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Spring Clean your MacBook

September 13th 2010 in MacBook and OSX

For the experienced user here are some clean up tips for Mac OSX

Reboot while holding Shift Key until blue screen appears (after the grey one). This will re index the computer in safe mode. Reboot when done.
Clear out all caches and reboot so they can be rebuilt
- Harddrive/Library/Caches
- Harddrive/System/library/Caches
- Harddrive/Users/Your User/Library/Caches
Repair Hard disk permissions. Go to Finder then HD/Apps/Utilities Disk Utilities. Select drive then “Repair Permissions”
Defrag hard drive using iDefrag

Safari Cleanups

Clean out the Safari Cache
Safari/Preferences/Security/Show Cookies/Remove All
History/Clear History
You could enable Safari/Private Browsing each time
Ultimately you could use. Safari/Reset Safari

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