texts: Internet sharing through WiFi disconnects

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I am currently using an iMac running Lion and am having problems sharing my internet through WiFi.

The iMac is connected to the internet through ethernet and I share that connection through WiFi to my iPad and iPhone.

The WiFi icon in the menu bar will randomly switch from the sharing icon (grey with an up arrow) back to the normal WiFi icon. At this point my iPad and iPhone no longer see the network.

When I go into my sharing preferences in Lion, the "Internet Sharing" box is still ticked and it says its connected, but I have to stop it and start it again for it to actually work.  Any help would be appreciated.


texts: Time Machine converting .backupbundle files back to .sparsebundle for downgrading back from Catalina to Mohave

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I'm one of the unlucky sods who accidentally updated wife's workstation to Catalina only to find out the hard way that her CS6 Suite won't really work. Long story short, got back to a fresh install of Mojave with all pre-Catalina updates.

When I'm trying to restore from a Time Machine backup the Migration Assistant won't connect. I narrowed down the reason to a pesky thing that Catalina does, which is when you back up with Time Machine on Catalina it changes the format of the backups without so much as notifying or asking you.

Apparently, there is a workaround to converting .backupbundle files back to .sparsebundle on Time Machine. Anyone know what that workaround entails?:)


texts: How do I get my music off my iPod 4th generation 2004

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I have a 4th generation ipod from 2004 and have wonderful playlists and music that I want to get onto my 2015 MacBook and in turn onto my iPhone.

Can I do this?


texts: Multiple tabs don't buffer videos in the background on Safari

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some have touched this issue but not in a way to solve my problem.
Im running Safari 10.0.3 on Sierra 10.12.3 and i usually load multiple sites and try to buffer videos while working on something else, instead of waiting for them to load in order to watch them because my connection isn't that fast.
My issue is that the videos won't buffer unless their tabs are active.
This is counter-productive for me. I don't want to open that video tab and just stare at the bar to load, which might take 15 or more minutes.
Is there a setting/plug-in that would help in that regard?
Thanks


texts: Apple's Magic mouse scroll button is not working on windows-7

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After working on MAC OSX, i installed windows-7 32bit through boot camp. After installing, the magic mouse is connecting ok through Bluetooth. Its left and right buttons are working but scroll is not working.

What drivers or softwares i have to install to make the scroll work? Please inform me.

Thanks in advance.


texts: How to set 'default voice line' by country code?

texts: I have two sims in my phone. I'd like to set different 'default voice lines' by country code. How can i do that?


texts: How do I hide the parent folder of the user home folders in File Sharing?

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I'm running 10.8 server and I have a folder named Users and it is the parent folder for every local network user's home folder. Now, when the user connects to the server he sees his home folder, but also the parent folder Users. He can even list the contents of it.

How can I hide this parent folder? I don't want it to show up at all when connecting. The only thing the users should see is their home folder. Nothing else. Since the Users folder is the parent folder, it cannot be unshared.


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Is it possible to load WhatsApp web without camera?. My front and back camera are broken and I am not able to load WhatsApp web without it.
Anyone knows if it is possible to load it without the camera?


texts: Can I gift a song from the iPhone iTunes app?

texts: Just as the title says: can I gift a song from within the iTunes iPhone app? I searched but couldn't find any option to.


texts: Why would an iPhone 4S drops from 100% charge upon unplugging it?

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I have notice lately (in last two months or so) after disconnecting my iPhone 4s (with iOS 6) from the charger in the morning after an entire night of charger it immediately drops from 100% to 98%.  Is this a sign of a problem or normal battery aging.

I do perform the monthly battery drain til power down as recommended by Apple


texts: MacOS Sierra, app is running but has no window

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I had an app called "Gitbox" on my Mac for 4 years with no problems. App suddenly does not display it's main window when running. The little dot is under the app in dock. I cannot delete the app when the dot is there, cause OS says it's running.  I can verify the app is running, because the "Activity" window shows that it's fetching something.

I tried reinstalling, and looking at other "Windows" or desktops, but nothing. Did I use some launch option or hotkey to launch the app in a wrong mode?

Tried:

Rebooting Mac
Reinstalling App from the app store
Dragging and
restoring to Trash


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When I unpack a zip archive (with standard 'archive utility') that was created under windows, cyrillic characters in filenames become some gibberish.

Just the filenames are the problem, actual contents of files is ok.

How to fix this?

(Yosemite, if that's important. In general, I have a lot of files with cyrillic filenames — and they are displayed just fine (including on flash drives from windows users etc).)

Upd. Looks like the source of the problem (many modern zip unarchivers assume that filenames are in unicode, but that's not always the case) and a possible workaround (convmv) is described e.g. at http://blogs.gnome.org/happyaron/2010/09/03/workaround-of-file-name-problem-while-unzip-handling-cjk-encodings/


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I'm wondering how Activity Monitor relates these two process if the child (Safari Web Content) doesn't have the ppid of the main one (Safari). pstree, which uses the ppid to organize the tree, shows no relation between them.

Here's another example, caffeinate was launched from a shell script inside BetterTouchTool using nohup, and again pstree doesn't show any relation.

Actually what I need is to send a kill signal to "childs" like Safari Web Content using shell script or C api knowing only the "Safari" pid. And I think this might help.


texts: refresh mail.app inbox when returning from standby (IMAP)

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When returning from standby mail.app does not refresh my inbox. New mails (or changes to old mails, like move or delete) are not synchronized. I have to manually close mail.app and restart it to make the changes appear.

Is this working as intended or are there settings to change this?


texts: In ~/.ssh/config make a host that just ... errors

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I would like to start using multiple github accounts. I think the best way is to have a different ssh key per account (correct me if that's a wrong assumption).

I will have user1.git and user2.git custom hosts defined in ~/.ssh/config to use in ssh remote urls for git.

And I would like to make it so that copy/pasting the default git@github.com URLs and trying to use that doesn't do anything and errors instead, to remind me to specify which account and which user I would like to be using.

So, how can I make such an erroring ssh host?

Ideally I will rename github.com host to something else, default.git or something, so that I can still ssh-access it if it's ever necessary.


texts: AppleScript working until placed in cron; causing Chrome to go unresponsive

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Good afternoon.  Question: I have a simple apple script telling Google Chrome to open,
go to a URL, and enter presentation mode...

tell application "Google Chrome"
    activate
    make new window
    set myURL to "http://myURL.php"
    tell window 1 to make new tab with properties {URL:myURL}
    tell window 1 to enter presentation mode
end tell

Running in AppleScript editor, it behaves correctly.  From CLI, it also behaves
correctly...

/usr/bin/osascript /<fqpn>/openURL.scpt

but if I take that snippet and put it in my cron, it fails to go to fullscreen and Chrome becomes unresponsive, requiring a force quit.  I get the following error in /var/mail:

/<fqpn>/openURL.scpt:725:748: execution error: Google Chrome got an error: AppleEvent handler failed. (-10000)

I have no ~/.* files on this account (OSX 10.9.2), so I tried sourcing my /etc/profile first in my crontab, but no effect.

Any ideas what my problem is?

-Chris


texts: How to check the location of installed files when using Installer on Mac 10.6.7

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I am installing a C++ library using the Installer application(its a .mpkg file)  The installation is successful, but I cannot find the location of the library to set an environmental variable. I have checked the /private/var/log/install.log, but the destination folder is not listed.  Is there another log I can check, or a way to determine the installation destination through the .mpkg?
Thank you very much for your time,
Adam


texts: UE Boom 2 stutters with MacBook Pro when using browser

texts: My UE Boom 2 stutters when using it with a web browser on my MacBook Pro with macOS Sierra. I can play Spotify fine if I just have it up front but if I push it to the background and try to browse the web, it starts stuttering. I can't play anything from the web either since it stutters from the start. My iPhone plays on the bluetooth speaker just fine but it's my MacBook that's having the problem. Has anyone else had this issue?


texts: macOS equivalent to the Windows "Compress file/folder content on disk to save space" option

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Windows has a useful feature where files can be transparently compressed/decompressed on the fly. This is activated by right-clicking on a File, directory or Disk, selecting Properties and then clicking on the Advanced... button to check the box "Compress contents to save disk space".

When enabled, files are transparently compressed when written to disk and decompressed when read from disk. This is managed by the file system and OS as needed.

I'd like a Mac OS equivalent of this. There's nothing obvious in the Finder and a preliminary search turns up nothing conclusive.

Is there a macOS option equivalent to this? Either natively or through 3rd party software?


texts: Apple Wireless Keyboard connecting with iPad, but not with MBP

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Pretty much what the title says: my Apple Wireless Keyboard connects to an iPad perfectly, but not to my MacBook Pro. I used the usual process of switching the keyboard off, then holding the power button until the light flashes. Just in case it matters, I have reset the NVRAM and SMC, to no avail. Interestingly, the Magic Trackpad 1 connects flawlessly to my Mac, however.

Note that I have not (tried to) use the keyboard with any other devices, and that I forgot the device on the iPad.


texts: Get Keychain to remember an additional field

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I regularly log on to a financial website using Google Chrome

This requires me to enter a Account number, a password and also an Employer number.
I store the Account and password in my Keychain, but have to enter the 8 digit Employer number each time.

Is there any way of getting Keychain to remember this additional number.


texts: After the image has been saved, can I still edit text-boxes & shapes in Preview.app?

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If I add text boxes and shapes to an image using Preview.app, save that image, and then close the image window, the next time that I open the image in Preview, all additions are uneditable.

In other words, all edits are made permanent upon save.

Is there a way to retain the ability to modify markup elements in Preview.app?


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I leave my Mac running overnight. Several times over the past month, I've come down and the screen saver is dead and the background of the screen is white. When I provide my password to unlock the screen saver, I get a note that accountsd wants my password to unlock my "login" keychain. If I provide it, dozens of other programs then ask for my password, like this:

There 50 to 100 more of these, and it just doesn't stop. I can't bring up Terminal to reboot the system, the finder is basically unusable. I can ssh in and do a sudo halt or I can just hit the power switch.
Is anybody else experiencing this? Why is it happening? How do I make it stop?


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Is there any PPC emulator (for either Intel Macs or any Linux) which can run MacOSX 10.5 PPC?

My current research only points me to PearPC and the latest post/release was from 2011. On the homepage, they say that they have support for MacOSX 10.3 with some caveats. Also, it doesn't seem to emulate a soundcard which is relevant for me. Some totally outdated forum posts are asking about MacOSX 10.5 but without any real answers, e.g. here or here.


texts: Does Bootcamp support 64 bit version of Windows 7?

texts: I have just purchased a Macbook Pro which will run OS X Lion. Which version of Windows can I run in Bootcamp? 64 or 32 bit? Both?


