texts: How to get Facebook Messenger on my iPhone 3GS

texts: I can't get Facebook Messenger on my iPhone 3GS. When I reset my phone, it made a new account. Now it just says I need iOS 7. What should I do?


texts: Why do I have to restore the iTunes Library folder permissions every time I update iTunes?

texts: Every time there is an iTunes update, the permissions of my iTunes Library directory change. Is there a way to prevent this?


texts: I just upgrade my iPhone to iOS 4.2. Where did all my email go?

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I just upgraded my iPhone 3G from iOS 3.1.3 to 4.2.1.

Backed everything up (8 hours)
Downloaded the update (1 hour)
Installed the update, and restored everything (1 hour)

Everything looks like it worked… EXCEPT that now, all my email is gone.

I have three questions:

How could it restore all my contacts, settings, apps, all email settings, all email boxes, everything… and only skip my email?
Where did my email go?
How do I get my email back?


texts: What is the keystroke to switch between windows in a guest os (Ubuntu) in VirtualBox?

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Using Ubuntu installed as normal operating system, I can switch between windows by using alttab.

I installed Ubuntu in a VirtualBox VM with a MacBook Pro/OS X as host. In the Ubuntu guest, alttab doesn't switch between windows. How shall I change the keys to do that?


texts: I can't update my iphone 4 from ios 7 to ios 7.1.2

texts: I have been trying to update my iphone 4 from ios 7 to ios 7.1.2 for months but it has never worked. I go into software update in settings, I see that I can update my phone to 1.7.2 so I press download and install. Then comes terms and conditions so I press "I agree". Straight away it starts downloading but it is pretty slow. It keeps on downloading until it is halfway done with the process bar. Right beneath the bar were it stood estimated time remaining it says now "preparing update..." When that happens the update suddenly is super slow. It nearly doesn't go forward. After few minutes of waiting, the update stops and I recieve a message saying "Software update failed. An error occured downloading IOS 7.1.2." I have tried rebooting my phone but that didn't work. It's like something is preventing me from updating my phone but i don't know what it is Can please someone tell me what I am doing wrong


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I'm mid way through replacing the hard drive in my MacBook Pro (mid-2009). I've created a boot disk (10.8) on a SD card which I am booting from.

On trying to format the new drive with disk utility (in from the installer) I am being presented with the following error.

Disk Erase Failed
Disk Erase failed with the error:
Unable to write to the last block of the device

Googling suggests this error message is somewhat ambiguous. The drive is brand new and from disk utility the SMART status is "verified".

Thanks in advance


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I recently purchased an apple iPod touch 4th gen but the volume control has been stuck at the max and will start going up or down at any random time The up button doesn't work and the down volume will turn it down but it will go right back up. I've tried turning it on and off but to no avail.

How can I get my volume control back?


texts: How can I change sound depth and frequency characteristics in GarageBand?

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How can I change depth (bits) and frequency (kHzs) characteristics when recording session in GarageBand?

If I can't then what are the default values?


texts: Why is it important to keep lots of freespace on OSX? What is the impact?

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I have a 500GB drive and have less than 50 GB free.  Console is reporting several interesting errors saying I'm too low on space and it's cleaning up "stuff"

  1/6/13 4:49:51.475 PM com.apple.mtmd[452]: attempting to thin because of low free space on Macintosh HD (/) by removing 2013-01-06 15:50:13 -0500, estimate 0 bytes to recover, 1 snapshot can be thinned

Why should I have sufficient free space on my drive?
Since I have a large drive, does it mean I need 10% of a 50 GB drive free? (that's a lot)
Now that I'm low on space, what is the system deleting and fixing that it doesn't do normally?


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I'd like to extract content of old .chm file into individual html files.

Is there an app or command line tool for this?


texts: How to change resolution when using screen sharing and no physical screen is connected?

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We have a Mac Pro running Lion that ha no screen attached.  It is set up so it can be accessed using screen sharing (VNC).  It works with a 800 by 600 resolution.

How can I change the resolution while being connected using screen sharing?

When I use display preferences to change the resolution while being connected using screen sharing, this is what happens:  I get a dialog saying that if the resolution change didn't work, the system will revert it in 15 seconds.  Then the screen freezes (nothing changes and it doesn't appear to react to clicks).  Finally after 15 seconds it reverts to 800 by 600.


texts: How do I get the old blue sms alert box for notification of new text messages?

texts: I used to get SMS alerts in lock screen which showed a blue box with the option of "close" or "reply". Now I get a green slider box with a white bubble. How can I change this back? I have set the notification to "alert" .


texts: When I turn my ipod on I get the red circle with an X in it that tells me to contact apple support. I accessed the diagnostics and when I try to run either of the hard drive test the display says (can't open device) ERROR! Diag halt. I'm pretty sure my hard drive is toast and I know how to replace the hard drive but,how do I download software? when I connect it to Itunes on my computer will the software download while it synchronizes? or do I have to download software from apple?


texts: How to restrict "Remote Login" (ssh) access to only certain IP ranges?

texts: Can someone please tell me how to restrict SSH access only to certain IP ranges (e.g. local network) and not the whole Internet? I guess this has to be done via firewall.


texts: Is there an app to chat on Facebook on iOS?

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Is there an app to chat on Facebook on iOS ?

I would like to be laptop free


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Several things happened in one evening:
I overloaded the electricity in my room leading to all the plugs being switched off. Headphones were working at this point.
I then tried to hook my Macbook Pro (Early 2015) into a small amp (Orange Microcrush) to get some sound. I only got static and noise.
When I tried to listen to music on my headphones, I could only hear static and mechanical noise. A red light momentarily appears in the headphone port when I remove the headphones.
Interestingly, the speakers still work.
I've tried resetting pram and resetting core audio - all to no avail. Right now I have very faint audio coming out the right ear of my headphones. This, however, is unstable.
I appreciate any help you can offer.


texts: Google Calendar won't sync after update on 9.2.1

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I have recently updated to iOS 9.2.1, and now my Google Calendar isn't syncing anymore. If I add event on my desktop (Google Calendar App inside my browser), events are added and synced to my iPhone, but if I add event inside my Calendar app on iPhone, events are never synced to my Google Calendar, they only exists on my iPhone.

I have tried to restart phone, and reset network settings, but without luck.

EDIT: I have also noticed red exclamation sign on iCloud calendars, maybe is this issue?

I


texts: Wallpaper not updating on startup/login screen

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I have updated my wallpaper recently and now when I restart my computer or logout, my old wallpaper still shows (blurred, obviously) on the login screen. When I login, my new wallpaper is there. Is there a way to fix this?

Unfortunately this possible duplicate does not address my issue:
How do I change the login screen background in macOS Mojave?
This is not after updating to Mojave OS. I have not updated to it. So I do not have a "Mojave.heic"


texts: Whenever I open the computer the login screen shows up with my account picture and full name. Is there any way to remove it or replace it with the account name or something like that?


texts: How can I use the dvdbackup tool in Mac OS X?

texts: I want to use 'dvdbackup' tool in my Mac OS X, however its specification is too simple. I would like to know how to back up my whole DVD, can anyone give my some example or advice step by step?


texts: I'm on Yosemite at the moment I want to upgrade but I fear it will break my applications. I have a MacBook Pro (Late 2011) 15''. The last time I updated my Logic Pro 8 broke and I was forced to pay $200 for Logic Pro X (it is my theory that Apple did that on purpose) but either way, what is your suggestion on the Operating System nonsense?


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I've got an iMac running High Sierra, and over the last couple of months it has developed a problem where it spontaneously reboots itself about once a day.

The reboots always occur when the iMac is asleep and the pattern is always the same. When the reboot happens, the startup chime happens twice in close succession. The error message is always like this:

Date/Time:       2017-12-10 08:43:57 -0800
OS Version:      Mac OS X 10.13.1 (Build 17B1003)
Architecture:    x86_64
Report Version:  26

Data Source:     Stackshots

Event:           Sleep Wake Failure
Duration:        0.05s
Steps:           5

Hardware model:  iMac13,2
Active cpus:     4

Time Awake Since Boot: 33000s

I researched Sleep Wake Failure on Ask Different and elsewhere on the web. I tried several things, including:

Energy Saver: Prevent computer from sleeping automatically when the display is off
Reset PRAM/NVRAM
Reset SMC

This iMac is getting a little old and it is quite possible a problem has developed with the hardware, but I do recall this started around the time I installed High Sierra and I've been assuming it's a correctable software problem.

Model info: iMac13,2, BootROM IM131.010F.B00, 4 processors, Intel Core i5, 2.9 GHz, 8 GB, SMC 2.11f14
Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660M, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660M, PCIe, 512 MB
RAM 8 GB


texts: How to create a bootable usb for OS X on Windows?

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i had erase all data from my macbook and know i need to create a usb bootable to reinstall the yosemite or another version.

I can't access to app store to download the OS. How i can download it and create a usb bootable on Windows?


texts: Cannot scroll up on Chrome in Outlook Web Access

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I am, as of fairly recently, unable to scroll up in my company's Outlook Web Access. This only affects the list of emails. I can scroll up in other 'panes', and scroll down everywhere. For example, I can scroll up in the message reading pane if it is a really long message.

I haven't found any other websites affected by this yet, but I have a feeling there are some out there. This affects one other person at my company who is also on an OSX machine running Chrome.

No updates were done at the time when the issue started, but it is definitely possible Chrome updated itself at that time.

Weird thing is, I can scroll up just fine from another local account on the same iMac. I can also scroll up in OWA from any other browser, on any account on this iMac. This one OWA pane on this local user, direction up, is the only issue whatsoever. I have set the scroll bar to always be visible so that I can click and drag it as a workaround. It doesn't seem like much, but it is a huge pain in the buttoots to not be able to scroll up.

