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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

Last Week on My Mac: Keyboard shortcuts killed by bug

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Want to use App Shortcuts in Mojave? You’re out of luck because its broken, and Apple can’t be bothered to fix it.

March 3, 2019 Macs, Technology

Mojave’s Time Machine 1.5: Working well but small quirks

With APFS, Time Machine underwent major change, to using snapshots to determine what to back up, rather than FSEvents. How well has this worked?

March 2, 2019 Macs, Technology

Mojave’s mixed-up Finder: Accents, Highlights, and confusion

Accent is blue, Highlight is orange. So what the hell are those menus doing in purple?

February 28, 2019 Macs, Technology

Synchronised Scrolling: a brief movie on PDF

Six different PDF documents, all scrolling in unison when one pages through its thumbnails. Not a special effect – a bug in macOS Mojave.

February 23, 2019 General, Macs, Technology

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