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Apple has pushed updates to both XProtect and MRT

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

May 2, 2019 Macs, Technology

Sandstrip removes spurious quarantine flags

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A simple utility to remove the many quarantine flags which are written when sandboxed apps open movies, PDF, JPEG and other files, and can cause problems.

April 22, 2019 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: App Store graffiti

Do we really need tens of thousands of spurious quarantine flags attached to perfectly good documents?

April 21, 2019 Macs, Technology

Apple has pushed an update to XProtect

Apple has pushed an update to the ‘Yara’ data files used by XProtect, bringing its version number to […]

April 19, 2019 Macs, Technology

Apple has pushed an update to Gatekeeper’s data

Apple has pushed an update to the data used by Gatekeeper, bringing its version number to 165, dated […]

April 18, 2019 Macs, Technology

Known bugs in macOS Mojave 10.14.4: an incomplete summary

Several serious bugs have been fixed in this update. Here’s a list of those which still remain. Please add more as you come across them.

March 27, 2019 Macs, Technology

Apple has pushed an update to Gatekeeper’s data

Apple has pushed an update to the data used by Gatekeeper, bringing its version number to 164, dated […]

March 25, 2019 Macs, Technology

lsregister: a valuable undocumented command for LaunchServices

Repairing LaunchServices database, rebuilding it from scratch, and controlling individual app entries – all using this undocumented command.

March 25, 2019 Macs, Technology

When the wrong copy/version of the right app opens a document

Sometimes macOS decides you want to open documents using the wrong version of the right app. Here’s how to fix that.

March 21, 2019 Macs, Technology

How LaunchServices builds the Open Recent menu, and outsmarts Aliases

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How can the Open Recent menu offer to open a document that no longer exists when the volume it was on is no longer mounted?

March 18, 2019 Macs, Technology

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