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- I can’t figure out how to use 4 snippets in Cipmenu shortcuts on Big Sur
- Volume keeps returning to zero in GarageBand
- Allowing apps to access specified contacts
- Fresh Start with SSD
- How does the hardware know the restart? [closed]
- Can't import facetime live photos to windows 10
- How to have two calendars in notification's bar?
- How to turn off the alarm on an iPhone XR without looking at the screen?
- Copy music library from Big Sur to Windows10
- How to list top 10 process/services in terminal
- How do I hide the rabbits generated by the Youtube Rabbit Hole extension?
- suddenly all special characters like `control`, `option` and `command` have disappeared from menus
- How can I use Open Sea Maps on a Mac? [closed]
- Is it possible to change the colour of the footnote line in Pages?
- Does a Installer Package guarantee that all files are tracked?
- No file systems that can be activated?
- Older MacBook Pro doesn't see new modern Bluetooth speaker, why not?
- 2015 MacBook Air: Internal SSD Is Locked and Can't erase/update
- How to activate iPhone12 and import original phone data?
- Adjust path for iTunes / Music files after files move
- RTSP feed with ffmpeg and the Mac camera
- Menu Bar Display icon has disappeared from the macOS Menu Bar
- (MBP 2010 13") EFI BOOT Frozen when Trying to Install Windows 10
- Thunderbolt 1 to USB Type C adapter?
- How can I toggle Automatic Graphics Switching using terminal?
- Numbers app: conditional highlighting using color scales?
- displays - drive displays from USB-C hub
- Track volume keeps resetting itself
- Icons remains the same after I have changed the default program for opening the file
- Set size of window to exact pixels, and place via x, y coordinates
| I can’t figure out how to use 4 snippets in Cipmenu shortcuts on Big Sur Posted: 17 Jun 2021 06:37 AM PDT I'd like to know how to use shortcuts to copy and paste any 1 of my 4 snippets on macOS Big Sur. I have the most current version of ClipMenu that I'm aware of and not sure what number version that is. Is there a guide on this?  |
| Volume keeps returning to zero in GarageBand Posted: 17 Jun 2021 04:46 AM PDT I am editing a podcast in GarageBand. Strangely the volume automatically drops to zero in one segment of a track whenever I do anything. Completely baffled - every time I reset the volume it drops back to zero. Any help appreciated!  |
| Allowing apps to access specified contacts Posted: 17 Jun 2021 04:43 AM PDT iOS has a feature of allowing only photos you select to be accessible from an app instead of allowing all photos. Is there a similar feature where I can specify which contacts should be available to an app instead of sharing all of my contact list?  |
| Posted: 17 Jun 2021 06:29 AM PDT Looking for advice on the best way to reformat my SSD and start all over with my Mac. I've got an iMac (Retina 5K, 27-inch, 2017) whose operating system has been upgraded every year for about five years. For the past several months, I've been seeing crashes on shutdown, error messages on startup that say "the Mac shut down because of a problem" even though it seemed to shut down fine, disk errors when running Disk Utility in Recovery mode, occasional random crashes (not many), etc. There's been no data loss so far but it feels like it's time for a fresh start. I'm aware these could be signs of impending drive failure but I would like to reformat the drive and see if it clears things up before I go the route of buying new hardware. From what I've read, I'm considering creating a bootable USB installer and then wiping the internal drive clean with it. Hopefully I can "fix" any bad sectors by writing to every block? Any advice on the best way to do this would be appreciated—as would any advice on other strategies to address these problems. Thanks in advance.  |
| How does the hardware know the restart? [closed] Posted: 17 Jun 2021 04:58 AM PDT A Mac can be switched off via the software. But switching on the hardware cannot be done if the software is not running. How can a Mac restart when it is switched off? Somebody else has to do that or am I confused? Who turns the Mac back on when it's off? If this is a stupid question please forgive me.  |
| Can't import facetime live photos to windows 10 Posted: 17 Jun 2021 03:07 AM PDT I have an iphone xs max (up to date, ios 14.6) and I'm trying to import photos taken during a facetime call to my PC running windows 10. using the photos app on windows 10, i can import photos and videos fine, and live photos taken with the camera will give me a jpeg and mp4. the importing process seems to go through the selected photos fine until it reaches a facetime photo, where it will import the still and fail when trying to import the mp4. the import process then terminates, leaving me with whatever photos imported up until that point. ive tried navigating the phone's storage in file explorer (This PC\Apple iPhone\Internal Storage\DCIM) and manually copying the mp4, but the copied file ends up 0kb in size despite showing a file size on the original copy. i dont want to use a cloud service as my upload speed is terrible and it would take much too long. i cant find any results on google even remotely similar to my issue, and i couldnt get much help asking on the apple forums unfortunately  |
| How to have two calendars in notification's bar? Posted: 17 Jun 2021 02:57 AM PDT Currently I have set my calendar to Persian and I have the calendar widget in notifications bar .
