 | Nov 10 2009 |
MAC007 I can verify that the current version (2.1.1) works just fine under Snow Leopard (10.6.2).
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| Aug 29 2009 |
CYBORG9 Snow Leopard compatibility coming up? We'll see. I contacted the developer but he remains mum. It would be a crying shame if he drops the ball on updates. None since January of '08.
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| Sep 2 2009 |
WAVENUMBER Posted on their website on Aug 28: "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. | |
 | Jun 25 2009 |
TOFI this is still the best for scheduled routine maintenance. I wish it is still maintained.I use it exclusively.it is worth the money I spent and more.Onyx can not do what this one does. the nice thing about Macaroni, that it works, when I am not.
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| Jan 8 2008 |
RICKEY939 Yet another great update for this awesome application. I love how all the updates (even across OS upgrades) have been free. Best money I've spent! Thanks so much.
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| Jan 8 2008 |
MR.ASH Why pay 10$ for this software while Onyx does the same job (and even much more) for free?
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| Jan 8 2008 |
NEUTRALZONE Because Onyx does not do the same job.
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| Jun 5 2008 |
BRADSMITH74 First, please don't give a star rating to a product if you're only going to make a comment about the cost/value. It's misleading to people who actually want to know about software. Instead us "Review Type" of "Comment". Second, unless I'm mistaken Onyx doesn't do the same thing- specifically when it comes to automating a large number of tasks/crons and running them on a periodic basis. In addition to all of the predefined tasks, Macaroni allows you to create an run your own cron tasks via its simple interface. I've been a very happy user of Macaroni for years and find that it's well worth $10.
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| Nov 4 2009 |
DOUG ENGELBART Hi; is there a tool to change the point of time at which Leopard automatically runs its maintenance cron scripts? Sometimes I'm still working at 03:15 am, so it would be better if the crons run at 06:00 am, for example.
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| Jan 8 2008 |
VZE26WYC It seems that I have had Macaroni always in the system preferences do its thing. I look at the logs and it does do everything it says it does. All the updates are free. Thanks for the very good product...
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| Jan 7 2008 |
LEE123 I am more than willing to pay the meager $10 fee for a program that runs all my scripts in the background. The program also runs any custom script when the machine is awake and not busy. I use it to run my backup scripts.
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| Jul 11 2007 |
MOUSEE Thank you so much for that little fix. That Adobe problem was stopping me to set the language process on full auto. Now I will even forget the Macaroni is installed ;-)
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| Jul 11 2007 |
BUZZYMAN I've been a happy user for almost two years without a single problem and you never have to do any work to keep things going smoothly. And I'm always amazed at how much space is recovered by removing the unused language files, often hundreds of MB's!
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| Jul 11 2007 |
TICONDEROGA This would be a great product were it not for the fact that it quits without letting you know. I suspect it has something to do with restarting, but I contacted the developer, and found many similar complaints and his disregard of the issue. So, 0 stars out of however many you want because you cannot use it reliably.
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 | Jul 11 2007 |
MECHANIST That particular problem was only reported by one person, and while there were "many similar complaints", they were all from him. I don't know if this is you or not. The person in question was consistently hostile and insulting and so I never got any further information from him. If this is not you, please contact me via my web site at http://www.atomicbird.com/ so I can try to figure out what's going on with Macaroni for you.
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| Jul 12 2007 |
TICONDEROGA That is simply untrue. I posted on a forum. There were many identical comments. The developer took down the forum. I do not understand why the developer is concerned if whoever else complained is hostile that the software does not work. It does not work.
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| Jul 12 2007 |
MECHANIST Actually it is true. There were many identical comments, all from the same person. If you're not the same person, that makes two reports, and as I said in my previous message I ask that you contact me through my web site so that I can try and get a better idea of what's going wrong. The software does work for the vast majority of users, however all software may contain bugs, and these bugs may only affect a small number of users of the software. I do take bug reports seriously. However that does not mean I'm willing to take continued email abuse from someone who has encountered a bug. I'm sorry if you do not understand why someone might not wish to communicate with a person who inevitably responds with personal insults. I would have liked to get more information about the problem but I was not willing to put up with this person anymore. We no longer have a forum, but this is due mainly to difficulties controlling spam there effectively.
