texts: Transfer a large amount of PDF files from PC to Adobe Reader (on iPad)

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I've a bunch (~200) of PDFs, organized in directories, (Topic wise), that I need to transfer to my iPad for offline reading.

I've two problems: First, emailing is not an option. These are around 720 megabytes in size, and the current connection I'm on is barely able to download 40 megabytes in half an hour. Besides, I could try GZIP compression, but I don't know if Adobe Acrobat can handle GZIP files.

Secondly, I would like to retain the directory structure of my documents.

I want to transfer all these PDFs to the Acrobat Reader on my iPad. I looked online and I'm told that under the Apps section of my iTunes library I must find "Acrobat Reader" and continue from there. I don't see anything in my iPad's Apps Library on the iTunes store!

I'm really stuck and would appreciate any help. Thanks a lot.

(I'm running on Windows 10, btw)


texts: Cannot connect to my SMB server on MacOS

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When I connect to my SMB Linux server by running:

smb://ubuntu

it shows me 2 shared folders and that's normal. I made the first folder working without a password and that's working fine. The second folder is secured and macOS doesn't ask for a password when I choose to connect to that folder and it shows an error message instead:

Check the server name or IP address, and then try again. If you continue to have problems, contact your system administrator.

How do I establish a connection successfully by getting a prompt to provide credentials (as required)?


texts: How to make a wallpaper only show when unlocked?

texts: I don't really know if this is possible, but I wish to know how to do this. Basically, I just want to have my lock screen different from my actual wallpaper. Can you use a terminal command? Thanks in advance.


texts: Dictating spelled numbers in English and other languages

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Is there a way to have iOS voice dictation spell out numbers?  I mean speaking  145 and having it write "one hundred forty five"; this would be useful in English and other languages. Although it’s not that common to spell out numbers in English, in my experience it seems a lot more common in foreign languages such as Italian and German.  It’s really difficult to spell out the very long words in those languages and so this would be a gr8 feature

I’ve done a lot of searching and tried different things  but nothing seems to work, including here on stack exchange  where almost everything on this topic is several years old.  In fact some of the posts I read indicate that there was the reverse problem years ago  that was solved by saying “numeral”  beforehand  to avoid spelling the number.

Edit:
In response to @MeanAverageMeanie I installed GBoard and tried dictating "eleven plus fourteen equals twentyfive" in Italian, German, and English. Unfortunately, it still produced numerals rather than spelled words in each case, as seen below using Gboard within the iOS Mail app:


texts: What kind of encryption does Mac OS X Extended (Journaled, Encrptyed) use?

texts: Since my primary hard disk is encrypted with FileVault2, I also wanted my backup drive to be encrypted. I plugged in my external drive, brought up Disk Utility, and went to erase/format the disk. I chose Mac OS X Extended (Journaled, Encrptyed). However, I couldn't find out what kind of encryption it uses. Does anyone know (and/or know how I would look this info up via a command or system utility)? Is it the same as FileVault2?


texts: How to upload videos to iPhone and iPad using any Mac or Macbook that I have? (not tied to one Mac)

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It seems that nowadays, the only time I hook up my iPad or iPhone to a computer is when I need to upload some videos to the Video app on iPad/iPhone so that I can view them offline.

I started uploaded some videos using a 256GB Macbook Air to the iPad and iPhone (both of which has 128GB).  Next time, because the Macbook Air has only about 1GB disk space left, I tried to use my Macbook Pro to upload the video, but it couldn't -- when I drag the video to the "Device" section on iTunes, the video icon will bounce back to the Finder window -- it seems that I could only use the Macbook Air to transfer because somehow, it is "tied to that iPad/iPhone".

My question is, can I actually upload videos to any iPad/iPhone I have, using any Mac that I have?  I have Macbook Air, Macbook Pro, and Mac Mini.  And it will be best to no need to store the video files on the Macbook Air, for example, say if my Macbook Air only has 1GB of hard drive space left, and at home, I transfer a 500MB video to the iPad/iPhone from a hard drive that is on my home network or on my Airport Extreme's hard drive, then I wouldn't want the 500MB to occupy space on the Macbook Air after the video is transferred.


texts: Importing Notes database from Sierra backup to High Sierra

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I went to backup my notes from my old Mac (running macOS Sierra) onto an external hard drive (was selling quickly and didn't have time to perform a full Time Machine backup). All I want is my Notes! The new High Sierra can't open them.

I tried to put them back from the external hardrive to  ~/Library/Containers/com.apple.Notes/Data/Library/Notes/ (using this guide https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XoJAjACycPE)
but that didn't work for me. These notes are notesv7.


texts: Formatting a used MBP after booting from OS DVD?

texts: I'm installing a MacBookPro via DVD which I booted from. Do I use Disk Utility to format the HD which has an OLD OS X, with users info on it that I don't want, so it WON'T upgrade and retain user data, and instead would actually install a fresh copy with NOTHING inherited?


texts: How to install newest Ruby version without Homebrew?

texts: I am using macOS Mojave. My work account has no administration privileges because of known macOS vulnerability. I have separate admin account. I have just tried to update Ruby to the newest version following documentation on https://www.ruby-lang.org. I have tried to install Homebrew manage Ruby upgrade but it wants my account to have admin privileges. Is there any other way to install Ruby?


texts: What happens if your iPhone becomes damaged while preparing for AppleCare+ Repair?

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I recently cracked my iPhone XS's back camera. Since it is under AppleCare+ until early October, I paid $99 for an Express Replacement which requires that I mail the broken phone to them.
Unfortunately, when the replacement arrived, I had to switch the SIM card to the replacement, but the SIM card mechanism became damaged on the old phone while i was doing so. I do not believe I did anything wrong at all, it just wont let the tray back into the phone.
Has anyone encountered a similar problem? Should I contact Apple about it in advance and risk losing the right to my $99 claim or should I mail it in anyway and hope for the best? I believe it is a design flaw in the SIM tray that such a thing can happen.


texts: How can I move my data to the new harddrive?

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So I am planning to upgrade my Macbook pro's harddrive to a SSD. I don't know much Mac OS X tools, so I was wondering if anyone could let me know how I can copy my entire harddrive (including OS) to my SSD.

I have a MacBook 2011 and am using OS X Lion.


texts: Is it possible to hook up macbook build in keyboard to Ubuntu PC?

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I need to work on both: Mac Pro and Ubuntu PC.

I would like to use one keyboard. It is more less simple to do with external Mac keyboard, but how to do it with build-in one?

External is not convenient, because I use 3 or 4 screens (including laptop one) and the whole 'work env' gets either too wide or too deep.


texts: Play and pause don't work properly with bluetooth headphones (Mac)

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I've been having a very annoying problem with my Beyerdynamic Amiron Wireless headphones for a couple of years now and I'm wondering if anyone else has had such issues. Say I'm listening to music through the Spotify desktop client and I pause the music there and go to watch a video on Youtube. I expect to hear the video from the headphones, but I won't, because somehow the headphones think there is no audio signal. Once I unpause Spotify, I can hear both the music and the browser but pausing the music will again mute the browser. The browser is in fact playing the content with audio and is not muted, but the headphones are somehow locked to Spotify. So the only solution would be to either kill Spotify, or set it to play but mute it so that I can only hear Youtube (which is what I usually do because opening and closing it is too sluggish). If I choose to close Spotify, sometimes the headphones still won't play anything until I pause/unpause from the second application.

This tends to happen with any pair of applications that both play audio and I'm not sure if it's an OS X bug or related to the headphone's firmware. The same does not happen with Apple's own AirPods but I don't have access to another non-Apple pair of wireless headphones to test. It also doesn't happen when connecting the same set of wireless headphones (or any other) through the 3.5mm jack or while using the speakers.

Has anyone experienced similar issues, with these particular model or another wireless headphone and if there is a fix?


texts: How does Apple Pay on OS X/Safari know to use the iPhone or Apple Watch?

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When I purchase something using Safari and the Apple Pay option, I either get to pay with my iPhone or Apple Watch.

The selection isn't consistent.

How does Apple Pay on iOS choose to send the verification (to a given device)?


texts: Has anyone figured out a way using the Shortcuts app to set a sleep timer? My goal is to tap a shortcut from the Sleep menu at night, have it play audio from iBooks for 15 minutes and stop. I don’t want to have to go into the app and always  click the sleep timer.


texts: Cannot change directory in Terminal if target has spaces in it

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I plugged my external HD, then in a Terminal, I type

ls /Volumes/TOSHIBA\ EXT

This lists files and folders as expected, but then entering:

cd /Volumes/TOSHIBA\ EXT

throws the following message

-bash: cd: /Volumes/TOSHIBA\: No such file or directory

I can even reproduce this behavior with my own folders.

What is going on here?
How do I change to a directory when it has spaces?

this is my environment context

uname -vsr
Darwin 17.5.0 Darwin Kernel Version 17.5.0: Mon Mar 5 22:24:32 PST 2018; root:xnu-4570.51.1~1/RELEASE_X86_64


texts: Why does the Note I shared via AirDrop to my Mac from my iPhone not show up in Notes.app?

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I can successfully AirDrop the note from my personal iPhone to my work Mac (seems to work fine), but when I go to Notes.app on my Mac - the note is not there.
I'm logged into Notes with iCloud on my iPhone and I'm logged into Notes.app with Microsoft Exchange on my Mac.


texts: How to dim the Touchbar? It is ridiculously bright

texts: I have my screen at the lowest brightness level, the keyboard without light, and F.lux installed to remove the blue light from my screen. That has a very positive effect on my sleep schedule. Now, on my new Macbook Pro with the touchbar, there is this scandalous lighthouse below my screen. The brightness of that thing is giving me headaches. How can I just make it dimmer?


texts: How do I lock my screen without making it sleep on macOS 10.11.3?

texts: I tried control+shift+power button as well as command+shift+power button. Neither seem to work.


texts: Launching .NET Core executable when Custom URL is opened

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I have a .NET Core app that needs to be opened from a custom URL. It would be passed something like myapp:<base64 params> and this would need to open the app.

Currently, I have a setup somewhat like this (I'm mostly a Windows developer and haven't really touched Mac at all, Linux I'm more familiar with but still not comfortable working in):

URL launches .app which contains AppleScript
AppleScript launches
a shell script which forks the dotnet MyApp.dll $1 command into a
new process
MyApp.dll launches with the parameter supplied

The issue with this seems to be the AppleScript launcher, as when launching the shell script manually with params the app opens and functions normally. But when launching the URL from a browser (Chrome) the icon appears and quickly disappears in the dock, and the program does not execute. I have no idea how to debug something like this since I've never properly worked with a Mac and I don't know if there's an event viewer or something of the like (usually checking the event viewer would be my step 1 on Windows).

