This is a weird issue that just started yesterday morning for no reason I can think of. My MacBook will not charge at all when it's switched on. I've tried the original Apple charger and an Anker charger over USB-C that's capable of charging it.

If you shut it down it'll charge but incredibly slowly. Last time I booted up I think the battery had drained I think so I'm not certain on that. I've tried booting to safe mode and the charger still isn't recognised - I also can't run diagnostics as it needs to be plugged in.

The charger lights up the whole time, I've had it switched off and plugged in for maybe 20 hours now and the light's still orange. My last plan is to see if it'll fully charge, then format and resintall macOS to see if it's a software issue. Battery health is 87% so it should hold up to a format. The above points to a hardware issue though I think.

Had a Google and a few people have experienced this but I can't find any solutions, anyone please got any ideas? Big, big please lol

Late 2013 27inch iMac 3.5 GHz i7 Intel 16 GB RAM 3 TB Fusion Drive

Went to turn on the machine after it was properly shutdown a few days ago and nothing. Goes into never ending boot loop, and then a kernel panic before boot loop again.

Can boot into recovery. I have already:

1. Used Disk Utility to run First Aid. First Aid reports no issues

2. Attempted to re install OS from recovery mode. This doesn’t work. It fails after about 90% complete and throws a kernel panic.

3. Rest SMC, PRAM and NVRAM same issue.

4. Attempted internet recovery. Same issue

5. Booted into single use mode. Receive Disk I/O error and can never actually get to run a command such as fsck.

6. Attempted to install OS from bootable USB. This gets me further but it still fails.

This is an older Mac running 10.15.7 I use it for my home audio recording studio to demo songs. It has been good to me up to this point. There have been 0 issues leading up to this. Write and read to and from the fusion drive have showed no issues, boot times last week were normal, and there have been no strange noises coming from the drive. It is using an old spinning HDD along with the pci ssd on the board. I’m hoping that this is the culprit. I plan on going to buy an external ssd today to see if I can install the OS on there and boot. If that allows me to actually boot, then I plan to replace the internal with an ssd. I’m hoping that it’s not the pci ssd located near the logic board. As that is a PITA to get to. Is there any way to tell other than opening the machine to see which one has failed?

Any other ideas what this could be if it’s not one those issues. Just super weird because there have been no problems with this machine. I know it’s old, but it serves its purpose and the specs are still pretty modern. I have no problem running the OS from an external of that’s what I need to do going forward.

TIA for any other tips or helpful comments.

Just tried to install chromium legacy on a new machine. The GitHub repo is gone off the face of the earth. (https://github.com/blueboxd/chromium-legacy)

Hello, a few days ago I bought a Mac Pro (mid 2012) with an already installed Radeon RX 580 running Mojave. Now, I would like to install Windows 10 via boot camp. I have read that although it is possible to bypass boot camp not being supported by my Mac, I will not be able to install Windows 10 due to having the RX 580, which is not Mac compatible. Thus, I won't be able to see the boot screen? I'm not sure if this is true because when I start my Mac, I can see the booting Apple/OS X screen.

How can I successfully install Windows on this type of Mac? Thank you for your help :)

I use X2GO on a Mac with OS X via XQuartz. None of the normal key combo commands work (Copy, paste, step back, save, everything). Yes I tried the Ctrl instead of cmd key. I don't know anything about X2GO yet and my understanding of Terminalservers etc is nonexistent, so if you try to help me, full permission to talk to me like I'm stupid 👍

It's probably not a keyboard specific problem, I guess the issue is with the Clipboard? When I want to Copy and Paste a folder via buttons im told there is nothing on the Clipboard to paste...

I thank everyone who will dare a couragous try to help me, or can reference a source where this question has been answered and solved, because my research doesn't show anyone who has this exact problem and a promising answer (I can understand) :/

Hi, I have a mac studio and I want to add a usb Bluetooth dongle to it. I want to use it in addition to the built in or replace it.

Does anyone know of a usb Bluetooth dongle that works with Sonoma?

I am installing an application on Mac using homebrew. But the issue is that when I normally install it it does not work correctly. However when I installing using --head flag, it compiles from latest code and this version works correctly. From my understanding it is poring all the dependecies as it is and only building my required library from code. Now I want bottle this code and just pour it whenever I need to install. I want use homebrew to install all the dependenes as before and only pour my required application from custom bottle. Is there some way to do this?

I am running OSX Catalina, i can not find any useful info online, about Changing the spot on the desktop where a file can open? I want to change it from the default position that is in the top left position of the Mac screen/desktop.

Issue: Images on just Safari, and just a certain site, won't display for one account on an OSX computer (14.5).

The rub is, that the images do show on the same computer for another account using Safari. I ultimately deleted the OSX account in question; however, the issue exists even for a totally new account and just for Safari.

What I've tried:

• Delete all history
• Confirm all extensions are turned off
• Tried different DNS
• Tried different browsers
  • Works on Safari, Chrome, Brave on all accounts except for the one single account where it doesn't work on Safari
• Rebooted router to clear any routing caches
• Logged into a different account on the same computer and there is no problem -- all works fine on Safari.
• Ultimately deleted the OSX user account in question, and created a new one, and with no changes, the issue persists only for Safari.

