New Mac user and, of course, new Spotlight enjoyer. I made a simple Shortcut that searches for terms listed in a .txt file (located in the Shortcuts folder). It creates a new folder on the desktop with the results and links(?) to the ac…
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Lees meerA Subject Access Request has come to my department and because of this I will need search our email database for a keyword, in this case the SAR requestee's name. We (still) use Dovecot/Postfix on Mac OS Server App to handle our mail. I…
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Lees meerI have a Mac with the following specs: MacBook Pro, 16-inch, Nov 2023, Chip: Apple M3 Pro, macOS: Sequoia 15.5. I want a three-screen setup where I connect two external monitors to a dock / hub, and connect the dock to the Mac to have t…
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Lees meerI have a Mac with the following specs: MacBook Pro, 16-inch, Nov 2023, Chip: Apple M3 Pro, macOS: Sequoia 15.5. I want a three-screen setup where I connect two external monitors to a dock / hub, and connect the dock to the Mac to have t…
Lees meerI have a Mac with the following specs: MacBook Pro, 16-inch, Nov 2023, Chip: Apple M3 Pro, macOS: Sequoia 15.5. I want a three-screen setup where I connect two external monitors to a dock / hub, and connect the dock to the Mac to have t…
Lees meerI have a Mac with the following specs: MacBook Pro, 16-inch, Nov 2023, Chip: Apple M3 Pro, macOS: Sequoia 15.5. I want a three-screen setup where I connect two external monitors to a dock / hub, and connect the dock to the Mac to have t…
Lees meerThe keyboard and trackpad on my 2023 M3 MacBook Pro (A2992) have stopped working. This laptop was working flawlessly, never had liquid spilled on it, and it spent 10 days tucked away in a dry drawer. After those 10 days, the keyboard an…
Lees meerHere is what I get from diskutil list I've read a few other forums and I think I generally understand the process but I want to double check I'm taking the right steps I got my Mac secondhand and noticed I’m “missing” around 90GB, whil…
Lees meerHere is what I get from diskutil list I've read a few other forums and I think I generally understand the process but I want to double check I'm taking the right steps I got my Mac secondhand and noticed I’m “missing” around 90GB, whil…
Lees meerEverytime I open the computer there's a window for FaceTime and iMessage asking me to log in I don't use them, and I don't want them to even run on the machine FaceTime was kinda easy, there's a /Users/dione/Library/Preferences/com.appl…
Lees meerThe keyboard and trackpad on my 2023 M3 MacBook Pro (A2992) have stopped working. This laptop was working flawlessly, never had liquid spilled on it, and it spent 10 days tucked away in a dry drawer. After those 10 days, the keyboard an…
Lees meerI’m using a Mac Studio (32GB RAM) running macOS Sequoia, and I’ve run into a Spotlight issue that I can’t resolve. 🧩 How the problem started: I noticed that mds (Spotlight indexing process) was consuming a lot of memory, so I asked Cha…
Lees meerMy sister is traveling abroad for a few months, and I'd love to track her for safety reasons (with her permission of course), knowing at least once per day where she is, with also the possibility to check when needed where she is exactl…
Lees meerI'm swapping my second HDD for a new SSD in my MacBook Pro running Ventura. Both drives, old and new, are 1TB. Old drive is formatted Mac OS extended (Journaled), new drive was just reformatted APFS. I only copied files from my old driv…
Lees meerI’m using a Mac Studio (32GB RAM) running macOS Sequoia, and I’ve run into a Spotlight issue that I can’t resolve. 🧩 How the problem started: I noticed that mds (Spotlight indexing process) was consuming a lot of memory, so I asked Cha…
Lees meerEverytime I open the computer there's a window for FaceTime and iMessage asking me to log in I don't use them, and I don't want them to even run on the machine FaceTime was kinda easy, there's a /Users/dione/Library/Preferences/com.appl…
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