texts: Use `brew` installed applications as default

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I want to install an application (a video player) available through brew natively for M1 macs. Is there a way to use that application to automatically play all files with extension .mp4, .mkv etc?
I'm aware that using brew-cask applications this is possible but how to do this for applications without the cask version?
Edit 1 :
The application in consideration is mpv, a gui-based application.
Edit 2 :
mpv brew formula, supported for silicon macs: https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/mpv
mpv brew-cask formula, not supported for silicon macs yet: https://formulae.brew.sh/cask/mpv


texts: How to disable "always on" USB power on Macbook Pro

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I am operating my MacBook Pro early 2015 within a Henge dock (HD03VA13MBPR) , connected to two external displays and external speakers. Both displays and speakers get power from a power distributer that offers a switch via USB. Whenever the USB has power, the monitors stay on. Take off USB power, and the displays shut down.

Now, that setup worked perfectly on my other computer, where USB Power could be configured. On my new powerbook the displays stay on. The USB Port seems to be "always on" during sleep mode.

How can I disable the "always on" function of the USB port while the MacBook is in sleep mode?


texts: How do you use Family Sharing to effectively merge multiple Apple IDs?

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My wife and I have separate Apple IDs. To simplify (!) things a while ago we both started using a third ID.

Now with Family Sharing we can each access the other's purchases.

So I set myself up as the family organizer, invited Laura, and invited the 3rd account.

Well to accept the invitation for the third account, I would have to sign out of iCloud, loosing a bunch of data, or possibly having merge problems later.

The invitation has to be opened in Mail. I try not to use Mail. I certainly didn't want to not only sign out of iCloud, but also configure yet another account on Mail.  (The third Apple ID forwards to both of us.)

What to do?


texts: When I click on software to update to iOS 8 on my iPhone 4, it responds that my phone is updated with iOS 6.5. What do I do to get 7 &/or 8?


texts: What Icon Display Resolutions and Pixel Densities Should I Use?

texts: I am designing an icon for use with an Xcode template and need to know what display-resolution and pixel-density settings I need to use for each of the PNG files I'm exporting from GIMP into my .iconset folder.  Specifically, what display resolutions and pixel densities should I use for the icon_512x512@2x.png, icon_512x512.png, icon_256x256@2x.png, icon_256x256.png, icon_128x128@2x.png, icon_128x128.png, icon_64x64@2x.png, icon_64x64.png, icon_32x32@2x, icon_32x32.png, icon_16x16@2x.png, and icon_16x16.png images in my icon set?


texts: Little Snitch shows ping flood to 0.0.0.192

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My Little Snitch Network Monitor tells me my machine is ping'ing 0.0.0.192 every second.  What's going on?

EDIT:

A Wireshark capture tells me this ping has

Source 0.0.76.188

Destination 0.0.0.192


texts: How do I restore the computer backup from an older iPad to a new iPad

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My wife has a first-generation iPad Air running the latest iOS version it can possibly run (12.5.1). There is no updating it any further. She has backed it up using a 2017 MacBook Pro running macOS Catalina 10.15.4. She purchased a new 8th generation iPad. It came with iOS 14.4. She set up the iPad and then tried to restore from her backup. Finder offered her the option to restore from her existing iPad backup. She clicked that and clicked continue. It then prompted her to agreed to the "iPod" terms of service (which seems weird—it's an iPad, not an iPod). When she clicked "Agree," the iPad ejected from her computer and did ... nothing. She and I both have tried this multiple times with the same result. Nothing she or I do/try makes it restore from her 12.5.1 backup.
She contacted Apple tech support. They told her she cannot restore a backup from an older iOS version to a device with a newer iOS version. This is, of course, utter rubbish. It's actually the opposite—you can't restore a backup from a newer iOS version to a device with an older iOS version. So she's stuck with no way to restore her settings, passwords, documents, and, most importantly, game status (levels, accomplishments, etc.) to her new iPad, making her want to just return the new iPad and keep using her iPad Air until it really dies.
I know this can't actually be our fate. I've restored numerous old-iPhone backups to new iPhones in the past decade without a single problem, ever. It shouldn't be any different with iPads. Why can't we do this? How do we do this?


texts: Can't sign into iCloud on my Mac and Mac App Store, but have no trouble signing in using browsers

texts: My @icloud.com is used in various browsers and devices. I tried to install updates on Mac App Store but it prompted I have the wrong password. Then I used my phone to reset the password. After resetting the password, I have no trouble signing in appleid.apple.com and icloud.com (tried and worked on various browsers). The I sign out iCloud on Mac (in System Preferences) to try signing in again. Despite typing the same password that works in the browser, I received "This action could not be completed. Try again" when signing in Mac App Store and "Verification Failed. This action could not be completed. Try again" when trying to sign in iCloud on Mac. Please help me!!!!


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In Terminal, Option + click allows me to place my cursor at any point on the current line-- great for editing really long commands.

How can I do this in iTerm2?

Update: According to this page, the feature has been around since 0.7.0 (2003). I've also noticed that if I hold Command+Option, the cursor changes into the familiar cross like in Terminal...  but clicking still does not reposition my cursor.


texts: Can you still track it's location after it has been wiped/erased?

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Can anyone clarify the process when a phone is wiped?

Let's assume that my phone gets stolen, and the thief being unable to unlock it chooses to wipe the device via a system restore in iTunes.  Since the phone is (was) logged into my iCloud account, the thief will be unable to activate it, which should make it worthless to sell, right?

So, assuming a stolen phone gets restored, during subsequent setup it requires a WIFI connection prior to then logging in to the iCloud account it is locked to, so it should be contactable.  At this point, will the phone be still trackable by my icloud account using find my iphone service after being restored, even though it is not technically logged into any iCloud account? Will the custom message still be displayed to whoever has the phone?


texts: iPhone will not automatically connect to one particular wifi network

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There is a wifi in my home (run by landlord - I have no control), which is called "Default" and has no encryption enabled.
I can manually connect to the network from my two iPhones - but whenever an iPhone loses connection, it does not automatically connect again when in range.
What can cause the phone to not automatically connect to a know access point?
Both my computers connect and reconnect with no issues.
I have not seen this behavior with these phones with any other wifi access-points.
I have tried resetting the network settings to factory defaults on one phone, but it did not make a difference.
Both iPhones are up to date with latest iOS updates (5.1) and are not jailbroken or anything out of the ordinary.


texts: Setting up my family sharing : what will happen to the content previously purchased by the children?

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I'm currently setting up the family system for me and my two children. We were previously using the account of one of my children for us three, and having the usual problems with messages being delivered to the 3 Iphones and the Macbook, etc, etc. Thus, all the music / app / video purchases have been made with this account.

So I'm planning to create two more accounts (for me and my 2nd child), and use my (new) account as the family organizer. The previous account will be a "child" account.

My question is : what will happen to the content purchased on our previous account ? Will it be shared with the family ? Will it just remain account-specific ? I'm not really concerned by the pictures, music and the rest as I can save it and restore it later.

Thanks in advance.


texts: Find, compare, delete duplicate music files with Terminal

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I am trying to clean up my iTunes. I have a lot of duplicate files (* 1.mp3 or * 1.m4a). I want to make sure before I find/clean the duplicates ending in ' 1' that they are truly bit-for-bit duplicates of the files not ending in ' 1'. Many are downloaded from iTunes match and want to make sure I'm not deleting a complete file and keeping a partially delete file (if, somehow an error had occurred that interrupted the download), etc.

I'm sure there is a script that can compare the 2 files and delete the ' 1' if it is identical to the original but don't know how to write something like that.

I would want it to go through my Music folder recursively.


texts: I have a 32GB iPhone 4 version 4.0.1. I have many photos on my phone, but I have deleted an important photo from my iPhone. How can I get this photo back from my iPhone?


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How can search email in outlook?
my outlook seems didn't have search bar like in this video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jbRYk_Cc0U

Here is screenshot of my Outlook:

As you can see, my outlook didn't have search bar on top right like in the video.

I use outlook 2011 version 14.0.0


texts: How to find the hashed password from the 32 character password keychain shows me?

texts: I have a 32 character password that keychain access has shared with me, it's 28 uppercase letters and numbers combined, and 4 "-" symbols. Can I retrieve the hashed password that is the actual password for the login to an email address? Would appreciate the help. I'm using OSX 10.9.5


texts: Is it possible to have dual internal hard drives in a 2009 mac mini?

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I want to have an SSD for the OS, and the existing disk that came with the unit.

Is this possible?


texts: My daughter has a late 2014 MacBook Air, but lives 900 miles away.  I'd like to run a disk utility verify / repair, but I'm not sure I could talk her through it.  And since that's a lower level operation, we can't do it via screen share.  Is there any way for me to initiate / monitor a disk utility operation remotely?


texts: Include files from secondary hard drive in spotlight searches

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I have an SSD as my boot partition and a HDD for all my documents on my Mac (OS X Mavericks).
I have noticed that I am unable to search for files on Spotlight that are located on my HDD.

I suspect they are not being indexed as they are not on the OS drive. How can I include them?


texts: "On my phone" Account option greyed in notes app - os10

texts: I have a brandnew iphone SE with ios10 on it. I previously owned an iphone 5s with ios8, and when I pluged my new SE I did a "restore from backup". But since then, I cannot access the "On my iphone" account option in the Notes app; it is now greyed. I was wondering if something like that happened to one of you before, and if there's a fix for it. Thanks]1


texts: Apple USB ethernet adapter is not detected

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I have a Macbook Air running 10.7.4 and I'm trying to connect to ethernet using the official Apple USB to ethernet adapter. However, the mac never detects the new network interface. It never displays a dialog asking me to set it up. It doesn't show up in network preferences. As far as I can tell, the mac doesn't know it's even plugged in.

I've verified both the adapter and the ethernet cable I'm using work with another mac. I've tried both USB ports on the Air.

Anyone have an idea how I can troubleshoot this? Is there a USB utility that I could check out?


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I'm not sure about this, but I just want to know if it's possible to purchase a product from the Apple website, but not to pay in full, but pay every month since I cannot fully pay the whole price of a 27" iMac but I can if I pay every month.

Cheers.

EDIT:

Ok, I had a chat with an Apple Expert on the live chat (via the website) in order to pay monthly, you will have to place an order WITH a financial payment which is label in the payment method (second tab on the panel).

After that, confirm your order and you will be redirected to an Apple "Apply Now" which you will place an confirmation for Apple to approve or disapprove, if you are approved you will be sent an application - if you dislike the Terms and Conditions, your order will be canceled.

Cheers guys, hope this will help everyone.


texts: How to make installation disk/pendrive of Mountain Lion in Windows 7?

