texts: How to log in using external keyboard on MacBook Pro

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I have a 2015 MacBook Pro in front of me that had an issue with water being spilled on the keyboard.  As a result of this, it was reported to me that the main issue was it appeared as if the shift key would intermittently press even when it was not.  As a result it is impossible to login in as random shifts are occurring making it impossible to enter the correct password.

I tried plugging in an external circa 2011 iMac wired USB keyboard I had, but at the login screen nothing happens when I type on it.  I tried plugging it in before powering up, once I have gotten to the login screen, and in all the available USB (A) ports.

I tried resetting the PRAM but holding down command+option+p+r before the screen comes on doesn't seem to do anything, it just boots up normally.  The same thing with command+s for single-user mode or command+r for recovery mode.

I was able to reset the SMC but this just dumps me to a screen where if I say "My keyboard isn't working when typing my password to log in" it tells me "if you were unable to use your keyboard to type your password it may not be compatible with file vault".  It then wants me to enter a password to disable file vault, which of course if I could do I wouldn't need to be here in the first place.

How can I log in using the external interface?  I tried searching for what keyboards are compatible with file vault but just got results about disabling it, which in unhelpful.  Other answers simply suggest a USB keyboard should just work.   Since it's an Apple keyboard I expected it to just work.

Update: Is there some way to reveal the characters I am typing into the password field? If I could see what I was typing, I could keep trying on each character until the case was right.  Or, if I could get it to actually show me my username instead of dots I could enter it there and try to copy it to the password field or at least get an idea when the shift key might be working.


texts: How to select part of the text of a link in Safari 14.0 on macOS 10.15.7

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I asked a very similar question before: Select and copy part of the text from a link in Safari
How can I copy only a section of text from a hyper link? For example in google results:

How can I copy "Inosuke Hashibira" from that link?
Previously, the only solution was to use a custom extension or userscript.
Now two years have passed, and I can't figure out how to add custom extensions anymore. I also don't really want to go through all the trouble of installing a userscript manager just for this, especially since Safari's not very friendly to extension developers and often breaks them every update, and (probably because of this) developers don't seem to care for supporting Safari.
How can I select part of a link in Safari nowadays?


texts: How can I use variable in AppleScript for name of browser?

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I'm trying to streamline an AppleScript which monitors whether tabs in web browsers are currently open to specific sites.

I can repeat the same block of code multiple times, clunky but it works:

tell application "Safari"
    repeat with site in sitelist
        repeat with w from 1 to number of windows
            set tabList to (every tab of window w whose URL contains site)
        end repeat
    end repeat
end tell
tell application "Chrome"
    repeat with site in sitelist
        repeat with w from 1 to number of windows
            set tabList to (every tab of window w whose URL contains site)
        end repeat
    end repeat
end tell

I'd like this code to work for more browsers than just these two. I've tried using a variable to represent the browser name:

set browserlist to {"Safari", "Chrome"}

repeat with browser in browserlist
    tell application browser
        repeat with site in sitelist
            repeat with w from 1 to number of windows
                set tabList to (every tab of window w whose URL contains site)
            end repeat
        end repeat
    end tell
end repeat

But AppleScript gives me a syntax error, "Expected class name but found property."
Apparently when I change tell application "Safari" to tell application browser, it has a problem with tab in this line:

set tabList to (every tab of window w whose URL contains site)

Can I get tab to work with the variable browser?

Thanks!


texts: OS X Yosemite - cannot remember Keychain access password

texts: Is there any way to recover this?  Can I change it without knowing my current password?


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I live in Iran and I want to buy a CDMA iPhone 4S.I know that I won't be able to use CDMA network and I have no problem with that.Basically I want to have an iPhone but use it as an iPod because I can only afford the money of a CDMA iPhone.GSM models are much more expensive and I have two other cell phone so I have no problem with not having a network in my iPhone.

Now, I have few questions:

If a CDMA iPhone is updated but not in range of the CDMA network,will it be deactivated ? I mean when I update a running and usable CDMA iPhone 4S which has no network,will it become deactivated after the update ? If it becomes deactivated,is there any way to make it activated and usable without being in the CDMA network range ?

I searched for iOS 8 update for iPhone 4S CDMA but I only found "Iphone 4S" title, not iPhone 4s CDMA, check this link : http://www.iphonehacks.com/download-iphone-ios-firmware

All other GSM and CDMA iPhones and iPads have their own dedicated update but there is only iPhone 4S title,no GSM,and no CDMA.

Does this mean that for iPhone 4S there is only one update that works on both GSM and CDMA versions ?


texts: Issue downgrading MacOS Catalina to Mojave using bootable install on 16 inch MacBook Pro

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I've just got my 2019 MacBook Pro 16 in which came preinstalled with Catalina. To use 32 bit programs, I'm trying to use a bootable install in order to downgrade to Mojave, which I've done before.
I followed the instructions provided on this site: https://www.imore.com/how-make-bootable-installer-drive-downgrade. I also went into recovery mode to access Startup Security Utility to enable bootable installs.
In the final step of holding down Option while restarting, the prohibited symbol appears on the screen (circle with line through) and my system restarts normally.
Important thing to not: I couldn't download Mojave from the App Store on my new computer, as a warning would stop me saying:
    Update not found
    The requested version of macOS is not available

So I had to download Mojave on my older computer to create the bootable install. I checked articles like https://macreports.com/update-not-found-the-requested-version-of-macos-is-not-available-fix/. But nothing seems to work so far.
Does anyone know how I might be able to either download Mojave on my new computer, allow my computer to downgrade through bootable install, or perhaps otherwise downgrade my computer?


texts: How to modify cupsd.conf on 50+ machines

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I need to modify the cupsd.conf file (removal of PAUSE-PRINTER/RESUME-PRINTER) on 50+ machines to allow non-admin accounts to resume the print queue.

Is there a way I can script this (through AppleScript or shell scripts) so a local admin could run this on each machine?


texts: How do I map a terminal command to a function key?

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I have a terminal command that can control my external display's brightness. I'm trying to map that command to a key on the keyboard so it works like a "brightness up" and "brightness down" key.

Karabiner doesn't look like it supports mapping keys to terminal commands


texts: Accessing Time Machine for different computer

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My hard drive died on Computer 1.  Backed up to Time Machine.  Am now using Computer 2.
I need some files from the desktop of Computer 1.  Can I access them on Time Machine? How?
I have three computers all backing up to that time machine, but all I can see is the backups for Computer 2.  How do I find Computer 1?


texts: Stop Itunes from transferring purchases to computer iOS 8

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How can I stop iTunes from transferring purchases from my ipad ? I just want to backup everything besides the apps since they can always be downloaded back from iTunes store and I do not want to waste my macbook space.

Thanks


texts: Shutdown and ASD errors on late 2013 15" Retina Macbook Pro

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My Late 2013 Retina MBP is shutting down randomly. It gets a blank screen, and the keyboard is lit up for about 10 seconds, and then it powers down. There is no kernel panic, and nothing in the logs shows a shutdown. It reboots fine, and generally works for several hours before booting again.

When running the AST OS tests, I get the following errors:

[01/16/20 17:24:31] AirPort (test #9) - Wireless Module PCIe Root Port Hardware Register Test
- Verifies PCIe root port error bits for wireless module doesn't register any NAKs
[17:24:32]  ERROR - -12100 [IOConnect error reading from PCI address space] -- TEST FAILED
[01/16/20 17:24:32] SATA - 0: SATA PCI Register Test (test #1) - SATA PCI Register Test
- Checks the SATA link error registers for dropped data packets using direct PCI access.
[17:24:32]  ERROR - -12105 [PCI driver IOService open error] -- TEST FAILED

I tried a number of things, but nothing worked:

applied new thermal paste
re-seated the cable from main board to i/o board
re-seated video
put in another SSD drive known to be working
wiped drive and reinstalled Catalina (didn't restore)
reset SMC and NVRAM

The machine has dual graphics, but disabling discrete graphics doesn't help.

Any ideas on what I can try next, and what the AST test messages mean?


texts: How to stop Safari from unzipping files after download

texts: Safari unzips .zip and .gz files after downloading. How can I stop this behavior?


texts: Missing partition in my iMac Fusion Drive - can't do school work!

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I did a dumb thing while messing around with Boot Camp and managed to lose a partition that I had made earlier to install Windows on to.

A 300GB partition is now missing and I've tried everything since this morning to get it back but I clearly lack the knowledge and I need my Mac for school work.

Do you have any suggestions on how I can restore the lost partition without a backup?

Thank you!

    diskutil list
/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *1.0 TB     disk0
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s1
   2:          Apple_CoreStorage Macintosh HD            699.4 GB   disk0s2
   3:                 Apple_Boot Recovery HD             650.0 MB   disk0s3

/dev/disk1 (internal):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                         24.0 GB    disk1
   1:                        EFI EFI                     314.6 MB   disk1s1
   2:          Apple_CoreStorage Macintosh HD            23.6 GB    disk1s2
   3:                 Apple_Boot Boot OS X               134.2 MB   disk1s3

/dev/disk2 (internal, virtual):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:                            Macintosh HD           +722.0 GB   disk2
                                 Logical Volume on disk1s2, disk0s2
                                 9449131B-67F8-4D97-82D6-F2BDEDB48B6C
                                 Unencrypted Fusion Drive

diskutil cs list
CoreStorage logical volume groups (1 found)
|
+-- Logical Volume Group CF679B40-3999-4A00-AA41-4D7CC546FB41
    =========================================================
    Name:         Macintosh HD
    Status:       Online
    Size:         722905776128 B (722.9 GB)
    Free Space:   106496 B (106.5 KB)
    |
    +-< Physical Volume BF1C586C-AECF-4640-90A3-EF1F1B1B1776
    |   ----------------------------------------------------
    |   Index:    0
    |   Disk:     disk1s2
    |   Status:   Online
    |   Size:     23553724416 B (23.6 GB)
    |
    +-< Physical Volume 7018B90D-8378-4015-A9F5-B531B325FABE
    |   ----------------------------------------------------
    |   Index:    1
    |   Disk:     disk0s2
    |   Status:   Online
    |   Size:     699352051712 B (699.4 GB)
    |
    +-> Logical Volume Family 9AD3A7A0-D9E3-4A3F-B233-7EACB65C38BC
        ----------------------------------------------------------
        Encryption Type:         None
        |
        +-> Logical Volume 9449131B-67F8-4D97-82D6-F2BDEDB48B6C
            ---------------------------------------------------
            Disk:                  disk2
            Status:                Online
            Size (Total):          722000936960 B (722.0 GB)
            Revertible:            No
            LV Name:               Macintosh HD
            Volume Name:           Macintosh HD
            Content Hint:          Apple_HFS
            LVG Type:              Fusion, Sparse


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I had a Apple developer program account. I was the company owner, and I had a user account. I lost control of it a couple of years back, when Apple got broken into and suffered one of their data breaches. I lost control because of all the password resets, new challenge questions, and tools like Xcode logging in with old credentials.

