I discovered a critical bug in Apple’s implementation of Time Machine in OS X Mavericks 10.9.4 that causes the dissapearance of some data from backup snapshots. I highly suggest that you check the integrity of your backups to see if you are affected by this bug. If you are affected then
Tag: Ruby
Mac OS X Filenames with Apostrophe’s and Ruby 1.9 Unicode Support
Ruby 1.9’s m17n (multilingualization) engine has eased some of the pains of supporting different encodings. Unfortunately, it makes things a little more difficult in the simplest of cases. I was introduced to this problem for the first time with the error message `invalid multibyte char (US-ASCII)`. This is a mini crash course for understanding the…
Mac OS X: Changing Your Short Name Without Breaking Time Machine
Today I got the urge to change my Mac OS X Leopard account short name (home directory) so that I would have less to type in Terminal. Here’s how I changed my short name without breaking my Time Machine backups.