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I would like to install Mac OS Mountain Lion in my Intel Core i3 processor.

I have:

a Mac OS .DMG file
Windows 7 OS

Is it possible to make installation disk of Mac OS in Windows 7


texts: No startup / boot chime; how to bring it back?

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I'm one of the lucky (?) guys who managed to get a new MacBook Pro 2016 (the version that introduced the Touch Bar).

This MBP model does not have a boot chime by default.

There are documented ways to enable it, specifically going to Terminal.app and typing in:

sudo nvram BootAudio=%01

Unfortunately for me, this fix does not work on my own machine. Other people have noticed this as well.  My guess is that it's a firmware fix or enhancement that got rid of BootAudio as an option.

Does anyone know a different option to re-enable the startup chime?


texts: How to activate a used iPhone bound to another account (already removed from iCloud)?

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I want to pass my iPhone on to a friend. I backed up his old phone and restored it to the new one. After restarting it I see this:

This is the case, because I had "Find my iPhone" activated and did not deactivate it before restoring my friends backup.

I followed the instructions of Find My iPhone Activation Lock: Removing a device from a previous owner’s account and removed the phone from my account, by opening icloud.com/#find and removing it.

The problem is, I can still not activate it. Neither with my Apple ID nor with the Apple ID of my friend. I hoped that the deletion and removal from my account would just might take some minutes or even hours, but 12 hours later, the problem still exists.

Anything else I can try?


texts: Apple MainStage audio output device changes automatically after some time

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I am using Apple MainStage 3.5 and I route the Audio Output to a Loopback virtual device. And this works like a charm. Until it switches to another device after some inactivity.
I tried another Loopback device, but the same thing keeps happening. Does anybody have an idea how to tell MainStage to not switch devices? I thought that setting the hot-plug behavior to do nothing was the key. But it does not seem to work.
I did some Googling, but could not find an answer to my question. I hope somebody knows.


texts: Yosemite won't accept administrator password

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I've just bought an iMac, reinstalled Yosemite, put in my details but, coming back after a short pause, found it had gone to sleep and wouldn't accept my password to wake up. I'm sure I put in the right one. I've seen advice that re-booting to Recovery might offer a way of recapturing my password, or changing it to a new one, and tried it again and again. But whether I restart holding down Command+R, or holding down the Option key and then choosing to boot from Recovery, I just can't find any options to click that would lead me to either my password or any way to put in a new one.

I'd be grateful for help.


texts: Completely disable the power button on my MacBook

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I have a MacBook Pro Retina, Mid 2015 running macOS Sierra 10.12.2.

I want to completely stop my power button turning off, sleeping or restarting my device; I have already tried other solutions such as running this command:

defaults write com.apple.loginwindow PowerButtonSleepsSystem -bool no

but all that does is change the behaviour to opening a window with a default action of shut down!

I just want to stop other people, or myself, from purposefully/accidentally using it to turn off my computer. It's a button I've never used, apart from when I first bought my MacBook sometime two years ago.

I still need the button to be able to turn on the device, obviously.


texts: Tooltip fade out delay in OS X 10.11.1 and Xcode 7.1.1

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Does anyone know where I can set the delay/time how long does the fade out effect in Xcode 7.1.1 on OS X 10.11.1 need to hide the displayed tooltip?

When I search for the term defaults find tooltip, I only get WebKitShowsToolTipOverTruncatedText and WebKit2ShowsToolTipOverTruncatedText from com.apple.iTunes and com.apple.appstore.

With defaults find delay I get more results, but nothing about I looking for.


texts: Time Capsule not accepting encryption password

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My setup here is several MBPs backing up to an Apple Time Capsule. Backups are encrypted.

I boot to recovery mode on the MBP I want to restore to (Cmd+R).
Choose to restore from a Time Machine backup.
Choose the Time Capsule in the list, and enter its network password. Works fine. I can now see the backups.
Choose the particular MBP backup image I want to restore, and am prompted for its encryption password.
Enter this, but it doesn't work. Wrong password, apparently. Tried repeatedly.

If I boot the MBP normally I can see in Keychain Access that the password I'm typing is 100% correct. No doubt about it.

I made sure to set the keyboard language correctly in recovery mode (it defaults to US English but I'm British). Still locked out.

I can browse the backup just fine when macOS is booted. I doubt the backup is corrupted but, like I say, in recovery mode I'm not even getting far enough to find out. The password for the encrypted backup image just isn't being accepted.

I've had this happen too in the past when I was utterly sure I had the right password, and I ended-up just abandoning the backup and starting with a fresh install. I can't do that here.

Anybody got a clue as to how I can access this backup? Why do I have a feeling I'm encountering one of those serious bugs that Apple knows about but brushes under the carpet?


texts: Can I stream to my computer to watch Netflix? Or, can I only stream from devices to computers? Seems quite limited, if so.


texts: Thunderbird stopped working with iCloud email

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I had Thunderbird configured with an iCloud (me) email account and it worked fine until about two weeks ago. When I tried to send a message, it asked me for the server password. When I entered it, I got a message saying the login or password was wrong. I also had this same problem on another machine with another account. I was able to add and use a Gmail account without any problems.

My setting are:
Incoming

Protocol: IMAP
Server: imap.mail.me.com
Port: 993
SSL: SSL/TLS
Authentication: Normal password

Outgoing

Protocol: SMTP
Server: smtp.mail.me.com
Port: 587
SSL: STARTTLS
Authentication: Normal password

I got the settings from How can I configure iCloud mail in Mozilla Thunderbird?

I am able to login to both iCloud accounts through a browser.


texts: Why don't Windows 7 bootable sticks start on MacBook?

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On Macbook air ~2014 when I created the bootcamp partition and the Windows bootable stick, it made a stick that can start an install just fine on Windows computers.

Why doesn't that bootable stick start anymore on Mac after the botcamp partition has been deleted? What special setup does that bootcamp do on the partitions/setup process ?

Can I re-create the proper environment with a partition manager starting with the blank hard disk ?

I tried erasing all paritions and then try to boot from that windows stick that bootcamp created but it doesn't boot a Mac anymore (boots fine on PC).


texts: How do I switch between desktops and full screen apps when accessing a remote machine via Screen Sharing?

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When I'm accessing a remote machine with multiple desktops or full screen applications running, via OS X Lion's built-in screen sharing, how do I change desktops/full screen apps on the remote machine?

The usually Ctrl-(#, left arrow, right arrow) modifier keys change the desktop/full screen app on my local machine only.

I've tried reducing my local machine to one desktop as well as running screen sharing in full screen mode and no luck. I'm not able to change the desktop or full screen app on the remote machine.


texts: How to delete backups shown in about my computer

texts: Storage section of about my computer showing about 2.86GB as backups. I never backed up anything. What is this backup? How can i delete them?


texts: Is it possible to connect to AirPods Pro via keyboard shortcut?

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I want to connect to my AirPods Pro on mac (Big Sur 11.1) using keyboard shortcut. I find it tedious to manually choose the top-right icon on the menu bar and click 'connect', but at the same time I don't want to make the pairing automatic since not always do I want to connect to my mac, such as while I play the music on my iPad.
So I want to connect to it via keyboard shortcut. Is it possible? It's fine to use 3rd-party apps such as Hammarspoon or Karabiner-Elements, though I could not find a way to connect to the AirPods.


texts: Chess OS X Catalina Game Connected but Moves not Updating

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I am trying to play a Game Center Chess game on the Mac OS X Chess app with a friend who is also on OS X.

So far, we've been able to connect to each other to start a new game and at the top of the window it says I'm vs. Him in the game details, however , when he makes a move it doesn't update on my screen.

If one of us forfeits the game then the other can see they won so it updates that info.

The problem is our moves aren't updated as we're playing even though it says we are connected and playing against each other in the details of the window as a Game Center match.

Other info:
We are friends on Game Center on iOS and Mac


texts: Why is it that when I login to my Mac there is another login that briefly shows up?

texts: So, when I log in my cursor will be in one spot, then after I login it will switch to another spot with the same login background and prompt, but then load after that. I only type my password in once.


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Is there a way to copy just the contents of a single event from iPhoto to another location?

When I want to zip up all of the photos in a single event and move them somewhere, like to a USB drive, I have to look at the event photos, click a photo, then choose File->Show In Finder, then select, copy, and zip the folders containing the event photos I want. This seems like way too many steps for what seems like a simple task.


texts: Export files in alphabetical sequence from Mac Photos app

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I have a Sony TV which has a Media player for displaying photos and videos. I want to play a slideshow of my pics from the Photos App on my Mac by exporting them on a USB stick which I can plug into my TV. I want the TV to play the files in the order maintained in the Photos app. So I tried exporting the pics from the photos app using the "Sequence" option. This renames the files like 1.jpeg, 2.jpeg, 3.jpeg, and so on. The problem is that my Sony tv sorts files in Alphabetical order, so the file 10.jpeg comes immediately after 1.jpeg, and not 9.jpeg as expected. Hence I want to export the files with names like A.jpeg, B.jpeg, C.jpeg,...AB.jpeg, AC.jpeg and so on. But I am not sure how to do it.

Alternatively, is there any mac app which can convert files named 1, 2, 3 to A, B, C..?


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I have a huge iTunes collection and have been researching this for a while but cannot seem to find an answer.

Basically I would like to leave my iTunes collection open so that people can select their own songs. My only concern is that they might accidentally delete or change info in the tracks.

Is there any way that I could have a read-only (or play-only) toggle for my iTunes library on OS X?


texts: Ignore global shortcuts when using iTerm

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I'm using tmux in iTerm2. To resize the tmux panels, I think I'm supposed to press Ctrl+b+Arrows.

For example, if I press Ctrl+b+Down, it shows all the windows in the current app, probably because it catches the Ctrl+Down shortcut.

How can I fix this, so when I hold Ctrl+b+Down (or another arrow key), the panels will be resized?


texts: What do the appleprofilepolicyd and wdhelper processes do?

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I found in activity monitor appleprofilepolicyd and wdhelper but after googling a while didn't found any interesting information:

wdhelper - could be a webdrive or webdav - found only wdhelper.dll but nothing really related to the process
appleprofilepolicyd - something related to “Apple Profile Policy” ("captain obvious to the rescue!") - but still no related search results for it

What are theese processes do and what are they required for (dependencies)?


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After migrating from one computer to another, my iPhone now automatically appears under the devices list in iTunes on both my old and new Macs. I don't want to accidentally sync my iPhone with my old computer. Is there a way I can make it forget it knows my iPhone?

