Mac maintenance

At home on my PC, I habitually use a little free program called CleanUp to get rid of temporary files and various junk that accumulates in day-to-day nerding. I believe there's a similar program called CCleaner, about which I've read good things.

At work I'm using a Mac, and I don't know anything about Mac maintenance.

Are there things I should be doing regularly to keep it running smoothly?

It's a G5 running 10.4, on which I'm using Creative Suite 3, and various other stuff.

I barely do any maintenance since mine doesn't really need it. It IS a Mac after all .

But, OnyX is the best program for your Mac, plus it's free!

http://www.macupdate.c​om/info.php/id/11582

Download version 1.8.5.


Other programs I have are 'Internet Cleaning' and 'Spring Cleaning' by SmithMicro, I rarely use them, but can be useful. http://my.smithmicro.c​om/mac/

The file system maintains itself realtime as you open, delete and move files so de-fragging is not necessary. Otherwise runs Onyx as above poster said, it cleans cache directories and allows you to force run the automated daily, weekly and monthly scripts.

OnyX is neat.

A useful site: Click

Thanks all - I'll give Onyx a go tomorrow.