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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Hi everyone, Yet another problem with my MacPro... Regarding my last post, I did eventually manage to reinstall OSX El Capitan on the mac pro, but now that it all works, I still get some problems. I use this mac for music recording and I use Pro Tools 12.6 as my main DAW. When I create new music, you can save it as a folder with the Pro Tools file, the audiofiles etc. Normally on my windows pc and my macbook pro I can save it wherever I want (desktop, downloads, documents you name it), but the Mac Pro gives me the notification that those folders do not exist. I really hope someone here does know how to fix this problem because the temporary solution I have now is saving everything on a USB device or in the cloud (those 2 options are not that practical if you're working with audio). Also, when I want to extract .zip files, it gives the same error.. The error message is as follows: *filename* could not be extracted to "folder name" (error 2 - file or directory does not exist) The specs of the Mac Pro are as follows: 2x 2,4Ghz quad core Intel Xeon 28Gb 1066MHz DDR3 memory ATI Radeon HD 5770 1024mb GPU 500GB Samsung evo 850 SSD (bootdrive) 1TB ??? HDD
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Hi All I was given today an Apple PowerMac G5, and I am trying to find and install OS X Leopard 10.5 Server on to it. I have been trying to find some discs for it only, but to not much luck. Do you know where I could find them? Alternatively, anyone in the UK who could send them to me for a shortwhile (2 weeks) then that would be much appreciated. I would pay postage obviously. Thanks!
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How to enable backspace acelleration on OS X
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i have a 2010 mac pro with a sonnet Tempo SSD card. when i use this i get much better speeds because of the sata 2 limitations that the motherboard has, but when i install this card and use it the mac detects it as an external drive but the worst part is when i hold alt at boot it wont show the boot drives anymore only the mouse pointer and a white screen. So if someone could help with this issue that would be nice so i can dual boot back to linux and windows. Also a bonus if you could help with the drive showing as internal. Already a big thanks
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I have been developing an app on my OSX Sierra Guest (Windows 10 Host) and after updating VMWare Workstation, I get that first image during the VMWare boot screen, and that second image (Kernel Panic) during the apple logo boot screen. For some reason, recovery mode isn't working (I am holding Windows+R while it boots, right?).
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I am currently running Windows 10 on 2 Samsung 850 evos in raid 1. They are working fine and have amazing read and write speeds. However, I am getting more into video editing and am unable to find a good video editing software on Windows that is free and doesn`t have a watermark! I am used to editing videos on a mac with Final Cut Pro X. I have access to several licenses of Final Cut, but it only works on OSX. I have room for an extra drive in my PC case and was wondering if there was a way to instal OSX on another drive and then booting from it when I want to edit videos? Thanks, Andrew
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Hi everybody, I'm an informatic student passionnate by all that's tech related. I build myself a great PC with a multiboot system (Windows 10, OSX Sierra, Kali, Fedora) and I use all of these OS. But I'm searching if there is a solution to get 4 or more starting buttons to automatically start on the great system, My father had in the past (10 years ago) made a similar system with IDE Hard drives by switching master/slave jumpers In order to select the right boot disk but these jumpers no longer exists so I need your inventivity. Cheers, Spidy
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Hello, My mother has given me a Mac to fix and I can't get around a problem. My little brother tried to put Windows on it, not for games, he's tied between platforms because of his studies. Every time I turn the Mac on I get presented with: "No bootable device -- insert boot disk and press any key" You are thinking "command - option" right? Well it's a stupid wireless keyboard which seems to be out of sync. I thought Windows keyboards were compatible but it doesn't even power on (Num-Caps lock lights dead). Is the only way to fix this now is to buy an apple wired keyboard? I have access to my PC and another Mac if there is another way. Thanks people
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Fellow Techies, I came into my office area and opened my Macbook Air to pickup where I left off on a few things that I am working on. When I pressed a random key to wake up the computer, it looked like I had taken LSD mixed with Benadryl (no I have not taken that mixture...yet) and it freaked me out and so I quickly turned off the computer and turned it back on before thinking of taking a picture or what may happen when it comes back on. The screen turned back to normal but has me scratching my head. Can anyone maybe give me a little insight? Am I going to have to look at getting the screen replaced or getting a new Macbook (insert any Mid-2012 to 2015 model here)? It would be nice to get a bigger screen. Thank you in advance.
