texts: Seagate External Hard Drive locked, can only read not write

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What Happened:

I plugged in my Seagate backup hard drive today (not Time Machine) after a few months and my computer can read the drive but not write to it.

Two obvious problems:

1) The drive is formatted as NTFS
2) The drive has (from top to bottom) "Read & Write", "Read-only", "Read-Only" permissions.

I know what you are going to say, but the NTFS writing software that Seagate has to write to these type of drives doesn't work on this version of macOS I guess the upgrade killed it because I have used the drive before on previous versions.  When I try to run the software mac says "the developer needs to update this software to work with this version of Mac".  I know each of those two problems are the cause of this issue but I am unable to find a solution.  The "Ignore Ownership on the Volume" checkbox in the drive's show info box is not there.

Does Seagate have new software for writing to these drives? (I use a lot of open-source stuff, but for this I would prefer seagate official software)


texts: Migrating to new user account: must chown old account's files... I think

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Is there a way to selectively chown the files/folders owned by a particular user, while leaving other files/folders untouched? I'm in the process of migrating to a fresh user account on my machine. I copied what I need from the old user's home directory and chowned it recursively, as described on an Apple support page. The support page makes no mention of chowning files/folders elsewhere on the machine, but I've found plenty of stuff in other locations that are owned by the old user:

/Applications (lots of stuff)
/Library (lots of stuff)
/private/var/tmp (a small lot)
/private/var/vm/app_profile/ (2 files)
/usr/local/clamXav/ (1 easily replaceable file)
/usr/local/lib/codec/ (4 files/folders)

I'm planning to delete the old user once I'm confident that everything is working, and I'm not sure what would happen if some critical files are owned by a deleted user. The old user was an admin account, if that matters. Oh, and I'm running OSX 10.4.11 on a PPC mac, if that matters.
Any help appreciated :)


texts: Is it possible to know if Mac system activity was done in this mac or in another mac?

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Could I use the system logs to know if log-ins, log-outs, etc were done in this Mac?…how can I know the user didn’t put the storage into another similar Mac and operated the machine from that mac?

Any books/articles/courses explaining this stuff? (without having to do a degree in digital forensics)


texts: Which motherboard does my early 2008 iMac have?

texts: I'm helping someone with a memory upgrade for their 20-inch Core 2 Duo 2.66 GHz iMac (early 2008), which is all the information I can get about the computer from Apple's serial number checker.  When I try to select memory at memory4less.com, it shows two different models with these specs, with different motherboards: MB324LL/A and MB391LL/A.  How do I tell which this computer is, without cracking it open?


texts: How to react on Appstore rejection of screenshots?

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Today my app's metadata was rejected by Apple.

Reason -

"8.1 - Apps must comply with all terms and conditions explained in the Guidelines for Using Apple Trademarks and Copyrights and the Apple Trademark List"
Your app does not comply with the Guidelines for Using Apple's Trademarks and Copyrights. Specifically, your app marketing screenshots show the iOS home screen and native iOS app icons.

I asked them why almost all other apps could use iPhone on app screenshots but I can't?

On that they answered:

On occasion, there may be apps on the App Store that don't appear to be in compliance with the App Store Review Guidelines. We work hard to ensure that the apps on the App Store are in compliance and we try to identify any apps currently on the App Store that may not be. It takes time to identify these occurrences but another app being out of compliance is not a reason for your app to be.
Please remove any likeness of Apple trademarks from your app.

My screenshots look like:

I'm rather confused by the rejection reason because a lot of other apps (e.g. https://itunes.apple.com/US/app/id915637540, https://itunes.apple.com/US/app/id637855838 (very similar to mine),
https://itunes.apple.com/US/app/id461953674, https://itunes.apple.com/US/app/id284815942) use similar screenshots, apparently without problems.

I would really like to submit the app with the screenshots as they are, what is the recommended course of action to reconsider a submission?


texts: I have an original iPhone. How do I get it to work?

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I have an original iPhone and an iPhone 4.

Both phones are mine that I have owned since their respective launch days. That said I have not used my iPhone since I switched to the 4 and after I did that switch I forgot my passcode to unlock the screen. Since I couldn't get into it and I wanted to get my iPhone ready to just be a wifi remote around my apartment I went to iTunes and reset it back to factory defaults.

Now it just shows that 'connect to iTunes' screen and nothing else. Is there anyway to use it?  Or is my old iPhone bricked?


texts: Should I get the new Apple TV if I don't have a digital TV?

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I have been considering buying the new Apple TV. Maybe the biggest reason is for Netflix streaming. However, I do not own a digital TV, and the only output on the Apple TV is HDMI. I could get a box to convert HDMI to analog RCA but the only ones I can find are more expensive than the Apple TV itself.

I could use a new DVD player, so I'm thinking maybe I should get a Blu-ray player with analog outputs and Netflix streaming capabilities as an alternative.

What do you think? Would it be worth it to buy a converter box, just so I can get the fancy new Apple TV? Or would it be better for me to invest in a blu-ray player?

Update: I decided to go with a Visio blu-ray player. It works pretty good. If I didn't need a DVD player, I would have gone with a Roku player instead.


texts: How do I change the menubar transparency in Lion?

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So I love the login screen in OS X lion, and I want to make my desktop look like that. I found the background image they use, but now I want to make my menu bar completely transparent like it is in the login screen.

I've tried the "translucent menu bar" option in system preferences, but thats not the same at all. I googled quite a bit about this, but I can't find anything. Any ideas?


texts: iPhone mismatch between settings showing connection to Wifi SSID and 3G in Top left hand corner showing not connected

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Sometimes the settings page will show I'm connected to a particular Wifi network SSID, but the 3G logo in the top left hand corner still appears and I still appear to be downloading via 3G.

What's going on here - is this a caching issue? A wifi connectivity issue? Is this a feature?

--
edit

This is on an iPhone4 with 4.01 - although I've seen it in the past on an iPhone 3G on 3.01.


texts: Two possibly related issues with Mission Control in MacOS Sierra 10.12.3

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I've run into an annoying issue with Sierra.  I typically run four or five desktops in Mission Control (and have since Lion) to group tasks on their own screen space.  This is on a late 2012 mini, which I installed a pair of SSDs into and then did a network-install and then upgrade to Sierra before loading any apps.

If I have a window in focus and pull up Mission Control, and select Dashboard, it switches to the dashboard, but then almost instantly switches back to the active window I was just in.  I have to minimize the active window to get the switch to stick.  This is not limited to just trying to use Dashboard, which I admit I almost never do, usually I'm trying to switch to a different desktop space to go looking for a file in Finder for a reference.  This leads me to another annoyance that is related.

Prior to Sierra, if I had minimized an application, and later used CMD-TAB to switch back to it, it would pull it back up to the desktop space it was minimized from, show the application and switch to it.  Now, it accepts the selection, but does not restore the window.  It does bring it up on the ribbon, but I usually end up going to the dock to restore the application to where I can see it.

Question is this, where are the settings for these behaviors?  Hopefully its a trick setting somewhere I can toy with, but so far I've not found anything that seems to tame these issues.  I'm about ready to nuke the drive from orbit and roll back to El Cap or Yosemite, as these two issues are fouling up several years of work flow habits.

I've seen several posts like this one on Finder loosing focus or this one about strange Mission Control behavior with the Dock that seem in the same neighborhood as my issues.  For that matter this one about auto-swoosh is close too.

I've had my issue strike with Firefox, PHPStorm, Atom (GitHub's text editor) and the GitHub app too, TextWrangler, iTunes (12.5.5.5), Facetime, Messaging, and Launchpad.  I wonder if its not a fouled system hook for the little magic bar thingie on the new MacBookPro.


texts: Is it possible to disconnect a bluetooth connection using Applescript?

texts: I want to disconnect a connection to a bluetooth device through an Applescript. Please note that I don't want to disable or enable bluetooth, I just want to disable one specific connection.


texts: Some keyboard keys are not working on login to Yosemite

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The problem is that every time I start my MacBook Pro 15" Early 2011, some of the (native) keyboard keys stop working. However, if I click a restart button - it is all fine.

It is definitely not a hardware issue and this did not happen on Mavericks ever.


texts: Gray Exclamation Point when importing raw photos

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I have been having difficulty with importing RAW photos from my Canon EOS 77D. I am able to see the thumbnail of all photos (which leads me to believe that perhaps photos can process my images.)

But when I click on a photo, I get the following (Please ignore the high ISO):

What can I do so that I can see/edit my photos?


texts: What can edit an .ai files TEXT layer (besides Illustrator)?

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so, i have CS6 on Mac (OS Mavericks).

my Mac took a nose dive recently. long story super short... i have a new mac & re-installed my CS6 on it.

but, in order to launch Illustrator, it requires that i install JAVA too. and i just really don't wanna do that. picky & trivial of me? maybe; but it's a desire i have. and that's a different topic i don't really wish to get in to in THIS thread.

additionally, i've just grown more & more irritated & unhappy with Adobe's apps (also a discussion for a different thread).

so i just thought i'd see if there were any new vector graphics apps out there that could fulfill my needs. the most important of which would be to open my pre-existing .ai files (check: there are several good ones - like Sketch, iDraw, Bluetail, Intaglio, Inkscape, etc) AND be able to directly edit pre-existing text in its layers -BUT- none of them seem to be able to edit text layers (and yes, i have the same fonts). they all appear to open the ai file as a raster image or vector image, but no layers nor editable text.

so i'm just wondering if i've missed something or if it's true - that the proprietary ai format is unusable fully in any other app - or is there one i've missed or a method i failed to find. (?)

thanks much.


texts: Magic trackpad starts pairing but does not complete succesfully with one Macbook

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I have two Macbook pro retina's:

MbPro 15" retina late 2015 El Capitan
MbPro 15" retina mid 2012 El Capitan

The first one is able to pair with the Magic Trackpad (not the "2" - instead the older version).

But the 2012 one has the following behavior:

initially detects the trackpad -including showing the serial #
but then cannot complete the pairing - and I'm back to square one.

The initial detection of the trackpad happened several times.

But usually I do not even get that far: the trackpad is simply not detected.

There is obviously no problem with signal or batteries (new): the trackpad works all day on the other MBPro.

What should I look for as potential culprits and fixes?


texts: How to downgrade iOS 11 beta to iOS 10 without PC?

texts: I have iPad and I recently installed iOS 11 beta 1 on my iPad. Now I see some battery issues and I want to downgrade to iOS 10.3.2. But I checked on the internet and shows that a PC is compulsory. I don’t have a PC.


texts: Anyone else have problems with "share my location" accuracy

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My iphone 5c (IOS 9.3) sent my location incorrectly. I "share my location" with my husband and on this particular day he checked my location and it showed I was about 1 to 1 1/2 miles away at a park (that I have never been to). I was home at the time and the wifi may have been down but I can't figure out why it was so far off.

