Scheduling background activities like making backups has moved from cron to launchd, and now to a more complex system. This has reduced the reliability of macOS and made it harder to support.
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Apple has recently pushed another set of silent updates to the data files for security systems in macOS […]
Barriers to living in more remote areas with high quality of life are being removed, but self-sufficiency is important. Changes in macOS do not help.
Got a setting that you just can’t get to stick properly? Here’s a listing of preference files for Sierra, and pointers to all sorts of other settings too.
Time Machine not backing up hourly? Troubled by repeated prompts to enter your user password? iCloud Drive playing up? Try installing the latest Combo updater. Updated for High Sierra.
Apple has today pushed a silent update to Gatekeeper’s configuration data, bringing it to version 1.0 124. As […]
Working with extended attributes in Swift. They’re straightforward using shell commands, but that is not the best way ahead.
One of the great hidden features in macOS, xattrs are rarely used by anyone outside Apple, largely because they are so poorly supported by functions calls and tools.
A simple and concise example of a page from the documentation which we, as a community, could readily produce for macOS. Fancy giving us a hand?
We have two options: we can carry on watching the decline in docs, and struggle more trying to solve problems, or we can organise and produce our own docs. No one else is going to do it for us. Want to help?
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