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Remote Control another Mac on your network

You need to go to the Mac you want to access and under System Preferences->Sharing activate the following: On all this options you can limit the users that can have access. On the File Sharing option, you can determine what folders can be accessed in the network and by whom. On Remote Management you will […]

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Change macOS terminal shell to Bash 5

Since macOS Catalina that zsh is the default shell. From what I could understand this was caused by a change in Bash license to GPL after version 3. So, since version 3 of Bash is pretty old they changed the default to zsh. Since Homebrew is not yet fully Apple Silicon compatible using Homebrew was […]

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MAMP Pro – Oops, something is badly wrong!

Out of the blue, MAMP Pro started presenting me with an alert when I tried opening the app: Oops, something is badly wrong!Either you did not provide the necessary admin credentials or the MAMP PRO package could not be initialized correctly. You can either restart the application and try again or re-install the software. I […]

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MacOS password prompt for Keychain access twice

I did a migration of Keychain items between Macs and MacOS was prompting me to type the password twice to authorise access. To avoid this Apple suggest changing the password of the Keychain “login” (the problematic) and setting it back to the same password. This did fix it for me but the option to change […]

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Mac Tech

Migrate Apple Keychain to a new Mac

I needed to migrate some passwords from Apple Keychain to a new Mac. In particular iTerm2 password manager, Coda/Transmit + Cyberduck passwords. After doing a replace to ~/Library/Keychains/login.keychain-db with the old login.keychain-db file that destroyed my Apple ID. I found the solution on https://library.panic.com/general/keychain-migration/ What I ended up doing was copying the old login.keychain-db to […]