I don't think this has been necessary since around OS X 10.3 - these periodic tasks now get automatically deferred until the next time the Mac is woken up.
Paul On 9 Nov 2010, at 22:31, Stuart Dunkeld wrote: > I suggest doing this every few months: > > Open the Terminal app, and type > > sudo periodic daily weekly monthly > > After you type in your password (which the sudo command requires to act as > the root user on your behalf) nothing will happen visibly, but inside OSX > various housekeeping tasks are taking place. Once the operation is complete > (and it can take a few minutes) you can close Terminal > > These tasks are scheduled by the system to take place at odd times of the > night, as UNIX systems generally used to be on all the time, so as it's not > so common now for a system to be up at 3.15 AM you have to run them manually. > > As far as I know there are no risks involved in running these commands. > > Regards > > Stuart > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug?hl=en-GB.
