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Safe mode, caches and CacheDelete

What does Safe mode do to all those service caches managed by CacheDelete? Does it still check your boot disk too?

May 3, 2023 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: Why is Apple so reluctant for the offline Mac?

In the two years since we’ve been waiting for Apple to provide an option to opt out of online certificate and notarization checks, Apple has added two enhanced security modes, but not addressed the original issue.

March 12, 2023 Macs, Technology

What are Ventura’s system privacy settings?

Full details of 27 subsystems in macOS that TCC gave access to CloudKit despite there being no Apple ID or iCloud account.

February 14, 2023 Macs, Technology

What has changed in macOS Ventura 13.2?

The update to macOS Ventura 13.2 isn’t large, but brings two significant new features: Advanced Data Protection for […]

January 23, 2023 Macs, Technology

Explainer: Passwords and passkeys

Contrasts how passwords and passkeys work, and how passkeys can be protected using iCloud, and Apple’s iCloud keychain escrow.

October 22, 2022 Macs, Technology

Troubleshooting keychains

Solving repeated requests for passwords, telling the genuine from the bogus, how passwords can become mismatched, and more.

October 19, 2022 Macs, Technology

When SIP status is unknown, SilentKnight and silnite can be foxed

Signing out of iCloud and signing back in fixed a problem with syncing, but it also turned SIP off in an ‘unknown’ way, something SilentKnight didn’t understand. Updates included for SilentKnight and silnite.

October 18, 2022 Macs, Technology, Updates

Explainer: Keychain basics

What are keychains? What do they store? Which are essential on Macs, and why do you get prompted to enter your password for access to them? How secure are they in iCloud?

October 15, 2022 Macs, Technology

Using macOS versions beyond local volumes

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It’s all too easy to lose all previous versions of a document: one false move to another volume, to iCloud, or shared over a network and they’ve gone. How can you preserve them?

August 8, 2022 Macs, Technology

How macOS versions help you recover from errors

Document versions, accessed through Revert To…, are a major part of the protection macOS provides for dealing with errors. How to get the most from them.

August 5, 2022 Macs, Technology

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