 | Oct 9 2009 |
DKLAWLESS AJ Users (all thousands of you), Having used this application for years I can recall numerous times that this untility has save me countless hours of work. I just visited the developers site to find out he is in the same pinch as he was with the move to OS10.5. He is strapped for money to develop the update to Snow Leopard . Listed as FREEWARE he will accept donations. Please consider a donation to help him. It won't take much to fund a solution. EX: an external hard drive and Snow Leopard. The link is: . | |
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| Oct 23 2009 |
Count me in.
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| Aug 27 2009 |
UMAROMC Thanks for the heads up!
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| Aug 30 2009 |
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| Aug 31 2009 |
SULCALIBUR Yeah I found this out just before. I guess they'll update it soon enough or at least I really hope they do :)
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| Sep 14 2009 |
ASMEURER Hopefully it won't be too long. It took several months to get out a Leopard version, as I recall...
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| Sep 23 2009 |
NATE K I just tried it in Snow Leopard. Everything appeared to run properly, with the exception of permissions repair.
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 | Aug 13 2009 |
AMURO OS X 10.5.8 Build 9L30 and latest security update as of Aug 13 Applejack shows some errors in my iMac when trying to repair permissions. The logs don't have record of on-screen errors. Had to ctrl-C to interrupt. Same for clear caches, when doing for a user stops and nothing else happens. Hope this gets fixed, it's a great tool really.
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| Sep 10 2009 |
JOSELU Yes, I'm experiencing the same problem as well. This is really a great app. Hope to see a fix from the developer soon.
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| Jul 8 2009 |
ALIDORO It works fine with 10.5.7 I've been a fan of AppleJack since it first appeared, and it have never disappointed. Wonderful utility, I could'n live without it. | |
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| Apr 27 2009 |
CTKMND It does run for me under 10.5.6 except it seems like it is responsible for banging up some of my preferences when run on auto or check prefs. How does AJ validate the prefs? Is AJ or some Apple utility it calls that screws up? If you installed it previous to the 10.5.6 upgrade have you tried a re-download and re-install? It's a very good safeguard repair, especially for portables so it would sure be nice to see it updated! | |
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 | Apr 12 2009 |
SOUNDFREAK This soft actually fixed my boot volume, where Onyx and Apple Disk Utility failed. This is a great piece of soft !! A MUST-HAVE that should be included in any OS X machine. Macbook 2.4GHZ - OS 10.5.6
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 | Apr 2 2009 |
PUNA AppleJack 1.5 does not work with Leopard 10.5.6. Great software......with Tiger 10.4.11
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| Apr 21 2009 |
TIAGO I'm sorry it's not working FOR YOU, but it does work flawlessly under 10.5.6
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| Mar 22 2009 |
DONMONTALVO Works beautifully! Thanks for finding the resources to get this baby updated for 10.5. It's an essential tool for our many road warrior users. Don Montalvo
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| Mar 4 2009 |
MR.LON Same by me. Under 10.5.6 applejack won't run!!!
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| Jan 29 2009 |
FREDCH Since I upgraded to 10.5.6, Applejack does not work. When I restart and hold command+s, I get only an opportunity to run fsck. The former script does not run. Model Identifier: iMac7,1 Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo Boot ROM Version: IM71.007A.B03 SMC Version: 1.20f4
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| Jan 14 2009 |
KRYSIA This is a small, fabulous, and indispensable piece of software. It repaired what Onyx could not. It repaired what Apple's Disk Utility could not. It repaired what Apple's Disk Utility could not from a different startup (original) disk could not. My disk is in the Green again, and it was so incredibly easy to do. Followed their instructions. After initial restart, Safari had odd behaviors: I'd click the X to close a tab & nothing would happen. I'd go to push the scrollbar up or down after just doing so, & it wouldn't work unless I clicked on its background first. However, their instructions in the read-me file stated there might be some weirdness, and that a restart of the computer should fix it. I restarted, and *knock wood* so far, zero problems. Ran Onyx; needed to repair disk. Ran Disk Utility from a startup disk, and this time, the one thing left that was wrong with it after Applejacking it was fixable. Disk Repaired. To be safe, I restarted one more time, ran Onyx, disk is fine. Hooray! Definitely donated.
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| Jan 2 2009 |
BOBSTER The installation will take up 68KB of disk space. LOL! How sweet is that.
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| Nov 17 2008 |
I've been waiting for this to come back for 10.5 http://www.workingthree.com
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| Nov 12 2008 |
How did I ever live without this And now it works with 10.5
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| Sep 16 2008 |
GIGAFLOPS It's one of the most useful tools i've ever used on my mac. It's easy, lightweight and very intuitive! Impossible to be much better than this. Thanks for sharing it.
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| Sep 12 2008 |
JEEPEE Works great under Leopard. Thanks for making it!!!
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| Sep 8 2008 |
FIXM COMPUTER FINALLY! I have been waiting some time for a Leopard compatible version of this. Finally it has arrived! And it seems to work great!
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| Sep 2 2008 |
it always said the shutdown, restart commands were unknown.. | |
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| Sep 3 2008 |
JUBEI_KIWAGAMI Have you tried just using and at the end type in r and return to restart?
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| Sep 3 2008 |
M30318 Ya. tried that too.. Is there a way to make OSX know that there is actually a restart?
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| Sep 11 2008 |
ASMEURER Use "reboot" instead of "restart."
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| Sep 11 2008 |
M30318 Tried that too.. Didn't work.
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| Sep 11 2008 |
ASMEURER What happens if you type just "reboot"? Also try, "shutdown -h now". if those commands have disappeared, you may need to do an archive and install.
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| Sep 11 2008 |
M30318 ya None of those work. I had this problem when I installed 10.5.3. I was hoping it is fixed with 10.5.4 but didn't. I guess I'll have to reinstall I guess as you suggest. Something must have gone wrong when patching I think. Is there a way to fix in in the terminal? I'm in the middle of many projects and reinstalling will be a real time waste now.
