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Mac is Apple's computer brand. Apple currently produces several lines of Macintosh computers divided into two categories, desktops: Mac mini, iMac, iMac Pro, Mac Pro, and notebooks: MacBook, MacBook Air and MacBook Pro. All current Macs ship with macOS. This tag is for any and all questions that relate to the actual hardware. For operating system-related questions, use the [macos] tag.
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iCloud Drive - Stop Automatic File Upload & Download
Read through the various issues described against this 3rd-party tool:
https://github.com/Obbut/iCloud-Control/issues
-esp-
https://github.com/Obbut/iCloud-Control/issues/39
https://github.com/Obbut/i …
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Copy pathname from Finder with tilde (~/) instead of absolute home directory
No. The ~ substitution is a shell construct.
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Open an Encrypted Folder In Another Mac
So you can easily copy it to another Mac and open it there (Finder will prompt you for the password).
BTW... you are not "encrypting a folder", the original folder remains and is still accessible. …
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Why I can't login to my Mac without typing in my password sometimes?
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to add or delete a fingerprint to use with Touch ID;
to change the iPhone or iPad passcode or Mac system password, and for other security settings like FileVault on your Mac;
when there have been more … than five unrecognized Touch ID authorization attempts in a row;
and after you log out of your Mac. …
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How do I get back space allocated to a disk image?
It's not lost.
Either reboot, or wait for the OS to reclaim it.
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How to edit locked css files on Mac?
Those file(s) are in subdirectories of /System/Library/AssetsV2/com_apple_MobileAsset_DictionaryServices_dictionaryOSX
This location is part of the sealed system volume, you cannot alter files here.
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How to make blinking vertical text cursor/marker more pronounced
If you are using Monterey, change the mouse pointer in the Accessibility preference pane.
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Mac Mini M1 with three monitors
As documented, the Mac mini M1 supports two external monitors.
https://www.apple.com/mac-mini/specs/ …
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Why does Preview remain active in the background?
This is by design and expected behavior if your memory pressure is green in activity monitor. Both iOS and macOS will keep some apps resident until compressed memory or paging is called for and then p …
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Why the Graphics Card on my MacBook Pro is always on "High perf." status?
Sure. Remove the unsupported drivers you installed until such time as nVidia fixes them.
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Script for setting Safari window position
You have an extra end tell in there and your quoting is weird.
Try this.
set theXposition to 40
set theYposition to 50
set theXsize to 700
set theYsize to 700
tell application "Safari"
make new do …
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Brew - How to stop losing app settings when updating?
Presumably you're using cask for some reason. Brew cask downloads from the developer's web site and replaces the binary with that download. So yes, macOS is going to detect that the app was changed. …
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How to uninstall brew-installed Little Snitch with brew?
The instructions for uninstalling Little Snitch are here:
https://help.obdev.at/littlesnitch6/intro-uninstall
Don't use Homebrew for uninstalling.
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Mac Terminal does not display U+200C Unicode special character correctly
This is the line editor in whatever shell you're using mangling the text.
Here are a couple of examples.
In ksh (my default shell):
$ TEXT="می^⁌روم"
$ echo $TEXT
میروم
$
Notice, no garbage.
Note tha …
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Why are “Messages in iCloud” still taking up storage on my Mac if they’re supposed to be in ...
iCloud Messages is a synchronization tool, not a storage tool. On either platform, it will download messages to the local device, and eject them again, when necessary.
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