texts: Disable Autohide Dock displaying slowly when in fullscreen

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I have autohide enabled for my dock and it seems to be a feature (at least in OS X 10.11.6) that, when I drag my mouse to the bottom of the screen when on a full-screened program, the dock will not display until I have attempted to drag the mouse down at least another time.

This problem does not occur when I am not on a full-screened program; the dock displays instantly.

I'd like my Mac to have the functionality of displaying the dock as if I was not ever in full screen mode.

Edit: If it is important, I use HyperDock. A change to this also would be sufficient for me; I have a license.


texts: *.github.com always be redirected to github.com

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When I visited any subsite of github.com, for example help.github.com, desktop.github.com, it was always be redirected to github.com. I had tried the follow steps but no luck.

clear cache in chrome
use another browser (safari)
flush dns
use curl help.github.com -v also got 301 Redirect

But I can visit *.github.com through my mobile phone from the same Wifi.

What I should do to identify the root cause

Update: the output of curl command attached below.

➜  ~ curl https://help.github.com -v
*   Trying 52.74.223.119...
* TCP_NODELAY set
* Connected to help.github.com (52.74.223.119) port 443 (#0)
* ALPN, offering h2
* ALPN, offering http/1.1
* successfully set certificate verify locations:
*   CAfile: /etc/ssl/cert.pem
  CApath: none
* TLSv1.2 (OUT), TLS handshake, Client hello (1):
* TLSv1.2 (IN), TLS handshake, Server hello (2):
* TLSv1.2 (IN), TLS handshake, Certificate (11):
* TLSv1.2 (IN), TLS handshake, Server key exchange (12):
* TLSv1.2 (IN), TLS handshake, Server finished (14):
* TLSv1.2 (OUT), TLS handshake, Client key exchange (16):
* TLSv1.2 (OUT), TLS change cipher, Change cipher spec (1):
* TLSv1.2 (OUT), TLS handshake, Finished (20):
* TLSv1.2 (IN), TLS change cipher, Change cipher spec (1):
* TLSv1.2 (IN), TLS handshake, Finished (20):
* SSL connection using TLSv1.2 / ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256
* ALPN, server accepted to use http/1.1
* Server certificate:
*  subject: C=US; ST=California; L=San Francisco; O=GitHub, Inc.; CN=*.github.com
*  start date: Jul  8 00:00:00 2019 GMT
*  expire date: Jul 16 12:00:00 2020 GMT
*  subjectAltName: host "help.github.com" matched cert's "*.github.com"
*  issuer: C=US; O=DigiCert Inc; OU=www.digicert.com; CN=DigiCert SHA2 High Assurance Server CA
*  SSL certificate verify ok.
> GET / HTTP/1.1
> Host: help.github.com
> User-Agent: curl/7.64.1
> Accept: */*
>
< HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently
< Content-length: 0
< Location: https://github.com/
<
* Connection #0 to host help.github.com left intact
* Closing connection 0


texts: Music files don't copy from iTunes to iPhone, appear grey with a dotted circle

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When I drag music files from iTunes (desktop) onto a connected iPhone, many times the files just don't copy to the iPhone - the tracks appear in the list on iPhone, albeit grey and the most-left column is a dotted circle with a to me unknown meaning (it might be a progress bar really...).

iTunes 12.0.1.26 (OS X Yosemite)

You can see some of the files copied, while others did not, in the screenshot:

The dotted circles are in the left-most column.

I'll list some things to rule out:

Not using iTunes Match.
I do have enough space on the iPhone. It's a new iPhone 6 Plus 128 GB, with about 60 GB free space.
I do have "Manually manage music and videos" selected.
I can copy some files, some files just won't copy. Even in the same drag manoeuvre, some files would copy and some will not.


texts: Scanner sharing service stops after logout. How do I make it always share?

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I'm sharing a scanner from a Mid 2007 iMac (10.6.8, USB scanner over wired ethernet). I've enabled sharing on the local admin account and it all works well on the other Macs that are using the scanner.

However, after logging out, the scanner stops being shared and immediately drops out of the list of "Shared devices" available on the other Macs (in Image Capture).

Logging back in to the account that set up scanner sharing reenables scanner sharing and it all works again. If I log into another account that hasn't previously set up scanner sharing, it's not enabled.

How can I get the scanner sharing service to run all the time for all users, even when no one is logged into the iMac?


texts: Python IDLE can't be opened by double-clicking .py files in Finder

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I can't open .py files in IDLE by double-clicking them in Finder (IDLE is currently set as the default program for opening such files).  Nor can I open those files by right-clicking and selecting IDLE.

If IDLE is already open I can open .py files through the File > Open method.  Once IDLE is open I can also just double-click .py files and they will open in IDLE.  Finally, in the Terminal, I can open .py files just fine by typing idle -e file.py even if IDLE has not yet been opened.

I just can't open IDLE itself by double-clicking on .py files, or by right-clicking on .py files and selecting IDLE.

I'm using OSX 10.8.2 and Python/IDLE 2.7.3.  Anyone know how I can fix this?


texts: Why will Text Edit and other apps prevent me from choosing text colors?

texts:
I have had a Genius take a look at my MacBook, no one has offered ANY support that works. Forgive me if I'm learning how to describe the issue, but here is my problem with TextEdit, Apple Mail and other apps on my Mac that came from Apple:

Anywhere I enter text to change the color the normal process is to highlight that text go to format, font, choose color…

But the color Box (that has all the little squares filled with choices of colors... is completely empty.

Here is what I expect things to look like from Mail on Mountain Lion

My problem is on Snow Leopard (10.6.8) I don't get the same control for changing color of my text.

Can anyone help me? This is making me Crazy. :/


texts: Volume on MacBook Pro low after disconnecting from Bluetooth speakers

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As the title suggests, I am having issue with the volume of the internal speakers from my MBP after I disconnect from the Bluetooth speaker. This doesn't happen always, but it seems to happen with both my headphones and with the speaker, so it is not one device specific.

Currently, my volume is at maximum levels, but it is very quiet, probably around 50% of maximum value. I have tried killing all coreaudiod processes, trying to unload and load /System/Library/Extensions/AppleHDA.kext, checked all the levels everywhere, tried turning off Bluetooth, but nothing seems to help.

Any suggestions what might be causing this? I am running the latest MacOS version, 10.12.6.


texts: How can I free up space from com.apple.cloudphotosd?

texts:
This folder seems to use up a lot of space on my MBP SSD drive.

Is there any easy way to release space from this directory?


texts: Websites stuck in infinite redirect loop after upgrading to iOS 5 (5.0.1)

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Ever since upgrading my iPhone to iOS 5 (currently at 5.0.1), I've noticed that a few websites that I regularly visit get stuck in a constant redirect loop and never show up.  It's only sites that require logging in as a first step. The two sites that I can think of off the top of my head where this happens are:

Oreilly Books Online (Safari)
FT.com

Though I have seen this on more than just these two sites.

Has anyone else encountered this problem?  Is there anything I can do to try and resolve this on my phone (settings, cache clearing, etc.)?  Or do I have to wait for an OS update or the sites to make a fix?

Also, I'm on the O2 network in the UK, but I can reproduce the behaviour through a VPN and on WiFi.


texts: What is the purpose of the Events section of Photos on iOS?

texts:
I have an iPhone 4 and an iPad 3 each running iOS 6.1 (I don't have a Mac). On my iPad I have noticed that in Photos there is a tab labelled Events. This tab doesn't exist on my iPhone. The Events tab is filled with folders named with a date. Sometimes there is more than one folder with the same name.

I haven't been able to find clear documentation on the use of Events.

What is the purpose of Events in Photos? How do they differ from Albums and how do I use them properly.


texts: How do I get a bottom to top build in animation with Keynote?

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I am writing a slide with Maslow's Hierarchy on it, and I want to build in from bottom to top.  How do I change the animation order or otherwise make it build in from the bottom of the pyramid, on the bottom of the page, to the top of the pyramid, on the top of the page.

I know how to do it in PowerPoint or use LibreOffice but the inspector won't let me break apart the build in ordering.


texts: Mirror iPad 2 display to Mac WITHOUT Airplay

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I'd like to mirror my iPad 2 display to my Mac running OSX 10.6 WITHOUT using AirPlay, because the app I'm running on my iPad won't show the content using AirPlay or using the traditional output at the bottom (like running a cable from there to HDMI on my TV).

How can I accomplish this? Are there any app combinations that let you simply mirror the iPad display to the Mac over wi-fi without using AirPlay?


texts: How to restart PostgreSQL installed by Brew in OSX?

texts:
In Linux, it can be done by /etc/init.d/postgresql-9.2 restart.
My OSX is not a server app.

I think it it can be done by ALTER USER postgres with password '1234'; postgreQSL prompt but I am not sure if it is the meant way.

How can you restart the PostgreSQL server in OSX?


texts: Using imovie, how can I create a short highlight films from a long movie?

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I have an hour long video that I have from a trip and I want to create a highlight film (around 5 mins)..  Using Imovie, is there any particular feature to do this.  I see there are the movie trailers but those seem much shorter (around 30 seconds) and I don't see a way to make it longer.

Any suggestions would be appreciated.


texts: How can I create a modifier shortcut to drag files into a new folder?

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When dragging a file or files in the Finder, it is possible to hold certain modifier keys to change exactly what you're doing (e.g. ⌘⌥ to create an alias).

I'd like to be able to drag several files, hold down some combination of modifiers, drop them in a folder, and find them in a newly-created subfolder there.

I don't believe there is a native way to do this, but how can I create a macro to accomplish this with Better Touch Tool or Keyboard Maestro?


texts: Application icons sometimes showing generic icons

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Sometimes (and seemingly randomly) application icons don't show the application-specific icon for the application (see image). This happens everywhere, as far as I know (dock, application switcher, viewing /Applications in Finder).

I think this may have started after upgrading to High Sierra. I thought it would go away after restarting, but it hasn't.

I also recently added some of the OSX defaults in this script to my dotfiles init script, so it may have something to do with it:
https://github.com/mathiasbynens/dotfiles/blob/af852609ca208a8d6114af1ae6b2390d57f7dd98/.macos

Here's mine for comparison:
https://github.com/jpalmieri/dotfiles/blob/2d7ab788e491cc67e079f5fc243d05d2c49e2e98/macos/set-defaults.sh

Any ideas?

