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- Safari: shortcut to close one single tab without loading the webpage?
- Thunderbolt monitor running at 30Hz when second monitor connected
- how to fix zsh: command not found: on all command?
- Stop Google account being shared between apps on iPhone
- How to send an osascript command to a Mac via SSH - Dealing with single quotes
- Big Sur: Time Machine couldn't complete the backup
- How I can add employee access card to IOS application? [closed]
- Backup/restore to multiple removable volumes
- Just updated to Big Sur, can't login anymore
- imac will not boot from installer usb drive or go into recovery mode
- I'm using an iMac with macOS Sierra 10.12.6 [closed]
- Boot Windows from an external usb drive whithout using the EFI partition on the Mac [duplicate]
- If my iCloud storage is full, does Reminders and Contacts still sync?
- Why (from a technical perspective) can't an Apple Pencil (2nd gen) be used with an iPad (7th gen)?
- Keynote, Pages and Numbers all quit unexpectedly
- TouchID not filling passwords on Safari and just showing passwords stored inside Safari, not Keychain
- Installing Mac os x 10.11 El Capitan on clean hard drive using Windows
- MacOS Firewall: Best practice to Allow or Block "Incoming connections" for applications?
- Twitter media sometimes stops loading both in Twitter.app and through Safari
- The volume is the wrong format for a backup. Why?
- How can I find what swcdn is trying to download?
- Built-in MacBook screen recognized as a separate display
- macOS Big Sur Startup Error - "Backup and Restore has Encountered a Fatal Error"
- How to create the "show in mail" link in Apple Calendar?
- What keyboards can reliably be used to start up recovery or diagnostics mode on a Mac mini?
- Set SublimText 3 as default app for files without extension [duplicate]
- Can't Authenticate my work gMail — I get right through the OTP dance then it simply fails
- Pronouncing names in different languages with Siri
- Good way to keep iPad clean?
| Safari: shortcut to close one single tab without loading the webpage? Posted: 09 Jun 2021 05:14 AM PDT I always have a lot of tabs open. I would like to close them quickly, but since there are a lot of them and they are very small, I don't see the "x" that closes a single Safari tab. Looks like I need to click on them one by one and reload the page. Actually, if I hover on a tab, I can see a preview, which is helpful. QUESTION I wonder if there is a shortcut that would allow me to close one single tab after I see the preview. Right now, if I don't want to open the web page, I can right-click on the tab and I see a menu, from which I can pick "Close Tab", but how could I achieve this more quickly?
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| Thunderbolt monitor running at 30Hz when second monitor connected Posted: 09 Jun 2021 05:50 AM PDT I have a macbook pro (15 inch, 2018, Radeon Pro 560X) to which I plug 2 external monitors: a LG 32UL950 4K over thunderbolt & an old ASUS full HD over HDMI. The problem is when the ASUS is connected then the LG is only running at 30Hz. When connected alone it's fine at 60Hz. This machine is supposed to support 4 4K@60Hz screens. Any idea how to fix this? (I can't confirm it but I think this issue started with one of the latest macOS updates, 11.3 or 11.4) EDIT: Display preferences  |
| how to fix zsh: command not found: on all command? Posted: 09 Jun 2021 05:09 AM PDT i have some problem with Terminal and i can't fix it, if I use command node, flutter, composer, npm, etc I always get unless I enter the command like this : i uploaded on youtube can someone please help me for fix it?  |
| Stop Google account being shared between apps on iPhone Posted: 09 Jun 2021 04:11 AM PDT When I install and sign in to Google Hangouts (family won't switch to Signal) on my iPhone, Google Maps suddenly knows about it, and either signs me in automatically to the same Google account or keeps telling me I'm missing out by not signing in. So even if I don't sign in on Maps Google knows that my Google account is on the same device as the Maps app. I don't want Google to know this, but the only solution I've come up with is to uninstall all other Google apps from my phone. Is there a way to sandbox Google apps so I can sign in to one app without the other apps knowing? (iPhone SE 1st gen running ios 14.6)  |
