30 mins downtime in case of something bad. I used to look after 3 Pro Tools rigs in a studio and I had system images ready to go in case of a hard drive failure or something else bad. With the new hidden restore partition this makes it even easier. Just forget about.ĭisk Utility has the tools you need to create system images and restore operating systems after massive failure in like 30 mins. I remember the hours of tweaking with Win 98SE and XP. Seriously, you take any Mac from the last 4-5 years, install fresh Mountain Lion or even Mavericks, from USB, do a couple of tweaks in System Preferences, run Software updates, install the latest Pro Tools, and you have the most ridiculous audio performance, with so little work. If you are not backing up your system or internal drives (which Timemachine does perfectly), but rather maintaining a pair of external master/backup project drives, then I use Carbon Copy Cloner to do incremental backups. ![]() The cost of a Diskwarrior license is about the cost of a 1TB drive now. Timemachine is one of the most elegant back up solutions out there. Of course these things do not affect audio performance at all.ĭiskwarrior is for recovering lost files which should not be a "regular maintenance job"! Using Diskwarrior shows that you have failed at the previous "regular maintenance job" of backing up properly. It's not long before I find the thing I'm looking for. Since I don't use Terminal that often, I just hit the 'up' arrow and it scrolls through my previous actions. Off the top of my head, things like clearing DNS cache or showing/hiding hidden files in Finder are two of these kinds of things which I sometime do. While certainly good, both Cocktail and Diskwarrior do more and are very useful.Cocktail is one of those apps which puts a front end to various command line tweaks and scripts which are always a Google search and a copy-paste job away. ![]() (Similarly, I make a habit to erase and "zero out" every new hard drive I buy) Won't take any more time than a (risky?) defrag utility AND the "zero data" part maps any potential bad sectors that may be on your drive. To defrag that drive, just back up the data and erase the media drive using the "zero all data" option in the OS X disk utility app. I'll add you won't need to worry about defragging if you record large media files to an external drive. Then go in to the folder "application support" and see if the app lefta folder there. If a program does not come with an uninstaller simply drag the app icon to the trash basket. Sometimes (as after a major os upgrade) it can be a good idea to go i to DISC UTILITY and repair permissions. ![]() Windows migrant? Really if you don't move things from where they install themselves you should not need these things.
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