With its 2 TB Fusion Drive well over half full, upgrading my iMac from Sierra to Mojave could so easily have been a nightmare.
Mojave
Mojave’s new feature to show ‘Legacy Software’ is far from complete, and thoroughly misleading.
If you’ve upgraded to Mojave, there are a couple of odd things you may have noticed in SystHist and T2M2. Help is at hand.
When Time Machine backs up an APFS volume, it works quite differently from the way it did on HFS+. Explored here using log entries from Mojave.
Some Macs start running the Mojave upgrade like it’s molasses or treacle: starting an app takes a minute or more, and other function grind to a halt. Here’s why, and what you should do.
It’s actually even easier to browse the unified log and discover what is going wrong with a reproducible problem. Here’s how.
TCC observed loading overrides during startup, and two typical sequences responding to access requests. Useful tips for fixing problems.
Displaying thumbnails and previews with white text on white background is a good party-trick, but quickly gets tedious.
All I wanted was a Rich Text editor which supported Dark Mode properly in Mojave. In the end, I had to write it myself.
Stories about 32-bit support, APFS and Fusion Drives, widespread app problems, failed updates, Time machine, and privacy protection.
