Hi all,

I am a web developer, so I use a lot of programs in my day to day (text editor, browser, terminal, docker, etc). I have recently been stepping up my home office and I bought an external monitor, keyboard, etc. I use the external monitor as primary display and the macbook monitor on a stand off to the side as a secondary monitor.

It has occurred to me that it would be really cool if I could plug in to the dock (or hit a button or hotkey series) and instantly have terminal and docker moved off to the secondary monitor, while having text editor and browser ready to work in the primary external monitor.

Does anyone know what specific program I would use to achieve this, if it is possible? I am unsure if this is something Mission Control does in OSX, or if I need a program like Magnet, or if there is some other kind of setting or program I need to get this working.

I am on an M3 macbook air running Sierra if that is relevant.

Thanks so much, all!

Sticky keys isn’t on. Defaults are set. Setting alt/option to no action means it doesn’t work. Holding down alt and 7 gives the 7. Not holding it down gives a sound effect.

It’s the only key impacted but driving me crazy. I booted into safe mode. External keyboard works without issue.

Also when I press 7 in a browser I see a message in bottom left it says “Display a menu”

I have a 2011 15" running High Sierra, unsupported. I need to be editing audio and video. Can't afford a new MacBook. Is it better to use a patch to upgrade the OS to use more recent editors like CapCut? Or should I use older versions of FCP etc?? Any advice or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

So, I always use an extended display. I have it place above my macbook and the arrangement accordingly.

Always been using the dock on the bottom of the screen because thats seems to be the only way to have it on both displays, as far as my research go.

What is the exact reason for that? I saw someone saying that it will mess up the mouse moving across displays otherwise, but isn't it the exact opposite? I mean, since I have my macbook arranged "under" my extended monitor, it will only be annoying have the dock placed at the bottom. If I keep it to the left/right, it will only be reachable trough one display.

Am I missing out on something? Is there a way to access dock on both displays while having them arranged like I do and keeping it to the left?

I'm on Macos Monterey and my cursor can't click but can move tried everything I even reinstalled the operating system What should I do I'm thinking of now using Open core legacy patcher maybe it could fix the issue I'm on a MacBook air 2017 If anyone knows a fix please help

Hello - I came across an old harddrive of mine from when I had a Windows 8 laptop over a decade ago. I know I used to use my iPhone with this harddrive so I am trying to figure out where the backup would be while accessing it through an external enclosure. I can see the desktop and all the folders I remember having, but cannot find any backups for the life of me. Multiple Google searches have led me to sites that say it would be located at: "Users\[Your Username]\Apple\MobileSync\Backup", but its not showing these folders. or alternatively under an "appdata/roaming" folder, which also is not showing.

One of my hunches it that the folder may have been hidden so I'm unable to access it from OSX currently.

I am wondering if anyone have advice or tips for what could be happening?

I am using OS 13 Ventura.  I do not understand AFPS and how the two partitions/drives, System and Data, interact.  I don't even know the nomenclature. 

I was investigating creating a disk image of my boot drive (as I was able to do with HFS+), so I booted into Internet Recovery Mode with the intention of using Disk Utility.  I discovered that I could not do what I wanted, so I restarted.  Note: I did nothing while in Recovery Mode -- no first aid, nothing; all I did was 1) go Disk Utility > File > New Image, 2) saw that "Image from Drive" was greyed out, 3) Restarted.

Now my machine won't boot.  Verbose Mode tells me that there seems to be an I/O error with disk2s1 -- I get cyclical "NCQ error caused by queued command" and "non-NCQ error."  disk2 is not my boot drive; it is a disk image.  I wonder if it is the disk image that was built when I went into recovery mode. 

While in recovery mode I specified boot drive I wanted to use -- only my real and true boot drive was listed.  I have no other peripherals attached - only my keyboard - and I continue to get the error.  Holding down the Alt/Option key does not give me the Startup Manager.

I have tried using target mode to figure out was is going on, but the host machine (Sonoma) tells me that my Thunderbolt cable is not actually a Thunderbolt cable, so the Target disk won't mount.

I look forward to any help you can give me.

Thanks.

My mac is a 2021 M1 Pro MBP. Plenty of drive space (also has an external ssd for extra space):

I've had notifications for a couple of months about updates available but when i click them and it takes me to the software update page in settings app there is nothing there!

I wasn't so bothered until i realised the next OSX iteration was available. Obviously i want to update but can't get it to work.