If there is no wifi, wouldn't the cellular service ( I have Verizon) give the correct location? I even checked the Location History on my phone and it shows me home during that time period and does not show any history at that park location? What would cause it to be so far off?
Thanks.


texts: How to switch the Apple ID when update the mac's softs?

texts: When I update the softs of my Mac, there only can use the previous AppleID, but I want to switch other Apple ID, how can I do that? I can not click the Apple ID textfield.


texts: Backup, share, or save iPhone voicemail messages?

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Is there a way to export, save, share, or e-mail voicemail (not Voice Memos) from the iPhone?
I am guessing there are some under-the-hood ways to get at the files once you sync to a desktop, but is there any way to do it straight from the iPhone?
I have seen this response for jailbroken phones.
How can I backup and archive my iOS voicemail messages?


texts: Can you advise me of where or if it a high capacity battery exists to replace my pre unibody battery on a MacBook Pro?


texts:
I find the default dictionary dashboard widget on my MacBook Pro to be very annoying. One, you type in a misspelled word and it says, ""x" could not be found" instead of being helpful and offering alternative spellings. Two, I can't copy and paste from it.

Anyone know of a better one? Or maybe I should just use google?

Thanks.


texts: I am writing an AppleScript (Run AppleScript item) from within an application in Apple Automator, but the Log panel at the bottom of the window does not display any logged messages (that is, anything logged using the log ... AppleScript command). Is there something I'm missing as to how this should work?


texts: How to move all of my mails to external HD and make them appear only when its connected

texts:
I have 200 GB of mails, and I would like to place them in an external hard drive, and to make the appear, in the Mail.app, only when this external HD is connected.

Is this possible?


texts: Mail client for iOS that can show new messages in all IMAP folders

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I have a custom email server which is accessible via IMAP. The emails are automatically organized into different IMAP folders on the server.

All these folders show up just fine in most iOS mail applications. However, is there a mail app that can

1) sync all the IMAP folders? Now only the main Inbox folder is synced automatically.

2) get some sort of unified inbox showing all new mail from all the IMAP folders?


texts: Identify whether an icon represents a package or file

texts: There are some way to know, by the icon, if it's a package (like a .app) or a single file? I'm talking about some app or config that adds a flag in the icon, or something like that.


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I have a remote Samba share with my web hosting provider. I am unable to access it using OS X 10.8.2, while accessing it from a Windows 7 VM inside the OS X works fine. On OS X, I use "connect to server..." and try to access smb://servername/sharename. The operation times out with an unspecified error.

According to the hosting provider, this is because Apple dropped native Samba support in 10.7, and started using its own implementation of the protocol instead. This new implementation seems to have compatibility problems that prevent connecting to this particular remote share.

This Apple forum thread seems to confirm that users are having issues since OS X 10.7.

Is there a simple way to get back native Samba support in 10.8.2? I myself am not afraid of some command line tinkering but I want to share this samba drive with a number of colleagues. I wouldn't want to have to make deep changes to their OS Xes.
Alternatively, do any third-party tools exist that add  support for "original" Samba?


texts: Could my spotlight search index have really been 2.5 GB on a 256 GB drive?

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I have a MacBook Air (13-inch, Mid 2012) with El Capitan 10.11.6 and a 256 GB SSHD. I was having fan/CPU usage issues with mds and using the lines in this answer turned it off and deleted the index.

sudo mdutil -a -i off

sudo rm -rf /.Spotlight-V100/*

It's quiet now, and cool as a cucumber. But I was surprised to see 2.5 GB of hard drive space freed up at the moment I deleted the index.

My 256 GB drive is fairly full, so that's about 1%. Does that sound right? About 1% of the size of my stuff is used for indexing? Just curious.

I have quite a mix of file types, years of photos, lots of text and pdf's for research, youtube downloads, python's numpy and other text and non-text data files... does it all somehow get indexed?

Is there some magic way to stop it from opening file types I'm not interested in indexing?

This is the "before" situation. All is quiet now that indexing is turned off.


texts:
I have an old Macbook Pro (15-inch, mid-2010). Unfortunately,

(mechanical, non-SSD) hard disk has bad sectors; it needs to be replaced,
the GPU is faulty, if it is in use, the kernel panics; sometimes within several minutes from the boot up.

I figured out the procedure for installing a new working hard drive, yet before I do that, I have to ask:

Does the macOS installer rely on GPU? If yes, is it possible to make the installer not to use GPU?


texts: How can I remove web phone links from opening in Google Hangouts?

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For whatever reason, Google Hangouts has taken over as my dialer whenever I click on a phone number on the web (either Chrome or Safari). I want to restore this to open in FaceTime, but no longer have that option. In the FaceTime settings, FaceTime is still listed as the default dialer.

Any idea where Chrome would have made this change and how I can revert it? Better yet, how can i remove all remnants of google hangouts from my life??


texts: How to make a bootable Yosemite Drive under El Captain (not installation drive)

texts: I have installed El Captain on my MacBook Pro and I want to make a bootable Yosemite Drive. Could anyone help me with that?


texts:
My oxygen 25 midi keyboard is 'compliant with el capitan' according to the m-audio website, but I noticed none of my DAWs could establish a connection or receive a midi signal.

To prove no signal received, I downloaded midi monitor after following instructions here:

Apple Midi Test

Launching MIDI MONITOR, I get the following message

  MIDI Monitor could not make a connection to its MIDI driver. To fix
  the problem, quit all MIDI applications (including this one) and
  launch them again.

  For now, MIDI Monitor will not be able to spy on the output of other
  MIDI applications, but all other features will still work.

This leads me to believe the problem is with my OS upgrade rather than my hardware. I upgraded to 10.11.2 with the hopes that it may fix the issue, but it was to no avail.

What can I do to restore midi function in my macbook pro? This was working prior to el capitan upgrade.


texts: MacBook Pro 15-inch booting halts and its screen becomes green

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The scenario is:

I cannot log in Mac OSX if booting normally as the booting halts and the screen becomes green with nothing else on it.
In Recovery mode, reinstall Sierra and previous EI Capitan, but the problem still exists. ( Actually, this problem happened at EI Capitan first more than one year ago, and later I upgraded it to Sierra and tried to fix it, but it did not.)
Erase the Mac OSX partition, and reinstall Sierra, but the problem still exists.
I can log in Safe mode ( Shift ).
I can log in Recovery mode ( Command + R ).
I can log in Windows in Bootcamp.

My laptop details are below.

MacBook Pro 15-inch, Early 2011
Graphics: (1)AMD Radeon HD 6750M 1024 MB (2) Intel HD Graphics 3000 512 MB
Processor: 2.2 GHz Intel Core i7
Memory: 16 GB 1600 MHz DDR3
Hard drive: Samsung SSD 750G
System: Sierra, 10.12.5

This problem has blocked me more than one year, and I have tried many ways, but none of them worked.

Is there anyone can help me fix it?


texts: Unable to change network location while Firefox is open

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Under the Location option in the top-left Apple menu I have set up a few different options that let me quickly swap between different web proxy configurations when I connect to different networks. Normally I can just choose one and the new settings are applied immediately.

It has started showing this message if I try to choose a different location while Firefox is open.

The location doesn’t change and Firefox doesn’t actually close. I have to press Ignore, close Firefox, change location and re-open Firefox.

What is the cause of this?


texts: Charger works on Computers but not in the car?

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I bought a new charging cable for my iPod the other day. I used it to plug my iPod into my laptop and it works just fine. However, I plugged it into the radio transmitter in my car (which is itself plugged into the cigarette lighter for power) and the EL lighting keeps flashing on and off, meaning it is repeatedly getting then losing power. My original cable did work and stayed on but that broke which is why I bought the new one.

Is the cigarette lighter not a reliable source of power for this new cable?


texts: Xcode 10.2 does not open after installation from Mac App Store

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When I try to open Xcode 10.2 after installing it from Mac App Store, it doesn't open. After a while, a dialog box comes up with an error

  check with the developer to make sure Xcode works with this version of macOS

I am running macOS Mojave 10.14.2


texts: How to change charger LED color on MacBook Air

texts: I have the MacBook Air, and on the charger, there is a LED that is red-orange when charging, and green when charged. Is there any way to change the color of that? To, for instance, make it red when battery power is from 0-25, dark orange when the battery is 25-50, etc.?


texts: I have a MacBook Air which is an awesome computer, however I am curious what my options will be when the battery finally kicks the bucket. Can it be replaced?


texts: How to completely disable backupd-helper?

texts:
I am using macOS High Sierra 10.13.5, and with iCloud enabled.

I tried to kill backupd-helper many times, and I didn't have Time machine running, but it keeps use my disk IO:

Even after I kill the process, it will automatically start again. How can I completely disable it? Thanks!


texts: To set up Gmail app as default mail program in iPad?

texts:
When I press some email-link on Safari, it goes to mail app.
How can you make it go to Gmail app?


texts: What does it mean to sync apps to iPhone? I don't understand exactly what this does, or why I'd want to turn it on. What are the advantages/disadvantages of enabling "Sync Apps" in iTunes to my iPhone?


texts: wifi and hdmi problems on OS X yosemite (macbook pro 15-inch retina, late 2013)

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Just wondering if anyone has been having this issue and found a workaround:
My wifi works consistently both on Ubuntu and Android.
Sometimes it also works on OS X, other times it does not - not even after rebooting. No idea what's the problem.

I also have problems with its HDMI output (random pixels being displayed on the external screen). Again, Ubuntu works fine with the same TVs.


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Have a Smart Playlist "ALL" made of multiple simple playlists ; that was created with iTunes on a Mac. All the music comes from CDs and is locally on the Mac, and on iPhone (via sync).

After a Sync, on the iPhone (6+, latest iOS 10) the Smart Playlist "ALL" appears in Music that I'd like to play, but there's just a menu
(in "Downloaded Music")

Download
Remove
Add to Playlist (what is that?)

Download? What is it going to Download? All the Music being already locally on the iPhone in the Library.

Must be missing something obvious, I just want to play "ALL", how can i do that?

