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- Why is LANG environment variable wrong in shell?
- Lock multiple instances of app on multiple desktops
- How to shuffle all songs in Apple Music including playlist songs when "Add Playlist Songs" is disabled
- How do I know which Experimental WebKit Features (located in Safari iOS’ advanced settings) are supposed to be toggled on vs. toggled off?
- Using Mac as Network Gateway
- Persistent orange dot (microphone) icon even when microphone not in actual use - how to find out which app may be causing this?
- When using OS X terminal open command, e.g. `open .`, how can I control which screen/desktop the Finder window opens on?
- MacBook Keeps Waking Up
- User privacy with Apple Business Manager
- "You Have Custom Permissions" on my external USB
- I'd like to see the positions of the Moon and planets in the sky on my Apple watch. What are my options (if any)?
- Keys in some GUI applications are mapped wrong
- Sharing full resolution photos
- How to join together two videos on command line?
- i need remove files from folders but random by choice or shuffle what the best code to make it [closed]
- what do the "shiwat" and "rhiwat" columns mean in output of `netstat -v`?
- Single user mode [closed]
- How can I stop getting notifications about signing into my Google account?
- Help diagnosing repeated kernel panics
- Macbook Air 2017 Black Dots On Screen
- How to change the playback speed of videos on iPhone?
- Making Gmail the default mail app made sharing via Email disappear from Photos app?
- old printer refused to work under Big Sur
- How do I migrate my Transmission torrents & settings from an old Macbook to a new one?
- How can I find the metadata of a file in Scanner app?
- Can't find AirPlay on macOS High Sierra
- Broken battery - downgraded performance
- Allow ssh-keygen-wrapper to access "System Events" for all users in the same computer
- Entire "Users" folder is missing when booted into Recovery Mode
- How can I unpack .7z files via MacOS terminal?
| Why is LANG environment variable wrong in shell? Posted: 03 Mar 2022 03:09 AM PST When I start a Terminal (in Monterey 12.2.1) my LANG is When I start a shell, or any other sub-process that reads environment, from GUI Emacs it is set to As I understand it, Terminal, with "set enviroment variables on startup" activated in the preferences, will construct LANG from your "Language & Region" settings. There I have Swedish as the primary language, English as secondary and Sweden as the Region. But obviously there is some similar mechanism when reading the environment from a GUI application, which for some reason gets it wrong. In a Terminal all other locale is also set to Why is this, is it a bug or can I fix so that LANG is set correctly also in GUI environment? |
| Lock multiple instances of app on multiple desktops Posted: 03 Mar 2022 02:44 AM PST I'm using a macbook with two (usb c) screens connected to it and that works wonderful. Keeping my apps arranged however is terrible. I'm a programmer and my layout is very simple:
I arrange them all like that and can easily swap between projects. Until I close my macbook, and/or take out the external screens. Lately, more often than not: I cant find how I can lock them, is there anyone with a solution? Extra info:
I dont mind an app, or command of some sort to reset everything back to their arranges places, the part that bothers me is that I have to drag ~12 app instances back to their workspace over and over again. |
| Posted: 02 Mar 2022 11:02 PM PST When I started using Apple Music about a year ago, I have disabled the "Add Playlist Songs" to keep my library clean. It worked quite good.. My library is not polluted with hundreds of partial albums. On the other hand, I have lots of playlists which has songs from various albums. But now, sometimes when I am too lazy to select an album or a playlist, I just want to play my entire music in shuffle mode, because that also allows me to remember a forgotten album/artist/playlist etc. and find something interesting to listen for the next few days. But unfortunately, when I choose "Library -> Songs", Music app only shows songs which belong to the albums in my library. Songs in playlists are not included there. Consequently, I can't play all the songs in my library + playlists in shuffle mode. The settings option "Add Playlists Songs" only works for the songs you add after you change the setting. So, it does not help to go into settings and turn this on. An udesirable solution could be to delete all my playlists, and then turn "Add Playlists Songs" off, and then add the playlists again to my library. But that is too much work, and would also void my original intention, which was to keep my library clean (no partial albums). Any suggestions are welcome. |
| Posted: 03 Mar 2022 01:02 AM PST I notice that with every new iOS update, many of the Experimental WebKit Features either are no longer relevant, or newer EWF's appear out of nowhere. Some of the features that were initially toggled ON by default randomly end up off and placed in a different position than before on the list. I've been searching all over, and I just can't seem to find the correct guide for which features to leave on or cut off. My anxiety tells me a few of them could create problems just from being toggled off when it should've been on…and I'd have no idea. Does anyone have an updated 2022 version with all of the WK features and explanations and discriptions for each? I'd greatly appreciate it. |
| Posted: 02 Mar 2022 08:42 PM PST Currently this is my setup The default network sharing is very limited. I am able to share my Mac Wifi over ethernet and connect to internet. However this bypasses all VPN routing/VPN setup in Mac and I believe MacOS treats Network sharing as independent connection.
