These are my notes while reading about MacOSX Housekeeping…
Source for these infos
A Macworld Article from February 2005: “Prevent Mac Disasters”
Verify Preferences
Run ’sudo plutil -s ~/Library/ Preferences/*.plist’
Repair Permissions
Is done from within DiskUtility, which can be found in /Applications/Utilities
Delete Cache files
Can be done from within Terminal.app as well as with the use of diverse tools, as quoted in macworld. I would reccommend macjanitor as it is free and quite easy to use. But if you want more comfort check out the other tools mentioned.
Delete Log Files
Is not really necessary but it can help to clean up things and to save disk space. macworld reccommends to delete the files from the Terminal or Konsole.app. I rather prefer to keep things a bit archived; this can be easily achieved by running the scripts in /etc/ (daily, weekly and monthly) either by hand, cron or Cronnix (a tool that makes it easy to schedule cron jobs without going to the terminal) This also takes care of some other tasks, such as prebinding.
Prebinding
’sudo update_prebinding -root /’
Check Hard Drive Status
‘diskutil info disk0 | grep SMART’
Creating a Mac Maintenance Toolbox
Is really recommended - as well as a good backup strategy.
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