| How to send an osascript command to a Mac via SSH - Dealing with single quotes Posted: 09 Jun 2021 03:57 AM PDT I know how to send a command via SSH. For example, I have an old Canon scanner hanging off of a Raspberry Pi. To initiate a scan I can do this: However, now I want to send a command from the Pi to the Mac. The command contains single quotes: But, I need to put single quotes around the entire command. I don't know how to do that. I've tried escaping the single quotes, but that doesn't work.  |
| Big Sur: Time Machine couldn't complete the backup Posted: 09 Jun 2021 01:59 AM PDT I keep getting the following error in Time Machine:
So I am backing up my OS drive (Macintosh - HD) to an external drive (EsEsDe), and I'm being told that the backup cannot be completed because my OS drive is nearly full - there's plenty of space on the backup disk. Is this expected behaviour? If there's room on the backup disk, why should it matter that the disk I'm trying to backup is nearly full? Is there a way around this other than the obvious (which isn't really an option for me atm)? Thank you!  |
| How I can add employee access card to IOS application? [closed] Posted: 08 Jun 2021 11:30 PM PDT I want to build an app for IOS specifically, where employee can see his/her digital access card ( image of the card ) and also, add the card to apple wallet so he can use it to access the office.. note: Currently each employee access card has long number written on it and can access either by scanning the card on the device Or entering the number. I want to know if The thing I want to achieve is possible ? I have no idea how I can add the card which has an RFID chip to the app ^^ What I was thinking about.. when the employee login to the app, his access card number is already linked to his account, but how I can use that number to scan? and when adding the card to apple wallet, what it will add exactly.. he employee card and save it's card number to scan? I don't know ^^  |
| Backup/restore to multiple removable volumes Posted: 08 Jun 2021 11:26 PM PDT I remember using old DOS software to backup an entire hard drive to a set of floppy disks - yes that long ago! With the backup target folder identified it would come up with a number of floppy disks required, then ask for them to be inserted one after another. To restore the backup you begin with the first backup of the set, it tells you that the other 'n' disks will be required and then after inserting them sequentially the backup was restored. Now I have a large iPhotos library (~200GB), and it's mirrored in iCloud and I'm reasonably confident about that. However I want a backup. Doesn't matter how good or reliable someone else's infrastructure has been, disasters happen. An external hard drive can make a backup of that in one bite. I don't want to use an external drive for this. Apart from other considerations it is always tempting to make use of an external drive for something else. External removable media such as BDXL optical discs are write-once and some promise archival life spans. I would like to be able to use them as a backup destination. Of course one of these discs cannot hold the entire photo library, best capacity available now is 125GB or so. Being able to use these discs as permanent backup would be a good solution. Does such a program exist? I have read a few roundup and review type articles and they all make much of needing to create an account and uploading everything for some software and of simply copying to a volume or a Time Machine for others. An app that could backup a folder to multiple volumes of arbitrary size would be OK as long as these images could then be backed up/restored and then reassembled into the original folder.  |
| Just updated to Big Sur, can't login anymore Posted: 09 Jun 2021 03:50 AM PDT I was happily using my mac with Catalina then updated to Big Sur, now I can't login anymore: I write my password, press enter, then screen stays forever as in the picture, tryed waiting for an hour.
