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~Coxy posted:Are you using a DisplayLink "dock" by any chance? CalDigit TS3+ with 2 monitors, 1 1440p on HDMI, 1 4k on DP.
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Any recommendations on a good Finder alternative? I miss Directory Opus coming from the PC.
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Fleedar posted:Any recommendations on a good Finder alternative? I miss Directory Opus coming from the PC. I think Pathfinder is the oldest and most robust Finder replacement: https://cocoatech.com
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Sep 10, 2021 16:22
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Violator posted:I think Pathfinder is the oldest and most robust Finder replacement: Seconding this… mostly. While it's true that it's probably the most robust, and very possibly also the most fully-featured, that's unfortunately not saying much. It will quite happily develop stability issues and odd behaviour from one patch to the next, and the way upgrades, features, and bug fixes are rolled out, you might as well consider it a subscription service in all but name. It's a vast improvement over the Finder once you learn to find and use its feature set, but it's still very much that: a Finder replacement. If you're looking for something like an specialised high-speed, large-volume file manager, similar to say Total Commander on the Windows side of things, you're not going to get it. But then again, nothing else ever comes close to that anyway so Pathfinder is most likely still the closest you'll get on Mac.
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Sep 10, 2021 19:11
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Pathfinder was cool and innovative 10 years ago but, really, what do you need to do that finder doesn't other than personal preference coming from PC. It's a band-aid at best IMO
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Sep 10, 2021 19:19
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Yeah I mean I suppose I don’t know everyone’s needs but just get comfortable with Finder imo. It’s very good and usable. Doesn’t seem like something worth overcomplicating unless you absolutely have to after months of trying to get used to it.
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Sep 10, 2021 19:28
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Crunchy Black posted:Pathfinder was cool and innovative 10 years ago but, really, what do you need to do that finder doesn't other than personal preference coming from PC. It's a band-aid at best IMO Persistent side-by-side views; session management; task queueing; copy/move merge; improved remote server management; multi-rename; multi-preview/info-tab; more sensible recents (files and directories); more sensible tag and metadata management; more in-depth archive and image management; checksumming; presets for just about everything… …but yes, that is admittedly still just a lot of personal preference, and most of it is related to manipulating large volumes of files, which is not exactly a common-day need. And coming from PC, it still doesn't hold a candle to what's available there, mainly because it's still mouse-focused. 
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Sep 10, 2021 19:39
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I think I'd probably get good with stuff on the command line if I was only just now getting into Finder replacements / augmentations. At least that has a lower risk of workflow-breaking changes caused by a point release of the OS.
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Sep 10, 2021 19:44
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Finder finally doesn't choke to death whenever you have a samba server connected which is good enough for me  and also, yes, if you're getting into macOS best to just get comfy with terminal and bash if you really need to get something done (tm)
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I use ForkLift for file management type stuff, I think there’s a few others too, like Transmit is one of the fancier ones. If the main thing you’re looking for is just about messing with a bunch of files (and don’t want to go into the command line), look more into that type of specialized app rather than a full on Finder replacement.
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Yeah, I use the Finder for 98% of the simple stuff I do and then have specialized tools for other things. Like: https://www.publicspace.net/ABetterFinderRename/ One of the nice thing about the Mac software community is how many nice single purpose tools there are. Like Carbon Copy Cloner, Dropzone, etc. I also do a lot of stuff via Alfred (some folks like Launchbar). And with Shortcuts coming in the next major OS that should open up a lot more easier automation than Automator did.
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PathFinder is about as close to DirOpus as you're going to find, and the caveats are true. I used PathFinder for several years and finally gave up at BigSur, due to the gamble it was to patch or upgrade, and that patch causing things to fail or lock up PathFinder. I now use a combination of ForkLift, for light duty and remote movement stuff. Then switch to the terminal and shell commands for the heavy lifting. ForkLift is nice, lightweight, and free. I just found QSpace, https://qspace.awehunt.com/en-us/index.html, which has a free trial, and looks promising. Another option is to install homebrew and then install either midnight-commander, or vifm(vi file manager) and live in the terminal.
