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Safe mode, caches and CacheDelete

What does Safe mode do to all those service caches managed by CacheDelete? Does it still check your boot disk too?

May 3, 2023 Macs, Technology

Ventura space management: what gets purged and how?

Performed by CacheDelete, it first looks at a wide range of macOS caches, and only at the end purges snapshots, to free up space when it runs short.

April 19, 2023 Macs, Technology

Caches, buffers and swap

They’re everywhere: whatever you do, something somewhere will cache it. Later that can cause puzzling problems, but makes our Macs faster as a result.

February 4, 2023 Macs, Technology

All you need to know about Safe mode

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Invaluable tool for identifying and locating some problems, for troublesome updates, clearing caches and more.

December 19, 2022 Macs, Technology

Explainer: caching

They contain recently browsed web pages, ARM code translated from Intel executables, security data, font information, and much more. And they can cause problems.

October 9, 2021 Macs, Technology

Why doesn’t that document’s icon display properly? Beyond QuickLook

It has been one of the oldest problems on Macs, when a document shows with the wrong icon. Why, and how to fix it?

January 30, 2019 Macs, Technology

Mojave fixes QuickLook cache vulnerability

It is easy to browse images and other documents in the QuickLook cache in High Sierra and earlier, but Apple has not blocked this – details here.

October 23, 2018 Macs, Technology

When you can’t get macOS to forget

The greatest skill in memory is not the remembering, but knowing what to forget – something that macOS is useless at. Why doesn’t it clear out its old crud?

July 4, 2018 Macs, Technology

Don’t get cached out: the perils of cached data

Sometimes cached data are not as concealed or transient as we might wish. Don’t get cached out by them.

January 26, 2016 Language, Macs, Technology

The Steam Christmas breach: more details and a call to action

It turns out that Steam’s leak of personal data was very large, did contain sensitive personal information, and was the result of a denial of service attack. Has it been reported, though?

December 31, 2015 General, Macs, Technology

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