Log entries mentioning errors are common and can mislead. Those marking the consequences of errors may not mention the word error. Turn detective to work out where the error really is with these tips.
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Drag and drop files you want to convert to a different format, and Textovert will call textutil to do that for you. Quick, simple and convenient.
I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 335. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Xeon […]
Convert between text, HTML, RTF, RTFD, Word .doc and .docx, WordML, ODT and Safari Web Archives using this command tool.
When someone reports the most recent version of Safari that will open their webarchives is 18.6, and that’s the only version that you find can’t open some webarchives. You’ll be only too familiar with the culprit.
Here are this weekend’s Mac riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: Xeon and […]
Information about the data in a file can be found in different places: in the file’s attributes, in extended attributes that tend to be Mac-only, and embedded with the data, as in EXIF.
Preview offers PDF/A as an export option, intended for PDFs that are to be relied on long into the future, for archives. Do they comply with one of the PDF/A standards, though?
When Spotlight can’t find the files you expect it to, it could be that they weren’t indexed, or that Spotlight’s search has failed to find their index entries. Here’s how to tell those apart and work out what went wrong.
The Preview pane in Finder windows can show a comprehensive list of metadata, or a shortened list you can customise in Preview Options. Here’s how to use it and how it can provide further information.
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