How can you tell what causing a backup to run so slowly? If it is this bug, what can you do about it? A plain user’s guide.
macOS 10.15
Surely these problems with Time Machine are old hat and not news? Or are they simply errors occurring with disks or the file system?
Document versions can be invaluable, being between Undo and your backups. But they’re also easy to lose. Here’s how to keep them.
When making a first full backup of less than 2 GB takes 86 minutes, and you then can’t restore from it anyway.
Many vital apps rely on installing kernel extensions, which may be tricky or seem impossible in Catalina. Here are some strategies to solve problems.
The plan was simple: replace my 8 year-old Promise Pegasus RAID system with a shiny new SSD RAID system, for Time Machine backups. What could go wrong?
Here’s what happens when a Time Machine backup, normally the first, slows to the point where it’s just never going to finish.
A log browser with charts? How frequency charts of log entries, separated by subsystem, can make your log even more accessible.
One of the last of Catalina’s promised features, hardening and notarization become fully mandatory for all new apps from today.
Although 10.15.3 fixes a serious bug in Mail and Catalina is steadily maturing, there are many users who still shouldn’t upgrade.
The Eclectic Light Company 