Maintaining Your Mac

Maintaining your Mac in good condition isn't terribly difficult, and the effort you do put in will pay off in your having to spend less time and effort solving problems. In this section, you will learn about the following maintenance tasks:

  • Maintaining your system software

  • Maintaining your hard disks

  • Backing up your system

  • Maintaining alternate startup volumes and discs

  • Building and maintaining a Mac toolkit

  • Maintaining your applications

Using Software Update to Maintain Your Software

Apple continuously updates the OS to solve problems, enhance performance, and introduce new features. Keeping track of the updates manually is time-consuming. Fortunately, you don't have to. You can use the Software Update tool to check, download, ...

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