Why can some with Apple silicon Macs create and boot from external disks, while others seem doomed to failure?
Category Archive: Macs
Here are this weekend’s riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: One on each […]
How to get prompt security data updates, RSRs, macOS updates, App Store updates, and those for third-party apps distributed independently.
Once, you could run diskutil to ‘fix’ broken permissions in your Home folder, then it was replaced by repairHomePermissions in Recovery. Apple no longer documents this, but it’s still there. Should you use it?
How lightweight virtualisation of macOS and Linux has improved in Ventura, and what hasn’t changed.
Expected in Ventura 13.1 is a new lightweight system for applying security patches. This article explains how it uses cryptexes, already being used in macOS 13.
Why you should keep a copy of the Panic Log. How to check that your Mac isn’t the cause. And above all, don’t panic.
I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 177. Here are my solutions to them. 1: First […]
Three phases of updating, download, preparation and installation, are now fully integrated. They also involve updating Cryptexes, as revealed in the log.
How Ventura 13.0.1 played hard to get for some, and ongoing problems successfully installing security data updates make for the fortnightly nightmare.
The Eclectic Light Company 