase the phone.
What happens to my iPhone if I've erase my iPhone via iCloud ("Find my Phone") and afterwards I also delete my iPhone from my iCloud account?. Does the request to delete my iPhone still apply?


texts: My wife and I just bought two Ipad mini 2's. We each have our own Apple IDs but when we try to use Imessage to send each other a message it states that the other's ID is not registered with Imessage. But I can send and receive messages with other ipads.


texts:
I closed mail an hour ago, when I opened mail back again 10 minutes ago the mail app at reseted itself, there are no accounts anymore, no mails, no nothing.

I was wondering if there was any fast and easy way to restore all that ?
Since I know that my mails are still somewhere in

~/Library/Mail/V2

And that all the accounts are still in keychain, and I'm not using any TimeMachine at the moment.

I created a new account and interestingly enough my mail seem now to be located at

~/Library/Containers/com.apple.mail/data/Library/Mail/V2

By the way, no updates have been done, no modifications what so ever, I just closed Mail.


texts: Built-in display in MacBook 13 late 2011 non-retina looks weird

texts:
About a month ago I bought this MacBook.
Light colours are very light, dark colours are very light. I don't see difference between between some.

In Finder I don't see lines:

But under shadows:

I tried to reset NVRAM by holding Option+Command+P+R till boot, trying to calibrate display in expert mode, but it doesn't nothing radically changed.

I'm tired and it driving me crazy :(

Maybe it isn't original display? I need colorimeter like Spyder5?
Or only new laptop with godlike Retina IPS will solve this problem?

Last option is reinstall entire OS. Going to do that on second hard drive.

Sorry for bad English.


texts: Upload a video from iPhone to someone else's YouTube channel?

texts:
A friend with an iPhone has made a video on her iPhone and edited it with the video editor.

She has her own YouTube channel, but she doesn't want the video there, she wants to put it on another channel, created by someone else (but she is a manager of that channel).

Whenever she tries to upload it to YouTube, she can't find out how to decide which channel it goes to.

She has tried to send it to me (I am also a manager of the channel) by email, so I can upload it from my computer, but her iPhone keeps complaining that it doesn't have enough memory to do that.

Can anyone help?


texts: Making a full image of an installed system

texts:
I'd like to know if is possible to make a full, bootable, and restorable image of an entire Yosemite installed system, (that is, with all installed apps and settings) without using a commercial software like Carbon Copy Cloner (which is no longer free, indeed).

I found those threads:
Creating a OS backup image for an easy restore on a new system
and
How do I make a bootable USB flash drive a Mac?

but both seem to propose recipes to create a bootable OS X thumb drive along with a set of basic tools, while I require a method to perform a full image of my installation.

Thanks a lot.


texts: Mysterious extra 100GB of hard drive space taken up

texts:
I have a 250GB SSD hard drive on my Mac.
Last time I checked the remaining space was about a week ago when I removed Bootcamp and free'd up an extra 50GB of space. This left me with around 150GB space remaining.
I've just checked today and only have 60GB free!
I've also instealled 'Clean my Mac' and checked for junk files, but it only found 9GB worth.
The only real folders I can think of that take up room are my Dropbox folder (which contains all of my files, at least all those that I'm aware of) and my Applications folder.
Both of those folders combined only take up 50GB amount of space according to Finder.
I read that the 'Library/Caches' folder can take up a lot of space there, but only found 10GB (possibly what was found my CleanMyMac)
I've also emptied my trash.
Also I read on another forum about running the following command in Terminal:
~ % sudo rm -r /System/Library/Caches

But I just get the following error:

rm: /System/Library/Caches: Read-only file system

I can't even think of where else to look for what could be taking up all this room?


texts: Change the font size of Safari's Web Inspector

texts:
Does anyone know how to change the font size in Safari's Web Inspector? It's too small for me and my eyes can't stand staring at it during long periods of time.

I've found some links on the web concerning my question but they don't seem to work either:

https://gist.github.com/vlazar/1549785
http://miekd.com/articles/adding-some-monospace-to-the-safari-web-inspector/

I'll switch back to Chrome and use its own Web Inspector if there aren't any solutions available.


texts:
This question basically is exactly the same as this question in Stackoverflow.

Using the syntax of cut the specification cut -d '' file should actually work and (given the answers to the question) it seems to work on Linux systems. However, on Mac Os X I get cut: bad delimiter.

My question is: is there a way to specify a null delimiter in cut on Mac Os X?

(I know that one could just something else than cut but I am just wondering now ...).


texts: How can I disable internal speakers on imacs in computer lab but still have sound enabled for headphones

texts:
I have around a dozen imacs running el capitan in a public setting and need to find a way to disable the internal speakers so customers cannot play music ect and distract others. Sound cannot be completely disabled since users are allowed to use headphones. Also, I need to find a way that is not necessarily easy for the user to go in and revert the external sound back on.  I've researched this issue and haven't really found a solution for this issue since these are public computers and are not being used by myself alone..aka the user will try to turn the sound back on. Is there a solution for this that anyone has come up with? If anyone has any tips please be very descriptive.

Thanks!


texts: Paired iPhone showing old playlists instead of iCloud playlists

texts:
I recently made the switch to Apple Music and have enabled the iCloud Music Library feature. The setup has been smooth and without issues, I now have all of the playlists on my Mac synced over iCloud to my iPhone.

The issue is, all of the previous playlists from the last sync via cable (pre iCloud) are still showing up under 'on my device' section of the information pane for my iPhone when it is paired over wifi on iTunes.

Is there a way to have it update so that it displays the current playlists on the phone after having synced over iCloud?


texts: How do I debug an out-of-control "kernel_task" process?

texts:
Just recently I noticed my battery life having a pretty significant drop and the "kernel_task" process using quite a bit of CPU (a constant 1-6% on my 2.8ghz dual-core i7, 2010 MBP). Obviously I think the kernel_task's CPU usage is contributing to the battery drop and I need to find out why.

Searching Google, it seems kernel_task is OS X's version of Windows's "svchost.exe" - the notorious do-everything process that you can't ever truly debug, you have to just manually flip switches until one of them works.

Is there any way I can more easily get to the bottom of the out-of-control kernel_task activity? I haven't tried a reboot because if that does "fix" it, it doesn't really fix the underlying problem.

Activity Monitor shows the CPU usage. When I hit Inspect, it shows 77 threads, 2 ports, hours and hours of CPU time, Context Switches going up about 400 per second, and Mach Messages In and Out both going up at about 6,000 per second.

How can I somehow inspect or monitor this kernel_task process and figure out what's actually using all this power?