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| Jul 12 2007 |
TICONDEROGA Seems you have a problem with another anonymous person who is also angry with you for your failings. Maybe you should just fix the software.
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| Oct 27 2007 |
TUI I don't know who you are, Ticonderoga, but your attitude towards the developer is unacceptable. There is no reason to be "angry" with him. Macaroni is one of the most reliable and highly rated utilities for the Mac. It has worked well for me for many years, on both PPC and Intel machines.
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| Apr 9 2007 |
DIGITAL DUDE This is an excerpt from one of my recent posts on the Apple Discussions Forum, while responding to a members satisfaction with his MacBook Pro. ..."I purchased mine last March (week-12) and I haven't had so much as one hiccup! Then again, Im quite conservative as to what I load into my machine. Being a portable, I found one utility that has definitely help with keeping my Mac in proper health; Atomic Birds Macaroni Automated maintenance for Mac OSX. It simply invokes Apples built-in maintenance algorithm. That, together with Repairing Permissions before and after installing anything, has truly kept me out of the Emergency Room. Re: http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=4375312#4375312 Regards,"
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| Jul 30 2006 |
SIDETRACKED Simple, effective, stable. Finds the time to run the maintanence scripts and repair permissions when the computer is on. If it isn't on at the 'normal' scheduled time, it simply waits until the next time the computer is up and running runs them then. So there's no need to have my mac on to meet any pre-set schedule, even my own. I set it once, and have never had to worry about it again. Also, the delocalizer function is easy to use and very effective at saving tons of disk space. It's not free, but it's not expensive either. It could do more, but what it does, it does simply and well. I've tried a lot of the utility and system maintanence programs, and find that this, Onyx and Preferential Treatment are the ones that have stayed part of my day to day use.
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| Apr 14 2006 |
ERIC I've used this app for the last 3 years ... I'm convinced it's one of the reasons I have Never had an install problem or any other major issue. This is a must have, no brainer utility for trouble free computing ...
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 | Mar 9 2006 |
BBQ-ALLSTAR Hrmmm...I get errors when trying to install latest. I had Macaroni 2.07b4 installed...tried installing newest 2.07 and I get "There were errors when trying to install...please try again". 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?
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| Mar 8 2006 |
HAL2007 Please Mr Developer, spend some money in icon design. This actual one is just plain ugly. Macaroni itself works just perfect. A must have utility.
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| Mar 8 2006 |
FUELLEMANN This the one of the few real helpful tools I recommend all my customers to install. Since most problems I encounter in my work as Mac OS supporter are based on corrupted permissions, Macaroni counters a lot of problems right in the beginning. Sounds silly, but I really sleep easier at night, if I know this tool is installed.
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| Mar 7 2006 |
RWOODARD I have been using Macaroni for over 3.5 years now and it has worked as advertized. I have not had any problems, strange behaviors, Nothing at all. I give this program a 5 star rating.
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| Feb 26 2006 |
RWOODARD I have been using Macaroni for over 5 years now and it has worked as advertized. I have not had any problems, strange behaviors, Nothing at all. I give this program a 5 star rating. Ralph Woodard
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| Mar 7 2006 |
KBALLARD Uhh, you are aware that Macaroni has only existed for 3.5 years, yes? Also, you didn't in fact rate it 5 stars. You just said you did.
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| Mar 7 2006 |
RWOODARD You are right, I guess I had been using it for that long. I do know the developer personaly. As for the 5 stars, I dont know where to rate it. So I gave it a text rating of 5 stars.
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| Feb 24 2006 |
BARRIKADY I've been using Macaroni for about a year. It works great. I believe it is an invaluable preventive-maintenance tool for assisting in good overall system performance.
