texts: What commands can be issued to Excel for Mac from the terminal?

texts:
I know I can tell Excel to open a file with:

open MAC\ Addresses.xlsx -a "Microsoft Excel.app/"

But I cannot figure out how to do anything with Excel from the terminal.

Where can I find a list of the commands that can be sent to Excel from the terminal?


texts: Terminal command to delete everything I've ever created

texts: I have so much junk installed on my work laptop I want to start with a fresh machine. However, I must keep the account I have as I do not have system permissions to create another account. How can I use terminal to delete everything I (including use of git, brew, port, svn, etc) ever made?


texts: What's the best way to replace MacOS with Windows & Linux Dual boot?

texts:
I have had it with macOS.
I use a 2014 MacBook Air.
To use some apps I need, I had to upgrade to the newest macOS, but this slowed the computer down like crazy.
Otherwise, I stay with an older version of OS X (Yosemite) which doesn't lag, but is not supported by many apps.
Right now I just have macOS. I want to get rid of it and use Windows & Ubuntu.
So how do I remove mac OS and dual boot Windows and Ubuntu on this thing?


texts:
I would like to add an APC brand of a UPS (Uninterrupted Power Supply) device to a Mac only environment.  By default APC has a very loud heart attack invoking, babies crying in the night alarm to indicate power interruption. This audible alarm function can be disabled through a setting in their "Powerchute" power management software.  However the APC software seems to be Windows only.

I understand that the Mac will see the UPS in System Preference in the Energy Saving pane for settings concerning saving and shutting down but not for disabling audible alarms.

I've re-listened to a very good episode of The Typical Mac User Podcast about UPSs (ref.) http://typicalmacuser.com/wordpress/2010/07/20/tmup-212-a-ups-can-save-your-butt-with-george-starcher/ however I still cannot quite grasp the setup.  It seems one has to initiate the APC device on a Windows computer, disable the audible alarm, then the Mac will recognize this configuration.

I don't want to make the investment if the audible alarm shut-off is not guaranteed. The closest current solution seems to to be an APC download "PowerChute® Personal Edition for the Mac OS X operating system" (ref.) http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/10324/apc-powerchute.  However the only current reviews were not favorable.

Has anyone gone through this process?


texts: Can I tell if a device has an active Activation Lock before inserting a SIM card?

texts: I got an iPhone 5c off of eBay and I can't tell if it's iCloud locked (Activation Lock) or not because I don't have a SIM card for it yet. It was restored by iTunes with no problems. The phone asks me for my language, country, WiFi, then tells me to insert a SIM. Is it going to tell me I need the previous owners password after I get the SIM card and insert it?


texts: Is it possible to get back one earlier "copy" to paste it back?

texts:
I typed for 200 words to send to a customer support of a company, and then I copied the content just to keep a copy in my Gmail or Google Docs.
However, before I pasted, I made a phone call using Google voice and pasted the phone number to Google Voice call to dial the number.
So the 200 words content is gone.  Is there a way to get it back?  The 200 words is such a small size (probably less than 2kbyte), and this MacBook is used only by me, so I don't worry about privacy of being able to show earlier copy and paste contents.  Is there a way to get that earlier copy back?


texts: Is it possible to create a default .profile or .bash_profile with default configuration intact on macOS?

texts:
In Ubuntu, I can get the default .bashrc by copying from the /etc/skel folder:

cp /etc/skel/.bashrc ~/

This is extremely helpful for me as it gives me all the options and configuration already setup and properly commented.

Is there a similar feature for macOS (currently using macOS Sierra)?


texts:
I have a task to create a way of monitoring a folder and files running on a MacOS 10.11 machine.

Basically what I want to accomplish is each time a new file is added to the folder send a notification to a monitoring URL and if after 30 minutes no files are added it will trigger an alert.

I am new to Mac OS programming but I have been tasked with this project and just looking for some suggestions on how to accomplish this


texts: Reset the PMU on macbook when the left shift key is dead

texts:
I have a fairly new white Macbook, the kind with a built-in, non-user replaceable battery, model MacBook6,1.

The thing's Power Management Unit is clearly on the fritz-- the battery indicator says "no batteries available" (while clearly running off battery power), the magsafe adapter won't light up, and the fan is constantly running at full bore.  According to Apple, this calls for resetting the PMU as follows: "On the built-in keyboard, press the (left side) Shift-Control-Option keys and the power button at the same time."

Here's the catch: The left side shift key, the control key, and the left side option key are all dead, due to an unfortunate beer spill some months ago.  The other shift key works, but the directions clearly call for holding down the LEFT HAND Shift-Control-Option keys, all of which are dead.

Are there any other ways to reset the PMU, or am I SOL?


texts: why does an item remain in trash after I drag it out onto the desktop. It does indeed go to the desktop, but it still remains in the trash (OSX Mavericks). lion,etc once dragged out, it immediately left the trash.


texts: How to backup/export photos/videos from the new Photos app to an external hard disk?

texts:
I have a huge library in the new Photos app on my Mac OS X Yosemite machine, I want to know the easiest way to export or backup all these photos and videos on an external hard disk (formatted for Mac), giving that, I want to use the photos and videos on a Window 7 machine.

Note: the option File -> Export will take forever to export thousands of these items.


texts:
I own an iPhone 5S and use the apps Argus and Nike+ Move that utilize the M7 motion coprocessor.

A few weeks ago both apps were unable to properly import motion data (they would hang when loading up trying to update motion information).

Is there any way to diagnose if the M7 motion coprocessor on my iPhone 5S is faulty?


texts: Some keys are not working on new Macbook with touch bar

texts:
Few keys like i, k and l are not working for my login. These keys work at login screen and for other users. Had a conversation with Apple support online chat and we went thru the following but issue is not resolved yet.

We did the following

NVRAM Reset
System Management Controller (SMC) reset
macOS Recovery
Updated latest OS :macOS Sierra 10.12.5
Reinstall macOS using macOS Utilities

During the process, app representative asked me to create new login and try and it worked.

Wondering if you have seen this issue on your Macbooks. I have so much data in my login and I haven't thought about it moving data to new login.

Thanks


texts: Is there a universal laptop key support. I have new key and hinge but pins are broken. How can I fix or adapt?


texts: iPhone backup or sync issue "unknown error occurred (-50)"

texts:
I recently switched from iCloud backup to backing up to my computer since the iOS 8 update seems to have doubled the size of my backup and it no longer fits on iCloud.

When backing up to my computer by pushing "Back Up Now" in iTunes, I get an error message:

  The iPhone 'X' cannot be synced. An unknown error occurred (-50)

The last backup time does change, and it isn't saying that the backup failed, but it is odd that I get that error every time.

I am telling it to not backup any of the apps, because I don't want all that dead space on my laptop. The error seems to happen after the backup and when the sync process changes to "Transferring purchases from X"

I searched around and wasn't able to find a satisfying definition of error -50 does anyone know what it is?


texts: mergerfs or similar on a Mac for combining multiple drives?

texts:
I want to setup an old Mac Pro as a media server. In my recent setup, I use mergerfs to combine multiple drives into one which I can share. I would like to do the same on the Mac. I have seen, that mergerfs does not support the Mac, and that mhddfs is not maintained anymore.

Is there an alternative for macOS?


texts: How do I remove old employers mailbox from my i4 without losing anything else?

texts: I recently left a company. The i4 phone is mine, but my old companies mailbox is on the phone. I can no longer access these emails. I want to delete the mailbox but I am afraid I will lose all of the contacts in the process. When I delete the mailbox, what exactly will be deleted?


texts: infection in ~Library/Application Support/Mobilesync/Backup/xxxxx

texts:
ClamX is finding phishing infection in the Backup folder on my MacBook Pro with 10.7.

~Library/Application Support/Mobilesync/Backup/xxxxxxxx

Does this mean that either my iPhone or Mac is infected?

I realize I can delete these files, but is that enough?

What's the risk and what's the resolution?


texts: Can my early-2008 Macbook Pro run OS X Mavericks?

texts:
Like the question says I have an early-2008 Macbook Pro and I want to know if it will run Mavericks before I get it.

Also, if it won't run Mavericks what is the highest OS X version it will run?


texts: AppleScript Numbers Retreiving Cell Value

texts:
I have a script which loads a Numbers document in order to retrieve a specific cell value to use in creating a reminder.

My code is below. I believe I'm using correct syntax to load the value into a variable, but I'm just getting a 0 in the reminder and the dialog doesn't show.

set transferValue to 0

tell application "Numbers"
    activate
    try
        open filePath
        tell sheet "Monthy Expected"
            tell table "Account Budget Share"
                set transferValue to value of cell "B4"
                display dialog value of cell "B4"
                display dialog transferValue
            end tell
        end tell
    on error

    end try
end tell

Is there something wrong with what I have done? The correct file is opened when I run the script, but none of the subsequent commands seem to execute. It just opens the document and then continues on to the reminders.


texts: How to merge two partitions on external hard drive when the "partition" option is greyed out?

texts:
I have an external hard drive that is connected to my computer by a SATA/eSATA cable. Diskutility recognizes the hard drive as two separate drives as shown in the following two images:

I can't seem to merge the two partitions (MacBackup & MacBackup2) together because the "Partition" option is greyed out. How do I fix this?


texts:
What is the reason for the /private directory structure located at the root of an OSX system volume?  Why are /etc, /tmp, and /var symlinks to subdirectories of /private?

NOTE While writing my question, I discovered this answer to another question which seems to address this issue.  I'm going to post my question anyway because it contains the terms that I searched for.  The other question/answer doesn't, prompting me to start writing this question in the first place.


texts:
I wanted to create a 300GB file with random data so I used this command in terminal

dd if=/dev/urandom of=random.txt bs=300g count=1

But what I receive is

dd: /dev/urandom: Invalid argument
0+0 records in
0+0 records out
0 bytes transferred in 0.000042 secs (0 bytes/sec)

I originally thought that is due to not writing bs=300G but capitalizing gives me dd: bs: illegal numeric value.

Thanks for the help in advance.


texts: How can protect all privacy from someone that needs to use my Mac?

texts:
A friend of mine is going to stay here for two days, and I am sure he will need to ask me to use the Mac (and PC) in the study room.  (which will be tons of work to move them and no matter where they are moved, the friend for sure will ask for use of a computer).

In such case, what is the best way to protect my privacy, so that he won't be able to look at my Documents folder, Photos folder, etc, and all of my Firefox, Chrome, Safari's History, Bookmarks, and Stored Passwords?

