I just got one of these Macs and it’s really slow and laggy. Will downgrading help? I read in other articles that it would, but I don’t know how to do it.
Ps. I don’t have any files that need to be backed up or saved. There’s literally nothing on it.
I’m not sure why this bugs me so much when I’m working on my laptop but it’s driving me crazy. Does anyone know how to fix it? The blurry wallpaper always appears when I have something else open but I hate it lol
I bought a Macbook Neo some months ago and love it so far, but one thing that bothers me is I want to have all apps (and maybe mission control) at left of Finder, is there a way to achieve this?
I realized that I use tilling windows manager a lot, (When I'm not on Gnome)
I always put inner gap to separate windows on a workspace, that feels great.
And I put this idea into my app launcher, this is pretty fast. Linux and windows ver is made with Tauri. (MacOS ver is pure native swift) and core in rust (btw).
Repo: https://github.com/kunkka19xx/look
Not only app launching but also finding, copying, ... with files, folders, we have built-in commands like pomodoro, todo,... and you can also search web results.
This was tested on Gnome, sway, (arch, nixos, ubuntu)
If you're looking for a new app launcher, this is free and always open-source, community driven (we got many interesting ideas from many great guys) launcher.
Thank you, we'd love to hear your feedback :)
I have so much storage being taken up by system data. I found a comment on a different post tell me to follow these steps:
1: Clear system cache: Go to Finder > Go > Go to Folder, then type in "~/Library/Caches" and hit enter. Select all the folders inside the Caches folder and delete them.
2: Clear system logs: Go to Finder > Go > Go to Folder, then type in "/var/log" and hit enter. Select all the files inside the Log folder and delete them.
3: Remove unused language files: Go to Finder > Go > Go to Folder, then type in "/Library/Languages" and hit enter. Delete all the language folders you don't need.
However, when I try to clear my caches, I have no idea what to delete. Do I just delete everything?
There are many files that are named something similarly to this: "com.adobe.acc.AdobeCreativeCloud"
Will deleting caches attached to application files cause issues with the associated app?
There also many that seem to be attached in some way to macOS: "com.apple.AppleMediaServicesUI"
My question is how do I know which caches I should delete? If I delete all caches indiscriminately will I run into issues launched applications?
Have any of you noticed that the Trash icon for the latest MacOS version -- when it's full, the crumpled paper at the top looks suspiciously like a Microsoft / Microsoft 365 logo.
Hi everyone!
Am an analyst, consultant by training (lots of excel shortcuts), and have been using Mac since 2016 (Air -> M1 Pro with Apple Silicon).
Whenever I had to use Excel (my company is on Office 365), I used to cringe as I used to try out shortcut keys out of muscle memory and everything used to take just too much time (using mouse/trackpad to do things on Mac Excel is a nightmare!)
Plus I noticed a lot of my friends (who have been analysts as well), actively staying out of Mac purchase decisions (even if Macs have better longetivity, great coding, and minimal lag after 10+ yrs), only because they need their Microsoft suite (mostly Excel) to work.
Is there any solution to this?
I recently found a HQ version of Mac OS tiger wallpaper and I still just love it even on my modern Mac. I thought it would be so cool if there was a screensaver like Tahoe, or golden gate that animated the wallpaper. Ideally I’d want the lines to move kinda how the PS3/PSP wallpapers did… I did search around but nothing like that exists. I’m not proud to say it but I asked perplexity the best way to achieve this as I am not an animator at all. It gave me a prompt to dump into a service called king.
King spit out a clip, I edited (not amazingly 😅) in iMovie to get it to around 20s and then a terminal script to make it into a .saver.
I think it came out ok! The “breathing” could be a bit smoother so I’m gonna play in iMovie later tonight to see if I can get that smoother but I love the look!
I often create Wallpaper packs and give them out for free to my viewers and subscribers as a thank, you for supporting me and watching my stuff.
I have like 4-5 different wallpaper packs on my gumroad and they are free to download with the 100% OFF CODE :p
I don't think i can post links here but i have them all on my solo..to page which you can easily find on my socials.
After using newer version macos from 15-27 and today finally i rollback to latest sonoma
And damnn my MBA M1 with 8gb ram solidd again
Ai things make my Mac little bit tired, battery health from 86% on latest os, and now back to 93% but i dont know is legit or not
I have two MacBook Pros:
• 13” with M1
• 16” with M1 Max
I factory reset both of them from System Settings and went through the initial setup again.
On the 13”, Setup Assistant shows a screen asking me to sign in with my Apple ID. To be clear, this is not the Activation Lock prompt — it’s the normal sign-in step, and I can skip it with “Set Up Later” if I want.
On the 16”, that screen never appears at all. Setup goes straight to creating a local account, and once I reach the desktop I have to open System Settings and sign in to iCloud / my Apple Account manually.
I factory reset both machines a second time just to test it, and nothing changed — each one behaved exactly the same way as before.
