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https://www.howtogeek.com/356942/how-to-view-the-system-log-on-a-mac/#:~:text=%E2%80%9C~Library%2FLogs%E2%80%9D%20is,for%20low%2Dlevel%20system%20services.

Your Mac keeps system logs, which can help diagnose and troubleshoot problems with macOS and your installed applications. These logs are stored as plain-text log files on your Mac’s system drive, and macOS also includes an app for viewing them.

To view your Mac system logs, launch the Console app. You can launch it with Spotlight search by pressing Command+Space, typing “Console,” and then pressing Enter. You’ll also find it at Finder > Applications > Utilities > Console.

The Console app, also known as Console.app, is like a Windows Event Viewer for Mac.


More logs are available under Reports. To see application crash and freeze logs, click either “System Reports” for system applications or “User Reports” for user applications. You’ll see a variety of logs with file extensions like .crash, .diag, and .spin. Click them to view them in the Info pane.




Admin user account mgt



The admin user can add other new accounts to the local system

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https://gadgetstouse.com/blog/2021/04/08/fix-macos-cannot-verify-app-is-free-from-malware/#:~:text=Open%20the%20Apple%20menu%20and,tried%20opening%20the%20blocked%20app.

Open the Apple menu and go to System Preferences. Head to Security & Privacy and tap the General tab. Here, you'll see an “Open Anyway” button for the app that's giving issues. The button would only be available for an hour after you tried opening the blocked app.



Configuration Issues 


issue> run Intel software on Macbook with Apple processors ( M1, M2)

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https://appletoolbox.com/seeing-error-operation-not-permitted-in-macos-mojave/

Error: “Operation not permitted?” 

Working with your Mac’s Terminal Utility but getting the error message “Operation not permitted?” Are Terminal commands that used to work in macOS High Sierra and Sierra not working?

this error on advanced commands like super-user sudo and change ownership chown commands but also on simple commands like the list directory command ls and others. What a mess!

easy to fix–we just need to update some of your Mac’s security and protection settings! 

SIP still allows access to some directories, like ~/Applications, but totally locks down others like ~/System or ~/usr.


Granting Terminal or An App Full Disk Access


Default MAC Key functions

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XCode free Developer toolset from App Store


takes 30 GB

Xcode is Apple's integrated development environment (IDE) for macOS, used to develop software for macOS, iOS, iPadOS, watchOS, and tvOS. ... Xcode includes Command Line Tools (CLT), which enable UNIX-style development via the Terminal app in macOS. They can also be downloaded and installed without the main IDE.

the CLT can be downloaded separately


Manage Disk Space 

https://support.apple.com/guide/disk-utility/welcome/mac

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Apple publishes the source code for the open source parts of OSX. So the source for "man" is retrievable from https://opensource.apple.com/tarballs/man/ . The latest version (as of this writing) is v1.6c. Provided you have at least the Command Line Tools installed (you can run xcode-select --install to get them if you don’t):

curl -LORf 'https://opensource.apple.com/tarballs/man/man-16.tar.gz'
tar -xzvf man-16.tar.gz
cd man-16/man

# Undo an Apple patch that adds a dependency on 'xcselect.h',
# which is something that Apple doesn't appear to distribute.
patch -R -p0 <../patches/PR11291804-xcode.diff

./configure --prefix=/usr/local
make
make install

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9l30Ewrq6zM


  1. Open image in preview
  2. View >> Show Markup Toolbar
  3. Markup Toolbar >> Far Left Drop down >> Select Elliptical selection
  4. hold shift key while draging to ensure the crop stays in a circle shape
  5. press CMD + K to create a crop
  6. paste the image into a target document

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save a timeline clip to a file

 you can select/edit/copy a clip in the timeline, and edit/paste it into a newly created project, that you can share out

complete iMovie tutorial

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjgkMt0wP7w

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