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Last Week on My Mac: Getting to the root of High Sierra’s problems

Why has High Sierra suffered such glaring security and other bugs? Look carefully at where they have occurred, and it suggests that this isn’t just carelessness.

December 3, 2017 Macs, Technology, Uncategorized

The Time Machine Mechanic, T2M2, version 1.2

Should fix a bug in which T2M2 reports an error message rather than completing an analysis of Time Machine backups.

October 21, 2017 Macs, Technology

How Disk Utility can crack High Sierra’s encrypted volumes (updated)

Can you trust High Sierra’s new encryption features, now that it’s known they can reveal your password?

October 5, 2017 Macs, Technology

High Sierra: security files, internals and some bugs

It looks much the same as Sierra. Looking at High Sierra’s logs, though, shows that there are significant internal changes. Here’s a first glimpse at SkyLight, APFS and dasd at work.

September 29, 2017 Macs, Technology

WordPress.com -> Twitter sharing has broken (updated)

Overnight, since 16 September 2017, the Sharing feature in WordPress.com blogs appears to have become broken. Previously, tweets […]

September 17, 2017 General, Life, Macs, Technology

How iCloud Drive can break Time Machine backups

A strange problem with backups that start, but fail to complete successfully, apparently because of duplicate filenames. T2M2 to the rescue, bringing some important lessons.

September 9, 2017 Macs, Technology

Recent Items, Launch Services, and SharedFileLists

Digging into macOS Sierra and its logs to examine how Recent Items works. Useful insights into Launch Services, and potential historical info about documents opened.

August 10, 2017 Macs, Technology

When Recent Items vanish: a possible bug in Sierra 10.12.6?

It’s a System Prefs problem. No, a preferences file problem. No, it’s something else, but Apple once again won’t tell us how Recent Items works, or doesn’t.

August 9, 2017 Macs, Technology

Sierra 10.12.6 doesn’t fix the Time Machine bug, but changes it

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Automatic backups will still become irregular or fail altogether, making Sierra 10.12.6 unsuitable for servers and systems requiring sustained operation.

July 30, 2017 Macs, Technology

Oracle releases surprise Java update

Oracle has released another Java update, only a week after it released 8u141, to fix problems in that […]

July 28, 2017 Macs, Technology

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