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How should you save web pages in Safari?

How should you keep copies of web pages: HTML source, Webarchive, or PDF? Which is the better way to make PDFs in Safari? And what about archive copies?

July 1, 2022 Macs, Technology

How to burn a Blu-ray disc in Monterey

Ideal for storing archives of important files, M-DISC media are intended to last longer than a human lifetime, but are expensive. Here’s how to use them.

June 28, 2022 Macs, Technology

Explainer: Archiving isn’t backing up

Archiving is very different from backing up, from the storage media used to integrity checks. Here are pointers to help you preserve important documents.

June 25, 2022 Macs, Technology

Check file integrity with Dintch 1.0

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First release version, for El Capitan to Catalina. And completely free of course.

April 1, 2020 Macs, Technology

Dintch Support

This page is for your support questions and comments on my free file integrity checker Dintch. Full details, […]

March 25, 2020 Macs, Technology

Dintch 1.0b2 should now run on macOS 10.11 to 10.15

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Other major changes include detailed reporting, and user control over the size of buffer used, bringing big performance improvements.

March 25, 2020 Macs, Technology

Burning to Blu-ray

If you opt for ‘Mac-only’ format, isn’t that sufficient to preserve everything you need in an archive?

March 24, 2020 Macs, Technology

Checking file integrity with Dintch (first beta)

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How can you tell whether the file you see in storage today is the same as it was a year ago when you last opened it?

March 23, 2020 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: No thanks for the memories

Because of its glorious past, Apple is about the future. But just now we need our past, with the future looking so uncertain.

March 22, 2020 General, Life, Macs, Technology

Should we take bit rot seriously?

Over time, stored data gets gradually corrupted. But over what period – months, years or centuries? And at what rate?

March 21, 2020 Macs, Technology

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