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I am attempting to factory reset my mid-2011 iMac, and so I tried to boot my iMac into Recovery Mode. I held Cmd + R, however it gave me a grey screen with a stop sign symbol, and then powered off. I tried several more times, and the same thing happened.

I then turned to the Internet, and found that there was something called Internet Recovery Mode, so I booted into that with Cmd + alt + R, which worked, and the little globe came up. After the loading bar finishing, the screen went white, and the Apple logo came up, and then it stayed that way for several hours until I powered it off, as it seemed to be stuck.

Is there a way to fix the recovery mode issue, as I just want to erase the hard disk?


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I changed the file association for my .dvdmedia files on my Mac to point at Blu-ray Player Pro. As it turns out this was a mistake as it turned all the .dvdmedia files into plain directories. Google has shown me the usual cmd-I solution (which doesn't work because what were bundles are being viewed as directories because of the file association on .dvdmedia) and some outdated advice to try duti which unfortunately doesn't compile on High Sierra (and might not work at all, who knows?). Presumably there's some way to fix this by editing a plist somewhere, but I've not found it yet. I did find that logging in as a different user showed the files correctly. Any thoughts on how to undo my gross mistake?

I've tried editing ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.LaunchServices/com.apple.launchservices.secure.plist in XCode and discovered that the file association gets reset as below:

The association with public.iso-image is what I would like to have for dvdmedia.

Update: I was able to change the association in the .plist file and have it stick by logging out and back in again, but the .dvdmedia files still show as directories rather than single files. There must be something more than this one plist that is causing .dvdmedia files to be incorrectly displayed... I really don't want to have to re-rip the DVDs that I've put on my hard drive if I can avoid it.

Update 2: I tried moving ~/Library/Preferences to Preferences.old and logging out/back in. STILL have folders instead of bundles.


texts: "Pending purchase and activation.." how much time will it take to activate iOS developer program?

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"Pending purchase and activation.."  how much time will it take to activate iOS developer program

i have enrolled on 19 jan 2013.still it is pending.Any suggestions?


texts: Programmatically grant new versions of my application access to camera and microphone

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I have remote machines running my software. I have full control with MDM.
I run a video conference application and need access to the camera and microphone.

Every time I push a new version of the software I have to manually approve access to the webcam. Is there something I can do in my install script (maybe with defaults write) to allow access to the webcam?


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In OS X 10.8, for system updates that were installed without being signed into an Apple ID, how can I view the update history?

I looked in Library/Logs for an update log, and also in the Software Update for an Installed Software pane, but I don't have either.

Where can I see the updates?


texts: D-Link DIR-880L + Mac => monthly data usage stats possible?

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Any idea how to track network data usage (how many GB in/out total per month) from a D-Link DIR-880L router?
I tried PeakHour (https://peakhourapp.com/) but it looks like this router doesn't support SNMP and using UPnP straight up didn't work (and their support is non existent…).
Xfinity is not unlimited anymore where I live and they're saying I used 65GB just yesterday, and  1.1TB total this month which is not even remotely possible from how I use the web, so I need to figure out what's going on… (assuming they're not just inflating the numbers like crazy )
I'm pretty frustrated with the "crappy software with no update ever" business model of D-Link so I'm thinking about maybe buying a Synology router instead (already have a NAS from them and I like their OS) but I'd rather spend $0 with some Terminal Voodoo or something like that
Any pointer in the right direction MUCH appreciated!
Thanks!


texts: Apple TV+ how to filter content by audio language?

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I've just activated a free trial on Apple TV+ but I can't find an option to filter content by audio language. I've tried watching few movies, but none of them support my native Polish.
How do I show content with a given audio language?


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I have a smart mailbox with only one rule: messages that are unread.
Right now I have no unread messages in any of my acccounts, yet the smart mailbox shows a counter of 1.
Opening the smart mailbox shows no messages (this is correct). If a new message arrives, the counter goes up to 2, then as soon as I read that message it goes back to 1.
I tried:

Rebuilding my inboxes
Rebuilding my smart mailbox. Logs this error:

  27/10/13 11:42:18,753 Mail[16057]: * Assertion failure in
  +[MFLibrary mailboxIDForMailbox:loadIfNotPresent:], /SourceCache/Mail/Mail-1816/FrameworkTargets/MailFramework/Library/MFLibrary.m:9814
  Called on smart mailbox Unread (  0   MailCore
  0x00007fff8c6ecc8c -[MCAssertionHandler
  _handleFailureWithPreamble:description:arguments:] + 141  1   MailCore                            0x00007fff8c6ecafd -[MCAssertionHandler
  handleFailureInMethod:object:file:lineNumber:description:] + 215  2
  Mail                                0x00007fff8cdf105d +[MFLibrary
  mailboxIDForMailbox:loadIfNotPresent:] + 170  3   Mail
  0x00007fff8ce0ea24 -[MFLibraryStore
  rebuildTableOfContentsSynchronously] + 533   4   CoreFoundation                      0x00007fff921f3dec invoking + 140  5   CoreFoundation
  0x00007fff921f3c54 -[NSInvocation invoke] + 308   6   MailCore
  0x00007fff8c73db74 -[MCMonitoredInvocation invoke] + 211  7   MailCore
  0x00007fff8c760808 -[MCThrowingInvocationOperation main] + 40     8
  MailCore                            0x00007fff8c704f08
  -[MCInvocationOperation main] + 332  9   Foundation                          0x00007fff86da9591 -[_NSOperationInternal _start:] + 631   10
  Foundation                          0x00007fff86da923b
  __NSOQSchedule_f + 64     11  libdispatch.dylib                   0x00007fff8f3212ad _dispatch_client_callout + 8     12  libdispatch.dylib
  0x00007fff8f3257ff _dispatch_async_redirect_invoke + 154  13
  libdispatch.dylib                   0x00007fff8f3212ad
  _dispatch_client_callout + 8  14  libdispatch.dylib                   0x00007fff8f32309e _dispatch_root_queue_drain + 326     15
  libdispatch.dylib                   0x00007fff8f324193
  _dispatch_worker_thread2 + 40     16  libsystem_pthread.dylib             0x00007fff8c3dfef8 _pthread_wqthread + 314  17
  libsystem_pthread.dylib             0x00007fff8c3e2fb9 start_wqthread
  + 13 )

Deleting and recreating my smart mailbox
Adding a rule restricting the smart mailbox to one account (if the rule is added, it works correctly)
Relaunching mail, rebooting
Looking in the logs. Only line from mail: 27/10/13 11:38:19,956 Mail[1174]: View Based NSTableView error: preparedCellAtColumn:row: was called. Please log a bug with the backtrace from this log, or stop using the method.

I'm kinda out of ideas. Is there anything else I can try, any debug info I can access?


texts: Motion Detection with iSight/FaceTime Camera

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I'd like to use my iSight camera to detect motion, and if any motion is detected, record a short movie (until the motion stops) for security purposes
(ok, I want to spy on my cat).

Is there software available to do this? Free/open is preferable.


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There is an issue with running xquartz on my system.  I installed it by using the link from the Apple website. However when I run xquartz from terminal I get:

:~$ xquartz
/Applications/Utilities/XQuartz.app/Contents/MacOS/X11: line 10: /usr/local/bin/bash: No such file or directory
/Applications/Utilities/XQuartz.app/Contents/MacOS/X11: line 10: exec: /usr/local/bin/bash: cannot execute: No such file or directory

This is preventing me from launching xquartz/x11 applications that I downloaded through macports.  How can I resolve this so that xquartz runs properly?


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I am at a new institute and to use the Wi-Fi they had to configure some proxies settings on my personal laptop. Now I cant access the internet from my home.

A friend who has a Linux laptop said he just has to comment out the settings in his /etc/environ/ file at home.

Is there an equivalent file where I would find the proxy settings?


texts: Can I safely delete iPhoto from my MacBook Pro if I have the Photos app?

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For about a year now I've been using the Photos app my MacBook Pro (OS X El Capitan 10.11.5). Before Photos, I used iPhoto for a couple of years. I only started using Photos once it shipped with newer OS X installations.

I'm out of space and, looking at my disk usage, I see that iPhoto is consuming almost 80 while Photos is consuming 15 gigs. The Optimize Mac Storage setting is enabled in Photos. That could mean it is only downloading 15 gigs worth of media, and that would explain the usage difference between iPhoto and Photos. It could also be that not all photos from iPhoto have made it to the cloud. Is that likely? I think all media should be imported entirely once I installed Photos, but I don't want to risk it.

Can I safely remove iPhoto from my computer or its library at least?


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I would have thought this would be an easy Google search, but I haven't found anything.

I have inherited an existing iPhone app which is currently deployed to the app store (V1.0). I am about to do a bug fix release, V1.1.

I understand that this will take Apple 'time' (a week or two?) to approve.

My question is, while V1.1 is still awaiting approval or rejection, am I allowed to submit V1.2 into a queue? 1.3? Is there a limit?

Thanks for your help!!


texts: How to fix when I can nslookup and dig an internal hostname, but I cannot ping or ssh to the internal machine?

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I can nslookup and dig an internal hostname, and I get a rapid response, but I cannot ping or ssh to the server.  All external hostnames work fine for both ping, ssh, dig or nslookup.

ssh -vvv xxxx-xxx-xxxx-1.xxx.xxxx.net
OpenSSH_5.6p1, OpenSSL 0.9.8r 8 Feb 2011
debug1: Reading configuration data /Users/gregcain/.ssh/config
debug1: Applying options for *
debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh_config
debug1: Applying options for *
debug1: auto-mux: Trying existing master
debug1: Control socket "/Users/gregcain/.ssh/master-gregc@xxxx-xxx-xxxx-1.xxx.xxxx.net:22" does not exist
debug2: ssh_connect: needpriv 0
ssh: Could not resolve hostname xxxx-xxx-xxxx-1.xxx.xxxx.net: nodename nor servname provided, or not known

I've done a lot of searching on the net, and on this site, and it appears it's got something to do with mDNSresponder.   I've added two stanzas to /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.mDNSResponder.plist

-AlwaysAppendSearchDomains <- this shouldn't matter, since I am using FQDN.
-NoMulticastAdvertisements <- I believe this one disable bonjour broadcast

I've also tried turning off mDNSResponder, but then name resolution fails outright.   If I add entries to /etc/hosts, then I get working name resolution.  But I need to be able to connect to DNS.

