Scott wrote: Mike,
As routine maintenance? I am just curious, what needs maintenance in OS X? I used some of those "maintenance" programs with Jaguar a couple years ago and found they did more harm than good. I did not have any problem in the first place, I just used the programs because I fell for the sales pitch and didn't know better. Anyway, they messed things up more than they fixed anything. So I never used them again. I've never had any problems in OS X. All I've heard and read about OS X is that those "maintenance" programs are unnecessary and from my experience that is true. So my suggestion is don't even use those programs. OS X is pretty good at taking care of itself. Scott
It is good you have not had problems. I have had problems occasionally. For example, files on my desktop having the wrong label.
When that sort of thing happens, I run Cocktail to clear caches and repair permissions, and I run DiskWarrior. If it finds the directory is messed up, I let it replace the directory. That usually helps.
What surprised me about the current problem is that DiskWarrior and the other programs didn't help. Laurent says it is a file corruption problem.
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