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Category Archive: Macs

Last Week on My Mac: Vanishing keychains

Why doesn’t High Sierra record the opening of keychains in the log, in the way that Sierra does? Has Apple abandoned the goals of its new unified log?

November 26, 2017 Macs, Technology

More fun scripting in Swift: working around an Xcode 9 bug

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Has Xcode been warning you that your Interface Builder window class is unknown, and creating a generic Window instead? Here’s the simple fix.

November 25, 2017 Macs, Technology

Now you can filter with regular expressions in Woodpile

Preface a filter with the ® character, and Woodpile will use it in a regular expression (regex) search of log message content.

November 25, 2017 Macs, Technology

Making Woodpile more usable: version 1.0b3

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New features to set the number of bars in its chart view, and refresh a view. Improvements in usability and efficiency, and a couple of bug fixes.

November 24, 2017 Macs, Technology

Starting up in High Sierra 10.13.1: an initial log exploration

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Changes include frequent timechecks by timed, harder access to info about keychains, a couple of possible AppleScript bugs, and APFS snapshots.

November 23, 2017 Macs, Technology

Are you being pestered to upgrade to High Sierra?

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This marketing notification was silently installed using Apple’s pushed update service, and is easily removed.

November 22, 2017 Macs, Technology

Beware the bogus Symantec blog which will infect you with Proton D

For the last few days, there has been a website posing as a Symantec security blog, at symantecblog[dot]com, […]

November 22, 2017 Macs, Technology

The unified log in High Sierra 10.13.1

High Sierra makes two significant changes to the unified log system, from Sierra. Here’s an evaluation of them.

November 22, 2017 Macs, Technology

Checking keychain access using Woodpile: a tutorial

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How to identify which keychains are opened when your Mac starts up, and any problems when that happens.

November 21, 2017 Macs, Technology

Starting up in Sierra: a fuller account for troubleshooting

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A detailed examination of what happens during the first few minutes after starting your Mac up. Vital for anyone trying to diagnose problems in that period.

November 20, 2017 Macs, Technology

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