If you are using a pre-Leopard version of OS X, then an excellent solution is to download and install a shareware utility such as Macaroni, JAW PseudoAnacron, or Anacron that will automate the maintenance activity regardless of whether the computer is turned off or asleep.
If you are running Leopard or later these tasks are run automatically, so there is no need to use any third-party software to force running these tasks. The maintenance scripts run in the early AM only if the computer is turned on 24/7 (no sleep.) See Mac OS X- About background maintenance tasks. OS X performs certain maintenance functions that are scheduled to occur on a daily, weekly, or monthly period. Drive Genius provides additional tools not found in Disk Warrior for defragmentation of older drives, disk repair, disk scans, formatting, partitioning, disk copy, and benchmarking.įour outstanding sources of information on Mac maintenance are: For situations DU cannot handle the best third-party utility is: Disk Warrior DW only fixes problems with the disk directory, but most disk problems are caused by directory corruption.
Kappy's Personal Suggestions About Mac Maintenanceįor disk repairs use Disk Utility.
