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Album purchased not appearing in iTunes purchased nor in my library
I purchased a limited edition album that was only available for a certain amount of time. I purchased it around the end of this time limit. I have an invoice and the payment went through. However, ...
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Signal Folder ~/Library/Application Support/Signal does not exist – where is it?
I am using a MacBook Pro 13-inch 2018 running macOS Sequoia 15.4. I would like to access the local files of the Signal Messanger App, which are – according to the support website – located at ~/...
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Location of Voice Memos transcripts in the file system?
Where are the transcripts that are generated from recordings in the Voice Memos app stored in the file system? I did a: grep -r PATTERN ~/Library` for a known unique-ish pattern from one of the ...
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Any idea what "Vietnamese IM" folder is?
I have been browsing through my Mac user Library folder while trying to locate my FCPX assets and stumbled upon this folder (screenshot). It is named Vietnamese IM and the folder content seems like a ...
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Trying to disable file quarantine through terminal, saying there’s no such file and directory is correct
I'm inputting: cd /Library/Frameworks/Nebula.framework/Versions/4.0/bin;sudo xattr -d com.apple.quarantine lib*;sudo xattr -cr /Library/Audio/Presets/AcusticaAudio/Nebula4/Engines/1462306.vst and it's ...
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What is [home]/Library/Application Support/calls-and-messages?
I noticed this folder, ~/Library/Application Support/calls-and-messages, taking up almost 24GB (mostly in the Backup subfolder). It seems like it's being used almost every day, and it contains log ...
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Where does Pages store its list of recently opened documents?
I'm currently creating a raycast extension for quickly opening recently opened Pages documents. Now, I have to find a way to access the documents and their pathnames. I tried following this answer and ...
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What permissions must I ensure after manually copying contents into ~/Library?
For reasons (Time Machine sparsebundle broke itself irrevocably when I actually needed to restore...) I need to manually copy the contents of ~/Library from a manual backup, to an existing user ...
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Remove user's access to .config and Library folders
I used the following commands to give myself access to the .config folder in order to access Google Chrome's internal files. sudo chown user ~user/.config chmod 711 ~user/.config That did not give me ...
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Can the Mac Music App sync with, update, or be converted to Itunes itl/xml files?
I mistakenly updated a MBP to Catalina in 2021 and suffered with the few "silent but annoying" things Apple did to push iTunes/local library users to streaming (ie, you cannot drag songs ...
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macOS Ventura 13.2 Differences between ~/Library/Containers/Mail/Data AND ~/Library/Mail
I've migrated my Mac probably from Tiger (maybe clean installed once in between), so the Mail folder structure is probably a bit messy. Nevertheless, I just got a new mac and migrated with Migration ...
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How to find out which apps aren't shown on home screen?
I have deleted a folder on my iPhone and removed the containing apps from homescreen. Now they are only in the App Library after the last homescreen. I don’t know exactly what apps where in this ...
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How to move photos from one album to another to tidy up ones organization
Within Photos, how to move a set of photos from one album to another one to change my library organization, without duplicating their names? Like you can move a file within the filesystem from one ...
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How to have Emacs keybindings everywhere in Macbook Air M1 Monterey 12.5? Is tweaking ~/Library/KeyBindings/ the best approach?
I am new to macOS and a big fan of Emacs. I am trying to achieve Emacs keybindings everywhere. Despite the fact that I have read multiple times on the web people stating that macOS was friendly and ...
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How do I add music to an iPhone from a Mac laptop without replacing the library on either device?
I am trying to add music from a laptop running MacOS 12.4 to an iPhone 7 running 15.5. When I try to do this no matter which options I select, I get a message saying that syncing the two devices will ...
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