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Tag Archives: High Sierra

The Fastest Way Yet to Stop High Sierra Upgrade Notification

If you’re still running macOS Sierra, you’re probably aware that Apple really wants you to make the climb to macOS 10.13 High Sierra. Every so often, you surely receive the incessant, annoying notification that appears randomly in the top right...

Report: macOS May Lose Data on APFS-formatted Disk Images

In a recent article on the company’s blog, Mike Bombich of Carbon Copy Cloner shared an APFS bug that can cause the loss of data when writing to images. Bombich describes the bug at length in the blog article and...

The beautiful default wallpaper of High Sierra

Year in Review: The 10 Most Popular Rocket Yard Posts of 2017

The year 2017 was a big one for tech enthusiasts. New gear and software news – both good and not-so-good – dominated the headlines. So which news articles and tech tips most caught the interest of Rocket Yard readers? These...

Keeping Your Mac Secure, Part 1: User Accounts

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRwbrh1AD7I] Join Erica from OWC as she discusses how to keep your Mac more secure with user account types and settings in Part 1 of our new series. For more information on Mac security, check out the Rocket Yard's...

Mac 101: Customizing Finder Views, Part 1

The Finder is the operating system's default file manager for viewing and working with the Mac's filing system. It allows us to easily see and work with the hierarchical organizational structure inherent in our Macs. To help us easily find,...

Using APFS On HDDs … And Why You Might Not Want To

After 16 months of using and testing APFS—Apple's new file system—I’ve come to the conclusion that you probably don’t want to use it on HDDs (disks with rotating platters). Why? Well, to understand why APFS and HDDs are not well...

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