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How do I resize an APFS Volume to reclaim all space inside its container?
I realize this is an old thread, but I recently upgraded the original 256GB SSD on my early 2013 MacBook Pro 15” Retina (running Catalina natively) to a 1TB SSD using Clonezilla and I initially had ...
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How to have 5 different always-on-top notes, one on each screen?
To achieve this functionality on macOS, you have a few options, including using dedicated note-taking applications, floating widgets, or combination of tools. Here's a step-by-step guide using some of ...
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Mac does not handle multiple Bluetooth peripherals properly
I'm experiencing a similar issue. I have three devices paired simultaneously: a Logitech Crown keyboard, an MX Master 2, and OnePlus wireless Bluetooth earbuds. Most of the time, they work smoothly, ...
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How do I change the default location for nushell configration files
Nushell now supports using the XDG_CONFIG_HOME environment variable to specify the location for config files. The variable must be set before Nushell is launched.
I'm not a macOS user, so I hope my ...
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Disabling or Limiting Tor Functionality in Brave Browser on macOS
You can modify a group policy setting to disable Tor in Brave.
It's simpler to do it directly in the registry.
Navigate to this path: Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\Policies\...
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Mac OS X 10.6.5 Right Click at cursor position
I see that @Peter N Lewis's answer from 2011, it's not possible, has already been marked as the accepted solution.
A suggestion was posted to the Keyboard Maestro Forum (https://forum.keyboardmaestro....
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The proper way to limit framerate when recording screen on macOS
From the log, it is apparent that initially not enough frames are received for ffmpeg to detect input framerate.
That's ok, you can just use pass through input frames without any adjustment.
ffmpeg -f ...
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zsh alias still exists after deletion [MACOS]
Ok, so the thing is - I also used oh-my-zsh - and it seems that the alias was simply present in one of its custom setup scripts called .oh-my-zsh/custom/aliases.zsh. So I removed it from there, ...
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Synronize caps-lock between OSX and Windows via RDC client
Try shift capslock, I figured it out because I reprogrammed my reg caps lock to right click but whenever I had to use caps lock shift caps also worked. Then I saw some RDP issues for Mac and tried ...
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Is it possible to have the task switcher (cmd + tab) show on all monitors, but only show the apps specific to each monitor?
The built-in MacOS Task Switcher does not offer this function. Looking through available alternative products, one seems to indicate it does offer this per-window application list function you're ...
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OSX: create keyboard shortcut for a unicode character
In continuation to SpinUp__A Davis's answer you can also use (in the same ~/Library/KeyBindings/ location and using DefaultKeyBinding.dict as file name) the recommended dictionary format using xml ...
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How do I remove the EFI Partition on my USB using Mac OS X 10.11?
Facing the same problem when try to load a USB-C disk on iPhone 15.
Deleting the ExEFI EFI partiton doesn't work.
Same result formatting the disk in various method, with combination of GPT and MBR ...
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Exclude folders by regex (?) from time machine backup
Running
sudo find `pwd` -type d -maxdepth 5 -name 'node_modules' | xargs -n 1 tmutil addexclusion
I received the following error:
/node_modules: Error (-43) while attempting to change exclusion ...
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Disable autocorrect in macOS Notes app
For me to disable “Correct Spelling Automatically” in all text fields, in all apps, and to prevent it re-enabling, I had to dig into System Preferences—er, Settings, as it was recently renamed.
System ...
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How do I turn off caffeinate if I want to allow my machine to sleep normally?
Use pmset -g assertions to see if it's running.
Then killall caffeinate to get rid of it.
Despite documentation saying that caffeinate should exit upon exiting terminal and even Ctr+C should kill it, ...
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Is there a way to get my old Mac to run its old software faster?
I have a macbook pro 2012 and it was painfully slow. Since replacing its HDD with a SSD it has become much faster. I don'r just mean booting time but in every thing.
Replace you HDD with a SSD and ...
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How to stop OS X from switching input method (keyboard layout) automatically?
I'm on Sonoma and this is driving me up a wall. The only fix that worked for me is to copy the kb layout in /Library/Keyboard Layouts. Reboot, then select the layout in Language settings. To make the ...
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Are there any keyboard shortcuts to minimize or maximize a window in macOS?
Keyboard Shortcut for full-screen:
Hold Command (Cmd) and Control (Ctrl) then press F
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How to open a PWA on macOS without opening the browser?
Yes, you can and it's effortless. just open Chrome Browser and install the PWA application. After installing quit from the PWA app and then quit from Chrome. now if you open the PWA app chrome will ...
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Is it possible to see MacOS's sshd process in the output of ps?
macOS doesn't leave sshd running all the time. Instead, there is a launchd job for sshd, defined in /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/ssh.plist. That means that launchd itself listens for connections on ...
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Convert batch of Word files to PDFs in Mac OS X
If you have access to Adobe Acrobat Pro, you can
hit the "+ Create" button on the top left,
select Create multiple PDF files and click Next
Drag and drop your .docx-files into the window (...
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macOS Documents size bug
I had faced similar issues, I used cleanMyMac space lens tool to understand what is taking space and user terminal and good old finder to erase the trace files.
the free trial is useful to understand ...
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Is there a way to move the current window to another desktop without using a mouse in OS X?
This is how I managed to do this on Sonoma 14.5.
First, you need to set a specific shortcut for all applications manually as I explain below:
Go to "System Settings -> Keyboard -> Keyboard ...
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Mac OS Sonoma can't access Windows DNS server
I did a bit more digging and saw some Active Directory errors related to sync and DNS wouldn't serve because of it. Once I corrected those, all DNS operations were good.