I'm pretty confident our DNS is setup correctly, as it works for everyone around me.  I've also spun up a linux VM, and I'm able to connect as I would expect, using the same /etc/hosts and /etc/resolv.conf.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

UPDATE - >
nslookup

set all
Default server: 10.xxx.xxx.xx1
Address: 10.xxx.xxx.xx1#53
Default server: 10.xxx.xxx.xx2
Address: 10.xxx.xxx.xx2#53

Set options:
  novc          nodebug     nod2
  search                recurse
  timeout = 0       retry = 3   port = 53
  querytype = A         class = IN
  srchlist = corp.amdocs.com


texts: A way for an iPhone to automaticly login to a captive portal (auto-submit a form based on location?)

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The wifi connectivity at my office is behind a captive portal; before you can use it you need to select your classification and then login using your standard security credentials. Since we require 'strong passwords' they're not a real thrill to type on an iPhone keyboard.

In my dream world I have an application that uses the same sort of scheme that the Foursquare app does to suggest you might want to log into a location you've been to before. It uses the same sort of scheme the phone itself does to determine if some sort of login is necessary and, if it seems not to be authenticated, does the login by submitting the necessary form.

In my daydream world it could just look at what wifi access point I'm connected to and periodically submit the form, needed or not.

There's solutions like 1Password but if I have to enter a password to open it that doesn't really save me any trouble. Plus it requires me to pay attention and notice when the authentication has expired; since the new iMessage scheme seems not to deal well with our captive portal (Apple's servers think I am logged in and I don't get the message via text; instead they all show up the next time I authenticate or when I leave the office)


texts: My iPad keeps asking to configure it after sync with iTunes

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I've saved my iPad 1 config on iTunes
I've updated iTunes on my PC
I've updated my iPad from iTunes
I've restored my config from iTunes

There's a black screen with a white apple, then my iPad shows a screen similar to this:

I've done this several times (restore from iTunes). Same result.

How can I fix this?


texts: How to develop an an automator for looking up words in Google dictionary

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If you type the following address in your browser's address bar, google will give you a dictionary for looking up words:

https://www.google.com/search?sa=X&biw=1440&bih=737&q=Dictionary#dobs=

If you add a new word like "hi" right after the equal sign at the end of the above link, it will give you a definition for it.

I am just thinking if I could make an apple automator app with an interface which asks for the new word, and retrieves the definition from the oxford dictionary presented by google. Any ideas how I might approach the above scenario? Is it possible to do it with Apple automator at all?


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Is there a way to keep my iPhone 5 secure when passing it around to show photos?

Yes, even in 2016 some people still behave like they did in High School:  you pass over your phone so they can see a couple of pics and they sift thru your other pics or worse, they start snooping thru other apps.

Perhaps there is a photo app into which I could place selected pics - AND that doesn't allow access outside of the one app.

Any suggestions appreciated!


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I try download files from my university site. All I can found it Safari -> View -> Encoding, but it doesn't affect to downloaded files. For example file with cyryllic name: "Задания для групп 80-104Б и 80 109Б на 19.05.2020.docx"
 is downloading like Ð¨Ð»Ñ‹ÐºÐ¾Ð²Ð° Ð›.Ð. Ð—Ð°Ð´Ð°Ð½Ð¸Ñ Ð´Ð»Ñ Ð³Ñ€ÑƒÐ¿Ð¿ 80-104Ð‘ Ð¸ 80 109Ð‘ Ð½Ð°. How can I fix it?
May be it another question, but sometimes safari also can't download file with correct file name (in english), as usual for torrent files. Just cut it.

I tried use another browser as Firefox and there is good work, that's why i think it's problem only safari ill.


texts: How to determine what keeps causing my mouse cursor to stick or slow down a lot?

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Every once in a while, my mouse cursor will stop for a second, or move extremely slow, every half minute or so. I recently upgraded to High Sierra, but also noticed this occurring when running Sierra.

The only way to resolve it is to reboot my machine, which is a problem due to the type of work that I do where I need to keep my undo history.

I've tried restarting many of the apps that I use, but the problem persists. I've also looked at the CPU and Memory tabs in the Activity Monitor, but nothing jumps out as being the culprit.

Does anyone have any suggestions as to how to figure out what's causing this so I don't have to reboot to fix it?

All yesterday, my machine worked without any problems. This morning when I started working, I noticed the problem.

Here are my specs:

MacBook Pro 15-inch 2016
2.9 GHz Intel Core i7
16 GB Memory
Radeon Pro 460 4 GB
3 TB External Thunderbolt 2 drive
Dual LG 27" UltraFine 5K IPS LED Montiors (thunderbolt 3)
Logitech MX Master (connected using USB receiver -- have used same mouse for years)


texts: Spotlight doesn't work anymore in OS X Mountain Lion

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I can't get Spotlight to search for any documents.

When I search the Finder for documents, nothing happens and the Spotlight search through the menu bar only shows up web searches.


texts: How to change "Favourites" and "Recently Visited" icons in Safari?

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My homepage in Safari is the default one, the one that shows Favourite and Recently visited files. However, when I opened Safari today the icons were bigger than they were previously. Is it possible to set a smaller size again?

This is what I get.

It is even clearer in this situation:

Usually, the icons you see in the two images were smaller, and in the second one in particular the six favourite pages could fit all in one line.


texts: Theming Mail.app to look like iPad's Mail.app or Thunderbird

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Is there a way to theme Mail.app in Snow Leopard to look like iPads Mail application?

Maybe with a Thunderbird skin or something else?


texts: Disk Partition is disabled for newly format disk

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I am using macOS High Sierra.

I erased my 1 TB disk using disk utility to using Mac OS Extended (Journaled) file system.

I want to perform partition on my disk and want to split into two parts, i.e. 500 GB both.

But I am unable to do it as partition symbol is disabled in disk utility.

Any help would be appreciated. Thank you.


texts: Good/inspiring uses of automation on Mac OS X

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I have been a mac user for quite a while now (about 5-6 years) and I would consider myself rather tech-savvy. That being said I have very little insight to the automation capabilities that have been introduced to OSX a couple of years ago. There are smart folders, folder actions, and other applescripts, as far as I know.

As I haven't come across a good tutorial, or some other resource for these new capabilities within OSX, I was wondering if people could give a couple real-life examples of how they are using these.


texts: Is it possible to restart an application using AppleScript?

texts: I want to restart Safari and reopen it with some tabs that I specify.


texts: iOS 4 - Can I close an app without it staying open in the background?

texts: I am aware that after closing an application (pressing the home button) you can enter the multi-tasking tray, hold your finger down on an icon and close an application properly. But is there an easy way to perform this series of actions with one command? Sometimes I close an app and know I will not be using it again any time soon and would not like it to remain open in the background.


texts: "Actual size" is greyed out in QuickTime Player in 10.10.4

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Whenever I am playing any movies in QuickTime, the "Actual Size" option is greyed out. Even the shortcut does not work. In Mavericks, it was working.

In this image, I am playing a full HD video, but it's playing at 1440x810. The Actual size is greyed out. How can I play it at full resolution.


texts: Is it possible to create exs24 files with a script?

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Say that I have a hundred samples and want to make an exs24 instrument for each of them. Is there any script where I could input some info like name, key and path to the audio file and then have it generate an exs24 file for me?

If exs24 files were plain text, this would be easy to make myself. I tried making such a script myself but they are binary files.


texts: How to avoid Mountain Lion to asking for an Java installation?

texts:
I uninstalled java today by using this guide.

Since then I get an dialog which asks me for installing java. This happens every time after a login to my user.
How can stop this request or how I can determine why I get this requests?


texts: Transfer photos without backing up the iPhone

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I wanted to transfer a few photos from my computer to the iPhone and I though: lets do it quickly in a couple of minutes!

It was quite sad to realise iTunes only allows me to transfer photos into my iPhone 7 if I mark the checkbox "Sync Photos".
The, for a very strange reason, iTunes starts doing a backup of my iPhone when I click on "sync" in order to transfer the pictures.

Las backup I did took around 3 hours. And I definitely do not want to wait 3 hours to transfer 10 pictures...

Can someone explain me what am I doing wrong?
Because I seriously expect to be doing something very wrong... otherwise I ca not believe how bad Apple designed iTunes and the transfer of pictures/video.

I was forced to use Google Drive to transfer 10 pictures... quite sad...


texts: Does the iPad 2 location services work without WiFi?

texts: I'm going on holiday and downloaded some offline maps app, I was just wondering if the location services (GPS?) work without any data i.e Wifi for 3G on the iPad 2?


texts: I have a Macintosh SE FD HD running Apple System 6. Is there a Terminal application? What programming language(s) can I run on System 6?


texts: generate password option not appearing in "manage apple id"

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I am trying to generate an app specific password, as I can not get Thunderbird on Ubuntu, to connect to the icloud server. I found a few posts on the web that infer, you now  have to generate an app specific password, using the manage your apple id site. the instructions at the apple site say to log into your account
and click on the edit button in the security section, and then to click on "generate password". When I do this, no option appears to "generate password"

Steps outlined by Apple:

Sign in to your Apple ID account page.
In the Security section, click Edit.
Click Generate Password and follow the steps on your screen.


texts: Suddenly all my files have a null kMDItemDateAdded (Date Added) field

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Almost all my files now have a null kMDItemDateAdded field:

$ mdls -name kMDItemFSName -name kMDItemDateAdded 2014-01-14-1500595479_04-EVN.PDF
kMDItemDateAdded = (null)
kMDItemFSName    = "2014-01-14-1500595479_04-EVN.PDF"

How could it happen? What do I need to do to restore it?


texts: What's a good program to batch resize 100,000 jpg images?

texts: The program should run in batch mode to resize all files in a folder and then save new files to different folder. An option for setting jpg quality would be great, too.


texts: If I had an iPhone only on my iTunes account, could I use someone else's iPad to download an app to my iphone? If I used the app on their iPad, would it show that my iPhone downloaded and used the app?


texts: How to disable dial sounds on an iPhone XR running iOS 13.2.3?

texts: On an iPhone XR running iOS 13.2.3, how do I disable dial sounds? By that I mean how do I turn off the beep I get when I tap each digit of a phone number that I am calling. There does not seem to be a way to do this from Settings | Sounds & Haptics, which gives an option to disable "Keyboard Clicks" (which I have disabled) but not these dial sounds.


texts: DVD stuck in player, doesn't show in Finder or Desktop

texts: I've inserted a dvd into slot...doesn't show up in Finder,(DVD is checked in Finder Preferences), and won't eject! Tried to plastic card trick- no luck. Disk spinning in there but won't come out. I have tried holding the right click button upon restart, eject button and holding PC upside down. Disk still spinning but not ejecting!


