Where can you look if you can’t find it in System Information? What if you need that value or setting in a script or app? Here are some suggestions.
Mints
New version helps you check which features are available in your Mac’s CPU, and more, linking to a page here with detailed information.
Automatic Time Machine backups aren’t scheduled to run at precise times, but when it’s convenient. This explains how, and what to do if goes wrong.
iCloud Drive in Sonoma has changed beyond all recognition, and is now closely integrated with the FileProvider API. This has important effects, including how you can diagnose problems with the log.
How to use the Time Machine log extract in Mints to check whether its backups are working normally, and what are expected errors.
How iCloud Drive, concerned with sharing files, and CloudKit, supporting databases shared in iCloud, have changed in Sonoma.
Adds a new feature that will resolve an inode number, such as that given in an APFS error or warning, to give you the item name and path.
Multiple requests for a keychain password, login password mismatch, broken keychains, expired certificates, and using the Data Protection keychain.
Why doesn’t Spotlight seem able to return search results for files stored in iCloud Drive? And a strange feature discovered in extended attributes.
Differences between CloudKit and iCloud Drive, what each does, and how it works. New version of Cirrus to test and check iCloud function.
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