Hundreds of files like this are taking up over 100gb of space on my MacBook:

/Users/**NAME**/Library/Metadata/SpotlightKnowledgeEvents/index.V2/journals/11/cs_default/skg_events_1D73B738-EC99-4508-985A-49DFA395777D_16777223_565229442_journalAttr_5489.journal

I have a 2020 (2.3 GHz Quad-Core Intel Core i7) MacBook Pro running 15.2 .

The only thing I can think of that might have caused this is that I recently tried to import about 6000 notes (in batches) into Apple Notes (I wanted to leave Evernote for good). That import process hung up Notes so badly that I gave up and deleted it all. Now I have 6000 notes in the trash in Apple Notes. I can't delete everything in the trash bc it hangs and freezes. I figured I'd wait until Notes deleted them on its own in 30 days.

Assuming this is spotlight indexing gone rogue, I added my hard drive to the spotlight privacy list and restarted. The 100gb of files are all still there. Can I delete them? What should I do?

If you download an app from the internet (not AppStore) you may get an error trying to open it "damaged" etc on Sequoia.

It is probably GateKeeper. Use xattred to remove the Gatekeeper flag:

https://eclecticlight.co/xattred-sandstrip-xattr-tools/

P.S. I have no affiliation, bla bla bla. Just getting tired of the same questions.

I know it's a 'dev' version of the OS (15.3 (24D60)), but I've seen no one else mention this, so am thinking maybe it's my MacBook Pro that's not behaving?  

On three sites now (X, Apple UK and Indeed Jobs), Safari is randomly refreshing the page.  So I go to Apple Support, I click on 'Start a repair' (for another, unrelated matter), and I click on 'MacBook' and then on 'Cables' and then it refreshes and takes me straight back to 'Start a repair'. 

It only does it with certain sites (as indicated above), and I tried disabling Javascript, but of course, X.com won't load if I do that. 

Basically, I want to be able to add a name field to my aText snippets so that when I use the command in email or online, it asks me to fill in their name before I send. I've seen it in other people's aText examples but can't seem to figure out how to create.

Hi, I'm trying to sync playlists I make on my iPhone to my Macbook.
But every time I sync, it takes ages and fills up enormous amounts of space on my Mac. I just want a few changes in playlists to be reflected in my Music desktop app. My laptop doesn't have enough storage space to backup the entire phone and it's too time consuming.

Is there a way to do that?

Hi all,

I have a Macbook M2 Air that’s currently running on MacOS Sequoia 15.2. I’ve always been using a hotspot from my phone to connect to the internet, and there has never been a real problem, until now.

I suddenly noticed that data usage was through the roof. We’re talking like several gigs in a few minutes. Using the Activity Monitor, I found out it was a process labelled ‘nsurlsessiond’ that was burning through all my data. I know that some people back from 2021 was having this problem, and I was wondering whether anyone has come to a conclusive decision on how to permanently disable this data-chewing menace. 

I’ve tried quitting it and force quitting it in the Activity Monitor, but every time I do, it restarts itself a few minutes later and continues to eat up all my data. It has now become very tiring and troublesome for me to keep constantly checking Activity Monitor when I’m trying to do work-related stuff. I’ve done some research here and there on the issue, and from what I can tell, it’s largely an iCloud thing.

The strange thing is I’ve always been signed onto my Mac and iCloud since I got the device, and this ‘nsurlsessiond’ has never been an issue until very recently. Since then, I’ve tried turning all iCloud processes, Siri, and automatic system updates off, but to no avail. Maybe signing entirely out of iCloud on the device might work?

Just wanted to see if anyone with M2 or even M3 devices have this issue as well, and what they’ve done to deal with it. Would also appreciate any assistance on how to turn this thing off for good, or at least stop it from burning all my data up? Thanks

My MacBook air is stuck in a loop in which whenever it is turned on the screen lights up a dull gray colour before turning off again then lighting up then turning off etc,

i have tried using both recovery mode and internet recovery mode but everytime i use internet recovery it connects takes 20 mins finishes and then the boot loop starts all over again.

i use boot camp and the computer is able to boot into windows fine so I'm assuming its not a hardware issue
i have been having this issue for almost a month now and no fix i find works any help at all would be appreciated i don't care if i have to loose data i just want the damn thing to work

Hi all,

I can swear that up until 15.3 there was an option in Privacy & Security to "Open anyway" an unsigned app that I had attempted to run.

https://preview.redd.it/w9gpmdr1gpge1.png?width=982&format=png&auto=webp&s=5e2d720eed007928257c3b993a2bc53215f250e6

Now I can't find it anywhere.

Do you know how to get back that option, please?

Thanks!

I accidentally pressed the left side of my keyboard on my mac and there was a version of cmd + tab that showed little previews of the windows, just like how it is on windows. I experimented and couldn't get it to happen again, anyone know what it could have been?

