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TM Error Logger

Time Machine error reporting app.

Version: 2.05

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Admins only - but why?

Feedback Type: Commentary

Contributed by: Glasgow Sunday, October 11 2009 @ 05:23 AM PDT

Product Platform: MacOSX

Used Product For: Less than a month

I was curious about this utility and decided to give it a quick try out. However, it fell flat on its face before it even got started. I fired it up and got the following alert message:
"Unable to read system.log.
You must be logged in as an Admin to use TM Error Logger." [ OK ]

Click on [ OK ] and I'm straight back in the Finder.

My day-to-day account is a non-admin account - I spend the majority of my time in it. This error makes the utility un-useable.

In spite of using a non-admin account, I sometimes monitor TimeMachine's activity in Console, without problem. If what the previous comment says about this app simply reading the log file is true, then this would seem to be a nonsense.