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Last Week on My Mac: There’s still a hole in my bucket, Monterey’s memory leak

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We can expect Universal Control in macOS 12.3, but when will Apple get round to fixing the severe memory leak in the Finder’s Find feature?

January 30, 2022 Macs, Technology

How to work around Monterey’s Finder memory leak

If you’re not careful, you can end up watching the Finder steadily eating your Mac’s memory until it grinds to a halt. The bug explained with solutions.

January 28, 2022 Macs, Technology

Just like that: the Finder’s failed trick with APFS

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When you try ejecting a single volume of a bootable volume group on an external disk, other volumes are also ejected even though you chose to keep them mounted.

December 6, 2021 Macs, Technology

Those little annoyances in Monterey 12.0.1

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Fed up with the Flying Pointer? Tired of the oldest Universal Bug in Finder Column Widths? Want updates from the App Store? These are some of the annoyances in 12.0.1.

November 30, 2021 Macs, Technology

Explainer: .DS_Store files

Many folders have them. They’re so invisible that you can’t even see them when you show hidden files. And the only way you know they’re there is when they cause problems.

November 27, 2021 Macs, Technology

More memory leaks in Monterey 12.0.1: how to avoid them

Is Monterey burning your memory away? Here are two reproducible memory leaks which could explain that, plus two more than might.

November 22, 2021 Macs, Technology

What to do when a volume can’t be ejected or unmounted

Finder refuses to eject a volume because it’s in use, or Disk Utility complains that it can’t unmount a volume. Here’s what to do about it.

September 2, 2021 Macs, Technology

Finder’s metadata puzzles

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Useful metadata shown in two places, and available as columns in List views. But some things don’t match up, and information changes in front of your eyes.

July 9, 2021 Macs, Technology

Volume names are still a Unicode mess

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Don’t use Unicode normalised Form C names for volumes in Disk Utility, as they cause havoc, and prevent Spotlight from indexing volumes.

July 1, 2021 Macs, Technology

Big Sur 11.3 bug tracker

A growing list of those bugs which are fixed in macOS 11.3, and those which remain.

April 29, 2021 Macs, Technology

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