On 2010/12/01 14:02, Bruce Johnson so eloquently wrote:
On Dec 1, 2010, at 10:20 AM, Tina K. wrote:
Applejack (like Diskwarrior) is a 'use when it's broken' thing,
not a maintenance thing...OS X is largely maintenance-free.
It is my understanding that large caches can actually slow down OS X.
I mainly do that to clean caches and swap, and to check prefs. Is
running disk repair and permission repair as well harmful to the
system?
Well, I agree with John Gruber, Repair Permissions is voodoo. It's a
10.2 fix for a largely 10.1.5 problem; VERY occasionally it will fix
a problem, but those problems ONLY occur immediately after a system
update
I agree too, but it is part of Applejack's deep clean routine.
If you find issues every time you run disk repair, something's broken
with your disk.
But then I used to wait until I had a problem to run DW, now I run
it about every three months to try and keep the directory from
getting corrupted.
This is exactly my point. The directory shouldn't be GETTING
corrupted. OSX'es file system is robust and self-repairing.
When I said corrupted, what I meant by that was x amount out of order,
usually between 1% and 35%.
Tina
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