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Maintenance 1.5.3

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Maintenance is a System Maintenance and Cleaning utility. It allows you to run miscellaneous tasks of system maintenance: repair permissions, run periodic scripts, reset Spotlight's Index, rebuild the LaunchServices database, delete Application, Font and System cache, and check the status of the hard disk.

This version of Maintenance is for all variants of Mac OS X 10.7 only. Maintenance for Mac OS X 10.6 can be downloaded via the alternate download link above.

What's New

Version 1.5.3:

New version integrates 3.7.11 of sqlite3
Deleting the applications cache improved
Deleting the diagnostic reports improved
New option: Empty trash
Help improved, updated, and reindexed

Requirements
Intel, Mac OS X 10.7 or later

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Maintenance User Discussion (Write a Review)

ver. 1.x:

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-14

Tomeg reviewed on 23 Jul 2011

I love Maintenance, as well as Onyx. But I'm surprised to find that neither works with Lion. I also don't find either app listed in the App Store. Could there be an oversight here. Please keep developing, I would gladly pay something for Maintenance.

[Version 1.3.8]

4 Replies

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Tomeg replied on 05 Aug 2011

Onyx 2.4.0b3 is now compatible with Lion. Maybe Maintenance will be compatible soon. Or, Onyx may replace Maintenance, since Onyx does everything Maintenance does, among other things.

+92

Titanium1 replied on 12 Sep 2011

Hello,

Why not a Maintenance for Lion? Simply because the future version of Maintenance (in progress) will be developed in AppleScriptObjC... ;-)

+177

Jazzica replied on 13 Sep 2011

Tomeg, Onyx 2.4.1 is Lion-only.
And the policy at Apple is to not release apps on the Appstore that use sudo commands or affect system files. That's a quote directly from the last MacWorld issue. Someone correct me if I'm wrong.
Onyx 2.4.1 runs great on Lion, by the way.

-14

Tomeg replied on 13 Sep 2011

Thanks, Titanium 1 and Jazzica. I caught up with both apps meanwhile, but I have a question to Titanium 1: Does the latest version automatically verify the hard disk, and check S.M.A.R.T. status (whatever that is, I've not looked it up)? Also, can one set a preference in Maintenance to reboot after completing its routines?

+233

Poikkeus reviewed on 03 Jun 2011

I love MainMenu's interface, but I can do the same job with a free utility like Maintenance. It's reliable and safe, but it would be even better if it worked in the background, invisible.

[Version 1.3.8]

1 Reply

+233

Poikkeus replied on 29 Jul 2011

Does not work with Lion, at least yet. This is one of the useful maintenance applications.

+221

Jimblue reviewed on 31 Mar 2011

Me thinks we should all be very thankful Joel Barriere develops Onyx, Deeper and Maintenance. Thankful again he insists on keeping them donationware. Apple should give him an award already. If you do have some extra cash and use his software, please let this guy know, in a monetary way, how much the mac community appreciates him and his outstanding efforts.

Joel, thank you for your many years of continued developement of your superior wares.

[Version 1.3.8]

1 Reply

+156

Wolfeatsworld replied on 31 Mar 2011

I agree - three cheers for Joel!!!!!!

;-)

-3

+21

Maximas reviewed on 30 Mar 2011

This just doesn't fit against Onyx, iTweax, Tinkertool, ...

[Version 1.3.8]

1 Reply

+544

Negritude replied on 30 Mar 2011

It's designed to be a simpler, stripped down program that only includes some of the features from Onyx. It's for people who don't need all that Onyx has to offer, or are intimidated by it.

Foobar1969 reviewed on 18 Nov 2010

Maintenance is a very easy-to-use cleanup utility. I recommend it for my less-technical Mac owners. You enter your Admin password, click Execute, and it just works the way a Mac should. There are some checkboxes to modify it, but the default setting is safe and does what's needed.

Serious Mac otaku should use something more powerful (and potentially dangerous) like OnyX or IceClean. Of course, serious Mac otaku already knew that.