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In Iphone 5 16 GB: I deleted all photos, junk files, backups, notes, videos and everything else and I reset it but after all, the available storage is just 2.8GB and 9.5GB is used. How can I free the memory? Is IOS using the storage?

Thank you


texts: How to find command line program with which

texts:
I am trying to remove all traces of Ureka. I followed the instructions in the link to do this, but when I test if it is gone with $ur_setup I see that the terminal does know what it should be looking for, because it says:

-bash: /Users/myname/.ureka/ur_setup: No such file or directory

But when I type $which ur_setup nothing is returned. And I have deleted the directory in the above code with

rm -rf /Users/myname/code/Ureka
rm -rf $HOME/.ureka
rm -rf $HOME/.ureka_tmp

How can I delete all memory of this program so that terminal does not know where it should look for the program?

As a note, when I $echo $PATH I get:

/Users/myname/code:/Users/myname/anaconda/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/opt/X11/bin


texts: iCloud showing different sets of files to OS X users using same iCloud login

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I have two accounts on my MAcbook Pro. One for work and one for home. I recently wanted to share a Keynote presentation between both accounts and the iPad. I logged both accounts into iCloud using the same iCloud account as well as the iPad.

But each account sees a different set of files. I don't understand why as they are both logged into the same iCloud account. I've also tried logging in via Safari and checked with Numbers and Pages as well. In all cases I could not get all files available to the applications.

Any ideas?


texts: OSX 10.8.5 file picker dialog doesn't allow sort by column

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First post to this site and I'm writing with a user gripe.  I haven't found any reference to this issue after some searching.

I have a MacBook Air with OSX 10.8.5 and I've noticed a new behavior.  When I use the file picker dialog in certain apps (uploading a file in Safari or locating a lost file in iTunes; Command-O in Safari is the easiest way to replicate; some apps are fine -- opening or Save-As in Microsoft OFfice does not have this issue) with the view set to "List", the columns ("Name", "Date Modified", etc.) show as a translucent bar on top, and I can't click on the column labels to sort.  Instead there is a weird behavior where clicking on the column label header will actually "click through" to the underlying, barely visible, file listed on top.

In short, when I upload a file in Safari, I can't sort the list of files by name or any other criteria, and I'm stuck on reverse-alphabetical sort in every folder for some reason.  Seems like a definite bug vice a feature, and it's happening in at least two apps.

Any one else know what I'm talking about?  Sorry if the description is unclear.

Thanks for any assistance. This is really bugging me.

Best,

Jim


texts: Location based homekit automation is not triggering

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I use and AppleTV4K on ios 11.1 and an iPhone7 with ios 11.1.

I have an automation set up that automatically turns on some hue lights when I come home. For some reason, this never seems to be triggered though. The location I set for my home is definitely correct, and I'm logged into icloud on both devices. Triggering the automation manually works just fine.

Is there anything I'm missing? Why is the automation never triggered?


texts: Automate Continuity reactivation post-update?

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I've got an early 2011 MBP with an upgraded AirPort card. I know that one has to jump through kext- and Terminal-based hoops to enable Continuity, but I also know that Continuity Activation Tool does the entire process at the press of a button. The one problem is that whenever I install a software update or reinstall Yosemite, it undoes the Continuity-enabling process.

My question: Is there a way to make the Continuity-enabling process automatically run after every update/reinstall?


texts: Why does only Safari have (nearly) perfect inertial scrolling in OS X?

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I'm quite amazed that Safari is the only browser in OS X that manages to get (nearly) perfect inertial scrolling.

Even with lots of flash content on a website, Safari's scrolling is smooth.
There are websites with lots of content to load and Safari will continue to scroll smoothly while the content is being loaded and rendered.
Installing several extensions does not have an effect on the scrolling performance.

The major competitors to the Safari browser on OS X are Chrome and Firefox. Both don't manage to deliver the same smooth scrolling like one is used to in Safari:

Enabling flags like GPU compositing on all pages in Google Chrome (chrome://flags) or ...
smooth scrolling in Firefox (Options > Advanced) don't deliver the scrolling performance that Safari delivers per default.

Question
Is Safari using private API to deliver smooth scrolling that the Chrome/Firefox developers's can't access? How come Safari's scrolling is so much better and competitors don't manage to deliver non-broken scrolling.
I'm wondering especially about Chrome because it usually adapts to new OS X features really fast.


texts: Must I download Xcode with the same Apple ID that I'm submitting with?

texts: I have an apple account and I have downloaded Xcode on my Mac. If I download Xcode on my friend's Mac because he doesn't have an account yet and he would be on the iOS program later, would he be able to upload his app (saying he downloaded Xcode with my account and he now has an apple account)? Should he download Xcode again (with his account)?


texts: How to indent a Table in a List in iWork Pages 09?

texts: I want insert a Table in a List, but couldn't figure out how to indent the Table to the rest of the content in the List. The Table keeps stretching across the width of the document. Anyone knows how?


texts: What does the .ipa file extension (used for iOS app bundles) stand for? I'm guessing that it has something to do with iPhone app, but I'm not sure.


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My boss just come up with an idea of having a mobile device management that can control the flow of data (access) from bluetooth and wifi to the iOS devices.

I've actually configured a Profile Manager (mdm) on Lion Server in the past so I'm a little bit familiar with mdm but not sure with the bluetooth access.

Where can I start?


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I have a pair of Sol headphones that would always fit into my iphone until recently I realized that my iPhone didn't have any sound coming out of the internal speakers.

It was my headphone jack that is causing the issues and i just cleaned it out but now its not working and the sol headphones I mention just don't fit into my iPhone. I barely get the tip in and nothing else can go through and im not trying to force it in.

How do i fix this?


texts: Link iPhones contact list to GMail app instead of native mail app?

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I am using the gmail app for my emails, but I want to merge my extensive list of contacts in my phone book to my gmail app. Is there a way to do this?

Ultimately, it would be great if when you tapped an email in the contact list it opened in the GMail app, rather then the iphones native mail app, but Im guessing thats not possible.


texts: Can I keep Mail.app from syncing my spam folder?

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I finally switched all my email access to IMAP. When I did, Mail.app added synced folders for Deleted Messages, Sent, spam, and Trash. Is there any way to tell Mail that I don't want to sync these folders? The spam folder only exists for me to occasionally delete its contents and nothing ever shows up in the other three.

I'm running Mail 7.2 under OS X 10.9.2.


texts: Get URL of opened tab / tabs from terminal

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I have a tab open in Google Chrome. Is it possible to get or check it's url from terminal? If not, how about automator script?

Will also be satisfied with a title.


texts:
I just recorded a video on my phone, but when I play it on my Mac it's in the wrong orientation.

How can I rotate the video by 90 degrees so that I can upload it to youtube?

Free solutions are preferred.

I just found out how to do it using YouTube's Video Editor which has rotate left/right buttons.

But this is not an answer how to rotate on Mac.


texts: Wireless Keyboard not working with Mac Mini

texts: I have the Apple Wireless Keyboard and a very recent Mac Mini. The keyboard exhibits very strange behaviour: meta keys / shortcuts such as CMD+TAB work, but none of the main letters do. Caps lock doesn't light up. Cursor keys work. Has anyone else experienced this problem?


texts: How to remove Icons from the new Dropbox App Mac?

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Until the new release of Dropbox, you could rename the icon resources in the Dropbox.app (Mac version). But this doesn’t work anymore with the new Dropbox release.

Is there anybody who figured out yet, how you can remove these irritating big green checkmarks that overlay everything else?

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks a lot,

Gary


texts: Macbook pro OSX stuck in version 10.9.1, can't update software

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I've tried updating my software to 10.9.2 and 10.9.3, but it won't go. After trying to install it and restarting my laptop, I am still stuck on version 10.9.1. My app store says I should check my purchases again because updates failed. Apps such as iTunes, Pages and others also do not work anymore.

How can I fix this?


texts: Sharing local Apache vhost over lan without Hosts/DNS change?

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I'm freelancing somewhere and want to share a local (on my MacBook) site with some LAN users via IP. The network structure, time and technical ability here don't allow me get everyone to add host entries or setup proper DNS..

So.. say I have http://devsite accessible on my own machine, is there a way that I can access this from the LAN via IP like: 'http://10.1.2.3/devsite' ?

I see that 'http://10.1.2.3/~mbp/' works for the default site (where 'mbp' is my machine name) but not sure how to get other sites working?

Cheeeers.

Added for clarity: the name 'devsite' is added in /private/etc/hosts by me, and the vhost is added to /private/etc/apache2/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf


texts: Automatically Add To iTunes sending .m4v to Home Movies folder

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I updated iTunes to version 11 recently on my Windows 7 machine and now when I add Handbrake encoded movies (.m4v) via "Automatically Add To iTunes" it is moving those movies to the "Home Movies" section instead of "Movies".  Prior to iTunes 11 I could add an .m4v to that folder and it would put them in the "Movies" folder.

Is there a way to revert that behavior?


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I've got a MacBook air with a 128 gigabyte SSD, and it reminded me again this morning that I'm almost out of storage space.

What caches are safe to delete, and what other places are good to reclaim space from?

Here's what I've tried so far...

I've been cleaning it up by apps that I don't use, deleting TV episodes1 that I've watched, and by streaming music so I can delete all of my local music. Even with those steps, I've only got about a gigabyte left.

I've used DaisyDisk to analyze my Mac's files and have deleted things I didn't need, such as temporary files created by Xcode2, and browser caches.

I've got two parts to this question.

I'm not sure what else is safe to delete.
About This Mac seems to be reporting things that I can't find.

I have 16 gigabytes or so of Mail caches, according to DaisyDisk, but I don't know what will happen if I delete them. I suspect Mail will handle the missing data gracefully, but I'm afraid that it will just try to download everything again.

I don't know what other caches are commonly bloated and safe to delete.

About This Mac says I have nine gigabytes of photos. Where is that coming from?
My Pictures directory weighs in at only 1.11 gigabytes.

Dropbox and Google Drive are only syncing about 300-400 megabytes of data. (I've limited them to only sync crucial folders.) I can technically remove them, but that won't really solve the problem.

The largest apps on my Mac are Xcode which is 5.2 GB, iMovie, 2.95 GB, iPhoto, 1.7 GB, and Android Studio, 1.41 GB. I don't really need iMovie or iPhoto, but the developer tools are the reason I have the machine in the first place.

With all that in mind, what's the best way to reclaim space on this machine and figure out where all of my space went? What caches are safe to delete, and which will actually make a difference?

1. I happen to have the latest three Dr. Who episodes downloaded, but I usually don't have more than one of those around at a time.

