Apple could have chosen to make APFS open source or to document it fully, to help third parties develop maintenance tools. It chose not to, but Disk Utility still doesn’t work as it should.
Category Archive: Technology
Here are this weekend’s riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: Cursive handwriting on […]
Using Live Text to recognise kanji characters in a screenshot, then translating them from Japanese to English. Does it work?
APFS backup disks offer different possibilities for adding volumes for your own use, alongside the backup volume. How do you decide what’s best?
In macOS 12.4, it’s impossible to run First Aid on any container or APFS volume on a disk with a Time Machine APFS backup volume, except in Recovery.
It depends whether you’re going to boot macOS from it, on the space required for snapshots, and how large they could become. And there’s more.
File data stored towards the periphery of the disk is read and written nearly twice as fast as that near the centre. How to take advantage of this.
The update to bring Monterey to version 12.4 is substantial, and brings many changes across macOS. Apple’s release […]
Apple has just released the update to macOS Monterey, bringing it to version 12.4. Release notes state that […]
I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 151. Here are my solutions to them. 1: The […]
The Eclectic Light Company 