Desktop 1: I have a work app (running in the terminal) that automatically opens a Chrome window every 10 minutes and simulates a user browsing and taking screenshots to monitor fraud and competitors.

Desktop 2: I use Safari to browse the Internet, download reports and open Numbers to analyze the data.

Problem: whenever I'm on Desktop 2, very focused, my MAC simply automatically switches to Desktop 1, because the Terminal script opened Chrome.

How do I prevent this change or pin Desktop 2 so that it never changes, only if I drag it to the side with 3 fingers or press Cmd+arrow?

System Settings > Desktop & Dock > Automatically rearrange Spaces based on most recent use. It's already OFF.

And I've tried using Desktop 1 as the main one or everything on the same Desktop or using Mission Control but Chrome always opens on top of everything.

When did shared trash in what i assume is icloud start? i have 2 different computers signed in to icloud 1 does not have desktop & documents folders checked and 1 does. They both have icloud drive checked and i just realized the trash is shared. When did this start and is there a way to stop it? Ive been emptying one not realizing i was emptying the other. I cant find anything online about this and i noticed it after sequoia update.

Hello everyone,

I’m trying to install macOS Sierra on my Mac, but I've been having trouble finding the appropriate DMG file. Currently, I’m only using Windows, which makes it a bit complicated for me to obtain it.

If anyone has a copy of the macOS Sierra DMG and could share it, I would greatly appreciate it. I’m trying to restore my Mac, and this version is the one I need.

Thank you in advance for your help!

For some reason my MacBook Air will stopped dragging highlighted files and instead pops up a preview of the file. For example if I try to drag something to the trash bin it just opens the file. Apple M1, Sonoma 14.1.

Please help me. I’m going insane.

I have a color laser printer. It is nice and fast but its color calibration is waayyy off. It's terrible on copier paper, it's terrible on nice photo paper. I'm not expecting gallery-quality output from this thing but I am pretty sure it could be doing a lot better job than it currently is.

Today I finally decided to try and deal with this by spending some time doing a series of test prints and tweaking settings. But the printer's manual told me to go to a portion of the print dialogue that no longer exists - apparently this vanished in 10.15, and hasn't been fixed in the five years since?!? wtf Apple, sheesh. Why would you do this.

Are there any workarounds for this?

Does anyone else experience the menu bar (the 3 lines, sometimes called the hamburger for some reason) not opening sometimes when clicked when using Safari?

So far I'm screaming at my main machine every few hours when something else that I have had configured or coded for YEARS/DECADES is suddenly misbehaving.

Stupid examples:

Scroll bars. I have had these set to always since Jesus was toilet training. Finder no longer has a bottom "left right" scroll bar, just for shits and giggles.

Dragging windows by the top bar. This used to be the easy way to drag a window around. Now for reasons that are completely undocumented a click up there might: 1) maximize window, or 2) show all the windows, or 3) make the window jump to a different work space.

Don't start me on search in email, or how using CMD-tab to jump from program to program no longer ACTUALLY OPENS THE WINDOWS OF THE SELECTED PROGRAM.

... needless to say, losing my last shreds of sanity here. Anyone else going quietly mad w/ all the "improvements"?

PS) And the same fucktards are gonna shove a bunch of "AI" down our throats now?

I just updated to Mac OS 15.1 and I am not able to move my dock to my external monitor anymore. Prior to updating to Seqouia I was able to hover my mouse over the bottom edge of my external display and the dock appeared. Anyone facing the same problems in 15.1?

I am just

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My download speed is horribly slow here, but I am excited about it... can't wait...

I just got this LG34BK95U Ultrawide monitor. It supports 5k2k but when I first connected it to my Macbook I was able to select a resolution. It was on 4k I believe but it wouldn't let me select a 5k reso. Now when I bring up Displays in System Settings I can't select resolution or 30/60hz. The options disappeared and all I see is color profile and rotation. Does anyone know why this happened and how I can get the options back?

For reference I am using the included thunderbolt cable. And I've tried all 4 ports and no luck.

My secondary screen suddenly started showing a line and not long after has become like this, while usable it’s distracting, is there a way, command line or software, to somehow define a custom resolution and offset it so to “cut” the bottom section and keep the only the working area active?

I know you can do it on windows and Linux but i’m using osx here.

Thanks

Hey all, I put in my login items a .command script to run a terminal command on startup, then told my mac to reboot every night.

It worked for a while, but now the .command file doesn't actually execute the script. If I run the script, it's fine.

The terminal window just returns:

Last login: Thu Oct 24 04:10:29 on ttys000

Restored session: Thu Oct 24 04:10:01 PDT 2024

The default interactive shell is now zsh.

To update your account to use zsh, please run \chsh -s /bin/zsh`.`

For more details, please visit https://support.apple.com/kb/HT208050.

Any ideas?

*edit* to be more specific, the .command is supposed to launch a .py file and have it run every 30 min or so, but it doesn't launch the first time anymore nor does it continue to run like it did before.

