Good space management doesn’t bring new emoji, but it makes a big difference when the Finder doesn’t give completely inaccurate figures for Available space. A practical demonstration of its gross errors.
Finder
Can we trust the figures the Finder provides for used and available space on a volume? What does it count as purgeable?
When the Finder works out how much space is available on disk, what does it count as being “purgeable”? The answer may surprise you.
The Finder reported free space had risen by over 80 GB, that’s more than 50%. It looked like something had wiped some of my media libraries.
How to give apps, folders and files custom icons, and how that still uses resource forks, just as it did back in 1984.
Kernel extensions, system extensions, app/Finder/Safari extensions are all very different, as explained here.
Stage Manager manages windows, and the Dock manages apps. This explains how to keep an app window in a group, and all about popbacks.
Setting up a standard cast, how to deal with windows that open in the wrong app group, and building a group for a special workflow.
Getting started with Stage Manager, without confusion or tears. How to disable its motion effects, and how to build app and window groups for your workflows.
The iPad Pro has the same M2 chip as a MacBook Air, a keyboard and trackpad, and a single Thunderbolt/USB4 port, but there the similarities end.
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