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I have spent the last few days trying to figure out exatly what the impact is with changing country and card details on my Apple ID to a new location.

I changed from Ireland to the UK, and then I realised all my purchases were no longer in the 'apps in the cloud' section meaning I couldn't redownload easily!

I subsequently talked to senior advisors in Apple and they informed me it was not a big deal and I could download the apps i've paid for already in the Irish store for free. (including both the  Mac App store and iTunes store/iOS store)

So all though not great I was happy enough with this solution, while I live in the UK I can redownload what I need for free on demand and when I move back to Ireland I can change it back and all my purchases will be there again, they also confirmed it doesn't affect other Apple ID services like iCloud.

Updates are still confsuing me though, I was told that iOS devices would recognise updates and show new updates in the store (which they do!)
I was also told that iTunes would not allow updates of apps purchased in the old store but I could sync back updates done on my iOS devices... This was the case until I installed iTunes 11.0.4 tonight when for some reason it let me update all my apps in iTunes with no problem?!

So my question, did something change in 11.0.4 and now I can get updates for alll apps (old store and new in iTunes)?

and what about Mac App store - will I get updates for my apps from the old store in that?

Thanks!


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The default hotkey behavior in both Xcode and TextEdit “Find and Replace” is:
Find... ⌘F
Find and Replace... ⌘⌥F

However, in TextEdit, the dialog for “Find and Replace” remains even after you press ⌘F. In Xcode ⌘F hides the “Find and Replace” section of the dialog and only displays the “Find” part.

In TextEdit, ⌘F sets the focus (which means your text marker is in the box) in the “Find” textbox. ⌘⌥F sets the focus in the “Find and Replace” textbox. Pressing ⌘⌥F followed by ⌘F keeps the entire dialog open. In Xcode the focus is ALWAYS in the “Find” dialog, no matter what hotkey you invoked it with.

I prefer the TextEdit behavior, but would also like consistency. Is there any way to make Xcode behave as TextEdit in this regard?


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I want to edit manually the following .plist file:

/Users/<myname>/Library/Mail/V5/MailData/SyncedRules.plist

Because I get a lot of spam and adding each spammer address to the rules using Mail is impraticable:

and there are many addres to be added. Since I know a bit bash scripting, sed and awk I'm thinking to write a script that automatically adds the addresses from selected email to the plist file above.

So, what is my question?

In conclusion, for each spammer addres the script should add a new dict entry with following fields:

        <dict>
            <key>CriterionUniqueId</key>
            <string>CC4CB669-0D44-4A32-80B1-02D069718304</string> (*)
            <key>Expression</key>
            <string>spammer@address.spam</string>
            <key>Header</key>
            <string>From</string>
        </dict>

How the string at (*) is generated? How can I fill it?


texts: Can a visitor play their Apple Music account through my Apple TV?

texts:
I have an Apple TV (4th generation, with apps) hooked up to a stereo system.

My friend comes to visit, with their own Apple Music account on their iPhone/iPad. Is there some way for them to play the music from their account through my stereo?

Can their iPhone/iPad pass the music to my Apple TV, perhaps over the network?
Can we temporarily have the Apple TV login to their Apple Music account without logging out of my Apple ID?


texts: I have 2 mailboxes in mail, but only 1 combined inbox

texts: I have created two mailboxes in USX mail, but for both of them, I get different sent, spam & trash boxes. But I only have one inbox for both of these mailboxes. Here's a  picture so you really understand what I mean.


texts: Lion's Display Calibrator Assistant is missing calibration images

texts:
I'm trying to use the Display Calibrator Assistant in OS X Lion (10.7.4) with my Samsung 2494HM HDMI monitor, but the assistant appears to be missing some reference calibration images:

http://i.imgur.com/Tm41U.png

However, the slider images that appear later in the calibration process (with a solid grey apple logo embedded in an array of grey horizontal stripes) do display properly.

Any idea why these brightness calibration images are missing on my system, and how to resolve it?


texts: How to check for internal damage after a fall?

texts: Without taking the mac apart since I tend to break things easily. Wasn't a really huge fall about 2-4 feet. Landed upside down and no visible damage.


texts: When applications are code-signed, what parts of the .app bundle does the signature cover?

texts:
In Mountain Lion, I know that some applications, including all applications on the Mac App Store are digitally signed by the developer, so that if they are modified, the signature will not match, and it will raise all sorts of errors (and the situation will escalate with the next release of the operating system...).

My question is what parts of the .app bundle does the signature cover? If anything in Appname.app/Contents changes (including metadata, like the modified date for the Contents folder), does that break the signature? Is it just the binary in Contents/MacOS? Are the .plists included in the signature? The Resources? As an end user, what can I hack (if anything) without breaking the signature?


texts: Disable accent functionality from backtick button

texts:
I often type backticks (`) in various situations (Markdown, Github, SO, etc), and since the button used to type them also is used to modify letters (é/è/ú), writing backticks is generally a pain. On a scandinavian keyboard you also have to add the shift modifier, which doesn't help.

Currently, I feel like shift+backtick+space is the most predictable way of typing backticks.

But! I realized that I never use that key for anything other than backticks, and figured that it would be neat to modify the key to simply always output a single backtick. I can totally live with losing the accent functionality, but I guess it could potentially be kept accessible through modifiers.

I looked into Karabiner to achieve this, and while it's possible to rebind the key, it doesn't seem possible to map its output to a single backtick character.

And ideas?


texts: How do I disable the Google Translation bar when using iPhone?

texts:
Some websites offer the Google Translation Bar hard-coded into their pages so when I visit those this bar appears on top. Like in this example:

The problem with this bar however is, is that it's not scrollable. So when viewing the page on an iPhone, I can't get to the Options button of it at the far right. So I can't select Options to disable Google Translate for this website.

In Chrome you can go to Settings to turn Google Translate off for all websites. But in Safari for iPhone you can't do that. And I can't swipe the bar or something like that to get to all options. So how am I supposed to disable that translation bar when I can't get to it?


texts: Will the message " is damaged and can't be opened. You should move it to the Trash" occur even if you just rename the application?


texts: Quick search in NAS. Which software for overview?

texts:
We use a NAS in our small company to acces our files from different locations. Searching within the NAS does not work well due to the amount of data stored and slow internet connection. So if we're looking for a file, we need to know exactly where it is.
I do not need a NAS-side solution since the operating system of the NAS is very inflexible.
Is there a way to keep an up-to-date overview of the complete folder/file struture (as text, tree, table, whatever) in which we can quickly search for the files?


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On iOS 8, how do I turn on spell check without turning on Auto Correct? I just want the red line to appear on words. But autocorrect is terrible and ruins most everything I say. So I just want spell check only. But when I turn off autocorrect then spell check turns off also. How do I fix that?

I'm on iOS 8.3 on a 5S.


texts:
Since Cyberduck uses Java, it's out for me.

Any replacement for Mavericks that is good, has similar to WinSCP functionality and has an option to try before I buy?


texts: How do I hide a 3rd party App completely?

texts:
Is there a terminal command or solution to allow me to visually remove the app icon from the Dock and from the shortcut viewer ( tab + option )?

Ideally, the app should be 100% invisible and running in the background.

i tried ghostviewer and it didnt work. thanks


texts: Media keys (FN7, FN8 & FN9) not working after update to 10.15.5

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I updated my MacBook Air (Retina, 13-inch, 2018) to 10.15.5 (Build 19F101) last week just before I left the office for the weekend. This morning the keyboard media keys -- previous track | pause/play | next track -- no longer affect playback from Music, (the new iTunes,) but they were working in 10.15.4 as I use them multiple times every day. The volume mute/down/up keys work in Music as expected. I've checked the settings in System Preferences > Keyboard and they are correct, and I've never needed to change them.
Here's where it gets weirder: the pause/play media keys work whilst playing back Youtube video/audio in both Safari and Google Chrome, but the F11 & F12 keys do not lower or raise the volume. The mute key (F10) works, and muting occurs when I lower volume to zero with F11. The volume can be controlled by the volume slider in the video player GUI. This behaviour also happens when I view other non-Youtube videos, (from Vimeo, for example.)
I listen through harmon/kardon Nova bluetooth speakers and use a Matias bluetooth keyboard as well as an Apple Gen1 Magic trackpad, but the same problems occur when all bluetooth devices are disconnected and I use the MBA's built-in keyboard, trackpad and speakers.
Lastly, Keyboard Viewer does not effect the media keys either.
I'm mystified as later, the volume up/down now no longer works in the Music app so this is progressing in the wrong direction.
How can I trace what’s intercepting or disabling these so I can use the media keys again in all apps?


texts: External monitor displaying only noise after Yosemite upgrade

texts:
After upgrading to Yosemite, I see just noise on the external monitor,
using a MDP to HDMI converter and an HDMI to DVI cable. It worked very well on Mavericks. I have no display now after updating, it just shows grey noise. Tried resetting SMC & PRAM. Additionally, I have tested each of the cables individually and they are okay, so it has to be a software problem.

Display screenshot:

It shows flickers in red color sometimes.

Macbook gives display on another setup, but flickers a lot. (my friend's)
its a MDP to VGA adapter plugged to VGA monitor.

Mine gives no display, I'm disappointed. Need help please.


texts: Connect to Server as guest from command line

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I have a SAMBA share I mount on my Mac from time to time. I do this in Finder with Go > Connect to Server..., typing smb://192.168.1.1 into the Server Address field and pressing Connect. On the authentication dialog I choose to Connect Guest, and finally my remote share is mounted in /Volumes/<share_name>. This is great.

Can I achieve all of the above with a single command in Terminal? I tried some variations of the advice provided here, but there are two things missing:

how do I instruct mount to connect as guest?
how do I create the /Volumes/<share_name> directory on the fly, (so it doesn't have to exist before hand)?

Thanks!


texts: Apple Calendar: Share busy/nonbusy information for several calendars

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I have a set of calendars, which I would like to share together as busy/nonbusy. That is, I want others to see (on a single calendar) whether I am busy in any calendar at a given date or not.

This does not necessarily have to go through Apple Calendar, but I would like to keep using it. That is, if there's an external software, I hope I don't have to change too much of my current structure.

Nice-to-have: In case I'm busy, people could see which calendar caused that.

/EDIT

Several calendars are google-calanders that I read in, but then there is also some iCloud calendars (Standard iCloud + Facebook)


texts: Seamless title bar and terminal background?

texts:
How can I make the title (and tab) bar of iTerm 2 exactly the same color as the terminal background so that it's impossible to tell where one starts and the other begins?

How it is at the moment:

What I'd like it to be:


texts: Screen brightness on Macbook Air June 2012 running Windows 7 Pro x64

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Adjusting the screen brightness on my Macbook Air (June 2012) isn't working in Windows 7 Pro x64.