Edit May 2017

The question was not so clear.It was actually a bug (smart playlists not syncing in iOS 10), and this answer fixed it for me. Basically

go to Library in iTunes (Mac/PC side, not "My Device")
right-click and "Duplicate" all problematic playlists
delete the old ones, rename the duplicated ones to their old name (if you cannot stand the "1" added to the renamed playlist)
go to your "Device" and sync the "Entire Library"


texts: Can I put out a cigarette on aluminum Mac Books?

texts: Would it damage to put out cigarettes on the chassis of aluminum mac books?


texts: How can I make You Tube full screen on my iPad when using Safari?

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I recently updated my iPad and now if I go to You Tube (i.e., youtube.com) using Safari and try to make a video full screen the navigation bars etc... still take up about 1/5th of the screen at the top.

Is there a way to get it to show the video on the entire screen?

(Note I am not using the You Tube app and I would prefer a solution that doesn't require using it)


texts: Big Sur: Remove extra horizontal padding in menubar

texts:
In Big Sur MacOS update menubar icons have extra horizontal padding compared to previous OS versions.
All the icons I need just simply not fitting there. And they used to fit in Mojave. I am still not sure if Big Sur caused this or specific apps, but I have general feeling padding is larger.
Is there any way to reduce horizontal  padding in menubar in Big Sur?


texts: Sending a .zip file from MacBook Pro desktop

texts: I made my Xcode project into a .zip file. Can I send it via email as an attachment? Would it work that the person I send the project to, can unzip my file and see my entire Xcode project?


texts: How to proper setting root mysql password

texts:
I'm trying to make Mysql and phpMyAdmin works.

I installed mysql using brew

Following those answers https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6474775/setting-the-mysql-root-user-password-on-os-x

I tried to set a plain text password

UPDATE mysql.user SET authentication_string='root' WHERE User='root';

But now when I try to login into phpmyadmin I get 2 errors (I'm not able to connect even with mysql cli with "Access denied" error):

 mysqli_real_connect(): The server requested authentication method unknown to the client [caching_sha2_password]

 mysqli_real_connect(): (HY000/2054): The server requested authentication method unknown to the client


texts: Is there an app etc. that can save and restore the exact sizes and positions of windows?

texts:
Is there an app etc. that can save and restore the exact sizes and positions of windows on Mac?
The use case I have is using TextEdit windows with one window corresponding a note type. I have one window for just-typed-in contact numbers, one for research notes, one for to-dos etc.
Every time my com restarts, the windows locations and sizes will be reset and I have to re-size and re-position them again. How can I avoid this by saving these? I wish I could save a “configuration” or a “workspace”.
More generally, I think this will be very useful for every other non-TextEdit window.


texts: How do I completely uninstall Setapp and it's helpers manually?

texts:
The Setapp.app helper missed my first attempt to Trash the app (maybe an earlier version?). So I need to clean out it's various helpers and plugins manually.

Here's what I've found so far:

/Applications/Setapp.app
/Applications/Setapp/ <- if you have installed anything

~/Library/Application Support/Setapp/...
~/Library/Application Scripts/com.setapp.*
~/Library/Containers/com.setapp.*
~/Library/LaunchAgents/com.setapp.*
~/Library/QuickLook/SetappQL.qlgenerator

If I delete all the above will that completely remove Setapp? If not, what else do I need to do?


texts:
I have Windows (Boot Camp) installed. So I ran out of storage and thought about partitioning my Mac's part of drive. I partitioned my Mac's drive and set Windows to boot by default. Once I lost electricity and my iMac shut down. After this accident I can't see Mac in list of devices to boot. (After pressing alt when Mac is turning on)
But all files are ok. I see them when I use Windows.
Well, Boot Camp Control Panel indicates my Mac-George as Windows:


texts: How do I configure Camera and Microphone permission on macOS Mojave?

texts: I'm using macOS Mojave and it's preventing me from using my camera and microphone in web browsers like Firefox and Chrome, and in other applications too. How do I properly set up permissions so that my camera and microphone work in all of my apps?


texts: Can you import pictures from a locked iPhone with image capture?

texts: My cousin has forgotten his passcode for his phone, and is trying to find ways to get his pictures without resetting the phone and losing them.


texts: Why does my Messages app keep crashing before it even starts on my Mac Computer?

texts:
This question is very specific to Mac, and not mobile devices.
I am using a MacBook Pro (16-inch, 2019), running macOS Bug Sur 11.2.3
But I went to start work today, tried to open my Messages App and it crashed before the app window would open. Messages works on my iPhone, and iPad, but on the Mac it fails to start and immediately asks me to send a report to apple.
Why does Messages keep crashing?


texts:
My phone Verizon (iphone 4s) is off contract/unlocked and I
do not need voice.
However, I would like to use it to communicate over WiFi.
Is this possible (options) without a monthly phone bill..?
John


texts: Iphone 5s unlock to make all providers available

texts: I have seen that there has been a lot of questions asking how to unlock, but no question had an answer I was satisfied with. I want to unlock my phone at home using my Windows and/or ubuntu pc. How should I proceed? I have done this on my android devices but I am new to apple products, all google searches just tells me to pay my provider...


texts: Reset AFP permissions after uninstalling Mavericks Server?

texts: I just uninstalled Mavericks Server by dragging it to the trash and I'm finding that my AFP server no longer has access to serve files from the root of each drive.  Can anyone help restore the default sharing permissions?


texts: How to access the Wi-Fi password through Terminal?

texts:
I am at my school and the computer I am currently using is connected to a Wi-Fi network. I want to know the Wi-Fi password and I am on a Mac. I know there is a way to do it through Terminal.

What I am using is:

security find-generic-password -ga  AirPort

I use that to find the password if it is in a keychain, but I know there is another way to do it. My friend who is a coder told me their is but they said they wont help me. All they told me was "generic" was a hint. I used "generic" in my command but I don't get it.

I tried your answer but it keeps asking my for the admin password. I am connected to the wifi but it still wont work. My coding friend looked at this and said I'm not looking for a AirPort password I'm looking for a regular password.


texts: How to connect external display to MacBook Pro without a cable?

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I have MacBook Pro 16” and want to connect an external display, but it is not convenient for me to plug in a cable to my MacBook.
Is there a some way to use a wireless connection? I don’t expect 4 or 8K, at least FullHD.

Do I need to buy Apple TV, special display or some wireless connector?


texts: iPhone/iPad alarm clock app with custom radio stream support

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Is there a iPhone (or even better iPad) alarm clock app that will play a radio stream of my choosing to wake me up?

With custom stream I mean the possibility to enter a custom URL to a .pls file, and that pls contains a URL to a mp3.

Something like TimeTurner but with the custom stream support.


texts: Can the macbook air trackpad play nice with the iOS simulator?

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Does anyone knows if (and how) I can get my MacBook Air trackpad to feel more natural when used with the iOS simulator ?

It should be easier to use the iOS simulator with the trackpad - but it's not, it's way more difficult to scroll :-( It feels weird but it's the only time I wish I had a mouse on my mac book air - to emulate a touch screen :-|


texts: Sync iPod Touch Automatically when on WiFi but not plugged in

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I haven't seen this addressed anywhere, and I sort of understand why Apple would implement this but I want to see if there's any work around I haven't found yet.

Basically, I have an iPod Touch I keep in my car's glove compartment hooked up to my stereo.  The auto wifi sync only works when plugged in, but I would love for every time my ipod connects to my network for it to sync.

Currently, I can manually do it, and I have an Applescript that tries to sync every night, but that only works about 10% of the time.  Is there any automation apps or other work around you have found that will allow me to never have to take my ipod out of the glove compartment yet sync every time it is able?  Thanks in advance.


texts: Bootcamp and Filevault 2 boot to OS X before a restart allows Windows to load

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I've got a mid 2011 MBA with Windows 7 running via Bootcamp. In Lion, i've enabled Filevault 2.

Normally, when I turn my laptop on, I first enter the filevault password before the laptop boots into OS X.

If I am trying to boot into Windows, I hold down alt/option, select the Windows partition and let the laptop boot. However, what seems to happen is, the filevault screen that normally shows when I first turn my laptop on shows, I enter the password and I seem to end up in OS X! I then need to restart, hold down alt/option and select the Windows partition again. This then gets me in.

Is this normal behaviour? Or is there something I need to change?


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I have an iPad Air 2 running iOS 11 and an Android phone. Now, I want to be able to access the alarm tones from the iPad on the Android phone (I find them to be more soothing). Is there an easy way to go about transferring them?

I could not figure out how to do it via iTunes (assuming there is a way).

The android phone is running Oreo (if that is of any relevance).


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After my MBP has been asleep (lid closed), when woken, it seems to reconnect to wifi for a few seconds (30 or so) and then becomes unresponsive. All indications are that everything is OK, but web browsing etc fails. By "switching wifi on and off" on the task bar, it then works fine until the next time it's woken from sleep.
I have changed wifi router, and this issue has been evident for a year or so (so was on Mavericks and is now on Yosemite).
It has the latest released version of Yosemite (10.10.3)


texts: New iTerm2 Window Here option open two tabs

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When I right-clicked a folder and choose the services -> New iTerm2 Window Here option in the menu, I am getting two iTerm2 windows like this.

But I don't need that root level terminal here (The right side terminal of the image), because I only need this folder path terminal only. How can I stop this behavior?


texts: I am looking for the ribbon button to clear text formatting in Outlook 2016 on Mac and it just doesn't appear to be there.  Am I somehow missing it?  Can I enable it?  Is there a shortcut?


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I have an iPhone connected to external audio equipment via the dock connector.

The phone is equipped with three apps for playing audio: Apple Music, Apple Podcasts and Spotify. I would like to use any of these, with playing and controlling them via the dock connector, including browsing the respective music library.

Just starting the app and having it running in the foreground does the trick only half-way. This plays audio from the app, I can do pause/play and it shows track information (artist/album/track) for the currently playing track. However, for Podcasts and Spotify it does not show the library contents while playing audio.

It seems that the music app is not the only app to allow browsing the library. I had a case where I was playing audio from Spotify while the audio equipment showed the content of the Podcasts app library.

Is there a way to choose which app gets fully controlled by the dock connector?

In case this matters: the phone is an iPhone 4 with iOS 6.1, the audio equipment is an Audi A6 4F with AMI and MMI 2G.


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On my MacBook Pro 2018 I can't change any Bluetooth related settings anymore as long as no external dongle is connected.

Examples: If I turn it off, next start it is turned on again. If I remove a device, next time it connects automatically again. I can't see any new devices nor add them.

It just seems like there is a Bluetooth config somewhere which has been set to read-only.