The company is out of business and I abandoned the account due to all the problems caused by Apple corporate. However, when I log in with my email address, its still attached to the non-existent company under the abandoned account. I'd like to contact Apple support and have my email address separated or disgorged from the company and the abandoned account.

Trying to find a support contact is a labyrinth of rabbit wholes that lead nowhere. I visit the website (both Apple and the Developer), go to Support, try a Contact Us link, follow it for a while, and then I realize I've been punk'd because there is no way to contact them following the path I went down. For example, I start at Apple's How To Contact Us traverse through Manage your Apple ID and it ends in a dead end.

Question: How do I contact Apple support to have the email address separated from the non-existent company and abandoned developer account?

-----

My apologies for asking this question. One would think this would be a relatively easy endeavor, but its not. I'm fairly certain Apple is actively trying to keep folks from contacting them.

I challenge anyone to start at Apple's How To Contact Us, and traverse through Manage your Apple ID, and actually end in a way to really contact Apple by email (preferred). The case of Heinekens is on me for the first winner. I will ship it anywhere in the world. You just have to agree that I can use your name so others know I was good to my word.


texts: Resource efficient way to monitor file change and execute shell scripts on change

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I know at least three ways to monitor a folder/file for changes and execute a shell script on change.

First, use "Folder Actions" of Automator
Second, the launchd.plist approach but it seems the folder been monitored couldn't go through recursively.
Third, use native FSEvents API on Mac OS X. like the modified fswatch utility

My question is that which one cost system resource (CPU or memory) less ?


texts: After updating Mac 10.11.6, /cores is filling with core dumps

texts: Can any one suggest to me how to delete the /cores directory, which is filled up with lot of core dumps automatically and my profile crashes. Any help?


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Is there a way to capture the currently playing "sounds" ?

For instance, If I want to copy (to an audio-file) the noise I make while playing a flash game, is there a way to record what is currently to be heard in my headset ?


texts: Is it possible to install Android using OpenIBoot on an iPhone with the limerain/greenp0ison jailbreak?

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What it says on the tin;  I have an iPhone 3GS jailbroken with limera1n, and I'd love to try Android on it. I've installed Bootlace from the OpenIBoot cydia repository, but it claims it can't run on my phone.

Is it possible to get Android running on my phone? If so, how?


texts: SSH daemon listens on both IPv4 and IPv6, but I can connect only over v6

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Ok, maybe I'm weird or something, but I can't figure this one out. MacOS Mojave, native IPv6 from my ISP.

As you can see, sshd is listening on both v4 and v6:

alluminium:~ root# netstat -an | grep 22 | grep LISTEN
tcp4       0      0  *.22                   *.*                    LISTEN
tcp6       0      0  *.22                   *.*                    LISTEN

Local connection on non-loopback interface over v4 works perfectly:

alluminium:~ root# nc -w1 -z -v 192.168.2.12 22
found 0 associations
found 1 connections:
     1: flags=82<CONNECTED,PREFERRED>
    outif lo0
    src 192.168.2.12 port 59078
    dst 192.168.2.12 port 22
    rank info not available
    TCP aux info available

Connection to 192.168.2.12 port 22 [tcp/ssh] succeeded!

Now, when I try remote, on v6 it works:

root@keeper:~# ssh alluminium -v
OpenSSH_7.4p1, OpenSSL 1.0.2r-fips  26 Feb 2019
debug1: Connecting to alluminium [2001:985:4xxxxxxx:d585] port 22.
debug1: Connection established.
Are you sure you want to continue connecting (yes/no)? yes
Warning: Permanently added 'alluminium,2001:985:4xxxxxx:d585' (ECDSA) to the list of known hosts.

debug1: Next authentication method: keyboard-interactive
Password:

However, v4 just times out:

root@keeper:~# ssh 192.168.2.12 -v
OpenSSH_7.4p1, OpenSSL 1.0.2r-fips  26 Feb 2019
debug1: Connecting to 192.168.2.12 [192.168.2.12] port 22.

I have checkpoint endpoint security installed, thought it might get in the way, shut down all its components, PF rules don't show anything either.. Nothing.

I feel totally stupid now :) Any suggestions are much appreciated.


texts: Is it possible to connect my iPhone 3G via Bluetooth to both OS on my MacBook?

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I'm trying to connect my iPhone 3G to my MacBook via Bluetooth to use the iPhone Tethering.
When I connect the iPhone to the OS X everything works fine. Since I often also use Windows 7 on the Boot Camp partition I'd like to connect from Windows 7 to the iPhone as well.

This works, but in this case I always have to remove and reconnect it when booting back to OS X and vice versa.

Is it possible to setup the Bluetooth connection and have it working in both operating systems on the same MacBook?


texts: Screen recording not working on iPadOS 13?

texts: I’ve been trying to get screen recording to work on my iPad Pro 9.7  for a while, but it seems to be greyed out. I know it isn’t restricted, as I have checked multiple times, and AirPlay mirroring still works. Is there anything which may be causing this to occur?


texts: Spotlight button doesn't work (on click displays a sound instead)

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It's a totally newbie question, but I started using Mac computers like a month ago and this is something I can't find on the internet. Sometimes (yeah not always and I can't even find out when it happens) when I want to click the spotlight button it displays sound and doesn't work (I use cmd + f instead, but it's pretty confusing). Could you tell me why is it like this?

P.S. The sound sounds like it was disabled or something.


texts: I want install Windows 7 on my Macbook after I formated Snow Leopard

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I want install Windows 7 on my Macbook Pro after I formatted Snow Leopard.
The Macbook is now empty with no OS on it.

How can I install Windows 7 on my MBP that has a formatted hard drive?


texts: How to create two-week recurring alarms and reminders?

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I have many events that recur on two-week time spanned schedules.  For example, I have several things that happen based on a two-week period where these things repeat on: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Saturday, Sunday, Thursday, Friday... and then starts over.

Here's a visual example, of what some repeating events could be in a two-week schedule (I left off AM/PM as this is just to give some visual help and doesn't reflect the precision of a real schedule):

It seems that there are a lot of calendars that have the weekly repeating option for days, including the iOS Clock.app, but I really need to set these times out within a two-week pattern as you can see that keeps repeating forever.

Is there a calendaring mechanism on macOS and iOS that facilitates creating indefinitely recurring alarms and reminders on such two-week rotations?


texts: How to allow all programs and libraries of a package at once?

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I would like to install the SageMath package (Binaries available at http://www-ftp.lip6.fr/pub/math/sagemath/osx/intel/index.html) on macOS.
The problem is that when I unpack the package and I try to access it, then the "Python3.8" program is blocked. I know that problem and I correct it by adding the permission in "Security & Privacy". The problem is that after I allow Python3.8 then other libraries are blocking. Authorizing them one by one does not appear to work as at some point the same library show up.
Is there a way to allow the package all at once? I am fine with having the untrusted programs being blocked, but I would appreciate if a single operation would be needed to unblock them.
From the above mentioned web site, I tried the .tar.bz2 and the .dmg and the same problem occurs. If there is one way to address this in a software way when the .dmg is created I would be interested as I am in contact with the Sage community.


texts: Can I use an iTunes gift card to sign up for the developer program?

texts: I want to develop apps for Apple devices but I can't get them there as I do not have a credit card. So, can I use an iTunes gift card to sign up for the developer program or, do I really need to use credit card?


texts: Full screen app in a small window (Picture in picture)

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I'm currently running Mac OS X 10.10.1. Is there a way to get a full screen app into a window?

Example:

I have netflix running in a web browser full screen on one desktop. I'd like to take that full screen window and do a "picture in picture" and show it in the corner of the current desktop I'm working on. Is there an app out there that does this, or can it be done natively?

Alternatively, I realize that I can resize the window myself but I still have to deal with unused real estate (e.g. borders), and battling with making sure its always in focus.


texts: Problem with reinstalling Facebook app on iPhone

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I accidentally deleted my facebook app on my iPhone5.
When i tried to download it again it says " Unable to download Facebook at this time."

What's wrong? How can this be resolved?

I already restarted the phone, still getting the same error.


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I have an iMac (Retina 5K 27", Mid 2015) with OS X Yosemite v10.10.2. I am connecting to my network with a cable but when i type an address or refresh the page, the loading icon appears in favicon, but it keeps turning forever and the page is doing nothing. I have to refresh or re-enter the site like 4 or 5 times to make it work. Sometimes even that is not enough. I am pressing stop several times and refreshing it to make it work.

1) I have encountered this situation both on Chrome and Safari. Don't think this is browser based.

2) I have switched from cable to Wi-Fi but same problem still continuous.

3) There are 7 machines in my network, 6 Windows + 1 Mac, but Windows computers are not experiencing this issue. Everything is fine for them.

4) We are not using a server in the network. Computers are directly accessing the switch or access point and those are reaching the modem directly.

This really annoying. Can anybody help?


texts: Automator Service that does predefined simple calculations

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I'm working as a salesman and what I need to do a lot of times a day is calculating the price +VAT and -VAT which is 19% here in Germany. I found some calculation automator script but wasn't able to change it to behave the way I want it to:

bc --mathlib | awk '{if($0 ~ /./) sub("\.+$","");print}'

this, ran as a shell script, takes operations so for example (somewhere) I type in the price 100*1.19, select it with the mouse and run the service. It then calculates the operation and replaces the selected text with the result 119.

But I only want to select the 100 and hit one of the services +VAT or -VAT (in the contextual menu for example) and it will be replaced by the result. That would be so awesome.

Is there anyone that can help? Maybe with a Applescript or something!
Thanks very much!


texts: Automator action to upload a file/folder

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Is there an Automator action that can upload a file/folder?

Specifically, I want to upload a folder automatically at a set date/time. I know I can create a "Calendar Alarm" action that'll trigger based on a calendar event – but I don't actually see an action that can upload to a server.


texts: Any way to copy message body from Apple Mail keeping quoted line prefix (">")?

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When I copy the body of messages in Apple Mail and paste to the text editor or web textarea, quoted line prefixs ('>') is alwasy lost. This is annoying behavior.

Is there any way to copy them with keeping quoted line prefixes?
Such Applescript, Mail extension or App?