I saw some comments online saying there's a regedit I can do to enable brightness, but that didn't work because this model doesn't use nVidia, it has an intel HD 4000 graphics chip as far as I know...

I tried to install the HD 4000 driver from intel but now my laptop just boots to a black screen, but I'm confident I can fix that issue when I get home.

I'm wondering if anyone here is successfully running win7x64 on their June 2012 macbook air's? So far only the screen brightness is an issue albeit a pretty annoying one for a laptop. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks a lot guys!


texts:
So my X11 is completely messed up.

The problem started after using Octave/Gnuplot (installed through downloaded package, not MacPorts) to plot some data. After rebooting, when trying plotting again, X11 just failed to start. The icon jumped once, and then disappeared.

So I tried installing XQuartz, but I got the same problem. The Console says:

11/4/11 12:23:16.861 AM [0x0-0x272272].org.macosforge.xquartz.X11: /Applications/Utilities/XQuartz.app/Contents/MacOS/X11: line 3: dirname: command not found
11/4/11 12:23:16.938 AM [0x0-0x272272].org.macosforge.xquartz.X11: /Applications/Utilities/XQuartz.app/Contents/MacOS/X11: line 9: basename: command not found
11/4/11 12:23:16.938 AM [0x0-0x272272].org.macosforge.xquartz.X11: /Applications/Utilities/XQuartz.app/Contents/MacOS/X11: line 14: /X11.bin: No such file or directory
11/4/11 12:23:16.938 AM [0x0-0x272272].org.macosforge.xquartz.X11: /Applications/Utilities/XQuartz.app/Contents/MacOS/X11: line 14: exec: /X11.bin: cannot execute: No such file or directory
11/4/11 12:23:16.939 AM com.apple.launchd.peruser.501: ([0x0-0x272272].org.macosforge.xquartz.X11[65054]) Exited with code: 126

Then I thought that maybe I a good idea was to uninstall X11 and XQuartz completely and reinstall it from scratch (I have used a licensed copy of CleanMyMac to remove XQuartz and some Terminal commands to remove X11 related directories). Wrong. Now the installer keep saying that X11 is already installed, at a newer version and thus cannot be reinstalled.

Do you have any ideas of what's going on and how should I cope with this?

Thank you
Tunnuz


texts: How do I use AppleScript to open the first note in a folder, in a different order than most recently edited?

texts: This is a followup question to How do I use AppleScript to open a specific note from Apple's Notes application?. In that answer, the author is able to open the first note in a list based on time edited. Is it possible to open the first note in the order that's visible to the user? E.g. Pinned, followed by creation time.


texts: Before the messages app on my iPod 5 with iOS 9 was working fine, but yesterday I was signed out for some reason. When I tried to sign back in, it said that I needed to verify an email address and redirected me to the apple id site. I already had a verified email address, but it still would't let me sign in. I've tried re-verifying my email and verifying a new email address but I still get the same pop-up message. How can I sign in?


texts: Microsoft Sculpt keyboard not working with 2018 MacBook Air

texts:
I have a brand new Microsoft Sculpt keyboard and mouse, and a 2018 MacBook Air. The keyboard works only occasionally, and often stops after a few keystrokes. The behaviour is either to not work at all, severely lag, or drop most keystrokes.

The USB receiver is plugged into a hub. I've tried the hub and keyboard on another computer and it works perfectly, so I assume there is no issue with either of them.

I've also tried swapping the hub to the other port on the MacBook Air, and I face the same issue.

What else can I try?


texts: Ubuntu-like bash completion in Mac OS X?

texts:
I work in the terminal a fair bit, and one thing I really miss from the servers I usually work on is the comprehensive autocompletion bash provides on Ubuntu servers.

Are there any readymade tools that will add a similar level of completion to my Mac; containing at the very least command line arguments for built-in system utilities and developer tools (like git, xcodebuild, etc.)?


texts: Restoring selected iOS apps and data to my new iPhone

texts:
I made a full backup of my old iPhone 4S (iOS 7.1) with iTunes. I'd like to restore only some of the apps and app data to my new 5s from the iTunes backup. Is this possible?

I don't need much of the apps figuring in the iTunes backup just a few games along with their scores which were saved off my old iphone. Thx in advance.


texts: Extract wordlist from system dictionaries?

texts: Is it possible to extract plain text wordlists from the system dictionaries in Yosemite?


texts: I have just bought an iPod Touch second hand. I tried to update it's firmware to the latest version using iTunes. The update failed and now I cannot access the iPod either directly or in iTunes. Turning the iPod ON the screen shows a 'connect to iTunes' looking icon and does nothing else. Connecting the USB does nothing and the iPod does not show up in the iTunes side bar. The iPod turns itself OFF after a minute or two. What now?


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On Mac, how to start/enable the sshd service?

I use network general tool to scan the ports, do not find the 22 port.

Seems Apple disables it by default.

I tried to open the sshd service:

aircraftdeMacBook-Pro:.ssh ldl$ sudo /usr/sbin/sshd
Password:
Could not load host key: /etc/ssh/ssh_host_rsa_key
Could not load host key: /etc/ssh/ssh_host_dsa_key
Could not load host key: /etc/ssh/ssh_host_ecdsa_key
Could not load host key: /etc/ssh/ssh_host_ed25519_key
sshd: no hostkeys available -- exiting.

But failed.

How to open sshd service on Mac?

EDIT

I also tried use ssh-keygen to generate secretkey, but still not work.

ssh-keygen -t dsa -f /etc/ssh/ssh_host_dsa_key
ssh-keygen -t rsa -f /etc/ssh/ssh_host_rsa_key
/usr/sbin/sshd


texts:
Apple Sidecar for Mac is a great way to use the iPad as a secondary screen.
However it appears that there is no support for sound. Is this correct, or am I doing something wrong?
I am on MacOS Catalina and iPadOS 14.1


texts: Mac OS Sierra - Disk Utility will not let me partition an external hard drive

texts: Within disk utility, the partition icon is grayed out.  If I mouse over it, it reads:  "Disks with Master Boot Record Partition Maps cannot be partitioned".  The history on this drive:  It is a 2 TB Seagate external hard drive that the Mac store reformatted for me to use with Time Machine. I had a problem right after I bought my Mac and we did this to backup my machine and literally restore it to a new machine.  Since then, I have used it with time machine and now want to re-partition it so I can store backups of additional files to the other partition (once it is created).  The current single partition is "Mac OS Extended (Journaled)".  Any ideas how to address this issue?  I would prefer not to have to erase the disk as part of the process (if possible).


texts: iPad 1 stuck in DFU mode after 5.0.1 -> 5.1 OTA-update

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I have tried restoring through iTunes, but I only get "Error 37" at the end of the "Restoring iPad firmware" step.

Snippets from the restore log:

2012-03-11 18:00:05.684 [3132:e4]: <Restore Device 069D6950>: operation 18 progress 53
2012-03-11 18:00:05.884 [3132:e4]: <Restore Device 069D6950>: operation 18 progress 61
2012-03-11 18:00:06.169 [3132:e4]: <Restore Device 069D6950>: operation 18 progress 69
2012-03-11 18:00:06.535 [3132:e4]: <Restore Device 069D6950>: operation 18 progress 76
2012-03-11 18:00:06.821 [3132:e4]: <Restore Device 069D6950>: operation 18 progress 84
2012-03-11 18:00:09.037 [3132:e4]: device returned AMR error 37

(It fails at 84% "restoring firmware" each time)

and:

entering update_device_firmware
entering update_iBoot
write_image3_data: flashing LLB data (length = 0x14a19)
AppleImage3NORAccess::_getSuperBlock imageVersion: 3
AppleImage3NORAccess::_getSuperBlock imageVersion: 3
write_image3_data: flashing NOR data (length = 0xb10)
ticket updated
write_image3_data: flashing NOR data (length = 0x2ea19)
write_image3_data: flashing NOR data (length = 0xf859)
write_image3_data: flashing NOR data (length = 0x1d59)
write_image3_data: flashing NOR data (length = 0xb999)
write_image3_data: flashing NOR data (length = 0x4519)
write_image3_data: flashing NOR data (length = 0x1819)
write_image3_data: flashing NOR data (length = 0x13d9)
write_image3_data: flashing NOR data (length = 0x3e59)
write_image3_data: flashing NOR data (length = 0x13d9)
write_image3_data: flashing NOR data (length = 0x3cf19)
0: RamrodErrorDomain/3e9: update_iBoot: error writing image
1: NSMachErrorDomain/e00002bc: write_image3_data: AppleImage3NORAccess returned an error when writing image3 object
attempting to dump restore log
writing log file: /mnt1/restore.log

I have tried pretty much everything:

Different computers (both mac and win7)
Different usb-cables
Re-downloading the ipsw
Re-installing iTunes
Removing every playlist/book/movie from my iTunes library
Disabling auto-sync of devices in iTunes

The documentation for "error 37" indicates problems with security software (which I'm not running), and judging by the restore log this looks like more a bug in the updater/firmware itself.

The iPad was running fine with iOS 5.0.1 and has never been jailbroken.


texts: Bootcamp: How do you reboot from Windows to Windows via script in OSX El Capitan?

texts:
I'm asking this because I think it would be incredibly useful to myself and other Bootcamp users. I currently have my default boot drive set to restart to my Mac partition and already have a script for restarting into Windows from Mac.

However, my current problem is restarting from Windows into Windows while maintaining Mac as the default restart via a script. I found an older post about a script that I tried but it did not work even with SIP(System Integrity Protection) disabled.

On another note, has anyone found a script that works to restart into Windows without disabling SIP?


texts: Can I delete /Library/SystemMigration after my upgrade to 10.11. I think, there is nothing, that I want to save.


texts:
Following this answer I have created a custom service that executes a shell script that looks like this:

open -a FireFox "http://dict.cc/$1"

It works fine when I click. Then I defined a custom shortcut for it, (⇧ ⌘ L), and when I use that, the script seems to get executed twice (two tabs open, both showing the desired page). How can I fix that?

Edit: This only seems to happen when I invoce the service using the shortcut from within FireFox.

Edit 2: This gets weirder and weirder. I now created a second script for looking up stuff in Google, and bound it to the hotkey ⇧ ⌘ T. Now when I press that, it actually opens both my custom services. I have no idea why this happens.