2. For the technical readers, I'm talking about derived data that Xcode generates for each project.


texts: I created several spreadsheets in Numbers.  Lately I have been using Excel, which won't open them.  I can't find Numbers in my application folder--is it hiding somewhere??


texts: What can change so the app store fails on a network where purchases used to work fine?

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Yesterday, I noticed that when I'm at my office on the wireless network, and I purchase or try to update an app, it doesn't work. Doesn't matter if it is on my iPad or iPhone.  I've never had this problem until this week.

I'm not sure if it has anything to do with the 4.3 update, or something with my firewall ( I have complete access to my firewall btw ). I have never had this problem until the other day and the only things that have changed are:

Cisco Tech support worked on my firewall. No major config changes though
Upgraded all my devices to 4.3

When I'm at home or on 3G everything works as expected. What should I be looking for in my firewall and/or DNS servers to resolve this?

EDIT: I just tried something and got some weird results:
I just tried downloading the free app AppShopper and it worked on both iPad and iPhone. If I try to download the Free (but pay to upgrade) app Hunters: Episode One HD on my iPad it does not work


texts: Photos are being swapped between both iphones

texts: I had iphone4 which I sent overseas to a friend. And I purchased iphone5 which I am using. Just lately I've been getting his photos that he takes and photos which I take of my family are going to his "gallery". I am not sure why but pls help. I need to know why this is happening and what I can do to stop this.


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I used the application "HDD Cleaner" to clear up my ~/Library/Cache folder. After this action I see the following dialog, whenever OS X asks for my sudo rights:

It's the only dialog that has this appearance. How can I restore the default dialog? I already switched the languages and region, but without success.

I'm using 10.10.1 on my MacBook Air Early 2014.


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I use OS X Mail and iCal connected to my company's MS Exchange server. Sometimes a co-worker sends a calendar invitation (using Outlook) with lots of agenda details in it. I'm trying to find a good way to print that.

iCal has an option to print the day's events in list format, but the output is in two columns and a few of the lines write over each other and are completely unreadable.

If I try to print the invitation as it came to me in Mail, the output has an iCal icon showing the attachment -- not the contents of the attachment.

So, short of copy/paste into TextEdit, Word, etc, is there a clean way to print this?

I asked this on superuser a few months ago and got no answers at all. Are the apple fanboys more active here?


texts: How do I use a showroom model of an iPhone 4S?

texts:
A friend of mine bought an iPhone 4S. It was a showroom model and it came with his limitations. You can't delete or move around apps. What does he need to do to get rid of this demo-modus. Or is it irreversible?

EDIT:
He bought the iPhone in Belgium (so, it has no sim lock)


texts: How to limit search only to file name instead the content of files?

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Possible Duplicate:
  Searching by file name (as opposed to name and contents) in Lion

I have a "server" with OS X Lion and a shared hard disk, and some clients with various version of OS X (10.4 to 10.7).

When a client search for a file, I would like to limit the search to the file name and not the content of the files.

Is there a way to do this?


texts: What is consuming a large amount of space on my Mac regarded as Applications in Storage?

texts:
I opened the Storage tab in About This Mac and it says that 61.57 GB of my 121 GB Flash storage is used on Applications.

I opened the Applications folder, highlighted all the apps, opened the Inspector and it told me that it only took up 9.34 GB altogether.

I've only had this Mac for less than a week and I don't understand where all my memory is going!

MacBook Air 13″ early-2014 121 GB Flash storage


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My Iphone 6s+ has been working fine on my rogers ignite wifi up until a week ago.. now I have been experiencing some odd issues.
Can't connect to certain sites - I can connect to google but I cannot connect to reddit/global news.
Can't connect to certain apps- I can connect to google home/whatsapp/youtube but no games
can't access modem from my Iphone6s+ browser
Safari says "cannot connect to server" if I try to go on reddit and if I try to access the modem from the safari browser, I get the following message: "cannot connect to internet".
I can't access the apple servers (to download from the app store).
I've tried:
restarting phone
clearing website and cache
resetting all network settings
restoring iphone (twice)
updating to newest OS
rebooting modem
resetting modem back to factory settings
The wifi works on all other devices (iphone 8/10/tvs/laptops) for downloading/reddit/mobile games.
I can use my iphone 6s+ mobile data/a different devices hotspot, to connect to reddit/app store on my 6s+ but it just won't work when I'm connected to the WIFI.
Does anyone have any ideas? This seems absurd... I've called my ISP and they said everything looks fine..
Sometimes, when I try accessing yahoo.ca from my iphone 6s+, it shows me a screen that says "This device is paused".. I've gone into the modem and it doesn't show this device is paused or blocked


texts: Is it possible to update an iOS device to a version older than the current version?

texts:
My question title probably sounds confusing, so allow me to explain...

Let's say you have an iPhone 3GS that's still running iOS 5. Is it possible, today, to upgrade that device to iOS 6 (the latest supported version)? Or is it now stuck on iOS 5 because the latest version, iOS 7, doesn't support the 3GS?

Put another way, if you were to go to Software Update on that device, would it offer you an update to iOS 6, or would it say nothing is available because iOS 7 isn't compatible?


texts: Need to restore applications folder from an old time machine backup

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I have a macbook air running OSX 10.7.5. I have had a problem with the App Store not connecting. Apple could not resolve it, so I have done a clean install. Now I wish to restore various folders from Time Machine, but not the most recent Applications Folder, as the App Store program is not working.

So, how do I restore an older Applications folder to my clean SSD and import all the necessary support files that are not stored in the Applications folder?

Also, where do I find, and how can I import all my user defined files (my Application preferences) that will allow the programs to have the settings I had stored for them before I had to wipe and reinstall the OS?


texts: Screen auto lock on iPhone does not work

texts:
My 2 week old iPhone 8 won’t lock automatically after the set limit of 30 seconds. My phone remains unlocked until I physically press the lock screen button.

Even then, if the screen is touched, the display wont turn off itself.

How can I get my autolock screen function to work?


texts: I bought the Spark Radio app through iTunes and apparently it was downloaded, but I don't see the app on the iPad.  How can I get the app I purchased to appear on teh iPad?


texts: Accidentally created user with duplicate UID. How to fix?

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I accidentally created a user with a duplicate UID.  I need advice on how to fix this predicament.

As you can see, running dscl shows two users with the same uid:

dscl . -list /Users uid | sort -nrk 2
jenkins                 9999
original-user           9999

This happened because I was tweaking a package installer script and incorrectly assigned an existing UniqueId when creating a new user.  The UniqueId matches the uid for my own account.  Now when I login to OSX (with my own account), OSX has lost all of my profile settings (ie. Finder shows home for the new user instead of my own, browser has lost my history, etc).

Although OSX shows the profile for the new user, Terminal correctly recognizes the user that I logged in as.  And therefore I'm able to confirm my old files (ie. Document, Downloads) still exist intact.

This is what I ran to get myself in this situation:

uid=9999
gid=$uid
while dscl -search /Groups gid $gid | grep -q $gid; do
    echo "gid $gid is not free, trying next"
    gid=$(($gid + 1))
done
echo "Using gid $gid for jenkins"

dscl . -create /Groups/jenkins PrimaryGroupID $gid

dscl . -create /Users/jenkins UserShell /bin/bash
dscl . -create /Users/jenkins Password '*'
dscl . -create /Users/jenkins UniqueID $uid
dscl . -create /Users/jenkins PrimaryGroupID $gid
dscl . -create /Users/jenkins NFSHomeDirectory "$JENKINS_HOMEDIR"

dscl . -append /Groups/jenkins GroupMembership jenkins

How can I recover?


texts:
I have a service, where an app is generated from a jar file, using Jar2App, on the fly. I use an Ubuntu Linux server as host for the service and I need to sign the app, after it is generated.

How can I do this on the server, automatically?

I know I need a developer id, but how can I make the codesign application work on my server or is there any working alternative to Ubuntu?


texts: Something is messing with my disk permissions, which breaks a lot of file-related stuff. Can I find out what is causing this?

texts:
This has been happening for months, and I have no idea what's causing it.

Something on my Mac keeps mucking with disk permissions, and it seems like a trivial set of stuff

Java-related library files and the Applet plugin
Core Graphics headers
Some network headers, like a few files in the arpanet group
My hosts file (in this case, I know that the thing touching the hosts file is the Gasmask application)

However, whatever it is that is doing this, it completely wrenches up a lot of file-related actions.  The two most high-profile issues:

Archive Utility becomes unusable; it hangs indefinitely and I have to force-quit.  3rd party archive utilities like The Unarchiver don't experience this issue, so I've switched to using The Unarchiver.
The most annoying one is that the "Reveal In Finder" action in Alfred doesn't work.  I use this functionality all the time and it constantly stops working.

If there are other issues, I haven't directly noticed them, but I'm sure there are other things I can't find.  Whenever one of these things starts to happen, I run a permission repair, and everything goes back to normal for a little while, then one day *bang* it starts again.

Has anybody else experienced something similar, or does anybody know if there's a way that I can track specific files' permissions modifications so I can see exactly what the culprit is?  I have a great deal of software installed via homebrew and non-MAS avenues so I think it'd be pretty complicated to track it down exactly, any tips are greatly welcomed.


texts: Can no longer download podcasts to iPhone

texts:
I normally get new podcasts by doing the following on my iPhone:

Go to my list of podcasts
Select the podcast I'm interested in getting an episode for (e.g this week in google TWiG)
Select 'Get More Episodes'
This takes me to iTunes where I can normally see a list of all the episodes and download the ones I want. However, all I see now is the podcast logo (e.g., This Week in Google),
how many reviews the podcast has had, but no list of podcasts.

I've tried deleting a podcast (by deleting all the episodes on my iPhone) and then trying to add it again via iTunes, but still no list of podcasts.

Where has the list of podcasts gone? How do I get them back?


texts:
An iPhone has previously been connecting to Exchange email without any problems.  Two days ago it stopped, generating an error:

  Cannot get mail.  The connection to the server failed.

I confirmed the password was correct.
I confirmed that webmail was working.
I confirmed the phone was connected to the carrier, Telstra.
I deleted and recreated the account, but this issue remained.
I created my own account on the iphone, and received the same error.

Settings > General > About says:

Version: 4.2.1 (8C148)
Model: MB489X
Firmware: 05.15.04

Any ideas how to resolve this?


texts: Ive an iPhone 5(GSM) Running on ios 7.0.3 i cant restore the itunes says that the IPSW is not compatible?

texts: I've an iPhone 5(GSM) running on ios 7.0.3. I can't restore. iTunes says that the IPSW is not compatible?


texts: How to add an .icc colour profile to OSX 10.15

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In OSX 10.13 i can add an .ICC profile to the OS by copying and pasting a .ICC to libary/colourSync/profiles
But in OSX 10.15 the above folder structure does not exist. Any idea how i can add a colour profile to the OS in 10.15 ?