PC is running on Linux (Ubuntu) |
| Posted: 02 Mar 2022 09:59 PM PST I've been having some strange issues where the "orange dot" (microphone supposedly active/on/listening/recording), but I have no visible apps that actually should have the microphone active. Is there a way to query the system to find out what apps are accessing such devices as the microphone from the shell or otherwise? I would very much like to find out what app is "needing" to use the microphone for days and weeks on end... |
| Posted: 02 Mar 2022 07:42 PM PST I use a TV as a large external monitor & typically have a few OS X Desktops on the external screen for browsers, code editors, etc., along with 2 or 3 Desktops open on my MacBook Pro screen, w/ one always being Terminal, full-screen. Lately, when I want to open the current directory from Terminal, Desktop configuration, external monitor
Desktop configuration, builtin screen
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| Posted: 02 Mar 2022 06:13 PM PST My MacBook keeps waking up every 5 minutes or so. I ran "log show --style syslog | fgrep "Wake reason" " in Terminal and this was the output: I have Siri completely disabled. Does anyone know how to stop this? |
| User privacy with Apple Business Manager Posted: 02 Mar 2022 04:52 PM PST I got a new Macbook that is managed by a company with Apple Business Manager. Other than working for this company, I want to use this device for my private stuff too, like freelancing. This would mean storing some projects and applications on the device that I don't want to share with a company that owns this Macbook device - I want full privacy and control over my data. After trying to find answers myself, I didn't find anything good, only a few red flags like that company which owns the device could remotely wipe it, and If I got it correctly, also browse my installed apps. It would be very helpful to know what extent of privacy and control I have over this managed device? Thanx for reading my question. |
| "You Have Custom Permissions" on my external USB Posted: 02 Mar 2022 04:25 PM PST 2018 Macbook Pro running Catalina. I have an external 1TB USB drive (Samsung) partitioned into two equal partitions, where I keep mostly media files for work (videos I edit, some graphics, etc.). I recently (week or two ago) had some oddities with permissions in my home directory, so I went into Recovery and did the full permissions repair routine, along with reinstalling the OS (keeping all user data). Everything then looked fine and life went on, until today. I noticed that for some reason, Preview would not allow me to edit a .png from my external drive, and save the change. It required that I make a copy of the file, and then it would save. I looked at permissions (Get Info) on the external drive, and it just says "You Have Custom Permissions". Both partitions in fact, state this. Clearly this isn't going to work! This is my personal laptop, I'm the only user account on it, ever, and I'm the admin. But I'm not allowed to change the permissions as I seem to not have permission to do so! I've found numerous posts online about this issue, but not that don't include some very different elements. How can I get full permissions access again on my external partitions? I really would prefer not to brute-force this via chown etc. I would just like the OS to once again recognize that this drive and its partitions are mine, and everything on them should be under my user account control. |
