How an M1 Mac can start up from an external bootable disk, and how that can fail. All about boot security policy, and how that’s applied.
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How changing a volume’s boot policy can let you boot in older macOS, and update, if you wish. For anyone who uses external bootable disks with an M1 Mac.
I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 98. Here are my solutions to them. 1: An […]
With a new version of Xcode, I knew that my network backup would take several hours. Then, as it neared its conclusion, disaster struck: the router reset itself and the network share vanished.
How ready are M1 Macs now for general use? There are still problems with docks, external boot disks, and using one external boot disk with multiple Macs.
Here are this weekend’s riddles to entertain you through whatever you’re now allowed to do. 1: An incision […]
How Café and Café are actually different, and only one of those can be a filename in macOS, despite APFS being a non-normalising file system.
A new support page contains supplementary info for Mints and its log extracts and tools.
A new tailor-made log view shows what’s happened in interactions with the App Store, and can give clues as to the cause of delays and failures.
Detailed step-by-step account of how apps are downloaded and updated from the App Store. Welcome new internal names like Absinthe, Jetpack, and Crossfire, and Apple’s fraud score.
