Norton Utilities and Techtool Pro are third party applications for Macs. Cocktail (10 day free trial) can be used for cleaning caches, optimizing ect. Or just launch Disc Utilities choose the disc you want to check and follow directions.
How to do defragment disk on Mac?
Please help, I'm a dummy for Mac. This is my first time that I use Mac System. I've tried "help" on tool bar and even bought a book "Mac for Dummies" but I could not find any help regarding to "Disk Defragment". If any members know how to get Disk defragment work or locate its icon please show me how to do or get it. Thank you very much.
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There is another Mac utility called MacJanitor, it cleans up the disc without having to leave your computer on all night. You can download it here for free. One more suggestion, especially if you run any Microsoft applications on your mac or do file sharing. Download Peer Guardian and it will block attempts at spying from government, Edu, Internet providers, Spyware, Microsoft Corp and others. It too is free. I've had file sharing sessions where as many as 2 thousand hits were made on my computer, all turned away by this free application. http://phoenixlabs.org/pgosx/ |
Another exceptionally useful Mac utility is MainMenu. It runs all the routine maintenance scripts that Albert mentions plus lots of other useful tasks like rebuilding your Spotlight index, repairing disk permissions, clearing caches and histories and removing temporary files, all from a single icon in the menu bar. |
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