TinkerTool System is a collection of system utility features helping you in performing advanced administration tasks on Apple Macintosh computers. The application makes use of a self-adapting user interface which automatically adjusts to the computer model and to the version of macOS you are running.
built-in maintenance features of macOS, usually not visible on the graphical user interface,
•extended file operations, not available in the macOS Finder,
•the possibility to access advanced system settings which are not visible in System Preferences,
•genuine and unique features of TinkerTool System, designed to resolve typical real-world problems of administrators and to fix the effects of certain defects ("bugs") in the operating system,
•an emergency tool to troubleshoot and repair macOS in cases where the graphical user interface is no longer starting correctly or the user account of the system administrator has been damaged,
•functions to collect advanced information about the hardware, operating system, and applications.
Together with its sister program TinkerTool which is available at no charge, TinkerTool System is a perfect substitute for the following types of system utilities
•Finder enhancers,
•Cache and font cache cleaners,
•Scripts to create bootable system installer and recovery disks,
•Tools to access hidden preference settings,
•Applications to make objects invisible in the Finder,
•Log file browsers,
•Application uninstallers,
•Single User Mode troubleshooting tools,
•Spell-checker dictionary editors,
•and many others.
Release Notes Version 7.85
Added new feature to reset file system permissions in a local user's home folder to default values. This includes a "test run" option which allows a preliminary check.
Added a new "reveal in Finder" button for unreadable objects detected by the feature to check the path lengths of deeply nested folders.
Added an additional warning when editing the inheritance setting of Access Control Entries in cases where a combination of options is valid, but ineffective.
Added new option for the retrieval of standard system logs for reports on "emergency power-off" events.
Added new option for the retrieval of standard system logs for reports on application crashes that macOS recorded in iPhone IPS format.
Many system logs will now be automatically reformatted and made easily readable if macOS has stored them in JSON format instead of plain text.
Added new feature to open specific system logs in the Console application for cases where macOS uses undocumented post-processing to translate the raw log to interpreted text.
In order not to cause performance problems with the graphical user interface of macOS when processing results of more than half a million entries, the feature to re-sort columns in the result table of the Time Machine comparison feature has been removed.
The results of a Time Machine snapshot comparison can now be exported as additional text file.
Fixed a problem where exporting a list of orphaned files could fail under specific circumstances.
Supported Operation Systems
macOS 11.0 or later (Apple Silicon compatible)
