Apple Support doc: Mac maintenance Quick Assist

Why rename your photos when iPhoto organizes them automatically and of course needs the files named how they were on the camera to find them?

Why make a backup of a file just to delete the original file thus making the backup the sole copy, not a backup.

Spotlight is a major new feature in Tiger and supposedly changes the way we organize and search for files. "With Spotlight, you always find what you’re looking for, even if you don’t know where to look." But according to this help document, we still need to be concerned with where we put things so we can "easily find them". Perhaps Apple technical support should read the marketing memos.

The issue I had with the mac and viruses, is that we use office, and somebody got a macro virus from someone else. then this macro virus was infecting every document they opened, so it was quite annoying. ClamAV did find the virus, but it didn't clean it. So I had to get Norton for the mac and clean it up.

So #3, go get ClamAV to find em, and if you need to, get something else (like norton, or trendmicro) to clean em.

Quote from John Gruber:

"Amidst other tips for morons such as keeping your desktop tidy, wiping dust off your computer, and giving your documents sensible file names, this Apple support document recommends running Repair Disk Permissions periodically. Just because it appears in a goofy support article doesn’t mean it’s gospel."

LOL.

The question I have about scanning for viruses: How many are there and how exactly are we supposed to scan for them if there aren't any virus definitions for OS X viruses?

I agree about apple being a little too "cute" lately.

Macs may not be affected by virus but that doesn't mean that they can't get infected. We could easily get an infected email or document that we could pass on to our poor Windows using colleages.