Where are the tools for diagnosing and fixing features that don’t always ‘just work’? Turning to look at iCloud.
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How does Catalina protect privacy of locations such as ~/Documents and removable volumes? What are your controls?
Inside the Privacy tab in the Security & Privacy pane, and some pitfalls which could leave your private data exposed.
If an admin user is a member of very few groups, that could have stopped you from using Taccy’s log browser. This update fixes that.
Confused by Catalina’s privacy protection? Here are the principles behind it, and the categories and structure of protected services and locations.
The list of apps in my Files and Folders list grows steadily as they need to access my external SSD. And there’s nothing I can do about that.
Tips to help you investigate and tackle problems arising in Catalina with its new privacy protections, particularly those of folders such as Documents.
Adds kernel messages to the log excerpts, making them more useful in diagnosing privacy problems, and greatly improvements their formatting.
When it comes to basics, we like consistency. Imagine what life would be like if every so often […]
When you can’t save to somewhere else, only to your startup volume, even though you’ve shown user intent. Privacy through perversity perhaps?
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