Soon after introducing iCloud and iCloud Drive, Apple changed the way most metadata was handled to ensure it was synced up to the cloud. Recently this has been reversed, and little metadata is now synced. Was this an accident or intentional? What is the workaround?
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Here are this weekend’s Mac riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: With parents […]
From the first image thumbnails around 35 years ago, the Mac has delivered better thumbnails and previews of documents, most recently using QuickLook. Here’s how it works, and how it can fail.
Traces the path of metadata from inside a PDF document and its extended attributes, to those in Spotlight’s indexes and displayed in the Finder. Only a third survived that journey.
This new version adds a drag-and-drop window to inspect the metadata of files using mdimport and mdls.
Version support built into macOS doesn’t preserve versions as well as it could. Here’s how to use Versatility to ensure you don’t lose versions in iCloud, moving a file, or backing up.
Apple has released an update to XProtect for all versions of macOS, bringing it to version 5344. Version […]
A summary of iCloud Drive syncing of attributes, data, extended attributes, document versions (complex), Spotlight index content, and QuickLook previews.
The update bringing macOS Tahoe to version 26.5 is modest in size and, apart from its security fixes, […]
Apple has released the update to bring macOS Tahoe to version 26.5, and security updates for Sequoia and […]
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