I purchased a used MacBook Pro 2018 recently and it has developed an audio issue I cannot figure out. When trying to play sound through the speakers whatever the first sound I try to play after a restart works fine. Whether I play a You…
Lees meerI’m new here. Here’s something I’ve been wondering for some time. How’s it possible that iPhone receives emails from a personal Gmail account in near real time, despite using IMAP and not Exchange (ActiveSync)? Is Gmail somehow capable …
Lees meerWith Monterey's Mail.app, there is now the network protection feature which is great and I want to keep it on. When you open an email, it prevents image loading and has a banner that says "Your network preferences prevent content from l…
Lees meerI have read Wrap words in Pages but my question is different. How do I prevent a specific word from being hyphenated (because Pages is wrong - "IS-P:er" (!!))? I have a vague memory that there used to be a list of words, in the settings…
Lees meerI want to press "Don't Allow" but it has become a no-op, doesn't act. I don't want to press OK. This does not show up in the Force Quit applications option. I opened VS code in the Desktop directory by mistake and it started to ask me f…
Lees meerLong story short - I have to tether at home for a few months. I have noticed my green icon flashing up while nothing of mine is connected (100% not mine). I'm a bit nervous that others are using basic dictionary attempts to connect. Cha…
Lees meerI looked in my Notification Center on macOS and see two apps that I did not install: Where did they come from? Are they spyware? Malware? How can I get rid of them? In response to the suggestions below, I searched in Finder for system…
Lees meerI format a flash drive as exFAT on macOS (M1 Pro) but after the format, diskutil list shows the partition as NTFS and it also shows up as NTFS on OpenBSD and Linux. This is strange and I’m not sure what is happening
Lees meerI want to press "Don't Allow" but it has become a no-op, doesn't act. I don't want to press OK. This does not show up in the Force Quit applications option. I opened VS code in the Desktop directory by mistake and it started to ask me f…
Lees meerI’ve tried using target display mode and AirPlay - neither seem to work. Am I missing something? Surely there’s a way to join the two…?
Lees meerI looked in my Notification Center on macOS and see two apps that I did not install: I cannot find them in the Applications folder, nor any other trace of them on my system via Finder. Where did they come from? Are they spyware? Malwa…
Lees meerI understand that MacOS update usually means Enough Disk space Previous OS version isn't too old At least x% charge Despite all the above, my macOS Monterey upgrade to 12.4 failed. When I did df -H the below is shown Filesystem …
Lees meerI am using moviepy to automate clips to make a video. I am using python 3.10. When I run from pycharm, it is using performance cores to render my videos. But when I moved to crontab to schedule this task, it is running on efficiency cor…
Lees meerI found this background process running on my Mac, and I have absolutely no idea what it is. I've looked through activity monitor and can't find it anywhere. I also can't find an installation location for it. I'm running the first publ…
Lees meerI found this background process running on my Mac, and I have absolutely no idea what it is. I've looked through activity monitor and can't find it anywhere. I also can't find an installation location for it. I'm running the first publ…
Lees meerI've looked up what TCP ports iMessage uses to communicate with and Apple says: 80 (TCP) 443 (TCP) 5223 (TCP) In my particular use-case, web browsing (80, 443) is not allowed. But we would like to allow the use of iMessage. Is this p…
Lees meerI normally toggle the Single Application Mode via the terminal or in the app TinkerTool. However, I wish I could toggle it with just one click and without going through the menus of TinkerTool, for example via an icon in the top panel. …
Lees meerAt my workplace we all have Macbook Pro laptops (different models and versions of MacOS) Went to update one and found it had 110 of its 128gb taken up by System, some digging found that most of this was Microsoft Outlook emails. Had to …
Lees meerI have a zip file, within it I have another zip file, and within that file I have a txt file. When I unzip the outermost file with Apple's archive utility, it unarchives the inner files automatically. Is there a way to prevent this from…
Lees meerI'm trying to watch a certain folder and run a script if there is a change to the folder. For this, I'm using below fswatch command (OS is Monterey [12.0.1]): fswatch -o ~/Desktop/iosBuildZips | xargs -n1 -I{} ~/Desktop/scripts/script.s…
Lees meerThis on a 2017 21" Retina iMac running MacOS 12.4. SilentKnight from The Eclectic Light Company says that XProtect needs to be updated: XProtect 2159, 64 should be 2161, 65 "Install system data files and security updates" is enabled in …
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