I suggest doing this every few months: Open the Terminal app, and type
sudo periodic daily weekly monthly After you type in your password (which the sudo command requires to act as the root user on your behalf) nothing will happen visibly, but inside OSX various housekeeping tasks are taking place. Once the operation is complete (and it can take a few minutes) you can close Terminal These tasks are scheduled by the system to take place at odd times of the night, as UNIX systems generally used to be on all the time, so as it's not so common now for a system to be up at 3.15 AM you have to run them manually. As far as I know there are no risks involved in running these commands. Regards Stuart On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 9:31 AM, Derek Cross <[email protected]> wrote: > Good morning Smuggers > > Every couple of weeks or so I run the Disk Utility - Repair Disk > Permissions. What other routines do members recommend for a healthy Mac > (apart from Backup). For example, I have Drive Genius - should I defrag my > hard disk? > No doubt St. Sam will have useful ideas! > > Regards Derek > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Sussex Mac User Group" group. > To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] <smug%[email protected]>. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/smug?hl=en-GB. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To post to this group, send an 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/smug?hl=en-GB.
