I can change the volume level from the command line using this command, For example: osascript -e 'set Volume 3'. Is there a way to detect the current volume level using a similar command and a way to assign it to a variable? And just for good measure, are there similar commands for detecting and setting the current balance?
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.7), MySQL 5.1, Perl 5.10, Apache 2.2
It will look also in other volumes I have. What is the right way to search only the current volume? I came up with this:find /Volumes/Lion/ -name foo which will return a result like /Volumes/Lion//foo.Is this the right way to do this with the result containing double slashes?
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
When I'm in iTunes on my MB I want it to be loud but I cant. iTunes and OSX doesnt allow me to raise the volume as much as I want to. But when I'm in VLC I can raise the volume reaally high.
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View 1 Replies View RelatedI normally have my MBP on full (or mostly full) volume, but when I plug in headphones, I drop it down to the absolute lowest (or one up from that) level. Anything higher than that is deafening with my headphones. Normally my MBP automatically dropped it down to about that level whenever I plugged in headphones, but recently its only been dropping it down to the halfway point. This causes momentary deafness as I hit play on my iTunes, forgetting its only halfway down, and additional deafness from the clicking as I frantically hit Fn-F4 to lower the volume. Is there a way I can set the default level that OS X drops the volume to when I plug in my headphones?
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View 3 Replies View RelatedThe volume level for the built-in speakers is remembered across boots, but it is not remembered for headphones.
I.e. Whenever I plug in the headphones after a boot, the volume level sets itself to 50% - too loud for my ears and possibly damaging to the headphones.
Anybody know of a way to change this behavior? - To set an initial volume level for headphones?
I have OSX 10.5.6.
I know that in the old Imovie version you can just drag volume line down.. But how do you do this in Imovie 9?
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MacBook Air, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
Script to detect when USB stick is plugged to my mac.
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In the past week my volume suddenly gets 50% to 70% louder and after a few moments it returns to the original sound. This happens two or three time in an hour.
Firs off all, sorry for bad english . Is there how-to or somethink for volume resize? what I need: My mac have 1 volume and there is running mac os x leopard on it. I wanth create more one volume without deleting operating system. is there a way to resize my current volume?
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Snow Leopard and MySQL 5.1.56 MySQL Community Server.
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MacBook & MacAir & iMac, MacAir 10.5.x -- iMac 10.6.x
How can I display Console's 'All Messages' in command line?
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
Macintosh-HD -> Applications -> Utilities -> Terminal
I'm running bash.
I have a long command line:
/Users/mac/Sites/bithoist/BitHoist-PPC-MacOS-X -offset 0x0000 /Users/mac/Sites/bithoist/commandLine/bins/aSunbird.bin -stdout -hex -r 0x0000,0x002f
I'd like to move quickly to the last 0 in -offset 0x0000.
I know about control + a and I found out about esc + f. I do not find pressing esc then f then esc then f that easy. I'd like to at least be able to hold down the esc key and press f's.
Could I redefine a word to only be " " (space) in the terminal? Not sure I like this idea.
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iMac G3 600, Mac OS X (10.4.11)
Trying to run the following command as a Launch Agent (OS X 10.7): /usr/bin/find /Users/username/Documents/Dropbox/Public -type f -mtime +2 -print0 | xargs -0 rm -r
Created a plist file (reproduced below) and saved to ~/Library/Launch Agents, but the command isn't executed either at the specified time or when the agent is loaded via launchctl. If I change the command to a simple Applescript test: osascript -e 'tell Application "Finder" to display dialog "hello"'
It runs correctly as a launch agent when loaded and as the specified time Which means there's something wrong with the first command (find). But the command runs as written when executed manually in the terminal.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
[Code].....
When I run the mdls command on a ringtone file to fetch its duration, the output is always null. For e.g running
mdls -raw -name kMDItemDurationSeconds SomeTone.m4r on the terminal returns (null) as the output. When I check the info for the ringtone in iTunes, I see that it's 14s long. Same issue when I try to fetch the total bitrate for the ringtone using mdls. It also returns null. Why does mdls fail ?
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Mac Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
Is anybody know if there is a way to switch to a particular "input source" (keyboard) with a command line? (or with Apple Script).
Not switch to the next or the previous, but to a specific one. Like switch to "Canadian French" or "Us English".
I have created a simple apple script (my vary first one) in which I wanted the script, when run, to open a random image from a folder that had images within it. I did it using this code: tell application "Finder" (* get a random image file from a desktop folder *) set randomImage to some file of folder "Pictures" open randomImage end tell
That worked well and good when the folder containing the images was on the desktop. However, the folder I really want to use is on a USB stick. How can I tell the script that the folder I want it to run with is on the USB Stick? I know I could easily copy the folder from the stick to the desktop, but I'd rather keep the folder on the stick.
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Mac OS X (10.7.4), 8GB RAM
Is there any way to get a list of all inode numbers on a volume? I have a "find -x /Volumes/thedisk/* -exec stat {} ;" going but requires lots of CPU time. Seems like I should be able to look directly at the file allocation table...oh wait, that is DOS. This is on an HFS disk: /dev/disk0s2 on / (hfs, local, journaled)
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
My volume randomly stopped working.
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iMac (27-inch Late 2009), Mac OS X (10.7.4)
Figured it would be a little lighter to have a thread that shows that Apple's computer CAN and DO work occasionally....Here's my uptime on my i7! It wants me to reboot for Safari update, but I refuse. As of 8:42am PST, March 16, 2010:I guess currently I have the longest uptime of anyone in this thread!
View 12 Replies View RelatedI have a Mac Pro and not too long ago I swapped from a fat, heavy and filthy white Apple Keyboard to a new skinny silver one. I like it, and also love that the F7-9 Skip Back-Pause/Play-Skip Forward keys work for iTunes, even when another app is active (what's the word I'm looking for - in focus or whatever). But I use Optical output, so the volume keys (F10-12) don't do anything. I know that, when iTunes is the active app, I can command-+/- to change the volume, but I'd love to be able to map the F10-12 keys to do that - without having to have iTunes active (playing, but not the active window).
View 1 Replies View RelatedRecently, my newer (last year) iMac probably running 10.5 started speaking and wont shut up... there is no obvious way to turn it off. I usually figure problems out myself but there are no system preferences that effect it. I even changed the voice in preferences as a test and it is still the same guy reading everything clicked in all applications except when I am in system preferences so far. Usually when I run into a dead end like this there is some mystery key command that works... anyone know?I also noticed that some of the top line (f) keys are not doing what they are supposed to any longer as well... volume up opens the window for expose & spaces it looks like and does not control the volume monitor brightness controls are not working either... I went to the key and mouse preferences and set the key strokes to default and still the same.
View 6 Replies View Related I have my imac apart right now and replaced the internal HD as it was not working. I assume the problem is the new one is not formatted with OSX, so from the INSTALL CD I opened the disk utility and see only one drive called "MEDIA".? Or is that just part of the install dvd that looks like a HD? In the system it shows as not formatted, 0 bytes. When selected in Partition it says :
"This voume is the startup volume and cannot be erased. Size 7.1 GB The disk is not writable and cannot be partitioned"
So i guess thats not my new HD I am seeing? Other than that there is only the two OSX install CD icons.
I was wondering if anyone knows how to do this- it is a pita to adjust separate volume controls on everything. If I adjust the volume on the keyboard, the volume slider in itunes doe snot move. If I set the volume on itunes with a mouse, then come home and use the volume controls on my keyboard, I have to also manually adjust the slider in itunes. Anyway to link the two?
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