So I got myself a shiny new Mac Mini, finally got everything transferred over from my old machine, and want to resume backing up using my existing Time Machine disk and backup history (as I've basically transplanted the de…
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Lees meerSo I got myself a shiny new Mac Mini, finally got everything transferred over from my old machine, and want to resume backing up using my existing Time Machine disk and backup history (as I've basically transplanted the de…
Lees meerI am not sure why this is happening, but on my macbook macOS Sierra log files are being written to /private/tmp that look like this: wifi-11-25-2019__21:01:29.log wifi-11-25-2019__21:06:18.log wifi-11-25-2019__21:01:30.…
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Lees meerSince macOS Catalina, I have a default 'TV' (Apple TV) app installed on my Mac. It regularly creates an 'TV' folder inside ~/Movies with a file 'TV Libary' and an empty folder 'Media'. I like to keep my filesystem clean,…
Lees meerI am receiving an SMS from Info on an iPhone running iOS 13. There is no contact Info in my address book. Does this perhaps mean that the sender suppresses her address/telephone number? Or what else can cause this? …
Lees meerSince macOS Catalina, I have a default 'TV' (Apple TV) app installed on my Mac. It regularly creates an 'TV' folder inside ~/Movies with a file 'TV Libary' and an empty folder 'Media'. I like to keep my filesystem clean,…
Lees meerMy genuine MacOS is not showing emojis. They look just like this: None of the following solutions worked for me: Creating a new user account Restoring Standard Fonts in Font Book Booting in Safe Mode Changing system …
Lees meerI have an old Panasonic camcorder (model PV-GS35) that uses miniDV. It has a USB port for connecting to a computer. However, I cannot for the life of me get it to connect to my MacBook Pro running Mojave. iMovie does not s…
Lees meerSo I got myself a shiny new Mac Mini, finally got everything transferred over from my old machine, and want to resume backing up using my existing Time Machine disk and backup history (as I've basically transplanted the de…
Lees meerI use the iOS Apple Maps app frequently for public transport directions. In the past, if I was actively navigating using public transport, Maps would display turn-by-turn directions on the lock screen and on my Apple Watch…
Lees meerSo I got myself a shiny new Mac Mini, finally got everything transferred over from my old machine, and want to resume backing up using my existing Time Machine disk and backup history (as I've basically transplanted the de…
Lees meerlast month I asked about how many monitors an iMac 21.5 4k can handle. So as suggested I went and checked in apple support page, turns out this iMac only supports up to two additional displays and I currently have 3 displ…
Lees meerTL;DR I formatted an USB drive on my AndroidTV which failed, and am now trying to fix it from my Mac. Right now I can see the drive in diskutil list but it neither shows up in Finder nor in Disk Util. How can I reformat th…
Lees meerI'm stuck figuring out why ssh is unable to verify my SSHFP entries. VerifyHostKeyDNS=yes is set in my ~/.ssh/config The Zone is properly signed as verified with https://dnssec-analyzer.verisignlabs.com. SSHFP entries …
Lees meerTL;DR I formatted an USB drive on my AndroidTV which failed, and am now trying to fix it from my Mac. Right now I can see the drive in diskutil list but it neither shows up in Finder nor in Disk Util. How can I reformat th…
Lees meerOn a freshly created USB bootable disk for El Capitan (following these instructions which create a USB bootbale installer with sudo /Applications/Install\ OS\ X\ El\ Capitan.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia --volu…
Lees meerThe 'df' has been my tool of choice to investigate how much free space I have on my disk. But with APFS, TimeMachine local snapshots and all that, it has become unreliable. I.e. after removing a lot of files and folders, …
Lees meerA problem has recently become much more prevalent for me when using Preview to search PDFs for text (using Command + F or the search box in the upper right). At first, everything generally seems to go fine: (as it shou…
Lees meerI have text file with 250,000 lines - and I need to append the same single character at the start of each line. I have tried to use various multiline /column edit plugins in Atom and Sublime but they just hang - I guess du…
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