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There’s something wrong with that file: could it be a xattr issue?

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There’s something wrong with that file, which seems to keep crashing an app. When you can’t put your finger on what’s wrong, it’s likely to be a xattr problem.

December 13, 2017 Macs, Technology, xattr

A tale of two Disk Utilities: Sierra and High Sierra

You need to format a USB memory stick in standard ExFAT. Do you try Disk Utility in Sierra, or High Sierra, when both are likely to fail?

November 30, 2017 Macs, Technology

What’s really in the High Sierra 10.13.1 update

Effectively a Combo updater with the Supplemental Update, many apps are updated in a total payload of around 4.5 GB. And there’s the new emoji too.

November 3, 2017 Macs, Technology

Disk Utility: An ever-changing tool

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Troubled at times, we have used Disk Utility through thick and thin. Now it has changed to support APFS, with some weird behaviour.

October 9, 2017 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: Apple’s new reality distortion field

A crass security bug, not changing version numbers, undocumented file formats, and stunted log access: components in the new RDF.

October 8, 2017 Macs, Technology

What the High Sierra Supplemental Update actually updates

As usual, Apple’s release notes for the Supplemental Update to High Sierra, released on 5 October 2017, fall […]

October 5, 2017 Macs, Technology

How Disk Utility can crack High Sierra’s encrypted volumes (updated)

Can you trust High Sierra’s new encryption features, now that it’s known they can reveal your password?

October 5, 2017 Macs, Technology

Sierra isn’t finished yet: APFS support is undone in 10.12.6

Has normalisation fixed problems with file and folder names in APFS, and how well does Sierra support it now?

July 24, 2017 Macs, Technology

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to FileVault

How FileVault encryption failed, apparently damaging an SSD with less than 250 hours use. And what I did to fix it.

July 1, 2017 Macs, Technology

How to discover which files should be readable and which writable: PermissionScanner 1.0b1

Repairing permissions on your Home folder is a blunt tool which could cause more problems. This tool looks through for potential problems, letting you fix them one file at a time.

June 19, 2017 Macs, Technology

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