* My environment is:  OS X 10.9 (Mavericks) + Apple Mail 7.3 (1878.6)


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I have an old (2006) Intel Mac Mini Core Duo, 1.67 Ghz, model A1176. I wanted to single-boot Linux, so I made a bootable USB Gentoo install, which I booted with the help of rEFIT (installed on my OS X) and used gdisk to wipe my hard drive and write a new partition table. Yes, I realize that removing OS X was risky and stubborn.
But I accidentally shut down my computer without configuring the bootloader.

Now I can't boot my computer because there's no bootloader. I put Ubuntu on a USB flash drive (MBR format, FAT filesystem), but the computer doesn't recognize it as bootable.

I can't use the CD/DVD drive either, because a blank CD is already in there. The drive can't eject the disk because there's no operating system to control it.

Note: I don't have the Mac OS X install discs.

I have two questions:

How can I most painlessly install an operating system (probably Linux) on this computer?

2a. Assuming the answer to #1 is "put distro xyz on a DVD and boot from that", how can I eject the current disc?

2b. Assuming the answer is "install rEFIT on one partition of a USB flash drive and a distro on another partition", what's my best bet to get this to work?

I really appreciate any help you can provide


texts: Problems Making a USB Windows Boot Drive - Then Booting my Mac from it

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I've seen tutorials on how to make a windows usb/flash boot drive on a mac using a windows iso & bootcamp. I've also seen tutorials on how to boot a mac from a usb drive (hold down alt when booting). However what I'm trying to do is to make a windows boot drive then boot my mac from it (installing all the 'stuff') and I'm getting stuck.

I have a late 2013/early 2014 Macbook Pro w/ 8GB RAM (but only 128GB of internal SSD) hence why I need to install windows on an external drive. I'm trying to install the latest version of the windows 10 insider preview (testing the waters of windows development).

Here's where I'm getting stuck:

I've seen a tutorial of this and apparently there's supposed to be a 4th drive partition called 'BOOTCAMP' which you then format.

What I've Been Doing:

I've connected my external SSD via USB and in the Bootcamp Assistant I checked the first 2 tasks. I select the SSD and let Bootcamp do it's thing. After it finished I restarted my mac while holding down the alt key. I get the option to choose between my HD ('Macintosh HD'), a drive called 'Windows' and a drive with a name beginning with 'e' (not sure - although it's just a higher-res version of the windows drive it seems).

Choosing windows, I follow the setup instructions until I get to the part shown in the photo, so obviously I'm doing something wrong (probably those pesky partitions).

Any help is appreciated.

EDIT: I wasn't able to install windows so it is bootable from an external drive but I was able to partition my internal drive with bootcamp after reinstalling OSX, then everything else worked as intended. I hope this helps others.


texts: Old iPhone 4S won't accept my Apple ID when trying to reset it for a trade-in. Why?

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I recently deactivated my old iPhone 4S after buying a new phone. I want to trade it in, so I'm trying to reset it, but it won't accept my Apple ID.

Is it because it's been deactivated? How can I wipe it?


texts: Catalina not allowing me to read-write from remote host? How to fix?

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I'm trying to download some files from my remote host using scp and proxyjump, however, I keep getting the dread read-only file system anywhere I try to download my file to... initially I couldn't even touch any files to my directory however I managed to run killall Finder and that fixed the latter, however, I still cannot download the necessary files to my directory of choice... does anyone know how to fix this?

scp -r -oProxyJump=I R:remote_file localfile

The above is what I'm using for downloading a file. Where I is an intermediate host, R is the remote host and remote_file is the directory and localfile is my directory, all I get is:

localfile: Read-only file system

Any help would be greatly appreciated!


texts: How to stop FN key changing my keyboard layout (macOS Big Sur)?

texts: I've got my new MacBook Air m1 very recently. I changed default behaviour of F-keys to normal F1, F2, etc. So in order to activate 'media' keys like volume up/down I need to press Fn+F-key. Now, what I've realised is that pressing Fn with F1, F2, etc sometimes (50/50 chance) changes the keyboard layout as well! God, it is so annoying. It shouldn't be so 100%. I think that's just a bug. So, how can I disable Fn for changing my keyboard layout?


texts: El Capitan /private/var/folders cache files consuming 30–40 GB

texts: I've upgraded my MacBook Pro to El Capitan recently, and one of the first unpleasant changes, other than XtraFinder & TotalTerminal no longer being compatible, is that the system deems it appropriate to make /private/var/folders to consume up to and beyond 30–40 GB of space, causing my Mac to slow down tremendously. I understand that the files within this folder are all cache files. My only question is why this is happening, and what makes this happen? Is there any way to make it only cache apps that are actually open, or do I have to refresh my NVRAM/PRAM? It's exceedingly annoying to have my computer act like its trying to buffer 20 gigabytes all at once.


texts: Error 'USBDeviceOpen failed' only with my user account when using PowerMate USB Controller. OK with fresh account

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I have a PowerMate USB controller from Griffin: it works, but using my normal user account I can't control the light settings. With a fresh new account, everything works as expected. How can I find what cause the trouble?

I can interact with it, turn it, press it, and it reacts as expected.
But I can't control the light settings: the light is always on, even if I set it to pulsing mode. It doesn't blink when it should.

Each time I do an action that should change the light state (assigning the Default Set to the PowerMate unit, or changing the default light state in the settings), I get this error in the console:

  19/03/11 17:39:42 PowerMate[441]  PowerMate Device location: 26410000 service: 0000b69b USBDeviceOpen failed: e00002c5

Sometimes, I get multiple entries of the same error (up to 14 times). Except for this error and the following error at launch of the app, there is nothing helpful.

  Path (null) given to -[NSWorkspace iconForFile:] is not a full path.

I'm running Lion 10.7.1 (problem was similar on Snow Leopard).

Here is what I have done so far to troubleshoot:

Make sure the application PowerMate.app is not running
Un-plug the USB PowerMate device and every other USB devices (except for my keyboard)
Remove everything created by the application PowerMate.app with:

.

rm ~/Library/Preferences/com.griffintechnology.PowerMate.plist;
rm -rf ~/Library/Caches/com.griffintechnology.PowerMate;
rm -rf ~/Library/Application\ Support/PowerMate;

Repair the authorization with Disk Utility.app
Reboot.
Apply the latest combo update (MacOSXUpdCombo10.6.6.dmg)
Reboot
Launch the latest version of the PowerMate.app application (version 3.0 - 3012).
Then plug-in the USB PowerMate device.

Anything else you suggest to find the difference between my account and a new one?

Known Differences That Matter between the accounts:

Similarities between the accounts:

Both accounts are admin of the machine.
They are members of the same group.

Output of the id command:
 my normal account (the one with the issue):
uid=501(mylogin) gid=20(staff) groups=20(staff),401(com.apple.access_screensharing),102(com.apple.access_ssh),204(_developer),100(_lpoperator),98(_lpadmin),81(_appserveradm),80(admin),79(_appserverusr),61(localaccounts),12(everyone),402(com.apple.sharepoint.group.1)

the fresh new test account (the one where it works):
uid=502(test2) gid=20(staff) groups=20(staff),401(com.apple.access_screensharing),204(_developer),100(_lpoperator),98(_lpadmin),81(_appserveradm),80(admin),79(_appserverusr),61(localaccounts),12(everyone),402(com.apple.sharepoint.group.1)

I am in contact with Griffin support. They are very nice, but so far we haven't been able to find the reason of the issue.

Update: Apparently, the error code e00002c5 means "exclusive access and device already open".
Any idea how to figure what process has access to a USB Device?


texts: Why can I disable/enable Mobile Data for "Phone"? Are there any public mobile network providers transmitting voice that way? Can voice "channel" get broken along with data "channel" still functioning?


texts: I'm considering buying a used MacBook (mid 2007 model) with 2GB of RAM and Mac OS X Lion. I am going to use this as a secondary computer to learn iOS development and to become more familiar with Mac OS X in general. Will this hardware be usable as a secondary machine, or is a 2007 model to slow to run Xcode and Lion?


texts: Can the Dock bar reserve it's horizontal space even if window is maximized?

texts:
I don't want to have the dock bar auto-hiding/showing, so I have it always enabled.
When I maximize a window, two things happen:

either it goes fullscreen so it hides the dock
or I make it bigger (with any tool like snaptool etc) but it goes behind the dock , so I can't access some parts of windows (like in Chrome pages)

is it possible (is there any app) that makes the dock behave more like a windows taskbar?


texts: How do I invoke a service using Applescript?

texts: I'm using Circus Ponies NoteBook which doesn't support Applescript methods.  It does support creating services that can clip the current selection into a NoteBook page.  This allows me to select text and use the context menu to paste the text into a NoteBook page.  I'd like to do the exact same thing from an Applescript script.  Is there some way in Applescript to get a handle to an existing service, and send it a message?


texts:
I found this folder under my root, not sure what it is. Anyone got an idea?

drwx------    5 root  wheel    160 May  5  2017 casper
drwx------    3 root  wheel     96 May  5  2017 dists
drwx------    3 root  wheel     96 May  5  2017 install
drwx------  281 root  wheel   8992 May  5  2017 isolinux
-rw-r--r--    1 root  wheel  21744 Apr 12  2017 md5sum.txt
-rw-r--r--    1 root  wheel  60928 May  5  2017 menu.c32
drwx------   12 root  wheel    384 May  5  2017 pics
drwx------    4 root  wheel    128 May  5  2017 pool
drwx------    5 root  wheel    160 May  5  2017 preseed
-rw-r--r--    1 root  wheel   1707 May  5  2017 syslinux.cfg
-rw-r--r--    1 root  wheel  15097 May  5  2017 ubnfilel.txt


texts: Pages Equation Editor - Inserting Equations - Blank Spaces?

texts:
I am trying to place Mathematical equations in Pages and it appears it doesn't have this feature (why not apple? glare), however looking online I was advised to use Equation Editor which I seem to have installed.

Online people are reporting this works fine, but in my document when I copy and paste across I just end up with blank spaces. Does anyone know why?

Thanks for your time,

MBP - 10.6.7
Pages - '09 4.04


texts:
I currently have a 640GB external HD that has 1 partition formatted as HSF+ Now I want to split some of the free space into a new FAT32 partition, without having to reformat the whole HD and losing all my data. I read that I'm supposed to be able to add new partitions in the Hard Disc Utility by clicking the "+" sign, without any loss of data. But in my case the "+" is not clickable and it says that this partition cannot be altered.

Can anyone tell me how to proceed. Or is it impossible without reformatting the whole disc?

