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Known bugs in macOS Mojave 10.14.6: an incomplete summary

Little changed from 10.14.5, the final release of Mojave still has many significant bugs. Here’s a partial listing.

July 24, 2019 Macs, Technology

Finder icons and QuickLook: friends or enemies?

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Icons are a fundamental part of a graphical interface, and convey valuable information. Although QuickLook thumbnails can enhance, they can also conflict unless carefully thought out.

May 18, 2019 Macs, Technology

Known bugs in macOS Mojave 10.14.5: an incomplete summary

Only one previously reported bug appears to have been fixed in 10.14.5. Here’s a list of some of those which remain.

May 15, 2019 Macs, Technology

Known bugs in macOS Mojave 10.14.4: an incomplete summary

Several serious bugs have been fixed in this update. Here’s a list of those which still remain. Please add more as you come across them.

March 27, 2019 Macs, Technology

Why doesn’t that document’s icon display properly? Beyond QuickLook

It has been one of the oldest problems on Macs, when a document shows with the wrong icon. Why, and how to fix it?

January 30, 2019 Macs, Technology

Known bugs in macOS Mojave 10.14.3: an incomplete summary

Three bugs may have been fixed in 10.14.3: About This Mac’s Storage bar (at last), App Store glitches showing apps need to be redownloaded, and some black on grey text.

January 24, 2019 Macs, Technology

Mojave bug: QuickLook thumbnails are too high

Together with the Quick Actions bar, they force you to scroll to view an item’s metadata, even on large displays.

January 23, 2019 Macs, Technology

Refreshing Aliases isn’t so simple: a cautionary tale with Alifix

So resolving an Alias doesn’t always update data in the Alias file, even though it returns the correct path when possible. This is becoming a mess.

January 21, 2019 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: Breaking the link

Links – hard links, symlinks, and Finder Aliases – are the most complex and confusing of simple concepts in computing. Do they get any better after research?

January 20, 2019 Macs, Technology

How to inspect the details of an Alias without changing them, and Precize 1.7

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It’s all too easy to change the information in a Finder Alias when you’re inspecting it. Here’s how to avoid that, and a new version of Precize to help.

January 14, 2019 Macs, Technology

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