I have an Intel Macbook Air from 2012 with Catalina. When I try to boot it on, it plays 3 beeps, then pauses, then beeps again, so on and so forth. All I've read online is that I need to configure it at Apple because the memory is not w…
Lees meerThe latest Mac login and lock screens enforce failed password attempt and rate limits. However, as far as I can tell, Apple's File Sharing via SMB does not. That leads to a brute-force attack surface should an attacker or thief gain phy…
Lees meerI have an Intel Macbook Air from 2012 with Catalina. When I try to boot it on, it plays 3 beeps, then pauses, then beeps again, so on and so forth. All I've read online is that I need to configure it at Apple because the memory is not w…
Lees meerI have an external disk with two partitions. One was not being used, so in Disk Utility, I changed its name to "Blank." Since then, it typically appears twice in the Finder sidebar. If I click the Eject icon on one of them, that one d…
Lees meerI am writing a LaunchDaemon that keeps a company's computers monitored and updated. Sometimes, I need to put off operations until a user is logged in (for example, interactive software installations). I am able to tell who is logged in,…
Lees meerI do not understand how this error state is even possible, yet it has happened on both of my computers. The screenshot is from this year’s M4 model. I have found other users reporting the same problem, but there is no definitive soluti…
Lees meerI do not understand how this error state is even possible, yet it has happened on both of my computers. The screenshot is from this year’s M4 model. I have found other users reporting the same problem, but there is no definitive soluti…
Lees meerOn macOS (Sequoia 15.6), I have the Wallpaper and Screensaver set to "Shuffle All", rotating through 137 "Aerials". People sometimes ask me where the nice wallpaper image is from. To answer them, I'd like to know the file name of the cu…
Lees meerI do not understand how this error state is even possible, yet it has happened on both of my computers. The screenshot is from this year’s M4 model. I have found other users reporting the same problem, but there is no definitive soluti…
Lees meerThe latest Mac login and lock screens enforce failed password attempt and rate limits. However, as far as I can tell, Apple's File Sharing via SMB does not. That leads to a brute-force attack surface should an attacker or thief gain phy…
Lees meerMy friend has a MacBook (circa 2015) running El Capitan. She stopped using it years ago due to the spinning wheel of death and the processing speed dropping way down. I’m trying to help her get her old pictures off. I’ve figured out tha…
Lees meerMy 1st generation iPhone SE died about a year ago. My 1-year new 3rd generation SE has many more Contacts lists than I expect. Other than "All Contacts", I see five lists. At the very top, I see: (0) All Contacts Under iPhone, I se…
Lees meerMy 1st generation iPhone SE died about a year ago. My 1-year new 3rd generation SE has many more Contacts lists than I expect. Other than "All Contacts", I see five lists. At the very top, I see: (0) All Contacts Under iPhone, I se…
Lees meerEverytime I open the computer there's a window for FaceTime and iMessage asking me to log in I don't use them, and I don't want them to even run on the machine FaceTime was kinda easy, there's a /Users/dione/Library/Preferences/com.appl…
Lees meerEverytime I open the computer there's a window for FaceTime and iMessage asking me to log in I don't use them, and I don't want them to even run on the machine FaceTime was kinda easy, there's a /Users/dione/Library/Preferences/com.appl…
Lees meerFollowing my suggestion, several of the seniors I help have ended their subscriptions to Microsoft 365 and have switched to LibreOffice. This switch began some months ago. One of them ran into a problem trying to update LibreOffice toda…
Lees meerAs you can see, I have sound notifications on, but don't get a sound when I get a new notification. I'm not receiving any sound when I get a new notification. I don't have my MacBook muted and sounds are all on.
Lees meerI'm swapping my second HDD for a new SSD in my MacBook Pro running Ventura. Both drives, old and new, are 1TB. Old drive is formatted Mac OS extended (Journaled), new drive was just reformatted APFS. I only copied files from my old driv…
Lees meerI'm swapping my second HDD for a new SSD in my MacBook Pro running Ventura. Both drives, old and new, are 1TB. Old drive is formatted Mac OS extended (Journaled), new drive was just reformatted APFS. I only copied files from my old driv…
Lees meerAn external drive is in APFS Encrypted format, and contains a single volume. To mount the drive, a user executes the following script in a macos user account : ... diskutil apfs unlockVolume "${volume_uuid}" -nomount -passphrase "${volu…
Lees meerI have a very bizarre problem in my Mac. Every now and then (this can happen multiple times in the day) the upper left hot corner is set to enable the screen saver. I set it back to - and after a while if I go back to the hot corners in…
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