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Sorry, have been busy and will be busy, so I cannot give my characteristically detailed and magNIfIcent responses. However, Macs do enjoy periodic maintenance such as clearing of caches.
You can do this on your own, which is complicated or your can get the Freeware Onyx or the shareware Cocktail. There are others, but they are the ones I am familiar with.
I got Cocktail before I learned of Onyx. I prefer it because you can have it run the daily, weekly, and monthly scripts. Cocktail will also find some of the more common trojans, apparently. That is not a reason to get it.
You do not have to "Repair Permissions" each time which takes a long time--though less time now in 10.5.7.
Onyx is a bit more involved in that it will check the integrity of your Volume--not a bad thing to discover--but will run a bunch of the major scripts at once and then require you to reboot. Rebooting is not a "bad thing" because as Gurus will tell you, you periodically need to rebuild your Shutdown Cache.
Useth thou teh G00gl3 to find those. Must run!
--J.D.
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