I suspect the Windows machine ...
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Remove build in Apache httpd on macOS (OSX)
On my MacOS 14.4 the command-line to stop the internal Apache is:
sudo launchctl bootout system/org.apache.httpd
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How to mount a NTFS read/write volume on Mac OS encrypted by Veracrypt?
I hit the same issue and was also not able to find a solution, however I found a way (tested on macOS Sonoma):
in Veracrypt select device, click 'Mount', put password, then click 'Options >' and ...
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Time Machine backup, get last backup time using command line, without having to plug any backup disc and with no Full Disk Access?
I ran into a similar problem, the command I used is:
/usr/libexec/PlistBuddy -c "Print Destinations:0:SnapshotDates" /Library/Preferences/com.apple.TimeMachine.plist | tail -n 2 | head -n 1 |...
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Keyboard shortcut to "Love" currently playing song in iTunes 12 on OSX
Here's the 2024 Apple Music version:
like
tell application "Music"
set favorited of current track to true
-- set disliked of current track to false -- if you wish
end tell
dislike
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In Mac OS, how to always HIDE toolbar in fullscreen mode?
If I understood your question correctly, this should do the trick:
Go to "System Preferences"
Open the "Control Center"
Scroll down to the bottom and change "Automatically ...
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How can I track and log CPU and memory usage on a Mac?
There 2 options for this.
netdata. This didn't work on my mac. I raised an issue on their repo but it is not resolved yet. https://github.com/netdata/netdata/issues/16696
glances. Glances can track ...
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macOS prompts for password every time I turn on my VPN
For macOS 13 Ventura and later…
In the Apple menu, select "System Settings…".
Click "VPN" in the left column.
Click the information icon ("ⓘ") beside the VPN profile for ...
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Install FFmpeg on OS X
I wasted lots of time trying to install via brew on OSX Catalina.
First issues with curl, then issues with jpeg-xl.
They keep saying you are on an unsupported OS at every single step of errors. After ...
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macOS Documents size bug
As per your picture on the left, the Documents folder (which opens after clicking on Get Info) shows ~ 6 KB. This folder is in the location /Users/timothysmith/Documents.
Note that Macintosh HD > ...
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Can't change text box font size in GIMP on macOS
The font options that show up on canvas are for "ephemeral" changes: they will change the attributes of selected text that's already written, and, with some practice can change what one is ...
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Can I enable "click scrolling" for an Evoluent VerticalMouse 4 on OSX?
To activate Click Scrolling, on the mouse hold button 5 and click button 2. This should enable Click Scrolling.
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Spotlight built-in calculator does not work
The manual way is you tell Spotlight to exclude your drive—which erases the index—and then removing it from exclusion tells Spotlight to go ahead and index it again.
go to System Preferences > Siri ...
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Terminal fails with a “Could not create a new process and open a pseudo-tty.” message
As @user279065 mentioned, selecting 'Default login shell' might resolve this issue
thats step 1:
but depending on what shell you have as default you may still face another issue like this
So to fix ...
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Can't change text box font size in GIMP on macOS
Changing the font size in the side panel works:
I just found this after posting the question. Not sure why the popup panel didn't work.
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Is it possible to limit the memory a process uses from command line?
On Linux you'd use:
prlimit -m4000000000 ./MyProcess args
Note that -m limits the RSS, use -v to limit virtual memory.
https://www.unix.com/man-page/osx/1/prlimit/ ← This seems to suggest that the ...
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how to merge two full screen chrome tabs in mac OS?
A faster way is to left-click on the tab you want to move, then while pressing the Shift key, click on the other tabs you want to move together, and then finally drag those selected tabs to the ...
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One finger scrolling on a MacBook touchpad
I created a free and open source app called Scroller which does this.
It allows you to hold down the option key and move the trackpad to scroll.
The steps to get it working are on Github.
The code is ...
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Copy text from remote via iTerm2 with Tmux to OS X clipboard
This answer from stackoverflow may be the simplest answer. If you hold the option key, you can select and copy text in iTerm2 even if it is from a remote session running tmux.
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How do I find my public key on my Mac?
This shows you how to get the GPG public key - it's a 2 step process:
List GPG keys: gpg --list-secret-keys --keyid-format LONG
Output example:
/Users/yourusername/.gnupg/pubring.kbx
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How to open a new window from dock if it's already running in OSX
Press "Command + Tab", move to the wanted app (don't release command), then press up/down arrow to select between different windows of the selected app.
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Issue Logitech ergo keyboard: Cannot write greater or less than symbols on Mac (< >)
In my case I had to change the keyboard type.
Open settings -> Keyboard -> Change Keyboard Type
Then you will see the assistant which will ask you to click on the button beside the shift key, ...
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Why does "pip" install packages in the wrong site-packages directory?
I originally installed Python 3.9 when I installed anaconda.
My mistake was directly upgrading to Python 3.12.3. Once I did that, imports stopped working (due to module "masking" in ...
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how to pipe output from a command in its own shell?
The following is from man say.
If the input is a TTY, text is spoken line by line.... Otherwise, text is spoken all at once.
Below is what you are using.
ollama run llama3:latest | tee >(say)
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MSWord on MacOS Track Changes Balloons message has a typo
It appears that the error condition involved making changes as a user on top of changes that were created when MSWord compared two documents, but not yet "accepted." The fact that the ...
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How do we create an SSL certificate on a website hosted on a Mac OS Sonoma system using a third-party SSL provider?
Your webserver should have instructions on how to generate a certificate request, the process is generally:
1 Generate key-pair
2 define your 'name' (especially DNS and probably organization)
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