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Update to macOS Sonoma completely rearranges Desktop

It sounds like iCloud Drive "Desktop and Documents" has been turned on. This stores everything in these folders in iCloud, and synchronises them to your Mac or Macs. First thing is to back ...
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How do I unpair iPhone as the microphone of my macbook?

This is a setting on the iPhone: To prevent your Mac from recognizing your iPhone as a camera or microphone, even when your iPhone is plugged in and mounted, you can turn off Continuity Camera: On ...
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Why does iCloud brctl say that I have 136 "Client Truth Unclean Items" (unsynced files/folders)?

@Mattie suggested in a comment above that the script I mentioned worked for them as well, so we now have a sample size of 2. I am going to self-answer with that suggestion. save the script below as ...
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Voice Memo file location, Ventura 13.5.2

I had the same trouble... not sure how I found them, but here's the path: Finder > Go > Go to Folder: Users/<user_name>/Library/Containers/com.apple.VoiceMemos/Data/Library/Application ...
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Ensure emptying 'Recently Deleted' succeeds?

If you have iCloud Photos, I would always use the web app to perform a large delete since the code runs from the data center adjacent to the storage of the photos. (As opposed to running code on the ...
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How can I turn off iCloud?

I have an older Mac Mini at OS X10.10.5, on which the iCloud preferences dialog got to be a bug. One can ignore the dialog by clicking on its Later button The dialog appears more often the longer it ...
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