In article <E6GdnRUmkZ3eG7jVnZ2dnUVZ_vqdnZ2d@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
Dudley Henriques <dhenriques@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> I have purchased Leopard Cocktail for use on a new stationary MacbookPro
> that always remains in the house and runs on AC only.
> Sometimes the system is left in sleep at night and sometimes it's shut
down.
> The bottom line is that it's simpler and more expedient for me to run
> Cocktail using Pilot and running things manually rather than set it up
> on a schedule since I'm never sure where we will be or whether the
> system will be up or down when required for auto.
> Assuming I'll be running my scripts and permissions manually, I have a
> question please;
>
> I think I understand correctly from researching the help section that
> the scripts are ***ulative; in other words, the weekly does the daily,
> and the monthly does the weekly as well. Is this correct?
> Secondly, I'm puzzled about when to run permissions and whether running
> the daily script is even necessary since it seems once a week, then once
> a month on the scripts seems an adequate maintenance program for the
system.
> What I'm considering is doing a weekly (which does the daily as well)
> script every Sunday manually, then doing a monthly script on the last
> day of the month.
> I'm still vague on when and even if to do permissions.
> I should also note that doing permissions heats up the left side of the
> book near the speaker section. I'm assuming this is because the HDD is
> working harder when this is done.
> Generally what I need is some comment from users on whether my plan is
> the right way to go.
> I'm not all that Mac savvy and a general home user with minimum
> additional third party software installed if this helps.
> Many thanks for any advice and help.
>
> --
> Dudley Henriques
It's vague because it's mostly myth.
Repairing disk permissions only solves preference files becoming
unusable in a multi-user environment. It's a workaround for buggy
programs but it doesn't solve mystery crashes like some claim.
Daily and nightly tasks don't do anything im****tant unless you have an
extremely active system. Once a month would be fine for normal use.
Servers may need the nightly task but they're always on to do it.
Cocktail doesn't do what I strongly recommend - verifying all disks once
a month. Leopard still has some bugs in it that will corrupt disks and
there's no GUI for the warnings. Verify your Time Machine disks (or
disk images) too.
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