I'm running OS X Snow Leopard 10.6.6


texts: How to clean install and only re-install old applications/files as you need them?

texts:
I have Gooogled this for a couple of months now casually but have never gotten a guide that seems suited to me.

I am running Snow Leopard. It's really starting to get slow. Basically, most guides on the net either tell you how to do a clean install and keep all of your files, or none of them.

What I am looking for is something in between.

I want to be able to have a completely fresh install, but then grab back stuff from my old backup as I need it. MS Office, maybe the occasional word file after that. Eclipse IDE, with all my original preference settings. Only as I need it. That way I can make more of less.

Does anyone know a guide online that resolves my problem? Or does anyone know how to do this themselves?

At this time, I am not interested in upgrading to Mountain Lion


texts: Send background email alert if Time Machine backup fails

texts:
Curious if there is an easy way to send a background email alert if a Time Machine backup fails (or continuously fails rather than just one time)

I've found TM Error Logger however, it cannot run in the background, and also generates the email through the systems default mail client, which then needs to be manually sent.

Ideally I'd like a solution that does this in the background without any input or action from the end user - so that I can be notified if their machines aren't backing up.

The trouble is many users don't realize that Time Machine may not be working for them - they don't know to look for the "!" in the TM menu bar icon (or often what it means)


texts: Connect Apple Thunderbolt to Lenovo T420s

texts: I have an Apple Thunderbolt Display 27 inch, Part MC914LL/A and I'd like to know if there is a way I could connect it to my Lenovo T420s ThinkPad.


texts:
I'm trying to get sshfs working on Apple Silicon (M1) and am hitting a brick wall. I installed the latest macFUSE already. I also tried building the latest but the instructions on the github pages don't seem to be correct...
From https://github.com/osxfuse/osxfuse/issues/751 it sounds like it should already be possible, but I'm unable to get it working. I'm of course willing to build it myself since it hasn't yet been released...
Anyone have a step-by-step out there to build and install?
Thanks!


texts: Extreme slowing down of MacBook Pro due to pkd process

texts:
I am debugging this issue for several days now, but just realized that a certain pkd process is responsible for extremely slowing down my MacBook Pro. When I kill this process, everything works fine. While the process is running, I cannot work with the MacBook. I cannot startup Finder, I cannot typ anything, etc. I can barely manage to open the Activity Manager and kill siad pkd process.

Here is a picture of which files this process is using:

Does anyone know where this is coming from? Why does it block the laptop entirely? How can I solve this issue?

The laptop is a MacBook Pro Mid-2012 (serial number is C1MK9X6ZDTY3; it is a MacBook Pro 13-Inch "Core i5" 2.5 Mid-2012). The operating system was recently updated to Catalina 10.15.4. Thanks for your help.


texts: Why does a string of arabic characters crash Safari and other web browsers?

texts:
I was reading an article about a problem with Mac and iOS. Why does this string of Arabic characters

crash Mac computers running Safari?

http://arstechnica.com/apple/2013/08/rendering-bug-crashes-os-x-and-ios-apps-with-string-of-arabic-characters/


texts: How to invert colors of a picture on Mac?

texts:
How do I invert the colors of an image?

I'm using macOS 10.13 and I wish to use built-in Apple software or freeware.


texts: Overwrote iPhone data by syncing to iTunes. Don't remember credentials of previous account. Any way to restore?

texts:
I connected the phone to the computer, trying to store some pictures, but the phone synced to my brother's account and all the contacts were overwritten.

I don't remember if I had any iCloud account or anything on my phone. Is there a way to restore the data that was there before syncing?


texts: Where does OS X store unsaved TextEdit documents?

texts:
Where does Mac OS X store TextEdit's unsaved documents?

I want to programmatically:

increase/decrease that size
flush the cache
provide configuration option to control the frequency of auto saving/caching


texts: Can you prevent iMessage texts from being deleted?

texts: Is there any way to prevent the deletion of iMessage history? Can a particular iMessage with someone be archived so I don't accidentally delete it?


texts: How do I trigger caps lock without caps lock key available?

texts:
My old macbook lost its ctrl key, so I had to remap the caps lock key to ctrl. I have a scenario where I need the caps lock on for a while - is there a way to trigger a caps lock without using the caps lock key?

I could reset the caps lock, use it, and then remap it back to ctrl, but I am hoping I don't have to do that. I also tried the on screen keyboard viewer, but that does not have a caps lock.

I am on OS X 10.10.5 and my macbook has an intel processor.


texts: Option key not working for switching in bootcamp. MacOS boot volume not in windows partition

texts:
When I restart the computer (a 2016 15-inch Touch-Bar MacBook Pro running 10.14.4 Mojave) and hold down the option key, the computer just boots into macOS. It does not access that "switching" screen. How can this be fixed?

Yes: I have reset the NVRAM multiple times

Yes: I can still manually boot in to windows through startup disk. The problem arises when I load into windows 10 and it can't boot back into the Mac portion because windows can't load the Mac OS boot volume.

The Mac portion recognizes the windows portion perfectly fine, but not vice versa.

UPDATE: I think its keyboard related.


texts: Reset device list on Apple Developer Portal

texts:
The limit of registered devices on the Apple Developer Portal has reached 100, and I can see a Reset button on devices list.

I am just not sure what this reset button will do. Delete all the devices or delete selected devices?

I cannot risk clicking on the button without knowing what it does since it's a company account. Can anyone please help me with this?


texts: How can I configure Lion to search for files in the Contents of an .app?


texts: How to stop Finder from jumping to folder when dragging and dropping?

texts:
Is there a way so Finder won't automatically jump to the folder when dragging and dropping files from one folder to another that's located in the side bar?

I usually just go through my downloads folder and then sort my files manually, but it's a hassle that I always manually have to go back to the download folder to process the next file.


texts:
I would like to prune the song list from the ones
that don't align with the current value set of mine.
How can I ditch the songs from the ios8 device from 10.11 desktop?

No remove button in sight. Dragging to trash does not work either.
Trying to remove the item highlighted.


texts: Send webpage from Mac to iOS using Handoff

texts:
I use Chrome on my desktop and Safari on my iPhone and iPad.

I have Handoff already set up on my devices so that when I am browsing on iOS, I get the dock icon on my Mac and can open the page in Chrome. However, I haven't been able to figure out to do it the other way around. I have a page open on my Mac in Chrome (or even Safari) and I want to open it on my iPhone or iPad. How is this done with Handoff?


texts: How to log the search history in Mac Dictionary when using the pop-up dictionary mode

texts:
how to log the search history in mac dictionary
The answer to this post provides an AppleScript to record the words that have been looked up by actually opening the Dictionary app (using an assigned keyboard shortcut).

Is there a way to record the words that have been looked up in the pop-up dictionary mode (using the default Ctrl-Command-d shortcut)?


texts: Will OTA (Over-the-Air) updates download when tethered?

texts:
I have a wifi-only iPad, and I understood (or, have heard) it will automatically download iOS system updates when connected to wifi.

Will iOS automatically download an OTA (Over-the-Air) update when it is tethered to an iPhone (via iPhone wifi or bluetooth)?


texts: Is there a way to stop MS Word from automatically opening previously opened documents?

texts:
I know there's probably a setting in preferences, but I need to be able to do it without Word being open.

The problem is one of my docx has become corrupt, so every time Word opens it immediately stops responding and I can't access preferences.

Is there a way to clear a cache or something somewhere so Word forgets about these files at startup?


texts: Parallels - Can I have a keyboard shortcut for the context-menu key found on Wintel hardware?

texts: On a lot of Windows keyboards there's a key to the right of the spacebar that brings up the context-menu (right-click menu) in applications (I'm running Win7). I can't seem to find a way to map this function to the VM's keyboard in Parallels. Is it even possible?


texts: Disabling SIP on a mid 2012 Mac Running Sierra 10.12.16

texts:
I tried booting my mid 2012 mac (which is running Sierra 10.12.6) in recovery mode and opening the terminal; I would like to disable SIP. As per usual, I typed "csrutil disable", and 'command not found' was returned. I looked at klanomath's answer here (csrutil: command not found) though I didn't quite understand what he/she meant by 'booting to your main volume'. I am not sure if that is relevant here, but I am inquiring if there is any further way to disable SIP. Is high-sierra needed or helpful here?

(Also, if possible, an answer comprehensible by someone with very little background in computing or working with the terminal would be highly appreciated)

Thanks in advance.


texts: AirPort Express - Create Network or Extend Network?

texts:
I have 1 Airport Extreme (newer version) and 3 AirPort Express's (1st gen) in my house. I understand that physically connecting all 3 Express's over ethernet and setting to "Create Network" is the best option (according to this article), however they are not all 3 in range of ethernet.

So my question is: What is the difference/impact between the "Create Network" and "Extend Network" options when the AirPort Express is not physically connected?

I would think that "Create Network" in this case would literally create new wireless networks and make the situation much worse.  Is that not true?


texts:
Using Macbook using OS-X 10.5.8, how do I get a Quicktime video window to play on an external monitor, simultaneously using the laptop for something else?

I have a Macbook circa 2008 which has OS-x 10.5.8.  I recently installed an HDTV in order to watch videos from the Macbook on a larger screen, while continuing to use the laptop for other things. I am unable to play a video on the larger screen unless in the mirror arrangement of the screens.  With a side-by-side arrangement,  I can drag the folder which contains the movie, but when I click on open, it opens and plays on the Macbook instead of on the tv.  Other folders also open in the laptop window, not the tv.

http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080914024038AA5ivCZ

This suggestion of dragging the window doesn't work.


texts:
I have recently moved from France to the USA.
In the long run, that means I will shut down my French bank account who is becoming useless. But I cannot go on iTunes and change the "bank account" settings or change my address there.

From this article, I believe I will have to buy again all the apps, movies and music I have previously purchased, as well as "forget about" French apps not present in the U.S. store, even the ones for which I wish to keep an account active (not sure how to do that). I believe one cannot "switch" between a US and a French iTunes account at will. I will probably also lose all my Game Center scores, etc.

1 - How can I measure how much data / apps / settings will be lost?

Also, iCloud documents.

I have several hundred iCloud documents stored in Textedit, Notes, Pages, etcetera, that I absolutely need to work on, on a day-to-day basis.

2 - If there is a simple, step-by-step procedure that would allow me to migrate to a US-based iTunes account with as little loss as possible?

3 - What happens if I move back to France in 5 years? Same losses?

Models of devices: iPhone 4, iOS8, and iMac mid-2011 with Yosemite.

