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Why is macOS Tahoe firewall suddenly blocking all network access?

zaterdag 22 november 2025 inAsk Different (Tips-Tricks-Tutorials)

macOS 26.1 (Tahoe), M4 MacBook Pro Yesterday, I rebooted my MacBook and suddenly found that I had no network access, LAN or otherwise. Pinging 8.8.8.8 (or my router) gives No route to host -- no difference if I hotspot from my cell (so …

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Apple Mail messages disappeared after IMAP deletion + local move failure (no disk space) – emlx files still exist but appear empty

zaterdag 22 november 2025 inAsk Different (Tips-Tricks-Tutorials)

I am trying to recover my Apple Mail inbox on macOS Yosemite (Mail v8) after a series of events caused all messages to disappear from the application, even though the raw files are still present on disk. What happened The Inbox was acc…

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How much storage space do I really have?

zaterdag 22 november 2025 inAsk Different (Tips-Tricks-Tutorials)

I have a Mac Mini M4 with 500 GB SSD running macOS Tahoe 26.1. The internal drive is formatted APFS, of course. I’m getting some confusing results when I try to see how much storage I have available. Get Info tells me I have: Capacity:…

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How much storage space do I really have?

zaterdag 22 november 2025 inAsk Different (Tips-Tricks-Tutorials)

I have a Mac Mini M4 with 500 GB SSD running macOS Tahoe 26.1. The internal drive is formatted APFS, of course. I’m getting some confusing results when I try to see how much storage I have available. Get Info tells me I have: Capacity:…

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How can I ssh to macOS from an X Windows machine, and run a browser to display on X Windows, sort of like XTerm?

zaterdag 22 november 2025 inAsk Different (Tips-Tricks-Tutorials)

I have a macOS machine running Catalina. I also have a Linux machine running Ubuntu 20.04. I can ssh -X user@macos-machine and then run XTerm, Xeyes, and other X programs on the Mac, displaying them on the Linux (Thanks to @jksoegaard…

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Why is macOS Tahoe firewall suddenly blocking all network access?

zaterdag 22 november 2025 inAsk Different (Tips-Tricks-Tutorials)

macOS 26.1 (Tahoe), M4 MacBook Pro Yesterday, I rebooted my MacBook and suddenly found that I had no network access, LAN or otherwise. Pinging 8.8.8.8 (or my router) gives No route to host -- no difference if I hotspot from my cell (so …

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How can I ssh to macOS from an X Windows machine, and run a browser to display on X Windows, sort of like XTerm?

vrijdag 21 november 2025 inAsk Different (Tips-Tricks-Tutorials)

I have a macOS machine running Catalina. I also have a Linux machine running Ubuntu 20.04. I can ssh -X user@macos-machine and then run XTerm, Xeyes, and other X programs on the Mac, displaying them on the Linux (Thanks to @jksoegaard…

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Why is macOS Tahoe firewall suddenly blocking all network access?

vrijdag 21 november 2025 inAsk Different (Tips-Tricks-Tutorials)

macOS 26.1 (Tahoe), M4 MacBook Pro Yesterday, I rebooted my MacBook and suddenly found that I had no network access, LAN or otherwise. Pinging 8.8.8.8 (or my router) gives No route to host -- no difference if I hotspot from my cell (so …

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Is it possible to force the Sketch function in Preview.app to draw straight lines (instead of smoothed freehand) by default?

vrijdag 21 november 2025 inAsk Different (Tips-Tricks-Tutorials)

Before I update to MacOS Monterey, pretty much every time I drew a line, it was straight. Now, it seems to me like the precision is increased and now I have to select the straight line option after the Sketch lightly smoothes my free ha…

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How can I ssh to macOS from an X Windows machine, and run a browser to display on X Windows, sort of like XTerm?

vrijdag 21 november 2025 inAsk Different (Tips-Tricks-Tutorials)

I have a macOS machine running Catalina. I also have a Linux machine running Ubuntu 20.04. I can ssh -X user@macos-machine and then run XTerm, Xeyes, and other X programs on the Mac, displaying them on the Linux (Thanks to @jksoegaard…

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HELP! External HD not working... Corrupted EFI Name, need help rebuilding EFI?

