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macOS 10.14

What’s the time, Mr Mac? How summer time confuses macOS

When you find one, bugs will necessarily be multiple. If you think you’ve found one, you can be fairly confident that you’ll find more. Four bugs in macOS for the price of one.

November 1, 2019 Macs, Technology

Time Machine beaten by the clock: backup fails due to bug

Over the night the clocks went back, a Time Machine backup failed. Was this the result of a time error from that change?

October 29, 2019 Macs, Technology

Catalina crashes non-notarized command tools with a quarantine flag

Do you use third-party command tools? Are you using or planning to use Catalina? This explains how 10.15 changes first run checks on those tools, and their effect on all users.

October 22, 2019 Macs, Technology

Should you enable defragmentation on APFS hard drives?

You’re stuck using hard disks with High Sierra or later. Could enabling defragmentation on them overcome the performance problems of APFS?

October 19, 2019 Macs, Technology

Does Safe Mode check and repair disks?

Start up in Safe Mode: should it start by checking and repairing your boot disk, or should you do that separately in Recovery Mode?

October 15, 2019 Macs, Technology

Apple has added a new security database to Catalina, bringing 3 updates

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Added support for this new security database in new versions of SilentKnight, LockRattler and silnite.

October 14, 2019 Macs, Technology, Updates

Taccy now checks packages as well as app notarization

Want to check whether an Installer package has been properly notarized? This new version of Taccy will do it for you.

October 12, 2019 Macs, Technology, Updates

A gap opens in EFI firmware, leaving Sierra in doubt

For the moment, firmware versions for updated Macs are different between those running Catalina, and those running Mojave earlier. How could this affect Sierra, though?

October 9, 2019 Macs, Technology

What to do when a newly-installed app can’t be opened?

Yesterday, I explained how you can ensure that macOS 10.15 Catalina will open an app which doesn’t meet […]

October 5, 2019 Macs, Technology

Should you trust Disk Utility’s First Aid or fsck?

Third party tools for checking and repairing APFS are still very limited. Is it better to use fsck to check and repair APFS?

September 30, 2019 Macs, Technology

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