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Mints and Cirrus updated for Sonoma’s iCloud Drive logs

When run on Sonoma, these now show log entries from com.apple.FileProvider rather than CloudDocs – a real revelation.

March 2, 2024 Macs, Technology, Updates

iCloud Drive in Sonoma: Copying a file

How Sonoma’s new FileProvider mechanism is reflected in log entries for the upload of a test file to iCloud Drive.

February 29, 2024 Macs, Technology

Preserving the evidence: what to do when something serious goes wrong

Safeguard your Mac, take screenshots, capture the logs in a logarchive or with sysdiagnose, make a written record, then repair and recovery.

January 27, 2024 Macs, Technology

Log Literacy: How to make and use logarchives

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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.

August 1, 2023 Macs, Technology

Log Literacy: Hunting bugs with Ulbow’s Chart View

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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.

March 17, 2023 Macs, Technology

Log Literacy: Extending Ulbow with predicates, filters & styles

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How to develop predicates, filters and styles interactively, then add them to Ulbow’s settings. And how to transfer those settings to another Mac.

March 10, 2023 Macs, Technology

Removing privacy censorship from the log

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A revamped configuration profile to remove censored private data from log entries, and how to get network diagnostic data too.

March 8, 2023 Macs, Technology

Log literacy: the power of message types, and Ulbow 1.10

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.

February 13, 2023 Macs, Technology, Updates

Log literacy: all about the log

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.

February 8, 2023 Macs, Technology

Gaining control over the log with a new version of Ulbow

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A new Frequency view shows total log entries from different subsystems, helping you mute those that are clogging up your log.

February 7, 2023 Macs, Technology, Updates

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