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Catalina Boot Volumes

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macOS Catalina is the first version of macOS which boots not from a single volume, but from two: […]

January 23, 2020 Macs, Technology

Time Machine: 8 Preventing problems

Why you should always protect backup storage with a UPS. Should you also rebuild its directories every month? And when to archive rather than back up.

January 14, 2020 Macs, Technology

Last Year on My Mac: Explanations required

What’s the point of impressive Finder illusions when users can’t rely on your explanation of how to erase a disk? Apple’s problems of 2019 considered.

December 29, 2019 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: Flaws in re-installing Catalina

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Follow Apple’s instructions for a clean re-install, and you’ll probably hit an error, and be left floundering in Recovery mode with an unbootable system.

December 22, 2019 Macs, Technology

Making sense of Disk Utility and disk structure in macOS 10.13-10.15

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The Finder, Disk Utility and Terminal show disks and volumes differently, according to their function. This can appear confusing in Catalina until it has been explained.

December 18, 2019 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: Dictation, resources, and change

Innovation and advance are impossible without change, and implementing change successfully is crucial to Apple. Here are two examples of it not going right.

December 15, 2019 Macs, Technology

What has changed in Catalina 10.15.2?

New versions of Books, Music, News, Stocks and TV are among the most obvious changes in 10.15.2, but there’s a lot more besides, including some firmware updates.

December 11, 2019 Macs, Technology

Can you still use AFP sharing?

Can you still share files using the AFP protocol, or must you contend with SMB and its bugs? And what about shared storage for Time Machine backups?

December 9, 2019 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: The arithmetic of backing up

In the market for replacement backup storage? It’s a gamble, and you probably won’t know whether you made the right choice for the next year or more.

December 8, 2019 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: Help revised

The Mac is now in a documentation crisis. Documentation debt is leaving many Mac users floundering around in the dark.

December 1, 2019 Macs, Technology

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