The OSX/Apple support thread

[tgr]

I wonder if anyone could help with this one: I have just updated my MBP to the latest OS 10.15.7 and installed a security update, and now Google street view doesn't work.

Anything I can do about that? I find it quite useful

[craigjm]

tgr said:

I wonder if anyone could help with this one: I have just updated my MBP to the latest OS 10.15.7 and installed a security update, and now Google street view doesn't work.

Anything I can do about that? I find it quite useful

Wont be anything to do with 10.15.7 update. It will be an issue with your network. Check your internet connection and router settings are correct in the new upgrade. Try tethering the macbook to your phone and see if the issue persists.

[tgr]

Thanks Craig. Interesting.

I just did exactly that, tethered by USB cable and turned off the MBP wifi and the issue is still there.

Any conclusions to draw from this?

[anonymous-user]

Lord Marylebone said:

mmm-five said:

It's not about being 'approved' by Apple - it's about someone at Samsung (or now HP of course) bothering to update their application, libraries, package bundle to a format that is compatible with the new OS, or rewrite it completely to become Apple Silicon native (or universal so it runs on both).

On the older OSes you could change the security settings to allow unknown/insecure apps to run. Supposedly, if this happens you were able to go to the [Security & Privacy] [General] preferences and you'd see a warning near the bottom telling you something had been blocked - and giving you the option to open it at your own risk.

Don't know if this works on Apple Silicon and/or Monterey - as mine is still Intel and Big Sur.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202491

Edited by mmm-five on Friday 29th October 13:40

Thanks again. I'll try that and see if there is an option to open/approve at risk.

Just to conclude this, I went into the security settings as per mmm-five's advise, authorised the HP driver (which was listed as an outstanding security issue) and now all is well. Printer works and no security messages every time I go to print something.

Thanks again.

[craigjm]

tgr said:

Thanks Craig. Interesting.

I just did exactly that, tethered by USB cable and turned off the MBP wifi and the issue is still there.

Any conclusions to draw from this?

When you say streetview isnt working are you talking about picking up the yellow man on a google map and dropping him to activate it or an app?

[joropug]

craigjm said:

When you say streetview isnt working are you talking about picking up the yellow man on a google map and dropping him to activate it or an app?

Reading this, I was on Google earth the other day and had the same thing on my Mac, no yellow man.

I think it was because I had highlighted some text and looked up the address using the right click, which put me into a basic form of Google maps instead of the full version.

If you go back to Google itself and go to maps and type In the address it is there

[tgr]

craigjm said:

tgr said:

Thanks Craig. Interesting.

I just did exactly that, tethered by USB cable and turned off the MBP wifi and the issue is still there.

Any conclusions to draw from this?

When you say streetview isnt working are you talking about picking up the yellow man on a google map and dropping him to activate it or an app?

The former. ETA: street view works fine on the google maps app on my iPhone. But I prefer the bigger screen on my laptop

Edited by tgr on Monday 1st November 13:29

[mmm-five]

Lord Marylebone said:

Just to conclude this, I went into the security settings as per mmm-five's advise, authorised the HP driver (which was listed as an outstanding security issue) and now all is well. Printer works and no security messages every time I go to print something.

Thanks again.

[mmm-five]

tgr said:

The former. ETA: street view works fine on the google maps app on my iPhone. But I prefer the bigger screen on my laptop

What browser(s) are you trying?

I've just tried it on (Big Sur 11.6.1) with Safari (15.1), Microsoft Edge (95.0.1020.40), Firefox (93.0), Waterfox (G3.2.6), Opera (76.0.4017.154) and Brave (1.31.88)...all show the little man on the bottom-right and dragging onto a road works fine.

Edited by mmm-five on Monday 1st November 13:45

[tgr]

mmm-five said:

tgr said:

The former. ETA: street view works fine on the google maps app on my iPhone. But I prefer the bigger screen on my laptop

What browser(s) are you trying?