The scripts I'm using:

AppleScript (which then gets made into a .app using the built-in exporter):

on open location this_URL
    do shell script "/Library/MyApp/Launcher " & this_URL
end open location

I edited the Info.plist for the generated .app to add the Custom URL handler:

...
<key>CFBundleURLTypes</key>
<array>
    <dict>
        <key>CFBundleURLName</key>
        <string>com.myapp.urlhandler</string>
        <key>CFBundleURLSchemes</key>
        <array>
            <string>myapp</string>
        </array>
    </dict>
</array>
...

The shell script (without sh extension) that is used to launch the dll:

#!/usr/bin/env bash
( ( ( dotnet /Library/MyApp/AppFiles/MyApp.dll $1 ) & ) & )

Side Note: The shell script forks once more than should be necessary, but without the extra fork it breaks .NET for some reason. Also adding the & after the $1 seems to cause issues with .NET's argument handling.

I have checked that all the files are in the right places, and when cutting out the AppleScript it runs normally, but I'm not sure how to debug the AppleScript issues. I did have it working before where the AppleScript would directly launch the dll, but that caused a console window which would kill the app when closed, and trying to fork in there didn't seem to work.

Is there a better way of doing this or a workaround that I can use to launch the app from a custom URL without the shell and/or AppleScript bits?

UPDATE: Solved as per my answer below. SE won't let me accept it until 2 days time.


texts: Mac mini (Late 2009) + Yosemite: cannot read CDs/DVDs

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Hardware: Mac mini (Late 2009)

OS: Yosemite 10.10.2

Problem: cannot read CDs/DVDs, either by internal drive or external drive.

...

When you insert any type of CD or DVD, ISO, UDF, HFS, original media or not, the Mac mini tries to read for a few seconds, between 15 and 30, and then ejects the media. Only the blank media remain on the drive, so the Finder when Disk Utility can identify them, but when you try to write something, the disc is ejected.

I've tried several tips found on blogs, but nothing can make the Mac mini read the disks.

I've tried also my external drive, an external USB case with DVD-RW from LG, IDE bus, which works perfectly on my PC with Windows 8.1 and Linux OpenSUSE 13.2, and also works perfectly on my old war buddy, a PowerBook G4.

My Mac mini simply refuses to read discs, either by internal as well as external drive by! Yosemite's fault?

Does anyone have a solution or something that could help me find a way to understand and solve this problem?


texts: Macbook Air very slow Wi-Fi after High Sierra upgrade

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I have a Macbook Air that has insanely slow Wi-Fi after High Sierra upgrade.  A clean install of El Capitan and resetting the PRAM has the Wi-Fi working as normal.  I get between 200-300mbps down.  As soon as I install High Sierra, the Wi-Fi cannot get speeds over 1-2 mbps.  I have no apps or files on this machine other than the clean install.  (Because Apple won't allow me to save the High Sierra download file, I have to first install El Capitan or other os version before upgrading to High Sierra.)

I have tried the following:

Resetting SMC
Resetting PRAM
Removing all Wi-Fi settings by removing the following files from /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/

com.apple.airport.preferences.plist
com.apple.network.identification.plist
com.apple.wifi.message-tracer.plist
NetworkInterfaces.plist
preferences.plist

Rebooting the router
Rebooting the Mac
Using a manual IP
Installing another Airport card.

Nothing works.  The machine passes the Apple Hardware test with no issues found.  Ethernet via a USB adapter works flawlessly.  I'm completely stumped.


texts: Restoring iPhone Backup from External Hard Drive

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I had recently organised all the storage on my Mac and was finally able to back up my MAC and my iPhone. In order to create more space, I found an article online which told me how to move the back up folder to my Passport, however this never mentioned creating symlinks or anything similar and simply told me to delete the original file, which I did.
My phone has since died and I need to restore my new phone from the back up. I have the back up on my passport and have attempted to create symlinks as shown on:
https://www.imore.com/how-move-your-iphone-or-ipad-backups-external-hard-drive
https://medium.com/re-write/how-to-back-up-your-phone-to-an-external-hard-drive-using-terminal-1dd60f1129e5
However when i go to restore my phone from the back up, iTunes does not recognise the file, it does not show up.
When i press cmd + shft + G , it shows the back up folder and then a new back up its made for itself today and then shows the three attempted symlinks, however these show up as a white file with the black arrow rather than a blue folder, and I seem to think this may be the issue.
Can anyone help me, and is it possible to restore from the back up on my passport as the original file on my mac was deleted. (if it helps I also have a laptop back up from then).


texts:
I wrote two applications which I have on my Desktop which I can't change the icons of.

The first is called was an app I wrote with Automator. After creating it, I was able to change its icon from the default Automator one to the Dock's app icon (as seen in System Preferences). When I installed MacOS 10.13 (High Sierra), the icon changed to the icon depicting my laptop model (MacBook Pro 13" with Touch Bar). I changed the icon back to the Dock. However, the icon change was not visible on the Desktop (though it was in Finder windows and Quick Look).

The other app was written in the programming language Racket (racket-lang.org). I changed the logo from the Racket logo to my laptop (see path above). I am having a similar problem where the icon does not change.

Note that I renamed the new icons to the old icon's name to avoid problems.

For both apps, renaming the file fixed the problem, but I have a Service which runs the app, and renaming it would break the Service. Changing the name to its correct name puts the incorrect icons back in place. I have come to the conclusion that there is some sort of cache that stores the icons. How do I remove or reset this?


texts: How to move rent movies from iPod Touch to iMac?

texts:
I moved rented movies from my iMac to my iPod Touch with iTunes to watch them outside, but now I want to watch some of them at home.

I tried to drag the rented movie in iPod Touch to iMac with iTunes, but nothing happened.

How do I move rented movies from an iPod Touch to an iMac?


texts:
I don't understand why when I go to /Users/Me, I find an alias of "me", and then another inside, and then again.
Can this alter the performances? Can I trash them?
And moreover, what are they doing here?


texts: Is there any way to sync my iPhoto photos with picasa? It would be great if it works in the same way that the facebook integration works.


texts: iPhone "disabled" when trying to enter recovery mode

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I forgot my iPhone's lock code. I don't believe I have an iCloud/Find my iPhone configured on there. I never synced with iTunes. I'm fine with deleting all the content on the device.

I tried following the directions on Apple's website to enter recovery mode:

Tap Volume up button.
Tap Volume down button.
Press and hold the side button.
This shows me the "slide to power off" slider and a "cancel" button.
Continuing to hold it restarts the iPhone.
The Apple Logo appears.
I continue holding the side button because it states:

  don't release the buttons when you see the Apple logo, wait until the connect to iTunes screen appears

After the phone is done rebooting, I see a screen that says:

  iPhone is disabled. try again in 15 minutes.

It does not enter recovery mode.

Note: I did try entering the passcode several times a day before and it got disabled for 15 minutes at the longest setting. However, I waited over 12 hours before I tried again, so the 15 minutes should not be a problem. To be sure, I waited another 15 minutes and repeated the whole process to no avail.

I even tried holding all 3 buttons to perform a restart, but this just entered Diagnostics mode, didn't show up in iTunes, and had no option to enter recovery mode.

No matter what I do, I can't get iTunes to recognize the device to start the recovery process.

I tried on another computer to no avail.

Any ideas how to enter recovery mode or wipe a phone if you forgot its password and it went into "disabled" mode?


texts: I cannot connect to internet but my MacBook Pro detects the network and my HP computer works fine on the same network

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My MacBook Pro, for some reason, detects the wireless connection and I can open my Skype account without any problem BUT I cannot go to a web page. This happens on both Safari and Firefox. My HP computer is working fine on this network and has no problem going on the Internet!

I tried establishing a diagnosis and it says that apparently my connection is fine. I tried putting in a manual IP address but it didn't work so I don't know what to next! As far as I know I'm on 10.6.8, but I don't know which updates I've applied.


texts: iPhone Heating/Slow/Quick battery drain after repair

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I have 2 iPhone's

1st is 6s+ 16GB

2nd is 6s+ 64GB

I use 2nd as my primary device but also carry 1st as the camera sensor of the 2nd has failed a few months ago
So on Saturday, I decided to replace the camera(i.e put the camera of 1st in 2nd)

It succeeded but after that, till now my iPhone has become slow like hell!

The battery drains even when the phone is just kept

And today ........

I was playing head ball 2 on my iPhone and the battery just went from 88% to 0% after 3 matches of 90 seconds and my phone got switched off.

I contacted apple support but they are just like "REPLACE THE BATTERY"

Can anyone tell me the issue

ps: I m using the latest iOS13.5.1


texts: Macbook Pro (mid-2012) detects adapter/battery but will not charge

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I had a pretty bad spill on my mid-2012, 13" Macbook Pro about a week ago (just water, but it got on the keyboard and the system shut itself off). Fearing the worst, I did everything I felt I could, dried it out with the "fan trick", opened it up, etc. It eventually powered back up with the battery inside but attaching the MagSafe adapter did not change the status of the battery and indeed the LED indicator light did not turn on. I was initially scared that it would not draw power from the adapter at all, but upon disconnecting the battery the MacBook boots up when the MagSafe is plugged in.

So I do not know where to go from here. I tried some easy things, like resetting the SMC, I tried every possible direction I could find for that (they seem to vary slightly based on who you ask, I definitely tried Apple's official directions). The orange LED light came on the adapter for a few minutes after one such attempt, but as soon as I restarted the computer it returned to not charging. I can confirm that when the battery is plugged in and the MagSafe is plugged in, the MagSafe draws no power (confirmed with a power meter). I think the only confirmed cases I've seen like this on support forums that were solved involved having Apple replace the logic board, which is not really logical from a cost perspective at this point.

I'm wondering exactly which part is messed up. My fear is that it's the logic board, and I just don't really know how to confirm it, but I'd hate to give up just because I don't know a lot about how the circuitry works. My bottom line question is: which piece of hardware would cause this problem to occur (if any)? I've noticed there's a DC-in board separate from the logic board in my disassembly (and looking at the pictures from ifixit) and potentially the cable itself could be problematic somehow, but I'm not sure how to confirm what's wrong or how to test it. Any help is appreciated!

