texts: looking for something more modern than X11 "streaming" with local Vagrant Linux VMs

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I have a similar question like Alternatives for XQuartz?, because XQuartz is discontinued since 2016 and X11 feels in general obsolete.

I use vagrant to spin up Linux VMs and connect with ssh to the VM. It's very fast way to test Linux stuff, but it's commandline only.

I wish to test also stuff like XFCE and LXDE, but using the Virtualbox Console is slow and the usability bad.

What are the different ways of using GUI apps and full desktop environments?
The site alternativeto.net lists Wayland as an XQuartz alternative, but there seems no macOS client.


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Apple Mac Pro (early 2009)
Firmware 4.1 -> 5.1
macOS 10.13.6 beta
Alfred 3.6.1

Due to problems with Alfred, I am trying to rebuild my Spotlight index.
I've been advised the following commands should work:

launchctl unload -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.metadata.mds.plist
launchctl   load -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.metadata.mds.plist

sudo mdutil -E -i on /

The last command results in the error message:
Spotlight server is disabled.

Does anyone have any idea how to solve this?


texts: My ISP, injects JavaScript code into every website I visit. Is there a way to filter all incoming traffic in OS X and remove that injected code?


texts:
Is there any way to schedule airplane mode in iPhone?
I create an automation in shortcut
But it’s send me a notification and I should to run that manually and it won’t work automatically.
Is there any way!?


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In Finder, how do you open a folder in a new window, while the existing window keeps the same view?

All file managers I've ever used (on Linux only) have something like "Open folder in new window" in the right-click menu for a folder.  Does Finder have this feature in a hidden way, or is there another file manager I should be using on Mac?


texts: In Terminal, how to exit the two fingers history scrolling mode?

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With Terminal 2.6.1, when I ssh a linux box, sometimes I don't know why, the two fingers scroll change behavior. Instead of scrolling the command output, it scrolls the command history.

How to exit this mode?


texts: Can I release Swift implementation of an application over the Xamarin implementation in Apple store?

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I developed an application that is currently implemented using Xamarin.iOS.
I've come to a point where I think it's better to rewrite my app using Swift.

My question is, can I release the application rewritten in Swift as a major update of the current application? Is Apple store capable of upgrading the app even if one implementation is written in Xamarin.iOS and the other one in Swift?


texts: Which iCloud account does iBooks use to sync?

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Does the new iBooks app for OS X Mavericks sync notes, bookmarks, read position, etc. using one's iCloud account, or one's iTunes Store account?

In other words, if two people use separate Apple IDs for their iCloud accounts, but use the same Apple ID for the iTunes Store to share purchases, will their read positions and notes remain distinct or conflict with each other?


texts: MacBook Pro 3,1 (2007), running 10.6.8, sudden logout, window_server crash

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I have a 2007 MacBook Pro 3,1. The logic board, graphics card, and hard disk were replaced in October 2009.

Sometime in the last few months the machine began to 'spontaneously logout' - I'll be using the machine normally, there's an unexpected pause - then blue screen/login dialog. The console logs show that the window_server has crashed. I can't find a way to reliably reproduce this, other than to simply wait - it now happens daily. The problem occurs in response to some interface event, typing or moving the mouse - I (still) use Spaces, and the most common trigger seems to be switching between spaces.

I've spent a lot of time reading various threads describing similar problems, often associated with the nVidia graphics card, but haven't yet found a solution (or even been able to localize the problem). I've tried many possible fixes: backed out all 3rd party kernel extensions, minimized the set of active applications, purchased/installed new memory, run the apple diagnostics, tested/verified the disk appears ok, removed all apps which were starting on login, disabled the screensaver, the hard disk sudden motion sensor, the battery has been replaced, I'm not actively running (but have loaded - Office 2008) some Rosetta apps... none of this has made a difference.

Any advice is appreciated.


texts: MacBook Air shows battery as power source when plugged in

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I have a MacBook Air (mid 2011) that I only use from time to time. The battery no longer works but I don't mind since I really only use this machine when connected via the power adapter.

The problem is that for some reason it says "Power Source: Battery" when it's definitely not running off the battery (if I disconnect the adapter the computer immediately shuts off). I've been ignoring this for some time because it didn't really get in the way; however, I'm now trying to update the machine from Sierra to High Sierra and the installer won't allow me to continue unless I connect to a power source that isn't a battery.

Is there any way to either force the machine to only register as running off a power cable OR get the High Sierra installer to bypass the battery check?

I don't use this machine that much so I'm trying to avoid having to take it in just so I can update it.


texts: Big Sur update causes beachball icon frequently and Finder to be unresponsive

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I'm on a MacBook Pro , bought June 2020.
I updated to Big Sur from Catalina 10.15.7 this morning, and the upgrade went OK.
However, since then, it's become slow and unresponsive, beachballing a lot, Finder had problems launching and constantly Application Not Responding.
Finder won't launch very often, if at all.
It's the latest version of Big Sur, 11.3.1, which I've got.
Other problems are that I cannot click on the black Apple Icon to shutdown or restart (sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't), and apps crash a lot - BBEdit, occasionally Firefox etc. have Application Not Responding.
I tried creating a second user account with admin privileges, same issue there; repaired user permissions for my main admin account.
I did an EtreCheck and had to remove remnants of DiskDrill which I'd tried when I had Catalina.
What solutions would you recommend, I've tried Google-ing but aren't sure what would fix this?


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i have very weird bug that really bothers me.

My dock keeps "wiggling" or "bouncing around".
It looks like someone is kicking on Dock back and forth for ever. Started this morning and i have not installed any apps since then.

It's really annoying and i have no idea whats going on.
What i've tried : Restarted my MBP 3 times, killed Dock multiple times and still no results.


texts: Free FORTRAN compiler - or one that does not have to be updated all the time

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I have paid some good money to buy the "Intel Parallel Studio XE Composer Edition for Fortran OS X" - The problem is that, whenever the OS changes (i.e., from Lion to Mountain Lion to Mavericks to Yosemite), the compiler needs update, and purchase of a new version. (Unless you buy a maintenance, approx. $300/yr). Also, sometimes a new version is required even when Xcode is updated!

Two questions:

Is there some free FORTRAN compiler or a non-free, which works after updates of Xcode or/and OS?
Is there a way to make it work, even if is was destined for say Mavericks?


texts: Finder shows different file size compared to terminal

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I have a folder called 'objects' in my mac.

When I check the contents of it in the terminal it's showing like this.

Clearly object folder shows 4.1K

However when I see it in the finder,

It shows, 26.3 MB

What's the reason for the significant increase in the size in the finder?


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This started happening recently (not sure if it was since the last Mavericks update but I think so). I have two IMAP accounts and one SMTP account.

Mail.app seems to get stuck in offline mode if there is any network hiccup, and it refuses to go back online. The only way I can get mail to be sent or received is to quit Mail.app and open it again, and it works great until the next network hiccup.

Other network operations work fine (Safari, Chrome, ssh, etc.) -- it's just Mail.app that exhibits this behaviour.

Has anyone seen this before, or does anyone have any comments on additional things to check to help troubleshoot the issue?


texts: Is it possible to disable macOS requesting permissions via Apple Watch, but still use it to unlock Mac?

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I've found that it's quite slow to go from typing my user password to unlock/allow something in macOS by double clicking the side button on my Apple Watch.

So is it possible to keep the unlock my computer with Apple Watch feature, but disable it for all other requests?

Similarly, is it possible to disable Touch ID on the MacBook Pro for unlocking things, e.g. when unlocking the secure system preference, but still keep it to unlock the computer from lock/sleep?


texts: iTunes syncs only one songs from each album

texts: I have about 7 GB worth of music, all complete albums, that I'm trying to sync on my phone. I select Entire music library and hit apply. Before I hit apply, it shows me 27 GB free on my iPhone. Then, it finishes the copying process way too quickly. After the sync completes, it says 34 GB free, and there is only one song per album. I tried choosing the artists and albums individually, removing all music and re-synching, and nothing worked. What could be the problem?


texts: Why is SSH still asking for my passphrase on a private key provided by the server admin? (No passphrase set on private key)

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I'm being prompted for a passphrase each time I try to connect with my ssh key.

$ ssh user@server.ip -i .ssh/private_key

I was given these credentials (private key) by the server admin, so I cannot regenerate the key, and there is nothing wrong with the credentials. I copied/pasted the key exactly (there is no botching of dashes with hyphens due to a mail client, etc). I verified there are no spaces / line break issues with vim, an the same issue happens. Permissions are set correctly (to 0600).

What did I do wrong?


texts: Can a MacBookPro6,1 drive a Dell U2713HM via DisplayPort?

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I have a 17" MacBook Pro with mini-DisplayPort output - the model before Thunderbolt. On that basis buying a Thunderbolt display is out. It has switched Intel HD/Nvidia GT 330M graphics.

Dell have a new 27" model, the U2713HM - like the U2711 it has a multitude of inputs and it looks like it should be usable with my Mac if I just get a mini-DisplayPort to DisplayPort cable. I think this is the one because it is affordable and the anti-glare coating is reported to be excellent compared to the heavy, sparkly U2711's coating. All the reviewers who aren't concerned with gaming love it, those that do note that the 22ms input lag is better than the 2711 has but is still pretty bad.

But has anyone actually done it? VGA, DVI and Thunderbolt I know about, but I want to be sure about this monitor before buying it. If I need to upgrade the Mac to drive a large external monitor that changes everything and the Thunderbolt 27" is back in the picture.


texts: Assign ß on MacBook or external Magic Keyboard to long pressing S

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On Mac OS 10.15.4, when long-pressing keys such as E, O etc., we can chose from a small menu displaying several options for that letter.

I am searching for a possibility to write the letter ß in the same way. I know I can type "option + S", but this is not what I want

Question:

Is there a way to assign ß to an option menu that appears when long pressing the letter S (similar to ling pressing letters such as E, O, U etc.)?

Thanks a lot!

Edit after comments:

I have a MacBook Pro with a Dutch keyboard layout.
Language & Region settings: Preferred languages = English (US); Region = United States


texts: Allow calendar notifications in Do Not Disturb mode

texts: Is there a way to configure Do Not Disturb on a per-app basis? Specifically, I would like to continue receiving calendar notifications even when Do Not Disturb is active. The options in system preferences are very limited.


texts: How can I correct the fact that text highlight colour different from item selection colour, in OSX and macOS since 2002?

