I just installed Macos Catalina. After the update I did a check on what's new and I found something new which is a double / redundant "Applications" folder. Usually the old Application folder is located in Disk / Users / A…
Lees meerAs I understand, HFS+ and APFS volumes don't need to be defragmented, as files will automatically defragmented by the OS, but I'd like to leave a process running in the background that would do this to all files of the dis…
Lees meerAfter updating to macOS Catalina – when I type, macOS will randomly repeat keypresses and sequences of keypresses. Below are some examples of some mistypes just while writing this article: macOS => macOSmacOS Below => Be…
Lees meerAfter the installation of Catalina all User created folders from root are moved into a separate folder and the root folder is made readonly, containing only system default folders. How is it possible to undo this and to …
Lees meerAfter updating to macOS Catalina, all the folders I had saved in the root directory, "/", were missing. I read that the system is now read-only, but didn't see a notice on where previous files have gone. Are they on the…
Lees meerAfter the installation of Catalina all User created folders from root are moved into a separate folder and the root folder is made readonly, containing only system default folders. How is it possible to undo this and to …
Lees meerAfter the installation of Catalina all User created folders from root are moved into a separate folder and the root folder is made readonly, containing only system default folders. How is it possible to undo this and to …
Lees meerPreviously (before iOS 13) I was able to attempt to begin a WiFi sync from my phone by going to Settings > General > Wifi Sync I no longer see that option. On my computer (currently on macOS 10.15) I'm at the mercy of the…
Lees meerAfter the installation of Catalina all User created folders from root are moved into a separate folder and the root folder is made readonly, containing only system default folders. How is it possible to undo this and to …
Lees meerI upgraded to macOS Catalina and see that applications now need to be permitted to access the file system, even the shell running inside Terminal. I work extensively in Emacs which seems to have lost access to the file s…
Lees meerPreviously I was able to attempt to begin a WiFi sync from my phone (iOS 13.1.2) by going to Settings > General > Wifi Sync I no longer see that option. On my computer (macOS 10.15) I'm at the mercy of the phone showing u…
Lees meerI'm spec-ing a new MacBook Pro and want to know how much memory my workload requires. I'm doing my development work on a 2011 iMac with 16GB of RAM and want to know if I need that much memory for my new MBP since RAM is no…
Lees meerI'm spec-ing a new MacBook Pro and want to know how much memory my workload requires. I'm doing my development work on a 2011 iMac with 16GB of RAM and want to know if I need that much memory for my new MBP since RAM is no…
Lees meerAfter updating to macOS Catalina – when I type, macOS will randomly repeat keypresses and sequences of keypresses. Below are some examples of some mistypes just while writing this article: macOS => macOSmacOS Below => Be…
Lees meerPreviously I was able to attempt to begin a WiFi sync from my phone (iOS 13.1.2) by going to Settings > General > Wifi Sync I no longer see that option. On my computer (macOS 10.15) I'm at the mercy of the phone showing u…
Lees meerSince upgrading to macOS 10.15, the mail app is no longer able to open a message by its URL. For instance, the URL message:%3CCAEkAa-anCn=ZE21kpFw-oKaXEVsGE0SuuNtyUT8qyZndoPMuaQ@mail.gmail.com%3E which launched the corres…
Lees meerI'm spec-ing a new MacBook Pro and want to know how much memory my workload requires. I'm doing my development work on a 2011 iMac with 16GB of RAM and want to know if I need that much memory for my new MBP since RAM is no…
Lees meerI'm unable to upgrade XCode 11GM to 11.1 for some time on my Mid 2014 MacBook Pro running macOS Catalina. I've installed XCode from Mac AppStore ages ago (IIRC circa 2014), and upgraded step by step since then. Currently, …
Lees meerWant to install MacOS Catalina on a Mac? This article will show you how you can install and update MacOS Catalina upgrade on any compatible Mac. It’s a fairly straight forward process, and by following the steps you should be running the latest and …
Lees meerPrior to Catalina I used a script to trigger a sync to my iPhone and iPad - similar to: tell application "iTunes" tell every source whose kind is iPod to update end tell Catalina removed iTunes and iOS devices are n…
Lees meerGiven a Mac running macOS Mojave, does turning on the checkbox "Automatically keep my Mac up to date" in System Preferences > Software Update mean that Catalina will automatically be installed? I want only minor updates …
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