I've tried:

Turning off wifi sync on the old computer, but this is a device-level setting, so as soon as you turn it back on on the new computer, the iPhone shows on both.
On the old computer, deleting all device backups, 'ejecting' the iPhone from iTunes, and forgetting all remotes. None of those measures has had an effect.

Presumably I need to nix some folder deep in iTunes' lair. Any ideas?


texts: Catalina Desktop Stacks Define New Kinds to Group By?

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How can I define new "kinds" of desktop stacks in Mac OS Catalina, so I can easily 'group by kind' and get the kinds I want?

I've been using Catalina's desktop stacks to organize my desktop, grouping by kind, so images become a stack, movies become a stack, documents become a stack, etc.

This is a cool feature, except I'd like to define my own 'kinds,' so I get the groupings I want. I know I could group by tags, but then I'd need to tag files in order to add them to a group.

I suspect there's a config file somewhere on the system that maps file extensions to 'kinds', so that the OS knows how to manage file groups when files are grouped by 'kind'.

Anyone know where this file might be, how it's structured, or any other mechanism the OS has to redefine desktop stack kinds?

thanks!


texts: How do I fix a broken OS X update that shows as both Available and Installed?

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The "Command Line Tools (OS X 10.10) for Xcode 7.0" is not working correctly.  It installs and shows in the "Updates Installed" section, however it is still listed in the "Updates Available" section.  Oddly, it's being shown in the "Updates Installed" sections multiple times -- once for each time I tried to install it.

I have restarted and it persists.  How can I fix this?


texts: I am not able to change my root password on Mac

texts: Ok so I need adb for a problem in my android phone. And for that I need my root password. So I tried to change it since I was not aware of it being a thing in the first place. I followed this tutorial https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfX5I_mnnYc. But I am not able to change it successfully since it tells me that my password is wrong every time. I am not sure what I am doing wrong but some help would be appreciated.


texts: Gathering information through Terminal commands

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Is there a way through bash/terminal commands to get the following -

Manufactured date
OS install date
Anti Virus installed

I have been doing some research and these three items seem to not exist just wondering if anyone has any ideas.

PS: If anyone is interested its is for an Audit program I am writing that requires these commands.


texts:
On my original iPad Air 2 I was able to send text messages to Androids. I recently had to replace my device, however (good thing I had AppleCare!).  With the new iPad, though, I can no longer send text message to Androids.  Also, I would like to not use a 3rd party app as I was able to before without a 3rd party app.

How do I set that up again?


texts: Apple Watch never checks for heart attacks

texts:
One of the Apple Watch promotional material includes this image (apparently) from the health app.

How can this be interpreted? I understand that the Apple Watch may alert for irregular heart rhythms, but what does this message means.


texts: Connect two iMacs and an LED Cinema Display to MacBook Pro

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In my office I have a brand new Thunderbolt-equipped iMac, an older iMac (Mini DisplayPort), and an LED Cinema Display (Mini DisplayPort). I want to connect these three displays to my MacBook Pro with Retina display. Is there any way I can do that?

The office also has other iMacs and Cinema Displays of varying ages and technologies available for use. If there is no possibility of making my current setup work, is there any conceivable configuration that would make three displays possible?


texts: how to tell Photos library that source files are in different Volume

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I want to figure out a way to tell Photos that all original source files are in exactly the same place as before but on a different volume. (The equivalent of changing all their paths' reference to /Volumes/driveA/... to /Volumes/driveB/....)

My old external hard drive failed, I was able to recover the files from somewhere else, and I had to restore the files to a differently-named external hard drive.

Now that I'm trying to share, or create picture with, pictures from my library, a dialog comes up saying:

  The volume for “IMG_[XXXX].JPG” cannot be found. Connect the disk or mount the server volume needed, then try again.

I select "Apply to All," every time that dialog comes up, I point it to the proper source file and it finds it... but then it asks me for a reference to a picture in another folder.

All the photos are in exactly the same place relative to each other, it's just a different volume. I thought Photos would be smart enough to at least try to create relative paths (a relatively simple thing to do) and attempt to find other missing source files through those guessed relative paths, but that doesn't seem to be the case.

Note that I did not copy the items to the Photos library, whose location hasn't changed. That means that I need to point Photos towards the new location of the original pictures, not to the library files directory.

Is there a manual way to just change the volume of the source files for all the pictures in my library?


texts: MacBook Pro crashed when inserting a USB cable connected to an Arduino Nano clone

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I plugged a USB cable (connected to an Arduino Nano clone) into my MacBook Pro (running OS X 10.11.2) and it crashed with an on screen message.

It restarted and reloaded all my apps (eventually).

It seemed to be working normally, so I tried the Arduino again, with similar results.

Console shows a very long list of messages. The first which seems possible is:

6/01/2016 11:43:39.355 AM mdworker[662]: LaunchServices: received XPC_ERROR_CONNECTION_INTERRUPTED trying to map database

Additional notes The Arduino required an additional driver which I installed a week ago (CH34X USB-SERIAL DRIVER). This seemed to be working OK.

Can anyone help with this. What can I check? (I can certainly live without the Arduino.)


texts: How do I transfer Services items out of its drop-down menu and show them all at once when right-clicking?

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On macOS Sierra (10.12.6), and I have a similar question as this person, but the offered solutions are no longer applicable: Show all services on right click. Apparently, the OS automatically creates a drop-down menu when 4 services are detected.
How do I get around this? I'd like to view the services at once when I do a secondary click instead of opening the drop-down menu.  Thank you in advance.


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I have a Mac mini running 10.14.5 as a server. In System Preferences / Sharing I set up a shared folder on second internal drive HFS+ formatted drive for time machine backups. Backing up and entering the Time Machine backups works fine from three different clients all running 10.14.5. All backups are encrypted. On the server I can mount the sparsebundle  and read the backup (so I have the right key).

Now I replaced one client and want to restore a backup. During the setup I can connect with my file server user to the server and see all three clients, but when I select one of the clients, I get the message "some backups cannot be opened". I never get asked for the encryption key.

Following are my settings:

File Sharing: ON at "smb://server.local"
Share files using SMB: ON
Share files using AFP: OFF
Shared Folder Advance: Share as Time Machine destination on, Share over SMB, only encrypted SMB connections OFF
Shared Folder Permissions: two user can read and write, admin & everyone can read


texts: Remove dock notification badge for apps not in notification center

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For nuisance apps that set a badge notification icon, but which are not in the Settings Notifications center, is there a way to block the badge icon?

Spotify, for example, creates a notification for every insignificant event, with no way of blocking it in app.

Personally I don't understand how apps are allowed to show a badge icon without being in the Notifications center in the first place.

Example:


texts: When I text my friend who has my old iPhone I get the same text sent to my new iPhone as well.

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I reset my phone settings, but I think my info is still on there.  We already set up her information on the 4s.

How do I fix this problem without going thru the same process?

She also gets my photos uploaded to her phone with photo stream.  I had to turn off photostream on her phone so she doesn't get them.


texts: AppleScript : Execute JavaScript on every Safari Tab/Window

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How to run JavaScript in every safari TAB?
I used to have a script with find a specific tab and run javascript but I have some issue and I was wondering how can I simply run some JavaScript in every tab and window (safari) instead.
tell application "Safari" to tell document 1 to do JavaScript ¬
    "document.getElementsByClassName('Demo')[0].click();"

I though running a script to tell how many tab and create a loops but that doesn't work as I have multiple window of safari


texts: Extend Catalina's privacy protection to other folders

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In MacOS Catalina apps need to ask for explicit permission to access certain user folders (such as ~/Documents and ~/Downloads).

Is it possible to extend this protection to other folders (e.g. a custom user-created folder ~/foo) without moving it inside the Documents folder?


texts: My iPhone 6s has had its battery replaced 2 times now and the first time I got it replaced it worked but then shut down during the night and never turned back on even when trying the factory reset, the second time I got it replaced it was working and again it shut down during the night and is not turning back on I have tried everything including the factory reset nothing is working


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How can I directly access apps with single hot-keys?

Possible solutions which I don't get to work:

(1) Having often used applications constantly kept in the dock, it would be useful to have hotkeys like Apple-1, Apple-2, Apple-3, etc to access the first, second or third icon in the dock.  I am aware of Crtl-F3, but it requires left and rights to get to the wanted icon.

(2) I tried to define 'workflows' that launch apps and assign the corresponding services hotkeys, but that didn't work in all applications.

I know Apple-Tab.  However, depending on the other opened programs the keys to press to get to a specific application is always different.

Any solutions?


texts: App Store says Apple ID is disabled when updating apps

texts: I cannot update my apps, and I get a message saying that my Apple ID is disabled. However, I can still access my account and I have updated the settings and everything. But still I cannot update my apps, and the same message keeps popping up. How can I retrieve my Apple ID?


texts: Change a printer driver of an already configured printer

texts: Is there a way that you can set the printer driver for a printer that is already installed (other than deleting it an reinstalling). When you install a new printer you get an option to set which print driver it uses (see image below). But i cant seem to edit this once created.


texts: MacBook Air 2013 bad wifi when internal monitor off while using external monitor

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As absurd as it soundsmy macbook shows the connection to WiFi but does not load anything when connected to external monitor.

I use MacBook Air 13 inch 2013 1.7 i7 chip and 8gb ram and DNS L270 1440x2560 monitor connected via display port and mini dp to dp adapter at 60 hertz (NTSC)

Here is how I came up with my conclusion:
The way I use them is by having both on the desk, I mirror displays so I only use the external monitor a mouse and a keyboard, while my macbook is open and left aside with the screen brightness turned to none. I was bothered with poor wifi on the MacBook for some time, while other devices worked just fine in the same room. Sometimes I would take my MacBook and go to another room to see if wifi works better on it and it did. This morning I got pretty annoyed how I could not open a news article in my room, but could stream 1440p videos on Youtube no problems just outside the room. So I grabbed my desk out of the room and to my surprise it still would not work properly. However as soon as I unplugged the external monitor, the wifi works just fine. After a few 'try and see' I worked out that wifi works fine when the brightness on the internal screen is on. I have no idea why it works like this and I am probably wrong with my guessing.

My problem is to have wifi work while the internal monitor remain none of the brightness.

