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Finder still thinks this Mac’s got a hard disk, and won’t set Preview Options

Three Finder bugs in 10.15.3, from the plain silly to infuriating. Every Mac still has a hard disk, Preview Options that don’t work, and a very old fiend.

February 27, 2020 Macs, Technology

Scrub version 1.1 shouldn’t crash on Catalina

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Fixes a bug which could cause the app to crash when starting to run an audit.

February 24, 2020 Macs, Technology, Updates

Checking backup transfer rates using T2M2 version 1.13

Now collects log entries reporting progress and rates of transfer during a backup, and giving info on what is slowing them down.

February 19, 2020 Macs, Technology

Time Machine 14: Diagnosing and working around slow backups

How can you tell what causing a backup to run so slowly? If it is this bug, what can you do about it? A plain user’s guide.

February 17, 2020 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: Duff disk or normal behaviour?

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Surely these problems with Time Machine are old hat and not news? Or are they simply errors occurring with disks or the file system?

February 16, 2020 Macs, Technology

Time Machine in Catalina 10.15.3 has serious bugs

When making a first full backup of less than 2 GB takes 86 minutes, and you then can’t restore from it anyway.

February 12, 2020 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: SSD it

The plan was simple: replace my 8 year-old Promise Pegasus RAID system with a shiny new SSD RAID system, for Time Machine backups. What could go wrong?

February 9, 2020 Macs, Technology

Time Machine 12: Backups that never complete

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Here’s what happens when a Time Machine backup, normally the first, slows to the point where it’s just never going to finish.

February 8, 2020 Macs, Technology

Pervasive effects of the Catalina 10.15.3 update

Catches and issues with the 10.15.3 update – and good news on two important bugs which it fixed.

February 1, 2020 Macs, Technology

Why all the updates?

Five updates in a single day? Here’s the explanation.

January 14, 2020 Macs, Technology

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