Before Catalina, each macOS update wrote a full transcript of all it installed to a BoM file, which you can inspect. That stopped, without any substitute.
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Apple has today release a further security update for macOS Catalina, number 2021-006. This is an important and […]
Soon M1 Macs will be able to boot from two major versions of macOS, and with new models coming, users are going to have more complex systems. How will Recovery cope?
Unofficially, each major version of macOS gets a year’s full support, with bug and security fixes, then 2 years of security updates. Is that how it works?
Why deleting either the System or Data volume, but not the whole Volume Group, could get your Mac into trouble in macOS 11 or 12.
If you’re still running El Capitan, or any version of Mac OS X prior to 10.12.1, then you’re […]
Apple has released an update for Safari in Big Sur and Catalina, bringing it to version 15.0. This […]
I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 117. Here are my solutions to them. 1: In […]
Full macOS installers come in different presentations according to how they’re obtained. Explained here are what’s in an installer app, and how a bootable installer disk works.
Apple seemed reluctant to provide a full installer and IPSW image for 11.6. How does that affect those staying with Big Sur for the next year of security updates?
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