All about helpd and HelpViewer, how they index and maintain Help books. And what has gone wrong recently, including an odd difference between Intel and Apple silicon Macs.
Ventura
Which extended attributes are attached to downloaded archives and apps? How do they fit in with provenance tracking?
If you thought that App Translocation only happens to apps left in their original folders and not moved, and doesn’t happen after first run, this could come as a surprise.
We should have expected Apple to remain silent about what the RSR does. But ruining its own clean and logical version numbering system was unexpected.
With the sealed system and Cryptexes, macOS updates are less likely to cause problems. As RSRs are easy to uninstall, it’s simple to test whether they’re the cause.
What does Safe mode do to all those service caches managed by CacheDelete? Does it still check your boot disk too?
Apple has just released an update to XProtect Remediator security software for Macs running Catalina or later, bringing […]
When run on Intel Macs without a T2 chip in Ventura 13.3.1, LockRattler may crash because of a bug in macOS. This update fixes it.
Intended to be lightweight, timely and quick to install, the first RSR has now been provided for Ventura. Did you know you can also uninstall it easily?
Apple has just released the first of its new Rapid Security Responses (RSRs) for macOS 13.3.1 Ventura. This […]
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