I can create a temporary account, I think, and log in using that tmp account, but will that protect looking at my default user folders on hard disk, and also, the Safari / Firefox / Chrome etc were installed so that they can be used by all users, so do I also need to remove all those History, Bookmarks, Stored Passwords, on each browser?  (and it is not good to remove the bookmarks and stored passwords because I may need them later).

Is there a better way?


texts: Symantec alerted an attack: OSX Apple File Print Remote BO from TimeMachine

texts:
Symantec Endpoint Protection reported that there are attacks from my TimeMachine with Attack Name:

  OS X Apple File Print Remote BO

The attack happens at least twice a week. From Symantec documentation, it only happens in old Mac OS X only (Mac OS X 10.3 or below). Is this a false alarm?

Versions:

Mac OS X Sierra 10.12.3 (iMac 21.5-inch, Late 2013 model)
Symantec Endpoint Protection for Mac 12.1.6 (12.1 RU6 MU6) build 7061 (12.1.7061.6600)
Virus and Spyware Protection Definitions: Friday, 17 March 2017 r8
Network Threat Protection Definitions: Thursday, 16 March 2017 r001


texts: I just set up family sharing. I'm the organizer and I enabled purchase and location sharing... I can see my sister's purchases but she can't see mine. Also she can see my location but no my purchases, why?


texts: How to display unicode chars in emacs when running in terminal

texts:
This is not strictly a OSX question but someone in here probably has a solution.

I'm running emacs from the command line and I simply can't get emacs to correctly show Unicode characters. Everything outside ASCII is just garbage. There is no problem writing unicode characters on the command line but inside emacs is another story.

Is there some magic emacs-lisp I have to write to my .emacs file? Some arcane key combination I have to press?

EDIT

beroe's comment made me realise that I had an ancient version of emacs so I upgraded to 24.3.1. Now when i write ÅÄÖ I get \305\304\326 in the buffer. So I assume I have to somehow enable a font which supports UTF-8 or something like that?


texts:
I'm wondering if this software exists for Mac.  Where it will use whatever sound is currently being outputted and visualize it.  I would even take using the microphone to receive the sound.

Is there stand alone software that can do this?  Or a way to route the current audio into iTunes or Winamp and use their visualizer?


texts: iCloud music library won't load on new phone

texts:
I got a new phone today, have  enabled Apple Music and iCloud library, but every time it goes to "load library" it just stops and goes to a screen that says I have no music.  This happens whether I toggle iCloud music on and off several times, merge or replace.

I'm on wifi trying to do this btw.


texts: Adjusting screen brightness based on application

texts:
Is there a way to trigger some apple script based on applications/events?

What I want to do is to increase brightness when I am running videos etc. fullscreen, and reduce it when I exit the fullscreen view of the player. I can use key code 113 and key code 107 in loop to adjust brightness I guess, but how to automate it based on application's fullscreen status?

Preferably I'd like to be able to specify the applications (like iTunes, VLC etc.) but just detecting fullscreen would do fine.


texts: How do I mass delete photos from my iPhone in Yosemite / iOS 8?

texts:
I previously used Image Capture (ie. this solution: How to mass delete your photos in your iPhone?). It seems like the delete functionality was removed in Yosemite. Now what? I have 800+ photos and I don't want to select them one by one.

When I connect to iTunes, it says "iCloud Photos is On" - and does not allow me to sync through iTunes.


texts: Holding down arrow key no longer quickly moves cursor to the right or left

texts: I use an iMac running High Sierra 10.13.6. I use the command line a lot and recently its developed a problem. I would use the left or right arrow key to move the terminal cursor along a previous command or line. If I made a mistake in a long line I was typing on the command line I would hold down the left arrow key and the cursor would quickly move along the line until I got to where the mistake was. That has stopped happening. Holding down the arrow key takes a second or more to move a single space. Continuing to hold it down is just too slow. It's much faster now to just repeatedly tap the arrow string. This is very frustrating and time-consuming. Does anyone know what happened? The arrow keys used to work fine. I've tried restarting but that hasn't helped. This also happens in text windows and other applications.


texts: Is this a scam? A web page claims my iPhone is infected

texts:
Is this a scam? I do not use adult sites.

I think this is a scam because I'm using an iPod touch when it clearly states iPhone. Please answer truthfully for future experiences


texts: Where can I find settings for app review requests?

texts:
I recently updated to iOS 10.3 (14E5260b) and noticed one of the new features was a way for developers to request reviews from inside an app.

  Some App Store changes are coming in iOS 10.3, allowing developers to respond to customer reviews for the first time. iOS users are also able to label reviews in the App Store as "Helpful" or "Not Helpful" for surfacing more relevant review content, and Apple plans to limit the number of times developers can ask for a review. The update even adds a master switch that lets customers turn off app review request prompts all together.

(Source: MacRumors)

The last sentence about disabling these reviews is what interests me. However, both a search and Googling for this "master switch" has lead to no avail.

I've also looked manually through some menus. For example, I've searched these menus and sub menus:

iTunes & App Store
Privacy
Restrictions

Am I just missing something, or does this toggle not exist?


texts: Batch change creation dates based on file names using setFile

texts:
So I tried modifying the command I found here:  to work with my date format: 2015-12-31 22.07.29 and using setFile -d instead of touch.

Here's my script

for f in *; do
t="${t%%.*}"
t=“${t%%-*}”
m=“${t:5:2}”
d=“${t:8:2}”
y=“${t:0:4}”
h=“${t:11:2}”
m=“${t:14:2}”
s=“${t:17:2}”
date=“$m/$d/$y $h$m$s”
setFile -d $date "$f"
done

I try running the command in the folder with jpegs that have the wrong creation date but i get this error over and over

-bash: “”“”??: command not found
ERROR: invalid date/time

I'm a total noob when it comes to using terminal so I have no idea what's wrong with the formatting and what is causing the other error. Does anyone here know what I'm doing wrong?


texts: Have there ever been malicious MacPorts portfiles?

texts:
Is there a reason to use caution when installing packages from Macports?

I'm still new to *nix land, more a result of projects like Ubuntu making things like installing programs easy. I always felt confused and lost trying to compile programs, so  package managers like Aptitude are wonderful and magical inventions to me. And it never occurred to me to question the integrity of a package. I assume there's a real team of humans policing a given repository somewhere.

So when I discovered MacPorts, I equated it to Aptitude and was pretty excited it existed. But I'm wondering how well trusted it is, or if trust is built in to how the project works?

Has there ever been an evil MacPorts portfile?


texts: Issue with deleting a Mac account through system preferences

texts: I have a desktop mac with multiple users and I would like to erase just one user from the computer but when I open system preferences and click on the accounts area, the minus sign to delete the account is grey and cannot be clicked. I checked all the other users on the computer and they are the same way. Everything is unlocked and I have the administrator password so I shouldn't have any problems but I am unable to click the delete key. Is there another way to delete a user account without damaging the computer or any other accounts?


texts: No low battery warning & random restarts

texts:
Since I upgraded to macOS Sierra on my MacBook 15" (Mid 2014), I noticed some weird behaviour:

When I'm running low on power, it doesn't notify me that my battery is going to die. It just shuts down. When I plug it in, it takes a few seconds and then shows me the login window, as if I put it on sleep.
The battery icon doesn't indicate when it is loading
Whenever my screensaver starts after a few minutes (on power AND battery) it locks my screen (as intended). After entering my password I see that it tried to restart (e.g. "Your mac hasn't restarted, because Google Chrome failed to quit.")

I tried restoring the power settings to default, playing with the checkboxes in the "Energy Saver" tab and so on.


texts: How do you get music that you have already purchased into the new apple music?

texts:
How do you get music that you have already purchased into the new apple music they just updated?
In the old one you had an option in settings to show all music but now that option is gone and i can't download music i have already bought onto my iphone? Anybody help? How do you do it?


texts:
Everytime I start terminal, it says dhcp instead of my account name. Why is this and how do I exit out of it?

dhcp-205122:~ NAME$


texts: Is there a way to turn on and off the Mouse Keys feature using AppleScript or a terminal command?

texts:
I'm running Mac OS X 10.7.2. Is there a way to run an AppleScript or terminal command that quickly turns on or off the "mouse keys" feature under the Universal Access tab? Ideally I'm looking for a solution that doesn't involve GUI scripting the System Preferences app, although that would be slightly better than nothing.

I've explored defaults write com.apple.universalaccess useMouseKeysShortcutKeys 1 and various other forms of that statement, but to no avail.


texts: Replace MacBook Pro (13-inch, Mid 2012) battery from MacBook Pro (13-inch, Early 2011)

texts:
The macbook i am using currently is MacBook Pro (13-inch, Mid 2012). Now the battery warning is "Replace now" state. So i need to change it. I have another macbook with MacBook Pro (13-inch, Early 2011).

Is it possible the replace battery from MacBook Pro (13-inch, Early 2011) to MacBook Pro (13-inch, Mid 2012) ?


texts: Cannot connect to internet in a new workplace

texts:
I have a Macbook Air 2015, and I was having some problems connecting to the internet. Whenever I try to connect to the internet in my workplace it says that "the wifi x could not be joined".I tried everything including restarting my laptop, quitting the SystemUI server but nothing.I can join the network with my phone but I need it on my laptop.
Any advice?.
Thanks.


texts: Permissions errors after weird Time Machine restored backup

texts:
I made a time machine backup of everything that was in /Mac/Users/MYUSER/ and nothing else.
I then erased my drive and reinstalled MacOS.
When I tried to restore from my Time Machine Backup, it made a directory /Mac/2020-09-05-185317/ and did not place the files in the correct places, but instead put the file hierarchy inside /Mac/2020-09-05-185317/ so all my files were in /Mac/2020-09-05-185317/Mac/Users/MYUSER/. There are not a lot of files, so I decided to start moving them from that directory to their proper places manually myself.
Now when my ~/Music dir finished moving, I tried to open iTunes and I get "The folder “iTunes” is on a locked disk or you do not have write permissions for this folder.".
I've checked the permissions in the finder and the iTunes permissions says "MYUSER | Read & Write, staff | Read only, everyone | Read only". I then tried to rename the /Mac/Users/MYUSER/Music/iTunes directory and when doing so, it asks for my root/user password, which I thought was weird/unusual. After renaming the dir, I then opened iTunes and it created a new /Mac/Users/MYUSER/Music/iTunes directory so I compared an ls -la of the newly generated iTunes directory and the renamed copied directory and they matched/were the same.
I've read a few guides and see now that I did not copy over the /Mac/Users/Shared directory with my backup, and I cannot go back and grab it since I wiped my computer. Is this the problem?
I've also tried following This guide, and this guide but nothing has helped.
How do I fix the permissions problem?
NOTE: I am running Mac OS Sierra 10.12.6


texts: Can I just swap the hard drives of two macbook pros (different years)?

texts: I'd like to swap the hard drives of two Macbook Pros. One is a Core 2 duo model from 2010, the other a 2011 i5 model. Will this work? I just want to save time and not go through a lengthy data copying process.


texts: Strange result when entering squared bracket close on German Mac

texts:
I do programming with two different Macs, both with an original Apple keyboard and using the German keyboard layout.

