How iCloud Drive, concerned with sharing files, and CloudKit, supporting databases shared in iCloud, have changed in Sonoma.
Category Archive: Macs
What are dataless files, and how do they work with iCloud and third-party cloud service providers? How can you tell whether a file is dataless?
Here are this weekend’s riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: Valley of the […]
Why are some file metadata embedded in their main data, and others stored separately as extended attributes? How can I tell them apart?
Do you have a third-party camera using its own plug-in? Sonoma 14.1 could disable it. Here’s what to do to keep your camera working, perhaps even better than before.
Apple has just released an update to XProtect Remediator security software (Catalina or later), bringing it to version […]
Apple claims that its macOS VMs can run Metal and deliver “great graphics performance”. How could you assess that, and are they really that good?
Full details, including a warning about older camera support. If you know what an Apple T6041 MCC is, this might provide a tantalising clue.
Apple has just released the first update to macOS Sonoma, taking it to version 14.1, as well as […]
The small stub files used as placeholders for files evicted to iCloud Drive have vanished. Could that be why some Macs had to download the whole contents of their iCloud Drive?
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