It won't cure all of your Mac's ills, but a quick and easy first step toward bringing a sluggish Mac back to health is using OS X's Disk Utility to repair disk permissions. Matt Elliott Senior Editor ...

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Windows has an inbuilt mechanism that checks the hard drive and reports errors if anything isn’t working as expected. In case a problem is detected, the user gets ...

If a hard drive shows 0 used space and 0 free space despite having a lot of free space, you cannot store files on it. This problem usually occurs if your hard drive is corrupted or your system is ...

There are a variety of maintenance routines that people can run in OS X, including the disk verification and permissions repair that come with the system, along with scripts such as cache cleaners ...