How Spotlight works, Core and global Spotlight, importing failure, exclusions from indexing, re-indexing, excessive re-indexing, failure to find, iCloud Drive and network shares.
Category Archive: Technology
macOS logs may only last a few days, or even hours, into the past. Here’s a quick and simple way of browsing the log from weeks, months or even years ago.
A matrix multiplication test appears to be run on the AMX matrix co-processor, and behaves differently from in-core tests. And what Power modes really do.
Try searching for something you know is in a file in ~/Library/Preference and you’re unlikely to get any success. This explains how, and why you can’t alter that.
I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 283. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Hidden […]
Power use in two in-core performance tests, by number of threads run, leading to estimates of total energy used by P and E cores running the same code, at high frequencies. How efficient are the CPU cores in the M4?
If you’re looking for good advice on Macs, Apple’s support documentation is often limited, and the Tips app has a long way to go before it’s useful. Why not try ChatGPT? Six case studies might be helpful.
Here are this weekend’s Mac riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: Hidden folder […]
From the first 8 MHz Motorola 68000, through PowerPCs reaching 2.5 GHz and more in up to 4 cores, and Intel x86 with up to 28 cores, to Apple’s M4 Max with 12 P cores at 4.5 GHz.
You use Spotlight to search for something you’re sure is there, but it can’t find it. Here are some methods to discover why that search failed.
The Eclectic Light Company 