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.
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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 […]
I hope you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 359. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Could in […]
What happens when you move a file with metadata attached in extended attributes to iCloud Drive? Which of those are preserved when you access that file from another Mac?
