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What built-in utilities are available in macOS for managing/monitoring process/disk/memory/IO/file?

vrijdag 23 april 2021 inAsk Different (Tips-Tricks-Tutorials)

I think Activity Monitor can be used for managing/monitoring processes, but I am confused about the other four: disk/memory/IO/file. Are all these four functions be managed/monitored out by Disk Utility?

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What built-in utilities are available in macOS for managing/monitoring process/disk/memory/IO/file?

vrijdag 23 april 2021 inAsk Different (Tips-Tricks-Tutorials)

I think Activity Monitor can be used for managing/monitoring processes, but I am confused about the other four: disk/memory/IO/file. Are all these four functions be managed/monitored out by Disk Utility?

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Automator Applescript inconsistently handling Google Chrome tabs

vrijdag 23 april 2021 inAsk Different (Tips-Tricks-Tutorials)

I want to make an Automator app which closes any open tabs in Google Chrome and loads 3 specific tabs. It should load these 3 tabs regardless of whether Google Chrome was already in use or not. To accomplish this my app runs the followi…

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Slight blue shade on my MacBook Pro

donderdag 22 april 2021 inAsk Different (Tips-Tricks-Tutorials)

I am seeing a light blue shade on anything I open in my MacBook, it just started suddenly and I don’t have any idea why its happening. The image above shouldn’t have a blue cast. Is there a sequence of things to check when the color lo…

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Can't move files or folders to some positions

donderdag 22 april 2021 inAsk Different (Tips-Tricks-Tutorials)

As you can see in the below video, I can not move files or folders to some positions on desktop. There is nothing that blocks me to move. I couldn't solve what causes this problem. Sometimes the problem can be solved by just restarting …

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How can I remap enter key on MacOS big sur?

donderdag 22 april 2021 inAsk Different (Tips-Tricks-Tutorials)

my enter key broke and doesn't work, can I rebind the Enter key to work with RSHIFT instead of enter?

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Brand new mac pro tower has really slow wifi? iPhone and macbook pro 2016 get 100Mbps, while mac pro gets 1/3 of that

donderdag 22 april 2021 inAsk Different (Tips-Tricks-Tutorials)

I've run out of ideas. I'm right next to my router/access point. I have an iphone, a macbook pro 2016, and a mac pro tower that I've had for a few months. All of them running fast.com show 100Mbps, but the mac pro only ever gets to abou…

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Applescript to toggle "Announce the time:" in Sys Preferences

donderdag 22 april 2021 inAsk Different (Tips-Tricks-Tutorials)

I'm trying to toggle the "Announce the time:" checkbox on the "Dock & Menu Bar" pane of System Preferences (in Big Sur). I've gotten this far: tell application "System Preferences" activate reveal anchor "Clock" of pane id "com.…

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Can't move files or folders to some positions

donderdag 22 april 2021 inAsk Different (Tips-Tricks-Tutorials)

As you can see in the below video, I can not move files or folders to some positions on desktop. There is nothing that blocks me to move. I couldn't solve what causes this problem. Sometimes the problem can be solved by just restarting …

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Is there a way to select only all odd/even pages in the Preview app?

donderdag 22 april 2021 inAsk Different (Tips-Tricks-Tutorials)

Is there a way to select only all odd/even pages of a PDF document in the Preview app in order to print them via the "Selected Page in Sidebar" option? I'm using the latest available version of the macOS Big Sur, 11.3.

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Is it safe to delete these 4 files in the folder called dyld

donderdag 22 april 2021 inAsk Different (Tips-Tricks-Tutorials)

The system storage seemed to take you a lot of space so I used this software which gives you a visual depiction of the size of files on your Mac (big files are big squares and so on) and turns out these 4 files in system have randomly i…

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Is it safe to delete these 4 files in the folder called dyld

donderdag 22 april 2021 inAsk Different (Tips-Tricks-Tutorials)

The system storage seemed to take you a lot of space so I used this software which gives you a visual depiction of the size of files on your Mac (big files are big squares and so on) and turns out these 4 files in system have randomly i…

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import photos from iPhone and save them on Big Sur [closed]

donderdag 22 april 2021 inAsk Different (Tips-Tricks-Tutorials)

I have a large collection of family photos covering more than a century (scanned from my parents photo album, scanned slides, digital cameras and lately iPhone images of my grandchildren). I have developed my own cataloging scheme and v…

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Managing Mac users

woensdag 21 april 2021 inAsk Different (Tips-Tricks-Tutorials)

I'm managing a group of MacBook users. Currently, the users are not allowed to install apps or change stuff without administrators involvement. I would like to have the users to be able to do certain stuff themselves without my involvem…

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Text substitutions for superscript and subscript

woensdag 21 april 2021 inAsk Different (Tips-Tricks-Tutorials)

There is a way to individually create text substitutions on Mac for most applications, by going to System Preferences→Keyboard→Text and then creating text substitutions. For example, I've made the following ones for ₂, ₃, × and ²³. If …

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Safari - AppleScript does not move to the next section of a bookdown online book

woensdag 21 april 2021 inAsk Different (Tips-Tricks-Tutorials)

I am writing a script to print a section of a bookdown online book as PDF, then move to the next section, and so on. The print part works (the key codes are from this page): tell application "Safari" activate tell appl…

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VS Code Icon not updated in Big Sur

woensdag 21 april 2021 inAsk Different (Tips-Tricks-Tutorials)

I'm on macOS 11.2.3 (20D91). I updated VS Code to the latest version which introduces a new icon. Unfortunately, icon remains the same of before. I have already run killall Dock and killall Finder but things did not change.

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Managing Mac users

woensdag 21 april 2021 inAsk Different (Tips-Tricks-Tutorials)

I'm managing a group of MacBook users. Currently, the users are not allowed to install apps or change stuff without administrators involvement. I would like to have the users to be able to do certain stuff themselves without my involvem…

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VS Code Icon not updated in Big Sur

woensdag 21 april 2021 inAsk Different (Tips-Tricks-Tutorials)

I'm on macOS 11.2.3 (20D91). I updated VS Code to the latest version which introduces a new icon. Unfortunately, icon remains the same of before. I have already run killall Dock and killall Finder but things did not change.

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Safari - AppleScript does not move to the next section of a bookdown online book

dinsdag 20 april 2021 inAsk Different (Tips-Tricks-Tutorials)

I am writing a script to print a section of a bookdown online book as PDF, then move to the next section, and so on. The print part works (the key codes are from this page): tell application "Safari" activate tell appl…

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Safari - AppleScript does not move to the next section of a bookdown online book

dinsdag 20 april 2021 inAsk Different (Tips-Tricks-Tutorials)

I am writing a script to print a section of a bookdown online book as PDF, then move to the next section, and so on. The print part works (the key codes are from this page): tell application "Safari" activate tell appl…

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