Signposts from Sierra 10.12.6 recording key steps when logging in, out, and fast user switching. And a fascinating process which serialises its log entries.
keychain
How to cope better with problems which can occur with iCloud Keychains, and how to make your own local backups.
I never thought that I’d be writing C in Swift, even down to handling null-terminated strings. But the code works.
Nearly three years after Swift was launched, its interface to macOS is still only partly complete. And the docs are misleading and contradictory. Oh fun!
Authentication dialogs to permit access to your keychain are supplied by the macOS security system, and follow a strict pattern.
This new version adds a Help Book, Tooltips, and supports window resizing more usefully.
Significant improvements to Consolation for browsing logs. The others gain proper version numbers and icons.
This may help you work out what is going wrong with local keychains in Sierra. Another free tool to spare you from Terminal.
Sometimes resorting to Terminal can be the best and simplest way to fix a keychain problem.
OS X used to provide a keychain first aid feature. Now this has gone, this is the only way that you can try to repair a defective keychain: create a new one.
