I'm trying to understand the concept of a storage volume on macOS. How is it different from a partition? Does the term relate specifically to APFS or does it apply to other file systems on other OS as well ? I saw in the Apple develop…
Lees meerI have some big notes, using colored text and titles. On every device (iPhone 16 Pro, iPad, Mac with Apple silicon) they lag badly while scrolling (especially when using collapsible headings.) Does this seem to be a bad software optimiz…
Lees meerI have some big notes, using colored text and titles. On every device (iPhone 16 Pro, iPad, Mac with Apple silicon) they lag badly while scrolling (especially when using collapsible headings.) Does this seem to be a bad software optimiz…
Lees meerI have some big notes, using colored text and titles. On every device (iPhone 16 Pro, iPad, Mac with Apple silicon) they lag badly while scrolling (especially when using collapsible headings.) Does this seem to be a bad software optimiz…
Lees meerI have a Mac mini running 24 hours a day. It is full of music. I also have two smart televisions in the house (a Samsung and a JVC Fire TV). I would like to be able to browse my music library from a TV, using a native TV interface (ie …
Lees meer(Sequoia 15.2) I have a list of PDF files in a Desktop folder all beginning with the word "Messages" and including a phone number. I want to search for files with a specific area code. Here's a screenshot of the list with the unique par…
Lees meerI have some big notes, using colored text and titles. On every device (iPhone 16 Pro, iPad, Mac with Apple silicon) they lag badly while scrolling (especially when using collapsible headings.) Does this seem to be a bad software optimiz…
Lees meerI have some big notes, using colored text and titles. On every device (iPhone 16 Pro, iPad, Mac with apple silicon) they lag badly while scrolling (especially when using collapsible headings.) Seems to be a bad software optimization, hu…
Lees meerI am new to modern Macs. I connected my PG49WCD OLED monitor to a M4 Mac mini via HDMI. I think the monitor has an unusual subpixel layout. All text is rendered in a very distracting way that looks oversharpened with a strange color hal…
Lees meerOn the latest Sequoia (15.2), M1 Macbook Pro. Started happening yesterday. Any attempt to edit the body of an event causes a 1-2 minute freeze of the Calendar app, rendering it completely non-reactive/unusable in the moment when I place…
Lees meerWhen inspecting the byte stream of the macOS Big Sur installer SharedSupport.dmg, or any other similar installer like Ventura and so on, I see both a XAR and a DMG structure. To be more specific, it has: the XAR signature "78 61 72 21"…
Lees meerI like to organise my files into folders, and because of this I'm not a fan of the drop-down list that appears by default when you save a file on MacOS. I usually want to put the file in a specific folder, which means I usually have to …
Lees meerI'm trying to create a bootable USB stick with the Apple Hardware Test for my MacBook Pro 13" mid 2012 (MacBookPro9,2) I used the instructions here, but it seems that the USB Stick I get is not bootable. https://github.com/upekkha/Apple…
Lees meerI am looking for some help recovering a Time Machine backup. I have an older iMac running macOS 10.6.8 connected to an external Apple drive. Back in 2018 the original hard drive in the iMac failed. I was able to successfully install a n…
Lees meerI found that it can not ping from the shell script launched by cron. I wrote shell script like this: #!/bin/bash ping localhost echo "Exit status: $?" >> /tmp/ping.log And I configured crontab so that this script is executed at every …
Lees meerI found that it can not ping from the shell script launched by cron. I wrote shell script like this: #!/bin/bash ping localhost echo "Exit status: $?" >> /tmp/ping.log And I configured crontab so that this script is executed at every …
Lees meerI have an M1 Mac Mini that has both macOS Sequoia and Asahi Linux installed on the internal drive, in separate APFS containers, each with its own recovery partition. However, the boot menu (power button long press) only shows one recove…
Lees meerI found that it can not ping from the shell script launched by cron. I wrote shell script like this: #!/bin/bash ping localhost echo "Exit status: $?" >> /tmp/ping.log And I configured crontab so that this script is executed at every …
Lees meerI have an M1 Mac Mini that has both macOS Sequoia and Asahi Linux installed on the internal drive, in separate APFS containers, each with its own recovery partition. However, the boot menu (power button long press) only shows one recove…
Lees meerI found that it can not ping from the shell script launched by cron. I wrote shell script like this: #!/bin/bash ping localhost echo "Exit status: $?" >> /tmp/ping.log And I configured crontab so that this script is executed at every …
Lees meerI found that it can not ping from the shell script launched by cron. I wrote shell script like this: #!/bin/bash ping localhost echo "Exit status: $?" >> /tmp/ping.log And I configured crontab so that this script is executed at every …
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