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My cousin gave me his old macbook with snow leopard os pre-installed. I updated the OS by clean install, but i encountered driver issues on that version (i forgot the name, i am a windows user since birth) I tried installing snow leopard with transmac using dmg file, but i can't seems to get it to boot. It gave me 3 error beep which indicate that the system can't boot from the USB. I tried other snow leopard image file but it gave me the same error. I don't know what to do anymore and i am not familiar with Apple, i am planning to use this computer for browsing and media on the go since the battery still good and the design still..well good enough. This is what the image (dmg) look like inside Transmac and my macbook model is A1278 I really need help on this, thank you in advance
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Let me start by saying I'm no Mac guy and know little about OS X, However I was given an old mid 2010 Mac Mini to mess around with running OS X 10.13.6 and having an issue with getting into my Media "server". I have a few computers in the house with sharing enabled and the ones with password logins work just as you would expect. But the one I use to store my media files doesn't have any passwords set and none of the options I use work, Just giving me a failed to connect error. I have tried using "guest" as well as the windows admin account name and both blank or random password (sometimes works on Linux/Android systems). Are there other methods I'm missing?
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With a setup designed for media creation (primarily audio production) with two 1tb NVME drives that have different write speeds; would you prefer to have the faster drive for the operating system and applications, or for the media drive that contains large files that are being written and read constantly? OSX Big Sur ASUS z490 Creator Intel I7 10700k 64gb Corsair 3200mhz WD NVME 1tb Black WD NVME. 1tb Blue Rx560 8 core PCIe audio DSP processor wifi card
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I dual booted my mac and tried to delete the alt boot but it failed. After booting my mac again will always boot to gnu grub. I’m not sure how to use gnu grub, so I tried using exit and halt but it just didn’t work. My boot manager refind doesn’t see my mac hard drive anymore and the recovery assistant drive manager doesn’t access the space gained from deleted the other boot. Please help me. I tried the internet recovery but the only option that can do anything is reseting my computer but I don’t want to do that.
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I work in IT and have limited OSX experience. I know a handful of simple things, but I'd like to feel confident when presented with a Mac and also be able to apply for jobs that require working knowledge of OSX. Yes, everything is a google search away, but I'd like to become familiar. I have a 3060 so Hackintosh is off the table. I've been looking at older Mac Mini's, but I wasn't sure if there was a good secondary option. I'm just looking for something that can browse the web and not be so dog slow that I avoid using it for that reason. I saw this, it fits in what I'm willing to spend, but I'm open to other ideas/options. This one supposedly can run Monterey (which is important to me), but I also don't want to be pushed aside once OSX 13.0 is rolled out. https://www.ebay.com/itm/274252955037?hash=item3fdabffd9d:g:SCUAAOSwx1ReFg3V EDIT - I also don't want it to be super slow on Monterey. I want "it runs Monterey" not "It runs Monterey***"
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Hello everyone, I wanted to post this here for whoever may run across it. I have confirmed an issue with Monterey 12.0-12.1 where external drives (flash drives, external drives, ssds, etc.) are slow to mount, format or unmount. This issue is solved in Monterey 12.2. If you have issues, please upgrade to the latest version of Monetrey. ~ Pickles von Brine
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I'm currently running a 2019 15 inch Macbook pro. My cpu is an i99800hk. I've got a 32gb of ram and 1tb ssd. I'm running MacOS Monterey 12.0.1. I'm noticing a high amount of ram usage when booting up. From a shutdown laptop I start up my laptop. It boots up normally and I login. I've stoped all apps from opening when the os starts as a way to keep the memory low. I open istat menus and see there is 35-38% of memory being used. Is my memory usage high or is it normal.
