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How to import samples to iElectribe
As far as I can tell from some youtube videos, it is possible to use different drum samples in iElectribe by KORG, but I can't figure out how or find any documentation on this. Does someone know how ...
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is there an iphone (Cydia) app to forward/back 30s
With SBSettings+Activator one is able to program the physical buttons on the iPhone, to open apps, toggle settings, skip to next/previous song, play/pause musik, open controls, etc.
Is there ...
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What is wrong when an app is perpetually in need of updating from the Mac App Store?
I have an app called "UPAD Lite" that keeps appearing in the "updates" tab of app store. I have installed the update multiple times, but when the app store checked for updates, it would appear again. ...
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How can I use application aliases pointing to a secondary partition and launch them via Spotlight menu?
I have an SSD with two (bootable OS X) partitions. I don't want to have duplicate installations of most of my applications. So I made some OS X proprietary aliases in one of the two /Applications ...
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How to avoid suspended apps getting killed in iOS 14?
I have updated my iPad operating system from iOS 11.4 to iPadOS 14.3. Unfortunately, suspended apps are now immediately killed in the background while in the older version I could keep many apps ...
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Exclude apps from iPhone/iPad backup?
I own both an iPhone (4S) and an iPad (mini), running iOS 5 and 6 respectively. The two of them are quite filled with large apps (roughly 40GB in total) and thus my Macbook is getting crowded. This is ...
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Is it safe to Symlink your applications folder?
If you had a NAS and you were going to store all your applications on there, would it be safe to - on the computers accessing it - replace their application folder with a symlink to the folder on the ...
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How does shareware store its usage?
Most shareware (free trial) allows only for limited use e.g. one week or 10 uses. This shareware must have a way of storing the times it was used or for how long you have been using this.
Yet when I ...
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Applications keep asking me for password for helper
I have a Macbook with a few installed applications. Some of these include VSCode, Notion, Docker, Slack, Zoom, Notion, TickTick, etc. all of these were installed via a downloaded file from the proper ...
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How should I adapt my software's keyboard shortcuts for macOS users (e.g. when to use Cmd instead of Ctrl)?
I'm not familiar with macOS at all. Nevertheless, when designing cross-platform software features, one needs to be aware of such small differences. I've seen a lot of keybindings which are usually ...
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How to copy an exact version of an app from iPad to iPad?
I have two iPads where I am using a particular app.
On iPad A, I have updated to a new version of the app and discovered that the app has been modified so strongly that it became unusable.
On iPad B, ...
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Popup continues to show 'damaged and can’t be opened. You should move it to the Trash.'
I deleted an app using Appclear. then this popup show up:
App damaged and can’t be opened. You should move it to the Trash.
(Move to Trash) or (Cancel)
Whether I click “Move to Trash” or “Cancel” ...
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My iPhone doesn’t delete Instagram data
A few days ago, I logged out of my Instagram account
when I wanted to log in again. The error below appeared in three of my accounts, but I could log in to any other account.
“Error: Sorry, there ...
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MacOS Sonoma to group minimized app icons like Windows
I come to MacOS from Windows, and I'm wondering if I can group minimized app icons just like Windows:
in the order of when the windows was created, instead changing their icon orders every time
group/...
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Opening multiple instances of an iOS app on macOS with M2 Macbook Pro
I'm using an M2 Macbook Pro to open iOS apps (Any Mac with Apple silicon allows this), but I'm trying to open multiple instances of the application. However, there's no way to do this in the UI.
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Using a URL scheme to the apple translation app, can I get text from anki, and then when I click on URL open translate app and translate?
Sorry for the stupid wording, I'm really new to this.
I'm trying to essentially create a URL to the apple translate app, so that when I click on the URL it automatically translates text from my anki ...
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App icon not visible in Sublime Text 6 after unzipping
I just downloaded Sublime Text 6 from the official website and after the download completes immediately after unzipping, the app icon doesn't show up.
