Here are this weekend’s Mac riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: The power […]
Category Archive: Macs
All it required was the command bless, until that was undone by SIP. Since the T2’s secure boot, it has become steadily more complex, and now is only really possible from the internal SSD.
Adds file type identification to the Drop window, to help explain why Spotlight might misclassify a file and refuse to index its content as expected.
Have your Time Machine backups become irregular, or stopped altogether? Are software updates infrequent, or malware scans rare? Find the answers here.
Apple has just released its first update to XProtect for all versions of macOS since early June, bringing […]
One JSON text file consistently found a search term that another contained, but could never find. How do some documents get fully indexed, but others don’t, and can’t be searched?
This adds extensive information about the current locale and language settings, and is fully compatible with macOS 27.
I hope you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 368. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Its actions […]
Spotlight’s search window provides ‘AsYouTypeTopHit’ ranked search, including a measure of recency, 3 opaque scores, related search, and hits across multiple search domains. Here’s how it does that.
From the outset, Spotlight has included websites and other items in ranked search, and local files listed exhaustively using filters. As we work with ever more data, ranking is becoming more important in our search methods.
The Eclectic Light Company 