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Hello All, This is my first post to the forum! I made an account specifically to ask this question, though I have often used forum topics to work through past problems without an account (Trying to avoid more user names and passwords to remember ). For reasons I will explain below, I am seeking input on the best way to take 16 HHDs in a server case and make them accessible over my 10GbE LAN as a storage pool. This pool will primarily be used as a NAS for important data, but will also need to be accessible by the local machine for data processing. The server needs to be running on Red Hat 7 (already installed) and be compatible with MacOS. My issue/request stems from a very specific use case. My fiancé is an astronomer and she primarily uses radio telescopes for her research. We met through work (I have a computer science background in information security, so I know just enough about what I am doing to be dangerous!), where am a telescope operator at the radio observatory she starting working at after getting her PhD. Essentially the problem boils down to this: She, and many others in the astronomy community, uses Mac OSX as her daily driver. All most all of the computers I use for my job run Linux (Red Hat 7, RHEL 7, to be exact). Many of the programs she uses for data reduction are written first for Linux (validated for RHEL 7) and often will be ported to OSX too. The problem we have is 2 fold. 1) Storage. The data sets her observations generate are typically 3TB on the low end. Normally storage isn't an issue as the observatory where the research is done will hold on to the date for a number of years for her, however, there will eventually come a time when the observatories will flush the data to make room for new research. When we first met, her solution was to get a new external HHD for each data set and copy all the data from a project onto one drive once the project was complete. As you may realize, there are a number of problems with this from lack of redundancy, ease of physically losing the drives... there being about a dozen of these things now, etc. 2) Data reduction. After the data has been collected, there is a lot of post processing that needs to be done for her to pull out or clean up the information she wants from the images. This is presents its own set of problems: If she uses the external HDDs and her MacBook Pro, she has to leave her laptop on overnight, or longer, to do just a few passes on the images (the processing can sometimes take hundreds of passes for a final product). If she remotes into a computer at the observatory where the data was collected, or into her work computer, she can run into issues where the network connection can time out during the data reduction, the computers can be rebooted as part of normal maintenance by the IT department at the observatories, or some other incident can interrupt the data processing forcing her to start all over again. To address these issues, I have taken my old gaming hardware and a 3U Supermicro box to build a rack mounted system she can use instead. My old gaming hardware will be better (more CPU cores, more powerful GPU) than what she currently is using either at work, or with her MacBook. The Supermicro box also has 16 3.5" bays that I have populated with 500GB HHDs (size is subject to change, these are simply drives my Plex server outgrew that I am reusing to prototype this server). I currently have all the hardware in place and have installed RedHat 7 on a SSD as the bootdrive in order to avoid current or future compatibility issues with the data reduction software. Where I am now, and the reason for this post, is I am looking for input/help on the best way to take the 16 drives and RAID them into a single directory that can be accessed over our (10GbE) LAN from her MacBook for storage use, and support ssh protocols for her to do her data processing. I have some past experience building FreeNAS based servers, I have a Plex server and a second FreeNAS box that has been setup to do automatic backups of the Plex server and certain folders on my desktop. However, I have very little experience with OSX, and none at all when it comes to communicating between OSX and Linux. I looked at building a ZFS RAID array in RHEL 7, and while it seems doable, there are quiet a few steps, and all of it is done through the command line. An option I am not familiar with, but thought may work well is to use something like Unraid to setup the pool, but I have not experience with Unraid and am not sure if that would be a good fit for what I need to do. Thanks in advance for any help!
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Hello, My Situation: I want to set up an unraid server as NAS and VM server. Then I want to have a network drive/folder via SMB/samba where i can put my important stuff. And then I want this "important" content to back up to an offside Raspberry Pi with something like 2 500gig hdd in a raid-1. Not required but would be nice live sync of the files, every file that gets deleted goes in a folder called "deleted" on the pi so I can go there if something gets accidentally deleted, every time a file gets updated because it was edited the for example last "3" versions of this file get saved for let's say 2 weeks if I need it for what ever reason. My Problem: I don't know where to start, this kind of project I never did something like this before. LTT showed something like this in one of their server videos but didn't explain how it works (that's not acutely a problem) As it themes right now I'm just not experienced enough for that project I try to find a solution my self but any help would be very appreciated My Solution: I used rsync, it's a linux only command (thanks again "electronics wizardy") type rsync --help when your in your terminal and you can see what all this extansions mean thats the command i use, if you need a exaple if you have any questions you can ask me: rsync -avzrhu -e "ssh -i "whre the ssh key is stored"" --delete "source" --exclude lost+found user@example.domain:"destination" I didn't manage to get this thing with the delted folder up and runnig nor with the versions but i will, try to do it and if i find a solution i will update the post again
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So how are hackintosh machines doing in 2020? I'm interested in exploring the OS for free however I don't know much going into it. What should I know before jumping into it? Might try it on my Acer Aspire E15 laptop - intel i5 - 2C/4T x 2,6GHz up to 3,2 GHz, 8GB DDR3 RAM, some trashy hd graphics and a GTX 940m. So it's not the worst but since I was going to install a not yet decided which distro of linux, thought that I might as well try this thing first.