Also, I removed both the hotkeys temporarily to check if they were used, but nothing happened when I pressed them.


texts: How to remove scratches from 5th generation iPod?

texts: I own a 5th generation iPod with a lot of scratches on its acrylic-like surface and display that I'd like to be removed (please note it's not a touch-screen iPod). What should I buy (preferentially on eBay) and how should I wipe all those scratches away to keep my iPod as polished as possible?


texts: How can I set up a keyboard shortcut for switching input source?

texts:
I have to change my language option very often. It is hard when I write something with combination of both "English" & "Bangla", because I have to change that option rapidly.

Is there any way to set a keyboard shortcut, so that I can change my language option by it while typing?

I am using MacBook Pro with OS X.

Here is a screen shot:

Screen Shot of my Preference:


texts: Is it okay to use App Tamer to force apps such as Microsoft Word, to "App Nap?"

texts:
One (of the many) things which has always annoyed me about Microsoft Word 2016 (and indeed, pretty much all others apps in the Microsoft Office suite) is its inability to keep the background CPU usage to zero. When using Apple's Pages, Numbers, and Keynote, the CPU usage of each of the apps decreases to zero after you switch to another app. However, the apps in the Microsoft suite seem to use around half a percent of CPU on my laptop (which sometimes even spikes).

I recently found out about a cool app called App Tamer which seems like it can force an application to nap. As a matter of fact, one of the default rules seems to do this when you install App Tamer!

Now, I'm wondering if there are any unforeseen disadvantages of doing this. Does Microsoft cause this constant background CPU usage because essential (such as auto recover?) processes are taking place, or is it just a byproduct of sloppy, unoptimized coding? To be fair with the auto recovery example, however, I have empirically found it to be quite unreliable (unfortunately in the hard way).


texts: Best Torrent Client that supports auto unrar

texts:
I used to be a PC boy and now been in to Macs for a few years. I am after a good torrent client that supports auto unrar and move on completion.

Anybody know of anything like this? Google doesn't seem to turn up much.

Thanks

Lee


texts: Must disconnect then reconnect to wifi otherwise it times out

texts:
My MacBook Pro, Mid-2015 w/ Retina Display, running macOS Mojave 10.14.6, very very frequently times out when it tries to load web pages.

It says it's still connected to the wifi network, but the only way to load the page is to disconnect and then reconnect to (the same) wifi.

Then it will work fine for at least a few minutes, before I invariably run into the same problem again.


texts: Can you increase the font size in Reminders?

texts: The Reminders app in OSX Mountain Lion has no preferences, so I'm wondering if there is any "under the hood" way to increase the font size.  It's too small for use on high res displays.


texts: Can I link two different kinds of Macs each using different OSes?

texts: Is it possible to link (run as one machine) my G5 PowerPC OSX 10.4.6 machine to my G5 INTEL running OSX 10.6.x or higher simultaneously? I want to run differing versions of OS X, and be able to use my Classic apps while still keeping up with Flash Player requirements. How can this be done?


texts: How to change JAVA_HOME with a Bash script

texts:
I have created a Bash script with the following line:

export JAVA_HOME="/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.7.0_75.jdk/Contents/Home" 2> bash_errors.txt

I have also made the file executable

chmod 777 bash_test

When I run the script and check

java -version
java version "1.8.0_65"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_65-b17)
Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 25.65-b01, mixed mode)

However if I run directly in Bash

export JAVA_HOME="/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.7.0_75.jdk/Contents/Home"

And then check

java -version
java version "1.7.0_75"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.7.0_75-b13)
Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 24.75-b04, mixed mode)

The path changes.  Furthermore, if I change the script line to

sudo export JAVA_HOME="/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.7.0_75.jdk/Contents/Home" 2> bash_errors.txt

I get the following in the bash_errors.txt file

sudo: export: command not found

So I know the script is executing, but JAVA_HOME doesn't change when executed from script.

What am I not understanding?  How do I change the JAVA_HOME environment variable from a script?

My goal is to permanently change JAVA_HOME from 8 to 7 - I am eventually going to add .bash_profile to my default directory.

  Edit

Trying to change files mentioned in linked reference are read only, even using sudo vim:


texts: Deactivate 'Nike+' exclusive features form AppleWatch 2 - Nike+ edition

texts:
For whatever reason* you decide that you want your Apple Watch Nike Plus to function just like a standard Apple Watch:

no more running notifications,
no ugly watch faces,
etc.

which are exclusive to the Nike Plus.

Is it possible to disable all NikePlus-exclusive features?

you really liked the Nike Plus band and can't get it any other way,
you broke your leg and no more running for you,
some other excuse


texts: I installed the recent version of clang (to /usr/local/). How do I set up Xcode to use this and not the built-in version of clang?


texts: Audio through EarPods disabled when plugging in a monitor

texts:
Every time the monitor is disconnected and connected, the audio icons on my Touch Bar go black and I have to unplug and plug back in my EarPods for it to turn back into white icons.

I use the Hyperdrive to connect to a monitor using HDMI.

Is this a feature/setting or a bug?

MacBook Pro 2017, macOS High Sierra 10.13.2


texts: Where is system.log located? (In the filesystem, outside of Console.app)

texts: Where is the system.log file actually located? I know of course that I can view its contents in Console.app, but I just want to know where this text file is actually located. Or is it an almagamation of multiple files merged together or something, so that's why there's no actual location for it?


texts: How to mount PCIe SSD from MacBook Air in another computer

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I got this SSD out of an Apple laptop that's broken from liquid damage.

What is this connection called and how do I mount this storage device to retrieve data from it? It looks like PCIe. Does Apple sell a part to mount this via USB adapter or something?


texts: .smbdelete files from Word 2016 for Mac on Mac OS 10.13 file server

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I am working with a Mac mini (Macmini7,1) running High Sierra 10.13.6 with SMB file sharing to a few connected computers. Things have been working fine, but since updating a couple of the client machines to Mojave 10.14, when saving changes to MS Word documents we get a "Grant File Access" dialogue wanting to access a file named .smbdeleteAAAABBBBetc

I gather from various sources such as .smbdelete files accumulating on server share and https://discussions.apple.com/message/30046649#message30046649 that these files are the result of the SMB client trying to be careful when it deletes a file (basically rather than delete the file, it is first renamed and hidden to perhaps make it easier to deal with multiple processes acting on the file and locking issues and stuff like that)

Apple introduced this behavior in OS X 10.10 you can find it in the source code here:

http://www.opensource.apple.com/source/smb/smb-759.40.1/kernel/smbfs/smbfs_smb.c

The comment above the code that does it is:

We have an open file that they want to delete. Use the NFS silly rename
trick, but try to do better than NFS. The picking of the name came from the
NFS code. So we first open the file for deletion. Now come up with a new
name and rename the file. Make the file hidden if we can. Now lets mark
it for deletion and close the file. If the rename fails then the whole call
should fail. If the mark for deletion call fails just set a flag on the
vnode and delete it when we close.
In our situation, almost every time a MS Word document is saved after a change has been made, this type of dialogue pops up: Grant File Access dialogue

Since the .smbdelete file is hidden, one cannot select it if you hit the "Select..." button. Hitting "Cancel" results in MS word editing the .smbdelete file, which we can't do anything with other than 'Save As' and rename.

We've set our permissions on the volume to read/write for everyone in the office and propagated to subfolders via 'Get info' GUI and terminal, and none of this appears to affect the permissions on these temp files that Word creates.

Thanks in advance for any assistance.


texts: Itunes crashing even after reinstallation

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I access songs from bootcamp drive. All of a sudden, itunes took approx 20mins to open in macbook. Every action like playing a song took a huge time and finally it crashed. I get this when i right click the app "Application not responding".

I uninstalled and then reinstalled it. It worked fine for a week. Now the crashing has started again when I tried to play an ALAC format song.

I can't keep reinstalling itunes everytime I want to play songs.

I dont think the problem is with the library being in a different disk because itunes creates a copy in Macbook drive inside the "itunes media" folder.

Please help me with this serious bug.


texts: A better configuration to do development?

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currently I have a mac mini:

  Hardware Overview :

  Model Name: Mac mini
  Model Identifier: Macmini2,1
  Processor Name:   Intel Core 2 Duo
  Processor Speed:  1,83 GHz
  Number Of Processor:  1
  Total Number Of Core: 2
  L2 Cache: 2 Mo
  Memory:   1 Go
  Bus Speed:    667 MHz

Basically it is a 2 years old mac mini.

I installed XCode 4 recently. I want to leave Xcode 3 aside. And I am fed up with the slowness of that setup! What is your own experience of a configuration suitable to perform development with Xcode 4?

To give you an idea of my budget, I am considering buying a 27" quad core iMac.


texts: Apply Options > "Assign to" - "All Desktop" only to 1 chrome tab?

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I keep my task list with rememberthemilk.com and I would like to have keep that chrome tab opened at all spaces all the time. Is there a way to achieve this?

Right now if I go to chrome and Assign to All Desktop for it I am seeing other chrome windows being brought to the front when I switch spaces.


texts: How to delete GameCenter and iCloud from Internet Accounts using the Terminal?

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Running Sierra 10.12.6 without administrator privileges, the system has some problem with my iCloud profile. Whenever accessing anything remotely related to it, the respective app beachballs indefinitely. This includes the Preferences pane, so I could not even delete my account from there. I managed to find the necessary Terminal command:

defaults delete MobileMeAccounts

It worked, almost. Even without root access/sudo, this indeed reset the iCloud pane in Preferences, but it did not remove the iCloud and Game Center entries from the Internet Accounts pane. They are merely listed as inactive or disabled (I'm not using the English locale). If I select either of them, Preferences still beachballs, of course.

How can I permanently remove those accounts using the Terminal, probably using defaults?

For what it's worth, this did not do the trick:

defaults delete com.apple.gamecenter

PS: If you want to suggest solutions to the underlying iCloud problem, please use comments instead of answers.


texts: Setting a variable to the result of a terminal command within an applescript

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I'm trying to make a script that ejects all connected external drives and does not move on until they are all disconnected.

The main problem I'm having is being able to set the variable vol_count to the result of the following script:

tell application "Terminal"
    cd /Volumes
    ls | wc -l
end tell

I also have not tested that script, but I assume that's how you run a terminal command from within an applescript.

Follow up question:

How would I then have it eject all but two disks (my hard drive is partitioned into two disks)?

on run {}

    tell application "Finder"
        set vol_count to do shell script "cd /Volumes; ls | wc -l"

        eject the disks

        repeat until vol_count is equal to 2
            set vol_count to do shell script "cd /Volumes; ls | wc -l"
        end repeat
    end tell
end run


texts: Use an external disk shared to Mac via Windows for Time Machine

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I have an external hard drive with 3 partitions partitions a exFAT connected to a Windows 10 PC. I am able to mount and access the disks on my Mac wirelessly but cannot get TimeMachine to use this partition as a TimeMachine backup disk.