(note: my current suspects are the recent 10.6.7 update, Firefox update from 4 beta 10 to RC, or ScreenResX - these are all things I've done recently that I can think of)


texts: How can I enable Trackpad tap-to-click for the login window in OS X 10.8?

texts:
In older OS X versions, this used to work just fine:

defaults write /Library/Preferences/.GlobalPreferences com.apple.mouse.tapBehavior -int 1

It would enable tap to click for built-in MacBook Trackpads for the root user, which would also affect the login screen. There are similar commands to enable it for Bluetooth-based Magic Trackpads as well.

Unfortunately it doesn’t seem to work in OS X 10.8 anymore. Is there some other way of doing this in Mountain Lion?


texts: How to transfer photos from OS X Tiger to iPad iOS 7

texts:
My mom got an iPad Air as a birthday present. She has been using an iBook G4 running 10.4.11 until now.

I am trying to migrate her photos from the iBook (iPhoto) to the iPad. Is there any easy  way to do so?


texts: How can I find out which kernel extension has been updated?

texts:
I received a notification on Big Sur that an extension was updated and this must be authorised in System Preferences. It is 'System software from developer "Apple Inc."'. I find this odd:

I didn't receive any such notification in the past about Apple's own software (although I have occasionally received similar notifications about third party software). I would expect kernel extension updates to only occur via official software updates, which presumably do not require such warnings (or, if anything has changed there, then Software Update process is at least clearly happening rather than silently taking places in the background).

I had not performed an update of any kind immediately preceding this (that I know of).

FortiClient had just run. I believe it does some self-updating. I have a dim view of the software; it is always trying to be invasive and is regularly refused rights for various unnecessary installations of its own.

I see the situation as potentially risky: it is possible that either someone is pretending to be Apple who isn't, or that someone is trying to modify an Apple extension.
How can I find out which extension is being updated and which process initiated this? I did not have much luck looking in Console logs or kext command-line utilities. None of the files in /Library/Extensions or /System/Library/Extensions appear to have been modified recently.


texts: How do I disable the Russian keyboard layout in software?

texts:
I enabled Russian input source, and am having problem disabling it.

How do I disable it?


texts: Device name in Mac Terminal is a random person's iPhone?

texts:
I was in terminal today and noticed this:

Jeremys-Iphone: I have no idea who Jeremy is or have a friend named Jeremy.

Do you know what this means, and how this might have happened?

Thanks!


texts: EFI missing, Question folder appears, Mac SSD appears and disappears, what do I do?

texts:
Setup Macbook Pro retina 13 A1502, SSD 128Gb
Running Yosemite, but currently doing the update for high sierra.

Problem: Question marked folder appear after I left it for 2 days, battery run out (left it on sleep I think with minimal battery).
It showed me a black screen I turned off&on again and folder with question marked appeared.
I tried to reinstall using recovery tools, doesn't even show a selectable disk. Tried to Verify and Repair, nothing.

I created a bootable external OS X, from which I'm asking this, and I partitioned the SSD into 1.
Curious thing: OS X was in a different partition from the ssd.
Another curious thing is that the sdd disappears after I try something.
At some point I think it was in the hardware diagnose I found a error that pointed that EFI was broken.
I ran sudo gpt -r show disk0s2
and this showed

  start       size  index  contents
      0  236568496

EDIT:
The disks images I have
(the Apple SSD long name)
   disk0s2

(External disk long name)
   disk1 (renamed by me trying to follow a solution)

Disk2
   OS X Base System

The result of the disk verifying tool

"The Partition Map needs to be repaired because there is a problem with the EFI system partition's file system"

The Hardware diagnostic result

Reference code vdh002

Running gdisk
sudo gdisk /dev/disk0s2

GPT fdisk (gdisk) version 1.0.4

Partition table scan:
  MBR: not present
  BSD: not present
  APM: not present

I tried the answers provided to similar questions here, here, and here.  None of them resolved my problem.

I guess I need to rebuild the EFI? What do I need to do?


texts: SIgning to iCloud from macOS shows An unknown error occurred

texts:
I'm trying to login to my iCloud account from my macOS and I'm constantly experiencing:

I've tried:

Reset Keychain Access
Delete NetworkPreferences.plist
Remove Wi-Fi in Network and adding it again after Reboot
Delete the contents of ~/Library/Caches folder
Delete the contents of ~Library/Application Support/iCloud (forgot the correct path)
To login to App Store instead of iCloud

None of this helps.
I've checked the Apple System Status page and everything seems to be working just fine.
I've checked my Apple ID via appleid.apple.com - I can login normally. It's working on other devices just fine.
I've checked other similar threads but nothing seems to be working. Any ideas?


texts: Internet Accounts spontaneously forgets passwords and I can't reauthorize them

texts:
I've had this problem before, but I was able to resolve it that time. macOS 10.13.4, everything up to date. Yesterday, Internet Accounts forgot my LinkedIn password and would not reauthenticate. Today, it forgot my Facebook password.

I've tried:

App specific password.
Removing the account and re-adding it.
Turning off 2-factor authentication.
Deleting associated entries from Keychain.
Logging out of iCloud, deleting Keychain entries, removing and re-adding the account, then logging back in.

First of all, what the hell—why does this keep happening?! Secondly, what else can I do to fix this short of reinstalling macOS?


texts: How to add Quick Look support for OpenDocument file formats?

texts:
I prefer OpenOffice.org/LibreOffice to MS Office because MS Office is expensive.

But OS X Quick View functionality that allows a preview of a file by taping space bar doesn't show an OpenDocument file's contents but just an icon.

How can I add Quick Look support for OpenOffice files, like .ods, .odt and .odp ?

I know OpenOffice can write MS Office documents but it would be nice to have Quick Look understand the OpenDocument formats.

Note: ods are spreadsheets, odt are word processor documents and odp are presentations.


texts: Where is the official Apple documentation for the Terminal App? I need a list of escape sequences

texts: Terminal.app does not implement all xterm sequences. I need to get the complete list of what it does implement. Is it available anywhere?


texts: iPhone 4S 64GB not charging unless switched off

texts:
My iPhone is simply not charging unless I switch it off while it is already plugged in. I suspect it to be a software problem, as when its off it charges. Windows does not seem to recognize the device but still charges when it is switched off.

I have tried cables that work on my friends phones and original cables, still no luck.

Any ideas?


texts: Is it possible to develop an iOS app without a test device?

texts:
So...I have an iPad and MacBook Pro.

I bought my iPad because I thought I needed it but now I'm thinking to sell it since I just found out that Xcode offers an iOS simulator.

