Many vital apps rely on installing kernel extensions, which may be tricky or seem impossible in Catalina. Here are some strategies to solve problems.
Category Archive: Macs
The plan was simple: replace my 8 year-old Promise Pegasus RAID system with a shiny new SSD RAID system, for Time Machine backups. What could go wrong?
Here are this weekend’s riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. Because this is the […]
Here’s what happens when a Time Machine backup, normally the first, slows to the point where it’s just never going to finish.
Logs are normally backed up by Time Machine, but Apple provides no tool which can access those backed up logs. Here’s how to do it.
The more frequently your Mac writes entries to its log, the shorter will its log record be: anything from a couple of days to almost a month.
If a Time Machine snapshot can’t be thinned, nothing warns you of the problem, and without Terminal or the log you can’t even find out.
Apple has pushed two updates today, to the data files used by XProtect, bringing its version number to […]
What does your Mac get up to when you’re away from it? Mine was busy writing hundreds of thousands of entries in the log because of a couple of snapshots.
A log browser with charts? How frequency charts of log entries, separated by subsystem, can make your log even more accessible.
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