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From their use to replicate floppy disks in manufacture, to their key roles in macOS, for distribution of software, and on network servers to contain backups. Unglamorous but essential.

Survey of other privacy controls, including those involved in scripting and for development. Details of the new control on access to devices on the local network.

Does your NAS need faster storage or a faster network? If you were to improve those, would throttling limit the performance of backups?

How Spotlight works, Core and global Spotlight, importing failure, exclusions from indexing, re-indexing, excessive re-indexing, failure to find, iCloud Drive and network shares.

You don't need a large network to make a Content Caching server worthwhile. If you've 100 GB or more to spare on an external disk, and a Mac that's running when others are, give it a try. It's simple to set up and use.

Do you think that iCloud+ Private Relay is reducing network responsiveness or performance? These results may surprise you.

A few years ago, there were 3 tools for diagnosing network problems: Network Utility (gone in Big Sur), Wireless Diagnostics, and Network Diagnostics (also gone). And what can networkQuality tell you about Private Relay?

I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 220. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Daytime greeting in Paris brings discovery and resolution on the network. Click for a solution B…

Here are this weekend’s riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: Daytime greeting in Paris brings discovery and resolution on the network. 2: Meeting point ch…

All three apps now offer a choice of bridged or NAT networking, or no network connection at all. There’s also improved reporting of VM opening.

Enabling CFNetwork diagnostic logging now requires SIP to be disabled in macOS 13.4.

New version of ViableS runs in a sandbox, with no shared folders, and can now be isolated from networks. So how well does Ventura work without internet?

A revamped configuration profile to remove censored private data from log entries, and how to get network diagnostic data too.

Backing up with Time Machine to a NAS or other network storage is different. Here’s an account of how it creates and handles sparse bundle storage in Ventura 13.2.

Freeform 1.0, the return of network Locations, version change for Disk Utility, Sing in Music, Automator PDF actions, and more.