Questions tagged [monterey]
It is almost always preferable to use the macos tag and also list the exact version in questions (especially during beta season), but this tag for macOS 12 may be helpful in questions that aren’t about macOS in general.
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How do I make a time machine backup drive a normal hard drive? [duplicate]
I have been trying to relocate my Logic Pro X's Apple Loops library to a different hard drive. I have everything figured out, except for the problem in which Logic will not accept the secondary hard ...
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How can I get Jenkins to access to files on an external drive
My jenkins server is running on macOS Monterey, I believe this is important because my older server on macOS Catalina has no such issue.
I have some files on an external drive which I can access and ...
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GRAP pre-processor doesn't seem available for groff on macOS Monterey?
The groff language is a bit of a legacy UNIX program for generating post-script documents with graphics and all kinds of other handy text formatting. If you run it with the help option on macOS 12.5 ...
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Looking to disable MacBook internal keyboard. Newest OS doesn't seem to support older solutions
I'm looking to disable my MacBook Pro (2016)'s internal keyboard. I'm running macOS Monterey 12.6.3. My left shift key is broken and always pressed, and while I have a Bluetooth keyboard that helps ...
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Make window screenshot use transparent background
Pressing cmd-shift-4 then pressing space then clicking on a floating window takes a screenshot of that floating window with the dropshadow included.
For some reason, mine now have white backgrounds...
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How to add a "Recent Applications" stack to the Dock?
The Dock on my macOS Monterey machine does not show a stack of recent applications. It does show "Recents" but these are recent documents.
System Preferences > Dock & Menu Bar > ...
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How can I do a non-USB clean install of Ventura on an M2 Air that came with Monterey?
No matter what I do, I can't figure out how to do a clean install of Ventura.
If I go into Recovery, format the disk, and then exit disk utility, it only gives me an option to reinstall Monterey.
If I ...
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Mac OSX Short operation system freeze
Symptom:
My IMac 5K (Ultimo 2014, Monterey) always freezes for a short time, i.e. no matter if I briefly open the Finder, select folders or open a setting, then the ball icon always appears for about ...
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SMB folder won't connect after Monterey upgrade
PROBLEM...
After upgrading to Monterey from Big Sur, my 2019 Intel Macbook Pro won't connect to an SMB share on my FujiXerox RIP (FXServer).
Nothing else has changed since running Big Sur on the same ...
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iCloud Drive sync stuck
I ran into the exact same problem like some other people here. After clean-installing Monterey to my two machines yesterday (MacPro 6.1 and a MacBook Pro 15" Late 2015) my iCloud Drive got stuck ...
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Decrypt CoreStorage volume (HFS)
I recently got back my recovered data (Seagate Rescue) in an encrypted HDD. I would like to decrypt it because it does not contain confidential data. However, I cannot find an option to do so either ...
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Moving a file from folder to folder on a server makes it no longer openable until a disconnect and reconnect
My first question here.
We have noticed that if we move a file from one folder to another on a server, that file will no longer open. The only fix is to disconnect and reconnect from the server. I'...
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MacBook Pro - Flip front camera for documents online
Sometimes Apple just drive me up the wall. I need to show an identity document to a bank, so, of course (Apple!! OF COURSE) I need to flip the camera.
Is it easy? No. Are there lots of click bait ...
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May I make a removable drive "non ejectable?"
I have a large SSD drive connected to my iMac as my main working drive, and macOS is still on the internal drive. Can remove the ability to accidentally eject it from Finder somehow?
I would just ...
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Is there no way to show additional disk space/capacity columns in Finder?
One of the things MacOS simply doesn't seem to do is easily show size and free space on disk drives. It shows size in Finder if you go to your computer:
But it does not show the disk size or free ...
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Is there (or can I make) a shortcut to adjust size and location of the zoom (in settings -> accessibility)?
I often switch my laptop (running Monterey) between a TV, a monitor, and no external display. Quite often when I switch to the TV, the zoom window size in accessibility gets reset, and I have to open ...
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How do I make an offline recovery USB for MacOS Monterey?