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Hi guys. Troubleshooting wifey's workstation. I'm a windows power user and my run ins with macOS are brief and incidental. I know my way around the system and can google, but I am stuck on the apparently simplest of things: I cannot restore the files or the system from the Time Machine backup Background info: I accidentally updated her system to Catalina when doing some routine maintenance (too much time on my hands during quarantine, I guess). Quickly discovered the error of my ways when it transpired that her Adobe CS6 which she needs for work won't run (yeah, I found the Photoshop workaround but she specifically needs InDesign which is a 32bit app). What I had done so far: 1. Verified Time Machine backup integriry 2. Made one final backup 3. Verified integrity again 4. Downloaded macOS Mojave installer from the APP Store (***technically went with a bootable High Sierra USB which I then updated to Mojave from another installer as trying to install mojave directly was throwing up some errors) 5. Created a bootable USB 6. Erased the main HDD 7. Performed a clean install of macOS and we're currently at macOS Mojave Ver 10.14.6 Problem: 1. During setup I tried going for the Migration Assistant "restore from a Time Machine Backup" 2. On the "Transfer Information to This Mac" I can see the AirPort Time Capsule. Below there's the mac spinny thingy saying "Looking for other sources..." 3. I select the Time Capsule, click Continue and it prompts me to enter the password, which I do. (I tried entering it incorrectly on purpose to see if the input is accepted and it won't allow me to progress with the wrong password). 4. NOTHING HAPPENS - screen goes back to state in point 2. I can once again select the TC, enter password etc. For visual referecene: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT203981 I cannot progress past screen 4 on to screen 5 I went ahead and installed a clean OS, downloaded all updates so the only remaining one is the one to Catalina, which, obviously I will not be installing. Additional maybe useful info: 1. on 3. I can hear the hard drive spinning up on the Time Capsule 2. when I'm in the OS I can see the Time Capsule on a list of my drives, I can connect to it in Finder and it showes a Data folder, inside of which there's one file: "wifey's iMac.backupbundle". It seems very large because in the time it took me to write this post Finder was still calculating size;) Lastly, wifey's System Specification iMac 27-inch (Late 2013/Haswell) | macOS Mojave | Version 10.14.6 | CPU Intel Core i7-4771 3.5 GHz | RAM 32GB 1600Mhz DDR3 | GPU NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780M 4GB Please send lawyers, guns, and money!
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Can someone point me to a easy to understand hackenstosh build guide? Im basicly looking for someone to hold my hand and walk me thru. I currently do not have a mac, only PCs. Im looking for Software help. Thank you everyone. Slappy
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I've always disliked macs. I've always seen them as expensive for the hardware you actually get and limiting as to the amount of control you have over the system. I usually use windows, with a server running various linux installs and a laptop that dual boots kali. However, I've been thinking more recently of making the switch to Mac. I program quite a bit, and I'm much more comfortable with bash than with command prompt. Now that I have the server, I can do heavier processing remotely if I get a GPU for it. I originally contemplated switching completely to linux; however, I also enjoy music production, and my software, ableton, does not support linux. I'm also trying to figure out what my setup should be. Another dilemma I have is whether to switch my desktop to linux. I want to be able to remotely access my gpu for neural nets, but I also want to be able to game. I could get a gpu that's more for the purpose of neural nets and parallel computing that will live in the server, but that's quite a bit of money. Thoughts on the switch? If so, what model mac? And if you think I should get a GPU for the server, which do you recommend? Thanks for all the advice!
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OSX has a nice feature called content cache. Read about it here In houses with low bandwidth it is very helpful. One of the biggest problems it solves is the nightly backup. This is a common problem that when an apple user plugs in their phone to go to sleep, it saturates the upload line, killing the internet for the rest of the house. With content caching on, the backup actually goes through the cache server so it is possible to, through QoS or similar, limit the upload of the server itself. Thus if you have 3 apple devices trying to backup simultaneously, they'll all share the same server QoS bandwidth limit. So my issue: Apple specifically blocks Content Cache from running on a VM (They say it and I definitely confirmed it). I'd love to just spin up a stripped down OSX VM that'll take care of the content cache instead of having to run a dedicated Apple computer. Thanks for the read.
