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I've used installinstallmacos.py to download MacOS Install DMGs a few times directly from the Apple update servers https://github.com/munki/macadmin-scripts
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This tool has a feature in the menu to download the installer directly, as that's required to patch it to run on unsupported hardware. http://dosdude1.com/catalina/
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DOOMocrat posted:I need Mac & Windows, and preferably Android/iOS, users to be able to connect to a GPU accelerated OS X instance for remote learning. VM's themselves are a bit out of the question, as our current Adobe CC Shared Device Licensing... license doesn't support virtualized clients; and I don't really have a server with the GPU acceleration to host them on anyway. I've had good luck with RealVNC Server/Viewer and streaming video from a remote device on the other side of a VPN connection. It's not perfect, but it's very good. You'd license each host and then unlimited numbers of people can connect to it. I haven't been able to get good tests of using Apple's Screen Sharing to connect to RealVNC yet. The Viewer app is free and actually good.
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# ? May 26, 2020 19:16 |
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You should be downloading them from the App store or links, not the screen you showed
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# ? May 26, 2020 19:39 |
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Bob Morales posted:You should be downloading them from the App store or links, not the screen you showed I've tried this on three machines so far (running Mojave and Catalina), and when I press "GET" in the App Store, it automatically jumps over to Software Update.
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Small White Dragon posted:I've tried this on three machines so far (running Mojave and Catalina), and when I press "GET" in the App Store, it automatically jumps over to Software Update. I haven't seen that happen. I would try "other" sources since you are installing on a Mac so you are licensed...
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# ? May 26, 2020 21:49 |
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Remember when you used to be able to install the system you wanted on your Mac?
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# ? May 26, 2020 21:54 |
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Hello friends, quick question about the Mac file system. I was trying to move some stuff from my Mac (new to OSX) to an external HDD and it wouldn't copy. I figured out this was because the HDD was formatted in NTFS from windows. So I googled and the suggestion was to format the HDD then use recovery software to restore the HDD when it's formatted in a Mac compatible file system. I backed up the the HDD on my housemates PC (600GB or so) as I didn't have space on the Mac itself. Then did as they suggested. The software found all the files and it was wonderful, then when I hit restore it reveals I have to pay a 90 euro a month fee to actually restore files lmfao. So I have a few Qs if that's okay! 1. Is there a free reliable deletion recovery software? Or even one that's a few quid but not loving 90 shekels a month 2. I seen there is a file system I can format the hard drive too that is compatible with Mac and Windows. Is this reliable? I had initially thought I could just copy from the HDD what I needed but a lot of files would just stop copying at random. I formatted an empty HDD for Mac and was able to copy lots of large files (50GB+ folder) without much issue. So is NTFS just really unreliable with Apple and will the file system that's compatible with both work? sorry I'm so dumb lol, ty ty in advance
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# ? May 26, 2020 23:34 |
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Applications > Utilities > Disk Utility Should be able to restore using that, depending on how you backed up the original drive.
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# ? May 27, 2020 00:14 |
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American McGay posted:Applications > Utilities > Disk Utility No the problem is all my HDDs are NTFS. So the drive is backed up a separate windows PC. So the drive is now formatted as an Apple journal but now to get the files back on it. The receovery Software had been the plan. So I guess a better question is the best way to get a huge amount of data from a pc to a Mac journal hdd
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# ? May 27, 2020 00:21 |
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EmmyOk posted:1. Is there a free reliable deletion recovery software? Or even one that's a few quid but not loving 90 shekels a month Free, with strings attached: https://www.cleverfiles.com/pro.html Disk Drill Free lets you recover up to 500 MB free, after that it's $90 US.. Im guessing this is what you tried first.. quote:2. I seen there is a file system I can format the hard drive too that is compatible with Mac and Windows. Is this reliable? I had initially thought I could just copy from the HDD what I needed but a lot of files would just stop copying at random. I formatted an empty HDD for Mac and was able to copy lots of large files (50GB+ folder) without much issue. So is NTFS just really unreliable with Apple and will the file system that's compatible with both work Remember that NTFS was written by Microsoft, an Apple competitor; if you want to make software that reads/writes to it, you gotta pay Microsoft something. Apple wasn't going to pay Microsoft the money so they literally reverse engineered a read-only driver without Microsoft's help or sanction, which is why you wouldn't want to trust macOS's read-only ability too much. You could just stick with NTFS and -BUY- a third party file translator software like Paragon NTFS, or install NTFS Tool from GitHub, it's written by a guy from China and is relatively new and provides read/write support for NTFS for free, YMMV.
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I was googling for NTFS Tool and came across Mounty. Anyone have experience with this?
