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  1. AjTee

    Is current version in Beta Program actually final?

    Hello, Is current version in Beta Program actually final? Regards.
  2. tykobrian

    Help with Late 2009 iMac

    hope I don't bore you with my rambling. One of our relatives gave away their discarded imac to us and said that we can keep it if we can make it work again. It wasn’t booting up. We sent it to a local repair shop. There are no authorized mac shops here in Bangladesh. Anyway, the people in the...
  3. Mac03ForLife

    MacBook Pro 2011 Hard Drive Swap

    So I have a macbook pro 8,1 from late 2011 whose hard drive is very very slow I was given a faster, larger drive by a friend (same dimensions, etc). I know how to physically swap them, but can someone point me in the right direction in terms of cloning BOTH of my partitions to the new disk while...
  4. U

    Restore SSD with macOS High Sierra

    Hi guys. I have Mac Mini with installed SSD and it worked well since one and half year. Recently i got some trouble with it. For some reason(i don't know why),my High Sierra crashed(freezed) two times, third time reboot didn't help and seems to be OS has come to broken state :(...
  5. A

    See all iCloud-shared files?

    Hey all I would like to know a way to see all of my shared files via iCloud. I share some files via: Share -> Show People -> Share options -> Anyone with the link I would now like to be able to see all these files collected in some place. Perhaps through a smart folder or automator or other...
  6. SwissDataHoarder

    Macbook Pro 2018 after update 2

    Hello i made a poll about MacOS update 2. Would be cool if you can answer it http://www.easypolls.net/poll.html?p=5b8ee476e4b0564f7676bde7 to help other user with their purchase. Please everyone should answer, not only who has problems with the mac. thank you This poll is shared on apple...
  7. M

    MacOS could not be installed on your computer

    Hello, I have a problem installing MacOS to iMac. I wanted a new (clear) macos on it, so I deleted Macintosh HD, where macos was installed via Command+R recovery mode using disk utility. Then in recovery mode I clicked on install a new copy of MacOS, it started downloading but in the half of...
  8. bello2185

    Log-in background not showing currently set wallpaper on latest Mojave public beta?

    Yesterday I received my new 2018 MacBook Pro 15" and after updating to the latest High Sierra update I enrolled my Mac in the beta program and installed the latest Mojave public beta. Everything is working correctly but there is one thing bothering me. On my old 2013 MacBook Pro 13" the macOS...
  9. RedWish

    1 app (install) for multiple OS versions/partitions

    For work i have a ssd prepped with 10.11 and 10.13 to service/diagnose a wide arrange of Macs. I also have a 3rd partition with folders and apps which i can use on both OS installs. What i like to create is 1 partition with installed apps which i can use on multiple OS system, so regardless of...
  10. D

    Mac OS Lion/GarageBand '11 update expertise please

    I have an old McBook Pro (specs below) I've decided to dust off and use solely for GarageBand projects. I booted it up the other day and played around on Garageband '11 (Version 6.0.5), and it's performance is still serviceable. I'd like to upgrade the GarageBand version on this old MacBook...
  11. ipedro

    Display Background Terminal Commands?

    I've been delving into Terminal after my iMac failed and I was able to save it through Terminal commands in a way that GUI Disk Utility wasn't able to. It got me interested in what's happening behind the scenes. Is macOS not constantly executing commands in the background? Is there an app or a...
  12. M

    Disk space decreases to 0, but returns on restart

    When I restart my laptop, I have 30GB of hard disk space left. Over the course of several hours, the available space reported by Finder reduces to 0. When I restart, the free space returns. As an example: I saw my available hard disk space was at 21.1MB, so I restarted my computer. At 9:54am...
  13. AjTee

    Siri hangs after exit from Sleep Mode

    Hello, When I use Siri after MacBook restart it works normally. After exit from Sleep mode, when I press the button, the little Siri window pops up and it makes its standard noise "duh-ding", but the icon that indicates that Siri is listening does not move (icon is hanged), and it does not...
  14. rybelis

    MacBook Pro does not deliver images in iMessage

    Recently I bought MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2014) MacOS High Sierra 10.13.6 (17G65) I noticed I could not successfully deliver images in iMessages. Although it looks like everything is fine and the image has been sent in my MacBook's iMessages, but actually receiver gets the small stock...
  15. C

    Rip Bluray on macOS Mojave Beta

    Any one using macOS Mojave Beta and how to rip or backup Blurays on it?
  16. T

    Why does the iOs photos app show different time zone time than the MacOS version

    When I look at my photos were taken at a place that was a different time zone than mine, the time shows correctly (i.e. adjusts it for the time zone.) however, on my iOs devices, the time is set at my own current time zone. Is this normal or am i doing something wrong?
  17. I

    Delete or Merge a partition

    Hi, I had a bootcamp partition but in some way it got transformed to another kind of partition and now all I want is to delete every partition except the main one (Which runs MacOS). As my MacBook is new, I don't have a lot of stuff in it. I just want to merge all the other partitions into the...
  18. dvvdv

    Windows vs macOS?

    Here a my two desktops, Windows 7 and macOS! I have both for different programs and tweaks, as you can see below! Just wondering if there are any essential tweaks or mods, programs I should add to either desktop? Suggestions and advice are appreciated, thanks! If you like either desktop, let me...
  19. C

    iTunes library help

    Hi guys, Made the plunge and bought a Macbook pro, loving how slick and fast MacOS definitely not sure i can go back to windows. My question is about iTunes and moving my library from windows to mac, im having a bit of difficulty as ive used iTunes on windows since it was released and i've...
  20. Z

    Dock shadow issue

    I am having a really annoying shadow around the dock. If I hide the dock the shadow goes away with it, so this shadow is clearly attached to the dock. I want it to disappear.