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Is there a workaround or solution for the fact that Apple have made text highlight colour, in e.g. TextEdit and Preview (pdf with text) different from the colour used to highlight items in e.g. Finder and Activity Monitor.
The item selection colour is more saturated/muddier/darker.
A striking example is the difference between my preferred lemon Stabilo yellow (chosen from the colour wheel) for text which Apple couples to a nasty muddy mustard colour for item selection.
Amazingly few other complainants on net, but I have found one from 2002.
I've sent feedback to Apple, but no change or response, including up until 10.13 High Sierra Beta.

Are there workarounds or third-party apps to correct this unwanted colour disparity?


texts: Xcode 6.1.1 writes too much data to disk

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Recently I noticed that Xcode writes too much data to the disc. Within just 40 hours it wrote more than 13GB to the disk.

I restarted Xcode to see what actions cause this insane data transfer. I noticed that typing just one character makes Xcode write 40-50 MB of data onto the disk. As I have an SSD this makes me very "uncomfortable" using Xcode.

How can I find out where the data is written and why it is written?


texts: How to enable Time Machine to backup the data ON an SD Card? (NOT backup TO an SD card)

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Time Machine does not allow the inclusion of an SD Card in a backup.  It is automatically listed in the exclusion list and cannot be removed.

Is there any way to force Time Machine to 'see' the SD Card and back it up?

I use a 128gb SD Card as additional storage in my MacBook Air and would like to have the data on it automatically backed up to my Time Capsule.


texts: Change default action for copying files to external hard disk

texts: The default behaviour on Mac OS when you move files from your machine to an external device is to copy these files. How can I modify this behavior so it moves the files, rather then making copies?


texts: Chrome: when opening Youtube links, the video pauses after 1 sec, have to click play to continue

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When I click a Youtube link in Chrome, it opens a tab with that particular Youtube link and starts playing.

However, for some strange reason, after playing for about 1 second it pauses the video. I have to click 'play' to continue.

For example, I visit youtube.com and click any of the suggested videos. It will open the page for that video and start playing automatically - for one second. Then it pauses.

Things I have already tried:

updated Chrome (already using latest version)
used Youtube with or without being logged in to Google
removed all add-ons and extensions
emptied cache, history, cookies, local storage, everything
closed and restarted Chrome, with all add-ons and extensions and cookies and history removed
rebooted my entire machine

All to no avail. I also tested in other browsers and it doesn't happen in Brave or Firefox or Safari or Vivaldi, only in Chrome.

What could possible cause this?

P.S. FYI I'm using macOS 10.15.4 Catalina (with all latest updates)


texts: How can I find duplicate adjacent cells in Numbers?

texts: I have a Numbers sheet that is thousands of rows long. As an example in the image, the sheet has two columns with URLs. What I need to do is find the rows that have the same URL in the two adjacent cells and then change the background color of that row so I can identify the rows and delete them; or write the word "dupe" to column C. In the example, row 4 has the same URL the two cells. How would I flag or mark rows like that in the entire sheet? With a calculation? Or an Applescript/Automator?


texts: APFS vs Mac OS Extended (Journaled) for external HDD

texts: Which one between APFS and Mac OS Extended (Journaled) works better as partition store type for an external HDD (Magnetic Storage) that will be accessed over USB from macOS only?


texts: "Recent Items" count is not saved in System Preferences-OS X 10.11 "El Capitan"

texts: In System Preferences, when I try to change "Recent Items" count from "none" to any other value it is not saved. I can change it, but when I close System Preferences and open it again I still see "none" in "Recent Items". What can be the problem? Is there a way to change it manually? I am using OS X 10.11 "El Capitan".


texts: iTunes not syncing videos from the Photos app in Mac to iPhone

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I organize all of my photos and videos on the Photos app in Mac, (with everything in the folder Photos Library.photoslibrary). I also disabled all iCloud Photo Library , My Photo Stream and iCloud Photo Sharing.

Then I sync photos and videos through iTunes with the options "copy photos from Photos" . iTunes can correctly count the number of items in my Mac's Photos app (number of photos + number of videos). However, when it tries to sync the videos, itunes displays "syncing 140 videos" and then just skip over all of them. All the photos are synced correctly though.

Does anyone know how to solve this? Thanks!


texts: How to get apps to finish updating on iOS?

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My iPad 1 runs iOS 5.0.1 but I believe I have had this problem with previous versions. I'll go into the App Store and find a lot of pending updates. I'll tell it to update all and then leave it on to do its updating.

Later (hours or days even) I come back and all or most of the apps that were updated have the faded icon and an empty update bar with a caption of "Waiting . . ." None of them are updating. I tap them and it doesn't launch and doesn't change the status. I've tried rebooting the iPad but that doesn't seem to help.

Eventually it will return to normal, but I have found no rhyme or reason. I am on 20 Mbit DSL so it shouldn't be that it takes days to download a few updates. I don't think that is what is happening anyway because I don't see any progress on any of them.


texts:
Friends, I've by mistake inserted minidisc in MacBookPro and it seems like it is stuck.

What we've already tried:

shaking device, hoping the gravity will solve the problem
ejecting programmatically.

I do realize that problem sound quite stupid, but if one have encountered this problem it would be nice to hear his story of salvation.


texts: Unity Fails to Launch: Package Manager Error most likely due to a proxy or firewall configuration

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My Mac (v10.15.5) cannot launch Unity regardless of the versions used, and attached is the error message saying it is about Package Manager:

Unity Package Manager Error
Could not establish a connection with the Unity Package Manager local
server process. This is most likely due to a proxy or firewall
configuration. Make sure the process
[/Applications/2020.2.2f1/Unity.app/Contents/Resources/PackageManager/Server/UnityPackageManager]
is reachable via HTTP on the IP address 127.0.0.1.
Click on Retry to relaunch Unity and reopen your project.
Click on Diagnose to launch the Unity Package Manager Diagnostics
tool.

I have tried setting environmental variables as shown in this question, but it still does not work and I am not sure whether my setting on the environment variables is correct since most of the answers are based on Windows.
I am completely lost and any help would be much appreciated. Thank you!


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Just updated iPad with version 14.2.
Now every game pops up a nag screen to login to Game Center. I have Game Center disabled in Settings.
For years I have not had this nag screen, now every 2 or 3 times the game opens, the nag screen comes up.
I don't want to see this nag screen so how can I prevent it from happening?


texts: Very small resolution on external monitor Windows 7 with Macbook Pro Retina

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I have a Macbook Pro Retina 13", and I run both OSX and Windows 7. My Windows 7 is run in Parallels.

I work with OSX on the screen of the Macbook, and Windows on an external monitor (with the typical 1900x1080 resolution).

Problem is the Windows screen has very bad dimensions. Some things are very small, others are normal size. Screenshot:

When I go into my screen resolution it says 3840x2160, which seems very high. However, when I go lower, for instance to 1920x1080, I get the following which looks totally bad on my monitor (extremely big icons / other things):

Any idea how to get a normal resolution of my Windows screen?


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iTunes by default stores its settings, the iTunes Library.itl file, and the music library audio tracks, inside the \Users\username\Music\iTunes folder.

I don't want my Music folder polluted with program settings, especially because I'm synchronizing that folder on the cloud.
Via the settings panel I can only change the path of the audio tracks, but the settings remain in the default position.

Is there a way to completely move the iTunes folder to another path?

PS: I've looked at the answers to What is the safest way to move the iTunes Library from one hard drive to another?, but the focus there is on moving the media library only, not the whole iTunes directory.


texts: How long does it take to enroll in the Developer Program (Organisation)

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How long does enrollment take as an organisation? I have been waiting for over a month and the only feedback from Apple has been:

"Hello,
We are requesting an update of your D&B Report. The current turnaround time will vary based on the country. We will be sending you an e-mail once it is complete. Your request ID is: XXXXXX
Thank you,
D&B Customer Support"

The registering organisation is in South Africa.


texts: Took my iPad & iPhone to Apple Store for numerous problems. They backed both up to the cloud, showed me everything was there; including my notes which are my entire business. I make organic soaps & more, hundreds of recipes, ideas, notes, research, etc. I saw them on their Mac on the iCloud before allowing them to do a system restore. Now my notes cannot be found & they will not return my calls. My business will be greatly impacted without these. I'm heartbroken. The person who assisted me at the store had made a comment saying if this didn't work I could take it somewhere they could extract the notes from the iPad for a couple hundred bucks. Please any help would be most appreciated. I'm recovering from surgery & on disability & cannot afford a couple hundred bucks right now. Thank you very much. Lee


texts: I made an alias earlier today that I saved in my .bash_profile. The alias was called date. I had momentarily forgotten that date is already a native command on OS X (and Linux) in /bin. I removed the alias that I had saved, but now, to use the date command, I have to type /bin/date instead of just date. How can I fix this?


texts: How does Eclipse work on new Retina MacBook Pros?

texts: I'm thinking about buying the new MacBook Pro. I will use it mostly to write code when I'm not at home and I've read that non-native apps look horrible due to the resolution. I was wondering if someone has tried using Eclipse or Zend Studio and if they work well.


texts:
I have an event in ical that recurs every day.

I would like to randomize the start time of this event (which schedules an applescript) so that the start times are random but within 30 min of each other.

I've done google and duckduck searches for:

randomize ical event start time;
randomize ical events by 5 minutes,

and have gotten nothing relevant.

I've had a look at the applescript dictionary for iCal but cannot find a useful function.

I don't need the whole script just a hint in the right direction or a function that I could use to create the events instead of modifying them all by hand.


texts:
I'm used to navigating through my code using Ctrl+Click. In OS X this function still works in my IDE, but it opens a context menu as well, which is very annoying!

I've done lots of Googling and didn't manage to find any answers that would let me disable Ctrl+Click system-wide in OS X 10.6.7. All the answers that I was able to find refer to Fusion and VMware.

I have a proper mouse with two buttons, I never used Ctrl+Click and cannot see the use case for it. Could someone please tell me how to disable it?


texts:
If I search for "\n" in a Numbers spreadsheet, it only shows me any cells that have line breaks in them, it does not show me cells that have "\n" written in them.
Is there any way to search for \n?
Thank you!


texts: How did my photos get transferred to my new iPhone even though they weren't in iCloud?

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I bought a new iPhone to replace my old one.

My iCloud had been full for a while because of photos. So I took care of that first before doing a device backup to iCloud.

Before powering on the new one:

I disabled photos sync to iCloud and deleted all photos from iCloud.
I performed a device backup to iCloud.
I confirmed that iCloud showed no data was being used by photos, and that the backup had finished uploading.

Then I powered up the new phone. During setup, I did the "hold phone near each other" sync process, and part of that process prompted me to download the backup that I had just made (I did so). I finished setting up the new phone, and then powered down the old phone. I completely powered it down (holding down the button). I have not powered up the old phone since.

After that point, I checked my photos -- they were empty. No photos.

