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Unusable 2.5" external HDD. Partition failed with the error: Unable to write to the last block of the device. Exfat only? Repairable?

TL;DR: I bought two external hard disks. They appeared to work as a normal external hard drive when I first plugged them in. However, now they're both unusable on my MBP (Retina mid-2015, Yosemite 10.10.3). I first tried to partition…

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iMovie on Macbook download fail: "We could not complete your purchase." What could I do?

This MacBook Air 2017 has been freshly installed with Mojave. I wiped the disk before doing so. After that, I went on to the App Store to download iMovie... but it won't download! The error message displayed above, and "cancelled" insi…

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How to Add Widgets to Today View on iPhone & iPad

The Today View on iPhone and iPad is a handy feature that gives a brief information of the day like weather, screen usage, battery percent, news and a lot more. Additionally, you could also get information from your favorite apps with the help of wi…

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Unusable 2.5" external HDD. Partition failed with the error: Unable to write to the last block of the device. Exfat only? Repairable?

TL;DR: I bought two external hard disks. They appeared to work as a normal external hard drive when I first plugged them in. However, now they're both unusable on my MBP (Retina mid-2015, Yosemite 10.10.3). I first tried to partition…

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Why is typing so strange in terminals?

When typing in a terminal, why is it that text does not behave the way it would in any other text environment, like in any text editor or browser? Things like highlighting text while moving the cursor using typical key bindings (Meta+Sh…

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Apple/Products related News, Tips, Updates, PR

- How to Use Time-Synced Lyrics with Apple Music in macOS Catalina. - iOS Pixelmator 2.5.3 Update. - TextEdit's Hidden Talents (open/save Word Docs, HTML editor, More). - Apple, Google's Covid-19 Tool Gives Health Authorities More Data. - How t…

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Apple/Products related News, Updates, Tips, PR

- iOS Pixelmator 2.5.3 Update. - TextEdit's Hidden Talents (open/save Word Docs, HTML editor, More). - Apple, Google's Covid-19 Tool Gives Health Authorities More Data. - How to EQ the System Audio on a Mac. - Investigating and Preventing 2019 …

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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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