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DS Store Files and Cron Scripts
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Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Karlstad, Sweden
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Being a Windows user for many years, I've come to learn how to properly take care of my hard drive contents with third party software, and fully understand the benefits of doing so. With my recent switch to OS X (10.4.6), I'm carrying that same concept over - naturally. Since I'm still a newbie at maintaining Mac files I just want to know:
1.) what are cron scripts?
2.) what are DS Store files?
3.) and what are good hard drive maintenance tools for the MBP?
Thanks in advance for all the advice. 
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Join Date: Jul 2004
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Cron scripts are kind of like what on windows called scheduled tasks.. Expect there is really no gui that I know of and its through the terminal window (Applications/Utilities)
.DS_Store are invisible files (So if your seeing them you got invisible files showing) that the mac uses I guess to be able to index and correctly position stuff like when you got stuff spread across your desktop. These are nothing to worry about files really. Though some people hate them and there are many applications to remove these (check macupdate.com and versiontracker.com for apps).
No clue what MBP is. I have had my macs for 5 years (g4s) and never had to do any hard drive maintenance on them.
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You shouldn't make fun of nerds... you'll be working for one some day.
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Join Date: Nov 2002
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Originally Posted by micdaflip
I'm carrying that same concept over - naturally.
Yeah, I predict more harm than good coming from this sentiment. Unless you are trying to troubleshoot a specific problem, babysitting the OS's built-in maintenance work will at best be a big waste of your time and at worst interfere with the built-in routines, possibly even causing hard drive corruption. If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
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Join Date: Jul 2002
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1) cron is method of scheduling commands to execute at a certain time. For Tiger, you should use lanuchd to do perform this function instead.
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Join Date: Mar 2006
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Interesting...
You know, I've also noticed a increase in load time since day one of using my MBP (when it boots, and during application load). How does one regain that speed? I know in Windows usually that's fixed by defragmenting, and minimizing the amount of startup applications which hog memory via 'msconfig'. Is there anything similar to this in OS X? Can I disable certain application when the computer boots?
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Join Date: May 2005
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go into sys prefs -> Accounts -> Login Items.
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