Apple has pushed out another update to the XProtect data for Sierra and El Capitan systems, early today. […]
Category Archive: Macs
Time should be universal, simple, and precise. Not in computers, though. Given enough clocks, it can behave oddly at times.
Sierra’s new logs have new uses, such as collecting and analysing test and use data – only if you can import log extracts into a suitable app.
Adding images to the parallel hypertext, tidying its Map view up, and more. Includes a tip for better debugging and reader testing.
View the same log entries at different times, and their timestamps change. This explains why, and what is going on.
When Time Machine seems to take a long time preparing the next backup, or gets stuck, here is how to diagnose and deal with it.
Allow me a brief gloat: The Eclectic Light Company blog has just reached its first serious milestone, that […]
Why was my Mac still preparing a backup 20 minutes after it should have been completed? And what is a ‘deep event scan’?
Apple pushed out a silent update to the XProtect security data files yesterday, 18 February 2017, which should […]
I was dreading its conversion from an ordinary Cocoa app into an architecture which supported multiple windows. Would Xcode co-operate?
The Eclectic Light Company 