Drag content from an app onto the Desktop or a location in a Finder window to create a clipping file. Although they date back to the early 1990s, they’re still well supported in Tahoe.
Finder
Instead of logging out and back in, it’s possible to relaunch Spotlight from the Finder, as demonstrated here with the aid of the log. And it might be useful too.
The Preview pane in Finder windows can show a comprehensive list of metadata, or a shortened list you can customise in Preview Options. Here’s how to use it and how it can provide further information.
Normally, the x.1 update fixes many of the bugs from the first release. But in Tahoe, a crop of fresh bugs have been included. Here are some of them, and how they have arisen.
They’re invisible in the Finder, even when it’s showing hidden files. They’re present in many of the folders in your Home folder. And they can do bad things like break your backups.
VMs running 26.1 can’t access iCloud and related services, with no workaround. Finder Services below an item’s thumbnail don’t work.
Study how the four key timestamps of a file change when you create, edit, preview the file, using Dropera.
For the last 10 years, macOS has relied on Uniform Type Identifiers to recognise different types of files, for opening in apps, QuickLook, Spotlight and in other features.
How custom folders are easy to set up and to use. How they work in iCloud Drive, and can even be seen on your iPhone. And what makes them work.
When the numbers simply don’t add up. How some extended attributes may be included in quoted file sizes, but others are ignored, and Sequoia hasn’t really changed this since Classic Mac OS of 25 years ago.
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