Is it possible to develop a fully working iOS app without actual test hardware?


texts: Directing specific apps to use different network connections than other apps

texts: Let's say that I have an iMac with a wired Ethernet connection and a WiFi connection at same time, on two separated LAN. Is this possible to ask Firefox to use the WiFi and Safari to use the Ethernet wire card ?


texts: How can I connect to OS X 10.6 from a Windows server 2008 using VNC over the internet?

texts:
I have an apple Mac-mini 10.6 and 10.7 with me. when i am trying to connect Mac-mini from Windows server 2008 using vnc server over the internet from my windows machine using http://ipaddress-of Mac:5800/, the connection is not set up.

Please anyone help on this.
Any help will be highly appreciated.


texts: Unable to install software packages using Home Brew

texts:
I am unable to install any software packages using homebrew. I get the following error when I try to install any softwares.

    Rahuls-iMac:local rahuljeevanandam$ brew install mysql
    ==> Installing mysql dependency: cmake
    ==> Downloading https://downloads.sf.net/project/machomebrew/Bottles/cmake-2.8.1
    Already downloaded: /Library/Caches/Homebrew/cmake-2.8.10.1.lion.bottle.tar.gz
    Error: SHA1 mismatch
    Expected: 31856bbd662ca47c325761fc7040e43f9a635c64
    Actual: 4b2ea1d2785009c32d85d1d0e0c7dc4cd68322b7
    Archive: /Library/Caches/Homebrew/cmake-2.8.10.1.lion.bottle.tar.gz
    (To retry an incomplete download, remove the file above.)

    Rahuls-iMac:local rahuljeevanandam$ brew install wget
    ==> Downloading http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/wget/wget-1.14.tar.gz
    ######################################################################## 100.0%
    Error: SHA1 mismatch
    Expected: c487bce740b3a1847a35fb29b5c6700c46f639b8
    Actual: ca98a1bf07f850bc23731fd15d869d1b73ef8c84
    Archive: /Library/Caches/Homebrew/wget-1.14.tar.gz
    (To retry an incomplete download, remove the file above.)


texts: Is there a way to change screen recording's bitrate on iPhone or iPad?

texts: iOS 11 started to have screen recording. Is there a way to change the bitrate of the recording?


texts:
I created a volume in disk utility, and called "projects.dmg".  I assigned a password to it, and stored it in my home directory.  All is good.   I can now mount this volume in terminal, using "cd /users/me; open projects.dmg".   The volume asks for a password and then mounts the volume on my desktop.  GOOD.
I can then use it, and all is well.  When I want to unmount it,  I issue the command "umount /Volumes/projects", and it disappears from the desktop.  Looks good too.
HERE is the issue...  When  I want to mount this volume in terminal again, using "cd /users/me; open projects.dmg".   The volume mounts on my desktop, WITHOUT asking for a password!
I want it to ask for the password again.   I assume my umount command isn't correct..  How do I get the volume to act like I put it in the trash, so it will ask for a password when I mount it again??? Help?


texts: Shift movie horizontally for side by side

texts: I have two videos where the action appears on the left side of the frame.  Using iMovie version 10.0.9, I use the side-by-side overlay.  The bottom (right) video is overlapped by the top video so the action is not seen.  How can I shift the bottom video to the right so that the action appears on the right side of the side-by-side?  Can I edit the right side video 1st so the action has been shifted to the right side of the frame?


texts: Cracked my ipad 3 a little. What should I do?

texts:
I have cracked the screen of iPad only down the middle and a little on the side.

I have only had for about 6 months what should I do?


texts: How can I track application bandwidth usage?

texts:
I would like to be able to summarize daily network bandwidth usage for running applications. Additional details, such as a sorted list of addresses by traffic usage, would be nice to have as well but not essential. For the most part I just want to know which apps are using the most bandwidth.

All of the solutions seem far too detailed or complicated. These include:

Terminal applications like nettop
Commercial applications like LittleSnitch

The closest I've come is use nettop and export its results to CSV. I'm hoping there is something much simpler.


texts: How can I resolve a situation in which my Mac keeps crashing while working with a specific video file?

texts:
My MacBook Pro 2016 with Touch Bar keeps having a kernel panic whenever I attempt to use a specific video file I recorded with my Atomos Shogun Flame. FCPX imports and uses all of the other files from the same shoot fine. However, if I try to play, create a proxy, or do anything that involves handling this file after import, my computer reboots.

So far I've attempted to re-encode the file using Adobe Media Encoder, but FCPX still has issues with it. I've tried importing the file into Adobe Premiere but the system still crashes (i.e. it freezes, turns off, then reboots). If I put my SSD back in the Atomos Shogun, and watch the entire file, it plays perfectly fine.

I've also attempted transferring the file from the SSD to my internal drive, as well as to my RAID prior to importing it, but that causes the same issue.

Is there a tool that I can use to fix this file so my computer won't crash while using it? Or is there something else I can try to get around this issue?

The Shogun Flame has limited file management capabilities, so I am unable to do anything on that end. I haven't purchased Apple Compressor, so Adobe Media Encoder is the primary tool I have to convert files.


texts:
Since a few years I can't quit Mail.app instantly. The more folders I have entered during the usage, the more folder Mail.app tries to close before it quits. Each close operation takes 3-8 sec to complete, so quitting the whole program takes half a minute or so. How can I skip or make this closing procedure faster?

I use an own IMAP server for my emails.

Reindexig mails, recreating accounts, etc. does not work.


texts: Terminal doesn't show badge - how to enable?

texts:
Opposite to another question here I want the badge count to appear.

I have the "resume" function enabled in my Lion. Is there another setting that's responsible for the badge?

To clarify I run tail -f /path/to/file in 2 tabs of my terminal and I expect the badge to inform me about the changes.


texts: Very large file located within ~/Library/Group Containers/group.com.lminhtm.tempmonitor/db.realm

texts:
I am on a Mac Mini with a 1TB SSD. After a few years my SSD is running out of space, while I keep all my user data on an external drive. My system is loaded with Multimedia Apps Photoshop, Final Cut Pro, Logic Pro X, Garage Band and many others.
When trying to find the file(s) that can be removed on the SSD, using CleanMyMac X function of Space Lens, I bump into a very large file in /Users/username/Library/Group Containers/group.com.lminhtm.tempmonitor/db.realm. This file is a whacking 378GB!
Through Google searches I can’t find any mention of this file.
Does anyone have a suggestion?


texts:
When I'm e.g. in the Terminal and press CTRL^= I get the "invalid key sound". I need to bind this shortcut to a Terminal app, but it doesn't work. Just get this sound and it's not evaluated.

