Macjanitor

About once a month I run macjanitor, but this time when I click on the icon in the dock, nothing happens, there's no sign of it in apps. then I go to spotlight to find where it is and am told " there is no default app "
What's gone wrong ?
Gerald.

You may have put it into your Utilities folder (Applications > Utilities). If not it is possible that you placed it in a area where Spotlight doesn't index. Then again, you may have just deleted it by mistake. Regardless, there's no reason why you can't just download it againa dn reinstall it.
Now, if other things start to go missing then there's something to be concerned over.

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MacJanitor - apps to clean up my system

Hi,
Before I used an app called MacJanitor, which cleaned up my system my iBook wasn't left on continuously. Since installing Leopard I have tried using it and it doesn't seem to be doing much - pretty much saying "Done" as soon as I run it. I wasn't sure if this was something to do with Leopard i.e. MacJanitor doesn't work with it? Alternatively, does anyone know of a similar app that work with Leopard?
Thanks in advance.

Thank you Yann.
I read your link to A Brody's warning about corrupted cache files -
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1322708&tstart=0
On my new iMac I installed The Sims 2.
Now my iMac behaves in all sorts of weird manners. For instance:
+i) Input and dialogue boxes now have a dark border line around them when clicked on;+
+ii) clicking on folders, opening windows and all other mouse actions now have amusing sound effects attached to them (I assume they came from the Sims 2 game);+
+iii) the 'Apple Menu' of my intel 24" 2.8ghz iMac now displays two versions of each option Sleep, Restart and Shutdown (with the Keyboard shortcut displayed for each being different and distinct - which is itself odd) amongst others. Open, Close etc. are ok, just the one as normal.+
I followed the game producer's detailed instructions to remove all items I could find associated with The Sims 2 (they told me what to look for) and trash everything. Annoyingly the problem nevertheless persists.
I read this thread because I thought of using MacJanitor to clear my cache files +(I turn all electrical stuff off at night)+ as a possible way to solve my problem. After reading *a brody*'s comments I now wonder if my own problems could be due to a corrupted cache file instead.
The reason I say this is because it only occurs in one of my four 'User Accounts', and not in my Administrator's Account.
The User account in question was 'migrated' from my eMac which has been suffering from kernel panics and has been down now for some time with me scratching my head in desperation.
I'm beginning to think that it was a mistake to migrate all my eMacs settings over to my new iMac.
Assuming all this being the case, I wonder if running Disk Warrior (or TechTool Pro 4) to fix the corrupted system cache files would work, especially as the most severe problems have occurred since installing The Sims 2 game.
I am assuming of course there is a version of these programmes available for my operating system - OSX 10.5.1 - Leopard. Both programmes resurrected my eMac to get it going but the kernal panics return nevertheless and the fault with this persist. However if a corrupted cache file is the cause not just a symptom I may be able to kill two birds with one stone!
WHAT HAPPENS IF ONE DELETES THE OFFENDING USER ACCOUNT. Can this be done? If so, what is the best way to do this to avoid data loss?
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Maintenance Scripts?? MacJanitor?

On my G4 iBook running 10.3 I found and used an app called Macjanitor.
Here is the blurb from their site.
Freeware utility to run the system's daily, weekly, and monthly maintenance scripts.
These scripts are normally run between 3am and 5am, and will not be run if you shut off your Mac at night. This can allow log files to grow very large, and prevent system databases from getting backed up.
With MacJanitor, you can run these scripts 'by hand' periodically without having to use the Terminal to keep your Mac OS X machine in top racing form.
Excellent for laptop users and others who shut off or put their Macs to sleep at night.
Supposedly normal set maintenance scripts in OS X are set to run around 3-5am (not sure where you see this) but they will only run if the system is on (of course) and Not asleep. Well I can guarantee my system is alseep as that time !!
I also stumbled across someone commenting on how useless MacJanitor was because they use something called Aancron http://members.cox.net/18james/anacron-tiger.html
Blurb from their site
Anacron runs the periodic daily, weekly and monthly tasks on your Mac even if the machine (a laptop, for example) spends much of its time asleep or switched-off. Anacron silently checks when you reboot and every sixty minutes while the computer is running to see if the various periodic scripts are overdue, and runs them if necessary. The advantage of Anacron over many other solutions to this issue is that it runs as a proper Unix background process, requires no user intervention, and uses the regular periodic scripts, including local additions or modifications.
Sounds like a better solution, but I curious to what others due for running these maintenance scripts?
Has anyone used either of these 2 programs under 10.4?
Opinions and experiences please.