I am mounting it on my Mac using smb://XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX. I have also tried changing the unsafe disk property using the terminal command:

  sudo defaults write com.apple.systempreferences TMShowUnsupportedNetworkVolumes 1

Anyone have any ideas how to get this to work?


texts: How do I check I know the password for an encrypted drive?

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I've got an encrypted USB drive and I want to check I know the password. At the moment everything is in my keychain, so it works, and I can see its contents, but I want to make sure I'm covered if I need to replace my computer.

I want to make sure I can keep the contents if it turns out I've forgotten the password, so I don't want to delete any data from the keychain. (If I've forgotten the password, I'll need to copy its contents off before reformatting it.)

How do I do this?


texts: iPhone is broken, how can I still access my contacts?

texts: I broke my iPhone last weekend and the screen remains blank/black even if I connect it to a computer running iTunes. Is there a way I can still access my contacts?


texts: Terminal, Opening Applications Directory

texts: When in Terminal and cd to "Applications" and typing "ls" nothing comes up however when cd to "/Applications" and typing "ls" all the applications come up, would someone be able to explain why the / for only applications makes a difference.


texts: PhotoStream on iPhoto-MacBook is different from PhotoStream-iPad

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I see so many pictures that I have took with iPhone on iPad Photo Stream.
But today I also wanted to activate PhotoStream on iPhoto on MacBook. So did I ! but the images it has downloaded are just around 20 photos, there are so much more if I go to PhotoStream on iPad or iPhone but on PhotoStream on MacBook there is just a few of them.

Shouldn't they all show the same thing?


texts: How to stop auto spelling suggestions when looking up a word in the dictionary via force-click

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For example, I saw the word "boujee", force-clicked to see what it meant, and got a dictionary definition of "bout", which doesn't help at all. If the dictionary has nothing, I'd rather get nothing than some random other word.
Any way to force the dictionary to only look up exactly what the word is?


texts: Is it possible to have a Dvorak keyboard on the iPhone?

texts: I have a slight masochistic streak and would like to try learning the Dvorak keyboard layout.  I'd like to add the keyboard layout to my iPhone.  Unfortunately it does NOT appear as an option.  Is it possible to have a Dvorak keyboard layout on the iPhone?


texts:
In Mail on macOS Big Sur, I went to Preferences > Viewing > to show message-IDs in the header. The message-ID is a unique identifier for each email and looks something like this:
<4E21D492-X12X-1234-93E5-271B1C901234@googlemail.com>

How can I get message-IDs to show in Mail on iOS?


texts: Upgrade system frameworks without upgrading OS

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I am currently running macOS 10.10.2, but would like to be able to run the latest Ableton Live 10 which is built on macOS 10.11.  When I directly run the executable I get errors referencing symbols not found in:

/System/Library/Frameworks/AudioToolbox.framework/Versions/A/AudioToolbox.

Of course this issue would be resolved by upgrading to 10.11, but that is something that I really do not want to do for a number of reasons, so I am wondering if I can:

Extract the relevant Framework files from a El Capitan InstallESD.dmg, and
Overwrite the existing framework files with the new ones.

How much am I missing, or would this work?

Thanks

Edit:  I want to know if this is possibile, not if it is a good idea.


texts: How to show directories before files in Finder?

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I would like to have windows in the Finder sort directories before files, in the manner of Microsoft Windows' Explorer as well as Linux KDE.

I tried following this link but it did not yield the desired outcome, specifically some directories had contents sorted that way but some had files first then directories and some were still mixed.  Also, I would like to know what the difference is between sorting and arranging in the Show View Options screen.


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I have the following AppleScript which toggles the scroll direction on the trackpad:

tell application "System Preferences"
    activate
    set current pane to pane "com.apple.preference.trackpad"
end tell

tell application "System Events"
    tell process "System Preferences"
        click radio button "Scroll & Zoom" of tab group 1 of window "Trackpad"
        click checkbox 1 of tab group 1 of window "Trackpad"
    end tell
end tell

tell application "System Preferences"
    quit
end tell

This script runs without issues when the "play" button in Automator is used to execute it. However, when I make a service that runs it and assigned a keyboard shortcut to the service, it fails to run via the keyboard shortcut.

Wrapping it in a try block with some error reporting yields the following:

  Automator Runner is not allowed assistive access.

  Error number-1728

I found Automator Runner.app and gave it assistive access using the instructions found here.

It now appears with a checked box in the list of applications with assistive access:

However, the issue persists. I continue to get the same message notifying me that Automator Runner is not allowed assistive access. when trying to run the script using the keyboard command of the service that runs the script.

Update

I just succeeded at implementing this alternative script to accomplish the same thing, but it also only works when Automator has focus and has the same issue when it does not:

tell application "System Preferences"
    reveal anchor "trackpadTab" of pane "com.apple.preference.trackpad"
end tell
tell application "System Events" to tell process "System Preferences"
    click checkbox 1 of tab group 1 of window 1
end tell
quit application "System Preferences"


texts: Is there a way to save money by disabling SMS and routing to IM?

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I.e., could I configure a client such as AIM, Jabber, Skype, etc. on my phone and completely switch off SMS altogether?

Would the sending party be alerted that their SMS won't go through?


texts: Macbook Pro 13 in, 16GB Ram, i7 3.1, 512 GB Flash Storage Purchase

texts:
I recently purchased the Macbook Pro 13 in (Early 2015) model, with specs in the title. I was wondering if this is good purchase for a power user who does software engineering, UI / UX Design, database creation, etc.

I have been previously using a Q200E Asus Laptop with a modified SSD/HD harddisk but found that the laptop was too slow at times and that was really cutting into my dev time.

Is this a good buy? Will this keep me good for the next couple of years? I am looking at this as a long term investment.

Users who currently have these specs how is it?

I will also say another factor in me buying a Macbook Pro was to start development for iPhone applications.


texts: Flag disappears after reading a message in Mail

texts:
In Mail 9.0 (OS X El Capitan) I have set a rule that marks a message with a flag if it satisfies some conditions.
When I receive a message which satisfies that condition, it is correctly marked with the flag, but when I read the message, the flag disappears and the message is automatically unmarked.
How can this be explained? I would like to always keep the flag, also after reading the message.


texts: MacBook charger not working when laptop is on

texts: I am using original charger on MacBook Air. Of late my charger works if the computer turned off but not when it is on? Also when it is fully charged, it continue to charge. Why ?


texts: The password for the keychain access is apparently not my login password- please explain

texts:
I am unable to lock the Keychain Acccess on either of two macbooks. The login password is not accepted on either one.

Is there a special step/process for setting up a keychain password - and it is not synced with the login?


texts:
A few months ago I tried to install Windows 10 on my Mac (High Sierra). This  was unsuccessful and left me with a APFS partition of 49.5 GB called "BC1".

When I try to delete this partition it says this:

I already tried to delete it in Recovery Mode and even reset my Mac once.

This is what comes up when I type "diskutil list" in the terminal:

I have tried many different terminal commands already but in the end it always leaves me with this BC1 partition. I guess that's my punishment for trying to install Windows on a Mac. How can I remove it?


texts:
I have a 250GB hard drive that I tried to "burn" an ISO to (to make it bootable). Something went terribly wrong.This is what the disk looks like in Disk Utility (unmounted).

When I mount it, this happens.

I have tried formatting, erasing, verifying, and repairing the disk through Disk Utility and terminal's diskutil command, all to no avail. I have tried deleting the files contained on this hard drive (Windows boot folders/executables) using both the GUI and a sudo command in terminal with no luck. This is a partial output of diskutil list:

The drive is /dev/disk4.

I consider myself decently knowledgable in technology in general, but this problem has been very difficult. Can someone please help me? Please feel free to leave any questions or comments below.


texts: I use Ubuntu 12.04 and I would like to add some songs and videos.


texts: Does taking keys off of a MacBook keyboard void warranty

texts:
I have some friends that try turning my MacBook Pro off (I always do it back to them if they do :) ).

My question is to make it harder for them to do that I could remove the power button key from my Mac. Would this void the warranty or not? I want to know this because I got AppleCare and do not want to waste that money


texts: Sending an email to senders of selected emails in Mail.app

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I want to select multiple messages in a Mail.app folder by hand, do X, and then have a new mail message window appear with all those senders in the "To:" or "Bcc:" field. What is that magical X option?

Is it even built in, or do I need to find\write some Applescript? It looks like Automator doesn't have actions to grab senders from mail messages, so that's no way forward.

I am blown away that this is not as simple as selecting the messages and hitting reply. (It's greyed out, if you try.) I found this discussion about the same problem, but there was no real answer offered besides "try another email client" and "create rules for incoming mail that auto-replies". Terrible!


texts: How to change Bluetooth channel used by Google Earth

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This might be more a Google Earth issue, but here goes.

I've paired my Mountain Lion laptop with a Garmin Bluetooth GPS, and can confirm getting NMEA data over the serial channel with

cat /dev/tty.GarminGPS10-Gps10

However, when I try to connect to the GPS inside Google Earth, I see the message

  Reading /dev/cu.Bluetooth-PDA-Sync

and nothing happens. How do I point Google Earth to the proper tty?

I've tried:

removing my Android phone from know Bluetooth devices
reinstalling Google Earth and reinstalling


texts: What are the performance impacts of blocking a contact with 10,000 numbers in it?

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My wife and I are getting a ridiculous amount of same-exchange spam calls (same area code and first three digits) and are looking for a solution. One promising solution is outlined in this apple discussion -- create a .vcf file to establish a contact containing all 10,000 numbers (-0000 ... -9999) in that exchange and then block that contact. A nuclear option so to speak.

I've read that having a contact with several hundred numbers in it can be slow to open, on the order of several seconds to open for one containing 200 contacts. But it isn't clear if "open" in that context refers to opening it in the Contacts app to view or loading it into memory to check when a call comes in.

We each have an iPhone 6 and just upgraded to iOS 11 via wipe and restore, and we haven't experienced much slowdown so far other than a slight (fractions of a second) degradation in response here and there.

What kinds of performance issues should we expect if we take this route?

Edit And specifically is there any danger of bricking our phones or otherwise crashing if we use this? There is some discussion in the above link of the contacts app no longer opening.

Another option is to create say 20 contacts each with 500 numbers, or 100 contacts each with 100 numbers, or something like that. But I don't know if there is a larger performance hit for breaking it up that way vs having them all in one.

Why the nuclear option?  We moved away from that location ten years ago but kept the numbers for convenience, we do not receive any calls from so-called "neighbors" out there, and I would prefer not to use a call-blocking app due to privacy concerns, so this seems like a perfect solution. (second only to nuking the spammers from orbit)

Edit 2 I am currently experimenting with creating the contacts manually with 500 numbers per contact, for a total of 20 contacts. It only took a few minutes to generate and import four contacts with 2,000 numbers total once the spreadsheet was set up, and that included emailing the contacts to my phone and importing them there.

