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- Create new empty.txt file in same folder for EACH name/record in the list [closed]
- How can I permanently disable spotligth for specific external drive? [duplicate]
- Can apps with "Files and Folders" permission read all my personal files from my iphone?
- Can’t get VO2 Max (Cardio Fitness) measurements to work on Apple Watch Series 7
- Phone damaged in water 10 days ago but last back-up was made on computer 1 month ago. What shall I do to keep all the data when I get a new phone now?
- Why does ⌥-A switch input sources?
- Sort iOS Photos by metadata (to remove imported whatsapp media)
- Is there a way to prevent macOS's archive utility from unarchiving inner zip files?
- Is there any place in which I can dig into the Hypervisor Framework source?
- Location of "/usr/local/var/www" on M1 Mac (Big Sur)?
- xargs: Operation not permitted when calling bash script from fswatch event
- How to fix blurry fonts on external monitor (M1 Mac Mini)
- Why a new M1 brand new Mac takes so long to start after login?
- Xcode Error When Launching Terminal
- MacBook Pro (2016) Retina only charging when off or in sleep mode
- How does display scaling work on Mac
- How can I recover my unused space which I merged with Main APFS(Encrypted)?
- error code 4SNS/1/40000000:VDOR-17.546
- Share part of monitor in screen sharing apps
- Why does Facetime echo and Zoom does not?
- Keynote Mac, delete cropped image to reduce file size without losing image resolution quality
- PHP not working after upgrading to OS Mojave
- How to get a disk to pick out to put Mountain Lion on?
- How to perform a clean install of High Sierra from USB without causing a loop?
- High Sierra reboot loop after data migration
- Can't partition new SSD
- How do I start rows with 0 (not 1) or not count header rows in Numbers?
- El Capitan auto-corrects even though I turned it off in settings
- Hard Drive Change SSD - Macbook Pro
- Macbook SSD Formatting Problem
| Create new empty.txt file in same folder for EACH name/record in the list [closed] Posted: 10 Jul 2022 01:23 PM PDT MacOS 12.x I have a tab delimited text.txt file... ... with the list of single names Prentend I have 5,000 records/names This-Name That-Name Another-Name ETC-Name..... I need a new empty.TXT file created in same folder for EACH name/record in the list This-Name.txt That-Name.txt Another-Name.txt Hoping for an idiot proof Terminal command string or Finder level script automator deal. Heck a "converter" app or multipurpose that includes this feature Also if any BBedit powerusers maybe it does that ? |
| How can I permanently disable spotligth for specific external drive? [duplicate] Posted: 10 Jul 2022 09:57 AM PDT I would like to disable spotlight for a specific external drive. The path to this drive is When I go to System Preferences -> Spotlight and click on the tab Is there a way to configure Spotlight to permanently ignore |
| Can apps with "Files and Folders" permission read all my personal files from my iphone? Posted: 10 Jul 2022 01:22 PM PDT Can apps with "Files and Folders" permission read all my personal files from my iphone? I was recently digging through settings on my iphone and noticed the "access to Files and Folders" permission. It is understandable that some apps need to be able to store data as files, but it got me wonder, if that permission allows apps to access all files or only files created by these apps. For example, if I store some financial contracts in my icloud, synchronized to my iphone, and some apps have permission to "Files and Folders" - should these contracts be considered as "leaked"? |
| Can’t get VO2 Max (Cardio Fitness) measurements to work on Apple Watch Series 7 Posted: 10 Jul 2022 08:23 AM PDT I can't get my Apple Watch to show up as a data source for Cardio Fitness measurements in the Health app, no matter what I try. I've tried everything in this article and nothing has worked: https://www.myhealthyapple.com/is-your-apple-watch-cardio-fitness-vo2-max-not-showing-any-data-lets-fix-it/ Is there anything else I can try to get Cardio Fitness to work? |
| Posted: 10 Jul 2022 06:15 AM PDT I dropped my iphone x in the sea 10 days ago and since then been using an Android phone my friend loaned me. My last backup on that iphone was made a month ago on my Macbook. I have been using Whatsapp, Wechat, emails and other Apps on that loaned Android phone. When I get a new iphone, what should I do so that I could also transfer all the data generated during this time on that Android phone onto the new iphone? Thanks!! |
