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Can I install Catalina on MacBook Air 2017? If yes, just download the Catalina Installer and create an USB Installer?

Arising from a discussion aside to come up on another thread, @TheShortTimer suggested this question be spun off into a new thread. Even as Apple formally withdrew support for running 32-bit applications from Catalina forward, the ability to use 32-bit binaries in Catalina persisted with the...

Hi, I have a 2013 iMac. It's running on Mojave currently, I want to upgrade it to the OLDEST supported OS, which I believe is Big Sur. In Software preferences I clicked to upgrade to Catalina (which seemed sensible given past bugs of skipping past Catalina). The process completed, so I am now...

Situation: variety of intel-era iMacs currently running mucho paid-for 32bit production software at blazing speeds (i.e., Mojave from HFS+ partitions with MRT, Spotlight, notifications, and other annoying bits disabled). For obvious reasons, we cannot have these machines "upgrading"...

Canon stopped updated their drivers for catalina and beyond. I have this nice photo printer and it is not recognizable on my iMac. The latest downloadable driver from Canon is the version before Catalina. Is there a hack or workaround I can use to use this printer? Thank you.

wifi has been great since I got this computer in 2015, but today it is dead. no other problems with this computer that I know of. I am thinking there must be documentation somewhere the tells how to fix this. So far, everything I have found had not addressed the scenario I am seeing. My...

Hi guys! Recently, a friend of mine gave me his old 2008 iMac. I've been trying to install Mojave or Catalina with the http://dosdude1.com/mojave/ patcher, yet Finder won't allow me to open the patcher, popping out an error message saying: I cannot use this version of macOS. I also tried using...

Hi everyone! My cousin gifted me his old Macbook Pro 15" - 2,88 GHz processor, 4 GB RAM, 512 MB display, 500 GB HDD, battery with only 35 cycles. I think it is a 2010 model. Not sure, as in "about this mac" it only shows "El Capitan" but no year at all. I was thinking of replacing its El Capitan...

Has anyone done a downgrade from Catalina to High Sierra on a mac with an internal SATA disk (not SSD)? I would like to know how successful you were and why you chose to downgrade. My disk cannot tolerate Catalina but a few days ago it was fine on High Sierra for basic things. I want to go...

The usb drives are connected to a mac mini, mounted in catalina and are accessable from the machine with the drives attached. When this machine is approached over a lan the all drives are listed, internal and external. Internal drives can be browsed remotely but when an external drive is...

MacBook Pro retina 15 inch mid 2012 I was running High Sierra and updated to Catalina. I checked if it was compatible with my mac before doing so and the apple site said it was. I install it, and about 75% through, it says it has to restart due to a problem and then it keeps restarting in a...

My 2009 Mac Pro was successfully flashed to 5,1. Now I am trying to complete DosDudes Catalina Patcher. So this is a 2009 5,1 dual 2.26 quad core processors, running High Sierra...10.13.6, 8 gig of memory, GPU is a Radeon 580..8 gig as well, The Step I can not complete is near the end...the...

After updating to Monterey, my 2015 MBP slowly started getting a little sluggish until it completely collapsed a few days later. Now I have this blinking folder icon every time I boot it up. I tried going through the recovery process, but it defaults to installing the very first macOS that...

Hello all, I am trying to follow this guide https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/how-to-perform-a-clean-installation-of-macos-10-15-catalina.2205092/ but whenever i am in this step shown in the image it gets forever stuck at 0%. Any ideas? Is on a MacBook air early 2015 13 inch with MacOS...

Hello. Sorry for bad english,I am new to mac. I have a windows desktop and a macbook so i want to use shared folders from the desktop om MB. It works fine but the problem is that mac saved my local network user data (Despite the fact that I did not click save in the keychain) and now every time...

I am running the latest version of Catalina on a mid 2012 Macbook Pro 15. I installed Retroactive so I could install iTunes. QUESTION: I searched and couldn't find the answer to this, but should I delete Retroactive AFTER installing iTunes or should Retroactive always stay on my Mac? Thank you.

I had to get a new (second hand)laptop. Sadly I could not reinstall my old settings from timemashine. However I got most thing updated just fine BUT I can't get any adblocker that is still working with Catalina. on the App Store "at least 11. . . is needed" and on the Adblock website itself the...

I'm using two DisplayPort cables but i cant get past 3840x2160. The Mac Pro specs are the following: 4.1 flashed to 5.1 latest bootROM Dual Xeons E5520 128gb RAM ECC XFX AMD Radeon RX5700XT 8gb Triple Ventilation OWC Accelsior M2 with a Crucial P3 1Tb I'm running Catalina with all the...

Upgraded to Mojave a year ago and lately started locking up with multiple screen images. Could not resolve the issue so I upgraded to Catalina using (dosdude1) Patch and OSX 10.15.7 . This solved the issue of locking up and now have a full version of Catalina running on 24" iMac early 2009 ...

Sometime in the past week I noticed that spotlight on my Mac wasn't finding anything in /Applications. I have a 2017 MBP 13 inch and I have two bootable volumes, one with Mac OS 10.15.7 Catalina and one with Mac OS 13.2 Ventura. Oddly enough, this problem effects both OS when booted. I've tried...