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Last Week on My Mac: How do you lose 16,000 cases of Covid-19?

On 2 October, public health authorities discovered figures had lost nearly 16,000 recent cases. Was this an error in file formats, using an old version of Excel, or what?

October 11, 2020 General, Life, Macs, Technology

Covid-19 cases in England are out of control

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Public Health England’s own data now show that fresh cases of Covid-19 are doubling in England every 9 days – something obscured by its recent errors.

October 7, 2020 General, Life, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: Heavy hand on the kill switch

Imagine going to open an app which you use daily, only to be told by macOS that it “will damage your computer” and must be trashed. Can we have confidence in Apple?

August 9, 2020 Macs, Technology

Where did all that free space go on my APFS disk?

The volume should only be half full, but installers and other software complains there’s insufficient free space. What to do.

April 9, 2020 Macs, Technology

When T2M2, Ulbow, Cirrus, or another log-based app returns an error

What do you try when T2M2, Ulbow, or another app which accesses the log, doesn’t work properly? Diagnosis and solutions.

February 21, 2020 Macs, Technology

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

Time Machine: 7 Checking logs using Ulbow

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How to check Time Machine backups, and investigate any errors which may have occurred – the easy way using Ulbow.

December 31, 2019 Macs, Technology

How RunningBoard tracks every app, and manages some

How this new part of macOS tracks the apps which you open, and declares when they exit “Death Sentinel fired!”

November 9, 2019 Macs, Technology

RunningBoard: a new subsystem in Catalina to detect errors

RunningBoard is new to macOS 10.15 and iOS 13. It’s very active in the log, and can cause apps to crash sometimes. So what does it do?

November 7, 2019 Macs, Technology

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