Why are folders with weird names automatically appearing on my Desktop?

Many of these weird folders show up all the time with these titles: 00, 0a, 0b... 0f; 01, 1a, 1b...1f; 02, 2a, 2b...2f; 03, 3a, 3b... 3f; etc up to ff. Why? What is this? What can I do to stop it? They come back when I throw them out…

Finding the right directory to install applications into?

I just downloaded the MS Teams app for MacOS and upon installation was asked if the app should be for all users/ current user/ installed on hard drive. I understand the first two, but was wondering what is the difference between install…

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Modern versions of iOS and iPadOS offer widgets to be added to the Home Screen. By allowing widgets to live amongst apps, Apple instantly made them more usable and more important for iPhone and iPad users. It also introduced stacks. Stacks are super…

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My MacBook Pro 2017 (running Big Sur) is not booting. Instead, it is showing me a flashing folder with a question mark. When I boot from an external ssd, I can see my data from my internal ssd, but I can't delete something from it. When…

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Copy Desktop folder and preserve layout

How can I copy the Desktop folder from machine A to machine B and preserve the current icon layout? I want to replicate the Desktop contents and layout in both machines. I mean the actual Desktop, not a Finder window when opened to ~/De…

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Copy Desktop folder and preserve layout

How can I copy the Desktop folder from machine A to machine B and preserve the current icon layout? I want to replicate the Desktop contents and layout in both machines. I mean the actual Desktop, not a Finder window when opened to ~/De…