Questions tagged [macos-highsierra]
macOS High Sierra (version 10.13) is the fourteenth major release of macOS, Apple Inc.'s desktop operating system for Macintosh computer.
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Installation macOS High Sierra shows Prohibitory Symbol
The HDD from my daughter's Macbook white mid 2010 is very old and running terribly slow, so I bought a Samsung 870 EVO 500GB SSD to replace it. Then I downloaded a install Mac OS El Capitan app.zip ...
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Mac Mini High Sierra Res Resolution issue
I have a Mac Mini running onHigh Sierra that I'm using as a media PC (running on a generic Sansui TV)
I'm having a resolution switching issue.
Problem I have is that if/when the Mac starts before the ...
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Mirror screen from Mac to another Mac running old OS
I have an very old Mac Mini which runs High Sierra OS. I connect it to my HDTV. Now I also have a Mac book which runs the latest Ventura. I want to cast media from my Mac book to the Mac mini so that ...
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MacBook Pro with external monitor
I've just tried connecting to my 2011 MacBookPro two different external displays (hp zr2440w and Dell U2414H UltraSharp 24 Full HD monitors, just one at the same time) with the connection of this ...
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How to format a disk with 2 APFS containers with Disk Utility
I have a MacBook Pro running High Sierra with an internal disk made of 2 volumes HFS+, case sensitive and encrypted:
I would like to switch to 2 APFS containers, case sensitive and encrypted.
I am ...
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video file issue - unable to extract or open file on mac os x
I decided to download one movie from torrent and the description says
Video
ID : 1
Format : AVC
Format/Info ...
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How to solve freezing of LibreOffice 7 on Mac OS X Sierra issue?
Using LibreOffice 7 (Calc) on Mac OS X High Sierra.
It constantly freezes (turning colored wheel) so I have to force quit it.
How should I proceed to find the cause? Is there a log somewhere that I ...
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how to reinstall bash on Mac High Sierra (10.13.6) The current bash just does not work
On bash all these commands generates the same message which is "command not found".
Here is the recent session from my terminal:
bash --version > -bash: bash: command not found
ls /usr/...
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Error with "brew install openblas" in macOS
I am trying to install openblas on a macOS HighSierra 10.13.6 with the following command
brew install openblas
Unfortunately I get this error...
brew install openblas
Updating Homebrew...
==> Auto-...
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I wanted to download ffmpeg on a Mac High Sierra version 10.13.6, but something happend [duplicate]
==> You are using macOS 10.13.
==> We (and Apple) do not provide support for this old version.
This installation may not succeed.
After installation, you will encounter build failures with some ...
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macOS Catalina upgrade failed. Can I downgrade to macOS Mojave?
I am running an older Mac: iMac 13,1 Intel Core i7 and it is currently running macOS High Sierra (10.13).
A while back I upgraded to macOS Catalina (10.15), and lots of apps stopped working, most ...
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com.apple.mdworker.shared .... Service exited due to signal: Killed: 9 sent by mds[91]
I’ve noticed a lot of similar system log entries as follow
com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.mdworker.shared.01000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000[622]): Service exited due to signal: Killed: 9 sent ...
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Fix permissions on the /etc/ directory Mac
I accidentally changed all the owner permissions of the /etc/ directory in Mac OS High Sierra to user:_www when trying to change the ownership of a website folder.
I guess these files usually have ...
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Mac OS X High Sierra Finder Drag and Drop animation previews slow
MacBook Pro 2012 (mid), High Sierra Version 10.14.6 (18G103)
I'm in middle of a big photo-review-sorting operation. +50.000 images that I need to sort.
In Finder I select 300 images, drag it over to ...
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iTerm terminal emulation is weird
Recently, I switched to iTerm because a lot of people recommends it, but it behaves quite weirdly. It does not automatically enter "alternate screen mode" if less/man/similar commands are ...
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Changing VirtualBox VM running macOS guest on macOS host to full screen?
