Many files in macOS are more than just their data, and contain metadata in extended attributes. Does macOS know the true size of any file, taking into account those attributes?
Category Archive: Macs
Apple should name macOS version with literary references. Here’s the justification for macOS 10.14 Gormenghast.
My screenshots are now tagged with metadata supporting Spotlight search, and Hazel uses that to sort them into folders automatically.
A quick tour through Folder Actions (AppleScript), Hazel (System Preferences pane, commercial), and fswatch and their potential uses.
I am afraid that this blog has once again been under a spam attack all day, in which […]
Adobe has released an updated version of its Flash Player, bringing it to version 28.0.0.161. This fixes a […]
Families of types covering most forms of metadata, published in open source in 2009. Now largely superseded by com.apple.metadata equivalents.
You have double-clicked on a disk image, and macOS refuses. Here is what you can do to get that image to mount, even when it’s damaged.
Robust example Swift code for checking the free space available on a volume. A good quick check to run before trying to write out anything hefty.
Have you used an online update service in the past? After last week’s security breach at MacUpdate, now is the time to stop. For your own protection.
The Eclectic Light Company 