which tools for regular maintenance?

[woodsie]

mac has been behaving pretty weird lately. i'm wondering what everyone uses and does to keep the hard drive/system in good health?

i use mac janitor, but been told it's kinda useless.
what about diagnostic stuff like disk warrior and tech tools?

 

[MontyZ]

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[angelneo]

Onyx is a popular tool, and it's free...

http://www.titanium.free.fr/pgs/english.html

I second onyx, it fixes quite a number of weird problems I had previously. There are others such as mac janitor.

link

 

[inlimbo]

Ive been using MacJanitor. I downloaded Onyx the other day - it has a few other neat extras. For example Tiger f***ed up my help but Onyx fixed it. Yah! Thanks Onyx.

I don't if one is better than the other?

When looking for software versiontracker is your friend - www.versiontracker.com/macosx

 

[risc]

I use Anacron and run Disk Utility to repair permissions before and after upgrades, I haven't really needed anything else.

Edit: I'd never heard of MacJanitor before I just went to the website it is a pointless application just install Anacron and forget about it. They do the exact same thing, 1 just does it the proper way the other is MacJanitor.

Onyx looks like it does some extra stuff so it could be worth installing.

 

[Mitthrawnuruodo]

Anacron is handy.

For most things I use MainMenu, instead of OnyX. They do more or less the same, but I like having all the maintenance options available in my menu.

 

[fayans]

I use Anacron and run Disk Utility to repair permissions before and after upgrades, I haven't really needed anything else..

Anacron does not work with Panther though.

 

[reh]

Anacron does not work with Panther though.

Yes, it does.

 

[fayans]

Yes, it does.

Gosh! I must have downloaded the Tiger-version then. Nevermind, I'll think I'm still fine with MacJanitor.

 

[risc]

Anacron does not work with Panther though.

I've posted links to the Panther version of Anacron heaps of times, I really wasn't going to do it again. Especially when the Tiger version has a link to the Panther / Jaguar version on the homepage, and this forum has a great search feature.

Gosh! I must have downloaded the Tiger-version then. Nevermind, I'll think I'm still fine with MacJanitor.

Why? MacJanitor is a waste of your time. Welcome to UNIX we use anacron....

 

[wdlove]

Anacron does not work with Panther though.

Thanks guys, I downloaded both. Will have to wait till I upgrade to Tiger of course for Anacron.

 

[dukeblue91]

Anacron is handy.

For most things I use MainMenu, instead of OnyX. They do more or less the same, but I like having all the maintenance options available in my menu.

Very cool program and just what I was looking for.
Thanks for the link.

 

[devilot]

Just to be redundant and irritating...

I'll put in my vote for Anacron as well... I used MacJanitor for awhile, but I wouldn't always remember to use it so I jumped on Anacron when I read it about it here on MR.

A thread about it here.

 

[gMac]

So what's the consensus on Cocktail?

 

[IJ Reilly]

The only maintenance utility I've ever needed is AppleJack. It works when nothing else will.

 

[EGT]

Anacron is handy.

For most things I use MainMenu, instead of OnyX. They do more or less the same, but I like having all the maintenance options available in my menu.

I second Mainmenu. Great little utility. Is it still being updated? The batch tasks have been "in development" for a long time.

 

[risc]

Thanks guys, I downloaded both. Will have to wait till I upgrade to Tiger of course for Anacron.

Why? Anacron for Tiger works on Tiger, and the other version works perfectly on the older versions of OS X.

 

[MontyZ]

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[risc]

One very nice thing Onyx for Tiger does is allow you to change the way Safari handles PDF files...

You just gave me the reason I need to install it, thanks.

 

[woodsie]

does anyone use disk warrior or tech tools pro?

aren't these apps different to the regular maintenance stuff?. ie when your mac goes a little haywire.