I understand that 1, 2 and 3 are different questions, and if anyone has a problem with this, I will gladly split the question in three different question pages, just let me know.


texts: If I duplicate an app in /Applications, how can I differentiate it to where both apps show in Launchpad?

texts:
I have run cp -R /Applications/example1.app /Applications/example2.app yet only example1.app shows in Launchpad. I can see it in Finder as two different apps but not in Launchpad.
Do I need to edit something within the package contents of the app to get it to appear in Launchpad? Permissions?
I am curious as to what MacOS needs to be able to differentiate an application so that it can appear in Finder.


texts:
I got a MacBook Pro that has a problem booting, or even seeing the hard drive. I have used the recovery console to install OS X onto a USB drive and have booted into that and can't actually see the internal disk at all.

If I boot to Recovery Mode and open Disk Utility I can see it fine in there, and can see the files on it. If I check the disk using the repair option it also verifies fine.

If I take the drive out and put it in a USB caddy I can pull off all the files just fine using HSFExplorer on a PC, and have backed up most to an external drive from the PC. I can't quite work out why the Mac won't boot though as according to Disk Utility it's fine, but from inside OS X it cannot be seen, and also booting off it gives a question mark.


texts: How can I move my notes from iCloud folder to GMail folder

texts: Only iCloud folder displays in the move menu. Even though GMail folder is normally present.


texts: How can I use spotlight search to open a specific file path

texts:
Is there a way to do Command+Spacebar to open the spotlight search on macOS Mojave, and then give the path of a folder you want to open?

For example:

 "open ~/Documents/File"

or some equivalent.

If this isn't possible by default are there any extension to do this?  I was looking at Flashlight but was unsure if I needed it.


texts: How can I change the speed of sheet and other window resize animations?

texts:
Using MacOS 10.14.6.
Flashing and animation can make me sick, give me migraines and nausea, etc.
(I already use Reduce Motion.)
I see a lot of advice suggesting variations on defaults write -g NSWindowResizeTime -float 0.0001, and I've tried values as slow as 10000, as fast as 0.0001, and 0, and none of these change the speed.
I would log out, log back in, and test the new setting in Tinkertool.
(I have since tested with System Preferences. It always resizes faster than Tinkertool, regardless of the settings, but never fast or slow enough to avoid the pain.)
(I also use defaults write -g NSTextInsertionPointBlinkPeriod -float 10000, which does reduce cursor blink rates to 1 cycle in 20 seconds in certain apps.)


texts: Photos imported via webinterface cannot be edited on iOS devices

texts: When I import photos via webinterface to iCloud, I cannot edit those images on the iPhone or iPad (both running iOS13). I run into this error. This only happens when these images were uploaded via webinterface. Uploading the exact same files via iPhone (by attaching an SD card to the device) lead to me being able to edit these images also on other devices.


texts:
I've a Macbook Pro retina 15'', mid-2012 with nVidia 650M graphics card. I've a 4K Dell monitor attached but the result is a bit choppy and my guess is that it's because of the bandwidth limitation on the Thunderbolt port?

If so, can I somehow combine both thunderbolt ports and connect the external to both together?

Thanks


texts: iPhone Today View for Apple calendar Whats Up Next showing wrong time

texts: so I use apple calendar set to local time and keep events in local time.  I've noticed when using the Today View from the home screen, events that show the correct time in the calendar app show the incorrect time in the Today View.  Below are screen shots - 1 from the calendar screen, look at the AA 1455 flight that shows the correct time of 2048 then the Today View that's 2 hours off, 1848.  Does the Today View get its time from a different source than the calendar ?  How can I get the Today View to show the correct time?  This seems to happen when im traveling....  iOS 13.3


texts:
I'm kinda new to the Mac OS, in fact I got this current Mac this week so I'm pretty noob with it.

I need to run a VM with windows 11 and 10 for testing purposes. So I downloaded  and the virtual machines from MS in this link
VM Dev

After doing all the proper steps to install it, anytime I run one of the machines it get a blue screen on booting, and the VM restart itself.

Here is the error

Working on a MacBook pro 15" with latest OS el capitan (but tested before on yosemite and the same thing happened)

This is the Machine configuration


texts:
Some applications come in .pkg files, and ask for you administrator password, even if all they do is copy the binary to /Applications.

I like to have my applications in ~/Applications, and I do not like to give administrative permissions to anything that is not from the mothership.

Is there a way that I can manually open the .pkg file and pull out the application? There is PackageMaker in the Developer Tools, but that does not seem to do it (it did produce some output that makes me think that there really are no scripts or other pieces in the installer, just the application).


texts: Does iCloud backup only backup non-deleted pictures?

texts: I have deleted some photos on my iPad (both from camera roll and photo stream) and I never want them to be found. I heard that you can use "iCloud backup" to restore your stuff in case your iPad crashes or whatever. If at some point I were to backup my iPad, would those    pictures still be found even though I have deleted them? If so, how can they be gotten  rid of forever? I know this probably sounds very strange, but it would be nice to know just in case of emergency.


texts: Find and Highlight repeated words in Pages

texts: Is there a way, to find and then let those words or phrases remain highlighted in the document?


texts:
All of a sudden, starting up iMovie doesn't give me a main editing window. Most of the menu items are grayed out.

Mojave on a Mac Pro (Early 2008).


texts: Is encrypting then deleting the same as securely erasing?

texts:
So, recent versions of macOS no longer offer the option to Empty Trash Securely. From what I am reading here and here it seems the general consensus is that it is now best to encrypt files and then delete them.

However, if I create an encrypted disk image and move the files in there, it is using different blocks on the drive... so it does not zero out the blocks on the drive where the data was stored, and we're back where we started.

I've read comments from people saying deleted data is difficult to recover from an SSD anyway, so don't worry about it. Well even if that is true, what if you have a Fusion Drive and you don't even know which part of the drive the data in question resides in?

I'm not finding a clear answer on what the best way is to securely delete at present, which is surprising since it's a pretty common measure when transferring ownership of a computer, etc. Can someone please enlighten me:

Is encrypting then deleting effectively the same as securely erasing?
How can existing data be encrypted (rather than copied into an encrypted .dmg)?


texts: How is iOS updating all my apps without permission?

texts:
iPad is at iOS 12.3, iPad is WiFi only. iPhone is at iOS 12.4.

Both have got automatic download and updates turned OFF in settings → iTunes and AppStore. Yet in the last weeks both devices, without intervention or permission have updated every single App. This has resulted in ADS (apple disorientation services), where I have to login to apps again with passwords I haven’t used for years, and everything’s looking different and working differently. How has this happened?

I do iOS updates for security, but if my App ain’t broke I don’t wanna fix it. How do I stop this app auto-update feature on my iOS devices?


texts: Calendar does not show event times in month view after Yosemite download

texts: Calendar does not show times in month view, and there is no box on Preferences to Show Times in Month View, as some have said there is.


texts: Copying applications from applications folder to external and reinstalling osx

texts:
Is it possible to copy all my applications from the applications folder onto an external, format my mac, reinstall OS X and finally copy the applications back into the applications folder for installing them?

Will that work? I am asking because my macbook seems to be behaving in a very odd manner, has become excessively sluggish and is preventing me from recording anything in logic.. I have tried the usual freeing up space, clean desktop, fixing permissions, verifying and repairing disk as well as resetting pram and making sure I have all the latest software and firmware updates. The macbook is only 8 months old and is running Lion with 8gb of ram, I really cannot understand what is wrong with it. Even when trying to watch a movie, the player will get serious audio/video synchronisation issues and I noticed that every time my wifi is on the fans speed up like a plane taking off. I even checked and it is clean from any dust. I am perplexed :(

If anyone could help me please, I would greatly appreciate it.
Thanks in advance!


texts: LG UltraFine 5K with MacBook Pro 2017 issues

texts:
Yesterday everything was working fine. I had my MacBook Pro (four USB-C ports & touch bar) connected to my LG UltraFine 5K monitor (official model name: LG 27MD5KA‑B). At the end of my day's work I turned everything off. In the morning I turned everything back on but nothing seemed to work.

I proceeded to disconnect the monitor from the MBP and there the latter turned on without problem. I tried hot-plugging back the monitor and the MBP's screen turned black. Event the touch bar was unresponsive. So I tried all sorts of combinations in order to solve the problem:

Turn off the MBP, and unplug everything from the mains, wait a moment and reconnect everything;
MBP PRAM reset;
MBP SMC reset;
Removed all connected peripherals (either directly to the MBP and/or to the monitor);
Tried all the USB-C ports of the MBP;
Tried with another touch bar MBP;

One thing that half works is when the LG UltraFine 5K is connected to the mains and I hook an MBP with the lid close. In this case the monitor lits up, although very dimly, I can see the Apple logo and then suddenly the logo is spread horizontally across the screen and lower quarter of the screen is garbled (everything very faint). If I open the lid, only the caps lock seems to work (hinting that the computer has not crashed). If I unhook the MPB it responds without problems after a few seconds. Reconnecting it and the MBP screen turns black and the computer becomes unresponsive (apart from caps lock). I can, however, access the computer through remote login (SSH) and managed to shut it down or restart it from there (sudo shutdown -h now or sudo shutdown -r now).

I even downloaded the LG Screen Manager, but the app seems totally useless in my case (event the copyright notice seems strange showing "Copyright 2016-2026 LG Electronics Inc.").

Any suggestions on what to do next (apart from bringing the apparatus for repair)?

System used:

MBP (13", 2017, 4 thunderbolt-3 ports, Intel Core i5 @ 3.1 GHz, 8GB RAM, Intel Iris Plus Graphics 650 1536 MB);
MBP (13", 2017, 4 thunderbolt-3 ports, Intel Core i7 @ 3.5 GHz, 16GB RAM, Intel Iris Plus Graphics 650 1536 MB);
Both MBP are installed with macOS Mojave Version 10.14.2
LG UltraFine 5K (aka 27MD5KA‑B);


texts: What is the difference between an US and a Canadian English keyboard layout? Could you give a visual comparison?


texts: Is there a way to automatically save Pages documents copies as PDF on every save?

texts: Is there a way to enable Pages (version 10.1 (6913)) to automatically save a copy of the current document as PDF every time I save it to avoid a manual export?


texts: Prevent Macbook from Charging past a certain level

texts:
I've had a previous MBP (5,3) with battery swelling. Looking around the stackexchange it doesn't seem too unusual even on newer models.

A bit of reading I've seen tells me this can be caused by keeping devices charged at 100%. I've been using fruit juice to remind me to unplug regularly. As I already have a system to alert me of when the battery is at a certain charge level, this is not what I'm looking for.

