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Is APFS fully supported yet?

Does APFS currently support hard disks, Fusion Drives, and other forms of storage beyond SSDs? The devil is in the detail.

February 17, 2018 Macs, Technology

Apple updates its malware removal tool, MRT

Apple is in the process of pushing an update to its malware removal tool, MRT, bringing it to […]

February 14, 2018 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: Here comes macOS 10.14

Apple should name macOS version with literary references. Here’s the justification for macOS 10.14 Gormenghast.

February 11, 2018 General, Macs, Technology

Further spurious ‘security’ updates, and who is com.apple.mac.install?

For no apparent reason, Sierra has again downloaded and installed an old ‘security’ update from 2016. Not only that, but it does its utmost to prevent you from finding out, even when studying the log. At least 5 bugs!

February 1, 2018 Macs, Technology

xattr: com.apple.icloud.itemName, iCloud Drive placeholder filename

A tag containing the filename of a file still held remotely in iCloud, attached to a stub. Only in iCloud files.

January 30, 2018 xattr

How iCloud marks the place of documents stored remotely

Scripts and apps which could look at folders in iCloud should watch for stub files. Here’s how they work, and why they can mislead.

January 30, 2018 Macs, Technology, xattr

iCloud Drive has user modes, and tags transferred apps

How the two user modes differ, what iCloud Drive does to files transferred between two different clients, and an apparently unique tag it applies to apps which pass through.

January 29, 2018 Macs, Technology, xattr

Last Week on My Mac: Apple still loves us

More mitigation for Meltdown and Spectre, EFI updates, and steady progress in High Sierra are all very promising. So where does that put macOS 10.14?

January 28, 2018 Macs, Technology

macOS code signing and Gatekeeper ignore extended attributes

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Gatekeeper doesn’t seem interested in extended attributes attached to the contents of signed apps – the signature remains valid. Could this be exploited?

January 27, 2018 Macs, Technology, xattr

iOS 11.2.5 may harm the Watch-iPhone relationship

I haven’t written much about my first-generation Apple Watch, because like all good watches, it has just got […]

January 26, 2018 General, Macs, Technology

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