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My trusty old A1286 MacBookPro5,1 Late 2008 15" MBP 2.53GHz is on its last legs and now fails to turn on. It had a good innings of nearly 10 years without issue. I have upgraded to an SSD drive and it was last running on El Capitan. I have the opportunity to acquire a free A1278 MacBookPro8,1...

1) Does time machine delete the oldest versions based on their age, or the number of versions created? 2) If it deletes based on age, how old do the versions have to be to get deleted? 3) If it deletes based on the number of versions created, how many versions do there have to be before the...

Hello guys, Long time AD admin, that is now in charge of a small business with 8 Mac's most running El Capitan. We don't have a huge infrastructure: NAS (Synology), LB4M Gig Switch, Firewall, ESXi 5.5. <~~ currently the ONLY VM running on here is our current Windows 2008 AD Server. I have...

Hello My MBP updated while it was on last night. Here is the info about this update: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT207130. I found several strange things after this happened: 1. I got the Welcome to your Mac screen asking me to accept or decline that feedback to application developers will...

Currently we have a Mac Mini (late 2012) Running El Capitan 10.11.6 (most current as of time of post), here are the specs: 2.3GHz intel 4 core i7 16GB 1600 MHz DDR3 1TB 5000 RPM boot drive (no files stored) Promis pegasus 2 r8 Raid 12TB usable (x2 one for time machine back up) Both pegasus are...

Hey, guys! Hoping someone here can help me. I'm the proud new owner of a retina Macbook (early 2015) and I absolutely love it. I'd like to say that it's been problem free, but I can't- Handoff just isn't working! I logged into iCloud using the same Apple ID on my iPhone (iPhone 6S, iOS 9.3.3)...

My Magic Keyboard stopped working so I guess it ran out of battery, I have been using it with Lightning cable connected which is also supposed to recharge the battery, Right? It has been 2 days since I have the Lightning cable connected, I have also tried with my Amazon tablets charger but if I...

iOS9.3.2 iPad Air & 17,1 iMac OS X 10.11.5 & iTUnes12.4.1.6 I can go to the other side of the house, using WIFI and HomeShare any movie I have on my iMac w my iPad Air, at anytime I chose. But I must be within 2 feet of the iMac to HomeShare iTunes 12 library music w my iPad Air. If I am not...

Hello all, Before I start here are the specs of my iMac: El Cap 10.11.4 Photos.app Version 1.5 (370.42.0) Late 2012 i7 16GB Ram 3TB Fusion GTX680MX 2GB First Gen Trackpad (Recently replaced batteries) Apple USB keyboard with Num pad I was looking through my Photos.app library and came...

Hi all, I own a Mid 2014 Retina MacBook Pro (2.6GHz, 256GB SSD), and am running OSX 10.11 El Capitan. I much prefer the aesthetics and looks of OSX 10.9 Mavericks, and am thinking about any disadvantages of downgrading? There would need to be some things I have to be able to do if I am going to...

I'm on Mozilla FireFox 45.0.1 on latest OS X El Capitan and the freezing/hanging still hasn't stopped. Also, keep finding that CMD+ESC to exit doesn't work. I use FF on Windows and don't have any of these issues. Anyone noticed similar issues?

SO in recent weeks my mac will unexpectedly crash with a plain white screen, then it would stop at a black screen that says "no operating system found" and then i would have to do a hard restart. can anyone help please my model is a 2011 mac mini.

Is there anything I should know or any steps that I should take before I upgrade? I haven't done it in years and just need to bite the bullet and do it. I have a backup on my system on a external HDD and i pulled my harddrive for an SSD fairly recently.

I have the latest updates of El Capitan and Itunes on a 2015 rMBP. Recently I have noticed smooth scrolling issues inside itunes, some in chrome and some in firefox.... but mostly Itunes when using the touch pad only. I can see the cpu usage going well above 100 percent when scrolling through...

Hi, new member here, So I have recently purchased a LaCie Big2 12tb HDD with RAID. This is to go with my iMac that has a Bootcamp Windows partition generally used for playing games. What I want to do is use the LaCie drive in a RAID 1 configuration for the OSX partition. I then want to create...

Hope someone can offer advice. I am upgrading my mac with a 240GB SSD and 3TB HDD. My plan is to put the operating system and User accounts on the SSD and place the media folders (Music, Video and Photos) on the HDD. Current usage size of 1TB Drive for User account is about 700GB. What is the...

hi guys, first time posting here so go easy been struggling to find a way of reviving my 15" macbook pro mid 09 i7 after trying to update to the latest version of el capitan it just will not boot up any more. it will turn on, get to about 40% of the loading bar, go to a white screen and...

Recently, i just partitioned my hard drive to make room for a windows side. Now that i need to re bootcamp it, i can not un partition the hard drive. It does not even show that there is 50 GIGs missing. I can not remove it through boot camp or disk utility. Apple told me that the only way that i...

For the sake of testing (with SIP en/disabled) my key back-up application, I installed OS X 10.11.3 (15D21) onto an internal HDD. Installation of both the OS and Back-up application went flawless! BUT!!! After rebooting into OS X 10.10.5 (still my main OS version) I ran across an issue with the...

Greetings all. I recently was able to downgrade my iMac to OS X Mavericks 10.9.5. I was struggling with this for weeks and after some time browsing here and creating a thread, I got some answers and solutions and I am now back on the OS that ran best on my iMac. Anyway, my iPhone however has...