texts: Why do I get "Operation Not Permitted" when I try (as root) to delete a file that does not have the `restricted` flag set

texts: I know about SIP, so when I could not delete a file as root from a Mac running El Capitan, I checked for a restricted flag using ls -lOd and saw that the file had no flags. So why is it that I still cannot delete it? The ls command also ruled out the uchg and schg flags and I'm doing this as root so I don't need to worry about chown.


texts: Air + Lion : plug in USB, keyboard/pad stop working

texts:
I have a Macbook Air with Lion. "Most of the time" / "Intermittently", when I plug in a USB device, the built-in keyboard/pad stop working. I find this fairly frustrating.

Does anyone know what's wrong?


texts: 2007 macbook pro won't boot. What's the easiest way to diagnose the problem?

texts:
My 2007 Macbook Pro Santa Rosa just developed a problem where it failed to wake from sleep. I power cycled it, and it would not POST. I removed the battery and discharged the capacitors by holding down the power button, but laptop will not POST. The front light on the unit's latch powers on (steady light), there is a noise from the DVD drive as if it's checking for the presence of a disc, and a small amount of hard drive activity, but the display remains off.

It's been sitting on my desk for months. There's been no physical or liquid damage to it. I did notice prior to this that the DVD drive would occasionally check for DVD's for no reason (unit was sleeping, suddenly the DVD drive starts making noise), but I figured that had something to do with installing Mountain Lion about 2 months ago, since that's when I started noticing that issue.

What's the best way for me to diagnose the problem (motherboard, power supply, or something else)? I doubt it's worth getting it repaired by Apple, given the age of the unit, but if I can figure out what's broken I might swap out the offending part.


texts: Restore from Time Machine backup stalls on disk password request, won't accept true password

texts:
I have a machine whose drive became corrupt. I erased the drive and installed a basic system on it. I'm now trying to restore it to its previous state from the last Time Machine backup.

I had been backing the machine up to a NAS drive--which I was unable to restore from—so I copied the sparsebundle to a USB drive. Then I tried using Migration Assistant. That fails, saying "The selected source cannot be used for migration. Volume does not contain an installation of OS X or macOS."

So then I booted into Recovery Mode and directed it to restore from the USB drive and it correctly sees the Time Machine backups. I select the most recent one and it asks for the Time Machine password (which it accepts) and then finally asks me to unlock the "Untitled" drive on the laptop (it is encrypted). But when I type in the password for that drive, it rejects the password!

If I immediately quit the restore and reboot the machine, it once again asks for the disk password. I then give it the same password I did in the previous step, and it comes right up.

Any ideas what's going on? I am definitely providing the correct password to unlock the disk in this final step before restore (it's all the same password for me, from Time Machine to the disk to my account).


texts: SSH rejecting key file with extended attributes

texts:
In my .ssh/ directory, when running

$ ssh-add dev
Permissions 0755 for 'dev' are too open.

But looking at the dev file

$ ls -lF dev
-rw-------@ 1 me  staff  1675 Feb  3 09:37 dev

The @ at the end means that there are extended attributes. So I then run

$ xattr dev
com.apple.metadata:kMDItemWhereFroms
com.apple.quarantine

These have no meaning to me.
It looks to me that the permissions are what they should be (600)  where is the discrepancy coming from, and how do I fix it?


texts: Change managed mobile account with server 5.2

texts:
So I have an account on my iMac (Sierra 10.12.6) which was managed by a mac mini with mac OS Server (5.2).
Actually, it's always considered Admin, Managed, Mobile open the iMac (even if I don't synchronize any more).
The fact that it's managed by the server is now annoying, so I wanted to free it (I want to use the server just for accessing files). The profile is set to "Home folder: local only" on the server

I'm now having trouble changing password:

If I change on the server, it doesn't change on the iMac, so I have two different passwords for the account (one locally, the other when connecting to the server)
If I try to change on the iMac, I have this message

The password for the account "Frederic" was not changed. Your system administrator may not allow you to change your password or there was some other problem with your password. Contact your system administrator for help.

What can I do to change my account account to be just a local account (and to be able to change his password)?

-- Edit.

On the iMac, I was disconnected from the server in "Network Account Server". If I reconnect there, I can't log in anymore: the local password and the server's password are refused. I have to disconnect the iMac from the network (it's simple, because it's connected with Ethernet) to be able to sign in with the local password...


texts: Deleting all but favorite photos and videos on the iPhone

texts:
I'd like to delete the vast majority of the images/videos on my phone.
There this previous question about deleting all images on the phone which is what I've done in the past. However I would really like to preserve some of my favorites.

Are there any easy ways of doing this on iOS8?


texts:
I have a recently rebuilt recently purchased (read: really new) iMac that is running High Sierra, Chrome, and a few other very standard apps.  Nothing unusual at all.  A very basic set up.  The user who uses this machine for their daily driver took a video of something that happens almost everyday when he is preparing for class.  Here is a screen shot of it:

Also, he had activity monitor already open and the most taxing thing that was going on was Chrome using like 6.2% of the CPU.  What is causing this visual artifact to appear, and then stay on the screen?

Update:  The user is still having this problem, now with the second iMac of the exact same configuration.  I had performed a hardware diagnostic on the previous iMac where this was happening with the results being all thumbs up. This is still a mystery.


texts: Maximize minimized windows on app switcher by default

texts:
When selecting an app with the app switcher (CMD+TAB) it will do nothing if the window happens to be minimized (or the app is active but doesn't have windows open).
In this answer I was informed that you can hold OPT to maximize it.
Now, I don't really understand the UX. Why is not bringing the windows to the foreground the default? It seems to me pretty natural that if you select an application you want to open it and not a possible "do nothing" event depending on the last state the window was in. Are you supposed to remember the state of all your windows to see if you have to press OPT or not? Or press always OPT, which is tedious?
Is there a way to make "simply always show the window" the default?


texts: Apps will not open, post OS X Mavericks update

texts:
I recently upgraded my 2012 Retina MacBook Pro to OS X 10.9 Mavericks and shortly afterwards I updated the iWork apps to their latest version.

After they were all downloaded and installed, I noticed that in my /Applications folder there were, in addition to the newly updated iWork apps, the old iWork '09 apps in a separate folder. I had just assumed that this was just in case you still wanted access to the old iWork apps and so I deleted them.

For the first few hours, the new iWork apps were still working as expected. But, after deleting the old iWork '09 apps, I noticed that I could no longer open the Mac App Store. The icon in my dock just bounces once and then settles, unlike other apps which will bounce a couple of times and start.

I did some digging online but none of the results were recent enough for OS X Mavericks.
Many forum posts say to delete com.apple.appstore.plist as well as many other files but I can't seem to find any of these files anywhere on my hard drive.
I have contacted Apple but they want £35/$57 just to handle my support request.
The next morning, I noticed that the error that had caused the MAS to not open had extended to the iWork apps, as well as many other Apple apps including Calendar, Terminal and Photo Booth.

What I would like to know is how easily could this be fixed? To me, it feels like it would need to a complete fresh re-install of OS X.


texts: What is a .apple extension? I am recovering some files and I recovered several files with the .apple extension.


texts:
I am logged in as "myuser" which is also the administrator of the computer.
I have a file on which I have the following rights:

-r--r--r--   1 myuser  staff  167 17 Feb 14:26 my_python.py

However, when I type in python my_python.py on the command line, I still can run the file. Don't I need execute (x) rights in order to do that?!

The only way I cannot run the file is when I change the rights to:

----------   1 myuser  staff  167 17 Feb 14:26 my_python.py


texts: Time Machine issue: How do I restore email originally backed using Mojave to Catalina?

texts:
Last month, the hard drive on my 2013 iMac died. Luckily I have a full backup on Time Machine (backed up with Mojave 10.14.6 (18G103)).
However, I have a problem now. I took my iMac to a certified Apple shop (not Genius Bar) and they installed a new SATA SSD drive with 16GB of RAM.  They also installed the latest macOS Catalina 10.15 (19A603). The problem is I cannot use Time Machine to restore my previously backed up Mojave environment, as I am getting the kernel panic error below:

I suspect the issue is that I am trying to restore a 32-bit operating system (Mojave) onto a 64-bit (Catalina).
So what I decided to do was to do a fresh/clean install of Catalina on my iMac, and simply copy my personal files over. That worked, but how do I import my old emails from Time Machine? This my true problem. I have over 8000 emails backed up on Time Machine (again under Mojave). How can I retrieve/import these emails and their local email structures (local storage) from Time Machine into my Catalina environment?


texts: Preview refuses to open pdf file, incorrectly claiming a permission issue

texts:
I had to force-quit Preview (it became unresponsive after trying to open a 200Mb animated gif), but after re-starting it, some files that were open before no longer open. Instead an error box pops up saying that

  The file “file.pdf” couldn’t be opened because you don’t have
  permission to view it.

and

  To view or change permissions, select the item in the Finder and
  choose File > Get Info.

(how can I generate an image of that error box?).

However, the file permissions are okay, finder generated the usual preview, and acroread can open the file. I suspect that Preview has generated some lock for this file somewhere, but I'm not sure where and how. OSX 10.9.5. (copying the file in a terminal to another one and trying to open that didn't help, as did changing permissions to read-write for everyone).


texts: My Launch Agent not lauching at system load

texts:
i'm trying to make a simple Launch Agent that run a test app at system load. I followed the official documentation, but can not get it to work. my plist file is located at /Library/LaunchAgents/Test.launcher.mac.service.plist. a ls -l returns:

-rwx------@ 1 root  wheel  578 Jan 21 08:46 /Library/LaunchAgents/Test.launcher.mac.service.plist.

the content of my plist is:

    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/P$
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
        <key>Label</key>
        <string>Test.launcher.mac.service</string>
        <key>KeepAlive</key>
        <true/>
        <key>StandardOutPath</key>
        <string>/var/opt/AuraService.log</string>
        <key>StandardErrorPath</key>
        <string>/var/opt/AuraServiceError.log</string>
        <key>Program</key>
        <string>/Applications/TextEdit.app/Contents/MacOS/TextEdit</string>
        <key>Debug</key>
        <true/>
        <key>RunAtLoad</key>
        <true/>
</dict>

what i'm doing wrong?


texts: How can get an applescript to add itself to the open at login menu automatically

texts:
In El Capitan how can I get an applescript to make itself open at login?
Such as adding it to the login items automatically?

