Maintaining your Mac ?
Being new to Mac's, I have seen various people commenting on running Disk Warrior, Onyx, Utility Disk, etc. What do you run to maintain your Mac at it's optimum level? Apparently, some people do nothing and they think that's best.
I've run Onyx a couple of times and it seems to change some things and I'll just leave it at that. Are there programs that are worth the money?
I've run Onyx a couple of times and it seems to change some things and I'll just leave it at that. Are there programs that are worth the money?
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Originally posted by Gebo
So you don't use any other software for OS X maintenance?
If it ain't broke...
--B
A solution that I use is to install Anacron http://www.apple.com/downloads/macos...v104tiger.html
Anacron will make sure that the log rotations occur the next time you start your machine and every 60 minutes later to see if its missed any tasks. If there are no missed tasks, it will do nothing.
Deleting your cache is probably not a good idea as a maintenance tool. After all, it is the point of the cache in the first place to store results that you might need again. Only clean out your cache if you're getting weird results with some programs (showing older results when it should be showing newer ones). Or if you need disk space real badly, then only clear out the cache.
There are two camps to repairing permissions before and after installation. Some say it helps, others think it is a waste of time. I'm with the latter. Use it only if something is broken, otherwise don't bother.
Finally, keep your HDD from getting too full. Leave about 10-20% empty to prevent fragmentation. Unless you create 10GB files regularly, your system will probably not fragment easily if there is always some empty space left over. This last tip applies not just to Macs, but to any OS. Systems with only a few hundred MB left will fragment and seriously degrade performance.
Hope that helps!