Please any remedy on how to address this will be ...
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Family app sharing doesn't share already paid apps
My brother can't get the app, it says he has to pay. He is in my family on apple, and I already paid for these games, but it still says the price for him to pay. I set that purchases and subscriptions ...
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iPhone NFC and third-party apps
I'm having problems reading RFID tags using third-party apps on my iPhone 12 mini running iOS 16. When I use the built-in Shortcuts app, I can read various RFID tags: access tags, passports, library ...
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Is it possible to setup (install apps, adjust settings, etc) an MDM Mac, with an "admin" user, then change the user to a "standard" one?
I'm sorry if the language in the title is confusing. I struggled to type out what I'm trying to do in one sentence. Hopefully I can provide some context below that will help.
My company buys Mac ...
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Stop Citrix Workspace from starting when opening Citrix Viewer
I use Citrix Viewer to access one of my employer's applications.
Recently, when I open the .ica file from Safari to initiate the connection, in addition to Citrix Viewer, Citrix Workspace starts and ...
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Making an application bundle open a file
I have a very simple Mac application bundle which is basically a wrapper around Spyder. I am trying to get it to open .py files.
Here is the entirety of the application directory
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./Contents
./...
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How to configure shortcut too toggle keyboard light
How to configure shortcut to toggle keyboard light on and off on MacBook Air M2?
Like I am have set it to 20% and when I press shortcut it sets to 0%, then if I press the shortcut again it sets to 20% ...
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Disable app library screen
I have apps on my iPad I don't want my kids seeing (games that I don't want them opening and ruining my progress).
I have done several things for these apps:
Hide from search
Disable notifications
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Applications Keep Jumping to the Top of the Page on MacBook
Frequently while clicking on non-apple applications on my mackbook the pages jump to the top. It always happens when switching from one application to another. I have been trying to find a solution ...
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macOS Mojave: Text file that I downloaded from my personal Google Drive triggers App Security Check?
I have a large (a few GB) text file that I downloaded from my personal Google Drive.
It's a text file, although it wasn't labeled with a ".txt".
When I try to open it in a text editor, I get ...
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How can I create a PKG installer that can be installed on an external drive?
I am trying to create a PKG installer with pkgbuild which lets the user decide if they want to put a part of the data to an external drive. I already did set the customLocationAllowAlternateVolumes to ...
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Why is LANG environment variable wrong in shell?
When I start a Terminal (in Monterey 12.2.1) my LANG is sv_SE.UTF-8, which is fine.
When I start a shell, or any other sub-process that reads environment, from GUI Emacs it is set to LANG="en_SE....
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How can I sync Stickies across Mac devices?
The MacOS Stickies app does not allow syncing between devices. Is there any way I can do it?
Note: This solution https://superuser.com/a/393013 does not answer my question as Notational Velocity does ...
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How the "Download latest compatible version?" feature supposed to work on older devices?
I have an iPad 4 with iOS 10.3.3 that I am preparing for a family member. I have noticed that sometimes apps remove support for iOS 10 but I am still offered app updates in the App Store. This fails ...
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How does Hocus Focus run automatically at login?
I've been using an application "Hocus Focus" ever since I upgraded to a MacBook M1 running Big Sur (I don't remember what I was using before, but it wasn't compatible).
Today I upgraded to ...
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MacOs 11.5: Double clicking an application works, but running through terminal doesn't
I installed the analysis software root from the pkg file. I can find the executable using Finder. If I double click on that, the program works, however if I navigate there through the terminal and ...
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macOS 10.14/10.15 3rd party applications do not start
3rd party applications do not start. The computer does not have an internet connection by default, but only to the local network. When the connection to the Internet is established, all the ...
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How to stop Mac from jumping to a program when a new window opens?
This seems like a very specific weird question that I can't find an answer to anywhere else.
I am making hundreds of figures in MATLAB. I plot each figure and then save it as a png to look at later. I ...
