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    macOS how can i make this go away, everytime i type its there and i acnt type certain words or press enter


    how can i make this go away, everytime i type its there and i acnt type certain words or press enter

    Posted: 27 Dec 2019 07:24 PM PST

    Is it possible to add more Dynamic Pictures?

    Posted: 27 Dec 2019 06:26 PM PST

    This please. I like the Catalina Dynamic wallpaper but not enough to have it forever.

    submitted by /u/AE_RojasM
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    How to force apps to start minimized?

    Posted: 28 Dec 2019 01:21 AM PST

    Like Telegram or Slack that start wide open even with set in Mac login.

    submitted by /u/beausoleil
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    Worth it to upgrade to Catalina for selling laptop?

    Posted: 28 Dec 2019 02:01 AM PST

    Hey Guys,

    I am selling my Late 2011 13" MBP, and I was wondering if it's worth using dosdude1's Catalina or Mojave patcher to upgrade the OS from High Sierra. Do you guys think this would potentially increase the amount of money someone would pay for my laptop, or not?

    Thanks :)

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    How would I create a whole bootable OS, High Sierra 10.13, on a USB flash drive?

    Posted: 27 Dec 2019 04:32 PM PST

    The title states my dilemma.

    A piece of software that i have appears to not agree with the newest Catalina, but is confirmed working for High Sierra.

    I need to create a USB flash that I suppose has a bootable virtual machine of macOS High Sierra.

    One issue —

    On the newest Catalina, i can't run the High Sierra installer because it's saying the software is too old.

    Any help?

    submitted by /u/zzirFrizz
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    Anyone else not having sound output when MacBook comes out of sleep?

    Posted: 27 Dec 2019 05:01 PM PST

    Got a MacBook 16" and I haven't had any speaker popping, but I've had this bug a few times now where I open the lid of my MacBook and it can't play sound through the speakers. I've done everything I can to try to fix it, but the only solution is to restart. Audio shows it's playing in system preferences, so idk what's going on.

    Really annoying me -_-

    submitted by /u/BringBackTron
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    Looking at my install logs. What are these things?

    Posted: 28 Dec 2019 12:20 AM PST

    Installed "SU_TITLE" ()

    (SB) Shoving Sandbox file:///Volumes/Macintosh%20HD/Recovered%20Items/Library/Printers/InstalledPrinters.plist -> file:///Volumes/Macintosh%20HD/Library/Printers/InstalledPrinters.plist ...

    (I have never used a printer with this laptop. Is this normal?)

    Installed "Voice Update - Nora" (1.3.2)

    Googling this one led me to GFI Software, and this is apparently a custom voice? For what, though? Does it come automatically with the OS?

    Any info you can give me on these would be greatly appreciated. I'm getting into forensics and want to understand everything I can.

    submitted by /u/salvation-fantasy
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    4k60 over HDMI on MacBook Pro 15" 2018 only 30hz

    Posted: 27 Dec 2019 03:27 PM PST

    So I have new cables and dedicated adapter, this one from anker. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07THJGZ9Z/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o02_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

    My understanding to do HDMI2.0 4k60 you need an adapter that is using displayport alternate mode, so I believe I have the right dongle. (Not a USB3.1 hub)

    But System Information says it is only doing [4k@30hz](mailto:4k@30hz). The other odd thing which might be related is that the mac says it's using 10bit color, but the signal received by the tv is NOT HDR10. My PC is also on hdmi happy to switch between standard and HDR 10 (obviously comes with chroma 4:0:0) on the same screen all at 60hz, so the screen works.

    I'm half guessing this is a software problem. Being presented an HDR capable display the mac thinks the max bandwidth of the screen will be 30hz with HDR enabled (despite the mac not actually outputting an HDR signal).

    I've gone through 3 dongles, cables and nothing has changed in all of this. I'm going crazy here.

    edit: so i tested the dongle and cable on a surface book 2. worked at 4k60 no problem.

    so dongle, cable, screen all work at 4k60. the only thing left is for the mac to do the same.

    edit 2: so i just played around with the settings on scaled, going back and forth between the size options and unplugging and replugging the dongle from the left hand side. In one instance it actually was able to establish a connection at 4k60. Unplugging and replugging in again, back to 30hz. Not been able to reproduce. Definitely seems like a bug...

    submitted by /u/PaperPigGolf
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    Can't download new applications

    Posted: 27 Dec 2019 08:04 PM PST

    I have a macOS High Sierra and when I tried to download Audacity it said I needed to authenticate with the administrator's name and password. It's been a while since I used it but even though I knew the username and password to log on to the computer itself, it wasn't the password which would allow a new application to be installed. Is there a way to recover it? Thanks

    For clarification, it says "Finder wants to download Audacity. Enter the password to allow this"

    submitted by /u/BlackOsmash
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    Time machine not working - help!

    Posted: 27 Dec 2019 10:59 PM PST

    Time machine not working - help!

