MacJanitor

This program is nice, simple, FREE, and very necessary for those of us who leave our computers off or sleeping at night, If you would like to know how to change the "cron" maintenance schedule to run automatically at a different time and learn a little about using the OS X terminal also, read this tutorial: http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2001/12/14/terminal_one.html

Both download and developer's links are broken. A good app but it looks like it's been discontinued.

I share the point of view of the last reviewer, but I've noticed something in Leopard (on an iMac G5): 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. ;-)

I just wanted to share my experience with this little tool. I have been using it on all my Macs for years and have never had a problem. I currently have a 15" Early 2008 2.5 GHz Intel Core2 Duo MBP w/6GB RAM and a 640GB HDD running Mac OS X 10.6.5 Snow Leopard. 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!!!

... this new version runs fine under 10.4.1. does a fine job 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.

Holy fsck Batman…the best of the best is back :-) 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 :-)

Like a phoenix, back from the ashes! Nice.

Compatible with OS 10.4.1 runs only cron maintenance scripts -- singly or altogether