I recently ran a MacOS update and when it was finished... my Desktop was empty! Not only that, when I browsed to the Desktop folder, everything appeared to be gone. I save a lot of work to my desktop, so I had a minor panic attack thi…
Lees meerWell, that last post was a disaster on my part. Alright, let's try this again: I am using a 13" (Sorry, my memory was fuzzy and typed 15" on the last 2 posts) non-retina 2012 Macbook Pro with one SSD drive and a Hard drive and is curren…
Lees meerI have thousands of JPG images from a GoPro timelapse recorded in 5 minute increments throughout the day. I need to grab just the 12PM images, but i have to scroll down so far to get to the next file. Is there a way within Finder/Spotli…
Lees meerI have thousands of JPG images from a GoPro timelapse recorded in 5 minute increments throughout the day. I need to grab just the 12PM images, but i have to scroll down so far to get to the next file. Is there a way within Finder/Spotli…
Lees meerWell, that last post was a disaster on my part. Alright, let's try this again: I am using a 13" (Sorry, my memory was fuzzy and typed 15" on the last 2 posts) non-retina 2012 Macbook Pro with one SSD drive and a Hard drive and is curren…
Lees meerI recently ran a MacOS update and when it was finished... my Desktop was empty! Not only that, when I browsed to the Desktop folder, everything appeared to be gone. I save a lot of work to my desktop, so I had a minor panic attack thi…
Lees meerI recently ran a MacOS update and when it was finished... my Desktop was empty! Not only that, when I browsed to the Desktop folder, everything appeared to be gone. I save a lot of work to my desktop, so I had a minor panic attack thi…
Lees meerI have inherited a 2017 Macbook Pro running OSX Catalina, previously managed by a major corporation. Now want to clean install and start from scratch. How do I do that? With a bootable USB drive in the slot and the Option held down, I g…
Lees meerI have inherited a 2017 Macbook Pro running OSX Catalina, previously managed by a major corporation. Now want to clean install and start from scratch. How do I do that? With a bootable USB drive in the slot and the Option held down, I g…
Lees meerMy MacBook Pro has had a common adware virus on it ExploreSearchResults. I have already gone through all of my extensions and deleted anything related. Anything in the Applications folder that did not belong has been deleted. I also kno…
Lees meerWell, that last post was a disaster on my part. Alright, let's try this again: I am using a 13" (Sorry, my memory was fuzzy and typed 15" on the last 2 posts) non-retina 2012 Macbook Pro with one SSD drive and a Hard drive and is curren…
Lees meerI have thousands of JPG images from a GoPro timelapse recorded in 5 minute increments throughout the day. I need to grab just the 12PM images, but i have to scroll down so far to get to the next file. Is there a way within Finder/Spotli…
Lees meerI recently got a Mac, and have been getting acquainted with it. One thing I have run into is that the Mac appears to deviate from standards for keyboards for the Danish layout. In my specific situation I was trying to type @ which on a …
Lees meerThis is my script (zsh 5.8): # Consider parameter expansion of an unset variable to be an error set -u # Define and populate associative array typeset -A arr arr=(x xxx y yyy) echo $arr[x] # Outputs xxx # Test whether key x is pre…
Lees meerIf I open the finder and navigate to Go>Computer, then I am presented with all the mounts, while navigating to the root / using Shift+Command+G seems to be a different directory. In particular it seems to be only the main drive. Activat…
Lees meerIf I open the finder and navigate to Go>Computer, then I am presented with all the mounts, while navigating to the root / using Shift+Command+G seems to be a different directory. In particular it seems to be only the main drive. Activat…
Lees meerBy default in macOS zsh stores the history and sessions in the ~/.zsh_history & ~/.zsh_sessions files. However for one of my computers I want no Terminal/zsh history or session to be stored what so ever. Is there a way to disable this b…
Lees meerI know I can take screenshots of regions using the cmd + shift + 3/4/5 keys on the Mac. But I want to be able to select a specific non-rectangular region to capture. How do I capture freehand screenshots on the Mac? I believe this featu…
Lees meerI want to add cut command to right click menu in finder. Do not want to use xtrafinder at this time...catalina (sip) defaults write com.apple.finder AllowCutForItems 1 =did not work Would there exist an option of adding this specific f…
Lees meerSo, I bought a SanDisk Extreme Portable SSD thinking I can just plop the old PC files (pictures, schoolwork, old code repositories) onto it and then use the SSD with my new Macbook Pro. Turns out the format matters. I did some digging a…
Lees meerIf I open the finder and navigate to Go>Computer, then I am presented with all the mounts, while navigating to the root / using Shift+Command+G seems to be a different directory. In particular it seems to be only the main drive. Activat…
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