Unless you exclude them from backups, Time Machine will back up all items in iCloud Drive as long as they’re stored locally when the backup is made.
Category Archive: Macs
Are Apple’s products designed to last longer? A new white paper puts Apple’s case, and dismisses allegations of built-in obsolescence.
How to prefix a file or folder name with a . to hide it, how to use chflags, and how they differ. And what are all those .DS_Store and ._ files doing?
How could you study how Apple silicon CPU cores are used to run code? Comparisons between Activity Monitor, Xcode Instruments, and powermetrics.
I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 262. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Roll […]
What you need, what the risks are, and how to ensure you don’t have problems if things go wrong. Includes coverage of VMs and more.
Swift 6 claims built-in support for writing asynchronous and parallel code. But these are very different, and that for multithreading appears elusive.
Here are this weekend’s Mac riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: Roll on […]
Extensions or INITs in Classic Mac OS required Conflict Catcher for their management. But they remain a vulnerability, and can’t be used with full boot security any more.
Introduced in macOS Ventura, these monitor for potentially malicious behaviours, according to 12 Bastion rules. Detections are recorded in its local database and reported to Apple as security intelligence.
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