I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 296. Here are my solutions to them. 1: No […]
Category Archive: Macs
The difference between consent and intent, why an app adds itself to Settings, and when you should add it to Full Disk Access.
Permissions, privacy and security protections can conspire to prevent us from accessing our own files. They aren’t integrated, consistent or documented, and badly need improvement.
Here are this weekend’s Mac riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: No amateur […]
Includes HyperTalk, UserTalk, AppleScript, Prograph, shell scripts, Automator, Swift Playgrounds and Shortcuts, from 1987 to the present.
Working with external bootable disks: how to create and add them, ownership and LocalPolicy, how that can be changed, and what happens with errors and failure.
Permissions, ACLs, TCC’s privacy controls, SIP and app sandboxes. What they are, and how you can control them to access and maintain your files.
Your Mac unexpectedly restarts, and a little after logging in you see a Panic Alert. Before sending that to Apple, save a copy and follow this guidance, including how to read a panic log.
Going deeper into Recovery mode, by setting the correct keyboard, sharing the Data volume with another Mac, using full features in Disk Utility and Safari, and avoiding repairing Home permissions.
I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 295. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Visible […]
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