Jan 22
- Keep your Mac out of the hands of strangers and children
- Always have one duplicate backup and one archive of your home directory, preferably off-site
- Keep some heavy duty file directory repair software at hand, like Alsoft Disk Warrior
- Buy products from known and trusted vendors
- Beware of vendors who bundle unknown products with your purchase, like 3rd party RAM included with your Mac from some other vendor
- Be gentle with your computer and treat it with respect in terms of its environment and handling
- Run Apple updates after a short period of time to see if there are any nasty bugs that early adopters run into
- Research updates and upgrades before attempting an OS overhaul, like moving from 10.4 to 10.6.
- Respect the way the Mac arranges data and don’t defeat it by moving files and folders without knowing what you are doing.
- Keep abreast of current technology – don’t wait until your hardware and software is way out of date so you suffer multiple problems trying to upgrade your systems all at once.
- Use experts when necessary – they’ve suffered through multiple problem solving sessions so they know where Mac experts fear to tread, and what to do if they have to go there.
- Use backups religiously. Make it a personal rule to understand what they do and how to do it correctly, or suffer from lost data and probable personal anguish when your data goes missing or your work flow is interrupted for hours, days or weeks.
- Get off your computer, take a walk, relax and enjoy life. It’s just a machine.
