If generating QuickLook thumbnails and previews, and indexing metadata for Spotlight, depend on UTIs, how come they tolerate misleading file extensions? A simple practical demo.
Category Archive: Macs
You realise that a few hours ago you trashed an important file by accident. How can you search your Time Machine backups without looking through them one at a time?
You’re in a rush, and need to disconnect your MacBook Pro’s external drive. But when you try to eject it, one or more programs may be using it. What do you do next?
How to discover what went wrong when a document doesn’t show the right thumbnail, but a generic icon instead. How to dive deeper to solve problems with 3rd party thumbnail and preview generators.
Apple has released its regular weekly update to XProtect for all versions of macOS, bringing it to version […]
Most apps save settings in their preferences file managed by cfprefsd as the UserDefaults server. Here’s how to avoid problems that can cause, and how to use the defaults command.
I hope you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 360. Here are my solutions to them. 1: With parents […]
Generating icons for display as thumbnails, and previews of documents, depend on speed of delivery and icons as faithful as possible for their size. How QuickLook achieves this in Tahoe.
Soon after introducing iCloud and iCloud Drive, Apple changed the way most metadata was handled to ensure it was synced up to the cloud. Recently this has been reversed, and little metadata is now synced. Was this an accident or intentional? What is the workaround?
Here are this weekend’s Mac riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: With parents […]
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