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    macOS Happy BackUp day!

    macOS Happy BackUp day!


    Happy BackUp day!

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    30GB+ of other

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    I bought the M1 air in Jan this year & it has more than 30GB of storage occupied and marked as other. What the hell is this?
    Is this in any way a side effect of swap-memory feature?
    What should I do?

    submitted by /u/Dr_Van_
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    How I use my Mac (Apps and Utilities you might need too!)

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    Here's a list of power apps I use to speed up my daily workflow. Ill be adding one sentence descriptors for all you TLDRers!

    Accelerate

    • Safari Extension that allows me to speed up videos in not just YouTube

    Adguard

    • Safari Extension for ad blocking

    AltTab

    • Cmd + Tab with reviews
    • I've set it to not show minimised windows and hide apps with no windows open so it is extremely clean!

    Bartender 4

    • Hides menubar apps and makes it clean, there's free apps out there but I just like this one

    Browserosaurus

    • I default to using Safari, but for links from Telegram that I want to open to Chrome / Edge, it prompts which browser I'd like to open it in.

    Cloudflare WARP

    • Free and fast VPN

    Copied

    • Only clipboard manager that I know of that can drag and drop texts / screenshots in and out of
    • A little buggy but it works I guess

    Craft

    • Note taking

    Dark Reader for Safari

    • Safari Extension that enables dark mode for websites. There's free ones out there but because I'm so used to this software from Chrome I use this.

    Dropover

    • Opens a mini window for dragging and dropping things! You can even quickly share documents with a public / private link with their cloud service.

    Magnet

    • Window snapping manager. I use shortcuts such as Cmd+Opt+Arrow keys to manage my windows quickly

    Menu Bar Dock

    • Dock on your menubar. I use this as quick access for my last 3 opened I've opened. Don't use this often but it's there for me when I hide the dock.

    MenuBar Stats

    • Stats on GPU and Mem usage with Swap memory info to inform me I need to quit some open apps.

    Minimal Consent

    • Apparently helps you to accept cookies, not entirely sure whether it works.

    Multitouch

    • Gestures to trigger keyboard shortcuts
    • I use this for 3 finger swipe left / right to switch between tabs. Been using this gesture for almost 5 years!
    • Used to love BetterTouchTool until I found this.

    Numi

    • Mini notes with calculator functionality on your menubar / quick shortcut

    Raindrop.io

    • I use this for saving links together with its Safari Extension Save to Raindrop.io

    Soulver 3

    • Notes with calculator but with better notes management

    Step Two

    • 2FA for Safari (with Safari Extension) and syncs across your iCloud devices

    Text Sniper

    • Screenshot any image with text and turn them into text with OCR!

    Things

    • My to do list

    Unsplash Wallpapers

    • Starting my day to something different is surprisingly pleasant

    Hope these apps improve your workflow as well! Feel free to share the utilities you use here and maybe I'll find the next gem :)

    submitted by /u/sayfeheaven
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    Safari Not Loading Webpages, DNS Related?

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    I've got a 2020 MacBook Pro 13 (Intel) running Big Sur 11.2.3 I'll use it for a bit lock it, unlock go to Safari type whatever into the address bar hit enter then nothing. Progress bar gets to about 20% then stops. WiFi connection is ok, if I launch Spotify app that works. I have to reboot it for Safari to work again then it will sometimes crash trying to restart. I'm thinking it might be DNS related? I haven't changed the DNS yet, just wondered if anyone else has had this?

    submitted by /u/SpexxyB
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    More Memory

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    How can i set my MacBook's mic as default audio input?

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    I frequently use my powerbeats earbuds in google meet or ms teams. But every time they are connected, they are also selected as audio input (Beat's mics aren't ass good as my MBP mic is). Everytime I have to manually switch it, is there any way to set my MBP's mic as default?

    submitted by /u/IsThereCoffeeOnMars
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    Tool for WinSCP on Mac ?

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    Hi there! Just wondering what is the closest free tool equivalent to WINSCP on Windows?

    Thanks!

    submitted by /u/punix2
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    Weird Audio Device and how to delete it

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    https://i.imgur.com/8A0JIKq.png The audio device

    Hello! Today I had some problems with sound in my mac, I went to Sound settings in System Preferences, and found a sound extension called DeviceName it doesn't work and I don''t know where it came from, How do I delete it

    submitted by /u/Mtvare6
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    Any way to remap the mouse side buttons to change the volume?

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    Just like the title said. Recently moved from a PC to an M1 MacBook air and I was wondering if there was a way to achieve this. I have an M705 Logitech mouse, which they don't support on mac, and all the free software I found was SensibleSideButtons.

    EDIT: Both LogiOptions and LCC doesn't recognize my mouse

    submitted by /u/roydbt
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    Where have all these WiFi networks came from? Bug?