    I downgraded from Catalina to Mojave and now I'm stuck! I tried to restore my files via a time machine back up I did while still on Catalina, and it's not working.

    https://preview.redd.it/wlc4vbpkmb741.png?width=2880&format=png&auto=webp&s=0e2a0d53b073c7025828ad21b7c57819b6591e52

    The hard drive is obviously connected and it knows that it's backed up, even though it's had the full factory reset. However, it won't let me go back to any previous backups.

    ALSO, it's not allowing me to back up with time machine anymore. I tried it with two seperate external hard drives, and neither work.

    https://preview.redd.it/pomn66alnb741.png?width=2880&format=png&auto=webp&s=361b51229354ddbd9ab839ea552582319fc9815b

    https://preview.redd.it/eq9vcnelnb741.png?width=2880&format=png&auto=webp&s=77887f71d8ee33aeb8a0381b620e7d78a999fd60

    The notifications are what comes up when it fails to back up.

    Obviously, I've tried restarting the computer, taking the hard drives out and even blowing in them like a game boy cartridge. I'm desperate

    Does anyone know how to make it so I can use the files again from previous back ups? I really want my photo library back 😭

    submitted by /u/itstartarsauce
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    Downgrading from Catalina to Mojave

    Posted: 27 Dec 2019 03:58 PM PST

    I recently upgraded from Mojave to Catalina and I want to downgrade. The Music app is awful, Bluetooth isn't working and my computer (2014 15" MacBook Pro) just ran better on Mojave. I have a Mojave Time Machine backup and that external disk has not been used to do a Time Machine backup while on Catalina. Just to be safe, I used a separate external disk to do a Catalina Time Machine backup today in case something goes wrong while downgrading.

    I'm reading conflicting things about downgrading. Because I have a Time Machine backup from Mojave, can I just boot into recovery and restore from the Mojave backup and be rolled back, or do I have to create a bootable Mojave installer thumb drive, erase my computer's hard drive, install Mojave from the thumb drive and then restore my files via my Mojave Time Machine backup?

    Has anyone downgraded? How was your experience?

    Thanks for the help

    submitted by /u/utahman130
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    Tips for effectively multitasking on multiple monitors?

    Posted: 27 Dec 2019 09:56 AM PST

    As a lifelong Windows user I recently took the dive and choose a new Macbook running Catalina as my primary work computer. I'm a power user and very heavy multitasker with three monitors. I tend to use lots of keyboard shortcuts, which I'm still re-learning for mac.

    My main struggle is switching between apps on a screen is more painful than on Windows. I usually use many different applications at once (one or two browser windows, email client, chat client, SSH session, text editor, IDE, Microsoft Word, etc).

    On Windows 10 I would have a taskbar on each monitor with that monitor's windows. I could switch between the Chrome window and an SSH session with a single click. I don't appear to be able to get this same functionality on macOS. It gets worse with 5 apps open on one screen and the closest I can get is using the Mission Control hotkey to view all open windows and select the right one. The "Group windows by application" setting helps but is actually still a slower experience than Windows since I have to open mission control, visually find the window I want, and click it. In Windows it stayed mostly in the same place on the taskbar and I could just click it.

    Does anyone have any tips for effectively working with multiple monitors? Are there settings I should enable/disable? Hotkeys I should be using more? Applications I should install that help with multitasking? Maybe even just best practices...

    Coming from a Windows world I may have some core assumptions that I need to re-learn, and I'm totally open to a new way of working if others are having success. Thanks!

    submitted by /u/SpectralCoding
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    Appstore login details are different from my apple id?

    Posted: 27 Dec 2019 02:08 PM PST

    My login details included an expired email address so I updated my apple ID to a new email.

    I then updated my mac to Catalina.

    Now I am trying to download iMovie from the appstore, but it keeps prompting me to login with the old email. Everytime I put in the new details in, it asks me again to login.

    It also looks like the appstore is still logged in with the old email address

    I also am unable to open my Logic Pro x files.

    :( If anyone has any advice I'd be most grateful. Thank you in advance.

    submitted by /u/WanderingCloud07
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    Dang Apple in blocking old macOS installer copies!

    Posted: 27 Dec 2019 03:38 PM PST

    https://www.macrumors.com/how-to/how-to-fix-a-damaged-macos-installer/

    I was trying to upgrade an old 13.3" MBP's Sierra v10.12.6 with my old Mojave v10.14.6. Sheesh! So annoying. :(

    submitted by /u/antdude
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    Mac OS X Server Upgrades

    Posted: 27 Dec 2019 03:34 PM PST

    So i got this 2010 Mac mini server that came with an OS X Server Snow Leopard install disc. I would like to upgrade it to at least Lion but when i install mountain lion the OS loses all its server functionality and from mountain lion on i would be forced to shell out another 20 eur to get that server mode back. But when i try to install Lion, it just tells me its downloading the server add on but not doing anything seemingly. Is it even possible to upgrade Mac OS server for free?

    thanks in advance!

    submitted by /u/MaxTechnics
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    Ad/Pop-Up Blockers no longer working?

    Posted: 27 Dec 2019 09:42 AM PST

    Has anyone experienced an increase in ads and pop-ups since Safari pushed extensions out as separate apps (installed and updated through the Mac App Store rather than Safari itself)? If not, what content blockers are you using?

