Questions tagged [macos]
Apple's Unix-based operating system. Use for questions about the operating system or to provide OS context. For Mac hardware questions, use [mac]. Questions about using macOS on non-Apple hardware ("Hackintosh"), are off-topic.
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"CreateWithURL err=1 (Operation not permitted)" when importing photos on macOS Sonoma
I copied several thousand photos off of a network drive onto my local drive and I'm trying to import them into Photos. Several hundred of them had an "Unknown Error" importing, so I opened ...
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Unable to get shared clipboard using VNC server on Ubuntu and Mac client [closed]
I have a remote Oracle Cloud VM running Ubuntu, and I want to remote in via VNC via macos Screen Sharing. I can connect with Xvnc version TightVNC-1.3.10 – but for the life of me cannot get shared ...
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Restrict task switcher (cmd + tab) to show only the apps open on that specific monitor
When using multiple monitors, if I click on an active app on a different monitor (say Monitor #2), that app becomes the 'last used' app. When looking at Monitor #1 and hitting Cmd+tab, the focus ...
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Is there a way to get my old Mac to run its old software faster?
In order to use an application (Pages '09) that doesn't work on newer computers, I'm using a 2011 Macbook Air running OS 10.13.6 (High Sierra). I haven't installed any new software on it since I ...
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Is it possible to see MacOS's sshd process in the output of ps?
I am running the following version of MacOS:
$ sw_vers
ProductName: macOS
ProductVersion: 14.5
BuildVersion: 23F79
I observe that when I run ssh localhost, I am able to ...
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Preventing Image Compression in Outlook (or any other Office App) for MAC
On Windows it is possible to set Outlook (or any other Office app) to stop compressing images (see image below).
I have searched online and explored the setting but was not able to find a similar ...
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Mac OS Sonoma can't access Windows DNS server
New user to Mac. We have a few at work so I picked a somewhat newer one up so I can get familiar with it.
At home I have a standard Windows Domain with a Windows DNS server running on Windows Server ...
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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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Set up user directory for LDAP user on MacOS
I'm trying to run a script whenever a user logs in via ldap that sets up the home directory, by mounting some folders. The problem is I want to hang the login process until this has been done, because ...
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Need to list an app in the Security & Privacy Settings in MacOS
This app EOSUtility from Canon is not getting listed in the 'Security & Privacy' setting of System Preferences in MacOS.
I am on MacbookAir with M1 chip having MacOS BigSur(11.5)
This app ...
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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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Can't change text box font size in GIMP on macOS
I added a text box to a GIMP project in a new layer. I can select it and a panel shows up with the text properties (here it's out of the main image, but there is text in it):
But when I change the ...
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macOS: How to deal with [INSERT] key in midnight commander?
When browsing with Midnight Commander sometimes I want to copy something from its interface. Let's say the name of a file. For this, I press shift + f6. Now a dialog opens with the name of the file in ...
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TP Link Deco Router gets killed when Mac Mini is powered on
I'm facing a issue for quite a few months now,
My internet connection gets killed when I supposedly turn on my Mac Mini/ Windows 11 Dell Laptop.
I verified that my ISP isn't failing by checking the ...
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macOS Documents size bug
How do I retrieve the space that is being reported in macOS Systems Settings? It says ~40gbs, yet the actual size is 6kb.
I have:
removed all unneeded user profiles
pruned pnpm and brew packages
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macOS Sonoma is creating a Link-Local IP on a separate interface
I’m running macOS Sonoma 14.5 on an M1 MacBook Pro. I recently discovered it was sending out requests on 1900/UDP (Bonjour) to 239.255.255.250 (Multicast) via Link-Local IP (169.254.134.196) over WiFi ...
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How to prevent Word on Mac OS X from deleting/renaming an already saved document?
I am using MS Word (Ver 16.77) on Mac OS X (Monterey, 12.1.1), with Mendeley Desktop plug-in to insert references.
I was making edits to an already saved file when Word crashed and deleted the file, ...
