texts: Using FaceTime and Skype (both open at the same time)

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I would like to use both Skype and FaceTime at the same time (not while calling just having them both open).

When I start FaceTime it switches on the camera and keeps it on. If I hide the application the camera seems off (green LED is not on).

But if I use Skype the camera is not available since (even if the LED is off) the camera is still in use by FaceTime.

Is it possible to have FaceTime on waiting for calls without blocking or using the camera? In theory the camera is only needed during calls.


texts: Trying to burn a CD: "hdiutil: imageinfo failed - image not recognized"

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Using the Application Burn, I saved some music-CD's as image-file to the desktop as .iso, along with the right .isoinfo. Now I want to burn those images to empty CD's, but I get the following error when opening the image file:

hdiutil: imageinfo failed - image not recognized

This error is not directly related to Burn, because it gives this error when I try to open the image with DiskImageMounter (default on Mac) or when I do hdiutil imageinfo image.iso in the Terminal.

I have no idea why this is happening, and Googling didn't provide me with a solution. If someone knows how I can fix this it would be great.

I am running OS X El Capitan (10.11) on a Late 2011 15" MacBook Pro. The images come from several CD's, so it is not the case for one specific CD.

Thanks in advance!

EDIT //
I now ran the command in verbose, this is the output:

hdiutil imageinfo -verbose image.iso
hdiutil: imageinfo: processing "image.iso"
DIBackingStoreInstantiatorProbe: interface  0, score      100, CBSDBackingStore
DIBackingStoreInstantiatorProbe: interface  1, score    -1000, CBundleBackingStore
DIBackingStoreInstantiatorProbe: interface  2, score    -1000, CRAMBackingStore
DIBackingStoreInstantiatorProbe: interface  3, score      100, CCarbonBackingStore
DIBackingStoreInstantiatorProbe: interface  4, score    -1000, CDevBackingStore
DIBackingStoreInstantiatorProbe: interface  5, score    -1000, CCURLBackingStore
DIBackingStoreInstantiatorProbe: interface  6, score    -1000, CVectoredBackingStore
DIFileEncodingInstantiatorProbe: interface  0, score    -1000, CMacBinaryEncoding
DIFileEncodingInstantiatorProbe: interface  1, score    -1000, CAppleSingleEncoding
DIFileEncodingInstantiatorProbe: interface  2, score    -1000, CEncryptedEncoding
DIFileEncodingInstantiatorProbe: interface  0, score    -1000, CUDIFEncoding
DIFileEncodingInstantiatorProbe: interface  0, score    -1000, CSegmentedNDIFEncoding
DIFileEncodingInstantiatorProbe: interface  1, score    -1000, CSegmentedUDIFEncoding
DIFileEncodingInstantiatorProbe: interface  2, score    -1000, CSegmentedUDIFRawEncoding
DIDiskImageInstantiatorProbe: interface  0, score    -1000, CUDIFDiskImage
DIDiskImageInstantiatorProbe: interface  1, score        0, CSparseBundleDiskImage
DIDiskImageInstantiatorProbe: interface  2, score        0, CSparseDiskImage
CRawDiskImage: data fork length 0x00000000274E2DC0 (659434944) not a multiple of 512.
DIDiskImageInstantiatorProbe: interface  3, score     -100, CRawDiskImage
DIDiskImageInstantiatorProbe: interface  4, score        0, CDARTDiskImage
DIDiskImageInstantiatorProbe: interface  5, score        0, CDiskCopy42DiskImage
DIDiskImageInstantiatorProbe: interface  6, score        0, CNDIFDiskImage
DIDiskImageInstantiatorProbe: interface  8, score     -100, CShadowedDiskImage
DIDiskImageInstantiatorProbe: interface  9, score    -1000, CCFPlugInDiskImage
DIDiskImageInstantiatorProbe: interface 10, score     -100, CWrappedDiskImage
DIDiskImageNewWithBackingStore: probe fails to find appropriate CDiskImage class.
hdiutil: imageinfo: result: 110
hdiutil: imageinfo failed - image not recognized


texts: After my MacBook Pro sleeps some gestures don't work anymore

texts:
When I wake my MacBook Pro (mid 2012 - with Mountain Lion) from sleep, sometimes some complicated gesture doesn't work anymore with the Trackpad or Magic Mouse.

Changing screens (with 4 fingers with trackpad or with 2 fingers with the mouse), getting Mission Control with 4 fingers, dragging windows with 3 fingers: they all don't work.

Clicks, taps, two fingers gestures still work though.

I have tried to change the configuration of the trackpad but it doesn't work.

Changing screen with Ctrl + Left Arrow or Right Arrow still work too.

What can I do to restart these features without restarting the computer (when I restart of course it works again like a charm)?


texts: Icons in Finder, Safari, Mail, and Dock are not visible

texts: I booted my MacBook Pro a few days ago and some of the icons on my dock were not visible. I noticed that there were icons missing in Safari, Finder and Mail. I attach a screen-shot to make my issue more clear.


texts:
I installed iTerm2, played a bit with the preferences.

Now I would go back to the initial configuration, but removing the app and finding and removing any file on the disk apparently related to the app does not help: after reinstalling, the preferences are still the modified ones.


texts: Can I charge from portable battery on a Late 2013 MacBook Pro?

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I don't know a lot about the in's and out's of Apple charging devices.

I have a RavPower 26800 PD USB type C battery, and they are meant to be able to charge a MacBook of various descriptions at least once. I have a similar Anker one but less powerful.

I have a late 2013 MacBook Pro, so it has what I understand is a MagSafe 2 adapter on it. Its also got what looks like Thunderbolt inputs? There must be a way to charge my MacBook from the USB type C battery's thunderbolt port? Or a converter into the original power input?


texts:
I recently saw this in a demonstration online in someones Terminal:

Notice the path-bar-like style of the prompt, any ideas how you can get that? Some kind of customisation I'd assume?


texts: Can I check if the cooling system of my Macbook Pro 15" Early 2013 works as intended?

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I have this model:

MacBook Pro "Core i7" 2.7 15" Early 2013
2.7 GHz Core i7 (I7-3740QM)

Intro.  February 13, 2013   Disc.   October 22, 2013
Order   ME665LL/A   Model   A1398 (EMC 2673)

Recently it started shutting down randomly and I took it to a local repair shop. Tech guys told me the problem was with the power controller board (because of the constant overheating) and that they had fixed it. However, the cooling system (the radiator itself) was failing (probably out of gas inside due to them) and needed to be replaced. They failed to find a replacement part (since the laptop is old) and recommended me to restrain from overloading the system in the meantime.
The laptop is now running smoothly. I'm measuring the CPU temperature with Macs Fan Control and it is showing 103 Celcius degrees on the CPU cores under the heaviest load possible (which according to the tech guys is a way too high). However,  according to this answer:

https://apple.stackexchange.com/a/284437/330383

there is an Intel defined spec for my CPU:

https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/products/70847/intel-core-i7-3740qm-processor-6m-cache-up-to-3-70-ghz.html

The Tjunction value (value when the processor starts to slow down to avoid damage) is 105 Degrees.

I never measured the CPU temp before the incident but I feel it was always running this hot from the very beginning.

So, please help me understand - did the radiator really fail or it was just a random power controller problem?

One more thing: I was using a faulty power adaptor for some time which had an overheating connector - THAT could have possibly caused the damages to the power board. To my mind, it may never have been connected to the CPU overheating.


texts: I have been seeing on web that latest update for Xcode -Xcode 7 beta release has arrived. I currently have xcode 6.4 and i cannot see any update on Appstore. Where can i get it?


texts: Device manager and Postgresql error message loop

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I'm on MBP 7,1, 2.4GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 4GB DDR3 Ram, 500GB hard drive with Lion. After the v10.7.3 update, the console has been putting a looping error message regarding Device manager and PostGre SQL (below). Can anyone help?

23/02/12 12:47:07.662 PM com.apple.launchd: (org.postgresql.postgres[1110]) Exited with code: 2
23/02/12 12:47:07.662 PM com.apple.launchd: (org.postgresql.postgres) Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds
23/02/12 12:47:13.834 PM com.apple.devicemanager: DEBUG: Initializing DeviceManagerDaemon with ports 3320,3321,3322,3323 (physmem = 4GB)
23/02/12 12:47:13.834 PM com.apple.devicemanager: DEBUG: Making sure Rails is configured properly
23/02/12 12:47:13.834 PM com.apple.devicemanager: DEBUG: Running rake command: /usr/bin/rake db:migrate
23/02/12 12:47:15.044 PM ruby: Unable to create ProfileManager log file at '/var/log/devicemgr/profilemanager.log' (No such file or directory)
23/02/12 12:47:15.044 PM ProfileManager: Unable to create ProfileManager log file at '/var/log/devicemgr/profilemanager.log' (No such file or directory)
23/02/12 12:47:15.045 PM com.apple.devicemanager: Feb 23 12:47:15 Computer.local ProfileManager[1116] <Error>: Unable to create ProfileManager log file at '/var/log/devicemgr/profilemanager.log' (No such file or directory)
23/02/12 12:47:16.449 PM com.apple.devicemanager: rake aborted!
23/02/12 12:47:16.449 PM com.apple.devicemanager: could not connect to server: No such file or directory
23/02/12 12:47:16.449 PM com.apple.devicemanager:           Is the server running locally and accepting
23/02/12 12:47:16.449 PM com.apple.devicemanager:           connections on Unix domain socket "/var/pgsql_socket/.s.PGSQL.5432"?
23/02/12 12:47:16.450 PM com.apple.devicemanager: (See full trace by running task with --trace)
23/02/12 12:47:16.461 PM com.apple.devicemanager: (in /usr/share/devicemgr/backend)
23/02/12 12:47:16.470 PM com.apple.devicemanager: /usr/share/devicemgr/backend/devicemgrd:109:in `rake': Rake command failed with 256 (RuntimeError)
23/02/12 12:47:16.470 PM com.apple.devicemanager:           from /usr/share/devicemgr/backend/devicemgrd:103:in `setupRails'
23/02/12 12:47:16.470 PM com.apple.devicemanager:           from /usr/share/devicemgr/backend/devicemgrd:33:in `run'
23/02/12 12:47:16.470 PM com.apple.devicemanager:           from /usr/share/devicemgr/backend/devicemgrd:131
23/02/12 12:47:16.470 PM com.apple.launchd: (com.apple.devicemanager[1114]) Exited with code: 1
23/02/12 12:47:16.470 PM com.apple.launchd: (com.apple.devicemanager) Throttling respawn: Will start in 8 seconds
23/02/12 12:47:17.682 PM org.postgresql.postgres: postgres_real cannot access the server configuration file "/var/pgsql/postgresql.conf": No such file or directory
23/02/12 12:47:17.682 PM com.apple.launchd: (org.postgresql.postgres[1117]) Exited with code: 2
23/02/12 12:47:17.682 PM com.apple.launchd: (org.postgresql.postgres) Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds
23/02/12 12:47:24.482 PM com.apple.devicemanager: DEBUG: Initializing DeviceManagerDaemon with ports 3320,3321,3322,3323 (physmem = 4GB)
23/02/12 12:47:24.483 PM com.apple.devicemanager: DEBUG: Making sure Rails is configured properly
23/02/12 12:47:24.483 PM com.apple.devicemanager: DEBUG: Running rake command: /usr/bin/rake db:migrate
23/02/12 12:47:25.718 PM ruby: Unable to create ProfileManager log file at '/var/log/devicemgr/profilemanager.log' (No such file or directory)
23/02/12 12:47:25.718 PM ProfileManager: Unable to create ProfileManager log file at '/var/log/devicemgr/profilemanager.log' (No such file or directory)
23/02/12 12:47:25.718 PM com.apple.devicemanager: Feb 23 12:47:25 Computer.local ProfileManager[1121] <Error>: Unable to create ProfileManager log file at '/var/log/devicemgr/profilemanager.log' (No such file or directory)

Thanks


texts: How can I incorporate LaTeX into an iBook created with iBooks Author?

