UZi706 Posted July 30, 2007 Share Posted July 30, 2007 So I've ben a Mac user for a year now, I'm a Long time Windows user, and I'm wondering if there is any special maintenance that I should preform like Defraging the hard drive? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/58525-mac-os-maintenance/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
damesj Posted July 31, 2007 Share Posted July 31, 2007 You don't really need to defrag your harddrive since osx does it automatically for you. The only thing that you really have to do is fix your permissions. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/58525-mac-os-maintenance/#findComment-418100 Share on other sites More sharing options...
hecker Posted July 31, 2007 Share Posted July 31, 2007 You don't really need to defrag your harddrive since osx does it automatically for you. The only thing that you really have to do is fix your permissions.Be careful when fixing permissions. All OSX does is really reset the file's permissions to a default setting and doesn't really "fix" anything. There is also no reason to include this in your maintenance process unless something is not working as it should. I recommend a free program called "Onyx" to do maintenance work. Cheers, hecker Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/58525-mac-os-maintenance/#findComment-418135 Share on other sites More sharing options...
U.C. Posted August 1, 2007 Share Posted August 1, 2007 Maybe some one can answer this issue of mine. My friend has a MB. Now when it was new bootup was in seconds. Now it takes 1 min at the Grey Apple Logo and then half a minute more at the LoginWindow. I have noticed his lappy has become slow too. Why does this happen? Is OSX also like XP. XP slows down much faster though, but still I didnot expect OSX to slow down so much. I cleaned all his caches, repaired Permissions and did all maintenance tasks in Onyx. But no improvement. Help?? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/58525-mac-os-maintenance/#findComment-418800 Share on other sites More sharing options...
hecker Posted August 1, 2007 Share Posted August 1, 2007 My friend has a MB. Now when it was new bootup was in seconds. Now it takes 1 min at the Grey Apple Logo and then half a minute more at the LoginWindow. I have noticed his lappy has become slow too. Is your friend using QuickSilver by any chance? hecker Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/58525-mac-os-maintenance/#findComment-418857 Share on other sites More sharing options...
U.C. Posted August 2, 2007 Share Posted August 2, 2007 Yeah ofcourse. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/58525-mac-os-maintenance/#findComment-419094 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Synaesthesia Posted August 2, 2007 Share Posted August 2, 2007 In onyx, a free download, there are maintenance scripts you can run...might help. Also keep some free space on your hard drive, filling it to the limit slows performance. That's about it! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/58525-mac-os-maintenance/#findComment-419104 Share on other sites More sharing options...
U.C. Posted August 3, 2007 Share Posted August 3, 2007 @Synaesthesia I cleaned all his caches, repaired Permissions and did all maintenance tasks in Onyx. But no improvement. Help?? I have tried all scripts and he has about 20GB free on his HDD. @Hecker What did you mean "Is your friend using QuickSilver by any chance?" What is wrong with QuickSilver? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/58525-mac-os-maintenance/#findComment-419913 Share on other sites More sharing options...
UZi706 Posted August 4, 2007 Author Share Posted August 4, 2007 Maybe some one can answer this issue of mine. My friend has a MB. Now when it was new bootup was in seconds. Now it takes 1 min at the Grey Apple Logo and then half a minute more at the LoginWindow. I have noticed his lappy has become slow too. Why does this happen? Is OSX also like XP. XP slows down much faster though, but still I didnot expect OSX to slow down so much. I cleaned all his caches, repaired Permissions and did all maintenance tasks in Onyx. But no improvement. Help?? Try this, Right after you turn it on, hold down Option+Command+P+R after like 15 seconds or so it will reboot, keep holding this down util you rebooted 3 times, this should fix the problem. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/58525-mac-os-maintenance/#findComment-420474 Share on other sites More sharing options...
U.C. Posted August 6, 2007 Share Posted August 6, 2007 ^^^Tried this didn't help much. Even uninstalled QuickSilver and rebuilt the SpotLight Index. Even removed Parallels. I will try doing a update 10.4.10 (that does sound weird) Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/58525-mac-os-maintenance/#findComment-421695 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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