Leopard 10.5.2 and Mac Janitor
Is Leopard 10.5.2 compatible with MacJanitor? Is there a maintenance program that would be better to use with this update?
Tom
i have no idea about Mac janitor, however i have been using Onyx and it works great. they just released a new version i believe that runs smoother and faster with less bugs than the last one. it is capable of doing alot more than i need but lets me check the hard disk, verify permissions, run scripts, delete obsolete items and clear caches. That's all i really use.
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ClamXav, Mac Janitor and Neo Office
I've been doing research for freeware programs to support my Mac. After running across an array of applications I narrowed down to a few that peaked my interest. If you are running or have ran these programs before, please share your experience, their benefit, sustainability and overall effectiveness. Thanks
ClamXAV is an excellent anti-virus program that works well and its virus database is regularly updated. NeoOffice is a nice substitute for Office 2004 X. It is a universal binary and provides about 90% compatibility with Office's applications. It is a little slow because it is Java based, although the developers are working on a native code version. The program is under current development and support.
Mac Janitor is an older program that has not been regularly updated and is not very compatible with Tiger and Leopard. There are better alternatives such as Onyx, Leopard Cache Cleaner, TinkerTool System, CockTail, and a few dozen others. Although both are shareware TinkerTool System and Leopard Cache Cleaner have always been reliable performers. You will find positive reports also for CockTail and Onyx.
Kappy's Personal Suggestions for OS X Maintenance
For disk repairs use Disk Utility. For situations DU cannot handle the best third-party utilities are: Disk Warrior; DW only fixes problems with the disk directory, but most disk problems are caused by directory corruption; Disk Warrior 4.0 is now Intel Mac compatible. TechTool Pro provides additional repair options including file repair and recovery, system diagnostics, and disk defragmentation. TechTool Pro 4.6.1 is Leopard compatible; Drive Genius is similar to TechTool Pro in terms of the various repair services provided. The current version, 1.5.1, is Intel Mac compatible.
OS X performs certain maintenance functions that are scheduled to occur on a daily, weekly, or monthly period. The maintenance scripts run in the early AM only if the computer is turned on 24/7 (no sleep.) If this isn't the case, then an excellent solution is to download and install a shareware utility such as Macaroni, JAW PseudoAnacron, or Anacron that will automate the maintenance activity regardless of whether the computer is turned off or asleep.
OS X automatically defrags files less than 20 MBs in size, so unless you have a disk full of very large files there's little need for defragmenting the hard drive. As for virus protection there are few if any such animals affecting OS X. You can protect the computer easily using the freeware Open Source virus protection software ClamXAV. Personally I would avoid most commercial anti-virus software because of their potential for causing problems.
I would also recommend downloading the shareware utility TinkerTool System that you can use for periodic maintenance such as removing old logfiles and archives, clearing caches, etc.
For emergency repairs install the freeware utility Applejack. If you cannot start up in OS X, you may be able to start in single-user mode from which you can run Applejack to do a whole set of repair and maintenance routines from the commandline. Note that presently AppleJack is not compatible with Leopard.
When you install any new system software or updates be sure to repair the hard drive and permissions beforehand. I also recommend booting into safe mode before doing system software updates.
Get an external Firewire drive at least equal in size to the internal hard drive and make (and maintain) a bootable clone/backup. You can make a bootable clone using the Restore option of Disk Utility. You can also make and maintain clones with good backup software. My personal recommendations are (order is not significant):
1. Retrospect Desktop (Commercial - not yet universal binary)
2. Synchronize! Pro X (Commercial)
3. Synk (Backup, Standard, or Pro)
4. Deja Vu (Shareware)
5. PsynchX 2.1.1 and RsyncX 2.1 (Freeware)
6. Carbon Copy Cloner (Freeware - 3.0 is a Universal Binary)
7. SuperDuper! (Commercial - not yet Leopard compatible)
8. Data Backup (Commercial)
The following utilities can also be used for backup, but cannot create bootable clones:
1. Backup (requires a .Mac account with Apple both to get the software and to use it.)
2. Toast
3. Impression
4. arRSync
Apple's Backup is a full backup tool capable of also backing up across multiple media such as CD/DVD. However, it cannot create bootable backups. It is primarily an "archiving" utility as are the other two.
Impression and Toast are disk image based backups, only. Particularly useful if you need to backup to CD/DVD across multiple media.
Visit The XLab FAQs and read the FAQs on maintenance, optimization, virus protection, and backup and restore.