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| Feb 24 2006 |
8OO8 I've been using Macaroni for about 8 months now, and have experienced absolutely no problems with it from day one. It makes the oh-so-important regular system maintenance a breeze. Just set it and forget it. Macaroni does exactly what it's supposed to do, without ever missing a beat. It's a real class act! It's worth every penny of the very modest $8.99 purchase price.
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| Jun 26 2005 |
JEFF I bought this utility a while ago, but only used it for a very short (about 5 days) time because of a conflict (I think) with iBeezz. Buty since iBeezz is no more I reinstalled it 4 the heck of it. It's great! Runs silent in the background, and when I check the logs it does do the all the routines. Great utility!
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| May 16 2005 |
ANONYMOUS Crappy Shareware.... Crashes on Launch on my New G5 with Tiger 10.4. You see on the Icon what youll get!
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| Jun 16 2005 |
MECHANIST No other users have reported this. We make a point of taking bug reports seriously and helping users work through any trouble they may have, but we never heard from you. I don't know what was wrong in your case, because you really didn't post any sort of details, but the software has never been reported to have this problem by anyone who has ever contacted us. If it had been, we would have responded as quickly as possible with a fix.
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| Feb 16 2006 |
BRUCE_Y Contrary experience here (I cannot say why user Anonymous had crash) Macaroni v 2.0.6 runs very reliably on my iMac G5, under all the flavors of Tiger I have been through: OS X 10.4.0, 10.4.2, 10.4.3, 10.4.4, and now 10.4.5. Still running silently in the background. It also ran fine on my previous iMac G4 under Panther (thru 10.3.9). (and I may have had it back in jaguar days too). I registered it and strongly recommend it to friends and clients. It is a great set-it-and-forget-it utility. Author is responsive, send your details about crash.
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| Apr 22 2005 |
ROBERTJ Great utility. I have three HD's and use it to clean up the permissions on all of them. I also use it to handle daily, weekly and monthly backups in the middle of the night. Wrote the scripts in Perl but they could have been done in Applescript.
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 | Apr 12 2005 |
ANONYMOUS Anacron (http://www.alastairs-place.net/anacron.html) can do many of the same things as Macaroni, but is free. If you don't mind using the Terminal, I suggest you look at anacron first.
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| Apr 12 2005 |
ANONYMOUS Yeah, and where's the "Remove localized files" option in Anacron? ;-)
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| Apr 20 2005 |
ANONYMOUS how often do you need to remove localized files?
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| Apr 11 2005 |
ANONYMOUS Great utility! I've recommended it to many novice users who don't regularly perform basic maintenance. All of what Macaroni does really should be built in to OS X, but Apple's stupid sometimes. Thankfully there's Macaroni.
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| Mar 2 2005 |
HANDYMAC Many utilities will do these tasks (permissions repair, cron jobs, etc.) but only Macaroni will automate them, so the user doesn't have to remember to see to such routine chores. This should already be part of OS X, but until it is I buy Macaroni licenses by the dozen (quantity discount) and install it on every Mac I set up. I also install OnyX (also highly recommended) for manual maintenance and cleaning.
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| Apr 4 2005 |
ANONYMOUS There are other maintenance programs (some better) which automate the process. I'll leave it to you to search them out.
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| Apr 11 2005 |
ANONYMOUS You said so yourself, you use onyX. Why would you not just use that which works great for free. Automation is not answer enough for me to even give this a try being that onyX is free.
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| Mar 2 2005 |
VITALY one of the most useful, unobtrusive, and stable utils i have ever bought. developer is very responsive. when i discovered a conflict with acrobat 7, it was fixed within about a month. not bad
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| Mar 2 2005 |
ANONYMOUS I believe onyX does the same thing and it's free.
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| Mar 2 2005 |
ANONYMOUS ONYX requires manual operation. Macaroni is a control panel that runs these things when your machine has cycles to spend. It watches the system cron jobs and the schedule you set so that missed activities occur. It also provides other "clean up" utilities and allows you to schedule custom scripts. Onyx is probably a very good utility for what it does. It does NOT do what Macaroni does.
