Eight BSD flags are available in APFS to lock files, hide them, and restrict them in other ways. None of them synced correctly in iCloud Drive, and four caused other problems.
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Apple has just released a patch update to macOS Tahoe to bring it to version 26.5.1. This “addresses […]
Spotlight fails to index the content of text files starting with odd characters like ‘LG’ and ‘Draw’, Although we understand this is caused by checking the file type using file(1), this suggests an explanation of why it should do that. And whether it will ever get fixed for Intel Macs.
The update bringing macOS Tahoe to version 26.5 is modest in size and, apart from its security fixes, […]
Two significant indexing errors when processing RTF and image files caused search failures. Display in the Finder is also insufficient to make these xattrs as useful as they could be.
Revisits a bug in the Timers feature in the Clock app in Tahoe 26.1. This led to the feature failing to load or work. How has it changed in 26.4.1?
How to gain access to the contents of privacy-protected folders even though Privacy & Security settings say that access is denied.
For nearly 12 minutes, the progress bar was stuck at 98.6% complete and “about 5 minutes remaining”, and on many older Macs those lasted even longer. Did the update get stuck?
The update to bring macOS Tahoe up to version 26.4 is hefty at around 7.15 GB (more than […]
SilentKnight relies on the system_profiler command for much of the key information it needs. But that output is localised to the primary language in use at the time. This continues to cause problems.
The Eclectic Light Company 