texts:
Says there is an error and I cannot access my email- tried changing my settings from iCloud to gmail but O have not gotten an email since Sunday.

Error:


texts: Does anyone know how long Photo Booth can record video with iSight camera on Mac? I want to record for a few days non stop, and don't know if that's possible even if there is sufficient space in HD? I'm using OS X 10.6.


texts: Could a 'damaged' TimeMachine backup still be of any use?

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I've got a Synology NAS here and a few months ago I sadly got the message, something like

  Time Machine backup is corrupt and therefor has to start a new backup.

However, as my NAS is starting to get more and more filled, I'm seeking to kill some data. I found this old backup which is about 650GB of size.

And my only question is: Can it be of any use or should I just remove it completely?

If you ask "But by starting a new backup, the old one gets deleted. Why do you still have it?" That's because it ended up in the Trash, instead of permanently deleted.


texts: Screen flash disabled but happens anyway

texts:
My Mac has started flashing the screen instead of beeping. It's exactly the same effect as you'd get if the Accessibility pref pane's "flash the screen" option was enabled, except that it's not enabled.

I also verified that the preferences property list file affecting this setting shows it as being off. In ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.universalaccess.plist I see:

<key>flashScreen</key>
<false/>

In case it makes any difference, the system sound is otherwise normal and not muted. I'm listening to music from iTunes, but getting screen flashes instead of beeps.

This happened a couple of weeks ago, and rebooting the Mac got things back to normal. Why does it keep happening? Is there something I can do to stop it from repeating again? The screen flash is going to give me a seizure.


texts: Is it possible to use custom resolution for Macbook Pro with Intel HD 4000?

texts: I have a 13" Macbook Pro with Intel HD 4000 chipset and I am wondering, if it is possible to set it use higher resolution then 1280 x 800?


texts: Corrupt internal APFS Catalina disks can’t boot & be removed

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Internal disk (disk0 & disk1 APFS) and internal PCIe (disk2 & disk3 APFS) are corrupted.
Currently booting from an external usb thumb drive (disk4 & disk5 APFS) and I can’t seem to erase/format my bad Catalina install; which I’ve spent hours trying to debug.
I’m trying Terminal & Disk Utility apps with zero success.
/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *2.0 TB     disk0
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s1
   2:                 Apple_APFS Container disk1         2.0 TB     disk0s2

/dev/disk1 (synthesized):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      APFS Container Scheme -                      +2.0 TB     disk1
                                 Physical Store disk0s2
   1:                APFS Volume FolkiMac2TB - Data      1.1 TB     disk1s1
   2:                APFS Volume Preboot                 81.0 MB    disk1s2
   3:                APFS Volume Recovery                528.8 MB   disk1s3
   4:                APFS Volume VM                      1.1 MB     disk1s4
   5:                APFS Volume FolkiMac2TB             11.2 GB    disk1s5

/dev/disk2 (internal, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *121.3 GB   disk2
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk2s1
   2:                 Apple_APFS Container disk3         121.0 GB   disk2s2

/dev/disk3 (synthesized):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      APFS Container Scheme -                      +121.0 GB   disk3
                                 Physical Store disk2s2
   1:                APFS Volume Preboot                 86.1 MB    disk3s2
   2:                APFS Volume Recovery                528.8 MB   disk3s3
   3:                APFS Volume VM                      2.1 GB     disk3s4
   4:                APFS Volume PCIe 128GB              11.0 GB    disk3s5

/dev/disk4 (external, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *30.8 GB    disk4
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk4s1
   2:                 Apple_APFS Container disk5         30.5 GB    disk4s2

/dev/disk5 (synthesized):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      APFS Container Scheme -                      +30.5 GB    disk5
                                 Physical Store disk4s2
   1:                APFS Volume 30GB-APFS-Catalina -... 4.0 GB     disk5s1
   2:                APFS Volume Preboot                 85.6 MB    disk5s2
   3:                APFS Volume Recovery                528.9 MB   disk5s3
   4:                APFS Volume VM                      1.1 MB     disk5s4
   5:                APFS Volume 30GB-APFS-Catalina      11.1 GB    disk5s5

folkusbthumb@Jasons-MBP ~ % ```


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I have a iPhone 7 and I want to transfer all the images and videos to my laptop however I don't have an Apple Laptop only my windows laptop. I have tried using many methods but none worked well. Directly connecting the phone to my laptop and then manually copying files from the DCIM folder results in missing out most of the stuff. Importing also doesn't work as it seems to have copied files but is saved in some unknown location which I cannot find. I also downloaded the ICloud App for my laptop but it didn't help either.
I'm using IOS 13.6 on my iPhone and my Laptop runs on Windows 10 Home Edition.


texts:
I usually end up with a lot of empty desktop/spaces upon disconnecting external monitors.

Is there an easy way to close all desktop/spaces that don't have any application windows on them?


texts: Firefox: double-click on titlebar maximize window instead on open new tab

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Recently, I noted that Firefox started to behave differently when I double-click on its title-bar / tab-bar.

It maximizes the windows as if I clicked on the semaphore + button, instead of opening a new tab like it used to do before.

Anyone knows how to get the old behavior back?


texts: macOS Big Sur - screen sharing back to Mac mini over Internet

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Now that "Back to my Mac" is gone, is there any way to connect back to a Mac mini over Internet using Screen Sharing.
Problem is that I have to be physically at my Mac mini to accept incoming Screen Sharing request, even it is the same Apple ID user logged in on both?


texts: Logic Remote iPad app no longer able to control Logic Pro X

texts:
I'm facing an issue with Logic Pro X (on macOS Sierra) and Logic Remote on my iPad. Up until recently, controlling Logic Pro X with the iPad was working perfectly fine, but since a couple of weeks ago (might have been related to an update of either Logic Pro X, or Logic Remote), the mixing controls on the iPad are no longer working.

When I try to change a track's volume on the iPad, nothing happens in Logic Pro X, instead, the track's volume slider on the iPad drops down to zero and can't be moved anymore. This happens with all tracks in all of my Logic Pro X projects. Restarting the MacBook or the iPad has not fixed the issue.

What can I do to get this working again?


texts:
I am trying update my iMac OS from 10.7 to 10.7.5. I've downloaded the MacOSXUpdCombo10.7.5.dmg file, but when updating, it gives an error like:

  Mac OS X Update Combined can't be installed on this disk. This volume does not meet the requirements for this update.

What can I do to successfully update the OS?


texts:
I have tried both methods of escaping the space in the Path in the following script:

#!/bin/bash -x
PGHOME="/Applications/pgAdmin 4.app/Contents/SharedSupport"
$PGHOME/psql --username postgres -c "drop database $1"

I've also tried changing line 2 to:

PGHOME=/Applications/pgAdmin\ 4.app/Contents/SharedSupport

In both cases I get the script error:

  ./pg10-restoreDb.sh: line 3: /Applications/pgAdmin: No such file or directory

From the shell, I can execute /Applications/pgAdmin\ 4.app/Contents/SharedSupport/psql no problem

What could be causing this error?


texts: At the apple store, will they change the color of the front display from white to black?

texts: I have a new iphone 7 plus, in rose gold, which I realized had a white front display only when I got home. Will apple change the front display to black if I bring it in?


texts: Recover from mistakenly restoring a different iPhone instead of back up

texts: I was just trying to copy my photos with my PC, but I accidentally clicked to restore a back up of my husband iPhone. Everything shown on my mobile is from the back up and I don't see my data now. How do I access data from my iPhone?


texts: How to set missing serial number on MacBook Pro 2014

texts:
My MacBook pro model 2014 mid 15 inches, has lost serial number during upgrading the OS.
I am having Catalina Os installed on the machine and have tried with a guide that tells about the Blank board serializer I write it to USB drive and when boot up the machine, Clicked EFI BOOT start normally nothing effect.
All I want any other way of setting back my serial number.
I am struggling for the last one month to fix the issue please help me out.


texts: How to remove leading or trailing spaces from copy/paste operations?

texts:
I usually have to copy/paste test from web pages (or other places) and paste it into HTML forms (usually Chrome).

The problem is that ofter I do end-up with a text that has additional leading or trailing spaces.

Is there a way to prevent this, by default? Like an OS X application or Chrome extension that can trick how paste works?


texts: Homebrew: can't remove 'keg-only' OpenSSL application

texts:
Given the recent OpenSSL scare I'm trying to clean out older versions from my machines but Homebrew won't let me:

$ brew dirty
openssl (1.0.1e, 1.0.1f, 1.0.1g)
$ brew cleanup openssl
Warning: Skipping (old) keg-only: /usr/local/Cellar/openssl/1.0.1e
Warning: Skipping (old) keg-only: /usr/local/Cellar/openssl/1.0.1f
$ brew dirty
openssl (1.0.1e, 1.0.1f, 1.0.1g)

How can I purge these old versions of OpenSSL from my Mac?


texts: Where can I find a list of Apple preferences/plist files & what they're used for?

texts:
Does anyone know of a resource that lists the Preferences files/plists (pertinent to OS X and Apple applications, not third-party apps) found in ~/Library/Preferences (and the other locations too, but that would be a start) and what they're used for?

I've been looking around and can't find anything.  The closest I found was this chart compiled by appleexaminer.com — but that only covers a few items, and the obvious ones at that.


texts: I have removed everything from my macbook pro. Now, how can choose USB as a startup disk? I tried using option    "SHIFT" keys also cmd+R. Nothing is working. How can I solve it? I am using Mid 2012 Macbook Pro and that usb is Ubuntu installer. [Btw, I am not interested to install Ubuntu in mac.]


texts: How can I transfer contacts between SIM cards?

texts: I've bought a new iPhone 5S and inserted a nano SIM into it by purchasing a nano sim with same number. How can I get contacts from my old sim to new SIM?


texts: Force FileVault to use 256-bit key encryption

texts:
Is there a way to use 256-bit key encryption for macOS system?

I’ve tried formatting system partition myself with bigger key size APFS, but macOS installer actually reverted this as it asks for user password now on login screen, not “disk password” on boot.


texts: Does anyone know this icon? I can't get rid of it.


texts: I want to relocate my Logic Pro sound library to this WD hard drive that I briefly used as a time machine drive

texts: I understand that time machine hard drives can't be used for relocating Logic sound library, which explains why Logic errors saying it can't relocate to the drive. But considering that the drive is no longer time machine, I thought this was odd. I figured that maybe there was some meta  data on the drive that caused the system to think it was still time machine, so I went into the hidden folders and deleted all the weird time machine related files/folders. (.com.apple.timemachine.supported, .fseventsd, .Spotlight-V100, .Trashes, .DocumentRevisions-V100). After doing this I still get the same error. Maybe there's still some sort of time machine related meta data on the drive. Does any one have any ideas ?


texts: iPhone 3Gs got dropped in water. Is it pretty much done?

texts:
My old iPhone 3Gs got dropped into water (completely submerged for a second or two).  When I took it out, the screen was barely visible.  Then it went off completely, but it appears from time to time (barely visible though).

