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Can I trigger a Shortcut from bash in macOS Monterey?

dinsdag 16 november 2021 inAsk Different (Tips-Tricks-Tutorials)

Specifically, I want to be able to control Focus programmatically, I thought I could trigger it via a Shortcut but can't find anything.

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Does transferring data from iPhone to iPhone using Quick Start keep Screen Time?

dinsdag 16 november 2021 inAsk Different (Tips-Tricks-Tutorials)

I have a phone that has Screen Time on it, and I some how messed up the reset screen time passcode. I've got a new phone and I want to transfer the data from this phone to the new phone. If I use Quick Start to transfer the data will it…

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"Temporary new" MacOS installation for testing in my own machine

maandag 15 november 2021 inAsk Different (Tips-Tricks-Tutorials)

I own a Mac Mini 2014 running Big Sur. I've developed a program and I would like to test it in a "clean" environment, like the first day I've purchased the Mac. In particular, the frameworks that I've installed for development must not …

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How to turn off notifications at a global level without going into focus mode?

maandag 15 november 2021 inAsk Different (Tips-Tricks-Tutorials)

Before upgrading to Monterey, I could just turn notifications off and they'd be off. I'd still get notifications on my phone, which is what I want, but I wouldn't get them on my computer, which is what I want. After upgrading, it appear…

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Mac forgets window-workspace association on monitor disconnect

maandag 15 november 2021 inAsk Different (Tips-Tricks-Tutorials)

Since moving to a new macbook, I've encountered a problem. I'll have several windows spread out across multiple Spaces, like the following illustration based off of the mission control view: (Apologies for the silly drawing.) After con…

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How Can Macbooks Be Connected to Portable Displays?

maandag 15 november 2021 inAsk Different (Tips-Tricks-Tutorials)

How can a Macbook be connected to a portable display so people accustomed to large monitors can have a second display when working in a vacation home, hotel, or other home-away-from home?

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MacOS Safari having different app and website language

maandag 15 november 2021 inAsk Different (Tips-Tricks-Tutorials)

My preferred language is Danish, but I prefer having my MacOS system language set to English but I have set country as region. That's works perfectly, but in Safari some webpages is by default displaying pages in English, where I would…

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How to add word to iOS text correction dictionary? Learn Spelling / Hide Red Squiggly Line

maandag 15 november 2021 inAsk Different (Tips-Tricks-Tutorials)

I will often type a brand name or other word that the iOS text correction dictionary thinks is a typo or misspelled. This adds a red squiggly line under the offending word. Screenshot from Apple iOS Notes app: Tapping on the red word m…

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How to add word to iOS text correction dictionary? Learn Spelling / Hide Red Squiggly Line

zondag 14 november 2021 inAsk Different (Tips-Tricks-Tutorials)

I will often type a brand name or other word that the iOS text correction dictionary thinks is a typo or misspelled. This adds a red squiggly line under the offending word. Screenshot from Apple iOS Notes app: Tapping on the red word m…

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How do mdfind and mdls derive what metadata a file has and where is it stored?

zondag 14 november 2021 inAsk Different (Tips-Tricks-Tutorials)

The man page of mdfind says the following: The mdfind command consults the central metadata store and returns a list of files that match the given metadata query. The query can be a string or a query expression. One would assume that …

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What is this .file at my root folder?

zondag 14 november 2021 inAsk Different (Tips-Tricks-Tutorials)

Is this file important to me? I want to delete this file since it's zero bytes. But I have tried sudo rm .file, sudo rm -f .file, sudo chmod -R 777 .file all failed. Any idea?

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How do mdfind and mdls derive what metadata a file has and where is it stored?

zondag 14 november 2021 inAsk Different (Tips-Tricks-Tutorials)

The man page of mdfind says the following: The mdfind command consults the central metadata store and returns a list of files that match the given metadata query. The query can be a string or a query expression. One would assume that …

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How Can Macbooks Be Connected to Portable Displays?

zondag 14 november 2021 inAsk Different (Tips-Tricks-Tutorials)

How can a Macbook be connected to a portable display so people accustomed to large monitors can have a second display when working in a vacation home, hotel, or other home-away-from home?

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Time Machine System Restore: Stuck in "Preparing to restore "Macintosh HD""

zondag 14 november 2021 inAsk Different (Tips-Tricks-Tutorials)

I am attempting to do a Time Machine System Restore in order to revert to a previous OS. I have the full Time Machine backup on a Seagate external hard drive. (Update: I also tried with a SanDisk external SSD, but had the same issue.) H…

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Time Machine System Restore: Stuck in "Preparing to restore "Macintosh HD""

zaterdag 13 november 2021 inAsk Different (Tips-Tricks-Tutorials)

I am attempting to do a Time Machine System Restore in order to revert to a previous OS. I have the full time machine backup on an external hard drive. (It's a Seagate model.) (Update: I also tried with a SanDisk external SSD, but had t…

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What is an effective portable second monitor for a Work-From-Home vacation? [closed]

zaterdag 13 november 2021 inAsk Different (Tips-Tricks-Tutorials)

With many office workers now in hybrid or entirely working from home on a long term or permanent basis, it's possible now for "home" to be anywhere at all. A family trip to visit grandma or a cabin in the mountains (with Wifi of course…

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Does transferring data from iPhone to iPhone using Quick Start keep Screen Time?

vrijdag 12 november 2021 inAsk Different (Tips-Tricks-Tutorials)

I have a phone that has Screen Time on it, and I some how messed up the reset screen time passcode. I've got a new phone and I want to transfer the data from this phone to the new phone. If I use Quick Start to transfer the data will it…

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history -d does not remove history entry, but shows time of history entry

donderdag 11 november 2021 inAsk Different (Tips-Tricks-Tutorials)

In its documentation, https://ss64.com/osx/history.html it says the -d parameter followed by ID of the history entry will remove an entry from command history. In the picture below you can see that it just shows me 15 entries after the …

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Dual boot Ubuntu - macOS Issue

donderdag 11 november 2021 inAsk Different (Tips-Tricks-Tutorials)

I installed Ubuntu in dual boot on my Mac without using rEFInd. Initially everything worked fine, I could access both systems. Later, in an attempt to remove Ubuntu, I deleted a partition I had created for swap and since then GRUB has r…

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Dual boot Ubuntu - macOS Issue

donderdag 11 november 2021 inAsk Different (Tips-Tricks-Tutorials)

I installed Ubuntu in dual boot on my Mac without using rEFInd. Initially everything worked fine, I could access both systems. Later, in an attempt to remove Ubuntu, I deleted a partition I had created for swap and since then GRUB has r…

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history -d does not remove history entry, but shows time of history entry

donderdag 11 november 2021 inAsk Different (Tips-Tricks-Tutorials)

In its documentation, https://ss64.com/osx/history.html it says the -d parameter followed by ID of the history entry will remove an entry from command history. In the picture below you can see that it just shows me 15 entries after the …

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