EDIT: After restarting again today (a few days later), the issue seems to be resolved. Still not sure why this happened. If it happens again, I'll update once more.


texts: How to change timezone in recovery mode?

texts:
I have a MacBook pro and I'm trying to instal OS X El Capitan on a clean formatted SSD hard drive. While installing I encounter an error saying "this copy of the instal os x el capitan application can't be verified...". After some search in the internet I realized the problem is due to date and time being not correct. I corrected the time but I couldn't find a way to change the time zone because whenever I type "systemsetup" command I receive the "command not found" error.
I will be more than happy if anyone can help me with this problem.
Thanks


texts:
I want to buy a new MacBook Pro and I'm wondering if there's a non-retina MacBook Pro 2015.

I'm asking this because on the compare Mac models page (http://www.apple.com/mac/compare/), there's a Non-Retina MacBook Pro, is it 2015 or all 2015 are always retina?


texts: Where do I find what's all affecting my $PATH?

texts:
When I echo $PATH I get:

/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.5/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/Users/arukaj/Library/Android/sdk/platform-tools/:/Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/bin/:/Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/

However, I have no idea where this stuff is coming from.

When I try cat ~/.bashrc, I get PS1='\u@\h:\w\$ ' for my shell formatting.

If I try cat ~/.bash_profile, I get:

# Setting PATH for Python 3.5
# The original version is saved in .bash_profile.pysave
PATH="/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.5/bin:${PATH}"
export PATH

if [ -f ~/.bashrc ]; then
    source ~/.bashrc
fi

Is the PATH environmental variable being constructed before .bash_profile is read? It looks like it's appending Python onto the front of the current PATH and then exporting itself as PATH again, although I don't know why the syntax is ${PATH} here as opposed to $PATH.

Anyhow, I don't know where the Android and XAMPP stuff is coming from. How do I know where to look?


texts: How to disable that “Guest User” from appearing at the OS X 10.8.5 login screen

texts:
I have removed the "guest user" account by: System Preferences → Users & groups → Guest User → Remove.

It still remains as an option under users (but states disabled).

It still shows up on login screen and if selected allows guest to logon to computer.

How do I remove guest login completely so that is is not even an option at login?


texts:
Am using iPhone 3Gs running on 6.1.3.
My problem is that whenever am trying to open any .txt file in iFile, it shows weird symbols and characters. Am sure the files are not any binary files.

First I thought this could be a problem with a particular .txt file I want to open, but all files with .txt extension (So far I have tried nearly 50 .txt files) show strange characters and symbols.

Is this problem with iFile or do I have to change encoding language? If so please help me how to do it. I have removed and reinstalled iFile many time to see if the problem is resolved. But no use.


texts: What differences are there between a new and a refurbished iPhone?

texts: My iPhone's lcd is crashed last night and I want to get a new one. I just wanted to know what people's though are on normal iPhone vs refurb iPhone. What's the real difference?


texts:
I want to use my old iPhone 4S as a "software token machine", so I installed and configured all the needed apps in there (and just those ones). It is running iOS v9.3.6.

One app, at its latest version, is refusing to install (SafeNet MobilePass) because my phone doesn't run iOS v10.

Before ditching definitely my plan, is there a way to install an older app version without jailbreaking?

P.S. I only have Linux PCs as it looks like a PC could be needed.


texts: Excel 2011 crashes when printing certain worksheets

texts:
Excel 2011 (for Mac) consistently crashes on certain .xlsx files, at the moment I want to print it (either directly to the printer or to PDF). With Excel 2016 (both Windows and Mac), it works fine.

The only thing I know, the Excel is created by a colleague who uses Excel for Windows.


texts: How can I clean my keyboard without turning my Macbook Air on?

texts:
I would like to turn off my Macbook Air in order to clean the keyboard and not repeatedly press buttons. However, when pressing any button, the Macbook immediately turns on again.
Is there any way to disable this behavior, so that for example only the unmarked button in the top right turns it on?


texts: How to undo Terminal tweaks to the computer's factory settings?

texts:
I've been playing around with Terminal.

I used the following command.

defaults write -g CGFontRenderingFontSmoothingDisabled -bool NO

I'd like to go back to the way the computer was when I first bought it. Is there a command that performs an undo or resets all the settings?


texts: Hard link '~/Library/Mobile\ Documents/com~apple~CloudDocs' to ~/iCloud

texts:
Is it possible to do this at all? I've tried the following command:

ln /Users/Rowan/Library/Mobile\ Documents/com~apple~CloudDocs/Documents /Users/Rowan/iCloud

which results in:

ln: /Users/Rowan/Library/Mobile Documents/com~apple~CloudDocs/Documents: Is a directory

I can't seem to find how to add an argument to ln in order to 'allow' directories.


texts:
I'm using an old Apple USB keyboard(it came with the iMac G5) with my Mac.  I'd like to bind F16 to play/pause iTunes, like F8 key on the MacBooks.  Right now the key does nothing.

I'm OK with 3rd party software/plugins.


texts:
Okay, so I was watching a WWDC video a while ago, and they were doing a demonstration on how to implement some code into your app...

And as they were demonstrating the code, the guy who was doing the demo was pulling blocks of code from a small window in the bottom right corner of the screen.

I thought that this would be a useful application to have (as I am an apple developer myself) and I thought it would save me a lot of time...

The only problem is I have no idea what this application is called and so do not have any information about it...

All I know is that the WWDC video is called "Optimize your earning power with iAd" and that the application in question is shown at 37:50 in the aforementioned video.

If someone could point me in the right direction as to where I should start my search I would be most thankful...


texts: How to I change the default JVM heap size on OS X?

texts:
I am looking for a way to change the default JVM memory settings on OS X, not for a specific application.

And, yes I know that each application can override this.

Currently running Java 1.6 on OS X 10.8


texts:
Possible Duplicate:
  Why is Git not found after installing OS X Lion?

I've recently migrated from an old mac pro with leopard to a new mac pro with snow leopard, everything seems to have gone right so far during the migration process, however I cannot initialize git anymore, my git repos still exist and I can seem the .git folder for my projects but in terminal git init doesn't work anymore and I get a not found error when trying git --version

How do I fix this, do i need to reinstall git, would this effect my existing repos?


texts: How do I view the page source in Safari just like I can in Windows Internet Explorer?

texts:
I'm experienced with Windows, not so much with Mac. In Windows Internet Explorer I can go to the View menu and select Source as in to “view source”. This opens a window showing me the html code of the page I am visiting, just like in the screenshot below:

On my Mac I looked in Safari's View menu and all the other menus and do not see anything resembling this option.

How can I do the same thing on Safari in macOS?


texts: How do I add an Apple TV to hotel wifi without a browser?

texts:
I'm staying at a hotel and want to use my Apple TV. My problem is that because there's no browser on the Apple TV I can't get to the proxy web page where I can accept the terms of service.

I found a link explaining a work-around using a Mac as an ad hoc airport, but I don't have a Mac or other wireless router with me, just an iPhone and iPad.

I also found some advice about spoofing MAC addresses, but the instructions involved a lot of command line jujitsu that I don't know how to do on iOS.


texts: Unable to open serial port using simply python script on macOS Catalina: [Errno 16] Resource is busy

texts:
On a brand new MacBook16 running Catalina (10.15.1) I am getting the following error trying to connect to an FTDI FT232R USB UART device.

Python 2.7.17 (v2.7.17:c2f86d86e6, Oct 19 2019, 16:07:15)
[GCC 4.2.1 Compatible Apple LLVM 6.0 (clang-600.0.57)] on darwin
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import serial
>>> ser = serial.Serial('/dev/tty.usbserial-A106NU2I', 38400, timeout=1)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/Users/cbagwell/.virtualenvs/toolbelt/lib/python2.7/site-packages/serial/serialutil.py", line 240, in __init__
    self.open()
  File "/Users/cbagwell/.virtualenvs/toolbelt/lib/python2.7/site-packages/serial/serialposix.py", line 268, in open
    raise SerialException(msg.errno, "could not open port {}: {}".format(self._port, msg))
serial.serialutil.SerialException: [Errno 16] could not open port /dev/tty.usbserial-A106NU2I: [Errno 16] Resource busy: '/dev/tty.usbserial-A106NU2I'

I see the following events under the Console application:

006002.877344 python@(null): AppleUSBHostUserClient::openGated: could not open provider USB3.0 Hub             . provider already opened for exclusive access by a kernel client
006002.878136 python@(null): AppleUSBHostUserClient::openGated: could not open provider USB2.0 Hub             . provider already opened for exclusive access by a kernel client

So it appears that some kernel client already has the "/dev/tty.usbserial-A106NU2I" file opened with exclusive access.

My question is, how do I determine which kernel client (or kernel extension?) has this file opened?

I have tried using "sudo lsof | grep tty" and don't see anything there.

The device is visible and recognized under About this Mac -> System Report -> USB

Thanks!


texts:
Help!! I'm lost with the interface for iMovie 10.0.6. I have created iMovies with previous versions of iMovie (the most recent being iMovie 9).  When I installed and then opened iMovie 10.0.6 on my MacBook Pro running Yosemite, it also imported every last movie and clip I'd ever used and placed them in Events and Projects with no rhyme nor reason (at least not apparent to me).  Now I can't seem to create a new Event or Project without part of a previous project being a part of it. I'm lost - obviously - and no, I'm not computer illiterate just iMovie illiterate I guess!!

I'd love a written tutorial on using iMovie 10.0.6 that starts with the very basics but have been unable to find one -- I do better with written directions that watching YouTube videos - I need that step by step. Any suggestions from anyone?


texts:
Recently I bought a second hand iPhone 8. When I'm trying to unlock the device It shows this error:
The Apple ID "example@email.com" cannot be used to unlock this iPhone

Previous user deleted this device from "find my iPhone" service (But still it shows "Erase requested 1hour ago")

How can I register my device under my apple ID?
Do they take more time to erase a device from the database ?


texts:
My MacBook Pro is not loading my photos anymore. I insert the SD card, as I have always done, iPhoto pops up and says loading photos, but then the error message pops up saying that the disc was not ejected properly when I haven't even touched it! Can someone please help me?

Thanks!


texts: How to clear the pasteboard / find string from the command line?

texts:
I want to be able clear out the whatever data is cached in find (command-f) clipboard contents from the command line.

Whatever is in there seems to carry across between applications. This is a clear security risk in some cases.

How to secure macOS's clipboard?

Is there a way to do this?


texts:
I can use mutt to read maildir on Mac, but is there any graphical tool available?

mutt -f /path/to/maildir

Since mutt can't render HTML emails, I will need something else.

Any ideas?

EDIT for thunderbird

I've changed mail store to maildir format,

And selected a local folder,

The UI become like this, unexpected ..


texts:
This issue occurred when i said launch finder, 2 seconds later it froze permanently on the screen. I tried to reboot the macbook 2012, but when i launched siri again it froze, stuck on the screen. Tried safe mode, but still nothing. I really need help.
Version of macos is macos high sierra.


texts: AppleScript to Rename file list to Specific Names

texts:
I've spent hours researching this and I can't seem to find an answer, so your help would be greatly appreciated!

