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| Aug 15, 2015 at 16:13 | comment | added | Buzut | Thanks for the clarification. Then, Onyx isn't advised if the machine is low on disk and the user doesn't know what he's doing | |
| Aug 15, 2015 at 15:21 | comment | added | bmike♦ | Users that tended to use onyx to do one or two things usually got themselves into less trouble or no trouble at all. I'm glad it works for you, but there were classes of people that ran to "repair permissions" / "run onyx" and they weren't typically aware of what or why they did things and often wasted time or made things worse. | |
| Aug 15, 2015 at 15:11 | comment | added | bmike♦ | Yes - if you delete caches, the system will regenerate them. Now that the system is running low on space, it can't allocate enough free blocks and the caches are now horribly stored. SSD write amplification is well documented. If any temporary file exceeds the space that's free now the OP has two problems. I worked in Macintosh support for years and users with Onyx drove their Macs into horrible, horrible problems. As a class, they had big issues that needed deep changes to fix since they were used to catch-all solutions and sweeping problems under the rug. | |
| Aug 15, 2015 at 15:04 | comment | added | Buzut | Slow down temporarily till, for instance Spotlight cache is reconstructed. Do you have an exemple of a setting that could harm the Mac? I've been doing this some time to time with a 2009 Macbook pro and it still runs like a charm with Yosemite… | |
| Aug 15, 2015 at 14:32 | comment | added | bmike♦ | No, no, no, no - blindly telling Onyx to do everything slows down a mac and can cause worse issues. In the right hands, once you know how to measure system performance and you know your software isn't behaving properly - only then would you use a tool like magic / onyx to automate selective things. This is bad advice for new people and more like snake oil IMO. Worse, you suggest this when the OP storage is full. This will harm that system - there is no room to install anything and deleting cache files via ONYX will slow it down incredibly. | |
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| Aug 15, 2015 at 7:47 | history | answered | Buzut | CC BY-SA 3.0 |