As a note, I'm not going to bother with having Apple fix this, because they will know it's water-damaged and will want to replace the whole logic board. Admittedly that may be the problem, but I'd rather just bite the bullet and get a brand new computer at that point. I'm looking for a smaller fix, if such a fix exists.


texts:
I have a Macbook Pro 2011, running OS X Yosemite. I am trying to use my headphones, which contain a mic and speakers (as most headphones do). However, I can only use the audio jack as input or output. I have tried to change it, but whenever I go to the sound menu to select it, it only gives me Input or Output.

See:

Is there really a reason why this audio port cannot be used as both at the same time? Did I mess something up? Is there a third party method to use it as both at the same time?


texts: I have two screens.  I have a MacBook Pro and just installed Mountain Lion. When I close the lid, instead of completely sleeping, it simply moves what I'm doing to the secondary screen.  Please explain?


texts: How to make Time Machine Only Backup Emails?

texts: I know Time Machine is a great backup system on Mac, but I don't like it when it starts backing up everything on a mac.My work is completely done on emails and these emails now need to be backed up as the mailbox is filling up quickly. I am using Apple Mail as well as Outlook 2016 for Mac, both with different email ids. I need to backup both of them so that I don't lose any emails and also if I need to access those emails in future I can do that easily. Here Time machine is a great app to backup but I don't want to backup other stuff, I just need it to backup my email database. Is that possible, if yes then how can I do that and if no then what are other possible options I have as an email backup system?


texts: Gnu-info page exists, but is visible from neither emacs nor terminal

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After installing gnuplot on Lion using 'brew gnuplot', the gnuplot info page appears at /usr/local/Cellar/gnuplot/4.4.3/share/info/gnuplot.info

But in the info index page (M-x info) in emacs, I see no gnuplot entry.

How can one point the "info system" (for emacs especially) to the newly installed gnuplot info page? If I missed something during brewing that would have connected the gnuplot info to the master info page, please point it out. If there is a direct way of reading the gnuplot page (again, through emacs) without going through the master index, please also mention it.


texts: Disable QuickTime setting time in status bar to 9:41 for screen recording of iOS device

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When you record a video of your iOS device QuickTime helpfully tidies up your status bar, including setting the time to 9:41.

This is great in many cases, but I have several apps which display the time in the app and so showing 9:41 in the status bar and the real time in the app is very jarring.

Does anyone know if it is possible to turn off the neat status? Maybe with some defaults setting or something?


texts: How to add e.g. Chrome permanently to Guest account's dock?

texts:
When I log in as "Guest", the dock looks like this:

Any changes made to the dock are lost upon logout, when the guest user's home directory gets deleted.

How can I change the default dock settings for guest account so that it will automatically include a custom application of my choice, such as Google Chrome?


texts: How to mount a DMG image created with dd?

texts:
I created an "emergency" image of my dying HD using the procedure explained in
Recover a dead hard drive using dd.

Now when I try to mount the dmg file I get the message: "The following disk image couldn't be opened... no mountable files"

How can I mount the image and explore the directories and files?


texts:
Possible Duplicate:
  Is there a way to add shortcuts to open a particular folder in Save Dialogs and Finder Windows?

Is it possible to set custom shortcut keys for finder, for example at the moment we have CMD+Shift+A to go to Applications, could finder be programmed to CMD+Shift+S for sites for example?


texts: macOS Catalina USB keyboard doesn't work after being taken out and in again

texts:
After I upgraded to macOS Catalina on my MacBook Pro from 2013, my USB keyboard stops working every time I unplug it and plug it in again. Every time, I have to reboot with the keyboard plugged in to make it work again.

Is anybody else experiencing this issue and has a way to fix it because it is super annoying.

Info about my mac: MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Late 2013)


texts:
I'm trying to use a modem with an Apple MacBook Pro running Sierra (10.12.6) and I've been given the following instructions:

The user will have to create a standard 19200bps modem on
the COM port used by the Iridium device with extra
initialization command as: AT+CBST=71,0,1

But don't know where to configure this. I have a phone attached via USB that I can use to dial and connect to an ISP, but can't find anywhere to configure the AT command set.


texts: Cannot hear live audio from USB guitar in GarageBand

texts:
I plugged guitar via USB external audio card U24XL to Mac OS X Yosemite. But I can't hear any sound of it in GarageBand. I set up input/output in GB's preferences, and marked the current (guitar) track for monitoring, but no sound of guitar is listenable, nor recordable.

Output is correct as I can hear a drum track. The audio card works fine because I can monitor raw guitar sound via a tiny utility LineIn (I can record it in Audition also).

Any idea?


texts: Connecting Apple TV HD to a monitor over USB-C port

texts:
Does Apple TV HD support connecting to a display via USB-C port? I use the same display with my newer MacBook Pro with USB-C port.

I use a display with three input options, a DisplayPort, an HDMI port and a USB-C port. I am able to connect my MacBooks using any one of them i.e., Mini Display Port to Display Port and HDMI cable on a 2013 15" MacBook Pro and a USB-C to USB-C cable on a 2019 16" MacBook Pro.

I have the HDMI port engaged with the MacBook and I wondered if I can connect the Apple TV HD to the display via USB-C, but turns out I can not get anything to appear on the display. I am able to connect the Apple TV to my 16" MacBook Pro using the same USB-C cable fine.

Does Apple TV not support outputting to a display over USB-C? Is there anyway to enable?


texts: Mac OS Mojave Terminal Resetting to Default Theme

texts:
I've recently worked out how to change my terminal theme and set the new theme as default through the GUI menu: Terminal > Preferences > Profiles > Default. This works and sets the current session to that theme but after restarting Terminal the theme resets back to basic.

I've tried deleting all other themes and setting a specific one, and although this will work for the remainder of the session it does not work after restarting the app.

I can't seem to find any specific help for this issue. Others have asked about setting a default or it not working on multiple windows/tabs, but that isn't the issue here.

Is there a config file where I can change the theme manually?

Any suggestions will be very much welcomed!
Working on a 2017 MacBook Pro 15" (MacOS Mojave)


texts:
Xcode fails to open on my machine - OS X 10.8.2. It opens the main screen and just hangs there with the spinner spinning becoming unresponsive. If I double click a project, it just hangs sating it is loading.
I tried:

Uninstalling and re-installing;
Removing my project tree;
Deleting some recommended preferences, most of which did not actually exist on my machine to begin with.

Things of note:

This is a new computer. The first time I ran Xcode, it opened fine, though I didn't try using it. The problem appeared when I first opened an existing project.
I created a new user on the machine. When that user is logged on Xcode loads successfully. Apparently it is a user settings issue.


texts: Can an ext4 formatted hard drive work on MacOS out of the box

texts: I need a cross platform file system for an external hard drive that will be used on both Linux and MacOS. Will an ext4 file system work on MacOS right from the moment it is plugged in?


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When I run tcpdump, I do so after having connected to an access point.
Is there a way to run tcpdump without having connected already?


texts: Advancing to Next Slide when current slide has multiple videos

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I'm new to Keynote, and I'm happy to have created a slide with multiple embedded videos that auto-play thanks to the animate functionality. While the videos look great on the first pass, if I want to go back to this slide at the end of my presentation, Keynote "sees" each video and the animation as something to toggle through. What I want is for the arrow buttons to ignore the videos all together and to be able to toggle back and forth without getting caught up in the video content.

The closest I've come to resolving this issue is putting the whole document on "self-playing", but the maximum delay is too short for my comfort. I love how slick it looks on the first play though, but if I wanted to go back to another slide at the end of my presentation, I'll get tangled up in the video/animation on this slide.

Is there a way to make the presentation ignore the videos/animation while navigating through slides?


texts: Where can I find a list of bugs in the current release of OS X?

texts:
I thought perhaps this question would be a list of bugs, but it's been closed.

Is there another place out there where I can find this info? And when I say the current release I mean whichever release is current at the time that you're looking for the information.


texts: How to create OS X Server Admin firewall rules using ip address groups by command line?

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The (Lion) Server Admin.app has a nice ability to apply firewall rules to ip address groups without having to edit ipfw config files.

But having to enter large and long lists of IP addresses using the Server Admin GUI is a tedious task.

Therefore I am wondering how can a firewall IP address group be made from the command line?

I know there is a /usr/sbin/serveradmin which has the ability to output settings, like using $ sudo serveradmin settings ipfilter:ipAddressGroupsWithRules:_array_id:10-net:* which outputs:

ipfilter:ipAddressGroupsWithRules:_array_id:10-net:rules = _empty_array
ipfilter:ipAddressGroupsWithRules:_array_id:10-net:readOnly = no
ipfilter:ipAddressGroupsWithRules:_array_id:10-net:allowAll = no
ipfilter:ipAddressGroupsWithRules:_array_id:10-net:addresses:_array_index:0 = "10.0.0.0/8"
ipfilter:ipAddressGroupsWithRules:_array_id:10-net:name = "10-net"

Which one can dump to a file using $ sudo serveradmin settings ipfilter:ipAddressGroupsWithRules:_array_id:10-net:* > 10-net.txt. But then editing that file to rename it to a new group, like:

ipfilter:ipAddressGroupsWithRules:_array_id:11-net:rules = _empty_array
ipfilter:ipAddressGroupsWithRules:_array_id:11-net:readOnly = no
ipfilter:ipAddressGroupsWithRules:_array_id:11-net:allowAll = no
ipfilter:ipAddressGroupsWithRules:_array_id:11-net:addresses:_array_index:0 = "11.0.0.0/8"
ipfilter:ipAddressGroupsWithRules:_array_id:11-net:name = "11-net"

and loading that into serveradmin using $ sudo serveradmin settings < 10-net.txt doesn't create a new "ipAddressGroupsWithRules" rule in ipfilter. As verified using $ sudo serveradmin settings ipfilter:ipAddressGroupsWithRules:_array_id:11-net:*.

What am I doing wrong?


texts:
So I got some freeze issue and beach ball indicator was appeared for me. So I was watching rotation of it during ten minutes and then hard reset my mac. So did because I can't click any buttons or apple menu. Just keyboard caps lock pressing shows me that there is some reaction from my actions.