| Why does ⌥-A switch input sources? Posted: 10 Jul 2022 06:27 AM PDT When I am in my non-English input source (keyboard), sometimes (but not always) when I type ⌥-A the system switches to the English inputs source. Why is this? It occurs whether or not Karibiner is running. The other keyboard was created in Ukelele, and has no special keys for keyboard-switching. I tried changing ⌥-A: It was mapped to a foreign character, and now is mapped as a test simply to t; this does not resolve the problem. Kawa used to be installed and controlled keyboard-switching, but I uninstalled it; a full disk search shows that it is gone. Keyboard Preferences have the globe key as the input-source switcher, which is the default. (Mac M1, OSx 12.4.) |
| Sort iOS Photos by metadata (to remove imported whatsapp media) Posted: 10 Jul 2022 05:18 AM PDT Migrating from an android phone to an iphone, I attempted to automatically transfer camera photos across. Unfortunately this also imported unwanted media from other applications (e.g. whatsapp). How can I disentangle this? Is there a way to select and group media by their camera metadata, either in iOS Photos or iCloud Photos or elsewhere? |
| Is there a way to prevent macOS's archive utility from unarchiving inner zip files? Posted: 10 Jul 2022 09:34 AM PDT I have a zip file, within it I have another zip file, and within that file I have a txt file. When I unzip the outermost file with Apple's archive utility, it unarchives the inner files automatically. Is there a way to prevent this from happening? |
| Is there any place in which I can dig into the Hypervisor Framework source? Posted: 10 Jul 2022 11:22 AM PDT So far I've been looking into XNU source, the official Open Source site and the only documentation I found for it. In any case I wasn't able to really find something I can use for understand the internals of the Hypervisor Framework implemented in Swift and not in C. I'm actually trying to write my own container runtime from scratch (for learning purposes) so if Apple open sourced this I hope to learn from that specific code base. I don't want to use something like qemu or libvirt (I want to feel the pain of implementing it from the ground up). I wasn't able to find clues on the Xhyve sources. So anything regarding docs for the internals, sources or whatever (deep knowledge) about the Hypervisor Framework will be really appreciated. BTW I was searching for C sources cause I want to use Rust and as you may know C & Rust are very interoperable. Has Apple open sourced this portion of the code or published any notes on a code base they used for this effort? |
| Location of "/usr/local/var/www" on M1 Mac (Big Sur)? Posted: 10 Jul 2022 05:46 AM PDT I'm trying to set up but I can't find the folder. The only path that seems to resemble the folder is |
| xargs: Operation not permitted when calling bash script from fswatch event Posted: 10 Jul 2022 08:51 AM PDT I'm trying to watch a certain folder and run a script if there is a change to the folder. For this, I'm using below as per the answer on this question.
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I'm not that familiar with macOS, so I tried using ''chmod 777'' on all involved folders. But this produces the same error. Screenshot
I also get the error when I precede the fswatch command with sudo... Why am I getting this error, and how can I fix it? I don't think it's relevant what is in |
| How to fix blurry fonts on external monitor (M1 Mac Mini) Posted: 10 Jul 2022 08:01 AM PDT I previously had a HP U28 28" 4k monitor hooked up to it which worked fine. Now I've changed to a LG 32GN600-B 31.5" 2k 165Hz screen due to me also gaming on it with my Windows machine and when running 2k the fonts look so atrociously blurry that it gives me a headache within minutes. What can I do about it? |
| Why a new M1 brand new Mac takes so long to start after login? Posted: 10 Jul 2022 12:03 PM PDT I have no application starting or loading anything when the mac starts. I start my mac, see the login window, type my password and after that it takes a long time to login. I guess 2 to 4 minutes to login while the progress bar slowly advances. I remember when this mac was new, 2 months ago and it would take seconds after typing the password to see the desktop and be able to operate the computer but with time, this time increased and there are days worse than others, where it takes longer. I am proficient on terminal and other advanced stuff, if your explanation requires that. Is there something I can do to make this faster? |
| Xcode Error When Launching Terminal Posted: 10 Jul 2022 09:28 AM PDT I'm getting the following errors when launching my terminal, seemingly out of nowhere. I have no idea what the cause is.
