Viewing System Messages with the Console

The Console utility is a viewer that displays all the text-based messages sent between the Macintosh operating system, and all open applications. While this utility may seem a bit much for the average Macintosh user, it's of great value to programmers, or would-be programmers, because it gives you information on how the operating system communicates with OS X applications.

View System Messages with the Console

Open the Applications folder, double-click the Utilities folder, and then double-click the Disk Utility icon.
Click Logs, and then select from the available Console logs.
To erase the current log, ...

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