What does the terse phrase Erase Mac mean? If you think that it means completely erase your Mac, […]
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What’s the point of impressive Finder illusions when users can’t rely on your explanation of how to erase a disk? Apple’s problems of 2019 considered.
The Mac is now in a documentation crisis. Documentation debt is leaving many Mac users floundering around in the dark.
Changes in Time Machine reflect continuing development of this Mac-only feature, backtracking on using FSEvents, and making backups more complete.
With only sketchy documentation and no open source release, how complete are the tools to support APFS? Are they still “work in progress”?
Apple’s attitude to document metadata remains ambivalent. But macOS does offer good support for extended attributes to pass through iCloud, if you know how to access it.
Did you restart your Mac after the critical update to MRT this week? Was Apple’s guidance on the update helpful? Or is this security by riddle?
What’s coming at WWDC, and how will Apple profit handsomely from Marzipan even if it doesn’t help many developers?
Release notes, three major bugs fixed (and plenty more too I suspect) – that’s got to be good. But there’s also the matter of broken command tools on previous versions.
Mojave’s privacy features remain essentially undocumented. Apple hasn’t explained how command tools negotiate TCC’s protection. Why not, and what should we do?
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