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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MacOs equivalent of adding a user to the linux dialout group on for permissions setup for UART communication
I'm working on a project where I'm interfacing with some hardware and want to monitor the data from some sensors using a specific tool. The tool doesn't have official support for MacOS but I've ...
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outlook - how to search for specific time range
I would like to search macOS outlook for specific time range. Does anyone know how to do that?
received:1/1/24..1/10/24 after:12:00 AM before:5:00 AM
I found this page https://support.microsoft.com/...
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Change default/native resolution of a display in macOS
I have a Philips 55PUS7303/12 TV (albeit it's hooked up to my computer through a Denon AVR-X1400H AV receiver, but this doesn't change the aspect I'm asking about) and it shows up as having a default ...
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How to safely change /etc/hosts file type from Unicode to ASCII on mac
I need to block some websites in hosts. But it didn't work, after modifying the file, I found it's in UTF-8 format instead of ASCII thanks to OSX Sierra hosts file is ignored
How to safely change /...
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How can I get my computer (macOS) to reference the proper spelling of medical terminology to enable proper autocorrect & spell check?
I am using MacOS and need to write documents which use a lot of medical terminology. Currently, the system detects many of these words as being incorrectly spelled (even when they are not), or invalid ...
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Timed out retrying after 4000ms: expected url to equal url in Cypress
Trying log in after 2fa , is not possible log in with Cypress, it gives the following error Timed out retrying after 4000ms: expected url to equal url.
How can I handle this issue?
it("Login"...
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How to recover the photos from MacBook hard disk that was recovered from a data service that provided me with RAR compressed archive files?
I had an Intel CPU MacBook Pro (already sold).
When I went to sell it as a 2nd hand computer, I found the hard disk doesn't work.
So I found a professional data recovery company to check the hard disk....
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sox became buggy after MacOS upgrade to Ventura 13.6.5
I installed sox using homebrew. It ran without problems when I was using Big Sur (10.16). However, after updating to Ventura (13.6.5), when I try to play an audio file, it freezes with the following ...
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How can I setup Google Drive for Mac to NEVER delete anything?
I would like to use Google Drive to back files up from my Mac, and I don't want to worry about deletions.
What I would like is for any file I create to be backed up. If I delete it on my PC, I don't ...
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How to mount a Mac host folder on a QEMU guest Linux?
I recompiled the Debian kernel enabling the required options in QEMU/9psetup installed QEMU (8.2.1) with Homebrew and started it as follows:
/usr/local/bin/qemu-system-x86_64 \
-M accel=hvf \
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Terminal in on a MacBook Pro (M2) is not working after setting a path. How can I fix it?
I tried to set Python path in .zshrc and save it. But after saving it, the terminal is not working anymore.
For all commands giving command not found and every time, I can see the path file in the ...
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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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Using all loopback IPs on OS X
I has service that binds random loopback IP on 127.0.0.0/8 subnet on demand (like 127.12.34.56).
It works fine on Linux but does not work on OS X.
Only solution I found was to make alias for each ...
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Will changing my Macs hard drive name have a bad effect on anything?
My Macs default hard drive name is "Macintosh HD"
I have installed lots of apps and things.
If I change the name from "Macintosh HD" to "Something COOL" will it break my ...
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Is there any way to prevent a non-admin user from executing "launchctl unload" on macOS?
I started using a well-known program for self-control on MacOS called Cold Turkey. This program is very powerful, but it's not enough since I can open a Terminal as a non-admin user and execute the ...
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Does changing your Mac name affect your SSH key?
I was setting up new SSH keys on my Mac for usage on BitBucket and GitHub. I had not named my Mac yet so it had the default name of <my name's> MacBook Pro.
When I was pasting the ssh key in ...
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How do you open the same app (Roblox) multiple times on macOS?
I tried doing the command open -n -a Roblox.app but did not work.
I tried it with the other apps, the command did work.
The only one that didn't work was when I tried doing the open -n -a Roblox.app ...
