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The universal panacea for macOS problems: install the Combo updater

Time Machine not backing up hourly? Troubled by repeated prompts to enter your user password? iCloud Drive playing up? Try installing the latest Combo updater. Updated for High Sierra.

August 23, 2017 Macs, Technology

Apple pushes silent Gatekeeper update

Apple has today pushed a silent update to Gatekeeper’s configuration data, bringing it to version 1.0 124. As […]

August 21, 2017 Macs, Technology

More Fun Scripting with Swift in Xcode: extended attributes

Working with extended attributes in Swift. They’re straightforward using shell commands, but that is not the best way ahead.

August 21, 2017 Macs, Technology, xattr

Extended Attributes: a draft example documentation page

A simple and concise example of a page from the documentation which we, as a community, could readily produce for macOS. Fancy giving us a hand?

August 19, 2017 Macs, Technology

Thoughts on documenting macOS: do we have a project?

We have two options: we can carry on watching the decline in docs, and struggle more trying to solve problems, or we can organise and produce our own docs. No one else is going to do it for us. Want to help?

August 18, 2017 Macs, Technology

xattred: a tool for setting the quarantine xattr

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This tool for Sierra now inspects and displays extended attributes, and will write a quarantine xattr to force a full Gatekeeper check on an app, as if downloaded.

August 17, 2017 Macs, Technology

Consolation 3.0b7 (fc1): building an infinitely customizable log browser

This new version improves control behaviours in the preferences sheet. Is it ready for final release now?

August 17, 2017 Macs, Technology

Quarantined: more about the quarantine extended attribute

If you want someone else to be able to run your script app, you’ll need to sign it and get it past Gatekeeper’s checks. Here are more details about the role of xattrs in those, and how to run a full check without downloading your app.

August 15, 2017 Macs, Technology

Show me your metadata: extended attributes in macOS Sierra

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They’re responsible for determining Gatekeeper’s checks, contain Finder information, and much more. With a new free tool too.

August 14, 2017 Macs, Technology

Apple updates Gatekeeper data again

Apple has pushed another silent update to the security data files for macOS Sierra and OS X El […]

August 13, 2017 Macs, Technology

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