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Automatic Maintenance, the Manual Way

If you shutdown your Mac every night, it won’t run the automatic Unix-level scripts that are necessary for occasional file system maintenance. By using a little geek power, you can run those scripts manualy. Use the Terminal and the following commands to force Unix to perform maintenance:

  • sudo /etc/Daily
  • sudo /etc/Weekly
  • sudo etc/Monthly

As the commands imply, each performs different maintenace procedures at different intervals. It’s perfectly OK to run the scripts one after the other. [Submitted by Justin Sloan]

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