Many hours later (at least four), before bed, I checked photos again. Still empty, no photos.

The next morning, I checked my photos. Suddenly, they were all there. And I mean all of them, not just the recently-deleted ones that used to be in iCloud. I know this because my iCloud has been full for at least 6 months and has long since stopped syncing, but there were photos from last week.

I'm certainly not complaining, because I planned on finding a way to transfer them over anyway, but I am surprised, confused, and a little bit weirded out.

How did my old phone's photos end up on my new phone, even though they weren't in iCloud and my old phone has been completely powered off the entire time?


texts: Automator or Applescript for custom script to download bank statements?

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What's the best tool to script to automate downloading statements from my bank and credit card companies' website in each of their statement download area?

All banks, credit card companies, and financial investment companies have an option to download monthly or quarterly statements as a PDF. Also known as paperless statements.

I want to write a script using perl, AppleScript, or Automator, or ?? that will auto fetch a monthly statement PDF from each site. (I am aware it will require editing for each site. e.g. editing URLs and possibly logins, as well as the URLs pointing to the page where the PDF statement is located once in the Downloads area.

This is similar to what Mint.com does where they fetch all your financial data. The difference between that and what I am asking for is that I just want the monthly statement that would normally be mailed to me. In some cases I have already signed up for paperless billing so they are putting the statements in the statement billing area. With some other accounts I have not yet signed up for paperless billing but the statements are already there.

No more than ten accounts. The URLs will be different and the ID and password will be different for each site. What I would like to do is write a script that will login to the site, traverse to the "Downloads" or "Statements" page (or what ever it is called on each respective site), and download the item which will have a link on that page.

Which tool is best to do this? Basically it's got to:
 1. Send the login credentials
 2. once logged in get the URL for the downloads page then,
 3. get the URL for the most recent statement.
 4. after a period of time or on completetion of the download it will log out the user.
 5. It will run the next script for the next site or loop back through the code inserting new variables for uid, password, NextSiteURL, NextSiteSteps/actions.

I want recommendations on which would be best perl, AppleScript, Automator. I would like to know which tool is best suited to this task or be directed to come code online that could be modified to do what I am asking.

If you are not clear on what I am asking for feel free to ask questions. I think this is pretty clear though.


texts: QuickTime player playback speed control not working

texts: I'm using 2018 15'' macbook with Catalina os, I'm trying to play a video at 1.5 speed, but ⌘ + ➡ in quicktime player only allows me to play it 2x or 5x with no sound, however this post indicates it can play at 1.8x with sound, I checked apple documentation and found 'Fast forward' option by force touch pad, but I can't figure out how to do it, please help thanks!


texts: How to enable key repeat on Macbook Pro with Yosemite

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I would like to disable the accent characters options you get when you hold down keys.

I have always used holding keys to repeat letters but all of the sudden it shows special characters and won't let me repeat any keys, even if they do not have special characters. I have been using Yosemite on my early 2011 MBP for a while now and this has never occurred before. Did I do some strange keyboard combination? And is there a way to turn it off, to get proper key repeats back? I have searched for this everywhere in the settings and online, but apparently it is not a known thing.

Thank you very much in advance!


texts: Partition type FFFFFFFF-FFFF-FFFF-FFFF-FFFFFFFFFFFF and drive unreachable

texts:
I had Ubuntu dual booted on my 2015 MacBook Pro. I tried to remove the Ubuntu partition using Disk Utility, then when I attempted to delete the Linux partitons, it is completely gone out of sight. I was unable to regain that space to add it to my system. After a restart, the only boot option I see (holding the Option key) was EFI boot. Using the Internet Recovery Mode, I opened the terminal.

my diskutil list results were like this:

gpt -r show disk0 result is as below:

It used to be named Macintosh HD (like the drive) and now it has lost its name and the partition type turned into FFFFFFFF-FFFF-FFFF-FFFF-FFFFFFFFFFFF

I learned that I have to edit the partition table and modify the type of disk0s2 to get my main data partition back and make Boot OS X invisible. That's why I followed the guides to do that as in here

As a result, I managed to modify the GUID type to Apple CORE storage (53746F72-6167-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC):

When I tried to diskutil verifyDisk disk0 and diskutil repairDisk disk0, i get an error.

I restarted the computer but still the only boot option I see was EFI boot.

What's the problem? What am I doing wrong? Please help me, it's very important for me to reach that disk having all my information inside.


texts: Installing Windows 7 without a SuperDrive in Boot Camp on 2010 MBP

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Just switched out my SuperDrive for an SSD on my 2010 MacBook Pro and am running into whale of a time trying to get Windows 7 installed onto the SSD for Boot Camp. Initially tried installing via an external DVD drive connected over USB, but that wouldn't let me boot into Windows 7 setup. Tried setting up a Windows 7 USB stick, and that wouldn't boot either.

I then tried following along here with the basic procedure of tricking VirtualBox into installing Windows 7 to your drive and going from there, but that created a non-bootable Windows partition.

There must be some way to get Windows 7 up and running WITHOUT having to reinstall the SuperDrive. Anyone have any success doing this?

BTW, I'm running 10.7.2, which means rEFIt is out, as it isn't Lion compatible.


texts: How to return a list of all text editors via terminal?

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Is there a way to return a list of all the installed text editors via the command line?
I think (I can't test to confirm) this answer inadvertently gives the equivalent for ubuntu:
sudo update-alternatives --config editor

  Selection    Path                Priority   Status
------------------------------------------------------------
* 0            /bin/nano            40        auto mode
  1            /bin/ed             -100       manual mode
  2            /bin/nano            40        manual mode
  3            /usr/bin/vim.basic   30        manual mode
  4            /usr/bin/vim.tiny    10        manual mode

I gave that a try on mac, but command not found.


texts: I puchased a new iMac and there is one entry in my contacts app that no longer works with Messages

texts: I recently bought a new iMac running Catalina and I used Migration Assistant to load some of my old stuff on my new computer.  This appears to have worked well and my new computer is running fine. There is a problem however. I have several contacts that I text with a few times a week. One contact however doesn't work. I always get a return notice on the messages I send. I can use this contact on my iphone and my iPad and the messages go thru. But it doesn't work using my computer. The other contacts I communicate with work fine from my computer. So I'm lost on what to do. I've tried restarting Messages and restarting my iMac. Neither helped. I also made a new contact card but that didn't help either. Does anyone have an idea of what I can try to do to fix this?  thanks.


texts: Lowest volume is still too loud—how can I make it even lower?

texts:
The lowest volume I can get by pressing the volume keys is still too loud when I'm wearing headphones. How can I make it even lower?

I have a Mac Mini 2011 (5,1) running Mountain Lion.


texts: Mac Mail not including original email headers in Reply

texts:
Is there any way to make Mail include the to/cc email addresses when forwarding/responding to a message? currently all I get is:

On Oct 15, 2013, at 2:47 PM, John Doe <jDoe@jDoe.com> wrote:

what I would like is:

From: Dakine83
Sent: Tuesday, October 15, 2013 2:55 PM
To: John Doe
Cc: Jane Doe
Subject: Re: Clean the fridge!

Not including who has seen the email chain is a serious omission, hopefully it's just a setting I can't find.


texts: We're Apple Business Manager and Azure users.  I'm looking for a way of using AppleScript or Automator to perform synchronization of my AppleID password and local user password at boot time or on a schedule.  Can anyone point me in the right direction?


texts: Is there a free wordpress client for mac?

texts: I am a new Mac user and a casual blogger. All the applications listed are expensive, as I am a student. I am scared to set up Wordpress natively on my MacBook Air. Something like the wordpress app on android?


texts: Disk diagnostic and repair utility for Mac that works with all kinds of storage devices?

texts:
There are some nice and useful utilities for testing disks for bad blocks like MHDD, Victoria, HITACHI Drive Feature Tool etc. But these utilities have some limitations.

For example, MHDD is the best utility I've ever seen for both surface diagnostic and repair:

it can sometimes fix sectors which were mistakingly marked as bad (soft "bad"s)
it finds other read errors (sectors with long read time for example)
it works with host protected area which used on some non Apple notebooks
it allows to erase whole disk or only areas with slow access time (which sometimes 'heals' them)
it allows to
during surface scan it shows access time:

But it has some serious issues:

it's dos utility so it's tricky to use on Mac (but it's possible)
it may not work with Intel SATA controllers,
you may need to put the HDD in an external enclosure to make the utility see that drive.
latest version is dated 2006 and it's probably abandoned by author

Please recommend a utility which can be used to repair and check a disk (HDD, SSD, flash drive, etc.), find bad blocks and other surface problems. Can your utility check the entire disk surface, including the system partition?

Of course there are official warranty and authorized service centers, but software like this is always useful anyway (for example in a case of void warranty).


texts: I have a 2 day old Macbook Pro, quad core i7, Yosemite. I closed the lid this morning with the power supply plugged in and iTunes, iTerm, and Safari idling. I opened the lid tonight and the screen and back of the computer were warm and it wouldn't wake from whatever 'power saving' state it was in. I had to hold down the power button for about 15 seconds before it restored. Any idea what this could be? I am very anxious about this behavior given Macbook Pro's reputation and price tag and the age of this computer. Thanks.


texts:
How can I crop rotate a video, so that it crops and rotates at the same time. I know that there is an option for this in Photos.app, but it only works for photos. Is there some other application that can be used to do this?

Here is a gif of what I am trying to accomplish:

[EDIT]

In case the above isn't clear, what I want to be able to do is:

zoom and rotate the video, but only rotate it slightly (e.g. 10-15°) rather than 90° at a time, and
also crop it so that the overall video is still square


texts: Can I use setup assistant to move files to a Mac with a newer OS?

texts:
I would like to migrate all my accounts, settings and applications from a OSX 10.7 Lion Mac Pro to a brand new OSX 10.8 Mountain Lion iMac.

Would Setup Assistant be able to move my files to a newer OS?


texts: Is 64-bit a requirement for publishing to the iOS App Store?

texts:
iOS developers recently received an email from Apple stating that

  Starting February 1st, new apps and app updates submitted to the App
  Store must be built with XCode 4 and iOS 7 SDK

The email included a link about building apps for iOS 7.

One of the item on this page, is about 64-bit compilation.

So the question is, should I deduce that 64-bit is now a REQUIREMENT, or is it still a recommendation?


texts: Do I need to do anything after upgrading my RAM?

texts:
I just replaced a 1GB RAM stick in my 2007-era Macbook Pro with a 2GB RAM stick.  It already had Mountain Lion installed on it.

Is there anything I need to do like configuring something in System Preferences or running a command in Terminal in order to make sure all applications and behind-the-scenes stuff take advantage of the increased RAM?

