What can you do when your Time Machine backups stop running regularly? Or another background activity has gone missing?
Mints
Immediate actions to get the best result from your search, and how to tackle even the most deep-seated of Spotlight problems.
Mints 1.14 fixes a crashing bug and improves xattr handling; Precize 1.14 improves xattr handling.
Fixes a crashing bug in the Disk Check feature.
Can we trust the figures the Finder provides for used and available space on a volume? What does it count as purgeable?
When the Finder works out how much space is available on disk, what does it count as being “purgeable”? The answer may surprise you.
Adds the ability to check some key SMART health indicators for Apple Fabric and PCIe SSDs.
The Finder reported free space had risen by over 80 GB, that’s more than 50%. It looked like something had wiped some of my media libraries.
Why should you trim an SSD? How to tell whether an SSD needs trimming, finding out whether it has trim support, and whether it does trim.
A step-by-step account of how Disk Arbitration and APFS mount an external disk, from handling its partitions, to performing trims.
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