Opening Pages can take several seconds, and other apps can hang around for 30 seconds before they’re ready to use. Is it XProtect, online certificate checks, or what?
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How to construct and use filter predicates to refine the log entries shown in LogUI or most other log browsers, and in the log command tool.
Adds support for using your own filter predicates so you only see the log entries you want. Either in a one-off editor, or to its popup menu.
This new build checks that it can get log extracts, and has a wider range of filters you can use to select which entries it fetches and displays.
Get started browsing your Mac’s log using this lightweight and friendly utility. A walkthrough looking at what happened when I launched an app.
Improves Signposts feature and makes a couple of minor corrections.
Supports both continuous and discontinuous selection of log entries, copy their text contents, Signposts, and smart window and file naming.
This first experimental version gets log extracts direct, rather than using the log command tool, and has a SwiftUI front end, but requires macOS 14.6 or later.
Why do some Macs apparently not have Unified log files? Maybe it’s because they’re being deleted by a misguided housekeeping app. Here’s what is going wrong, and what you should do to avoid that.
Introduced with Mac OS X, logs became a good way to diagnose a Mac’s problems, using Console. Then in 2016 it all changed, and not for the benefit of administrators or users.
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