Traditional logs are good for looking at single events. The unified log is a unique platform for looking at statistics and patterns, which can reveal new knowledge – if you have the tools.
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Did you know your Mac may keep a history of its activities going back for over 3 months? Here’s how to access it, and some surprising results.
A function of process activity, frequency of writing to the log, and its verbosity, log load is available for the past 3 months or more.
Most of what we know about log files, their maintenance by logd, the role of diagnosticd, and the differences between Persist and Special log files.
A crass security bug, not changing version numbers, undocumented file formats, and stunted log access: components in the new RDF.
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.
Using Swift 4 for a classic scripting task: copying and restructuring files and folders, here to create a logarchive bundle.
The catalogue includes the dates and times each log file was created and completed, size, and the period of time covered by it.
The combination lets you browse tracev3 log files within a log archive, which MakeLogarchive can create from raw logs in /var/db.
Consolation can now open logarchive and individual tracev3 log files, provided that they conform to Apple’s logarchive format.
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