Hi. I want to completely reinstall my MBP mid-2012. It was running MacOS Catalina and when I "factory reset" it, it came up with MacOS Lion. Now the question: is there a way I can install from scratch MacOS Catalina, without having to go through previous MacOS versions and upgrades?

TIA

UPDATE: Resolved by manually downloading installer for Mojave on mrmacintosh.com

Getting a "Cannot Connect to App Store" message when I try to update my 2015 Macbook (10.14 Mojave rn) which it seems like is because my OS is too old. But how am I supposed to updated my OS if I can't access the app store?

I know I'm very late to update out of Mojave but I've always been hesitant with OS updates unless absolutely necessary, I might have waited too long...

All keyboard shortcuts in all apps have suddenly become disabled. For example, if I look at the File menu in Safari, all the usual keyboard shortcuts are listed in the menu, but they are all greyed-out.

Does anyone know what the issue might be?

I installed the new ChatGPT app from OpenAI today. Perhaps that could have screwed things up? Alternatively perhaps I've accidentally switched on some kind of Accessibility setting which disables all shortcuts? Any help greatly appreciated, I've spent a few hours trying to sort this out without success.

I've been using Texty for a while since I have a Pixel Pro phone but an M2 air. What's the best desktop texting app that's not iMessage, not Texty? Gotta be SMS or something so I can talk to anyone + everyone.

When I facetime my gf on IOS and screenshare, we watch a youtube video and she can hear the audio from the video and me talking.

When I screen share on facetime with my mac, she can see the video but not hear it. She can still hear me. Is there anything to change to make this work like IOS? Thanks

I got an old iMac 2008 and I want to ease everything, split it into two partitions. One for the latest possible (and best performance) OSX and the other for Linux.

Now, my problem is that I already partitioned the disk, eased OSX, installed Linux Mint and sat up everything. BUT...

I cant reinstall OSX, it asks for my apple ID and when I put mine an error 403 appears.

I already tried to install from scratch the OSX via bootable USB but It doesn't recognises the driver and that's the strangest part for me.

Your help is highly appreciated,

Thank you!

Does anyone know where I can get a .dict file to add the Greek dictionary to the native MacOS dictionary app?

I've read that it has to be a .dict file in order to be added to the Dictionary app, but any other method is welcome too.

I've found a few websites that explain how to add languages to the dictionary but none that offer Greek and wherever I've found a Greek dictionary, adding it to the MacOS app doesn't seem to work.

Hi! We've released the first version of roc-vad: https://github.com/roc-streaming/roc-vad

It allows, together with other parts of Roc Toolkit, to stream realtime audio over Wi-Fi between Linux, macOS and Android devices.

Hi,

I'm relatively new to Mac and need remote access from my Mac to another to assist my parents and transfer various documents and images. Is this achievable with a native Mac option, or should I consider third-party software? If opting for the latter, could you share the tools you use for this purpose and comment on their security?

Looking for an external hard drive that is compatible with my 2014 Mac? I am looking to back up pictures stored in IPhoto. I tried using a WD easy store and was unsuccessful. Also considered uploading the photos to Dropbox but Dropbox website no longer compatible with Yosemite. Thanks!

I’m looking for recommended DNS SPF and DMARC parameter settings for the email service in Snow Leopard Server. Trying to get Gmail and other big players to accept our mail.

The MX record reflects a mail filter system but we send email directly through a firewall that inserts its IP address.

I know the SPF record should contain the firewall external address.

I had this running but the Snow Leopard Server deleted the pair of records and I hadn’t recorded them. (I have 3 domains and I used each domain to have its own set of records but SL Server took the TXT records out of all the domains.

I got a free mid 2007 iMac that wouldn't boot reflashed with lion got it to boot but nothing works as everythings outdated what can I do

Got a new MacPro running latest Sonoma iOS. I logged into my iCloud and now all my photos and files from my phone are being downloaded to this new computer.

I want to be able to backup this computer, and I already pay for extra iCloud storage, so i want to keep everything there. I just don't want my phone and my computer to sync.

How do I access the same iCloud account without downloading everything? Can I delete what's been downloaded on this computer without it deleting it from iCloud and my phone?

Do you recommend I just create a new Apple ID/iCloud account for this computer instead?

Please help, thanks

Hello,

We have some mac users when they connect to our wireless it seems to act like a loopback and bring down our network. THose workstations are on both wireless and wired (different subnets but they need to be able to talk to eachother)

Hi, I'm new to using a Mac and have a question that might seem simple. How do you connect to a Windows desktop from a Mac? I discovered Apple Remote Desktop in the App Store, but it seems more suited for professional use, especially considering its price.

Hi there,

What is the best spectacle alternative for macbook m3?

Hi, Ive gotten my hands on a late 2011 MacBook Pro. I wanted to delete all leftover data from the previous owner so I pressed command r and and deleted the drive. Now I want to reinstall Lion OS and it tells me to wait -200000 something hours then it stops. What can I do? I really want to use the MacBook, I've already loaded Lion OS onto a SD card and inserted it, the MacBook recognizes it but I can't recover it still. Please help...

here is the github project,

https://github.com/danfrz/PLEBTracker

I can't figure out how to compile it, the libs aren't working, like alsa for instance.. . I dont know if alsa can run on macos tho, and if not I don't know how to change it.

I'm trying to get a bunch of ncurses programs that I can run in zellij, and kind of recreate eDEX-UI (which is dead) , but with ncurses, and a creative slant

Whats the best patcher, i tried osx patcher but would just show apple logo with no loading screen, and i tired osx extracter but always failed the installtion, can some one help me?

