Do you trust silent pushed updates to keep your Mac’s security data files up to date? How do you check whether they are?
High Sierra
Are still running macOS 10.12.6 (16G29)? Where can you find that build number of macOS? Should it matter?
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Did you know your Mac may keep a history of its activities going back for over 3 months? Here’s how to access it, and some surprising results.
A function of process activity, frequency of writing to the log, and its verbosity, log load is available for the past 3 months or more.
Eight screenshots – no words – tell the story of the first fortnight with High Sierra.
Most of what we know about log files, their maintenance by logd, the role of diagnosticd, and the differences between Persist and Special log files.
What does the Supplemental Update do to the High Sierra installer? An exploration using the installer, an external SSD, and a bootable USB memory stick.
Troubled at times, we have used Disk Utility through thick and thin. Now it has changed to support APFS, with some weird behaviour.
A crass security bug, not changing version numbers, undocumented file formats, and stunted log access: components in the new RDF.
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