Turning off Dashboard for Increased Performance

[APE Design Ctr]

Hi all,

I have noticed that Dashboard is always the source of corrupted permissions. I can repair permissions once, then verify again, and the same ones seem to pop up.

Dashboard also also consumes quite a bit of memory, and may leach performance from VectorWorks tasks.

For the small amount of time I use Dashboard, I have decided to turn it off completely.

Heres how: From MacWorld

http://www.macworld.com/weblogs/macosxhints/2005/08/disabledashboard/

[islandmon]

Fixed ... with v10.4.6 Dashboard is not always active.

Normal Dashboard Off & Docked>

Dashboard Open with Widgets activated:

[APE Design Ctr]

Didnt know you could do that in 10.6! I still found that Dashboard screwed up my permissions.

Since I have turned it off my permissions seem to be fine consistently.

[NickB]

Eddie,

as far as I'm aware the widgets were given "special permissions" purely during the time you were running the repair. That was totally normal behaviour and nothing to worry about (there were also a couple of other items that behaved in that way).

I think Apple found this was causing some confusion because after the 10.4.6 update the items given "special permissions" are simply not reported any more.

If you dig deep into the 10.4.6 release notes I'm pretty sure that's what it says.

regards, Nick

[Christiaan]

quote:

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Originally posted by NickB:

I think Apple found this was causing some confusion because after the 10.4.6 update the items given "special permissions" are simply not reported any more.

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That's correct Nick.

[APE Design Ctr]

OK thnks guys.