The system data on my mac is taking more than 110GB of space. Is this normal? The ~/Library/Containers folder is 64G. Can I delete this folder? Edit: I installed OmnidiskSwiper, Its tells me that the folder Library has 110GB, but than …
Lees meerI'm having trouble on a Ventura macOS 13.0 system where a number of files on my disk have been tagged with a seemingly emtpy xattr called com.apple.provenance. I would not ordinarily concern myself with this, but it's causing an issue w…
Lees meerApplescripts for Ventura's new System Settings My old Applescript stopped working on Ventura. Any ideas on how to fix this script? tell application "System Preferences" reveal anchor "TextToSpeech" of pane id "com.apple.preferen…
Lees meerI want to map Cmd+J/Cmd+K to Ctrl+Tab/Ctrl+Shift+Tab only when Chrome is active, in Windows, it's quite simple to implement by using AutoHotkey: #IfWinActive ahk_exe chrome.exe ^j::Send ^+{Tab} ^k::Send ^{Tab} #IfWinActive How to a…
Lees meerI accidentally formatted the SSD part of an APFS-formatted Fusion Drive during an SSD upgrade. Well, not accidentally, I did it on purpose wrongfully thinking that the Apple SSD wouldn't be needed anymore. The original hard drive is unt…
Lees meerI would like to close (not quit) a specific app using either applescript run in automator or in automator itself My pitiful attempt: tell application "lghub" close end tell Its result: "lghub got an error: Can’t continue close.…
Lees meerIn MacOS 13.0 (and 13.0.1) when I paste a link into an email using Mail, it converts the URL into a preview of the web site. How do I turn that off and just have plain links? I just want to see the URL I pasted. Previous version of MacO…
Lees meerCurrently my iMac Retina 5K, 27-inch, 2017 has 4 x 8GB DDR4 (2400MHZ) OEM RAM installed. I wanted to max out the RAM to the full 64GB allowed for my model, so I purchased 4 x 16GB DDR4 RAM (2400MHz) to replace the OEM RAM with Integral …
Lees meerI just purchased a MacBook Pro early-2015. I updated the operating system to Monterey 12.6.1 and now whenever the laptop goes to sleep, I'm forced to hold the power button to hard shut off and then immediately press the power button to …
Lees meerI am trying to virtualize my ISO of macOS High Sierra 10.12, 64 bits, but when I try to virtualize this ISO I got this message from my VM (VirtualBox) What happened here? How can I solve this problem? When I set up my VM, I followed the…
Lees meerI was in an electronics store and needed to know if any of their powerbanks would charge my 2019 MacBook Pro. The powerbanks outputted 20 watts, and I know if a MacBook is provided with too low wattage, it simply won't charge, but I don…
Lees meerI can open an external hard drive with a windows computer but not with my MacBook Pro. About my MBP: OS: Monterey 12.5.1 (21G83) Hardware: MacBook Pro (15-inch, 2018) Processor: 2.9 GHz 6-Core Intel Core i9 Memory: 32 GB 2400 MHz DDR4 …
Lees meerI was in an electronics store and needed to know if any of their powerbanks would charge my 2019 MacBook Pro. The powerbanks outputted 20 watts, and I know if a MacBook is provided with too low wattage, it simply won't charge, but I don…
Lees meerI have installed the EOS Webcam Utility from the Canon website. After plugging in my camera (Canon M50 Mark II), it works great with OBS software, Google Hangouts and Skype, but not with Slack. Slack seems not to recognize my video inpu…
Lees meerI have several Apple devices at home, but one of them is hosting some services and needs to be on a specific wifi, while the rest of my devices should be on a different network. Is it possible to change the preferred wifi for a single d…
Lees meerWhat in the world is "Wandering Wifi LLC" in my Login Items? A google search was unproductive...
Lees meerI have installed the EOS Webcam Utility from the Canon website. After plugging in my camera (Canon M50 Mark II), it works great with OBS software, Google Hangouts and Skype, but not with Slack. Slack seems not to recognize my video inpu…
Lees meerAll I want is to send an email when the battery is lower than 10% on my Mac. I wonder if I can use the Automator app on my Mac to address this issue.
Lees meerFor some reason, the latest Mac OS - unprompted - insists that I press the FN key for the functionality that is displayed on functions. Why? I want the functions for brightness or volume set as default. How do I do that? And how do I ch…
Lees meerMy goal is to have access to the install of my old Mac on my new Mac without operating two Macs side-by-side. The configurations are: Old Mac: El Capitan 10.11.6 Intel processor New Mac Ventura 13.0 Apple M1 processor The reason…
Lees meerMy Macbook Pro 15" Retina (late 2019) stopped working suddenly the other. I took it to an Apple technician and he says that there is a problem with the motherboard or something like that. They quoted for a replacement and it costs an ar…
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