I was wondering if there's anything I could do to charge the battery on my current MBP (11,3) to a safe level, eg. ~80% charged, and keep it at that level while plugged in to the charger?


texts:
I would like to setup an hourly reminder. After a lot of trial-and-error i turned out that it's only possible with iCloud-based reminders for some reason.
Is there a way to configure CalDAV accounts reminders to be fired every hour?


texts: Since you can now login to certain OSX/iOS apps using your Apple ID credentials rather than with an application-specific account, is there a way to list all of the apps you have granted access to and edit their permissions (something like what Google does when you authenticate using your Google credentials)?


texts: No bootable device USB 2.0 MacBook Pro mid 2014

texts:
I've been tearing my hair out the last couple days trying to get Windows installed.
I have a MacBook Pro Retina 15 inch mid 2014. Yosemite version 10.10.1.
Win 7 64 bit iso (sha1 - 0bcfc54019ea175b1ee51f6d2b207a3d14dd2b58).

I have tried two usb 2.0 flash drives with 'Create a Windows 7 or later install disk' option in BCA. This proceeds smoothly and so does creating the partition using Install Windows 7 option.  However, when it restarts, it says something along the lines of 'no bootable device'  If I hold down 'alt', the only options are to boot back into OS X & the recovery disk.

I realise this question has been asked countless times - I have read a lot of them but few seem applicable to my situation and those that are have not helped yet. I have not tried another USB yet since I am bandwidth limited (both in download speed and data limit) and BCA wants to redownload Windows support files every time and at this point it feels like a shot in the dark.

Any help with this will be greatly appreciated.  Some further questions:

Is there a way to determine whether the usb drives are at fault?
Does BCA create the bootable drive in any special way? I.e. is it possible to create it by another method that will still play well with the bootcamp process?


texts: Triple boot macOS High Sierra, Ubuntu, and Windows without rEFInd

texts:
I currently have three OSes installed on my 2017 MacBook Air: macOS, Ubuntu, and Windows 10. I couldn't boot into Ubuntu without rEFInd, but I strongly prefer the default boot manager, because I want to use the firmware password (which rEFInd doesn't have).

Is there any way for the macOS boot manager to recognize Ubuntu without using a third-party boot manager?

NOTES:

I don't want Ubuntu set as my default OS as an alternative. I just want it to appear in the boot menu.
I don't mind if it just goes into GRUB. As long as it somehow can load the kernel, it's fine.

The output from the command diskutil list.

/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *500.3 GB   disk0
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s1
   2:                 Apple_APFS Container disk1         242.6 GB   disk0s2
   3:           Linux Filesystem                         49.9 GB    disk0s4
   4:       Microsoft Basic Data WinData                 75.1 GB    disk0s5
   5:       Microsoft Basic Data Windows                 125.1 GB   disk0s6

/dev/disk1 (synthesized):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      APFS Container Scheme -                      +242.6 GB   disk1
                                 Physical Store disk0s2
   1:                APFS Volume Macintosh HD            74.0 GB    disk1s1
   2:                APFS Volume Preboot                 25.1 MB    disk1s2
   3:                APFS Volume Recovery                506.6 MB   disk1s3
   4:                APFS Volume VM                      2.1 GB     disk1s4


texts:
I've been having a problem where my macbook won't reconnect to the internet after I turn off my work VPN. A simple reboot fixes this, but I was wondering if there was a way I could restart the network configs, or clear cache (not sure exactly what the problem is) from the command line - without having to do a reboot?

I've tried the following, without success

$ ifconfig en0 down && ifconfig en0 up

Is there a way to reset the network config to whatever the default values are after a reboot?

Edit: This doesn't happen every time, I'm not exactly sure what chain of events triggers it.


texts: How do I remove multiple owners from a file/folder?

texts:
While trying to set up MAMP/PHPStorm, I CHOWNed the OWNER of my Sites folder to _www from myUser. Since this did not resolve the problem I was experiencing, I attempted to CHOWN myUser /Users/myUser/Documents/Sites... which worked, except Get Info shows both as owners, and ls -l reports _www as the (primary?) owner. I could not modify the folder contents, even though myUser is one of the owners.

When I ls -leO@ as suggested in this answer, I see the following:

drwxr-xr-x+ 31 _www  wheel  -  1054 Dec 5 12:38 Sites
  0: user:myUser allow list,add_file,search,add_subdirectory,delete_child,readattr,
  writeattr,readextattr,writeextattr,readsecurity

I sudo chown :staff Sites thinking this will give myUser more clout, and then sudo chown myUser: Sites which works in removing _www, but I'm left with:

MacBook-Pro:Documents myUser$ ls -leO@
...
drwxr-xr-x+ 31 myUser  staff  -  1054 Dec 5 12:38 Sites
  0: user:myUser allow list,add_file,search,add_subdirectory,delete_child,readattr,
  writeattr,readextattr,writeextattr,readsecurity
...

I've read the MAN page for CHMOD and ACL as suggested in this answer, and I've tried chmod -a#0 Sites and variations with no success. How do I remove the ACL/xattr?


texts:
How has tethering changed in iOS 13?

The UI in the Settings app is different, but I'm finding my Kindle Fire tablet can no longer detect an Internet connection when tethered to any of three different iPhones I've tested with - so I suspect something has changed and want to work on how to mitigate it.

I'm on Sprint if that matters.  We regularly used Tethering before iOS 13 successfully with a variety of devices.


texts: Does the developer of a Mac OS X app get the crash reports when the app crashes?

texts:
If an app crashes while I'm using it in OS X I get a little (apparently) OS-driven dialog that lets me "report the crash to Apple". It sends along a stack trace and some other system information.

Does this crash information get shared with the app developer of the app in question at the time the crash occurred?


texts:
is there any way to enable the Silverlight Plug-In in Safari 12? I need this plug in to watch a live sport event.

Thanks!


texts: How can I remove the "downloaded from the internet" security from all files in a directory?

texts:
I have a bunch of files I copied from another computer and am unable to use them as I get various security and permission errors.

When I compile using Xamarin I get permission denied. When I try to open a file directly I get this error:

How can I remove the system attribute that causes this security dialog to appear?

(Yes, for some files I can use the following but this needs to apply to all files and folders)


texts: Is it possible to disable Personal Hotspot on iPhones with a configuration profile?

texts: The company I work for is having an issue with users racking up huge data bills with iOS hotspot tethering. Is there a way we can push a profile that will disable this feature? I have looked through the iPhone Configuration Utility and cannot find any settings for this feature.


texts: iOS10 restrict "Look Up" feature to dictionary alone

texts:
I have just upgraded to iOS10 and found that the "Define" feature (that appears after selecting a word) has been replaced with "Look Up", which now
pulls the suggestions from various sources on internet besides the local dictionary.

Is there a way to restrict this "Look Up" feature to search in local dictionaries alone? I couldn't find any solutions on the internet as of today (14th Sep16).


texts: messages stopped working on my iMac computer

texts:
I have an old iMac running High Sierra. I use the Messages app often throughout the day. Today I received my new iPhone 11 Pro. My phone is set up and seems to be working fine. But on my iMac, my messages quit working if sending to a non-iPhone account.  I don't know if the 2 are related, it could just be a coincidence that messages stopped working when setting up my new iPhone. I have stopped and restarted Messages and I've restarted my computer. Both to no avail.

Does anyone know how to troubleshoot/fix Message delivery on macOS?


texts: Can I have Google Photos delete backed up images on my iPad yet leave the ones in albums intact?

texts: I use Google Photos on my iPad Pro to save a cloud copy of all my images. As we all know, once the photos are backed up on Google Photos, the program gives me an option to delete the photos from my tablet to clear some storage space. The problem I’m having is that on my iPad I have a few albums (about 100 photos total), and when I try to clear the space, it tells me those will be deleted too. How can I just delete the iPad All Photos library (which are backed up) but retain the ones in albums on iPad?


texts: How to transfer a purchased app from iPhone to iPad?

texts:
I have bought Talking Ben app on my iPhone. I also have an iPad, how can I transfer this purchase onto my iPad?

I already tried using my iTunes. But i dont know how to do it. Also both my iPad and and iPhone use the same Apple ID.


texts: I jailbroke my iphone4. I edited the fiel inside CoreServices and change the ios version from 7.1.2 to 8.1.2. Within a couple of days, all apps starting disappearing instantly after opening. Apps are there. I can also get notifications but when I click on the apps, it stays for 3 or 4 seconds and then goes off. I tried to restore through itunes but it shows error, and even tried to re-jailbreak to get it fresh or maybe get rid of jailbreak. But the computer says the iphone with that version of iOS is not compatible. So, I can neither restore nor unjailbreak. I can't even edit the iOS version because i can't open ifile anymore. Any solution?


texts:
The new Safari 6 Web Inspector UI is a usability nightmare for me due to loads of tabs/panes with small icons and no labels.

It also seems to complicate common tasks like showing a list of XHR requests and their responses.

Is there any way to revert the look and feel of the Web Inspector in Safari 6 to (more) how it was in previous versions?


texts: Modifier keys when working remotely are broken / lazy

texts:
I work a lot from home, using screen-sharing to control my remote Mac mini from my (local) MBP laptop, or my customers' machines using ARD (or even TeamViewer).
Recently I've started having problems with the modifier keys (ShiftOptionControlCommand ) - maybe since upgrading to macOS Sierra, but I'm not sure.
The problem
It seems to me that the transfer of the modifier key state to the remote machine has changed - and has become "lazy".
By this I mean:

Before: As soon as I pressed a modifier key, this was immediately reflected on the remote machine.

Now: The state of the modifier key is only changed on the remote machine when I also press a normal key.

This means that...

trying to perform a mouse action (click / drag) with modifier keys does not work anymore
modifier keys get stuck in a particular state until I press another key to free them up
doing remote work has become very difficult.

The question is:
It seems to be a bug/defect.  Does anybody have a fix/workaround to this weird modifier key behavior?


texts: control fan speed using Applescript (or terminal)

texts:
I would like to control the fan speed using terminal, if possible without third party app.

The idea is to automate and schedule different fan speed.


texts:
For some reason there are some e-mails that I get where I need to scroll down a lot to see the entire message. The message is filled with "missing plug-in" errors (and they do not include the small error to fix it).

This problem occurs when I get emails with 'adds' on the side bar or on top. Also,  when I hit reply there's a long 'new lines' coming up between my response to the sender's email.