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I'm interested in writing a text in the sciences that requires some mathematical notation, but I see no way to incorporate LaTeX into iBooks using iBooks Author.

Am I missing a feature? Is there an add-on plug-in architecture (e.g. using "widgets") that would allow me to add a tool for LaTeX editing. Are there any existing LaTeX "widgets" or add-ons?

Ideally, I'm seeking something other than a "one-way" static PDF- or image-generation approach.


texts: Escape black screen on MacBook Pro after disconnecting external display

texts:
Here's the scenario:

In my office, my MacBook Pro (Early 2011, running 10.10) is plugged into an external display over DisplayPort. I disconnect the laptop, close it (putting it to sleep), and take it with me. When I arrive to my destination I find that opening the laptop wakes it up to a black screen– however it is awake:

Backlight is visibly on
Volume controls work (I can hear it, no visuals)

The simplest way to solve this is to either restart or go back and plug it in to a monitor and retry the sequence of disconnecting to ensure this doesn't happen. Neither of these are feasible at the moment for various reasons. Session details:

Multiple users are logged in
Assume that some files are not saved or that progress may be lost by restarting (I think I'm safe here, but it's good for the exercise)
All users have a password protected lock screen upon awakening (though I am aware of the current user and password)
I have access to the shell which can be confirmed by opening iTerm (via shortcut) and entering "say hello"

Some of the suggestions I've seen for resolving this without a restart involve "Detect Displays" but unfortunately that's a bit too difficult to get to in the GUI without any visual feedback. All that being said, are there any creative ways to escape this using either the command line, AppleScript, or even guess-and-click if completely necessary?


texts: Is there any way to remove the screen that is blocking the rear facing camera? Could I bring it into a store and pay to have it removed/a camera put in?


texts: Late 2009 MBP 15" battery drain on sleep after putting SSD and ram upgrade

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I have a 2009 MacBook Pro (macbook pro 5.4) with Core 2 duo 2.53ghz 4GB RAM with 256 HDD.
I upgraded the RAM and switched to SSD. Here are the specs:

Crucial M4 CT256M4SSD2 2.5" 256GB SATA III MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD)

Crucial 8GB (2 x 4GB) 204-Pin DDR3 SO-DIMM DDR3 1066 (PC3 8500) Laptop Memory Model CT2KIT51264BC1067

My problem is that after upgrading my laptop drains significantly more battery while on sleep. Like 15% per day, before upgrade it drained like 1-2% per day on sleep.

I'm on Mavericks but with upgrades, so not a fresh install, I also enabled the trim support for the SSD with a third party app. I tried SMC reset at some point as well. I have the latest firmware update.


texts: Planning to sell iPad 2 - need to know how to securely erase data

texts:
I did a Google search and I have followed instructions from this link: http://www.macworld.co.uk/how-to/iosapps/how-wipe-all-personal-data-from-iphone-ipad-3498379/

Is that all I must do? Are there any other things I need to check before selling it?


texts: How can you manage permissions about which users can Add/Modify other users?

texts:
I know in the unix world, if you wanted to be granular about whether a user could modify user accounts, you can specify whether they can sudo the useradd usermod commands.

I am not just looking for the answer "just make them an Admin user", because basically I want the following :

User Andy   , has all admin privileges

User Betty , has all admin privileges, except for removing Andy as an Admin user.

References

[1] Best practice for installing applications for multiple users?


texts: Use custom App Shortcuts: Find "Menu Command" for Chrome switch to right/left Tab

texts:
I want to add an additional key binding for Google Chrome. I want to switch between my Tabs not using (Shift)CtrlTab (really bad finger position) but use ShiftCmd -> or <-

I hope to achieve this using App Shortcuts in Keyboard-Settings. However, I need the "exact name of the menu command" which I don't know. How can I find out the exact menu commands in general and does anybody know the ones for my use case?


texts: Is there a way to restart the Touch Bar on MacBook Pro

texts:
I have the MacBook Pro and several times the touch bar will just hang on me — freeze. I wont be able to control anything from it and it's pretty much unresponsive.

Is there a way we can restart it or something where I don't need the whole system to restart.


texts: How to debug excessive iPhone data usage?

texts:
I'm in the UK, and recently changed from a pre-pay carrier (GiffGaff) to EE. My data usage with GiffGaff was about 100-125 MB every two weeks; with EE, I've used nearly 250 MB in the first 5 days. My usage is the same: email, web, Twitter, and some Maps. (Both with my last two weeks with GiffGaff, and these past few days, I've used Maps on a driving trip.)

So I'm trying to figure out what's going on. I know I'm not using that much data, but something on the phone is using data. This is clearly a carrier issue; either the carrier settings or something that has changed. I know you can access Console logs via Xcode, but I don't see anything helpful there.

Does anyone know how I can debug this? I'm ready to go to EE and cancel my contract, because at this rate, the data will cost me a fortune.


texts:
I have a 27" Late 2013 iMac with 8GB RAM and a NVIDIA GeForce GTX 775M (2GB) GPU.

Last year my iMac started crashing now and then. Not only that, when it's in sleep mode it just falls out. I have to pull the wire out and in again and then it works again. Very annoying.

I brought it back to the store and they did a hardware check, nothing was wrong apparently.

They looked into the logs and saw that before my iMac crashed the 'Steam -app' was mentioned. So they suggested that I have to reinstall the iMac.    Weird I know. So I asked a friend to do that for me since I'm too afraid to make a mistake.

So the iMac was clean and yet again after a few hours it crashed.
I downloaded software to see if the fans were working right or the temperature was too high. Again no problems. I used the console to get the CPU to work 100% to see if it would crash. Nope.

So I thought maybe it was the power supply and I tried a different cable. Nope

I looked into the log again and now I see that the last crash was because of com.apple.dictionaryServiceHelper??

I uploaded a screenshot of this:
(log+About This Mac)

I'm no iMac expert at all so I just don't know what to do anymore.

How can I continue troubleshooting this?


texts: How to mask images in Keynote into circles?

texts:
I have a bunch of photos that I need on a single slide, and I'd like them all to be shown as circles.

Can I do that out-of-the-box with Keynote?


texts: I have a 2011 13" MacBook Pro. It has had no problems up until now. Suddenly, clicking won't work! I thought that it was the touchpad that wasn't working right, but then I connected a mouse and the problem still persists! Sometimes it doesn't want to click, and other times it won't stop clicking. I have gone online and tried everything that people have recommended but nothing works!


texts: Why do I see two icons for the same application?

texts:
I have installed TinyGrab on my Mac, and set it to run on login. I now see two icons on the dock; when I close one, the other one closes too.

I have two user accounts on the Mac; while I see some processes that run under the other account, this is not true for TinyGrab. The processes that run under the other account are the following.

I noticed that the application has its settings for being executed at login, not just the option shown from the Finder, but unchecking one option unchecks also the other one.

Why do I see two icons? How can I avoid it happens?

I have checked, and there is just a copy of the application.

When I close the application, and I manually reopen it, there is just an icon on the dock; when I restart the Mac, there are two icons.

If I try closing one of the application from the icon from the dock, one closes while the other freezes, while I have to force it to quit, even though it doesn't quit when forcing to quit it either.


texts: Does Apple only store 2 digit version numbers?

texts:
I am developing Xamarin.Forms application to run on iOS.

I want to check the version number of the user's current app against the latest version in the app store to prompt for an update. The version number that I have saved in my info.plist file is "x.x.x" with 3 digits, however when I am in code and returning lots of information about my application, the version number is returned as "x.x" with only 2 digits, even though in config files it is specified as having 3 digits.

Does Apple only provide 2 digit version numbers and I need to check against this, or is it possible to retreive 3 digit numbers too?


texts:
I want to set up Skype to have priority on my router whem I'm skyping from my iPhone, but I can't figure out which port the app uses.

Any ideas?


texts:
Most of the articles I'm reading about the latest 10.2 update for iOS claim there is an option in Settings->Music to "Turn on star ratings", but I am not seeing this after updating.

Is this something they introduced in the beta that didn't make the final cut? How do I turn this on?


texts: How to get the temperature of MacBook hardware without extra software?

texts:
We can use iStat Menus and other software.

Is it possible to get the temperature of MacBook hardware components without extra software? To use only programs already installed/delivered with MBP?


texts:
I have over 58,000 photos stored on a HD from the past 15 or so years. I now have a brand new Macbook pro and I have been trying to import all these photos into the Photos app. I have been importing them in batches however, not all of the photos in each batch are uploaded. In the Review for Import window it lists the correct count, but then after uploading the total amount is less (usually around 500-600). I do not get any errors after this.

And then when I try to import the same batch again to see if it picks up on the missing photos, it sees that a really small amount (like 40) haven't been imported and will let me click on import but that doesn't actually do anything and no extra photos have been imported. I have checked these photos specifically, and they have not previously been imported into the Photos app.

I have tried restarting my machine, ejecting the HD and reconnecting it, restoring the library, deleting the library and starting again and renaming all my photos to ensure there are no duplicate file names. I have counted all the .AAE and edited file types (IMG_Exxx) but the numbers don't add up. All apps and my machine are up to date.