Tryed enabling setup assistant, that also gets stuck with spinning wheel after language selection. I can ssh from another computer to my Macbook Pro but also "sudo" does not work, it hangs the command forever, tryed waiting many minutes. I was just able to enable root user. Also trying to access via screen share has the same result. Already run disk check starting with command + R, cleared NVRAM, ecc. ecc. A lot of things, but I'm locked out of my computer Does anyone know some sort of solution which is not "reinstall from scratch"? EDIT: In system.log i see this error:  |
| imac will not boot from installer usb drive or go into recovery mode Posted: 08 Jun 2021 11:05 PM PDT I have a 2014 27" imac which keeps crashing with kernel panics, or stops half way on loading bar and restarts. It is Running Catalina with a fusion drive setup. I have tried recovery comm + R but get error -2002D. I have tried safe mode but will not load just the same as a normal startup and restarts. I tried to run apple diagnostic but this will not work and goes to recovery screen. Pressing option will show Mac drive (Boot) a windows partition and my usb installer. If i boot from the installer usb it does the same as a normal boot and crashes and restarts. I pulled the fusion drive out so it has no HDD inside but when booting from the usb installer get an apple logo and that is all. I can not get to disk utils from any of my options. Is this a firmware issue or logicboard problem?  |
| I'm using an iMac with macOS Sierra 10.12.6 [closed] Posted: 08 Jun 2021 09:18 PM PDT Can I transfer all the photo albums on my iMac and then delete the photo library.  |
| Boot Windows from an external usb drive whithout using the EFI partition on the Mac [duplicate] Posted: 08 Jun 2021 11:54 PM PDT I followed this guide to install Windows 10 on an external USB drive. It all works great. The way to allow the Mac to boot is as follows
From what I understand, the Mac has a partition where UEFI systems can boot and in this particular case boots Windows from that partition and then control is passed to whatever is located on the external drive. I became aware of this here. I would like to be able to boot this Windows installation from other Macs without running the I also know that a USB stick can boot the system (this is what macOS installer and Windows installed do). So... my question is this: Can you create a USB stick that boots up the system and passes control to my USB drive with Windows installed on it? Or maybe change the Windows USB drive to allow it to boot? I don't understand the whole booting process but my guess would be that a bootloader could be installed on a USB stick and that would allow me to boot Windows.  |
| If my iCloud storage is full, does Reminders and Contacts still sync? Posted: 09 Jun 2021 05:37 AM PDT I bought a new Macbook Air and my 5 GB free iCloud account is filling up quickly. Does Reminders and Contacts still sync even if I used up all my iCloud? If yes, what if I add photos to my 100's of task in reminders, will it still sync?  |
| Why (from a technical perspective) can't an Apple Pencil (2nd gen) be used with an iPad (7th gen)? Posted: 09 Jun 2021 05:44 AM PDT The most obvious difference between an Apple Pencil (1st generation) and a Apple Pencil (2nd generation) is that the latter pairs and charges via the Smart Connector on the side of an iPad, whereas the 1st generation has a removeable cap covering a Lightning connector. The iPad (7th generation) has the same Smart Connector as the iPad Pro, but still can't use the Pencil 2. Presumably there are other hardware limitations that prevent this. What exactly are they? Is there some hardware limitation, or some other reason (other than "Apple doesn't want to support it") why it can't be supported?  |
| Keynote, Pages and Numbers all quit unexpectedly Posted: 08 Jun 2021 11:48 PM PDT Today Keynote, Pages and Numbers all quit unexpectedly right after being launched. I only have time to see the "Select a document / New document" window for a second before the apps crash, leaving me with a Problem Report. Yesterday I was using Pages and Keynote and they worked fine. I can't think of anything I did since then that could have caused this problem. I'm running macOS 11.2.3 on a MacBook Air M1 and have the latest versions of the apps. Below are parts of the log of the Keynote crash: ...  |
| Posted: 08 Jun 2021 10:43 PM PDT I am using BigSur for the first time today, after unboxing a new iMac M1. I migrated all my stuff from an old iMac with Catalina, to this one, using a time machine backup. The new machine is working well but everything related to passwords is a mess. I have been using macOS for 15 years. I have billions of passwords for websites on keychain. Now, on this new machine, when I visit a site that requires username/password, the field username appears filled but when I click on the password field, I am offered the option to unlock the passwords using touchID. This feature fails 100% of the time. If instead of using TouchID I type my mac password I see only the passwords stored inside safari, not those on Keychain. But the keychain passwords are there. Any way to make this work as before?  |
