Category:How To Maintenance
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Disk Permissions
cron scripts
fsck
Defragmenting
Defragmenting is the process of reorganizing fragments of data on a hard disk into proper order for performance reasons. The HFS+ file system used by default in OS X hardly fragments at all, so the need to defragment is seen only as "a Windows thing".
Re-installing OS X
If it is ever necessary, reinstalling OS X can easily be done by inserting your OS X install CD or DVD. You will have an option in the OS X setup to save user account data or to completely start clean. It is very easily explained by the OS X setup guide.
Force Periodic Maintenance
Your Mac has automatic periodic maintenance tasks that are scheduled to run on a nightly, weekly, and monthly basis. The problem is, if your Mac is asleep, the tasks won't run. You can force these tasks to run through the terminal.
For example, to run the scheduled daily maintenance tasks, type the following at the command line:
sudo periodic daily
For weekly tasks:
sudo periodic weekly
And, of course, for monthly:
sudo periodic monthly
