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Sierra Log Tutorial: Exploring a startup

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How to explore what happens during startup, and hone in on problems. The second tutorial, medium level.

November 11, 2016 Macs, Technology

Sierra Log Tutorial: Getting started, Time Machine errors, and restarts

A basic tutorial showing how to get useful information from Sierra’s new logs, using LogLogger5.

November 8, 2016 Macs, Technology

App Store chaos + Power Coma + Time Machine blackout = Friday

When it rains, it always pours catfish. And most of the falling fish came courtesy of the App Store.

October 29, 2016 Macs, Technology

Last Week on my Mac: The strangeness of Time Machine, and App Store conflict

Should Time Machine back up on demand, or every hour? Sierra doesn’t seem sure. And how Apple needs to think of users more in the App Store.

October 9, 2016 General, Macs, Technology

FlexiTime Machine: how Sierra changes backups

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Backups are no longer made every hour, but their frequency depends on the likely amount needing to be backed up. A hidden if not secret feature.

October 3, 2016 Macs, Technology

Has Sierra’s Time Machine changed to backup on demand?

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Are your backups made every hour? Are you sure? Sierra might have become smarter as to how often it backs up.

October 3, 2016 Macs, Technology

Reported problems in macOS Sierra: an incomplete list

This is a list of bad features, poor interface design, problems with third-party apps, etc. Known bugs in […]

September 20, 2016 General, Macs, Technology

Making best use of your backups

How often, and how much? Decide by thinking through how you would use your backup to restore your Mac after disaster.

July 5, 2016 Macs, Technology

You cannot turn off Spotlight indexing on your Time Machine backup

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Don’t you want to search your backups? Like it or not, Spotlight will still index them, even if it doesn’t tell you that it is.

June 20, 2016 Macs, Technology

Adding and removing user accounts in OS X

When should you create a new user, and how should you delete them?

May 26, 2016 Macs, Technology

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