Apple has just released its regular weekly update to XProtect, bringing it to version 5357, now for all […]
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Apple has just released its regular weekly update to XProtect, bringing it to version 5357. However, this week’s […]
Problems syncing files with iCloud Drive? Don’t just turn it off and back on again. Use Cirrus instead to upload a test file, and check whether syncing that works. Full details.
iCloud services have changed greatly since their introduction in October 2011. Here’s a thorough run-down on iCloud today, from dataless files to FileProvider.
I hope you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 374. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Five flavours, […]
Snapshots made by Time Machine and tmutil should be purgeable, although sometimes they won’t purge, and aren’t shown reliably as purgeable space. An exploration of bugs and missing documentation.
If you leave your Mac running overnight, but not sleeping, what does it do? Does it perform maintenance tasks that it would otherwise have to do during the day?
Here are this weekend’s Mac riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: Five flavours, […]
Nine days of measurements of used space on a Time Machine backup storage drive. What does DeltaFree predict for its lifetime? How does used space change in containers in the internal SSD?
All APFS volumes in a single partition/container share its free space. How can that be measured? How much could be purged, and how do special file types affect it?
The Eclectic Light Company 