I am looking for a way to accomplish the following on Monterey (12.6): In the past I would symlink some Mac OS system folders (Documents, Downloads and Desktop) to folders already synced to a Synology NAS and have the "links" act like t…
Lees meerI have a MacBook Pro (15", Mid 2015; 2.2GHz Quad-Core Intel Core i7; 16GB 1600 MHz DDR3). Recently it started to go slowly and erratically; eventually flashing onto the screen, momentarily, 'serious error'. It became unusable so I took…
Lees meerI am looking for a way to accomplish the following on Monterey (12.6): How to symlink some Mac OS system folders (Documents, Downloads and Desktop) to folders already synced to a Synology NAS and have the "links" act like the "original …
Lees meerPicture (jpg) info has 3 dates/times: Created, Modified and Content Created How can I list the files in the Terminal showing Content Created, ls with any option only shows Created. For info, I have a large amount of pictures taken by th…
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Lees meerI am looking to 'restore' an old iOS game (Mega Jump)—it was unfortunately never updated with a 64-bit release, so can't be run on any iDevices running iOS 11 or later. This isn't an obstacle for me personally, as I'm just looking to do…
Lees meerWe just registered the company domain on Apple Business Manager and enabled federation. A lot of co-workers used their work email for iCloud already and are now asked to migrate those "personal" accounts. Clearly those accounts are not …
Lees meerThe cylindrical Mac Pros (2013 model year) are inexpensive as used machines. Can one develop Apple Silicon software on intel Macs or otherwise produce faster development in Xcode than the M1 Mac mini available at the $700 price point i…
Lees meerIn Activity Monitor, I'm seeing this: Is 1k/900 too much power? I believe I know what is causing it-- but will this increase my power bill? Thanks.
Lees meerI have "smart" quotes turned off in my System Preferences, because I hate having a computer that thinks it is smarter than me, and it breaks so many things. But for some reason the Messages app has decided to ignore my explicitly state…
Lees meerThe cylindrical Mac Pros (2013 model year) are inexpensive as used machines. Can one develop Apple Silicon software on intel Macs or otherwise produce faster development in Xcode than the M1 Mac mini available at the $700 price point i…
Lees meerMy single user (let's say u0) has over the years become cluttered. I decided to create a new admin user u1, and incrementally migrate to it. However I'm bumping into obstacles. First up I'm switching u1's shell to bash. So I want to bre…
Lees meerI am looking to 'restore' an old iOS game (Mega Jump)—it was unfortunately never updated with a 64-bit release, so can't be run on any iDevices running iOS 11 or later. This isn't an obstacle for me personally, as I'm just looking to do…
Lees meerI have a very short term need on my own home network that nobody else has any access to whatsoever, to allow one mac to SSH into another and issue a restart command. I want to script this so that it's just a doubleclick on an Automator…
Lees meerI have a very short term need on my own home network that nobody else has any access to whatsoever, to allow one mac to SSH into another and issue a restart command. I want to script this so that it's just a doubleclick on an Automator…
Lees meerI have a very short term need on my own home network that nobody else has any access to whatsoever, to allow one mac to SSH into another and issue a restart command. I want to script this so that it's just a doubleclick on an Automator…
Lees meerI have a very short term need on my own home network that nobody else has any access to whatsoever, to allow one mac to SSH into another and issue a restart command. I want to script this so that it's just a doubleclick on an Automator…
Lees meerI've been very successfully using unison to back up my personal data to a remote machine. The problem is that I cannot seem to be using it to back up my pictures as I always get the error Error in scanning directory: Operation not permi…
Lees meerPreviously when I used an Intel Macbook Pro with 10.14.6, I could press ⌘ + space and instantly start typing and Spotlight would register everything I typed, but since switching to an M1 Pro Macbook Pro with 12.6.1, it takes about a hal…
Lees meerWhy can I not delete more than 15 emails in AT&T/Yahoo email at one time? I have a folder called "Unwanted_Yahoo" in the mail app that contains emails from the Yahoo inbox that I have moved to that folder. Now I want to delete many of…
Lees meerI'm inserting a new image into an existing Keynote document. When the image is inserted, it is on the front layer covering some other objects. I would like to send it to the back layer. Is there a built-in Applescript command to do that…
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