Additional suggestions will be found in Mac Maintenance Quick Assist.
Referenced software can be found at www.versiontracker.com and www.macupdate.com. -
I installed Mac OSX Snow Leopard 10.6.3 And now my Java is not working,what can I do to fix's this?
Run Software Update to get to 10.6.8 and update Java.
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I am trying to upgrade from Tiger to Snow Leopard. When I insert the disk and install starts, it states "This disk is used for Time Machine backups" and Mac OSX can't be installed. Does anyone know how to correct this (since Tiger doesn't have Time Machine)?
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2986
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Palm OS and Mac Leopard Question
Hi, I am using a Palm Treo 755p (Sprint). It is currently connected to a Mac running OS 10.4.11 (with issues in syncing, I might add....mostly duplicates appear/secondary addresses 'gone') with Palm Desktop 4.2.1 software, connected for HotSync via USB.
I just got a new Mac running Leopard 10.5.6 and before I install any Palm Software, I want to make sure that Palm Desktop 4.2.1 is the most recent/correct version, and that it WILL work and not mess up a clean, new computer installation.
So...is the Palm Desktop software compatible with Leopard? Are there any compatibility issues?????
Thanks....and anxiously awaiting the Pre and NEW software! Yeah.
Post relates to: Treo 755p (Sprint)Yes, Palm Desktop 4.2.1 is compatible with Mac OS 10.5.6 and I have two computers running on it without problems
Post relates to: Palm m105 -
Lightroom and MAC Pro (intel) after Snow Leopard Upgrade?
I have heard several horror stories about serious operational problems with Lightroom and MACs after they have upgraded from Leopard to Snow Leopard.
I have been trying to get to the bottom of it, but all I have been able to glean is that yes, there are some issues, but I can't find out cause and effect.
Since I heard of the things I have not opened any Adobe Software, and won't until I can be assured that I too don't experience the same horror story.
Are there any people out there that have experienced any of these problems? If so, do you know what caused them, and, more importantly, how to fix them?
Thank you for any help and direction you can provide.Some users have reported that Edit in Photoshop CSx functionality is partially broken (e.g. Open as Smart Object launches Photoshop, but image doesn't actually open).
With Photoshop (and many other applications) there are reports of the application crashing when the user tries to save a JPG file.
Source of problem? Snow Leopard
Is it really the problem that some would have you believe? Nope
Are there any workarounds? Ask Apple
BTW: I use Snow Leopard and don't have a problem recommending it to others. -
I continue to get crashes from my Mac Laptop Maverick. I was running Snow leopard without any hassles and have now upgraded to Maverick. I get continued crashes, on start up or if I am running a program like GoPro to edit video or Firefox. What to do?
I have a fair few more, but all similar. about 35 more!!
Panic (system crashes) log:
Source: /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/Kernel_2013-12-21-053633_Shauns-MacBook-Pro.pan ic
Size: 10 KB (9,960 bytes)
Last Modified: 22/12/2013 9:34 am
Recent Contents: Anonymous UUID: 860F2C41-CF11-4C8B-FCD5-3C62C2E31BE0
Sat Dec 21 05:36:33 2013
panic(cpu 2 caller 0xffffff7f9a757fac): "GPU Panic: [<None>] 3 3 7f 0 0 0 0 3 : NVRM[0/1:0:0]: Read Error 0x00610210: CFG 0xffffffff 0xffffffff 0xffffffff, BAR0 0xd2000000 0xffffff812c2ee000 0x0a5480a2, D0, P3/4\n"@/SourceCache/AppleGraphicsControl/AppleGraphicsControl-3.4.12/src/Apple MuxControl/kext/GPUPanic.cpp:127
Backtrace (CPU 2), Frame : Return Address
