How to hunt key log entries for an unknown process, how you can discover whether XProtect Remediator is scanning your Mac, and how to check its results.
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Formed using reverse DNS notation, they can now have prefixes and suffixes giving them user and process identities. And how to find a list of them.
How Unified log entries are rich in structured information, which can be displayed selectively and using colours to aid their reading.
A new version of Mints adds the ability to view versions of installed firmware and recovery systems, valuable particularly for Apple silicon Macs.
I was browsing thousands of log entries from Software Update and its relatives when something caught my eye. Here’s what became of it.
Many Mac users now have a better idea as to whether anything’s amiss at home than in their Mac. Why we need a way to check a Mac’s status.
Time and timestamps, landmark events, activities like clicks, subsystems as predicates, Find, and bar charts – all aids to navigating the log.
Is virtualisation on Apple silicon Macs Type 1 or 2? How does it handle sensitive instructions, exceptions, CPU cores, and manage memory?
What can you do to investigate when an app suddenly vanishes in an ‘unexpected quit’? How to read the log and the crash log.
Browse log entries for a recent boot, examine the entries for Time Machine, and check for errors in another subsystem.
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