texts: Is there an easy way to reduce quality of .mov files taken from an iPhone?

texts: I've noticed the small movies I take on my iPhone 4 result in large .mov files. For example, a 1 minute movie results in almost a 100MB .mov file. This is running through my cloud storage (Dropbox) rather quickly. Is there an easy way to reduce the quality/size after transferring to my Mac?


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I have an iPhone 4 and a MacBook Pro. If I turn 'Personal Hotspot' on my iPhone to on, then I can connect with my laptop fine and everything is great.

If on the other hand I then disconnect the laptop and leave 'Personal Hotspot' switched on, the signal appears to vannish after a while.  So if I come back later and try to connect my Mac to the network again, the Mac can't even see the network.
If I open up the settings on the iPhone and switch 'Personal Hotspot' off and then on again (good old technical training) the signal reappears and everything is fine.

I'd like to be able to just leave the 'Personal Hotspot' available at all times because it's a extra bit of bother to switch it off and on again.  Can anyone suggest a fix or tell me what's happening here...?


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Black is turning green - but not everywhere and not on screendump or on my ext. screen (photo taken with iPhone). If I press the unibody hard on the left side, then I can make the green disappear, but that's not a solution.

This is a MacBook Pro (15”, mid-2010) 2.66GHz Intel Core i7 with 8GB 1067 MHz DDR3, an NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M 512 MB / Intel HD Graphics 288 Mb, and the OS is El Capitan v.10.11.6

To determine if the problem is caused by a graphics card or not, I would like to know if there is a way to have only one card/processor active at time?


texts:
I'm running macOS Sierra on an early 2015 MacBook Air.

I've used the Mail.app to connect to Gmail, as well as several other account profiles for years. Two days ago, the Gmail connection failed (other accounts are loading normally).

When I clicked on accounts offline in the top corner, it explained that the login to Gmail had failed, and I should re-enter my password.

Here's the login screen it brought me to.

Then I entered my password (which I've checked several times for correctness) and got a grey screen of death.

This has repeated many times over the past two days, even when left alone for several minutes to resolve the grey screen.

Other attempts to re-enter the login information, for example through Mail → Accounts have led to the same result.

What can I do to resolve this?

Edit: Tried removing and re-adding the account. Now it freezes at the last step, after clicking done (shown with done pressed)


texts: Command line utility to create screenshot

texts: Is there some command line utility to create a screenshot of the my screen and store it as png? (Preferably one in the system, without need to install anything new)


texts:
Is there any difference on power charger between iPhone 6 vs 6s?

I'm worried that there is a difference and that I'll have issues when I use the iPhone 6 charger for iPhone 6s

It looks similar but can I get it confirmed?


texts: With a firmware password set on a Retina MacBook Pro, what are recovery options?

texts: I am considering setting a firmware password on my Retina MacBook Pro for security reasons. If I do this and later lose the password (or other such extenuating circumstances), how can the data be recovered? Is it even possible?


texts: Could ._ files contain malicious software?

texts:
Doing clean install after mess up, put my image, video, music, text files to external hard drive (not time machine). I was checking them in Windows computer and found many files having copies that all started with " ._ "

Like image.png

was

._image.png

None of them could be opened. I checked Internet and seems Mac just makes copies like that for system.
https://apple.stackexchange.com/ques...rscore-files-created-and-how-can-i-avoid-them

But no where can I find answer:

1) could these files carry anything malicious for Mac?

2) Are they files that could run a code? Executable files?

3) Or are they same as any image file? As in risk of ._ files having anything bad in them being as low as risk of image/video/music/text files having anything bad in them?

4) If ._ file is copy of something actually malicious, will ._ also be malicious?


texts: How to install a .qtz screensaver in Lion?

texts: What are the instructions to install a .qtz screensaver in Lion?


texts: How do I open Apple Maps from a Google Maps link in Safari?

texts: I would ideally like a bookmarklet since then I could use it on iOS as well. I tried this Safari extension but I would like an option in the toolbar to open Apple Maps when I'm already on a Google Maps page instead of directly opening Apple Maps form a Google maps link.


texts: Inspect the content of Time Machine single backup

texts:
Every time I make a backup with Time Machine, the size of the data backed up is always 2Gb+.
I don't understand where all these data are coming from.
Is there a way to inspect the content of the single backup?


texts: How to capture mail.app message url that will remain persistent when message is moved?

texts:
So mail.app has this wonderful message:// URL scheme, which works great—until the message is moved. Then links created sometimes work—and sometimes don't. I can't figure out the difference. So my question is twofold:

Is there a way to access messages through a URL even when they've moved?
If not, how do I move a message and then get its message ID?

My current script is

tell application "Mail"
    set theSelectedMessages to selection
    set the selected_message to item 1 of the theSelectedMessages
    set message_id to the message id of the selected_message
    set message_subject to the subject of the selected_message
end tell
set myPrompt to display dialog "Create New To Do in BusyCal" default answer message_subject
set response to the text returned of myPrompt
set quick_entry to encode(response & " " & month of (current date) & day of (current date) & "!!!" & " <message:<" & message_id & ">>") -- see encode handler below
tell application "BusyCal"
    activate
    open location "busycalevent://new/-" & quick_entry
end tell
tell application "Mail"
    move the selected_message to mailbox "Calendar" of mailbox " To-Do" of account "Calion"
end tell
--encode handler
on encode(msg)
    set theText to do shell script "/usr/bin/python -c 'import sys, urllib; print urllib.quote(sys.argv[1])' " & quoted form of msg
    set AppleScript's text item delimiters to "/"
    set theTextItems to text items of theText
    set AppleScript's text item delimiters to "%2F"
    set theText to theTextItems as string
    set AppleScript's text item delimiters to {""}
    return theText
end encode


texts: Why does Apple Music say that my student email is in use when trying to switch to a student account?

texts:
I'm on the individual Subscription for Apple music right now. When I try switching to a student account (I'm eligible), it tells me that my student email is still in use. I might have used that email before, because a few months ago I got a new iPhone.

If I cancel my individual subscription and then try to sign into my student email, will I lose all my music?


texts: How to get monitors to ALWAYS awaken in correct state when Mac awakens or reboots?

texts:
I have two monitors plugged into my Mac.   When I wake the Mac from sleep, usually both monitors awaken exactly as they should but sometimes one or the other does not wake, and sometimes one of them wakes in the default resolution or rotation rather than the one I chose in Preferences.
This can happen after a sleep or after a reboot.
The puzzling thing is that either of these behaviors (not awakening or waking up in default configuration) happens randomly, not consistently.
Macbook Pro 13" 2017 10.15.7.   One monitor connected by thunderbolt to DP cable, other one by DP to DP cable from docking station.
This other question provides the answer to what you can do if one monitor doesn't wake; you have to remove and replace power to it physically.   I'm looking for "What cuases this and how do you cure it?"


texts: How can I view the original (or "master") version of a photo in Photos without reverting all edits?

texts:
Most photo applications provides some way to toggle between the original (unedited) version of a photo and the current (edited) one.

In Aperture, "M" toggles between the two, many iOS photo apps let you touch the screen to compare the edited or filtered version to the original, etc.

I can't find any way to show the original in the new Photos app other than "reverting," which removes all the edits.

I don't want to remove them, I just want to compare the two.

I realize that I can "revert" then undo, but it's hacky, slow, and worse, dangerous - counting on undo to preserve work in any app is iffy, at best.

Note: The fact that Aperture edits are saved "less destructively" than Photos shouldn't be relevant here.  Both applications DO retain the original, in edition to the edited version.


texts: What Is the Keyboard Shortcut for Sleep Display Without Eject Key?

texts: I read that if you want to put your display into sleep the keyboard shortcut is Control ⌃+Shift ⇧+Eject ⏏, but what is it in Mountain Lion or Lion using a retina MacBook Pro or MacBook Air without an eject button?


texts: How do I show the icons of Windows executable on OS X?

texts:
Instead of the icons all showing up as the same for each .exe in Finder, is there a plugin or something that will let me see what the executable icons actually look like?

For example, .app on Finder has their own icons like this:

I want the .exe ones to also have their own icons depending on what program they are.


texts: In Keynote, is there any way to assign shortcut keys to select specific fonts?

texts: I'm writing a series of lectures where I use a different font to indicate code.  Is there any way to assign new shortcut keys/key combinations to select the two fonts I want?


texts: Irrelevant outdated update stuck in App Store

texts:
I upgraded to OS 10.11 which gave me a new version of iPhoto. However, an older version of iPhoto v9.6.1 is stuck in the App Store and I get periodic alerts that it is available for upgrade. When I try to accept the upgrade to hopefully clear it out, I'm told "Update unavailable with this Apple ID".

How do I get rid of this outdated "update"?


texts:
Straight to the point.

I am using Mac OS X 10.9.5 (Mavericks) and have stayed on it mainly due to overall system stability. I don’t want to reboot or deal with crashes from Mac OS X or a Linux machine.

From what I have read, heard and seen about Mac OS X 10.10 (Yosemite) it had issues with random crashes and memory leaks so I avoided it. For example, this Engadget post kvetches about Yosemite stability issues to no end:

  In performance, Yosemite didn't shine either, with altergeist
  complaining of "GPU panics, hard crashes, freezes and lower
  performance in benchmarks than Mavericks," commenting that even
  Windows Vista was "fundamentally more stable and reliable than
  Yosemite." Sydneystufff said, "I have wasted countless hours of
  my time force quitting, re-starting, re-installing on a daily/hourly
  basis" and GeeboH calls Yosemite "the most unstable version of OS
  X I've used since 2001."

Similar details on the Yosemite project page on Engadget as well.

Now with Mac OS X 10.11 (El Capitan) out I am not too hot on getting into that version of the OS too quickly since I no longer trust Apple’s initial major version releases and am wary of SIP (System Integrity Protection) for now.. But I am considering an upgrade to Yosemite to the 10.10.5 version to at least be a part of the “more modern” world; I want to stay stable but not too far behind the OS support curve.

Since I have stayed on Mac OS X 10.9.5 (Mavericks) for overall system stability, do I risk losing that stability with an upgrade to Mac OS X 10.10.5 (Yosemite)? If I have to trade stability for “newness” I’m not into an upgrade just yet but would like to hear some real-world information from people who might have been in the same boat as me. I would like to think that the 10.10.5 is more stable than the initial 10.10 release.

More details.

I am one of those users out there who is still using Mac OS X 10.9.5 (Mavericks) mainly for overall system stability and performance. Basically when Mac OS X 10.10 (Yosemite) there seemed to be tons of reports of system crashes and required reboots for recovery and that’s not what I’m used to in an OS.

