I downloaded my old WhatsApp chat history from iCloud which is encrypted. The SQLite file I am trying to open is ChatStorage.sqlite.enc which asks for a password to open but not sure how to decrypt that file. Also, find a password in th…
Lees meerI downloaded my old WhatsApp chat history from iCloud which is encrypted. The SQLite file I am trying to open is ChatStorage.sqlite.enc which asks for a password to open but not sure how to decrypt that file. Also, find a password in th…
Lees meerSo I needed to upgrade youtube-dl, and ran brew upgrade youtube-dl. While it was running, homebrew decided it needed to upgrade a lot more stuff, including all of my installed PHP versions... And now, none of them works like they should…
Lees meerI read a lot about FileVault and APFS in the last hours, but it still does confuse me. I learnt about 2 types of recovery keys for FileVault, personal recovery key and institutional recovery key. According to what I read the personal on…
Lees meerWhen I was setting up my Mac, it prompted me to select a profile picture from one of the defaults to use for my user account. However, I would like to use my profile picture from my Apple ID as the profile picture for my user account on…
Lees meerI'm on a M1 Mac mini. Randomly during the day, I can't commit my work because git is unable to create the .git/index.lock file. In the Finder info the folder shows up as "Locked". I unlocked it yesterday and got the same thing today. I …
Lees meerOn system security councilor's advice on my Synology NAS, I have disabled the admin account and replaced it by a different account with admin privileges. Since that time, various apps on MacOS ask for the password of the admin account o…
Lees meerWhen macOS starts, you are asked to enter a name and account. I wonder if this potentially personal data third-party macOS apps can read, especially the user's name or username. I'm on macOS Big Sur 11.1.
Lees meerI use the BOOKS app on my mac a lot. And I often copy something from there for educational purposes. Is it possible to somehow delete these signatures that go to the clipboard. Example: « Some text » Excerpt from a book: ... « ... ». A…
Lees meerWhen going through Activity Monitor, I see many different users (other than my own account and the root account) responsible for individual processes. Why are the processes divided among many users that are created by the operating syst…
Lees meerThis is what I see: It is showing in the network section in Finder and I'm not sure what it means. Sometimes I see it but sometimes I don't. Should I be concerned? My model is 2017 Macbook Air and I have Big Sur installed.
Lees meerI'm running Big Sur and Spotlight will not find certain applications that come bundled with macOS like Calculator, Keychain, or System Preferences. It will find other non built-in apps I have installed like Chrome, Slack, and Steam just…
Lees meerNow I am using this command to show status of nginx service in macOS: brew services status nginx show this error: Error: Invalid usage: unknown subcommand: status I want to know the nginx path and config file path but not fix homebrew…
Lees meerOn MacOS it is now possible for applications to insert a DNS proxy provider (i.e. using nednsproxyprovider) which intercepts all DNS requests. How is it possible to discover, or list, whether such DNS proxy provider(s) is/are present (a…
Lees meerI'm trying to take a screenshot of my main screen, but screencapture -x -Jwindow 1.png does not include windows, so a screenshot contains only my wallpaper. Basically, I want screencapture to work the same way as command + shift + 3 doe…
Lees meerWhen I am editing a Word document, which contains images, I need to break a paragraph, so that the image stays at the top of the page, instead of allowing the intervening image (or table for that matter) being pushed down by the overflo…
Lees meerWhen going through Activity Monitor, I see many different users (other than my own account and the root account) responsible for individual processes. Why are the processes divided among many users that are created by the operating syst…
Lees meerMy Macbook Pro 2017 (running Mojave) has no DVD drive, of course; but my Macbook early 2009 Superdrive (running El Capitan) can burn them, as well as my iMac 2011 (running High Sierra). Can I connect the Macbook Pro to one of these two …
Lees meerI'm trying to take a screenshot of my main screen, but screencapture -x -Jwindow 1.png does not include windows, so a screenshot contains only my wallpaper. Basically, I want screencapture to work the same way as command + shift + 3 doe…
Lees meerMy Macbook Pro 2017 has no DVD drive, of course; but my Macbook early 2009 Superdrive can burn them. Can I connect these two computers, use the Roxio Titanium software on my Macbook Pro, but burn the DVD on my Superdrive? Thanks! …
Lees meerMy Mac mini has a 1 tb ssd, and after updating it to Catalina and trying to open the Photos Library the Photos app starts to do a conversion and then fails. The photos library is 122 gb in size and there is over 4x that much space left …
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