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Some good info on OS X maintenance ...
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Not even an excerpt? What's so good about it?
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Sure. ;-)
Good overview of the issue of how and when to run regular maintenance on OS X. A run-down of the 3rd party apps that do it, as well as ways to di it directly from the OS X terminal.
"I've always heard about these "background maintenance tasks" that OS X performs in its omniscient glory, but I never knew much about what they actually were or when they were performed. This weekend I finally did some digging and thought I'd post a few thoughts that might help give some Mac users insight into maintaining OS X beyond simple permissions repairs and emptying the trash."
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My understanding is that Tiger is smart enough to do missed tasks (i.e. because the computer was off or asleep) when it has the next chance. AFAIK, the author didn't do all his homework.
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Originally Posted by tooki
My understanding is that Tiger is smart enough to do missed tasks (i.e. because the computer was off or asleep) when it has the next chance. AFAIK, the author didn't do all his homework.
tooki
Yep.
That article is a complete waste of time and effort.
Although the comment section at the bottom had me smiling:
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OS X didn't used to be smart enough to do missed tasks. Is this new to Tiger?
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Yep, it's mentioned in the man page for launchd.plist:
Originally Posted by man launchd.plist
StartCalendarInterval <dictionary of integers>
This optional key causes the job to be started every calendar interval as
specified. Missing arguments are considered to be wildcard. The semantics
are much like crontab(5). Unlike cron which skips job invocations when
the computer is asleep, launchd will start the job the next time the com-
puter wakes up. If multiple intervals transpire before the computer is
woken, those events will be coalesced into one event upon wake from
sleep.
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