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Tiger Housekeeping

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thebadger

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Sep 11, 2007
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Hi,

I jumped ship from PC and I bought a MacBook at the beginning of this year. I have had no problems with it so far but I am wondering whether I should be doing some regular housekeeping within Tiger to maintain the system's performance.

With a PC I defragged the system, deleted temp files and ran programs that helped to keep everything together. Should I also be doing this in Tiger?? Should I be repairing "Permissions"?? Is there a defragg prog? Or am I OK plodding on as I am?

Also I have File Vault running, is this essential? As I don't Shut Down my MacBook that often (usually put it to sleep) is it actually making a difference? Does it back up my files??

Any advice would be of great help. The more the merrier.

Cheers

TheBadger.
 
Defragging is far less important on a UNIX box than under Windows. In most cases you can leave the system to looking after the hard disk, with a quick repair permissions after any installations or updates to keep things in line. Tiger also has a number of automated jobs that clean up after you. They should run themselves quite happily in the background anyway, but if you do want to manually go for it, open up a Terminal and type

sudo periodic daily weekly monthly

You should also clear out your browser cache occasionally.

Apart from that, you can pretty much leave it to it.
 
thebadger said:
Also I have File Vault running, is this essential? As I don't Shut Down my MacBook that often (usually put it to sleep) is it actually making a difference? Does it back up my files??
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Filevault doesn't back up. All it does is encrypt your personal files. People have reported of lost data if the laptop crashs or turns off unexpectedly.

It does keep your files secure though, but i would not turn it on myself.
 
Ah I get you.

Do I need to worry about repairing Permissions?? If so, how often do I do it?

What does ONYX do??
 
thebadger said:
Ah I get you.

Do I need to worry about repairing Permissions?? If so, how often do I do it?

What does ONYX do??
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I often find that you learn things faster and better if you do your own homework.

Why not google osx onyx and read it up for yourself. You could have done the same thing by googling osx and terminal.
 
TBi said:
I often find that you learn things faster and better if you do your own homework.

Why not google osx onyx and read it up for yourself. You could have done the same thing by googling osx and terminal.
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No doubt I will at some point, but it is always good to get different views and opinions.
 
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