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Macaroni is a tool which handles regular maintenance for Mac OS X's UNIX core. Normally these tasks run on a regular schedule, in the middle of the night. However if you don't leave your Mac on all night, they never run. Your Mac won't wake from sleep to handle this. Macaroni solves this problem. If a scheduled maintenance task is not run when it's normally scheduled, Macaroni automatically ensures that it's run at the next opportunity, whenever the Mac is on.
What's New
Version 2.1.1:
- Minor bug fixes.
Requirements
PPC / Intel, Mac OS X 10.4 or later.
PPC / Intel, Mac OS X 10.4 or later.
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Macaroni is a tool which handles regular maintenance for Mac OS X's UNIX core. Normally these tasks run on a regular schedule, in the middle of the night. However if you don't leave your Mac on all night, they never run. Your Mac won't wake from sleep to handle this. Macaroni solves this problem. If a scheduled maintenance task is not run when it's normally scheduled, Macaroni automatically ensures that it's run at the next opportunity, whenever the Mac is on.
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Don't know if I want to continue to use it if Atomic Bird does not respond to inquires. Are they still around?
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Smayer97 reviewed on 17 Aug 2011
But I just noticed in my Console the following 3 repeating entries:
08/17/11 4:17:18 PM com.apple.launchd[1] (com.atomicbird.macaroniTool) Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds
08/17/11 4:17:28 PM com.apple.launchd[1] (com.atomicbird.macaroniTool[23327]) posix_spawn("/Library/PreferencePanes/Macaroni.prefPane/Contents/MacOS/MacaroniTool", ...): No such file or directory
08/17/11 4:17:28 PM com.apple.launchd[1] (com.atomicbird.macaroniTool[23327]) Exited with exit code: 1
The repeat, over and over and over again, every 10 sec (per the log). Anyone know how to get rid of this?
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Since this was over a month ago, I had to dig through the system to find stray files. I also had to force quit Macaroni using Activity monitor.
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Jab47 reviewed on 17 Feb 2011
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Dnobel reviewed on 05 Jul 2010
Macaroni automates the recommended housekeeping for OS X, plus adds some other benefits. After initial setup, it requires little or no follow-up or maintenance and has kept up with the evolution of the OS admirably. Set it a and forget it! I credit this little utility with allowing me to use my Mac over these past few years with extremely few issues.
Stable, cheap, efficient, well designed,and truly useful: This seems to be a paragon of what a utility should be.
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Syzzygy reviewed on 14 Apr 2010
Doesn't get any better than this!
Two thumbs up and 5 stars! Would all developers adhere to such an impeccable standard of excellence.
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I meant to continue and say that with launchd Snow Leopard automatically runs maintenance scripts on logon if it notices a missed schedule.
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It would be a crying shame if he drops the ball on updates. None since January of '08.
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"The answer is, very simply, "yes". The current versions of all of my software work just fine on Snow Leopard. No updates are needed, so you can keep using the version you have.
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tofi reviewed on 25 Jun 2009
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I've used their websites 'Contact Us' form for the second time just to send a duplicate.
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I uninstalled the 2.07b4 and tried to re-install the newest, but ran into same problems...
I have new Intel iMac running 10.4.5
Anyone else having errors installing?