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    Replacing laptop

    My elderly parents used a working 13-inch late-2013 Core i5 MacBook Pro until recently. The battery failed. Even if you unplug it just to move it somewhere else in the house and plug it back in, it would restart. I decided the only way to get things moving again for them was to by a temporary...
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    • 2015 macbook pro 13-inch clean install macos macos mojave restore from backup
    • Replies: 4
    • Forum: MacBook Pro
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    Clean Install requires moving apps

    MY CURRENT HARDWARE: late-2013 Core i5 iMac 21.5-inch; 1 TB SSD, 8 GB RAM, currently running MacOS 10.12 Sierra PLANNING TO CLEAN-INSTALL: MacOS Mojave (I will only go this far, so I can still run iPhoto... Apple Photos and Google Photos both suck) APPS I NEED TO COPY OVER TO MANUALLY INSTALL...
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    Special backup for clean install of MacOS

    MY CURRENT HARDWARE: Late-2013 21.5-inch iMac, Core i5 processor, 8 GB RAM, 1 TB HDD currently running MacOS 10.12.6 Sierra THE PROJECT: Clean-install MacOS Mojave (the last MacOS that will run iPhoto) to eliminate some embedded drive issues (possible software corruption) that are causing...
    • Wingsley
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    • clean install macos imac (21.5" late 2013) macos 10.12 macos sierra 10.12 time machine backup
    • Replies: 0
    • Forum: macOS Sierra (10.12)
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    M1 iMac impossible to reinstall BigSur

    Hello fellow Mac Users, I am out of hope right now. My new M1 iMac (16GB Ram, 256GB storage, middle version) has recently started to get many bugs and crashes. These include random restarts (a purple light flashes and the iMac restarts, the following messages say kernel panic), not possible to...
    • Ahnbar
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    • bigsur clean install macos
    • Replies: 6
    • Forum: iMac
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    Messed up migration from High Sierra to M1 Big Sur, please help

    Hello, please can you suggest me what is the best way I can fix a huge mess that happened when a very incompetent shop migrated the data from the hard drive of the old broken laptop to the new M1? (macbookair 8GB Ram, 512GB) What happened: old laptop was already messed up by someone who...
    • WilliamTyl
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    • big sur 11.3 clean install macos m1 2020 m1 air migration assistant
    • Replies: 3
    • Forum: macOS
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    Function keys on Macbook Pro not working (even after checking "Use function keys..." box, erasing HD and reinstalling Mac Os X)

    Hi, after the installation of additional audio drives, I assume for some kind of conflict, the function keys on my Macbook Pro 2015 stopped working (i.e. they do "hit" but take different functions from the special brightness/volume adjustments they normally have). Yes I have checked the...
    • nabucodinosaur
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    • clean install macos clean installation function keys support
    • Replies: 1
    • Forum: MacBook Pro
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    Typing tutor for Mac?

    I recently had to undergo surgery on my hand, followed by therapy. I'm now in the self-therapy stage. I want to sharpen my touch-typing as an extension of my recovery. I have an old version of MBTT / Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing (v. 18) on my iMac. I've had some old software conflicts on my...
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