| Posted: 02 Mar 2022 04:24 PM PST I just got an Apple watch and selected a face that happens to have a small Earth showing my location and the daylight/nighttime distribution in my hemisphere. This made me wonder if there are ways I can display other astronomical information, specifically what planets are currently in the sky and where they are roughly. Examples of this kind of information can be seen in in-the-sky.org's planetarium mode for example, as well as many other planetarium programs and websites: It is quite easy to generate a simple small database from which these positions in the sky can be calculated given lat/lon and date/time so if there are (easy) ways to script graphics on the watch's screen I might be able to attempt that manually, but I have no idea how accessible the screen is for such a project, and there may be easier ways of getting this. Question: I'd like to see the positions of the Moon and planets in the sky on my Apple watch. What are my options (if any)? note: There is an Astronomy watch face available, but if I understand correctly, it shows a crude flat 2D top-down map of the solar system only. |
| Keys in some GUI applications are mapped wrong Posted: 02 Mar 2022 03:58 PM PST So, using a USB Ansi keyboard. I've tried this with several keyboards so I'm reasonably confident it's not keyboard hardware at issue. Using text applications, as in iterm or Ulysses, everything is fine. Checking the keyboard via In some GUI applications, like emacs, the keys are mapped to something else. CMD-X should be M-x, but it's actually H-x; the spacebar isn't a space character but instead is some mystery character that is mapped to . In Twitter, some number of tweets work fine; then it no longer recognizes the space bar at all, soeverythingcomesoutlikethis. I've tried different keyboards, as I mentioned. I've done the new keyboard process to no avail. I have reset the NVRAM — or at least I think I have as there is little feedback to indicate success. I'm frankly kind of at wit's end. I'd rather not reinstall the OS but that's the only other idea I've got. Help? |
| Sharing full resolution photos Posted: 02 Mar 2022 03:36 PM PST My friend has and iPhone 12 max and I don't. Using her phone, she selected the photos and videos and shared them to me by creating a link. Using the link, I could download the photos in a zip. All except 1 photo was 3MP (2048x1536) and one was 12MP. All videos except two were 720 MP4 except two which were 1080 MOV. When I tried downloading just one photo, it would say it was downloading a HEIC though it would give me a JPG. How can she share everything full resolution? Searching around, people say sharing a link is the way to share full resolution but that isn't working. |
| How to join together two videos on command line? Posted: 02 Mar 2022 06:49 PM PST In terminal, how can I join two videos (most commonly, mp4) together without using ffmpeg? ffmpeg is not working, it drops the first second of the second video. What can I use instead? |
| Posted: 02 Mar 2022 02:47 PM PST i need remove files from folders but random by choice or shuffle what the best code to make it |
| what do the "shiwat" and "rhiwat" columns mean in output of `netstat -v`? Posted: 02 Mar 2022 09:04 PM PST the output of
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| Posted: 02 Mar 2022 01:06 PM PST After a long sojourn in the Chromebook universe --where the game is now afoot, see Neverware and Google for details-- I needed to add an admin account to an orphaned early 2000's iMac. Took a bit of looking up and RTFMing, but got'er done without too much trouble. But while in single user mode, AKA sh, I found that the usual bash up arrow to paste in the last command wasn't available. I did find a few hints here and there, and some old information at https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/7908799/xcu/fc.html, I'm posting this question in hopes that someone can provide the Cliff Notes version to using command history in single user mode. Preferably not involving vi. so many shells, so little time..... |
| How can I stop getting notifications about signing into my Google account? Posted: 02 Mar 2022 02:27 PM PST I've tried configuring my laptop to sync my calendar and contacts, but not my mail, with my Google account.
Now I've started to get notifications asking me to log into my Google account, but when I do so, MacOS is asking for permissions related to Gmail, in addition to the expected Google Calendar and Contacts.
