Although they can only grow in size, and mustn’t be left lying around, snapshots can be very useful, provided you manage them carefully, as described here.
Category Archive: Macs
How to put your Mac into Safe mode, what Apple claims it does, and what evidence there is of its benefits. Includes an assessment of free space it may create.
Version 1.4 can crash when trying to display a Chart view for Signpost or HighVolume log files with less than 6 processes. This update fixes that.
I hope you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 376. Here are my solutions to them. 1: London to […]
What happens when a Mac runs out of free space in the container of its boot volume group? This shows what you can expect to see, and what happens in the log.
You’re running out of free space, so check in Storage settings to see where it has all gone. System Data has reached 50 GB, but what is that, and what should you do to reduce it?
Here are this weekend’s Mac riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: London to […]
The Finder’s Get Info figures allow for sparse files when giving size ‘on disk’, but don’t take into account shared data in clone files. This can prove misleading, as shown here with VMs.
Its bar chart and three point plots have been improved with new controls. The best if not only way to explore old log activity.
How do you locate part of a document that you removed or changed greatly, and copy that content into the version you’re currently editing? What to do when it’s too much for Undo.
The Eclectic Light Company 