The only thing I can think of is that maybe some of the files are corrupt but that seems unlikely as I can view them all in Finder. The photos I am having trouble with are actually the newer ones (from 2016 to this year). Has anyone else had this problem?


texts: How splash-proof and knock-proof is the iPod nano?

texts:
I'm looking at buying an iPod Nano with a watchband to use as a watch.  My concern is that as a watch it will have to take a certain amount of incidental knocks and splashes.

I don't want to have the iPod die after every little tap, or a splash of water when I wash my hands.

Has anyone had any experience with the durability of the iPod Nano?


texts: Google Chrome could not connect to localhost

texts:
I am using OS X Mountain Lion 10.8.4.  I tried the steps in Installing Apache, PHP, and MySQL on Mac OS X to setup my dev environment, but I am not able to open the virtualhost I created – or localhost for that matter.

cURL gives me this error:

  curl: (7) couldn't connect to host

For those who are interested, here's my httpd-vhosts.conf file,

<VirtualHost *:80>
    DocumentRoot "/Library/WebServer/Documents"
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost *:80>
    DocumentRoot "/Users/AnkurKaushal/Documents/workspace/dev"
    ServerName ankur.local
    ErrorLog "/private/var/log/apache2/ankur.local-error_log"
    CustomLog "/private/var/log/apache2/ankur.local-access_log" common

    <Directory "/Users/AnkurKaushal/Documents/workspace/dev">
        Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
        AllowOverride All
        Order allow, deny
        Allow from all
    </Directory>
</VirtualHost>

and my /etc/hosts file:

127.0.0.1       localhost
255.255.255.255 broadcasthost
::1             localhost
fe80::1%lo0     localhost
127.0.0.1       ankur.local

What might I be missing here?


texts: MacBook Pro Mid 2012 briefly displays static after waking from sleep

texts:
On my MacBook, whenever I wake it up from hibernation, it briefly displays static for about 2 seconds before showing the login screen, very like an untuned analog TV.  The problem is purely cosmetic, because after that it functions perfectly.  It doesn't seem to happen if I simply sleep it though.

The machine has gone through two OS upgrades, I believe starting from Mountain Lion, which I don't think had the problem, so it may have started with Mavericks, and continues with Yosemite. I currently have everything updated to the latest version.

It's not really a huge issue, but I'd like to fix it if possible. Any ideas?


texts: How do I permanently keep a network share in my Finder favorites?

texts: I added one of my network shares to my favorites. Whenever I lose connection to that share it gets removed from my favorites. How do I prevent this from happening?


texts: Burned magsafe dc in board ports: Replace, even if working?

texts:
I have noticed that two of the pin plugs on my magsafe dc in board, the ones, which are for power are blacked. As far as I know, this is due to moisture.

Right now everything is working fine, however would it make sense to change the in board? Can the in board damage the magsafe or something else because of the condition it is in? Can I assume, that it will fail soon or is very likely to fail completely?

I ran diagnostics and it came back with 0 issues. However, I would rather fix it, than be surprised by it stopping to work at the worse moment.

Also should I only change the DC in board, or rather the i/o board? On some images it looks like, the DC in board is part of the i/o board.

This is what my dc in board looks like:


texts: there used to be a full sized wireless keyboard?

texts: I am a programmer and find the small wireless keyboard hard to use (the small arrow keys and lack of home/end keys). From what I remember there used to be a full sized wireless keyboard, is this correct?


texts: This morning, my mom logged into her computer as normal, used Mail to check her email, and then got distressed when seeing "squiggles and lines" on her monitor. When trying to restart her machine, it always fails. The apple logo and loading bar come up, it loads to completion, and then the gray screen (no Apple logo) just hangs for a minute or two. Then it turns off. I can't boot into Safe Mode, and I've tried a NVRAM reset (for 3 chimes). She has a backup as of about a month ago, but I'd rather not wipe everything if at all possible. What could have caused this?


texts: How can I charge powerbank that has single C-type in/out from MacBook?

texts:
I’m using Xiaomi Power Bank 3 which has following sockets:

USB-A type low output
USB-A type high output
USB-C type power delivery input/output up to 45W

It usually works fine, I can use MacBook charger to charge the power bank and the power bank can charge MacBook fine.

The problem is, I cannot figure out how to charge power bank from MacBook. The use case will be Charger → Macbook → Power Bank, which I expected to charge both devices, but if I connect like that, the power bank seems not to be charging.


texts: Is an older MagSafe power adapter compatible with a newer model MacBook Pro?

texts:
I'm using the MagSafe power adapter from my old multibody Macbook Pro:

On my new unibody Macbook Pro:

The MagSafe power adapter has become very hot and emitting a faint burning smell. It's not scalding hot. I can still hold it in my hand. If I were to guess, it's 150 Fahrenheit. The smell is similar to what you would smell when you turn on a cheap blender for too long. It is properly charging though. I see the percentage increase on my screen. I'm not in a foreign country, so voltage is not the issue. So I'm wondering, is the unibody Mac not compatible with the multibody Mac's power brick?


texts: Macbook Mail plays incoming mail sound even after turning off all notifications

texts: My Macbook Pro's Mail app continues to play the bass sound when a mail message is received, even though I've turned off all incoming mail sounds and notifications (see screenshots below). Is there anything else I can do to eliminate the incoming mail sound? I'm on a 2018 15" Macbook Pro running 10.14.5 and Mail 12.4 (3445.104.11).


texts: Does an actual insurance policy exist to cover multiple MacBook Pros used by school students?

texts: I need to insure 18 MacBook Pro 15 retinas and 18 MacBook Pro 13 retinas for a school making a large purchase where the students are permitted to take the laptops home for homework. Does an insurance policy exist that will cover this? Both en masse or individual policies will work since parents will need to pay for their share of the policies. However, since parents are paying, the policy premium needs to make sense.


texts: Access back-up of Pictures folder on network drive

texts:
I backed up the contents of an old Macbook which was probably running 10.5.8 by copying ~/Pictures and ~/Documents to a network drive, right before the laptop died with the click-of-death, which probably indicates a failure of the hard-drive.

Fortunately all I care about on the old machine were the documents and pictures, but sadly, when I try and view the contents of those back-up folders in finder I get a pop-up window that says:

  The folder "Pictures" can't be opened because you don't have permission to
  see it's contents.

I can open the directories in the terminal app and even dump the contents of the files to the console, so I don't think it's a unix permissions issue.  And none of my googling has found a fix to my problem.   Specifically, I get these errors when I try the various proposed solutions I've found so far:

>sudo chmod -N Pictures
chmod: Failed to clear ACL on file Pictures: Operation not supported
>sudo chown jdthorpe Pictures
chown: Pictures: Operation not permitted

And if I highlight the file in Finder, click cmd-I to view the file info and try and modify the Sharing and Permissions, I get a error stating:

  The operation cant be completed because you don't have the necessary permission.

Finally, DiskUtil won't reach the back-up folders since they're on a network drive.

In case it's useful, calling ls -lash yields this entry:

0 drwxrw-r--@ 1 jdthorpe  staff   264B Apr 16  2011 Pictures

Any help is greatly appreciated!

UPDATE:

The network drive in question is a Western Digital My Book Live.  This share that the data were stored on was set to serve media and the directories I'm unable to access contained media files.  Disabling serve media did not fix this issue, but I can't help noticing that I do have access to backups of a different OSX machine stored on the on the same WD drive that were placed in a share that did not have serve media enabled. The mystery continues...


texts: iTunes keeps telling me I've been disconnected from iCloud Music Library

texts: I'm on a Windows 10 PC using the iTunes app. A couple of days ago I followed some steps I saw on this forum to fix the "Genius can't be updated because iTunes doesn't recognize your iCloud Music Library" error, because it was keeping me from uploading music to the iCloud Music Library. Ever since I fixed it, though, I've been getting pop-ups a couple times per day saying I've been disconnected from the iCloud Music Library. At first I actually did get disconnected until I manually reconnected, but recently it's just been giving me that pop-up even though I wasn't disconnected at all. Does anyone know how to stop the pop-ups from happening?


texts: Use macbook inbuilt microphone with audio going through mic-less earphones

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I want to buy Sony Earphones for use with my MacBook Pro Mid-2014 edition. The earphones have no built in mic. Can my MacBook play audio through my earphones and use the inbuilt mac microphone at the same time e.g. during skype calls or will I have to unplug the earphones for 2 way communication?

I am using OS X 10.10


texts: How to move hosting from mobile.me to iCloud?

texts:
A client of mine had a website hosted on mobile.me account.

I received credentials and was prompted to upgrade to iCloud.

I asked her to do it on her own machine (there might be some issues with iTunes, sync, etc).

Right now, upon logging to iCloud I see only mail / calendar / contacts but NO files / websites... Any idea is it possible to access previous "WWW" directory from iCloud?

Thanks for help, if you you need more info put it in the comments...


texts: What can developers see in my address book?

texts:
When Facebook or other developers ask for access to your address book, what content can they see?

For example, is this only limited to names and email addresses and phone numbers or does this include everything including notes, anniversary dates, birthdays, etc.?


texts: How to know if Macbook Pro new Logic Board has new video chipset

texts:
I have a Late 2011 Macbook Pro which has been unusable for a couple months due to the famous GPU issue found on those machines. I went to a place where they repair those kind of things and they told me to buy a new Logic Board and they would install it. I had to make sure it had the new video chipset so the same wouldn't happen again. The guy told me to buy this one:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Apple-MacBook-Pro-Unibody-15-A1286-i7-2-2GHz-Logic-Board-820-2915-A-B-2011/182498489271?hash=item2a7dc1f3b7:g:olYAAOSwhQhY0erb

The thing is I bought it and brought it to the guy and he now says the new Logic Board has the GPU issue and that it doesn't have the new chipset.

I want to know if it's possible to know if it has the new video chipset or not.

PS: I live outside the US so it'd be hard to return it.


texts: 2 iPhones with iMessage and getting messages from one phone to the other

texts:
I have a personal iPhone XR. A couple of weeks ago my boss wanted to get business cells for a few of us (I'm a customer facing landscape designer) so we could ignore work calls when we wanted to.  As a Mac/apple user for years but I'm no power user or anything, we selected 2020 iPhone SE.

I want to push my personal texts through to my work phone so that during the day I can set my personal phone aside and not worry about it.
I have both devices signed in to the same Apple ID and I think I set
it up right.
Some things push through and some things don't.

Mostly what I've missed is group texts that include android users. At first I thought it was because it's only pushing iMessages through and not true SMS, but I miss texts from some android users but not all. Also I get regular SMS pushed through to my laptop and iPad....so that doesn't seem to line up.

