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that we hope you'll find helpful. Some of the documents will be
items of general use to any user, and others will be specific to
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This is our first entry into this How-To section. In it we describe what Activity Monitor is and how to use it. We show screen shots of Activity Monitor in use as it monitors the mds process used by Spotlight, which is often problematic. We also describe what the common causes for performance problems are.
Added: March 10, 2013
In this entry, we discuss the process of using Phoenix and
Disk Utility to clone the primary hard drive for a system using
both Lion and Mountain Lion.
Added: March 19, 2013, Last Modified July 10, 2013
In this entry, we discuss the signs and symptoms of a bad hard
disk or solid state drive, and discuss other problems that may
lead you to think you have drive problems when none exist.
Added: April 10, 2013, last updated June 4, 2015
In this entry, we show you how to take an existing single
volume backup drive and add another volume to it.
Added: June 25, 2013
In this entry, we discuss the basics of using Scannerz and
Scannerz Lite for testing hard drives. We also cover some of the
advanced features of Scannerz not available in Scannerz Lite.
Added: March 21, 2013, updated March 11, 2014
In this entry, we discuss the more advanced features of
Scannerz and how to use Scannerz to perform system
troubleshooting. This is not applicable to Scannerz Lite.
Added: July 22 2013, updated March 11, 2014
Scannerz, Scannerz Lite, FSE, FSE-Lite, Performance Probe 2, Phoenix, SpotOff, and Spot-O-Meter are Mac OS X universal binaries and support both 32 and 64 bit Intel based systems using Mac OS X versions 10.6 (Snow Leopard), 10.7 (Lion), 10.8 (Mountain Lion), 10.9 (Mavericks), 10.10 (Yosemite), 10.11 (El Capitan), and 10.12 (Sierra). Supported Intel based systems include all variants of the MacBook, MacBook Air, MacBook Pro, iMac, Mac Pro, and Mac Mini.