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  1. Sciuriware

    How do you get a prompt for network access?

    I got 2 identical machines running Sonoma, connecting by remote mount by SMB. One can mount a share on the other, the other can't. Even worse: on 'the other', we have 2 accounts; 'her' account got a prompt in Terminal, allowed and it worked. 'his' account never got that prompt and can still not...
  2. D

    Whisper transcription voice to text ios local large model

    I want to run Whisper transcription voice-to-text with the large model locally on my iPhone 15 Pro Max and my M1 iPad Pro. Does anyone know where to find the app?
  3. Thor774

    Restrict access to encrypted external disk to local standard user

    Hello. My Mac had only 1 user (me) until now. This user has default admin rights. I have 2 external disks encrypted, one with APFS the other Mac OS Extended (Journaled), they are always attached to my Mac and the encryption keys are stored in macOS keychain. I'm on macOS Monterey 12.6. I just...
  4. lawlietkm

    Resolved How to read local files on Apple TV through VLC SMB?

    Hello, A friend told me to use VLC on my Apple TV so I can stream the local files from my iMac onto the Apple TV through SMB. Now that I've tried to set up, I'm confused and can't make it work for various reasons : - First, I'm not sure of which one is the right folder on the VLC tab because...
  5. Paninnguaq

    Universal Cloud storage app with local storage as well

    Hi, I’m looking for a cloud storage app for ios that allows local storage of the files as well. For in case when I’m in areas without cellular network. OneDrive does this - I can mark certain folders to download to the phone, but it only allows this at the highest tier that includes the office...
  6. D

    Move iCloud notes to iPhone

    Hello, as the title says - how can I move my notes from iCloud to local storage? I wanna ask first before I do something as I don't want to accidentally delete them or anything. Thanks!
  7. Wiencon

    Universal Spotify and iTunes in one app - Plum Music Player

    Spotify is a great platform, with awesome curated playlists and music discovery algorithms, but I always thought that their mobile app had a pretty, yet not very intuitive interface and that browsing music saved in library seriously sucked (as I’ve seen, it’s not exclusively my opinion) So I...
  8. D

    iBooks, keep local copy?

    I have a few books I read in iBooks. I typically have them in Google Drive then do “open in” and choose iBooks. The challenge is that iBooks insists on storing the books in iCloud, and only temporarily on the iPad itself. So if I leave iBooks for a bit and do other stuff, iOS will clean up...
  9. nkarafo

    Mojave and applelocale / locale language issue

    Hello, in previous Mac OS versions, we had the ability to first set the OS language, for example in English and then have the date and time in a local different language, eg Greek. We were using the command: defaults write NSGlobalDomain AppleLocale -string el_GR or defaults write...
  10. I

    macOS Shared Folder Permissions

    Hello guys! I hope you'll be able to help me out with this thing. I'm trying to share different folders with different permissions for users. I am using an iMac with High Sierra with the Server app 5.4 and this is what I did; I set two 2 share only users "Jon" and "Simone". On a shared...