Using Mac OS X 10.9.5 (Mavericks) on my Mac Mini (Late 2012) and I have pretty much never experienced random crashes or failures so server I need to hard reboot the system. Maybe one or two oddball kernel panic over the years, but nothing too bad. Here are my systems specs:

Model: Mac Mini (Late 2012)
CPU: 2.5GHz Intel Core i5
GPU: Intel HD Graphics 4000 1024 MB
RAM: 16GB (1600 MHz DDR3)
Storage: 500GB SATA hard disk drive; about 40GB used.

I don’t use any Adobe or Microsoft products and mainly use my Mac for Linux/Unix systems administration and web development tasks. Here is what I use on a regular basis:

Instead of Microsoft Office, I use Libre Office for it’s word processing and spreadsheet functionality, but maybe once a week.
Instead of Photoshop, I use GraphicConvertor and Pixelmator for photo editing.
I use VirtualBox far more for my tasks mainly running simple, non-GUI Linux server instances.
In Mac OS X I use Apple’s command line development tools for tool compiling in Bash.
And of course I use some of the standard Mac OS X built-in software such as Safari, Mail, iTunes and iPhoto. FWIW, iTunes crashes like crazy nowadays, but I know that is most likely just iTune. iPhoto is rock solid.
Past any of that I might fire up Handbrake or use others similar media conversion tools, but I doubt those would fall victim to—or cause—any system stability issue.

So what is the general consensus on the overall system stability of Mac OS X 10.10.5 (Yosemite)?


texts: How safe is it for me to install Java on OS X 10.8

texts:
I know very little about how Java works and its interactions with OS X, so I'm partly looking for an expert and simple description on how Java works on the Mac, and why so much press includes "fear, uncertainty, doubt" but no concrete details about how and why Java is not safe..

I want to use the Bitcoin client Multibit, but to do so I will need to install Java which over the past six months I've only heard bad things about.

So my question is: How safe is it for me to install Java on Mac OS X 10.8.3?

(The hidden question inside this question is what version / source of Java I should select if I can depend on Apple to keep Java secure.)

I understand "safeness" is a fairly difficult thing to define, but just some general advice would be greatly appreciated. Even if someone could point me in the direction of some learning materials so I can work this out for myself, that would be great.


texts: An app to click somewhere on the screen via keystrokes

texts:
I'm looking to reduce my mouse usage. (It's bad for your hands.)
If you ever used Vimium extension (e.g. for Chrome), it does this brilliant thing where once you hit F it shows you some keystroke sequences, and lets you open any link on the page for clicking (pictured  below).

Now imagine I want the same, but for the whole display. Once I hit a key, a light grid is drawn onto my screen, splitting it to NxM pieces. It shows 2 or 3 key sequences. Once you press the sequence, the app clicks to the middle of that grid for you.
I need an app like this for macOS. If it doesn’t exist, I suspect it’s time to finally teach myself some Cocoa SDK and Swift to code it up. But if it exists, please write it down here so others can learn as well.
This would be similar to voice controls of macOS, but with keyboard.


texts: How do I remove a device from a free (un-enrolled) team provisioning profile?

texts:
I'm writing a React Native app for iOS and Android. After building the project through Xcode onto three different (physical) devices, the product owner wanted a version for testing on his personal iPhone as well. Now, when building to his device, Xcode simply spits out a few red lines, which seem to occur from the same error:

  Unable to add device (device-name-here) because the team has already
  reached the maximum number of iPhone devices.

Then something about that the build can't commence, because the device is not registered in the team profile etc.

I realize I'm using a free provisioning profile, but I was not warned about the device limitation beforehand, which makes me think I can change which devices are connected to the profile somehow. Am I misunderstanding something? Or how do I go about doing this?

As of now, I won't have access to an enrolled developer account, so I'm having to make do with a free one. This is my first time working with Apple software, coming from a long streak of Android development and open source software.


texts: Keyboard + Trackpad not working in MacOS but work in Ubuntu

texts:
My 2015 13" Macbook Pro's keyboard and trackpad no longer work and I've already replaced the connector flex cable twice. That worked for a few weeks but after the third replacement they keyboard and trackpad no longer work (I assume the new flex cable works).

Interestingly, the keyboard and mouse work just fine when I boot from an Ubuntu live USB stick. In a youtube video by Louis Rossmann I can no longer find he mentions this may be due to the Macbook being connected to the keyboard and trackpad via USB by default. Something in the connection/USB controller may be damaged and Ubuntu can fallback to SPI to connect to the keyboard and trackpad whereas MacOS lacks drivers for this.

My question is whether a) how I can test this hypothesis and whether there may be a driver for MacOS that can connect to the keyboard via SPI and b) whether I can otherwise avoid replacing the entire keyboard/trackpad/battery ensemble.

Thanks for any help!


texts:
I'm having an odd problem with my Comcast emails. I have 2 comcast emails. Messages are received "theoretically" on both my mac(Mavericks) and iphone (ios 7).

On one of the emails (named: "Comcast2") sometimes emails only go to my iphone. 75% go to both the iPhone and the mac, but some get stolen by the iphone and I often miss them.

Has anyone experienced this before? and hopefully found a solution?

What I have tried
I have set both my mac and iphone emails to never delete emails from servers.


texts:
Where is the list of sidebar's favourites stored in macOS Sierra?
I tried to delete ~/Library/Preferences/com.applde.finder.plist and ~/Library/Preferences/com.applde.sidebarlist.plist - almost all preferences are reset except list of favourites - it remains


texts: How to force Xcode(or any other app) to be on dark theme while macOS Mojave's setting is on light mode

texts:
I love Xcode 10 dark theme, but I'd like to keep the whole OS on light theme. But by default to have Xcode on Dark theme you have to set the whole OS to Dark.

How can I achieve this?


texts: How can I copy videos and photos to my iPad without syncing?

texts:
What's the easiest way to get photos and videos on to the iPad without Syncing?
The way sync works is ridiculous; its either all the pictures in a folder or nothing. Basically I want the ability to drag and drop random photos with just a computer and cable available.
No cloud storage options please.


texts: Is there a way to make a VPN apply every time iPhone reboots? It's annoying having to re-enable

texts:
I use the OpenVPN app to encrypt my network connections on my iPhone as well as a VPN service, but every time my phone reboots I have to remember to re-enable my VPN.

Is there a way to have this occur automatically?


texts:
I found this at eBay. I thought I know all MacBook Air models but never seen one like this. It looks pretty fakey to me.
Am I wrong?


texts: Chinese symbol on English keyboard layout on iPad Air / iOS 13

texts:
Anyone know what this Chinese symbol is on the keyboard next to the return key?

There are no Chinese layouts enabled and the OS is in English.
Seeing this on an iPad Air 3rd gen / iOS 13.3.1

Pressing it doesn't seem to do anything, and translating the symbol with google translate shows it as ~ full width / half screen


texts: Cannot resize APFS partition - “The new size must be different than the existing size”

texts:
I'm trying to use entire 1TB HD as 1 drive. Using the disk utility to resize the disk to 1TB I keep getting "The New size must be different than the existing  size".
I tried using the apple disk utility but got the same thing.

ADDITIONAL INFO I forgot to mention... I did clone a drive that was 256GB on to this 1TB drive... Then I ran the disk utility to repair it.


texts:
A quite nice problem:
I have an external USB 2.0 harddrive (Lacie Starck with 512GB) which was working fine during the last years. But now everytime I connect it to a Mac 3 seconds later a total crash of the system follows and the Mac needs to reboot.

I tried with OS 10.10, 10.9 and 10.6 on three different devices. All systems crashed, so it's not my Mac.

I removed the harddrive from it's case and put it into a new external case. Still crashing, so it's not the controller.

If I start the Mac into Recovery Mode and plug in the external harddrive there is again an immediate crash.

The disk itself still produces a good spinning sound but it's a killer-disk now... Problem is: I don't have any other PC with Linux or Windows and I want to get some files from the disk. Any suggestions?


texts: Trying to force update_dyld_shared_cache but having some errors

texts:
I am trying to force the update of my dyld shared cache using the command

sudo update_dyld_shared_cache -root / -force

But after a while I see a bunch of errors like this, related to spindump:

  update_dyld_shared_cache[719] : Unable to unlink //var/db/spindump/OLDDSC-E2D77243-3FD9-32E5-AE64-3506904D5579: 1 Operation not permitted

How do I fix this?

I am on El Capitan.


texts: Getting error when update mac os from Mavericks (10.9.5) to El Capitan (Latest version)

texts:
I want to update my mac mini OS from Maverics to EI Capitan.

When i click on Get button at that time it will give a error message. For better understanding i attached screen shot of the error message.

Also i attached screen shot of the mac mini configuration.

I tried with removing cache folders from the /private/var/folders path but not working.

In above path i found folders, which name is 7s and zz. Also remove the folder which name is com.apple.appstore for remove the temporary files.

Please provide appropriate solution for upgrade the mac os.


texts: Edit auto fill when can't find source utilized

texts: Able to edit name because information and contact was incorrect however the address that is sometimes offered through auto fill on my 6+ I cannot edit because I don't know where their getting that information from it was not attached any credit cards or I haven't lived there since using the smart phone only previously synchronizing  Contacts of older phone with Google accident line as my only guess


texts: Two fingers go back-forward gesture crashes

texts:
Every once in a while, mostly when I don't turn off the computer for a long period of time, after waking it up from sleep gesture of two finger go back-forward crashes. It recognizes the gesture but doesn't let me do it properly, for instance you can find the maximum amount the gesture lets me move the window in picture below.
It works after I reboot the device, but after sleep decides to breakup with me.
It started to do this after I upgraded my Macbook Pro 2015 with a nvme ssd, I am thinking maybe it is related to inefficient sleep procedure which these upgrades are famous for. I am not thinking about going back to 128gb anytime soon :)
Did anyone came across this kind of a problem and solved it?


texts: Understanding the contents of com.apple.spaces.plist

texts:
I'm interested in understanding the contents of com.apple.spaces.plist because I'm trying to develop a solution to the problem of restoring apps to their original Spaces after a restart.

Looking at the value of the Space Properties property inside this plist, I see some information that looks relevant to the problem I'm trying to solve:

    "Space Properties": [
      {
        "name": "",
        "windows": [
          8557,
          114,
          183,
          91
        ]
      },
      {
        "name": "40ED97C0-613E-4E9F-ADCB-B0E4A1788987",
        "windows": [
          8557,
          114,
          188,
          337,
          338
        ]
      },
      ...

