Occasionally when I plug in an external screen, my mac somehow won't let me move my mouse/trackpad to some parts of my display. Here's what's going on with my machine right now: I should note: MacOS 11.6; 15 inch 2019; 2.3 GH 8 core…
Lees meerMy MacBook Pro was filled up by old iPhone backups. I need to clear them up before I can use it to do backup for the 4th phone of my family. I found I had a 2 TB external SSD and tried to copy things on it but failed. The system said th…
Lees meerI have a Bose S1 Pro portable PA speaker, which has an audio-out port. I wish to record from this into the Voice Memos app on an iPhone 12 Pro. I'm a little confused as to which cable I need to purchase in order to achieve this. The pag…
Lees meerReducing wear on solid state drives seems to be more and more important as we see SSD usage increasing. With the newer MacBook Pros (2016 on) and now the much more expensive 2021 MacBook Pros (MacBookPro18,1-4), some of us have alarm be…
Lees meerI'm on mac OS 11.5. Last week I wanted to update my xcode command line tools and found this command on the internet softwareupdate --all --install --force Update to the xcode command line tools went fine, but this also tried to update …
Lees meerI'm on mac OS 11.5. Last week I wanted to update my xcode command line tools and found this command on the internet softwareupdate --all --install --force Update to the xcode command line tools went fine, but this also tried to update …
Lees meerWhy is the Spotlight search index not finding what seems to me to be the most obvious result for a core app? I search for the Calendar and it gives me a bunch of useless results. I did a fresh OS update, cleaned the index, forced a re-i…
Lees meerI'm on mac OS 11.5. Last week I wanted to update my xcode command line tools and found this command on the internet softwareupdate --all --install --force Update to the xcode command line tools went fine, but this also tried to update …
Lees meerWhy is the Spotlight search index not finding what seems to me to be the most obvious result for a core app? I search for the Calendar and it gives me a bunch of useless results. I did a fresh OS update, cleaned the index, forced a re-i…
Lees meerI am modifying file attributes, however I am modifying them for distribution to non-technical people. Is there anyway I can write attributes to a file and they actually persist when I move them from location to location? I am transferri…
Lees meerWhy is the Spotlight search index not finding what seems to me to be the most obvious result for a core app? I search for the Calendar and it gives me a bunch of useless results. I did a fresh OS update, cleaned the index, forced a re-i…
Lees meerI frequently open a folder full of images at once using Preview. I love the application dearly because it's so darn fast; I can touch the down arrow and scroll through them full size and instantly absorb "the essence" of the folder or s…
Lees meerI owned a MacBook Pro with an original Apple-certified SSD. I erased my entire disk (using the erase option in disk utility) with TRIM disabled, then reinstalled the Mac OS and enabled it as soon as when I got into the system. Would my …
Lees meerMac Mini running High Sierra. Three partitions on the internal drive: macOS (HFS+ Journaled), Windows (Bootcamp) and a separate NTFS partition for Windows applications. (I know there's multiple threads on similar topics but they all ap…
Lees meerI owned a MacBook Pro with an original Apple-certified SSD. I erased my entire disk (using the erase option in disk utility) with TRIM disabled, then reinstalled the Mac OS and enabled it as soon as when I got into the system. Would my …
Lees meerI have an old .m4r file on my Macbook, which I used AirDrop to copy to my iPhone 13. There's no way to set it as my ringtone, however. In the ringtone settings page, it's not there, and if I go to the Files app I can open the .m4r file …
Lees meerI have an old .m4r file on my Macbook, which I used AirDrop to copy to my iPhone 13. There's no way to set it as my ringtone, however. In the ringtone settings page, it's not there, and if I go to the Files app I can open the .m4r file …
Lees meerI have an osas script used to auto mount some network folders for AD users in our mac os catalina. whenever it tries to load, it asks for permission from the user, and the only solution if the user has clicked dont allow, is to delete …
Lees meerBackground: I have several zsh scripts in ~/bin and I have often edited them with TextEdit. Today, however, every time I edit one with TextEdit and save it, TextEdit can no longer open it again—would claim it was damaged and should be m…
Lees meerHello I've noticed that volume control acts differently on the internal speakers vs internal speakers. Primarily the fact that the built in audio uses some sort of multiband compression or volume dependent - dynamic equalization and oth…
Lees meerI recently had to reinstall the developer tools using xcode-select —install, but noticed that the install was completed with my efficiency cores rather than my performance cores. I know this because iStatMenu showed me that my four effi…
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