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MacOS computer can't connect to Windows SMB share if it requires a login
I have a Windows 11 computer that I use as a home server on which I have shared some folders to access on a macOS Sonoma computer.
The Mac can access the shares that are accessible publicly(the "...
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How to optimize vmware 13 for gaming on apple silicon? [closed]
Is there a way? I set the graphic memory to 8 GB and 6 core processors with 10 GB rams and it still run at less than 30fps on window 11 arm 64 with 3d acceleration on. If not any recommendation for ...
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Failed to boot Windows 10 after resizing volume
I have a late 2013 iMac dual booting windows bootcamp and iOS 11 with the rEFInd boot manager. I ran out of space in the boot camp partition, so I got gparted live on an USB to resize the volume. ...
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Copy & paste between MacOs and Windows [duplicate]
Is there any clean and simple solution that allows copying and pasting text and images between a Windows device and a MacOs one?
I'm considering buying either an iPad Pro or a Samsung Galaxy Book 4 ...
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How to share applications between multiple OSs? [closed]
My goal is to have a triple monitor setup, each running a different OS (Linux, Windows and MacOS) and have mouse/keyboard sharing using something like Synergy as well as moving app windows from one to ...
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Black Screen Issue Running Windows 10 VM on MacBook Air M2 using VirtualBox
I recently acquired a MacBook Air M2 and installed VirtualBox to run a Windows 10 virtual machine.
However, upon launching the VM, I encounter a persistent black screen. Despite the VM running, I'm ...
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The files after extracting a tar
I recently start to use tar to backup my files on macOS.
I usually use:
tar cvf archive.tar foo bar
and i also run this to check:
tar tvf archive.tar
It would show the following and it seems okay:
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How to escape file path for burned-in text-based subtitles with FFmpeg?
I'm trying to burn text-based subtitles into a video using ffmpeg, via the command line option -vf followed by subtitles=(filename):si=(subtitle index). I need this to work for both Windows and macOS.
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Mounting an HFS + External Drive
I have a Windows computer at home, and a company sent me an external HDD formatted as HFS+.
It doesn't read on my Windows machine. I'm planning to use a software called Paragon to access the files, ...
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How to share clipboard between windows PC and apple ecostystem (iOS, macOS)?
Was curious whether this was possible? 1Clipboard no longer is authorised by google so doesn't work. Would be grateful for any help.
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Sharing folders across the internet
I have a software project me and a couple friends are working on, and I have all the files hosted on an Ubuntu server. On the server, everyone has their own user and their own home folder, and there's ...
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Can't see files/directories in a Windows shared server on my Mac
I'm trying to connect to my corporate work shared server on my Mac (I use windows on my work).
I have to connect with the VPN and then I'm writing the route it shows on the Windows PC in to the "...
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What are the uses for all computer/host/dhcp names?
This question is meant to be specific to a home network.
Windows, Linux, and MacOS computers all have a host name. In addition, MacOS computers have a computer name and a local host name. And when a ...
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scp: ambiguous target when attempting to copy directory with an apostrophe and spaces in the name
I am trying to use scp to copy a directory by using ssh through windows terminal to connect to my mac and then use scp to copy a folder to my raspberry pi; I have tried many variations such as
scp -r &...
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ipad to windows quotation issue in pycharm
i am using my ipad to connect to my windows laptop through teamviwer to code on my windows laptop. now the issue I am having is that the quotation marks now simply don't work like when I press my ...
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Is there a Windows 11 equivalent to Mac's "App shortcuts" in the keyboard preferences?
My specific case: I use DaVinci Resolve to edit videos, and I have a few UI layouts saved. These can be accessed in the Workspace menu up top, but the button for loading them is a few layers deep, and ...
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External Drive Not Showing up Anywhere
I have a Lacie Rugged Drive I'm having issues with. It will continue to sound like it is starting up but won't mount. I can see it listed on my mac under the system report but it will not show up ...
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Use USB wired mouse connected on other as a wireless device
I have a problem that goes like this. I have two laptops (MacBook Pro 2021 and Acer Nitro). I can connect my mouse and keyboard to my Acer laptop (USB) without any issues, but on MacBook I don't have ...
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Use guest vm vpn from host
I have a vpn connexion inside a vm and I want to use it from the host.
The host is a MacOS Ventura M2 and the guest is a windows 11, Im using parallels.
Is it possible ?
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Do you know a way to download the audio from Google and Microsoft Text-to-Speech?
do you know a way to download the audio from Google and Microsoft Text-to-Speech and I know there is AudioTTS but it sucks and it does not work if you know another way to download it or if you know ...
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Installing Ubuntu on Mac -- using boot stick built from Windows Machine
I was gifted a Mac recently, but have no way to validate my access to the MacOS. I want to install Ubuntu, but all of the directions I've found say to build a boot USB drive using the Mac... So, here ...
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Sort files into folders by file name according to a spreadsheet of names
I am a teacher and use Canvas-LMS for my course. The course is broken into smaller groups led by individual teaching assistants, who grade student assignments in their own section. Canvas only ...
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How do I play audio through multiple connected devices?
I have multiple bluetooth audio devices which I want to be able to play audio to synchronously. I would like to be able to do this for connecting multiple bleutooth speakers, earbuds or airpods at the ...
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Additional Quick step Keyboard Shortcuts
Use a lot of keyboard shortcuts through Quick step actions. This lets me sort incoming mail into folders pretty quickly. Limit of course is I can only assign 9 of them. Which is a little limiting.
You'...
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Is there a way to rebind copy and paste keyboard shortcuts on a PC so that it matches the mac shortcut? Or vice versa?
For my job I use both a Mac and a PC and am frequently switching between them. So it's probably understandable that sometimes my fingers forget which machine they're typing on and try to use the wrong ...
