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Last Week on My Mac: Squeezing a thimbleful of update into a ten-gallon can

In macOS 11.5.1, Apple has squeezed a thimbleful of a patch into a ten-gallon can of update, more than 99% of which is overhead.

August 1, 2021 Macs, Technology

Six years on from Yosemite to Big Sur

Haven’t Macs and macOS changed over the last six years? Here are fictitious diary entries to illustrate the deep-seated changes.

July 24, 2021 Macs, Technology

Apple has now released Big Sur 11.5 update, and SUs for 10.14 and 10.15

Apple has just released the 11.5 update to macOS Big Sur. It’s of modest size, weighing in at […]

July 21, 2021 Macs, Technology, Updates

Apple has finally posted standalone updaters for Catalina and Mojave Security Updates

Apple has today posted standalone updaters for its Security Updates released for Catalina and Mojave over a week […]

June 2, 2021 Macs, Technology, Updates

How to restore Spotlight search of Rich Text files

Big Sur 11.3 fixed a bug which stopped indexing of the contents of RTF files. Here’s how to ensure all your RTFs are now accessible in Spotlight searches.

May 13, 2021 Macs, Technology

Summary of important security fixes in macOS

A lot has changed in recent versions of macOS over the last couple of weeks. This is a […]

May 5, 2021 Macs, Technology, Updates

Apple has pulled Safari 14.1 update for Mojave and Catalina (updated)

Included in the macOS updates this week was Safari version 14.1 for Mojave and Catalina (this was also […]

April 30, 2021 Macs, Technology, Updates

Time Machine to APFS: Changing disks

It’s common to want or have to change either the source or destination disk for backups. How well does Time Machine to APFS cope with that?

April 1, 2021 Macs, Technology

Time Machine to APFS: How processes have changed

Analysis of the phases of backing up to APFS shows the many similarities with that to HFS+. Crucial differences arise from the use of snapshots as backups.

March 18, 2021 Macs, Technology

Time Machine to APFS: Backing up

A blow-by-blow account of what happens when Time Machine in Big Sur performs an automated backup to an APFS volume.

March 17, 2021 Macs, Technology

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