There’s a problem with your Mac, so you try starting it up in Recovery. But that doesn’t work. What should try next? Intel and Apple silicon Macs are then quite different.
Category Archive: Macs
Understanding how APFS works: inodes, attributes, file extents, extended attributes, and how they change with editing and cloning.
Apple has just released updates to XProtect Remediator security software (Catalina or later), bringing it to version 129, […]
How to reproduce this serious bug in Sonoma 14.4, and how to archive all the versions of a file or document so they can’t get destroyed.
Have noticed brief periods of high CPU for universalaccessd in Sonoma? Do you know what com.apple.axserver is and why it can’t be found? Can you help with this puzzle?
Do you use saved versions in documents? If a file is evicted by you or macOS, then all saved versions will now be removed, and lost forever. How to work around this serious bug.
I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 247. Here are my solutions to them. 1: A […]
Step by step through moving to iCloud Drive, eviction to a dataless file, materialisation of local data, editing and syncing with iCloud Drive.
How do the SMC and CoreDuet manage the systems in your Mac, and should you fiddle with them?
Here are this weekend’s Mac riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: A thousand […]
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