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- How to open Facebook page in Safari on the app instead?
- Choose specific UI accent color
- Change UI's menu select blink rate
- Disable Smart Copy/Paste globally
- Automatically move mouse pointer to default button on dialog box
- Which CPU temperature should I look at to monitor thermal throttling?
- diskarbitration is 'Preventing Sleep' how to safely quit this process?
- iPhone Photos just rarely show up in iOS Photos... already did everything possible
- How do I get Apple Photos to sync on macOS?
- Dimmed icons in Files app on IPad?
- macOS Automator workflow works as Workflow, but not as Application
- How to get informed about system update is available
- Does the M1 chip (Apple Silicon) use hyper-threading? (a.k.a. simultaneous multithreading (SMT))
- What App Is This (iPad Pro)?
- Circumventing "not enough storage" to backup iPhone error on mac
- I Lost my documents, downloads and desktop folder access. Please help
- Apple ships with default broken ``touch``
- How to make VM1 connect to fakedns server on VM2?
- Can I fit a 12GB tensorflow model in the mac air m1 chip with 16GB Unified RAM
- Using Big SUr 10.6.3 with external seagate 5tb HD
- Finder Tags just show list of tags, not tagged files?
- How many 27" Thunderbolt Displays does the 2020 M1 Mac mini support?
- Can't mount NFS share in Big Sur. Crashes with NFSv4, rpc error with v3
- Installing Mojave on External Drive from Yosemite?
- In Pages on iPad, formatting to add line over paragraph?
- Mac won’t connect to internet
- Duplicated table in Numbers
- Number keys on the Numeric Keypad part of the Magic Keyboard don't work with Terminal
- What are pros and cons for MacPorts, Fink and Homebrew?
| How to open Facebook page in Safari on the app instead? Posted: 14 Aug 2021 11:37 PM PDT When people share a link to a Facebook page, it opens up in Safari. Am using iOS 14.7. The issue is, I'm not logged in on mobile. Is there any way to make it open in the app instead?  |
| Choose specific UI accent color Posted: 14 Aug 2021 11:01 PM PDT
Screenshot from System Preferences>General. In macOS Mojave 10.14.6 (current OS for me), and other versions close in age, the highlight color used throughout the system can be changed to any RGB color of your choosing, with "Other." As you can see, the accent color lacks such a setting; the grey on the right is "Graphite" color. Can this accent color be changed in any similar way? The color choices provided are too limited for me.  |
| Change UI's menu select blink rate Posted: 14 Aug 2021 11:01 PM PDT Back in System 7 there was an option to change how many times a menu item would blink when selected:
Is it still possible to change this setting in modern-day macOS versions? (I am using 10.14.6 Mojave) Looking in System Preferences>General I don't see any relevant setting.  |
| Disable Smart Copy/Paste globally Posted: 14 Aug 2021 09:53 PM PDT If I copy a word and paste it at the beginning of a filename in Finder, a space it automatically added with it. For example, if I copy the word I can disable this feature in Safari and TextEdit, but the setting appears to be missing in Finder. Furthermore, as I never use this feature, I would much prefer for it to be disabled globally. Can this be done?  |
| Automatically move mouse pointer to default button on dialog box Posted: 14 Aug 2021 08:00 PM PDT Is there a way to automatically move the cursor to default button on dialog boxes or confirmation messages? I've been a windows user for a long time and this function can be easily set in the Control panel. Am wondering if there's a similar functionality in MacOS Big Sur.  |
| Which CPU temperature should I look at to monitor thermal throttling? Posted: 14 Aug 2021 07:38 PM PDT I'm using iStat Menus to display temperature readings from multiple sensors. I want to keep an eye on the CPU temperature to see if the cores are close to their thermal throttling threshold, but there are a lot of temperatures so I am confused.
