Nine days of measurements of used space on a Time Machine backup storage drive. What does DeltaFree predict for its lifetime? How does used space change in containers in the internal SSD?
Category Archive: Macs
All APFS volumes in a single partition/container share its free space. How can that be measured? How much could be purged, and how do special file types affect it?
Three different XProtects, and one of them now duplicated – two sets of data in two locations, updated by two different systems from two different services. Which is which, and what gets updated when.
Is the log the right place to look? Should you use the active log, or make and use a logarchives? When should you start the search? Predicate or search? And further questions answered.
Apple has just released a security update for Safari in macOS Sonoma and Sequoia, bringing it to version […]
Apple has just released its regular weekly update to XProtect for all versions of macOS, bringing it to […]
What to try if your Mac doesn’t enter Recovery Mode when you want it to. For Apple silicon Macs, there’s Fallback Recovery, while Intel Macs have two forms of internet or remote recovery to choose from.
Apple has just released a security update to macOS Tahoe, bringing it to version 26.6.2. There don’t appear […]
I hope you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 373. Here are my solutions to them. 1: King Harald […]
To work out how long you’ll be able to use your present backup storage, you need to know how much space is free now, and the rate at which free space is being used by further backups. This app can forecast that, and more.
