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Core Rot at Apple

The worrisome decline of OS X quality and integrity.

Apple Core Rot: Introduction
Reader Comments on Apple Core Rot
Impossible to Complete a File Copy on Any Drives
Time Machine Silently Excludes Critical Data
Finder Copy Destroys File System on Boot Drive
Finder Refuses to Delete 'Backup Items'
Finder Silently Fails to Copy Files
Disk Utility Offers to Destroy 13 volumes on 4 Drives
Graphics Professionals Need 10-bit Color

Blog posts

iPhone Software Update Failure: ‘“Not enough free space is available on this computer” (8.81TB not enough space for 0.128 TB iPhone) 08/30
“Not Connected to Internet” after Waking from Sleep in OS X 10.11.6 08/01
macOS 10.11.6 Issue with Pegasus? 07/19
Apple Breaks Thunderbolt Networking in OS X 10.11.6? 07/18
Apple Knows Better: Your Needs as a Traditional Mac User do not Matter — Has Apple Abandoned the Creative Community? 07/08
More OS X Open-File Bugs: QuickLookSatellite, Apple Mail, Ghost Applications, Trash Will Not Empty 05/27
OS X Bug: QuickLookSatellite Opens Files and Never Closes Them, Causing Wide-Ranging Errors 05/25
OS X: How to Fix Hang in Image Capture Utility 05/10
Thunderbolt on OS X: Spontaneous Drive Disconnect 04/05
Apple Breaks Ethernet in OS X El Capitan 02/29
Apple in PR Denial even as Apple Core Rot Spreads 02/17
Thunderbolt Networking: Very Poor Performance with Sustained Usage 02/04
OS X El Capitan Finder: “The operation can’t be completed because one or more required items can’t be found. (Error Code-43)” 02/03
OS X 10.11.3: Three Displays now Sleep/Wake Properly (UPDATE: worse than ever) 01/21
OS X 10.11.3: iMac 5K Screen Black Screen —Will not Wake Up From Sleep 01/21
Apple Core Rot: Spotlight Cannot Find File Names 01/02
A Troublesome Security and Privacy Flaw: Apple Mail Auto-Complete + How to Delete Unwanted Recipients 12/19/15
Don Norman and Bruce Tognazzini: How Apple Is Giving Design A Bad Name 12/12/15
More Apple Core Rot: Apple Mail Still Broken + More Views 12/10/15
Apple Core Rot: Little Things are not Little Things (iOS Image Display) 12/09/15
Time Machine does not show all the items that are excluded! 12/06/15
Reader Comment: Apple Core Rot 12/03/15
Apple Core Rot: How Many com.apple.audio Helper Processes Does One Need, Exactly? 11/14/15
Apple Core Rot Remains in App Store : OS X Sporadically Fails to Update Apps 11/12/15
OWC Thunderbay 4 Deal: 20TB RAID-5 Edition Deal: now with Spare 5TB Drive 10/31/15
Apple Core Rot now featured in App Store : OS X Cannot Update Itself Properly 10/21/15
OWC Thunderbay 4 Deal: 20TB RAID-5 Edition Deal: now with Spare 5TB Drive 10/16/15
Checking RAID-1 Mirror Status in OS X El Capitan (now that DiskUtility is toast for RAID) 10/16/15
OS X El Capitan Breaks Time Machine 10/15/15
Reader Question: How to Approach El Capitan 10/15/15
Reader Comment: Adobe Quality Control an Issue? 10/15/15
OS X El Capitan: Worst OS Release Yet 10/09/15
OS X El Capitan: Disk Utility “designed by morons” design ethic + RAID Support Removed + Wanton Bugs 10/08/15
Brand-New iPhone 6s Plus with iOS 9.0.2: “No Service” Bug Takes Phone Offline 10/07/15
Will Apple Core Rot Trend be Reversed? 09/23/15
More Apple Core Rot: Finder Sluggish Since 10.10.4 Update 08/08/15
Apple Photos: Nuisance Behavior by Design 05/23/15
Apple Pro Video Updates: Endless Repeated Updates 04/27/15
Apple Core Rot: Runaway Spotlight (mds_stores Process) 04/07/15
How to Prioritize Network Interfaces for Peak Performance 02/15/15
With the Coming of the Apple Watch, Digital Monitoring is the Next Big Thing 02/12/15
Our Toaster Failed, and we want another one just like it 02/12/15
Reader Comment: Apple Core Rot 02/12/15
Drives Unmounting After Sleep in OS X Yosemite? 02/06/15
Apple Core Rot and Safari Issues 02/04/15
SoftRAID 5.0.6 Released With Important Fixes 02/02/15
ArsTechnica: Why DNS in OS X 10.10 is broken, and what you can do to fix it 01/29/15
MacWorld: Wi-Fi issues continue to hamper OS X users despite updates 01/29/15
Continuing Performance Issues in Apple OS X Yosemite, Particularly in Photoshop 01/28/15
Apple OS X 10.10.2: Many Bug Fixes Along with Fresh Manure 01/28/15
Hard Drive Reliability 01/22/15
Apple Core Rot: More Views 01/22/15
Spotlight Builds in a Feature Spammers Could Only Dream About 01/09/15
Spotlight: Brain-Dead Search Priorities 01/03/15
Apple Core Rot 12/26/14
Troubling Precedent: Apple Pushes Security Update Without User Permission (NTP Security Flaw) 12/23/14
Thunderbolt EFI Exploit 12/21/14
A Pseudo-Security Trend: Password Reset and Locked Accounts 11/25/14
OS X Yosemite Update (10.1): Regularly Deletes the AppleMail VIP List 11/24/14
OS X Yosemite Finder File Copy: Data Loss 11/21/14
OS X Yosemite: Update the SoftRAID Driver 11/19/14
OS X Yosemite: Apple Kills TRIM for 3rd-Party SSDs, Renders System Unbootable 11/19/14
OS X Yosemite: Disable WiFi if Using Gigabit Ethernet 11/18/14
OS X Yosemite Deletes Java / JDK, but Photoshop Needs It 11/18/14
When the iPhone and Three Nearby Computers all Ring for a Phone Call, and is this a Privacy Issue? 11/05/14
Apple iCloud: Promiscous Saving for Security Lapses 11/05/14
Static Problems on Input/Output with Some Macs? 11/03/14
OS X Yosemite: Severe Performance Issues with File Open Dialog 11/02/14
OS X Yosemite: Screen Bleed-Through for Images Impairs Perception 10/16/14
Patches for 'bash' Shell Vulnerability 10/07/14
Apple to End 'Aperture' Support 06/27/14
OS X File System Hang Bug 03/31/14
OS X 10.9.2 Reportedly Fixes the TLS/SSL Security Bug 02/25/14
Major Security Flaw in Apple iOS and Apple OS X, Involves Fundamental TLS / SSL Security Protocols 02/22/14

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