What's blocking it?


texts: How can I remap keys on an external keyboard, but keep the default layout on the internal?

texts:
I have an external keyboard with Windows keys. I'd like to remap the keys so the layout of the keys on the bottom-left is identical to the internal keyboard on my MacBook Pro.

This...

ctrlfnwindowsaltspacebar

...should be this:

fncontroloptioncommandspacebar

I've succeeded in remapping the windows and alt keys to option and command, respectively, via the Keyboard pane in System Preferences, but switching the control and fn keys isn't possible that way. Does anyone know of a way to do this?

Note: I don't want to globally switch control and fn; I only want to switch them on the external keyboard. KeyRemap4MacBook only seems to be able to remap the internal keyboard. When I check "Don't remap internal keyboards," the internal layout is restored, but nothing changes on the external keyboard.


texts: Is there a way to figure out which file is stored at a particular block?

texts:
I've just checked my SSD with sudo fsck_hfs -fy -S /dev/disk2s2 and it threw some errors, for example:

block 2760096: *** NO MATCH ***

What I would like to know which file is located at offset 2760096.


texts: Time lapse didn’t save, possible to recover?

texts:
I recorded a six hour long timelapse and upon stopping the recording it simply didn’t show up in my camera roll. On googling this it appears to be a very common problem.
Is there any way the file may have become corrupted and can be recovered if so?


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On Mountain Lion 10.8.2, when I use the Keyboard Viewer, I can see that Ctrl+1, Ctrl+2, Ctrl+3 register correctly when I type them.

Ctrl+4 or Ctrl+5 however, only show the Ctrl key being hit and the numbers ignored.

How can I enable all the Ctrl+# keys?

I don't really need them for spaces - rather, I need all the keys available for SC2 (FWIW, Ctrl+1, Ctrl+2, Ctrl+3 work fine in SC2, but the higher numbers don't).


texts: AMD-Action:downloadProduct:SP error on clean install

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I'm getting the AMD-Action:downloadProduct:SP error when trying to reinstall macOS, it doesn't even get to the option to sign in with an apple ID.

I've tried the solutions below but it's still not working:

OS X El Capitan installation error: AMD-Action:authenticate:SP

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/7694323?answerId=30940143022#30940143022

I've also tried creating a bootable usb using transmac starting by making a GPT partition but it doesn't get discovered as a boot device.

iMac Late 2013


texts:
On my Yosemite OSX machine I often get an ICloud prompt after awaking from sleep or after a reboot like this

what program is causing this? Is it a valid Apple one or one trying to get my password?

I have not knowingly set an app-specific password.

and in normal use ie not just after awake I got the box again but a more interesting log

24/03/2016 11:51:12.488 identityservicesd[8431]: [Warning] Registration failed for Registration info (0x7ff8e1435230): [Registered: NO] [Type: AppleID] [Device Name: (null)] [Service Type: com.apple.private.alloy.maps] [Env: (null)] [Main ID: example@mac.com] [Phone Number: example@mac.com] [AppleID: example@mac.com] [UserID: E: example@mac.com] [C2K: NO] [Push Token: <f72dd563 26eccf96 f9e058ca b26ff2b7 fa67c0e9 e7b8e17e a9c86f31 c8d5f217>] [Region ID: R:GB] [Base Number: +440000000000] [URIs: ()] [Candidates: (example@mac.com, example@icloud.com, example@me.com)] [Auth Cert: 0x0] [Reg Cert: 0x0] [Profile ID: D:53092237] [Auth User ID: (null)] [Heartbeat Date: (null)]   (Error: 0)

From that list of contacts it does look message related but still what proof is that this is from Apple and note my Message does not work even if I provide a password(see other question)


texts:
If I have a SOCKS proxy running on a specific port, is there a way to configure all network traffic to leave through it?

If I configure the SOCKS proxy in the Network system preference, it seems to work properly for all browsers without additional configuration. (As reported by a quick Google for 'what is my IP' in both Chrome and Safari.)

However, a traceroute does not seem to be using this proxy, nor do downloads using curl. I also have no way of knowing whether other apps like Mail (SMTP) or an SSH connection are using the proxy.

I found the app MacProxy, but it's only a 30-day trial. It seems like there is surely a way to configure this via the command line for free?


texts: Is there a tool to save a snapshot terminal session for later recovery, like a virtual machine?

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I work on multiple projects with multiple type of servers required, and when I switch project I shut down any of the applications and start the ones I need at that moment from the terminal.

I considered using a VM to switch project, but I was wondering if there was a way to save my terminal session (a snaphshot) for later use.


texts: How to restore Startup Manager Bootcamp option to point at Windows partition - GRUB overrided Startup Manager when Ubuntu installed

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For getting macOS, Windows 10 and Ubuntu as boot options at start up, I:

ran Bootcamp to install Windows 10. The result was macOS and Windows options available as boot options - when the option-key is held down on starting the Mac.
then, to add Ubuntu as a 3rd option to the Apple Startup Manager options, I followed this guide - an answer to Installing Ubuntu on Mac with macOS and Windows already installed

However, the outcome is that:

the Bootcamp option no longer boots into Windows. What happens is that there is a short delay and then it boots into macOS.
Booting into Ubuntu works - selecting this option at the Startup Manager launches GRUB, which has options to boot Ubuntu and Windows. The Windows option here works, Windows is booted.

So it seems that the Ubuntu installer has looked for Windows and in my words, "taken it away" from the Startup Manager and linked it to GRUB.

How can I edit the original Apple Startup Manager settings so that the Bootcamp option is reconnected to the Windows partition so it boots it?

I've already looked at:

Mac won't boot Windows partition after using disk utility
Broke Boot Camp while trying to get a triple boot
Boot Camp partition broken and can't be repaired in OS X 10.10.4
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/6465316
Fix Windows after Ubuntu installation

...and they are related but all I really need is to link up the Apple Startup Manager boot option for Windows to the Windows partition again.

Windows itself still works, but has to be booted through selecting the option in GRUB which I did not want.


texts:
I have a 320GB harddrive with 95GB free.  I boot to a 10.5 disk, open disk utility, and add a 40GB partition.  Halfway through the progress bar, though, it tells me that there's not enough space.  I'm not sure what it means- I'm just splitting my free space off to another partition- it shouldn't need any extra space.

Any ideas as to how I can partition my drive?

Clarification: this is my laptop's internal drive- the one I boot from.  I can't boot normally and partition with /Applications/Utilities/Disk Utility.app.


texts: Best way to use LED Cinema Display & Thunderbolt Display with Macbook Pro 2016

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I have 2 Apple monitors: An old LED Cinema Display that has a Mini DisplayPort and a slightly newer Thunderbolt Display with a Thunderbolt 2 connection.

