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  High Sierra upgrading tip

  This tip is part of a series of tips for the client editions of Mac OS X 10.6, 10.7, 10.8, 10.9, 10.10, 10.11El Capitan 10.12 Sierra, and 10.13 High Sierra (beginning of APFS), and 10.14 Mojave (end of 32 bit apps), 10.15 Catalina, 11.0 Big Sur, 12.0 Monterey, and 13.0 Ventura client edition. A new tip, which affects all High Sierra and older OS users: Microsoft Office 2019 High Sierra Support… - Apple Community Questions regarding the Server release in Apple menu -> About This Mac, need...
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  Big Sur a Migration tip

  This tip is from a series of tips of upgrading Mac OS X 10.7 Lion, 10.8 Mountain Lion, 10.9 Mavericks, 10.10 Yosemite,10.11 El Capitan, 10.12 Sierra ,10.13 High Sierra, 10.14 Mojave, 10.15 Catalina, 11 Big Sur, 12.0 Monterey, and 13.0 Ventura Client editions. Server edition forum is over here: https://discussions.apple.com/community/servers_enterprise_software/macos_server November 12, 2020 Apple released Big Sur. April 10, 2023, Apple released 11.7.6, the latest update for Big Sur, via Apple...
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  Setting up a local web server on macOS 10.14 “Mojave”

  Here is my definitive guide to getting a local web server running on macOS 10.14 “Mojave”. This is meant to be a development platform so that you can build and test your sites locally, then deploy to an internet server. This User Tip only contains instructions for configuring the Apache server, PHP module, and Perl module. I have another User Tip for installing and configuring MySQL and email servers. Note: This user tip is specific to macOS 10.14 “Mojave”. Pay attention to your OS version...
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  Mojave Language Support Articles

  Here are links for some basic support articles for using different languages in Mojave which may be hard to find via normal search: Change the Language Your Mac Uses Type in Another Language Enter Characters with Accent Marks Use the Keyboard Viewer Use Emoji and Symbols Specify a Keyboard Type Create a Custom Input Method Chinese Input Japanese Input Korean Input Fonts Included in Mojave Bidirectional Arabic/Hebrew in iWork Country Availability of Apple Books and Other Services Languages...
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  Upgrading from Pre-High Sierra to Install Post-High Sierra:

  A Manual Post-High Sierra macOS Install: Do you have an operating system installed prior to High Sierra (macOS 10.13), and have unsuccessfully tried upgrading it to Mojave (MacOS 14) or thereafter? First upgrade to High Sierra (macOS 10.13) and then proceed with the upgrade to Mojave (macOS 10.14) and other release from here-on-out. ------- There are Five Steps to Follow: First: create a Time Machine Backup (TMB) of your current Mac. Erase: your disk Install: High Sierra (macOS 10.13) Upgrade...
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  Upgrading to Mojave (Mac OS 10.14)

  This is a series of tips that cover Mac OS X client edition. 10.6, 10.7, 10.8, 10.9, 10.10, 10.11El Capitan 10.12,10.13, 10.14 Mojave, 10.15 Catalina first 64 operating system , 11.0 Big Sur, and 12.0 Monterey, and 13.0 Ventura client editions. Server forums cover Mac OS X server on the community. See special note about resetting the SMC during updates and upgrades, later in the tip. September 13, 2021, an updated Safari 14.1.2 was pushed via Apple menu -> About This Mac -> Software...
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  APFS Overallocation Issues and Remediation

  macOS High Sierra (10.13) and later use APFS as the default File System (About Apple File System). Some of the file system issues can be addressed using Unix fsck_apfs command. High Sierra does not have the same capabilities as Mojave (or later) does. If you are on High Sierra, and do not want to upgrade to Mojave, the following procedure can work if Mojave is installed on an external disk (How to reinstall macOS from macOS Recovery - Apple Support). Do not use an older fsck_apfs on a newer...
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  Mojave and Photoshop CS 5.5

  I've asked this thread be made a user tip, but seeing as it has not, I'm pointing to it from the User tip forum for those desiring to hold on to their older Adobe software: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/252548837 As always backup your data as a clone before attempting any upgrade in event you want to quickly return after finding if a plugin no longer works....
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  Catalina - an upgrade guide

  This tip is from a series of tips of upgrading Mac OS X 10.7 Lion, 10.8 Mountain Lion, 10.9 Mavericks, 10.10 Yosemite,10.11 El Capitan, 10.12 Sierra ,10.13 High Sierra, 10.14 Mojave, 10.15 Catalina, 11.0 Big Sur, 12.0 Monterey, and 13.0 Ventura client editions. Server edition forum is over here: macOS Server - Apple Community Octobrer 7, 2019 Apple released Catalina. The first 64 bit only operating system. August 18, 2022 Apple released Safari 15.6.1, more current web browsers are available...
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  Ventura's October 24, 2022 release!

