Snapshots are at their most useful in letting you roll back a major change, such as a macOS update, in seconds rather than having to restore from a full backup.Īnother reservation over APFS is its support of ‘home-made’ fusion drives. No one knows yet whether that will bring performance improvements, but it should at last enable millions of Macs to make lightweight ‘snapshots’ in what used to be called Mobile Time Machine. If your Mac has a built-in Apple Fusion Drive, then Mojave is your first opportunity to convert it to the new APFS file system, as that has been unsupported in release versions of High Sierra. Although Apple claims to put “complete metadata” into the Finder now, this refers primarily to those metadata built into to media documents such as images and movies, rather than extended attributes (xattrs). If you put lots of items on your Desktop, then its new Stacks might prove very helpful, but if you want your Desktop to look exactly as it does, that might be infuriating. Mojave brings lots of enhancements to the Finder, and improvements to QuickLook, which could save you from having to open documents in separate apps. Ironically, Dark Mode seems most ideal for developers working in apps like Xcode. If you work mainly with laid-out pages, then you may well find that those are still displayed against a white background. If your workflow relies on apps which can’t handle Dark Mode properly, then you’ll be restricted in its use. If an app hasn’t been updated since mid-June, there are risks that it won’t look good in Dark Mode. To get the best out of Dark Mode, many apps will need to undergo design adjustments and rebuilding. But be cautious: there’s much more to Dark Mode than just swapping white for black many older apps won’t look good, and a few may prove unusable by putting black text on a near-black background. It works wonderfully with coloured text too. Some users will find Dark Mode a huge step forward: if you work a lot in apps which already have their own local Dark Mode, such as image editors, then it promises a consistency which you will almost certainly find a great benefit. I’ll admit to being a bit of a sceptic here: for nearly three months I have been using Mojave almost entirely in old-fashioned Light Mode, which still works as it always has. The most visible difference from every version of macOS which has gone before is support for Dark Mode, and if you really fancy being flash for the Dynamic Desktop. However, what’s even more interesting to me is that it lets you add notes to messages add calendar events (such as follow-up reminders) to messages from within Mail and include tags and other MailTags metadata in searches, smart mailboxes, and rules.Which version of macOS are you intending to be running at the end of this month? Should you upgrade to Mojave either when it is released, or soon afterwards? In this article, I look beyond the hype and marketing slogans that we have been treated to since Apple announced macOS 10.14 three months ago, and try to help you make that decision. Indev, $30) lets you apply tags to messages, to help organize them. This plug-in ensures that the original To: and Cc: recipients remain intact. Now Mail automatically addresses such messages correctly when you choose Reply or Reply All, except in one specific case: When you’re adding to a conversation in which you were a Cc: recipient, Mail still wants to swap the contents of the To: and Cc: fields when you reply. Gregory Welch, free) once served the crucial purpose of ensuring that the To: and Cc: fields were filled in correctly for messages that you’d previously sent but wanted to follow up on. Mavericks version also lets you schedule messages for future delivery. You can also create rules that work much like Mail’s built-in rules, except that they can operate individually on demand, or on outgoing messages. This multipurpose tool lets you file messages in any mailbox using only the keyboard. GPGMail makes the process much simpler and friendlier. Although Mail offers built-in support for S/MIME encryption, it’s complicated to set up and use (for both you and your correspondents). GPGTools, free) gives you OpenPGP-compatible encryption and digital signatures for exchanging sensitive email messages. GPGMail GPG Mail makes encrypting email simple and friendly.
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