Good space management doesn’t bring new emoji, but it makes a big difference when the Finder doesn’t give completely inaccurate figures for Available space. A practical demonstration of its gross errors.
macOS 13
Can we trust the figures the Finder provides for used and available space on a volume? What does it count as purgeable?
The Finder reported free space had risen by over 80 GB, that’s more than 50%. It looked like something had wiped some of my media libraries.
Apple has just released an urgent security update to macOS Ventura, bringing it to version 13.3.1. This addresses […]
Here’s an APFS (Encrypted) volume that isn’t encrypted, and an unencrypted volume with FileVault active. Something must be wrong.
Details of the three standard Cryptexes in Ventura 13.3, when they can be loaded in the boot process, and where they fit in with Rapid Security Responses.
Should you run First Aid on every volume, then each container? And why can it return status 65? How can you work around that?
Details of what happens when an APFS (Encrypted) volume is mounted, when mounting a Time Machine snapshot, unmounting a volume, and loading a Cryptex.
Have you ever tried running First Aid on an APFS volume and been told it failed with status 65? It’s time for that to be fixed, so we can check and repair disks properly.
Apple has just released an update to XProtect Remediator security software (Catalina or later), bringing it to version […]
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