Pinning down what went wrong when an app has crashed is never easy, but should be far more straightforward browsing the log using Consolation 3.
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How to detect and investigate a problem with Time Machine backups in Mojave, using only free tools.
At last, a full release version of Consolation 3 brings a completely rewritten Help book which covers all its features.
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?
It’s quite rare, but sometimes trying to access your Mac’s log, directly or in an app like T2M2, returns an error. Here’s what to do.
Apple has intentionally made it very hard to troubleshoot problems with privacy protection. Here’s a new feature to help, in a new version of Taccy.
Migration brings old software which isn’t really incompatible, but can slow your Mac down. This one was caught during startup.
Both are now notarized for added security, there is a small bug fixed in Consolation, and updated documentation.
I am delighted to announced that my paper providing the first full description of the macOS unified log […]
What do you do when an app accessing your log returns an error, or no results at all? Step through this to check your log system.
