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.
Category Archive: Technology
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?
Three different XProtects, and one of them now duplicated – two sets of data in two locations, updated by two different systems from two different services. Which is which, and what gets updated when.
Is the log the right place to look? Should you use the active log, or make and use a logarchives? When should you start the search? Predicate or search? And further questions answered.
Apple has just released a security update for Safari in macOS Sonoma and Sequoia, bringing it to version […]
Apple has just released its regular weekly update to XProtect for all versions of macOS, bringing it to […]
What to try if your Mac doesn’t enter Recovery Mode when you want it to. For Apple silicon Macs, there’s Fallback Recovery, while Intel Macs have two forms of internet or remote recovery to choose from.