     

    2016 MB Pro/Touchbar

    MacOS 10.14.6

    Safari 13.0.3

    Running: uBlock + AdBlock Engine

    submitted by /u/DylanDakota
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    Two guesses what's wrong with Apple's new TV app on Catalina

    Posted: 27 Dec 2019 07:02 PM PST

    It just stuck on that stage when opening Music app

    Posted: 27 Dec 2019 03:34 AM PST

    What already-installed program would be able to reduce a jpg from 4.5mb to 2mb as a different file extension?

    Posted: 27 Dec 2019 10:17 AM PST

    Always show function keys on TouchBar for unix binaries

    Posted: 27 Dec 2019 09:14 AM PST

    Hi there,

    I have a game installed on my MacBook Pro with TouchBar. It's EVE Online and it has a few keyboard shortcuts using function keys.

    Now I know of the option to add an (macOS) application to the list on Keyboard - Shortcuts -> function keys (I translated this myself, cause I run macOS on German). This always shows the function keys on the TouchBar as long as the added application has focus.

    Back to EVE: There is a "EVE Launcher" that has a macOS Bundle Identifier (apparently) and can be added, but the game itself launches inside Wine and is itself a unix binary that I cannot add to that awesome list, that does exactly what I want. The executable is: /Users/<name>/Library/Application Support/EVE Online/p_drive/Local Settings/Application Data/CCP/EVE/SharedCache/wine/bin/wine64-preloader

    Now... I thought about an automatism that whenever this binary gets/looses focus (or at least gets launched/closed) a shell command a la defaults write com.apple.touchbar.agent PresentationModeGlobal -string fullControlStrip or defaults write com.apple.touchbar.agent PresentationModeGlobal -string functionKeys gets executed.

    Any ideas how to achieve this?

    submitted by /u/reflectiverobot
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    Repeated Reset Password requests for Apple ID

    Posted: 27 Dec 2019 08:45 AM PST

    Repeated Reset Password requests for Apple ID

    I've been getting this on one of my Macs running Mojave:

    https://preview.redd.it/33bmro0sf7741.png?width=344&format=png&auto=webp&s=9e95663e561d36dbc82dc33da06f48c7ff1b571c

    When I click "Show" it opens the iCloud control panel and displays a "Reset Apple ID password?" screen.

    Does anyone have any idea why this started happening? It even popped up once on my iPhone.

    Thanks for any info!

    submitted by /u/AlanEsh
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    Trackpad and Keyboard not working after waking from sleep

    Posted: 27 Dec 2019 08:31 AM PST

    Hi there,

    I recently ran into a very annoying bug under macOS Catalina 10.15.2. After opening the lid of my MBP (2018, 13'' with Touchbar, i5 Quad Core) sometime the keyboard and the trackpad do not respond. The backlighting of the keyboard is off as well. After login via Apple Watch unlock, it displays the Searching for Bluetooth Keyboard window. After no keyboard was found, the trackpad and keyboard finally work. No further issues regarding both input devices happen during working at the laptop.

    I already tried SMC, NVRAM and PRAM reset as well as a fresh installation of macOS Catalina 10.15.2 without erasing the SSD. Has anyone experienced similar issues?

    submitted by /u/mcedaa
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    Recommendation for getting Google Calendar upcoming event notifications (only for certain accounts) in macOS notification center?

    Posted: 27 Dec 2019 08:15 AM PST

    I need to be able to get Google Calendar upcoming event notifications in macOS notification center. Throughout my busy day at work the only way I can make sure to be on time for events is to have the notification show up and stay there ("Alerts" style notification that look like this) with a countdown of minutes until the event. I also have several other employees' calendars added to my Google Calendar sidebar but I do not need to get notifications for those, so I'd need a way to only get notifications for specific calendars.

    I use Mailplane for my Google accounts and it displays calendar notifications, but if I set them to Alert so they stay on the screen it works but then that also applies to my hundreds of other emails, which I don't need to see persistent notifications for, and it just fills up the right side of my screen and then I miss the calendar notifications.

    I tried Apple Calendar but there was no way to ignore notifications for specific calendars, so even if I'd deselected certain calendars it would show me the notifications for all of them, flooding my screen with notifications for other peoples' events that I shouldn't respond to.

    I tried Fantastical 2, which allowed you to "ignore alerts" for specific calendars, and I had it working perfectly on Mojave but it doesn't work anymore after upgrading to Catalina. I made sure that the app is updated to the version that is certified for compatibility with Catalina, that it has access to the right permissions in System Preferences > Security & Privacy > Privacy and the right notification settings, and I also followed their instructions to disable Apple Calendar notifications (even though I don't use Apple Calendar). I followed their troubleshooting steps but still can't get it to work.

    Anyway, I'd prefer to use a more reliable, free or open-source solution if possible. I have experience developing with the Google Calendar API so I thought of creating my own solution but I don't have experience with Swift or developing Mac apps.

    TLDR: I need a way to get notifications in my macOS notification center for upcoming Google Calendar events for certain calendars and Apple Calendar doesn't work for me.

    submitted by /u/random_IT_guy_
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