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.
Reinstalling the system cured it.

Mike



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