A more objective comparison with the El Capitan and Sierra product cycles shows that High Sierra isn’t that much worse. Although APFS has matured well, a few obvious and serious security gaffes have marred this cycle.
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Have you been warned not to use extended attributes because they aren’t supported beyond macOS? But they are: here are details of file systems and Cloud services.
2017 was never going to be easy, and Apple had a lot of accidents over its closing months. It delivered a lot of new products, and with them a lot of new problems.
Running High Sierra? Do you keep your Photos Library on an external drive? Do you realise that backing it up using Time Machine is likely to be a waste of time?
General account of xattrs, their storage, types, tools for working with them, and common problems.
Changes include frequent timechecks by timed, harder access to info about keychains, a couple of possible AppleScript bugs, and APFS snapshots.
What happens next with Apple’s new file system is a strong indicator of its commitment to the Mac as a computer platform. Copy-on-write is the issue.
Effectively a Combo updater with the Supplemental Update, many apps are updated in a total payload of around 4.5 GB. And there’s the new emoji too.
Does APFS support its major new features – clones, snapshots, etc – yet, and how can you use them?
A new tool for performing full analysis of metadata for an APFS volume is now available – on an early bird offer.
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