0xffffff80255230b0 : 0xffffff8018422f69
0xffffff8025523130 : 0xffffff7f9a757fac
0xffffff8025523200 : 0xffffff7f98e1c53d
0xffffff80255232c0 : 0xffffff7f98ee8d9e
0xffffff8025523300 : 0xffffff7f990a38e5
0xffffff8025523330 : 0xffffff7f990a4695
0xffffff8025523370 : 0xffffff7f98dfcb9a
0xffffff8025523490 : 0xffffff7f98dfd5a4
0xffffff8025523520 : 0xffffff7f98dfa808
0xffffff8025523560 : 0xffffff7f98dfa785
0xffffff8025523600 : 0xffffff7f98e20c4c
0xffffff8025523800 : 0xffffff7f98e21af6
0xffffff80255238e0 : 0xffffff7f99d8dba2
0xffffff8025523920 : 0xffffff7f99d9d55f
0xffffff8025523940 : 0xffffff7f99dcb51b
0xffffff8025523980 : 0xffffff7f99dcb57b
0xffffff80255239c0 : 0xffffff7f99da2ff5
0xffffff8025523a10 : 0xffffff7f99d6ed3e
0xffffff8025523aa0 : 0xffffff7f99d6acc7
0xffffff8025523ad0 : 0xffffff7f99d68816
0xffffff8025523b00 : 0xffffff80188cb873
0xffffff8025523b90 : 0xffffff80188cd76f
0xffffff8025523bf0 : 0xffffff80188cb28f
0xffffff8025523d40 : 0xffffff80184b6008
0xffffff8025523e50 : 0xffffff8018426bb1
0xffffff8025523e80 : 0xffffff80184139b5
0xffffff8025523ef0 : 0xffffff801841e003
0xffffff8025523f70 : 0xffffff80184c921d
0xffffff8025523fb0 : 0xffffff80184f3e26
Kernel Extensions in backtrace:
com.apple.driver.AppleMuxControl(3.4.12)[A4934A66-0E30-36E9-984A-650481102449]@ 0xffffff7f9a74a000->0xffffff7f9a75cfff
dependency: com.apple.driver.AppleGraphicsControl(3.4.12)[661E3C87-5B97-3272-88FF-B9BA9B6E2 4ED]@0xffffff7f9a742000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOACPIFamily(1.4)[045D5D6F-AD1E-36DB-A249-A346E2B48E54]@0xfffff f7f98d24000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily(2.8)[447B4896-16FF-3616-95A2-1C516B2A1498]@0xffffff 7f98aba000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOGraphicsFamily(2.3.6)[38E388A5-92D6-3388-B799-F2498E582287]@0 xffffff7f98d78000
dependency: com.apple.driver.AppleBacklightExpert(1.0.4)[E04639C5-D734-3AB3-A682-FE66694C66 53]@0xffffff7f9a745000
com.apple.nvidia.classic.NVDAResmanTesla(8.1.8)[0A1B6F41-168D-307A-BABD-162F3B3 C2786]@0xffffff7f98dcb000->0xffffff7f9903afff
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily(2.8)[447B4896-16FF-3616-95A2-1C516B2A1498]@0xffffff 7f98aba000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IONDRVSupport(2.3.6)[86BA68C6-18DD-30A1-ABF6-54597AD6C277]@0xff ffff7f98dbb000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOGraphicsFamily(2.3.6)[38E388A5-92D6-3388-B799-F2498E582287]@0 xffffff7f98d78000
com.apple.nvidia.classic.NVDANV50HalTesla(8.1.8)[3666E0FC-87C7-3329-BD8C-2F1ADE D100A4]@0xffffff7f99045000->0xffffff7f992f1fff
dependency: com.apple.nvidia.classic.NVDAResmanTesla(8.1.8)[0A1B6F41-168D-307A-BABD-162F3B3 C2786]@0xffffff7f98dcb000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily(2.8)[447B4896-16FF-3616-95A2-1C516B2A1498]@0xffffff 7f98aba000
com.apple.GeForceTesla(8.1.8)[7DAF283F-6FD3-3783-B3CC-D23964F1B9B8]@0xffffff7f9 9d4d000->0xffffff7f99e17fff
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily(2.8)[447B4896-16FF-3616-95A2-1C516B2A1498]@0xffffff 7f98aba000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IONDRVSupport(2.3.6)[86BA68C6-18DD-30A1-ABF6-54597AD6C277]@0xff ffff7f98dbb000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOGraphicsFamily(2.3.6)[38E388A5-92D6-3388-B799-F2498E582287]@0 xffffff7f98d78000
dependency: com.apple.nvidia.classic.NVDAResmanTesla(8.1.8)[0A1B6F41-168D-307A-BABD-162F3B3 C2786]@0xffffff7f98dcb000
BSD process name corresponding to current thread: WindowServer
Mac OS version:
13B42
Kernel version:
Darwin Kernel Version 13.0.0: Thu Sep 19 22:22:27 PDT 2013; root:xnu-2422.1.72~6/RELEASE_X86_64
Kernel UUID: 1D9369E3-D0A5-31B6-8D16-BFFBBB390393
Kernel slide: 0x0000000018200000
Kernel text base: 0xffffff8018400000
System model name: MacBookPro6,2 (Mac-F22586C8)
