Why can’t my Macs find text in Rich Text files? This explains how to diagnose the cause – which here is a bug in Big Sur’s Spotlight importer for RTF.
Category Archive: Macs
Although updating each M1 Mac requires 1 GB of direct download from Apple, there are great economies in running your own Content Caching Server. And why Apple doesn’t want to offer standalone Big Sur updates.
Making an external bootable SSD for an M1 Mac has proved tricky. Has this changed in macOS 11.2? If you’ve already got 11.1 running on one, how do you update it to 11.2?
The surprise minor update to macOS 11.2.1 is smaller in size than the 11.2 update: around 2.4 GB […]
Apple has released a further update to Big Sur, aimed primarily at some MacBook Pro 2016 and 2017 […]
Apple has recently posted a downloadable Installer package containing Catalina Security Update 2021-001, which was released via Software […]
macOS updates sometimes don’t work out right. What can you do to revert to the previous release? Did I hear you mention snapshots?
I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 85. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Foot, […]
New version of free utility Mints includes a powerful new feature for checking Spotlight’s indexing and search. Here’s how to use it.
Not only has Apple not provided standalone updaters for macOS 11.2, or for Mojave and Catalina Security Updates 2021-001, but it has removed the Big Sur 11.1 installer. It’s just like iOS now.
The Eclectic Light Company 