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- How extract a Time Machine snapshot as a full machine volume?
- Control screen time for an adult [closed]
- Contacts: no importable cards were found
- How to type the micro sign μ on Mac?
- How to analyze npm/node sass error?
- Zoom in macOS Without losing resolution
- Videos exported in H264 from Adobe products have huge audio delay and sync issues
- How to delete line 7 in a file in Bash with sed?
- Disk utility misreporting free partition space
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- Turn off iCloud on iPhone without removing Apple-ID
- Can't create bootable external drive on MacBook5,1
- How to skip verification of .dmg file located on a network filesystem?
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- Open external links in existing Safari window with tab groups
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- SQL server on M1 based Mac using Docker [closed]
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- Preview for PDFs - Incorrect Pages are Bookmarked
- Bootcamp failing with "cannot create partion" and corrupting APFS container
- How can I search voicemail transcripts?
- sshfs mount directory disappears in Finder
- How to hack into a deceased person's Mac that is still running?
- Facetime & Text & Email Hack
macOS 12.1: Preview window persists after deciding what to do with screenshot Posted: 19 Dec 2021 06:40 AM PST Okay, here's the skinny: 16" M1 Max/64GB/4TB. Updated from 12.0.1 to 12.1 a couple of days ago and, whilst I'm ecstatic that Control Centre is no longer using 120GB of my available RAM (yes, seriously), I now have a problem with the Screenshot app; usually, when you take a screenshot, and decide what you want to do with it, the Preview window disappears - not anymore, now it's persisting, and the only way to get shot of it is by logging out properly or rebooting. I use it extensively, so this is rather more than a minor inconvenience. I can't kill it via force quit, as it doesn't appear in the force quit box, and doing jiggery-pokery in safe mode hasn't proved fruitful. Anyone else with a silicon MBP experienced this...? If someone could try on their 12.1 M1 Pro or Max, to see if they experience the same issue, I'd be grateful. I've nothing weird installed (only had the computer 10 days). Doesn't matter if I activate it via the app or CTR-CMD-4/5, the result is the same, If you're struggling to understand what I mean (I have Asperger's, so sometimes I'm not very clear), I have a video. I've been lurking here for ages and, from what I've seen, if I'm going to get an answer anywhere, it'll be here (not got one in Apple's forum yet and I posted 2 days ago). Any ideas...? If there's a Terminal command that I could use to 'patch' it for now, that would be great; I don't often have need to annotate screenshots (and, if I do, I AirPort them to my iPad Pro (it's so much easier with a Pencil), so even if it means killing the window (but then, how would I send them to Photos...?). Thank you AN🦉 |
Automator create file if no folder is selected Posted: 19 Dec 2021 06:18 AM PST Automator noob here. I found this script to create files with automator: It works great, asking the user for a filename and then creating the file. The only problem is that it doesn't create files if no folder is selected. Is there a code line I can add to make that possible? It would make sense to either create a file in the currently active Finder window or on Desktop if Finder is not active. |
How extract a Time Machine snapshot as a full machine volume? Posted: 19 Dec 2021 05:35 AM PST I would like to archive old Time Machine backups (El Capitan system), but I have huge problems to copy the whole Time Machine folder to disk images. (I'm now on Mojave.) Therefore I though instead I extract some snapshots to individual disk images. So what I want do do is to extract from my Time Machine backup an individual snapshot as a complete system volume as it existed at the time this snapshot was created. Hpow can I do this? I had a look at |
Control screen time for an adult [closed] Posted: 19 Dec 2021 04:17 AM PST My son's iPhone account is set up as "adult". Is there still a way for me to control his screen time? |
Contacts: no importable cards were found Posted: 19 Dec 2021 03:40 AM PST Just leaving this here in case someone hits this annoying snag. This in MBP 2018 Touch bar running Monterey 12.1 After allowing "Contacts" in iCloud, most of my Contacts vanished. I have to assume iCloud's merging facility took some "intelligent" /s decision and decided to get rid of things... oh well. |
How to type the micro sign μ on Mac? Posted: 19 Dec 2021 02:46 AM PST I frequently find myself googling "micro sign" when I need to type the micro sign μ. Is there an easier way? How can I type this sign using my keyboard? I am on macOS Monterey using the ABC Extended keyboard (in English). |
How to analyze npm/node sass error? Posted: 19 Dec 2021 01:08 AM PST I started getting an error today using npm and I'm not sure how to fix it. I'm running a website using MAMP. Never had issues before today. The only thing different is that earlier I ran this code "brew cask install WebPQuickLook" When I run "npm run dev" which will normally watch the scss/js files for changes, I get this error Any suggestions/help? |
Zoom in macOS Without losing resolution Posted: 18 Dec 2021 10:37 PM PST |
Videos exported in H264 from Adobe products have huge audio delay and sync issues Posted: 18 Dec 2021 09:20 PM PST When I export a H264 video from Adobe Premiere and try to play it on MacOS Monterey version 12, if I scrub the video or move the playhead at all, audio and video desync. Lots of people have the issue as can be seen here. https://discussions.apple.com/thread/252680507 Haven't seen any solutions yet. Anyone know how to fix this? |
