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Housekeeping
Hi All.
I know this isn’t strictly an FCP operation query, but since FCP is my main app, i thought i would ask here.
I have a dual 2 G5powermac, and use it primarily to edit, author DVD’s and surf the net.
I have noticed it getting slower and slower and was wondering if there were any “must have” tools, that help clean up drives and improve system performance generally.
Cheers
Justin Heaney
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3 Replies
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There are some housekeeping chores that OS X performs automatically if you leave your system turned on all the time… Probably should repair permissions using Apple’s Drive Utiltiy every week or any time you add any software to your system…
BUT NOTHING speeds up your Mac better than redoing your startup disk from the ground up… (Backup what you need, then perform an erase and install of Tiger, update it, then install FCP on that new system and update it too…Adding RAM will help too if you are doing a lot of disk caching running many apps at one time. But there really aren’t a bunch of utilties made to “clean up” your hard drives etc… this just isn’t really an issue much anymore as long as you perform those things I’ve mentioned above.
Jerry
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thankyou Jerry.
Cheers
Justin
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Actually on my laptops (Panther & Tiger) I use Mac Janitor and Cacheout X (freeware apps) since of course they aren’t on all the time.
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