I am currently using them both connected to my 2014 MBP with no issues.

I recently got a 2017 MBP and would like to see if there is ANY setup that will allow me to connect both monitors.

From what I've read, the TB3 to TB2 adapter will not work with the Mini DisplayPort.

Is there any other setup that people have used that has worked for them?


texts: How do I remove the left column in finders column view?

texts: When in column view in finder, there may be several columns displayed, one for each folder. Let's say the one I really care about is 5 folders deep, and so its far to the right side of the window. How can I make that folder the "root" of the column view window? Alternatively, how do I remove the left-most column/folder from being displayed?


texts: OS X: is there any (area selection) screenshot tool that can upload to Imgur?

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On Windows, I was spoilt by the fantastic Greenshot, a superb (and free) screenshot tool that had among its many features, uploading to Imgur.com.

I currently use CloudApp but I've reached my 'limit' for uploads and I don't feel like paying for their Pro service when there's myriad of free (and better) image hosting services like Imgur etc.

So are there any screenshot apps which can plug into Imgur?


texts: How to tell if service centre installed tampered MacOS?

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I gave my MacBook to a service center that claims they are authorized apple service centre in Bangladesh (we don't have official apple inc in Bangladesh). They said they will reinstall Mac os Yosemite in my mid2012 MacBook which should solve my problem in the MacBook. After i received my MacBook back from the service center, i am noticing some lag and some tids and bits here and there which makes me feel like it's an altered version of Mac OS like those pirated BlackWndows installations. How do i confirm if they have given me untampered/unaltered mac os Yosemite or original Yosemite.

P.s. My "About This Mac" section doesn't even show which year-model my MacBook is whereas it did show the year-model properly before i sent it out to the service center. I feel that they have modified a lot of configuration files etc.

I want to challenge them if they are cheating like this and charging a lumpsome money for it?


texts: How do I install fuse-ext2 to use with OSXFuse

texts: I'm trying to make Ext4 disk readable on mac OSX 10.10.5. I've already installed OSXFuse, I read on this site that I also needed to install fuse-ext2. I downloaded fuse-ext2-master.zip and unzipped it. It seems to contain source code files but no installation program. How am I supposed to use these files?


texts:
I am trying to check an entire USB external disk that is not erased. For that reason I have typed

fsck_hfs -fy -l -S -d /dev/disk1s2

This the result

Several messages I found strange here

NO WRITE - how can that be? If I am trying to fix it how can it be no write?
ok, it found a bad block at 137228189184 but at end it says the disk is OK
what is block 26023808 NO MATCH?
at end it says fsmodified = 0??? No modification performed?

I don't understand this. Have fsck_hfs fixed my disk? I by fixed I mean mark the block as unusable or reformatted it or whatever?

Thanks


texts: I'm looking for a way to put a filter on the rate of notifications iOS sends for an app.  For instance say I have the google hangouts app with a group chat of ~10 people and someone is replying every few seconds.  What I want is a setting where I can limit how often it sends me a notification, or even just how often the notifications cause the phone to buzz.  If I could have a single notification for any amount of activity on an app over the course of maybe 5 minutes that would be perfect.


texts: I am interested in buying Office for Mac 2011. I am in Sweden. Whenever I want to buy it from a website it shows like Office för Mac Hem och Student 2011 - 1 Paket (Svenska). Does it means software language is Swedish? I want it in English, as I am not Swedish. And my MacBook Pro (OS X Lion) language is English. Should I buy this one?


texts: What is the .plist.lockfile introduced in Lion?

texts:
Possible Duplicate:
  Why are my plists in ~/Library/Preferences accompanied by a matching lockfile in Lion?

Since upgrading to Lion, I have noticed that Lion is placing lockfiles that correspond to the plist in ~/Library/Preferences. For example, in this folder I have both com.apple.finder.plist and com.apple.finder.plist.lockfile.

Any idea what these files are there for? I know what lockfiles are in general, but I dont understand why they may have been introduced in Lion.


texts: Latest iMac with 10G Ethernet will not stay connected

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I've the latest 2020 iMac with 10Gbps Ethernet.  Since day 1, the new iMac's ethernet has been unreliable.
I have a switch on my home LAN that only supports up to 1Gbs.  All of my other systems have 1Gbps ethernet adapters, including an older iMac.  All of my cabling can support +10Gbps, and one day maybe I'll buy a 10Gbps switch.  For now, I can switch ports, cables, between all devices and confirm that everything besides the new iMac always connects at 1Gbps and remain connected indefinitely.
When I connect the new iMac, Network settings report "Not Connected".  The only way that I've ever been able to get it to report connected is to power down the switch completely, power the switch back up while the new iMac is also powered up, and then the iMac will connect at the maximum speed that the switch supports, 1Gbps.  When I do that, it may stay connected all day or it may lose connection within a few minutes.  Once the connection is dropped, it will not connect again unless the switch is power cycled.
Also, the switch lights up the ports for every device that is connected. For the iMac, when it does drop the connection, its port will not light up.  If I connect the old iMac to that same port, the port will come alive again and light up.  If I move the new iMac cable to another port, it will not flicker, no flash, it simply will not light up, will not connect.  Again, it ONLY connects if the switch is power-cycled.
Given all that I've tried, I'm really just grasping for ideas at this point.

Is there something more than I can try, reconfigure on the iMac to get it to operate consistently at 1Gbps?
Does this sound like a bad ethernet adapter on the iMac?
Should I just invest in a 10Gbps switch that should definitely, consistently, handle an iMac 10Gbps machine, but can also handle all of my other 1Gbps systems?