There is a strange issue, occurring from time to time. If I enter the squared bracket close ("]"), some other, invisible characters are inserted as well, and e.g. the Python parser does not work on the provided code.

Consider the following two lines of Python code:

def test(self, target, name):
    target[name] = self

and the resulting binary output

$ cat issue.py|xxd
0000000: 6465 6620 7465 7374 2873 656c 662c 2074  def test(self, t
0000010: 6172 6765 742c 206e 616d 6529 3a0a 2020  arget, name):.
0000020: 2020 7461 7267 6574 5b6e 616d 655d c2a0    target[name]..
0000030: 3d20 7365 6c66 0a                        = self.

The string "] =" should be ASCII 0x5D 0x20 0x3D, but instead of a space (0x20), the bytes 0xC2 0xA0 are inserted.

Do you have any idea what the problem might be, and how it could be solved? I have not tampered the OS X keyboard layout in any way, and it does not happen all the time, only about twice a day - but always when typing that special character, "]".

[Edit]

In order to type the "]" character, I need to press Alt + 6, so only 1 meta key is involved. If I hit the wrong one, I would not have produced the right character. Pressing Alt on its own does not produce a character at all, and Alt+ space switches windows, which I would have noticed. So why is no regular space inserted?


texts: How to change the home screen wallpaper randomly

texts:
How can I set to change my iPhone's wallpaper automatically? I have an album called wallpapers and I want these wallpapers set as wallpapers on my home screen randomly.

I'm using iOS 13 and interested on some tweaks with shortcuts more than third party apps. If there are any third party app for this, those are also welcome.


texts: Is there a better way to put videos into the ipad?

texts:
I have many videos on my computer that I want to put in my iPad. When I use iTunes, I have to manually click one video by one video to input the video into the iPad. Is there a way I can multiselect or highlight/drag and drop into the iPad? It's taking up a lot of time just to tick and untick (remove) them from the iPad. (I can't sync all because I have more than 16gb of videos and it cant fit my iPad).
I've tried to google for ways to multi tick them, cntl + A doesn't work.
Am I doing it wrong?


texts: There are hundreds of pictures that have been stored in my "cloud"... how is it possible for me to view the pictures that are stored there ?


texts: I keep getting notifications when a new user in my contacts joins telegram. Is there a way to disable this?


texts: How can I play Blu Ray discs with my MacBook?

texts:
I'd like to buy a Macbook Pro 15 inch instead of a Dell, and I know I can send video to the HDMI TV using the Moshi adapter.

My MacBook doesn't have a drive for Blu Ray discs. Is there a way to solve this?  I kind of want the navigation of chapters and extra features in a Blu Ray disc, so if using makemkv and a Sony external Blu Ray drive to make the Blu Ray disc into an .mkv file, that's not so preferred.

(Is one possible way to use the Sony external BD drive (about $180), and use bootcamp to boot up Windows 7 instead?  Although this method is not so preferred because it needs to boot up only Windows)


texts: I have Installed Windows 7 on an external drive and I want to replace this drive with a larger capacity one. What should I do?

texts: I'm using a Mac Book Pro. I boot my Windows 7 from an external drive. As this drive is getting full, I want to replace it with a bigger one. What should I do to move the  Windows 7 from the one old to the new?


texts: How did my iPhone determine the location of Photos when off-line?

texts: How did my iPhone determine the location of a Photo when the iPhone was offline and not connected to any wifi? It even determined the location exactly, even though there was no Network. How does this mechanism work?


texts:
I have Messages on my MacBook Pro running 10.13.3 and have received the odd message from my daughter.

I tried to use to send and the icon in the Dock shows my Status "offline" and I can't seem to change this even if I select "Available"


texts: How do I enable Handwrite on the Google Search app for iOS?

texts:
I figured how to enable the Google Handwrite feature from Safari (Browse to google.com/preferences. and enable handwrite), but cant seem to find a way to do the same in the Google Search App for iOS.

Anybody been able to get around this?


texts: mac wont boot anymore after running bootcamp

texts:
It went fine until it restarted and showed a black screen with"insert bootable device" which was right there.
It wont do anything else until I hold the power button to turn it off. rebooting shows the same screen. none ofthe start up key combinations like alt, cmd+r, etc work or seem todo anything.

any suggestions? 0_o i did bootcamp by the book, followed apple's instructions, but it seems almost as if it bricked my whole mac...


texts: How to fine tune the sound level in iOS just like Mac OS?

texts:
I can fine tune the sound level by shift + option + volume up/down keys in Mac OS.

Is there any similar way in iOS?


texts: Configure Google Calendar notification sound on iOS

texts: On iPhone we can configure notification sounds for iCloud Calendar and the iPhone Reminders app, but I cannot find any way to configure a sound for Google Calendar app on iPhone. I find the default sound to be too meek.


texts: If my app *links* to pirated content, does my app "contain, display or access third-party content”?

texts: I know that question is borderline, but my app does not contain third-party content: only links.


texts: How can I make 3 external displays function with my 13-inch Retina MacBook Pro (Mid 2014)?

texts:
How can I make 3 external displays (4 total, or 3 if running in closed book mode) function with my 13-inch Retina MacBook Pro (Mid 2014)?

Regardless of closed-book/clamshell mode, I am unable to make 3 external displays function. I am able to connect it all and power any given two at a time and it obviously has enough power, but it doesn't seem to want to run 3.

I've read mixed answers as to whether it can support 2 or 3 external displays. Someone in a thread on OWC says it can and they show a 15" MBP powering 3 externals.

Is there something I'm missing or a work-around?


texts: My iPhone 7 does not recognize my iPad 3

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I have an old iPad 3 (on iOS 7.0.4) and I have not used this for a long time, so did not update. If I turn this on, then it asks for iCloud password. I remember the password.

Then one of the two cases occur:

Case 1: If my all other iOS devices are closed, then it does not recognize the password and keep asking for the (correct) password in each 2 seconds.

Case 2: If I turn on my iPhone 7 (iOS 12.2), then in my phone it says something like “another device in ... location is trying to access your account.” There are two choices: Give permission or reject. I guess this is 2FA.

After I give permission to my old device, I get a confirmation code in the iPhone and enter it on my old iPad together with the iCloud password.

It seems to work ( because I see all check marks on the iCloud section of the settings of my iPad) for a couple of minutes. In that time interval, I don’t get any error messages in my devices. But after a few minutes, case 2 repeats over and over again.

At least, I can operate the old iPad without any issue for some minutes but entering the password and confirmation code in each 5 minutes is annoying.

I don’t want to update my iPad because I am not using it actively. Unless there is an easy fix, I consider backing up the iPad and never use it again.

Thanks in advance for your suggestions.

Edit 1: I added iOS versions. I thought that I can not turn off 2FA because  on Apple’s webpage it says “if you already use two factor authentication you can no longer turn it off” under the question  “Can I turn off two-factor authentication after I’ve turned it on?” in the link https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204915.

Edit 2: It seems that I partially fixed it. As I said in case 2, I got stuck in an infinite loop: I gave permission to my iPad from my iPhone, got a verification code, entered it in my Ipad, it temporarily resolved the situation, but then the same pop-up message appeared on my iPhone a few minutes after, hence the vicious cycle. To break this cycle, I tried turning off my iPhone 7, then my iPad 3 continued operating normally without any trouble.

I also tried restarting my iPad (keeping the iPhone closed) and strangely, my iPad started recognizing my iCloud passcode too (remember in case 1, I had said that when all my devices were closed I had the trouble with the iCloud code in my iPad, but the iPad 3 confirmed the code now.) But still, when I turned on my iPhone, the same message was appearing continuously in each say 5 (or a few) minutes.


texts: How to entirely burn all 700MB of a CD while data is smaller?

texts: I want the whole surface of the CD to be burned, is there a way to do this with a image disk for example or do I have to add junk ?


texts: Stop 'favorites' contacts showing in 'recents' section as well

texts: I've done some searching around, but haven't found anything.  Basically, I have set several contacts as 'favorites' on my iPhone (6) and have enabled 'favorites' and 'recents' to show in the in-app multitasking view.  The issue I have is that some of the contacts I have nominated as 'favorites' are also showing in my 'recents' section, so I'm effectively doubling up.  I was just wondering if it is possible on iOS 8 to prevent this from occurring i.e. if a contact is nominated as a favorite, do not show it in the 'recents' section.


texts: Show/Hide hidden files without restarting finder?

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I came to understand that the following is the way to toggle the visibility of hidden files:

defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles YES
# replace YES with NO to hide hidden files
killall -HUP Finder /System/Library/CoreServices/Finder.app

Is there a way to show/hide hidden files without killing the Finder?


texts: I want to restore the "All My Files" folder/view to the finder sidebar

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While I've had my ups and downs with the "All My Files" folder in the Mac sidebar, it is a really useful tool for unclogging my hard drive of large files - this is especially important because of the small hard drive in the Macbook Air I'm now using.

Some time ago, the "All My Files" folder/view completely disappeared from the finder sidebar, and I havent' been able to figure out how or why, or restore it to finder.

Because of my search for an answer, I'm now learning about creating smart folders, which is great, but I still can't figure out how to create an "All My Files" smart folder, which REALLY shows all the files on the Mac!

Any ideas out there?


texts: Workaround to add reminder in Google Inbox via Apple Watch 3 with voice

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How can I add a reminder in Google Inbox via my Apple Watch 3 by voice, without using my iPhone?

