Here are this weekend’s Mac riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: From -12:00 […]
Category Archive: Macs
How to use the Finder’s Lock feature, and as the Immutable flag in Terminal. What its effects are, and how well it’s retained. How iCloud Drive can’t cope with it, and how you can use it in your own lightweight versioning system.
How to investigate an app that crashes when starting up, using log entries. Includes detailed instructions for one of the simplest adventures in the log, and a summary of code signature errors.
When an app can only run for a moment, it might seem hard to work out why it crashes. Here are useful clues from the crash log and elsewhere to help you get the app running properly.
Apple has released its regular weekly update to XProtect for all versions of macOS, bringing it to version […]
Some background tasks will only run when a laptop Mac is connected to mains (AC) power. This is also true for XProtect Remediator scans. What can you do to ensure these are still run?
Not sure which Retina quality displays you can use with your Apple silicon Mac? This site has all the answers and more.
When you need to check what’s in a potential phishing email, run a locked-down virtual machine for safety, as explained here.
I hope you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 361. Here are my solutions to them. 1: This second […]
Spotlight can’t index the contents of document versions to make them searchable. How you can change that and save having to browse those versions when you need to recover old content.
The Eclectic Light Company 