Logging

Sharing logs

Logs help us understand what happened on your Mac. You do not need to interpret them or choose particular categories — please share the complete capture.

From the ASFW app

1. Open ASFW and select System Logs in the sidebar.
2. Reproduce the problem.
3. Select the entries around the failure and press ⌘C.
4. Paste the logs into the issue report, or save them as a text file and attach it.

Copy the logs soon after reproducing the problem. The in-app log is limited to recent events and can be replaced by newer entries.

What to include with the logs

• ASFireWire version or release tag;
• Mac model and macOS version;
• FireWire adapter and device model;
• what you were doing when the problem occurred; and
• the approximate time of the reproduction.

Do not remove repeated or apparently unimportant lines. They may help identify the failure.

If the app cannot show logs

Open Console.app, select your Mac, search for ASFW or ASFWDriver, reproduce the problem, and save or copy the entries that appear. Attach the exported text or log archive to the issue.

If a maintainer asks for a broader system capture, run this in Terminal immediately after reproducing the problem:

sudo log collect --last 10m --output ~/Desktop/asfw-driver.logarchive

MCP logging tools are intended for development and maintainer diagnostics. Users do not need to configure or understand MCP to report an issue.