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Sticky bit on /tmp doesn't do what it's supposed to?

woensdag 21 december 2022 inAsk Different (Tips-Tricks-Tutorials)

I frequently run a script that creates three files in /tmp and then moves them to the destination directory. I was puzzled by the error messages: mv: ./20170608-l.gpx: set owner/group (was: 503/0): Operation not permitted mv: ./2017060…

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iPad needs to be continuously approved to use iCloud account. How to stop that?

woensdag 21 december 2022 inAsk Different (Tips-Tricks-Tutorials)

Since a few weeks (never had this problem before that), I am receiving notifications on my Macbook asking to approve my iPad to use iCloud. I have approved it hundreds of times but the notifications keep appearing even if my iPad (calle…

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How to “sync” a laptop to an external hard drive if the hard drive is larger than the laptop drive?

woensdag 21 december 2022 inAsk Different (Tips-Tricks-Tutorials)

I have what should be a really simple question but Google Search is failing me. I have a lot of data (TBs) on Dropbox. My laptop hard drive has only 500 GB. For the last few years, I’ve been using the sync feature on Dropbox and only do…

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How to cancel authorization to filter network content in Macbook?

woensdag 21 december 2022 inAsk Different (Tips-Tricks-Tutorials)

I'm currently using Kaspersky on my macbook. I only want to use its file anti-virus feature, but it forces me to allow it to filter network content. I emailed Kaspersky officials and they said it was necessary and this feature cannot be…

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Applescript to Search a Text File for a specific value and then copy that value into a string

woensdag 21 december 2022 inAsk Different (Tips-Tricks-Tutorials)

EDIT #2 @CJK and @mockman so using both your ideas I've created this god awful long script that does the trick for the first offset value in the xml and first marker value shown in the xml Now the goal would be to see how run or loop th…

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How to cancel authorization to filter network content in Macbook?

woensdag 21 december 2022 inAsk Different (Tips-Tricks-Tutorials)

I'm currently using Kaspersky on my macbook. I only want to use its file anti-virus feature, but it forces me to allow it to filter network content. I emailed Kaspersky officials and they said it was necessary and this feature cannot be…

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Applescript to Search a Text File for a specific value and then copy that value into a string

woensdag 21 december 2022 inAsk Different (Tips-Tricks-Tutorials)

EDIT #2 @CJK and @mockman so using both your ideas I've created this god awful long script that does the trick for the first offset value in the xml and first marker value shown in the xml Now the goal would be to see how run or loop th…

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Applescript to Search a Text File for a specific value and then copy that value into a string

woensdag 21 december 2022 inAsk Different (Tips-Tricks-Tutorials)

I have this xml file: …

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Applescript to Search a Text File for a specific value and then copy that value into a string

dinsdag 20 december 2022 inAsk Different (Tips-Tricks-Tutorials)

I have this xml file: …

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I have 1 TB disk but I'm only seeing 747 GB. How to recover the 253 GB missing?

dinsdag 20 december 2022 inAsk Different (Tips-Tricks-Tutorials)

I am not sure how to solve this. I used to have macOS Monterey on my iMac late 2015 and it was running a bit slow. So I removed it, formatted the drive and did a fresh install of macOS Mojave, which makes it run smooth. However, the dri…

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Applescript to Search a Text File for a specific value and then copy that value into a string

dinsdag 20 december 2022 inAsk Different (Tips-Tricks-Tutorials)

I have this xml file: …

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How to get user account uuid MacOS (not machine uuid) via terminal?

maandag 19 december 2022 inAsk Different (Tips-Tricks-Tutorials)

I need to get the user's UUID by username from the terminal (not the machine itself, but the local user).

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Brother printer on Mac scanner function no longer works

maandag 19 december 2022 inAsk Different (Tips-Tricks-Tutorials)

I have a Brother MFC-2740DW that I have been using for many years. For over a year I have had it connected to the local network via wifi. It has a scanner function, which I normally use via the Printer application on my Mac. Today the s…

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Brother printer on Mac scanner function no longer works

maandag 19 december 2022 inAsk Different (Tips-Tricks-Tutorials)

I have a Brother MFC-2740DW that I have been using for many years. For over a year I have had it connected to the local network via wifi. It has a scanner function, which I normally use via the Printer application on my Mac. Today the s…

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MacBook suddenly start to flicker

maandag 19 december 2022 inAsk Different (Tips-Tricks-Tutorials)

I have a MacBook Pro, Late 2011 with 8GB RAM and a 512GB SSD I installed Monterey using the OpenCore patcher method. Suddenly at random times, the screen starts to flicker. Please see the attached screenshot. I'm doubting faulty RAM but…

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Photos.app doesn't show portrait depth adjustment on Mac on shared photo

maandag 19 december 2022 inAsk Different (Tips-Tricks-Tutorials)

I'm trying to adjust the portrait depth (f-stop) on Photos.app on my Mac. For example, here is a photo where this option is available: Generally, this works great. However, I recently took several photos on my son's phone, and after I …

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Why is "About trying to modify my system settings"?

maandag 19 december 2022 inAsk Different (Tips-Tricks-Tutorials)

I got this popup completely out of nowhere: At the time it happened, I was installing homebrew for the first time, in a zsh terminal window. This doesn't seem relevant but there isn't much more information I can give. After I'd already…

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Photos.app doesn't show portrait depth adjustment on Mac on shared photo

maandag 19 december 2022 inAsk Different (Tips-Tricks-Tutorials)

I'm trying to adjust the portrait depth (f-stop) on Photos.app on my Mac. For example, here is a photo where this option is available: Generally, this works great. However, I recently took several photos on my son's phone, and after I …

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Custom macOS application bundle requires Rosetta even through it shouldn't

maandag 19 december 2022 inAsk Different (Tips-Tricks-Tutorials)

Since there is currently no DrJava application bundle for macOS, I thought I could be the one to make it because I want to use it anyway. From just searching on the internet I made the following application bundle: - DrJava.app - MacO…

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Setting the account picture from a JPG or PNG on Ventura

maandag 19 december 2022 inAsk Different (Tips-Tricks-Tutorials)

In the past it was possible to set the account picture from a image file on the disk. You'd drag the images from Finder to the user account picture, and voila it's done. But this doesn't work on Ventura (13.1). Dragging the image doesn'…

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How to switch to displayport on 2008 MacBook without OS-X

maandag 19 december 2022 inAsk Different (Tips-Tricks-Tutorials)

I have a 2008 Unibody MacBook (A1278). The original OS is broken, and I'm looking to install another OS in it's place (probably Ubuntu 20.04). However, the LCD panel is intermittently (mostly) nonfunctional. So I want to use an external…

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