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macOS Catalina Boot Volume Layout revised for 10.15 release

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Updated for 10.15 release, with a clearer explanation of how Catalina’s new boot Volume Group works in practice, in the Finder and Terminal.

October 11, 2019 Macs, Technology

macOS Catalina Boot Volume Layout

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Note: I have now updated this with the latest roadmaps for 10.15 release. A further article will follow […]

October 8, 2019 Macs, Technology

Card tricks with TextEdit, and saving files safely to SSD

Some simple card tricks using TextEdit files demonstrate that most current apps don’t use new features in APFS. But they’re still safe and efficient.

September 12, 2019 Macs, Technology

APFS, safe saves, inodes and the volfs file system

How can you refer to an important file or directory, no matter where it’s moved on a volume, even when it’s renamed?

September 4, 2019 Macs, Technology

macOS Mojave Boot Volume Layout

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Catalina will change our boot disks substantially with its read-only system volume. Here’s an account of what we already have in Mojave.

August 29, 2019 Macs, Technology

Caring for SSDs: TRIM, wear levelling and APFS

Should you enable TRIM, and what is it? Do you need to turn wear levelling on, and what about fragmentation on SSDs? Some mysteries explained.

August 26, 2019 Macs, Technology

The recursive RTFD document: a seriously weird problem

Getting strange errors when trying to copy an RTFD package? Try looking inside it, to see if it has developed recursive structure, like Russian dolls.

August 6, 2019 Macs, Technology

Apple finally releases APFS reference documentation

Apple has at last released the Apple File System Reference, 143 pages and over 400 KB of detailed […]

September 21, 2018 Macs, Technology

APFS comes to Fusion Drives, but there’s no sign of Time Machine 2

Don’t pay too much attention to what Apple wants you to hear, but beware of what it omits to mention. Time Machine 2, perhaps?

June 5, 2018 Macs, Technology

APFS will finally be supported on Fusion Drives – in macOS 10.14 Mojave

Apple has just announced that, at long last, its Fusion Drives will soon support its new file system, […]

June 4, 2018 Macs, Technology

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