Yes, I use OnyX because it runs them at times I have scheduled it to do so. 10.4.0 or later runs them automatically, if the computer is on and idle at 1AM, which isn't normal for many people so running them with an app can be good if you leave your machine running for days or weeks at a time. That said if you shut down your machine down every night there is no need to because the tasks will be run at boot each morning.

Strange MacJanitor (chron) reports

Hi, and Happy Holidays. (This is also posted on the Tiger discussion page, but no one there had any ideas.) Recently ran MacJanitor, and got this:
Rebuilding locate database:
Rebuilding whatis database:
find: /usr/local/man: No such file or directory
makewhatis: /usr/share/man/man1/c++.1: No such file or directory
makewhatis: /usr/share/man/man1/cc.1: No such file or directory
makewhatis: /usr/share/man/man1/cpp.1: No such file or directory
makewhatis: /usr/share/man/man1/g++.1: No such file or directory
makewhatis: /usr/share/man/man1/gcc.1: No such file or directory
makewhatis: /usr/share/man/man1/gcov.1: No such file or directory
Rotating log files: ftp.log lpr.log mail.log netinfo.log ipfw.log secure.log
Don't recall ever seeing this report before. I then ran the install disc, had Disc Utility repair the volume (no errors found), ran permissions from start-up disc (also fine), and cleaned with OnyX. A second run of MacJanitor gave me the same message. Anyone know what this means, and if I should be concerned? Running an iMac G5 17" PPC iSight 160gb w/1gb of memory, last model before the Intels came out. Machine is running well, no strange behaviors. Haven't thrown out any OS files or changed anything (been using X since 10.0.3, know better!), or even added new apps recently. Did update w/newest Security patch, added the MS Office 2004 update (the one that was recalled) and updated Aperture in the last week. Thanks for the help.

Since MacJanitor is the only utililty finding any errors, suggest that you cross-post over at the manufacturer's support site forum.
Hopefully, a knowledgeable user and/or Brian Hill himself will be able to explain what that error means.
Good luck!

Strange MacJanitor report

Hi, and Happy Holidays. Recently ran MacJanitor, and got this:
Rebuilding locate database:
Rebuilding whatis database:
find: /usr/local/man: No such file or directory
makewhatis: /usr/share/man/man1/c++.1: No such file or directory
makewhatis: /usr/share/man/man1/cc.1: No such file or directory
makewhatis: /usr/share/man/man1/cpp.1: No such file or directory
makewhatis: /usr/share/man/man1/g++.1: No such file or directory
makewhatis: /usr/share/man/man1/gcc.1: No such file or directory
makewhatis: /usr/share/man/man1/gcov.1: No such file or directory
Rotating log files: ftp.log lpr.log mail.log netinfo.log ipfw.log secure.log
Don't recall ever seeing this report before. I then ran the install disc, had Disc Utility repair the volume (no errors found), ran permissions from start-up disc (also fine), and cleaned with OnyX. A second run of MacJanitor gave me the same message. Anyone know what this means, and if I should be concerned? Running an iMac 17" PPC iSight 160gb w/1gb of memory, last model before the Intels came out. Machine is running well, no strange behaviors. Haven't thrown out any OS files or changed anything (been using X since 10.0.3, know better!), or even added new apps recently. Did update w/newest Security patch, added the MS Office 2004 update (the one that was recalled) and updated Aperture in the last week. Thanks for the help.

I don't know MacJanitor, but I suspect those entries are associated with it running the weekly maintenance task. You're getting those messages because those items don't exist. At least, there's no man directory in my /usr/local/ directory and none of the files listed for /usr/share/man/man1/ are on my machine, My perusal of the weekly.out log only shows the first entry.
Launch the Terminal.app in /Applications/Utilities, enter this command, hit the return key, enter your admin password (carefully, since it doesn't show up on the screen), and hit the return key:
sudo periodic weekly
wait until you get the prompt back and then enter this command and hit the return key:
cat /var/log/weekly.out[b>
The file that displays should have those same entries.

