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Last Week on My Mac: Obsolescent preferences

UserDefaults and cfprefsd manage the preference system, an amorphous database spread across hundreds of files which can only be controlled in Terminal. It’s time for a change.

January 24, 2021 Macs, Technology

Bluetooth status is worse than ever in Big Sur 11.1

To get an accurate recent reading of the charge level of trackpad or keyboard, I have to open the Bluetooth status display twice. Why?

January 20, 2021 Macs, Technology

Is the Finder wobbly in Big Sur?

Apparently at random, my main working folder, on an external SSD, vanishes from the Finder. Is this a problem in macOS 11.1?

January 16, 2021 Macs, Technology

Taccy version 1.12 fixes a couple of bugs

Two bugs – one affecting SDK version beyond 11.0, the other changing designation of the Audio privacy entitlement. Now fixed.

January 6, 2021 Macs, Technology, Updates

Let’s make 2021 the year of Disk Utility

There’s no more critical app on your Mac, yet Disk Utility has suffered years of neglect – years in which APFS has grown many new features, and all Disk Utility gets is bugs and workaround.

January 1, 2021 Macs, Technology

Give your Mac (imaginary) unlimited storage thanks to Disk Utility’s bug

Disk Utility in Big Sur can turn a 1 TB external disk into 4.5 TB or more of imaginary containers. Sadly it’s just a bug, and here’s how to work around it.

December 26, 2020 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: Begging from Apple

We don’t know when Apple decided to introduce Big Sur’s SSV, but even now it hasn’t told users it won’t be releasing standalone updates for 11.0.1 or 11.1.

December 20, 2020 Macs, Technology

Does Big Sur need a bit more Help?

macOS Help system was last revamped in High Sierra, and has worked well. Until Big Sur has problems finding Help books, and shows some in French. How Help should work.

December 3, 2020 Macs, Technology

How big is Xcode?

The answer could be anything from 15 to 32 GB. Maybe the Finder’s just having a wild guess? Numbers courtesy of Big Sur and APFS.

November 24, 2020 Macs, Technology

The non-Universal binary: a cautionary tale

Identical code using system_profiler to look up the firmware version number worked in two apps but failed in a third. The solution was obscure.

November 12, 2020 Macs, Technology

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