I want to make a full backup of my Macintosh HD - Data volume which is running MacOS 12. The backup needs to be an exact as is replica so needs all existing attributes, permissions, ACLs etc. What is the best Rsync command to use? Simpl…
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Lees meerIt has been almost three days since I have been unable to sign in to my Apple Developer account. Error ScreenShot I cannot contact Apple for support because signing in is required to access their support channels. I have already verifi…
Lees meerMy understanding from the wikipedia page for Duplex and from StackExchange answers like this is that on a modern ethernet connection the transmit traffic is supposed to be unaffected by the receive traffic. But I'm running some tests be…
Lees meerThere seems to be a bug in System Settings where the toggle switch for 'Optimise Mac Storage' under Apple ID > iCloud switches itself back to its previous position, the first time it is clicked. The next time it stays toggled. This seem…
Lees meerThere seems to be a bug in System Settings where the toggle switch for 'Optimise Mac Storage' under Apple ID > iCloud switches itself back to its previous position, the first time it is clicked. The next time it stays toggled. This seem…
Lees meerI'm using Macos 15.3 (Sequoia). I have a large number of JPG and PNG images on another computer, and I want to copy them to my Mac and then be able to choose my Macos login picture from this collection of my own images. I copied all th…
Lees meerMy understanding from the wikipedia page for Duplex and from StackExchange answers like this is that on a modern ethernet connection the transmit traffic is supposed to be unaffected by the receive traffic. But I'm running some tests be…
Lees meerMy understanding from the wikipedia page for Duplex and from StackExchange answers like this is that on a modern ethernet connection the transmit traffic is supposed to be unaffected by the receive traffic. But I'm running some tests be…
Lees meerI have four different old MacBooks, from 2008 to 2010. 2008 MacBook 2009 MacBook 2009 MacBook Air 2010 MacBook I have five chargers, all MagSafe 1. 1x 45W 3x 60W 1x 85W All except the 45W are replacement ones, so the 45W is original…
Lees meerThere seems to be a bug in System Settings where the toggle switch for 'Optimise Mac Storage' under Apple ID > iCloud switches itself back to its previous position, the first time it is clicked. The next time it stays toggled. This seem…
Lees meerHow can I fix this and add two new partitions that I can use to dual boot linux distros. (I don't need help with linux install, at least not yet, just fixing my partition map) Using Disk Utility I tried to add 2 new partitions to my 3T…
Lees meerNo matter how I change Keyboard Shortcuts, my Option key always clears the desktop (puts all the windows up against the sides). I can still, sometimes, use the shortcuts that require Option, but sometimes it's impossible. I've changed t…
Lees meerI have recently discovered that my OSX mail 'archive' folder contains over 45K emails. I have not consciously archived my emails ever! I feel I should delete as many of the archived emails as I can - my OSX mail account takes 5-10 seco…
Lees meerI have this table in Numbers: In the first column I want to calculate the differences between the timestamps in the third column. The first four entries in the first column are fine. I just subtract the previous row from the current ro…
Lees meerI have this table in Numbers: In the first column I want to calculate the differences between the timestamps in the third column. The first four entries in the first column are fine. I just subtract the previous row from the current ro…
Lees meerI have this table in Numbers: In the first column I want to calculate the differences between the timestamps in the third column. The first four entries in the first column are fine. I just subtract the previous row from the current ro…
Lees meerHere is an AppleScript script to make it possible double-click files in Finder so that they will be opened in Vim, by Normen Hansen: https://github.com/normen/vim-macos-scripts/blob/master/open-file-in-vim.applescript (it must be used f…
Lees meerI have this table in Numbers: In the first column I want to calculate the differences between the timestamps in the third column. The first four entries in the first column are fine. I just subtract the previous row from the current ro…
Lees meerWhat it says on the tin. I hate the delay in the file icon appearing in the message field because it's preparing a version the sender and recipient(s) can collaborate on, and I hate having to manually change the dropdown-menu option fro…
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