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Many bloggers and respected websites are accusing some of these apps as malware -- if you are thinking of trying one out, please add malware to a product name search before downloading it.

This is important because the disk may be hanging on by a thread and the most basic procedure may lose the drive and data forever.

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These days I prefer to simply clone my healthy, problem-free boot hard drive onto a freshly-erased internal hard drive, removing the original hard drive intact (and storing it away as my system back up).

This allows me to work off the clone and have a trustworthy boot drive I can swap out and get back to work in five minutes if necessary.

An external FireWire or USB drive can also be used for the clone.

Because I keep project files documents, music, photos, project folders on third and fourth hard drives, the swap and get-back-to-work process is pretty seamless in my professional work flow.

Apple provides a Time Machine.app (Apples popular backup and restore application).

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Here is Apples official Knowledge Base article HT1427: Learn how to set up Time Machine to perform backups, how to restore items (or your entire system) from a backup, how to use existing backups on a new Mac, and more.

Some professionals will recommend keeping a percentage of your boot hard drive unused this is good advice and I would probably try to keep at least 40 percent of my disk unused for heavy graphics and video editing (and most importantly, as unfragmented as possible).

If all you are doing is Microsoft Word and E-mail, I would keep a minimum of 30 GB free unused space available this allows the operating system vital unused space to write its swap files, virtual memory scratch disk.

Check free space on a Mac computer by 1) click on hard drive icon, 2) CommandI (File Get Info), and note Available space.

On the Windows 7 PC XP and Vista Platforms, open space can be found under hard drive Properties.

Mac OS-X is pretty good at defragging its operating system on its own (unless the hard drive has filled up and forced it to write into a fragmented state) so generally we do not have to worry about defragging the System and Applications folders.

In the case the Mac OS has been badly fragmented but is still healthy and functioning proper I would opt to CLONE it to another harddrive, and either swap the Cloned disk back, or Erase the fragmented drive and Clone it back in an unfragged state (keeping the other drive as a backup).

What we do need to watchout for is passing infected files that we download or receive in emails over to Windows users where they can do serious damage.

One workflow technique is to have previously backed up our Preferences folder.

Then we simply start swapping the suspect preferences with our back ups.

If the problem has cleared, one of the old Preferences is bad (we can continue replacing the new with the until the problem returns and nails the bad preference file).

Safe Booting -- rebooting from a complete ShutDown with Shift key down -- forces a directory check of the boot volume and loads only required kernel extensions and Apple start-up items.

In other words, navigate to Disk Utility and run Repair Permissions on the boot hard drive.

In a few more seconds, the Unix command line prompt ending in (: root).

Having to run fsck more than once is normal, because the first runs repairs may uncover additional problems.

A visitor emailed me about my referencing cron scripts in OS-X (and linked me to this Apple forum disscussion ).

Photoshop 10.6.8 Mac OS X Background Maintenance

That thread noted Apples Background Maintenance Tasks knowledge base article HT2319, which covers Mac OS X background maintenance tasks, including 10.6 and later.

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