Technology > Apple Summary. The Apple Console utility allows viewing of various log files. Archives. Important log files typically have backup archives made of them. For example, by default, the System.log file is archived (turned over) every day at midnight (assuming your computer is on) and then a fresh System.log file is created. This creates… Continue reading Opening, Uncompressing, Unarchiving, Unzipping, and Reading System.log bz2 Compressed Archive Files