After reset I pick a user entered a password and then saw this screen:

And after that I saw this screen and it was last:


texts: Yosemite Startup Manager After Downgrading to Mavericks

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I downgraded from Yosemite Public Beta to Mavericks by:

Created bootable Mavericks USB
Booted Mac to the Mavericks USB
Went into Disk Utility > Selected HD and Erased HD
Restored to Mavericks Time Machine Backup which was successful

However, when I boot the Mac and hold option to go to the Startup Manager screen it is still the Yosemite startup manager. Is there any way to revert to the Mavericks Startup manager? The Yosemite Startup Manager is Black background with the disk selections, and the Mavericks is light gray background with the disk selections. Has anyone else seen this?

Does it even matter?


texts: How to stop the Apple Music ads every time I launch the Music app?

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Lately, the Music app on my iPhone XR has been showing the "Join Apple Music!" call-to-action interstitial screen pretty much every time I launch it. Usually this happens when I'm in a bad-network area, too, so it takes a few minutes before it appears, preventing me from playing my locally-stored music and playlists.

I neither have nor want Apple Music, and I have disabled Apple Music on my device through the respective control panel:

And yet I still get the interstitial ad for Apple Music at least once a week, if not more. Is there any way to disable this "feature?"


texts: Keyboard shortcut for prev/next sheet in Numbers 3

texts: Is there a keyboard shortcut for moving to the next or previous sheet in Numbers 3? I have a dream I found those shortcuts, but can't seem to figure out what they were...


texts: Mojave requires OS reinstall on restart or power on. MACH Reboot type 14 = page fault. Screenshot

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SPECS:

Computer: MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2014) MacBookPro11,3.
Memory: 16 GB 1600 MHz DDR3
HD: 1 TB APPLE SSD SM1024F Apple_APFS
GRAPHICS: NVIDIA GeForce GT 750M 2048 MB Intel Iris Pro 1536 MB

Everytime I restart my computer or power it on my computer won't boot. I have to enter recovery mode and reinstall Mojave. I've run disk utility but no problems are detected.

Sceenshot of verbose mode:


texts:
I am using two Spaces on my mojave and I can use Ctrl + Left/Arrow to change the screen.

But isn't there a way to use only mouse to change the space instead of using keyboard?


texts: Trying to reset password holding Command+R, at Startup, goes to Wi-Fi

texts: I am holding Command ⌘R at Startup, but can't access Utilities, it goes directly to Wi-Fi, choose network.


texts: How to disable Tab key in Gmail (Chrome or Safari)

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My grandpa has suffered from a very annoying "problem" in Gmail (on Mac OS under Chrome) for a long time and unfortunately I haven't found a solution for him yet:

When composing in Gmail, each time he types a, he often accidentally presses Tab at the same time (a and Tab are next to each other), which points the focus to the Send button and when he presses Enter (for a new line); the email is unintentionally sent.

This happens to him very often (please don't blame my old grandpa, this problem also happened to a lot of people: https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!msg/gmail/Y9DjPEA_6sk/V7IzWt02iugJ).

I hope that somebody here can help me to find a solution. I would appreciate it a lot! Thank you very much in advance!


texts:
I eradicated python 2.6 from my MacBook pro. Of course I did this before realizing iPhoto was dependent on it.

How do I point iPhoto to my newly installed version of Python?

This is the relevant error:

Dyld Error Message:
  Library not loaded: /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/Python
  Referenced from: /Applications/iPhoto.app/Contents/MacOS/iPhoto
  Reason: image not found

When attempting a symlink to my Python executable, I get the following:

Dyld Error Message:
  Library not loaded: /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/Python
  Referenced from: /Applications/iPhoto.app/Contents/MacOS/iPhoto
  Reason: no suitable image found.  Did find:
    /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/Python: mach-o, but wrong architecture
    /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/Python: mach-o, but wrong architecture


texts:
On ubuntu, I can open a UDP port:

nc -lu 5555

Then in another terminal window, send a message:

echo "hello" | nc -u localhost 5555

The message is received at the listener side, as expected.

However this doesn't appear to work on MacOS (10.14.5).  The listener invocation starts and blocks as expected, and the port appears to be open, according to lsof:

nc      22583 thisuser   3u  IPv4 0x7af131578e7df639      0t0      UDP *:5555

The sending side completes with no error, but the message doesn't appear to be received at the listener side.

If instead I use a TCP listener and connection, everything works as expected.  However, when the TCP listener is first opened, there is a popup to the effect of "Allow application nc to open port?"  (I forget the exact message - it is not given again).

So I suspect somehow the OS has a security hook into new listeners; asks for permission with TCP, but for some reason neglects to ask permission with UDP and implicitly denies.

How can I get this to work?


texts: iphone and ipad app for emails that supports colors, fonts, etc

texts:
I can easily bold, italicize, and underline words...but I really want to be able to style my emails.

Are there mail apps that:
*  support colors (mandatory)
*  free or low cost preferred

Nice to have are:
* full "html editor" built into the email client to change fonts, font size, color, alignment, etc.

Can someone recommend options?


texts: How can I find out what the App Store is automatically downloading?

texts:
I can see via Activity Monitor that storedownloadd is receiving a lot of packets and responsible for my ~1mb download. When opening the App Store, I can see only one update (Xcode 8). Can I deduce that this is what's being downloaded?

If not, how can I?


texts: How do I make the Console app reappear after deleting Everything? OS X Yosemite

texts:
I deleted every file that was contained in the console's logs listing of my Macbook Pro 15, including the "All messages,".
 Now when I click to open the app, the program opens but no GUI will load. The only way I can get the GUI to load is to manually open a log file, and the tab under "System Log Queries" is empty.

Any clue how I can fix this to where the console GUI will load when I open the app? If I gesture down on the trackpad and it shows a blurry screen (as there is no open window). Can I just use the touch command to make a blank file for it to load to, and if so, where should I put it and under what name?


texts: There was an error in the Mac App Store. Please try again later. (13)

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I have big problem. I can' t install any application from the Mac App Store. I have message "There was an error in the App Store. Please try again later. (13)". I'm search for this bug in google.

Problem started when I uninstall xCode and two others programs(i don't remember names). But i don't have any error message, when i unistall it.

What I tried:
1. Delete appstore cookies
2. Activate Debug mode and click Reset Application in Appstore
3. Do Repair Permision on my disk in disk utitlity program
4. Logout apple ID account, restart system
5. Search for not complete installed apps. No one here.
6. Tried download anything from iTunes. The same error message.

And i still have problem.

I have mac mini. Mac OS X Lion with all updates.

This is what i found on internet. What I can do now ?


texts: Quick text string search, perhaps in Applescript, for fixed search term so can be bound to keyboard shortcut?

texts:
I spend a lot of time editing text. At work, I use the medical software Epic where the key F3 is bound to search and select the next instance of “foo bar” from the cursor. If F3  is pressed again, the next instance of “foo bar” is selected and so on until it returns to the start of the document. This makes editing template documents quick.

Is there a way to create a custom search function (maybe with AppleScript) that searches for a predefined term that I can assign to a specific key?

Is there a way that I can replicate this behaviour (or with a different keyboard shortcut), ideally across Apps, on Mac OS (10.13.6)?


texts: When I go to play songs on my i phone, the same song just repeats and repeats. How can I stop this and get it play a whole playlist or album?


texts: Deleting Wifidiagnostics file and others under private/var/temp and /folder on Catalina

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Is it safe to delete the Wifidiagnostics file even though its in private/var/tmp?
My understanding was that it's better to leave those folders alone in Catalina but I'm not that experienced a user.
In the same folder there's also: configd-pattern.plist, configd-state, configd-store.plist.
Are those part of that diagnostic test and therefore can/should be deleted as well or are they network configurations? I found conflicting informantions but they were created at the same time of the other one so it seems to me like its related to that log..but it's mostly the log I'd like to delete, its 350mb, its not a lot but it's also not insignificant.

And one more thing, I read that deleting from private/var/folders is supposedly safe compared to the rest, less so /zz (true??)but still. Now I'm not sure that that info is up to date with Catalina, so could it be unsafe as well?
I'm asking about /folders because I want to delete some remnants from Zoom Rooms, terrible app I uninstalled(which seems to have left quite the leftovers..on a sidenote, if you have suggestions whether there's files related to it that would be better deleted I'd appreciate it, but it's a bit OP tbh)

It's under folders/y6/lettersandnumbers/c/us.zoom.ZoomPresence/com.apple.metal which contains 3902 and Intel(R) UHD Graphics 630
212kb as a whole..def not worth any risks but it feels like useless deletable clutter.

Thank you everybody:)


texts: "cust" process on Mac with very high CPU usage drains battery in 30 minutes

texts:
The battery of my Macbook Air High Sierra goes down very fast, something is definitely wrong.
I checked Activity Monitor and identified a process named cust that is using 200-300% of CPU:

Does anyone know what cust is?
Would a process using so much CPU cause battery to drain in 30 minutes?

Edit:
This is the output of ps -ef | grep cust:

This is the output of find / -name cust -type f 2>/dev/null:


texts: Which Mac for Web development + iOS development

texts:
I'm a Windows user, but I'm looking to get a portable Mac for web development and iOS development.

I will be running sublime 3, Xcode and probably Nginx or XAMPP as my server. Would the 11-inch MacBook Air be a suitable machine? If not, what would be the minimum spec machine.


texts:
I have been experiencing the following:

Leave the house in the morning with MacBookPro turned on from day before
slightly/not use it until I got back home and then use it

Problem: My Apple Music library is greyed out when coming back home and only the downloaded songs will play (even though I have a stable connection).
At home I am connected to WiFi (which works), during the way to work not, at work again (obviously a different WiFi than at home).

To resolve the issue I always had to to quit and restart iTunes. Then it loaded the library within a second. I have also restarted the Mac.
I have not yet done:

SMC reset
unlink Apple Music account and relink
deleted WiFi settings and reconnect

Question: Do you know of this issue and how to resolve it? And do my own suggestions make sense?


texts: Not enough storage space on MacBook Air SSD

texts:
As a newbie to Macs I thought putting files into iCloud would save me SSD space, but now I see that is not the case. I also have Dropbox and I was wondering if there is a way to transfer files from iCloud to Dropbox and use Dropbox's selective sync option to keep some of the files stored there from cluttering up my SSD.

Early 2015 MacBook Air, 128 GB SSD, OS X 10.11.5 "El Capitan".


texts: How select date of full backup to restore with Time Machine - NOT the latest backup

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My hard drive died after files started disappearing for a couple days. I ended up getting a new Mac since the computer was old anyway.

