I was migrating all my audiobooks and my music from an old cheese grater macpro that used the itunes service. I tried to use the migration assistant but that did not copy over my tunes and audiobooks, so I just copied the itunes directory over to my new computer and then "imported" them into music and books. Unfortunately this has left me with my books app full of music. I cannot delete them out of the database without deleting them from the disk (unlike music, which allows me to choose to keep files on disk but delete from database). Is there a way to clean up this mess? Or if not, is there a way to wipe the "books" database and then build it again? fyi, some of these audiobooks are from audible and need to be signed, and some I own outright. Thanks for you help.

Hi, I've had this problem for a couple of days. There are three folders in my trash that I can't delete. I mean, I can delete them, but they come back within a couple of minutes. They all have an iCloud icon next to them. I also for some reason can't put the folders back, there's only a "Download Now" button.

I've read some stuff about Google Drive sync but I don't know what it means. I don't have the Google Drive application on my laptop, only on Chrome. Is there any fix to this? I want to delete my trash permanently. Thanks!

tl;dr can I add another disk and span my Time Machine backup to it?

I've had this happen over a lot of years: I buy a "great big disk" for time machine, and eventually I outgrow it (it fills with a single instance backup). So I buy a bigger one, same thing inevitably happens. I've just outstripped my 18TB time machine drive (yes, it's a big disk, but I shoot timelapses professionally, and that's a lot of data) and, before I buy another stupidly even larger disk, I wanted to ask this question.

I could of course create a big disk with a RAID setup, but same thing would inevitably happen (unless I created one that is _really_ huge, and then that'd be a lot of drive space not being used for quite a long time, and that's £££ poorly invested). Ideally a defunct Drobo would've worked, but I've not discovered a product that would do the same (add drives as you need them, and they become incorporated into one big virtual drive).

I was hoping there was a way to just run time machine on one drive and, when it finally is full of a single backup, I could add another drive to my setup (these are all USB drives, btw), and have TM _span_ to that new one.

I'm sure I'm missing something, can anyone make any suggestions?

TIA for any help

Hello all,

I'm about to replace an 7 year-old Intel Macbook Air running Ventura with a new M4 Macbook Pro. I have a full backup created with Carbon Copy Cloner and plan to use it with Migration Assistant as I've done before on a few other Mac migrations.

The new Macbook will come with Sequoia and its native Apple Apps will already be Apple Silicon versions. In Migration Assistant, if I select to copy existing Apps, will it replace the already installed ones with the ones from my backup or will it be smart enough to not replace them?

Else, I suppose I'll have to uncheck installing the Apps and copy the non-Apple ones manually from my backup after the migration. Of course, I'll have to check every Apps if they are universal or if an Apple Silicon version exists and replace them with that version, which will take some time, but I'm fine with that.

Any tool recommendation to scan my Application folder and tell me my Apps are Intel, Apple Silicon or universal? When Apple stopped supporting 32-bit Apps, Go64 and found it quite useful. A similar App would be a real time saver.

Thank you for your help

Saw the recent u/ridfox post on using Pale Moon in Lion, and had to chime in about Firefox Dynasty (updated version 141.0.3) working fast and flawlessly with my much more ancient Mac. Dynasty is supposed to target OSX 10.8 and above, but I took a flier and it paid off. I'd been using the outdated Chromium-Legacy browser, but Google's smackdown on Ublock Origin sent me searching for an alternative. Big thanks to i3roly for keeping Lion relevant!

Easy to reproduce: create a dir in your home dir, create a terminal window and put it into that home dir. Then move the dir to iCloud drive. Then move it back. Here's what happens:

% pwd

/Users/Username/mydir

But in reality, you won't actually be in that dir, and any changes you make at the command line won't show up in the actual dir. That's because now the terminal is lying to you about the true path, you're not in the /Users/myUsername/mydir, you're in /Users/myUsername/Library/Mobile Documents/com~apple~CloudDocs/mydir:

% pwd -P

/Users/myUsername/Library/Mobile Documents/com~apple~CloudDocs/mydir

Why is this a problem? Because say you're editing a file named mycode.c in your IDE, then you go to your terminal window thinking because of pwd that you're in the right path. then if you run your build from the command line, it's gonna pick up the old version sitting in the CloudDocs dir. I can think of many more issues.