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I am trying to make a 28 line legal template in Pages 5.2 but I am having trouble making the boxes work. Does pages have a CA Superior Court template. If not, do you know if Microsoft for Apple has one. I have looked it up on line and there is no data on it.

MacBook Air 10.9.4


texts: How can I launch an app in Automator periodically, like in 15 minute intervals?


texts: Prevent Safari 10.x from auto-downloading files?

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Is it possible to prevent Safari from auto downloading files? Kind of like how Firefox does it.

To be clear, I am not asking about auto-unzipping, but rather webpages that auto start downloads for nefarious dmg files.


texts: Repeated kernel panic: anyone able to decipher report?

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I am getting repeated kernel panics. I have run many disk repair routines using Disk Utility and Techtool (6) but still happening. It seems to happen when I am using a particular application (Sonuus i2M Editor) which is a USB Pitch to MIDI converter.

The kernel panics are hard to know what if anything will help narrow this down...

Interval Since Last Panic Report: 242584 sec
Panics Since Last Report: 12
Anonymous UUID: FA99C24C-CBDE-48BB-A21B-2C3120FE05E9

Fri Jun 22 20:00:59 2012
panic(cpu 0 caller 0x235410): "zalloc: \"ipc kmsgs\" (3240864 elements) retry fail 3, kfree_nop_count: 0"@/SourceCache/xnu/xnu-1504.15.3/osfmk/kern/zalloc.c:992
Backtrace (CPU 0), Frame : Return Address (4 potential args on stack)
0x4c1927d8 : 0x21b837 (0x5dd7fc 0x4c19280c 0x223ce1 0x0)
0x4c192828 : 0x235410 (0x594ac8 0x592060 0x3173a0 0x3)


texts: Time Machine backup to an SMB share Mavericks

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I'm following the instructions and scripts detailed in this article, but it's failing on mavericks - the mounted windows drive isn't showing up in the time machine disk selection pane.

Any ideas how to get this working?

http://lifehacker.com/5691649/an-easier-way-to-set-up-time-machine-to-back-up-to-a-networked-windows-computer

(Using Window 7 and the SMB server)


texts: Mysterious sounds of mail activities when using external loudspeakers

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When I connect over USB to my MacBook AIR my external loudspeakers ("Philips multimedia 2.0 speakers SPA2201") I sometimes here immediately afterwards sounds of mail activity.

Mail.app is opened (as it is always) but there is no trace of activity to be found afterwards in it. I just hear the sounds: incoming mail (twice), outgoing mail (once).

My question is: why does this happen, could the loudspeakers connect over the internet to some distant server?

I have experienced it while using iTunes, and also VLC.

It is not systematic. It happens apparently when I have been without using the loudspeakers for some extended period of time.

[earlier formulation of my question erased, now that I understand it has nothing to do with iTunes]


texts: Can I convert a HFS+ volume to HFSX (case sensitive) without extra software tools?

texts: After upgrading from Snow Leopard to Lion with added volume encryption along the way, my boot partition wasn't case sensitive any more. Is there a way to convert it back to being case sensitive without reformatting? I know that iPartition claims to be able to do this, but I'm a little hesitant to shell out money for a tool that I'd probably use exactly once.


texts: Can I make Mail.app search Received: headers?

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I'm running 10.6.8 and I set up a smart mailbox with two conditions: one, to look in a specific folder, and two, to match any recipient = recipient2@foo.com.

Problem:

Mail.app doesn't seem to search the entire actual email message. Neither does Spotlight, which might be the crux of the matter. And so I can't search for the envelope-recipient address in some messages, and that routing address does sometimes differ from the header-recipient (the one in the To: field).

Background:

It may help, in this case, to consider an email as being similar to a physical envelope. The front of the envelope contains routing information, handled by the mail-transfer agent (e.g. sendmail, postfix, qmail, Exchange). The inside letter contains formal addresses handled by the reader, which in this case is the mail client.

So, Mail.app doesn't necessarily have to care about the routing info -- the envelope-from address, which is Return-Path:, and the envelope-recipient address, which is shown in the Received: header -- it just cares about the To:.

Any ideas? Example header below where env-rcpt address differs from header-rcpt.

Return-Path: <sender@bar.com>
Received: from mta.bar.com (mta.bar.com [1.2.3.4])
    by mta.foo.com (8.14.5/8.14.5) with ESMTP id xA123abc012345
    for <recipient2@foo.com>; Thu, 3 Nov 2011 01:01:51 -0500 (EST)
    (envelope-from sender@bar.com)
Message-ID: <20111103065648.184176mid2rn22o0@mta.bar.com>
Date: Thu, 03 Nov 2011 06:56:48 +0100
From: Sender <sender@bar.com>
To: Recipient <recipient@foo.com>
Subject: Hello!


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I have a strange little problem on my hands here.

All this while, I've been using iPhone tethering via USB, and all was well.

However, today afternoon, my iPhone USB interface in the Network pane keeps stating that my iPhone USB interface is 'Not Connected'.

Enabling and disabling the Personal Hotspot option on my iPhone does not seem to get it back.

Does anyone here have any idea how I would solve this?

Machine: MacBook Pro, OS X Lion v10.7.3.

iPhone: iPhone4, iOS 5.0.1


texts:
Can grapher in macOS work with recursive functions???

If so how? There doesn't seem to be an obvious way and there are no answers to this online.

Thanks


texts: Concern with location sevices on previously owned iPad

texts: I bought an iPad off of Craigslist, I wiped it clean and set it up as my own. Is there any way that the previous owner can view my location? Either with MobileMe or find my iPad?


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I recently updated my OS to Sierra. The new Preview seems to have some serious bugs for searching words inside a document.

1st problem: certain words are not found despite Adobe acrobat reader is perfectly able to find them.

2nd problem: the bar to the right displays the pages where the word has been found. The pages are arranged in an apparently random order.

Is there a way to fix these issues?

EDIT

Actually I solved the second problem. Results where sorted by search rank instead of page order. I still have the first problem though.

EDIT
I am quite surprised this post has received so little attention. I use the find utility really often, and I have now had to switch to adobe as the standard program to open PDF.

I've also tried reindexing the spotlight but it did not fix it.


texts: What happens if I have switched the Time Machine off?

texts: Im using the MacBook Pro Retina and currently using an external hard drive to store many datas using the Time Machine, i.e: songs, images, movies, docs and so on. I was wondering what will happen if I switched TIME MACHINE off? I have backed up everything to my external hard drive though and currently my storage in the macbook is showing 29.01gb BACKUP, I was thinking if by switching the Time Machine could it allow more space on my disk?


texts: Is my MagSafe covered under my MacBook's AppleCare?

texts: I have a white 2010 MacBook, and the outer casing for the wire on the MagSafe power adapter has developed a small split. Is this something that may be covered under my MacBook's AppleCare? Is it something that a genius might give me a "one time exception" for?


texts: Using applescript to control an application which does not support it

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I want to control an application that does not have an Applescript api (simfy). I would like to pause it via an Alfred command, but for this I need to use scripts. This application is build with Adobe Air and there is no script dictionary entry for it.

I have created some shortcuts via System Preferences, but I would like to access the options even when I am using another program. The typical use case, is that I am working in my editor, I want to switch to the next song without having to leave it.

Do you know how to script an application without applescript support?


texts: MacBook starts to boot but kernel panics before OS loads, works after reinstall until reboot

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For the past 2 weeks I've had a problem: my MacBook Pro starts to boot but doesn't load the OS. I think it is a kernel panic. Here is a photo from the verbose boot.

The only way to fix it is to restore the OS from cmd+r menu, but then when I power off my Mac, with the next boot, all is like before.

MacBook Pro (15-inch, Mid 2012), macOS Sierra 10.12.4


texts: Slow animations/graphics after waking from sleep or sometimes at random

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Product:

Model Name: MacBook Pro
Model Identifier: MacBookPro11,4
Processor Name: Intel Core i7
Processor Speed: 2,2 GHz
Number of Processors: 1
Total Number of Cores: 4
L2 Cache (per Core): 256 KB
L3 Cache: 6 MB
Memory: 16 GB
Boot ROM Version: 187.0.0.0.0

Mac OS:
10.14.1

Description:

I've had this problem for a long time now (since Sierra). Sometimes, seemingly at random, after my MacBook wakes from sleep, the animations are sluggish and slow (e.g., transitioning to another workspace; minimizing/maximizing applications; F4 to show installed applications).

I haven't recognised any pattern to this behaviour. Sometimes I'll use my Mac for a couple of weeks without it happening, and other times it happens right after every restart/sleep cycle. For example, some day ago I installed the latest update v10.14.1 and everything was fine after the update. Then I closed the lid and went for lunch and came back. After opening the lid I was experiencing this problem and it has persisted all day, even after sleeping the Mac twice for about 30min during the afternoon.

This is incredibly tiresome since it seems to only be fixed by restarting the Mac. Not only this, but this isn't the performance and smoothness I'd expect from an Apple device... (for example, scrolling most webpages as I write this report in Safari v12.0.1 is extremely sluggish).

Overall the performance of CPU bound tasks like running applications, compiling, Docker containers, all seem to retain the same performance. This seems to affect anything regarding graphics (even vim inside iTerm2).

I've had the suspicion for some time that it's caused by Chrome. Just now it was very smooth. I opened Chrome because I'm developing an application (I use Safari for all other browser related tasks) and just about 3 minutes later it started becoming sluggish. However, closing Chrome doesn't fix it and there are many times where I use Chrome for a long period of time and this behaviour doesn't happen.

Troubleshooting steps:

I haven't done any, I've read many different reports of similar problems but no one ever found a solution it. My next step may be to reset the System Management Controller (SMC), since I've found some reports of people fixing slow MacBooks with that.

EDIT: I've added a screenshot of the Activity Monitor CPU tab when the machine was displaying this behaviour:


texts: Remember how on iChat you could block certain people or just allow certain people? Is there a way to do that on iMessage?


texts: Driver issues Windows 8.1 Pro on Late 2011 MBP

texts: I installed Windows 8.1 pro on my late 2011 mbp and now I'm having issues with audio and display drivers. I can't get the audio to work at all. I have tried updating the drivers and reinstalling them, but nothing has worked.I am also having trouble with my display driver because I can't project to an external monitor. I have also tried updating drivers and reinstalling, but nothing has helped. I don't really know what to do now, but open to any suggestions on how to solve this.


texts: AppleScript SL to ML Issue (compatibility error?)