Solution I'm marking Matt's answer as the solution because he pointed me in the direction of the app WideProtect. I installed it a couple days ago and so far there have been no calls.

Initially I was avoiding installing an app due to privacy concerns, but after reading the CallKit API I was persuaded to give it a shot. The app does require access to your Contacts if you want to allow numbers from your contacts through the block (which seems opposite from what the CallKit API says...) but I got around that by blocking all ranges except the range my wife's number is in. For example, if my wife's number is 123-555-3859 I would block 123-555-0XXX, 123-555-1XXX, 123-555-2XXX, 123-555-4XXX, etc. Skipping 3XXX. That gives only a 10% chance scammers will pick the range that includes my wife's number, so that is an acceptable tradeoff to me AND it avoids giving WideProtect access to my contacts list. If it becomes unbearable I can block 123-555-30XX..123-555-37XX and 123-555-39XX giving only a 1% chance they randomly pick the range. So that works great for me and preserves privacy.

Many thanks to Matt for pointing me down that path. This looks like a great solution.


texts:
I don't have animation for Mission Control anymore. It seems that it has been like that for few days. I have updated Duet a few days ago, maybe that's related...
What happened? Is it possible that someone disable it? Or, is it a bug or the sign that the hardware is damaged?
OS: 10.11.5
Hardware: MacBook Pro (2,3 GHz Intel Core i7, 16 Go, Intel HD Graphics 4000 1536 Mo)

Edit
I've tried to do in the terminal
defaults write com.apple.dock expose-animation-duration -float 0.25

then press enter
killall Dock

then press enter
It works. But when I restart the computer, it does not work anymore.

I've tried installing Duet (third party software which I suspected to be responsible). It did not change anything.
Edit 2
I've tried uninstalling Duet (third party software which I suspected to be responsible). It did not change anything.


texts: Adding third display to a MacBookPro via Thunderbolt port ?

texts:
I have a Mid 2012 13" MacBook Pro (MD102B/A). It has 1x Mini Display / Thunderbolt Port and 2x USB 3.1 Gen 1 ports.

At my desk I need a bigger setup, so I connect the MacBook Pro to a 24" monitor using a Mini DisplayPort to HDMI adapter.

I wish to add a second 24" monitor to my setup, so that I have 2x external monitors plus my 13" MacBook Pro screen all in the use at once. I want to use each monitor as a separate extended display, not as mirrored displays.

I have done this in the past about 4 years ago when connecting a Mac mini to 3 screens and I have used the HDMI out, Thunderbolt out, plus a USB to HDMI adapter, but the USB to HDMI adaptor made the 3rd screen quite laggy.

Is there a more up to date way to do this using a Thunderbolt splitter or hub? I have found a few online including a Belkin one and a couple made by StarTech but wondered if they where going to work with the MacBook Pro. I don't believe my MacBook Pro has the most up to date Thunderbolt, although it does have 1 GB of dedicated GPU.


texts: Very slow write performance 30min+ for 2GB - APFS?

texts:
Yesterday I have been working with Docker on my MacBook Pro 2012 which runs Mojave and the internal drive has been automatically converted to APFS (seems to be so for startvolumes since Mojave).
It worked well until I decided to add another plugin to my jenkins docker container. Then everything got slow.

I tried to restart docker but that did take endless.
Reboot of machine looks slow as ever - since Mojave.
Uninstalled docker and reinstalled it.
It took 36mins to copy the 2GB DockerDesktop into
the Applications folder.
I am now running fsck and it takes very long
but don't expect any useful output.

Is it normal that perfomance of APFS degrades, especially suddenly?
I did run benchmarks recently and thougt okay write performance is bad but still okay and now it looks like glue. Found this note according to APFS: "Copy-on-Write may cause a performance degradation over time as the drives become fragmented."

Are there any tools for APFS to fix the performance?
I guess the best option might be to get an SSD and use CarbonCopyCloner to Copy the System over to an SSD. I think of a 1TB SSD are there any recommendations according the 2012 Mac Book Pro?


texts: Why does my Touchbar's Control Strip no longer control iTunes?

texts:
I re-arranged the icons on my control strip, and now the playback buttons (play/pause, next, previous) no longer control playback in the Music/iTunes app.

I've already tried:
* restarting my computer
* resetting the control strip to default options

The music buttons in the "App Actions" section when iTunes is in focus does work, but not the ones in the Control Strip which shows when other apps are selected.


texts: Why is iTunes account showing up in system services but I don't have an account

texts:
I don't have a iTunes account.

Why is iTunes account showing up using cellular data in the system services view of used data?


texts: How to scroll using an external USB trackpad that is not a magic-mouse?

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In some cramped situations I would prefer to not use the macBook pro internal trackpad but rather an external one as shown

The right/left clicks and the trackpad area do work fine for traversing the screen and clicking. But then how to scroll the current application window?  On the internal trackpad that would be done by two fingers on the trackpad.
The Settings | Trackpad only applies to the internal trackpad of the macBook pro.  There is also an "Configure bluetooth Trackpad" : but this is a usb.
Is this possible? I do not want to use a bluetooth because I have bad issues with the bluetooth freezing the macOS.
I have a 2020 macBook pro 16" and am on Catalina.


texts: Address for "Home" is incorrect in Maps and I can't seem to find a way to updated it?

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When I originally got my iPhone 5s I asked Siri to set my home address. At that time, it recognized a wrong address and I can't seem to find a way to correct it.  It is listed with a little house icon as my home address within my recent listing of addresses but not sure how to correct it.  My iPhone (which I recently updated to an iPhone 6) does recognize "me" as my correct contact information within contacts.  My contact information does have my correct home address and when I ask Siri what my home address it is does list my contact information but when I say "take me home" it goes to the historic wrong address.

I've read prior posts and one suggested it might be pulling from my AppleID but that isn't the case.  It's listed right there.

I can't seem to find where this information is editable?  The only place where I can find where it seems to be stored is within the iPhone/Apple "Maps" application.

I've cleared the history in the application and it clears everything but the home so can't seem to find a way to get rid of it or change it (swipe to left or right doesn't seem to work easily).

As stated, I now have an iPhone 6.  It's running iOS8 but has the same problem on my 5s when it was running iOS7.

Please help, I find this frustrating and haven't seem to find any posts that help.


texts:
I have an automount set up in a file /etc/auto_synology which is referenced by /etc/automaster which looks like this:

Media -fstype=afp afp://[USER]:[PASSWORD]@jDiskStation.local/Media
Downloads -fstype=afp afp://[USER]:[PASSWORD]@jDiskStation.local/downloads

These are mounted in /mnt/synology/[Media|Downloads]

When I mount these via:

sudo automount -vc

It is successful and I can access the directories ok.

Denied Access on Reconnect

If I disconnect my laptop from the network and reconnect, the automounts appear mounted but I get permission denied.

mount -f

yields:

map auto_synology on /mnt/synology (autofs, automounted, nobrowse)

Also, working permissions on the directory looks like this:

dr-xr-xr-x  4 root   wheel    3  3 Dec 20:39 ./
drwxr-xr-x  4 james  wheel  128 18 Nov 15:19 ../
drwx------  1 james  wheel  264  3 Dec 20:34 Downloads/
drwx------  1 james  wheel  264  3 Dec 20:14 Media/


texts: I have a internal drive containing 640gb of storage with the operating system on it, my external time machine drive is  ~720gb. I am thinking about installing another internal 1tb hard drive, and still using the external drive I have. I am guessing that it will backup until there is not enough space on the external drive. I am not going to backup all of the folders to the drive so the two drives combine (both internal) should never reach 720gb. Is my hypothesis correct? Can time machine handle this?


texts: Is there a way for non-jailbroken iOS to view the source code for a web page? Does Apple's web API allow this?


texts: Big Sur - Ruby - Interrupted system call -- cannot load such file --

texts:
After upgrading to Big Sur I am getting errors running my Ruby server rotating through different files either with
cannot load such file -- or Interrupted system call --

These errors rotate various files each time I run bundle exec rackup.  I have tried uninstalling/reinstalling RVM, XCode Command Line Tools, and even tried switching to rbenv.  Same outcome.
Any ideas?


texts: Webcam not working since upgrade to El Capitan

texts:
I have a Creative Labs webcam (VF0700) that was working fine on Yosemite, but since the upgrade to OS X 10.11, it has stopped working.
It is recognised under the System Report in 'About this mac' and if I shut the mac down, plug it into the USB port before rebooting, it works fine ... until I unplug it and then it doesn't work again.

I have asked Creative support, and they say 'it's not supported' but the fact that it works with a reboot gives me some hope that there may be a workaround and I don't want to have to buy a new webcam for the odd few times that the iSight camera is not suitable.

Is there a command I can use to force the USB port to restart (as if I rebooted the Mac) or some other method I can use to get the webcam working without needing to do a complete reboot each time?


texts: Tagged items not appearing correctly in Mavericks?

texts:
I'm running OS X 10.9.5. Recently, I used Handbrake 0.9.9 x86_64 (2013051800) to convert some WMVs to MP4s. There are roughly 150 videos, and I have attempted to tag them all. When in their respective folders, they look fairly normal, as this example demonstrates:

However, when I click on 'Blue' in the Finder sidebar, I see this for each video:

I am not having the same problem with any other files tagged with the same tag, and that includes seventeen other videos which I converted from AVIs to MP4s using the same Handbrake preset (there may have been a difference in the settings for picture size, but I don't think there was). This may mean it's completely unconnected to Handbrake, but it seems unlikely.

I tried running ls -l on the directory containing the affected videos and the directory containing the seventeen unaffected videos and they're all -rw-r--r--@. Both sets of files have the extended attribute com.apple.metadata:_kMDIItemUserTags.

Can anyone shed any light on what might be happening here?


texts: iTunes Home Sharing: Shares Entire Library Instead of Selected Playlists

texts:
I have my master iTunes library on a Mac Mini, and I set up Home Sharing to stream my music and videos to my MacBook Pro.  When I had iTunes 9, I selected certain playlists to share and not others, and things worked fine.  When I upgraded to iTunes 10, now the entire library shows up on the MacBook Pro.  But I still only want the selected playlists.

Here's what I've tried so far:

I've gone into Preferences and double-checked that I'm only sharing selected playlists.
I've quit iTunes on both machines and re-launched it.
I've turned off Home Sharing on both machines, then turned it back on.
I've switched the setting on the Mac Mini to "Share my entire library", applied the change, then switched it back to "Share selected playlists" and applied the change.
I've right-clicked different playlists on the Mac Mini and verified that Share is unchecked when desired.  But it still shows up on the MacBook Pro

I'm using iTunes 10.2.1, so it's the current version.

