texts: Whatsapp Notification does not display contact name

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The problem I’m experiencing is that contact names do not appear on whatsapp notifications (locked and unlocked). For example, if I get a message from Dad, whatsapp only displays the whatsapp logo and “message”, without displaying the sender. When I turn on message previews, I can see both the contact name and the message preview, but I used to be able to see just the contact name (“Dad has sent you a message”) instead of having to see the preview. This just happened as I updated to ios 11.3.1. I reached out to whatsapp and they mentioned below:

To turn on previews that display the contact name but not message:
Go to WhatsApp > Settings > Notifications > turn Show Preview on.
Go to iPhone Settings > Notifications > WhatsApp > Show Previews > Never

I made the above changes and now when i get notification it reads (Dad-Notification and NOT “Dad has sent you a message”)
Anyone having a similar problem? Thank you so much.


texts: OSX Screenshot App: Can't change screenshot file format

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I can't get the MacOS screenshot app to change the file format.
I've tried to change the settings with

$ rm  ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.screencapture.plist
$ defaults write com.apple.screencapture type -string "png"
$ defaults write com.apple.screencapture location "/tmp/"

rebooted, just in case, but when trying to save a new screenshot, I still can only save it as a .TIFF-image.

Some additional info: This issue was present even before the update from Mavericks to Yosemite.
killall SystemUIServer does not make any difference.

Interestingly:

$ defaults read com.apple.screencapture
{
    location = "/tmp/";
    type = png;
}

File permissions, numeric UID and GID:

$ ls -lacn  ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.screencapture.plist
-rw------- 1 501 20 74 Okt 31 15:59 /Users/jottr/Library/Preferences/com.apple.screencapture.plist

also,

$ ls /Library/Preferences/com.apple.screencapture.plist
ls: cannot access /Library/Preferences/com.apple.screencapture.plist: No such file or directory

So there's nothing in /Library/Preferences/ that could override the settings in ~/Library/Preferences/.

OS X 10.10 (14A389)

$ echo $OSTYPE
darwin14.0.0

Screenshot App Version: 1.8 (117)

I checked the File Permissions with diskutil, no errors.


texts: iPad changes to neighbors unsecured WiFi

texts: My iPad frequently changes to the neighbors unsecured WiFi.  I have added my own WiFi extender to increase my WiFi signal strength in the room where I work but frequently find my iPad switching to the neighbor's WiFi.  I have connected to the neighbor's WiFi then "Forgotten" that network; however it frequently pops back on and replaces my own secured network connection.  Apple has been unable to provide a satisfactory solution.


texts: -bash: alias: /path/to/folder: not found

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Mac OS Sierra, 10.12.3

I inserted this line into my .bash_profile:

alias myfolder="cd ~/path/to/folder"

But when I type this into Terminal:

source ~/.bash_profile

I get this error:

-bash: alias: Users/myuser/path/to/folder: not found

Basically, I want to be able to type "myfolder" from anywhere in the directory structure and have it change to that alias path. But I haven't been able to get it to work.

EDIT: Sorry, I was already using the cd command. Edited the question to reflect this.


texts: Picture in picture with camera - iPad Pro

texts: I would like to know if it is possible to have a floating window with the image that the camera is showing, that is, to have a small window on the screen that is showing what the camera sees, it is not necessary to record, only to see what what does the camera show (like a picture in picture, but without video, i want to see what its camera sees)


texts: Force an App to Open Full Screen in a Specific Desktop Space

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I'm running Mavericks OS X 10.9

As the title suggests I would like to force an app to open in full screen in a specific desktop space.

I can get an app to always open full screen, then position the app in the desired desktop space.

However, when I close the app and reopen, it will always open as the right most desktop space.

Any one have any ideas as to how I may address this?


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I have the following mac:

iMac (27-inch, Late 2013)
3.4 GHz Intel Core i5
8 GB 1600 MHz DDR3
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 775M 2048 MB

It has a HDD, and I have 240GB out of 1TB free space.

I'm on OS X El Capitan (10.11.3).

Since some time this mac has been very, very frustratingly slow. It takes about 15 minutes to go from a clean boot to getting firefox up and running. Especially starting applications is painful. It's a bit hard to quantify though, because at other times it seems ok. There's a big perception/psychology part to it.

I'm considering doing a fresh install, and perhaps go with an older OS X. But I'm also just extremely curious what's causing this. I can't figure it out. I know HDD's are slower, but the machine was fine when I got it, and I find it hard to believe that newer OS X's are so much worse.

Here's a few things I've done:

Turn off time machine, for good measure.
Turn off dropbox. My dropbox is rather large and I noticed it can be a pretty big factor when it's indexing.
I don't use FileFault.
1Password is in the startup items, nothing more.
I recently did a scan of my disk in recovery mode, to ensure that the disk wasn't failing. S.M.A.R.T. says verified.

There's nothing out of the ordinary in Activity Manager / htop. CPU and Memory both seem reasonable. Also worth mentioning that if I start a game like Starcraft or Cities Skylines, these applications perform pretty well once started. Starting them takes a long time though.

I'm basically at a loss why my fairly new Mac is worse at running applications as back when I got my first white macbook in 2006, when the applications I'm running haven't changed (firefox, terminal, thunderbird), and Memory quadrupled.

I'm very comfortable with the command line, and I just want to satisfy my curiosity. What causes my computer to take 15 minutes to go from boot to Firefox? How can I measure what the computer spends time on? Are there maybe obvious performance improvements I missed?

diskutil list output:

/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *1.0 TB     disk0
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s1
   2:                  Apple_HFS Macintosh HD            999.3 GB   disk0s2
   3:                 Apple_Boot Recovery HD             650.0 MB   disk0s3

A few (maybe) interesting items from system.log:

I got a bunch of these:

Mar 20 19:13:18 localhost kernel[0]: Sandbox: launchd(1) System Policy: deny(1) file-write-flags /private/var/run/dyld_shared_cache_x86_64h
Mar 20 19:13:18 localhost kernel[0]: Sandbox: launchd(1) System Policy: deny(1) file-write-unlink /private/var/run/dyld_shared_cache_x86_64h

A whole bunch of these for all my applications:

Mar 20 19:15:44 Pasta kernel[0]: Sandbox: coreduetd(74) deny(1) file-read-metadata /
Mar 20 19:15:44 --- last message repeated 23 times ---
Mar 20 19:15:44 Pasta kernel[0]: Sandbox: coreduetd(74) deny(1) file-read-metadata /Applications/App Store.app
Mar 20 19:15:44 --- last message repeated 4 times ---
Mar 20 19:15:44 Pasta kernel[0]: Sandbox: coreduetd(74) deny(1) file-read-metadata /Applications/Automator.app
Mar 20 19:15:44 --- last message repeated 4 times ---
Mar 20 19:15:44 Pasta kernel[0]: Sandbox: coreduetd(74) deny(1) file-read-metadata /Applications/Calculator.app
Mar 20 19:15:45 --- last message repeated 4 times ---
Mar 20 19:15:44 Pasta kernel[0]: Sandbox: coreduetd(74) deny(1) file-read-metadata /Applications/Calendar.app


texts: Does an iPhone 3GS running iOS 6.1.6 require SIM card setup after iTunes restore?

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A few days ago, I bought a used iPhone 3GS. I need to restore it, because I bought it broken and when I disassembled it and cleaned it up, some how it worked again, so the seller didn't have the opportunity to restore it. Sometimes (I can't remember which models and/or iOS version) after I restore an iPhone, when I'm setting it up again, it requires a SIM card inside, it doesn't have to be active, but it has too be there. The problem is that I can't get the SIM card slot in this iPhone to read the card I have. I don't think that it's the card, as it worked in an old 1st Gen iPhone I have, but it won't ever change from "No SIM" to even "Searching..." in the status bar when the card is inserted in the 3GS.

So, my question is: If I restore this iPhone 3GS, will it require a SIM card in order to set it up again?


texts: Is there software for transcribing and recognizing musical pitches in an audio recording?

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Does GarageBand or any other Mac software make it possible to determine the notes in a musical recording?

It doesn't have to be absolute, and it doesn't even have to guess the rhythm. Determining the intervals would be enough.


texts: How do I access a CD drive on a Linux machine from my Mac?

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I used this question: https://superuser.com/questions/316745/how-to-access-a-cd-dvd-drive-over-the-network to install nbd-server on my linux machine and share the CD drive.

But installing nbd-client on my Mac doesn't appear to be possible. Can't find it in homebrew.

How can I access the CD in that drive from my Mac?


texts: Can I enable Safari Reader (desktop) for webpages when icon is not available?

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I'm trying to print to PDF webpages from SQLAlchemy docs.

This page offers the icon:
https://docs.sqlalchemy.org/en/latest/orm/tutorial.html

However additional pages don't have the icon:
 https://docs.sqlalchemy.org/en/latest/orm/query.html

Since the first page loads, I don't expect the site is "blocking" reader view.

Internet search suggests I can turn on Reader (Safari Preferences > Websites > Reader) options on a domain basis, but this setting has no apparent effect.

On Firefox you can rewrite the url to force reader-view, about:reader?url=.

Is there a similar workaround for Safari?


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How can i get the newerst version of cURL instead of the old 7.24 that Apple provide.

user:~ kevinsimper$ curl --version
curl 7.31.0 (x86_64-apple-darwin12.4.0) libcurl/7.31.0 OpenSSL/0.9.8x zlib/1.2.5
Protocols: dict file ftp ftps gopher http https imap imaps ldap ldaps pop3 pop3s rtsp smtp smtps telnet tftp
Features: IPv6 Largefile NTLM NTLM_WB SSL libz

When i install with Brew I am notified that it is a keg-only and if i do

brew link curl --force

the version is stil 7.24, but the protocols have been updated.

Kuser:~ kevinsimper$ curl --version
curl 7.24.0 (x86_64-apple-darwin12.0) libcurl/7.24.0 OpenSSL/0.9.8x zlib/1.2.5
Protocols: dict file ftp ftps gopher http https imap imaps ldap ldaps pop3 pop3s rtsp smtp smtps telnet tftp
Features: AsynchDNS GSS-Negotiate IPv6 Largefile NTLM NTLM_WB SSL libz
user:~ kevinsimper$ which curl
/usr/bin/curl

If i then delete the "apple" curl, the function is not executable.

user:~ kevinsimper$ curl --version
curl 7.31.0 (x86_64-apple-darwin12.4.0) libcurl/7.31.0 OpenSSL/0.9.8x zlib/1.2.5
Protocols: dict file ftp ftps gopher http https imap imaps ldap ldaps pop3 pop3s rtsp smtp smtps telnet tftp
Features: IPv6 Largefile NTLM NTLM_WB SSL libz
user:~ kevinsimper$ brew install postgresql
==> Installing postgresql dependency: ossp-uuid
==> Downloading ftp://ftp.ossp.org/pkg/lib/uuid/uuid-1.6.2.tar.gz
Error: /usr/bin/curl is not executable


texts: Bootcamp error: Can’t install the software because it is not currently available from the Software Update server

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Whenever I try to proceed with the bootcamp installation or click the download windows support software option from the action menu, it throws me that error.
I've googled this problem and made sure I have a strong wifi connection, plugged in my Macbook while doing this, am running the latest Catalina version and apart from the current windows 10 iso on the microsoft website, tried using older versions of windows 10. Nothing helped.


texts: How to stream Mac desktop to Windows Laptop

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My plan is to use stationary Mac Mini through remote control from on my Laptop.
How do I do that?