I assume the IDs under each windows property are the IDs of the applications in each Space. Is that correct?

Can I somehow, by editing this plist after a reboot, restore these window IDs to the Spaces they were assigned to before a reboot, and thus get all my windows back to where they were?


texts: After running `ssh-add -K` to add my SSH key to the Apple Keychain, what is the name and type of entry shown in Keychain Access.app?

texts:
Supposedly this console command will add my private SSH key to the Apple Keychain, as discussed in this Answer on the Question, How to use Mac OS X Keychain with SSH keys?:

ssh-add -K path-to-my-private-key-for-SSH

If that succeeds…

➥ What is the type and name of the entry to be found in the Keychain Access.app?

I would like to be able to manually verify and possibly delete that entry.


texts: connection line grayed out in iBooks Author

texts:
I went to menu-format-text and all that but the thing is the box grayed out totally.

At this point, all I could actually click on was the hide and show thing but of course I can't see anything really. [what is the hide and show thing]

I am not really good at handling Mac terminology and don't know where to start.


texts: How do I reset DHCP address allocation on my iPhone 6?

texts:
I need to briefly connect several hundred devices to the iPhone 6 Hotspot to test their Wi-Fi functionality.  I only need to connect 3 or 4 at a time, and each is only connected for a few minutes.  After checking about 12, no more devices would connect to the phone.  If I power any of the first few back up, they connect to the phone just fine.  If I try to connect any of the later devices to a new Wi-Fi source, it works just fine.

It really seems like the iPhone has run out of IP addresses to allocate to new devices.

Is there any way to reset the allocation so it will reuse addresses it has used recently?


texts: Can I flash a PC Radeon 5870 for use in a Mac Pro?

texts:
I have a Mid-2010 Mac Pro, Single CPU, MC560LL/A. It's equipped with the Apple-provided Radeon 5770.

However, I have a Radeon 5870 from my old PC lying around. I know I can't directly use it, but I wonder if there's a way to flash it to work with the Mac?


texts:
I have OSx Catalina. I have several folders and disks excluded from TimeMachine.
TEST:

I use Terminal to navigate to Downloads folder.
I touch junk.txt
I Enter Time Machine and navigate to Downloads.
From there the Now frame shows junk.txt.
If I go back in time, junk.txt disappears, yet all the other files still show.
I expect that going back in time from Now frame, all files would disappear in all but Now frame.

Is this a known issue?
I understand may be a "System Folder" but I could not find any documentation that states that this folder can not be excluded as well as it shows up in list of exclusions.
However, as comment below, if I peruse through Volume using Finder, I do not see Downloads folder at all.
Odd behavior. Partition is encrypted. Even without decrypting partition, e.g. Disk utiltiy lists partition as Not mounted, I am able to open Time Machine and go back in time as well as restore a file from Downloads. How's that!


texts: Dual monitors and OS X Lion : get menubar and app switcher on both displays

texts:
I've just plugged in another monitor into my 13 inch MBP running OS X Lion.

It works fine, except for three little annoyances:

Whenever I use the application switcher (or whatever it's called, I mean the thing that appears when you use command-tab), it appears only on the MBP screen. I also want it on the external screen I attached.
same problem with the top menu bar. It only appears on the MBP screen, but I also want to see it on the external screen.
and again, same problem for the dock.

Is there a way to fix these three things?


texts: "Enter your passcode" without a passcode

texts:
My iPhone 6 is running iOS 9.1 (13B143), not jailbroken. Installed one app, f.lux, which is sideloaded, everything else is from the App Store.

Occasionally, about once per day, while charging or after unlocking the screen, the phone will present the "Enter your passcode" screen.

Just to be clear: I have never set a passcode, yes I know the "skip" step during upgrades, I do not have roommates or other people touching my phone, I do not use Touch ID or Apple Pay, and I have never set a passcode.

The passcode screen includes a full QWERTY keyboard, not the digits one. And entering anything in there will just shake the screen (incorrect passcode). I have not attempted experimenting with 4 or more incorrect attempts in a row.

The workaround is to simply lock and unlock the screen once or twice and then slide to unlock. This method will unlock the phone without a password 100% of the time.

Has anyone seen this before and can it be cured?


texts: Is there a known issue where USB audio sounds for a few seconds then stops?

texts:
Update: the problem occurs using two different USB audio devices on two different ports with two different cables.

I plug an audio device into a USB port on my 2014 MacBook Pro running High Sierra 10.13.3.  If I play a song in iTunes hosted locally on my hard drive, I hear audio for up to about 20 seconds.  Then iTunes continues playing, but no audio comes out of the device (the device is active and powered on and makes just enough background hiss that I know it's on).  If I play a video on YouTube in Chrome, I get up to a minute or so of audio, and then the video freezes (!).  In all of these cases the internal speakers work fine.

If I pull down the menu bar audio icon and select internal speakers and then re-select the USB audio device, the song comes through the USB audio device again.  I can't replay the frozen YouTube video.

Where can I begin to troubleshoot this?

Original question:

I have a Jabra 9470 Pro headset that I've had connected to my MacBook Pro for months if not years now.  Everything has been working fine up until a few days ago.

The base is plugged into the computer via its USB jack.  A few days ago, if I select the headset as the default audio device, audio sounds in it just fine for about six or seven seconds.  Then it goes silent.

The Mac continues to think that the Jabra base is the USB audio device and clearly thinks that it is successfully sending audio to it.

Another USB audio device works fine, so the problem is clearly somewhere in the macOS-to-Jabra-specifically path.

I know that High Sierra has had some issues with USB audio in the past, but I can't understand what might have happened here.  Are there any ideas?


texts: What does one do when MacBook Pro 2017 not recognizing thumb drive needed to boot startup?

texts:
I wiped my 2017 MBP's drive at the direction of Apple support, to start fresh on my MacBook and try to eliminate/pinpoint a battery drain issues...now there is no bootable disk on the MPB.

I went through the procedures to download MAC OS High Sierra onto a thumb drive for use when booting the MBP...but the MBP is not recognizing the thumb drive.

When I start the MBP with Cmd-R, I get a progress bar for 2 seconds and then and error message that reads:
Picture: Triangle with ! on top of a globe
"apple.com/support
-3403F"

How can I get this MBP booted and running when it won't connect and reinstall from internet and also refuses to recognize thumb drive with Mac OS? Help!!!


texts: How can I get Safari to reopen my last closed tab?

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I'm switching back to Safari from Chrome. Now that I figured out how to get Safari to let me navigate tabs the way I want, only one thing remains: I want to be able to reopen my last closed tab with cmd+shift+T.

Near as I can tell, it's not a matter of making a keyboard shortcut in System Preferences, since Safari does not have a menu item for opening the last closed tab. So how else can I go about this?

(I've got one slot left available in the free version of FastScripts, so it'd be handy if there were an AppleScript solution for this.)


texts: What Is Optimal Battery Usage & Lost for iPad?

texts:
I am using my iPad  Pro about 2.5 years.

If %8 is lost from  iPad Battery in 2.5 years ( March 2016) is this a sign of a bad battery?


texts: My MacBook Pro is not sleeping when I close the lid on battery

texts: I purchased my macbook back in 2011, and this problem just started. When I unplug and close my computer to put it in my backpack for school, it does not sleep. I take it out and its very hot and has lost a large amount of battery. My energy saver controls say it should sleep after 10 minutes of inactivity, but either way it should sleep when I close the lid. I don't have any sharing options checked or any running apps that should be keeping it awake so I have no idea what could be causing this


texts: Edit equations with both MSWord on Windows and Mac

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I have a Word document with lots of equations in it. I created it on the Mac. I edited it on Windows. All of the equations got turned into bitmaps. This seems like poor behavior. Is there a way to turn them back? Is there a proper way to embed equations in a Word document to avoid this problem?

I know I should just be using \LaTeX, but my collaborators don't want to.


texts: I have a Bluetooth 3.0 keyboard and the space key,page down and end doesn't work. I think I pressed alt options .All the other keys are working beside these 3 keys.Can someone please help me


texts: Can I use my late 2013 MBP with Dell2515H?

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I'm thinking to get an external monitor for my MacBook Pro Retina display (late 2013 model).

What I would like to have is to get a 4K monitor or QHD monitor (Dell U2515H or P2715Q).

What I'm worried about is the font and icons size on the external monitor. Should I expect them to be tiny and hard to read text?

My graphic card is Intel Iris 1536 MB.


texts: Selecting rather than highlighting in iPad books

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On my iPad, when I read a book in the books app, a single word gets selected if I hold my finger on it. This allows several options and I prefer this extra tap if I want to look it up, highlight it or whatsoever.
However, if I move my finger to select multiple words, they get highlighted immediately.
Can I switch that gesture off?


texts: `createinstallmedia` fails to create bootable volume for some Macs

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I’m using the createinstallmedia utility to create a bootable volume on an external 4TB USB drive. This drive has 6 partitions (some encrypted) on it, all of them are JHFS+, 1 is being used as the boot volume.
The drive successfully boots a MacBook Pro 2015. When holding down the option key during startup, I can see the external drive and successfully boot from it.
If I try to boot a Mac Mini 2012 using the same process, I don’t see the external drive. If I try to set the startup volume using System Preferences > Startup disk, the drive appears as an option, however upon restart, it fails to boot from the external volume.

Here’s the odd bit. If I format the drive as a single 4TB volume, use createinstallmedia to make it bootable, it will boot the Mac Mini 2012. If I then resize the drive using Disk Utility, create some partitions, both normal and encrypted, it still boots the Mac Mini. If I then use createinstallmedia again over the top of the existing boot volume, it no longer boots the mac Mini. It will boot the Mac Book Pro.

I have a limited knowledge of bless, but tried bless --folder "/Volumes/EXT/System/Library/CoreServices" --bootinfo --bootefi as per the man page. No Success.

I also tried reducing the amount of partitions, from 6 to 5. That ended up booting the Mac Mini. Curiously, adding the 6th partition back again gave a successful boot, where the previous 6 partition configuration failed.

Ideally I’d like to be able to easily use createinstallmedia to create an install drive for different versions of macOS, 10.11, 10.12, 10.13, across different hardware, from this 4TB drive.

Has anybody else come across these kind of issues with booting from a 4TB drive?


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Can I use my iPad as a wireless webcam for my PC? I think the solution would be an app streaming the video captured by the iPad's camera from the iPad to the PC where another app would decode it, emulating a local webcam like ManyCam does (ManyCam could very well be part of the solution to this problem). Kinda like Air Video but reversed. I haven't been able to figure out how to do it; has anyone else figured it out?

