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Tom’s Mac Tips: Performing Routine Mac Drive Maintenance

January 16, 2014 by coyotemooninc

by Tom Nelson

I spent the early morning hours today performing a bit of routine maintenance on my Mac. It was the usual stuff: checking all the drives to make sure there were no drive errors that could cause slowdowns or data loss problems; checking drive permissions, which always results in a large number of files being marked as having the wrong permissions and needing to be fixed; and then cleaning up all the drives by removing unneeded files and ensuring adequate free space.

Tom's Mac Tips: Performing Routine Mac Drive Maintenance

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I usually perform my routine drive maintenance on weekends, once a month or so, but I decided to do it today, since I think this weekend I’ll be busy with other chores.

So, what did I find? Not a thing wrong, fortunately; all the drives are in good shape and didn’t need any repairs. What’s remarkable about this is that many of the drives connected to my Mac are getting quite old. I would say the average age is five years, with the newest being about two years old, and the oldest perhaps seven years old (it came out of an original 2006 Intel Mac Pro).

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