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T2M2 version 1.9 checks privileges and tells more in Catalina

Recommended for all users, particularly those running TM in Catalina, where it analyses strategies used to determine what to back up.

December 2, 2019 Macs, Technology, Updates

Consolation 3.5 tells you how many log entries, and more

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Recommended for all users, this adds a count of log entries and lines, runs an initial check to see whether you’re logged in as an admin user, and more.

November 25, 2019 Macs, Technology, Updates

Last Week on My Mac: ‘private’

Over a period of one minute 1636 of a total of 8638 log entries were censored with the mark ‘private’. Why can’t we disable this censorship?

November 24, 2019 Macs, Technology

Catalina’s log can’t be unprivatised

How can you inspect log entries censored with in Catalina? Apparently you can’t any more.

November 9, 2019 Macs, Technology

How RunningBoard tracks every app, and manages some

How this new part of macOS tracks the apps which you open, and declares when they exit “Death Sentinel fired!”

November 9, 2019 Macs, Technology

Safe Booting in Catalina has changed

Disk integrity checks appear to have been dropped from Safe Boot. OpenDirectory databases are rebuilt. With a full listing of all blocked extensions.

November 8, 2019 Macs, Technology

RunningBoard: a new subsystem in Catalina to detect errors

RunningBoard is new to macOS 10.15 and iOS 13. It’s very active in the log, and can cause apps to crash sometimes. So what does it do?

November 7, 2019 Macs, Technology

Starting up in Catalina: sequence and waypoints in the log

Some important similarities, such as the entry marking the beginning of startup, but plenty of changes in APFS and security entries.

November 6, 2019 Macs, Technology

Consolation 3.4 fixes three bugs when used in Catalina

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Three bug fixes for those using Catalina, but this update is recommended for all users.

October 31, 2019 Macs, Technology, Updates

Time Machine beaten by the clock: backup fails due to bug

Over the night the clocks went back, a Time Machine backup failed. Was this the result of a time error from that change?

October 29, 2019 Macs, Technology

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