I have a Macbook with a 500GB hard drive, but I pay for the 2TB tier of iCloud storage. I'm imagining things like a virtual drive where I could park rarely used files, similar to a photostream which includes photos that aren't in my Pho…
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Lees meerI try to sync to folders, but with exceptions made by tags. So I learned, that I need different commands to build up that job. First I create a file of excluded files, which have a tag in orange or red set. Then I call rsync with this o…
Lees meerI try to sync to folders, but with exceptions made by tags. So I learned, that I need different commands to build up that job. First I create a file of excluded files, which have a tag in orange or red set. Then I call rsync with this o…
Lees meerI understand that I cannot use Bootcamp since the laptop is running on Apple Silicon. However I would like to avoid using a virtual machine or emulator. Is it possible to use disk utility to set up a partition manually? Or am I snookere…
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Lees meerIs there a way to reset macOS to factory settings (but without loss of my personal files, such as documents and music, in my Home directory)? There is an article about how to reinstall macOS: https://support.apple.com/HT204904, but it s…
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Lees meerI have recently had 2 folders become too full of items. I can save items (bookmarks and backups) to the folder but they do not register and there is no error message saying nothing happened. Result is I do not have some bookmarks I want…
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Lees meerMy kiddo recently got a iMac 12 mid 2011 model as a gift for homeschooling purposes. The device was working perfectly fine until the reset to remove the previous owners information as per the Apple web instructions. Holding "Options" on…
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Lees meerwhen I tried to unzip a zip file in macOS 13.3.1, shows error like this: I have tried to unwrap this file using unzip command: > file file.zip file.zip: Zip archive data, at least v2.0 to extract, compression method=deflate > unzip fil…
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