Is there a general fix for having two phones, and allowing the personal one to forward everything to the work phone and being able to switch that on and off cleanly once a day?


texts: Do Apple stores refuse to repair your iPhone if not purchased directly from Apple?

texts: I am planning to buy an iPhone 6 from an online store. But I have been told that if I buy from anywhere except the Apple store, I won't be able to enjoy the benefits of the warranty and guarantee. Is that true?


texts: Wifi connection has password issue with my Macbook Pro

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I have a 2010 Macbook Pro (running Snow Leopard) and I connect to my home internet thru Wifi (via Thompson router).
The problem is, after I choose my Wifi from a list of Wifis and enter the password, majority of the times it fails to connect saying "Incorrect password", even though its correct. All I have to do is keep pressing the return key until a connection is established.
Very few times I get connected automatically without a need to enter the password and sometimes I get the connection on the first attempt, but usually it takes around 5-10 tries.
It doesn't happen to my Windows (vaio) laptop though.
Anyone seen something likely and got it fixed?


texts: How do I backup all the notes on my mac at once?

texts:
I have over 100 notes on my Mac from this year but stupidly I didn't put them on my I cloud as I had though it posed a securaty risk but I think I was being overly carful/paranoid.

I want to make sure there backed up encase anything happends to my Mac.

I satered moveing them manualy but I'm "lazy" so I dont want to have to move over 100 + notes manualy.

Is there a way to copy them all over at once?


texts: How long should it take to update to iOS 10.3?

texts:
My iPhone and iPad show an update and I'd like to know how long this update takes.

Is this a quick update?


texts: Extracting latency value from output of ping

texts:
I am trying to pull a latency value from a ping with the following command:

ping -c 1 206.190.36.45 | awk -F" |=" '/time/{print $10"ms YH"}'

But I want to remove the digits after the .

So instead of 282.117ms US

I would like to see 282ms US

What needs to be added to the command to do so?


texts: How can I get full resolution out of different generations of cinema displays?

texts:
I have a newer thunderbolt display and an older Apple Cinema HD display hooked up to my retina macbook pro (15 inch, early 2013, 1 GB GeForce GT 650M graphics card). The older one is going through a mini-displayport interface to a dvi cable hooked up to a thunderbolt port, while the newer one is on thunderbolt.

However, I've only been able to get as high as 1280 by 800 resolution out of the older monitor. Is there a way to get it to display at a better resolution?


texts: How to create a service that puts selected text into quotation marks?

texts: I'd like to create a service that puts any text I select in TextEdit or web page text editors into quotation marks. I understand Automator is the tool to use, but how do I create this action using AppleScript or another scripting language in OS X (Lion)?


texts: Script to be activated if web page changes

texts:
I'm looking for a way to have a script running on my desktop that will check a certain webpage for changes every x seconds, and if a change is made, it gives me an alert. I understand that with high-end websites, some changes will be made almost constantly, but what I'm looking for monitoring now is a bare-bones HTML page that I'm waiting for a link to show up on. Is there a way to do this?

Edit:
Would it be a command to download the html and store it, and then a recurring download-and-check command?


texts:
When updating from iOS 9 to iOS 10 on an iPhone 6S Plus, I noticed an app icon disappearing from a custom folder with all the iOS native apps inside. I couldn't remember which one it was, and some serious googling didn't reveal anything, either. I have a sneaking suspicion that it has something to do with HomeKit/Home.

Does anyone know for sure?


texts: iTunes library export when the media is on an external HDD

texts:
Back when I was using my MBP as a desktop pc I had moved my music archive to an external disk and changed the "iTunes Media Location" within iTunes Preferences. Now that worked without any complications for a long while. A couple of months back I got an iMac to replace my old and worn-out laptop, and I figured it wouldnt be more complicated than to change the media location on the iMac to point to where the media is. Oh, how terribly mistaken I was...

After a long wait of importing I realized that all my playlists and an overwhelming majority of my ID tag information has been lost during the importing. I have been reading about the subject, and I understand that iTunes makes use of an XML file as well as a "library" file that is located under ~/Music/iTunes.

My question is as follows; am I royally screwed or can I save my library by using the xml and library files from my laptop? I would hate to go over tens of thousands of songs, which I have collected and nurtured like small audio babies through out my college years...

Any idea would be appreciated!
CHeers,


texts: LaCie external disk setup assistant immediately quits unexpectedly on Mac OS X 10.7

texts:
In order to upgrade the operating system on my old 2011 MacBook Air running macOS 10.7, I first wanted to back up the contents of the hard drive to an external disk. I already had a fresh, unused LaCie 4TB external disk lying around so I figured that would be sufficient.

When I plugged the cable into the laptop, the disk mounted successfully and the icon appeared upon the desktop. However, when I opened the disk and tried to run the necessary startup tool, it always quits unexpectedly within 1 second of being started.

Does anyone know if there is a workaround for this issue?


texts: Can't burn Mac OS X 10.7 Lion to a disc because it doesn't have enough space

texts:
When I try to burn my downloaded Mac OS X 10.7 Lion install disc to a DVD, I get this error:

  The disc inserted does not have enough free space

The DMG disc image says it's "4.72 GB" and the physical label on the DVD says it's "4.7 GB". Disk Utility on Mac OS X 10.6.8 Snow Leopard, the installed OS, says the inserted DVD is 0 bytes.

There are guides available for how to burn Lion to a disc, so it must be possible, unless it isn't possible anymore?


texts: Apple support requesting an id to activate the Apple Developer Enrolment

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I accidentally wrote the name that’s on my Apple ID on the billing info which is different from the one on my credit card.

I don’t know how to proceed since if they reject my payment it’s not clear i could re-purchase again.
I don’t get why these organisations keep asking for identifications as if we should trust them and give our private information away.

Why did Apple support request my identification after purchasing an Apple Developer Program enrolment and was it legitimate?


texts: How to decrease timeout after which Touch Bar goes to sleep?

texts: There is an option for keyboard backlight to be switched off after some timeout. I would like to do the same for Touch Bar.


texts: Adding modifiers to mouse clicks and other shortcuts

texts:
I have a 5 button mouse and a windows keyboard that hooks into my workstation of my macbook Pro and a monitor. I deal with a lot of annoyances as I am constantly virtual machine or remote desktoped to a windows or unix machine. All those aside. I'd love to lose the dependency of the trackpad for virtual desktops and mission control.
I'm using USB overdrive, and the native mac settings to set some keyboard shortcuts, but I'd really like to be able to do Ctrl+ mouse button 5 = launch mission control. in USBO I can map that to just the mouse button 5, but not the combo, as i'd like to keep the "forward" function of the mouse button.
any other tidbits of advice for using a windows keyboard(mine is ergo, necessary for not having painful wrists) are also appreciated.


texts: Why setting image as its own icon with sips result a blurred icon? Are there any alternatives?

texts:
I've successfully changed icons using the procedure described in an another question: Changing or setting a file or folder icon programmatically. Either my sips (or Finder) got broken afterwards or I just zoomed in for the first time (it seems the icon is sharp from ≈100x100 downwards), but, anyway, the icon that sips -i image.png creates is blurry/pixelated:

What I did before the blurrification:

$ cp FIN-2.png FIN-3.png
$ sips -i FIN-3.png

So FIN-2 and FIN-3 are the same. FIN-2 is a 512x512 PNG-file

Furthermore: using sips breaks all further attempts when trying to set a custom icon even with any GUI method and with any file in any folder.

Only cure is to delete ~/Library/Caches/com.apple.finder/ and restart Finder. Then changing icon via GUI (drag&drop, copy&paste) works normally with any file.

Two main questions—and answering to either one probably solves the problem close enough for me:

How can I set an image as an icon programmatically without using sips -i (= sips --addIcon) in the process? (again, refer to the other question for more comprehensive info)

Shell (bash) or AppleScript is preferred
I could convert the PNG to e.g. ICNS if needed.

Is sips broken? Why/How? Can it be fixed; how? (Or is it the Finder? Or something else?)


texts: How can I set a keyboard shortcut that includes the backspace key?

texts:
My question is in the title: does OS X allow to set a shortcut with backspace, like  Ctrl+Option ⌥+Command ⌘+backspace (in my case to an Automator service)?

Edit:
You might think "Try it yourself"; well, I did it. In System Preferences → Keyboard → Shortcuts, I tried to add this shortcut to my service and it doesn't work. The problem seems to be with backspace. Ctrl+Option ⌥+Command ⌘+m works well.

Does anybody know a workaround that allows me to use the backspace key in a keyboard shortcut?


texts: I have pressed Shift-Cmd-4 and selected an area. Now it is in screen capture app. But I need it inside clipboard to paste here. How to do that?


texts: Are there modifications I can make on a Mac Pro 2012 so it can run macOS Catalina?

texts:
Are there any processor upgrades I can use to allow me to run Catalina on my trusty 2012 Mac Pro 5,1 ?

Thanks

Update!

It worked using http://dosdude1.com/catalina. Veering slightly from the video, I cloned my Mojave startup drive, and installed on the clone.

At the point in the app and video where you are asked to make a USB drive installer, I selected "install to Computer". This worked!

After the install, the patcher app starts and installs some more patches.

So far, so good.

However, I don't know how long this system will work! Will I be able to use Software Update? Use at your own risk!

Please watch the video and use it as a guide.


texts: Is there a security tools package for Mac OS X?

texts: I mean a package of tools like those in the Kali Linux distribution.


texts: Is there an app that allows me to use Google Scholar on an iOS device?

texts:
I'm looking for a native app that allows me to use Google Scholar on my iPhone.

Does such an app exist?


texts: Download an entire Facebook album for offline browsing?

texts:
I would like to download albums off of Facebook onto my iPhone.

I tried the app called "Fb Photos download," but it seems that it downloads only by a group of 12 photos.

Is there an iOS app that downloads all the photos in an album with one click?


texts:
I am aware of this question: How can I prevent iPhoto from opening everytime I plug my iPad/iPhone?

And several others, but none of them present a "universal" solution, I don't want a fix for one situation, I want OSX to stop interrupting me, permanently.

The nature of my work mean I am constantly plugging lots of devices on my Mac.

Also, my Mac came with buggy USB ports, and I can't fix it or send it to repairs or exchange.

