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Repairing Home folder permissions: a mystery

Once, you could run diskutil to ‘fix’ broken permissions in your Home folder, then it was replaced by repairHomePermissions in Recovery. Apple no longer documents this, but it’s still there. Should you use it?

November 18, 2022 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: Fortnightmare

How Ventura 13.0.1 played hard to get for some, and ongoing problems successfully installing security data updates make for the fortnightly nightmare.

November 13, 2022 Macs, Technology

Apple has pushed updates to XProtect and XProtect Remediator

Apple has just pushed its regular fortnightly update to XProtect Remediator security software for Macs running Catalina or […]

November 10, 2022 Macs, Technology, Updates

Apple has released Ventura 13.0.1

Apple has just released a security update to macOS Ventura 13.0, bringing it 13.0.1. Downloads for Intel Macs […]

November 9, 2022 Macs, Technology, Updates

Last Week on My Mac: Home truths about macOS

True or false? Apple supports macOS for three years. Apple’s security updates are sufficient. New versions of macOS are full of bugs. It’s safer to delay upgrading.

November 6, 2022 Macs, Technology

Apple has pushed an update to XProtect Remediator

Apple has just pushed its regular fortnightly update to XProtect Remediator security software for Macs running Catalina or […]

October 27, 2022 Macs, Technology, Updates

Making the most of Apple silicon power: 7 Virtualisation and core use

Virtual CPU cores are of one type, and QoS has no effect in virtualised macOS. This has consequences for both the host and guest macOS.

October 27, 2022 Macs, Technology

Apple has released Ventura, and security updates to Monterey and Big Sur

Apple has just released macOS 13 Ventura, together with security updates to Monterey and Big Sur. If you’re […]

October 24, 2022 Macs, Technology, Updates

Making the most of Apple silicon power: 6 Empowering users

Many apps could benefit users of Apple silicon Macs by giving them controls over core use by their threads. Here’s how that can be done simply and effectively.

October 24, 2022 Macs, Technology

Making the most of Apple silicon power: 5 User control

How you can use the taskpolicy command to confine all the threads of a process to the E cores, as a brake, but there’s no accelerator in macOS.

October 20, 2022 Macs, Technology

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