iCloud services have changed greatly since their introduction in October 2011. Here’s a thorough run-down on iCloud today, from dataless files to FileProvider.
Category Archive: Technology
I hope you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 374. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Five flavours, […]
Snapshots made by Time Machine and tmutil should be purgeable, although sometimes they won’t purge, and aren’t shown reliably as purgeable space. An exploration of bugs and missing documentation.
If you leave your Mac running overnight, but not sleeping, what does it do? Does it perform maintenance tasks that it would otherwise have to do during the day?
Here are this weekend’s Mac riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: Five flavours, […]
Nine days of measurements of used space on a Time Machine backup storage drive. What does DeltaFree predict for its lifetime? How does used space change in containers in the internal SSD?
All APFS volumes in a single partition/container share its free space. How can that be measured? How much could be purged, and how do special file types affect it?
Three different XProtects, and one of them now duplicated – two sets of data in two locations, updated by two different systems from two different services. Which is which, and what gets updated when.
Is the log the right place to look? Should you use the active log, or make and use a logarchives? When should you start the search? Predicate or search? And further questions answered.
Apple has just released a security update for Safari in macOS Sonoma and Sequoia, bringing it to version […]
