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Category Archive: Macs

Last Week on My Mac: What emergency? We’ve got serious photos

Snow, freezing rain, and thaw – just when you need the Met Office’s webpages. So it took its live weather pages offline, and promoted its mobile apps.

March 4, 2018 General, Life, Macs, Technology

How macOS tracks your files: inside the inode

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Some apps track old documents wherever they go; others lose them if they are put in a different folder. Here’s why, and some new features for the next release of Precize.

March 3, 2018 Macs, Technology

Revisionist now a single app: Version management in one

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Single app now explores versions, lets you preview and manage them – all in one.

March 2, 2018 Macs, Technology

Run The Time Machine Mechanic from a regular user account

Do you work from a normal user account rather than an admin one? This should let you check Time Machine using the T2M2 app.

March 2, 2018 Macs, Technology

What are all those hidden folders then?

Summary of the hidden folders and files you’re most likely to encounter at the top level of a volume, and at the top level of your Home folder.

March 1, 2018 Macs, Technology

Workthrough: Using the macOS version system to recover lost content

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An important section of a document that you’re working has gone missing. Do you search back through backups, or use the versioning system to recover and replace it?

February 28, 2018 Macs, Technology

Managing versions has never been simpler: Revisionist 1.0b4 with Quick Look previews

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Check earlier versions by previewing them using Quick Look. This also fixes the bug which gave incorrect sizes for bundle documents such as RTFD.

February 27, 2018 Macs, Technology

What to do when a secure connection fails

You go to connect to a website at an HTTPS address. When it can’t establish the secure connection you expect, your browser warns you. What do you do next?

February 26, 2018 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: Trusting management

As I was revising and revamping my Keynote presentation, my free disk space was falling in from of my eyes. Each time I saved my work, macOS swallowed another gigabyte of free space.

February 25, 2018 Macs, Technology

Apple has updated Gatekeeper configuration data

Apple has today pushed an update to Gatekeeper configuration data, which should have been silently installed on your […]

February 24, 2018 Macs, Technology

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