I'm asking with the assumption that some applications might have made a note of the machine's original amount of RAM when the app was installed, and may still be optimizing itself to the old RAM amount.


texts: Double-clicking a window’s title bar to minimize it in Mavericks

texts: After upgrading to Mavericks I’m no longer able to minimize a window to the Dock by double-clicking on its title bar. How do I get this functionality back?


texts: Getting "Certificate signed by untrusted issuer" on Mac

texts:
When I try to launch an application that is developed by my company, I get the "Certificate signed by untrusted issuer" error. I checked both these posts.
I don't have any certificates in my Keychain Access. I am running 10.11.6. How can I fix this problem ? Is there any other way to delete the certificate or add it to authorized issuer's list.
Previously I had the same issue and I was able to resolve it by deleting the expired certificate. After that I created another user account and I am facing the above issue in the new user account that I created. I am not able to find the expired certificate in the new user account that I created.


texts: Changing Word 2011 Save Location Drop-Down Menu

texts: Right now when I try to save a document the location options are simply: Documents, Pictures, Downloads, etc. and then "Recent Locations". I want to be able to browse through my documents for the correct folder to save to but I cannot figure out how to enable these feature. I just updated OS X and it disabled the "browse" feature.


texts:
I have noticed this since upgrading to Lion.

Many times I accidentally use the pinch to zoom feature on the trackpad for Safari. Safari will zoom in a bit, but then the entire tab becomes frozen. No buttons or hyperlinks work, if you enter a new address into the address bar it will load, but it won't show up, etc. The only solution is to close Safari and reopen it.

Others have reported similar problems here

http://forum.notebookreview.com/apple-mac-os-x/634076-safari-causes-pinch-zoom-freeze.html

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3196200?start=0&tstart=0

I have no extensions installed.


texts: Computer should be restarted to connect internet (Mountain Lion on VMware 8)

texts:
I have Mountain Lion 10.8 on VMware 8.
I am using auto-bridging (vmnet0) for internet service.
The internet works find until I pause or turn off the virtual machine. When I resume or restart it, the internet connection does not work. I pinged localhost, but there was no response.

When I restart the host (Windows 7), then the internet connection inside guest OS (Mac) works fine again.

My laptop is connected to a switch, which is further connected to a router via ethernet. How do I solve this problem?


texts: I think it is because of the apple 9.0.2 update. When I try to dowload a app it makes a loading sign, but then it says get. Then I click it and it loads and then says get. I have read answers and tried them, but they do not work! What should I do? I do not want to restart my device!


texts:
I would like to activate SMS on my iPad but when I go on my iPhone, this one tell me to enter a code which appears on the iPad.

But I have no popup on my iPad.

I have the same iCloud account on both devices and activate FaceTime.

Why I don't see this popup ?


texts: Is it possible to use Time Machine with Airport Express + USB External Drive?

texts: I'm wondering if it's possible to connect an external USB drive to my Airport Express and then run Time Machine backups onto that? A bit like a makeshift Time Capsule.


texts: When I try to delete some old folders on my mac desktop I get error. I have tried some method but failed. Error is shown in description

texts:
I have tried several methods in the past as well.

While reflecting on root of problem initially after purchasing mac I had password set which was forgotten within week so I had to used command R feature to reset password. After That everything is working fine but folders and files shown on below screen are not deleted.

Figure 1

Figure 2

When trying to make any changes such as moving, deleting, renaming to shown folder above request pops up for entering admin password. Even after I enter password following error is shown.

Figure 3

After researching some method to solve this issue I changed the disk permission from other to read and write as shown below in Figure 4 but still same issue mentioned above in picture Figure 1, 2, and 3 is repeated.

Figure 4

What further I can do to get rid of those files and folders highlighted on fig 1. I am annoyed as they are useless at the moment and I repeatedly have to encounter them.


texts:
I have files nested within multiple sub-folders. I want to move these files, one folder up the folder structure and rename the files as per its new parent folder. I will need this to be automated with a script.

Example logic

Find Root folder
Get contents of Subfolder of Subfolder files.
Move files to its Parent folder (aka 'Attachments' folder)
Rename files to with its current Parent folder name.
Delete empty Subfolder
Loop above action of Root folder folders until complete.

Renaming details

Attachments folder could one to many file of .png or .jpg. For example, Attachments folder could have Apple.png and Dog-house.jpg. If these files are moved and renamed, I'm expecting the file name to be something like this MCP##-##### - abc.png and MCP##-##### - abc.jpg.

If there is more then one file with the same file type, then the naming to be something like this MCP##-##### - abc.png and MCP##-##### - abc (1).png

Example folder structure

Desired Result

I'm assuming this may require to Automate with a script but I have no idea how to do it. Can anyone help me?


texts: Install or Remove Windows 7 or later version - this option is Not avaiable how do i Fix it?

texts: Install or Remove Windows 7 or later version - this option is Not available Check On My iMac Screenshort ... How Do i Fix it ?


texts: Is it possible to have Preview add text at a place other than the center?

texts:
Whenever I click the text tool icon, it automatically places a text box in the center of the screen. Is it possible to add text boxes at the location I click my cursor (for example at the left edge of my PDF)?

Any help would be appreciated.


texts: How can I make OSX scan for available WiFi networks now

texts:
Here is some background:

When I'm on the move, I often have to use my mobile phone as a hotspot. Usually I will realise that after having woken up my MacBook, otherwise how would I see that no WiFi networks are available.

However, OSX does not seem to rescan too often, I don't know the interval, but I usually end up turning off WiFi and turn it on again.

A much better solution for me would be a button / service / ... that I can nudge and that will then Search for available WiFi networks NOW

Any solutions?

WiFi log of a scan:
Fri Dec  5 00:52:05.475 Info: <airportd[33]> QUERY SCAN CACHE request received from pid 407 (SystemUIServer)
Fri Dec  5 00:52:05.481 Info: <airportd[33]> GET CURRENT TETHER DEVICE request received from pid 407 (SystemUIServer)
Fri Dec  5 00:52:05.482 Info: <airportd[33]> QUERY GAS CACHE request received from pid 407 (SystemUIServer)
Fri Dec  5 00:52:05.484 Info: <airportd[33]> GET CURRENT TETHER DEVICE request received from pid 407 (SystemUIServer)
Fri Dec  5 00:52:05.523 Info: <airportd[33]> START BROWSING TETHER DEVICES request received from pid 413 (com.apple.wifi.proxy)
Fri Dec  5 00:52:05.524 Info: <WiFiAgent[565]> START BROWSING TETHER DEVICES request received
Fri Dec  5 00:52:05.632 Info: <airportd[33]> QUERY SCAN CACHE request received from pid 407 (SystemUIServer)
Fri Dec  5 00:52:05.638 Info: <airportd[33]> GET CURRENT TETHER DEVICE request received from pid 407 (SystemUIServer)
Fri Dec  5 00:52:05.640 Info: <airportd[33]> QUERY GAS CACHE request received from pid 407 (SystemUIServer)
Fri Dec  5 00:52:05.642 Info: <airportd[33]> GET CURRENT TETHER DEVICE request received from pid 407 (SystemUIServer)
Fri Dec  5 00:52:08.660 Info: <airportd[33]> QUERY SCAN CACHE request received from pid 407 (SystemUIServer)
Fri Dec  5 00:52:08.666 Info: <airportd[33]> GET CURRENT TETHER DEVICE request received from pid 407 (SystemUIServer)
Fri Dec  5 00:52:08.668 Info: <airportd[33]> QUERY GAS CACHE request received from pid 407 (SystemUIServer)
Fri Dec  5 00:52:08.669 Info: <airportd[33]> GET CURRENT TETHER DEVICE request received from pid 407 (SystemUIServer)
Fri Dec  5 00:52:08.681 Info: <airportd[33]> START BROWSING TETHER DEVICES request received from pid 413 (com.apple.wifi.proxy)
Fri Dec  5 00:52:08.681 Info: <WiFiAgent[565]> START BROWSING TETHER DEVICES request received
Fri Dec  5 00:52:09.194 Info: <airportd[33]> STOP BROWSING TETHER DEVICES request received from pid 413 (com.apple.wifi.proxy)
Fri Dec  5 00:52:09.195 Info: <WiFiAgent[565]> STOP BROWSING TETHER DEVICES request received


texts: Why does my MacBook not display the date and time in Welsh?

texts:
In "Languages and Region" I have set my only language to be Cymraeg (Welsh).  It is the only one in the list of preferred languages. However, the date in the top bar is in english.

If I change the language to French it displays the date and time in French. My iPhone can display it in Welsh...

Any ideas?


texts: OSX software update download stuck forever

texts:
Every time there is an update in OSX 10.14, I am facing this issue. Software update download starts and hangs in between. After that, it never recovers. See pics:

Tried command line options as well as mentioned in other threads here but no luck:

Anujs-MacBook-Pro:~ anujaggarwal$ sudo softwareupdate -i -a
Password:
Software Update Tool

Finding available software

Downloading macOS 10.14.6 Update
Error downloading macOS 10.14.6 Update: The request timed out.
Done.

Error downloading updates.
Anujs-MacBook-Pro:~ anujaggarwal$ sudo softwareupdate --install --all --verbose
Software Update Tool

Finding available software

Downloading macOS 10.14.6 Update

Anujs-MacBook-Pro:~ anujaggarwal$ softwareupdate --list
Software Update Tool

Finding available software
Software Update found the following new or updated software:
   * macOS 10.14.6 Update-
    macOS 10.14.6 Update ( ), 2582488K [recommended] [restart]
Anujs-MacBook-Pro:~ anujaggarwal$

I am currently on Mojave 10.14.5 and trying to update to 10.14.6

Thanks for your help.


texts: Customizing iTerm. Creating a display profile with Pastel color

texts:
I was trying to follow the instructions given on the page http://kpumuk.info/mac-os-x/customizing-iterm-creating-a-display-profile-with-pastel-colors/

After running the final command when I reopen the iTerm i find that only the background has changed to black and the text to cream color, it doesn't apply variable colors like blue to folders, some red colors for other file types. Please tell me how can I do so. Is there any other thing I can do to have a beautiful programmer's terminal.


texts: Iterate over an array of image sizes, and move them to a new folder

texts:
So a few years ago a asked this question, on how to find an image of specific dimensions. That script worked (and works) great for me! But now, i want to find not just one (1) dimensions but 10 different dimensions. And with my current setup and system, and iteration of a specific dimensions takes about one (1) hour.

I have multipel executables of the same script, but i run them after each other ./delete180x180images && ./delete800x600images and so on.

Is it possible to compare the image dimensions agains an array? example DIMENSIONS=('120x120' '269x360' '360x269'), and if there is a match, move that file?

