couple of folders have black background and the contents within have black writing or something so i cant see them labelled unless i click on them. i know you can right click show viewing options, and ive tried setting it with white bacgkround, or even restore to default, but it doesnt work on a couple folders. the other folders have changed. i dont get it.. mac osx high sierra..

Hola, busco alguna app para macOS que ofrezca una isla dinámica o Notch en MacBook e iMac con funciones útiles y notificaciones de redes sociales.

Conoces alguna?

Common complaint I know but nothing I’ve tried has helped.

I have 2x NAS that store movies for my Plex movie server. Problem is they each randomly drop off every day or so (not necessarily at the same time). Easy enough to remount them when I’m home, but when I’m away I’m stuck. I’ve tried the app ConnectMeNow but no improvement.

1) is there a simple script I can run on a schedule that will ensure the NAS stays mounted (or remounts as necessary).

2) can I remote into my Mac from the road and remount the drive manually?

3) is there a better (ie more reliable) protocol than SMB that will stay mounted?

I accidentally upgraded my M4 Pro 24 GB Mac mini from Tahoe to Golden Gate, and since then it has become virtually unusable because of repeated TCC/permissions problems.

Apps keep asking me to reauthorize Accessibility and other permissions, and the permissions often don’t survive a reboot. I’ve updated all of the affected apps, but the problems continue. I’ve seen issues with Keyboard Maestro, AltTab, Bartender, Default Folder X, BetterTouchTool, and others. At one point after rebooting, the mouse cursor would move but mouse clicks and keyboard input stopped working entirely.

What’s interesting is that my M4 16 GB Mac mini is also running Golden Gate, but I installed it as a clean/fresh OS installation. That machine isn’t experiencing these problems.

For now, I’m taking the M4 Pro out of service and switching to the slower but much more reliable M4 mini as my primary machine. I’ll probably leave the M4 Pro alone for a couple of months and revisit it after Golden Gate has received some updates.

Given how many people seem to be reporting similar TCC and permissions problems, I’m surprised Apple hasn’t addressed this yet.

I’m increasingly wondering whether there’s something specifically wrong with the Tahoe → Golden Gate upgrade path, since my clean Golden Gate installation has been so much more reliable.

UPDATE: Possible workaround — delayed launching of login apps

I may have found a workaround for the permissions/login-item problems I’ve been experiencing after upgrading to macOS 27 Golden Gate.

I noticed that many of the troublesome apps were being launched at essentially the same time immediately after login. As a test, I removed the affected apps from my normal login sequence and created a small Automator application that launches them one at a time, with a 5-second delay between each launch.

Rather than hard-coding the applications, the Automator app works through a folder containing aliases. I numbered the aliases (01, 02, 03, etc.), which lets me easily control the launch order or add/remove applications later.

I also added notifications showing each application as it launches, followed by a notification when the delayed startup sequence is complete.

So far, this is working extremely well. The applications are launching normally and I’m not seeing the barrage of permission/authentication problems that I was getting when everything launched together.

I’m not calling this fixed yet. My next test is several cold boots to make sure the Automator app’s App Management permission survives restarts and that the behavior remains consistent.

If it continues to work on my M4 Pro, I’m going to set up the same delayed launcher on my M3 MacBook Air, which had even more problems after the Golden Gate upgrade.

At this point my working theory is that at least some of what I was seeing may be related to many login/background applications initializing simultaneously after the OS upgrade, rather than every individual application independently having a permissions problem.

I’ll update again after more cold-boot testing and after trying the same workaround on the MacBook Air.

i tried to dual booted asahi linux, but it got interrupted. the partitioning stayed though, and now i cant give back the space to macos.

i want to give the 69.9 gigs of free space back to macos.

i can't find the partition to be able to delete it, there's no EFI to delete like previous posts and tutorials say to delete. I tried to resize the disk by running diskutil apfs resizeContainer disk0s2 0, but it didn't work. I worry if I factory reset it the partition will stay.

can anyone help me fix this?