This mean it is constantly opening software or trying to do stuff automatically and causing problems, some examples:

When working programming iOS devices, it keeps opening iTunes, Photos, Camera Capture, and some other random apps when the USB ports problem make it mis-recognize the device, also the USB ports keep reloading the devices randomly sometimes, making the apps open again, sometimes with misread IDs, making OSX think is a new device and ignore past settings.
I almost ruined some device more than once by iTunes offering to sync or upgrade it, with windows that steal focus no less.
I am trying to see what is wrong with an old HDD that seemly works but stopped booting, but when I plug the HDD, OSX starts to work without any indication on the interface of what it is doing, except the HDD lights flashing, then after several minutes working slowed down, it showers me with dialog boxes (one offering to use the HDD as Timemachine, another asking if I wnana format it, another informing me it is damaged and unrepairable, and so on). Sometimes some OSX process on the background ends unmounting the HDD, and mounting it again (or automatically mounting it again if I umount it manually), then OSX do it all over again (including the dialog box plague).
OSX auto-mounts other people pendrives that I didn't necessarily wanted to mount, and then happily write random OSX crap (like .DS_STORE) on them, making the pendrive owners pissed off, and corrupting data (sometimes I want to plug pendrives to scan for lost data).

There are other issues too, but all of them has a single source cause: OSX automatically trying to do stuff when I plug anything on it. So how I tell it, to never do that? the only thing that should automount is the internal HDD that is needed to be mounted to boot in first place, I don't want any other device not absolutely necessary for the machien to function turning on automatically, for any reason, and don't want software reacting to me plugging and removing stuff either, even if I have to later manually mount USB drives with command line.


texts: iOS - App Store view app purchase history

texts:
I didn’t pay attention in which iOS version it happened but as you know, Apple redesigned their App Store.

However there’s something I can’t find anymore with this version of App Store: The whole list of purchased apps associated with the iCloud account signed in.

In the previous App Store you could go to App Store app → Updates and, on top of the list, there was an item named Purchased, that, when clicked, would show a list of purchased apps in a descending chronological order.

Where can we find that list now that Apple redesigned the App Store?


texts: Adobe Acrobat Ridiculous Document Protection – How to prevent an image from being copied from a PROTECTED document?

texts:
I have added images to a PDF and I have protected that PDF with password, so the only think, in theory, that I have authorized is printing.
Even so I open that PDF on Preview, click on any image, CMD C and CMD and I can copy that image easily.
I know that anyone can take a screnshot of that document and copy the images, but here is the point. The images are irregular and have transparency and they are over a background with an irregular pattern, so, if someone takes a screenshot will have a hell of a job to separate the stolen image from the background, so it can be used on other contexts. But if the image can be selected on Preview, copied and pasted, stealing the images are a piece of cake.
Yes, I have closed and opened the document, after protecting it. I am aware of this bug.
What kind of protection is this offered by Adobe Acrobat?


texts:
My wife is taking an online class and it says it needs to launch using Java Web Start.  I've changed the endings from .ed files to .jnlp files and make sure I click open other and select Java Web start.

Tech support wasn't helpful at all.


texts: Do I need to upgrade my machine in order to release app updates on the App store?

texts:
I've been developing using Xcode (10.1) on an iMac (21.5-inch, Mid 2010) running macOS High Sierra (Version 10.13.6).

The last time I updated my app on the App Store, I got a warning:

  ITMS-90725: SDK Version Issue - This app update was built with the iOS 12.1 SDK. As of June 30, 2020, updates to apps for iPhone or iPad must be built with the iOS 13 SDK or later.

I read that iOS 13 SDK comes bundled with Xcode 11.

But when I go to App Store → Updates, I don't see anything to update on my iMac. I can expose "1 incompatible Update", which is "Xcode Version 11.5", which should include iOS 13 SDK. This is what I would need in order to keep updating my app on the App Store, but it's "incompatible".

The problem seems to be confirmed by this compatibility chart. It looks like my current OS is as far as Apple is willing to take me on my current hardware (High Sierra, but not Mojave or Catalina).

My question is, is there any work-around that would allow me to use my current machine, but build using iOS 13 SDK?

I power-on this machine on three or four times per year, in order to make a tweak to the application, and then upload the new app to the App Store. I really don't need or want to buy another computer just to do this.


texts:
While using curl in verbose mode, I noticed the following line in the output:
 * successfully set certificate verify locations:
 *   CAfile: /etc/ssl/cert.pem
 *

I googled and found out that etc/ssl/cert.pem is the CA bundle.
The question I now have is who creates this file? Running ls -lh I could see the file was created on Jan  1  2020, but I have been using this Mac Since 2018!
So I am really not sure how this file is managed: How it was added and how it get's updated. Any ideas?


texts:
I'm using several AirPort Extremes to create a wireless network for a large amount of devices. One AirPort is advertised to support 50 devices, so I'm using 4 AirPorts currently for 200 devices.

My setup consists of 1 AirPort in DHCP and NAT mode, and the remaining AirPorts in Bridge mode.

Now, I'd like to extend the network capacity to 400-ish devices.

One issue I see is that AirPort Utility only supports setting DHCP ranges within a /24 subnet, meaning that there is a maximum of around 250 devices possible.

It is important that all devices share the same subnet, because the used application requires UDP broadcasts to communicate with other peers.

It is also important that roaming (i.e. moving around in the room and reconnecting to other base stations without disconnects) is possible. This works fine with my 4 AirPort setup so far.

What is the preferred way to create a larger than default subnet (e.g. /23) using Apple AirPort Extreme?


texts: Expedite iOS app review to less than 24 hours

texts:
Is it possible to get the app reviewed within a day or few hours? I know there is an expedited app review process if the app is time sensitive then Apple will review the app very quickly, but that also might take 1-3 days sometimes. We built an app which is needed to be in store tomorrow, though one version is already up there but it is not working properly as expected. We have fixed the bug and want to app to be in market before tomorrow morning.

Can my app's review be expedited further than the process above? We are even ready to pay some amount if Apple is ready to review and submit our app in less than a day.


texts: Virtual audio device installation failed with Debut

texts:
I am trying to use Debut Screen Capture software on my Mac, but failing with the following error

Reboot doesn't help.
What can be done?


texts: Looking for Text Editor with File Browser for logs

texts:
Need a text editor with file browser that will keep files sorted by date and allow quickly switching between files in the editor. Lots of log files to view through quickly.

TextWrangler only shows files in disk browser by name. Lots of other editors don't even have a file browser. Loved Notepad++ on windows. Anything close on Mac?

Need:

allow browsing file system
sort files/folders by date modified
quickly show/edit files in main window by clicking/double-clicking filenames (no popup of separate windows)

I've looked at log file viewers and they're mainly for viewing individual files. I have log files with semi-random names but I need them sorted by modified date to troubleshoot.


texts: Error trying to access Gmail on all browsers, "bad_mac_alert"

texts:
Recently I've been getting this error in Chrome when I try to access Gmail or other google sites.

Error 126 (net::ERR_SSL_BAD_RECORD_MAC_ALERT): Unknown error.

In Firefox it's

An error occurred during a connection to accounts.google.com.

SSL peer reports incorrect Message Authentication Code.

(Error code: ssl_error_bad_mac_alert)

Using OS X Lion.  It used to work, but then there was a power failure, and now this is happening.

Searches online found some results, but nothing seems to work. Tried turning on and off "Set date and time automatically".


texts: Time machine backup fails on Mac OS X 10.13.5 & Airport Time Capsule 7.7.9

texts:
I am using a Retina MacBook pro laptop, model A1398 (OS X 10.13.5), backing up to an Apple 802.11AC 2TB Airport Time Capsule.  The airport utility says that the time capsule is version 7.7.9.

All the OS updates have been applied to my laptop and I have tried to update the firmware on the time capsule to resolve this problem.  When updating the time capsule, I got an error in updating the firmware (error code -16).  However now the utility indicates that the firmware is uptodate.  I restarted the Airport again just to make sure that doesn't fix this issue.

It is now 9 July.  The last successful backup was on 25 June.  When a backup is triggered, it spends about 6 minutes preparing the backup before stopping it.

tmutil status gives:

Backup session status:
{
    BackupPhase = ThinningPreBackup;
    ClientID = "com.apple.backupd";
    DateOfStateChange = "2018-07-09 09:54:26 +0000";
    DestinationID = "69F6F35A-0542-4DEF-8889-DCC09450A8B1";
    NumberOfChangedItems = 20369;
    Percent = 0;
    Running = 1;
    Stopping = 1;
}

while the backup is being prepared, then stops and reverts to:

Backup session status:
{
    ClientID = "com.apple.backupd";
    Percent = 1;
    Running = 0;
}

What additional information do I need to troubleshoot why backups start and then stop?  Is there a known fix for this issue?


texts: Application switcher not cycling anymore on hold

texts:
10.9.5 here

Suddenly my Application Switcher won't cycle anymore on hold. It still can cycle between apps one by one, but if I hold command tab it will stop after reaching the right end of the row. Before that it used to keep cycling until I release command tab.

It's not so much that the loss of this minor feature is annoying, it is why it happened in the first place. As far as I know I didn't install any new app nor change anything. I found out that the same is true for any session not just mine. I also tried safe boot to no avail.

Thanks for any hint.


texts:
I'm setting up a cron job to run an executable bash script which contains a pypdfocr command.
Whenever I manually execute the script everything works as expected, if instead I use cron with this schedule:

* 6 * * * cd /path/to/ && ./executable

I get this error:

pypdfocr: command not found

Given this, in the bash script I've tried to give the full path to pypdfocr, i.e.:

/anaconda/bin/pypdfocr

But now I have:

/bin/sh: pdfimages: command not found
/bin/sh: gs: command not found

Any idea on how I can fix this?


texts: Why is my address bar in safari doing this?

texts:
Randomly my safari just started doing this:

I tried recreating the com.apple.Safari.plist file but nothing changed. Whats up with this?


texts: What is the difference between Apple Remote Desktop / Remote Management / Remote Login / Remote Events and Screen sharing?

texts:
I am trying to get my head around the difference between the Apple products above.

To me, Apple VNC (or rather generic VNC clients) perform the same basic function as Remote Desktop implementations (Apple, Microsoft, Citrix, etc), and various Screen Sharing apps.

Also, it seems that Apple Remote Desktop can push scripts down to clients, and change some settings, much the same way as Apple Remote Management, and Remote Events seem to infer they do, by name.

Moreover, Remote Login is something (unless you wanted a shell) that you would do as part of a Remote Desktop / Screen sharing / VNC operation, no?


texts: Properly edit the location in Calendar events on the Mac

texts:
It is kind of frustrating what Apple says that about adding a location for Calendar events:

If you select a location from the list, a map and weather info are added to the event. If you just use the location you entered, map and weather info might not appear.
If the event info window includes a map, an alert is set so you’re notified when to leave to arrive on time at your destination.

So if I use a drop down option but want to add a room number or floor in the building, this event will lose integration with Maps.

