Not bragging, rather pointing out what for several years was a routine maintenance procedure has become unnecessary and potentially creates more risk than benefit. At the outermost user level there is not that much obvious difference between macOS X 10.0 (Cheetah) and macOS 12 (Monterey) but under the hood they are radically different. Oh, ok.

Some of the standby maintenance routines we used to follow on our Macs remind me of the very confused young man I saw at the filling station wandering around trying to figure out where to put gasoline in the Tesla he was driving. [/quote] LOL! For real? I once watched a guy drive up to a pump and when he got out he realized his gas tank was on the other side. So he got back in and drove around to the other side of the pump. Same problem! It was so funny to watch.


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