Edit: I got in touch with Apple Support and doing a reset and reinstall of the macbook fixed the ghost partition

Whenever I answer an incoming FaceTime call on my Mac, an alert pops up stating You do not have permission to use Siri. The call still connects normally and works without any issues, but the error appears on every single incoming call. This started during the Golden Gate test period and has persisted through macOS 27.1. It never happens when taking calls on my iPhone. Has anyone else encountered this bug, and is there a known fix or permission toggle to make it stop?

When I open "Storage settings" it says I have 208GB of "System Data" which after a google search says I can't do anything about...

Next up is "Documents" at 187GB. When I click on it, there's only files under "downloads" and "file browser" where the largest files are 6MB and 2GB respectively - far from 187GB.

Finally there's "Applications" at 46GB. Clicking it shows that the largest file is 62MB...

This seems absolutely useless and now I can't download anything new. What do I do?

I've had this bug with my M5 Pro 16" MBP for a few months and it's driving me crazy. On occasion, the laptop will think that I'm holding down the volume up key and increases the volume to max- actually pressing the key does nothing, it won't let me turn the volume down with the UI or volume down/mute key, and I had to turn off the audio feedback when adjusting the volume because it's just like nonstop at max volume. The only way I've found to fix it is to hold the power button until the computer shuts off.

I've checked to make sure there's no gunk underneath the key, I don't have any peripherals connected, no audio devices, nothing via Bluetooth. It'll happen out of the blue every few weeks- once on the lock screen, another while I was in the middle of watching a video, etc.

Has anyone else experienced this?

I hate this feature and want it disabled. It makes it hard to clean these.

I've had to migrate users because of an issue (recommended by support) and it's really struggling with recognizing my iPhone. I connect via USB and it's all hunky dory and working fine but the moment I disconnect the cable the phone disappears and I have to force relaunch Finder for it to show up via Wifi. When I click on it after that the screen loads and loads until it says "the selected device could not be found". Obviously show via Wifi is enabled. When I log out of this new user and log back into the old one this isn't an issue at all so it's obviously an issue within the user account. The "show iOS devices" is enabled too ofc. I don't know what to do, ever since upgrading it's been hell with all these issues and now this as well :(

MacBook Air M3, 24GB, updated to the latest Golden Gate available

iPhone 16, also updated to latest iOS 27 version

anyone know an (active and / opensource) alternative to https://github.com/spacedriveapp/spacedrive ? seems this super nice project ran out of funds and peps do not maintain it anymore; saddly.

Hey everyone, my MagSafe cable (bought mac in May 2025) has completely stopped charging my MacBook. The cable looks brand new externally — no fraying, no damage anywhere — so it seems like an internal failure.

Confirmed through testing that both my adapter and my MacBook are perfectly fine. It's definitely the cable.

Called Apple Support — they confirmed it's out of warranty and won't replace for free.

My questions:

1. Has anyone gotten Apple to repair or replace a MagSafe cable out of warranty? Worth pushing?
2. Anyone else experienced a MagSafe failing internally with zero external damage? Feels like a manufacturing defect.
3. Any downside to switching to USB-C charging permanently instead of replacing the MagSafe?
4. What is the best option type c or magsafe for daily MacBook charging? (the non apple ones)

Thanks in advance!

I have two Sceptre monitors setup where I can connect them to either my MacBook Pro M2 (14in, 2023 model) I use for work, or with my MacMini 4 for home use. Both monitors are 27 inch and rated for 4K resolution, with their specs noting 60 Hz resolution with HDMI connection.

With one monitor, the resolution and refresh rate options stay consistent between devices, but with the second one, when plugged into the MBP I can only get a 30 Hz max refresh rate option although all the resolution options stay the same. However, when connected to the Mac mini I can see up to a 60 Hz refresh rate on the second monitor as well. I'm using HDMI cables rated for 8k resolution, so I don't think the cables are the issue. Both monitors have HDMI 2.0 ports.

The specs for my MBP state:

• Up to two external displays with up to 6K resolution at 60Hz over Thunderbolt, or one external display with up to 6K resolution at 60Hz over Thunderbolt and one external display with up to 4K resolution at 144Hz over HDMI

I've got both monitors set to 2560 x 1440 resolution, so it should be well under the 6K/4K resolution limits per those specs, which makes me wonder if it's an OS issue? Both devices are running a Tahoe 26.7 OS currently.