Oddly enough, I can still sync it to iTunes.

Is the phone pretty much done or can it be repaired?  Obviously the warranty is long over.


texts: I want to organize my to do's for programming an iphone app. I found this, and I really like it, but is not native to Mac OS X. Is there any app similar to it?


texts:
I'm a user of an iPhone 4 with iOS 7.1.2.

When I want download an app, it tells me it need to update to iOS 8.4, but it's not supported for the iPhone 4!

Is this only a requirement for specific apps or it is a bug?


texts: Apple store question about installing new hard drive

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I plan to make a trip up to the apple store tomorrow. I need them to put in a new hard drive in my Macbook Pro mid-2010 15". Do I need to make an appointment with them? or can I just show up and drop it off with them?

Thanks


texts:
I commonly use iTunes to add items to iPods and iPhones. However, I'm using Ubuntu more and more and I'm really liking it.

Ubuntu has some apps that replicate iTunes, but some features are either hard-to-find or missing. So my question:

What functionality of iTunes is not available anywhere else?


texts: Educational discount at Apple Retail Stores?

texts: Is it possible to get educationally-priced hardware by visiting any given physical Apple Store, or is that only achievable online or at college stores?


texts: Controlling which group new contacts on my iPhone end up in

texts:
I am trying to figure out how to control what group a new contact entered on my iPhone 4 ends up in. I have a couple thousand business contacts that are organized by type. However when I enter a new contact on my iphone it ends up in the all contacts group along with all the rest. There is no default setting available in contacts' settings.

My goal is this: When I take a call in the field and gather a new contacts info (client, vendor, etc.) the office can go through the group called "new contacts to be organized" group and put them in their rightful place for marketing etc.


texts: Can I Swap Out A MacBook Hard Drive For Windows

texts:
I recently purchased a used 2014 MacBook with knowing it has no hard drive. However I do not care for Mac OS, the question here is can I effectively run Windows 10 on a MacBook just by installing a Windows SSD?

If so do I need to format anything or is it good to go.


texts: Encrypt existing unencrypted Time Capsule backup

texts: Since Mountain Lion Time Capsule can now backup to encrypted sparsebundles. This is great and easy to setup for new backup locations, just select 'encrypt backups'. However, I have backups for around a year now that I want to keep. If I go through the setup, I can only erase the current (unencrypted) backup and start over, or keep using the current (unencrypted) backup. So how can I work around this issue and encrypt my existing backups?


texts: What is the safest way to shut down a Mac which is stuck at the screensaver?

texts:
I use a MacBook Pro for work.  According to my workplace's policy, when I leave my desk, I lock the screen.  There's a bug in MacOS High Sierra where sometimes when I come back and unlock the screen, the screensaver is showing and can't be dismissed.  The laptop is therefore unusable.

The only way I have found of getting back into my mac is to hold the power button down until the laptop shuts down.  But this isn't a safe shutdown; if I have any Parallels VMs running they are usually corrupted and I have to restore them from backups.

Is there a safer way shut down, or otherwise get back into, my Mac?  If so, what is it?


texts: How to disable plug in sound on late 2016 macbook pro?

texts:
I found it once and not again, but there is a way to kill that horrible chime when you plug in the mbp.  (It reset itself upon a reboot, but it's the best I could do.)
  Now I can't find that language.
  I'm not talking about the boot up chime, but rather that stupid cell phone charge plug in noise.


texts: 2012 Mac Mini not displaying in 1920x1200 on a 27" IPS Display

texts:
When I plug one display in to the Thunderbolt port I get 2560x1440 and it looks sweet.

Before I purchased another display I wanted to make sure the Mac Mini would display at 1920x1200 via the included HDMI to DVI adapter. But I can't get this to display at that resolution just 1920x1080.

I discussed this with a couple of Mac Genius guys at the Apple store. They didn't think it would do this resolution so I took them to the Apple page that says it will do this resolution via HDMI on the Mini. They suggested that I bring in my Mini and display into the store.

Just wondering do you have to have two displays before OS X displays one monitor at 1920x1200?


texts: 2016 15-inch MacBook Pro speaker makes buzzing sound

texts:
I have a MacBook Pro (15-inch, Late 2016). I have noticed that when I play any sound through the speaker, the speaker starts buzzing. The buzz stops after ~1 minute without playing any sound. When I put the sound on mute, the speaker won't play the audio out loud but the buzzing still happens. The volume of the buzzing sound stays the same when I adjust the volume of the laptop, even on mute. I'm pretty sure it is the speaker because I can also hear the sound when the fan is on max.

I have tried restarting the computer several time, resetting SMC and PRAM, plugging in power adapter and removing it. But those didn't made any progress on fixing it. Any more ideas before I take the machine to the Apple Store?

P.S. Many people reports that it is an outdated Bootcamp driver issue, but I never installed Windows on my MacBook. I am running the latest version of macOS.

EDIT:

When I plug in headphone, the buzz stops. It starts buzzing again when I unplugged the headphone.


texts:
Due to a Hard Drive failure I have had to restore my mac from a backup. Following the Restore From Time Machine Backup procedure under recovery mode takes about 8 hours. Eventually the data is restored on the new hard drive, but the drive won't boot. It gets stuck at around 50% of the boot process with the apple logo.
I have tried the Reinstall macOS procedure under recovery mode, but at the end it prompts the message:

OS X could not be installed on your computer
Building boot caches on boot helper partition failed. Quit the installer to restart your computer

This happens for both Mavericks as for Sierra.
What can I do to fix this problem? After several, very long attempts, I am desperate to get my data and mac back.


texts:
I want to disable SIP with the command csrutil disable on my OS X 10.11.5.
I tried it many times, got in the recovery mode and typed in csrutil disable.
I got the message:

  Successfully disabled System Integrity Problem. Please restart the machine for the changes take effect

Everytime after restarting, csrutil status doesn't change. It's still enabled.

I actually tried it in recovery mode with /usr/bin/csrutil disable always the same and after restart it's enabled again..

BTW: if you need outputs of the commands, tell me!


texts: Where are Anaconda's libraries for PYTHONPATH?

texts:
I installed Anaconda's graphical installer successfully. I configured it to Python 3.5 by

conda create -n py35 python=3.5
source activate py35 % to deactive source deactivate
conda install notebook ipykernel
ipython kernel install --user

With PYTHONPATH

I want to get Anaconda's libraries in PYTHONPATH.
They are not located in $HOME/.anaconda/lib/python3.5/site-packages.
Here is a similar thread without an answer about PYTHONPATH problems in OSX.
I run by accident pip install conda just to test if you can confuse the system by installing second Anaconda, but you cannot and you get

Requirement already satisfied (use --upgrade to upgrade): conda in /Users/masi/anaconda/lib/python3.5/site-packages

where you apparently see the location of the libraries of Anaconda.
My $HOME/.bash_profile

export PYTHONPATH=/Users/masi/anaconda/lib/python3.5/site-packages

# otherwise PYTHONPATH fails in OS X; see history for logs
export LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8
export LANG=en_US.UTF-8

I run my test code

import numpy as np
import pandas as pd
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
%matplotlib inline

and I get unsuccessfully

/Users/masi/anaconda/lib/python3.5/site-packages/matplotlib/font_manager.py:273: UserWarning: Matplotlib is building the font cache using fc-list. This may take a moment.
  warnings.warn('Matplotlib is building the font cache using fc-list. This may take a moment.')

I do not know where Matplotlib keeps its cache. In Linux, removal with rm -rf ~/.cache/matplotlib would be possible but not in OS X.
This can be a bug in Matplotlib that has not been solved in OS X. I sent a message to the thread about the issue in the project's Github here.
The cache directory is empty, ls -a $HOME/.matplotlib/ gives empty list where you find the cache directory by import matplotlib; matplotlib.get_cachedir() in ipython.

Without PYTHONPATH

My PATH is

/Users/masi/anaconda/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/Library/TeX/texbin

I install numpy by sudo -H pip install numpy. I run the test code but I get

---------------------------------------------------------------------------
ImportError                               Traceback (most recent call last)
<ipython-input-1-a38059fd5ca4> in <module>()
----> 1 import numpy as np
      2 import pandas as pd
      3 import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
      4 get_ipython().magic('matplotlib inline')

ImportError: No module named 'numpy'

so something wrong with pip in installing the modules.
I have both conda via pip and Anaconda.
This may not be optimal. Please, propose different setting.

Trying to get rid of conda

I run pip uninstall conda but I still get the error about missing numpy although I installed it with pip. I think have some PATH problem. How can you uninstall all packages installed by conda?

How can you add Anaconda's Python Libraries in PYTHONPATH?


texts:
I know this has been answered before with the whole "rm /var/db/.AppleSetupDone" thing in High Sierra but when I try to do this, I'm told that it's a "read only file system". Is this because I have my SSD encrypted?

Whatever the case, I'd really appreciate a work around.


texts: Mavericks server configuration for Rails app

texts: I have just downloaded OS X Server for Mavericks and now I want to run my Rails app through the server. I have downloaded and installed Passenger. My server runs under username.no-ip.biz and my Rails app is in Users/Username/documents/Developer/Rails/railsapp. First, how do I add a subdomain for the server like sub.username.no-ip.biz and second how do I setup the Server to use this subdomain to run my Rails app?


texts: Does macOS High Sierra 10.13's EFI firmware check cause problems for MacPro3,1 2008 installations?

texts:
Apparently there is a new eficheck routine that runs on macOS High Sierra that detects if your Mac is consistent with a database of known good firmware signatures. Though it appears to just report a warning with the offer to send the information to Apple, it does raise concerns about whether or not a MacPro3,1 or MacPro4,1 are going to be prevented from running High Sierra as a result.

Yes, I'm aware that a MacPro4,1 can be flashed to 5,1 to make it officially supported. For the 3,1 I've read that so far it will work as long as you have done the Bluetooth and WiFi upgrade and hacked the installer's plist to recognize the 3,1's motherboard. While the 5,1 might pass, I'm imagining that the 3,1's firmware would definitely be absent from a known list of good images.

Is this a blocker or just an annoyance?


texts: Prevent EarPod play/pause button from activating Siri on macOS Sierra

texts:
I have installed macOS Sierra.  I often work on my Mac while on the go, and then I play music using iTunes over my EarPods connected via the mini-Jack plug.

The button allows me to pause the music, but now in Sierra, every time I press it, I am asked whether I want to allow Siri.  Refusing will simply bring the window up again when I press the button.

I don't want to use Siri on Sierra.  At all.  How can I prevent it from trying to activate when I press play/pause on my EarPods?

