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Category Archive: Macs

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

Revisionist can now remove selected versions

Simply select those versions you want to remove, and click the Delete button. You can’t remove the latest version, and there is no Undo, though.

February 24, 2018 Macs, Technology

Busting myths about macOS versions and versioning

Does Time Machine manage the versions database? Doesn’t it contain lots of sensitive and private documents? How can I open a confidential PDF without it getting saved as a version?

February 23, 2018 Macs, Technology

A bug in signature-checking weakens most anti-malware tools

One of the basic checks which all malware protection should make is whether apps and other code have […]

February 22, 2018 Macs, Technology

Make accessible copies of versions with Revisionist 1.0b2

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Can now duplicate all the versions of a file into a normal folder; works with RTFD and other bundles; new tabular view and detailed info about versions.

February 22, 2018 Macs, Technology

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