I installed Mac OS Catalina 10.15 beta.When I go to Finder and tap on folders in the sidebar, an alert window appears saying the folder "can't be opened because the original item can't be found".I have tried the following...- Force Quit and restart Finder.- Dragging and dropping a folder called "Data" to the desktop. It just disappears from Finder without appearing on the desktop.- Rebook Mac in recovery mode > Disk Utility > Mount Disks > First Aid > Restart. When I do this I see two disks that can be mounted.Macintosh HDMacintosh HD - DataI have tried mounting them together and separately without success.Any suggestions to fix this?

Hi all, For the last couple of betas of Catalina I've noticed that the process "syspolicyd" chews through CPU usage without ever dropping. The process seems to start up by itself and then consume a huge amount of CPU (often 98%) causing my Macbook Pro to spin up fans to try and cool it.It doesn't seem to stop by itself so I've resorted to killing the process manually but I wondered if there's a known issue or fix for this?

Using SwiftUI, I want to determine 12 hour vs 24 hour from system settings

Hello, is it anyone here ( or on this planet ) that can help with this issue on Catalina Mac OS 10.15.5 Beta 3 (19F72f).I am using MacBook Pro 16 inches. 😟

Hey Developers! I love web design and am trying to test out some CSS, I am currently using a MacBook Pro 13" (2020 Version), I only use Safari and I want to know if I'm able to simulate other devices like a Windows 10 PC, an Android phone, an iPhone, or an iPad. I do own an iPhone and iPad but wanted to do it all on my Mac, I've tried searching for Safari extensions to do this but so far I haven't found one. If you could give me some suggestions or a link to what I should use it would be appreciated. Thanks, Mateo

This has been a bug for a while now on Mac OS. When you sync your desktop/documents folders with iCloud at random moments it gets stuck and never finish uploading. The folder says "waiting to upload" indefinitely. I notice it happens more often when you do a git commit on a folder that is synced with iCloud. Are there any work around for that?

Running on: iMac 27" 5k late 2015 - 64gb ram and a 16tb Pegasus Promise2 R4 raid5 via Thunderbolt. After trying Big Sur - found issues with Luminar Photo app, decided to return to Catalina on the iMac. Reformatted my internal drive and reinstalled Catalina 15.5 and reformatted the raid. But I keep getting the following message upon restarting: "Incompatible Disk. This disk uses features that are not supported on this version of MacOS" and my Pegasus2 R4 portion no longer appears on the desktop or in Disk Utility... Looked into this and discovered that it may be an issue of Mac OS Extended vs APFS The iMac was formatted to APFS prior to installing OS11 so I reformatted to APFS when returning to Catalina. The issues persisted so I re-reformatted from a bootable USB - this time to Mac OS Extended (journaled) and the issues seems to be resolved. The iMac runs slower on MacOS Ext, but it is running and the Raid is recognised... I'd love to go back to APFS but am afraid it will "break" things. Any thought on this would be welcome. Thanks Nick

I accidentally removed “Flagged" folder out of sidebar in Mail. I can create a smart mailbox for flagged emails but that doesn’t provide the dropdown you get from the “built-in” Flagged folder. Of course, all of my flagged email stayed flagged, just no "special" stock Flagged folder. Any ideas on how to restore this folder? Thanks in advance! Mark

