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Ok, the saga continues…
I managed through internet recovery to upload OS Catalina to the limping MBP. I suppose this is what is known as a clean install. I then got my data loaded on via Time Machine. All seems intact, including my music.
The new SSD is amazing by the way, so fast.
There is a very odd quirk though, which I can’t figure out: safari doesn't work.
You open it up and nothing happens. You can close it and repeat with no difference.
I’ve now done another clean install of Catalina via internet recovery with an identical result. Non functioning safari.
I also have Clean My Mac loaded up and it seems to think everything is in good shape. I’m just puzzled by this weird problem. Any suggestions?
Thank you so much for getting me this far!
I managed through internet recovery to upload OS Catalina to the limping MBP. I suppose this is what is known as a clean install. I then got my data loaded on via Time Machine. All seems intact, including my music.
The new SSD is amazing by the way, so fast.
There is a very odd quirk though, which I can’t figure out: safari doesn't work.
You open it up and nothing happens. You can close it and repeat with no difference.
I’ve now done another clean install of Catalina via internet recovery with an identical result. Non functioning safari.
I also have Clean My Mac loaded up and it seems to think everything is in good shape. I’m just puzzled by this weird problem. Any suggestions?
Thank you so much for getting me this far!
Can anyone help? I noticed today that for the past 12 months-ish the Google Drive app has not been backing-up/syncing my photos from my Mac to my Google account. There are a few similar reports on the web, but not loads and no resolution is mentioned. There is space in my Google drive and Google Drive for Desktop is pointing at my system photo library in the preferences. I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling it. If I click the little drive icon in the menu bar at the top it just says everything is up to date, when it obviously isn't. I'm all out of ideas. Does anyone have it working?
Edited by blueST on Thursday 23 November 22:35
BTW, is CleanMyMac still seen as pointless at best, and malware at worst, or has it's reputation improved since the days of it's dodgy malware warning pop-up advertising techniques?
Just wondering if one of it's overly-aggressive cleaning algorithms has removed something essential...and that change has been copied over to your backups.
Just wondering if one of it's overly-aggressive cleaning algorithms has removed something essential...and that change has been copied over to your backups.
First MacOS question here.
Is it possible to directly zip files from search results in Finder? I can go into the folder, select a few files and then right click on them and I'll see the compress option in the list but if I do a filter for file name etc. and select all the files listed there is no compress option in the right click menu.
Am I doing something wrong or can you just not do this? If you can't, is there an alternative to creating a new folder with items and going into that in order to select them all and then compress?
Is it possible to directly zip files from search results in Finder? I can go into the folder, select a few files and then right click on them and I'll see the compress option in the list but if I do a filter for file name etc. and select all the files listed there is no compress option in the right click menu.
Am I doing something wrong or can you just not do this? If you can't, is there an alternative to creating a new folder with items and going into that in order to select them all and then compress?
Never had to do this myself but there is an indirect way:
Search as you have done, select the files you want to group. Then, rather than right clicking, go to File menu in the top toolbar and it will give you an option to create New Folder with Selection. You can then compress/move that folder as you wish.
Search as you have done, select the files you want to group. Then, rather than right clicking, go to File menu in the top toolbar and it will give you an option to create New Folder with Selection. You can then compress/move that folder as you wish.
Speed 3 said:
Never had to do this myself but there is an indirect way:
Search as you have done, select the files you want to group. Then, rather than right clicking, go to File menu in the top toolbar and it will give you an option to create New Folder with Selection. You can then compress/move that folder as you wish.
You can do that 'New Folder with Selection (x items)' directly from the find window, with a right-click (well, I can, in Sonoma).Search as you have done, select the files you want to group. Then, rather than right clicking, go to File menu in the top toolbar and it will give you an option to create New Folder with Selection. You can then compress/move that folder as you wish.
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