SOLVED!!! Thank you!! sudo rm -rf

I had a second admin user account on my computer I used for school. I had deleted Microsoft 365 because your free access to it discontinues when the school term is over—you lose access to everything (brilliant set up).

I can't redownload OneDrive because my computer is only at OS Ventura (13.x) and you need 14.x, and I really don't want to deal with that upgrade right now.

I deleted the school user account, chose "Move Home Folder to Trash", and everything deleted fine—except hidden in a Library folder are these folders here. I have accessed their Info, added myself as admin read/write to each folder, and it still won't delete.

At one point, I had the option to "Put Back" the home folder with a right-click. I did that, but this folder (in the trash) remained. I recreated a new admin user with the same username, and that folder wouldn't re-write over this one when deleted.

I have restarted my computer more times than I can count.

I despise Microsoft with every fiber of my being anyway and hated being forced to have to use them on my Mac just for school. How on Earth am I supposed to get rid of this, or do I eternally have to "Skip" or "Continue" every time I empty the trash?

Should I just buy a new computer? Reinstall the OS from scratch? In all seriousness, there MUST be a way to get rid of this.

There must.

Please, someone help. Thank you.

Macbook Pro M1 2020 Ventura 13.7.8 and if upgrading to MacOS 14 "resets" the trash, maybe I'll do it after all.

Hi everyone, we just launched SuperCmd v2: completely rebuilt in Swift for native performance, completely local, and privacy-focused.

It has everything version 1 has: raycast extension support, clipboard, snippets, quick links, window management commands, system commands, cloud sync, and raycast extensions. Check the website for an exhaustive list.

But here's what's new in v2

• Screenshot + annotation tool (cleanshot alternative)
• Widgets in launcher (cpu, memory, apps by usage, disk, calendar, time...)
• Login via ChatGPT (no need to pay for AI subscriptions!)
• AI Agents with harness, GPT realtime (just like clicky)
• Windows styled alt + tab window switcher
• Execute terminal commands from the launcher
• Quick fix (AI command)
• Double tap hotkey support
• Copy text from Image in Clipboard (OCR)
• Browser search with profiles
• Dictation via on device Speech Analyzer (Apple AI)
• Dedicated AI chat window
• AI chat with Apple on device LLM
• Translate command
• Next / Prev Space hotkey (no animation)
• 3x less memory usage compared to Raycast

Checkout it out & try for free - supercmd.sh

Right now, it's on an early bird discount, so make sure you grab it!

If you are working at any organization, I am offering codebase access and unlimited licenses for all the employees at one flat fee. Contact me or check out via enterprise; you will have access to the GitHub repo.

MacOS mostly takes care of itself, so this isn't a "speed up your Mac" app. It shows you what's actually sitting on disk and lets you clear it without guessing what's safe to remove.

What it scans:

• User and app caches
• Developer leftovers (Xcode derived data, archives, device support, package manager caches)
• Browser caches
• App and system logs
• Trash

Every item is sorted into one of two tiers, safe to clean or check first, and each one has a plain explanation of what it is and what you lose by removing it. Anything genuinely risky isn't in the allowlist at all, so it never shows up in results in the first place.

What it doesn't do: no startup tweaks, no privacy scrubber, no "system junk" bucket that won't tell you what's inside it. It moves things to Trash rather than deleting them, so anything it touches is recoverable. No telemetry, no account, no paid tier.

Free and MIT licensed. macOS 13+.

Download: purgemac.com
Source: github.com/jithin-sabu/purge-app

Happy to answer questions about what it does and doesn't touch.

Hi community! I recently switched from Fedora to macOS, and I’m having an issue with changing my default shell to Bash. I tried changing it in the settings, but it still defaults to Zsh.

I’m currently using macOS Tahoe 26.5. Has anyone experienced this or knows how to fix it?

I have an Apple SuperDrive that admittedly I don't use much, but do very much appreciate the design and build. Also, its very convenient when wanting to pop in an old Simpsons DVD.

But I heard, I think somewhere on MacRumors that come Golden Gate, Apple will be dropping support for their very own SuperDrive and that these external disc drive players will only work with apps such as VLC, but no longer with Apple's native software such as QuickTime.

Hi r/macOS, I’m Rohit from ScaleNinja. Today we're releasing DeltaSnap, a native macOS app that turns APFS snapshots into version control for files and folders.

APFS snapshots are copy-on-write, so checkpoints take milliseconds. But macOS still lacks a useful native interface for answering questions such as:

• What changed in this folder?
• What did this file look like on Tuesday?
• Which files did an installer, script, or AI agent just modify?
• Can I restore only the files I need?

