Questions tagged [mac]
Hardware related questions of computers sold/made by Apple. Use [macos] for the operating system, and use [mac-address] for MAC addresses instead.
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macOS: How to deal with [INSERT] key in midnight commander?
When browsing with Midnight Commander sometimes I want to copy something from its interface. Let's say the name of a file. For this, I press shift + f6. Now a dialog opens with the name of the file in ...
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TP Link Deco Router gets killed when Mac Mini is powered on
I'm facing a issue for quite a few months now,
My internet connection gets killed when I supposedly turn on my Mac Mini/ Windows 11 Dell Laptop.
I verified that my ISP isn't failing by checking the ...
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macOS Documents size bug
How do I retrieve the space that is being reported in macOS Systems Settings? It says ~40gbs, yet the actual size is 6kb.
I have:
removed all unneeded user profiles
pruned pnpm and brew packages
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Munki Silent Software Installation
I am relatively new to Munki and MDM.
I have now installed Munki on a Mac and so far the other Mac clients are also supplied with software.
However, I would now like to set up 1-2 software systems so ...
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MacOS: What does "This application can't be opened / -50" mean and what application can't be opened?
This is not a copy of The application “SomeApp.app” can’t be opened but it might be related.
After my mac wouldn't start up I shut it down by holding the power button until it turned off. After ...
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My keyboard shortcut doesn't work when I'm on finder because of its default keybindings
I have created a shortcut in my Mac's Quick Actions with a shell script to run, and gave it the keyboard shortcuts option+cmd+t.
It works great in any other app than Finder, where it just does its ...
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Recovering from Invalid Container error in APFS volume (macOS)
I have an external disk formatted in APFS. I can see the disk and partitions, but macOS is not mounting the volumen and disktuil and fsck are giving me lots of errors.
Any help recovering the ...
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Mac browser not working, but internet connected
I have seen similar issues on here but none of the solutions worked for me.
I have a 2023 Mac Mini on the latest version of Sonoma 14.5
Everything was working fine but all of a sudden I cannot browse ...
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When using Voiceover and press the letter h without any other keys it does header search
When using voiceover - the built in screenreader on the mac - it behaves as it other keys of the keyboard are pressed at the same time, but they aren't.
For example pressing the letter h on the ...
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Run a command, immediately return to the shell prompt, do not return a message when the command is finished [duplicate]
brew install gh > /dev/null 2>&1 &
This returns to the shell immediately, but prints [1] + done brew install gh > /dev/null 2>&1 when the command finishes.
brew install ...
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Mac wifi on android hotspot connected but no internet
Internet is working fine on my phone which is using 4G. I'm using the same phone to create a hotspot which I'm connecting to from my Macbook and another android. The hotspot connection works on ...
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How to quickly hide all the extensions in Chrome for the purpose of recording and screensharing?
Screensharing. Recording. Long long long list of Chrome extensions. I don't want entire world to see it.
There are some workarounds:
manually hide
use another browser profile
But that's not ...
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Remove buttons from PowerPoint on Mac
in the top right corner of my PowerPoint, I have 4 buttons: Record, Comments, Present in Teams, Share. On the standard screen, this leads to some of the ribbons (Home, Insert, etc.) being hidden ...
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Get full file path when running file via a script on MAC OSX terminal
I'm running let's say a .txt file via my .sh script.
I would like to add a line to my script which stores the just-opened file's full path (+ filename with extension included) as a variable.
In ...
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My git history all of my commits have no message
this happened today last few hours, have not updated git, but all of my git commits have no message I do a commit
git commit -m "fixed the headline level"
and when I do git log I see
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