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  1. M

    Preview deleted/ate/hidden ALL of the text in my PDF!?

    After annotating a 200+ page PDF for hours upon hours... I opened it today to discover ALL of the text is missing. The pictures are there, highlights, charts, but all of the text is missing. It is not invisible. It is missing. You cannot even select it. The annotations I made were mostly...
  2. D

    Upgrading from Mavericks to Sierra: What to look out for?

    My 2014 MacBook Pro and my 2010 Mac Pro are both still running OSX 10.9.5, mostly because of some specific software compatibility issues and because I use these machines for work and am always hesitant to upgrade. Now, the time has come where the compatibility issues of not updating have gotten...
    • danqi
    • Thread
    • macos mavericks os x os x 10.9.5 osx sierra system update updating upgrading
    • Replies: 3
    • Forum: macOS
  3. M

    Upgrade suggestions

    I need help deciding whether I need a new Macbook Pro or new iPad to replace my 2009 white Macbook Pro which is just too slow after upgrading to ElCapitan. Mobility is necessary as I am a caregiver at home and must at times try to work away from my main machine, which is a CMP 5,1 (flashed)...
  4. TheChemist

    Question: Of all the ad-block filters which should I select?

    hi, I know there are certain blockers which offer a convenient set it and forget it option, whereas other are more granular. I have tried Crystal, Firefox Focus, and Adguard on iOS, and the usual suspects for OSX. When I look at Adguard or uBlock, I am presented with a list of filters to...
  5. Demovx

    Safari freezes

    Hi I have a problem with safari. When I want to open a new tab or select the current (CMD + T and CMD + l) is the browser to freeze. Below I attach a recording of the screen. This happens year. Computer repeatedly to format and cleaned the cache, history, etc. Pleas help! :(...
    • Demovx
    • Thread
    • capitan frezzing screen osx safari
    • Replies: 9
    • Forum: Mac Apps
  6. S

    Macbook Pro Hot, Blank Screen and Unresponsive

    I have had a problem of putting my Macbook Pro to sleep then coming back to it a couple hours later to find it hot with a black screen and totally unresponsive requiring a forced shutdown. Some outside advice led me to try disabling "Wake for network access" and this did seem to fix the problem...
    • Schmactor
    • Thread
    • black screen early 2008 el capitan forced shutdown hot macbook pro osx sleep unresponsive wake for network
    • Replies: 0
    • Forum: OS X El Capitan (10.11)
  7. D

    iMac weird Behaviours

    Hello everyone. Im starting to worry about my iMacs health. It has less than a year and is starting to show really weird behaviours, being the main symptom a sudden mouse lag (like if when moving the pointer it looks like if jumping frames) that get worse to worst until it freezes the entire...
    • Deth
    • Thread
    • lag mouse osx slowdown
    • Replies: 2
    • Forum: macOS
  8. soundsystem00

    OSx Glitchy. Do I have a virus?

    I went through facebook and was backup up a lot of photos. ALOT. One of the galleries had 2000 photos. I had an external hard drive hooked up and had Safari set to download each picture straight to the hard drive. After about 100 photos, safari starting moving in slow motion. Then finder...
  9. P

    Eternal issue of LAG/DELAY on 2nd monitor connected via HDMI

    This lag/delay issue really bothers me a lot. It is very noticeable, especially when moving mouse cursor. I think at least 1/10 of a second. Does anyone know how to solve the lag/delay on second monitor connected via HDMI port? It happens both on my macbook pro 13" (late 2013 base model) and...
    • precision01
    • Thread
    • delay hdmi hdmi issue lag macbook pro macos osx
    • Replies: 11
    • Forum: MacBook Pro
  10. Dj64Mk7

    MacBook Pro 5,5 experiences Kernal Panic when booting to Recovery HD

    Hi! My MacBook Pro 5,5 running OS X El Capitan experiences a kernal panic every time I go to boot into the Recovery HD. Please help…
    • Dj64Mk7
    • Thread
    • el capitan kernal panic macboo pro osx
    • Replies: 9
    • Forum: MacBook Pro
  11. J

    HELP with Time Machine Backup Please!!

    I'm in dire need of some help. Is there anyway to get past having to enter my password to access my external hard drive that I have connected to Time Machine? I used it to backup some files last year and the password I use for everything isn't working to unlock the hard drive. Is there a way...
    • jrj23
    • Thread
    • external hard drive help macbook osx restore sierra time machine
    • Replies: 3
    • Forum: macOS Sierra (10.12)
  12. airlied

    Safari extension for Youtube?

    On Chrome there are dozen of extensions that allow youtube video to be played "full-window". the player width will match the browser window width. But on Safari I can't find such extensions.
    • airlied
    • Thread
    • chrome extension macos osx plugin safari sierra widescreen youtube
    • Replies: 1
    • Forum: macOS
  13. SipriusPT

    Use OpenSSL from macports instead of OpenSSl from OSX

    Hello guys, I am in a struggle to use a newer version of openssl that supports TLS 1.2, but till now i was only able to install version 1.0.2j, and set it at "paths" file to run it with commands in terminal. But still i am unable to use TLS 1.2 from what i am seeing through SSLlabs: Protocols...
  14. airlied

    How to disable the trigger animations on macOS Sierra

    On macOS Sierra if you do 3/4 fingers swipe up/down to trigger mission control/exposé, you fingers have to go a very long range to make the animation done. otherwise it will bounce back. And, if you do a "swipe and leave" gesture like before, the animation takes too long to get there unless you...
  15. airlied

    Is there a way to turn off the "stick" feature on macOS Sierra?

    On osx Sierra apple added a new feature that is when you move a window close to another it will stick the edges together (sorry about my crappy English I don't know how to describe this but I think you get the idea), which is so annoying since you cant adjust the windows location until you drag...
  16. C

    Problem removing bootcamp partition

    Hi Guys, I had Windows installed via bootcamp, and decided to remove it using the Bootcamp Assistant however the following error popped up. I immediately googled it, and people were saying to go to Disk Utility and remove the windows partition and resize the Mac OS partition but that's where...
  17. airlied

    Spotted a Mission control bug (macOS Sierra, uploaded video)

    The wallpapers dont move when swiping between desktops.
    • airlied
    • Thread
    • animation apple sucks bug f**k apple glitch macos mission control osx sierra
    • Replies: 1
    • Forum: macOS Sierra (10.12)
  18. P

    OS X swapping like crazy and barely compressing memory

    Hi, it looks like my work iMac under 10.11.6 (but I observed this since 10.9, I think) did not get the memo about memory compression... Every article/thread I saw about it, people always show "oh look it compressed 5Gigs and swapped 2Megs... it just works... the best out there... yadda...
    • proute
    • Thread
    • osx osx 10.11.6 swap
    • Replies: 14
    • Forum: macOS
  19. airlied

    (late 2013) rMBP upscaled resolution

    Ive got a late 2013 high-end (at the time) 15' macbook pro. Now it's on macOS sierra I use native resolution which mimics 1440*900 resolution but everything is just too big, I tried upscaled (1680*1050) about a day (with a 2560*1080 monitor hooked up) it looks fantastic and the size of the UIs...
    • airlied
    • Thread
    • graphic card gt750m lag macbook macbook pro macos mission control osx sierra
    • Replies: 4
    • Forum: MacBook Pro
  20. H

    Files Invisible in Mac Finder but not Windows

    Hi, I'm new to the forum here. and i am having an issue that is starting to occur more and more over the last few days. With the Macs, InDesign files are created and edited on a day to day basis and some times when one of these files gets saved it will then become invisible on the Mac but...
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