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| Sep 1 2008 |
M30318 Hi, I used it. but it failed to start. I guess it is a problem with my Leopard. It said that the "restart" command is not found, which is explains why my mac won't start. Any ideas on how to get it identify the "restart" command.. | |
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| Sep 2 2008 |
JOHN SAWYER CJS What was the exact sequence of words you entered on the command line? It's supposed to be: applejack AUTO restart
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| Sep 2 2008 |
it always said the shutdown, restart commands were unknown.. | |
| Sep 1 2008 |
CALLE Applejack is the only thing I've been missing since pre-Leopard. Thanks a lot.
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| Sep 1 2008 |
DONMONTALVO When you have several dozen MacBook Pro users traveling the world, and remote offices without local support staff, this is one essential tool. | |
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| Sep 1 2008 |
JOSELU AppleJack is finally back!! I've long been waiting for an update to work with Leopard and it's finally here! I just installed and tried running "applejack auto restart" on my 1.33GHz iBook G4 and it works flawlessly as it used to on 10.4. Big shout out to the developer! THANK YOU!
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| Sep 1 2008 |
PAINTBYNUMBERS I used the applejack auto restart function last night and woke up to find that I could not boot. Disk Utility and Applejack couldn't repair it and I had to use Time Machine to restore. I have used Applejack before without problems but this update does not work for me.
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 | Sep 2 2008 |
KLKTRK There is a bug report on this issue here: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=2089430&group_id=79562&atid=557034 We are working to solve this issue. If you want to help, please post your experiences and technical details there. Thanks.
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| Sep 1 2008 |
MCMACK I was also sooo waiting for this app. Unfortunately it does NOT work on my MacBook (1.83 GHz Intel Core Duo, 10.5.4) :-( It just won't start. "Command S" doesn't bring up Apple Jack like it used to in the past. Hope it gets fixed soon.
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| Sep 1 2008 |
LEOOFBORG This is not an AJ problem. Holding down command-s at boot time should work regardless of whether Applejack is installed or not. It's how you get into single user mode. If command-s isn't working then you need to try another keyboard or reset the PRAM. Or contact your administrator. Applejack works on my machines just fine.
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| Aug 31 2008 |
HUXLEY Awesome! For several years, this (along with MenuMeters) was the first thing I'd install on my own Macs. I've been longing for a Leopard update, and here it is - let the good times (and smoothly-running boot drives) roll! | |
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| Aug 31 2008 |
RONL Great to see that AppleJack has been updated to support Leopard. Seems to work fine on my G5 with OSX 10.5.4. Thanks for the update!
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| Aug 31 2008 |
BONI works fine on my intel imac wit OSX 10.5.4 doesn't work on my intel Macbookpro with OSX 10.5.4. Very strange.
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| Sep 1 2008 |
NEUTRALZONE Just FYI, it works with my 10.5.4 MacBook Pro.
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| Sep 1 2008 |
BONI thx for replying. Makes is mory mysterious. Booting my MBP with 'cmd-s' brings me yellow and white fonts. Not the same as on my imac actually. After typing 'applejack auto' i read the it is not recognized as an internal or external command etc. 'shell>applejack uninstall'. is this unix actually?
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| Sep 2 2008 |
KLKTRK This has been entered as an AppleJack bug here: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=2089565&group_id=79562&atid=557034 | |
| Aug 31 2008 |
ABNORMAL One more thing... After uninstall, several times fixing permissions, several reboots - the problems are still there...
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| Aug 31 2008 |
JUBEI_KIWAGAMI Your using the application incorrectly. You should retract your message since you did not follow the instructions from the developer on how to use this application.
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| Aug 31 2008 |
ABNORMAL Using incorrectly? All I did was install it, I never used it.
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| Aug 31 2008 |
LOKHEED That's because fixing permissions NEVER recovers a system. Fixing permissions doesn't actually do much (if anything) for system integrity... its only service is for security... It's a shame that nearly everyone is made to believe that fixing permissions helps stabilize or recover a system...
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| Aug 31 2008 |
ABNORMAL Yes, it Jacked up my Apple, alright. Fixed permissions, restarted holding shift, installed, fixed permissions. When I try to launch an application, several other apps open also. Force Quit works eventually, then my desktop and menubar are all screwed up. All of my icons are bunched up and some icons do not work. I reboot, fix permissions, and the problem persists. Finder is screwed, DragThing is screwed, my profile is screwed. DO NOT INSTALL THIS UNLESS YOU BACK UP FIRST. Better yet, don't install it at all... iMac 17' Core 2 Duo 2GB, 3GB RAM 10.5.4 (it was working perfectly until I installed this virus)
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| Aug 31 2008 |
JUBEI_KIWAGAMI What do you mean launch the application? You use it in Single User Mode. Reboot and hold the the command and letter s. When you see the command lines come up, you can follow the instructions from there. You don't launch it in the finder.
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| Aug 31 2008 |
ABNORMAL I did not try to launch the application. I am saying that when I launch AN application - any application - it screws up my whole system. The problem started when I installed this thing.
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| Sep 2 2008 |
KLKTRK There is a related (looks like) bug report here: Maybe add your info there: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=2042919&group_id=79562&atid=557034
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| Aug 31 2008 |
TIM.DEHRING Finally! Patience pays off. Thanks to the developer(s) involved :)
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| Aug 31 2008 |
ANDY HEWITT Fantastic! I really missed this when I got 10.5, and it's good to see it back again. First run seems OK, and everything is working well after. This is a must-have utility. Thanks guys.
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| Aug 31 2008 |
NORAA Woohoo! Leopard Compatibility! Can't tell you how much I've missed this little gem on Leopard.