I have an audio recorder that outputs 16 files that are always named the same.

ORIGINAL FILE NAMES

(TRK01.WAV, TRK02.WAV, TRK03.WAV, TRK04.WAV, TRK05.WAV, TRK06.WAV, TRK07.WAV, TRK08.WAV, TRK09.WAV, TRK10.WAV, TRK11.WAV, TRK12.WAV, TRK13.WAV, TRK14.WAV, TRK15.WAV, TRK16.WAV)

I want an Automator App that changes the file names to the following list.

NEW FILE NAMES

(01_Lav.WAV, 02_HH1.WAV, 03_Piano.WAV, 04_TR AC.WAV, 05_MX AC.WAV, 06_Bass.WAV, 07_ElectG.WAV, 08_KickD.WAV, 09_Vox1.WAV, 10_Vox2.WAV, 11_Vox3.WAV, 12_Vox4.WAV, 13_CrowdL.WAV, 14_CrowdR.WAV, 15_Aux7_R.WAV, 16_MainLR_R.WAV)

This way I can save the Application on a hard drive where I transfer the files to and run it when needed.

I was thinking it would go something like this:

set theFolder to choose folder

set name of file “TRK01.WAV“ to “01_Lav.WAV“
set name of file “TRK02.WAV“ to “02_HH1.WAV“
set name of file “TRK03.WAV“ to “03_Piano.WAV“
set name of file “TRK04.WAV“ to “04_TR AC.WAV“
set name of file “TRK05.WAV“ to “05_MX AC.WAV“
set name of file “TRK06.WAV“ to “06_Bass.WAV“
set name of file “TRK07.WAV“ to “07_ElectG.WAV“
set name of file “TRK08.WAV“ to “08_KickD.WAV“
set name of file “TRK09.WAV“ to “09_Vox1.WAV“
set name of file “TRK10.WAV“ to “10_Vox2.WAV“
set name of file “TRK11.WAV“ to “11_Vox3.WAV“
set name of file “TRK12.WAV“ to “12_Vox4.WAV“
set name of file “TRK13.WAV“ to “13_CrowdL.WAV“
set name of file “TRK14.WAV“ to “14_CrowdR.WAV“
set name of file “TRK15.WAV“ to “15_Aux7_R.WAV“
set name of file “TRK16.WAV“ to “16_MainLR_R.WAV“

tell application "Finder"
    (open theFolder) select
end tell

How would this actually be done?


texts: Why are the terminal color brighter than the ones I set?

texts:
I've changed my terminal's color but, as always, the color I set are rendered brighter than they really are.

Here's the proof, I set the exact same color on ST and on my term, you can clearly see the term is brighter.

Any clue why ?


texts: Disabling function keys based on current app and enabling F1 - F12

texts:
I'm not sure if this functionality is built into macOS or if there is an app I must download, please let me know.

I'd like the functionality of the F1-12 buttons to only work as 'function' keys and not, for example, volume-up or volume-down, unless a specific application is open.

Does anyone know if this is possible?


texts: How to change which device my AppleID's 2FA "Pin Code" is sent to

texts:
I have an single AppleId for multiple devices - about 20 devices (and rising).

Every time I get a new device, I need to sign into App Store using my AppleId. In doing so, I get asked for a 2FA pin code. This pin code is sent to the same Macbook Air. If that device is not handy, I need to the say 'did not receive code' and then select my phone number (txt/sms message) as the next way to receive the code, which works fine.

Is there any way I can define which device will receive the initial Pin Code popup box with the verification pin code?


texts: In which case I would lose my OS X license?

texts:
I'm planning to install Arch linux on my Macbook Air (mid-2015), and installing means I'm going to mess with the partitions on the disk, and lots of stuff, and I'm not expert on these topics, so there is a chance that I might delete something important for OS X on the other partition, or about recovery partition etc.

So my question is in which cases I would lose my OS X license? I mean for example if I unintentionally delete the recovery partition would I lose anything? etc.

What I'm trying to understand here is that what is the worst thing that I can do unintentionally during the installation?

Edit:
It would also be helpful if the answer contain how is licensing works for OS X on Macs.


texts: Mac OS X El Capitan, Option key alone as keyboard shortcut

texts:
I am using Macbook Air Mid2012 with El Captian 10.11.3 version.

I have two languages installed (two input sources). Currently my shortcut to toggle the language input is "CMD + space." I would like to use the option key on the right-hand-side as a shortcut for input source toggle.

System Preferences - Keyboard - Shortcuts - Input sources won't allow me to specify option key alone as a valid shortcut.

Is there anyway to do this?

Thank you!


texts: Deleting an update downloaded from App Store that is not installed

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I now run OS X 10.9.5 on my office laptop, which is monitored by my company. App Store alerted me about Yosemite, and I chose to download and install it. After download completed, I got a notification saying that my company does not support Yosemite and the installation was terminated.

Now Yosemite shows up in App Store as "DOWNLOADED" as shown below, and I get notification asking me to install it every day. How can I remove the downloaded file and/or stop receiving this notification?


texts: How to Check for an Enterprise Provisioning Profile on an iPhone

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I know that iPhones with enterprise provisioning profiles installed send massive amounts of data back to the company that added the profile.  This includes your text messages, phone records, and internet history.

How do I check if one of these profiles has been installed?  I have an iPhone that I think a profile was installed on, but I see no indication anywhere in settings that this is true.


texts: How to start a slideshow on the Mac quickly and easily?

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This is one thing I don't quite get it for the Mac: why is it so hard to start a slideshow?

The most often way is, I have several photos on the Desktop or in Downloads, and I double click to see the first one -- and no, it is not the one I want, so I want to see the 2nd, 3rd, 4th, etc.   At least on Win 7, that's super easy just by pressing the right arrow on the keyboard and that's it.

On the Mac, is there a super easy way?  I don't want to highlight this and that, and then choose "Slideshow" from some where I can't be sure of, or change the view to the "flip through" view, because I might not necessarily want to change the view style for the folder at the moment -- I just want to browse through a few photos -- is there a super quick way?


texts: macbook Random reboot and forgot the time

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Macbook just randomly switched itself off, and when I switched it back on again it had forgotten the time (as in, it had set itself to 0000 1st Jan 2001)

...and had a moan about some applications with alerts of this format...

When I opened the time/date presferences... the automatic 'get time from central server' kicked in. But I wanted to know if these two symptoms pointed to a specific problem that someone can recognise...

MacBook has these specs...

Edit next day macBook wouldn't charge. Visited Apple Store, power supply was prononced DOA  (turns out it wasn't an offical power supply it was a cheap knock off).  Problem hasn't reoccured since - will come back in a week and let you know if that has fixed it (which would be odd, but on the other hand the power supply starting to flake out could have a bunch of downstream issues - it has been plugged in every time there has been a problem)


texts: A program like Skype with auto answer for iOS?

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I have build a robot with a head actually made of an iPod (with iOS 6). I would like to take control of the camera remotely so I can control the robot from afar.

The program I need is very much like Skype, but I need to automatically activate the call as the robot is unattended.

The camera should not be activated all the time.
Unlike most camera programs, it has to be like a Skype call (video and sound both ways).

Skype allows you to do that but only on desktop version!

I have searched for such a program/functionality and didn't find anything. I am actually thinking of adding one servomotor to answer the calls on the screen... ridiculous.

Ideally this program should work on my iPod with iOS 6 but a solution on iOS 8 or even Android interests me as well as a backup solution.

Any idea?


texts: Does the Mac "Do Not Disturb" function affect Skype calls?

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If I use Notification Center's "Do Not Disturb" toggle, will I still receive Skype phone/video calls?

I know this toggle will temporarily disable banners/alerts, as those notifications are actually routed through Notification Center, but calls have a popup dialog of their own.

If not, how can I temporarily disable Skype calls? Do I need to log out?


texts: Wi-Fi network could not be joined - Macbook Pro 2015

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At first it said it couldn't find the IP address, I entered it manually and that got rid of the error message.

Now it's just saying the wifi network could not be joined.

I've tried turning it off and on again, forgetting the network then adding it again. I've also tried clearing the PRAM and something else I'm not sure the name of (RMC or something similar). I'm now out of ideas.

Any suggestions?


texts: How do I get my LaunchAgent to run as root?

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I want to run a process as root at user login.

I created /System/Library/LaunchAgents/eXist.plist with rx—r—r— permissions:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
    <dict>
        <key>Disabled</key>
        <false/>
        <key>GroupName</key>
        <string>wheel</string>
        <key>Label</key>
        <string>eXist DB</string>
        <key>Program</key>
        <string>/Applications/eXist-db/bin/startup.sh</string>
        <key>RunAtLoad</key>
        <true/>
        <key>StandardErrorPath</key>
        <string>/tmp/eXist DB.err</string>
        <key>StandardOutPath</key>
        <string>/tmp/eXist DB.out</string>
        <key>UserName</key>
        <string>root</string>
    </dict>
</plist>

However, my process continues to run as my user davea instead of root.  Any ideas what else I need to do?

I’m using Mac 10.9.1.


texts:
The hard drive went on my late 2008 MacBook Pro so I replaced it. I tried installing 10.8 from a bootable USB which failed so I went back to the origional system disks.

When I tried to install OSX from the origional system disks ( 10.6 ) I get the following error:

  The installer has encountered an error that caused the installation to fail. Contact the software manufacturer for assistance.

I'm somewhat out of warranty now so taking it back to Apple sadly isn't an option.

Side Note: I was unable to format the new hard disk using disk utility from the 10.6 or 10.8 installers so I connected it to another mac via a USB cradle to format (went fine). The Hard Drive is brand new and shows up as SMART verified.


texts: Block web-page containing a specific word in Safari

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I would like to know if there is any Mac Safari plugin to block any web page containing a specific word in its url or in its content.

For example, suppose we take the word 'abc', the following link must be blocked : wwww.dfrrraabc.com

A web page containing 'abc' in its content must also be blocked.

I don't know if a plugin like this already exists for Safari.


texts: How do I stop emails 'pushing' to Apple Mail (macOS Sierra)

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I don't want Mail to automatically download new mail. I want to manually do this by choosing Mailbox > Get All New Mail.

I have tried setting the preference 'Check for new messages: Manually' in Preferences > General, thinking this would solve the issue. But email still pushes to my iCloud account!

Does anyone know how to change this behaviour so new mail only delivers when I ask the app to fetch it?

Thanks!

Andy


texts: How can I keep apps "always on top" in Lion?

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With past versions of OSX, I used Afloat, but ever since I moved to Lion, it stopped working for programs like Evernote & Chrome.

