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I have a Mac Mini M4 with 500 GB SSD running macOS Tahoe 26.1. The internal drive is formatted APFS, of course. I’m getting some confusing results when I try to see how much storage I have available. ...
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Specs of laptop: Macbook Pro 2016 15 inch Mac OS Monterey 12.7.6 How should I solve this? I recently factory reset the laptop and installed all apps.
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I'm trying to find out why my "System Data" is taking 170 GB on my disk. One place I found a bunch of space is in under ~/Library/Application Support/MobileSync/Backup. There are 3 ...
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I do not understand how this error state is even possible, yet it has happened on both of my computers. The screenshot is from this year’s M4 model. I have found other users reporting the same problem,...
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I'm swapping my second HDD for a new SSD in my MacBook Pro running Ventura. Both drives, old and new, are 1TB. Old drive is formatted Mac OS extended (Journaled), new drive was just reformatted APFS. ...
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Can an automation workflow be created that will delete files immediately from iPhone? This would be useful when the iPhone is too full to Delete by first moving to the Trash.
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I'm trying to delete some files from my iPhone's Files app, and I am getting a pop-up message: "Filename" couldn't be moved to ".Trash" because there isn't enough space. The ...
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Typical camera software (Capture One, Lightroom, and others) has special workflow behaviors for devices flagged by the operating system as removable media. (Personally, I'm trying to use the Capture ...
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Can someone explain what triggers the downloading of music files to my iPad mini? I have been enjoying the Apple Music Classical app daily, and occasionally the Apple Music app. I want to remember ...
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I have photos synced through iCloud to my Mac. This is good. I like to be able to see the pictures big! However I don't have a lot of storage space and the library seems to grow and grow, even though ...
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I have an external volume (an SSD by Sandisk connected via a usb-c cable) rated at 1TB. Finder (macOS 14.5) says the disk is full (when I try to add a file it errors with: No space left on device (28) ...
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I am trying to copy files to an external HD on macOS Sequoia The remote server (WebDAV) mounted via Finder -> Go -> Connect The problem is that using sync, the local Machintosh HD runs out of ...
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I have a 64 GB USB-C flash stick from Samsung that was new in October 2024, which I formatted with a tool from my car's manufacturer that it insisted on. Making it a ExFAT volume that contains map ...
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The terminal shows I still have 512GB of space but only 410 is being used in the MacBook Pro, rest is classified as (free space). The disk Utility doesn't show the 84GB anywhere either, is any of the ...
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Suppose user A creates a folder in iCloud Drive, and shares this folder with user B (with edit access). Do the contents of this folder count towards the iCloud storage quota of user A alone ? Or do ...
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