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    macOS Is good to transfer entire old SSD to a new Mac SSD PCIe by booting from a live OS and using dd? Does the disk contain some firware or recovery partition or EFI that I shouldn’t delete with the old one?

    January 18, 2018

    macOS Is good to transfer entire old SSD to a new Mac SSD PCIe by booting from a live OS and using dd? Does the disk contain some firware or recovery partition or EFI that I shouldn’t delete with the old one?

    Is good to transfer entire old SSD to a new Mac SSD PCIe by booting from a live OS and using dd? Does the disk contain some firware or recovery partition or EFI that I shouldn’t delete with the old one?

    Posted: 17 Jan 2018 10:02 PM PST

    Please help, iMac 2017 stuck at 99% loaded

    Posted: 17 Jan 2018 08:35 PM PST

    Issues with 10.13.2 on older MBP

    Posted: 17 Jan 2018 04:46 PM PST

    I'm using a mid-2010 MBP 15" (still officially supported according to Apple's website)

     

    Had Sierra 10.12.6 running just fine.
    Couldn't upgrade to High Sierra 10.13.0 as I am using RAID 0 (Stripe) of two SSDs (replaced the superdrive and original hard drive with two 2.5" SSDs, made a RAID to elevate SATA2's slowness).
    I then used an external hard drive (2.5", mechanical) to install High Sierra on it, and later Carbon Copy Cloner to clone that installation over to my RAID, at which point 10.13.0 was working fine, updated fine to 10.13.1, but when 10.13.2 came out .. it would fail to update (tried via terminal, app store, download the files from apple's website, the plain\combo\supplemental, have the files on an external drive, extract their content to lib\updates\9... folder, reset Mac's memory, single user mode, use another user and finally, redo the whole thing this time first formatting my RAID as APFS (first attempt was on HFS+)). (the way it would fail is that the first phase installation within working OS would work fine, during reboot it would start with "2min left", and after 10-15sec restart and greet me with "some updates could not be installed", and after any attempt to install 10.13.2, the app store update section offers one update: "upgrade from 10.13.2 to 10.13.2" <-- .2 to .2 O_o)

     

    Seeing as nothing would work, I restored a carbon copy clone of a 2016 MBP into my 2010 MBP, now my mid 2010 MBP finally have 10.13.2 BUT it is unusable: it is super slow; takes 10 min to get to user login, another 30min(!) for the beach ball to vanish and buttons to become live, tried to access "about this mac", first time I load it after boot it is missing the inc,year portion (saying just "macbook pro"), cmd+q-> reopen and its fine, same with app store, first time loading it, it has no buttons on top (no fav/top/cat.../updates), cmd+q->reopen - works fine, everything takes few attempts to lunch, tried opening reminders via lunch bar, first click .. it bounces a few times and then just stops, doesn't open, second time it opens, takes ... 5+ min to open (also 5+ min for about this mac\app store)
    activity monitor shows 7.2gb ram used out of 8gb ram, however no paticular app is using more than 500mb ram except for "kernel task" at 750mb (it also has 135 threads and uses 7% of cpu). using "applications" on the dock only works for non-folders, trying to click on a folder closes it instead of showing the applications that are in the folder
    in general, the machine doesn't work well enough to be useful in this state.

     

    did a fresh install of high sierra 10.12.6, everything works blazing fast and smooth.

     

    just for fun, tried to boot the 2016 15" MBP via external drive with the carbon copy of the mid 2010 MBP using 10.13.1 and:
    1. it booted and worked fine
    2. it still refused to update to 10.13.2

     

    Questions:
    1. Is there anyone here with mid-2010 15" MBP that have 10.13.2 working just fine?
    2. is it a known 'thing' that using OS that was installed on much newer mac causes unexpected behavior? while using OS that was installed on much older Mac (assuming same OS is supported on both macs) works fine?

    submitted by /u/haveonlyonethingtosa
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    How to make external HDD partitions respect APFS’ “copy-on-write”?

    Posted: 17 Jan 2018 09:57 PM PST

    Hi!

    I have a 5TB external HDD with 3 partitions.

    With APFS, you are able to duplicate/copy and paste a file without it taking up anymore additional space, as it only references the file, similar to an alias, or a symbolic link.

    I was just wondering if it's possible for my HDD to also respect this, as in, lets say, I have Final Cut Pro on one volume. I duplicate it (copy and paste) over to another volume that is also sharing that same storage space in a container. Instead of doing as I've mentioned above, it will actually copy and paste and take up additional space.

    Is this a limitation to external HDDs? Does this happen on SSDs as well? Have I set up my HDD correctly?

    Thanks.

    submitted by /u/n0mar
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    How do I add a folder to favorites?

    Posted: 17 Jan 2018 11:39 AM PST

    I'd like to add Macintosh HD folder to my favorites. How do I do this when looking under Finder? Also (I'm a windows transplant) when saving it always seems like a real struggle to easily find the folder I want to put things in. Is there some easier way to do this?

    Also, so that I don't have to create another post, is there a way to test my macbook pro's performance? Windows had the diagnostic tool that would give you a rating of your systems performance. What I'd like to do is just make sure my system is optimized to be as fast as possible and that I'm not leaving anything on the table. So is there a speed test that checks the system and compares it to new "out of the box" performance to see if there's been any falloff?

    submitted by /u/ElBigBad
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    Does anybody have the ISO of OpenDarwin 7.2.1?

    Posted: 17 Jan 2018 07:11 AM PST

    How to download iPhoto or Photos to Macbook?

    Posted: 17 Jan 2018 10:33 AM PST

    On my girlfriends 2013 Macbook air, there is no trace of iPhoto or Photos.

    I go to the app store application and there is nothing in "Purchased". I refreshed the downloads/purchased and nothing. I search the app store for iPhoto, which has apparently been disconintued, and for Photos. Neither show up.

    submitted by /u/Geedorabot
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    Disabling Keychain?

    Posted: 17 Jan 2018 04:40 AM PST

    I've started using Dashlane recently instead of Keychain and I've found it really useful, however Keychain keeps popping up and asking me if I want to save my passwords on it which I don't. I can't seem to find a way to disable it either. Any help?

    submitted by /u/Tomdorama
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    How to Add AirDrop to Dock on Mac for Rapid Access

    Posted: 17 Jan 2018 04:27 AM PST

    Is there a way to remove "Other Volumes" in High Sierra for free space ?

    Posted: 17 Jan 2018 03:28 AM PST

    APFS kidnaps your data bank

    Posted: 17 Jan 2018 08:22 AM PST

    Spotlight is slow as f*

    Posted: 17 Jan 2018 06:40 AM PST

    Does this happen to anyone else?

    Ever since Spotlight was introduced it works very slow.

    1) Pressing Apple-Space is slow to bring up the search bar (1+ seconds) and sometimes I have to type it twice to work 2) While search for a document I use daily, a type in the name -- it takes 3+ seconds to find the file

    macOS 10.13.2 (17C88) / MacBook Air (13-inch, Early 2015) 4GB / SSD is 50% empty

    submitted by /u/fulldecent
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