I like to organise my files into folders, and because of this I'm not a fan of the drop-down list that appears by default when you save a file on MacOS. I usually want to put the file in a specific folder, which means I usually have to …
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Lees meerI am looking for some help recovering a Time Machine backup. I have an older iMac running macOS 10.6.8 connected to an external Apple drive. Back in 2018 the original hard drive in the iMac failed. I was able to successfully install a n…
Lees meerI found that it can not ping from the shell script launched by cron. I wrote shell script like this: #!/bin/bash ping localhost echo "Exit status: $?" >> /tmp/ping.log And I configured crontab so that this script is executed at every …
Lees meerI found that it can not ping from the shell script launched by cron. I wrote shell script like this: #!/bin/bash ping localhost echo "Exit status: $?" >> /tmp/ping.log And I configured crontab so that this script is executed at every …
Lees meerI have an M1 Mac Mini that has both macOS Sequoia and Asahi Linux installed on the internal drive, in separate APFS containers, each with its own recovery partition. However, the boot menu (power button long press) only shows one recove…
Lees meerI found that it can not ping from the shell script launched by cron. I wrote shell script like this: #!/bin/bash ping localhost echo "Exit status: $?" >> /tmp/ping.log And I configured crontab so that this script is executed at every …
Lees meerI have an M1 Mac Mini that has both macOS Sequoia and Asahi Linux installed on the internal drive, in separate APFS containers, each with its own recovery partition. However, the boot menu (power button long press) only shows one recove…
Lees meerI found that it can not ping from the shell script launched by cron. I wrote shell script like this: #!/bin/bash ping localhost echo "Exit status: $?" >> /tmp/ping.log And I configured crontab so that this script is executed at every …
Lees meerI found that it can not ping from the shell script launched by cron. I wrote shell script like this: #!/bin/bash ping localhost echo "Exit status: $?" >> /tmp/ping.log And I configured crontab so that this script is executed at every …
Lees meerI use DisplayLink Manager to operate my dock and use external monitors. To do its job, it requires Screen Recording privilages. A blue icon in the menu bar indicates that "DisplayLink Manager is capturing your screen". I appreciate this…
Lees meerAt this point I have some 170 GB in iCloud drive. My mobile documents folder has copies of 120 GB of these. I need more local space for a project. How can I force a smaller local cache of iCloud documents?
Lees meerAt this point I have some 170 GB in icloud drive. My mobile-documents folder has copies of 120 GB of these. I need more local space for a project. How can I force a smaller local cache of icloud documents?
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Lees meerI bought this controller and tried to connect it to Mac. Unfortunately it didn't work. When I am trying to press the P3 button the first light is blinking, but doesn't connect to Mac. And then it returns to the initial state like in the…
Lees meerI have an M1 Mac Mini that has both macOS Sequoia and Asahi Linux installed on the internal drive, in separate APFS containers, each with its own recovery partition. However, the boot menu (power button long press) only shows one recove…
Lees meerA family member routinely unplugs their backup drive (because no one has enough USB ports) and then forgets to plug it back in for weeks or months. How do I make Time Machine notify and warn them if a backup hasn't taken place for sever…
Lees meerI have an application that binds a menu item to trigger on ⌘]. When I set the US input source, I press ⌘] in order to trigger that item. However, when I switch the input source to QWERTZ (German), the trigger changes to ⌘Ä automatically…
Lees meerI installed a new logic board and thought I had to reinstall MacOS, so I upgraded to the final release of Big Sur. I've realized the bash shell is no longer being used, and now MacOS is using zsh, and simply editing my bash_profile file…
Lees meersince nano ~/.bash_profile is no longer working with zsh, where is the new location for making changes to bash? Here is where it IS NOT: ~/.bash_profile, ~/.bashrc, ~/.profile, ~/.zshprofile, ~/.zshrc Since I have already tried all of …
Lees meerI swap in multiple Time Machine backup drives on my main desktop to have redundant backups. At least I try to. However, lately backups to one of my disks seems to always fail, possibly because Time Machine only tries to backup to the ot…
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