I have a Macbook Pro from 2015 with a MacOS Monterey 12.6
I want to make a recovery USB for it
I tried following instructions here, https://mrmacintosh.com/how-to-create-a-bootable-macos-12-beta-usb-...
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Safari unexpectedly quit - my first ~20 tabs are gone
Safari just quit on me out of nowhere when I wasn't looking.
When I opened Safari again, apart from my first 4 pinned tabs, the next few tabs (in the region of 10-20 of them) are not there any more. ...
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Opening TCP port 443 to specific domains?
I am trying to work remotely with a healthcare professional through Doxy.me, a URL that that they prefer for client calls (e.g., rather than Zoom, etc.). When I attempt to meet with them, everything ...
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Automator remove all but the first page of a pdf in Monterey
Under Monterey,
Is there an easy way to have automator delete all but the 1st page of a pdf file.
Or extract the 1st page?
My end goal is to create a thumbnail image from the 1st page, but the ...
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SSH unable to login, commit, deploy since updating to macOS 12.6.2
Somehow ssh stopped working on my machine the way it used to prior 12.6.2. Pre 12.6.2 I was able to commit to GitHub, deploy through capistrano from Bitbucket or Github with keys.
Currently I can ...
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Forcefully reformat USB drive
I have a 64 GB USB3.0 thumb stick, totally empty, that was formatted according to Windows NTFS, but had some problem in its format (it kept freezing Windows programs that tried to read it in any way, ...
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Mouse not working on MacBook Pro M1
I have a USB Fujitsu mouse (Blue LED Mouse M960) which refuses to work with my MacBook Pro 2021 with the M1 chip (MacOS version 12.6.1).
When executing ioreg -p IOUSB -l -w 0:
| +-o Fujitsu Mouse ...
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Undo flag in Mail.app
While trying to search in Mail.app, I somehow seem to have selected all Mail in one inbox and flagged them all (as important). Somehow a matter of two keystrokes.
How can I undo that? I want to remove ...
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MacBook Pro Erase All Contents and Settings
Does performing Erase All Contents and Settings as they described here 3 times in a short period of time have any adverse effect on the Mac?
Specs: MacBook Pro, 2021, M1 Pro.
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New Monterey install: No disk access
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After an erase and install upgrade to Monterey (from Big Sur) the main admin user account has no access to any of the disks.
HAVE TRIED...
Checking if the user has admin privileges (it ...
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Using NVidia‘s CUDA and corresponding Python libraries on macOS Monterey
I occasionally need to work on scientific software that uses CUDA and is written in Python.
If possible, I would like to do that on an iMac 2019 (Intel, with a Radeon Pro 580X, running macOS Monterey ...
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Spotlight no longer showing me installed applications [duplicate]
Applications like Finder, Activity Monitor, Terminal, System Preferences, and newly-installed ~/Applications apps are not showing up in Spotlight search results.
In System Preferences > Spotlight, ...
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Usage history displaying data despite no use for over a month
Using a MacBook Pro (2021) running macOS 12.6
Went on holiday and came back to a dead MacBook, despite it being shutdown; used the commands last shutdown and last reboot in the terminal to verify this....
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Apple Mail sometimes not showing content of e-mail
I'm using Apple Mail 16.0 (3696.120.41.1.1) on a MacBook Air (13-inch, 2017) with macOS Monterey 12.6.2 (21G320).
I don't know when it started but there's a problem I have since some months:
Sometimes ...
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Does marking e-mails as spam help other Mac users?
Sometimes there's a spam e-mail in my inbox. I just have to click the spam button and the e-mail will get moved to the Junk folder. Some emails even land in the Junk folder automatically.
I assume ...
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Control + Space switch to third keyboard in previous list, without waiting for selection popup
I currently have 5 configured keyboards.
Pressing Ctrl + Space lets me immediately switch to the previous keyboard without delay.
When I press Ctrl + two times Space in quick succession I expect it to ...
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How to properly rename a user account + its accompanying home folder path in macOS so as to retain all settings, preferences, etc?
