Unanswered Questions
12,207 questions with no upvoted or accepted answers
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Reading data from a 23 year old IDE harddrive
I have a 200 MB Western Digital 2.5" IDE drive, originally from an Amiga 1200, that I would like to try to get an image file of, so I can keep the data that is on it.
Since the drive is very old, and ...
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LVM and Superblock failure; how to recover?
How do you repair the superblock of an LVM volume? Alternatively, how do you recover the data on an unmountable lvm logical volume?
I recently added a second hard disk, extended my volume group and ...
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How to disable natural scrolling on Mac OS X (El Captain) with command line?
I would like to use natural scroll with touchpad and normal scroll when I am using a normal USB mouse. I don't want to go to the preferences dialog to change the settings every time I need the switch. ...
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What causes this HDD sector damage pattern?
Out of curiosity, I ran GNU ddrescue on a Seagate ST1000LM024 HN-M101MBB hard drive with known bad sectors, and then I visualized the ddrescue mapfile with ddrescueview.
When I zoomed in, this ...
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USBProber replacement in El Capitan
There used to be a useful utility called USBProber for OS X, but I can no longer locate it. I am assuming it has been replaced by another utility, but I am not sure what Apple replaced it with or ...
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Kali Linux - Debootstrap error Failed to determine codename for the release
Installing the new Kali Linux 2016 rolling release to the HDD via USB.
I made a bootable USB using Universal USB. Booted off the USB and selected "Graphical Install", I had an issue at the beginning ...
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How to mount a drive in a running FreeDOS?
I'm currently using FreeDOS to load USB stick content to a virtual drive. The connected HDD won't get a drive letter, as it is simply not formatted.
After that, I'm using Drive Snapshot to fill the ...
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Best way to share guest folder with host computer
I am running a Ubuntu VM on my MacOS X (host) using VMWare Fusion. I have found a lot of information about sharing the host partition with the guest VM but not much on sharing the guest folder/...
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mhddfs+osxfuse via fstab?
I'm trying to create a virtual drive pool using FUSE for OS X and mhddfs.
This command works for me:
sudo mhddfs /Volumes/D01,/Volumes/D12,/Volumes/D103,/Volumes/D110 /mnt/DrivePoolA -o allow_other,...
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Linux compatibility layer for Mac OS X
I have a closed-source piece of Linux software written in a combination of Java and C. The application installs on my Mac (it uses InstallAnywhere), however, it isn't intended to run on a Mac.
The ...
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How can I disable Mac OS X's Option+click hiding behaviour?
In Mac OS X Mountain Lion at least, if you Option+click ( Alt+click ) on another a window of another app, this will make the other application to gain focus, and the current app to be hidden as if you'...
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Change the Mac notification sound on a per-application basis
By default on Mac OS X there is a system-wide notification sound that you can choose. This sound is applied to every application and played whenever the application outputs a beep (for instance, when ...
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Can I add Google Meet and Zoom to the "Add video call" dropdown in macOS Monterey's Calendar app?
The "New event" popup on macOS Monterey's Calendar app (see below) seems to suggest it is possible to add additional video calling services, to automatically create links for them when ...
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How to get output to STDOUT in Rsync while only logging changes to “--log-file” the way Rsync 2.6.9 did with Rsync 3.x
As a longtime macOS user I have used the built-in/bundled rsync binary that has been stuck at version 2.6.9 for various licensing reasons.
I recently decided to start using modern rsync via Homebrew. ...
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In MacOS Chrome, if "Browser" process (according to Chrome Task Manager) is using 90% CPU, what URL or extension is the culprit?
Sometimes when I open a new webpage in Chrome, my Mac (Big Sur 11.2.1) will suddenly start maxing out one CPU. But sometimes even after I close the tab (and for good measure, other recently-opened ...
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