How to remove all the privacy redactions, and reveal network diagnostics including the URLs connected to by your Mac.
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Apple silicon Macs may not obtain an external reference time for many seconds after starting up. Do they adjust their local clock over that period, and if so, against what reference?
When something has gone wrong, if you don’t know what to look for in the log, nor when it happened, the log is hostile. It also leaves important entries without the user being aware of them. Here are ideas of how those could be improved.
Which system and AI cryptexes are loaded during macOS boot? Here are details of the 28 for AI in Tahoe 26.2, and which are new since Sequoia 15.5.
When I started my Mac up, its external backup storage was present as expected, but couldn’t be opened. It turned out that Time Machine had stopped backing up after 12:35 the previous day, but hadn’t reported the problem.
T2M2 is nearly 9 years old. Here’s a walk through its summary reports on Time Machine backups. and an outline of what you’ll see in its log extracts.
Catch up on your reading with selected articles from the past year, covering security, logs, macOS generally, Spotlight in particular, and some utilities.
Several utilities access the log. When there are problems getting entries, they each report details. Here’s what each error report means, and what you can do to fix it.
Log entries mentioning errors are common and can mislead. Those marking the consequences of errors may not mention the word error. Turn detective to work out where the error really is with these tips.
What happens when you can’t solve a problem, so you get a log extract and ask Claude to diagnose it for you? Here’s a full worked example.
The Eclectic Light Company 