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Category Archive: Technology

Just which volumes are encrypted?

Here’s an APFS (Encrypted) volume that isn’t encrypted, and an unencrypted volume with FileVault active. Something must be wrong.

April 7, 2023 Macs, Technology

How to check whether an SSD gets trimmed

Why should you trim an SSD? How to tell whether an SSD needs trimming, finding out whether it has trim support, and whether it does trim.

April 6, 2023 Macs, Technology

How Cryptexes are changing macOS Ventura

Details of the three standard Cryptexes in Ventura 13.3, when they can be loaded in the boot process, and where they fit in with Rapid Security Responses.

April 5, 2023 Macs, Technology

Getting more from Disk Utility’s First Aid

Should you run First Aid on every volume, then each container? And why can it return status 65? How can you work around that?

April 4, 2023 Macs, Technology

Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 197

I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 197. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Supplies […]

April 3, 2023 General, Macs, Technology

How APFS mounts encrypted volumes, snapshots, cryptexes and more

Details of what happens when an APFS (Encrypted) volume is mounted, when mounting a Time Machine snapshot, unmounting a volume, and loading a Cryptex.

April 3, 2023 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: fsck status 65

Have you ever tried running First Aid on an APFS volume and been told it failed with status 65? It’s time for that to be fixed, so we can check and repair disks properly.

April 2, 2023 Macs, Technology

Saturday Mac riddles 197

Here are this weekend’s riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: Supplies arrive by […]

April 1, 2023 General, Macs, Technology

How to maintain your Desktop in Mac OS 8 and 9

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In Classic Mac OS, icons were determined by hidden databases. Here’s what we had to do periodically to keep them from breaking.

April 1, 2023 Macs, Technology

Why you should enable FileVault

T2 and Apple silicon Macs always encrypt the Data volume in internal storage. So why bother with enabling FileVault? And can you do that on external bootable disks?

March 31, 2023 Macs, Technology

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