Saturday, January 15, 2022

Recent Questions - Ask Different

Recent Questions - Ask Different

The document “Build for Previews - Log” could not be autosaved

Posted: 15 Jan 2022 08:56 AM PST

I just updated Xcode, when it prompted me to restart my computer it wouldn't let me close the app. this is what it said.enter image description here

can anyone help?

Setting font colour of outgoing emails in Mac Mail

Posted: 15 Jan 2022 07:00 AM PST

It is not possible to set a default colour, other than black, for outgoing email messages in Mac Mail (MacOS). Within Mail there are preferences for font and font size, but changing default colour is not an option. Many will read this and say, "but it's pointless changing colour of outgoing email text because you can't control how your email is rendered at the recipient's side". While that is partly true, I would argue it's more true that styling would be rendered as the author has intended, assuming it's just font, colour and size.

There is a tedious work around using an already styled signature, it is highly unreliable and often random words will revert to being black so in the end it in fact involves more clicks and editing compared to just highlighting every email I send and changing the colour manually.

It finally came to me that it may be possible to set up a keyboard shortcut and an Automator macro, or something with Apple Shortcuts. Something along the lines of:

  • highlight text above specific and recurring link in default signature
  • Click colour list from toolbar
  • Click desired colour from colour list
  • Click in body of text to unhighlight selection

I've just spent the best part of two hours trying to figure this out and regrettably I don't think I've even learned anything in all that time of trial and error. Can someone here perhaps help? It's a question that has been posed again and again online but no one has ever offered a solution...perhaps a macro is the way to go?

Can you help? Many thanks

1050p Retina VS 1080p FHD Monitor

Posted: 15 Jan 2022 07:34 AM PST

Good morning my friends, I hope everyone is doing well. I need a straight forward answer in layman terms on resolution scaling. 1080p vs 1050p M1 13 inch MacBook. I know that our 13 inch Macs are 1600p but scaling closest to that is 1050p. 1080p Is clearly a higher number but we have a 1600p display selected at 1050p. So when playing games will 1050p look much better than 1080p? if so how and why. as a side note 800p is 1600p cut in half so I know thats the cleanest option so wouldn't that be even better then 1050p? ive searched for 100's of hours fellas I just want answers please.

Tail terminal command is insanely slow processing some files and not others

Posted: 15 Jan 2022 07:43 AM PST

The tail command has become unusably slow for large files (e.g. 1 GB text file).

EXAMPLE:

$ tail -265000 file.txt > last_265000.txt

takes 10+ minutes, whereas

$ head -265000 file.txt > first_265000.txt

is basically instantaneous.

My workaround is to use the tac command (installed via brew install coretools) to reverse the file lines and use head:

$ tac file.txt | head -265000 | tac > last_265000.txt

I don't remember this being an issue in my prior macs. Tried switching shell from zsh to bash, but same deal.

Specs: MacBook Pro (13-inch, M1, 2020) Big Sur

The text file: https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/finance/downloads/tar/tc1_22.zip

OSX Screenshots: Is there a way to disable the toolbar like we can disable the shadow?

Posted: 15 Jan 2022 08:00 AM PST

I recently found a terminal command to disable shadows when taking screenshots in OSX, do you know a way to disable the toolbar and just have the image or window content saved in the clipboard when using shortcuts?

Here's the example for shadows fyi:

defaults write com.apple.screencapture disable-shadow true

Thanks for your help.

Not able to use VPN since upgrading to macOS Monterey

Posted: 15 Jan 2022 07:56 AM PST

As the title suggests, I upgraded my mac to Monterey today, and since then I am not able to use any VPN on it.

No idea why that's the case, I tried HMA (Hide My Ass) and Nord. In my networks, it says that VPN is connected, but the internet doesn't work.

I am using a 13" MacBook Pro 2018 and the VPN connect - but then no application that goes to the internet works.

Do I need to select a VPN provider that can support me or is this an easy fix for general VPN?

Access Windows SMB folder without account/password from Mac

Posted: 15 Jan 2022 06:00 AM PST

I am trying to access the folders that I have shared on my Windows machine. These folders are shared without the need for a password or account. I can access them from another Windows computer or Android phone without entering a password. However my Mac always asks me for a username and password to access these folders trough Finder. If I choose guest it doesn't work. If I enter an account from the windows computer I can access the files. But entering a password is annoying if there is no need for it. Can I fix this?

More info: I am now on Catalina, but I had the problem on earlier versions too. e.g. 10.12. Windows is Win Server 2016 Datacenter The url is smb://Serva, which is the name of the computer, nothing changes if I put the IP

How can I (reliably) delete only future events in Calendar?

Posted: 15 Jan 2022 09:01 AM PST

In Apple's Calendar app, it is not always possible to delete future events as a group. It seems to consistently be possible when I create a repeating event on my own calendar, but apparently not possible when I have accepted a meeting invitation.

Here's the response when I try to delete an event I created:

delete only this, or only future events

But here's a failure on Apple's part to give me that ability:

Both give me the option to only delete the individual event, but only one gives me the option to delete future (and not past) events.

Is there any way around this? Is there anyway I can delete only future meetings, without spending hours and hours doing them individually?

Open applications in the background in OS X, I don't want my focus taken from me. Respect my Focus!

Posted: 15 Jan 2022 06:53 AM PST

I'm running El Capitan 10.11.4 on a 2014 Mac Mini.

I'm often running 10-14 apps at one time as I work writing reports, word/excel/Adobe/Safari/iTunes/calendar/etc...

Frequently I want to open another app, I want it to open in the background and go back to word/excel and keep working, but the launching app takes away my focus, sometimes 2 or 3 times. once for the splash screen, once for the open dialogue window, and again after I click 'new document'.

Another situation, I update an app in the background, like 1Password (beta) and every step it takes my focus back to the app being updated.

Is there anything I can do with Unix/Terminal, etc. to force all app activity to be done in the background, or to keep OS to respect my focus?

How do I disable Chrome's two-finger back/forward navigation?

Posted: 15 Jan 2022 08:49 AM PST

In dev builds of Chrome, they've implemented, refined, and released two-finger swipes left/right in order to browse back/forward in the browser history. Unfortunately, you can accidentally trigger it while you're in the middle of a long down/up scroll, which needless to say occurs often.

I generally like the gesture, and things like Preview, Safari, and other application have implemented it much better, where you cannot blindly navigate back/forward so long as you have begun to scroll up/down.

How do I selectively disable two-finger back/forward navigation in Chrome?
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