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?
Category Archive: Macs
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.
The most frequent error written to the log during my backups concerns a rogue RTFD that went recursive on me 4 years ago, and has come back to haunt me.
Here are this weekend’s riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: First person seed […]
The most accessible of any metadata in the Finder and apps, Finder tags can be ideal for classifying files and folders into no more than 7 categories. Here’s how they work.
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