We had few MacBooks where users without admin rights had Parental Control turned on and could open only whitelisted apps. It was working very well and it was everything we needed really. With macOS 10.15, Catalina, update…
Lees meerAfter updating to macOS Catalina – when I type, macOS will randomly repeat keypresses and sequences of keypresses. Below are some examples of some mistypes just while writing this article: macOS => macOSmacOS Below => Be…
Lees meerYesterday I made a blunder of upgrading my Macbook 2015(March) from Mojave to Catalina. Since then I am facing different issues like applications not responding, terminal crashing, etc. Now I want to get rid of it and re…
Lees meerI have cronjobs doing various cleanup tasks: $ crontab -l 0 * * * * find ${HOME}/Downloads -depth 1 -d -mtime +12h -exec /usr/local/bin/trash {} \; * * * * * /usr/bin/defaults delete com.apple.Spotlight userHasMovedWindow…
Lees meerI have been using MAMP for a few years now, I just updated to macOS Catalina, it seems that macOS Catalina is blocking permissions to the Documents folder among a few others (such as Downloads and Desktop). I have already…
Lees meerWhen I plug in an iPod shuffle (2nd generation), it appears in the sidebar under Devices in the new Music app, but not in the new Podcasts app. The iPod also appears as a location in Finder, but the "Podcasts" tab does not…
Lees meerWhen I plug in an iPod shuffle, it appears in the sidebar under Devices in the new Music app, but not in the new Podcasts app. The iPod also appears as a location in Finder. How do I transfer Podcasts to the iPod? Edit: s…
Lees meerI am regularly making backups of my iPhone otarie on a Mac through an USB cable. Versions of the OS used: iOS 11.1 MacOS 10.13.5 I am not using iCloud. Within iTunes I often see many backups apparently started (or t…
Lees meerI used macOS Mojave on mid-2014 MacBook Pro before update. While installation it forced me to restart. After restart nightmare has been started. The Blinking question mark folder has appeared on my screen. I tried, Rese…
Lees meerI have a Mac Mini on my network with an external hard drive mounted on it. I use this external drive for Time Machine for a couple computers. All was well until today, when I got a new Mac Mini. I migrated all my stuff ov…
Lees meerI just installed Macos Catalina. After the update I did a check on what's new and I found something new which is a double / redundant "Applications" folder. Usually the old Application folder is located in Disk / Users / A…
Lees meerAs I understand, HFS+ and APFS volumes don't need to be defragmented, as files will automatically defragmented by the OS, but I'd like to leave a process running in the background that would do this to all files of the dis…
Lees meerAfter updating to macOS Catalina – when I type, macOS will randomly repeat keypresses and sequences of keypresses. Below are some examples of some mistypes just while writing this article: macOS => macOSmacOS Below => Be…
Lees meerAfter the installation of Catalina all User created folders from root are moved into a separate folder and the root folder is made readonly, containing only system default folders. How is it possible to undo this and to …
Lees meerAfter updating to macOS Catalina, all the folders I had saved in the root directory, "/", were missing. I read that the system is now read-only, but didn't see a notice on where previous files have gone. Are they on the…
Lees meerAfter the installation of Catalina all User created folders from root are moved into a separate folder and the root folder is made readonly, containing only system default folders. How is it possible to undo this and to …
Lees meerAfter the installation of Catalina all User created folders from root are moved into a separate folder and the root folder is made readonly, containing only system default folders. How is it possible to undo this and to …
Lees meerPreviously (before iOS 13) I was able to attempt to begin a WiFi sync from my phone by going to Settings > General > Wifi Sync I no longer see that option. On my computer (currently on macOS 10.15) I'm at the mercy of the…
Lees meerAfter the installation of Catalina all User created folders from root are moved into a separate folder and the root folder is made readonly, containing only system default folders. How is it possible to undo this and to …
Lees meerI upgraded to macOS Catalina and see that applications now need to be permitted to access the file system, even the shell running inside Terminal. I work extensively in Emacs which seems to have lost access to the file s…
Lees meerPreviously I was able to attempt to begin a WiFi sync from my phone (iOS 13.1.2) by going to Settings > General > Wifi Sync I no longer see that option. On my computer (macOS 10.15) I'm at the mercy of the phone showing u…
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