Everything Apple (the Mac heads thread)

I haven't had any problems?
I'd go LG for displays, just prob a normal LG, that way I'd be able to connect my eGPU directly which would be very nice and increase performance.
Wanna buy my 5K?

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Next they'll tell you to blast an inverted version of the burnt image stroboscope style to get rid of the ghost.

various files not appearing on desktop or finder, but when I browse to attach them somewhere like this comment, they appear "on desktop"
thoughts?

Could be a multiple desktop thing? Think this is it;

https://www.howtogeek.com/180677/mission-control-101-how-to-use-multiple-desktops-on-a-mac/

Nah, pretty sure icons are persistent, it's just windows that sit where you leave them. Maybe some icloud desktop/local desktop shenanigans?

Ah fair enough. Not a Mac guy

am running a two monitor set up on my mac pro (23" cinema hd monitors) one has decided to be a bit difficult, it will work intermittently. Wake the mac from sleep and it refuses to come on, sometimes if you wait it will come on, sometimes not. I know it's functioning as I've plugged it in as a second monitor into my mac book air using dvi to mini dvi adaptor. I've plugged my other monitor into the dvi and mini dvi connectors and they are working correctly. Not sure if its the bundle of cables from monitor to computer which is at fault, and if they are if a replacement can be purchased, or if it would need to go to an engineer, or if a software reset needs to happen.
Any thoughts.

So had a look at swapping the SATA for SSD tonight. Tried Carbon Copy but it kept failing so ran disk utility from recovery and it failed to "fix". Now mac wont boot, so tried fsck from single user - no luck, with i/o error

I now have a) an internal drive thats on its very last legs and wont boot, b) a blank ssd, c) a time machine usb drive.

Mrs cookiemonster needs this for work so I'm looking to hand the whole thing over to someone else first thing tomorrow who can pull out the internal disk, mount it somewhere and see if they can pull data off it, install macos onto the SSD, copy the data over from sata or time machine, etc.

Recommendations for speedy Mac repair work? Need someone that can do some data recovery I guess, not just fix iphone screens. I live near these guys http://www.mindthemac.co.uk/ but know nothing about them

Cant you create a bootable usb, then get the time machine disc on to the ssd?

I dont have a macos cd and i'd rather not put on any more stress on the internal drive, so I dont think I can easily create something bootable?

Also, I'm not always confident time machine has got a recent copy of the parallels image - so id prefer to try to get data from the internal drive first (it has all the actual user data, but its just the hassle of installing applications and the like)

Any recommendations for service people in London?

Logosystems in Greenwich

Are any of you experts available for hire?

I need help with my iMac and I don’t have a clue what I am doing.

Whatsup?
(no expert).

If someone has Windows/Apple partitioned drive and buys a new drive, I presume after imaging the original drive they can allocate the free space to both partitions somehow? I know in Windows you can but in ios?

A few things really.

I went to put a new disk drive in it whe it stopped working. The guy suggested I fit an SSD. He didn’t fit a new disk drive in the end - I think he was a swindler.

Anyway. I don’t want to go back to him.

The computer doesn’t recognise the time machine external hard drive. I have now lost all of the iTunes somehow.

The photos won’t load up from iCloud.

There are a million programs on there that I can’t use, because they are loaded up with the Apple ID of the guy at the shop.

It’s old (mid 2010),so I know that it will be up for replacing, but I only use it for Netflix, Spotify and photos, so I’d like it to be stripped back and able to back up. And a new dvd drive.

There are a million programs on there that I can’t use, because they are loaded up with the Apple ID of the guy at the shop.

This might explain the photo and time machine issues?

also, why tf would he enter his icloud details in someone elses computer?

Dunno. I imagine they are moody programs

When I open time machine it doesn’t see the hdd

First thing, go into system preferences, find the iCloud bit and log out of iCloud if it isn’t your account. Also check App Store/iTunes account to make sure it is yours. If not log out. Log in with your own account and see what that changes.

Basically this.
Its all now registered to his account, you'll need to logout of his and login to yours.
What you could do in the interim (and @CYOA to confirm this will work) as I guess you odnt want ot open up your iMac...
Buy an external SSD and Caddy, instal macOS to SSD, migrate time machine to new SSD, use as boot drive.

I'm slightly confused as what has actually been done - the old HDD failed? You fitted a new HDD?

The DVD player stopped reading disks, so I took it to a repair shop. While I was there, the dude said that updating to a ssd would make it run better as it is old.

He phoned to say it is finished. I brought a disk to try and it didn’t work. He said the new DVD player must have same issue but be wouldn’t charge me. This is when I suspected skullduggery.

It was about a year ago. Over the last few months, it fails updates and asks for the password to a different allow account for these programs. I think it is logged into my apple for the other things.

Sounds super dodge. Log out of everything and wipe the machine, once done change all of your passwords everywhere.

By the sounds of it, I think you should set that machine on fire, then buy an iPad to replace it.

..iPads don't have DVD drives, dummy!