(Please note the following steps I followed, as far as I can tell, are identical to Apple's instructions here: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201548 - note that the order in which you'd follow ...
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OpenLDAP configuration via terminal on MacOS 12 and above (Monterey and Ventura)
I want to make Mac machines, in my network, use my LDAP Server to authenticate users. To do so, I tried the GUI tool "Directory Utility" and configured everything as desired and took a copy ...
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Automator crashes upon startup
On Monterey (12.6.2), on a heavily-upgraded Mac Pro 4,1, Automator reliably crashes immediately upon startup.
It did this when I was running Catalina, too, but I didn't have a need for it until lately....
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Mac MDM WiFi selection control remained after MDM profiles removed
Recently I've gained admin privilege and gotten rid of MDM profiles/limits.
However, after MDM profiles are removed I found that:
In Network -> Advanced -> Preferred Network,
it still keeps ...
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Escape key press isn't registered on M1 Macbook
On my 14" M1 MBP running MacOS Monterey, pressing the escape key suddenly stopped registering for exiting dialogs or entering the command mode in VIM. I opened the on-screen keyboard in System ...
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Multi-Monitor Support for incoming Remote Connections (Windows to Mac)
I've currently got a Windows PC, and use it to RDP to a Windows laptop. When I do this, it passes through the multiple monitors from the host and lets me use them within the RDP session. In this way, ...
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Allow local HTML files' scripts to load other local files
How can I tell Safari that I would like the JavaScript included in local HTML files to be allowed to load other local files?
At the moment:
I double-click index.html in Finder
it opens an HTML page ...
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Messages on macOS keeps "forgetting" all my messages
Every time I open Messages on my macOS 12.6.1 MacPro2013, there are no threads visible on the left. New messages appear, but older ones do not. It seems to have "forgotten" everything. If I ...
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How to turn of [Fn] key changing keyboard language in Monterey
I just upgraded to Monterey and am being driven a bit spare by accidental language switching resulting from the side of my hand hitting the fn key on my Magic Keyboard. Is there a way to disable this? ...
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com.apple.Installer-Progress causing missing progress bar
I have an issue where some machines are booting up with no menu bar. Through sleuthing I found that the "Installer Progress" app is running and holding the menu bar. Since it is running as ...
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Unable to install application on fresh Monterey 12.6.2 install (python missing)
I installed Monterey 12.6.2 on a new system disk on an upgraded iMac 12.2. One of the first steps was to install all programs.
One of the applications unfortunately installs, but crashes upon opening ...
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TextEdit Version 1.18 (Ventura) changed behaviour from 1.17 (Monterey)
In TextEdit Version 1.17 (Monterey) I can take a text list and drag/select an item all the way across into the white space at the end of the line. If I hit delete, the selected characters plus the ...
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macOS is writing 32GB of data during every boot, on new installs of Big Sur and Monterey
I have an issue where brand new installations, both minutes old and weeks old of Big Sur and Monterey (not tried other major releases) are writing exactly 32GB of data to the SSD boot drive during ...
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Homebrew on Monterey running opencore
I have an old Mac 5,1 running Monterey via OpenCore and can't use homebrew.
I do not have read/write permissions on /usr/local/ or any subdirectories and no ability to chown anything there. I have ...
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mail.app moving subfolders under Inbox
is there the possibility to have all the folders created for a given mail account organised in a tree-like view? Something like this image from this previous question:
I am not sure if this was a ...
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Upgrading Python in MacOS Monterey
I understand Python is used by the OS, and that's why here on Ask Different there are several Q/A about the subject, where answerers tell people to install Python 3.x and leave Python 2.x (used by the ...
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finder indexing
I recently added a text file to an exiting folder. To check I could use Finder to find the file, I searched for some unique text within the file only to find Finder could not find the file. If this is ...
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How to disable blurry font on macOS - ie. the anti-aliasing or smoothing
Recently I was forced to switch from Linux to a MacBook Pro and I am suffering from the font smoothing. I use an external monitor in its native resolution which worked fine with my previous Linux OS. ...
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