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Sep 11, 2021 11:04
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MarxCarl posted:ForkLift is nice, lightweight, and free.
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Recently on my work laptop I've noticed that AMPArtworkAgent pegs one core at 100% a lot of the time, even when I'm not using the computer. There isn't any local music on the machine; I just use Music to stream. Is there any way to prevent this from happening?
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Not that anyone gives two shits, but Apple just pinched out.. 💩💩💩 System Updates! 💩💩💩 - Big Sur 11.6 - Currently only available via System Prefs / Software Update - security fixes for PDF reading, Safari / WebKit - Safari 14.1.2 - for Mojave and Catalina, was included with BS 11.5.2 - Security Update 2021-005 for Catalina - same as fixes for 11.6 Looks like the beginning of the end for Mojave, it didn't get a Security Update.
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Sep 13, 2021 21:00
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Hmmm maybe I should upgrade from High Sierra...
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Sep 14, 2021 09:42
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They had to get 11.6 / Safari 14.1.2 / iOS 14.8 etc out in a hurry since it's evidently a bug that can be exploited by a simple malformed PDF and doesn't need you to do anything but read the PDF and boom.. That explains why it's not on the Mac App Store yet.. Why they couldn't do it as 11.5.3 is beyond me..
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Sep 14, 2021 13:09
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I was surprised to see a TRIM Enabler driver included with Sensei. I thought TRIM was enabled by default in macOS for years. Is my external SSD not TRIMing without it?
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KOTEX GOD OF BLOOD posted:I was surprised to see a TRIM Enabler driver included with Sensei. I thought TRIM was enabled by default in macOS for years. Is my external SSD not TRIMing without it? I believe that is something you have to enable for aftermarket SSDs. Never considered that external ones would fall under that umbrella too, but it follows.
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Sep 14, 2021 14:41
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I don’t think usb drives support TRIM, but that may have changed at some point
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Uh oh I was hoping to postpone the switch to a new macOS (I'm on Mojave) until I buy one of those fancy new macbooks but looks like I might have to upgrade earlier. Would that be preferable anyway? How would a time machine backup from Mojave restore to Big Sur/Monterey?
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Sep 14, 2021 15:39
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Should restore fine. if you install a fresh copy of macOS it will give you an option to restore from a backup and in my experience you can always go old OS -> new OS with that method, just not the other way around.
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Last Chance posted:I don’t think usb drives support TRIM, but that may have changed at some point The original spec for usb drives is Mass Storage Class, which generally doesn't AFAIK. The new standard is UASP (USB Attached SCSI Protocol) and the version of SCSI being tunneled is new enough to support the optional 'unmap' command, which is equivalent to SATA TRIM, which means it is now possible to TRIM a USB drive with adequate command bridging and translation. Support for this is sketchy and macOS probably doesn't enable it by default (or at all), hence the need for a driver.
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Binary Badger posted:They had to get 11.6 / Safari 14.1.2 / iOS 14.8 etc out in a hurry since it's evidently a bug that can be exploited by a simple malformed PDF and doesn't need you to do anything but read the PDF and boom.. You don’t even have to read it. Just have it processed for a thumbnail, I believe. You could be infected and the attacker could wipe the original gif/pdf and you’d never even know. It’s severe, and while I doubt anyone in this thread has nation-states after them and willing to spend crazy money with Israeli cyber weapons dealers, the methodology is now better known and copycats are coming if they aren’t here already. Please update.
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I am dealing with a very hosed up problem on my dad's M1 MacBook Air: his password doesn't work. I mean, even though it's correct. Luckily, I also have a user account set up on it, and the password does work, so I go in and reset his user account's password from my account. Then, it works fine, until, one day, it doesn't. I don't understand this problem, but it's totally unacceptable, and I would love suggestions on how to fix it. He is new to Macs and I don't want him to be dissuaded from using one because he gets subjected to the shittiest software flaw I've seen right off the bat.
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Apparently it's a bug in Big Sur- try resetting the SMC, that seems to be a quick solution for many people.
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There is no such thing as a SMC on a M1 Mac.
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D'oh! I was just thinking of it as the Big Sur problem, not M1 problem.
