Questions tagged [mac]
Hardware related questions of computers sold/made by Apple. Use [macos] for the operating system, and use [mac-address] for MAC addresses instead.
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Internet Sharing on Lion breaks my routing table
When in the office, I'm connected to a 192.168.1.0/24 network. When Internet Sharing is off, the first entry of netstat -nr is
default 192.168.1.254 UGSc 10 62 en0
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Text in window in macOS Catalina is blurry after sleep
After I updated my MacBook Pro to Catalina, every time I close the lid for a while some windows will be blurry.
Here is an example:
The left window was opened before sleep and now it is blurry.
The ...
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How to stop minimized Chrome windows opening automatically in Mac OS
I often leave a Chrome window minimized in the Dock (with something I want to read/do later, and don't want to find again, for example). In the meantime, though, I'll often click on links in emails, ...
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Why is iTerm2 is super slow on macOS BigSur?
I am super bummed out: My iTerm2 commands that were previously fast before Big Sur now crawl. Worse, when opening a new terminal it can take up to 50 seconds for the shell prompt to return.
What is ...
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Is Xfce supposed to run slowly on Virtualbox?
I'm having problems getting Xfce systems on VirtualBox to run smoothly. What I mean by slow is that moving or resizing windows looks very "laggy" (basically just windows jumping from one ...
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Huge process called "swift" in the activity monitor, appears after installing Xcode 11.0
After installing Xcode 11.0, a strange processes keep showing up in the activity monitor, causing the system to freeze sometimes, and crash (shutdown) other times, these processes are called "swift", ...
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Change compile flags for Homebrew
We're building a large C++ application on OS X Yosemite 10.10. This application relies on a number of third-party libraries which we install using Homebrew prior to building our application. Our ...
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How do I stop command-f from sharing state across applications on Mac OS X (10.8.2)?
If I have a find bar (command-f) open in two applications, and I change the text in one, the text in the other changes to match as soon as I tab over to the second application. Is there a way to turn ...
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Linux compatibility layer for Mac OS X
I have a closed-source piece of Linux software written in a combination of Java and C. The application installs on my Mac (it uses InstallAnywhere), however, it isn't intended to run on a Mac.
The ...
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How can I disable macOS Finder’s tree view from remembering open leafs
When I open macOS Finder an for e.g. open in the tree view the folder Documents the tree view automatically opens all subfolders I opened the last time when I visited that folder. This is annoying as ...
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Command–Grave accent (⌘`) not switching between Safari 17 windows on mac OS Sonoma
On Safari 17 (mac OS Sonoma) the Command–Grave accent (⌘+`) is not switching between Safari windows. It works fine on every other app, except for Safari. I've tested on two different Macs and I see ...
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Why will my trackpad and keyboard not work with dual booted Kali Linux on Mac?
Due to my current circumstances, I need to dual boot Kali Linux on my MacBook Pro (2018). I managed to burn the image onto an external flash drive and load to the desktop in the Kali OS.
My problem ...
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Disable Caps Lock when holding Shift on Mac?
On Windows devices, if Caps Lock is on and you hold Shift,
Caps Lock is disabled (toggled off) until you let go.
For example, on Windows you could turn caps lock on to write this:
LOREM ipsum ...
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Google drive file stream has encountered and has stopped OSX
credits goes to github user bfleischer for the solution
Just wanted to share an answer to a solution.
So recently i fresh installed a new OSX on my mac and encountered this problem which the drive ...
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fsck_exfat: Could not update main boot region: Bad file descriptor - Mac OS X - external hard drive
My external hard drive (seagate barracuda with good SMART status insidev erbatim 4TB store 'n' go) has 3 main partitions:
1) ntfs
2) hfs+ for time machine backup
3) exfat to transfer files between ...
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Cannot remove extension from Chrome in Mac OS X
I searched for and found many articles about how to remove a rogue extension from chrome that has been grayed out. Almost all of the articles are for Windows users and did not apply to my case, hence ...
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Invert color of specific window or portion of the screen on mac os x
When coding, I have a dark theme on my text editor. However the browser window is bright white (eg. the web app I'm coding and the dev tools in chrome) and it's not very comfortable for the eyes to ...
