Using the Spotlight window and Finder’s Find window to locate local files that match your search criteria. Word boundaries and their effect on search results.
Category Archive: Technology
Applying a sequence of criteria to narrow search until you find your target. How incremental search can help. The role of predicates, and how to search the log.
Here are this weekend’s Mac riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: London to […]
How Apple adopted a triplet version numbering scheme by 1988, then complicated it with additional revision numbers, Supplemental Updates, RSRs, and more.
This compares short time intervals obtained from log entry timestamps obtained from the log show command via Ulbow, those from LogUI using OSLog, and Mach Absolute Time.
How the name of one of the two ancient Greek Graces confuses Spotlight’s search box, and which characters can separate words.
If you’ve got large files like Virtual Machines or media libraries on the Data volume on your Mac’s internal SSD, use this method to keep the size of its snapshots smaller.
By default, the log show command and Ulbow display log entries using the time zone set when they were written to the log. Bringing consistency in a new build of LogUI.
I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 309. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Glazed […]
Getting the date and time stamp of log entries to use rounded microseconds, and how to ensure a log extract uses the current time zone throughout.
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