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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

Last Week on My Mac: The log is the wrong place

macOS doesn’t handle significant errors and failures well, burying them away in the log. It needs to report them to the user through a new sub-system.

July 21, 2019 Macs, Technology

A primer on code signing errors

What does an error -67030 mean? How does one signing error lead to another? Helpful detail for interpreting results from checking signatures.

June 28, 2019 Macs, Technology

An easier way to check Time Machine: T2M2

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One of the original reasons for my tools to open access to macOS Sierra’s new unified log system […]

May 20, 2017 Macs, Technology

Check your Mac with hardware diagnostics or AHT

How to run Apple’s diagnostic software to work out whether your Mac has a hardware fault – and how to interpret its error codes.

March 22, 2017 Macs, Technology

Consolation 1.0b5: a tool for browsing your logs

Browsing existing log entries in macOS Sierra is now much easier and more powerful.

February 9, 2017 Macs, Technology

What to do when your Magic Trackpad 2 fails

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Although they’re normally very reliable, they do sometimes go wrong. Here’s how to get your trackpad working properly again.

October 11, 2016 Macs, Technology

More mapstakes

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When I drove down the drive I had seen on the satellite view, it opened out to a block of flats. The care home had vanished.

June 8, 2016 General, Life, Macs, Technology

Error numbers: the final hurdle

One frustratingly unfriendly feature remains in OS X: error numbers. Now there is a website to help you decode them.

May 21, 2016 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

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