My goal is to have supersmooth experience just like I would be using Mac normal way.

To people that may consider this is offtopic and "supersmooth" is subjective, I'll say that I am aiming for <50ms at 1080p while using host in range of, let's say 300km (in Europe).

For connection, I'll be using wi-fi 50mbits asymmetric 1/8 for my Mac and typical Cafe wifi (at my current place about 8mbits asymmetric 1/10) to connect my Laptop.

Supersmooth may be called 60 fps-like (although 30 should be enough for office stuff).

I am planning to code remotely on mac from laptop. So basically using IDE, few pdfs, email and web browser with multiple tabs.

Recently, I have found software called AnyDesk, which claims it has all I need, except Mac support, so for now (and maybe later, since AnyDesk is quite expensive) I have to find something else.


texts: How to use gcc or git without installing xcode?

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I am a newbie of Mac user. I can see there are gcc, git, etc in the "/usr/bin" folder. But when I want to use them,  it prompts like this:

MacBook-Pro:~ nan$ git
xcode-select: note: no developer tools were found at '/Applications/Xcode.app', requesting install. Choose an option in the dialog to download the command   line developer tools.
MacBook-Pro:~ nan$ gcc
xcode-select: note: no developer tools were found at '/Applications/Xcode.app', requesting install. Choose an option in the dialog to download the command line developer tools.

Does it mean I must install xcode to use gcc or git, thanks very much in advance!


texts: Unmounted Macintosh HD - Data partition / fsroot tree is invalid

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MBP late 2012, SSD encrypted AFPS macos 10.15.3

I can pass the first filevault password for Macintosh HD but then classic macos kernel panic screen because the the data partition cannot mount.


texts: Is Screen Sharing Version 1.7.2 on MacOS Catalina an Encrypted Connection?

texts: I can't find info from Apple on this...I typically connect via ip address and port forwarding. Is this a fully encrypted connection or do I need to configure an SSH tunnel?


texts: How can I convert MKV files and burn them to DVD?

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I have a 5+1 theater system(can use USB or DVD) which doesn't support MKV play.

How can I use my Mac to burn the .mkv files into high quality dvds ?


texts: Sync multiple Google Calendars with iPhone Exchange... broken?

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I've come across How can I show multiple Google calendars in iPhone's calendar app? but the topic seems to be dead already and doesn't solve my problem for now.

I'm using multiple Google calendars and successfully managed to add an Exchange account on my iPhone. The first problem was the exact email used for login to that account. Only @googlemail.com seems to work - not @gmail.com.

Another possibly important detail is that I use the newer 2-token-login and I had to generate an app-specific password for that Exchange config. But I've managed that too.

Now it comes to the point where I shall open up http://m.google.com/sync on my iPhone - but this states that my device is not supported. I've found out that the german version counterpart seems to be https://www.google.com/calendar/iphoneselect which loads and asks me to check the desired calendars.

But no matter how much of my 8 calendars I select - only the primary is synced to my iPhone. So does this thing actually work at the moment?


texts: Are 82°C to 98°C Temperatures extreme for a MacBook Pro?

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I've noticed that my 2018 MacBook Pro 15" with an i7 frequently hits 82°C while using Google Chrome and 98°C while playing video games. As an example, while running Minecraft with maybe 12 mods, Activity Monitor shows it using ~99% CPU with an energy impact of ~1000.

I got this MacBook in July and the issue started immediately. I contacted Apple Support who was quite unhelpful, telling me to reboot my computer and that they were "unable to find the safe temperatures" for my MacBook.

I haven't run into the MacBook throttling at all or shutting itself down, which leads me to believe something might be wrong with the firmware, or maybe the SMC. I haven't tried resetting the SMC yet, mostly due to concern over what specifically it will reset.

Since I'm not sure if these are extreme, should I be concerned for my MacBook Pro?


texts: Getting notified when my iPhone is found at a different email address?

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If my iPhone gets stolen and I try to use Find my iPhone while it's off, I am given the option to be notified by email when my iPhone is found.

I believe this sends an email to my iCloud account.

I see 2 problems with this:

Since my iCloud address was automatically set up to receive email on my iPhone, the person who currently has possession of the phone will also be notified when my phone was located. They could then take measures in order to make it harder to find the phone. Ideally they wouldn't get a notification message when my phone is found.
My iPhone was the only place that I used to get my iCloud messages. Right now I would need to manually login to iCloud.com and check the email every so often to see if it's been located. I realize that I could use an application such as Apple's Mail app to check this account automatically, but I am not using Mail right now. I'm using Gmail instead, and would prefer to get the message at my Gmail address.

Is there any way to send the email to a different address and/or bypass these 2 issues after the phone is stolen?


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I have an iPhone 5c, when I send iMessages my contact receives them as coming from my email address. I went to Settings to change this but my phone number is greyed out and my email address is in black. It will not let me change it to my phone number.
I can't find the "Start new conversations from" section.


texts: How can I view the complete Document file as well as the Large Files

texts: In Mac HD Storage it shows 65 GB under Documents but the list in Large Files only shows a fraction of that. I need to delete files to get my Time Machine Backup running again. How can I do this if I can't see where the problem is?


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I like this font and it's my default on Linux, so I tried to start using it on macOS (Sierra) too. The result is pretty awful and I don't understand why, in particular what puzzles me most is the fact that the lines are not parallel/perpendicular.

I suspect that this concerns the fact that originally Terminus is a bitmap font, but I don't know what to try next.
Do you have any ideas?

Update: As an alternative font similar to Terminus that appears to work out of the box you can try GNU Unifont.


texts: Is there a terminal command to keep apps from quitting?

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In macOS Terminal.app how can I issue a command similar to caffeinate that keeps all running applications from quitting?

In my System Preferences I have Energy Saver to: computer sleep-never and Display sleep-never, I even have caffeinate issued in the terminal.

After a while of no keyboard or mouse activity the screen will go to login mode. All apps like Excel and Mail have quit except those that required a save.

Even Terminal is asking if I really want to quit. I want all to be as if I were touching my keyboard every few minutes so not even the login screen shows and Excel never quits.


texts: I had an email account configured in outlook app in my iphone. I recently lost access to the email account and only mails available are the ones already downloaded in the outlook app. I want to backup these emails by exporting it to my PC. How do I do this


texts: How to create an Automator service to run an xattr script to remove extended attributes on selected files?

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I want to create an Automator Service that will run an xattr Terminal command on a single or batch of files.

I can do the operation in Terminal (kinda), but I didn't understand how to apply that to Automator.

Basically I was trying to remove Where From extended attributes from an flv or mp4 file. In terminal I'd simply type:

xattr -d com.apple.metadata:kMDItemWhereFroms /Path/To/File

That threw an error, but it still worked.

I'm running macOS 10.11.6, El Cap.

I finally figured it out. It appears I didn't need to be as selective with the xattr command, since I just want to clear all the extended attributes. Here's an image of what appears to work:

I still don't entirely understand the actual Shell Script language. I learned from reading a lot of other posts that unlike Terminal, you have to tell the shell script where xattr (the tool) is.

/usr/bin/xattr

I assume that "$f" is the file(s) that you select in the Finder.

I continue to be confused by the difference between "Get Selected Finder Items" & Get Specified Finder Items." They both seem to pass whatever you choose in the Finder through. I chose the 1st option and it worked.

Apologies if this all seems elementary to you guys, I have zero experience writing scripts. I just usually cut and paste someone else's work, and 9 times out of 10 that's done the job. Just couldn't find this particular explanation anywhere. Hopefully it will help someone else.


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I'm fine with the size of text on my iPhone. But sometimes I need to show a word or phrase to people whose eyesight isn't as good as mine.

I tried using the standard gesture for zooming in while using the "Notes" application, but it doesn't do anything.

How can I show a piece of text at a large size to someone else?

The approach needs to be able to handle non-alphabetic characters, especially Chinese characters.


texts: How to install parallels tools and make my ubuntu desktop full screen?

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I have installed parallels desktop to run ubuntu-18.04.3-desktop-amd64 on my MacBook Pro and after the installation completed, I tried to make it full screen but as the installation of Parallels Tools fails, I couldn't succeed.

I tried installing Parallels Tools using the terminal commands below:

cd /media/my_username/Parallels\ Tools
sudo ./install

But I get the error shown in the picture and the error log doesn't help me.

And here's the error log:

Started installation of Parallels Guest Tools version '14.1.3.45485'
Hit:1 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-security InRelease
Hit:2 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic InRelease
Hit:3 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-updates InRelease
Hit:4 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-backports InRelease
Reading package lists...
Return code from apt-get update is 0
E: Failed to fetch http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/g/glibc   /libc-$
E: Failed to fetch http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/g/glibc/libc6$
E: Failed to fetch http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/m/manpages/ma$
E: Unable to fetch some archives, maybe run apt-get update or try with --fix-m$
dpkg-preconfigure: unable to re-open stdin: No such file or directory
Selecting previously unselected package libc-dev-bin.
(Reading database ... ^M(Reading database ... 5%^M(Reading database ... 10%^M($
Preparing to unpack .../0-libc-dev-bin_2.27-3ubuntu1_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking libc-dev-bin (2.27-3ubuntu1) ...
Selecting previously unselected package linux-libc-dev:amd64.
Preparing to unpack .../1-linux-libc-dev_4.15.0-65.74_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking linux-libc-dev:amd64 (4.15.0-65.74) ...
Selecting previously unselected package libc6-dev:amd64.
Preparing to unpack .../2-libc6-dev_2.27-3ubuntu1_amd64.deb ...
Started installation of Parallels Guest Tools version '14.1.3.45485'
Hit:1 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-security InRelease
Hit:2 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic InRelease
Hit:3 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-updates InRelease
Hit:4 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-backports InRelease
Reading package lists...
Return code from apt-get update is 0
E: Failed to fetch http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/g/glibc/libc-$
E: Failed to fetch http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/g/glibc/libc6$
E: Failed to fetch http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/m/manpages/ma$
E: Unable to fetch some archives, maybe run apt-get update or try with --fix-m$
dpkg-preconfigure: unable to re-open stdin: No such file or directory
Selecting previously unselected package libc-dev-bin.
(Reading database ... ^M(Reading database ... 5%^M(Reading database ... 10%^M($
Preparing to unpack .../0-libc-dev-bin_2.27-3ubuntu1_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking libc-dev-bin (2.27-3ubuntu1) ...
Selecting previously unselected package linux-libc-dev:amd64.
Preparing to unpack .../1-linux-libc-dev_4.15.0-65.74_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking linux-libc-dev:amd64 (4.15.0-65.74) ...