OS-X maintanence vs. MacJanitor/Cronaid

I know that OS-X runs daily, weekly and monthy maintanence when the computer is left on all night, ie desktops. Not many of us leave our laptops on during that period so that the maintanence isn't ever run. You can buy 3rd party programmes like MacJanitor or Cronaid etc.
There is also a way to change the system Terminal so that those OS-X maintanence programmes run during the day. But, how do you do that and how difficult is it to change the times they run? Don't want to change something that's going to kill the iBook in the long run. Why pay for something we all already have? After more than 2 years I know my iBook needs the maintanence.
Anyone????

Running sudo commands in Terminal daily, weekly, monthly is no less time consuming than running Freeware MacJanitor. Here are some tips I found on this site for tweaking the Crontabs in Unix.If you want a nice walk-through of how to do this, read over what Georgetown University posted: Updating the Crontab
But if you're too lazy to read through all that, I'll sum it up; type the following from the Terminal:
cd /etc
sudo cp crontab crontab.bak
sudo pico crontab
This will change the directory to etc, where crontab lives, then make a copy of it (named crontab.bak), and then you can edit it using the editor, pico. After having opened the file with pico, change the days and times. The times are listed as Minutes : Hours (yes, backwards) in 24h format, and the days are 0 = Sunday, 6 = Saturday. To save, press ctrl+o to Write Out, then ctrl+x to Exit. Done.
Having your maintenance scripts run at times when the computer will be on does a lot for reducing those quirky little problems later on.
You CAN use the vi text editor to do this equally well, and there are good reasons to get to learn how to use vi, but for most users, pico is less of a shock and easier to poke around in.
If you are running OS 10.4 Tiger, the crontab approach is being phased out in favor of the Launch Daemons. You can still perform the tweaks listed here, but note that the crontab in /etc is a legacy file. Look in /var/cron/tabs/ for a file named "root" (or whatever the administrator user of your computer is named) and make the suggested additions/ edits to THAT file (it's the system crontab). If you're ready to jump into Launch Daemons and abandon this crontab madness, navigate your way to /System/Library/LaunchDaemons and have a look at com.apple.periodic-daily.plist (and the weekly and monthly counterparts). If you're comfortable reading through XML, you can edit these using pico (although you might have to convert them using the plutil command: plutil -convert xml1 some_file.plist ) or download the free graphical editor named Launchd Editor.This will enable you to tell Unix to run CRON cleaning on your schedule rather than Apple's. By the time I read this I had already plunked down my $8.99 for Macaroni, which runs Daily, Weekly, Monthly CRONs, as well as weekly Repair Disk Permissions and Remove Localized files (foreign languages) on demand. Yer pays yer money an' yer takes yer pick.
Good luck.
cornelius
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DU differs over permissions after using Macjanitor

Thanks Sig and others for help. I do prefer to run a non-automated maintenance program like MacJanitor because I shut down the computer at the end of the day (it's also only 144 kb). If it isn't doing any harm I'd prefer to keep using it, even if it differs with DU permissions. I've copied part of the thread which contains my unanswered question which seems to have gotten lost amid the responses to Jorge's posting (and now buried by a flurry of newer postings) . I've copied the relevant part of the thread here.
Also are there any other, perhaps more up to date programs, which can be run manually? Thanks.
"DU differs over permissions after using Macjanitor
Posted: Mar 29, 2008 12:39 PM
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I recently started using Macjanitor ("run all tasks"). When I've done this - several times now - and then run Permissions Repair, I get:
Permissions differ on ./private/var/log/secure.log, should be -rw------- , they are -rw-r-----
Owner and group corrected on ./private/var/log/secure.log
Permissions corrected on ./private/var/log/secure.log
Is Macjanitor creating a problem? DU restores the correct permissions afterward. Should I stop running Macjanitor? (I like to use it because it is non-automated). Thanks for help.
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Re: DU differs over permissions after using Macjanitor
Posted: Mar 29, 2008 12:58 PM in response to: WZZZ
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Yes that's perfectly normal and is what should happen. MacJanitor runs the cron scripts manually. You get the same result if you let your Mac run Friday night into Saturday. No problem.
MacBook Pro 2.4 Ghz 15.4 / 2 Gb Ram Mac OS X (10.4.11)
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Thanks for quick reply.
So, does that mean I shouldn't bother repairing permissions with DU after using Macjanitor?"