When I had no Apple Watch I used to ask Siri to send an email to myself as a dirty hack instead of native Inbox reminders. But even this hack is not working with Apple Watch, because it redirects me to iPhone. So maybe there are even more tricky hacks, which include IFTTT or something?


texts: External keyboard Logitech Slim Folio Pro not always allow me to type text on iPadOS 14.2

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Sometimes I am  unable to type text into text field in the apps on iPadOS 14.2 (the same behaviour I encountered before on previous versions of the iPadOS).
Sometimes this also happening for "Spotlight" but this is rarer than for the apps.
I could use function keys in that moment so this is not an issue with connectivity.
This is probable some "feature" of Apple system. How I could avoid this  problem?
I use Logitech Slim Folio Pro (Bluetooth keyboard & cover)


texts: Cannot disable "Dark menu bar" on Mac OS X

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While going through my settings I wanted to try out the "dark menu bar" in the General System Preferences. Now I cannot turn it off. Each time I uncheck the checkbox, it seems to have no effect, it's stuck in dark mode. I've tried booting into Safe Boot as well to see if i could change it there, to no avail.

This seems to also only be for my user, as switching to guest mode works properly. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6Ga6bXEFEo

Screencast of the issue:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNEHhoFzniI

Machine:
OS X El Capitan 10.11.16
MBP Retina 15, Mid-2015

Edit: replaced screencasts with jing to youtube so that non-flash users can view the issues


texts: Can a webpage open in Safari crash the whole computer?

texts:
I have a Mid-2011 MacBook Air. Everything seems to be working fine, except Safari keeps freezing and stops responding. Sometimes, when Safari freezes, it causes the whole computer to crash and I have to restart it.

I thought browsers were supposed to have security measures that prevent this from happening (like Sandboxing). How can a webpage crash the whole OS?


texts: How to install macOS on a encrypted, journaled filesystem?

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I just wiped my 500GB disk on my Mac Mini (2011 model) to freshly reinstall macOS Sierra.

I restarted the system, pressed CMD+R to get into recovery mode and went into disk utility.
I erased the macOS partition and formatted it with journaled and encrypted file-system. Picked a password, and good.
I quit the disk utility and selected 'Install macOS'.

This told me it will check eligibility of my device and due to my encrypted disk it will ask for the password during installation. And it did. I entered the password and the process continued until at some point it aborted with the following message:

macOS could not be installed on your computer.
Storage system verify or repair failed.

Now my only option is reboot and remove the encryption via disk utility. I was not able to install macOS onto a fully encrypted disk. Is this desired behaviour? How to install macOS on a encrypted, journaled file-system?
I'm usually installing my Linux systems on fully encrypted disks, thus I am wondering whether this is also possible with macOS Sierra.


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Some time ago somebody helped me to know how to display the OS X Mail message editing toolbar. Please note, this is not the main Mail toolbar, but appears on the message window. I did not record the steps, but I recall it is very simple. I would like to know how to enable that on a new computer.

Please look at the screen shot to see the toolbar that I am talking about. It is easy to find a ton of information about customizing the main toolbar. But I cannot find anything about enabling this one.

The toolbar in question is the bottom-most of the three toolbars shown, and has "Helvetica" visible in the first drop down.


texts:
I am trying to control an app on OSX with an Arduino Uno. Specifically, I would like to start and stop play of an MP3 on iTunes, or a track on Spotify, using an Arduino connected to the Apple computer with USB.

I can print to serial from the Arduino. I can use Screen in Terminal to access the Serial info from the Arduino. I can start and stop playing of tracks on iTunes and Spotify using Applescript. I need some way of having keywords in Screen to trigger start and stop in iTunes or Spotify. I have searched for this in various ways, but cannot find anything other than suggestions to write a script to interface between Screen and Applescripts. This is where I am stuck.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.


texts:
I've developed a proof-of-concept that I'll need to demo on a projector (VGA) and I'd like to use the iPad to demo it. I'd like to mirror the page with as little lag as possible, as the proof uses a lot of CSS transitions - the perception of the app may be degraded if it looks laggy.

I've looked at the VGA accessory, but it looks like that does NOT support Safari mirroring. I've also looked at the new Apple TV, but converting from HDMI to VGA may not be possible. Is there any way to do this, short of using a document camera or something similar?


texts: Can I turn a Windows machine into an AirPlay destination?

texts: Is there software available that'll make a Windows PC running XP appear as an AirPlay destination in my Mac's iTunes? I'd like to be able to stream audio from my Macs to a Windows machine I use as my home theater PC that's connected to my stereo.


texts: Updated Mac to El Capitan is asking for 4 digit PIN

texts: After updating my macOS 10.6.8 to El Capitan my Mac is asking for a 4 digit system PIN. I have no idea what that is.


texts: Setting up multiple O365 organisation accounts on iOS

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I was about to setup the mail account my customer provided me. Being a O365 Outlook account, I was approaching this with selecting Exchange as account type and signed in. This would have worked well, but the tennant asks for managing my device by the Intune Company Portal app. However, my device is already managed by the company I'm working for via Intune.

My fear is, when I allow Intune to manage my device, it'll probably kill the configurations made through my company's administrator.

Anybody having experience with such a setting and is willing to share what they know?


texts: Pinch to zoom on a Magic Mouse. Smart zoom is just not the same

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Is there a way to do a pinch to zoom action on a Magic Mouse just like a Trackpad?

I am aware that one can double tap to zoom, but it performs a smart zoom in and out nothing that I can control much.

I would love to be able to zoom in as far as I want with Magic Mouse but not the whole screen.


texts: disable single inbox for multiple MS Exchange email accounts in Mail app on a Mac

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A colleague added an extra MS exchange email account to her Mac Mail app.

Unfortunately, the emails to this address are being saved into the inbox for the other MS exchange email account.

How do we separate the two inboxes please?

Thanks.


texts: Unable to install a widget I downloaded and edited

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I use Mojave with Dashboard switched on. I downloaded a dashboard widget file and edited a html file inside it by "showing package contents". I just wanted to change the font size of some text and did that in the HTML file. But after saving the file and trying to install the widget MacOS shows an error "This package has an error and needs to be moved to trash".

Is there a way to install a third party widget after changing a file in it?


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I'm using Apple Mail on OSX (Mavericks).
Since I'm accustomed to use Gmail webmail, which shows labels behind each email, I'm looking for a way to show labels (see for instance picture below) in a similar way on Apple Mail.

Is it possible (I assume some plugin may exist)?
If not, are there other mail clients supporting this labels functionality (i.e. Mail for OSX Yosemite)?


texts: Apple Photos import: Insufficient Disk Space

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I have about 58,000 photos/videos (~1TB) catalog in Lightroom 5.  These photos/videos are stored on an external USB drive.

Since I'm using a very old version of Lightroom, I'm considering moving to Apple Photos (Mojave 10.14.5). I've moved the Photos Library to a folder on the external drive, which has about 530GB of free space.  When I tried to import, Photos complains "Insufficient Disk Space.   Additional 760.47 GB of free space is needed to continue."  In Photos, I've unchecked "Copy items to the Photos Library".   Why does Photos need this much space?  I'd like to keep all the photos exactly where they are.


texts:
All phones in South Africa are sold unlocked, and I can use my iPhone 4S with any carrier's SIM cards in South Africa. However, when I visited Australia, I found that SIM activation failed after I inserted the SIM cards for Australian networks. The person at the cellphone shop in Australia said that this was a common problem with South African phones. My wife's iPhone 5S worked fine with an Australian SIM card though.

The phone is fine. I returned to South Africa, and the local SIMs have no issues.

The South African carrier that sold me the phone has no idea how to solve the problem, as they say that the phone is unlocked. Is there a region lock that affects the iPhone 4s?


texts: In Mavericks, is it possible to use Enhanced Dictation from the command line?

texts: A use case is: I have a recording in AIFF or MP3 format, and I'd like a text version of it as Enhanced Dictation would have recognized it if I had spoken it myself.


texts:
After updating an iPad 2 to iOS 5, I lost the ability to do anything contacts-related:

The "Contacts" app disappears the moment I start it
Composing an email works until I try to select a "To" address, at which point the compose window disappears
Opening the "Mail, Contacts & Calendars" section of the Settings causes the whole Settings thing to disappear.

When installing iOS 5, I chose to sync the contacts to iCloud, at which point whatever screen I was using disappeared just like all of the above do.

The only advice I've found so far is "wipe it clean and reinstall". I tried that, but the crash remains. The crash is fixed only if I don't restore the backup.

Is there anything I can try that would not involve me retyping all the contacts and re-configuring all the settings?


texts: How to remap delete and shift+delete keys to delete and permanently delete a file in Mac OS X Lion?

texts:
I would like to delete and permanently delete a file in finder using del and shift+delete (windows style).

Is there any way to remap this in OS X lion?


texts: Mac CPU PECI is at 104°C when encoding videos and doing heavy work

texts:
I monitor my MacBook's temperature using Macs Fan Control app. When I bought my MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Early 2015) ~2 years ago, the CPU PECI temperature is ~98°C when encoding some videos.

Now I notice that it shows 104°C when doing heavy work. I am really worried about heat damage because the T Junction rate is 105°C so is my CPU's PECI temperature supposed to be like this? Should I worry?


texts: Can I use my iPhone charger with my iPad?

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My iPad 1 charger was burned because of high voltage, so it stopped working. Currently, I am using an iPhone 3GS mini charger. It charges the iPad but only very slowly when the iPad is on but the display is off.

Will it make any problem if I continue using mini charger for charging my iPad 1 or do I need to buy a new charger?
If yes, what is the price of new charger in India?


texts: How can I keep ~/Library visible in (Mountain) Lion

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Starting on Lion, Apple decided to annoy the users hiding the ~Library directory.

I was forced to type this on terminal to bring it back:

sudo chflags nohidden ~/Library

the problem is that every new OS update makes the folder hidden again, forcing me to type the command every time.

Is there a way to make it read-only so Apple cannot change it back?


texts: Sound balance keeps changing on High Sierra and Mojave

texts: i have a problem that every time when i reconnected my Bose QC35 II the sound balance was to the right instead of balanced in the middle.


texts: Does latest MacBook Air have powered USB ports?

texts: I see that the latest 13 inch MacBook Air has two USB 2.0 ports, but can they power, say, a 2.5 inch external hard drive?


texts: Why does restoring iPad not restore e-mail? Best way to fix?

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iPad Air 2 was stolen.

Six days later, iPad Pro arrived as replacement.

iTunes restore from local backup.  Makes me pick a new security code instead of restoring that.

Also, I open mail and NONE of the accounts I had before are there, but there are three (only) messages in a generic inbox from two of those accounts.  And they are three weeks old; lots of messages came in since.

