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macOS 10.13

What to do when T2M2 or another log-based app returns an error

What do you do when an app accessing your log returns an error, or no results at all? Step through this to check your log system.

October 27, 2018 Macs, Technology

No Entry ⛔️: access controls in Mojave

Permissions, ACLs, SIP, TCC privacy protection, and now DataVaults – Mojave has many ways of stopping software from opening files and folders.

October 25, 2018 Macs, Technology

Checking Time Machine in Mojave (and High Sierra) using T2M2 1.4

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Adds support for local snapshot statistics, Dark Mode, fixes a bug, and is now notarized for your added security.

October 24, 2018 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: Editing iCloud documents is far from seamless

Document versions can be a lifesaver when you need to reverse some changes or recover missing text. So why don’t they work on documents shared in iCloud?

October 7, 2018 Macs, Technology

Document versions are now preserved by iCloud, unreliably

You can now share old versions of documents in iCloud Drive. But don’t expect it to work properly, and stand by for profound confusion.

October 6, 2018 Macs, Technology

How Mojave changes the unified log

Survey of changes which have occurred since the first version of the unified log in macOS Sierra, with particular emphasis on Mojave.

September 25, 2018 Macs, Technology

Safari 12: a good step forward, but mind the extensions

Don’t rush to upgrade if you rely on Extensions, which might be disabled. There’s also a vulnerability in running old versions of plugins like Flash.

September 19, 2018 Macs, Technology

Updated visual summary of the Mac boot process

Adds details of the sequence of screens displayed at each stage, to help diagnose boot problems.

September 17, 2018 Macs, Technology

Booting the Mac: Will my Mac boot from this disk? A visual guide

You want to boot your Mac from an external drive, but it doesn’t work. A diagram to explain what can go wrong, and how to fix it.

September 1, 2018 Macs, Technology

Booting the Mac: bless, and what makes a volume bootable

The command bless used to be able to control all things to do with booting, but has become steadily less useful with the advent of SIP and others.

August 30, 2018 Macs, Technology

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