How to delete line 7 in a file in Bash with sed? Posted: 19 Dec 2021 01:27 AM PST How to delete line 7 in a file in Bash? I tried |
Disk utility misreporting free partition space Posted: 19 Dec 2021 01:19 AM PST I recently tried to install boot camp and I got back errors about being unable to partition the drive. I looked around and learned that I have to remove free space partitions for it to succeed. I have a 1 TB Fusion Drive, however when I checked it in disk utility, it reports an additional 1 TB of free space. When I attempt to delete it, I get back the error: Running Running I tried running a verification of the disk in disk utility to no success. I also tried running This is all on a 21.5-inch 2017 iMac running macOS Big Sur 11.6 (20G165). I am trying to install windows 21H2. |
Control+left/right arrow shortcut doesn't work Posted: 18 Dec 2021 09:18 PM PST I'm trying to change the shortcut for back and forward pages in chrome. Initially to go forward or backward, you can either press command+left/right arrow or command+[/]. I want to make it control+left/right arrow. After going into keyboard -> shortcuts, I made the swap and macos shows that the swap actually worked in chrome But when I try the shortcut it doesn't do anything, and only command+left/right arrow work (so neither command+[/] or control+left/right arrow work) Thanks |
Turn off iCloud on iPhone without removing Apple-ID Posted: 18 Dec 2021 10:04 PM PST When I created Apple-ID on iPhone (iOS 15) and then went to "Settings > Account name", there was "off" in iCloud line. Then I tapped this line and followed instructions to create iCloud binding for the Apple-ID now knowing what will come next. What came next is that there is constantly "5 GB" displayed in iCloud line and I can't turn it off again. All the instructions on removing iCloud from iPhone found by me in Internet suggest to sign out from Apple-ID. But I do not want to sign off from Apple-ID! I just want the original state with "iCloud ..... off". Please help. |
Can't create bootable external drive on MacBook5,1 Posted: 18 Dec 2021 08:02 PM PST I've been struggling with this for days and am at my wit's end. Hopefully someone can point me in a very specific direction. Problem: I have data on two SSD drives that I used using Apple RAID 0 on a 2011 MacBook. This setup worked GREAT until my motherboard fried a few weeks back. All I want to do is grab the data off the drives and then sell the drives. That's my sole objective. I have a 1tb bootable external thunderbolt drive I used for backups (using CCC) but I added some data since then and would like to grab it. The only other Mac I have is an older MacBook5,1. This is probably the crux if my problem because this POS won't boot anything properly. When I install the sata drives it will boot using single user mode, but that's useless for CCC. If I try to boot normally it will crash at the login screen. If I try to boot with shift I get the do not enter sign (no boot volume?). If I try to boot the backup (via USB because this older Mac has no thunderbolt) it gives the do not enter sign. I found a Mohave USB install stick and can boot that (the only thing I've found that boots thus far), but nothing I install the OS on will boot. Not if I install on an external drive, not if I install on another USB stick, etc. I tried running CCC via the terminal while booted to that install disk but that didn't run. I tried making a High Sierra USB install stick using Windows twice using two different source DMGs and two different sticks. One failed to boot and the other, although had a file system with the installer, wasn't even blessed (and I cannot find any info online which folder I'm supposed to bless on an installer USB stick, not that I have particularly high hopes that would help). Yes, I have zapped PR RAM. Yes, I know Mojave isn't officially supported on this MacBook. This appears to be a compatibility version (dosdude?). The data is on an APFS drive so if I got High Sierra installed I think Paragon has a driver, however I honestly don't think Mojave was the problem and getting a High Sierra installer to boot has proven a major hurdle. I'm a dev who has used Macs since 1986 and have never had such trouble before. Maybe there is a command line app that can do the clone from single user mode? No, dd isn't a solution. I'm really at a loss what to try next! |
How to skip verification of .dmg file located on a network filesystem? Posted: 18 Dec 2021 09:07 PM PST I have a file server (SMB/Samba 4.5.16) in the local network. If I put a .dmg file on it (anywhere) and try to mount it, MacOs will ALWAYS verify it first, which means reading through the whole thing, which takes almost 30 minutes for a 200GB file over GBit Ethernet. So again, the scenario is: An SMB server exports a share, I mount that normally on the Mac (which works fine), the share contains a .dmg file, I try to mount that, the .dmg file gets verified. Every time. After that, the mount succeeds and I can use the dmg's filesystem without issue, but the 30 minute verification is a total show stopper. I tried the following things, none of which help (all from How do I skip verification of a .dmg file?): Mounting the thing with This is an M1 Mac running Big Sur. I had an Intel Mac running Catalina before, and I didn't have this problem with that. The file mounted almost instantly (i.e. no verification), from the same file server. If I copy the file to the local disk and mount it from there, it works without verification. How do I fix this? Is anyone doing this successfully, and if so, which file server and MacOs version are you using? |
