There was a thread about a good cleaning/maintenance app for Mac recently, and being the stupid moron I am, I didn't bookmark it and can't find it now. Could someone point me to the right direction? Thanks!
Mac cleaning app?
- Thread starter Jarkko Mattheiszen
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ze kink
THE BLACK WIZARDS
jipchen
ForesterStudio
What experiences did you guys make with Onyx? I read several times that those cleaning apps mostly make the Mac worse than before. I used some of those cleaning apps when I was still on Windows and it always helped a little, but sometimes nothing would work after deleting "unwanted" or corrupt files / registry entries.
TheDriller
Member
See, OS X isn't as bad as windows when it comes to the "unwanted" files, registry errors and that kind of thing, so the "cleaning" apps don't have nearly as much work to do.
OS X runs its own daily, weekly and monthly maintenance scripts anyway (which can be run manually from Onyx too) and the file-system is self-defragging, so that's another major problem out of the way. the only regular maintenance a Mac needs is to Repair Permissions every few weeks.
The only other thing I use Onyx for is to change the Dock to 2D mode to get rid of that dumb reflective look.
OS X runs its own daily, weekly and monthly maintenance scripts anyway (which can be run manually from Onyx too) and the file-system is self-defragging, so that's another major problem out of the way. the only regular maintenance a Mac needs is to Repair Permissions every few weeks.
The only other thing I use Onyx for is to change the Dock to 2D mode to get rid of that dumb reflective look.
xTomx
Member
drawnacrol
7Slinger
Manually cleaning out certain folders and caches every so often will create a lot more space and boast your performance. I have all my apps slimmed down to take up less space aswell as certain binary ?codes/architecture? deleted. Apps like Monolingual will delete language resources so your just left with English. Its amazing how many GBs language packs take up. Also only installing AU if your just using Logic will save on space, theirs no need to install RTAS and VST aswell. All these little things ad up and will speed up your Mac but you have to know what your doing or you can really eff things up.
Dalinkwent48@aim.com
Be Creative, Get Laid
Been using Onyx for a good year now. For me at least it greatly improves the overall performance. If I forget to do it every once in a while I can def notice a difference with the system bogging down a little bit.
