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Sierra’s Time Machine irregular backup bug: prevention and treatment

How to diagnose this bug, manage it when it occurs, and try to prevent it from happening: latest information.

July 18, 2017 Macs, Technology

APFS: iOS 11 and High Sierra will fix normalisation problems

Apple now states that APFS will handle the problems of normalisation of file and folder names. At least in iOS 10.3.3 and macOS 10.12.6, due shortly.

July 17, 2017 Macs, Technology

Apple has pushed a further Gatekeeper update

Apple has pushed out another silent update to Gatekeeper’s configuration data, which brings it to version 118. As […]

July 14, 2017 Macs, Technology

Mac malware gets more professional: DOK.C fakes the App Store

You are most unlikely to come across this new variant of OSX/Dok, but it has some very worrying new features.

July 13, 2017 Macs, Technology

Fixing Sierra’s Time Machine + bug: does macOS get overtired?

Lack of sleep can do strange things to people. Perhaps it can to Macs too. Could this solve the Time Machine irregularity bug?

July 12, 2017 Macs, Technology

How to read Sierra’s unified log as a normal user

A helping hand for those who run in normal user mode and cannot access log contents as a result.

July 11, 2017 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: Making a mess of preferences

The current macOS implementation of preferences is appalling design in every respect, and is essentially undocumented even for developers. Is this the way that macOS is heading?

July 9, 2017 Macs, Technology

Apple has silently updated Gatekeeper data

Apple has today updated Gatekeeper configuration data to version 117 (116 seems to have been skipped). Apple does […]

July 8, 2017 Macs, Technology

airport: a hidden Wi-Fi tool in macOS Sierra

Want to perform a quick scan for base stations, change Airport preferences, or check your Airport interface? Here’s the tool to do it.

July 8, 2017 Macs, Technology

Sticky preferences: why trashing or editing them may not change anything

Have you ever tried removing or editing a preference file, to no effect? This explains why that happens, and how to get changes to work properly.

July 6, 2017 Macs, Technology

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