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outlook - how to search for specific time range
Based on the article you provided, we can click search bar in New Outlook for Mac and choose the date range to search emails.
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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?
From the extension source code and Mozilla documentation, the extension needs to pass the toFileName property with a .pdf suffix in the pageSettings argument to tabs.saveAsPDF(), instead of omitting ...
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MacOS - Using function keys without Fn modifier only in specific apps
Fluor is a an open source app that does exactly what you want.
Fluor is a tool that allows you to automatically change the behavior of the keyboard's fn keys depending on the active application.
It is ...
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How to change the image of a group chat in microsoft teams
This is not currently available to the public but will be soon.
Feature ID: 119305
Added to roadmap: 2/7/2024
Last modified: 3/28/2024
Product(s): Microsoft Teams
Cloud instance(s): GCC, DoD, GCC High,...
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How to scroll half a page in macOS via keyboard/mouse that is similar to trackpad functionality?
Setting up a custom shortcut in BetterTouchTool to scroll half a page involves creating a gesture or keyboard shortcut that triggers a predefined scrolling action. Here’s how you can set this up using ...
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How to change the default screen sharing / VNC port number on Mac OS X?
Note that the solution proposed by @MichaelM and edited by @shrmn still works under Mac OS Sonoma. The original solution does not due to the 'rootless' feature introduced with El Capitan.
Open a ...
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sox became buggy after MacOS upgrade to Ventura 13.6.5
It turned out the problem was because of my having soundflower and background music installed. I forgot how I installed them, but these are not well supported by Ventura, and sox haven't quite ignored ...
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Intune - Using custom attributes with macOS devices in for Compliance Policies and Conditional access
I also wonder if it's possible to use these custom attributes in dynamic groups. I can see ExtensionAttribute1, ExtensionAttribute2,... in the Dynamic Group Query but I think there is no correlation ...
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Batch resize images in Mac OS X without changing the creation date
As I've spent some hours trying to figure out why some of my pictures were converted without date preservation, even with mogrify -define preserve-timestamp=true, here is what I've found:
Report
It ...
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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?
Your question doesn’t specify it, but what version of macOS are you on now? What version of macOS was the data on originally? This procedure assumes you are on a macOS Sonoma (14.4.1) or something ...
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Command-line application for converting SVG to PNG on Mac OS X
Download the app from here: https://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi?filename=/xmlgraphics/batik/binaries/batik-bin-1.17.tar.gz&action=download
Requires Java 8 or higher.
This script works great:
cd /...
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How to mount a Mac host folder on a QEMU guest Linux?
To use p9 with security_model=passthrough, it's necessary to start QEMU as a superuser. If you want to use it as a regular user, you need to switch to security_model=mapped-xattr.
/usr/local/bin/qemu-...
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Terminal in on a MacBook Pro (M2) is not working after setting a path. How can I fix it?
The core problem is shown in the error message:
/Users/bulu/.zshrc:export:6: not valid in this context: …
You should open up your ~/.zshrc in a text editor and look for what is causing the error on ...
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Why ar arrow actions ignored in macOS terminal when using SSH?
This problem was super annoying, and showed up in iTerm2.
For me it was fixed by following:
https://coderwall.com/p/gfmwlw/fixing-arrow-keys-in-iterm-2
If that page disappears, the steps were:
Open ...
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Keep a Mac working on a terminal task
There is a terminal app that you can install via homebrew and then run in a terminal to prevent your Mac from going to sleep.
brew install --cask caffeine
After installing have a look in the man ...
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MacOS X11 window not launching through Terminal, but launches through XQuartz terminal
Instead of the xquartz version from brew you should try to download and install XQuartz-2.8.5.pkg directly from the website xquartz.org.
For me starting any X11 app from terminal or iTerm ...
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How to share applications between multiple OSs?
I agree with Linux as the base OS, and VM the other OSs. The trouble being the big three OSs are sworn enemies. Windows does not work well others, intentionally. As does macOS. Finding common ground ...
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Is there any way to prevent a non-admin user from executing "launchctl unload" on macOS?
You might be able to use
Gatekeeper
(spctl).
For an example of its use see the post
Block Specific Apps on macOS
where the answer says:
You can use spctl (Gatekeeper) to create lists of approved and
...
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Will changing my Macs hard drive name have a bad effect on anything?
The Mac article
Rename files, folders, and disks on Mac - Apple Support
says this:
You can change the name of most files, folders, and disks, including the internal hard disk (named Macintosh HD by ...
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Using all loopback IPs on OS X
If you see many TCP sessions in CLOSED, FIN_WAIT_1 state and
similar other states, then the TCP close timer is too long.
For the case where all these connections are in use, not just closed
but not ...
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fileproviderd is using up 300% system resources on 10.15 beta
This is happening in Sonoma 14.4.1, on a Macbook Pro with an Intel chip. The steps above worked for me, as a temporal solution.
Is hard to get the data from iCloud to your local drive. Apple will send ...
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Unable to curl anything on my Mac curl: (7) Couldn't connect to server
Had similar issue.
Fixed after updating everything with:
brew install curl
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Does changing your Mac name affect your SSH key?
