It took over 6 months before creating bootable external disks was fairly reliable, and even then there were unexplained failures. Did someone fail to tell us something?
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Here are this weekend’s Mac riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. This week they […]
Based on a cut-down browser, Help Viewer, Apple Help in Mac OS X has had its ups and downs, and several internal revisions, the latest of which is the Tips app in Sequoia.
Two important catches that can cause a macOS installation to fail in Apple silicon: using the DFU port, and not setting up ownership correctly. Both are explained here.
Apple has just released an update to XProtect for all supported versions of macOS, bringing it to version […]
I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 290. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Quiet […]
Which versions of macOS can you ‘dual boot’, should you install them all on the internal SSD, or is a bootable external disk better, and when would you need to virtualise?
Here are this weekend’s Mac riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: Quiet kip […]
How FileVault and APFS Encrypted are enabled and managed differently, and details of how they work internally. Concentrates on T2 and Apple silicon Macs, but also covers older Intel models.
How snapshots are created from a volume in around 0.01 second, why they will grow in size over time, how they can only be of complete volumes, and can’t be edited.
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