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| Mar 2 2005 |
ANONYMOUS While many utilities can run cron jobs, Macaroni is one of very few utilities that can automate cron jobs that were missed when the machine was not awake.
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| Feb 4 2005 |
MACMANSHEFFIELDUK I've sat back helplessly whilst OSX ate HD space on a weekly basis, so I downloaded Macaroni yesterday and put it to work. I left my iMac last evening with 1.93Gb of HD. This morning on reboot I have 3Gb. Undoubtedly the best value piece of software I have ever bought, and an absolute steal at this price. Every Mac needs this.
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| Mar 2 2005 |
S.F. True, Macaroni does reclaim some hard drive space by removing localizations, but some of your regained space might be due to the fact that the swap files were deleted when you restarted. They do take up a good chunk of hard drive space. Not to belittle Macaroni though; the program is worth every penny and more!
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| Jan 17 2005 |
OLI You need this app if you shut down your computer at night. Also one of the best things about it that a lot of people don't know is that it "Repairs Permissions" on a weekly basis. It's worth it for that alone!
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| Dec 20 2004 |
RSOLDIN Ever since I pruchased this I havent had to run CRON scripts, except for when I do a permission check before system updates. Its great not having to think about this maintenance routine. I shut down my system every night so it Apples routines dont work for me in the early morning.
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| Dec 16 2004 |
RICK I bought Macaroni several months ago and have been running trouble free ever since. I can forget about running cron script maintenance using other utilities (or leaving the computer on 24/7 to let OS X.x.x do it at 3 am) since I installed Macaroni. How more "Mac-like" can you get (to paraphrase G-Man's comments.)
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| Apr 5 2004 |
PAUL LIEBER Viva La Macaroni! Talk about an intelligent piece of software. Worth every penny and then some.
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| Mar 12 2004 |
DONEAGLE This is exactly what I needed (my forgeter works better than my rememberer). A very good app. for OS X, does a great job, keeps "panther" running smooth & fast! I don't really like the idea of leaving my computer on all night. Thank You.
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| Mar 10 2004 |
ANONYMOUS This is why shareware was invented. A beautiful app that does what it should for a reasonable price. I had been using Onyx to run maintenance, but there was no way to schedule the scripts. Macaroni changed all that. Add the feature to remove language localizations and you have a truly brilliant program that is completely Mac and a bargain. This is truly one of my "toolbox" apps. First rate on all accounts.
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| Mar 4 2004 |
G-MAN Tried it - liked it - bought it for my iMac and PowerBook! This app is a complete no-brainer. Running in the background; set-it-forget-it; what else could you ask for. A complete "Mac-ish" app from start to finish. Too bad MacUpdate only goes to 5 stars!!! (But,shhh... don't tell anybody... it's dirt cheap too!)
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| Mar 2 2004 |
BILL GORDON This is the single most important utility for any OSx user. As Ron Popiel likes to say "set it and forget it". That is maintenance the Mac way. I trust it, and it hasn't let me down.
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| Feb 24 2004 |
I bought it ( along time ago) several of my friends bought it... Thank you!
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| Feb 10 2004 |
JAMES HARTMAN I've been using this on my G4 tower for the last 4 months. The machine has been on 24 hours a day for the whole time, with NO system crashes. My Mac has been up and running the whole time. I attribute this to Macaorni daily system checks and corrections. This software will be on every Mac I own. Jim
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| Feb 9 2004 |
ANONYMOUS Far out. I turn my machine on in the morning, and by the time I am out of the shower it's all done. This is great for us UNIXtards. As much as I love the terminal, I was over that in the '80. Long live GUI.
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| Jan 27 2004 |
ANONYMOUS This is great. As a system admin with years of experience I have no hesitation in recomending this to the more "terminal challenged".
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| Jan 26 2004 |
ERIC I want to see more stars on this page instead of silly comments. This app is the best thing for the average user who doesn't want or need the complexity of Cocktail, Onyx etc.... which you have to remember to run manually. Just set it, and forget it. Fantastic!
