Apple has just released security updates for macOS Catalina and Big Sur. Yes, you saw that right, macOS […]
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I hope you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 345. Here are my solutions to them. 1: No amateur […]
As Time Machine has changed, first to back up APFS volumes, then to create backups as snapshots, its needs have changed. This makes it complicated to decide which local snapshots you can delete without affecting its backups.
The older AppKit API supports seconds in its Date Picker, but they’ve been dropped from its SwiftUI successor. There are many other signs our Macs are moving to less precise time. Is this intentional, to reverse our slavery to time?
Here are this weekend’s Mac riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: No amateur […]
Fundamentally simple: a preserved copy of a volume at a moment in time. How its size can only increase with time, how they’re managed, what they’re used for, and the tools for using them.
Follow a sponsored result in Google to a page in Medium that provides a Terminal command that you will live to regret. And what is Marek’s disease?
Apple silicon Macs may not obtain an external reference time for many seconds after starting up. Do they adjust their local clock over that period, and if so, against what reference?
First decide what you want to ‘clean’: the Data or System volume, or firmware? Then consider the methods of choice to perform that. Explained for Intel and Apple silicon Macs.
You’re sometimes advised to shut your Mac down, wait a while, and start it up again, instead of restarting it. Are they different, and if so when should you use them?
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