Tag: macos
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How to save an APFS HDD
A large APFS drive stopped mounting, First Aid gave up, and the data existed nowhere else. Five days, two repairs, one wrong turn that corrupted it again, and the tooling we wrote along the way.
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Skipping AppleScript to search Apple Mail fast
AppleScript’s whose filters on Mail.app aren’t index-accelerated by anything, so they crawl on a big mailbox and can wedge Mail’s automation bridge entirely. Mail already keeps its own indexed SQLite database on disk. Read that instead.