I’ve been trying to clean up the “Allow in the Background” section on my Mac, where I found many items from uninstalled apps still listed. I managed to remove most of them after searching through various posts, but there was one stubbor…
Lees meerI need to re-intall macOS Catalina on my Mac Mini 2018. SSD was wiped out. Trial 1: Internet Recovery (Alt + Shift + Cmd + R or Alt + R) Disclaimer: I have a Gigabit Internet connection, without any know issues. All looks good until: ma…
Lees meerI have a 13" M1 MacBook Pro (2020). Recently it has been restarting immediately after logging in and showing a popup stating "Authentication is required to verify startup disk". After entering my password, the Mac boots to the login scr…
Lees meerBack in the day I was using this trick: https://medium.com/mac-os-x/how-to-mirror-your-smart-phone-screen-in-mac-os-x-2daf018aae4d Launch Quick Time Player in your Mac. Select New Movie Recording under File Menu (⌘+⌥ + N) In the popup…
Lees meerI like the Apple Sports app for checking scores. I've added a number of teams as "favorites" so I have easier access to them, more than just my actual favorite teams. This works mostly fine on the iPhone. I see the teams when I open th…
Lees meerI intentionally do not grant the standard macOS Terminal app "Full Disk Access". What I had done recently, in order to access a folder's contents that Terminal normally could not access with this setup, is dragged that folder into the t…
Lees meerI have a MacBook Pro with Intel CPU where it's impossible to recover the OS. CMD+R, CMD+Option+R processes don't work. After downloading the OS from internet the process starts again rebooting. I have a MacBook Air with M3 also by which…
Lees meerI intentionally do not grant the standard macOS Terminal app "Full Disk Access". What I had done recently, in order to access a folder's contents that Terminal normally could not access with this setup, is dragged that folder into the t…
Lees meerI’m attempting to create a shortcut that uses the input of a the date like 2024-Wk37. I’ve looked at Unicode Technical Standard #37 and a whole host of examples, but I can’t get this to work without procesing the single quotes as part o…
Lees meerI have a MacBook 10 circa 2007. I found a way to install Linux, but it sucks (slow, 5 minute boot). Lubuntu, Mint force upgrades on me that kill performance. I can go back to beautiful Snow Leopard, but I can't use Internet., every br…
Lees meerI need to re-intall macOS Catalina on my Mac Mini 2018. SSD was wiped out. Trial 1: Internet Recovery (Alt + Shift + Cmd + R or Alt + R) All looks good until: macOS could not be installed on your computer Running Apple Diagnostic (obvi…
Lees meerSpecific Problem Running ps -t /dev/ recently started causing the associated terminal to stop receiving some keystrokes. I can't fathom why this started happening now, without any software updates that I'm aware of. After running the ps…
Lees meerI need to re-intall macOS Catalina on my Mac Mini 2018. SSD was wiped out. Trial 1: Internet Recovery (Alt + Shift + Cmd + R or Alt + R) All looks good until: macOS could not be installed on your computer Running Apple Diagnostic (obvi…
Lees meerWhen connecting my M1 Mac (macOS 14/Sonoma) to my iPhone's Personal Hotspot for the first time after a reboot, I see the 'interlocked chain links' icon in the toolbar, and my Mac can successfully use the internet. However, if I disconn…
Lees meerIn macOS (Sonoma 14.6) my shell sometimes shows odd and long numbers inside the prompt instead of my host name for my Mac : Changing either the shell from zsh to bash (chsh -s /bin/...) and opening a new shell window - or (not sure abo…
Lees meerWhen connecting my M1 Mac (macOS 14/Sonoma) to my iPhone's Personal Hotspot for the first time after a reboot, I see the 'interlocked chain links' icon in the toolbar, and my Mac can successfully use the internet. However, if I disconn…
Lees meerGood evening everyone, I need some help concerning the following circumstance, which I cannot yet reproduce and understand what is happening under the hood. In macOS (Sonoma 14.6) Terminal I repeatedly get these odd and long numbers ins…
Lees meerI am locked out of iPad due to forgotten password and I tried to many times, so it got security locked. Is there a way to get back in when I now know my Apple ID and password?
Lees meerI am locked out of iPad due to forgotten password and I tried to many times, so it got security locked. Is there a way to get back in when I now know my Apple ID and password?
Lees meerAt work my team has some scripts written for Linux which assume /mnt/foo exists, and I'd like to make them just work on my machine. But, / is a read-only file system, so I can't sudo mkdir /mnt . I can sudo echo "mnt" > /etc/synthetic.c…
Lees meerI'm unable to open the file on Finder. It says App can't be opened. I've checked security and privacy but there's nothing there. I've tried this on the terminal but won't work. Any ideas? % cd "/Users/pakovega/Downloads/Sound Banks Bund…
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