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Mac 10.8 Guest Multiple Monitors in Virtualbox
I've done a bit of searching and cannot seem to find an answer to my question.
I have Mac OS X Mountain Lion guest installed on a virtual machine using Virtual Box with a Windows 7 host. I've found ...
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Is it possible to replace Forticlient with the native Mac OSX networking tools to connect to a VPN?
Because I don't like FortiClient software, it installs a daemon running all times, and I just really want to run the app when I do need to connect to the VPN (once a month), not really have it use ...
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Syncing iTunes between Mac and Windows using DropBox?
How do I sync iTunes library files (xml, itl) and music files/folders between these two different operating systems with different folder structures? I currently keep both the library files and the ...
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How do you stop PowerPoint or macOS from converting double-dashes to em dashes?
Is there a way to stop PowerPoint or macOS from converting double-dashes ("--") to em dashes ("—")? Context: I am using a text box in a slide in PowerPoint for Mac v16.78 on a ...
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Average/General RAID 0 "Chunk Size"?
EDIT: this got closed as being "opinion based". i disagree! the facts are, i have to choose one of five Chunk Size options when creating a RAID on Mac. i don't know which size to choose for ...
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Cannot use `open` command via SSH on Mac
I have a workflow where I use SSH in terminal in conjunction with remote desktop, and I often use the open command in SSH to open something in the GUI.
However, recently it stopped working with the ...
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how to map fn to ctrl with ubuntu on a macbook pro
I want both the fn key and the ctrl key to act like a control key in Ubuntu on my MBP, just like I was able to do with Karabiner under macOS. I first tried xmodmap, but xev doesn't return any event ...
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Why is mac process "Wi-Fi" using 500mb of RAM?
Thanks to this question, I now understand the existence of the "Wi-Fi" process running in the background on my mac.
But why does it require 500+ MB of RAM when neither the menu item nor any dialogues ...
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How to show dock using keyboard in Full screen mode?
I know the normal way is to move mouse to the bottom of screen. But this method is slow, sometimes not responsive (have to drag a few times before the dock shows up).
Question:
Is there a keyboard ...
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Change Mac App Icon With A Terminal Command
I like to use custom icons for a few apps. However, of course, when an app updates the icon is reset. I'd like to be able to run a script to instantly update all of my custom app icons automatically.
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Increase number of open files in mac high sierra
On a mac high sierra 10.13.3 I have 256 open files.
I want to raise it and I open a terminal and enter
sudo launchctl limit maxfiles 1000000 1000000
This doesnt change anything when I enter
ulimit ...
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Macos: disallow apps to prevent sleep
I keep getting notifications on my phone that Whatsapp web is active when my computer is supposed to be sleeping. The same happens with spotify: if I pause a song instead of stopping it the mac doesn'...
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Word on Mac: change Navigation Pane DEFAULT to Document Map
Microsoft Word for Mac v15.36
There are four options in View - Navigation Pane: Thumbnails Pane, Document Map, Reviewing Pane, and Find and Replace.
I only need the Document Map (basically table of ...
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"View with Google Drive" contextual menu item in Finder - how can I make it always appear for files / folders in Drive
I find the ability to right-click a file or folder in the Finder and bring up the option to "View with Google Drive" quite useful (for all files and folders in My Drive).
Sometimes, this item appears ...
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How to prevent secondary display space from merging with laptop space in macOS?
Any way to maintain space integrity when plugging / unplugging secondary display in macOS?
For example, I like having 4 desktops/spaces (a, b, c, d) on my laptop and 2 on my 2nd monitor (e, f). When ...
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Missing Operating System after install of ubuntu on a macbook as only os
I have installed Ubuntu on a 2009 MacBookPro (intel 64 bits) using the iso ubuntu-16.04.1-desktop-amd64.iso and unetbootin to create a live USB.
So basically, I followed the tutorial to create a usb ...
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top equivalent to show I/O per process (per second) on mac/osx
Is there a top-like (visual) tool which can show per process disk I/O (kb/sec)?
