Comments on: TMUP Live 60: Don’t toss your MacMaintenance Cookies

By: Malcolm

Malcolm — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:21:00 +0000

Great podcast, very useful. Itu2019s always good to remind us that maintenance, like back-ups (oh yeah!) is something we should be doing regularly. But Iu2019m surprised you didnu2019t mention Macaroni among the tools. Its advantage over Onyx (I donu2019t know MainMenu) is that it runs all Unix maintenance tasks automatically, while Onyx requires manual operation and therefore remembering to do it (at least as far as Iu2019m aware). Macaroni is great. It simply gets on and does all the tasks in the background, using time when computer use is slack. It completely gets over the problems of the OSu2019s early hours maintenance or having to fiddle manually. The only downside I can see is that obviously some apps will be open when the tests are run. This hasnu2019t caused me any problems that Iu2019m aware of, but it would be interesting to hear any comments about this. Incidentally, I also have Onyx, Cocktail and TinkerTool on my system, but itu2019s macaroni I rely on for the basic stuff.

By: Malcolm

Malcolm — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 12:21:25 +0000

Great podcast, very useful. It’s always good to remind us that maintenance, like back-ups (oh yeah!) is something we should be doing regularly. But I’m surprised you didn’t mention Macaroni among the tools. Its advantage over Onyx (I don’t know MainMenu) is that it runs all Unix maintenance tasks automatically, while Onyx requires manual operation and therefore remembering to do it (at least as far as I’m aware). Macaroni is great. It simply gets on and does all the tasks in the background, using time when computer use is slack. It completely gets over the problems of the OS’s early hours maintenance or having to fiddle manually. The only downside I can see is that obviously some apps will be open when the tests are run. This hasn’t caused me any problems that I’m aware of, but it would be interesting to hear any comments about this. Incidentally, I also have Onyx, Cocktail and TinkerTool on my system, but it’s macaroni I rely on for the basic stuff.

By: Dorothy

Dorothy — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:31:25 +0000

Thanks guys for the show. Not having run any maintenance scripts on my machines, tried Main Menu with good results – the cache cleaning recovered over 3 gigs of space on my desktop and performance is zippier.

By: Kevin

Kevin — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 15:02:46 +0000

Hey Guys, That was a fantastic show. I am a new (2 month) switcher to Mac (although owned a Mac LC 1 back in 1990 in the dark days!!) I seem to have managed to learn all this already from listening to a whole lot of podcasts and reading many forum sites but it is really great to have it all down in one place and in print as well as to have the don't do's.

Thanks very much – keep up the good work!

By: macintosh maintenance basics from typical mac user podcast « noah little

macintosh maintenance basics from typical mac user podcast « noah little — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 14:02:01 +0000

[...] listened to a very informative podcast about maintenance for your mac from Victor and Steve on the Typical Mac User Podcast (TMUP). What’s great about this episode is that you don’t need to take notes – it’s all [...]

By: pauline

pauline — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 11:29:52 +0000

Great info, thanks for writing it all up in the shownotes too. Really valuable resource!

One question: how do you get MainMenu to carry out the maintenance tasks automatically every month or every 6 months? Is that an iCal thing?

Thanks again.

By: jimfelder

jimfelder — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 03:24:48 +0000

I have tried to use ONYX for Leopard. I keep getting the error where it tells me to enter my password. When I do it tells me it's not valid. I know it's correct. I looked at the forum for the software and it seems I'm not the only one getting this. Any insight on this?
I'm on a PM G5 dual 1.8 running the latest Leopard and the Leopard version of Onyx.

Thanks

By: tma_steve

tma_steve — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 20:36:30 +0000

Great title.

-Steve

By: Jim Felder

Jim Felder — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 17:07:36 +0000

I now have the latest version of Onyx. I am unable to use it because I get an error. It's saying my password is incorrect. I looked at their forums and I'm not the only one. Repairing permissions doesn't help. Maybe Steve S. can help. I posted here to help others if they needed it. Here is a link to the forum post: http://www.titanium.free.fr/forum/viewtopic.php...