These are permissions I don't want to give, especially the permission to permanently delete all of my emails. Is this an all-or-nothing situation? Or is there a way to give MacOS only the permissions it needs to connect the services I've configured to be connected? |
| Help diagnosing repeated kernel panics Posted: 02 Mar 2022 11:47 PM PST I've been experiencing repeated kernel panics on my 2015 Macbook Pro. Sometimes the fans start spinning really loudly before the panic, sometimes not. Sometimes the screen jut goes black, sometimes it glitches in crazy ways (see picture). I've taken the MacBook to a repair shop and they've looked at it four times(!), each time insisting that nothing is wrong with the hardware and that they can't replicate the error. Here are the two latest panic logs: panic(cpu 2 caller 0xffffff80169ee1e6): Kernel trap at 0xffffff80168e08f9, type 14=page fault, registers: CR0: 0x000000008001003b, CR2: 0x0000000000000008, CR3: 0x000000001a88c000, CR4: 0x00000000003626e0 RAX: 0xffffff86aa225360, RBX: 0xffffffa0384440e0, RCX: 0x000000000000001f, RDX: 0x0000000000000000 RSP: 0xffffffb09fe73ef0, RBP: 0xffffffb09fe73ef0, RSI: 0x0000000000000002, RDI: 0xffffff80176a5510 R8: 0x000000000000001f, R9: 0xffffff86a937b360, R10: 0xffffff86a937b368, R11: 0xffffff86a84c9360 R12: 0x0000000000000005, R13: 0x0000000000000001, R14: 0xffffff86a84c9360, R15: 0xffffff80176a5300 RFL: 0x0000000000010007, RIP: 0xffffff80168e08f9, CS: 0x0000000000000008, SS: 0x0000000000000000 Fault CR2: 0x0000000000000008, Error code: 0x0000000000000002, Fault CPU: 0x2, PL: 2, VF: 5 Backtrace (CPU 2), Frame : Return Address 0xffffffb09fe73910 : 0xffffff80168bab4d 0xffffffb09fe73960 : 0xffffff80169fd7e3 0xffffffb09fe739a0 : 0xffffff80169ede1a 0xffffffb09fe739f0 : 0xffffff801685fa2f 0xffffffb09fe73a10 : 0xffffff80168ba3ed 0xffffffb09fe73b30 : 0xffffff80168ba6d8 0xffffffb09fe73ba0 : 0xffffff80170bef9a 0xffffffb09fe73c10 : 0xffffff80169ee1e6 0xffffffb09fe73d90 : 0xffffff80169edecd 0xffffffb09fe73de0 : 0xffffff801685fa2f 0xffffffb09fe73e00 : 0xffffff80168e08f9 0xffffffb09fe73ef0 : 0xffffff80168ddaf1 0xffffffb09fe73f50 : 0xffffff80168dd3f6 0xffffffb09fe73fa0 : 0xffffff801685f13e Process name corresponding to current thread: kernel_task Mac OS version: 20D91 Kernel version: Darwin Kernel Version 20.3.0: Thu Jan 21 00:07:06 PST 2021; root:xnu-7195.81.3~1/RELEASE_X86_64 Kernel UUID: C86236B2-4976-3542-80CA-74A6B8B4BA03 KernelCache slide: 0x0000000016600000 KernelCache base: 0xffffff8016800000 Kernel slide: 0x0000000016610000 Kernel text base: 0xffffff8016810000 __HIB text base: 0xffffff8016700000 System model name: MacBookPro12,1 (Mac-E43C1C25D4880AD6) System shutdown begun: NO Panic diags file available: YES (0x0) Hibernation exit count: 0 System uptime in nanoseconds: 343938685593 Last Sleep: absolute base_tsc base_nano Uptime : 0x000000501457dece Sleep : 0x0000000000000000 0x0000000000000000 0x0000000000000000 Wake : 0x0000000000000000 0x0000000328d644a1 0x0000000000000000 last started kext at 30061911846: >DiskImages.SparseDiskImage 493.0.0 (addr 0xffffff8018ec1000, size 8192) loaded kexts:
LOG NUMBER TWO: panic(cpu 3 caller 0xffffff80137ee1e6): Kernel trap at 0xffffff80136e09c1, type 14=page fault, registers: CR0: 0x000000008001003b, CR2: 0x0000000000000000, CR3: 0x0000000241eeb045, CR4: 0x00000000003626e0 RAX: 0xffffff86a7760000, RBX: 0x000000000000000c, RCX: 0x0000000000000014, RDX: 0x000000000000000d RSP: 0xffffffb09cab3d10, RBP: 0xffffffb09cab3d10, RSI: 0xffffff86a7760000, RDI: 0xffffff80144a5510 R8: 0x0000000000000000, R9: 0x0000000000000000, R10: 0x000000000000000f, R11: 0x0000000000000000 R12: 0xffffff80144a5300, R13: 0xffffff86a7760000, R14: 0x0000000000000001, R15: 0xffffffa03508cd68 RFL: 0x0000000000010086, RIP: 0xffffff80136e09c1, CS: 0x0000000000000008, SS: 0x0000000000000010 Fault CR2: 0x0000000000000000, Error code: 0x0000000000000002, Fault CPU: 0x3, PL: 