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  1. M

    MP 1,1-5,1 Upgrading OS to catalina or sequoia?

    Hello, i was thinking to upgrade my macos to catalina with opencore as i have purchased a new 5500xt for gaming in windows. Iam curently running a 5,1 macpro with the stock hd5870 for bootscren and the 5500xt. Till now i have been on high sierra 1.13 but the 5500xt isnt suported until 1.15...
    • Masoalan
    • Thread
    • catalina mac pro (2010) mac pro 5.1 opencore sequoia
    • Replies: 3
    • Forum: Mac Pro
  2. Calab

    MP 1,1-5,1 AMD video card for Mac Pro with boot screen

    I have a mid 2012 Mac Pro that I'm trying to put back into service. I've installed a "patched" version of Catalina 10.15.7. Right now it has an nVidia GTX680 video card, meaning I get no acceleration. I also have this machine dual booting to Linux Mint 22 using reFind. I'm having issues with the...
    • Calab
    • Thread
    • catalina dual boot graphics card linux
    • Replies: 4
    • Forum: Mac Pro
  3. J

    Media player for macOS Catalina similar to Infuse [Merged]

    Hello! I'm looking for a video player similar to Infuse for iOS and macOS. I have lots of my favorite TV shows uploaded to my OneDrive and for the past few years I've been streaming them on my MacBook with Infuse. Infuse allows you to connect your OneDrive account directly to the app and can...
    • jchav9183
    • Thread
    • catalina cloud infuse macos media player mkv onedrive software sonoma video video player
    • Replies: 8
    • Forum: Mac Apps
  4. danallen

    MP 1,1-5,1 Premature Purchase of GTX 680 for CMP 2012 Running Catalina

    I should have done more research before buying this card. It has not arrived yet. But I see lots of problems people have had putting GTX 280 on a CMP running Catalina. Dang. When I try the installation, i will post what happens.
    • danallen
    • Thread
    • 2012 catalina cmp 5 gtx 680
    • Replies: 6
    • Forum: Mac Pro
  5. O

    Internet slow on late 2012 mac mini, VPN issue

    My second computer is a late 2012 Mac Mini, 500 GB internal HD, 16 GB RAM. It is running Catalina. I only use this for streaming the internet with my kids, nothing else at all is important to me to run on this computer. I have NordVPN installed. When I run a speed test (firefox) without...
  6. M

    How to install Catalina on MacBook Air 2017?

    Can I install Catalina on MacBook Air 2017? If yes, just download the Catalina Installer and create an USB Installer?
  7. B S Magnet

    Other Getting Catalina to play nice with 32-bit binaries and applications

    Arising from a discussion aside to come up on another thread, @TheShortTimer suggested this question be spun off into a new thread. Even as Apple formally withdrew support for running 32-bit applications from Catalina forward, the ability to use 32-bit binaries in Catalina persisted with the...
  8. F

    Mojave upgrade problems...

    Hi, I have a 2013 iMac. It's running on Mojave currently, I want to upgrade it to the OLDEST supported OS, which I believe is Big Sur. In Software preferences I clicked to upgrade to Catalina (which seemed sensible given past bugs of skipping past Catalina). The process completed, so I am now...
    • FedoraTime
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    • catalina mojave
    • Replies: 15
    • Forum: iMac
  9. Minghold

    Software Update must die: Let's go on safari and kill it!

    Situation: variety of intel-era iMacs currently running mucho paid-for 32bit production software at blazing speeds (i.e., Mojave from HFS+ partitions with MRT, Spotlight, notifications, and other annoying bits disabled). For obvious reasons, we cannot have these machines "upgrading"...
    • Minghold
    • Thread
    • 32bit apfs catalina hfs+ legacy support os update software update
    • Replies: 8
    • Forum: macOS
  10. P