System uptime in nanoseconds: 44018298777100
last loaded kext at 920244055430: com.apple.driver.AppleUSBCDCECMData 4.2.1b2 (addr 0xffffff7f9a869000, size 28672)
last unloaded kext at 1792757032294: com.apple.driver.AppleUSBCDC 4.2.1b2 (addr 0xffffff7f9a85a000, size 16384)
loaded kexts:
com.apple.driver.AudioAUUC 1.60
com.apple.driver.AppleHWSensor 1.9.5d0
com.apple.driver.AGPM 100.14.11
com.apple.filesystems.autofs 3.0
com.apple.driver.AppleMikeyHIDDriver 124
com.apple.driver.AppleHDA 2.5.3fc1
com.apple.iokit.IOUserEthernet 1.0.0d1
com.apple.iokit.IOBluetoothSerialManager 4.2.0f6
com.apple.driver.AppleMikeyDriver 2.5.3fc1
com.apple.driver.ACPI_SMC_PlatformPlugin 1.0.0
com.apple.driver.AppleLPC 1.7.0
com.apple.GeForceTesla 8.1.8
com.apple.Dont_Steal_Mac_OS_X 7.0.0
com.apple.driver.AppleHWAccess 1
com.apple.driver.AppleIntelHDGraphics 8.1.8
com.apple.driver.AppleUpstreamUserClient 3.5.13
com.apple.driver.SMCMotionSensor 3.0.4d1
com.apple.driver.AppleMuxControl 3.4.12
com.apple.driver.AppleMCCSControl 1.1.12
com.apple.iokit.BroadcomBluetoothHostControllerUSBTransport 4.2.0f6
com.apple.driver.AppleSMCPDRC 1.0.0
com.apple.driver.AppleSMCLMU 2.0.4d1
com.apple.driver.AppleIntelHDGraphicsFB 8.1.8
com.apple.driver.AppleUSBTCButtons 240.2
com.apple.driver.AppleUSBTCKeyboard 240.2
com.apple.driver.AppleIRController 325.7
com.apple.driver.AppleUSBCardReader 3.3.5
com.apple.AppleFSCompression.AppleFSCompressionTypeDataless 1.0.0d1
com.apple.AppleFSCompression.AppleFSCompressionTypeZlib 1.0.0d1
com.apple.BootCache 35
com.apple.iokit.SCSITaskUserClient 3.6.0
com.apple.driver.XsanFilter 404
com.apple.driver.AppleUSBHub 650.4.4
com.apple.iokit.IOAHCIBlockStorage 2.4.0
com.apple.driver.AirPort.Brcm4331 700.20.22
com.apple.iokit.AppleBCM5701Ethernet 3.6.9b9
com.apple.driver.AppleUSBEHCI 650.4.1
com.apple.driver.AppleFWOHCI 4.9.9
com.apple.driver.AppleAHCIPort 2.9.5
com.apple.driver.AppleSmartBatteryManager 161.0.0
com.apple.driver.AppleACPIButtons 2.0
com.apple.driver.AppleRTC 2.0
com.apple.driver.AppleHPET 1.8
com.apple.driver.AppleSMBIOS 2.0
com.apple.driver.AppleACPIEC 2.0
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com.apple.driver.AppleIntelCPUPowerManagementClient 216.0.0
com.apple.nke.applicationfirewall 153
com.apple.security.quarantine 3
com.apple.driver.AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement 216.0.0
com.apple.AppleGraphicsDeviceControl 3.4.12
com.apple.kext.triggers 1.0
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com.apple.iokit.IOSerialFamily 10.0.7
com.apple.iokit.IOBluetoothFamily 4.2.0f6
com.apple.driver.IOPlatformPluginLegacy 1.0.0
com.apple.nvidia.classic.NVDANV50HalTesla 8.1.8
com.apple.iokit.IOFireWireIP 2.2.5
com.apple.driver.AppleHDAController 2.5.3fc1
com.apple.iokit.IOHDAFamily 2.5.3fc1
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com.apple.nvidia.classic.NVDAResmanTesla 8.1.8
com.apple.driver.AppleGraphicsControl 3.4.12
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com.apple.iokit.IONDRVSupport 2.3.6
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System Profile:
Model: MacBookPro6,2, BootROM MBP61.0057.B0F, 2 processors, Intel Core i5, 2.4 GHz, 8 GB, SMC 1.58f16
Graphics: Intel HD Graphics, Intel HD Graphics, Built-In, 288 MB
Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M, NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M, PCIe, 256 MB
Memory Module: BANK 0/DIMM0, 4 GB, DDR3, 1067 MHz, 0x0198, 0x393930353432382D3032302E4130304C4620
Memory Module: BANK 1/DIMM0, 4 GB, DDR3, 1067 MHz, 0x0198, 0x393930353432382D3032302E4130304C4620
AirPort: spairport_wireless_card_type_airport_extreme (0x14E4, 0x93), Broadcom BCM43xx 1.0 (5.106.98.100.22)
Bluetooth: Version 4.2.0f6 12982, 3 services, 23 devices, 1 incoming serial ports
