[X4U] Mac OS X Routine Maintenance

[Eddie Hargreaves]

On 7/9/06 7:48 AM, Shera <shera at techunlimited.net> wrote:

> Think about it, don't you think that the people of apple would have
> given or made a tool for defraging if it were an important issue,

No. Defragmenting was much more important in the days of HFS and Classic
MacOS and yet Apple never provided a defragmentation tool.

> they seem to cover everything else. There is even a tool to fix file
> permissions that comes with the system.

It wasn't until the third revision of OS X that Apple provided the Repair
Permissions ability.

Bottom line: don't rely only on Apple's maintenance utilities, which are
limited in their scope, abilities and existence.

-- 
Eddie Hargreaves