Apple has started recommending users to repair permissions – not generally, but in the Home folder. Here’s my experience, and a tool to make this easier.
Category Archive: Macs
Sleep interrupts the scheduling and dispatch of background tasks. Here’s how it looks in the dispatching systems.
Radio-frequency interference from USB 3 peripherals can cause problems with Bluetooth and 2.4 GHz Wi-Fi.
We stopped repairing permissions, because of SIP. Now Apple recommends it for a wide range of problems – only this repairs them on your Home folder.
Adobe has updated its Flash Player to version 26.0.0.126, which is now available from here. This new version […]
In amongst the tens or hundreds of thousands of files which together make macOS Sierra work, there are […]
There are lots of different ways to modify a string, but some would turn out to be very inefficient. A gentle wander through CharacterView and a mapping closure.
Want to hide text from electronic searching and matching? Or just explore some of Unicode’s encoding issues? Here’s a useful tool.
In recent years, most Mac users have stopped partitioning drives into volumes. In High Sierra, you will probably want to use volumes again. Lots.
Apple keeps its promise with High Sierra and new Macs, but is less helpful in the log, and courts danger in AI.
The Eclectic Light Company 