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Finder still can’t work out the size of files

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Classic Mac OS could give the size of data and resource forks. High Sierra ignored extended attributes, and Sonoma tries to add them, but only includes some.

May 3, 2024 Macs, Technology

Does macOS Sonoma have problems with union mounts?

Union mounts let you merge the contents of two volumes without copying any files. Do they work as expected in Sonoma’s APFS, though?

May 2, 2024 Macs, Technology

How macOS opens a file in the correct app

Details of the chain of information, from the UTI of the file to be opened, through LaunchServices’ database of document types. How to deal with problems.

April 10, 2024 Macs, Technology

Serious bugs fixed in macOS Sonoma 14.3

Sparse bundle passwords, shared folders in macOS VMs, and security updates for VMs, are all important fixes. But none for the Finder.

January 24, 2024 Macs, Technology

Are we making good progress?

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Why did that progress dialog suddenly vanish long before it had even reached 50% of the copying progress?

January 6, 2024 Macs, Technology

What should we know about APFS special files?

Knowing a little about sparse and clone files in APFS is dangerous, as it can lead you to draw the wrong conclusions.

January 3, 2024 Macs, Technology

Where are the sanity checks?

When did you last see figures on your Mac that were unbelievable, like 60 TB of snapshots on a 2 TB SSD? We need more sanity checking.

December 25, 2023 Macs, Technology

The Finder doesn’t leak memory, but fills it with cached thumbnails

It turns out that the Finder is just retaining all those image thumbnails in its memory for 2-3 days after you last browsed them. Is this what we want?

December 20, 2023 Macs, Technology

Serious bugs remain in macOS Sonoma 14.2

Two memory leaks in the Finder, inability to change password for encrypted sparse bundles, and a crashing bug in Contacts. Detailed and reported to Apple.

December 14, 2023 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: Leaking like a sieve

How to get an app to leak memory, what a leak does, how to mitigate against a leak, and how an engineer should fix it.

November 26, 2023 Macs, Technology

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