Questions:
Note that I'm not asking whether the CPUs are currently under throttling, which has already been answered here. The point is to monitor the temperature so that I can know if they will get throttled and adjust the workload or fan speed accordingly. Here is the hardware information in case that's relevant.  |
| diskarbitration is 'Preventing Sleep' how to safely quit this process? Posted: 14 Aug 2021 05:19 PM PDT I used quit in Activity Monitor on diskarbitrationd process and it wouldn't quit. I then used force quit and my external hard drive was corrupted. How do I sleep my computer when diskarbitrationd process is preventing sleep?  |
| iPhone Photos just rarely show up in iOS Photos... already did everything possible Posted: 14 Aug 2021 04:30 PM PDT perhaps some of you is going to make a big Change for me and gets all the props of honour I can give! My Problem: My iPhone 8 Plus Photos (iOS 14.7.1) most of the time (!) won't show up on my Macbook Pro 2012 (Mojave 10.14.6). Sometimes they are displayed and can be imported - but mostly they don't... On the other hand, the iPhone is displayed in the sidebar on iPhoto EVERYTIME! ... but mostly the program says "no photos".
Can you help me please how I can fix the problem? That yould be great! Thank you and beste regards Felix  |
| How do I get Apple Photos to sync on macOS? Posted: 14 Aug 2021 02:50 PM PDT I'm aware that Apple Photos syncs in the background according to it's own rules, but Apple Photos on macOS hasn't synced (according to the status at the bottom of my library) for almost 20 hours, despite my having taken several photos (all of which appear in Photos on my other devices and in iCloud) in the meantime. What do I need to do to get Apple Photos to sync when I need it to, or at least on a more reasonable schedule? macOS 11.5.1  |
| Dimmed icons in Files app on IPad? Posted: 14 Aug 2021 01:36 PM PDT I tried to export some files from an app to my google drive. The files turned up looking like this. Dimmed, with a red circle icon. The files are however NOT on google drive, they just show like this in the files app. What's going on?
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| macOS Automator workflow works as Workflow, but not as Application Posted: 14 Aug 2021 01:20 PM PDT I'm running macOS 11.5.2 on an M1 iMac. I've written an Automator app consisting of a Run Shell Script action followed by an Run AppleScript action to see if the java process is running and if not to let me know by text message. I do this by a shell script that creates a file if the process is running. (If the process is not running the file isn't created.) Next an AppleScript checks for the test file's existence. If it exists it deletes the file and returns with 0. If it doesn't exist it sends me a text message. This works great when I run it from in Automator as a Workflow, but when I execute the Automator app that I created it gets as far as creating my test file and properly deleting it, but the text is not sent. I do see the app in System Preferences > Security & Privacy > Privacy > Automation allowing it to access Finder. Here's the code that's in Automator: Run Shell Script action: Then I pause for 2 seconds via Automator to give the filesystem a chance to create the file. Then... Run AppleScript action: Any ideas?  |
| How to get informed about system update is available Posted: 14 Aug 2021 01:07 PM PDT
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| Does the M1 chip (Apple Silicon) use hyper-threading? (a.k.a. simultaneous multithreading (SMT)) Posted: 14 Aug 2021 01:26 PM PDT With regard to the Apple M1 chip, I have looked around at various sites but have not seen any mention of the SMT feature more commonly know by Intel's trademark, Hyper-Threading Technology. I suppose one could presume there is no SMT in the M1, but I would prefer seeing a definitive statement.  |
| Posted: 14 Aug 2021 11:12 AM PDT Have been seeing this app used on many different YouTube channels. Just saw this video (at 4:06) and had to know.
Does anyone know what app this is?  |
| Circumventing "not enough storage" to backup iPhone error on mac Posted: 14 Aug 2021 01:50 PM PDT I've backed up my iPhone to my Mac for years, with no issue. However, recently, on macOS bigSur 11.4 on an M1 Air, my iPhone XS has thrown up a "Not enough storage on this mac" to backup error. I have 26 GB free, and I've never seen a backup take up more than 10 GB. Most space on my iPhone is taken up by a third party podcasts app with lots of downloads, but that's not new and it hasn't caused issues before, and anyway, the downloaded not be backed up to my Mac. Is there a way to get around this error warning, given it shouldn't really be happening?