I've already tried everything I could find via Google: Reset the Bluetooth module via the debug menu, remove all Bluetooth-related .plist files, even completely wipe and reinstall macOS, but nothing did help. I tried Mojave and High Sierra.

I already tried to get some Debugging info but "Bluetooth Explorer" from the Additional Tools for Xcode by Apple does not start at all, so I can not access any information.

Edit regarding the external dongle: When an external BT dongle is connected, everything works just fine. But obviously, I can only change settings and devices of that dongle. When I plug it out again, the problems reappear.


texts: iOS error -12746 - iDevices can't play any audio or video

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I've got an iPhone 6 running the iOS 11 public beta, and a few days ago, it suddenly stopped being able to play any audio or video unless it's through Bluetooth headphones. When I try to play a song, it says "The operation could not be completed. An unknown error occurred (-12746)." The player then proceeds to open the next song of the album, then the next, then the next, as if every song there had a length of 0:00. Trying to play a TV show throws the same error message, and when I try to play videos through third-party apps like Facebook our YouTube, they simply don't play, and my phone is so audio-free that I can't even hear people on the other end of phone calls.

All of these errors go away when I connect to my Beats Solo3's, but they happen all the time when I'm trying to use my phone's speakers or wired headphones. I've tried a reboot, a hard reset, and a wipe and downgrade to stable iOS 10, but nothing's fixed the issue.

By that point in my troubleshooting, I'd resigned myself to having an iPhone with a hardware issue for a few more months until the new iPhones come out, but then the really weird part happened: For the past couple days I've been carrying around my old 5th-gen iPod Touch (stuck on iOS 9.3.3) so that I can answer phone calls through Continuity and play music through my car's aux cable on my long drives to work, but this morning, it somehow manifested the exact same issue. Even weirder, doing a simple hard reset (just holding down Home and Power until the iPod rebooted) fixed the issue, at least for now. Again, the issue has survived multiple hard resets on my iPhone, but a single one on my iPod fixed it.

Google seems to have no idea what's causing this, and I'm totally stumped. Does anyone know what this issue is and how I can fix it, if possible? Thanks!


texts: Is it possible to encrypt a hard drive that is dual booting ubuntu using rEFInd?

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I recently installed ubuntu on my macbook pro. I am using rEFInd to dual boot ubuntu. Following the installation, I tried to encrypt my Macintosh HD partition by first converting the disk to core storage. I received the following error message:

Error: -69730: Unable to create boot loader partition due to the specifics of your partition map layout

I was using FileVault for whole disk encryption before partitioning my hard drive in order to install Ubuntu. Is there any way to correct this error, or another method to encrypt my hard drive?

I am dual booting Ubuntu 16.04 on my 13 inch Macbook Pro from mid 2014 running El Capitan. This is what my partition lay-out looks like:


texts: When I'm in Photoshop or when I try to upload a file to Google Chrome, I want my files to be organized by Date Modified. I have selected that but it group it into Date (Today, Yesterday, Previous 7 Days). How can I then organize them by time (newest at the top, oldest at the bottom)?


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How does FileVault generate a recovery key? From my user password? Does FileVault use the same key to decrypt disk on startup as recovery key? Are they identical?

I probably know the answers to this questions, but I want to be sure.

How does filevault 2 work?


texts: SD Card not readable after upgrading to El Capitan

texts: I'm not able to use my SD card on my MacBook Pro after I upgraded the OS to El Capitan. I tried to reset PRAM without success. Consider that if I put the SD card on another Mac it works perfectly. Any suggestions?


texts: Sidecar not working between MBP 15' 2019 and iPad Pro 9.7'

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I just updated both my ipad to IpadOS and my MBP to Catalina and I'm trying to setup sidecar.

I made sure that:

both are on the same wifi network
I'm logged in with the same iCloud account on both
Bluetooth is on

I don't have the AirPlay icon in the menu bar nor can I see the iPad in System Preferences > Sidecar.

What else can I try to make it work?


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When I browse into an iCloud Drive folder (specifically Preview.app's folder) via Finder on OS X 10.11.1, I see both the files I knowingly placed there and the ones I opened with the related app, Preview in this example, which got automatically aliased in there.

To me, it's just clutter, useless. I'm thinking perhaps a workaround script or toll running periodically as a cron jobs could wipe out the aliases in the specified locations?

Is there a (hidden/unofficial)way to turn-off this behaviour of iCloud Drive that it doesn't create aliases? If not, has anyone a tool/script that would be the start of something I could adopt to clean the folders?


texts: AirPods Pro aren’t reliable with Mac mini

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I have a 2018 Mac mini with fully up to date software. In December I purchased some AirPods Pro headphones and love them...mostly. The main downside is they're very unreliable with my Mac and troubleshooting has proven challenging.

First, and least concerning, is it often takes a little bit of time to pair when it's not already paired. 10, 15, 20 seconds may pass before it pairs. But next come the real problems. It's not uncommon for the headphones to randomly disconnect. Also, when I'm on calls in Webex or Microsoft Teams, people will often tell me my audio quality is poor but I can hear them just fine. If I have Webex call my phone, even using my Airpods, the audio is fine. This happens enough that I can't trust it to work reliably for talking on my Mac.

I'm using three other Bluetooth (or 2.4Ghz) devices. I have a Magic Keyboard, Magic Trackpad, and a Logitech mouse which uses one of those USB dongles (I don't think that's Bluetooth). Wireless is setup at 5Ghz so that's not a concern. I've heard USB 3 can interfere with 2.4Ghz signals. I'm using 2x 4k Dell monitors that connect using HDMI->USB-C adapters to the back of the mini. The keyboard and trackpad are reliable so I'm not 100% convinced that's the root cause, nor do I know how to fix that problem if it is.

I have used the Bluetooth Explorer you can download from Apple and found the AirPods RSSI does move more than the keyboard or trackpad. It'll be in the -40 range (very good!) and dip down into the -60 range, or worse. I just don't know if this is expected behavior with AirPods.

Apple Support had me reset the AirPods which helped for a bit but the quality is still a problem.

Can someone suggest troubleshooting steps I can take?


texts: Re. this question on Super user, I can't use iPad + Luna as primary monitor and FileVault simultaneously. My question is then, is there another way to conveniently encrypt the Document folder on the Mac? In other words, a way to replace FileVault as seamlessly as possible, targeting only the normal user documents?


texts: OSX Mavericks horizontal scrolling doesn't work well in Finder?

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I've noticed since updating to Mavericks last week (though this is a new Macbook, and I've been on Snow Leopard forever so not sure if this is 10.9 or 10.8 or what....) that horizontal scrolling in the Finder via two-finger trackpad movements is not working well.

I've tried turning inertia on and off, no difference.  Toggled everything in Trackpad in System Prefs, still no difference.  It seems "sticky" -- if I move my fingers continuously, the Finder scrolls in tiny fits and starts, but if i swipe, I get a normal inertia scroll.

Horizontal scroll works fine in Safari and Chrome, and in other programs; only Finder gives me trouble. Vertical scroll is fine in all contexts.

Has anyone else experienced this? I'm not having much luck Googling this, and wanted to check in here before posting as a bug / calling in a support ticket.


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Is there a way to get Photo Booth not to flash when it takes a photo?

It washes out every picture I take.


texts: About 'Remote Login' how to logout that?

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It's my first post and I'm not quite good in English. If I explained something not clear please let me know.

For simple when you logged in Terminal.app (on Mac OSX) the prompt should be

<hostname>:<path> <username>$

My local hostname is "Macintosh" but now my hostname is "foobar.com"(don't need to publish this name is for example)

I had enable the Remote function and logged in to the "foobar.com" as my self, confused? So I mean I do all of this on my local.

My local hostname was Macintosh, I enabled System Preferences>Network>Remote Login
I obtained foobar.com to log in.
Then, I logged @foobar.com.
My hostname is foobar.com and my group is staff.
I disabled Preferences>Network>Remote Login
Restart My Mac.
My hostname is still foobar.com and still  :staff.
So, I need to logout to be myself :admin and hostname "Macintosh"
Because I can't do anything as admin, It's weird.

How can I done that?

for additional information If I turn-off Wi-Fi that I
    ssh logged in to myself
That is the result that I need.


texts: How can you sync "learned spellings" between Macs

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OSX always tries to autocorrect the the unix commands that I save into my note taking application.

To prevent this, I right click and tell OSX to "Learn Spelling".

Is there a way to teach this spelling to all my Mac's? Ideally using iCloud or dropbox.


texts: iMessage to myself is received in different chat than it was sent from?

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This is very strange but I hope readers can follow.  My phone is an iPhone SE running iOS 11.2.6, mac is a 2011 iMac running macOS Sierra (10.12.6), iPad Mini 2 is on iOS 10.3.4.

I often send myself messages on my various device, as a quick & dirty way to copy text from one to another, i.e. phone to iMac or iPad, or any other variation on that theme.  Normally when I do this, I see the sent message in grey on all devices, and the received message immediately after in blue.  Makes perfect sense since they are all logged in to the same iCloud account.

Recently however, something has changed.  When I sent a message to myself on any device, it works as normal on my iMac, Macbook, and iPads.  However on my iPhone, I see TWO chats with myself.  One gets the grey message (indicating what was sent) and the other gets the blue message (indicating what was received).

What the heck is going on here?  Both chat threads are with the same contact (mine), and I see no difference between them at all.  I have tried deleting one of the conversations, but it just gets recreated again.

All my devices are set in Messages preferences to use my email address for all new conversations, and I'm set to be reachable at my phone number and email address on all devices as well.  I'm stumped.


texts: How to remove new line from Terminal on launch?

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When I launch terminal, it always puts a new line at the beginning first.  I am using zsh and did install ohmyzsh, but I can't seem to find anything that would cause this behaviour.  Please see attached screenshot.  Using powerlevel10k theme.
I checked .bashrc, .zshrc, and every other profile I can think of but can't figure it out.

New tab and pressed return

UPDATE 2: .zshrc BAD CONTENT IDENTIFIED
# Colorise the top Tabs of Iterm2 with the same color as background
# Just change the 18/26/33 wich are the rgb values
echo -e "\033]6;1;bg;red;brightness;18\a"
echo -e "\033]6;1;bg;green;brightness;26\a"
echo -e "\033]6;1;bg;blue;brightness;33\a"

I don't know why these echo commands are causing that behavior, but when I comment out each one, the "new line" is less and less" until I have commented out all three.  I got the commands from this medium.com post but it's only supposed to change the tab color.  I have removed them now, but tabs are blah.  Better than the line spacing.


texts: I can no longer use my Kingston DTSE9 flash drive because it is 'write-protected'. How can I remove the write-protection?

