HELPFUL REPAIR UTILITIES

System utilities have always been a significant cottage industry for the Macintosh and today is no exception.

Here are three that I recommend:

1. Disk Warrior X This utility is indispensable for restoring corrupted disk directories. It is a one trick pony, but nobody does it better. I carry this CD with me everywhere. Run it once a month on your system to keep things working the way you expect.

2. Tech Tool Pro (version 4.01). This system test and maintenance tool can help you spot trouble before it occurs. While I do have a quibble about how it’s video display test works (it seems to find a great number of false positives) overall it has earned the right to be in my daily repair kit. Only run this when you need it. But keep it close at hand.

3. Macaroni. I use this for all my support clients to make sure key background Unix utilities run in a timely fashion. This is from the “install it once and forget it” school of thought, but I like it and use it on both my client and personal systems.

4. Sponge You’re running out of disk space? You want to clean your disk to free up some space and get rid of the clutter? Sponge is a tool to keep your Mac clean and tidy.

5. AppZapper, a software uninstaller tool

6. DiskInventory X, capable of showing the biggest files on your hard drive.

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