If you installed the first Xcode beta in macOS 26.5.1, it probably stopped you building any more VMs. Here’s what happened, and how to recover normal virtualisation, even creating Golden Gate beta VMs again.
Category Archive: Macs
The commands to use with softwareupdate to download and install different types of update and complete macOS installers. And how to deal with XProtect in Sequoia and later.
How macOS makes the association between file types and apps for the Finder and GUI, using UTIs and their associated data including filename extensions. Why clashes occur, and how they’re resolved.
Apple has just released another update to XProtect for all versions of macOS, its second in the last […]
Support for encrypted HFS+ ends next year in macOS 28. Does that also affect encrypted disk images? Could you use in situ conversion to APFS Encrypted on old Time Machine backups?
Although it brings a record number of 143 security fixes, changes in version 26.6 seem fairly modest in […]
Apple has just released updates to all three supported versions of macOS, bringing Tahoe to version 26.6, and […]
I hope you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 370. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Focussed lamp […]
How to reduce a 5 second log extract with 3,576 entries to just the 498 you’re most interested in, using Notes and Search features in LogUI, and what they tell us about how macOS 26.5.2 launches a known app.
Adds notes to log entries, which can be coupled with its search feature to assemble collations of entries of interest, as well as adding info on activities and events.
The Eclectic Light Company 