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Category Archive: Macs

Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 34

I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 34. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Sidecar […]

February 17, 2020 General, Macs, Technology

Time Machine 14: Diagnosing and working around slow backups

How can you tell what causing a backup to run so slowly? If it is this bug, what can you do about it? A plain user’s guide.

February 17, 2020 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: Duff disk or normal behaviour?

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Surely these problems with Time Machine are old hat and not news? Or are they simply errors occurring with disks or the file system?

February 16, 2020 Macs, Technology

Saturday Mac riddles 34

Here are this weekend’s riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: I might have […]

February 15, 2020 General, Macs, Technology

Why privileged commands may never be allowed

Running an AppleScript which tries to run a shell command with root privileges can fail. Here’s why, and what we can’t do about it.

February 15, 2020 Macs, Technology

How to keep, or lose, a document’s previous versions

Document versions can be invaluable, being between Undo and your backups. But they’re also easy to lose. Here’s how to keep them.

February 14, 2020 Macs, Technology

Time Machine 13: Backups and versions

Time Machine seems to be the only backup system which also backs up the Versioning database on each volume. Is that useful though?

February 13, 2020 Macs, Technology

Time Machine in Catalina 10.15.3 has serious bugs

When making a first full backup of less than 2 GB takes 86 minutes, and you then can’t restore from it anyway.

February 12, 2020 Macs, Technology

Ulbow now helps you solve log problems in version 1.1b2

New beta-release can check your log file structure and send a simple test command to log, confirming that all is in working order.

February 11, 2020 Macs, Technology, Updates

Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 33

I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 33. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Dashboard […]

February 10, 2020 General, Macs, Technology

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