In the Console window, look under User Diagnostic Reports for crash reports related to the crashed process. Important: Some private information, such as your name, may appear in the log. Please do not indiscriminately dump thousands of lines from the log into this discussion. In most cases, a few dozen lines are more than enough. When posting a log extract, be selective.

Paste into a reply to this message ( command-V). Copy them to the Clipboard by pressing the key combination command-C. Select the messages from the time of the last crash, if any. If you don't see that menu, selectĮnter the name of the crashed application or process in the Filter text field. If it isn't, select All Messages from the SYSTEM LOG QUERIES menu on the left. Make sure the title of the Console window is All Messages. Click Utilities, then Console in the icon grid. The application is in the folder that opens. ☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.) ☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Launch the Console application in any of the following ways: