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Losing your Ethernet port unverifies your Mac

Even if you don’t connect it, a Mac’s Ethernet port is vital to authorise it to the App Store and more. Here’s how to cope if it goes missing.

October 6, 2017 Macs, Technology

More Scripting in Swift: Shuffling files and writing a property list

Using Swift 4 for a classic scripting task: copying and restructuring files and folders, here to create a logarchive bundle.

October 5, 2017 Macs, Technology

MakeLogarchive can now catalogue any well-formed logarchive

The catalogue includes the dates and times each log file was created and completed, size, and the period of time covered by it.

October 4, 2017 Macs, Technology

MakeLogarchive enables Consolation to read individual log files

The combination lets you browse tracev3 log files within a log archive, which MakeLogarchive can create from raw logs in /var/db.

October 3, 2017 Macs, Technology

Consolation 3.0b9 can now open individual log files but…

Consolation can now open logarchive and individual tracev3 log files, provided that they conform to Apple’s logarchive format.

October 2, 2017 Macs, Technology

New version of MakeLogarchive

Fixes an error on some systems which prevented archive generation, and adds a debug mode.

September 29, 2017 Macs, Technology

Browsing the unified log in difficult circumstances

How to access raw log files generated by Sierra, High Sierra, iOS, etc., and a convenient utility to turn them into logarchives.

September 25, 2017 Macs, Technology

Sierra’s unified log evolves: more persistent, and a valuable log log

Sierra’s logs have changed, and now contain full entries for around 20 days. There’s also a log log, which has statistical summaries. All useful information for diagnosis and forensics.

September 23, 2017 Macs, Technology

Blowhole command tool 3: new version should be compatible with High Sierra

Writes to the unified log in Sierra and now High Sierra too.

September 21, 2017 Macs, Technology

Consolation 2 & 3, and RunConsolation: new versions should run on High Sierra

This free log browser for Sierra should now be fully compatible with High Sierra.

September 20, 2017 Macs, Technology

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