Added after reading comments: When I enable Siri, Siri doesn't activate when I press the button, unless I press it really long.  But when I disable Siri entirely, it asks whether it's allowed to activate every time I press the button, even if it's just a short click.


texts: Importing images from internet to new albums in iTunes

texts: I just had an update for iTunes to version 12.0.1.26. The old way to import images to new albums in iTunes has changed. How do I import in the latest version?


texts: How to set brightnes for multiple thunderbolt displays at the same time using keys on apple keyboard

texts:
Is there a way to set the brightness for all displays (thunderbolt displays) connected to a mac using thunderbolt syncroniously.

If I chnage the brightness using F1/F2 on my Mac Wireless Keyboard. Only the Main screen is affected. But I want the displays to stay syncronized.

Any way thought?


texts: Is there a free alternative to copilot that doesn't require the helpee to do anything ever

texts:
I want to set up my Grandfather's mac (running lion) so that it's got a vnc server always running that I can connect to anytime without any input from him. The point is to try to circumvent the hour long support calls I end up doing when his "email is broken", by being able to take control of his computer and do it for him.

I've tried setting him up with Copilot (from fogcreek), but that still involves talking him through launching the application and letting me connect. Are any of the mac-native things (like ichat, icloud, screen sharing?) going to be any better? What do you recommend? (I run 10.6.8)


texts: Where that icon on my OS X menu bar comes from?

texts:
Anyone could tell me which application stands behind this icon on the menu bar?

I tried to figure it out but I couldn’t. Nothing happens when I click on it.


texts: I have a MacBook Pro that I travel with a lot.  I also have a NAS for my home network.  Many timesI use my MacBook in areas where I do not have Internet access.  I'd like to have copies of some of my folders while I travel and sync up when I return back home.  Is there anything like the Microsoft 'Offline Files' feature present in the MacOS, or do I need to script something like this myself?


texts: What is ZoomWindow, and why is it hanging?

texts:
I updated to MacOS Sierra, and since then I have been getting a message (via CleanMyMac which tells me this sort of thing) that ZoomWindow is not responding.

I get the impression that ZoomWindow is part of the system, but anything I find on the Internet is either uninformative or useless.

What is ZoomWindow, and should it be unresponsive like this?


texts: Transfer mp3 files to Nokia Lumia from a Mac?

texts:
On Windows, I use standard software (Zune) to transfer files to my Nokia Lumia 800.

Is there any way to transfer mp3 files from Mac to Lumia? Lumia is running Windows Phone 7.


texts: How to play a video at 200% zoom on Mac?

texts:
Is there a way to play a video at 200% zoom on Mac with builtin programs like Preview or Quicktime?

Or do you need to install a third party video player like VLC?


texts: "Hold for Authentication" when printing through LP / LPR

texts:
I have a Dell network printer mapped to my MAC.
I'm able to print from applications without any issues, but when I try to print using terminal (lp or lpr), every file gets held up on the printer with "Hold for authentication"

I'm able to enter my details for the printer and the job goes through, but I'm prompted every time I try to print using lp. Saving my details to the keychain does   not help.


texts:
Using some old audio software that has buggy dialogs and I can't seem to be able to properly select my sound card. It just would stop responding when I click it.

I found the software has a configuration file and would accept a value like this:

coreaudio://60 (Soundflower (64ch))

It seems like the device id and some string value with the name of the device.

I would like to be able to list all available core audio devices on my MBP, so I can configure the application using this configuration file.

Would you help me, please? Some command line application or a media player that displays the core audio ids would do just fine.


texts: How to get the month name in English using Numbers?

texts:
I'm using Apple Numbers v 3.6.1 on OS X 10.11 to automatically fill all the info I need to generate a receipt each month.

"... " & MONTHNAME(MONTH(TODAY())) & " 1 − " & MONTHNAME(MONTH(TODAY())) & " " & DAY(EOMONTH(TODAY();0))&", " & YEAR(NOW())

It should print:

... December 1 − December 31, 2015

But I can only get the localized name of month (Italian) instead of the English one.

How can I ask Numbers to give me the English name of the month?


texts: How to delete fonts that are erroneously »in use«?

texts:
There is this issue on OSX that often when you put a font file into the trash, it can't be emptied as the system thinks the font is still in use:

However, I've uninstalled it using Font Book, I've quit any application that might still be holding on to the font, including the Finder, but it's still reported as being in use. The only thing that helps is completely logging out and back in again, but that's not right. There has to be a better way. Has anyone figured this out?

(I know this isn't exactly a serious problem but it's nagging me.)


texts: How to deter full screen mode moving window to a new display?

texts:
If I use that green button to maximize a window

it will enter full screen mode and move my window to a new "virtual" display to the right (those which you can switch by swiping with three fingers on the touchpad). If I click the green button again, it will leave fullscreen mode and move back to the initial display.

I'm wondering if there's a way to make the fullscreen application stay on the same display it used to be before maximizing (or even better to disable multiple displays per monitor at all).

The reason I would like to do that is that if I e.g. watch a video with the VLC media player I usually do so in fullscreen mode. Then I close the program with CMD+Q and it switches back to the first screen. After opening another video it will start playing the audio only but the video is being displayed on a different screen which is rather confusing, because I have three physical monitors attached and each of it got multiple virtual displays.


texts: Battery on white MacBook shuts off abruptly after 30% charge is left

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I have a white MacBook (MacBook4,1). I have owned and used it for over two years now (30 months, as coconutBattery would have me believe). coconutBattery and Battery Health Monitor both report that the capacity of the battery has gone down to 82% at 4123 mAH charge capacity (with design charge capacity being 5020 mAH). The load cycles (cycle count) is 376, and the battery is reported to be in normal condition.

Naturally, the battery drains faster now than it did, say, a year ago, or when it was brand spanking new. I don't mind that. That's understandable. What I do mind, however, and what perplexes me is that, after the battery is drained all the way down to around 30%, the MacBook shuts off in a split second. I can hear that familiar click sound from the hard-disk that comes when the power button is held down for a few seconds to forcefully shut down the system. It took me by surprise when I first experienced it. I thought that perhaps it went to sleep because the battery may have drained completely. But it never displayed any alert about low battery (the charge was still reported to be around 30% when the event happened). When I pressed the power button, the MacBook did a POST and started as it would after a cold shut-down.

It happened to me every time I had drained the battery down to around 30%. I would think that the electronics on board the battery controller would force the system to go into hibernate (suspend/sleep) mode, while making sure there is just enough charge left to keep the system memory alive somewhere. However, as far as I can tell, obviously, the controller has no reason to think the remaining charge (at 30%) on the battery is appallingly low to warrant any such operations. But, it is as if the battery suddenly abruptly completely shuts itself off, as if its connection gets severed off there in a second.

I am clearly out of any warranty. But, I would like to know what could be the problem here. The battery is dying, but at 82% capacity, I shouldn't think so. What do you people think?


texts: Will restoring from TimeMachine keep my bootcamp partition intact?

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I am going to install Mavericks from the scratch, formatting the Mac partition.
Then, using TimeMachine I will restore my data and applications.

The bootcamp partition was excluded from the TimeMachine backup.

If I restore my copy with TimeMachine, will it keep intact the bootcamp partition as it was not backed up?

Thanks.


texts: Accidentaly converted from a basic disk to a dynamic one

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I got a MacBook Pro (13-inch late 2013 retina)
So I installed Windows 7 using bootcamp and all was fine. I then needed to create a 32MB FAT16 partition, when Windows prompted me to convert to a dynamic disk, I mistakenly hit enter. When I rebooted PC, the Mac option was gone and if I tried booting into Windows it would BSOD and restart.

I read some guides about using TestDisk, so I tried to do that.
I booted with a Xubuntu LiveCD then I scanned and I found an HFS partition that seemed to be the partition I was looking for, so I set it to [P]rimary and wrote it to disk, but it still failed to boot.

Please help! I don't know what to do, I reran TestDisk with Deep Search and uploaded the log file: http://pastebin.com/kpzYuFDp

I don't care about my Windows data, I just want my Mac partition back.

PS: I read that I could do something with pdisk (I assume this is manually editing partition table data), but I have no idea how to do this.

As requested fdisk, gpt and diskutils output:

fdisk /dev/disk0
Disk: /dev/disk0    geometry: 14751/255/63 [236978176 sectors]
Signature: 0xAA55
         Starting       Ending
 #: id  cyl  hd sec -  cyl  hd sec [     start -       size]
------------------------------------------------------------------------
 1: EE    0   0   2 - 1023 254  63 [         1 -  236978175] <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

gpt -r show /dev/disk0
      start       size  index  contents
          0          1         PMBR
          1          1         Pri GPT header
          2         32         Pri GPT table
         34   30666498
   30666532  138412290      1  GPT part - 48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
  169078822   67899321
  236978143         32         Sec GPT table
  236978175          1         Sec GPT header

diskutil list
/dev/disk0
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *121.3 GB   disk0
   1:                  Apple_HFS                         70.9 GB    disk0s1


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I have IOS 8 and I want to know how to save ALL of my notifications.
What I mean is, I unlock the phone and then the notification disappears and I didn't read it. I have looked all over and there's no way I've found.


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I've recently encountered an interesting audio problem, using OS X with a Windows partition (via Boot Camp).  Specifically, if the Windows partition is used, and then the computer is restarted into OS X, the sound no longer works in OS X.  Once OS X has been restarted, the audio once again works.  The audio always seems to work on the Windows side.

Further Clarification
When the audio isn't working in OS X:

the speaker icon in the menubar is grayed out
if you go to Sound preferences, no output devices are available
System Information, under the Audio tab, shows a list of outputs under "Devices", but nothing under "Intel High Definition Audio" (when functioning normally, after the OS X side has been restarted, there are a number of sub-options, including "Headphones", "Line Output", etc.)

Replication Scenarios causing audio loss:

Boot OS X : Audio works → Reboot OS X : Audio works → Repeat (Audio always works)

Boot Windows : Audio works → Reboot Windows : Audio works → Repeat (Audio always works)

Boot Windows : Audio works → Boot to OS X : Audio doesn't work → Reboot OS X : Audio works

Boot Windows : Audio works → Boot to OS X : Audio doesn't work → Boot to Windows : Audio works → Boot to OS X : Audio doesn't work

Relevant System Information

Mac Pro 4,1
Mac OS X 10.8.4 (12E55)
Windows 8.1 (Preview)

I understand that Windows 8.1 isn't officially supported by Boot Camp and whatnot, but I'm actually kind of curious what is causing this to happen.


texts: Safari showing bookmarks from Google Chrome

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I've only recently just started using Safari, mainly to separate my personal accounts from my work accounts. As such, I've logged into Gmail in safari for one of my email accounts. I spent a while setting up bookmarks, configuring toolbars, etc.

