The sixteenth release of Apple's desktop operating system for Macintosh computers. Use this tag only if your question relates to using macOS Big Sur specific behavior. Questions relating to using or troubleshooting macOS are off-topic.
Questions tagged [macos-big-sur]
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Cannot load localhost after update to BigSur (apache might be running)
I upgraded my laptop to mac OS bigsur, it is not at all smooth.
Last thing I found it broke is that I cannot access to localhost anymore:
I searched for a solution but could not find anything but that apache, php and mysql come preinstalled on big…

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How can I publish an app for both iOS and macOS?
I’m working on an iPhone/iPad app exclusively with Objective-C files.
Is there a way to build a Mac app without having to duplicate many of them?
Is there a way I can make custom button files (.h, .m) that work for both iOS and macOS?

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Can't Seem to Install Flutter- MacOs Big Sur 11.5.2
on running in a zsh terminal vim ~/.zshrc
pressing I and entering
export PATH="$PATH:$HOME/F/bin"
pressing
ESC KEY
and typing :wq!
and opening a new terminal window flutter --version says flutter command not found
attaching two screenshots the…

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Git-annex installation on macOS BigSur11.6
I am trying to install git-annex using homebrew. After installing brew, when i typed
brew install git-annex
in the commandline, it showed
"git-annex: no bottle available!".
I also want to download datalad, after following the steps on datalad…

Shen Tian
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Error: Invalid usage: `brew services` is supported only on macOS or Linux (with systemd)
After installation, i tried to start mariaDB server on macOs Big Sur(version 11.2.3) with m1 chip. Tried the following official link here but when i run the command
brew services start mariadb
then it gives me this error
Error: Invalid usage: `brew…

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MacOS home-brew failed on Big Sur Beta VM on VirtualBox
I am a newbie for MacOs development. I installed MACOS Big Sur beta on Virtualbox, installed Xcode. When I installed Homebrew and ran brew doctor. I encountered version invalid error. I tried many things according to other posts here. Didn't fix…

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VirtualBox Error after OSX Big Sur 11.4 upgrade
VirtualBox failed to initialize after an upgrade to OSX Big Sur 11.4
Failed to open a session for the virtual machine xxx.
The virtual machine 'xxx' has terminated unexpectedly during startup with exit code 1 (0x1).
Result Code: NS_ERROR_FAILURE

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Hide duplicate files in macOS search results?
I don't want to delete duplicate files, but I only want to see one instance of each.
Prioritization among duplicates doesn't matter in this case.
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The actual scenario:
I want to create a VLC playlist containing every video I have ever downloaded…

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403 Forbidden in Big Sur using MAMP
After OS upgrade to BIG SUR I can't access my sites locally. I even set folder permissions at 777, staff, admin and user have permission to read and write, I've already checked the .htaccess file. I've tried everything and nothing works. Any idea?

Diego Queiroz
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zsh command not found :ls in macOS Big Sur
any command I typed said zsh: command not found
and at first when I run terminal said command not found: locale
and said
/Users/m-store/.zshrc:4: unmatched

hendren
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How to remove multiple java version from mac OS Big Sur?
When i hit this command /usr/libexec/java_home -V i found two java version in my mac terminal:
Matching Java Virtual Machines (2):
15.0.1 (x86_64) "Oracle Corporation" - "OpenJDK 15.0.1"…

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Can not open .jar File on Macbook
I have a new MacBook Air with the M1-CPU. I have installed eclipse and I can code with the IDE, but I can't open a .jar-File because it is grayed out. My target is, to open the file with eclipse, so that i can edit the…

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Beginner AppleScript Writer: Write many variables to a script using a loop
set listOfjellybeans to {}
set popcorn to paragraphs of (read file "Macintosh HD:Users:whomever:Desktop:Test_INDIGO.txt")
repeat with nextLine in popcorn
if length of nextLine is greater than 0 then
copy nextLine to the end of…

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macOS Big Sur - Copy formatted text from app that only supports copying plain text
I am using the Olivetree app on macOS Big Sur, but this would apply to many apps. Some of the text I want to copy is colored and is a superscript. When I copy text from the app, there is only the one Copy command and is copies only plain text.
Is…

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Javascript date new Date('2020-1-12') does not work in Big Sur
The new Big Sur does not recognise date if you parse it as
console.log( new Date("2019-1-12") )

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