I can only find one post on the entire internet with the same problem as this, so I doubt i’m going to get flooded with answers but basically i’m trying to upgrade a Yosemite Mac mini to El Capitan which is running a DIY Fusion drive. Its made up of an internal SSD and an … Read more
I have an iTunes library with thousands of songs in it. I haven’t opened iTunes for a while, but today I wanted to import a new cd, started iTunes and without thinking I imported the cd. I needed to set the bitrate, which was rather strange, but I did so, and the cd was imported. … Read more
My Google Drive app seems to have quit working. It always stated “prepare syncronisation” and never finished. So I uninstalled and reinstalled it. Now I can’t even open the freshly downloaded app, as it gives me this error: You are using an old version of Google Drive. Please use the latest one. The Google Drive … Read more
I inadvertently moved two folders out from somewhere inside /Library (at least I think that’s where they were). One folder is named FFFFEEEE-DDDD-CCCC-BBBB-AAAA000000F8 and contains about 36 .playlist files that appear to be related to various applications. The other is named 4y, contains one folder named m1f9tls52fs2gytfbr7wz0p40000gn, which in turn contains four folders named O, … Read more
I’m under OS X El Capitan 10.11.1. When I try to search in terminal text by command + F it starts to search from the text above rather than from bottom as it was in terminal on Ubuntu. So how can I change a direction of search to start a search from a bottom of … Read more
I upgraded my OSX from 10.8.6 to El Capitan (10.11.5) and since then I’m having this bug: modify and save a text file located on Desktop using TextEdit app –> Sometimes the file icon is moved to a different position on the desktop. (file name “test.rtf” first changes to “test.rtf.****” and then back to “test.rtf”. … Read more
I have a directory of bash scripts I use frequently, and I tend to launch these via Alfred Alfred in turn relies on Spotlight to index scripts, and assign them a meta content type of ‘public.unix-executable’ Since upgrading from Mavericks to El Capitan, Spotlight was treating SOME of these scripts as ‘public.data’ and Kind=Document This … Read more
This is a pretty esoteric question, so I apologise in advance, but I really need to know the answer. I have an encrypted sparsebundle in which I have a number of Word documents. I need to know that the contents of these files will remain confidential. I’m totally happy about the encryption; it’s what happens … Read more
I have a problem with all my music files with mp3 extension. I had Mac OS X Snow Leopard and I made backup of all my files to hard drive and changed the internal hard drive to new SSD with fresh copy of El Capitan. After this operation I took all my files from the … Read more
I have MacBook Pro mid-09, it had el capitan os before I removed it I wanted to work completely on win10, and completely formatted all the HDD with the recovery partition included But realised later I need os x badly, and i dont have internet recovery option So I downloaded snow leopard.dmg and made a … Read more
