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Why macOS 14.2 & 14.2.1 VMs lose shared folders, and how to work around it

If you use macOS VMs on an Apple silicon Mac, folders shared with the host may vanish in 14.2 and later. Here’s why, which are affected, and how to work around the problem.

December 22, 2023 Macs, Technology

Don’t update macOS VMs to 14.2 or 14.2.1 if you use shared folders

If you run macOS virtual machines (VMs) on Apple silicon Macs using lightweight virtualisation, you may wish to […]

December 20, 2023 Macs, Technology

Serious bugs remain in macOS Sonoma 14.2

Two memory leaks in the Finder, inability to change password for encrypted sparse bundles, and a crashing bug in Contacts. Detailed and reported to Apple.

December 14, 2023 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: Leaking like a sieve

How to get an app to leak memory, what a leak does, how to mitigate against a leak, and how an engineer should fix it.

November 26, 2023 Macs, Technology

Red menu bar in Sonoma

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Occasionally, switching apps in Sonoma’s Stage Manager sets the whole menu bar to red, and loses menus on its left. What’s the cause?

November 24, 2023 Macs, Technology

Viable, ViableS and Vimy updates to fix a bug

These fix a bug when restoring a VM window that has been minimised to the Dock.

November 23, 2023 Macs, Technology, Updates

Another Finder memory leak in Sonoma

With one leak in the Finder’s Gallery view, it’s time for another, in Icon view. This is an old leak, that has affected older versions of macOS too, but still hasn’t been fixed.

November 23, 2023 Macs, Technology

Finder memory leak in macOS Sonoma 14.1.1

Select groups of many JPEG images in Finder’s gallery view, and the Finder’s memory grows steadily until you’re forced to relaunch it.

November 20, 2023 Macs, Technology

What has changed in the macOS Sonoma 14.1 update?

Full details, including a warning about older camera support. If you know what an Apple T6041 MCC is, this might provide a tantalising clue.

October 25, 2023 Macs, Technology, Updates

macOS Sonoma has changed iCloud Drive radically

The small stub files used as placeholders for files evicted to iCloud Drive have vanished. Could that be why some Macs had to download the whole contents of their iCloud Drive?

October 25, 2023 Macs, Technology

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