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Disk Utility: An ever-changing tool

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Troubled at times, we have used Disk Utility through thick and thin. Now it has changed to support APFS, with some weird behaviour.

October 9, 2017 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: Apple’s new reality distortion field

A crass security bug, not changing version numbers, undocumented file formats, and stunted log access: components in the new RDF.

October 8, 2017 Macs, Technology

How to speed up Time Machine backups

You may still have plenty of space on your backup volume, but if it has millions of files and hard links from years of backups, it will be very slow. Here’s how to fix that.

October 7, 2017 Macs, Technology

More Scripting in Swift: Shuffling files and writing a property list

Using Swift 4 for a classic scripting task: copying and restructuring files and folders, here to create a logarchive bundle.

October 5, 2017 Macs, Technology

Apple has pushed an update to Gatekeeper configuration data

Apple has very recently pushed out an update to Gatekeeper’s configuration data, bringing it to version 131, which […]

October 5, 2017 Macs, Technology

Which EFI firmware should your Mac be using?

A checklist of the latest EFI firmware versions which should be running on each recent Mac model.

October 4, 2017 Macs, Technology

Silent High Sierra night: security settings files in macOS High Sierra

List of current version numbers for security data files and other systems which Apple may push silent updates for. Includes new EFI firmware checker.

October 4, 2017 Macs, Technology

MakeLogarchive can now catalogue any well-formed logarchive

The catalogue includes the dates and times each log file was created and completed, size, and the period of time covered by it.

October 4, 2017 Macs, Technology

MakeLogarchive enables Consolation to read individual log files

The combination lets you browse tracev3 log files within a log archive, which MakeLogarchive can create from raw logs in /var/db.

October 3, 2017 Macs, Technology

Why can’t I download and install macOS Sierra any more? (Updated)

Like El Capitan before it, Sierra has now vanished from the App Store. It has also been removed from your Purchased list. How can you install it now?

September 28, 2017 Macs, Technology

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