If anyone has had the same problem, I will be so happy if they share the solution with me.
Thanks.


texts: bind application to file of particular names(rather than suffix)

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I want to open all makefiles with TextWrangler. But since makefiles have no suffix so binding a type of file to TextWrangler does not work.

How can I tell Mac to open any file named Makefile with TextWrangler?


texts: Can the new 2013 27" iMac function like the Thunderbolt Display?

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The Thunderbolt display is a really cool external display for thunderbolt-enabled mac laptops, but the sad reality is, all those peripherals and that gorgeous display is useless when the laptop is gone.

My question is, will the new 2013 27" iMac support peripheral passthru via thunderbolt to my 2012 Macbook Air like a Thunderbolt display would?

I would have the following connected to the iMac

Gigabit ethernet
External speakers
Wired keyboard
Wired mouse
USB microphone
USB printer

Would the Macbook Air be able to use these?

When the Macbook Air is connected, I'd essentially like it to operate just like the Thunderbolt display.

When the Macbook Air is disconnected, I'd like the iMac to function as a normal iMac.


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I'm using a Mac Mini (Mid 2010) with Mountain Lion on (OS X 10.8 12A269 – not OS X Server) as a file server at my home network. The Mac is equipped with an external 2TB USB disk (Western Digital).

The root of the external disk, from here on called extrn, is shared using "File Sharing".

When reading/writing large files from a Windows 7 workstation the entire samba connection seems to freeze for about a minute. It seems like the connection just resets.  Sometimes it takes less than a minute.

So my Question is, how do I troubleshoot this problem? What information is needed to solve this? Does anyone have any idea why this is happening?

In the Sharing menu in OS X, the folder is shared as "Read & Write" for my user, my user group and "Everyone". Under Options I've selected Share files and folders using SMB (Windows). And my user is also selected beneath that check box.

Looking at system.log there is a few related lines:

Aug 7 23:01:28 N-Ns-Mac-mini.local digest-service[11674]: label: default
Aug 7 23:01:28 N-Ns-Mac-mini.local digest-service[11674]:     dbname: od:/Local/Default
Aug 7 23:01:28 N-Ns-Mac-mini.local digest-service[11674]:     mkey_file: /var/db/krb5kdc/m-key
Aug 7 23:01:28 N-Ns-Mac-mini.local digest-service[11674]:     acl_file: /var/db/krb5kdc/kadmind.acl
Aug 7 23:01:28 N-Ns-Mac-mini.local digest-service[11674]: digest-request: uid=0
Aug 7 23:01:28 N-Ns-Mac-mini.local digest-service[11674]: digest-request: init request
Aug 7 23:01:28 N-Ns-Mac-mini.local digest-service[11674]: digest-request: init return domain: MACMINI-012345 server: N-NS-MAC-MINI
Aug 7 23:01:28 N-Ns-Mac-mini.local digest-service[11674]: digest-request: uid=0
Aug 7 23:01:28 N-Ns-Mac-mini.local digest-service[11674]: digest-request: init request
Aug 7 23:01:28 N-Ns-Mac-mini.local digest-service[11674]: digest-request: init return domain: MACMINI-012345 server: N-NS-MAC-MINI
Aug 7 23:01:28 N-Ns-Mac-mini.local digest-service[11674]: digest-request: uid=0
Aug 7 23:01:28 N-Ns-Mac-mini.local digest-service[11674]: digest-request: od failed with 2 proto=ntlmv1-with-v2-session
Aug 7 23:01:28 N-Ns-Mac-mini.local digest-service[11674]: digest-request: user=WIN7\username
Aug 7 23:01:28 N-Ns-Mac-mini.local digest-service[11674]: digest-request kdc: ok user=MACMINI-012345\username proto=ntlvm1 flags: NEG_KEYEX, ENC_128, NEG_VERSION, NEG_TARGET_INFO, NEG_NTLM2, NEG_ALWAYS_SIGN, NEG_NTLM, NEG_SIGN, NEG_TARGET, NEG_UNICODE
Aug 7 23:01:28 N-Ns-Mac-mini.local smbd[11591]: MACMINI-012345\username connected to path /Volumes/extrn

Then after about 2 minutes, the same chunck of logs appear again.

Sometimes there is an additional row afterwards:

Aug 7 23:05:10 N-Ns-Mac-mini.local smbd[11591]: MACMINI-012345\username connected to path /var/rpc/ncacn_np

username is the same:

MACMINI-012345\username at the server
WIN7\username at the client.

The strange thing is that sometimes (about 1 out of 30 times) everything works like a charm. Sometimes the problem is even worse.  I can't say that I see any pattern in it.

Any ideas?

UPDATE:

File system is 'Mac OS Extended (Journaled)'. I've also tried to share a folder on the internal drive (320GB included with Mac Mini Mid 2010). The same problem appears there too.

When the system "freeze" I refer to the Windows 7 client. What ever client trying to write the file (e.g. an unzip) gets an error message telling me that the "Path can no longer be found". Or if I'm trying to copy a file the copy progress is aborted due to write error. If I then try to access the drive (or any other samba share at my Mac) nothing happens for a while before everything suddenly works again.


texts: Alternatives to Google Earth that can consume KMZ

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I'm trying to eliminate Google software from my OS X experience.

I would like to eliminate Google Earth. Are there OS X tools that can consume or work with KMZ files? Are there good online tools that can work with these files? I'm keen to visualise points of interest on maps, but while OS X Maps provides a great user experience, it does not seem to import or show externally provided data.


texts: I have MacOS Catalina and Windows 10 Enterprise installed using Bootcamp, but it's a bit finicky getting the bootloader to show up (I know it's the option key, but it doesn't always work). Is there a way to get the Bootloader to display by default, and just boot into the default operating system after n seconds if no action is taken?


texts: How to replace or delete entire iCloud photos library?

texts:
My iCloud Photos library is corrupt. Photos are missing, the structure is broken.
I have a backup of the local photos library with all full res images.
I'd like to replace the entire content on iCloud with my local data but am unable to.

My library has more than 40,000 photos and is 200GB large.

I tried:

Create a new local, empty library -> it will download all from the cloud instead of replacing the cloud
Delete all from iCloud.com -> returns a server error during deletion
Delete in chunks of 1000 images -> "succeeds" but photos are not deleted
Of course I turned off iCloud photos on all of my devices

All I'd really like to have is a fresh start...possible? If yes, how?


texts: Data partly lost or hidden on external disk

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I have an external disk connected to MacBook via USB. From time to time the system alerts that the disk is unreadable, but sometimes it seems to connect and I can browse it in Finder, and even open some of its files with Quick Look, but some folders became empty although the disk has the same amount of free space. The Disk Utility can't repair the disk with alert: couldn’t unmount volume for repair. How can I possibly restore my data? My computer is MacBook Pro (early 2011), OSX Yosemite (10.10). The disk has its own power adapter. I've tried Data Recovery app, but it doesn't see the disk file system and can't scan it, while at the same time I can open some files on the disk in Finder... I also need to force eject the disk because it never ejects normally.

I've tested the disk with the case and power adapter which work for sure (with another HD).


texts: How to sort remixes under remix artist name in iTunes

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Is there some way to sort remixed versions of songs in iTunes under the remix artist's name?

As an example, Adventure Club has made a lot of songs that are remixes. For now, all these songs appear under the original artist's name with "(Adventure Club remix)" after the song name. However, I would like for all the songs by Adventure Club (remix or not) to appear under the artist, Adventure Club.

I do know of one way to make this work:
I can put the remix artist as the "Album Artist". This way the original artist's name is preserved, but the remix will sort under the remix artist's name. However, (and maybe I'm just being way too picky here) there are some cases where either (1) the song actually appears on an album by the original artist or (2) the song does not actually appear on an album at all. In these cases, putting the remix artist as "Album Artist" is inaccurate.

Thus, is there any other way to sort remixed versions of songs in iTunes under the remix artist's name?


texts: Can you get blackboard letter N, R, etc., symbols for mathematical notation?

texts:
The Special Characters palette includes many mathematical symbols, but I cannot seem to find blackboard bold versions of N, R, and Z, which are commonly used to denote the set of (respectively) the natural numbers, real numbers, and integers.

Right now, when I use the Special Characters palette and configure the Unicode section, and then look for the mathematical symbols, I find blackboard versions of A, B, and others, but inexplicably, certain characters including the N, R, and Z are missing. Here is a screenshot to show what I mean:

Are the blackboard characters available somehow, and I am missing something really obvious?


texts: Running out of application memory on Macbook Pro 2015/Sierra 10.12.6

texts: I'm constantly running out of application memory on Macbook Pro 2015/Sierra 10.12.6. This problem happens every few minutes. I have tried restarting several times using the specific method described in an earlier post. Besides Google, I have no other applications open on my laptop, and only one tab is open at any given point. I have also moved out a lot of my video and image files, so there is plenty of space on my hard drive. I ran the activity monitor when this problem occurred. Screen shot of activity monitor is attached. Any advice will be greatly appreciated!


texts: How much does an iMessage cost on Mobile data?

texts: How many Megabytes does an iMessage use when sent over mobile data? I’m asking because I’m on a pay as you go plan and I want to send iMessages on mobile data. I want to know how much will it cost me?


texts: Safari iCloud Tabs: iOS does not show macOS Safari tabs

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I had a problem where both my Mac OSX and iPhone iOS10 stopped sharing iCloud tabs. So I logged out from both iCloud accounts and signed in again.

Now my Mac shows iPhone tabs but not vice versa. How can I display the Mac's Safari tabs on my iPhone?


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macbook pro catalina 10.15.7, iphone 7 ios 14.2. Here is a screen of some pictures in the camera roll that were taken with the phone.

When i connect the phone to the mac book pro and open image capture, i get duplicates and there is an "E" added to the file name and the duplicates files seem to be smaller in size.  Question - what causes these duplicates and why arent they showing in the camera roll on the phone?


texts: Unable to unlock login keychain on sierra in ssh

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I have a script which remotes ssh into a Mac.  The original script, which worked on El Capitan, would unlock the keychain with this:

security unlock-keychain -p mypassword

The above command gives on error on Sierra so I updated it to this:

security unlock-keychain -p mypassword ~/Library/Keychains/login.keychain

The command above appears to work but then when I list keychains, the login keychain still isn't there and my script fails trying to sign my code because it can't get to the certificates.

(~)$ security list-keychains
"/Library/Keychains/System.keychain"
"/Library/Keychains/System.keychain"

This all works perfectly in a terminal window on the host but I need it to work remotely in SSH.

