Note: this guide was written circa macOS 10.13 High Sierra, in 2018. Its accuracy has not been verified for newer macOS releases. Curiously there’s very little information out on the web (at time of writing) on how to create (or expand) a Fusion Drive without erasing its contents first. It’s entirely possible to do so… Read more
This was a fun one. Mail started crashing on launch for absolutely no apparent reason – nothing had changed to its config or similar in a long time. The crash logs were all fingering an identical culprit – -[IMAPTaskManager secondaryIdleMailboxName] called on the wrong GCD queue: Process: Mail [19884] Path: /Applications/Mail.app/Contents/MacOS/Mail Identifier: com.apple.mail Version: 11.3… Read more
I hate this dialog with the fire of a thousand suns. When this appears, it basically means one (or both) of two things: Quitting any of the listed applications is rarely the correct move. It’s often enough the case that none of them are the root cause, and you can kill all of them if you… Read more
I run Einstein@Home, using both CPU cores & my GPU. Other than a few month period where Einstein@Home was issuing broken GPU work units, I’ve been successfully doing this for years, I think. Longer than I can really remember, in any case. It appears, however, that 10.12.2 has introduced some serious issues impacting those GPU… Read more