Snapshots made by Time Machine and tmutil should be purgeable, although sometimes they won’t purge, and aren’t shown reliably as purgeable space. An exploration of bugs and missing documentation.
Month: August 2026
From yachting in Cowes, moving east along the Channel coast to end at the extreme eastern tip of Kent, with paintings from William Dyce, Walter Sickert, Paul Nash, William Holman Hunt, William Powell Frith and others.
If you leave your Mac running overnight, but not sleeping, what does it do? Does it perform maintenance tasks that it would otherwise have to do during the day?
A journey along the Channel coast from Land’s End in the far west, reaching the Isle of Wight, with Clarkson Stanfield, Thomas Girtin, John Brett, Paul Nash, JMW Turner and others.
Here are this weekend’s Mac riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: Five flavours, […]
Nine days of measurements of used space on a Time Machine backup storage drive. What does DeltaFree predict for its lifetime? How does used space change in containers in the internal SSD?
His major painting of Wellington’s triumph fails and cost him dearly. Equestrian and dog portraits pay the bills, and his painterly oil sketches remain innovative.
All APFS volumes in a single partition/container share its free space. How can that be measured? How much could be purged, and how do special file types affect it?
Initially he applied coarser dots on areas of more even colour, used simultaneous colour contrast, then his blobs grew to become patches of paint resembling the tesserae of mosaics.
Three different XProtects, and one of them now duplicated – two sets of data in two locations, updated by two different systems from two different services. Which is which, and what gets updated when.
The Eclectic Light Company 