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Can I safely erase my Mac and reset to factory settings?
I used to work for a company that provided me a Mac (M1Pro). The company went out of business and let us keep the Mac computers. They told us they would remove all the MDM enrollments so we can ...
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Bootable External Drive Issue on Apple Silicon M2- Need Help Resolving
I've been encountering difficulties with my bootable external drive on my Apple Silicon M2.I can boot Successfully on M1 mac. I've tried creating the bootable drive using ASR, Carbon Copy Cloner, and ...
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Mac Facetime Screen Sharing Broken
I have a Macbook Air with an M1 processor, and for the past few software updates (currently 14.2.1), whenever I share my screen, Im unable to stop sharing it until I end the Facetime call. Even then, ...
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Is nested virtualization is supported by Apple Silicon chips (M2/M3)?
I'm trying to find if the latest Apple Silicon chips support fully nested virtualization.
Namely the ability for it to run a VM inside another VM.
Its really hard to find definitive answers. Most ...
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"An unknown error occurred" when signing into Messages with Apple ID on an Apple Silicon Mac
I am currently unable to sign in to Messages with my Apple ID on my Mac (version numbers included at the end). The error messages that comes up is the not-so-helpful, "An unknown error as ...
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Is it normal for my Mac M1 to be heating up? [duplicate]
I just bought the base variant of the MacBook Air M1 a month ago. It's everything I could have asked for. I usually use it for app, web development with occasional machine learning.
The laptop is cool ...
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My M1 macbook thinks its build is x86 Intel, how can I fix this to show arm64?
In my M1 macbook, when I use terminal to install anything, I am getting lots of errors because the binaries are being installed for x86 architecture when I need arm64. For example, when I write the ...
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Does “Optimized Battery Charging” require “Location Services” to be enabled?
My Mac is almost always connected to a powered Thunderbolt 3 dock and noticed battery cycle count is 48 and maximum capacity is 89% (lower than I expected after less than 2 years of use).
Does “...
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Library not loaded libcrypto.1.1.dylib: incompatible architecture between x86_64 and arm64
I have a M1 Pro laptop and have been trying to install homebrew on it. However, I'm getting incompatibilities with libcrypto, probably due to Apple Silicon architecture.
dyld[22223]: Library not ...
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"Confirm Mac password" error [closed]
I have an M1 Mac and after updating to macOS Ventura I am asked to confirm my Mac password in the settings app. However, when I type in the correct password, my Mac rejects it as if it was wrong. I ...
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I deleted 'data' in recovery mode on my mac, now the majority of the disk isn’t detected by disk utility and MacOS can't be reinstalled
I wanted to clean install MacOS on my mac, but I didn't have the password for my old icloud account so I went into recovery mode and into Disk Utility and I erased 'data' this completely deleted it, ...
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Force USB-C keyboard to wake up
My MacBook Pro M1 is connected to USB-C EPOMAKER keyboard directly, after waking up, the keyboard just does not work, I have to unplug it and plug it again.
Any idea if this issue was resolved?
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GPU-specific stats/view on Apple Silicon
On Apple silicon Macs, how can stats like frequency and utilization particular to GPUs be observed?
Activity Monitor gives a nice graph on Activity Monitor's CPU History screen.
Activity Monitor's ...
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Laptop crashes on Window Server malloc error
I do see some similar reports on here, but they are old. The symptoms are that I'll be working, it can be saving a doc, or using zoom, or switching windows, and the screen goes black, and eventually I'...
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MacBook Pro 16" M1 Pro computer no longer wakes up external monitor when waking itself
I have a MacBook Pro (16-inch, 2021) with M1 Pro chip, hooked up to a 32" BenQ monitor. This setup worked well until updating to macOS Monterey 12.6.
Since that .6 update, when I press my finger ...
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Is it possible to boot both an Intel mac and an Apple Silicon mac from the same system on an external drive?
I have a few macOS systems of various versions (latest Big Sur, Monterey, and now Ventura Beta) on an external drive I use for testing, and sometimes I need to test on an Intel mac and sometimes on an ...