  This is part of a series of tips from Mac OS 10.12 Sierra, 10.13 High Sierra, 10.14 Mojave, 10.15 Catalina, 11.0 Big Sur, 12.0 Monterey, to 13.0 Ventura client release. Ventura, Mac OS 13.0 was released on October 24, 2022. June 21, 2023, Apple released 13.4.1. The latest system wide security update for Ventura via Apple menu -> System Settings -> Software Update, and Apple menu -> About This Mac Software Update Server release editions of the OS, visit this forum: macOS Server - Apple...
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  Upgrading to Sierra

  This page will be updated on the author's own homepage: http://www.macmaps.com/docs/DOC-10693/ Links to this page may give the author compensation. This tip is part of a series of tips for : Mac OS X 10.6, 10.7, 10.8, 10.9, 10.10,El Capitan System (10.11), Mac OS 10.12 Sierra, 10.13 High Sierra (beginning of APFS), 10.14 Mojave (end of 32 bit apps), 10.15 Catalina, 11.0 Big Sur, 12.0 Monterey, and 13.0 Ventura client. Questions regarding the Server release in Apple menu -> About This Mac...
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  SD card in Finder no longer reads, appears as generic document icon

  Many Macs have a built-in SD-card reader or a USB-SD card reader attached to read the SD-card that is used on many digital cameras. In prior operating systems some would appear as one of these two icons: Under Mojave, we have not been able to reproduce this behavior, requiring extra steps to import data off the SD card into the Mac. Now we get a generic icon, such as is shown in this image, and a dialog saying Untitled can't be opened (Untitled being the icon under the Macintosh HD on the left...
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  iTunes for Mac installers

  iTunes was replaced in macOS 10.15 Catalina and subsequent releases of macOS. See What happened to iTunes? - Apple Support for details. Here are some links to older builds of iTunes direct from Apple's secure servers in case you are running an older version of macOS and want to try reinstalling the current build, or try working with an older version when the current build doesn't work properly for you for some reason: Note: macOS 10.14 Mojave includes iTunes 12.9.x as part of the operating...
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  Monterey, 2021's new upgrade

  This is part of a series of tips from Mac OS 10.9, 10.10, 10.11 El Capitan,10.12 Sierra, 10.13 High Sierra, 10.14 Mojave, 10.15 Catalina, 11.0 Big Sur 12.0 Monterey, and 13.0 Ventura client release. Questions regarding the Server release in Apple menu -> About This Mac, need to go to the macOS Server - Apple Community forum. October 24, 2022 Apple released Ventura. See the link above for more details. Aprilt 10, 2023 Apple released 12.6.5, the latest update for Monterey via Apple menu ->...
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  How to access Media in iPhoto Libraries on macOS 10.15 or later

  Apple stopped selling iPhoto in 2015, when it released the last compatibility update iPhoto 9.6.1. Since then we could access iPhoto Libraries with the Photos.app. iPhoto 9.6.1 can run on any Mac with OS X 10.10.3 Yosemite to macOS 10.14 Mojave. On this system versions it is relatively easy to create Photos Libraries from iPhoto Libraries (but only iPhoto 8.x.x or later), as we can open the libraries in iPhoto and fix problem or compare the original library to the new Photos Library. The new...
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  Ordering Books and Calendars on a Mac that cannot be upgraded past El Capitan

  print projects. Newer versions of Photos (since Photos 3.0) come with the ability to call third-party project extensions from Photos to let us create books or other print projects. Use Project Extensions to order print products in Photos after September 30, 2018 - Apple Support To give users access to a broader variety of print services, macOS High Sierra introduced Photos Project Extensions which integrate directly with the Photos app. In macOS Mojave, Photos will transition entirely to Photos...
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  How to Remove Old Email Addresses from MacOS Calendar Auto-Suggest

  There have been *many* threads here and elsewhere the past few years about how to stop macOS Calendar auto-suggesting old or obsolete email addresses when creating new calendar entries. There is now a solution. Go to the menu Calendar -> Preferences - Advanced and click on Remove all recent locations and attendees. Once you do this, you'll only see suggestions from your Contacts. I'm running Mojave 10.14.4 and the remove option is present. I don't know when this option first appeared...
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  Lion (10.7) upgrade questions

  Tips on 10.4 Tiger, 10.5 Leopard, 10.6 Snow Leopard (end of the line for PowerPC applications), 10.7 Lion, 10.8 Mountain Lion, 10.9 Mavericks and 10.10 Yosemite,and 10.11 El Capitan to 10.15 Catalina. Note: this is no longer the most current version of this tip. An updated version is on my personal website (which may provide me compensation. Note, some downloads from Apple do not work in Safari for earlier Mac OSes, see this tip if you find you can't download them anymore, to find a browser that...
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  Browsers by Mac operating system

  , Waterfox (Intel only), iCab 12.6.8 Monterey - Vivaldi, Safari, Edge, Brave, Chrome, Opera, Firefox, Waterfox (Intel only), iCab 11.7.9* Big Sur - Vivaldi, Safari, Edge, Brave, Chrome, Opera, Firefox, Waterfox (Intel only), iCab 10.15.7* Catalina - Vivaldi, Edge, Brave, Chrome, Opera, Firefox, Waterfox, iCab First OS to support only 64 bit applications. Safari is not up to date on this or any older operating system 10.14.6 Mojave - Vivaldi, Edge, Brave, Chrome, Opera, Firefox 115 last release, Waterfox...
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  Problem in Photos 5 on Catalina: Gray Filenames in the Media browser

  Mojave, the Media Browser created JPEG versions of all HEIC images. This does no longer seem to be the case in the recent Catalina version. As a work-around export the photos you want to upload from Photos with File > Export > export .. photos to convert them to JPEGS. And then use the exported JPEGs. Or set the iPhone and iPad cameras to take the images in a more compatible format. See: Using HEIF or HEVC media on Apple devices - Apple Support...
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