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I've written the following script in Applescript in Snow Leopard, and I tried to use it in Mountain Lion, but to no avail (doesn't work). The script watches a folder for added files, and if the filetype matches, it will scp it to a server.

It runs great, no errors on Snow Leopard. When it's run in ML it spits back the error (in console):

AppleScript Runner: CPSGetFrontProcess(): This call is deprecated and should not be called anymore.

I'm almost positive this has something to do with the way the script is written. I have tried copying & pasting into a new script in mountain lion, and then saving that. Doesn't work either.

Here is the code itself, any insight as to what call is working wrong?

on adding folder items to this_folder after receiving the_files

--set login vars
set fileExt to "zip"
set scpIP to "blah"
set scpUser to "blah"
set scpDest to "/home/blah"
set scpPort to "1234"

--repeat on each file that is added to the folder
repeat with each_file in the_files
    set filename to name of (info for each_file)
    tell application "Finder"
        --check extension, if match, scp. else, error.
        if name extension of each_file is fileExt then
            try
                do shell script "scp -p" & scpPort & " " & scpUser & "@" & scpIP & ":" & scpDes
                move each_file to trash
            end try
        end if
    end tell
end repeat

end adding folder items to


texts: Should I use all my storage on bootcamp?

texts: So I'm a gamer, and I will only use bootcamp and probably never use MacOS ever again. Should I "wipe" my mac to free up as much storage as I can to use all of the storage for bootcamp? I have 1TB of space, and I would like to use as much of that as possible for my windows partition. Would this cause any problems on my mac or windows?


texts: Iphone headphones volume very low on certain apps

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I have the new in ear headphones from apple.

I don't know if it's fault of the headphones, but the volume for certain apps, especially calling, and podcast, is very low! I mean when I'm driving the sound of the engine or the wind is stronger and even if I use the phone external speaker I can hear more.

Some apps, like music apps have a slightly louder volume.

Is this normal? It's the headphone fault, or something related to ios and there's nothing to do about it?

Thanks


texts: Macbook pro 2011 Late cannot enable dGPU again

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I'm struggling with some problem involved with enable dGPU AMD Radeon. To the needs of installation MacOS Catalina I had to disable discrete graphics card. I reboot into recovery mode and used command
nvram fa4ce28d-b62f-4c99-9cc3-6815686e30f9:gpu-power-prefs=%01%00%00%00

after reboot I again run in recovery mode and wrote
csrtuil disable

I was following this tutorial http://dosdude1.com/gpudisable/ (I could not run Single-User-Mode).
It worked perfectly and installation Catalina went well. But after this I wasn't able to enable dGPU again. I tried to use key combination CMD+Option+R+P to reset NVRAM and 'nvram -c' in terminal but it didn't help. Also I tried to solve the problem following these guys explanation but it didn't have any effect. (First link, Second link). I was searching any information but I can not find the answear. Below I put picture from /System/Library/Extensions directory (maybe there is something wrong). I really appriciate any help!
(Last week I upgraded this Macbook with SSD Crucial MX500 and Corsair 8 GB DDR3 1333Mhz but it probobly has no issues with this )


texts: Keyboard shortcut for Force Quitting the current application?

texts: Instead of pressing Command + Option + Esc to bring up the Force Quit menu, is there a way that I can force quit the application that I'm currently using directly?


texts: How do I set up an IRC server on OS X for my local network?

texts:
Is there a nice way to set up an IRC server for my wireless home network, running on an old Mac Mini?

On other forums people have recommended compiling IRCD-Hybrid for OS X. I have Homebrew installed and it contains a formula for ngIRCd; would that work?

Or should I give up and just use the Bonjour functionality built into iChat?


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Can I import an old Address Book file without replacing my current contacts? In other words, can I merge an old address book file with my current one?

I use address book on OS X 10.10.1 and iOS 8.1.3 so whichever can assist can be used.


texts: What is the net weight and outside size of the iPad mini box when new?

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What are the physical dimensions of one iPad mini box?

I want to order two iPads mini and then have them shipped in one box but I'm worried about the width, height, depth & size of the outer box because I'll do international shipping.

Precise measurements are very much appreciated as I wish to be specific about the rates & costs.


texts: How can I see messages I send in Mail 5's Conversation View?

texts:
I love Mail 5's new Conversation View. But, I don't like that it only shows messages sent to me, and doesn't show the messages I send.

Is there a way to show both messages I receive and messages I send in Conversation View?


texts:
Just a couple months ago, a hoax started circulating as a meme, stating that, if users set their time to January 1, 1970, a retro boot logo would appear as an Easter egg.

People did this and ended up bricking their phones.

Skip forward to the release of iOS 9.3, which, as part of the update description, states that it fixed a bug where manually setting the time before May 1970 would brick it.

This is quite odd, as...

To my understanding, iOS is a derivative of Mac OS X, and that's based off of UNIX
NSDate's reference date is January 1, 2001 (Reference)
NSDate allows for dates to be created as an interval from 1970 so it can retain compatibility with BSD's time_t type (Reference: Discussion section of this method)
iOS didn't change its entire backing system. Otherwise, nothing would work and it'd be an entirely different platform.
The security page for iOS 9.3 says nothing about this issue that I found.

How did Apple silently fix this issue? Did they change date calculations on boot? Why, before May 1970, would those months specifically cause an issue? Why May?

They didn't change how time was stored. Otherwise, the NSDate type in iOS 9.3 would work completely differently.


texts: Error when mounting sparse bundle from terminal

texts:
I picked up this command on how to open a disk image and have the password prompt in the terminal window (useful for remote mounting):hdiutil attach -stdinpass /path/to/image
source

However, it's not working with this particular volume. I get this error:

bash-3.2$ hdiutil attach -stdinpass ~/Desktop/Summer\ Docs.sparsebundle
Enter disk image passphrase:
hdiutil: attach failed - Device not configured

Here are the permission for the sparsebundle trying to be opened:

drwxr-xr-x@  6 non-admin  staff   204 May 31 16:06 Summer Docs.sparsebundle

What is wrong with the sparsebundle image that I can't mount it this way?


texts: Is it possible to set the duration of a GrowlNotify notification?

texts:
Looking to speed up Growl notifications on a per-application basis (doesn't seem possible within Growl's own GUI), I'm sceptical but still curious if this is possible via GrowlNotify:

Does anyone know whether it's possible to set the duration of a GrowlNotify notification?


texts: Can't log in into iCloud after installing macOS Mojave on MacBook Pro 2013 Retina

texts:
I updated my MacBook Pro to macOS Mojave. Everything was working fine except iCloud, it was not synchronizing data.

So I thought I sign out and back in.

But if I try to sign in, the wheel spins, and after a while it goes back to the original screen where you have to enter your Apple ID without error message.

After trying a restart, deleting cache etc. I created a new user, here everything is working.

But I want it working with my original account with all my data.

There seems to be a problem with some keychain file:


texts: How to login again in Users and Groups again and also how to gain sudo access which lost privilege

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macOS High Sierra (10.13.6)

How to login again in Users and Groups
Also before with old username, I could access sudo. How to gain back sudo access.
I went into Users and Groups -->
Unlocked successfully -->
Changed Account Name -->
Restarted mac.

tried to get sudo access to one of the hidden files.     got error
[myname] is not in the sudoers file.  This incident will be reported.
cant logo in my Users and Groups again

I have also tried su -, vi /etc/sudoers, sudo -v, sudo dscl .

-merge /Groups/admin GroupMembership <username>
Password:
<username> is not in the sudoers file.  This incident will be reported.

Also tired

dscl . -append /groups/admin GroupMembership USERNAME
<main> attribute status: eDSPermissionError
<dscl_cmd> DS Error: -14120 (eDSPermissionError)

ok just found out i have two users

 su OLACCOUNTNAME
    bash-3.2$ sudo dscl / -append /Groups/admin GroupMembership OLACCOUNTNAME
    OLACCOUNTNAME is not in the sudoers file.  This incident will be reported.
dscl . -read /groups/admin GroupMembership
GroupMembership: root

su NEWACCOUNTNAME
Password:
su: Sorry

*It never asked me to change password or add a new one for this user.

su OLDACCOUNTNAME
id -a
uid=501(OLDACCOUNTNAME) gid=20(staff) groups=20(staff),701(com.apple.sharepoint.group.1),12(everyone),61(localaccounts),100(_lpoperator)

dscl . list /Users | grep -v '_'
daemon
blindshot
nobody
root


texts: Is there a way to monitor what data is displayed on iPad/iPhone

texts:
My company has an iPad/iPhone app which shows news, blogs, videos and various articles. This data is obtained from a rss feed. Additionally it also shows a lot of stock market data. My question is, is there a way to check if my application is displaying the information which matches exactly with the rss feed data?

The only way i can think of doing it, is to monitor all http calls going out from my iPad and garbing the response using tools such as Wireshark or charles, and then subsequently compare the http response with the rss feed. But this approach still does not handle the scenario "what exactly is being displayed to the end user situations"?

If i use the http monitoring approach, how would i go about comparing results on charles or Wireshark.

Any ideas or suggestions?


texts: Want to post an iphone 4 video on youtube, but it needs to be rotated

texts:
I filmed something with my iphone 4 by rotating the phone so that it looks wide.  Like a widescreen TV.  But when I upload the .mov to youtube, the video is sideways and tall & skinny.  How do I rotate it?  Is there a setting in iPhoto or quicktime I can configure?  Or on youtube?

I'm surprised, Apple always makes things so easy... I would've imagined the camera software would recognize I started filming rotated and saved the picture as such...


texts: Is there technical reasoning behind Animoji being exclusive to iPhone X?

texts: To what extent, if any, is Animoji dependent on the camera and sensor system specific to iPhone X? Would there be a noticeable quality difference if the Animoji software was available on other iPhones?


texts: Wi-Fi Connection but no Internet (checked DNS, Checked Router, Clean OS install)

texts:
I can connect to a Wi-Fi Network with my MacBook Air (Yosemite 10.10.5) but do not get Internet.

Other MacBooks and Windows laptops I connected to the same Router via Wi-Fi receive Internet. With an Ethernet connection to the Router I also receive Internet.

What I have done so far:

Clean install of OS X Yosemite (in Apple Store), there is no firewall etc.
installed.
Multiple restarts of MacBook and Router.
Deleted Wi-Fi preference files.
Pinged myself in the terminal: 100% packets received
Pinged router in the terminal: 40% packets received
Tried Lookup in Network utility, works fine, e.g. result: www.google.com -> 216.58.213.4

I really do not know what to do, the DNS service seems to work fine, also I can exclude a problem with the Router since other people can go online via Wi-Fi and I can go online via Ethernet. It is a clean Yosemite install.

