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Archives => 2003 => Topic started by: jjoan on June 23, 2003, 09:49:53 AM

Title: Maintenance Drill OS X?
Post by: jjoan on June 23, 2003, 09:49:53 AM
Can or should I use TechTool Pro 3 (4 is on order) and/or DiskWarrior to do routine maintenance? Should the Volume Structure test in TechTool be taking over an hour? And what about zapping the pram and rebuilding the desktop? I'm confused. Thanks!--Joan
p.s. haven't been here for a while....System X running nicely, but it's my friend's computer that is running so SLOW. She's running 10.2.6 also.
Title: Maintenance Drill OS X?
Post by: kelly on June 23, 2003, 09:58:43 AM
I don't think any of that should be Routine. smile.gif

The first thing to try is always "Repair Permisions" in the Disk Utility.

http://www.macattorney.com/tutorial.html

The latest version of Disk Warrior is probably handy to run now and then. smile.gif
Title: Maintenance Drill OS X?
Post by: Gary S on June 24, 2003, 08:06:10 AM
I hadn't run DW 3 for quite awhile and I repaired permmisions yesterday. OS10.2.6 was starting to run a little slower. After repairing permmisions I ran DW3. I had to run it 3 times before getting a clean bill of health.

The G4 is running quite nicely now. I don't run DW3 as a routine, just when things start slowing down. I usually just repair permmisions.
Title: Maintenance Drill OS X?
Post by: Bill on June 24, 2003, 12:33:20 PM
"I had to run it 3 times before getting a clean bill of health."
Are you talking about DW3?

For me (so far) in X I just run permissions every so often [excluding updates,installs] and fire up a bootable utilities cdr for checking. If TTP comes up with something odd,then I'll let it fix.
I leave DW alone till it reads more than 5% out of wack.