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APFS

Fun and confuddling with Unicode

How to hide text so that it can’t be searched or analysed, and how file naming almost brought APFS down.

August 21, 2020 General, Language, Macs, Technology

Apfelstrudel version 1.4 is now a Universal App

Universal App which gives deep insight into Unicode normalisation problems, string comparison, and more.

August 18, 2020 Macs, Technology, Updates

T2M2 version 1.15 analyses APFS backups in Big Sur and is a Universal App

Performs special analysis of Big Sur backups to APFS, and runs native on Intel and Apple Silicon Macs.

August 6, 2020 Macs, Technology, Updates

Calling time on High Sierra

If your Mac still starts up in 10.13, now’s the time to start planning your upgrade when Apple’s support for it discontinues. Pros and cons.

August 5, 2020 Macs, Technology

Time Machine and snapshots

Time Machine has been using snapshots since High Sierra. How can it then use them to make backups to APFS volumes in Big Sur?

July 29, 2020 Macs, Technology

When the Finder’s arithmetic fails with an error of 139 TB

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Trying to discover the effective size of a snapshot proves baffling, particularly when the Finder claims it’s almost astronomical.

July 13, 2020 Macs, Technology

APFS changes in Big Sur: how Time Machine backs up to APFS, and more

APFS adds 6 volume roles, including one which supports Time Machine backups. And per-file encryption is coming.

June 29, 2020 Macs, Technology

Big Sur’s Signed System Volume: added security protection

From SIP to a protected read-only System volume, macOS 11 takes system protection a big step further with cryptographic verification.

June 25, 2020 Macs, Technology

Limits to size of sparse bundles, and bugs fixed in Spundle 1.2

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Important update for all users, which addresses several bugs in setting the maximum size of sparse bundles.

June 22, 2020 Macs, Technology

Selecting sizes for sparse bundles

How to set the total size, and band size, for your sparse bundles, with calculation of the critical band size.

June 18, 2020 Macs, Technology

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