A special message thrown/displayed by software to indicate a problem, usually in a dialog box
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How to fix the error stating “Please contact iTunes support to complete this transaction”?
I have created a new iTunes account. When I open iTunes and sign in with my new account, it says I need to review my account. After doing so and filling in all requirements for my account, the ...
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What is iTunes Error 13019?
I am trying to help someone sync their IPhone 4 to their desktop computer, in order to make a backup of their info (contacts, their numbers, calendar dates and such). This person has an IPhone 4 ...
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Key Verification Failed!
I was sshing into my iPhone, and I added an app from my computer. Then I switched computers and was going to fix something in it, and it gave me a semi-disconcerting error message...
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iTunes sync error -50
I recently tried to sync my iOS device, but I got a message similar to this one:
I tried googling around, and people generally recommended to disable syncing photos to fix this, but in my case ...
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Why does the Mac App Store show an “error” for a missing product?
A game that purchased a while ago in the Mac App Store is now "not currently available in the U.S. store", but continues to appear in my Applications folder as a download in progress
and shows an ...
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iTunes suddenly decided my mp3s are mpga movies that iTunes won't play. What happened?
I have a bunch of music I ripped from CD myself. I haven't played all of it recently, mostly listening to my iPhone instead. I went to play some old tracks only to be told by iTunes "this movie ...
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633 views
How can I copy a file from a CD when Finder reports error code -36?
I have a CD. I copied the whole CD to another location - except for one file. When trying to copy that particular file, I get following error:
The Finder can't complete the operation because some ...
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Many Applications accessing obsolete x509anchors
When I look into console.app I see that every 2 minutes one of the mac os programs (Safari, Mail, Keychain, Addressbook, WebProcess etc.) is giving an "Warning: accessing obsolete X509Anchors." error. ...
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95 views
Help with kernel boot message
I recently turned on my iMac (White intel) to find it wouldn't boot.
Running the boot in verbose mode I get the following message:
Does anyone know what this means? Is it a hard disk error?
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An error occurred when configuring keychain syncing
I'm using MobileMe to sync my keychain between an iMac and a MacBook Air. Since both machines run Lion this error message pops up every other system start (or when waking up from sleep):
"An error ...
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Pen drive does not show on mac on attaching but show error on removal?
My problem is that when I attach my pen drive to any of the ports on my Mac, it won't show up on my Mac, but when I remove the pen drive, it shows the error, "The disk was not ejected properly. If ...
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How to dim (and un-dim) display in automator
For those that are interested in the final script you can get it here
original question
I am trying to make a alarmclock script to wake me up. but I can't figure out how to change the screen ...
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“Set time zone automatically using current location” is not working. Why?
Although I keep my system time & date in check using time.asia.apple.com, I can't "Set time zone automatically using current location". I get the error message, "Unable to determine current ...
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How to diagnose/fix error when booting a G5
I have an Apple G5 and it won boot anymore. When I boot my fan starts to spin like a madman and the screen stays grey.
When I try to boot in Safe Mode using Shift-Command-V, I get the error message:
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“device not configured” error when attempting to reach specific websites
A few months ago I posted the question getting "out of memory" error when trying to load specific websites (am not out of RAM) regarding bizarre could not allocate memory errors when I ...
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589 views
“# is not registered with iMessage” error
Let me clearly establish that I am not trying to send a sms to a non-iPhone user. On my OS x Mountain Lion macbook pro I was sending iMessages from the Messages application just fine until all of a ...
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Error 2009 when restoring iPhone
I have a jailbreaked iPhone 4 and I updated from version 5 to v6 in wifi.
The screen shows only the recovery mode, but when I connect it to iTunes, it detects the iPhone but needs to update it.
When ...
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apache on OSX 10.8 not starting
I had Apache working on my 10.8 MPBR. I haven't used it for a few weeks, and now it doesn't seem to start. I get nothing in /private/var/log/apache2. Nothing, meaning no logging at all, error or ...
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What steps can I take to recover data from a FileVault 2 encrypted boot volume that won't boot and is stuck in “converting” status?
I have a 2008 Macbook Pro running OS X 10.8 on a 500GB (upgraded from original) 1-2 year old hard drive. The drive was encrypted with FileVault2, and the system was running fine a few months ago until ...
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External drive error while moving files, now folder is inaccessible from Finder
I was moving some files from one external hard drive to another, while the system froze, and I had to reboot the hard way.
When I logged in again, the folder was looking semi-transparent (as it is ...
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iPhoto refuses to open, even after deletion and reinstall
Here's the error message:
Dyld Error Message:
Library not loaded: /Library/Frameworks/NyxAudioAnalysis.framework/Versions/A/NyxAudioAnalysis
Referenced from: ...
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How to fix Quicktime error -2048 (doesn't understand file format)?
I recently transferred a movie made on iMovie from my iPad to my PC. It's a big file I transferred with Photo Transfer App. On the PC, Quicktime refuses to play the file. It gives error -2048 ...
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Get exclamation point alert icon when opening most pictures in iPhoto
My Library appears to be intact. All the events and albums are normal in thumbnail view but when I open a picture I get this exclamation point error icon that fills the screen.
Looks fine in ...
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How do I triage errors from the AppStore? Where are the log files?
Am getting an error message when trying to reinstall TextWrangler from the App Store. The message given is An unknown error occurred. This is not terribly helpful. Where can I look to get more ...
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Finder error -50 when moving files from external NTFS hard disk
As per title, I'm using a external NTFS hard disk for storage (guess it doesn't matter the type, but I can give more informations if needed). It happen many times, however, that I receive Finder error ...