Why is this, and is there an easy fix?


texts:
I'm trying to export the keychains in Terminal. This is the code I used

security> export -k SystemCACertificates.keychain -t all -f openssl -o goodone.txt

And this is the error I got security: illegal option -- k. Can anyone fix it? :)


texts: OSX El Capitan / Not Recognizing USB Hard Drive

texts:
I updated to OSX El Capitan a few weeks ago, and ever since I did so, my computer is having some issues with my Seagate USB 3.0 hard drive.

In terminal, when I use the disk utility, the drive shows up, but it generally will not mount.  I say generally, because occasionally the drive will mount, but it is unusable (Time Machine and disk utility give me issues).

I have tried reformatting the drive with no luck - the disk utility says that it cannot unmount the drive.

Any thoughts?  Happy to take screen shots if needed.


texts: Faster than cmd+Tab way for app switching?

texts:
Is there a faster way to switch between currently-open applications on the Mac than using cmd+Tab/cmd+Shift+Tab?

I tend to have a lot of different apps open at a time and I have to keep switching between three-to-four of these apps all the time. And having to repeatedly hit cmd+tab,tab,tab seems like a waste of keystrokes. It would be nice if there was a faster way to achieve this application-switching.

This does not have to be built-in Mac functionality. I'd like to know about any app that does this job better.

PS: I'm running Mavericks
PPS: I'm looking for a keyboard shortcut and not a mouse-related solution.

Thanks! :)


texts: Is it possible to merge camera rolls of two different iPhones?

texts:
I have iPhone 7 and iPhone XS Max and both of these iPhones are on the same iCloud account, but have different camera rolls.

Is there a way to copy all the photos from the iPhone 7 in to my XS Max camera? It would be great if I can keep all the existing information and store them in chronological order.

Please note: I don't use iCloud photos and have no intention of paying for it.


texts: Is there a way to automatically disconnect bluetooth on my mac when my iphone tries to connect to it and vice versa

texts: I have a pair of sony wh-1000xm3s and was wondering if it is possible to automatically disconect bluetooth on one of my devices when the other one tries to connect to it. through some scripting and stuff. I have almost no experience with scripting/writing code. Any help is appreciated.


texts: On-screen indicator for brightness level or sound level not showing up when changing settings

texts:
I was deleting some CoreServices and without knowing what OSDUI helper does I deleted it instead of renaming it as .disabled and now when I change the brightness or sound I don't see an on screen indicator like before which shows the current level of sound or brightness - this is my assumption.

Even accesibility is not opening

I don't know why this is happening!


texts: Bind keyboard key (like F16) to execute command?

texts:
OK, I think this used to be an option in an older version of OSX, but I can't find in in the latest version.

How do I bind a certain key (like F16 for instance) to run a Terminal command?  I'd rather not install any additional services.


texts:
I downloaded the macOS Mojave installer on my 2015 MacBook Air. However, upon opening the installer, it gives this error message:

  This copy of the Install macOS Mojave application is damaged, and can‘t be used to install macOS.

Please do guide me on how to re-download this installer or any other method to install macOS Mojave on my MacBook.


texts: Which logic boards are compatible with Early 2015 13'' MacBook Air?

texts:
I broke the I/O board power cable socket on logic board while trying to clean my computer. AFAICT there is no way that I can somehow solder the socket back onto the logic board to make it work again (please tell me if there is a way to do this and guide me to a resource demonstrating doing this). Hence, I need a replacement logic board.
To do so, I’m planning to buy a “junk” MacBook (broken screen, etc.) for cheap, take out the logic board and replace my logic board with it.
My question is, which models’ logic boards are compatible with an Early 2015 13'' MacBook Air logic board? Which years and makes of MacBook Air's logic board I can use? How about a MacBook Pro's logic board? Which years and makes of MacBook Pro's logic board I can use? Is there a resource (website, etc.) that I can get information about this?


texts: Disk Utility won't Unmount HD for formatting

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I have two internal drives in my 27" iMac (10.8.5). An SSD system disk and a 1TB SATA drive.

The HDD has been acting up recently, very slow performance, bad behavior etc. Tech Tool Pro and Disk Utility don't seem to be able to fix the drive, so I decided to wipe the data by a reformat and writing zeros to the entire drive.

Everytime I try and format, it tells me that the drive cannot be unmounted. I have rebooted a few times, and spent days running everything from TechTool Pro on it and it won't go.

$ diskutil list disk2
/dev/disk2
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *4.0 TB     disk2
   1:                        EFI EFI                     314.6 MB   disk2s1
   2:                  Apple_HFS Everest                 4.0 TB     disk2s2

$ diskutil repairVolume /dev/disk2s2
Started file system repair on disk2s2 Everest
Updating boot support partitions for the volume as required
Error: -69673: Unable to unmount volume for repair

$ diskutil eraseDisk JHFS+ Everest /dev/disk2
Started erase on disk2
Unmounting disk
Error: -69888: Couldn't unmount disk

Any thoughts on how to get it to unmount and reformatted? Is there a way in Terminal to do this instead?


texts: Can I do CAD and rendering work on my Mac by Remote Desktop(ing) to a powerful windows machine? (wired connection)

texts: Ok so my monitor is an Ultrafine and doesn't have any sort of input for a PC. Also, it would be nice keeping the PC away from the desk. Also also, it would be nice doing productivity work on one computer (my Mac) and just hopping between MacOS and the Remote Desktop. The PC is a 7700k with a GTX 1080 ti. I am using it exclusively for Rhino 3D and VRay. How would the performance be if I were to headlessly connect to the PC via my Mac with -say- an ethernet connection?


texts: How to stop my machine asking for multiple passwords when I log in?

texts:
Ever since I changed my user account password, every time I log in to my machine I have to enter multiple passwords. First, I enter the new account password to actually log in. Once I'm at my desktop I get prompted to enter a few other passwords too. Namely the following:

My old password is required to successfully dismiss all of the above pop-ups. Is there some way of updating anything in my keychain that still uses the old password, to use the new password?

Any ideas what could have caused this? I can only imagine that the intended behaviour is for this update to happen automatically.


texts: What is the command I say to make the curser 'Return' while in Notes using dictation?

texts: What is the command I can say when I am using dictation in Notes that is the same as pressing the Return key? For example if I want to make a list or just create a new line for a new sentence?


texts: Set folder properties to show extra information

texts:
I have seen that for certain folders such as Pictures, Movies, Music, show extra information in more columns when viewed in List View in Finder.

For e.g., if I Ctrl click on one of the column names in any folders in List View, I can select the columns to view. In Pictures, I see that it includes two more properties Dimensions and Resolution.

Similarly, in Music, I can see Authors, Title, Album etc. I can see that on individual files in these folders, I can set such information using xattr on particular files. My question is, how do I mark a folder such that it shows such properties in the List View? and how do I tell which attributes to display?

I see from here that a way to make some of the properties available was to temporarily change the folder name. Is there a better way? And is there a way to customize which properties are shown?

What I have done so far:

Renamed the directory to Music, and got the properties as mentioned here. Selected Authors as the property to keep.
Then I renamed the directory back. It retained all the new columns
Then I deleted the .DS_store from the folder. It still retained all the new columns.

  That is, the setting is not stored in the .DS_Store

Then I checked the mdls output of the folder before and after renaming to Music and back. The only things changed were

--- xx.lst  2018-08-16 02:51:45.000000000 -0700
+++ xx1.lst 2018-08-16 02:52:25.000000000 -0700
@@ -27,3 +27,9 @@
 kMDItemFSTypeCode                  = ""
 kMDItemInterestingDate_Ranking     = 2018-08-16 00:00:00 +0000
 kMDItemKind                        = "Folder"
+kMDItemLastUsedDate                = 2018-08-16 09:52:14 +0000
+kMDItemLastUsedDate_Ranking        = 2018-08-16 00:00:00 +0000
+kMDItemUseCount                    = 3
+kMDItemUsedDates                   = (
+    "2018-08-15 22:00:00 +0000"
+)

  So, it is not stored as an xattr in the directory.

Moved it elsewhere. Moving it to a different folder did not cause the columns to be lost.

  So, the information is somehow carried with the directory entry.

Renamed the folder to Pictures. It allowed me to add extra columns other than Authors. I chose Resolution. On renaming it back, it let me keep both Authors and Resolution

  So, in some way, the different properties are set differently, not based on a hard coding of particular folder types. That is, my folder is now neither Music nor Pictures in terms of the properties.

Moved it to iCloud. I can still see the columns from the iCloud listing.
Looked at the iCloud listing of my directory from another OSX system. The extra properties Authors and Resolution is no longer available.

  That is, iCloud is not storing these attributes. It is somehow stored in the individual system.


texts:
I have 2016 MacBook Pro non-touch bar model. One day while using it I connected charger with it and as I connected charger it shut down.
I tried to turn it on and tried SMC reset but it did not turn on.
It has been 3-4 months and I have still not able to turn it on. When I put macbook on charging I feel vibration on its body that we normally feel while charging so I think it is atleast charging and not complete dead. But it is not turning on.
Can someone please help me understand what can be issue.


texts: Inserted SD-card not showing up on MacBook Pro, can't find or see it anywhere

texts: I inserted an SD card from a dashcam because it was full. The first time I inserted the card, it showed up and I deleted all the files on it. I went to plug it back in the dashcam and it still showed "storage full". I plugged it back into my Mac and it will not show up anymore. Not sure what's going on here.


texts: Take a screenshot of the top-most window

texts:
I want to have an AppleScript that takes a screenshot of the front most application. I have used this AppleScript:

tell application "System Events" -- get frontmost process
   set frontmostProcess to first process where it is frontmost -- this will be the script process
   set visible of frontmostProcess to false -- hide the script process
   repeat while (frontmostProcess is frontmost) -- wait until the script is hided
       delay 0.2
   end repeat
   set secondFrontmost to name of first process where it is frontmost -- get name of frontmost process (ignoring the script process)
   set frontmost of frontmostProcess to true -- unhide the script process
end tell
tell application secondFrontmost to set winID to id of window 1 -- get WindowID of frontmost window of frontmost process
do shell script "screencapture -c -x -l " & winID -- -c is used to store it in the clipboard. -x is used to mute the sound. -l is used to refer to the prefered windowid.

but it doesn't work for Snow Leopard. If anybody could give me some guidance as to what is the unsupported section of the code, I'd be happy to go and research myself.

I think Snow Leopard doesn't support the frontmost part but I can't get any information to back this assumption up...