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MacOS X11 window not launching through Terminal, but launches through XQuartz terminal
I installed XQuartz using brew, and it seems that X11 forwarding only works when I launch a terminal through XQuartz and use ssh -X on it. It doesn't work when I run ssh -X on my Terminal app (XQuartz ...
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Unable to install Docker desktop on Apple Silicon due to undocumented bug regarding storage space
I'm simply trying to install Docker Desktop into my Mac Mini M2 running Sonoma 14.0 but is not working.
The steps I've followed:
Download Docker.dmg from docker site (appropriate to Apple Sillicon)
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"File Can't Be Opened" No package contents at the DMG file. How can I install anything?
The application that I'm trying to install has no package contents there's only a DMG file.
How can I proceed through the terminal without having to run through the package contents of the application?...
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Keep a Mac working on a terminal task
I would like to keep a process going on a Mac. I'm starting the process in a terminal (doesn't matter using TMUX or not), locking the screen and walking away. Several hours later I see the process ...
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How to unzip a zip from macOS on Windows and is the “__MACOSX” folder in a Mac-made Zip the right place to look for the Zip contents?
Somebody sent me a bunch of PDF files as a Zip from their Mac laptop. Now I am trying to extract the PDF files.
I am on Windows 10 I can extract a folder __MACOSX and inside it, a folder containing ...
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iBook PPC fails to load HDD and most CDs and DVDs. What can I do to revive this iBook?
I have an old iBook that is having problems to load things. I want to revive the iBook and make it usable for some tasks and years.
Most times the OS from HDD boots ends on a blue screen without text/...
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Google Chrome Option+Left Arrow does not move cursor back one word in URL bar on MacOS With Unicode Hex Input
When you have a url like https://example.com/with/many/parts-in-the/url.do?separated=by&non-word-characters, in Ubuntu and in Windows, chrome will let you navigate through each word separately, if ...
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Bluetooth earbuds not playing any sound after a while while video calling on my macbook
I am using a 2017 MacBook air. I can watch videos with the same earbuds without any issue at all for however long. But, when video calling or attending meetings in WhatsApp and MS Teams (haven't tried ...
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How to disable "Prevent the computer from sleeping automatically when the display is off" in MacBook Pro (M1) running macOS Ventura 13.0
In the past, I enabled this in System Settings:
“Prevent the computer from sleeping automatically when the display is off.”
Then I have updated macOS on the MacBook Pro (M1) to Ventura 13.0 and ...
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Extract filepaths of .MP4 files in subfolders of main folder to textfile
I am on Mac. I want to use terminal or something to extract the filepaths of the .MP4 files within a folder with multiple levels of subfolders. I have a main folder that has subfolders. Each subfolder ...
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Why is installation of MySQL on my mac is always halted [closed]
I've been trying to install MySQL on my mac and an issue kept happening. I downloaded macOS 14 (x86, 64-bit), DMG Archive. Everything seemed fine until the final step. It says "the software was ...
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MariaDB - database folder changed?
I have MariaDB installed via Homebrew on MacOS.
I have local databases in /usr/local/var/mysql but a day or two ago, my local MariaDB now points to /opt/homebrew/var/mysql and does not find any of my ...
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Mac Sonoma can connect to NFS via Finder but not access via terminal
I need to read files from a NFS storage. Via Finder, I can connect to the server by nfs://<server>/<path>, and read files via Finder. The mount appears as /Volumes/<path>, but from ...
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iCloud Drive - Keep Select Files Downloaded
I have a group of files (all placed in one folder) that I use daily - every few hours the files un-download themselves and I have to redownload them when needed. OneDrive has an option for forcing the ...
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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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Why does Virtual Box freeze on "Starting Windows" screen on macOS Catalina 10.15.7?
I have macOS Catalina 10.15 and I installed VirtualBox v7.0 to run Windows 7 x64 (and windows10 x64). When I boots it hangs at "Starting Windows" screen. Screenshot below.
