I have a 2018 Mac Mini i7 with 32gb Ram. I have been having strange performance issues lately. I decided to reinstall the OS but it's still happening. I think I noticed the problems initially when I installed Mac OS Ventura. So I decide…
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Lees meerI have a MacBook Air (macOS 12.6.7) that I travel with and use in public places. Is there a way to prevent a USB drive (or any other external physical network connection via cable) from becoming operational (able to execute something vi…
Lees meerI need to click the Page Thumbnails pane (which is shown at the left side on the screenshot below) in a Pages document and then select all the pages there, ... and there is a problem in the first step. When I click the Page Thumbnails …
Lees meerChange Lock Screen settings on Mac This seems comprehensive but it does not give me the right information. Right now, when I lock my screen, I want to appreciate the video wallpaper on Sonoma. However, when locked, the screen turns off …
Lees meerIf I run crontab -e and add a cronjob 4 5 * * * "echo hi", the job will run at 5:04 of what timezone? Let's say the laptop displays time in PST in the top menu bar and sudo systemsetup -gettimezone is Time Zone: America/Los_Angeles. I t…
Lees meerAfter updating to Ventura a new username recommendation box has appeared in pretty much all my apps and I don't know how to disable it. I have 1password, the one I want, but it always appears behind the other suggestion box. This box ap…
Lees meerI have an Apple Watch 1st gen that does not power on anymore. I want to dispose of it. If I just recycle it (at a recycling center), can someone recover data off it? Should I try to destroy it first (maybe by hitting it with a hammer li…
Lees meerI am setting up my first MacBook. I copied by .bash_aliases file from my Linux Mint. After that, I can not open Terminal with a bash session. I just see a black screen and bash taking 100% of my CPU. I found that the problem is HISTSIZE…
Lees meerI need to click the Page Thumbnails pane (which is shown at the left side on the screenshot below) in a Pages document and then select all the pages there, ... and there is a problem in the first step. When I click the Page Thumbnails …
Lees meerI tried to install Adobe Photoshop Elements on my MBP with macOS 14 Beta but it threw an error saying "You must upgrade/update your system to install the product ... macOS 11.10 (Minimum required) (error code 195)." I'm aware that apps …
Lees meerI am new to lanuchctl. On my Mac running macos-ventura, I have created several plists that all load fine but will not run (neither by launchctl start nor by specifying RunAtLoad in the plist. (Thanks to Martin R for pointing me to the …
Lees meerI have the following plist stored at ~/Library/LaunchAgents/local.start_fswatch.plist EnvironmentVariables PATH/Users/dennis/bin:/usr/local/bin:/System/Cryptexes/App/usr/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/op…
Lees meerI have an Apple Watch 1st gen that does not power on anymore. I want to dispose of it. If I just recycle it (at a recycling center), can someone recover data off it? Should I try to destroy it first (maybe by hitting it with a hammer li…
Lees meerI have a 2010 MacBook Pro which I am trying to reinstall macOS High Sierra. I installed Windows 10 on it previously but encountered many problems while using it. So, I erased the SSD. Now, I am trying to freshly install macOS High Sierr…
Lees meerI have an Apple Watch 1st gen that does not power on anymore. I want to dispose of it. If I just recycle it (at a recycling center), can someone recover data off it? Should I try to destroy it first (maybe by hitting it with a hammer li…
Lees meerPlease I am using external devices with my Windows PC but I went to put it on my MacBook, so when I plug it in, it displays the storage as a Time Machine backup, then I mistakenly click on use it. After that, it was trying to do somethi…
Lees meerI'm using Thunderbird 102.13.0. I recently noticed, that mail downloaded (via IMAP) to my Inbox, disappear, when they are more than 6 months old, and I really mean "disappear": They are not in the "Deleted" folder either. I checked the …
Lees meerWith the amount of spam the Stack Exchange network has been seeing recently, I decided to reduce the number of clicks I need to flag these posts, by using a 'Watch Me Do' action in Automator. Click, click, click, makes a recording, whic…
Lees meerI used the link below to install Ubuntu 16 on my 2006 MacBook 2,1. It worked great, props to the contributors. I am interested in upgrading or switching distros on this machine. Will the config on this machine allow a typical upgrade …
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