Hi Krister, Mike, and Others,
OnyX is one of the maintenance utility software packages (along with
others like Cocktail, Leopard Cache Cleaner, Mac Pilot, Yasu, and Mac
Janitor), and is freeware from Titanium Software. The version tracker
link for Leopard is:
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/20070
When you start OnyX there are a number of buttons that provide you
with access to menus for Maintenance and Cleaning, and there are also
Parameters you can reset. As with most maintenance software, OnyX
gathers many commands that you would otherwise run in terminal, etc.
in one place with a GUI interface. Maintenance includes functions
like repairing permissions (which you usually run with the Mac's Disk
Utility under the Utilities folder (Command-Shift-U for the Finder
shortcut to Utilities). The maintenance scripts run the daily,
weekly, and monthly tasks (again, from terminal you could run these
manually as "sudo periodic daily", "sudo periodic weekly", "sudo
periodic monthly"). In addition, you can rebuild launch services. A
lot of the performance tuning comes from cleaning functions --
particularly clearing out system caches and Safari browser caches.
You can also configure your setup using the parameters button -- for
example, if you want to download your PDF files (so you can use
Preview) instead of displaying them inline in Safari (which takes up
more space in caches) you can set this up under the Parameters button
with the Safari tab. Or, you can select the default screen capture
format (Command-Shift-3 to take a snapshot of the screen in finder) --
change it from .png to .jpeg or .pdf extension. (I find this very
useful if I need to send a troubleshooting report in -- I take a
screen shot image of any error messages and attach it to an email for
support). This is under the General tab of Parameters. You can
explore this in more detail.
A couple of pointers: OnyX users an installer and an uninstaller. So
if you upgrade to a later version you should use the uninstaller
first. Also, there are separate versions for Leopard, Tiger, and
Panther, so anyone running Tiger should go to the Titanium Software
downloads site to grab the appropriate version of OnyX (Google
Titanium Software and OnyX, or use the developer's web page link on
the link to the version tracker page for OnyX (Leopard) given above).
For some general background on maintenance issues, see this (somewhat
old) page on Mac OS X Maintenance and Troubleshooting:
http://www.macattorney.com/ts.html
Some of those functions are not needed under Leopard.
HTH
Cheers,
Esther
On Oct 17, 2008, at 10:34 PM, Krister Ekstrom wrote:
Hi there.
I'd be interested to know where one might obtain this program, i
didn't see a download link anywhere last this app was discussed.
/Krister
18 okt 2008 kl. 04.44 skrev Babcock, Michael Alex:
hey all;
could you all let me know what you do with onyx and how you didd it?
thanks for all your help
mike
