{"id":13735,"date":"2016-03-02T16:03:28","date_gmt":"2016-03-02T21:03:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=13735"},"modified":"2016-03-03T10:34:59","modified_gmt":"2016-03-03T15:34:59","slug":"typos-in-disk-utility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/02\/typos-in-disk-utility\/","title":{"rendered":"Typos in Disk Utility"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.512pixels.net\/blog\/2016\/3\/typos-in-disk-utility\">Stephen Hackett<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.512pixels.net\/blog\/2016\/3\/typos-in-disk-utility\">\n<p>In addition to the text being so brief it feels incomplete, it has two grammatical errors [&#8230;] While this may seem silly, it&rsquo;s this attention to detail stuff that worries me about Apple software.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>If ever there were software you&rsquo;d want to trust not to be buggy it would be the file system and associated tools. These kind of user interface issues don&rsquo;t inspire confidence. And, unfortunately, the problems are not just skin deep. Lately I&rsquo;ve been encountering a problem where SuperDuper cloning fails because the disk is full. It turns out that the underlying <tt>diskutil<\/tt> tool sometimes fails to erase the volume but tells SuperDuper that it succeeded. So not only does it not work but also it doesn&rsquo;t know that it doesn&rsquo;t work.<\/p>\n<p>Previously: <a href=\"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/13\/disk-utility-in-el-capitan\/\">Disk Utility in El Capitan<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Update (2016-03-03): <a href=\"http:\/\/atp.fm\/159\">Marco Arment<\/a> says it&rsquo;s like having &ldquo;a typo on your brake pads.&rdquo;<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stephen Hackett: In addition to the text being so brief it feels incomplete, it has two grammatical errors [&#8230;] While this may seem silly, it&rsquo;s this attention to detail stuff that worries me about Apple software. If ever there were software you&rsquo;d want to trust not to be buggy it would be the file system [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1143,131,538,30,1199,369],"class_list":["post-13735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-apple-software-quality","tag-bug","tag-diskutility","tag-mac","tag-mac-os-x-10-11","tag-superduper"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13735"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13735\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13737,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13735\/revisions\/13737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}