June 5, 2008
Mac maintenance and troubleshooting tips from Macworld and Apple
Posted Jun. 5, ’08, 10:59 AM PT by Aayush Arya
Category | Tips
Our very own Dan Frakes and the Apple support website ninjas have joined forces to bring you a veritable feast of tips and tricks on what to do and what to avoid when trying to keep your beloved Mac up and running.
First up is an article on “Isolating issues in Mac OS X”, straight from the horse’s mouth. The article aims to help you diagnose the cause of problems on your Mac before you go running to Apple for help and points out some basic practices you should follow in order to find out what went wrong.
Once you’ve done that, you’ll most likely sign onto some Apple centric discussion forum and ask for assistance. That’s the point where Dan’s five pointers about Mac maintenance myths comes in, serving to draw your attention to the futility of some of the most commonly suggested fixes for all sorts of problems on Mac OS X. In another companion article, he dishes out some Mac maintenance tips of his own.
So the next time your Mac starts misbehaving, make sure you’ve brushed up your doctoring skills and are well prepared for the task at hand. We wouldn’t want to see the poor thing suffer more pain than it already has, now would we?
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Stumped the helpful and excellent "Genius" with an 1yr old 24" iMac suffering 'out of the blue' recurrent kernel panic and refusal to respond to all efforts. Was readying for second trip to the Apple store and came across a blurb suggesting removal and reseating RAM. Did so and problem solved.
This one-user machine is stationary (is not moved or jostled) with long running, basic software. Wondering if this could be the result of the regional 'voltage transients' (fluctuations, failures). Owner is using newer APS.