Re: Disk First Aid running on every boot

On 2024-12-08 19:58:35 +0000, Knezzen said:

In article <vintageapplemac-3011240518390001@192.168.1.134>,
 vintageapplemac@gmail.com (scole) wrote:
 

As subject, every time I boot this machine up lately the Disk First Aid
alert appears telling me the computer didn't shut down properly and then
it scans for errors. Thing is, I shut the computer down correctly every
time!
 Machine is PowerMac G4 MDD 1.25Ghz, OS9.2.2, hard drive is a 256GB SSD
hooked to a Sonnet Tempo SATA PCI card.
 Any ideas why this keeps happening? It has done it before in the same way
over the years, there'll be a period where it boots fine and then a period
where it always runs Disk First Aid, and then it'll go back to booting
fine for a time for no rhyme or reason... I have a relatively fresh
install on the machine now, a couple of months old, and it was booting
straight into OS9 for a while before this started happening again. I have
done no recent software installs that correlate with it beginning, either.
 I can disable Disk First Aid from ever running at start-up, is that
recommended or cautioned against?

 From my experience I started getting this *all the time* when I moved
from rotating storage to SSD's in my machines about 10 years ago or so.
 Something about how a volume is flagged as "dirty" in Mac OS 9.2.2 is
problematic when using more modern storage solutions. I tend to just
disable the boot check in the "General Controls" control panel and keep
an eye on my volumes with Disk First Aid twice a year or so.
 -Theo

Wonder if you could just compress Disk First Aid into a self-extracting archive and use it when needed, that's what I do with apps that don't behave like I want them to. If it froze the machine on start up for some reason though that wouldn't work.