Network Service: Wi-Fi, AirPort, en1
Serial ATA Device: ST95005620AS, 500.11 GB
Serial ATA Device: MATSHITADVD-R UJ-898
USB Device: Hub
USB Device: IR Receiver
USB Device: Built-in iSight
USB Device: Hub
USB Device: Internal Memory Card Reader
USB Device: BRCM2070 Hub
USB Device: Bluetooth USB Host Controller
USB Device: Apple Internal Keyboard / Trackpad
Thunderbolt Bus: -
If a photo is returned to me in a reply does it use additional storage? I am using Mac Book Pro w snow leopard 10.6.8 and an iPhone 4s iOs 5. Yes, eventually I'll free up time to update these. Thanks.
Uh uh, I see!
Also it seems I can use my time machine backup:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Migration_Assistant_(Apple)
together with Migration Assistant. This would work. Thanks
Now I need to figure out the Windows part. I need a full backup of Windows as well, with all the programs. In particular I need to be sure I can maintain the graphic card drivers.
You don't want to know how long took for me to find out how the **** I could update my graphic card drivers in Windows on my Macbook pro. Unfortunately there was a lot of misleading propaganda from Apple about bootcamp, saying that the new intel processor would have worked fine with Windows. Sad that everything was a lie. When installing Windows with bootcamp the graphic card program was unable to find and install the graphic card drivers update . Took me 2 weeks reading through thousands of angry posts of disappointed costumers to find out how to do that. I do not want to reapeat this dreadful experience.
After one year and a half with my Macbook pro I have a system I am TERRIFIED to touch. It is very very fragile, and any little change can destroy everything. It barely works. that's why I am so scared to re-install the OS -
I recently left my computer at a hospital by mistake. I have find my phone app and then noticed that app also works for ipad and mac. Does it work with Snow Leopard?
No.
The iCloud services require 10.7.5, or higher. -
Photoshop CS3 with Epson Stylus Photo 1400 and Mac Leopard
I have Adobe Photoshop CS3 and an Epson Stylus PHOTO 1400 printer and Mac OS X 10.5.4.
When I print a photo it comes out with excessive ink which smears very easily and has lines in it. It only does it in Photoshop. When I print from any other program it comes out fine. I've seen reviews online where people have printed from Macs and photoshop onto the printer and it worked. I've already contacted Epson, but they said to contact Adobe. Does anybody have any advice?Forget Epson's useless tech support.
What you describe is typical of improper printer profile or usage of non-Epson paper, especially paper with gloss. Have you profiled the printer/paper and are you using Epson paper (or other paper and profiles specifically recommended here for Epson photo-quality printers) properly selected?
Like Ramón I am on 10.4.11, not 10.5.x, but I doubt if your described problem is due to the OS version. -
Permissions denied... Mac Janitor
It used to take several minutes to run Mac Janitor, and the screen would run through lots of text. The last couple times, however, it's lasted only about 30 seconds, and I've gotten this message, in the weekly output section:
Rebuilding locate database:
mktemp: mkdtemp failed on /var/folders/IJ/IJ4RJBMEEiq4xFYBCoRDE++TI/-Tmp-//locateEXdhhERyTi: Permission denied
Rebuilding whatis database:
makewhatis: /usr/share/man//usr/share/man:/usr/X11/man: No such file or directory
makewhatis: /usr/X11/man//usr/share/man:/usr/X11/man: No such file or directory
Is this a problem? I don't really know what this means; if anyone can help me out I would greatly appreciate it. I'm also posting this in the iBook G4 forum, since I wasn't really sure which place would be the best...
