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Another gaping security hole in High Sierra APFS disk encryption (updated)

Congratulations to Sarah Edwards for unearthing a security vulnerability in macOS 10.13 High Sierra, in which copies of […]

March 21, 2018 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: Apple’s new reality distortion field

A crass security bug, not changing version numbers, undocumented file formats, and stunted log access: components in the new RDF.

October 8, 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

Consolation 2.3 released to improve search predicate support

This new version works around multiple issues in the log show command, to make the use of search predicates much more reliable and consistent.

June 26, 2017 Macs, Technology

Consolation version 2.2 is here

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Free, works with Sierra and other unified logs, examines log entries already in the log, unlike Console. Now supports logarchives and more.

June 7, 2017 Macs, Technology

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