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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

Last Week on My Mac: When time fails you

Why couldn’t a user specify times before 0100 and after 1300, when the DatePicker worked fine using the 24-hour clock?

January 12, 2020 Macs, Technology

When apps show mirror-writing upside down in Catalina

Some apps display some or all of the contents of their windows upside down and in mirror-writing. Have you discovered this incompatibility?

January 4, 2020 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: Flaws in re-installing Catalina

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Follow Apple’s instructions for a clean re-install, and you’ll probably hit an error, and be left floundering in Recovery mode with an unbootable system.

December 22, 2019 Macs, Technology

Stick a fork in it, and other flashbacks

Classic resource forks passed into Mac OS X, but were deprecated by Apple in 10.8. Now in Catalina they can stop working: is this a new security measure?

December 10, 2019 Macs, Technology

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