Why does Time Machine take hours to back up even when used monthly? I use a 2015 Macbook Pro (250GB SSD) and have about \~100GB in stored data. Every month, I run a Time Machine backup and literally it takes hours. On my 2017 Macbook Air with the same amount of data (\~100GB) on a 125GB SSD and it just takes a few minutes for a Time Machine backup. What am I doing wrong? 3 10 replies
How do I eliminate .css, .js etc files from search results? Whenever I try to find anything on my Mac, the search results include dozens if not hundreds of "useless" files. How can I prevent them from showing up in results? 4 1 replies
Is this normal ? Is there anything I could do to mitigate the maximum capacity? https://preview.redd.it/fe4v8y8itvce1.png?width=416&format=png&auto=webp&s=a663c34064512b68e01d8086e7424beebb6cfb1b Hi, I have owned an m1 pro for about 2 years and I found out that the maximum capacity of my laptop is going down fast. Is there anything I could do to mitigate it. I have been using aldante to prevent it from overcharging so as to keep my battery health in good shape. 2 0 replies
I did the biggest LOL in MacOs, and looking for help. Listen, I am a techie, but the thought of this fuck up did not cross my mind, and kinda suprised none of the folks at apple thought of it either. I bought a new M4 Mini, alongside with my old m2 macbook pro. Decided it's time to buy iCloud, and synced my M4 Mini Desktop to icloud... Now, when it came to sync M2 Desktop, it asked where it wanted me to store the M2 Desktop on my iCloud, and my dumbass thought, woah, why don't I use the... 4 6 replies
MacBook Air i5 2020 cooling suggestions I know that the 2020 i5 is flawed and I need ways to keep this thing cooled with spending the least amount of money. 1 0 replies
Need advice before iCloud photo sync I’ll try to make this as concise and clear as possible. I used to run a tight ship with my photos. Take them on my phone (or digital camera way back when), move them from camera roll to laptop, organize the files then I’d sync them back onto my phone and they’d be perfectly organized on both laptop and phone. Well this hasn’t been the case for a while now and I’m looking for some advice as I want to get everything organized and on iCloud. Current status on... 5 1 replies
List scrolling is too fast in MacOS even with MOS I have been using MOS for smooth scrolling experience with my external mouse. But I could never make it work for List Boxes. The scrolling for List boxes is too fast. The scrolling experience for web pages and other apps, widgets is just what I want. anyone has any idea how to slow down the List scrolling? Its not smooth. 5 1 replies
Apps crash when using SMB shares When I mount my SMB share on macOS 15 on my Mac Pro 2019 and try to use the drives in stuff like QBittorrent or Adobe apps that often read and write the app will crash and I will have to keep force killing it. The SMB share is samba on my Linux server these issues don't happen if I boot into Linux just macOS 2 0 replies
password problems hey guys what do i do if my password that i was 100% certain was correct isn’t working anymore? 2 2 replies
can I fix liquid damage on mac air M3 without repairing? I accidentally spilled a small amount of milk on the left corner of my Mac. I took it to an Apple technician, and they checked for liquid damage. They said it was minimal and barely noticeable. There's no visible liquid on the screen.However, I'm now experiencing two issues 1 Occasionally, the brightness gets stuck, and I can't adjust it (specifically on the side where the spill happened). I have to restart the Mac to fix it 2 Since yesterday, I've had trouble turning the Mac on—it sometimes goes dark.... 3 2 replies
WD "Blue" drive not mounting Hi, one of my 6TB WD Blue backup drives will not mount. Formatted OS extended journaled. I tried switching out the ports, cables, dock, even tried on a different Mac. It shows up grayed out in disk utility. The mount command does nothing. I also tried to force mount via Terminal - followed a YouTube tutorial that helped others (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMvYHgQOEvA). Disk first aid fails. Someone suggested Disk Warrior, but hate to spend $100+ when I read comments that it's no more powerful than OS repairs. Any advice is much... 4 1 replies
Trying to upgrade a MacPro16,1 I've ended up with an old 2013 "Dustbin" MacPro which has Mavericks on it and I was wanting to update it to Monterey, I've got bootable media created and it won't let me install it as it says that the third party SSD in it is "not compatible". If I try formatting it as APFS then it instead tells me that it needs a firmware update before the computer can recognise APFS. Is there any way I can get this to upgrade? 3 1 replies
MacDroid - Can't transfer files to my Samsung Galaxy A55 Hi guys, Does anyone know what I'm doing wrong to get this error message when dragging and dropping files into my music folder on my phone? This happened with my older android phone too, but worked fine on my S21 FE, I've enabled USB Debugging in developer options, my phone is only visible when I change it to USB tethering instead of transferring files/android auto. Get the same message when trying by Wi-Fi too, can't work out what I'm doing wrong :( https://preview.redd.it/386fto1aquce1.png?width=2499&format=png&auto=webp&s=5a4d1f3538d45d34748bb2084b70d434d59dcb5b Any help appreciated! 2 0 replies
Any reason not to delete my Music folder after copying to an external drive? I don't use the Music app, don't listen to music files on my Mac anymore, and my Music folder is around 150gb. So I'm thinking of copying it to an external drive (just in case I want to use those music files in the future, and then deleting the Music folder on my internal/startup drive. Any reason not to do that, or is there a better way to remove and archive the files? I assume if I launch the Music app again, it will create a new Music folder... 1 2 replies
Updating to latest OS from Mojave Hi I have a 2018 iMac running Mojave 10.14.6 3.6 ghz i7 16GB ram Radeon pro 560 4 GB. I’m going to be updating to the latest OS. I am backing all my files up to external drives but I’m wondering if anyone has advice on anything else. I should be concerned about or looking at the media files? They may be changing locations, applications? Thanks for any advice. 3 2 replies
How do I get rid of these annoying notifications every time I open my Mac and unlock it. How do I keep it from popping up every time it’s getting annoying having to clear them every single time and day. 4 7 replies
Cloning Internal drive to bootable SSD Has anyone ever done this before? I want to clone my current drive which has 10.14.6 Mojave to an external SSD (actually an NVME drive in an enclosure) and fresh install the newest OS on the macbook. I still want to be able to boot from the SSD though from time to time as if the Macbook is still in Mojave to access older music projects and stuff that I can't necessarily get working with the newest OS. Is there anything besides CCC to use to accomplish this? Am... 4 1 replies
What tools/ methods are generally used to flash non-apple GPUs with apple firmware What tools/ methods are generally used to flash non-apple GPUs with apple firmware? Also is it possible to run a XFX HD 7770 in a Mac Pro? And if so, is it possible to flash it with firmware that will show boot screen? 2 1 replies