I am constantly reading that my Lion (and previously Snow Leopard) OS maintains itself and doesnt need ANY third party software !.
I have just re-discovered that i have got YASU in my Applications folder, so can i ask our learned membership, is this one non-Apple program that is beneficial for me to use ?.
tim
MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7), iPad 2, iOS 4.3.5
tim,
you don't need that (or any other maintenance) app on your Mac.
Mac OS X is based on UNIX and takes care of maintenance (does a darn good job, too).
all you need to ensure is that the maintenance scripts are being run regularly. you could use e.g. the Maintidget dashboard widget to check when the cron jobs were last run and execute them if necessary.
see Five Mac maintenance myths and (another good read) here.
basically, i recommend users go easy on 3rd party apps. the more you install, the more you run the risk of creating problems on your Mac.
Thanks Jolly Giant, thanks for the tips buddy, very helpfull, i will NOW be leaving YASU well alone, ta.
tim
Jolly Giant wrote:
tim,
you don't need that (or any other maintenance) app on your Mac.
Mac OS X is based on UNIX and takes care of maintenance (does a darn good job, too).
ok, but there are times when troubleshooting a system that you want to clear the System Cashe files.
It is then that YASU is a usefull tool (and it is upgraded for Lion, so if you use YASU, run YASU->Check for Updates).
you can do most, if not all, troubleshooting with on-board tools. for instance, ...
Starting up into Safe Mode does several things:
It forces a directory check of the startup volume.
It loads only required kernel extensions (some of the items in /System/Library/Extensions).
In Mac OS X v10.3.9 or earlier, Safe Mode runs only Apple-installed startup items (such items may be installed either in /Library/StartupItems or in /System/Library/StartupItems; these are different than user-selected account login items).
It disables all fonts other than those in /System/Library/Fonts (Mac OS X v10.4 or later).
It moves to the Trash all font caches normally stored in /Library/Caches/com.apple.ATS/(uid)/ , where (uid) is a user ID number such as 501 (Mac OS X v10.4 or later).
It disables all startup items and login items (Mac OS X v10.4 or later).
Mac OS X v10.5.6 or later: A Safe Boot deletes the dynamic loader shared cache at (/var/db/dyld/). A cache with issues may cause a blue screen on startup, particularly after a Software Update. Restarting normally recreates this cache.
Taken together, these changes can help resolve software or directory issues that may exist on the startup volume.
YASU, is it ok to use it
