Question about Finder Behavior

When I go to Finder/Go/Network, sometimes the Finder won't open the Network window, and when it does, the icons are won't stay in icon-view mode. Any ideas what the problem might be?
Also, when I run System Maintenance Scripts, will they clean up all the partitions? Thanks.

The maintenance scripts only run on the active startup volume. If you have other partitions that do not have OS X installed, then there's no need to run the maintenance scripts on those volumes. If you do have OS X installed on the other volumes, then you will have to start up from them to run the maintenance scripts on those volumes.
Note that with Tiger there's little need to force the maintenance scripts to run unless you turn off your computer. If the computer is simply put to sleep, then the scripts will be run automatically at or near that time. With Tiger and later OS X uses launchd to run the maintenance scripts and no longer relies on using cron. Though not significantly different in Leopard there are some improvements in this behavior over those in Tiger. See the following excerpt for The XLab FAQs FAQ on maintenance scripts:
*Scheduling under Tiger*
Under Tiger, the new launchd process invokes each script on a schedule specified in a script-specific property list (.plist file) in the /System/Library/LaunchDaemons directory. The specific property list for each script is as follows:
daily script: com.apple.periodic-daily.plist
weekly script: com.apple.periodic-weekly.plist
monthly script: com.apple.periodic-monthly.plist
How the timer used by launchd handles sleep time has led many to believe that they no longer need to run the maintenance scripts, and that the scripts are run automatically if the Mac was asleep or shutdown at the scheduled time, ala third-party utilities such as Anacron. However, this is untrue.
While it may appear that launchd executes the maintenance scripts "on the fly" if the computer is asleep or shutdown at the appointed time, this is a side effect of how the timer treats time the computer has spent in sleep mode. The timer used by launchd does not count sleep time. If your Mac is asleep at the scheduled time at which a given script is supposed to run, the script may run later that day, at a time shifted by the amount of time the Mac was asleep. However, if you restart your Mac before the time-shifted execution time, pending events are lost and the script will not run off-schedule: the next chance for the script to run will be at its regularly scheduled time.
If you regularly restart your Mac and the computer regularly sleeps or is shutdown at the scheduled times, it's possible that the scripts will never run, hence one should still run them manually, say on a weekly basis.
The sleep time shift is also cumulative. For example, if you don't restart your Mac for weeks or months at a time, but let it sleep when not in use, this can result in:
The daily script running once every few days or never.
The weekly script once every few weeks or never.
The monthly script once every few months or never.
The time shift in each case is the total amount of time the Mac has spent in sleep since its last restart. If you have a process that writes heavily to the logs, you can wind up devoting good hard disk space to the log files.

Similar Messages

  • Question about Finder-Load-Beans flag

    Hi all,
    I've read that the Finder-Load-Beans flag could yield some valuable gains in performance
    but:
    1) why is it suggested to do individual gets of methods within the same Transaction
    ? (tx-Required).
    2) this strategy is useful only for small sets of data, isn't it? I imagine I
    would choose Finder-Load-Beans to false (or JDBC) for larger sets of data.
    3) A last question: its default value is true or false ?
    Thanks
    Francesco

    Because if there are different transactions where the get method is called
    then the state/data of the bean would most be reloaded from the database. A
    new transactions causes the ejbLoad method to be invoked in the beginning
    and the ejbStore at the end. That is the usual case but there are other ways
    to modify this behavior.
    Thanks
    Gaurav
    "Francesco" <[email protected]> wrote in message
    news:[email protected]...
    >
    Hi thorick,
    I have found this in the newsgroup. It's from R.Woolen answering
    a question about Finder-Load-Beans flag.
    "Consider this case:
    tx.begin();
    Collection c = findAllEmployeesNamed("Rob");
    Iterator it = c.iterator();
    while (it.hasNext()) {
    Employee e = (Employee) it.next(); System.out.println("Favorite color is:"+ e.getFavColor());
    tx.commit();
    With CMP (and finders-load-beans set to its default true value), thefindAllEmployeesNamed
    finder will load all the employees with the name of rob. The getFavColormethods
    do not hit the db because they are in the same tx, and the beans arealready loaded
    in the cache.
    It's the big CMP performance advantage."
    So I wonder why this performance gain can be achieved when the iterationis inside
    a transaction.
    Thanks
    regards
    Francesco
    thorick <[email protected]> wrote:
    1) why is it suggested to do individual gets of methods within thesame Transaction
    ? (tx-Required).I'm not sure about the context of this question (in what document,
    paragraph
    is this
    mentioned).
    2) this strategy is useful only for small sets of data, isn't it? Iimagine I
    would choose Finder-Load-Beans to false (or JDBC) for larger sets ofdata.
    >
    If you know that you will be accessing the fields of all the Beans that
    you get back from a
    finder,
    then you will realize a significant performance gain. If one selects
    100s or more beans
    using
    a finder, but only accesses the fields for a few, then there may be some
    performance cost.
    It could
    depend on how large some of the fields are. I'd guess that the cost
    of 1 hit to the DB per
    bean vs.
    the cost of 1 + maybe 1 more hit to the DB per bean, would usually be
    less. A performance
    test using
    your actual apps beans would be the only way to know for sure.
    3) A last question: its default value is true or false ?The default is 'True'
    -thorick

