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 you can also open your .tcshrc file, and add an alias, as I did, whereby 'per' = the above command line, with the 'arguments' (daily, weekly, monthly), after that, the process to do the 3 maintenance tasks is to type: per <return>