Thanks!


texts: The iPhone is over 3 times more expensive than the iPod touch, how much more margin is Apple doing on the iPhone?

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Besides small differences like a minor camera, fundamentally the difference between the iPhone the iPod touch is the GSM/CDMA antenna and I guess more battery to support the antenna.

Yet the iPhone costs $650 and the iPod touch $200 which is quite surprising to me.

Is it because Apple has a bigger margin on the iPhone or are the components of the iPhone really that much more expensive?

edit: my question is not about the concept of demand and offer. To make it more explicit I'll change the question to how much more margin is Apple doing on the iPhone than on the iPod touch? Original Title: "Why is the iPhone over 3 times more expensive than the iPod touch?"


texts: Is there a script I can use to download the Mojave installer without being signed in to the App Store?

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Is there a way to script and download the Mojave installer without signing in to the App Store?

Something other than opening or clicking a url that points to the installer on the Mac App Store would be ideal.


texts: Always build package from source in Homebrew

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I installed macOS Catalina by using macOS Catalina Patcher on my Mac mini 2010 and it works like a charm. But I am facing the problem described on this thread. The package bottles (prebuilt binary) has built and optimized with some modern CPU instructions support by default on macOS Catalina, So it doesn't run on my old machine that has Intel Core2 Duo. I always get Illegal Instruction: 4 errors when I run the command.

So my question is, Instead of pouring bottles, I always run the command brew install -s <package name> to get rid of the problem by building source from scratch. It's annoying to add -s flag manually every time. Is it possible to ask Homebrew to always build package from source?


texts: How to remove iCloud alert badge from macOS settings icon

texts: How can I get rid of this annoying red badge on the Settings icon? I want to see such a badge when there is an update available, not for making me use iCloud if I don't want or need it.


texts: I can no longer play my songs consecutively on my iphone

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I have been playing music on my iPhone for years, updating it with new songs I purchase regularly from iTunes.
Recently, my list of songs looks different and I can only play one song at a time, and if I don't stop to change songs, the song just repeats over and over, even when I hit shuffle. Very frustrating while I'm trying to run with continuous music.
I've noticed the red icon has recently turned white.  Not sure if this is relevant.
How do I get back to my original format?
Thank you!


texts: Disk space not freed up after deleting files and emptying Trash

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I had approximately 50Gb of Windows VMs on my MacBook Pro internal SSD (128Gb) (OS X 10.7.3).

I copied them to an external drive, then deleted them from the internal drive, then emptied the Trash.

When I look at disk usage in Activity Monitor it shows the same level of usage as it did prior to deleting 50Gb of files.

Any ideas why the space hasn't been freed up?


texts: Will Time Machine backup portions of my file system that come from mounted drives?

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I have used the mount command to mount non-primary drive storage in to my the file system on my primary hard drive. So the path /remote-mounts/some-directory actually places me on a USB-attached drive when I change in to it.

Will Time Machine traverse in to the mounted directories and back them up or does it stop at mount points? Is it smart enough to tell that these mounts aren't actually on my primary drive?

Edit: Here's my personal exclusion list with a USB drive mounted. As you can see STUFF is excluded automatically and I can't prevent that. It's un-selectable in the list.


texts: Will iCloud work with Mail and a Gmail account?

texts: Does iCloud  work with Mail and a Gmail account, or do I need to necessarily create a .me account and then forward the mails from gmail to .me ?


texts: Mac network latency with NAS (not present with PC)

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I am in a Creative Services workgroup connected to a WD MyCloudPR4100 that IT has setup to be our group's NAS.

The issue is that occasionally the Macs in the group will lose their WiFi connection to the NAS while working, spin, hang and freeze. The PC's like mine in the group aren't experiencing anything like this issue - but they are hardwired into the NAS over ethernet.

I'm trying to determine weather this is a Mac, Network or NAS issue - and I'm far from a network expert - but I'm the best hope my group currently has.

Does anyone have any advice or resources that might be useful in diagnosing this problem?


texts:
Just upgraded to macOS 10.12.16. For some reason my iCloud contacts are empty. Contacts.app does not show anything.

I tried signing out of iCloud, deleting AddressBook caches and files in ~/Library/Application Support and then signing in again. Still, no Contact gets synced.

I can see all of my contacts via www.icloud.com and on my iPhone.

Can anyone help me?


texts: For a Western Digital Duo, what's the difference between creating a RAID using WD Drive Utilities vs. OS X (diskutil)?

texts: For a Western Digital Duo drive, is there a major difference between the two? OS X Disk Utility doesn't have the RAID feature now, but OS X can still create RAIDs via the command line and diskutil. WD Drive Utilities can modify RAID configuration, erase drives, etc. If formatting a RAID, is there any reason to choose one method over the other? (Namely, performance and stability.)


texts: How can I increase my scrolling speed with a third party mouse?

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Currently using a Razer DeathAdder gaming mouse with the driver software installed, and I have tried adjusting the scrolling speed in the system preferences in both Mouse Settings and in Accessibility (not sure why there is 2 different settings).

If anyone has any suggestions, I would greatly appreciate it. I have to scroll through a lot of code when I work and my pointer finger is getting disproportionally muscular.

Using macOS Sierra on a 27 inch Late 2013 iMac.


texts: My user preferences are gone after restart

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I restarted my computer and it's like I have a new install.

The system tells me it can't find a telephony file and my login startup items are gone. All my Finder preferences and other settings are gone.

I am using El Capitan 10.11.6 and my home folder is on an external drive.

Has anyone ever seen this?


texts: MacBook Pro installation failure (recovery, internet, or disk)... what now?

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Inherited a MacBook Pro (2010 MacBook6,1 17"). Starts up fine, but wouldn't boot - no operating system found. Hard drive does not appear to be bad (see details below) but I can't seem to get it to accept an OS installation. What I've tried so far:

Starting system using my 13" MBP as host drive in Target Disk Mode (intent was to check system hardware before I tried anything else) - would not boot, some type of error message appears over the loading screen, system reboots too quickly to read it.
Placing 17" MBP in Target Disk Mode - My 13" reads the disk just fine, Disk Utility sees no errors in the volume, reformatting the volume gives no errors
Starting from included OS X 10.6 installation DVD - Loads fine, Disk Utility shows no errors, installation initiates correctly, but exits with an error stating the installation could not complete on this system.
Cloning Recovery Partition from the 13" MBP (using CarbonCopy Cloner) - Will not boot, same text error as encountered using 13" in Target Disk Mode
Internet Recovery - system initiates recovery, but immediately throws a "-6002F" error
Starting in Single User Mode didn't highlight any obvious errors that I could see.

So... what next? I have NOT tried resetting PRAM or SMC. I do have another hard drive that I could swap in if needed (currently this drive is inside a 2007 MBP with a dead motherboard, so swapping it would require removal of 37,000 tiny screws). I probably have some memory that would be compatible, if it's an issue there, as it appears to take the same specs as my 13", but am hoping that's not the problem (I upgraded the 13" from 4 to 16 GB RAM, 17" currently has 8 GB, so swapping it could cut the memory in half, depending on DIMM arrangement - I haven't cracked the case yet to check).

Suggestions?


texts: Customise Restrictions passcode on iphone

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I know you can customise the iPhone main passcode to strengthen the security but there doesn't seem to be that option when doing the same when setting up restrictions. After I have written it down somewhere I don't want to remember the passcode, and I definitely will if't it only 4 numbers.
Is it possible to write an app for something like that?


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I have a folder shared with me from another iCloud account. When I log into iCloud from a web browser I can see the shared folder. However when I'm on my Mac and I click on the iCloud folder I can not see the shared folder.
How can a Mac see shared folders in Finder locally as opposed to using a web app / browser?


texts:
There's this network at my school which I know requires a username and password. If I access it on my PC, it asks for it, and I give it, and I get access. Works great.

On my Mac, when I select it from the drop down list of detected wireless networks, it asks me for just a password.  Like this is some normal home network. Which is wrong. Inapplicable. No.

How can I get it let me put in my username and password instead?


texts: iCloud Keychain not syincing all iPhone wifi passwords to Mac

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I recently upgraded my iPhone 4s to the latest ios 7.1 and my macbook pro to Mavericks and have set up iCloud Keychain sync on both devices.

My problem is that I'm connected to a wifi network on my iPhone and want the password synced to my laptop but when I click on the network on my laptop it asks for a password to this specific Network. On my laptop I'm connected to another wifi network already but it's very slow. Plus, when I was at home this past weekend with fast internet I'm sure it gave my laptop time to synchronise with my iPhone.

But why has all other wifi network passwords been transferred to my laptop but not the one I want to connect to?


texts: Windows virtual machines with transparent mouse capture?

texts:
I've tried VMWare and VirtualBox and both have an intentional "mouse capture" process wherein the keyboard and mouse control is passed into the VM, and then has to be explicitly released to get back to the Mac desktop.

Are there any VMs, or configuration methods, that allow a Windows VM to behave like any other window?  I.e., meaning that:

When the mouse is over the VM window it is assumed to be operating in the VM,
The mouse can be dragged out of the VM onto adjacent desktop without clicking a "release" key
The keyboard is captured and released by the VM based on whether the VM window is the "top" or "active" window on the Mac dektop


texts: Computer falls asleep "randomly" while using it and boots into Safe Sleep wake mode

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Ive got a weird issue happening on a 2012 15" Macbook Pro, the computer works fine for but every so often the screen will just go black and the machine goes into sleep. As it goes to sleep my screen goes black, but the cursor remains on screen for c. 10 seconds, before it disappears too.

I can wake the machine after about 30 seconds and it gives me the Safe Sleep wake progress bar overlaid on the screen i was last on.

Any idea how i can see what caused my machine to sleep ?

I hope it wasnt the GPU issue on the 2012 machines, but this happened under normal browsing so nothing GPU intensive.

Im running OSX 10.11


texts: Running filemaker pro 6 on an Intel-based Macbook Pro?

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Recently moved my wife's content and settings from a white Macbook to an Intel-based Macbook pro.
So when I went to open her contacts database created in Filemaker Pro 6, no dice, since that is a PowerPC-based program.
And if I try using the later-version trial I got from Filemaker, it's Catch 22 time all over again, since I cannot import the file without having a working version of Filemaker Pro 6.


texts: Fix 3 and 4 Finger Gestures Not Working in macOS Catalina 10.15

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For some reason the 3 and 4 finger gestures on my 2019 MacBook Pro 16" have stopped working. This happened for some reason with macOS 10.15.4 installed, and after upgrading to 10.15.5 they still do not work. Turning gestures off and on again doesn't fix it. Restarting the machine doesn't fix it.