I want to be able to send people the applescript and the first time they open it, it automatically sets itself to open at login in future.

If applescript is too limiting I don't mind using a cocoa applescript in Xcode, although I would like to avoid it.


texts: The location service gets disabled after a while on some apps

texts:
Some apps that I enabled 'allowing location' checkbox on keep disabled after a while. This include Chromium and Chrome Canary but not Chrome.

After I set 'location service' to on, I always lock the setting by clicking the lock icon on the bottom. But this is very consistent and some apps keep disabled automatically.
Is this designed by the system or dependent on each app? How can I set the location such that it is permanent?


texts: Terminal script for compare and delete unused Library folder and files

texts:
I am cleaning up my Library from junk on an MacBook Air (MacOS 10.8.4). Over time I have downloaded, installed and deleted Applications (they are no longer in my Applications folder).

However, lots of them (some I no longer have clue what they are) are still in my Library in different places.

The ones I can find and recognize I can delete manually (like Wondershare)...but!

Question: Is there a safe and clean way using Terminal or other application, to compare my Applications folder for installed applications to the Library and delete unused folders and files.

In other words: If the application is NOT in my Applications folder, then it should not be in the Library.


texts: Why are my iMessages showing as coming from my email address when I've set my Caller ID to my phone number?

texts:
When iOS 5 first came out, I added my @me address to my iPhone and iPad. People could iMessage me at my email address, and I'd see it on both devices. This wasn't always perfect, and recently I decided to forgo this, and just use my phone number on my phone and email address on the iPad.

So, I switched the caller ID on my phone to the phone number again, deleted all my text message threads that were created when I was using the email address, and started a new thread. Somebody who didn't have my email address saved in their contact asked why my text messages were coming from an email address, and another reception confirmed that when he tapped 'Contact Info' at the top of the message thread, my email address was highlight in blue, NOT my phone number - indicated that this is where the message was coming from.

Does anybody know why this is happening? Is there another setting I need to change? I'd really prefer to not have them come from my email address, because then any replies will goto both my phone and my iPad - which I don't want.


texts: When I increase or decrease the volume a headphones symbol appears on my iPhone 6

texts:
On my iPhone 6 I see a headphones symbol that only appears when I increase or decrease the volume. I have no headphones plugged in.

Maybe related, I am also unable to get a sound notification, and for all calls I can’t hear the voice. I don't use a Bluetooth headset and I've never changed any settings.

I've had this iPhone for just one week. Is this a hardware or software problem? If software, how do I resolve it?


texts: Finder on Yosemite misbehaves: doubled text, blank windows, lack of updates

texts:
Since updating to Yosemite, Finder has been acting strangely. I can usually get it to show a normal-looking and -behaving window for a few operations, and then the window will either:

Be blank, showing no files or folders where I know it is pointing at a non-empty folder.
Show prior state, rather than the state I know to be true now. For instance, I could delete a folder, but it still shows as present, even after forcing Finder to refresh the view somehow.
Double the labels under the finder item:

The only third-party extensions showing in the "Extensions" system pref pane are Dropbox and PCalc.

I've read that old versions of Rogue Amoeba's "Instant On" feature can cause Yosemite problems, but I'm on the current version, 8.0.2.

I can fix it temporarily by dropping to the Terminal and saying killall Finder.


texts: Require password not able to change time delay , it is greyed out

texts: Why is the checkbox in the second line greyed out ?


texts: Macbook pro13 (2015) Battery dropping significantly during sleep

texts:
I went through articles, but I'm requesting an answer for my instance. The relevant details are shown below,

Health Information:
Cycle Count:  336
Condition:    Normal
Health: 90%

According to the console, it seems like something is happening.

The Mac, was put to sleep at 23:08, and according to the console it seems like it has been doing something.. so please give me expert advice, for that period about 8hours,  20% of the battery has drained :/
There are more stuff in the console, but I can post only 2 links here


texts: Monitor to restart application whenever it freezes or exits

texts: I want to have a certain GUI-based application always running.  It goes spinning-beachball a lot.  How do I make sure it is always running, restarting it whenever it freezes or exits?


texts: How to proceed getting a Smart ID card reader for old and new MacBooks Air?

texts:
I have related questions about a smart ID card reader for my MacBook Air.

I need to insert a Smart ID card into a reader connected to my laptop when logged into a website for ID verification. I'm a non-technical person and this is freaking me out, but apparently people do this a lot.

If I go to a random electronics store and buy a card reader will I have to download and install strange and scary software for the reader to work, or will MacOS already have something built in that will handle this safely?
Does Apple make a compatible reader that would be better to use than a random one from a store, where better means some combination of safer, more reliable and more secure?
I have an old 2012 MacBook Air but am buying a new 2020 MacBook Air soon. Because of the different connections will I need to buy two different readers?

I saw this answer to Easy solution to use a SmartCard with a 15" MacBook Pro? from 2011 but the item it links to is discontinued.


texts: What could cause this sporadic cursor problem?

texts:
I've got this problem where my cursor is jumping left and right all on it's own. I'm not touching the computer at all, I've rebooted the system, and the only way to get it to stop is to use a mouse and disable the trackpad when a mouse is connected.

Here is a video showing the problem
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXUGwhv7h8I


texts: Why are dot underscore ._ files created, and how can I avoid them?

texts:
I am using different operating systems on different machines on different locations. I am using a USB flash disk to keep my files (source codes etc.).

I am new to Mac OS X and now I realize there are lots of files created with a dot underscore ._ prefix.

Questions

Why are ._ files created?

What are their purpose?

How can I avoid them?


texts: Can't find a way to place an app in Launchpad

texts:
I've dragged the app into both Applications folders. I've tried to drag it onto the Launchpad icon in the Dock. But that didn't do anything. The only thing that worked was making an alias and then putting that into the Applications folder.
Note that the app is torrented. Does that make a difference?


texts: How can I unfollow the Weekend Pursuits channel?

texts:
I'm exploring Apple News for the first time and confused about how its channels work. One of the channels appears to be missing its Remove button:

Why is that channel different?
How do I remove it?


texts: How to make and receive calls in MBP via bluetooth?

texts:
I used to use the HandsFree 2 app. It worked perfectly and it even recorded calls, incredibly useful. But now in Catalina it crashes and it seems is discontinued.
What it did, which would be perfect to have again, is to couple with my smartphone (Android) via Bluetooth. When someone calls, the computer would show a notification and allow me to deny or answer within Mac. Answering the call is like speaking on Skype (earbuds optional).
I could also make a call from the app, which would show my contacts but I could also dial a number and same thing.
I have been scouring for an alternative and have tried a couple (PhoneCall comes to mind), but none of them worked. I'm using an Android phone with modern Bluetooth support and MBP 16" with Catalina 10.15.3.
What options do I have?


texts:
I'm kind of worried about the macOS (10.13 High Sierra) installed on my computer. I restarted my computer because it was misbehaving with Reminders (I logged out and in to iCloud to see if Continuity would start working again and it caused some trouble). When the login window appeared I saw a Guest User which I had deactivated before. I then logged in and it was still disabled. I enabled it and restarted and now I have two Guest Users ... only the one on the left asks for a password. I might have been hacked, don't know though...

Some possibly connected information:

I installed macports (reinstalled to the latest version)
I installed gnupg using macports
I ran geth (Ethereum client) (no sudo)
I played with iCloud (log out and in)
My HD is encrypted so I get the login before booting

Edit 2017-10-06 14:23:36:

I turned off Firevault, I clicked the button and there was no turning around.
I installed update 'macOS High Sierra 10.13 (17A405)' (link)
I restarted and the multiple user login was gone
I turned on Find my Mac and restarted... the double, nay, triple (my own account + 2 other) login was there but what I see is a little bit different.

Edit 2017-10-06 16:07:34:

I was able to hide the "Other..." login option by disabling the root login (System Preferences->Users & Groups->Unlock (bottom left)->Login Options->Join->Open Directory Utility->in Directory Utility Unlock (bottom left)->In Edit Menu, select Disable Root User)
When I enable Guest User, the root user gets enabled.
When using the Guest User and then login out, the computer freezes into a black screen with the pointer.


texts:
I have just updated to iOS9 but can't find the Apple News app. All web sites imply that the News app is part of the released version of iOS9.
Interestingly, the U.K. Apple site whats new with iOS9 implies its 'coming soon'
Is this a UK only issue?


texts: Is it possible to hack the "Correct spelling automatically" setting in OS X to emit a sound when correcting?

texts:
There are many times when I curse the autocorrection mechanism for changing what I typed, but overall, much of the corrections are welcome so I don't really want to disable it. I do want to have it do it's work but alert me when it makes each change so I don't have to proofread everything or focus with perfect attention to the screen to see the momentary red and/or blue underlining that alerts me to the machine override.

I would love a way to turn on an audible beep (customizable of course) so that I also get a warning each time my typing gets corrected (and only when autocorrection occurs).


texts: How do you copy a meeting in Outlook 2016 on Mac

texts:
How do I copy a meeting in Outlook 2016 on Mac?   On PC you just use Copy/Paste.  On Mac, all the Edit commands are disabled when you select a meeting in the Outlook calendar.

I spend time setting up a meeting with participants, location, attachments, categories, etc etc etc and I want to create a copy of it or a variation of it without starting from scratch.  Is this just one of those "on our to do list" features of Outlook on Mac?


texts: How can I be sure that Mac chat applications like Adium won't leak my Gmail, iCloud, AIM, or other account/password credentials?

texts: Mac chat/instant-message programs like Adium, Jabber, and AIM require you to enter your chat service account login and password information in the preferences, to enable them to function. How can I be reasonably sure that entering this information in the app(s) is secure? I am concerned that the apps may be forwarding my account credentials to unknown or malicious locations.


texts:
In Finder, every single file on my disk is classified under the "Other" section.  However, when I go to "about this Mac", it shows only  a fraction of my disk is actually "Other".

How do I fix this?  And does this have any other harmful consequences?

