![]() * Links to my pages may give me compensation. These swiss army knife utilities need to be guarded with care, and only to be used when you have a backup on standby. Whoever recommended Onyx did so only because they were lucky or knew what they were doing, and assumed you would too. ![]() Previous versions of the operating system were not as generous, and required you have an equal or greater version of Disk Utility to do repair permissions. It can also help fix problems with your Mac’s system, such as permissions issues. Though thankfully with Tiger and newer at least you can use the installer disc's disk utility on a newer version of the operating system than is on the installer DVD. Onyx is a Mac cleaning and optimization software that can help improve the performance of your Mac by clearing out junk files, optimizing system settings, and more. OnyX has many options that makes it user-friendly all geared towards getting. Permissions sometimes is not repaired properly by these utilities, unless you use Disk Utility of the boot drive. I always prefer Mac over windows just because of its fast and smooth performance. The real danger of prebinding utilities is you can render your Mac unbootable: The real danger with many of the other utilities which specifically empty system caches is that caches can get corrupt, sometimes requiring a complete erase and install to resolve a persistently corrupting cache file. Moral of the story, backup first, worry about alternate utilities later. If you don't have a backup, some troubleshooting utilities can actually dig you a deeper hole, whereby data recovery is the only way to restore your situation with expensive data recovery companies. Everything else should be treated as an after backup utility used only, and I repeat only for troubleshooting, when you know what it is you are troubleshooting, and are ready to restore the backup if the troubleshooting doesn't save you time. I took it to Onyx the next morning, and the guys there figured out. My MacBook had a bad screen so it was on its last legs even before the boot problem. The software has been developed by Titanium’s software. Onyx Mac is a fairly popular software for maintaining the Mac Platform. The only safe utility to use is a backup utility. A corrupted installer program messed up the permissions on my MacBook one evening this week. Onyx Mac: A Must-Read Comprehensive Review. It is not a maintenance utility despite others calling it, Cocktail, Macaroni, Applejack, Jaguar-Tiger Cache Cleaners, and other multifunction utilities that do more than one task. Key features of OnyX OnyX is a straightforward maintenance and optimization tool for Mac. Actually I wouldn't go as far as to say Onyx is safe to use.
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