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| Aug 31 2008 |
JUBEI_KIWAGAMI Yes!!!! Finally for Leopard. Thank you for getting AJ updated for Leopard.
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| Aug 31 2008 |
NEUTRALZONE Wowww...definitely the most auspicious download of the week. Thanks!
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| Aug 31 2008 |
DIVEMATERZA Thank you. What a joy to have it back on 10.5
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| Aug 31 2008 |
LARSEN2K4 Thank you so much! I always loved it under Tiger - just feels good to have some kind of "extra-security" under the hood :)
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| Aug 31 2008 |
YAZSOFT SUPPORT Thanks for bringing this utility back to life. Great job!
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| Aug 31 2008 |
JM4 This application has kept my machine in a wonderful mood! I know by running this once a month my machine has never given me a single problem for the past 3 years!!! I can only thank the developer numerously for now making it 10.5 compatible so that I can install it on my girl's new iMac :) | |
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| Aug 31 2008 |
FLASH1296 Borlax: Most serious Mac users do NOT restart very often - unless they actually NEED to or they plan on being away for several days. This is a GREAT piece of work that has "saved my bacon" several times over the years. The single-user boot script (optionally) installed by the misleadingly-named "Leopard Cache Cleaner" [a 'must-have' utility] is similar to, and perhaps inferior to, Applejack - as it cannot repair permissions, and the tasks cannot be run selectively. The idea of my running any of my Macs without Applejack installed is a logically absurd notion.
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| Aug 31 2008 |
BORLOX I don't like to criticize a free application that many people apparently find useful, but deleting swap files? What's supposed to be the point of that? They're deleted automatically anyway at startup.
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| Aug 31 2008 |
SYR WULLAM Yippeeeee! My collection of Leopard applications is complete again. Thanks bunches to the developer!
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| Aug 31 2008 |
MACSTERDAM I really feel this should come standard with every Mac. Absolutely wonderful & very powerful, all at an unbelievably price. 10 stars in my book!
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| Jul 8 2008 |
HANDYMAC AppleJack's developer deserves a BIG round of applause from the Mac community for this great utility, which has saved many of our bacons over the last several years. Unfortunately, making AJ work with 10.5 ('Leopard') is going to require some serious work, due to significant internal changes in OS X; and at the moment the developer just doesn't have the time to put into it (go to the Forums on the AJ home page -- "More Information" link above -- to see the discussion). However, AJ *is* Open Source, so anyone can pick up the code and give it a try. I don't have the skills, but maybe someone will....
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| Apr 19 2008 |
FRANCE2020 Is applejack compatible with version 10.5.2? I tried to use it, and it said something like "this user cannot authorize applejack." I am the only user, and I used in SUM.
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| Apr 19 2008 |
MACUPDATE ADMIN Applejack is not compatible with Leopard. The developer has stated that while he has plans to update it, he currently has no time to do so.
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| Jun 11 2008 |
JUBEI_KIWAGAMI Its too bad. It really works great. Specially when the Mac can't even get pass the pinwheel screen. AJ was always able to fix that.
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| Apr 17 2008 |
KURTTAPPE In answer to a previous question about finding alternative methods to do what AppleJack did, repairing permissions from the command line is fortunately very easy: diskutil repairPermissions / Note the capitalization of "Permissions". Hope this helps.
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| Apr 10 2008 |
JOHN SAWYER CJS Of the tasks that Applejack performs, I suspect updating it to get permissions repair to work as OS 10.5 expects, without causing some disaster, would be the hardest task (not sure how hard, not being much of a programmer). It took a couple of the Swiss army knife utility authors (OnyX? Leopard Cache Cleaner? or both?) a few tries to get that one right. I suspect there may also be some new cache file locations, and maybe some old ones no longer in effect, requiring some changes there too, but not as big a job as permissions repair.
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| Apr 7 2008 |
ASMEURER Until this is updated, fsck- fy will perform a file system consistency check in single user mode (the first test performed in AppleJack). Does anyone know how to manually run the other commands, especially the permissions repair or cache clearing ones?
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| Apr 10 2008 |
JOHN SAWYER CJS I don't think clearing all the cache locations by entering commands in single user mode is going to be practical for too many people, since there are a few too many such locations, so for now, cache cleaning utilities like Leopard Cache Cleaner, Onyx, Cocktail, etc. are the tools of choice. But if a Mac won't start up properly or stay running long enough to allow a user to run one of these utils, it can still be done in single user mode, by just entering the same commands as one can enter in terminal--rm [pathname] (I won't list the entire set of commands here, for fear of either not getting them exactly right, or getting them right and still having someone wipe large parts of their drive's directory and blaming me). If the drive that need cache cleaning won't boot, then you'd have to boot from another drive, and use one of the cache cleaning utils to clear caches on the problem drive, but LCC is the only one I know of, that will let you clear the caches on any volume other than the startup volume. I suggested it to the author. To be able to repair permissions in single user mode, when OS 10.3 was released, required the author(s) of Applejack to do some research and experimenting (someone else figured it out for him), and they finally came up with a clever workaround, since Apple did something screwy with the "diskutil" routine starting with OS 10.3 that normally prevented permissions repair from being executed in single user mode. So, even if one issues the command, in single user mode, to run diskutil's permissions repair routine, which is mostly all Applejack had to do prior to OS 10.3, it still probably wouldn't work, because whatever limitation or oversight Apple introduced in 10.3, probably still exists. Apple has no interest in repairing permissions in single user mode, even though they've stated no reason to actively prevent it, so they haven't dedicated any useful amount of resources to fixing this bug. So, Applejack's workaround would still be necessary, and it's doubtful its commands could be entered in single user mode, at least in any semi-convenient fashion (take a look at the extra stuff that's displayed onscreen when Applejack prepares to do permissions repair--you can get some idea of some of the stuff going on behind the scenes, not shown as enterable commands). So, for the time being, utils that can repair permissions, like Disk Utility, Leopard Cache Cleaner, etc. are the only choice. I'm not sure what commands are used to accomplish the other things Applejack does.