I'm worried that the last couple days of Time Machine backups will be bad due to the dying hard drive, so I'd like to use an earlier backup date from before it started dying with Migration Assistant.

I don't see any way in Migration Assistant to select the date of the backup that I want to use.

Should I just "delete" the latest backup folder dates from the Time Machine drive? Will that screw up the backup?

Any other way to accomplish this?


texts: iPod 5 charger isn't working! What do I do?

texts: I have A ipod 5. Every time I go to charge it with a dynex or apple charger it doesn't charge. The bar stays red for over an hour. I'm thinking that I have a short in my charger. I don't know what to do. Please help?


texts: How can I delete an app where no one realises I have downloaded it?

texts: Basically there are apps which I will download, like Instagram, and delete it when I’m done for the day. But when I go back to the app store there is a cloud and an arrow on it which means I have downloaded it before but I don’t want that therefore my children not to see it. Is there a way of me deleting the app without it showing that I have downloaded it before?


texts: What is the real world minimum HFS+ journal size for a 4TB hard drive?

texts:
Experimenting with Lion, newfs_hfs and smaller journal sizes it appears that 512k is too small for its journal size because kernel hangs occur.
Google results show kernel panics for journal sizes of up to 8M:
panic(cpu 0 caller 0x001023CC): jnl: transaction too big (8385024 >= 8388096 bytes, bufsize 4096, tr 0x361cf7c bp 0x476bf4f0)

For now the 512k journal is disabled to prevent further panics.

What is the real world minimum HFS+ journal size for a 4.0TB hard disk drive?

And is there a way to increase the journal size without having to copy/move/clone all data?


texts: Make a global shortcut for a particular app

texts:
From Apple KB - Use global keyboard shortcuts on Mac,

Note: You can create keyboard shortcuts only for existing menu commands. You cannot define keyboard shortcuts for general purpose tasks such as opening an app or switching between apps.

I want to know if there is a utility or a hack to make a shortcut for a particular app work even when the app is minimized. In my case, I am trying to assign a shortcut to OBS to start/stop recording even when minimized.
To explain better, consider this scenario. My active app is Firefox (or any other app). OBS is running in the background and is visible in the top menu bar. I press a shortcut key combination and OBS starts to record screen. Currently, this doesn't works if the active app is not OBS itself. The reason is, this shortcut is local to OBS. I want a way to assign it as a global shortcut.


texts: iMac Snow Leopard using Apple Mail via Gmail: Can I get rid of "Sender" field?

texts:
My wife has a new iMac, and she has noticed that Yahoo mailing lists are rejecting her because Gmail is adding a "Sender:" field that has her Gmail address instead of the email address she's using.

Her email address was originally a POP account, but that gave her only 10mb of storage. I changed the email account to a forwarding account with a Gmail IMAP backend (giving her 7Gb of storage). I did this about two years ago. Her old Mac Mini seemed to work fine with this, and so did her iPad. However, it doesn't seem to work on her iMac.

I know that Google is adding the "Sender:" field because the "From:" email isn't the real email address. However, the Yahoo newsgroup seems to be picking up the "Sender:" field and not the "From:" field.

Is there anyway to get around this?

(If this is anything, her iPad was set to using the Gmail Exchange server.)


texts: Are OS installations on a disk linked to a system?

texts:
I have a MBP17 with an SSD (Sierra) which I want to switch with my husband's MBP13 for work related reasons.

Would taking out the SSD (OS and files intact) from the MBP17 and placing it in the MBP13 without re-installing anything render any problems? Meaning is the harddrive linked to an installation in any way, leading me to have to re-install Mac on the SSD before I can use the MBP13?

Would it matter that the MBP13 is still on El Capitan and the MBP17 on Sierra?


texts: I am using an old 4S and the Power Button is kind of half stuck down. Are there any hints or tricks out there to un-stuck it?


texts: How to modify .GlobalPreferences.plist file?

texts:
my objective is to create a keyboard shortcut to activate/deactivate the "replace with" on Mac.
The idea is to create an automation that can be activated with a shortcut trough services.
What the shortcut does is switching two similar .GlobalPreferences.plist files, one with "replace with" keys one without.
Here is my code:

The problem is that for some reason it doesn't switch the files. But on a regular folder it works.
In detail:
running mv ~/Library/Preferences/.GlobalPreferences.plist ~/Library/Preferences/.GlobalPreferencesTMP.plist perfectly works, the proprieties are copied.
On the other hand if I run mv /Library/Preferences/.GlobalPreferences2.plist ~/Library/Preferences/.GlobalPreferences.plist It doesn't keep the proprieties of .GlobalPreferences2.plist but instead I got exactly the same as .GlobalPreferences.plist which I started with.


texts: Updated to iOS 8 some time ago, now I have to rotate a picture and the "rotate" option is gone. Where is the functionality located?


texts: Is there an IOS app that mimics "while you were out phone message pads"

texts: but txt all the info to multiple recepients


texts: how do I save the extra files that come in a dmg?

texts: After I download a DMG to my Mac and install the apps that come in it, where should I keep the miscellaneous other files (like Readme and license terms) that come in the DMG? I want to keep them, but where, and how do I keep them associated with their app? Keeping the entire DMG just for its little misc files seems wasteful of storage. What is the normal practice?


texts: Files moved partially and the rest gone!

texts:
I moved about 100GB folders of pictures from one external hard to another one.

In the beginning of the process the finder breaks down and didn't respond. None of the relaunch solutions worked!

So I restart my mac but now, the moved part exist on destination hard drive but the other part doesn't exist on origin hard drive!

The destination hard shows folder in gray color but expect one the others have zero byte capacity.

Is there any way I can access the lost part?


texts: How can I move files by USB between a version 6.1 iPod Touch and a Linux machine?

texts:
I've recently dug out my old 5th Gen (A1421) model iPod Touch and put it back to factory settings. It's currently running version 6.1 (10B141) of its OS. I don't want to find that a software update has broken it one day, so my goal is to keep it offline as much as possible (specifically, Airplane Mode) and have it only talk to my PC, a Xubuntu 20.04 Linux machine. In line with this goal, I've never linked it up with any sort of iTunes software or Apple account.
It was my hope that with the iPod set up as above, I would be able to connect it by USB to my PC and transfer files as I pleased. My goal is to use it to play mp3s. After all, Linux typically ignores whatever file system visibility restrictions that the connected device is trying to enforce. Now that I've tried that, my PC is only reporting that two devices exist: "iPod", contained only an empty DCIM folder, and "Documentes on iPod touch", containing nothing. When I try to move files to either of these, I either get an error message saying that a file doesn't exist or an error message saying that a directory doesn't exist. Unlocking the iPod does not change this, and the iPod does not seem to respond at all to anything that I'm doing on the PC, other than trying to charge its battery from my machine.
So, given my goals, what can I do to be able to move files between the two devices? Could anything that I've done, such as putting the iPod in Airplane Mode, be to blame for my difficulties? I have managed to use ifuse to get new files on to the iPod, but the iPod itself shows no signs of recognizing them.


texts: How to merge an HFS+ partition into my APFS partition

texts:
I want to merge an empty HFS+ partition with my Mac's APFS partition. My Disk Utility interface looks like this :

How can I do this ?


texts: Keynote version 8.3 how to alter image opacity.. only shows gallery/arrange and not style tab?

texts:
Please can you help?  I want to fade out an image on a keynote presentation but in the version I have (which is 8.3) there isn't the style tab.  How can I change the opacity of the image?  Is there a tool elsewhere within keynote?
Thanks so much!


texts: Can a mac do a bitwise copy of a USB disk with proprietary disk format?

texts:
I have a USB disk with a propietary format that I want to bitwise clone to a new identical drive.

I have CCC but the disk doesn't show up in Finder.  It does appear in Disk Utility.

I tried Terminal command of "mount" and do not see a device that might be it, so the dd command probably isn't an option.

Any ideas?

Can it be done on a Windows or Linux machine?

Thanks for any help,
-deac  :-)


texts:
first query here. I'm being driven crazy by not being able to open one file from thousands. I'm using MacOS Catalina 10.15.6 & Excel for Mac 16.4.
When upgrading from Office 2011 every time I opened a .xls file I saved as .xlsx. Over the past three months I've saved thousands of files like this. Today, one refused to open. Dialogue boxes when attempting to open queried validity or extension name. The file was created in Excel six weeks ago and has been opened since with no problems. I opened similar, created at same time, both before and after attempting to open this one with no problem.
Then there's a message saying it may be read-only or encrypted. It's neither. I have permission to read and write (it's my own fil after all) and it hasn't been encrypted
I make a copy to see if that helps. Dialogue box says again it may be corrupted or read only and then laughably it might be on a server that isn't responding.
I've done everything I can think of. Zipped the file and tried to open unzipped. Changed file extension to .xls, changed application to open to first Numbers then OpenOffice. All without success.
Crazily, Excel's 'quick look' function works and I can see the file with all tabs and all data intact but can't do anything else from this option like a save as or export.
The get info box says the file was most recently opened today when of course it didn't open. But Excel's recently opened option doesn't show it at all.
One file. From literally thousands.
I've been using Excel since Office 2001 and I've never come across a version as bad as this current one. There are other issues but they're trifling compared to not being able to open an important file.
I've tried every help option possible but the only advice I can find is either something I've already tried or related to previous versions of Excel and aren't applicable here.
Any advice greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance


texts: Voicemails found on iPhone that shouldn't be there

texts:
Recently, a friend of mine who borrowed my old iPhone 5 informed the that he was able to listen to all my old as well as new voicemails (so they were updated on the iPhone 5 as well).

Before I gave him the phone I did the following:

Erase all contents
Log out from my Apple ID
remove all connections / log out from all accounts on the phone (iMessage, ...)
Remove the phone from my Apple ID (via iTunes)
Erase all content & reset the phone

(* during that process, the phone did not have a SIM card inserted.)

Are voicemails connected to my Apple ID? And if not, how could this happen?

(Should I inform my telecommunication provider about this matter?)


texts: How to prevent Spotlight from playing YouTube videos when I paste a YouTube URL into Spotlight

texts:
When I copy and paste a YouTube video URL into Spotlight (CommandSpace), it automatically starts playing that YouTube video in a miniaturised web browser embedded in Spotlight.
How do I turn off this behaviour? In fact I would most prefer to completely get rid of that embedded web browser entirely.

