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MP 7,1 What Mac maintenance software are you 7,1 Mac Pro users using?
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There's nothing Mac Pro specific about this, but I've never used these utilities and still don't find them necessary in the least.
Onyx is handy for a GUI vs. using command line in terminal to modify certain UI behaviors / add Develop & Debug menu to Safari (I think Develop became a visible preference a few OS revisions ago anyway), change speed of sheets, change .png screenshots to .jpg (add/remove shadow from same), force a spotlight reindex, force mailbox reindex, enable/disable some effects, etc...
Overall agree with above, it's been a lot of years since any of these utils really did much of anything. Everything most of them do can be done from terminal, they just provide point and click for same.
Overall agree with above, it's been a lot of years since any of these utils really did much of anything. Everything most of them do can be done from terminal, they just provide point and click for same.
disk warrior does not work on APFS drives : -(
the best allround tool is tinkertool system
the best allround tool is tinkertool system
Free: Onyx, SilentKnight, TinkerTool, EtreCheck. Paid: DiskWarrior (for non-APFS volumes); Drive DX, MacCheck, Sensei, TechTool Pro, TinkerTool System 6. In my experience, all can be useful for different purposes, from time to time.
Rebuild the directory of your Time Machine (HFS+) disk with DiskWarrior and you will be shocked.
On the other hand, APFS may get corrupted, but so far the only tool to fix it is Apple Disk Utility - First Aid. Start repairing from bottom to top. In other words, repair APFS Volume, then Container (partition) and finally Disk. If it fails at some stage, try again in such stage, because sometimes it requires several trials to fix it.
Once fixed, repair the next stage up, and so on until the disk ,as said above.
Hopefully, DiskWarrior 6 to rebuild the directory of APFS disks will be released soon, once Apple releases Time Machine 2 to backup into APFS disks (now it is only possible into HFS+ disks with Time Machine 1.3), APFS becomes mature that way, Apple releases full documentation about how to write to APFS, and then developers like Alsoft can use such information to release DiskWarrior 6, as said.
On the other hand, APFS may get corrupted, but so far the only tool to fix it is Apple Disk Utility - First Aid. Start repairing from bottom to top. In other words, repair APFS Volume, then Container (partition) and finally Disk. If it fails at some stage, try again in such stage, because sometimes it requires several trials to fix it.
Once fixed, repair the next stage up, and so on until the disk ,as said above.
Hopefully, DiskWarrior 6 to rebuild the directory of APFS disks will be released soon, once Apple releases Time Machine 2 to backup into APFS disks (now it is only possible into HFS+ disks with Time Machine 1.3), APFS becomes mature that way, Apple releases full documentation about how to write to APFS, and then developers like Alsoft can use such information to release DiskWarrior 6, as said.
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Sharing my experience—I use an external HD for my Time Machine backups (alternating with a different hard drive and Carbon Copy Cloner) and the HD was stalling about 7 Gb into the process. Disk First Aid said it was corrupted. Nothing seemed able to fix it, not Disk First Aid, not TechTool. I finally decided to let TechTool rewrite the directory: 18 hours to come up with the answer that it couldn’t do it.
I did what I’ve had to do before with Time Machine: just erase the disk and start from scratch, all past backups gone.
Micromat is trying to get me to buy the next version of TechTool and I think I’m going to not waste my money on that.
I did what I’ve had to do before with Time Machine: just erase the disk and start from scratch, all past backups gone.
Micromat is trying to get me to buy the next version of TechTool and I think I’m going to not waste my money on that.
