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- How can I export a list of files within a volume or folder?
- Is there a way to get Finder to remember all my tabs and reopen them after restarting?
- How do I type an acute accent on the Russian PC keyboard layout?
- How to automate find and replace in numbers with a predefined list?
- How to resolve missing "Setup" button for Cardio Fitness feature?
- How to prevent iPhone 12 Pro from overheating?
- Goodnotes + Airplay with cable?
- "Automator could not convert the input data to the desired type." in quick action
- Why does Finder give several different sizes in Get Info?
- Stop malware from being executed by launchd
- Why does Mac OS include both ABC and US keyboard layouts when the two perform the same functions?
- Input source changing when it shouldn't
- Disks won't stay unmounted
- 2008 MBPro Crashes when reinstalling Yosemite
- Verbose Mode during startup not working on Apple Silicon
- Sharing contacts with husband who has separate Apple id
- Time machine backup stops when computer sleeps/logs out [closed]
- How do I use all four cameras of the iPhone 12 in WhatsApp?
- Cakebrew says "Error: Calling 'brew search' with no arguments to output formulae is disabled!"
- How can I software disable a display?
- Disk Space taken up by misc/other - not TimeMachine
- What third-party games have been included with Macs at some point?
- Numeric Keypad on Extended Keyboard Doesn't Work in Terminal and There's No NumLock Key
- Macbook Pro fan running full speed, activity monitor shows no computationally intensive applications
- Install Windows10 on older mac with boot camp does not provide install option
- Audio out of sync after exporting from iMovie
- 2018 MacBook Pro + LG 4k display = no 60hz
- How to bypass Touch ID provided access to the iCloud account?
- Can macOS operate/output video at 144 Hz screen refresh rate?
- What words trigger the screen effects in iMessage?
| How can I export a list of files within a volume or folder? Posted: 11 Apr 2021 12:00 AM PDT I would like to export a list of files contained in a Volume into legible text, or a spreadsheet document that I can easily share. Things I have tried so far that didn't work: TextEdit: If I select all the folders on the volume, for example when the Finder window is presenting them in a column, then Copy then Paste into a Plain Text document, only the names of the folders will be copied, not the contents. I could present the folder in List format in the Finder window, but then I would have to manually open all the folders one by one before copying/pasting. Too time consuming. TextWrangler: The output is ok, but I feel like I would like to have more options regarding how many levels deep the exported file list is, otherwise I end up with 33k lines of text. Good but not customizable. Terminal: Some courageous experts have shared how to do it with Terminal, but I'm not super comfortable with it, and most importantly, the Volume I tried to execute the command on didn't load ("No such file or directory") - maybe because there are spaces in my Volume names? (this tip did not work when trying to add a Volume name with spaces in a Terminal prompt to output file names...). Did not work. At the end of the day I ended up purchasing a paid app, but since I use several different user accounts across several machines, I would love to know if there is an easier and free way that I can use in the future. Machine: iMac Mid-2011 with High Sierra.  |
| Is there a way to get Finder to remember all my tabs and reopen them after restarting? Posted: 10 Apr 2021 09:58 PM PDT Just like with Terminal, I tend to have many Finder tabs open most of the time. Sometimes, I need to restart Finder and OneDrive (e.g., see https://superuser.com/questions/1546441/very-high-cpu-usage-for-distnoted-on-mac#:~:text=Distnoted%20is%20a%20system%20message,and%20is%20tied%20to%20finder.), and it is troublesome to reopen each Finder tab one by one. Terminal has a nice feature to remember all my tabs and even re-run the commands that were last run in each of them. Is there any way to do something similar with Finder?  |
| How do I type an acute accent on the Russian PC keyboard layout? Posted: 10 Apr 2021 09:47 PM PDT I need to write an acute accent over over a Russian letter to indicate stress. Google tells me to switch to QWERTY, hold the letter key and select the accented one. This types a U+00E9 LATIN SMALL LETTER E WITH ACUTE, but I'm using Cyrillic letters, not Latin letters and what if my letter isn't in the Latin alphabet, like И?  |
| How to automate find and replace in numbers with a predefined list? Posted: 10 Apr 2021 08:54 PM PDT How can I automated find and replace in a Numbers file based on a predefined master list? For example, I want to find and replace all:
A few thoughts / workflow expectations:
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| How to resolve missing "Setup" button for Cardio Fitness feature? Posted: 10 Apr 2021 08:52 PM PDT Apple recently added the ability to track "Cardio Fitness" levels in the Health app using newer models of the Apple Watch. Official setup documentation: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT211856 The seemingly-critical Setup button does not appear for me, and it appears this is a fairly widespread issue. See this thread for someone else's experience. In my case I'm using an iPhone XR with Apple Watch 6, both with latest OS. Is there a known solution to this problem yet?  |