How can I fix this? It displays without any problems on my iPhone.


texts:
Im looking for a program that let me organize my itunes library (So that the CD's that I export instead of saving it like "Track 1",etc, be saved with all the sing info, such as artist, album, etc).

How to mass-organize iTunes library?

I taked a look into that question but Im looking for something more complete, It does not matter if it cotst.

Thanks.


texts:
someone please explain why this won't work. The script alone without the "if mainReturned = "File" then" works just fine but when I add it to another part of a script, things get weird. It highlights the word "on" on the 5th to last line of the script and then stops working etc. Please explain how I can fix it to add it to another script? The gist of the other script is basically if you enter a word the script will bring certain things up such as if I were to enter the work "File" it performs this. But it won't work. Its the format of if mainReturned = "File" then

            set SearchDir to choose folder
            set SearchTerm to text returned of ¬
(display dialog "Enter your search term below:" default answer "" with icon file "Macintosh HD:Users:<insert user's name.:Documents:robot-icon.png")
            set theResults to SpotlightSearch(SearchTerm, SearchDir)
            if theResults is not {""} then
                set theChoice to choose from list theResults with prompt ¬
                    "Here are the files that match the search term \"" & SearchTerm & ¬
                    "\" in directory \"" & SearchDir & "\":" cancel button name ¬
                    "Quit" OK button name "Reveal in Finder"
                if theChoice is not false then
                    tell application "Finder"
                        activate
                        reveal (POSIX file theChoice) as alias
                    end tell
                end if
            else
                display dialog "No Results Found." buttons ¬
                    {"Quit", "Search Again"} default button 2 with icon file "Macintosh HD:Users:<insert user's name>:Documents:robot-icon.png"
                if button returned of result is "Quit" then exit repeat
            end if
            on SpotlightSearch(SearchTerm, SearchDir)
                set theResults to paragraphs of ¬
                    (do shell script "mdfind " & quoted form of SearchTerm & ¬
                        " -onlyin " & quoted form of POSIX path of SearchDir)
            end SpotlightSearch


texts: Uninstalling R and R Studio from the mac

texts:
How to delete R from the mac. Currently, Tidyverse package no longer works and thus I have to reinstall the R. But, I am not able to fully delete the programme as it keeps creeping back. What to do to completely uninstall R and R Studio from the mac.
I can’t locate a script to remove all the things these packages installed nor able to find support from the R community.
Is this documented anywhere?


texts: Why do I have to source ~/.bash_login every time I open Terminal

texts:
When ever I close and open Terminal.app, it never loads my ~/.bash_profile. I have my RVM setup at the top of the file but it never loads it.

As you can see, when I type rvm into Terminal, it says command not found this is a pain as I have to run source ~/.bash_login every time I open Terminal.

Am I the only one with this problem? What am I doing wrong?


texts: How can I modify the default date format for "moments" in photos?

texts: I'm running photos 1.5. Older versions of Photos used a different date format for the title of moments. Right now most of my pictures are organized using the old date format (YYYY-MM-DD). Is there a way to modify the date format for all moments in the latest version of Photos?


texts:
Possible Duplicate:
  How do I disable or get rid of the startup sound my Mac makes?

I have an old MacBook Pro (pre-unibody) running OS 10.6. I am annoyed by the traditional Macintosh bootup sound, which I want to mute permanently.

I've tried some proposed solutions:

Remembering to reduce the volume before I shut the computer down. It works, but it's not reasonable to do this.
Pressing the "Mute" button while booting up the computer. Seems to be the F3 key on my old MacBook, but that doesn't work.
Installing and using the application StartupSound. It didn't work. I read in forums that other users share this problem.

Am I doing something wrong, or is there another solution to my problem?


texts:
Every so often, when I open a new tab in Google Chrome and go to a site, the page appears with black squares where the content should be.  The browser's UI is still visible, and when I mouseover where the links should be, the cursor changes from a pointer to a hand icon, but nothing on the page itself is visible. Any subsequent pages visited have the same effect, as does opening new tabs.  Restarting Chrome gets rid of the problem.

This only happens intermittently, otherwise I'd add a screenshot.

I'm on the latest version of Chrome, it's been happening for months.

Chrome Version 55.0.2883.95 (64-bit)

OS X Sierra 10.12.2 (16C67)

MacBook Pro (15-inch, Early 2011)


texts: About photos going onto other Apple products

texts: Have about 2000 work photos on my Mac mini which I do not want on my iPhone 5 or my iPad Air....but I would like photos I take on either of those to appear on my Mac mini.....how do I configure in settings so I can do this?


texts: How can I tell how long a missed call attempted to ring for?

texts:
Sometimes autodialers call many numbers at the same time and direct the person (often a scammer or marketer) on the other end to whoever answers first. For this reason, I sometimes get missed calls where the caller only hangs on for 1-2 rings. When I see this, it's obvious that I can block that number. But when I view my phone and there are several calls from unrecognised local numbers in the missed calls list, I cannot find any way to differentiate between legitimate phone calls and the scammer calls. So if you were expecting an important call from an unrecognised number, there's a good chance you'll call back some scammers before you get the legitimate caller.
But there's a high likelihood that those calls that stopped after ~1 - 2 rings were scams and the ones that hung on for ~4+ rings were legitimate. The problem is, without seeing the attempted call in progress (to count the rings), I cannot differentiate the calls based on how many rings they hung on for.
For a missed call, without seeing it and counting, is there any way to tell how long the missed call attempted to call for (e.g. 1 ring, 5 rings, 10 rings etc)?


texts: exec("php -v”) vs phpinfo() -- different php version

texts:
I have upgraded PHP version on my Mac to 7.3 with a command
curl -s http://php-osx.liip.ch/install.sh | bash -s 7.3

and then
export PATH=/usr/local/php5/bin:$PATH

When I type php -v in terminal the new version shows up correctly.

I am using Apache shipped with macOS.
I have created a simple document in localhost/phpinfo.php that contains:
echo exec('which php');

echo '
';

$out = [];
exec("php -v" , $out);
foreach($out as $line) {
    echo $line, '
';
}

phpinfo();

The phpinfo() shows the new PHP 7.3.8 as expected, but the preceding lines, using exec() command produce a different result.

I was wondering if someone could explain why it is happening, does it matter at all, and if it is possible to fix it.


texts: How can I prevent Messages from opening up a new chat window?

texts:
When I am working on something else on my iMac, I tend to get a lot of messages via the Messages app.  For some reason, when I click once on the messages app window, it does not get focus right away: Therefore, I usually double-click (Perhaps its a habit from MS Windows).  When you double click inside a chat area, it opens up that specific chat conversation into a new chat window - which is extremely annoying (IMHO).

Is it possible to turn off the feature of opening that chat conversation in a new window?

I am running 10.8.2 and Messages version 7.0.1 (3314).

EDIT: So some further testing - This happens when:

A different chat session is selected
Messages does NOT have focus
I click into a different chat session inside of my Messages window

this requires two clicks, 1 click to gain focus, 1 click to change chat windows.

All I am looking to do is disable the chat session from opening up in a new, independent window.


texts: Prevent iOS Users from updating iOS Version Using Apple Configurator

texts:
I have a scenario, where my employees are give iPads and iPhones to help with their daily tasks. There are numerous custom business applications installed on this device.

The problem occurs when these users apply updates to the iOS devices, which leaves created compatibility issues for my custom business applications.

My question is,

Is it possible via the iPhone Configuration Utility or the Apple Configurator, to put these devices in "Supervised Mode", which prevents users from installing these updates, be it OTA or via iTunes ?


texts: iPhone storage is full while iCloud is empty

texts: What can I send to iCloud and how do I do that? My iPhone is full and my iCloud has barely been used. Can you help me please?


texts:
I'm using two different scripts which work fine separately but would like to merge the two into one script.

Any help is welcomed. (please see scripts below)

SCRIPT 1 strips the file name to the last 3 characters:

on open whichFile
    repeat with aFile in whichFile
        tell application "Finder"
            set filename to name of aFile
            set name of aFile to ((characters -1 thru -7 of filename) as string)
            --set name of whichFile to ((characters 1 thru -4 of filename) as string) --trim last 3

        end tell
    end repeat

SCRIPT 2 adds the folder name (where the files reside) to the filename:

on open theDroppedItems
    repeat with a from 1 to length of theDroppedItems
        set theCurrentDroppedItem to item a of theDroppedItems
        set theCurrentDroppedItem to theCurrentDroppedItem as string

        tell application "System Events"
            set folderPath to theCurrentDroppedItem as string
            --display dialog (folderPath)
            set AppleScript's text item delimiters to ":"
            set newFileName to (text item -4 of folderPath as string) & "-" & (text item -2 of folderPath as string) & "-" & (text item -1 of folderPath as string)
            --display dialog (newFileName)

            --rename file
            set fileAlias to (theCurrentDroppedItem) as alias
            set the name of fileAlias to newFileName

        end tell

    end repeat
end open

I would like to merge these two into one single script so I only need to run one, but am unsure how to do this?


texts:
I have a Mac Book Pro (late 2008, unibody design). Recently I replaced the HD with a crucial SSD and added more RAM (2x 4GB instead of 2x 2GB). I also installed Mac OSX Lion on it. It worked fine for a few days but then started to crash. Either the screen froze or the OSX Kernel panic dialog showed up telling me to reboot.

I looked at the crash reports but have no idea what exactly is causing the crash (seems the look different every time) Here is the last one, I can post all of them if that helps.

