high sierra

Hello, I have a problem with my Mid-2010 MacBook Pro. It has High Sierra installed and 6gb of ram. Around 3-4 months ago I installed Catalina through dosdude1's patcher and it worked fine until it started randomly shutting off and beeping. It was also time when the battery just went straight...

Any reason why this drive should not be usable with a MP3,1 running High Sierra on a SSD (not NVMe) boot? The OEM OPTIARC DVD RW AD-7170A are crap. The LTR-40125S is a PATA.

Friends I'm just looking for clues & Ideas here to see if I have missed any steps in trying to decipher "what happened" in the loss of some files. This is on an iMAC, wherein we installed a new SSD back in March, loading High Sierra from "scratch" using a USB installer, and it runs really...

I've installed VirtualBox to run High Sierra on my 2014 27" Retina iMac (Big Sur) Host Machine but can't find a way to make the VM access the USB device. I've tried the USB settings on the VM Manager and selected the USB Device but no luck. Also tried ejecting the USB on the Host before...

I’d like to run High Sierra on a new 2020 iMac so I can run MacOS Server 5.7.1. How about Parallels? Is this possible?

Hey everyone, I have recently booted MacOS to give it a try after Arch (which I was running on the same MacBook Pro hardware) However, I am very sad about battery life. 1.5 hours, seriously? Am I doing something wrong? I get around 8 hours with light usage and browsing on Arch with tlp. I...

Will I still be able to backup my iPhone (with the new iOS 15 upgrade) to my ol' MacBook Pro with High Sierra 13.6? Has anyone tried this, and been able to confirm? Usually iTunes downloads a little update to make it compatible with the newest iOS, but I'm worried that Apple will soon leave we...

I have a 13 inch macbook pro 2015 model. The internal ssd died but thanks to the internet recovery mode, i managed to install El Captain 10.11.6 on an external ssd drive. I'm trying to upgrade to Big Sur, but the option to choose my external ssd during installation is greyed out Same error...

Hello. I have a Macbook Pro 2010 running High Sierra. I changed the HD for a SSD and upgraded RAM a few months ago and it was working fine. Today I turned it on and it chimes shows the apple logo and loading bar then it turns off, then it turns on and does the same. I've tried: - Apple...

I’m still using iTunes 12.6.5.3 (I know...) on High Sierra and just wanted to check if I’ll still be able to sync music / content with my iPhone SE (2016) if I update to iOS 14. Thanks!

Hi there, I have just purchased a mid 2010 Mac Pro Server. It comes running on OSX Lion and I would like to upgrade it to High Sierra so that I can install some more recent software versions that I use. I just wanted to ask how to do this as when I click "software update" it is the most up to...

Im trying to connect/setup my Canon Pixma iX6850 printer on my iMac thats using High Sierra but i have n idea where to begin. Ive pressed the printer's wifi button shouldn't i be seeing it in my wifi list on my imac?

I have an elderly parent in another province having issue with their high sierra on their mac. I had remoted it to troubleshoot and couldn't figure it out. The issue is there was some websites connecting to the website like youtube and google, but the rest of the sites were not. In safe mode...

(edited for clarity) Hey guys! The last time I posted you guys were incredibly helpful, and I hope someone can point me in the right direction. Current specs: And the hard drive setup: I bought this computer as-is from my old place of work. The drives are all probably non-OEM, and I'm...

Hello and Merry Christmas/Happy Holidays, I have a mid-2012 13” MBP running on 10.12.6 Sierra, which I’ve been trying to update to the latest OS for some time now. Any update that is newer than Sierra throws a “An error occurred while verifying firmware” error. After removing the CD/DVD drive...

When installing a macOS, to a 1TB drive, I was thinking that it might be an advantages to partition the drive into two, so that the 1st partition is 100GB and the 2nd 900GB. The purpose -as i think of it- is to have the OS in its dedicated partition and keep the users working files to a...

I am running Big Sur on my 2017 MacBook Pro (v11.0.1). I am running High Sierra on my 2011 Mac mini (v 10.13.6) Home sharing is fully enabled on both devices, yet I cannot see the Mac mini Library in the MacBook Pro Music app. The MacBook Pro is running an iTunes Match based library with all...

So my MacBook Pro (late 2013) 8MB RAM, 2.8ghz i7 and iMac 27 inch (late 2012) 32MB RAM, 3.4ghz i7, are both still on High Sierra since I was using Photoshop CS5 and needed the 32 bit support. But I have now upgraded to CC so don't need to stay on High Sierra Both my MacBook and iMac are...

I have an iMac 27inch, late 2012, currently running on High Sierra that is very tired and slow despite adding more RAM (currently on 32MB, I think). Thinking of getting new iMac in the new year which will obviously have Big Sur installed. Is there any way I can hook up my 2012 iMac as a second...

About a week ago my 2011 iMac running High Sierra (cannot update to newer than that) stopped syncing with my Exchange/Office 365 account. Strangely it seems to sync my junk folder, but not my inbox or sent items. I can send from the account and that sent email then appears on my other devices...