Things I have tried:

Restarting the computer, logging in and back out again
Reset Chrome's settings from within Chrome
Delete the Chrome .app in Applications, download new one
Delete various plist files, logging out and back in after each deletion, including:
~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.driver.AppleBluetoothMultitouch.mouse.plist
~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.driver.AppleBluetoothMultitouch.trackpad.plist
~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.driver.AppleBluetoothMultitouch.trackpad.plist.lockfile
~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.driver.AppleHIDMouse.plist
~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.systempreferences.plist
~/Library/Preferences/com.google.Chrome.plist
~/Library/Preferences/.GlobalPreferences.plist
Compare the above listed plists from working local account to nonworking local account (using diff) and found no relevant differences
Search for solutions (cannot find anybody who has the same issue)
Toggle 'Scrolling Direction' in System Preferences > Mouse. When I have it set to natural, scrolling up with my mouse wheel moves the page down. When I have it set to not-natural, scrolling down with my mouse wheel moves the page down. Either way, there is no response when I scroll up.
Tried a different mouse. I have tried a totally basic 3-button dell mouse, and a fancy Apple Magic Mouse. Problem is the same with both.
Running defaults read -g | grep -i mouse and defaults read -g | grep -i scroll and toggling/changing all of the settings and testing in Chrome, all of which did what was expected but none of which solved my problem:

AppleScrollAnimationEnabled = 0; #changed to 1 and back
AppleShowScrollBars = Always; #changed to Never and back
"com.apple.scrollwheel.scaling" = "0.6875"; #changed value, this is Scrolling speed in preferences
"com.apple.swipescrolldirection" = 1; #changed to 0 and back, this is Scrolling direection in preferences
"com.apple.mouse.scaling" = 2; #changed value, this is Tracking speed in preferences

Open, in Chrome, chrome://flags, search for 'mouse' and 'scroll', try each flag on each setting (Automatic, Enabled, Disabled), relauched Chrome after each

At this point, the possibility of resolution seems very distant to me, and I grow weary of this toilsome problem :( I think I have been pretty thorough in troubleshooting except I feel like there are more settings to be done on the Chrome side of things of which I am not aware. I know I can make a new local user, but I should be able to just change a setting, or delete a configuration file, and fix this. There has GOT to be a way.


texts: What's the difference between rainbow and regular spinning wheel?

texts: I usually see the well known rainbow colored spinning wheel when the Mac is working on something, but sometimes there is a blue one. What is the difference between them? Do they come from the OS and have a special meaning or is it application dependent?


texts: About MIME: is it possible to always "Open With“ text file with a a command line script?

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I want to always "Open With" text file, such .cpp/.h files with a command line script. I can use "cmd+shift+G" to open the folder of the command line script. However, Mac OS does not allow me to choose the script. Mac OS only allows me to use Applications.

So is there any workaround?

Thanks


texts: What is the shortcut for fullscreen mode in Lion?

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Some apps allow their windows to be viewed in full screen, such as Google Chrome, which is really good.

Wondering if there is a shortcut to do it?


texts: I've recorded some actions and made an Automator workflow out of it. It's basically some clicks, selecting something in drop-down menues and quitting the app. I run the workflow at 10x speed, but it's still fairly slow. Is there a way to speed it up beyond 10x? It can also run in the background, invisibly, I don't need to see the steps. I don't know if it's possible.


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I'm running Lion (10.7.1) and the other day I started getting these Broadcast Message notices in my Terminal.  I've google'd the crap out of it and the few threads i've found where someone actually offered a way to fix it haven't solved my problem.  I'm at a loss as to how to fix this and I use the Terminal daily and it is very annoying.

Broadcast Message from root@Gregg-Bolingers-iMac.local
        (no tty) at 18:31 CST...

Feb 21 18:31:14 Gregg-Bolingers-iMac kernel[0]:

Looking at my system.log the only thing I get when this happens is:

Feb 21 18:31:55: --- last message repeated 22898 times ---
Feb 21 18:31:54 Gregg-Bolingers-iMac kernel[0]:


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All the packages needed to install gnuplot through MacPorts on Lion succeed, except for aquaterm.

Installing gnuplot through Fink is far less lucky on Lion. Fink bails out after only a third of the packages needed for gnuplot have been installed, but Fink does install aquaterm.

Is there a way to 'port install gnuplot' while pointing MacPorts to the aquaterm installation generated by Fink?

Also nice would be to know of a method to install gnuplot on Lion that uses neither Fink nor MacPorts. Learning about a replacement for gnuplot itself on OSX would be handy.


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My hard drive had some bad sectors recently, so I backed up, re-formatted, and clean installed Mavericks.

Everything seemed to work fine until couple days ago when I tried to look at some photos I recently imported to iPhoto, things got stuck and sometimes wouldn't move at all for up to 40 seconds, I knew it was a hard drive issue.

I tried to use the os x disk util to verify and repair disk but it all came up green.

when I try to run time machine it transfers REALLY REALLY SLOW and than gets stuck and says backup failed.

what should I do?


texts: Why does Apple TV always show National Geographic screen saver?

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My 3rd generation Apple TV has a small but annoying problem where it defaults to the National Geographic screen saver, regardless of what is set on the Screen Saver page.

I've chosen > Photos > Explore:

The next panel shows that I've chosen Flickr (but the situation is identical if I instead choose iCloud photos).

After the Apple TV has been idle for 2 minutes the screen saver starts. Sometimes it shows 1 image from Flickr then immediately goes into a loop showing the National Geographic photos. Sometimes it shows Flickr photos for ~5 minutes before showing National Geographic.

The OS is set to automatic updates and there are no other issues. It's not exactly a show-stopper bug, just a bit annoying.

(This is the same problem as Screen saver settings keep defaulting back to National Geographic Photos but applies to Apple TV, not Mac.)


texts: So, I'm running a rMBP, and my BootCamp simply refuses to recognise my Ethernet. I can see it recognises the Thunderbolt converter, as there's an option to eject it under 'Safely eject hardware'. I'm rather bad with technical stuff, but I tried manually installing a driver or something like that (I found a solution here that seemed to work for people, but I couldn't figure it out for the life of me).. I haven't unplugged it since startup, so that's not the issue.


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On an iPhone, is there a way to temporarily disconnect from my home Wi-Fi without having to “Forget This Network”?

Why I need this:

My home Wi-Fi sometimes has a very slow Internet connection.
Meanwhile, my 4G always has a strong Internet connection.
In those cases, I would like to:

disconnect my phone from my home Wi-Fi,
activate the phone's wireless hotspot,
use this hotspot to connect my PC to the Internet, via the 4G connection.


texts: Multiple copies of files in need of deletion

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I have maintained backups of 'All My Files' on an external secure shell card and have overwritten the originals several times.  Now there are multiple copies of several files wherein they are labeled 'example_1', 'example_2', 'example_3' and so on.

Is there any way to differentiate between these copies and the originals so that I can delete the extras and free the space they're taking up without damaging my computer's functionality?

I'm fairly certain some of the copied files are possibly data files and other necessary items.

Here is a screenshot of what I am describing:


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Drag an image onto the timeline.
Move the mouse cursor to the end of the image until you see the cursor changes to something like this <-|->
Then double click, instantly iMovie crashes.

I haven't used iMovie for a while, after I downloaded it and started to use it for just 1 minute, then I have no words on this piece of crap.
Not sure how such a basic thing passed their stupid quality assurance...
Anyone has the same issue?
Version 10.2.2 on Big Sur


texts: Sync of iPhone copies all songs every time

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Macbook Pro 16" running the latest version of Catalina,
iPhone XS running iOS 14.1
I sync the phone and computer using a lightning cable, I don't use iCloud.
Sync used to take five minutes, now takes over an hour.
I have about 20 GB of music on the Mac, I would like a copy of all of it on the phone.
Two months ago I had all the songs on my phone and when I synced the phone to the computer it took about five minutes, very few songs were updated.
Today when I sync my phone with my computer every single song is copied from the computer back to the phone in spite of the fact that all the songs were already on my phone when I plugged it in. These songs haven't been updated and most haven't been played between syncs. I want to say it started with iOS 14 but I am not certain.
This is new behavior. I haven't changed any settings on the Mac or the iPhone.
This happens every time I sync my phone.
My questions:
What is causing this and how can I stop it?


texts: Does HTML5 offline webapp still work in Safari / iPad / iPhone?

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When I search Google about HTML5 offline features I can only find some answers dated 2010 / 2011. Nothing recent appears.

Besides the web app behaves erratic on iOS: sometimes it will work, even when navigating several times to cached pages, and then, all of a sudden, it "decides" it needs Internet connection and then, impossible to reload the home page from either the home screen icon, of from an URL in Safari. "Not connected!".

I'm using a manifest file called "example.appcache" and the related mime type is duly declared on my IIS 7 server.

Does someone have recent answers?


texts: mdfind gives different results from Finder

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On my MBP running Mojave (with SSD drive), I noticed that when searching for a file using mdfind utility I get different results than when doing the same search from Finder. No location/path restrictions were used.

Can someone explain to me how this could be? The results should have been 3 .odt files and 1 .mp3 but mdfind only lists the .odt files.

Reindexing fixed the problem. How can I prevent this from happening again? Is there some regular maintenance task I could run to make sure the index is up to date? Or do I simply force a reindex once a week?

Thanks.

EDIT:
The names of the files I was searching start with 6182.

The search from the Terminal was:

$ mdfind -name 6182

As for Finder, I just entered 6182 and made sure This Mac was selected.


texts: Black screen when open Time Machine on Yosemite

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I use a 13 Macbook with a thunderbolt display on Yosemite. Since the installation of last osx version, if I try to open Time Machine I can only see a completely black screen on laptop screen. The other screen remains with previously opened windows. So, time machine is completely unusable. I can only use ESC to exit.

Any ideas of what can be happening here?

If I don't connect my second monitor, works fine.

This is my displays configuration:


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This is actually not a recent thing, a couple of years ago, I temporarily installed Kali Linux on a separate partition on the SSD. When I then deleted Kali Linux, I found out that the partitions never sort of merged (I guess that's the right term). When I go to Disk Utility, I see the following information:

What I'm wondering is if there's anyway to have the Apple OS and all the storage go back to the original 251GB maximum? Where is that other 125GB of storage? There's no information on the laptop that's vital, so anything that would require a reset is fine.

Edit: Tried the resizecontainer command in terminal, failed result:
Started APFS operation
Error: -69743: The new size must be different than the existing size

Results of list:


texts: Keyboard and trackpad launching too long after opening a lid

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I own a MacBook Pro (late 2019, 13 inch, 10.15.5).
I have an issue that when I open a lid  sometimes takes too long up to 10 seconds to launch a keyboard and when the backlight turns on it is a sign that it is ready.
It can even tell that it doesn't see a keyboard and tries to connect to a wireless keyboard and mouse.
Maybe somebody had this issue too and can help. Thank you!


texts: Why do I get this message every time I open the terminal?

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Every time I open the terminal I see the following message:
/etc/zshrc:7: command not found: locale

This is the first 7 lines in the file /etc/zshrc:
# System-wide profile for interactive zsh(1) shells.