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MSWord on MacOS Track Changes Balloons message has a typo
MSWord 16.85.2, MacOS Ventura 13.6.7
I'm working in an MS Word document that was created by comparing two documents. I'm using Track Changes with the changes identified in Balloons. The Track Changes ...
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Why does "pip" install packages in the wrong site-packages directory?
Running MacOS. I was running python 3.9, and upgraded to the latest Python distro (3.12.3).
When I went to install the spellchecker package, pip installed it in /Applications/anaconda3/lib/python3.9/...
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How do we create an SSL certificate on a website hosted on a Mac OS Sonoma system using a third-party SSL provider?
We have a website that we are hosting from a MacBook. We would like to add an SSL certificate to the website itself. Is there a way to do this, or should we just add the SSL to the whole system?
We ...
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How to give focus to file list in macOS Save As dialog rather than file name
Whenever I save an image from a browser (Firefox in my case), or use a Save As dialog anywhere else, most of the time a macOS standard Save dialog window comes up. By default, the name of the file is ...
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how to pipe output from a command in its own shell?
I want to put all output as it's happening into say so it can read my LLMs response
I found that tee will output the lot once you exit but I want it to say each response when they are given.
I think ...
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Permission denied: users/usr/.local/bin
I'm trying to install a program to download pdf files. This is the github link https://github.com/Lofter1/anyflip-downloader. I followed the istructions but I basically don't know exaclty what I'm ...
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"Device not configured" after external HD improperly unmounted
I accidently unplugged my external HD before the eject was done :-/
/Volumes/Red is still there and can't be deleted.
The HD still mounts but as /Volumes/Red 1.
How can I remove /Volumes/Red?
$ gls -...
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Is it possible to set up a remote login session where a specific user only has access to certain folders, and can only run one executable?
I have a server where I'd like to grant a user the ability to log in remotely, but restrict the session in two specific ways:
They can only access a certain set of folders on the computer, and for ...
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Unix Sockets as Portrayed via Netstat
I do not have much experience with Unix sockets, but I hope this is the place to start. I want to start with understanding what is going on with a netstat -n command. Is it normal behavior to have ...
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MacOS: What does "This application can't be opened / -50" mean and what application can't be opened?
This is not a copy of The application “SomeApp.app” can’t be opened but it might be related.
After my mac wouldn't start up I shut it down by holding the power button until it turned off. After ...
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My keyboard shortcut doesn't work when I'm on finder because of its default keybindings
I have created a shortcut in my Mac's Quick Actions with a shell script to run, and gave it the keyboard shortcuts option+cmd+t.
It works great in any other app than Finder, where it just does its ...
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Recovering from Invalid Container error in APFS volume (macOS)
I have an external disk formatted in APFS. I can see the disk and partitions, but macOS is not mounting the volumen and disktuil and fsck are giving me lots of errors.
Any help recovering the ...
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macOS WireGuard not working for IPv6
Using wireguard-tools stable 1.0.20210914 from brew on macOS 14.5 May 31, 2024:
This package didn’t use to work at all, now it works for IPv4, but that’s of little help on a dual-stack IPv4 IPv6 mac. ...
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Vagrant on macOS failing to mount NFS
I am using a MacBook Pro M2 running macOS Sonoma.
My vagrant project to find that the NFS mount is failing. I have two vagrant VMs; a development one where I develop my VM setup, and a production one ...
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Cannot detect iPhone using FFmpeg avfoundation
I want to programmatically record the screen of an iPhone through the CLI. I have my iPhone 13 running iOS 17.5.1 connected to a Mac running macOS 14.5.
I can see it connects in Xcode and I can record ...
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How can I add "$" (Accounting Number Format) to the Excel 365 Quick Access Toolbar on Mac?
I want to add "$" (Accounting Number Format) to the Quick Access Toolbar (QAT) on Excel 365 on Mac. I can move it to the right column of the QAT customization dialog:
But when I click Save, ...
