Archive for the ‘OS X 10.11 El Capitan’ Category
Posted by jpluimers on 2019/02/22
This has happened to me on most Macs with most Apple Mac OS X / MacOS / whatever versions: the built in sound controls for internal speakers and head phones fail to work (keyboard shortcuts and UI both fail).
The solution at [WayBack] mavericks – Unable to modify the volume with the keyboard – Ask Different works, but be sure to require the kernel module steps:
open up a Terminal window and run:
sudo killall coreaudiod
sudo kextunload /System/Library/Extensions/AppleHDA.kext
sudo kextload /System/Library/Extensions/AppleHDA.kext
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2019/01/18
Two installation options for TigerVNC:
The [WayBack] TigerVNC viewer gives a bit more details on failing VNC connections than the stock OSX Screen Sharing.app does: after performing the logon, the connection would just stall, but TigerVNC would should “write broken pipe (32)” after the logon. Most of the linked search results indicated the VNC server was having a state problem.
So I restarted the VNC server, after which connections could be made again in both tools.
I actually prefer the stock Screen Sharing.app as:
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2018/08/03
Somewhere after Yosemite, braindead Mac OS X forcibly maps “Ctrl+Click” to right-click. In past versions, you could disable but those days have gone.
This means that inside Windows on VMware Fusion, you cannot add/remove items to/from a selection any more (for instance in the Windows Explorer).
Various workarounds turned up in my Google Search, but only this one works:
Holding down CTRL + OPTION together and LEFT CLICKING will do this.
Source: [WayBack] vmware fusion – How to use the control key in VM Ware? – Super User
–jeroen
via:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2018/06/11
- Connect the volume you want excluded to the Mac, even if Spotlight is currently indexing
- Launch “System Preferences” and click on “Spotlight” followed by the ‘Privacy’ tab
- Drag the drives icon into the Privacy window
Source and more information (including how to do this from the terminal): [WayBack] Stop Spotlight from Indexing Time Machine Backup Volumes & External Drives
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2018/03/23
For me the easiest is on a sudo terminal (so I can omit the sudo part in the below commands), but if you’d do it “rather safe then sorry”, you can go from the fine-grained individual backup level:
sudo tmutil delete /Volumes/drive_name/Backups.backupdb/mac_name/YYYY-MM-DD-hhmmss
step by step
sudo tmutil delete /Volumes/drive_name/Backups.backupdb/mac_name
all the way back to
sudo tmutil delete /Volumes/drive_name/Backups.backupdb
Incidentally, the tmutil documentation is now regarded as legacy (I’m not sure why) so before it goes away, I’ve archived it:
[Archive.is] https://developer.apple.com/legacy/library/documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/man8/tmutil.8.html
It’s not at http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/Darwin/Reference/Manpages/man8/tmutil.8.html as for instance [WayBack] man tmutil … – Kristian Köhntopp – Google+ referred to a few years back.
Anyway:
–jeroen
–jeroen
via [WayBack] macos – How can I manually delete old backups to free space for Time Machine? – Ask Different
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