It has been one of the oldest problems on Macs, when a document shows with the wrong icon. Why, and how to fix it?
macOS
You try to open a document – in this case, one of Firefox’s bookmarks – and nothing happens. What could be wrong? It turns out it’s a bug, of course. But where?
Why do the Open File and Save File dialogs normally behave differently with respect to tagged folders? It’s a question of semantics.
Three bugs may have been fixed in 10.14.3: About This Mac’s Storage bar (at last), App Store glitches showing apps need to be redownloaded, and some black on grey text.
Apple has just pushed an update to the data used by Gatekeeper, bringing its version number to 160, […]
Apple has released macOS Mojave version 10.14.3, together with Security Update 2018-001 for High Sierra and Sierra. The […]
An old bug in UTIs can cause problems for apps, and may even crash them. The issue is that macOS can’t always tell what type of object certain ‘files’ are.
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.
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.
When is macOS like a city? Or an Impressionist sketch? Could it ever become free of noticeable bugs?
The Eclectic Light Company 