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What makes macOS updates more complex: T2 firmware updates

Why couldn’t you install Security Update 2019-004 on your T2-free Mac, when the problem was in its T2 firmware update?

July 27, 2019 Macs, Technology

Investigating a crash using Consolation 3

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Pinning down what went wrong when an app has crashed is never easy, but should be far more straightforward browsing the log using Consolation 3.

May 23, 2019 Macs, Technology

Files that aren’t: how Safari puts weblocs on pause

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Safari 12.1.1 will write a folder of weblocs from its Bookmarks page, but forgets to close and release those files. Look at the problems which result.

May 16, 2019 Macs, Technology

TextEdit goes out of its way to destroy data

TextEdit will happily trash an HTML file when you convert it to text – without any good reason, other than an engineer not being familiar with macOS.

May 1, 2019 Macs, Technology

Mojave’s Legacy Software is doubly wrong

How reliably does Legacy Software detect 64-bit compatible upgrades? For some apps, it doesn’t notice at all, it appears, and continues to give wrong information.

April 18, 2019 Macs, Technology

Running a command tool or app results in an error ‘dyld: Library not loaded’

This error message can occur when running any command tool, or an app which calls a command tool, in 10.14.3 and earlier.

April 1, 2019 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: The best update since El Capitan?

Release notes, three major bugs fixed (and plenty more too I suspect) – that’s got to be good. But there’s also the matter of broken command tools on previous versions.

March 31, 2019 Macs, Technology

Mojave Spotlight bug: Dictionaries don’t do Dark Mode

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Look in the Dictionary app, and entries are fine in Dark Mode. But access the same content via Spotlight, and they become unreadable. Why?

March 29, 2019 Macs, Technology

Disk Utility can’t resize APFS disk images, but hdiutil can

Want to increase the size of a disk image in APFS? If you’re relying on Disk Utility to do it, you’re out of luck. But here’s how to do this at the command line instead.

March 16, 2019 Macs, Technology

When a window closes as soon as it has opened

In Sierra but not Mojave, when the user opens an ancillary window, it appears for a moment, then vanishes. Is it a bug in the code, or in AppKit?

March 13, 2019 Macs, Technology

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