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How to speed up Time Machine backups

You may still have plenty of space on your backup volume, but if it has millions of files and hard links from years of backups, it will be very slow. Here’s how to fix that.

October 7, 2017 Macs, Technology

What the High Sierra Supplemental Update actually updates

As usual, Apple’s release notes for the Supplemental Update to High Sierra, released on 5 October 2017, fall […]

October 5, 2017 Macs, Technology

High Sierra “Supplemental Update” now available (updated)

Apple has released a “supplemental update” for macOS High Sierra 10.13 from the App Store. According to the […]

October 5, 2017 Macs, Technology

How Disk Utility can crack High Sierra’s encrypted volumes (updated)

Can you trust High Sierra’s new encryption features, now that it’s known they can reveal your password?

October 5, 2017 Macs, Technology

More Scripting in Swift: Shuffling files and writing a property list

Using Swift 4 for a classic scripting task: copying and restructuring files and folders, here to create a logarchive bundle.

October 5, 2017 Macs, Technology

Apple has pushed an update to Gatekeeper configuration data

Apple has very recently pushed out an update to Gatekeeper’s configuration data, bringing it to version 131, which […]

October 5, 2017 Macs, Technology

Which EFI firmware should your Mac be using?

A checklist of the latest EFI firmware versions which should be running on each recent Mac model.

October 4, 2017 Macs, Technology

MakeLogarchive can now catalogue any well-formed logarchive

The catalogue includes the dates and times each log file was created and completed, size, and the period of time covered by it.

October 4, 2017 Macs, Technology

MakeLogarchive enables Consolation to read individual log files

The combination lets you browse tracev3 log files within a log archive, which MakeLogarchive can create from raw logs in /var/db.

October 3, 2017 Macs, Technology

There’s trouble in that firmware: EFI chaos

As Apple controls hardware, firmware, system software, and their updates, EFI firmware should be kept up to date reliably. But it isn’t. What’s gone wrong?

October 1, 2017 Macs, Technology

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