Mon Aug  1 16:01:16 2011
panic(cpu 0 caller 0xffffff80002c268d): Kernel trap at 0xffffff80002a9ea2, type 14=page fault, registers:
CR0: 0x0000000080010033, CR2: 0x0000000000000118, CR3: 0x0000000044c71000, CR4: 0x0000000000000660
RAX: 0xffff7f8111e64000, RBX: 0xffffff800df9f540, RCX: 0xfffeffffffffffff, RDX: 0xffffff800df9f558
RSP: 0xffffff8111e2b4f0, RBP: 0xffffff8111e2b570, RSI: 0x0000000000000000, RDI: 0x000000000000982a
R8:  0xffffff80ccf90000, R9:  0x0000000000000000, R10: 0x000000000000ecca, R11: 0x0000000000000dc9
R12: 0x00000000000000e0, R13: 0x0000000000000ff8, R14: 0xffffff800df9f540, R15: 0xffffff8111e64000
RFL: 0x0000000000010202, RIP: 0xffffff80002a9ea2, CS:  0x0000000000000008, SS:  0x0000000000000000
CR2: 0x0000000000000118, Error code: 0x0000000000000000, Faulting CPU: 0x0

Backtrace (CPU 0), Frame : Return Address
0xffffff8111e2b1b0 : 0xffffff8000220702
0xffffff8111e2b230 : 0xffffff80002c268d
0xffffff8111e2b3d0 : 0xffffff80002d7a3d
0xffffff8111e2b3f0 : 0xffffff80002a9ea2
0xffffff8111e2b570 : 0xffffff800027f60d
0xffffff8111e2b5d0 : 0xffffff8000273add
0xffffff8111e2b6c0 : 0xffffff800027487a
0xffffff8111e2b6f0 : 0xffffff800026e7c2
0xffffff8111e2b720 : 0xffffff80002261e2
0xffffff8111e2b740 : 0xffffff800022643d
0xffffff8111e2b00 : 0xf`fff8000

I have no warranty anymore but would be glad if there is a way to figure out what's causing the crash and get it repaired for a reasonable price. Should I just hand it over to the next Apple store and ask them to repair it?


texts: Random flickering in Preview when viewing PDF files

texts:
I'm running the latest MBP 15" with the built-in Intel HD Graphics 530 and the AMD Radeon Pro 460 with automatic switching.
When viewing PDF files in Preview (it happens with all of them, all kinds of sizes) after some time (10-30 seconds), I start to get flickering. It's merely the PDF content, tough, that's flickering, not the entire screen.
Could the problem be associated with all the notes that I have in some of the PDF documents? (Like textboxes, lines, arrows, etc.).
I couldn't find any help on this elsewhere, hence I'm asking here.
Thanks!


texts: Why does the application in focus hang for several seconds when a drive spins up?

texts:
This has happened to me for as long as I have used Macs, I think.

Occasionally, Mac OS X remembers a long-forgotten disk, sometimes external, sometimes internal, and spins it up for some reason. And every time this happens, the front-most application, the one I am using at that moment, hangs until the disk has spun up.

Why does that happen and can I tell OS X that the application in focus ought to have priority over hard disks? (Note that it is not the boot hard disk with the swap file that is being spun up.)


texts: Reduce Transparency Keeps Turning Itself Off

texts:
In the accessibility settings on Yosemite I have enabled the "Reduce Transparency" setting multiple times.  The reason I am turning it off is to try to fix the issues causes with the menu redrawing when multiple monitors are connect and eventually slowing down the machine to a crawl. Each time I turn it on and go back in and check it has turned itself off.

It seems to turn itself off if the external monitor is connected.

Why does this setting not work?


texts:
I have the Require password 4 hours after sleep ... option in Security and Privacy System Preferences set and am running a script with launchd to suspend my session at a certain time of day (see this question for details). The result is (when the time span and specific time of day overlap) is that my account is doubly-locked, one for each action, requiring password entry twice.

Is there a way to check (for example in a shellscript or Applescript)  whether or not my account is already locked before calling /System/Library/CoreServices/Menu Extras/User.menu/Contents/Resources/CGSession -suspend command?


texts:
I plugged in my 5th gen iPod to update during the latest iTunes update, but my computer crashed while in the middle of it.

Now I can no longer turn on my iPod.

Rebooting shows me the sad iPod face with a link to Apple support, iTunes does not recognize the iPod so I cannot do this:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1339?viewlocale=en%5FUS

Is there some other way to reformat the disk so that it works again?

Thanks!

PS: I can charge the iPod by plugging in the USB to my computer, however it periodically tries to restart and makes horrible and annoying drive noises. I don't see an iPod disk in windows explorer either.

Whoa an update. After putting it into disk mode, not sure whether or not it is in disk mode, I followed the steps but did not get a confirmation. In any case windows explorer has it listed as a drive now. It says I need to reformat the drive before I can use it. This is windows explorer reformat, not iTunes reformat. Should I?

iTunes still doesn't give me any indication that it sees the drive.


texts: Display all current OS & 3rd party keyboard bindings

texts:
Is there any way to:

display all native and 3rd party keyboard bindings in one place, similar to how Atom or Visual Studio Code IDEs can?
OR...allow me to type a keyboard shortcut and tell me the recipient app of the command (to find out what app gets triggered by a shortcut?)

My situation:

I have a "rogue" app somewhere on my system that owns a keyboard shortcut I want to use for other purposes (CMD + Shift + 5)
CMD + Shift + 5 on my Mac currently triggers some sort of screenshot app
The mysterious screen-shot app works in a modal view, so I can't find the app name. It does not appear in the menubar
I've looked in Settings > Keyboard > Shortcuts and other places but no luck.


texts:
I got this RMBP mid 2012. I am now noticing overheating problems when I browse the internet + about 15 tabs of youtube open, mainly music.

I also notice that my battery quickly depletes during this overheating problem, and it's only at 200 cycles. I removed Deep Sleep Mode and Hibernation Mode, not sure if these are related.

I never had such a problem before, but now I can't even keep it on my lap for so long. What is causing this and how can I fix it ?

Specs :

2.6 Ghz Intel Core i7
16GB 1600 MHz DDR3
500GB storage
OSX 10.8.5
GForce 650M

EDIT

I am not just browsing in Safari with 8 tabs only, VLC in the BG but nothing running, iTunes open but nothing playing. I can already feel the heat on my lap. My temps :

Activity Monitor :


texts: How to duplicate an entire dropbox directory tree to skydrive?

texts:
I've got a directory tree set up in my Dropbox folder.  For redundancy, I'd like to duplicate that entire tree in SkyDrive.  I'd like everything to update and sync automatically (from Dropbox to SkyDrive) so that any changes I make in the Dropbox folder (add/remove/change to files or sub-directories) get reflected in the SkyDrive folder.

I thought that a symbolic link between the top-level directories (e.g. ln -s /Users/MyName/Desktop/Dropbox /Users/MyName/Desktop/SkyDrive) would do it, but it's not working as I expected.  I only see the directories get linked, not the contents.

Is there a better way to do what I'm trying to accomplish?


texts: Reformat a Partitioned Mac OS Extended External Disk?

texts:
One of my backup disks is full. How can I Erase & Reformat the drive? I use Yosemite OS.

The External Hard Drive was formatted as Partitioned Mac OS Extended (case sensitive, Journaled, Encrypted volume) Disk.

I tried under "Disk Utilities", but got this Error Message:

  Disk Encryption failed with the error:  Unable to delete the Core
  Storage logical volume group.


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In my Safari.app, Enter Responsive Design Mode Shortcut doesn't work, When i use CMD + Shift + R.
It goes, Reader mode ?
Any helps ? I want to give one more chance to Safari, instead of Chrome.
Thanks.


texts: How to save picture viewed in iOS Safari to Files (iCloud)

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Open safari, browse to a page with images, press and hold on the image, select "Share..."
There does not appear to be a way to 'share' the image to the Files app.
Yet there is an option for "save to dropbox".
How can I easily achieve this?


texts: Separate User accounts, separate iCloud Music Library

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I have iMac with 2 user accounts. I want to have separate iCloud music Library for this two accounts. Since I have two accounts I have two Apple Music memberships.
And when I’m trying to turn it on on the second account i see this:

Yes It is - it’s link to my other account there. So I cannot really unlink it. Any way to separate accounts can have separate Apple Music through iTunes?


texts: Bluetooth Manager not present in Boot Camp (Windows 7)

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My laptop is pretty old (late 2008 MBP), and I've been trying to get Bluetooth to work under Boot Camp because I just got some wireless headphones. Thing is, Bluetooth doesn't show up under device manager. In fact, I install the following three drivers from the Boot Camp support package (version 4.0.4033), and the following happens:

AppleBluetoothBroadcomInstaller - success, driver being used
AppleBluetoothEnablerInstaller - success, driver being used
AppleBluetoothInstaller - success, but "Not needed (no device for
update present)"

The last part is the worrying bit. There's no yellow triangle in Device Manager. There's just plain nothing. No device that does Bluetooth at all. I tried the broadcom drivers (  http://www.broadcom.com/support/bluetooth/update.php) and it won't detect any device, it just gives up before installing anything. I tried WIDCOMM (http://www.drivers-win.com/acer/acer-aspire-5740-windows-7-drivers/), and it also gives up, not able to detect anything. I looked at the Broadcom adapter under Network Adapters in Device Manager and enabled Bluetooth Collaboration, still nothing. I've even reset the SMC and tried everything again. Nothing at all.

I would think this was a heavier issue (i.e. the Bluetooth is fried on the machine), but my headphones work like a charm when I switch back to Lion. Does anyone know what could be the issue, and whether I could fix it without reinstalling Windows?

Maybe I'm installing the wrong support package...how can I check my Mac's actual model?

This is what Device Manager looks like...as you can see, Apple Built-In Bluetooth is nowhere to be found


texts: How can I trouble shoot "Your message could not be sent. #### is not registered with iMessage"?

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I used to be able to send txt messages from my computer through the native messages app on iOS. I recently updated and now I'm not able to send txt from my computer.

When I updated my OS, it restarted and when the screen came back on, it asked me to log into my apple id. For some reason the internet wasn't working or it wasn't connecting to the network and so I skipped putting in my appleid credentials. I looked online for some answers, but nothing satisfactory. Help?


texts: If my iPhone is running iOS 10 and my home button breaks, do I lose the ability to make an emergency call?

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I understand I can't get make regular calls if it breaks (if I have enabled a passcode). This seems like a safety issue if even the emergency call feature is impossible to access if the button is broken.

Am I missing a different way to access the emergency call feature?


texts: On iPad or iPhone, I take a snapshot of the screen looking at the screen sideway, but the snapshot is taken to be in Portrait mode?

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On iPad or iPhone, I take a snapshot of the screen looking at the screen sideway (Landscape mode), but the snapshot is taken to be in Portrait mode?  So if I send this photo to a friend or post it on Facebook, it will be 90 degree off...

(I mean taking a snapshot by pressing the Power and Menu button at the same time)

Any fix or hack to make it work better?  (this also looks like a bug that might be able to go into future release of iOS)

I can upload it to the computer and use the computer to turn it 90 degree... but what if there isn't a computer around?


texts: Turn off "Approve with Apple Watch" macOS security alerts

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Using macOS 11 Big Sur, many items that used to require my user password now annoyingly buzz my wrist.
I can still type my password, but now I have to first press "Use Password..." in the alert.
How can I disable this Apple Watch feature and make password entry the default method?
I do not want to disable unlocking the Mac itself from the login screen. There, I want to continue to use my Apple Watch.

System Preferences is trying to unlock the Software Update preferences.
Approve with Apple Watch or enter your password to allow this.
Use Password...

On the Apple Watch the prompt is:

Double Click to Approve