I logged out of my apple id account and back in, went to recovery mode and did a diskutil check - it found an issue with some files within a snapshot. i deleted all snapshots but update still not appearing. I did see that there was a reference to a file under snapshots that included 'update' in the title but when deleting it failed to; giving a 'posix' error.

is there another way to update? I'm thinking about a downloadable dmg but wondered if i can just run the dmg instead of having to mess around with getting it onto a bootable usb, etc?

updates really shouldn't be this difficult or burdensome!

Hi,
I have a 2016 13" MacBook Pro, currently running MacOS Sierra. I tried to do a software upgrade to Monterey, but after several attempts that failed. By running MacOS Sierra diagnostics, I get the dreaded PPM002 error (corrupted memory).

I created a usb stick w/ memtest86 and currently I am completing a very thorough memory test that after 3 passes shows only one address as not producing the desired results, as shown below:

https://preview.redd.it/7xq6bxk8462e1.jpg?width=4032&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=11092149e6ec16af1c63026a3b56ba926e5a9a8f

I understand there are two tools that can be used to block a RAM address range, one built by u/0nelight1, (https://github.com/0nelight/macOS-Disable-RAM-Areas?tab=readme-ov-file) and the  OpenCore Legacy Patcher.

I want to temporarily block that memory address just to install Monterey which will reboot several times. Has anybody blocked memory address successfully to install an OS that was throwing a RAM-related error message.

Hey guys, I am new here just asking if anyone might have Apple Configurator 1, not 2 available for download by any chance.

Appreciate your help in advance!

I cannot reset password in terminal, the hard drive is encrypted. Any ideas on how to get in or reset?

After a lot of heart wrenching research, I found that many pictures that disappeared when I went to a new computer were found in the Masters.legacy folder in the photos library. I found that if I moved this folder out of the library using terminal and imported from that folder I am getting the pictures back.

I'm wondering why they were hidden. Does anyone understand the logic of this?

I just finished setting up my new M4 Mac mini. Looking through the folders and in the Users folder there is a folder named "Deleted Users". I've never seen this before and I can't seem to delete it either. Can somebody please explain to me? thanks

Bonjour, Sur un iMac de 2015 OS Catalina le disque dur est chiffré, comment réinstaller un OS ou formater ?

Hello, On a 2015 iMac Catalina OS the hard drive is encrypted, how to reinstall an OS or format?Hello, On a 2015 iMac Catalina OS the hard drive is encrypted, how to reinstall an OS or format?

Both my iPhone 14+ and my Air 4 (2022 version) locked up, and got stuck in the middle of an update to ver 18.1. I took them into an Apple Store and the “genius” reset them, and updated them. When I went home, they updated no problem from the backup. I have since backed them up using my generic leads. Is it essential now that there are heavier data requirements on all I-devices that we should use OEM leads? Also, I have noticed a couple of glitches on my iPad that weren’t there before the update. Where do I report them? Thanx fellow users…

I have a Mac running OSX 15.0.1. User#1 is the admin with a password.

I have made a second account, User#2 to run a cron that uses the date and time to run a bash file that passes variables to an applescript to log into a website with site username and password and the applescript registers me for an exercise class twice a week. To run the applescript I've had to tell safari to "Allow javascript from the Apple events".

I also had a one time popup when the cron initially ran that said ""cron" wants access to control "System Events.app". Allowing control will provide access to documents and data in "System Events.app", and to perform actions with that app." and I said Accept.

1. Is the javascript apple events setting a security issue? While logged in to the second account I am not using safari to browse anywhere other than the site where the script goes.
2. I do all browsing and all my other normal stuff from the admin User#1 account where I do not have that Allow javascript from Apple events setting enabled. And Firefox is set as my default browser. Does the Safari setting made while in the User#2 account reduce security in the User#1 account?
3. I did not write the applescript, the bash file, and the crontab. They were passed to me by a friend that I trust (and I looked at the bit of code) and he suggested I do this in a separate account to get it working. Now that it is working in User#2 I could move all this stuff to the User#1 account and delete the User#2 to simplify things, if that simplifies things, but am I losing some security by doing that?
4. and the other important question: In order for the cron to run in the User#2 account I've had to not give that account a password. It wakes from sleep when the cron time tells it to. If I give it a password it seems to not be able to run otherwise. I have not yet experimented with having both user accounts logged in (I believe that two accounts can be logged in at the same time. True?*) and be using the User#1 account when the User#2 account's cron is supposed to run. Is there a reason that it won't?

*if two accounts can be logged in at the same time, is there a one-click option to change desktops from one user to the other?

UPDATE: I experimented with logging in to User#1 before User#2 cron was going to run. User#2 did not end up running.