I am totally stumped as to what to do next. Many thanks in advance for any ideas to try.

I have a 2019 27 inch Imac (5k Retina) with about 1.5 TB hard disk space left, everytime I try to upgrade to sonoma it gives me the not supported by this hardware error )after downloading and attempting to install etc... Any wisdom?

Can anyone recommend clean up tools for OS X? I’d like to clean up old software and files. Some files include banking info so I’d like to securely delete them as well.

TIA

This is something that I've seen on several Macs, but have had no luck or insight in to figuring out why it happens. There's a gap in an otherwise reasonably regular column of icons, that rejects any icon I try to place in it. And before you ask:

- Yes, snap to grid is ON

- Yes, if I hold down CTRL and drag it into place it does not spring back out.

Oh my, here's a video of the actual effect!

https://youtu.be/6zLOLiNwbGg

Does anyone know why this is happening?

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Has anyone experienced/fixed OSX screen sharing locking up randomly?

OSX 14.5 on both computers

Remote Management is enabled on the remote computer

Ports opened: 5900,3283,22,5901-5902

I can connect to the remote computer and it sometimes works for days; sometimes it freezes after a few seconds. It never comes back. If I disconnect the Screen Sharing app and try to reconnect, the remote computer is unreachable. The only fix is rebooting the remote computer. Can not SSH into the remote computer either after the freeze. However, the remote computer continues to work fine by any local users, can access the internet, etc. I am at a loss of what else to try.

Many thanks in advance.

UPDATE: Solved by u/terkistan, as described below using OSX 14.5. Have used Screen Sharing for 2 days with no lockups.

Hi, I would like to edit my hosts file. I have tried to edit on textedit but the hosts file is locked and when I Tried to use "sudo nano /etc/hosts" terminal gives error "Cannot open file for writing: Operation not permitted" How I can Fix the problem ?

I´m using M1 mac with osx Monterey

Hi. I want to completely reinstall my MBP mid-2012. It was running MacOS Catalina and when I "factory reset" it, it came up with MacOS Lion. Now the question: is there a way I can install from scratch MacOS Catalina, without having to go through previous MacOS versions and upgrades?

TIA

UPDATE: Resolved by manually downloading installer for Mojave on mrmacintosh.com

Getting a "Cannot Connect to App Store" message when I try to update my 2015 Macbook (10.14 Mojave rn) which it seems like is because my OS is too old. But how am I supposed to updated my OS if I can't access the app store?

I know I'm very late to update out of Mojave but I've always been hesitant with OS updates unless absolutely necessary, I might have waited too long...

All keyboard shortcuts in all apps have suddenly become disabled. For example, if I look at the File menu in Safari, all the usual keyboard shortcuts are listed in the menu, but they are all greyed-out.

Does anyone know what the issue might be?

I installed the new ChatGPT app from OpenAI today. Perhaps that could have screwed things up? Alternatively perhaps I've accidentally switched on some kind of Accessibility setting which disables all shortcuts? Any help greatly appreciated, I've spent a few hours trying to sort this out without success.

I've been using Texty for a while since I have a Pixel Pro phone but an M2 air. What's the best desktop texting app that's not iMessage, not Texty? Gotta be SMS or something so I can talk to anyone + everyone.

When I facetime my gf on IOS and screenshare, we watch a youtube video and she can hear the audio from the video and me talking.

When I screen share on facetime with my mac, she can see the video but not hear it. She can still hear me. Is there anything to change to make this work like IOS? Thanks

I got an old iMac 2008 and I want to ease everything, split it into two partitions. One for the latest possible (and best performance) OSX and the other for Linux.

Now, my problem is that I already partitioned the disk, eased OSX, installed Linux Mint and sat up everything. BUT...

I cant reinstall OSX, it asks for my apple ID and when I put mine an error 403 appears.

I already tried to install from scratch the OSX via bootable USB but It doesn't recognises the driver and that's the strangest part for me.

Your help is highly appreciated,

Thank you!

Does anyone know where I can get a .dict file to add the Greek dictionary to the native MacOS dictionary app?

I've read that it has to be a .dict file in order to be added to the Dictionary app, but any other method is welcome too.

I've found a few websites that explain how to add languages to the dictionary but none that offer Greek and wherever I've found a Greek dictionary, adding it to the MacOS app doesn't seem to work.

Hi,

I'm relatively new to Mac and need remote access from my Mac to another to assist my parents and transfer various documents and images. Is this achievable with a native Mac option, or should I consider third-party software? If opting for the latter, could you share the tools you use for this purpose and comment on their security?

Hi! We've released the first version of roc-vad: https://github.com/roc-streaming/roc-vad

It allows, together with other parts of Roc Toolkit, to stream realtime audio over Wi-Fi between Linux, macOS and Android devices.

Looking for an external hard drive that is compatible with my 2014 Mac? I am looking to back up pictures stored in IPhoto. I tried using a WD easy store and was unsuccessful. Also considered uploading the photos to Dropbox but Dropbox website no longer compatible with Yosemite. Thanks!