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Explainer: Archiving isn’t backing up

Archiving is very different from backing up, from the storage media used to integrity checks. Here are pointers to help you preserve important documents.

June 25, 2022 Macs, Technology

Explainer: Error-correcting files

How to design a method which not only detects errors in file data, but enables them to be corrected? A tale of Hamming, Reed, Solomon and CDs.

June 4, 2022 Macs, Technology

A brief guide to disk image files

So many different types, from read-only disk image .dmg files, to sparse bundles and DVD/CD-R masters. Which to use, and how to create them?

September 19, 2020 Macs, Technology

Check file integrity with Dintch 1.0

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First release version, for El Capitan to Catalina. And completely free of course.

April 1, 2020 Macs, Technology

Dintch 1.0b2 should now run on macOS 10.11 to 10.15

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Other major changes include detailed reporting, and user control over the size of buffer used, bringing big performance improvements.

March 25, 2020 Macs, Technology

Checking file integrity with Dintch (first beta)

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How can you tell whether the file you see in storage today is the same as it was a year ago when you last opened it?

March 23, 2020 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: No thanks for the memories

Because of its glorious past, Apple is about the future. But just now we need our past, with the future looking so uncertain.

March 22, 2020 General, Life, Macs, Technology

Should we take bit rot seriously?

Over time, stored data gets gradually corrupted. But over what period – months, years or centuries? And at what rate?

March 21, 2020 Macs, Technology

Beyond Time Machine: 5 Archiving

What do you do with all those old but important documents? Do you just leave them cluttering up storage, or have you archived them? Here’s how to archive properly.

March 19, 2020 General, Macs, Technology

Is Apple about to drop QuickTime, DVD and iWork support, and Compressor?

Apple has started the process of naming and shaming those apps which still don’t run in 64-bit mode, […]

April 17, 2018 Macs, Technology

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