Can APFS really store more on disk using sparse files and clones? Is there such a thing as a free lunch, or do these tricks have a cost?
Month: April 2021
Few paintings attempt to tell the full story of the Passion. Here are remarkable works by Duccio, Hans Memling, and Hieronymus Bosch.
Here are this weekend’s riddles to entertain you through whatever you’re now allowed to do. 1: Which modifier […]
Big Sur has recently introduced a bug which can change the format of log datestamps, which can break Ulbow, Mints and T2M2. Here’s how to fix it.
Time to fess up: not a word of it was true. I hope you enjoyed my April Fool. Here are the correct details for those wonderful paintings.
APFS can ‘clone’ files when copying or duplicating them within the same volume. But how can you tell whether any given file is a clone?
Apple has just pushed an update to the data files used by XProtect, bringing its version number to […]
Born two hundred years ago today, he’s now though to have played a major part in the birth of Impressionism, and Neo-Impressionism.
It’s common to want or have to change either the source or destination disk for backups. How well does Time Machine to APFS cope with that?
The Eclectic Light Company 