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Can you rely on iWork apps sharing versions in iCloud Drive?

Working on shared documents in iCloud Drive is attractive, and support by Pages, Number, and Keynote. But there is flaw with versions. Can it be worked around?

October 20, 2018 Macs, Technology

How Time Machine makes backups

Detailed comparison of how Time Machine backs up HFS+ and APFS volumes, including its use of local snapshots, with diagrams.

October 17, 2018 Macs, Technology

How to use the unified log to see what’s going wrong

It’s actually even easier to browse the unified log and discover what is going wrong with a reproducible problem. Here’s how.

October 12, 2018 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: Editing iCloud documents is far from seamless

Document versions can be a lifesaver when you need to reverse some changes or recover missing text. So why don’t they work on documents shared in iCloud?

October 7, 2018 Macs, Technology

Document versions are now preserved by iCloud, unreliably

You can now share old versions of documents in iCloud Drive. But don’t expect it to work properly, and stand by for profound confusion.

October 6, 2018 Macs, Technology

Apple has at last pushed an update to XProtect’s security data

Apple has at last, after more than six months, pushed an update to the configuration data for its […]

September 28, 2018 Macs, Technology

How Mojave changes the unified log

Survey of changes which have occurred since the first version of the unified log in macOS Sierra, with particular emphasis on Mojave.

September 25, 2018 Macs, Technology

Apple has pushed an update to Gatekeeper’s data

Apple has just pushed an update to the data used by Gatekeeper, bringing its version number to 155, […]

September 24, 2018 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: Those who are about to

With luck, High Sierra will turn out to be Apple’s nadir, and the vast majority of us preparing to upgrade to Mojave won’t look back.

September 23, 2018 Macs, Technology

Safari 12: a good step forward, but mind the extensions

Don’t rush to upgrade if you rely on Extensions, which might be disabled. There’s also a vulnerability in running old versions of plugins like Flash.

September 19, 2018 Macs, Technology

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