Whats the best patcher, i tried osx patcher but would just show apple logo with no loading screen, and i tired osx extracter but always failed the installtion, can some one help me?

Hi I recently bought a Mac from marketplace. When installing the Mac os system it asked me for a password something correlatet with light house security. The guy who I bought it from doesn't have a password for this. So I tried to erase the SSD and used a bootable USB this also doesn't work since the USB stick is not compatible. What can I do to get it working again?

Is there anyway to make a 27 inch iMac from 2015 with 32 gigs of ram and a core i7 processor run either Ventura or Sonoma?

I have a backup drive that I haven't touched for a couple of years. Most of my stuff is in the cloud these days, but I had some old stuff on there. I can't get it to show up in my OS.

It's a 5TB external Seagate drive. It's one of the small ones that only connects via a MicroB port (does not have external power). I do recall that it was formatted as OSX Extended, Journaled.

Here's what I've tried so far:

• Cable: USB C to MicroB Cable (direct to laptop) and a USB A to MicroB Cable (via a known working adapter). Neither worked, but this tells me it's not the cable.
• Computers
  • I've tried my current computer, a newish MBP with an M2 Max on Sonoma
  • My old computer, a 2016 MBP on Monterey, and this is the last computer it would have been connected to.
  • I plugged it into a PC and it made a "ding" sound which was kind of promising, but I don't see it in the disks there. And it's the wrong format to see it anyway.
  • I did try reboots on both Macs, unsurprisingly it didn't work. I rebooted the older mac with the drive attached and it did take ages to reboot, but no errors. That tells me it sees something??
• On the Macs, I've tried Disk Utility (it doesn't show up at all). I tried this with both cables as well.
• I've tried diskutil list in terminal and it doesn't show up there either
• Yes, I have preferences in finder set to show external drives on both computers
• I downloaded Recoverit by Wondershare on the old mac as something to try, but it doesn't see it (I think it only sees drives that are mounted in Disk Utility)

I do have another copy of the drive (backup of the backup), but it's been a couple of years and I'm not 100% sure I had them totally synced the last time I used it. So I'd love love love to at least get a file listing out of this one to compare, otherwise it will bother me for the rest of my life.

Thanks for any ideas or tips!

Hey. Wonder of any of you have ever had this:

I've recently had to replace my SSD on my mac as it fully died.

Now nothing on my iMac can request access to the camera or mic.

When you try to you just get this:

https://preview.redd.it/ochvfqckr1wc1.png?width=706&format=png&auto=webp&s=d706df6c6b5a378ef08437f83992d7789bed6921

No request comes through. There is also no way to manually add apps access here either.

This is even the case with Facetime. Although I can, strangely, access the mic with screen recording.

I wonder if this was because the shop installed OSX, and added a temporary user that i then deleted. I have tried searching for files owned by user id 501 and think i have now set them all to 502 (my account).

Any tips would be helpful. Note, I have already done the power off for 10 minutes unplugged from power one.

https://preview.redd.it/mkr9s4h2hnvc1.png?width=360&format=png&auto=webp&s=be5bb078165840ad0871a279f1056e5d5ae5e4eb

This item just appeared after a Microsoft update. The company runs a couple of apps on the app store and has only a few staff. They appear to deal with sharing of things like link collections, but it’s hard to find out much about them or their CEO(?) Steve Gehrman (as a Flutter developer he has a GitHub account too and his? allied company Cocoatech developed Path FInder), and impossible from an hour or more searching to find out why Microsoft has added this to my startup items. For now I turned it off. Anyone know any more?

Hi all, new to this sub and probably a pretty niche question but I was wondering is there a way to have my wallpaper shuffle and choose an image at random from a very large folder? It seems to me like once a folder gets over a certain size (seems to be around 100 images, all of them 1080p and up) the wallpaper will just be the same 3-5 images over and over again.

I work in automotive media and have amassed a bunch of gorgeous photos of cars that I would love to use as my desktop images, but they just keep repeating the same couple. My current solution is just having around 780 images spread across 8 folders, and then selecting a new folder to shuffle from every couple weeks. It works, but I am someone where I like not having workarounds and was wondering if there's a better fix I don't know about.

Thanks in advance, understand it's probably something nobody but me cares about lol.

Hello all. I have an imac g3 currently running macos 9.2. The disk drive in my machine is dead and I would like to upgrade to macos x 10.3. I have another imac g3 running 9.0.4 (also with a dead drive) that could help in some way maybe. I read about firewire installing but I don't know if that works on macos 9.0/9.2.

I think I know the answer to this question already but I'm going to ask anyway.

Background: I have a 27" 2010 iMac with a 2.93Ghz i7 and 12G ram running High Sierra. The graphics card is a Radeon 5750 with 1G ram. Yes, it's 14 years old and, by today's standards, is underpowered but the specs aren't atrocious. Any modern Linux distribution would work on it without issue. I want to install the latest version of xcode so I can do some work on an iPhone app but if there's a way to do that I've been unable to find it. I'm a long time System76 Linux user so I'm not very familiar with the Apple ecosystem and I don't want to buy a new computer if it can be avoided. I have no intention of using a Mac as my daily driver at any point. Even if I buy another Mac, it will sit idle on my desk and only get used when I need to touch an iPhone app.

So the question is this: Is there any way to run the latest xcode on this machine or do I need to buy a newer Mac? If so, what's the cheapest used option you would recommend? (Doesn't have to be a laptop)