Unanswered Questions
9,267 questions with no upvoted or accepted answers
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No internet connection when connected via wi-fi, but fine via ethernet (DD-WRT)
I just bought a new router (Linksys WRT160Nv3) and installed DD-WRT on it.
When I connect my Mac to the router via Wi-Fi, I cannot get an outside internet connection (and in fact, can not connect to ...
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Mac OS X Server 10.6.6 "disables" CPU in VMware Fusion
I installed Mac OS X Server 10.6.0 in VMWare Fusion the other night and it worked perfectly, until I ran Software Update. I upgraded to 10.6.6 through the combo updater, and now when I start the VM it ...
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Can’t download Mac OS X 10.11 (El Capitan)
I am trying to install Mac OS X 10.11 (El Capitan). The traditional way just going to the Mac App Store it s not working ( I tried several times (5times) and the download it’s ALWAYS stopping at 1....
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How do I disable the default input source in macOS Sonoma?
I have long been using a custom keyboard layout which contains all the regular and special characters that I need for my work.
I have a new Mac using macOS Sonoma, and I've installed the custom ...
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Ubuntu VM hangs in VirtualBox under Window 10: "watchdog BUG: soft lockup - CPU#0 stuck for 23s"
This is Windows 10 with VirtualBox installed and Ubuntu virtual machine with Apache server.
Often CPU hangs on the Ubuntu virtual machine, taking up to 50% host CPU usage with no response at all, when ...
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macOS Big Sur: bypasses login screen when woken from sleep, doesn't require password at all
Anyone know how I can stop this happening?!
I have checked that no apps are preventing sleep in Activity Monitor.
I have not changed the settings or anything. This is only since the upgrade to Big ...
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How do I delete an entry from Firefox address bar autocomplete?
Because the site won't let me comment on an existing post, I am required to duplicate it.
Delete does not work, shift+delete does not work. It's frustrating to
have old misspelled addresses ...
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How to let VLC media player (on Mac) show total duration of video near the progress bar?
On Mac, the VLC media player progress bar defaults to show the elapsed or remaining time of a video (in non-full-screen mode). Is there a way to make it show the total time of a video in addition to ...
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When are the temp files/directories in “/var/folders” automatically deleted in macOS?
How often and under what conditions are files under /var/folders/ removed?
Where can I find any official documentation or notes on this? I've searched but haven't even found a mention of it.
If an ...
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Is it possible to create a firmlink on the latest version of macOS Catalina?
synthetic.conf creates empty, mountable directories and symlinks, not firmlinks.
While I do know you can create another volume inside the APFS container and use synthetic.conf to provide me with a ...
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How can I emulate Ubuntu 18.04 on MacOS using qemu?
How can I run Ubuntu 18.04 on my MacBook Air (Mojave) using QEMU? (yes I have to use QEMU for now.) I got QEMU from here. But also got it from Homebrew as well.
I've tried looking at the QEMU's ...
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How to adjust default volume of a Quick Look for any audio file in Finder in macOS
I'd like to change the default value of Quick Look for any audio file in Finder.
The value for volume slide stays same if you open Quick Look for the same file consecutively. However, it changes back ...
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Google drive file stream has encountered and has stopped OSX
credits goes to github user bfleischer for the solution
Just wanted to share an answer to a solution.
So recently i fresh installed a new OSX on my mac and encountered this problem which the drive ...
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On Linux Samba share accessed from macOS, macOS has weird file permissions
The things I changed in my smb.conf on my linux machine are:
unix extensions = no
map archive = no
map system = no
map hidden = no
[myshare]
path = /home/bob/myshare
browseable = yes
read only = no
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VM got 10.0.x.x address instead of 192.168.x.x address?
I've searched the similar question (and prepared to be downvoted too).
I'm new to virtualbox, and I have Ubuntu-server-VM (with guest addition installed) run on my Windows-10-Host using VirtualBox-5.2....
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