I've created a workflow in Automator that isn't working as expected. I started with an 'ask for text' action and a 'set value of variable' action (ProductCode). Then a 'New folder' action using that variable as part of the name and that…
Lees meermacOS Mojave, Mac Pro 5,1 Boot drive APFS [SSD], Time Machine drive HFS+ [HD]. All drives internal. I haven't actually 'lost' this data, I copied it to another drive then trashed the originals a couple of weeks ago - so data is safe & I…
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Lees meerI work in a video company. Very often, we copy a heavy load of files from SD cards to our own folders, and before we format the SD cards, we want to check for contents on both directories if they are the same. I've done some "Quick acti…
Lees meerI am using MacOS Big Sur 11.3 on a 2019 MacBook Pro. Recently, I started noticing that some programs (specifically MATLAB) have been running really slow, the cursor and mouse are lagging, etc. Programs other than MATLAB (e.g. Safari, Mu…
Lees meerI want to create an automator service that copies the full smb:// path of a folder or file (like you would get from ⌃ + ⌥ + ⌘ + C) The reason the shortcut isn't enough is for all those "older people" (no offense intended) that can't rem…
Lees meerI have Macbook Pro 16" 2019 model. Recently I bought Acer 4k Monitor VG280K. I'm connecting it to Macbook Pro with HDMI which came with it and attached it with a USB C to HDMI converter which support 4k@60Hz. I'm facing a very annoying …
Lees meerI am trying to write code that deletes files from a specified location and empties into the trash. If I use the direct string it works but when I try to add a variable it does not. Could someone help show me what I'm doing wrong? When I…
Lees meerPhotos for macOS has the ability to manually tag People in a photo where the machine learning algorithm has not yet detected a Face: Window > Info > Add Faces > Click to Name These tagged photos then show up when selecting a Person f…
Lees meerTwo Macs are both running updated Catalina. Safari bookmarks that are added to one machine are automagically updated on the other, because of the same AppleID. Bookmarks were organized into folders this morning on machine one: Is there…
Lees meerI've been struggling with a very weird issue. I'm trying to use libgmalloc (eg per man 3 libgmalloc) on Big Sur (I'm on 11.3.1) to trouble shoot a memory issue in my code. However, I can't set the environment variable DYLD_INSERT_LIBR…
Lees meerI have an external drive that I use(d) for Time machine backups. The setup is a bit weird (see this other question for details), but it worked nicely for months. Yesterday, I updated to Big Sur 11.4, and when I connected the drive this …
Lees meerI've lost the sidebar in Finder. It started when I was using quicktime and browsing for a save location: a lot of the icons went missing and the dropdown box only contained a question mark. Since then it's been getting progressively wor…
Lees meerI've got a late-2014 27-inch Retina iMac with a 3TB fusion drive. It's at my workplace, which I haven't been to in over a year as I write this in mid-2021. For various reasons, the machine needed the disk to be reformatted and have macO…
Lees meerI am trying to write code that deletes files from a specified location and empties into the trash. If I use the direct string it works but when I try to add a variable it does not. Could someone help show me what I'm doing wrong? When I…
Lees meerI am trying to write code that deletes files from a specified location and empties into the trash. If I use the direct string it works but when I try to add a variable it does not. Could someone help show me what I'm doing wrong? When I…
Lees meerI searched for an answer to this for a while, but couldn't find one. I have a lot of wav files (thousands of them) in a sound library that somehow got either the modification or creation date updated very recently, even though I haven't…
Lees meerI am trying to write code that deletes files from a specified location and empties into the trash. If I use the direct string it works but when I try to add a variable it does not. Could someone help show me what I'm doing wrong? When I…
Lees meerI've got a bunch of pdfs containing text. Each page is of the same width, but each page is of a different height. Some pages only contain a few lines of text, other pages contain a lot of text. I want to print this pdf on a Mac so that …
Lees meerI've got a bunch of pdfs containing text. Each page is of the same width, but each page is of a different height. Some pages only contain a few lines of text, other pages contain a lot of text. I want to print this pdf on a Mac so that …
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