Does anyone have a suggestion for a program that will let me keep any other program's window 'always on top'?


texts: Internet is slow on an iPad bought in New Zealand, but used in USA

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I am travelling in the States at the moment. Upon arrival I immediately bought a local MicroSIM card from Simple Mobile. However, the connection speed at times is intolerably slow even when I am in the San Francisco city center. A google page can take 3-4 minutes to open. Simple Mobile uses a different technology called Edge (denoted as E on my iPad instead of the 3g that I am used to). I am not familiar with this.

I went a t-mobie outlet and asked them for advice. I was told that it is possible that my iPad is locked to New Zealand and using it on a US SIM and plan would mean slow connection, so switching to a t-mobile sim is probably not going to help much. Is this true? Or is it just Simple Mobile's problem? I thought I was pretty familiar with iOS devices. I have heard of unlocking phones, but iPads. Really?


texts: Yosemite update deleted user files - but no old user folder in the system

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I am wondering, after the OS was updated, a user created the same user account with same name and same full name. So there is no old folder with same name. However, the ID number is 501. Is there still any chance of getting the old files? Disk space taken is only 13 GB.

It is related to How do i get back my old user account after upgrading to OS X Yosemite 10.10.2?


texts:
I've recently started using MacBook Pro with OSX, after years of developing under Ubuntu.

I often use GNU command line tools like make and watch. How do I install these on my Mac?


texts:
2 people told me (in the last 24 hours) that they bought an app I sent to App Store, but neither App Analytics nor Sales and Trends in iTunes Connect show a thing, they show there isn't any sale and no analytics at all.

How can I see the information of the app correctly? Why is this happening?


texts: macOS counterpart of Windows startup batch file

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My friend pranked me by creating a batch file which opens a YouTube video and added it to the startup folder, so that the batch file launches every time I log in. This is what he wrote in the batch file:

TIMEOUT 1
start /min https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kob0G2hE8IY

On top of that, he scheduled the batch file to run every 10 minutes using Task Scheduler.

This is done on a Windows PC. So my question is, how do you do the same thing on a Mac?


texts: How can I download iTunes U videos faster?

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I want to download the videos from iTunes U, such as iPad and iPhone Application Development.

Lectures of previous semesters were on YouTube, so those of us with slow Internet connections could download/watch them without having to wait too long. But the latest videos are only in iTunes and seem to be, high quality, large files only. They take too long to download.

Is there a way to download these videos faster, or download lower quality versions just like YouTube?

This isn't exactly a MacOS question, rather it is related to iTunes. I am asking the question in this site, because I can't find any solution in the internet.


texts: Hyphen is being replaced by $'\342\200\224...' in bash

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I've created a bash script to start a network computer if it is sleeping, then start a streaming client. However, as the script executes the final command to run the streaming client, each cli option with a hyphen becomes wrapped in $'\342\200\224<option>'. E.g. -resolution becomes $'\342\200\224resolution'.
Specifically, this command in the script:
/Applications/Moonlight.app/Contents/MacOS/Moonlight stream "$_target_computer_ip" "$_moonlight_app_name" —resolution "$_moonlight_resolution" —fps "$_moonlight_fps" &>/dev/null &

executes in the shell as:
/Applications/Moonlight.app/Contents/MacOS/Moonlight stream 192.168.1.30 mstsc.exe $'\342\200\224resolution' 1920x1024 $'\342\200\224fps' 30

I've tried escaping the hyphen as -, but that just changes the output to $'?\200\224. What am I doing wrong?
Here's the full script:
#!/bin/bash
set -x

_target_computer_ip='192.168.1.30'
_target_computer_subnet='192.168.1.255'
_target_computer_mac='2C:F0:5D:27:7C:95'

_moonlight_app_name='mstsc.exe'
_moonlight_resolution='1920x1080'
_moonlight_fps='30'

if ping -c 1 -W 1 "$_target_computer_ip"; then
  echo "is alive"
else
  echo "nope"
  wakeonlan -i $_target_computer_subnet $_target_computer_mac
fi

/Applications/Moonlight.app/Contents/MacOS/Moonlight stream "$_target_computer_ip" "$_moonlight_app_name" —resolution "$_moonlight_resolution" —fps "$_moonlight_fps" &>/dev/null &

And the full command output:
Fayes-MBP:Shell Scripts rain$ ./check_and_wake_pc.sh
+ _target_computer_ip=192.168.1.30
+ _target_computer_subnet=192.168.1.255
+ _target_computer_mac=2C:F0:5D:27:7C:95
+ _moonlight_app_name=mstsc.exe
+ _moonlight_resolution=1920x1080
+ _moonlight_fps=30
+ echo 192.168.1.30
192.168.1.30
+ ping -c 1 -W 1 192.168.1.30
PING 192.168.1.30 (192.168.1.30): 56 data bytes

--- 192.168.1.30 ping statistics ---
1 packets transmitted, 1 packets received, 0.0% packet loss, 1 packets out of wait time
round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 3.701/3.701/3.701/0.000 ms
+ echo 'is alive'
is alive
+ /Applications/Moonlight.app/Contents/MacOS/Moonlight stream 192.168.1.30 mstsc.exe $'?\200\224resolution' 1920x1080 $'?\200\224fps' 30


texts:
I'm trying to make a local website using OS X Server (4.0.3), and am following the tutorial that comes with Server. When I use Safari on another Mac, when I try to go to the website (myserver.local) the website doesn't load/is stuck 1/3 of the way loading.

The Server Tutorial is in the help menu (Help > Server Tutorials > Host a website > Lesson 1):

I've summarized the steps I took, and there didn't seem to be anything wrong following each step:

https://help.apple.com/serverapp/mac/getstarted/4.0/#/apd9a7f7c98f

  Lesson 1: Create a private, local, dynamic website

  In this lesson, you’ll learn:

  How to create a private website on your local network that uses a web app to produce webpages
  How to enable and select Python web apps
  How to use a built-in Python web app as a default webpage

  Step 1. Select Websites

  Open the Server app to see the list of services available in OS X Server. Select Websites.

  Step 2. Enable Python web apps

  Select “Enable Python web applications.”

  Step 3. Add a website

  Click the Add button .

  Enter the following information in the website creation pane:

  Enter the server’s local host name—for example, “myserver.local.”

  This is the name that Safari users on your local network use to view the website.
  Select the server’s local network IP address from the pop-up menu.
  Leave the SSL certificate as “None.”

  Don’t click Create yet.

  Step 4. Enable the sample Python web app to generate the webpages

  Click Edit Advanced Settings, then select “Python ‘Hello World’ app at /wsgi.” Then click OK.

  Note: Once you get this working, you could add your own web apps written in Python.

  Step 5. Make the Python page the default index page

  Return to the website creation pane, and click Edit next to Index Files. Add an index called “/wsgi” and drag it to the top of the list, then click OK.

  Step 6. Create the site

  After the configuration is finished, click Create to make the new site.

  Step 7. Test your configuration

  Open Safari and go to the site URL (myserver.local, in this lesson) to see the generated page.

However, the test is failing with Safari stuck 1/3 of the way loading by looking at the progress in the address/search field. How can I figure out what's wrong with my server and/or setup?


texts: iPhone X photo preview different from result

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I would like to know if the camera behavior I am experiencing it's normal or if there is a problem.

When I shoot a photo in low light conditions the photo "preview" I see in the camera app is really different from the final photo.

This is before taking the photo. As you can see there is some noise in the picture:

This is the result taken from the camera roll. The noise is not present anymore and light is totally different:

How it is supposed to work? Because if the preview it's different from the result I cannot trust the preview and maybe I can do some adjustment before shooting (e.g. change the exposure) that will led to a completely unexpected result.


texts: What is the difference between APFS Local Snapshots and Time Machine Snapshots?

texts:
I have an external disk always backing up my system, since Time Machine was launched.

Not the same disk all these years.

Catalina introduce this thing called APFS local snapshot that wastes disk space by creating backups on the main disk.

Also Catalina now split macOS into 2 partitions: Macintosh HD and Macintosh HD - Data.

Here is my problem:

I have Time Machine backing up the main disk to USB disk.
I have local snapshots being created on the main disk.

First question: macOS has these 2 partitions, Macintosh HD and Macintosh HD - Data, I type tmutil listlocalsnapshots / and I see this

com.apple.TimeMachine.2020-03-18-114726.local
com.apple.TimeMachine.2020-03-18-134519.local
com.apple.TimeMachine.2020-03-18-144256.local
com.apple.TimeMachine.2020-03-18-154141.local
com.apple.TimeMachine.2020-03-18-164459.local
com.apple.TimeMachine.2020-03-19-022806.local

These are snapshots that contain data from both Macintosh HD and Macintosh HD - Data, right?

Second question: I am having this other error explained on another question of mine.

That local snapshot I mention, from 3 days ago, doesn't appear today when I listed the local snapshots. Probably they have been alreay erased.

Third question: these snapshots mentioned by fsck_apfs and Disk Utility.app are those APFS local snapshots, right?

Fourth question: When I open the Time Machine application and it shows a list of all backups Time Machine has by date, what backups am I seeing there, the ones on the external disk or these local snapshots.

Fifth question: What is the relation between these local snapshots and the backup being made to external disk?

Sixth question: If the local snapshots and the backups being made to external disks are independent, how do I rollback the disk to a previous local snapshot?

Thanks, please answer these six questions.


texts: How to remove unremovable network drive login item?

texts:
When I reboot my MacBook Pro (11.3 now, but it's been happening for years) the reboot pauses for about a minute, after which it tells me there was a problem connecting to a certain defunct network drive. It doesn't exist and never will.

The usual advice is to locate the offending entry in Login Items and remove it. I wish I could. Below you'll see a screenshot of my Login Items, with what I presume to be the offender. It cannot be selected (the checkbox is disabled) so it cannot be removed.
You can also see I'm an Admin and the padlock is unlocked. Holding shift during login didn't help at all. How can I get rid of this?


texts: Remap keys to match Windows, but CMD+Tab for switching app?

texts:
I have been using Karabiner and Better Touch Tool to remap my keys, so they match like Windows. Since I'm used to that layout, I wanted it switched. However, since I updated to Sierra, Karabiner no longer works, and I have to use Karabiner Elements, which just can't do multiple keys. So what I have now in Karabiner Elements is:

left_command -> left_option
fn -> left command
left_option -> left_control
left_control -> fn

This allows me to do stuff like Fn T for opening a new tab and so on. However, I want to open the Application Switcher (basically CommandTab) using CommandTab on the keyboard. In Karabiner I could make a "pass-through", which allowed me to ignore those keys:

What would the best way be, to satisfy my needs?


texts: copy simulator from one mac to another mac osx

texts:
I'm the user with the less internet speed, one of my friend downloaded iPhone Simulator in his Xcode 4.5 to test the code in iOS 5.1, 5.0, 4.3 os too, now if I want those simulators in my mac, is there any way from there I can copy those simulators and simply paste it somewhere in my XCode.app folder that I will get those simulators in my Xcode too? --- I'm taking this as an advantage for not downloading the same thing again and save the time!