This isn't just affecting the 3 and 4 finger gestures of my Trackpad, but the 2 finger double tap on the magic mouse isn't working either. Is there a bug in recent versions of macOS here?

What can I do to get my trackpad and mouse gestures working again? This is extremely frustrating!

Thanks

P.S. I also posted this in Apple Community forums here: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/251461614


texts:
I tried installing XCode on my MacBook Pro, but for some reason, it suddenly crashed. After a reboot, I saw a message my computer had to restart because of some system failure. After this message, I get the following text on my screen...

Does anyone have any idea what this text means and what to do about it?


texts: How can I hide notifications for a short period?

texts: I use notifications heavily as a sort of todo list during the day (mostly Slack and email messages). But sometimes I want to hide these for a while to focus on the whole screen. If I disable notifications I often forgot for hours and find I missed something important. How can I hide the notifications for just 15 minutes and then have it reactivate?


texts: Help with Apple Script for dealing with duplicates in Numbers

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I had a script that I used to find duplicates in a numbers document and to highlight the duplicate in red.

Well I now have a file where there are multiples of the descriptor in column B that are duplicates, but the code for the descriptor in column A is different and it's truly not a duplicate. What I now need the script to do is not make it red, but to put the code from column A for any duplicates it finds after the descriptor in column B and to leave column A alone.

My attempt to get this to work broke my script and I don't know how to fix it.

How can I get this script to do what I need so I'm not having to do thousands of lines manually?

Below is the script I have. The part where it says merge cell is where I took out the make it red part.

tell application "Numbers" to tell front document to tell active sheet

set selected_table to first table whose class of selection range is range

tell selected_table

    set selected_range to the selection range

    tell selected_range

        set values_list to {}

        repeat with i from 1 to count cells

            set this_value to value of cell i as text

            if values_list contains this_value then
            merge cell 1 of column 1 of selected_table with column 2 of selected_table
            end if
            set end of values_list to this_value

        end repeat

    end tell

end tell

end tell

Below is a screenshot of the Numbers document:


texts:
I have upgraded OSX Yosemite and now have Photos instead of iPhoto.  I have a question regarding usage of Events and Albums.

Say I go to the Zoo with my family, take some pictures and then import into Photos. Is that an Event or an Album? I always used Events with iPhoto, but now it seems as though it should be albums.


texts: Zoom-to-fit in preview application when viewing pdf full screen

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Several generations of OSX ago, it was possible to view PDFs full-screen in Preview, and they would automatically fit to the screen, which was great for PDF presentations (e.g. Beamer, or PDF-exported PowerPoint). Now, either when using Slideshow or Full Screen, I get these black or gray borders that I can't seem to get rid of (screenshots, first is Slideshow, second is Full Screen):

Is there any way to revert to the old style, fit-to-screen, or should I just resort to 3rd-party applications like Présentation?

Note: I am using OSX High Sierra.


texts: How do I move a VirtualBox Windows VM from Windows to Mac

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I want to copy a VirtualBox VM from Windows to Mac OS and not sure how to do it.  I have researched online and VirtualBox forums only hit one solution that is for a very old version of VirtualBox.
Likewise checked as below:
One recommendation over at Stack Exchange(https://superuser.com/questions/633431/whats-the-recommended-way-to-move-a-virtualbox-vm-to-another-computer) but it's 7-years old, so not something to trust with much newer versions of VirtualBox.
It's a VDI with no snapshots so it's pretty clean.
I tried one of the old solutions just for the heck of it, namely to copy the VDI to the folder on the MAC where indicated to move it in the old posts and Virtualbox errors out that it can't find the VDI.


texts: Complex recurring event - Is there a way?

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OK, I want to look at my calendar and know when I will be paid. I normally use Apple's Calendar, but I also have access to Microsoft Outlook.
The rules are as follows:

I'm paid every month;
I'm paid always on the last possible day before the 28th day of the month;
I'm paid always on a working day.

Therefore, notwithstanding the bank holidays (public holidays in the UK):
I should always be paid on the 27th, except when it's on a Saturday or Sunday, in which case I'm paid on the previous Friday.
It's pretty simple, really, but for some reason that looks impossible on my calendar:

The options for recurring are.. [[first to fifth]|last] [day|weekday|weekend day|[a day of the week]] and nothing else. I cannot specify it must be before the 28th. I can tell it to recur every 27th, but it will be wrong two or three times in a year.
Then I remembered there's a bunch of calendars that can be synchronised online, like webcal.fi, and I read about it and they use a small file format called iCalendar, with extension .ics, but I can't figure out how to make complex recurrence rules. I thought "how do they calculate the recurrence of easter, for example?" and proceeded to look for it. Alas, all the iCal references for easter I found are a bunch of hard-coded dates for each year, no logic involved.
Thus.. my question: Is there any way I can set this event recurrence up? Can it be done? How?
Thank you!


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I am syncing my iPhone 5S with my iMac. In iTunes it tells me I am over my 64 GB allowable memory with the majority of the space being used for over 4000 photos.

How do I delete the photos from my iPhone? I would like to keep photos taken in this year.


texts: MacBook Pro takes 10 minutes to shutdown

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I have a 2016 MacBook Pro 15", running macOS Sierra, which fails to shutdown properly. Originally when I closed all applications and then went to shutdown, it would take less than 10 seconds to completely power down.

My problem:

Now, when shutting down, applications will close properly, the Desktop turns to a black screen (all normal so far) but then the display will not power down, as the backlight remains on. This lasts for anywhere from 9 minutes up to nearly 20.

What I have tried:

I have removed all login items from my user.
I have done a boot into safe mode.
I have reset the NVRAM (PRAM).
I have live-chatted with Apple support and went through clearing the User and System Library/Cache directories.

Nothing seems to resolve the issue.

One point to note is that when I reach the login screen, and choose "Shut Down" instead of entering my user password, it will shut-down quickly. I suspect that an application is preventing the normal shutdown, but don't know how to go about finding it.

I have attempted to look through the console for errors but nothing seems to leap out at me.

Can someone please suggest a solution, or a means to identify what is causing this issue?

UPDATE:
I am just performing the latest macOS 10.12 update to see if that helps at all.

SECOND UPDATE: After using live chat with an Apple engineer, we have narrowed it down to the Launch Agents / Daemons. We moved most of them to the trash, and I have tried to add a few back in (shutdown, reboot and then attempt a clean shutdown). It could be the MySQL agent. I don't have many others apart from Adobe / Creative Cloud, Google's Keystone and Oracle MySQL.

Not sure if I should add this as an answer?

Note: This is not a duplicate as my Mac didn't hang permanently, and the solutions in that question didn't help me in this case.


texts: Xcode: How to determine which DeviceSupport is useful?

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When handling with MacBook storage problem,

I found that Xcode's bad storage management is very painful.
Seeing from the detail of DeviceSupport's item, it is about system library and Swift binary etc.
I know I should remove the older items. My question is how to know which item is currently using, in
/Users/usr/Library/Developer/Xcode/iOS\ DeviceSupport?
So I could remove the useless DeviceSupport, and keep the useful.


texts: Git user.name continuously removed/reset

texts:
At least once a day it seems that my Git global configuration value for user.name gets reset to a blank value. Of course I only find out when I go to commit and it barks at me. I've tried removing and readding, replacing all matching keys. Here are the following specs/configs I would think are relevant:

MacBook Pro 15,1 (2018)
macOS 11.1
iTerm2 v3.4.3
Git v2.24.3 (Apple Git-128)

I also have Oh My Zsh installed, master commit SHA b28665a.


texts: say command says wrong text (for some voices)

texts:
I'm running 10.8.5 and installed some of the newer text-to-speech voices, including "Samantha" (aka Siri), "Tom", and "Jill". They work fine, except for the word "seq":

say -v Jill seq

produces the spoken words: "the following".

say -v Samantha "consider seq question"

produces the spoken words: "consider the following question".

I tried the above test on each of the voices I have installed, and only "Samantha", "Tom", and "Jill" exhibit this behavior.

I haven't found any other words that produce wrong output, but there may be more.


texts:
I've noticed after updating to the latest OS X update 10.10.3 my desktop wallpaper flickers frequently.

The flickering will momentarily go if I have a window cover the location of flickering but it will appear again about 10 minutes later.

Could someone tell me how to resolve this? or at least troubleshoot the issue.

I have a Mac Mini (Late 2012).

UPDATE:
Screenshot of my console as requested:

2ND UPDATE:
Added screenshots of my screen settings and new console log.


texts: How can I mount the root Data volume as writable on macOS 10.15 Beta 1 when booted into Single User Mode?

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I need to reset my admin password (https://apple.stackexchange.com/a/61932/17533). Can't boot into Recovery Volume, so I need to boot into Single User Mode and modify the Data volume.

When booting into Single User Mode, the system shows the following help:

To mount the root device as read-write:
    $ /bin/mount -X /

However, that leads to an error message:

mount: illegal option -- X

I also tried the old mount -uw -, but that leads to some firmlink related messages, and afterwards I still have no writeable Data area.

mount shows that the Data volume is already mounted at /System/Volumes/Data as read-only. Trying to unmount it with umount leads to an "Operation not permitted" error.

mount -uw /dev/disk1s1 (which is the Data partition as shown by mount) leads to the error "Found 2 volumes in group ... Failed to stat file //AppleInternal, error No such file or directory".


texts: Vertical colored lines on broken screen -- is it just my screen?

texts: I cracked my iPhone 5S screen on pavement. It's currently not covered under AppleCare. I'm wondering, though, if it's worth it to take this to one of those companies that replace broken screens. From what I know, they just replace the glass -- am I wrong in thinking that it's not just the glass that's broken here?


texts:
During corona days, I am managing my courses via Moodle.
Students submit their work to Moodle in pdf format.
Then I download all of them as a single zip file to my disk.
When unzip it, the following pretty good directory structure is obtained under my directory x.

x
|- StudentA
|  |- nameA.pdf
|- StudentB
|  |- nameB.pdf

A necessary info is that
I have already asked my students to have their name in the filename of their submissions.

I would like to collect these files and merge into a single file for grading.
More than that what I want is to have a kind of "separator" inserted in between files so that I can easily navigate from one student paper to another next.
That is, direct access to any paper.

Automatic insertion of a table of content would be perfect.
Or a bookmark for each paper would do.
Worst comes to worst, I like to insert filename before the file itself.