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# ? May 27, 2020 01:49 |
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So it seems like I can format the external hdd that’s empty as ExFat and load up all the files from the windows pc onto that. Then copy them from there through the Mac onto the Apple formatted external hdd? I don’t mind losing the soft deleted files currently on the hdd as they’re also still backed up on that pc
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EmmyOk posted:So it seems like I can format the external hdd that’s empty as ExFat and load up all the files from the windows pc onto that. Then copy them from there through the Mac onto the Apple formatted external hdd? I don’t mind losing the soft deleted files currently on the hdd as they’re also still backed up on that pc Yes, ExFat is a format that is fully supported as read/write out of the box on both macOS and Windows.
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KOTEX GOD OF BLOOD posted:I was googling for NTFS Tool and came across Mounty. Anyone have experience with this? Nope, but here's the GitHub page for NTFS Tool, sorry I forgot to include it. https://github.com/ntfstool/ntfstool/blob/master/README.md
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# ? May 27, 2020 02:09 |
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Catalina 10.15.5, Security Update 2020-003 Mojave and Security Update 2020-003 High Sierra have dropped A bunch of security fixes and the latest BootROMs / BridgeOS for most machines. The new BootROMs include Intel's latest CPU microcode patches to nullify Spectre and Meltdown.
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# ? May 27, 2020 02:11 |
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Is there another way to block the Catalina update? The terminal command no longer seems to work.code:
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Binary Badger posted:Catalina 10.15.5, Security Update 2020-003 Mojave and Security Update 2020-003 High Sierra have dropped This appears to have fixed the problem with my machine waking up all the time when docked. Still waiting on a fix for the Driver update from calDigit :/
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Chalupa Joe posted:Is there another way to block the Catalina update? The terminal command no longer seems to work. Unless there’s something else to signify failure, that output did not signify that it doesn’t work, just that it is no longer supported and will break in the future.
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Binary Badger posted:Remember that NTFS was written by Microsoft, an Apple competitor; if you want to make software that reads/writes to it, you gotta pay Microsoft something. Why do you have to pay them? Are there specific patents that need to be licensed? There are multiple open source NTFS tools that don’t seem to be patent-encumbered, from a quick search at least. And if you have to pay Microsoft to make software that reads or writes NTFS, how did Apple make software that reads it in order to avoid paying Microsoft? I can’t make sense of this post.
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# ? May 27, 2020 13:48 |
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Subjunctive posted:Why do you have to pay them? Are there specific patents that need to be licensed? There are multiple open source NTFS tools that don’t seem to be patent-encumbered, from a quick search at least. microsoft considers the ntfs specification a trade secret and will not license it. however it is legal to reverse-engineer something that can interface with a proprietary system as long as you don't reuse any proprietary elements. that's what apple and ntfs-3g did, but even though ntfs-3g technically supports writing to ntfs volumes it isn't 100% reliable, which is why apple didn't bother
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# ? May 27, 2020 14:07 |
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basically if you want to share a drive between macos and windows just use exfat. it's the least bad option. in a perfect world microsoft wouldn't be such dicks about it but here we are
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Weedle posted:microsoft considers the ntfs specification a trade secret and will not license it. however it is legal to reverse-engineer something that can interface with a proprietary system as long as you don't reuse any proprietary elements. Yeah, that’s my understanding too, but it doesn’t match what BB posted, and what they posted contradicts itself, I think?
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# ? May 27, 2020 14:15 |
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^^^ I can't parse that. BTW, you really really want to upgrade to 10.15.5 (it'll take a while on a T2 based laptop) if you use any RAID equipment with your Mac, as it fixes a show-stopping bug with copying large files to APFS RAID volumes. It has updated AMD drivers and also resolves a nasty bug in the USB stack that will cause a kernel panic if you insert a USB device that sends invalid messages. quote:AppleUSBNetworking How ridiculous is it that this didn't exist in HS or Mojave..
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Weedle posted:microsoft considers the ntfs specification a trade secret and will not license it. however it is legal to reverse-engineer something that can interface with a proprietary system as long as you don't reuse any proprietary elements. that's what apple and ntfs-3g did, but even though ntfs-3g technically supports writing to ntfs volumes it isn't 100% reliable, which is why apple didn't bother What's this about ntfs-3g losing writes? A series of bad decisions I made means that I have an NTFS-formatted drive array in my Ubuntu NAS, and it's been stable for years. The write performance does suck terribly and it uses a ton of CPU to the NTFS driver when I'm writing, but it's been reliable.
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Twerk from Home posted:What's this about ntfs-3g losing writes? A series of bad decisions I made means that I have an NTFS-formatted drive array in my Ubuntu NAS, and it's been stable for years. The write performance does suck terribly and it uses a ton of CPU to the NTFS driver when I'm writing, but it's been reliable. you're probably fine, i'm not an expert on it or anything but my understanding is that problems can arise if you're sharing an ntfs volume between windows and another os in a multi-boot config. something to do with windows not seeing the changes made by the other os and thinking space that was written to is still free
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Malcolm XML posted:Welp I thought it was Mike mcquaid. Oops. Well, nevertheless,,, I've already made my biases clear, here, so I'm curious if you have particular examples of what you're describing.