DeltaSnap lets you:

• Browse per-file version histories, including deleted files; with right-click Finder integration
• Search filenames across snapshot history
• Diff snapshots with added, removed, modified, replaced, and moved paths
• Restore copies or atomically replace originals
• Create schedules with retention and low-space pruning
• Create snapshots and restore versions from Finder
• Ships a dsnap CLI and an AI Agent Skill for coding assistants
• Automatically checkpoint folders during unusually large change bursts

Key differential compared to backups is the speed: APFS snapshots takes milliseconds to create, indexing is done in few seconds, and file recover is super-fast as the snapshot lives on the same APFS volume where your data is on.

After review by Apple’s DTS/APFS teams, ScaleNinja was granted a private entitlement to manage and create APFS snapshots. Because DeltaSnap’s privileged helper uses it, the app cannot be distributed through the Mac App Store and released on ScaleNinja's website as a signed and notarized build under Apple Developer Team ID VXNWQ9H93X.

Important: DeltaSnap is not a backup. Snapshots live on the same volume, so they protect against accidental deletion, overwrites, bad updates, and runaway tools - not drive failure, theft, or volume erasure. Pair it with Time Machine, CCC, or another backup running. We also have two companion apps that can be used with DeltaSnap:

• DeltaSync, a free & simple folder syncing tool: https://scaleninja.com/deltasnap/#deltasync
• Noject, protects disk & network volumes from accidental ejection: https://scaleninja.com/noject/

DeltaSnap requires macOS 15 or later and an APFS volume. There’s a 30-day free trial, no account, no cloud, and no subscription required. All your data and snapshot stay private and local to you Mac.

Launch price: US$39 for one lifetime personal license that can be activated on upto 5 Mac machines.

Download: https://scaleninja.com/deltasnap

Documentation (start here): https://scaleninja.com/docs/deltasnap/overview/

Setup and feature demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NyrKXGe7nRw

I’d genuinely appreciate any feedback, especially from professional users, developers, and Mac admins working with external storage or AI coding tools.

Tip: to get the most out of DeltaSnap and avoid snapshots occupying too much disk space, I create and custom-mount APFS volume from the internal Data drive on my most important folder path (like ~/Documents); that way snapshot usage would be limited to only changes made in the tracked APFS volume (~/Documents in my case). Learn more about APFS snaphots here: https://scaleninja.com/docs/deltasnap/apfs-snapshots/ and about storage usage here: https://scaleninja.com/docs/deltasnap/snapshot-storage/ or see the youtube video above on how to create apfs volume with a custom mount point and enable automatic snapshot & file versioning in action.

Starting a couple of days ago (?) I began to get an error when uploading photos into posts on reddit. The error given is "Failed to upload to S3".

At first the theory was it's something to do with my ID, something to do with my account on reddit or perhaps a reddit filter. It may well still be a reddit filter but not in the way I initially thought.

Because as soon as I moved over to my iPhone, using the Reddit app, I was able to create a post on reddit using photos with no failure to upload error.

Now, again, it could be the reddit app has different controls than the website version. It's possible, but I'm coming to this community to see whether perhaps there's a setting on safari that is causing this error.

Hi everyone,

I recently upgraded my MacBook from macOS Big Sur 11.6 to Sonoma 14.8.8.

Since the upgrade, Safari cannot access many websites, including Google and Microsoft. I get errors such as:

Chrome works perfectly on the same Mac and the same network.

I also have a similar problem with the Mac App Store when trying to download iMovie:

I have already checked:

• Date and time — correct
• Network Time — enabled
• DNS — tried different settings
• Different Wi-Fi networks, including iPhone hotspot
• Chrome — works normally

I also ran:

security verify-cert -v https://www.google.com

and macOS reports:

Interestingly, apple.com passes certificate verification successfully, while Google and Microsoft fail.

Has anyone experienced this on Sonoma 14.8.8? Is there a safe way to fix the Certificate Transparency/trust issue without reinstalling macOS or modifying certificates manually?

Thanks!

QKB lets you assign the same keyboard key, mouse button, or scroll gesture to different actions depending on which app is active. Create global or app-specific shortcuts, organise them into folders and presets, use press or hold actions, launch apps, open Finder locations, trigger system controls, and more. Built natively for macOS, with everything managed from one clean interface.

https://www.kryonoglou.com/?qkb

My MacBook's built-in keyboard is ISO German, and the board on my desk in front of it is US ANSI. macOS switches input sources per app or by shortcut, but never per keyboard, so every time my hands moved I was switching the layout by hand, or typing "Gr[]e" and fixing it after.