The reason I often paste stuff into Spotlight is that I use it like a second clipboard/storage space for text.
It's really convenient, a single keybind away. I often paste text there if I have to copy/paste something else intermittently, or need to be reminded of something a few moments later.


texts: MacBook Air stuck at login screen, can't get into safe boot nor into Recovery Mode

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Last night I kept my MacBook Air on sleep mode and in morning when I tried to login, it got stuck at login screen with progressive bar completed but there was no further action.

The screen is completely stuck at login, I tried safe boot but the Mac again stuck at Apple logo screen with progressive bar completely stuck at 100 percent, I also tried to get into Recovery Mode but same problem occurred as in the  safe boot.

The computer is a 1.5 year old MacBook Air running macOS High Sierra.


texts: Does the mid-2010 Macbook Pro (Core 2 Duo) support memory compression with OS X 10.9+?

texts:
The machine in question is a mid-2010 Macbook Pro w/ the Intel Core 2 Duo (P8600 2.4GHz).

I'm not entirely clear on whether or not the memory compression feature in OS X 10.9 (Mavericks) and beyond takes advantage of compression instruction sets in the newer Intel processors. That being said, is it implemented completely in software and would work on all Apple hardware capable of running 10.9 and beyond, regardless of processor, or does it require a more modern processor with these instructions that speed-up the compression? An example of a compatibility issue with processors is the AESNI instruction set in the newer Intel architecture that greatly speeds up AES and hashing routines, but is unavailable in a lot of AMD processors and the Intel Core Duo series.

Any information that can shed light on this would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!


texts: Applescript for automating MS Word for Mac feature: add quote mark wrapper to unformatted text paste

texts:
The post below from 2011 gave a really good script for pasting unformatted text into Word for Mac.

How can one create a shortcut for pasting unformatted text in Microsoft Word 2008 for Mac?

I'm a student, using this to help with quoting in essays, but I have no experience writing apple script. I've found a few scripts that wrap selected text in " marks (e.g. https://www.macworld.com/article/2038095/5-automator-workflows-everyone-should-have.html ) but have no idea how they could be integrated with the first script so that the unformatted text that is pasted has " marks wrapped around it.

Is that something someone could help with?


texts: Mac Hacked? "a computer with IP address 128.130.244.179 tried to establish an incoming connection to kernel"

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I got a suspicious alert on litte snitch today which I captured in a screenshot. I am sending it to you. Could you please take a look and tell whether you think my mac got infected or not?
I installed Clear VPN through my Setapp subscription last week and it asked for my keychain password. I am not really informed on keychain access and security. I was even less informed last week. I reset the password for keychain and entered it in the Clear VPN App and then got this suspicious alert on MacOS Kernel. I then tried to restore from a time machine backup, which seemed to help (this was a couple of days earlier). But today I got this alert once again. I blocked it. However, I have a feeling that this is not good.
Maybe the installation of clear VPN and keychain password isn't related to this alert. I don't know. If anyone does, could you please help me with this and shed some light on the matter?
Big Sur 11.0.1
Little Snitch 5.0.3


texts: Clone one Mac and restore it on multiple Macs

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I am going to setup a bunch of MacBooks Pros with the same settings. I could go through every Mac and install all the programs but here is what I would like to do.

I would like to setup one Mac with the appropriate settings and programs. Then clone the drive to an external hard drive and then just restore that drive to each and every MacBook.

I am completely new to this and have messed about in Disk Utility for hours without getting this to work. I have also read a lot of articles online that are way too simplified.

I actually managed to make an image file of the drive and restore it, but this makes the Mac un-bootable. Basically the Mac gets stuck in an eternal boot loop.

Could someone with experience please give me a mini tutorial on how to clone one Mac to multiple Macs with an external hard drive?


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There's an error in a user profile I'm generating to configure an wireless internet connection. When I try to import it the Profile Manager tells me there's an error, and if I try to use the profiles utility I get the following error:

$ profiles -v -I -F ./xxx.mobileconfig
profiles: verbose mode ON
profiles: using user name = xxx
profiles install profile xxx.mobileconfig for user: xxx
profiles install for file: 'xxx.mobileconfig' and user:'xxx' returned 3840 (The data couldn’t be read because it isn’t in the correct format.)
profiles: returned error: 3840
fail

This is the error you get if you try to import any file that's not valid, from an .mp3 file to a proper .mobileconfig file with a missing closing tag, so it's not very helpful.

I've checked for obvious errors, like whether it's correct XML, whether there are any weird characters or whatever - didn't find anything. I've tried comparing it to a correct file but I haven't been able to find anything yet. Is there any way to get more detail about what's wrong? Some sort of tool, or at least a proper documentation about the format of these files? Thanks.

EDIT: Okay, I found the specification, I'm going to look into it.


texts: Prevent Mac terminal brightening font color with no background

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When I execute echo -e '\033[49;36m\u2588\033[40;36m\u2588' in a linux terminal, I get two blocks of the same color:

Here, the first block has no background color (49) while the second block has a black background color. The character displayed should generally take up the entire space, so the background is not visible and they appear the same.

However, if I repeat this in Mac Terminal I get something very surprising:

For some reason, mac terminal is changing the foreground color for different background colors. Through some experimentation, I've found that the foreground color is constant for any fixed background color, and only different for the default background color. The color it renders is distinct from any of the other dim or bright modifications offered by ansi terminals.

Why is this happening, and more importantly, can I fix it?


texts: How to delete another machine's time machine backup?

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I've used my Time Machine drive to back up my main machine, and also a friend's mac. Her machine is now being backed up on another Time Machine drive, and she'd like me to delete her backup.

I'm familiar with the (perhaps obscure) way to delete a particular time machine backup, or how to delete all backups of a particular file, but I have no idea how to delete another machine's backup.

If I had access to her machine, I'd plug in the drive and delete the entire backup of her drives using time machine on her computer. Whether or not it is reasonable to have to do this is irrelevant, I guess, because that machine isn't available to me. :)

Please nobody suggest I drag her backup to the trash. I did that once and the trash never finished emptying.

Any ideas?


texts: What part do I need for my broken iPhone 3G?

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One morning my iPhone 3G just showed up with a gray screen. Everywhere I looked said that I need to replace the screen.
I bought an "iPhone 3G Screen + Digitizer" off the internet but it turns out this is NOT the part I need.
I have the technical ability to replace the screen...but I have no idea what part it is that I'm looking for.  Can anyone help me figure this one out?


texts: How can I get the width or height of the dock in Mac OS X so I can resize a window properly?

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I want to write a code to resize a window by setting its bounds, and I need to consider where the dock is positioned and the size of the dock. I can get the dock's position and its size, but the problem is the size I'm getting is not in an immediately usable form. For example, when I do:
tell application "System Events"
    tell dock preferences
        properties
    end tell
end tell

I get
{show indicators:true, minimize into application:false, autohide:false, magnification size:1.0, class:dock preferences object, dock size:0.428571432829, autohide menu bar:false, double click behavior:zoom, magnification:false, show recents:true, minimize effect:genie, screen edge:left, animate:true}

How do I translate the dock size of 0.428571432829 into, for example, 100 so that I can set a window (in a 1024x768 resolution) to position x=100, y=0, h=768, w=924?
Notice x started after the dock, and the w is minus the dock width.


texts: Macbook Air system fails and fsck does not work

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My macbook air 13 (mid 2013) cannot boot correctly. It stops at the Apple logo loading screen.
After getting into the single user mode, here is the error I got by runningfsck -fy (didn't find any information about the error code):

After running the command mount -uw /, I got this and the process just hangs there:
I think because of some failed system files or potentially damaged hard drive, the system cannot  boot or mount the main drive (macintosh HD). I also tried to re-install the OS in the recover mode and it was just stuck during the initial process (seems related to the mounting problem). I also used the diskutil repairVolume command, but the process went on for 10 hours without any results (guess it's also stuck).
Any ideas about how to solve this problem? Is there a way to force formating the main drive without mounting it?
Updates (9-27-2020): After two days of research and seeking for advice, I finally solved the problem by erasing the whole drive and re-installing the OS. It was actually not as straightforward as it sounds. Neither the re-install option in the Recovery Mode nor the Internet Recovery worked. Both processes were stuck at some point because the system couldn't mount/recognize the main hard drive (due to the failed file system I think). I couldn't delete/write anything in the command line either.
So I decided to boot from a USB drive. I first tried using a MacOS boot drive, but the process was still stuck. Then I tried a Windows boot drive and it still didn't work. Finally a Ubuntu boot drive went through and I managed to erase the hard drive and installed a Ubuntu. The hard drive became okay. Then I re-installed the Mac OS through the Internet Recovery.
Conclusion: it is a problem of failed file systems, not a hardware problem (luckily). The disk repair tools provided by Apple seems not be able to fix it.


texts: Password recovered from Keychain fails to decrypt volume

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I lost my Mac computer and recovered some items from a backup. One was an a disk image with extension .dmg, with 400 MB, encrypted with Disk Utility, and last changed on 8th November 2018. The password was saved in the login keychain and I used to decrypt the volume by just double-clicking it. The password shows a date of 14th May 2018.

I recovered the password from the keychain but it fails to decrypt the volume. I am confident that it's the right password because I confirmed that other passwords in the same keychain are accurate, and because Keychain Access would not show the password in plain text if the file were corrupted or if I had forgotten the login password.

The only possibility that I see is that the Disk Utility encryption algorithm changed between High Sierra in 2018 and Mojave in 2019, but this seems far-fetched because then users could not share an encrypted volume between OS versions.

What other reasons could Disk Utility encryption be failing with the right password?


texts: Why is it taking so long to upload photos to icloud from iPhone/iPad?

texts: If I want to sell something online and create an ad on my Macbook, then snap a picture with my iPhone/iPad and both are connected to my home wifi, I kind of expect the photo to be uploaded instantly so I can use it on my Macbook. It's taking forever though. Could there be some kind of setting I have to change or some other problem?


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I have the Bose Quitcomfort 25 headphones for Android and on it there are 3 buttons (volume up, down and play pause toggle).

I was able to get the Play Pause toggle up and running by installing BeardedSpice

Now I'm wondering is there any way to get the headphones volume up / down buttons working on my Mac?


