Yes and no... You can do things yourself, and I highly recommend it, but Macs usually schedule things to be done automatically. The only drawback is that the cron daemon seems to be a night-owl....
The best option is to install a program such as Control Freak, which greatly simplifies the process of system maintenance and is still free. http://home.comcast.net/~jeff.ulicny/software/
Just have it automatically perform the necessary operations.
One of my biggest complaints with Apple, other than their poor security (message me if you need examples), is that they attempt to hide the system from the user. Of course, this can be a good thing, and is why OSX is considered to be a bit more idiot-proof than similar offerings from Microsoft or the Linux community.
No, there is no tool like that because the operating system is organized differently.
If you look through the Mac utitilities, you can find a "disk maintenance" tool or something like that, but nothing that "defrags" because it's not necessary the way the operating system stores data.
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Yes and no... You can do things yourself, and I highly recommend it, but Macs usually schedule things to be done automatically. The only drawback is that the cron daemon seems to be a night-owl....
The best option is to install a program such as Control Freak, which greatly simplifies the process of system maintenance and is still free. http://home.comcast.net/~jeff.ulicny/software/
Just have it automatically perform the necessary operations.
One of my biggest complaints with Apple, other than their poor security (message me if you need examples), is that they attempt to hide the system from the user. Of course, this can be a good thing, and is why OSX is considered to be a bit more idiot-proof than similar offerings from Microsoft or the Linux community.
No, there is no tool like that because the operating system is organized differently.
If you look through the Mac utitilities, you can find a "disk maintenance" tool or something like that, but nothing that "defrags" because it's not necessary the way the operating system stores data.