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How abysmal SMB performance can choke networked backups

How can it take over 5 hours to back up 79 GB of files to a network share? That’s an average transfer rate of 4 MB/s, probably slower than your Internet connection.

April 16, 2021 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: Big Sur’s broken clock

When a “fixed” formatting string proves anything but fixed, then breaks without warning or even mention in a release note.

April 11, 2021 Macs, Technology

Big Sur has changed how macOS formats time

How Apple made changes to Foundation routines which format dates and times which can break their formatting when in 12-hour clock mode.

April 8, 2021 Macs, Technology

Big Sur’s Dock & Menu Bar pane remains a mess

A good improvement appears to have been abandoned unfinished and suffering from bugs. Will Apple fix these and finish it off in 11.3?

April 7, 2021 Macs, Technology

Bugs and problems in the log: updates for 6 apps

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Consolation, Ulbow, Mints, T2M2, Cirrus and Taccy all updated to cope with increasing complexity and unreliability of the unified log.

April 6, 2021 Macs, Technology, Updates

Big Sur can prevent Ulbow, Mints and T2M2 from browsing its log

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Big Sur has recently introduced a bug which can change the format of log datestamps, which can break Ulbow, Mints and T2M2. Here’s how to fix it.

April 3, 2021 Macs, Technology

Time Machine to APFS: Changing disks

It’s common to want or have to change either the source or destination disk for backups. How well does Time Machine to APFS cope with that?

April 1, 2021 Macs, Technology

How your Mac changed its clocks to Summer Time

It’s surprising that macOS can be slower to fully register the annual ‘spring forward’ change than you are walking round manually changing your clocks.

March 30, 2021 Macs, Technology

Big Sur’s Tower of Babel

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Time to speak Klingon to your Mac. Or, rather, don’t try this at home or you could end up with mixed languages, and Help pages in something else.

March 13, 2021 Language, Macs, Technology

What has changed in macOS, and why it matters

Users need to know what changes in each update to macOS, as it may fix existing bugs and introduce new ones. Here’s how I work out what has changed, and its limitations.

March 2, 2021 Macs, Technology

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