{"id":556,"date":"2010-10-17T22:08:17","date_gmt":"2010-10-18T05:08:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.52techtips.com\/blog\/?p=556"},"modified":"2010-10-17T22:11:07","modified_gmt":"2010-10-18T05:11:07","slug":"mac-maintenance-tips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/52techtips.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/17\/mac-maintenance-tips\/","title":{"rendered":"Mac Maintenance Tips"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" title=\"The X Lab\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thexlab.com\/logos\/The%20X%20Labs%20Logo%201x2.jpg\" alt=\"the x lab\" width=\"240\" height=\"125\" \/>The Mac OS is a different animal than windows so maintaining it is also a bit different. For example, most places you look will tell you that there is no need to defragment your hard drive when running on a Mac. I remember reading something years ago about how there are some routines you can run to help tidy things up a bit. A quick google search took me to this excellent resource called &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thexlab.com\/faqs\/maintscripts.html\" target=\"_self\">the x lab<\/a>&#8220;. [http:\/\/www.thexlab.com\/faqs\/maintscripts.html] I tend to steer away from additional software if possible so my preferred method is &#8220;The Terminal Way&#8221;. The article provides the instructions and the reasons why you should perform this maintenance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Mac OS is a different animal than windows so maintaining it is also a bit different. For example, most places you look will tell you that there is no need to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[68,223,185,138],"class_list":["post-556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-apple","tag-mac","tag-maintenance","tag-os"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/52techtips.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/52techtips.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/52techtips.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/52techtips.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/52techtips.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=556"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/52techtips.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":558,"href":"https:\/\/52techtips.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556\/revisions\/558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/52techtips.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/52techtips.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/52techtips.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}