Routine Maintenance

[Charles Martin]

> From: Bob Baron <blbaron at earthlink.net>
>
> Does Panther do nightly/weekly routine maintenance while the 'puter
> is in Sleep Mode? Thanks.

No, it doesn't.

But people worry WAY too much about this. Run OnyX (freeware) once a 
month to make up for this. Rotating the logs is fine, but it's not one 
of the things that MUST be done all the time to have a healthy system. 
You could go for MONTHS if not YEARS without performing this 
maintenance with no ill effects.

If you're interested in a trouble-free system, make routine backups 
(particularly when things are running well), clean out your browser 
cache every now and then, and do some directory maintenance every 
quarter or so using a tool like DiskWarrior (latest version) or Tech 
Tool Pro (latest version). Don't let your hard drive go down to less 
than 10% free space, run OnyX or something like it every now and then 
to update the logs, and don't be the first in line to try betas of 
system-altering stuff. That's pretty much the "secret" to a happy and 
healthy OS X.

_Chas_

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