Make Your Mac Feel “teh snappy™” Again
It’s no secret that as we continue using our Macs, day in/day out, they start feeling less “snappy”. It becomes a common acurrance to be greeted by the dreaded beach ball of death whenever we click on an App to launch it. Fear not fellow Mac user, for here are 4 quick tips on how to regain “teh snappy” that went missing from you Mac as time went along..
1. Run Repair Permissions using Disk Utility. Some people call BS on this, but I believe it must do something when you see the long ass log of repaired crap when it gets done. It’s doing something kids. Does it help?..maybe..maybe not..but it doesn’t hurt to try.
2. Run the Daily/Weekly/Monthly maintenance UNIX Scripts. You can either do this using an application like Cocktail, Maintenance, or MacJanitor (not an Universal Binary methinks). If you are “hardcore” you can run these scripts from the Terminal by hand. Open up the Terminal appliaction and on the prompt type:
sudo periodic daily weekly monthly
Type in your password and let the magic happen.
3. Final step. Clear out your System, User, and Internet Caches. They are a vast number of apps that will do this for you. The previously mentioned Cocktail or Maintenance will do it. There’s Cache Out X as well.
4. (Optional). Restart you Mac.
Doing these tasks on a monthly/bi-monthly basis will ensure that “teh snappy™” continues to be part of your daily Mac. If your are the lazy type, Cocktail offers under the Pilot category a way to do all of this (and some more) with one click. The good thing about doing these things by parts and not as a whole, is that you an omit certain steps if you wish, and it’s a more hands-on approach to keeping your Mac running nicely.
Filed by sebaz at August 1st, 2007 under Computers, Mac
