Re: OSX and "re-building desktop"?

crap mail Mon, 04 Oct 2004 10:19:03 -0700

hi, alsoft's diskwarrior http://www.alsoft.com/DiskWarrior/ seems to do that and a whole buch more (especially since there isn't a compatible version of norton utilities/systeworks with the current mac os x, hmm. how do we optimise the hard drive without speeddisk-any suggest? thanks!)

rama.


On Sep 30, 2004, at 8:19 PM, Bob wrote:

The National Enquirer reports at 8:50 AM +1000 9/29/04, MMB wrote:

Hi:

I am a long-time Mac owner and have kept my previous machines happy by
regular desktop re-building. I have been using my Powerbook G4 867 for
three months now and I am concerned. SOme cleaning up and tidying must
be needed but how.

I am not sure that re-building desktop is how I maintain OSX.


Perhaps delving into the pedantic, you *can* actually do the
equivalent in OS X of rebuilding the desktop.

The OS X desktop database is (more or less) automatically
rebuilt/updated whenever you log-in. Some of this information is
cached in ~/Caches/com.apple.LaunchServices.UserCache.csstore. If you
trash that file, log out and back in, it will force Launch Services
to rebuild much of its knowledge about your installed applications
from scratch.

Also:  to do the equivalent of rebuilding the desktop in OS X, you
need to delete the files: LSApplications, LSClaimedTypes, LSSchemes,
LSApplications_ Backup, LSClaimedTypes_Backup, and .LSSchemes_Backup
(the last 3 are invisible). These files will be rebuilt on restart.

I realize the subject of this thread digressed in a different
direction. But there may come a time when you (the generic "you") may
want to perform these steps to correct a problem that you're having.

Just F.Y.I.


Bob
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