When researching on this topic I found this and looked into it. However I never shut the lid so it's not a case here. Apart of that question I could not find anything close to my problem. So I wonder if anyone had a similar issue and any possible solutions?


texts: I recently saw that "Find my iPhone" was turned off on my phone. I am 100% sure that I have never disabled Find my iPhone, and I believe it should be enabled by default. Does anyone know of a particular reason why this may have been disabled?


texts:
I'm looking for the font that Apple is using for Special Key Symbols on their keyboards. I know that Vag Rounded is used for regular characters, but that font does not support characters used for the special keys. I've been searching for a font that would look at least similar to the symbols, but so far I haven't found anything satisfying. For example, here are some of the keys with the special symbols:

Return(↩) key:

Tab(⇥), Caps Lock(⇪), Shift(⇧), Alt(⌥), Command(⌘) keys:


texts: How can I check warranty state of my iPhone?

texts:
I’m from Maldives and I am buying an iPhone 6 plus from a shop in Male. They say that there is a 1 year Apple warranty but they aren’t providing me with any slips of the warranty.

How can I verify whether my iPhone is covered by warranty?


texts: rEFInd is not working in macos high sierra 10.13.6 on 2018 MacBook Pro 13 inch even after proper installation

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I have installed rEFInd in my mac by going into recovery mode -> open terminal -> csrutil disable -> cd "/Volumes/Macintosh HD/Users/username/Downloads/refind-bin-0.11.2" -> bash ./refind-install -> csrutil enable -> reboot
But on reboot it shows and loads the Apple icon first and then opens the Boot Recovery where I need to select my hard disk and restart the mac and it boots into macos without showing rEFInd option at the beginning. How to resolve this?


texts: Can AppleScript be used to trigger a Quick Action (e. g. create PDF from selected files)?

texts:
The "Create PDF" Quick Action is much quicker and reliable than every other solution I have tested to create a single PDF from hundreds of images (.jpg or .png), be it Automator or a Python script based on the FPDF module. The issue is I have thousands of folders (all of which contain hoards of pictures waiting to be merged) to process ; I would thus like to programmatically perform the aforementioned Quick Action on each and every of them, that is open one folder after the other, select all files, and in the darkness bind them together. Any chance this could be done in AppleScript ? Of course I am open to solutions in other languages as well. Any piece of advice would be much appreciated,
thanks !


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Does iMessage have the ability to send a message as a BCC (blind carbon copy) to a group, like email services do (Gmail and Apple Mail)?

Sometimes I have a message that I want many people to receive but, I don't want to send it as a group because then each recipient automatically gets the contact info for everyone in the group. Though sending a message by copy and paste to a group is also a waiste of time. So, I'm looking for a solution.

I do know that there are some 3d party apps Like Freetone, textPlus, and maybe Text Free, that provide a feature that lets me send a message to a group but as individual messages to each person.


texts: Is there a way to turn off or bypass Bluetooth Privacy on iPhone 5/6/7? I want to be able to sniff my phone's actual BT MAC address.


texts: Could I connect a macbook pro to an external hard drive for use with time machine

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I want to know if connecting a macbook pro to an external hard drive for use with time machine when I am not using it, at night, will work.

If I then disconnect it in the morning (regardless of the progress of the time machine OR journaling) will it cause any problems?

Thanks


texts: Why can't I write to the last block of my SDXC card on my MBP?

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I have a 64GB SanDisk SDXC memory card which I would like to use with my MacBook Pro and its SD card slot. However, I am having some trouble formatting/partitioning my SD card and I can't figure out what's going on.

When I insert the SD card into the slot, I get the following from Lion: The disk you inserted was not readable by this computer. Initialize... Ingore or Eject
If I open up Disk Utility, I see the disk listed as Apple SDXC Reader Media and when I try to format from "Erase" tab (as exFAT or any other format), I get the following error: Disk Erase failed with the error: Unable to write to the last block of the device.

A little background: the SDXC card was working fine when I first purchased it. But then I started using sabnzbd http://sabnzbd.org/ to download and write files directly to the SD card. Something happened (I can't remember what the error was!) and since then I've been unable to write to my card. I've been trying to format it to solve the problem, but it looks like the issue runs pretty deep.

What is the best way to format the card to exFAT via terminal? That may be the next thing I try.

Do you have any suggestions for formatting/fixing this SD card?


texts: Replacement iPhone is missing web history

texts: I recently replaced my iPhone 6. The phone shows no web history. Can that be restored from original account?


texts: Many GUI Programs suddenly not appearing on El Capitan

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I was adjusting Accessibility options and then poof the following programs disappeared from view.

Finder
Google Chrome
Atom (editor)
Opera

Safari is the only guy still working. Note: the processes for Chrome, Atom, Opera are still there: but the GUI's can not be shown.  I have checked in other spaces: there are no apps in the other space.

I also logged off and even restarted the computer: same behavior.  I reset the accessibility settings. No dice. What might be going on?


texts: Can any Apple software create "photo montage" still frame from a video file?

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I have a video and would like to create what is called a Photo Montage like this: (combining several photos of the same skier like below)

I have searched on the Internet and some definition of "Montage" is different from what's shown here.  I know some Android phone has this feature when taking a video.  But right now I already have a video and like to create this layered time lapse effect on either Mac OS X or iPhone/iOS.


texts: I have forgotten both my iTunes backup password and my iPhone's restriction passcode. How can I recover my restriction passcode without wiping my iPhone?


texts: How do you get a list of all your Game Center accounts?

texts: I need to know what the original account was for my Clash of Clans is so I may transfer to another device. Any suggestions? I have tried multiple times trying to find through my emails with no luck. Can Game Center email a list of my CoC account?


texts: Keynote uses my 3 monitors, how can I get one back?

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I am using Keynote (10.2, latest for now) for presentations. I love to have one monitor for displaying the content, one for displaying the notes, and have one free for chats, monitoring Q&A when on a webinar, and other apps. PowerPoint does that (migration to PowerPoint is not an option at this time).
When I start a presentation, Keynote takes control of the 3 screens. By default, one was just for the notes, but I re-designed the presenter mode, but now my third screen is a black screen. Is there a way to claim it back, or tell Keynote that there are only two monitors for it to access?


texts: I can’t start my computer after installing update

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I have an 2010 iMac running High Sierra. Recently I got a notice that there was an update to my system. I’ve installed a few and they worked fine. I installed this latest one tonight but my iMac will not restart using this new upgrade. When I try to start my computer it loads a small part of the system and then just sits there with no advancing of the slider. I have tried starting in safe mode but no luck. I tried restarting in recovery mode but my recovery disk is apparently not working.
Is there any way to start my computer? I am leaving it in the startup mode all night to see if it will eventually load but I’m not very optimistic. Is there another way to get it to startup? I thought I had a backup disk but that method doesn’t seem to work.  I am completely out of ideas and my computer is a brick.  Any help would be greatly appreciated.


texts: Color issues when waking up MBA connected to Apple Thunderbolt Display

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I haven't got the faintest idea what is causing this issue, but hopefully somebody here has experienced it before.

When I haven't used my computer for a while I decide to wake it up from sleep by pressing a random button on my external keyboard. I have it set up so that the MBA itself is closed, i.e. the Thunderbolt Display is the only screen I am using.

The computer always wakes up immediately and most of the times it works just as expected, but sometimes the color of the display is shifted to a quite prominent purplish tone. When this happens I open and close the lid of the laptop, which immediately solves the problem, but I'm curious as to why the problem exists in the first place.

It started happening a few weeks ago and I have been using the MBA with the TB display since summer 2012.

Thank you in advance.

EDIT: Just took a screenshot which after opening and closing the lid doesn't show any discoloration, which leads me to believe this is a hardware issue. Added a picture showing how it looks.


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I would like to install a 3rd party chrome extension. I don't know how to install it, the extension is not available in chromestore. I've found it on github.

Any light on installing this extension. https://github.com/google/chrome-language-immersion


texts: After deleting Bootcamp .. I failed to merge free disk space using Disk Utility

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After deleting Bootcamp partition I cannot merge it back to Macintosh HD partition nor even using it to install windows again.

Using Disk Utility this is what happens:

I tried to login to MacOS recovery mode and do the same thing.. but still getting the same error..

Output from diskutil list:

Output from sudo gpt -r show /dev/disk0

*I'm Running MacOS 10.13.6 on Retina MacBook Pro Late 2013

Thanks


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I'm running OS X 10.10.1 and keep getting thousands of lines like the following in the system console log.

12/16/14 2:57:02.937 PM dnsextd[9384]: ConnectToServer - 10 failed attempts.  Aborting.
12/16/14 2:57:02.937 PM dnsextd[9384]: UpdateSRV: ConnectToServer failed
12/16/14 2:57:02.937 PM dnsextd[9384]: main: SetUpdateSRV - Socket is not connected
12/16/14 2:57:02.938 PM com.apple.xpc.launchd[1]: (com.apple.dnsextd[9384]) **Service exited with abnormal code: 1**
12/16/14 2:57:02.945 PM dnsextd[9447]: dnsextd starting
12/16/14 2:57:02.945 PM dnsextd[9447]: main: setrlimit - Invalid argument
12/16/14 2:57:02.945 PM dnsextd[9447]: Using default file descriptor resource limit
12/16/14 2:57:02.945 PM dnsextd[9447]: started_via_launchd
12/16/14 2:57:02.946 PM dnsextd[9447]: ConnectToServer: connect - Socket is not connected
12/16/14 2:57:02.946 PM dnsextd[9447]: ConnectToServer - retrying connection
12/16/14 2:57:03.809 PM dnsextd[9447]: ConnectToServer: connect - Socket is not connected
12/16/14 2:57:03.809 PM dnsextd[9447]: ConnectToServer - retrying connection
12/16/14 2:57:05.447 PM dnsextd[9447]: ConnectToServer: connect - Socket is not connected
12/16/14 2:57:05.448 PM dnsextd[9447]: ConnectToServer - retrying connection

It seems dnsextd is always exiting with error code 1. Has anybody had the same issue? Any ideas on how to fix this?
I've tried rebooting, stopping/starting dnsextd from launchctl, but had no luck.


texts: Prevent iTunes from opening when connecting bluetooth speaker

texts: I did read iTunes keeps starting automatically but since I don't have the console output mentioned in this thread I don't know how to pin down the problem. So iTunes keeps opening when connecting my speaker (UE Boom) via Bluetooth. I did read that iTunesHelper could cause this. So I quit the process in Activity Monitor, removed it from the login items and renamed the application as suggested in iTunes Helper still running even if it is off. But iTunes still keeps starting, iTunesHelper doesn't it seems as I cannot see it in Activity Monitor anymore. I am running Mavericks 10.9.5 and have iTunes 12.1.0.50 installed. What can I do to prevent iTunes from starting automatically?


texts: Where can I discuss Apple's Beta Seed program?

texts:
Apple has an OS X Beta Seed Program, but the site only contains information about how to join, how to send feedback to Apple once you are in, and a rather sparse FAQ.
Due to the confidentiality of the program:

Is the pre-release software I am installing confidential?
Yes, the pre-release software is Apple confidential information. For example, don’t install the pre-release Apple software on any systems you don't directly control or that you share with others, don’t blog, post screen shots, tweet or publicly post information about the pre-release Apple software, and don't discuss the pre-release Apple software with or demonstrate it to others who are not in the OS X Beta Seed Program.

it is tempting, but impossible to ask questions with any hope of receiving an answer on sites like this. Is there a place that Apple provides for discussion of the program?


texts: Are all eBooks in the iBookstore DRM protected?

texts:
A few weeks ago I bought a book in the iBookstore. The title of this book is "Der Aurora Effekt" (German). Then a few weeks later I bought the book "The Tributes of Panem" (German version).

