My iMac (Tahoe) has been running Office for Mac for a very long time with a valid licence. I only use Word and Excel and the rest is rubbish! It is suddenly now not allowing me to save any files (greyed out). Microsoft say I have to buy an Office product at great expense as they no longer support Office for Mac! If I want to continue using it I have to active the product again. When I click on "Activate" it requests me to "Sign in" to my account. And surprise, surprise, it refuses my...

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Thought I would share something funny/curious regarding forum management.

Member MacInWin (Jake) reported a Spam post today...turns out it was from a Mac-Forums member who joined all the way back in 2012...and after 14 years decided to post some spam. Lol

Hard to say if it was an actual "human" registration from 2012...or a registration via bot.

I'm leaning towards it being a Bot...since who in the world waits 14 years to post spam??

"Let's see (note to self)...put on to-do...

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Hi, I would like to know if I want to download video and audio free online, is the use of homebrew and yt-dlp an appropriate and safe way?

I was expecting an email, and when it didn't appear in my Inbox, I naturally looked in the Junk folder. To my surprise, nothing has been put there for nearly 2 months, and the few messages that are there are really things that I manually put in Trash! What happened to my Junk folder?

I have an external SSD with several partitions, one of which doesn't show in Path Finder's sidebar (though it does in Finder). I've narrowed it down to a permissions problem: in Disk Utility the other partitions show 'Ownership: Disabled', but this partition it says 'Enabled'.

So I tried to change permissions. The other partitions show:
(Me) Read & write
staff Read & write
everyone Read only
but this partition shows:
System Read & write
wheel Read only
everyone Read only
so I...

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Hi all,
I bought a used Macbook Pro 2019 with a "screen issue", and am just trying to determine where the fault lies before doing any work.

Hardware Overview:

• Apple MacBook Pro 2019 A2141, MacOS Sonoma 14.8.3
• i7-9750H 2.6 GHz,
• 32 GB DDR4, 1TB Storage,
• Dual GPU (Intel and AMD)

Here's the synopsis:

• There is a visible erratum on part of the screen, that does not seem to cause issues with usage.
  It however is a nuisance, and does cause some readability issues...

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I understand that there have been many post on web-browsers and search engines and everyone has their own personal favorite. The ChatGPT browser is a game changer! I have been using it for a few weeks now and it's like science fiction come true! You will find yourself in back and forth coversations with it! It has been a truly exciting experience and I recommend it to anyone looking for a new internet experience!

The display on my 2024 M3 MacBook Air is no longer working properly (see attachment). I can still work using an external monitor but the interior display is completely on the fritz.

I want to take the machine into the Apple Store to see what a new video card or screen would cost, but I would want to format the main ssd first because I do online banking on this machine and have other relatively sensitive information and I did not have the drive encrypted. Because the drivers for the...

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I'm thinking about getting some SSDs & setting up a RAID1. A RAID1 with a hot spare would be extra nice to have. It's easy to do with Disk Utility. I have a 2023 mini with a M2 CPU. I'm limited to 2 USB-A & 2 USB-C. Do I need a NAS? I think that I use a Thunderbolt port, correct? I reckon that I need some kind of device to place the SSDs, correct? I've been thinking about getting a USB dock.

What do you suggest?

I updated the OS yesterday to Tahoe 26.5.2.

Today, I noticed that the 1Password app icon in the Dock has been replaced by an opaque "?", and that the app no longer shows in Finder > Application (although the Safari extension app is still there). In Safari, the 1Password extension is still there and still works! Also, everything is fine with 1Password on my iPhone and iPad.

Has anyone had this happen before?

A search suggests to download the app again from 1Password Releases. Does...

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Recently Time Machine takes forever to back to my 1TB external. There's still about 320GB of space, so I am not sure why this is happening.

I went ahead and deleted old backups that I can see in the TM folders. These are from ten years ago and not needed anymore. Even now, however, it seem to be taking too much time to backup.

The last backup said it needs 5 hours or more to complete, so I cancelled it when it was at 16 percent.

Do I need a new disk (this one seems fine but it is 8...

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I’ve had a Brother printer & liked it very much, but can’t get updated software compatible w my Mac mini OS 26.5. Can anyone recommend a model they really liked that didn’t have confusing set-up of air-print?

Every day I get an email from usps.com (telling me what mail is coming) and it ends up in my Junk folder. I have tried marking that e mail “Not Junk” and making a rule that email from usps.com be placed in the Inbox without success. Suggestions?



My real junk mail (Your cloud storage is expiring give me your credit card info etc) ends up in the junk folder as it should



Using a 2021 MacMini with the M-1 chip and Tahoe 21.5.2

Friend got a message from Apple that it will no longer support/allow backups to external drives, so Time Machine will no longer exist.

I am trying to find a database similar to MS Access which unfortunately is not available on a Mac without something like Parallels, but without much success.
I am not a programmer, so need something easy to use.

Any ideas please?

I have a mac studio M 4 Max running Sequoia 15.77. This has been happening for a while and hoping someone can help me. I always back up my phone and when I try to sync my phone, it says that my calendar and contact information are being synced by Microsoft exchange and if I want to change that, I have to do it on my iphone 15 26.5.2. What is strange? I do not have Microsoft exchange on either my phone or on my computer. I want to manually sync the two but when I click on the info tab when my...

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I browse using Safari.

Ever since I updated to Tahoe 26.5.2 a few days ago, I've had an inordinate number of pages that "reloaded because a problem occurred". Prior to that, there were a couple of websites that were prone to this, but now it's almost every website I go to.

Any idea why?