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Inside the Unified Log 1: Goals and architecture

An introduction to the Unified log used on Macs and Apple’s devices. Its goals, how logs are stored and maintained, their content, privacy protection, and tools available to access them.

September 23, 2025 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

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
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