Does anybody know how I can go about fixing this please? |
| MacBook Pro (2016) Retina only charging when off or in sleep mode Posted: 10 Jul 2022 01:06 PM PDT My MacBook Pro (2016) Retina is suddenly only charging when it is turned off or in sleep mode. I've tried a bunch of things already and a quick check by the Apple support desk didn't show any problems so I hope someone else had te same issue. I've tried:
I'm in the middle of finals so hopefully I can find a solution! Thanks :) |
| How does display scaling work on Mac Posted: 10 Jul 2022 11:19 AM PDT So, I have a MacBook Pro 15" and I recently bought an LG 27" 4K monitor. When I connected the monitor, system report said that the original resolution is 4K but the picture looks like 1920x1080 (using 4 pixels for 1 displayed pixel) on the screen. The text was too big for me. I was then able to access scaling options and opted for the option that looks like 1440p with the original resolution of 5k. This seems to give the best image and size for this external monitor. Now, I want to understand why the image is clear at what looks like 2560 x 1440 on my 4K monitor since the pixel distribution is not a modulus of 0. In my understanding, there is no way to distribute a 5k picture on a 4K monitor and yet get a clear picture. Since 5k is only 1.33 times bigger than 4k horizontally and vertically, how does it render? Is the picture quality worse than I think? |
| How can I recover my unused space which I merged with Main APFS(Encrypted)? Posted: 10 Jul 2022 08:50 AM PDT To increase the size of Main, I have merged the Main(Encrypted APFS) with another APFS partition. But now it is showing the previous size and I am not able to use the added space (See the size of Drive and Partition).
/dev/disk0 (internal): /dev/disk1 (synthesized): /dev/disk2 (synthesized): |
| error code 4SNS/1/40000000:VDOR-17.546 Posted: 10 Jul 2022 09:04 AM PDT i have some questions about my Macbook pro late 2011 nacOS High Sierra 8 gb ram with 750 gb HDD Q1: my mac performance slow, i do a test and got 2 codes 4SNS/1/40000000: VD0R-17.552, 4SNS/1/40000000: VD0R-17.546what does means these codes? Q2: why performance slow? do i need to renew window or anything else to make performance well. Q3: my 60W Magsafe adaptor not working correctly, so i bought another Magsafe adaptor that is 80W,will it harm to my macbook battery or there is no problem with it. 60W output voltage 16.5 80W output voltage 18.5 thanks Regards |
| Share part of monitor in screen sharing apps Posted: 10 Jul 2022 08:09 AM PDT I have a Ultrawide monitor (21:9 aspect ratio 3440x1440px) and my colleagues find it annoying that when I share my screen on Zoom, Slack, Google Meet etc. it will get zoomed out so the wide aspect ratio will fit on their regular 16:9 monitors. In addition to that I often find that I like to keep something like a meeting agenda on the same screen without necessarily having it visible to meeting participants. Does anyone know of a piece of software for Mac OS that will allow me to assign a portion of my screen (i.e. the 16:9 bit, so the first 2560px in width and all 1440px in height) and let me expose that to screen sharing apps as an additional "virtual monitor". With Quicktime screen recording you can select a portion of the screen to record. I'm looking for something similar that will allow me to pipe that portion of the screen into screen sharing applications. Any ideas? |
| Why does Facetime echo and Zoom does not? Posted: 10 Jul 2022 07:19 AM PDT Huge echo with my living room setup when using Facetime on a Mac Mini with external camera (nice Logitech). Zero echo using Zoom. Or really, anything else. Even Skype seems fine. The echo is heard by the party being called, but not on our end. The microphone is on the logitech camera (C910, and BRIO, both attempted), the speaker is out of the TV. I have attempted to move both, turn down the TV volume, change positioning in the room, etc... Of course, it is convenient to use Facetime, but actually my mother and father are using this as the seed of a 'let's buy Samsung phones' plan. They hear good things. They switch, I'll likely need to switch. I'll not be buying a Mac all-in-one to fix this. Any help? I'd really prefer not to spent winter break learning Android. |
| Keynote Mac, delete cropped image to reduce file size without losing image resolution quality Posted: 10 Jul 2022 11:17 AM PDT I have lots of high-resolution images inserted into the Keynote which makes the file very large. Image masking in Keynote is very convenient for me. But I only want a small corner of the images shown in the slides, and I don't need the cropped part anymore. Reducing file size under the File menu loses image quality and the cropped images are still there. Is there any way to delete the cropped part to reduce file size without losing image resolution/quality? |
| PHP not working after upgrading to OS Mojave Posted: 10 Jul 2022 04:38 AM PDT When i try to open localhost it gives me 403 error message like this "You don't have permission to access / on this server." I have tried changing the permission but nothing happens. It worked fine with High Sierra but after update its not working.I am using the pre installed apache and not using third party apps like xampp |
