Time Machine doesn’t work on Network Shares after the upgrade After I’ve updated my Mac Pro to macOS High Sierra, Time Machine Backups stopped working. Shared with SMB? The backups are on a Mac Mini and I’ve found out that it is necessary to share the folder via SMB. But that checkmark has already been set. Therefore I’ve tried to reconnect the Mac Pro to the Backup destination. OSStatus Error 17 And I’ve received Error ‘OSStatus Error 17’. Read more

I had a really high load on my Mac Mini Server. As it is a Late 2014 with only two CPU-Cores, everything hurts which makes the Server slow. Two processes consumed a lot of Memory and CPU-Time. apspd & cfprefsd With fs_usage I’ve found out that cfprefsd reads and writes all the time to /Library/Preferences/ApplePushServiceProvider/com.apple.apspd.plist. And this file was more the 53 MByte! So it looked like apspd` is the reason for the issue. Read more

Mit der Veröffentlichung von OS X 10.11 (El Capitan) fehlt im Festplattendienstprogramm das ‘Knöpfchen’ zum überprüfen und reparieren der Zugriffsrechte (siehe Support-Artikel von Apple). Falls man dies dennoch möchte, muss man das Terminal bemühen. Überprüfen der Zugriffsrechte sudo /usr/libexec/repair_packages --verify --standard-pkgs --volume / Reparieren der Zugriffsrechte sudo /usr/libexec/repair_packages --repair --standard-pkgs --volume /