Did you know your Mac may keep a history of its activities going back for over 3 months? Here’s how to access it, and some surprising results.
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A function of process activity, frequency of writing to the log, and its verbosity, log load is available for the past 3 months or more.
Eight screenshots – no words – tell the story of the first fortnight with High Sierra.
If you want to continue to use iTunes to download and manage iOS apps and ringtones for your […]
Most of what we know about log files, their maintenance by logd, the role of diagnosticd, and the differences between Persist and Special log files.
What does the Supplemental Update do to the High Sierra installer? An exploration using the installer, an external SSD, and a bootable USB memory stick.
Troubled at times, we have used Disk Utility through thick and thin. Now it has changed to support APFS, with some weird behaviour.
A crass security bug, not changing version numbers, undocumented file formats, and stunted log access: components in the new RDF.
You may still have plenty of space on your backup volume, but if it has millions of files and hard links from years of backups, it will be very slow. Here’s how to fix that.
Even if you don’t connect it, a Mac’s Ethernet port is vital to authorise it to the App Store and more. Here’s how to cope if it goes missing.
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