So, coming across what QLStephen could do, I brewed it at once in the hopes of having the Quick Look functionality for most of the "text-based" files, as it advertises. However, to my disappointment, nothing was affected. I found tempor…
Lees meerI’m running Sonoma. My external HDD has 4 partition (volumes). One of them can’t be repaired by macOS. However when plugged to old Mac with High Sierra it shows no problem. Is there a known fix for this?
Lees meerI find the News app very distracting. I already have most news sites blocked by redirecting them to localhost in /etc/hosts, which works great for websites. On my iPhone, I can simply delete the News app, but that's not possible on the …
Lees meerMy iMac running macOS High Sierra has two SSD drives: 256GB with the OS on it and 2TB for data. Spotlight returns zero results when doing a search on both drives. Also other apps using Spotlight for searching (for example the Calendar a…
Lees meerA friend monitoring a health condition wants to regularly check the Heart rate minute by minute data on Apple Health on their iPhone but this requires multiple clicks and scrolls until “show all data” in the HR section is finally reveal…
Lees meerMacBook Air m1 8/256 Sequoia 15.1 External nvme ssd Kingston NV2 [SNV2S/1000G], APFS Ugreen 40gbps ssd enclosure Connecting directly to the laptop by included with the enclosure cable This issue was present before on Sonoma or Ventura, …
Lees meerDisclaimer: this question is exclusively about APFS-based backups, older hard-link based format of Time Machine is not considered in this question When a Time Machine backup is running, there is a button called Skip This Backup which wa…
Lees meerI have two files here that are hidden, but I cannot determine how they are hidden. They are found in a folder that users are not normally expected to get to. I can see them if I use the Finder shortcut Shift+Command+.. As shown in th…
Lees meerI have a macOS/Windows-bootable Mac Pro. Two internal HDDs form a mirror disk formatted in ReFS. How do I prevent macOS Sequoia from nagging me to initialize/eject/ignore those two HDDs each time I start up the machine under macOS? I un…
Lees meerI am hoping to script a query (perhaps a shell command from the terminal app) to find out current hardware capabilities. I don’t want to have to check the tech specs online at Apple (or other source) for each Mac I run this on. Is there…
Lees meerSay I have a video or even a photo stored in my iPhones's camera roll(the Photos app). I save it to Files(inside a folder) Connect the phone to my Mac Copy the enclosing folder using the Finder>iPhone>Files tab Now I have the file on m…
Lees meerTo copy or move file to a different folder using Terminal, the obvious way is to use the cp and mv commands. But for users who often put important information in the "Comments" section of the "Get Info" window of their files and folders…
Lees meerSay I have a video or even a photo stored in my iPhones's camera roll(the Photos app). I save it to Files(inside a folder) Connect the phone to my Mac Copy the enclosing folder using the Finder>iPhone>Files tab Now I have the file on m…
Lees meerTo copy or move file to a different folder using Terminal, the obvious way is to use the cp and mv commands. But for users who often put important information in the "Comments" section of the "Get Info" window of their files and folders…
Lees meerI'm using a MacBook Pro with an Apple M1 Pro chip, connected to an external LG Pro Gamer Ultrawide 29" monitor (model 29UM69G-B) via USB-C. After updating to macOS Sequoia 15.1 (build 24B83), the external monitor has started flickering …
Lees meerI would like to configure the number of spaces on my MacBook running macOS Sequoia as follows: When no external monitor is attached, I would like to have two spaces on the internal monitor. That is, this is what Mission Control should …
Lees meerI have a macbook pro m3 and i bought a SSD enclouse with a M.2 ssd. I was thinking if there is a way for the apps that work from the external drive to be updated the same as if they were in the actual OS Applications folder. For example…
Lees meerOn my MPB running Sonoma with "Search: This Mac "Documents"" duly displayed, all my Spotlight search results come solely from my iCloud backup. Is there a way to force Spotlight to only return results from my hard disk rather than the i…
Lees meerI've written a launch agent: Label local.mylaunchagent.plist ProgramArguments ~/my_script.sh StartInterval 12 StandardOutPath ~/my_log_file …
Lees meerI have a macbook pro m3 and i bought a SSD enclouse with a M.2 ssd. I was thinking if there is a way for the apps that work from the external drive to be updated the same as if they were in the actual OS Applications folder. For example…
Lees meerI have a macbook pro m3 and i bought a SSD enclouse with a M.2 ssd. I was thinking if there is a way for the apps that work from the external drive to be updated the same as if they were in the actual OS Applications folder. For example…
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