Tahoe 26.5.1 iMac. Been having an issue with images lately both from downloads and today some of my own that I airdropped from an older iMac to this one. If I try and open the image I get a prompt saying I do not have permission. Even if I try and unlock it the thing goes back to locked again. The way I have been getting around this is to do a restart and all is well for awhile till it pops up again. I probably went about 6 months or better before it first popped up about a week ago.
Any ideas?

Just today I found myself needing to make a voice call to Australia in order to save myself AU$1,500.00. from Indonesia. In the past I have always used used Skype for these occasional necessities but as most people will know MS in their wisdome decided to scrap it back on May 5, 2025. (MS Teams is not a VOIP)

So, suddenly I found that an insurance policy I had thought cancelled was about to charge me for renewal on the 25th of this month and I definitely did not want that. I was unable...

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On iPhone I'm counting steps with the app & am trying to count some of today's steps on tomorrow's record instead of today's. Is there some easy way to do this?

Just had surgery to remove a cancerous prostate and sitting here (ouch) updating some personal agendas. One is my email service. Lately I have been receiving hundred's of emails arriving in my junk folder. No sooner than I clear it out, within the hour another hundred pop up. Thinking maybe its time to reconsider my email service and upgrade email and/or change my address. Still using an @hotmail.com address that I have had for a very long time. I currently have a microsoft 365 subscription...

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We have forums (fora?) for everything else, why not the Watch? I've looked and haven't found a really good Watch forum anywhere else.

I have been listening to a BBC Radio 4 program called Scam Secrets which highlights the security of passkeys. Till now I thought that the fact that I used Apple generated passwords and my fingerprint to access websites meant that I didn't need to worry about switching to passkeys. eBay had already set up a passkey for me using my Gmail address which I rarely use. I still have a password for eBay using an alias for my iCloud email address. I also use aliases for my iCloud email only...

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When I clink on a picture in Facebook I am getting these odd renderings. In the top it says shop now? I do not have this issue using brave or Firefox. I have turned on and off ad blockers, iOS is up to date. Any ideas?

Just replaced an 8 yr. old Mac Mini that died, with a MacBook NEO. It's OS is Tahoo 26.6.2.
This was very stressful. I was on the phone with Apple support for about 3 hrs. hooking up everything. I just got off the phone with my internet supplier, trying to get the printer to work, Took about another hour but finally printing now.Glad that's over.

Since updating to Tahoe my MBP has been running slower and slower with every update. I have a 2020 Intel machine, so clearly I'm running out of updates but to put in perspective just how slow is is running, I'm currently backing up using Super Duper. It's been running about 10 hours (it used to take 20 minutes before updating). It's copying between 50 and 100 MB/s.

When I open the applications folder, it takes about 2 minutes to fully populate the icons. I still have around 30% free...

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So, a lot of musicians are moving to the Mac for their production needs. Whether you are a guitarist, drummer, singer/songwriter, Synth or MIDI enthusiast, engineer, or you just like to have a little bit of a jam now and again, there is an app for you.

DAW = Digital audio Workstation
Plug in = an virtual instrument or effect, that can be added to the program
MIDI = Musical Instrument Digital Interface
DSP = Digital Signal Processing
"ReWire" = Propellerhead's Software for integrating two...

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Some time ago MacInWin suggested Amphetamine as an app/utility to prevent my system from sleeping which had frequently resulted in the system notification "Your disk (name) was not ejected properly." even though it showed as connected on the Desktop on waking. An AI search states, "The "Disk Not Ejected Properly" message on macOS indicates that an external drive disconnected from the system unexpectedly, often due to sleep settings, hub issues, or connection...

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Macbook Pro, 15", 2017
Mac OS Monterey, Version 12.6

iPhone 13 Pro Max
IOS 16.0

For managing Pictures in the Photo Application between my MacBook and iPhone - I want to be able to delete pictures from the iPhone but they always come back from the MacBook Pro?
How can I keep pictures from always coming back?

Apologies for not using correct nomenclature / terms - I am not much of a chiphead.

Is there a good resource for using Photo Application for both the Laptop and...

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I have an iPhone 11, IOS 26.6.1, and want to turn off my passcode or set to stay on longer that coming up every time I go to use my phone! Recently, granddaughter persuaded me to use Face ID and passcode. I deleted Face ID a few days ago, then wanted to change passcode ID time before came up again, and can't find where/how to do it.
In Face ID and Passcode no option to turn passcode off; grayed out. Under Require Passcode, only says immediately. Previously I believe there were several...

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I got a bonus at work and decided to spend it on a new Mac. I got on the Amazon website, and since I didn’t see any new desktop Macs for sale, I bought a 16-inch MacBook Pro with the M5 Ultra chip, 48G of Ram and 2 TB of storage (SSD) for $4,150.

It just arrived today, and I’ve connected it to a 32-inch monitor and an external keyboard and mouse, and here I sit, pretty impressed with the snappy performance compared to my ancient Mac Pro and iMacs.

But now I’m having some second thoughts...

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HP Printer suddenly paused on Laptop and iPad. Have tried to remove it, cleared jobs and turned everything off and back on. This is a sudden development . Both the laptop and iPad still print on my old Canon printer. Anything else I can try?

Hi,

I have to send from photos to a friend. I took these photos on my iPhone 5C (about 6 or 7 pics) and I'd like to transfer them to my Mac laptop (OSX 10.7.5) and then send them as attachments to an email to my friend. But I don't know how to do any of this. Sorry, I'm not really a power user and I don't usually take many photos. Of course, I do know how to send an attachment to an email but I don't know how to get the photos from my iPhone to my Mac. I have the latest version of iTunes...

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Opening the file in vi only shows some kind of header data. The actual file contents are somewhere else and possibly uneditable in vi. I need to access the data to edit in vi, use grep or apply other Unix tools.

I accidentally deleted a Calendar and can't figure out how I can retrieve it, if at all. I am on a Macbook Air running 10.9.5 and Calendar 7.0. I have an external disk that runs Time Machine. I tried looking in Time Machine but I don't know where the files are stored there, what they are called, or the steps needed to restore the calendar to may laptop. I would appreciate any help. Thanks.

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My brother recently got a Macbook Pro and he asked about being able to write to his old external HDD which had most of his data. The drive was formatted in NTFS since he was on Windows. Formatting wasn't an option.
In my search for a solution, I came across a solution that I liked. But it wasn't obvious or apparent and most links showed to use either a 3rd party paid app OR Homebrew; neither of which appealed to me.

So I decided to write an article in my blog explaining the steps to make...

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