Thank you for any help or suggestions.

Update October 10, 2016:  I changed the ssh authentication from password to rsa key and it started working.  After I could access the login keychain, I started getting an error in the ssh shell: SecKey API returned: -25308 from codesign.  This turned out to be a permissions error.  When I tried it on the host in a terminal, a dialog from the keychain popped up asking me to allow access.


texts: iOS "PodCast" app fils up my phone; doesn't pre-download podcasts I want

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I've started using Apple's Podcast app and I've encountered some unexplainable behavior.

I have it configured to download podcasts and only keep the last 5 unplayed.
Nevertheless, it periodically downloads months and months of Podcasts that I haven't heard. In the process, it fills up my iPhone.
However, it's frequently the case that it hasn't downloaded the most recent podcast. This is really annoying to me, because I'm using the Podcast app when I'm underground, in the subway, and there's no Internet access.

Is there any solution to this? Have other people seen the problem?


texts: Remote login error: "DISPLAY is not set"

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How to set up X's to be able login on your iMac remotely and run graphical applications?

When I login I get this:

servername:~ loginname$ xterm
xterm: Xt error: Can't open display:
xterm: DISPLAY is not set
servername:~ loginname$ echo $DISPLAY

servername:~ loginname$  launchctl list | grep xquartz
-   0   org.macosforge.xquartz.X11.5840
5342    -   org.macosforge.xquartz.startx

P.S. I installed XQuartz 2.7.5 (xorg-server 1.14.4) and use it successfully from iMac itself for many mouths already.
I have OSX 10.9.4.


texts: How do you remove the Automator gear icon in the menu bar?

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I have Automator workflow applications that I run from keyboard shortcuts. It is great, however, a small gear icon always appears.

I would like to remove it.

How do you do this?
I usually remove all the pixels from the image of menu bar icons of applications, so they are invisible in the menu bar. I could easily do this with Automator (or the Automator application launcher), but can't find where the menu bar icons are stored. Where would they be stored?


texts: MacBook Air won't turn on without charger plugged in for a while

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I charged my Air overnight and when I tried to turn it on in the morning it didn’t boot. I tried plugging in the Magsafe in to find that no light came on. Doing an SMC reset didn’t work. Later on, I had the MagSafe plugged in for over an hour and the orange light came on, and pressing the power button turned it on, albeit it, was very slow. If I unplug the Magsafe cord, after 5 seconds it abruptly turns off, although in one instance, lasted up to around 5 minutes.

I doubt it would be any water damage, since I haven’t spilled anything on it, nor was I in a humid environment. Potentially the battery might have something to do with it; the “Service Battery” notification came up the day before, although it seems to charge just fine, and as I type this, says the condition is “Good”. My research says that it could be a bad Magsafe connection, although there is no debris in the female and male Magsafe ports.

I've attached a screenshot of CoconutBattery if that is of any use.


texts:
My mac is kind of a mess right now so I wanted to fresh install MacOS Sierra.

I bought myself a brand new 8gb pendrive since is pre req. But I cant seem to get it properly erased, I always get this message:

If I try by terminal following this tutorial I also get this error:

The operation couldn’t be completed. (com.apple.DiskManagement error -69874.)

I also tried Using Install Disk Creator but I think the same thing happens because he probably use Diskutil commands:

So I am kinda lost here and don't know what else to do.

P.S. I went to the store and changed my pendrive for another one and the same things happen

PPS In every retry I had to go on a windows laptop to format again. And it works just fine copying files and it show on my mac until the unmounting processes begin

PPPS I noticed that the pendrive does not have a GUID_partition_scheme as the others

Is there any other way I fix this?


texts: Admin rights for a standard user in OS X

texts:
I want to create a user with OS X restrictions (Parental Control), which would still be allowed to install applications in the standard Applications folder using its password.

Is it possible? How should I do it?


texts:
My iPad 3 with the original apple cover seems to stay turned on (display is on) when the cover is closed. This causes massive battery drain. Restarting did not fix this issue.
Anyone here has the same issue or any solutions?


texts: How does Messages work between my Mac and my iPhone?

texts:
I thought with Mountain Lion that Messages are shown on both my Mac and iPhone (so I can start a chat on my iPhone and continue it on my Mac).

What is weird is that I seem to get an arbitrary set of messages on my Mac but it's definitely not fully in sync with the iPhone. A number of iPhone messages never show up on the Mac at all, or 1/2 of the conversation shows up.

Do I need to set something up specifically to make this work or is this as expected?


texts: Siri “take me to work” has stopped working

texts:
I use hey siri to “take me to work” - which I believe uses my workplace listed on my contact card and then opens maps and directs.
It has now stopped working. As soon as I prompt Siri I immediately get back “hmm...I can’t seem to access that data right now.”
I have tried many further times. On WiFi and cellular. It seems to have stopped working. Siri is working as expected with other commands.
I am on iOS 13.7, I have not changed any data regarding my workplace and I don’t think this was connected to any software update.
Thanks


texts: Using X11-Forwarding to show UI that runs by different user

texts:
I've logged on to my Mac under 'user1', and opened a terminal in which I've switched to another user 'user2' using su command.

Now I've opened a .txt file from that terminal by typing open file.txt which spawned the TextEdit application.

However, its UI couldn't be shown since I've logged-in with a different user (user1) ..

Is there a way to re-direct the UI of TextEdit to 'user1'. I know that in Linux there's X11-Forwarding but is it also supported in macOS ?


texts: How to convert file format of massive image

texts:
How can I convert a very large Portable Pixel Map (ppm) file into a png on MacOS?
I have a massive ppm image on my computer. The file is ~70 GB and I need to convert it to a png which would make it ~100 MB. I have cleared up enough space (>70 GB) on my machine to complete the conversion but am having some issues.
What I Have Tried

Open image in preview and export to png
Preview refuses to show the image and instead just shows a black square. When I try to export it tells me that the exported file will be zero bytes. So... no dice.

Use ImageMagick to convert the file from terminal
This actually runs and tries to convert the file, but problems arise after about a minute of computation. First, my computer freezes then after a minute or two restarts because of a kernel panic.


texts: Send audio from my laptop to my iPhone over Bluetooth

texts:
I have an iPhone 4, and Philips dock speakers which I use with the phone.

The dock doesn't have any aux input, and I would like to use the dock as a speaker for my laptop.

I know I can achieve it through Wi-Fi, but my laptop doesn't have one. Is there any Bluetooth alternative to send laptop audio to my iPhone?


texts: How to add user to a group on command line?

texts:
With Linux/Unix, I can use useradd -G developers vivek to add vivek to the developer group. How can I do the same thing with Mac OS X?

Then, how do I check if vivek is in developers group?


texts:
I have a 2016 15" MacBook Pro and I want to know if it is normal that when I lift the lid, it moves more freely than I expect.

In other words, if I gently push the lid without changing the opening angle, the lid moves and returns to its place.

Previously I had a MacBook Air, and this did not happen, that's causing me to worry.

Here is video showing movement and hinge action for my MacBook Pro

Is this normal?


texts: OS X Firewall blocking external connections to NGinx Docker container

texts:
I have an Docker container running NGinx on a macOS High Sierra machine behind a corporate firewall that cannot be disabled. The container is unable to be accessed externally from other machines on the corporate network using the host IP. I have tried running the container on a machine not subject to the firewall and everything works fine, so the issue likely lies in the firewall.

Things I have tried:

Running

sudo /usr/libexec/ApplicationFirewall/socketfilterfw --add /Applications/Docker.app/Contents/MacOS/*
sudo /usr/libexec/ApplicationFirewall/socketfilterfw --unblockapp /Applications/Docker.app/Contents/MacOS/*

and

sudo /usr/libexec/ApplicationFirewall/socketfilterfw --add /Applications/Docker.app/Contents/MacOS/Docker
sudo /usr/libexec/ApplicationFirewall/socketfilterfw --unblockapp /Applications/Docker.app/Contents/MacOS/Docker

both commands add Docker to the list of apps under Security & Privacy > Firewall Options but the container is still not accessible remotely via the host IP.


texts:
Introduction

I am an avid user of Mission Control and use it to organize my work. Unlike most, however, I organize my work spaces by general topic, and not by application. For example I will frequently have Google Chrome open in 3 different workspaces at once (workspace 1 will be programming related, workspace 5 will be general work-related searches, and workspace 9 will have personal related windows).

My Quesion

For a specific application, how can I open a workspace that has a specific window of an application and move to the workspace at the same time? For example, if I am in workspace 3, and I look at the Dock that contains information about Google Chrome, it will look something like this:

In this example, Files: Nature Biotechnology: nature.com is in Workspace 5, while automate-save-page-as/save_page_as ... is in workspace one. However when I click on them and I am Workspace 3, it simply opens up the window without bringing me to the workspace. Is there a way to configure Mission Control to open the window and bring me to workspace the window is in?


texts: Java 6 runtime environment & old Filemaker pro

texts:
Have an older large environment running FileMaker Pro 10, on OSX 10.7.  It's got:

  java version "1.6.0_65"
  Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0_65-b14-462-11M4609)
  Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 20.65-b04-462, mixed mode)

The problem is that within Filemaker Server, the database Admin Console is a Java applet and ONLY runs in legacy versions, and only runs on OSX Server 10.5-10.7.. Due to a 1000 seat license ($$$$), the client won't upgrade. So we're re-installing on a 10.7 server.

the issue is that when initializing FMP10, you have to have the Console Admin, and it won't fire up withoutthe correct flavor of Java happy...

Apple has offered a version of Java that's supposedly fixing this, (java for OSX 2014-001), but it's not fixing the issue.

The symptom is that whenever I attempt to fire up the applet, i get the following

Any ideas why it's not seeing the RE that I've got installed?  Or do I have something else set incorrectly?

When I inspect Console, it shows an error flag:

  com.apple.JavaWebStart: No Java Runtime present, requesting install.

However, if I hit terminal  (java - version), it shows:

  java version "1.6.0_65"
  Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0_65-b14-462-11M4609)
  Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 20.65-b04-462, mixed mode)

Why isn't it seeing/using the RE that I've got installed?

NOTE:
This is a legacy issue, please skip and save yourself a headache if you intend to recommend a newer version of Java or Filemaker Pro.  This isn't happenning..  It worked fine until this server HDD decided to die, and as they have a half-dozen backup units, they're not interested in dropping the financial equivalent of a midsize car into software...


texts: Can iTunes be made to play Apple ProRes files?

texts:
My videos encoded as Apple ProRes are playable in Quicktime but not in iTunes.  Is there anything I can do to make iTunes play them?

