What’s the difference between an app and kernel memory leak? How would you notice one, and how to investigate it, and (sometimes) work around the problem.
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How can you ensure the App Store offers you all the updates which it has available? Here’s a simple method which works around its limitations.
Unofficially, each major version of macOS gets a year’s full support, with bug and security fixes, then 2 years of security updates. Is that how it works?
Despite its lack of security release notes, the 11.5.2 update contains new versions of several important security executables, including spctl, sandboxd and syspolicyd.
The surprise update to Big Sur, bringing it to version 11.5.2, is the first that I can recall […]
Apple has just released the update to bring Big Sur to version 11.5.2. Once again, this is a […]
Apple’s detailed release notes on changes in macOS 11.5 are a bit thin on the ground, listing only […]
Don’t use Unicode normalised Form C names for volumes in Disk Utility, as they cause havoc, and prevent Spotlight from indexing volumes.
Erase your M1’s internal storage in Recovery, reinstall macOS and you could see an error in which it failed ‘to personalize the software update’. That’s not easy to fix, as explained here.
Soon after Apple started delivering M1 Macs, users found that they couldn’t boot them from external disks. Six months later, this has largely been fixed. What went wrong?
The Eclectic Light Company 