I've just updated my MacBook Pro to 10.11.3, and suddenly Safari is showing all of my Chrome bookmarks, mixed in with the Safari ones I set up earlier.

I'm not logged into iCloud, I can't find anything in preferences to suggest syncing the bookmarks, and a quick google even leads me to suggest that it's not trivial to do so!

Any ideas?


texts: Is it possible to control dimensions of cropping an image?

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I'm looking for a tool that can help reshape images to specific dimensions, but I'm not sure if there's a term easy to search for tools that support that.

Preview can resize images to specific dimensions, but at the cost of losing dimension ratio. However you can create a square here in preview to specify how to crop, then to zoom in our out of image to get the crop you want, however you cannot specify that crop dimensions, only the image dimensions.

Is there a software or a key term for feature that can help you specify crop dimension? (not image dimension)

Example: Here I have to carefully drag the border to make it a square, but is there a way to create a crop area with predefined dimensions?]


texts: Stuck during clean install on a new SSD on a late 2009 iMac

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I hope you might be able to help me out since I am completely stuck in my attempt to perform a clean install of High Sierra on a late 2009 iMac (model number A1311 – does not have Internet recovery) in which I have just inserted a brand new SSD right out of the box using the thermal HDD sensor from OWC. The old HDD got corrupted (or at least, that’s what I think happened), so I swapped it with a 500 GB SSD.

For obvious reasons, I did not clone the old drive. Instead I have prepared a 16 GB USB 2.0 with what should be a bootable version of High Sierra 10.13.6. I made this on a Windows 7 PC using TransMac and a High Sierra .dmg file. I haven’t been able to test if this has worked as intended as I do not have another Mac around.

Anyway, when I switch on the iMac, I hear the familiar chime (so far so good – pre-testing passed) and then I get the expected blinking folder with a question mark on it. Now, I thought that I would be able to boot from the USB by holding the option key on startup to get to the Startup Manager, but the only thing that happens is that I get a mouse pointer (arrow), then nothing.  I haven’t had any success on any other startup key combinations – can’t activate verbose mode, either. I don’t know if verbose mode depends on a bootable drive, but with the old drive – after it failed – I could still get into verbose mode and was able to see part of the startup process until it got stuck.

I have also tried installing from DVD by holding down C on startup, but it spits out the DVD after what appears to be a few attempts to read it (it does not have any scratches). I have tried the original install DVD (Snow Leopard) and a home-burned version of Yosemity. No success.
The keyboard I am using is an original USB-wired Mac keyboard and I have tested on another computer that the keys are working.
Any ideas?  I’d be very helpful if someone with expertise in the quirks of late 2009 iMacs could suggest some other things to try. Thanks.

EDIT:
I forgot to mention that I have also tried resetting the NVRAM using the keys: Option-Command-P-R, but it didn't make any difference either.


texts: I have an iPhone 4S that I dropped in the toilet. It's fried. So I just bought another iPhone 4S. It turns on as a iOS 6 device, which I set up and I'm activated. I updated it to iOS 7 and now I can't figure out how to restore my old phone's backup. I don't know how to reset without going back to iOS 6. My backup is on iCloud. Any ideas?


texts: Suggestions on what to do with an old Power Mac G4?

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So I've had an old Power Mac G4 sitting around collecting dust.

Realistically, is there anything I can do to salvage this old, run down machine?

My thoughts were to turn it into a backup server but again realistically how much power will that run? I assume its a power hog.

I'm mainly, dare I say it, a Windows users but use my iMac just as much as my Windows PC.

Salvage for parts? Ideas? Just trash it?


texts: Move python modules from one installation to another

texts: I have several versions of Python installed, some through MacPorts and some directly via the python.org installers. I have modules installed through MacPorts and via PyPI, for the same Python version (3.2.3), but there are no ports for some of the PyPI modules I'd like to use. I tried just copying the files from one site-packages directory to another, but it didn't work. Is there a way to create one "true" centralized location that will accept packages from both MacPorts and pip/easy_install?


texts: Google Chrome on MacBook Air M1 with Big Sur not able to print as PDF?

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I have been trying to print out a webpage as a PDF on the MacBook Air M1 with Big Sur. But the dialog that lets us click on the "Print" is greyed out and nothing can be clicked on.
Does somebody have the same issue and know what the solution is?  Do we need to add a printer, although I really won't print anything out but just to save it as PDF.


texts: How to make an existing AppleScript file to work as a service?

texts: I made an AppleScript, saved it as a file in a specific folder on my hard drive. Now I want to assign a shortcut to it and looks like I have to make a Service via Automator, but the Run AppleScript asks me to put the code inside, while I want to execute the already existing .scpt file. How to do that?


texts: Can photos taken with my iPhone (and Apple ID) stream to my husband's iPad (and Apple ID)?

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My husband and I have different Apple ID and iCloud photo stream.

When I take photos on my iPhone, registered to my Apple ID, can I have them automatically uploaded to my husband's iPad 2 registered to his Apple ID?


texts: How to backup SSD if MacBook doesn't turn on?

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I have a MacBook Pro 15" Mid 2015 and after 3 years of using it, I think it is broken since it won't power on. I already tried resetting SMC and NVRAM but it's still not working. I don't hear any chimes or any fan noises and my charger is still working properly. I tried charging it for more than 3 hours but the light is always orange/amber. I guess this is a logic board issue.

I went to an Apple Center to get it fixed but they advised me to backup my SSD first because they don't do this service and they will wipe all of my files so they can diagnose it properly.

So my question is:

How do I backup my SSD when my MacBook doesn't even turn on? I'm guessing I need to remove the SSD but I don't know what to do after remove it.


texts: Get Info of a hidden file (to change its default app)

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I have a hidden file (.htaccess). When I double click it I would like it to open with a certain app (Sublime Text for this particular file type). In order to set the default app I have to open the "Get Info" window for that file (Cmd+I).

However, that file is hidden. So I can't right button click (two-finger tap) it to select the "Get Info" option from the context dropdown menu.

So the question is how do I open the "Get Info" window for a hidden file? The goal is to be able to change the default app for that file type.

p.s. I do not want to make my hidden files visible. Even temporarily.


texts: Is there a way to bring back the full status bar in Safari 9?

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Contrary to what Apple (or a Google search) seems to think, I don't want a more minimal status bar—I want one that stays in place, is the same height and width at all times, and doesn't distract me by flashing in and out.  Much like I've had through all of Safari's existence up until now.

Now it's changed, and I can't find a setting to move it back.  Is there another option (perhaps via Terminal magic) that can unlock a more "classic" feel to the status bar?


texts: How to restart network services on Sierra?

texts:
On FreeBSD/Linux, it is possible to restart network services by restarting a daemon.

Is there something similar in macOS Sierra?


texts:
In my Console logs I've been noticing these two messages repeated constantly:

4/7/16 5:06:17.726 PM Safari[383]: KeychainGetICDPStatus: keychain: -25300
4/7/16 5:06:17.726 PM Safari[383]: KeychainGetICDPStatus: status: off

I ran the security tool against the error code:

[kb:Forsaken:0:~ ]$  security error -25300
Error: 0xFFFF9D2C -25300 The specified item could not be found in the keychain.

I don't actually know what Safari is looking for, but apparently it is lost. After a while, I checked the actual keychain file. To my suprise it was quarantined.

xattr -l ~/Library/Keychains/login.keychain
com.apple.quarantine: 0001;570253b9;Safari.app;

If I'm reading this right, Safari has set the quarantine attribute on my keychain.

Checking the system directory, I see that my System.keychain is fine, but the apsd.keychain has been quarantined.

xattr -l /Library/Keychains/apsd.keychain
com.apple.quarantine: 0006;56fbb5f8;com.apple.apsd;

Why is this happening? I'm not downloading these files. I don't know how to find out what Safari is looking for. My logs are full of messages, but oddly, other apps don't seem to be having a problem accessing the keychain.

Stumped.

EDIT:

I did, in fact,  go insane tracking this down. Found out about this "feature" far too late: http://openradar.appspot.com/25618668 . FYI: if you run "locate diagnose" you'll find inside the app bundles tools that might help in the future for someone. What I ended up doing was just signing out of icloud with my standard user. I sync the passwords in Safari every now and then. Apple makes good hardware. I've loved it for years. /me sighs.


texts: MacBook Air A1465 screen black and full of multi coloured lines how can I fix this?

texts:
has horizontal and vertical lines flickering and then screen starts rolling
nothing is displayed tried cmd opt rp still not working help!


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tell application "Reminders"
    set newReminder to make new reminder
    set name of newReminder to "Text"
    set due date of newReminder to current date
end tell

How can I set the name of newReminder to input text?


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I am hoping this forum can shed some light on this
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/64637603/macos-app-store-pkg-productbuild-add-a-property-to-product-list-without-xcod
Dear macOS Productbuild and pkgbuild experts (without/not using the Xcode)
This is my last hurdle after going through a huge learning journey on product build and pkgbuild
I get the error from Appstore
"ITMS-90264: The lowest minimum system version [none] in the Product Definition Property List must equal the 'LSMinimumSystemVersion' value [10.9] in the 'Info.plist'. "
In my App/Contents/Info.Plist there is
<key>LSMinimumSystemVersion</key> <string>10.9</string>
Now when I build the package as per the following sequence
`pkgbuild --analyze --root "./pkgbuild/app_path/" app.plist
pkgbuild --root "${ROOTFOLDER}" --identifier "${IDENTIFIER}" --version ${VERSION} --    component-plist ./app.plist  --install-location "/Applications" \
 --sign "${IDENTITY}" \
 "${PKGNAME}.pkg"

#productbuild --synthesize --package Final.pkg distribution.xml

productbuild --distribution ./distribution.xml --resources ~/Desktop/resources --identifier com.myorg.uniqueid --version ${VERSION} --sign "${IDENTITY}" --product ~/Desktop/product_definition.plist outputFinal.pkg`

Question Where do I incorporate the the lowest minimum system version none in the Product Definition Property List " to 10.9 ? and what do I need to insert in what file, how?
Tried the following in product_definition.plist
1.LSMinimumSystemVersion10.9 2. os 10.9  3. LSMinimumSystemVersion10.9. in the product_definition.plist and had only the solo entry as above combinations. still Appstore complains with same error.
Deeply appreciate if I can get some pointers.
Is there a way to locally dissect the formed pkg and look specifically for such strings that apple gateway is verifying?
Thanks in advance


texts: How to resolve Apple Mail issue where message list doesn't match full message?

