On my iPhone, when I backup my photos with photosync, I notice that I get two files for every live photo. One HEIC and one MOV. Eg: Recents/IMG_0941.HEIC Recents/IMG_0941.MOV Recents/IMG_0942.HEIC Recents/IMG_0942.Mov What's not clea…
Lees meerI just recently started using iCloud Drive. I would like to designate one folder, called archive, as read-only. Its files must be protected from change, and I want to make sure I don't accidentally alter or delete them. Is this at all p…
Lees meerOn my iPhone, when I backup my photos with photosync, I notice that I get two files for every live photo. One HEIC and one MOV. Eg: Recents/IMG_0941.HEIC Recents/IMG_0941.MOV Recents/IMG_0942.HEIC Recents/IMG_0942.Mov What's not clea…
Lees meerI'm running Mail 12.4 on a macOS 10.14.6 system. For some reason I no longer hear any new mail notifications when a new message arrives. As near as I can tell I have Mail configured correctly to play a notification for every new message…
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Lees meerAll chats All links All photos All videos for all contacts Dump them out somehow in a way in which I can easily access them for future reference
Lees meerSince early Mac versions, I have been able to rearrange the icons on my desktop. Until I use one of the "Cleanup" options, they can be in pretty much random positions, even overlapping each other. The same layout of of file, directory, …
Lees meerComputer: iMac (27-inch Late 2013). OS: macOS: 10.15.7 I need to connect 3 devices (magic keyboard, mouse and trackpad) to the internal Bluetooth module and 1 device (wireless headphones) to an external USB Bluetooth adapter. I'm experi…
Lees meerI'd like to know which character is output from which key, including with modifiers like ⌥ ⌘ ⇧ ⌃, including the character and its Unicode number. Only the primary characters appear on my physical keyboard, but some less-known ones are…
Lees meertail command in current Linux has --pid option to terminate after certain process id, while tail under MAC OSX doesn't have the same option. e.g. tail -f --pid= can terminate tail mode if process_pid terminated. So how can we get the sa…
Lees meerI recently purchased a MacBook Pro 13" with the M1 chip and transferred all my data over using a Time Machine backup. Homebrew packages are currently installed in /usr/local/opt/ but it is my understanding that they should be under /opt…
Lees meerI recently purchased a MacBook Pro 13" with the M1 chip and transferred all my data over using a Time Machine backup. Homebrew packages are currently installed in /usr/local/opt/ but it is my understanding that they should be under /opt…
Lees meerI’m using Safari on Big Sur, and need to capture a small section of a document to send off to someone. In Safari you cannot print just a selection of a page. Suggestions on how to do this?
Lees meerSimilarly to running open "/Applications/Firefox.app", I would like to open the "Get Info" window of /Applications/Firefox.app using command line.
Lees meerSimilarly to running open "/Applications/Firefox.app", I would like to open the "Get Info" window of /Applications/Firefox.app using command line.
Lees meerI work in bed a lot, and I'm undecided between the MacBook M1 Air vs. Pro. I have heard that fans in the bed will cause my MacBook to collect more internal dust. I’m not even sure how to determine if my bed has a lot of dust compared to…
Lees meerDuring the holidays, I decided to upgrade from Catalina to Big Sur (macOS 11.1 (20C69) to be precise). The one thing I did not account for is that VirtualBox stopped working. I followed the usual advice of using the VirtualBox_Uninstall…
Lees meerMy Mac Mini M1 shipped with Python 3.8.5. I first installed Anaconda, then downloaded Python 3.9.1 (macOS 64-bit universal2 installer), installed that and ran Update Shell Profile.command. IDLE runs the correct version (3.9.1) however …
Lees meerDuring the holidays, I decided to upgrade from Catalina to Big Sur (macOS 11.1 (20C69) to be precise). The one thing I did not account for is that VirtualBox stopped working. I followed the usual advice of using the VirtualBox_Uninstall…
Lees meerI work in a company since 2015 and when I joined I was handed over a new MacBook which was the latest at that time i.e 2015 Mid model i7 16GB Ram. This company does not have a rotation policy for the hardware allocated to employees at a…
Lees meerMy Mac Mini M1 shipped with Python 3.8.5. I first installed Anaconda, then downloaded Python 3.9.1 (macOS 64-bit universal2 installer), installed that and ran Update Shell Profile.command. IDLE runs the correct version (3.9.1) however …
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