Apple's support page suggests to me that iTunes can play any .MOV file:

  QuickTime and MPEG-4 movie files that end in ".mov", ".m4v", or ".mp4"
  and are playable in QuickTime Player.

but this does not seem to be the case in my testing, instead I find that I am unable to add the files to the iTunes library. There is no error dialog.


texts: How to join call using "Skype for Business Web App" on macOS Catalina?

texts:
Using my Mac I'm trying to join a conference call hosted using Skype for Business Server. But every time I try, it seems to send me in loops with the same prompts to install the plugin again and again. Here's a screenshot of the screen I start with.

1. Join with Web App

If I enter my name and click "Join the meeting" my browser downloads SkypeForBusinessPlugin.pkg (md5sum = a4958d5aa5c7dbe17774bcd6e4492106). I can run this and choose to "Install for me only". After installation I see a new plug-in in ~/Library/Internet\ Plug-Ins called SkypeForBusinessPlugin-15.8.bundle, so the installation is apparently successful. The bundle ID is com.microsoft.skypeforbusiness.plugin. I don't know which browser this is for, but I assume it should work in Safari. When I go back to the same page after installing the plugin, I am either prompted to install the plugin again, or I get this error message:

  Plug-in installation is taking longer than usual. We recommend you join the meeting now.

If I try to join at this point I end up in a "Virtual Lobby" but I'm never able to advance from that point, presumably because the plugin is not working. Could the plugin be incompatible with 64-bit macOS Catalina?

Join using Lync for Mac

I tried the second option of using Lync for Mac, but when I try to run Lync I get this error:

  “Microsoft Lync” needs to be updated.
  The developer of this app needs to update it to work with this version of macOS. Contact the developer for more information.
  https://support.apple.com/en-ca/HT208436

So I guess I can't use Lync for Mac on macOS Catalina.

Known workarounds

I installed Skype for Business on my iPad and had no trouble connecting to the call that way. But I want to use my Mac for this.

Additional details

I'm using macOS Catalina 10.15.3 (19D76). My normal browser is Firefox 74 (64-bit).


texts: External display has blurry fonts on Dell U2312hm- MacBook Pro Retina

texts:
I just bought a new Dell external display (U2312hm) for my MacBook Pro Retina.

The fonts appear to be very blurry. I've searched and found a solution here, but it didn't fix my problem. I ran the script supplied in the thread, followed all instructions and the problem remains (tried on 2 different rMBPs with 2 different U2312hm monitors).

here are real a few examples (the upper browser in each picture is chrome on VMware and the lower is chrome on OSX 10.8.5):

I tried different font smoothing configurations which failed to improve the problem.
I tried using Apple's MiniDisplayPort to AVI and MiniDisplayPort to DisplayPort cables - no change.

What can I do?


texts: Import into macOS 10.15 Catalina's Apple Music does not work: unknown error -54; likely root cause: file access permissions

texts:
Something is wrong with my version of Apple Music following an upgrade to macOS 10.15 Catalina. Importing songs fails with error "Copying files failed. An unknown error occured (-54)".

The problem goes away if I choose Preferences / Files / Copy Files to Music Media folder when adding to library: No, but resurfaces when I then choose File / Library / Organize Library / Consolidate files.

So this looks clearly like an issue in relation to file access permissions. I did't change from the defaults, and e.g. my Music/iTunes has "Read & Write" only for "Me", which seems readanable.

Is this a known issue (apparently not known to Google in this particular incarnation at this point) and how can it be remedied? I prefer a "conservative" solution in terms of granting additional access rights.


texts:
I recently changed editors from TextMate to MacVim. Thanks in part to vimtutor, things are going pretty well. But I miss the Espresso Libre color scheme:

Is there a place where I can get Espresso Libre as a MacVim theme?


texts: iOS 9.3.1: Dropbox 6.2 doesn't appear in Activities in Photos

texts:
From the Photos app in iOS 9.3.1, Dropbox does not appear in the list of places where I can share photos.

I've tried clicking on the three dots at the right of both activities bars, and Dropbox is not an option in either list.  The various guides I Googled all suggested that if I had the latest version of Dropbox installed, it should show up in this list.

I've looked at the settings within the Dropbox app, and I've also looked at the Dropbox settings from the iOS settings app, and in neither place did I see any kind of switch to enable it to appear as an activity.

Any ideas?  This is driving me mad.  Thanks!


texts: Is there a way to configure apps to download automatically similar to podcasts in iTunes?

texts:
I'd like for apps to download 'free updates' whenever they are available so when I sync my phone they will already be there, similar to podcasts.

Is there a way to configure iTunes to do this automatically?


texts: Can I use the music from Clips in iMovie?

texts:
Does anyone know if there is a way to use the music from the Clips app on iOS in iMovie on macOS?

For example, there is a song "Aether" by Darren King.

I'd like a raw MP3/AIFF/whatever of this entire song so I can use it in iMovie without having to record a giant clip which will also include mic input.


texts: Office 2011: Exporting DOCX to PDF ignores explicitly set title in document properties

texts:
Not a critical issue but very annoying. I export my resume from docx to pdf. No rocket science. I explicitly set title via File -> Properties:

Unfortunately the info window of exported PDF keeps using file name as the title.

As a result in a web browser it's known that the PDF was made in Word. I want to set the title to everything but the file name.

What am I missing?


texts: Date is wrong by months when set to automatically

texts:
Since a few days my MacBook Air 2020 shows the wrong date when set to "Set date and time automatically".
This is regardless of the chosen NTP server.
When time set manually, querying a NTP server from the command line returns:
$ sudo sntp -sS pool.ntp.org
-9.789671 +/- 0.018845 pool.ntp.org 95.81.173.74

Which does not show date and time, but also no major offset.
The offset is consistent at 5 months, 2 days, 3 hours and 10 minutes.

Tried time.apple.com and pool.ntp.org. No luck.
Tried different time zones. No luck.
Tried VPN to fake a different physical location. No luck.
Changed WiFi networks, including using my phone as hotspot. No luck.
NVRAM reset didn't help. No luck.

Fix
It somehow got fixed when I installed sntp via homebrew and ran it in combination. After running
sudo touch /var/db/ntp-kod
sudo chown root:wheel /var/db/ntp-kod


texts: How to back up Boot Camp before upgrading my hard drive to an SSD?

texts: I have a Macbook Pro which has a 750GB HDD. I'm currently using Bootcamp to run Win 7. If I want to upgrade the HDD to a SSD but keep my stuff from both the OS X side and the Win 7 side what are the steps to backing it up?


texts: How do I stop a monthly charge of $5.04 from APL*ITUNES I don't want?

texts:
I have a monthly charge of $5.04 from APL*ITUNES for what, I don't know. I want it stopped.

What can I do to find out what it is for and ultimately how to stop the recurring charge?


texts:
I'm about to download a 1TB collection of files. It'll take about 7 days.

I want to make sure that my computer doesn't shut down or restart while the download is happening.


texts: Is it possible to burn a DVD (or usb bootable drive) out of the Mountain Lion app store install?


texts: How to use Mac Keyboard, on iPhone, with lightning cord?

texts:
I am looking for a way to type on the Mac keyboard and have it type on an iPhone. I know there are many bluetooth Apps to do this, but I am using a typing script and bluetooth does not transmit the keys fast enough, hence why I would like a way to do this with a lightning cord.

Shouldn't really matter but I am on:

macOS High Sierra & iOS 11


texts: My Macbook's name is 'Suman'. But in terminal I have something different. How to solve it ?


texts: Apple spaces switching screens after sleeping

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I have a 2017 Macbook Pro. I connect to two external screens via a Belkin Thunderbolt 3 Express Dock HD. They are arranged external|external|internal left to right. I have my 'menu bar' dragged to the far left external screen in the Displays preference pane, which is where I want my dock (on the far left hand side).

My issue is that whenever I wake the machine from sleep, the internal and central screen switch spaces, which is infuriating as I have to drag them all back to the correct place all the time.

Some other places say try switching the screen the menu bar is on, but this isn't appropriate for me as it would move my dock position.

I have 'Automatically rearrange Spaces based on most recent use' disabled in Mission Control settings.

Is there any way to solve this problem, so that the spaces remain on their correctly affiliated screens, or failing that a quick way I can (preferably with a keyboard shortcut) cause the spaces on screens 2/3 to switch all in one go without the laborious dragging of up to six spaces back and forth?


texts: Can Someone Explain Why These Scripts Work?

texts:
I'm a brand new AppleScript initiate. I was at a Developer Summit and needed to stop messing with my windows so much. So I looked up scripting the window sizing and positioning. I was on my MacBook Pro and so I wrote the following code and placed in Automator as a Service whic I then saved to HardDrive>Users>User>Library>Services.

tell application "System Events"
    set myTargetApplication to name of the first process whose frontmost is true
end tell

tell application myTargetApplication
    --  This line is what we use when we need to grab that bounds of a window.
    -- set currentBounds to bounds of the first window
    set bounds of the first window to {61, 46, 1261, 777}
end tell

I would write the script in "Script Editor" and test it with the commented out line uncommented and the line after it commented. Then I could position the window like I want and get the settings I needed to apply. I got the settings, and pasted them in the line right before "end tell" and they worked.

I set this as a service and now I can make ANY window (from Service) size to what I needed.

I arrived home and connected to my dual monitor, a 32" Acer, and everytime I would run the script in my big monitor it would JUMP to the MacBook Window.

So I tweaked this and that, tried several things, looked things up, and during a run did this:

tell application "System Events"
    set myTargetApplication to name of the first process whose frontmost is true
end tell

tell application myTargetApplication
    --  This line is what we use when we need to grab that bounds of a window.
    -- set currentBounds to bounds of the first window
    set bounds of the first window to {1299, 38, 3182, 1062}
end tell

I did the same thing in Automator... saved as a service... and now they work.

EXACTLY LIKE I WANT.

I am not COMPLAINING... I'm just lost...

I don't see WHY they work. I'm hoping someone can point out what makes them work so I can better understand AppleScript.

Thank you in advance


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Using Mail in all previous OS I ever used, I click on an email, say from MacWorld.
Then I would sort by From and all the emails from MacWorld would be right in front of me on my screen.

Now when I sort by From, I get all my email From in order, either A to Z, or Z to A -- but nothing to do with MacWorld.

What happened?

MacBook Pro 2.8, 16 GB RAM 10.2.2


texts: iPhone 4S shutting down 20-30 % - battery already replaced

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I've had my iPhone 4S for 3 years and it now runs iOS 7.1

Battery was performing badly so I decided to replace it.

I bought a spare battery online by duracell direct (average quality good!)
Replaced battery by myself (easy!)
First 2 running cycles are OK

Now, the iPhone shuts off at 30 % (sometimes at 20%). I can even reboot it and use sometines below 10 %, but experience is awful. Tried to do 2-3 calibrations but no luck.

I checked real battery status with iBackupbot, seems ok.

