Sierra brings undocumented weirdness to the Finder, with a folder that is, but it isn’t, and improved Finder aliases, which don’t work as well. Yet.
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Its increasingly hard to know where your files are, when you let Sierra manage your storage using iCloud. This is not a neat illusion, but a confusing deception.
Do you know the differences between an alias, hard link, and symbolic link? Each has its uses, and understanding them is important.
Why is the new Apple File System called APFS? And what does it all mean? Decoding WWDC.
If you wanted to mess someone’s Mac up, you could go into their system files and change things around when they were out at lunch.
Even the most disorganised adult has some system of discriminating what things are most important – but not computers.
What are ‘named streams’, and how to they fit in to Samba sharing?
Despite the importance of importance in everyday life, as far as I can tell no computer operating system has the slightest sense of importance.
ZFS looks like being one of the biggest missed opportunities in computing. But it is still almost sexy.
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