Hi, It can be done by hand but it is unnecessary. According to this Apple article, the maintenance operations are done when the computer wakes from sleep or is turned back on.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2319 Later... On 2011-10-19, at 3:46 AM, Gigi wrote: > What if you have a MVP and it stays asleep when it is not being used? Do I > have to do disk maintance by hand? > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Oct 18, 2011, at 9:34 PM, Tim Kilburn <kilbu...@shaw.ca> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> There is no need to defrag a Mac. The Mac does its own optimizing in the >> middle of the night, on the weekend and another one once a moth. Just don't >> turn off the computer and it will do everything by itself. It doesn't hurt >> to go into Disk Utility and do a Repair Disk Permissions once in a while. >> It can improve performance if things have got out of whack, once a month is >> more then frequent enough. >> >> With respect to Word Processors, Pages does work fine although there are >> some things that can be frustrating, but then again, one can get frustrated >> with Word on the PC as well. >> >> Later... >> >> On 2011-10-18, at 12:49 PM, Karen Lewellen wrote: >> >>> Hi all, >>> In fact my friend Rita wishes to join the list. I am including her address >>> in the to field hoping a mod can subscribe her. I wrote privately about >>> this a while back, but it seems she still cannot join. >>> for the moment though I am going to post her questions and share the >>> answers. >>> she has snow leopard, 10.6.8, running on a mac mini. >>> >>> She wants to clean up her disc. Forgive me if this seems strange, but I >>> have never read of anyone needing to run defrag on their mac, but such is >>> her goal. needful? if so, how is it best done? >>> its all mac, no virtual box with windows. >>> Her next question is one know that gets asked allot, so think in terms of >>> her specific edition of snow leopard. >>> best voiceover friendly word processor? I know there is a recent edition >>> of open office, how is iworks these days? She is a professional writer, so >>> I think needs more than textedit. >>> I recall a person posting an entirely different writing program in fact? >>> >>> Thanks for the house wisdom usual, >>> Karen >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>> For more options, visit this group at >>> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >>> >> >> Tim Kilburn >> Fort McMurray, AB Canada >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