One can to merge pdf files in one directory into single file as explained in
How can I combine multiple PDFs using the command line?
or
Mac OS X: How to merge pdf files in a directory according to their file names.


texts: Unable to install OS X, cmd+R opening internet recovery instead of usual recovery

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I'm trying to clean install OS X El Capitan on a MacBook Pro (early 2015).

After erasing my disk I started the installation of OS X. After accepting the license agreement I was asked to choose a target drive. I hesitated a little bit and wanted to cross-check if I have created the partitions correctly so I canceled the installation. There were no options to go back to Disk Utility so I restarted my machine.

Now when I press cmd+R, it always leads me to internet recovery. The only thing I saw was a spinning globe and I was asked to choose a Wi-Fi connection. I connected to my Wi-Fi network and still only saw a spinning globe. After waiting for a long time it has shown the error apple.com/support 2002f

How can I access the normal recovery mode and install OS X?


texts: Is it safe to disable System Integrity Protection?

texts:
While using OS X El Capitan 10.11.x, is it safe to disable System Integrity Protection? There are all these additional apps that modify folders and the dock that I want to install but you have to disable rootless first.

Good idea or bad idea?


texts:
It seems like I cannot execute AppleScripts on my Mac.

I am running OS X 10.7.1 and when I try to compile an AppleScript, even a script as simple as display dialog "Hello World!", I get a syntax error.

In the preferences for the AppleScript editor there nothing in the Default Language drop down menu on the General preferences page.

Does anybody know what might be wrong? Is it possible to reinstall just AppleScript?


texts: Save Excel file as pipe-delimited values file

texts:
I know that you can save an Excel spreadsheet as a CSV file and that this will put quotes around any fields that have commas in them. I have commas in one of my columns and want pipe (|) delimited output, just like the question asked here:
Customize delimiter character with Excel CSV save-as
with no Excel solution. I need an Excel solution due to limitations on my machine.
Running version 15.27.


texts: Any alternative to iOS for an iPhone 3G?

texts:
I have an iPhone 4, and I would like to recycle my “old” iPhone 3G.

Is there a good Android-for-iPhone?
A Linux distribution optimized for iPhone?
Another alternative OS, like a BSD or a BeOS-like?

What OS other than iOS can run on iPhone 3G hardware and how would I install the OS you recommend.


texts:
I was having some trouble with Jupyter not being able to locate python packages which lead me to find out that I am having 2 installations of it : one in /usr/local and one through homebrew. Is it recommended to keep both of them? Why? Ideally, it seems to me that having a single installation is cleaner (specially, since there are no back-compatibility issues like with python which may require one to have multiple installations of it).
Output of where jupyter :
/opt/homebrew/bin/jupyter
/usr/local/bin/jupyter

I am running macOS 11.2.3 on MBA with M1.


texts: How to provide detailed listing of /tmp directory

texts:
The standard options to ls are not working: I get the following

14:53:37/a2a $ls -l /tmp
lrwxr-xr-x@ 1 root  wheel  11 Jan  9 14:16 /tmp -> private/tmp

$ls -lrta /tmp
lrwxr-xr-x@ 1 root  wheel  11 Jan  9 14:16 /tmp -> private/tmp

The intent is to view  the contents of the directory, not the metadata info  it is a (hard?) link.

Note that ls /tmp does show the contents .. but not the detailed info like last modified

$ls /tmp
00f12e86-cfcc-4239-9dfc-006b65a319c3    com.symantec.symdaemon.launches
72f8fe65-e688-4d14-9aef-42c6abc1d4fa    exceptions.csv
835500b9-549b-435d-b444-97db8935fd88    ju.txt
 ..
com.symantec.avscandaemon.NF


texts: How to make Finder remember its window size and column sizes?

texts:
Why doesn't OS X remember the Size of the Finder window and the size of the columns in Cover flow (or any other) view?

It seems like something very basic that should just be there but it's really frustrating when I have to continuously resize columns to see filenames and resize the window so I can see a reasonable amount of stuff.

I know there are script that can allow you to achieve this manually, but that really isn't acceptable. They've had decades to get the simple stuff right. Why doesn't this already happen by default?


texts: I am trying to erase and reformat drive with snow leopard, but don't have the install DVD

texts: I have a 2009 MacBook Pro running Snow Leopard, and I'm selling it to someone. Want to erase and reformat the drive but I don't have the Snow Leopard Install DVD. Is there any way to do this?


texts: Recover MacBook with full disk after failed OS upgrade

texts:
I tried to install the latest MacOS and the installation failed because there was no enough space. From there on every time I try log in to my account a status bar appears and then the whole system shuts down. Same thing happens in Safe mode.

In recovery mode I tried a clean OS install but the wizard said that there is 0kB free on my disk. I imagine the installer from the previous upgrade attempt is still somewhere on my disk, taking up a lot of space.

So I tried launching a terminal and deleting random unneeded files.

After having deleted probably between 500 and 1000 MB of data, I tried restarting and logging in, but the system shuts down at the same point in that login status bar.

FileVault is enabled on my laptop.

How can I recover my laptop?


texts: How can I get a screenshot of what's on my AppleTV?

texts:
Preferably Wirelessly. Any apps for that?

Obviously I'm talking about the more recent iOS powered little black box AppleTV, not the original model.


texts: How do I know if my long sms is sent properly?

texts:
I've heard of concatenated SMS whereby SMSes longer than 160 alphanumerals are broken down, sent separately, and then recombined on the receiver's phone.

How do we know whether our long SMS is sent (and received) properly?

What happens if the receiving phone does not support concatenated SMS?


texts: Using iPhoto with an already existing folder

texts: I have a pretty big (~60G) already existing folder of photos residing in /Users/ME/OndeDrive/Pictures . I want to be able to use iPhotos with that folder without (a) changing its structure, (b) creating copies of all the files (which is what is done if I do "Import to library"). Is this possible?


texts: Jailbroken iOS 9.0.2 on iPhone 6s pairing with Apple Watch 2.2

texts:
I have a jailbroken iPhone 6s 9.0.2 and recently purchased an apple watch. It came today and when I tried to set up, it said:
"iPhone is Out of Date" - "Your iPhone is out of date. Before you can pair it with your Apple Watch, you'll have to update it to the latest version of iOS."

If I update, I'll lose my jailbreak so is there a way I can workaround this issue? I tried going into the system files and changing the iOS version to 9.3 to trick the phone but that still didn't work so I switched the version back in iFile. Maybe there is something that I can do with Flex?

The watch says in the info that I need a minimum of iOS 9.0 so I'm not sure what the problem is.


texts:
How do I list all formulas I installed with brew install --HEAD. Certain formulas depend of more recent version of a formula and upgrade every time I run brew upgrade if a commit has been pushed, I wish to check if the dependency has been satisfied and install normal version.
This was the case where neovim nightly(5.0.0) where it required HEAD version of luarocks (Undocumented in release page) and recently just works with normal installation


texts: Safari 7 User Agent is set to “Custom” by default

texts: Ever since upgrading to Mavericks from Snow Leopard, Safari’s default User Agent is set to custom. Anybody has any idea why this happens? And how can I fix it?


texts: The startup disk does not have enough space to be partitioned

texts:
I know there's many threads on this but the many many solutions I have tried are not working for me.
I'm hoping I can get a customised response to whatever is causing my issue.
I had bootcamp Windows before but (now regrettably) removed it.
I've added my diskutil list
I'd super-appreciate and assistance
thanks!


texts: How do I download a shared folder in iCloud and sync it?

texts: I am trying to download a folder that someone else shared with me. This part is not difficult however I want my downloaded folder to sync to the original folder. A person has shared with me iMovie project files, and we are separately editing them on two different devices. I want to edit the shared file, so that when I make my changes, the other person can also access them. I want to do this without keeping duplicates, and constantly having to "replace" the previous file. Is there a more easy way? Note that this is between iOS and Macbook.


texts: iPhone warranty valid in another country?

texts: I bought the iPhone 6 gold 64 gb three months ago from USA. But now I'm resident in India. Is there any way to transfer the warranty in India of my phone?


texts: Why does Finder append `.app` to a file with `.service`

texts:
If have a file called gunicorn.service (a file for Linux) on my Mac. However, Finder shows gunicorn.service.app as filename with a weird "forbidden app" icon. When checking info (cmd+I) with name and extension, it says the name without the .app extension.

Finder's advanced setting "Show all filename extensions" doesn't change this behaviour.

Why is that? And can it be disabled?


texts: Mac Mini frequently loses connections (both Wi-Fi and Bluetooth)

texts:
I have a Mid 2011 Mac Mini which is connected to:

Airport Express
Apple Bluetooth trackpad
Apple Bluetooth keyboard

Suspiciously frequently and quite consistently, maybe every other day, one of the three disconnects, and I have to reconnect them manually, which usually goes fine immediately.

For comparison, my MacBook Air never disconnects from the network. Battery health on the trackpad and keyboard does not seem related to the disconnects.

Since all three of the devices disconnect, the culprit would seem to be the Mini, particularly the Wi-Fi and Bluetooth adapter. But I don't want to jump to conclusions.

How can I best diagnose the situation to understand what is wrong?
Is it likely that replacing the Wi-Fi/Bluetooth adapter would resolve the problem?


texts: OSX app to notify me when I could have used a KB shortcut instead?

texts:
I started using a MBA for my work machine about a year ago. I'm still not really able to remember the typical keyboard shortcuts, and tend to do things the "long way". For example, if I want to access the Desktop within Finder I'll tend to click on the Finder icon in my Dock, then navigate to Desktop within that window. Then kick myself because I could have just hit SHIFT CMD D.

So is anyone aware of any small apps which notice this happen and simply notify me something like "by the way, you could do this far quicker by using this keyboard shortcut: SHIFT CMD D".

The question's inspired by a plugin called Keyboard Promoter that I use in PHPStorm, my IDE of choice: http://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/4455?pr=phpStorm. I'd like something similar system-wide, not just within the IDE.


texts:
I've been using the bashpodder script recently, and while the script works beautifully when I use it in the command line, the crontab I created for it doesn't work at all. It fails when it has to use wget. I downloaded the most recent OS X binaries for wget, but the script still fails, and I get a log with an error that reads thus:

Users/username/Downloads/audio/podcasts/bashpodder.shell: line 73: wget: command not found

Lines 71-75 read like this:

if ! grep "$url" podcast.log > /dev/null
      then
         wget -t 10 -U BashPodder -c -q -O $datadir/$(echo "$url"  | awk -F'/' {'print $NF'}  |  awk -F'='         {'print $NF'} | awk -F'?' {'print $1'}) "$url"
         let "show += 1"
    fi

Any recommendations?


texts:
In the ten minutes since I have updated my OS I have restarted the computer three times (I was testing something with displays having separate spaces, and a restart is easier than logging in). Each time it's started back up I've had to uncheck that box.

