On Aug 3, 2004, at 5:26 PM, Kim Blair wrote:
On Tuesday, August 3, 2004, at 07:19 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote:
You can try deleting /Library/Preferences/com.apple.loginwindow.plist
Is OSX like OS9 in that, you can throw away all of the preferences and when the computer restarts it makes a fresh set?
Well, yes and no. You can toss all the prefs in /Users/<your user name>/Library/Preferences, but you'll lose all your settings. You don't need to do anything unless a program is not working properly.
The best way to see if it's a preferences problem is log on as a different user, and see if the program continues to give you problems. If it doesn't, trash the preferences for that program in your original user's prefs, otherwise somethings wrong with the app itself, usually calling for a re-install.
I like cleaning up my computer every now and then. What are the procedures for freshening up OSX?
None, really. You like doing that because you're used to either OS 9 or Windows. :-/ OS X like any other Unix is far, far more robust.
You do want to leave the mac on overnight once a week or so, or use an utility like MacJanitor to run the periodic system scripts that deal with growing logs and suchlike, as if they're not run logfiles just keep growing.
OSX will like being rebooted rather more often than most Unix systems, as there are some memory leaks in some OS X apps, it seams, meaning they ask for memory, and don't give it back, but barring serious file system corruption, OS X doesn't need desktop rebuilding, preference trashing or PRAM blasting.
If things get really bad, re-apply the latest combo OS update to the system. that will usually fix many ills.
Beyond that doing an 'archive and reinstall' re-installation of the OS is called for.
-- Bruce Johnson
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