OS X upgrade for Macbook Air 1.1 Core 2 Duo?
Hello, Sorry about my language, I'm Spanish. I have a Macbook Air 1.1 (early 2008) with Lion installed. I'm looking for how to install any later version: Mountain Lion, Mavericks, Yosemite and The...
View ArticleDual Booting 10.11 and 10.9 - Spotlight Problems
I have El Capitan and Maveriks dual booted on my system. When I do Spotlight searches on El Capitan for apps it pulls up apps on Mavericks and vice versa. When I add Mavericks HD to the Privacy list of...
View ArticleHow do I mirror my MacBook Pro to AppleTV?
Trying to do a quick setup - I know how to do it with my iPhone and iPad, just can't find it on the macbook pro. Any help would be appreciated.
View ArticleOSX Boot Installer Corruption?
When downloading to make a OSX boot installer, is there any way that the download could cause some corruption that can create bugs after the install? So what I'm saying is, when installing El Capitan,...
View ArticleiPhoto missing?
I just purchased a new iMac and today my iPhoto icon went missing from the dock? I went looking for it in spotlight but could not find it! I think what happened was that I accedently dragged the icon...
View ArticleUnable to turn off guest account?
Hi all, So I recently upgraded to El Capitan (I dont think this is too relevant though) and decided to turn on find my mac and filevault. This enabled a guest user in the login screen. I then read that...
View ArticleAre Parental Controls Sufficient?
Are the built-in OS X parental controls good enough on their own, or should I look at outside apps to manage my child's account? I'm especially wondering how well Apple filters the internet if you...
View ArticleWhat's the point in AirDrop if it simply does not work?
Brand new iPhone. Fully up-to-date Mac. Been trying now for 45mins to transfer some photos using Air Drop. Wifi and Bluetooth on on both devices. Devices are next to each other. "Discoverable by...
View ArticlePhotos when reverting from El Capitan to Yosemite
I've managed to revert from El Capitan to Yosemite on my MacBook Pro with relative ease. The only issue I experienced was with my Photos library. Apparently El Capitan converted the database and now I...
View Article[Updated - Turtorial] Non 2x Custom Hidpi Mode on Macs - Fixed mouse delay...
Updated: It would be highly appreciated if you can share your Mac model, monitor model and max Hidpi setting in this thread. I will then tidy that up and put it into a table~ cheers I think someone may...
View ArticleTime machine pruner/ size limiter for folder without partition
I have my TM on a shared drive with other backup files. Is there an app that will limit the folder size without partitioning my drive? For example, the drive is 4TB but I want the TM folder to be 2GB...
View ArticleDowngrading from El Capitan to Snow Leopard problems.
I've a 15" 2011 MacBook Pro, currently running El Capitan. I need to downgrade all the way down to Snow Leopard. The reason for this is that the sole reason I have the laptop is to run some video...
View ArticleBooting from/using a USB thumb drive and restricting access to internal drive
I've been using a home MacBook for work stuff for a while now and as I'll be starting afresh with El Capitan, I'd like to separate work and home stuff. My idea is to buy a USB thumbnail drive for work,...
View ArticleUpgrading Mac Mini
I am running OS 10.7.5 on a Mid 2010 Mac Mini with 8 GB 1067 MHz DDR3. My machine is slowing down recently. The finder windows will close for no apparent reason while I am using it. I am wondering if I...
View ArticleUnknown storage
Hi everyone! My start up disk is full and when I checked the storage it shows 40gb of photos. I have only a couple gb on my computer all my photos are in external drives!.. anyone tell me where this...
View ArticleCould someone test something in Spotlight really quickly for me?
If you have a machine with an OS X version earlier than El Capitan, when you trigger Spotlight with command+space, release space and type a character while still holding command, does the character...
View ArticleBig slow down with encryption on USB drive
With a plain software RAID0 setup with a USB enclosure, I was getting about 200MBps R/W. But with encryption enabled, write speeds seem to have dropped dramatically with a consistent 40MBps. Anybody...
View ArticleHow to move iPhone backup location for iTunes? Any idea?
I backup my iPhone 6 Plus 128GB through iCloud, but prefer to use iTunes as my main backup and restore option for iOS restores etc. Unfortunately even if you have your iTunes library stored on an...
View ArticleFolder greyed out, cannot access
Hi, I need some help. I was copying some data to my server and there was a network failure. The half copied folder is now grey in the finder and i cannot open it or see the contents. It has files...
View ArticleTime Machine restore to external drive (Drobo)
Our 2007 iMac with a 2TB internal drive finally died. We fortunately have several Time Machine (TM) backups. Our new setup includes an iMac with a 512GB internal SSD and a networked (ethernet) Drobo N....
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