Thanks in advance!This is really not the case. Currently Leopard will run the standard maintenance tasks at the normally scheduled times - between 3:30 am and 5:30 am depending on whether it's the daily, weekly, or monthly script. These scripts are now under the control of what is known as launchd - a daemon that runs specific control preference files located in the LaunchAgents or LaunchDaemons folders of the /System/Library/ folder. These control scripts will run the maintenance scripts at their scheduled times if the computer is running (not asleep.) If the computer is shut down or sleeping at the scheduled time, then launchd will run the scripts when the computer next becomes active.
There is a caveat to the above. The following is quoted from ( The XLab FAQs):
"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."
Freeing up space is not the purpose of using Onyx or other utility for running the maintenance scripts, although that is a side effect of one of the scripts that clears old log and temporary files, but the amount of space involved is hardly significant. What you see Onyx doing most likely is removing cache files, something that isn't necessary unless you are experiencing operating system malfunctions. Clearing caches otherwise simply means you have to spend time during the next restart waiting for the OS to rebuild the caches you've deleted. Caches can take up megabytes of disk space, but they are there for a reason and except for what's stated previously need not and should not be deleted.
Mac Janitor does not remove cache files. The way in which Leopard handles the maintenance services is generally adequate for most users. If you feel you must help them along then use something more appropriate than Mac Janitor. Please see;
Kappy's Personal Suggestions for OS X Maintenance
For disk repairs use Disk Utility. For situations DU cannot handle the best third-party utilities are: Disk Warrior; DW only fixes problems with the disk directory, but most disk problems are caused by directory corruption; Disk Warrior 4.x is now Intel Mac compatible. TechTool Pro provides additional repair options including file repair and recovery, system diagnostics, and disk defragmentation. TechTool Pro 4.5.1 or higher are Intel Mac compatible; Drive Genius is similar to TechTool Pro in terms of the various repair services provided. Versions 1.5.1 or later are Intel Mac compatible.
OS X performs certain maintenance functions that are scheduled to occur on a daily, weekly, or monthly period. The maintenance scripts run in the early AM only if the computer is turned on 24/7 (no sleep.) If this isn't the case, then an excellent solution is to download and install a shareware utility such as Macaroni, JAW PseudoAnacron, or Anacron that will automate the maintenance activity regardless of whether the computer is turned off or asleep. Dependence upon third-party utilities to run the periodic maintenance scripts had been significantly reduced in Tiger and Leopard.
OS X automatically defrags files less than 20 MBs in size, so unless you have a disk full of very large files there's little need for defragmenting the hard drive. As for virus protection there are few if any such animals affecting OS X. You can protect the computer easily using the freeware Open Source virus protection software ClamXAV. Personally I would avoid most commercial anti-virus software because of their potential for causing problems.
I would also recommend downloading the shareware utility TinkerTool System that you can use for periodic maintenance such as removing old logfiles and archives, clearing caches, etc.
For emergency repairs install the freeware utility Applejack. If you cannot start up in OS X, you may be able to start in single-user mode from which you can run Applejack to do a whole set of repair and maintenance routines from the commandline. Note that AppleJack 1.5 is required for Leopard.
When you install any new system software or updates be sure to repair the hard drive and permissions beforehand. I also recommend booting into safe mode before doing system software updates.
Get an external Firewire drive at least equal in size to the internal hard drive and make (and maintain) a bootable clone/backup. You can make a bootable clone using the Restore option of Disk Utility. You can also make and maintain clones with good backup software. My personal recommendations are (order is not significant):
1. Retrospect Desktop (Commercial - not yet universal binary)
2. Synchronize! Pro X (Commercial)
3. Synk (Backup, Standard, or Pro)
4. Deja Vu (Shareware)
5. Carbon Copy Cloner (Donationware)
6. SuperDuper! (Commercial)
7. Intego Personal Backup (Commercial)
8. Data Backup (Commercial)
The following utilities can also be used for backup, but cannot create bootable clones:
1. Backup (requires a .Mac account with Apple both to get the software and to use it.)
2. Toast
3. Impression
4. arRSync
Apple's Backup is a full backup tool capable of also backing up across multiple media such as CD/DVD. However, it cannot create bootable backups. It is primarily an "archiving" utility as are the other two.
Impression and Toast are disk image based backups, only. Particularly useful if you need to backup to CD/DVD across multiple media.
