A summary of iCloud Drive syncing of attributes, data, extended attributes, document versions (complex), Spotlight index content, and QuickLook previews.
Category Archive: Macs
The update bringing macOS Tahoe to version 26.5 is modest in size and, apart from its security fixes, […]
Apple has released the update to bring macOS Tahoe to version 26.5, and security updates for Sequoia and […]
I hope you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 359. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Could in […]
What happens when you move a file with metadata attached in extended attributes to iCloud Drive? Which of those are preserved when you access that file from another Mac?
Demonstrated 10 years ago as a major new feature in APFS, and capable of blazingly fast rollback preserving data including document versions, snapshots still aren’t fully accessible or documented.
Here are this weekend’s Mac riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: Could in […]
For over a decade, cloud services did their own thing. Apple then encouraged them to use a new File Provider framework, and led the way with iCloud Drive.
Use the mdimport and mdls commands to dump full information about all the metadata attributes found for a file, and those indexed by Spotlight.
Can be a Mac-saver if you have problems when your backup storage isn’t available. You don’t need to run Time Machine to make them, and can roll back in Recovery, as shown here.
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