Dear community, does anyone know why Firefox on MacOS does not enlarge the window like other applications when you double-click on the title bar? It works fine with all my other applications, but not with Firefox.

https://preview.redd.it/vtizhd1eroge1.png?width=1606&format=png&auto=webp&s=69c6a9c66f893e5b91b047e1542f7053264d5406

Trying to signup with apple store on my mac. I have added all the details that are mentioned in the warning, still it doesnt allow me to complete creating my account. Has anyone faced the same issue? And how to solve this?

Similar to mstsc on Winblows.

I saw that Apple Remote Desktop is $129 on the app store, but i was wondering if there's something built into Mac.

Hi all,

I just want to ask about something I did that currently freaking me out a bit. I accidentally click on some link and it send me to some suspicious website which froze my whole MacBook Pro, and I couldn’t click to close the website. I forced quit my laptop, restarted the computer, installed some free antivirus software (malwarebyte), and updated the laptop software. I also deleted all my chrom cookies and all. Will my laptop be okay? And will I be hacked or infected with malware by any chance since it froze my laptop for a minute? Thanks in advance!

When you tripple click on a text in Chrome, it selects the paragraph properly, but in Safari, it selects the elements around the paragraph as well! I find this very irritating as I have developed a habit of randomly tripple clicking on text while I read it. Looks like this is an issue with all WebKit based browsers.

I have been searching over the web to see if anyone has complained about this. I find none. Does this bother any of you guys or is it just me?

https://preview.redd.it/f6hpn7wasnge1.png?width=2756&format=png&auto=webp&s=44e8dc103c3f34386d08f4a60cac85abaa7e1a04

https://preview.redd.it/8xvd39wasnge1.png?width=3081&format=png&auto=webp&s=d788791f67da7f13aa4658d91369442ef78e375a

1. suggest me a better app for reminders than the default one.

I need the reminder to not just sit there as a widget but give me pop ups( which can be controlled) that I need to try and complete that task.

https://preview.redd.it/mv1g3neghnge1.png?width=2864&format=png&auto=webp&s=b5823aa004eb4d1c5e49833e4c0af80601d5b4c0

I haven't gotten it to work once. M1 MBA. Weren't they meant to remove the waitlist with macOS 15.3????? Because I updated as soon as I saw it and no, the toggle still doesn't exist. Why does Apple hate me specifically /: everyone got it in macOS 15.3, but somehow I didn't???

Hello everyone, I want to create a couple of quick commands in Shortcuts app.

1. I want a key combination shift+command+5 to be activated when running a shortcut.
2. I want Text Replacements to open when the shortcut is running. It should open a list where you can add or remove text replacements (see screenshot)

https://preview.redd.it/fv4yvshdymge1.png?width=1630&format=png&auto=webp&s=3f7b2bf006e5ed8248ff1427374911fec68d20a4

Thank you in advance!

I'm coming back to MacOS after 18 years. I loved my old MacMini. :) At work, I usually use MobaXterm on my Windows PC because it has a sidebar with the servers I connect to frequently and MobaXterm also starts up an. sftp file browser for easy file transfers. I do more UNIX (RedHat, Solaris, and AIX) admin stuff than development so my terminal needs are a little different than a developer.

If there anything like MobaXterm for MacOS?

Just bought a Mac Air and I want to install some programs that there aren’t apps for Mac. These include Facebook, Reddit, CIBC banking app, TikTok, Kindle, Kobo and a few others. These are apps that are on my iPad & iPhone and thought they would be on my Mac - obviously I was wrong. Any help is greatly appreciated

I don't know why Mac did this a while back, but I am so sick of dictating something on my computer, then it still being on 20 seconds later. It used to not do this. And obviously, it cuts all of the audio off of everything when you're dictating. If you forget to push the button, it's still dictates for like 30 seconds or more. Is there any way to shorten this?

The files themselves are tagged, but the sidebar tags are empty.
Bug sur on a 2014 mac.

Hi! I am seeing the following buggy situation with Time Machine:

* My Time Machine disk is a partition on an external drive (Seagate 1TB)

* I run the backups manually every few days. They run fine, and I can see them with `tmutil listbackups`

* However! When I select "Browse Time Machine Backups" from the TM menu, the screen goes dark and I don't get the TM UI (Finder folder, time axis on the side, etc.) In other words, I cannot actually browse my backups.

Time Machine used to work just fine for me, but then my old external drive went bust, so this is a new one. In the old one I did not have partitions, so I wonder if that's the reason for the bug.

I am on Sequoia 15.3 (24D60).

Thanks for any advice!

Hi,

As the title suggests, I want to be able to press mouse button 4, and for that to toggle holding the U key.

Is this possible? I've tried unsuccessfully using karabiner and bettertouchtools although I'm sure that's a skill issue on my part.

Thanks

I encrypted my backup drive following these instructions: https://support.apple.com/en-ca/guide/mac-help/mh21241/12.0/mac/12.0

Now I’m getting an error that Time Machine couldn’t complete the backup: "An error occurred while starting the backup. Anti-virus software may be preventing Time Machine from writing to the backup."

How do I fix this?