If you use the fantastic Wakoopa Tracker to track your computer usage on the Mac like I do, you know what a great tool that this can be to help analyze what you are doing on a daily basis on your Mac. However, I ran into an issue a few weeks ago where it would no longer update my status. It basically looked like I wasn’t using my Mac anymore. Here’s how I solved this problem:

Open up the Terminal application (Mac HD>Applications>Utilities>Terminal).

Enter the following command: defaults read com.wakoopa.wakoopatracker

It will give you some information on Wakoopa tracker. The most important line is:

paused = YES;

If you see this, go to the Wakoopa tracker app in your menubar and pause it, then unpause it. It should restart tracking your app usage. Run the terminal command again and see if paused now equals NO. If it doesn’t, try pausing and unpausing again. This should do the trick!