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MacBook Pro 2018 Intel I am getting near daily crashes / kernel panics since I upgraded to Big Sur. For the upgrade, it was not a install on top of Catalina – rather, I booted from a USB flash drive, ran disk utility, deleted the APFS volume group and then installed Big Sur. This is...

I need to rename files sequentially in a series of folders. So each group of files within each individual folder should read... [folder a] FILE_01 FILE_02 FILE_03 ...and so on. Automator does a great job as long as I add the contents of each folder one at a time. I would like to add all of the...

mount a share like this: sudo open smb://user:password@NAS/share navigate to share cd share try to list contents ls ls: .: Operation not permitted

The close button for windows containing saveable documents in macOS Big Sur actually changes depending on the document state. Anyone else notice this? It's pretty subtle, but I'd never really noticed it consciously until today. (The button contains a dark dot when the document is not saved but...

I have an admin and can log into that but not the user account that has all of my stuff. I login to my user account and it just spins. I have Mac Desktop 2019 and just downloaded Big Sur.

Hi guys, Recently purchased MacBook Air, and noticed that few softwares downloaded automatically in the LaunchPad (such as Chess, Image Capture, Font Book. etc.). Is this usual? It also created an automatic guest login? How can I disable automatic download of the apps? Currently running MacOS...

Hi Guys, I find an unknown wifi network called Helga added to my wifi network list plus its password stored in my keychain. The other devices connected are my bluetooth headphones, usb keyboard switch and my iphone. I did not add this wifi network nor in keychain, my mac mini is brand new...

So my university uses the full array of Microsoft products. One issue I have since Big Sur has been the very slow boot of MS Teams. One you click the icon it’s about two mins before it opens. No I have an iMac Pro, fully loaded $5,000 computer with SSD, 32GB memory etc. I have uninstalled and...

Hi - Have been having an issue with a number of Apple apps being unusable on Big Sur. I have a number of issues and unfortunately haven't found a thread that covers it. I have a late 2014 Mac Mini with 16 GB RAM and a 3 GHz Dual Core i7 processor. I have mac OS 11.2.1 installed. I have...

Hello, For months I've struggled with Kernel Panics on reboot, even on the latest Big Sur, 11.2 / 11.2.1 That is, when I try to reboot my Mac, it takes 5/6 minutes and when it restarts I see a message saying a Kernel Panic occurred. I posted about it here. This issue has been ongoing for...

The Mail app of macOS Big Sur never stops downloading messages. Even after it has completed downloading messages, if the app is closed and reopened it again starts downloading messages. This happens even though no new message is available on the mail server. This behaviour is common for IMAP...

Quick summary: I tried to install Big Sur on a Macbook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Mid 2014) but this failed and now I can't access it anymore. Now I'm trying to access it through Recovery Mode to back up some files, but the FileVault password claims to be incorrect. Any ideas? Midway through the...

I need some documents from an application for The New Yorker Magazine. But it only runs in Leopard. I've never fooled w virtual installations.

Hi All, I am desperately trying to restore a Time Machine backup stored on my (LaCie d2 Thunderbolt 3 10Tb) external drive to my (2019) iMac running Big Sur 11.2. Here is what I have done: Started up iMac while pressing CMD + R Selected « Restore from Time Machine » and clicked « Continue »...

I'm trying to configure my daughters MacBook Air so that she can only open specific websites. In screen time I can an add websites to the list of allowed sites, but as soon as I reopen the dialog the list is reset to the defaults. Earlier her account was restricted to only the default list of...

Hi, I'm trying to access a multiplayer server and whenever I try to connect I always get the same error "The authentication servers are currently down for maintenance". I decided to boot the game in Windows bootcamp and I was able to play with no problem so I'd really appreciate it if any of...

Every since moving to Big Sur/M1 I've been unable to sync Photos with my iOS devices. I get the dreaded "Your photos couldn't be synced because the photo library wasn't found." Pretty much every tip online didn't work. In my case the problem seems to be that MacOS is unable to generate/sync the...

Anyone else have this problem? It has been there since 11.0.1 (initial release of big sur was fine) and it now persists in 11.2 Messages wont launch and just bounces in the dock and then becomes unresponsive. It also wipes out all my contact names in the messages app and just shows their...

Hi fellow MacRumors community members, I have an issue with Git, maybe someone has an idea how to fix it. Last night I finally got around to installing Big Sur 11.1 on my M1 MacBook Air, but now whenever I use the Git command in Terminal, it just outputs zsh: killed git pull I checked the...

After upgrading to Big Sur I'm having trouble using an email account on my 2015 MacBook Pro in Mac Mail. I have two other email accounts (iCloud & Gmail) that do not have a problem. It says the username or password are not recognized. I had no problem adding the email account using Thunderbird...