Browsing my log in Excel for the first time was a revelation of its potential. We have the tools – all we need is the imagination.
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Have you ever wished you could browse your logs in a spreadsheet, or analyse them using a statistics package? Now you can.
You can now save almost all your control settings as defaults. New windows then open with those settings ready for you. A great improvement.
View the same log entries at different times, and their timestamps change. This explains why, and what is going on.
Why was my Mac still preparing a backup 20 minutes after it should have been completed? And what is a ‘deep event scan’?
The first beta of the free log browser is now available. It lets you open multiple windows on your logs.
First full release, with several significant enhancements, and full documentation. Free as always.
Here are two log excerpts which should be identical, but only one out of all the entries is actually the same. What is wrong?
Devising strategies for getting the best out of Sierra’s new logs. Or should we just abandon them as a lost cause?
Browsing existing log entries in macOS Sierra is now much easier and more powerful.
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