Cmd+Shift+4 and Space and Click Window does work but I want an Applescript so I could replace the shortcut to open the Applescript - which will automatically take a picture of the active window.

This is so I don't have to click space and then click the windows I want.

I take screenshots a lot and constantly clicking space and clicking is getting annoying now.

The applescript, essentially, skips the space+click window


texts: Where does the notification sound come from in OS X?

texts:
I'm using El Capitan, and this happens in Yosemite as well.
Once a while I hear the notification sound, same as the sound when a new email arrive in Mail.app. But nowhere can I find where it comes from. There is no new email, or any red badge shows up in the icons in the dock or launch pad. And there is no new notification in the notification centre, and no alert appeared in the upper right corner of the screen. It appears nothing happened, except for the notification sound. How can I find what app generates it?


texts: Connect New MacBook 2017 (USB-C) to Apple Cinema Display 30" (DVI)

texts:
I have seen that the question has been already done, but all answers refer to 2016 MacBook Pro model, meanwhile I own a 2017.

picciano found a solution (see Connect New MacBook (USB-C) to Apple Cinema Display 30" (DVI)) but is working with this model? Has anybody tried it and had real experience?


texts:
I'm handling the IT for a Mac based design studio and they're having weird issues with files on a Windows Server 2008 R2 server. They should have complete access to everything, they can create, delete, edit files but sometimes they can't move them or rename them. It seems to be limited to files they created but I'm not 100%, anyone come across this before?

Edit:
On further investigation, it's not permissions it's file locking. Some programs including preview or opening files (assuming locking them) and not releasing. Killing all the programs or remounting the share sees to working but it's a workaround that's not really acceptable to the users.


texts: I'm looking for a quick/easy way to organize my apps in Launchpad view. I know of the drag & drop method, but I would like to be able to sort by date, name, etc. Is there a way to do that?


texts: Avg load goes up after upgrading to Mavericks

texts:
Just upgraded to OSX 10.9 Mavericks. Everything is good and shiny. However, when I open my iTerm to code, I notice that the performance is lower. If I run a uptime command, the average loading is always bigger than 1 even if I run almost no other user process. Before the upgrade, the number is usually near 0.

Anybody got the same problem? Any idea how to solve it (except rollback to 10.8)?


texts: Why does Find My iPhone need to be disabled before restoring an iPhone?

texts: If I try to restore from iTunes, it tells me I have to turn off find my iPhone. Why is this so?


texts: Mac OS Sierra System Settings won't stay set

texts:
I just got a new 15" MBP with Mac OS Sierra. I've changed the System Preferences to allow me to drag and drop things with the touchpad (under accessibility) and to prevent tap clicking.

But after I leave the system preferences pane, and return to check it out, the preferences have changed. Is this a known issue with Mac OS Sierra? Or did the method of confirming changes, change? I'm at a loss for this one.


texts: Rapidly running out of space on Catalina

texts:
I am on Catalina 10.15.6, Macbook Pro (15-inch, 2017).
I have about 55 GB of free space available. However since this morning I have noticed that this space rapidly starts to reduce at about 1 MB per second! This is without launching any application.
However when I restart my machine, the space is restored and the cycle starts all over again. By using Disk Inventory X, I have noticed that the CloudDocs folder keeps increasing in size, in particular the size of client.db and client.db-wal keeps going up steadily. I have no idea what these two files are. I haven't tried deleting them and not sure if I should even try doing that.

Everytime I restart my machine, the space is restored but then these two files start building up again till I get a running out of space notification. How do I arrest this problem?


texts: How to add watermark to all video files in a folder? (Mac, mencoder, terminal)

texts:
Is there a way to add watermark to all (mp4) video files in a folder.

I have like 1000 videos in one folder and It'll take a long time to change one by one manually - so, maybe, there is some kind of a tool / software?

Maybe, it's possible to do somehow with mencoder that I can run in terminal?


texts: MacBook not turning on after replacing trackpad cable

texts:
I have a MacBook Pro (early 2015, 13"). About a year ago, the keyboard and trackpad quit working. I took it to the Apple Store and they said it could be that the cable went bad. They also said they may have to replace the whole bottom casing. I figured if it was just the cable, it would be worth me fixing it by myself. I'm not the most experienced MacBook mechanic, but I generally know what I'm doing.

Anyway, I've been using the MacBook with an external mouse and keyboard for a year. I bought a new cable for the trackpad, but after the replacement the MacBook won't even turn on. I switched back to the old one and it still won't turn on. What could have gone wrong? I've unplugged and replugged the battery, used two different power cords, etc..


texts: Mail App is using internet connection to capacity (Retina Macbook Pro Early 2013)

texts:
My internet connection is working to capacity while "Mail" is open. Of course, it was loading all my mails when I used it the first time, but now all mails are on the machine and still "MagicanPaster" shows me that the internet connection is busy all the time while Mail is open.
The settings are searching for new mails every 5 minutes. I am using OS.X 10.8.3.

Maybe my internet connection is just to slow, but is 400 KB/s for "Mail" not just too much? What options do I have to decrease the traffic?

Update: Even if I change the settings to "Searching for new mails every 15 minutes" the connenction is working still to capacity.
Is it possible to set priorities for internet connection, so that I can use skype or facetime without lacking and still have mail in the background? Is anybody else experiencing the same problem?


texts: A tcpdum of "loving" a song on iTunes yields an empty ppcap file. Is the data cached and synced later? If so, when and where?


texts: I know that I can hide all extensions but how do I hide just one, say webloc? I don't want to hide each the extension of each file individually.


texts: How can I wake up a MacBook with lid closed?

texts:
How can I wake up my MacBook pro with an iPhone, when the lid closed (no external display)?
MacBook is not connected to power and there's a local wifi that it can connect to.


texts: When I Open certain apss (such as MacVim) I don't need the toolbar. So is there a way to make the app know this and always open in with the toolbar hidden (eg. as you would do by pressing the bean shaped button on the upper right)?


texts: How do I change iTunes country with family sharing and child accounts?

texts:
I've moved from the US to the UK and I'm trying to change my country in the App store on my iPad.  I have family sharing setup, and a child account included in the family sharing.

The problem is that changing countries demands that I disable family sharing first.  But when I try to do this, I can't, because I have a child under 13 on my family sharing account which cannot be removed from the family. The child account can be transferred to another family - but I don't have another family!

So it looks like I have to delete my childs account, then disable family sharing, then recreate it all in the UK.  Hence losing anything bought by my child and causing a lot of disruption.

Is that really the only way to do it or is there any better method out there?


texts: Why do crash reports only show up to iOS 8.2?

texts:
There's nothing newer than iOS 8.2 shown on here although newer OSes have been released.

How do I view crash reports of iOS 8.3-iOS 9?


texts: What is the best way to convert MPEG-2 videos to MP4 H.264?

texts:
I've been playing around, trying to find the best settings for converting DVD files (MPEG-2) to H.264 so that I can store everything in iTunes and watch it on the TV. Most of the stuff I have has been ripped using a DVD Recorder. I am in the UK and am using the PAL format. I want to keep it as true to the original as possible, including all interlacing.

If I use Handbrake, it tries to crop bits off and resizes to a weird dimension, so I have to work to switch all of that off. Also, even if I try to turn off all the decombing and deinterlacing options, including putting the :interlaced flag in the advanced options, when I play it back on the TV it has somehow destroyed the interlacing and no longer appears smooth.

I've also tried VisualHub, which is much more simple to set up and keeps the interlacing in fine by default. I find that also converting to H.264 using MPEG StreamClip works just as well. However, one thing I have noticed while converting a TV programme about Pink Floyd is that the conversion to H.264 is making some of the colours washed out. On the computer, the green seems a bit lighter, and on the TV the red looks more like pink. Here's a screen grab from QuickTime Player (left one is MPEG-2 and the other two are MP4 H.264):

Also, ripping from TV keeps some lines at the top of the screen which contain white dots (some kind of syncing data?)... If I crop the video so it removes them then obviously that makes the aspect ratio wrong... Does that affect how it will play back on a TV?

If anyone has some good tips on how best to rip stuff, please let me know!


texts:
I formatted my iPhone and after setting up iCloud, my apps and pictures were downloading.

In middle due to net disconnection, it stopped and it's in stop state till now.

Apps icons are dim and lots of pictures have empty frame.

How do I start downloading/resume them again?


texts:
My battery is in 'service-required' state since couple years back. I am in South Korea and the first apple branch will open in Seoul in March this year. I wonder if this is part of the reason why it takes so long to retrieve the needed components as they say.

It was to take about 10 working days here to fix it, at the cost of apx. 200 USD. More because of the time, as I'm heavily dependent on the computer I understand so little, I decided to stick with it. It turns out I have another friend in the same situation in this country.

It's uncomfortable that the laptop has to be connected to the cord at all times, but without it I have troubles to deal with anyway. I found out about the kits provided by iFixit, but they don't ship overseas. Plus, lithium-ion batteries have special rules at the customs of the airport; not a daily convenience stuff to ask for friends to smuggle in when they visit for holidays.

So I have been wondering for quite long, if you take it to an apple branch in America or other countries with good industrial network, how long does it cost to fix this state?

I currently use Macbook Pro of 2012. (OS: High Sierra 10.13.2)


texts: Restore directory under ~/Library from TimeMachine

texts:
I want to restore a directory from TimeMachine backup.

Unfortunately the folder I want to restore is under ~/Library which is not shown when I enter TimeMachine.

It is simple enough to access ~/Library but I can't figure how to do it in TimeMachine - any ideas?


texts: Charger will only charge for a few seconds before needing replugging

texts:
I use a clone charger wire for the iPhone. It looks very similar to an OEM version but is slightly different.

When I first started using it, upon closer inspection, I noticed that the metal connection end was a bit angled (when viewed sideways). I applied pressure to make the metal bit stick straight out.

First of all, I feel kinda stupid since it worked fine even though it was bent.

Now the thing only charges my phone for a few seconds before:

iPhone says this accesory may not be supported
iPhone acts as if I just pulled the charger from the port and stops charging

All while it's still plugged in and supposed to be charging.

What is wrong with the cable?