I was wondering If there is anyway to have two calendar widgets one showing the Persian calendar and the other showing the Gregorian calendar so I could know the date in both types ?  |
| How to turn off the alarm on an iPhone XR without looking at the screen? Posted: 17 Jun 2021 03:18 AM PDT When the alarm rings on the iPhone, I have to pick up the phone and hit Stop on the screen. Pressing the volume buttons and the power button don't turn off the alarm but just snooze it. Is there a way to stop the alarm while snooze is active?  |
| Copy music library from Big Sur to Windows10 Posted: 17 Jun 2021 05:11 AM PDT Recently I had to copy my music library on Big Sur to Windows10. It seems iTunes on Win10 only supports the import of .itl and .xml so it doesn't go well:
I can open WindowsExplorer and just double click the mp3 file to play any song on this drive using iTunes, so it's not the drive/file access problem. And I've tried to rename the folder name to broke the link, but suprisingly I can still open the property window without seeing any warning
Just wonder if anyone can help me with this. Thanks in advance!  |
| How to list top 10 process/services in terminal Posted: 17 Jun 2021 02:15 AM PDT I'm trying to run a command every 5 min to check the top 10 services/process that are using more CPU. I would like to run the script and save the result in a file and after 5 min add the new result in the same document. I would like to be able to see: CPU, Memory, Disk, Network if it's possible. I have tried  |
| How do I hide the rabbits generated by the Youtube Rabbit Hole extension? Posted: 17 Jun 2021 02:38 AM PDT On the imac, I installed the youtube rabbit hole extension.The video suggestions on the right side are not visible, but an image of a rabbit has appeared.How to delete the image of this rabbit.Thanks.  |
| suddenly all special characters like `control`, `option` and `command` have disappeared from menus Posted: 17 Jun 2021 12:42 AM PDT OK this is weird, suddenly all special characters have disappeared from all my menus on all my applications. Anyone have any clues on this? Trying to think of anything I've done recently. This is MacOS Big Sur 11.3.1. One thing I did do recently is disable SIP due to some Golang unit testing stuff, but I don't really think that would be the problem. --- UPDATE --- So, restarting/installing 11.4 solved this. I don't want to make this an accepted answer however because, well, a) I don't know why it happened and b) an upgrade isn't always available. It would be preferable to actually know how to solve without an upgrade, i.e was it a permissions issue, did something get deleted, etc.  |
| How can I use Open Sea Maps on a Mac? [closed] Posted: 17 Jun 2021 12:27 AM PDT How can I use Open Sea Maps on a Mac? I want to make waypoints on sea marks, lighthouses, islets and similar and export to the plotter I use in my boat.  |
| Is it possible to change the colour of the footnote line in Pages? Posted: 17 Jun 2021 04:52 AM PDT Is it possible to change the colour of the line that separates footnotes and endnotes from main text in Pages?
