Maintenance Drill OS X?

[jjoan]

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.

[kelly]

I don't think any of that should be Routine.

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.

[Gary S]

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.

[Bill]

"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.