How to exclude folders and files from these services, with new problems apparent in macOS Tahoe over exclusions from Time Machine backups.
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Analyses of numbers of bundles in the /System folder and significant folders within that, for macOS 10.14.5 Mojave to 26.2 Tahoe. These show how private macOS has become.
Catch up on your reading with selected articles from the past year, covering security, logs, macOS generally, Spotlight in particular, and some utilities.
Catch up on your reading with selected articles from the past year, covering hardware, firmware and Recovery, troubleshooting and updates.
Is your Mac running Sequoia or Tahoe? Is its XProtect up to date and using version 5325? If not, you might have to wait until the return from holidays before that’s fixed.
If someone had told me 12 months ago what was going to happen this past year, I wouldn’t […]
It was notorious for its crashes and reporting discrepancies, but now it’s incorporated in System Settings it’s more reliable and helpful. But there’s still the problem of System Data.
Authentication dialogs for Macs with and without support for Touch ID, in recent versions of macOS including Tahoe, and how to tell whether a request in Terminal is genuine.
A complex set of rules with optional flags determines whether any given xattr is preserved when copying, saving, syncing with a cloud service, backing up, and more. Here they are.
Some who updated to 26.2 reported their downloads were over 10 GB in size, rather than the expected 3.78 GB for Apple silicon Macs. Why was that, and why didn’t Apple release an earlier BSI?
The Eclectic Light Company 