Howdy.
Janet. Here is info on routine maintenance procedures for your
Macintosh.
1. Safe Disk Boot.
Restart your Mac and at the Chime press the Shift key. Keep it pressed
while the Mac boots up. It will take longer to boot because it's doing
maintenance things. When the Log in with your home user account
password box appears let up on the Shift key, type your password, and
it will finish booting.
Safe Disk Boot shuts off a number of things that load automatically
(like using the Internet), it deletes some cache files, it does a disk
check.
After doing a Safe Disk Boot, restart your Mac in the usual way.
2. Recovery Partition boot.
Restart and press Command r. Your Mac should boot into an invisible
partition that has a basic system folder and Disk Utility and other
things. You can use First Aid on your normal boot drive to check and
repair it.
After finished you quit Disk Utility, restart (picking your normal boot
drive).
3. OnyX by Titanium Software.
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OnyX is a great utility for doing a variety of maintenance things for
your Mac.
It's important to download the correct version of OnyX for your OS X
version.
OnyX can delete even more cache files than Safe Disk Boot.
For learning about some of the steps, OnyX has a question mark in each
panel that provides a brief explanation of that it does.
Denver Dan
On Sat, 26 Oct 2019 07:48:37 -0500, Janet Brunner via Groups.Io wrote:
Thanks for the suggestions Dan, I appreciate it¡.but¡.I don¡¯t know
how to do a Safe Disk Boot, and not quite sure how to delete cache
files. Would you be so kind as to guide me through these so I can
give it a try?
Thanks so much,
Janet
On Oct 26, 2019, at 7:44 AM, Otto Nikolaus via Groups.Io
<otto.nikolaus@...> wrote:
I shut down my MacBook Pro with the key combo
Control-Option-Command-Eject
Does that work with an iMac (if you don't have an Eject key, use the
Power button instead)?
Otto
On Sat, 26 Oct 2019 at 10:26, Janet Brunner via Groups.Io
<janetsbrunner@...> wrote:
Hello All,
I have found one ¡°issue¡± since upgrading to Catalina and it¡¯s
starting to drive me crazy.
I shut down my Mac each night before bed. I follow the usual
sequence of clicking on the Apple icon, choosing shut down, and
shut down again. About 50% of the time my Mac will choose to
Restart instead of shut down¡.and I have been extremely careful to
choose shut down each time.
It¡¯s really a pain having to wait for it to load up so I can shut
it down again. It has always shut down on the second try when this
happens.
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Does anyone have thoughts or suggestions about this? I would love
to find a fix.
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