On Dec 3, 2012, at 6:50 PM, richardsan <[email protected]> wrote: > http://micromat.com/ > anyone got any testing done with it?
I've not done any testing with this particular product, but I"m kinda leery of any 'regular maintenance' OS X product, because OSX doesn't require 'regular maintenance'. My three main weapons of OSX repair-itude are Safe Boot, Disk Utility, Time Machine and Disk Warrior. Ahem, my FOUR main weapons are Safe Boot, Disk Utility, Time Machine, Disk Warrior and Console. My FIVE main….:-) Also I only use those things if I have a problem. Absent actual hardware failure, 90% of the time, simply rebooting in Safe mode (which has become increasingly complex since 10.4) fixes it, because problems are related to corrupted library and program caches that a safe boot clears. Disk Utility is good for catching disk directory problems and SMART warnings, and also home to the biggest placebo in OSX history 'Repair Permissions'. To this day, since the advent of the utility in 10.2 (to fix a 10.1.5 problem!) I've seen just two instances where Repair Permissions actually accomplished anything. Time Machine, because a good backup is 100% of the repair utilities you need, because any disk problem that cannot be fixed with a nuke and pave can be fixed with a replacement disk, nuke and pave. DiskWarrior for those times when you stupidly don't have a backup and Disk Utility won't fix it. Console to tell me what's breaking. Google to translate what Console is telling me. %-) I'd reccomend Applejack as well, unless you have 10.8. <http://applejack.sourceforge.net>, but you have to install it BEFORE you run into trouble… Some things in Applejack work (memtest, disk repair, etc) but clearing the caches may not work, because they've been moved. -- 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 to the Google Groups "StrataList-OT" group. 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/stratalist-ot?hl=en.
