How to combine the time of interest with waypoints to reduce 100,000 log entries to just a handful, and discover what you’re looking for in the log.
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First Aid in Disk Utility, or fsck_apfs in Terminal, have given warnings or errors with id numbers. How do you work out which file or folder that refers to?
New app tests Spotlight indexing and search of local files across 15 test files and two search methods. This should provide valuable clues for diagnosis.
Looks at how Spotlight adds a batch of new files to its volume indexes, and how it handles and answers queries.
Although primarily for compatibility with Tahoe, these include a general refresh and are recommended for all versions of macOS from Big Sur onwards.
The Motorola 68000 CPU had no floating point instructions, so Apple introduced SANE, then went on to the PowerPC Velocity Engine, and its Accelerate framework, and more.
Try searching for something you know is in a file in ~/Library/Preference and you’re unlikely to get any success. This explains how, and why you can’t alter that.
You use Spotlight to search for something you’re sure is there, but it can’t find it. Here are some methods to discover why that search failed.
How to discover which QuickLook generator or app extension should be creating Thumbnails or Previews for different file types, using this new version of Mints.
A strategy for diagnosing problems using the log. How to limit the number of entries shown using appropriate periods and predicates, and more.
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