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Explainer: the Recovery Partition

Introduced in Mac OS X 10.7, it remained an HFS+ partition until High Sierra. With Mojave, it became an APFS volume, except for M1 Macs.

September 18, 2021 Macs, Technology

Interchangeability of Finder, Terminal, and AppleScript

It can be valuable to know how to restart, run a command, and open an app using Terminal, AppleScript, and different methods in the Finder.

December 17, 2016 Macs, Technology

App crashed? it could be SIP

When an app ran fine, but crashes in El Capitan, it may be SIP’s fault. Here is how to check, and more about SIP.

November 12, 2015 Macs, Technology

My Mac don’t work – troubleshooting tools and techniques

Like all sophisticated systems, Macs do sometimes go wrong. Indeed in some hands they always seem to be […]

February 10, 2015 Macs, Technology
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