These logs are stored as plain-text log files on your Macs system drive, and macOS also includes an app for viewing them.

You can launch it with Spotlight search by pressing CommandSpace, typing Console, and then pressing Enter.

You can click Errors and Faults in the toolbar to see only error messages, if you like.

You can also use the search box to search for a type of error message you want to see.

To see application crash and freeze logs, click either System Reports for system applications or User Reports for user applications.

Youll see a variety of logs with file extensions like.crash,.diag, and.spin.

Click them to view them in the Info pane.

An applications developer may need this information to fix a crash that occurs on your Mac, too.

First, click Edit Select All to select all the messages on the current screen.

Create a new document and then select Edit Paste to paste the messages into the text file.

This means you can browse to them in Finder or via the Terminal, open them in other applications, use command-line tools with them, and back up the files.

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