On Wednesday, June 25, 2003, at 02:03 PM, Rodolpho Pajuaba wrote:
Under older MacOSs, if you wanted to be safe, you could just burn a CD with the entire System Folder, and reinstall it when something bad happenned. What could be the equivalent under MacOS X? Can this be done? In WinXP (oh, dear ;-) ) you have the option of go back in many days before, is there anything similar in X?
Thanks in advance,
Rodolpho Pajuaba
www.pajuaba.com.br
Rodolpho,
There is a product called Rewind for the Mac which records the System continuously and allows you to go back to earlier states before the machine may have crashed, but I found it to be fairly ineffective for the amount of effort.
Carbon Copy Cloner is a program that can copy entire Mac Volumes including hidden files, and is very effective. It is ideal for those times you decide you need to change the sizes of partitions. Or for safety reasons you take a snapshot of your machine when all is well, and should a catastrophic crash occur, you can set everything back to the happy time.
It is unlikely that any graphic/photographic user could get away with a CD's worth, but certainly a DVD or a spare hard drive could be used for this safety net.
Macjanitor which is free, and Macaroni which is Shareware, perform garbage clearance of various caches stored by Mac OS X, and although these can be causes of slowdowns they rarely contribute to freezes, for this there are various tricks involving hotkeys at startup that allow you to boot into Open Firmware which is the PC equivalent of the BIOS, I believe. This allows you to clear stored parameters for video cards and discs.
Rod Rod Wynne-Powell
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