/Users/admin/file.py -c 1800

Como monitorizar manualmente y en tiempo real cuales son los archivos que estan subiendo al iCloud y cuales son los pendiente de subir

Hi r/Macos sorry for my bad english, I decided to reboot my mac beacuse my father just bought a new one, he said I could reboot it but he wont do anything if something goes wrong, as you all expect something went wrong and when I rebooted it it says reinstall again mac sierra (the version of my mac)

I'm trying to create a bootable installer for Big Sur on my Sonoma mac. I just wanted to make sure that downloading Big Sur won't automatically change my own OS to Big Sur, and I'll be remove the download after moving it to my installer.

So a few days ago i accidentally deleted all of my 2000+ Apple Notes.

I can see all of them sitting there in the Recently Deleted folder, but i am not able to mass restore all of them. i can drag and drop each note one by one back into my iCloud Notes folder, but that is very cumbersome.

I am not able to find any method to Select All and restore them all in one go. Can't even drag and drop them to another folder.

Does anyone have any solutions for this?

pretty much the titile. my mate gave me a 008 imac which i upgraded to an SSD. not having the foresight to do so, i didnt clone the original drive to the SSD, which i hot glued in place becaue its never going to leave my desk and i dont have a bracket for. it is possible to greate an install media on manjaro?

Hey folks -- as in the title, this is a really specific question, but it's driving me crazy. I am hoping that someone has hit this problem (and fixed it), as I'm not interested in wiping my laptop to "fix" what is probably bad or invasive coding. I have tried different browsers (Arc/Safari) and turning cookies on/off. I have turned off NextDNS. I can't think of (or remember) other privacy settings, but the difference is that I can log in with my iOS devices but not my OSX laptop. Any ideas?

Update: Solved, kinda

Hey all,

I've been using scroll-wheel mouse, trackball & Wacom for years and, like many of you, I've often faced the frustration of limited driver features. That's one of the reasons why I decided to develop Smooze Pro, a macOS app tailored specifically for us.

I'd love to hear from the community about what features you're missing or would like to see in your current drivers. Here are some of the features my app currently offers:

• Smooth Scrolling - Every app you own will have buttery smooth scrolling
• Grab & Drag & Throw - You can now use a mouse button to grab and scroll anywhere on the screen. Throwing will animate the scrolling just like it would on a trackpad
• Auto Scroll - You can now click a selected mouse button once to auto scroll anywhere on the screen, hands free, with buttery smooth animations!
• Multi Display - All settings can be configured per app per display.
• Actions - Save time by attaching mouse buttons to actions
• Gestures - Assign gestures to any button / shortcut / app

But I know there's always room for improvement, and I want to make this app as useful as possible for the scroll-wheel mouse community. What features or enhancements would you like to see? Whether it's something simple like better scroll options or more advanced like integrated productivity tools, I want to hear your ideas!

Feel free to share your thoughts and suggestions in the comments. If you're interested in trying out the app, I've included a link below where you can download and try it out. There's a 7 days trial.

Download Smooze Pro

Looking forward to your feedback and happy scrolling!

Trying to install a fresh copy of Catalina through internet recovery mode on a 2tb crucial SSD.

Boot into recovery over web

Format/partition drive to APFS

Reinstall OSX Catalina over internet

Install seemingly goes through for about 15 minutes

System reboot then shows circle with line through it

Boot into recovery again and try to repair disk

Same thing

I’ve tried following these steps maybe 5 times now and keep getting the same result. Please help.

I just updated my 2023 MacBook Pro to Sequoia on Monday. I backed-up using an external drive before the update. After the update, all of my local notes disappeared. To clarify, the "iCloud notes" and "shared notes" are intact. The notes under the account "On My Mac", of which I had many, disappeared. They weren't deleted, they vanished. The note count is 0. In fact the "recently deleted" folder under the "On My Mac" account isn't present.

I've tried restoring the files in ~/Library/Group Containers/group.com.apple.notes through time machine and but when I open the notes app after restoring the back-up files the old notes will flash for a fraction of a second then disappear again. During this restore process I have "sync to iCloud" switched off.

Does anyone know what's going on and if there's a way to recover those old notes?

Hi, I'm having trouble using two external displays with DisplayLink-compatible device with my MBA M2 when it is in clamshell mode. It works fine, all three (2 external and 1 builtin) monitors work fine when the macbook is open and not in clamshell mode.

Here's what's going on: when I close the macbook to go into clamshell mode, my "focus" is set to the left monitor. The right monitor stays powered on and displays the screen, but does not move. Also, when I try to move my mouse to the right monitor, it will not let me, as if the only monitor available is the left one. While having this problem, the display tab in system settings is aware of the other (right) display.

Here's my setup:

• HW: MacBook Air M2 (13.6 inches, 16GB/512GB) + SW: macOS Sequoia 15.0
• HW: Belkin Connect Universal USB-C Triple Display Dock + SW: latest DisplayLink software (1.10.3)
• HW: 2x LG 32UP830 32-inch 4K monitors

Any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks!

In older versions of MacOS, it was very easy to destroy them. However, in newer versions, Apple has implemented many safeguards. However, I am wondering if there is still a way to render a MacOS virtual machine unusable.
Edit: I meant the macOS operating system (latest version) in general. Also, deleting the VM doesn't count. (Just want to have some fun.)