[X Newbies] Maintenance was Re: Problems Installing Apps

[Christiaan Knol]

I too use (and highly recommend) Macaroni.  I have also created other 
scripts to perform tasks such as backing up my mySQL databases every 
couple of days and clearing out my cache folders once a week 
(~/Library/Caches/ /Library/Caches/ and /System/Library/Caches/).

One thing I'm not sure about is the /tmp/ folder - it seems to have A 
LOT of junk in there.  Will watch this one - I assume the system is 
supposed to delete most of it (as part of the daily maintenance)?

Anyway, using this set-up I NEVER seem to have any system problems - 
but then again I guess the 'horror' stories are the ones that generally 
make it to the various lists and websites, not those running 
smoothly...

ck

On 02/04/2004, at 6:14 AM, birgit rhoads wrote:

> I use Macaroni.  You have to pay for it $8.95 or $8.50 for 2 
> computers.  You do have a 30 day tryout period.  It runs in the 
> background automatically from the System Preferences, does daily, 
> weekly, monthly maintenance, repairs permissions weekly and removes 
> localized files.  You can find it here:
>
> http://www.atomicbird.com/
>
> Birgit
>