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Mints now opens up access to Visual Look Up

Not only does this version of Mints extract information from the log detailing what happens during Visual Look Up, but it includes it own browser window to look up with.

March 22, 2022 Macs, Technology

Explainer: Disk free space

Confused by this on APFS? So you should be, as it’s complicated by features like snapshots, sparse files, and the file system itself. There’s no single figure.

December 4, 2021 Macs, Technology

Going beyond T2M2 with Mints: grokking Time Machine to APFS

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An exploration of how Time Machine backs up to APFS, using Mints to make log access quick, simple, and easy to understand. And notes on changes in Monterey.

September 29, 2021 Macs, Technology

Explainer: Logs

Since macOS Sierra, the Unified log has been an unrivalled source of information about what’s going on in macOS. But access isn’t simple.

September 27, 2021 Macs, Technology

Volume names are still a Unicode mess

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Don’t use Unicode normalised Form C names for volumes in Disk Utility, as they cause havoc, and prevent Spotlight from indexing volumes.

July 1, 2021 Macs, Technology

Mints 1.5 reports recent boots and solves normalization

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Now lists the time of the start of all boots in the last 24 hours, and helps you with Unicode normalization problems.

May 24, 2021 Macs, Technology, Updates

Mints has a new page all to itself

A new support page contains supplementary info for Mints and its log extracts and tools.

May 7, 2021 Macs, Technology

Explore your App Store problems using Mints 1.4

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A new tailor-made log view shows what’s happened in interactions with the App Store, and can give clues as to the cause of delays and failures.

May 6, 2021 Macs, Technology, Updates

Mints version 1.3 improves log handling and addresses time formatting

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With extensive refactoring in the code to display logs extracts, this update should be faster and require less memory on all supported versions of macOS.

April 17, 2021 Macs, Technology, Updates

Bugs and problems in the log: updates for 6 apps

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Consolation, Ulbow, Mints, T2M2, Cirrus and Taccy all updated to cope with increasing complexity and unreliability of the unified log.

April 6, 2021 Macs, Technology, Updates

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