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SquirrelSQL keyboard shortcuts on MacOS
I am running SquirrelSQL on MacOS.
Many keyboard shortcuts do not work.
For example: find is supposed to be mapped to CTRL-F, but neither CTRL-F nor CMD-F work. Similarly, replace (supposed to be ...
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How to install VSIX files in Visual Studio 2019 on a Machintosh?
I would like to install this VSIX file and I'm using a Mojave Mac on version 10.14.6. The Visual Studio version is 8.10.11 (build 8).
How ?
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Manually created MacOS apps being deleted
I have some standalone apps that I manually created on my macOS. They keep getting deleted from the Applications folder from time to time, not sure how or why.
The source app I use to create them, in ...
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Mission Control - dragging to move spaces between multiple monitors
In MacOS Sonoma, I use two external monitors, positioned side by side. If I enter Mission Control (by swiping up on my trackpad with three fingers) then all the virtual desktops ('spaces') become ...
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How to paste text without font/style formatting on macOS?
How do I paste text on the clipboard into a text field without the font/style formatting? That is, I want to paste it as plain text.
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Is it safe to change numeric user id on Mac?
Usually what is the number of an user id is not important. But I have use case, where I have a VM running on my Mac, the VM login with my company's LDAP account, so in the VM, the username is same as ...
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Strange issue with YouTube user agent being stuck [closed]
Every time I login to YouTube, webpage switched to mobile layout with related video below player with description and comments on the right side. Page seems to expect finger touches making it harder ...
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Unable to connect to a raspberry pi4 using SSH via Mac
So I just set up a fresh install of Ubuntu Desktop 23.10. I used the OS Customisation options in the Raspberry pi Imager program. There I set SSH to enabled.
I then mounted the SD card after it got ...
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How can I create a full page workspace in LibreOffice Writer?
I prefer working with web view in LibreOffice writer. I'm working on a single web page with text in a single table. Very simple. Is there a way to make the table span the entire workspace, instead of ...
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Why is monitor not sensing display signal from MacBook Pro via USB-C?
I bought one of the newer USB-C monitors (Arzopa 14" A1 Gamut slim), and was able to utilize it connected to a new Windows laptop using only the USB-C connector with no external power connection.
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I am trying to get semicolon to act as shift when held down but ; when tapped and colon when shift is down and also as end when CapsLock is held down
This is the code I have tried in Karabiner-Elements.
The semicolon key sends semicolon when tapped ✔
When shift is held down and semicolon is tapped colon is sent ✔
While CapsLock is held down and ...
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New to MacOS and trying to replicate a few things that I already do using Autohotkey on windows
Below is my Autohotkey script that automatically copies the text of any questions that I ask on the websites for ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude (I have them installed as chrome apps) by detecting the ...
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Update Google Chrome extensions from the command line [closed]
How can I update Google Chrome extensions from the command line?
I'm running macOS 12.7.4.
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Amazon Workspaces doesn't scroll very well when using a macbook touchpad
I have a macbook pro and am using Ubunutu in Amazon workspaces. The scrolling using the two finger gesture only sometimes works. Seems to somewhat work when doing the whole gesture quickly including ...
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Command to unlock "Locked" files on macOS Sonoma
In the end I manage to delete a .plist file from MacOS Sonoma recovery but when I reboot it keeps appearing again.
Why does this happen and how do I solve it to eliminate it permanently?
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Change settings for system keychain is disabled
I want to make some changes in the keychain system but the option is disabled. I have already tried to make some changes in the iCloud settings, lock and unlock, and restart the mac.
Disabled option:
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How to save as a PDF using the Firefox “mxt08-real/Export-Web-to-PDF” extension with the filename properly having the “.pdf” extension?
MacOS Ventura 13.6.3
Firefox 123 and 124b (developper edition)
I am testing the mxt08-real/Export-Web-to-PDF Firefox extension, which allows to add an icon to trigger the "Save as PDF" ...
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