As a Logic Pro X user, is using the Onyx utility advisable?

Question

Hello, I am about to erase and reinstall my Mac Pro's boot drive, and will also erase and restore files to one of my two internal hard drives (the one where I keep my Logic Projects and some other files). My other internal HD contains samples, and the structure of it has not changed that much, so I don't plan to erase it.
After this process, I want to maintain the hard drives well after reformatting/reinstalling/restoring files, and I'm wondering if using a utility such as Onyx is a good idea for the boot drive, or unnecessary. I'm also wondering if any kind of regular defragging on the Logic Project drive is a good idea. Any thoughts?
Thanks.
P.S. Just to give a bit more background: I've owned this computer for 4+ years and have never erased it since buying. I've been experiencing a bit of bugginess with Logic (e.g., several "Deep Architecture - please unpack some folders" error messages, even though I don't use folders in my projects, or Midi Timeout errors, when I only have one MIDI driver installed (for an Access Virus TI). So for these and other reasons, I feel it might be a good idea to do the erase/reinstall. Regarding the internal hard drive with Logic Projects, my thinking is that, by erasing and dragging the folders/files back, I can effectively defrag the drive.

Answer 1

Hi Tim,
When I restore my Logic Projects, would it be better to restore each project to the root of the drive, rather than to "Productions" folders at the root of the drive? Or would doing this mess up Logic's internal directory? I
I would restore it exactly as it was on the older drive.. with folders etc, intact..  It shouldn't make any difference if you change the structure but, having said that, I've had weird issues when taking projects folders and moving them into sub folders folders (or out of folders) for reasons I do not fully understand and the real confusion comes from why it only sometimes happens and not always or never...
Therefore, I adopt the practice of.. "Lets not risk anything messing anything up" and just keep the structure exactly the same...
I recently began saving all the content to the project folder, whereas with some older projects I didn't save the sampler instruments/samples to the Project folder (but I always saved the audio files/midi files etc. to the Project folders).
I did much the same thing originally but then I had the opportunity (and time) to go back through all my old projects and re-save them with "everything included" and I am glad i did.... although in all honesty I didn't fully test all my older projects prior to moving them and re-saving them but again, that "healthy paranoia" of mine got the better of me and so I just re-saved every project "Just in case.." as i had one project that for some unexplained reason wouldn't load all the project's custom IR's used by Space Designer.. (even though they remained were they had always been located prior to the moving of the projects and so in theory, that shouldn't have caused any issues) and so that put me on guard so to speak.
I had been saving my Logic Project folders not to the root of my 2nd internal hard drive, but to folders titled "Productions A-F", "Productions G-L", "Productions M-R" and "Productions S-Z". All those folders were at the root of the drive.
I do a similar thing.. sorting out individual projects into grouping folders named in relation the the major overall project they are a part of. Example Grouping Folders named Movie XYZ, Album 123, TV Show ABC and so on...  and projects sorted out and saved to those Grouping folders.. I personally find it a much cleaner way of keeping everything neat and tidy and have noticed no issues in doing so.
Cheers..
Nigel