What is that text-encoded data embedded in so many Property Lists? Most are Bookmarks, and here’s how to decode them.
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If the Finder’s Get Info dialog may report inaccurate total file size, does that mean the folder sizes are also incorrect? And does this affect volumes too?
Documentation changed to match the bug, seldom-used features that no longer work, and malware protection that devoured parts of Xcode.
Classic Mac OS could give the size of data and resource forks. High Sierra ignored extended attributes, and Sonoma tries to add them, but only includes some.
How does macOS track Recent items for apps? In a property list, using a Base-64 encoded Bookmark. Here’s how to decode, resolve and discover their contents.
You click on a link to get Apple software from the App Store, but it doesn’t work. Why not? What can you do to work around this?
Don’t trust those bit.ly and tinyurl.com shortened links, as they could take you somewhere nasty. This utility lets you check them out in safety.
When a file’s permissions are set to allow the user to write to it, but an app testing whether the file is writable is told that it isn’t.
Open a PDF document, select a URL within it and Copy. Then paste it into a webpage for publication. Simple – but the URL then broke. Why?
Adds quick copying to 6 key values, making them much easier and more efficient to paste into other apps, and fixes a bug in Save.
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