| How to get a disk to pick out to put Mountain Lion on? Posted: 10 Jul 2022 08:49 AM PDT I can't find a disk to select to install OS X in Internet Recovery Mode. Also I can not erase the disk or partition. I gave all the details. Two days ago I decided to do a clean wipe on my MacBook Pro with factory SSD and Mountain Lion. I not able to reinstall the fresh OS X Mountain Lion from Internet recovery because the drive to select wont show up when you have to pick where to install the OS X in Disk Utility. If I try to erase the original disk start up it just hangs and says it's partitioning. I gave a detailed description from start to now on what is happening can anyone help? I believe it has to be fixed some how in terminal. First I went into my local recovery of High Sierra and did an erase of the disk. Then I did an Internet Recovery and erased the disk0s2 partition. (Everything went good) After that I did an erase for the main disk start up 500.28 GB Apple SSD SD512E Media. (Which got stuck or my internet crashed) I quit disk utility. Then I got back in Internet Recovery and again I tried to erase the disk start up 500.28 GB Apple SSD SD512E Media. (This time on the bottom right corner where it shows a progress bar it starts out with and stays in Partitioning. Estimated time less than 1 minute but it never progresses and the time keeps growing I tried leaving it for over 12 hours and a few other attempts no luck). I checked my system with the quick AHT and everything is fine got no issues. Did the test a few times. I think I will have to do something in terminal. I believe the drives are getting confused with some sort of formatting issues. Below I have stated what exactly happens and all the options I have available in Disk Utility. When I restart and go into internet recovery mode. disk0s2 partition always comes back but is grayed out. If I click on it all buttons are grayed out as well cant do anything other than erase. When I erase it I get this error: Volume Erase Failed. Volume Erase failed with error: MediaKit reports bad partition or no map found. After trying to Erase disk0s2 partition if I try to erase the main disk start up 500.28 GB Apple SSD SD512E Media I always get the same issue where in the right bottom corner it shows the progress that it is Partitioning. Estimated time less....and the time keeps climbing slowly till it hangs. Now after if I have attempted to erase the main disk 500.28 GB Apple SSD SD512E Media. Things change than they are at first from without having any erase attempts. After the attempts the fix buttons get grayed out with the 500.28 GB Apple SSD SD512E Media. Before any erase attempts on partition tab on main disk I am able to verify disk it says everything is good and partition is ok. When I try to click repair disk it says Error: Couldn't repair the partition map...EFI system partition could not be created. I can open the partition tab and see disk0s2 but everything is grayed out but keeping in mind if I try to erase the disk0s2 or 500.28 GB Apple SSD SD512E Media the partition tab becomes empty where I can created another partition but it never happens and gets stuck in the progress bar in the right corner says waiting for partition to reappear. This is what 500.28 GB Apple SSD SD512E Media bottom before I try to erase. Do remember that under this disk its the partition disk0s2 which is grayed out but if I try to erase it disappears unless I restart and get back into Internet Recovery. 500.28 GB Apple SSD SD512E Media bottom after I try to erase. You can see how the Partition Map Scheme chages but this is after I try to erase and cancle where it gets stuck in Partitioning. Estimated....time. All I need is help on how to get a disk to pick out to put Mountain Lion on. Right now it shows nothing and the install button is grayed out. Does it have something to with the sizes of the partitions not matching up to the total amount I have available? This is what |
| How to perform a clean install of High Sierra from USB without causing a loop? Posted: 10 Jul 2022 03:50 AM PDT I recently installed an SSD hard drive for my Mac Mini, and all went fine until I tried to do a clean installation of High Sierra via USB. I've downloaded the installer to USB memory stick by following the steps described in this tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVkMvO60SAs That is, configuring the pen through Terminal, etc, etc ... Once formatted the new SSD in APSC format, from the Utilities menu of MacOs I click "install High Sierra". After several minutes of loading bars with apparent normality, finally it goes to a black screen with the apple and a load bar that never complete. After that, it comes back to the previous menu of MacOs Utilities as if nothing had happened. And so in loop again and again. How can I proceed with the installation from here? |
| High Sierra reboot loop after data migration Posted: 10 Jul 2022 08:49 AM PDT I've installed a new SSD on my Mac Mini 2014. So I have a new SSD connected via PCIe and the old OEM HDD via SATA. I've installed a fresh copy of High Sierra on the new SSD and seems to work well. But after using Migration Assistant (to copy data from HDD OS X installation to the new SSD) the system begins rebooting loop on Apple logo screen. I've reinstalled it a few times, but the same thing happens after Migration Assistant. Any help? Note: the OS on the old drive was the same (High Sierra). |