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How do I restore data from an offloaded, older version, third party app that I can't re-download? (Iphone 6s, ios 14)
I use a music player app called Nhaccuatui. I updated it recently, from version 5.x to 6.x. After updating 2 icons appeared on the screen. One works fine and is empty, the other I can't open anymore. ...
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"There is no application set to open the URL..." Message after updating to macOS Big Sur 11.4
I just updated my macbook air to Big Sur 11.4 and I get this message when I try to open Roblox.(see picture) When I try to "Choose Application" the Roblox selection is grayed out, and I can'...
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How to have our App Store listed app auto-upgrade to latest version on "supervised" iPads (or remotely upgrade the app to latest version)
We develop a b2b iOS app that is publicly listed on Apple Store.
We lease our clients iPads so that they can use our app. We have full access and ownership of these iPads and we are able to "...
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How to stop a Mac app from launching at startup?
How can I stop an app from launching at startup when:
right click on the app on the dock > options > open at login is not ticked.
the app is not on the login items list (System Preferences > ...
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Adding alias of an App or actual App onto the right side of Dock
How do I do add an app placed on the right side of the Dock as shown? (On the right of the line separator, along with the Downloads and Trash icons).
This is on a Macbook Air 2015 running Mac OS ...
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Where application bundles get their environment variables from?
A user of my (Python based) app reports that they can't open it in regular way (via double clicking the icon in Finder) -- nothing just happens. When they run it from Terminal, they get an error (from ...
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AppleScript App to start a Slideshow in Finder
I want to write an AppleScript App that starts a full screen slideshow with all pictures in the currently active folder in Finder (on Big Sur/Apple M1).
Manually, in Finder I would have to open a ...
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How to override default `Modifier key + Click on app icon in Dock` behaviour on macOS?
For example, by default Option(Alt) + Click on application icon in Dock hides all windows of currently active application. And Option(Alt) + Cmd + Click hides all applications, except for one which's ...
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How to get yabai to recognize zathura pdf viewer
I have been trying to switch to zathura from Skim but whenever I launch Zathura, yabai doesn't recognize and tile it like other windows, is there a way to fix this?
For those not familiar with the ...
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Is there an app for iOS that can create split zip or rar files?
I'm looking for an app for iOS that can create a split zip or rar file. For example, instead of creating one big zip file (e.g. test.zip, 90 MB), it would create two smaller zip files (e.g. test.zip....
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Viewing Old iOS App Function
I have an old photo editing 32-bit iOS app from around 2013/14. It no longer works on iOS since the transition to 64-bit but I wondered if there was a way to look into the apps code to discover some ...
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Selecting app icon in app switcher (w/ alt+tab) doesn't show its window if the app is on different workspace in macos catalina
Whenever an app icon is selected in app switcher (triggered by alt+tab) its window does not show in macOS Catalina if the app is on a different workspace. When the icon is selected, nothing happens ...
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Use pre-Big Sur icons in macOS apps and keep them persistent across updates
With Big Sur, macOS introduced a new icon design. Unfortunately, more and more apps are switching to that new icon design which I don't want as a user of Mojave, i.e. I would like to keep the old app ...
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MacOS 10.14 -- always make external monitor the "second" monitor
The Problem: New windows and freshly-launched apps (seemingly) arbitrarily push new windows or the app itself to the second monitor.
How do I prevent the seemingly random issue of newly-invoked/-...
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Is there an iPad app which will let me use the orientation of my iPad to emulate a joystick on PC?
I would like to be able to play games on my Windows PC using a joystick instead of keyboard and/or mouse as controls. However I don't have a joystick. I could buy one, but I want to see if I could use ...
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How to prompt to give specific folder access or full disk access to /bin/bash when run in an app bundle on Catalina?
I am trying to get an .app bundle wrapping a shell script that invokes /bin/bash to be allowed to read a plist file in ~/Library/Mail/V7/MailData/Signatures and to write to other files in that ...
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