No, it doesn’t affect anything at all.
Go ahead and change it; it will still work.
“When I was pasting the ssh key in bitbucket I saw right at the end it said <myname>@<mynames>MacBookpro....
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"File Can't Be Opened" No package contents at the DMG file. How can I install anything?
Most Mac apps install by double-clicking the dmg to mount it, then copying the app to Applications. There's often even a link to Applications in the dmg itself. You then eject the dmg - select & ...
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How to set input language shortcuts on macOS?
I was in the same situation where I got tired of rotating between 3 languages.
There's an application called "kawa" which you can set a specific shortcut for a language. Unfortunately, it's ...
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Mission Control - dragging to move spaces between multiple monitors
In my experience, a Space won't move if that's the one I'm currently in on the external monitor (true for any monitor, really). So if I want to move Space 3 from my external monitor, my external ...
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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?
You may wish to strip the zip down to just the Windows content as that __MACOSX fork is not needed on Windows.
Beware this cmd script does not do extensive checking but is a template for your own ...
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Mouse shortcut for Paste (CMD + V) does not work on password fields
In short, use SteerMouse.
I have a Logitech G502 Hero and it's configured using Logitech G Hub. When I have a password field in focus in a browser (Firefox, in my case), not only can I not paste into ...
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Can I hide native tabs at the top of Firefox?
A "low-code" solution is to use MrOtherGuy's Firefox CSS stylesheets: https://github.com/MrOtherGuy/firefox-csshacks
After following the setup guide (same as other answers here, to enable ...
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How to undo custom keyboard mapping in registry
Adding another registry with empty mapping will override it. I'm not sure but I've tried and it removed custom registry for my keyboard.
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\...
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Extract filepaths of .MP4 files in subfolders of main folder to textfile
Ssmething like can help you (tested on RHEL):
printf "%s:" $(dirname $(find . -name "*.MP4") |sort -u)|sed 's/:$//'; echo
short explanations
find . -name "*.MP4"
search ...
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Developer cannot be verified macOS error/exception - a) Move to Trash b) cancel
You can remove the quarantine attribute in terminal via: sudo xattr -r -d com.apple.quarantine /path/to/file
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How to install VSIX files in Visual Studio 2019 on a Machintosh?
What you want is not possible. Answer adapted from here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/44825177/installing-extensions-on-visual-studio-2017-mac
Visual Studio for Mac shares only its name with ...
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Why does Virtual Box freeze on "Starting Windows" screen on macOS Catalina 10.15.7?
I have found a solution. Mac OS Catalina has some compatibilty issues with Virtual Box version 7.x.x. Because I have an old MacBook Pro thet only supports Mac OS Catalina but none of newer I can not ...
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Black Screen Issue Running Windows 10 VM on MacBook Air M2 using VirtualBox
Your issue is due to the fact that Hypervisors are not Emulators, and you're using the wrong OS image.
First, Hypervisors vs Emulators
Windows 11 has an ARM version that appears to be pretty decent, ...
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Open file with Quick Look from command shell
quicklook is now an alias for qlmanage -p
quicklook /PATH/TO/FILE
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Creating a keyboard shortcut to go to a specific folder on Mac OS Finder
3 options:
Quicksilver
BetterTouchTool
Apple Shortcuts App
QuickSilver
I tend to use Quicksilver for this:
Open the quicksilver search
Start typing the folder (a few letters). Find the folder in ...
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How can I change the default shortcut in Windows for closing programs?
(am aware this is from 2011, but for those still reading, a better solution now exists)
(For Win10+ users) If you are using a touchscreen laptop/tablet eg Microsoft Surface, I cannot recommend the app ...
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rsync creating thousands of .DS_Store files from mounted volume
The rsync option used (--exclude-from 'exclude.txt') is correct syntax. It will work provided:
your script knows where exclude.txt is located
the content of exclude.txt includes the following line: ....
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Command-line application for converting SVG to PNG on Mac OS X
In 2024, I found the resvg project (written in Rust) to be highly efficient. I benchmarked it and found it faster than rsvg-convert on Apple Silicon M-series CPUs.
Combined with the also excellent fd, ...
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My MacBook Pro is 2560x1600 native resolution, when I capture a screenshot, why it is 2880x1800?
Scaling on macOS works just like it's been explained in the other answer. Put it simply:
Your current display preference is to have things rendered at the same size as if they were rendered on a ...
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How to paste text without font/style formatting on macOS?
Press Command-Option-Shift-V to paste text as plain text without formatting on macOS. This does not change the contents of the clipboard, so pressing Command-V will still paste the text with font/...
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How do I find out what macOS app is using a shortcut
ShortcutDetective solves your problem. It's free, simple, and to the point.
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How to go up a directory in Finder?
⌘ Command+▲ Up Arrow - Navigates to Enclosing Folder
Previous answers maybe were right in the past but currently on Sonoma it have changed a bit.
To figure out current combination
Focus current ...
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Can I change the command bindings back to control bindings on Firefox?
You can use Karabiner to do this - bundle_indentifiers applies the change only to the selected app.
add a complex modification:
{
"title": "apps",
"rules": [
{
...
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