You will be glad you got iFax each time you need to send or receive a fax. Use Apple’s Time Machine for one back up, but don’t stop there – create a second backup using either Carbon Copy Cloner ($40) or Super Duper! ($27.95) (both of which are excellent), and take a look at Crashplan as additional protection.
Losing your images, music and other precious digital things is how almost every Mac user learns why they should back up. Monolingual removes the international language support files installed by default on OS X, reclaiming several hundred megabytes of space. With over a million users, Disk Doctor ($2) is one of the very best disk cleaning utilities with numerous useful features – recommended.
#UTILITIES FOR MAC MAINTENANCE WINDOWS#
If you work and share files with Windows users you should ensure your Mac doesn’t infect the lesser platform. Mac users aren’t terribly impacted by viruses, but we can still pass them on.
To help yourself use f.lux, which matches the color of your display to the time of day, filtering out that blue light at night. There’s a science at work here concerned with the blue light used for displays and its harmful effect on the brain’s sleep centers. We stare at our computers at work and at home, we use iPhones and iPads and then find we can’t get to sleep at night. Cleaner will also clean the disk and check for large files. Both will optimize your RAM to maximize available memory, while Dr. Noticed how some applications consume so much RAM your Mac moves like a geriatric possum? One way to fix this is to relaunch the memory-consuming app, the other is to use Memory Clean or Dr. DiskWarrior is an insanely powerful recovery solution, but for basic file recovery all three work, including recovery of data from external drives. For instruction on this, and for other possible methods of repairing system files, check out Apple’s site.When things go wrong and you accidentally delete data or your hard drive fails then you’ll need Disk Drill, Data Rescue or DiskWarrior ( $119). If you’re still experiencing issues starting up your computer, there are some alternatives to try, including use of fsck in a command-line interface. Disk Utility will then run a scan and repair on the disk. Select your OS X volume, and click “Repair”. Click the triangle to the left of the hard drive icon to display a list of your disk volumes and partitions. Once in Disk Utility, either from an installation disc or in the Recovery System, proceed to the “First Aid” tab. (Do not click Continue in the first screen of the installer, or you’ll have to start up from the disc all over again to access Disk Utility.) Choose Disk Utility from the Installer menu. Hold the C key during start-up after inserting the disc.
#UTILITIES FOR MAC MAINTENANCE MAC OS X#
If running Mac OS X v10.6 or earlier, you’ll need to run Disk Utility from a Mac OS X install or restore disc. (Note: you can also access Disk Utility from Mac OS X Internet Recovery – for more information, click on the Apple link at the bottom of the page.) Following Recovery System start-up you should see a desktop with an open “Mac OS X Utilities” window. If running Safe Mode is unsuccessful in fixing start up issues, or if you’re using a version earlier than Mac OS X 10.2, fix file system issues using Disk Utility:īoot into the Recovery System – press command+R as early as possible during start-up, and hold until the Apple icon appears. Note: Safe Mode won’t work if you have a firmware password. Safe mode should take itself though any checks and repairs, and you can restart your computer without holding any keys to leave safe mode. A progress bar should then appear, indicating that safe mode is performing a directory check. Release the key when you see the gray Apple icon and spinning wheel. Make sure your computer is shut down – then when turning the computer back on, start holding the shift key immediately after you hear the start-up tone. If using Mac OS X 10.2 or later, you can start up in Safe Mode, which automatically performs disk check and repair: This article provides a couple preferred ways to fix these issues on a Mac computer. Improper shutdown or power interruptions can create file system errors that stunt the start-up process.
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