I came to know that, we can find the iPhone simulators here for XCode 4.3 or higher versions,

  /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/iPhoneSimulator.platform/Developer/Applications/

Have anyone tried this before? or some other way to get this other than downloading.


texts: Why does the iMac charge my iPhone faster than the wall charger?

texts:
I've noticed that my iMac at work (21.5", Mid 2011) charges my iPhone 5 about 2-3x faster than the included wall charger.

How does it do that?


texts: Ok, I just bought a brand new original iPad. Sounds impossible, right? Well, we just opened the box, and it is not even charging. There is no indication that this iPad even works even though it is technically "new." Is this something that Apple will need to fix or do I just need to let it sit on the charger overnight and hope it wakes up from a 2 year sleep in its box?


texts: Is there a way to put the iPhone into a child-only mode?

texts:
I find that my two-year-old will often delete photos...most of the times by accident.

Is there a mode on the iPhone or some other software that will help thwart this?

Is there a way to control which apps a child can access?

(I'm hoping that Apple would build it right into the OS.)


texts:
I am right in saying that Fluid.app does not support Web Fonts?

The fonts on this page looks nothing like in Safari or Chrome:
http://www.typography.com/cloud/welcome/

And I have tried whitelisting the following domains in the Preference, but without luck.

*cloud.typography.com*
*typography.com*
*cloudfront.net*


texts: Secret to long-lasting relationship: Shut Down or Close Lid?

texts:
The guy at the Apple store was like: "I just close the lid, and that works fine for me. I also shut it down every 1 (or 2) weeks, to clear the RAM".

That makes sense, but it sounds like his personal experience. Is there anything official/unwritten law on what we should do when we are done with our Macs, at night for example.

I am a person that almost accesses the laptop (MacBook pro 15'' Retina) every day. It's brand new and I wish for a long-lasting relationship with it!


texts: Now that Microsoft's released Outlook for iOS, does anyone know if it will sync calendars, contacts and tasks with Outlook on a Mac?


texts:
I have two networks at home - my regular one and a guest network. My router is a Synology RT2600ac. I also have a Sonos One at home, connected to my main network.

Everything is working peachy from my main network, but I would like guests to be able to stream to the speaker as well using AirPlay 2. Naturally, though, they won't see the speaker since the guest network is not able to communicate with my main network, where the speaker is.

Is there any way to set this up? Any sort of port forwarding or setting on the router to allow this sort of communication?


texts: Share to Facebook button doesn't work in iPad

texts:
The Facebook website itself is fine. But even in the same browser (I tried this with both Safari and Opera Mini), the little blue F for sharing a New York Times article (likewise several similar sites like Vox) brings an Error message. No details except "We are working on it." But I am not having any problem doing this on a desktop, so I think it is Apple or something about my iPad in particular.

Ideas?


texts:
Is it possible to reset the entire data present in your Apple ID.
From all the download apps to all the iCloud data and Game Center data too.
If yes, how?


texts:
I would like to try Intel's EFI shell.

How can I (build and) install EFI Shell on Mac? I've seen prebuilt binary, but I'd like do build it myself and I don't trust stuff from file-sharing sites.

There is EDK but isn't it for Windows only or maybe I can built it on OSX somehow?


texts: Since I updated to iOS 11 it's been warning me about using the phone while driving. I'm not driving. I'm on public transportation. How do I turn off the warning?


texts: How do I sync the Visual Studio Code (vscode) theme to use my OS light/dark color scheme?

texts:
MacOS now supports both "Light" and "Dark" mode (found in "System Preferences", "General", "Appearance").

How can I make VS Code automatically change it's theme to be light or dark, when I change my MacOS "Appearance"?


texts:
I'm running into issues with Preview on 10.10.2 and annotation opacities. Preview seems to not honor opacities set by other programs, and clears all annotation opacities in a file when saving a new version.

Specifically, I'm using PDFs that have been previously annotated with another program (Foxit PDF reader in Windows, or Adobe Reader on Mac) to have 40% opacity at a given color. When viewed in Preview, these annotation are displayed at 100% opacity (completely opaque) and are thus much darker in color). When I make a new annotation in Preview and save the edited file, it resets all opacity values to 100%.

Is there any way to get Preview to honor these opacity values, or at the very least not clear them when saving a file? I don't want to have to switch to using Adobe Reader on the Mac (which does display opacities correctly), but I may have to.


texts: Can I attach two external displays to new MacBook Air?

texts:
Would it be possible to connect a thunderbolt display and a DVI display to the new thunderbolt MacBook Air? The Apple website has images of a Pro with multiple external monitors, but an Air with only one. Is it possible to do this? Or is the MacBook Air not powerful enough?

I know this is technically possible, by connecting the Air to the thunderbolt display and then connecting the DVI display to the thunderbolt display (with an adaptor), but will the MacBook Air be powerful enough?

[The DVI monitor is a standard 22" Dell monitor]


texts:
Apple spellchecker is very useful, but does not work very well for technical text as it is missing all brand names and 50% words, doing more damage than good.

Is there a way to do "Learn spelling" action as a keyboard shortcut, so that I don't need to go through painful learn spelling right menu click every time. This starts to hurt after it is miscorrecting 100th word.

EDIT: Tried to add shortcut, but doesn't seem to work:


texts: Can I feed spoofed video to sites like omegle.com that require a connected camera?

texts:
Sites like omegle.com want video from my connected camera, but I don't
have one. How can I feed omegle.com (a Flash app) a spoofed video feed
(eg, a static picture, mp4 file, etc?)


texts: How can i share ubuntu's intertet to iphone via USB

texts: Can anyone help me reverse tethering from linux to iphone 5.


texts: Unable to update safari due to "Spotlight is using the SafariQuickLookPreview extension"

texts:
Error message:

  Spotlight is using the SafariQuickLookPreview extension, which must be
  closed before the software can be installed.

I have already closed safari.

What do I need to do to update safari?


texts:
My MacBook Pro kernel-panicked with this message, "You need to restart your computer. Hold down the power button until it turns off, then press the power button again."

The same message appears each time I reboot.


texts: Need a way to save multiple window layouts for multiple configurations of monitors

texts:
When I work at my desk, my MBP is connected to two 27" displays, so I have 3 screens, and they're laid out very specifically, so my chat, mail, trello, etc. windows are all in their own spot.

I'm lucky enough to work somewhere that has a lovely cafe workspace. As such, I like to take my MacBook up there and work on a single task in the morning, which rearranges all my windows to accommodate a single screen, and that's fine.

But when I return to my external displays, I need the ability to make all my windows (at least if they're open) return where they belong. It only needs to associate an app with a location; I don't need it to remember locations of specific browser windows, etc.

Is there a setting in OSX or an app (I'm willing to pay for it) that will allow me to either associate a layout with a monitor setup, or even just to save multiple layouts that I can snap back to when I switch configurations?


texts: Modifying "User interface sound effects" with applescript

texts:
Good morning all,
I would like to be able to turn the system sounds on my mac off (and back on) with an applescript activated as an extension for Alfred.

I have little knowledge of applescripts but I have found that I can open the system preference pane. How do I check and uncheck the "Play user interface sound effects" and "Play feedback when volume is changed" check boxes?

The start of my code is as follows

tell application "System Preferences" to activate (reveal anchor "effects" of pane id "com.apple.preference.sound")

Thanks guys


texts: Is there any way to get a pop-up notification on my iPhone or iPad when mail arrives?

texts:
I have gmail set up to send me "true" push notifications (using the exchange server setup).  So my mail arrives in realtime, and I instantly get badges on my springboard screen to indicate new messages.

But I want to be able to get a pop-up with the sender and subject, like I would with an SMS, or an IM using Beejive.  Is there really no way to do this?  It would be especially helpful when I'm in another app, and don't mind the pop-up's interruption, but would like to know who the message is from before deciding to leave the app to check mail.


texts:
I traveled to another country and forgot to change the time of my Nikon camera to local time.
So after returning I used exiftool(exiftool -AllDates+=1 *.*) to change time of all the photos but in Finder, "Date Created" changes to present day.

How can I get real created date displayed in Finder?

I understand a new file is created with exiftool so Date Created is present date.

Exif data after shifting the date:

File Modification Date/Time     : 2018:08:24 09:44:32-03:00
File Access Date/Time           : 2018:08:24 09:48:10-03:00
File Inode Change Date/Time     : 2018:08:24 09:44:32-03:00
Modify Date                     : 2018:08:19 18:46:46
Date/Time Original              : 2018:08:19 18:46:46
Create Date                     : 2018:08:19 18:46:46

A Get Info of an original file

The image was created at 9:04.
9:30 I was still taking pictures, not editing or something

I don't get why Apple does not have a "Date/Time Original" or "Create Date" tab in Finder


texts: Reduce or increase chrome and font size with 4k screen

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I recently invested in a gorgeous 4k screen which I drive with a 13" rMPB.

For the size of the panel and my personal preferences on font size, icons, menu items etc. a "scaled" resolution of 3008x1692 looks best. Unfortunately there's a performance penalty because that's not the "native" resolution of the screen or the "default" HiDPI version of the same. OS X tells you me as much when I select the resolution -- "Using a scaled resolution may affect performance".

My problem with the "default" option is that all the fonts, icons and menu items are way too big. In the "native" resolution everything is too small.

I can hit command-plus a few times in native mode to make a browser and most other programs readable, and similarly for command-minus in "default" mode. But the icons and menu bars don't change.

Is there a way to basically make everything (or most things) bigger or smaller so that I can have my goldilocks size without having to scale the resolution?


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My bootcamp doesn't work, at the windows set up page I get "windows cannot locate the disk and partition specified in the unattended answer..." which I think is due to the weird nested disks I have

How can I clean up the way that the disk is formatted? I don't want this pointless nested disks
*MacBook Pro 2016 Big Sur


texts: I use TeXShop for TeX/LaTeX, and all the files with tex extension exhibit the TeXShop icon. Some false move had the result that all .tex files exhibit the Excalibur icon. I have used the Info window to reverse this move, using the "Use this application to open all similar files" command (I guess this is the English phrase, my Mac speaks French), but not all the .tex files show a TexShop Icon. Some of them have a blank icon. What can be done to revert to the original and correct behavior of the finder ?


texts: How to set a custom page size in Numbers?