I also tried Tetsujin's suggestions noted below.  In the iMac's network manual settings I tried every permutation, and ran to the server room to check the switch lights after every reconfiguration. The switch never shows connected and the iMac network settings remain in "Not Connected" state. It's as if it just won't try again. I need to get a second person to watch the switch lights while I'm tinkering with settings to see if it even tries to negotiate for an instant, but my guess is that it isn't.
Also, within the iMac Network settings panel, macOS reports "Either the cable for Ethernet is not plugged in or the device at the other end is not responding."  If I take the very same cable from the new iMac, unplug it, and plug it into the old iMac, the old iMac connects, the port comes alive again and operates at 1Gbps for the old iMac.  Move the cable back to the new iMac and the lights on the switch go out.  No connection.  If I try forcing a new DHCP lease, nothing changes.  It remains disconnected.
Tried a few more ideas:

disconnecting the cable, powering down then powering up the new iMac, and connecting the CAT as the last step has no effect
performing a soft reboot of the switch vs. a full power down of the switch has no effect
re-tested a full power cycle of the switch several times and noted that ever so often it negotiates to 100Mbps instead of 1Gbps when it connects
switching iMac manual configuration options while I have a successful, switch-power-cycle induced connection causes a disconnect and will not reconnect until another switch power-cycle is performed
discovered that the switch has a line tester, when that is run the iMac's port is reported as "No cable" while the new iMac refuses to connect, if I connect the other end to my old iMac the test passes.  There are 3 possible states. "OK", "Open Cable", and "No Cable". If I unplug from the iMac, it reports "Open Cable".  If I plug it back in, it reports "OK" as the switch recognizes a connection.  It remains "OK" till I tell the iMac to renew the DHCP Lease then it fails and changes to "No Cable"


texts: Bypassing Boot Camp to install Windows using a non-standard partition scheme

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My new Retina MacBook Pro is on its way, giving me time to contemplate setting it up. Good thing I got started—I had no idea how difficult it was going to be to install Windows and create an auxiliary data partition. I've been a Mac user for years, and have kept my files separate from the system disk since the days of System 7, but I haven't upgraded to a new Mac since Snow Leopard and built-in optical drives.

Boot Camp is Apple's solution for this, but it doesn't work on drives that have any non-standard partitions. Beyond whatever "user experience" logic Apple may have for this, there's a simple technical explanation: the MBR partitioning scheme used by Boot Camp supports a maximum of 4 partitions.

Originally, the Boot Camp engineers had no choice. They was forced into an ugly hack workaround involving the use of a hybrid GPT/MBR scheme (basically overlaying an MBR scheme on top of a GPT disk) since Windows used to be unable to boot from GPT disks.

That wasn't a problem on my old machine, where I had an optical drive and no OS X recovery partition. Partitioning the new one the way I want means 5 partitions. I find tons of guides and tutorials online that tell me how I can, with a bit of work, interrupt the Boot Camp process and repartition the drive, giving me almost what I want. Except every one that I've seen requires me to give up my recovery partition, since they remain hobbled by MBR's limitation of 4 partitions. I don't want to do that.

I'm wondering if I really have to compromise. Modern 64-bit version of Windows no longer have this limitation—they boot fine from GPT disks on EFI-based computers. Which are the only versions that are officially supported by the current version of Boot Camp, and the only versions that I care to run. So:

Is Boot Camp 5 (as provided with OS X Mavericks) still using the hybrid GPT/MBR scheme? Since it explicitly supports only 64-bit versions of Windows 7 and 8, it is possible that they've jettisoned this ugliness. That would be a good explanation for the lack of support for Windows XP and Vista as well as all 32-bit versions. I don't have a lot of confidence here, but maybe all the online tutorials are just old. Has anyone actually tried it?
If not, I don't want its grubby paws mucking up my disk. The obvious alternative is to just add a Windows partition manually in Disk Utility, install Windows, and then install the Boot Camp-provided drivers. If I do this, what do I stand to lose? What features/benefits does the Boot Camp Assistant and its associated setup process provide to me?


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I saw an update for my iOS 9.2.1 device to iOS 9.3.

However, it said that the update cannot be verified, although it was downloaded.

I even deleted all data and applications from the device, but I still cannot update the device to 9.3; it just says "Your software is up to date" on iOS 9.2.1.

Can you force an update to 9.3?


texts: How do I ensure that the macOS root account bug is fully fixed on my machine?

texts:
There has been a large amount of confusion around Security Update 2017-001, especially due to rumors of the fix being reverted when running macOS version 10.13.1.

I am looking for a way to be fully sure that my Mac is protected. In this question I'll detail the steps I followed in trying to ensure that my device is secure, and note the conflicting information I have found which points to no precise answer.

Looking at the end of Apple's support page related to this update, I see:

  [If] you see MRTConfigData 1.27 in the Installations list under
  Software in System Report, your Mac is also protected.

Under Software in System Report, the latest version I see of MRTConfigData is 1.26 dated December 1, 2017.

The second part of this paragraph also notes:

Open the Terminal app, which is in the Utilities folder of your Applications folder.
Type what /usr/libexec/opendirectoryd and press Return.
If Security Update 2017-001 was installed successfully, you will see one of these project version numbers:
opendirectoryd-483.1.5 on macOS High Sierra 10.13
opendirectoryd-483.20.7 on macOS High Sierra 10.13.1

Running the above command correctly lists PROJECT:opendirectoryd-483.20.7 on my machine, which is indicated by Apple as the correct version.

If I attempt to reproduce the original bug by going to Preferences > Users & Groups, then clicking the lock icon and trying to log in as root using an empty password multiple times, the login dialog does not let me through.

The fact that I won't be allowed to log in as root no matter how many times I try gives me an indication that the issue might indeed be solved, but I   am still receiving conflicting information about this from my system.

In Directory Utility, when I open the Edit menu, I see the option Enable Root User. This tells me that the root user is currently disabled, which as far as I know is one of the conditions for triggering the bug: the root account gets enabled once you attempt to log in with it once, and then works without a password.

Lastly, what is most suspicious is that in Directory Utility, when I search for root in Directory Editor, the root user account is listed with a password of *. Unless it is a placeholder for any password, this looks suspiciously similar to a one-character (or even empty) password. I am confused whether this means that a password for this account is set at all.

How can I conclusively determine whether the root account issue is fully solved on my computer?


texts: Way to Copy Text From OS X to Evernote and Keep Formatting?

texts:
On my MacBook, I have various lists and information, of which I use TextEdit to edit. Usually, these will have indents where I use tab to create kind of charts with columns. Like so:

Item 1 [TAB] Info 1 [TAB] Info 2
Item 2 [TAB] Info 3 [TAB] Info 4

I also use Evernote. It is a great app, but the text format support seems awful. When I copy these lists like the one above to Evernote, apart from the first column, I get a zig-zag of all the various parts.
I've researched for a way to correct this within Evernote, but there doesn't seem to be one. Is there a way, to convert (using an application, AppleScript, etc.), type everything in a completely different text software as TextEdit, modify the settings in TextEdit, or anything else to make it so that copying text to Evernote results to what the original text was?


texts: Any way to get the displays menu in the menubar?

texts:
Running OS X El Capitan (late 2013 iMac). Unfortunately it looks like the "show displays in menu bar" option was removed from System Preferences. Is it possible to get the menu back?

PS - opening the Displays.menu file (/System/Library/CoreServices/Menu Extras/Volume.menu) adds the menu back, but as soon as I click on it, it disappears.

