I royally screwed up today. Long story short, in trying to help my wife fix a bug she was having in an app on her iMac, I accidentally executed an rm -rf ~/Library/Preferences. This blew away all the settings in her various applications. She is a wedding photographer, so I essentially reset her Lightroom back … Read more
I have a FW400 audio interface connected to my ’17 iMac via some adapters and the TB3 port on the computer. When the iMac goes to sleep it’s apparently powering down the TB3 port which in turn powers off my audio interface and then causes a very loud, potentially damaging, “thump” to occur through the … Read more
I have a Samsung U32H75 with iMac 21″ 2011. I wish to make the fonts large for the UI. I try enabling retina with sudo defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.windowserver.plist DisplayResolutionEnabled -bool true But nothing show after reboot. Is this possible. Answer AttributionSource : Link , Question Author : mamcx , Answer Author : Community
When I launch the messages app on my iMac I get a notice that the Messages database is being upgraded. The notice, shown below, tells me to wait while it finishes or relaunch later. This just started recently and has been going on for 2 days now. Any idea how to check my messages? I’m … Read more
I have attempted to improve the performance of a Mid 2011 27″ iMac by booting from an external Thunderbolt SSD, specifically a Transcend 256 GB StoreJet 500. It may or may not be relevant that this does not have a separate power supply. I have successfully installed High Sierra (10.13.2) on the drive, enabled TRIM … Read more
Since a few days I am encountering very strange Wi-Fi/Mac problems. I already Googled (but it is kinda hard to describe and search) therefor I try to explain the problem as good as I can. I am owning some Apple products – this includes my iMac (2012), MacBook Air (2013), iPhone SE and Apple TV … Read more
a friend of mine bought a second hand iMac and they erased sort of everything from the iMac before it was given to him. There is no OS installed and it’s not possible to instal a new version from OSX from Internet Recovery because the Hard Drive is greyed out. When I open terminal and … Read more
Title says it all. Starting to regret the Fusion Drive. But don’t want to lose my warranties. Location: West Sussex, Chichester UK. Answer AttributionSource : Link , Question Author : AlexDoe , Answer Author : Community
I just bought a 21.5 inch iMac (latest macOS), I was using a macbook and got used to the trackpad and multitouch gestures, so I bought one (Magic trackpad 2) for desktop stuff as well. Its my third day with it and the pinch to zoom multitouch gesture stops working for a while, and then … Read more
I have an iMac “Core i7” 2.8 27-Inch (Late 2009) that I replaced the hard drive in. Before I replaced the hard drive it wouldn’t boot fully in. The hard drive tests showed that the drive had bad sectors. When ever I used a memtest, ultimate boot CD, or any Linux CD it would boot … Read more
