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Member Since: Oct 19, 2008
Location: Ottawa
Posts: 15,313
Mac Specs: 2012 13" MBP (2.5 i5, 8GB)
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04-17-2012, 02:37 PM
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Originally Posted by Gandalph
PC problems. Are these issues with OSX, too?
In a word, "NO".
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OS X certainly shares some of the same issues listed in the post. Scattered files, sandboxing and indexing all occur in OS X at various times.
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Originally Posted by Lastmboy
When uninstalling a Windows application, the uninstaller is often not perfect and leaves behind a few files and registry entries, to cause a mess. I use Revo Uninstaller on my Windows 7 pc to make sure all related file and registry entries get removed. Does this happen on a Mac? Is there any way to do some type of "cleanup"?
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There are various applications that do this. Take a look at AppCleaner - it's free and does a decent job.
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Originally Posted by Lastmboy
I often use some type of sandbox (app or virtual os) to run any questionable or unkown software in. Is there a way to do this on a Mac? e.g. Sandboxie app? Is it necessary.
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It does have sandboxing built in but requires the user to write scripts. Regardless, the best practice is to avoid this kind of software in the first place.
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Originally Posted by Lastmboy
As most are aware, the Windows environment is very high maintenance, particularly with regards to it's registry. I find I'm often having to run registry repair or cleanup utilities, and of course you need to back it up often, so you have it ready to restore when you pc crashes and won't reboot. Since OSX doesn't have a registry as such, is there something else that requires maintenance of some sort with it?
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OS X runs daily, weekly and monthly maintenace but it wouldn't hurt to run OnyX once in a while as well.
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Originally Posted by Lastmboy
Windows is often known to go off on it's own and start thrashing the hard drive for some unknown reason. Who knows whether it is doing indexing or what, but it, of course, always happens when you most need the system to respond. Is this type of thing common in OSX?
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The only time I've seen this happening is when the Spotlight database needs to be created. This happens after a clean install and/or after OnyX deletes the database (if you choose to do that). It may also index external drives as well.
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Originally Posted by Lastmboy
This one is a HUGE pain in the butt and happens often... you try to a move folder on your pc to a different location, but it often fails and says one of the files in the folder is in use. You check everything, but there is nothing running that would be using the file. You close explorer, stand on your head, and do a few backflips and suddenly it will let you move the file again. My guess is that there is some indexing process behind the scenes that is hanging onto the file. This is really annoying, though. Does OSX have this major flaw?
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Yes, this does happen. It happens across operating systems however.
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Originally Posted by Lastmboy
The windows file copy process is really poor. I use a program call Terracopy, which solves a couple of issues. First, it queues up multiple copy/move requests so they don't all try to run concurrently and slow the system to a crawl. Also, it doesn't fail the whole copy request if there is a problem with one of the files. Does OSX (Finder) have the same issues? Is there any way around it?
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Yes, OS X copies files concurrently. There may be a way around this but I don't know of one.
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Thanks
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