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Sorry if this is the wrong forum to post this kind of question in. If it is better suited elsewhere, feel free to move it. Hello, everyone! I have a question wrt Spotlight's settings. I actually triple boot 3 different versions of Mac OS on a 2010 unibody macbook: Snow Leopard, El Capitan, and...

Which version of Mac OS X/OS X is the latest version that can run Microsoft Office 98?

I'm not finding much about this and wanted to see if anyone here know: I have a copy of Mac OS X 10.6 Server with a serial number. The Xserve that it was installed on originally is wiped and long done (it was sold with a standard/client version of a later OS X 10.13 on it). Someone wants to buy...

Just a curious thought that popped into my head. I probably should have reached out to Steven Troughton-Smith but thought I would ask here. Does anyone know if Apple has rewritten the macOS code base since OS X was introduced in March of 2001? I know they have deprecated technologies and...

Weatherpop , Grok (and its son) is broke. Not using tiger but that widget is dead too. Any Hope?

Hi there. I hope someone can help. Please excuse my lack of knowledge. I have a Late 2008 iMac, which I have fished out the loft. Its horrendously slow (because of the HDD I reckon) I plan on giving it a clean and booting it off a external SSD to (hopefully) speed it up. Before being put in...

I bought an in-box ATI Radeon 9200 Mac Edition graphics card on eBay to use with my Power Macintosh G3 (Minitower 266 MHz) and got it in the mail today, so I decided to install it. I first put the card in the top PCI slot, and moved the FireWire/USB card which had previously occupied it into the...

I am trying to reinstall OS X using Disk Utility, but I keep running into problems. I always get errors like ‘unable to write to the last block of the device’ and ‘unable to delete the CoreStorage Logical volume Group’ whenever I try to erase/partition the HD. Anyone have any solutions?

I bought a 1999 PowerBook G3 off of eBay a couple of weeks ago: https://everymac.com/systems/apple/powerbook_g3/specs/powerbook_g3_333.html It came with a 4GB HDD and 96MB RAM that had a working Mac OS X Jaguar installed on it. I booted in to and used it several times. I have tried...

So my various multifunction laser printers (MFPs) have worked printing-wise out of the box with macOS Big Sur on my Apple silicon M1 machine, but the built-in scanners have not. I have been looking at solutions like updated Mac specific drivers (that don't exist) or the possibility of using...

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I gather from searching around that the answer amounts to “not possible”: From SL onward, the default file name for screencapture is “Screen shot YYYY-MM-DD at HH:mm:ss.[format]”. Pre-SL, the default file name was “Picture [x].[format]”, where “x” was a sequential digit. In Tiger or Leopard...

Hey! I searched a lot on the web for OS X Mavericks installer file, but i didn't find any, but the updates. It was removed from the App Store, so that's not an option, it is why i'm here. Can someone give me a link for the full Mavericks installer? I want to create a bootable disk. An Apple ID...

Some what....I have a CAT5 cable running from somewhere into my room. I wasn't sure if it was working or not, but I decided to give it a try on my PowerBook G3 Wallstreet running Mac OS 10.0.3 (Cheetah). The chances of this working was very slim I thought with my concerns mainly, is the cable...

I bought an iMac with Os X El Capitan. I tried to reinstall the OS but i came up with an error upon signing in with apple id. **Sample of error attached** I don’t know the original apple id used in here. Is there any way i can install the os without asking for the apple id? Thank you.

I tried to reset my macbook. But when I try to reinstall it. I encountered an error in the apple id section. I sent this laptop to a service provider years ago so they’re the ones who installed the os. So I’m not really sure what did they do. I tried to do the bootable usb but it does not show...

Thought I'd pop in and ask a 2 part question here about unsupported versions of OS X/macOS being hacked onto an Early 2008 iMac [8,1]... So... 1. Is Sierra or High Sierra the highest unsupported OS that can be loaded onto such a beast? and 2. Is RAM still stuck at 6GB reliably? The last...

I was having issues with the latest Catalina OS X on my iMac. I read that I could restore the previous OS by booting in Recovery Mode. I selected a previous date from my Time Capsule backups and started the process. It looked like it was going to take a ridiculous amount of hours. The next day I...

Is there a known article or guide which tells about upgrading files and a whole system through the many OS versions ? Maybe with a focus on the bigger Apple Software programs as Logic / Garageband / Final Cut... Maybe with most OS X / Mac OS possible: f.ex from Lion up to Catalina...