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How do I do a public domain redirect to a subdomain of the primary domain on my local computer on Mac El Capitan?

A bit more detail: lets say I have the following domains that I do not have DNS control over (they are just public websites) www.example.com sub.example.com If there is a way, how could I get my ...
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Is it possible to replicate bigger HDD onto smaller SSD, with Mac OS X El Capitan on the source HDD

Is it possible to replicate bigger HDD onto smaller SSD, with Mac OS X El Capitan on the source HDD? I have a 240GB hard disk on my Macbook 7.1 running EL Capitan, I want to buy SSD of 120-128GB and ...
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How do I install El Capitan on a MacBook Pro?

I have a MacBook Pro 2011. I have totally formatted it and installed Win7. Also I have made two partitions (Not bootcamp method) now there's no trace of Mac OS in this MacBook pro. Now I want to ...
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Incorrect icon association Mac - El Capitan

I have recently switched from PC to Mac and since I am not very familiar with the environment I would like to ask for a help. My MacBook Air with El Capitan installed has problem with icons ...
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Can't add event in OS X calendar app

All I want to be able to do is make a small note on a day. Calendar app on osx el capitan won't allow me to add events without registering(?) some account. This is beyond stupid and inconvenient.
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How to filter spotlight search results

I use spotlight search to open some applications or look out for definition of english words. But now whenever I type some word to look out for definition, many files are visible as result (which are ...
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How do I stop httpd running under Mac OS X (10.11) El Capitan Server?

I am using OS X El Capitan with the Server (app) configured to allow me VPN access to my home network. Unfortunately, the Server app has decided to start a bunch of httpd processes, which are now ...
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How to get KeePass running on Mac?

I've searched around, and so far I haven't found any helpful information, so I decided to ask here! I am running Mac OS X 10.11.1, I have downloaded and installed Mono 4.2.1, and I am trying to run ...
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Macbook Pro Retina Won't boot after OS X 10.11.4 Update

This computer is a Late 2013 Macbook Pro Retina: 256GB SSD (not hdd, important). This computer is treated with insanely good care, and is not damaged physically whatsoever. So yesterday night, I ...
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What is this number 1 on my Google Chrome icon (Mac)?

After the latest update (or a very recent one if not the latest; basically it showed up sometime leading up to or including Version 47.0.2526.111 (64-bit), which is what is currently running), the ...
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Git warning: unsupported SSL version TLS v1.2: using default

I am trying to clone a git repository and receiving the following warning and error message: Cloning into 'projectname'... warning: unsupported ssl version tlsv1.2: using default * Couldn't find host &...
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ftp - connection refused on Mac El Capitan

If I run ftp localhost on Mac terminal, it shows the following result. Trying ::1... ftp: Can't connect to `::1': Connection refused Trying 127.0.0.1... ftp: Can't connect to `127.0.0.1': Connection ...
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Upgraded to OS X El Capitan and massive iPhoto library seems to be gone

HELP! I had nearly 50,000 photos in my iPhoto library and then upgraded to 10.11.2 version of El Capitan. Now only 794 have populated into the Pictures folder including many recent iCloud shots. But ...
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How to check what apps that prevent hard disk from sleeping in OS X

I am using OSX El-Capitan and i thing there is an app that prevent the harddisk from sleeping and keep it spinning. Some of the answer i have found is to check and repair the harddisk permission. I ...
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How can I make Finder display video file duration?

I have to open the files in VLC to see what the file duration is which frankly is ridiculous due to Finder not showing any information, even if I look in Get Info there is nothing Is there a way to ...
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Updating recovery partition in OS X El Capitan

The story I use MacBook Pro from 2012. By default, the recovery partition is OS X Lion (10.7). It is pretty cumbersome to revert back to Lion and then to El Capitan when doing any reinstall, so here ...
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What is the factory default size of the dock in OS X El Capitan?

