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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