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Category Archive: Macs

Last Week on My Mac: snapshots, the elephant in APFS

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Demonstrated 10 years ago as a major new feature in APFS, and capable of blazingly fast rollback preserving data including document versions, snapshots still aren’t fully accessible or documented.

May 10, 2026 Macs, Technology

Saturday Mac riddles 359

Here are this weekend’s Mac riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: Could in […]

May 9, 2026 General, Macs, Technology

Explainer: File Provider and cloud services

For over a decade, cloud services did their own thing. Apple then encouraged them to use a new File Provider framework, and led the way with iCloud Drive.

May 9, 2026 Macs, Technology

How to check whether Spotlight is getting the right metadata

Use the mdimport and mdls commands to dump full information about all the metadata attributes found for a file, and those indexed by Spotlight.

May 8, 2026 Macs, Technology

How to make and roll back to a snapshot

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Can be a Mac-saver if you have problems when your backup storage isn’t available. You don’t need to run Time Machine to make them, and can roll back in Recovery, as shown here.

May 7, 2026 Macs, Technology

How macOS can ignore and hide metadata

Two significant indexing errors when processing RTF and image files caused search failures. Display in the Finder is also insufficient to make these xattrs as useful as they could be.

May 6, 2026 Macs, Technology

Apple has released an update to XProtect for all macOS

Apple has released an update to XProtect for all versions of macOS, bringing it to version 5342. As […]

May 5, 2026 Macs, Technology, Updates

How to store and manage metadata in macOS

How to select the most appropriate way of storing metadata, limitations of Finder Comments and Tags, which extended attributes are best, and which utilities to edit and manage them.

May 5, 2026 Macs, Technology

Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 358

I hope you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 358. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Thinly dispersed […]

May 4, 2026 General, Macs, Technology

macOS virtual machines and audio-video syncing

Video and audio don’t appear to sync correctly when played back in a macOS VM on an Apple silicon host. Have you noticed the same or similar problems?

May 4, 2026 Macs, Technology

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