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I recently upgraded from Mojave to Catalina (10.15.7) on both my 2014 MacBook Pro and my 2017 iMac. Under Mojave I had, and also on the newly updated MacBook Pro I have the option to use pictures from my Photos album as desktop pictures. That option does not appear on my iMac. How can I get...

Hello All Mac Pro enthusiasts I am in a position when I can finally purchase one of these models. Before I commit, I request some expert advice to support upgrades and development and compatibility with my typical uses. On the Mac side I use my preferred workflow and now some photo editing...

Just installed a new drive in to an existing 2013 iMac 27" and I see it's limited to Catalina (10.15.7), no problem at all, but I'd like to install iMovie on it but alas the App store requests that I need at least BigSur, which of course I cannot update to it seems :( Do I have any...

Hello, long time reader, first time poster on here :) I'm swithering between continuing to use Catalina on my late 2012 iMac (now that it's almost reached its expiry date for support from Apple) versus using one of the patchers available to run a more recent OS. I've done this before, and had...

I use a second display with my iMac and I have set it up in the Display preferences under the Arrangement tab like this: Since I upgraded to macOS Catalina this arrangement is not retained over machine restart. After starting up the machine the arrangement looks always like this: Changing...

MacBook Air (13-inch, 2017) 1.8GHz dual-core Intel Core i5 128GB SSD 8GB RAM My stock MBA2017 is still on macOS Catalina and as we all know Monterey will be the last macOS that will work on it. So would love to see feedbacks from forummers here whether it's better to upgrade or i should just...

Install Big Sur with patch Mouse moves slowly, deep lags. I reset NVRAM and SMC and reinstall Catalina... Mouse moves slowly, deep lags. From internet recovery install Lion.. Mouse moves slowly...CPU load over 100% In all osX install mouse lags and performance low. Fan usage and CPU 100% But...

TLDR: Safari crashes in Catalina (intel Mac) after Safari 15.2 update I have a MacBook Pro (15-inch, mid-2012) running macOS 10.15.7 with a new SSD a couple of years ago. It was running perfectly until Safari was updated to 15.2; it could've been an earlier update to Safari that broke the...

I ran into some questions/issues with my update of macOS Catalina on a Late 2013 27” iMac (14,2) to Monterey 12.3.1 using OCLP 0.4.3. I’m not sure if the ‘’Nvidia Kepler’ post-install patch’ worked properly and I’m not sure if my display needs some correcting. I’ll list my questions at the...

hi I'm currently trying to verify a Catalina installer I have on a USB pkgutil --check-signature returns with signed with untrusted certificate is it possible the certificates are expired I checked the installesd.DMG in the support files and they are all signed by apple is it possible...

An update to macOS Catalina has made the quality of the built-in webcam that awful that will feel guilty during zoom session, because other participants' eyes could bleed: overall quality 20x times worse than it was in Mavericks, but the main concern is a ghosting problem. When I close my eyes...

Hello everyone! I’m new to the community and I am trying to remedy my issue. I just purchased a Mac Mini mid 2010 for $15 that was expected to have a bad hdd but turned out it was the sata cable. I ordered a 1tb SSD Hynix gold and 16gb of ram. I updated my Mac from snow leopard that it came with...

For the past few weeks I've been experimenting with a NVME Monterey 12.1 Boot Disk inside my 2019 24 core Mac Pro (Vega II 32GB GPU). Today, I booted back into my MAIN (apple) Catalina Boot disk and was struck by how much faster certain visual GUI operations are. As a music composer, I spend...

Awesome Catalina patcher results on ALL my systems!!! Strange issue: "Patch Updater Prefpane.prefPane" is gone from my MBP. Not in System Preferences, not in any folders. How to reinstall it???

TL;DR: I can't get Apple Pay to work on macOS Catalina with Safari 15.2. All payments fail with "Payment not completed" on the Mac and Apple Pay works fine on my other devices with the same CCs. Looking for help trying to determine what's up here. Longer story: On macOS I have two CC's set...

I have tried 3 times to erase and encrypt a new Seagate 5tb external hard drive using Disk Utlity on Catalina. Used OS Extended (Journaled, Encryted), set passord hint. Then after I unplug and plug the drive back in, the passwrod hint does not show. Tried with my other Macbook on Mojave and...

I have 3 MacBook Pros that I updating and installing SSDs. Two are 2015 and one 2014. All 3 are using the same 3rd-party SSD. Two are all running Catalina. One keeps coming up with Yosemite. It will NOT see the SSD during installation. So I created a USB installation drive with Catalina on...

Hi All, How can I reset a mac to factory settings when screen doesn't work ? I tried connecting to external screen and used cmd+R, however the external screen never shows the disk utility options Also I dont have the admin lock password, trying to set this up through my existing user account...

So I upgraded to Catalina on my 2009 MacBook pro by the backdoor method and now my external hard drive won't work. Just cycles and never goes into actually backing up. Just continues to say "preparing for backup." Is this a known issue? I know Apple wouldn't support my upgrade b/c they want...

Hello, I have a 2013 macbook pro 15" retina (running Catalina) with an internal SSD which last year failed in some way/messed up, after it froze, I powered it off and then upon restarting couldnt boot onto/select the Mac OS drive. Its worth noting the hard drive was partitioned so it had...