🎉 Congratulations, dear reader, you've stumbled upon the thrilling saga of file locking—a topic so riveting that it makes watching paint dry seem like a high-octane action movie 🎬. The author, in a stunning display of self-importance, takes you on a journey through MacOS bugs that are so niche, even the bugs themselves needed an identity crisis. 🚀💤
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Everything you never wanted to know about file locking

(Foreshadowing: I found a bug in MacOS X 10.6's fcntl(F_SETLK) locking that could cause corruption of sqlite databases. To see if your syst...

If you are have macOS 15.2 Time Machine backups failing while screen is locked, check if you have the FindMy widget running. If you do, turn it off and reboot! That fixed it for me (credit https://tinyurl.com/3uvp2dk3 for command to check logfiles and confirm this problem). #macOSbugs
Time Machine error

Since updating to Sequoia my Time Machine backups have been failing during night. Every time I wake up the display, I get the same error: "Time Machine did not finish backing up because some files were unavailable. Backups will resume when your Mac is unlocked." My Mac actually never sleeps; I...

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