# Setup user specific overrides for this in ~/.zshrc. See zshbuiltins(1)
# and zshoptions(1) for more details.

# Correctly display UTF-8 with combining characters.
if [[ "$(locale LC_CTYPE)" == "UTF-8" ]]; then
    setopt COMBINING_CHARS
fi

What should I do to this file to fix the problem?


texts: Cut & Paste not working reliably on macOS Sierra

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I recently upgraded my machine to macOS Sierra. In the last couple of days I've noticed that cutting and pasting is increasingly flakey. I thought initially that copy wasn't working since I didn't seem to be able to copy new content to the clipboard, but after trying various things I now have my machine in a state where Cmd-V or pasting via the Edit menu produces a different result to pbpaste. Are there any circumstances under which this would be expected?

I'm not sure how to diagnose this. In another similar question I saw a request for the output of kextstat | grep -v com.apple, which I've added below.

Index Refs Address            Size       Wired      Name (Version) UUID <Linked Against>
  146    3 0xffffff7f846da000 0x60000    0x60000    org.virtualbox.kext.VBoxDrv (5.0.10) 23DD0853-7210-3AF2-85FA-1C7FF8F7D1BF <7 5 4 3 1>
  147    0 0xffffff7f8473a000 0x14000    0x14000    com.intel.kext.intelhaxm (6.0.1) 8FF2C637-0A5E-367E-B007-5B08655B1E8A <7 5 4 3 1>
  153    0 0xffffff7f8474e000 0x8000     0x8000     org.virtualbox.kext.VBoxUSB (5.0.10) C5D33477-F93D-36AD-8748-1EB1105FB93A <152 146 41 7 5 4 3 1>
  154    0 0xffffff7f84756000 0x5000     0x5000     org.virtualbox.kext.VBoxNetFlt (5.0.10) E5ABC825-5396-34A7-9B63-3A38E9142EEC <146 7 5 4 3 1>
  155    0 0xffffff7f8475b000 0x6000     0x6000     org.virtualbox.kext.VBoxNetAdp (5.0.10) BEFC91DC-800F-3F16-8388-50584243FB30 <146 5 4 1>

I'll probably have to restart my machine now since I really need to get work done, but any suggestions for when this happens again would be gratefully received.


texts: On what basis does the Finder update the file copy progression bar?

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I want to know that the progression of the progress bar in OS X is based on which factors by the Finder?

Time (passing or estimated)
Number of files remaining
Size of files remaining

If possible, can we change the factor used in any way to match our choice?


texts: Import and export LDAP settings from Directory utility

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Is there a way to import and export LDAP settings in macOS Catalina?
In previous OS versions, when installing a new laptop, we will connect it to our LDAP server simply by copying some files with our settings like:
/Library/Preferences/OpenDirectory/Configurations/LDAPv3/ldap_server_fqdn.plist
/Library/Preferences/OpenDirectory/Configurations/Search.plist

Since Catalina, this solution doesn't work anymore. We always have to register the configuration/bindings manually.


texts: Terminal command to bring up shutdown dialog?

texts: I know how to shutdown a Mac from Terminal, but is there a way to actually bring up the shutdown dialog you get from Apple → Shut Down…?


texts: 100% CPU Lock Up On Launching Applications On AFP Shares

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When ever I try to launch an application that is located on an AFP share, the CPU load raises to max and shortly after that the system locks. Why is this? How can I prevent it?

I'm on current Lion, problem persists since Snow Leopard. The AFP share is on a Synology DiskStation with current firmware.

After the GUI stopped working the windowserver.log reads as following. Every other log file is unchanged until the reboot related log entries.

Jan 19 19:35:35  [109] kCGErrorIllegalArgument: CGXGetWindowWorkspace: invalid window id: 49
Jan 19 19:35:35  [109] kCGErrorIllegalArgument: CGXGetWindowWorkspace: invalid window id: 3a
Jan 19 19:35:35  [109] kCGErrorIllegalArgument: CGXGetWindowWorkspace: invalid window id: 32

These entries are reproducible. Trying the same through VMware+Lion I experience no crash thus I conclude that there is no problem on server side.


texts: Alias use from Terminal - What's the magic recipe?

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I wanted to make a shortcut at my root, entry Terminal directory

Goal

an Alias for /someLongPath/someProject/ at ~/someProject

Problem

I create the Alias and locate it at ~/. For me this is ~/MultiTimer here. But for the Alias, the Terminal use of cd does not work!

Question

How do you use cd from the Terminal for an Alias? Can this be setup?


texts: How to download and install updates to these Apple apps in this macOS without an Apple ID? Can I download the installer? If so, from where exactly?

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I need to update Numbers, Pages and Keynote on macOS 10.15.7 but I do not have an Apple ID. Is it possible to update macOS without Apple ID? has an answer which is insufficient for me and is closed so it cannot receive any further answers.

Most important thing to remember is that a user only needs the Mac App Store to download the installer, which downloads the update to the machine.
You can also download the installer from the Web by visiting this link on Apple Support website.

If I go to that download site and type "installer" in the bar no results are found.

So I am stuck.
Question: How can I download and install updates to these Apple apps in this macOS without an Apple ID? Can I download the installer? If so, from where exactly?

Note: I just want to update the three Numbers, Pages and Keynote


texts: Automator command line: "Unable to open workflow"

texts: I created a workflow in Automator consisting of a single action, "Convert Format of Word Documents" (provided by Microsoft Word). I saved this in ~/Documents/convert_word_to_pdf.app. I can run it by dragging a word file over this app, and it will generate a PDF for me. However, I can't figure out how to run it through the command line. I tried running automator convert_word_to_pdf.app foo.docx and I get Unable to open workflow.. I also tried convert_word_to_pdf and convert_word_to_pdf/document.wflow as arguments to automator, with the same results. What am I missing here?


texts: How can I make my computer believe a disk image is a hardware disk?

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I'm trying to do some research on TimeMachine right now. I don't want to purchase an external hard drive, just to learn about some software, and so I'd like to be able to tinker with the settings, by just creating a disk image...

But when I mount the disk image, TimeMachine doesn't see it as something it can back up to. So I'm wondering how I can lie to the system, and make it believe that the image is in fact real.

Thanks!


texts:
Is there a way to include a long í in the american keybord for an iPad or a shortcut for it?

I also have searched for a "0", but it will only work when transfering back to american keyboard and then back again.

Thank u!!!


texts: I have a 2012 MacBook Pro.  It has a Thunderbolt (Mini DisplayPort) port.  I'd like to plug a USB Type-C device into it, since Thunderbolt is faster than my USB 3.0 port.  I'm having a hard time finding an adapter with male Mini DisplayPort on one end and female USB-C on the other.  Does such an adapter exist?


texts: Can I attach an external GPU to my MacBook Air late 2010?

texts: I have an old laptop (which is definitely on its last strides). It's a MacBook Air Late 2010 and its running like a slug (I have abused the laptop beyond comprehension) so for its final year or two I want to get the most out of it. I already have a 2' monitor attached and I want to know if I get a GTX 970 and attach it with one of these things (Using thunderbolt) if it will function properly and that I'm not burning $600 for something my computer can't handle.


texts: How do I determine which app is trying to invoke Google Chrome?

texts:
For some reason, Google Chrome was randomly starting up on my system. I uninstalled it, and now I occasionally get the "Choose Application" dialog, which asks "Where is Google Chrome.app?"

How can I determine which application on my machine is trying to invoke Google Chrome?

(Note that I have "Google Chrome Canary" installed, and it is set as my default web browser).


texts: How can I make spotlight ignore certain file types and directories?

texts:
Since spotlight continuously updates the index, sometime the file precedence gets changed around and I might type in "saf" and press return expecting to get Safari, but instead spotlight attempts to open some Java jar file.

Question Is there any way to make spotlight ignore certain file types or directories?


texts: How to track down Facebook notifications on OS X to disable them

texts:
I have a Macbook Air running OS X 10.11/El Capitan and two days ago these notification just started appearing:

Perhaps I hit some special keys accidentally, but I want it to go away and it won't.  Furthermore, I have NO facebook option in my Notifications:

Safari:

Chrome:

How do I stop this?


texts: Are there replacements for the reg commad on Mac OS X 10.9

texts:
I believe reg existed on 10.8 and lower as documented here - https://developer.apple.com/library/prerelease/mac/documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/man1/reg.1.html

However, in OS X 10.9 I only find man page but not the command. My requirement is to passively monitor the processor registers (dump them). It looks like 'reg' does that.

Is there an equivalent utility that I download somewhere for MAC OS X >= 10.9.


texts: Connecting iPhone to Windows 10 Computer for USB hotspot

texts:
I have an iPhone 8+ with iOS 12.2 installed. I'm trying to connect it to a Windows 10 computer with a USB cable so I can access the Internet using the iPhone as a hotspot.

I've had success with Android in the past, but I can't seem to get it with my iPhone.

What am I doing wrong?


texts: Why do apps only display in top left quarter of screen after installing Winterboard?

texts:
After installing the jailbreak app "Winterboard" just now and then rebooting as required, all my apps including settings and phone etc. only display in top left quarter of screen.

Only that screen quarter accepts touch input, but the touches are relative to the entire screen. This means I can't interact with the bottom and right halves of any apps, making it impossible to revert the installation.

Googling for this problem tells me that it was a problem with the version iOS 5 GM, which is a pre-release. But I'm not using that; I've just installed the newly released iOS 5.0.1.

Also, the recommended fix is to use SBSettings to start in failsafe mode, but I never had SBSettings installed, and I can't install it now with the screen acting up this way.

How can I fix this problem, apart from restoring from my PC?
I know I can restore from backup and then re-do all the jailbreaking, but it'd be nice if there was a way to avoid that.

This is what I've done:

I first made a backup to my PC, then the iOS 5.0.1 upgrade, then a restore from the PC to make sure I had all the apps and data again (I didn't; somehow several apps were missing after the restore, but I just installed the rest manually).
After that, I did the jailbreak and started adding Cydia apps. One app required the installation of Winterboard, and that is what caused this problem.
I'm fairly sure Winterboard is the culprit because when it happened, I restored again, jailbroke again, and began reinstalling Cydia apps again in a different order. It broke like this again while installing a different Cydia app that also requires Winterboard.
There's a weird effect going on that indicates that although the size of the displayed image is reduced but the size of the touch area remains full-sized but unresponsive outside the displayed quarter of the screen. In a paint app, I can drag from inside the display quarter into outside, but I cannot start a touch outside the display quarter; nothing happens.

