The National Enquirer reports at 2:57 PM -0400 10/3/04, Laurent Daudelin wrote:
If those scripts were that important, don't you think that Apple would have put something to run them or accomplish what they do on a regular basis?
Apple did. :-) The scripts will run without any action whatsoever if the machine is on. Why are they scheduled at those weird times? I assume because they were thought to be the best times to find the computer not being used (I seem to recall that the scripts won't run if the computer is being used).
Apple really screwed up on implementing the scripts:
1. They scheduled them for when the vast majority of people have their computers OFF or in sleep mode. A totally asinine decision.
2. They could have made the scripts wake up the computer from sleep mode, run the scripts and then put the computer back to sleep. No, that would be too intelligent.
3. They could have set the scripts to run as part of the boot up process.
All-in-all, it seems to be following the "Microsoft way"; any possibility that the programmer involved used to work for M$?
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