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How to check the integrity of files in a Time Machine backup

How to check whether the files in a Time Machine backup are intact and uncorrupted. Only what do you do with the results?

May 9, 2020 Macs, Technology

File Integrity 11 : Which RAID levels enable file recovery?

Selecting a RAID level to preserve file integrity can be confusing. Here’s a guide, complete with the ifs and buts.

May 2, 2020 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: Why file integrity is important

For all their compactness and ease of access, are our files going to prove less durable than a clay tablet recording a commercial transaction over 4,000 years ago?

April 26, 2020 General, Macs, Technology

Dintch Support

This page is for your support questions and comments on my free file integrity checker Dintch. Full details, […]

March 25, 2020 Macs, Technology

What is SIP and when is it safe to turn it off?

System Integrity Protection can get in your way, and may be recommended to solve compatibility problems. It’s also changing again in Catalina.

June 19, 2019 Macs, Technology

High quality hash

I needed a one-way method of generating a unique key for each subject name that would not permit the reverse process, of working out the name for a given key: something known as a ‘one-way hash key’.

July 8, 2015 General, Life, Macs, Technology

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