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Full release of Mints 1.0 is now available, and diagnoses Big Sur’s Spotlight bug

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Adds further features to diagnose Spotlight indexing and search problems. First full release at last.

February 15, 2021 Macs, Technology, Updates

Ulbow 1.5 and Consolation 3.11 improve preference handling

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No longer do you need to fiddle around pre-installing preference files, and each app can now reset its preferences to the defaul

February 3, 2021 Macs, Technology, Updates

Tackling extension problems in Big Sur

It would be much easier if the log contained entries detailing the loading of extensions. Instead, there are long gaps. This explores how you can use those in diagnosing problems.

February 2, 2021 Macs, Technology

Big Sur 11.1: bug in log show command affecting Ulbow and Consolation

Use the log show command, Ulbow or Consolation to browse your M1 Mac booting, and they can fail to show tens of thousands of log entries. How to work around this bug in 11.1.

February 1, 2021 Macs, Technology

What happens when an M1 Mac starts up?

When does an M1 Mac validate its Sealed System Volume? Who designed its display interface? How soon does Find My Mac launch? So many answers found in the log.

December 9, 2020 Macs, Technology

Inside M1 Macs: Time and logs

Time has changed in M1 Macs, with the Mach clock ticking every 41.67 nanoseconds. This affects all log entries too, and works differently in Rosetta.

November 27, 2020 Macs, Technology

Mints now provides better volume info, and looks at task scheduling

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Adds a new log view of background task scheduling and dispatch, greatly improves volume info, and fixes a rare crash.

October 12, 2020 Macs, Technology, Updates

Last Week on My Mac: Times forgotten

The more you look at changes to Mach Absolute Time coming in Apple Silicon Macs, the more messy they become, largely because the docs are so incomplete.

September 13, 2020 Macs, Technology

How quickly can apps and scripts write to the log?

How long does it take to write a Signpost to the unified log? Measuring this is essential if you’re going to use them to measure performance.

September 10, 2020 Macs, Technology

Measuring performance of code using RouteMap, now a Universal App

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Makes it easy to write, harvest and analyse Signposts in the log to measure performance. Important fix for Apple Silicon too.

September 9, 2020 Macs, Technology, Updates

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