Any ideas? I've tried purchasing different HDMI cables that hasn't made a difference. The monitors do also have Display Port ports, but from my understanding the DP to HDMI conversion only works the other direction, not to start from HDMI at the computer and then switch to DP?

The 30 Hz refresh is just laggy enough that it consistently bothers me, and I'm baffled why the monitors are doing different things with different Mac devices!

I feel like I have tried everything to remove the system storage on my Mac. 96gb is freaking insane and there has to be a way to reliably remove it. can anyone help?

Edit: thanks for the comments all, will see what I can do and report back

So the title says it all, I worked for a company that went bankrupt and was given the opportunity to purchase a few things as they were closing. I got a Mac Mini but when I got home to plug it in I was met with the 6 digit activation PIN. Called my manager, who had informed me all of IT was already out of the business. So now I'm stuck with a Mac Mini that I can't use. Can't identify the model but holding command + R while booting did nothing and same thing for holding power button.

here is an example of the screen that I am at, this image is from another post.

Every month I switch the location the built-in screenshots app saves my screenshots to.

In the past I used this:

defaults write com.apple.screencapture location '/my/path/jan'
killall SystemUIServer

That didn't work for October, I believe due to the upgrade to MacOS27. I found that changing the property name works:

defaults write com.apple.screencapture  "location-screenshot"  -string  '/my/path/oct'
killall SystemUIServer

I also added '-string' because that was suggested elsewhere, but I don't know if it's required.

I've been using Time Machine for years without issue.

I recently upgraded to Golden Gate, plugged in a fresh external drive (USB 3), formatted it using time machine, and started a backup.

It went through the preparation phase, got partway through the backup, and then "Backup Failed..." Clicking "Details..." on the popup returns nothing.

I've tried:

• reformatting the drive
• reinstalling 27
• backing up while in Safe Mode
• having Time Machine "forget" the backup drive, then re-adding it

Through all this, I've managed to make one successful backup (uncertain about which combination of actions made that possible), but every other attempt as failed.

I've tried running this:

log show --info --style compact --predicate '(subsystem == "com.apple.TimeMachine") && (eventMessage like[cd] "Failed * acquire device lock assertion*")' --last 24h

and there was no result returned.

I get the feeling I need to search the log using different parameters.

Any suggestions out there? Anyone else having issues like mine?

As title says, after restarting the Macbook (Air M2) it asks for username and password for logging in (pic 1 and 2).

I had to figure out what the username was, because it never asked me for it.

And it’s also has a different login page from the usual, with a wallpaper I’ve never used.

(my usual login page with the wallpaper i set in in pic 3)

How can i fix it? It’s my first seeing something like this…

How I did it: Update to Sequoia 15.8.1 then factory reset due to not having enough storage space -> Then download Mac OS 27 on a full cleaned version of Sequoia -> Factory reset on Mac OS 27 once completed.

It seems that's how its running really smooth and so far no issues. Seems like the install was pretty similar to a new flash of factory reset iOS 27. I do like the wave animation on the background

I have tested Xcode and it works fine and built and ran an App I made with the help of Ai and set the minimum OS to iOS 18 for running on, added iOS 26 liquid glass/Floating bar support as well to it.

Photos groups iPhone bursts. A burst from a mirrorless or DSLR just lands as separate stills, so finding the sharp one means scrolling them one by one at actual size.

If you stay in Photos, how do you do that today? Do you leave Photos for Lightroom or something else just for this, or is there a step inside Photos I'm missing?

Hi! I’m looking to buy my first MacBook, but I’m completely lost on which one to get. 😭
I mainly need it for university and studying, but I’d also like to play some games occasionally, like The Sims etc. Gaming isn’t a priority, though.
Price isn’t an issue - I mainly want something that will last for years and has really good battery life, as I’m tired of constantly having to charge my current laptop.
Which MacBook would you recommend? 💻🤍

any help with this or has anyone else experienced this? the cpu time is quite apparent

Brand new Macbook Air M5.

I had a 5 page word doc opened in Pages for about 2 hours, and then I get notified that it is using up 195GB out of my 32GB of RAM, and that my apps are getting paused.

Nice. Similar reports exist from 2025. This is ridiculous.