How To Unistall Onyx For Mac

I have basically the same setup and have had the exact same problem for quite a long time now.

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So it has been a year since i did any significant system/OS maintenance on my Macbook 2.2ghz santa rosa. Everything seems to be working great, i went from 2gb ram to 4gb for christmas, and everything seems to be fine. But i would like to make sure i am at peak performance. I did a little digging and i discovered a program called OnyX which is a utility for system/OS cleanup and overall maintenance.

I'm posting this so that i can ask for advice on how to use it, i dont know which options are safe, what caches to delete etc. I just want to make sure my mac is optimized and running well. No problems yet, but i thought it might be time, as it's been over a year since i did anything but use it.

Should i defrag my mac? I have been told macs defrag themselves, and i've also been told defragging improves performance in spite of those claims. OnyX is a really good app.

I use it once every couple months. As far as cleaning caches go, you can pretty much sweep them all. The only ones that I don't sweep are 'Desktop Background', 'ColorSync', 'Browser History', and 'Cookies'. It's a pain to have to go back and enter in emails, usernames, and passwords for websites. After you clean the catches, restart and repair disk permissions. Also what's nice about it is how you can enable hidden features.

Mainly the 'Quit Finder' option and the 'Show path of files in window title' option. Have fun making your Mac like new again! Click to expand.No need. Mac OS X does perform some on-the-fly defragging, but that's not the real reason that you don't have to defrag manually. Truth is, defragging does produce a performance improvement, but it's usually so minor as to not be worth the time it takes to defrag. There are some circumstances where it might help, but they're edge cases; for almost every 'typical' user there is absolutely no need to defragment manually if you're using OS X.

There is just one small piece of maintenance I'd recommend. Every month, open up Disk Utility, select your startup disk, and verify disk permissions. If any mismatches are found, repair disk permissions. After that, verify the filesystem. If it finds any errors, boot from your Mac OS X CD, select 'Disk Utility' from the menu, and repair the filesystem. Other than that, there's not much you have to do. Click to expand.Gotta go with ppc750fx here.

It doesn't matter how little time rebuilding the caches take if it is time wasted. And it is time wasted. Back in the day, I used to run Cocktail until it was no longer free and then OnyX. However, since Apple added journalling to HFS+, OnyX ceased to provide any measurable benefit.

I still have OnyX installed but have not run it in maybe two years. Disk First Aid within Disk Utility?

Nothing found. Following some abnormal shutdowns, I have run File System Check ( fsck -fy) in Single User Mode. It reported repairs to orphaned clusters.

I had no perceptible performance issues prior to running fsck. Kodi 18 for mac download. I noticed no improvement after running it. Long story short--routine maintenance is an artifact of a bygone era. If you have done nothing that you suspect caused a problem, then running maintenance utilities makes scanning for viruses look like a vital National security issue.

I tend to copy and delete large files quite often, mostly HD video from my camera. My question is, would it not be useful to use something like IDefrag every once in a while? Most files are between 5-10GB and I know OS X does not degrag anything above 20mb.

What do you guys think about defragging occasionally in my situation? I recently upgraded my HD to a 500gb 5400rpm WD Scorpio. There was a significant improvement in boot times and seek times. I think it had alot to do with it being a completely defragged hd. I tend to copy and delete large files quite often, mostly HD video from my camera. My question is, would it not be useful to use something like IDefrag every once in a while?

Most files are between 5-10GB and I know OS X does not degrag anything above 20mb. What do you guys think about defragging occasionally in my situation? I recently upgraded my HD to a 500gb 5400rpm WD Scorpio. There was a significant improvement in boot times and seek times. I think it had alot to do with it being a completely defragged hd.

Click to expand.MisterMe. I'm hear because I too am experiencing abnormal shutdowns/restarts. I thought it was because of some trojans that I found on my drive or possibly a problem with Parallels/XP. I ran ClamXav and deleted the 4 trojans, ran the virus software I have within my XP machine and found no malware at all interestingly. The problem went away for awhile and then started up again. So I thought maybe I should use Onyx, but I'm in full agreement with the conservatives here. It's been years since I used it - so I'm surfing looking for advise on how/when to use it, what to clean, what not.