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| Mar 22 2008 |
MACUPDATE ADMIN AppleJack is open source, so anyone could take the code and run with it... Here's hoping someone does.
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| Mar 22 2008 |
WOOFER ... and now it's up to Leopard 10.5.2 already. Please, could this wonderful bit of s/w be updated? Cheers all.
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| Mar 22 2008 |
MACUPDATE ADMIN We check the developer's site many many times daily looking for an update to this GREAT utility. I've just now sent the developer an email asking about the disposition of AppleJack, whether it will ever be updated. We'll see... hang in there.
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| Mar 22 2008 |
MACUPDATE ADMIN The developer kindly responded to my email. He states that he has plans to update AppleJack but no time to do so: "Plans, yes. Time? No, unfortunately. I don't know when I'll be able to get to it. My apologies."
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| Feb 9 2008 |
JOSEMAPENTA Please, pleeeeeaaaase, a version to Leopard (almost 10.5.1) Many thaaaaanx...
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| Mar 22 2008 |
MACUPDATE ADMIN March 22, 2008: In response to an email I sent to the developer today, the developer states that he has plans to update AppleJack but no time to do so: "Plans, yes. Time? No, unfortunately. I don't know when I'll be able to get to it. My apologies."
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| Dec 15 2007 |
JIMURBAN Any word from Apotek regarding a 10.5 compatible version?
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| Mar 22 2008 |
MACUPDATE ADMIN March 22, 2008: In response to an email I sent to the developer today, the developer states that he has plans to update AppleJack but no time to do so: "Plans, yes. Time? No, unfortunately. I don't know when I'll be able to get to it. My apologies."
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| Dec 2 2007 |
CARRIEB i love applejack; it's rescued my intel iMac many, many times. however, i won't be able to use it anymore because it doesn't work after updating my OS to 10.4.11 :`( could you please do something so that it is compatible with Tiger OS 10.4.11? i'd hate to lose applejack on my mac. carrie b
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| Dec 2 2007 |
MACUPDATE ADMIN I have a MacBookPro running OS X 10.4.11 and AppleJack works perfectly as ever.
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| Nov 21 2007 |
MACUPDATE ADMIN Yes it does work. Works fine on my MBP running 10.4.11
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| Nov 21 2007 |
KATABIOS it is strange, after DiskUtility in effects it works well...
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| Jan 5 2008 |
FARMERBOB I started gettign CPU halts in the middle of Task 2, if I was lucky enough to get to 3, and 4, again if luck enough to get that far, in 10.4.10. It starts up and then, the text on the screen goes by so fast you can't read it and it ends with CPU Halt and it shuts down. This is repeatable.
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| Jan 5 2008 |
MACUPDATE ADMIN I use AppleJack about every other day (maybe a bit less often sometimes) on three different Macs: a G3 iBook running 10.4.11, a MacBook Pro Core 2 Duo running 10.4.11, and a brand-new iMac (Christmas present for our daughter) running 10.4.11. It just works. Have no idea why it does not work for you.
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| Nov 21 2007 |
JOSELU We need an update fast for Leopard!
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| Oct 29 2007 |
USER NAME It seems version 1.4.3 is not compatible with Leopard. A message to the effect "You are not a root user" showed up when I tried to run AppleJack. Let's hope an updated version is released soon.
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| Nov 3 2007 |
MACDRIVER Same problem here "not root user" hoping for an update soon
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| Nov 11 2007 |
APEMAN until then do this: open a terminal and type: Hit return and wait for the prompt to return. You can also do the periodic command with It might be a hassle, but worth doing until a Leopard compatible app is out there. Yes Onyx is out there, and very good, but I do like Applejack.
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| Mar 15 2007 |
GUNNI I have been a happy user of Applejack for a very long time. I wonder, however, if it is compatible with Intel Macs running 10.4.9. After installing 10.4.9 on my G5 iMac, I ran Applejack and all was normal. After installing 10.4.9 on my wife's Intel Mac, it froze, twice, and after a hard restart I was greeted by a window which detailed the problem and asked if I would like to report it to Apple. I did so, but first took a screen shot of that window and it may be viewed here: http://www.mediamax.com/bikerbob/Hosted/Picture%201.png | |
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| Jul 12 2007 |
NADEEMF Work fine on my Intel iMac when I was on 10.4.9 and now on 10.4.10
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| Mar 14 2007 |
MAZZBOY I'm so pleased to have found AppleJack. I've spent a fair amount of time trying out other similar things but none of them have quite done what I've wanted, unlike AppleJack, so thanks. It at first seems a little scary to the casual OS X user, in that it runs in single user mode, which I'd never seen before, but once you follow the simple instructions of restart and hold command S, it couldn't be simpler. Mac OS X's Disk Utility annoyingly would tell me that a volume needed to be repaired and then wouldn't let me, but AppleJack found a way around it. I was beginning to get worried about my laptop but now all the bugs and things here and there that just didn't seem right are all fixed. Again, thank you.
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| Jan 4 2007 |
DRAD Fixes problems that others (diskwarrior, disk utility) can't even begin to see or get to until Applejack fixes them first! INDISPENSABLE!
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| Nov 29 2006 |
ME2 To previous comment: when starting up in single user mode the fans run at full speed as the controllers are bypassed. Applejack runs fine then when you restart/reboot, the controllers take care of the speed. Don't worry, this is normal. :)
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| Nov 26 2006 |
ROADTRIPDK I haven't used this app yet as I am wondering what the bugs in the G5 thermal control are (OS X - not the app) that are mentioned in the read ReadMe file are all about: "Some users of G5 systems have reported that the fans ramp up very fast. This is not related to AppleJack, but is due to the fact that the thermal controllers are not loaded while in single user mode. If this condition persists after restarting into Mac OS X, you may have run into one of the many known fan-management bugs. See the apple.com support forums, or macosxhints.com for extensive postings on this topic." OK, there may be extensive postings on the issue, but why not try to be a little more specific? I have a G5 single with major problems with the HD. I don't want to have to fuddle around with more issues than I already have got.