UPDATE: I've learned it is not possible to have both accounts open as two desktops. But it is possible to make one account a remote desktop or a virtual machine accessed from the other account.

is it time? has anyone done it yet? how is the system, fast or slow? my usage is a normal daily, with audacity, office and nothing else relevant

Ever since i updated my M1 MBA to Sequoia, i am facing challenges with my Time Machine backup.

Prior to updating to Sequoia, i was able to boot into recovery mode, wherein i would see my external SSD with my TM backup. I could then boot from this SSD or roll back my entire system to a prior TM backup.

However ever since i updated to Sequoia my TM backup on the external SSD is not showing up as a bootable disk in recovery mode.

I am also not able to roll back to a previous TM backup because it's not showing up here in recovery mode.

I tried setting up a new external SSD as TM backup, and that too is not showing up as a bootable disk in recovery mode. This makes me think that one of the two is happening:

1. Sequoia broke something / changed something with how they treat TM backups
2. I have some setting / option somewhere which needs to be changed (althoughi highly doubt this at the moment as i've checked everything i could think of, and even used Chat GPT to help me troubleshoot)

What am i doing wrong here?

I moved programs from the Trash to the Desktop, and now I want to delete them again. When I try to “Move to Trash,” I get the following message: “The operation can’t be completed because the item ‘Microsoft Outlook’ is in use.”

I got a Mac from craigslist. Its a MacPro 5.1 from like 2009. it was password protected and the guy said he doesn't remember the password. I tried following tutorials to reset it, but it never worked cause it wasn't my apple ID connected to the Mac. I did get ubuntu to install but it refuses to acknowledge that a USB (the same one I used to install ubuntu) even exists when trying to install OSX El Capitan. I don't have any other mac. I have windows and ubuntu (dual booted on my main PC). How can I get OSX installed on this thing. any help is appreciated.

I use two monitors: one UW (main), and small monitor below it. While the UW is set as default, for some reason the dock appears on the bottom smaller monitor when turning on the mac, but I used to just bring my mouse to the bottom edge of the bug monitor, and the dock would stay there until the next wake up / restart.

Now, after upgrading to 15.0, the dock just stays on the bottom small monitor, no matter what. It no longer moves to the main screen.

Is there a way to fix this? I did something in Terminal a while ago (which was suppose to keep the dock on the main screen and not move), so I'm not sure if it's related. I think the solution should come from the terminal, but I'm not sure what to do.

Thanks!

So I'm using a macbook pro in a dock at work. My Macbook pro is at 120hz while the 2nd monitor is at 60hz. I was able to confirm that it is.

I had some driver issues with the dock but after updating and restarting the drivers it seems fine now.

The problem I'm having now is that the 2nd monitor seems to be running at 60fps while my mouse pointer and only the pointer will drop down to seemingly 30fps but only on the second monitor.

on my main screen, everything is always smooth, on the second, animations and dragging windows and stuff is at 60, but using the pointer with nothing selected will be 30.

I'm using an MX Master 3s and I have it set to 1400 DPI and have never had any problems with it.

I am using a temporary replacement monitor cause the usual workstation monitor is out of order

Hi! It's what is says on the tin. I have Sonoma 14.5, and whenever I download something into a folder, it's there, but so is a copy just chilling in my downloads. Is there something I can do to stop this because it is so annoying and taking up too much space if I forget to delete for like a day.

I have used apps like GeForce Now and ShadowPC and I'm wondering if similar technology exists to allow me to build a Windows machine and remote in from my MacBook.

I would need it to be low-latency + high fidelity similar to the above so I can use apps like unreal engine or games in real time without hinderance.

Anyone have experience with this?

I'm at a total loss as to how to deal with this. My account is fine, because I can access the web player. But the web player doesn't use volume normalization, so it kind of sucks.

What happens when I open the Spotify app on my Mac is I get a red window with no widgets I can interact with, and a process that just chews system resources.

I have uninstalled and reinstalled the app to no avail. This just started happening recently, but I'm not sure what change I may have made to the system to cause this. I am currently running Sonoma 14.6.1. I may upgrade to Sequoia 15.1 soon, but I'm hesitant to do so with this issue happening.

Thanks in advance for any help!

Hi there,

I have a MacBook Air from mid-2011. I’d like to use iTunes on it to put mp3s on my iPhone but when I try it says my OSx is needs to be updated. I click the update button but I don’t see any options to do so.

I’d like to know to update my OSx to a recent enough edition to support the above - do you have any links or recommendations

TIA

Hi,

How to crop an image on preview on Monterey 12.7.6? Unless there's something wrong with me, I can't see it.

I recently upgraded from Big Sur where it was possible.