However, I found a workaround using iOS devices. That is, type the location as you would on iOS Calendar app, then both Mac and iOS will recognize the location, and tell you about weather info, and remind you on the Maps app.
But do you guys have a smarter way?


texts:
I have a WD My Passport Ultra Hard Disk. I am trying to use it on El Capitan.

Its not showing up in the Finder.

When I open Disk Utility, it just keeps loading forever and does not show any information at all.

I tried rebooting the system, that didnt work.

Then I went to the Terminal. The disk is showing up there:

Amits-MacBook-Pro:~ amit1235813$ diskutil list
/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):
#:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *500.1 GB   disk0
1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s1
2:          Apple_CoreStorage Macintosh HD            499.2 GB   disk0s2
3:                 Apple_Boot Recovery HD             650.0 MB   disk0s3
/dev/disk1 (internal, virtual):
#:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
0:                  Apple_HFS Macintosh HD           +498.9 GB   disk1
                             Logical Volume on disk0s2
                             4BEE21E5-501F-4031-ADB7-FA32F0EB4C33
                             Unencrypted
/dev/disk2 (external, physical):
#:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *2.0 TB     disk2
1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk2s1
2:       Microsoft Basic Data SANGRAH                 2.0 TB     disk2s2

The disk name is 'Sangrah' - that means its connected but not mounted. So, I tried mounting it but it shows a time-out error:

Amits-MacBook-Pro:~ amit1235813$ diskutil mount /dev/disk2s2
Volume on disk2s2 timed out waiting to mount

It was working fine half an hour back and now its not. Could anybody please help? Thank you!


texts:
Does Apple Remote Desktop connect to computers over the internet?

Does the client computer need a real internet ip address?
The main question is if i can use it to connect to employees laptops no matter where they are, as long as they have an internet connection (similar to Teamviewer)


texts: How to grant a Mac app permission to read the whole filesystem

texts:
I bought this app called Xee from the Mac app store. It can open files perfectly fine but when I try to browse through a folder from within the Xee app, it has to request permission. (See the screenshot below.) I have to do this for every folder the first time I browse it.

I assume that this is a limitation imposed by the app store. Is there any way to circumvent this and grant an app (installed on my machine) permission to view any directory, or even to do anything at all that it wants?


texts: Is it possible to train iMessage dictation to avoid certain errors?

texts: When I dictate, iMessage does not recognize plurals most of the time but creates a possessive instead, even when the grammar is unambiguous. I will say something like "it has useful features" and iMessage will display "it has useful feature's".  Is there any way to train it not to make such errors? Is there a mode that can be turned on that will note any corrections I make to the rendered text?


texts: Can I just backup my data in Time Machine before I update into an OS update?

texts:
When I attempted to update my MacOS to Catalina, I had a devastating 2 days worth of troubleshooting my Mac. It says it can't install the current update. I've reworked with Apple Support back and forth only to find myself on the same error.

Luckily, I was able to reboot to my old OS (before the tragedy) and backup all my files. I've learned my lesson to create a backup before updating.

As I read through some questions about Time Machine, I realized it keeps on updating itself through time. My question is... can I just create a Time Machine backup right before I update my OS?

I make changes on my laptop every day. Since most of the files I make/download are usually deleted when I'm sure I'm done with it. I don't want Time Machine to keep on backing up files that won't be of use and might just take up a lot of space in my backup. Please let me know if this is as safe step.


texts: Contacts have disappeared since iOS 7 update, and iCloud is not available

texts: After updating to iOS 7, all my contacts have disappeared and iCloud is grey in my settings, i.e. not live. I keep getting a notification asking for me to accept Terms and Conditions of iCloud, but when I click, it goes to the grey iCloud in settings. How can I sort this out?


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I'm on macos Sierra (2013 Macbook Air). When I press C-s (control and the character s) nothing happens. Then, if I press it again (within a certain amount of time) it triggers. If I open the keyboard viewer in macos I can see that the s is not triggered until the second time it's pressed.

Any ideas on why it could be like this or how I can find out what is causing it?


texts:
I would like to have a clickable app that will open a terminal window, run the script:

defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles YES

and then close the terminal app. (and another to turn off the show all, same script with No at end). Automator seems to have a lot of potential, with not enough documentation that's easily found.


texts: Mark phone number as 'cannot receive iMessages'

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iOS 8 & 7, iPhone 5S
I have one phone number my iPhone insists ought to be iMessage-capable. The system is actually an automated response-counter I need for work to confirm I have received job details, & has never been associated with any Apple device.
I don't know that device's specifics & probably will never be able to find that information, so all I have to go on is "it never was a number associated with any Apple device or service".

At least in iOS 7 I could switch to Airplane mode, send my text, wait for the immediate error, then switch off Airplane mode, Send Again & it would go as 'green' SMS. In iOS 8 this no longer happens - instead it sends again as 'blue' iMessage which never arrives.

So, the question, to which I'm sure the answer is "can't be done" is
How do I stop my iPhone sending iMessages to that number?

Late Edit:
Though nothing appears to have changed in my setup, in recent weeks [perhaps since iOS 8.1.1], though these messages still send "in blue" they are actually now successfully arriving at their intended destination.

Very late edit:
The reason it now works in blue is because they now actually have an iCloud account associated with the number.


texts: Pair with a Bluetooth device over Terminal

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I am trying to connect and pair a Bluetooth device from the command line. I can do it over the GUI using the standard process but I am looking to automate the whole process.

I am looking for commands that can be executed in a shell script to connect to the Bluetooth device. Just like Linux has "hcitool", "pand" commands, I am trying to find equivalent commands for macOS.

How can I accomplish this?


texts: How to remove cached network information from Apple device?

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I have a lab set up involving AP and DHCP, I am using my Macbook to connect to the AP and it requests a DHCP lease, however, when I change the network information on the router, the Macbook still keeps the obsolete information and has connectivity issues regarding the Internet.

I have been removing the network manually and this seems to clear the cache and accepts the new lease.

This is too time consuming though, is there a quicker way to clear the cache/lease so it can request a new address without having to 'forget' the network every time?


texts: Adjust distance of mouse from the bottom of the screen before the Dock re-appears

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After upgrading to Big Sur, when I bring the mouse to the bottom of the screen, the Dock appears a bit before the mouse has completely reached the bottom. That means that a lot of times when I want to scroll horizontally by wanting to move the horizontal scroll bar at the bottom of the window, the Dock re-appears as I move the mouse to the horizontal scroll (but before completely reaching the bottom of the screen) which is super annoying and disruptive.
Is there a way to change the Dock behavior so it re-appears only when the mouse has completely reached the bottom of the screen?


texts: How to setup Disk Quotas on macOS Big Sur?

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Is there a way to limit a user's disk space usage in macOS Big Sur?
I found this article to setup disk quotas from CNET, but apparently it is not working anymore with Big Sur. There are two problems that I discovered:

The root "/" file system cannot be written on (even with sudo).
Creating the quota files (.quota.ops.user) within the /System/Volumes/Data directory had no effect in setting up the quota (e.g. running sudo edquota) had no output.


texts: Can Xcode installed from a dmg file to updated automatically

texts: I wanted to install the latest Xcode 6.1 from here https://developer.apple.com/downloads/index.action#, because a lot of things cannot compile with Xcode 6.0.1 on Yosemite. However, I want to know whether this will force me to manually update Xcode in the future. Can the Xcode installed from other sources benefit from auto update in the App Store? Or is there builtin updater in Xcode?


texts: Can I use the LastResort font in a web page?

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I've read that Apple has a hidden system font, called "Last Resort", that's used as a last ditch effort to show a unicode character in some cases.

I'd like to use this font in a web page, to debug unicode issues. Is this possible?

I've tried using:

font-family: "LastResort"

in CSS, but it didnt seem to work. Any suggestions?

EDIT: Note I originally put the attribute "font-face", which I've changed to "font-family", and have been using in my local tests.


texts:
After following a few forums, I was able to rescue my hard drive with ddrescue. It took almost 24 hours, to rescue my files into a .dmg file. When it was completed I double clicked on the dmg file, and I get no mountable file system.

Can anyone help, my first born pictures are on this hard disk, and I would truly be quite upset if I can not retrieve them.


texts: Why is the System Preferences lock decorative and no longer preventing changes when locked?

texts:
If I recall correctly, the little lock icon in System Preferences used to prevent changes without unlocking it and providing username and password. Either my macOS is broken, or this isn't the case anymore.

Here is a little animated GIF showing that I can make random changes in the Security and Privacy system settings without unlocking.

I'm running 10.15.2 macOS Catalina. Am I mistaken on the purpose of this lock? Did it change at some point? Or is my macOS just insecure?


texts: If Migration Assistant is interrupted, will it resume from where it left off?

texts: I stopped my MA and started it again and the new estimated spaces to transfer are different (I took a picture before the first attempt). Just want to make sure that’s what’s happening, and not that the backup is corrupted. Thanks.


texts: On a 2013 iMac running the latest Mac OS X, we have a Mac partition and a Windows 7 partition. The administrator can use the Boot Camp application to restart the Mac into Windows. The guest account however should also be able to use Boot Camp and restart into Windows. Is this in any way possible, because it seems you always need to enter the Administrator password in order to reboot into Windows?


texts: Magic Mouse Gesture not working OS X Mavericks

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I am using Magic Mouse with my iMac having OS X Mavericks 10.9.

Everything was working fine since today morning, I realized that my Magic Mouse is only responding to scrolling and primary, secondary click. All other gestures of Magic Mouse were not working.

And another issue which I don't know it is related or not is that Google Chrome does not scroll. Restarting Chrome fixes problem for 2-5 minutes but not permanently.

I use all gestures frequently for spaces, zooming, swapping, navigating, etc and I am having very difficulty without these features.

Things I have tried:

Checking/Resetting Magic Mouse settings from system preferences
Turn Magic Mouse on and off
Disconnect/Connect Magic Mouse
Restart iMac, press power button and "command+shift+p+r" and from troubleshoot screen, verify/repair Disk Utility (OS Disk)
Connect mouse with other iMac (mouse is fine)

After all these things, problem still exists. I have searched it in Google and I have found out that many people have received this problem but I couldn't find any solution.

Does anyone here know about this issue and have some solution??


texts: Help with iPod 5 and desktop Mac regarding iMessage

texts: The text messages I send through iMessage on my iPod are showing up and notifying my desktop Mac. Is there a way I can stop this


texts: Specify password when connecting to a Samba share

texts:
I can connect to a Samba share on my Raspberry Pi with the following:-

open smb://MilliwaysPi4.local/pi

This then prompts for a password.
macOS offers to remember the password in Keychain, BUT this still needs to be confirmed, and it attempts to use my macOS username, so needs to be edited.

