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Last Week on My Mac: How an RSR went badly wrong

Two RSRs in two days! What went wrong with the first on 10 July, and why it would have been anticipated, and was entirely preventable.

July 16, 2023 Macs, Technology

SilentKnight 2.6 supports Sonoma and more

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Adds support for Sonoma, and removes precautions to deal with broken updates from Content Caching servers.

June 16, 2023 Macs, Technology, Updates

What to do when an app uses too much memory

How to tell whether an app has a memory leak, what to do about it, and the differences from a kernel memory leak.

June 6, 2023 Macs, Technology

Ghosts in the machine: .DS_Store files

Introduced in the Finder in Mac OS X, these hidden and invisible files have been quietly causing havoc with backups, revision control systems, and more.

May 31, 2023 Macs, Technology

Close, but still no banana: Disk Utility 22.6

Disk Utility version 22.6 in Ventura 13.4 finally tackles bugs running First Aid on APFS volumes. Has it finally solved them?

May 22, 2023 Macs, Technology

Did that update just break something? How bad updates are getting less likely

With the sealed system and Cryptexes, macOS updates are less likely to cause problems. As RSRs are easy to uninstall, it’s simple to test whether they’re the cause.

May 6, 2023 Macs, Technology

Ventura 13.3.1 can’t change the password of sparse bundles

hdiutil chpass, the only means of changing passwords for sparse bundles, doesn’t work in macOS Ventura 13.3.1. The workaround requires a VM and 13.1.

April 25, 2023 Macs, Technology

Mints version 1.13 fixes a crashing bug

Fixes a crashing bug in the Disk Check feature.

April 18, 2023 Macs, Technology, Updates

The Finder confuses with wildly inaccurate figures for available space

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Good space management doesn’t bring new emoji, but it makes a big difference when the Finder doesn’t give completely inaccurate figures for Available space. A practical demonstration of its gross errors.

April 17, 2023 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: Finder or loser?

Can we trust the figures the Finder provides for used and available space on a volume? What does it count as purgeable?

April 16, 2023 Macs, Technology

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