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Serious Finder bug in Mojave 10.14.2 with broken aliases

Do you use Finder Column views and make Aliases to folders? If one of those gets broken, then the Finder may hang on you.

January 10, 2019 Macs, Technology

Disk Utility 18.0 (Mojave): Not exactly the truth

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Disk Utility claims to perform secure erase on SSDs, but does no such thing. Here are workarounds to do what it doesn’t, and details of a bug preventing encryption of APFS volumes.

December 17, 2018 Macs, Technology

Which word processors support Rich Text in Dark Mode?

Which app should you use when you want styled or Rich Text to remain readable whether it’s displayed in Light or Dark Mode?

December 12, 2018 Macs, Technology

When the App Store says to redownload all your apps

What does the iCloud icon mean in the App Store? That the app has to be ‘redownloaded’. So what does it mean when every app you ever bought shows it?

December 11, 2018 Macs, Technology

How to fix a Secure Note (or anything else) which won’t display in Dark Mode

You open a Secure Note or other text, only to see its content seems to have vanished when viewed in Dark Mode. Here’s how to fix it.

December 10, 2018 Macs, Technology

What has happened to the App Store in 10.14.2?

Has Apple changed App Store behaviour in 10.14.2? Does it now leave updates in the cloud, or is it just broken?

December 7, 2018 Macs, Technology

Versions in iCloud are still a mess, made worse by Handoff

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Until these bugs are fixed, versions in iCloud simply can’t be trusted. And mixing them with Handoff becomes even more confusing.

November 9, 2018 Macs, Technology

Is Mojave’s privacy protection still vulnerable in 10.14.1?

Which of the three vulnerabilities in privacy protection has been fixed in 10.14.1? Is it good protection now?

November 8, 2018 Macs, Technology

Safari 12.0 bug in macOS Mojave: smearing in image previews

A cosmetic bug ‘smearing’ images which download slowly, by repeating the last row of the image down to its foot.

October 22, 2018 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: iCloud queues

Shared documents in iCloud have patchy version histories with duplication. They are also inefficient, leading to download of many identical files. And they can take forever to sync.

October 21, 2018 Macs, Technology

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