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Using macOS Bookmarks as enduring references: Precize and Preciziun

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Wouldn’t it be good to be able to locate important documents using Bookmarks, which endure even when you restart, or move the document? Now you can.

March 8, 2018 Macs, Technology

Common packages: documents which are folders in drag

One of the Finder’s grand illusions, these are standard documents actually composed of a hierarchy of files and folders. Here are some details of common packages.

March 7, 2018 Macs, Technology

Bookmarks, APFS, and enduring file references

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More insights into how to create and use references to files which are unaffected when you move the file, or restart your Mac. And a new version of Precize to help.

March 6, 2018 Macs, Technology

Open Recent, inodes, and Bookmarks: How macOS remembers files

If apps can remember old documents in the Open Recent menu command, how can I do the same?

March 5, 2018 Macs, Technology

How macOS tracks your files: inside the inode

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Some apps track old documents wherever they go; others lose them if they are put in a different folder. Here’s why, and some new features for the next release of Precize.

March 3, 2018 Macs, Technology

Revisionist now a single app: Version management in one

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Single app now explores versions, lets you preview and manage them – all in one.

March 2, 2018 Macs, Technology

Run The Time Machine Mechanic from a regular user account

Do you work from a normal user account rather than an admin one? This should let you check Time Machine using the T2M2 app.

March 2, 2018 Macs, Technology

What are all those hidden folders then?

Summary of the hidden folders and files you’re most likely to encounter at the top level of a volume, and at the top level of your Home folder.

March 1, 2018 Macs, Technology

Workthrough: Using the macOS version system to recover lost content

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An important section of a document that you’re working has gone missing. Do you search back through backups, or use the versioning system to recover and replace it?

February 28, 2018 Macs, Technology

Managing versions has never been simpler: Revisionist 1.0b4 with Quick Look previews

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Check earlier versions by previewing them using Quick Look. This also fixes the bug which gave incorrect sizes for bundle documents such as RTFD.

February 27, 2018 Macs, Technology

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