Hey guys I’m new and coming over from Windows. I noticed there are certain directories and files I can’t edit even as root. Is there a way to get full root access to macOS?

My Gmail app wasn't receiving new mail. I tried taking account online (it's still listed as offline). I made sure IMAP settings were correct. Eventually I deleted the whole account and readded it. I've updated my Mac. I've restarted the internet. Nothing works! Now I have nothing coming in or able to send anything out. Please help!

Does anyone have a recommendation for an app that stops certain apps from running based on your location? For example, when I am out and on hotspot I don't want time machine to run or photos backup etc. There used to be an app long ago that I used that had a train icon but don't remember the name of it.

What's faster / better in Nov 2024? I just want an exact copy of my current MacOS install--data, settings, preferences, etc.

Normally I start fresh and my data comes over from the cloud, but I have a couple of software installs that are a little fussy and my current setup is 100% good so I just want an exact copy on my new machine.

I created a password a while ago for a certain IP address in my home lab (TrueNAS server) and it assigned the proper icon/logo to that entry, the TrueNAS icon. Now, I have repurposed that IP address/web site to a Proxmox server, and I still have the TrueNAS icon, I have deleted the entry in the Passwords app, and created a new one from scratch, I have restarted the Password apps, I have deleted the Safari favicons, I.have rebooted the MacBook, nothing, I always get the same wrong icon, any idea how to fix this? Thanks

i have to update my jdk from 19 to 21. Couldn’t figure out how. can anyone help ?

Hi,

There are some software that I'd like to run but are Windows only. I've tried to follow this tutorial on installing Windows on my iMac (M1 16GB):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWXO4DhQRL0

Everything is all good until the point where you select which Windows to install (Windows 11 Pro), then I get the this message:

This pc doesn't currently meet windows 11 requirements

What's the solution? TIA.

Those words typed into Google show what crap Google has become. Reddit search didn't do a whole lot better.

I have a 16GB MacBook Pro. I use different windows for logical divisions of Firefox tabs because the browser doesn’t allow tab groups (argh). I opened up 4 windows, with each having 4-6 tabs for browsing, office stuff, code browsing, etc. this took almost 2.7GB when I checked the activity monitor. That’s ridiculous, no?

Any ideas where i can downlad MacOS monterey? A safe website. I need 12.0 maybe up to 12.1

I see many sites have down to like 12.3 but no 12.0

I need help removing apps in the "allow in the background" section. I tried deleting the app and its files, but it still shows up there, even after restarting. Is there anything I can do about it?

Why does Apple seem to make this so difficult? I've got a 2023 MBP running latest MacOS 15.1.1, and an iPhone 15 Pro Max. Created a ringtone on Mac with Audacity (as I usually do) and converted to a .m4r extension. Can't get this ringtone transferred over to the iPhone, tried drag and drop, tried syncing from Music app, nothing is working. It used to be simple, not so much anymore. Any ideas?

reference

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/menubar-browser-floatbrowser/id6497651451?mt=12

Hi, the title explains it all. When I take a folder and put it in the third position it keeps going to the eight position down after I close and re-open the finder. There are a bunch of project folders and I don't want to save it in the wrong folder. I'm on Ventura.

I'm running macOS El Capitan on my Mid-2009 Macbook Pro (it's a secondary computer, so it doesn't matter if It doesn't receive security updates anymore). I logged in with my Apple ID and everything works, except for iMessage and Facetime. A few months ago everything worked, but now every time I try to log in I get an error. Does anyone have the same problem?

I´ll try to keep it short.
I am a long time Windows user thats why i came here for some insights to make the right decision for my gf´s new MacMini.
The point i am going at it is the thunderbolt 4 with 40Gbit/s should make it fast enough to store any kind of data and run most things even when its not directly on the system drive. Since an external 2tb M.2 is alot cheaper in comparison to what apple wants for their internal storage. However in my experience some Developers still want (or need) their software to be installed on the system drive.

What is ur experience with choosing the installation drive on MacOs for all sorts of software especially work related stuff or have u even isntalled programs on external drives and worked like that?

Good day,

Guys

Can I install new SSD harddirive on iMac 21.5'' mid 2011 with out a heat sensor.

Thanks you

Since today every time I open a window of my work profile all my bookmarks are open as tabs. if I close them, close the window and open it again they show up again. how do I prevent this? is this a bug or a feature?

Hi y'all

For some reason Calendar won't allow me to drag and drop events for a different day or time, like I can on the iPhone.

Has anyone encountered a similar issue on Sequoia? If so, how did you get it back to working again?

Quite often I save certain e-mails by printing/saving these to PDF from MacMail. Is it possible to make use of Mac Automator to do this by a short cut and save some clicks? I can't work this out - anybody who can help me?

Hi! I am looking for some game library manager. I would need to see my Steam/humblebundle/itch.io/(and so on) libraries in one place, like inside lutris or playnite. Is there any such app on macOS?

