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Originally Posted by DeanCapture
I was wondering if you guys have any tips & tricks for keeping a Mac running in tip-top condition? I read that DiskWarrior was a great program to use for regular maintenance. Any of you use this on your Macs?
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Stay the hell away from DW and all those disk defragmenting tools - they will cause you much much pain in the long run. Trust me - unless they sorted shit out major league, I used them from OS X 10.0 to 10.2 and then gave up. Never had a pb since.
If you're worried about fragmentation, the best most sure way is to "Clone" your disk to a firewaire drive (note, clone, not copy - try CarbonCopyCloner), reboot from FW drive, then clone back. No more fragmentation. Not that I've found that an issue now that OS X uses a Journaled filesystem (check in disk utilities that Journalling is turned on for your disk btw)
Go through you Library/Cache and delete any unwanted crap
Same with Library/Preferences - this is the one that will hog things I think. Drag everything to the desktop and re-login to see, then drag essential stuff back in. Each time you open an app, you'll create a Library/Pref for it if it doesn't exist.