Snapshots are one of the crown jewels of APFS, and very powerful. Why then has Apple made them almost impossible to use?
Category Archive: Macs
Three riddles to tease your mind. Solutions will be posted here on Monday morning.
You’re checking through old files. How can you tell which file type they are when you don’t recognise the extension, or they don’t even have that to help?
Very few apps are able to make APFS snapshots – Time Machine, Carbon Copy Cloner, and SuperDuper! Why aren’t they more accessible?
A good way of restoring a volume which has been damaged is from a previous snapshot. How easy is it in practice, though?
Some MacBook Pro users may still suffer sporadic kernel panics because of firmware bugs in any release of […]
Apple’s recent change in requirements for notarization also affects privacy protection in both Mojave and Catalina.
Using only free tools, it isn’t difficult to get a log excerpt which will tell you, or someone else, exactly what occurred at the time.
How did you do this weekend? Suggested solutions and explanations for the riddles from last Saturday.
One solution to running 32-bit apps in Catalina is a VM. Here I assess the performance of Parallels Desktop 15. Is it up to the job?