| How to prevent iPhone 12 Pro from overheating? Posted: 10 Apr 2021 11:23 PM PDT My iPhone 12 Pro (Max) gets extremely hot (to the point the screen dims, and beyond) with regularity, usually several times per day with just regular use of fairly basic apps. Others have reported the problem as well:
Is there anything that can be done to alleviate this?  |
| Goodnotes + Airplay with cable? Posted: 10 Apr 2021 05:11 PM PDT A few weeks ago I was trying to give a lecture on Zoom by sharing my iPad screen using Airplay. My Zoom session was through a Mac computer so the connection to the iPad was over the WiFi. The issue I had was things were very laggy. An audience member asked if I was connecting the two devices over WiFi and suggested that was the problem; I should use a cable to connect them. I'm working on preparing for future lectures and I noticed that the presentation mode in Goodnotes does not work as intended if you go to Zoom, share screen, and "iPhone/iPad via cable." When I go to the Goodnotes website, they suggest the following: I am playing around with my iPad and computer and it seems like, indeed, if the two are connected by a cable, the AirPlay connection will work even if the WiFi on my iPad is off. That just seems counterintuitive to me: you don't choose the "iPad via cable" option, but instead choose Airplay even though they're connected with a cable? I also haven't seen anything online about Airplay working with a hard connection in the event the WiFi is off. Am I understanding this right? I guess this is more than a solved problem by now. Was the audience member right that for Zoom lectures over Goodnotes, it's best to use a hard connection (with Airplay)?  |
| "Automator could not convert the input data to the desired type." in quick action Posted: 10 Apr 2021 08:27 PM PDT I want to be able to view a location embedded in a HEIC file quickly by using 'quick action'. It is how it looks like when I tried to use the function via finder.
Here is the definition of the quick action in Automator.
However when I run the quick action, I got this error message "Automator could not convert the input data to the desired type."
What does it mean and how can I fix it?  |
| Why does Finder give several different sizes in Get Info? Posted: 10 Apr 2021 09:26 PM PDT I'm looking at the size of a folder in get info, and Finder is giving me two different sizes, differing by about 10 GB! I'm curious as to the reason and source of this size difference. In the image below, it appears to be giving both a size of 43.51 GB and 53.24 GB.
If this is useful, I'm running Catalina 10.15.7. Thank you!  |
| Stop malware from being executed by launchd Posted: 10 Apr 2021 08:26 PM PDT I've got this program running on my computer, /var/root/Library/Application Support/.SectionChannel.dp/SectionChanneldd, which Norton has identified as the malware OSX.Malcol. However, Norton has been thoroughly unhelpful in doing anything about it. I've tried deleting the file as well as sending a SIGKILL to the running process. However, it keeps restarting. Digging further via Activity Monitor, I discovered that the parent process is launchd. How can I figure out what is causing launchd to execute this program and stop it? Resetting my computer does not fix the issue. Running EDIT: I ran  |
| Why does Mac OS include both ABC and US keyboard layouts when the two perform the same functions? Posted: 10 Apr 2021 04:32 PM PDT The ABC and US keyboard layouts on Mac OS appear identical in layout. Is there any reason why Apple chose to include two identical keyboard layouts that perform the same functions?  |
| Input source changing when it shouldn't Posted: 10 Apr 2021 01:53 PM PDT I have three input sources in the menu, one I use 99%. The others, I switch to occasionally to type a glyph they support and then switch back. In the preferences, "automatically switch to a document's input source" was checked, but since I always witch back to the main one, all documents should be set to that. And most of the time, that works as expected. However, once out of several logins, MacOS seems to be in a mode that requires switching to the first one in the list every time focus is changed to a different window or tab. And some of those times, it does not allow me to switch back. Apple is ignoring the bug report. Any ideas why or how to fix? I did turn off the auto-switch. That should help, but shouldn't be necessary (and if ever I have a document that is all Chinese or Greek, I'd rather have it on). This started with Big Sur, and has been happening from 11.0 to 11.2.3  |