3, VF: 0 Backtrace (CPU 3), Frame : Return Address 0xffffffb09cab3730 : 0xffffff80136bab4d 0xffffffb09cab3780 : 0xffffff80137fd7e3 0xffffffb09cab37c0 : 0xffffff80137ede1a 0xffffffb09cab3810 : 0xffffff801365fa2f 0xffffffb09cab3830 : 0xffffff80136ba3ed 0xffffffb09cab3950 : 0xffffff80136ba6d8 0xffffffb09cab39c0 : 0xffffff8013ebef9a 0xffffffb09cab3a30 : 0xffffff80137ee1e6 0xffffffb09cab3bb0 : 0xffffff80137edecd 0xffffffb09cab3c00 : 0xffffff801365fa2f 0xffffffb09cab3c20 : 0xffffff80136e09c1 0xffffffb09cab3d10 : 0xffffff80136db8c5 0xffffffb09cab3dd0 : 0xffffff80136df098 0xffffffb09cab3e40 : 0xffffff80136dec88 0xffffffb09cab3eb0 : 0xffffff80136dd40f 0xffffffb09cab3f00 : 0xffffff80136b24b5 0xffffffb09cab3f30 : 0xffffff801365f9fb Process name corresponding to current thread: softwareupdated Mac OS version: 20D91 Kernel version: Darwin Kernel Version 20.3.0: Thu Jan 21 00:07:06 PST 2021; root:xnu-7195.81.3~1/RELEASE_X86_64 Kernel UUID: C86236B2-4976-3542-80CA-74A6B8B4BA03 KernelCache slide: 0x0000000013400000 KernelCache base: 0xffffff8013600000 Kernel slide: 0x0000000013410000 Kernel text base: 0xffffff8013610000 __HIB text base: 0xffffff8013500000 System model name: MacBookPro12,1 (Mac-E43C1C25D4880AD6) System shutdown begun: NO Panic diags file available: YES (0x0) Hibernation exit count: 0 System uptime in nanoseconds: 1102684329040 Last Sleep: absolute base_tsc base_nano Uptime : 0x00000100bd1b98b9 Sleep : 0x0000000000000000 0x0000000000000000 0x0000000000000000 Wake : 0x0000000000000000 0x0000000907609584 0x0000000000000000 last started kext at 972756194523: >usb.!UUserHCI 1 (addr 0xffffff7fb3f9f000, size 102400) last stopped kext at 886248988533: >usb.!UHostCompositeDevice 1.2 (addr 0xffffff8016448000, size 12288) loaded kexts:
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| Macbook Air 2017 Black Dots On Screen Posted: 02 Mar 2022 02:04 PM PST Recently I observed some black dots on the bottom of the screen on my MacBook Air 2017. They appeared suddenly. I don't know what's going on with it! Do I have to replace the entire display because of it? And lastly, is my display going to die soon? Any idea what's that, and how to fix it?
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| How to change the playback speed of videos on iPhone? Posted: 02 Mar 2022 10:00 PM PST Sometimes it would be nice to not be limited to 1x speed on videos stored in the camera roll of an iOS device, like iPhone. Is there any simple way of toggling the speed, to say 2x or 3x? |
| Making Gmail the default mail app made sharing via Email disappear from Photos app? Posted: 02 Mar 2022 06:08 PM PST I would like use the "Share" menu in Photos to share photos via email. This was by default bringing up the Mail app, but I don't use that and would prefer to have things simply open in Gmail in my browser (Chrome). I was able to configure GMail as my default mail reader by letting GMail set itself up as the default mail handler in Chrome, and then going to Apple Mail and configuring the "Default email reader" to "Google Chrome", like this:
Great! I thought I was all set. Unfortunately, when I try to use the "Share..." menu in Apple Photos, "Email" is no longer an option. It has simply disappeared:
Is there any way to get the "Email..." share option to show up when using Gmail (via Chrome) as my default mail reader? |
| old printer refused to work under Big Sur Posted: 03 Mar 2022 01:05 AM PST I have an old Samsung ML 1670 laser printer which is often used when a bulk has to be printed. It worked well on Catalina but after upgrading to Big Sur it is out of business. Does anyone know if there is a workaround for this issue? |
| How do I migrate my Transmission torrents & settings from an old Macbook to a new one? Posted: 03 Mar 2022 12:05 AM PST How do I transfer my Transmission 3.0 torrents, torrent data files, and colour tags/labels from 1 Macbook Pro to another.