The question was already asked at Monitor disk activity, á la top, or nettop (per process) on a Mac? and What'...
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How to make Mac OS X <Cmd-f> "find" feature local to application window
Mac OS X El Capitan 10.11.5
Sometimes I open up multiple windows of TextEdit and multiple tabs on Chrome and use the Cmd-f to find certain text. In each window, I'm looking for different texts. ...
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Is it possible to generate PDFs of the entire scrollable web page?
I am trying to capture my transcript from a webpage but there is no feature to capture all contents of the transcript. So I'm looking for a tool that can help save the entire webpage as a multi-page ...
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Wierd screen colors when waking mac from sleep
I have mac mini with two monitors and sometimes when I wake it from sleep I get this weird screen:
This is a normal screen:
This isn't a big issue (at least I hope so) as it goes back to normal ...
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Visual Studio Code for Mac IntelliSense "Console" not working
Microsoft announced today that they have released Visual Studio Code for Mac, Linux, and Windows. I am trying to use IntelliSense for the keyword "Console" but nothing is showing up. I have tried ...
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I'm locked out of my MacBook pro because my password uses a russian keyboard but I can't change to it from the English keyboard
Is there a way to change the language of the keyboard in Mac OS X 10.9.5, or even system language, while not logged into an account (as I restarted)?
This is my toolbar at the moment:
There is only ...
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How to hide Eject Button in Mac OS X for the permanent external drive like JetDrive
How can I hide the Eject Button for a certain external drive in the Mac OS X?
Because usually the external drive like JetDrive or StorEdge, does not need to be removed (I want to extend the disk ...
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How to open a local file with a query string appended to it in the default browser?
I want to do something like this from a shell script:
$ open 'foo.html?foo=bar'
Sadly that fails, as it looks for a file named foo.html?foo=bar instead of foo.html before opening the browser:
The ...
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Matching bracket selection on gnome-terminal, like Mac OSX terminal
I have recently fallen for a (non obvious) feature of the Mac OSX terminal:
Given a display of some kind of deeply nested text with lots of matching brackets, parenthesis, or quotes (ie. JSON), the ...
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Remove slight margin at bottom of screen in snow leopard
So on snowleopard, the maxed out window size almost fills the whole screen, except for a slight margin at the very bottom that is only a few pixels. Is there any way to override this or somehow make ...
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Accessing a Macbook Pro in Target Disk mode over Thunderbolt from Windows
I have a MacBook Pro late 2011 with Thunderbolt booted into Target Disk Mode, as well as a Gigabyte motherboard model number GA-Z77X-UP4 TH running Windows 7. The MBP has two internal disks formatted ...
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Numbers conditional formatting based on a different cell in the same row
I have a Numbers spreadsheet, with "quantity required" and "quantity in stock" columns, then each part is on a row. I'm trying to use conditional formatting to turn a cell yellow when # required = # ...
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Computer-to-Computer network between OS X and Linux
I want to make a connection point to point via wifi between Mac and Linux.
What I did was:
I have created Computer-To-Computer network in OS X
I have set manually an ip address for Mac, 10.0.0.1/255....
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How do I determine what file occupies a given sector in Mac OS X?
There are similar questions for Windows and Linux, but I need this on OS X. The filesystem is HFS+, journaled. I have a sector LBA, I could find where a partition starts with gpt (though it refuses to ...
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MDS errors: "DiskStore: No block in wakeup" and "Ignored bogus fetch for MDSQueryWithBlockTask"
I've been getting tons of these entries in my system log. I can't find any indication of what they mean.
I assume it's a problem with spotlight somewhere, and I've rebuilt the spotlight indexes, but ...
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Is it possible to get Windows 7 "Libraries" functionality on a Mac?
Smart Folders are fantastic, but I would really like to replicate the Windows 7 "Libraries" functionality on my Mac. Is it possible? For example, most of my movies are stored on an external drive so ...
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Switching active spellchecker language in Chrome using a key shortcut instead of context menu
I am looking for a way to quickly switch active language of spell checker in Chrome. The original way to do is to use right-click on the text field, choose Spell Checking[1] from the menu and then ...
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