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What does this mean: “mds: (Warning) FMW: event:1 had an arg mismatch. ac:2 am:51”
mds: (Warning) FMW: event:1 had an arg mismatch. ac:2 am:51
This error shows up in my system.log file regularly. Searching on Google turns up few useful results.
One search result points to ...
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input/output error on every dmg and while copying the media
I have the constant problem with Lion, almost every DMG I try to mount gives me input/output error when verifying.
Another problem I am experiencing is getting "media file can't be read" error while ...
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Ipad Log Files - Ipad2 suddenly shut down when watching film on OPlayerHD
i have ipad2 32 GB with version of 5.1. when i was watching film with OPlayerHD Lite, suddenly machine has shut down itself and 2 minute later opened itself again. this was happened three times in the ...
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App Store “An Unknown Error Has Occurred”, Apple Support fix was only temporary. How fix permanently?
When opening an application installed from the App Store (TextWrangler) I am prompted to sign in. After entering the correct Apple ID and password I get an error, An unknown error has occurred. This ...
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Location of error icon
Where is the location of the error and the warning icon?
I'm talking about the red octagon with a ! inside it and the yellow triangle also containing a !.
Example: ...
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Statistics on MacBook Air failures?
Are there any statistics available about failure rates for MacBook Air by time? For example, what are the chances of failing within 1, 3, 6, 12 months, etc.
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How to fix weird screen issues on Macbook Pro after appr. half an hour of activity?
Recently my couple year old MacBook Pro has been acting up strangely. I generally use it for watching videos. After about half an hour or so of activity, the screen starts to look like this:
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Problem with libxml2-2.8.0 version on OS X Lion
I have installed OS X Lion and I was trying to resolve error libxml2 missing for Ruby programming purpose. I tried to install latest version of Libxml2 that is libxml2-2.8.0
Because of ...
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Installing Octave with Brew in Lion
my first question on AskDifferent! (let me know if I'm doing it wrong.) Anyway, I'm trying to install octave using brew and am getting the following error but unsure how to proceed:
~/ brew ...
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Problem downloading large app using iPad 2
I tried to download a 500MB app using my iPad 2 connected to WiFi and got an error stating that the app could not be downloaded.
Someone told me that its because the file is too large to be ...
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iPhone - no display
My verizon iPhone was working fine until yesterday, mint condition, no damage.
Suddenly, there's no display, iTunes detects it but doesn't let me restore: error 3194
Is there any known fix for ...
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Error while installing Homebrew on Lion
I started installing Homebrew on my Mac Lion v10.7.4 but got the following error.
==> Downloading and Installing Homebrew...
Failed during: Error: /usr/bin/xcode-select returned unexpected error. ...
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Gmail on iPad not working ..error message
I'm seeing this problem all over the web and I'm asking the same thing. I am not very computer savvy and would appreciate an answer that is easy to understand.
When I try to access my Gmail account ...
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Why are three newly-downloaded, up-to-date, unrelated applications not starting: “not supported on this type of Mac” *not a PowerPC problem*
Today, I downloaded the latest stable versions of three largely unrelated programs: Pixen, Tiled, and Gideros Studio (free Gideros pack).
All three of these programs have crossed out icons, and return ...
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Unable to unmount drive!
Somehow my harddrive seems to fail, I am not able to startup anymore. When I started in verbose mode, I noticed that the harddrive return I/O Errors and the B-Node-Tree seems to be corrupted.
I was ...
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Safari: “JavaScript error detected! Error: TypeError: 'null' is not an object”
Whenever I connect to a WiFi at Starbucks, I'm prompted with this warning:
After clicking OK everything is fine and I can login as usual.
What's causing this error?
How do I troubleshoot?
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Error installing Wine on 10.6.8
I was installing Wine on 10.6.8 and got this error:
Error: Target org.macports.configure returned: configure failure: shell command failed (see log for details)
Error: Failed to install expat
Log ...
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1answer
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iPhone Accessory warning - without any accessory
I am getting following error. Previously I connected iPhone headphone/handsfree. It was working fine. Now, I disconnected my headphone/handsfree & my iPhone started giving warning as follows.
I ...
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AppStore stopped working
Today I wanted to download a free application from the AppStore.
First it wanted me to review my account settings, I accepted the license, then filled out the empty fields and it asked for my payment ...
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Refreshed MacBook + BootCamp unable to boot restored Windows 7 partition
I recently had my MacBook's HDD crap out on me. The OS X partition, in particular, quit working, but my Windows 7 partition was still in decent enough shape for me to grab an image. I got a ...
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Missing library file: libSM.6.dylib
When executing an application I receive the following error:
./WordMaker WordMaker_BatchConfig.moos
dyld: Library not loaded: /opt/local/lib/libSM.6.dylib
Referenced from: ...
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Apps unresponsive directly after starting them. Log says: “didn't gather any samples due to audio running”
Recently, I'm seeing the following symptom regularly on my Mac.
I'll start an application such as safari or sktich and then the app bounces in the dock and is unresponsive. I have to force quit the ...
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MySQL error 2006 MySQL server has gone away after upgrade to 5.6.10 using homebrew on Max OS X 10.8.3
I upgraded my installation of MySQL on my Mac OS X 10.8.3 using homebrew
brew install mysql
Everything seemed to go smoothly, but...not really, as it turns out.
I cannot add a new user (neither ...
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Error code -50 The operation could not be complete
I was working on my science assignment and just wrote another 500 words and about to save the document BOOM! "The document could not be saved." The detail showed that it is an Error code -50. It is ...
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mac doesnt boot after single user mode
I had brought an external hard disk to use as a time machine. There was a problem while trying to partition, so i booted into single user mode and ran the ffsck command. This returned an error, and ...