    Attempting to use Canon iP4300 Pixma printer on iMac running Catalina

    Canon stopped updated their drivers for catalina and beyond. I have this nice photo printer and it is not recognizable on my iMac. The latest downloadable driver from Canon is the version before Catalina. Is there a hack or workaround I can use to use this printer? Thank you.
  11. danallen

    Wifi Has Worked For Years - Now XXXX FIXED - Almost Always Easy to Fix

    wifi has been great since I got this computer in 2015, but today it is dead. no other problems with this computer that I know of. I am thinking there must be documentation somewhere the tells how to fix this. So far, everything I have found had not addressed the scenario I am seeing. My...
  12. MigthyBear

    Moding a 2008 iMac MacOS X 10.5.8 to Mojave

    Hi guys! Recently, a friend of mine gave me his old 2008 iMac. I've been trying to install Mojave or Catalina with the http://dosdude1.com/mojave/ patcher, yet Finder won't allow me to open the patcher, popping out an error message saying: I cannot use this version of macOS. I also tried using...
    • MigthyBear
    • Thread
    • 2008 imac catalina mac 10.5.8 mojave
    • Replies: 0
    • Forum: iOS 10
  13. macthekatt

    Will a Catalina SSD run if put in a 2010 Macbook Pro?

    Hi everyone! My cousin gifted me his old Macbook Pro 15" - 2,88 GHz processor, 4 GB RAM, 512 MB display, 500 GB HDD, battery with only 35 cycles. I think it is a 2010 model. Not sure, as in "about this mac" it only shows "El Capitan" but no year at all. I was thinking of replacing its El Capitan...
  14. F

    Downgrading Catalina to High Sierra

    Has anyone done a downgrade from Catalina to High Sierra on a mac with an internal SATA disk (not SSD)? I would like to know how successful you were and why you chose to downgrade. My disk cannot tolerate Catalina but a few days ago it was fine on High Sierra for basic things. I want to go...
  15. R

    Catalina will not load external USB Harddrives over the network

    The usb drives are connected to a mac mini, mounted in catalina and are accessable from the machine with the drives attached. When this machine is approached over a lan the all drives are listed, internal and external. Internal drives can be browsed remotely but when an external drive is...
  16. current997

    Mac OS installation failed. Stuck in reboot loop.

    MacBook Pro retina 15 inch mid 2012 I was running High Sierra and updated to Catalina. I checked if it was compatible with my mac before doing so and the apple site said it was. I install it, and about 75% through, it says it has to restart due to a problem and then it keeps restarting in a...
  17. davidodwell

    MP 1,1-5,1 Mac Pro 2009 5,1 Will Not Complete Last Step in DosDude Catalina Patcher

    My 2009 Mac Pro was successfully flashed to 5,1. Now I am trying to complete DosDudes Catalina Patcher. So this is a 2009 5,1 dual 2.26 quad core processors, running High Sierra...10.13.6, 8 gig of memory, GPU is a Radeon 580..8 gig as well, The Step I can not complete is near the end...the...
    • davidodwell
    • Thread
    • catalina catalina patcher dosdude mac pro 2009
    • Replies: 12
    • Forum: Mac Pro
  18. Pilot Jones

    Monterey crashed my MacBook. How do I recover it back to Catalina?

    After updating to Monterey, my 2015 MBP slowly started getting a little sluggish until it completely collapsed a few days later. Now I have this blinking folder icon every time I boot it up. I tried going through the recovery process, but it defaults to installing the very first macOS that...
  19. T

    create bootable usb macOS Catalina

    Hello all, I am trying to follow this guide https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/how-to-perform-a-clean-installation-of-macos-10-15-catalina.2205092/ but whenever i am in this step shown in the image it gets forever stuck at 0%. Any ideas? Is on a MacBook air early 2015 13 inch with MacOS...
  20. Mrplow72

    Network user relogging

    Hello. Sorry for bad english,I am new to mac. I have a windows desktop and a macbook so i want to use shared folders from the desktop om MB. It works fine but the problem is that mac saved my local network user data (Despite the fact that I did not click save in the keychain) and now every time...
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