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Cirrus Changelog

What's new in Cirrus 1.14

Mar 5, 2024
  • Substituted FileProvider for CloudDocs in Sonoma logs.

New in Cirrus 1.13 (Jul 19, 2023)

  • Addressed deprecations
  • Added support for Ventura and Sonoma
  • Removed startup integrity check
  • Removed log privacy controls
  • Updated Help book.

New in Cirrus 1.12 (Apr 23, 2021)

  • Cirrus version 1.12 and Taccy version 1.14 finally put to rest the problems which surfaced when Big Sur changed the rules for formatting of time, particularly when you don’t use a 24-hour clock. These new versions should be happy with a Buddhist calendar working to a 12-hour clock in Mongolian summer time. They should also detect any future problems which might arise should Apple change the behaviour of time formatting.
  • In addition to that, they incorporate similar substantial changes to those I made in Mints, which should significantly improve performance and reduce memory requirements when working with log extracts. This is the result of my refactoring the way that individual log entries are formatted for display.

New in Cirrus 1.10 (Aug 4, 2020)

  • Cirrus version 1.10 has an improved colour scheme for its log browser, which matches that used in Mints. It also brings some internal changes with macOS version detection which fix minor bugs, and an important correction to its Help book. But most of all this is the first full release as a Universal App, superceding both 1.9 and 1.9u. This should run natively on both Intel and Apple Silicon Macs, on all versions of macOS from El Capitan to Big Sur beta 3.

New in Cirrus 1.9 (Jan 21, 2020)

  • Uses the same system monospace font for log extracts as in Consolation and Ulbow,
  • Adds log entries from the kernel to its log extracts,
  • Tests whether the current user is a member of the admin group, to determine whether to offer the log browsing feature,
  • When running in Catalina, hides the option to remove privacy in the log, as that is no longer available in 10.15.

New in Cirrus 1.7 (Sep 3, 2019)

  • If you’ve ever compared what you see of iCloud Drive in the Finder with what’s accessible at the command line, you’ll know that they’re different. Not only that, but while Apple maintains a consistent illusion in the Finder, the path to iCloud Drive in Terminal appears set to change in Catalina.
  • Cirrus’ invaluable ‘browser’ access to iCloud Drive reveals more than you can see in the Finder by using the same access paths as you would in Terminal. So recently, when it became clear that was changing in Catalina, I changed the path used in Cirrus.
  • In Mojave and earlier, iCloud Drive appears at ~/Library/Mobile Documents/com~apple~CloudDocs, but in Catalina that should become ~/Library/CloudStorage/iCloudDrive instead. Cirrus version 1.6 currently decides which path to use according to the version of macOS that is running. However, I have just heard of one Catalina beta tester who can’t find anything in the ‘new’ path. Because this is hard-coded into Cirrus 1.6, there’s nothing he can do to address that.
  • Here’s a new version of Cirrus which doesn’t hard-code either of those paths, but obtains them from its preference settings instead. By default, they are set to what is expected (as above), but if either of those doesn’t work, you can locate the folder which is being used, and change the preferences to point at that instead.
  • So, for example, to set the normal path for Mojave and earlier, enter the following command in Terminal: defaults write co.eclecticlight.Cirrus iCloudPath14 ‘/Library/Mobile Documents/com~apple~CloudDocs’
  • or for Catalina, use defaults write co.eclecticlight.Cirrus iCloudPath15 ‘/Library/CloudStorage/CloudDrive’ instead.
  • Then, when you next open Cirrus and its browser, the new path should be used as the starting location for its browser. These paths are relative to the user’s Home folder, but you shouldn’t include the ~ shortcut before them, as Cirrus will do that itself.
  • If you make a horrible mess of the path, and can’t open a browser window any more, either trash Cirrus’ preference file, or delete that specific preference setting, and Cirrus will revert to using its defaults.

New in Cirrus 1.6 (Aug 20, 2019)

  • Fixes the bug which prevented the upload test from uploading anything (a deep blush for that one!);
  • Adds menu commands with shortcuts to run the upload test and clean up afterwards, accessible from anywhere within the app;
  • Fixes changed paths in Catalina to ensure that all (I hope) app features now work in Catalina beta 5 and 6 too;
  • Constrains the shortest path permitted in the Browser window to prevent possible crashes;
  • Further tidying of windows, menus, and updating of the lengthy and detailed Help book and PDF documentation.

New in Cirrus 1.5 (Jun 19, 2019)

  • Here’s a new version of my free tool Cirrus, for managing items stored in iCloud and investigating problems with iCloud storage. Improvements include:
  • You can now change the font size used in each of its text views, including the diagnostic log extract, between 4 and 24 points, in steps of one point. The current setting is saved and used as the default for that window when you next open the app.
  • It’s now more reliable at saving window sizes and positions to be used when it is next opened.
  • It now automatically checks for updates, and offers to download them when available.

New in Cirrus 1.1 (Jul 28, 2018)

  • added Browse updates menu command
  • added full support for Dark Mode
  • built using Xcode 10ß.

New in Cirrus 1.0 (Jul 28, 2018)

  • moved getting log extract into background, with busy spinner
  • added Tooltips
  • added Help book.

New in Cirrus 1.0 Beta 5 (Jul 28, 2018)

  • added following symlinks to iCloud Browser
  • changed folder size calculation to shallow rather than deep traversal
  • released iCloud Browser to cover entire Home folder
  • added Save to iCloud Browser to generate text report
  • added datestamping to iCloud Browser’s data
  • changed file sizes in iCloud Browser to report more flexibly
  • changed expression of iCloud Download Status in iCloud Browser
  • anchored the Refresh button properly so that it doesn’t float into the view above.

New in Cirrus 1.0 Beta 4 (Jul 28, 2018)

  • added iCloud Browser window and features
  • fixed bug in incomplete updating of attributes in document refresh
  • made Browser and Log windows unlimited, removing Close menu commands.

New in Cirrus 1.0 Beta 3 (Jul 28, 2018)

  • major rewrite
  • moved log-related actions and info to new log window
  • rebuilt to be compatible with El Capitan
  • disabled opening of log window when running in El Capitan
  • added new code to open files and folders as main document type
  • added Download and Evict menu commands.

New in Cirrus 1.0 Beta 2 (Jul 28, 2018)

  • fixed a bug in parsing and classifying Other log entries.