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| How can I find the metadata of a file in Scanner app? Posted: 02 Mar 2022 05:07 PM PST I am a teacher, and I am trying to verify the date and time when a student took a particular photo. The student has an iPhone (unknown model and OS version) and used the Scanner app by Luni to take the photo. The student says they can't find the date and time on their own, and I am not able to gain direct access to the student's phone due to covid-19 restrictions (the teaching is being done remotely). I don't have (and have never used) an iPhone, but I assume that if the photo still exists on the phone there is a way to recover the metadata. Could someone point me towards a step-by-step tutorial for how to find a file's metadata either in this particular app or in whatever file manager iOS has built in? To be clear the student is entirely cooperative, but seems to not be very technically knowledgeable (or even comfortable with technology), and my total inexperience with iPhones renders me unable to provide detailed, specific instructions. I have tried finding an iPhone emulator I can run on Windows, but I can't seem to find one which is free (or freemium) where I can easily see how to get to the app store. Edit: If I get instructions for how to find metadata in a file manager, I will also need instructions for how to determine through the app what the location of the file is. |
| Can't find AirPlay on macOS High Sierra Posted: 02 Mar 2022 01:00 PM PST I have a mid-2010 MacBook Pro with macOS High Sierra 10.13.6 installed. I have just found out that my Smart LG TV with webOS has AirPlay incorporated so, I would like to mirror my MacBook Pro screen on my TV. However I can't find AirPlay on my MacBook. Already searched for some solutions on Google but the only option that I found was to go to Screen Settings on System Preferences and turn on "Show mirroring options in the menu bar when available" which it is. However the AirPlay icon doesn't appear in the Menu Bar. Does anyone know how to solve this? Is my MacBook too old to support AirPlay? |
| Broken battery - downgraded performance Posted: 02 Mar 2022 01:13 PM PST I have old MacBook Pro that has a dead battery. It is not charging, and displays always 0% battery charge. OS X is downgrading performance when battery level is close to something about 5% or 10%. Is that possible to turn off this feature, to be able to use its 100% performance without exchanging battery to new?
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| Allow ssh-keygen-wrapper to access "System Events" for all users in the same computer Posted: 02 Mar 2022 09:03 PM PST When I run my AppleScript in a remote mode, I get this message in an user where the script runs: Is it possible to allow It doesn't matter if it's a manual or programming solution. |
| Entire "Users" folder is missing when booted into Recovery Mode Posted: 02 Mar 2022 05:54 PM PST I posted this in the Apple Discussions forums, but have yet to get an answer that applies to the depth of which this situation currently exists. My Mac's hard drive (running Mojave) suffered some corruption recently, and I found myself unable to boot into the system. I am able to boot into Recovery Mode, and my intent was to rescue the important data sitting in /Users/(my username), but to my surprise, the entire /Users/ folder is just not there when I try to access it via Terminal. Steps taken:
What I have tried:
I can only come up with two possible conclusions:
In the meantime, preparing for the worst, I have ordered an external drive enclosure so that I can pull the drive out of my computer and view its contents on another computer. I am very hesitant to reinstall MacOS right now, because IF /Users/ has been compromised in the corruption, I don't want to do anything further that will prevent it from being recovered somehow. In other words, I am trying not to write any new data to the drive at all. Thanks for any help or suggestions in advance. |
| How can I unpack .7z files via MacOS terminal? Posted: 02 Mar 2022 10:55 PM PST Looking to unpack a bunch of files.7z via terminal. Is there a command-line tool built in, available or I shall install an application that comes with a graphical interface? |
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