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headphone audio not working

Post author By Marcia D.
Post date March 14, 2021
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I have a 2014 macbook air running mojave. Just today the audio stopped working through my headphones (through the headphone jack, not bluetooth). I checked settings to see if there was anything wrong there, but everything’s in order and it’s recognizing that there are headphones plugged in. My headphones are working fine with my phone, […]

Tags and the speakers on my computer work too. Any help is greatly appreciated., but everything's in order and it's recognizing that there are headphones plugged in. My headphones are working fine with my phone, I have a 2014 macbook air running mojave. Just today the audio stopped working through my headphones (through the headphone jack, not bluetooth). I checked settings to see if there was anything wrong there

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Are these processes safe?

Post author By Marcia D.
Post date March 14, 2021
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Are these safe? What is the login process? There’s also bird, escrowsecurity, keybagd running which slowed my computer down due to memory usage.

Tags Are these safe? What is the login process? There's also bird, escrowsecurity, keybagd running which slowed my computer down due to memory usage.

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2018 Macbook Pro High Sierra/spinning wheel/Crash on shutdown

Post author By Marcia D.
Post date March 14, 2021
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I recently acquired a 2018 MBP which came with Big Sur on it. It was working perfectly. I installed High Sierra 17G2208 which I downloaded from Apple’s repository as I needed to run some older software. The install seemed to go fine. But since then I have been experiencing a perpetual spinning wheel/crash when doing […]

Tags and after 5-10 minutes of use this account hung on shutdown. Rebooted to original admin account. All I did in this session was transfer a fil, and it should not be there afterwards. I am tempted to open another question here about this. Whether it's related to the shutdown problem or, and not sure if that's what caused the error of the parent container volume. Maybe it's just worth reinstalling and starting over. I don't kn, and others often advise removing LS with its uninstaller while troubleshooting. I did. Result: Did not work. I tried this: sudo rm -f /Libr, and this time ran sudo shutdown -h now in Terminal and the machine hung hard. No black screen. And the spinning wheel was no longer spinnin, apart from the odd USB flash drive with USB-C to old style adapter. It makes no difference to the crash on shutdown if the USB-C power is in, Apple's discussion site and elsewhere. To be honest I have become over-saturated and exhausted reading about this stuff, battery, but I have not found a working solution from anything I've read. Here's what I've tried so far: PRAM/NVRAM reset: Did not work SMC reset:, but I would like to be able to shut down/restart normally. I hope it's not a T2/touchbar problem as I read these can be a serious problem to, but it's difficult for a non-engineer to extract much practical information from it. At first I thought the shutdown hang was time dependent, but the latter two files do not exist, but tonight's testing has proved that false. The machine can hang on shutdown no matter how long it's been booted for and used. Other potent, came back to it. At first this seemed to shutdown normally. Aha I've got it thought! So I thought I would create another new account, connected to wifi and so on. Left the machine for a few hours, I recently acquired a 2018 MBP which came with Big Sur on it. It was working perfectly. I installed High Sierra 17G2208 which I downloaded fr, i.e starting the machine up, it completed fully and I tried searching the results for relevant information like 'shutdown', opening textedit or notes and then shutting down within 5-10 minutes did not seem to invoke the bug, saved a few files, screen and I think touch bar under the Apple warranty program. When I installed High Sierra a week ago, the installation seemed to create a mysterious new APFS volume called 'Update' which is mounted along with Macintosh HD. The contents of this, the screen goes dark and there is a spinning wheel cursor and it stays there indefinitely. I can't see anything too anomalous in the system, this time with admin privileges. Again I put it through its paces for a couple of hours and seemed to shutdown normally. Restarted again, while deleting com.apple.loginwindow.plist: Did not work. I created a new user user account to test the machine with: TL;DR: Did not work. L

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How can I use rEFInd boot manager without an enter key?

Post author By Marcia D.
Post date March 14, 2021
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I have a MacBook Air (11-inch, Late 2010) (it’s old I know) and I have installed rEFInd on an USB. The thing is, my return key does not work, so rEFInd is basically useless. Is there any way rEFInd can be configured to be used without the return key.

Tags I have a MacBook Air (11-inch, Late 2010) (it’s old I know) and I have installed rEFInd on an USB. The thing is, my return key does not work, so rEFInd is basically useless. Is there any way rEFInd can be configured to be used without the return key.

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Stop autocorrect in Microsoft Office changing custom symbols to emoji

Post author By Marcia D.
Post date March 14, 2021
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I have set up a number of custom shortcuts for math/logic symbols to use in Word and OneNote, including the left/right arrow ↔. This works in OneNote, but I also need it to work in Word, but it keeps autocorrecting to the corresponding arrow emoji which is incredibly frustrating. I have tried the following: changing […]

Tags and corrects it all the way back to the shortcut, because that's the only way I can still use it within OneNote as well due to the way the Autocorrect dictionary for Office is set up. I susp, but I also need it to work in Word, but I want to be able to continue to use these symbols outside of math fields, but I wouldn't know where to look to disable that to allow insertion of the actual arrow symbol itself. Any suggestions? Right now I'm copyin, but it keeps autocorrecting to the corresponding arrow emoji which is incredibly frustrating. I have tried the following: changing the shor, I have set up a number of custom shortcuts for math/logic symbols to use in Word and OneNote, including the left/right arrow ↔. This works in OneNote, much like how the smiley symbols started getting replaced by emoji a few years ago too, rather than to the arrow symbol I want using the inbuilt shortcut \leftrightarrow (which I want to avoid because it's so much faster to type, this is driving me up the wall!, this issue doesn't occur

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AirPlayUIAgent wants to access an old wifi network

Post author By Marcia D.
Post date March 14, 2021
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I frequently get an alert that tells me AirPlayUIAgent wants to access information for an old wifi base station, which I haven’t had for a long time. I always click "deny", because the network it’s asking about does not exist, so the message is nonsensical. I’ve looked in Keychain Access (as described in the answer […]

Tags and there are no entries that contain the old network name. I have no idea why it wants to access this network, because the network it's asking about does not exist, I frequently get an alert that tells me AirPlayUIAgent wants to access information for an old wifi base station, so the message is nonsensical. I've looked in Keychain Access (as described in the answer to a similar question), which I haven't had for a long time. I always click "deny"

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AirPlayUIAgent wants to access an old wifi network

Post author By Marcia D.
Post date March 14, 2021
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Tags and there are no entries that contain the old network name. I have no idea why it wants to access this network, because the network it's asking about does not exist, I frequently get an alert that tells me AirPlayUIAgent wants to access information for an old wifi base station, so the message is nonsensical. I've looked in Keychain Access (as described in the answer to a similar question), which I haven't had for a long time. I always click "deny"

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AirPlayUIAgent wants to access an old wifi network

Post author By Marcia D.
Post date March 13, 2021
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Tags and there are no entries that contain the old network name. I have no idea why it wants to access this network, because the network it's asking about does not exist, I frequently get an alert that tells me AirPlayUIAgent wants to access information for an old wifi base station, so the message is nonsensical. I've looked in Keychain Access (as described in the answer to a similar question), which I haven't had for a long time. I always click "deny"

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Apache config resetting after every OS update

Post author By Marcia D.
Post date March 13, 2021
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This is infuriating. I have a lot of custom settings on my development Mac and every time there is an OS upgrade I have to go back and reset everything. I read somewhere that the old config is saved in httpd.conf~previous, but that file doesn’t contain my changes either. It seems to be more or […]

Tags This is infuriating. I have a lot of custom settings on my development Mac and every time there is an OS upgrade I have to go back and reset