[Version 1.3.4]

-2

+17

2ktz commented on 22 Dec 2009

i was gonna use this until it asked me to install my boot discs ...is this normal?....

no one here has mentioned that

[Version 1.3]

Morpher reviewed on 25 Nov 2009

My MacBook on OS X.6.2 started behaving oddly. Some programs (Eudora, Personal Organizer, Mike's Cards Lite) started to be flakey. Boot and shutdown times were getting longer. Then I installed the updates for iTunes (which I almost never use, but I like to keep the versions up to date) and something else (forgotten what it was, but it was in Software Update), and I was in serious trouble. Eudora crashing, Personal Organizer wouldn't launch, EarthDesk wouldn't launch, Mike's Cards was taking seconds to move a card, after launching at a stagger. Booting up took forever, shutdown took minutes.

Many runs of Disk Utility made no difference.

I ran Maintenance 1.2.5 which told me that I had entered an incorrect password (I hadn't) but when I clicked on "Execute" it worked. I ran the default maintenance. Then I shut down for a few minutes, and rebooted.

Hallelujah, babe! I was up and running again with all systems GO~!!!

I've just upgraded to Maintenance 1.2.6.

[Version 1.2.6]

+24

Eric reviewed on 06 Jan 2008

Works fine on my new MacBook and Leopard.
I love the features and interface of this app.
For the average user it's got everything you need to keep your Mac humming and all the functions are layed out in one uncluttered window. I plan on running it every couple of weeks. For you Leopard users you don't have to worry about the daily, weekly and monthly scripts though. That's all automatic now as far as I know. Thanks Mr. Developer!

[Version 1.2]

brian50 commented on 16 Dec 2007

Now works beautifully on my iMac 1.8 (Rev.A) with Leopard (10.5.1). Many thanks to Titanium1 for the fix.

[Version 1.2b2]

brian50 commented on 12 Dec 2007

Crashes when saving preferences.

iMac G5 1.8 (Rev.A)
Mac OS X 10.5.1

[Version 1.2.0b1]

2 Replies

Titanium Software (developer) replied on 12 Dec 2007

If you used an old version, try to quit Maintenance and delete the preferences file (com.titanium.Maintenance.plist).

brian50 replied on 12 Dec 2007

Thanks for the advice.

Maintenance was installed over a clean install of Leopard (10.5.1) on a new internal hard drive so no previous version .plist file present. I downloaded the app twice and attempted to save preferences six times before giving up.

Deeper was installed first and appears to work perfectly. Removing the Deeper .plist file, just on the off-chance, made no difference to Maintenance. It simply crashes when attempting to save preferences.

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Tomeg had trouble on 22 Jul 2011

[Version 1.3.8]

+32

francola had trouble on 16 Dec 2007

Getting these errors now.

/bin/sh: -c: line 0: unexpected EOF while looking for matching `''
/bin/sh: -c: line 1: syntax error: unexpected end of file (2)

[Version 1.2b2]

2 Replies

+32

francola commented on 17 Dec 2007

I am also getting errors on Disk verifying after using maintenance and have to use startup disk to fix them.

+32

francola replied on 26 Dec 2007

Everything appears to be great now!! Thank You. I was missing Maintenance terribly!

+32

francola had trouble on 12 Dec 2007

rm: /Users/franco/Library/Caches/com.adobe.Installers.Setup/Cache.db: Permission denied (1)

[Version 1.2.0b1]

1 Reply

+32

francola commented on 12 Dec 2007

I also had to force quit to get past the error.

kircheis82 had trouble on 29 Oct 2007

This error message show up on my system

Maintenance was not yet checked with the version of the System.

What's the problem?

I'm using OSX 10.5

[Version 1.1.7b]

thisaraw rated on 08 May 2012

[Version 1.5.3]

+15

Liam_ARTH rated on 22 Mar 2012

[Version 1.5.2]

+21

Michael_Sebrecht rated on 21 Mar 2012

[Version 1.5.2]

Milsner rated on 15 Feb 2012

[Version 1.5.0]

Fabricman1 rated on 28 Dec 2011

[Version 1.5.0]

piersc rated on 13 May 2011

[Version 1.3.8]

Downloads:114,905

Version Downloads:2,649

Type:Utilities : Optimizers

License:Free

Date:16 Apr 2012

Platform:Intel

Price:Free

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Maintenance is a System Maintenance and Cleaning utility. It allows you to run miscellaneous tasks of system maintenance: repair permissions, run periodic scripts, reset Spotlight's Index, rebuild the LaunchServices database, delete Application, Font and System cache, and check the status of the hard disk.

This version of Maintenance is for all variants of Mac OS X 10.7 only. Maintenance for Mac OS X 10.6 can be downloaded via the alternate download link above.

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