| Posted: 10 Apr 2021 04:25 PM PDT When not using my 2019 MBP, I keep it in a back room plugged into a bank of backup drives. When I want to use it, I want to take it into the living room. So, I go and dismount any drives that aren't doing a backup. I could stop/skip a running backup, but normally, I let it finish and then dismount. I don't unplug them, because only one is plugged in—it is a powered hub for the others. Unfortunately, frequently when I come back, they're all mounted again. I don't know whether this is triggered by auto-logout, by logging back in, or just some timer. But it's irritating—I have to dismount again and wait for write buffers to be processed before I can unplug and move the laptop. Is there a way to make them stay unmounted?  |
| 2008 MBPro Crashes when reinstalling Yosemite Posted: 11 Apr 2021 12:40 AM PDT
Oh, and for the record: it would boot up and run just fine prior to my wiping it and doing the reinstall, so I'm not sure if I did something, or what I did uncovered a 'masked' problem that is only evident because I'm attempting to reinstall Yosemite. Also, it had been upgraded to Catalina prior to the wipe/reinstall, so I'm not sure if that's causing an issue. CTRL-OPTION-R did not allow me to boot from the internet (apparently the model is too old), so that's a no go. Neither did SHIFT-CTRL-OPTION-R. Turning it on and trying to run the Diagnostics didn't work either. (From what I read, hold the D after the chime until you see the progress bar...but this MBP doesn't 'chime' when you restart it, so it's a guessing game for me). Again, any insight anyone can give me would be extremely helpful.  |
| Verbose Mode during startup not working on Apple Silicon Posted: 10 Apr 2021 01:11 PM PDT I have a Mac mini 2020 (with the Apple Silicon M1 chip). I want it to boot up in verbose mode, i.e. the details of the boot process should be logged as text on the screen during bootup. The following command is recommended by several articles: And this does indeed work fine on my Macbook Pro 2018 and Mac mini 2018, however, it seems to do nothing on my Mac mini 2020. I have confirmed using Is there some way to get this to work?  |
| Sharing contacts with husband who has separate Apple id Posted: 10 Apr 2021 01:59 PM PDT My husband and I have separate Apple IDs. We have family sharing and are able to share our calendars. But we want to share our contacts in a way that is easily accessible on all our computers and devices (Mac OS and iOS.) We keep our computers and devices up to date so we are running recent if not the latest versions of OS and iOS. I have not found a way to share our contacts in the Contacts app without constantly tweaking or creating a third Apple ID, which is too fiddly for me. Is there a third party option that would meet our needs? Thanks.  |
| Time machine backup stops when computer sleeps/logs out [closed] Posted: 10 Apr 2021 04:45 PM PDT The Time machine backup stops when I think my computer automatically goes to sleep as it does every few minutes. It goes back to the login screen. After I log back in the back up has stopped and the external disk ejected . There is an error message saying something along the lines that the disk was improperly ejected. Edit: it's a Macbook air 2020, running on battery (but I clicked the setting on Time Machine to allow backups running on battery) I am not sure why it goes to sleep every few minutes. Maybe I set it up for that a long time ago for privacy issues, but forgot. It goes back to a place where it asks for the password, I'm not sure if it's the login screen or the password dialog. It's the same screen that comes up if I reboot the computer. There's only one user on my Mac to sign in anyway. But I think it's just the password dialog. My question is , how to make the Time Machine backup work , when it currently stops every time that happens ? Is there a way that Time Machine could still work while it sleeps? Someone mentioned to me, just make sure the disk does not dismount ? Or do I just have to change a setting so that it doesn't go to sleep or log out automatically every few minutes I think I would prefer the former option, to keep the password page coming up for privacy  |
| How do I use all four cameras of the iPhone 12 in WhatsApp? Posted: 10 Apr 2021 09:06 PM PDT The iPhone 12 has four cameras; the front camera, a general use one on the back, a wide angle one and a zoom camera. During video chats placed with the WhatsApp app, only the front camera and the general use one of the back can be accessed. It is therefore very difficult to show certain things during a call that would require the wide angle or zoom cameras. Can I use all 4 cameras of the iPhone 12 in WhatsApp, and how? Or is there an app for video chat that supports them all?  |
| Cakebrew says "Error: Calling 'brew search' with no arguments to output formulae is disabled!" Posted: 11 Apr 2021 12:42 AM PDT I am a new macOS user. I just did a fresh install on an A1398 MacBook Pro and upgraded to Big Sur. As I am used to package managers, I decided to investigate Homebrew and Cakebrew to go along with it. I was able to install Homebrew, with no warnings or errors. Then, I installed Cakebrew with the Upon launching Cakebrew, the "All Formulae" list reports the following error:
The same error occurs if I execute  |