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There seems to be no option for this on Numbers 4.2

There are a bunch of options with fixed sizes, but nothing to set custom values for the document's width and height.

The reason is that I want to export the spreadsheet as a document with the size being roughly the same as the screen on my tablet, so that I don't have to scroll horizontally or vertically to see all its contents, nor to have black bars on both sides of the page, so to maximize the information I can fit in the document.


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my .bash_profile is setting up my prompt like this
parse_git_branch() {
  git branch 2> /dev/null | sed -e '/^[^*]/d' -e 's/* \(.*\)/ (\1)/'
}

export PS1="\u@\h \W\[\033[32m\]\$(parse_git_branch)\[\033[00m\] $ "

however, the result is that my prompt looks like this:
\u@\h \W\[\033[32m\]$(parse_git_branch)\[\033[00m\] $

Just to get the username I tried the following so ANSI could be used in zsh
PROMPT=$'%{\u%}'

but the prompt became empty, like if \u was ignored.
How could ANSI be used as usual within zsh?


texts: Mail folder in reverse alphabetical order

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After upgrading 10.15 Catalina, the folders in Mail are sorted in reverse alphabetical order. I am connecting to Gmail.

Anyone has similar issue?


texts: What is Spotlight on iPad – where are Spotlight icons displayed?

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I'm developing a Universal iOS game with Xcode and I have to supply 3 images for icons.

An icon image for the home screen (app).
An icon image for iPad in Settings.
An icon image for iPad Spotlight.

I am wondering what "Spotlight" actually is (and where I can access Spotlight on my iPad), so I can work out where the icon will be displayed.


texts: How do I get my iPhone and Apple Watch to beta together?

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At August 8, 2019, 01:55 UTC+8, from Apple's Feedback Assistant I'm told that:

  Warning You must update your watch to watchOS 6 beta 2 or later before updating to iOS 13 beta 6 otherwise your watch will no longer be able to connect to your phone. (52854192)

I've had the iOS 13 Beta Software configuration profile on my iPhone, but it only takes me to iOS 13 beta 6, nothing below. Yet if I upgrade to beta 6, I will not be able to upgrade my watch.

Also I've had watchOS 6 beta's profile on my iPhone, but I seem to have to upgrade my phone first.

Is there a way to upgrade to iOS 13 beta 5 or lower, or is it that the only way for me is to wait until September's release?


texts: Automount SMB share at specific location

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Here's my problem, I want to automatically mount a network share at a specific location without the requirement of the user entering any details. The share must be mounted in a user specific folder. Why? I have a QNAP NAS which has a share called home and that share points to a different location depending on the credentials used to access it which means that I get issues if it mounts under /Volumes as every user is mounting a home share. First in best dressed in that case as subsequent user attempts will not mount.

The drag drive to login items with credentials in keychain is nice but doesn't allow me to choose the mount location. If I use mount_smbfs from the command line to set it up as desired and then drag the share into the login items it does nothing on login.

Using the mount volume applescript command seems of little use as it doesn't allow me to specify the mount point.

The only option I could see is to use the auto_smb file examples found on the internet but this involves hardcoding passwords which I am not keen on. In a non-LDAP/AD world is this the best I can hope for to solve this issue?
A non-boot alternative is to put the mount_smbfs command in a script and execute from the login items.

Ideas anyone?


texts: Is there any way to display whether a song is explicit via my iPhone's Music app? (if i bought explicit songs from the itunes store) with Cydia?

texts: Is there a way to see if any song is explicit/clean if I bought any songs from the iTunes store and synced it in via iTunes via Cydia apps? (iOS 5, iPhone 4, Mac 10.9 Mavericks)


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Have searched for quite a while for the answer to this question but the only solution that has worked has been to change icons on a file to file basis, which is not very efficient...

Currently my Mac is using some generic images for icons, regardless of what the default application for them is.  As you can see in this image, even though all three of those files are set to open with Sublime Text by default, they retain painfully ambiguous icons.

What I would like is some way to simply set a default image for a file extension, regardless of default application. Say that I want to set the Sublime Text icon for .py extensions and the TextEdit icon for .txt and .tsv extensions. The result should look like this.

So far, I've tried setting the icon through the default application, which is the only solution I could find so far aside from changing the icon on a file by file basis, with no luck. I attempted this by changing the CFBundleTypeIconFile for the python entry in the Sublime Text Info.plist file from PYTHON to Sublime Text. Upon reboot, the icon had not changed and sublime could no longer launch due to verification issues I think. Changed that back and tried simply replacing the PYTHON.icns file in the Sublime Text Resources folder with a copy of the Sublime Text.icns. Rebooted and no change had taken place.


texts: Downgrading a new mac mini 2012 from Maverick to Mountain Lion

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I acquired a new mac mini late 2012 with a fusion drive & a 2,6 Ghz cpu. It came with maverick.

The machine already came back last week from a mac repear shop where they changed the mother-card because its power turns off on its own while asleep. This did not do much because it still does it. I should either take it back or call apple to have it changed I suppose, except that now...

Although there were warnings not to try to downgrade i.e. Is it possible to go from pre-installed Mavericks to Mountain Lion on my new Macbook Pro?, I wanted to scrape maverick out & replace it by ML just to use Motion 4. I applied the method described here: http://computers.tutsplus.com/tutorials/the-os-x-recovery-partition-what-it-is-why-its-there-and-how-to-remove-it--mac-31796 & erased the recovery HD & the Mac HD to replace it with ML !

Now it seems I'm in dire straits. Even before I wiped Mac HD, erasing the Recovery disk went wrong. It left a partition named "blank" weighting about 16 Mo (originally 650Mo) that doesnt show up in the partition part of disk utility. This "blank" partition also showed up on the desk.
I've created an ML bootable USB stick with diskmaker but I can't use it, the machine does not want it. I'll spare you the details (blank screen, folder question mark, the globe, asking for the wifi key, error 1005F & s.o.  I also tried the target mode with 2009 mac mini with ML, but I got a message error saying disks were not compatible. Is this because of the fusion drive ? Whatever...

My machine is still under warranty for 2 years & now I'm scared to lose this warranty if I mention my stupid endeavours to apple support. Needless to say, I'm a complete newbee to mac os instal since I rarely change machines. I went into Terminal doing paste & copy just to wipe the recovery hd as mentioned in the method above.

I think I'm in trouble, my videos helps making ends meet. All I can think off is to bring it back as is to the repear shop & ask them to fix the or replace it with ML. I stumbled on a topic mentioning the recovery hd on you site. to

Thanks for your precious help


texts: Managing a large number of parallel iCloud accounts

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I manage a large number (over 50) of unique iCloud accounts each with unique information, contacts, and an attached iPhone.
Currently any changes among the group's information has to be edited in manually, with contacts being the primary offender for time usage as I delete and then upload vCards for each account through the iCloud website.

Is there any workaround that Ask Different users know of? Any program that you have used or tried that could alleviate a bit of this workload?

Edit: As for clarification as to the system we have in place currently: we manage a number of field agents who need to be able to manage their own phone contacts on a parallel phone-by-phone basis, but all of the agents need to be able to contact one another, and the contact information among the agents changes frequently. It is a pain to update all of them manually through the current system we have in place. (iCloud) The number of agents we employ shifts with time, and we often deactivate phones and accounts, or even activate new ones, which would require an update to all of the phones' iCloud accounts, deleting outdated contacts and replacing them with the updated vCards. It feels as if there is a solution that could work better, but we have not been able to find it.


texts: Cannot downgrade ICloud subscription: which reason?

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A friend of mine has a 200Gb. ICloud subscription, of which she is using 130 Gb. She wants to downgrade it to the free option, but when she tries to follows the steps in https://support.apple.com/en-al/HT207594#ios on her iPhone, she can't: the corresponding option to "Change storage plan" doesn't work (you click on it and nothing happens). I can think of two possible reasons:

She has too much storage, and iCloud won't let her downgrade until she deletes all the excess data in her iCloud Drive.
She unknowingly paid for an annual subscription and it hasn't run out yet. She let me enter her iCloud account to have a look, but I haven't been able to find any place that lists her subscription status.

Which is it?


texts: MacOS Mojave 10.14 cannot recognise Motu 828x audio interface

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I am running on macOS Mojave 10.14. I installed the latest driver from Motu compatible with my Mac.

Unfortunately when plugging in my Motu 828x sound interface it is not recognized in System Preferences > Sound > Output/Input.

When I check in System information > Hardware > USB > USB3, the audio interface appears. If I try to open any DAW also there the interface does not appear.

So far I already tried:

a reboot by pressing ⌘ Command ⌥ Option P R
delete some possible corrupted plist files and restart the computer
uninstall and install the Motu drivers many times

However, nothing has worked!

Can someone please assist me in getting my Motu 828x audio interface working on my Mac?


texts: Reset/change Emoji color for human features

texts: I inadvertently hit the wrong color for a human emoji.  Holding it down does nothing and I really need this particular emoji to be correct.


texts: How can I access my Time Capsule remotely with iCloud?

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Before, with MobileMe, I was able to backup and access my Time Capsule anywhere in the world because I had my MobileMe login stored in my Time Capsule, and my MobileMe entered into my mac.

So when I was at home it would backup through the local network and when remote it did it through the internet.

Once upgrading to iCloud this broke (even though I entered my iCloud info into the time capsule).

Apple apparently fixed this with an update:

The latest Airport Base Station Update 7.6.1 "provides support for remote access to an AirPort disk or a Time Capsule hard drive with an iCloud account."

However, I'm still unable to do it. Is there instructions some where on how to do it with the latest Airport Utility / iCloud?

Note, yes I could do it with port forwarding but that would require that I have a static IP and like most all residential users I don't have a static IP and can't afford to pay 180+ for a business account to have one. And yes, you can use something like DynDNS but that only works if you have an extra computer at home and that its always on. I only have one machine and its my laptop that I bring with me. MobileMe acted like a DynDNS on the Airport to make Back2Mac work and supposively iCloud should do the same.

Also in Airport Utility next to my iCloud login it shows a green icon (so it's connected).

