Piping the results of a command to less in Terminal randomly produces Suspended (tty output) in about every 1 in 20 tries of a piped command such as: ls -l | less Suspended (tty output) [1] 2051 2052 This should never happen. I tried …
Lees meerOn an external FAT32 hard drive there is a file in the Bin (.Trashes) which I cannot delete. Even when I try to delete it on the command line using rm offending_file I get an error rm: offending_file: No such file or directory I also …
Lees meerOn an external FAT32 hard drive there is a file in the Bin (.Trashes) which I cannot delete. Even when I try to delete it on the command line using rm offending_file I get an error rm: offending_file: No such file or directory I also …
Lees meerContext: I've recently had my machine pretty much destroyed by the Dropbox upgrade. After a lot of work I managed to get everything back and working (with the older version of Dropbox). The only thing thing now faulty is a bizarre probl…
Lees meerContext: I've recently had my machine pretty much destroyed by the Dropbox upgrade. After a lot of work I managed to get everything back and working (with the older version of Dropbox). The only thing thing now faulty is a bizarre probl…
Lees meerTerminal has this standard linux X window behavior. Is there anyway (including non-free utilities) to get this feature universally in macOS Ventura?
Lees meerFollowing instructions for a different problem, I reset my MacBook's NVRAM with the result that now the previously disabled loud startup chime is back when powering on the system. I followed the suggested solution to boot from a Mac OS …
Lees meerI noticed a hidden empty folder on my desktop, .J5NASODWVY73, created and last opened 2012-03-16. I have full permissions and I can trash it, but after every restart / reboot, the folder reappears, date unchanged. This happens as part o…
Lees meerI asked this on the Ubuntu exchange where I personally think it belongs, but they directed me here so please don't close this and tell me to ask there. I'm booting from the Mac OS X Lion installation disk that comes with the laptop and …
Lees meerI'm trying to type "pi" (unicode 03C0) via the Unicode + Hex Input setup. That generally works fine; like when I hold down the option key and type 2014, I get the emdash character (like this: —). However, the code for pi does nothing. N…
Lees meerI always set up my mac to use (Australian) English but if I installed it choosing a different language, would that change the names of the user folders such as Desktop, Documents, Downloads, etc? And if so, would the localized names onl…
Lees meerI'm creating a cool script to bother me by asking to close some distracting apps that I open without realising. For that, I do this: MINUTES_UNTIL_ASK_TO_CLOSE=`osascript -e 'set T to text returned of (display dialog "Do you really want…
Lees meerContext: I've recently had my machine pretty much destroyed by the Dropbox upgrade. After a lot of work I managed to get everything back and working (with the older version of Dropbox). The only thing thing now faulty is a bizarre probl…
Lees meerI want to use socks5 proxies on my ios device for some specific apps like tiktok & instagram to change my location and have more privacy. I‘ve tried to set them up in apps like shadowrocket & potatso. Also tried these apps with ethernet…
Lees meerI always set up my mac to use (Australian) English but if I installed it choosing a different language, would that change the names of the user folders such as Desktop, Documents, Downloads, etc? And if so, would the locals names only a…
Lees meerAfter updating to macOS 13.3, I cannot login. My username/password seems to be accepted, but then I get a blank screen (with wallpaper) with a circular spinner. My home directory is on an external drive, but the correct path is in my ac…
Lees meerI want to get a HIF image from my Sony camera published to AVIF for the Web and it would appear ffmpeg can't recognise the "HEIF Image HEVC Main 10 Profile" file format: ffmpeg -hide_banner -loglevel error -i milan2023.HIF -c:v libaom-a…
Lees meerI want to use socks5 proxies on my ios device for some specific apps like tiktok & instagram to change my location and have more privacy. I‘ve tried to set them up in apps like shadowrocket & potatso. Also tried these apps with ethernet…
Lees meerI have an iPad running iPadOS 16.4 and a MacMini M2 running 13.2.1 On the Mac I have shared a number of folders (including Documents) On the iPad Files shows a list of shared Directories (including Documents & my home directory) If I se…
Lees meerI want to use socks5 proxies on my ios device for some specific apps like tiktok & instagram to change my location and have more privacy. I‘ve tried to set them up in apps like shadowrocket & potatso. Also tried these apps with ethernet…
Lees meerI am trying to update Firefox on my school computer but I need an Admin password to do this. any idea how i should update Firefox? My macbook is a 13inch m2 pro that has the school weird app store called self service which only lets you…
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