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App Store on Mojave: "We could not complete your purchase. cancelled"

Whenever I try to Get then Install any app from the App Store, I get this message: We could not complete your purchase. cancelled I did some searching online, but barely found any useful hits. What is this about?!

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hdiutil attach -shadow not working

This question is for those of you familiar with command-line tools and disk images. I'm stumped! Previously, I could mount a read-only disk image with a "shadow" file to make it read-write using this command: hdiutil attach "someDiskI…

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How to set dark mode appearance to auto in terminal

I found the way to set dark mode: defaults write -g NSRequiresAquaSystemAppearance -bool true But have no idea set it to Auto with defaults write. It could also be great to explain how you discovered this. Thank you!

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I started typing in finder the wrong letter now I can't navigate to a file. How to start from beginning?

The finder jumps to file starting which the letter I typed. I typed Z, now I want to see files start with Y. If I type Y it will search for ZY but I want to start from the beginning. How does the system reset search?

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Does macOS phone home to Apple's servers before running an app for the first time?

I'm running macOS Catalina 10.15.4 on a 2018 MacBook Pro 15", which has the T2 chip (if anything else is relevant, let me know and I'll update the question.) I'm a developer and I'm in the process of writing and debugging a C command-l…

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iOS 13.5 & iPadOS 13.5 Updates Available to Download

Apple has released iOS 13.5 and iPadOS 13.5 to all users with eligible iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch devices. The latest software updates for iOS and iPadOS include bug fixes, feature enhancements, security improvements, and a few minor new features …

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Numbers removes Byte-Order-Mask (BOM) from UTF-8 files when exported as CSV. How to fix?

I am dealing with a requirement where CSV should be UTF-8 encoded, in order to detect this in my java application I am relying on Byte Order Masks which is working perfectly fine but we found out that when we export the CSV file via Num…

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Three photos libraries, which library can I delete?

this is my first message here. The space on a friend's iMac 400GB hard drive is almost gone. I've seen there are three photo libraries, which take around 320GB. One is the migrated iPhoto library, which I think I can delete without prob…

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I started typing in finder the wrong letter now I can't navigate to a file. How to start from beginning?

The finder jumps to file starting which the letter I typed. I typed Z, now I want to see files start with Y. If I type Y it will search for ZY but I want to start from the beginning. What should I do? My researched: I searched on Googl…

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What is Safari Service worker ? Would disabling it affect website performance?

For the past three days, I have seen Outlook and Twitter service workers trigger randomly, even if I never opened those sites in non-private mode. They consume 2 threads and distract me. Then I force quit them. Before applying the solu…

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Three photos libraries, which library can I delete?

this is my first message here. The space on a friend's iMac 400GB hard drive is almost gone. I've seen there are three photo libraries, which take around 320GB. One is the migrated iPhoto library, which I think I can delete without prob…

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Website unreachable / PR_END_OF_FILE_ERROR / tries connects to localhost instead

Since some weeks I have a very strange issue, where I'm stuck how to further debug, specially as I'm more of a Linux Guy in front of a MacOS (10.15.4) From time to time I get in Firefox/Chrome a error when requesting a website with the…

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How to Manage & Delete Bookmarks in Safari on iPhone & iPad

If you own an iPhone or iPad, chances are, you use Safari to browse the internet. It comes pre-installed on all iOS and iPadOS devices and it just works flawlessly. Like any other web browser, Safari allows you to bookmark countless web pages that y…

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How to make the colors of the Mac more dull/faded?

For more than a year I've had my phone in black & white mode and I find it greatly helps reduce the stimulating effect of using the phone, and makes me naturally use the phone less (and it's more calming etc). I feel way more productive…

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Are there any standard apps in iOS that implement isIdleTimerDisabled=true?

I'm wondering if any of the built-in applications in iOS have isIdleTimerDisabled set to true at any time? If so, which app, and how do you get in the state to activate it? Note - if an app is in this state, it will have its display s…

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Xcode 11.5, iOS 13.5, iPadOS 13.5, iOS 12.4.7, and tvOS 13.4.5 Updates

See post for info/release notes and security fixes.

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Are there any standard apps in iOS that implement isIdleTimerDisabled=true?

I'm wondering if any of the built-in applications in iOS have isIdleTimerDisabled set to true at any time? If so, which app, and how do you get in the state to activate it? Note - if an app is in this state, it will have its display s…

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I started typing in finder the wrong letter now I can't navigate to a file. How to start from beginning?

The finder jumps to file starting which the letter I typed. I typed Z, now I want to see files start with Y. If I type Y it will search for ZY but I want to start from the beginning. What should I do? My researched: I searched on Googl…

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Homebrew command-line to display a formula's homepage

I can open the homepage for a Homebrew formula by running the following command-line: brew home and for a Homebrew Cask by running the following command-line: brew cask home However, running the above command-lines immediately o…

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What is Macintosh HD - Data - Data?

I just formatted my Macbook Pro. Using macOS Catalina 10.15.4 At boot, I pressed Cmd+R to enter recovery. I then used the disk utils to erase the "Machintosh HD - Data" partition. I then went over to reinstall the OS and when prompted…

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How to list all files on the system

I would like to list all files on my system from command line. The provided BSD find command, with the following command line sudo find / lists many of the files twice, under the root and under /System/Volumes/Data. The GNU find…

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