Properly Maintain Macbook pro

I was not referring to the daily, weekly and monthly scripts there.

I can I interest you two in a product that I've found 100% effective for curing depression?

It's legal and safe, it just beams pure light, not into your eyes, but your ears for a few minutes each morning.

It really works and it's called a Valkee from Finland. It was especially designed for Seasonal Affective Disorder, but it might have more applications. 😉

*Disclaimer: This is mean as a joke 😝

ds store wrote:

tjk wrote:

I agree it's pretty funny, but I suspect we have different reasons for seeing humor in it. 😉

Q: Does a Mac need to run maintenance?

A: Yes, every 75 years, it's best to do it every 25 years just to be on the safe side. 😝

I was thinking I'd just put this one in the rear view mirror, but I'll explain just so it's understood. See the link Mr. Reed provided and read it. (Linc you may wish to visit the link too). Visit the link I provided earlier, titled "Mac OS X: About background maintenance tasks" and read it too (Linc you may wish to visit that link too).

"These tasks run at certain times if the computer is not in sleep mode."

FYI, a computer that is shut down is not in sleep mode.

So you see, what's pretty funny is someone going through all those contortions trying to create a clever math problem, when in fact it's based on a completely false premise, so the math is completely invalid (I didn't bother checking the math because it really doesn't matter if it's correct or not).

Still not convinced? Visit the developers' sites and read through them (Linc, you may want to see those links too). I know, it gets kind of technical, but if you want to see the truth of the matter, you'll need to. Enjoy.

If you cannot decipher that, then just don't sleep your Mac at all and don't leave it booted and awake between 3:15am and 5:30am. Wait over a month. Open Terminal and run the command I provided earlier. Then you'll be able to see, with your very own eyes, on your very own machine, that the scripts have not been run since the last time they were run manually, or the last time the machine was put to sleep and woke up, or the last time the machine was booted and awake between 3:15am and 5:30am.

Pretty funny huh? 😉 I know, it kind of loses something when you have to explain the punch line to people who don't get it. Oh well.

Also look back at the OP's original inquiry: "What techniques do you have for me . . . ." Well, as I said, running background maintenance is one of those things. Is it required? Certainly not. It is good practice? For some people, like myself, I have no question it is (going back to the very old days, from the beginning or close to it, up through OS 9 and even into the Classic environment, I know people who never once rebuilt the desktop; that was always the easiest "fix" there was, but you just couldn't convince them to do it, go figure). YMMV, but there's certainly no reason not to run it and it's certainly not going to harm anything.

And now for that rear view mirror. Take all the shots you want. I am outta here! (Oh, and never forget "the truth is out there!" you just have to be willing to see it. 😉)

ds store wrote:

I can I interest you two in a product that I've found 100% effective for curing depression?

It's legal and safe, it just beams pure light, not into your eyes, but your ears for a few minutes each morning.

It really works and it's called a Valkee from Finland. It was especially designed for Seasonal Affective Disorder, but it might have more applications. 😉

*Disclaimer: This is mean as a joke 😝

I didn't think it was mean. 😉

I have to ask, though, just how you know it's effective???

Edit: Rats, I just broke my own rule and replied again. Note to self: you've had enough mental gymnastics for awhile, stay away from that thread! 😊

FYI, a computer that is shut down is not in sleep mode.

I never shut my computer down (I sometimes - rarely - restart it), so I don't have any first-hand experience with this. However, I have talked to a couple experienced people on these forums who don't run these scripts manually and who shut down instead of sleeping. When they checked the dates on those log files, they had all been run when I would have expected for a machine that was awake all night.

I can't explain how that works, but unless they were completely wrong, there have been additions to SL so that these scripts even work when the machine is shut down. When was the last time you tested this?

(Linc you may wish to visit the link too).

I did, thanks for posting it.

If you cannot decipher that, then just don't sleep your Mac at all and don't leave it booted and awake between 3:15am and 5:30am. Wait over a month. Open Terminal and run the command I provided earlier. Then you'll be able to see, with your very own eyes, on your very own machine, that the scripts have not been run since the last time they were run manually, or the last time the machine was put to sleep and woke up, or the last time the machine was booted and awake between 3:15am and 5:30am.

Yes, I'm well aware of that. I thought I had made it clear, but apparently I didn't. The periodic scripts do not run if the machine is shut down every night. I think I also made it clear that it doesn't matter whether the scripts run if the machine is shut down every night. Just in case I didn't make that clear, let me try again: It doesn't matter whether the periodic scripts ever run if the machine is shut down every night. My only reason for pointing this out is to substantiate the fact that no routine user-initiated maintenance is necessary.

YMMV, but there's certainly no reason not to run it and it's certainly not going to harm anything.

I agree with you about that. It's just a pointless make-work exercise that does no good and no harm, like repairing permissions for no reason. But to me, it dilutes the experience of using a Mac. A big part of what makes the Mac different from, and better than, its competition is precisely the fact that such routine nuisance tasks are unnecessary. By the same token, when you've already paid for a premium computing platform, you don't have to pay more for third-party utilities like Disk Warrior.

But getting back to the subject of this thread, the take-away message for new users should be that the only routine task they need to do for the computer's sake is to back up their data and make sure their backups are working. I should have emphasized that point more strongly than I did. They don't need to be distracted by irrelevancies like the periodic scripts.

You could also use CCleaner (http://piriform.com/mac/ccleaner) which for Mac is in Beta. This free piece of software is great and the PC version has over 700 Million downloads! It has a pretty good TEMP file cleaner and cache wiper. As a few people have said before there is little need to use these tools on a Mac however nothing is perfect.

Good Luck; Hope this Helps - 🙂

As has already been said, cache files have a purpose, and that purpose is to keep your machine running fast. Wiping them constantly is pointless and actually harms your machine's performance. As for temp files, the Mac handles those just fine all by itself. (Ever see the "Recovered Files" folder in your trash can? That's the automatic temp file cleanout in action.)

Who the heck cares how many copies of this software have been downloaded for the PC? The Mac is not a PC and should not be treated like one.

Thomas, all programs like antivirus, cleanMyMac, memory cleaner are unnecessary or even harmful for Mac, aren't they?

See:

http://www.thesafemac.com/mmg

http://www.thesafemac.com/the-myth-of-the-dirty-mac/

Also, note that the topic you responded to has been inactive for nearly 2 years. In the future, you would get better results to start a new topic of your own, rather an piggybacking on a very old topic.

Hi, I know it's an old thread, but anyway, from where should i download this OnyX, from macupdate or another?, -it isn't available in appstore...

Should I just use all the default settings in OnyX?

I have an early 2013 i7/32gb ram/ 1tb fusion iMac running Maverick, I kind of feel it's runnig a bit slow lately, and wonder if it would help use this OnyX...?

I did type the command in terminal as tjk suggested, and it seems as the daily/weekly/monthly script ran yesterday....

Kindly

Jan