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Disk Utility won't allow me to Erase or Repair the drive, it will only let me verify it.

Clicking on Disk Partition, I get the following message:
This partition cannot be modified. This disk is not writable and can not be partitioned.

I used this thumb drive to transfer files from my mac to a PC, and it became write protected after a transfer from one to the other.


texts: How to Disable Touch Bar Zoom on MacBook Pro 2016

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I was accidentally able to turn on touch bar zoom, which apparently casts the touch bar and your actions to the bottom 1/2 of the screen. Now there is no longer an option to disable it in the 'zoom' section of 'accessibility'.  As this is a new feature, there is no documentation of this issue yet.

I would appreciate any help, as this makes the the touch bar near useless.


texts: Applescript: Ask user for list of numbers and open new tabs with those numbers as URLs

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I am looking to make an Applescript that will take a list of numbers inputted by the user like (copy and pasted just like this):

25082945

25463469

03146331

36584524

23461461

Then, in a browser, open a new tab or each number with the number as the URL.

This is how far I have gotten:

display dialog "Please Enter IDs" with icon caution default answer ""
set id_list to text returned of result

tell application "Google Chrome"
    make new tab at end of tabs of window 1 with properties {URL:id_list}
end tell

I am guessing that I need to filter the input into a list but I heard that Applescript does not register formatting so the line breaks are not registered. Then for each item in the id_list, open new tab, set url as that number.


texts: pass shutdown from APC battery backup to VMware Fusion Guest machine

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How can I pass the shutdown command to the vmware fusion guest (debian)?

I installed vmware tools and if I manually shutdown my Mac it'll pass the command to shutdown the guest system first. However, if I unplug my APC battery backup, the shutdown command is issued to OSX and is not passed to the guest OS.


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For an exhibition I need a minimal Apple TV setup that enables me to connect an iPad to an Apple TV via Air Play.

→ Ideally I don't want to bring an extra router or computer. Is it possible to connect the iPad to the Apple TV directly without having both joined to a wifi network?

If this is not the case, what would be an easy to setup solution for this? (Is it e.g. a separate Airport Express to create the network?)


texts: Is it possible to "window" fullscreen games?

texts:
Is it possible to force an OpenGL app into a window instead of fullscreen canvas?

I'm using two displays and would like to use the other, while playing a game on one display. Since fullscreen makes the secondary display go black, this it not possible by now.


texts: How to check OpenGL Version? The version is the same as if i install Windows?

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I need to work with at least OpenGL 3.1, and i am not sure which version do i have.

When i execute this command on terminal:

  glxinfo | grep "OpenGL version"

i get this message:

  OpenGL version string: 2.1 NVIDIA-8.24.16 310.90.9.05f01

However when i check the version on program called "OpenGL Extensions Viewer" it says up to 3.3 but only with core features, what that means?

What if i install Windows and update the graphics drivers, i will still be able to use OpenGL 2.2 or more?

I appreciate any help.

Macbook 15-inch, Mid 2010 with NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M 256 MB, OS X 10.9.5


texts: Why is Contacts.app's "General" tab different on two Macs with the same software?

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I have two macs, a 2010 MBP and a 2013 MBA. They run identical software: both use macOS 10.12.6, and Contacts.app 10.0, build 1756.20.

The "General" pane of Contacts.app's Preferences displays differently on the two machines. The MBP shows this:

while the MBA shows this:

Why are the panes different?


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Warning, a virus?

I have made a search in Safari address bar. I put marqueting (marketing in catalan language) I have been redirected to a page that says:

(Now I am in Spain and this is my translation of the message, as far as I know:)

    WARNING!

    Mac OS X 10.12.5 is infected with viruses and other malicious applications.
Viruses must be removed and damage to the system must be repaired.

    You need to run the virus removal procedure immediately.

    ** If you leave this site, your Mac OS X Sierra will remain damaged and vulnerable **

    The address is (only the beginning):
    http://mac-shield.com-secure.download/result/e3fk6/?sourceid=

I suppose that the message itself must be malicious. I post it just to be sure and to help and prevent others. Why it happened just making a search? how to solve it, should just ignore it? How to avoid that in future searches?


texts: how to pack python package that includes python scripts and bash scripts for OSx as pythonTool.app?

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I have made a python tool which I want to share with users. I tried Automator, and it works but in that I used Application > Run Shell Script in which I hard coded the path to my python script, but since I want any user to be able to use it from any location, I don't think I this seems possible solution. Secondly my python script also takes current folder as argument, See below:

In the above picture the path to of application is where I am developing, which is wrong, infact that path should I guess be dynamically generated and the second argument current folder path should also be passed.

I also tried with platypus, that does copy the content to Application folder and all required files packaged inside Gallery.app(see below)

 Contents
      \_ Info.plist
      \_ MacOS
        \_ Gallery # i ran this guess clicking on Gallery.app executes this binary
      \_ Resources
                \_ AppSettings.plist
                \_ MainMenu.nib
                \_ README.md
                \_ __init__.py
                \_ appIcon.icns
                \_ controlBar.py
                \_ exifread
                \_ gallery.py
                \_ icons.py
                \_ script
                \_ scripts
                \_ slideShow.py
                \_ slideShowBase.py
                \_ utils.py
                \_ PyQt4
                      \_ Qt.so
                      \_ QtCore.so
                      \_ QtGui.so
                      \_ __init__.py
                      \_ _qt.so
                      \_ libQt.a
                      \_ libQtCore.a
                      \_ libQtGui.a

but since my tool requires PyQt4 I included required files too but  again that gives below error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Applications/Gallery.app/Contents/Resources/script", line 12, in <module>
    import utils
  File "/Applications/Gallery.app/Contents/Resources/utils.py", line 4, in <module>
    from PyQt4 import QtGui, QtCore
ImportError: dlopen(/Applications/Gallery.app/Contents/Resources/PyQt4/_qt.so, 2): Symbol not found: _PyCapsule_Type
  Referenced from: /Applications/Gallery.app/Contents/Resources/PyQt4/_qt.so
  Expected in: flat namespace
 in /Applications/Gallery.app/Contents/Resources/PyQt4/_qt.so

Earlier I was getting exifread module not found so i copied it too and got rid of the error but doing the same for PyQt4 didn't worked :(


texts: Is it a good idea to reinstall OS X to attempt to fix some minor issues?

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I am having a couple of problems with my Mac (wifi doesn't connect automatically, and audio jack doesn't work unless I restart).

Having failed at fixing them for a while, I am wondering if reinstalling the OS (Mavericks) might help in such a scenario and should be given a try? (Obviously, I want to reinstall while keeping all my data, settings, apps etc intact.)


texts: Using MAMP 3.4, how do I upgrade to Apache 2.4 and OpenSSL 1.0.2 to meet the ATS iOS 9 requirements?

texts: I've just installed MAMP 3.4 on Yosemite but the Apache version inside is still 2.2. Is there a way to upgrade to Apache 2.4? Moreover I have installed through brew openssl 1.0.2 but MAMP Apache still starts with version OpenSSL/0.9.8zg. Why? I need this updates in order to meet new ATS iOS 9 requirements.


texts: File transfer from XBOX 360 to MBA (wifi?)

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I have this Spanish lessons on a CD disk!

My MBA does not have a CD drive.

So I use the Xbox to play the CD disk.

However, the Xbox is not very portable :(

I wonder if there is a way to get those files from the Xbox (I saved the files on the xbox harddrive) to my MacBook Air, wirelessly!


texts: iPhone7 (ios 11.1.2) failed to connect to Macbook pro (10.13.6) with error msg "Installation Failed"

texts:
iPhone7 (ios 11.1.2) failed to connect to Macbook pro (MacOS 10.13.6) with error msg "Installation Failed"

Basically, I am having the error which is the same as https://discussions.apple.com/thread/8464414.

Anyone have any ideas how to fix it? Thanks a lot.


texts:
I'm new to Apple, and while the experience has largely been positive, I have been stymied trying to configure keyboard shortcuts to my specifications.  For example, I used a rather round-about process (via the "Automator") to assign a shortcut to open a new terminal.  But even now this this shortcut only seems to function if the focus is on a program which has not overwritten that particular key-combination with its own definition.

I'm looking for information on something like a hierarchy of protocols for how my Mac decides to use which key-combination definition in which context, or a philosophy on the best way to assign my preferred shortcuts.  Can I make a keyboard shortcut so high in priority that no application can take precedence?


texts: mac become no sound when after mac sleep

texts:
Sometime, I close lid, and open again, The sound not available.

When I restart my mac, The sound back.

Is this a bug?


texts: Trying to format SD card for raspberry pi, but I get permission denied

texts:
I am trying to format my SD card on a mac (macOS Mojave 10.14.6)

I am using a card reader hooked up to the computer and the SD card adapter is on the unlocked position. My SD card is a samsung evo 32GB.

This is what the terminal looks like, its a modified archlinux script:

Deannes-MBP:~ dena$ SD_CARD=/dev/disk2s1
Deannes-MBP:~ dena$ echo "o p n p 1 +100M t c n p 2 w"| fdisk $SD_CARD
fdisk: /dev/disk2s1: Permission denied

I also tried this to have a look:

ls -l /dev/disk2s1
brw-r----- 1 root operator 1, 9 1 Mar 16:14 /dev/disk2s1

Not sure if it helps.

I am totally new to this and have little computer knowledge (especially coding). I have looked at other posts/problems online, and I have tried to blow into the card reader (someone said that it helped). But it didn't do anything.

When I look at sharing and permissions for the SD card it says you have custom access.

So if anyone has any ideas about how I can format this, it would be great.


texts: iPhone storage totals fail to account for missing 7.5GB - what's using this space?

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I have a 128GB iPhone. When I go to Settings > Storage > Storage (section) > Manage Storage, it tells me 106.69GB is used and 15.05GB is free. That totals 121.74GB. (Yes, I understand the total will be less than 128GB because an Apple gigabyte is 1000 x 1000 x 1000 and not 1024 x 1024 x 1024. So be it.)

However when I go through all of the applications that are listed, and add them up, I get 97.10GB.

So at the top it tells me 106.69GB is used, but tallying the listed items totals 97.10GB. That leaves a difference of 9.59GB which is apparently used up, but not in the list.

As I understand it, iOS should be about 2GB - which means there should still be 7.5GB that isn't accounted for anywhere. Given the phone reports I have about 15GB free, adding an additional 7.5GB would actually increase my free space by 50%, and that's worth hunting down.

