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Seems like the boys at DiskWarrior have given up trying to support APFS, for the last three years they’ve offered the pathetic excuse on their website that the next version of DiskWarrior will support those file types. DiskWarrior works on & fixes (or used to) the Directory structure of HFS+ drives. I’ve lost track of the number of times it has salvaged a recalcitrant HDD. At least it still works with Time Machine drives.
There is another utility app that CAN fix Directory issues on APFS drives, that’s TechTool Pro.
Today I had troule when Time Machine refused to make a backup, saying there was an unexplained issue with the destination drive. Aha, says I! Time for DiskWarrior. It tried but then went on a go slow when it consumed 15.5 GB of my 16 GB of RAM in the task. So I stopped the app with the Time Machine drive partially fixed but unmounted. Disk Utility was unable to remount the drive, so I disconnected the USB cable & reconnected it. I then logged out, & back in again, this freed up some more RAM. I decided to give TechTool Proi a go at it, but it refused to unmount the now-mounted drive.
Right. I opened Onyx app & freed up some more RAM then gave DiskWarrior one more try. It was able to unmount the drive, make its repairs & remount it. After which Time Machine was once again able to perform its backup duties.

The main reason I prefer Diskwarrior over TechTool Pro for fixing Time Machine drives is because it’s much quicker at doing the job. But DW can’t work with APFS drives whereas TTP can.

@matigo 20 GB was of unremovable cache files, the remaining 20 GB is what is saved by having lower resolution versions of the 28 GB iCloud Photo Library on board.
That is, the Photo Library on the Mac is shown as occupying 28 GB, but really tthat’s how big the iCloud library is. The local version with lower res pics is around 8 GB in reality.

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One thing disappointed me after the clean install of Catalina on the MacBook Pro: while it had regained a lot of drive space, there should have been more. Then I twigged: I’d set the Photos app to hold full rresolution photos after the rebuild, before that I’d chosen to optimise the Mac’s storage of photos, keeping the full res ones on iCloud and lesser ones on the Mac.
Full res pics come down if I edit a photo.
I’m seeing 156 GB of free space, it was 117 GB before the rebuild.

So there I was, lazing back in bed a bit after noon, tuned into Monday Night Dance Party (mndp.tv) on the Pnut.io network on my MacBook Pro when a realisation came upon me: it would be better for my circulation to be sitting and there’s the Men’s Shed 27-in iMac in the loungeroom. A bigger screen for the videos & a vastly better set of speakers. The only way the MBP could sound better would be to pipe the audio through the stereo pair of Apple HomePods.

@matigo It only happened on this Mac. The iMac, also on Crapalina, is unaffected.

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Mostly done with the setup of the new Men’s Shed iMac. Just finishing off the Time Machine backup. Because this Mac has a T2 Security, etc chip, the Time Machine backups have to be encrypted and that takes time.

@matigo Jitsi Meet is one such. It offers ones screen sharing option under Safari but three when using Chrome or Edge. Three is the correct number.

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@matigo Not I. I was using Netscape Navigator 3 on a G3 iMac running Mac OS 9.2.2. After about 18 months I upgraded to Jaguar (OS 10.2.6) and started using Safari. Then a glitch caused by an app that went overboard with stripping out excess language files corrupted things so Safari & Mail stopped working. This was rectified with the arrival of Tiger, but until then I used Firefox & Thunderbird, both of which were indirect spin-offs of Netscape. Then Netscape Navigator 9 came along & I used that on Tiger until they dropped support in 2008. I dabbled with SeaMonkey for a while before coming back into the Apple fold with Safari & Mail. I have 4 G4 & 2 G3 Macs in my collection & they use TenFourFox, itself a fork of Firefox for PPC Macs. It’s a slow web browser though.
These days, if something doesn’t look or work properly in Safari, I’ll use either Edge or Vivaldi as alternatives.

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Whilst showering yesterday, both my ears became blocked, the left one improved in a few hours but not so the right. The doctor this afternoon after examining me reported that water, which at best is an irritant to the inner workings of ears, had combined with ear wax and swollen to cause the blockage. The problem with the right ear, he said, was there was also an infection in the outer ear canal. Until that is fixed, nothing can be done with the wax buildup.
So I’m on a course of antibiotics and some eardrops containing another antibiotic plus cortisone, the latter being prescribed to deal with the inflammation caused by the expansion of the spongy wax/water mix & the infection itself. I’m due to see him again on Friday. If the infection is gone, then the irrigation syringe can be employed to remove the wax buildup.
The awkwardness of the blockage is exasperated by sitting & standing, I’m a little more comfortable lying down.

@variablepulserate We have the ability, tools and material to construct a secure & sturdy cabinet to store it in. One that looks like an ordinary kitchen cupboard. The venue where we rent our premises is installing monitored security cameras all over the place.

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