So, does that mean I shouldn't bother repairing permissions with DU after using Macjanitor?"
Yes, you needn't bother repairing permissions after using MacJanitor. But I still recommend using something different. If you must do this manually (I really don't see a reason why) then use one of the more current utilities such as TinkerTool System, Onyx, CockTail, etc.
Although what happens with MacJanitor is innocuous, it's one of those items that shows that MacJanitor needs some revision, but the program seems to have long been abandoned by its author. I used it for a while, but by the time Tiger appeared it was completely unreliable on my systems, so I stopped using it. Since then I use Macaroni (shareware) but if it's $9.00 price tag is too high PseudoAnacron is freeware. Either completely automates the process by checking if the scripts have been run since the last time the computer was shut down. If not then they run the appropriate script. This assures the maintenance is performed whether your computer is turned off or left on. The choice is yours. I prefer not having to remember to run maintenance scripts.

IMac G5 and MacJanitor

I'm helping a friend "tidy" an iMac which is put to sleep overnight, so I suggested using MacJanitor. The weekly task took about 20 minutes to complete and gave the message
Rebuilding whatis database:
find: /usr/local/man: No such file or directory
Is this a fault?

Found a forum that answered your question: The error ...
"find: /usr/local/man: No such file or directory"
is harmless and always appears in the weekly script log. Your "locate" and "find" commands will work properly and you can ignore it. That "error" has been appearing in my iMac G5 (PPC) and MacBook Pro (C2D, Intel) weekly logs since they were freshly brand new.
The login accounting error means you won't see a listing in the monthly log file that shows what users logged in and for how long. And the wtmp error means that the script could not find wtmp in the /var/log directory. wtmp keeps track of users and their logins, so it's related to the login accounting error. Have you deleted that file?
The only true error you are seeing here has to do with the login accounting file wtmp (or the fact that it apparently isn't in your system where it belongs). Nonetheless, I doubt this is a serious problem. But it might be indicative of you or someone else moving or deleting files that might be best left alone.
Ray

What app replaces MacJanitor for Snow Leopard

I need an app to replace MacJanitor for Snow Leopard, and Lion. Any suggestions???

Not really needed and I don't know of anything. Snow Leopard runs the periodic scripts at wake up if the computer has been sleeping. But you can rotate the system.log manually. This doesn't get run if the computer has been asleep (I think it's midnight.) See the command and instructions in my post in this nearby thread.
https://discussions.apple.com/message/17943983#17943983

How about Onyx and Macjanitor for the Intel Core Duo chip?

Do these programs apply?
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Your first post is correct Will about MacJanitor.
I wouldn't trust it, although it should just refuse to work, why take a chance when other utilities exist and offer many more features...
Anyway the Terminal commands MacJanitor runs are still the same:
sudo periodic daily
sudo periodic weekly
and
sudo periodic monthly
or the three tasks together:
sudo periodic daily weekly monthly
as in Jaguar, Panther and "PPC Tiger".

MacJanitor question

I am on an old emac at a friend and when I run Mac Janitor, there is an endless series of lines like this:
30B88249EB0 4664 Thu Jun 21 18:22:54 paul@82-45-251->130.cable.ubr01.camd.blueyonder.co.uk
(host d.mx.mail.yahoo.com[216.39.53.2] refused to talk to me: 421 Message from (<Edited by: Host>) >temporarily deferred - 4.16.50. Please refer to http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/mail/defer/defer->06.html)
<Edited by: Host>
What are these and how do I get rid off them as there are more and more adding as time goes by.
All of them with different email addresses and numbers
Many thanks
Laurent
Emac 700Mhz