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This has been the most painfully irritating build i have ever attempted, but i finally have a desktop machine that can boot Linux Mint 18, OSX Sierra and Windows 10, but it has many quirks. I noticed that triple/quad booting has been asked about on the web for years but nobody has ever really done a good case study of how on earth you do it, least of all with pictures and guides. Ill just give a quick run down of what we have here. The machine is a lenovo thinkcenter E73 tower, OEM machine with only upgrade being the 9800GT, it has a 128GB sata SSD and a 1TB HDD. First step was to install the hackintosh on the entire SSD using clover and the fantastic instructions on TonyMacx86. Spend weeks trying to figure out how kexts work and getting the nvidia web driver to run persistently, a basic tutorial on clover configurator comes in handy here. So once OSX was installed, i then introduced the 1TB HDD to the system and installed windows 10 on it in the usual manner, just boot off the USB stick and give windows the entire 1TB. From here on i believe you are at the mercy of your UEFI whether the windows bootloader makes it onto the SSD where it should go, or whether windows craps out and put it on the HDD. In my case windows put it's bootloader into the EFI partition of the SSD, therefore clover was able to see it and i was instantly given a windows option in clover. 2 down one to go. Finally in order to cram linux mint onto the machine, i refrained from shrinking the NTFS partition from within windows as this screwed everything the first time i did it, partition table went completely out of whack. instead, at this point simply boot off the live Mint setup USB, and proceed to install, Mint will detect the windows bootloader (but not the OSX one) and prompt you to install alongside windows. At this point i used the linux setup to cut the 1TB in half and installed mint into the second half. When mint has finished installing, reboot into clover and you should now have a linux boot option. In my case, the installation of linux destroyed my ability to boot windows from clover, but i was still able to boot windows from grub, which appears after you select linux from clover, ugly i know. The fix i found for this was to boot back into Mint and run sudo update-grub, which then rejiggers all the bootloaders around into their right places, after this, i was able to boot all 3 OS's from clover, as well as the OSX recovery partition (doesn't quite count as a quad-boot right ?) The main issue i found with this project was the trial and error nature of screwing up bootloaders and having to start again, clover is a bit fragile when it comes to making it boot more than just OSX. Essentially this machine went through about 5 iterations before it was finally stable. In summary, windows 10 and Mint run perfectly on the hardware as you would expect, but that's the easy bit, the challenge lies with making OSX happy with "peasant grade" non proprietary hardware, and this almost entirely revolves around onboard realtek audio. From what i can tell, clover has kexts for basically any realtek 3.5mm jack bay that has 5 ports, but seeing as i have this weird OEM machine, i only have a bay of 3 x 3.5mm jacks, and this is tragically not supported AFAIK. i solved this by cannibalising a USB DAC, velcro-ing it to the floor of the case, and running XLR's out of the rear I/O, looks janky as hell but works a charm, and the sound quality is far superior to the onboard anyway. One final thing i was unable to get working within OSX was hardware reporting like CPU temps and stuff, from what i can tell this is all low-level apple kernel stuff that goes over my head, but hopefully someone can make or port a kext for this functionality. Thanks for reading anyway guys i just wanted to share what i learnt building this frankenstein PC, as i know many of you are interested in the concept of multiple OS's on a PC, but are maybe confused as to where you even start. DnFx
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I was doing some thinking after a moderator pointed out that i was not allowed to talk about "how" to install OSX on non-apple hardware in my article about my hackintosh. It got me wondering what exactly about it is illegal. For example, OSX is a free download from the app store, which requires a legit mac in the first place, so is any piracy taking place here ? Secondly, TMx86 seems to indicate that using his particular tools will somehow give you immunity to any legal issues. And Finally, does it actually say anywhere in Apple's EULA that you are breaking the law by installing OSX on your own hardware, that you own ? Or is it more a suggestion that you won't receive updates or support if you do so ? The whole thing seems like a really grey area, totally falls into the category of "ill do what i damn well please with the hardware that i bought with my own money, it's mine" Can anyone shed some light on this ?
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So im building a hackintosh. Here's the current list of hardware I'm hoping to use and keep my build around £600 / $775 Case - already bought - £20 inc. vat 1TB HD - Salvaged from my iMac FREE! Gigabyte Intel GA-H270-HD3 LGA 1151 ATX Motherboard - £91.98 inc. vat Intel Core i3 6100 3.7GHz - £108.62 inc. vat - Choose this as it has the processing power i need and Im not looking to over clock, plus I can't justify the price of an i5 Gigabyte GeForce GTX 750 Ti 4GB - £122.97 inc. vat Corsair CX Series CX450M 450W - £48.36 inc. vat Corsair Vengeance LPX 8GB (2 X 4GB) DDR4 - £63.98 inc. vat Samsung 850 EVO 250GB 2.5inch SSD - £89.93 inc. vat Been using tonymacx86.com as guide and sourcing parts from ebuyer.com thanks for any help in advance.?