I got an iMac 27-inch Mid 2011 (A1312, EMC 2429) that does not fully boot. Here’s what happens: Pressing the power button, the fans, HDD, and optical drive spin up. The startup chime plays, but nothing appears on the screen. After a fe…
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Lees meerI got an iMac 27-inch Mid 2011 (A1312, EMC 2429) that does not fully boot. Here’s what happens: Pressing the power button, the fans, HDD, and optical drive spin up. The startup chime plays, but nothing appears on the screen. After a fe…
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Lees meermacOS Sequoia How to move window controls (minimize, maximize, and close buttons) from the top left to the top right ? I come from a linux background where arbitrary change is encouraged ... cursory google says it cannot be changed howe…
Lees meerWhen I try to download the full installer for macOS Monterey 12.7.4 with softwareupdate I get the following error: softwareupdate --fetch-full-installer --full-installer-version 12.7.4 Scanning for 12.7.4 installer Install failed with …
Lees meerUntil recently, Time Machine (TM) backups were about an hour apart as expected (that's what is selected). As shown in TM Settings for the latest backups on the four backup disks. But today, they are four hours apart. ???
Lees meerI have a MBP M3. I attached an extrnal NVME SSD and I changed the folder file location of the brew --cask. I installed discord & figma with it on the external drive. Whenever discord has a new update, it gets wiped from the external dri…
Lees meerA book was sent to me for correction in .epub format. It seemed reasonable to add dozens of notes/annotations via Books. There are solutions for exporting notes separately. But, to my enormous astonishment, I can't find any way of expor…
Lees meerI am trying to compile (from source, I am aware that there is a port but I need to compile from source) a library (GKlib) with MacPorts gcc14 on Sonoma 14.7,3. MacPorts is up to date I have set thing sup with git clone https://github.co…
Lees meerI copied files from a Time Machine backup, preserving datetimes, with cp cp -p /Volumes/TimeMachine/2025-02-06-113553.previous/Macintosh HD/Users/Documents ~/ when instead I should have done it with rsync to avoid read-only issues on T…
Lees meerThis functionality exists in Intel Macs. I have seen questions from 2021 to 2024; most say no. Does anyone know of any method to set up recovery lock on Mac without MDM?
Lees meerThis functionality exists in Intel Macs. I have seen questions from 2021 to 2024; most say no. Does anyone know of any method to set up recovery lock on Mac without MDM?
Lees meerI am trying to compile (from source, I am aware that there is a port but I need to compile from source) a library (GKlib) with MacPorts gcc14 on Sonoma 14.7,3. MacPorts is up to date I have set thing sup with git clone https://github.co…
Lees meerI see this problem reported here and elsewhere and the obvious instructions are given to resolve the problem, but I don’t see where the problem is resolved. l’ve been using Macs since 1986. My practice is to re-install the OS once per y…
Lees meerI am using Jorrick's MacOS notifications generator to make custom popup notifications. Whenever one appears, it uses the Python Launcher rocketship icon, like this: I want to replace the rocketship image with the System Settings gear i…
Lees meerI have an imac 2017 21.5in running High Sierra, and can't install Ventura, I receive a message saying installation is damaged and can't be installed.
Lees meerClicking on Microsoft Teams icon in the Dock on macOS opens a control screen rather than returning to the active session. All other applications and especially Microsoft Office products go to the active/open file. Is there something tha…
Lees meerI am using Jorrick's MacOS notifications generator to make custom popup notifications. Whenever one appears, it uses the Python Launcher rocketship icon, like this: I want to replace the rocketship image with the System Settings gear i…
Lees meerRecently starting a python process that opens a server port always triggers the Firewall dialog Do you want allow that Python.app can accept incoming network connections? (translated) As the system Python version is too old I have insta…
Lees meerWhen playing a video game that takes up the whole screen, MacOS will regularly, several times during a session, hide the game window to highlight another program (an arbitrary one that has been used before the game) that has a selected …
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