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macOS 10.14

Last Week on My Mac: The log is the wrong place

macOS doesn’t handle significant errors and failures well, burying them away in the log. It needs to report them to the user through a new sub-system.

July 21, 2019 Macs, Technology

How to add a custom icon to an app without breaking its signature

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In Mojave and Catalina, tampering with the contents of an app bundle risks breaking signature checks. Here’s how to work around that.

July 20, 2019 Macs, Technology

Privacy protection can pay off when it’s allowed to

For once, Mojave’s privacy protection worked in favour of the user, in stopping Zoom’s old app from regaining access to your camera and microphone.

July 19, 2019 Macs, Technology

How apps can check integrity better than macOS

How deeply does macOS check a signature? What are all the static code validation flags? Should my app leave macOS to perform signature checks?

July 18, 2019 Macs, Technology

Apple’s guidance on backing up your Mac revisited

Are iCloud Drive, CDs and DVDs, and partitions on the same storage really suitable places for you to back your Mac up?

July 17, 2019 Macs, Technology

What is this ‘Compatibility Notification Data’ which Apple has just updated?

Part of Apple’s preparations for Catalina, this contains a list of major apps which are only 32-bit and will stop working when you upgrade to 10.15.

July 17, 2019 Macs, Technology

Why does SilentKnight/LockRattler show TCC is out of date?

The apps claim my Mac is running an old version, but that the newer version was installed weeks ago. How come?

July 16, 2019 Macs, Technology

Understanding signature checks on notarized apps in Mojave 10.14.5: 2

How checks differ when an app is launched from a new path, and the effects of gross changes to the Resources folder, and small changes to code.

July 11, 2019 Macs, Technology

Zoom videoconferencing could expose your Mac

Zoom is a popular videoconferencing system, used apparently by about 750,000 companies and several million individuals around the […]

July 9, 2019 Macs, Technology

Understanding signature checks on notarized apps in Mojave 10.14.5: 1

Why signature checks are so complex, and a walk through log entries of a notarized app launching normally in macOS 10.14.5.

July 9, 2019 Macs, Technology

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