Is there a way to specify the password in the command line?


texts: Which ebook format do books from the iBooks Store use?

texts: What is the format of ebooks that the iBooks uses that allows page turning, white on black text, etc.? (I.e., the books you get from the store.)


texts: Where are the /dev folder and the /dev/null device located on Mac OS X Mountain Lion?

texts:
I am trying to find them on my Mac OS X Mountain Lion and it seems they do not exist.
I do not think it is a problem of folders privileges.

Maybe it just doesn't exit and I have to create them.


texts: Setting Strict File Permissions and ACL’s for a KeepassXC keyfile on Mac OS

texts:
I use keepassXC on mac for my password manager. I use the keyfile feature with it, which requires a keepassxc created keyfile to be read in order for the database to be unlocked (veracrypt utilizes the same feature). What I am trying to accomplish is something mildly similar to my .ssh folder protection permissions on Mac OS. I would like to set permissions and ACL’s of the keepassxc keyfile so that the following rules are applied:

The file cannot be read or written to by any entity unless the following conditions are met:

a. The Entity trying to read the file is KeepassXC for Mac OS.

b. The Entity using and running KeepassXC is me (my user) on Mac OS.
The file can not be read or written to by any entity including root, unless the above conditions are met.

Does anyone who understands permissions and ACL’s know how I could accomplish something like this?


texts: Error popups from Apple Calendar application

texts:
I am using Macbook running Mavericks OS.

Recently I hace synced my Google calendar with Apple calendar in my Mac, but then I regularly get this error message:

The server responded with an error.

The request for “International Observe the Moon Night” in “kixxxxxxx@gmail.com” in account “Google” failed.

The server responded with
“400”
to operation CalDAVWriteEntityQueueableOperation.

I believe many others have got this error message.

Can someone tell me how to resolve this?


texts: iOS9: configure spotlight news suggestions

texts:
When I swipe left from the first page of my home screen, iOS 9 brings me to the spotlight screen.

There I can see Siri suggestions and news.
Is there a way to configure which news are showed in this page?

Note: I do not have the news app, I suppose because it is not yet available in all the countries.


texts: Configure an Airport to connect to internet via a wireless hotspot?

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The situation:  I have free access to Time Warner (TWC) and Optimum hotspots around the USA.  Conveniently one is located within range to my apartment.  I would like to setup an Airport Extreme or Express to use this wireless internet connection instead of the traditional way of plugging in via ethernet.

In my Optimum account settings I can register a MAC address (i.e. my Airport's MAC address) that allows me to bypass any authentication.  Is there no mode in Airport Utility that allows me to simply source my internet connection from another wireless network?  My end result is to have a normal, functioning, NAT / DHCP network in my home.


texts: Keychain keeps locking since upgrade to Lion. I get prompted every 5 min, turn it off

texts:
After completion of a "clean" install of Lion I get prompted for keychain passwords every 5 min.  It's driving me crazy.  I want my keychain to fill needed fields automatically as it had in the past.  Most frequent is the "Microsoft_Intermediate_Certificates" prompt for Outlook 2011.
I have searched all through Keychain Access and have found no solution. I even checked the box for keeping keychains unlocked and still it locks and prompts later.


texts: iOS 11+: is there a way to temporarily mute sound output?

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Use case:

Spotify runs an ad.  You know how obnoxious those can be.
I somehow temporarily mute for say 60 secs (duration should be parametrized).
After 60 seconds, volume level comes back to normal, hopefully past ads.

How can I accomplish this?


texts: Add special characters and Emoji to maill.app Menu bar

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Mavericks has a wonderful and rich special characters and lots of Emojis to choose from.

To call them up one has to press 3 keys (another keyboard short cut to remember :(

Is there a way to add this little app to let say Mail.app menu bar, so I just call it up from there.


texts: How Do I Fully Flush Cached Redirects From Safari?

texts:
I have a device with a web-based control panel, and accidentally set it to redirect all http pages to https, even though some don't work over https. Although I've since corrected this, Safari seems to have memorised the redirect and is refusing to forget it, instead constantly attempting to redirect me to the invalid https address.

I've already closed Safari, cleared ~/Library/Caches/com.apple.Safari/ and ~/Library/Cookies/HSTS.plist but it still seems to be remembering the redirect when I re-open it.

Where else could Safari be storing this information? I can access the correct page via Firefox or Chrome, so it may not be a system wide service, or if it is it's not one that the other browsers use.

Unfortunately because the web-panel is provided by a device I don't believe I can adjust headers or setup a redirect back to the correct URL, which seem to be options offered in other similar questions, so I really need to find out where this data is being stored so I can destroy it with fire.


texts: Extending network with 2 airport express from another router

texts: I have two airport express devices. Is it possible to extend my one airport express with another airport express.


texts: Mac usually can't read data from iPhone over USB

texts:
I have an iPhone 6 Plus and a 2015 MBP.  Both are running the latest OS.

My goal is to transfer photos from the phone to my Mac.  I've been able to do it before.  But now, here are the symptoms:

When I connect the phone to the Mac, the Photos Import program immediately displays "Philip's iPhone" in the Import section.
When I click "Philip's iPhone", Photos Import sits with a blank screen for 2--10 seconds, then pops up a dialog box that I need to unlock the phone, and the phone prompts me to Trust the computer.  I click Trust.
Photos Import continues showing "No Photos".

Meanwhile, I have iTunes open.  Once I go through the above steps, iTunes pops up one of two messages: "Could not read from the device" or "Could not send a message to the device".  There is no phone icon in the top-left corner of the iTunes window.  Closing iTunes has no effect on the steps above.

Once today the Photos Import app actually showed my photos, and I was able to import half of them until the transfer suddenly stopped.  I was holding the phone in my hand at the time, so maybe something is physically loose.  However, jiggling the cable hasn't helped.

I've tried several cables and both USB ports on the Mac, without any change in behavior.

I am mystified.  Suggestions?


texts:
working on OS X 10.8.3, have part of what I want working, hoping for help with the rest

#!/bin/bash
# script accepts a path to base dir - base path to extract
# also accepts second param - archive /xys/there/usefulLib-version-3.2.1.zip
# 1. cd to base
# 2. get name path of file, 'useful-lib-version-3.2.1.zip'
# 3. strip away extn and -._ spaces so its 'usefulLibversion321' if possible make init char capital of each token (from second) before removing the separator like 'usefulLibVersion321'
# 4. if this folder exists in base then add 1 or 2 or 3 till we get a new folder name, create that. cd to that new folder
# 5. give extract command to original file here (like jar xp -file- or other)

cd $1
file1=$2

file1fullname=$(basename $file1)
file1name=${file1fullname%.*}

echo ${file1fullname}

echo ${file1name}
file1sname=${file1name//./}

file1sname=${file1sname//-/}

file1sname=${file1sname//_/}
file1sname=${file1sname// /}
echo ${file1sname}

mkdir ${file1sname}
cd ${file1sname}
#could use other extract command, i know this one of java
jar xf $2

I need help with point 4.

Motivation : quickly expand the many jars and other archives that I download. some times get many .jar files with spring and other frameworks and utilities.


texts: Which Transcend Jetdrive Lite fits into MB Pro 13" early 2011?

texts:
I want to expand my MB Pro diskspace by a seamless SD-card. There are different Jetdrive Lite versions, but they're specified for the MB Pro 13" back to late 2012 only.

Any experiences with MB Pro 13" early 2011?


texts: How can I share a Time Capsule connection?

texts: I have my Time Capsule connected via wi-fi, and I want to share that connection with my other 2 computers via their ethernet. So basically, share the current wifi connection that my Time Capsule has and make sure that my other 2 computers can connect to the internet via that Time Capsule's ethernet ports. Thanks in advance.


texts: The utility in this article:  High Sierra automatically checks EFI firmware each week looks like it will improve security on a Mac running macOS, but is it available for Linux too?


texts: Enable/Disable the list of trusted credentials & certificates on iPhone with iOS 9

texts:
On Android, you can see and uncheck a certificate via Security/Trusted credentials.

How do you do the same on iOS devices?


texts: How feasibile is it to run a newer version of OSX on a used Mac?

texts:
Thinking of buying a used Apple MacBook and wanted to know the best way to tell based on the hardware specs provided by Apple online by entering in the serial number for the MacBook here:

http://support.apple.com/specs/

After pulling up the specs for the hardware on Apple, how do I figure out what the feasibility of running a newer version of OS X on that used Mac is?


texts: iTunes My Music to Apple Music Artist link

texts:
searched and searched, and thought you guys might have the answer. I either can't find this feature or Apple hasn't included it in iTunes. It seems so clear to me that it should be part of iTunes somewhere that I'm convinced it's somewhere.

I want to be able to browse My Music library and be able to click a link such as "See Artist on Apple Music" this would bring me to the Apple Music page for that artist allowing me to add more albums of that particular artist. I can't seem to find anything like this other than having to search for that artist and selecting the tab "Apple Music" in the search box.

I'm hoping that something like this exists. Thanks!


texts:
I was hoping to restore my iPhone (that I use regularly and have iCloud backup enabled on) to a backup from a few days back. I have purchased a ton of space from Apple for iCloud for the purpose of ensuring everything I need stays there. Unfortunately, it only shows me the two most recent iCloud Backups. However, I have seen screenshots from people showing multiple available iCloud Backups to restore from. What gives with that?

Basically, Apple deleted my older backups, which I was not aware they did. When I spoke to Apple representatives, many were under the impression that Apple does not delete your Backups or stop backing up unless you are low on space (I am not low on space). So, extra confusion there when Apple representatives all aren't on the same page and hand out conflicting information.

I was wondering if there was any possibility that my iCloud backups still exist somewhere on Apple's servers, and if it would be possible to access them? I know things would have been at some point stored on multiple Apple servers. I understand this is a long shot, and I understand that I should have been backing up my phone in multiple ways (I actually do, but lost a message during the week I need to restore from).

Does anyone have insight into why Apple started doing this, especially when a user has purchased additional space and there is no need to delete?


texts: Upgrading an old mac mini intel 1.1 for Lion

texts:
I'm looking to buy an older mac mini (v1.1) CoreDuo 1.66Ghz 2Gb DDR2, 80Gb HD.

My research shows the original OS was Mac OS X 10.4.11.

So my question is: if i will upgrade my CPU from T2300 to T7200 (2.0Ghz,Core2Duo) and the FirmWare from 1.1 to 2.1 so I can increase the ram from 2 to 4 Gb.

Will this configuration work for lion (Yes, i know 1.1 is not compatible with installer)?

