[coopns]

Coming over from pc world (weekly maintenance). I used Onyx a bit but then I read somewhere that it is not needed.

Advice ...recommendations?

Thanks.

[CharlesS]

The Mac doesn't need regular maintenance. There are a lot of little rituals that some people eespouse because it makes them feel good, like they're doing something to keep their system running. But all of these things do very little if you're not currently experiencing a problem.

Do a search of the forums and find some of my previous posts on repairing permissions or cache cleaning to get my full opinion on this matter.

[f1000]

Every once in awhile I'll run Disk Utility and do a disk scan. I also have DiskWarrior monitoring my HD at all times.

I'd still advise religiously making backups, though.