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A quick scan took only 30 seconds and the app found 4.16 GB files ready for safe cleanup. One particular section we like about CleanMyMac is the “Maintenance” module, which is packed with 7 useful utilities that help fix various common Mac issues, such as speed up Mail, verify startup disk, repair disk permissions, flush DNS cache, etc.
The new preferred method is to install rEFInd into the an EFI partition. My answer, to an unrelated question, outlines this new preferred method to start the rEFInd Boot Manager and Linux operating systems. The answer, given below, applies to Yosemite (OS X 10.10) and possibly earlier versions of OS. There are also utilities that can clean various OS and application cache files which will reclaim space, though as you begin using the computer again they will be rebuilt. 4) along with having enough hard drive space is disk fragmentation which seems to be what you are concerned with. A key observation is that if your computer isn't paging memory to disk, you should only hurt performance by purging your disk cache. If, on the other hand, your system IS paging to disk a lot, a purge might help, but it also might not, since nominally the OS probably should have done it automatically for you to avoid paging in the first place. The built-in recovery partition on your Mac’s startup disk contains recovery tools, like Disk Utility. Recovery Mode makes it easy to repair your Mac’s disk in situations when the machine won’t boot properly and load the desktop in the first place. How to repair disk errors in Recovery Mode. 1) In the Apple menu, choose Restart.
^ Utterly fails to address one single issue I raised.
Yes, my 'computer runs faster when it caches data in RAM instead of on disk,' but I'm talking about when that Inactive Memory 'cache' starts paging to disk. Seems to me that there's no excuse for Inactive Memory ever hitting the hard disk virtual memory scratch files; it should just be 'forgotten' at that point. 'High inactive RAM' may be what I want, but it is precisely when Inactive Memory becomes high that the disk thrashing & sluggishness begins. If running the script (or Purge, which is what I do when it happens) 'makes your computer run slower,' then why does doing so restore my robust performance to that of a freshly booted computer? Indeed, before I discovered Purge, I had to wait for a reboot to clear things up, when that wait became preferable to a miserable ongoing fit of usability-sucking spinning beachballs and accumulating scratch files.. He beat her. mac os. And to repeat, no matter how much RAM one adds, it only delays the performance hit until Inactive Memory eventually fills up. (If you watch Inactive Memory, it often rises & falls with use, but sooner or later something you're doing will not occasion its reclamation, and when it 'red-lines,' that's when the usability degradation commences.)
Yes, my 'computer runs faster when it caches data in RAM instead of on disk,' but I'm talking about when that Inactive Memory 'cache' starts paging to disk. Seems to me that there's no excuse for Inactive Memory ever hitting the hard disk virtual memory scratch files; it should just be 'forgotten' at that point. 'High inactive RAM' may be what I want, but it is precisely when Inactive Memory becomes high that the disk thrashing & sluggishness begins. If running the script (or Purge, which is what I do when it happens) 'makes your computer run slower,' then why does doing so restore my robust performance to that of a freshly booted computer? Indeed, before I discovered Purge, I had to wait for a reboot to clear things up, when that wait became preferable to a miserable ongoing fit of usability-sucking spinning beachballs and accumulating scratch files.. He beat her. mac os. And to repeat, no matter how much RAM one adds, it only delays the performance hit until Inactive Memory eventually fills up. (If you watch Inactive Memory, it often rises & falls with use, but sooner or later something you're doing will not occasion its reclamation, and when it 'red-lines,' that's when the usability degradation commences.)
The following applies to Mac OS 7, 8 and 9. One thing that only Mac users were accustomed to back in the 1990's was rebuilding the desktop. This allowed to solve some benign problems on your Mac that could soon become so annoying that it could ruin your day. Symptoms that would benefit from a desktop rebuild are:
This happens because the Finder's association between documents and the corresponding applications that can open them relies on 2 invisible files named 'Desktop DF' (desktop file) and 'Desktop DB' (database) stored in the root of each volume on your Mac. After months of using your Mac OS and adding applications, this desktop database can get bloated with changes to a point it actually gets corrupted or incomplete. Power outages can also cause this as well as an application program deletion or migration to another volume. When this database contains wrong information, it confuses the Finder as to which application program to launch for a specific kind of document (that document has a file type/creator code that is internally tied to an application program) and it consequently also causes the wrong (or no) icon to be displayed in the Finder. The little tank hunter mac os. To resolve this issue: 1) Reboot your Mac and before the startup screen finishes loading all the extensions, hold down OPTION KEY + COMMAND KEY together until it asks you if you want to rebuild your desktop, to which you click YES, obviously. 2) If you have more than 1 volume, continue to hold down OPTION KEY + COMMAND KEY together before the process ends, so that it asks you the same procedure for the next volume, etc.. for all your volumes you wish to rebuild the desktop. 3) OPTIONAL: If you'd rather automate this process and go unattended or if you have one of those 2 keys broken on your keyboard, you can instead use a small app such as Trash•Desktop 1.3.1 to trash your 'Desktop DF' and 'Desktop DB' files. You can then reboot and it will automatically start rebuilding your desktop. |