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Upgrading to Big Sur 11.0.1: news from the surgery

If you haven’t upgraded to Big Sur yet but intend doing so early, be reassured: it’s one of the smoothest for years. Full details and a few tips to help.

November 20, 2020 Macs, Technology

T2M2 version 1.16 works better with Big Sur’s APFS backups

Extends support for the new feature in Big Sur to make Time Machine backups to APFS volumes.

November 12, 2020 Macs, Technology, Updates

How macOS schedules and dispatches background tasks using CTS 2

In the first article in this series, I explained how a great many background activities in macOS, including […]

October 14, 2020 Macs, Technology

How macOS schedules and dispatches background tasks using CTS 1

Rather than using cron or launchd, many background services in macOS are now run using Centralized Task Scheduling (CTS). This is how it works.

October 13, 2020 Macs, Technology

Preparing to upgrade to Big Sur

Concentrate on Time Machine backups, scripts, secondary updates, and whether you still have to retain access to 32-bit software. Some hints.

September 24, 2020 Macs, Technology

Should you upgrade to Big Sur early, or wait?

It’s got to be better than Catalina, so why not upgrade when it first comes out? Here are some suggestions to help you make your decision.

September 17, 2020 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: Is macOS becoming unmaintainable?

Provision of maintenance procedures and tools is at the heart of software engineering, but not in macOS.

August 30, 2020 Macs, Technology

Recover a broken document using versions, and clean versions up

Pages refuses to open the document. So how can you gain access to its previous versions?

August 18, 2020 Macs, Technology

Getting more from document versions in macOS

Why documents can lose their old versions when moving them around, and what you can do to preserve them.

August 17, 2020 Macs, Technology

T2M2 version 1.15 analyses APFS backups in Big Sur and is a Universal App

Performs special analysis of Big Sur backups to APFS, and runs native on Intel and Apple Silicon Macs.

August 6, 2020 Macs, Technology, Updates

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