New version of app extension explorer offers 4 sort orders, adds support for UUIDs, and a ‘live’ search feature to find a UUID quickly and efficiently.
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Explore the app extensions installed on your Mac, in a list of well over 400, including many in macOS, and those in 3rd party products.
With as many as 500 or more appexes in your Mac, these have become widely used and important. What they are, where they are, and how to control them.
How do clone files and sparse files cope with being backed up and restored? Can they save space in iCloud Drive? Some of these answers may surprise.
One of the largest updates to macOS, with the most ever vulnerabilities fixed, Sequoia 15.4 also brings a lot of new components, particularly Private Frameworks.
Is it possible to update a VM running macOS Sequoia to version 15.4? Three attempts, three failures. And why are all those file creation dates wrong?
Apple has just released the update to macOS Sequoia to bring it to version 15.4, and security updates […]
Can you install macOS Sonoma on an external SSD for an Apple silicon Mac running Sequoia 15.3.2? So far this has defeated two of us on many attempts. With useful tips that should have brought success.
The hidden command tool lsregister can be used to control LaunchServices and its registry, but there are now snags in most of its features, as explained here.
Overview of how different subsystems work together during launching a notarized app, from LaunchServices to checking WritingTools and AI availability.
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