  • Question about MapListener behavior

    can any body tell me about MapListener behavior when it in distributed cache model and in replicated cache model.
    when i type some code implement MapListener interface to change another NamedCache(named 'log') element,
    but MapListener.entryUpdated running under every machine, so 'log' will inserted some equal Data,
    how can do it , let's MapListener.entryUpdated only running one time under a idle machine
    thank you

    In addition to Jon's comment (which is a great way to approach the problem), there are two other possible approaches:
    1) implement a CacheStore and use it to do the processing (i.e. sync write-through or async write-behind processing of those updates)
    2) I don't suggest doing this, but you can elect only one machine that will be responsible for processing the events (more advanced, but allows you to funnel everything through one point if you must)
    Peace.

  • Question about Find and Replace PL/SQL option in Forms Builder

    Dear All
    I have a small question .
    I am using Find and Replace PLSQ/SQL in forms Builder ( Edit - Find and Replace PLSQL) to search any code in a form.
    Let say I am searching for EMP .
    Then all the places is coming where EMP is used as well as EMPloyee , EMPloyee_Desc tables also coming .
    So is there any way to serach only the EMP part .

    If you look closely to the right of the "Find What" field, you should see a button - "Expression". This allows you to add some logic to your search. Alternatively, depending on how you code, you could just look for spaces. For example, if you are looking for EMP and not EMPLOYEE, search for EMP with a blank space before and after it (assuming you code this way) or use something like this \bEMP\b This would work for me because I code the same way I write sentences - each work is separated by spaces.
    <blockquote> EMPLOYEE := EMP || ' - ID';</blockquote>
    In this example, seaching for EMP with a blank space after would find what I wanted. However, if you only search for a trailing blank, you may end up also finding words like tEMP. This is where have a blank space before each word is helpful.
    Other, more valuable expressions could be written to accomplish your task. Refer to the Forms Builder Online help for more information about using Expressions in the Find and Replace search window.

  • Iphone 5s Lost/Stolen - Questions about Find my Phone on ios7

    OK, I have done something very stupid but I need some advice anyway, will likely not ever get my phone back but I'm curious as to how it works.
    1) I bought an unlocked iPhone 5s for travel.
    2) I installed "find my phone" before leaving Canada
    3) I came to China to live for 6 months and I inserted a China Unicom SIM card.
    4) I purchased a cell phone plan that has basically no data
    5) I then went into my settings and turned off Cellular Data for all apps (this was the stupid thing that I did without thinking).
    Therefore, find my phone is off in Cellular Data.  Last night my phone was lost and/or stolen.  I immediately tried to use "find my phone."  As soon as it said my device was offline I realized what I had done and how stupid it was. I did still set the lock and send it a messages so if for some reason it comes online it will be locked, but....here are my questions:
    1) Will "find my phone" work over Wifi automatically if Cellular Data is off?
    2) If my phone IS in the hands of a thief, is this even helpful?  Could a thief just pop out my SIM card, insert their SIM card, somehow bypass my fingerprint/passcode (I know there are hacks for that) and then just turn off / disable Find My Phone?  Because if they put in their SIM card and use 3G, but haven't started using Wifi yet, then "find my phone" won't be activated yet, correct?
    3) So is my only hope to leave a thief with a worthless brick that they take the phone somewhere and try to use it on Wifi to set it up?  IF they insert a new SIM and manage to hack my passcode, BUT they fail to deactivate "find my phone" and then they join a wireless network, would my phone immediately lock

    Use Find My iPhone to track iPhone only if the following conditions are met:
    1. Find My iPhone is ON and activated.
    2. iPhone has Internet connection.
    3. iPhone is not switched OFF.
    To track
    https://www.icloud.com/#find
    Lost or Stolen
    http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5668

  • Question about joption behavior.

