My Time Machine Buddy widget apparently has stopped working. I updated to the latest version, and it still can't capture the information about backups. First, is this a conflict with Sophos AV? Second, does anybody know of an alternative app that I could use? I find the TM Buddy helpful to use and would like an alternative. Thank you.
MacBook Pro with Retina display, macOS Sierra (10.12.1)
Time Machine activity is no longer written to system.log. What feature did it provide that you would like to accomplish?
FWIW, TM Buddy hasn't been updated since the version for Mavericks so there seems to be little chance there would be a Sierra compatible version. Personally I don't know of an alternative.
As far as Sophos, you should uninstall it. It does nothing to protect your Mac and just takes up space and resources that could be used by useful programs.
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Mostly, it allowed me to make sure that the backups were being done and what was deleted, etc.
Time Machine Buddy won't work any more because Time Machine uses Sierra's unified logging service. You can use the following shell script to extract most if not all the same information that app used to provide:
clear; printf '\e[3J' && log show --predicate 'subsystem == "com.apple.TimeMachine"' --info --last 48h | grep -F 'eMac' | grep -Fv 'etat' | awk -F']' '{print substr($0,1,19), $NF}'To use it launch Terminal. Copy (triple-click to select the entire line) and Paste that entire line in the Terminal window. It will take a moment or two to extract the relevant log entries during which time nothing will appear to happen. Be advised it is fairly processor-intensive and commensurately power-hungry.
It extracts log entries for the past 48 hours. To change it to something else, change that value.
Future macOS updates may change things.
Don't use "Sophos".
Alternatives to TM Buddy widget?