Apple silicon Macs are designed and built for reliability. Using old techniques to safeguard from disaster isn’t wise: they need to be reappraised, and contingencies planned accordingly.
Category Archive: Macs
How should you restore a whole volume, or an old version of a document to a different folder? Includes details of backup structure.
Apple has overnight released an update to XProtect for all macOS from El Capitan or so, bringing it […]
Many of us keep an emergency external drive at the ready by our Mac, in case we need to use it to recover from problems. What’s the equivalent for Apple silicon?
Version 1.5 of this metadata editor fixes a bug causing a spurious editor when Autosave is enabled.
How to use the Time Machine log extract in Mints to check whether its backups are working normally, and what are expected errors.
Apple has just released updates to bring macOS Sonoma to version 14.1.1, and macOS Ventura 13.6.2 for “MacBook […]
How much faster are P cores at running the same thread as E cores, and how much more energy do they require? And how do they compare with using the GPU?
I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 228. Here are my solutions to them. 1: First […]
APFS checks file system metadata, not file data. Consistency Scan has gone missing, verifying checksums doesn’t appear to verify data, and Verify Integrity seems to do something altogether different.
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