Edit: I accidentally dropped my iPhone while plugged in. The metal bit just bent like 30 degrees. I carefully bent it back into place.


texts: Is it possible to get contacts from stolen iPhone 3GS?

texts: I had an iPhone 3GS that was stolen (I don't remember the iOS version). Is there a way I can get my contacts that were on the phone?


texts: How can current versions of Adobe products continue to run on the new Macs with Apple Silicon?

texts: During its November 10, 2020 event, Apple has announced that Adobe is bringing its major apps to Apple Silicon, starting with the Lightroom photography software. They also said that all current versions will continue to run, but the new ones will take advantage of Apple Silicon directly. How can it be the current versions will run on the new ARM processor, since they were compiled for x86 Intel processors?


texts: Transmit.app won't upload any files; asks me to make sure I have permission to edit the file

texts:
Whenever I try to upload a file using Transmit. It always displays an error "Transmit can't  upload the file. Make sure you have permission to edit this file."

I have contacted both Panic, who seem to think it is something to do with my server's configuration, and my server provider, who seem to think it is something wrong in Transmit.

Does anyone know what the error means and what I can do to correct it?


texts: Where are crash logs after a system freeze?

texts:
When your entire macOS freezes up and restarts, are there crash logs or core dumps to diagnose the problem? I would in particular like to know which kernel module was active at the time of the crash.

Symptoms: The display "froze", the mouse cursor stopped moving, and the Force Touch trackpad stopped doing clicks. After maybe 10-20 seconds, the system restarted on its own. When it came back up I expected to see a Crash Reporter dialog, which usually has some useful details on the crash, but there was none. I also looked through logs in the Console and couldn't find anything, though maybe I missed something. Is there some place where I should expect to find crash logs?


texts:
Is there any software to compute and display furigana completely offline?

It doesn't have to be integrated with any existing app.  A new standalone app I type into is fine.


texts: Looking for a "null" Sound Input to securely disable the microphone on a MacBook Pro

texts:
I want to be able to somewhat securely disable sound input via software.

Setting the sound input volume level to 0 obviously isn't a great solution and I don't care to plug in a USB device or mic plug.

I can't find any way to system-wide disable the microphone, so I was thinking there must be a software driver that can be registered as a Sound Input Device that doesn't actually do anything.


texts:
Does Mac OS X have a facility for 6 key (Perkins) Braille typing? That is using F, D, S, J, F & L to type in the various Braille cells (mapping respectively to ⠁, ⠂, ⠄, ⠈, ⠐& ⠠) on the keyboard. I don't want to have to use the character palette as that would really slow me down. If OS X doesn't have it out of the box, what 3rd party tools are good?

An answer for 8-key input is also acceptable.


texts: How to set the screen brighness keys to affect the external monitor?

texts: I mean instead of affecting the brightness of the built in display of a Macbook.


texts: Functionality like iOS's keyboard shortcut functionality

texts:
I'm not sure if this is a duplicate of another question because naming the functionality in iOS that enables the user to type in a shortcut (like "omy") and have it expand to a whole phrase (like "on my way") as "Shortcuts" was a bad idea, in my opinion.

I'd like to have a way to type in a shortcut and have it expand to a whole phrase, just as one can do so in iOS. Is there any native way to do that? Or would I have to write an Apple Script of some sort? I know of an application called, "Typinator" that does this, but I don't like the idea of spending money if I don't have to.


texts:
I am trying to partition my HD to install Ubuntu. I have reviewed other questions with similar issues but haven't been able to find a problem with the same symptoms.

Machine is is a Mid 2012 13-inch MacBook Air, El Capitan 10.11.4, with 70GB free space. I am using Disk Utility to create a 50GB partition.

This is the Disk Utility intent:

And this is the log when the operation fails:

Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.


texts: Install SublimeHighlight plugin on Sublime Text 3

texts:
I'm trying to copy my code from Sublime Text 3 into my Word document in RTF format with colors in tact by using this plugin:

https://github.com/n1k0/SublimeHighlight

The instructions say:

  Sublime Text 3 users: a python3 branch is also available. Just git
  checkout python3 from the root of your package installation to use in
  in ST3. If you upgrade from a previous ST2 installation or encounter
  problems with the package, please proceed as detailed below:

  Remove the package, if installed, using Package Control.
  Add a repository: https://github.com/n1k0/SublimeHighlight/tree/python3
  Install SublimeHighlight with Package Control. It should pull the correct branch from Github.
  Restart Sublime Text 3

Well...I'm a noob when it comes to all the stuff it's describing. I went to /Applications/Sublime\ Text.app/MacOS and ran git checkout python3 but got fatal: Not a git repository (or any of the parent directories): .git. I think I need to install git? Or Python3? I'm not sure exactly where to start or even if this git stuff is worth Googling, as I'm not even sure if I'm running the command in the correct directory or even if the plugin indeed is compatible with MacOS (even though their screenshots of using the plugin on Sublime Text 2 are in MacOS on the GitHub ReadMe...)

I would greatly appreciate some guidance


texts: Using existing DVI/VGA monitors with a new Mac Mini

texts:
I currently have a PC with dual monitors. This PC is on it's way out and I want to replace it with a new Mac Mini, using my existing peripherals. The current monitors are a 27" Dell (2560x1440) running on dual link DVI and a smaller, much older, 19" (1280x1024) running on a VGA cable. I was thinking that I should be able to run the VGA monitor with adapters HDMI -> DVI -> VGA using the included HDMI -> DVI adapter and buy the mini DisplayPort -> dual-link DVI adapter to connect the Dell monitor to the Thunderbolt port.

I'm not sure that all these adapters will work together properly though, so I'm looking for some advice. Will this all work together properly, or will I have to get a new monitor(s) as well?


texts: Can AppleTV be used to display web page on TV?

texts:
We work inside an open space in computing, and we need to display 3 critical webpage (fullscreen mode) on 2 televisions (= 2 apple tv).

I was wondering if the apple TV's:

can it be controlled via my macbookpro (end 2013) to browse and display another page quickly (from tab to tab).
I need to display 3 webpage in fullscreen for only 2 television, so I will need to change tabs few times a day and I don't want to physically go to the TV each time.
Can the apple TV change from tab to tabs inside the browser each X minutes ?


texts: Music Player with ability to repeat a specific part of the song

texts: I'm looking for an app with ability to repeat a part of the song playing. I need this as I'm using it for practicing listening skill.


texts: How can I unlock an iPod touch which has VoiceOver enabled?

texts: My iPod touch 5th generation has VoiceOver enabled and is not letting me into my home screen. Triple-pressing the home button doesn't work. How can I unlock my device?


texts: How to save data from a time machine backup that has gone bad

texts:
My 3TB USB disk I use as my Time Machine target has gone bad.  I can mount it read only but no set of options I've tried allow me to mount it read/write.

The fsck tells me that the catalog btree is bad and I can not repair it because there is not enough space left on the disk to allocate a new btree (these are messages I get from fsck_hfs).

The Apple support article says to just open the volume in the finder and copy the Backups.backupdb to a new drive.  When I try that, the "preparing to copy" dialog comes up.  After 26 hours, it is at 3.8 million files but it has stopped moving.  My fear is the btree is in a circular loop and it got stuck -- maybe?

When I try to copy the old volume to a new volume using ditto, I get lots of errors about "Operation not permitted".  I believe the time machine disk has some fairly unique directory structures and I guess ditto doesn't know how to recreate them properly?

I thought about using ditto and create a big cpio file but then what would I do to restore it?  I assume I would get the same errors.  And, I also have the fear that if the directory structure is really goofed up, it might not ever finish.

To be honest, this is not a tragic loss.  I could just reformat the drive and start fresh with backups and give up all of the historical data which, 99.99 chances out of 100 I would never want.  So, this is a bit of an opportunity to poke at it and see if I can find a way to recover the drive without any huge heartbreak if I destroy the file system mucking with it.  Or, I could just retire the drive and if I really really really need something off of it, I could mount it and pull just that piece off.

Another possibility is to write a program to traverse the tree keeping track of the inodes.  For each unique inode of a regular file, copy that file to the new disk using an inode unique path.  For each repeat inode, don't go down into the tree.  Also, in to a separate file, record the paths to get to an inode.  The big ICK there is all the extended attributes and ACLs that Apple / HFS has.  I don't know how to get the complete set of these things.  Is there more than just ACLs and extended attributes?  Perhaps such a critter already exists.


texts: How serious are occasional kernel panics?

texts: I had a kernel panic about 2 years ago, and another one a few days ago. I haven't had any other problems besides minor software bugs, and I was able to harmlessly reboot after both. I've been told this can mean many bad hardware-related things. Could it just be something relatively harmless, since it doesn't really seem too persistent? Is it worth having it checked out?


texts:
I'm running El Capitan on Mac OS X.

MacBook would not boot (would hang on the Apple logo progress bar screen during start up).

I brought it to Apple Store genius bar, guy said the hard drive is still functional but there was a warning on it so I should buy a new hard drive.

I bought a new hard drive, installed it, installed El Capitan on it.  Everything works.

Then I put the original Mac HD into an external HD USB enclosure.  I plugged it in, and the light flashes on the hard drive enclose, but the Mac (and Disk Utility) cannot see the hard drive.

Anyone know what's wrong with the drive?  I'd like to copy some file off of it.

If it's just "dead" and there's no way to make it work normally again, is there another way to copy the files off the hard drive?

Thanks!


texts: What is installer.failurerequests in the root directory?

texts:
I just noticed a file called installer.failurerequests in my root directory:

cd /
ls
Applications/              User Information@          cores/                     installer.failurerequests  sbin/
Library/                   Users/                     dev/                       net/                       tmp@
Network/                   Volumes/                   etc@                       opt/                       usr/
System/                    bin/                       home/                      private/                   var@

It's a plist of some sort and its contents read as:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<array>
    <dict>
        <key>Operation</key>
        <string>fsck target</string>
        <key>CrashAtProgress</key>
        <integer>0</integer>
    </dict>
</array>
</plist>

What is that file and what it is doing in /?  I am on OS 10.11.3


texts: Can an automation run during screen time?

texts: I was wondering if an automation that runs in its own normally would still run during screen time? For example, send a text to “jimmy” at 1:am. If messages is open during screen time, yet shortcuts isn’t, would it run?


texts: Why does chunkwm fail with "Permission denied" error for .chunkwmrc

texts:
ashleyharvey@Themis:~$ ls -al .chunkwmrc
-rw------- 2 ashleyharvey staff 4.7K Apr  4 22:24 .chunkwmrc
ashleyharvey@Themis:~$ chunkwm
/bin/bash: /Users/ashleyharvey/.chunkwmrc: Permission denied

So, chunkwm is running obviously under a different uid than my own.  One way to fix this would be to give a wider set of permissions: I could chmod 640 or chmod 644 the file; however my question is how to figure out which uid/gid a process runs as in order to fix that while maintaining as tight a security boundary as possible.