What gives?


texts: What are some ways to copy and paste more efficiently on iOS?

texts:
If I am going to do some Google research on a question I have, I would like to copy a bunch of links I encounter and have them all go into some kind of list somewhere. Then, when I have gathered enough links, I can paste them in a document somewhere. That way, I don’t have to tediously switch back and forth between two apps, constantly.

Ideally, beyond just links, there would be the titles of the webpages, and some descriptions of them, too.

What are some ways to do this? The app Copied has some decent functionality related to this, but limited. Could it be pulled off with Shortcuts?


texts: My Macbook Air 2010 (11 inch) goes black and needs to be restarted every 8 - 12 or so hours

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I have no idea why this is happening as nothing seems to trigger it. The computer just freezes and the screen goes off, and no amount of key pressing or brightness control jiggering will do anything. Only a restart will let me use the laptop again.

I'm usually not even touching the computer when this happens. One moment the screen or screensaver is on, and the next moment the black non-responsive screen of death happens.


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Recently got a new Macbook Pro. It has Force click technology where you can lookup the definition of words by clicking hard on the trackpad. It worked bon day1 but it does not seem to work anymore and I am not sure why.

The feature itself is definitely enabled, although I am not getting any feedback / popup with info.

Any idea why this is? I appreciate any advice on how to troubleshoot as this is a great feature and I would like to make use of it


texts: Is there a way to make caps lock behave like it does on other PCs?

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Normally on a PC, if you have caps lock enabled, holding shift will result in lower case characters appearing.

Without Caps Lock

wITH cAPS lOCK

On OSX, this behavior doesn't occur - that is, holding shift while caps lock is engaged doesn't produce lower case. The behavior is specific to OSX, since it doesn't happen in a Boot Camp installed copy of Windows.

Is there a way to change this behavior to be more traditional?


texts: Why isn't my shortcut for accessing desktop not working?

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I'm using a Macbook Pro and I just upgraded to Mac Sierra.  I wanted to see if there was a keyboard shortcut for accessing my Desktop (and the icons that are on it) so I read this article -- http://www.noproblemmac.com/blog/2015/05/21/how-to-always-get-to-your-macs-desktop/ , and tried the shortcuts provided.  Specifically, Fn + F11 or Command + F3 (Mission control key?) but neither combination works.

How do I enable keyboard shortcuts for the desktop or what are the proper key sto press?


texts: Global Proxy - Tunnel All Traffic to Proxy

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How do i make OSX go through a proxy server for all the applications that use internet?

The system preferences proxy network setting only routes depending if the application supports it, but an ideal solution would be a way to tunnel everything to a proxy.


texts: Snow Leopard Time Machine backups are not visible in Lion

texts: I upgraded to Lion recently.  I noticed tonight that backups performed on Snow Leopard do not show in the Time Machine interface so I cannot restore from them.  If I browse my backup volume I can see my backups exist right back to December 2009.  How do I get Time Machine in Lion to recognize my old backups?


texts: Are any of the USB ports on a Macbook Pro "always on"

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Always on USB ports will provide power to a device even when the laptop is shut down. Obviously this can be problematic for battery issues, but sometimes a user wants this capability all things considered.

Do the Macbook Pro offer this on any of the USB ports and if not is there any chance its wired and just has to be enabled?


texts: Adobe Illustrator CS6 on Mojave with Java 8?

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I ran into the common issue where Illustrator CS6 was unable to open in newer Mac OS version and asking for Java 6 to be installed.
While I have already installed Java 8, I found this thread where a few answers pointed to the possibility of using Java 8 as long as two empty directories are created: Adobe Illustrator CS6 with Java 8?
However, it appears that most users there are using El Capitan or older versions, and since there are some SIP related operation involved, to be on the cautious side, I want to know if anyone tried/knew the same solution proposed in the above thread would work for Mojave (10.14.6)? Would this cause any issue with future updates?


texts: My SMS are not displayed in macOS Messages app anymore

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I use to have my SMS displayed in the macOS Messages app but it doesn't work anymore.

I check this Apple support document and my configuration is well set up:

Use Messages with your Mac.

Any idea how to restore it?

My configuration:

iOS version: 11.2.6
macOS version: Sierra 10.12.6


texts: Does push notification work on a jailbroken device?

texts:
This is a quite straightforward question.

I have read about the jailbroken devices having some problems receiving push notifications.

Is that really true? And if so, how can we resolve it?


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I have an iPhone running iOS 11.1.2. How do I remove the URL in my screen at the top of Safari so that I can type in a new search?

When I tap and hold, the only options I get are copy and paste and go. Formerly a small x appears beside the URL when I held it down and that erased the URL. That small x doesn't appear now.


texts: Manual completly uninstall Chrome & Chrome Canary OSX Yosemite

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I am trying to uninstall/delete chrome & chrome canary, but for some reason, when I restart the computer both programs still there.

I am manually deleting this files and folders

~/Library/Application Support/Google
~/Library/Caches/com.google.*
~/Library/Preferences/com.google.*
~/Library/Google

I am trying to figure out where is the problem and what can I do to solve it.

Thank you


texts: Does Automator keep a log of all changed files?

texts: I ran a batch rename of all files named index.html to index.php with Automator - I meant to run it on a specific folder and instead ran it on my whole computer. I can't undo the changes as far as I know (no time machine backup either). Does automator have a log of the files that were changed?


texts: backing up to iCloud, and restoring from computer

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I have 60GB of photos on my iPhone, so I can't back it up to iCloud, I suppose even if I bought the max iCloud plan from Apple? If I turn on iCloud backup for this device and disable photos it can be backed up (at aprox 1.5GB).

With these iCloud settings, I assume manual backups to the computer will be unaffected, that is: they will still back up all data from the phone to the computer, including photos. Am I correct?

The plan is to use iCloud to restore my phone (contacts and apps) in case of emergency, but to have a main backup on my Mac to restore all photos etc. Am I on the right track here?

Thanks for reading.


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I've searched everywhere but couldn't find it , Would you please guide me where I can find the default MAC Osx sound alert file for new email

Regards


texts: Airport Extreme problem between 2.4 and 5ghz networks

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I have an Airport Extreme running the latest version of the software. All settings are pretty standard although I may have overriden the wifi channels. I have the 2.4 network and the 5ghz network with different names. Some devices in the apartment are on 2.4 and some are on 5 depending on what they are etc. I have a 250mbit cable connection into an Arris router attached to the Airport Extreme.

I have a NAS, a wifi printer, several Samsung TVs and rokus on the network. Depending on which network certain devices ( ipad, iphones, ps4, TVs, ROKU ) are on compared to what the NAS, printer, rokus, tvs are on they can't see each other. If I disconnect and then reconnect wifi on the ipad/iphones/TV/rokus ( multiples of them ) then I'll see the missing devices. Almost like the 2.4 and 5ghz are not "sharing" the "routing table" or not sharing the network and making everything regardless of network available to all.

I've used plenty of DD-WRT and the like on devices over the years and have never had this issue. I dumped all of them to go "simple" and just use the Airport Extreme going forward, but it's driving me crazy when I have to keep resetting or rebooting things to get them to see each other, which should not be the case.

There is limited config options on the Airport Extreme, so not sure there is anything I can check or should check. Note that 1 device is only ever connected to 1 network ie. the printer cannot jump between bands. Same with all the other devices.

The NAS is plugged directly into the Airport Extreme. The TV is on 5ghz and sometimes I can't see the DLNA broadcast on the TV. If I hard reset the TV ( pull power ) and then re-plug it'll pop up once it reconnects to the network. Same deal with the Printer but that is on wifi and phones printing are on wifi.

Apologies for the redundancy in my explanation, I wanted to explain some scenarios as best as possible.


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I have a GitHub repository where the folder structure is like this:

MyCompany

Data
Web.Service
Web.Site
Windows.Application
...

The problem is, when I pull the branch, there is the folder Web.Service. Mac renames the folder to Web.Service.app and thinks it's an app.

Now, my IDE can't work anymore with it. And I can't rename the namespace.

What can I do? Any suggestions?


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My only Mac is so old that it only runs a maximum of OS X 10.7 which does not support iCloud Photo Library.

I want to upload a few thousand photos from my hard drive to iCloud Photo Library one time and that's all.

Is there a way to do this with my old Mac?


texts: warranty repair with activation lock activated

texts: I just bought a 2nd hand broken iPhone5s which stuck at restore mode, restore failed every time. This phone is still under warranty,and i wanted to send it for repair but it's have be service from out of my country. So i would like to know does apple repair any phone that have activation lock on.


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I have iPhone 3GS with iOS 4.2.1

I am having lot of issues in downloading apps from app store as most of the apps do not support this iOS version anymore.

There is an update for iOS 6.1.6 available on iTunes, will my phone get updated to this version and will I be able to download apps later, after the update.

My device is jailbroken because I see Cydia on it.

Will I still be able to update by restoring my iphone 3GS via iTunes.


texts: How do I make my Mac speakers sound like iPad 2 speakers?

texts: I am the developer of an app that uses voice recordings. I need to have an idea of what the recordings will sound like on an iPad. I have an iPad, but I'd like to change some settings on my Mac speakers so that every sound sounds like it's coming out of an iPad speaker.


texts: Cannot find users on login screen - only guest login available

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I am using OS X Mavericks and when I boot the machine I only see the guest login.
When I log in as a guest everything functions correctly but I can't access my files.. I ran OSX utilities and all my drives were verified with no errors.

How do I find my accounts again?


texts: How can I make Find My Friends display distance in miles rather than km?

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I'm in the UK, where (like the US) we use miles to measure distance, not kilometres. However, on both my iPhone and iPad the Find My Friends app in iOS 5 shows distances in km.

If I go to Settings > General > International and change my Region Format setting to United States, Find My Friends automatically switches to displaying distance in miles. Switch back to United Kingdom and frustratingly I'm back to km. Is there any other way to make Find My Friends pick up the correct unit for UK users?


texts: How to find which shared library is missing?

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When I use ldd on Linux it tells me right away if something is missing, i.e.

ldd -d some_lib.so
    libexample.so => not found
    libex.2.so => not found
    libm.so.6 => /lib/libm.so.6 (0xf5860000)
    libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0xf785b000)
    libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0xf78a9000)
    /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x46b4c000)

On Mac OS there is no ldd and people recommend using otool -L, but that shows which shared libraries are expected, not weather or not they are there. Another approach would be to use dtruss, but it requires sudo, and it least in my experience the application behaves very differently when it is being dtrussed, and it fails for an entirely different reason (and before it gets to trying to load the troublesome .dylib).

