I'm working on how to switch between Desktop Workspaces where the hotkey stays the same if I rearrange the order of the Spaces in Mission Control. I also need more than the 16 max hotkeys that Apple allows. I currently have 21 Desktop W…
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Lees meerI want to record my singing. I want to hear myself sing as I sing. With QuickTime Player and Garage Band, there is a big delay between an external mic (Blue Snowball) and AirPods Pro headphones. When the AirPods Pro are also the microph…
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Lees meerI want to record my singing. I want to hear myself sing as I sing. With QuickTime Player and Garage Band, there is a big delay between an external mic (Blue Snowball) and AirPods Pro headphones. When the AirPods Pro are also the microph…
Lees meerI wanted to password-protect a PDF in Preview via the "Edit Permissions ..." dialog. I used a simple random password generator to create a reasonably secure password ... only to get it rejected with a "Password contains invalid characte…
Lees meerIs it bad for me to run Mac mini for an extended period of 7 days without turning off?
Lees meerI wanted to password-protect a PDF in Preview via the "Edit Permissions ..." dialog. I used a simple random password generator to create a reasonably secure password ... only to get it rejected with a "Password contains invalid characte…
Lees meerI've been having issues with universal control being intermittent between a Macbook Pro and 2 iPads. I thought maybe there is an issue with one of my devices, so I purchased a Mac Mini M1 16GB. This worked beautifully so I thought maybe…
Lees meerI have an Linux VM running Openmediavault on a separate machine which has a usb3 external drive plugged in. I use this for file shares and time machine backups. It has worked perfectly for years. However, with Monterey 12.5 on my MBP…
Lees meerI have an AppleScript with the lines: set thisScript to POSIX path of (path to me as text) do shell script "osascript " & thisScript & " | at now + 2 minutes" When it runs, I see the "at" job in queue, but then it never runs the script…
Lees meerI downloaded a Catalina installer which can't run because I am already on Monterey. I copied it to an external drive and put the internal copy in the Trash. When I try to empty the Trash, Finder complains that it is "in use" even afte…
Lees meerman ls list what the result of 'l contains and lists them in order, except the it doesn't mention what appears between group and size. Usually it is just a hyphen, but there is a disk image in my Trash that can't be deleted, which has "…
Lees meerI downloaded a Catalina installer which can't run because I am already on Monterey. I copied it to an external drive and put the internal copy in the Trash. When I try to empty the Trash, Finder complains that it is "in use" even afte…
Lees meerI downloaded a Catalina installer which can't run because I am already on Monterey. I copied it to an external drive and put the internal copy in the Trash. When I try to empty the Trash, Finder complains that it is "in use" even afte…
Lees meerHow can I launch a docker container from the command-line in MacOS? In Debian Linux, I can execute the following commands to install docker, launch a new docker container based on the latest version of Debian, and get a shell inside tha…
Lees meerI am trying to disable and remove some plist files. I originally tried doing this here, but it didnt work: Disable LaunchDaemon services However, it turns out that even after disabling SIP using csrutil disable and restarting the laptop…
Lees meerI can't boot nor select the disk. When normally boot, I only get a white screen. When I tried to select disk by booting while pressing Opt, I only get a white screen and the "Mouse" arrow. I tried to clear PVRAM by holding Opt+Cmd+R+P w…
Lees meerWe have 10 M1 Macs here and counting. (6 Studios, 4 Minis.) I've got several of those new Studio's to provision. With our fleet of 2013 Trashcans, having a master image worked great. It'd be extremely tedious and impractical to configur…
Lees meerI'm trying to write an AppleScript that will update the schedule boot/wake time of computer to be a hour from the time the script is run. My script below works, but every time I run it, I'm asked for admin password. Since I plan to sche…
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