Questions tagged [bug]
An unintentional mistake or omission in the programming code of an application that causes undesirable results. This tag will be used in discussions identifying potential bugs and seeking ways to circumvent or correct them.
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After updating to Ventura 13.6.5, the login items are missing and the computer is extremely slow
I use MacBook Air (M1, 16GB, 2020). Today I updated the macbook to macOS Ventura 13.6.5.
After the update,
The computer boots up and I can login to it.
The CPU usage is 1% (i.e. 99% idle) and the ...
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Bizarre macOS Browser Problem
I have encountered a rather bizarre macOS problem and I'm wondering if anyone else has seen this in the wild, or has any ideas on how to mitigate it. I've been a Mac admin for a very long time, and I'...
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How to debug M2 Macbook Air screen going black right after unlocking
First of the hardware/software involved here:
2023 15” MacBook Air M2
16GB RAM
Sonoma 14.4
Randomly, but rather frequently, right after unlocking my Mac with Touch ID my screen go black and ...
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XProtect Consistently Eating Tons Of RAM?
I recently updated my 2017 MBP to Ventura. Ever since, my system has been running very poorly
I've noted that 90% of the time, when it is acting up, there is an XProtectRemediatorSnowBeagle process ...
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USB Internet Connection Sharing disconnects after updating to macos 12.7.3
I have been using USB Internet Connection from my Macbook Pro for some years, fairly reliably. We rely upon it since we are a Wifi free house. After updating to macos 12.7.3 Monterey, both iPhones ...
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FileZilla stopped using keys from ssh-agent on macOS
I recently set up SSH access to my web servers on my Mac by following GitHub's documentation for Generating a new SSH key and adding it to the ssh-agent. After that, I installed FileZilla and the ...
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How do you stop an in-game mouse cursor switching to the OS's default cursor?
For years now I have known that, when playing Rimworld on my computer, the in-game cursor will switch to the OS's cursor for no apparent reason. I had thought this was a bug exclusive to Rimworld and ...
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Anything opened in Preview shows for less than a second and disappears
I upgraded to macOS Ventura from macOS Catalina last year, and since then I've had the issue of Preview not working. Whenever I open something (a PNG image, a JPEG image, a PDF, whatever), I see it ...
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rm removes file then says it does not exist
Recently, when I remove a file with rm, the file is removed, but I also get the message "No such file or directory" with the same path/filename. Of course, the message is true, since the ...
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WindowServer taking up much RAM; in fact, too much
For the past few months—and the past few months only—my 2020 M1 MacBook Air has been behaving weirdly. The thread WindowServer keeps taking up an appallingly large amount of my memory; indeed, it ...
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How do I configure a Shortcut to send URLs for Safari web pages?
Since updating to iOS 7, a Shortcut that had worked fine for years has stopped functioning as expected. The Shortcut is intend to mail the stuff I currently see to me. Since iOS 7, this continues to ...
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MacOS keeps reinstalling iMovie and GarageBand
I want to uninstall iMovie and GarageBand. But each time after I uninstall them, they are automatically reinstalled (without any message and notification). I tried to uninstall them directly (click ...
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Where does the device list come from in Console.app? (Why are duplicate devices shown?)
Sonoma 14.1.1 (23B81), Mac Mini M1 2020.
I noticed recently that Console.app is showing duplicate devices. E.g. screenshot below showing 4 of the same ldh-watch device (I have only 1 Apple Watch).
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What causes macOS to stop launching all apps?
I don't get error messages and the apps I have open still work fine, but my Mac is refusing to launch any new apps, including terminal.app.
It doesn't matter if I try to launch an app through ...
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Messages no longer sends images on macOS
My Messages app on macOS (Sonoma) has stopped sending images. Any image I send, using any method (drag and drop, copy paste, etc.) fails to arrive for any participant on a Messages thread. I get no ...
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