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Hi Mac friends. I'd like to temporarily make an unused networked 2TB drive from someone else's PC (I have permission) as the Time Machine backup (I'm just backing up 1TB maximum but they say it' best to have double for allowance) while budget is allocated for softwares like SuperDuper! or...

Hello Mac and Apple friends. Where can I find the complete manual for the Z Shell which seems to be a an upgrade shell of Bash. Is there a built-in manula inside the shell itself that I can type in macOS's Terminal? If so, what is the command? I've used sudo mount -t hfs /dev/disk2...

Hello guys I recently bought the new MacBook Pro With the M1 chip. During use I noticed when I put it in its sleeve after switching the device off, it automatically boots up. I really don't understand how this is possible. As soon as it is halfway inside the sleeve you immediately hear the...

Since the Apple Music app doesn't display song release dates, unless you navigate to the album, I want to type out the Siri command "When was this song released" to run as a shortcut. Is that possible?

After 14 years spent on computers running only Windows from XP to 10, I bought Mac and I got used to work on it within two days and the machine is absolutely great and better than I thought but some things on my new Mac PC are much different than on my Windows PC and I need help how to learn...

Hello, in previous Mac OS versions, we had the ability to first set the OS language, for example in English and then have the date and time in a local different language, eg Greek. We were using the command: defaults write NSGlobalDomain AppleLocale -string el_GR or defaults write...

Hi folks, I regularly edit pics using Gimp, but it drives me crazy when I have to right-click Open With Gimp every time. The default is Preview for images which is what I prefer as I use that too, hence having to Open With. I've looked into Automater thinking that this might help but I can't...

Hello everyone, I would like to know if there's a way to disconnect external mouse support on the MacOs High Sierra 10.13 for some testing purposes. The test needs to do 10 sleep cycles, leave the computer awake for 30s and sleep it by 60s. When the mouse is connected to the mac, by some...

Hi, I found somewhere the following terminal command and a keep it because It is useful, but I forgot to add the description of what it does, can someone please remind me what is its purpose? shasum /Volumes/Install\ macOS\ Sierra/Install\ macOS\...

hello, i try to set a file access to immune (+i) with chattr and terminal responds cmd not found. are there any terminal commands similar to chattr un ELcap that can do the exact job, without altering any other attributes and how to type in in terminal thanks

Hi All, I'm a PC tech and just started with MAC. The short version: Macbook Unibody Mid 2010 - removed working HDD (El Capitan installed) Installed SSD (Samsung 128GB) - Fresh out of the box Booted pressing CMD (the square with the circles at the corners) + R Get a grey folder with a question...

Hello, Forgive me if I am in the wrong space to post but just trying to figure out a small issue i have whilst trying to run a command patch file I have. Basically have some software that requires me to run a patch file first but when i do I keep getting the same error code saying i dont have...

I'm trying to make a script of sorts, to copy from the currently selected cell of Excel:Mac, then paste into a VMWare Windows 7 command window that's already open. I tried VBA with 'appactivate' to try to select the command window by name, then was gonna do sendkeys to paste: no joy yet (would...

On osx Sierra apple added a new feature that is when you move a window close to another it will stick the edges together (sorry about my crappy English I don't know how to describe this but I think you get the idea), which is so annoying since you cant adjust the windows location until you drag...

It seems that in El Capitan, Apple has linked together the options "Increase contrast" and "Reduce transparency" in the "Display" pane of the "Accessibility" prefs pane. While you can enable "Reduce transparency" by itself, you cannot enable "Increase contrast" by itself. As some of you may...

OOPS . . . That was supposed to say "El Capitan Dock". :) 1. Launch the Terminal app from the /Applications/Utilities folder. 2. Type the following in the Terminal: defaults write com.apple.dock mineffect suck; killall Dock 3. Hit your "return" key. 4. If it asks you for your password --...

This is nothing new, but maybe some of you haven't seen it before. 1. Launch the Terminal app from the /Applications/Utilities folder. 2. Type the following in the Terminal: defaults write com.apple.dock mineffect suck; killall Dock 3. Hit your "return" key. 4. If it asks you for your...

Hi, Was wondering if it is possible to disable/enable Siri from terminal command.

Hi, I've been looking for this for awhile and nothing I do seems to help. It's also odd because it just started happening without me changing anything. I have an older 13" 2009 macbook pro that I use to run Kodi on through the TV. I use my current 2011 15" Macbook Pro to often remote into...

Cindori announces the release of Command Center, a powerful utility designed to enhance your Mac experience. Command Center is a new utility app for macOS, inspired by Control Center in iOS. We’ve created a beautiful tool designed to let you control and monitor most aspects of your Mac...