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Refreshing Aliases isn’t so simple: a cautionary tale with Alifix

So resolving an Alias doesn’t always update data in the Alias file, even though it returns the correct path when possible. This is becoming a mess.

January 21, 2019 Macs, Technology

Checking for broken Aliases using Alifix

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It’s worth refreshing all your Finder Aliases before copying or cloning a volume to update their link info. Here’s a free tool to do that and more: Alifix.

January 19, 2019 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: The changing aesthetics of macOS

When is macOS like a city? Or an Impressionist sketch? Could it ever become free of noticeable bugs?

January 13, 2019 Macs, Technology

Serious Finder bug in Mojave 10.14.2 with broken aliases

Do you use Finder Column views and make Aliases to folders? If one of those gets broken, then the Finder may hang on you.

January 10, 2019 Macs, Technology

Apple has pushed an update to Gatekeeper’s data

Apple has just pushed an update to the data used by Gatekeeper, bringing its version number to 158, […]

January 8, 2019 Macs, Technology

Setting up a new (or repurposed) Mac: 7 Choices diagrammed

A table showing the main choices when using System Migration, and more detail on how the process works.

January 4, 2019 Macs, Technology

Why does macOS keep downloading the incompatible app list?

The mystery of the recurrent silent installation is solved, plus a fascinating list of macOS system sizes from 10.6.8 to 10.14. Do they keep growing?

January 3, 2019 Macs, Technology

How to build an APFS bootable clone in Terminal

I’m sure this used to be much easier in HFS+, but here’s a detailed set of instructions for making a bootable clone in High Sierra or Mojave, for an APFS disk.

December 29, 2018 Macs, Technology

AMFI: checking file integrity on your Mac

Apple Mobile File Integrity is a combination of a KEXT and a LaunchDaemon which check app signatures, entitlements, and provisioning profiles.

December 29, 2018 Macs, Technology

DelightEd now opens and saves plain text and HTML as well as Rich Text

Version 1.1 supports three file formats, but working with HTML is not easy, as it cannot (yet) support bimodal text.

December 28, 2018 Macs, Technology

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