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macOS 10.13

Spotlight: using metadata to improve local searches

Want to make local Spotlight searches more effective? Add keywords to their metadata, such as Finder Comments. But there are some snags.

January 8, 2018 Macs, Technology, xattr

iCloud Drive can strip (meta)data from your documents

Don’t use iCloud Drive to copy docs between Sierra and High Sierra, as they may well lose metadata in the process. Bug or feature?

January 6, 2018 Macs, Technology

The ‘app’ you can’t trash: how SIP is broken in High Sierra

When you can’t remove an app which you installed just a few minutes ago, you know there’s something wrong. Here’s the solution, and why this is bad security.

January 2, 2018 Macs, Technology, xattr

Safari offline reader is rapidly becoming functionless

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Offline reading is an important feature for many Safari users, particularly on iOS devices and laptop models. So why doesn’t it work?

December 28, 2017 General, Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: Documenting the hidden

They may not cause many problems, but xattrs are both very useful and extensively used by macOS and third-party products. It’s time to discover more, and document them.

December 10, 2017 Macs, Technology, xattr

The correct and current version of MRT can be either 1.26 or 1.27

For the moment, until Apple pushes a future update to bring it to version 1.28 at least, your […]

December 9, 2017 Macs, Technology

Extended attributes in High Sierra 10.13.2

Even a lean and simple High Sierra system has many xattrs of many types, and plenty of files still have ‘resource forks’. Plus details of some important xattrs used by Apple’s system files.

December 8, 2017 Macs, Technology, xattr

What’s really in the High Sierra 10.13.2 update

As expected, the macOS High Sierra 10.13.2 update contains a great deal more than the three relatively minor […]

December 7, 2017 Macs, Technology

Sierra and El Capitan security updates and High Sierra 10.13.2 are now available

Apple has released version 10.13.2 of High Sierra, which is now available as an update from the App […]

December 6, 2017 Macs, Technology

More information about your keychains in KeychainCheck 2.0a3

Adds a lot more diagnostic information, including full listings of all Keychains folders, including that for iCloud Keychain.

December 6, 2017 Macs, Technology

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