Still can’t copy home folder to external drive After not getting any advice on how to resolve my original copying problem I did a reset with the hope of starting off clean. Without logging into my account I again tried to copy my new home folder and again it wouldn’t. At first it had a box saying permission issue but then it later changed to home is downloading but it never seems to resolve. Advice? 5 0 replies
Not enough space for Sonoma Y'all. I am so tired. I have a 2019MacbookPro that I basically can no longer use. I couldn't download or use anything I had because they are not capable with my current software (Catalina). I have deleted everything -- and I cannot stress this enough -- *everything* off my Mac except for the apple apps that can't be removed. There is still not enough room to download Sonoma. I don't know what to do anymore, does anyone know a fix for this? 5 0 replies
MacOS has started launching the Music app when I press the play button again I thought we were over this. 5 0 replies
Image Playground icon is REALLY bad that I legit thought this was a malware app upon seeing this on my Launchpad after Sequoia 15.2 fresh boot 🥴 4 0 replies
Speech recognition performance seems to have degraded with macOS 15.2 Perhaps this is only happening for me, but ever since upgrading to macOS 15.2 yesterday, it seems like speech recognition is less much less able to understand and accurately transcribe what I am saying into apps. Is anyone else seeing this happen? Am I simply failing to enable some sort of new Apple Intelligence settings that are necessary? 5 0 replies
New and unexpected bowser behavior After upgrading to 15.1.1 my browser keeps going full screen whenever I move it to the top of my monitor. Is there any way to disable this annoying 'feature'? 3 0 replies
Adobe won't run on High Sierra Hi Friends, Not sure exactly how to explain this but I'll try I have an IMac 21.5-inch, Late 2013 I use it mainly for Adobe software (Premiere Pro, Illustrator, Photoshop) as well as Audacity. To this end, it's great, good screen, fast processing, USB ports etc etc However a few weeks ago, Firefox started playing up and some websites wouldn't load and wouldn't display properly so I upgraded to High Sierra (truth be told I forget what version of OSX I was running up to this point, perhaps it... 5 0 replies
Recommendations on the best laptop for photo editing commonly preferred currently? Hi everyone, which Mac laptop do you use for photo editing? I want to buy a good one that's simply portable and has good battery life. My budget is around $1500 and that's it. Please let me know if you have any suggestions, i'm willing to spend an extra $200-300 if you say it's worth it. Thanks so much! 4 0 replies
AirDrop stuck because of my ethernet connection My 2019 i9 iMac (Sequoia 15.1.1) is connected to the internet via ethernet cable (primary), and also through Wi-Fi (secondary, same modem). My iPhone 13 Pro Max (iOS 18.1.1) is also connected to the same Wi-Fi network. When I try to AirDrop something from my iMac to my iPhone, the AirDrop progress gets stuck and then fails. I've tried the following things, to no avail: \-Re-starting both devices \-Re-starting my modem \-Setting both "Allow me to be discovered by" to "Everyone" \-Making Wi-Fi primary on my iMac What did... 2 0 replies
Updating M4 Mini to 15.2 Corrupting the Installation. I got a new M4 mini base model yesterday and used a Time Machine backup from an M1 Mini. I didn’t know about the 15.2 release, after going through re-registering all of my software (Mostly Audio plug-ins machine ID based serials) the update popped up and so installed it. However after a while the machine booted into Recovery. None of the available options worked for an easy repair/rescue, so I had to erase the OS Volume and then re-install Sequoia. On the next boot I used the Migration from... 3 0 replies
New MacBook pro not detecting older USB hub Hi all -- for a long time I've been using a M1 Mac mini with a KVM switch, which also serves as a small USB hub. I just got a new M4 MacBook Pro. When I connect the new computer to the switch, it detects the monitors fine but not the USB hub. The hub does not show up in the USB panel of System Information at all. The USB ports on the MacBook Pro work fine when connected directly to my iPhone or to an external hard drive... 5 0 replies
New Sequoia 15.2 weather menubar widget. This isn't what I'm after for the quick glance. I'd rather see future days forecast where they're showing weather in other towns. https://preview.redd.it/617yyss7mg6e1.png?width=600&format=png&auto=webp&s=3ac67e8ec4fddbd2f4374bd6fb1238e63d10f005 1 0 replies
MacBook Air M2 Screen Dimming Issue After Pressing Esc: Troubleshooting macOS 14.6 Graphics Glitch 4 0 replies
why is my laptop so aggressive at offloading iCloud Drive files or disconnecting from iPhone hotspot? And how to fix these things? Basically as the title says, my laptop is super aggressive at removing files also saved on iCloud Drive. It doesnt even tell me. Usually files won't open but won't give an error message so I navigate to the folder and find out the file must be downloaded from iCloud before continuing. I have 55gb free (out of 512gb of storage space) and it literally offloaded a 25kb .docx file I last used 17 hours ago. It's ridiculous. Hotspotting from my iphone is a similar story. Blink it's disconnected. Literally... 2 0 replies
Verify identical files across systems? I've just completed moving across terabytes of data from my old Windows system on multiple NTFS drives to my new MacBook Pro's external drives, APFS and HFS+ drives. Due to a variety of reasons, I also used a variety of methods to copy across the data. Including direct ethernet connection and using the SMB share, an intermediary exFAT SSD, and Apple's Finder copy. In addition, and again for multiple reasons, almost every method failed at some point... and had to be resumed/restarted. So I especially worry about random orphan... 5 0 replies
External drive unmounting under heavy copies (OWC enclosure, Sabrient Rocket 2TB) I just got a new M4 Mac Mini, and connected a new OCW Express 1M2 USB 4.0 enclosure via a short USB-C that came with the enclosure, with a SABRENT 2TB Rocket Nvme PCIe 4.0 M.2 2280 inside. I've used this SSD a bit before, and running Disk Utility/First Aid it seems fine. But today, I'm setting up the new computer and installing ~100GB of data from Ableton Live's installer and the drive keeps disconnecting. The disk is formatted as an APFS volume. It is not encrypted and case-sensitivity... 4 0 replies
Finder image thumbnails break There are a number of problems with displaying image thumbnails in finder. All problems started with macOS 15 update. Now I'm on 15.2 and problems persist. (MBP M1Max, 32Gb, 1Tb) **Images with wrong extensions are not displayed.** I download a lot of images from reddit and other places, and sometimes there can be jpeg with a name "pic.png" - as long as it has that name finder won't render it's thumbnail. I rename it to "pic.jpg" and now thumbnail is correct. Similarly, webp can't be named jpg, and jpg... 5 0 replies
FTP to Dropbox on Mac? I’m looking for a working solution to transfer files from FTP server to Dropbox on Mac. I often receive large files from clients via FTP, and manually downloading and re-uploading them to Dropbox is both time-consuming and inefficient. Ideally, I’d like a solution that can securely connect to an FTP server and sync or transfer files directly to a designated Dropbox folder. Are there any tools or services you’d recommend that work well for this purpose? Thanks in advance for your help. 5 0 replies