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Add Outlook Mail account on MacBook Mail App
Helping my sister add her Outlook work email into the Mail app on MacBook Neo but it has been unsuccessful so far.
Her tech support seem not to be able to help her (it’s a Taiwanese company).
Help ...
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Checking balance of an Apple gift card without an account
I have an Apple gift card with an unknown balance, but I don't have an apple Account or a phone number to register one. How do I check how much is on the card?
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AutoFS smbfs mounts: No route to host
I am using a very simple automount (or AutoFS) map for my NAS:
nas.conf:
storage -fstype=smbfs,nodev,noowners,filemode=644,dirmode=755 ://user:[email protected]/Storage
Then on /etc/auto_master I'...
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How to view connected devices Hotspot usage on iPhone?
I'm using Personal Hotspot on my iPhone and multiple devices connect to it.
Is there a way to see how much hotspot data each connected device has used, either in iOS or through an Apple-provided ...
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App to find visually similar (NOT duplicates) in Apple Photos on MacOS
As per title, I need an app which runs on MacOS 26.5.1 (preferably OSS, otherwise a paid app is fine too, as long as it supports a one-time payment, no subscriptions). Apps which only run on iPhone or ...
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Turning Over MacBook to another user
Am currently visiting my sister in Asia. I brought my new MacBook Neo along, intending to turning it to her for good by the end of my two month stay. Am currently only on my 10th day stay.
I already ...
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Where is my FileVault recovery key?
I have FileVault set up on my M3 MacBook Pro. Apple Support suggests that the recovery key can be found in the password app. This is not true, the name of my MacBook does not show up in the all tab in ...
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Getting color and line-drawing characters to work in "man" pages?
I have a new MacBook Air and an ancient (from around 2014) MacBook Pro.
Both are running Tahoe 26.5.1.
On the MacBook Air, line-drawing characters and color characters are displayed correctly in "...
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Totally and permanently get rid of all "[Program] would like to access [something] ..." pop-up dialogs? [duplicate]
I'm running Tahoe 26.5.1 on my new MacBook Air.
In this "new and improved" (ha ha!) version of MacOS, I keep getting all sorts of pop-up dialogs of the following format when running various ...
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Set audio source via command line, with no GUI interaction? [duplicate]
I'm running Tahoe 26.5.1 on my new Macbook Air.
I want to be able to set the audio source via the command line with no GUI interaction whatsoever.
In online searches, I see people doing this via a ...
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My input device keeps muting
I do a lot of audio work with my Mac, doing I/O with a Behringer UMC404HD Audio/MIDI USB Interface. It works well, but once in a while the inputs will stop working. For the life of me I couldn't ...
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Repeated macOS WindowServer watchdog crashes where logd is blocked in APFS
I am seeing repeated macOS user session crashes where WindowServer is killed by the watchdog. The crash appears to involve logd becoming unresponsive first, and several processes then blocking while ...
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Homebrew error: "Can’t install the software because it is not currently available from the Software Update server."
While installing git, while home brew. According to the tutorial, we first need to copy the line of code from the homebrew page, which goes like /bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw....
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New user account added to MacBook but login window doesn't list him as a user?
I am looking to add my sibling as a user so he can log on to my MacBook. I set his user setting to 'Standard'. I was expecting that when I rebooted, macOS will show a login window with two users - ...
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Recovering from an accidental denial of Messages Agent permission to access login keychain
While setting up a new macbook, I accidentally denied "Messages Agent" permission to access the login keychain. Now my text messages will not sync with iCloud. How can I recover from this ...