Hi there, I'm working on an app that contains a mini system monitoring utility. I would like to list the top CPU-using processes. As Quinn “The Eskimo!” has repeatedly cautioned, relying on private frameworks is just begging for maintenance effort in the future. Ideally, I want to go through public headers/frameworks. I've gone to great lengths to try to find this information myself, and at this point I'm just struggling. I detail my research below. Any pointers in the right direction would be much appreciated! Attempts Libproc First I looked at libproc. Using proc_pidinfo with PROC_PIDTHREADINFO, I'm able to get each thread of an app, with its associated CPU usage percentage. Summing these, I could get the total for an app. Unfortunately, this has two downsides: Listing a table of processes now takes O(proces_count) rather than just O(process_count), and causes way more syscalls to be made It doesn't work for processes owned by other users. Perhaps running as root could alleviate that, but that would involve making a priviliedged helper akin to the existing sysmond that Activity Monitor.app uses. I'm a little scared of that, because I don't want to put my users at risk. Sysctl Using the keys [CTL_KERN, KERN_PROC, KERN_PROC_PID, someProcessID], I'm able to get a kinfo_proc - https://github.com/apple-opensource/xnu/blob/24525736ba5b8a67ce3a8a017ced469abe101ad5/bsd/sys/sysctl.h#L750-L776 instance. Accessing its .kp_proc - https://github.com/apple-opensource/xnu/blob/24525736ba5b8a67ce3a8a017ced469abe101ad5/bsd/sys/proc.h#L96-L150.p_pctcpu - https://github.com/apple-opensource/xnu/blob/24525736ba5b8a67ce3a8a017ced469abe101ad5/bsd/sys/proc.h#L123 looked really promising, but that value is always zero. Digging deeper, I found the kernel code that fills this struct in (fill_user64_externproc - https://github.com/apple-opensource/xnu/blob/c76cff20e09b8d61688d1c3dfb8cc855cccb93ad/bsd/kern/kern_sysctl.c#L1121-L1168). The assignment of p_pctcpu - https://github.com/apple-opensource/xnu/blob/c76cff20e09b8d61688d1c3dfb8cc855cccb93ad/bsd/kern/kern_sysctl.c#L1149 is in a conditional region, relying on the _PROC_HAS_SCHEDINFO_ flag. Disassembling the kernel on my mac, I could confirm that the assignment of that field never happens (thus _PROC_HAS_SCHEDINFO_ wasn't set during compilation, and the value will always stay zero) Reverse engineering Activity Monitor.app Activity Monitor.app makes proc_info and sysctl system calls, but from looking at the disassembly, it doesn't look like that's where its CPU figures come from. From what I can tell, it's using private functions from /usr/lib/libsysmon.dylib. That's a user library which wraps an XPC connection to sysmond (/usr/libexec/sysmond), allowing you to create requests (sysmon_request_create), add specific attributes you want to retrieve (sysmon_request_add_attribute), and then functions to query that data out (sysmon_row_get_value). Getting the data "striaght from the horses mouth" like this sounds ideal. But unfortunately, the only documentation/usage I can find of sysmond is from bug databases demonstrating a privilege escalation vulnerability lol. There are some partial reverse engineered header files floating around, but they're incomplete, and have the usual fragility/upkeep issues associated with using private APIs. On one hand, I don't want to depend on a private API, because that takes a lot of time to reverse engineer, keep up with changes, etc. On the other, making my own similar privileged helper would be duplicating effort, and expose a bigger attack surface. Needless to say, I have no confidence in being able to make a safer privileged helper than Apple's engineers lol Reverse engineering iStat Menus Looks like they're using proc_pid_rusage - https://github.com/apple-opensource/xnu/blob/24525736ba5b8a67ce3a8a017ced469abe101ad5/libsyscall/wrappers/libproc/libproc.h#L103-L108 . However, I don't know how to convert the cpu_*_time fields of the resulting struct rusage_info_v4 - https://github.com/apple-opensource/xnu/blob/24525736ba5b8a67ce3a8a017ced469abe101ad5/bsd/sys/resource.h#L306-L343 to compute a "simple" percentage. Even if I came up with some formula that produces plausible looking results, I have no real guarantee it's correct or equivalent to what Activity Monitor shows.

