Re: OSX and re-building desktop?

2004-10-04 Thread crap mail
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!)

Re: OSX and re-building desktop?

2004-10-04 Thread Dennis B. Swaney
At 10:18 AM -0700 10/4/04, crap mail wrote: 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

Re: OSX and re-building desktop?

2004-10-01 Thread Mikael Byström
Bob said: 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. Thanks Bob. I didn't know this stuff actually. -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com

Re: OSX and re-building desktop?

2004-09-30 Thread Bob
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

Re: OSX and re-building desktop?

2004-09-30 Thread Kathryn Odell
What a bummer! Thanks for the info. Kate On Sep 28, 2004, at 9:45 PM, Bob wrote: Do these daily maintenance tasks run if the computer is sleeping? No, it needs to up and running. That's why some people prefer to either perform them manually, or have another utility do them at a more convenient

Re: OSX and re-building desktop?

2004-09-29 Thread Francis A . Poulin
I have just installed OS X 10.3.5, and want the system, including hard drives, to sleep at night. Will the cron scripts run? Will the system wake itself up and put itself back to sleep? David Pogue's book The Missing Manual describes scheduled jobs as daily, weekly, and monthly at 3:15,

Re: OSX and re-building desktop?

2004-09-29 Thread Laurent Daudelin
On 29/09/04 13:07, Francis A. Poulin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have just installed OS X 10.3.5, and want the system, including hard drives, to sleep at night. Will the cron scripts run? Will the system wake itself up and put itself back to sleep? David Pogue's book The Missing Manual

Re: OSX and re-building desktop?

2004-09-29 Thread Jan Musil
They will not run if the system is asleep. You will need to run them manually - either from terminal or get the Cocktail utility that can do it for you. Jan -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | --

OSX and re-building desktop?

2004-09-28 Thread MMB
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

Re: OSX and re-building desktop?

2004-09-28 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Sep 28, 2004, at 3:50 PM, 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. If you don't leave

Re: OSX and re-building desktop?

2004-09-28 Thread darm0k
At 04:07 PM -0700 09/28/2004, Bruce Johnson wrote: On Sep 28, 2004, at 3:50 PM, MMB wrote: 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

Re: OSX and re-building desktop?

2004-09-28 Thread MMB
Thanks Bruce. Is the 3am cleanup done on any particular day? Can I see that somehow on the hard disc? Maria B In-Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Bruce Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: OSX and re-building desktop? Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2004 16:07:47 -0700 On Sep

Re: OSX and re-building desktop?

2004-09-28 Thread Fabian Fang
On Wed, 29 Sep 2004 08:50:22 +1000, MMB [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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

Re: OSX and re-building desktop?

2004-09-28 Thread Bob
The National Enquirer reports at 11:22 AM +1000 9/29/04, MMB wrote: Thanks Bruce. Is the 3am cleanup done on any particular day? Apple set the daily maintenance task to run at 3:15 AM, the weekly at 4:30 AM on Saturdays, and the monthly at 5:30 AM the first day of each month. You can pick up

Re: OSX and re-building desktop?

2004-09-28 Thread Laurent Daudelin
on 28/09/04 20:04, [EMAIL PROTECTED] at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On my old PB, under OS 9, double-clicking an older tax data file automagically opened the older/matching tax app. But now under Panther, they all launch the newest app only. I have to manually launch the older app then open

Re: OSX and re-building desktop?

2004-09-28 Thread Kathryn Odell
Do these daily maintenance tasks run if the computer is sleeping? Kate Apple set the daily maintenance task to run at 3:15 AM, the weekly at 4:30 AM on Saturdays, and the monthly at 5:30 AM the first day of each month. -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronics

Re: OSX and re-building desktop?

2004-09-28 Thread Bob
The National Enquirer reports at 8:56 PM -0700 9/28/04, Kathryn Odell wrote: Apple set the daily maintenance task to run at 3:15 AM, the weekly at 4:30 AM on Saturdays, and the monthly at 5:30 AM the first day of each month. Do these daily maintenance tasks run if the computer is