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Mac Geek Gab — Apple Tips, Tricks, and Troubleshooting

Mystery “System” Disk Usage, APFS, Cookies, and More – Mac Geek Gab 745

N/A • 22 januari 2019

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!Note: Shownotes are complete!

Chapters/Timestamps/Stuff mentioned:

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
- Monoprice 27” UHD Display
- ViewSonic VP2768-4K
00:32:21 Julian-Mail won’t search
- How can I rebuild Apple Mail’s database?
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
- Plume SuperPods
- eero
01:22:16 MGG 745 Outtro
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Mystery “System” Disk Usage, APFS, Cookies, and More – Mac Geek Gab 745

Chapters/Timestamps/Stuff mentioned:

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Beware Alert Blindness

Downloads In The Cloud

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The Fast and the Curious: Turbocharge Your Storage and RAM

Practicing The Shrug Shoulders Salute

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Beware The Robocalypse

Brick Walls and Brain Waves

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Be(a)ware Opinionated Apps

What Have I Put Between Me and the Internet?

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MOAR POWER...To Travel?

Everything Was a Sock Account

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Your RATGOCs Are Here

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The Egg & Chicken Problem

A Little Pig Walked Around - MGG 1K

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