Mark, I have heard OS X does the maintenance stuff in the middle of the night but I have them in a menu bar and run them when needed. Mac OS X does not do defragging. Apple does not consider it necessary and if you need to defrag your hard drive, there are 3rd party applications. I see nothing to be gained by leaving it on 24/7 and that is why I Shut Down each evening.
If you continue to leave it on 24/7, I suggest you do a restart every now and then On 8/19/10 1:03 PM, "Mark Falchook" <[email protected]> wrote: > I thought that Macs automatically did maintenance at night (ie. defragging, > etc). Am I mistaken? FWIW, I never turn my G5 off, except for electrical > storms and rare crashes or odd behavior. Never been a problem... > > Mark > > > On Aug 19, 2010, at 1:58 PM, arkay <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On 8/19/10 10:45 AM, "Doug Doudna" <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>>> After a Restart everything is back to normal. >>>> >>>> The golden rule for odd behaviour is do a Restart????? >>> >>> That is why I and others shut down at night and may still have to do restart >>> during the day. >> >> Ditto .... I have never understood why some users never shut down. I use >> sleep while going to lunch or doing something else and SHUT DOWN every >> evening. Restarts are good! >> >> >> -- >> YouTalk mailing list >> List information: http://www.entourage.mvps.org/support_options/list.html >> List moderator: [email protected], [email protected] >> To unsubscribe: mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe > -- > YouTalk mailing list > List information: http://www.entourage.mvps.org/support_options/list.html > List moderator: [email protected], [email protected] > To unsubscribe: mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe -- YouTalk mailing list List information: http://www.entourage.mvps.org/support_options/list.html List moderator: [email protected], [email protected] To unsubscribe: mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe
