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Repairing permissions in your Home folder has changed

Apple has changed its instructions for resetting/repairing permissions on your Home folder, and important cure for many problems.

February 18, 2020 Macs, Technology

Quarantine, SIP, and MACL: macOS per-file security controls

The behaviour of quarantine flags, SIP flags, and the mysterious new com.apple.macl attribute, which never ceases to puzzle.

January 30, 2020 Macs, Technology

Opening documents, SIP and quarantine flags in Catalina

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How does Catalina’s new privacy protection extend to folders such as ~/Documents? New information fills in detail.

December 20, 2019 Macs, Technology

Security data files: how they’ve changed in Catalina

Details of their locations, purposes, and the current installed version. These have changed a great deal since Mojave.

October 17, 2019 Macs, Technology

Security changes coming in Catalina: what’s changed

What to expect from the many changes to security and privacy in the first release of Catalina. How to run non-notarized apps, and more.

October 2, 2019 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: Hollywood’s lessons

What should we learn from the “mysterious data corruption issue” which struck down Mac Pros used in editing studios?

September 29, 2019 Macs, Technology

Which Recovery Mode?

Don’t just hold Command-R and hope that you’ll install the right version of macOS. Here’s structured decision-making to save you time.

September 27, 2019 Macs, Technology

SilentKnight and silnite: FAQ

Answers to the most commonly asked questions on my free utilities SilentKnight and its command tool sibling silnite.

August 1, 2019 Macs, Technology

Why Catalina has got a read-only system volume

System integrity protection, SIP, is a primary defence for your Mac. Yet it has had several known vulnerabilities. That’s why it’s changing in Catalina.

June 22, 2019 Macs, Technology

What is SIP and when is it safe to turn it off?

System Integrity Protection can get in your way, and may be recommended to solve compatibility problems. It’s also changing again in Catalina.

June 19, 2019 Macs, Technology

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