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KLKTRK Perhaps because the issue with the fans is a bit of a moving target, with some models responding better to certain methods than others. Rather than try to be pre-emptively exhaustive, perhaps the author is veering on the side of caution in providing a flexible answer that can adapt to the many issues reported out there instead of answering definitively and then being inundated with "hey, this didn't work! on my Mac ? with 10.4.x and nnn mg of RAM, build version xxxxx and EFI firmware version...." He is not obligated to offer support for an issue that is properly Apple's.
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| Nov 18 2006 |
KLKTRK I should add that the standard location for tee is /usr/bin/tee
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| Nov 15 2006 |
MAKAI Freshly installed + 10.4.8 Combo-updated + DiscUtility permission-repaired Tiger on a PPC, then run AJ 143 (in autopilot mode) and it spit lots of error messages, as far as I can scroll the screen, it's always the same error: /var/root/Library/Scripts/applejack.sh: line 195 : tee : command not found Anybody else seen this? Before I never had any issues with AJ
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| Nov 18 2006 |
KLKTRK Looks like you must have deleted your tee binary, or you moved it from its standard location.
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| Nov 14 2006 |
RAYCOLEXDESIGNS I have been using Applejack for quite awhile. It is a life saver! Easy to use and it goes through it's functions with ease and always frees up alot of drive space. Never had any problems with it. Great app.
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| Nov 13 2006 |
ROB This guy deserves an award! You can certainly have my donation! Thanks!
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| Nov 13 2006 |
MACSTERDAM Seriously excellent and quite indispensable! This should be standard on all Macs!
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| Nov 7 2006 |
DOC RENAUD Such a great tool to install, just in case...
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| Nov 7 2006 |
APPLECRYPT MODS this is a great util and i've got it installed on 4 Macs now. I swear by it (not at it!!) ;-) xcellent s/w
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| Nov 7 2006 |
ORION MK. V Yeah to an Intel version! AppleJack's wonderful, so I hope being developed.
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| Nov 7 2006 |
JUKI Runs just fine on my NON-Intel Powerbook 1.5GHz w/OS 10.3.9. Minimum requirements are NOT OS 10.4.3 as stated, here, on MU's app description, but OS 10.2. The AppleJack 1.4.3rc3 "read me" file included with this download states that this version is good with OS 10.2, OS 10.3 and OS 10.4+, both Intel and non-Intel Macs.
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| Nov 7 2006 |
JMAHON24 I am very happy that Applejack has returned to my computer screen. It was the one routine I missed the most when I got my iMac Intel machine. Thanks for sticking with it, and have a great time with your Intel, I know I do. Apple jack worked the first time I ued it and not a hitch. Thanks
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| Nov 7 2006 |
ROB Tried it on my Mac Pro 2,6 and it was Flawless. Super good!! Thanks!- genius!
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| Nov 7 2006 |
USER NAME AppleJack was the *only* app I miss dearly ever since I acquired an Intel Mac in April 2006. I'm sooooo happy the wait is over! Question: Should I stick to the previous PowerPC-only version for my old Macs?
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| Oct 26 2006 |
FLASH1296 Works SPLENDIDLY on my Intel MacBook, in spite of what the software developer says. I dio a little Mac consulting and the installation of Applejack, (and the removal of all Norton applications and associated kext files). are the very FIRST thing that I do BEFORE I get down to tackling whatever tasks I have been hired to do. This is "MUST-HAVE" feeware.
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| Oct 21 2006 |
FRONTPAGE I dunno... am I the only one who has a completely negative experience with AJ? Using it in my Quicksilver 1st gen, it seemed to work. But then it kept rebooting on its own. I tried powering down, but to no avail. It simply wouldn't shut down. Finally, I unplugged it and now... it won't start. I tried holding down the restart button, after many attempts to boot it up. The button glows but fades to nothing. No fan noise, no *bong*... no nothing. It was my first attempt at using AppleJack; now I'm scared to ever use it in any of my other Macs. Sorry.
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| Nov 7 2006 |
GREENIE dude, it sounds like you have hardware problems that shouldn't be caused by software like this. Have you tried a PMU reset?
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| Aug 29 2006 |
MACUPDATE ADMIN Posted By: kwidholm Summary: Intel Mac ordered! Thanks for your support! Over the last few days, I have received enough money to cover the purchase of an Intel Mac, and I have placed an order for one. Hopefully we can get AppleJack on its way towards full Intel compatibility soon. Thanks for all your donations and support.
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| Sep 14 2006 |
Your talent and skills are greatly appreciated.
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| Nov 19 2006 |
LARAINE That's great. As someone who has no choice but to use second-hand Macs (my B&W G3 is seven years old and I've had it over five years) I know how you must feel. I hope you enjoy your new Mac for many many years. :-)
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| Apr 3 2006 |
UMAROMC After the 10.4.6 update AppleJack goes into an inifinite loop when repairing permissions... hopeful for an update soon.
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| Apr 5 2006 |
FZP Kernel Panic after upgrading to Mac OS X 10.4.6 during permissions repair.
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| Jul 29 2006 |
HOLYPOLY Runs excellently on my PowerBook 1,5 GHz, late 2004, w/ 10.4.7
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| Aug 29 2006 |
PEANUT BUTTER No problems with 10.4.7 and Applejack 1.4.2 hardware = Gigabit G4 Tower with Dual 1.6Ghz upgrade.