    Hi, I'm trying to use JOptionPane to display some component. I tried to set up its size via methods setPreferredSize, setMinimumSize, setSize, but when JOptionPane displays, the component is always small. Suppose I'm using this command JOptionPane.showMessageDialog (null, someCompoennt, ...) for displaying message.
    Is this a standard unbendable behavior or I've got something wrong? If latter is true, please send me a short example source code how to do it properly.
    thanks in advance.
    alfonz.

    reply to all of you: I'm sorry. Really. I just did not want to waste your time, because the answer "joption works well in this case" was enough for me and that was the only reason I did not post code. Next time I will.
    +(Sigh) I regret posting that code now. I feel you'd have learned more if you had posted an SSCCE*. I have little doubt that each and every person who replied to you, could spot the problem in the code and explain why your code was failing.+
    I do not agree with you. Finding your mistake yourself is more valuable then let others to show you where it is. So I just needed to be sure, that mistake is on my side and I'll find it myself. If I fail doing so, then I'll ask for help and hope someone will be willing to help me. I do not know at this moment if I'll be able to fix my mistake, but I have to try it myself or I wont learn anything at all.
    so, these forums should be set up for brain-dead idiots to post
    +"I can't get a JTable/OptionPane/whatever to work, please write it for me"+
    dont exxagerate it - I asked for 20 lines of code including imports and blank lines. Someone, who know how to do the job, is done with it in a minute. Writing finding error explaning it etc. will take more than that and as I said earlier I just want steal as little time as possible. I did not ask "how to break rsa". But again, I understand now that on this forum is needed to post code and next time I'll do it.

  • Question about CS3 Behavior

    i am using behavior, how do i make a behavior that when i
    roll over a spot, another spot changes?

    Hi! Could u supply more information. Are you working with
    images?

  • Question about Finder file listing order when sorting by "Name"

    I quite often add a suffix to some of my file names when I save them so that I can keep a complete history of changes. For example, I usually add "_000" at the end, and progress to "_001" through "_009". However after "_009" I don't increase the next digit to "_010" but instead, after "_009" comes "_00A" then "_00B" on to "_00Z" and then to "_010". I have been doing this for a while now (several years) and it has worked well for me.
    I have noticed in the finder window, when in "List" view a file ending in "_00A" is listed lexicographically before a file ending in "009" instead of the other way around.
    I think that this is due to my UNIX Locale being set to LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
    1. Is this a correct assumption?
    I would like it to be listed in POSIX order.
    2. Is there a way I can make just specific folders list file names in POSIX order?
    I was thinking of changing my Language to POSIX using the terminal command:
    $ export LANG=POSIX
    but this may have undesirable effects with the rest of Mac OS X.
    3. Is there a finder preference (plist item) I can change so this just changes the listing order to POSIX? (I have no problem if all Finder windows use this sort order for file names.)
    Thank you in advance.
    Jeff Cameron

    I don't know of a GUI way to change it or if you unix trick will work/do anything, but the Mac OS has always sorted that way, if I'm understanding you correctly. It looks at the entirety of the naming and puts 2 immediately after 1 instead of putting 10 there like Windows does (and Alpha comes before numeric).
    I don't think the unix underpinnings changed sort order, but I may be remembering wrong. It's been a long time since OS 9. That's why I don't think the LANG switch will work.

  • Question about UDP behavior

    I have a program that uses a UDP transmitter.
    I use UDP because I specifically do not care if anyone is listening.
    I use UDP OPEN with a specific port to get a CONN ID.
    I use UDP WRITE with the conn ID and a specific DESTINATION IP and DESTINATION PORT when transmitting.
    I use UDP CLOSE when the program quits.
    This works fine - I can receive the data in the PXI box just fine. 
    QUESTION:  If the receiver software is NOT running, does the UDP WRITE actually take up bandwidth on the net?
    I can imagine that it might be spewing data out, without regard to whether anyone is listening.
    I can also imagine that the receiver might post a signal saying "I'm listening", and the transmitter knows whether someone is listening or not, and doesn't transmit if no one is listening.
    So, which is correct?
    I'm trying to decide if I need to implement a transmitter on/off control. 
    Steve Bird
    Culverson Software - Elegant software that is a pleasure to use.
    Culverson.com
    Blog for (mostly LabVIEW) programmers: Tips And Tricks