Visit The XLab FAQs and read the FAQs on maintenance, optimization, virus protection, and backup and restore.
Additional suggestions will be found in Mac Maintenance Quick Assist.
Referenced software can be found at www.versiontracker.com and www.macupdate.com. -
I have macjanitor 1.3 and iv recently installed mac os leopard, now mac janitor dosent work, i click unlock after opening it, but the tasks are still faded out (grey'd out) so i cant click on them, i know someone els who has leopard on a imac laptop and it works, so i dont know why it dosent work on mine.
It's something I learned from either these forums or some Mac group on Usenet.
And it's easy to confirm: Check the timestamp of the /var/log/daily.out file. That's the output of the "daily" cleanup tasks which used to be run at 2 or 3am in the morning. My logfile here says it was created a 9:15am (local time), which is when I woke up this iMac from sleep.
Having said that, I just noticed that the timestamps of the weekly.log and monthly.log files are indicating that those have last been run months ago (my monthly.log is from December 2006). So it doesn't seem to be doing that for all the cleanup tasks ... -
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On August 15, 2012, the Consumer Support Forum will host an Expert Day dedicated to answering your questions about Mac OS X, iOS and AirPrint™ for HP products and peripherals. With the introduction of Apple’s new OS X Mountain Lion, we’re ready to help with set-up, installation and general HP compatibility questions all day long.
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Home sharing does not work after update to snow leopard 10.6.4 and iTunes 9
I am using home sharing since about a year without any problems. After updating to snow leopard 10.6.4 and iTunes 9.2 it suddenly does not work anymore.
On my iMac and my Mac Book Pro I get error code 3259 and it tells me to check my firewall and to enable Port 3689.
I did not change anything in the firewall settings, itunes on both allows data traffic in both directions. I also do not find any option to activate a port ( also wondering why this is suddenly now necessary)
I deactivated home sharing on both machines and enabled it again. It still does not work.
On both machines iTunes displays the the library on the left side but like said it is not accessable
With Finder I can access the other computer from both machines without any problem.
Any help to solve this would be very much appreciatedfirst of all, if you are behind a router firewall, and have your network secured (WPA2 and a long, non-dictionary password made up of letters and numbers), you don't need the software firewall on your Mac(s).
@ least turned if off for troubleshooting purposes.
turn home sharing off on both computers, and make sure
(a) both Macs have access to the internet
(b) iTunes on both machines is authorized for the same iTunes account.
turn home sharing back on on both Macs.
does it work ?
JGG -
JAN 4, 2012
As of the Upgrade to Lion,. 2007 I-Mac - the Email portion, .. DOES NOT allow a Video Clips to be sent via the Email
as the I-Photo is not supported by Video Clips ( Previous Leopard )
No problem clip and drag via Quick Time Pro to the email and select the Attchment size to send. . Depending on the
Size of the Video Clip .. Now Lion only Export's 1 size, . only and as a result . . teh File is TOO Large and
Will NOT send via E-Mail ???
Between the Issue of the Lion, and Email issues , and the Upgrade of I-Touch to 5.1 from 4.2.1
as my Photo Size is Huge .. 70,000 + photos in the Computer. . and was 40,000 in the I - Touch .. .
The New I-Touch too will not Load the same as Previously used on either my 16 GB or 32 GB Unit . .
No Help . .. so far, .. as a Apple user since 1996 .. I have Never experieanced such frustration ???
( any one have some help if similar experiances ? thank you )JAN 4, 2012
As of the Upgrade to Lion,. 2007 I-Mac - the Email portion, .. DOES NOT allow a Video Clips to be sent via the Email
as the I-Photo is not supported by Video Clips ( Previous Leopard )
No problem clip and drag via Quick Time Pro to the email and select the Attchment size to send. . Depending on the
Size of the Video Clip .. Now Lion only Export's 1 size, . only and as a result . . teh File is TOO Large and
Will NOT send via E-Mail ???
Between the Issue of the Lion, and Email issues , and the Upgrade of I-Touch to 5.1 from 4.2.1
as my Photo Size is Huge .. 70,000 + photos in the Computer. . and was 40,000 in the I - Touch .. .
The New I-Touch too will not Load the same as Previously used on either my 16 GB or 32 GB Unit . .
No Help . .. so far, .. as a Apple user since 1996 .. I have Never experieanced such frustration ???
( any one have some help if similar experiances ? thank you )
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