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| Mar 6 2006 |
RJBAILEY AppleJack crashed on my MacBook Pro during permissions repair. If you've had success on an Intel Mac please indicate.
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| Feb 15 2006 |
SJJ_PUBLIC I had a kernel panic at startup after installing 10.4.5 that was not even resolved with a Safe boot. During safe boot my powerbook just shut itself off! So I restarted into single user mode and ran "applejack auto restart". After going through it's routine and automatically restarting, my Powerbook started up just fine and is working great since. This kernel panic experience after installing 10.4.5 probably won't be repeated by many others, but it does sometimes happen, and its resolution speaks volumes for AppleJack. Every Mac should have AppleJack installed on it. I can't recommend it highly enough.
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| Jan 5 2006 |
WJB3WVU Great app. I'm impressed. Thank you.
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| Jan 5 2006 |
YANOKWA Brilliant and easy to use software. It's an essential part of an OS X install.
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| Jan 4 2006 |
ANDREW RODNEY Really a life savor and an indispensable tool.
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| Jan 4 2006 |
NADEEMF v1.4.1 makes single-user-mode command line checking/fixing of your startup disk so simple I now do it nearly every time I restart.
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| Jan 4 2006 |
ROB Simply magnificent !!!!!!!!!
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| Jan 4 2006 |
MACKEY007 works without any problems on my iMac G5 2Ghz
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| Jan 4 2006 |
MACSTERDAM Nothing short of amazing!!! Thank you!
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| Jan 4 2006 |
LARS HEDEMANN The absolute best cleaning utility out there. A kind of super Yasu/Onyx. Have installed it on many many machines and I can easily tell clients what to do with it. Handles severe problems with all kinds of temporary files, logs, swapfiles, caches etc. Absolutely superb. Coupled with Diskwarrior almost any kind of software related OS problem can be fixed.
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| Nov 14 2005 |
ZORN Thanks a lot for this great App! My system was very instable after an unexpected crash I had few days ago: kernel panic, unable to read system disk, freezes, crash... I dunno what happened... and Apple Disk Utility were unable to repair anything... Then a friend of mine suggested me to use AppleJack... I did a deep clean using the command "AUTO" and restarted... Miracle! Everything is back to normal!!! It worked!!! I know, it sounds like an old-style kind of advertisment, but it's true!!! (I was running Tiger 10.4.3 on a Dual G5 2,5)
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| Nov 9 2005 |
BRUCEY FRED Using AppleJack last night I repaired something that DiskUtility and Diskwarrior missed. I couldn't back up my drive until I updated AppleJack for Tiger and ran it. Then it worked! Later, SuperDuper's helpful support forum showed how to fix the Tiger bug manually. http://www.shirt-pocket.com/forums/showthread.php?t=318 OS 10.4.3, AppleJack 1.4.1 update
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| Nov 7 2005 |
ANONYMOUS Today I run applejack for the first time since I have upgraded to 10.4.3 And now my fans that where never been "very quiet" on my iMac G5 1.8 Mhz have just gone crazy on full speed. They used to be loud when I was runing applejack but went back to "normal" once I had reboted. I have used apple jack for a long time and never encountered any problem with it. I'm still trying to fix the issue. Does any body have an idea?
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| Nov 7 2005 |
ANONYMOUS Ok, I have unplugged the computer for about 10 min. things went back to normal. Weired....
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| Nov 27 2005 |
GLENN NEELY To stop the LOUD FANS from running constantly, you need to take the face of your iMac G5 off and press the two steal buttons inside near the fan. That will reset to factory settings and the fans should run normally again. I've gone through this with Apple Tech Support already on my computer.
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| Oct 15 2005 |
GEORGE MEINGAST Works great! As an aside... running the app also makes you feel like a Unix geek (without having to be one!!!) with the commandlines and everything. Very cool to show off and impress the ladys with! ;-)
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| Aug 16 2005 |
ANONYMOUS Is there a way for me to see what version of applejack is already installed?
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| Sep 12 2005 |
ANONYMOUS Just run the application. The version is in the first line.
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| Jun 3 2005 |
ANONYMOUS "because I kept getting USB timeout errors at the commandline..." What did these USB timeout errors look like? What language did they use? It could be very helpful in tracking down a bug?
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| Jun 3 2005 |
UMAROMC AWESOME, AWESOME, AWESOME! Unfortunately I had to replace my bootleg 4-port USB 1.1 PCI card with a 2.0 card because I kept getting USB timeout errors at the commandline... but now I have a USB 2.0 card (ADS Tech, $19.99)! ;) This was almost TOO simple to use and just worked- I think I'm going to see if I can make a donation... Thanks again...!!! =)
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| May 25 2005 |
ANONYMOUS Kernel panics on my dual 2GHz G5 running 10.4.1.
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| May 12 2005 |
CARLO Not much to say except that this is my new favorite utility. Incredibly practical and effective. Just outstanding.
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| May 11 2005 |
RAYMOND EXCELLENT. Need I say more?
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| May 11 2005 |
RICHARD MAKAREWICZ Works perfectly on Tiger. Great stuff! Now if Alsoft can get their act together and release the DiskWarrior 3.0.3 Tiger update, we'll have the ideal troubleshooting toolkit.
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| May 12 2005 |
http://macupdate.com/info.php/id/11707
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| May 11 2005 |
LORD LIGHTNING I could not get Safari to run under TIGER. Ran AppleJack in single user startup mode [command + s] on restart. I then used the 'a' command (automatic). It completed all the tasks in about four or five minutes. At the end of the task run I chose 'r' for restart. How Easy! Perfect restart and now Safari runs. It removed five corrupt files I had inadvertently carried over from my upgrade from Panther to Tiger. I understand Tiger uses a different core structure to Panther. Applejack fixed it all in no time. Brilliant! This is as important as DiskWarrior to every Mac user.