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I am running Big Sur 11.2.3 (20D91) and Apple Mail. Today, a good number of my messages in Apple Mail no longer match the full message when I click on the message list.
For example, the message list may show a message from Apple Store, but when I click on it, the full message that shows on the right is a completely different message and sender.
I have deleted the IMAP folder under ~/Library/Mail/V8/{IMAP folder guid} but after the mail downloaded it still had the problem.
Not sure what else to do.


texts: If you want to upload a photo to a website from iPhoto, is there a simple way that you can access it, without having to export it from iPhoto first. When I navigate to the iPhoto folder, it just appears as an empty folder.


texts: Is it safe to run a Mac Mini (i5) on its side?

texts: I recently got a Mac Mini with the i5 chip. Is it OK to set it on its side and run it that way? I wanted to shrink the footprint.


texts: Any tool to tell me the exact color value at a point on a png image?

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I want to get the exact color value(RGB, HSB, or any other color space value that can be converted to RGB value) at any given point(preferably the point under the cursor) on a png image. Any tool for that? Thanks.

PS: To be more specific, I'm not asking for screen color picker, but PNG image color data picker. General screen color picker can not perfectly pick the exact color value in a PNG image, for example, alpha channel is missing.


texts: How to access to the '.config' folder on mac?

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I need to access to '/Users/marienfarge/.config/NuGet' for a problem with virtual studio but i can't open the folder. (I have a red '-' on the folder)
When I tried to open it : 'Impossible to open the folder '.config' because you don't have the necessary authorization to display his content.' (translate form french so it's maybe not exactly this message for english user)
So I tried to modify the access in the info panel and I give the read & write access for everyone but I still can't open the folder.
Someone told me to wrote this in the terminal : ls -leO@d /Users/marienfarge/.config/NuGet
And this is the answer : ls: /Users/marienfarge/.config/NuGet: Permission denied
I'm the only user of the mac and I have the last os version.
ls -leO@d /Users/marienfarge/.config provides the result
drwx---rwx  3 root  staff  - 96  9 nov 15:47 /Users/marienfarge/.config


texts:
My MacBook Air suddenly stopped connecting to ANY WiFi. It worked fine earlier. I have not installed any software between these Two Stages. MacBook just says "Network Could not be joined. Try moving closer to the router.".
Other devices are able to connect to these WiFi networks.

What should I do?


texts: How do I disable Microsoft Outlook 2010 calendar notifications?

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I use "Mail" as my default mail client and "iCal" as my default calendar. However I have to use outlook when sending emails to work because their outlook for windows clients don't support inlining and display my images as attachments.

The only problem with this is that my calendar notifications appear twice, once for iCal and once for Outlook, even when outlook is closed. I could disable outlook mail notifications but not calendar ones, any ideas?


texts: force new window (AppleScript/keyboard) even though `open folders in tab` is selected?

texts: i looking for a way to create a shortcut that will force finder to create a new window (via AppleScript/keyboard) even though open folders in tab is selected. I cant for the life of me get this to work. Any help would be appreciated.


texts: On Android, you can use recovery to make a complete NANDROID backup, which when restored, is exactly the way you left the system. What would be the iDevice equivalent of this and how would one go about making one?


texts: Are there Apple guidelines for where user shell tools in Mountain Lion should be installed? Some (e.g. TeX, or Apple's Git) end up in /usr, and others (e.g. X11) seem to end up in /opt (sometimes with a symlink from /usr), while others (e.g., Git) end up in /user/local, and I wonder what the difference is, and whether one is preferred over the other.


texts: Any way to remove all folders that contain only .DS_Store recursively?

texts:
If I try

sudo find . -name '.DS_Store' -delete

then, within a few seconds, the .DS_Store files get re-created by Finder before

sudo find . -type d -empty -delete

can take effect.

I can do

sudo find . -name '.DS_Store' -delete; sudo find . -type d -empty -delete

but this only works on small trees. If there are many subfolders, Finder starts recreating before the 2nd command runs.


texts: I recently purchased a refurbished iPhone 4. I trimmed my sim card to make it a micro-SIM and installed it into the phone. I can make calls and receive SMS, but I'm unable to send SMS. What could be the problem and how do I resolve it?


texts:
We noticed this week that our Macbook wifi connection was slow. On inspection, we discovered that the wifi wasn't auto-connecting to our network, but rather one named ATT5g---.

If I selected our network, then went BACK to that network, it required a password to login. If I turned off our wifi and turned it back on, it would select the ATT wifi first.

Of course, I thought, "man in the middle" attack? (Because I'm not really tech savvy). But it seems like it would be a bad one, as it was easily discoverable and provided the IP address. Still ...

In getting rid of the network as a "preferred" network, I noticed in the Advanced setting a slew of networks we've connected to via iPhone/iPad - like pizza joints, libraries, etc. So I started connecting some dots.

ATT sounds like it's probably Uverse.
The neighbors across the street have Uverse.
My son is friends with the neighbors and connects his iPhone to their wifi when he goes over
We have iCloud keychain.
Chances are, through iCloud, the Macbook picked up on the wifi network and started automatically connecting to it.
The neighbors run a business from their house, so they likely have more than one router (hence the multiple ATT wifi networks) and a stronger, safer network.
Those routers are likely synced. (My son says he can't remember their network name and the ATT wasn't familiar. That he thinks he connects to "linksys.")
No other device in the house connects to that wifi (no iPads, not my Dell, etc.)

Now, I couldn't get my son's iPhone to connect to the ATT wifi, which is a sticky in the wicket. I see the ATT wifi, but requires a password if I try to connect. But maybe because it's a specific router and not the linksys?

Does that make sense? Have you heard of Macbooks connecting to other wifis as a regular issue?


texts: Creating symlinks in "~/Library/Application Support/minecraft" that point to Dropbox, but "the original item for "[file]" can’t be found."

texts:
The Background:
I use Dropbox to back up my minecraft worlds, configuration files, and various other folders (bin, launcher_profiles.json, mods, resourcepacks, saves, servers.dat, versions).
I put symbolic links in "~/Library/Application Support/minecraft" which point to the files and folders in Dropbox.

The Problem:
Ever since I upgraded to Yosemite, the symbolic links don't work anymore, giving the error "The operation can’t be completed because the original item for “[file]” can’t be found."
I can't think of any reason that the links wouldn't work anymore. Any help appreciated.

Running:
Dropbox 3.0.3
Mac OS X v10.10.1
Minecraft Launcher 1.5.3
Minecraft 1.8.1


texts: iTerm2: Split pane - coloured title bar instead of dimming

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In iTerm2 it is possible, to split panes. Thus, I have parallel multiple terminals instead (or in addition) to tabs.
This is very similar to the i3 Window Manager or Terminator Terminal Emulator.

When having multiple terminals, I would like to quickly know what is the active terminal. iTerm2 has an option to dim, but this is not so great because inactive terminals are not that good to read (e.g. htop).

It seems there is no option of using coloured title bars (not tabs!) based on active pane/terminal. Only programms can do so via escape codes). Does anybody know a hack for this or is up to me to request an enhancement? Maybe I overlooked it...

Thanks,
Timo


texts: FileVault decryption accidentially started - what will happen?

texts:
I accidentially started to decrypt my FileVault so I am wondering what is the process?
Will it reset my computer so I will have to put in my info?
Or will It just start up again and ask for my password?


texts: Does Photos.app do facial recognition locally or are photos sent to Apple for processing?

texts: Photos.app automatically recognizes faces in photos and groups them by person. Are photos sent to Apple for processing or is everything done locally on the machine?


texts: Customize Safari configuration when opening webloc?

texts:
I'd like to be able to open a Safari window with no address or toolbars when opening a specific .webloc file. Is there any way to do this?
For example - file is sitting on the desktop. Open, and a single Safari window with just the MacOS Title Bar displaying on the window frame, and the page content displayed in the body. Nothing else.


texts: macOS — What is the reason for a 6 Gb Dropbox folder to use 107 Gb of space?

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My whole Dropbox folder contains just around 6 (six!) Gb of data. It's the same amount of space on all my PCs, but on my MacBook these are 107 (hundred seven!) Gb for some reason. I'd like to find this reason as well as a some kind of a solution for this problem.
I'm using Dropbox 121.3.4266 on macOS Big Sur 11.2.3.
Update: I've uninstalled Dropbox client, deleted the local Dropbox folder and have reinstalled Dropbox again. At the moment du -sh Dropbox returns just 6,3G, so the problem seems to be solved.


texts: MacBook Pro tries to shutdown every X hours

texts:
My Macbook Pro is trying to shutdown itself every X amount of hours, is there a way to check in the logs what process is triggering the shutdown process?

I can see the following in the logs, but not much else:

Mar 28 11:10:09 cleanCaptureDirectories /Library/Logs/CoreCapture
Mar 28 11:10:09 numberOfDirArrayEntriesMax: 50, numberOfDirArrayEntries 0
Mar 28 11:10:09 cleanCaptureDirectories /Library/Logs/CrashReporter/CoreCapture
Mar 28 11:10:09 numberOfDirArrayEntriesMax: 50, numberOfDirArrayEntries 50
Mar 28 11:10:09 cleanCaptureDirectories /Library/Logs/CoreCapture
Mar 28 11:10:09 numberOfDirArrayEntriesMax: 50, numberOfDirArrayEntries 0
Mar 28 11:10:09 pruneDirectoryNDaysRead cap 7
Mar 28 11:10:09 CCDaemon::shutdown is fired
Mar 28 11:10:09 cleanCaptureDirectories /Library/Logs/CrashReporter/CoreCapture
Mar 28 11:10:09 numberOfDirArrayEntriesMax: 50, numberOfDirArrayEntries 50
Mar 28 11:10:09 cleanCaptureDirectories /Library/Logs/CoreCapture
Mar 28 11:10:09 numberOfDirArrayEntriesMax: 50, numberOfDirArrayEntries 0
Mar 28 11:10:09 cleanCaptureDirectories /Library/Logs/CrashReporter/CoreCapture
Mar 28 11:10:09 numberOfDirArrayEntriesMax: 50, numberOfDirArrayEntries 50
Mar 28 11:10:09 cleanCaptureDirectories /Library/Logs/CoreCapture
Mar 28 11:10:09 numberOfDirArrayEntriesMax: 50, numberOfDirArrayEntries 0
Mar 28 11:10:09 cleanCaptureDirectories /Library/Logs/CrashReporter/CoreCapture
Mar 28 11:10:09 numberOfDirArrayEntriesMax: 50, numberOfDirArrayEntries 50
Mar 28 11:10:09 cleanCaptureDirectories /Library/Logs/CoreCapture
Mar 28 11:10:09 numberOfDirArrayEntriesMax: 50, numberOfDirArrayEntries 0
Mar 28 11:10:09 cleanCaptureDirectories /Library/Logs/CrashReporter/CoreCapture
Mar 28 11:10:09 numberOfDirArrayEntriesMax: 50, numberOfDirArrayEntries 50
Mar 28 11:10:09 cleanCaptureDirectories /Library/Logs/CoreCapture
Mar 28 11:10:09 numberOfDirArrayEntriesMax: 50, numberOfDirArrayEntries 0
Mar 28 11:10:09 cleanCaptureDirectories /Library/Logs/CrashReporter/CoreCapture
Mar 28 11:10:09 numberOfDirArrayEntriesMax: 50, numberOfDirArrayEntries 50
Mar 28 11:10:09 cleanCaptureDirectories /Library/Logs/CoreCapture
Mar 28 11:10:09 numberOfDirArrayEntriesMax: 50, numberOfDirArrayEntries 0
Mar 28 11:10:09 cleanCaptureDirectories /Library/Logs/CrashReporter/CoreCapture
Mar 28 11:10:09 numberOfDirArrayEntriesMax: 50, numberOfDirArrayEntries 50
Mar 28 11:10:09 cleanCaptureDirectories /Library/Logs/CoreCapture
Mar 28 11:10:09 numberOfDirArrayEntriesMax: 50, numberOfDirArrayEntries 0
Mar 28 11:10:09 CCProfileMonitor::freeResources Entered
Mar 28 11:10:09 CCProfileMonitor::freeResources done
Mar 28 11:10:09 CCDataTap::profileRemoved, Owner: com.apple.iokit.IO80211Family, Name: AssociationEventHistory
Mar 28 11:10:09 CCLogTap::profileRemoved, Owner: com.apple.iokit.IO80211Family, Name: IO80211AWDLPeerManager
Mar 28 11:10:09 CCLogTap::profileRemoved, Owner: com.apple.driver.AirPort.Brcm4360.0, Name: DriverLogs
Mar 28 11:10:09 CCLogTap::profileRemoved, Owner: com.apple.iokit.IO80211Family, Name: OneStats
Mar 28 11:10:09 CCIOReporterFormatter::refreshSubscriptionsFromStreamRegistry clearing out any previous subscriptions
Mar 28 11:10:09 CCIOReporterFormatter::addRegistryChildToChannelDictionary streams 24
Mar 28 11:10:09 CCDataTap::profileRemoved, Owner: com.apple.driver.AirPort.Brcm4360.0, Name: StateSnapshots
Mar 28 11:10:09 CCLogTap::profileRemoved, Owner: com.apple.iokit.IO80211Family, Name: ControlPath

