os x help
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- smellvetica
what do you do to defrag the HD?
and maintain it etc?
i've got a few apps that don't boot up, does hte system need a spring clean..also i know v.little about terminal/darwin, any help would be great to maintain the system. ta
- timajick0
This seems to do..er..something good..
cocktail
http://www.macosxcocktail.com/
- octopus0
You will need to boot up to your osx 10 disc, holding the "x button until you get into the disc utility section. You will use the disc utility to reset permissions, re partition, and or reinstall your system. Does this help?
- smellvetica0
not really, but thanks. what i'm after is like a defrag after installing a shedload of utils and apps...
- brundlefly0
get "system optimizer X"
and repair permissions from the utilities/disk utilities folder
- sparker0
man, just boot into single user mode and fsck the drive.
darwin is unix based...you have all the appropriate file/disk management tools available already in the core utils.
open xterm and type "man fsck" at your prompt to learn more (without quotes of course).
you don't need any bloated, costly software to handle disk management in unix.
- globeriding0
IMO, the only two things that *need* doing in your situation-
boot holding apple-s and at the prompt type "fsck- y" without quotes. this checks the HD. there is also a little sentence above the text input area telling you what to type in case i wrote that wrong, it's off the top of my head.
second open up disk utility in the utilities folder and select your hard drive. then click the first aid tab, then click repair permissions. it may be you need to boot off your os x cd in order to completely do this- however I find I don't need to.running a system optimiser such as sox as mentioned before 'prebinds' the application files- this can speed things up and tidy, however once it has been done once, anything previously installed when run before will not be affected when run again. if that makes sense... this used to be a nifty tip in the days of X.0, however is now largely redundant as most installers when run (especially apple's) say 'optimising' at the end of it. this is what they are doing- prebinding what you just have installed.
feel free anyone to correct me if i'm wrong.
phew. that was long.