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| May 10 2005 |
NATAS SUPER! wont reboot without it! quicker and better than heavy duty repair, clean apps. especially since 10.3.8 started giving me big headaches..
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| May 9 2005 |
ANONYMOUS Magnificent
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| May 6 2005 |
ANONYMOUS Worked fine on Tiger G5 20 inch iMac. Fans did however kick up on high when it ran program.
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| May 7 2005 |
NONA Fans always did this. Kinda creepy as paperwork I had on board behind the G5 blew off their pushpins!!
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| May 7 2005 |
ANONYMOUS This will happen anytime you're in single user mode since the fan control system is not loaded in single user mode. It has nothing to do with AppleJack.
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| May 6 2005 |
SATYRICA Awesome! Perfect! Works flawlessly with 10.4 Tiger! This is a must have 1st defense against HD corruption and general system malaise! Download this NOW!
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| Apr 30 2005 |
ANONYMOUS Permissions repair will hang indefinitely if you attempt to run it on a Mac OS 10.4 system. It will look like it's working, but in actuality, it's doing nothing. All the other AppleJack troubleshooting routines work with Tiger. I am working on a Tiger compatible version of AppleJack; in the meantime, please use AppleJack in manual mode and skip the permissions repair. Thanks.
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| Apr 30 2005 |
ANONYMOUS Any chance there will be a Tiger-Compatible version? Still have issue with fans cranking at max when running in S-user mode.
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| Apr 30 2005 |
ANONYMOUS The fans have nothing to do with AppleJack. The Fan controllers are not loaded during single user mode.
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| Apr 18 2005 |
SPAM ON TOAST >>Fixed a SERIOUS problem in the cache cleaning routine whereby an entire hard drive could be obliterated if the user's home directory was either typed in incorrectly or if it was a file vault rather than an actual directory system.
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| Apr 23 2005 |
ANONYMOUS ...and what if it was just something introduced within the last version or two?
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| May 6 2005 |
B YOUNG Ditto - with the feedback comment. That is, I have been using AppleJack for several versions now and have found it to be reliable, useful and have been impressed with the author's response to improvements. The bug correction noted came out within 10 days of the previous version, so it was relatively quick (try to get that kind of response from microsoft). As well, he was willing to note it publicly and prominently so he gets points for ethics and honesty in my book. Short of rebooting your system from an OS X startup CD, or from a separate partition/volume this is the only free tool (and only one of very few at any price) that can repair your hard drive right from your boot volume.
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| Mar 16 2005 |
BOBBYSDAD I was having some problems which affected my ability to download files, and my PowerBook had become a tad slow generally, but after installing and running AppleJack, everything seemed to return to normal again. Not being very computer literate, I don't know what it did, but I'm glad it did.
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| Mar 11 2005 |
MARC WARNING: iMac G-5 and quicksilver G-4 BOTH locked up completely upon attempting Single User Boot with THIS version of AppleJack installed. In th epast I have felt that this is a GREAT application ! Pulleeeze fix this !
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| Mar 11 2005 |
ANONYMOUS If you attempted a boot after installing, but before running AppleJack, I'm afraid the problem lies elsewhere. If the problem happened after running AppleJack, please post a bug report to the bug tracker at sf.net/projects/applejack. Thanks.
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| Mar 10 2005 |
MARTIN This tool is a very good thing, indeed. It combines several tasks, which are very helpful when some troubleshooting is needed. I ran a test, and it didn't do any harm at all. I would recommend, that everybody installs applejack, but when really in need, some knowledge of the shell-prompt should be in some way or the other within reach.
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| Mar 9 2005 |
KB Thanks for the update! Love it! I thank you. My iBook G4 1.33 with 768 MB running OS X 10.3.8 thanks you! I followed the instructions for uninstalling the old version and applied this new version. Easy as pie! This has to be the best, free utility for Mac OS X. | |
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| Mar 5 2005 |
ASMEURER Ran this and all my custom user pictures were gone. It also reset the alerts that I get when I open an application for the first time. | |
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| May 12 2005 |
ANONYMOUS I have noticed this also. i still get an alert for Toast everytime I launch a ".toast" file...eventhough I have run Toast about 8,000 times. This only started to occur after a deep system cleaning. I am not sure it's an Applejack thing, but rather a function of deleting all cache files, etc.
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| Feb 27 2005 |
BOULT you have to boot into Single user mode by rebooting then hold down cmd-s then you will see cmd line screen then type AppleJack or you want auto mode: 'applejack auto restart'
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| Feb 25 2005 |
ANONYMOUS Be careful to backup applications starting with an "A" in their names -- "applejack" doesn't seem to like those. I know 100 percent sure I had used Acrobat this noon before installing and running applejack 1.31. After letting it do it's work with no visible probs and restarting, my Acrobat folder was wiped empty with exception of some copy-protected Distiller settings. Also gone: Adressbook, Apple Script folder, and another application folder starting with "A". Really, since I kept my backups current, I had a good laugh... I am wondering if AppleJack is as paranoid as Apple themselves? OK, admittedly, it spared AppleWorks... (and what could this mean? ;-)
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| Feb 27 2005 |
ANONYMOUS I have several apps that start with A and had no problems.. it must be your OS :)
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| Feb 28 2005 |
ANONYMOUS Really strange, I have had nothing errononeously deleted using Applejack on 4 different macs.
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| Feb 28 2005 |
MARTIN The same with me: none of my plenty A-Applications (mostly Adobe along Address Book and AppleScript) where missing after a run
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| Mar 1 2005 |
TNH Why were you using this application in the first place? It isn't something you need for daily maintenance. If you submit that your files were deleted then why not run the same routines with your backup and see what happens. Make sure you don't move Apple Vended files and think that they will work, that's not going to happen consistantly. It sounds like hysteria or your system was really messed up and your deleted files were probably corrupt before using this application. Consider checking your drive w/ techtool or dw, although if Applejack repaired your disk you might not find a problem now. If you are losing files when you use routine applications then you should get a new drive.
