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You are, probably, using your Mac constantly for your business or school work. Therefore, you heavily rely on your Mac’s performance. Thus, you really do not want any problems with your Mac. Macs are relatively hassle-free, still, you can greatly decrease your chances of having issues.

Users running Mac OS X 10.6.8 or earlier must download version 4.22. For 64-bit Macs download version 4.23 Techtool Pro —a comprehensive application to check for filesystem errors, I/O errors, Power On Self-Test (POST) errors, Internal battery condition, hard drive health (SMART), bluetooth hardware. Maintenance 1.2.7 for Mac OS X Leopard 10.5 Requirements: Mac PowerPC or Intel computer running Mac OS X Leopard 10.5. Maintenance only runs from an administrator account.

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1 5 Tips On How-To Maintain Your Mac

5 Tips On How-To Maintain Your Mac

1- Keep your Apple software up-to-date

Simply, go to Apple menu > Software Update. If there is an update, download and install it. You need to enter your admin user and password.

Software Update (in System Preferences) can also be configured for automatic upgrades. By default, it automatically checks for updates weekly.

2 – Updating your Apps purchased from the Mac App Store

The software update will not update your apps. To update the apps that you have downloaded from the Mac app store, choose App Store then click “Updates”.

3-Back up your data regularly

Back ups are always good. For instance, you may need to restore your entire system from a backup. You should back up your Mac regularly. You can use Time Machine (Mac OS X v10.5 and later). Time Machine can automatically back up your entire Mac.

4- Periodically restart your Mac

Your Mac may seem slower after using it for a few days or weeks. Restarting your Mac may solve this issue.

5- Clean your Mac

Periodically clean your Mac. Use only a soft, lint-free cloth and avoid any cleaning material that can damage your Mac.

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As a consultants we are sometimes asked what maintenance should be done on a MAC. The response is surprisingly little. OS X has a number of things baked into the operating system that keep your MAC running (for the most part) at optimum efficiency. OS X has maintenance scripts that run periodically. The scripts perform various functions. The main three scripts are daily, weekly and monthly.

The Techbeast has a nice breakdown of what they do:

Each maintenance script — daily, weekly, and monthly — has a specific function. Their functions have varied over different versions of Mac OS X.

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The daily script removes old log files, “scratch” and “junk” files, backs-up the NetInfo database (Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger® and earlier), reports a variety of system and network statistics, and rotates the system.log file. Under Tiger, the daily script also cleans up scratch fax files and prunes asl.log, the log file for the then-new Apple System Logging facility. Under Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard®, the daily script also prunes the asl.db file that replaced the asl.log file for Apple System Logging. The output from the daily script is written to the /var/log/daily.out file, which can be viewed in Console. By default, the daily script is scheduled to run daily at 03:15 hours local time.
The weekly script rebuilds the locate and whatis databases. Depending on the version of Mac OS X, it also rotates the following log files: ftp.log, lookupd.log, lpr.log,mail.log, netinfo.log, ipfw.log, ppp.log, and secure.log
The output from the weekly script is written to the /var/log/weekly.out file, which can be viewed in Console. By default, the weekly script is scheduled to run every Saturday at a specific time. Under Tiger and later, it runs at 03:15 hours local time. Under Mac OS X 10.3 Panther® and Mac OS X 10.2 Jaguar it runs at 04:30 hours local time.
The monthly script reports per-user usage accounting and rotates — depending on the version of Mac OS X — the wtmp, install.log, and cu.modem.log files.
The output from the monthly script is written to the /var/log/monthly.out file, which can be viewed in Console. By default, the monthly script is scheduled to run on the first of the month at 05:30 hours local time.”

You can see when the last time the scripts ran by opening the terminal command and run the following commands:

**ls -al /var/log/*.out**

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The results should look something like this:

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Note the time of the last run of each script (10:43 on). These scripts are typically enough to keep your Mac running in its optimal state. While you can run these scripts manually there really is no reason to as the operating system itself does a fairly good job at doing it for you.