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I recently opened up my brand new Macbook Air, the 2020 version with the M1 chip. All was good and well, until I forgot my password. Having not been able to properly set up an Apple ID account, I was left to reinstall macOS Big Sur on the thing. After attempting to do so, I ran into the...

Hi all, I want to restore my Mac to my last Time Machine backup of Catalina. I'm currently on Big Sur and don't want to lose any new data since upgrading. Is there a way I can view every file I've created, downloaded, saved etc. after a specific date (that date being after upgrading to Big Sur)...

I'm confused by the storage stats. I have a macOS Big Sur under APFS (~736 Gi with 578 Gi used) and also a BootCamp Windows (~189 Gi with ~143 Gi used) alongside. "System Information" says I only have ~156G left (= 143Gi) left in macOS, which is consistent with the command df -h as shown below...

I'm not 100% certain this is M1 Mac related or even Big Sur related, but I can't find anything online to corroborate this. But for the past several weeks, a mysterious volume keeps popping up on my Desktop called "Update." The contents of which are: ➜ Update ls -la total 528 drwxr-xr-x 10...

Hi, I just bought an M1 MacBook Air and mostly everything works great, with a few exceptions. I usually like to disable mouse acceleration because I'm much more precise with that setting. The way I do it is by going to Terminal and entering defaults write .GlobalPreferences...

I somewhat frequently run into scenarios where I need to upgrade Macs' hard drives from either standard rotary drives to SSDs or size up the SSD that comes with a Mac. I'm now having Big Sur systems coming in the door and have been hitting walls with the previously very clean and reliable...

Sometimes, when I need to reboot, I can't because Big Sur is backing up my iPhone. If I go into finder and cancel the backup, it takes a very long time to stop (minutes if not longer). But today I noticed that if I disconnect my iPhone from my Mac, it stops immediately. Is there something I...

Hi everyone. I have a MacBookPro. I work from home by connecting to my company computer through the Microsoft Remote Desktop app. My operating system is Big Sur. Since yesterday every time I try to connect with the Microsoft Remote Desktop app, I can't do it and I get this message We couldn't...

I used to use rEFInd as a boot loader, but with the upgrade to Big Sur there have apparently been changes to the firmware that interferes with rEFInd's operation. So I am back to holding down the option key. Yay. <--(sarcasm) If I tried to boot normally, rEFInd should kick in and take me to...

Beta Driver for macOS 11.1 Big Sur available!! (BEEN WORKING GREAT!!) Below are step-by-step instructions including a link to download the driver. Here is a link to a pdf document for those who need a visual instruction guide. macOS 11.1 installation steps: Please disconnect your j5create...

I can not find out how to show an SD card when using Big Sur Finder. Same card showed in a 2012 MacBook Pro. Does anyone know how to fix it so that I can see a SD card in Finder ? Thank your time and for any help/suggestions.

Hi, I've been having a lot of issues with my M1 Mac mini unfortunately. The most of any Apple Product I've ever used! So I got the Mac mini (16GB/1TB) & the LG Ultrafine 5K for Christmas. I have 2 days left in my return window so I have to make my decision pretty quick. These are the issues I...

Hello guys, I have a Mid 2014 15 Macbook Pro currently connected to an Apple Thunderbolt Display and an Apple LED Cinema Display 27 and I want to upgrade to the M1 Mac Mini M1 but I don't know exactly if that's possible for me to use both of my monitors at the same time as I know that you can...

Hello, I'm getting kernel panics whenever I shutdown or restart my Mac. This happens _only_ on shutdown and restart. I recently changed the language on my Mac, and then the problems started happening, but I'm not sure it's from the language change. I'm using a 27-inch iMac from 2017, with Big...

Anyone else have their iMessages load / update really slow? Sometimes I have to close and reopen the app three times and later wait like 5 minutes for current iMessages to load up. It's ridiculous. Has anyone found any workarounds for this? I'm running Big Sur 11.1 on my 2017 MacBook Pro, and...

I have the made for Mac version so no unifying dongle. M1 air When I turn my mx master 3 on 80% of the time the buttons and gestures will be all messed up. My back and forward buttons won’t work on safari, middle click doesn’t work, none of the gestures except for pressing the gesture work. And...

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my benq pd3220u monitor is detecting the wrong resolution in Big Sur all of a sudden? Sometimes it goes to the right one but most of the time its wrong. Any idea how to fix this

So, scrolling around, it looks like there are lots of issues with Time Machine and Big Sur, particularly with older data. I didn't see this anywhere, though. I'm migrating from a machine running El Capitan. I actually set the new Mac up fresh, and I'm going to pull over just what I need. (The...

Hello, I am searching for a way to modify macOS to accept files from AirDrop to a specific folder. In my case, changing from the local ~/Downloads folder to a custom iCloud Downloads folder. I have found a few automator tricks online, but they are all set up for 10.14 or 10.15 and don't work...