So if you suspect that a shared library is missing, what is the standard approach to finding which one it is on the Mac?


texts: El Capitan: Strange folder names on Synology NAS

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We've upgraded some MacBooks to El Capitan, all the workstations here are connected to a NAS through AFP. All upgraded workstations now show a small amount of folders with strange names like;

SBAK7C~3
GE3HHX~F
DWBENE~Y

These folders are still accessible for El Capitan. The non-El Capitan (Yosemite) workstations show the normal names.

What could be wrong?


texts: How can I have a fixed size wastpaper basket?

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Possible Duplicate:
  Is there a way to limit the size of the Trash?

I'd like to have a way to auto-deleted item in the basket, based upon the time they come in (oldest to be deleted first)...


texts: Macbook Pro 2015's screen flashes up and down

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I got my Mid-2105 15" MacBook Pro a year or two back. It worked great, and I even got a free battery replacement from Apple. However a few days ago it was dropped on the floor. At first, the Mac was not taking touch pad input and most of the keyboard (although at least some functions keys worked) wasn't working, even after restarting.

However, a bit later the keyboard and touch pad started working again. At that point I noticed that the screen was "flashing". Basically the image on the display would randomly flash to some point below on the screen, then flash back to it's normal position, and so on. This flashing happens as soon as the Apple logo is displayed at startup, and applies even to the dead battery logo.

I Googled the symptoms, but all of the results seemed to be for software issues, not hardware. I might've gone to the Genius bar, but they're all closed due to the pandemic, and with everyone quarantined at home, now is not a great time for the computer to not function.

I also noticed that when you look closely, there are also random pixels that get turned on to full brightness after the screen flashes.

So please, if anyone has any idea of went wrong or how to fix it, I'd really appreciate it. I do have some very basic experience in opening up mobile devices, so if a fix isn't too far out of my realm I might give at try.

Here is a video of the problem in action.


texts: Open Finder window from current Terminal location?

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If I am in a specific path in a Terminal window, how can I open that same window in a new Finder window?

Note: This is the opposite of opening a Terminal from Finder.


texts: Can I use Automator or some other method to extract EXIF GPS data from batches of photos on my Mac?

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I need a way of extracting EXIF GPS data, using my Mac, from a bunch of photos taken on an iPhone.  So for example, if I put 1000 photos into a folder, I want an easy way of extracting all the GPS data for each photo into a text file.

A solution which gets me close will probably be good enough.  I've looked at Automator but don't see a built in way to do what I need.  I have Aperture, iPhoto and Photoshop CS4 on my Mac in case someone knows a way of incorporating those applications.


texts: List all homebrew packages explicitly installed by the user (without deps)

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Is there a way to list all the homebrew packages explicitly installed by the user (they they installed directly using brew install)?
Note brew leaves doesn't do this. Over time formula can change change their dependencies leaving orphaned leaves that were never explicitly installed by the user or adding dependencies on previously explicitly installed packages.


texts: how to check for iPhone battery replacement eligibility under warranty?

texts: In the Apple Store they have a special software program that will check the remaining strength of your battery, and replace it under AppleCare warranty if it goes beneath 80%. Is there any way to check that on my own short of calling them and having them rerun the tests over the phone? It's not totally clear how the figures are actually calculated.


texts: iphone x and lens for camera - should I be worried about scratches

texts: I just got a new iPhone X and am curious if I should protect it from scratching the lens. I am using an Element Case to protect but is this enough for the lens of the camera too? thx


texts: Are there any good Apple Watch apps to track roller skating?

texts: I've looked around for a bit but i wasn't able to find any app to track roller skating. The only app that i found is iSkate but it's pretty outdated and it costs about 10€ that it's too expensive to me.


texts: How do you formulate Microsoft Excel "if" statement equivalent in Numbers?

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The syntax of a simple Excel if statement is:

=IF(a1="a",b2,"")

This places the contents of cell b2 in the current cell if cell a1 contains the character "a". Otherwise the current cell is cleared.

How is this statement, for example, entered in Numbers?


texts: Cannot sync with iTunes: This computer is no longer authorized for apps that are installed on the iPhone

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I'm not even trying to sync apps. I only want to sync one movie. When I try to sync, I get this error message.

I click the Authorize button, it asks me to enter my iTunes password, and after that, it gives me this error.

I even tried to go to the menu > iTunes Store > Authorize This Computer, but it still gives the error. I also tried to de-authorize the computer, but it gives the same error when I try to authorize. I ran the diagnostics in iTunes and they all passed. (I did not run the CD test.) I checked for updates and it says it is the latest. I have the box checked in preferences to "Automatically Update".

Windows 8.1, iPhone 5, iOS 9.2.1, iTunes 12.1.2.27


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Lets say I want to place the camera without photographer, and take some time to move into the picture.

Is there an app for iPhone to make pictures after a delay?


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When booting up and logging into my MacBook Pro, I get the following error message:

localhost com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] <Emergency>: Boot task failed: fsck-safe
localhost com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] <Emergency>: Shutting down in 3 seconds.

This is an image of the error:

I am running OS X Yosemite, on a mid 2011 MacBook Pro.


texts: Did I just brick my Apple TV's internet capability?

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I tried to spoof my location with Xcode for my Apple TV 4, with a blank app. As soon I did this my network connection dropped and showed an internal IP from the Apple TV (and not WiFi option, only ethernet). So, I hard reset it via iTunes and it still only gives me the option ethernet (there is no option to connect via WiFi). Even when I plug the ethernet cable in it does not work and says 'no network connection found'. Also I am not able to set get connected via the option to set up the Apple TV with my iPhone?

Does anyone have an idea how I can fix this? Or did I totally brick my Apple TV?

Steps I already took:

Hard reset via an IPSW via iTunes.
Called Apple Care for help (they do not have a solution, I can go to
genius bar to check it out: I'll but no free slots)
Restarted/reset router
Different lan-cable/try to get ethernet connection via my Mac
Settings back via Xcode, but it tells me I have to activate my Apple TV first (which I cannot do because I can't get internet to work)

Thanks in advance! Apple TV is on 10.0.1

Update 12 december: made an appointment with the genius bar for Wednesday.


texts: Issues putting a hard drive in the optical bay of my early 2011 MacBook Pro

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I'm asking for help for my brother! I recently switched over to a dual hard-drive setup, and it worked perfectly. However, my brother is having issues.

First off, here is the hard drive we are trying to put in.

He has an early 2011 15" MacBook Pro. We read up online, and people said that the optical bay for his model only has SATA II, while the main bay has SATA III, which means he should put his HDD in the optical bay, and the SSD in the main bay. He wants to put the HDD in the optical drive area, and then transfer everything over to the new HDD, before putting the SSD into the main bay.

The issue is that when we put the HDD in the optical bay, the computer can basically not recognize or use it. If plug the HDD in via a usb cord, he can initialize it and erase it to Mac OSX Extended (Journaled) perfectly fine. It only takes a few seconds, and as far as I can tell, it works. However, when he actually puts the hard drive in the optical bay, it either doesn't show up in disk utility, or it shows up, but can't be accessed or changed.

We left it in, and it showed up after 30 minutes or so. When he tried to initialize it, however, the computer said it'd take 5 hours to do. The progress bar ended up getting half way done, and then stopping, so that didn't even work.

We thought that maybe it could be a firmware issue after searching on the internet some, but we looked and definitely have the newest firmware version (2.7, I believe). Also, I don't think that issue applies to us, since I think it's only relevant to getting the proper speeds out of a SSD.

We also tried just initializing it before putting it into the computer, but the computer doesn't seem to recognize it correctly. The name is changed from "New HDD" to "disk1s1", and we can't actually access it. That's when we tried initializing it again, just for the progress bar to get stuck.

Looking online, this setup should work. Tons of people have done it, even using the hard drive we are using. We aren't even trying to put a SSD in yet, which is where most people have problems with the 2011 model. This is just a regular hard drive! I don't understand what could be wrong, and could use some help!

If there's anywhere else you think I should post this, just let me know!

Thank you!


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"Your Mac restarted due to a problem."

System.log showed boot time as 17:19 and the last message before was 17:13 but things had been working in the five minutes before the restart.

Six log files had file dates after 17:13, but five of them had NO messages before the reboot.  (The other has timestamps only in raw integer format)

So how do I look for clues to what happened between 17:13 and 17:19 ?

It's a Macbook Pro 2012 refurb still under warranty (purchased January) but the RAM and SSD were transferred from an older machine.


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First of all, there's no firmware password or anything fancy. I'm trying to diagnose a late-2011 MacBook Pro 15", and I'm trying to get into the single user mode. I press and hold Cmd+S (the left Cmd, if it changes anything) but I'm not getting into the mode. I've tried pressing (and holding) it before pressing the power button, at the same time, a little after etc. I've tried all the combinations. It just won't enter. It will keep booting or let's say (try booting) into the OS where it gets stuck. When I press Cmd+S, however, I can see a very brief terminal in the middle for a very short/split second, and it disappears as I haven't pressed it all. What am I doing wrong?

UPDATE: I've tried Cmd+S on another 15" MacBook Pro from 2011, and it behaves the same: It just won't let me into recovery mode. They are both Yosemite, one is 10.10.3, and I can't tell the other one's minor version since I can't boot into the system in any way (and it's owner doesn't know the version either).

UPDATE 2: As Buscar웃 asked me about the verbose mode process, I took a video of booting into verbose mode: https://s3.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com/downstage-eu0/IMG_1942.MOV

UPDATE 3: Here's a GIF version of the video. I had to reduce quality and size a lot, but you'd get the general idea:


texts: What leads to Windows thinking I pressed the Insert key on a MacBook Pro?

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Note: This question is how to send an Insert keypress to Microsoft Windows running directly on Apple hardware. This is not about how to use Insert in OS X or through OS X to Windows running in a VM. See here or here for non-Windows Q&A's.

Somehow in my code editor and command line I keep toggling the Insert key, but I'm not sure how.  I can toggle it by clicking on OVR/INS in the status bar, but what is the key combo that I'm magically fat fingering?


texts: How can I go to the previous desktop in Mission Control using a hot key?

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Say, I have 10 desktops. I'm on the desktop 2. I switch to the deskotp 7 using the F3 key and touchpad. Is there a standard hot key for switching back to the deskotp 2? And then back to the deskotp 7.