So: how can I convince iTunes on the Mac Mini not to share only the playlists I've selected?


texts: What are the technical and license restrictions around virtualization for Leopard, Snow Leopard and Lion?

texts:
I have a 500 GB hard drive on my MacBook Pro. I have OS X 10.7 (Lion) on my main partition and Windows 7 Ultimate on a secondary partition. Because I have older applications that I would like to run in OS X 10.5 (Leopard), I was thinking of creating an additional partition and install either Leopard on it. This raises the following questions:

What are the license restrictions on doing this type of install if I
own all the software?
What are the license restrictions on using virtualization tools like VMware Fusion to access these partitions? I have read the only OS X Leopard Server was allowed to run    virtualized, but I cannot seem to find an authoritative answer on
this. I do not have Leopard Server, but regular Leopard.
Are these license restrictions different in Snow Leopard?

And then, there are the technical questions, like: Does VMWare even allow for me to access, say virtualized Lion from Leopard or virtualized Leopard from Lion? I know I can get to the Windows partition from either one, but I have never tried any OS X virtualized. What are your thoughts? Thanks.


texts:
Recently, I've noticed that my MacBook Pro 5,1 (mid 2009) running Snow Leopard 10.6.6 doesn't respond when I press CTRL+3 or CTRL+4.

When, for instance, I'm in an application that has no bindings for the CTRL-keys and I press CTRL+2, I will hear the OS X alert sound, because the application receives a key combination it doesn't understand. This is the case for all CTRL+n combinations, except 3 and 4.

No matter where I try it — even in places where pressing the aforementioned key combination would have an actual effect — nothing happens.

But it doesn't just seem to ignore the keypresses; it numbs the keyboard. If I, for instance, hold CTRL and press 5 and 6, I will hear two alerts. One for each unknown key combination. If I then do the same, but with the numbers 4 and 5 (which usually are responsive), there's no sound. In fact, no matter what key I press when CTRL is being held down after having pressed 3 or 4, nothing happens.

At first I figured I probably added some shortcut to the key combinations by accident, but I can't find it anywhere. In System Preferences → Keyboard,  I've restored everything to default, but that didn't seem to change anything.

I've tried with both the onboard keyboard, a wireless Apple bluetooth keyboard and a cabled USB Apple keyboard.


texts: Thunderbolt is very fast on OS X, but do we get the same speed when accessing Thunderbolt devices through boot camp? Meaning, if I wanted to install Steam games from my Boot Camp partition onto a Thunderbolt drive instead of on the partition itself, would I see any deterioration in quality?


texts: Is there a way to rename menu items in Firefox?

texts:
Google Chrome has a keyboard shortcut that I really like, command + shift + B. It hides and shows the bookmarks toolbar so I can use a new tab extension without worrying where my bookmarks are going to be when I need them.

I want some equivalent in Firefox, but the keyboard shortcuts menu in System Preferences>Keyboard>Shortcuts doesn't work because there are two exact instances of Bookmarks Toolbar in the Firefox menu bar: one under View>Toolbars>Bookmarks Toolbar and another one under Bookmarks>Bookmarks Toolbar.

Even though the one under Bookmarks>Bookmarks Toolbar isn't a selection, the custom command only begins to work when I go into File>View>Bookmarks Toolbar and select the option I'm trying to get a shortcut for in the first place.

I found an inkling on this thread about renaming the file from the mainmenu.nib file, but the idea about doing that for Firefox was shot down in the same line it was suggested:

  some apps, like Firefox, won't have one at all.

...And so now I'm here, looking for some help. Does anyone know if Firefox has a .nib file equivalent for its' menu bar? Is there somewhere I could go in about:config?

Someone out there has the magic solution that I'm overlooking. I just need help finding it.


texts: Recommended carrying bag for macbook pro 15.4"

texts: What are some recommended carrying cases for MBP 15.4"


texts: There's an application for windows only I was wondering if it was possible to run it on my MacBook 2008 on Yosemite. I have tried using VMWare fusion but it is too slow. Are there any faster alternatives? I also don't have any windows computer. Please help


texts: How to turn on "sudo" in OSX 10.12 Sierra

texts:
When I type "sudo some_command", the terminal shows:

sudo: unable to stat /etc/sudoers: Permission denied
sudo: no valid sudoers sources found, quitting
sudo: unable to initialize policy plugin

my account is an admin account, and the /etc/sudoers contains:

root        ALL = (ALL) ALL
%admin      ALL = (ALL) ALL

How to fix this?


texts: can I automatically disconnect bluetooth devices on sleep

texts:
We use a Belkin SongStream BT to play music on a stereo via BlueTooth.
I'd like our various devices to automatically disconnect before they go to sleep.

Alternatively, the Belkin device could drop the connection once the device goes away or it could allow new devices to connect even if there was another connection previously. The device doesn't do either though and I don't think I can configure it to.

However, shouldn't it be possible to have a MacBook automatically disconnect before sleep?

As it stands now, the LED stays on at night and I have to unplug/replug the cable to be able to connect when my girlfriend takes her connected laptop to work.

It would also be sufficient to turn off Bluetooth on sleep, since I don't use a Keyboard/Mouse that needs to be able to wake the computer.


texts: bird process is writing and reading enormous amounts of data daily

texts:
I have a MBP Retina 13" Early 2015 with macOS High Sierra and I am having an issue for a while now that is going to destroy my SSD.

The bird process is writing more than 100GB per day and reading around 40GB per day. I have iCloud Drive enabled and I have tried disabling it and re-enabling it to try and resolve this issue with no result. This has been going on for a while now so we are talking about terabytes of data.

While the SSD reads and writes are very significant, the network usage seems normal so it doesn't seem that my computer is reading and writing of the internet all the time and no I don't have a torrent client running.

I used to have development files on my iCloud Drive but soon realised that this wasn't a great idea and removed all development files but still the same issue.

I used fs_usage as suggested by here and saw that bird is constantly calling pread.

Unlike this post I don't have bird just taking a part of my free space but writing again and again crazy amounts of data (far greater than the size of my SSD).

Any ideas??? :'(


texts: Scapy on Mavericks via Homebrew "AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'intf'"

texts:
I tried to install Scapy on OS X via Homebrew which seemed to work fine.
After installation there were some Python modules missing which I installed via Homebrew.

Now when I start Scapy I get the following error:

INFO: Can't import python gnuplot wrapper . Won't be able to plot.
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/bin/scapy", line 25, in <module>
interact()
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/scapy/main.py", line 278, in interact
scapy_builtins = __import__("all",globals(),locals(),".").__dict__
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/scapy/all.py", line 25, in <module>
from route import *
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/scapy/route.py", line 162, in <module>
conf.route=Route()
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/scapy/route.py", line 22, in __init__
self.resync()
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/scapy/route.py", line 31, in resync
self.routes = read_routes()
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/scapy/arch/unix.py", line 86, in      read_routes
ifaddr = scapy.arch.get_if_addr(netif)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/scapy/arch/__init__.py", line 36, in get_if_addr
return socket.inet_ntoa(get_if_raw_addr(iff))
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/scapy/arch/pcapdnet.py", line 187, in   get_if_raw_addr
i = dnet.intf()
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'intf'

Anyone with some ideas?


texts: Apple support contacted by someone pretending to be me

texts:
Yesterday i received an automatic mail for apple thanking me to have contacted the support and there was a practice ID and my mail.

The problem is that i never contacted the apple support, so i further investigated it by going to the apple support practices website, inserted the ID and the mail and that showed me that someone has contacted the support asking for something about an iPhone 4 update, and on the field "Your contact info" there was my surname but a different name.

Worried by this situation i called the Apple support and explained.
The operator told me that he don't see anything under my name and probably someone was wrong when entered the mail to contact the support, so i can stay safe.

But i don't feel completely safe, also i'm quite sure that this was done in purpose by someone because some years ago i solded an iPhone 4 to a guy , after purged everything from it and disassociated by account from it, but this guy know my mail and some details about me and i can't completely trust him. We also litigated few months ago, and this guy's name is the same that i see on the ticket ID , but with my surname.

There is clearly too coincidences.

My question is, how i can i do in this case to prevent anything bad and feel really safe?


texts: Problem Installing Lion on MacBook2,1 using USB

texts:
I have a Macbook2,1 with 4GB RAM, Intel Core 2 Duo 2GHz and Leopard 10.5.8 and I need to upgrade it to Lion. I've downloaded Lion installation dmg file and restored it to a USB disk using Disk Utility.

But when I restart my MacBook holding option key, it doesn't show the USB disk. it only shows my hard disk. I've tried an external DVD-Drive (since the original DVD-Drive is not functional), same problem. Also I've tried restarting through Startup Disk preferences, same problem.

Any idea?


texts: Can I use two wireless keyboards with my iMac?

texts:
We were hoping that our iMac would accept two wireless Bluetooth keyboards of the exact same model to be used at the same time. (Lego 2 player, in case you're wondering)

However, I can't seem to pair the second. I thought as long as we used different keys to control each player, we'd be fine.

Anyone have any idea?


texts: How to move the Downloads folder (in Mountain Lion) to another disc

texts:
I want the "Downloads" folder not on the system drive but on my second internal drive.

In Lion I just deleted the "Downloads" folder and replace it with an alias with the same name (pointing to the folder on the second drive ofc).

In ML I get ""Downloads" can't be modified or deleted because it's required by Mac OS X".

How to delete the folder? Can I change the permissions first to be able to delete it?
Any help much appreciated.


texts: Which books should I read to use and understand Mac OS well?

texts:
I had been using Windows for over 10 years.
But I'm a beginner of using Mac OS.
Which books should I read to use and understand OS X very well.


texts: Open addresses in google maps instead of apple maps

texts:
Street addresses in Messages, Calendar, etc appear as links to click.  But when I tap on these links, they open in Apple maps.  I prefer to use google maps (or citymapper, where available).

How can I configure my iPhone so that it's opening addresses in the maps application of my preference?


texts: Disabling brief low-res PDF rendering on page transitions in Preview.app

texts:
I like the built-in Preview.app, but when giving presentations (in particular, when using multiple PDF pages for animated page components such as with LaTeX-beamer) I am annoyed by the brief low-resolution rendering on every page transition.  After about one second, I am getting the desired rendering, but on every keypress, I am first getting an immediate, blocky pre-rendering.

