01-04-2011, 06:13 AM
Back in the old days of beige Macs with a couple of MB of RAM there was a core-dump procedure in the debugger which extracted the contents of the computer's memory into a file from which you could extract the text of a file you were working on.
It often took a few hours to run.
It turns out that the ability is still there. On modern Macs with a couple of GB or more of RAM, I imagine it would take quite a long time to do the dump.
'Looks like it's supposed to be enabled prior to the event that you want to capture in order to work, but there is a procedure to enable it retroactively.
...Probably a bit more complicated than you'd like.
It often took a few hours to run.
It turns out that the ability is still there. On modern Macs with a couple of GB or more of RAM, I imagine it would take quite a long time to do the dump.
'Looks like it's supposed to be enabled prior to the event that you want to capture in order to work, but there is a procedure to enable it retroactively.
...Probably a bit more complicated than you'd like.