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Unix "ln -s" command not permitted in OSX El Capitan Beta3
I was installing nodejs for Symphony when I hit an "Operation not permitted" error. Anyone know why this happened?
MacBook-Pro-de-XXX:~ XXX$ sudo ln -s /usr/local/bin/node /usr/bin/node
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How can I open Windows network links on Mac OS X?
I started using a Mac recently in a workplace where most people use Windows. We share with each other links to work files that exist on some server here. So I may get a URL via email that looks like ...
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How Do I Fully Flush Cached Redirects From Safari?
I have a device with a web-based control panel, and accidentally set it to redirect all http pages to https, even though some don't work over https. Although I've since corrected this, Safari seems to ...
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How do I hyperlink 'text' within a note in the macOS Notes app?
If you copy and paste a link from Safari into the Notes app, it is pasted as text that is also hyperlinked. However, I haven't been able to find a way to do this in the Notes app directly.
I've ...
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Fluid: when I try to login, my Fluid App launches the default browser instead
I've created a Fluid App for my favorite website.
But there's a problem when I try to login to the website in the Fluid App I created: my default web browser (in my case, Safari) launches instead.
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Creating a URL that always opens in Chrome
If I want to ensure a URL, if clicked, will always open in Chrome (instead of the default browser) can I do that by modifying the header?
For example, I can get URLs that always open in Evernote, ...
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Always show full URL in Safari address bar
From the screenshot: notice we only see "github.com":
Yes it is possible to see full path by actually selecting the URL:
But I would like to see the full URL always - without that extra step....
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Get full url address on Safari
In Yosemite, the new Safari "hides" part of the URL, how could I show it without going to the address bar every time?
e.g. https://www.google.com.br/?gfe_rd=cr&ei=p9lIVJbjCYiX8QfnpoCgBQ#q=...
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Open a specifc URL in Fluid.app
I use Fluid.app for particular websites, such as a bug tracker, or a Wiki. However, when I receive notifications in an e-mail with that URL and click on it, I'll get the page opened in the default ...
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URL to individual email
Is it possible to have an url that links to an individual email message on my local machine? So that if I click on osxmail://759847982 my mail client will open that specific message.
GMail can do ...
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How can I edit a long URL in the Safari browser on my iPad 2?
I'd like to be able to edit a long url in the Safari browser on my iPad 2 running iOS 8.1.1. I can select it, but I can't scroll through it to add or delete something on the end. I generally copy/...
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Fading of the URL in Safari 6's Unified Search and URL Field
With Safari 6, the omnibar fades the non-server part of the URL, so that the actual server name is more visible. Presumably, this is to reduce phishing attacks.
However, I find that the remainder of ...
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Safari: How do you get page titles back?
This is what the top of my Safari page looks like right now:
I think I have around 90 tabs open. That's how I work, I multitask.
What made Safari stand out as a browser used to be the fact that no ...
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How to set Mail.app to always open URL's in the external browser in the background?
I'm on Mountain Lion and in Apple Mail whenever I click a link in an email it opens my browser in front of Mail.
I'd like to keep reading the email and open all links behind Mail, then switch to my ...
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Complete documentation of the iOS Settings app's URL scheme
The iOS Settings app provides an URL scheme (prefs:) which can be used to open the app directly on a particular page from other apps, in particular, shortcut apps such as Launch Center.
There are ...
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What are all of the URI Schemes Available on macOS
This question comes as an offshoot from this question Can MacOS Dictionary be invoked by a URI?
I remembered that there are a number of URI schemes that can utilized in macOS, but I couldn't remember ...
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Open Terminal.app with directory from a given URL?
With the URL <file:///Library/Fonts> (for example in a note in NV) I can open the finder with the given location. Can I do something similar for the terminal? That is, if I write for example (...
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How to manually create a working .webloc file?
So I created a .webloc file using a .vncloc file as a template (standard xml/plist format), but instead of opening in a Safari window, it is downloading the html of the website into a file.
My goal ...
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Is there an easy way to add, modify, or remove what files or URLs are associated with Apps?
This is an attempt to write a canonical QA for this issue, as per the Meta post: Where is the list of canonical questions stored for Ask Different? I expect it to be periodically edited with the goal ...
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URL-scheme details for Reminders application
Update:
jeeyul's answer points out that Reminders-related URL schemes are undocumented, which would likely cause rejection of apps that use them when submitted to the macOS/iOS App Store.
For ...
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How to obtain the direct link to a specific podcast episode in iOS iTunes Store?
My friend, on her iPhone, wants to email me an iTunes Music Store link directly to a specific episode of a podcast. She wants to do this without downloading any 3rd party apps.
Problem is....at ...
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Can Safari copy both the URL and page title during a drag-and-drop?
I frequently want to paste a URL and page title into a document or email message. When I drag and drop a URL from Safari and other browsers (by dragging the URL icon) I see the page title being ...
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How can I make Apple Mail show the URL (in mails) when I hover over a link?
There is a related question for Safari but I am interested in a solution for Mail. The ⌘View menu.
I am using OS X 10.10.5, and I would really like to see the real full link I would follow, ...
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Make text into a link in OmniGraffle
If I have an object, such as a circle or rectangle, with a label (text inside), how can I make turn a word of that text into link, a hypertext web link with a backing URL?
For example, within the ...
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How can I open a Google Maps URL in Apple Maps?
Is there a way for me to convert a Google Maps URL to an Apple Maps-friendly format so it opens in the correct place?
I might be in the minority, but where I am, Apple Maps offers vastly superior ...
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Make urls in plain text files into clickable links [duplicate]
I have a large file of plain text on Mac OSX that contains many http(s) URLs.
