Freeware maintenance

[student_trap]

hey guys,
im thinking of downloading something to run general maintenance tasks, i've been looking at macjanitor, anyone know how good this is or have any other recomendations?

 

[devilot]

hey guys,
im thinking of downloading something to run general maintenance tasks, i've been looking at macjanitor, anyone know how good this is or have any other recomendations?

First off, a quick search would most likely turn up some answers for you.

Main Menu is well liked. As is OnyX.

I prefer the first but... you can play around. I tried MacJanitor but gave it up in favor of the others...

 

[Eidorian]

OnyX corrupted my Spotlight comments so I don't use it anymore.

http://www.automatorworld.com/archives/maintenance/

 

[mad jew]

These apps aren't really essential. I've heard some pretty bad horror stories from people who aren't fully aware of their capabilities so I usually recommend steering clear. Let OSX do its thing.

 

[rye9]

I highly reccomend Yasu... its very organized and only one menu... its so simple I can understand it.. Look.. its only one window and does everything you could want for maintanence... I couldnt understand Onyx and the others.

Oh, and if you dont want to restart your system, just uncheck "clear system cache"... its no biggie.

 

[student_trap]

ok so i downloaded main menu from the apple site, it was making my computer stall and kept being weird, not letting me drag the app to the apps folder. So i ran the scripts and then thought i'd delete it, as its been making my computer all weird and jumpy, and refreshing my desktop (weird). I tried dragging it to trash but the dmg and plist wouldn't trash saying it was an authentication problem, then they did trash, so i tried to reboot and then a screen came up saying that i had to restart my computer in many languages (a kernal panic?), well this has never happened before, and, i'm really worried, what should i do?

 

[MisterMe]

OnyX corrupted my Spotlight comments so I don't use it anymore. ....

You may have had a pre-MacOS X 10.4 version of OnyX. I have never had a minute's trouble out of it. However, I keep my installation updated to the latest version. Having said that, my general impression of MacOS X 10.4 is that these types of utilities are less useful than ever. The OS seems to have improved on its already excellent job of self-maintenance.

 

[iBunny]

I use Onyx and Main Menu to securly delete unwanted temp files, and restore my OS to brand new... plus I can run maintence scripts, repair permissions, update prebindings, and reforce spotlight to reindex... its quite nice. I do it all about once a month and never had an issue

 

[Eidorian]

You may have had a pre-MacOS X 10.4 version of OnyX. I have never had a minute's trouble out of it. However, I keep my installation updated to the latest version. Having said that, my general impression of MacOS X 10.4 is that these types of utilities are less useful than ever. The OS seems to have improved on its already excellent job of self-maintenance.

Nope, I used the 10.4 version of Onyx. It even had options for Spotlight. I used it once and it wiped all of my comments. The comments were still there but in Get Info it appeared blank.