I've seen other answers but they are for Macs that power off completely, mine is not shutting down cause the iTerm popup is stopping it. But then all other apps are closed.


texts: Share Photos library with other user on same Mac

texts:
I would like to share my Photos library with another account on the same Mac. I have done exactly what @metatechbe suggested in his answer to How can I share Photos across multiple users on Apple Photos, without paying for iCloud?.

A actually can access the Photo library from both accounts now. But after user1 has used it, user2 sees a Repair Library Permissions dialog:

This photo library is locked or you do not have permissions to make changes to it. Photos can try to repair the permissions.

Other posts like

Sharing a iPhoto Library between users on the same computer
Sharing a Photos library across multiple accounts

aimed in the same direction, but no solution was found.

Is there a way to seamlessly make the a Photos library usable by two users? Of course, one needs to quit Photos before the other open the library. But the permissions dialog should not appear all the time.


texts:
Your Apple ID "xxx" can't be used to set up iMessage at this time.

iTunes and Xcode work without complaint.

I refuse to give them $20 to have someone push a couple buttons and force the servers to recognize my ID when it's used from a particular device. It is not something that can be solved from my end, and it is not reasonable to charge for the "service" of letting me use my own computer.

What contact method will allow me to have this resolved without paying an unnecessary fee?


texts:
I know Nikon embeds the shutter count in the EXIF of their NEF raw files.

What's the easiest way to find it?


texts: How the iOS can access to apple watch and airpod at the same time?

texts: I thought the Bluetooth module can connect to only one another device, but iPhone(or any iOS device) can be connected with Apple Watch and AirPod at the same time. How can it be possible? Is there any additional module in iOS device? If yes, why can't i make another double connection except Apple Watch or AirPods?


texts: How easy is it to buy upgrade/replacement parts for a Mac Pro?

texts:
I'm considering purchasing a Mac Pro in order to save money on upgrades in the future. I know how to build my own PC from scratch and I was wondering if I could use the same principles if were to buy Apple supported hardware. Do not get this confused with a Hackintosh, that's not what I'm striving to achieve.

Would I be able to upgrade the logic board? and CPU? Or the Power Supply?

Do you have experience with this and how did it work out for you?


texts: iPhone 5s screen separation; what will happen when I take the device to an Apple Store genius?

texts:
Today I discovered that my iPhone 5s is coming apart on its own. The front screen is intact, but has lifted by about 1 centimeter at the top left of the device. The screen backlight is separated from the glass in that area. The device wasn't plugged in or near any heat source, and showed the depleted battery icon when I tried to turn it on. This is no longer my primary phone; I bought an iPhone 6 a few months ago.

I bought the 5s new in October 2013 without AppleCare, so the one-year warranty has lapsed. The metal band around the edge of the phone has scuffs and dings. I certainly can't prove it, but that damage happened months before the screen separation. What I suspect is happening inside the device is that the battery has altered its shape and forced the screen to detach. Or perhaps an adhesive has deteriorated.

If I take this phone to a genius at an Apple Store, what will happen? Will Apple take responsibility for a manufacturing defect even though the phone is out of warranty? From Apple's support website, I see that the standard out-of-warranty cost for a 5s is US$269. It's possible I purchased this phone with a credit card that offers automatic warranty extension; I can look into that.

The phone turns on and works. I no longer need this device, but I'd like to recover some value from it.


texts: How is `cp -R` different from CTRL-C/CTRL-V?

texts:
My system is OS X El Capitan 10.11.5. I copied from my OS X Extended filesystem to FAT32 about 30 Gb files by Ctrl+C / Ctrl+V.

Now, I received a proposal to do it by cp -R.

I am wondering how different it is from the Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V.

How is cp -R different from Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V?


texts: How can I reclaim quick-keys from special characters I never use?

texts:
I love Byword.app and there's a very handy quick key (⇧-⌥-p) that, recently, started showing the uppercase Greek character pi (∏) instead.

I'm not sure what I changed, but it's very frustrating, as I have never needed this character in the past, nor as easily.

I have looked through all the Keyboard and Language preferences, keyboard and character viewers and so on, searched online, and I can not find a way to disable this.

Please, help me get this key combination back!

Thanks!

UPDATE:

I realized I had the Byword key-combo wrong, it's actually ⌘-⌥-p! (doh!) However, I'd still like to use shift-option combos for other things so I'll leave the question up.


texts: iTunes 12 will not play albums - just one song at a time

texts:
I have iTunes 12 and it will not play albums in order - just one song at a time.  I have tried all kinds of things to fix this.

Something I noticed is that none of the songs are checked any more and I don't know what that means.

I can't figure this out.  Help.

Thanks


texts:
My App Store on iPhone (iPhone 4S with iOS 5.1) is stuck, I already contacted the support from apple. But maybe there is someone here with a similar experience.

Whenever I open the App Store, it looks like the apps keep loading.
Here is a screenshot:

After 30 minutes, it still looks the same.
It can't be a connection error since Safari is running smoothly.

I've tried to reset my iPhone to factory settings three times, but it still looks the same.


texts: Use a keyboard without waking Mac's monitor?

texts:
I'd like to be able to hit a key combo on my keyboard without it waking my Mac's monitor.

Let's say my monitor is asleep and I want to press a function key to do something (volume up/down, iTunes next/back, or something else), if my monitor is asleep, pressing the key wakes the monitor instead of executing the function I've assigned...  so...  I have to press the button twice, but what's particularly annoying is that I have to put my monitor to sleep again.

I want to be able to use hotkeys without waking my monitor.  Is this possible?  It's a USB keyboard (actually, it's a Flirc IR receiver USB dongle that a Mac sees as a keyboard.  Flirc plus BetterTouchTool makes it easy to use a universal remote to control a Mac...  but drat, I can't figure out how to keep the monitor asleep).

I'm running the latest version of macOS.


texts: iPhone 5 says photo library is 7.1 GB but isn't and Storage Full prompt is shown

texts:
My iPhone 5 tells me my photo library has 7.1 GB but in actuality it doesn't just 50 pictures. Can someone explain why I'm getting the "storage full" prompt?

Apps take up very little room and I deleted all videos and most pictures on my phone. Is there a cache that's taking up space?

Photo Library appears to be the culprit-files don't seem to be deleting though they don't show up.


texts: How do you troubleshoot an iOS app that is not behaving as expected?

texts:
I downloaded an iOS app named “world history” from the App Store on my iPhone X with the latest firmware. However, whenever I open the app it just open for less than a second and closes immediately.

The one thing I can do is to report to the App Store, referring to the developers (if I found them). However, I would like to know if you have some other methods of troubleshooting?


texts: MacBook Pro: USB 2.0 flash drives not working while USB 3.0 drives work fine

texts:
I have a Late 2013 15 MacBook Pro. After updating it to macOS High Sierra 10.13.4, USB 2.0 flash drives has stopped working. They are simply not recognized by the operating system. However, USB 3.0 drives continue to work.

What is causing this? How do I resolve it?


texts: Using 2011 iMac 27" as second monitor with 2017 iMac 27"

texts: I purchased a 2017 iMac 27" Retina 5K running High Sierra.  I have an older 2011 iMac 27" also running High Sierra.  I want to connect the two so the the 2017 model is the host and the 2011 is the second monitor (extended mode).  I have a Thunderbolt cable, and connected one end to the 2011 and the other to a Thunderbolt 3 (C) adapter and then into the 2017 iMac. I then pressed Command + F2 to start Target Display Mode.  Unfortunately nothing works.  Regardless of which iMac I try to use as the host I can never get the desired result.  I was told the Retina 5K model won't support TDM, but I had a chat session today with Apple and the tech made it seem that it would work.  Is there a way to make this work?


texts: Mac Mini still detects monitor when it is unplugged or turned off

texts:
I have a Mac mini (2018) that continues to detect an HDMI connected monitor even after the monitor has been powered off/unplugged from power. When I unplug the HDMI cord it does remove it from my display arrangement, but this isn't helpful; I don't want to unplug my HDMI cord from my second monitor when I want to just focus on my main display.

I have already tried deleting the profile and rebooted many times.


texts: Is there any part of OSX that gets a significant speed boost from Intel AES instructions?

texts:
I've been comparing some specs between Mac Pro models, specifically with the jump from Harpertown (a.k.a. Core 2) to Gulftown/Westmere (a.k.a. Core i7).

While there were expected incremental performance increases across the board, the most significant jump benchmarked is for the AES instruction set that were introduced in the later generation; on the order of 24x faster. I've understood enough of it to gather that it is used for encryption and that things like BitLocker and SSH would see improvements, but it almost feels like those would go unnoticed in typical use.

