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June 2, 2006

troubleshooting

The right hand gets to know the left

Posted Jun. 2, ’06, 7:23 AM PT by Derik DeLong
Category | Troubleshooting

Apple Care Remember that questionable maintenance article in Apple’s knowledgebase? It’s been updated. Three steps are gone. More importantly, they are the three steps I had the most issue with. I’ll stop the suspense. Gone are:

  1. Repair Disk Permissions - The PRAM zapping for the new millennium is gone.
  2. Restart Your Computer Every Once in a While - No more voodoo restarting.
  3. Optimize Your Hard Drive - Considering they recommended a nonexistent product and the actual utility of defragmenting is still conjecture, this isn’t surprising.

I can feel pretty good about the list that’s left. There’s enough formulaic Mac advice circulating forums.

Were any of you particularly attached to any of those steps?

[via Daring Fireball]


4 Comments

Dan said:

The only one that I have done and will probably continue to do sometimes is reboot. Perhaps it's a carryover from my former Windows life, but my airport card in my mac sometimes gets a little wonky. I've found that when it does, a quick reboot often takes care of the problem. Which is good because it's really the only fix my limited computer skills offer.

June 2, 2006 7:36 AM
Jesse Hogue said:

I actually still think steps 1 and 2 are good practice. I have fixed numerous issues by repairing permissions and have seen general speed boosts by restarting.

June 2, 2006 7:59 AM
Jay Halliwell said:

i actually find it very important to restart your computer every once in a while... especially if u had just quit lime wire application (for some reason the computer is slow while lime wire is open and after it's been shut down). my powerbook G4 has the maximum amount of memory it can get and i still find it slow after being on for a few days (i always put it to sleep for faster boot) so i have to restart it to get some more juice... i think time has come for me to re-install the OS (i have been trying to delete stuff i don't need for 3 months now, and i still have more than half my documents folder to go. why do i save all this useless stuff??? i'll never know)

June 2, 2006 8:23 AM
Justin Ames said:

Like Dan, my Airport goes wonky now and again. A quick restart seems to fix it.

June 2, 2006 9:11 AM

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