Edit: Here's a QuickTime screencast if the above is difficult to understand

In other programs, I find options such as "pre-render next page [in presentation mode]" or "prefer quality over speed [when rendering PDFs]", but not in the Preview.app preferences.

Is there a hidden way to configure this, or any other solution?


texts: Open a Finder window for another user account

texts:
I'm switching between a couple of different user-accounts on my mac at the moment.
I regularly want a file that's in another other user account and most of the time I can get it by scp'ing from the current account, but sometimes I want a GUI.  Is there a way that I can open a finder window that views another user-accounts files?


texts: How can I view blue "replace" suggestions in Preview?

texts: In Preview, how can I see the suggested replacements noted by blue strikethroughs? Do I need adobe acrobat to view these?


texts:
How can I limit TCP connections on Mac using Terminal?

I used iptables on Linux (eOS) to limit the connections of an application (Ace Stream Player) as follows:

$iptables -A OUTPUT -m limit --limit 50/s -j ACCEPT
$iptables -A OUTPUT -m state --state ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT
$iptables -A OUTPUT -j ACCEPT

Then I started the application and typed:

$iptables -R OUTPUT 3 -p tcp -j DROP

If there is a similar program on Mac, how would these lines look like?


texts: On Mac, is it possible to generate a folder structure in Finder's contextual menu?

texts:
For every new project I start, I create a standard folder structure that looks like this:

(NUMBER) Client Name:
- Subfolder 1
- Subfolder 2
- Subfolder 3
- Subfolder 4

Or like so:

Currently, I copy-paste this from another source folder - wondering if it's possible to add a shortcut to the contextual menu in Finder (pic below), so I can just right-click anywhere and "generate" this folder, with all the subfolders inside? I've had a go using Automator but can't figure it out...

I'm on Mojave (and High Sierra on another machine).

Thanks!


texts: kernel_task consumes 500% CPU on AC power, sometimes

texts: Typically, my kernel_task process uses 1-4% CPU and 100-700MB of memory. However, sometimes when I have the power adapter plugged in, the CPU usage jumps to around 500% (8 cores) and stays there until I unplug the power adapter. I can plug it back in and everything is fine for a few seconds or a few days, then it eventually happens again. How can I stop this from happening?


texts: MacBook Pro (13-inch, Mid 2012) does not recognise Yamaha YHT-1840

texts:
I connected my MacBook using MiniDisplay+HDMI cable to input port on a receiver.
I connected my Projector to output port on receiver.
All works great I can see a video and I can hear 5.1 audio.
But when I switch off a projector or unplug it at all MacBook stop seeing a receiver.
I would like to play just music for example without running projector.
When I switch off projector the output looks like this:

Do I need projector to be switched on every time to hear a sound?


texts: I just installed El Capitan (I used to have Lion OS X), and I lost my address book. So I googled about it and I can restore them from my time machine. I did that but the file can't be opened in the address book app. What can I do to solve this? Thank you.


texts: How do I convert a pages document to a word document without access to pages?

texts: Suppose I didn't have access to a Mac with pages.  How can I convert a pages document to a word document using only a windows environment?  Is there a freeware converter available?


texts: When you download a picture from a web browser by pressing and holding then clicking download what folder does it get downloaded into?

texts:
When you download a picture from a web browser by pressing and holding on the image then clicking download in the menu that pops up in which folder are you able to see it?

Is it the same on each browser (Safari, Chrome, etc), or does it differ?

EDIT: Referring to iOS


texts: CMOS Battery or similar for iPhone Location

texts:
I have an iPhone 7. I want to know where the CMOS Battery or similar to CMOS Battery for iPhone.
Please let me know where it is by showing a diagram if there is one.
If you cannot show me, let me know the parts close to it. Thank you in advanced!


texts: Where to find a picture from photo library on the file system?

texts:
Using the get info on a picture inside the photo library, I'm getting a name a can't find on the file system anywhere in ~/Pictures/Photos Library.photoslibrary/....

Where can I get the physical location of a file ?


texts:
I have a problem with FaceTime. On my MacBook, when I try to log in into my FaceTime  it says Your Apple ID "my e-mail-address" can not be used for FaceTime.

Now, on my iPad & iPhone it does work. Any ideas?


texts: AppleScript for iCal events from Address Book entries

texts:
I want to create a script that creates alarmed events in iCal for birthdays of people that I have in my address book. Unfortunately, I am very bad working with AppleScript.

Below is the outline of what I it to do, I would love some help as to what the actual script should be.

run script when a change is made to a birth date in address book or when address book quits
define list of people (will have an extra alarm, see below)
search for birthdays entered in address book
if no event is present in ical calendar named "birthdays" for birthdays found in address book (check name and date)

create new all day event in birthday calendar with alarm on date and title "(Name of person)'s Birthday)

if birthday is on list defined earlier

add extra alarm two weeks before the birthday

display message showing what new events were created when the script ran

I don't think the script would be that complex or long. Any help would be very much appreciated.

I'm not sure how this script could be triggered, but ideally it would run if a change is made to a birthday in address book (or a new one added).


texts: PHP incredibly slow since upgrading macOS to 10.14 Mojave?

texts:
Since I upgraded my Mac to Mojave 10.14, I noticed PHP is incredibly slow.

When I do this from the terminal:

php -v

It takes about 4-5 seconds before showing the version number, which is: PHP 7.1.13 (cli) (built: Feb  1 2018 13:38:42) ( NTS )

Is there a way to fix this? And, perhaps upgrade to the latest PHP (currently 7.2) while I'm at it?


texts: Web Pages acting weirdly in Safari. (All other Browsers tested, the web page acts weirdly only in Safari for macOS)

texts:
I don't know why but for some days Instagram (Web Version) is acting weird when it (webpage) is being loaded in Safari.

When I am clicking on my account page, all the contents within the my account page is getting aligned to the left, this wasn't the case a few days before, everything (All Contents - Posts, profile Pic, etc.) used to be centrally aligned.

This happens only in Safari. I have tried with other web browsers, this weird issue doesn't occurs in other browsers for macOS

This pic depicts my Account page where everything used to be centrally aligned be fore and now it's left aligned

The Single Post page is also left aligned, which used to be centrally aligned before.

This is a screenshot from Firefox and everyhting seems to be fine over here. (It's centrally Aligned)


texts: Clean install- erasing disk vs erasing volume

texts: I just created a bootable flash drive with El Capitan on it. I restarted my computer and went into disk utility to erase. I see that there is the disk 'APPLE SSD ...' That is 251GB, and there is the volume within it 'Macintosh HD' that is 249GB. If I want to do a clean install which should I erase? And what is on the 2GB leftover that is not taken up by the volume? Any comments are greatly appreciated, thanks.


texts: Multiple user accounts in Safari like in Chrome?

texts:
Note: creating a separate system user is not an option for me.

In Google Chrome, I can create separate "users" and launch a new Chrome window. Tabs that are opened in this window have their own sessions (cookie jars) that I can keep separate from other user's sessions.

This is great for me because, as a developer, I have personal and work "users" with separate logins for many of the same services.

E.g., I have a personal and a work gmail account - instead of combining them in gmail, I prefer to keep them separate. In my personal Chrome window, I login to gmail to read personal email. In my work Chrome window, I login to gmail (Google Apps for your domain) to read work email.

Another common one is digitalocean, github, and bitbucket. I have personal accounts for each, and work accounts for each. Keeping these things in separate Chrome windows is very helpful for me.

Another great thing about it is Chrome will save my tabs for me. When I'm at work, I can close my personal user window and open my work user window. All of my tabs from the last time I was working will be there. When I'm done with work, I open my personal user window and all my personal tabs are restored.

That said, Chrome is a bloated pig and hogs my RAM and battery. On a brand new Macbook Pro, with Chrome running, I'll get around 4 hours of battery life. With it closed, I can get much closer to 8 hours.

I'd like to ditch Chrome and try Safari, but without such a user profile feature, I'm afraid it will not be useful for me. If it's not natively possible, is there a plugin/extension available?

Thanks for any information.


texts: My terminal background keep changing after each restart

texts:
I have this in my ~/.bash_profile

export ANDROID_HOME=/Users/username/Library/Android/sdk
export PATH=$ANDROID_HOME/platform-tools:$PATH
export PATH=$ANDROID_HOME/tools:$PATH
export PATH=/usr/local/bin:$PATH
export JAVA_HOME=$(/usr/libexec/java_home)
export PS1="\w $: "
export CLICOLOR=1
export LSCOLORS=gxfxcxdxbxegedabagacad
#export LSCOLORS=exfxcxdxbxegedabagacad
#alias ls='ls -GFh'

and for some reason, whenever i restart the terminal it changes the color. I want to keep the background of my terminal in RGB 484848 ... but it changes to white and then silver and then bluish after each restart

I don't know what did i do.


texts:
I upgraded today from Sierra to High Sierra (yes I know it's old but I have audio hardware that won't work on newer systems).
As part of the migration, it changes the HFS+ partition to APFS. I have Time Machine backups set to external USB disks, but this is not automatic and I do it once a week/month manually.
I am aware that there is now a local snapshot mechanism in High Sierra, but how on earth do I discover what real free disk space I have??
On the desktop it said 54.91 and in Disk Utility it said 25.18:

I tried tidying away the invisible snapshots, even though Time Machine is disabled:
tmutil listlocalsnapshots /
com.apple.TimeMachine.2020-09-23-124636

sudo tmutil deletelocalsnapshots 2020-09-23-124636
Deleted local snapshot '2020-09-23-124636'

Now I look and it shows the following, 54.41 on the desktop, 33.66 in Disk Utility:

If I enquire on the free space using df in the console, it reports approximately the same as the desktop:
df -h
Filesystem                    Size   Used  Avail Capacity    iused               ifree %iused  Mounted on
/dev/disk1s1                 838Gi  781Gi   54Gi    94%    1772094 9223372036853003713    0%   /

How can I get an accurate indication of free disk space???? It's madness.
EDIT: Whilst writing this, the desktop now believes it is 59.32 GB free...


texts:
I have been following this tutorial in order to setup my local ~/Sites folder.

/etc/apache2/users/carloabelli.conf:

<Directory "/Users/carloabelli/Sites/">
    Options FollowSymLinks Indexes MultiViews
    AllowOverride All
    Order allow,deny
    Allow from all
</Directory>

I have restarted apache numerous times. Whenever I go the the url http://localhost/~carloabelli I get the following response:

403 Forbidden

You don't have permission to access /~carloabelli on this server.

What else do I need to do to get this to work?


texts:
I recently bought an SSD and an IDE to SATA adapter. I've installed these into my iMac G4 (it's the 20" 1.25GHz model) neither the Leopard installer or Disk Utility will recognize it.

