8 posts tagged ‘Storage’
Deleting Unused Photos From Apple Photos
mjtsai,
I’ve been trying to reduce the storage that the Photos app uses, both on my Mac and in iCloud. I use Lightroom for my photo library, so I would like to delete all the photos that are not referenced by projects (calendars and photo books). Unfortunately, Photos is unable to display any of my projects […]
macOS 15.2 Breaks Bootable Backups
Dave Nanian (Mastodon, 2, Hacker News): Apple broke the replicator. Towards the end of replicating the Data volume, seemingly when it’s about to copy either Preboot or Recovery, it fails with a Resource Busy error.In the past, Resource Busy could be worked around by ensuring the system was kept awake. But this new bug means, […]
A Short History of Recovery in macOS
Howard Oakley: For the first ten years of Mac OS X, its closest substitute was Single User Mode, or SUM, entered by starting the Mac up with the Command and S keys held down. OS X then booted into the command line, where you could for example repair your startup volume[…] […] With Mac OS […]
Lessons From a Bad Apple Repair Experience
Ric Ford: It’s now clear that a new Mac, purchased directly from Apple, can fail completely and suddenly without any warning after running fine for a few weeks. Apple’s proprietary storage design means that a Mac failure is now also a storage failure that will prevent you from accessing any of your files in any […]
LucidLink lands $75M for its on-demand file streaming tech
TechCrunch,
LucidLink, a startup offering a platform that enables teams to work on files without having to download or sync them, today announced that it raised $75 million in a Series C round led by Brighton Park Capital with participation from Headline, Adobe Ventures and Baseline Ventures. The tranche brings LucidLink’s total raised to $90 million […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Master maker Simone Giertz spent three years designing a better coat hanger
Boing Boing,
For more than a decade, Swedish maker Simone Giertz has inspired us with her "shitty" robots, DIY Tesla pickup truck, mantis shrimp costume, and other curious and "useless" inventions. For the last three years, she's been designing a better coat hanger. — Read the rest
8 GB of Unified Memory
Tim Hardwick: Starting at $1,599, the 14-inch M3 MacBook Pro comes with 8GB of unified memory. That makes it $300 more expensive than the $1,299 starting price of the now-discontinued M2 13-inch MacBook Pro with 8GB. Users can opt for 16GB or 24GB at checkout, but these configuration options cost an extra $200 and $400 […]
Sonoma, iCloud Drive, and Time Machine
Howard Oakley: Sonoma fixes a long-standing bug in whether local files can be ‘evicted’ to iCloud, or the download removed from your Mac’s local storage. In some circumstances you could find Sonoma downloading everything you have removed from your local storage, which may come as a surprise.[…]If your Mac has Optimise Mac Storage turned off […]