So I know that I can "fix" the problem by restoring from the PC again and avoiding any Cydia apps that require Winterboard. But I would like to avoid restoring if possible, to save myself the trouble. I'll keep that as a last option in case there's no other way to revert this.


texts: How can I disable sound for incoming calls but NOT for notifications?

texts: I don't know why but a lot of spammers have my phone number and I'm getting called every day. I can't block their phone numbers because they use a new one every day. However, I use my phone with Slack and PagerDuty for work and I want to be able to hear notification sounds from those. How can I disable all sound for incoming calls (ideally, allowing certain known contacts to get through) while allowing certain apps as well?


texts:
Let's say i'm reading a book online. I wouldn't want to read i would use the Speech Feature by Apple. I open Safari, read a book, I select all using CMD+A and i right click and start the speech. I updated Safari for some new stuff and i wanted to test out the speech. It won't work for some reason.

Can anyone help me out?

Im using Mac OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.3), Updated Safari to 7.0.1


texts: How to debug .app that only successfully launches from Terminal?

texts:
Recently, my Dropbox.app stopped launching correctly. If I double-click on the app or try to launch via spotlight, the app just silently dies within a second. I see it show up in Activity Monitor, but no messages are printed if I watch Console. There's no warning or error dialog.

If I use Terminal to issue something like:

open Dropbox.app

then it runs correctly.

I suspect my launch environment got messed up (perhaps python?). But I have no idea how to debug this since Console is revealing nothing.

What are some steps to debug an app that silently dies?

Is there a systematic way to toggle all environment preferences that are causing open Dropbox.app to succeed from Terminal?


texts: How to make clean installation of iMac (macOS Sierra)?

texts:
I need to make fresh installation on my iMac 2012 of macOS Sierra. I already upgraded to that one, but I want to make a fresh install. I found several articles, but I am not sure if they right, because I think they have an additional drive to make an installation on (they talk about non-bootable USB).

As far I do the following:

USB flash drive formatted to HFS+ Journaled + GUID
Install on it Sierra files using: sudo /Applications/Install\ macOS\ Sierra.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia --volume /Volumes/Untitled --applicationpath /Applications/Install\ macOS\ Sierra.app --nointeraction
Reboot + using Command + R key to show menu.

I need to delete my HDD from Disk Manager, but I am not sure that my USB is boot-able and I can start installation from USB drive. Also I am not sure that I will not delete some important part from my HDD!

Can someone advise me how to do that?

Remark: I have only this Apple computer at my disposal.


texts: For my iPhone, why is the "restore from backup" option not available in iTunes?

texts:
I'm trying to back up and restore my iPhone using iTunes in order to attempt to get my supposedly successful carrier unlock from Chronic Unlocks to work. This is what Chronic Unlocks support recommended.

I have synced my iPhone to my computer in iTunes and confirmed that I have a recent backup.

I followed the instructions from Apple under "restore from a backup", but when i ctrl-click on my iPhone under "devices" in iTunes, "Restore from backup" is not visible in the contextual menu. It only shows:

Eject
Sync
Transfer purchases
Back up
Reset warnings

How can I restore my iPhone using this backup I have?

Mac OS 10.9.4
iTunes 10.7 (update: had to downgrade from iTunes 11 using these instructions in order to have iTunes recognize and back up my iPhone running iOS 5).
iPhone 4, iOS 5.0.1


texts: Proxy user/password setting in System Settings apparently ignored

texts:
Using macOS Catalina 10.15.2, I observe the following behavior: I open System Preferences, Network, the network I am on (only tested Ethernet thus far), Advanced, Proxies, Web Proxy (HTTP). I enable the proxy, enter the host, the port and set Proxy server requires password. I enter the username and password (verified using a Windows machine) and OK/apply the settings. Repeat for HTTPS. Now for the error: when I attempt to make a HTTP/S connection, I get the keychain popup asking me to enter the proxy authentication credentials. Why? Why does it not use the data entered centrally? Incidentally, it seems that every user has to enter the credentials individually. Is this intended behavior?
After entering the data in the keychain popup and allowing access to the item as usual, applications work as expeced. The proxy is squid using a basic authentication scheme (again, verified to be working using a separate machine).


texts: How to convert and adapt from a "Save As" person to a "Version" person?

texts:
I am so used to "Save As" on the PC, so that for example, if I remember I removed a line two months ago on my resume (also called CV) and now is April 2012, I can go back to

Resume 2012-01-23 revision 02.doc

and then get those text back, and paste it back to my current resume.

Lion's version feature is nice, but how will I go about doing that, without "undoing" to earlier versions?  I also like to email a simple version of a Numbers document to a friend (because now it is much more complicated), so how can that be done too?  I guess I am just too used to having multiple files so I feel a bit un-eased at the situation of this transition.


texts: Automatically try to join hidden network if no preferred network available

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My work has a hidden SSID that I need to join every morning. Is there any way to make my Mac search for the hidden network if no preferred network is available?

Failing that, is there a command I can run from the terminal to connect to a specific SSID?

In my Network preferences, the hidden SSID is first on the list of preferred networks, but it still doesn't join when I'm in the office.

EDIT: It appears the answer below works if you've upgraded to Mojave. It did not work when I was on High Sierra.


texts: How to investigate fragmentation of one file?

texts:
I'd like to see if one of my file is "all over the place", ie fragmented in little pieces at different locations on my hard drive.

I'm not looking for a software like iDefrag but rather a command line utility. I know nothing of file systems, nodes, etc. Does such a CL tool exist? More generally, how do you know where files physically are?

The file I want to investigate is ~/Library/Application Support/Google/Chrome/Default/History indexes, but that's more of a general question.


texts:
I am trying to reset my iPad, but now I am stuck at the LogIn screen to the iCloud.

  I can't remember either my password nor my username. What can I do to
  activate the iPad and/or get my username/password combination?


texts: How to check individual in-app purchases as developer on iTunes Connect?

texts:
Is there any way to check each in-app purchases my app is receiving on iTunes Connect?

On Android for example you have a list of every purchase with an ID so if a client makes a complain I can easily check if he actually made the purchase, but on iTunes I just see statistical data, but not list of every purchase, so I can't check purchase.

My worst fear is a purchase properly charged but not registered by our servers, so the client loses its money and I can't confirm the purchase.


texts: Backing up an iPhone without the use of a cloud service or a computer

texts:
I will soon lead a lifestyle where I'll be required to travel a lot, and at the same time I've decided to ditch (or at least just phase out using) my computers (both Windows and Mac).

I will be using my iPhone from now on, for all things digital, so I'll move all my files from my computer to my phone.

That sounds all good in theory, but given I do not use any cloud services (nor do I plan to), how will I backup those files?

So far, I kept all my files on my computer. I'd just plug in an external HD and use either Time Machine (on Mac) or an encrypted VeraCrypt container (on Windows) to backup my files.

What can I do to backup the files on my iPhone, without a computer or a cloud service?

While, as of recently, iOS can mount an external flash drive, it makes no sense tranferring my files to an unencrypted drive just for the sake of backup. (Correct me if I'm wrong, but it can't mount an encrypted HD, does it?)

Can you think of any solutions to this problem?


texts: When locking screen on OS X Chrome cancels downloads

texts:
When I lock my screen using cmdalteject while Chrome is downloading, the download is canceled. I get back to my computer and see that download is not active. I also noticed that video streams I'm watching (such as live TV) also stop.

My question is, can I change this behaviour? When the download is big I cannot lock my computer for long time and I feel my computer is compromised when I leave it.

Is it OS X issue or Chrome?

I have MacBook Pro (13 inch, mid 2012) with El Capitan.


texts:
I can't restore my AppleID.

On stage sending text message I got

This action could not be completed
Your request could not be completed because of an error. Try again later

But I have wait for quit a long time. Is there any way to contact apple support by email? Or waht should I do in that case?

UPDATE

Text message has come but I got another error

This action could not be completed
Account recovery is not available because of a server error. Start over and try again


texts: Dock and Menu Bar Disappear in OS X El Capitan When in App Window

texts:
I have a Macbook Pro 11,1 running OS X El Captian. Recently, whenever in an application such as Firefox my menu bar and dock disappear. This is really annoying, as in system preferences both my dock & menu bar are set to not autohide. If I click the desktop, suddenly the dock and menu bar pop back up.

Any suggestions?


texts: Detect single-user mode from the command line

texts:
Is there a way to detect single-user mode in OSX (Lion, specifically) from the command line?

I've tried who -r, which returns 3 in either standard or single-user mode.

I've also tried nvram boot-args, which does not work either.

Google isn't helping much with this...


texts: Why does iCloud take up 30+ gigs of storage on my Mac?

texts: For some reason iCloud is taking up over 30 gigabytes of storage on my MacBook Air. How do I get rid of this? I though the whole point of iCloud was to save space not eat it up! I'm on macOS Sierra 10.2


texts: Request Applescript to copy only one file type from 2 folders, into a 3rd folder

texts:
Hi I've been trying to find utilities that will do this but I am guessing applescript/Automator on Catalina mac would work too.

Basically I have 2 folders with all kinds of books (.pdf, .mobi and .epub) and subfolders too. I want to only copy files of extension epub type in these 2 folders, into a 3rd folder.

So by running the script the third folder would have only unique EPUB files from the former two folders.

Can anyone please advise me how to write this up in Automator? Thanks!


texts: How do I fix a bad file name encoding on an Intel Mac?

texts:
On occasion I get files that have names mangled (mis-encoded, often from an archive file) by the senders. How do I fix the encoding on an Intel Mac?

I am aware of Apple's File Name Encoding Repair utility, but that is for PowerPC Macs only (I've used it before and despite the awkward UI it really works). Has anyone made such a utility in a universal binary application?


texts: Bell causes entire screen to flash white

texts:
I have an old-ish iMac where the sound has stopped working:

which I'm not really too fussed about - it doesn't get used for a whole lot of stuff.

The only really annoying part is that it seems like every time the OS wants to play a bell, it sees that there's no sound available so it flashes the entire screen white.

I've checked another SE post which recommended checking "Accessibility > Audio > Flash the screen when an alert sound occurs" and trying to enable then disable it - done that, and had no luck. I've also removed ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.universalaccess.plist and restarted, that hasn't helped either.

As another answer on the other post suggested, I've also tried running sudo killall coreaudiod with no joy.

Does anyone else have any idea how I can get rid of the white flash?


texts: Every time I try to empty my recycling bin it gets stuck

texts:
I'm trying to empty my trash but everytime I do it gets stuck.

The only way to get it off the screen, even after hours is to force quit.


texts:
Does anyone know of a OBDII Bluetooth adapter that works with iPhone? I would be developing an application for the iPhone 5 where Bluetooth 4.0 is supported. I have found several adapters, but they do not support Bluetooth 4.0.