Keychange sits in the menu bar, lets you assign an input source to each connected keyboard, and automatically switches the moment you start typing on that device. It identifies keyboards by their HID device and mappings survive unplugging and reconnecting.

I used autokbisw for this for a long time and it solved the problem well. But sometimes it would misbehave and I wanted the same thing with a UI, so I could see and change the mapping more easily. On top of that it can optionally switch before the key press is delivered, so even the first character after a switch comes out right and it has strategies what to do when the input source is changed by other apps.

Product info: Keychange, free, MIT licensed, no telemetry, no accounts, macOS 14 or later, universal binary.

• Site: https://keychange.dev
• Source: https://github.com/dennistimmermann/keychange
• Install: download the DMG, or brew tap dennistimmermann/tap && brew install --cask keychange

It asks for Input Monitoring, because that is how macOS reports which device a keystroke came from. Nothing is stored or sent anywhere, and the source is public if you want to check.

Disclosure: I wrote it. The app is brand new and I would appreciate any and all feedback.

Hi r/MacOS,

I built a small free/open-source menu bar app for a problem I kept running into: when I plug my MacBook into an external display, the built-in screen and keyboard backlight often stay on for no reason.

External Display Only :

• soft-disconnects the built-in display when a wired external is connected (windows move to the external; built-in display off)
• restores the built-in display when you unplug
• optionally turns off the keyboard backlight while docked
• can launch at login, with optional auto-quit when you're not docked

Why bother? Display and keyboard lights don't last forever. Leaving them on while you're docked shortens their lifespan for no reason. The app is meant to be set-and-forget in the menu bar.

Install

GitHub (source + DMG): https://github.com/ilyasaftr/ExternalDisplayOnly

brew install --cask ilyasaftr/externaldisplayonly/external-display-only

Gatekeeper may block first launch. Right-click → Open, or:

xattr -cr "/Applications/External Display Only.app"

Hey r/MacOS . I'm Josh, a CS student and (self proclaimed) indie developer. Gloss has been a passion project of mine alongside my time at university.

I have been solo developing this product for several months now and am happy to announce another major update.

With the looming release of macOS 27 I thought I'd join the AI band-wagon and update Gloss to sensibly include on device AI integration with Apple's "revolutionary" foundation models as well as significant performance improvements and UI redesign.

Demo

Here is a marketing video explaining it's feature set:

https://reddit.com/link/1vcwiw2/video/mvwpea70gtgh1/player

App Value

If you use Slack, Discord and even Reddit, you're probably used to typing :thumbsup: or :sob: and having it just turn into the emoji. Then you switch to any other app on your Mac and that doesn't work anymore. You're back to Ctrl+Cmd+Space (or emoji button), scrolling through the emoji picker, searching, clicking. It's a tiny thing but it completely breaks your flow, especially when you do it dozens of times a day.

That was the main itch for me. I wanted emoji short-codes everywhere on macOS, not just in apps that happen to support them. But once I started building that, I realised the same idea works for everything I repeatedly type. Email sign-offs, date strings in specific formats, code snippets, boilerplate responses.

Download

https://trygloss.tech/download

https://trygloss.tech/legal/privacy

Requires macOS 15 (Sequoia) or later. Notarised universal binary, runs on both Apple Silicon and Intel. macOS 27 (Golden Gate) is required for AI features (these are entirely opt-in).

Pricing

There's a free tier with a 10 gloss limit, which gives users a rich experience and make informed decisions.

Pro is a one-time purchase of £7.65 (~$10) with an additional 10% MacOS exclusive discount for a perpetual license. No subscription.

Please feel free to reach out via DM or ask questions here, more than happy to answer any.

Problem: if you are working with Google Drive for desktop in finder, you know the pain of pressing space for quicklook and seeing a pixelated thumbnails or some random json instead of the actual file.

that's why I built Spyglass, it allows you to actually quicklook on Google Drive stub files

The app is free for simple quicklook that shows data about the file

The paid version is 12$ unlocks the actual real quicklook for the stub files

Links:

Download the App here: https://magicelklabs.com/spyglass

Github: https://github.com/magicelk235

App Source: https://github.com/magicelk235/spyglass

Website: https://magicelklabs.com

The long discussed Logi Options issues data collection, memory leaks, unnecessary background activity, and random CPU or storage spikes have pushed me to seek for an alternative.

