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I recently bought A XPG SSD (SX6000 Pro 1T) and an Orico case, to use as an external SSD drive. When I plug it into my Mac Mini (M1), it doesn't detect it. It doesn't even appear in Disk Utility. I ...

I have a fairly common issue. I love how the photos are managed in Photos, but I have too many of them, collected during the years (and the situation will only get worse). I have a 256GB Macbook air ...

I have a 100+ GB of photos on my iPhone and would like to enable iCloud Photo Library to better manage them from my Mac. But I am worried about draining the battery while such a huge library uploads, ...

I am curious about how mac automatically detects that iPhone is close without internet and suggest connecting to iphone's personal hotspot whats the tech behind it? situation is iphone has hotspot OFF,...

Is there any way to set the desktop background picture in a configuration profile in Big Sur? This is when using local profile, rather than one set by a server or MDM.

I have an iPod Touch 6 Gen, iOS 10.0.3, that is locked. On the display, there is a message after I startup device "iPod is locked". This is because someone tries too many attempts to unlock ...

I'm trying to force TimeMachine to point to an smb location. The smb share is on a Ubuntu server and I followed this guide (mostly - it's a little outdated) to setup the smb. However, I do not see my ...

defaults read com.nordvpn.osx-apple gives me useful output. But which file is this information stored in? It is not in : ~Library/Preferences ~Library/Application Support Library/Preferences Library/...

I recently had cause to wipe and reinstall my Mac from a Time Machine backup. My Photos library appears to be complete except all the Shared Albums, including the ones I shared, are missing. I wouldn'...

We trying to distribute the custom app using the apple business manager, we purchased the app in the business manager. And we are trying to add the device to the business manager account. We didn't ...

I am trying to write a PHP service to make calendars from some data. Anyway, the example it returns (it is static during the test) shows up normally when trying to get it by http://my_domain.com/ics....

I'm looking to reduce my mouse usage. (It's bad for your hands.) If you ever used Vimium extension (e.g. for Chrome), it does this brilliant thing where once you hit F it shows you some keystroke ...

I'm writing a report (4000 words)on Pages in the past few days. However, since this afternoon, after I added a new picture to the report, this report has been constantly unresponsive whenever I scroll ...

What is the best macOS for MacBook Pro 13 inch mid 2012. macOS Catalina is running very slow.

On ubuntu all the thunderbird files are stored under ~/.thunderbird/. If I want to backup / copy the files to another Ubuntu laptop I can just copy that folder to the new laptop. Is it the same for ...

A number of subcommands of the command-line keychain tool security accept a four-character "creator" code. Where can these FourCCs be looked up? For a given potential creator (such as an ...

I am confused about VMware and/or Apple's commitment to supporting ESXi running natively on Apple hardware. According to VMware, there are only 8 Apple products that support running ESXi natively (see ...

While examining some features of XCode, I briefly enabled the XCode Continuous Integration Server. The following dialog box now pops up: Skype wants to sign using key "Xcode Server Builder ...

Currently, with ExFAT filesystem on an external HDD connected to a MacBook Pro I experience very long scan times (proportional to the size of the HDD, several TBs in this case; MacOS is used here) ...

One of the keyboard shortcuts that annoys me the most is Cmd + Shift + D to send an e-mail in Mail. Clunky, illogical, ergonomically awkward, hard to remember – there’s just absolutely nothing good ...

Is there a way to make Logitech side mouse buttons just be generic mouse buttons? If there is a way to do this, I can't find it in the "Logi Options" app, which is the program that Logitech ...

it seems as if the "import settings" is gone. I can no longer "separate values using:". So now when I copt text from Pages (which includes tabs for the purpose of filling different ...

I'm looking for an application that is able to capture the state of my mac (open applications, open folders, open files, window sizes, etc) such that I may be able to restore it to this state using a ...

Using Applescript it is very easy to send Notifications on Mac Clients. With other Libraries you even get more functionalities. But is there a way to program the notifications/alerts such that they ...

There's some data I want to recover I've lost this morning due to an accidental synchronization. Unfortunately, it made a new backup, so recovering the lost files via iCloud doesn't seem possible ...