Hi Laurent,
IP address: 216.39.53.2
Host name: mta-v13.mail.vip.re4.yahoo.com
216.39.53.2 is from United States(US) in region North America
TraceRoute to 216.39.53.2 [mta-v13.mail.vip.re4.yahoo.com]
The other one is your IP I imagine, and for your safety I'll ask it be removed.
IP address: x.x.x.x
No host name is associated with this IP address or no reverse lookup is configured.
Error:Host not found
x.x.x.x is from United Kingdom(UK) in region Western Europe
Not sure, but some Mail isn't being sent.
Looks like somebody used your IP or ISP to send SPAM though...
Spam Blacklist check for <Edited by Host>:
whois.rfc-ignorant.org has not blacklisted this IP
bl.spamcop.net has not blacklisted this IP
sbl.spamhaus.org has not blacklisted this IP
xbl.spamhaus.org has not blacklisted this IP
zen.spamhaus.org has blacklisted this IP and the response is 127.0.0.11
psbl.surriel.com has not blacklisted this IP
Enter your x/x.x.x IP here...
http://www.spamhaus.org/zen/
Turns out they don't like your ISP...
http://www.spamhaus.org/pbl/query/PBL157232
It says you can remove it there.

Need disk repair help fast!

My internal CD drive broke so I bought an external one. Problem is that the computer is in need of serious Norton repair and when using the Sony external CD/DVD drive to run the Norton disk the computer does not recognize the hard drive so I can't repair anything. In other words, I put in the Norton cd and it shows up just fine on the desktop but when Norton opens up and I am supposed to choose a disk to repair nothing shows up to choose from. Nothing at all, just a big blank space. The external drive works because I've burned from it although when I try to burn directly from, say iTunes, it goes to the origional disk drive which is broken so I have to use the toast light program to burn. Maybe there is someway I can make my external drive the default one? It is taking forever to load each program and I'm feeling doom with the way the computer has been acting lately and I really can't afford to be without it as I run my business from it. thanks
imac G4 Mac OS X (10.4.9)
imac Mac OS X (10.2.x)
imac Mac OS X (10.2.x)

Hi again, Donna,
Happy to hear you got rid of Norton!
You say your Mac has not panicked since you got rid of Norton, right? If so, you may have already fixed the kernel panic problem. I have not had a single kernel panic since I uninstalled Norton years ago.
If you do experience another kernel panic, the advice about kernel panics that you got from mrtotes is about the best that most Mac users can do for themselves. As explained in those suggestions, kernel panics are often hardware related. Be sure to disconnect all external devices that are not absolutely necessary when checking for and attempting to solve kernel panics.
You should not need to take your Mac to an Apple Service Technician for kernel panics if you can fix it yourself with the advice you have already been given.
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Next issue: You mention that your Mac runs slow (the beach ball spins for a long time.)
If you multiple applications running, close all but one and see if the problem goes away. If so, you may just be working your Mac too hard. Run fewer apps at a time.
If you have any external devices, including your external CD/DVD drive, connected, unhook them all and check to see if the beach ball goes away. If so, one or more of your devices may be the source of the problem. You can find which by reconnecting only one at a time and then checking to find whether the beach ball comes back. If no one device causes the beach-ball to reappear, try connecting two at once to see if any of your external devices might be conflicting with each other.
Your Mac may need basic Mac OS X maintenance. You have already done a Safe Boot, (and perhaps a disk repair), so try a permissions repair next.
Unless you have set the slider for your computer to "Never" sleep in System Preferences > Energy Saver > Sleep, you should also force background maintenance tasks as explained in
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=107388
The article lists several equally effective ways you can do this, I personally use MacJanitor, which is free and very simple to use.
FileVault slows disk operation and adds processor tasks to your Mac. If you have enabled FileVault, turn it off (turning FileVault off can take a while) to see if your beach-ball problem goes away.
One other thing that can cause slow (beach-ball) operation is that your startup disk may be too full. Check free (Available) space with Finder > File > Get Info. If you do not have at least 10 GB of free space, try Increasing available space on your hard disk.
For more comprehensive suggestions on OS X Maintenance, see Gulliver's
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=122021
Let us know how it goes.
Jim
Mac OS X (10.4.9) G5 DP 1.8

