Before Apple added T2 chips to Intel Macs, external boot disks were valuable for many users. How has that fared since?
Category Archive: Macs
I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 94. Here are my solutions to them. 1: The […]
A summary of the known benefits and current limitations of Time Machine backups to APFS, with links to more detailed accounts.
When a “fixed” formatting string proves anything but fixed, then breaks without warning or even mention in a release note.
Here are this weekend’s riddles to entertain you through whatever you’re now allowed to do. 1: The emergency […]
Sparse bundles, sparse files, and sparse matrices explained in a nutshell, and how a sparse bundle could have a band which is a sparse file containing a sparse matrix.
Does Big Sur’s Time Machine preserve sparse files and clones when backing up to APFS volumes?
How Apple made changes to Foundation routines which format dates and times which can break their formatting when in 12-hour clock mode.
Adds support for reporting whether a file is a sparse file, or has been cloned, in Big Sur.
A good improvement appears to have been abandoned unfinished and suffering from bugs. Will Apple fix these and finish it off in 11.3?
The Eclectic Light Company 