I have tried clearing the NVRAM and PRAM. I've tried rebooting and deleting the Finder preferences. I've updated Mac OS X.  None of those fixed it.

Edit: this only happens with my account so it probably can't be anything wrong with CoreServices. Maybe a messed up setting?

Here's an example screenshot of how things look:


texts: Can I restart my Mac remotely via screen sharing if the screen shows only linen?

texts:
I am currently in Norway.  My Mac mini is in my apartment in Australia.  I can access screen sharing via Back To My Mac.  It connects fine, but the screen has only linen - no menu bar, no dock, no anything else.  I am fairly sure that is what is actually on the screen and that it isn't a problem with the connection or anything like that (it's happened once before while I was sitting in the same room...)

I know the system is responsive because the one other thing that can poke through my router is the Transmission web interface, and that works just fine.  (Unfortunately I seem to have neglected to forward a port for ssh...)

Is there any way I can reboot or otherwise regain full use of the system via the limited screen sharing access that I have?


texts: Details of the proxy address which is being used by Mac

texts:
Is it possible to get the proxy address that my system is currently using in order to populate HTTP_PROXY variable from command line ?

I would like a command so that I could set it in my .bashrc file.

complete solution for me was to update my .bashrc file with this

function http_proxy {
    export http_proxy=`networksetup -getwebproxy Wi-Fi  | head -3 | tail -2  | cut -f2 -d' ' | sed 'N;s/\n/:/'|grep -v ':0'`
}
alias homen="networksetup -setwebproxy Wi-Fi '' ;http_proxy"
alias ofcn="networksetup -setwebproxy Wi-Fi proxy.examp.com 8080;http_proxy"
http_proxy


texts: Why do I need to "repair permissions" on my Aperture library in order to migrate to Photos?

texts:
After installing Apple Photos as part of the 10.10.3 update and attempting to migrate my Aperture library I get an error message about "permissions" on my Aperture library:

What does this mean and why is it happening?


texts:
According to this article https://support.apple.com/en-ca/guide/audio-midi-setup/ams59f301fda/mac
I should be able to use my iOS device connected via usb as a sound input.
But when I follow the instruction the input is shown and I have even enabled it, the bars are even moving but no sound is heard on the mac.


texts: Creating starred song playlist on iPhone without going to the computer

texts: Seems like one cannot create playlist of starred songs on your iPhone without going it through iTunes on your computer. Can someone verify this please? Or is there some way to do it on the phone itself?


texts:
So after five years I finally got a new Mac..
As I was surfing the web my safari page froze up with a pop up saying to contact custermer support my computer has been compromised.. With out thinking I called the number and let the person take control of my computer, after realizing that this is a scam I closed out, hung up and deleted the support help program.
My question is, is there a way to tell if the lady had a chance to Instal any kind of bug on my computer ? Like the kind that looks threw my camera or copies my key strokes?
I looked threw my terminal for lsof files but I'm not sure what I'm looking for or If there was anything suspicious..
Any suggestions ?


texts: What could be causing the Dropbox app to overwrite each of my folder's "Date Modified" dates when I open the app?

texts:
I used migration assistant to move data including my Dropbox folder from an old Macbook Pro to the new Apple M1 Silicon Macbook Pro.
Then, on the M1 Silicon I opened the dropbox app, which then started to show a progress bar that it was syncing 600,000 files (all my files), even though migration assistant had transferred all the dropbox folders correctly onto my M1.
Afterwards, I saw that the dropbox app had changed each and every one of my folder's "Date Modified" time to the time the app tried to "sync" the files. Here is a screenshot of what it looked like after. Before, each of the "Date Modified" dates had a unique date corresponding to when I last made modifications inside the folder. However, now my "Date Modified" dates have been completely overwritten. What is going on?


texts: The document "x" could not be saved. You don’t have permission

texts:
I am getting the following error:

  The document could not be saved. You don't have permission

The error is not helpful at all because it does not point to where I don't have permission. To save the file, I need to Duplicate it each time, which is very painful. This time the error is from CleanWriterPro, but I have also received it from Numbers and TextEdit. Saving with TextMate works fine.

Permissions to the file are set up correctly according to Finder.

I think this must be some kind of problem with AutoSave permissions but despite googling with the error, I have not yet figured out what's wrong.

I found one possible culprit for this problem for me:

grant:Library joneskoo $ pwd
/Users/joneskoo/Library
grant:Library joneskoo $ ls -lad Autosave\ Information/
drwx------  2 root  staff  68 Sep 25  2010 Autosave Information/

Since Library is hidden in Lion, it needs to be made visible before the permissions can be fixed in Finder:

chflags nohidden ~/Library

After unhiding the Library, I opened the Get Information for Library, clicked the lock and selected "Apply to enclosing items" so that all files in Library made owned by me and no permissions for others.

However, CleanWriterPro is still not able to save the file in Documents, even though I repeated the step for Documents and Desktop. I could not reproduce the problem in Numbers now.

Repairing Disk permissions did not help.

Possibly related: I can't even rename files in Finder now under Documents without typing my password. Techrepublic: Introduction to OS X access control lists.

grant:~ joneskoo $ ls -led Documents/
drwxr-xr-x+ 44 joneskoo  staff  1496 Jan 17 06:55 Documents/
 0: group:everyone deny delete

I don't know what introduced that ACL, Finder? How can I remove it?

The question is: what are all the places I need to check to fix this problem?


texts: My chat apps stopped working well only in my home!

texts:
My phone is Iphone 5s 11.4.1 and apps were working very well but suddenly chat apps (such as Facebook messenger, viber, telegram, etc) have stopped working well.
(I hear the voice of the other person yet the other person can not hear my voice).

The strange thing for me is that it just happens in my home, outside it everything runs so good.

Also Siri has the same problem, it does not hear me in my home!

In home I use my wifi network and sometimes my 4G. (They are from the same company)

I do not think that was because of the last update or whatever since the phone turns itself to work fine outside home using the 4G or any wifi network,  although it might coincides with a phone fell down but I am not remember well.

I do mot know what is going on. I live beside a police check point and my guess  is that the waves of their wireless devices have recently changed to have some sort of effect on my phone.

Actually, I do not know. Could anyone help on that. Thank you.


texts: Does Keychain support importing a PKCS12 certificate encrypted with AES256?

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I am attempting to import a PFX/P12 certificate generated by the Windows certificate manager for use with S/MIME into MacOS Catalina Keychain. The certificate is encrypted with AES256.

The same certificate and password work correctly when encrypted with 3DES.

When the certificated uses AES256, Keychain complains "MAC verification failed during PKCS12 import" after I enter the password.  The same error is achieved using the security cli.

Any ideas what might be wrong?

CLI examples that did not work:

security import ./foo.pfx -f pkcs12
security import ./foo.pfx -t cert -f pkcs12
security import ./foo.pfx -f pkcs12 -k ~/Library/Keychains/login.keychain
security import ./foo.pfx -f pkcs12 -T /usr/bin/codesign -k ~/Library/Keychains/login.keychain

Update 1: How the Certificates were Created

Login with my user on a Windows 10 desktop
Open Manager User Certificates
Personal -> Certificates -> All Tasks -> Request New Certificate
Select the appropriate enrollment policy
Right click the certificate and choose "Export..."
Select the format:

PFX

include all certificates
enable certificate privacy

Set the password
Finish

At some point in the process I chose AES256 or 3DES from a drop down (only two options available)


texts: Copy recursively files and folders, but preserving everything while gaining ownership?

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I would like to copy files and folders recursively from an external drive to my internal SSD.

However, when I drag and drop, and, subsequently, when I use the copied files, I am always asked to enter an administrator credentials. I don't know if it is a chmod or chown issue, or both (difficulties to making the difference between them).

Is there a way (through Terminal I guess) to copy the files:

while preserving all the files and folders details (i.e. original date/time stamps and whatever metadata necessary/useful);
but gaining ownership (so I don't have to enter administrator credentials each time I want to look, modify or move a file).

I guess it is either cp or rsync, but I must admit having difficulties sorting out and understanding all the available switches.


texts: Files on my desktop seem to set themselves as hidden files (macOS Catalina), greyed out, even though they don't begin with periods

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I have a strange and recurring problem on my recently upgraded Mac running macOS Catalina

First of all, Catalina has a new feature where you can Show/hide the hidden files on your machine using Cmd-Shift-Period. Press it once to show the hidden files press it again to hide them. AFAIK, this specific keystroke feature is new in Catalina (prior to Catalina, I always used the hack to set the finder defaults via the terminal to see my hidden files).

I normally keep my Finder windows showing the hidden files, because I want to see them.

Recently I noticed that all of  my files on the desktop were greyed out-- like hidden. They were just random files I happened to have left on my desktop.

And what's strange is that they don't begin with a period (.), the way normal hidden files do. They seem to behave as hidden files even though they don't begin with a period.

If I press Cmd-Shift-Period, they disappear from view like all of the other hidden files. But unlike the other hidden files, they aren't supposed to be hidden.

If I press Cmd-Shift-Period again, they appear along with the other hidden files in my finder windows

Just to be clear: these files were NOT hidden yesterday, and I didn't do anything that I know of to cause this. And as noted below, it doesn't happen right away when I put new files on the desktop. I noticed it last week too but now it seems to have done it to even more files that I put on the desktop more recently than when I first noticed it (The same behavior-- Finder seems like it took some visible files and turned them into these invisible files without changing the file names or adding pre-pending periods like you'd expect for invisible files.)

1) I'm not sure what is causing this. What could be causing these files to appear in this hidden state and to have been normal files and then somehow get morphed into this hidden state?

2) How can i fix them? I've never seen hidden files like these-- I've only ever seen hidden files that begin with periods (so with this, you can add or remove the period to change its visibility)— if I do "Get Info" on these hidden files I can see the normal Get Info window, which has options for many things like "Hide extension" but no option to set the file to visibile/hidden.

Was this a new feature introduced in Catalina?

When I create new files on the desktop, the new files are not hidden and behave normally:


texts: Can I simply manually delete individual Time Machine backups from the Finder or command line?

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I have moved from a Mac running Snow Leopard to a new Lion machine. Since there was a lot of cruft on the old machine, I set up the new one from scratch, only copying the data over I need. I still want to retain the Time Machine backup of my old machine for a while in case I missed something. That backup spans many months though and is huge. I really just need the latest backup from it, not its whole history.

