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Pick your Panacea: how to select a generic fix

When should you reset your SMC and NVRAM, repair permissions, install a Combo update, or re-install the whole of macOS?

March 9, 2018 Macs, Technology

The universal panacea for macOS problems: install the Combo updater

Time Machine not backing up hourly? Troubled by repeated prompts to enter your user password? iCloud Drive playing up? Try installing the latest Combo updater. Updated for High Sierra.

August 23, 2017 Macs, Technology

A panacea for El Capitan problems: applying the latest Combo updater

Installing a Combo update of OS X is a popular panacea for puzzling problems. But you need to do a bit more to complete the job.

May 2, 2016 Macs, Technology

My network connection is not unplugged: a KEXT, a MAC, and an almost dead Mac

Sunday morning nightmare: how a missing component of OS X brought my iMac to its knees.

February 29, 2016 Macs, Technology
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