| Installing Mac os x 10.11 El Capitan on clean hard drive using Windows Posted: 09 Jun 2021 03:21 AM PDT I have a Mac Pro early 2008, I've been using it for a while. It's 16Gb ram, 1Gb graphics card and 2 TB hard drive. I lost its original hard drive and now I have a clean drive. How can I install Mac os x 10.11 El Capitan on the drive, using Windows? The closest I got last time I tried it installed and then showed an error sign in the process of installing.  |
| MacOS Firewall: Best practice to Allow or Block "Incoming connections" for applications? Posted: 09 Jun 2021 05:56 AM PDT A relatively large number of my Mac applications causes the MacOS Firewall to ask whether to allow or block "Incoming connections" (System Preferences > Firewall > Firewall Options). Examples: Dropbox, Google Chrome, Apple Music, Spotify, Steam, Apple TV app, etc. Plus a number of less widely known applications that I use frequently. What is best practice with regards to allowing or blocking incoming MacOS Firewall connections? Is there any rationale that should be employed in general when confronted with this question? I assume that it may break some functionalities if I block. For example, perhaps Dropbox won't work. However, I tried blocking incoming connections for Google Chrome, and I haven't had apparent issues.  |
| Twitter media sometimes stops loading both in Twitter.app and through Safari Posted: 09 Jun 2021 06:07 AM PDT This is a weird one. At first I thought it was just a problem with the Twitter app running in macOS sometimes just stops loading any media (pictures, gifs, videos). But then I noticed that twitter.com through Safari would exhibit the exact same problem, and loading the same tweet in Chrome worked perfectly. This happens sometimes, I think most notably the next morning. My computer doesn't go to sleep since I use it for some server purposes. Screenshots below are of the same tweet around the same time, one in the Twitter app, one in Safari and one in Chrome just to illustrate the point. I'm thinking this is some sort of issue with macOS' networking/cache layer? I'm running Little Snitch but tries disabling it but the problem persisted. I don't know, anyone have any ideas? Thanks in advance for any help I can get on this! Twitter.app
Safari
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| The volume is the wrong format for a backup. Why? Posted: 09 Jun 2021 03:18 AM PDT For late visitors to this question - the highest-voted answer is completely wrong. I offered the bounty but did not award it. The bounty was auto-awarded by the system. I cannot revoke it. TL:DR I can copy a file to the TM volume root [outside the Backups.backupdb folder] & then copy out to APFS, but anything inside the backups folder will error. I've trimmed most of the early experimental structure from this & left just the pertinent latest information macOS Mojave, Mac Pro 5,1 I have tested using two clones of my boot drive, as one SSD is mounted on a PCI card & the Mac considers it 'external'. This seems to make no difference. Boot drives are SSDs, GUID/APFS, case-insensitive. Time Machine has been tested to three different drives, starting with the original year old backup & then with brand new backups & even brand new hard drives. All formatted GUID/HFS+ case-insensitive, as standard. All drives have been tested with both TechTool Pro 14 & DiskWarrior [HFS only for DW] & all have a clean bill of heath. All drives were formatted in Disk Utility using standard methods. Time Machine was set up & run as standard. Additional, possibly pertinent [though possibly not] information. Backups to the same Time Machine from HFS+ volumes will restore to the original HFS volume. Admin permission is requested. Any file restored this way will then request admin perms even to delete [& even if 'ignore perms' is set on the drive.]. This is whether it was restored in the normal [working] manner back to HFS or manually dragged from an APFS backup to HFS. Realised SIP was disabled. Re-enabled, ran fix perms on boot drive diskutil resetUserPermissions / trying yet another brand new Time Machine drive…No change. Any suggestions, next steps, tests to perform? At the moment I am not willing to destroy the entire boot drive to clean install. I shall be able to try this as soon as Apple ship the new M1 iMacs, as I will then have a spare, almost identical Mac Pro I can play with. Results of Results from the other SSD, which contains 'Clone' just for reference From comments -  |
| How can I find what swcdn is trying to download? Posted: 09 Jun 2021 06:08 AM PDT I have two mac computers. One of them is constantly downloading from swcdn.apple.com, the other does not. My guess is that swcdn stands for SoftWare Content Delivery Network. I have a limited internet connection and swcdn.apple.com is often consuming my connection preventing other work. Using Little Snitch, I can see nsurlsessiond is making connections to mesu.apple.com and swcdn.apple.com. I have disabled automatic software updates. How can I find what my computer is downloading or streaming from swcdn.apple.com?  |
