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Category Archive: Macs

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

When you can’t run an app because its extension(s) won’t load

Many vital apps rely on installing kernel extensions, which may be tricky or seem impossible in Catalina. Here are some strategies to solve problems.

February 10, 2020 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: SSD it

The plan was simple: replace my 8 year-old Promise Pegasus RAID system with a shiny new SSD RAID system, for Time Machine backups. What could go wrong?

February 9, 2020 Macs, Technology

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