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So, I tried to install newly purchased iPhone 5 and after logging into my apple ID account, a pop up message notified me that a verification code has been sent to macOS Sierra, where can I access the code on my laptop?
Furthermore I cannot now even verify the account because it is impermanently blocked as I tried too many times to enter a password for my Apple ID. Now I remembered it btw. So, to reset the apple ID password they ask me to enter a password for my macbook AIR, I am very sure of the password because I use the laptop every day, but when I enter the MacBook password the pop up message gives me an error and notes, that the entered password is incorrect. Do I even understand correctly that I need to enter the password which I enter when try to log into my computer, is there any other password am not aware of?

Now I manage to log into the phone and install different apple ID, but I have a problem to reactivate the old apple ID on my mac and also the phone, because on both devices they ask to verify the code sent to the other device, which I cannot access.


texts: Macbook Air not waking up from Suspend/Sleep with rEFInd boot manager installed

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Having installed both rEFInd 0.6.10 (updated to 0.6.11) via its install.sh and Ubuntu 13.04 on another partition I can now choose on a MacBook Air to boot either MacOS or Linux.

When running MacOS and closing and soon re-opening the lid, everything is fine, but after a longer time of closed lid, the machine is not waking/starting up. Instead I have to long-press the power button and then press it again to boot the machine.


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I'm experiencing the problems
described here, basically the trackpad has spurts of spurious input, but the problems are fairly intermittent.  I've kept the system usable by deactivating many non-critical gestures, like zooming, three finger drag, etc.

Are there any visualization or tuning tools for the Mac Book Air's trackpad?  It'd be useful to simply get a graphical record of the trackpad's input over a period when it was miss-behaving.

Are there any such tools under Linux if not under Mac OS X?


texts: iMac shows the spinning globe screen then just boots into the Apple Hardware Test program

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I have this particular issue with my iMac when trying to start it up from Apple Diagnostics. My Mac model is a 27-inch iMac (mid-2011).
I recently turned on my Mac and held down the D key on/during startup. It showed the macOS Internet Recovery boot screen, then it went/booted into a screen prompting me to choose my language. I clicked that "grey arrow" button, then it...just advanced to that "proper" Apple Hardware Test screen. It had to probe the hardware first, and then I can run the tests.
One other recent time, I held down Option-D on startup, but the same thing happened. Does anyone know how to fix this issue?


texts: Sound from an Apple TV plugged in an LG monitor

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I'm hoping to plug an Apple TV 4th generation into an LG IPS277L (http://www.lg.com/hk_en/monitor/lg-IPS277L) which is equipped with the following input/output connections:

D-Sub:            Yes
HDMI:         Yes (HDMI 1, HDMI2/MHL)
Headphone Out:    Yes
Others:           MHL(Mobile)

Can I plug in an Apple TV 4 with an HDMI cable, and then (in order to get the sound from the Apple TV) plug external speakers in the headphone out connection from the monitor?


texts: What procedure should be followed post spilling fluids onto a MacBook keyboard?

texts: I know the first thing to do is dry with a towel the majority of the fluid. Next is to turn off the computer. Then flip over the laptop itself and whilst upside down cool dry the keyboard with a hairdryer for a few minutes. Also leave the computer upside down for a day or so. Is there anything I’m missing?


texts: Restoring of iPad using recovery mode fail due to 15 minutes timeout

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I forget a passcode for my iPad Air (model A1474). After several unsuccessfull attempts to enter the passcode, it become locked permanently and asked me to connect it to iTunes. When I connect it to computer, iTunes says "iTunes could not connect to the iPad “Ilya V. Schurov’s iPad” because it is locked with a passcode. You must enter your passcode on the iPad before it can be used with iTunes." And iPad still doesn't allow me to enter passcode. I also turned off "find my ipad" feature and cannot erase iPad with iCloud.

So I finally decided to use Recovery mode. I followed the official instructions, entered the recovery mode and began the restore/update process. Unfortunately, to proceed, iTunes have to download iOS 10 which is about 2GB. It seems that Apple's servers are overloaded and iTunes says it will take about 24 hours to complete the download (or even more). However, as the documentation says,

  If the download takes more than 15 minutes and your device exits recovery mode, let the download finish, then repeat these steps.

Indeed, after 15 minutes iPad exits recovery mode and restarts. The download is then stopped.

It is obvious that the repeating of these step will not help. Any other ideas how to restore iPad in this case?


texts: Command key inconsistently works in Remote Desktop

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How do I use spotlight via ⌘ + spacebar in the remote computer? It works sometimes but not all the time.

Using Apple's Remote Desktop to connect to a mac mini, I often open spotlight via ⌘ + spacebar. It sometimes works and sometimes opens my main computer's spotlight. Changing the focus, the active window, and making the remote full screen all don't change anything. Closing and re-opening remote desktop has a chance of making it work.

The behavior is the same for ⌘ + tab


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So yesterday I had to jump through some hoops getting Xcode set up, in the end I had to install it once, uninstall it and then install a different version.

At the start I had ~78GB free.  After the first install it went down to ~75GB as expected.  However when I uninstalled it and installed the other version which requires 10+ GB since it includes the iOS SDK (the version I uninstalled was what came on the disk with my machine).  Now my disk usage reads at ~62 GB, not quite I expect considering my starting amount and the download (4 GB) and the install (10 GB).  My question: is there some cache that just hasn't been cleared yet or is finder just not reporting the disk usage correctly?


texts:
Issue - father in-law has alzheimers (early but impacting)
Wants files from Apple laptop and can't remember password(s)
Shop who set it up for him wants $$$s to unlock and reset and I said what a lot of BS, but they didn't supply an OS disk with the machine so can I (or he if there is something he can do) get an OS disk to reset the admin password?
PS. This is a first time foray for me into the world of Apples - he wants the "family tree" files.....
Any ideas - inbetween times we are scouring bits of paper with notes and old passwords etc.....
D.


texts: iTunes suddenly will not let me add manually album art

texts: I am running High Sierra, updated, with iTunes 12.7.2.  My Music and Album Art is on an external HD.  I rip my own music into AIFF files, then manually add the album art.  This afternoon all of a sudden it will allow me to go through the motions, but the album art does not appear in iTunes.  I have checked the permissions for some of the files and they say I have read write permissions.  Please do not suggest downgrading my music.


texts: Can't delete Logical Volume Group on Fusion drive

texts:
I have a 2014 iMac Retina running OS X Yosemite and a 3TB Fusion drive. I am attempting to restore it from a Time Machine backup, but when I try to do so, I get the error message, "The disk can't be erased." referring to the Macintosh HD Fusion drive. Trying to use disk utility to delete the drive also doesn't work.

I had previously had this problem when I had to restore my computer, and managed to use the solution found here using Terminal to manually delete the Logical Volume Group. However, now when I use the command:

diskutil cs deleteLVG UUID

The process begins and says "Destroying Logical Volume Group" but it only gets to 20% and then nothing happens. Even after letting it sit for hours it shows no further progress.

I also found this solution here, which recommends using the command

diskutil cs deleteVolume UUID

to delete the Logical Volume first, prior to deleting the Logical Volume Group, but when I do so I get the following message:

  Error: -69779: Unable to delete the CoreStorage Logical Volume

So at this point I'm stuck. If anyone has any other suggestions for how I can delete the Fusion drive and restore from my Time Machine backup, I would appreciate any help. Thanks.


texts: High Sierra Screenshot part of screen stopped working

texts:
I have been for years using shift+cmd+4 to take a screenshot of only a part of the screen, or just to measure some distance in an image. A week or so ago it completely changed functionality to instead take a screenshot of the entire hovered window... Why?? I need it back.. I get designs as JPG's :D and need to implement websites base on that :P

I haven't installed anything that I can think of, I got a new external screen but that was plug & play, a DELL screen. It can't be that can it??

Attaching a photo of how it looks below, note the blue tint that the window is selected and the camera icon in the middle..


texts:
So Walking Dead season 1 was a welcomed recent gift, it isn't The Sopranos but it's not bad. But it's pretty graphic. With a couple of hundred hours of Left 4 Dead 2 I don't mind but I don't think it is suitable for children.

Is there a means to hide either selected video, or ideally, all episodes of a show in iTunes?

Failing that are there third party apps to achieve this that are still good for playing and watching video? I'm thinking along the lines of Comic Zeal which does a great job for comics - drag and drop iTunes syncing, great organization tools etc. The difference would be that if older son switches away from the game I said he could play to my app, without an extra password the videos would either be unplayable or just not appear at all.

Disabling iTunes isn't an option because sometimes I'll want to hand over the iPad so he can watch a video that is OK. So global Parental Controls options won't really work.


texts: I already have a lot of experience in Photoshop because I normally use it to edit my photos, but I've heard that Aperture is far better (or easier to use) than Photoshop. I started using the trial version but it's not that good. It's just like Lightroom. Is there any difference if i buy the full version? Also, does Aperture support plugins?


texts: Solution to switch any window by command+tab including minimized

texts: Is it possible to setup Catalina to switch between all window including minimized using command + tab without pressing option?


texts: How to change all dates on file and preserve them during file move?

texts:
I would like to change all dates on a file [all four reported by stat command].
I cannot find a way to change the "inode last changed" date.
I've tried:

touch -t
SetFile -d
SetFile -m

but this single date remains unchanged.

Also, is there any way to move file between directories and leave all of the dates intact?
I am moving whole directories, with lots of files inside, so I would prefer to have a single command to do so, if not - I will read the date upfront and set it after the move.


texts:
Does Terminal.app support "bracketed paste mode"?  This mode inserts an escape sequence when pasting so that (e.g.) editors can handle pasted text differently from typed text.

http://www.xfree86.org/current/ctlseqs.html#Bracketed%20Paste%20Mode


texts: Why does my firewall block connections even when it's off?

texts:
This most notably happens with iChat. I don't use a firewall, never have on this computer. When I first started using iChat (when Skype 5 came out and sucked hardcore) I couldn't video chat with anyone. It turned out to be the case where my firewall was blocking the necessary connection for video chats. to remedy this I turned the firewall on, put iChat on the "allowed connections list" and then turned the firewall back off (because I don't want the blasted firewall) Well after a completely fresh installation of Mac (don't ask) I forgot to make this same change and ran into a problem where iChat wouldn't even log in. So, remembering the stupidity last time I did the same thing and guess what it works!

