MacOS

Move the Apple Mail Download Folder

Apple Mail seems to use its own location for downloading attachments that you double-click on. On my machine, this was in ~/Library/Containers/com.apple.mail/Data/Library/Mail\ Downloads I wanted those to go into ~/Downloads And since Apple as a company keeps thinking about even the illiterate, it hides the Library folder, and even...

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A Case for an SSD

I’ve just had another occasion to compare directly two pretty similar machines: A recent off-the-shelf MacBook Pro (I5, 4 GB RAM, 500 GB SATA) with my normal working MacBook Pro (I7, 8 GB RAM, 500 GB SSD). Falling back to the slower machine, and not using all the RAM...

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