This is the script from my previous question that i currently use:

#!/bin/bash
targetDir="$HOME/Pictures/iPhoto-bibliotek.photolibrary"

HEIGHT=450
WIDTH=600

echo -e "Scanning \033[0;32m$targetDir\033[0m"
find $targetDir -type f \( -iname \*.jpg -o -iname \*.png -iname \*.bmp -iname \*.jpeg \) 2>/dev/null | \
while read -r filename; do
    hw="$(sips -g pixelHeight -g pixelWidth "$filename" 2>/dev/null)"
    h="$(awk '/pixelHeight/{print $2}'<<<"$hw")"
    w="$(awk '/pixelWidth/{print $2}'<<<"$hw")"
    if [[ $h -eq $HEIGHT ]] && [[ $w -eq $WIDTH ]]; then
        echo mv "$filename" $(pwd)/120x120images
    fi
done


texts: Change "Group windows by application" preference using command line

texts:
As per the title I'd like to configure the preference entitled

Group windows by application which is found in Preferences > Mission Control.

Most settings seem to have something like

defaults write com.apple.xxxx setting-name -bool false

But i can't seem to find one for this setting.


texts: Download 1080p from iTunes store on Windows

texts:
I am using iTunes 12.5.3.17 on Windows 10. iTunes Store pages show film/TV series Information sections which say "Downloading 720p". The title supports 1080p as well as 720p.

The text is a link to open the Store preferences tab. There is no setting to control quality on this tab. The Playback tab has preferred quality set to 1080p. The film downloads as 720p.

Multiple current pieces of documentation refer to this setting:

https://support.apple.com/kb/PH19623?locale=en_GB&viewlocale=en_US
https://support.apple.com/kb/PH20484?locale=en_GB

It is also mentioned that it is possible to download 1080p even if your current device does not support it (mine does, but compatibility problems should be ruled out by this statement).

Where has the setting gone? How can I download 1080p media?


texts: iPhone wouldn't launch apps, restarted and now showing Apple sign-on screen

texts: I restarted my iPhone 4S because the apps kept backing out instead of loading but my phone has been showing the Apple sign on the screen for about an hour. I've already tried pressing the home button and shut off button. What else can I do?


texts: One Apple ID being used for multiple phones. How to create a new Apple ID for one?

texts:
I have a question regarding using the same Apple ID for multiple phones. I have let my dad use my Apple ID to purchase apps and stuff, and now I realize that he uses my ID for iCloud, and all our photos and everything are instantly shared on both of our phones. Can someone please help to walk me through the process of setting up a new Apple ID? Or do I have to go see one of the tech guys in Apple store for this matter?
Thank you!


texts: How does the new "local snapshots" feature of Time Machine in Lion work?

texts:
Apple's advertising for Lion highlights a new "local snapshots" feature of Time Machine:

  OS X Lion lets you take the Time Machine experience with you when you’re away from your Time Capsule or backup drive. Time Machine keeps a spare copy of the files you create, modify, or delete right on your Mac. Now if you accidentally delete a file while on the road, you can recover it from a local copy.

I'm wondering how this integrates with the regular Time Machine backups. Are the "local snapshots" copied to the external Time Machine drive the next time you connect it? And are they then deleted from the internal drive? What if you're doing dual backups with two separate external drives? ...


texts: Networked Time Machine backup does not grow after switching backup disk to a larger one

texts:
My Time Machine backup on a Time Capsule (.sparsebundle) has reached the size of the disk it was stored and started cleaning up older backups after each backup session.

I have switched the disk to the larger one, but the backup no longer grows: after each backup session Time Machine cleans up old backups and total .sparsebundle size remains constant.

How to nudge Time Machine to notice that the backup disk is larger and it can keep more backups?

sparsebundle has not yet reached its maximum size (from hdiutil info):

Resize limits (per hdiutil resize -limits):
 min     cur     max
3807016888  11719963728 34359738368

(1.7TB / 5.5TB / 16TB)


texts: Is there a way to click a default button with the keyboard, without Full Keyboard Access?

texts:
In Xcode when I go to commit files, I get a sheet with "Cancel" and "Commit" buttons, where the latter is the default (colored/pulsing) button.  I can hit Escape to Cancel, but I haven't found any way to Commit with just the keyboard.

In particular, pressing Return doesn't work.  There's a multiline text area on this sheet, so pressing Return adds a new line there.

In this question, the first answer suggested command + first letter (which would be command-C, which is Copy, as usual), and the second answer suggested turning on "Full Keyboard Access" (which I don't want).

Is there any way to click a pulsing default button with just the keyboard, without turning on Full Keyboard Access?  Or is the pulsing purely to indicate to me that it's the default choice that I should click to continue?


texts: How to enable the iPad QuickType "Floating Keyboard" mini keyboard?

texts:
The iPad now contains a mini, draggable, floating keyboard as an alternative to the full screen keyboard. This was released in iOS 13 / iPadOS 13 in September 2019.

This mini keyboard is roughly the size of an iPhone keyboard, but floating on your iPad's screen.

From the iPadOS release notes:

  QuickType

  New floating keyboard leaving more room for your content—drag it anywhere you like

and Features:

  Floating keyboard

  Pinch to shrink the QuickType keyboard and move it wherever you want so there’s more room for your apps.

How do you enable this iPad mini floating keyboard?


texts:
So, I go to the install components tab for steam and install .NET 4.0, but it doesn't work; it just says "Please wait while .NET Framework 4.0 is installed..." and goes on forever, which makes my MacBook blow air.  I have to manually kill the process in Activity Monitor. I installed dinput just fine so I think its just a problem with .NET 4.0.

Don't know if this will help: https://pastebin.com/dxyU7WwW

I'm using Wine 3.17


texts: Launching .app bundle fails with LSOpenURLsWithRole() error -10810, but works in debugger

texts:
I made a macos app bundle with cmake.
I try to open the bundle with open bundle.app, which gives me
LSOpenURLsWithRole() failed with error -10810 for the file bundle.app.

However, I can both run
$ lldb bundle.app
$ run

and bundle.app/Contents/MacOS/executable with no problem.
What does this error try to tell me? Apple's developer documentation doesn't seem to map error codes to human-readable descriptions.
Update
I am building the app on a Mojave computer. Strangely, it launches fine on a different Big Sur machine.


texts:
I've recently immigrated from Ubuntu to Mac OSX Snow Leopard. I use the terminal (iterm2) extensively, and I am a great fan of shortcut keys.

The standard shortcut keys (which work in any GUI textbox) are:

⌘+← Jumps to first character in line
⌘+→ Jumps to last character in line
⌥+← Moves one word forward
⌥+→ Moves one word backward

How can I impose these shortcuts in iterm (or terminal)?

Are there any standard key bindings for these operations in Mac I should know and use?


texts: The command `strings` produce abnormal output

texts:
Normally the shell command cat /dev/urandom | strings -n16 would produce a list of ASCII strings useful for picking passwords. However, after the latest upgrade to MacOS Catalina strings output garbage ala:

`�e�ID�b,�e���S��qx�u�
7�Ա�H�t�>��L�b2
�g�(���<:�}�TZ,=���צ{���
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�E�y�?6�5q��Ii9�
...

What gives?


texts: Where is this "other calendar" coming from on my iPhone

texts: I am using Google's exchange service on my iPhone, and I have successfully selected which calendars I want to sync by going to m.google.com or whatever the Sync address is. However, in the native iPhone app, I have this weird calendar called "Birthdays" in the "Other Calendars" section. I have no idea where this calendar is coming from - its not in Outlook (and I don't sync with Outlook anyway), and its not my Google Birthday calendar (the dates are wrong). How do I remove it? I'm using an iPhone 3GS with iOS 4.1.


texts: Can I safely charge my iPhone 4 overnight on a regular basis?

texts:
First time caller, long time listener:  I've seen this question asked on a few other sites but with no "definitive" answers.

The Apple website on iPhone batteries is ambiguous, at best, and the closest it comes to answering the question is saying that a monthly deep cycle is a good idea.  (reference)

So, what do you think -- is there an adverse impact from repeated, overnight charging of your iPhone 4?  Does this negatively affect battery performance over the long term?  Or is there some chip/ software that acts to shut off the charging once the battery is topped off, thereby protecting your hermetically sealed little power source?


texts: Bootcamp: My Mac Only Boots into macOS No Matter What Partition I Choose

texts:
I have a 2017 Macbook Pro 15 inch running 10.13.5 and a bootcamp partition of Windows 10. I cannot boot into windows unless I select the windows partition from system preferences and restart from there.

If I try and hold down the option key on restart, Startup Manager opens but no matter which partition I click, it boots into macOS. It will not let me boot into windows this way.

Is there any way to fix Startup Manager/boot into windows?

Edit: Video on what is happening


texts: Documents folder not visible in Finder on macOS

texts:
The Documents folder on my Mac (macOS Sierra 10.12 beta) is not visible under my user in Finder. I can see the folder is there through Terminal

But in Finder, I can't see it:

I can see the folder in Finder under iCloud Drive:

Please help.


texts: My iTunes sync completes, but my iPod doesn't get any music. What can be done?

texts:
Device : iPod Shuffle 2nd Second Generation
OS     : Windows 7 64 bit

My steps were as follows

I checked the "Sync only checked songs"

Even though i checked some songs before syncing, i did not find any of them in my iPod. The sync completed without any error output.

Settings tab

Contents tab


texts: Spanish to German dictionary on English OS

texts:
is it somehow possible to add a dictionary for two different foreign languages to the Dictionary app?
I am using macOS 10.15 "Catalina" in English and I would like to add a Spanish to German dictionary.
Adding a Spanish and a German dictionary is possible. Also also the Dictionary app allows us to add english to german and English to Spanish, but I do not see the the option to add German-Spanish.
Can someone help if this is even feasible? When yes, how can I add this dictionary?
Here is the list of options I have.


texts: Use one AppleScript to toggle on and off (1 or 0)

texts:
I'm wondering if there's a simple way to use one AppleScript program to turn something on and off. Basically I want it to do this.

Check current pmset sms
if sms = 0
then
   do shell script sudo pmset -a sms 1
if sms = 1
then
   do shell script sudo pmset -a sms 0

How would I tell it to check the current value?


texts: Terminal app no longer automatically recognizes functions in my ~/.profile any more

texts:
I made some function in my ~/.profile to automate things like SSH connections.  They were working fine until recently.  Now I need to "run" the ~/.profile by doing . .profile each time I open Terminal for my functions to work.  How can fix this to make the functions available at start automatically?