    When last I looked into UDP it does indeed "wiggle the wire" going out of the back of your PC. What you switch/router does after that is dependent on its configuration.
    Note: I got out of low-level network stuff before switch were invented so take my words with a grain of salt.
    I was directed to Proceess monitor ( the below utility) when X-shooting a nasty bug by NI Support. Amoung many other things it will show you UDP messages traffic.
    Just trying to help,
    Ben
    Ben Rayner
    I am currently active on.. MainStream Preppers
    Rayner's Ridge is under construction
    Attachments:
    ProcessMonitor.zip ‏1248 KB

  • Question about finder-building

    hi once again, new mac user, new macbook pro. when i click on 'finder' in the upper left corner, scroll down to 'services' it just has 1 greyed out section that says "building...". what does that mean and what should be showing there?

    Like you, I had the Services "Building", and it never stopped building over a few days. Then I turned the computer off and rebooted - now Services are no longer building. However, for every application, I'm getting "No Services Apply" - no matter what I do within Services Preferences and checking and unchecking boxes.
    (And the search through the forums continues for a solution... I did find one help message from Apple that suggests reinstalling the OS. That option doesn't appeal.)

  • Question about Finder thumbnails

    A nice way of assigning custom thumbnails to items in Finder is by bringing up the Get Info panel of a given item, and pasting a copied image (either from the web or an image viewer) to the thumbnail editor in the top left corner.
    However, something I've noticed is Finder's inconsistency with resolution. If I'm lucky, the thumbnail will retain the resolution of the copied image, so that no matter what size I readjust the items in a Finder window, the thumbnail will stay crisp. But a lot of the time, and sometimes as soon as the image has copied, Finder seems to decrease the resolution. A way of checking is to copy the thumbnail back from the Get Info panel and paste it into an image viewer. Lo and behold, the image is lower res.
    Does anyone know if there is any way to control this and maintain high res thumbnails?
    Thanks very much.

    Hi, what format are the Pastes o begin with?
    I think Finder/OSX prefers PNGs.

  • REGEX: question about finding Overlapping matches using regular expressions

    I have the following problem.
    Say for my pattern I use:
    Pattern pattern = Pattern.compile("AAA");
    Matcher matcher = pattern.matcher("AAAAAA");when I run a loop
    while (matcher.find())
    System.out.println("Match Found: "+matcher.start()+" "+matcher.end());I get 2 Hits shown in the following output:
    Match Found: 0 3
    Match Found: 3 6
    therefore the regex is seeing the first AAA then the second AAA.
    I want it to find the other AAA's in there that are overlapping the other two finds i.e. I want the output to find
    AAA from 0 to 3
    AAA from 1 to 4
    AAA from 2 to 5 and finally
    AAA from 3 to 6
    thereby including the overlapping finds.
    How can I do this using regex? what am I missing that prevents the overlapping matches to be found? Do I need a quantifier?
    Thanks for the help!

    While the solutions above work fine with the given input, they don't really find all overlapping matches. They just find the longest possible match at each start position. Here's a more thorough approach:import java.util.*;
    import java.util.regex.*;
    public class Test
      public static List<String> matchAllWays(String rgx, String str)
        Pattern p = Pattern.compile(rgx);
        Matcher m = p.matcher(str);
        List<String> result = new ArrayList<String>();
        int len = str.length();
        int start = 0;
        int end = len;
        while (start < len && m.region(start, len).find())
          start = m.start();
          do
            result.add(m.group());
            end = m.end() - 1;
          } while (end > start && m.region(start, end).find());
          start++;
        return result;
      public static void main(String[] args)
        List<String> matches = matchAllWays("a.*a", "abracadabra");
        System.out.println(matches);
    }This approach requires JDK 1.5 or later; that's when the regions API was added to Matcher.

  • Question about Finder

    Within Finder, is there any way to make the folder names and document names stay stationary so they don't move around?

    Within Finder, is there any way to make the folder names and document names stay stationary so they don't move around?

  • Question about finding whether a reference number is NOT in the database?

