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You obviously live in a warm climate. /forums/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif
I on the otherhand appreciate the little heaters.
Eight ways to go green
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HandyMac 
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Posted 08 May 2007 - 06:28 AM
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Unfortunately, Tiger's "smarter" behavior has bugs that prevent it from working properly for many users.
That said, the benefit -- for most users -- of having these scripts run regularly is minimal.
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As of Tiger, OS X is much smarter about when those scripts are run. You mostly don't need to use MacJanitor or let the Mac consume an entire overnight's worth of power just to run 5 minutes of scripts.
As of Tiger, OS X is much smarter about when those scripts are run. You mostly don't need to use MacJanitor or let the Mac consume an entire overnight's worth of power just to run 5 minutes of scripts.
Unfortunately, Tiger's "smarter" behavior has bugs that prevent it from working properly for many users.
That said, the benefit -- for most users -- of having these scripts run regularly is minimal.
I had heard that 10.4 does a better job with the Maintenance Scripts, but not about this "bug", which appears to put us back where we started. However, I've always taken care of this problem with the shareware utility Macaroni, not only on my own Macs (since I switched to OS X with 10.2) but also every Mac I set up for clients. Macaroni also does a weekly automatic Permissions repair (yes, I know some Mac "experts" consider this useless, but I've seen many reports of it fixing problems, and experienced it myself several times, and there's certainly no harm in it anyway), and you can use it to automate practically any maintenance task.
