- MacJanitor has been discontinued
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Developer
Brian Hill
MacJanitor allows you to manually startup daily, weekly, and monthly cron maintenance scripts. These scripts are important when keeping MacOS X in "good shape". Usually, these scripts are set to automatically launch at times of the day when little activity occurs. However, if your Mac is turned off during these times, then the maintenance scripts don't have a chance to run.
What's New
Built for Panther and higher (Tiger compatible).
Uses the 'periodic' tool instead of running the tasks directly.
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MacJanitor allows you to manually startup daily, weekly, and monthly cron maintenance scripts. These scripts are important when keeping MacOS X in "good shape". Usually, these scripts are set to automatically launch at times of the day when little activity occurs. However, if your Mac is turned off during these times, then the maintenance scripts don't have a chance to run.
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The routines seem to run, be it with Mac Janitor or Onyx, but if you look at the logs in the console (/var/log/daily.out, monthly.out and weekly.out), they don't seem to be changed after running the scripts. (the daily log was full of things from one year ago that weren't erased when I was running the script)
So I ran them in root user account after having trashed those files from within the Console and I got new clean logs...
I don't know if it's useful or not but that's the way to do it. ;-)
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Rsmacupdate reviewed on 19 Dec 2010
The application isn't as robust as Onyx or TinkerTool or Cocktail, but is faithfully does what it was designed to do. The "Features" area is the only area that I hesitated in giving it a 5. This is because I couldn't decide whether to rate it based on it's design intent or comparatively with TinkerTool and others. If it is compared with other applications that we designed to do more than it's Features rating would be low (probably a "1") as it doesn't do nearly as much as the others. If it is rated based upon what it was designed to do then it would be a "5". I decided to split the difference between the two and rate it a "2.5" for features. I rated it a "5" overall in consideration that it was never designed to do the set of tasks that "Onyx" and others were. To the Developer: I want to thank yo for this little app as it has faithfully done what you designed it to do for years and I (and I believe others are as well) am very grateful to you for creating it. Thank you and may God bless you!!!
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Micg reviewed on 24 Sep 2009
Messes up things.
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I've given up and now using OnyX which does everything I need to keep my Mac running smoothly.
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I'm recommending this to my clients, family, friends, and students because they need to learn that maintenance is just as important as purchasing the right computer . . . Mac Rules!
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Thanks for great and free stuff.
Anonymous reviewed on 25 May 2005
however, if you aren't queasy about droping into 'single user' mode, take a look at AppleJack 1.4.1. (it's free)
It does any of 5 maintenance jobs -- some of which no freeware can perform under OS 10.4.x
As a bonus, you can listen to your G5's fans run wild for a minute or so.
Anonymous reviewed on 25 May 2005
I always recommend this UNIX "clearing house" application to folks just for the simple reason it's simple and they can't "screw anything up" by using it (i.e. unlike some other UNIX tools). Don't get me wrong, Onyx is great and I use it but, the average person just needs a little house cleaning it they turn their Mac off when not in use…
Great job…again :-)
Anonymous reviewed on 24 May 2005
Anonymous reviewed on 19 May 2005
runs only cron maintenance scripts -- singly or altogether