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  1. Mac03ForLife

    Send Help - Slow MBP

    Please, someone help a guy out I have an MBP 8,1 and it is slow as molasses going uphill in January. There's almost nothing on the drive, only about 222GB used of 500 5400RPM SATA Drive I can't get a clean startup, transfers are slow as... well, you know, FF57 wont launch, Preview freezes when...
  2. Y

    WD 2TB External Hard Drive with ExFat Format takes more than 5 mins to Mount on Mac OS

    Hi, I own a WD 2 TB External Hard Drive which, I have formatted it with ExFat partition. On trying to connect the drive to my Mac (macOS High Sierra), it takes more than 5 mins to show on desktop. I have one partition of NTFS on the same drive, which appears in 10 secs. Can some one suggest...
  3. Mac03ForLife

    Making the Downgrade

    A few days back, I decided to go back to Lion (the OS that originally shipped with my Late 2011 MBP. I did this for a few reasons: 1. lack of an ssd. The new macOSs are designed to be used with Fusion drives or SSDs. Having neither, I decided to go with 10.7 2. Lack of 8Gb RAM: I have 4GB, was...
  4. Y

    WD 2TB External Hard Drive with ExFat Format takes more than 5 mins to Mount on Mac OS

    Hi, I own a WD 2 TB External Hard Drive which, I have formatted it with ExFat partition. On trying to connect the drive to my Mac (macOS High Sierra), it takes more than 5 mins to show on desktop. I have one partition of NTFS on the same drive, which appears in 10 secs. Can some one suggest...
    • ydhuliawala
    • Thread
    • 2tb exfat macos high sierra mounting issue osx slow wd passport
    • Replies: 0
    • Forum: Mac Apps
  5. D

    Is USB audio output to PC possible?

    Hi all! I appreciate any feedback you guys can provide! I have a mid-2012 MBP, a Windows10 video editing PC, and Polk Hampden (USB, 3.5mm, bluetooth inputs) speakers which use their own DAC. All are at the same workstation. Ultimately, I would like quality audio from both computers to be able...
  6. D

    What is SCIM.app?

    I found this in my iCloud Drive settings (see attached screenshot). What is that? Something to be concerned about?
  7. Mac03ForLife

    Signing Into iChat in OSX Panther

    Ive recently inherited a PowerMac G5 dual 1.8 I have tried to sign into iChat on it, but it seems to only take @mac.com email addresses Is there a way around this to use my @icloud.com address with iChat? or is my MBP 8,1 the messages machine? :)
  8. S

    Autofill one at a time?

    Not sure if this is an OSX question or a Chrome question but... Is there a way to autofill one entry at a time instead of changing all possible entries on a page at once? It seems if you choose to use autofill it fills up every available entry on a webpage and will also change any entries that...
  9. murzuphle

    macOS XLIFF default/common menus translations

    Hello, I'm developing a simple macOS application in Swift (Swift 4, Xcode 9, macOS 10.13). I'm now trying to localize it in multiple languages. I'd like to know if there is a way to have default/common menus (File, Edit, Format, View, Window, Help) translated automatically? I'm using Xcode...
  10. Stephan1337

    OSX First Partition visible and not EFI after Cloning with OSX Installer tool

    Hi, I just tried to move my whole main drive partition (It was just 1 "usable" that I was aware of, with Mac OSX High Sierra) to a new Samsung EVO 850 1TB Harddrive. I had to initialise it and convert it to "GPT"-format with my Windows 10 Desktop, because the installer tool from High Sierra...
    • Stephan1337
    • Thread
    • clone efi efi boot high sierra osx partitioning
    • Replies: 1
    • Forum: macOS
  11. bomtarnfield

    HD (with OSX on) not showing in recovery mode?

    Hi all. So I bought a new HD for my Macbook Pro mid-2012. I've installed Mountain Lion (lol) onto the HD from my other Macbook, in recovery mode. So I've plugged the HD in, started in recovery mode, and nothing's showing on Disk Utility – except for a 'disk0' drive with 'Mac OS X Base System'...
  12. D

    macOS How can I install keyboard mappings?

    I have recently purchased a Poker 3 keyboard for my iMac running Sierra. I have set up my keyboard preferences using http://www.keyboard-layout-editor.com. I can export the raw data from the above website I just like to know how and where I apply this to my iMac. many thanks David
  13. Mac03ForLife

    OSX Lion or HiSierra

    Hello I bought my 13 inch MBP (2.4ghz i5, 4gb RAM, 500 SATA HDD) in 2011 with OSX 10.7 preinstalled. It worked super well back then, and eventually it was put in a closet for 3 years due to the emergence of my parent's old powermac g5, which I began to use as my primary mac. After 3 years of...
  14. DailySlow

    OSX was there...started downloading...vanished

    What happened? I started download in APP Store of 11, left to grab a beer, came back and nothing AND it's not in the store anymore? This guy is gonna restart.
  15. J

    Boot a Windows HD from an iMac, using Bootcamp?

    I have a Windows machine that had a component failure (GPU), and seeing as the entire Windows drive is contained on a single SSD (which I can slot into one of my external USB cases) I was wondering if it would be possible for me to plug that into an iMac and boot it somehow as a Windows...
    • JVNeumann
    • Thread
    • bootcamp imac osx windows
    • Replies: 1
    • Forum: iMac
  16. Mac03ForLife

    CD/DVD Drive Dead on PMacG5?

    Hi. I recently inherited a PowerMac G5 (Dual 1.8, 512mb RAM), and I went to load an Audio CD into the Pioneer optical drive, and it just spun, made a few honking noises, and spit it out. I have extra IDE as well as SATA optical drives, any suggestions / How easy is it to replace this drive...
    • Mac03ForLife
    • Thread
    • cd drive mac osx powermac powermac g5 powermac g5 2017 powerpc
    • Replies: 1
    • Forum: PowerPC Macs
  17. Ralphiatto

    Why does my Macbook Pro eat up memory just using basic apps?

    My MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Early 2015) keeps on using memory from my 120gb "Macintosh HD" from doing simple things such as reading news, watching netflix etc.. I had to reinstall OS and start from scratch yesterday because my computer was using memory for the reason listed above, I thought...
  18. Ralphiatto

    Deleted everything on Mac but safari history/bookmarks/faves still there?

    I just reinstalled OS an hour ago by deleting everything on "Macintosh HD" and on the "Apple SSD". When I got my computer back up and running I got on safari and my browsing history from my computer days before I deleted everything was still there as well as my bookmarks, favorites and safari...
    • Ralphiatto
    • Thread
    • delete mac macbook osx safari
    • Replies: 4
    • Forum: macOS
  19. Dj64Mk7

    Cannot Install Windows Due to Error

    Hi. I have previously installed Windows, but I had to erase the partition because it wasn't booting. Then I went to reinstall Windows today, and the installer told me my product key was not valid. So I selected "I don't have a product key, and it gave me an error something about partitions and...
  20. P

    Clearing macbook white mid 2010 os x 6.8 without installer disk?

    Hello. I'm clearing my macbook in order to to sell it on. I don't have the installer disk anymore but I reinstalled mac os x by pressing cmd+s on startup and entering commands which was successful. The part I am still struggling with is on Disk Utility: the option to erase is greyed out and...
    • poiuysminty
    • Thread
    • disk install disk utility install macbook osx osx10.68 uninstall
    • Replies: 0
    • Forum: MacBook
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