The system logs are conveniently sorted by services and protocols while the installer and application logs as well as the crash reports are split into two categories, library and user, making it easy to find the evidence left behind by a faulty application. Under the fifth tab you can easily find and read logs and reports. It's not exactly automated so the name is a bit uninspired but it does provide a simpler, more convenient way to do things if you use the program a lot. Here, options and settings that are spread over several of the other panes are grouped under big categories as to allow for fast, one click operations. Giving your system a spring cleaning is as easy as ticking off everything that you want to get rid of and pressing execute.Īt first glance this tab might seem redundant but it is not. In the third tab labeled 'Cleaning', you have a listing of all the temporary files and caches, logs, recent items and servers, AutoFill form values, cookies and all those other things that tend to pile and clutter around the edges of your digital desktop. From this pane you can also execute daily, monthly and monthly maintenance scripts. Here you can reset certain integrated components such as the help, the links between documents and applications and the Spotlight index. Also you can run a system optimization, the kind the system runs after installing new software, having a choice of either 'update' or 'complete optimization'. You can opt to repair permissions for both OS X and Classic, if you happen to have it installed. This tab houses the options that control the automated maintenance tasks that are built into OS X. There are also several non-cosmetic options such as disabling certain Finder menu items, debug menu and options in Safari, and last but not least, choose a different startup mode such as Verbose, Safe or Single User.

You can modify the appearance of scroll bars in the finder as well as the format for screen capture files, opt whether to keep or disable zooming and animation effects, modify the position and alignment of the dock and even disable Dashboard altogether.

Under this tab you can find the options that deal with the way the system's UI looks and is laid out, as well as enabling or disabling certain features or components. For ease, I shall structure this review according to these seven categories.

When launching Onyx for the first time we are greeted with a slim seven item tool bar. Now that we got that out of the way let's dig into this application and see what it can do. Onyx is an application meant to enable advanced customization of OS X features and options that are built into the system but are for one reason or another hidden.ĭon't fret as it's not as technical as you might expect, after all, this is a Mac program, and even if it is designed to do those obscure terminal command thingies, it will do them behind the scenes and all you will have to heal with is a brushed metal interface with tick-boxes and drop-down menus.

Onyx for mac taking a long time