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Explainer: Disk free space

Confused by this on APFS? So you should be, as it’s complicated by features like snapshots, sparse files, and the file system itself. There’s no single figure.

December 4, 2021 Macs, Technology

Copying a Mac volume to another file system (and back)

Tired of HFS+? Disenchanted by APFS? Why not copy or back up to a different file system? Here are crocodiles waiting to bite you.

November 25, 2021 Macs, Technology

Using an M1 Mac: some basic principles

M1 Macs are different, as they always start booting from their internal SSD. Basic configurations are simple, reliable with well-established disaster recovery methods.

November 9, 2021 Macs, Technology

Why nothing else can back up to APFS like Time Machine does

A lot of what Time Machine does when making backups to an APFS volume remains a mystery. So far we don’t understand the magic used by Apple.

July 30, 2021 Macs, Technology

Explainer: deduplication

Track down all those duplicated files, and you could save yourself loads of disk space. Rather, you used to be able to. Why this doesn’t work so well now.

May 29, 2021 Macs, Technology

Why cloning Big Sur isn’t as useful for an M1 Mac

For some, inability to clone to the internal SSD of an M1 Mac seems disastrous. In reality, it could achieve little, and there are better solutions.

May 28, 2021 Macs, Technology

Can you create an external bootable disk by cloning an M1 Mac?

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Cloning has been a popular way of creating external bootable disks. Now that CCC 6 can make full clones of disks for M1 Macs, is it a solution?

May 25, 2021 Macs, Technology

Time Machine to APFS: First full backup

The first full backup is performed as a manual backup, and largely occurs in file-by-file copying from source to the backup store. It is more efficient than to HFS+, but differences could be less than 10%.

April 15, 2021 Macs, Technology

Explainers: Sparse things

Sparse bundles, sparse files, and sparse matrices explained in a nutshell, and how a sparse bundle could have a band which is a sparse file containing a sparse matrix.

April 10, 2021 Macs, Technology

Precize now informs you of sparse files and clones

Adds support for reporting whether a file is a sparse file, or has been cloned, in Big Sur.

April 7, 2021 Macs, Technology, Updates

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