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Another Finder memory leak in Sonoma

With one leak in the Finder’s Gallery view, it’s time for another, in Icon view. This is an old leak, that has affected older versions of macOS too, but still hasn’t been fixed.

November 23, 2023 Macs, Technology

iCloud Drive in Sonoma: FileProvider and eviction

iCloud Drive in Sonoma has changed beyond all recognition, and is now closely integrated with the FileProvider API. This has important effects, including how you can diagnose problems with the log.

November 21, 2023 Macs, Technology

Finder memory leak in macOS Sonoma 14.1.1

Select groups of many JPEG images in Finder’s gallery view, and the Finder’s memory grows steadily until you’re forced to relaunch it.

November 20, 2023 Macs, Technology

Are we running out of panaceas?

We used to reset the Desktop, the SMC, and NVRAM, install the Combo updater, or perform a clean install. Now there’s only Safe mode left.

November 18, 2023 Macs, Technology

Time Machine in Sonoma: strengths and weaknesses

What is Time Machine best at doing? What are its current limitations in macOS Sonoma, when backing up to APFS? A draft list.

November 17, 2023 Macs, Technology

Game Mode revisited: why E cores are so important

Once you know how to configure an app to be able to use Game Mode, you can run better tests. Here are measurements of CPU and GPU performance for comparison between Full Screen and Game Mode.

November 16, 2023 Macs, Technology

Backup errors, iCloud Drive and the limits of APFS

Two different errors when backing up two different Macs, a recursive RTFD document, and APFS path length limits. But what’s this about FileProvider?

November 15, 2023 Macs, Technology

Time Machine in Sonoma: Back up and restore external volumes

How well can Time Machine back up other volumes, such as those on external drives? Can it restore them when the original disk fails or goes missing?

November 14, 2023 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: Scary hasty

Sonoma 14.1.1 and Ventura 13.6.2 apparently contained ‘important bug fixes and security updates’, although Apple provides no further details. What is going on?

November 12, 2023 Macs, Technology

Time Machine in Sonoma: How to restore from a backup

How should you restore a whole volume, or an old version of a document to a different folder? Includes details of backup structure.

November 10, 2023 Macs, Technology

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