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Lees meerJust like with Terminal, I tend to have many Finder tabs open most of the time. Sometimes, I need to restart Finder and OneDrive (e.g., see https://superuser.com/questions/1546441/very-high-cpu-usage-for-distnoted-on-mac#:~:text=Distnot…
Lees meerI have a Mac mini 2020 (with the Apple Silicon M1 chip). I want it to boot up in verbose mode, i.e. the details of the boot process should be logged as text on the screen during bootup. The following command is recommended by several ar…
Lees meerMy friend asked me to reset this old MBP to its original state so she could pass it on to her niece. The erase went ok. The re-install, not so much. It does the install, but then when the installer reboots, I get the attached error and …
Lees meerMy iPhone 12 Pro (Max) gets extremely hot (to the point the screen dims, and beyond) with regularity, usually several times per day with just regular use of fairly basic apps. Others have reported the problem as well: Is there anything…
Lees meerIf you’re looking for a new iPad, you have no shortage of options. Apple makes as many iPads these days as MacBooks, and the differences between them aren’t all that obvious. They all support the Apple Pencil, most work with the Magic Keyboard, and …
Lees meerI'm looking at the size of a folder in get info, and Finder is giving me two different sizes, differing by about 10 GB! I'm curious as to the reason and source of this size difference. In the image below, it appears to be giving both a …
Lees meerI want to be able to view a location embedded in a HEIC file quickly by using 'quick action'. It is how it looks like when I tried to use the function via finder. Here is the definition of the quick action in Automator. However when I…
Lees meerI'm looking at the size of a folder in get info, and Finder is giving me two different sizes, differing by about 10 GB! I'm curious as to the reason and source of this size difference. In the image below, it appears to be giving both a …
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