Fixes a crashing bug when using its Crawler feature. Analysis of provenance xattrs confirms they can be useful in providing more information about files.
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Apple silicon Macs were designed to boot almost as securely from external disks as from their internal SSD. That makes macOS installation a little more complicated. Here’s how to do that.
I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 337. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Passing […]
By default, quarantine xattrs aren’t attached to new files created by an app. That behaviour is controlled by a setting in their Info.plist, and can be overridden in an Exceptions property list.
In a typical ~/Documents folder, 14% of all files have a provenance xattr attached to them, that could enable the app that last modified them to be identified. Could we make use of that?
Here are this weekend’s Mac riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: Passing time […]
Integers of different sizes and endianness, floating point numbers with a radix of 2 that can result in rounding and cancellation errors and NaNs, and bfloat16 for AI.
Why do so many files now have quarantine and other extended attributes, although they’re not apps, and may never have left that Mac?
How Mac applications evolved from a multitude of resources to a bundle formed from a standard layout of directories, and how they have come to be largely self-contained in macOS 26.
How to control Login and Background items in System Settings, how to identify those you might not recognise, and how to use sfltool for advanced diagnostics and reset.
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