Also, if it's of any relevance, I've got HiDPI mode enabled (but not active). 99% sure it doesn't matter, disabling HiDPI mode didn't affect the issue.


texts: MacBook Pro 2016 15 inch screen hinge feels loose

texts:
I just purchased a 15 inch MBP, and the screen hinge feels a little loose, at least compared to my 2011 15 inch MBP.

Is this normal?


texts: Can't use keyboard when resuming from sleep

texts:
On a Macbook Pro, with Lion: I usually set it to sleep at the end of the working day, and resume from sleep in the morning. Sometimes, I can't type the password after resume, and I have to reboot it the hard way, because the left side of the keyboard isn't responding (I can only type on the right side).

Is it a common problem, or is it just on my machine?


texts: In Pages, is it possible to insert a tab-like character that fills the remaining space between on a line? I want to have the first few words on a line left-aligned, and the last few words on the line right-aligned. I'm working inside a table cell, if that makes any difference, but cannot make additional table cells to make this work as that would mess up the remaining text. Is there some way of inserting a horizontal space character of this kind?


texts: iTunes on Windows 7 loses connection to other iTunes or Apple TV 2

texts:
I can start iTunes on my Windows 7 desktop, and can browse it from my Apple TV 2. It works fine for a while, then randomly in the middle of the movie I'm watching it completely loses the connection and kicks me back to the Apple TV home screen. I have to restart iTunes to get it to work again.

This does not happen streaming from my MacBook Pro.

This also happens when Home Sharing between my MacBook and the desktop. I go to browse the desktop in iTunes to transfer something, it spins for a minute, then disconnects. Once again, a restart of iTunes on the desktop is required to get iTunes on my MacBook to see the desktop library again.

I've tried disabling the Windows Firewall to no avail.

Both iTunes and the Apple TV are up to date.

The network is solid with gigabit and a Linksys/Cisco E4200 with latest firmware. I had to disable WMM support to make AirPlay work.


texts: Installing Windows 7 Updates on Boot Camp partition through VMWare Fusion?

texts: I'm using VMWare Fusion with my Boot Camp partition. Are there any problems with installing Windows 7 Updates through VMWare Fusion, or should I boot up into Boot Camp in order to install these updates?


texts: How to take pictures in the dark with an iPhone?

texts:
The flash on my iPhone 4s works great at night. Problem is the picture is completely black up until the point the flash goes on and the picture is taken. So I don't know if I've got a good shot. Much worse is that it's always completely out of focus because the camera doesn't seem to have time to focus during that flash of light.

How do I take night pictures?


texts: How do I change iOS settings to "not" sync notes over the air with iCloud

texts: I first unchecked "notes" in settings, iCloud.  That didn't change anything so eventually I deleted the iCloud account altogether.  That didn't change anything.  How do I set my phone to sync notes with Outlook on my PC and disable syncing notes over the air with iCloud?


texts:
I keep seeing this in my logs:

> 10/5/15 3:45:16.532 AM deleted[366]: normalizeUserMountpoint:738
> volRoot failed for /Volumes/firmwaresyncd.G3PNKw

What is it? Is it related to the firmware 0day hack from July?

I'm on 10.11, 2012 mbp.


texts: I have a lot of pictures on my iPhone SE. I have them synced with my iCloud. However, every picture I add gets added to both my device and my iCloud. I don't want this. I don't have much storage so I want to delete all pictures I currently have from my iPhone and put them all on iCloud, so that I can start making pictures again! How can I do this?


texts: External hard drive APFS marked as read only, after repair does not mount at boot time

texts:
I have an external 2TB hard drive formatted with APFS connected to my 2017 iMac 27" running Mojave/10.14. Until yesterday, this external disk would be mounted during boot time and everything worked just fine.

Yesterday the system would start as normal but the drive would be unmounted after booting. But I could mount it with Disk Utility and use it as normal so I didn't think much about it.

Today the file system flipped to being read only. I rank Disk Utility on it and it said "deferred repairs" were done, and diskutil remounted the disk at the end but it was still read-only. I rebooted the entire system and the drive was not mounted after reboot. I mounted it with Disk Utility, and it's fully read/write again.

I have no idea what is going on. I just want it to work -- that is, have the disk me mounted read/write at boot time. When searching for solutions I run across a lot of "your HDD is formatted with NTFS that's why" and "just chmod 777 -R the entire disk" nonsense.

Other things (may or may not be related): I have been flipping to Windows 10 a lot recently (using BootCamp). Windows can't read the external HDD because it doesn't understand APFS.


texts: Is the iPhone 6 model A1549 (CDMA) compatible with T-Mobile?

texts: According to this site, there are three models of iPhone 6: A1549(GSM), A1549(CDMA), and A1586. It says the A1549(CDMA) model "supports all the same spectrum" as its GSM counterpart, but also supports additional spectrum making it a "world phone". Does this mean the unlocked T-Mobile iPhone 6 is essentially the Verizon model with its CDMA capabilities disabled? Could one go to an Apple Store, pay for a Verizon iPhone 6 in full, and pop in a T-Mobile SIM with no side effects?


texts: El Capitan’s full screen split view via CLI?

texts:
El Capitan introduced a new split screen mode. Is there a way to enter it via CLI?

I’m guessing that if there is a way to do this, it’ll be via AppleScript (to get active window, and whatnot), but the language isn’t really important, as long as it can be done via CLI.


texts:
I just received my repackaged MacBook Pro (Retina, 13 inches, end 2012) and I have a problem with my keyboard. The keyboard layout is different from the one I had before, and I can't find the right one in the input types of the system!

So what's problematic: I have the @# key above the Tab key, but when I press it, I get <>. Then, I have the <> key below the delete key (which is weird I've never seen that layout before) and when I press it, I get £.

Otherwise the keys seem to work fine.

I have an AZERTY keyboard and I'm running macOS High Sierra 10.13.6 (17G65). The language associated with it isn't really important as long as when I press a key, it actually gives me the character printed on it!

So my question is: Is there anyway to fix that? Somewhere to download another keyboard layout? Does apple have some hidden layout somewhere? Do I have to write my own layout and if so how?

I've looked at all the languages available in the system right now and searched for hours on Google but I didn't find anything.

EDIT
I usually type in french. Here's a photo of my keyboard :


texts: iOS 10: Safari cannot open the page. The error was: "Not allowed to use restricted network port"

texts:
I'm having an issue with iOS 10.0.1 and Safari 10. In iOS 9 and Safari 9, I am able to go a web site on port 4190. As soon as I use an iOS 10 device, I get this error message using Safari 10:

Safari cannot open the page.
The error was: "Not allowed to use restricted network port".

