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Spotlight problems: mds_stores and mdworker in trouble

Excessive CPU use by mds_stores is a common cause of sluggish performance. Explains what it does and what you can do bring it under control.

December 8, 2022 Macs, Technology

Is Apple scanning the images on my Mac?

Some suspect Apple of scanning images stored on your Mac. What evidence is there that could be happening?

October 7, 2022 Macs, Technology

Serious bugs remaining in Monterey: a working list

What are the penalties in staying with Monterey, if you choose not to upgrade to Ventura, or your Mac isn’t supported? Please report serious bugs we should know about.

July 22, 2022 Macs, Technology

Biome isn’t about biometrics, but suggestions

It has its own folder in ~/Library, and no less than 7 of its own Private Frameworks. But what is it, and what does it do? This is as much as I know about it.

June 27, 2022 Macs, Technology

What has changed in macOS Monterey 12.3?

By any measure, Monterey’s 12.3 update is very substantial, introducing major new features like Universal Control and Spatial […]

March 14, 2022 Macs, Technology

What’s in that app? A guide to app internal structure

What are all those files and folders doing inside an app? Which can you safely change to customise an app? Why all the helpers?

December 13, 2021 Macs, Technology

Hidden files and folders on APFS volumes

Which of the cluster of hidden files and folders at the top level of an APFS volume should be preserved or copied to a copy of that volume?

December 9, 2021 Macs, Technology

More memory leaks in Monterey 12.0.1: how to avoid them

Is Monterey burning your memory away? Here are two reproducible memory leaks which could explain that, plus two more than might.

November 22, 2021 Macs, Technology

Volume names are still a Unicode mess

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Don’t use Unicode normalised Form C names for volumes in Disk Utility, as they cause havoc, and prevent Spotlight from indexing volumes.

July 1, 2021 Macs, Technology

How to restore Spotlight search of Rich Text files

Big Sur 11.3 fixed a bug which stopped indexing of the contents of RTF files. Here’s how to ensure all your RTFs are now accessible in Spotlight searches.

May 13, 2021 Macs, Technology

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