I am aware that Apple restricts Bluetooth development for Bluetooth versions before 4.0. Is there anyway to work around this so I could use older versions of Bluetooth? I am open to Jailbreaking the device if needed.

WiFi adapters are not an option.

Thanks


texts: How do I get "get-iplayer" to use an already installed ffmpeg?

texts:
I'm following these instructions (scroll down to "Manual Installation") to manually install get-iplayer Terminal command (don't want to use brew):

I see that this requires (and talks you through--partly) the install of ffmpeg and AtomicParsley.

I already installed ffmpeg weeks ago for another purpose so I really don't want another install of ffmpeg if I can do without it. (Can I?)

How can I proceed without installing another copy of ffmpeg?


texts:
We have a developer account and a published app on the ios app store. We are now launching another ios app.

Since both the apps are entirely different in functionalities, should we use the same developer account or is it beneficial to create another developer account?

Thanks


texts: Why does About This Mac show different values for storage?

texts:
On my MacBook Pro, the Storage section on about my Mac shows that I have 730.21GB free out of 999.7GB, but it also says that my apps take up 545.33GB.

Why is this happening? How much storage do I actually have available?


texts:
My Seagate 4TB HDD doesn't mount in OSX El Capitan on my MacBook Retina. I have been using it for the last week on this computer, but today it doesn't mount. It shows up in Disk Utility, but when I click "mount" it doesn't.

I ran First Aid on it and it still doesn't mount.
I tried it on an iMac with the same results, but other drives work fine.
I tried to shut down, restart                - same outcome
on a different computer iMac - same outcome
different drive solid state and normal - both worked fine
I ran First Aid in Disk Utility


texts: Blind: Looking for solution to sync audio described MP3 with movie from other source to not disturb others

texts:
I'm new here so I hope I get this right...
I'm blind and am looking for a way of syncing up an mp3 downloaded from:
http://www.audiovault.net
which has the audio described tracks taken from movies, with the specific movie. For example, I could get the MP3 of Back To The Future which is the full audio track with audio description included, and then go to my Apple TV app where I have purchased the film. I would turn the film on and load up the mp3 on my iPhone, using this mystery app, and by doing a sound wave comparison, the MP3 on the phone is magically synced with the movie...
Big ask I know.
Spectrum do an app called spectrum access:
https://acb.org/adp/spectrumad.html
that does this, though I'm not sure what magic is going on in the background as they are supplied with the audio described tracks by the movie studios. Sadly their offering is US only and is somewhat limited.
In combination with the extensive library at www.audiovault.net and this mystery app, it could unlock watching films with friends and family for the blind. I hate watching things with audio description on if I'm with sighted company as it's annoying for everyone, but without it, I miss out. This could be a great leveller.


texts: How can I search and listen to the search result in iTunes 11?

texts: I really don't get the new search feature in iTunes 11. How can I for instance search for all the songs with a name containing "strauss" and listen to them?


texts:
For certain PDFs with graphics split over two pages, it is best to view them side-by-side.

Apple's Preview app lets me view two pages side-by-side. This is great!

The only problem is that it's off by one page. For example, if the intended view is the following:

 ___________________
| Banner T|ext Here |
|         |         |
|  34     |     35  |
|         |         |
|_________|___ _____|

what Preview shows is this:

 ___________________
|         | Banner T|
|         |         |
|     33  |  34     |
|         |         |
|_________|___ _____|

<followed by>
 ___________________
|ext Here |         |
|         |         |
|     35  |  36     |
|         |         |
|_________|___ _____|

I realize that Apple's choice for Two Page viewing mode is probably optimal for many (most?) situations, but not for mine.

Is there a way to change this behavior--preferably on a per-document basis, but even via an obscure setting somewhere?

(In Windows, Adobe Acrobat displays the pages "correctly". I realize I could just download Adobe Acrobat for Mac, but I'm curious if this can be done in Preview.)


texts: HTTP URLs aren't working on OS X Yosemite

texts:
My OS X Yosemite 10.10.5 Mac seems to only be able to hit HTTPS URLs, but not HTTP URLs. I tested another computer on my network, and that machine seems to work fine.

I tested using this URL:
http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.2.6/jquery.min.js

In Chrome, the URL returns ERR_EMPTY_RESPONSE. Safari and Firefox return similar errors.

With curl, curl -4 http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.2.6/jquery.min.js works fine, but when I do either of these…

curl -6 http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.2.6/jquery.min.js
curl http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.2.6/jquery.min.js

…I get:

curl: (52) Empty reply from server

I changed my DNS to 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.8.4 to use Google's DNS instead, and flushed my DNS cache using sudo dscacheutil -flushcache;sudo killall -HUP mDNSResponder; and restarted the machine, but it still ends up with the same issue. It also fails on other sites that use HTTP, such as http://yahoo.com.

If I change HTTP to HTTPS on any of the above URL's, it works fine.


texts: My Mid 2011 MBP keeps rebooting... Won't boot into safe or recovery mode

texts:
This is a new problem as of only a few hours ago... My laptop pretty much lives on a desk so I'm certain it's not a bad SATA cable as was suggested on a different site. I have reset my PRAM (which probably didn't do much on a non POWERPC unit but whatever lol) and tried to boot in all versions of Safe Mode and Recovery... Most don't give any results.. Trying to recover from the internet asks to connect to my wifi, connects successfully but still stays on the grey boot screen afterwards. And the Option-Command R results in a blue screen after the progress bar hits half way.

The only thing I can think of is that something went wrong during the install of Skype this afternoon... I downloaded it from the official site, installed it... But it froze as it tried to open the program. And it's been doing this ever since.


texts: Font Awesome displayed as question marks ion macOS

texts: I downloaded font-awesome-4.6.3.zip from fontawesome.io. Double click fontawesome-webfont.ttf (under font-awesome-4.6.3/fonts/) to install the font, but I got this,


texts: Is there a configuration for El Cap 'Find Your Cursor' to work for vertical shakes?

texts:
As one of the El Cap features, Apple touts:

Find your cursor
Rapidly shake your finger on the surface of your trackpad to increase the size of the pointer so it’s easy to spot. You can also shake your mouse to enlarge the pointer.

I find that I place my right hand to the right of the trackpad and use my index finger and when I try to perform a "shake" there is a much larger vertical component to the action. I thought this new feature wasn't even turned on because my shake never made the cursor grow in size.
However, I adjusted my hand position and made the shake much more horizontal and I see the special effect. The problem is this is an unnatural position for me to use the trackpad.
Is there a way to toggle how much horizontal or vertical components are required for a shake to trigger the cursor size to grow?


texts: Cannot cmd-click or option-click code in Xcode and other applications with non-Apple keyboard

texts:
I have recently acquired a mechanical keyboard Corsair K70 (non RGB model) and have successfully used it with macOS Sierra (10.12.6). Everything works as expected with the exception of certain keyboard shortcuts within Xcode. One of which is Cmd + Left Click on a function name, which brings up an action popup menu as shown in the image below:

.

The same goes for the function documentation Option + Left Click:

The shortcuts work as expected when using the built in keyboard on the MacBook Pro (15-inch, 2017), but they do not work when using the externally  connected (usb) keyboard. The layout is English ISO/European as shown in the image below:

When trying the shortcuts on the mechanical keyboard, it feels as if the UI is glitchy and not fully processing the shortcut.


texts: How to disable faces/people recognition in iOS10?

texts: I don't want my photos automatically 'tagged' by iOS. How do i disable this?


texts: Time Machine after formatting still works?

texts:
I would like to format my mac, and be able to access old files, photos... from my previous time machine backup.

I have backed up my mac with time machine and I am uncertain if after formatting I will be able to access my backups. Time machine backed up my previous system, its not like an image right? it's different? Will I still be able to access these files?


texts: iMac 5K Bootcamp Black Screen when playing

texts: I have an iMac 5k late-2014 with R9 M295x GPU, I'm using the graphic drivers from bootcampdrivers.com, as the default ones don't work with newer games like Forza Horizon 3... However, whenever the game is using much power, the iMac screen goes black, the fan speeds all the way up and after about 10-15 seconds it stops and the windows Login screen appears (no complete shutdown, only sleep mode), Applications and Games are still open but the network connection was gone (disconnected from online matches)... I had a freeze problem with macOS before but a complete formation of the Fusion Drive fixed this... If it isn't caused by the drivers, what could this be? GPU overheating, CPU or RAM not working correctly? GPU reaches about 110° max while playing. Thanks for your help!


texts: iMovie will not recognise my 60fps video?

texts:
I've read many posts about this and I have pretty much tried everything and iMovie 10.1.11 (all updated) will not recognise my 60fps video.

I've tried everything I can think of:

Deleted, moved clips, reimported clips, reinstalled iMovie etc etc
Used handbrake to export to 60fps constant
Used handbrake to export to 60fps variable
Used handbrake to export to 59.94fps constant
Used handbrake to export to 59.94fps variable

My movie is .mp4, I've also tried encoding to .mkv, also doesn't work,

Viewing the movie in my clips in iMovie shows it as 60fps, as soon as its moved to my timeline it goes to 30fps.

Settings on the top right just shows "1080p" and exporting to file, there is no 60fps option, just 720p, 1080p etc.

Here are a couple of captures of the media meta:

I just feel iMovie is broken, I cannot think what else to try.

Any help will be appreciated!


texts: Best resources on data recovery from corrupted OS X HFS+ partitions

texts: My Macbook Pro won't boot from it's hard disc. If I boot it from CD, the drive will only mount sometimes. Where should I go to get hints and tips on data recovery? What are the best tools that should be in my toolbox?


texts:
Is it possible to invoke a keyboard shortcut from applescript?

For example I like to run the F11 keyboard shortcut.


texts:
Pages has crashed, my file is now corrupted and I'm trying to get the text from this file.

if I Right click on the file > Show package content > open index.zip , I can see a bunch of .iwa files which seems to contains my original text, especially "Document.iwa".

If I "$ nano Document.iwa" (because "$ file" only returns "data") I can see some of my text, but the overall seems crypted.

Does anyone know how to decode/read this kind of .iwa file or recover corrupted files?


texts: Missing HDD space after removing Boot Camp partition

texts:
This is probably not the first case, but I have tried various methods to recover the lost 50 GB of space from different threads, but neither one of them work. (After removing Boot Camp partition, took a little effort to finally remove all the partitions, but the space used went missing.)

Tried Internet Recovery to go into Disk Utility app didn't work.