I am trying to setup a kAudioUnitSubType_VoiceProcessingIO audio unit for a VoIP macOS app. I tried kAudioUnitSubType_HALOutput first, but it was not suitable due to echo and noise, which makes sense. kAudioUnitSubType_VoiceProcessingIO seemed promising. However, when using it with a bluetooth headset for output and built-in mic for input, volume gets really low compared to other device setups such as both internal input and output, or both bluetooth headset input and output. The alternative setups seem to work fine, but we can't request users to avoid specific setups. This makes kAudioUnitSubType_VoiceProcessingIO unusable for a macOS app. Is kAudioUnitSubType_VoiceProcessingIO production ready for current macOS apps? Is there any way to avoid the volume issues? Adding manual gain is not a workaround because voice becomes really distorted. Thanks.

I’d like to access the values in plist files in /Library/ManagedPreferences. I tried UserDefaults.standard.object(forKey: "com.custom.app.domain") but that did not work My goal is to deploy settings that are set in an MDM and read those settings in my Swift macOS app. I’m new to macOS development and have been banging my head against the internet trying to figure out how to do this. Would really appreciate any help, thank you!

I have recently created a pure (admittedly simple) SwiftUI app for iOS/iPad. Yes there are bugs and limitations I've had to face but eventually with a certain amount of compromise and without resorting to UIViewRepresentable, it works adequately. Great, I thought, how hard can it be to create a macOS version of the same app? Take TextField (swiftUI) views which my app depends on a lot, the issues I have found have been numerous... TextField does not appear to update the Binded variable after each character is typed in. You have to hit the return key for it to register. Totally different functionality. Placeholder text shifts up a few pixels when it gets keyboard focus. The rectangle where the text is typed needs to be taller holding the text, currently it looks squashed. Manually adding a ‘clear text’ button on top of the TextField (at the right) appears not to to be active when the cursor is over it (most of the time) Lots of missing autocapitalisation type functionality is missing. I could go back to a NSViewRepesentable solution of the TextField but that negates the use of 'supported' SwiftUI features. Has this half baked feature been pushed out there as a 'tick in the box' option or is Apple genuinely happy with their solution? Anyhow, I thought let's do a MacCatalyst version of my App instead. But we get a TabView looking like a iPad/iPhone App, there is no option to make it look more mac like AFAIS without abandoning TabView itself! Then there's the complication of making my Core Data App work as a 'Document Based' app with the new DocumentGroup/Scene solution.... how does NSPersistentDocument work in such scenarios? The documentation is vague at best, or simply not supported without a lot of workarounds. Just these few things make me feel we are being hyped with solutions which are far too premature for any real world work on macOS at the moment. What potential SwiftUI/macOS blockers have you encountered?

I installed Big Sur a few days ago, today i woke up to see my trackpad click is not working. The other functions of trackpad are working normal like the gestures etc but cant click, left and right click also not working. Tried using an external usb mouse but only the right click works not the left (main) click. Any suggestions or inputs as to why this is happening? Any way to resolve this?

Hello everyone, but did you have a problem running navicat 15 on big sur? The Application runs and closes quickly.

Hi, I'm wondering if it is possible to manipulate the "other" Photos library with PhotoKit, not the only System one. PhotoKit documentation only mentioned object of PHPhotoLibrary class, which is "a shared object that manages access and changes to the user’s shared photo library". But the Photos app in macOS allows to create and switch between multiple photo libraries. Thanks.

