Post by: Johanbgoot on July 26, 2008, 11:57:46 AM
Well we've had the new iMac for 10 days now. Setting it up was a piece of cake according to my son. I have downloaded onYx for 10.5 and installed it but have not run it yet. I went through it but I am unsure what I need to run. Do I need to run it at all, and if so, how often? We were at the Apple store 2 weeks ago and I asked the tech if I needed to get Diskwarrior. He asked if I would be working with very large files such as Adobe and when I replied no he said I really did not need anything, that repairing permissions and running the scripts should be enough. I await your comments!
Thanks,
Johan
Post by: Bruce_F on July 26, 2008, 12:05:41 PM
Post by: Paddy on July 26, 2008, 12:34:15 PM
Post by: Xairbusdriver on July 26, 2008, 02:14:07 PM
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we have 6 Macs in the house in use at any one time, plus 3 external hard drives
Not to mention a few Teenagers! 
I think DiskWarrier is like life insurance, it won't do you any good while you're alive. But if you don't have it your dependents may not keep your grave cleaned up! So far, I've never owned it. But I do have TechTool. Still, I've never had a problem that wasn't solved with other methods.
While I have OnyX, I tend to use it for easy access to functions that usually require Terminal. Putting double-arrows at both ends of scroll bars, showing the complete path to a file at the top of any Finder Window, anchoring the Dock to one end of the or the other at the bottom of the screen, add a message to the login window, make plain text the default for displaying messages in Mail, etc.
As you can see, most of these tasks are done once and fergitit!
There are a few things that OnyX can't do that Tinkertool or Cocktail can, and vice versa. I can't remember if either of those are shareware but they shouldn't be that expensive, anyway. I like Cocktail because it can be scheduled to run certain tasks in addition to the ones that the System runs daily.
None of these apps will do anything terrible when you use them. They are much safer than using Terminal if you don't type well or know what most of the commands do.
Just enjoy your new machine! And keep those permissions repaired!
Post by: krissel on July 28, 2008, 02:44:10 AM
http://www.macworld.com/article/133684/200...ance_intro.html
Here is a widget (from one of TS's own members GiantMike) which can run the routines and report when the last one was done.
http://www.giantmike.com/widgets/Maintidget.html
Thanks, Mike!
Post by: FLASH1296 on July 31, 2008, 10:46:20 AM
Of course the other that you simply must have is Leopard Cache Cleaner. It does far far more than something like Onyx which is nice freeware.
MacPilot is truly excellent as well.
Post by: gunug on July 31, 2008, 12:03:37 PM
Later: I looked at the page for Leopard Cache Cleaner (they need to change the name) and it seems to do a lot more things than Mac Helpmate and I might consider buying it if I can bypass the whole Paypal experience and buy direct!