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| Mar 2 2005 |
ANONYMOUS This problem has been reported on the sourceforge bug tracker (sf.net/projects/applejack) by one user. It's possible there could be a bug, and I'm looking into it--unless the reporter of this issue here is the same one that reported it at sourceforge.net.
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| May 12 2005 |
ANONYMOUS nice to see that the developer is paying attention to the comments, esp on a free app!!!!! thanks!!!!
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| Feb 25 2005 |
RONALD PRICE AppleJack works very well and does all it claims. It isn't DiskWarrrior or TechTool but it doesn't claim to be. Applejack just makes it quick and easy to access the built in maintenance tools include with OS X. When something gets borked and you can only get to single user mode the last thing you want to deal with is man pages for SystemStarter and the like. AppleJack saves a bit of time and frustration.
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| Feb 25 2005 |
ANONYMOUS love it. works great and couldn't be easier. thanks for your time making this program.
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| Feb 25 2005 |
ANONYMOUS I typed man applejack in a terminal window, but it didn't pull up the manual. It said it didn't exist.
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| Feb 28 2005 |
ANONYMOUS This is being fixed in version 1.3.1.1. Thanks for reporting it.
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| Feb 25 2005 |
ANONYMOUS You're better off learning UNIX. Then when you run into something your canned scripts don't handle you won't be stuck.
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| Feb 25 2005 |
don't work.......yet i hope. it is a great prg.
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| Feb 25 2005 |
ANONYMOUS Huh? You're not trying to use it from Terminal, are you?
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| Feb 25 2005 |
THOMAS AppleJack comes to the rescue after every instance of freeze, crash and/or kernel-panic. Everytime the system recoveres unharmed. This little helper is a must on every OSX-Mac.
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| Jan 25 2005 |
KATHARHINO Since I switched to OS X less than a year ago, I have reinstalled system software twice. If only I had known I didn't really have to. Every few months I get a weird problem where apps do not open and the beach ball spins endlessly. Must be a corrupt file of some sort (this a high-volume work computer). Applejack fixed it when I could not even open other utilities. Huzzah!
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| Jan 25 2005 |
FIXEMUPGUY Perhaps you should run Apple Disk Utility's "Repair Permissions" routine more often, maybe once a week. If you do, it's likely you'll avoid any issues like you have experienced.
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| Sep 14 2004 |
BOBWEINER nice utility - works well. For an upcoming version, would it be possible to somehow color code the text to make it easier to see the menu from the rest of the text? It's a minor niggle, but would really make it easier for users to discern the menus. Other than that, I love this utility. Highly recommended.
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| Sep 20 2004 |
ANONYMOUS Please post feature requests to the project's requests for enhancement: applejack.sourceforge.net.
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| Aug 23 2004 |
X MAN Kickass little ute! Thanks ; )
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| Aug 12 2004 |
ANONYMOUS A very very nice tool to have around. Applejack fixes things that can get passed up using Disk Utility. As an example on my Pismo running Disk Utility repair permissions if came up clean. Booting into Applejack found a large list of things needing fixing. Applejack also fixes various plist issues, deletes cache better than Cocktail and other nice things. As far as command line, I mean jesus get over it people. Reboot holding command+s. They you type "applejack" then "a" then when it's finished "reboot." You'd have to be a supreme 'tard not to be able to handle that. Also, I had absolutely no problems installing Applejack with the installed on two machines from the .DMG file. Highly recommended, and best of all free.
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| Aug 12 2004 |
ANONYMOUS You can also run through all the AppleJack tasks and then restart the machine simply by typing 'applejack auto restart' when you've booted into single user mode. It will do the maintenance tasks and restart the machine. Simple
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| Aug 12 2004 |
ANONYMOUS Uhm, diskutil works in panther via the terminal & the disk utility app, I use "/usr/sbin/diskutil repairPermissions /" it in a weekly script without any issues. So the question is what in the heck is the "fixes diskutil so it works in pather" thing about?
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| Aug 12 2004 |
ANONYMOUS diskutil does not work in Panther when you are in Single User Mode. Once you've started up the whole system, then it works fine. So yes, diskutil works in the Terminal, but it does not work in Single User Mode right out of the box--something which it used to do in Jaguar.
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| Aug 12 2004 |
RONALD PRICE Ditto previous reply. This utility is useful when an app or system crash causes permissions and/cache corruption so bad the system hangs during boot-up. You may still be able to boot into single user mode and fix things. This is quicker than booting from the OS X Installer disc. And if you don't happen to have your Installer disc handy. . . As a bonus, AppleJack gives us Mac users a little geek fix. :)
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| Aug 12 2004 |
RONALD PRICE AppleJack isn't DiskWarrior, TechTool Pro, or Norton Utilities but it can fix the 2 most common problems that afflict OS X - corrupted caches and permissions. If you are comfortable booting into single user mode and using a command line tool then AppleJack is a very handy thing to have installed. Even if your system hangs during boot-up you may be able to fix things with AppleJack.
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| Aug 12 2004 |
LEO OF BORG This is a great script. No CD, no NetBoot. Just single user mode, and 'applejack auto reboot' and my Mac is checked while I get coffee. That being said, I don't use the Applejack installer because it's buggy, so, in the terminal by hand I do this: 1/ sudo root (root user is necessary! If not, try 'sudo') 2/ cp [applejack install path]/applejack.sh /sbin/ [If you put in /sbin you don't need to change root profile] 3/ cd /sbin; ln -s applejack.sh applejack [file linking is convenient] 4/ cp [applejack install path]/applejack.8 /usr/share/man/man8/ [the man page] So little work for such a great script... have fun!
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