Some details:
• Both were bought new and I’m the only person who has ever used them
• Both are running the same macOS version
• Both were connected to the internet during setup
Is this a malfunction, or is there a known reason why one machine would skip the Apple ID step entirely? Is there anything specific I should check on the 16”?
like maybe many, my icloud space is full, and I am currently reluctant to buy additional space again. So I am looking for a solution allowing:
- bulk download (to save time)
- retaining all the pics' info, including data picture taken (instead of having the latest download date, as happens too often)
- maybe having the pics with a name allowing to sort them in the order they were taken. If I have to rename the pics, then there is no saving in time
- download pics in high quality (maybe a format that everyone else can also open easily, rather than the HEIC which no one seems to be able to open) so that could be printed.
I have read an old thread suggesting a link to request apple the bulk download, and will do that, even though i dont know how it will turn out and if it will satisfy my requirements above.
More in general, how do you guys do? do you download your pics periodically so dont have the massive problem? any authomatic system? any other useful tip?
thanks in advance
Hey guys, I returned to Mac after not using one since high school and I love it, but I'm struggling with some of the key binds. I'd like to change a few things such as the screenshot key bind defaulting to copying the photo (command + shift + control + 4) and I would like to change the paste without formatting (command + shift + option + v).
Also, can I somehow add a cut command? I know Mac doesn't have this by default.
What is the best software to do this?
EDIT: Also, does anyone have a simple calculator application suggestion that allows opening multiple windows? I like to have two open at once (I got the Mac for work). I figured out I can run open -na calculator in Terminal, and I tried pinning the duplicate to the Dock, but I can't actually reopen it that way without running the command again.
I am using a Macbook for an few weeks now and I still struggle hard with window management. How do you do productive tasks?
For example:
Switching to the correct pdf from about 20 other opened pdf files. When I want to bring a specific pdf file into the foreground, I need to move the mouse to the preview icon on the dock. however, this does not provide preview images of all currently open pdfs. Why not?
When I do right click, I only see a list of names, which is often not sufficient to find the correct file, I need to see it. To use the 3 finger guesture to see all files currently open in the preview application I need to first click on the icon on the dock. However, this brings ALL pdf files into the foreground. Then I can find the pdf through the application specific Mission Control. now I have found my window which is now in the foreground but all other pdfs clutter my monitor as they lay on top of another application such as pages or my browser which I need simultaneously. So I move my foreground pdf to the side and minimize every other pdf file which takes forever. However, now the minimized pdf files are ignored in Mission Control which makes it impossible to find a second pdf which I want to see as well at the same time.
This behaviour drives me nuts.
RESOLVED:
A website visited 4 restarts ago causes a popup to appear every 30 seconds.
"(1) New Message
ematerayands.com
Click Here to Open"
I installed Malwarebytes which scanned three times and found zero threats. Malwarebytes was updated after the first scan.
MacBook Pro 2019, Sequoia version 15.7.9
How does one remove this malware?
Thanks for looking.
Ok, it has come to this. Ive tried my absolute best, everything with command line, ive got a macbook running high sierra and just want to make a bootable installee but its seemingly impossible. can anyone help me please. this internet recovery doesnt work because the servers are down and cant be contacted, ive tried EVERYTHING. someone please help or tell me if this is even possible.
macos 10.13.6
UPDATE: this MIST program seems to have worked. It was linked somewhere in the comments and it was straight forward. I download it to my macbook air intel 2020 (may work on others also but havent tried), plug in usb, then just install the OS. its like opencore legacy patcher but alotttt simpler. i let it do its thing and it handled everything perfectly. on the "patient" macbook I wiped the drive, connected the usb and just restarted and it worked straight up.
so this seems to be the only way forward, apple servers dead, apple dmg files dead, everythings dead. unless i am being a complete idiot which is highly likely.
This is the most foolproof method it seems.
Hey everyone,
I've got a work MacBook Pro M1, and I'm trying to keep the display turned on while the machine is on the lock screen, similar to how Windows behaves when the laptop is plugged in.
I've already tried changing the following settings:
System Settings → Lock Screen → Turn display off on battery when inactive → Never
System Settings → Lock Screen → Turn display off on power adapter when inactive → Never
Unfortunately, it still doesn't work. The display eventually turns off even when the MacBook is plugged in.
Is there any way to keep the display permanently on while the device is locked?
Is this a macOS limitation, or is there another setting that I'm missing?
It's a work laptop, so I don't know whether any company policies or management settings could also be affecting this.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
I want to love this thing, but boy is it just bugging me more often than not. I'll try to be brief, please lend me your advice.
The setup: Multiple monitors (often 3).
Requirements: I work with a lot of windows. Developer stack. IDE's, LLMs, terminals, browsers, chat and email. It's not abnormal to have 3-5 windows on each monitor, and often it's multiple windows of the same application.
My usual workflow: IDEs on the main monitor, communication on a side, browsers, terminals, etc on the other. I know which screen I put things on, and tend to look at those screens when I need to interact.
The problem(s):
I get that windows is a different beast, but can't help but feel it just does all of this so much better?! Need a thing, look at one spot, click.
I've tried some third party dock replacements. They're all pretty jank in one way or another. Slow to respond, don't correctly hide the default dock, can't have shortcuts and running applications be the same thing.
I'm not saying there's no way to multitask, just that it's so damn frustrating and slow! It seems it's a case of "Mac's are easier when all you're doing is easy things", but I know there are some power users out there, so please, enlighten me of your ways!
