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Hey, 1.How does changing the user password via system preferences effects the keychain password? 2.what happens if you reset it? (Now via system preferences) 3. What causes keychain to get into pop ups loops asking for passwords? Thanks

Probably Best off to start with the background to the issue. - Mac Mini Late 2012 was behaving oddly(explained below) in El Capitan so I have: Reinstalled El Capitan - Completed Successfully Done a Disk First Aid - Completed Successfully (No Problems) Now El Capitan is reinstalled when I log...

I'm constantly moving between using my MacBook Pro on the road and then when home, in Clamshell mode. I currently use Specticale and a keyboard command shortcut to centre each window! Window positions are never remembered when I move between clamshell and standalone. Does anyone know of an app...

Normally: when you drag a file from an external drive to the Desktop (for example), the file will copy (meaning the file remains on the external HD AND the desktop) Is there a way to JUST drag the file and it moves, rather than copies? (like an option, or a keyboard shortcut?)

Hey guys, I started noticing a weird style for the safari alert popup a few days ago. In this screenshot I just manually made Safari display an alert from the console with a simple: alert("This looks a lot like apple's developer sites and iOS") Have any of you ever seen that? Do you think...

Hi there, i have troubles replacing two stock OS X images with some i downloaded. When draging both images to the folder a (Blocked) Sign appears near the cursor. I have seen that i need to open up the Information panel and change the permission of 'everyone' to 'read & write'. But then this...

The other day I was trying to buy something on Amazon when little window tiles popped up offering the same thing at Target. I ignored it because I figured it must be some relatively harmless adware on Amazon. Then it popped up on other sites including Macrumors! I also started getting redirected...

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...

Is there a way to check to see what might be running on my Mac, its 2009 replaced hard drive last year. Maybe its just old but it sounds like something is still running on it, even when not in use. For example I go to bed and I hear like the hard drive noise. Can I use activity monitor to see...

I recently updated to El Capitan after the constant notifications from Apple borderline forcing me to do so. It has performed quite well other than a few app incompatibility issues but they should be fixed by developers. Today however I ran into an issue when trying to watch a film, I went to...

Hi all, I need your help, like the thread title states, I can't install the nVidia graphics driver update, and the option to choose the nVidia driver as the video card driver is greyed out and the system is defaulting to the Mac driver which is not allowing me to use my GTX 980 in my Mac Pro...

For reference, I'm talking about the text replacement shortcuts (a default one is "omw" for "On my way!") I seem to remember at one point that these shortcuts would sync between iPhone and Mac through iCloud. It actually happened for me once at long time ago, but never since. Is this not a...

Can anyone point me to some information in regard to the process of standing up an OSX Update Server on a private network not connected to the Internet? I have one server connected to the internet that I plan to utilize to pull updates down from Apple. However, at that point I need to copy the...

I am trying to install Windows 8.1 on a secondary drive. What I have done is taken out my OSX drive and replaced with the secondary drive. I have booted OSX from a backup on a USB3 hard drive. When I boot into the backup and startup Bootcamp to go through the process it has the Windows...

Hey everybody, i read and tried a lot about this but since I haven't succeeded, I am turning to you knowledgable folks :) Alright so here it is: I am running a Mac Pro 1,1 (MP) with El Capitan (EC)(pike boot.efi) and Windows 7 via bootcamp. I have a non-osx card GTX 660 in the MP which works...

Hi All, I am at work now but was hoping I could get some results by the time I am home. I have a Macbook Air 2010-2011 (not sure). Someone was playing with it and wiped the partition and the corresponding OSX (Mavericks). I tried to do a clean install - First I tried to use an El Capitan Boot...

With a new operating system around the corner, what new features or changes would you like to see? Please keep this forum focused on ideas not diatribes or complaints. We all know that Snow Leopard and the pre iCloud era are history. With this in regard, what changes would improve your daily...

I am so frustrated and fed up with trying to get some help or support from a site, firm, apple support, etc .... and its written as if I work for IBM. I don't understand a god damn thing you are talking about. I have been hacked, the wifi, the iPhone...I have no idea how buy i am being blamed...

Hi. I have an external Seagate SSHD 1TB drive to store large and less important files, used with SATA-USB bridge. It was plugged in only when I had to transfer some files, for most of the time was detached. Today something goes wrong. During copying a large file, transfer has been cancelled...

Hi, Does anyone know if you can switch between multiple Twitter accounts using Safari? I know you can do it on the iOS Twitter app but I'm wanting to use Safari.