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Encrypting hard drive in MacOS (Sonoma 14.4): Disk Utility does not have option to format hard drive as "Mac OS Extended (Journaled, Encrypted)"
My understanding is that APFS is for SSDs that perform well with random seek, but not for hard drives. Therefore, I want to format my hard drive with HFS+ ("Mac OS Extended").
And with ...
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Intune - MacOS - Language Setup Screen
Recently I realized that there seems to be no option in Intune to let the user choose the “language settings” during the initial setup.
When you buy a MacBook, you get the option to choose which ...
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BBEdit 15 not finding Grep Patterns.xml
Prior BBEdit versions used to have all grep saved patterns written to a Grep Patterns.xml file located in Application Support > BBEdit > Setup > Grep Patterns.xml. However, after the recent ...
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How can I add font name, font size, and "insert symbol" to the Excel 365 Quick Access Toolbar on Mac?
I'm moving from Excel 2010 on Windows to Excel 365 on Mac, and I'm trying to replicate my Quick Access Toolbar (QAT) commands. I've been mostly successful, but I can't find a way to add the Font Name, ...
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Why can't my MacBook access an IPv6 address while my Windows PC can?
I have a device that is accessible via IPv6: https://[fe80::xxxx:xxxx:xxxx ]/
The network is quite simple, just a basic switch, no router. With a Windows computer, I can access the above address in ...
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Why I can't change the prompt in VSCode's terminal?
I am trying to change the prompt in my VSCode's terminal.
My OS is MacOS Monterey 12.6.
I use the zsh and I change the PS1 in .zprofile,such like this.
Then I use echo to test.The others can work ...
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Macbook suddenly slowing to a crawl
I have a 2017 Macbook Pro (2.9GHz quad core i7 running Ventura macOS) that SUDDENLY has slowed down to a crawl. "top" shows less than 10% idle when no apps are running, but shows "...
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macOS incorrectly computing available SSD space
I noticed the other day that my M2 MacBook Air with 1TB of storage was showing less space available under System Settings than I expected I was using.
After thoroughly combing through my files, and ...
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macOS command line tool for capturing the execution of an entire process tree? [closed]
I'm looking for a tool for capturing the execution of an entire process tree, like this:
# tracetree: https://github.com/luser/tracetree , linux only, sadly
$ tracetree /bin/bash -c '/bin/sleep 1; /...
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Is there a way to change the width of the resize handles on a window? Or restart the process "in charge" of resize handles?
Sonoma 14.3.1
I'm trying to resize a window and the handles are insanely small (narrow), like maybe 5 pixels. Which is very small on a 2560x1440 monitor. The weird thing: this is happening on one ...
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I am experiencing ERROR 2002 (HY000): Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/tmp/mysql.sock'
I am using MAC apple silicon, on Sonama 14.4.1
I came across this error while following a tutorial installing MySQL server. I searched around for solutions but none of them seem to work. I get this ...
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ldapsearch command suddenly stopped working on my Mac
I used to be able to run ldapsearch commands from my mac. But it suddenly stopped working since yesterday
Below is how my config file looks and it has remained like this for sometime now.
$ cat /etc/...
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MacOS: edit .plist files in /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/
I am trying to setup tftp server, but have a difficult time doing so.
I found a possible solution, which suggests editing /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/tftp.plist, however, I cannot find a way to do ...
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Can I use the Share menu to go to a file in the Finder?
The "Share" menu options in mac os seem to be limited to the "Share menu items" extensions under System settings. These offer actions like "Contact suggestions", "...
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macOS: How do I find which file on an APFS disk is associated with a specific `doc-id` and/or `file-id`?
I am on macOS 14.5 with APFS formatted SSD. Disk Utility always reports the same error: error: doc-id tree: record exists for doc-id 1341220, file-id 8567077 but no inode references this doc-id.
I ...
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In Xcode there a way to mark a routine so that 'Step Into' will skip over the routine?
When stepping through code with the debugger using 'Step Into,' Xcode steps into constructors, destructors, and assignment operators. This is especially frustrating when the routine is compiler-...
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