    Hello,
    I use the following code to test whether the reference number is in the database
    <ul><li>CURSOR cur_yellow</li></ul>
    <ul><li>IS SELECT</li></ul>
    <ul><li>REFERENCE_NO,</li></ul>
    <ul><li>COMPANY_NAME</li></ul>
    <ul><li>FROM CONSULTANTS;</li></ul>
    <ul><li>rec_yellow cur_yellow%ROWTYPE;</li></ul>
    <ul><li>BEGIN</li></ul>
    <ul><li> OPEN cur_yellow;</li></ul>
    <ul><li> LOOP</li></ul>
    <ul><li> FETCH cur_yellow INTO rec_yellow;</li></ul>
    <ul><li> EXIT WHEN cur_yellow%NOTFOUND;</li></ul>
    <ul><li> IF ref_no = rec_yellow.REFERENCE_NO</li></ul>
    <ul><li> THEN</li></ul>
    HTP.print ('<ul><li><span class="style5">The information concerning the consultant selected has been deleted from the database.</span></li></ul>');
    <ul><li> exp := 1; -- used to make code bullet proof</li></ul>
    <ul><li> END IF;</li></ul>
    <ul><li> END LOOP;</li></ul>
    <ul><li> CLOSE cur_yellow;</li></ul>
    Do you have any ideas for how to write code to test whether the reference number is NOT in the database.
    Thanks
    Doug

    Hallo,
    in general, yes, but I think , it will be better without cursor:
    declare
    v_dummy number;
    BEGIN
    EXECUTE IMMEDIATE 'select 1 from dual where
    exists (select 1 from user_indexes where index_name = : ind_name) USING ''DOUGLASMYINDEX'
    INTO v_1;
    -- something
    EXCEPTION
    WHEN NO_DATA_FOUND
    THEN
    NULL;
    END;
    Is it necessary to perform it in dynamic SQL ?
    declare
    v_dummy number;
    BEGIN
    select 1 into v_1 from dual where
    exists (select 1 from user_indexes where index_name = ''DOUGLASMYINDEX''')
    INTO v_1;
    -- something
    EXCEPTION
    WHEN NO_DATA_FOUND
    THEN
    NULL;
    END;
    Regards
    Dmytro Dekhtyaryuk

  • Question about Aperture behavior on cropped photos

    Hello everyone,
    If I crop a photo in Aperture 3, and then click on the "Auto level" button, will the "auto level" stuff be applied relatively to the whole photo or only to the cropped photo (just like in Photoshop) ?...

    That's not really how I'd want it to work. If you had some portion of a picture you were cropping out precisely because it was, say, so bright white and washed out, and then wanted the rest of the picture to be auto-balanced based on the more appropriate range of shades and colors, you'd want it to be ignoring the part you cropped away. I haven't had a chance to play with that exact scenario though, but if what you say is true, what is the solution to a scenario like that? Round-trip it to PS to really crop away the unwanted part?
    Duncan

Maybe you are looking for

  • Focusrite Saffire 6 USB (1.1) with Macbook Pro late 2008

    Equipment-      Macbook Pro Late 2008 w/ Yosemite 10.10.2      Focusrite Saffire 6 USB (1.1) The Saffire 6 is a audio interface using USB 1.1 to connect microphones to my Macbook. It has 2 inputs and 4 outputs. I've had this unit for years and has wo

  • How to download Pages in The Netherlands

    Hi, Last week I was in New York, and I bought the iPad. I'm very happy with my recent purchase, but I would like to use pages before the iPad will be released in my country (July). I have a Dutch Appe ID, ofcourse, and a US Apple ID, without creditca

  • Hard disk space requirement of sap nw 2004s core ( Fico, hr, SD...........)

    Hi! i plan to install sap nw 2004s SR2 core. can u tell me the sys configurations. HDD disk: RAM: Processor: waiting for reply soon....... it's urgent.... regards raghu

  • Is there someone really happy with his new iMac 20"?

    I mean, someone who hasn't got issues, in any way? I've just ordered the alu iMac 20" and I cannot wait to receive it...I've seen it in the store and I don't care 'bout the "gradient effect" since i'll use it for recording audio...but reading these b

  • Latest Instance using BO enterprise SDK

    Post Author: sureshpolishetty CA Forum: Integrated Solutions How to get the lastest instance of a report stored in crystal enterprise server (XIR2) using BO Enterprise sdk?. Can anybody help me with the query(using CI_INFOOBJECTS table)? Thanks