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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Stuck at macOS Utilities screen OS X
I did mistakenly erased Macintosh HD and now both the Recovery disk and Macintosh HD are combined . Unable to reinstall the macOS as it doesn’t find any core volume
disk utilities image
current ...
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Alpine and macOS dualbooting
I'm trying to dualboot alpine linux with mac. I have installed refined correctly. And also installed alpine on a separate partition from mac following this guide. But when I start the computer the ...
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What do I enter in the DNS/Proxy fields when connecting an Epson printer to a Macbook?
I am trying to connect my Epson L3250 printer to my Macbook for printing. I downloaded Epson Connect Printer Setup for Mac OS X and started the setup procedure, but I get stuck on the "DNS/Proxy ...
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How to Mount a Bootable Debian SD Card on macOS and Windows?
I'm having trouble mounting a bootable Debian OS on SD Card (32GB) on macOS and Windows. The drive mounts and functions perfectly on my Linux machine, allowing read/write access. However, neither ...
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Comment retrograder un iMAC OS Monterey en IMAC OS Sierra version 10.12 ou Marverick 10.9? [closed]
je travaille sur un IMAC OS MONTEREY 12.7.5 mais archicad Start édition 16 n'est plus compatible avec cette nouvelle version mise à jour automatiquement. Comment rétrograder avec la version Mac Os ...
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Debian 12.5 Samba share not preserving modification time accessed from MacOS
I've created a Samba share on Debian 12.5. The client is macOS Sonoma 14.5. Files copied to the shared drive are not consistently preserving modification time.
I copy files over, some copy with the ...
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Change clock settings using terminal
what would be terminal command to change(enable in my case)this setting?
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MS Word for Mac 2021: Bullet point formatting disappeared in whole document - how to recover?
I was working on a word document with multilevel bullet points, when suddenly I realised that all bullets had disappeared. See screenshot for excerpt of the doc after the bullet formatting has ...
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Hard disk full on macOS [closed]
“Your hard disk is almost full.
Outlook is now working offline and must quit.”
“There's about 150 MB of free hard disk space. Please make space by removing files from your computer”
There is about ...
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How do I get rid of extra space in cell when using Text Wrap in Excel for Mac 2016?
I am using Excel to make a table with several columns with word wrapped text. When using auto cell height there is some extra space at the bottom of each cell - successively larger space for every ...
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How to grant Lightroom full access to QNAP NAS at MacOS?
I have a strange problem.
I have QNAP NAS running on local network at 192.168.86.91. When I connect to the NAS via QNAP Qfinder I can map a volume to Mac Finder. There I have an access to NAS files. I ...
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How to have 5 different always-on-top notes, one on each screen?
Screen as in the different desktops in mac os
I'm using macOS and I frequently work with multiple spaces. I'm looking for a way to have 5 different notes or quick notes that are always on top of all ...
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userChrome.css changes to Firefox only take effect on Ubuntu, not Mac
I have a userChrome.css file that I use to remove unused menu items from Firefox context menus on my Ubuntu machine. Here is the contents:
:root[inFullscreen] #PersonalToolbar {
visibility: ...
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How to add a Mac user account to the deamon group — in order to install FileMaker Server in order to r&w my own data with a shell script in FMS?
I need to run shell scripts from within FileMaker server.
The default installation creates a "fmserver" user account and user group. With that user, sudo is not possible (even after adding ...
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Mac and old Adobe Flash: HSTS behaviour
i begin by saying that I am recently 'obsessed' with my past browsing history with my old Mac (2017).
So the question: do you know what happens to a 'settings.sol' file (included in the path ...
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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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