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Living with Desktop & Documents in iCloud

How to prevent folders from being synced with iCloud Drive, and what happens when you turn Desktop & Documents off could surprise.

August 7, 2019 Macs, Technology

What are those huge files doing in Mojave’s Desktop Pictures?

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All about Mojave’s Dynamic Desktop, whether you can get rid of those files, and how to make your own personal Dynamic Desktop.

November 26, 2018 Macs, Technology

Last Week on my Mac: Consistency and iCloud

Consistency is an overriding design principle for the human interface. However you use iCloud storage, it adopts different behaviours from those of the Finder. Apple needs to evolve the iCloud interface to improve it, and to empower the user.

April 29, 2018 Macs, Technology

Finder Info: how Sierra and High Sierra remember Classic Mac OS

The Desktop and Finder illusions rely on files having a type and creator, and an icon association. These were kept in the Desktop Database, and are now the responsibility of Launch Services.

December 20, 2017 Macs, Technology, xattr

Sudden disconnection of PDF files: an error deconstructed

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What has broken when Preview no longer opens PDF documents? The answer is more complex than it might appear.

September 21, 2015 Macs, Technology

Q&A: Step back to Classic

Old archived files had lost association with the right app. What went wrong?

August 16, 2015 Macs, Technology

Q&A: Tuning Desktop appearance

How can I sort out irritations in the appearance of my Mac’s Desktop?

July 11, 2015 Macs, Technology

Q&A: Nailing down the Desktop

Is it possible to prevent the individual Mac users on our network from changing the desktop background on their Macs?

June 15, 2015 Macs, Technology

-14: Maintaining Your Desktop (in 2001)

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With Mac OS 8 and 9 back in 2001, we had to performance routine maintenance to keep the Desktop working. This is how we did it.

May 30, 2015 General, Macs, Technology
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