So why does the firewall block these connections, particularly from iChat, when the firewall is off? And what does adding iChat to the allowed connections have to do with anything when the firewall is off?


texts: Hi I´m an OT working in a high school in Iceland and we are doing a project on internet usage and how we use it in our lives. I have been looking for a app that lets my kids monitor their app usage time so that they can analyze how much time each day they spend on different apps such as Facebook, Instagram etc. I can´t find any for Iphone except a Cydia app (we can´t use that) but I found a great one for Android called App usage tracker which gives me exactly the info I need.  Does anybody have any ideas on similar apps for Iphone?


texts: Cannot get iTerm profile to switch back to shell using zsh

texts:
I have a couple of profiles set up in iTerm on my Mac, for accessing different local and remote machines.  The main purpose of the profiles is to change the colours so that it is immediately obvious which machine that current session is connected to.
Anyway, my default profile is for my Mac.  I use zsh here.  The main other machine I connect to is a remote Ubuntu box.  Both machines have Shell Integration installed.  Now, ssh-ing to this Ubuntu box from my Mac successfully changes the profile to the ubuntu profile, as the terminal prompt matches the pattern in iTerm -> Preferences -> Profiles -> Advanced -> Automatic Profile Switching.  However, when I end the ssh connection, the ubuntu profile persists, even though the pattern no longer matches.  The description of the Automatic Profile Switching states:

If the rule stops matching, the profile switches back unless the rule begins with "!".

I can't seem to figure out a pattern to match against the zsh terminal prompt, nor will it match against the username or host.  I've even tried the output of the $PROMPT variable.  I am stuck in the ubuntu profile until I kill the iTerm session.


texts: Using "+Left/Right" to move between words in an editing window

texts:
I've recently switched to a MacBook as my main platform for doing work. Previously, I was an all-Linux sort of person (I now run Linux under VMware). But there are still a few UI differences that are driving me crazy, and one of them is this:

I am used to being able to use ctrl+→/← when in a web form, or even in most editing apps, to move left and right by a whole word. However, on my MBP those keys switch between desktops in Spaces. And where MacOS tends to use the ⌘-key for common control-isms (like ctrl+C, etc.), ⌘+← and ⌘+→` do start-of-line and end-of-line, respectively.

Is there a modifier for moving by words, under MacOS?


texts: Why do some windows not appear in the app switcher even when not hidden or minimized?

texts:
The OS X app switcher doesn't include certain windows.

Example of a window not in the switcher and which I can't alt + tab to:

What are the rules for which windows don't show up in the switcher?

I'd like to change this behavior but before I can search for how to do that I need a way to refer to this behavior. "windows with property X don't show up in the app switcher". What is X?

The question here is, what exactly is this behavior?
I'll post another question for how to change this behavior and link it here if needed.

EDIT: Screenshot after pressing cmd + tab and holding cmd:


texts: Hide "disk password" login option at EFI (Filevault) login screen

texts:
I encrypted my volume before installation and have added my user as FileVault user afterwards.

Now I can login with either the disk password or my user login password at the EFI (Filevault) login screen. (The former option sends me to the regular OS X login screen where I can again login as my user.)

How do I hide the disk password login option at the EFI login screen without enabling the input menu (com.apple.loginwindow showInputMenu -bool TRUE)?

In other words: How do I go from disk password-based encryption to login password-based encryption, at least cosmetically?

Is there maybe some option for com.apple.loginwindow that one can use?
Can *.efires files be edited?
Can Core Storage metadata for the volume somehow be edited?


texts: Macbook Pro Retina 13" Touchpad not responsive

texts:
I've got a Macbook Pro Retina 13" with Mavericks installed and the Touchpad is not responsive and sometimes I have to click up to ten times before it will recognize my click.
I removed the tap-to-click and I really have to press the touchpad.

I've used the exact same setup on my previous Macbook Pro (non retina) without issues.

Is there something I can reset myself before contacting Apple? I've bought this Macbook
 just a bit over 3 months ago - so the Apple Care you get by default is no longer valid.

As my search online I've found a fix, but this fix is not written for my software it claims on installation: http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1704?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US


texts:
Possible Duplicate:
  Can anyone explain this clipboard behaviour?

This is weird. I'm on OSX Lion, and sometimes both drag & drop and cut & paste stop working, at the same time. They stop working in any program, not just the Finder. And it's not just the shortcut: if I try to right click and select "Copy" it doesn't work either.

This has happened three times so far. A reboot fixes it, but it's annoying at best. Anyone with the same problem? Any solution?


texts: What exactly is happening when you install an app from the App Store when you already have the same app installed from the vendor?

texts:
I installed 1Password from the package provided at the vendor's website. I noticed today that the App Store has 1Password as well, and I went ahead and installed it from there too to see what happened. The app installed like normal and as far as I can see, nothing changed. I was given no prompt, not asked permission to erase anything, etc. It just installed like any other app from the App Store.
What exactly happened? Did the App Store version automatically overwrite the one I manually installed? Did it just take ownership of the existing application? Or what?


texts:
I installed ProXPN on my Mac and successfully used it. It installs an icon in the menu bar which you can use to enable and disable the application. I was messing around with the settings and clicked on the option which said something like "show icon near spotlight icon in the menu bar". After restarting my computer, I no longer see the icon in the menu bar. When I try to launch the application from my Applications folder, it doesn't seem like it's doing anything.

How can I access the program or its settings?


texts: VM software that can boot to Windows partition created by Boot Camp

texts:
Does anybody know if any VM software can boot Windows from the other partitions on the internal HDD?

Here is what mine looks like:

HDD

OS X partition
Windows Boot Camp partition

Objective: Running OS X, but booting into windows through a VM environment from the HD installation.


texts: Restore application data after renaming account folder

texts: I recently renamed my macOS account, but rather than renaming the folder, macOS has created a new folder in /Users. The OS won't let me copy ~/Library in its entirety, so I'm n,ow just copying application support files when I run into issues with an application, but is there an automated way to do this? This must be an issue others have faced before.


texts:
when I using brew(3.1.7) update command to update my computer, shows this error:
Cask 'restclient' definition is invalid: invalid depends_on key: ':java'

then I tried to remove restclient:
/usr/local/Homebrew/Library/Taps/homebrew/homebrew-cask on  master ⌚ 11:20:21
$ brew uninstall --cask restclient                                                                                ‹ruby-2.7.2›
Error: Cask 'restclient' definition is invalid: invalid depends_on key: ':java'
(base)

what should I do to fix it? This is my homebrew version:
$ brew -v                                                                                ‹ruby-2.7.2›
Homebrew 3.1.7
Homebrew/homebrew-core (git revision 68bbba9239; last commit 2021-05-16)
Homebrew/homebrew-cask (git revision 559cb3b7d9; last commit 2021-05-17)
(base)

force uninstall still now works:
/usr/local/Caskroom/restclient/.metadata/3.7.1/20190625104811.510/Casks ⌚ 11:42:00
$ brew uninstall --cask restclient --force                                                                                ‹ruby-2.7.2›
Error: Cask 'restclient' definition is invalid: invalid depends_on key: ':java'
(base)

remove the restclient folder still not work:
/usr/local/Caskroom ⌚ 12:40:16
$ rm -rf restclient


texts: How to fix weird screen issues on Macbook Pro after appr. half an hour of activity?

texts:
Recently my couple year old MacBook Pro has been acting up strangely. I generally use it for watching videos. After about half an hour or so of activity, the screen starts to look like this:

Usually it freezes and stops becoming responsive (mainly with full screen videos), but at times I am able to move a cursor around and so forth. The issue also appears if I restart it afterwards.

I'm thinking it might have something to do with overheating internally or something, but I'm not sure.

Does anyone know what is causing this problem, and how can I solve it?


texts: 4K HDMI output from MacMini (late 2018) to LG C8 (OLED55C8PLA)

texts:
The LG TV just says "no signal". I'm connecting the Mac Mini to another TV just fine (1080p though). I'm using the same cable to connect a Windows 10 machine and it works over 4K just fine.

Is there some setting I need to set in order to make this work?


texts: How to delete an extra app on my iPhone 5s and return to just the icon on my screen?

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I have a 5s iPhone & decided to add an extra weather app to the already supplied Weather Channel app. I didn't like the new app and deleted it.

I still have the grey box surrounding the Weather App (that holds multiple apps in a category). How do I get rid of the grey box and leave just the partly sunny icon/app?

(I have the same problem with Photos, i.e., a grey box surrounding it, both necessitating a double click to access them. )


texts: Why could turning off my external data store hang my Mac, and how do I fix it?

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I have a 2012 Mac Mini with 250GB SSD, and an external USB drive used for data files.
I run parallels but as far as I can tell the VM is actually on the built-in drive.

By accident I discovered that turning off the USB drive causes several apps including Chrome to instantly close; the Mac continues to run but comes to an ugly hung state with some apps still running, others unresponsive.

I also noticed if the USB drive is off/unplugged when I turn the Mac on, I get the "no drive" folder-with-question-mark hold screen.

Is this normal behaviour, I'd assume even an ugly device removal would not topple the system if it's just data files that are not in use at the time. I wonder if it indicates I have part of my Mac system files or core apps on the external drive. Is this likely or even possible - MacOS seems pretty strict on what you have to install on the primary/system drive.

I have tested further and discovered that if I turn the external drive off before booting the Mac it will not boot - I get the folder with a question mark in it screen. How do I figure out which system files are on the external drive and remedy this?

As requested:

>sudo systemsetup -liststartupdisks
/System/Library/CoreServices

>mount
/dev/disk1s2 on / (hfs, local, journaled)
devfs on /dev (devfs, local, nobrowse)
map -hosts on /net (autofs, nosuid, automounted, nobrowse)
map auto_home on /home (autofs, automounted, nobrowse)
/dev/disk0s2 on /Volumes/Data (hfs, local, journaled)

>diskutil list
/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *1.0 TB     disk0
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s1
   2:                  Apple_HFS Data                    999.9 GB   disk0s2

/dev/disk1 (external, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *256.1 GB   disk1
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk1s1
   2:                  Apple_HFS JDX_MX100_1             255.2 GB   disk1s2
   3:                 Apple_Boot Recovery HD             650.0 MB   disk1s3

I should say, this means absolutely nothing to me!


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Gday all,

So i'm trying to use the terminal to SSH into a server using a SOCKS4 proxy.

In putty on windows you can tell it the IP and Port of the server. and then set the proxy in the proxy tab (IP and port)

is there anyway i can do this with the terminal on OSX?
Or is there another program i can use?

Pretty much so i don't have to VM windows and use putty

Cheers


texts: Can I unlock a GSM iPhone 4 so that I can use a CDMA SIM card and make calls using the CDMA card?