Repair Disk isn’t the first option you should choose if your Mac is ailing, but it is helpful when (for example): Performance has degraded Data is missing You are experiencing degraded system ...

I've got a Late-2009 Aluminum iMac (27"). It crashed last night, so I restarted and it booted into the restore disk. I tried to verify/repair the disk and got: I thought I had a recent time machine ...

There are a variety of maintenance routines that people can run in OS X, including the disk verification and permissions repair that come with the system, along with scripts such as cache cleaners ...

Apple has released a trio of articles that offer new or updated information regarding disk repairs. Let’s take a look at each. Gray progress bar at startup and Snow Leopard According to an Apple ...

OS X offers a very nice graphical user interface to verify and repair your hard drive, located in the Utilities folder. It’s called Disk Utility, and you can use it as the first line of defense when ...

OrangeMicro PCI cards and 10.2.8 Yesterday we reported the saga of a user whose Mac would not work properly after installing the 10.2.8 update. The culprit apparently ended up being an Orange Micro ...

Activity Monitor is Mac OS's process manager, similar in function to Windows Task Manager. In this utility you can see every process running on your computer, how much memory it is using, stop ...