Thanks in advance!
MacBook Pro (15-inch Late 2011), Mac OS X (10.7.3)


texts: Disk Space taken up by misc/other - not TimeMachine

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I have OS X 10.15.7 running on a 500GB SSD and OmniDiskSweeper, GrandPerspective and System Information show that I have used about 270GB but only have about 30GB free. OmniDiskSweeper just counts what is there, but GrandPerspective shows 191GB of "Miscellaneous used space" (big grey box on the side) and System Profiler lists it as 'Other'. I know I should have loads of space because I moved my Photos library to an external disk and I was sitting at over 100GB at that point, but in the months since then it has ticked away.
I've tried tmutil listlocalsnapshots / but nothing shows up.
Something curious but possibly unrelated things
1: the disk drive has that second partition "- Data" and it is listed as 500GB too. It may be just me misinterpreting the read out, or poor interface design on Apple's part. The reason I mention this is that Disk Xray Lite also seems confused about disk space, claiming I have used 536GB, presumably because it has counted System > Volumes > Data > Users as well as Users, despite them appearing to be the same thing.
2: I replaced ~/Library/Application Support/Mobile Sync/Backup with an Alias that is to an external drive. I think it only backs up when that drive is plugged in, but maybe it is writing to 'other'

Some additional shots from Disk Utility to help diagnosis. The numbers have changed a little bit because I have deleted a few gigabytes, but the balance is the same

Disk Utility trying First Aid on one of the volumes


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I have an iPhone 8 and I have installed and used the Nike Training Club for a while; however, recently I tried to start a new fitness plan and the app crashes every time.
On Android, I would have deleted the app and cleared all the data, but on the iPhone if I delete the app, the data and the data stored in health, when I reinstall it, it already knows who I am. So, I imagine there is still some data about me stored somewhere between the device and icloud.
Do you know how I can completely reset the data an app stores on an iPhone (similarly to what happens on Android)?


texts: Will Apple include Mac mini 2014 late in his next OS upgrade after Catalina?

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Catalina is supporting Mac mini late 2014 models. But I want to know about the next os upgrade. Will Apple include Mac mini late 2014 in his next upgrade?

And one more thing is: for how many year will I get an upgrade of the latest macOS for my Mac mini late 2014.

I know it's very hard to say about it but then also any guesses.


texts: Is there any way to crack a password-protected disk image?

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I have created a .dmg file with password. Unfortunately I forgot the password and I my Google searches have not resulted in a way to reset the password of this .dmg file.

Please help me find a solution. I desperately need to access the contents of this .dmg file.


texts: imac mid 2011 install os x from usb drive

texts: I have a problem here, I got iMac mid-2011 with fresh HDD. I want to install mac os x el capitan from USB drive, but when I click option button on my keyboard there is no HDD or USB drive shown. only internet recovery and wifi connection. when I try internet recovery to reinstall os x, there is lion os x but when entering my app store data it says " this item is temporarily unavailable " please help. thanks in advance


texts: Mojave can't be installed but still boots to Installer partition

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I downloaded macOS Mojave from the App Store and, upon running it, it told me that my MBP (15-inch, Mid 2010, currently High Sierra) can't be upgraded to Mojave.

Then it restarted my Mac... into the same installer again. This time, the installer complained of some missing files.

I booted back into my Mac and deleted the .app file, but the boot menu (by pressing Option during boot) are still showing 3 partitions: mac OS Installer, OSX, and Recovery HD—in that order.

The weird thing is, both mac OS Installer and Recovery HD seem to open the same thing—a menu(?) where you can reinstall Lion(!!!).

My question: How do I remove mac OS Installer from the boot menu? Or, at least, reorder the menu so that OSX comes first.

I read on the internet to rerun the installer and cancel it there—well, I've deleted the file so I have to download it again, but now App Store prevents me from downloading it ("This version of macOS 10.14.5 cannot be installed on this computer."—I know! Why didn't you say so last time!)


texts: Did something wrong with partitioning my SSD

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I tried to make a partition for Windows on my Mac by using Apple's Disk Utility, because bootcamp already showed me that it didn't work for some reason. But now I'm stuck with a 70 gb hard disk, and I'm not capable of accessing the other part of the hard disk (I'm using a MacBook Air with 120 GB SSD).

I kind of expected Disk Utility to let me change the name and everything for this new partition I made (intended for Windows), but for some reason, the only thing that happens is that I can't access the rest of my hard disk anymore and there are no more partitions available.

I hope I've made clear what the problem is, I'm not a native speaker (as you might have noticed) so it's a little hard to write a question about a subject like this.

Here is the output of diskutil list:

/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *121.3 GB   disk0
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s1
   2:          Apple_CoreStorage Macintosh HD            120.5 GB   disk0s2
   3:                 Apple_Boot Recovery HD             650.1 MB   disk0s3
/dev/disk1 (internal, virtual):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:                  Apple_HFS Macintosh HD           +120.1 GB   disk1
                                 Logical Volume on disk0s2
                                 732FEE77-68E5-4934-AEA2-EB01DE4EA90D
                                 Unlocked Encrypted


texts: Earphones problem/ sleep mode/ MacBook Air

texts: I been trying to listen to the music in my MacBook Air early-2015 however when I close it the music stops. How can I fix this?


texts: Displaying difference between APFS snapshots

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Problem

APFS is amazing... and infuriating with its lack of tools available.

What I'm trying to do is simply an equivalent of btrfs send --no-data -p /snapshots/parent /snapshots/child

My investigation

Most of the google-fu returns usages of tmutil

tmutil is able to listlocalsnapshots / deletelocalsnapshots / localsnapshot (create)
tmutil compare <snapshot_path> doesn't accept 2 snapshots
tmutil compare EXISTING_SNAPSHOT returns cryptic & undocumented Must specify a snapshot root when performing a machine comparison.
tmutil calculatedrift <machine_directory> doesn't seem to be related to APFS snapshots
tmutil contains some undocumented options, but nothing related to snapshots
Snapshot created by tmutil have hardcoded com.apple.TimeMachine.YYYY-MM-DD-HHMMSS.local naming format

diskutil contains limited snapshots support

diskutil deleteSnapshot works as intended
diskutil listSnapshots list snapshots with sizes and some metadata (unlike tmutil)
No facility for creating snapshots

Kernel contains fs_snapshot_* syscalls

The documentation is almost non-existent, but a single man page is available
All usual operations (fs_snapshot_delete / fs_snapshot_list / fs_snapshot_create / fs_snapshot_mount) are supported
GitHub ahl/apfs hosts a small utility which demonstrates the syscalls usage
fs_snapshot_list list only com.apple.TimeMachine.* snapshots
Any write operations (e.g. fs_snapshot_create) end up with application being killed with fs_snapshot_create: Operation not permitted (probably due to documented in the man reason: "require an additional entitlement")

Commercial app, Carbon Copy Cloner, is able to manipulate snapshots

For obvious reasons they don't disclose how they do that ;)

Help? ;)

Is there any method of getting a diff between two snapshots? Any documentation how they can be managed?
The only naïve approach which because of speed is not feasible is running rsync between r/o mounted snapshots... but this is just stupid.


texts: How can I change the modified date of a symlink?

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I would like to change the modified date of a symlink. The symlink points to a directory so it cannot be a hardlink.
The following command works fine in the terminal for an actual directory, but it does not modify the modified date on the symlink. How can I do this and why does the command not work on symlinks?

touch -mt 201202112109 "Users/scott/actual directory"
touch -mt 201202112109 "Users/scott/symlink"

First one works, second one does not. the symlink actually points to the directory with the modified mod date. both are owned by same owner (me) and have same permissions.
Running Lion 10.7.3


texts: How can I download a newer Yosemite installer?

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I have an existing Yosemite installer app from the original release of 10.10 (e.g. Install OS X Yosemite.app) but can't seem to download a newer installer.  When I click Download, I'm presented with this dialog:

However, clicking Continue doesn't appear to do anything.  No update appears to be in progress, no network activity shows in Activity Monitor.

The same dialog appears if I click the Download button in Purchases, and the download never begins.

How can I get an updated installer?


texts: Facebook messages causing the Facebook app on my iPad to crash

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I have an iPad mini, updated to iOS 6. I can use my Facebook app well in every department apart from messages. In both the top display and side display, when I click on the messages option the Facebook app will crash. I have tried uninstalling the app, restarting, installing and restarting, but nothing improves or changes. Also I have tried the proper restart by holding down both the top lock/unlock button and home button but that has not worked either.

Is there anything else I can do to fix this crashing problem?


texts: How to upload photos to iCloud Photo Library on iPhone without Wi-Fi?

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I just upgraded to OS X 10.10.3 and decided to try out the Photos app. So I enabled iCloud Photo Library on my iPhone to upload some photos.

However, it says that I need Wi-Fi to upload photos to iCloud. The problem is I don't have a Wi-Fi connection, I only use the cellular connection for all my Internet needs.

Is there a way to upload photos to iCloud via cellular?


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I am unable to download an app that I wish to use on an iPhone running iOS 12. Tapping the download button shows the download progress indicator, but the app download doesn't start.

The app store page of the app shows the following message:

  The developer of this app needs to update it to work with iOS 11.

I am not using iOS 11, but iOS 12, running on an iPhone 8. So shouldn't the app download fine?

What can I do to install this app?


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I bought a used Macbook Pro running macOS Sierra.
It came after the previous owners reset it and installed the iLife pack (iPhoto, iMovie and GarageBand). I couldn't use those apps since it came with Mac OS X 10.9, and those apps versions were to low to use on macOS Sierra.

I had a problem updating GarageBand and iMovie, but I managed to do that after uninstalling those and re-installing them from the Mac App Store. The problem is with iPhoto. I can't open it or uninstall it. I only see this in the Launchpad:

When I click it I get a message saying that I need to update it, but I can't because according to the Mac App Store, it is not available on my local App Store.

What can I do in order to install it?


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I have a MBP 17 2010, equipped with a Vertex 2 SSD 120GB as boot disk.

It's an old hardware but I don't want to change it, the problem is the SSD is performing poorly :

The SSD health report is not so bad (except for temperature, which I dont understand) :

the SATA link looks OK :

EFI version is the latest :

but the speed, especially write speed, is quite the half of the Vertex 2 public benchmarks.

Any help ?


texts: Launching certain programs on startup in their own fullscreen space

texts: When I login I want a blank desktop in my first space, sublime text in my second space, chrome in my third, and terminal in my fourth space like so:


texts: Why is iTerm2 pinging faster than Terminal?

texts: I am using ping www.google.com from Terminal and iTerm2. iTerm reports faster responses from Google. Why is that? Is there a more efficient way of understanding how my connection is doing?


texts:
My iPhone 5 has been shutting down earlier than normal at lower battery levels.

First, it started to shut down around 10%, then it increased to 15%, 20%, and finally 25%. I used to be able to run it down to 1%.

The battery indicator also jumps down sometimes by around 10-15%.

I have only had this problem ever since updating to iOS 7.0.4 (from 7.0.3). I have done multiple iTunes restores since I updated, but the problem still has not been fixed.