Tried using Terminal (not very good at it), so basically copied & pasted some of the commands others have shared, and changed the necessary disk numbers, didn't work for me.

So I figured, might be good that I just post & hopefully someone could give me some advise.

This is what I got:


texts: How do I copy an NTFS partition to a writable disk image?

texts:
I have a drive from an old Windows computer. The drive is now in an enclosure, so it's accessible as if it were an external drive. It is formatted as NTFS. I would like to convert this drive (about 50 GB, including Windows XP on it) to a writable disk image.

I tried using Disk Utility to convert it to a read/write disk image, but it doesn't work because it still results in a disk image with NTFS as the format, which Mac cannot write to natively.

So, how can I convert the NTFS disk image that I now have (or the original drive) to a writable disk image? This will probably require that it be converted from NTFS to FAT32 or HFS+ somehow. I could just take the basic approach and copy the files themselves, but is there a cleaner way by copying it as an image?


texts: Boot MacBook to Linux/Windows from TimeCapsule.

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I love to run different OSs in my 13" Retina MacBookPro. If I can install Windows/Linux/OSX on the Apple TimeCapsule and can Boot them over network wirelessly It will be awesome. If its possible please let me know how to do that. I will go and get one TimeCapsule.

If https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3816843?start=0&tstart=0 is the solution, Please elaborate it.


texts: I'm running out of space on my little 16GB iPhone 4S. I have noticed that a very large chunk of the space is taken up by the Messages app. I believe this is due to the tons of MMS messages I've sent and received over the years. I would like to easily delete all MMS messages (pictures/videos) without deleting any conversations and without having to manually find and delete each one. Is this possible?


texts: How to make the colors of the Mac more dull/faded?

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For more than a year I've had my phone in black & white mode and I find it greatly helps reduce the stimulating effect of using the phone, and makes me naturally use the phone less (and it's more calming etc). I feel way more productive!

On the desktop I can't go completely black and white (which is available in the Accessibility settings) because I do have lots of apps that rely on color, however;

Is there a way in MacOS (via an ICC color profile, ColorSync app etc) to somehow change the color of my Mac monitor (either built-in display or thunderbolt display) to be "faded"/"dull" - almost geryscale but with a hint of color?

When I run the Display Calibration or Go into Accessibility settings I seem to only be able to change the hue, but what I'm looking for is to have a nice and bright setup that is just less colorful (so literally greyscale with faded/hint of color).

Anyone know how one might be able to do that?


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I have a dilemma, I have over 80GB of music on my computer and I want to free up some space. I am looking at using iTunes Match as storage for my music instead of having it on the laptop but I have a couple of questions about it?

Once it is all uploaded to my iCloud and I delete it from my hard drive, will iTunes still work or will it be constantly be looking for the physical files.
If I can delete it, how do I upload new music I acquire, do I have to physically put it on iTunes, then upload and then delete?
How does it work with my iPhone as I will never have the capacity to load all my songs on the phone.  Is it easy to select an album or genre at a time to download to the phone?


texts: Using TextFree with a Google Voice account that uses Google Apps account

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Is there any way to get TextFree working with a Google Voice account belonging to a Google Apps account?

I have been able to get it working with a Gmail account by simply adding the user@textfree.us address to the forwarding text message option in Google Voice. The problem with a Google Apps account is that it doesn't let you add additional email addresses to that list.

It won't let me forward to the phone number that TextFree gave me, since I must verify the phone with audio (as opposed to a text message), and TextFree doesn't let me answer phone calls.

Is there any other way to get the three services to work together?


texts: I'm following this guide to install Linux commands onto my OS Terminal: https://www.topbug.net/blog/2013/04/14/install-and-use-gnu-command-line-tools-in-mac-os-x/ and I see that the second line tells me to add a line to my .bashrc file, which I have to create since I don't have one. Can anyone explain to me what this does? As well as the PATH command in general?


texts:
Random apps are crashing as soon as they open, such as Acrobat, Word, Distiller and a few other smaller apps. I tried opening the apps on a 2nd user account and they open fine. I have also tried deleting my preferences via ▸ Users ▸ imac ▸ Library ▸ Preferences, but that has not helped.

This is getting very irritating!

I'm running Yosemite on an iMac.


texts: Catalina update failled mid-way and is stuck due to lack of available disk space. Booted from network drive and deleted files but this only increases purgeable storage and not free disk space. How to turn this purgeable storage into free storage while booted from network drive.


texts: How do you navigate to safari extensions from App Store?

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Not critical, but its bugging me.

I only know of one way to the safari extension gallery, ie, from the 'Extensions' tab in Safari's settings, More Extensions... button.

Is there anyway to navigate there directly in the App Store app?


texts: What chargers are compatible with A1226?

texts: I need to buy a power supply for my A1226 15-inch Macbook Pro (2007), but I can't find any anywhere. Apple's online store, ebay, or amazon. So I'm wondering if the charger doesn't have to be the one for your specific model. I found this charger that says that it's for Macbooks and 13-in Macbook Pros. It's 60W, so I'm guessing that it'll work. Will it?


texts: In macOS, how to run a JNLP file with OpenJDK 8?

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Due to the new license of OracleJDK8, I have to use OpenJDK8.
I have installed AdoptOpenJDK8 from Homebrew and it works well.

The problem is that I have to launch a Java application from a JNLP link, what is called Java Web start. The problem is that this feature is not included in the OpenJDK8.

Java Web Start is implemented in the project IcedTea-Web but I cannot find any binaries for macOS  and find I try to build it, I obtain the message:

configure: error: "OS darwin18.2.0 is not supported"

My question is : How can I run a JNLP file with OpenJDK 8? Do I need to use IcedTea-Web and if yes how to build it?


texts: Wrong focus when CMD+Tab with multiscreen

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If I have:

2 Screens
Setting "Displays have separate spaces" ON
A Terminal window in each screen (Terminal is just an example, this happens with all apps)

Being focused on the Terminal window of my secondary screen I do Cmd+Tab to switch to another app and then back to Terminal, the focus goes to the primary screen rather than the one was focused before switching, this happens no matter which app I use, always the same.

Anyone knows what's the solution for this?


texts: How can I wipe an encrypted volume when the password is forgotten?

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I have encrypted disk volume that is in the way and the passphrase is gone.

How can I erase the contents and reuse the disk space?


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Hi all Ive managed to setp up my time capsule that I can connect to it and access my external HDD from it, but this is all on the network I made from the airport utilty screen. Im using a 2019 MBP and its runnig on 10.15.5 catlina, the time capsule itself is on version 7.8.1 and airport utility is running on 6.3.9. Can this be done?
Here is an example of what I'm looking for,
Im at university and Ive left my drive connected to my capsule I then remote access it as grab the files I need or save them to the drive at uni.
Here is some more information to help.
I am on Virgin media and using the super hub 3. I have access to the setting of the router. I dont have a static IP beucase you have to have a business account with VM in order to get one. I can get a DNS service. But I dont know how. Please can someone take me through the steps Like from the start and help me.
Thanks you for helping.
If there any more quesitons need answering Im on my PC 24/7 .


texts: Connecting external displays over HDMI to 2016 MBP Touch Bar requires a restart

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Any time I connect my two external displays (Samsung S27D850 over HDMI -> A-Data HDMI-USB-C adapters), I have to restart my MacBook Pro Touch Bar (15") in order for the screens to display the desktop.

Is there a workaround not having to do this, i.e., just plugging the displays in and voilà? It's frustrating coming back from a meeting to my workstation and having to restart.


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I have a huge (filesize) pages document, which I suspect is due to all the images in it.

The images were copied from elsewhere and pasted in.

A lot of the images are original resolutions of 1080 minimum (in most cases higher)

However, in the new document they obviously don't need to be that large.

Is there a way for me to reduce the document's filesize by limiting the images' sizes?

I hope you can understand what I mean.

(I need to be able to convert this to a word document afterwards if that matters)


texts: How can I make iMovie delete videos from my iPhone after importing them?

texts: In iPhoto, after you import images you can tell it to delete the files off of your phone. Is there a way to do this in iMovie?


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Is there any application that is similar to Gif Text but with more images and continous updates ? I tried looking in the appstore but I don't think the keywords I used were good enough. I'm sure gif text is not the only app out there.

Basically a library with gif images that I can click to copy and paste in iMessage.


texts: How do I check whether a file is available to download?

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The following code generates a link to download the HD file from a site every day, but it doesn't know how to determine whether the link is valid or not. How do I check the validity of the link?

set z to ""
set d to tid(tid(short date string of (current date), "/"), "")
set w to weekday of (current date)
set r to 10

if d > 20000000 then
    set Prefix to d as text
else
    set Prefix to (d + 20000000) as text
end if

on tid(input, delim)
    set {oldTID, my text item delimiters} to {my text item delimiters, delim}
    if class of input is list then
        set output to input as text
    else
        set output to text items of input
    end if
    set my text item delimiters to oldTID
    return output
end tid

set x to 1
set y to ((characters 1 thru 4 of Prefix) as string)

repeat with i from 1 to r

    if i < 10 then
        set x to "0" & i
    else
        set x to i
    end if

    set c to "http://streaming.hkjc.edgesuite.net/hdflash/racingfocus/" & y & "/" & Prefix & "/" & x & "/" & "chi/racingfocus_" & Prefix & "_" & x & "" & "_chi_2500kbps.mp4"

    set z to z & c & "" & return & return
    set i to i + 1

end repeat

display dialog z


texts: Which exact Windows 7 ISO is required for Boot Camp v6.1.0 on macOS High Sierra? Mid 2010 MBP

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Try as I may, I cannot get Boot Camp on macOS High Sierra to accept any Windows 7 installer DVD (or ISO) I have tried yet. Although Boot Camp seems to be able to accept a flash drive, when I try one I get the error:

The installer disc could not be found. Insert your Windows installer disc and wait a few seconds for the disc to be recognized.

So, since this is a Mid 2010 MacBook Pro (which has an optical drive) I've tried a legit Win7 SP1 retail DVD (checksum verified), but then I get this error:

Boot Camp only support installing Windows 7 on this Mac. Please insert a USB drive or DVD which contains a full version of Windows 7.

Does that mean "full" as in all editions of Win7, so Home, Pro, Ultimate, etc?? Documentation for this online is very sparse and lacking, I've found.


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I updated to Mojave yesterday and since then I get so many windows prompting up with the message “SIMBLAgent.app“ wants access to control... and I can get rid of all those windows comming.

