First released 16 years ago, it was destined for Time Capsules, and relied on hard links in HFS+. It soon used APFS snapshots, and now uses them as the basis for its backups.
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How iCloud Drive, concerned with sharing files, and CloudKit, supporting databases shared in iCloud, have changed in Sonoma.
What are dataless files, and how do they work with iCloud and third-party cloud service providers? How can you tell whether a file is dataless?
Do you have a third-party camera using its own plug-in? Sonoma 14.1 could disable it. Here’s what to do to keep your camera working, perhaps even better than before.
Full details, including a warning about older camera support. If you know what an Apple T6041 MCC is, this might provide a tantalising clue.
Apple has just released the first update to macOS Sonoma, taking it to version 14.1, as well as […]
The small stub files used as placeholders for files evicted to iCloud Drive have vanished. Could that be why some Macs had to download the whole contents of their iCloud Drive?
Look for Safari in /System/Applications and it’s not there any more. And an inactive boot volume group has no bundled apps in its main Applications folder.
How does Game Mode give highest priority access to CPU and GPU? An investigation of the involvement of P and E cores, and the GPU brings some surprises.
Apple claims it gives a game highest priority CPU and GPU access, and reduces Bluetooth input and audio latencies too. Does it, though?
The Eclectic Light Company 