If you run macOS virtual machines (VMs) on Apple silicon Macs using lightweight virtualisation, you may wish to […]
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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.
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.
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?
These fix a bug when restoring a VM window that has been minimised to the Dock.
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.
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.
Full details, including a warning about older camera support. If you know what an Apple T6041 MCC is, this might provide a tantalising clue.
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?
Which versions of macOS get which types of security update, which have protection from XProtect Remediator, and can you still rely on Safari?