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| I Lost my documents, downloads and desktop folder access. Please help Posted: 14 Aug 2021 10:27 AM PDT I tried to empty my bin on macbook pro but somehow the My access to downloads, documents and desktop got restricted. Some utility or libraries might got deleted that caused this. The icons of mentioned folders are not even there. Please help how to restore it
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| Apple ships with default broken ``touch`` Posted: 14 Aug 2021 06:59 PM PDT The default If one wants to use the How is that a thing, that Apple ships with software not following its own Edit: I am using macOS Big Sur, with APFS, fully up to date as of 2021-08-15. The default  |
| How to make VM1 connect to fakedns server on VM2? Posted: 14 Aug 2021 11:35 PM PDT I am trying to create a mini malware analysis environment between a few MacOS VMs to analyse the network activity of MacOS malwares. Some context about the VMs:
I have installed Python3 on VM2 and installed fakedns to simulate as a DNS server. I have also changed the DNS server of VM1 to point towards VM2 by using the following steps:
At this time, I also started the FakeDNS by entering However, when I did EDIT: The two screenshots below are the IP address of VM1 and DNS tab of VM1, with IP address of VM2 set as the DNS This screenshot is the IP address of VM2 and I did not configure anything on VM2 When I entered EDIT #2: This is the screenshot of the network adapter of VM1 (I'm using VMWare Fusion to run the VMs) Both VMs have the same interface as the screenshot below. Also, I've checked my netstat table in VM1 and realised that there's no default route. So I added I've tried  |
| Can I fit a 12GB tensorflow model in the mac air m1 chip with 16GB Unified RAM Posted: 14 Aug 2021 10:40 PM PDT I've read that the M1 chip uses a 'unified memory' architecture, where both the CPU and the GPU share RAM. Is this equivalent to the VRAM on a traditional NVIDIA GPU? E.g. If I have a 12GB tensorflow model, can I load this model into the 16GB RAM space on my M1 Chip? Edit: In Addition to the answer below, I have tested out yolov4 from this repo: https://github.com/hunglc007/tensorflow-yolov4-tflite which shows the 5.33 GB VRAM model has a total of ~16GB to work with  |
| Using Big SUr 10.6.3 with external seagate 5tb HD Posted: 14 Aug 2021 11:01 PM PDT So im using the mentioned HD as my second travelling drive. Everythings been working fine, no drops of the device, no sudden disconnects in general until one night, after some work, off to sleep, accidently dislodged the power of my lappy with hard drive still connected. When awaking, lappy was drained with th emessage, 'One Touch' has been removed. Since then, its been a problem. In disk utility, Seagate shows up with 'One Touch' volume greyed out. After about 8 hours, after messing around with terminal commands, not really knowing what im doing... it magically appeared back in my finder. This was after trying commands and nothing seemed to work. Unless of course it was working yet needed some time to show. So the next day all is working fine again, until now, has decided to not show up.....again. So im back where i started, trying some terminal commands.. nothing working yet when entering diskutil list now this shows with the difference of /dev/disk2s2 being labelled FFFFFFFF-FFFF-FFFF-FFFF-FFFFFFFFFFFF instead of what it had previously shown - One Touch. Im clearly a novice novice, so any help would be greatly appreciated. In the meantime ive got a recovery scan going on, contacted seagate with them offering to send me a new drive. Im confident i can recover all my data, just in the meantime, if i can get it to mount again, then ill be able to continue the work i need to do. Result of sudo gpt command (it's better in initial question) :  |
| Finder Tags just show list of tags, not tagged files? Posted: 14 Aug 2021 02:01 PM PDT I like the idea of Finder tags and I want to use them. I tried tagging files in Finder. Then I clicked the tag in the sidebar and... it just shows a list of all my tags... instead of the documented behavior listed on Apple's website as well as user forums. Please pardon my impudence for daring to question the absolute wisdom of the Mac user interface and its documentation, but is there anything outside of the listed instructions that I need to do in order to get tagged files to show up? I just wanna use tags. And... question dismissed and deleted in 3, 2...  |
| How many 27" Thunderbolt Displays does the 2020 M1 Mac mini support? Posted: 14 Aug 2021 11:17 AM PDT Apple's website does state that "One display with up to 6K resolution at 60Hz connected via Thunderbolt" so it's probably not possible as per this question regarding how M1 powered MacBooks supporting only a single 27" Thunderbolt Display as follows: However, would an M1 Mac mini support dual 27" Thunderbolt Displays if connected as follows?
