I have two Macs:
Mid-2012 Mac Pro (High Sierra 10.13.6)
2024 MacBook Pro M4 Pro (Sequoia 15.5)
The problem or question:
For years, my Mac Pro has intermittently given me the "cannot locate the current position" error when I open the Maps app. Sometimes it works fine for weeks and then other...
I was having a heck of a time with the OWC SSD in my old Mac Pro (High Sierra 10.13.6) and ended up re-installing High Sierra from scratch and using Migration Assistant to restore the rest from Time Machine.
Along the way, I managed to bungle up my Home folder somehow and in the process of...
This is probably going to be very easy for someone at Macrumers to answer. I need bullets for my battle with the support non-help I am receiving. I do not want to waste anyone's time, but here I feel confident that someone will know the answer.
I am not a programmer so a user only. I am...
Hi everyone,
I'm currently working on restoring FireWire IP networking (`fw0`) between two iMacs, and I’ve hit a wall on the macOS Sequoia (14.0) side. I'm hoping someone here can help clarify whether what I'm attempting is still possible — and if so, how.
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### 🖥 My setup:
- **iMac 27"...
I have recently setup a 12,2 mid 2011 27" iMac (with dual internal SATA SSDs and 32 GB RAM + Thunderbolt 1 USB 3.0 adaptor) to dual boot with it's native High Sierra plus (using OpenCore Legacy Patcher) Ventura.
High Sierra is installed on it's own 1TB SSD, while there are multiple APFS volumes...
Can I recover my iMac access via a Thunderbolt 2 to 3 on my new iMac 2019 Sequoia 15.1.1.(24B91)
It will not boot to Safe Mode or to Recovery Mode, but I was told it might be accessible to my 2019 model via Thunderbolt connection.
It gets almost to completion in booting then shuts down the...
macOS 10.14 Mojave on Unsupported Macs
Machine Support
Video Card Support
Pre-Metal AMD video cards (Radeon HD 6xxx series and older without acceleration, Radeon HD 4xxx series and older with acceleration.)
Pre-Metal Nvidia video cards (GeForce 5xx series and older, i.e...
hello,
i have a macbook pro mid 2012 for many years and decided to replace the old hdd with an old 1TB WD passport external portable hdd with the red jumper removed to possibly benefit some extra rotation speed.
i removed the dvd and i now have the 1TB and a 500GB ssd. All hdds have high sierra...
I am having a doozy of a time trying to make a USB drive with an OCLP-patched macOS High Sierra on it. I have tried different Macs and target media. I always get this:
For search engines: “Failed to create macOS installer”
OCLP (OpenCore Legacy Patcher) is at Version 1.5.0. Source OS macOS...
device:mid 2011 21.5in imac 12,1 High Sierra OS
I'm having trouble with running dota 2 on steam?
Vulkan error
What are your suggestions?
Wine or bootcamp?
Has anyone had difficulties trying to install 10.12.x or 10.13.x on an iMac Pro with HFS+ partitions?
I have tried to use DosDude's patcher, but I get an extremely strange error when I'm in the installer, where selecting the disk says
“this operation cannot be completed (com.apple.osintall...
I am trying to upgrade a 2014 rMBP from High Sierra to Big Sur. I found this Apple page with the App Store links:
https://support.apple.com/en-us/102662
Unfortunately, trying to use the Big Sur (or any other) installer results in the error message "The recovery server could not be contacted."...
I'll relate this as a cautionary tale for anyone who finds it helpful.
A friend of mine took to the local branch of GRAVIS in Düsseldorf her iMac 21.5" Mid 2011 to have macOS updated. The most recent backup she had was to an external Time Machine disk from about 2015 (yes, I know). She asked...
Summary:
We discovered a serious bug: booting High Sierra without System Integrity Protection (csrutil disable) possibly corrupts another mounted (unsupported) APFS2* OS Preboot volume, even when on another drive. Consequently, the corrupted OS may appear as High Sierra and check for...
Have an old Film on my G5 I have decided to finish editing, but the system is so old and outdated software issues are insurmountable. Thought I would try to move the project to my MacBook Pro notebook with High Sierra to finish editing it. Managed to move the project to the Notebook and now need...
Good day everyone, I hope you are all doing well. I am trying to install High Sierra on a MacBook Pro late 2011(a1278) using the High Sierra patcher from dosdude1. I follow the steps unto when you are supposed to click macOS Post install under utilities and choose your Mac model, volume and...
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I was working on my laptop and suddenly a kernel panic (that's how it's called on forums) happened (with those chinese characters that demand an instant restart) and then my mac restarted. Then it took too long (around 10 min) for booting (showing apple icon and the loading bar properly)...
Is there a way to disable the pop up window that started appearing recently when I am attempting to select text for any reason? The image below shows the problem that started when I had to roll back, from Catalina to High Sierra, thanks to the death of the SanDisk I was using for the Catalina...
Hi
I have an early 2011 MacBook Pro and am able to install latest Mac High Sierra 10.13.06
My problem is I need to download some app and it request 10.15 or higher that this machine will not be supported. I read on the net that there is a way to install Big Sur as unsupported and I tried both...
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I am in music production and just had to sell my m1 Mac Mini 16 gb ram 256 gb storage music machine. In which I booted Ventura from an OWC Envoy enclosure with a 4 TB Nvme m.2 TeamGroup SSD.
I am blessed to have found (at a thrift store of all places) a mid-2011...