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    #49: Mac Maintenance

    May 7th, 2011 · 69 minutes

    Katie and David dive deep on Mac maintenance issues, practices, and and tools.

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    Macworld on Repairing Permissions

    Apple on Zapping PRAM

    Apple on Snow Leopard Caches

    Apple on Disk Fragmentation

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