Here follows a log frm iBackupBot:

Info da iBackupBot il 30/12/2014
Battery

 CycleCount: 5
 DesignCapacity: 1430
 FullChargeCapacity: 1393
 Status: Success
 BatteryCurrentCapacity: 67
 BatteryIsCharging: true
 ExternalChargeCapable: true
 ExternalConnected: true
 FullyCharged: false
 GasGaugeCapability: true

Any ideas?


texts: How to copy updates from mac to another?

texts:
I live in a country where Internet isn't that broadbandish, I installed Lion on my home laptop and want to copy the updates to my Mac Mini.

Is there a way to copy Apple updates from a machine to another?


texts: My Mac Book Pro Safari and Settings Icon Disappeared

texts: Upgraded the os last night and this afternoon my settings and safari icons disappeared.  help!!  how do I get them back?


texts: Bottom of bookmark covered by dock after macbook is upgraded to Mojave

texts:
On my macbook, the dock is always standing at the bottom, since I never want to use the option "automatically hide and show".  On High Sierra, the dock's presence would not interfere the display of the bookmark. Even if there are a long list of entries in the bookmark, it would not be blocked by the dock. However, after my macbook was upgraded to Mojave last night, the dock would block the bottom entries of the long bookmark list. Wondering if there is any fix for this...

Screenshot with dock "auto hide and show" disabled:

Screenshot with dock "auto hide and show" enabled

Update:
After a few days, without anything being done, suddenly the problem disappeared. Please look at the following screenshot. I don't know why, but it is good to see the bottom of the bookmarks no longer being blocked by the dock.


texts: "locate" returns relative instead of absolute paths

texts:
I have the following entry in root's crontab:
0 */4 * * * cd /private/var/root && ./locate.updatedb

I have an alias for locate in ~/.zshrc:
alias locate='locate -d /var/db/locate.database'

When I do a "locate Table_Synthesis_GREY_" , in all the full paths of files found, the first slash of the path indicating the file system root is missing. Here is a sample of the ouput:
Users/henry/Projects/JUNK_AND_OLD/Travail_9_Paper_Combinaison_et_Methode_des_biais_communs_pour_ma_These_SAUVEGARDES/TABLES_FLAT_AND_NON_FLAT_to_include_into_my_Phd_paper_LAST/Table_Synthesis_Main_05_AOUT_2020/temp/Table_Synthesis_GREY_IMPORTANT_SAVE_5_AOUT_2020.run.xml
Users/henry/Projects/JUNK_AND_OLD/Travail_9_Paper_Combinaison_et_Methode_des_biais_communs_pour_ma_These_SAUVEGARDES/TABLES_FLAT_AND_NON_FLAT_to_include_into_my_Phd_paper_LAST/Table_Synthesis_Main_05_AOUT_2020/temp/Table_Synthesis_GREY_IMPORTANT_SAVE_5_AOUT_2020.tex
Users/henry/Projects/JUNK_AND_OLD/Travail_9_Paper_Combinaison_et_Methode_des_biais_communs_pour_ma_These_SAUVEGARDES/TABLES_FLAT_AND_NON_FLAT_to_include_into_my_Phd_paper_LAST/Table_Synthesis_Main_05_AOUT_2020/temp/Table_Synthesis_GREY_IMPORTANT_SAVE_5_AOUT_2020.zip
Users/henry/Projects/JUNK_AND_OLD/Travail_9_Paper_Combinaison_et_Methode_des_biais_communs_pour_ma_These_SAUVEGARDES/TABLES_FLAT_AND_NON_FLAT_to_include_into_my_Phd_paper_LAST/Table_Synthesis_Main_05_AOUT_2020/temp/Table_Synthesis_GREY_IMPORTANT_SAVE_5_AOUT_2020_ORIGINAL_INTO_zip_here.pdf
Users/henry/Projects/JUNK_AND_OLD/Travail_9_Paper_Combinaison_et_Methode_des_biais_communs_pour_ma_These_SAUVEGARDES/TABLES_FLAT_AND_NON_FLAT_to_include_into_my_Phd_paper_LAST/Table_Synthesis_Main_AFTER_05_AOUT_2020/FLAT_Synthesis/Table_Synthesis_GREY_FLAT.docx

How can I have paths output as absolute paths, i.e. starting at /Users? The desired output is
/Users/henry/Projects/JUNK_AND_OLD/Travail_9_Paper_Combinaison_et_Methode_des_biais_communs_pour_ma_These_SAUVEGARDES/TABLES_FLAT_AND_NON_FLAT_to_include_into_my_Phd_paper_LAST/Table_Synthesis_Main_AFTER_05_AOUT_2020/FLAT_Synthesis/Table_Synthesis_GREY_FLAT.docx

as opposed to
Users/henry/Projects/JUNK_AND_OLD/Travail_9_Paper_Combinaison_et_Methode_des_biais_communs_pour_ma_These_SAUVEGARDES/TABLES_FLAT_AND_NON_FLAT_to_include_into_my_Phd_paper_LAST/Table_Synthesis_Main_AFTER_05_AOUT_2020/FLAT_Synthesis/Table_Synthesis_GREY_FLAT.docx

UPDATE 1: I have copied /usr/libexec/locate.updatedb into my home root, that is in /var/root/ . I did that since I could not modify the /usr/libexec/locate.updatedb file, even being root or with sudo.
So in this other file /var/root/locate.updatedb, I could do the modification :
if [ "$(id -u)" = "99" ]; then

instead of initially :
if [ "$(id -u)" = "0" ]; then

What do you think about this trick ? and mostly why I have not the first slash displayed when results into my /Users/henry/.
0 */4 * * * cd /private/var/root ; /bin/sh locate.updatedb

but issue remains.
By the way, if results are located into /Applications or other main directories but not systematically, the first slash is well displayed.
Anyone has a clue ?


texts: Will a Microsoft Office Add-In developed in Visual Studio work for both a Windows and Mac ( osx ) versions of Ms Office?

texts:
I want to develop a Microsoft Office Word Add-In for Mac Users. I would like to know if we create it using Visual Studios in windows will it be compatible with the Mac version of office or is there a whole another way to develop for Mac?

Please provide links so that I could follow some guidelines. The http://msdn.microsoft.com/ site doesn't exactly speak of the platform compatibility of the Add-In.

Thank You very Much in Advance.


texts: How can I determine which application is using a given camera?

texts:
I have a MacBook Pro hooked up to an Apple Cinema Display.  It is *very* common for the external display's camera to be unavailable to my apps.

Since I do not reboot often, it seems very possible that an app (or its background process!) that is not actively using the camera is still locking it.

Figuring out what's using it (if anything) seems like the first step in determining why I can't use the camera I want, when I want it.


texts: Can I play chess on my Mac from the command line?

texts: If I were feeling insufficiently geekish on any particular day, and thus found the GUI Chess App to lack an appropriate amount of tech credibility, is there a way to play chess on my Mac from the command line?


texts: New York not found in French weather app

texts:
I have one iphone in English, one in French.
In the weather app, in English, I can find "New York, NY" no issues.
In the French version, New York simply does not appear in the search results!
Known issue??


texts: Getting an unsuitable terminal error when opening tmux after switching to homebrew

texts:
Longtime macports user (tmux / 256color etc worked fine).  Recently decided to switch over to homebrew.  Have most things working again.

tmux throws the following error when launching (have not changed terminal or .tmux.conf)

open terminal failed: missing or unsuitable terminal: xterm-256color

I commented out the terminal settings in my tmux.conf and tried setting my $TERM to xterm.  The same thing happens (replacing xterm-256color with whatever I have $TERM set to).  My gut says that I was using a terminfo from macports and that I'm using the system terminfo with homebrew.  Not sure how to do this with homebrew to test.

Possibly relevant versions numbers of stuff:

homebrew 0.9.5
tmux 1.9a
iterm 2.0.0.20150412
yosemite (up to date)
zsh 5.0.5


texts: MacBook Pro erratic keyboard and trackpad detection

texts:
MacBook Pro Early 2015 OS 10.10.5 (because of Internet Recovery)

Problem:
So for the last few days the built in trackpad and keyboard of my MacBook Pro have been acting up. After waking up from sleep, they were unresponsive, or didn't respond at all. After waiting some time, they worked again (until next sleep).

Resets:
So in an attempt to fix it, I tried all the resets one get told to do (PRAM, NVRAM SMC), without any effect.

Reinstall:
At some point, I wanted to make a clean install and booted in recovery mode. Here the internal keyboard and trackpad worked 100% of the time.
That is until I erased the drive. Now only external input devices work at all (even in Recovery).

I even tried Internet Recovery so now I have a freshly installed Yosemite on a erased drive. The keyboard light is working and the trackpad clicks. But Yosemite doesn't detect them at all (Bluetooth Assistant starts since no keyboard/mouse is detected).

Can I somehow check if the driver(?) is installed correctly. Can I totally wipe my Laptop ( Drive, Recovery Partition UEFI)? And would that help?

Could it be a hardware error, even though it worked 100% at some point in Recovery Mode? At some point I noticed that the keys would work if i pressed them for a long time, but as of now this isn't the case.


texts:
For older Mac OS Versions like 10.4 or sometimes 10.5 you can find lots of themes, which change the whole UI.
Now my problem is that I'm using Mac OS Lion (10.7.3) and I want to change the UI, because I don't like the current one very much. I looked around in the web, but I couldn't find anything.
So is it really like that, that there isn't any other, alternative UI for Mac OS Lion?


texts: does the iphone do RGB sub-pixel rendering?

texts:
I've heard of RGB Sub-Pixel Rendering.

I'm wondering does the IPhone 3 have this capability (or is it that each pixels are only 1 color) ?
What about the IPhone 4?


texts: Is there an equivalent to the Windows 7 Problem Steps Recorder on macOS?

texts: Is there an equivalent to the Windows 7 Problem Steps Recorder on macOS and or iOS?


texts: Why does Calendar.app offer these addresses when I type "at home" in the location field?

texts:
I don't recognize any of the addresses offered by Calendar.app, when I type "at home" in the location field.   I'd like to be offered my own home address, but these look like they might be a data leak from somewhere...

I sync Calendar.app (version 8.0 (2034.9)) with Google calendar, and typically use Fantastical on iOS. My Mac OS is 10.10.5,


texts: How to connect to wifi while connected to a device through thunderbolt bridge

texts:
Macbook --> Thunderbolt Ethernet adapter --> Ethernet Cable --> Device under test with IP address

The device under test is not connected to the internet. While I am testing the device I still need an internet connection, but the non internet device connected with the Thunderbolt Ethernet adapter takes over and I cannot connect to the internet through wifi.


texts: iPad 3 app won't transfer an app to new iPad Air 2

texts:
I plugged iPad 3 and iPad Air 2 into laptop through iTunes. All apps are showing except for "Geocaching". I cannot drag it from iPad 3 to iPad 2. All I get is a box with the line through.

How can I get this app I purchased on the iPad 3 on to my new iPad Air 2?


texts: How to make Mac OS X more convenient for a person with low vision?

texts:
Is there any way to adjust Mac OS X GUI to have larger buttons, larger texts, larger and more distinctive window borders?