| How can I software disable a display? Posted: 10 Apr 2021 03:05 PM PDT I have a mac mini with two monitors but I often access it remotely over VNC. Screen Sharing (and other vnc clients) allow me to select a single display (or view both at once), but neither work well because if I view a single screen then windows will open on the other one, alerts will pop up, etc. It's also basically impossible to use with both displays shown at once on a 13in laptop screen. I'm looking for a way to software disable one of the monitors so that I can switch to a single display when I need to.  |
| Disk Space taken up by misc/other - not TimeMachine Posted: 10 Apr 2021 04:02 PM PDT I have OS X 10.15.7 running on a 500GB SSD and OmniDiskSweeper, GrandPerspective and System Information show that I have used about 270GB but only have about 30GB free. OmniDiskSweeper just counts what is there, but GrandPerspective shows 191GB of "Miscellaneous used space" (big grey box on the side) and System Profiler lists it as 'Other'. I know I should have loads of space because I moved my Photos library to an external disk and I was sitting at over 100GB at that point, but in the months since then it has ticked away. I've tried Something curious but possibly unrelated things 1: the disk drive has that second partition "- Data" and it is listed as 500GB too. It may be just me misinterpreting the read out, or poor interface design on Apple's part. The reason I mention this is that Disk Xray Lite also seems confused about disk space, claiming I have used 536GB, presumably because it has counted 2: I replaced
Some additional shots from Disk Utility to help diagnosis. The numbers have changed a little bit because I have deleted a few gigabytes, but the balance is the same
Disk Utility trying First Aid on one of the volumes  |
| What third-party games have been included with Macs at some point? Posted: 10 Apr 2021 05:13 PM PDT To phrase it differently: Over the years, Mac computers have come with various pieces of software not developed by Apple, many of which are games, such as Marble Blast Gold, Bugdom, and the Big Bang Board Games suite. After much searching, I've been unable to find a comprehensive list anywhere. What non-Apple games have been bundled with computers running Mac OS, and when were they included?  |
| Numeric Keypad on Extended Keyboard Doesn't Work in Terminal and There's No NumLock Key Posted: 11 Apr 2021 12:01 AM PDT When the Terminal window is in focus, pressing any of the numeric keys (0-9, the . key or the enter key ) generates a beep.  |
| Macbook Pro fan running full speed, activity monitor shows no computationally intensive applications Posted: 10 Apr 2021 11:02 PM PDT My 2018 Macbook pro 15 inch fan is running at full speed all the time. I checked activity monitor and my idle was >95%. If this is a hardware problem, is there any way to fix it without opening up the whole computer? Otherwise, are there any easy fixes? Thanks  |
| Install Windows10 on older mac with boot camp does not provide install option Posted: 10 Apr 2021 05:08 PM PDT I'm trying to install Windows10 on my old MBP (Model: MacBookPro10,1). I prepared a USB-Stick formatted as FAT32 with a MBR. I followed this documentation (https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/bootcamp-assistant/bcmp09f5f773/6.1/mac/10.14) and Step 4 says:
But in my case, the last task is not available. What do I need to do? I'm running macOS Mojave Version 10.14.6 (all updates are installed) on that machine.
-- Update: diskutil list cli output  |
| Audio out of sync after exporting from iMovie Posted: 10 Apr 2021 10:35 PM PDT I recorded a vlog on my iPhone 8+ and edited it in iMovie. When I play the video in iMovie, the audio is perfectly fine and in sync with the video. However, when I export it and upload it to YouTube, the audio is completely out of sync and always starts at a certain time. I've done everything I could find to fix this issue yet it persists. I'm extremely desperate and I'm looking for a solution that does not include re-editing the entire clip.  |
| 2018 MacBook Pro + LG 4k display = no 60hz Posted: 10 Apr 2021 02:53 PM PDT I've got 2018 MacBook Pro 15" (Radeon Pro 560X), which I'm connecting to external LG 4K display (27UD69P-W) via Satechi Type-C to HDMI Adapter (says 4K/60hz on the box), but the display is running 30hz.
How do I make it do 60hz? Thank you!  |
| How to bypass Touch ID provided access to the iCloud account? Posted: 10 Apr 2021 07:38 PM PDT If a user has Touch ID on. Then he loses his finger, or dies. How to unlock the phone? Provided he or his family know the iCloud password.  |
| Can macOS operate/output video at 144 Hz screen refresh rate? Posted: 10 Apr 2021 03:09 PM PDT I am planning to invest in an external 144 Hz display for smooth game developments, now as far as I know macOS outputs video at 60 Hz so if I buy an 144 Hz external display will my MacBook be able to output video/operate at 144 Hz screen refresh rate?  |
| What words trigger the screen effects in iMessage? Posted: 11 Apr 2021 12:34 AM PDT The recent update iMessage on iOS causes certain words to trigger screen effects. Also, there is a way to long-press on the send button, and bring up an interface for adding these effects. I've found the following associations between screen effects, and the messgaes that trigger them:
What is the list of these?  |
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