Cool Maintenance Utility for Leopard ....

Leopard users might benefit from this utility available here:
http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/systemdisk_utilities/maintenancetitaniumssoftware.html
Carolyn

Carolyn Samit wrote:
HI Joshz,
I like Onyx. I've been using it forever. Some users hate it, some love it.. but it's good to be able to check out the Support/System Disk Utilities that Apple provides. I was just trying to make it a tad easier to access the options for Leopard users.
Carolyn
Fair enough, I just believe in the right to choose.

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