I did find an answer on the unix stackexchange site that had to do with running stat on a process, so I tried something along the lines of $ (stat /proc/$$/), but apparently because of the difference in the macOS kernel, that won't work.  I ended up in /dev, but only found fd's for the standard in/out and a bunch of special stuff, clearly that's not where process FDs go.

EDIT2:

More relevant info on chunkwm:

ashleyharvey@Themis:~$ ls -al /usr/local/opt/chunkwm/bin/chunkwm`
-r-xr-xr-x 1 ashleyharvey admin 207K Mar  7 21:55 /usr/local/opt/chunkwm/bin/chunkwm

ashleyharvey@Themis:~$ ps aux | grep chunkwm`
ashleyharvey     15153   0.0  0.1  4375940  20508   ??  S    11:23pm   0:01.33 /usr/local/opt/chunkwm/bin/chunkwm

ashleyharvey@Themis:~$ type /usr/local/Cellar/chunkwm/0.4.8/bin/chunkwm
/usr/local/Cellar/chunkwm/0.4.8/bin/chunkwm is /usr/local/Cellar/chunkwm/0.4.8/bin/chunkwm

ashleyharvey@Themis:~$ file /usr/local/Cellar/chunkwm/0.4.8/bin/chunkwm
/usr/local/Cellar/chunkwm/0.4.8/bin/chunkwm: Mach-O 64-bit executable x86_64


texts: My mom's MacBook Air is making rattling noises when it is moved ever since I dropped it. Diagnosis?

texts: It dropped like two or three feet. The noise is like a rattling of a beanbag, but I don't know the source.


texts:
I have a file open in, say, a pdf viewer (or some other application). I want to get the path of the open file as text.

A simple approach to know the files location is to chose "Save As" - the dialogue comes up with the files current location selected.
For pasting a path into such a dialogue, I can do cmd-shift-G, but the text box that appears contains the most recent path used this way (not the current files path).

Is there a way to access the path (as text) of a file open in an application?


texts: My Apple Script Editor code doesn't work gives "Syntax Error Expected end of line but found identifier."

texts:
I insert this code:
tell application "Notes"
  set theMessages to every note
  repeat with thisMessage in theMessages
    set myTitle to the name of thisMessage
    set myText to the body of thisMessage
    set myCreateDate to the creation date of thisMessage
    set myModDate to the modification date of thisMessage
    tell application "Evernote"
      set myNote to create note1 with text myTitle title myTitle notebook "Imported Notes" tags ["imported_from_notes"]
      set the HTML content of myNote to myText
      set the creation date of myNote to myCreateDate
      set the modification date of myNote to myModDate
    end tell
  end repeat
end tell

And it gives me the error: Syntax Error Expected end of line but found identifier.
Any idea what the problem with the code is?


texts: Amazon FireTV without WiFi, MacBook Pro Internet sharing

texts:
I've been struggling for a while on this, strange set of circumstances.
I have a Amazon FireTV box that I cannot connect as university wireless does not support it.

I'm looking for a way to set up Internet from my MacBook pro (the uni WiFi won't allow Internet sharing however - and no Ethernet in my room!).
The only way i've found is to share my iPhone's 4G but I don't want to do that because of data usage.

Any way I can fix this?

I have an iPhone, iPad, Macbook Pro, HDMI cables, USB cables but not WiFi that I'm allowed to share!

Anything I can buy to make this work?


texts: Many websites not opening from a certain WiFi connection

texts: My MacBook air is not opening many websites from my smart phones WiFi hotspot, it opens all from other WiFi's and my smart phone's hotspot opens all in other laptops. It shows that the sites can't be reached for them after trying to establish a secure connection in chrome, it is same for other browsers like safari.


texts: Is there a way to completely disable Spaces in Yosemite?

texts:
Is there a way to completely disable Spaces in Yosemite (without turning off Mission Control, Dashboard, etc.)?

As someone who frequently switches between multiple monitors and using my Macbook on its own, I frequently run into baffling setups where windows on one monitor become a Space on another monitor. I'd like to end this behavior.


texts:
I intend to open a new Apple developer account (for a friend), are there any restrictions for offshore companies / offshore bank accounts?

(Both his company and bank account are in Seychelles)

Sorry if I misplaced the question, I didn't find any better suited category.


texts:
The option to erase junk mail does not show up when I right click and in the menus it is grayed out. Any idea how to get it back.

I am running Yosemite, 10.10 on an iMac.

I couldn't find anything using google except someone else with the same problem and no answer.

Thanks.


texts: I have a 5yr old Mac Book Pro. I didn't have it plugged and had shut it down. When I went to open it I found the whole laptop was heated and couldn't get it to turn on. I left it a while then plugged it in and finally it turned on but registered the battery was at 0 charge. Do I need a new battery or is it an internal problem. I left it for about 5 hours and restarted and recharged and seems to be okay again. I'm worried about damage to overheating. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated….Thanks


texts: Entering Sleep state due to 'Low Power Sleep': Using AC (Charge:53%) 46 secs

texts:
This question is def. not a duplicate of the ones linked. "Your Battery is Dead", I'm afraid, is not the solution.

Edit: The event did not happen with AC plugged in, it happened on battery. I then plugged in the AC in order to wake it. The battery is fine and does not need replacement.

So I woke my MBP from sleep, plugged in my iPhone and within a minute, computer put itself back to sleep. I plugged the AC in, woke it up and checked the logs. The offending message is the title of this Q.

My battery has gone through about 926 cycles, so not exactly dead. Couldn't for the life of me figure out what had happened, but I run Micro Snitch in the background, which happened to be telling me that a microphone had kept getting connected/disconnected.

Well, at that point, I quickly realized that the Apple Lightning to USB adapter I plugged in was faulty and constantly cycling on/off, thus throwing my machine into disarray, as Photos and iTunes are set to open automatically when my phone is attached.

I'm guessing that the algorithm used to determine "remaining charge" decided that if my laptop kept doing what it was doing, the battery would very quickly die, so it put itself to sleep.

Of course, I could be wrong.

My question is, does anyone know where I can look to verify this (or what) happened, exactly? 'Low Power Sleep' isn't exactly an error, so my guess is this would be logged as an ordinary event.

Here is current battery info:

  Charge Remaining (mAh):   4893
  Fully Charged:    No
  Charging: Yes
  Full Charge Capacity (mAh):   7426
  Cycle Count:  926
  Condition:    Normal
  Battery Installed:    Yes
  Amperage (mA):    3586
  Voltage (mV): 12436

Thanks.


texts: What to do with water-damaged touchscreen on ipod touch nano?

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Eight years ago I was gifted an ipod touch nano (generation 7, A1446). A few days later, I forgot it in my shirt, which went through a regular washing machine cycle. Surprisingly, the ipod still works: It charges the battery, it displays icons and streams music - but the touchscreen doesn't react at all. I just found it in a forgotten drawer when house cleaning.
Can the screen be repaired, preferably by someone who is fearless but has very moderate hardware and repair skills?
Or is there any other way than touch by which I can operate the device?
Meanwhile I found that I can buy LCD replacement and LCD plus digitizer replacement parts. Should I assume that the digitizer is broken?


texts: How to add signature to Preview on a Mac Mini?

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How can I add my signature to Preview on a Mac without a built-in camera?

I've got a mid 2012 Mac mini, running macOS 10.11 using a 3rd party mouse and Apple keyboard, connected to 2x 3rd party HDMI displays.

I want to add my signature to the Preview app, so that I can sign documents digitally in Preview without having to print, sign, scan.

In the past I have used a built-in webcam to get my signatures saved into Preview, but I can't do that on this Mac mini.

I have access to another mac with a camera and an iPhone if required.


texts: System Preferences Badge remains after upgrade to macOS 10.15 Catalina

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Just upgraded my MacBook Pro to macOS 10.15.4 (Catalina) from macOS 10.14.6. Everything went well AFAICT, except a badge remains on the System Preferences Dock icon. I go into the Software Update preference pane and it says everything is up to date. I tried

defaults write com.apple.systempreferences AttentionPrefBundleIDs 0; killall Dock

but the badge returns if I click on the Software Update pane. How do I get rid of this, now that everything is updated? (Or is everything not really updated?)


texts: Is it possible to use an iPhone as an external encrypted drive accessible by iOS and any unix-based OS?

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Is it possible to use an iPhone in a way that can be encrypted and accessed by both iOS and any unix based OS as an external  drive? Even if additional software or tinkering is necessary in either system.

Reasoning is that I always carry it with me and it seems a much more secure alternative to uploading sensitive files to Dropbox so I can access them by the phone and any other computer.

~~I will be cross-posting this question to several other subject related stack communities in the hopes to obtain a good answer. I haven't been around here for a while; let me know if this is not kosher and I'll remove them~~ Edit: I've been advised against this, so moot now.


texts: How to identify extensions blocked by Gatekeeper

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In macOS High Sierra, System Prefs > Security, it says "Some system software was blocked from loading.  I see a list there of three developers, and I don't recognize all of them.  I'm guessing these are kext files in /L/E or /S/L/E, but how can I identify exactly which kext corresponds to each developer name?  I tried grep -rn "Intel Corporation Apps" /System/Library/Extensions but that doesn't find it.

EDIT:  Adding to this question because it was never fully answered and I have now encountered another stubborn kext I can't remove in Mojave.  It appears in Disabled Software but not in System Preferences security pane.

I have grepped /L/E and /S/L/E and /Library/StagedExtensions and the only result I find is in /System/Library/Extensions/AppleKextExcludeList.kext/Contents/Info.plist

kextutil can't find it so where else can I look?:

# kextutil -b cn.com.bwstor.filesystems.enfs
Can't find extension with identifier cn.com.bwstor.filesystems.enfs


texts: Denied file read access on file I own and have full r/w permissions on

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I received an email with a plain text attachment (named 'noname') via Gmail and downloaded it using Chrome from gmail.com. It's a recurring automated report. Everyday I get the file , download it, open it, read it, and enjoy my life. Some days like today I get the file, download it and TextEdit on OS X won't let me open it.

TextEdit reports "The document "noname.txt" could not be opened. You don't have permissions."

A Get Info in Finder shows permissions:

  ram (Me) Read & Write
  Staff Read only
  Everyone Read only

From a terminal I can do whatever I want to it (read, write, rename...). An ls -l shows:
  -rw-r--r--@   1 ram  staff

An ls -le shows the same (i.e, no ACLs shown).

What gives?