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On 12 Jan 2011, at 21:25, Þorvarður Davíðsson wrote:
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> On 12.01.2011, at 09:13, Ferren MacIntyre wrote:
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>> Unix systems depend upon being awake at 0300 to run janitorial services, so if your computer sleeps at night, it can accumulate caches and logs the size of the NY Times Sunday edition.
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>> PseudoAnacron http://www.freemacware.com/pseudoanacron runs the Unix daily, weekly, and monthly cleanups for me, checking every time I wake it up to see if the system needs maintenance.
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> I used it regularly under system 10.4.11. It actually just uses Apple Scripts behind the scenes to do periodic maintenance tasks. The latest version is from 2008. Don’t know whether it is still useful for Snow Leopard.
I use OnyX for this cleaning task and many others too. It works fine, and the most recent update was only a few days ago. It's free too!
Doug
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