My question is, is there any part of OSX that benefits from AES that results in noticeable performance improvements? Perhaps at a minimum would HTTPS connections in a web browser see an improvement? I know it is a bit of a stretch, but worth asking :-)


texts: Nothing shows up in Airdrop (macOS Sierra)

texts:
I have a problem on my Mac. About a month or so ago Airdrop just stoped working completely.  When I go to Airdrop, in Finder, no computers are listed (even in a Mac Lab with 10+ Macs all with Airdrop enabled and discoverability set to everyone).  Other devices can find these same computers. Additionally, my Mac is non discoverable on any device, even though the discoverability is set to everyone. Firewall is off and WiFi and Bluetooth are on and work without a problem. I am NOT connected to a VPN or proxy. Additionally, although possibly unrelated (if so don't answer just thought it may be related), Handoff doesn't work between with my Mac and my iPhone and my iPhone Hotspot is not shown in WiFi unless it is turned on (which is previously did before this).

Trouble Shooting Steps already tried (non have worked):

killall sharingd
Restart computer
Restart in Safe Mode
Login to different user
Disk Utility First Aid from recovery
Reset NVRAM
Reset SMC
Reinstalled macOS
Turned on and off Airdrop discoverability
Turned on and off WiFi & Bluetooth
Tried on a different WiFi network
Apple Hardware/Apple Diagnostics Test

Relevant Specs:

Operating System: macOS Sierra (10.12.6)

Computer type: MacBook Pro

Any ideas on what to do?


texts: Mac OS X tiger not installing on iMac G5 late 2005

texts: I’ve tried pressing/holding down c,x,control,alt,command and everything, and it still hasn’t worked. I’ve tried downloading even the ISO of the disk that came with it, and it still hasn’t worked. I’ve been trying for two days, is there any solution to this?


texts: iOS App Store will not update apps unless the Update button is pressed many times

texts:
This happens on Wifi and Cellular with iOS 9.1 on an iPhone 6. Clicking the update button results in the App Store somewhat ignoring the action where it seems to try updating for about 0.1 seconds (there's no way it can detect a real network failure that quickly), and then reverts back to the button as though nothing were pressed.

Repeatedly pressing the update button eventually results in the update going through, where it finishes without any issue (once it finally makes a real attempt to download it)

No other apps show any signs of having network issues and all other devices work fine on the WiFi network.

Auto-updates have been failing for a long time as well, not sure if related. "Unable to download software update" messages frequently pop-up randomly while I'm doing other things.


texts: R2D2 Mac Pro making sound when CPU usage is high (not fan noise)

texts:
We have a 12-core R2D2 style Mac Pro at the office.  It is very quiet.  If I put my ear very close to it, I can hear the fan humming smoothly, but from a distance it's quiet.

When I run a program that uses all 12 cores at 100%, the computer will emit a strange zzzzz sound comparable to a creaky wheel.  The sound is very quiet, but still audible in an otherwise quiet room.  It's slightly louder than the humming of the fan, and it is not smooth like the fan.

It doens't sound like this is the fan spinning up: the sound comes on isntantaneously as the CPU usage goes to 100%, and it stops instantaneously when I stop the program.  I can still hear the steady hum of the fan in the background.

Question 1: Since this computer doesn't have any other mechanical parts than the fan, what is making the sound?  Is it an electronic sound?

Question 2: Does the sound indicate a problem?


texts: How to create a keyboard short cut (F7) for example to launch the terminal app?

texts:
How to create a custom keyboard shortcut that launches a terminal window?

e.g. when I press F7, it would launch a new terminal window no matter what application is in the foreground.

Thanks


texts: Did `man ls > temp.txt`. Output textfile is corrupted

texts:
When I execute man ls > temp.txt the output text file is corrupted. By corrupted I mean that first and last letters in some words are overly repeated.

Several first lines in temp.txt:

LS(1)                     BSD General Commands Manual                    LS(1)

NNAAMMEE
     llss -- list directory contents

SSYYNNOOPPSSIISS
     llss [--AABBCCFFGGHHLLOOPPRRSSTTUUWW@@aabbccddeeffgghhiikkllmmnnooppqqrrssttuuwwxx11] [_f_i_l_e _._._.]

DDEESSCCRRIIPPTTIIOONN

And so on. Without redirection man ls is perfectly normal. What's happening?


texts: Are scratches on a MacBook covered under warranty?

texts:
I found this tiny deep scratch on my MBP and I don't know how the heck did it get there. Is there way to fix it or does my warranty cover it?

It is near the ESC also near the charger input.


texts:
I got a MacBook Air as my working computer running MacOS Sierra 10.12.5. Within the intranet at the company office we got a network share. Whenever I want to use it, I have to add it via the Finder using the CMD + K command.

smb://server/share

This is then mounted as:

/Volumes/share/

There are two problems or questions about it.
Reconnect: When I'm out of the network and back again, MacOS can't access the share again and I have to reconnect using the CMD + K command. Is there a way to add it as auto-connect so that MacOS tries to re-establish the link if possible?
Name of volume: Because of the manual reconnect, MacOS starts to increase the number of the volume again and again. This is only reset if I restart MacOS but not through hibernate/sleep mode. Is there a way to change this?

/Volumes/share-1/
/Volumes/share-2/


texts: Install Sierra on Macbook Pro shipped with High Sierra

texts:
New MBP purchase shipped with High Sierra. I'd like to downgrade to Sierra but am running into the issue that you can't install a version of the OS lower than what was shipped. The explanation I found is that the drivers don't exist, but I know for a fact that the drivers exist since there is another MBP at my company shipped just a few months prior with the same specs, running Sierra. Is there any way to force this laptop to boot into a bootable Sierra install USB drive so I can perform the downgrade? I can't even get this laptop to boot from a live Linux USB, I just get a giant "No" icon. It seems li

I've tried to sidestep it a few ways, none of which have worked. I'm now thinking of trying to clone the hard drive from the other MBP I have that's running Sierra onto the new one. I wish I knew how Apple was able to perform this restriction. I imagine it's just a piece of information somewhere with a version check, if I could find that file maybe I could lower the minimum version?

I'm not willing to put High Sierra on my network yet, it doesn't play nice with profile management or Munki. I also really don't like the idea that I've purchased hardware which doesn't allow me to install the software I actually want. I know Apple is "Big Brother-ish", but this obnoxious. For what they charge for hardware, I should be able to do whatever I want to this machine.

My rant aside, does anyone have any insight on a method to get around this restriction?

EDIT:

In regards to the duplicate flag, I had read all of the referenced articles before posting, but asked this anyway because I wanted to know if it was possible to circumvent the protection. As I said, I find it very difficult to accept that I've purchased a piece of hardware which I won't let me use it the way I want to use it.


texts: Configuration profile for managing multi monitor display

texts:
I am not sure how exactly to phrase this, but wondering if there is a way to manage the display preference and monitor arrangement with a unique profile on macOS?

The problem is, I have a home and office multi monitor setup but the specific monitors are arranged different in each environment. So when I move the laptop between work and home the display arrangement is all confused and I have to manually change in display preferences.

+------------+ +----+ |  +----+ +------------+
|            | |    | |  |    | | 4K Dell    |
| TB Display | | 4K | |  | TB | |            |
+------------+ |DELL| |  |    | +------------+
   +------+    |    | |  |    |  +--------+
   | MBP  |    +----+ |  +----+  | MBP    |
   +------+           |          +--------+
   +------+           |          +--------+
                      |
    Home Setup        |   Work Setup
                      |
                      +

Because of specific physical constraints I am unable to change the physical layout of the monitors. macOS seems to automatically detect by monitor type.

I am wondering if there is a software configuration and profile I could create to manage this? For example, tell the system when at home the TB Display is on the left and horizontally oriented, but at work it is on the right and vertically oriented, etc..

Is there an app or AppleScript technique that manages this?


texts: Is there a dictionary I can download that has the symbols used in Microsoft Word for Mac? For example the Paragraph formatting mark that looks like a backwards P, or the icons used in the ribbon? I would use a combination on the keyboard to get the image.


texts: Adding words to Hiragana input's dictionary

texts:
I am trying to figure out how to add new words to the Japanese dictionary.

Specifically, my problem is, name of one of my friends is Manaka, spelled
愛可 (yes, that's 可愛い in reverse).  Problem is, if I type in まなか and try find an appropriate kanji substitute, the only one that I find is 愛花 (and yes, I've tried looking at the general kanji selection, by the reading, by radical,  names, etc).

Currently I type her name in by typing in あいか, which is annoying.

Is there a way to teach the hiragana input, that when I type in まなか I want to see 愛可 as one of the options presented to me?

MacOS X 10.7, MBP 13", English UI with Hiragana input added.


texts: Yosemite upgrade process stuck for hours - Cmd-L not working

texts:
Today I started the upgrade of my Mid 2011 iMac 27 from Mavericks to Yosemite. Initially it got stuck at the end of the first part of the installation. I could however pull up the installation log using Command-L and so I could tell it was still doing something. Eventually it completed and rebooted. It then got into the Completing Installation phase with a similar progress screen. It's been at "Less than a minute remaining" for the past 4 hours and no sign of activity. I also can't pull up the installation log by pressing Command-L. I just hear the familiar error sound when I try that.

I do use Homebrew so there's probably a lot of stuff in /usr/local causing the installation to take a long time, but I figured that's what caused part 1 of the installation to take so long, but it doesn't explain why part 2 is taking even longer.

Mavericks was installed on an external SSD (Lacie Rugged series) connected through thunderbolt. I now read that some people are experiencing problems with 3rd party SSD drives in Yosemite (yeah, I know I should have checked that before starting the upgrade, but who would have known?).

I'm not sure what to do now: just power off the computer and see if it continues finalizing the installation process after I restart it? Or just wait until tomorrow morning and see if it's still stuck? Even though I have a time machine backup on an external drive I don't want to risk losing my data forcing me to do a restore. Any advice?


texts: How can I switch between language input sources using Alt-Shift on Catalina?

texts:
I tried a couple of Karabiner scripts available online, but none is working.

Also, it looks like there is some confusion about what is Alt on mac keyboards. Although semantically, this is the ⌥ key, ⌘ key is positioned where Alt is on Windows keyboards.

So I would rephrase the question:

-- How can I switch between language input sources using ⌘+Shift on Catalina?


texts: How can I make all folders in Finder "snap to grid"?

texts:
I don't like that files can be placed anywhere, even overlapping other files, in Finder. The files also don't reorganize to fit when resizing the window.

I do realize I can right click and select "Clean up", but I don't want to do that every time I drag and drop a file.

