How to clean up my system?

[Raven]

G4/400, 386mb RAM. OS9.1

Happy Easter everyone!

I'm never certain when and how exactly to tune up my system. I only do it when it starts to choke for whatever reason. Lately my Laserwriter printer has been giving me a lot of postscript error messages. But that's no big deal.

In any case I have Disk First Aid, Tech Tool Lite 3, Diskwarrior 2.1, and Norton Utilities 5.0.2.

Which should I use, when, and  in what order for maintenance type stuff? And how often?

[Gary S]

It's just my opinion but out the 4 programs you mentioned I think DiskWarrior is the best for Directory problems. I use TT-Lite for rebuilding the Desktop afterwards.

I still run Norton's 6 on my disks in 9.1, but not as often, mostly on my System partition. I don't get that much fragmentation on the rest.      

I forgot Disk First Aid....if things aren't going well, I'll run it but I forget about it sometimes.

DiskWarrior is the one for me.

One other thing. I always run DiskWarrior after running Norton's.
 
 [ 04-18-2003, 04:04 PM: Message edited by: Gary S ]

[kelly]

Raven. You need a newer version of Norton Utilities.  

Compatibility between versions of Symantec products and the Mac OS

Compatibility

You can get the 6.x version with Systemworks 1.0 for $10 + SH.

http://eshop.macsales.com/Catalog_Item.cfm...=SYM072600421BQ

Run it once in a while.

Once a month? Whatever.

[Raven]

Kelly,
I checked out the OWC site, and I wonder what's the catch? Only 10 bucks for Systemworks AND Quicken!!?? Including Retrospect Express? (I was going to buy RE for about $30/40 ALONE!)

Seems like a heck of a deal. How do they do that so cheap?

[kelly]

Got them off the back of a truck in New Jersey?  

When I got it it includes RE.

Haven't installed it so I can't say anything about it.

Mine didn't include Quicken.

Old versions? Not as worthwhile?

I don't know.