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Time Machine: 3 Analysing automatic backups

Looking at failure of automatic backups, cancelled backups, and errors occurring when backing up, using T2M2, from Sierra to Catalina.

December 5, 2019 Macs, Technology

Time Machine: 2 What it writes in the log

Detailed log excerpts showing normal backups in 10.12 to 10.15, with some of the more common errors encountered.

December 4, 2019 Macs, Technology

Time Machine: 1 How it works, or fails to

New series looking at how TM works, what its problems are, what tools to use to diagnose those, and how to fix it.

December 3, 2019 Macs, Technology

T2M2 version 1.9 checks privileges and tells more in Catalina

Recommended for all users, particularly those running TM in Catalina, where it analyses strategies used to determine what to back up.

December 2, 2019 Macs, Technology, Updates

Last Week on My Mac: Help revised

The Mac is now in a documentation crisis. Documentation debt is leaving many Mac users floundering around in the dark.

December 1, 2019 Macs, Technology

What happens when you run an app in Catalina?

T T Read More

From launch, through security checks, TCC and privacy, RunningBoard, to memory management and the Main Event Loop. A comprehensive summary.

November 29, 2019 Macs, Technology

All aboard for Catalyst: how macOS runs iPadOS apps

iPadOS apps are written to use UIKit and features such as scenes. How can Catalyst get these to work in macOS, then?

November 28, 2019 Macs, Technology

How to check quarantine, 64-bit, signature, and notarization for almost anything

Checking signatures, notarization, and 64-bit code on different items like apps, command tools, and Installer packages just got much simpler.

November 26, 2019 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: ‘private’

Over a period of one minute 1636 of a total of 8638 log entries were censored with the mark ‘private’. Why can’t we disable this censorship?

November 24, 2019 Macs, Technology

Are you ever likely to use Terminal in Catalina?

Do you know how to customise the zsh shell now standard in Catalina? Here’s an excellent book which covers it in detail – and curious choice in 10.15.

November 23, 2019 Macs, Technology

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