I use DisplayLink Manager to operate my dock and use external monitors. To do its job, it requires Screen Recording privilages. A blue icon in the menu bar indicates that "DisplayLink Manager is capturing your screen". I appreciate this…
Lees meerAt this point I have some 170 GB in iCloud drive. My mobile documents folder has copies of 120 GB of these. I need more local space for a project. How can I force a smaller local cache of iCloud documents?
Lees meerAt this point I have some 170 GB in icloud drive. My mobile-documents folder has copies of 120 GB of these. I need more local space for a project. How can I force a smaller local cache of icloud documents?
Lees meerI have an application that binds a menu item to trigger on ⌘]. When I set the US input source, I press ⌘] in order to trigger that item. However, when I switch the input source to QWERTZ (German), the trigger changes to ⌘Ä automatically…
Lees meerI bought this controller and tried to connect it to Mac. Unfortunately it didn't work. When I am trying to press the P3 button the first light is blinking, but doesn't connect to Mac. And then it returns to the initial state like in the…
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 meerA family member routinely unplugs their backup drive (because no one has enough USB ports) and then forgets to plug it back in for weeks or months. How do I make Time Machine notify and warn them if a backup hasn't taken place for sever…
Lees meerI have an application that binds a menu item to trigger on ⌘]. When I set the US input source, I press ⌘] in order to trigger that item. However, when I switch the input source to QWERTZ (German), the trigger changes to ⌘Ä automatically…
Lees meerI installed a new logic board and thought I had to reinstall MacOS, so I upgraded to the final release of Big Sur. I've realized the bash shell is no longer being used, and now MacOS is using zsh, and simply editing my bash_profile file…
Lees meersince nano ~/.bash_profile is no longer working with zsh, where is the new location for making changes to bash? Here is where it IS NOT: ~/.bash_profile, ~/.bashrc, ~/.profile, ~/.zshprofile, ~/.zshrc Since I have already tried all of …
Lees meerI swap in multiple Time Machine backup drives on my main desktop to have redundant backups. At least I try to. However, lately backups to one of my disks seems to always fail, possibly because Time Machine only tries to backup to the ot…
Lees meerA family member routinely unplugs their backup drive (because no one has enough USB ports) and then forgets to plug it back in for weeks or months. How do I make Time Machine notify and warn them if a backup hasn't taken place for sever…
Lees meerkeyboard input sometimes loses or drops characters when typing in Windows VM running on Mac? I'm running Win11 using UTM on MacOS Sequoia 15.2. I was typing in commands in PowerShell and occasionally I can't type certain letters? I was …
Lees meerThis on an Intel iMac running Sequoia I have logwatch running on a Raspberry Pi which works just fine. However, I'm having trouble getting logwatch on a Mac to send the results via email. On both the Mac and the Pi I'm using MSMTP as an…
Lees meerA family member routinely unplugs their backup drive (because no one has enough USB ports) and then forgets to plug it back in for weeks or months. How do I make Time Machine notify and warn them if a backup hasn't taken place for sever…
Lees meerI'm on macOS 15.2. I guess I have somehow clicked "may not discover" devices on the local network for Chrome. Now, Chrome can't open any website on my local network and reports "address unreachable". I can still access all these sites i…
Lees meerI'm on macOS 15.2 and every time I open Zoom or Google Meet the 'Turn on Reactions' pop up appears. Text "Turn on Reactions Google Chrome has turned off Reaction Effect. Click on camera icon and select Reactions to add more impact to yo…
Lees meerI'm on macOS 15.2. I guess I have somehow clicked "may not discover" devices on the local network for Chrome. Now, Chrome can't open any website on my local network and reports "address unreachable". I can still access all these sites i…
Lees meerAfter switching to iPhone/Messages from Android, Messages shows hundreds of unread messages and “Mark Read” does nothing: Is there a way to filter to unread messages?
Lees meerI want to detect the presence of MDM (Mobile Device Management) in my Mac, which is in recovery mode with no OS present? Any commands or APIs that would help. Although I tried almost all the commands but it won't work in recovery mode w…
Lees meerI have an Apple Watch which I purchased over the summer. (series 9). It only has GPS. I would now like to switch to cellular. Is there a way I can upgrade my watch that doesn't have cellular to have that feature?
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