Steps to Upgrade to Leopard from 10.39 ~please~

Hello all, thanks in anticipation that someone will help me upgrade or know what are the cheapest steps to take to do so and enable me to use the "MacFamily Tree 5" please. I wanted to buy a version of it for my OS X 10.3.9 but cannot find it at the Apple site now. I would like to upgrade this computer to the latest version and to have 'Windows' would be cool. How do I check if I have enough space in the Hard Drive for upgrades though? I only use my puter for online stuff mainly. Thank you for any help you can offer me

freedone,
Your Non-Intel PPC iMac can only be upgraded to Tiger 10.4.x, as it does not meet the Leopard System Requirements.
-Mac computer with an Intel, PowerPC G5, or PowerPC G4 (867MHz or faster processor) Yours is 600MHZ, which cannot be upgraded.
-512MB of memory You have 256MB, which you can add to, and should, if you install Tiger 10.4.x.
-DVD drive for installation The 600MHZ iMac, shipped with a DC-RW drive, so unless you have replaced it, with a DVD drive, you do not have one. There are alternate methods of installing Tiger 10.4.x, without one though. More info posted below.
-9GB of available disk space You currently do not have sufficient available free space. More info posted below.
With some upgrading of the iMac's Hardware, to meet the Tiger System Requirements, you can upgrade to that version. More info posted below.
"...19.07 GB 837.7 MB free."
You are dangerously low on available Hard Drive free space!
Backup the system ASAP, and then create additional drive space!
Insufficient available space, can cause performance issues, system corruption, and possible loss of data.
Depending on Mac system usage habits, it is a general recommendation, to keep 10% to as much as 20%, of the Total capacity, available at all times.
Review the suggestions, in the documents that I have linked to below.
Authored by Dr Smoke:
Problems From Insufficient RAM And Free Hard Disk Space
Freeing Space On Your Mac OS X Startup Disk
Mac OS X 10.3/10.4: System Maintenance, authored by Gulliver
Maintaining Mac OS X, authored by Dr Smoke
Is the Mac shutdown overnight, or does it run 24/7?
Have you ever run any routine Maintenance procedures?
If you turn the PowerBook off nightly, the Background Maintenance Tasks, are never run.
These can also be run, using a Third-Party utility, or manually using Terminal, to run the CRON Commands.
I use MacJanitor, when necessary.
INSTRUCTIONS TO RUN CRON MANUAL COMMANDS
Quit all applications/programs.
Navigate to HD > Applications > Utilities.
Double click on Terminal, to open.
At the prompt, type:
sudo periodic daily
Press Return.
Enter your Admin password when prompted, then press Return.
This will execute the daily script that is sheduled to run every night.
When completed, repeat this procedure, but change the command to:
sudo periodic weekly
This one rebuilds a database or two, and usually takes somewhat longer to complete. It is scheduled to run once a week.
Repeat again, with command:
sudo periodic monthly
Or they can all be run in one pass, which is preferable, with this command:
sudo periodic daily weekly monthly
When the tasks complete, and return to the prompt, you may quit Terminal.
Restart the Mac, and run Repair Permissions.
TO REPAIR PERMISSIONS ON THE STARTUP DISK
1.Open Disk Utility, located in Applications/Utilities, and select the startup disk in the left column.
2.Click First Aid.
3.Click Verify Disk Permissions to test permissions or Repair Disk Permissions to test and repair permissions. (I never "Verify". Just run "Repair".)
Rerun RP, until the only messages reported, are listed here Spurious Permissions Errors Using: 10.3.x, authored by Michael Conniff.
When "Repair Permissions" is complete. Quit "Disk Utility".
Mac OS X Versions 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 10.4, and 10.5, are complete system upgrades that must be purchased.
Once an OS has been installed, the point upgrades, such as 10.1.x to 10.1.5 (Final) 10.2.x to 10.2.8 (Final), 10.3.x to 10.3.9 (Final), 10.4.x to 10.4.11 (Pending), and 10.5.x to 10.5.1 (Pending), can be downloaded for free.
Tiger is available for purchase at The Apple Store (U.S.).
If you know what to look for, a Full Retail Version, of the Tiger Install DVD, can be purchased, sometimes less expensively, at some online Apple retailers, Amazon, eBay, FastMac, HardCore Mac, AllMac, etc.
Be sure not to purchase grey, upgrade or machine specific CDs or DVDs.
The disc should look exactly like the images in the above links, and not say Upgrade, CPU Drop-in DVD, or "This software is part of a hardware bundle purchase - not to be sold seperately." on it.
Additional info in these links.
Using OS X Install CDs/DVDs On Multiple Macs
What's A Computer Specific Mac OS X Release
Software Update, Upgrade: What's The Difference?
Caveat Emptor!
If any are presently available, examine these items very carefully, and if in doubt, ask questions of the seller before purchase!
Tiger On eBay
Once Tiger 10.4.x is installed, you can use the PPC 10.4.11 Combo Update, to upgrade to the current version.
Additionally, Tiger 10.4.x ships on a DVD, so if your Mac doesn’t have a built-in DVD-ROM player, you will have to use an alternative method of installation.
Info here Installing Tiger Using Firewire Target Disk Mode.
And here Installing Tiger Without A DVD Drive.
The Tiger Media Exchange Program, referred to, is no longer available.
Shop Carefully, Examine All Documentation, And I Wish You Success!
ali b

