How to access raw log files generated by Sierra, High Sierra, iOS, etc., and a convenient utility to turn them into logarchives.
Consolation
Sierra’s logs have changed, and now contain full entries for around 20 days. There’s also a log log, which has statistical summaries. All useful information for diagnosis and forensics.
Writes to the unified log in Sierra and now High Sierra too.
This free log browser for Sierra should now be fully compatible with High Sierra.
A strange problem with backups that start, but fail to complete successfully, apparently because of duplicate filenames. T2M2 to the rescue, bringing some important lessons.
As macOS gets more complex, diagnostic and control tools provided by Apple have become less accessible. This makes macOS harder to diagnose and support.
This new version improves control behaviours in the preferences sheet. Is it ready for final release now?
They’re almost everywhere now: UUIDs and GUIDs identify disk volumes, printers, even the processes running on your Mac. Here’s an explanation.
Signposts from Sierra 10.12.6 recording key steps when logging in, out, and fast user switching. And a fascinating process which serialises its log entries.
Developers should consider letting users export and import suites of settings, to determine an app’s persona, or flavours of working environment.
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