If you have Optimise Mac Storage enabled, pinning files you want kept locally is a valuable new feature, but has its quirks, and could get your Mac into trouble.
macOS 15
Autumn has come, and it’s time to suffer Apple’s annual upgrade game-playing. Will you be tricked into installing Sequoia, or allowed voluntary informed consent?
APFS or HFS+? Which can Time Machine back up to? What about hard disks? Which format for use on PCs? And which are supported by Disk Utility now?
Which passwords, passkeys, wi-fi passwords, and so on are supported by Sequoia’s new Passwords app? Where has Keychain Access gone, and do you still need it?
Does XProtect confuse you in Sequoia? Do you know why it could show as version 0, 5273 or 5274? Here’s a guide to what I think is going on.
Apple has just released an update to XProtect for Sequoia only, bringing it to version 5275. As usual, […]
Essential details of each of the three types of XProtect data files, how they’re updated, how to update them, and more. Covers new XProtect in macOS 15.x.
Full details of firmware installed by macOS Sequoia on supported Macs, including on remaining Intel model without a T2 chip, T2 and Apple silicon Macs.
If your Mac is running Sequoia, it could have no XProtect data at all, or being using version 5272 or 5273 but not 5274; if it’s running Sonoma or earlier, the version could be 5272 or 5274 but not 5273. Simple.
There should be an update available, but you can’t find it, or it fails to install, or you have problems with a Content Caching Server. How to tackle these.
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