The first title I can copy to my Kobo eBook reader and read the book. But "The Tributes of Panem" was not readable!

Is it possible that not all books are DRM protected?


texts: How can I run two instances of WhatsApp on a Mac?

texts:
I have two phone numbers for two purposes and I would like to run two native WhatsApp clients in parallel on my Mac.

I don't want to use the browser (or two browser windows) since I prefer the native Mac OS apps.

How can I do that?


texts: My backslash key stopped working after upgrading to yosemite last week. Also, whenever i restart my mac system starts typing backslash on any textbox. It doesn't stop until i hit backspace.


texts: How to bring focus to Show Fonts dialog (eg. in TextEdit) on a MacBook Pro keyboard?

texts:
I'm a quick typist and I don't want to use the mouse/trackpad unless I absolutely have no way to do something on a keyboard. It slows me down by at least 5 times.

Now, for example, TextEdit is on. I'm typing. If I want to change the font size, I can select (SHIFT-arrows) and use CMD+ and CMD- keyboard shortcuts. Works fine.

However, if I want to change the font, I can hit CMD-T to bring up the Show Fonts dialog. And that's it, the end of keyboard. I must move my hand and aim with the cursor to select the font.

Is there a way to bring the focus to the Show Fonts dialog from the keyboard, without having to resort to the trackpad?

Please keep in mind that this is about the laptop keyboard (MBP Retina), so it's not the full keyboard.

Please avoid answers like:

Why do you want to access the Show Fonts dialog from the keyboard?
Apple's trackpad is magnificent, you should use it, believe me it's better.


texts: Touch Bar stopped working after water damage

texts:
I have a MacBook Pro (13", 2018) with a touch bar. I accidentally dropped a bit of water on my touch bar and it stopped working. It's been that way for a while now.

I tried opening the activity monitor to see if it pops up like how it does for the others, but nothing related to the touch bar is appearing to me. However, the fingerprint sensor still works.

How can I make the rest of the touch bar function again?


texts: Other than MacBook Pro, do all other Apple laptops use the butterfly keyboard?

texts:
Just wondering which MacBook is worth getting?  The new MacBook pro looks too bulky to me and I'm also not a fan of the price tag either.

While shopping, I just wanted to confirm two things which I found shocking:

Is MacBook pro the only current Apple laptop I can buy right now with the scissor key mechanism?


texts: How do I load the DiskManagement framework in single user mode?

texts:
From single-user mode in OS X 10.5, I want to run

diskutil repairPermissions /

but I get an error:

Unable to run because unable to use the DiskManagement framework
...

Is there a way to load the DiskManagement framework or otherwise repair permissions in single user mode?


texts: Problems with the command delete function in applescript

texts: I have an applescript that I am using to clear out a huge folder. I can select all of the files but how can I indicate the "command delete" key while keeping all of the files selected? Basically after the "command a function" if I try to preform the "command delete" function it deselects all of those previously selected files.


texts: How to prevent "Do you want to terminate running processes" window when shutting down?

texts:
When I have running processes on my terminal and I try to shutdown Mac, I get this window:

I want all running processes to terminate automatically when I shut down my Mac without being prompted the window shown above. Is there a way to do that?

I am using macOS Sierra 10.12.6.

Edit: My question is not about iTerm2 or closing tabs.


texts: Before putting an iPhone5 into very long-term storage should I fully drain battery?

texts:
I just migrated an iPhone5 to an X. I'd like to put the iPhone5 into very long-term (probably 1+ year) storage. While I'll hopefully never need it again, I'd like to keep a back-up iPhone at the ready.

Given the chemistry of iPhone batteries, before putting it in a safe place for a very long time, should I drain the battery to 0%? or 100% charge, and power-off?

It is fresh off of a factory reset, so there is no data to be lost on the phone.


texts: I'm looking for something equivalent to SelfControl for the iPad. Is there anything like that?


texts: Is there a command similar to Linux's command-not-found?

texts:
Most Linux operating systems have a package like command-not-found (http://packages.ubuntu.com/utopic/command-not-found), which provides suggestions when a shell command was not found, e.g. because the command was misspelt.

➜ puthon
No command 'puthon' found, did you mean:
 Command 'python' from package 'python-minimal' (main)
 Command 'python' from package 'python3' (main)

Is there similar functionality for OS X, e.g. through Homebrew?


texts: Do Macs Have Custom Models of Intel Processors?

texts:
Do Apple Computers use the same-exact Intel processors available to PC builders or are they custom models made just for Apple? For example, if a Mac is marketed as having an Intel i7 3.3 GHz x-generation processor and there is a matching processor listed on Ark for that chipset "generation," is it safe to assume that same-exact processor is in the Mac? Or does Apple get custom models within the chipset families just for their computers?

Also, is there a website where I can see the processor model numbers available in Macs so I don't have to spend time trying to match Apple's marketing to Intel's specs?


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In Messages I have a thread of sent messages that showed up as blue at the time of sending. These old texts remained blue until about 15 minutes ago; now they’re green.

I know sending the messages didn't fail because the conversation was successful. I don't know why, now, the message color changed from blue to green.  Does this mean I've been blocked?

I searched for answers on Google but didn't find anything that helped.


texts: How do I reload the Mac OS on a new MacBook Pro that comes without Mac OS X DVD?

texts:
I just purchased the base model (i5/4gb ram) MacBook Pro 13' 2012 computer. The reason I purchased the base model is because I already had an SSD drive and 8GB of memory compatible with this computer.

Unfortunately, Apple does not give the Mac OS X DVD any more, they load it as an image on the hard drive.

Since I need to remove the existing hard drive and replace it with the new SSD drive, how will I load the Mac OS image?


texts: Slow write speeds with APFS encryped external SSD

texts:
I bought an external SSD with a USB 3.1 gen 2 enclosure. I'm on macOS 10.13.6 with a MBP (late 2013).

Using APFS I get write speeds of around 390–405 MB/s. So far, so good.
However formatting the drive to APFS (encrypted) results in way slower write speeds of around 250–260 MB/s.

Is such a performance loss of nearly 40% normal for an encrypted drive, or am I doing something wrong?

I used a 10GB test file and cp to measure the performance. Copying through Finder results in similar performance.


texts:
I have some very simple applescript's that I run frequently and they seem to sometimes take less then second and sometimes like 2.

Is there an alternative that would be faster?  My guess is no.

tell application "System Events"
    set frontmostProcess to first process where it is frontmost
    delay 0.01
    key code 121
end tell


texts: My apple password quit working.  I can't download apps or buy games.  This just happened a few hours ago.  Where do I go to get this corrected?


texts:
I'm interested in purchasing the 15" model of the latest generation (Mar 2011) of Macbook Pros. They list two variants that differ $400 in price. As far as I can tell, these are the only differences between them.

2.0 GHz i7 processor ($1800 version) vs 2.2 GHz i7 processor ($2200 version)
500 GB hard drive ($1800 version) vs 750 GB hard drive ($2200 version)
6490M (with 256MB GDDR5) graphics card ($1800 version) vs 6750M (with 1GB GDDR5) graphics card ($2200 version)

Option #2 doesn't make a huge difference to me, so my question is this: for what types of applications will the difference processors have an observable effect in performance? For which types of applications will the different graphics cards have an observable effect in performance?


texts: Can I use tethering to let an iPad use an iPhone's 3G?

texts:
Given an iPad that doesn't have 3G but only wifi, can I make this use the 3G connection of an iPhone 4?

Does this require a cable between the devices, or does it work over (bluetooth|wifi?) ?


texts: How to reset an iPad without access to the old phone number?

texts:
This is actually a question for a friend. I little back story.

She bought an iPad here in US & then took it to Sweden. She registered it with her then Swedish cell phone. About a few months ago she came back to US and tried to access it. Evidently because of a different country the iPad then asked her to enter a PIN that it wanted to text to her Swedish phone. Unfortunately she gave up that cell phone number when she left Sweden (or in other words, she doesn't have access to her old Swedish phone number that the text with the security code was sent to.) She says that she tried to guess the code but now the iPad had completely locked her out.

Is there any way she can get into that iPad now?

PS. She went to an Apple store but they needed a proof of purchase. She doesn't have a receipt anymore. She paid for it in cash about 2 years ago.


texts: Reset volume control to 80% before shutdown

texts:
I sometimes reduce the volume on my El Capitan while working. I would like to ensure that it returns to, say, 80% before shutdown, in case I forget to do it myself.
Any solutions would be most welcome BUT remember I'm a beginner with this stuff!


texts:
Using the standard iOS Mail app, how do you make a hyperlink from part of the text you are composing?

In the animated gif below, I want to have the word "Lincoln" contain the hyperlink instead of pasting it below (which looks ugly), but as you can see there are no options to do so in the popup menus.

Making links like this is easy here on StackExchange, within Gmail, Word, Excel, google Docs, etc... but for some reason, I've missed how to do it in the iOS Mail app.

How can I get this level of polished mail with hyperlinks on iOS?


texts: Why does look-up not work on every webpage in Chrome?

texts:
Lion introduced a new feature called look up:

... which can be invoked by double-tapping a word with three fingers. This works fine most of the time, but I've noticed that it fails many times in Google Chrome (I'm running 18.0 beta).

For example, it works fine on this website, but fails on http://www.gigaom.com. If I try both websites on Safari, they both work. Why does Chrome have this problem? Is it an issue with the website owner not following standards? Is it a bug in Chrome? Is there any temporary workaround?


texts: Finder file names with non-standard characters are bold in High Sierra

texts:
Why are all file names in Finder that have non standard characters such as accents or umlauts bold in High Sierra Finder?

