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Sierra’s Console: promising but incomplete

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Even a performing basic check can be an act of supreme intellectual challenge, or is now flatly impossible. Early beta quality.

September 23, 2016 Macs, Technology

Reading logs: waking from sleep and backing up

Explaining the basic sequence of log entries for a Mac waking from sleep, and making a Time Machine backup.

July 9, 2016 Macs, Technology

Reading logs: shutdown and startup

How to understand Console’s log entries for a normal shutdown, and a normal startup.

July 8, 2016 Macs, Technology

Diagnosing problems: crash, freeze, panic, or spinning beachball?

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Was that crash a freeze, a panic, or just a spinning beachball? And what do they mean?

July 3, 2016 Macs, Technology

Definitely not the cat: the sporadic freezes continue

After another system freeze, it is clear the problems in El Capitan are not fixed in 10.11.5.

May 24, 2016 General, Macs, Technology

Lost in the log

Have you glanced at your logs recently? Are they full of incessant message diarrhoea?

May 19, 2016 General, Macs, Technology

Sunday scare: had I been hit by ransomware?

I went to close an enlarged view of a painting, and a Macintalk-like robot voice announced that my Mac was compromised.

April 18, 2016 General, Life, Macs, Technology

An unwarranted login: things that go bump in the night

What do you do when your Mac seems to have restarted quietly when it should have been asleep?

April 3, 2016 Macs, Technology

Q&A: Deepest sleep

When I leave my iMac to go to sleep, it cannot be woken and seems to have shut down. Is this a fault?

December 24, 2015 Macs, Technology

Q&A: El Capitan keeps beachballing

After a difficult install, El Capitan nows spends much of the time beach balling. How can I fix it?

December 12, 2015 Macs, Technology

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