I just released Backup Bouncer 0.1.3. I’ve changed the output format to print the “priority” of a test along with its outcome, which hopefully should clear up some confusion among less experienced users. On a tip from Patrick Power I’ve added a new test that combines resource forks and hard links. Unfortunately, [...]

A friend recently pointed out that BB gets some love on the Carbon Copy Cloner product page. This is quite satisfying to me, since my indirect goal with BB was to get it into the hands of the folks making the tools. The primary goal was always to let users validate backup tools [...]

I just put up the latest release of QLColorCode, and it’s a doozy! Well, not really, but it does (probably) fix a crash bug that was biting me pretty frequently. It also adds some more miscellaneous language UTIs and lets you put a cap on the size of rendered files so you don’t [...]

One of the features I’ve really liked in Leopard has been Quick Look. It’s a really nice way to browse files quickly, without opening up a bunch of random apps. However, the QL plugin that Apple provides for reading source code is, well, just plain boring. You just get the text, in [...]

I finally got around to updating ScriptExport to the official iPhoto ‘08 export plugin SDK, added a nice icon and treated this as a good excuse to call it 1.0. You can get the result in the usual place. Here’s the ChangeLog:

VERY LIKELY BREAKS OLD SCRIPTEXPORT SCRIPTS!
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When you’ve got a project like ScriptExport that uses an undocumented plugin API for an Apple product you tend to greet product releases (and even updates) with a bemused sigh. The iPhoto export API has actually been pretty stable, but it’s always unsettled me to think of the extra work in store if Apple [...]

Let’s hear it for xar, the first copier to ace the Backup Bouncer test suite! In my last post I mentioned that they were just one test away, and now that bug 19 is fixed they’ve nailed it. Kudos to Rob Braun and the rest of the folks working on xar (if there [...]

I just tried testing the latest SVN HEAD revision of xar, and wow.

—————— xar ——————
Verifying: basic-permissions … ok
Verifying: timestamps …
Sub-test: modification time … ok
ok
Verifying: [...]

Note: Since everybody is linking to this page as the canonical Backup Bouncer document, I should point out that the project page with the latest version is located here, and the source code and issue tracker are located here. Also, the Backup Bouncer category of the blog has all the posts related to BB.

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It looks like the MacWeb has finally noticed my baby! No, not that one. The ugly one. And hey, I got a shout out from no less than John Gruber, which probably single-handedly advances me a degree or two closer to Kevin Bacon.

It’s a nice feeling to see your name in the [...]