Assigning ownership to an external bootable disk doesn’t always work in Recovery mode on an M1 Mac. But there’s an easy workaround.
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Understanding how iCloud works, and how files can be downloaded or evicted. Basic tests which are essential preliminaries, and using Cirrus to help.
Fed up with the Flying Pointer? Tired of the oldest Universal Bug in Finder Column Widths? Want updates from the App Store? These are some of the annoyances in 12.0.1.
Is Monterey burning your memory away? Here are two reproducible memory leaks which could explain that, plus two more than might.
How this memory leak probably occurs, which apps it affects, and what you can do to avoid it completely.
A major new version of macOS bringing few big changes, but lots of opportunity for improvements and fixes.
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.
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.
