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TMUP Live 60: Don’t toss your MacMaintenance Cookies

Started by typicalmacuser · 1 year ago

 
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Tonight’s co-host is Steve Stanger from The MacAttack Podcast. Tonight we start off the year talking about basic maintenance for your ... Continue reading »

7 comments

  • Jim Felder

    1 year ago

    I now have the latest version of Onyx. I am unable to use it because I get an error. It's saying my password is incorrect. I looked at their forums and I'm not the only one. Repairing permissions doesn't help. Maybe Steve S. can help. I posted here to help others if they needed it. Here is a link to the forum post: http://www.titanium.free.fr/forum/viewtopic.php...
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  • tma_steve

    1 year ago

    Great title. :-)

    -Steve
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  • jimfelder

    1 year ago

    I have tried to use ONYX for Leopard. I keep getting the error where it tells me to enter my password. When I do it tells me it's not valid. I know it's correct. I looked at the forum for the software and it seems I'm not the only one getting this. Any insight on this?
    I'm on a PM G5 dual 1.8 running the latest Leopard and the Leopard version of Onyx.

    Thanks
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  • Dorothy

    1 year ago

    Thanks guys for the show. Not having run any maintenance scripts on my machines, tried Main Menu with good results - the cache cleaning recovered over 3 gigs of space on my desktop and performance is zippier.
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  • pauline

    1 year ago

    Great info, thanks for writing it all up in the shownotes too. Really valuable resource!

    One question: how do you get MainMenu to carry out the maintenance tasks automatically every month or every 6 months? Is that an iCal thing?

    Thanks again.
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  • Kevin

    1 year ago

    Hey Guys, That was a fantastic show. I am a new (2 month) switcher to Mac (although owned a Mac LC 1 back in 1990 in the dark days!!) I seem to have managed to learn all this already from listening to a whole lot of podcasts and reading many forum sites but it is really great to have it all down in one place and in print as well as to have the don't do's.

    Thanks very much - keep up the good work!
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  • Malcolm

    1 year ago

    Great podcast, very useful. It’s always good to remind us that maintenance, like back-ups (oh yeah!) is something we should be doing regularly. But I’m surprised you didn’t mention Macaroni among the tools. Its advantage over Onyx (I don’t know MainMenu) is that it runs all Unix maintenance tasks automatically, while Onyx requires manual operation and therefore remembering to do it (at least as far as I’m aware). Macaroni is great. It simply gets on and does all the tasks in the background, using time when computer use is slack. It completely gets over the problems of the OS’s early hours maintenance or having to fiddle manually. The only downside I can see is that obviously some apps will be open when the tests are run. This hasn’t caused me any problems that I’m aware of, but it would be interesting to hear any comments about this. Incidentally, I also have Onyx, Cocktail and TinkerTool on my system, but it’s macaroni I rely on for the basic stuff.
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