Apple’s attitude to document metadata remains ambivalent. But macOS does offer good support for extended attributes to pass through iCloud, if you know how to access it.
Category Archive: Macs
Three more riddles about Macs, computing and numbers to entertain you over the weekend.
Why couldn’t you install Security Update 2019-004 on your T2-free Mac, when the problem was in its T2 firmware update?
Does using xattr flags disrupt Spotlight indexing, and how are those flags respected using different methods of copying a file?
The latest news on last week’s macOS updates is that the Mojave update to 10.14.6 does appear ‘safe’, […]
It may seem minor, but what TextEdit has been doing for the last 6 months is a travesty of what made the Mac.
Note: Apple has now released fixed versions of the Security Updates: details here. Apple has overnight pulled one […]
Don’t apply High Sierra or Sierra Security Updates 2019-004 – Apple has pulled them both – WITHDRAWN
Apple has now released fixed versions of the two Security Updates – see this article for full details. […]
As feared, the studentd daemon and its mysterious certificate have reappeared, and are now set to remain in Mojave in perpetuity.
Little changed from 10.14.5, the final release of Mojave still has many significant bugs. Here’s a partial listing.
The Eclectic Light Company 