Is it safe to simply open the Time Machine sparsebundle in Finder or on the CLI and remove the oldest folders? Or should I be using some Time Machine interface or tool to do so? I don't want to do it via the Starfield view, since it'll take me ages to click back and forth and delete each backup individually.


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I have a second hard drive in my macbook pro that is bootable into my older os install after installing a new SSD with a clean build of OSX Mavericks. When booted into my SSD, I want my old drive to be only used storage space, however it keeps using it for other things. For example when I press open with, it shows me all my apps from the old drive. I already disabled Spotlight for the old drive, but how can I prevent all function except as an external drive?

PS. I still need to boot into it occasionally and I cant just eject it when using my SSD because I need to access files on it.


texts: How can I identify 3rd party kernel extensions in macOS?

texts:
Often 3rd party kernel extensions (aka Kexts) are the cause of problems on macOS systems. One tell-tale sign is a system that boots okay in Safe Mode and doesn't reproduce the problems a user may be experiencing when booted normally. While this doesn't guarantee the problem is a 3rd party kernel extension, it's certainly one of the more likely causes.

How does a user identify what 3rd part kernel extensions are installed on their Mac?


texts:
For some reason, OS X thinks it's a good idea to reindex my entire hard drive (which takes it a few hours) about twice a week. This is really getting annoying, especially since it does this on battery, and drains it quickly.

There's nothing suspicious in the Console, when I grep for mdworker it only gives:

6/12/12 6:04:40.870 PM com.apple.launchd.peruser.501: (com.apple.mdworker.pool.0) Throttling respawn: Will start in 2 seconds
6/12/12 6:11:19.769 PM mdworker: CFPropertyListCreateFromXMLData(): Old-style plist parser: missing semicolon in dictionary.
6/12/12 8:26:59.774 PM mdworker: CFPropertyListCreateFromXMLData(): Old-style plist parser: missing semicolon in dictionary.

There's also a huge number of these errors (about one every 5 seconds):

6/12/12 8:29:25.000 PM kernel: SMC::smcReadKeyAction ERROR F1Mn kSMCBadArgumentError(0x89) fKeyHashTable=0x0xffffff800a715000

(I posted a different question about that here)

Why is it indexing and how can I stop this annoying behavior? Why would it ever need to reindex the entire drive? Every sane indexing program only indexes new files. I don't see why would it need to reindex the whole drive, and I certainly don't see why it would need to do this twice a week.


texts: The MacBook charger has frayed/ broken plastic near the connection to the box on the charger. It will only charge while in certain positions and gets hot and has a burning smell. How can I fix this? I'm hoping wrapping it with electric tape will be enough?


texts:
I know roll-outs are staggered, but 10 days (and two minor releases) later I'm fairly sure I should have been offered an update (all other iOS/iPadOS devices in the house have been).

I've restarted the phone, logged on to various networks (plus cellular), and I'm still seeing

  iOS 13.0
  Your software is up to date.

When visiting Settings / General / Software Update

Automatic updates are On, iCloud setup is fine (backups working, etc.), and this phone is not enrolled in any betas. The update from 12.x to 13.0 was via iTunes, but I've done that before and (as expected) it's had no effect on future OTA updates.

Any magical bonus steps I might take to cause the phone to discover the update?


texts: Looking for an iPhone app or script that turns off “Cellular Data” when on 2G and then BACK ON when on 3G

texts:
As some of you might know, 2G (GSM) or 2.5G (GSM/Edge) does not support data and calls at the same time. Using the Internet while on 2.5G and lower causes incoming calls be bounced.

3G does support data and calls at the same time by pausing Data while a call is received.

I am an architect, working in and around buildings under construction.

I usually get a low (2G) signal when I enter one and a good (3G) signal when I come out. Together with all the apps I have, the phone finds itself using my Internet connection when on GSM, causing calls to be dropped. I'm effectively unreachable.

I don't want to use 2G internet, only 3G. I would like cellular data to be on only when on 3G. My phone calls take priority over Internet connectivity when on 2G.


texts: Is there a keyboard short cut to edit a cell in Numbers?

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Back when I used Excel you could easily do all the navigation and editing on a spreadsheet with the keyboard. I could navigate around with the arrow keys and hit F2 to edit a cell and start typing.

In Numbers '09 I can navigate easily using the arrows then start typing to overwrite the contents of a cell. But I can't figure out how to navigate to a cell and then edit its contents without clicking on the cell with the mouse[1].

Is there an easy way to do this without the mouse?

1 -  Okay, so I did figure out one way (⌘+C, space, backspace, ⌘+V) but it's such a hack that the mouse starts looking better.


texts: MacOS Catalina duplicating files on save

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I'm a software developer and I constantly need to save files of course. The problem I'm experiencing right now is that intermittently my laptop creates new files of the ones I'm saving/compiling. I'll provide an example in a minute. My thought initially was that perhaps this is due to some file permissions I'm not looking at. I've had this laptop for a couple of months now and this is the only problem I've encountered. It has happened on both Visual Studio Code and Atom. I also thought this was because of the language I'm using but it also happening with NodeJS applications I've worked with. And while this does not cause any malfunction, it is very annoying every time I need to compile a project my terminal screen is super cluttered with errors because these files are not valid.
The errors go like this
[error] beam/beam_load.c(1433): Error loading module 'Elixir.Poison.Encoder.FileName 4':

So it creates files like the one above but replace '4' with whatever number it decides to put, it can be 1, 2, 3, 4, and so on... I've deleted the build directory of my projects to get rid of the error but it is only temporary. Thanks in advance and let me know what else I can provide to make this easier to debug.


texts: How do I get a folder tree view in the left column of the Finder?

texts: I'd like to have a tree view of my current folder (it's children and it's parents) for navigation in the left column of the finder's UI. How do I get that?


texts: Why does Gmail and Google Docs use up so much RAM on macOS?

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I've always noticed that Gmail and Google Docs will take up ~1GB of RAM at any time if you have open in Safari. However, something odd happened to me just a while ago: I had a Google Docs tab open for a while, and out of nowhere it started using 8GB of RAM. Most of it had been compressed, but my memory pressure was quite high.

Is there any reason that these Google sites use up so much RAM? Should I be worried at all about this, especially if for some reason Docs starts using 8GB?


texts: Can I boot Linux (any distro?) from USB on a MacBook Air that has no hard drive?

texts:
I've a MacBook Air that has burned out three hard drives from OWC.  The original drive is gone somewhere, and it no longer makes sense to purchase a replacement.  The rest of the hardware is in good order.

My question is, is there a linux disto that I can boot off of a usb (or an sd)?  I'm not dual booting (there's no hard drive) and reFit isn't an option either.

Most of what I've read assumes that a local hard drive is available.  There isn't in this case.

Starting to answer my own question now.  I've got reFit booting from a USB, now I'm wondering what needs to be done for reFit to boot a linux distro from another USB.  (Or, should the single USB contain both? refit and the distro?)


texts: Twitter media sometimes stops loading both in Twitter.app and through Safari

texts:
This is a weird one. At first I thought it was just a problem with the Twitter app running in macOS sometimes just stops loading any media (pictures, gifs, videos). But then I noticed that twitter.com through Safari would exhibit the exact same problem, and loading the same tweet in Chrome worked perfectly. This happens sometimes, I think most notably the next morning. My computer doesn't go to sleep since I use it for some server purposes.
Screenshots below are of the same tweet around the same time, one in the Twitter app, one in Safari and one in Chrome just to illustrate the point.
I'm thinking this is some sort of issue with macOS' networking/cache layer? I'm running Little Snitch but tries disabling it but the problem persisted.
I don't know, anyone have any ideas? Thanks in advance for any help I can get on this!
Twitter.app

Safari

Chrome


texts: I have installed 150 apps on my iPod Touch, but I have found that some apps do not display. Is there any limitation on the number of apps that can be displayed?


texts: Windows has MS Word. What does Mac have as a word processor?

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Microsoft has MS Word as a word processor for Windows.

What does Apple have for macOS? I'd like same feature rich application MS Word offers.


texts: Pages for iOS won't let me insert or replace pictures (images)

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When i click on the "insert stuff" button, the window pops up with the tabs that let me pick pictures, shapes, tables, etc.

If I select a table, shape, or anything but a picture, I can pick a specific one, and it appears in the doc, as it should.  But if i pick pictures, I get to pick from my albums, images, etc, but when I select one, nothing happens - the thumbnail gets darker to reflect that I clicked it, but the app just hangs - no image appears in the doc.

The same thing occurs if I use a pre-made template with a pic in it - I can click on the embedded image icon, and get to my images to pick one to select the generic one, but nothing happens when I pick one.

Any ideas?   I already tried a reset.


texts: How to enable Sqlite on a Mac OS X Mavericks

texts:
I upgraded my Mac with OS X Mavericks last week.  It appears to have taken away support for Sqlite -- not Sqlite3, but sqlite.  I need that for a website I work on.  I went to Sqlite's website, but all I could find was older versions of Sqlite3.  Where can I find a version of Sqlite?  I've been through the php.ini and can only find one reference to sqlite.  In short, how do I get Sqlite support on my Mac?  I have Sqlite3 enabled and the issue isn't going away.

I uncommented pdo_sqlite in the php.ini and I still have the issue.


texts: I have set up Google sync on my all my devices as I use the iOS Chrome app. When using the Chrome app I click on 'other devices' and my iMac device name shows up as iMac-2. I was wondering if it's possible to somehow rename/change my iMac device name. I've tried unlinking my iMac and linking it back up again but nothing has worked so far. I know it's only a small issue but it's bugging me.


texts:
I emptied the trash "non-securely," and now I want to find those files and delete them permanently, in order to free space on my startup disc.  I learned from Apple that they go into an "invisible" trash folder, but I can't find it.

