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Last Week on My Mac: Testing trust in system upgrades and updates

Did Apple secretly alpha-test file system conversion in the iOS 10.0, 10.1, and 10.2 updates – without informing users or letting them opt-out of testing?

June 25, 2017 Macs, Technology

Apple has pushed a silent update to Gatekeeper’s data

Apple has just pushed a silent update to the Gatekeeper configuration data for Sierra and El Capitan. This […]

June 21, 2017 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: The mystery of repairing permissions

Why we can’t repair system permissions, and some pitfalls and promise in the new technique of repairing permissions on the Home folder.

June 18, 2017 Macs, Technology

Should you repair permissions on your Home folder, and how?

Apple has started recommending users to repair permissions – not generally, but in the Home folder. Here’s my experience, and a tool to make this easier.

June 17, 2017 Macs, Technology

Something odd you can’t fix? Sierra re-introduces repairing permissions

We stopped repairing permissions, because of SIP. Now Apple recommends it for a wide range of problems – only this repairs them on your Home folder.

June 15, 2017 Macs, Technology

Apple has pushed out silent security updates

Apple has just pushed two security updates, and a Chinese Word List update. The security updates bring its […]

June 7, 2017 Macs, Technology

macOS High Sierra 10.13 and APFS

Yesterday’s Keynote at WWDC confirmed that the next major release of macOS, dubbed High Sierra, will be released […]

June 6, 2017 Macs, Technology

Apple has pushed out a silent update to Gatekeeper data

Over the weekend, Apple has pushed out another update to macOS / OS X Gatekeeper’s configuration data, bringing […]

June 4, 2017 Macs, Technology

Next Week on My Mac: All the fun of WWDC

Its annual developer conference will reveal how Apple’s new file system will roll out in macOS 10.13, and determine its adoption and success.

June 4, 2017 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: Making more sense of the log

Conventional log analysis gets precious little from Sierra’s unified log. Automated analysis has much greater potential. Will Apple head in this direction too?

May 28, 2017 Macs, Technology

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