Sonoma’s changes to iCloud can result in very large and protracted syncs, that can block Time Machine backups from completing. Here’s what you can try, and what you shouldn’t do.
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Using lsregister to clean up the Open With menu only works temporarily, and it’s populated by apps found anywhere local to your Mac. That’s not good for VMs sharing the Applications folder.
User content shouldn’t have its colours changed according to the appearance mode. So why do TextEdit and QuickLook thumbnails change custom text colours?
Odd problems with Sonoma: every old app now listed in the Open With popup menu in the Finder, and lsregister that reports errors, and gets System Settings into trouble.
How to use First Aid in Disk Utility to check and repair APFS storage, whether it’s part of your boot disk, or general storage.
Does Sonoma analyse and classify your images? What content does it obtain from them? How to discover what search terms it recognises? And could this be used to detect CSAM?
After the dataless file, we get the codeless app, in the form of Sonoma’s new Web Apps. These sidestep issues of code-signing with their linked UUIDs and ad hoc signatures.
In Sonoma, some healthy Macs are unable to retain complete logs for 24 hours because of the frequency of entries, and even when privacy is removed, some content is censored.
A fuller account with log extracts to show what happens when a user creates a Web App, and when they run it.
What is a Web App? How to create and use them, and how they run without any executable code. Could crafted Web Apps turn malicious?
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