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How to resolve permissions errors on OS X Lion after Homebrew install
I just upgraded from Snow Leopard to Lion and am trying to get Homebrew installed. However after the installation, I run brew doctor per the installation instructions, and see a series of errors ...
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Utility to group windows for Mac OS X?
Is there a utility for Mac OS X that will group windows (2 separate apps)? Similar to how objects are grouped in PowerPoint or other design apps. I would like both windows to move together.
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How to add user to a group on command line?
With Linux/Unix, I can use useradd -G developers vivek to add vivek to the developer group. How can I do the same thing with Mac OS X?
Then, how do I check if vivek is in developers group?
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How can I add/move icloud contacts to a group?
I see that iCloud can create groups. It appears that other than All Contacts, I only have another group, contacts-other that was created when I imported my addresses (I think via Outlook, which I no ...
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Are group messages sent over iMessage when possible?
When I select multiple recipients, both iPhones and other phones, they are all marked with the green color, as if the message will be sent as an SMS.
Will the message be sent over iMessage to those ...
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Script to delete all groups in contacts
I would like to have a script to delete all my groups in my Contacts.
Somehow I got a kind of replication bug resulting in over 500 groups.
Delete them one by one is not an option.
Tried this script, ...
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Problems with Group SMS
I have an iPhone 4S. Whenever I try to send a group message to people who have iMessage and people who don't, I either get replies from 1 person but I recieve it as an individual text message or I ...
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On iPad, how to organize Shows in a native Video player app
On a computer, in iTunes I add a number of video files that I group by marking them as TV Shows. The shows, in turn, have files grouped into seasons.
When I transfer files to an iPad, I only see the ...
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How do I change the “primary group” for an existing user?
My current primary group (the gid I see listed by id) is me, rather than staff. I'd like to change it to staff, without changing anything else about my user account. How do I change the "primary ...
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iMessage group members visibility
I'm curious how the group visibility works with iMessage.
I have a hunch that when sending with iMessage to a group of people, all these people will see each other in the group. Is my assumption ...
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In the OS X Contacts app (v7.1) how can I delete a group?
I've acidentally created a group in the Contacts app, below 'All Contacts'. How do I delete it? If I remove the group name it renames itself to 'untitled group'. Here's a screeny of what I see: A ...
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AppleScript to compare contacts in two groups and remove duplicate from one group
I want to create an AppleScript for Apple's Address Book (Contacts) app that will look at two Groups, and if a contact is in one Group, it will remove it from the other Group.
Specifically, I add ...
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How to specify group id for a user-defined group
When I set up my accounts in Snow Leopard Server, I was able to give an explicit group id to my user-defined groups using the old Workgroup Manager. Now that I've updated to Mountain Lion Server, I ...
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Recreate unknown users on crashed mac
About a month back one of our Macs crashed and we had to restore it. The computer had an external drive connected to it and all the data is still there. Though some of the users are "missing". If we ...
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Is there a best / OSX-specific way to force all files created in a directory to have certain group ownership?
Basically I need any file filefoo that is newly created by userfoo or userbar, both members of groupfoo, in /Users/Shared/SpecialDirectory to have the same ownership that would be achieved by that ...
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Any way to move contacts between groups on iPhone?
Is there any way to move a contact in Contacts on my iPhone into a group? I can create a new contact in any group, but I don't see a way to move an existing contact between groups.
Seems like an ...
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How to remove group membership from user using the Lion Terminal?
How to remove a self created daemon user named '_denyhosts' from group 1025(workgroup), 403(com.apple.sharepoint.group.2), 404(com.apple.sharepoint.group.3) and 405(com.apple.sharepoint.group.4) using ...