How do I find this folder and delete it for good?  I need space on my startup disc.


texts: Is it possible to set up rules in Mail that do not appear in the rules list?

texts: I'd like to set up a few rules in Mail.app but not have them appear in the list of rules in Mail's preferences. Is there any way to do this?


texts: Unable to retrieve deleted iPhone contacts

texts: My contacts were linked to an iCloud.com account and not my gmail.com account. I only created an Apple ID with my gmail account and have no idea how that iCloud.com account was created. Now my contacts got deleted and I only have the password for my gmail.com account but my contacts are not synced to that account. My contacts are synced to the iCloud.com account and I don't have the password for that account.


texts: Where do closed notes in OS X Notes app go?

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When you close a note in the OS X 10.9 Notes app it leaves no trace, there's no warning and no revert. It's just appears to be gone. Very unMac like to me. It's in user interface design 101 that if there's a risk of data loss, the application should inform the user of this is what will happen.

Where do the notes go in OS X if the default is "on this Mac"? What if the default account is an IMAP account? Can you get it back from the place it's connected to?


texts: How do I simplify transfer of Books to iPad

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I upgraded to Maverics, and thought having iBooks on the Mac would be a good idea, so I could read epubs.

My books are gone from iTunes, although the process of adding them to a Collection in iBooks doesn't seem to be any better.

I only have selected Books on the iPad, and it seems I have to attach the iPad to iTunes, so I can select the Books in iBooks I want then sync.

On the iPad I then have to move the new books into the Category, as this doesn't seem to transfer in the sync.

This is an IMPROVEMENT?


texts:
After upgrading form iOS 5 beta to the final release, I cannot create any new reminders.

The issue seems to be caused by the fact that there is no reminder lists to which to add a new reminder, but I can't find any way to add a new list to the app.

In the screenshot, you can see I have the "Completed" list of tasks, that I made with one of the earlier betas of iOS 5, but there are no other lists.

The system's language is set to Italian, I hope that the screenshot is clear enough to show the situation.


texts: Prevent certain APFS volumes from being deleted in Disk Utility.app

texts:
I can open Disk Utility and permanently erase any highlighted, internal APFS disk volume not being used to boot the currently running operating system, just by clicking the delete or - (minus) button, and without getting any prompts for an administrator password.

The same goes even when Disk Utility observes and warns me that the volume contains another installation of macOS and macOS user data and any user can carry out the operation.

Is it possible to lock down these actions for certain APFS volumes?

That is, how can I disable / grey out the delete button for those volumes, so the button can't be pressed? Or, how can I make Disk Utility prompt for an administrator password when performing these operations, either globally or on certain volumes?

Is it possible to achieve one or the other possibly using Terminal, diskutil and/or APFS verbs or otherwise?


texts: Photos on iOS 11 re-uploading entire library to iCloud

texts:
Since updating to iOS 11, Photos has been behaving strangely. My settings for iCloud Photos are blank

My photos are endlessly re-uploading (even though they are all already in the cloud):

Worse — or at least further unnerving, if the upload is actually doing something — this upload pauses itself after a period of about an hour (without notice) and needs to be manually restarted to proceed.

(In contrast, Google Photos, which syncs with the same library on my iPhone, seems to be working fine.)

Why are my Photos settings blank? Why is my photo library being (re)uploaded to iCloud?


texts: Disconnect/connect USB device from command line

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Assume I have a Galaxy phone connected via USB to my mac

Listing USB devices is easy, and I can see my phone connected:

ioreg -p IOUSB -l -w 0

Is it possible, given I have the ioreg output, to disconnect a specific device (without PHYSICALLY disconnecting it)?


texts: Customize Change Spaces Shortcut in Mountain Lion

texts:
I have a Logitech mouse that is supposedly "unsupported", but I'd like to be able to click the mouse wheel left and right to switch spaces left and right. I figured out that Mountain Lion is interpreting these clicks as control + page up (click mouse wheel left) and control + page down (click mouse wheel right), because my IDE (Eclipse) switches text editor tabs when I click left and right. (See https://stackoverflow.com/a/2332440).

How can I map control + page up / control + page down to change spaces left and right?

There isn't a clear way to do this in System Preferences. I'm comfortable doing some defaults writes from Terminal, but I don't know where to start.


texts: Localized app name does appear in English only via App Store app on iPhone

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I have a weird issues. There is my app which I localized for multiple languages following Apple guidelines. All works well, app reacts to the language on the phone, I can see localized app name by using App Store via VPN to some country, etc.

However, when I switch phone to German, for example, switch App Store app to Germany, and then search my app via its German name, app store finds it, but displays its name in German.

I am not sure why this is happening only via App Store app on the iphone itself.

Did anyone have such problems and how did you solve them?


texts: Every single iPhone backup has disappeared - from PC and from iCloud

texts:
Today my mother was going to upgrade from the iPhone 4 to the iPhone 4S, so, naturally, I backed up her iPhone so that she could restore from it when we came back with her new one. As I know that backing up through syncing can be problematic, I backed up by right-clicked on the iPhone and clicking "back up". I did this multiple times (to both the computer and to iCloud) and each finished successfully without error, as it said "Last restored: 12:05" for both.

So when I was setting up the new iPhone (on the phone itself), I signed into her Apple ID account (which was successful) and chose "Restore from iCloud" and it said "No backups available".

I thought that was odd, so I selected "Restore from iTunes" and went onto iTunes. There are NO backups available for her iPhone ("Jackie's iPhone"). NONE. Not even the older ones which were there the other day! All of mine are there ("Ben's iPhone") for the past year or so and NOTHING ELSE. In this situation everyone always says that iTunes has simply lost track of the backups and that they're still in the filing system. Next, I went to "%UserProfile%\AppData\Roaming\Apple Computer\MobileSync\Backup" and they aren't there either.. So, I enabled hidden folders, hidden protected Operating System files and checked my Recycle Bin (which hasn't been emptied for days) and there is NO trace that they were ever there. The amount of folders in MobileSync\Backup perfectly match the amount of Restore options in iTunes..

How has this happened? I've restored her iPhone from her backups before without issue. How could they have disappeared?

Update
I set up the iPhone as a new phone, signed in to iCloud and reviewed the settings and it seems that iCloud backup was never enabled and no iCloud space has been used. I don't know whether this is only disabled because it's a newly setup phone and it's a per-device setting or what, but it could potentially explain the lack of iCloud backups. Also, when I went to sign into iCloud in Settings (after a complete restore to factory settings and basic configuration) my personal email address, not hers, was already in the login field, despite me never having entered it in the setup process at all. Something weird's going on here..

iPhone: 4
iOS: 5.0.1
Jailbroken State: Never
Operating System: Windows 7 Ultimate, x64


texts:
I recently realized you can use quicklook from the command line. Here's the example: qlmanage -p somefile.txt >& /dev/null & When this command is invoked quicklook opens its popup *in a different desktop*.

What I'd like is for quicklook to open in the *same* desktop window as full-screened terminal (just above it). Is this possible with quicklook?


texts: AppleScript checking if folder exists causes “AppleEvent handler failed” error -10000

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AppleScript on macOS Mojave and can't work out why this script gives the expected "TRUE" on the first folder, but instead of "FALSE" on the second folder it aborts with the error message:

  [error "Finder got an error: AppleEvent handler failed." number -10000 from folder (file "Felix HD:Users:Billy:TESTING:FOLDER2"]

tell application "Finder"

    set targetFolder to POSIX file "/Users/Billy/TESTING/FOLDER1" -- Existing folder

    if exists folder targetFolder then
        say "TRUE"
    else
        say "FALSE"
    end if

    set targetFolder to POSIX file "/Users/Billy/TESTING/FOLDER2" -- Non-existing folder

    if exists folder targetFolder then
        say "TRUE"
    else
        say "FALSE"
    end if

end tell


texts:
I have lots of mail rules that sort incoming mail into different folders. Today a message got put into a folder it didn't belong in. There are over 40 rules that move messages into this particular folder, and I'm not sure which one matched this message inappropriately, so I can fix the criteria. I tried searching MessageRules.plist in a text editor for all these rules, and none of the criteria looked like they should match, but there must have been something I missed.

Is there a way to know which one did it? I know that I can make a rule set the color of a message, so I could move the message back into my Inbox and use Apply Rules. But with so many rules, it's not really practical to give them all colors that I can distinguish.


texts: Finder becomes unresponsive when viewing network folders with large amounts of files (OSX 10.6.8)

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When loading a folder which contains around 500 video files (each approximately 200mb-700mb in size), Finder becomes unresponsive and displays the beach-ball.

The folder in question is a networked folder (on an AvidISIS server). Network speed shouldn't be an issue as we are accessing the server using dual ethernet cards (high-end).

What's annoying is that this only occurs on systems running Snow Leopard. Our Lion systems (which dont even have the dual ethernet set-up) have no problem accessing the folder. I've also tested this on SL computers without the dual ethernet and the issue still exists.

Furthermore, if I open the folder, wait 10 seconds and then scroll around with the mouse, the folder responds fine for a while. But if I click and drag the scroll bar Finder shows the beach-ball again.

Is there a way to prevent Finder from slowing down when accessing the
folder?
Could it be due to Finder trying to load thumbnails of
the video files?

(both the Snow Leopard and Lion systems are fully up-to-date - mix of Mac Pros and Mac Minis)


texts: Thumbnails for old photos are wrong in Photos app

texts:
I imported a large number of old photos into iPhoto, and I then updated to the new Photos app recently. After the update, the thumbnails on the old photos are incorrect. They are just thumbnails of different pictures.

I cannot find a way to fix this. I tried launching Photos with CMD and Option held down and allowing the repair to complete. The problem persisted.

I have added an image that shows a thumbnail that doesn't match the selected photo. Any ideas?


texts: Is there a way to display the date in power reserve mode on the Apple Watch Series 2?

texts:
I constantly forget to charge my watch on time so 25% of the time I use it in power reserve mode.  It kind of bothers me that there's only the time shown.

I searched around in the watch and iPhone settings and also in other communities but didn't found an answer.

I have the latest watchOS running in Series 2.

Does anyone know if the watch can show the date in power reserve mode?


texts: What are the command line options for afconvert?

texts:
macOS includes a tool called afconvert which describes itself this way in the man page.

  Audio File Convert will convert a source audio file to a new audio file with the specified file and data types

However, that's the entire man page. What are the command line options required and supported by afconvert? What are some basic examples of how to convert audio files back and forth?


texts:
Our teacher is teaching use some Data Structures algorithms that are being implemented in C. He uses Visual Studio in class, but I want to be able to run simple programs that we write in Xcode.

