I was wondering if MacOS Mojave (the most recent version I can be on due to some very expensive 32 bit applications) has a way to set up a "virtual" dir, or even virtual drive, that combines two or more external drives and surfaces them…
Lees meerAfter upgrading to iOS 15 on my iPhone 12 mini, I was expecting to see rich results from the web in Spotlight, as in this example from an AppleInsider article: However, when I search for something that I’m sure should trigger such new …
Lees meerSome app installers outside the App Store require admin rights. If I give admin right to a malicious installer, can it do anything to my Mac, or will what it can do be limited by some protection technology?
Lees meerI posted this originally in Super User, and it was suggested that I post this question here, instead ... I'm using VLC media player 3.0.16 Vetinari under MacOS 11.6. I want to run VLC from the command line in order to play videoname.mp4…
Lees meerI am trying to run only native software. So I would like to be able to monitor whether Rosetta 2 is availae or not. I know I can sort on the Kind column of the process list seen in the Activity Monitor app to find a process currently ru…
Lees meerI posted this originally in Super User, and it was suggested that I post this question here, instead ... I'm using VLC media player 3.0.16 Vetinari under MacOS 11.6. I want to run VLC from the command line in order to play videoname.mp4…
Lees meerInfo: I was running OSX-Catalina and Windows-10 on my MacBook Pro 5,5 with 8 GB RAM and 250 GB SSD. Due to a RAM problem I had to format the hard disk and re-install OS's again. Currently, I have replaced the 250 GB SSD with a 500 GB H…
Lees meerFollowing these questions, How can I figure out what's slowly eating my HD space? I got Disk utility However, after downloading it and opening it with the proper privs, it can only account for less than 20% of my entire disk usage. I …
Lees meerInfo: I was running OSX-Catalina and Windows-10 on my MacBook Pro 5,5 with 8 GB RAM and 250 GB SSD. Due to a RAM problem I had to format the hard disk and re-install OS's again. Currently, I have replaced the 250 GB SSD with a 500 GB H…
Lees meerAfter upgrading to iOS 15 on my iPhone 12 mini, I was expecting to see rich results from the web in Spotlight, as in this example from an AppleInsider article: However, when I search for something that I’m sure should trigger such new …
Lees meerMy macbook pro mid 2015 with high sierra installed started to behave strangely. I can boot and login, and after less than a minute it completely freezes with the spinning wheel. Then the wheel disappears, and then the screen goes black,…
Lees meerMy macbook pro mid 2015 with high sierra installed started to behave strangely. I can boot and login, and after less than a minute it completely freezes with the spinning wheel. Then the wheel disappears, and then the screen goes black,…
Lees meerThe Problem My Mac has received a new Relocated Items folder after every OS update since March 8th, 2020. This was around the time I upgraded to Big Sur I think. If I delete the shortcut, it'll just come back after the next OS update. I…
Lees meerI used to be able to access all open windows on my Mac on my iPhone (or iPad) and vice versa (via the tabs button). Unfortunately, ever since I installed Safari 15.0 on my Mac and iOS 15 (and iPad OS 15), that doesn't seem to be possibl…
Lees meerAfter upgrading to iOS 15 on my iPhone 12 mini, I was expecting to see rich results from the web in Spotlight, as in this example from an AppleInsider article: However, when I search for something that I’m sure should trigger such new …
Lees meerWhen I use the Opt ⌥ ↑ or Opt ⌥ ↓ keyboard shortcut on the macOS Messages app, it places previous messages I've already sent into the typing area and cycles through them. I often press these keys by mistake when trying to go …
Lees meerI'm trying to update Xcode, but it is stuck (this is what it looks like). Other posts I've seen suggest a bunch of different things, each of which didn't work for me: waiting overnight for it to install didn't fix it downloading the …
Lees meerOn macOS 11, Rosetta2 apparently caches translated programs and shared libraries under /var/db/oah. On an M1-based CI instance where we are testing per-commit-novel x86_64 binaries under Rosetta2, this directory seems to grow without bo…
Lees meerI have been on the public beta of Monterey for a while, and have been dissatisfied with the design of Safari. The other day, I received a notification on my non-beta computer that Safari 15, which is the same Safari on the aforementio…
Lees meerOn macOS 11, Rosetta2 apparently caches translated programs and shared libraries under /var/db/oah. On an M1-based CI instance where we are testing per-commit-novel x86_64 binaries under Rosetta2, this directory seems to grow without bo…
Lees meerToday I checked for iTunes updates (I was actually looking for IOS 15 for my iPhone) and it asked to update iTunes to the latest release (12.12.0.6). After the update, I got this error message when starting iTunes: I tried to repair th…
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