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Orphaned snapshots: a growing problem?

If a Time Machine snapshot can’t be thinned, nothing warns you of the problem, and without Terminal or the log you can’t even find out.

February 6, 2020 Macs, Technology

Errors in the night and snapshot problems

What does your Mac get up to when you’re away from it? Mine was busy writing hundreds of thousands of entries in the log because of a couple of snapshots.

February 5, 2020 Macs, Technology

Ulbow 1.0, my new free unified log browser, is released

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First full release of this macOS log browser, which also browses logs from iOS, iPadOS, watchOS and tvOS. Clean and simple to use, but very powerful.

January 24, 2020 Macs, Technology, Updates

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

Time Machine: 9 Inside backup support files

How can you tell what was backed up when Time Machine last ran a routine backup? Here’s one way to find out, and detailed info on its support files.

January 17, 2020 Macs, Technology

T2M2 version 1.12 fixes an unusual show-stopper bug

Fixes a bug which could prevent admin users from opening T2M2 if they were a member of very few groups.

January 13, 2020 Macs, Technology, Updates

Diagnosing privacy protection problems in Catalina

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Tips to help you investigate and tackle problems arising in Catalina with its new privacy protections, particularly those of folders such as Documents.

January 7, 2020 Macs, Technology

T2M2 further improves strategy data for backups in Catalina

Recommended for those running or preparing to upgrade to Catalina, as it adds a new strategy for determining what to back up.

December 27, 2019 Macs, Technology, Updates

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