A starting point for diagnosing and fixing your Mac problems, with links to key articles here.
Category Archive: Macs
Information for anyone reading articles about Macs here, and an introduction to dealing with their problems.
Why does almost every Mac user use their system in an admin role? Shouldn’t macOS encourage us to be ‘normal’ users?
Can you tell the difference? What is the significance of each, and do you know what to do about them? An introductory guide.
Factoring the code better to separate reading and writing the underlying data, and converting that for display.
In an undocumented change, 10.12.4 prevents any access to reading Sierra’s log when in normal user mode – it requires admin mode.
Do you want to convert files using non-Unicode text to modern format? Or between the 144 different encodings supported by iconv? Here’s a tool to make that easy.
From 10.8 onwards, you will not see the classic grey display, but your Mac will spontaneously restart or shut down. Here are the details, and what to do next.
Progress with Rosettavert to convert text encoding, including popup menus with 144 entries. But stumbling still on an issue of string encoding.
A listing of the locations of all those apps and utilities which you can never seem to find when you want them. Also covers command tools.
The Eclectic Light Company 