How to back up all your iCloud Drive documents, minimise snapshot size, keep integrity checks in important files, and more.
macOS 14
Big Sur ended up with a total of 50 GB of updates on Apple silicon Macs. While Ventura did much better, its smallest update was still just under 2 GB. Now Sonoma is doing much better.
macOS Sonoma is currently forked into two: one series of builds for M3 Macs, and another for all the rest. How does that affect the user?
After two unscheduled updates to Sonoma, neither has been released as an RSR. Has Apple given up with its new lightweight macOS updates?
Apple has just released a security update for macOS Sonoma, bringing it to version 14.1.2. The download is […]
How to get an app to leak memory, what a leak does, how to mitigate against a leak, and how an engineer should fix it.
Occasionally, switching apps in Sonoma’s Stage Manager sets the whole menu bar to red, and loses menus on its left. What’s the cause?
With one leak in the Finder’s Gallery view, it’s time for another, in Icon view. This is an old leak, that has affected older versions of macOS too, but still hasn’t been fixed.
iCloud Drive in Sonoma has changed beyond all recognition, and is now closely integrated with the FileProvider API. This has important effects, including how you can diagnose problems with the log.
Select groups of many JPEG images in Finder’s gallery view, and the Finder’s memory grows steadily until you’re forced to relaunch it.
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