How do I change the VirtualBox VM macOS High Sierra guest to full screen? When I click Full-Screen mode under the top menu bar under View it has huge black borders around the VM, while the VM is ...
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Issues installing macOS Catalina in virtualbox on macOS High Sierra host
I was trying to install macOS Catalina on latest version of VirtualBox, hosting it on a Mac running macOS High Sierra (10.13.6).
I was searching, and I found this blog post: “Install and run macOS ...
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How to get iWork suite on macOS High Sierra?
I have seen one other question related to this, here.
However, this did not work for me. I recently got a MacBook Pro with macOS High Sierra 10.13.6 on it. I created my Apple ID, as this is the first ...
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Why are there inconsistent version results between `which` and directly accessing the executable?
I'm using MacOS High Sierra, and I'm trying to track down a version issue with PHP. I've come across a very strange situation. If I php --version, it reports 7.4.2. I then verify where php is being ...
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How to mount macOS High Sierra on VirtualBox(Mac Host)?
I have installed VM Virtualbox on my MacBook with Mojave. My objective is to install macOS High Sierra on a VM. Post creating the VM and attaching the ISO image, once the VM starts it is stuck in EFI ...
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FaceTime on MacBook: block unknown caller
I have a MacBook with High Sierra and would like to set FaceTime either so that only people in my contact list can call me or so that I can block individual people - even those who are not in my ...
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How to install xCode11.3 on macOS High Sierra 10.13.6
Currently I am using Xcode 10.1 on MacOS High Sierra 10.13.6, on MacBook early 2011 with 4GB ram.
Problem is that I am unable to upgrade my MacOS Version to Catalina,
Is it possible to install ...
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Trying to recover a Mac time capsule sparsebundle
Looking for some help recovering my time machine backup! I lost the HDD on my iMac and have now replaced it with a 4TB SSD. I tried to recover the backup from my NAS (Netgear) time machine, but it ...
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Quit an application while hold some key and click the application in dock
Is there any way to quit a application in dock, while pressing some key and just click it in dock ?
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Strange behavior on startup MacOSX HighSierra
When I turn my mac on (MacOSX High Sierra), the progress bar reaches 2\3, then the screen turns black again. This may repeat two or three times before it starts normally.
What may be the cause of such ...
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How do I edit files and dirs owned by _www, as ftp user when ftp user is added to the _www group?
I have add an FTP user account to _www group. I expected to be able to
edit a file as ftp user when the ftp user has been added to the _www group
and the access perms are set to 0640. Do I need s for ...
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MacOS, Sleep Wake Failure
I have a problem with my MacBook Pro.
OS High Sierra installed. I plug out power cable and use laptop normally, then connect to charge. After a while, the laptop resets and an error occurs -
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Cmd + Shift + 4 no longer works
Cmd + Shift + 4 used to allow me to take a screenshot of a selected area (which would save). Now it instead takes a screenshot of a window, the entire window.
I have tried remapping the keyboard ...
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Which Xcode version should I download for macOS High Sierra 10.13.6?
Which Xcode version should I download for macOS High Sierra 10.13.6?
Note that I downloaded Xcode 10.2, but it informed me that it requires macOS 10.14.3 or later.
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Unable to set arguments to convert image files to video
I've a bunch of files in a folder with the following format:
center_2016_12_01_13_%2d_%2d_%3d.jpg
I'm trying to use FFmpeg to convert into a video with this command:
ffmpeg -n -i "...
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restore /Users .trash files when booted in single user mode OSX
I can yet only boot in single user mode as I deleted some files that prevent my mac to show the login screen ( I see a black screen instead). when browsing in the user .Trash folder I can see the ...
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broke my high Sierra
I had a Microsoft update pop up coming up at each reboot. I deleted some files (the Microsoft Update app and a file named icult59l.dat - found when looking at the process info to find the location). ...