The SSD is
http://www.memoryexpress.com/Products/MX49961

And the adapter is http://www.memoryexpress.com/Products/MX30129

I've heard that some iMacs will only work with SATA II, but I've also heard that this doesn't matter if using an adapter.

Just wondering where I should start troubleshooting. Is there anything obvious wrong with these two pieces of hardware?

Thanks!


texts: Software update wants to install Command Line Tools. Why? I have no Xcode installed

texts:
After the MacOS 10.14.4 Update, softwareupdate also shows me the following as a further update/ download:

Command Line Tools (macOS Mojave version 10.14) for Xcode 10.2

Now if I need it, I am fine installing it. I am wondering why I need it though, since I don't have Xcode installed, and am not developing software in any sense.

So why does softwareupdate show me this, and should I download it?


texts: This Apple ID has been disabled for security reasons -- more info?

texts:
I recently got a "This Apple ID has been disabled for security reasons" message on all my apple devices. I've have since performed the obligatory password reset process and everything seems to be in working order again.

I'm very curious as to why my account was "disabled for security reasons" and was wondering if there was a way to suss this out. I'd really like to know if any of my email addresses or passwords have been compromised.

According to searches, it seems like one reason this can happen is a lot of failed login attempts. I haven't manually logged in for ages, though. Is there a way to see login attempts to ones account?

It doesn't look like there are any suspect devices that have logged in to my account, or any suspect items in my purchase history (viewed through https://reportaproblem.apple.com/). I don't think my account was actually breached, but more information would be very welcome.


texts: Non-HTTPS websites don't work over Anker ethernet adapter since Catalina

texts:
I'm having a weird bug where my Anker USB-C hub is messing with the ethernet connection. I can only visit HTTPS sites and HTTP sites get redirected to a page saying:

Router Behind Router Detected
warningError: The Connection Monitor has detected a third party router connected to the 5268AC

I believe this has only started happening since I last updated (currently on 10.15.4). Here are a few things I've tried:

Testing with another MacBook gave the same results
Testing on a different network just didn't resolve HTTP sites (no redirect)
Testing with a different branded adapter on the same network is fine

Is there some reason this adapter doesn't work anymore? Is it fixable? Thanks!


texts: Why does my MacBook Pro reach high temperatures when running?

texts: I have my MacBook Pro sitting on my desk and it's consistently over 160 degrees. It is almost too hot to touch in some places on the casing.


texts: Does an iOS app have the ability to set iOS Safari cookies?

texts:
My specific interest is in the context of the Facebook for iOS app, but it can be asked of an iOS app really.

Given all the recent changes to Facebook and the way that Facebook cookies are not cleared when you log out of Facebook I've become keenly interested in knowing how my access patterns to Facebook can result in tracking cookies sticking to me.

What I'd like to know is: if I use an iOS application, like the Facebook for iOS application, can I end up with session cookies set in iOS Safari that relate to Facebook? Or are all login cookies related to Facebook completely contained to just the Facebook application?


texts: Fn key not being recognized on macOS Mojave

texts: I have Logitech K330 unifying keyboard with Fn key on it. I use it on MacBook Pro 2015 with macOS Mojave. For some reason when I press Fn key it does not do anything. I definitely need this Fn key behavior for terminal command line navigation (Fn+Shift+Arrow keys). I tried with Logitech unifying software too, it did not work. Has anyone faced a similar situation?


texts: What would I lose from switching from iPhone 4+ e-reader to dumbphone+iPad

texts: I'm currently using an iPhone 4 and a cheap e-reader that was given to me as a gift. I don't think I can afford both an iPhone and an iPad, so I was considering switching to a dumbphone (non-smartphone) and an iPad. What features would i lose, or miss, from making this switch - specifically in the iphone-ipad part?


texts: How can I record the screen and the rear camera on an iPhone simultaneously?

texts:
I've seen many apps that can record the iPhone screen and the front camera (facecam) into a single video. It embeds the facecam into a corner of the iPhone screen recording.

I want an app to record the rear camera and combine the video/overlay the video with the screen recording.

Basically I want to make a video showing how a WiFi light bulb reacts when using the iPhone app (screen controls).
So as I record the screen of the iPhone showing the changing the settings of the bulb on the app, I want to use the rear camera to simultaneously record and embed into the screen recording what's happening with the bulb in real time.

The key here is the rear camera, there are software which use the front camera (facecam) and screen recording at the same time but I can't find any app (or a way) to use the rear camera and the screen recording at the same time.

Is this something apps can do on the iPhone with iOS?


texts: How to close a file and a folder using bash?

texts: Is it possible? I would like something which is the opposite of the command open file_or_folder_name. I have searched on the web but I got no results.


texts: Selecting files for input Safari applescript

texts:
I am trying to automate using Applescript uploading of files to a website. I have gotten to nearly the last step, but can't seem to get a Finder (file chooser) window to respond to scripts.

Here is what the site looks like (i can't give you the actual site, because it is a secure medical record).

The process to upload files is to hit "Add Images" which I can do in Apple/Javascript and it brings up a Finder (file chooser) window like this (again I can only show part because of privacy issues). There are standard "choose" and cancel" buttons on the bottom.

I can't find a way to get this Finder window to respond to Applescript. I have been trying things like:

tell application "System Events"
    keystroke tab
end tell

and numerous others using Finder etc.

Any ideas on how to pick a file out of this window? Or get to this window? Or even find the properties of this window?

Thanks.


texts: How to share and project Powerpoint presentation with ARD

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I would like to present a Powerpoint 2011 presentation in a classroom with ~20 student machines equipped with Apple Remote Desktop 3.5.1.  There is also a projector and small screen in front.  I have two closely-related questions:

When I project the presentation, I can get the presenter view on the instructor machine, which is great, but, when I share my desktop, students see the presenter view, not the full-screen slide show being projected.  Is there a way to choose which of my displays to share?
Is Share Screen even the right feature to use?  In the Apple forum, users recommended creating a Powerpoint show and pushing that to user machines, rather than using Screen Share; however, I would like to control the pace of the slides (because of animations, etc.)


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I have pgAdmin on my dock, and can open it when the process isn't already running (ie. after a restart, or if I manually kill it).

If I open pgAdmin, close the window, then later try to open it from the dock, the app doesn't respond.

This dock behavior is similar to MySQL Workbench, except that MySQL has the "running process indicator" (little circle on dock below the icon), while pgAdmin does not, which means that right clicking on the pgAdmin icon does not give me the option to quit.

I tried using a bash function, which for MySQL would look like this:

killall MySQLWorkbench && open /Applications/MySQLWorkbench.app

This works fine for MySQL Workbench, but isn't necessary since I can restart it from the dock.

For some reason, with pgAdmin, the process doesn't get killed, so the app never opens:

>> killall pgAdmin\ 4
No matching processes were found

The app is clearly visible in Activity Monitor with the name pgAdmin 4

The only solution I have currently is to manually kill the process from Activity Monitor, but this is quite redundant.

  How can I conveniently restart pgAdmin 4?

I would prefer a solution that allows me to restart it from the dock, but a bash script would also suffice.

Software:

pgAdmin 4 : 4.17
macOS Catalina : 10.15


texts: How can I hide the Resent-from header in Mail?

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Looking at Apple's Mail: Show detailed message headers, it sounds like I shouldn't be seeing Resent-from headers, because I have the View->Show message headers preference set to "Default."

The support page sounds like I should need to use Custom to ever see Resent-from.

How can I turn off the Resent-from header?

I also tried setting the preference to Custom... without adding any headers at all, and nothing changed.

My Mac is running OS X 10.10.5, Yosemite.


texts: Can I assign a keyboard shortcut to bring up the Mac OS X Login Window?

texts: I’d like to assign an “Every Application” keyboard shortcut to bring up the login window, for when I step away from my computer. Is there a way to do this? (Lion-only methods are fine.)


texts: How do you change the format of the OSX Screen Shot file name?

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I'd like my screen shots to only be named with the current date time, preferably in a format like:

2016-09-02-16:02:48

How should I go about doing this?

So far I've tried inserting an empty string into com.apple.screencapture name

as shown:

$ defaults write com.apple.screencapture name ""
$ killall SystemUIServer

But OSX is still inserting a space as shown below:

So there's two problems I'm having:

How do I change the date time format so there are no spaces?
How do I make sure there is no leading space in the screenshot filename?

Thanks :)


texts: iOS keyboard suggests an old email address

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I'm running iOS 13.4.1 on an iPad Air 2. When I click on an email form field in Safari, the keyboard suggests two email addresses, one labeled "home" and one labeled "email". The "home" address is the address I use for my Apple ID, but the "email" address is an old email address that I haven't used in over ten years. How did iOS find this email address, and how can I get rid of it?

The old email address still forwards to my main email address, so it's possible that iOS extracted it from my mail, but I have other email addresses that forward to my main address that it doesn't suggest. I couldn't find anything in my iCloud account that's linked to the old address, and I didn't own any Apple products ten years ago. Any ideas?


texts: Disable macOS screen capture snapshot sound?

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I'm not using Grab, but the screenshot shortcuts Command ⌘Shift3 and Command ⌘Shift4
A loud snapshot sound plays whenever I screengrab.
How can I turn off this sound, and is there any way other than disabling all system sound effects? Perhaps with a Terminal command?
I'm looking specifically for 10.8+, if it matters.


texts: Adding external wired NAS to Time Capsule

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First, I have none of this equipment, so I can't just test it and see ..Yet.
I Know I could hack a Time Capsule into a RaidBox via SATA/eSATA connector, But that's not the route I'd like to go.
If you plug in a NAS to a A1470 TC does acknowledge it's existence ? And Can you store to it?
I want to get a TC A1470. replace the small drive with a larger TB unit. Use that for my Time Machine Backups. Then add a 16TB NAS (wired) to the ethernet on the TC. Like a Drobo 5-Bay DAS Storage.
Mac, Mojave, External NAS, Time Capsule,


texts: Safari doesn't save google search results in history

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macOS Catalina 10.15.2, maybe other versions:

Open a new tab in Safari
Use the omnibar to search for something
Open one of the google results
Press the browser back button (or cmd-[)

Observe: get taken to the new tab page, instead of to the google results page.

Additionally open history (cmd-y) the google results pages are never saved here.

How can I make it so that after visiting a Google result, I can still get back to the Google results page?


texts: Should Do Not Disturb be cancelling incoming calls?

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I was just wondering about DND. It was my understanding that DND just silenced notifications (calls, texts, alerts, etc) system wide.

I thought it just ensured that the screen does not light up and not audible notification is played, however it seems from my testing that when enabled DND actually cancels incoming calls, rather than just silencing the incoming call. Is this correct behavior?