On May 27, 2009, at 3:05 AM, Mac G4 wrote: > > Thanks Kris. > > The funny thing is that I don't have have any issues that I can see. > Aside from the HD freeze when I was trying to format it everything > else works as expected - especially since I removed the bad HD.
What you're undergoing is known as 'Windows Decompression Syndrome'; that haunting feeling that everything is about to blow up in your face, even though things are OK. WDS sufferers are often found in Mac forums wondering about the 'best diagnostic software, or what are the best OS maintenance tools, etc' OS X is a far more robust OS than it usually gets credit for. There really is no 'maintenance' needed...it's not Windows :-) The only thing to do is maintain current backups (which is a sensible thing to do regardless of the OS) and shut it down properly, ie: select Shutdown from the Apple menu or press the power button and clicking on the Shutdown button. Seriously. I've been using OS X since the day 10.2 came out and I could get my hands on it. I've re-installed OS X on my machines 8 times since then to my recollection. 5 of these times were when I got a new computer, and did a clean install before transferring my user data. Once was because I managed to drop my hard drive from the desk onto the concrete floor. Edge on. All it ever did after that was make a funny squealing noise. I've only ever twice had to re-install because of an OS issue. One time was traced to a flaky DVD enclosure I was upgrading from, which means in 7+ years of using OSX on a succession of systems I've had to re-install the OS because of corruption issues once. I never run permissions repair, disk repair, etc etc etc unless I have a problem. An excellent backup solution for 10.4 is Carbon Copy Cloner and an external hard drive, or additional internal hard drive. <http://www.bombich.com/software/ccc.html > The other thing to do is create another user on your system, for testing purposes. If you experience a problem, log off and log in as the test user. If the problem persists, then the problem is system wide, if not, it's somewhere in your user stuff, either prefs or start- up items. Many people will tell you to zap the PRAM, repair permissions, do this do that, etc. 90% of the time they're wrong. As a rule, problems on a Mac can usually be traced to messed up preferences or settings or flaky hardware. Windows users work on their computers; OS X users work with their computers. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
