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Regular MacOS Maintenance

Safe Boot & Rebuild Permissions
The biggest consistent problem I’ve seen with OS X is confused disk directories. Normally, directories get written to the disk when you shut down or restart. And, normally, everything works fine. However, if a crash, or some other accident, occurs these directories may not get properly updated. A good test as to whether you need to run this procedure is when your Mac takes longer than about 30 seconds to shut down.

Once a week, or whenever you upgrade an application, or whenever you upgrade your operating system, or whenever you have a crash, or when your Mac takes longer than about 30 seconds to shut down, do the following:

1. Restart your computer holding the SHIFT key down. This will take at least twice as long to boot as normal. Don’t panic. Everything is OK. Get some coffee.
2. When the blue screen appears, let go of the Shift key (notice the words, “Safe Boot” that appear on the screen)
3. When your system boots, go to Applications > Utilities > Disk Utility
4. Open Disk Utility
5. Select your boot disk
6. Run Repair Permissions — this will take 5 – 10 minutes. Get some more coffee.
7. When done, restart your computer, holding no keys down.

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