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Category Archive: Macs

Time Machine in Sonoma: How to restore from a backup

How should you restore a whole volume, or an old version of a document to a different folder? Includes details of backup structure.

November 10, 2023 Macs, Technology

Apple has released an update to XProtect

Apple has overnight released an update to XProtect for all macOS from El Capitan or so, bringing it […]

November 10, 2023 Macs, Technology, Updates

Should you make an emergency disk for an Apple silicon Mac?

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?

November 9, 2023 Macs, Technology

Metamer 1.5 fixes a bug

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Version 1.5 of this metadata editor fixes a bug causing a spurious editor when Autosave is enabled.

November 8, 2023 Macs, Technology, Updates

Time Machine in Sonoma: How to check backing up

How to use the Time Machine log extract in Mints to check whether its backups are working normally, and what are expected errors.

November 8, 2023 Macs, Technology

Apple has just released Sonoma 14.1.1 update

Apple has just released updates to bring macOS Sonoma to version 14.1.1, and macOS Ventura 13.6.2 for “MacBook […]

November 7, 2023 Macs, Technology, Updates

Estimating energy use for Apple silicon chips

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?

November 7, 2023 Macs, Technology

Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 228

I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 228. Here are my solutions to them. 1: First […]

November 6, 2023 General, Macs, Technology

How can you check the integrity of Time Machine backups in Sonoma?

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.

November 6, 2023 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: Backup simplicity

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.

November 5, 2023 Macs, Technology

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