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macOS 10.15

Using Finder Item Groups

Have you tried arranging items in the Finder using Groups? Detailed insights into what this does, and how it works with apps.

April 29, 2020 Macs, Technology

Sparse bundles: what they are and how to work around their bugs

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An efficient means of storage with many uses, but riddled with bugs and shortcomings. Explains how to compact and resize them, and more.

April 27, 2020 Macs, Technology

How apps save changed files

Apps don’t work like the Finder. Most use ‘safe saves’ designed to prevent a failed save losing the original document. Here’s how they work.

April 17, 2020 Macs, Technology

Copy, move and clone files in APFS, a primer

What happens when you copy a large file to the same volume, or duplicate it, on the same APFS volume? Here are the answers.

April 14, 2020 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: Surprise Supplemental Update

in a Ghost Train or Dark Ride, one minute everything’s gone black, then all hell breaks loose. Just like a T2 Mac installing a macOS update.

April 12, 2020 Macs, Technology

What changed in the 10.15.4 Supplemental Update?

The macOS 10.15.4 Supplemental Update released on 8 April 2020 isn’t a small update by any means, at […]

April 9, 2020 Macs, Technology

Apple has released Catalina 10.15.4 Supplemental Update

Apple has released macOS 10.15.4 Supplemental Update, an out-of-cycle update which fixes: problems taking part in FaceTime calls […]

April 8, 2020 Macs, Technology, Updates

How Preview mangles annotations

Preview has strange behaviour when adding and editing annotations, even in Catalina. It quickly gets upsetting and unreliable.

April 7, 2020 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: Changing the future

Postponing WWDC and the release of macOS 10.16 might seem sensible, but could lose purpose for Apple’s engineers and see third-party support vanish.

April 5, 2020 Macs, Technology

Major improvements in extended attribute editor xattred 1.2

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Major improvements for all users, including more flexible main window, multiple selection, and support for macOS xattr flags for preservation.

April 2, 2020 Macs, Technology

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