Apple silicon Macs may not obtain an external reference time for many seconds after starting up. Do they adjust their local clock over that period, and if so, against what reference?
Category Archive: Macs
First decide what you want to ‘clean’: the Data or System volume, or firmware? Then consider the methods of choice to perform that. Explained for Intel and Apple silicon Macs.
You’re sometimes advised to shut your Mac down, wait a while, and start it up again, instead of restarting it. Are they different, and if so when should you use them?
I hope you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 344. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Iron, copper, […]
Distinguish between panics, freezes, app crashes, and unresponsive apps, as they have different causes, are investigated differently, and have different solutions.
When something has gone wrong, if you don’t know what to look for in the log, nor when it happened, the log is hostile. It also leaves important entries without the user being aware of them. Here are ideas of how those could be improved.
Here are this weekend’s Mac riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: Iron, copper, […]
This takes just a few seconds, and can fix problems that otherwise would require a restart. All depends on which processes need to be restarted.
It makes a big difference whether an app, file or folder is in the System or Data volume, or maybe somewhere else. Here’s how to tell accurately, rather than according to one of the Finder’s illusions.
Apple has just released an update to XProtect, bringing it to version 5326. As usual, it doesn’t release […]
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