I've tried to run the code but in Xcode 5 the options to do so are greyed out. Besides just installing Xcode, what steps should I need to take so that I can run simple C programs on my Mac?


texts: Ipod Classic 120 GB frozen when syncing with a new PC.

texts: I am trying to sync my Ipod Classic with my new PC, and my iTunes account is the same username, login, etc. My iPod has frozen in the "Connected- Eject before disconnecting" screen. It isn't syncing, and it's not registering on iTunes, but my Spotify application is picking it up. However, the PC doesn't recognize it when I try to "safely eject it" on the bottom taskbar of the desktop/browsing window. I did get one short message from iTunes stating my Ipod is corrupted, but I have gotten this message before and it fixed itself. So right now my iPod is frozen on that "Connected" screen, but it is not registering on iTunes. any ideas? Thank you!!


texts: How can one find start-up bottlenecks on macOS? On Linux I normally do systemd-analyze blame, which shows the initialization times of all services - is there a launchd counterpart?


texts: I've recently got a new Windows laptop and downloaded and installed the latest iTunes (11.0.2). All my music (over 5000 songs) went into iTunes fine, just as they were on my old laptop. However I have now noticed that when I download new music and add it to my iTunes it won't allow me to edit the songs through "Get Info" even though the songs I transferred from my old laptop can be edited perfectly fine. Can anyone help? Thank you.


texts: How to restore the Mavericks version of the sound effect for the volume button for Yosemite?

texts: I just upgraded my MacBook to Yosemite, and the new sound effect for the volume button is just awful. Is there a way to change out the sound file so I can hear the old version on Yosemite?


texts: Is it possible to damage the system (macOS) by installing pirated software?

texts:
In Windows, the programs are installed without problems and access to system files is simple. Any user can delete a file from the system and damage it.

However on Mac, it cannot touch system files, which in my opinion makes it safe.

Anyway I would like to ask Is it possible to damage the system by installing pirated or cracked applications?


texts: Logging into iCloud on a Network Managed user account

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If I log into a Mac at my uni, then I log on as a network user, so none of my files are actually stored on the Mac and I can log on to any machine and anyone can log into their account on this Mac.

Is it safe to log into iCloud in this case, as in noone else will be able to access it after I log out? Will it try and sync my entire iCloud Drive to this Mac?


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I'm not understanding the iOS App Store's algorithm for Family Sharing of applications.

Here's how it works (for me):

  If user A shares with use B and wants a free app that A owns, it
  is impossible to download (the App Store asking for A's credit card security
  code and then rejects it); but if B wants a paid app that A owns,
  don’t even use Family Sharing and just charge them.

I'm puzzled by this, since it seems not to be the advertised function of Family Sharing. What am I missing?


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I was wondering how to list an album as another artist's work in iTunes "Artists" view.

I have an album whose artist and album artist are "eason and the duo band". I would like to list the album as "Eason Chan" by using the "Sorting" feature. However, the album still belongs to "eason and the duo band" in "Artists" view.


texts: Why can't I access HTTPS sites through my iPhone's hotspot?

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I can access HTTP and HTTPS sites from the iPhone without any problems. However, when I use the iPhone as a hotspot and connect my laptop to the it, I can't access HTTPS sites from the laptop.

It's almost as if there's a firewall on the iPhone, but this link says that there isn't.

What else could it be?


texts: Big Sur - high CPU usage before user login

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Is there a way to log the system activities, such as errors or cpu usage data, before user login?
I'm using macOS Big Sur 11.0.1 on MacBook Pro 16 inch - 2019, and I found the machine is hot and the fan runs at high speed at the login screen, indicating a high CPU usage. This situation continues forever until I logged in, at which time the fan slows down significantly, and the cpu usage is at normal level (below 3%). So everything is fine once logged in. I guess there should be some abnormal process(es) consuming huge amount of cpu when at the login screen, but I couldn't find any logs during that period because the system log I found starts only after login.
Any helpful information/clues will be appreciated!
Update: I've tried these steps:
-- reset SMC
-- reset NVRAM
-- enter safe mode
-- reinstall macOS
Since none of these work, given that everything goes pretty well after login, I guess it's very likely to be caused by a software bug. If anyone could try to replicate the behaviour and comment the observations below, I will appreciate it very much! That will be very helpful to help confirm whether it is a bug.
To replicate the behaviour:

Restart. Don't enter any password.
Stay at the login screen. Within 2 or 3 mins, the fan should start. Within another 2 or 3 minutes, the fan could reach full speed because of the heat.
The fan should slow down quickly after login.


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My university Wi-Fi has multiple SSIDs with the same name, but broadcasting in different channels (as I receive signals from different routers at the same time). However, in my room my Wi-Fi disconnects often which I'm assuming is because it is connecting to a router with poor signal strength. Is there any way to manually choose the SSID channel that I wish to join?

Surprisingly, my Android phone doesn't face this problem and is able to maintain a stable connection. I don't think anything's wrong with my MacBook as I can connect normally at other places including the lobby of my dorm.


texts: Mini Ipad stolen. Have two iPads with the same iCloud

texts: I have two iPads with the same iCloud. One of them was stolen. What happens if I clear the data? Both iPads will be cleared?


texts: macOS: Navigating between desktops using keyboard shortcuts

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I've just moved to Mac from Linux. There I used to have a fixed number of desktops running full-screen apps. I've managed to configure it on Mac, but yet can not find the way to assign shortcuts to switch between them. For ex. to use Command + 1 to go to the first full-screen desktop.

Several years ago I've been using some app to do so, but I can not find it now. Any ideas on how to do it?


texts: How can I get accurate information about disk space used/available in Big Sur via the command line?

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Summary:
I would like to be able to tell how much disk space I have used and how much I have available (in GB) in Big Sur in a simple format suitable for parsing in a shell script or similar.
Details
Finder reports that my internal SSD is 995 GB and has 568 GB free.
Simple math tells us that means I have used 427 GB.
So… how can I get 568 GB and/or 427 GB from the command line?
Hint: The answer is not df
If I do df -H / I will get this result (truncated for readability and to just the parts of the output we care about):
Filesystem       Size   Used  Avail Capacity
/dev/disk3s1s1   995G    15G   528G     3%

15G might be how much the read-only volume takes up, but the “available” amount is off by 40G.
Of course we know that there’s now a separate ‘Data’ volume. So let’s check that using df -H /System/Volumes/Data:
Filesystem     Size   Used  Avail Capacity
/dev/disk3s5   995G   445G   528G    46%

445G used is relatively close to the actual amount of 427G but if you add up the “Used” (445G) and “Available” (528G) you get 973G.
There must be some way to do it…
I have noticed that other apps such as iStat Menus and MakeMKV are both able to display accurate information about the remaining disk space. So it’s not as if the system is incapable of revealing this information.
If there is another tool besides df that can do this, please let me know.
Bonus points if it comes standard with macOS (bash, zsh, python, ruby, whatever), but if it can be installed via brew or similar, I’ll take it.
What I’m asking for seems very simple, but I can’t figure out how to do it.
p.s. - yes, I’m aware of macOS’ features about “purgeable space” and all that. Not interested. I just want to be able to get the same numbers shown in Finder, iStat Menus, etc. from the command line.


texts: Explicit content music not appearing on my iPhone

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I have added to my iPhone a new album which includes explicit music. When I check on iTunes I can see the music is on my iPhone, but when I search for these songs on my iPhone I can't find them.

What do I have to do to make this album visible?


texts: Safari: get URLs of images displayed in Web Inspector

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How do I get the list of the resources loaded in Safari's Web Inspector? (Web Inspector > Resources > Images)

My goal is to download all images shown in the inspector.

These are the manual steps:

open web inspector (CMD + Shift + I; Develop > Show Web Inspector)
click the "Resources" tab
Navigate to your desired resource (fonts, images, scripts, stylesheets)
CMD + double-click the desired resource. This loads your desired image/script/css in a new Safari tab.
close web inspector
copy resource's URL (CMD + L, CMD + C) and close the tab (CMD + T).
repeat for the remaining resources.

I think this should work with JavaScript / AppleScript.

Thanks.


texts: iOS App Advertisement choice : iAd or AdMob ?

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what will you choose , iAd or AdMob ? and what is the reason behind ?

I'm now using iAd, as I think Apple may block AdMob anytime, as Apple wants to protect its iAd. Is it true?


texts: In PC, the utility of xkeymacs.exe enables one to use emacs key in every case. Does Mac have the similar utility? For example, is there a utility that I can use key 'C-x C-s' to send the key 'Command-S'?


texts: How to use the programming calculator in OS X?

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I'm trying to make the best out of the programming calculator in OS X, but I don't know these functions:

byte flip
word flip
X<
X>>Y
RoL/RoR (are these just sll/srl?)

Also is it possible to perform a two's complement on a narrower range i.e. 16 bits instead of 64 bits?


texts: Can I simultaneously record video from a MacBook webcam and the iPhone screen?

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So I know I can use QuickTime to record a movie from my Mac's webcam.

And I know I can use QuickTime to record a movie from the screen of my iPhone, connected via a USB cable.

But my question is: can I use QuickTime, or some other application, to record both videos simultaneously?

And can I use QuickTime, or some other application, to combine the videos, so that the video of the iPhone screen is shrunk down into the bottom right corner of the video from the webcam?


texts: How can I install bind-utils on El Capitan

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I would like to use DNSSEC tools (like dnssec-keygen, dnssec-signzone, ...) on my Mac without running or installing the BIND9 service.

Unfortunately for me Homebrew seems only to have the BIND9 package, but not bind-utils
The official website https://www.isc.org/downloads/ also doesn't provide these tools.

Can someone know how I can use these tools on Mac ?


texts: Programmatically confirm whether data on my Mac is synced to iCloud?

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I'm writing a script to highlight things I need to resolve before I'm ready to wipe a macOS system.

I use them sans-network often, so it'd be nice to confirm I don't have unsynced apps or classes of data.

Looking for any filesystem locations or commands through which information about app/data sync state is accessible.


texts: iPad not playing YouTube videos in Safari

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My iPad won't play YouTube videos.

