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Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 6

Here are the answers you’ve been waiting for. How many did you get this week?

August 5, 2019 General, Macs, Technology

Saturday Mac riddles 6

Three more riddles to tease your mind over the weekend. Answers will be posted here on Monday.

August 3, 2019 General, Macs, Technology

Apple has pushed an update to Gatekeeper’s data with two version numbers

Apple has pushed an update to the data used by Gatekeeper, bringing its version number to 175, dated […]

July 31, 2019 Macs, Technology

Rich Text documents: RTF and RTFD

What are the differences, what can you do with each of the two formats, and when should you use them?

July 30, 2019 General, Language, Macs, Technology

Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 5

How many of these answers did you get?

July 29, 2019 General, Macs, Technology

Saturday Mac riddles 5

Three more riddles about Macs, computing and numbers to entertain you over the weekend.

July 27, 2019 General, Macs, Technology

How do the Finder, Terminal and Spotlight handle extended attribute flags?

Does using xattr flags disrupt Spotlight indexing, and how are those flags respected using different methods of copying a file?

July 26, 2019 Macs, Technology

Known bugs in macOS Mojave 10.14.6: an incomplete summary

Little changed from 10.14.5, the final release of Mojave still has many significant bugs. Here’s a partial listing.

July 24, 2019 Macs, Technology

How to save your file metadata – implementation isn’t simple

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So how can apps and users preserve file metadata using these xattr flags? Part of the solution is straightforward, but there’s a major limitation.

July 23, 2019 Macs, Technology

How to save file metadata in iCloud, and new info on extended attributes

For the last six years, extended attributes have had flags to determine how they’re handled when copied. Here are the details, and how this affects iCloud.

July 23, 2019 Macs, Technology

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