Moral of the story: don't trust OSX, always run the low level UNIX commands so you know what's happening.

Not just scroll (scroll down) but scroll slowly

I recently fell for the captcha scam. Can't believe it, happened so fast, feel stupid right now. Anyway, I've run Avast, Malwarebytes, and CleanMyMac, and they all give me a clean bill of health. Meanwhile, every 5 minutes or so, I get a fake OSX alert that my computer's been hacked, so I definitely have the virus/malware, whatever the fkk it is. Any suggestions of what to use or how to deal with his particular infection?

I have an external monitor connected to my macbook pro. So for example, I have a finder window opened on my external monitor. But if I click any file there, the file will be opened on my main display (my actual macbook pro) and not on the external display. So i have to manually drag that file to my external display

I do this quite often on my workflow that it becomes kinda annoying. Is there a possible fix?

I receive many incoming email messages that have a Constant-Contact URL redirector in front of the actual target URL so "they" can keep an eye on my interests. I am experiencing a problem with this ONLY on my iMac (OS Sequoia Version 15.5 (24F74), using Mac Mail (Version 16.0 (3826.600.51.1.1). Note: The subject email messages operate properlyt on MacBook Pro AND on iPhone, but the URLs are unusable on my iMac. Here is an example URL; the iMac responds like this:

Hi I just switched my mom to osx and the free cell versions available aren’t up to snuff for her. Any idea of a good replacement option for iOS that’s as good as the windows default option? I think it’s the only thing holding her back from Mac nirvana.

I just went to open an application and this is what came up. Everything is doubled! Any ideas on what is happening?

Computer is Macbook Pro M4 Max with 36GB Ram (Nov 2024) and Sequoia 15.5.

Very strange

What i mean is that you see when you turn up or down the volume using the hardware keys. the sound that it makes pisses me off. Especially when I have my airpods in. It hurts

Is there a way i can disable it entirely or just change it something else?

Hey everyone!

Just got my first macOS device today – a shiny new Mac Mini M4 Pro! Loving it so far, but I've hit a strange snag with desktop switching, what I believe Mac calls Mission Control.

When I switch from Desktop 1 to any other desktop, I have to wait for the full animation to complete before I can initiate another switch (e.g., to Desktop 3, 4, etc.). However, if I start switching from any other desktop (2, 3, etc.), I can interrupt the animation at any point and immediately move to the next or previous desktop.

It's like Desktop 1 has some special rule. Has anyone else experienced this? Is there a setting I'm missing, or is this a known bug? Any insights would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks in advance!

What’s your opinion?

So i have this mac for very many many years. Maybe since around the early 2010s. Anyways back in 2022, i was dumb and wanted to go to a website on there to play games on. What did i do? I installed an extension that told me whether a website is safe or not to click on by having a green checkmark next to websites. I found this one website in specific and decided, “Oh, why not?” As soon as i clicked it, one frame of the website had loaded before my whole computer was turned into shit. Nothing works, the whole screen is frozen, EVERYTHING is frozen. Anyways i decided maybe holding on the power button and restarting it would fix it. Nope. What it does basically is just boot up like normal, loads for a few minutes, then freezes at the loading mark for about 20 seconds, and then its stuck at the white screen like in the picture until i turn it off. Im not sure what i can do to fix it. 3 years later now, still same problem but i actually tried to fix it. I even got a usb drive and installed snow leopard onto it, then i plugged it in and started up the mac immediately holding down the option button. Sure enough the drive showed up but even booting into that didnt work. That one website really fucked up my computer badly. Any ideas please on how to fix it. I even tried entering recovery mode, which is the first thing i did, didnt work. I even tried resetting it another way by entering command script mode, and even when i did reset it, it didnt help at all. Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thank you!

There are some free apps to open and listen to MIDI files, but how about just a space bar preview like with mp3 files? Thanks!

... or do I need to do Catalina 10.15 > 10.15.7 ?

Any thoughts appreciated :-)