I order to solve the problem I have tried:

Turning the iPad off and back on.
Refreshing the YouTube webpage in the browser.
Open the webpage in a new browser tab.

None of these actions have solved the problem.

What else can I do to get the YouTube videos to play?


texts: MacBook Pro not booting after update to Mavericks

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I installed Mavericks (upgrading from Mountain Lion) on my MacBook Pro (from early 2011) and the install seemed to go fine. However, this morning while I was working on PowerPoint, it switched off with no warning at all (it was connected to AC power and battery was full). Then, it refused to boot. After the spinning bar under the logo, it just gave a gray screen and was completely unresponsive. I tried to boot into safe mode by pressing ⇧ shift while booting and it reached a blue screen with vertical black stripes and was again unresponsive.

Then I tried clearing the NVRAM with ⌘⌥PR and it again reached an unresponsive gray or blue screen if I waited long enough. Tried Internet Recovery but after downloading something for an hour it again gave the blue screen with vertical stripes.

Any idea what I can do? Can I use a Linux LiveDVD or something to extract some data I have on it?

ETA: Ran the hardware test from the included Applications DVD and it did not find any troubles. Trying to boot with a LiveDVD did not work. Did get to the stage where I select from the range of boot options but then the boot did not complete. Tried with Ubuntu and CentOS.


texts: Options on a Mac for a writable, compressed file system?

texts: I have a SSD drive on my MacBook Pro and I'm constantly running on out of disk space because I need to install and run multiple virtual machines (Linux, Windows etc) on my Mac. Is there a way to mount a writable disk image that is also compressed? I'm hoping to use the disk image to store the VMs on. I don't mind taking the speed hit.


texts: Adding variables to a shell command in Automator

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I use Terminal to run a command. It runs fine from the command line, but I want to be able to automate it with Automator. The syntax of the command (of course, minus the quotes) is as follows:

 spotify-ripper user.name "/path/to/directory" "spotifyURI"

I've tried countless times to get Automator to:

Ask for finder items (to create the "path/to/directory")
Ask for Text (asking me to past in the URI/URL link from spotify)
Run Shell Script (/bin/bash)

spotify-ripper user.name "$@"

I have tried it with "Pass input" to "stdin" or "as arguments". Just get an error. I've read that "$@" will pass both variables one after the other which just what I need. I've also tried "$1" "$2" as some posts have suggested.
What am I missing?
I just want to pass path info and a URL to the end of a shell command, but nothing seems to work. I've tried the GET and SET Variable options, but that doesn't seem to help either.

Anyone have any ideas what I should be doing?


texts: How are phone calls initiated from iPad's FaceTime routed?

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An iPad is configured with the same Apple ID as an iPhone, which is configured to enable the iPad to receive / initiate phone calls.

Is the iPad directly communicating with T-Mobile's cellular gateway or is the iPhone an intermediary for the voice packets?


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I've installed OpenCV, numpy and all other required contents using brew install opencv.

Then I tried running it python >> import cv or python >> import cv2 but I get a "Segmentation fault: 11" error. Crash Log


texts: How can I add my Facebook friends in Waze?

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I'm trying to add my Facebook friends to my Waze account and they are not showing up.

This is my screen, and it never changes

I found in their forums that this is a common problem, but I'm yet to find a solution after trying every workaround that's recommended.

I disconnected and re-connected Waze to Facebook multiple times.
I removed the app from Facebook and re-authorized it when it asked me for permissions.
I signed out and removed all information from Facebook from my iPhone, and signed in again (*)
I tried downloading Waze on an iPad and link Facebook from there, but the issue is the same.
I search in their home page to login and associated from there, but it only shows you a dashboard with little data.

(*) This step is specifically recommended in their official support "wiki"

sorry I can't link directly, it's in an iFrame. You can go to https://www.waze.com/support/question and search for can't see facebook friends

I am willing to completely delete my account (with Waze) and start from scratch, but I assume I'd need to create a new Facebook profile as I cannot find where to completely wipe my association with Facebook (this I don't want to do)

If anyone has any other suggestions, or knows how to completely delete your account in Waze, or whatever steps you can think of, I'd love to hear them!


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I have a second internal drive (in the optical bay), named "Secondary". It is mounted in /Volumes/Secondary. User directory is moved to that drive and also symlinked.

Sometimes when I reboot, and always during a crash, OS X creates an empty directory under /Volumes/Secondary and basically creates a new user profile. Then it moves the actual drive to /Volumes/Secondary 2.

I have to go in and manually delete the new dir, move the other one and reboot again.

How can I lock in that volume name permanently?


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Late 2013 Macbook Pro 15.4" 2.6Ghz

I connect HDMI and not always do the full spectrum of resolutions appear within the list of choices?

System Preferences (app) -> Displays (preference icon) -> Display (tab) -> Scaled (tab)

What would cause this?

Monitor is more of a TV I guess: Seiki 4K 39-inch.

Even if 4k would perhaps cause a problem, 1080p, 1080i, and even 1440x900 failed to appear a good portion of the time.

Is this perhaps a hardware issue with the MBP's HDMI port?

Would it help if I used the thunderbolt-to-HDMI cable instead? Perhaps because of a faulty HDMI port maybe?


texts: Prove that I visited a site for medical school interview

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10 days ago I was awarded an interview at my dream medical school, and immediately signed up for a time slot on their website. However, I recently got an email that I actually DIDNT sign up for a time slot and I’ve therefore lost the opportunity. I must have failed to click confirm!

So my question is, how do I prove that I visited the sign-up page on the 12 or 13th of December? I’ve checked my browser history for Safari and Firefox from those days, but for some reason the website is not in there—is it possible that it got inadvertently deleted? I know that I visited the pages and that I was not in private browsing mode.

A couple of specific questions:
1. What are your suggestions in terms of finding the missing browsing history in my Mac? I’m running OS Mountain Lion and I didn’t have Time Machine running. I have found my history.plist file, but it seems really short and only seems to have websites that visited in the past couple days.

Is there any way that cookies might help me? I unfortunately don’t think that the university’s site collects them, and I didn’t see the site in my safari cookies, but might this be an avenue to pursue?
Is there anything that the university might be able to do to check website activity? I’ve sent them my IP address, but I’m worried that it may have changed since 10 days ago and won’t match. Is there anything else I can ask them to do?
Anything else in terms of proving that I thought I had signed up? The only thing I have right now is that I entered the interview time slot into my iCalendar as soon as I signed up, so the time stamp on the item in my calendar matches the day.

I appreciate any help you can give, and let me know if I should provide any more information! I desperately want the chance to interview at this school!


texts: Position all slides titles at the same exact coordinate - Keynote

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So I have about 70 slides in my keynote presentation.

I've been looking everywhere trying to position all my titles of all 70 pages to start at the exact x,y coordinates position.

I couldn't find it an option to do that.

Result :

Right now, if I pressed down arrows, I see that my titles are not line up, some of them are too far left, and some are slightly off not in same position because I been eyes-ball and position each one of them best I can to the left edge.

Is there a way to do it ?


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I Want to use wifi on my iphone, Anybody can help me.
I am already using my laptop on the same network through static IP. Please also tell me that Mac address will be used in this situation. The static IP of my laptop is below:

IP Address: 10.10.10.144
Subnet Mask: 255.0.0.0
Default Gateway: 10.10.10.1
Preferred DNS Server: 10.10.10.1


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My MBP's Wifi connection is very slow. How can I know if I am connected to the best available channel and can I choose the one channel instead another?

I do not have access to this "public" router.

This is what Wifi Diagnostic tool looks like:


texts: How to move/copy a ringtone created with GarageBand from one device to another

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I have created a ringtone using GarageBand on my iPad.

How do I copy or move it to my iPhone?


texts: Change stored remote host names in terminal application en mass

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I have been using the simple hostname to ssh into remote hosts, around 100 systems. There has been a change in configuration of the network that will require FQDNs.

Rather than recreating all my remote system names (stored in terminal and shown when pressing shift-command-k )

Can I edit the stored data to add the domain information to the existing entries?


texts: Is it possible to roll back to the last saved version of a file in mojave?

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I am not sure if I read that APFS functionality correctly but I have read that Mojave stores a kind of file time machine and that I could browse previous versions of files on the filesystem.

I was using Photoshop and saved a file called File1.psd. Seconds later I saved another image over File1.psd.

Is it possible to roll back File1.psd to the last saved version using terminal in APFS?

Thanks


texts: There is one video which plays but sound not coming in Mac

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I have one video which is playing well in Windows machine and also sound is coming. But, while I am playing same video on Mac or iPad, sound is not coming. In my Mac and iPad, I have tried other videos which are playing and also sound is coming.

In QuickTime Player, if I view details of the video which does not give sound, I cannot find AAC, whereas in other video, I find it.

Here is the screenshots:

  Screenshot 1 shows the details of video that gives sound:

  Screenshot 2 shows the details of video that does not give sound:

What may be the reason for it? These videos are given by my client and both are giving sound in Windows machine but one of the 2 video not giving sound in Mac or iPad.


texts: Why doesn't Handoff allow me to continue browsing a site I was watching on my iPad?

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I followed what reported on Use Handoff in Chrome for iOS to use Handoff to be able to use Handoff with Google Chrome between my iPad and my Mac Mini.

I connected both devices to the same Wi-Fi network
I signed in to iCloud with the same account on both devices
I turned on Bluetooth and paired both devices
I turned on Handoff
I enabled Handoff on Google Chome, which is the default browser on my Mac.

Yet, Handoff doesn't allow me to continue browsing on my Mac Mini a site I open on
my iPad. I also tried moving away from my Mac and returning with a new page open, but that didn't work. Even setting Safari as default browser and opening a site with Safari on my iPad didn't help.

Handoff was working normally, even if my iPad and my Mac were not paired through Bluetooth, before I connected my Mac to Internet via Ethernet cable. Once I connected it back via Wi-fi, Handoff stopped working, even after resetting my Mac.

How can I make Handoff work again?

I paired the devices via Bluetooth only after I noticed Handoff was not working as before, once I started again to use the Wi-Fi.


texts: How to get a notification when my commands are done

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I'm running a series of commands on the command line that takes approximately twenty minutes to complete.  I'd like to see some sort of notification on my Mac when these are finished so I don't need to monitor the terminal for when it finishes.  Is there a way to do this?

