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05-24-2004, 02:31 PM
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Apple Maintenance
Can anyone suggest any software preventative maintenance procedures for the Apple OS9 or OSX? So far, I have Run fsck, force background maintenance tasks and run the disk utility and fix any errors it finds. I don't know if I can run a virus scan, such as housecall, on a mac either.
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05-24-2004, 02:41 PM
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They do make a version of Norton Antivirus for Mac, if you really want to run a virus scan.
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05-24-2004, 02:55 PM
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is it that neccessary, and do you know if you can use any online virus scans?
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05-24-2004, 03:38 PM
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I dont really think its neccessary, no.
And Im not sure if you could even run an online Virus scan on a Mac. As for preventative maintenance, as long as you have a good group of disk utilities, you should be fine. |
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05-24-2004, 03:39 PM
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You don't really need to do much maintenance under OS X, however OS 9 is another story. Norton, DiskWarrior and TechTool for OS 9 will save you headaches and tears. OS X only needs fsck -y and repair permissions on a monthly basis, at most.
For more information, I'd check out the MacOSX Hints Forum 
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05-25-2004, 07:31 AM
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OSX is BSD Unix, it doesn't need maintenance on anything that you haven't broken
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05-25-2004, 11:12 AM
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norton utilities 6 for OS9 and
norton utilities 8 for OSX are great. Boot them up run disk doc and speed disk and you are good as new |
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06-11-2004, 01:25 AM
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Does OS X use a journaling file system?
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06-11-2004, 04:34 PM
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06-14-2004, 01:23 AM
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What file system does OSX run on anyway? Is it standard/compataqble with the other *nix's?
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06-14-2004, 02:56 AM
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UFS and HFS+, generally.
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06-15-2004, 08:38 AM
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UFS is the same as FFS (FreeBSD)?
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