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How stable is ExFat? I'd tried copying from NTFS directly to my Apple Journal format HDD and the copy would just fail eventually. I'm planning only to use ExFat to transfer from windows to ExFat HDD to Apple Journal HDD. Or is ExFat stable enough I don't need to do that second bit. Only planning to use these files on Mac.
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EmmyOk posted:How stable is ExFat? I'd tried copying from NTFS directly to my Apple Journal format HDD and the copy would just fail eventually. I'm planning only to use ExFat to transfer from windows to ExFat HDD to Apple Journal HDD. Or is ExFat stable enough I don't need to do that second bit. Only planning to use these files on Mac. ExFat doesn't have journaling, so you're more likely to end up with data loss or corruption if something like power loss or drive disconnection happens mid transfer. Probably not the best option for long term storage of large amounts of data, but as a temporary intermediary it should be fine.
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Grassy Knowles posted:Unless there’s something else to signify failure, that output did not signify that it doesn’t work, just that it is no longer supported and will break in the future. Yes I agree, however:
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# ? May 27, 2020 20:30 |
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Learn to live with the dot. It's not that bad.
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# ? May 27, 2020 20:34 |
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The Catalina TV app has stopped working for me. If I try to watch a movie or TV show, the video plays for a couple of seconds, then stops and exits, but the app doesn't crash. I can't find any similar reports on Google. e: It's a Mac Pro 5,1 so that might be relevant. e2: It works if I download the content beforehand, but not streaming. e3: OK, it's a known issue with AMD graphics cards on unsupported Macs / Hackintoshes that requires third-party kexts to fix, at least downloading works. Lazyhound fucked around with this message at 08:48 on May 28, 2020 |
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Did you try enabling hardware acceleration via OpenCore? I watch episodes of Voyager and Enterprise in Safari on Netflix without skipping a beat, and that's with the recommended Sapphire Pulse 580X on a 5,1 running both Mojave and Catalina.. go look on the MacRumors forums for help with that maybe.. Without HWA, Netflix returns a 'run Silverlight' error..
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I didn’t use OpenCore but I’ll probably switch over to that method Someday™. In the meantime, I’d rather stick to a stock install.
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Crunchy Black posted:I've already made my biases clear, here, so I'm curious if you have particular examples of what you're describing. everything involved with removing options, the general poor state of homebrew as a package manager (it's slow, it's not really architected well (git is not a good database for package managment, it takes over /usr/local), the churn in formula packaging for arbitrary reasons between taps and core, versioning is poorly supported...) I can't find the issue where one of the maintainers simply couldn't understand a basic algorithm change to a formula to avoid some bug so i might have dreamed it.
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# ? May 28, 2020 20:22 |
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If you are using dosdude’s patcher, he did update it to support 10.15.5.
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# ? May 29, 2020 07:34 |
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I recently got my first Mac and have some questions about MSOffice. I have Office365 through work and I use it extensively. It appears that the AutoSave feature isn't working right on the Mac and I don't know what's up. On Windows I open a file from my OneDrive, and autosave is already on and whatever work I do automatically updates the file, and it gets reuploaded like it should. On Mac, however, every Office file I open, whether it be word, excel, powerpoint, whatever, the auto sync feature is always turned off when I open it. I have to click to enable autosave, then it has to overwrite the file that is already there. I have to give permission for it every time. Does anyone else have this behavior? Any idea how to fix it?
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cryptoclastic posted:I recently got my first Mac and have some questions about MSOffice. Works great for me, I use it every day for coauthoring with my students. Do you have the OneDrive Finder extension enabled? Have you tried deleting and re-adding the sync record in OneDrive?
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Carbon Copy Cloner users: Bombich Software has released CCC 5.1.18, which works around the issue that prevented it from making bootable backups of Catalina drives while booted from 10.15.5. Here's their explanation: Bombich Software posted:Starting in macOS 10.15.5, Apple made a change to macOS that prevents non-Apple applications from creating a special link between the System and Data volumes in an APFS volume group. So if you're booted from an OS that's not 10.15.5, CCC should be fine and work as before, CCC 5.1.18 will let you continue to use 10.15.5 and up to clone Catalina volumes.
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Is cleaning up old Time Machine backups supposed to be this painful? I have a filled-up Drobo that I'd like to free up. There are TM backups from machines I no longer use. Manually deleting the subfolders under Backups.backupdb is fine, but emptying the Trash takes ridiculously long, and rm -Rf in Terminal isn't much better, and it reveals some errors. Is there some better way?
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