After reading Cannot disable "Dark Menu Bar" on Mac OS I think there is a good chance my preference files have been corrupted (since installing El Capitan deleted all my system preference files). I don't know how to fix them.

I've never had a problem with the menu bar or it's color before. Can I stop this from happening a fourth or fifth time?


texts: Switching applications with CMD+TAB launches an instance of the target app

texts:
For a while now, every time that I try to switch an application using cmd+tab when I stay in the target application for more than a couple of milliseconds, when I lift my fingers, a new instance of the target app is launched.

I've been looking everywhere how to change this behavior, but it has been in vain. Originally I thought it was an emacs bug but then I noticed it also happened in chrome.


texts: ios https incommunicado: Installing PEM certificate

texts:
I have a test website that ios can't communicate to cause certificate is predictably trash.
I have clicked on lock icon in browser url and have extracted pem chain of cerificates
for that site.
How could I install it into keychain on macos simulator or ios device to
have that https connection trusted? (for testing purposes)
When attempting to drag and drop pem into simulator window:


texts: How to remove a partition that fails to remove.

texts: I failed installing Ubuntu, the remaining partitions are un-removeable, when ever I try and remove them I get operation failed. How can I resolve this issue? I need to either remove them or erase them.


texts: iPhone 4s headphone jack stops and starts working randomly

texts: iPhone 4s headphone jack will stop working at times and I have to believe this is some sort of software or internal error. Reason being is it will start working again after a while. I've done a hard reset and checked all the settings.


texts: How can I convert 60FPS videos to work on an iPhone 4?

texts:
I have some 60 FPS videos ranging from 640x480 to 1280x720.  I was able to convert a few using H.264 Baseline @ L3.0 and sync them to Photo Albums on the iPhone and they clearly are playing back at 60 FPS.  The smoothness is incredible.

Apple's tech specifications claim the iPhone can playback up to 30 FPS, but evidently this is not a true limitation.

My problem is most 60 FPS videos I have, fail to sync in iTunes and I get a message saying this video is not playable on the iPhone.

What do I need to do differently to make 60 FPS videos reliably convert to iPhone 4 compatible H.264?

Tools like MediaCoder iPod Edition and Any Video Converter tend to either force 30 FPS (A.V.C.) or crash outright when handling 60 FPS videos (MediaCoder which uses the x264 project to do the converting).


texts: How to use iCloud as main storage location for all documents, application files, etc?

texts:
I have an iMac, Macbook Pro and an iPad Pro, but I'm relatively new to the IOS/OSX ecosystem as I've only used these devices for very specific use cases. I'm in the process of making the switch to all Mac. As part of that quest, I signed up for iCloud and I'm paying the monthly subscription for 2TB. Since that amount of storage is greater than the sum of all of my devices, I would like the apps that need to save files somewhere to all save on iCloud. This way I can access those files from any device without having to think about which device the files are on, or having to make sure I sync the files or folder.

Is this possible? Is it even a feasible idea to use the cloud in this way?


texts: How can I play a seamless audio loop from the command line?

texts:
I have tried afplay but it doesn't have the option to loop (repeat the audio) and if I try to repeatedly call it in a loop there is a gap of dead space at the end of each loop.

I'm trying to play white noise continuously, so any crack, pop, or dead time between loops is completely unacceptable.


texts: how to config color when i use iterm2 ssh linux server

texts:
I use Mac
and use iterm2 ssh login linux Server
.
but when exec ls
the terminal is Black and White
how to config then like  mac colors


texts: Apple's online version function support-sp.apple.com/sp/product?edid= does not work for all macOS versions

texts:
I would like to get the Apple marketing name, the code name, for a given version of macOS (e.g. 10.12 is macOS Sierra) from Apple's online service at support-sp.apple.com/sp/product?edid=.

This is possible for some versions using the http request:

curl https://support-sp.apple.com/sp/product?edid=10.12.0

However, I cannot get the URL to give a consistent answer to https://support-sp.apple.com/sp/product?edid=<ver>.

I was trying to confirm my 10.13.6 version and kept getting errors. I tried 10.14.0 and it did not work. Trying 10.12.6 works, so I made a loop to try all versions:

$ for i in {6..14} ; do echo "10.${i}.0:" $(curl -s "https://support-sp.apple.com/sp/product?edid=10.${i}.0" | xmllint --format -xpath "//root/configCode/text()" - 2>/dev/null) ; done

returns:

10.6.0: Mac OS X 10.6
10.7.0: OS X Lion
10.8.0: OS X Mountain Lion
10.9.0: OS X Mavericks
10.10.0:
10.11.0: OS X El Capitan
10.12.0: macOS Sierra
10.13.0:
10.14.0:

If this isn't possible, is there a better place to ensure that when run from a bash shell on most macOS systems I can get the friendly name? At least the last 6 or so versions (I'm not sure how many pre-Lion versions there are out there in the wild).


texts:
Today I've suddenly received spam calendar invitation for $19.99 Ray Ban sunglasses (never subscribed, checked, searched or visited any related site, so clearly spam) and it has other visible email accounts within the invitation.
I'm wondering if I should be worried whether my accounts been compromised or a simple email from anywhere just plops this in my calendar without review.
Questions to be answered:

What should I check/setup in order to make sure my iCloud account is safe?
How can I delete this invitation without sending a notification to the sender, so as to prevent them from knowing my email address is live?
How can I prevent these notifications in the future?

Here's an image:


texts: Can I connect a Windows 10 machine with USB C to a Thunderbolt display?

texts:
This question is related to How to connect a USB-C-based MacBook to a Thunderbolt display? and Connect a Thunderbolt Display to windows 8 desktop but not quite the same.

I have a Thunderbolt monitor and have been using it with using a newer Macbook Pro using a USB C to Thunderbolt adapter.  This setup works fine.

I am going to be getting a Windows machine using an NVidia RTX 2080 graphics card, which has a USB C port.  Will I be able to connect this machine through the Apple USB C -> Thunderbolt adapter to a Apple Thunderbolt monitor?  If so, should I expect any performance degradation?


texts: iPhone backup data overwritten by mistake

texts:
I was updating my iPhone to iOS 7 and in the process I took a backup of my phone. After installing iOS 7 on my iPhone, I connected it to iTunes and instead of pressing Restore from backup, I pressed Backup and iTunes saved the backup of my restored iPhone, overwriting my original backup data.

The newer backup I have now is of my blank restored iPhone and I don't have a backup in iCloud either. Is there a way of retrieving the backup that I did before updating my software?


texts: iphone 4S 6.0.1 has poor wifi reception upstairs

texts:
I've had an iphone 4S running 6.0.1 for just about a month. I find that it has trouble connecting to wifi when I'm in my room upstairs.  It connects fine downstairs (which is where the combo. router/modem resides.) I tried a Macbook to test the connection in my room and it had a very strong wifi connection.
What can I do?  The wifi seems to work well in other situations, including at work, which is in a hospital, so I'm sure I'm not near a modem/router.


texts: When I charge my MacBook the battery goes only up to 99% and doesn't reach 100%. Is this something to worry about and if yes, how do I fix it?


texts: Is it possible to send/receive faxes directly on the iPhone?

texts:
Is it possible to send and receive faxes directly on the iPhone?

The goal is to try to avoid paying an additional 5 or 10 bux a month to use a 3rd party service.  I'm hoping the functionality can be either bought through an app or configured.


texts: How can I force the iPhone 7 Plus to use the secondary ("telephoto") camera?

texts:
The iPhone 7 Plus has two front-facing cameras: a 4 mm "wide-angle" lens on the (user's) right and a 6 mm "telephoto" lens on the left:

I want to use an external lens that clips over the internal 6mm camera, which has the unfortunate side-effect of covering the internal 4mm camera.

I can use the "2x" button in the Camera app to switch to zoomed mode, which either uses optical zoom with the 6mm camera or digital zoom with the 4mm camera depending on light conditions. Unfortunately, it seems to use the data from the 4mm camera to determine which to use. And if the 4mm camera is covered, it never switches to the 6mm camera at all.

Is there any way to force the phone to use the 6mm camera? I would prefer a solution that doesn't involve an app, since I won't be able to access it from the lock screen.


texts: Do Macs come with any programming language available from the Terminal?

texts:
I need to do a few little scripts on my Mac but I don't really want to install Xcode or Python for a full environment, just a quick command line deal.
Does macOS come with anything suitable out of the box?

As an example I want to process files in a directory and do some custom logic.


texts: Figuring out what Photo Stream is uploading exactly

texts:
Even though I have unchecked the Automatic Upload of Photo Stream on Aperture (same on iPhoto), I can see through Little Snitch that it is hogging my upload bandwith constantly.
When I wait (hours, days..) to see what was uploaded, nothing is added to my photo stream.

Is there any way to figure out live what is being uploaded?

Here is what the Console returns when I block Photo Stream's outgoing connections:

MSPublisher - 1307885906 Encountered temporary network issues during upload. Will try again later...

Thank you!


texts: how to download Rando photos from iPhone to Mac

texts: I've been playing around with the iOS app Rando, which anonymously exchanges photos with people around the world. Is there some way to download these photos to my Mac? To be clear -- the photos I take with Rando are normal iPhone pictures and easy to download; I'm asking about the photos from other people, which seem to live only in the Rando app.


texts: Macbook Pro freezes after I enter my password

texts:
The mac starts up fine and goes to the login screen. After I enter my password the losing bar circles once then freezes, followed a few seconds later by the cursor changing from normal to the frozen-working-stuff-out-wheel-of-many-colours. The mac then stays in this condition perpetually.

I will gladly accept suggestions as to a course of action.

RELEVANT INFO:

2008 Late, MacBook pro 13, running High Sierra

For some reason (which I'll gladly accept an explanation for) I cannot use any commands on startup, such as recovery, safety, and NVRAM, as it simply doesn't load anything. (I have a feeling that's related to me forcefully boot-installing the MacBook to high Sierra (HS) a few years ago, because originally it's spec wasn't up-to-date-enough to support HS, but am open to other ideas for the cause of that.)

There is no vital data on the machine, as I am operating entirely from Google drive.

I have the spare (so-slow-it's-effectively-non-functional) original HDD from the Mac (which I removed during a recent SSD upgrade.)

due to my internet speed being quite slow, I'd much prefer not wiping the machine and starting afresh, if it can be avoided.


texts: `brew doctor` gives warning for newly opened terminal windows

texts:
When I run brew doctor I get this warning:

Warning: /usr/bin occurs before /usr/local/bin

TONS of people with the same problem, but they solve it by running this:

PATH="/usr/local/bin:$PATH"

Which fixes it once, but upon closing the terminal windows and opening a new one and running brew doctor, the warning re-appears.

