Looking in detail at the background and scheduled activities which are loaded during startup. These supersede the previous launchd mechanism, and include routine maintenance.
Category Archive: Macs
Two minor improvements to make its use even easier. Now a final release candidate?
Waypoints in the log entries encountered during a normal startup of Sierra 10.12.5. Some key messages have changed.
Some subtle improvements which make it much easier to use when working with saved logarchives. A final release candidate?
This makes it much easier to perform repeated analysis and search on logs captured to cover important events, such as crashes and problems.
Time Machine backups are but one of 70-80 background services which are run by macOS dispatching systems. Here’s a list of some of the others.
When scheduled backups become irregular or stop, this affects much more than just Time Machine. This is what happens, and why you must restart.
Each report on your Time Machine backups now comes with a detailed timestamp in this new version.
This version allows you to open, browse, and analyse any .logarchive bundle, from a Mac, iPhone, iPad, or more. Ideal for forensic analysis.
Conventional log analysis gets precious little from Sierra’s unified log. Automated analysis has much greater potential. Will Apple head in this direction too?
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