Pathfinder, one of my favorite Mac apps, has been upgraded to version 4.7. The update was announced and installed through the built-in auto-update feature. I didn’t have any problems with the upgrade although it’s necessary to restart Pathfinder after the upgrade and I was prompted to approve or postpone the restart.
The change log lists six [...]
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In my previous post about my problems with Superduper! I mentioned I used two free utilities to try and find out where all the space went.
Disk Inventory X
The first utility is Disk Warrior Inventory X which provides a graphical representation of your files. When the program starts you’re asked to pick a drive or folder [...]
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The last couple of days have provided several reminders of why the tag line for this blog is “A Frustrating Journey” and Superduper! was one of them. Superduper! is Mac disk cloning software that I wrote about recently and use for my backups. Since writing that I’ve had a couple of problems with Superduper!, the [...]
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Data Rescue II is a file recovery utility for the Mac by ProSoft Engineering. Even if you don’t need it now, what’s worth knowing is that if you need it to recover files you can download the trial version and see if it will work. The download will read your hard disk and list the [...]
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I first read about the MacLock Pick a little over a week ago. It was described as a USB thumbdrive that could be plugged into a Mac to extract passwords from a keychain along with other system information. The keychain is an app that holds passwords so a user doesn’t have to enter them all [...]
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I’d purchased and used Superduper! with my Mac Mini but when I moved to the iMac I stopped using it. I had used it as a cloner and I didn’t really want to do clones as my primary backup anymore (so I thought) so I switched to Apple Backup. Apple Backup has it’s falts (that’s [...]
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