Someone knows how to stop that?, any help is appreciated


texts: Is there any app or anyway for mac to search within a video's texts/transcription

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This might be a very niche thing, but I have a lot of local and downloaded videos on my Mac that I keep for educational purposes, and was wondering if it's possible to search through the transcriptions/speech within the video.
I know searching in finder allows the ability to search within text documents and file contents, I'm looking for something similar for videos.
I'm willing to manually attach the transcriptions myself to every video if that's required, since there are many apps that can do that. But the ability to search my entire Mac, like in finder, for a certain phrase and see which videos contain those search results would be extremely useful.
The closest thing available right now natively on macOS is to just paste as much of the transcript inside the comments section of the video's 'get info'. Doing this allows searching in finder and getting the video in the search results but there is character count limit so it's very limiting.


texts: My Mac is constantly fetching 2MB/s from the network

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We got our company macs, and I installed iStat menus on mine. What caught my eye is that there is a constant network traffic, ~2MB/s. Activity monitor also reports the same:

However, the process list doesn't show anything excessive:

The process with the most frequent change of rcvd packets is netbiosd, however it's received bytes show really small amounts.

Each Mac is a member of AD domain, and we all have Kaspersky running (I removed mine, but the traffic still remains).

After adding Little Snitch and enabling Show Local Network in it, I don't see excessive traffic in Little Snitch. It shows something like 0.2-1.5kB/s, which is what I would expect.

Any ideas what is happening here? Is there really 2MB/s traffic going in the machine, or is this a bug in Sierra?


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I'm using the Goodreads iPad app. I have data protection set in the iPads general settings and passcode required to unlock. I also have a passcode to open Goodreads.

My understanding is that when the iPad is locked, files are encrypted (at least the ones in the Goodreads folder, but not other files?) I'm wondering if even when the iPad is unlocked if the files in the Goodreads folder are protected if Goodreads is not loaded and asking for the passphrase.

I'm guessing based on my understanding of the manual, but hopefully I'm wrong.


texts: Microsoft Edge Legacy Virtual Machine doesn't start in VMWare Fusion 12 Pro

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I have just purchased VMware Fusion Pro 12.1.0 on MacOS Catalina 10.15.7.
I want to run a MS Edge Legacy virtual machine, available from Microsoft here:
https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/tools/vms/
I have tried the virtual machines for Win10, Win8 and Win7. The problem seems identical or very similar with all.
I create the machine from the .ovf file in the downloadable zip, in Fusion Pro, via New > Import an existing virtual machine. The .vmdk file included in the zip is grayed out and cannot be selected. Import of the .ovf seems to finish successfully according to the Wizard.
However, when attempting to Start Up the machine, nothing happens even when I wait a long time. First Fusion says "Loading..." for several minutes. After that, a black window opens with a "Play" icon. When I press it, I get the question: "Would you like to upgrade this virtual machine?". I have tried pressing both "Don't Upgrade" and "Upgrade" with the same problems, so it doesn't appear to help.
Next, the virtual machine window stays black with a grayed-out "Play" icon. I wait and nothing happens. In the Fusion main window, I see the clickable option "Clean Up Recommended" immediately after attempting to start the machine.
Under the Menu option Virtual Machine, it says "Windows is off" and on the next row "Starting Up". "Restart" and "Shut Down" are grayed out. The button "Power On To Firmware" is clickable but doesn't seem to do anything.
If I try to close the machine window or quit VMWare completely, it refuses to close the window and/or app, and says: "The virtual machine "MSEdge-Win-10-VMware" is busy". After a very long time, an error message appears:

"Failed to power on /path/MSEdge-Win10-VMware.vmx".

If I want to exit before this long wait, I have to Force Quit the application to get out. After restarting the application, I cannot Delete the virtual machine unless I've first deleted the newly created .vmwarevm file on the drive.
I previously used the Trial version of Fusion 11 with no problems on the same computer and virtual machines. Yet, Fusion 12 does not seem to work.


texts: How do Services work on Mac OS X Lion (I can't make them appear in Menu Bar)

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I'm trying to create a service (in this case, operating on images in Evernote.app).

I open up Automator, make my script, and set it to to receive 'image files' in 'any application'. Doesn't show up either in the menubar (Evernote > Services -> "My Image Service"), or in the context-menu (Right-click image, services are at end of menu).

Changing the selection to: no input, files, files or directories, etc. makes no difference. Changing the application to Evernote.app makes no difference.

The thing that makes me think I'm missing something: if I set the application to Preview.app, I also can't get any services to appear in the menu bar. Is there something I have to do to trigger their appearance there?

(EDIT: my question got cut off for some reason - fixed that)


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I am looking for a way to stop sending an email if there are any spelling errors on outlook 2016 Mac. I know you can do this on windows outlook. Can someone please shed some advise on this.

Many Thanks


texts: How to get local directory names into terminal window titles?

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The title of my terminal window is:

Terminal -- bash -- 130x39

This is how I see them listed in Terminal->Window and it is very hard to know which one is which.

When I use multiple terminals, the most important information is the local directory in each of them.

Is there any way to have that local directory appear in the titles, so I could see easily which terminal is from where?


texts: How to disable reopening desktops after rebooting

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Is there a way to disable reopening all the mission control virtual desktops  after rebooting.
For example if I have 4 desktops open and I reboot, I'd like to start fresh with 1. I know I can tear them down manually before I restart, but I would like to automate this step. Is this possible?


texts: How to find low bitrate audio (non alac/flac)

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I'm relatively new to the audiophile world and I still have some lossy audio files in my music folder. I do have all this music on cd so I would like to find the lossy albums so that I can rerip these, but this time in alac. How can I do this?

A smart folder works, but shows each track individually so that identifying each album still takes up quite a bit of time. I've tried a couple of disk usage tools, but none of them were capable of filtering by filetype or even better by audio bitrate.

Is there software out there that can do this? An iTunes script perhaps? Any help with sieving through a 300gB collection will be much appreciated.


texts: Restrict ssh access to selected IP on macOS

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I want to restrict ssh access on macOS 10.12 to selected IPs on my local network. I tried writing the following files:

# /etc/hosts.allow
sshd: 192.168.1.32
sshd: 192.168.1.33

# /etc/hosts.deny
sshd: ALL

Then restarting with:

sudo launchctl unload /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/ssh.plist
sudo launchctl load /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/ssh.plist

Unloading ssh.plist successfully disabled ssh, but after reloading I can still connect from any IP.

How can I configure an IP whitelist?


texts: With WebDAV provided by Microsoft SharePoint, how can users of OS X minimise risks of corruption and multiuser overwrites?

texts:
There are various OS X approaches to using the WebDAV service provided by Microsoft SharePoint.

Integrity of data

Answers to this question focus on integrity:

when a file is used by a single user
when a file is used by multiple users.

Whilst some parts of an answer may be generalised to WebDAV servers in general, this question focuses on SharePoint – where Microsoft's server and client restrictions cause people to seek alternatives to Microsoft Document Connection.

Some overlap with an earlier question:

Is it possible to mount SharePoint as a volume in 10.6?

Reference

Drafted in May 2012 a table:

File open/lock protection for multi-user use of Microsoft SharePoint

Key points from that draft:

restrictions in SharePoint make Microsoft Office 2011 incompatible with file system integration
Microsoft Document Connection lacks file system integration.

If any reader can draw a conclusion that differs from what's tabled: I'll welcome discussion in Ask Different Chat, or add your answer below.

Some parts of that table will become answers to this question …


texts: Apple MacBook Pro with Touch Bar gets error mesage when reinstalling macOS High Sierra: Could not establish pre start volume for APFS installation

texts:
I get the following error message when reinstalling macOS High Sierra: Could not establish pre-start volume for APFS installation.

How do I resolve this?


texts: Does a guest OS under Virtualbox need to install drivers for peripheral devices?

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I run a guest Ubuntu under Virtualbox in Mac OS X.

The host Mac OS X has been configured to print on a network printer by someone else.

Now I try to configure the guest Ubuntu to print on the same network printer. I have provided the ip address and  PPD file (extracted from the driver) of the printer during setup , but when I try to print a test page, it doesn't work.
Not sure what has been going wrong.

In general, when using a peripheral device on a guest OS, do I need to install its driver just as if the guest OS were a host OS?

Thanks.


texts:
Possible Duplicate:
  How Can I Search A Specific Type of File in Mac?

How could I use spotlight to search for example for files that end with jar or files that end with doc and at the same time contains "Hello" in it's name?


texts: Do I need any additional software to run games made from adobe AIR? Do they run as native apps?


texts: Will I still be able to buy and install Lion after Mountain Lion is released?

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I own an Early 2008, white MacBook (MB403LL/A) which still has Snow Leopard, 10.6.8, installed.

My understanding is Mountain Lion will not support my MacBook. If this turns out to be true then I would probably want to upgrade to Lion since it will be the last supported (for a bit longer) release which I could use.

Previously, before the App Store when OS X was sold on optical media, it was always possible to purchase an older version of OS X. The media was still "out there".

With Lion I am not sure what my options are. Does anyone know if I would still be able to buy and install Lion from the App Store after Apple releases Mountain Lion?

I'm just trying to better understand what my options might be. I really have no desire to install Lion unless and until I feel I have no other choice.

Update: July 26, 2012

Copying the link to MacWorld article Apple pulls Lion from the Mac App Store into this question. (The link was in one of bmike's comments below.) The article seems to sum up my question/concerns about this matter rather well.

I also found the excerpt from this article quoted below interesting. Apparently not even Apple knows how to respond to this?

... Apple spokesperson Monica Sarkar told Macworld that, while Lion is no longer available for sale from the Mac App Store, customers can
still purchase it from the legacy products list via Apple phone
sales. But when we called 1-800-MY-APPLE, sales representatives there
said Lion was not available.


texts: Android Studio 2.1 very slow build, macbook blows very loud

texts:
I am using new version of Android Studio since one week (v2.1) and it completely freezes my macbook. Each gradle build takes forever, and my computer blows air like if it is going to die.

Anyone experiencing issues of this kind ?

OS X El Capitan 10.11.2 core i7, 16 ram GBB


texts: Family members getting new phone - want to transfer apps, music, etc to a different Apple ID

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I don't really use Apple stuff so I'm a little clueless.

My cousin and my uncle currently use the same apple ID. This is problematic because their contacts are synced up, which they don't want.

The idea is for my cousin to get a new iPhone, which will have all of his old music, games, iCloud stuff, etc. but none of his father's contact info.

How is this done?


texts: iPod touch can't get IP address from Airport Express

texts:
I've got the following setup:

DSL modem connected via Ethernet to an Airport Express
A second Airport Express extending the first
Both Airports Express are the current model, running version 7.6.4 of their software.

