corruption

Something buggering me for years. Wondering if anyone has a real solution. After I search through my Gmail emails (Apple native Mail), occasionally - but more and more frequently - the unread email count craters. I have ~60 unread emails, and after searching this morning, it went to 4. The...

(As a side note, if you read my post about me “possibly wrecking my Mac,” this was happening before that so this isn’t a result of the possibly corrupted update.) So my dad, the admin of the iMac 21.5” late 2015, is experiencing very slow performance. Just going to a website, such as usps.com...

Hey so after I updated to MacOS Ventura 13.1, my iCloud/Apple ID profile picture did not sync properly and instead appeared as a stock macOS icon. The user account photo did appear with the iCloud/Apple ID picture until after a restart. Signing out and back in did not fix the issue but editing...

Twice today the electricity suddenly cut out. Very rare here, last time this happened was the 1980s, and no bad weather to blame. I had a 10MB password-protected (hence encrypted) disk image (DMG) open, with some text files inside. M1 mac mini has an SSD. Electricity cut for a large area of...

Hi All, I've recently joined the classic mac owners club, with three fixer upper SE/30's in various states of decay. Having selected the best logic board of the three, with no leaking caps or exploded battery. I've cleaned and recapped it. Not yet recapped the analog board or PSU but have...

I am migrating from an old Mac Pro to a Mac Studio and need an external enclosure for my old SATA drives that used to live inside the Mac Pro. I was just about to order a Sabrent USB 3.1 gen 2 4-bay enclosure (due to recommendations in another thread) when I read some random comments around the...

Are Zipped files more likely to become corrupt if kept on a flash vs Unzipping them and keeping them on a USB? What about if the files are kept long term. Is one file format more prone to corruption than another?

I have an encrypted hardware RAID (OWC Mercury Elite Pro Dual) that is MacOS (Journaled, Encrypted). This was created via Disk Utility a few years back. Disk Utility is saying the drive is in great shape. I am on BigSur 11.4 but have access to other macs with older OS'. Suddenly the external...

While running maintenance DiskWarrior found 5 files with damaged resource forks that could not be repaired. These were .psd files which appear to function normally. I don't know anything deep about Photoshop file format nor, for that matter, about Mac file formats in general. I assume the thing...

Hi guys I'm on macOS 10.13.2 for 5 months without any major problem. I use Parallel Desktop to boot Windows 10 virtually. The Date Modified column of the Desktop items indicates that the fatal problem has occurred exactly when I was installing a software on Windows 10 alongside its pirate...

Hi all. I've just invested in a lovely Mac Pro 2008 and got it up and running with High Sierra 10.13.4. Except I have this VERY big problem with my GTX 750 ti (which was working in my Mac Pro 1,1). I'm getting lags and UI glitching everywhere. When dragging a window, it lags terribly, very...

Hi everyone, It's late here, have been working on this problem for day and half time now to post the question , go to bed and try to forget it for awhile. For first time malware in form of ransomware has infected one of the computers in this house. Macbook Air, I don't know much about them I...

Hi, Macbook Pro Late 2013 user. When I run disk utility on my main drive it finds corruption and asks me to go on to recovery mode to fix it. Problem is: I go on to recovery mode, run disk utility and it says there's no problem! What's going on?!

Alright then so yersterday I accidently deleted the Facebook app by holding down on the icon and pressing the "x" in the corner. I then went to go into the App Store to redownload it but when I went to Facebook the only thing that wasn't there said "open" about thought I didn't delete the app. I...