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Saturday Mac riddles 25

Three good excuses not to go Christmas shopping. Solutions posted on Monday morning.

December 14, 2019 General, Macs, Technology

Why does my Mac keep waking up?

When you wake your laptop up in the morning, it’s clear it has been awake half the night. How to ensure it gets a proper night’s sleep.

December 14, 2019 Macs, Technology

What happened to XProtect? Has it been forked?

If you follow macOS security updates, by now you’re probably completely confused over XProtect. Although it has been […]

December 13, 2019 Macs, Technology

Apple has pushed updates to XProtect and MRT

Apple has pushed two updates today, to the data files used by XProtect, bringing its version number to […]

December 12, 2019 Macs, Technology, Updates

Time Machine: 4 Problems with backups

What to do when there are problems with a backup, or you want to delete backups or their contents.

December 12, 2019 Macs, Technology

Stick a fork in it, and other flashbacks

Classic resource forks passed into Mac OS X, but were deprecated by Apple in 10.8. Now in Catalina they can stop working: is this a new security measure?

December 10, 2019 Macs, Technology

Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 24

How many did you solve this week?

December 9, 2019 General, Macs, Technology

Can you still use AFP sharing?

Can you still share files using the AFP protocol, or must you contend with SMB and its bugs? And what about shared storage for Time Machine backups?

December 9, 2019 Macs, Technology

Saturday Mac riddles 24

Three easy riddles this week, with the solutions posted here on Monday morning.

December 7, 2019 General, Macs, Technology

Time Machine: 3 Analysing automatic backups

Looking at failure of automatic backups, cancelled backups, and errors occurring when backing up, using T2M2, from Sierra to Catalina.

December 5, 2019 Macs, Technology

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