On this weeks The Mac Attack it's the beginning of the "Care and Feeding of your Mac" series. On this episode I take a look at Mac OS X system maintenance - Keeping it simple!

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General Mac House cleaning
- reboot every couple of days if you keep you Mac on 24/7
- keep your software up-to-date (Mac OS and applications)

 - back up before performing any maintenance

 - before performing maintenance quit all applications

Recommended monthly maintenance

- repair system/disk file permissions

- manually run daily, weekly & monthly maintenance scripts

Recommended six month preventative maintenance

 - zap parameter ram (PRAM) - hold down Command, Option, P, and R

- rebuild LaunchServices
- rebuild or delete System, User, Internet, and font caches

Listen to this episode for more details about each of these steps.

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