The log window shows the history of about just about everything QRecall has done.
To open the log window, choose ➤ from the menu. You can also review the activity that pertains to a specific archive in its sidebar.
Log records are organized into a hierarchy; click an expansion button to reveal related log records and additional details.
QRecall's log files are stored in ~/Library/Logs/QRecall/.
The files are plain ASCII text files.
Non-ASCII characters are encoded using Unicode escape sequences.
For example, the character € is encoded as \u20ac
(technically non-lossy ASCII encoding).
The log files also contain additional information, never displayed in the log window, primarily of use in diagnosing problems.
QRecall logs a lot of information.
To keep the contents of the log window manageable, excess log messages are collapsed into a
button.
Click this button to load the next batch of lines into the window or subgroup.
How far back records go is determined by the log preferences.
Some log messages have a more verbose explanation
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or a link to the QRecall help
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Click on the explanation button to view it.
Click a help topic button to jump to the relevant topic in the documentation.
Did we mention that QRecall logs a lot of information? Often, the minor details are of no interest.
Use the Detail control to filter out less interesting log records:
In addition to the Detail control, the contents of the log window can be further filtered by source or by content.
Log records are recorded from five sources:
To filter out any of these sources, uncheck the corresponding item in the Show control.
You can further winnow the log records by entering a search phrase into the Filter field. The display is winnowed to just those log records containing that phrase, and any that contain those records.