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Known bugs in El Capitan 10.11.3: an incomplete summary

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The list has grown since 10.11.2, with none of the previous bugs being fixed in 10.11.3.

February 14, 2016 Macs, Technology

How it took 2 days to upgrade my RAID, thanks to a bug in Disk Utility, and tired old HFS+

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Disk Utility has a bug which can waste a lot of time trying to re-partition drives, and HFS+ creaks horribly.

February 13, 2016 Macs, Technology

Name that disk: what to call your storage

Being a hybrid, naming disks and volumes can get complex in OS X. This article demystifies them.

January 28, 2016 Macs, Technology

Permissions: the heart of access control

How to inspect and change them, in the Finder and the command line.

January 22, 2016 Macs, Technology

Q&A: Disappearing disk space

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228.7 GB of my internal disk is occupied by ‘Other’. Where has this gone, and how can I reclaim it?

January 8, 2016 Macs, Technology

Third party support for CoreStorage: disk repair and other utilities

Do third-party disk tools work with Fusion Drives, or are you stuck with just Disk Utility?

December 29, 2015 Macs, Technology

El Capitan and Yosemite: how CoreStorage changes hard drives and their care

If you are running Yosemite or El Capitan, OS X may have changed the way that your boot disk is managed – and how you can maintain and repair it.

December 28, 2015 Macs, Technology

From disaster back to normal: rebuilding the RAID

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How I recovered my broken RAID backups, and got everything working again.

December 4, 2015 Macs, Technology

Q&A: Greyed out external drive

The icon for my 2 TB external drive is greyed out in Disk Utility, and I can do nothing with it. How can I restore its normal function?

November 24, 2015 Macs, Technology

Q&A: Permissions not repairable

When I try to move files onto my hard drive, I have to authenticate. How can I fix this?

November 15, 2015 Macs, Technology

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