Macsolvers' Blog

  • You can INSTALL MOJAVE 10.14 Using VirtualBox 6

    In this post, I answer the questions, “Why would you want to do this? Are these valid reasons for not upgrading from macOS 10.12.6 to a later system like Mojave 10.14?”

  • How can I get my MacBook Pro to run faster?

    Reader says, I’m running El Capitan 10.11.6 on my macbook pro with superdrive that I bought in 2012 and am frustrated by how slow everything loads and runs. It doesn’t matter whether I’m opening documents on my desktop or watching videos in any of my browsers. Rebooting doesn’t seem to help, either. My mac is…

  • Can’t play that DVD? Try these workarounds

    The year-end holidays have come and gone. You have been exercising feverishly to reduce your waistline that expanded a few inches due to the endless partying, and everyone in your household has unwrapped all their gifts. However, one of those gifts is perched silently on the coffee table. It’s a homemade DVD gifted to you…

  • Hard drive doesn’t mount on a PowerPC Mac

    From today’s mail bag: I have an external Seagate 7200rpm fw800 drive that is formatted Mac OS Extended (Journaled) that I formatted on my 17″ MBP about a month ago. When I tried to connect it to my 1 GHz PowerBook today I got the dreaded error message, “There are no volumes on this drive…