Apple has overnight released its regular weekly update to XProtect, bringing it to version 5358, for all versions […]
Category Archive: Macs
Caching to disk improves performance, but cached data are optional and may be purged when additional free space is needed. This explains how that’s performed by the deleted service.
Major improvements in its plots make this new utility even better for tracking changes in used space, and so forecasting how long backup storage will take to fill.
I hope you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 375. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Sigrid shortened […]
If you updated to Sequoia 15.7.9 or Sonoma 14.8.9 before 17 August, their mBoot firmware should be 18000.161.9. If you updated later, it should be 18000.161.10 instead. This explains why.
Mac prices have risen because supply of their high-speed memory, NAND chips for SSDs, and their SoCs has been outstripped by demand for data centres. When will this improve?
Here are this weekend’s Mac riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: Sigrid shortened […]
Some examples of what are often dismissed as ‘cosmetic’ bugs resulting from macOS upgrades, including lasting QuickLook rendering problems, and upside down mirror writing.
Due for public release on or by 22 September, it should be accompanied by Tahoe 26.7 and Sequoia 15.8, and hopefully syncing of firmware versions.
Further tests on two volumes with over 90 GB purgeable space. One took almost 30 minuted to become available, the other never got there at all. The log reveals who was responsible.
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