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.
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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.
Code run in a guest macOS may perform differently to that run on the host, and will reduce energy efficiency and battery endurance/
How lightweight virtualisation of macOS on Apple silicon Macs lays out its VM bundle, how its builds that in installation, and details of the VM log.
The restore.log file on the Update volume contains details of all macOS updates installed since 11.0.1. Here’s a quick guide to its contents and use.
Mints gains a new tool to examine the activities of triald and trial in the Unified log. Here’s a quick survey of what happens in a quiet day.
Not only does this version of Mints extract information from the log detailing what happens during Visual Look Up, but it includes it own browser window to look up with.
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