How do I fix this?


texts:
I was on the iOS 7 beta in it's entirety and updated to the public version via my phone. Last night I got an activation error which is incorrect as I work for a company that builds apps and we even published 3 apps for the iOS 7 release.
So WHY is my phone bricked? I have SMS data since my last backup that I do not want to lose. I've tried a number of things to try and get my phone to it's non-bricked self and nothing is helping so far. Out of all the things I've tried, below is the closest to a solution:
Closest Solution
I retrieved the iOS 7.0.2 ISPW from the Member Developer center and installed it onto my phone. This still wants me to recover from a backup so I found a way to backup my phone after 7.0.2 installed as I could not back it up before. Now whenever I backup to that version I'm presented with the welcome screen and prompted to restore from a backup.


texts: Disable ambient noise reduction in macOS Catalina

texts:
I think the ambient noise reduction is enabled by default in macOS Catalina, resulting in very poor audio quality using Rode plug-play microphone!

Is there any terminal command to disable ambient noise reduction in macOS Catalina?

As you can see the option made invisible in audio input settings since Catalina. Very unexpected form Apple!

Solution

Re-installed macOS Mojave (I decided not to update to macOS Catalina at any cost)! Here is the screenshot from macOS Mojave with ambient noise reduction option.


texts: Get OS X Notification Center State From the Command Line

texts: On OS X 10.8, users can disable Notification Center for a single day. Is there a way to check if it is enabled from the command line?.


texts: Is it possible to enable underline keyboard shortcuts and access keys?

texts: There is a very convenient feature in Windows that underlines keyboard shortcuts such as in the image below. If I want to select Action, I can just press Alt+a; Refresh Alt+f; and so forth. The underlines appear in Microsoft apps, installers so I can just press alt+n for next instead of using my cursor, etc. It is really wonderful and I miss it. Is it possible to get something like that in OSX because I hate using my mouse.


texts:
I would like to accomplish the following, which, in today's technological ecosystem, seems like it should just happen anyway:

I take a photo on my Android phone

The phone uploads it somewhere automatically (presumably Google Photos)

My Mac downloads it automatically into a folder

In other words, I want the photos on my android device to seamlessly appear in a folder on my Mac, without me needing to do anything besides take the photo.
I have Google Drive installed, but my photos don't seem to be there. I tried installing "Google Backup and Sync", but it crashed immediately and I can't get it to work. (I'm on OS X 10.11, so maybe that's why. I don't intend to upgrade until I get a new machine.) I've head that Google Backup and Sync is quite complex and fiddly to use anyway.
Is there any other way that automatic photo sync between Android and Mac can be accomplished? If possible, I'd prefer not to use Dropbox, because mine is nearly full and I already pay for additional space on Google Drive, so I don't want to upgrade Dropbox as well.


texts: Why is my external HDD active when I'm not using it?

texts:
I have a partitioned external HDD (orange LaCie), with one partition for Time Machine. All partitions are Mac OS Extended (Journaled, Encrypted). The HDD is GUID Partition Map.

I'm not (consciously) doing anything with the disk right now, and Time Machine is turned off at the moment.

Why is the light on the HDD blinking (and the HDD active, because I can feel that)? What is it doing?

I am running macOS Mojave 10.14.5.


texts: How to highlight cells based on another cell's value in Excel 2011

texts:
How do I use conditional formatting to highlight a cell in one column based on the value of another cell in another column?

Case in point, I'm running some tests right now. Based on input data into our server, we expect certain output from the server. I've manually calculated and generated expected output from this same set of input to compare against what the server is generating.

What I want to do is compare all of my results against what the server generated and highlight the cells that don't match. I'm using Conditional Formatting to do this, however, I can't figure out what to do within the Conditional Formatting feature to compare values from column XYZ with values from column ABC and highlight the cells in XYZ where they don't match. The number of values in both columns are the same so we can compare without fearing comparing 123 against an empty cell.

EDIT: Thanks for the answers thus far.  What I'm trying to do is match results line by line so it should look something like the attached screenshot.


texts: Command+C (copy) with the left command key does not work

texts:
I'm facing a strange problem. When I type ⌘+C with the left command key, it does not work anymore. The left command key is working for ⌘+V or ⌘+X or any others so it's not a hardware problem.

The C key is working too. The right command key is working for ⌘+C.

I tried changing keyboard language, adding a shortcut, reset NVRAM, activated/deactivated VoiceOver (tip found on a site) to no avail. I'm on a MacBook Pro with Mavericks.


texts: Mac OSX Cataline not rebooting when cannot connect to wifi

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Several times I have had the experience that my Macbook Pro (13 inch, 2017, v10.15.5) will not reboot completely. The white progress bar gets very close to complete and then stalls.

Each time this happened I was having wifi connection problems.  The way I solve it is to reboot in safe mode, connect to the wifi, and then reboot.  When it first happened I took the Mac to the Apple store and they replaced the wifi hardware and the logic board. But it still continues to happen.

Is there a setting/fix that will stop this behaviour?


texts: How do I fix this (blue) screen issue when I connect my MacBook Pro with my Monitor?

texts:
Now, the issue is only coming when I connect my MacBook, the monitor is working fine when I connect a Windows laptop to it. Any thoughts on how to fix this issue, I tried changing the display settings in the Preferences but couldn't fix it, tried scaling to different resolutions but didn't help.

Model: MacBook Pro 2018 13 inch

OS: Catalina

Monitor: HP VH240a

Type: HDMI

The monitor was working absolutely fine till now, but suddenly started behaving like this with the MacBook.


texts:
I have an unlocked GSM iPhone 7.

I am unable to get the iPhone to restore or reset via iTunes. Every attempt to do so returns error -1.

I was talking on my iPhone and suddenly the call ended, my service dropped and the device said No Service. It then went into Searching mode. I tried to reset the network settings, hoping that the carrier settings would update when connected to Wi-Fi again. That didn't work though.

I was running iOS 11.2 and had an OTA update for 11.2.1. I decided to download and install the same. It downloaded successfully, but when trying to install, it kept saying unable to verify with Apple. The verification failed while the device was connected to the Wi-Fi.

I tried installing the update using iTunes. The update downloaded fine but again failed to verify with Apple. So I decided to just restore my iPhone which failed too. I tried to update via recovery move, which also failed.

Now no matter what, whether it's DFU or recovery, iOS installs halfway on the Apple logo while showing progress bar on the device and then crashes and fails with a -1 error in iTunes.

I used my last resort and let Apple screen share me and watch but they have no idea. I have tried resetting the device using both Windows and Mac, using 2 different lightening cables. I tried without SIM card (SIM card can sometimes interfere with baseband and cause iTunes errors). I tried with iOS 11.2 and iOS 11.2.1, none of which worked.

The iPhone is about an year old and out of warranty. The device appears in mint condition with working Touch ID.

How do I get my iPhone to usable state again?


texts: iBook on iPad: turn pages with voice command

texts: I bought an iPad for somebody who is paralysed; primarily as a book reader for its ability to enlarge the text- but also to surf the net, etc. with a family member or caregiver using the touchpad. I want to know if there is a voice command so he is able to turn pages himself, rather than needing to rely on anyone else.


texts: What does serverperfmode=1 actually do on macOS?

texts:
Turning it on is described here but there are no details.

There is a vague description:

  Performance mode changes the system parameters of your Mac. These
  changes take better advantage of your hardware for demanding server
  applications.

What is actually changing inside the system/kernel?


texts: Geektool twitter quotes glet not working

texts:
I have GeekTool for Lion and am trying to run the Glet located at - http://www.macosxtips.co.uk/geeklets/messaging/latest-tweet-1/

On my system. It's just not working. The same code is running perfect in terminal and IDLE, but GeekTool is not processing it. I thought it might be a problem with Geektool and Python, but another python script, used to pull the latest XKCD is working perfect on GeekTool (http://code.google.com/p/geektool-xkcd/source/browse/trunk/xkcd.py)

I thought it must be a problem with indentation etc but that's not the case. I've brought the code down to the following, it works in terminal but not with Geektool -

#!/usr/bin/env python
import tweepy

CONSUMER_KEY = '...'
CONSUMER_SECRET = '...'
ACCESS_KEY = '...'
ACCESS_SECRET = '...'

auth = tweepy.OAuthHandler(CONSUMER_KEY, CONSUMER_SECRET)
auth.set_access_token(ACCESS_KEY, ACCESS_SECRET)
api = tweepy.API(auth)

tested = api.home_timeline()
for result in tested:
    print result.text + '\n' + '\n- ' + result.user.screen_name
    break

I'm not sure at all what the issue is. How do I know that the code is not working? I added the Display Status feedback message icon on the GLet. It keeps glowing red (while the XKCD one is green).
If I change the command in the same GLet to something simple like -
echo "hello"
or
python -c print "Hello"
then it works fine (glows green, shows output) but as soon as I change it back to the old one, problem!

Also, another doubt - the python -c print command doesn't print anything in the terminal. What's the issue with that?
Can someone else please run it and tell me how to print in terminal using python?


texts: Very slow to start processes or open applications

texts:
I have a Mac Mini (Mid 2011, 8GB RAM) with Yosemite which is getting slower and slower. But the weird thing is that only opening applications or starting new processes (from the terminal) is terribly slow.

Once an application is started (it can take up to 5 minutes to open Excel) then it works without any problem.

What I looked so far:

the log files seem normal
monitoring the system with opensnoop shows a lot of activity from Spotlight (mds_stores ist the process using more CPU time and mdworker)
in general the CPU is almost idle
disk seems healthy (no S.M.A.R.T. errors, no problems while checking it with Disk Utility)

Where could I look for a hint on what is making the machine slow?


texts: Disable special function keys on Apple Wireless Keyboard when connected to iPad

texts: I'm currently using an Apple Wireless Keyboard connected via Bluetooth to my iPad. However, I have the habit of accidentally placing the keyboard in my backpack, where the function keys get accidentally depressed. Sometimes, it hits the ▶ || key, which will cause my iPad to start playing music. Is there anyway to disable the function keys without turning off the entire keyboard?


texts: Open PDF from terminal using command completion

texts: I'm used to the linux way of opening a PDF from the terminal. That is, via e.g. evince sample.pdf. Command completion makes this fairly fast. In particular when there are many files with the same name but different endings (like after pdflatex compilations). From macports I have the bash-completion, but it is ineffective for the open command in the sense that I have to cycle through all files until I get the PDF one. Is there another way of opening a PDF that allows to employ the bash-completion? Or a way to make open ignore certain file types?


texts:
I used to connect to a remote Linux server through ssh -v remote from my osx client. Now the connection hangs after authentication:

debug1: Entering interactive session.
debug1: client_input_global_request: rtype hostkeys-00@openssh.com want_reply 0

This is happening with both remote servers I have available. I can instead successfully do remote port forwarding (with a not-interacting session) ssh -fN remote. I have removed the .bash* and .cshrc and .profile files on the remote servers.

