Questions tagged [high-sierra]
macOS 10.13 High Sierra is Apple's operating system for Macintosh hardware. macOS Sierra was announced June 5, 2017 at WWDC, Apple's annual conference for developers where new operating systems have been announced for the last several years.
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unable to start any application after migration of an user per Migration Assistant
Could not open Menu items, nothing is selectable.
Reinstallation by using the recovery mod also can't be started,
because the button is grayed out. Mouse is moving, but clicking has no effect.
Fsck in ...
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mdworker running as wrong user (macports instead of _spotlight)
I've just noticed a strange issue on an older (High Sierra) system I've nearly finished setting up – namely I'm seeing mdworker processes running as the user "macports" rather than the user ...
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Overallocation warning in First Aid in Recovery Mode for mid 2015 Macbook Pro on High Sierra
I have a 15” Intel Macbook Pro(mid 2015) on High Sierra.
No operation issues with laptop, but one day I ran First Aid and got the error that a volume in Macintosh HD could not be unmounted so the ...
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Bootcamp not appearing as bootable disk on High Sierra
I have a MacBook Pro (Retina, 13", Late 2013, 8GB/251GB) on which I have had a Bootcamp partition installed with Windows7 for several years (probably since early days, i.e. since 2014). Initially ...
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How do I disable any kind of function from the f-keys? [duplicate]
As the question implies, I need some help about the f-keys, more specifically with the f9 key. I have a program that runs in terminal, and I need the f9 key to be completely function-less in order to ...
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High Sierra installation is stuck and can't boot on the Yosemite OS as previously
I was installing macOS High Sierra on a old MacBook Air (more than 12 years) with Yosemite. But it didn't work, it shows, during the installation, a message like this:
However doing that it didn't ...
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Can I install macOS High Sierra on a Macbook pro that runs Big Sur?
Can I install macOS High Sierra on a Macbook pro that runs Big Sur without damaging anything? If so how would I go about doing that?
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Apple mail won't log in to gmail account from High Sierra. Cannot add Google account
Call the computer Elf. Elf runs High Sierra. This machine is locked at High Sierra because this is the latest version that will run Aperture, with something like 150,000 photos.
Apple mail will no ...
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How to rename voice memos to their titles? (Mac)
I'm trying to get all my voice memo's, with their original name, onto a external hard drive.
(My filenames are all just the date of the recording).
(I was able to find this script for Windows, but not ...
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Unable to run MacOS High Sierra (10.13.6) from an external drive on a 2018 MacBook Pro
I have a 2018 MacBook Pro (MacBookPro15,2) that originally came with Mojave which currently has MacOS Sonoma installed. I have another installation of High Sierra (10.13.6) on an external SSD that I ...
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Setting up Microsoft Office on High Sierra
The computers at my work are all old iMac11,2s which consequently can't be updated to a supported OS. What I did, therefore, was download an older version of Office, I can't remember which now but ...
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How do I install High Sierra on APFS external hard drives?
How do I install High Sierra on APFS external hard drives?
I only want to boot High Sierra off the drive on RARE occasions, for testing purposes. I don't care how slow it is, bad performance, etc.. ...
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I can't update to Mac OS 10.13 and later. You may not install to this volume because the computer is missing a firmware partition
I have a 2015 MacBook Air 13 running macOS Sierra. I got it without a working internal SSD. Now it only runs on an external SSD via USB cable. I would like to upgrade to High Sierra, but an error ...
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Should I install High Sierra in external SSD in iMac 2017 model for good performance or I can install latest version as well?
I have an iMac 2017 version with HDD and no fusion drive. HDD has slowed down so I am planning to use an external SSD. In my earlier question a generous user told me that in my model of iMac High ...
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Struggling to install macOS High Sierra on MacBook 2011 17"
I recently acquired a 17" MacBook Pro 2011 (the one known for GPU failure) and I'm trying to get macOS High Sierra on it.
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I first tried to install High Sierra via macOS internet ...
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