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AppleJack advice needed
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Join Date: Jul 2006
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Hi,
While looking at different OS maintenance utilities, I found AppleJack and according to what I read, it seems that this utility is used by quite a number of Mac savvy users being that it works at the Single User Mode level.
Instead of using Onyx and similar utilities, I feel like giving this a try but would like to get some feedback from AppleJack users, especially at the cache cleaning level.
Cheers,
Gene
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Moderator  Join Date: Dec 2000
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AppleJack is nice because you can access its functions when your OS X system is hosed and won't boot. Yes, you could also boot from the OS X install/restore disc but a lot of times people don't have those around. AppleJack is a very handy utility.
Onyx does some additional things that AJ doesn't do though, and Onyx runs only while booted into OS X.
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Join Date: Feb 2002
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Applejack also can run in auto mode, which can be handy for periodic maintenance.
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Join Date: Nov 1999
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AppleJack is not a maintenance tool, rather, it's a fixer-upper troubleshooting tool.
You don't need maintenance tools on OS X.
AppleJack is very handy to have around in a very limited set of circumstances.
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Join Date: Oct 2000
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Never needed it, thankfully.
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"The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground." TJ
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Originally Posted by Spheric Harlot 
AppleJack is not a maintenance tool, rather, it's a fixer-upper troubleshooting tool.
You don't need maintenance tools on OS X.
AppleJack is very handy to have around in a very limited set of circumstances.
Seconded.
Deleting caches, repairing permissions, and whatnot is simply not something you need to be doing on a regular basis.
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