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Last Week on My Mac: Things don’t always ‘just work’

Where are the tools for diagnosing and fixing features that don’t always ‘just work’? Turning to look at iCloud.

January 19, 2020 Macs, Technology

Protecting folders and volumes is too blunt

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The list of apps in my Files and Folders list grows steadily as they need to access my external SSD. And there’s nothing I can do about that.

January 8, 2020 Macs, Technology

Cirrus version 1.0 release: the iCloud tool is ready for general use

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Do you use iCloud? Then you need this, the only tool for managing it properly, investigating its problems, and tacking them.

May 19, 2018 Macs, Technology

Which file systems and Cloud services preserve extended attributes?

Have you been warned not to use extended attributes because they aren’t supported beyond macOS? But they are: here are details of file systems and Cloud services.

January 12, 2018 Macs, Technology, xattr

Getting Office 2011 and old apps to work fully in Sierra

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A couple of simple tricks to help you use Word 2011 and other old apps with Sierra’s new features and iCloud Drive.

October 12, 2016 General, Macs, Technology

Drive safely: testing hard drives the hard way

Few users can report the results of testing over 61,000 hard drives for three months. Backblaze just has.

May 20, 2016 Macs, Technology

The Mess in Music

I wish that my trial of Apple Music had cleaned up after itself. Instead my Music Library is a bit of a mess, and getting worse.

March 28, 2016 Macs, Technology

Q&A: iCloud caps

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How can I avoid exceeding my monthly broadband limit when using iCloud?

December 3, 2015 Macs, Technology

Unexpected cucumbers and online services

When is the last time that an online service caused you to have an unexpected cucumber experience?

November 24, 2015 General, Macs, Technology

Cloudburst: iCloud problems with iOS 9

There is a gathering storm in iCloud, it appears, as more and more users who back up their […]

September 29, 2015 General, Life, Macs, Technology

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