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Errors in the night and snapshot problems

What does your Mac get up to when you’re away from it? Mine was busy writing hundreds of thousands of entries in the log because of a couple of snapshots.

February 5, 2020 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: Is Catalina a good upgrade yet?

Although 10.15.3 fixes a serious bug in Mail and Catalina is steadily maturing, there are many users who still shouldn’t upgrade.

February 2, 2020 Macs, Technology

Time Machine: 11 tmutil

The three tools which Apple provides to control Time Machine are its System Preferences pane, the Time Machine […]

January 22, 2020 Macs, Technology

Time Machine: 10 Tools

There’s a small selection of tools available which work with Time Machine, supplement it, or replace it altogether. […]

January 22, 2020 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: Things don’t always ‘just work’

Where are the tools for diagnosing and fixing features that don’t always ‘just work’? Turning to look at iCloud.

January 19, 2020 Macs, Technology

Time Machine: 9 Inside backup support files

How can you tell what was backed up when Time Machine last ran a routine backup? Here’s one way to find out, and detailed info on its support files.

January 17, 2020 Macs, Technology

Time Machine: 8 Preventing problems

Why you should always protect backup storage with a UPS. Should you also rebuild its directories every month? And when to archive rather than back up.

January 14, 2020 Macs, Technology

T2M2 version 1.12 fixes an unusual show-stopper bug

Fixes a bug which could prevent admin users from opening T2M2 if they were a member of very few groups.

January 13, 2020 Macs, Technology, Updates

Prepare your Mac for service

What to do, when you can, before taking or sending your Mac in for service or repair. What about FileVault? And Activation Lock?

December 28, 2019 Macs, Technology

T2M2 further improves strategy data for backups in Catalina

Recommended for those running or preparing to upgrade to Catalina, as it adds a new strategy for determining what to back up.

December 27, 2019 Macs, Technology, Updates

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