Basic troubleshooting on this episode of The Mac Attack. This is another episode of the "Care and feeding of your Mac" series. Thanks for all of the great feedback on the last couple of episodes. If there is a specific Mac Tech topic you would like me to discuss send me a tweet at tmasteve or send an email

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Cocktail

Onyx

Alsoft's DiskWarrior

Tech Tool Pro from Micromat

Prosoft's Drive Genius

TMA episode #106 - Mac OS X system maintenance

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Basic Troubleshooting (quick list)

Listen to the show for details!

• Shut your Mac down, wait 10 to 15 seconds and restart.
• Try a safe boot - hold down the shift key after hearing the start up chime.
• Try disconnecting all peripherals connected to your computer. Boot with just your monitor, keyboard and mouse attached.
• Create a new user account, and see if the problem persists there.
• A keyboard or mouse gone bad can make it appear that your Mac is frozen.
• If an application stops responding you should force quit it.
• Relaunch the finder.
• Check free space on the system volume.
• Repair disk with Disk Utility.
• Use Cocktail, Onyx, or MainMenu to to repair disk permissions, run maintenance scripts, clean the user and system caches.
• Download and reinstall current Combo update.
• Is your computer acting up after a RAM upgrade? Remove RAM upgrade.
• Get yourself a commercial drive tool - DiskWarrior, TechTool Pro, Drive Genius.
• If all else fails reinstall the system from scratch or do an 'archive and install'.

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