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Cirrus

When T2M2, Ulbow, Cirrus, or another log-based app returns an error

What do you try when T2M2, Ulbow, or another app which accesses the log, doesn’t work properly? Diagnosis and solutions.

February 21, 2020 Macs, Technology

Testing iCloud using Cirrus

Understanding what’s written to the log during a test upload to iCloud Drive can help you diagnose an iCloud problem.

January 21, 2020 Macs, Technology

Cirrus version 1.9 has several important improvements

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System monospace font for log extracts, improves tests to determine which features are available, adds kernel log entries.

January 20, 2020 Macs, Technology, Updates

Last Week on My Mac: Things don’t always ‘just work’

Where are the tools for diagnosing and fixing features that don’t always ‘just work’? Turning to look at iCloud.

January 19, 2020 Macs, Technology

Catalina’s log can’t be unprivatised

How can you inspect log entries censored with in Catalina? Apparently you can’t any more.

November 9, 2019 Macs, Technology

What doesn’t Time Machine back up?

There are problems with backups of Photos Libraries and evicted items in iCloud Drive. Here are full details.

September 26, 2019 Macs, Technology

Cirrus 1.7 now copes with custom paths to iCloud Drive

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Cirrus now lets you change the paths used to open its special iCloud Drive browser: they’re stored in its preference file.

September 3, 2019 Macs, Technology, Updates

Exploring and testing iCloud Drive using Cirrus 1.6

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Recommended for all users, as it fixes a bug which prevented the upload test from working. Essential too for anyone using Catalina beta with its changed paths and more.

August 20, 2019 Macs, Technology, Updates

Living with Desktop & Documents in iCloud

How to prevent folders from being synced with iCloud Drive, and what happens when you turn Desktop & Documents off could surprise.

August 7, 2019 Macs, Technology

Cirrus 1.5 can change text size and supports auto-update

Now lets you change the font size in its text views, with settings independent for each window type, and saved to its preferences files.

June 19, 2019 Macs, Technology

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