How to auto-load all pages when opening mutiple pages in Safari 15 Posted: 18 Dec 2021 08:14 PM PST After upgrading from Safari 14 to 15.0 (macOS 11.6), when I Cmd-open a bookmark folder in Safari, it no longer automatically loads all the pages in the folder in the background, but now only loads the pages when the tab is brought to the foreground. Is there a way to revert to the old behavior, so all the pages get loaded into memory immediately? |
Open external links in existing Safari window with tab groups Posted: 19 Dec 2021 04:07 AM PST I started using tab groups in Safari on Mac but now every time I click a link in another app it opens a completely new Safari window. Is it possible to get it to use the same window? |
How to rearranges collapsed/pinned tabs in Safari? Posted: 19 Dec 2021 02:28 AM PST I am using In In the previos Safari version, when I clicked one of the collapsed/pinned tabs, I was able to carry it into a new location. But now when I click them automatically Safari attempts to open them on a new window and I am unable to change their place. How can I rearrenge collapsed/pinned tabs? |
SQL server on M1 based Mac using Docker [closed] Posted: 19 Dec 2021 02:51 AM PST I am trying to install SQL Server on m1 based Mac with docker https://debugsolutions.wordpress.com/2021/03/17/using-sql-server-on-m1-based-mac-with-docker/ I made it all the way to end of step 5, but my container won't connect. I am getting: How can I fix this? The command I ran at end of step 5 |
How to get print to match print preview Posted: 18 Dec 2021 11:00 PM PST I've had this issue across multiple printers but. I took a picture with my iPhone and transfer it to my MacBookPro running 11.4 via AirDrop I open the image in Preview which looks correct I pick File->Print and the print preview looks correct I then print and the print is not correct How do I get my Mac to print correctly? |
Preview for PDFs - Incorrect Pages are Bookmarked Posted: 19 Dec 2021 12:04 AM PST I'm experiencing a strange error when bookmarking pages in a PDF document using Preview. If I bookmark a file whose book-listed page is 666 and whose actual page within the document is 703, for example, preview will bookmark the book-listed page 703 which occurs in the actual document at page 740. The only way I can get a bookmark for the page listed at 666 is to find the pdf-page 666 and create the bookmark there (which is page 629 in the book-listing). I never encountered this strange behaviour on my MacBook Air 2013, but I recently upgraded to the Macbook Air 2020. Has anyone else experienced the same issue and if so, how did you fix this? I'm using Preview version 11.0 (999.4) I'm running macOS 10.15.7 |
Bootcamp failing with "cannot create partion" and corrupting APFS container Posted: 18 Dec 2021 07:01 PM PST My issue is similar to this one, Bootcamp says Disk Could Not Be Partitioned on Catalina Version 10.15.2 I'm on a 2019 iMac i9 27" with a 3TB Fusion that's been formatted with Catalina and APFS from the beginning, but I have successfully installed Bootcamp and removed it. Now I'm trying to play games that don't work in a VM and want it back. Bootcamp is failing to create the partition and corrupting the APFS container as it unwinds. Actually, it's creating the partitions but gacking at some point. The question above has the fsck_apfs commands I've been looking for, but I'm looking beyond that. What if, prior to reloading, I created the APFS container AND a smaller HPS/NTFS/FAT32 partition for Bootcamp Assistant to use? A "sacrifice" disk if you will. Does it matter if the partition is created first, in the first sectors of the drive or at the end behind the APFS container? This time, I plan to only do a MacOS install and not a recovery to test if this works. If so, I'll either restore directly to it or blow everything away again and do a full restore from the ground up with the extra partition. |
How can I search voicemail transcripts? Posted: 19 Dec 2021 12:03 AM PST I want to find a particular voicemail message on my phone by searching the automatically generated transcripts. How can I do that? I've got an iPhone SE (2020 version) running iOS 13. |
sshfs mount directory disappears in Finder Posted: 19 Dec 2021 01:02 AM PST OSX High Sierra, Listing the contents from the command line performs as expected: The target directory is returned in BASH: The folder ~/mount disappears from Finder after the sshfs server is mounted.
The problem / issue is confined to the Finder application |
How to hack into a deceased person's Mac that is still running? Posted: 18 Dec 2021 08:19 PM PST This is kind of an unusual question: a (non-technical) friend of mine (quite literally) on the other side of the world finds herself in the following situation: A person died unexpectedly, their Mac is still running and displaying the Lock Screen, and nobody has the password nor any sort of technical expertise. They would like to get access to at least the data on the disk, maybe also the account. They are currently afraid to shut down the computer because it displays a warning about unsaved files. Is there any chance they can get into the account from the Lock Screen? I guess not. Failing that, what would be the easiest way to gain access to the data (after a forced reboot)? Single User Mode? |
Posted: 18 Dec 2021 08:28 PM PST Is it possible to hack facetime and text messages from a iphone you do not own. We have the same apple id log in for both facetime and itunes. There are records of facetime calls, text messages and emails on one of our iphone which we did not make. How is this possible and what can be done to stop it? |
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