My Hard Drive

Maintenance:

Here's advice from
>Mac DevCenter, 4 years ago:

Once a month:

1. Repair the privileges.


2. Repair the drive.


3. Force the periodic maintenance.

After an application crash, a power failure or a force reboot

Immediately:

1. Repair the drive first.


2. Repair the privileges.

Then, if the computer slows down:

1. Force the periodic maintenance.


2. Update the prebinding.

Around the installation of a big new application or a system upgrade

Before, do this:

1. Repair the privileges.


2. Repair the disk.

After, do this:

If this is more than a simple OS incremental update, repair the privileges
and the file system again with the new, updated Disk Utility.

7/01/2007

System Profiler:
Volumes:
Macintosh HD:
Capacity: 74.41 GB
Available: 9.38 GB
File System: Journaled HFS+

NAV scan:
452714 files
123872 files in archives

Ran sw update (81M download)

Macintosh HD:
Capacity: 74.41 GB
Available: 9.42 GB
File System: Journaled HFS+

Huh! 40 M more available?


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Real World Mac Maintenance and Backups


11/01/2007

Disk Utility information:

Capacity : 74.4 GB (79,892,106,240 Bytes)
Free Space : 12.9 GB (13,877,231,616 Bytes)
Used : 61.5 GB (66,014,871,552 Bytes)
Number of Files : 347,112
Number of Folders : 85,270