macOS

Hi. I have a AMD system and i have HACKINTOSH on it. Also i have Chromeos, which i replace it with the intro. THE ARCH LINUX! (like the Electroboom DE RECTIFIER intro.) AMD Ryzen 5 3600. 3 fans (In cooling, does not matter.) 1 exausht fan 650W 80+ (normal 80+) PSU. MSI B450M-A PRO MAX 2 hdds 1...

Hey all, I have a weird issue with one of my users that I can't really seem to find a reason why it's doing this. They are running Outlook on their Mac and once they change their password (which changes it in AD as well) the calendar which they have publicly shared shows up as unavailable on...

Hey guys, I have an iMac M1, just bought it. I believe it came with Monterey. everything was working fine, I was copy/pasting texts and files between my old MacBook and the new iMac. as soon as I upgraded to Sonoma , hands-off not working . my iPhone, iPad and MacBook can still use...

I have an old hard drive that I took from a 2010-era Macbook Air. I also have an old HP Envy desktop that I would like to use for some coding; however, I am working with Swift and I can't use Xcode on a windows PC... I only have windows computers, so I was curious if anyone knew of a way to use...

My wife's Macbook Pro (A1708) randomly decided to 'die' whilst she was using it a while back. It still had battery life and all she was doing was some excel spreadsheet stuff. I've spent ages trying to fix it using the various methods I can find on the internet but im yet to find one that...

Hi all. I have an issue with an old iMac (Retina 5K, 27-inch, Late 2015) with a i7-6700k, 32GB of RAM, and a AMD R9 M395X 4GB. I open Creative Cloud and saw that After Effects, Audition, and Media Encoder have a version upgrade to V24.0 and that the updated version is not compatible. Reading...

I'll keep it short: I am a software dev, I want to test cross-platform applications but I do not have an apple MacBook or similar. I do have a fairly adequate PC with a 256GB Sata based C drive for my main OS (W10), I also recently went out and got a 1TB NVMe (WD BLACK) for storing all my...

Hi all, I am building my nephew a PC for schoolwork and light gaming and his mother wanted me to install macOS instead of Win10. I was wondering if you have any easy-to-follow links to any guides, or possibly able to give some tips in the comments. I do have an older Macbook running Calatlina...

weird question Anyone know a good platform that would allow me to create a single virtual volume display from 20+ drives? I don’t actually want to use a raid setup. I LIKE having full control over what disk any one file is on… it gives me the ability to add and remove disks at will and know...

Hi All, I've got a BigSur laptop (single drive) and a headless windows 11 machine that has two physical drives. One has the windows 11 OS and the other is empty. I also have a third machine without any bootable storage. All three machines are on the same LAN. My objective is to make a...

Hello all ! I want to start out by saying any help is appreciated here! I repair computers on a daily bases but I am not super familiar with the Macintosh side of things. I have a customers computer that has a couple different problems. The first one is fixed which was some funny power...

so my friend has recently got a new iMac with windows 10 installed on it through BootCamp, but recently, mostly in games, he's getting tons of ghraphics driver errors. now I'm typically the one my friends go to with PC issues, but this one i just cant figure out. whoever he bought the system...

When in lock screen, the screen turns off in just a few seconds. I would like to keep the screen ON for custom time, say 20 mins before it turns off. is it possible by any macOS command ? other than apps like keepyouawake etc ?

Is M1 MacBook still good in 2022 if I am planning to study on IT college in september and do some it work as well as studying ? And will M1 chip be able to handle the IT work for couple of years or is it just something that is going to be good for a while ? Also one last thing, should I choose...

Hi - as of a few days ago my imac wifi has not been working. I have tried: restarting the computer resetting the SMC resetting the NVRAM deleting network preference files and restarting And every other solution that comes up when I search this problem online. Please let me know if there is...

Hey members, I just recently upgraded my MacBook Pro 13' mid 2012 to 16 GB EVM ddr3 ram and 250 GB Gigabyte SSD. I switched out the optical drive for the ssd fitted with a caddy. I thought of installing windows 10 on it. But everytime i run the installer through usb , it gets stuck on the...

Anyone know how many drives can be daisy-chained to a late 2017 iMac via USB hubs?

I have a MacBook Air 2017 model and a Windows 11 Lenovo Legion Y520, but my problem is, which is better to keep as my main computer in case i have to/want to sell one of them ? This problem has been bothering me for a while because I'm really indecisive, I noted down all the advantages and...

Macbook Pro (mid-2012) Catalina 10.15.7 Epson Scan 2. (January 20, 2022 - Wow, the company does not put build#!? Not even version #!) Does anyone know how to create multiple page PDF scans? In the older versions of Epson Scan, the user could click-Multiple pages, the software would scan a...

Im adding an eGPU to my Mac mini server, and Im just curious about if I could use a card I have lying around or not. I bought an HD 7790 from eBay, and I see on elitemacx86 it says its compatible across the board from High Sierra to the latest version. But, on the opencore GPU buyers guide, it...