vrijdag 21 november 2025 inAsk Different (Tips-Tricks-Tutorials)

kind of in a doozy here. So, I have a 8TB External HD that I have always mounted to my iMac that is running the newest version of Sequoia via OCLP. I'm not sure exactly what happened to the drive, but it may have been due to a power out…

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Whole system freezing / stuttering at regular intervals in macOS Tahoe 26.1

vrijdag 21 november 2025 inAsk Different (Tips-Tricks-Tutorials)

after the fascinating issue with the Clock app—which is still embarrassingly buggy even after removing the mobiletimerd.plist file—I have a new, fresh issue with macOS Tahoe. At apparently random intervals (30s, 1m, 2m) but with surpris…

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Whole system freezing / stuttering at regular intervals in macOS Tahoe 26.1

vrijdag 21 november 2025 inAsk Different (Tips-Tricks-Tutorials)

after the fascinating issue with the Clock app—which is still embarrassingly buggy even after removing the mobiletimerd.plist file—I have a new, fresh issue with macOS Tahoe. At apparently random intervals (30s, 1m, 2m) but with surpris…

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`hdiutil -passphrase` encryption confusion

vrijdag 21 november 2025 inAsk Different (Tips-Tricks-Tutorials)

I'm making a disk image creating program, and it of course is going to use hdiutil to do the actual work. I'm reading through the docs and I have -encryption aes-256 added to the command when someone opts for encryption. But then I prom…

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Unmounting multiple IOS simulators

vrijdag 21 november 2025 inAsk Different (Tips-Tricks-Tutorials)

In my Disk Utility I see five “Apple Disk Image Media” volumes. They all appear to be IOS simulators. Now, I have done a little IOS development in XCode, but I don’t understand why these images persist after several restarts without XCo…

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Why am I not getting an alert sound when a text message comes in macOS?

vrijdag 21 november 2025 inAsk Different (Tips-Tricks-Tutorials)

When I am actively using my Mac, and I get an inbound text message, it often doesn't make a sound and I cannot figure out why. The message does show in the "Messages" app. Also, notifications are "working" because the notification bubbl…

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Why http://linux/ gets redirect to linux.com in Safari

donderdag 20 november 2025 inAsk Different (Tips-Tricks-Tutorials)

Today I was trying to google the header file linux/cleanup.h, but surprisingly when I typed it in Safari address bar, it redirect me to https://linux.com/cleanup.h. In fact, simply http://linux/ will also get redirects to https://www.li…

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How can I ssh to macOS from an X Windows machine, and run a browser to display on X Windows, sort of like XTerm?

donderdag 20 november 2025 inAsk Different (Tips-Tricks-Tutorials)

I have a macOS machine running Catalina. I also have a Linux machine running Ubuntu 20.04. I can ssh -X user@macos-machine and then run XTerm, Xeyes, and other X programs on the Mac, displaying them on the Linux. (Thanks to @jksoegaa…

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Why http://linux/ gets redirect to linux.com in Safari

donderdag 20 november 2025 inAsk Different (Tips-Tricks-Tutorials)

Today I was trying to google the header file linux/cleanup.h, but surprisingly when I typed it in Safari address bar, it redirect me to https://linux.com/cleanup.h. In fact, simply http://linux/ will also get redirects to https://www.li…

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How can I ssh to macOS from an X Windows machine, and run a browser to display on X Windows, sort of like XTerm?

donderdag 20 november 2025 inAsk Different (Tips-Tricks-Tutorials)

I have a macOS machine running Catalina. I also have a Linux machine running Ubuntu 20.04. I can ssh -X user@macos-machine and then run XTerm, Xeyes, and other X programs on the Mac, displaying them on the Linux. (Thanks to @jksoegaa…

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Whole system freezing / stuttering at regular intervals in macOS Tahoe 26.1

donderdag 20 november 2025 inAsk Different (Tips-Tricks-Tutorials)

after the fascinating issue with the Clock app—which is still embarrassingly buggy even after removing the mobiletimerd.plist file—I have a new, fresh issue with macOS Tahoe. At apparently random intervals (30s, 1m, 2m) but with surpris…

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