Launch Disk Utility. Select your boot volume. Click the 'First Aid' tab. Two buttons will become enabled... Verify Permissions and Repair Permissions. Click the latter. It will scan and fix any permissions problems that are found on your boot disk.
/sbin/fsck is a command line equivalent to Disk Utility's 'Repair Disk'. (In fact, DU just runs the command line tool.) You can't run it on a boot volume that you booted off of, so there's a special trick you can use to do so at boot time. It's kind of funky looking to the usual Mac user, and tends to freak them out on first exposure, so I'll let someone else take you down that path while I go get some grub.
Launch Disk Utility. Select your boot volume. Click the 'First Aid' tab. Two buttons will become enabled... Verify Permissions and Repair Permissions. Click the latter. It will scan and fix any permissions problems that are found on your boot disk.
/sbin/fsck is a command line equivalent to Disk Utility's 'Repair Disk'. (In fact, DU just runs the command line tool.) You can't run it on a boot volume that you booted off of, so there's a special trick you can use to do so at boot time. It's kind of funky looking to the usual Mac user, and tends to freak them out on first exposure, so I'll let someone else take you down that path while I go get some grub.
Anybody know if OS X has or requires an occasional "rebuild the desktop" command that was in classic?
Thanks in advance to all who answer.
Yes you can rebuild OSX. Restart your computer with OS 9 as your startup disk while holding down the command option key. You will be asked if want to rebuild your desktop. Click yes. After OS 9 has been rebuilt it will ask you if you want to rebuild OS X. Click yes and it rebuilds OS X in the OS 9 environment.
Yes you can rebuild OSX. Restart your computer with OS 9 as your startup disk while holding down the command option key. You will be asked if want to rebuild your desktop. Click yes. After OS 9 has been rebuilt it will ask you if you want to rebuild OS X. Click yes and it rebuilds OS X in the OS 9 environment.
It has no effect in Mac OS X, and I think it asks you if it should rebuild Mac OS X because you have the two systems on different partitions (probably called Mac OS 9 and Mac OS X)
Anybody know if OS X has or requires an occasional "rebuild the desktop" command that was in classic?
Thanks in advance to all who answer.
You mean, a procedure that actually does something quite specific, but becomes a totemic 'catch-all' placebo - the first stage advised in any fault-finding process.
That would be fixing permissions.
ps , you can trash the following in ~/Library/Preferences
LSSchemes
LSClaimedTypes
LSApplications
for a Desktop rebuild-like effect.
i find the first thing for a user-based issue is to trash the contents of ~/library/Caches ( after a reboot, natch).
You can quit the Finder, or kill it in the terminal. If you're worried about maintenance in OS X just go to MacUpdate.com and look for Cocktail. Cocktail will make it easy to run any cron scripts in OS X, delete your caches, delete problematic locked files, repair your permissions, pre-bind system files, etc... It owns....
A a damaged user preference file called "com.apple.finder.plist" can cause many weird issues. Just go to ~/Library/Preferences and drag it to the desk top and reboot (you can delete it but I always prefer to wait till everything is OK before deleting). OS X will reset all Finder preference to default. This cures many issues that used to be associated with rebuilding the desktop such as icons for files not appearing correctly.
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Originally posted by Scott
Nope it's gone. Too bad too the desktop file was kind of useful.
Scott,
Thanks for your answer. So can I assume that OS X just runs and runs and doesn't require any maintenence of any kind?
Except for repairing permissions.
And /sbin/fsck.
Oh, and then there's...
Well, it's *better*...
Originally posted by Kickaha
Oh absolutely.
Except for repairing permissions.
And /sbin/fsck.
Oh, and then there's...
Well, it's *better*...
So what do these "repairing permissions" and sbin and fsck commands do and should I run them every so often?
/sbin/fsck is a command line equivalent to Disk Utility's 'Repair Disk'. (In fact, DU just runs the command line tool.) You can't run it on a boot volume that you booted off of, so there's a special trick you can use to do so at boot time. It's kind of funky looking to the usual Mac user, and tends to freak them out on first exposure, so I'll let someone else take you down that path while I go get some grub.
Originally posted by Kickaha
Launch Disk Utility. Select your boot volume. Click the 'First Aid' tab. Two buttons will become enabled... Verify Permissions and Repair Permissions. Click the latter. It will scan and fix any permissions problems that are found on your boot disk.
/sbin/fsck is a command line equivalent to Disk Utility's 'Repair Disk'. (In fact, DU just runs the command line tool.) You can't run it on a boot volume that you booted off of, so there's a special trick you can use to do so at boot time. It's kind of funky looking to the usual Mac user, and tends to freak them out on first exposure, so I'll let someone else take you down that path while I go get some grub.
Kickaha,
Thank for your responses.
Originally posted by sc_markt
Anybody know if OS X has or requires an occasional "rebuild the desktop" command that was in classic?
Thanks in advance to all who answer.
Yes you can rebuild OSX. Restart your computer with OS 9 as your startup disk while holding down the command option key. You will be asked if want to rebuild your desktop. Click yes. After OS 9 has been rebuilt it will ask you if you want to rebuild OS X. Click yes and it rebuilds OS X in the OS 9 environment.
Originally posted by iThinkdifferent
Yes you can rebuild OSX. Restart your computer with OS 9 as your startup disk while holding down the command option key. You will be asked if want to rebuild your desktop. Click yes. After OS 9 has been rebuilt it will ask you if you want to rebuild OS X. Click yes and it rebuilds OS X in the OS 9 environment.
It has no effect in Mac OS X, and I think it asks you if it should rebuild Mac OS X because you have the two systems on different partitions (probably called Mac OS 9 and Mac OS X)
-rwxr-xr-x 1 zaan staff 15364 Oct 17 00:37 .DS_Store
That file is 15 KB big. There has to be some info in there. And deleting it doesn't damage the system one bit.
Originally posted by sc_markt
Anybody know if OS X has or requires an occasional "rebuild the desktop" command that was in classic?
Thanks in advance to all who answer.
You mean, a procedure that actually does something quite specific, but becomes a totemic 'catch-all' placebo - the first stage advised in any fault-finding process.
That would be fixing permissions.
ps , you can trash the following in ~/Library/Preferences
LSSchemes
LSClaimedTypes
LSApplications
for a Desktop rebuild-like effect.
i find the first thing for a user-based issue is to trash the contents of ~/library/Caches ( after a reboot, natch).
tinkertool can enable it.
but on the other hand, who really needs
to rebiuld the desktop. mine's never messed up.