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| Does a Installer Package guarantee that all files are tracked? Posted: 17 Jun 2021 02:32 AM PDT I know about What I do not know yet, is that whether running a For instance, when a Some unofficial guides: https://matthew-brett.github.io/docosx/flat_packages.html http://s.sudre.free.fr/Stuff/Ivanhoe/FLAT.html Although not explicitly mentioned, these guides seems to be indicating that the files won't be tracked, is this correct? Also, are there any official answer on this?  |
| No file systems that can be activated? Posted: 17 Jun 2021 05:10 AM PDT I have a problem when trying to open disk images I keep getting the message that there are no file systems that can be activated, although the DMG file is recognized without any problems on other Macs. macOS 11.2.3 I tried to repair the DMG file even if it works on other machines.
In addition, my Mac no longer recognizes removable media. However, the
When deleting independently of the hard drive, I get the message:
When deleting independently of the hard drive with the
When I open the
When I create a
When I create a
17.06.2021 Meanwhile I manage to open the images with the  |
| Older MacBook Pro doesn't see new modern Bluetooth speaker, why not? Posted: 17 Jun 2021 04:01 AM PDT MacBook Pro Mid 2012 readily connects to all my modern Bluetooth devices except it doesn't see my new Sony SRS XB43 speaker. I turn off any devices that my MBP tries to connect to so only the Sony speaker is available with its Bluetooth light blinking to indicate attempting to pair, but it has never shown up on the MBP Bluetooth list. The speaker readily connects to my iPhone 6 Plus. From the Sony specs page:
From MBP system report
Is there a way to manually enter the device address of the speaker to my MBP? I have restarted MBP, debug Bluetooth on MBP to reset module, restarted again, turned speaker off and on etc. Is the MBP so old now it cant see modern Bluetooth devices? I havent been able to test this idea yet with a modern Mac to see if it can discover the speaker. Any help much appreciated thank you  |
| 2015 MacBook Air: Internal SSD Is Locked and Can't erase/update Posted: 17 Jun 2021 05:34 AM PDT Have Early 2015 11" MacBook Air, with original 128GB SSD installed. Running High Sierra 10.13.6 Filevault has never been on. Computer crashed, and upon reboot, progress bar gets about 3/4 of the way through, and then screen just goes dark. Am able to boot into all the various recovery modes, but in none of them is DiskUtility able to reformat the internal SSD drive, as it is showing as not writable. I created a boot USB with High Sierra 10.13.6, and can see the internal SSD drive and copy files off the drive, but it is not writable. Any idea what's going on, and what else I can try? Here are some various diagnostics: diskutil list And some more info: Attempt to erase: And attempt to verify:  |
| How to activate iPhone12 and import original phone data? Posted: 17 Jun 2021 02:50 AM PDT My original phone is iPhone7 and the new phone is iPhone12, how do I import the original phone data into the new phone?  |
| Adjust path for iTunes / Music files after files move Posted: 17 Jun 2021 12:07 AM PDT I moved all my music library to a network drive. So now all my library is messed up as Music (former iTunes) can not find the files. I have to manually set the path for each file I want to play (~3500) files. I tried to MacOS 11.2.3 Music 1.1.3.3  |
| RTSP feed with ffmpeg and the Mac camera Posted: 17 Jun 2021 02:19 AM PDT I have two Macs in my network. On the first one I want to capture the FaceTime camera via ffmpeg and make a RTSP feed available on the network, which I can watch on the second Mac.  |
| Menu Bar Display icon has disappeared from the macOS Menu Bar Posted: 17 Jun 2021 05:26 AM PDT The Display icon has disappeared from my Menu Bar and I cannot figure out how to get it back. The ability to add it to the toolbar has disappeared from System Preferences > Displays
I found an excellent article that contained instructions on how to add it back in this scenario:
When I try this method, the Display icon does indeed show up on the Menu Bar again... BEFORE:
AFTER:
However, when I try to click it, it immediately disappears.