I found this setting to make everything "snap to grid" so it will stay organized in the Show View Options window. However, it only works for that specific folder. Is there any way to make it apply across everything in Finder? I tried clicking "Use as Defaults" but it appears to only apply to new folders.


texts: Question about external USB disk for mac air

texts: So I recently bought just a cheap 32 GB sandisk USB flash drive to add some more space to my macbook air. (I know nothing about this type of stuff so bare with me.) I bought the USB drive so I could download a specific game to my mac. Now, I currently have 80/121 GB available on my flash storage, and the USB drive has 32 GB which I mentioned earlier. To download the game I need like 95 GB (total) of free storage. Basically I just want to know if there is a way to download some of the game to my flash storage and the rest to the USB drive. Or if there is something else I can do just so I can download this game?


texts: Could removing corrupted files on the MacBook or Mac's hard drive make the file system's health even worse?

texts:
I tried to move some files from the MacBook's SSD to a network drive (by drag and drop) , and the "Copy" window reported the file was corrupted. If I remove the file and empty out the trash can, could it actually further damage the file system (or make the hard drive's health even worse)?

This is due to: if the files was occupying some bad sectors (on the SSD), then could releasing the sectors let other apps or even the macOS write to and read from those sectors, and cause big problems due to this, especially if it is macOS using those sectors as virtual memory.

(so in a way, if we don't delete those files, it is to let the files occupy the bad sectors so that those sectors are never used by other apps or macOS again).

I think those files were corrupted due to when copying from the external hard drive, the USB plug was a little loose, and so the copying got interrupted in the middle. But the strange thing is, if that's the case, it should be only one file that got corrupted. Right now it was 2 or 3 files (or maybe the USB plug was loose for 2, 3 times, which I can't remember now).

The issue maybe further complicated by the MacBook previous using OS X 10.9 Mavericks, and possibly some of Yosemite, El Capitan, Sierra, and High Sierra during the upgrades in the past, so it was using HPS+ and now APFS (Mojave).


texts:
I'm not too familiar with Apple Calendar because I don't use it, but every now & then I get spam entries ending up on it and receive alerts based on them.

My question is how they are getting in there (it's pretty clear that it's happening through email - but I'm not clear on the mechanics), and how do I stop it?

Screenshot below:


texts: Sizzling Sound on Yosemite in Multi-Output (Aggregate Device) from the 2. Device

texts:
I recently wanted to play my music through multiple output devices at once:

My Macbook Pro's internal speakers
Bluetooth Speakers

As i have found from the internet i have created a Multi-Output Device through Utilities/Audio MIDI Setup, and it works. The problem is, the 2nd device (not the one which is selected as master device) gives a sizzling sound, which is independent of the source. So, when I select the Built-in Output as master, the bluetooth speaker sizzles, and when I select the bluetooth speaker, my built-in speaker.

Does anyone have this problem?


texts: How to disable app relaunch and window restore in El Capitan on reboot?

texts: How do I disable  both the "relaunch apps after reboot" feature as well as the "reopen windows at relaunch" feature?  When I reboot (be it after a hard reset or reboot command) I want to be presented with a blank desktop and not everything I had open before.  Also, when I open an application, I don't want the dozen things I was working on previously to open all at once.


texts: Script Editor crashing when running Applescript

texts:
I need to extract the phone number of all the contacts in a particular group and for that I am using the following code -

on run {input, parameters}
    tell application "Contacts"
        set thePeople to every person
        repeat with i from 1 to number of items in thePeople
            set this_person to item i of thePeople
            set inGroup to name of group of this_person
            if inGroup is "Technology" then
                set x to properties of phones of this_person
            end if
        end repeat
    end tell
end run

But whenever I run the code, the script editor crashes and asks me to reopen it even though I have only one contact in that group. What's happening here?


texts: How do I revoke Gatekeeper permission to launch from an unsigned app?

texts:
Gatekeeper is a feature of macOS that prevents unsigned applications from being launched. It can be disabled host-wide in System Preferences, or you can keep the protection in place and exempt a single application by right-clicking and choosing "open" which prompts a dialogue with the option to "launch anyway" (rather than simply double-clicking, which prompts a dialogue with no option to launch, only dismiss).

Forever after, that application will launch without issue. Gatekeeper has presumably whitelisted it. How can I revoke this exemption and remove the application from the whitelist after once approving it?

Apple's support document suggests consulting the manpage for spctl for more information. Going from there, I've tried spctl --disable <path to app>, spctl --remove <path to app>, and spctl --add --label disable <path to app>; spctl --disable --label disable, but the app still launches successfully when double-clicked in Finder.

OSXdaily suggests that spctl --remove <path to app> should have done the trick, and indeed after running that command, the application no longer shows up under the whitelist of exempted applications with spctl --list | grep <app name>. But the app still launches. How do I get this revocation to stick?


texts: New monitor won't let me set resolution to 2560x1440 even though it should be possible

texts:
i have just purchased a dell p2715q monitor and while i understand that my early 2011 macbook pro will not run it at the full resolution, it should be able to run it at 2560x1440.

However the only option from the list of resolutions that works (1080i) (i.e. any other res I select makes the monitor go dark, still active as i am able to drag windows to it, but not see anything on the monitor). I have spent literally all today trying to configure it and nothing works.

I know this isn't a hardware or cable issue as i have run the screen at 2560x1440 res perfectly on my windows bootcamp from the same mac, so the issue must lie with OS X. I have the latest version of Yosemite, have tried restarting, 3rd party programs and even rescripting from terminal commands. Nothing works.


texts: Can a MacBook 2,1 (late 2006) running 10.4 be upgraded to Lion?

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I'm looking at upgrade options for a Macbook 2,1 with the following specs:

  Model Name:   MacBook
  Model Identifier: MacBook2,1
  Processor Name:   Intel Core 2 Duo
  Processor Speed:  2 GHz
  Number Of Processors: 1
  Total Number Of Cores:    2
  L2 Cache (per processor): 4 MB
  Memory:   1 GB
  Bus Speed:    667 MHz
  Boot ROM Version: MB21.00A5.B07
  SMC Version:  1.17f0
  Serial Number: XXXX
  Sudden Motion Sensor:
  State:    Enabled

I'm seeing conflicting reports on various forums.

Can someone tell me definitively what needs to happen to get this onto Lion?

Cheers,
Rob


texts: Quick way to exit terminal login attempt

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Bash login will usually give three attempts before giving back the prompt. Sometimes it will give many more - like today which were infinite. Using control-c didn't abort that process it just entered the characters ^C. Likewise for escape — ^[.
In any case, how can I abort the login without going through with three attempts or more?
Eventually it will time out with:
login: Login timed out after 300 seconds. But I don't want to be held hostage by my terminal.
Login incorrect
login: ^C
login:
login:
login:
login:
login: ^C
login: ^C
login: ^C
login: ^C
login: exit
Login incorrect
login: ^C
login: ^C
login:
login:
login:
login:
login:
login: ^C
login: ^C^C^C^C^C
login:
login:
login:
login: ^C
login: ^C
login:
login:
login:
login:
Login incorrect
^[
^C
login: login: ^C
login: ^[
Login incorrect
^[^C

^C
^C
login: login: ^C^[^[^[
Login incorrect
^[
login: Login incorrect
login: Login timed out after 300 seconds


texts: exporting LSCOLORS in .zshrc not working as expected

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In my .zshrc file I am loading my color scheme using the below command:

export CLICOLOR=1
export LSCOLORS=GxFxCxDxBxegedabagaced

But when I load my terminal I get another color scheme. I am not sure why this is happening.
On sourcing

source .zshrc

I get the color scheme. I am not sure why it doesn't load automatically.
I am using prezto for my zsh shell.

All my aliases present in .zshrc file load fine.


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We have a Late 2012 iMac in the shop that needs the 3TB hard drive replaced. Turns out this model has a Fusion drive with an SSD that is on the backside of the logic board.

The drive has been swapped (new WD Blue 3TB), but we are having issues getting the Fusion setup, and getting OS Sierra loaded. I have tried researching the Fusion drive and what needs to be done, but all I can find is people trying to replace the HDD with an SSD, and other "projects".

When we go to Disk Utility from a Sierra flash drive, it does not give me any options to rebuild the Fusion drive or anything like that. If I plug up the original HDD to another Mac, it does tell me it needs to rebuild it, so that confirms it is a Fusion drive.

How do we properly replace the HDD, and either get the system booting as-is (is the OS on the SSD?), or reload OS Sierra on it? We are currently working on doing a TimeMachine backup on the system, but it is about 2.2TB of data...


texts: How to detect that my iPhone has been backed up with iTunes?

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I'm concern that someone with physical access to my iPhone as well as knowledge of my PIN could have done that.
By looking at my iPhone, is there a way to figure out if my iPhone has been imaged / accessed or backed up to a third party computer (via iTunes) ?


texts: Quicktime screen recording on Retina display

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On OS X 10.8 I'm trying to record screen using Quicktime. But for some reason the resulting video resolution is only 1280 by 800, even thought I'm on Retina display.

How can I record screen in Retina resolution?


texts: Double login required, but second entry of username and password not accepted

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When loading my MacBook Pro mid-2012, it prompts me with the usual login screen with my account picture and name such that I just have to enter a password. I enter my password and all is well.

After loading, it then prompts me with the more general login screen, where there are no users available, so you have to click other and enter the credentials. This login screen does not accept the username and password from before.

I have no other accounts on the system so I cannot login through them either. I tried the whole terminal reset password thing, but it said no users were available on the drive. I also tried the safe mode which had the exact same issues.


texts: Can iOS 11.0.3 automatically logout from WhatsApp?

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My phone storage was full and I couldn't open WhatsApp. I put the phone on charging and the next day when I tried to open WhatsApp, I was logged out. I had to provide my phone no and other information to login as we do when we change our device. Also, all of my WhatsApp data was gone, messages, history and pictures. Although, the saved media was still available via the Photos app. Was my WhatsApp account hacked, or did iOS deleted the data?

Also offload unused apps setting (available under Settings app -> General -> iPhone Storage)was not enabled. I am using an iPhone 5S 16GB.


texts: What are these accessories that came with my 1st gen iPod touch?

texts: I got these with my 1st gen iPod Touch, but I have never figured out how to use them? What are these for?


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How can one mute Zoom on iPad? Turning down the volume doesn't work. I don't mean muting the microphone but muting the other interlocutors.

I am an attendee. I just want to mute the others for myself, but I still want them to hear each other.


texts: Which MacBook Pro configuration is best suitable for Iphone/Ipad App development?

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Possible Duplicate:
  What are good specs for a MacBook to develop on iOS with?

I'm planning to buy a MacBook Pro and get into devlopment. But I'd like which is the best configuration I should go for?

Is it necessary to have a dedicated graphics card? Because I was looking at cheaper options like the 13' ones which only have integrated graphics memory.


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Fairly simple question, is there a way, either through existing functionality or by jail breaking that you can add Stacks to the iOS dock.

EDIT:
There are three different formats in the way that Stacks work on OSX, Grid (iOS Folder View), Fan and List.

Is there any implementation of Fan or List views?