I read online that some ports are blacklisted. Best I could find is a KURL.cpp blockedPortList, but I don't see port 4190 blocked.

I see the error message is in this piece of code:
#define WebKitErrorDescriptionCannotUseRestrictedPort UI_STRING_INTERNAL("Not allowed to use restricted network port", "WebKitErrorCannotUseRestrictedPort description")

Any ideas?


texts: App store app rejected 5.2.2 your app requests, displays, or distributes third-party account information

texts:
hi my app rejected by app store team because of following reason
"Your app contains content or features that may violate the rights of one or more third parties. Specifically, your app requests, displays, or distributes third-party account information in order to allow unauthorized access to said service.
Your app and its contents should not infringe upon the rights of another party. In the event your app infringes another party’s rights, you are responsible for any liability to Apple because of a claim."
My app is price comparison app that aggregates products from various e-commerce stores across India.
Also I use SafariView controller for opening external url to one sites when user clicks on Buy button. Is in app safari view controller causing any issue or it's just related to third party data. Should I use UIApplication.shared.open instead to open external link. how this cab be fixed? has any other aggregator app has faces similar issue? Please let me know.
Also if it is related to third party data how to fix this? As site has already allowed us to display its data under affiliate program.


texts:
When running netstat I noticed the suspicious name blackjack. I wonder if it's malware.
PROMPT> netstat -v
Active Internet connections
Proto Recv-Q Send-Q  Local Address          Foreign Address        (state)     rhiwat shiwat    pid   epid  state    options
tcp6       0      0  nameofmachine.local.blackjack fe80::c55b:ddf6:.13569 ESTABLISHED 131072 131072    476      0 0x0102 0x00000204
tcp6       0      0  nameofmachine.local.1024      fe80::c55b:ddf6:.1024  ESTABLISHED 131072 131072    476      0 0x0102 0x00000204

Looking up the pid 476
PROMPT> ps ax | grep 476
476   ??  S      0:19.94 /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/IDS.framework/identityservicesd.app/Contents/MacOS/identityservicesd

So the process that owns the address seems to be identityservicesd.app, which is an Apple process. This is where my trail ends.
There are other mentions of .blackjack occurring on macOS, see this unanswered Reddit question.
Question: Is it malware?


texts: iCal does not open correctly invites sent from Outlook

texts:
When someone from Outlook sends an invite is shows at incorrect time in my iCal. I looks like it doesn't take the timezone of the sender into account. If i open the same .ics file with Outlook then the time zone is recognized properly an the meeting is set at the correct time.

Any idea what's wrong with iCal and what can i do to se the proper dates? I don't want to switch to Outlook.


texts: Camera is being used by another application -- which one?

texts:
I was using FaceTime this morning, and during the call, the "Camera is being used by another application" screen appeared.
I've searched and I found https://discussions.apple.com/thread/250893855, which says "Quit all applications that are using the FaceTime camera".
But I don't have another application using the camera -- FaceTime was using it, so how did some other application steal the camera from it? If it can be stolen, how do I find out which application that was? If it can't be stolen, why did FaceTime suddenly decide, mid-call, to do this?
Note that I've also looked under Privacy / Camera; there are no applications listed as having  permission to use the camera (not even FaceTime).
(iPad mini, 5th gen, iOS 13.5.1)


texts: How to direct people to a shared photo album?

texts:
I have several shared albums in Photos app.  The one I created today contains a single video also created today.  It has "public website" enabled, but the "visit website" is ghosted and I cannot find anything on any menu bar or contextual menu to tell me what the URI is.
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202786#mac tells me to do what I already did, but it offers no help in actually finding the website.


texts:
I am using a Mid 2012 MacBook and recently upgraded it to OS X 10.11 El Capitan. I was having trouble with it's new SIP feature and wanted to disable it.

I tried to boot into OS X Internet Recovery using Cmd+R, which started Internet Recovery. When I tried csrutil disable in Terminal, it returned -bash: csrutil: command not found.
Then I tried booting into Recovery HD and tried the same command in the recovery mode there to get the same error.

My question is how can I access csrutil command to disable SIP? Am I missing something?

Update
I am putting the recovery terminal commands I have tried in the following screenshot. Kindly zoom it to see clearly


texts: How to map Ctrl + Delete to Fn + Opt + Delete with Karabiner-Elements

texts:
I would like to map Ctrl + Delete on a Windows keyboard to Fn + Opt + Delete on a Macbook keyboard, so it deletes the next word after the cursor.

I can't figure out how to represent Fn + Opt + Delete in the json, how would I modify the following?

{
    "conditions": [{"type": "frontmost_application_unless", "bundle_identifiers": ["^com\\.sublimetext\\.3$"]}],
    "from": {"key_code": "delete_forward", "modifiers": {"mandatory": ["left_control"]}},
    "to": /* What should I put here? */,
    "type": "basic"
}


texts: Little Snitch reports outgoing connections for AirPlayXPCHelper for wrong subnets?

texts:
After upgrading to El Capitan, I've started noticing annoying connections from the AirPlayXPCHelper to 192.168.1.0/24 subnet (my home network isn't in 192.168.1.0/24 subnet, it's in 172.16.0.0/12 subnet).

Questions are:

Why AirPlayXPCHelper goes out to this network on port 5000 and 7000?
Is there a way to limit it's desire to go there?

Thank you.


texts: Will an iPad mini purchased in the US work well once it returns to live in England?

texts:
My oldest daughter lives in England and is returning there after the upcoming holidays.

Her Mother and I live in the USA. She desires an iPad Mini as a Christmas gift. She is an iPhone 4S user with O2 as her carrier in England.

Two questions seem tied in my mind:

If we buy her an iPad Mini equipped with a 3G/4G radio and she intends to buy some sort of data plan in England, which one should we buy...the Sprint, the Verizon, or the AT&T model?
Are there advantages/disadvantages to setting up the iTunes account for her new iPad (a) in the US, with a US-based credit card; (b) in the UK (her home), with a US-based credit card; or (c) in the UK, with a UK-based credit card?

I've looked around for an hour or so and cannot find definitive answers to these questions...or maybe I'm not savvy enough to understand what I've read.


texts: I'm looking to make a board book for my 2 year old son.  I don't see any obvious settings in iPhoto that lets me choose the paper thickness.  It is pretty important to me because my son loves to tear "normal" books apart and so far his board books have held up.


texts: Visualise on a map the location of the photos inside a folder

texts:
Is there a software that I can point to a folder to see a map of the area of all the pictures present in that folder? With tiny thumbnails or dots.
Similar to what can be done directly on the iPhone, but for OS X.