I've just tried it on Safari, Edge Chrome, Firefox, Waterfox, Opera and Brave...all show the little man on the bottom-right and dragging onto a road works fine.

Safari

[mmm-five]

tgr said:

Safari

Have you got any script/ad/content blockers installed?

If you hold down the 'reload page' icon in the address bar, you can select 'reload without content blockers' to see if that's causing it.

[PushedDover]

I'm sensing a big bork with the latest update. - running on my 21" 2017 Mac.

Its been looping for a while, rebooting and rebooting.

ETA - its stopped mid reboot. The mouse is moving but the progress bar has been stuck for an Hour.

Edited by PushedDover on Monday 1st November 15:47

[mmm-five]

PushedDover said:

I'm sensing a big bork with the latest update. - running on my 21" 2017 Mac.

Its been looping for a while, rebooting and rebooting.

ETA - its stopped mid reboot. The mouse is moving but the progress bar has been stuck for an Hour.

We had a M1 MacMini seemingly go apest during the Monterey upgrade. The system rebooted, progress bar got about half way across and then the screen went into 'digital static/interference pattern' mode.

Waited a few minutes to see if it corrected itself, and then rebooted it via the power button.

Progress bar then restarted and completed the upgrade.

Been on there a couple of days and it's been fine - not that I've noticed anything particularly new/useful over Big Sur though.

[tgr]

Nope. There was a content blocker but I've suspended it and the same result "a problem repeatedly occurred with ....."

Seems a bit of a coincidence that it started with the latest updates/downloads of the OS and the security update - probably the latter

[hyphen]

tgr said:

Safari

If you download firefox, does it work on that?

[Howaboutthis]

Hi, hoping you can help. I was just saying to someone how well my 2011 MBP was doing, when suddenly, it wasn't. A few years ago I installed a 250GB SSD main drive, putting the old spinner in the CD drive bay. It's been fine, occasionally filling up with Lightroom images, and getting these offloaded when needed. The other day I moved 22GB of images from a big job, and a few other files too, includine some iTunes music, creating a good bit of space. Over the last few days I have been getting "disk full" warnings, About This Mac saying just a few MB of space left.
Emptied Trash
Restarted in Safe Mode, no change.
Rebuilt Spotlight, no go.
New Finder Window, Main Drive info currently says 518MB available, I select everything listed as being in the main drive, info says totals 104GB
Something not visible seems to be using the free space.
All suggestions gratefully received.
.

[mmm-five]

Howaboutthis said:

Hi, hoping you can help. I was just saying to someone how well my 2011 MBP was doing, when suddenly, it wasn't. A few years ago I installed a 250GB SSD main drive, putting the old spinner in the CD drive bay. It's been fine, occasionally filling up with Lightroom images, and getting these offloaded when needed. The other day I moved 22GB of images from a big job, and a few other files too, includine some iTunes music, creating a good bit of space. Over the last few days I have been getting "disk full" warnings, About This Mac saying just a few MB of space left.
Emptied Trash
Restarted in Safe Mode, no change.
Rebuilt Spotlight, no go.
New Finder Window, Main Drive info currently says 518MB available, I select everything listed as being in the main drive, info says totals 104GB
Something not visible seems to be using the free space.
All suggestions gratefully received.
.

What format is your SSD in (HFS, APFS)?

What OS version are you on?

Do you use TimeMachine for backups or something else/nothing?

MacOS keeps snapshots of your disk state to help with recovery - however, if it never gets to backup to TimeMachine, these snapshots can build up.

[Howaboutthis]

OS X Extended, (is that what you mean)?
El Capitan,
Backed up Time machine only a couple of days ago. (Problem since then, possibly.)

[Howaboutthis]

Ok, so I bit the proverbial and, for the first time ever, restored from a Time Machine backup from a few days ago, and seem to have 125GB free again. Hope it stays stable this time. Thanks for the input.

[PushedDover]

Has anyone else found since the upgrade to macOS Monterey (12.0.1) on Mac, the Calendar is excruciatingly slow??