Logical end of file error

I am getting a "logical end of file error =39" message when trying to export audio to SDII for making a time stamped (BWF) . Any ideas?

How long is the wedding video?
My standard list of things to do first...
Run MacJanitor (free download) to do all the Unix Cron Maintenance scripts.
Run Disk Utility (Applications -> Utilities) and repair disk permissions on your start up drive (typically your internal drive). Also verify any other drives mounted on the system.
Run Preferential Treatment (free download) to check for corrupt/damaged application and system preference files.
Run Cache Out X (free download) to clear all system and application caches.
Reboot your Mac.
If you still can not get it to run correctly, next thing to try is to throw out the iDVD preference file (don't forget to change back those preferences you want different from the defaults next time you run it). If it still doesn't work, then I would suggest you reinstall iDVD.
Patrick

HDV tape random capture aborts in FCP

I am trying to capture many hours of HDV footage to disc. Capture Now is aborting frequently either due to alleged timecode breaks or alleged stream problems. But in fact the breaks seem to occur at random: on second or third attempts, capture passes smoothly over the supposed break point, only to abort again later on. I am rarely able to capture more than a minute at a time. Here are the hard facts:
Tapes are Maxell Professional DV-M63Master ME DV/HDV, recorded on only once
Camera for both shooting and playback is Sony HVR-V1P, connnected via FireWire to:
iMac G4 1.25 GHZ, 1 GB RAM, running OS X 10.5.8 and FCP 6.0.6
Capture disc is G-Tech 1TB G-drive, connected via FireWire (just bought to replace LaCie drive in the hope that it would solve the problem)
FCP is set to abort capture on dropped frames and on timecode break (I understand that this second option makes no difference with HDV anyway). I don't want to miss frames that are actually on the tape.
I know lots of people have had similar problems, and I've tried all the suggestions I have found on the forums. Have I missed something?

Julian,
With all due respect, you're asking quite a bit from a single G4 system. If you were back on Tiger and running FCP 5.1.4 you'd have maybe 25% more power, but you're real close to the edge. (I still have a dual 1.25 GHz G4 PowerMac and experimented with FCS2 on it...)
Attaching a fast disk array (RAID) might help a bit, but I doubt the central problem is disk speed. In reality, I think you only need to maintain something like 5MB/sec data transfer rate for HDV, but there is overhead processing and I'm guessing that a system that age probably has some "baggage."
I'd suggest that you freshen up the system by exporting non-critical data from the system drive until you have about 20-30% free space, repair permissions, run your crons (a utility like MacJanitor or Cocktail will do this) and run Disk Warrior on all attached drives. The point is to clean out the system to provide max efficiency at the basic level. You may need to disable apps that like to run in background and maybe even take the system off the net while working. If you can re-gain the original performance, you will probably make it through...
Good luck!

Macjanitor

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