I'm running Mountain Lion 10.8.4.


texts: Using last OS X Lion, I was using Mail.app, classic view, so there was always a preview for each message. This has now dissapeared, how can I solve this?


texts:
Every time I try to boot into Windows 10 , I get this message in a black screen:

"no bootable device – insert boot disk and press any key"

Note that it was working before.

Any ideas?

diskutil list

/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *500.3 GB   disk0
   1:                  Apple_HFS empty                   209.7 MB   disk0s1
   2:                  Apple_HFS Macintosh HD            199.2 GB   disk0s2
   3:                 Apple_Boot Recovery HD             650.0 MB   disk0s3
   4:                  Apple_HFS em                      650.0 MB   disk0s4
   5:           Linux Filesystem                         119.8 GB   disk0s5
   6:                  Apple_HFS disk0s10                22.0 GB    disk0s6
   7:                  Apple_HFS e                       343.7 MB   disk0s7
   8:                        EFI NO NAME                 2.8 GB     disk0s8
   9:       Microsoft Basic Data BOOTCAMP                149.6 GB   disk0s9
  10:           Windows Recovery                         471.9 MB   disk0s10

diskutil cs list

No CoreStorage logical volume groups found

sudo gpt -vv -r show /dev/disk0

gpt show: /dev/disk0: mediasize=500277790720; sectorsize=512; blocks=977105060
gpt show: /dev/disk0: PMBR at sector 0
gpt show: /dev/disk0: Pri GPT at sector 1
gpt show: /dev/disk0: Sec GPT at sector 977105059

      start       size  index  contents
          0          1         PMBR
          1          1         Pri GPT header
          2         32         Pri GPT table
         34          6
         40     409600      1  GPT part - 48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
     409640  389032888      2  GPT part - 48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
  389442528    1269536      3  GPT part - 426F6F74-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
  390712064    1269536      4  GPT part - 48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
  391981600  234019258      5  GPT part - 0FC63DAF-8483-4772-8E79-3D69D8477DE4
  626000858   42952704      6  GPT part - 48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
  668953562     262144
  669215706     671368      7  GPT part - 48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
  669887074    8617504
  678504578    5541888      8  GPT part - C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B
  684046466  292136960      9  GPT part - EBD0A0A2-B9E5-4433-87C0-68B6B72699C7
  976183426     921600     10  GPT part - DE94BBA4-06D1-4D40-A16A-BFD50179D6AC
  977105026          1
  977105027         32         Sec GPT table
  977105059          1         Sec GPT header

sudo fdisk /dev/disk0

Disk: /dev/disk0 geometry: 60821/255/63 [977105060 sectors]
Signature: 0xAA55

         Starting       Ending
 id  cyl  hd sec -  cyl  hd sec [     start -       size]
------------------------------------------------------------------------
1: EE 1023 255  63 - 1023 255  63 [         1 -  977105059] <Unknown ID>
2: 00    0   0   0 -    0   0   0 [         0 -          0] unused
3: 00    0   0   0 -    0   0   0 [         0 -          0] unused
4: 00    0   0   0 -    0   0   0 [         0 -          0] unused


texts: iTunes stopped deleting movies and TV series

texts:
For as long as I can remember iTunes used to ask me, when deleting a TV series or movie, if I wanted to delete the file on the disk as well.

Now, the question no longer pops up and the files are not deleted.

Here are the settings:

How can I make iTunes delete the files themselves when I delete something from the library?


texts: What is the difference in the way PageUp/Pagedown keys are handled by Terminal.app vs iTerm2.app?

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I had an SOF question about the ipython REPL handling of scrolling   https://stackoverflow.com/q/65385315/1056563

Cycle through ipython “history” with one keystroke per item even when multiple lines

I discovered there is a difference in how the Terminal.app handles of PageUp/PageDown:

This turns out to be specific to the macOS Terminal app handling of PageUp / PageDown. iTerm2 instead has the desired behavior of scrolling the history using those keystrokes.

What are the differences between how those keys are handled between these App's? Can the iTerm2 behavior be replicated  in the Terminal.app ?


texts: How to know what is preventing Mail from fetching Gmail according to schedule?

texts:
iPhone 6s, iOS 9.3.2

On my iPhone, mobile-mail is scheduled to fetch emails from my Gmail account every 15 minutes.
I recently noticed that more than 15 minutes can pass - the longest so far was 24 hours - without mobile-mail updating my email inbox.
I had mobile network and WIFI connectivity during those 24 hours. I have accessed the internet, used iMessage and WhatsApp, and updated apps.
When I opened mobile-mail, it connected to Gmail and - to my surprise - downloaded 24 hours of emails. Before doing so, I could see that the notice at the bottom of the screen said that my inbox had last been updated the day before.

How do I figure out which setting is preventing mobile-mail from fetching my Gmail according to the set schedule?


texts:
One day my Safari got blocked. I doesn't allow me to close it, or even to change the URL, neither interact with the website. As you can see in the image bellow most of the menu options appear disabled.

I tried to force quit with the Activity Monitor, but when reopening Safari, is on the same state.

Is there a way to reset/reinstall Safari different to reinstall the system?

For more information, I'm using Mojave and Safari has no extensions installed.


texts: Can you, what I'm calling, "snapshoot" videos of activity on one's iPhone screen?

texts: You know how you can press the home and side button simultaneously to take a snapshot of the screen, well, can you "snapshoot" a video of activity on your iPhone, like, a segment of a YouTube video (sometimes, something like t=1m45s on the end of a YouTube link doesn't get pushed to that time when clicked on certain devices) or "snapshoot" a process. That is, if I wanted to demonstrate steps quickly and easily I could press some buttons simultaneously and start recording, then do some things on my iPhone, then press some buttons and then it stops, and now I have a video of that activity in my videos. Is that a thing?


texts: iCloud for Windows can't upgrade, uninstall, or repair. How can I proceed?

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Lately Apple Software Update has been popping up with a recommended upgrade to iCloud 5.0. (I am currently on 4.1.1.53, on Windows 10 with the Fall Update).

Each time I attempt to upgrade, the upgrade fails.

I tried uninstalling the application using the uninstall utility, but that failed as well.

Finally, I tried to "Repair" the program, but that did not work either.

Any other suggestions? At this point I just want iCloud off Windows for good.


texts: Dark mode of MacOS not working for Chrome

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As specified here, I have enabled MacOS's dark mode however, the Chrome browser doesn't become dark. It's expected that webpages, toolbars, etc all become dark.

I wanted to avoid third-party Chrome plugins/extensions as they can inject scripts in my browser. Any idea why is the dark mode for Chrome not working?
The Chrome version I'm using is Version 78.0.3904.108 (Official Build) (64-bit)


texts:
I got a new SanDisk SSD for my MBP and can't get El Capitan installed. Whenever I try to partition the SSD from within Disk Utility of my bootable USB (or format it via Erase), the process gets stuck and reports either the same error as here or gets stuck at 50% as described here.

I tried the approaches of the replies in those posts. I created a bootable ubuntu USB and used gparted to format the SSD to gpt first and then to fat32, HSF+, Ext3 hoping that it would allow me to erase the SSD back in Disk Utility. None of these worked out. (Formatting with gparted works, but erasing with Disk Utility afterwards still doesn't)

Gparted from within ubuntu reports The primary GPT table is corrupt, but the backup appears OK, so that will be used and I remember I tried to fix it via Terminal. The same error still pops up whenever I start gparted so I guess I failed.

When I use gpt from within the El Capitan USB it shows me unable to open device '/dev/disk0': I/O error.

Trying to partition the disk via command line (diskutil partitionDisk ...) also gets stuck at 50% as described above.

These are only a few approaches I've tried and which I can remember. I've been googling for quite some time now and don't really know what else to try. I also don't know if this is a problem with my MBP/OS X or the SSD and if I just should return it and get another one. Sometimes when I reboot it happens that the SSD is not displayed/found when using Disk Utility.

I would really appreciate any help on this.


texts: Terminal.app magically changing color values

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Terminal.app does some very odd color shifting that makes it impossible to match colors consistently, and I'm wondering if there is any way to disable it or better control it. The "magic" is what shows purple instead of blue, for example, even when the ansi color for the theme is set to plain blue.

This behavior appears to be tied to setting the background color... setting any background color (with terminfo setab capability) disables the "magic" color shift, while an attribute reset (sgr0) re-enables it.

This is my test (sets the foreground, prints some unicode filled blocks, explicitly sets the background to black, prints again):

b=$'\xE2\x96\x88' && bs=$b$b$b$b$b$b$b$b &&
  tput setaf 4 && echo -n "$bs" &&
  tput setab 0 && echo "$bs"

With the default theme, it prints purple (magic) then blue (ansi). So, my first attempt was to sample the purple color, and update the preferences to use that purple instead of blue... everything should be consistent now, right?

On the next run, I get a slightly brighter purple and then the purple I entered. At first I thought I just put the color in wrong, but as I kept brightening the color setting to match what Terminal.app was showing without the background set explicitly, the Terminal.app just kept getting brighter too -- all the way up until it was white!

From this, it seems to me that Terminal.app is automatically scaling the the colors displayed on the default background color by some factor, but it leaves colors on any explicitly set background alone; making it impossible for the two colors ever to match (except white and black).

FWIW, the window background is set to fully-opaque black.

Is there any way to get rid of this behavior? I'm thinking that this is maybe bug-report-worthy, but I'm curious if there is just something I'm missing.


texts:
The resizing behaviour of Finder Cover Flow kinds of annoy me...

The size of the icons in the Cover Flow area is HUGE, while the list stays small at the bottom.

Moving the slider to make the Cover Flow area smaller works...
Until you open another folder.
Then, depending on some strange logic, you will get the HUGE icons again, or will stay with a smaller size.

But when I make a little bigger the area, dragging the slider a bit down, to see greater icons (especially photos, but also other files), then I get again the HUGE icons...

I googled to check if someone found it as weird as I do.
There is a thread in Apple Communities where it seems that confirms my thought:

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2492638?start=0&tstart=0

Anyway, does anybody know if this can be fixed somehow?


texts: Why does mobile Safari revert to "Never accept cookies"?

texts:
Every few days Safari on my iPhone (iOS 5.0.1) reverts to "Never" accept cookies. I put it to "From Visited" but it switches back shortly thereafter.

Discussion elsewhere suggests an Exchange link may be at fault (and I do download email from a work account) but nothing conclusive.

