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A tutorial about Onyx, a cool little app to keep your Mac running in tip top shape.
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hey everyone today I'm going to be
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showing you how you can keep your Mac
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running like a mean machine real fast
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just like when you got it so you know
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with anything your Mac will need
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maintenance so to perform some
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maintenance on your Mac you can download
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this real simple application and it'll
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let you do a lot of different things and
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it's called Onyx so you can get this uh
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application I I have a custom link
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setups you can go to tr. us/ maintenance
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and you can download this
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application and you can select your
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operating system so snow leopard leopard
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tiger Panther or jaguar and then just
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you know select the one you want and
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it'll download and when it's downloaded
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all you have to do is drag the
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application to your applications folder
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and it's already installed and set up
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just like that so I have onx in my doc
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here and I just open
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it now initially here it's going to want
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me to check the smart status of my drive
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so I can just hit continue it'll take a
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couple seconds and it'll finish now this
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just checks for errors in the drive and
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make sure it's you know working right
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and it's also going to want me to verify
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the startup volume here uh this is not
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necessary it does you know check that
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there's no problems um for the sake of
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this demo I'm not going to do it just
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because it does require me to quit all
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open applications
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which I can't really do in order to keep
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recording so I'm just going to hit
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cancel from here you're going to have to
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type in your administrator
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password then a help window is going to
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open it up in case you know you need any
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help and uh things like that now it
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warns you right here that you should
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back up your data um because it's not
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bug free I do have my data backed up
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with time machine this isn't a necessity
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but it does you know kind of have a
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fault protection in case something would
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happen now it says it cannot destroy the
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system so it's not something you really
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need to worry about U but I guess you
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really should always back up your data
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anyways so from here you're going to see
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a a window here and you have different
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options so I can click verify and I'm
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going to be able to check the smart
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status like I did before the structure
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of the volume which is just verifying
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the startup disc and then I have some
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preferences that I can switch around if
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I under the maintenance tab I can do a
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variety of different things to speed up
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my Mac in case it's running slow so if I
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verify and repair system file
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permissions it's going to take a while
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and it's going to you know your Mac will
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really slow down when it's going on it's
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best that you don't do anything else U
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but if you're seeing a lot of error
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messages or something like that this may
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be the cause of it your permissions so
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you can just execute that and you know
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finish the rebuilding the permissions
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and it'll take a while while but it is
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worth
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it and you can also do this with um
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daily weekly and monthly scripts you can
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execute those and it'll do these
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different maintenance scripts that it
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does in the background usually late at
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night but you can force them to do them
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manually this way and from here you can
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rebuild a whole bunch of different
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indexes things like that nothing you
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really need to worry about um but you
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can just select them all and click
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execute and sometimes it'll speed things
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up sometimes it won't but it's generally
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a good thing to do and it's not going to
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hurt any part of your
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system there's also a cleaning tab here
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where you can delete the cache of you
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know your kernel and all these different
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things QuickTime components audio
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components things like that just kind of
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resets things doesn't you don't lose any
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of your data by doing this uh it just
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kind of speed things up for you and you
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have your user cache internet cash all
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these different things and you can
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execute those
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now after each one if I click execute
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it's going to want me to quit it's going
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to force quit all open applications and
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then
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afterwards it's a good idea to restart
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you don't have to it's going to ask you
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if you want to restart
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though so from here you can rebuild
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different
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databases um these are not real things
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you need to worry about and you can
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empty your trash things like that from
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here the things you really want to see
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are in the maintenance and cleaning tabs
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if you go under the auto automation tab
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it'll let you do these things
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automatically so it'll clean a whole
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group of cash you know at the same time
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and uh you can repair permissions and
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rebuild a whole bunch of things all with
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one click instead of going under each
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one separately um but this a lot of this
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will take a long time you'll probably
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get the spinning beach ball it might
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look like your Mac's completely Frozen
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but it's not just give it time and it'll
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work you know it's best not to do other
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things while you're doing this so there
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you go there's a quick and easy
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application to make your Mac you know
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run like it was when it was new and
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perform some just regular maintenance
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tasks on it so I hope you found this
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video useful and thank you for watching
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