I know a few editors that use this on their media composers and Perhaps there's a mixture of people here that are using their machine for multiple tasks and they may not have dedicated machines to compose/mix on but the method still applies. Do regular maintenance and stick to it (Or pay a man or woman who does it for a living) Don't upgrade mid project or on a whim or when you get the latest upgrade email. Back up, then back up again, take a copy home. Do your backups, archive your old delivered sessions. and disk maintenance tools like diskwarrior and Norton used to be decent tools in the early 2000's and when you had OS9 but booting from the recovery partition and running disk utility is as good these days.Ī lot of it comes down to good housekeeping.

In my experience, apps that report to save you time and help you out seem to take over the machine and take more of your time, frustrating you in the process.Ī lot of this software is worse than the virus itself.

On occasion these small files also could be application prefs or machine prefs. These disk program operate by removing small files expecting those files to be trash or tiny cache or orphan documents. If you're careful with what you put on your machine and keep it organised I don't see an issue. Maintenance tasks like repairing disk permissions and the like are now done when the machine starts up and shuts down. But In my years of working on macs, I've never once had a virus and so I've never felt the need to buy anti virus software.ĭisk cleaning is automatically done on later macs OS. If you are constantly plugging in external pen drives and ext HDD from clients, downloading links from the web from multiple sources, randomly clicking on adverts and pop ups, sure there's a chance there may be an infected file somewhere. All computers could get a virus, sure but I think it depends on how and what you're putting on the machine. Hi, personally I leave anti virus well alone, it just slow things up and is invairiably the root of a problem yet to be found.

I use avast cleaner on my mac