This problem breaks logging in to most web sites.


texts:
On my Mac (OSX 10.15.7) I try to install something using pip3:
pip3 install ovirt-engine-sdk-python

I get a GCC error:
gcc -Wno-unused-result -Wsign-compare -Wunreachable-code -fno-common -dynamic -DNDEBUG -g -fwrapv -O3 -Wall -arch x86_64 -g -I/usr/local/opt/ruby/include -I/usr/include/libxml2 -I/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.9/include/python3.9 -c ext/ov_xml_reader.c -o build/temp.macosx-10.9-x86_64-3.9/ext/ov_xml_reader.o
    ext/ov_xml_reader.c:20:10: fatal error: 'libxml/xmlreader.h' file not found
    #include <libxml/xmlreader.h>
             ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    1 error generated.
    error: command '/usr/bin/gcc' failed with exit code 1

I suspect this has something to do with where the C headers are located, and GCC nog finding them...
The suggestion to work around this is to do:
export CPATH=`xcrun --show-sdk-path`/usr/include

But this does not work. I keep getting the error.
How do I get this to work?


texts: What happens when interrupting a zip -erm process?

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What happens if you interrupt following command

$ zip -erm foo foo/dirfoo1

I realized that time will not permit me to finish. What happens when I Ctrl+C me out of this? Am I left with something that could be continued where it left off? If so, would that be as simple as re-running the command?
Or am I going to find what is not unzipped, and can I run the command for the "leftovers"?


texts: Some hotkeys not working for certain apps

texts:
I'm trying to understand why select hotkeys will not work in certain apps. For example, Command+ will not work in WhatsApp to make text bigger, and CommandControlF will not work in Joplin to make it full screen.

My suspicion is that another application is hijacking this hotkey, but how do I verify this? How do I check which commands the computer is actually executing?


texts: How do I create a symbolic link to a directory with a space in it?

texts:
I was trying to create a symbolic link using the following command:

ln -s "~/Foo Bar/" Foo

... but it didn't work (i.e. when I go into finder and try double clicking it, it says that it's pointing to an invalid path and prompts me to delete the alias or fix it). I had to rename the folder to FooBar and then run the following command:

ln -s ~/FooBar/ Foo

How can I create the link without having to remove the space from the folder's name?

I'm looking for a way to do this in Terminal and not in Finder's UI.


texts: How do I download a Facebook messenger audio file?

texts:
A loved one recorded an audio message on Facebook messenger for me; it looks like the image below. I'm trying to download it, but nearly all of the ways to capture it don't see that the file exists, and the one exception to that downloaded a file that nothing can open.

Can someone please tell me how to download this file such that it can be played? I have 10.9.5, if that makes a difference. Thanks!


texts: Having trouble editing Finder settings using defaults write

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I run the following command:

sudo defaults write ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.finder.plist ShowHardDrivesOnDesktop -boolean TRUE

in hopes that this will cause system hard drives to show on the desktop, which doesn't happen.  I kill all Finder processes and restart Finder, but no dice.

I try to open com.apple.finder.plist in Xcode, but it says I do not have permissions to view the file (I was able to before).  Shortly after, I am able to open it, but the file is empty.  The attributes are slowly regenerating.

What is happening here?  I am looking for a command to toggle the option to show hard drives on the desktop, just as if I checked the box in Finder preferences.


texts: Password protect folder without disk images?

texts:
Is this possible?
I know you can protect a .dmg file, but is there a more convenient solution, by using a third party application?


texts: Use the bundled USB-C cable with Target Mode

texts: Can I use the white USB-C cable provided with new MacBook Pro to copy files from my MacBook Pro to another one, even if the transfer rate is poor?


texts:
My Mac constantly wakes itself up from sleep for apparently no reason. Middle of the night, middle of that day, it just can't stay asleep. Why? I ran pmset with the following results:

[redacted]:~ [redacted]$  pmset -g assertions
2015-01-26 08:27:29 -0800
Assertion status system-wide:
   BackgroundTask                 0
   ApplePushServiceTask           0
   UserIsActive                   1
   PreventUserIdleDisplaySleep    0
   PreventSystemSleep             0
   ExternalMedia                  1
   PreventUserIdleSystemSleep     0
   NetworkClientActive            0
Listed by owning process:
   pid 72(hidd): [0x0000b0bc000906ce] 18:03:19 UserIsActive named: "com.apple.iohideventsystem.queue.tickle"
   pid 26(powerd): [0x000000230008012c] 43:45:02 ExternalMedia named: "com.apple.powermanagement.externalmediamounted"
Kernel Assertions: 0x10c=USB,BT-HID,MAGICWAKE
   id=501  level=255 0x4=USB mod=1/24/15, 12:48 PM description=EHC1 owner=AppleUSBEHCI
   id=503  level=255 0x100=MAGICWAKE mod=1/26/15, 6:47 AM description=en0 owner=en0
   id=504  level=255 0x8=BT-HID mod=12/31/69, 4:00 PM description=com.apple.driver.IOBluetoothHIDDriver owner=BNBTrackpadDevice
   id=506  level=255 0x8=BT-HID mod=12/31/69, 4:00 PM description=com.apple.driver.IOBluetoothHIDDriver owner=AppleBluetoothHIDKeyboard


texts: Unable to delete songs from iTunes Match - they always come back

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I'm so lost here. I imported an audio book from CD into my iTunes library. The genre was wrong on one of the 5 CDs ("Spoken & Audio") instead of "Audio Book". So I changed it.
iTunes Match did its job, uploaded the titles and messed everything up. I ended up with all the titles being duplicated, one per genre.
In the end I just wanted to get rid of the files. I deleted the titles from iTunes 11 and checked in Findes that they are gone for good. I was also ask if I wanted to delete the titles in iCloud too. I agreed.
Then iTunes Match updated itself and everything was back. I retried - same issue. The titles come back with an iCloud icon.

How the heck can I get rid of the titles and restart?


texts: Mini DisplayPort to HDMI cable vs. adapter - for MBP mid-2012

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I've been using a Mini DisplayPort to HDMI adapter to connect to an external monitor for over a year. It stopped working yesterday and I am about to replace it. However, I noticed there are Mini DisplayPort to HDMI cables on Amazon, as well. The cable's length, either 3 or 6 feet, may be useful to me. That said, I have 2 HDMI cables already, so getting another cable may just be a waste of space (pricing is roughly the same, as far as I can tell).

So, what difference, if any, is there between the Mini DisplayPort to HDMI adapter vs. the Mini DisplayPort to HDMI cable? Thank you.


texts: GarageBand Static when recording guitar using JAM 96k interface

texts: Does anybody know how to resolve the intermittent static problem when recording on the Mac using Garageband 10.0.1 on a Mavericks MAC and using Apogee JAM 96k? I've tried every configuration possible (different sample rates, different bit depths, removing effects, changing guitar and interface cables etc...) to no avail. Cannot get ride of this annoying static.


texts: AirPlay doesn't work when AirPort Exp. extends my network?

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I have recently acquired an old first gen AirPort Express and wanted to use it solely for airplaying over to my old and amp.

I tested configuring with it's own network and works fine. The problem is, when I ask it to join my house's network, which is not an "Apple network" and is composed of a few routers extending it. The AirPort still shows on my preferences, is detected by the AirPort Utility but doesn't seem to be reached displaying "Error -6753".

I am figuring there is some port configuration I am ought do (?). I don't remember configuring internal firewall in any of my routers (except for the one hooked to the modem), but maybe this is a known issue?

[EDIT] Some more details on my equipment:

I have the ISP's modem, connected to a cheap Huawei wireless router, which has a firewall configured to keep outbound traffic away.
My house has an elongated shape, so midway through the rooms there is another Asus (RT-N10+) wireless router, configured to extend the Huawei's network (configured simply as bridge, no firewall, mac filter whatsoever).
The AirPort Express would be in the lower floor, still, closer to the Huawei router (thus what I believe it would connect to).

The network itself is SSID broadcasted, WAP/WPA2 Personal Encripted.

I will be trying to AirPlay from iPads, iPhones and a MacBook Pro over the house, which will be connected either to the Huawei or Asus router.


texts: What's the quickest way to get a graphic on the clipboard saved to disk?

texts:
I have a graphic on the clipboard on OS X.

What's the quickest way to get it onto disk as a png or jpg?


texts: Moving off iCloud Music - How do I download all my music?

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So after 5 years I've decided to switch to Android and I have almost 100GB of music stored on Apple's servers after uploading them there via the paid iCloud Music service. I want to download the high quality versions of my music on iCloud onto an external drive so I can then subsequently worry about getting them all onto the equivalent Android music service.

Can anyone suggest a way of doing this that will not involve downloading every track individually (and possibly losing my mind in the process)?


texts:
So i have a Macbook Pro 2015 15" default of resolution 2880 x 1800 running Catalina, I recently turned it on and either my resolution has been changed or my scaling zoom ( icons, text size etc ) has been altered. I'm 100% that I haven't made these changes myself, nor has anyone else in terms of physically accessing my mac.

Wondering whether this is a common issue or some form of malware/virus?

I've ran Malwarebytes and various other tools to try detect an infection, nothing was detected.


texts: Mac OS X (10.9.2) Terminal: Getting Weird Characters ~$â

texts:
out of nowhere I am getting the following weird characters:

$â followed by a paragraph sign. See the below image for more detail:

Also note where the white cursor is: it's basically 'one-off' so it's tough to tell where the cursor actually is, and becomes quite frustrating when typing.

I generally work with Ruby on Rails and have NOT added anything recently out of the ordinary. This just started happening out of the blue.

Any ideas?


texts: Force iCloud Drive to sync under Yosemite

texts:
There are many questions of forcing iCloud to sync, but they are generally  old and unclear as to the details.

I changed the file structure at my Mac, but the iOS App (Pages) doesn't seem to take the new update.

When I look through the folder structure via another iOS App, there is still the old structure. So it seems that my changes on the Mac didn't update yet.

Is there a way in Yosemite to force the iCloud sync?

  There has to be a service which is triggered and runs in the background. Which service is it?


texts: Difficulty booting 2013 iMac from external SSD via USB 3.0

texts:
Recently, I have been running into difficulty booting into macOS using an external SSD connected via USB 3.0.
Backstory... 2013 Imac was working great for about 5 years until the internal HDD started to fail.  Rather than replace the internal drive (due to difficulty, Apple changed the screen from magnetic to sticky adhesive), I bought Samsung SSD, cloned the internal drive via SuperDuper, set as default startup disk, and connected via USB 3.0.
Strategy worked awesome for 2 years to give an old mac new life and OS has run flawlessly until recently when a macOS update was installed and the computer restarted and the external drive/operating system could not be found.  The SSD is fine, and I tested its functionality on another computer.  Any time I startup and hold Option, reset SMC, PRAM, unplug the external and plug it back in, switch SSD usb port, change SSD usb cable (and even swapped SSD enclosure), still the same issue.  I cannot get the iMac to recognize the external SSD as a valid startup disk.
I ran into this issue before on another macOS update and it randomly corrected itself after I furiously went through all of the options above 3 or 4 times to no avail.  I just came back to the computer a different day, and it restarted into macOS flawlessly again.   This time, I am having no such luck and I am super bummed.  What haven't I tried to fix it again? Should I reset the PRAM/SMC another 3 or 4 times?


texts: SSH into LAN from outside through Airport Extreme

texts:
I have an Airport Extreme, and a local network.

