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Inside Apple Archive: performance and control

How to work out how many threads and which cores are needed to achieve a compression rate up to 1.7 GB/s, and how to estimate power and energy.

May 11, 2022 Macs, Technology

Inside Apple Archive: more than a compression format

Provided in Archive Utility and three command tools, its LZFSE compression even supports APFS special files like clones and sparse files.

May 10, 2022 Macs, Technology

Explainer: FileVault

On T2 and M1 Macs, FileVault provides robust protection of the Data volume on internal storage without any performance penalty.

April 23, 2022 Macs, Technology

Did someone forget their password? Getting access to a locked Mac

Maybe you’ve just forgotten the password, or perhaps the owner/user of the Mac is no longer able to enter it. How to restore access to different models.

January 18, 2022 Macs, Technology

Disk encryption, FileVault and hardware encryption

What is FileVault encryption? Is it the same as that on an M1 Mac’s internal SSD, or something different? How can you use it instead of overwriting an SSD? Which boot volumes are encrypted?

August 20, 2021 Macs, Technology

Securing sensitive data

Securing sensitive data from access by others, and safeguarding it from loss of damage, is common. Solutions range from encrypted images to specialist external disks.

December 29, 2020 Macs, Technology

APFS changes in Big Sur: how Time Machine backs up to APFS, and more

APFS adds 6 volume roles, including one which supports Time Machine backups. And per-file encryption is coming.

June 29, 2020 Macs, Technology

How would you like your sparse bundle: encrypted, changed band size, or what?

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Spundle 1.1 adds creation of encrypted sparse bundles, changing their band size, and more.

June 15, 2020 Macs, Technology

File Integrity 8 : Compression, encryption and disk images

Tests bring some surprises, with encrypted sparse bundles looking resilient to small amounts of corruption.

April 24, 2020 Macs, Technology

Prepare your Mac for service

What to do, when you can, before taking or sending your Mac in for service or repair. What about FileVault? And Activation Lock?

December 28, 2019 Macs, Technology

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