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  1. Leopold928

    MacBook Pro 15” 2018 High Sierra login lag

    Hello I bought the new MacBook Pro 15” 2018 2 data ago and recently I’ve noticed that when I turn of my laptop and when I want to choose a user my cursor is lagging... I don’t know what is the problem. Here is the video:
  2. C

    External SSD on Thunderbolt 1

    Hi, I have a 21.5”, Mid 2011 iMac running High Sierra. I would like to lengthen the life of the machine, so I was thinking of hooking up an external SSD to its thunderbolt 1 port. Ideally this external SSD would also be bus-powered. The plan is to put the OS and all my apps onto this SSD (if...
    • csoc
    • Thread
    • bus-powered external boot drive high sierra imac 2011 ssd apfs thunderbolt 1
    • Replies: 25
    • Forum: iMac
  3. 1415OH

    Next-Loader can boot High Sierra from an APFS drive ?

    Next-Loader can boot HS from an APFS drive ?
    • 1415OH
    • Thread
    • 970pro apfs high sierra samsung ssd
    • Replies: 5
    • Forum: Mac Pro
  4. 1415OH

    How To Install OSX on NVMe SSD ? (High Sierra)

    How To Install OSX on NVMe SSD ? (High Sierra) (Mac Pro 2010 Mid) I Wanna Use 970evo or 960evo Please Explain...
    • 1415OH
    • Thread
    • boot high sierra nvme ssd
    • Replies: 0
    • Forum: Mac Pro
  5. T

    Questions before I upgrade to Mohave (from Sierra)

    I am finally taking the plunge and upgrading to Mohave (public beta.) I am running Sierra right now and have to waited till now to upgrade because i heard there were some bugs with the new file system and Fusion Drives (& Time Machine too.) Will my 32 bit apps (ex. Picasa) still work? (i thought...
  6. easton57

    iMac wont boot recovery or from external drive

    Hey y'all, I've got a strange issue. I purchased a used iMac a couple months ago and it was working fine then. Everything booted fine and stuff. However, I've been having some OS issues and wanted to start fresh with a clean install of High Sierra but this Mac wont boot into recovery mode and it...
    • easton57
    • Thread
    • boot can't boot recovery cant boot external drive core2duo high sierra imac 2009
    • Replies: 1
    • Forum: iMac
  7. Mervan1985

    How to fix my corrupted APFS container?

    `MBP late 2011 13` running `10.13.2` on a `Samsung Evo 850 250GB` Everything was fine for months but few days ago something horrible occurred. I'm so shocked and urgently need your help. Finder wasn't responding and I had to restart it by force. But it didn't boot again and just showed a black...
  8. C

    High Sierra file sharing (public folders) not working

    Running Macs, High Sierra, in a lab environment. Serving K-12 students. File sharing important as students drop off assignments (files) to instructor computer. Dropping off files from student computers to the instructor computer using Public Folders (user-home-public folder-drop box) when file...
  9. Q

    Auto-Save and file Versions in High Sierra

    I recently upgraded from 10.7 Lion to 10.13 High Sierra. In Lion, I was using the following Terminal commands: (For Preview) defaults write -app 'preview' ApplePersistence -bool no (For TextEdit) defaults write -app 'textedit' ApplePersistence -bool no defaults write -app textedit...
  10. G

    Accidentally erased my 64gb usb sandisk with FAT instead of exFAT

    I accidentally erased my 64gb usb sandisk with FAT instead of exFAT. Now it says "The disk you inserted was not readable by this computer" and I can't recover it in any way. sudo diskutil list returns: sudo gpt -r show /dev/disk2 returns sudo fdisk /dev/disk2 returns #: id cyl hd sec -...
  11. M

    Repaired system-Backup from clone or old before replacing?

    I had a consistency error on my system drive which neither Drive Genius nor Disk Utility could fix. I cloned the High Sierra system SSD with Bombich CCC to an internal HD which had been wiped and APFS formatted and found it to be bootable, as expected. The next step will be to reformat the old...
  12. tellulah

    can I run el capitan on a mid 2017 imac?

    My trusty laptop finally died and I bought a mid 2017 imac which is running high sierra. My problem is that much of my software won't run on high sierra and I would like to either use the HD from the laptop (which has el capitan on it) as a start up disc or make a time machine back up of it and...
    • tellulah
    • Thread
    • downgrade ios downgrade osx el capitan high sierra imac 27" mid 2017 startup disc time machine restore
    • Replies: 4
    • Forum: OS X El Capitan (10.11)
  13. M

    how to handle consistency error on startup

    Classic Mac Pro with 10.13.6. I'm starting a new Time Machine drive as the old one filled up. Checking startup drive with disk utility and Drive Genius indicates a consistency error which could not be repaired but tells me to fix asap. Suggested fix is to clone startup disk, reformat and clone...
  14. S

    Strange timestamp glitch on mac imessage

    Getting a weird glitch with time stamps on imessage on my mac. Running High Sierra. It looks like the stamp is correct for all the messages I send, but the messages I receive have an inexplicable timestamp. Also, the time stamps are 100% correct when looking at the same messages on my iphone...
  15. M

    10.13.6 SSD has no recovery disk

    My Classic Mac Pro 5,1, which is a flashed 4,1 has been upgrading and running the OS without problem up to 10.13.6. Disk Utility just indicated a consistency error on the boot drive, which is a 240GB APFS SSD with 100GB free. When I tried to reboot from the recovery partition it just booted from...
  16. skmcdesign

    Disk is locked at Install macOS

    After encountering a kernel panic loop, I rebooted my mac to Recovery Mode but now it only starts in Recovery Mode so I chose Install macOS Sierra, connected to my wifi, but it says the disk is locked. :(
  17. R

    Deleting huge files, but not freeing up space!?

    I moved to High Sierra a few months ago, and I was noticing some weird behaviour with what my storage space was showing. I have a 1tb SSD in my MacBook Pro. I only have a few hundred GB of my own files. I just deleted about 200gb of files from my desktop, and there is no change in free space...
  18. flaubert

    Microcode questions

    So, I see some threads here in the forum about updating microcodes, and they quickly gather many posts from folks who are apparently more up to date on the benefits of updating such. I thought that perhaps the rest of us might benefit if those most knowledgeable would be able to enlighten us...
    • flaubert
    • Thread
    • el capitan high sierra intel meltdown microcode mojave sierra spectre
    • Replies: 4
    • Forum: Mac Pro
  19. Hans7D

    Username different from Homefolder name - cannot login

    Before I start with the problem, I am a newbe with Mac OS so please be patient with me. We have a number of iPhones, iPads and even an old iPod Classic at home that are all used happily on a daily basis. It is only recently that I started replacing our Windows systems for MacBooks and of course...
  20. A

    SSH Access Denied

    I have a MACBook Pro running 10.13.6 High Sierra. I am able to ping the laptop and initiate an SSH session. But when I enter the username root and password it tells me Access Denied. I can access the laptop locally using the same username root and password so I know that the password is not...
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