I mean installed lion 10.7.5 will work good like now works Tiger and other soft like ilife 09, ableton 8, reason 5, audacity? or it will lagging?

also i need lion for my wifi adapter TP-LINK TL-WN7722N (i think i can startup this adapter with atheros fix or other kexts)


texts: 1920x1080 resolution for MBP 13" 2015 Retina - Different settings from attached monitor

texts:
I am using Retina Display Menu (RDM) to give me a higher resolution for my MBP, and the sweet spot that I have found is 1920x1080.

However I get 2 different display options for this resolution depending on the monitor I am connected to
- Acer V243HQ (regular) resolution
- Samsung U28E590D 28-Inch

However with the Samsung I get the attached where the resolution has a lighting bolt which actually shows the text well rendered

My question is why does this happen only with specific monitors, and how can I get this even without having to plug my external monitor

UPDATE 1: Could it be that the Samsung has 4K support? could it be related to that?


texts:
I have got a problem with XQuartz. We are running a server on which we installed an application which runs via Wine. If I start the application via Linux it works perfect.

But with my Macbook (OS X Sierra 10.12.5) it does not start.
I connect to the server with ssh -X serverID, after this I try to start the application with ./"appname" and it happens just nothing.
In the background XQuartz has already started while I was connecting to the server, but then it does not do anything. No error messages, nothing. Just a little freeze.
If I try to open xeyes, this app starts but without the animation of the Iris. Someone who can help me?


texts:
I know many Mac OS X users would prefer to use Google Chrome, I so hope that I could do so but here are my reasons why I stick with Safari:

I could play Facebook video using HTML5 player with a simple plugin, I found none of the same in Google Chrome
Safari browser can integrate with Mac OS X social network accounts for one-click share to Facebook, Twitter, Email etc...
It seems to me that Safari is more energy efficient especially on Mavericks compare to Google Chrome.

If you have better suggestions that I could resolve the above and switch to Google Chrome, please feedback. Constructive comments are most welcome.

Thanks.


texts:
I don't want to sound stupid, but what happens if someone were to delete the .Trash folder using Finder and emptied it.

I know it's possible unless there is something that just stops it from happening.

defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles YES; killall finder can be used to show the folder.
Then go to ~/ in finder and delete .Trash.
Open trash from dock then empty it.

What would happen?


texts: How to stop decryption of external drive

texts:
I've searched on the internet for a while and asked my question on apples website discussions.apple.com as well, however I haven't found and answer yet and people aren't responding on apple's site so I'd though I'd give it a go here.

So, I have an external drive (1TB) that I made journaled encrypted when I first started using it. By now I also have some video files and pictures on them that I'd wish to show on my TV. However, whilst encrypted I could not view the files other than on a Mac (I was trying to view them on a media player connected to the TV). Thus, I opted for decrypting the drive, since I used up almost 900 GB of the 1TB there are quite a lot of files and I understood the process might take a while.

The thing is, every time I plug the hard drive in it starts taking up storage space. I use a Macbook Pro and don't have a lot of storage space on the macbook itself, hence the external drive and why this is really annoying. To be clear, it is my MacBooks storage space that gets filled up when I plug it in, since this happens every time I can't use the drive on my Macbook anymore either, because every time I can only use it a few minutes before I get warned that "My macbook is almost out of storage space, please remove some files". When I unplug the drive I can literally see the free storage space increasing. So some process is taking up storage space whilst it is working on the drive.

I thought this might be spotlight but I'm not sure since it could also be the decrypting process copying files or something. Is there a way to know why my storage space get filled up, and if its the decrypting, is there a way to stop this process so I can copy my files to another drive? And if it's spotlight is there a way to disable this because putting the drive in the privacy tab of spotlight is somehow also not doable.

I don't mind wiping the drive, but I do mind wiping it without backing up the files on the drive (Yes, in the future I will back up my files better so this won't be an issue again), so a solution to stop the storage filling up is very welcome.

Thanks in advance!


texts: How come Android finds lists Wi-Fi networks that OS X doesn't?

texts:
I have a MacBook Air with OS X 10.8.5 and a Samsung cell phone with Android. I use the Wi-Fi heavily on both (I travel a lot, and only use Wi-Fi when I'm out of the US) — often in cafes — and I rarely ever have a problem. Wi-Fi is usually perfect and easy in any cafe.

But there are a couple of cafes I frequent where, my Samsung Android phone picks up the cafe's Wi-Fi signal — and picks it up very strongly — but on OS X, the network just doesn't list it at all. I know it's not a signal-strength issue, since on the Samsung Android, the signal is super strong in all 3 cafes. But OS X for some reason just doesn't find the network — not even when I go to "Join other network" and type in the network name.

What could cause this? …and is there a solution to this that you would recommend?


texts: How do App Store Optimisation tools get their data?

texts:
There are tools for iOS developers like Sensortower and MobiledevHQ that let app marketers analyse the App Store with regards to keyword and category rankings.

I assume the keyword rankings can be obtained by fetching the search result lists for each keyword.

But these tools also provide search volume statistics. Does any one know how they get the data? For instance, how do they know that keyword X is searched 3 times as often as keyword Y?


texts: Is it normal for bluetooth devices to stop responding when CPU is too busy?

texts:
I have MacBook Pro 13" mid 2012 with 16GB RAM and 256GB SSD, Mojave 10.14.1. my Magic Trackpad 1 and AirPods get slow when CPU is too busy, especially when cpu percentage is above 70%. My USB-wired keyboard and mouse seamlessly work even if it is too busy. I wanted to try Apple Hardware Test for more details, but it says the error code DEC400 so I can't do that. I have an appointment at Genius Bar to check for my Airport card this Friday. I am worried they refused to fix it just because my mac is too slow.

EDIT: When executing Java programs from IntelliJ IDEA, sometimes Bluetooth devices get slow but sometimes work well. Maybe some other factors makes them slow. I had the same problem when I worked on Sierra.

I've checked out from event logs from Bluetooth Explorer. I think it tells me a lot. I am not sure exactly what they indicate, though.

What I found out from Bluetooth Explorer

Mac drops the connection to the AirPods from some reasons. logs says the reason is 0x08. I think Google and Apple official user guide are both silent on what the reason code indicate. Some other factors somehow affect my AirPods, as well as a busy CPU.
When the CPU is too busy, the Throughput graph goes down dramatically.


texts: Bootcamp assistant errors, and disk utility can't fix it

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Boot Camp Assistant says this:

  The startup disk must be formatted as a single Mac OS Extended (Journaled) volume or already partitioned by Boot Camp Assistant for installing Windows.

But when I try to go into disk utility, I have a single partition, Macintosh HD (stock partition), not counting the system 18 MB partition, and it is indeed a "Mac OS Extended (Journaled)" format.

What can I do?  Does that small 18 MB partition actually make that much of a difference? I can't delete it, so it seems to be important.

diskutil list gives:

 rikermacbookpro:~ rikerw$ diskutil list
/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *500.3 GB   disk0
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s1
   2:          Apple_CoreStorage Macintosh HD            398.8 GB   disk0s2
   3:                 Apple_Boot Recovery HD             650.0 MB   disk0s6
   4:                        EFI NO NAME                 104.9 MB   disk0s4
   5:         Microsoft Reserved                         16.8 MB    disk0s5
/dev/disk1 (internal, virtual):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:                  Apple_HFS Macintosh HD           +398.5 GB   disk1
                                 Logical Volume on disk0s2
                                 A2648FC0-6D9F-4DB8-98FF-22D33E028A4E
                                 Unencrypted
/dev/disk2 (external, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *250.1 GB   disk2
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk2s1
   2:                  Apple_HFS Riker Backup            249.7 GB   disk2s2

And sudo gpt -r show disk0:

rikermacbookpro:~ rikerw$ sudo gpt -r show disk0
      start       size  index  contents
          0          1         PMBR
          1          1         Pri GPT header
          2         32         Pri GPT table
         34          6
         40     409600      1  GPT part - C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B
     409640  778989752      2  GPT part - 53746F72-6167-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
  779399392    1269536      3  GPT part - 426F6F74-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
  780668928     204800      4  GPT part - C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B
  780873728      32768      5  GPT part - E3C9E316-0B5C-4DB8-817D-F92DF00215AE
  780906496  196198531
  977105027         32         Sec GPT table
  977105059          1         Sec GPT header


texts: Do I need to wait for an upload to complete before closing Pages/Numbers?

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After updating a Pages/Numbers document in iOS, I can go back to the app's file browser to get the list of all of my docs in iCloud. At that moment, the document that I had just updated displays a progress bar with the message "Uploading...". If I exit the app, will the upload complete in the background every time?

I am getting into this bad habit of waiting before closing my app "just in case the upload needs to complete". I believe that waiting is unnecessary, but I don't know yet how reliable iOS is when uploading to iCloud in the background. What has been your experience so far? Is uploading of iWork apps always completed in the background? What about Wi-Fi versus cellular? Any pointers will help. Thanks!


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I've been working on getting some iMacs enrolled on an Open Directory, and using Profile Manager to push some settings that are useful for our office (some essential Dock items, a few security policies, nothing fancy).

What I'd really like to do, though, is be able to enable (at least) SSH, and preferably Screen Sharing or Remote Management. I've looked at all the options in Profile Manager, and it looks like that isn't directly possible. So, I suspect I'll need to create a custom payload for something like the com.apple.RemoteManagement domain.  Only, i have no idea what to put in there, and my Google-fu fails me.

I've tried using XCode Instruments to watch for filesystem changes when enabling and disabling the Screen Sharing or Remote Management settings using the System Preferences app, but haven't turned up anything useful.


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texts: How to debug USB storage issues on a MacBook?

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I'm trying to diagnose the USB key of a friend of mine, who says it works in his Windows but not in his Android tablet (Samsung).

When I plug a USB key in my MacBook nothing happens. The device does not appear neither in Finder nor in DiskUtil, for example diskutil list does not show it.

I looked if something is logged in /var/log/* when I insert or remove it, the only thing I see is this message in /var/log/kernel.log:

May  4 19:38:38 mymacbook kernel[0]: USBMSC Identifier (non-unique): 0x1307 0x163 0x100

I'm plugging the USB key directly in a USB port on my MacBook. I tried both of USB ports, same result. I don't know how the USB key was formatted.

Any ideas how to proceed in diagnosing this?


texts: How to convert an epub file to pdf from the command line?

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I want to convert a few .epub files into .pdf files (no merge, just convert file_1.epub to file_1.pdf, file_2.epub to file_2.pdf, ...) and was wondering if there was a way to streamline the process using the Mac command line.

Heard about the Calibre application but this is not what I am looking for as I want to use the command line.