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High Sierra - Keychain folder takes up a lot of storage
I have a file in
~Library/Application Support/com.apple.sbd/[UUID]/KeychainV0-tomb/genp.bt3 that takes up 113.88 GB
Any idea what its for, and if it needs to be this big?
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Automating a Data Entry Job in Excel with Automator or any other app
I have to complete labeling process in excel sheet with over 3000 rows. The excel sheet ( please see atttachment) has three columns, E1, E2, and Label. E1 and E2 are already type in and I need to ...
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Figuring out the size of data on an external harddrive
I have an external HD, a seagate backup plus slim 2TB. The filesystem on it is exfat. It has a single partition. I want to create a new partition table for this device, so I can use different ...
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User getting this on boot up of High Sierra
High Sierra symbol
any ideas what this means? I have tried to search for folder with prohibit, but only see things related to boot issues.
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How to open the “Club Penguin 3D” application in macOS High Sierra
I'm trying to open the Club Penguin 3D application in my downloads but I can't open it
I've tried these two commands on the terminal xattr -d com.apple.quarantine “Downloads/Club Penguin 3D/Launcher....
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SSH permission denied using smartcard authentication
Our institute recently adopted smartcard/chip and PIN logins for all computers on the network. Ever since, I have been unable to log in to any of our Linux network hosts via SSH from my Mac (OSX High ...
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How to get access to admin privileges on standard-user OS X?
After reinstalling the OS X I only have access to standard user.
Is there a way to create/change an admin account when I don´t have admin privileges?
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Mac mail high sierra treating attachments oddly
I use gmail via imap. I get emails with attached images. In gmail I have an imap folder where the emails land, and I also have a rule in mail that copies the messages to a mail folder on my mac.
The ...
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Deploying VPN connection with routing rules on OS X
I work in an organisation with a mix of PC and Mac, we have an Azure environment with two connections (prod and nonprod)
On the PC side, I can create a package that will install a VPN complete with ...
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Unable to reach localhost (High Sierra)
Started running into difficulties with my MBP running high sierra after a forced reboot (crash) earlier today. My issue basically boils down to this:
After a reboot, I'm unable to establish a ...
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Unable to connect to SFTP server using Filezilla
I have installed FileZilla 3.41.2 on my macOS High Sierra 10.13.6.
From the terminal if I do the following, I am able to connect to server and access the files the SFTP server
sftp my_user@...
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How can I set OSX to use local time instead of UTC?
I want OSX to use local time instead of UTC/GMT. I like my hardware clock to be set to local time.
In linux, it would be
timedatectl set-local-rtc 1 --adjust-system-clock
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pip3 dateparser gives error with gcc
I run Mac High Sierra and got python3 via brew. I wanted to pip3 dateparser, but got this error:
command 'gcc' failed with exit status 1
I followed a hint from https://github.com/maciejkula/glove-...
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error: git-submodule died of signal 11 [closed]
FML edit:
So.....
long story short, it was a function I had in my bashrc profile...
test() { npm run test $1 $2 $3 $4 ;}; export -f test
But!
How did I track this down, you might ask?
Well, after ...
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How to downgrade from Mojave to High-Sierra from a partition and without a USB flash drive?
I have an older Mac and Mojave graphics aren't functioning properly. It's not my hardware, it's the Metal graphics library, Google Chrome / Safari / any 3rd party app renders graphics normally.
I ...
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MAC High Sierra transfers to WD
Is it necessary to format WD passport just to move and store files from MAC High Sierra to WD?
Tried to move docs from the MAC to WD but cannot determine where they are or folder to put them in.
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How to subscribe to Internet .ics calender with Outlook on Mac
I have MS Office 356 for Mac, Outlook 16.22.1. The email part is working OK. I am now trying to subscribe to calendars, but am not able to figure it out.
Using the usual mechanism of inviting someone ...
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How to manage locked files and permissions of a git repo between windows and mac
I'm doing some app development for both Android and Mac. I have a git repo which I am constantly pushing and pulling from both my Windows machine and my MacBook.
I find that my files are constantly ...
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