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What to do when an app crashes as it opens

Causes include code signature errors, app translocation, damaged documents, and corrupted or incompatible preference file.

June 5, 2023 Macs, Technology

Crashes, panics, freezes and other unexpected events

Using the correct term gets us half way to a diagnosis: kernel panics, freezes, app crashes and unresponsive apps are distinguished here.

May 24, 2023 Macs, Technology

Do Ventura’s signature checks work?

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Are additional Gatekeeper checks in Ventura effective, and worth the effort? Surely malware can bypass them easily.

March 7, 2023 Macs, Technology

Log Literacy: Navigation

All about time and landmarks you can look for in the log, after booting, on shutdown, when waking from sleep, and using activities to locate mouse clicks.

February 3, 2023 Macs, Technology

What to do when your Mac has a kernel panic

Why you should keep a copy of the Panic Log. How to check that your Mac isn’t the cause. And above all, don’t panic.

November 15, 2022 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: Apple harvest is coming

Is the next Apple Event in October, for the release of Ventura, and maybe more Apple silicon Macs? What’s going to be missing from macOS 13, and what happens to Catalina now?

September 11, 2022 Macs, Technology

How to report macOS crashes to Apple

How can you ensure that Apple is aware when something crashes in macOS? Setting this in your preferences, and making a separate Feedback report.

September 10, 2022 Macs, Technology

Don’t run that app where it landed: how translocation can cause crashes

You unarchive a freshly downloaded app and try to give it a test run. It immediately crashes. Here’s one common reason, and how to solve it very simply.

September 6, 2022 Macs, Technology

Why did that app crash?

What can you do to investigate when an app suddenly vanishes in an ‘unexpected quit’? How to read the log and the crash log.

July 21, 2022 Macs, Technology

Whodunnit? The housekeeper that killed an app

One second, the app was fine. Then it just vanished. There was nothing wrong with that app: it was murdered. Join this game of Cluedo/Clue in macOS.

June 22, 2022 Macs, Technology

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