I am trying to connect my Mac to a USB-cable and a WiFi at the same time. Will this make my network faster and more stable? Or will it just only pick one network to use?
Lees meerI have a 2018 13" MacBook Pro with Touch Bar and Four Thunderbolt 3 Ports, and I wanted to know where I lie with Ubuntu (or another distro) for dual booting. I have successfully booted Ubuntu onto my Mac, from a USB drive…
Lees meerI am trying to connect my Mac to a USB-cable and a WiFi at the same time. Will this make my network faster and more stable? Or will it just only pick one network to use?
Lees meerI've read a few suggestions that you get worse performance placing the SSD in a caddy in place of the optial drive rather than swapping with the main mechanical. Is this true? Can I have my boot drive in the old optical …
Lees meerTraditionally [at least according to common knowledge] Macs have had mainstream OS support for 5 years, with legacy support for the next 5; meaning if you really want to hang onto that old machine, you should still be able…
Lees meerI've been looking to upgrade to an SSD. And I've read a couple of options: Swapping the mechanical drive for an SSD. Swapping the optical drive for an SSD. My question is, is there another SATA port available on the m…
Lees meerI changed the motherboard of a MacBook Air A1465 because the previous one was faulty and the Mac didn't even start. Now the machine starts but when I try to install, neither the macOS installer app nor Disk Utility seem …
Lees meerOK so here’s a silly one, don’t take this too seriously… but as you may know, up until the release of the 16″ MacBook Pro, all MacBook Pro with Touch Bar models removed the hardware escape key along with the function keys and replaced it with the To…
Lees meerIs it possible to have two apple IDs on one device? I own a business and have contracted iOS developers to create an app. I set up an Apple ID to use for the company and started using it to create a developer account for…
Lees meerI noticed that most of the time, Activity Monitor tells me that memory used is above 10 Gb (out of 16). But the processes listed doesn't seem to consume as much memory. Here are screenshots : I also want to add that m…
Lees meerAfter connecting my iPhone (iOS 13.3) to a laptop with a USB cable, I accidentally clicked on ok after getting the "Trust this computer" modal on my phone. Now, all my music has vanished. I think it synced with the compute…
Lees meerI used to backup on a USB flash drive, it was slow, and the drive became very hot in the middle of backup, so I bought a fast external SSD drive (2,800MB/s) which connects through Thunderbolt 3. But a 60GB backup with Tim…
Lees meerI know for a fact that a file named 1A0CFDAF-E43B-49E1-AC88-CD8CC9146947.jpeg exists in my photo library originals/ subdirectory. But searching for 1A0CFDAF-E43B-49E1-AC88-CD8CC9146947.jpeg using Spotlight returns no resu…
Lees meerI changed the motherboard of a MacBook Air A1465 because the previous one was faulty and the Mac didn't even start. Now the machine starts but when I try to install, neither the macOS installer app nor Disk Utility seem …
Lees meerReinstalled 10.15, signed into icloud, had previous 10.13 on another partition for a while. 10.15 is a clean install. The apps that provide those services haven't even been installed. ~/Library/Services is empty. Tried …
Lees meerI recently upgraded my 2012 MacMini to Catalina. It was a bit of a nightmare as the internal drive wasn’t formatted to APFS. I imaged the drive and did a Time Machine backup then booted from the imaged drive, formatted the…
Lees meerI don't think its possible, but hoping the knowledgeable people here will tell me otherwise. Use-case: I have a website added to my home screen from safari on IOS, and I don't want that specific site to use JavaScript. Oth…
Lees meerI use the zoom part of the accessability features of OSX, in Picture-in-picture mode. I like having a certain size zoom window at the center of the screen, and I know how to do that and adjust the zoom to my liking, but af…
Lees meerAfter upgrading to Catalina and the Music App I have two directories: iTunes and Music When I launch the app I noticed all my Music has the cloud icon (as I use iTunes Match) so its not downloaded locally. If I download a…
Lees meerIn GNOME (on Linux), there is an extension called "Dash to Dock", which gives you a macOS-like dock. One very nice difference is that when you set it to automatically hide the dock, it only hides it when there are apps ru…
Lees meerThe iPhone camera can take photos in vertical orientation or horizontal orientation. Typically it’s pretty obvious when you’re taking a photo in either landscape or portrait orientation because the iPhone is physically rotated to one side or another…
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