Fixes a crashing bug in the Disk Check feature.
Mints
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.
Update adds a 22nd tool, to display a log extract tailored to examining the mounting of APFS disks. Also valuable for any APFS investigation.
Detailed account from the decision to start making an automatic backup to its final reporting and completion, for Ventura 13.2.1 to local storage.
The macOS log is very different from those seen in Unix. This explains where and what log files are, how they get written, how much they store, and how quickly entries can be written.
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