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Transfer files between a Mac with Apple silicon and another Mac
I'm trying to follow this guide here.
https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/transfer-files-a-mac-apple-silicon-mchlb37e8ca7/mac
I have Disk Utility up on my Apple silicon Mac, but I don't see Start ...
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M1 Mac Mini FaceTime with external USB microphone
I have an M1 Mac Mini. I have purchased a Logitech C920 webcam/microphone to be able to make FaceTime calls. The microphone works when I use Photobooth or Quicktime to record a video. It also shows up ...
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M1 Mac: Debugging intermittent CFe memory card recognition by MacOS
I have a M1 Mac and trying to read some memory cards (CF Express B) using a INDMEM card reader. It is a simple card reader that accepts only CFe and does not require a power supply. I can see the card ...
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What happenned to Quartz Composer? How can I get that functionality?
What, if anything, has replaced Quartz Composer? How can I access my camera without it?
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Install Dagster on M1 MacBook
I am trying to install Dagster on my M1 MacBook Pro with pip. But keep getting these error messages.
ImportError: dlopen(/Users/test/.local/share/virtualenvs/test-pRGt4I8q/lib/python3.9/site-packages/...
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Can't see last 10 days battery usage
In battery usage I can only see the last 24 hours battery usage and not the last 10 days battery usage.
Is there any way to figure out what is wrong?
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I factory reset my M1 MacBook and it still contained the systems old hostname
I followed this article to factory reset my device https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT212749
The article itself basically says to factory reset using this method before selling your computer. I did it. ...
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Unusal ports open in macOS Monterey
So I was on my macbook air and I had just installed macOS monterey. I was a bit suspicious of some of the things running on the computer, so I decided to see all of the open ports. I found the command ...
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Can't find standbydelayhigh and standbydelaylow on MacBook Pro 2021
When, on my MacBook Pro (M1 Pro) Monterey 12.1, I run
sudo pmset -g
I get these current power settings:
System-wide power settings:
Currently in use:
standby 1
Sleep On Power Button 1
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Git not working on M1 chip after migration [duplicate]
I bought a new MacBook Air with the new M1 chip and I migrated my data from my previous intel mac to this. Now when I try to run git I get the following error:
xcrun: error: unable to load libxcrun (...
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Connect 2 4K monitors to a M1 Pro laptop via Thunderbolt 4 dock?
Is it possible to connect two external 4K60 monitors to a M1 Pro macbook using a single Thunderbolt 4 port, more specifically using a dock?
I have researched this and am getting conflicting answers. ...
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Can I use a Mac Mini M1 with a Dell u4021qw monitor?
My computer is a Mac mini with M1 chip. I want to buy the Dell u4021qw monitor, but I have a concern: Does the computer actually work with this monitor (especially: does hidpi work? Does the font ...
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How to tell if M1 Mac has Rosetta installed?
I am trying to run only native software. So I would like to be able to monitor whether Rosetta 2 is available or not.
I am not asking if Rosetta 2 is running. I am asking if Rosetta 2 is present, is ...
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Sleep prevented by powerd
Recently, my M1 MBA was draining out of battery very quickly. I lose 50% charge in an hour, losing about 1% in less than a minute. This was surely not the case before. When I click on the battery bar ...
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Keeping a process always running even when M1 Mac is sleeping
I would like to keep a process "always on" as some specific iOS apps (such as navigation or music apps) are able to, even when the Mac is put to sleep. Since it's an M1 Mac it seems to me ...
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zsh: killed git on Mac
Hi~ I am just using a Mac with M1 chip.
I just found when I tried to run
git clone ...
I got
zsh: killed git
What should I do?
I have tried to reinstall git via brew.
but it doesn't work.
git ...
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Soundflower replacement on M1 Macs
In the past, Soundflower has been a great way to record audio generated by applications on my Mac. Soundflower's GitHub page indicates that it does not (yet?) support M1 Macs. In the absence of this ...
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Is there an equivalent to resetting NVRAM on an M1 mac?
I have an M1 Mac Mini that is exhibiting some strange issues that aren't going away after reinstalling macOS. I'd like to reset its NVRAM or whatever the nearest equivalent is for M1 macs, in case ...
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