Is your Mac running Sequoia or Tahoe? Is its XProtect up to date and using version 5325? If not, you might have to wait until the return from holidays before that’s fixed.
Tahoe
If someone had told me 12 months ago what was going to happen this past year, I wouldn’t […]
It was notorious for its crashes and reporting discrepancies, but now it’s incorporated in System Settings it’s more reliable and helpful. But there’s still the problem of System Data.
Authentication dialogs for Macs with and without support for Touch ID, in recent versions of macOS including Tahoe, and how to tell whether a request in Terminal is genuine.
A complex set of rules with optional flags determines whether any given xattr is preserved when copying, saving, syncing with a cloud service, backing up, and more. Here they are.
Some who updated to 26.2 reported their downloads were over 10 GB in size, rather than the expected 3.78 GB for Apple silicon Macs. Why was that, and why didn’t Apple release an earlier BSI?
A largely routine update, with a few interesting new features such as Edge Light, a security enhancement to AirDrop, and two important security fixes that have already been exploited in iOS.
Apple has just released the update to bring macOS Tahoe to version 26.2, and security updates to Sequoia […]
Where are all those photos and videos that are shared in Messages being stored? Where to find the Syndication Photos Library, and some of its puzzles.
Apple silicon Macs were designed to boot almost as securely from external disks as from their internal SSD. That makes macOS installation a little more complicated. Here’s how to do that.
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