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Hi all, I've purchased a second hand 2020 M1 Air for a roadtrip. Its the base model with only 256gb of storage. I had hoped to reduce my photos library footprint by ticking the 'Optimise Mac Storage' option, in photos/settings, rather than 'Download originals the this Mac' My 80gb photos...

In iOS 17, I disabled “Add Favorite Songs” under the Library section of Apple Music settings. However, since approximately two iOS updates ago, whenever I favorite an album, all of its songs are automatically added to my library. This behavior is new, as in the past, favoriting albums didn’t...

Just noticed that whilst the photo stream is working between my iPhone and iPad (ie photos from iPhone are appearing in the photo stream on the iPad) for some reason the photos are not being saved into the photos library. I’ve checked through recently deleted (nothing there) but can’t see the...

I wasn't planning to upgrade to macOS Ventura yet, I was waiting for v13.1, but yesterday I was forced to. After I installed the latest Monterey minor update from v12.6 to v12.6.1 my MBP became unstable and started getting kernel panics like crazy. It is the first time I have experienced this...

I use iCloud to sync my photos and videos across devices as well as serve as a short-term backup. I don’t want to use iCloud as a long-term backup, however. I like to keep my iCloud library small as I’ve found that Photos runs much more efficiently than hosting my entire vast library. So, I...

Hello, I followed various advice from WhatsApp support in regards to images and media automatically saving. I have been forced to trouble shoot this although all settings to save are turned off, as this is clogging up my photo library (every photo is saving, dozens every day). 1) I was told by...

Having just started using Fitness+ I was wondering if it’s at all possible to create Custom Collections (in effect a playlist of workouts). I’d like to be able to seamlessly carry out 2 or 3 workouts back to back but this does seem possible. Also, why on earth is the Library section at the...

What would cause my entire library of downloaded music (~100GB) to completely get removed? I flipped "offload unused apps" off then on, and sync'ed my phone with my Mac (i.e. "SYNC" to remove error files, etc.)... but then all of my downloaded Apple Music was gonzo... (never had this happen...

To all ships at sea-- Help? Above is what I get when emptying the trash. The general trash IS EMPTIED, however then I get the three error msgs onscreen, one at a time, shown in the image. If I look in the trash I see the topmost picture of the mbpro1118 folder which, if opened via the arrow at...

When browsing the Library folder (~/Library/StatusKit/database), I'm trying to figure out what information is included in statuskit-cloud.db. Specifically the following tables: ZINVITEDUSER ZRECEIVEDINVITATION There are phone numbers and emails within the tables, including timestamps. I'm...

I want a place to store all of my wife’s and my photos and videos from the last several years. Currently, everything is on a portable hard drive, but we don’t have a way to access the content on the fly. I’m also worried about data corruption and drive failure. I’m not sure I want NAS because...

I want a shared photo/video library that both my wife and I can access on our devices, as well a something that will automatically sync new content (or at least allow for upload). This rules out Apple Photos and iCloud Files. Is Dropbox a good solution these days? Open to suggestions.

Can anyone please tell me what these application folders are within my user library please?

Today I was snooping around for some Auto Unlock files in my ~/Library folder and I found a assortment of folders with duplicate (or "redundant" in GB) named folders. These folders don't appear when I view the directory via Terminal. Can anyone explain what's going on here? (I'm on an M1...

first time MacOS user soon, switching from Windows10 Setup: M1 Mac Mini External 2TB SSD connected with USB-C as far as I am aware iTunes movies and tv episodes are saved in HD 1080p only when downloaded locally, even if you have bought 4K versions. Is this still the case? Will the sound...

It is crazy how often the drive keeps reading and writing for some reason (yes, I have a quite loud 6 TB Western Digital Black). I also use Backblaze which I've now disabled for that specific drive, but the drive keeps being accessed a lot. Don't know what's going on really because I can't see...

Which have you found yourself using more so far? I can't really find much of a use for hiding home screens, when you can just move an app entirely being "library view only." Initially, I planned to keep everything on home screens - but hidden - for the sake of being able to quickly take stock of...

Settings > General to check. With iOS 14’s App Library, I went back through the App Store “purchased” view and redownloaded a ton of lesser used apps that I had previously deleted due to being OCD about my Home Screen organization. I went from 111 to 158 installed overall, and it got me...

Good morning, I have an iMac, an iphone and an ipad. All systems are up-to-date and all are connected to the same icloud with the same apple id. yesterday i imported a lot of photos to my ipad and created several new albums. (I want to mogtte from Adobe Lightroom to Cloud) the photos got...

Hey all! I am an avid music collector and have used Google Play Music for almost a decade now because of it's cloud-based music locker service that it offers alongside streaming. Since it's shutting down in October, I have my eyes on Apple Music as the closest replacement. I am trying to clarify...