What else can I do?


texts: Can I use an iPhone with no service for iOS development?

texts:
Will an iPhone with no service plan be usable as a development device?

I don't need any functionality except a working device running iOS that is a GPS receiver. Since GPS is passive, I would think it would still work without a service plan.

Unless iPhones get locked down or something, which is why I ask.


texts: How can I create two separate, isolated wifi networks with one Internet connection/modem?

texts:
My scenario:

I just got a "smart" sprinkler device that needs to connect to the internet over WiFi
I do not want to put that device on the same network as my other Internet-connected Macs and devices in the home
I have one Airport Time Capsule and one Airport Extreme
I also have an unmanaged gigabit switch
I have Comcast cable Internet service with one cable modem. I don't think I have a static IP from Comcast.

Question(s):

Is it possible with the equipment I have to create two separate WiFi networks that can't see each other?
If so, would that be adequate protection for my Macs and home devices if the smart sprinkler somehow got hacked?
If yes to both of the above, how do I set it up?

So far, I've been able to create two WiFi networks, but haven't been able to get them both connected to the Internet without them obviously sharing the same underlying network. For example, I can print from WiFi network #1 to the wireless printer attached to WiFi network #2.

Any thoughts?


texts: How can I stop OS X from switching Spaces when the mouse cursor is at the edge of the screen?

texts:
Mac OS X Spaces change when I hold the mouse at the edge of the screen. Is there an application or 'defaults' command to disable this?

Warp looks like it might help, but hasn't changed the behavior for me, even though I tried turning it off, or setting a modifier key.


texts:
A colleague of mine has a Mac which is no longer able to connect to our office VPN. It has worked in the past, and nothing has changed in his VPN-settings nor on the server side. (Other Mac users with identical settings connect without problems).

Here's what he gets in his ppp.log:

Thu Feb 23 10:23:30 2017 : publish_entry SCDSet() failed: Success!
Thu Feb 23 10:23:30 2017 : publish_entry SCDSet() failed: Success!
Thu Feb 23 10:23:30 2017 : l2tp_get_router_address
Thu Feb 23 10:23:30 2017 : l2tp_get_router_address 10.2.6.1 from dict 1
Thu Feb 23 10:23:30 2017 : L2TP connecting to server '310.20.30.40' (310.20.30.40)...
Thu Feb 23 10:23:30 2017 : IPSec connection started
Thu Feb 23 10:23:30 2017 : IPSec phase 1 client started
Thu Feb 23 10:23:40 2017 : IPSec connection failed

(I've replaced the IP address with a non existing one)

So the client starts, but a 'IPSec phase 1 server replied' never comes.

I'm actually not sure where to look next, given that our other Macs connect successfully, and our VPN-server & firewall haven't changed either.

Who can help me out? :)


texts: Yahoo Widgets - crashing - clean uninstall

texts:
Anyone remember Konfabulator / Yahoo Widgets? Anyone still use it/ them?

Well, I do… to track my IP, and put rotating pictures on my desktop. Pretty low-level stuff, but it's been part of my desktop UX for a decade.

Trouble is, something has gone rotten. The app(lette?) itself spontaneously quits, and the pop-out pref bar disappears, while the widgets themselves continue running. My rotating pictures in Picture Frame present, but they've walked down my screen. Typically I would occasionally open prefs and move them back up. Now I'm unable.

As a fix, I tried simply deleting the package and reinstalling, but it persists in flaking on me. I searched root and user /Library and /Preferences for tell-tale associated files to kill to no avail.

Anyone have any suggestions on how to diagnose / and fix? I'd be happy to step away from it if anyone has a suggested replacement that will run in the background, and rotate through images in a user defined directory.

For better or worse I'm running Lion on a 2 x 2 GHz Dual Core Intel Xeon Mac Pro Tower.

TIA


texts: Is there an iPad office suite that syncs with Google Docs?

texts: The app should support offline editing of documents, spreadsheets and sync them back to Google Docs.


texts: What does setting boot-args kext-dev-mode do to set the serial port?

texts:
What does this command do?

sudo nvram boot-args="kext-dev-mode=1"


texts: Apache on localhost doesn't recognize a website unless I include the full path to index.html

texts:
Using MacOS 11.1 Big Sur, I'm developing static websites (ie just a standalone index.html, plus JavaScript and CSS files) on my localhost, with the files accessible under /Library/Web Server/Documents.
Unless I include the full path to the website, including the index.html section, the website fails to load:

I can even reproduce this with the standard "it works" file:

How can I get Apache to check for the presence of the index.html file?


texts:
On a MacPro at remote office, I enabled FTP server with

sudo -s launchctl load -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/ftp.plist

Now it works, but when downloading a large file, it will serve for a few seconds, then stop completely for a minute or more ... then resume (using lftp with multiple connections.)

Like this:

Is there any way to fix this? Or is there a more reliable FTP server service we could use?

brew search ftp shows me

bbftp-client   git-ftp        ncftp      pure-ftpd      vsftpd
curlftpfs      lftp           proftpd    uberftp

Are any of these FTP servers that could be set up as an always-on 'service'?

UPDATE: I installed pure-ftpd, got it up and running, and it's doing the same damn thing. 34mbps for 10 seconds, then 0 for 30 or so ... what is going on?


texts: My son added an app on my laptop. How can I update it?

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My son added Pages back when he was living at home and using my laptop. He now has his own and I still use Pages. I would like to update it as it has been a few years without updates now. I am even happy to pay for it again since he is probably using it on his laptop too from his cloud. But I don't want to lose my current documents. What do I do? I cannot update using my Apple ID and it will not let me purchase it since it is already on the computer.
Does this question even make sense?


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Have a copy of iMessages and one in the string is a photo I did not send and looks like it was sent with my name.  I know you can delete messages from iMessage string.
How is it possible that one I never sent was inserted?


texts: How to back-up a hard drive without power cable connected?

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I am using a 2019 13-inch MacBook Pro with two thunderbolt ports. I have a WD My Passport external hard drive with a USB connection. In order to plug the USB into the Mac, I have a USB-to-thunderbolt adapter. However, the two thunderbolt ports on my Mac are so close together that I cannot use the power cable and the USB-to-thunderbolt adapter simultaneously.
When I try to back-up my Mac with the external hard drive using Time Machine, it says that "Time Machine can not back up because the computer is running on battery power. Connect the computer to a power outlet while your backup disk is available."
Am I missing something obvious here or is this a silly design flaw?
(1) How can I plug the Mac into a power outlet while simultaneously plugging in the external hard drive?
(2) Is there a way to override the Time Machine error so that I can just back up while on battery power?
Any help is appreciated.


texts: How to stop iPhone from "erasing its contents" when I want to "manually manage" it?

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In iTunes there is a checkbox to "manually manage music and videos". However when I tried clicking it, there's a popup saying that I can only do so after erasing all data on the phone:

How do I "manually manage" the phone without it erasing off its data?

After trying bmike's answer below, the popup message still appears. Currently my "Tones" and "Books" are ticked (synced). If I try to unsync them, there's this message:


texts: "Set time zone automatically using current location" is not working. Why?

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Although I keep my system time & date in check using time.asia.apple.com, I can't "Set time zone automatically using current location". I get the error message, "Unable to determine current location at this time" every time I try this.

Does anyone know why this is happening?

Thanks.


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Is there a way to easily see web element tooltip on touch screen devices like iPad or iPhone?

For some elements on site, e.g. tags this can be achieved by taping and then go back in web browser’s history (screen shot from Google Chrome on iPad):

I’m looking for method that works on any elements, as if I use mouse pointer.


texts: Using the extra SATA ports on a 2006 Mac Pro under Bootcamp

texts: i have a 2006 MacPro (Dual, Dual Core Xeon) which is currently running Windows Server 2008 R2 with Hyper-V. I have read (and checked in my case) that there are 2 extra SATA ports on the mother board of the MacPro (Found them too...). Anyway, i also read that the SATA ports are turned off in BootCamp, for reasons Apple only know (cough we all know why cough). Anyway, the post i read this on was quite old, and given my Mac Pro is not actually using BootCamp (just booted from the win2k8r2 disk, and there is no Mac Partition at all on this machine) does anyone know off hand if this should work? I am hoping to take apart the machine over the weekend to see if this will actually work, but before i do, any ideas?


texts: Can Lion's Mail.app unsubscribe from Gmail IMAP folders?

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I want to try out the new Mail.app but I can't seem to find a way to unsubscribe from certain IMAP folders using my Gmail account. If I right-click on any folder and select "Get Account Info", and click on the Subscription List tab, the list refreshes but no folders appear.

I do not want to use Gmail's server-side label hiding/message count limiting because I want other machines to be able to download all of my email for backup purposes.

Is there an alternative way to limit the folders that Mail.app downloads, or to limit the number of messages per folder that are downloaded (as is possible on iOS)?

Did folder subscriptions work in Snow Leopard, or is this just a long-standing incompatibility between Gmail and Mail.app?


texts: Difference in executing a command line in a different ways

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Just so I understand the difference between executing the command line in Bash Terminal macOS Mojave.

Let's take for example the installation of a package named: stackexchange.pkg

What are the differences between the two command line below? Is the result the same? Pros and Cons?

/usr/sbin/installer -pkg path_to_stackexchange.pkg -target /

sh -c /usr/sbin/installer -pkg 'path_to_stackexchange.pkg' -target '/'


texts: Skipping disk check with diskutil resize?

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When running the diskutil resize command, is it possible to skip the disk verification step?

While I realise this ordinarily a good idea to run, I'm currently struggling against an apparently inaccurate minimum size being reported by the limits option, which is forcing me to run the command multiple times till I can find the actual minimum size that I can resize to, but this is taking forever as I'm forced to wait for a 10-15 minute disk check every time.

So what I'd like to know for future reference is; is there a way to tell diskutil to skip the disk verification when resizing, or to instead use a faster alternative (e.g- the -p flag of fsck_hfs)?


texts: How do I make full use of a generic 6-button mouse?

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Somebody gave me a 6-mouse button. I want to make full use of the extra buttons as opposed to just using the basic 3 ones (left, on-scroller, and right buttons). First of all, I want to know where the buttons on the mouse are mapped to currently. I'm having trouble finding an app that will let me see what functionality they are mapped in. Next is how do I actually remap them?

I'm on Snow Leopard 10.6.8.