On a fresh install this shows nothing: defaults read com.apple.dock tilesize I'm trying to set it back to it was when I installed El Capitan. I accidentally grabbed the slider and resized it.
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Disk Utility doesn't give option to format thumb drive as Encrypted

I am trying to format thumb drive as Mac OS Extended (Journaled, Encrypted). However, this option is not available. Is this some restriction for thumb drive?
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OSX10.11 DiskUtility v.15 bug in SDXC card access?

OSX10.11 has DiskUtility v.15 and when trying "Info", "FirstAid", or "Erase" the SDXC card in the SD access slot; these functions never finish - therefore can't Quit Diskutility - only way to stop is ...
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How to resolve libosxfuse versions dependencies

I'm trying to mount a NTFS volume for read-write following this explanation. But when I attach the voluem, I get this error in /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/ntfs-3g_2015-12-30-131038-1_morgan.crash ...
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OSX El Capitan: How to Use Full Screen Applications with Multiple Monitors

I have an external monitor and an iMac running OSX El Capitan. When I open a game and (in the game options) go full screen the monitor that has another application open (not in full screen) goes black....
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Able to delete part of the system log files on Mac OSX El Capitan based on a time period?

I was wondering if it was possible to delete only a portion of the system log files on the Mac OSX El Capitan based on a time period? Say I want to delete all activities that occurred between 9am - ...
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wacom graphire (ET-0405-U) driver for os x el capitan

I am trying to get my old Wacom Graphire tablet to work on OS X El Capitan. I tried downloading http://www.wacom.com/en-us/support/product-support/drivers (Driver 5.3.3-3 for OS X 10.8, 10.7 & 10....
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Installation issues github program: truecrack

I am trying to install TrueCrack from github: https://github.com/lvaccaro/truecrack . As the description says I do this: cd truecrackDirectory ./configure --enable-cpu make However, when I do the ...
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OS X Partition debacle

Here's what I did. I was on OS X Mavericks on my 1Tb SSD internal drive. I wanted to do a clean install of OS X El Capitan so I made a 80Gb partition for it and installed it on the new partition. ...
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How to make VLC going second desktop when going fullscreen?

Since the last Yosemite update (and by extension, El Capitan), VLC doesn't go on a second desktop anymore when I press the fullscreen button on the upper left of the window as it used to do :/ Thank ...
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How to Improve Mac OS Spell Checking?

I've recently switched to Mac and although I like it overall but many useful features just don't seem to work. One example is the spell-checker. Most often it gives me no suggestions at all whereas I ...
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MacVim switching tabs & El Capitan split screen

Using El Capitan's split screen feature, I'd like to have MacVim open in the left half and Terminal open in the right half. This works fine, until I try to switch tabs in MacVim via the keyboard ...
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Thunderbird Unified Inbox doesn't work for all accounts

I use Thunderbird as email client on my Mac (El Capitan 10.11). The Unified inbox doesn't work for two accounts. The sent folder is unified however. Total 10 accounts 4 Gmail, all pop, of which 3 ...
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Macbook Pro - VirtualBox 5 - Ubuntu server 14.4 static IP

I'm using VirtualBox and I have the Ubuntu Server 14.4 installed, I changed from dhcp to static ip, my network interface file: auto eth0 iface eth0 inet static address 10.5.60.7 netmask 255....
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Why would SSHing to a server gives me REMOTE HOST IDENTIFICATION HAS CHANGED, but my known_hosts file and the server have not changed?

Putting this here in the attempt to help others who may run into this obscure problem. I recently upgraded OSX from Mavericks to El Capitan. I then attempted to log into a system I had previously ...
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"Email address or key ID cannot be matched to a valid, not expired OpenPGP key" in Enigmail after moving to a new computer/account

When I write a new email in Thunderbird while signing the mail using Enigmail, I get an error message: Enigmail Alert Encrypt draft messages on saving The email address or key ID '[email protected]' ...
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"Could not create unix socket lock file" with MySQL 5.7.10 on OS X 10.11.2

I've been trying to install MySQL 5.7 on OS X El Capitan using Homebrew, however when it came to getting the server up and running, I cannot seem to get a lock file created. When I run mysqld_safe, ...
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Heavy CPU load VmWare Fusion (8) process with Windows 10 Enterprise and Visual Studio Pro 2015

