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What keyboard shortcuts do left handed people use for copy and paste in macOS?

I've manage to do this after a long research using Karabiner remapper. I started looking for how to get my Mac to detect the ins keystroke, and based on this answer on reddit, I got to Karabiner ...
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Sparse Bundles grow in file size, but it's not supposed to shrink by deleting data. But my Sparse Bundles is able to auto resize, why is that?

@Spiff Thanks for your explanations. Do you happen to know whether one can turn this dynamic resizing in macOS Sonoma off again? I ask because sparsebundles have become substantially slower since ...
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ssh-agent on mac shows old identity

It turns out that I was using the GPG agent for SSH as well, and the old identity was being cached by GPG. Editing the file ~/.gnupg/sshcontrol, and removing the old identity, fixed this.
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Update "replaced" Omnifocus in Applications

The answer from their support was that the DB is stored apart from the app. So I just had to reinstall Omnifocus 3 in a separate Applications sub folder and my data was back. Then I had to do a data ...
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Has anyone successfully fixed Mac Home/End keys functionality permanently?

Try out Karabiner-Elements: https://karabiner-elements.pqrs.org/ This was the only way I could successfully map home and end keys in MacOS Sanoma (14.3.1)
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How to disable the Option-Space key combination for non-breaking spaces?

My DefaultKeyBinding.dict contains following: { "~ " = ("insertText:", " "); "~\U0022" = ("insertText:", "\U0022"); } where last line ...
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Prevent toolbar from dropping down when moving mouse to the top while using full-screen applications in Mac OS

If you're using an up-to-date Mac system version (Sonoma) on the remote Mac (or the host), try the different choices for System Settings>Control Center>Menu Bar Only (at the very bottom, for me)...
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Speed up OSX Spaces by reducing or eliminating the animation delay?

BetterMouse With BetterMouse (an alternative to something like Logi Options+, or Mos) you can map Ctrl + right-arrow-key to be a 3 finger swipe to the left (likewise for the other direction). This way,...
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Backtick on an Italian MacBook Pro's keyboard

For anyone arriving here because option + \ does work in terminal, but not in other programs (like Intellij or Pycharm), I just found out that with the new release of Intellij, they added a new keymap ...
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How do I open a CAB file on Mac OS?

Using unshield (brew install unshield): Most install packages contain 3 files: data1.hdr, data1.cab and data2.cab Which can be extracted with: unshield x data1.hdr
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Umlauts on Linux like on Mac, US Keyboard

I just tried to setup umlauts on my thinkpad keyboard with US layout (it works hehe ßöäü€ and so on). I run Ubuntu 22.04 on it. Use xev to determine the keycode of your Right-Alt key (for me it's 108 ...
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Where to find Microsoft AutoUpdate on Mac?

I had the same issue. When Microsoft Autoupdate pops up again, just right-click on the icon in the dock, then go on 'Options' and 'Show in finder'. Then you can put that in the trash, as recommended ...
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Mac OneDrive migration extremely slow - 100 mb/hour

I had this issue. I tried to troubleshoot for months. I figured out it was my home network connection. They sent me this: https://www.dwthacker.com/finding-and-setting-mtu-on-mac. You can either ...
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Why is VirtualBox slow when unfocused in macOS?

Just ran into the same issue, after a bit of experimenting I found out that running the VM in headless mode fixes this issue. I suppose because in this mode there is never going to be a concept of ...
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Static / snow on external display when waking up Mac

According to Zev Eisenberg’s comment from 2012:  “I see this as well with a Mac mini late 2012 on an external display connected with a Mini DisplayPort to Dual-Link DVI adaptor (and I don’t see it on ...
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How can I scan the local network for connected devices in Mac OS?

There are two common protocols by which devices announce themselves on the local network. One is Bonjour, which is an Apple invention, and has already been answered here (though they're missing the ...
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How to change shortcut for switching chrome tabs

To find the exact spelling, just got to you Chrome menu bar (with Chrome in focus, your system menu bar should have the Chrome menu), and choose the "Tab" menu. There you find "Select ...
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Copying and pasting the path within Finder

To make shortcuts of files and folders hit right click+Make Alias. Then you'll see a copy of your folder appear with a little right angle'd arrow on the bottom right of it. You can drag and drop this ...
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Static / snow on external display when waking up Mac

I have this same wake from sleep problem with an M2 Mac Mini connected to a 1080p DVI monitor via an HDMI-DVI cable. I tried 2 cables. A temporary hack was to press the Esc key to make the screen ...
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Why does my Macbook become extremely hot when using Boot Camp?

I found the solution. Click on the battery symbol down right on the screen. Then move the slider from the right side (high performance) to the middle. Feel free to buy me a coffe :-)
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How can I delete the Boom application output device from my system?

answer for non-kext versions (recent mac os versions): I found this file /System/Volumes/Data/Users/username/Library/Containers/com.globaldelight.Boom2Daemon/Data/Library/Preferences/com.globaldelight....
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Is there a way to hide my finder desktop while making a screen recording in MacOS X Snow Leopard

do shell script "defaults read com.apple.finder CreateDesktop && defaults delete com.apple.finder CreateDesktop || defaults write com.apple.finder CreateDesktop false" tell ...
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Script to create folder with same name as file and move file into folder

but I was wondering if have many files on a folder for instance that have same name followed by a number, for example fotolux-1.jpg, fotolux-2.jpg... and Fotoone-1.jpg, fotoone-2.jpg...etc... and ...
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