The long story.

I'm a software developer, I'm using Windows as my main working and entertainment machine. After Microsoft's move to Windows 10 (which treats customers as guinea pigs and which has already failed on me a few times with BSODs and micro freezes without ability to track their source) I decided that I'd like to have a reliable machine for my work and leisure, so I started exploring Mac OS X world.

I have low vision since birth. I don't use magnifier tools or screen readers, but I have set my 24" monitor to a lower resolution and I have been creating custom Windows themes since Windows 98 to adjust colors to be more distinctive here and there (the default Windows high contrast themes are an overkill, my eyes get hurt, but other themes seem too dull). In this aspect, Windows 8 was a real pleasure for me with its flatness - no glows, no shadows or 3D effects, thick window borders, large close/min/max buttons so I can focus my mouse on them really fast... I just adjusted the highlight colors to be more distinct, and it was good to go. (And Windows Vista was a real nightmare with its distracting effects and barely visible light blue item selection color).

Now I have been trying Mac OS X for a few days on my friend's machine. In general, I find that I can get used to its workflow and organization. But I have problems with its style.

I like that El Capitan looks more flat than previous Mac OS X GUI themes. But still there is not enough distinctive (or someone might say - distracting) colors for me to be able to focus fast on desired areas with my mouse. I can't be as productive on Mac OS X as I could on Windows just because I cannot adjust its GUI to my specific vision needs.

I have already read Apple's official accessibility page: http://www.apple.com/accessibility/osx/#vision

but it does not offer options to adjust colors or sizes of just some specific items.

If you know any ways or tools to adjust GUI item dimensions and colors without completely breaking application rendering, I would be really grateful for suggestions.


texts: Machine name set to new-host-X instead of the name set in Preferences

texts:
My machine name is set shiny in System Preferences/Sharing/Computer Name.

From another machine on the network, I can only use shiny.local to refer to this machine. In the past, I used only shiny.

In a terminal, I have new-host-7 instead of the machine name.

I don't know if this is relevant, but the computers are connected to an internet box, on which a DHCP server is activated. I assigned a static IP address to the Mac. The internet box can see the name I gave to the Mac.

Is there something I can do to refer to the Mac as shiny on the network ?


texts: How to mute all notifications, with some exceptions?

texts:
I have a close friend who's going through a tough time right now, and I want her to be able to wake me up if she needs me. I need to be able to receive push notifications from Messages and Facebook Messenger, but I'd like to be able to mute everything else. Is there a way to do this?

I have an iPhone 6 running iOS 9 Public Beta 3, and if it'll help somehow, I also have an early 2011 13" MacBook Pro running El Capitan Public Beta 5.


texts: Trying to disable guest account gives 2 accounts

texts:
After upgrading to High Sierra, I have 2 guest accounts.  It's disabled in the settings menu and I've tried the trick of turning filevault off and back on.  Find my mac is turned off.

I've attached a screenshot of the login screen.  Notice how the the account to the left has a distorted logo.  Both ask for passwords when selected.


texts: Determine geolocation in shell / Terminal on OS X 10.5

texts:
Is there a way to determine geolocation in shell / Terminal on OS X 10.5?

There's another question, Is there a way to access a Mac's geolocation from terminal?, but it seems to only be concerned with the currently-latest OS X 10.8.


texts: Missing photos from iPhoto sync in iTunes to iPhone

texts:
iTunes is not recognizing the correct number of photos in some of my iPhoto events. Some events are showing as having 0 photos in them, others are showing far fewer photos than the event actually has.

After some digging I found a pattern: the problem only affects "referenced" events, i.e., events where the master copies of the photos are in folders outside of the iPhoto Library. In my case these are mainly older events for which I already had folders before I started using iPhoto. For these events, iPhoto maintains an alias in the library to the original file. The original files are all there, available and editable within iPhoto.

If I edit a photo in one of the affected events, it then appears available for sync in iTunes, presumably because once edited, the modified photo is stored in the iPhoto Library.

To summarize, iTunes does not recognize any iPhoto photos which are stored outside of the iPhoto Library folder (referenced), unless that photo has since been edited in iPhoto.

I'm using Lion 10.7.2 and the latest versions of both iPhoto and iTunes, syncing with an iPhone 4 running iOS 5.0.1.


texts: Time machine stuck on cleaning up/ Error -47

texts:
I have been using time machine with the same disk for a year or so and until now it was fine. But since yesterday, it gets stuck at "cleaning up" and if I say "stop backing up" nothing happens. I tried repairing the disk with the disk utility and it seemed to be ok. I also tried a "full reset" (http://pondini.org/TM/A4.html), to no avail. Time machine buddy shows me the following:

Starting standard backup
Backing up to: /Volumes/LaCie 1/Backups.backupdb
Event store UUIDs don't match for volume: Macintosh HD
Node requires deep traversal:/ reason:must scan subdirs|new event db|
No pre-backup thinning needed: 71.44 GB requested (including padding), 243.73 GB available
Stopping backup.
Error writing to backup log.  NSFileHandleOperationException:*** -[NSConcreteFileHandle writeData:]: Resource busy
Error: (-47) SrcErr:NO Copying /Users/blub/Downloads/Diablo-III-8370-enGB-Installer/Installer Tome 3.MPQE.part to /Volumes/LaCie 1/Backups.backupdb/aliscafo/2012-06-05-010535.inProgress/53345109-BD64-4FAB-990C-772890BF111A/Macintosh HD/Users/blub/Downloads/Diablo-III-8370-enGB-Installer
Error writing to backup log.  NSFileHandleOperationException:*** -[NSConcreteFileHandle writeData:]: Resource busy
Error writing to backup log.  NSFileHandleOperationException:*** -[NSConcreteFileHandle writeData:]: Resource busy
Copied 13200 files (12.1 GB) from volume Macintosh HD.
Error writing to backup log.  NSFileHandleOperationException:*** -[NSConcreteFileHandle writeData:]: Resource busy
Copy stage failed with error:11
Error writing to backup log.  NSFileHandleOperationException:*** -[NSConcreteFileHandle writeData:]: Resource busy
Error writing to backup log.  NSFileHandleOperationException:*** -[NSConcreteFileHandle writeData:]: Resource busy
Error writing to backup log.  NSFileHandleOperationException:*** -[NSConcreteFileHandle writeData:]: Resource busy
Error: (-47) Creating directory aliscafo 2
Error: (-47) Creating directory aliscafo 3
Error: (-47) Creating directory aliscafo 4
Error: (-47) Creating directory aliscafo 5
Error: (-47) Creating directory aliscafo 6
Error: (-47) Creating directory aliscafo 7

and so on... Does anyone know what Error: (-47) means? What can I do to fix this?


texts:
For a long time now I've been bothered by a very weird behavior of my iPhone 6s: When I open an app, the WiFi icon vanishes. WiFi is still active, I can browse the web in Safari for example, but the icon doesn't show. As soon as I close the app and return to the home screen the WiFi icon reappears.
It gets even weirder with flight mode: On the home screen it always shows the correct state, thus being connected to a mobile network or in flight mode. But when I open an app, it's always the little airplane icon, even when I'm connected to the network.
I think this behavior was introduced with iOS 13. I've just reset my phone, so I'm fairly convinced that this is not some weird configuration, but a bug in iOS. Is there a way to report this bug to Apple? Is there a reasonable chance that Apple will fix this?


texts: Is it possible to access and modify iCloud keychain from command line (or automation)

texts:
I am very aware how to access the keychain itself from the command line, what I seem to be unable to figure out, however, is if I can access the iCloud keychain from the command line as well.  Currently the only way I've been able to access it is via the Keychain Access tool.

The situation I'm trying to deal with is that I have a password that changes weekly and I'm able to update the entry via command line in the System keychain, however the iCloud entry does not change.  When I try to connect to the Wi-Fi network it seems to use the iCloud password and then throws an error if it doesn't match.

If I manually remove the iCloud keychain entry via Keychain Access it will use the System keychain password.

My hope was to automate the removal of the iCloud keychain entry item via command line tools or manually editing some plist or something.

Any help is appreciated.  Also if there is some funky way to use AppleScript to do this I'm all ears.


texts: How can I send emails with Mail.app as text/markdown explicitly?

texts:
I write all my emails in plain text, not rich text or HTML, but I do use punctuation markup as has been popularized by Markdown and others (which were inspired by prior customs in plain-text email). There’s RFC 7763 now, which registers the text/markdown media type with mandatory charset and optional variant parameters.
Can I change Apple Mail to always send a respective MIME header?

Content-Type: text/markdown; charset=UTF-8; variant=pandoc; extensions=-raw_html

I hope for some defaults write magic since there doesn’t seem to be a respective plugin available (yet). Something like this:

defaults write com.apple.mail UserHeaders \
  '{"Content-Type: text/markdown; charset=UTF-8; variant=pandoc; extensions=-raw_html"; }'


texts: How do you get a Cisco VPN connection to remember its password?

texts:
The Problem

I've got a Cisco IPSEC VPN connection in my network settings on a Yosemite machine. It works fine, aside from prompting for a password on every single connection. The saved password is ignored entirely.

Background

If I enter the password under the network settings and click connect, the saved password vanishes, and the dialog prompting for a password appears. I've verified that the password is correct (it's copy-pasted from a document).

Things that didn't work

A suggested solution to this for Snow Leopard was to save the password, open Keychain Access, locate the "Xauth" key in the system keychain, and grant /usr/libexec/configd access to the key. This had no effect.
Usual permissions repair/disk check stuff

Weird stuff

If I watch keychain access while hitting the connect button, the saved password vanishes outright from the keychain right when the dialog appears.

Overall Question

How do I get the password correctly saved so I don't have to rekey it on every connection?


texts: Is there any command I can use to disable brightness adjustments?

texts: Is there any terminal command or script I can use to disable brightness adjustment system wide? I currently manage a large network of computers for a school district and we are looking for an easy solution to disable access to that functionality.


texts: Is there a way to make `open -a` pass command line arguments to the app it launches?

texts:
I'd like to run OpenSCAD from the command line with some arguments.

$ open -a openscad myfile.scad

works as I expect.

$ open -a openscad --args --help

reports

LSOpenURLsWithRole() failed for the application /Applications/OpenSCAD.app with error -10810.

when OpenSCAD is not already running.  When OpenSCAD is already running, then open -a openscad --args --help simply brings OpenSCAD to the foreground.

What I really need is for this to work:

$ open -a openscad --args -o myfile.stl myfile.scad

which works just like my previous example.  What should I do to launch OpenSCAD with command line arguments?

Before hitting submit I reproduced my questions for pasting here, and I found a solution that more-or-less works.  All of these seem to do what I expect, even if OpenSCAD is not already running.