I have checked that the ssh to my remote servers is working correctly on my Linux box that I run on osx within a virtual box.

I am using the following configuration for ~/.ssh/config

ServerAliveInterval 120

Host            *
ForwardX11       yes

Host            remote
HostName        remote.address.uk
HostKeyAlias    remote.address.uk
User            myusername
LocalForward    localhost:5903 remote:5904
LocalForward    localhost:5902 remote:5901
TCPKeepAlive    yes
IdentityFile    ~/.ssh/id_rsa


texts: How to divert (only) certain numbers to voicemail?

texts:
Is it possible to set unconditional divert for some phone numbers/contacts, like on Android (like described here) ?

The only contact specific option is "Block", which is quite different.


texts: Add casual material such as screenshot fast to Final Cut Pro video? How? From Desktop?

texts:
I am able to add pictures from iPhone and Aperture to Final Cut Pro and I would like to fast add screenshots. I tried to do this from Desktop and no such option.

How can I fast add casual material such as screenshots to a FCP video?


texts: Using an email address as imessage contact name

texts: My friend is using her iphone only for imessages.  She is using her email address as her contact name.  So when I send her a message I type in her email address.  Whenever I send her a message using a device other than my iphone and I type in her email address will she still get it on her iphone or will it only go to her email account?


texts: I just noticed this. What does Terminal.app store in iCloud?


texts:
I notice that mds is almost always on top for use of Real Memory.  I wouldn't mind if this wouldn't be also the case when Free Memory runs out.

Usually mds uses over 600MB on a system with 4GB (I know I need a new Mac) and no Free Memory.

I notice that it might be somehow connected to Time Machine running (mds memory goes up when/after a Time Machine backup is done).

I kill mds from time to time but pretty soon it is again using over 600MB.

Googling this brings some workaround tips but nothing which is really on any foundation or analysis.

I'm having this problem on Leopard (still stuck on a Q G5) but have seen reports on the net that the same problem also exists on Snow Leopard.

Don't know about Lion though.

Update:

After the question in the comments if my Time-Machine is also indexed by Spotlight, I did some more research and found Setting Spotlight preferences in Apples MAC OSX 10.6 Help:

  Note:If you add a Time Machine backup disk to the list, you will
  continue to see messages that Spotlight is indexing your backup disk.
  This indexing is necessary for Time Machine to function properly and
  can’t be disabled. Spotlight will exclude from searches any items you
  store on your backup disk that are not part of a Time Machine backup.

So the Time-Machine partition is always indexed no matter what you set.


texts:
Is there a definitive way to stop Google Earth from crashing when it loads?
I'm on OS X 10.9.2 using Google Earth 7.1.2.2041
I've tried reinstalling, I've looked on various forums about removing Internet plugins from the Library folder - nothing seems to work.

Crash report fragment:

Process:         Google Earth [45962]
Path:            /Applications/Google Earth.app/Contents/MacOS/Google Earth
Identifier:      com.Google.GoogleEarthPlus
Version:         7.1 (7.1.2.2041)
Code Type:       X86 (Native)
Parent Process:  launchd [226]
Responsible:     Google Earth [45962]
User ID:         501

Date/Time:       2015-02-12 22:29:58.022 +0000
OS Version:      Mac OS X 10.9.2 (13C64)
Report Version:  11
Anonymous UUID:  8B4E424F-12C4-8F81-629F-2A2B48AC0FDF

Sleep/Wake UUID: 78DD0C85-CC8D-4A19-8BDC-3E9D7348E86E

Crashed Thread:  0  Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread

Exception Type:  EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGBUS)
Exception Codes: KERN_PROTECTION_FAILURE at 0x0000000018f7dc44

VM Regions Near 0x18f7dc44:
    __BSS                  0000000018f72000-0000000018f79000 [   28K] rw-/rwx SM=PRV  /Library/Internet Plug-Ins/NPLoaderOSX.plugin/Contents/MacOS/NPLoaderOSX
--> __RODATA               0000000018f79000-0000000019030000 [  732K] rw-/rwx SM=COW  /Library/Internet Plug-Ins/NPLoaderOSX.plugin/Contents/MacOS/NPLoaderOSX
    __RSRC                 0000000019030000-0000000019034000 [   16K] r--/rwx SM=COW  /Library/Internet Plug-Ins/NPLoaderOSX.plugin/Contents/MacOS/NPLoaderOSX

Thread 0 Crashed:: Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread
0   ???                             0x18f7dc44 0 + 418896964
1   NPLoaderOSX                     0x18e0fb8c @DbgEvalFrame + 1648
2   NPLoaderOSX                     0x18e0fe4a @DbgEvalFrame + 2350
3   dyld                            0x8fe2745b ImageLoaderMachO::doModInitFunctions(ImageLoader::LinkContext const&) + 283
4   dyld                            0x8fe275c4 ImageLoaderMachO::doInitialization(ImageLoader::LinkContext const&) + 64
5   dyld                            0x8fe2392c ImageLoader::recursiveInitialization(ImageLoader::LinkContext const&, unsigned int, ImageLoader::InitializerTimingList&) + 294
6   dyld                            0x8fe237bc ImageLoader::runInitializers(ImageLoader::LinkContext const&, ImageLoader::InitializerTimingList&) + 62
7   dyld                            0x8fe18cff dyld::runInitializers(ImageLoader*) + 88
8   dyld                            0x8fe2025a dlopen + 566
9   libdyld.dylib                   0x91b11b75 dlopen + 70
10  com.apple.CoreFoundation        0x9210b0e9 _CFBundleDlfcnLoadFramework + 185
11  com.apple.CoreFoundation        0x9208c232 _CFBundleLoadExecutableAndReturnError + 850
12  com.apple.CoreFoundation        0x9210b321 CFBundleLoadExecutable + 33
13  QtWebKit                        0x03659c28 qWebKitVersion() + 4088
14  QtWebKit                        0x03659fcd qWebKitVersion() + 5021
15  QtWebKit                        0x03507b3b 0x2dfb000 + 7392059
16  QtWebKit                        0x0350345e 0x2dfb000 + 7373918
17  QtWebKit                        0x0350372b 0x2dfb000 + 7374635
18  QtWebKit                        0x0361df44 0x2dfb000 + 8531780
19  QtWebKit                        0x034a876a 0x2dfb000 + 7001962
20  QtWebKit                        0x0349693a 0x2dfb000 + 6928698
21  QtWebKit


texts: Slow Macbook Pro - Very low %Idle number

texts: My Macbook Pro started acting very strange from one day to another. I started researching a bit and found someone who suggested that i might have high processor utilization. I checked my Activity Monitor and saw that under the tab "CPU" the "%Idle" numbers were very low but i couldn't see which app was causing it. What can i do about this? I do not know a lot about computers so any kind of help is appreciated!


texts: In one iPad, Is it possible to download an app and susbcribe to its content with an apple id linked to one country and then use it while logged with an apple id linked to anohter country?


texts:
Is there a way to hide a key (i.e. a wifi WPA key password) from being listed in Keychain Access but still have OS X be able to use it? We're a school and we we don't want users to be able to access keychain and see the WPA key of the wifi password.

It doesn't even have to be hidden as long as the user can't get access to being shown the password.


texts:
New mac user here (Linux background). I'm running macOS Catalina (Beta5). I've noticed there are 5 volumes in my main disk container.
One is mounted at /, that I understand, it's the system, another is /System/Volumes/Data, which I tough it would be the Linux /home, but it's not, so what it it?

Also what are the other two unmounted volumes? One might be the recovery one, but the other? Thanks!


texts: Are there any advanced options for a removable volume?

texts:
I'm running Mac OS X 10.6.8. And I'm curious to see if there are any advanced options for ejectable volumes. Such as hiding a partition, password protecting, and so forth.

Now, I'm not asking for software that does this. I'm asking if OS X offers any of these solutions. Or if OS X doesn't, can things like this be done through Terminal?

If you have any answers, or know of any online tutorials, please post them here. :)


texts: Wrong function key layout on a Mid 2011 MacBook Air

texts:
My wife just got a used Mid 2011 MacBook Air. The keyboard looks like this:

But the keys work like this:

There's no way no adjust the backlight brightness and the volume controls are all messed up. How can I fix this?


texts: Image Capture OS X 10.6 won't read from iPhone

texts:
Image Capture on Snow Leopard says the "iPhone is locked with code", and asks to unlock it before importing images. The most weird thing is that it can import just fine using iPhoto and it syncs through iTunes. Seems it is a problem with Image Capture, any ideas?

If anyone could try to send the Image Capture.app to me to test with, that would be great. Thanks!


texts:
This is my first post here on AskDifferent. I have a user who can not connect to the VPN on his Mac. It is a MBP 11,1 with a Core i5 2.4GHz 8gb of memory running OS X 10.9.3 . I have had him create a new VPN connection with all of the necessary information and still no dice. No one else in the company who is running Mavericks is having any issue VPNing into the office.

I am at my wits end here. I am typing this on a MacBook Air that is currently on the company VPN.

Please Help.


texts: Yosemite Spotlight on Client not index server shared folder

texts:
I've a Mac Mini Server (Yosemite server) where is located the folder: 'Studio'.
This folder is shared in the same network.

I've a Client iMac (Yosemite) that access to that folder 'Studio' located on server.

Spotlight on Server is able to search in that folder.
Sporlight on Client is NOT able to search in that folder.

I've run on Client terminal:

sudo mdutil -E /Volumes/Studio

And have this error:

/Volumes/Studio:
2015-02-14 11:53:22.017 mdutil[4611:159875] mdutil disabling Spotlight: /Volumes/Studio -> kMDConfigSearchLevelOff
Error: unable to perform operation.  (-403)
    Server search enabled.

Any hints?


texts: Mail cannot connect to google account, won't open once quit

texts: Pretty simple - mail showed as unable to check for new message (tilde by the inbox, etc.). The activity doctor confirmed it could connect to the internet but not the mail servers. Quitting mail and trying to re-open it resulted in the error "Mail cannot save information about your mailboxes because of a network problem."


texts: unable to open /var/db/sudo/ts/: Permission denied

texts:
I'm having a really tough time trying to figure out what's going on with my High Sierra MBP. I've recently come across permissions issues, such as:

 $ sudo ls
 sudo: unable to open /var/db/sudo/ts/<username>: Permission denied

I'm then asked for the password and I'm able to operate as root, but I've never seen this error before. I've checked all the files/directories in /var/db/sudo/ts and they're all owned by root:wheel. My user is in the admin and staff groups -- this I have not changed. What would cause this? I came across this behavior when trying to update homebrew (noticed permission issues on directories my user owns in /private/tmp).

