The fourteenth release of Apple's desktop and server operating system for Macintosh computers. Use this tag only if your question relates to using macOS High Sierra APIs or macOS High Sierra specific behavior. Questions relating to using or troubleshooting macOS are off-topic.
Questions tagged [macos-high-sierra]
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How can I test a MacOS app on a specific version?
How can I test a MacOS app on a specific version?
I need to start the app on High Sierra and I have Catalina. It does not work as for iPhone simulators
once the app is started, a user receives this in the logs
in /var/log/messages…

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Ruby commands give me a conflicting message that says the local ruby installed in MacOS won't give me right permissions
I am attempting to get a project running om my Mac with High Sierra computer. After using rbenv and setting the correct version it cd into the project and run bundle install. It tells me the following files may not be writeable and tells me I have…

eookuro
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.bash_profile# file is opening in vim when i am opening Terminal
Whenever I am opening Terminal, ~/.bash_profile# file is opening in VIM.
When I clicked 2+ctrl+g i am getting below file details
buf 1: "~/.bash_profile#" line 1 of 6 --16%-- col 1 (1 of 8)
Tried from Vim Ex mode loads when opening terminal where I…

Rajni kant roy
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Cisco AnyConnect "web security unavailable" - Mac OS High Sierra & Mojave
After upgrading my Mac OS to High Sierra or Mojave I've got this error message "web security unavailable" with a a big red X in the menu icon

Claude COULOMBE
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How to find root password hash without root on osx 10.13 High Sierra
I'm going to be using John the Ripper to decrypt the password hash but I don't know where the hash is stored.

dherrada
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Length limit in NSString on OSX 10.13
I have a file with a very long text inside. I want to put this text in a NSString with this code:
NSString *myString=[[NSString alloc]initWithContentsOfFile:percorsoFile encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding error:nil];
This code works fine on Mac OSX 10.8…

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OSX High Sierra Dock on left AND right
I like having the Dock auto hidden on the left side. But when connecting a second screen I would like to have it on the left side of the left screen and on the right side of the right screen.
I don't think this is currently possible from house. Any…

Kim
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Mac OS X 10.x Network Service Notification
Using Mac os x 10.13 the network preferences pane shows status of network services (eg Wi-Fi and/or Ethernet) being connected or not. If I change the service status, say by turning Wi-Fi off or on, or disconnecting/connecting ethernet cable then the…

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How to move folders to a new location with apple script
I don't know how to proceed to set up an apple script which moves folders with their content to a new loacation, where these folders migth already exist. If so Finder should overwrite these folders. But in the same process I have specific files,…

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Where does GMP get installed to by default on Mac High Sierra?
I just downloaded the tar.bz2 file for GMP 6.1.2 on Mac High Sierra. After configuring, making, and installing everything without errors, I couldn't figure out what my path to GMP actually was. The web site said my default path would be…

Dave
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Python error when running project
I have an error when running one of my projects, and it is very strange. What happens is this:
File "src/run.py", line 4, in
from dotenv import load_dotenv, find_dotenv
ImportError: No module named dotenv
The strange thing is that I…

Ben Aepli
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Is there a way to force MacOSX to Sort Folders on Top of Files (Windows Style)?
Is there a way to force MacOSX to Sort Folders on Top of Files (Windows Style)? The default setting is always messy and annoying.

Ben Dan
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spotlight crashes in High Sierra
Spotlight crashes every time when I search anything starting with certain letters like "a", "c" or "e", while works fine for other letters like "b" or "d". I'm using a MacBook Air, this started to happen after I upgrade to High Sierra, but didn't…

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how can i fetch the names & ip addresses of machines connected in a same network using c?
for my project i have to fetch all devices name & their ip address which are connected in same network.
How to get the names and ips of all devices on my local network? somewhat similar to post but i have to use c code & this post is for ios only.
I…

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How to stop MAMP from spawning too many httpd processes?
I'm running MAMP Pro 4.4 on OSX High Sierra and after a while I started getting 500 errors while working on a Laravel 5.2 application. I opened activity monitor and noticed there were 40 httpd processes running, the majority of which had 18 threads.…