Do you know when it would be best to use a hard link? What’s the difference between a Finder alias and a symbolic link? And where to High Sierra’s new clones fit in?
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Preciziun can now open documents from their macOS Bookmarks, and preview them in Quick Look.
Wouldn’t it be good to be able to locate important documents using Bookmarks, which endure even when you restart, or move the document? Now you can.
More insights into how to create and use references to files which are unaffected when you move the file, or restart your Mac. And a new version of Precize to help.
If apps can remember old documents in the Open Recent menu command, how can I do the same?
Some apps track old documents wherever they go; others lose them if they are put in a different folder. Here’s why, and some new features for the next release of Precize.
Summary of the hidden folders and files you’re most likely to encounter at the top level of a volume, and at the top level of your Home folder.
Many files in macOS are more than just their data, and contain metadata in extended attributes. Does macOS know the true size of any file, taking into account those attributes?
What happens next with Apple’s new file system is a strong indicator of its commitment to the Mac as a computer platform. Copy-on-write is the issue.
A new tool for performing full analysis of metadata for an APFS volume is now available – on an early bird offer.
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