I have a question and its based on the situation below. The whole aim is to get certain important files out of my Macbook Air's backup. My Macbook Air crashed and won't wake up at all anymore. Before it crashed, I was able to save all t…
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Lees meerMy 2015 MacBook Pro 13's internal SSD died during an update yesterday. When I try booting it says there are no drives to boot from. I used Internet Recovery and there is no sign of the internal SSD anywhere. So, I plugged in a brand new…
Lees meerRecently, I wanted to put a message on my Login (not Lock Screen) screen and I did it with the following command: sudo defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.loginwindow LoginwindowText "Message" It took some time to appear for …
Lees meerIs there a way to list all the homebrew packages explicitly installed by the user (they they installed directly using brew install)? Note brew leaves doesn't do this. Over time formula can change change their dependencies leaving orphan…
Lees meerI'm looking to work around the lack of support for a wireless adapter in Big Sur by using https://github.com/chris1111/Wireless-USB-Big-Sur-Adapter/. Unfortunately it requires SIP to be disabled not just during installation, but permane…
Lees meerWhen using photo booth, I see there is an 'Effects' button with many effects like 'Space Alien' and 'Dizzy'. But if I want to simply blur the background a little, how do I do that?
Lees meerI've tried a few clients that come up with a search, notably WebSSH SCP Client FTPManager All of which have the basic functionality of transferring stored files from the Files app, but from my testing none of these have implemented a …
Lees meerMy 2015 MacBook Pro 13's internal SSD died during an update yesterday. When I try booting it says there are no drives to boot from. I used Internet Recovery and there is no sign of the internal SSD anywhere. So, I plugged in a brand new…
Lees meerMy friend's iMac would not boot. I ran TechTool Protogo using a thumb drive with TTP 9 to test the hard drive. It reported several hundred failed sectors on the drive, so I recommended we replace it. Before replacing the hard drive in…
Lees meerI'm trying to move some files with GNU find on the command line, as in this answer: gfind path_A -name '*AAA*' -exec mv -t path_B {} + (added a 'g' prefix to find to use the Homebrew version of find.) Problem: MacOS' version of mv does…
Lees meerI have a MacBook 12 with Big Sur. I have also a Bootcamp installation with Microsoft Windows 10. When I open the bootmenu I have the following screen: I don’t know why this label HD shows instead of macOS or similar. Selecting that icon…
Lees meerI am a teacher, and I am trying to verify the date and time when a student took a particular photo. The student has an iPhone (unknown model and OS version) and used the Scanner app by Luni to take the photo. The student says they can't…
Lees meerI am a teacher, and I am trying to verify the date and time when a student took a particular photo. The student has an iPhone (unknown model and OS version) and used the Scanner app by Luni to take the photo. The student says they can't…
Lees meerMy friend's iMac would not boot. I ran TechTool Protogo using a thumb drive with TTP 9 to test the hard drive. It reported several hundred failed sectors on the drive, so I recommended we replace it. Before replacing the hard drive in…
Lees meerI have a MacBook 12 with Big Sur. I have also a Bootcamp installation with Microsoft Windows 10. When I open the bootmenu I have the following screen: I don’t know why this label HD shows instead of macOS or similar. Selecting that icon…
Lees meerI have a MacBook 12 with Big Sur. I have also a Bootcamp installation with Microsoft Windows 10. When I open the bootmenu I have the following screen: I don’t know why this label HD shows instead of macOS or similar. Selecting that icon…
Lees meerI was listening to a Talk Python To Me podcast that had Simon Willison as the guest. Willison discussed two projects he is developing, Datasette and DogSheep Beta, both of which allow you pull in data as an SQLite database (Datasette) a…
Lees meerI have a MacBook 12 with Big Sur. I have also a Bootcamp installation with Microsoft Windows 10. When I open the bootmenu I have the following screen: I don’t know why this label HD shows instead of macOS or similar. Selecting that icon…
Lees meerI accidentally unchecked iCloud for photos on my Mac and quickly turned it on again. Does anything happen when you do that? I think I have read that if you turn off iCloud, your photos will get deleted within 30 days. Could this happen …
Lees meerMy bootcamp doesn't work, at the windows set up page I get "windows cannot locate the disk and partition specified in the unattended answer..." which I think is due to the weird nested disks I have How can I clean up the way that the d…
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