$ /Applications/OpenSCAD.app/Contents/MacOS/OpenSCAD --help
$ /Applications/OpenSCAD.app/Contents/MacOS/OpenSCAD --args --help
$ /Applications/OpenSCAD.app/Contents/MacOS/OpenSCAD -o ball.stl ball.scad
$ /Applications/OpenSCAD.app/Contents/MacOS/OpenSCAD --args -o ball.stl ball.scad

Still, is there a way to make open -a pass command line arguments to the app it launches?


texts: How to trigger pronounciation when using word look up?

texts:
When I do a deep track pad press on an English word, a pop up box will be displayed to show me the word's definition.
But I also want to hear the word's pronunciation.
How can I do that?
Here's a sample image of what the look up looks like:


texts: Does the IMEI block also blocks the Find My Phone feature?

texts:
I followed a similar question about SIM blocking and still don't know whether I should request an IMEI block.

I spoke to a store and when I asked them about what happens if I give them the IMEI number and they block it completely, will the "wipe data" feature work from the Find My iPhone app?

The first person could not say, the second "Apple specialist" ensured me that this should not be a problem even though I explicit questioned this. And now after a bit of googling it seems like my suspicions were correct! It seems like the IMEI lock blocks everything ans also the signal from the iCloud to wipe the phone.

Can anybody confirm if this true or not?


texts: Macbook Pro 2010 with Maverick restarting

texts:
I have read tones of advice on this and I still have no solution and just wanted some personal advice.

My macbook pro mid 2010 keeps restarting randomly, not always on the same program.

It works fine in safe mode.

I just wondered if anyone had any advice on how to stop this happening, I've tried uni stalling certain programs, deleting files, everything I can think of.

Please can some help me :(

Thanks in advance.


texts: My Macbook Pro can't install Windows7 On any MAC OS

texts:
My MacBook Pro (15-inch, Late 2011), since start 3 days ago i keep trying to install Windows7 with original apps Boot Camp Assistant on  El Capitan, it start without any problem. Once the installtion after create partition and restart to start install Windows7 from booting my DVD Drive. I using original Windows7's DVD, but is just can't start load windows's file and start install. It just left and blank black screen and a underscore on the left on my screen. I keep trying and trying many ways to install dual boot on my Macbook Pro, i try many solution before like those using USB Bootable, third-party apps like VmWare Fusion, all i get is fail result. 2 Months ago i still can get boot into Windows7, after that i didn't turn on my machine for 1weeks, it just show me a underscore on my left screen.
Can any one help and tell me is that my hardware failure or my software problem. I really need Dual boot on this machine for some work.


texts: I finally caved and allowed my 16 year old daughter set up a separate iCloud/iTunes account because of all the problems we were having when using the same account.  However, now I can no longer see her phone on Find My iPhone.  I think when she set this new account up, it turned it off.  I had her turn it back on, but I cannot see it.  Any advice would be most appreciated.  I need to be able to have this capability.  I have a 12 year old and we are also having issues with using the same iCloud account, but I won't change his until I have a solution.


texts: Connecting 2 HDMI monitors with 2 adapters on both side of USB-C port on 2018 MacBook Pro

texts:
I am thinking of buying 2 of this adapter for my Macbook Pro 2018?

By plugging the adapter from both side of the USB-C ports, can i connect it to 2 external HDMI monitors?


texts: Auto Adjust Brightness Secondary External Non-Apple Monitor

texts:
I have recently purchased a Dell S2340l monitor to extend my MBPr late 2013 screen. So far I can say it's a great monitor, colors are great, but still in the test phase...

Whatsoever, I really love that the MBP auto-adjusts the screen brightness depending on the light in the room. Therefore, my question: is there any possibility that this feature can be extend to the secondary monitor as well?


texts: OS X internet recovery older version problem

texts:
I am using Macbook Pro Mid 2012 13" with 128GB SSD.  The latest installed version of OS X was El Capitan which crashed during a Sierra upgrade.

Internet recovery mode worked somehow to land me to install download and install a new OS but it's Mountain Lion, which came installed when I bought the Macbook few years back However, it's rejecting to install on current SSD drive as shown in pic.

I have another 320GB HDD, so is this the only way to reinstall?  First I do a fresh install of Lion on the external HDD?  What I should I do?

What is a  step by step procedure as all I want to do is run OSX on SSD drive but keeping all my older data. I can not afford to wipe it.

However,  I did back up some of its backup onto my PC. If I install Lion the HDD can I then download Sierra and create an install disk to update/fix/install corrupted OS X on SSD?


texts: Connecting AirPlay displays with a keystroke

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I have an Apple TV in the living room. I have a Mac mini in my office. I have a wireless keyboard and mouse that can easily reach between the two locations, but am not willing to walk between them to turn on Airplay.
I'd like to connect via AirPlay with a keystroke from my wireless keyboard, which would turn on Airplay to my living room computer. I would prefer this to be silently performed in the background.
This is apparently quite difficult. I spent two hours on the command line approach. I found no working commands. This is very surprising to me.
I've attempted connecting using Automator with a Run AppleScript action selecting the menu item as a service with a keystroke.
The AppleScript code:
on run {input, parameters}

    tell application "System Events"
        tell process "SystemUIServer"
            click (menu bar item 1 of menu bar 1 whose description contains "Displays Menu")
            key code 125
            key code 125
            keystroke return
            delay 5
        end tell
    end tell
    return input
end run

It works from Automator. It only runs when Finder is frontmost, and even then it requires me first to open the Finder > Services menu once (not even choose anything, just open that). This seems to be a known bug...
I need this command to work all the time, without any mouse input (because I cannot see my screen).
Any suggestions as to a viable path forward would be very much appreciated.


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Whenever I email a photo from the iPhone 4 photo app then the email gets stuck in the Outbox.  Just doing a refresh leaves it there, even when viewing the outbox.  To get them to send I manually need to open each email in the outbox and hit send again (and again specifying what size to make the image).

Is there a way to make the photos send automatically, or to at least send them all at once?  Manually sending each one at time is tedious.  The first few times I discovered this I had quite a few emails to send out (some of them more than a month old).

Update: I am sending them from the standard photo app when they get stuck. Then resending them from the standard mail app. The size doesn't seem to matter (small, medium, large or original).  Neither does WiFi or 3G.


texts: My MBP's touch bar turns off every time I close the lid

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Every time I close the lid of my brand new MBP, the touch bar (including the Touch ID) turns off and stop working, and only turns back on the next time I restart the computer.

I can't use the Touch ID to approve administrative operations or to unlock the computer, and I can't use the F keys or the touch bar functions at all...


texts: Which CPU option on the iMac Pro gives you two FMAs?

texts: I know for Skylake X you need a 61xx or better CPU to get two FMAs, but it’s not clear what the situation is with Skylake W ? Everything I have found for Skylake W just says “up to two FMAs”, without any specific detail as to which CPUs have 1 and which have 2?


texts: Can only one partition of old hard drive been transferred to new MacBook?

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I just took the hard drive out of my MacBook pro that broke down a few days ago and put it into an enclosure. My questions; If I buy a new MacBook pro, is it possible to ONLY transfer the  Macintosh HD partition  from the enclosure onto the new MacBook pro, WITHOUT transferring the Bootcamp partition  as well?

Thanks for your help!


texts: MBP mid 14 won't boot post kernel panic? Frozen on Apple logo

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Suspect: Macbook Pro Mid 2014 13" Retina on macOS High Sierra

Symptoms: suddenly frozen under normal usage (Chrome browsing), similar to a kernel panic, Shut down by holding the power button. Not capable to boot since.

Charge: hard drive failure?

Here is some evidence I was capable to collect:

system won't start, freezes on Apple logo w/ loading bar
Recovery partition Disk Utility tool cannot fix the hard drive (errors with a message that drive cannot be unmounted/mounted)
The diagnostic boot mode (cmd+D) crashes after language selection (frozen and nothing happens)
Verbose mode (cmd+V) leaves the computer with constantly scrolling unreadable message about "spaceman_free..." (pictured below)

In all the above cases, the Macbook is unresponsive and has to be shut down by holding the power button.

Does anyone have a similar issue or have any idea how to proceed with the current situation?

Update I (09/26/19):

I haven't installed any software before the event;
My account was the only one and w/ administrator privileges;
SIP is enabled (at least if it is by default);
after some thought, I have recalled that I had at least one pending update that couldn't be finished due to some issue.
the attempt of OS reinstallation failed due to the fact that the hard drive cannot be unmounted.

I am afraid that lot of this information is noise over signal but I cannot tell at this point what is more helpful for someone experienced.

I will update this post with anything new I manage to learn.


texts: My iPhone 6s is stuck in a boot loop? How do I get it unstuck?

texts: The phone is not jailbroken. I tried booting into recovery mode and restoring it from my mac but it wouldn't restore for some reason. The phone won't start into the boot loop unless the phone is plugged in and stops when it is unplugged. I spilled a little bit of isopropyl alcohol on it a couple of days ago, could that be the cause of my problem?


texts: How to combine multiple pdf files based on location and name with command line?

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I have multiple folders with this structure:

Folder Name/ tmp

Other Folder name/tmp

and so on...

Inside tmp folder I have many pdf files with this name pattern:

pdf-name-1.pdf
pdf-name-2.pdf
.... and more

I’m looking for the way to joint all pdf files inside All tmp directories with this name structure, move original PDFs to trash and rename combined pdf with pdf-name.pdf

Is there any way to do it using command line or bash script in macOS?

Than you very much.

UPDATE FOR CLARIFICATION

I need to combine all PDFs inside its own tmp folder not All PDFs inside ALL tmp folders.


texts: Does anyone know a solution to easily add the current output volume percentage to the menu bar?


texts: My iPhone 3gs "isn't eligible" when updating to 4.3.4

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I get this error message in iTunes when trying to update my iPhone 3GS (non jailbroken) from 4.3.3 to 4.3.4:

Why is this? The iPhone 3GS is listed under “products affected” on the iOS 4.3.4 release notes.


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Hi I'm following this tutorial to redirect safari traffic through ssh,
https://helpdesk.eoas.ubc.ca/kb/articles/how-to-ssh-tunnel-a-connection-using-macos
which is first
ssh -D 8080 -N user@address
this command will return nothing, and stay there, seems like connected,
then I set the safari port as in the tutorial,

however this does work, safari still not able to visit google,


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Google chrome wants to use the keychain password frequently in my mac system(OSX version 10.9.2).

Before updating the OS to new version, the applications like Textedit, Preview are used to ask the password while accessing them. If I click the cancel button twice, the popup will be disappeared. But, after updating to new OS version, a popup saying Google chrome wants to use the keychain password without any reason.

I need to click the cancel button for eight to twenty times to disappear the popup. While writing this question that dialog box appears three times. Sometimes, I keep that alert box to the bottom like below.

I tried deleting the password for Chrome in keychain, as suggested in this link. But, no use.