Day 16 - Mac Myths

BiL sent me the following information in an email and I thought I'd reproduce it here for the benefit of my rabid readership (and so I can find it again when I find myself thinking "Didn't BiL tell me something about that?").

2 big myths of the Mac World.

1. Repair Permissions. You see this being recommended all over the shop, as a panacea. Often recommended before and after applying patches. Bollocks. It doesn't fix or prevent anything.

2. CleanUp scripts - Windows needed maintenance. Hence products like CleanSweep or RegistryClean etc. Not so in Mac OS. It has a bunch of scripts that it kicks off in the background to rotate logs and cleanup caches, etc. Just let it do its job.