I recently wiped my Mac and now i need help restoring my old keychain. My website passwords used to be stored in keychain's "Local Items" (no iCloud sync) and I had made a copy of /Library/Keychains folder prior to wiping the Mac. As fa…
Lees meerI kind of get the general idea from this question Why do I have to drag my new apps into the application folder? that I've just unpacked an archive I downloaded. but I'm wanting to understand what the alternatives for me are and any ben…
Lees meerI wanted to disable the boot/power on by opening the lid. To do so, I entered the below command in the terminal sudo nvram AutoBoot=%03 Post that, I shut down the laptop by going to the Top Left Apple icon. After shut down, I closed th…
Lees meerI wanted to disable the boot/power on by opening the lid. To do so, I entered the below command in the terminal sudo nvram AutoBoot=%03 Post that, I shut down the laptop by going to the Top Left Apple icon. After shut down, I closed th…
Lees meerFirst a bit of history: I had installed Bootcamp on my MacBook and to give it more space, I had deleted macOS recovery and system partitions from Easus Partition Manager on Windows. But because of this, I wasn't able to install macOS ba…
Lees meerI've used youtube-dl to download all my videos from Youtube. With these, are created a JSON file for each video file. inside these JSON files is a LOT of junk. but there are 3 items/values/categories(?) that i want to keep, the rest can…
Lees meerI've used youtube-dl to download all my videos from Youtube. With these, are created a JSON file for each video file. inside these JSON files is a LOT of junk. but there are 3 items/values/categories(?) that i want to keep, the rest can…
Lees meerI've used youtube-dl to download all my videos from Youtube. With these, are created a JSON file for each video file. inside these JSON files is a LOT of junk. but there are 3 items/values/categories(?) that i want to keep, the rest can…
Lees meerI've wiped and reinstalled macOS in order to sell a 2017 MacBook Pro. Of course, I forgot to take a screenshot of 'About This Mac' to get all the specifics (all I need is the CPU variant). I've booted into Recovery Mode to access termin…
Lees meerAt the University where I work, we've recently made the switch to Modern Authentication. This has caused a lot of issues for users, with previously configured mail clients not properly negotiating connections with the mail servers. In…
Lees meerEvery time I type "Th" in a text field within my Chrome browser, an autocomplete prompt of "Thanks" pops up. I've dug around and can't figure it if its a Chrome, plugin, or a macOS thing but its incredibly irritating. Any help please? …
Lees meerI've got an iMac 5k (Ultimo 2014) running Mojave. Every few days, it just goes to sleep while I'm using it. Looking at pmset -g log for the sleep reason, I find: Entering Sleep state due to 'Low Power Sleep': Using AC (Charge:0%) 20 sec…
Lees meerWhat does the blue dot next to the other red/yellow/green dots do in the title bar of 2Do on macOS?
Lees meerI need to create a portable windows To Go workplace for my job and make it runs on a Mac computer, i tried WinToUSB tool and it didn't work, it keeps stucking at 0% when creating Windows to Go with a USB 3.0, so, is there any other way …
Lees meerBackground I'm running Catalina 10.15.7. I run my macOS system as a limited user (I have admin credentials for admin tasks). This mostly works fine, but it seems many apps, and sometimes Apple themselves, expect most users to be running…
Lees meerI went to an Apple store in Shanghai/China to buy an apple watch with cellular and they told me I'll not be able to use it because SIM card providers (i.e. China Unicom, China mobile) require Chinese ID (which foreigners don't have) to …
Lees meerPreface: I know there are lots of other questions about this on here, but they do not exactly match my situation and/or I do not have the technical knowledge to apply the answers to my situation. Thank you in advance for any help! I hav…
Lees meerI am trying to install homebrew but cannot due to an error popping up when I try to install command line tools. The error says that they cannot be downloaded from the install server. I already checked the library to see if Xcode is ther…
Lees meerPreface: I know there are lots of other questions about this on here, but they do not exactly match my situation and/or I do not have the technical knowledge to apply the answers to my situation. Thank you in advance for any help! I hav…
Lees meerHere's an obscure one, it used to be that if you ... opened a window A (say, green bg, your default) open another window B open prefs change the bg color in prefs to yellow that would change B to yellow, but leave the other one green …
Lees meerI received from a regular colleague a sharing e-mail in iOS Outlook, and clicked the link. It opened a web page asking for my credentials, which I did not enter because I recognized the page as counterfeit. Is there any way to tell whe…
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