I've been doing Mac support for 10 years.
In the last 5 years I've had a 12" Powerbook and more recently a 13"
Macbook as my main macs plus various towers and iMacs.
My laptops rarely get turned off. I close the lid, put them in my bag
and they get taken out and opened up several times a day, all day
every day.
Since Tiger I've rarely done a thing to them other than run
(donationware apps) Yasu and Applejack once a month of so.
I install and uninstall apps, run ProTools & Logic to do recording and
mixing plus all my email and web and other business stuff.
Disk Warrior and Data Rescue are the only professional paid for apps
I occasionally use & I wouldn't need Data Rescue if people backed up.
Applejack has memtest built in which is the best RAM tester I've used
and it's free (by donation).
When I build a ProTools, Logic, Final Cut Mac, once I have it the way
I like it I image the system drive with Carbon Copy Cloner, and put
the image disk somewhere safe. Data I record and create gets stored on
another drive & backed up to 2 different places. If the system drive
fails I put the spare in and make another image. No setup, no re-
install apps.
I know the same way isn't for everyone and many people enjoy the
geekery of things like TechTool and monitoring hardware, it's fun.
My experience is that OS X is a very robust operating system and
doesn't need a whole lot of maintenance. TechTool in particular seems
to create as many problems as it solves. Macs themselves go through
different phases of build quality and they break when they break.
Always behave as if you could lose your important stuff at any moment,
use Time Machine, CCC or SuperDuper to make sure your data is in 3
places at all times and you can't go too far wrong.
Just my opinion and your mileage may vary. As has been pointed out
even if you only use Parallels from the software bundle that's been
discussed you are still in front price-wise.
Rob
On 03/06/2009, at 7:53 AM, Lloyd White wrote:
Thanks Bob,
I booted from the Install disk and repaired permissions and that
seems to
have solved the problem. It listed a large number of permissions
that it
repaired. But I will certainly uninstall TT Pro.
Lloyd
On 02/06/2009, at 4:04 PM, Lloyd White wrote:
Hi everyone.
Like others I installed the new TechTools Pro from the bundle and
just
checked a few things including repairing the permissions. Nothing
else.
Now I have problems. I set my iMac - 10.5.7 to sleep when I finish
with it
but when it wakes up it freezes.
On restart all I get is the blue screen. Restart - same result.
I get it to start by holding down the Command and full stop key.
Then all is
ok until I restart.
Help! What has happened and what can I do?
Lloyd
Lloyd
You could try going backwards !
The TechTool Pro installer has an Uninstaller as an option !
And if you used TTP to do permissions it may be better to run
Leopard disk utility to reset them
Bob
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