April 1, 2007

TMUP- Live 25: Mac Maintenance Sunday. No April Fools

Filed under: Podcasts — Victor Cajiao @ 8:20 pm
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Tonight Steve Stanger from the MacAttack Podcast and I do our second Mac Maintenance Sunday. It’s a full one hour and thrity seven minute show. So get a drink and go the b-room. Thanks Steve for another great show.

We Will Miss you Joe!!

Show Notes (if I missed any please write to me)

Permenantly turn on “Vermose Mode” Command

Enter the command: sudo nvram boot-args=”-v” in the Terminal. Then restart.Safe boot

Create a new user account, and see if the problem persists there

Run Preferential Treatment – check your preference files

Force Quit applicatons

If you are having problems with the finder, you can always relaunch it

Freeing Space on Mac OS X

OS X is exhibiting strange behavior, and applications and files aren’t working the way they’re supposed use Disk Utility to check and repair your disk.

Use Combo updater to fix problems that occured after a recent update.

Apple hardware diagonostics

Start up computer in verbose mode

If you are having really serious problems and you think it maybe hard drive related there are a number of drive tools that might be able to help you out. Alsoft’s DiskWarrior – TechTools Pro – Drive Genius

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  • http://mmoran.com Mark

    Steve mentioned a terminal command to permanently turn on verbose booting mode….. Anyone have a link?

  • DonQuixote

    Victor,

    Another great and fun show. Sorry I couldn’t stick around for the Apple sing-a-long. Have a great time on vacation. With all the hard work you have been putting in of late you deserve a little R&R.

    I too will be gone starting Saturday (cruise to the western Caribbean) but I know you left the TMUP show in good hands.

    Buena Suerte!

  • http://www.typicalmacuser.com Administrator

    Mark her is the command that permenantly turn on “Vermose Mode” Command

    Enter the command: sudo nvram boot-args=”-v” in the Terminal. Then restart.

  • http://erratum5.net James

    Great fun, Victor. I think I’ll become a regular listener/caller to the live show as well (been a fan of the original since the beginning)

  • http://www.typicalmacuser.com Administrator

    Love the participation. Thanks

  • Ali S.

    Hi Victor! Love the show. I’m a relatively new Mac user and podcast listener since September of last year and have benefited alot from this podcast! :) Infact, you could say you helped lean me towards buying my Macbook!

    I have a question regarding Main Menu and Onyx. Which one do you think is more powerful/better?

    I currently use Onyx because my brother-in-law recommended it to me and have been wondering if Main Menu is any better?

    Thanks Victor!

  • http://www.expernet.co.uk Matt Bracewell

    My first listen – great fun and informative. Before converting to mac myself recently I ran with linux so I can offer this small addendum to your verbose mode startup.
    You can save yourself some frantic scribbling and potential eye injury by booting as normal (or in verbose mode – whichever). Just open a Terminal and enter the command: sudo dmesg
    to be shown the output that may have scrolled past too fast for you to catch. Also this command: sudo dmesg > startup.log
    should make a file in your home folder for you to study at your leisure.
    HTH
    May the source be with you.

  • http://www.typicalmacuser.com Administrator

    I like both Onyx and Main Menu, but Main menu is a bit more flexible in my opinion

  • Ali S.

    Thanks Victor! I’ll give it a try since I’m right now ADDing at work. :p

 

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