Hehe Flipper, well, it is only done in a couple of seconds because it is the wrong command, hence nothing happens at all. In order for it to work, you should do a Sudo periodic daily; sudo periodic monthly; sudo periodic weekly Instead. I put weekly at the end, as it is the one taking the most time, up to several minutes actually. Cheers, Kim On 22/05/04 13:58, "b" <fl1pper at earthlink.net> wrote: > John Griffin paused, thought it over, and spoke thusly: > >> Download a utility called Macaroni. It does all these tasks in the >> background while your machine is active. >> >> jg > > Or open Terminal, and at the prompt, type: > > periodic -daily -weekly -monthly <hit return> usually > finished in a couple seconds. > > ~flipper