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Category Archive: Technology

File Integrity 11 : Which RAID levels enable file recovery?

Selecting a RAID level to preserve file integrity can be confusing. Here’s a guide, complete with the ifs and buts.

May 2, 2020 Macs, Technology

How to find apps using metadata

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If grouping apps by Application Categories won’t help you find them, here’s a method using metadata which you can customise.

May 1, 2020 Macs, Technology

Apple has pushed updates to XProtect and MRT

Apple has pushed two updates today, to the data files used by XProtect, bringing its version number to […]

April 30, 2020 Macs, Technology

File Integrity 10 : Effects of length of corruption on images and ECC recovery

What difference does it make when a file has a block of 512 bytes corrupted instead of just a single byte? Results from image formats and recovery using ECC.

April 30, 2020 Macs, Technology

Using Finder Item Groups

Have you tried arranging items in the Finder using Groups? Detailed insights into what this does, and how it works with apps.

April 29, 2020 Macs, Technology

File Integrity 9 : How error-correcting codes work

How can you squeeze recovery data into smaller storage space than you’d need for a second copy of a file? Using codes, explained here.

April 28, 2020 Macs, Technology

Accessing this blog – news feeds and pages

Details of how to get different news feeds from each part of this blog, and how to find information from its over 5,000 articles.

April 27, 2020 General, Language, Life, Macs, Painting, Technology

Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 44

I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 44. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Display […]

April 27, 2020 General, Macs, Technology

Sparse bundles: what they are and how to work around their bugs

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An efficient means of storage with many uses, but riddled with bugs and shortcomings. Explains how to compact and resize them, and more.

April 27, 2020 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: Why file integrity is important

For all their compactness and ease of access, are our files going to prove less durable than a clay tablet recording a commercial transaction over 4,000 years ago?

April 26, 2020 General, Macs, Technology

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