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Why wine only gives me a title but not video?
Why wine only gives me a title but not video?
I installed unofficial wineskin and tried to run a game, sounds works fine but no video there, only a title bar:
after dragging window around, window ...
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Linux - Show unsaved applications before shutting down
When you shut down a macOS system, it asks applications to exit one by one, and the system will not shut down unless all applications agree to exit (aka. there is no unsaved work) or until they are ...
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How to switch to another window in macOS?
Sometimes I have two windows open in macOS. But one question, how to switch to another window in macOS? Is there any keyboard shortcut to do this?
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macOS Monterey Virtualbox VM start error
I have tried setting up a macOS virtual machine for a bit and I have ended up with:
I have followed this tutorial on YT, and used all the same settings and commands. Is there any way I can fix it?
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Command + Delete shortcut on windows 10 [closed]
I'm a mac user for a quite a while now.
The most used shortcut I use is command (or windows key) + delete.
That deletes the whole line. But whenever I switch to windows, command + delete doesn't work.
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Public vs private network setting for macOS?
On windows, we can set a LAN to be a public or a private network, to improve security.
Questions:
What does windows actually do (in terms of firewall settings) when I set a network to be private?
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Windows Network Drive Access is Slow From MacOS using SMB
I can't seem to wrap my head around an issue I've been having with this so I thought it'd be a good idea to drop it here in case someone else has run into this problem in the past, or will eventually ...
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Choosing the right file system for Windows and macOS
I currently store my files (images, documents, ...) on a server at home and access them from my Windows PC via a network share with NFS. Since some time ago I also have a Mac. From my Mac I also can ...
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How can I delete a "content" box in a serially converted .odp file without LibreOffice Impress automatically resizing the "title" box
I have a .odp file with a single slide (representing a poster) that started life as "Title and 4 Content." The "Title" box has been resized, and the internal formatting changed. ...
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Install Windows to partition from a virtual machine?
I am seeking workarounds to installing windows on an SSD partitioned (sharing with macOS) as the normal routes both are unfortunately unsuccessful on my end: boot camp install results in an ...
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Cannot ping another computer connected by line from main computer which's physical network card is bound by hyper-v network
Computer A (Main Computer, Windows 11, installed Hyper-V):
10G LAN PORT1: 192.168.100.1
WIFI: 192.168.50.17
Hyper-V bound detail:
Computer B (Another Computer, MACOS):
10G LAN PORT: 192.168.100.100
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USB/USB-C combo flash drive mounts and works on Windows and Android, but not macOS
I have a flash drive that supports both USB and USB-C. The problem with this flash drive is that it works on Windows, but not on macOS. Specifically:
The drive is exFAT-formatted and does not have ...
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Why OS(s) take so much memory. Are they fully optimised?
Mac Os eating more than 3.5 GB's of Ram:
I have seen windows and mac os taking about 3-4 GB of ram space even in cleaned PC with no apps opened.
Can't developers further optimise operating systems to ...
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How to remove Mac extended attributes files on Windows
I backed up some files using a Mac and when I copied them back to Windows I ended up with a copy of every single file - foo also creates ._foo. Apparently these are Mac extended attribute files. Very ...
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Can Delphi run on a Mac with M1 processor?
Currently i use an Intel Mac to develop Windows x86 apps on Delphi, using Parallels virtualization.
I know these newer Apple Silicon Macs only runs Windows ARM, but has anyone tried to develop on ...
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Is it possible and safe to migrate a P4 server from a Mac to PC? If possible is there a resource documenting the steps to do so?
I have a perforce server running on an old mac that I'm afraid may kick it at some point.
Not really wanting to have my next server be on a Mac but rather a PC I'd like to see if I can migrate it ...
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External Harddrive: Compatible Partitions types
I have an external harddrive, which has a partition of NTFS and 300 GB of unallocated space. Is it possible to use that unallocated space to create a paartition on Macos? The disk utility doesn't let ...
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Dead key behavior on Windows and Linux
When a dead key is pressed in Windows nothing is displayed. But in macOS, when a dead key is pressed the corresponding terminator is displayed and highlighted, awaiting another key to be pressed.
Is ...
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Cannot run WSL2 over SSH on Windows 11
I have two machines; a desktop and a laptop. The desktop runs WSL2 and an OpenSSH server on the Windows side. I'm able to connect to the SSH server from the laptop without any problems but not able to ...
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Routing network based on MAC address on macOS and Windows
On Linux distros that use Gnome's Network Manager subsystem, the nmcli (Network Manager CLI) allows you to add an ethernet connection for a device with a specific MAC address using nmcli con add type ...
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Is there an equivalent of Linux's "nmcli con add" on Windows or macOS?
I need to configure a custom connection to a device. Is there a command utility on Windows/macOS that does what nmcli (Network Manager CLI) does on Linux?
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What is the definition of the meta keys fn,control,option,command (mac) and fn,ctrl,alt,win (windows)?
I'm very confused by the definition/purpose of the keys.
For example, on Windows, I thought the purpose of the ⊞ Win key was OS specific actions, but to my confusion, for switching between windows, I ...
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Is having a slide show screen saver on 24/7 bad?
I had to RMA my monitor because the color went bad on the right side of the screen. Like red became pink on the right side of the monitor. I bought it 8 months ago. Was having a slide show playing 24/...
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Clion vs Visual Studio Community 2019 for c++ dev work
So Iam having a hard time choosing between visual studio 2019 community and clion, mainly because Iam debating if I should get m1mac mini or a windows machine. Can someone explain the main difference ...
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Connecting to file share works from iPad but not macOS
I am attempting to connect to a Windows file share from macOS 11.3. The IP is 192.168.0.6, however my Mac will ask for username and password. When I enter them, it will shake in error and will not ...
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