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macOS 10.15

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

SilentKnight, LockRattler and silnite updates to extend 10.15 checks

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Important updates if you’re running Catalina, as they add the KEXT blocker back into their checks.

October 18, 2019 Macs, Technology

Beware Apple security certificates after 24 October: they may have expired

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Don’t rely on being able to use any Apple installer package unless it has been downloaded recently: its certificate is about to expire.

October 18, 2019 Macs, Technology

Security data files: how they’ve changed in Catalina

Details of their locations, purposes, and the current installed version. These have changed a great deal since Mojave.

October 17, 2019 Macs, Technology

Inside Catalina’s unified log: how has it changed?

Changes since Mojave are subtle. No new fields have been added to the log format, and code-level access is largely undocumented. Console remains at version 1.1.

October 16, 2019 Macs, Technology

macOS 10.15 Catalina Supplemental Update is now available (updated)

Apple has today released macOS 10.15 Catalina Supplemental Update, which contains bug fixes and other improvements. It’s just […]

October 15, 2019 Macs, Technology, Updates

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

Last Week on My Mac: More than adventurous

The third successive macOS upgrade brings fundamental changes which could so easily have resulted in catastrophe. How did Apple pull it off?

October 13, 2019 Macs, Technology

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

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