$ svn update . && ant clean build start && *notify_me_somehow*

Edit:

I could use xclock but this seems like a hack.  Ideally I could send the notification anywhere, like my phone, screen, etc.


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I've connected to a remote network printer and attempted to print something, but clicking on the "print" button does nothing, as if the button wasn't clicked. It doesn't close the window, doesn't alert about any problem, doesn't report a successful printing, and the paper doesn't actually come out. Checking the printer queue also shows no jobs.

Of course the problem may well be bad printer setup, but I don't see any report about any problem. Opening the printer configuration shows it as idle and ready.

Does anyone know how can I troubleshoot this issue?


texts: How to disable Skype click to call in Safari?

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When I mouse over a phone number in Safari, it is now a link which tries to call via Skype. I can't see any option within Skype or Safari to disable this. How do I do this?

I'm using latest versions: Safari 8.0.3 and Skype 7.5.

Edit: There is no extension in my Safari for this:


texts: Can't switch on Wi Fi after internet sharing stops due to VPN dropout

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We use a VPN to get around geoblocking because we now live in a different country to our native homeland. We do this by using an iMac to connect to the internet via an ethernet cable. I then connect to the VPN service and share that connection with internet sharing from the iMac. How this works is I use internet sharing to share the VPN connection via the iMac's Wi Fi antenna.

This all works fine and has done for over a year. The only problem we've ever had is that the VPN connection does drop out sometimes. I'm used to this, and its always been a simple case of reconnecting to the VPN from the iMac and all is swell again. But for about a month now, whenever the iMac disconnects from the VPN the Wi Fi antenna is switched off and I can't switch it back on. I've tried everything I know such as Safe Mode, resetting PRAM and resetting SMC.

Nothing works except totally restarting the iMac. This is a pain because we have multiple users logged in and the VPN typically disconnects a couple of times a day.

How do I fix this?


texts: How delete an ipad app totally (rather than it continuing to exist when viewed over in iTunes)?

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On my iPad, there are many apps that I owned once, didn't enjoy much, and then deleted.

However, if I go to iTunes and then open up the section pertaining to my iPad, I still see these many old apps listed (just that their check-boxes are unchecked, symbolizing that they are not copied over onto the iPad.)

I would like to totally delete these from the iTunes world too. Partially because I did a sync today which caused them to awake from the dead and get re-synced to my computer... and partly just out of a sense of completeness and health.

NOTES: I have tried to click one of the unwelcome apps and then go to the Edit menu and choose Delete.  But Delete is greyed out! even though that app's checkbox is unchecked. ALSO, note, I have my iPad synced to the computer via WiFi -- I can't imagine that causes the problem?

What is the official, graceful, good way to fully delete these apps so they don't exist, even in ghost form?


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I linked Mail.app to my Gmail account and to my surprise it downloaded all of the 300000+ (!) messages that are on it (I looked in the Preferences for a way to limit the amount of messages downloaded but to no avail, if anybody has any directions on that please post them in a comment).

Since Mail.app refused to delete the messages in the mailbox I did not need, I wanted to check how much space on my disk all of those messages take.
I located the folder containing all my emails at /Users/gabriele/Library/Mail/V2/IMAP-*****/*****.mbox/*****.im.mbox which contains another folder with all of the messages I don't want but I'm forced to keep.

I showed the information for this folder but instead of the file size, it only said --:

At first I thought it might mean that it's still calculating so I let it sit, but it's been there for about 10 minutes now and it's still just two dashes.

What does it mean? How can I show the size of this folder?


texts: Keynote 10.2 - Export to HTML - Unable to move slides on mobile devices (Android or iOS)

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I have just exported a Keynote presentation to HTML and hosted it on our website.
When the website is viewed on an iPhone (Safari) or Android phone (Chrome) the first slide is presented but there doesn't seem to be any way to progress the presentation.
Tapping and swiping do nothing.
Things seems to work fine on desktop browsers (I can click to progress slides, and/or use the arrow keys)
Anyone know how I might resolve this?
Is it possible to place controls on the HTML (the "Include navigation controls" option is no longer present when exporting HTML in Keynote 10.2).
Is this is an issue with all keynote HTML exports?
PS: I am using Keynote 10.2.


texts: How come my Launchpad key opens Dashboard instead, and how can I fix it?

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The answer is not as simple as you might think at first glance; please read the details of my question.

I know the difference between Standard Function keys and Special keys. Standard Function keys are F1, F2, F10, etc. whereas the Special keys are  "Decrease Brightness, "Increase Brightness", "Mute" and so on.

When the "Use all F1, F2, etc. keys as standard function keys" option is turned off in Keyboard Settings, pressing the key that is located to the right of the Escape key will lower the brightness, but pressing it while holding down Fn will trigger an F1 keypress (and whatever F1 might be mapped to).

Conversely, if the "Use all F1, F2, etc. keys as standard function keys" option is turned on, the F1 key will trigger an F1 keypress, the F2 an F2 keypress, etc.

Now that I've established that, please consider the following situation.

I have an Early 2011 13" MacBook Pro. It has a Launchpad special function on the F4 key (it looks like a 2-by-3 grid of squares), rather than the Dashboard special function like the older pre-Lion MacBooks had. However, for some strange reason, when I activate that special function, instead of showing Launchpad as expected (this is what I want) it activates Dashboard.

I am NOT asking for how to fix this problem using a walkaround, for example by mapping F4 (the standard function key) to open Launchpad. I already know how to do that. Instead, what I'm asking is this:

Question: How can I fix my MacBook Pro so that the Launchpad special key performed the correct function of opening Launchpad, instead of doing something else (opening Dashboard).

(I realize it's not a big deal and I typically use the touchpad gesture to launch Launchpad, but nonetheless I'd like to fix this if possible)

I've reinstalled OS X Lion 10.7.3 from scratch on this MacBook, but nothing has changed.

Any ideas?


texts: What's the touch resolution (LPI) of the Magic Trackpad?

texts: I'd like to know how the Magic Trackpad compares with Wacom tablets as far as resolution goes.  The Wacom Intuos5 line has 5080 LPI, while the Bamboo line has 2540.


texts: Execute Terminal Command fails in BetterTouchTool. Why?

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I've installed Ouimeaux to control a Belkin Wemo on OSX, and it's working correctly in Terminal - meaning that the following command in Terminal will toggle my Wemo switch on/off:

wemo switch Myswitchname toggle

It works.  Now, I'd like to assign a hotkey to that with BetterTouchTool.  It seems like it'd be as easy as selecting the option to Execute Terminal Command in BetterTouchTool...  but pressing the hotkey does nothing.  It works in Terminal though.  Do I need to write it differently for BetterTouchTool?


texts:
Can't hear ringtones. Volume is up with buttons on left. Silent button shows red line. Does this mean it's on or off?

Thanks, padres


texts: Cannot kill process shown in parenthesis

texts:
I started a rather long dd command that I would like to stop.

ps shows:

$ ps
  PID TTY           TIME CMD
 2006 ttys002    0:00.00 (dd)

The dd process is shown in parenthesis without the argument.

A kill produces no effect. Any idea on how to interrupt it?


texts: What are the risks when using a shared Wi-Fi in a group home? I am not the administrator. My device is an iPhone 6s Plus. The OS is iOS 9.2.


texts: I deleted a note accidentally.  I found it in my deleted notes.  It will stay there for 30 days and then delete forever it says.  How do I get it saved back into Notes from Deleted Notes?


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My MacBook Pro has two fans, however the left one is screwed up and makes a lot of noise and scrapes against the back panel (or something like that). Is it possible to disable just one fan and leave the other? I don't want to open up the computer since I want to be able to take this to the Apple store afterwards.

To get a sense for how annoying the faulty fan is, here's a link to an audio file recording my laptop shutting down.


texts: When I run "networksetup -getdnsservers airport" in Terminal, it says There aren't any DNS Servers set on Wi-Fi

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When I run the networksetup -getdnsservers airport command in terminal, it says There aren't any DNS Servers set on Wi-Fi.

I need my primary DNS to fix my NAT Type on Xbox One.


texts: How to access Edit functionality in new Photos application?

texts: In OS X Yosemite (update 10.10.3), there is the new photos application. I am unable to access the edit function when I use this application.


texts: Keyboard Maestro interfering with control-tab action in browsers - how to disable?

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I've just purchased Keyboard Maestro, and now when I am in a browser and click control-tab, I can no longer advance through the open tabs of the browser the way I did before. That key combination must be used in KM to do something, and that's pre-empting the system shortcut.

How can I find out what action is attached to that keystroke in KM (so I can either change it or disable it)?


texts: Adding a google account without gmail on iPhone

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I have two google accs with two different calendars. I want to use them both in the calendar app. However when I try to add the second google account, after entering the google acc details it just jumps back to the calendar settings. Are multiple google accs supported for the iPhone? I can do it with no problems on my mac.

iPhone 6, 10.2

[EDIT]

The problem actually seems to be with the fact that the google account I wanted to add didn't have a gmail address associated with it. So for the purposes of the calendar what I did was adding CalDAV account instead.

I'll leave this open as a differently formulated question in case someone wants to elaborate on why it's impossible to add a google acc without gmail.


texts: I have a few fullscreen windows opened. I can use a trackpad gesture to navigate through them. But to rearrange them, I have to exit fullscreen on some windows and enter fullscreen on them again, but this can take a long time. Is there a short or easy way to do this?


texts: Related CLI and GUI applications with same name?

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I'm preparing to release an open source Swift package with two companion MacOS applications: CLI and GUI.  I'm expecting the GUI application to be available via the MacOS App Store.  I'd also like to get the CLI application notarized.

I'd like the naming to be like this for the applications:

CLI: applicationname
GUI: ApplicationName.app

Is having the same name, other than capitalization and the .app file extension, going to cause trouble with how users access the tools?  Will there be some sort of path resolution conflict given the case-insensitive magic Apple does with the filesystem?

Clarification:

ApplicationName.app has executable ApplicationName inside its package-contents -> Contents -> MacOS directory. But that’s all related to the GUI version. I will also release a separate CLI version, not included in the app bundle, called applicationname.