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Time Machine

Consolation 2.0 is now available

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Vastly improved over version 1, this now has over 6 MB of Help Book, with extensive reference material and links to online articles too.

March 12, 2017 Macs, Technology

Consolation 2.0b4 now available – feature complete?

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Several significant improvements to CSV export to work around issues when importing to Excel and others.

March 6, 2017 Macs, Technology

Consolation 2.0b3 now available – with CSV export

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Have you ever wished you could browse your logs in a spreadsheet, or analyse them using a statistics package? Now you can.

March 4, 2017 Macs, Technology

Consolation 2.0b2 now available – with default settings

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You can now save almost all your control settings as defaults. New windows then open with those settings ready for you. A great improvement.

March 1, 2017 Macs, Technology

The Time Bomb Ticking in Sierra: Grand Central Dispatch is broken

This bug disrupts Time Machine backups and all the dozens of activities which macOS manages. It may make Sierra unsuitable for use in servers.

February 25, 2017 Macs, Technology

Troubleshooting Time Machine: stuck preparing backup, and the deep event scan

When Time Machine seems to take a long time preparing the next backup, or gets stuck, here is how to diagnose and deal with it.

February 20, 2017 Macs, Technology

Last Week on my Mac: The value of log access

Why was my Mac still preparing a backup 20 minutes after it should have been completed? And what is a ‘deep event scan’?

February 19, 2017 Macs, Technology

Consolation version 2: multiple windows on your log

The first beta of the free log browser is now available. It lets you open multiple windows on your logs.

February 17, 2017 Macs, Technology

Consolation: a log browser for Sierra, version 1.0

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First full release, with several significant enhancements, and full documentation. Free as always.

February 17, 2017 Macs, Technology

Diagnosing and treating Time Machine problems in Terminal

Two major tools are available to help you deal with problems. Here’s how to use them to best effect.

February 16, 2017 Macs, Technology

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