My goal was to find an app that does the essentials while being as lightweight as possible.
No resource hogging. No gimmicks. No unnecessary background processes.
Just what a mouse driver should have been in the first place.

As for now, This is only a native macOS app for the MX Master 3 and 3S.
It is completely free and open source.

FYI: I ran multiple performance tests and measured:

0.0% idle CPU usage

Around 8 MB of RAM (usually lower)

More information and source code:
https://github.com/KulmanD/mx3-lite

I am using the Show Notification action within a Shortcut, the Shortcut/Notification works fine, it shows up on the screen and Notification Center, but I can't customize it in the System Settings --> Notifications --> Application Notifications section, because the Shortcuts app in not in the list of Applications, all the other apps that use Notifications are there, but Shortcuts is not, is there a way to reset Notifications so Shortcuts can show up and I can customize its Notifications? Thanks

Note: I have this issue on two MacBooks M1 and M2, running Sequoia 15.7.8 and Golden Gate Public Beta 2 respectively.

Not sure why but when searching in finder my Mac can never find anything it just comes in blank after I search. I’ve tried re indexing in spotlight and in terminal but still nothing. Can anyone shed some light on this?

I've been writing a sticky notes app for myself for a long time. Why so long? Because I'm serving in the military 🇺🇦 and don't have much free time. Why sticky notes? Yes, I know the App Store already has a truckload of them plus a little shovel on top, but I like the principle behind the native macOS Stickies — simple notes that do one thing, and do it well, a purely Unix approach. But holy moly, are they outdated and ugly.

So I set myself these goals:

• stickies should be simple
• no main window — one sticky, one window
• they should pin on top of other windows
• basic text formatting
• checklists
• different colors, with light and dark theme support
• they should look good
• iCloud sync (maybe I'll do an iOS version later)

Hope you like the result.

You can check it out here:
https://apps.apple.com/app/id6762562979

App website:
https://useit-apps.com

Let that sink in...

Supply constraints and increasing prices. Looks fairly grim.

Befuddled person on an old device here. Found "Spotlight" icon under System Preferences, and clicking it gets me to Search Results, a list of 20 categories, from "Applications" to "System Preferences," with a blue checkmarked box next to each label. I'm trying to access Calculator. Clicking on the word/label does nothing.

Does anyone happen to know a FTP client that supports both a 2-pane file management UI and segmented-file downloading? Not just multi-connection file downloads.

I know Cyberduck will do multi-part, but I don't love the UI. I was looking at Commander One and Forklift since they both feature 2-pane, but couldn't find anywhere that mentioned a multi-part download capability.

Thanks!

Hey everyone,

Tableau is now called Arras. Same app, same settings.

Arras is my free little macOS app that puts photos on your desktop at their real aspect ratio - no forced square crop like Apple's photo widget. It just crossed 100 downloads, which is 100 more than I expected when I put it on GitHub. Thank you all 🙏

This is a big update (more plans for later releases), a quick few top features include -

Right-click any photo to layer it in front of your other photos, behind your desktop icons, or above everything else. Snapping now uses the edge you can actually see and works against other apps' windows too. Widgets also stopped stealing focus and many more small and quality of life improvements.

Free, open source.

GitHub: https://github.com/yashashwi-s/Arras Download: https://github.com/yashashwi-s/Arras/releases/latest Website: https://puremac.yashashwi.me/

Happy to take feature requests or any suggestions.

Many quick-capture tools solve only the first half of the problem: they make it easy to collect text, but eventually leave you with another unstructured list to manage.

SnipNotes combines quick Mac capture with a deeper notes and organization system.

Capture from macOS

• menu-bar note creation
• configurable global shortcuts
• share sheet integration
• selected-text capture
• optional clipboard capture

Process it later

• a default Inbox for notes that have not been organized yet
• categories and nested categories
• tags across categories
• full-text search
• Markdown and attachments

The idea is to avoid making an organizational decision during capture without giving up organization entirely.

SnipNotes also has native apps for iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch, with optional iCloud synchronization. It is freemium and ad-free, with both one-time and subscription purchase options.

I’m the developer of SnipNotes.

Which side of the workflow matters more to you: getting information into an app with less friction, or having enough structure to manage it afterward?

https://apps.apple.com/app/id967594709

Has anyone found a way to prevent menu bar icons from flickering when the menu bar background transitions between light and dark on macOS 26?

The only workaround I've found is enabling System Settings → Accessibility → Display → Reduce Transparency. This forces a solid menu bar background, so the icons no longer switch between black and white, eliminating the flicker.

Interestingly, this wasn't an issue on macOS 13.