Well you can always use the app "onyx" to perform those runs anytime if you want to. But really if you miss doing those runs for a while it shouldn't affect your mac all that much. Cause I believe there would be a large portion of the mac world who doesn't have their computers on at those crazy hours of the night. And all their machines are roughly ok no the whole.
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There's no built in tool for defragmenting in OS X cause HFS is a very capable file system and maintains it self. However, there is this app, iDefrag, which I've used in the past and had some speed improvements including some fixes to problems. It's a paid software however.
Otherwise there's nothing that you need to run. But you could try onyx for maintenance and such.
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I believe that OS X defrags itself when you are not using it
To clean up log files, run maintenance scripts (which run overnight - but I shut my mac down to save energy) and run other clean-up tasks - ONYX does a brilliant job
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1) is there an apple equivalent of a disk defragmenter and if there is how often should i run this?
2) What other procedures should i undertake to ensure my macbook keeps running smoothly?
no offence but a simple search would have answered your question but no there isn't a need for defragmenting your disk
and there are several third party apps that will run the built in maintenance scripts whenever you want to.
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I'll second that suggestion for iDefrag. You don't need to use it regularly... OS X (or rather, then HFS file system?) does automatically defrag files under a certain size, from what I recall. But iDefrag does do a more thorough job and can show a noticable improvement in some cases. Again... not something I'd use regularly, but maybe once a year or so, perhaps every few months depending on how the computer is used.
As for maintenance... Onyx is free and pretty much does it all.
AppleJack, OnyX & Maintenance have not yet been Leopardised but as lifeisabeach stated, the beta version of OnyX & Maintenance is available for testing purposes but if you're not up to testing them then it's advisable not to use these beta versions for regular maintenance purposes.
Anacron runs the periodic daily, weekly and monthly tasks on your Mac even if the machine (a laptop, for example) spends much of its time asleep or switched-off. Anacron silently checks when you reboot and every sixty minutes while the computer is running to see if the various periodic scripts are overdue, and runs them if necessary. The advantage of Anacron over many other solutions to this issue is that it runs as a proper Unix background process, requires no user intervention, and uses the regular periodic scripts.
Mac Specs: White Macbook 2.4ghz, 2gb ram, 160gb hd,superdrive, OSX Leopard
thank you for everybody's contribution as usual the forum has been most informative, i am currently downloading onyx and looks like just what i needed....