Is there a permanent fix for this?


texts: How to disable long touch = click on MacBook Air touchpad?

texts:
If I leave my mouse in one spot for several seconds with my finger on the touch pad, it interprets it as a downclick.  So if I hover over a file while thinking about something and then move my cursor, it will try to drag the file, if I hover over text and then move the cursor it will select text, and so on.

I have gone into the System Settings and unchecked "Tap to Click" already, but that doesn't seem to do it. Is there another way to disable this feature?


texts: Is there an equivalent in iChat to Adium's "Force old-style SSL"?

texts:
Trying to connect to company Jabber/XMPP with iChat, I get stuck at password entering screen. Connecting with the very same info in Adium, ticking "Force old-style SSL" setting it work flawlessly. Guess it's got something to do with a self-signed SSL certificate or likewise.

How do I make the iChat client connect? Want to kick Adium to the curb for a few reasons.


texts: Is there a way I can resize the current app window with a combinations of keys? One of the things I really hate is when chrome resize to small window and then double click doesnt work for full window.


texts: Dell Color Laser 1320c with Mac OS 10.15 Catalina: Filter failed

texts: After upgrading to Mac OS 10.15 Catalina, trying to print with a Dell Color Laser 1320c leads to the error message: Filter failed (German: Filter fehlgeschlagen).


texts:
I've installed cntlm on osx using the homebrew formula.

Then I've copied the .plist file and started the daemon:

sudo cp -fv /usr/local/opt/cntlm/*.plist /Library/LaunchDaemons
sudo chown root /Library/LaunchDaemons/homebrew.mxcl.cntlm.plist

But after the reboot the daemon isn't running. I've tried to run it manually with

sudo launchctl load /Library/LaunchDaemons/homebrew.mxcl.cntlm.plist

but its output is

/Library/LaunchDaemons/homebrew.mxcl.cntlm.plist: Operation already in progress

I've also checked the plist file with plutil -lint and it is ok.

This is the source of /Library/LaunchDaemons/homebrew.mxcl.cntlm.plist:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple Computer//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
  <dict>
    <key>Label</key>
    <string>homebrew.mxcl.cntlm</string>
    <key>ProgramArguments</key>
    <array>
        <string>/usr/local/opt/cntlm/bin/cntlm</string>
    </array>
    <key>KeepAlive</key>
    <false/>
    <key>RunAtLoad</key>
    <true/>
    <key>StandardOutPath</key>
    <string>/var/null</string>
    <key>StandardErrorPath</key>
    <string>/var/null</string>
  </dict>
</plist>

Do you know why this happen and how to run it correctly as a daemon?


texts: How does Apple achieve the all aluminium enclosure with RF on the MacBook Pro?

texts:
Since 2016, Apple has been able to make these laptops with no visible “window” of plastic or glass for RF signals to travel through. As an electrical engineer, I’m intrigued.

If you look at older MacBook pros, they have a black plastic hinge. For the Pixel chrome book, it’s got a whole glass half of the lid for that.

My guess was the hinge or the glass screen, but neither would work when the lid is closed, and you can very much use your MBP while the lid is fully closed with WiFi and Bluetooth (think when you have external displays).

How does Bluetooth and WiFi work on the 2018 MacBook Pro models?


texts: Find iTunes songs with specific format (MPEG 1, Layer 2)

texts:
Recently I discovered that my iTunes Library contains songs with the MPEG-1, Layer 2 format.
It's impossible to sync them to my iPod. So I want to convert them to AAC or MP3.
But therefor I need a list of all songs that have that format.

Is there any way to get a list of all MPEG-1 Layer 2 formatted tracks in my iTunes library? To make things a little bit harder, they all have mp3 as extension.


texts: MacBook Pro won't read one particular CD (but CD player will)

texts:
I have a CD which I'm trying to add to iTunes, however my MacBook Pro won't read it. Every time I put it in it tries to read it, clicks and ejects after approx 20 secs. I've played the CD in a CD player with no problem so I don't think the CD is the issue and I can read other CDs no issue.

Things I've tried so far:

Reset the NVRAM
Reset the SMC
Renamed the cdinfo.cdlib in the preferences directory.
Run a cleaning CD through.

I tried the above separately with a test of the CD between each.

Any thoughts?!


texts: How to make Siri available when I open my MacBook?

texts:
When I open my laptop, I can click on Chrome exe and launch the browser.

I know I can ask Siri to open Chrome, but I have to click to the Siri icon (or the keyboard shortcut) and then ask her to, which - well - is more work than just clicking Chrome. It will open Chrome and terminate.

Can I make Siri be available at startup? Open Chrome when she asked to and then terminate.


texts: My mail folder is using a lot of memory.  Can I simply empty the folder in the Application Support folder or do I have to throw mail in the trash using the Mail program?


texts: Can't open mov files in QuickTime, but can do it in VLC

texts: After reinstalling the operating system (OS X EL Capitan) I can't open video files in .mov format. I can open them using VLC but I can't open them in QuickTime and Adobe Premiere - what could be wrong? Maybe I need some codecs?


texts:
I get a random popup from an unknown program asking for my password. What is this? how do I stop it. It doesn't show in the doc. Macs don't even have iMessage so this makes zero sense. I don't have an iphone and the "Allow Handoff between this Mac and your iCloud devices is off." I have no accounts in Messages or Internet Accounts. I don't have iCloud configured at all.

I tried rm -rf on Messenger.app, but it's a protected folder.


texts: Using Automator to obtain content from multiple webpages?

texts:
I'd like to use Apple's Automator to obtain content from multiple webpages. The webpages each contain links, text, and photos. I would then like to place this information in a text document.

Detailed steps would be much appreciated!

Thanks for your help!


texts: Run everything in Rosetta 2 on Silicon Mac

texts:
I've recently started using a Silicon MacBook Pro 13 (i.e. one with non-Intel processor).
I have found installing some software difficult, for example installing Python through Homebrew and installing Python packages through Pip.
Also, for some software there exist ports to the new architecture, but these ports contain bugs, for example, the Tensorflow package for Python.
I also use an IDE that runs some Python commands and some Terminal commands for me, and I find it very difficult to manage the usage of Rosetta 2 for these commands.
Is there a way to set up my Mac so that all software behaves as it would on an Intel processor?
For example by using Rosetta 2 for every processor instruction?
I understand that would mean substantial performance losses, but I would be happy to accept these.


texts: Does Mac power adapter die if you leave it plugged in?

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I have recently bought a MacBook Pro 15". A couple of days ago I had charged my MacBook and left the charger to the socket and it died. When I tried running diagnostics, it showed that power adapter has to be plugged in.

There was no sign of power fluctuations, no signs of burning or bulging on the adapter. There were 2 other PC adapter which were left in the same state but nothing went wrong with them.

The Apple Store initiated a replace of adapter. I would like to know if there is something wrong I have done by leaving it on the socket, because I do it all the time with my PC adapters. I'm new to Apple Macs.


texts: How to find all devices (IP Address, Hostname, MAC Address) on local network?

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I've read almost every thread related to this, yet no one has quite made it easy to access a table like the following.

  IP Address     Hostname        MAC Address
  192.168.1.10 | myAppleTV     | 02:78:42:9b:bb:12
  192.168.1.10 | myiPhone      | b2:18:4a:3a:42:22
  192.168.1.10 | myiMac        | 09:17:a2:95:c4:00
  192.168.1.10 | myCanonPrinter| a0:ea:72:77:b4:aa

Most of the time I use arp -a and there is also dns-sb, but none of them make it easy to find out 3 key pieces of information whenever I am messing around on the network, i.e., IP Address, Hostname and MAC Address. I am surprised that there isn't a utility that accomplishes this!


texts: How to block everything except my connection to the VPN?

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I'm trying to make Murus block everything, except my connection to the VPN server. I don't want my Mac to make any outbound calls to any ports unless via the VPN connection. I'm trying to add a rule that allows the VPN, while everything else is blocked by set block-policy drop.

I can connect to the VPN, but nothing works aside from that. Can you point me to the right direction?

I can make direct changes in pf.conf too (this should not necessarily be Murus).


texts: What files are accessed when an app starts up?

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I am wondering if there is a way to see which files an application accesses (reads or writes) when starting up.

/usr/bin/fs_usage seems like one tool, but I wondered if there are others.

I am trying to make it easy to copy preferences between two computers, and I figured that this was one step approaching that goal, but I'm interested in the question for several reasons. I know preferences are usually kept in ~/Library/Preferences/ and ~/Library/Application Support, but how do I find out which files/folders specifically?


texts: 2010 27" iMac vs 2011 27" thunderbolt display

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I have a 2011 27" thunderbolt display where the display doesn't light up. It's dead. Speakers work, screen still shows up when connected in displays, but nothing displays.

My friend has a 2010 27" iMac that most likely has a broken hard drive. I did a couple of ebay searches and the displays look like they are the same exact model.

I would like to take the display from the iMac into the Thunderbolt display. Does anyone have any info on this by any chance? I'm seeing that the display part is identical, but not sure if the connectors are. Figured i would ask if anyone has done this, or attempted!


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I've been an Apple user for some years, but I never managed to find a good book manager.
As by now, I use a quite uncomfortable routine in order to read books (I should mention that most of the books I read are PDFs, I read a lot of open source books on computer science):

I download them on my Mac
I add them to iTunes, and I edit their properties by, for example, taking advantage of the composer field to store informations about the publishing house and the genre field to store the "topic" of the book (which is awful, I can't group books based on these details, just based on author/category)
I sync all of my books with my iPad, and I read them only from there (using iBooks), because I don't like the fact that on my Mac I haven't got a version of iBooks (what I need is a system that remembers the last read page, for instance)

What I'm searching for is an iTunes-like book manager that provides me with a desktop version which lets me organize my books properly (for example adding multiple authors, tags, categories, publishing house), sync them with my iPad (with last-read-page syncing at least) and read them in a proper way.
What I mean with proper way is that while both iBooks and Kindle app let me switch from white to sepia to black background on eBooks, they won't let me do that on PDFs. I know that changing text size in PDFs is quite an hard task, but I don't think changing the color is too.

If someone is wondering, I already tried Papers 2, but it's most suited for academic papers than for books (in my opinion). If nothing comes out from this question, maybe I'll try to stick with Papers for a while.