Newb question here: I always have the images I work with in folders rather than the "Photos App". In windows I used to be able to crop it effortlessly. But now I realized I need to add the image into "Photos App", only then I can do a quick crop. Afterwards, there's no way to send my cropped image back from "Photos App" to the original file which is really annoying. I tried selecting the image and click on "Share" but there's no option to save it in any file.

Is there any way to perform quick crops on images easier on my MacOS? Thanks in advance guys!

*Edit: I realized after doing a screenshot with CmD+Shift+3, you will be in an app / interface where there's an option to crop the image. Why isn't that the case when opening any image by default?

Not sure if this is the right subreddit to ask this, so please guide me.

After copying the request headers from the browser's developer mode, I am to press Ctrl -D and I'm struck at this point, please guide me through.

https://preview.redd.it/aukt7bsjpf3e1.png?width=1230&format=png&auto=webp&s=c58aae9f5d8657aaedcaccd644b8a5bd9f17c5d4

I am trying to move my songs from Spotify to YTmusic and while using the tool I stumbled upon many problems and right now I have seem to hit even a higher wall. Nonetheless, here I was trying to create a browser.json file for my next authentication process and it apparently says to press Ctrl -D. And honestly, I have tried every command combination, but it does not seem to work. Please, if you know anyway to workaround this command or is it something I'm missing?

I have tried using the default terminal and iterm2. Even changed the default splitting of tabs in the terminal when pressing Cmd+D by changing it's shortcuts in the 'Keyboard Shortcuts -> App Shortcuts' and changing the command.

I am new to macOS, so if I have made a fool of myself by asking something basic, forgive me (^_^)'

Edit: https://github.com/linsomniac/spotify_to_ytmusic this is the tool I'm using.

https://github.com/linsomniac/spotify_to_ytmusic/issues/125#issuecomment-2481207542 and here is the link for which I'm following the steps for. Instead of Oauth, I'm trying to use the browser authentication as mentioned here. The guy here is using windows, but even in Mac, in the terminal it asks to press Ctrl -D.

Edit2: Not sure if this is the case, but turns out macOS can only take unto 1024 characters as given here. Instead pbpaste is to be prefixed here. Found the solution for this guys, thanks for the help.

Hello I am looking for recommendation on good monitors to use with MacOS. I am a developer so I need sharp text and I like good colors as I watch some movies on my monitor I don’t have a TV. And from time to time I am gaming with my windows PC but I don’t need 144Hz refresh rate or 1ms response time.

My main concerns are: should I worry about UI scaling ? What is the best resolution and monitor size (27” or 32” ?) and is it really bad to have a refresh rate of“only” 60Hz. My monitor at work is 75Hz but I don’t know if it makes a huge difference And should I go for an OLED ?

Thanks

I have found how to remap F4 back to Launchpad (for M-series) but I am interested in the opposite - how to map F4 to Spotlight instead of default Launchpad on Intel Macs and older magic keyboards? In particular what are the source and destination codes for hidutil?

I want to run a script on boot up and followed the instructions here to create an app and add it to login items:

https://truptivbhatt.medium.com/how-to-run-your-shell-script-automatically-after-logging-to-mac-da789bb78d21

Works fine inside Automator but on boot I get pop-up errors saying "the application scriptmonitor.app cannot be opened".

What am I missing?

Buenos días, saludos
Necesito actualizar el navegador Google Chrome (ahora ⤏ Versión 128.0.6613.138) en un Mac Book Pro 2012 con macOs Catalina 10.15.7. Me dice que necesito macOS 11 . ¿Cómo lo podría hacer? Muchas gracias.

I'm guessing since OS 11 or maybe 12, this has been occurring when I open folders with lots of files in them. This didn't happen in older versions of the OS with the same amount of files in these folders even on much slower computers with the same physical drives. Drive format doesn't seem to matter, it occurs with everything. So, what changed to make this occur? What advantage is gained by these changes? Are they purposely trying to make the OS slower, or is this just something they never took into account during their testing?

https://preview.redd.it/lgzrcc4cqe3e1.png?width=796&format=png&auto=webp&s=21937dea7129624aabdc70459865c5ea62189296

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I’ve had a holiday picture as wallpaper for the past two months without any issues. All of a sudden, it changed today to a default Sequoia wallpaper and I could not change it back. The weird thing is: I can select all pictures from the same folder and use them as wallpaper EXCEPT for the one that I actually want to use. The only thing that has changed was that I renamed the folder it is in this afternoon. Even after copying the file to another folder and selecting it from there it still cannot be used.

Anyone have an idea what could cause this or how to fix it? The bug appeared prior to updating to v15.1.1. I did that after it appeared, hoping that it would fix it.

Its a regular JPG file of approx 500kb. I’m on Sequoia 15.1.1 on a 2024 Macbook Air M3. Logging off or restarting did not resolve it