Logitech Options won't let me change the "Keystroke assignment" assigned to a mouse button anymore. I just get a sad error noise every time I try to set one. Strangely, there are already ...

I've been connecting to a remote PostgreSQL server in an enterprise environment that requires Kerberos authentication. My usual method of connecting was running kinit <username@SERVERNAME.COM>, ...

In the future, when some app developers stop publishing Intel versions of their apps (this happened in a few years when PowerPC changed to Intel), will those apps never receive updates on Intel macs? ...

This question is related to Unable to connect display(s) to MBP 13'' Mid 2014 via Tunderbolt / mini DisplayPort, albeit with a different monitor that may have a different cause. As per the ...

(I added an Update in the end.) My related questions: How to delete hidden login iterms from backgrounditems.btm? A launchd job without plist file, how does that work and how to find what job ...

I use the Mail.app to access my multiple email accounts on my MBP and store some of the messages locally so that it doesn't end up stored forever online. The thing is, I feel like moving a message ...

I am having a hard time to figure out how those unwanted program autostarted in the system. I am running MacOS Big Sur. Take an example, Please have a look at the following job: $ launchctl list | ...

I have a MacBook Pro 2013, now with a clean SSD (no OS). I have a Windows 10 PC from which I am trying to create a bootable USB from a Windows 10 ISO file. I tried a lot of combinations and softwares, ...

For years, when I used X, I had it configured so that a middle-click on the background would instantly create an xterm right there. Apparently, old habits die hard, as I just tried to middle-click ...

Instagram and Facebook shops should be connected. I set up a shop in Facebook and Instagram. It worked. Then, something happened, and they are disconnected now. I was trying to connect them again; ...

I did a very stupid thing and executed "sudo npm install" in my root directory of my MacBook. It also asked for a lot of permissions (like Desktop and Documents wich I granted) Now I get a ...

I have an Extreme PRO 64GB SanDisk memory card for my Canon camera. In macOS I can view the pictures I took, but not the videos. They just don't show up in the Finder window but I can watch them on ...

I want to run Nvidia Visual Profiler (NVVP) on my MacBook (mid 2014) with macOS Big Sur v11.2.1. The profiling files are obtained using CUDA 11 on a remote system. I want to just visualize them ...

I am trying to get a Microsoft Sculpt Ergonomic keyboard to work with my MacBook Pro and while I found a couple of posts on similar issues, none of the suggested solutions worked for me, so I am ...

I'm not very familiar with iOS development and I've a question for an use case that I want to implement and would like to get your feedback or input regarding the feasibility of the idea. I basically ...

How to upgrade the current OS X El Capitan (10.11.6)to “ high Sierra” As the current os ( X El Capitan) is very old not supporting few features. Anandarao n

Recently I discovered an app called TG Pro that has all information about the CPU and GPU temperature. However, it shows that it is on sale with $10.00. But I'm not sure if this payment is monthly or ...

I am running MacOS Big Sur. I installed some apps downloaded online. I found out many apps were started automatically at startup. By googling and examining my system, I figured out they were started ...

My multifunction Printer / Scanner doesn't have any scanning functions available under macOS 10.13 High Sierra while connected over network. The scanner function worked over network under macOS 10.10 ...

I can connect an iPhone to an external GPS device, but when I use another iPhone to also try to connect to it, it won't connect. But there are posts that stated we can connect two iPhones to a single ...

I have a Mac desktop 2017 that has 8 Gigabytes of ram and a 1 TB HDD running Catalina. I was wondering how I can make the boot time faster because of work-related reasons. Thank you

I have an OTG device that exposes a network interface over USB-C, providing a DHCP server (think a raspberry pi or similar). When I plug it into my Linux computer (USB-A on the computer, USB-C in the ...

I have a WesternDigital external(usb3) 5TB hdd that keeps mounting as readonly on the mac every time I reconnect it. The drive was formatted ExFat with diskUtil and is only about a month old. I've run ...

I have a lot of otf-files that got accidentally renamed to unusable names. Fortunately, if I click cmd+i on Mac, they still have their original name saved as "full name" in some font-meta-...

When hitting play in iTunes on a song or album this song is automatically added to the play next list 20 times. I added a GIF to illustrate whats happening: So far I've only restarted my Mac ...