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Time Machine: 6 Networked storage

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From its first release, Time Machine has been designed to back up over a network. So why the problems? And how you can make your own NAS.

December 19, 2019 Macs, Technology

Making sense of Disk Utility and disk structure in macOS 10.13-10.15

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The Finder, Disk Utility and Terminal show disks and volumes differently, according to their function. This can appear confusing in Catalina until it has been explained.

December 18, 2019 Macs, Technology

What happened to XProtect? Has it been forked?

If you follow macOS security updates, by now you’re probably completely confused over XProtect. Although it has been […]

December 13, 2019 Macs, Technology

Apple has pushed updates to XProtect and MRT

Apple has pushed two updates today, to the data files used by XProtect, bringing its version number to […]

December 12, 2019 Macs, Technology, Updates

Time Machine: 4 Problems with backups

What to do when there are problems with a backup, or you want to delete backups or their contents.

December 12, 2019 Macs, Technology

Apple has released Catalina 10.15.2 update and Security Updates for High Sierra and Mojave

Apple has just released the Catalina update to 10.15.2, which weighs in at just under 3.5 GB, and […]

December 10, 2019 Macs, Technology, Updates

Time Machine: 3 Analysing automatic backups

Looking at failure of automatic backups, cancelled backups, and errors occurring when backing up, using T2M2, from Sierra to Catalina.

December 5, 2019 Macs, Technology

Time Machine: 2 What it writes in the log

Detailed log excerpts showing normal backups in 10.12 to 10.15, with some of the more common errors encountered.

December 4, 2019 Macs, Technology

Time Machine: 1 How it works, or fails to

New series looking at how TM works, what its problems are, what tools to use to diagnose those, and how to fix it.

December 3, 2019 Macs, Technology

Apple has pushed an update to XProtect

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

November 13, 2019 Macs, Technology, Updates

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