Between the two I have nine working wireless client devices, mostly Macs and iOS devices.

However my 5th-gen iPod touch can't get an IP address. It connects to the wireless network, but keeps a self-assigned IP address. I can see this address both on the iPod touch and in Airport Utility (on a Mac). So I know it's connecting, but for some reason it can't get an address.

I've tried:

Rebooting the iPod touch
Resetting network settings on the iPod touch
Resetting all settings on the iPod touch
Upgrading the iPod touch from iOS 8.0.2 to iOS 8.1

No change. I could do a full wipe/restore on the iPod touch, but with everything above already failing, I'm skeptical it would help.


texts:
I own Adobe CS4, which works perfectly with Mountain Lion. I would like to upgrade to Mavericks, but I'm not sure if CS4 is still supported. Thus my question:

Which versions of Adobe Creative Suite will work with Mavericks?


texts: Strange df (disk space) output since macOS Catalina

texts:
Why is this:

$ df -h /
Filesystem     Size   Used  Avail Capacity iused      ifree %iused  Mounted on
/dev/disk1s5  234Gi   10Gi   15Gi    41%  482117 2448643243    0%   /

Very different from this:

$ df -h .
Filesystem     Size   Used  Avail Capacity iused      ifree %iused  Mounted on
/dev/disk1s1  234Gi  205Gi   15Gi    94% 1911870 2447213490    0%   /System/Volumes/Data

Is there an explanation with this new "data" filesystem? How is it different?


texts: How can an iPhoto Library be shared between users in a way that facilitates backing up to Time Machine?

texts:
I'm aware that there has been a similar question that points towards Apple's own guidance on sharing iPhoto Libraries.

Apple's solutions aren't compatible with Time Machine - it can't be used to back up an external drive and a disk image appears as a single file, meaning the whole image would have to be backed up every time it changes, rather than just the changes.

I currently have my iPhoto library in the /Users/Shared and it sort of works, except for regular permissions issues. I can cope with these OK, but my wife finds them confusing and frustrating.

As a general rule, photos are imported in my account and I manage Events, Faces, Places and PhotoStreams. My wife generally just wants access to the photos to share them and occasionally to create albums.

Is there a better solution, possibly one involving Hazel, Automator and/or AppleScript?

Currently running OS X 10.8.2 and iPhoto '11 (9.4.2).


texts: Does a Thunderbolt 3 to Ethernet male to male cable exist?

texts:
I have a WD Passport external hard drive with ethernet and Firewire 800 ports only.  Having just purchased a new MacBook Pro (2019), I'd like to continue using this drive as my backup.  As ethernet is faster than FW800, I want to connect using the ethernet port, however it seems that I have to buy both a TB3 to ethernet adapter and a separate ethernet cable of some length.  (Actually, I may need a TB3 to TB2 dongle + a TB2 to ethernet dongle + the ethernet cable).  I'm looking for the simplest solution hopefully without a 6ft. ethernet cable coiled on my desk.
Is there not a single male to male adapter cable that can accomplish this connection?
I would appreciate any suggestions.
Thanks!


texts: Difference between the M7 and M8 coprocessors?

texts:
What's the difference between the M7 and M8 coprocessors? I've been unable to find a clear answer online. On the iPhone 6 webpage, Apple simply states:

  When you’re in motion, the M8 motion coprocessor continuously measures
  data from the accelerometer, compass, gyroscope, and a new barometer.
  This offloads work from the A8 chip for improved power efficiency. And
  now those sensors do even more, measuring your steps, distance, and
  elevation changes.

Is the only difference the ability to track data from the new barometer?


texts:
I am trying to update MAMP MySQL from this link, but when i double click the file as mentioned in the blog. I get message saying,

  The file “Install_MySQL_5.6.25.command” could not be executed because you do not have appropriate access privileges.

I tried to see the rights Get Info and it shows i am the owner and i have read and write.
If i am the owner, why can't i install it?


texts: How do I renew my apple developer membership from one membership type to another?

texts:
I'm trying to renew my Apple paid developer membership but I keep being forwarded to a page to renew the membership for individuals but I'm going for the enterprise membership this time round.

Can I do this without creating a new Apple ID?


texts: Delete iCloud bookmark only from a specific computer

texts: I have iCloud Safari bookmark syncing set up on two Macs and an iPhone. Is it possible to delete a bookmark (or set of bookmarks) from one machine only, so that they continue to exist on the other two devices?


texts: Device enrolment Program to implement parental Control IOS

texts:
I recently asked a question if its possible to implement Parental control in IOS And ended up, it can be feasible using Device enrolment program in IOS. The device enrolment profile will be installed on the device and then you can control that device.

My only query is to learn Device Enrolment Program. From where i can start learning it to implement parental control in IOS app. which will restrict children to use safari and other apps if applied restriction.

One of the name of the app implemented parental control in IOS is OurPact


texts: Differentiate two instances of the same application in the dock

texts:
I usually have to launch different instances of the same application (in my case of Eclipse).

I launch them from the terminal as follows

nohup /Applications/eclipse/eclipse -data ${workspace} 2>&1 > /dev/null &

where ${workspace} is different for each invocation.

Everything works well but for the fact that I cannot distinguish among instances in the Dock or while switching applications with command+tab.

Is there a way to differentiate them either by changing the application name under the icon or by dynamically changing the icon?


texts: iPhone 4 camera capabilities to read QR code

texts: I have no iPhone 4 here now but I need to know how well is its camera for reading small-size QR codes. Now I have some test QR codes printed on a sheet of paper and my old 1.3MPx smartphone camera doesn't recognize them. So, I wonder how good is iPhone 5MPx camera for doing that. The code I need to be read well from a printed sheet is 16x16mm or so. The size of a single square module is about half of a millimeter now. Please let me know if you have a chance to test it or if you had a deal with such things. Thanks!


texts: Restore the RAM pie chart dock icon which was removed in Mavericks?

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I configured Activity Monitor like this on all of my machines. I also set up my non-techie friends' Macs this way as well:

It was the best "health snapshot" for the Mac I'd figured out, and not hard to set up. I'd advise friends & clients to always make sure they "see green" when they're having system speed or responsiveness issues.

And then, this was a great signal that either a RAM upgrade is called for, or some app is out of control.

But now, this option was removed in Mavericks. And it's extra annoying because Mavericks promises to use memory better on some laptops. And I was looking forward to seeing how the pie chart compares.

Does anyone know a way to (1) simply display this same chart, or even (2) set the Activity Monitor's dock icon to it?


texts: Transferring money on n Apple account from one iPhone to another

texts: I have some money on my Apple account. If I buy a new iphone, can I still use this money to buy things on my new phone, or will I lose the money? Presumably it will still be the same log in details and account, so I assume that I will be able to use the money when I buy a new phone, or am I being overly optimistic? Thanks


texts: When a Series 4 Apple Watch contacts emergency services due to fall detection, what do the emergency responders hear?

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Per Apple's docs:

What happens if your Apple Watch detects that you're immobile
If your Apple Watch detects that you're immobile for about a minute, it begins a 30-second countdown, while tapping you on the wrist and sounding an alert. The alert gets louder, so that you or someone nearby can hear it. If you don't want to call emergency services, tap Cancel. When the countdown ends, your Apple Watch automatically contacts emergency services.
When the call connects, your Apple Watch plays an audio message that informs emergency services that your Apple Watch detected a hard fall and then it shares your current location as latitude and longitude coordinates.

I'm interested in the content of that audio message. I'm guessing it may be a synthesized voice, ala Siri, but I'm wondering if anyone has a recording of what the watch says to the 911 operator when triggered in this way?


texts: Does turning off cellular data significantly improve battery life?

texts: I almost always turn off cellular data when I lock the screen. I only turn it on when I’m using internet. But it’s annoying to do that almost every time. Does it worth the trouble?


texts: iTunes Sync Error: iPhone cannot be synced. An unknown error occurred (-54)

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Starting up iTunes on my Windows 8.1 computer to sync iPhone 4 via USB immediately brings up the error message:

  The iPhone can't be synced. An unknown error occurred (-54)

Any ideas how to overcome the error?


texts: Time Machine fails to eject disk (sparesebundle) on Time Capsule, then cannot mount on different Mac

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Have MacA and MacB running TM and backing up to the same Time Capsule. TC has the internal drive and two attached USB drives - same problem occurs on all of them. Both Macs are latest version - 10.15.7, and TC is the terminal version 7.9.1
MacB will frequently show a "Failed to eject diskX" message in the log. Then cannot mount that sparsebundle on MacA. This will continue even after complete power down and restart of everything - MacA, MacB, the TC, and the external drives - so some setting must be persisted to one of the drives, but what and where? If MacB is offline for a couple of days (wife's computer and not heavily used), and MacA has gone through a couple of daily power cycles, then suddenly all of the bundles can be mounted. When MacB is turned on again, and generates some new backups, then the same problem recurs.
Have reported to Apple feedback with full discussion and logs https://feedbackassistant.apple.com/feedback/7739401 but so far crickets.
Will sometimes (rarely) have the same problem with a sparsebundle for a MacA backup also not being mountable on MacA - this usually clears after one reboot. Note that the remount issue occurs when trying to use Finder, or from the command line with hdiutil or open (using DiskImageMounter internally) - usually get a "Resource temporarily unavailable" message. Time Machine itself never seems to have any problem re-mounting these bundles for the next backup.
Suspect some XATTR setting, but various experiments have all failed.
Any suggestions?
Thanks


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I have a Macbook Pro 2014 13-inch 128 GB and I want to install Windows 8.1 and Visual Studio 2013 Community via Boot Camp. I am Mac user and use my Mac for iOS development. Now I have to learn Windows app development, so I need Windows 8.1 + Visual Studio 2013 Community. I have no plan to spend my money for new Windows PC/Laptop. I am not familiar using Boot Camp features so it's my first leap.

How much space to install Windows 8.1 + Visual Studio 2013 Community via Bootcamp? FYI I have 100 GB free on my OSX Yosemite and I have no plans to save any documents or media files on Windows.
If I divide 40 GB for OS X and 60 GB for Windows and then I don't need my Windows anymore, can I move my 60 GB back to the OS X partition?


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I want to upgrade the RAM on my Macbook Pro 4,1 A1260 (Early 2008).

Can I just use any RAM of the compatible "type", or does it need special magic RAM because it's a Macbook?

Also, is there any reason I simply must use two identical sticks of RAM rather than one from Company A and another from Company B?