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| Jan 21 2004 |
NORM This is simply the easiest and most reliable way to run ALL of OS X's maintenance routines at a convienient time AND automatically. So good it should be part of the system! And now with delocalization built in for the same price or free to those already registered. Thanks Atomic Bird.
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| Aug 22 2003 |
WAZZAMATTAU yeah, i was "jocking" as you say. but you gotta admit, you used a bad choice of words: "runs the 4 routines without you having to intervene, even if your computer is off at night."
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| Aug 22 2003 |
ANONYMOUS Come on wazzamattaU!! It does not run when the computer is off. When you turn your computer on Macaroni simply checks if the tasks have been run at night and if they haven't because your computer was off, then Macaroni runs them for you. But you had figured that out and you were just jocking, were you not?
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| Aug 22 2003 |
WAZZAMATTAU wow, an app that can run even when your computer is off! (off means powered-down, ya know??)
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| Aug 22 2003 |
MOUSEE PLAIN WRONG Anonymous. Cocktail needs to be launched by users everytime it has to be run. And as we all know, we more than often forget to do it or have no time to run it right now,... Macaroni on the other hand is installed in the background of your system and runs the 4 routines without you having to intervene, even if your computer is off at night.
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| Aug 22 2003 |
ANONYMOUS Have you heard of Coctail? That's free and does the same...
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| Jun 7 2004 |
JPMCD should note, cocktail is not free; it is shareware and I'm sure the developer would like you to pay the fee
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| Aug 21 2003 |
ANONYMOUS sigh... why don't you just use the disk utilty to repair permissions instead of paying 7 bucks for this garbage... yeah yeah you can do all the unix stuff to, just write an applescript to run all that junk and your done.
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| Aug 21 2003 |
ANONYMOUS Nice try, "anonymous". Using update_prebinding isn't necessary since Jaguar came out. And you missed repair permissions, which Macaroni does for you.
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| Aug 13 2003 |
ANONYMOUS I always find doing things yourself the best. So here are the Prebinding, and UNIX cron commands that can be entered into the Terminal: sudo -S /etc/daily, sudo -S /etc/weekly, sudo -S /ect/monthly, sudo -S update_prebinding root /. | |
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| Jul 11 2003 |
KANESA So easy to use.....Has really helped keep my system stable. Repair permissions is the greatest.
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| Apr 8 2003 |
JEEPEE Great little program. Very easy, does all the work for you and is also very clever for administrators, because Macaroni can do the work for them and they do not have to come over to help their colleagues or family in my case... It does the job even if you're not in administrator-mode. And only works when my iBook is not on battery-power, really smart! This program is really worth the money!
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| Mar 18 2003 |
A BIG FAN I repeat, Macaroni is the only one you "Set and Forget". Well worth the small cost to never worry about these maintenance tasks again.Check it out once you've installed it in the system prefs and you'll see when it is doing its nice little duties faithfully.
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| Mar 18 2003 |
ANONYMOUS So Repair shop and MacJanitor are doing all the things that Macaroni doesfor free.
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| Feb 13 2003 |
ANONYMOUS MacJanitor does not run Mac OS X's "repair privileges" function, but Macaroni does.
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| Jan 18 2003 |
ANONYMOUS sounds like Macjanitor to me. The tasks are the same, when & how is different. And for that reason you pay.
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| Jan 14 2003 |
ANONYMOUS Macjanitor does not do the same thing for free. Macjanitor requires you to tell it when to run the maintenance tasks; Macaroni does it automatically, even if the Mac is not on when a scheduled job comes due. Macaroni notices that the job's overdue; Macjanitor doesn't pay any attention.
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| Jan 12 2003 |
ANONYMOUS Doesn't Mac Janitor do the same thing for free?
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| Jan 3 2003 |
ANONYMOUS Would not mount (1.3.1) or unstuff. Seeing how you can run 'diskutil repairpermissions' from terminal....?
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| Dec 29 2002 |
ANONYMOUS Love It! This is the new "rebuild desktop" kind of app that will save many newbie users a lot of grief. Runs on its own and most importantly "repairs permissions." | |
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