I've started to notice when running my VM (unity mode) the Activity Manager shows a rather big CPU load for the VmWare process. Let's say I would be using 20% of my CPU but the process itself would ...
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GPG Tools: location of private keys

I moved to another Macbook. Because of expensive SSDs and really smaller disk size, and because I wanted to start clean with this install, I couldn't transfer the user folder. I have the old disk in ...
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Any 'Server mode' for El Captain

We have a virtual machine on vSphere with OS X El Captain installed, which serves as CI server (runs Jenkins instance for building apps we develop). However, virtual machine looks to be about low-...
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cfprefsd using > 90% CPU - any way to find out what program is using it?

In the last few weeks I've noticed my macbookpro (mid-2014, core i7, retina 16Gb RAM, el capitan patched to latest) running quite hot and looking at the CPU usage it seems it's cfprefsd that's doing ...
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MacVim doesn't display on El Capitan

I just upgraded to El Capitan installed MacVim 7.3. When I start it there is no display just the menu bar. Is there some magic incantation I need to perform?
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How do I remove "ghost" backups from Time Machine?

If I check the Time Machine backup mount, I see this: SilentMac:SilentMac almo$ ls 2015-02-28-102519 2015-05-17-121037 2015-11-08-161652 2015-03-29-194158 2015-06-25-022353 Latest 2015-05-04-...
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How to get VMware Fusion Ubuntu VM to use host's DNS?

I have VMware Fusion Pro 8 running on my OSX El Capitano. I created Ubuntu 14.04 VM and configured network adapter to use Wi-fi bridged networking so my VM gets its own IP. My company is using local ...
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Web server not allowing certain HTML tags

My web server has an issue with not permitting specific HTML tags (e.g. href). When I try it inserts: <--!Some of your HTML tags were removed due to security reasons--!> Is there a way to ...
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Changing user name after comments were added in Word 2016 Mac

I have made some comments in the word file I'm working on. However, I realized that my user name was listed as "Microsoft Office User". I changed this to my own name, but the comments are still listed ...
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virtualenv command not found in El Capitan

OS: Mac OS X 10.11.1 (El Capitan) Python: Homebrew Python 2.7.10 pip: 7.1.2 (latest) I installed virtualenv by pip install virtualenv, the installation was successful. But when I typed virtualenv, ...
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OS X El Capitan 10.11 Terminal 2.6 won't open new tabs with same working directory

I am using the default settings for Terminal, but when I create a new tab my working directory is always set to my home folder instead of the current working directory of the previous tab. Here's an ...
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update Mavericks to El Capitan with standalone installer

my mac version is Mavericks now. i have "Install OS X El Capitan.app" file in my hard disc. how can i update my mac to El Capitan with this file ?? just update. not clean install
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OS X El Capitan stuck on Beta without Software Update

I have an issue with OS X El Capitan. I just noticed in "About this Mac" that my version is "10.11 Beta (15A279b)" but in Software Update I have no option to upgrade to GM. Should I just download ...
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Downgrading from El Capitan to Yosemite

I need to downgrade mac os x on one computer, from El Capitan to Yosemite. No Time Machine backups were done so i need to go with the os x bootable installer. The problem is Yosemite does not ...
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How to add Perl modules using CPAN on El Capitan

When OS X El Capitan arrived, the ability to use CPAN to add or update Perl modules disappeared. It seems that the scripts either want to alter /usr/bin, which is now prohibited, or they try to use ...
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How can I garbage collect PDFs that abnormally grow with Adobe Acrobat Pro DC?

Using the Adobe Acrobat Pro DC on Mac OS X El Capitan, I find that when I edit a file, it grows over time at a rate that is greater than reasonable for my edits. Presumably, there is a bug in Adobe, ...
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Can't get sshd_config Match User to work

Am exploring ssh on my el capitan laptop and have managed to get key-based login to work (using an account called adminuser). I now want to see if I can get another administrator account (called ...
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