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<blockquote data-quote="mac57" data-source="post: 308906" data-attributes="member: 17052"><p>By the way, on the topic of maintenance, you should see this:</p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.unsanity.org/archives/000410.php" target="_blank">http://www.unsanity.org/archives/000410.php</a></p><p></p><p>on the urban myth of repairing permissions. Most of the existing maintenance tools will perform this step, but especially for new switchers, with no Mac Classic software around, it is pretty much unecessary. </p><p></p><p>For a (slightly) more humourous take on this, see my write up of the same issue in my "Linux to Mac Switcher's Guide", in the "Care and Feeding of Your Mac" section. My guide can be found here (and you don't need to know anything about Linux to enjoy this particular section!):</p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.campbell-tx.net/MacOSX/Linux2Mac/linux2mac.html" target="_blank">http://www.campbell-tx.net/MacOSX/Linux2Mac/linux2mac.html</a></p><p></p><p>This is just by way of noting that you don't have to do ALL of the maintenance offerings in these tools to keep your Mac in tip-top shape.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="mac57, post: 308906, member: 17052"] By the way, on the topic of maintenance, you should see this: [url]http://www.unsanity.org/archives/000410.php[/url] on the urban myth of repairing permissions. Most of the existing maintenance tools will perform this step, but especially for new switchers, with no Mac Classic software around, it is pretty much unecessary. For a (slightly) more humourous take on this, see my write up of the same issue in my "Linux to Mac Switcher's Guide", in the "Care and Feeding of Your Mac" section. My guide can be found here (and you don't need to know anything about Linux to enjoy this particular section!): [url]http://www.campbell-tx.net/MacOSX/Linux2Mac/linux2mac.html[/url] This is just by way of noting that you don't have to do ALL of the maintenance offerings in these tools to keep your Mac in tip-top shape. [/QUOTE]
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