For example:
blah blah https://www.stackexchange.com
blah https://www.stackoverflow.com blah blah
https://www.google.com ...
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How to find the URLs accessed by iOS Apps?
Sometimes I need to find the URLs that are accessed by iOS apps to block their Internet connection. In a web browser, I can get the URLs directly from the address panel. But how can I get the URLs ...
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How can I associate URL files with a specific browser in Snow Leopard?
Until Snow Leopard URL files (.webloc files that you get when you drag a URL onto the desktop) opened with OmniWeb on my computer and some URLs were configured to open with Safari.
After upgrading to ...
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There is no application set to open the URL rstf3://
I've been getting this popup every day for the past few days...
There is no application set to open the URL rstf3://
I cannot figure out what is generating it, nor what an rstf3 URL might even be.
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Google Chrome won't open URL files by double click
I recently tried to open a URL link I saved onto my desktop by double clicking it, but it will not open correctly. If I DRAG & DROP the file into chrome works fine.
The code of the file is as ...
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Non-existing URLs redirect to "searchguide - level 3" in Safari
I typed a URL in Safari to check whether a domain name had been registered or not, and was redirected to this page:
(here I made the test with "http://fegiuebnfuybzh.com", a random string of letters ...
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Move set of open Safari windows/tabs to another Mac
I have a bunch of windows & tabs open in Safari. I want to view all the same windows and tabs on another Mac.
☞ Is there a set of URLs or bookmarks somewhere used by Safari to remember open ...
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Create System Preferences URL to Privacy Files and Folders in 10.15 Catalina
In macOS you can create a link to the Automation section of the Privacy Pane in System Preferences by the following URL
x-apple.systempreferences:com.apple.preference.security?Privacy_Automation
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Open System Preferences/Privacy/Full Disk Access with url
I can open System Preferences/Privacy/Automation on Mojave with the URL
x-apple.systempreferences:com.apple.preference.security?Privacy_Automation
What is the equivalent to open Full Disk Access? ...
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Copy text from mac to ipad
I'm often reading stuff on my Mac but then I want to switch to my iPad to read it there. Is there a simple way to copy text or an URL from my Mac to my iPad?
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How do I open a generic URL from AppleScript?
I like to open custom URLs, such as "myscheme://a/b/c" from my AppleScript code.
This is not about opening http URLs in a web browser. This is about getting the same result as when you create an ....
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How to disable link previews and link dropdowns [duplicate]
Since updating to Ventura, whenever I paste or type a URL into an email draft, Mail app now automatically crowds my message with large content previews, it pings websites and downloads images to add ...
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How to add hyperlinks to local files in Numbers?
How do I add a hyperlink to a local file?
I know how to add a hyperlink to a website, so I tried something like file:///Users/MyUser/Documents/Invoices/Some%20Stuff.pdf
However, adding this path to ...
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What application uses the rstf://scheduleState=1 URL scheme?
For some time now (perhaps since the 10.13.3 upgrade of MacOS) I have been waking my Mac up from sleep and seeing between 3 and 7 cascading dialogue boxes with the error message:
"Unable to find an ...
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Is there any way to block certain sites, eg MacKeeper?
MacKeeper (and other sites) adverts pop up on some video sites which I find very irritating. Is there any way to block specific URLs in Safari?
This occurs both on Mac and iPad. Ideally, I'd like a ...
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How to retract "always allow" safari permission for opening app?
When opening a Zoom link in Safari, I'm typically prompted to allow Safari to open the Zoom app. Recently, with Safari 17, there's now an option to "Always Allow" Safari to open Zoom to ...
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How to remove green hyperlink box in preview?
Is it possible to disable the obnoxious green hyperlink bounding boxes in Preview (PDF)?
I do not have access to the latex. The link to the paper is here: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1806.01261.pdf.
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How to copy URL with page title from Safari to Pages
In earlier versions of Safari and Pages drag&drop of an URL from Safari to Pages resulted in a link with the page title as the text, and the URL as a link "behind" it. It still works that way in ...
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Create hyperlink on Mail.app/Notes.app on iOS
I am using an iPad with the Smart Keyboard, but my question applied to all devices running iOS.
How do I create hyperlinked text in apps such as the Mail.app or Notes.app on iOS? I tried using the ...
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How to 'linkify' plain text URLs (locally) on the Mac?
I'm copying a slab of plain text that contains URLs into an RTF file in TextEdit, which I am hoping to automatically, (as there are a lot of them in the text), 'linkify' into rich text hyperlinks - ...
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What is the easiest (fastest) way to get direct link to MP4 video on YouTube?
My Mac is rather old and has issues (many dropped frames) with playing YouTube videos in HD on fullscreen, whether in Flash or HTML5.
However, playing them in VLC makes no drops whatsoever, and what ...
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Safari inserts "localhost" in URLs with three slashes after the scheme
Safari seems to be the only browser that differently handles URL's that have three slashes after the scheme.
For example typing https:///google.com in the address bar results in the URL being ...
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Apple Knowledgebase pages often blank
This seems to be rather hit & miss, but often a link posted on SE leading to
support.apple.com/kb/[reference code]
seems to just give a blank page, as though it neither loads nor times out.
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Identify the web site loaded in web view iOS application?
I have an iPhone application that just shows a web page when you use it. I don't know the URL of the site it loads. Is there any way I can get the URL of the page the application loads?
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macOS: How to open a local HTML file with URL parameters
I want to start a Kantu web macro from the command line on Mac. Essentially this is as simple as opening the Chrome or Firefox browser with a local HTML page (which contains the macro code). All works ...
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