I broke my laptop some how (I think from overheating). I dual-boot linux on a Macbook that has got a T2 chip. I can't boot up MacOS, but for some reason linux does. I've got a couple of files in my MacOS that I really need. My first th…
Lees meerI setup a lot of iPhones at work for our clients. For every phone I setup, I create the Apple ID and install a bunch of apps we use on site. Every time I go to install the first app I have to punch in the password, then get a popup "Thi…
Lees meerI've installed python via Macports and have now Python 3.12. (MacOS 11 comes with Python 3.8) When I run pip3 --version I get this: /Users/ingmar/Library/Python/3.8/lib/python/site-packages/pip (python 3.8) And more importendly, packag…
Lees meerSince updating to Sonoma, I have a very weird and annoying problem editing draft emails: I have a plain text draft email saved. If i then open it to edit the contents, I can move the cursor around, but if i put it at the beginning of a…
Lees meerI am on ARM-based MacOS Sonoma 14. For some reason, I have no luck with the 'copy' step from this answer to the same question on OS X. I have tried both with and without the 'use Option as Meta key' button, i.e, Esc+6 / Esc+Shift+6 & Op…
Lees meerI need to enable the locate command on a Mac. Why not mdfind first of all -- mdfind/Spotlight are not able to find any files under /opt, while that's a must for me: $ mdfind -name bootcaches 2024-01-11 16:15:36.525 mdfind[61135:1860130]…
Lees meerI wanted to know what's the power consumption of a MacBook Pro M2 Max or similar when sleeping, with Power Nap and network wakeup disabled. I've searched and different sources say between 1W to 3W. Anybody has scientific data?
Lees meerI am on ARM-based MacOS Sonoma 14. For some reason, I have no luck with the 'copy' step from this answer to the same question on OS X. I have tried both with and without the 'use Option as Meta key' button, i.e, Esc+6 / Esc+Shift+6 & Op…
Lees meerI wanted to know what's the power consumption of a MacBook Pro M2 Max or similar when sleeping, with Power Nap and network wakeup disabled. I've searched and different sources say between 1W to 3W. Anybody has scientific data?
Lees meerI have created a script in Node.js that listens to USB devices being connected. When a certain USB device is connected, it launches a macOS app. Everything works as expected while having the lid opened. I now want to incorporate that th…
Lees meerHere is the issue in a nutshell: My machine has taken to giving me an error dialog that begins with the following on every restart or shutdown and restart, manual or otherwise: You shut down your computer because of a problem. If you w…
Lees meerHere is the issue in a nutshell: My machine has taken to giving me an error dialog that begins with the following on every restart or shutdown and restart, manual or otherwise: You shut down your computer because of a problem. If you w…
Lees meerHere is the issue in a nutshell: My machine has taken to giving me an error dialog that begins with the following on every restart or shutdown and restart, manual or otherwise: You shut down your computer because of a problem. If you w…
Lees meerMy 15" MacBook Pro starts up and goes to the disk utilities. Following a solution to close the utility window I then see the "Choose Startup Disk" but there isn't a system to choose from so I may click on continue. I have tried using D…
Lees meerConnect to the host using SSH at the specified IP address @Visual Studio Code. Issue: There is a recurring problem where, after approximately 30-40 minutes, the system automatically logs out from the specified IP address, prompting the …
Lees meerI'm making a snare drum in pages to add to the shapes but I can't unite them. I'm running MacOS Monterey 12.6.8, Macbook Air 13" early 2015, Pages 13.0.
Lees meerMy Internet speed is exactly 25Mbps, which is the Apple TV 4K's streaming requirement. (but it is right at the borderline). So When I am streaming a movie using the TV app on the Mac, is there a way to tell whether it is 1080p or 4K it …
Lees meerThis is an improvement to previously discussed: Constantly check folder for specific file type and run terminal command with new filename as an argument I used to love Automator for such tasks, but found in this task passing arguments …
Lees meerFollowing the output of the locate command, to enable the locate command on a Mac, I did: sudo launchctl load -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.locate.plist but it returns immediately, instead of "take some time", and ls -l /va…
Lees meerI am a mobile app developer developing a pair of iOS apps that use device location for search, and I’m trying to put constraints on the dimensions necessary for a cells in a quadtree-based location mapping system. The minimum cell size…
Lees meerI have MacBook Pro Mid 2012 whose HDD I replaced with SSD two years back and continue to work with High Sierra until I get end of support few months back. So, I upgraded my OS to Catalina and since then it was working fine until few day…
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