Similar to Alt+Tab, but for the desktops.


texts: Safari doesn't load Kickstarter properly?

texts:
When I go to Kickstarter.com, this is the site I see:

Now, I have tried trouble shooting this by myself. I have deleted the website information from the privacy tab, I have turned off / uninstalled all extensions 3rd party or otherwise.

None of these steps restores the website.

Interestingly even Google Chrome does not work:

Does anyone know what is going on?


texts:
Simple question:
What is the simplest, most minimal app for both creating/managing blogs and posting photos from the built-in camera?


texts: How to Specify a Dynamic Date Condition using SumIfs in Numbers?

texts:
How does one change the condition highlighted in the attached image to a dynamic date condition?
 ">=4/3/2021" into something like  ">=A3"


texts: On the iPhone logic board (or at least for the iPhone 6), there is a metal shield (heatsink?) covering the A8 SoC and few other components. There is also black thermal paste between the chip and shield. I have the grey thermal paste for computer processors and heatsinks, but I don't have, nor have I seen, the black paste being sold. Can I use the grey thermal paste with the A8, without it overheating and with it working long term?


texts: Need @icloud.com address associated with my Apple ID

texts:
I had to replace my iPhone and I can log into my Apple ID using my Gmail account. But some features on the iPhone are requiring my @icloud.com login.

How do you recover that specific account? I have been through Apple support to recover my Apple ID account, to at least restore my contacts and other settings. I want to pair my apple watch to my current iPhone, and it is requiring that i insert my @icloud.com ID to verify the Apple Watch.


texts: MacBook 2016 randomly turns black every couple of minutes with external Display attached

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It seems like a reset and is happening a dozen times per hour. It happen via HDMI on my Dell U3415W and on a low resolution projector (1024x768px), i used the original Apple adapter but also the Minix.

Sometimes when it returns i have heavy artifacts on the display and have to unplug/plug the hdmi again for normal operation.


texts: How to upgrade RAM of MacBook Pro 15-inch, Mid 2012

texts:
I want to upgrade my MacBook Pro 15-inch, Mid 2012. It has now 8 GB of RAM. I want to upgrade it to 16 GB.

Any suggestion on how to do this are greatly appreciated.


texts: iPhone app that allows simultaneous playing of music to multiple devices

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The idea is to use each iPhone as a speaker for one track of music.

Picture it: you are in the park, having a picnic and you would like your music to be played louder. Why not sync all the iPhones to play the same song at the same time?

Does such an app exist?


texts: Showing ios app store comments from different country

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I would like to see the comments from other countries (ie. us) while leaving my appstore set to my country (Hungary) for updates. Unfortunately, there are few comments written here for apps, most of the time there are none, which isn't too helpful.

Is there any way to do this? I have only a hungarian credit card. I can show comments by switching to US, but I cannot update apps until I switch back. Switching only for buying would be acceptable if there is no alternative.

Thanks!

Edit: from my ipad, without using my computer


texts: Cannot re-install OS X Lion after trying to format Macbook Pro

texts:
I have been facing an issue regarding a OS X Lion installation in my Macbook Pro 13. I used to have OS X Lion, then I decided to update my O.S to the OS X Mavericks; the update was pretty good, it was successful.

The problem was when I tried to "format" my Mac, during the re-installation of the O.S, a message appeared in my screen saying that the "Recovery partition could not be created", that was weird for me, I am not very good with my Mac yet, so I tried using a OS X Lion installer (which is in a CD), I tried to install from the CD (what many people call a "clean installation") but I got the same result regarding the "partition recovery".

I saw that some of the people mention that it is needed to delete all the partitions created, but in my case, every time I try to delete any of the partitions, it says "cannot unmount disk", and I am not able to perform any deletion over the partitions as mentioned in many tutorials.

So far, I noticed that a yellow alert appears in one of the partitions before pick a drive for the installation:

Additionally, this is what I have when I open disk utility:

I tried deleting the partitions using the disk utility and even using the Terminal commands (with sudo) but I always get the same error: The disk cannot be unmounted.
Please if somebody could help me, I will really appreciate, I've been without my Mac for more than 3 weeks. Thanks in advance.


texts: How do I a record a video on iPhone with the screen off?

texts: To save battery life I would like to be able to record video on my iPhone or other iOS devices with the screen off. Is there a way to do this?


texts: Can we transfer live App Store app from individual to company account?

texts:
I have an iOS app which is live on App Store and is published under my individual developer account.

If I want to register a new company and obtain an Apple developer account with the company name (may be using my own Apple ID) and then re-publish the same app or just transfer it under the new company account to have the company name as seller.

Is it possible?


texts: Make middle-click on app icon in dock show app window exposé once more

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In earlier versions of OS X (Snow Leopard, maybe?), middle-click on an open application's icon in the Dock would have the same effect as right-click -> show all windows.

In (Mountain) Lion, this is no longer the case. Middle clicking on the icons in the dock has no effect whatsoever.

Does anyone know how to bring this functionality back?


texts: I installed latest Xcode (4.3.2) which comes as package, can I delete the older versions?

texts:
According to apple,

  Xcode in the Mac App Store has been repackaged, and is now distributed as a stand-alone application.

Can I safely remove old versions of Xcode which are using a lot of space? They didn't get removed when I installed the latest version. If I can, what should I do? Which files should I remove or what program do I need to run to remove them?

Thanks!


texts: How to disconnect iPhone from WIFI without 'forgetting' it?

texts:
My internet connection died whilst my router still continued to work (so I could still pick up wifi but had no internet connection). I wanted to tether my laptop to my phone so I could use 4G instead, but my phone was still connected to the shody WIFI.

I couldnt just turn off the WIFI on my phone as then my laptop would not be able to tether. I didnt want to 'forget' my WIFI connection as I do not know the password.

Is there anyway to simply disconnect from a WIFI signal?


texts: I have a Mac mini and the sound has disappeared.  I have also lost the sound icon off the toolbar.  I went to preferences for the sound and see that mute is checked.  I can't un-check it because it is in gray-scale.  Any ideas?


texts: How to enable hidpi pixel scaling in mac Screen Sharing app?

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I'm using my mac's Screen Sharing app to connect to VNC (vino) on a linux mint box.

The linux mint box has HiDPI (sort of like retina) pixel doubling enabled.

The problem is the shared screen is showing as gigantic windows and fonts and not the correct scaled size.

Any way to correct this?


texts: macOS fails to reinstall when trying to factory reset

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I have a Early 2011 MacBook Pro and I've been wanting to give it away (as it is acting up) so I factory reset it. Erasing the hard disk went fine, but when I tried to reinstall the OS in the recovery mode, it keeps showing errors and not letting me restart. It says

no native mechanism to verify basesystem.dmg,
no native mechanism to verify applediagnostics.chunklist

and

failed to verify installESDDmg.pkg: xar_verify failed

in the installer log. It also remains stuck on the same screen with about a minute remaining....

How do I resolve this issue?


texts: Can UEFI Secure Boot be achieved on Macs prior to T2 secure chip?

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A little bit more detail, what i'm curious about is if a Mac's firmware can be set up to validate a EFI binary's attached signature against a cert that's stored in the EFI variables by user.
If so, how does Mac toggle between normal mode and set up mode? (as in allowing/forbidding the certs in EFI variables to be modified)
The scenario i have in mind is to have a recent Intel Mac right before the T2 chip got added, say the Haswell generation around 2014 and 2015, and i hope to have the Mac's firmware to validate the integrity of the grub efi binary before booting it.
Thanks!


texts: How to backup efficiently and effectively iMovie 10.0

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I have a long list of Projects in my iMovie 10.0 and the focus of this question is about iMovie 10.0 backup files / folders and methodology.

I would like to backup everything so that if I move to a new Mac or if I have to restore after a system failure I will not lose anything of the work I've done (selected clips, project names, etc).

Sadly my external HDD size is identical to the internal one so I cannot use Time Machine (it takes more space than the source).
I am now copying file manually but it is really a time consuming process and I'd hope to be able to use something quicker / more effective.

Can you please suggest the full list of files / folders I should backup and the tool I'd better use?


texts: Auto vpn connection dependent on Wifiname

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I recently asked a question How to auto connect to VPN upon login/boot? which got answered well using apple script .

I want to extend this question to the following problem:

The vpn connection should be activated automatically when not connected to my home wifi. (e.g. i'm surfing in Starbucks)
The default state would be vpn activated but it includes an "opt-out" for my home wifi.


texts: Pause and resume audio/video of application that registers with "Now Playing" widget

texts: Often the pause key (middle key) of my headphone does not pause applications. I wonder if there is a command or applescript to pause and resume media playback for all GUI applications that shows their status in the "Now Playing" widget, e.g. Chrome, VLC, IINA, etc. Since they show their status in a different app ("Now Playing" widget is kind of an app), I guess there must be a way for them to communicate the information.


texts: What's the license for OS X generic icons?

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Can anyone link me to a document or otherwise provide information about what the license is for the generic icons included in OS X (Lion)? I tried searching at developer.apple.com but nothing relevant came up.

To be specific, I'm wondering about GenericFolderIcon.icns. If I copy it and customize the look, would distribution be restricted somehow?


texts: Unmute specific app when iPhone is in silent mode

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I recently downloaded an app that tells me when someone in my direct area is in need of CPR (as I am an first aid worker). This app will sound an alarm to alert me, but this alarm is muted when I put my iPhone 4s in silent mode.

Is there a way I can specifically unmute this app and keep the rest muted?


texts: How do I prevent document preview over slow connections?

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Once in a while I have to work over a 3G network, which is reasonable, until I mount a file system on the other side of the world.

When that happens OSX tries to show me "previews" of every single document in the finder, an operation which takes forever because it usually tries to download the entire document in order to generate the preview. After spending hours downloading a 5 MB file, it often decides, "oh gosh, I don't know how to show thumbnails of Word files. I'll just show you a Word icon." In the meantime Finder is in bouncing-ball-hell for hours.

Is there a way to prevent this specifically for network shares when I'm connected over a slow connection? Or, failing that, just prevent document preview for all network documents?


texts: High quality USB microphone that works on the iPhone 4

texts: Can you recommend a high quality USB microphone that works on the iPhone 4? (Apparently there are issues with the iPhone 4 and USB microphones)


texts: Howto run a Terminal command using shortcut or a button

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I always have the problem in my dock, where the download bar just stops and stays froze. I know you can do a killall -KILL Dock and it will fix the issue.

Is there a way to click a button or do a keyboard-shortcut that runs this Terminal command?


texts: Where does OS X store the list of processes?

texts: Command ps aux displays the list, but where does it get it from - kernel itself or launchd?