Unanswered Questions
9,267 questions with no upvoted or accepted answers
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Is it possible to tell iCloud Drive to ignore certain files and certain patterns?
I want some sort of a .gitignore equivalent to iCloud Drive, where I can tell it to ignore certain files and patterns like node_modules or some large_document.pdf that I don't necessarily want to sync....
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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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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 I am assuming it has been replaced by another utility, but I am not sure what Apple replaced it with or ...
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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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Make Genymotion use a host VPN
I'm using Cisco's AnyConnect to connect to a VPN using my Windows 8.1 PC. When using the Genymotion emulator, I would like it to use the VPN too. However, although having Internet access from the ...
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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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rcu_sched detected stalls on CPUs/tasks
I'm running many VMs using Virtualbox. These VMs use Debian 10.3 (the latest version). And I'm experiencing bugs / freezes as you can see below. It looks like this is happening on the VMs where I ...
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Force Google Chrome (Or Chromium) to Manually Save VSphere HTML5 Password?
System Info: Running Chromium on various Linux workstations and often Google Chrome or Chromium on one of my work MacBook Pros. I'm only a Firefox user when Google isn't watching (that's a joke, they'...
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Determining status of cloned file on APFS
Apple is now using APFS across several product lines, including macOS. This new filesystem has some nice features for minimizing how much actual disk space is consumed, such as sparse file support ...
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How can I decide to accept incoming connections or not in MacOs firewall?
Searching for the keywords "accept incoming connections" in ran into questions asking how to stop the message box keeping to pop up. I would rather like to know, quite generally, why application ...
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