If you have Optimise Mac Storage enabled, pinning files you want kept locally is a valuable new feature, but has its quirks, and could get your Mac into trouble.
iCloud
Step by step guide to building and installing a VM running macOS 15.0 Sequoia with Apple Account access to iCloud, and updating XProtect.
It has taken 2 years for virtualisation on Apple silicon to support Apple ID with iCloud and its features. But it still doesn’t let you run almost all App Store apps.
How to create and configure a Sequoia beta to run in a virtual machine on an Apple silicon Mac, either in Sequoia or Sonoma, and a surprise in its features.
This weekend we’re in the Lake District. Wouldn’t it have been simpler if, rather than preparing a notebook, all I needed was a VM with all my apps pre-installed and ready to go?
Differences between file-based keychains including the login keychain, and Data Protection keychain. How the Passwords app in Sequoia caters for the latter.
Sequoia’s macOS VMs and Apple ID, USB storage and other devices, number of concurrent VMs, nested virtualisation, and how to run Sequoia beta in a VM on Sonoma.
Consider the fidelity of backup copies, the speed of a backup method, and the risk of losing the contents of that backup. And test backups by restoring samples from them.
Step by step through moving to iCloud Drive, eviction to a dataless file, materialisation of local data, editing and syncing with iCloud Drive.
How local files retain their extended attributes and versions when moved to iCloud Drive, but they’re not available to other Macs. Sparse files and storage economy as well.