Hi. 1st, I don't know where to post this, it could fit in w11 or systems forums as well, I think. WHY won't M1 support bootcamp into w11? I THINK the basic structure of computing remains the same since God created computers on day 1 -- assembler, compiler & on up from there. I do see w11 has...

Hello everyone, I'm really frustrated since I have spent so many hours trying to figure something for my problem. I have a Mac Pro 3.1 (I believe it's 2008) and I have had windows 10 installed on it for a very long time, you can say I never worked on macOS. Recently I've bought an NVMe M.2 SSD...

Hi everyone! Macbooks are known for their extraordinary performance in 'designing softwares'. I'm a professional Solidworks user. Unfortunately, Solidworks is not available for MacOS. But recently I found out that Windows 10 can be installed on a macbook (Boot Camp Assistant). So, my question...

I have a late 2012 iMac that recently started showing CPU throttling. I don't know what caused it, a couple years ago I upgraded the internal fusion drive and disconnected the internal HDD, removed any excess dust and it worked fine since then. I noticed that throttling starts once the...

Hi, I'm looking for old software for a A3 Epson GT12000 scanner ( really great scanner ) for MacOs. The software is used as tool into photoshop ( older version which I have and also older MacOs G4 computer which still works like a charm ) If anybody by any chance has this software or knows where...

Hi. i need to know detail info of RAM Memory Module/DIMM PART-NUMBER p/n, SERIAL-NO s/n, etc in macOS, Windows, GNU/Linux (Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, CentOS, etc), Unix (FreeBSD, OpenBSD, etc). QUESITON : What tool/app/command can allow to view those specific detail info in macOS, Windows...

The title says it all, i've been trying all available "fixes" that I found online for the past 3 days so please dont copy paste them into ur replies. It seems like there's something not allowing the disk to reformat cauz I reformat in bootcamp at any capacity and monitor the changes in the disk...

I need some help. I have a 5TB portable HDD that I long-formatted into exFAT. My plan is to set this drive up and then format a second drive the same way and use these two drives as a portable backup with one redundancy. I want to be able to freely write to it from Windows computers and Mac...

I was going for a Ryzen 3600/1660 Super build, but then I had this idea. I could go for an Intel build with an AMD GPU and dual boot Windows and macOS. I love using macOS, my dad has been a mac user from 2013 and currently has a pro 15" from 2018. Should I do this? How will the macOS performance...

Hello, I am looking for OS (MacOS windows, linux) deployment solution. Do you know some solution for all OS?

I am trying to update a work computer to Catalina from High Sierra. However, the the system is telling me I still need 1.5 GB of space out of 30GB and I have cleared everything except for 500 MB of applications (470 MB of which is Chrome) and 18 GB of system files. My trash is cleared, temp...

So heres the problem. My brother asked me if I could format his iMac 2008 model and since I dont know much about iMacs I went to google for a solution, I did format his drive but the problem is I cant leave Disk Utilities. So I googled again and it says that I just go look for the startup disk...

I recently updated my mac to Catalina but my Microsft Word stopped working as soon as I did. So I downloaded it again off Utorrent but when I try and install it, I keep getting this message: '“Click Here To Install” will damage your computer. You should eject the disk image. This file was...

I am working on a 2008 iMac. When I tried to boot it up the bar took forever to go accross the screen. When it did finally become a full bar it did not boot up, it just stayed there. I shut it down and tried to start it up again. I waited and waited for it to boot up it just would not boot up...

I brought my Macbook Pro 2017 13" from CEX here in Australia in 2018. I was stupid enough not to factory reset it and I only just realised that my username is 'cex' in the mac's disk. Is there any way to change the user of the mac disk without factory resetting it? Thanks, Colby

I am unable to install macos in imac 2012 model. when i install it using internet recovery it is showing me catalina version but during installation it show me error-->The operation could not be completed.(PKDownloadError error 8.) . My internet is working fine.

Hey there! I got an old iMac from a friend (iMac 2007) He didn't remember his password so I tried to format the HDD on my PC and use internet recovery on mac to install the OS.... but ofc it didn't work (i am not surprised). I formated the HDD (the HDD works fine) as an HSF but, when the iMac...

Hello guys , so i need a laptop for mainly heavy video editing and some "future proof" if that even exists. I have a not bad bugdet (1500 euros) and im trying to decide if its worth to go for macOs ( i like Apple things ) but i dont if its worth because when it touch to specs i seem very low...

So I bought a new SSD for my main desktop and I decided to upgrade a Macbook Pro 2010 I have laying around. I formated the SSD I was gonna install on the MBP (of course) and as I turned it on, it just started windows unsuccessfully, as expected. My intend was just to use the SSD instead of the...

Is there a way to download an Origin PC game on a mac? I've downloaded Origin for Mac but I can't download Battlefield V because it's only available for Windows. Thanks in advance.