Tag: sierra
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Can’t change Safari homepage in Sierra, even with no profiles managing homepage
So I came across something weird that’s affected only my 10.12.4 clients (none of my 10.11.6 clients seem to be affected by this). Even though I have only one Safari profile enabled, which is set-once and doesn’t manage the homepage, my 10.12.4 clients are unable to change the homepage in Safari manually. Whatever the homepage…
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Using startosinstall to install a macOS upgrade with Munki
Update: The instructions below will be obsolete once Munki 3 is released. More details on the Munki 3 implementation can be found on the Munki wiki. createOSXinstallPkg is a great project for making an Apple macOS installer into a .pkg you can deploy with Munki. Apple did some things to break that process for 10.12.4.…
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Installing macOS Sierra as a VirtualBox guest
It took me a while to track down a tutorial on this that actually works. To save you a little time, in case you want to try this (macOS guest on a Windows installation on a Mac computer), here is the working (as of this writing) tutorial: How to Install macOS Sierra in VirtualBox on…
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Seashore breaks with Sierra; use GIMP (or Photoshop) instead
For many years, GIMP didn’t have native macOS support (you needed X11 to make it work). Seashore wasn’t as fully featured as GIMP, but it was native. As of Sierra (macOS 10.12), Seashore just crashes when you try to launch it. R.I.P., Seashore. Fortunately, if you’re looking for a free alternative to Photoshop, GIMP is…
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Printopia Pro unofficially supports macOS Sierra
The last word Decisive Tactics has on Printopia Pro (as of this writing) is there were some fixes in June for issues in 10.7: Printopia Pro Release Notes Just in case anyone’s curious, I loaded Printopia Pro on a Mac running Sierra (10.12), and it’s running just fine. No official word from Decisive Tactics, but…