I have several computers within this network.

I want to be able to SSH into this local machine within the network, from outside it.

What I have done so far is that I open the Airport Utility program, within there I click the picture of the router and click 'edit'.
There I click 'network' and I suspect that it's 'port settings' that I should enter, so I click that. There I click 'description' and choose 'remote ssh login'. It fills several of the empty fields, I just change the one with the private ip address to the one i want to access. the default ports are 22. If I click ok on this, can I then SSH from outside? And if so, do I just do ssh <user>@<network_ip_address> -p<that port address that was given up in the airport by default>
.. ?


texts: Activating Mountain Lion screen saver from Applescript, part 2

texts:
This example was shown earlier:

tell application "System Events"
    set ss to screen saver "Random"
    start ss
end tell

Is there an incantation instead of "Random" to display a slideshow from the selected folder in the screen saver preferences?


texts: Keychain: Secure Notes: Access to this item is restricted

texts:
Possible Duplicate:
  Keychain says “Access to this item is restricted” after upgrading to Lion

I recently did a clean install on my MacBook pro. Before I did the clean install, I backed up what I thought would be the keychain stuff. This is what I backed up. I used a back up program called ibackup and I selected keychain to back it up. I also copied the keychain folder, which was located in the Macintosh Hard drive in the Library folder, and also I backed up the folder, which was in the other Library folder in the System folder.

I then copy all the backed up content back into those folders. I can access the keychain and my entire login passwords with out any problems. I can see the secure notes are there that I created but once I try to open then so I can see contents of the secure notes I get this error “Access to this item is restricted”

I hoping I can access my secure notes again. I want to mention once I do a restart it seems like my keychain secure notes resets it self and I have no secure notes in the keychain anymore. I hope someone can help.

Thanks


texts:
macOS Mail won't clear out the outgoing SMTP server list

PLEASE NOTE three symptoms in one that makes this extremely buggy:

going to "Edit SMTP server list..." and then deleting the items from the list window DOES NOT WORK

when I try to add new SMTP servers, my new server does not "stick" and is not choosable (and has no effect)

when I edit an existing one, any changes I make appear to stick only until I quit & relaunch Mail, after which Mail appears to REVERT to the old settings for my SMTP server list.

this has always been buggy (over the last 20 years), but only under Catalina 10.15.7 is this now no longer editable for me


texts: Bad master directory block error (shutdown cause -60) and random restarts without other symptoms

texts:
Folks,

On my 8 year-old 2010 MacBook Pro, I started getting a bunch of random shutdowns starting about a week ago. I reinstalled High Sierra after the first few, but I'm still getting them. Terminal reported the shutdown code -60 in all cases, which I understand is due to a bad master directory block.

However, I'm having none of the symptoms described in this post - the only thing going wrong with my computer is that it shuts down at random and unpredictable intervals (~1x a day). I sometimes get the kernel panic message, and sometimes I don't. Disk utility can find nothing wrong with my drive. As mentioned, I reinstalled the OS, and I ran disk utility after wiping the hard drive, plus I ran it after the most recent incident. The drive is a Samsung SSD that I self-installed about 5 years ago. I only just started getting these shutdowns. No issues with the drive that I can detect.

I'll note that my battery is extremely well-worn, but I basically keep the MBP plugged in nearly full-time, and all the incidents happened on AC power.

Any thoughts as to why this might be happening?

Results from running Disk Utility after the last shutdown are:

dev/rdisk1s1:
/dev/rdisk1s1: fsck_apfs started at Thu May 17 17:28:43 2018
/dev/rdisk1s1: ** Checking volume.
/dev/rdisk1s1: ** Checking the container superblock.
/dev/rdisk1s1: ** Checking the EFI jumpstart record.
/dev/rdisk1s1: ** Checking the space manager.
/dev/rdisk1s1: ** Checking the object map.
/dev/rdisk1s1: ** Checking the APFS volume superblock.
/dev/rdisk1s1: ** Checking the object map.
/dev/rdisk1s1: ** Checking the fsroot tree.
/dev/rdisk1s1: ** Checking the snapshot metadata tree.
/dev/rdisk1s1: ** Checking the extent ref tree.
/dev/rdisk1s1: ** Checking the snapshots.
/dev/rdisk1s1: ** Checking snapshot 1 of 9.
/dev/rdisk1s1: ** Checking snapshot 2 of 9.
/dev/rdisk1s1: ** Checking snapshot 3 of 9.
/dev/rdisk1s1: ** Checking snapshot 4 of 9.
/dev/rdisk1s1: ** Checking snapshot 5 of 9.
/dev/rdisk1s1: ** Checking snapshot 6 of 9.
/dev/rdisk1s1: ** Checking snapshot 7 of 9.
/dev/rdisk1s1: ** Checking snapshot 8 of 9.
/dev/rdisk1s1: ** Checking snapshot 9 of 9.
/dev/rdisk1s1: ** Verifying allocated space.
/dev/rdisk1s1: ** The volume /dev/rdisk1s1 appears to be OK.
/dev/rdisk1s1: fsck_apfs completed at Thu May 17 17:30:45 2018
/dev/rdisk1s1:


texts: I can't install OSX Lion from DVD, because I receive an error

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I tried to install OSX Lion from DVD, but when I boot from the dvd I receive bootstrapper crashed error. How can I fix that? Maybe the disc is scratched, or what's the problem?

Thank you!


texts: Lag on 4k external monitor and MacBook Pro (early 2016, internal graphics) running in retina mode: can bad cable be a reason or just not enough power?

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I just bought new monitor (LG 24UD58-B) because of my MacBook's flexgate issue (when you can't really open lead). I can't bring it to service yet, because where I live it takes up to 5 weeks and it's my working computer.

For some reason I experience very laggy behavior while running in retina mode, it's definitely not 60 fps, probably closer to 25-30. It seems that the problem is in CPU spikes because other movements like moving the cursor and scrolling are fine sometimes. It is happening in all applications.

I'm using default hidpi mode, so no additional scaling is present. Laptop is working with closed lid. System is High Sierra.

Currently it is connected it with noname usb-c → displayport cable (the only I could get in my country).

Could the actual cable be the reason of the lag / slow performance?

Can I check somehow whether it's CPU vs cable? Because from apple site it seems that my model should handle 4k just fine.

The problem is I can't really check with another cable unless I order another one from amazon which ship around two weeks. I would probably better to return the monitor before that. I can just buy 1080p monitor for half of the price then.

I also tried running with HDMI adapter and it works pretty smooth in low resolution mode. I have small lag with the current cable even in low-resolution mode.


texts: Is there the dark mode (inverted colors) in the 'Preview' Application for PDF reading?

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I am using the “Preview” application for reading a PDF file on a MacBook Pro. Is there any way in I can read it in dark mode?

You can do it in Adobe Acrobat Reader by changing background and text color, but can “Preview” do that too?


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Just got this email.

Did not open the link (since the price looked ridiculous).

The link would lead to a look a like the Apple Log In window.

What is up with that? someone trying to collect Apple ID information for next stage of criminal activity.

It looks like (bad) SCAM to me!?


texts: Bootcamp touchpad drivers fail to install on Windows 8 RTM

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I've just upgraded my bootcamp partition from Windows 7 to Windows 8 RTM on a MacBook Air (2011 Core i7) and have been utterly and entirely unable to get the touchpad to work.

Things I've tried:

Uninstalling and re-installing the Bootcamp package
Removing and adding the specific two touchpad devices in Device Manager

The touchpad worked correctly under Windows 7 and works under OSX, so this appears to be a Bootcamp/Windows8 issue, rather than a hardware problem.

Any solutions?


texts: Mac Pro 2009/10 Doesn't boot after weekend, LED shows for 2 secs then nothing!

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One of our users computers on the network has a ~2009 Intel Mac Pro. On Friday the machine was fine, shut down correctly at the end of the day as normal.

This morning (Monday) the Mac Pro will not power up. After pressing the power button we get 1-2 seconds where the "on" LED is lit, then it goes off. We have removed all components, and blown with canned air, reseated everything, reset the SMC, but still the same issue.

The Mac Pro has 2 DIMM "boards", one of which is full (4 slots) and the other which has 2 slots free. On the brief power-up, all 4 LED's are lit on both DIMM boards, they're not on long enough to do anything else, is this normal? We've reseated all the RAM and the boards, but no change. We've even removed components such as the graphics card, and sticks of RAM individually but no change.

I've read that if the system detects no RAM it will beep 3 times, we removed all the RAM but no beep, I think because the system is not powered up long enough.

Any suggestions? We think it's a PSU but can't be sure.


texts: How can I update billing information for the non-managing account in a family sharing group?

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This morning I tried to download an app off of the app store, and it asked me to verify the billing information for the master account. I am in college, and share downloads with my family. The app store wanted the security code for the card on the account. This was an old card, and my father switched cards this morning in the billing information. I have restarted the app store and my computer, but the old card number still appears in the billing verification window in an un-editable field.

He does not remember the old security code. I also tried looking at the billing information through iTunes, and the account page keeps failing to load despite a strong internet connection. How do I edit the billing information?

Update: Account information loaded after 15 minutes in plain HTML:

Signing in and out of the account did nothing. I clicked Manage in System Preferences, and navigated to the family settings. There was no area to view, let alone edit the billing information:


texts: OS X El Capitan suddenly can't open DMG files

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I am trying to open a DMG file to install an OS X app. I get the error The following disk images couldn't be opened. Invalid Argument. I have tried to open other DMGs that I successfully managed to mount earlier and they are failing too. So the issue is not with the current DMG only. I restarted and that did not make a difference. I ran First Aid in DiskUtility and it reported that my drive was corrupt and needed repairing. I therefore restarted my mac with cmd + r pressed, selected Disk Utility and ran the repair. The repair failed after running for about 5 minutes. I would like to keep the contents of the drive if a solution exists that allows. What should I do now?

UPDATE:

I did a time machine backup and let the iMac go get its drive formatted etc. I then attained a macbook air, and did a Restore From Time Machine onto it such that I have back where I left of on the iMac. I then tried to open a new DMG, and the same error came up. I ran First Aid on the mac air drive and it reported it to fine (Ran Successfully).

This is therefore not a drive issue right (first aid on the mac air succeeded)? What could it be, and how can I fix it.