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APFS

What went wrong with Mojave Security Update 2020-005, and Catalina 10.15.7?

One was just a bit wonky, the other has made a mess of many who installed the update. So what went wrong?

September 28, 2020 Macs, Technology

Preparing to upgrade to Big Sur

Concentrate on Time Machine backups, scripts, secondary updates, and whether you still have to retain access to 32-bit software. Some hints.

September 24, 2020 Macs, Technology

Mints now provides two more tools

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One new tool to list capacities on mounted volumes, the other to deliver detailed information on keychains.

September 22, 2020 Macs, Technology, Updates

Fitting a quart into a pint pot with sparse bundles

How to store a 400 GB sparse bundle on a volume which only has 200 GB free space – provided that you don’t actually use the space that isn’t there.

September 21, 2020 Macs, Technology

Imaging APFS storage in Disk Utility, and size of the VM volume

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Disk Utility can’t image APFS volumes, and normally returns an error if you try to image a container. Here’s the workaround.

September 18, 2020 Macs, Technology

Should you upgrade to Big Sur early, or wait?

It’s got to be better than Catalina, so why not upgrade when it first comes out? Here are some suggestions to help you make your decision.

September 17, 2020 Macs, Technology

Boot volume layout

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A complete guide to the structure and layout of APFS startup disks from High Sierra to Big Sur (Intel), together with tear-out PDF charts.

September 16, 2020 Macs, Technology

How can you rebuild or repair an APFS Volume Group?

If something goes wrong with Catalina’s boot Volume Group, it seems there’s no way to repair it, or change the Data volume. Or is there?

August 26, 2020 Macs, Technology

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

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