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    Random websites open randomly

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    Every once in a while a random website opens on both Google Chrome (my main browser), and Safari (which is always closed). Usually it's manlyz.com (which I've never used before), but sometimes can be other random websites. I don't remember installing any unsafe thing too so I'm not sure what the problem is. Is there any explanation on why this is happening?

    submitted by /u/aadenboy
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    Discord Emojis on TouchBar?

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    I want to be able to see my Discord emojis on the touchbar. I know there isn't any official way of doing so but has anyone made anything that allows this yet? If so I would like to know how to do so since the touch bar is only good for small things like that.

    submitted by /u/Th3_LibtarD3stroyer
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    Weird issue with external hard drive

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    Hello, I have an M1 Mac mini 512/16 with the latest commercial release of Big Sur. I've noticed that I have an issue where the whole system will briefly pause/beachball while using apps like Adobe photoshop or illustrator or even when using the finder. My external drive-a LaCie D2-will spin up from sleep, which seems to cause this.

    Can anyone help? The LaCie hdd has the latest firmware and their website says it's compatible with the M1.

    Thanks!

    submitted by /u/cespejo
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    Restoring from a time machine backup

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    If I back up my MacBook running Catalina, and I try to use that time machine backup on a new MacBook (which I'm assuming comes with Big Sur out of the box) will it work?

    submitted by /u/sl8yr
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    Only one AirPod Pro working on Big Sur 11.2.3

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    Looking for suggestions as I feel like I've done as much troubleshooting as a can.

    My left AirPod Pro won't play sound when connected to my MacBook. Both AirPods are fully charged and clean. I've tried the following:

    1. Putting AirPods in case and leaving for 30 seconds. This has sometimes resolved other bugs.
    2. Removed AirPods from Mac and iPhone (Forget this Device).
    3. Reset AirPods (held button on back until amber light flashed 3 times).
    4. Restarted computer and reconnected.
    5. Connected to iPhone to see if it's a computer or AirPods issue and they both work fine.
    submitted by /u/nkuo
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    Safe Mode Backup???

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    Can I back up my MacBook Air on safe mode since that's the only way it boots up( keeps rebooting because of a problem is message I get)

    submitted by /u/teloite
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    How to make a full-screen next to its original desktop, not to the rightmost desktop?

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    Non ios text messages not showing up on MBP

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    I'm on Big Sur 11.2.3

    This morning I was having issues on my Mac and I'm not receiving texts from android/sms. And I sent a text on my MBP that my coworker said was from my email.

    I've been meaning to do it for a while, so I deleted and created a new profile. Got my text messages loaded back up but now it's not pulling over any sms/android messages and still says I sent it from my email.

    I have "start new conversations from" set to my phone number (and not my email). I did a test and got it to say it sent from my number after unchecking the box for for my email under the option: "You can be reached for messages at" but it still is not pulling over my sms/android messages.

    What am I missing? I've signed out/in multiple times and flipped switches off on my MBP and Iphone as far as texts go.

    submitted by /u/greene81990
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    Anyone else using Synergy? I'm having a weird issue.

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    Server - M1 MacBook Pro
    Client - W10 PC

    All of the sudden as soon as I connect the PC to the mac, I lose all use of my keyboard and mouse. The Synergy console on the PC seems to say it's failing to connect, but it's obviously doing something.

    I'm a little green with macOS. Is there a firewall process that may have flagged part of the synergy connection as bad?

    submitted by /u/3kilo003
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    Do I need "install macos catalina.app" after install

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    I am currently running Catalina.

    I see that the "install macos catalina.app" is 8.3gb and I would like to know if I can safely delete it.

    Thanks!

    submitted by /u/The_Samurai_Jack
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    tabing into programs

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    so I come from windows and many issues I had with macOS are easily fixable. But one, my nemesis, is the tabing into programs that are running in the background w/ no window open. What is the problem? I can open those programs and nothing happens. Any ways to get those to open a new window like I would've opened it with a mouse click?

    Thanks in advance!

    submitted by /u/dudumm
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    Mac os 802.1x eap tls

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    Hello here,

    I have some problems with Auth radius nps and mac os Catalina. I made my test with old Mac os it worked fine since I upgrade I can't log on wifi radius. The wired radius is working well with the same certificate. I'm using autosigned ad cs. But only wifi eap tls is bugging like one time he asked me credentials and another certificate... I saw on many forum some issues like that but not really solutions. Maybe my certificate is too weak for wifi radius on Catalina?

    submitted by /u/Southern_Lynx_5087
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    Unable to create a new file on Pages

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    Ever since I upgraded to Big Sur (11.2.1), I am unable to create a new file on Pages (v 11.0). On clicking File > New, I get the error ""Untitled" can't be opened right now. The file format is invalid". Could anyone please help me fix this error?

    submitted by /u/--red
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