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I have a late 2012 mac mini. It's been running slow for awhile and I erased the system and restored from scratch the system. It went back to running as fast as it did when I bought it (probably not literally but for the sake of this convo., let's go with that). Once I re-synced my backup cloud drive to the computer it became slow again. So I am assuming that both or one of the drives are bad. It has one ssd and one hdd, each 500GB. Since I have everything backedup in the cloud I can easy swap drives and get everything back. Question is, should I upgrade both or just one, and if both, should I just get one 1TB ssd drive or two 500GB ssd drives?
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Hi all Im not sure what to do I need access to OSX for my work and I don't want to pay the apple tax for a Mac mini or and I Mac, so I THIS VIDEO from LTT and was wondering if it would be worth doing this I currently have a Windows desktop with decent specs but would ideally like a separate system. I have the current system to build: Link to build I wouldn't really be using the Linux system (possibly use it for a Plex server or web dev server not sure yet) so I dont really need a decent graphics card so not sure what to do. Also is the CPU and ram overboard? Also is there a better way to do it or get access to OSX. Thanks in advance for any help/ comments- 5 replies
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Hi all, Im looking for a new way to run osx on my pc I don't know weather it is best to build a new system and run Linux then virtually host osx on that machine like in This video or is there a better way to run it on windows. I have it hosted at the minute using virtual box but it's lagy and I can't get it to work on my ultra wide monitor. Thanks in advance for any help
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I recently watched an ltt video Link to video and I'm trying to build a system to boot osx through a Linux virtual machine. Iam looking to do a Ryzen system maybe a 2700x and was wondering what GPUs to pair with it if anyone had any suggestions. I'm a programmer and will only really be doing X code and swift sort of stuff possibly some web based stuff. Thanks in advance.
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I just got an old mac pro 3,1 from 2008 and had a spare gtx 750 ti, so I thought it would be a nice upgrade. *running osx 10.11.6 el capitan After installing the cuda and webdrivers I rebooted it and changed out the gc but got no display out. Anyone know what the issue could be?
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I've just purchased a Kingston UV500 SSD. The replacement went very smoothly however I can't format the drive when trying to clone it. I've done a lot of research around the SSD - people seem to have had success on older macs. I'm using a MBP 10,2 with an adapter to convert mSATA to the proprietary connector. (The adapter has no circuitry and just changes the pin layout on the mSATA connector). However, most of what I've found says either the problem lies with a faulty SSD or faulty sata connection. I know that neither of these are the case as the drive works perfectly and can be read/written to (and formatted) booting ubuntu from usb. When I've booted into the OSX installer after replacing the internal drive, I open up disk utility which can see the disk. I've tried multiple times to erase the entire disk and format to GUID, HFS+, using both disk utility and the terminal commands. Each time the process gets stuck at a message such as 'waiting for partitions to activate', 'waiting for disks to reappear', or similar. I'm able to format as MBR, FAT32 using disk utility, which succeeds, however cannot mount the partition after being formatted. I've also had a hardware Input/output error shown in the terminal. I tried to format to GPT, JHFS+ using gparted, which worked perfectly, however when booting back into the OSX installer could again not mount the partition or see the drive available for install. I suspect that the issue is driver related within OSX, not containing drivers for the ssd's controller, which is a Marvell 88SS1074. The only information i've found on this is that it is the same controller as a crucial MX300 which has also worked in some older OSX systems, so I'm guessing this is possible. The final thing I tried was to use the OSX Yosemite installer, as I have found posts about the SSD's controller working with older hardware and software. I cloned the drive in linux and this time partitions showed up in disk utility, however I was still stuck unable to mount them, and trying an erase left me stuck back at the same point. If anyone knows about injecting drivers into OSX or has any other ideas any help would be appreciated as I am very stuck at this point and don't have a whole lot of knowledge in that area. My other option is to return the SSD and swap for a Samsung Evo however I would like to avoid this as it would cost an extra $50 or so and my money is tight at the moment! Thanks in advance, Tom
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So I have a late 2015 iMac that will not turn on at all. No fans, backlight, charms, lights, clicks, just completely dead. This happened overnight. Could it be a bad power supply? The computer was in an office environment where the building looses power somewhat often. Any ideas? I've got it tore down with the screen off and now I just want to know if its fixable. Thanks
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I tried to change my username of my user and I accidentally clicked cancel instead of confirm, so i only have guest and standard users. Now I'm trying to give admin privileges back to my standard user and I need the password to the "superuser/root" user. Directory Utility and Terminal shows the password as a single character, shown as a *, and Directory Utility shows * with a data value of "2a".