Why Rebuild Your Desktop?
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Why Rebuild Your Desktop?
Why should you rebuild your desktop regularly? Look at it this way. You're surfing and you find a bunch of great new MP3s you want to download. So you stack up about 12 downloads, and while those are running, you check your e-mail, send a few messages, delete some others. Back to the downloads … almost done, hey, here's a few more good ones! Queue them up, then go to your desktop, gather up the ones that are done and drop them into a folder. Hop on ICQ and chat with your buddy while the downloads finish …
Each of these actions creates disk I/O … your stressed-out Mac is reading and writing as quickly as it can, keeping up with your actions as you stack commands. SOMEWHERE in all of this, your Mac might have a bit of trouble keeping up with you … and a tiny error could occur. Add up a couple months worth of daily activity, and you can get LOTS of tiny errors.
It's true, your trusty Mac can handle this for a long time without glitching … but one of these days something just may give! So … let it be you, giving your Mac a nice shiny new Desktop File at least every couple of months. Your Mac will thank you.
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