Good day, I want to install macOS Big Sur onto a thumb drive but when I try to install it, I am told that 'This disk can't be used to start up your computer'. How can I fix it? Here is the output from diskutil list in terminal: /dev/d…
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Lees meerI have a MacBook Air (M1, 2020) running Ventura 13.5.2, and am trying to connect my camera (Canon PowerShot SX220 HS, released 2011) to it via USB. The Mac only has USB-C ports, and the camera only has a USB-A cable, but I join them usi…
Lees meerI have a Macbook Air (M1, 2020) running Ventura 13.5.2, and am trying to connect my camera (Canon PowerShot SX220 HS, released 2011) to it via USB. The Mac only has USB-C ports, and the camera only has a USB-A cable, but I join them usi…
Lees meerSo I was trying to reset my old MacBook Air (Early 2014) to find some use for it, but while doing that I happened to delete everything, including recovery. Now I'm stuck on a globe page with a WiFi selection and selecting my SSID does n…
Lees meerLong story short I am an idiot and ran rm -rf /* on my M2 MacBook Pro running macOS Ventura 13.3.1 while trying to clear out a directory. I was able to cancel it a few seconds after realizing what I had done, but not before deleting som…
Lees meerI want to run a few Android applications on my Mac computer somehow. However, I cannot find a way to. Things I tried: BlueStacks, doesn't run on Apple Silicon. Andy, but the download page returns an 404 error. BluestacksX, but this onl…
Lees meerSo I was trying to reset my old MacBook Air (Early 2014) to find some use for it, but while doing that I happened to delete everything, including recovery. Now I'm stuck on a globe page with a WiFi selection and selecting my SSID does n…
Lees meerReceived security alert from Apple/my phone that my Apple ID password needed to be changed because it was part of a data leak. How is that possible? It’s written down nowhere. Exists no where but Apple and my head. I changed it, of cour…
Lees meerMBP 13" 2020 (intel) macOS 11.7.10 My computer's battery drains from 100% to 0% over an 8-hour sleep about once a week. The wake reason is frequent EC.ACDetach (Maintenance); see the log bellow: log show --style syslog --last 5h | grep …
Lees meerI have a M1 MacBook Pro, 2021, with Sonoma 14. I attached a Seagate 16TB External USB 3.1 drive, to use as my time machine and an archive of video projects. https://www.seagate.com/support/external-hard-drives/desktop-hard-drives/expans…
Lees meerWriting in right-to-left languages on Mac apps I need to write in a right-to-left language, on my Mac computer. On my Windows computer, I used to press Control (⌃) + Right Shift (⇧) to switch the writing direction. I learned that there …
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Lees meerIs there a way to factory reset a external hard drive that is not showing up in finder or disk utility on Mac? I have tried many different cables and computers and the result is always the same. I have concluded that the disk is corrupt…
Lees meerI’m finding the Live Text feature on iOS to be incredibly useful. For example, it allows me to copy example sentences from the Duolingo language-learning app if I save the sentence as screenshot. I’d like to access this OCR data for mul…
Lees meerI’m finding the Live Text feature on iOS to be incredibly useful. For example, it allows me to copy example sentences from the Duolingo language-learning app if I save the sentence as screenshot. I’d like to access this OCR data for mul…
Lees meerMBP 13" 2020 (intel) macOS 11.7.10 My computer's battery drains from 100% to 0% over an 8-hour sleep about once a week. The wake reason is frequent EC.ACDetach (Maintenance); see the log bellow: log show --style syslog --last 5h | grep …
Lees meerRecently I purchased a new Macbook Pro (M3 Max) and used the Migration Assistant to essentially clone the existing Macbook Pro (Intel chip) I was using previously. How I stumbled upon asking this question on Ask Different. If this belon…
Lees meerI have to introduce a large number of small texts into a pdf with preview by CMD-c and CMD-v from a text file through the pdf. Each time I open a new area, the text annotation tool returns to zero opacity (ie transparent) and I have to …
Lees meerLong story short I am an idiot and ran rm -rf /* on my M2 MacBook Pro running macOS Ventura 13.3.1 while trying to clear out a directory. I was able to cancel it a few seconds after realizing what I had done, but not before deleting som…
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