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What’s the time, Mr Mac? How summer time confuses macOS

When you find one, bugs will necessarily be multiple. If you think you’ve found one, you can be fairly confident that you’ll find more. Four bugs in macOS for the price of one.

November 1, 2019 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: The log is the wrong place

macOS doesn’t handle significant errors and failures well, burying them away in the log. It needs to report them to the user through a new sub-system.

July 21, 2019 Macs, Technology

Medium Well Done: 10 Acrylics

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Oils were king until the 1960s, when acrylic paints became readily available. How do they differ from oils, though?

May 22, 2019 General, Life, Painting, Technology

Inside iCloud Drive: Optimize Storage, and its bugs

How does the ‘Optimize Storage’ feature work? Indeed, does it work? A look at its confusions and a couple of bugs.

April 6, 2018 Macs, Technology

Inside iCloud Drive: Downloading

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When does macOS decide to download new and changed items in iCloud Drive? This steps through the process from decision to completion.

April 4, 2018 Macs, Technology

Inside iCloud Drive: Pushed updates, that syncing feeling

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How does macOS learn of changes which have taken place in iCloud Drive, such as the uploading of files from another system? Here the process is taken apart, and points of failure highlighted.

April 2, 2018 Macs, Technology

Inside iCloud Drive: uploading a file

When you upload a file to iCloud Drive, the steps involved are complex. They’re outlined and diagrammed here, with pointers to how to diagnose and resolve problems.

March 30, 2018 Macs, Technology

Inside iCloud Drive: In the log in Sierra and High Sierra

Looking inside iCloud when copying a file across to cloud storage. How CloudDocs, CloudKit, MMCS, and other subsystems work together.

March 26, 2018 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: The awesome power of the Duet

If Apple manages the performance of iOS, does it do the same with macOS? What is there to stop that from being used against us?

December 24, 2017 Macs, Technology

Starting up in High Sierra 10.13.1: an initial log exploration

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Changes include frequent timechecks by timed, harder access to info about keychains, a couple of possible AppleScript bugs, and APFS snapshots.

November 23, 2017 Macs, Technology

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