If they cannot be daisy chained via Thunderbolt 1 would a second Thunderbolt Adapter perhaps change things if used as follows:
I've seen how the M1 can be connected up to 6x displays in total using Display Link. However, I'm specifically interested in using the 2x 27" Thunderbolt displays I already have. If you've got this working with a Mac mini, please share your experience. Thunderbolt 1x supported daisy chaining up to 6x 27" Thunderbolt displays and it would be very interesting to know if this is at all a possibility?  |
| Can't mount NFS share in Big Sur. Crashes with NFSv4, rpc error with v3 Posted: 14 Aug 2021 04:03 PM PDT I have an NFS mount being served from a Raspberry Pi that worked in prior versions of macOS. I can see the mount on the remote server with And rpcbind seems to show all the ports configured correctly: If I go into the Finder, press
If I connect explicitly with NFSv4, with I was also trying to mount the thing via the CLI (e.g.  |
| Installing Mojave on External Drive from Yosemite? Posted: 14 Aug 2021 05:08 PM PDT How can I install MacOS Mojave on an external drive without updating my internal drive's currently installed OS: Yosemite? There are a few tutorials floating around but they seem to be out of date, the ones I've found mention running the app store downloader, then opening the contents of the file The machine I'm using is a MBP113, on macOS 10.10.5. It is compatible with macOS Mojave.  |
| In Pages on iPad, formatting to add line over paragraph? Posted: 14 Aug 2021 12:04 PM PDT I'm writing a document with Pages on iPad. When I select the "Heading 3" style it puts a line above the text, like this:  I can't find how to create that kind of formatting manually, outside of the named styles. Where is the option? Here is the part of the screen with formatting controls. I don't see anything to create a border or line above a text block.   |
| Posted: 15 Aug 2021 12:06 AM PDT I have an interesting problem and I believe I may be halfway to understanding it but don't know how to fix it. My home network has two routers. One is the main one and is in a cabinet so I do not have wifi enabled as the cabinet limits the range of the wifi. I have a second router placed elsewhere which runs my wifi. Currently Ethernet shows connected but no access To the internet. My guess is there is an issue with the iP address as the internet works on wifi with the Ethernet cable disconnected and slowly with it connected. With wifi off the Ethernet still doesn't connect to internet even though shows green. I guess there is a conflict and would appreciate some advice. Thanks in advance  |
| Posted: 14 Aug 2021 01:02 PM PDT I think I have exactly the problem described here: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/250476270?answerId=250909160022#250909160022 - Numbers apparently drawing the spreadsheet on top of itself, offset, for no obvious reason. Presumably I hit the wrong shortcut key and didn't notice at the time.
I assume the given answer will solve my problem... but I don't understand what it's telling me to do, and I don't seem to be able to add a comment to the thread. What it suggests doing is as follows:
This isn't at all clear to me. How do I "select both"? I have the format inspector opened... I think... but there is no Table Names checkbox. (Maybe this is due to my failure to "select both"?) How do I "delete the duplicate"? (OS 10.14.6, Numbers 10.1 (6913))  |
| Number keys on the Numeric Keypad part of the Magic Keyboard don't work with Terminal Posted: 14 Aug 2021 08:03 PM PDT When I'm in Terminal, I've noticed that pressing the The same keys pressed on the "regular" keyboard work as expected. Is this the expected behavior? ** edit ** Those keys work in other applications. When I start a new Terminal window or tab, these keys work correctly. However, when I start PowerShell 7 (  |
| What are pros and cons for MacPorts, Fink and Homebrew? Posted: 14 Aug 2021 10:50 PM PDT I'm just migrating from Ubuntu Linux to Mac, and everything is new and I'm re-learning a lot of stuff. On Linux I had the excellent apt-get to manage software packages. I googled for an alternative on Mac and found about MacPorts, Fink and Homebrew. I will use this computer primarily to develop Ruby on Rails applications. So, what are the differences between them? Which are the upsides and downsides? Which one is best maintained and has more packages?  |
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