How can you browse a logarchive sent from an iPhone, iPad, or someone else’s Mac? With Ulbow it’s really simple – and it can create logarchives too.
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I was having problems in the Twitter app, with it stealing 100% CPU and upsetting WindowServer. Here’s how I discovered what the problem was.
How to develop predicates, filters and styles interactively, then add them to Ulbow’s settings. And how to transfer those settings to another Mac.
A revamped configuration profile to remove censored private data from log entries, and how to get network diagnostic data too.
Each log entry has a messageType field, enabling you to obtain and show just more significant entries, and to find errors and faults almost instantly.
The macOS log is very different from those seen in Unix. This explains where and what log files are, how they get written, how much they store, and how quickly entries can be written.
A new Frequency view shows total log entries from different subsystems, helping you mute those that are clogging up your log.
All about time and landmarks you can look for in the log, after booting, on shutdown, when waking from sleep, and using activities to locate mouse clicks.
Backing up with Time Machine to a NAS or other network storage is different. Here’s an account of how it creates and handles sparse bundle storage in Ventura 13.2.
How to use Ulbow to find just the log entries you need, using filters and predicates. Bring order to chaos.
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