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Updates for SilentKnight, Mints and SystHist

Although primarily for compatibility with Tahoe, these include a general refresh and are recommended for all versions of macOS from Big Sur onwards.

June 18, 2025 Macs, Technology, Updates

A brief history of Mac numeric processing

The Motorola 68000 CPU had no floating point instructions, so Apple introduced SANE, then went on to the PowerPC Velocity Engine, and its Accelerate framework, and more.

January 4, 2025 Macs, Technology

Why can’t Spotlight find files in Library folders?

Try searching for something you know is in a file in ~/Library/Preference and you’re unlikely to get any success. This explains how, and why you can’t alter that.

November 26, 2024 Macs, Technology

How to tell if Spotlight has indexed a file correctly

You use Spotlight to search for something you’re sure is there, but it can’t find it. Here are some methods to discover why that search failed.

November 22, 2024 Macs, Technology

How does QuickLook create Thumbnails and Previews? With an update to Mints

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How to discover which QuickLook generator or app extension should be creating Thumbnails or Previews for different file types, using this new version of Mints.

November 4, 2024 Macs, Technology, Updates

How to find what you want in the log

A strategy for diagnosing problems using the log. How to limit the number of entries shown using appropriate periods and predicates, and more.

May 15, 2024 Macs, Technology

When do you need to read the log?

Reading the log in macOS isn’t easy, but here ten systems where it’s the only way to discover and address problems, and a bonus 11th.

April 24, 2024 Macs, Technology

How to recover Recovery

There’s a problem with your Mac, so you try starting it up in Recovery. But that doesn’t work. What should try next? Intel and Apple silicon Macs are then quite different.

March 21, 2024 Macs, Technology

iCloud Drive in Sonoma: Clones, sparse files, versions and more

How local files retain their extended attributes and versions when moved to iCloud Drive, but they’re not available to other Macs. Sparse files and storage economy as well.

March 7, 2024 Macs, Technology

Mints and Cirrus updated for Sonoma’s iCloud Drive logs

When run on Sonoma, these now show log entries from com.apple.FileProvider rather than CloudDocs – a real revelation.

March 2, 2024 Macs, Technology, Updates

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