aaron,
Review the suggestions, in the documents that I have linked to below.
Mac OS X 10.3/10.4: System Maintenance, authored by
Gulliver
Maintaining Mac OS X, authored by
Dr Smoke
If you turn the
PowerBook off nightly, the
Background Maintenance Tasks, are never run.
These can also be run, using a
Third-Party utility, or manually using
Terminal, to run the
CRON Commands.
I use
MacJanitor, when necessary.
INSTRUCTIONS TO RUN CRON MANUAL COMMANDS
Quit all applications/programs.
Navigate to HD > Applications > Utilities.
Double click on
Terminal, to open.
At the prompt, type:
sudo periodic daily
Press
Return.
Enter your Admin password when prompted, then press
Return.
This will execute the
daily script that is sheduled to run every night.
When completed, repeat this procedure, but change the command to:
sudo periodic weekly
This one rebuilds a database or two, and usually takes somewhat longer to complete. It is scheduled to run once a week.
Repeat again, with command:
sudo periodic monthly
Or they can all be run in one pass, which is preferable, with this command:
sudo periodic daily weekly monthly
When the tasks complete, and return to the prompt, you may quit Terminal.
Restart the
Mac, and run
Repair Permissions.
TO REPAIR PERMISSIONS ON THE STARTUP DISK
1.Open Disk Utility, located in Applications/Utilities, and select the startup disk in the left column.
2.Click First Aid.
3.Click Verify Disk Permissions to test permissions or Repair Disk Permissions to test and repair permissions. (I never "Verify". Just run "Repair".)
Rerun
RP, until the only messages reported, are listed here
Spurious Permissions Errors Using: 10.3.x, authored by
Michael Conniff.
When "Repair Permissions" is complete. Quit "Disk Utility".
And
THESE ARE THE STEPS FOR USING DISK UTILITY TO REPAIR YOUR HD
1.Insert the System Install disk, Mac OS X CD-ROM disk, or Restore DVD disk, then restart the computer while holding the C key.
Use the System disk, of the OS, that is currently installed.
2.Once started up from CD or DVD, on the
Menubar at the top of the screen, choose
Disk Utility from the
Installer contextual menu.
Important: Do not click Continue in the first screen of the Installer. If you do, you must restart from disc to access Disk Utility.
3.Click the First Aid tab.
4.Click the disclosure triangle to the left of the hard drive icon to display the names of your hard disk volumes and partitions.
5.Select your Mac OS X volume, if necessary.
6.Click Repair. If DU reports errors it has fixed, re-run Repair Disk until no errors are reported.
7.Repeat steps 5 & 6, but select the Hard Drive this time. It's usually the first listed with the manufacturer's model number. Make note of the S.M.A.R.T. status.
8.When finished, select Quit Disk Utility from the Installer menu.
9.Select Quit Installer from the Installer menu.
10.In the resulting pop-up window, choose restart.
11.After the computer has restarted, you can eject the CD.
ali b