| Built-in MacBook screen recognized as a separate display Posted: 09 Jun 2021 06:17 AM PDT I have a late 2011 Macbook Pro 13 inch. It was running macOS High Sierra and decided to try installing macOS Mojave using this patcher tool: http://dosdude1.com/mojave/. I successfully installed it with all its' kext files to be able to work with my Mac. Unfortunately, not everything worked perfectly. My built-in screen is showing up as an external display, which is causing it to always be open, even when it is in sleep mode. I also cannot dim the screen using the buttons on the keyboard. Another problem is that my internal speakers are not showing up in my sound preferences. I tried plugging in headphones in the headphone jack, but that didn't work either. When I boot up the computer, there is a chime that plays, so that is a good sign that the speakers work. If there is anyone that can suggest any additional kext files I can download to make the display and audio work properly, that would be appreciated. Thank you!  |
| macOS Big Sur Startup Error - "Backup and Restore has Encountered a Fatal Error" Posted: 09 Jun 2021 04:09 AM PDT I have been getting this error message constantly upon startup:
From some quick research, I found out that this might be related to permission issues for Upon restart, it still creeped in. I am not sure what this problem is anymore. Could anyone help me?  |
| How to create the "show in mail" link in Apple Calendar? Posted: 09 Jun 2021 12:29 AM PDT I'm wondering how can I make the "show in mail" link as seen in the photo below. Currently if i click a date in an email it will automatically create the link in the Calendar app. Can I do it manually for emails that don't contain dates? How can I link associate a mail with an event in Calendar ?  |
| What keyboards can reliably be used to start up recovery or diagnostics mode on a Mac mini? Posted: 08 Jun 2021 09:07 PM PDT I have a Mac mini which is stalling during boot. I have been trying to boot it to recovery or diagnostics mode, but run into an unexpected problem. The keyboard I'm currently using with it is a Corsair K95 Platinum RGB which includes a lighting controller. This means that the keyboard has a short startup time, only a few seconds, but enough that macOS apparently does not allow it enough time to start up between the USB initialization cycle and the deadline for detecting the startup key presses. I then tried again by attaching a second keyboard, but again the system would not respond to startup keys; the documentation is silent on the behavior of startup keys when more than one keyboard is connected or on how priority is determined. I was eventually able to get a startup key to working using an ancient keyboard, but I would not like to be stuck without a keyboard that cannot do this. What are the requirements for a keyboard to be able to invoke macOS startup keys?  |
| Set SublimText 3 as default app for files without extension [duplicate] Posted: 09 Jun 2021 04:42 AM PDT Files without extension always open in TextEdit ... I want them to open in SublimText 3 I tried to change my  |
| Can't Authenticate my work gMail — I get right through the OTP dance then it simply fails Posted: 09 Jun 2021 06:11 AM PDT I've updated my iMac to Sierra (which is a red-herring, see further update below) and since then reset my work password, so need to re-authenticate via So I go to Internet Accounts, enter my
I hit the OTP send on my phone as per usual (I also have tried manually entering the code) and it accepts that and takes me to the 'remember' or 'forget' screen.
I click 'remember' and then it thinks, and then says 'Failed to authenticate with Google. Please try again later'.
This same process works fine on my MacBook pro running El Capitan. Any suggestions? update I have also tried deleting all the relevant tokens from my keychain, with no improvement Further update As part of deleting all the tokens in my keychain that seemed to have anything to do with Google or my work, I've now managed to wipe my work account completely from both macs (yay iCloud). Alas Now I am having the same issue on El Capitan so it's clearly not a Sierra specific issue. I'll change the headline to suit.  |
| Pronouncing names in different languages with Siri Posted: 09 Jun 2021 03:29 AM PDT When I'm using Siri in one language, Siri can't recognize names in another language. Example: using Siri in English and asking to play a song whose band's name is in Spanish or French. Siri understands the first part in English, like Is there a specific way to ask Siri for this?  |
| Posted: 08 Jun 2021 10:45 PM PDT I don't have a case or screen protector just yet for my iPad. What is a cost effective way to keep the screen clean and remove fingerprints?  |
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