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The Easiest Way to Fix Your Mac

The Easiest Way to Fix Your Mac

Blogpost, May 2009

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David Koff
May 19, 2009
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The Easiest Way to Fix Your Mac
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Back in the days of OS 9, if your Mac was ever acting strangely, there was a trick you do that was so simple, that anyone – even the motards – could do it and help to maintain their own Macs. Back then, all you needed to do was to rebuild your desktop files and EVERYONE knew how to do that: you just restarted your computer while holding down the option …

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