I don't know. Someone claimed that the author had given up and was abandoning 
the project, but this was based on third-hand info on the MacUpdate forum, not 
the actual sourceforge project page.

I believe the only thing that does not work is the cache clearing, and that's 
because some of them have  moved around; the script itself is a relatively 
simple bash script.

On Dec 4, 2012, at 5:22 PM, richardsan wrote:

> i was wondering about applejack, guessing an update is forthcoming?
> 
> 
> On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 10:03 AM, Bruce Johnson <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
> 
> On Dec 3, 2012, at 6:50 PM, richardsan <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > http://micromat.com/
> > anyone got any testing done with it?
> 
> I've not done any testing with this particular product, but I"m kinda leery 
> of any 'regular maintenance' OS X product, because OSX doesn't require 
> 'regular maintenance'.
> 
> My three main weapons of OSX repair-itude are Safe Boot, Disk Utility, Time 
> Machine and Disk Warrior.
> 
> Ahem, my FOUR main weapons are Safe Boot, Disk Utility, Time Machine, Disk 
> Warrior and Console.
> 
> My FIVE main….:-)
> 
> Also I only use those things if I have a problem.
> 
> Absent actual hardware failure, 90% of the time, simply rebooting in Safe 
> mode (which has become increasingly complex since 10.4) fixes it, because 
> problems are related to corrupted library and program caches that a safe boot 
> clears.
> 
> Disk Utility is good for catching disk directory problems and SMART warnings, 
> and also home to the biggest placebo in OSX history 'Repair Permissions'. To 
> this day, since the advent of the utility in 10.2 (to fix a 10.1.5 problem!) 
> I've seen just two instances where Repair Permissions actually accomplished 
> anything.
> 
> Time Machine, because a good backup is 100% of the repair utilities you need, 
> because any disk problem that cannot be fixed with a nuke and pave can be 
> fixed with a replacement disk, nuke and pave.
> 
> DiskWarrior for those times when you stupidly don't have a backup and Disk 
> Utility won't fix it.
> 
> Console to tell me what's breaking.
> 
> Google to translate what Console is telling me. %-)
> 
> I'd reccomend Applejack as well, unless you have 10.8. 
> <http://applejack.sourceforge.net>, but you have to install it BEFORE you run 
> into trouble…
> 
> Some things in Applejack work (memtest, disk repair, etc) but clearing the 
> caches may not work, because they've been moved.
> 
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> 
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