Recently I experienced some weird issues with iOS VPN including personal VPN(IPsec VPN) and enterprise VPN(custom ssl VPN) when running some applications on both mac and iOS. I coded a network extension program which can run on both mac and iOS. In the network extension it intercepts the packets from the NEPacketTunnelFlow and encap them with a self defined header which is 16 bytes and send them via a UDP session to the remote server. test env: Xcode 12.0.1 / iOS 14.0 SDK / iPhone iOS 12.4.8 Here are some test results as following. IPSec VPN(personal VPN) which is supported natively by iOS: when running Speedtest from OOKLA it failed to test on mobile network(in my case it's 4G). The message shows ERROR Test failed to complete. Check your internet connection and try again OK There is no such issue on WIFI network. custom ssl VPN(enterprise VPN) created by using NETunnelProviderManager: On WIFI network run Roblox application on iPhone it failed when joining the server with error message Disconnected Failed to connect to the Game.(ID=17:Connection attempt failed.)(Error Code: 279) Leave I suspect it's related to the mtu setting so I tried with different tunnelOverheadBytes or mtu values:  on wifi network(my router's mtu is 1480):     work: -100/-16/20 (<=20)     not work: 21 (> 20)  on mobile network:     work:0/-16/-100(very slow)     not work: 1/2/5/10/20/21/28 (> 0)    It's weird that negative numbers work for overhead setting. And it seems on WIFI network the range of x <= 20 work for the Roblox game application( can join the server and play some games without any problems) and on mobile network the range is x <=0. Or set mtu instead of tunnelOverheadBytes:   on wifi network:     work:1480/1485/1490/1500     not work:1464/1479/1600     on mobile network:     work:1480/1485/1490/1500     not work:1464/1479/1600/2000 It seems the working value range is [1480, 1500] for both WIFI and mobile network. And also, Speedtest works on WIFI network but not on mobile network. To my understanding in the network extension we only need to set the tunnelOverheadBytes and the iOS will compute the mtu size and we don't need to care about the difference between different type of network. But actually there are differences. Now I'm totally confused. Apparently the value of tunnelOverheadBytes or mtu is quite critical for the network traffic. How to correctly set the tunnelOverheadBytes in the network extension for both WIFI and mobile network?

NEFilterDataProvider seemed to perfectly meet our needs to monitor and control a Mac's network traffic, in total and by process. But: we found out that traffic from about 50 Apple processes is excluded from being seen and controlled by NEFilterDataProvider, due to an undocumented Apple exclusion list. This is a regression from what was possible with NKEs. We believe it has a high number of drawbacks, and we already know this is negatively affecting our end users. I've covered all of the above in detail in FB8808172, also why other ways to monitor and control traffic are not alternatives we could consider for this scenario. I'd appreciate if someone at Apple could have a look as soon as possible.

Hi, I've noticed that in Mac if when creating audiounit with VoiceProcessingIO it is ducking all the system audio. Is there a way to avoid it? This is how I create it:     AudioComponentDescription ioUnitDescription;     ioUnitDescription.componentType = kAudioUnitType_Output;     ioUnitDescription.componentSubType = kAudioUnitSubType_VoiceProcessingIO;     ioUnitDescription.componentManufacturer = kAudioUnitManufacturer_Apple;     ioUnitDescription.componentFlags = 0;     ioUnitDescription.componentFlagsMask = 0;     AudioComponent outputComponent = AudioComponentFindNext(NULL, &ioUnitDescription);     result = AudioComponentInstanceNew(outputComponent, &m_audioUnit);

In my sandboxed MacOS app I want to access OSLogStore programmatically to fetch logs for multi-component application (app, libraries, deriver) for further analysis. According to the documentation, - https://developer.apple.com/documentation/oslog/oslogstore/3366102-local the app should have com.apple.logging.local-storeentitlement. I have added this entitlement "by hand" to the entitlement file as I I can't find a correspondent entry in the Xcode -> Sign & Capabilities interface. When I run the app, I get Unsatisfied entitlements: com.apple.logging.local-store error and the app doesn't start. If I remove the entitlement, the app can't get access to the logd subsystem. How can I add com.apple.logging.local-store to my app? Should I request this not visible via Xcode configuration UI from apple? Thanks!

Prior to downloading and installing Mac OS Big Sur, I was able to connect my 2020 Macbook pro to any HDMI monitor/tv. Specifically I would mostly use a Dell se2717 monitor. It would connect within a few seconds and there was never any issues. Once downloaded and installed Big Sur to my computer it no longer recognized any HDMI monitor/tv. I have tried different adapters to connect the HDMI cable to my USB-C ports; different USB-C ports with all the adapters; and tried every trouble shoot I could find from Apple, Dell, and various websites. Is there anything I can do to fix this issue?