How should you restore a whole volume, or an old version of a document to a different folder? Includes details of backup structure. | Continue reading
Apple has overnight released an update to XProtect for all macOS from El Capitan or so, bringing it […] | Continue reading
An illustrated account of the 14th successful ascent of Mont Blanc, complete with champagne and red wine, and two oil paintings of other climbs. | Continue reading
Many of us keep an emergency external drive at the ready by our Mac, in case we need to use it to recover from problems. What’s the equivalent for Apple silicon? | Continue reading
Waiting the knight's end, watching a sorceress, flying over a wheat field, or in front of a sleigh. Wherever they go they seem sinister. | Continue reading
Version 1.5 of this metadata editor fixes a bug causing a spurious editor when Autosave is enabled. | Continue reading
How to use the Time Machine log extract in Mints to check whether its backups are working normally, and what are expected errors. | Continue reading
Apple has just released updates to bring macOS Sonoma to version 14.1.1, and macOS Ventura 13.6.2 for “MacBook Pro (2021 and later) and iMac (2023)”. Although these are thought to be se… | Continue reading
Companions to valkyries, accompanying the Wild Hunt, at the Crucifixion and executions, or the first sign of Spring? | Continue reading
How much faster are P cores at running the same thread as E cores, and how much more energy do they require? And how do they compare with using the GPU? | Continue reading
Perceval’s sister dies to save the life of a lady, Lancelot achieves the grail, then Galahad, Bors and Perceval do, but only one of them lives to tell the tale. | Continue reading
I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 228. Here are my solutions to them. 1: First person seed vessel brought mobile music for 21 years. Click for a solution iPod First pers… | Continue reading
APFS checks file system metadata, not file data. Consistency Scan has gone missing, verifying checksums doesn't appear to verify data, and Verify Integrity seems to do something altogether different. | Continue reading
From Rembrandt to the First World War, through specialists including Atkinson Grimshaw, Eugène Jansson, Schikaneder, and Le Sidaner. | Continue reading
The most frequent error written to the log during my backups concerns a rogue RTFD that went recursive on me 4 years ago, and has come back to haunt me. | Continue reading
Trained in London, Italy and France, he combined a Pre-Raphaelite style from Burne-Jones with Symbolism of Puvis de Chavannes. | Continue reading
Here are this weekend’s riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: First person seed vessel brought mobile music for 21 years. 2: Current objects buried for the… | Continue reading
The most accessible of any metadata in the Finder and apps, Finder tags can be ideal for classifying files and folders into no more than 7 categories. Here’s how they work. | Continue reading
From its origin in portraiture, through to experiments by Renoir, and many oil paintings by Anders Zorn, control over edges can be highly effective. | Continue reading
Fixes one bug, and adds two new features. Can now autosave, to help you make workflows quicker and more reliable. | Continue reading
A look at some of the factors determining the performance of new M3 chips compared to the M1 and M2 versions, and how not to compare them. | Continue reading
Mounts Fuji, Cotopaxi, Merapi, St Helens, and above all the most painted of all, Vesuvius during its violent eruptions. | Continue reading
Detailed account and explanation of the sequence of phases during an automatic backup in Sonoma 14.0 and 14.1, with tear-out chart. | Continue reading
Split a block of rock, craft your sculpture, break stones to dress the roads, be a blacksmith, sharpen your scythe, forge iron, or operate on a leg with your hammer. | Continue reading
First released 16 years ago, it was destined for Time Capsules, and relied on hard links in HFS+. It soon used APFS snapshots, and now uses them as the basis for its backups. | Continue reading
Wielded by the Etruscan god of death Charun, Hephaistos or Vulcan, Jael as she killed Sisera, those who nailed Christ to the cross, and the Norse god Thor. | Continue reading
Version 1.3 adds drag and drop onto a document window, and a Scratchpad to store keywords that you use often. For 10.14.6 and later. | Continue reading
Galahad was given a shield dating back to Joseph of Arimathea, then sorted out the Castle of Maidens, before getting his sword and scabbard on a ghost ship. | Continue reading
For older articles about previous versions of OS X, see this article macOS 11 Big Sur and Apple […] | Continue reading
I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 227. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Valley of the moon brings wine and widgets to the desktop. Click for a solution Sonoma Valley of… | Continue reading
How iCloud Drive, concerned with sharing files, and CloudKit, supporting databases shared in iCloud, have changed in Sonoma. | Continue reading
A tragedy with a happy outcome, painted by Waterhouse, Kauffman, Paulus Bor, Delacroix, Maurice Denis and Lovis Corinth. | Continue reading
What are dataless files, and how do they work with iCloud and third-party cloud service providers? How can you tell whether a file is dataless? | Continue reading
Superb paintings of this tragedy from Roman history, by Veronese, Reni, Gentileschi, Rembrandt and Godfrey Kneller. | Continue reading
Here are this weekend’s riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: Valley of the moon brings wine and widgets to the desktop. 2: From an early mission to Patago… | Continue reading
Why are some file metadata embedded in their main data, and others stored separately as extended attributes? How can I tell them apart? | Continue reading
An American fan of Vermeer who trained under Gérôme in Paris thought he’d discovered Vermeer’s optical secrets, and revived his defocussed style. | Continue reading
Do you have a third-party camera using its own plug-in? Sonoma 14.1 could disable it. Here’s what to do to keep your camera working, perhaps even better than before. | Continue reading
Apple has just released an update to XProtect Remediator security software (Catalina or later), bringing it to version 118 (the previous released version was 114), and to XProtect (for all macOS fr… | Continue reading
Paintings of rugged mountains on the coast and lining deep fjords, from Peder Balke, Hans Gude, Eilert Normann, and others. | Continue reading
Apple claims that its macOS VMs can run Metal and deliver “great graphics performance”. How could you assess that, and are they really that good? | Continue reading
Full details, including a warning about older camera support. If you know what an Apple T6041 MCC is, this might provide a tantalising clue. | Continue reading
Apple has just released the first update to macOS Sonoma, taking it to version 14.1, as well as security updates in Ventura 13.6.1 and Monterey 12.7.1. I’ll post further information as I get … | Continue reading
Saying it with flowers from the Pre-Raphaelites, scattering opium poppies, drowning with forget-me-nots, and choosing between camellias and violets. | Continue reading
The small stub files used as placeholders for files evicted to iCloud Drive have vanished. Could that be why some Macs had to download the whole contents of their iCloud Drive? | Continue reading
Saying it with flowers from Botticelli’s Primavera with over 130 species of flower to Hans Memling’s innovative floral still life. | Continue reading
Look for Safari in /System/Applications and it's not there any more. And an inactive boot volume group has no bundled apps in its main Applications folder. | Continue reading
Lancelot is tricked into getting Elaine pregnant with Galahad. When grown up, Galahad is knighted and welcomed to the Round Table in time for a vision of the Holy Grail and the start of the quest. | Continue reading