Is there a fix for it?


texts: External monitor resolution setting is lost after MacBook "wakes up" from sleep

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I have recently purchased an external monitor that I am connecting to my MacBook Pro (Late 2009) using the MiniDisplay-to-VGA adapter. I have both the external monitor and the MacBook's monitor set to "Best Available" resolution in OS X Lion. Whenever the computer "wakes up" from its sleeping state, the resolution setting for the external monitor is "forgotten". Every time the computer "wakes up", the resolution of the external monitor is set to match the MacBook's monitor.

The only reason I am using the VGA cable rather than a DVI cable, is because I do not have the MiniDisplay-to-DVI adapter. Will switching to DVI solve the problem? Is there any known way to solve this issue other than getting a utility to reset the resolution manually every time?

Thanks.


texts: Sleep mode problems with external Monitor

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After the latest update (10.8.3), I encountered a problem. When my external Acer monitor is connected (via HDMI) while trying to put my MacBook Pro into sleep mode, everything works fine. But suddenly, after a few seconds, the HDD seems to wake up (I think its the HDD because of the noise) and to sleep again and wake up again. This happens all the time in 10-20 sec. time intervals. Furthermore, this only happens when the monitor is in standby. When I turn off the monitor via key or unplug the cable, the HDD stays in sleep mode. It seems like it's sending some data, which prevents the MacBook from going completely into sleep mode. I also connected it to my TV. There were no problems when connected to the TV. It seems like it's only happening with the Acer monitor.

Any suggestions how to fix this?


texts: Is there a keyboard shortcut to open the filename popover menu in Preview, Pages, etc.?

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I'm referring to the popover menu that opens when clicking the little down arrow next to the file name in some apps.

I use that extensively—it would be convenient if there were a keyboard shortcut to open it, but I haven't found one yet.


texts: Firing up Terminal from an Automator Workflow?

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I quite often use the python -m SimpleHTTPServer command in the Terminal to fire up a webserver for testing apps.  Having just learned the basics of the Automator, I figured this would be a great use for it - having added the following as a service I can now right-click on a folder and have a webserver launch pointing at that folder.

cd $1
python -m SimpleHTTPServer 8000

The only problem I have, is the lack of output from the workflow.  Doing it manually I have a Terminal window displaying the requests coming in and enabling me to Ctrl+C to end the webserver.

The Automator workflow is silent and I have to open Activity Monitor and quit Python to close it.  Is there a way to have it run the script in a Terminal window?


texts: Migrate 1 TB of iMovie '11 to iMovie 10.x if migration requires twice the disk space?

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I have about 1 TB of movies in iMovie '11 (version 9.x) format, and I need to migrate this library to iMovie 10.x now.

This process is described here:
https://support.apple.com/kb/HT202853

However, the page above says that "copies of the original iMovie Projects and iMovie Events folders are left in place". My library is stored on an external drive which is pretty much full.

When I press Update in the iMovie dialog box (Do you want to update your projects and events?), it looks like iMovie is going to copy my old libraries, and therefore require double the space I have on the disk. My little MacBook Air's disk doesn't help.

What do I need to do to migrate this library?


texts: Ran codesign -fs - /Applications/Utilities/Boot\ Camp\ Assistant.app how do I reverse it?

texts: I ran codesign -fs - /Applications/Utilities/Boot\ Camp\ Assistant.app as per a post here  and now I cannot launch Bootcamp Assistant at all. Is there a terminal command I can run to reverse this?


texts: So my mom just bought a new Iphone 7 and she wants me to transfer ONLY her contacts to her new phone but cant i just login in with the apple ID on the New phone and everything would restore on it? If not please show a easy way to do this


texts: Switching Apple ID on iPad (without losing progress)

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My family has shared an iPad for many years using my mom's Apple ID.  Recently my mom got an iPhone for herself.  She needs to now keep her Apple ID for personal use.  We would like to create a new Apple ID for the iPad now and continue to use the iPad shared among the entire family.  The concern is over losing app progress when the switch is made.

How will app ownership be affected by this change?  Will apps disappear because the original purchaser is no longer logged in on the iPad?
Will saved progress disappear when a new Apple ID takes over the iPad?  Or does progress remain saved on the iPad hard drive?
What will happen to achievements in Gamecenter?  Will they update to where they were when the new Apple ID launches a game that has already been there for years?

Thanks!


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our network has 3 primary public IPs (datacenter, user set a, user set b).  I would like to set up the Caching server, and am just trying to understand the breakdown of the DNS entry.

In the data portion, the  "prs=1.2.3.4,2.3.4.5,3.4.5.6" section: What does "prs" actually equate to? Peers?  If this is going into internal DNS, wouldn't I want to use the internal IP of the cache server, as opposed to the public IPs?

Also, does this record assist the clients/devices, or the server itself?


texts: Updating iphone 4s OS 5.1.1 to ANYTHING more current 6.1.1? 7.0?

texts: I have not updated my iphone 4s since the day I got it. I am still on IOS 5.1.1. I jailbroke the phone when i first got it, but the jailbreak was outdated and stopped working so I deleted it off the iphone. If i want to update my IOS can I just backup my files and hit update on my phone or itunes to a more updated IOS ? I do not wish to jailbreak my phone afterwards, I dont need it. My concern was in the past i heard that if you updated your OS with a jailbroken phone, the phone goes into a loop on the restart. I had this happen to my on my iphone 3G. Any thoughts?


texts: What, precisely, does "reset network settings" do on an iPhone?

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I use "internet sharing" on my Mac, but lately I've been having trouble connecting my iPhone 5 to the resulting WiFi network. I've read advice online to do Settings -> General -> Reset -> Reset Network Settings on the iPhone, but I can only find very vague information on what this actually does. From the name it sounds like a bit of a nuclear option, and before I try it I want to make sure that it's not going to affect my ability to use the cellular network.

So, does the iPhone's "reset network settings" just reset WiFi settings, or does it reset cellular network settings as well? If the latter, is there any danger that this would delete any settings installed by my phone company, causing problems with using internet or telephone services via the 3G or 4G networks?


texts: Am I asking too much of my MacBooks performance? Will El Capitan help?

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This is my MacBooks configuration:

I'm usually running the following Software:
Chrome, Skype, Outlook, Android Studio, Safari, Terminal, AppCode, Xcode, Xcode Simulator, Firefox.

Also apart from the built in monitor I have 2 additional monitors hooked up.

I realize this is a lot.
I'm using up 6.6GB of RAM.
The CPU is 8.6% System, 4.45% User and the rest is idle.
(At least while I'm on here typing stuff. It obviously changes once I compile something etc.)

The thing that annoys me is that all the fancy OS stuff doesn't work smooth. i.e switching between desktops, mission control, launch pad, peeking to desktop. The animations stutter a lot. Like a video game you're running on too slow hardware.

I'm guessing I'm just doing too much at once (if you think this should still work properly please share ideas on what I could investigate).
Do you think a faster MacBook would help significantly? What may be my bottle neck here?
Do you think El Capitan will improve on this? They said at least that El Capitan optimizes a lot under the hood.


texts: How do I get .wav files made on the iPad into dropbox?

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I have an iPad Mini, and I have iElectribe which allows me to make music loops and render them as .wav files.  I want to use them in other apps and also store them in Dropbox or Google drive, but neither app lets me see anything but photos, videos, spreadsheets and .doc files.

How on earth do you get things you make into one of those services?  P.S. I don't own a Mac.


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I think I'm doing something wrong with my use of the Finder, but I can't tell what.

I was trying to find a .jar file, and I realize I don't know whether the Finder can't find it or it doesn't exist.  So I started looking for folders and files that I know exist, to confirm or deny that the Finder is getting the right commands from me.

There is a folder at ~/.m2/, and when I look for it in the Finder, it can't find it.  I also searched for a file within the ~/.m2/ directory, and it couldn't find that.

This is where I'm confused.  Sometimes, the Finder returns results quickly, and other times, I'm not really sure if anything is happening or not.  Right now, it says 'Searching 'All My Files'" as the title of the Finder window.  Does that mean the search is still in progress?  Or is that just a title?  I'm not sure.

It also doesn't say, "Search done, found X results" or "Search in progress", or anything.  There's no pinwheel, no information.  I have no idea whether it's still preforming a search or not.

What am I doing wrong?  How do I use the Finder to find my files?

The hardware I'm using is Macbook Pro, OS version 10.12.4.


texts: Can I silence alarms from shared calendar (on a calendar-by-calendar basis)?

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I use iCloud to share a family calendar with my wife (she owns the calendar, I am the sharee).  She likes to make sure she gets plenty of alarms for events on the family calendar so she doesn't miss picking up the kids or something like that.  Since I'm sharing, I also get the alarms, which aren't all that helpful when I'm in a meeting at work.

Is there a way to silence all the alarms from a particular calendar?  I still want to get alarms from my calendars.  I also can't remove the alarms from the shared calendar, or else she won't get them (and thus our kids will be stuck somewhere).

We use BusyCal, if it matters.


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For the past few months I've been doing quite a bunch of heavy load things on my Mac. So I wouldn't worry about the Fans running at full speed. Recently I've started to do more casual things. I've noticed when I turn my computer on the fan starts running at full speed. My computer's temperature is usually about 170 (150-220). The fan stills runs at full speed even when the total CPU usage 4% and with a low GPU usage. The only way I can turn my fans down is to open Macs Fan Control and set it to "auto". I have installed some fan control apps in the past but I uninstalled those. Could it be possible some leftovers are messing with my fan?

EDIT: I have removed all leftovers and the problem still continues


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When I want to see a calendar on Ubuntu, I just command like this:

$ cal -3

Then, it displays prev/current/next month output.

But, the cal command of OSX is a bit different from Ubuntu's, and there's no -3 option.

If I see the history section of man page, OSX's looks like this

  A cal command appeared in Version 5 AT&T UNIX. The ncal command appeared in FreeBSD 2.2.6.

And, the history section of Ubuntu's man page says

  A cal command appeared in Version 6 AT&T UNIX. Several much more elaborate versions of this program exist, with support for colors, holidays, birthdays, reminders and appointments, etc. For example, try the cal from http://home.sprynet.com/~cbagwell/projects.html or GNU gcal.

Can I use Ubuntu's cal command on OSX?


texts: iPhoto opens with spinning beach ball and won't stop

texts: My daughter's MacBook Pro has a problem with iPhoto. Just get a spinning wheel after opening. I've tried deleting and reloading from time capsule backups when it did work. That didnt work. Anyone have any ideas?


texts: iPhone 5S broken screen root access without iTunes authorization

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I have an iPhone 5S with broken screen.
I need to save my photos to my PC/Mac; I can't authorize iTunes cause of course the screen is broken and I don't have iCloud, so the only way should be a root access, does anyone knows how to?