Thanks, Lee, I have downloaded and have run MacJanitor. Gee wiz, am I
not a wiz? This learning process is pure joy to me.
Marta
Heinzelm?nnchenk?nigin a.D.
On Mar 18, 2004, at 19:15, Lee Larson wrote:
> On Mar 18, 2004, at 6:16 PM, Marta Edie queried:
>
>> If I understand you correctly, leaving the computer on all night, it
>> will do these cron exercises without being prodded or scheduled? I
>> don't have a MacJanitor, only the regular disk utilities that came
>> with the Mac.
>
>
> Tasks scheduled with cron are done with varying frequency. There are
> various maintenance tasks that are run daily, weekly, or monthly.
>
> The daily tasks are scheduled for 3:15 every morning. The weekly tasks
> are done at 4:30 in the morning on Saturday. The monthly tasks are
> done at 5:30 in the morning on the first day of the month. If you have
> your machine turned off at these times, they do not get done.
>
> MacJanitor is a free program to make your Mac run the maintenance
> scripts whenever you want. There are several other programs which do
> the same thing.
>
> <http://personalpages.tds.net/~brian_hill/macjanitor.html>
>
> It's a good idea to run the maintenance scripts once in a while
> because they do useful things like rotating logs, clearing caches and
> generally removing detritus from your hard drive.
>
>
>
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