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Whenever I encounter problems like that I plug in an external keyboard and have them try to login again.. works sometimes
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I "need" an old 32-bit program so I'm still on Mojave on one of my computers. Am I in big, big danger?
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Something I try and express to all the clients we get who run their businesses on Apple stuff is that you have no alternative but to run at the pace Apple set. You can't hang back on a specific OS release because you need the support for a specific application, because one day you will find that the new hardware you buy won't run that OS, and then suddenly you have an urgent problem rather than one that could have been handled by a managed migration to a different application or just giving the vendor money to upgrade. As far as that's relevant to personal use is really up to you to pick your own risk level. My opinion is that if you're having to hold back on a particular OS due to application support then that problem is only going to get worse over time, and you're painting yourself into a corner of having to keep old hardware running indefinitely.
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Xabi posted:I "need" an old 32-bit program so I'm still on Mojave on one of my computers. Am I in big, big danger? You're not really in any much danger other than waking up one day to having Apple not even acknowledge the existence of Mojave in a cross OS update. It looks like that PDF bug was containerized in Safari for Mojave as that's the only update they issued for that level of OS. Also, the last Security Update for Mojave was pretty recent, 2021-005 was released in August. But mostly what Thanks Ants said.
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Xabi posted:I "need" an old 32-bit program so I'm still on Mojave on one of my computers. Am I in big, big danger? You will be eventually. Mojave goes out of security support with the release of Monterey. It depends on what that 32 bit application is. If it's a vendor-specific product (say, a prepress software product by a company whose devs always drag their feet on OS support), there's not much you can do until they fix their poo poo. If that company is out of business, it's time to start looking at a migration plan, even if you don't execute it for another year. If they have a newer version of that product and you've been dragging your feet on upgrading, it's time to upgrade. If it's "Well, I don't want to upgrade from Adobe CS6," it's time to bite the bullet. If it's "I don't want to lose DragThing," it's time to look into a replacement. I knew people who hung on to 10.6/PowerPC Macs for a very long time for these kinds of reasons (Preps machines, old Rampage/Scitex/Prinergy clients) because either the vendor went out of business or they weren't paying for support contracts. Or they had a specific piece of hardware that was extremely expensive and would have cost too much to replace. What's the product/software that's stuck on 32 bit for you?
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KOTEX GOD OF BLOOD posted:I am dealing with a very hosed up problem on my dad's M1 MacBook Air: his password doesn't work. I mean, even though it's correct. Luckily, I also have a user account set up on it, and the password does work, so I go in and reset his user account's password from my account. Then, it works fine, until, one day, it doesn't. You will have to wipe this machine. I ran into the same bug in Big Sur on my intel MBP and not even it being enrolled in JAMF was enough to unfuck it. (It obviously only had one local user account, though.) Its an insane bug, Apple has barely acknowledged it, unfortunately its not widespread enough for a real class action and they will get away with it. Sorry.
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Crunchy Black posted:You will have to wipe this machine.
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kefkafloyd posted:What's the product/software that's stuck on 32 bit for you? Old casual games.
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KOTEX GOD OF BLOOD posted:I kind of figured this would be the outcome. Thanks for the advice though. Is a recovery partition reinstall good enough? Idk if reinstalls over USB / createinstallmedia are even still a thing under ARM. Might be? I just wiped from USB media; I don't think there are any prohibitions on doing that on M1.
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Is Mojave-in-VMWare a reasonable solution? (Of course, doesn't help you once you leave Intel.)
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Small White Dragon posted:Is Mojave-in-VMWare a reasonable solution? (Of course, doesn't help you once you leave Intel.) As long as you are using a intel Mac, the classic patches for workstation and esxi have slowed down quite a bit(esxi unlocked development is pretty much over) so I don’t think that is a viable option in the long run.
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Disk Utility in the Recovery Partition somehow hosed up the erase process, so now there is no target for the installation. It won't let me wipe the drive completely because it's running off the drive. I made a createinstallmedia USB installer, but that no longer shows me Disk Utility, just the prompt to install, which I can't do. So I don't see how I can wipe this machine. Jesus christ, Apple, stop breaking poo poo that already works.
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