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T2M2 version 1.9 checks privileges and tells more in Catalina

Recommended for all users, particularly those running TM in Catalina, where it analyses strategies used to determine what to back up.

December 2, 2019 Macs, Technology, Updates

Did that Mac just restart itself? About kernel panics

What they are, how they’ve changed, how to work out what went wrong, and how to deal with them. No Mac should ever experience a single panic.

November 27, 2019 Macs, Technology

Which startup mode?

Diagnostic, Recovery, Safe, Startup Manager, Verbose, reset SMC/NVRAM, firmware restore, Target Disk/Display, Single-User (SUM) in outline.

November 16, 2019 Macs, Technology

Hardware diagnostics

How to check your Mac’s hardware, interpret the results, deal with problems, and tackle tricky intermittent faults.

September 23, 2019 Macs, Technology

Tackling sleep and wake problems

From hardware diagnostics to pmset and resetting the SMC, all you need to know about diagnosing wake and sleep problems.

May 9, 2019 Macs, Technology

Did it freeze? Missing 50 minutes of log

Had my Mac frozen, or was it just very busy running tests on the boot disk? When I forced it to restart, what did the log reveal?

May 7, 2019 Macs, Technology

Diagnosing diagnostics and Apple Hardware Test

What should you do when you try to restart in Diagnostics Mode and can’t? And how to check and restore a Recovery partition.

March 12, 2019 Macs, Technology

New version of The Time Machine Mechanic (T2M2)

More friendly, it runs checks in the background as much as possible, and has improvements in displaying results.

May 31, 2018 Macs, Technology

Pick your Panacea: how to select a generic fix

When should you reset your SMC and NVRAM, repair permissions, install a Combo update, or re-install the whole of macOS?

March 9, 2018 Macs, Technology

What’s your Mac been up to for the last 3 months? Inside macOS’s hidden activity records

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Did you know your Mac may keep a history of its activities going back for over 3 months? Here’s how to access it, and some surprising results.

October 13, 2017 General, Macs, Technology

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