Mystery « System » Disk Usage, APFS, Cookies, and More – Mac Geek Gab 745
Mysteries are meant to be solved, and when it comes to the mystery that is your « System » disk usage as displayed by macOS, well, that mystery’s not even supposed to exist in the first place. Dave and John dig in to solve this plus a bunch of other questions sent in by you, dear listeners. Press play, listen, learn, and enjoy!
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Show Notes
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- 00:00:00 Mac Geek Gab 745 for Monday, January 21, 2019
- 00:02:10 Daniel-App to monitor free disk space
- Drive Genius’s Drive Pulse (though you can't set threshold)
- iStat Menus (set in Notifications)
- 00:05:32 Answers to Mystery “System” Storage Issues
- DaisyDisk
- OmniDiskSweeper (if running from Terminal, add to System Preferences | Security & Privacy | Full Disk Access)
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- 00:21:03 Ben-Mac mini and Display Choices
- 00:32:21 Julian-Mail won't search
- 00:40:25 Mike-Beware Deleting Emails from Threads in Spark and Gmail
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- 00:46:02 Mike-APFS and External Drives
- 00:53:10 Joe-APFS Disk Utilities
- DiskWarrior (not APFS-compatible)
- Drive Genius (APFS-compatible!)
- 00:57:59 Don-Invalid inodes on APFS Volumes
- "warning: inode_val: object (old 0x127081): invalid_bsd_flags (0x10)" when running First Aid on snapshots
- 01:04:07 Gray-744-Disable Ad Blockers on Specific Sites
- Right-click on URL in Safari, choose "Settings for This Website," can enable or disable ad blockers
- 01:08:04 Les-744-Blocked Cookies Were the Culprit
- 01:10:33 Joe-743-Compressed Air Usage
- 01:13:53 Robert-Thoughts on Fingbox
- 01:22:16 MGG 745 Outtro
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