Similarly:

lrwxr-xr-x    1 <username>  admin    67 Oct 12 15:24 dtnoop_tracer.h
$ rm -f dtnoop_tracer.h
rm: dtnoop_tracer.h: Permission denied

Is my filesystem completely gone (or mounted read-only)?


texts:
Is there a built in feature into OS X Lion which is similar to iOS 5.0's shortcut feature? For example, by default if you type "omw" on the iPhone, it gets expanded to "on my way" automatically.

I know that there are probably 3rd party solutions, but I would prefer using an Apple solution.


texts: Is there a way to display sent/received iMessages in a "horizontal" format rather than the current "vertical" left/right bubble format?


texts: I have an Early 2009 Mac Pro with one DVI out, one Mini DisplayPort out, and an NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 graphics card. I'm wondering if my Mac will support retina graphics, and if so, are any of the LED monitors labeled as "4K" basically retina displays? (I'm not interested in Apple's monitors)


texts: warranty on tablets/ipads bought from Malaysia

texts: My friend in Malaysia is visiting me in Australia and is bringing me a Apple 64gb tablet as a gift. As I have been given conflicting answers to this question; Will the warranty on the Apple tablet be honoured in Sydney Australia or is it only the iPad that is not under warranty in Australia.


texts: Is there a way to make Mac OS X ask for my password less frequently?  For instance, I frequently have to re-enter my password into the Mac App Store.  Are there any tools or tweaks to tell the system to remember my password (maybe in the keychain), or to make the system ask for my password less frequently in other situations?


texts: cannot log into Messages and FaceTime in MacOS Big Sur beta 8

texts: a day ago I updated to macOS Big Sur beta 8. all of the messages I sent said not delivered when I  had internet. I tried logging out and logging back in, but it won't log in. It works for a few seconds and then shows the login screen again. facetime also won't log in.


texts: Free video converter where I can choose video/audio codec?

texts:
I'm looking for free (or < 10$) video converter on mac with following features:

Another features which are welcome:

option to choose file format (.mpg, .avi etc)
option to choose video/audio encoding (xvid, h264, acc etc)
option to always save output to the same directory the source is in
batch processing of many files
possibility to set created/modified time of created file to the same as source has


texts: Sync iOS app using Wi-Fi network in Windows 7

texts:
I am using Windows 7 and have the latest version of iTunes installed.

The USB port is disabled for security purposes but I want to sync my iOS device to my PC, so I am thinking that I can use Wi-Fi. How can I do that?


texts: Where is the tilde on French and US keyboard layouts?

texts:
I have configured my keyboard for French and US layouts. I cannot find a tilde anywhere on there.

Normally, the tilde (~) is on the upper case of the key to the left of the "1" character.

It is pretty essential if you use the terminal a lot, as it allows you to go to directly somebody else's home directory. cd ~suzanne takes you to suzanne's home. Since, as a Linux user, I make a lot of use of the terminal, I really need the tilde.


texts: shift key persistence on accessibility keyboard

texts: I'm trying to create a key on the accessibility keyboard that enters two $ signs and then moves the cursor one space left. the issue is that this has the effect of highlighting the second $ as if the shift key were held for the last entry as well . how to fix that?


texts: How do I prevent Music app from using 1 GB of cellular data in less than 10 minutes?

texts:
I received 3 text messages within 10 minutes from my cellular carrier as I was driving in my car with iTunes Radio streaming music.

10:20 pm - 65% of my 1 GB plan is used.
10:22 pm - 90% used.
10:28 pm - 100% used and a $20 fee for going over. The music got jumbled up at this point. It would play a split second, pause, and repeat.

full resolution

I went into Settings > Celluar to find the culprit. It was indeed caused by the Music app, so I immediately switched off its cellular usage. It had used up 1 GB in 10 minutes. This was the first time I attempted music streaming while driving.

In all the articles that I've read, they say iTunes Radio should only use 28 MB per hour - much less than what I just experienced. So what caused my meteoritic rise in data usage?

full resolution

The following screenshot shows that I have no local music collection, so the phone couldn't have been synching any music from the cloud. That infamous free U2 album that was uploaded to everyone's phone is not on my phone.

full resolution

More info:

Background app refresh is turned off.
iOS 8.1.1
iPhone 6
Music settings: "Genius" off. "Show All Music" off.


texts: Macbook Pro Retina 2014 - Quick return from Sleep - Black screen with cursor before login window

texts:
I just got a MBPr. When the display switches off, like its going to sleep and I quickly hit a key to wake it back up. It shows a black screen with a cursor for about 15-20 seconds before the login screen appears. Its only if I do it instantly after the screen switches off. If I leave it off for sometime it comes back instantly...

Its not a problem when I don't log back in and let the screen go black from the login prompt.

I also tried to totally disable the show login screen after screensaver/sleep option and it still take a while to go from black to my desktop.

This is a problem if I have an external display plugged in or no displays attached. Its really annoying because I want to stop it from sleeping because I'm reading or something.

Is this normal? How can I troubleshoot?


texts: Safari doesn't "save" google results pages

texts:
If I

open a new tab
use the omnibar to google for something
click on a google result
press back

I get sent to the new tab page, not the google results page.

Also, the google results page doesn't show up in history.

How do I stop that from happening?

I want google results pages to be treated like all other (normal) pages.


texts: External disk as system volume on different macs password issue

texts:
I have few macs (office, home, macbook) and decided to use external disk as system boot volume (thunderbolt) for convenience purposes (web development, macports, etc, very hard to maintain same versions/databases across different computers).

It works well, BUT.. each time I login on different computer - Macos ask me to re-authentificate iMessage/iTime, then when I try to use any software bought from Appstore, it asks for password, very annoying.

I thought about changing serials to make it same across different computers, but not sure its good practice, maybe it could be done by changing UUID or so on.

Anybody have experience with situation like that?


texts: Accidentally deleted /Library/Developer files

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I accidentally deleted my /Library/Developer files while trying to delete the Derived Data. Now, My Xcode 9 has stopped working and is crashing everytime I open it. I have a extremely important project pending.
I am using macOS Sierra.


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At one point, my Macbook Pro (Late-2011 13 in. ver) started experiencing this issue every time it tries to wake up from a long sleep (longer than 1hr approximately). It fails to wake, and reboots instead, showing the pop-up that the os has shut down unexpectedly. It runs on a new SSD which replaced the old HDD.

I am trying to figure out if this is a hardware issue, or a configuration issue. One question that has arised on the way is about the hibernatemode value, which my OSX indicates 25. Is this a possible value?

When I ran pmset -g it showed the following:

Active Profiles:
Battery Power       -1*
AC Power        -1
Currently in use:
 standbydelay         4200
 standby              0
 halfdim              1
 sms                  1
 hibernatefile        /var/vm/sleepimage
 disksleep            10
 sleep                10
 hibernatemode        25
 ttyskeepawake        1
 displaysleep         2
 acwake               0
 lidwake              1


texts: Why firefox 10.1 uses full screen on Snow Leopard while Chrome and Safari do not?

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I am new to the Mac World, I am stuck with the fact that on my 15 inch Mac Book Pro only Firefox 10.1 uses all the screen, while Chrome and Safari only use a portion of it. Chrome is the thing I miss most because it's the browser I usually use.

How do I set it to use the full screen space?

I use Snow Leopard 10.6.8


texts: iPhone 5 upgrading after syncing with iTunes

texts: I synced with iPhone and was asked whether I wanted to upgrade my iPhone 5.  After that I could not open my phone.  When pressing the started button I get a picture of what looks like a charger with an arrow pointing to iTunes.  I tried to reboot, but to no avail.


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An old MacBook still running 10.4 just showed up. Unfortunately, 10.4 isn't new enough to run the software it needs to run, so I'm trying to figure out how to upgrade it something newer.

The usual answers seem to be to buy a Snow Leopard box set and work from there, but Apple doesn't sell those anymore, at least not as far as I can tell. From what I can find, they actually don't sell any physical upgrade media, which is a bit of a problem, since this mac obviously doesn't have the App Store.

What's the best way to deal with this?

Thanks!


texts: Why do Mail preferences get lost on reboot?

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Apple Mail, the OS bluetooth subsystem and some other applications (e.g. Fantastical) loose relevant (but not all) configuration and preferences on nearly every reboot. For Apple Mail it seems that all lost settings are stored in the file ~/Library/Containers/com.apple.mail/Data/Library/Preferences/com.apple.mail.plist. I haven't yet identified the other affected files.
What could cause the file contents to be lost on nearly every reboot? It does not happen if I hunt for it (keep rebooting), but only after using the Mac for a while.
I currently run macOS 10.15.6 on a MacBook Pro 16" with only a few popular Apps from the App Store plus Microsoft Office.
I am a long term Mac user. The bad behavior started approximately 2 years ago after an update to macOS High Sierra (I think). The Mac became more an more unusable because of this and other strange bugs (it also started to become extremely slow, so I had to reboot regularly, loosing all settings afterwards). Repairing and even installing the OS did not help. Therefore, I got a new Mac and installed everything from scratch (no restore from a backup) and installed only very little software on the system. However, the preferences still get lost on nearly every reboot!


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A friend installed Mackeeper, and I tried to uninstall it with DetectX.

As far as I know, DetectX is not known malware as I can only find positive comments about it. But, I'm concerned that I cannot say this has not damaged their Mac.

What should I do?

I am also in the process of a fresh install.


texts: How can I configure autofs with indirect map using sshfs?

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How can I configure autofs with an indirect map using sshfs?

What I've done so far:

added /servers auto_sshfs to /etc/auto_master
created /etc/auto_sshfs with * -fstype=sshfs &:/
Ran sudo automount -vc

I'm assuming that either I have fstype flag incorrect, in the wrong place or I some how need to let autofs know of sshfs.


texts: Remove a single tab on a new Finder Window (Yosemite)

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I'm wondering if anyone else has had this problem? It's kind annoying, and I can't figure out how to fix it.

THE PROBLEM IS whenever I open a new finder window, it also creates a single tab that I can't close. This tab takes up some screen space and is kind annoying. I can't figure out how to make it go away. I've looked in View Options and Finder Preferences.

Here is a picture:


texts: Programmatic (AppleScript) access to notification centre history

texts: I have followed this thread, which addresses active notifications which appear on the desktop: How do I clear All OS X notifications with 1 click?. These solutions offer programatic approaches to clear all active desktop notifications from the notification centre. Are there similar AppleScript hooks to clear the notification centre history within the notification centre itself?