| Posted: 10 Jul 2022 11:19 AM PDT I got a new SanDisk SSD for my MBP and can't get El Capitan installed. Whenever I try to partition the SSD from within Disk Utility of my bootable USB (or format it via I tried the approaches of the replies in those posts. I created a bootable ubuntu USB and used gparted to format the SSD to gpt first and then to fat32, HSF+, Ext3 hoping that it would allow me to erase the SSD back in Disk Utility. None of these worked out. (Formatting with gparted works, but erasing with Disk Utility afterwards still doesn't) Gparted from within ubuntu reports When I use gpt from within the El Capitan USB it shows me Trying to partition the disk via command line ( These are only a few approaches I've tried and which I can remember. I've been googling for quite some time now and don't really know what else to try. I also don't know if this is a problem with my MBP/OS X or the SSD and if I just should return it and get another one. Sometimes when I reboot it happens that the SSD is not displayed/found when using Disk Utility. I would really appreciate any help on this. Note: formatting on Ubuntu via gparted works, but erasing the disk back on Disk Utility still doesn't work. |
| How do I start rows with 0 (not 1) or not count header rows in Numbers? Posted: 10 Jul 2022 03:50 AM PDT I'm using the Numbers app to make a database or catalogue of stuff. For example, a list of all wines I'll try this year. And for each column, I'll have the name of the wine, a rating, the kind of wine, and a few other items. If the first row of my spreadsheet is a header, and the first row is 1, then every item in the spreadsheet will be off by 1. To me, this makes absolutely no sense. Can I start the spreadsheet with the first row being 0 instead of 1? Or, can I have Numbers not use a row number for the header row? If I could name the columns, this wouldn't matter. But since Numbers names the columns A, B, C, etc, I have to use a header row to name (or label) the columns, and this leads to the first actual item being in row 2 instead of row 1... and this leads to every single sort being off by one, since the top item is a label in the header, which gets listed as being #1. Using column A for an index won't work unless there's a way to lock the order of column A, because the index would get sorted each time any other column gets sorted. |
| El Capitan auto-corrects even though I turned it off in settings Posted: 10 Jul 2022 06:08 AM PDT I notice that things are being corrected even when I turn spell-check off. This happened on both of my computers, and particularly stupid spelling corrections are taking place, only since upgrading to El Capitan. Example.. I updated a ticket at work "This is now on production" .. when I submit the update, I see it says "This is not on production" ... At first I thought maybe I did a typo but this keeps happening. Every single instance was where the word is actually spelled correctly however it replaces it with another word. I've turned spell-check off so I am confused as to why it's doing it at all. |
| Hard Drive Change SSD - Macbook Pro Posted: 10 Jul 2022 09:31 AM PDT My Macbook was slow, and then I've wanted to make it faster, it is a Macbook Pro from 2011 or 2012, I can't remember. I bought a Samsung SSD 850 EVO. Firstly what I did, was to take out the old hard-drive, and then I placed the new SSD in it, I made a bootable thumb-drive, with Yosemite 10.10, and then I tried to boot it from the USB, but I could't install it, because the hard drive didn't show up, because it wasn't formatted. I did that, by taking the old hard drive, inside the Macbook, and used a hard drive dockingstation, to format it, via. disk utility. The hard drive, can only be installed from, the dockingstation, without any issues. I did that, and boot up the Macbook, a Apple logo with a spinning wheel under it, and nothing happens. I tryed everything, used Carbon Copy Cloner, I tried to make a bootable thumb drive, with diskmakerx. In recovery, when the SSD is in the dockingstation, I was able to install Mountain Lion, from there, I could boot up fine, no issues. After I placed the SSD with a succesfull Mountain Lion, inside the computer, I wasn't able to boot up again, only a Apple logo and a spinning wheel, under it. I used 4 weeks to make the computer work, I searched all arround Google, Apple.com, and other sites. But I couldn't find any solution. Any help? |
| Macbook SSD Formatting Problem Posted: 10 Jul 2022 11:19 AM PDT I just got my Macbook here, and I got a USB with Yosemite 10.10. I opened up the Macbook, took out the old one, and put the SSD inside. My SSD fits perfectly (Samsung SSD 850 EVO 250GB). Then I plug the USB thumb drive in, and then boot the computer up, and holding the ALT (OPTION) key down. Then I came into the drives that I can boot from. I couldn't see my SSD there, then I took the thumb drive(8GB), and then I began to install Yosemite, after I choose the language, I need to choose where I need to install Yosemite. The hard drive, didn't show up there either. I get in Disk Utility and find out that my hard drive, isn't formatted, I just want to format it to Mac OS Extended Journaled, I chose it, and clicked erase and when I did that, I got this error:
I translated the error from Danish, so it could be worded differently on the English version of Disk Utility. Note: The Mac is not new, the SSD is new and never used. |
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