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How to free up a swap space manually without restart?
I'm on High Sierra on MacBook Pro with 16GB of RAM with SSD.
Got 15G of swap files, is there any method of freeing swap space/files without restart?
$ sysctl -a | grep swap
vm.swapusage: total = 15360.00M used = 14468.75M free = 891.25M …
kenorb
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USB-C to MagSafe 2 Adapter
I have a 2015 MacBook Pro with a MagSafe 2 charging cable. My wife has a new MacBook Pro from 2016 with USB-C. I was wondering whether I could technically (in the matter of electronic feasability) use her charging cable on my MacBook and vice versa…
LinusGeffarth
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On the iPad, how do I tell what version of Mobile Safari I have?
I'd like to know what precise version of Mobile Safari the iPad I'm using has. Is there any way to find out (preferably from the device itself)? There doesn't seem to be any menu in Safari Mobile, and thus none to choose "About" from. If you go to…
T.J. Crowder
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How can I adjust Touch Bar brightness?
Is there a way to adjust MacBook Pro's Touch Bar brightness?
MacBook Pro, 13", 2016, macOS Sierra 10.12.6
Prokop Hanzl
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Cmd+Tab switches to the correct space, but doesn't bring app up to front
I have a problem (bug?) with application switching on Lion.
I use two Spaces. Say one has Postbox open, and another has Firefox and Vim.
Vim is in the foreground, and Firefox's window is behind it.
When I Cmd+Tab from Postbox to Firefox, the space…
Leonid Shevtsov
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Is it possible to disable Terminal's automatic tweaking of colors in Lion?
While it's great that Terminal now has built-in support for changing the ANSI colors, I find it annoying that it automatically adjusts the colors to improve contrast, which means the colors that I actually pick often end up washed out or off in some…
Johan Sahlén
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Spotlight on Mac doesn't accept keyboard input
Periodically, Spotlight stops responding to keyboard input on my Mac. When this happens, pressing cmd-space brings up the Spotlight search field, but typing search terms has no effect. Characters don't appear in the search field, and even pressing…
Tom Harrington
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What are Mac OS X diagramming tools like Visio on Windows?
Visio is the most conspicuous example of a program that I found useful on Windows for which I have not identified a Mac-compatible equivalent.
Visio's primary function is as a flowchart diagramming tool. It allows the user to construct complex…
anon
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Easy way to remap non-modifier keys on Mac?
I want to remap § to ` and ± to ~ on my Mac keyboard because they are located in a place I am not used to.
Is there an easy way to do this?
Mahdi
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Where are the default (system) wallpaper folders located on OS X?
Possible Duplicate:
Where are Apple's default desktop images stored?
Does anybody know where the folders containing the default (i.e. system) wallpapers are located on OS X Lion? (it may not have changed from previous versions of OS X, so please…
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How to install imgcat on iTerm2?
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What do I do with the script? Please explain in plain English in step-by-step fashion.
Background
I saw that you can display images inline in iTerm2
But when I clicked on the link to Download imgcat here it just took me to a url that had…
JGallardo
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How to reveal dot files in finder?
In the finder, files that begin with a . (dot) are not being shown for me.
How can I configure the finder to reveal all files, including ones that begin with a dot?
WilliamKF
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outlook: apply rule to past messages
I use outlook as client for an exchange server.
I created several rules that are local to the mac (as opposed to server side rules), and I want to apply them for past messages.
I can't find a way. - Even when I create the rule, I don't see any…
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Can't update Xcode
I am aware there are more questions with the same title, but I couldn't find any other post with this specific case.
I have Xcode 7.0 and I want to update to the last version (7.3). But it doesn't appear in the updates page of the App Store. So, I…
Gabe12
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How do I disable the Command-Control-D word definition keyboard shortcut in OS X Lion?
Mac OS X Lion introduced a new feature where in many applications you can press (Command-Control-D) to produce a popup with the definition for the word under the mouse cursor. A side effect of this is that you can no longer use the same shortcut to…
Zane Shelby
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