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macOS is the current marketing name for Apple's Macintosh Operating System. This OS was previously known as OS X, and Mac OS X before that (which itself succeeded the 'classic' Mac OS).

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Where does launchpad store folder information? (database, etc?)

Ok, I think i've found it. Turns out that (at least under El Capitan) things are a little different. This AskDifferent answer by Greg Hacke pointed me in the right direction. It seems the databases …
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Where does launchpad store folder information? (database, etc?)

So i've been searching around and trying to figure this out but can't seem to. I know that the launchpad SQLite db is stored at ~/Library/Application Support/Dock/some-uuid.db (ref), but as best I ca …
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Time Machine - How does one convert Backups.backupdb to a backupbundle?

Edit Note: macOS Catalina appears to use the extension backupbundle instead of sparsebundle, but it seems that this file is still mountable in the same ways as previously. …
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Backup iCloud Keychain

When you turn iCloud Keychain off, macOS should invite you to keep a copy of your passwords and credit cards on this Mac. Click on the Keep on This Mac button to do that. …
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