What am I missing? I'm running Catalina (10.15.6) on a 2015 Macbook Pro.  |
| (MBP 2010 13") EFI BOOT Frozen when Trying to Install Windows 10 Posted: 17 Jun 2021 12:24 AM PDT Would like to get some assistance: Device: Macbook Pro 2010 13" Previously I was successfully install windows by manually create partition, format partition to hybrid GPT/MBR by following a guide. And windows working fine, everything normal until one day I am thinking about install linux so I can have complete 3 OS on mac. And I just carelessly install it and linux installation failed, microsoft partition got affected and OS gone. So I delete partition and now MacOs own fully the disk and partition. The issue now, I am trying to install windows again and its all working until EFI boot on flashdisk done. When turn on mac and hold option button and the "EFI BOOT" appear as installing windows. When we click or press enter, thats it. Its freezing for a moment and will reboot again. Anyone can help to advise on what to do? I have tried to repair disk on MacOs recovery. But nothing seems work. If anyone have solution or advise I will be open. Thank you in advance. Instruction I followed previously which was successfully installed windows without bootcamp: https://bit.ly/2JiffBl I wish Mr David Anderson >> https://apple.meta.stackexchange.com/users/107222/david-anderson can have a look as well and advise what to do as previously I followed his instruction and all is well until I am carelessly tried to install linux without further research. Will clean install High Sierra OS fix the issue?? Partition layout from gdisk  |
| Thunderbolt 1 to USB Type C adapter? Posted: 17 Jun 2021 02:18 AM PDT I have a 2012 MacBook Pro. It has a Thunderbolt (Mini DisplayPort) port. I'd like to plug a USB Type-C device into it, since Thunderbolt is faster than my USB 3.0 port. I'm having a hard time finding an adapter with male Mini DisplayPort on one end and female USB-C on the other. Does such an adapter exist?  |
| How can I toggle Automatic Graphics Switching using terminal? Posted: 17 Jun 2021 03:53 AM PDT I have a 15" MacBook Pro from May 2019 with a Radeon Pro 555X 4 GB graphics card. I would like to change the  |
| Numbers app: conditional highlighting using color scales? Posted: 17 Jun 2021 03:02 AM PDT Is this possible, like you can in other spreadsheet software to do something like this? (color scales)
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| displays - drive displays from USB-C hub Posted: 17 Jun 2021 12:37 AM PDT Is it possible to drive a monitor from a hub? If the hub was Thunderbolt 3 compatible and I used a USB-C to HDMI adapter, from the hub to the monitor, would this work? The monitor in question is a Full HD (1080p@60Hz) monitor - nothing crazy. I ask this question as I'm currently looking at a USB-C to 3 HDMI adapter however the price is pretty high - and I'm looking for a workaround. It seems that individual USB-C to HDMI cables are a lot cheaper.  |
| Track volume keeps resetting itself Posted: 17 Jun 2021 02:53 AM PDT I'm using garageband, and I am trying to lower the volume of one track. I adjust the volume slider to where I want it (-13.8 db) , but when I start playing the song, the volume slider for that track instantly resets itself back to a much higher volume (+1.8 db). If I adjust the volume while the song is playing, it works, until I restart. If I start the song from anywhere but the very beginning, it plays at this right volume. If I start it from the beginning, it plays with the higher volume. I'm so confused as to why this is happening. I'm using volume automation to fade out at the very end, but it's flat until then, so I don't know why it would cause this. (Yes, the line in the automation is where I want it). Any ideas? Here is a video of the issue in case my description was unclear.  |
| Icons remains the same after I have changed the default program for opening the file Posted: 17 Jun 2021 03:03 AM PDT I have just uninstalled a program from my new mac. The program was making itself default to open all How can I update the icons of the  |
| Set size of window to exact pixels, and place via x, y coordinates Posted: 17 Jun 2021 05:06 AM PDT I would like to create a tool that allows you to set windows to exact sizes on the pixel scale to be able to have more precise screen divisions. For example, if I had four Terminal windows (and I didn't have something cool like iTerm to do this for me), I'd like to be able to set each one to 1/2 screen height and 1/2 screen width, and people to position them via x, y coordinates so that they took up the entire screen, and exactly one fourth of them individually. Can this be done using applescript?  |
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