On 19/12/2005, at 9:07 AM, Philip Trouchet wrote:
Advice please, Now having a new G5 Dual DeskPC & latest Tiger OSX. My old (some back to OS8) utility disc's are no longer coping with numerous upgrades. Have to let Moths out of purse & upgrade.. What is currant Best ? Disc Warrior,Tech Tools etc. DiscUtilities & Onyx are coping but as a firm believer in Murphey's Law I would like to continue a routine mainainance program & I don't know enough about the various currant Options. Suggestions please!Tia & Ciao > P.
The most important tool is making sure that the scripts Apple require for OS X to be run at their intervals. Which is handled by the machine in the wee hours of the morning, just leave machine running overnight.
If this is not possible one can run from the terminal, I utilise Cocktail to run scripts and other maintenance issues and it works a treat.
Disk Utility will take care of most other issues related to Hard- Drives and have a look around internet to acquire some knowledge about FSCK (Disk Utility utilises) for other useful titbits if confident to probe.
Do not run defragmentation tools as Journalling solves all of that, Automator and a Firewire drive can solve the backup issues. Leave caches and re-building start-up scripts alone unless really necessary for tracing problems.
http://www.thexlab.com Cheers! `Rob...
