Tedious work trying to make sure that your Mac stays in tip top shape. Personally, I open Onyx and let it run all the maintenance scripts necessary on a semi-regular basis - about every two weeks.
Brent
· 2 years ago
Never heard of it, till now! Thanks Derek. And for those of us who like links:
i use onyx as well. mainmenu is also another interesting maintenatnce app i formerly used; it sits in your menubar waiting for your command and like onyx, it's free
Yohannes Wijaya
· 2 years ago
i forgot to mention you can run #5 from the article above manually should you choose to in case you dont want to let your machine stays up at 2am. you can invoke the following command at terminal:
sudo periodic daily
you can substitute "daily" with "weekly" or "monthly" as well
I recommend superduper to perform backup, an excellent, worth-the-money app. or if you really want a good but free backup app, try the recently revamped carbon copy cloner.
Brent
· 2 years ago
Thanks Yohannes!
That's what makes this site great... collaboration! I appreciate it.
Shawn Blanc
· 2 years ago
A lot of people think of them as being the same, but reparing permissions is different than disk defragmenter on Windows.
A good read is John Greuber's article on the voodoo of repairing permissions.
Brandon Martinez
· 2 years ago
Onyx all the way. I've been using it since I bought my first mac (a beautiful iMac) in January.
MarianneR
· 2 years ago
Hope this doesn't sound stupid BUT..."Go to your Library, select Cache, and delete all the files you find there." First of all there is more than one library. Secondly - I know (from PAST experience) that NOT all cache files should be deleted. I learned that the hard way! Can someone be more specific? Thanks!
David S.
· 2 years ago
Repair permissions is *hugely* overrated. You don't need to run it every month, hardly ever in fact. See John Gruber's article on the voodoo and superstition surrouding this function:
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Onyx 1.7.8 on VersionTracker
sudo periodic daily
you can substitute "daily" with "weekly" or "monthly" as well
I recommend superduper to perform backup, an excellent, worth-the-money app. or if you really want a good but free backup app, try the recently revamped carbon copy cloner.
That's what makes this site great... collaboration! I appreciate it.
A good read is John Greuber's article on the voodoo of repairing permissions.
http://daringfireball.net/2006/04/repair_permis...
Help kill this pernicious myth instead of perpetuating it!