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Category Archive: Technology

What to do when a macOS update goes wrong (Catalina edition)

Safe mode, installing the Combo updater, re-installing macOS, and other potential solutions to get that update working properly.

December 21, 2019 Macs, Technology

Opening documents, SIP and quarantine flags in Catalina

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How does Catalina’s new privacy protection extend to folders such as ~/Documents? New information fills in detail.

December 20, 2019 Macs, Technology

Time Machine: 6 Networked storage

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From its first release, Time Machine has been designed to back up over a network. So why the problems? And how you can make your own NAS.

December 19, 2019 Macs, Technology

Making sense of Disk Utility and disk structure in macOS 10.13-10.15

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The Finder, Disk Utility and Terminal show disks and volumes differently, according to their function. This can appear confusing in Catalina until it has been explained.

December 18, 2019 Macs, Technology

How clean re-installs change in Catalina (updated)

When you go to perform a clean re-install of Catalina, what should you do? Which volume(s) to erase or delete, and how to fix problems?

December 17, 2019 Macs, Technology

Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 25

Suggested solutions and explanations for Saturday’s three riddles. Did you get all three this week?

December 16, 2019 General, Macs, Technology

Time Machine: 5 Changing Macs and more

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Migration and inheriting backups from earlier macOS and Macs investigated and documented. It’s a smart system, but can take a long time. And a new version of T2M2.

December 16, 2019 Macs, Technology, Updates

Catalina 10.15.2 has changed Gatekeeper’s dialogs to confuse notarization status

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What’s changed in 10.15.2? One of Gatekeeper’s most important dialogs, which now suggests that notarized apps haven’t been notarized at all.

December 15, 2019 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: Dictation, resources, and change

Innovation and advance are impossible without change, and implementing change successfully is crucial to Apple. Here are two examples of it not going right.

December 15, 2019 Macs, Technology

Saturday Mac riddles 25

Three good excuses not to go Christmas shopping. Solutions posted on Monday morning.

December 14, 2019 General, Macs, Technology

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